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Q: Clicking on input element changes Installed Web App from "Standalone" to "Minimal-UI" {
  "short_name": "My App",
  "name": "My Application",
  "background_color": "#ff9800",
  "theme_color": "#ff9800",
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      "sizes": "256x256",
      "type": "image/png"
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    {
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  "start_url": "/MyApp/",
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}

This is my manifest.json file which is working fine.  I can install the app from Chrome on Android and launch it from the home screen.  The splash screen shows up and the app is in Standalone mode (Status bar shows but not browser toolbar).
However, when I click on an input (text input, button, etc.), the web app shifts to Minimal-UI mode (minimal browser toolbar shows).  I don't know why.
On refresh it fixes it.


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Unmarked Detour: Amantadine and Vestibular Rehabilitation Therapy Helped Recovery From Post-Concussion Syndrome
Ten months post-concussion, Dorothy Bedford explains how two months on the drug Amantadine, followed by six weeks of vestibular balance therapy, were the final steps on her daughter Heidi's road to recovery.
Physical Therapy for the Injured Athlete: Restoring Range of Motion Critical
Restoring full range of motion to a joint should be achieved early in physical therapy as playing sports with restricted range of motion increases injury risk and negatively effects athletic performance.
Physical Therapy for The Injured Athlete: Each Session Has Five Parts
Every physical therapy sessiont can be broken down into five basic parts: subjective, objective, treatments, assessment, and plan
For Sports Injuries Consider An A.R.T. Provider or Chiropractor
William H. Caddoo, DC suggests that parents looking for someone to treat their child's soft tissue sports injury consider a doctor, physical therapist, chiropractor, or even athletic trainer certified in Active Release Techniques® (A.R.T.®), and, that if they are looking for a doctor of chiropractic, they ask their child's pediatrician or friends for a recommendation.
Active Release Technique Effective In Treating Overuse And Soft Tissue Sports Injuries
William H. Caddoo, DC explains how Active Release Techniques® (A.R.T.)®, a patented, state-of-the-art soft tissue system/movement-based massage technique, can be used to effectively treat overuse injuries in growing athletes such as Sever's Disease and Osgood-Schlatter's, and other soft tissue sports injuries.
Physical Therapy Starts With Good History and Thorough Physical Exam
Physical therapist Patricia Ladis takes a holistic approach to injury treatment which starts at the first visit with the taking of a good history and a thorough physical exam, not only to test for swelling, strength and range of motion, but to determine whether other parts of the body were injured.
"Functional Medicine": Treatment Options For Concussions or Trauma
Diagnosis and prevention of head injuries has come a long way, but actual treatment options in the medical model, besides medication for headache, rest and cautioning against a premature return to play, have lagged behind. Edward Feldman, D.C., RCST, offers a natural and non-invasive way to heal called "Functional Medicine" which includes craniosacral therapy (developed in osteopathy) and use of the Feldenkrais Method.
Physical Therapy: Parents Play Important Role
Surgical Repair of Medial Meniscus Tears: Don't Walk Until Given Okay By Doctor
Tears to the medial meniscus require surgical repair, but the repaired meniscus can easily be torn with only small amounts of pressure, so allowing it to fully heal after surgery before walking is critical for a full recovery.
Lower Back Pain in Female Athletes Is Not Normal
As with ACL injuries, female athletes are more prone than their male counterparts to small, hairline fractures of the lower (lumbar) spine, usually from overtraining (e.g. overuse injuries) or improper loading of the spine. Because such injuries can be misdiagnosed, it is important for coaches and parents to recognize the symptoms and seek appropriate medical treatment.

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Why Is the Keystone XL Pipeline Disputed?
By Hannah RileyLast Updated Jul 13, 2020 1:40:48 PM ET
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The Keystone Pipeline system has been the subject of controversy for years as environmentalists and others have fought to prevent construction and expansion of this oil-delivery network. Recently, the United States Supreme Court sided with environmental groups in ruling that the Keystone XL Pipeline (KXL) — a rerouted addition to the existing system — would need to undergo a much lengthier and more detailed permitting process before the expansion could occur.
While this ruling represents a victory for those who oppose the project, future construction on KXL remains a hotly debated issue — and for good reason. This pipeline has a history fraught with turmoil, resistance and legal battles, and there's no indication that the fight to prevent future development of KXL may stop anytime soon.
The History of the Keystone XL Pipeline
To understand KXL and the tumult surrounding it, it helps to go back to the beginning: the Keystone Pipeline. Running from the town of Hardisty in Alberta, Canada, through North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri and Illinois, the original Keystone Pipeline opened in 2010 with the purpose of delivering Canadian crude oil into the United States where it would be refined, stored and distributed. The pipeline is exactly what it sounds like: a network of massive steel and plastic pipes — some of which are up to 4 feet in diameter — through which oil is transported. Various pump stations positioned along the pipeline help to push the oil through the network, which exists primarily underground.
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Shipping oil this way is much more cost effective than transporting the resource via truck or train — sometimes just a third of the cost of overground methods — and this profitability is one of the primary reasons oil pipelines are appealing to oil and gas companies. Forbes notes that shipping oil via the Keystone pipeline versus by rail saves an estimated $50 billion per year. The volume a pipeline can transport is another advantage for oil companies, with hundreds of thousands of (or sometimes over a million) barrels of oil moving through the network on a daily basis. Lastly, shipping oil in pipelines is much faster than moving it by boat, truck or rail. So, the incentives for oil companies and energy users to build and utilize pipelines are clear — but plenty of variables exist to make pipelines a less-than-appealing option, too. The Keystone and KXL developers have had to contend with these disadvantages and challenges since the project's inception.
TransCanada Energy Corporation, an energy-infrastructure developer, first proposed the idea for the Keystone Pipeline in 2005. In 2007, union members and activists set to work lobbying the Canadian government to block approval of the pipeline, citing concerns about the environment, lack of energy security and dearth of Canadian jobs the Keystone would create — it would primarily benefit the United States, transporting oil out of Canada and into the Midwest. Despite this backlash, Canada's National Energy Board approved all construction of the Canadian section of the pipeline, and George W. Bush signed a Presidential Permit — which is necessary for a project like this to be built in the United States — that authorized construction and maintenance of the line starting at the U.S.-Canada border. Construction began, lasting two years after an initial two-year period was spent procuring additional permits.
Before the Keystone Pipeline was even operational, KXL was proposed. In the summer of 2008, while the Keystone's construction was barely getting underway, TransCanada Energy filed a new application for KXL with the National Energy Board, and it was approved right around the same time in 2010 that the Keystone Pipeline became operational. Here's where the proverbial waters start to get muddied. While a few separate extensions to the Keystone were approved and their construction wrapped up quickly in 2011, developers began getting ambitious with their plans.
Their next move? To create a separate pipeline with a faster, more direct route from Hardisty, Alberta, to Steele City, the strategic point in Nebraska where the pipeline extensions to Illinois and refineries along the Gulf Coast begin branching off. This proposed new pipeline, KXL, would be bigger than the original Keystone, carrying about 200,000 more barrels of oil per day and passing through Montana instead of North Dakota. Canada's National Energy Board approved the KXL in 2010. Its journey for approval in the United States is where much of its controversy begins.
Who's Opposing the Pipeline — and Why?
Opposition to KXL started in a very likely place: with then-President Barack Obama and among various environmental and cultural groups. As mentioned, a Presidential Permit is necessary for construction of this nature to take place, and President Obama was unwilling to issue one for KXL due in part to recommendations from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). While reviewing project proposals and the scope of KXL, the EPA determined that the State Department's prepared studies and assessments of the potential environmental impact of the new pipeline merited the lowest feasibility rating possible because of their insufficient information.
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The environmental impact study should've included extensive details about greenhouse gas emissions, oil-spill response plans and other issues — but it didn't. Because the project would cross an international border the State Department was required to prepare these reports, and the EPA's refusal to recommend KXL to the White House meant the State Department would need to take months to create newer, more detailed reports that incorporated the requested information. President Obama cited additional reasons for opposing the project as well, stating that KXL would not lower the price of gas or create long-term jobs for the United States.
The EPA's initial conclusion about the insufficiency of the State Department's reports was issued in the summer of 2010, just a few months after Canada's National Energy Board approved KXL. Immediately, environmental groups and activists — such as the Sierra Club, National Resources Defense Council, National Wildlife Federation and Pipeline Safety Trust, a safety-focused charity that envisions a world with zero environment-compromising pipeline incidents — set out to protest the new pipeline. Framing "the decision as one that [would] define Obama's legacy on climate change," environmentalists argued that the project would increase U.S. dependence on fossil fuels and, in doing so, mean the country was tacitly accepting the environmental damage that could potentially occur as a result. But it's important to understand the different forms that damage can take to fully see why environmental groups oppose the project to this day.
Drilling for oil has a vast number of potentially harmful effects on the environment — like creating air and water pollution and destroying animal habitats — and so do the construction and operation of a pipeline. In the process of building a pipeline, fragile ecosystems may be destroyed to make way for the pipe — an issue that environmental groups like Friends of the Earth frequently cite as a reason to prevent construction of KXL. Nebraska's Sandhills region is one such area. This ancient ecoregion is the largest sand dune formation in the United States and within it lies the Ogallala Aquifer, an underground water source that's the largest in North America, providing drinking water to more than 2 million people
It's also important to note that the oil coming out of the Alberta sites in Hardisty isn't the same as conventional crude oil; it's tar sands oil, which is much more toxic than conventional crude. Extraction of tar sands oil, barrel for barrel, emits up to three times more global warming pollution than crude oil, and tar sands pipelines have a spill rate that's three times the national average for pipelines carrying conventional crude oil in the Midwest. This toxicity, combined with the higher potential for pollution and catastrophic spills that could destroy communities and ecoregions, is primarily why environmentalists justify opposition to KXL.
It's also why a variety of other groups, including area farmers and Native American tribes, continue to oppose the new pipeline to this day. Landowners, but particularly farmers, stand to lose their livelihoods if a spill occurs, and many would be subject to eminent domain, forced to sell their properties to the government to make way for KXL's construction or allow disruptive easements through their land. Native American tribes have similar concerns over the fact that the new pipeline would disturb culturally important areas and present a number of other issues. The Rosebud Sioux Tribe and the Fort Belknap Indian Community, of South Dakota and Montana, respectively, are especially concerned about the ways KXL could negatively impact their areas' unique water systems, infringe on their fishing and hunting rights and violate treaties.
The U.S. government initially had until the end of 2011 to decide whether or not to allow the pipeline. Thousands of people gathered at the White House toward the end of that year to protest KXL in large demonstrations, including making a human chain around the property. In January of 2012, President Obama rejected the application to build KXL — but the battle was far from over.
Legal Battles Over the Pipeline Ignite
Before he left office, President Obama officially ordered all work relating to KXL to stop after vetoing several bills that would've allowed pipeline construction to move forward, noting that the project "would undercut U.S. leadership on reducing carbon emissions." This cancellation lasted throughout the remainder of his presidency, following the State Department's official rejection of the new pipeline. KXL was a non-starter, and it appeared this would stay the status quo — until Donald Trump was elected. Less than a week after taking office in 2017, Trump signed an executive order allowing the permitting and eventual construction of KXL and the Dakota Access Pipeline, another famously contested project, to resume. In a presidential memorandum, he also invited TransCanada to resubmit an application for KXL. Just two months later in March of 2017, a permit for the project was issued.
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In response, a variety of groups rose up, springing into action to file lawsuits against Trump's decision. Legal challenges to KXL's construction have been ongoing in the years since the project was approved and represent opposition from a diverse array of objectors.
Who? Rosebud Sioux Tribe, the Fort Belknap Indian Community and the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) vs. the Trump Administration
When? Initially filed in September 2018 in the U.S. District Court of Montana; ongoing
Why? In an official statement, the NARF outlined the reasons for the suit: "There was no analysis of trust obligations, no analysis of treaty rights, no analysis of the potential impact on hunting and fishing rights, no analysis of potential impacts on the Rosebud Sioux Tribe's unique water system, no analysis of the potential impact of spills on tribal citizens, and no analysis of the potential impact on cultural sites in the path of the pipeline, which is in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act, and the National Historic Preservation Act." Prior to Trump's and the State Department's greenlighting of the project, no new analysis was performed in regards to how the pipeline would impact reservation lands, including sacred, ancestral and historic sites. The plaintiffs also assert that the decision violates tribal sovereignty and ignores treaties, federal laws and tribal laws.
Who? Northern Plains Resource Council, Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity, Bold Alliance, Friends of the Earth and Natural Resources Defense Council vs. Army Corps of Engineers
When? Initially filed in summer of 2019 in the U.S. District Court of Montana; ongoing
Why? The environmental groups in this case argue that the Army Corps of Engineers' approval of TransCanada's proposal was illegal because it failed to examine the project's potential for spills and other types of environmental damage. According to the Sierra Club, "The groups maintain that this approval violates the National Environmental Policy Act, Endangered Species Act, and Clean Water Act, and urged the court to require the Corps to conduct additional environmental review of the effects of pipelines like Keystone XL on local waterways, lands, wildlife, communities and the climate." These groups are asserting that the State Department and Trump administration are violating numerous federal laws in attempting to push the KXL permitting process through quickly and without adequate research on the potential impacts of construction.
Rulings and Red Tape: What's Happening Now?
Various rulings have taken place following litigation against KXL. For example, in November of 2018, U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris found that numerous environmental reviews were insufficient and outdated and that they violated the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act and the Administrative Procedure Act. The judge ordered the U.S. government to perform an updated environmental review and blocked construction of KXL in the interim.
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This followed Judge Morris' July 2018 ruling that the State Department needed to conduct a full environmental review of KXL in Nebraska — a result of a separate lawsuit filed on behalf of the Northern Plains Resource Council, Bold Alliance, Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth, Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club. Even in April of 2020, Judge Morris nullified water-crossing permits that had been issued for KXL in Montana, citing a potential violation of the Endangered Species Act.
Similar rulings have resulted from a number of lawsuits filed against the U.S. government, many of which argue about what plaintiffs believe were rushed, insufficiently researched decisions on the part of the Trump administration and the State Department. One of the latest rulings in this spate of lawsuits canceled the Nationwide Permit 12, which provided blanket authorization to and fast-tracked work on a number of pipelines that cross bodies of water. In May of this year, a federal judge ruled that these new pipelines needed to be subject to much lengthier and more comprehensive environmental review processes than what was initially planned in order to receive permits.
Just a few months later on July 6, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that many of the other pipelines involved in the May ruling would be allowed to proceed — but KXL would not. As of now, it will still need to follow a much longer and more rigorous environmental review process. The environmental groups involved in this suit view this as a victory for the at-risk communities and animal species that live along the proposed pipeline route and note that it sends a clear message that KXL builders can't get away with disregarding the environment by forcing an inadequately prepared permit through the system.
Criticisms over insufficient risk assessments, disregard for the environment and total and willful neglect of the people who own important, sensitive lands have plagued KXL in the years since Trump revived the project. The future of the project remains unclear, particularly in light of ongoing court cases and roadblocks to the lengthy permitting process that's still underway. What is clear is that various groups are prepared to fight KXL at every step of the way to combat climate change, pollution and displacement and to secure what they believe is a brighter environmental future for the United States.


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WATCH: Tracey E. Bregman on 'Home & Family'
by Errol Lewis
'Dynasty' Cast Reunion Scheduled on Hallmark's 'Home & Family'
Hallmark Channel's "Home & Family" is getting ready to host another classic soap opera reunion when it brings together the cast of ABC's iconic primetime drama, "Dynasty," with guests Pamela Sue Martin, John James, Al Corley and Gordon Thomson joining hosts Mark…
FIRST LOOK PHOTOS: Cast of 'Knots Landing' Reunite on 'Home & Family'
As previously reported, the cast of "Knots Landing" will reunite on the Thursday, December 11 edition of Hallmark Channel's "Home & Family." In your first look at the reunion, cast members of the popular primetime soap opera - Donna Mills, Joan Van Ark, Michele Lee, Ted…
'Knots Landing's' Donna Mills, Joan Van Ark, Ted Shackelford and More Reunite on Hallmark's 'Home & Family'
On the Thursday, December 11 edition of Hallmark Channel's "Home & Family," "Knots Landing stars Donna Mills, Joan Van Ark, Michele Lee, Ted Shackelford and Kevin Dobson will reunite when hosts Mark Steines and Cristina Ferrare bring the five cast members together to share…
Soap Legend Genie Francis To Appear on Holiday-Themed Primetime Edition of Hallmark's 'Home & Family'
On Monday, November 24, daytime icon and soap legend Genie Francis ("General Hospital," "Days of our Lives," "All My Children") will appear alongside "Home & Family's" Mark Steines and Cristina Ferrare for a primetime holiday-themed edition of the…
WATCH: 'Y&R's' Sharon Case and Joshua Morrow on 'Home & Family' + Sneak Peek at Sharon and Nicholas' Wedding
WATCH: Eileen Davidson Visits 'Home & Family'; Talks Emmy Nom, Reveals She Can Do Both 'Y&R' and 'DAYS'
She's nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayal as Kristen DiMera on NBC's "Days of our Lives," and to celebrate Eileen Davidson will appear on the Thursday, June 19 edition of Hallmark Channel's "Home & Family." During her…
WATCH: 'Y&R's' Jessica Collins on Hallmark Channel's 'Home & Family'
On the Wednesday, June 11 edition of the Mark Steines and Christina Ferrare hosted "Home & Family," "The Young and the Restless'" Jessica Collins (Avery Bailey Clark) stopped by to share her personal touch on how easy it is to make a blueberry cobbler, while also…
WATCH: Alison Sweeney on Hallmark Channel's 'Home & Family'
On today's edition of Hallmark Channel's "Home & Family," hosted by Mark Steines and Christina Ferrare, "Days of our Lives'" Alison Sweeney (Sami Brady) stopped by to discuss her new book, "Scared Scriptless," and her decision to depart the daytime…
FIRST LOOK: Burgess Jenkins on 'Y&R' Set, Plus Additional Cast Odds and Ends
As previously reported, Burgess Jenkins takes over the role of Billy Abbott on CBS' "The Young and the Restless" later this month. Last night on our social media platforms (Facebook and Twitter), we noted that the actor's first airdate is scheduled for Tuesday, June 24. Jenkins…
CENTER STAGE: 'Home & Family's' Mark Steines On Soap Operas, Love Scenes and Getting Slammed By Oprah!
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TOMORROW: 'Grey's Anatomy' Star Sarah Drew on Hallmark's 'Home & Family'
While the season finale of ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" airs tonight, series regular Sarah Drew (Dr. April Kepner) will be appearing on the Friday, May 16 edition of Hallmark Channel's "Home & Family." The actress will chat with co-hosts Cristina Ferrare and Mark…
WATCH: 'Y&R's' Peter Bergman on Hallmark Channel's 'Home & Family'
On Wednesday, May 7, "The Young and the Restless'" Peter Bergman (Jack Abbott) will appear on Hallmark Channel's "Home & Family," the popular daily late morning talk show hosted by Cristina Ferrare and Mark Steines.
Debbie Matenopoulos Announces She's Married and Expecting First Child
Former "The View" host Debbie Matenopoulos dropped quite a bomb — or rather two — on a recent episode of Hallmark's "Home & Family:" The Virginia native eloped in Greece last year and is now pregnant with her first child!
Soap Stars Take Over 'Home & Family!'
Hot on the heels of the news that Melissa Claire Egan (Chelsea Newman, "The Young and the Restless") will be appearing on Hallmark's "Home & Family" on Tuesday, April 1 comes news that two additional soap stars will be dropping by the talk show this week: "Days of our Lives'" Deidre Hall…


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The news is spreading fast: Heatherette and M.A.C is a sure thing! After the catwalk collection (Fall-Winter 08), Heatherette will launch the make up collection in collaboration with M.A.C.
The packaging looks completely retro-glam and includes nail polish, eyeshades, lipstick and pancake base.
Though it's been said there will be no ad campaign for this particular line, we're still hoping to catch some promo material around this exquisite collaboration and come forward to presenting it to you when it will happen!
MAC Summer 2012 Collection Hey, Sailor!


Los Angeles master chef Joachim Splichal has cooked up a deal to buy back his Patina Group of eateries from the international food service company that bought the restaurants six years ago. With the help of a Japanese investor, Splichal and business partner Nick Valenti purchased Patina and portions of New York-based Restaurant Associates Corp. from Compass Group for $90 million.
In addition to the flagship Patina at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Splichal-Valenti portfolio includes the Sea Grill at Rockefeller Center in New York, Catal at Downtown Disney in Anaheim and Pinot Brasserie in Las Vegas. The company is a fixture at museums and concert venues, serving patrons at the Hollywood Bowl, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, among others.
Patina only owns Catal? I was under the impression they owned Catal, Tortilla Joes and Napoli?
Patina only owns Catal? I was under the impression they owned Catal, Tortilla Joes and Napoli?No, the sentence says that their portfolio includes Catal, meaning that there are more properties than are listed.
So from those in the know, is this a good thing? It would seem to me that the food quality might potential improve if a chef is back in charge.
No, the sentence says that their portfolio includes Catal, meaning that there are more properties than are listed.
well, the quality may improve - but I wonder if the AP nights will continue. That kind of a program is more of a marketing partnership and a loss leader - and I would think that a chef would demand people who appreciate (and would pay full price) for their food.
Incidentally, although it's not really relevant, the Times published a correction today. The company name is actually Patina Restaurant Group, not Patina Associates Group, as published.


Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to march on the streets of London later demanding a people's vote on Brexit.
It is expected to be the biggest protest to date, as pressure builds on the prime minister over her negotiating strategy.
Many believe the UK is heading for a "no deal" or a bad deal Brexit and want to have their say.
Among the celebrities involved are actor Steve Coogan, chef Delia Smith and Dragons' Den star Deborah Meaden.
Some have even contributed to buses bringing people to the capital from all over the country.
It is thought that thousands of students will take part, many of whom were too young to have their say in the 2016 referendum.
Hilary Gyebi-Ababio, a third year student at Bristol University, told Sky News: "I was three days shy of voting against Brexit, but I feel now that if we do get a people's vote, I would be getting my voice back because I really feel like I lost it during the campaign, which is ridiculous."
Some students are coming from as far afield as Orkney, an archipelago off the northeastern coast of Scotland. They had to leave at 6am on Friday to make it in time for Saturday's rally.
Brexit has, undoubtedly, been the great divider. It has split parliament, the Conservative party, the cabinet and the nation.
The prime minister's negotiating strategy has been criticised by both sides, but she has adamantly ruled out the possibility of a people's vote, something many of her Tory colleagues are pushing for.
The former foreign secretary, Boris Johnson and Brexit secretary, David Davis have already resigned over Theresa May's so-called Chequers plan, which outlines the relationship the UK would like to have with the European Union after Brexit.
This week, she has come under even more pressure by conceding that we may have to remain tied to EU rules for longer, with an extended transition period.
Co-chair of the Leave Means Leave campaign, Richard Tice, said: "It is not a people's vote, it is actually a losers' vote.
"They can't accept the democratic will of the public.
"They only accept democracy when it votes their way.
"It is a losers' vote by those who don't understand why 17.4 million people up and down the country voted to leave."


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ISO/IEC TR 27550:2019 — Information technology — Security techniques — Privacy engineering for system life cycle processes
"ISO/IEC TR 27550 provides privacy engineering guidelines to help organizations integrate recent advances in privacy engineering into system life cycle processes. It describes:
the relationship between privacy engineering and other engineering viewpoints (system and security engineering, risk management);
privacy engineering activities in key engineering processes such as knowledge and risk management, requirement analysis, and architecture design.
The audience includes all involved in the development, implementation or operation of systems that need privacy consideration, as well as managers in organizations responsible for privacy, development, product management, marketing, and operations."
'Privacy engineering' involves taking account of privacy during the entire cradle-to-grave lifecycle of IT systems and the associated processes, such that privacy is and remains an integral part of their function.
This is an IT security standard about engineering IT systems to satisfy privacy requirements relating to the protection of personal data.
The standard:
Discusses how privacy engineering supports system and security engineering, information risk management, knowledge management etc.
Elaborates on conceptual principles such as privacy-by-design and privacy-by-default, important design goals noted in GDPR and elsewhere;
Elaborates on the processes for identifying, evaluating and treating privacy risks in the course of IT systems design;
Explains how IT systems can be engineered to support and satisfy the OECD privacy principles which form the basis of most privacy laws and regulations.
The standard was published as a Technical Report in 2019.
The procedures for operating, using, monitoring, managing and maintaining IT systems and their privacy controls are just as important as the technical controls themselves, and also benefit from being systematically developed (specified, designed, documented, mandated, operated, monitored, maintained ...): it is a good thing this standard is not myopically focused on the technology.


Global consumption trends have also changed. Consumers are increasingly paying attention to green factors and personality in the product. This makes the market open to green manufacturing industries associated with culture and creative products. At the forum, domestic and foreign economists discussed opportunities and challenges facing Viet Nam's small- and medium-d enterprises in global value chains.


When Microsoft announced Rise of the Tomb Raider's Xbox exclusivity earlier this week, Crystal Dynamics flew into apology mode.
Come on, then. Let's go see how our apology game is looking.
The 'Lara Croft and' games are an intriguing corner of the series where the famous animal-botherer was never rebooted. In Temple of Osiris, Lara sports her turquoise top, hot-pants and pointier polygons as if 1996 never ended.
The subset of Lara fans who played 2010's Guardian of Light seemed unanimous in their approval of its isometric puzzling, pummelling and grappling. It felt like the sort of game lazier action RPGs could be if they had the imagination to introduce more mechanics.
The sequel looks no different – although it now supports up to four players, rather than two.
Beetlemania! Or scarab, er, fever, I guess. What did you lot make of that?


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The Food Bubble
Economics, Environment / By Gwynne Dyer
There are all kinds of bubbles. We had the financial bubble that burst in 2008, causing economic devastation that we are still paying for. There is the Chinese real estate bubble, the biggest in history, which may take the whole world economy down with it when it bursts. But nothing compares with the food bubble.
Back in 2008, the OECD published a report on world food supply predicting that the price surge of that year would quickly revert to normal: "Barring any underlying climate change or water constraints that could lead to permanent reductions in yield, normal higher output can be expected in the very short term." And barring age, disease and accidents, we will all live forever.
Between April, 2010 and April, 2011 the average world price of grain soared by 71 percent: not a very big deal for people in rich countries who spend less than 10 percent of their incomes on food, but a catastrophe for poor people who already spend more than half their money just to keep their families fed. And that is before "climate change and water constraints" get really serious. But they will.
Let's ignore the effects of climate change, because it's too early in the game to be certain that any given drought, flood or heat-wave has been caused by rising temperatures. Besides, there are a few countries (notably the United States) where climate change is still seen as controversial by a significant number of people. So let's just talk about what happens to the world food supply when the irrigation water runs out.
The first great food price crisis was in the early 1970s, when consumption was outrunning production due to rapid population growth: the world's population almost doubled between 1945 and 1975. Grain prices were even higher in real terms than they are now, and there was near-starvation in some areas. But the problem was quickly solved by the famous "Green Revolution", which hugely increased yields of rice, wheat and maize (corn).
The only drawback was that the Green Revolution wasn't really all that green. Higher-yielding strains of familiar crops played a part in the solution, certainly, but so did a vastly increased use of fertilizer: global fertilizer use tripled between 1960 and 1975. And above all, there was an enormous expansion of the world's irrigated area. It has more than tripled since 1950.
Only 10 percent of the world's cropland is irrigated even now, but that irrigated land provides about 40 percent of the world's food, so it is absolutely vital. Yet they didn't discover any new rivers after 1950. Almost all of the new irrigated land – two-thirds of the total – uses water that is pumped up from deep underground aquifers.
A lot of those aquifers are "fossil", meaning that they filled with water long ago and are now cut off from the surface. They will eventually be pumped dry. Others still recharge from surface water that filters down, but they are almost all being pumped at many times their recharge rate, so they will effectively go dry, too. Then the world will have to make do with the one-third of irrigated land that gets its water from the weather. It won't be enough.
Obviously, the aquifers won't all go dry at once. Some are bigger than others, and some have been pumped much longer or more heavily than others. But most of them are going to go dry at some point or other in the next thirty years.
The irrigated area in the United States has probably passed its peak already. In key agricultural states, it is already long past: 1978 in Texas, 1997 in California. In China and India irrigation may be at its peak right now. A World Bank study reported in 2005 that the grain supply for 175 million Indians is produced by over-pumping water, and some 130 million Chinese similarly depend in a dwindling supply of underground water for their grain.
It gets worse. In the Middle East, Israel banned all irrigation of wheat in 2000 in order to conserve the remaining underground water for people. It now imports 98 percent of its grain. More recently Saudi Arabia, which was self-sufficient in wheat production only five years ago, decided to shut grain-growing down completely before the major aquifer under the country runs dry. Next year, it will import 100 percent of its grain.
Saudi Arabia will be able to go on importing grain even when the price is twice what it is now, and so will Israel. But there are a great many countries that will lose their ability to feed their own people once the irrigation bubble bursts – and will not be able to afford to import food at the vastly inflated prices that ensue.
Never mind what climate change will eventually do to the world food supply (although we will mind very much when it finally hits). The crisis is coming sooner than that, and it is quite unavoidable. We are living way beyond our means.
To shorten to 725 words, omit paragraph 8. ("A lot…enough")


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Superior Court Judge Daniel S. Murphy ordered a court investigator and adult protective services to find out where Kasem is being treated, reported AP. Kasem has been in various medical facilities chosen by his wife.Jean Kasem, and Kasem's kids have long been battling over their father.
CNN reports that also on Monday, Kasem's daughter, Kerri Kasem, was named as temporary conservator of her dad.
The conservatorship is in effect until June 20, when a hearing is scheduled on whether to make the conservatorship permanent, according to theLos Angeles County Superior Courtspokeswoman Patricia Kelly.
"Justice was finally served! I just won temporary conservatorship over my father's healthcare. We have been vindicated by the court. Thank you for your prayers, well wishes and support through this entire ordeal," Kasem's daughter, Kerri Kasem, posted on her Facebook page soon after the order.
Later, she added: "I believe my father's wife fled the country (or possibly went to an Indian Reservation) with my Dad because she knew I would win in court today. The judge ordered,Adult Protective Services, the PVP Attorney and the police to look for him. Please pray that he is safe."


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Merit Medical Systems To Update 2014 Guidance On March 3, 2014
SOUTH JORDAN, Utah, Feb. 28, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Merit Medical Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:MMSI), a leading manufacturer and marketer of proprietary disposable devices used primarily in cardiology, radiology and endoscopy, announced that it will provide updated guidance regarding its anticipated 2014 financial performance on Monday, March 3 rd, 2014.
Merit will hold an investor conference call on Monday, March 3 rd, 2014 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern (4:00 p.m. Central, 3:00 p.m. Mountain, and 2:00 p.m. Pacific). The domestic phone number is (877) 941-0844, and the international number is (480) 629-9835. A live webcast, as well as a rebroadcast of the conference call, can be accessed at www.merit.com.
ABOUT MERIT
Founded in 1987, Merit Medical Systems, Inc. is engaged in the development, manufacture and distribution of proprietary disposable medical devices used in interventional and diagnostic procedures, particularly in cardiology, radiology and endoscopy. Merit serves client hospitals worldwide with a domestic and international sales force totaling approximately 200 individuals. Merit employs approximately 3,000 people worldwide with facilities in South Jordan, Utah; Angleton, Texas; Richmond, Virginia; Malvern, Pennsylvania; Maastricht and Venlo, The Netherlands; Paris, France; Galway, Ireland; Beijing, China; and Rockland, Massachusetts.
CONTACT: Anne-Marie Wright, Vice President of Corporate Communications         Phone: (801) 208-4167  e-mail: awright@merit.com


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Levels of Reality, Unreality: Eileen Neff at Locks Gallery
Tags: art review, contemporary art, Locks Gallery, photography
Eileen Neff's current show at Locks Gallery, "Things counter, original, spare," creates a still, silent space in which perceptions of reality and originality are subtly twisted and distorted. The large-scale photographs, along with a smaller diptych and a narrow vertical line of abstracted color, occupy a spectrum that considers various states of existence and gently blurs boundaries between what is real and what is unreal.
On one end of the spectrum are photographs of scenes that presumably actually exist somewhere in the world. "Under the Summer Sky" shows a dilapidated zoo enclosure in which the surrounding forest has reclaimed the wooden beams and wire mesh. Instead of housing animals, the pen now holds tree branches and shrubs with a distorted sense of what is outside/inside, of which is the container and which is being contained. "Two Deer" juxtaposes a photograph of a real deer standing attentive in a clearing next to a photograph of a fake deer (and its black bear companion) lazily propped against the side of a cabin. And although it's likely that "A Goat in the Field," depicting an inquisitive-looking white goat standing in Ms. Neff's signature forest-enclosed green field, is a digital composite, the resulting image is plausible — faintly bizarre, but an image one might actually see.
Moving along the spectrum are montages of images of real scenes, combined for abstraction and visual complement. In "Before and Behind" a different zoo pen image has been inserted over the same field image, rectangle on top of rectangle, so that various forces of openness, containment and space exist simultaneously. It brings out different degrees of human control (mown field, wire cage) versus natural growth (forest around field, trees filling cage). Another piece, "Horizon," takes a photograph of dense, barren tree trunks and places it next to a thin vertical stripe with a sky-blue top and grass green bottom. The stripe grounds an otherwise horizon-less view of a winter forest and adds a heightened perception of distance, without any of the horizontality usually associated with landscapes.
Another segment of the show splices together images of images of real scenes so as to appear believable, but to actually distort reality. By using a photograph of the bare gallery wall as a backdrop for inserting photographs of her other pieces, Ms. Neff twists the viewer's sense of originality, creating an artwork of her own artwork. The gallery itself and then Ms. Neff's representation of the gallery emerge as active, intertwined elements, while the original scenes, being twice removed from their concrete existence in the world, become abstracted. In "After the Winter Before," it looks like "Under the Summer Sky" has been propped against a wall next to the wall-mounted vertical stripe of "Flipping Glimpse" (the same stripe from "Horizon," this time isolated against the white gallery wall) and an already hung "A Goat in the Field." The faux installation-view pulls together the visual relationships of the three pieces and opens a window to an alternate-universe viewing possibility.
In a similar piece, "The Winter Before," Ms. Neff includes an image of a piece not present elsewhere in the show, taking the distortion of reality a step further. Sandwiched between the edges of "Two Deer" and "Horizon" sits an image of a picture of blurred branches rushing past. Given the stillness and location-specificity of all of the other images in the show, this one moment of decontextualized movement stands out — it is both present in its activity and absent in its lack of place. It exists as an image of a photograph, but doesn't actually exist in photographic form in the show. It is as if the viewer can only see it secondhand, through someone else's lens, which raises the question of whether it physically exists at all. In the age of digital creativity and virtual community, Ms. Neff engages her nature-themed artwork in a conversation about what is really real and suggests that perhaps reality isn't what we expect.
By: Melinda Steffy, for The Bulletin, March 5, 2009


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 * the tests, passing an array of tests as an argument. Each test is an object
 * with the following properties:
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 *   test - function to call to perform the test
 *   events - a list of events that are expected to be fired in sequence
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 *   condition - an optional function which, if it returns false, causes the
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 *   end - used for debugging. Set to true to stop the tests after running
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var gTestIndex = -1;
var gTestStepIndex = 0;
var gTestEventIndex = 0;
var gAutoHide = false;
var gExpectedEventDetails = null;
var gExpectedTriggerNode = null;
var gWindowUtils;
var gPopupWidth = -1, gPopupHeight = -1;

function startPopupTests(tests)
{
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  document.addEventListener("popupshown", eventOccurred, false);
  document.addEventListener("popuphiding", eventOccurred, false);
  document.addEventListener("popuphidden", eventOccurred, false);
  document.addEventListener("command", eventOccurred, false);
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  document.addEventListener("DOMMenuItemInactive", eventOccurred, false);
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  document.addEventListener("DOMMenuBarActive", eventOccurred, false);
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}

function finish()
{
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}

function ok(condition, message) {
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function is(left, right, message) {
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function disableNonTestMouse(aDisable) {
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function eventOccurred(event)
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    var modifiersMask = eventitem[2];
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      is(m, modifiersMask, test.testname + " modifiers mask matches");
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    var expectedState;
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    if (gExpectedTriggerNode && event.type == "popupshowing") {
      if (gExpectedTriggerNode == "notset") // check against null instead
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      is(event.originalTarget.triggerNode, gExpectedTriggerNode, test.testname + " popupshowing triggerNode");
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}

function checkResult()
{
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    step = test.steps[gTestStepIndex];

  if ("result" in test)
    test.result(test.testname, step);

  if ("autohide" in test) {
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    return;
  }

  goNextStep();
}

function goNextStep()
{
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  var step = null;
  var test = gPopupTests[gTestIndex];
  if ("steps" in test) {
    gTestStepIndex++;
    step = test.steps[gTestStepIndex];
    if (gTestStepIndex < test.steps.length) {
      test.test(test.testname, step);
      return;
    }
  }

  goNext();
}

function goNext()
{
  if (gTestIndex >= 0 && "end" in gPopupTests[gTestIndex] && gPopupTests[gTestIndex].end) {
    finish();
    return;
  }

  gTestIndex++;
  gTestStepIndex = 0;
  if (gTestIndex < gPopupTests.length) {
    var test = gPopupTests[gTestIndex];
    // Set the location hash so it's easy to see which test is running
    document.location.hash = test.testname;

    // skip the test if the condition returns false
    if ("condition" in test && !test.condition()) {
      goNext();
      return;
    }

    // start with the first step if there are any
    var step = null;
    if ("steps" in test)
      step = test.steps[gTestStepIndex];

    test.test(test.testname, step);

    // no events to check for so just check the result
    if (!("events" in test))
      checkResult();
  }
  else {
    finish();
  }
}

function openMenu(menu)
{
  if ("open" in menu) {
    menu.open = true;
  }
  else {
    var bo = menu.boxObject;
    if (bo instanceof SpecialPowers.Ci.nsIMenuBoxObject)
      bo.openMenu(true);
    else
      synthesizeMouse(menu, 4, 4, { });
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}

function closeMenu(menu, popup)
{
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    menu.open = false;
  }
  else {
    var bo = menu.boxObject;
    if (bo instanceof SpecialPowers.Ci.nsIMenuBoxObject)
      bo.openMenu(false);
    else
      popup.hidePopup();
  }
}

function checkActive(popup, id, testname)
{
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  var children = popup.childNodes;
  for (var c = 0; c < children.length; c++) {
    var child = children[c];
    if ((id == child.id && child.getAttribute(menuactiveAttribute) != "true") ||
        (id != child.id && child.hasAttribute(menuactiveAttribute) != "")) {
      activeok = false;
      break;
    }
  }
  ok(activeok, testname + " item " + (id ? id : "none") + " active");
}

function checkOpen(menuid, testname)
{
  var menu = document.getElementById(menuid);
  if ("open" in menu)
    ok(menu.open, testname + " " + menuid + " menu is open");
  else if (menu.boxObject instanceof SpecialPowers.Ci.nsIMenuBoxObject)
    ok(menu.getAttribute("open") == "true", testname + " " + menuid + " menu is open");
}

function checkClosed(menuid, testname)
{
  var menu = document.getElementById(menuid);
  if ("open" in menu)
    ok(!menu.open, testname + " " + menuid + " menu is open");
  else if (menu.boxObject instanceof SpecialPowers.Ci.nsIMenuBoxObject)
    ok(!menu.hasAttribute("open"), testname + " " + menuid + " menu is closed");
}

function convertPosition(anchor, align)
{
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Has the Bubble Burst?
It is not uncommon to move past a "bubble" bursting and not realizing it. Denial plays a big part in the recognition of such a phenomena. While I admit the speculation can grow extremely strong as pundits try to claim their 15 minutes of fame by making bold statements of impending doom only to get caught up in the hype itself. It is unfortunate that for the most part a bursting bubble is basically only recognizable in hindsight. Until then we witness what has become known as the Wile E. coyote period. Fans of the Roadrunner cartoons should get this picture – Wile E. Coyote running off a cliff, legs still moving forward with nothing underneath them and then that look of "oh crap" as gravity takes over.
I remember the "dot-com" implosion. While the top occurred in March of 2000 there were huge swings to the upside as traders failed to see the "writing on the wall." The downside though was persistent. Scattered and appearing small at first, it then avalanched until the end of 2002. As a resident of the San Francisco Bay Area the layoffs were also scattered and small at first but when all was said and done the slide wiped more than 250,000 jobs from the local economy. Local residents, though, either denied it was happening or were totally oblivious to it – at least for the balance of 2000. The local economies were flush with cash bad business plans found funding, office space was quickly leased at any price and real estate listings drew massive crowds willing to bid well over the asking price. Office parties were all the rage often resembling a grand New Year's Eve celebration.
Sound familiar? Could the next Wile E. Coyote moment be at hand – that moment when you suddenly realize that gravity is about the takeover and hurtle you back to earth. Let's take a look at several reasons the tech sector should be concerned:
Does the market/investor still like your app? Outside of the markets getting slam dunked to begin 2016 tech startups found it difficult in 2015 to raise capital. Only 23 actually made it staging initial public offerings according to Renaissance Capital. The total net cash raised was a paltry $4.2 billion compared to $32.3 billion raised in 2014. Many companies expected to launch via an IPO didn't. Dropbox, the cloud storage firm was highly anticipated to go public but chose to hold off. Companies that did manage did not receive a ticker tape parade. Square, headed by Jack Dorsey in his dual role CEO of both Square and Twitter was forced to price Square's IPO at $9, which was well below the expected range of $11 to $13. Fitbit priced its June IPO at $20 quickly catching an updraft to reach $50 by August with gravity taking over and the stock reaching a low of $15.52 last week. ETSY Inc. the online marketplace for all things handmade debuted above $35 in April 2015 and reached a low at $6 last week. Newcomers were not the only companies to suffer the wrath of gravity take a look at Yahoo and Twitter both of which continue to slowly drop off into the sunset.
Shrinking Valuations – While venture capitalists remain willing to dump additional cash into the constant flow of new and must have apps the latest funding rounds are cutting the value of many startups by more than 50%. This is a clear sign that investors are no longer comfortable with high(er) valuations for many tech firms, particularly private held startups currently carrying a $1 billion-plus valuation. Take Dropbox and Snapchat for example – both firms saw mutual funds scale back estimated of how much the firms were worth.
Layoffs – while not making the headlines several tech firms are cutting staff. Yahoo is expected to cut its staff by 10% which may include its CEO. GoPro announced in January plans to cut 7% of its workforce. Last year saw eBay, Groupon, Intel, Twitter and Zynga all downsize its workforce. Then there were the companies that didn't survive, Homejoy, Plug.dj, PachIt, Rdio and Sidecar have all closed up shop.
Sublease and Party like it's 1999 – it would appear that nobody has taken note of Twitter's desire to sublease part of its San Francisco headquarters. Even with the huge tax break given by the city of San Francisco, it appears that Twitter just doesn't need all that space and with rents averaging over $72 a sq/ft, Twitter stands a good chance of making a tidy profit over when combined with the huge tax breaks granted by SF. Holiday parties, though, were once again "over the top" for 2015. Twitter, for example, took over AT&T Park to host its employ holiday party. Yahoo and Facebook though took the top honors for theme parties seemingly based on the "Roaring Twenties." And for those wondering the 1920's were the decadent decade the proceeded the crash of 1929 and the Great Depression.
The signs are out there. Whether or not they will get noticed or picked up is something yet to be seen. The huge influx of capital seems to be still in place as millennials continue to believe it's all just getting started and any downside is a "buying" opportunity. So how do you better prepare yourself. One method would be to keep a closer look at what company "insiders" are doing and where institutional money is being placed. As earnings season begins to unfold many firms will be moving capital around as well as many insiders take profits.
Next up – I'll take a look at the some of the high flyers and tech titans to get a gauge on what is happening. In advance of that check out the data provided by Sage Data Service, for the latest SEC filings.
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U.S. Representative Jerry Hilliard
Representative, 93rd District
State Representative Muhammed Salman Rais
Jerry Hilliard
Jerry Hilliard is running for Congress after previously running in 2018. Born in Midland, Hilliard is a graduate of Harrison High School and Central Michigan University. He has taught at Whittemore-Prescott Schools, He also had a successful career at Nabisco here in Michigan. Jerry is concerned about protecting the environment, expanding opportunity, civil rights, and improving access to health care through a Medicare for All program.
Hilliard is endorsed by the American Federation of Teachers and the AFL-CIO.
Hilliard is running against extreme right-wing Republican, Congressman John Moolenaar.
Hilliard is the most progressive person in this race.
Learn more: http://www.jerryhilliardforcongress.com
Jerry Hilliard is running for Congress after previously running in 2018. Born in Midland, Hilliard is a graduate of Harrison High School and Central Michigan University. He has taught at Whittemore-Prescott Schools, He also had a successful career at Nabisco here in Michigan.
Muhammed Salman Rais
Muhammed Salman Rais is running for the Michigan House of Representatives in the 93rd District. Rais currently works as a family medicine physician and a healthcare administrator. In his spare time he volunteers, promotes health education, supports food programs, and gives free medical services.
Rais' platform includes education programs to educate the community about health and health care, supporting our local agriculture and our farmers, and creating education programs to try and end discrimination in our state.
Rais is endorsed by three of our partner organizations including the American Federation of Teachers, Michigan AFL-CIO, and Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan.
Rais is challenging incumbent Graham Filler who is endorsed by the anti-choice organization Right to Life and by the DeVos-connected Great Lakes Education Project.
Rais is the most progressive choice in this race.
Learn more: https://www.facebook.com/Muhammad-Salman-Rais-for-State-Representative-104542854629647/?ref=page_internal
Muhammed Salman Rais is running for the Michigan House of Representatives in the 93rd District. Rais currently works as a family medicine physician and a healthcare administrator.


Happy Mothers Day. My mom made my life easy even though hers was very hard. We had plenty of food, new school clothes every year, money for lunch and field trips.
That was in the sexist sixties, when she did the same job as the man beside her and got paid less because boss man said, "because you're a woman. And he's got 3 kids to feed." "I've got 3 kids to feed", said Mom. Well then, little lady, you better get yourself a husband, the boss man said.
That discriminating boss will forever affect her retirement and social security income. I did not know we were poor until I took a sociology class in college. It was later that I learned Mom really had to count pennies to buy bread and milk.
As a youngster she suffered though some of the great depression and dust bowl, hard times indeed. But it was just normal times for folks in rural Arkansas She hauled water for washing and bathing. There was no plumbing, not much electricity and the phone service was no picnic even though it was a party line.
When she got to School of the Ozarks, she became an athlete. Her Betty Grable legs turned her into a superstar on the basket ball court. She should be in the Hall of Fame.
So, Happy Mothers Day, Mom. You rescued me from trees and broken down cars. We both lived though puberty, (that's another war story.) You built my confidence, gave me courage, strength and tossed me back into college again.
You got all three of us kids off to college and married before you to any time for yourself. I'm still looking for that application for sainthood or miracle worker because it's yours if you want it.
So, Happy Mothers Day, Mom. You are the best. No, really. You are. Here is a picture of mom and her two sisters, They are all good moms, Mine is the GREAT MOM, Betty, (R) as you can tell. The other two are darned fine Aunts Janet McCreary(L) and Shirley Wilkie (Middle).
Don't mess with the Johnson Ninja Sistas. They look innocent enough, don't they?
I feel like it was destiny.
What with their great MOM, Arvilla Johnson being my grandmother.
AND Then, my great MOM, Betty Jo.
Plus+, being surrounded by great women family members like Aunt Janet and Aunt Shirley.
I just naturally turned out at the peak of perfection. And, that is why I don't have any kids.
Also my mom put a curse on me.
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I'm a gardener and love my herb garden. My cooking tends to have several meatless meals every week. In summer, vegan meals are practical and they celebrate my home-grown vegetables.
Quinoa-Stuffed Pepper with cannellini salad, pistachios.
After a life time of meat centered meals, sometimes, I simply don't know what to use instead of ham or bacon as seasoning in vegetables. Thanks to the chef created recipes at Green Chef, I'm learning how to make crunchy stuffed bell peppers and savory stuffed squash without loads of meat or cheese filling.
Stuffed zucchini with sautéed chard & roasted chickpeas, couscous salad.
The instructions for beautiful and tasty Stuffed Zucchini is on the Green Chef website. With all the chard and squash about to burst into production, this recipe is a gardeners treat.
In summer, recipes like vegan fajitas, tacos and wraps are going to show off my booming vegetable garden. They are also lighter and faster meals on hot summer days.
Super grain Collard Wraps with sunflower seeds & pepitas, mint, roasted potatoes.
I like the delivered meals and, I'm learning to make good vegan meals that my meat-and-potatoes loving husband will eat. Once I make something like Green Chef wraps or stuffed peppers, I'm confident enough to try my hand using the vegetables I grow.
One of my favorite things about these filling meals, is that they include seasonal recipes with fresh ingredients and herbs. Being a herb gardener, that's a big plus. The recipes in these photos are on the Green Chef website.
Or try some of these meals for yourself. If you use this link, I get a credit and you get 4 free meals.
I've bought vegan cookbooks and pinned a ton of vegan recipes on Pinterest. But, I've been using butter and bacon all my life. And learning to prepare a really good meal without those familiar ingredients isn't always easy.
After working so long and hard to produce great herbs and vegetables, it makes sense to prepare and serve them at their best.
Herb Pasta Primavera with asparagus, artichoke hearts, snap peas, tomatoes.
One of my favorite meals was Herb Pasta Primavera. After learning to make this vegan recipe, it's easy to take the recipe and use it as a basis for my garden grown creations.
This is not to say I am a vegetarian. But I'm eating less meat and dairy and my cholesterol and blood pressure are lower. I'm proud that I've lost a little weight and I feel better.
We spend part of the grocery money at the farmers market every week. We don't grow all our food, but I like to garden and have the time and energy to grow some of our fruits, vegetables and herbs.
My goal is to grow all the tomatoes we will eat this year. So for me, it's the year of the tomato. Vegan style.
All the photos are from Green Chef.


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Home » World News » Huawei fires employee arrested in Poland on spying charges
Huawei fires employee arrested in Poland on spying charges
Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei said on Saturday it had sacked an employee arrested in Poland on spying charges in a case that could intensify Western security concerns about the company.
Poland's internal affairs minister, Joachim Brudzinski, called for the European Union and NATO to work on a joint position over whether to exclude Huawei from their markets following the arrest of the Chinese employee and a former Polish security official on Friday.
Huawei, the world's biggest producer of telecommunications equipment, faces intense scrutiny in the West over its relationship with China's government and U.S.-led allegations that its devices could be used by Beijing for spying.
No evidence has been produced publicly and the firm has repeatedly denied the accusations, but several Western countries have restricted Huawei's access to their markets.
In August, U.S. President Donald Trump signed a bill that barred the U.S. government from using Huawei equipment and is mulling an executive order that would also ban U.S. companies from doing so.
Brudzinski said Poland wanted to continue cooperating with China but that a discussion was needed on whether to exclude Huawei from some markets.
"There are concerns about Huawei within NATO as well. It would make most sense to have a joint stance, among EU member states and NATO members," he told private broadcaster RMF FM.
"We want relations with China that are good, intensive and attractive for both sides," he added.
Huawei distances itself from arrests
Seeking to distance itself from the incident, Huawei said in a statement it had sacked Wang Weijing, whose "alleged actions have no relation to the company."
"In accordance with the terms and conditions of Huawei's labor contract, we have made this decision because the incident has brought Huawei into disrepute," the statement said.
"Huawei complies with all applicable laws and regulations in the countries where it operates, and we require every employee to abide by the laws and regulations in the countries where they are based," the company's statement added.
A Huawei spokesman, Joe Kelly, declined to give any further details.
The two men have heard the charges and could be held for three months.
A spokesman for the Polish security services had told Reuters the allegations related to individual actions, and were not linked directly to Huawei Technologies Cos Ltd.
A deputy digital affairs minister in Poland said, however, that Warsaw was analysing any involvement by Huawei in building the country's 5G telecommunications infrastructure, Money.pl portal reported.
Any decision by Western governments over whether to exclude Huawei from their markets would have to consider the possible impact on the speed and cost of 5G development, analysts say.
"My best-case outcome is that Europe uses this window of opportunity and figures out how to have a minimal risk for the best network possible," said Jan-Peter Kleinhans, an IT security expert at Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, a Berlin-based think-tank.
A LinkedIn profile for Wang showed he has worked for Huawei's Polish division since 2011 and previously served as attache to the Chinese General Consul in Gdansk from 2006-2011. Wang did not immediately respond to a request for comment via the social media site.
China's Foreign Ministry has expressed concern over the case and is urging Poland to handle the case "justly."
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Debbi Hill began her LONG journey with AMLA in October of 1986. She, her husband and 2 small children had recently moved to the Phoenix area from the suburbs of Chicago. Debbi wanted to work part time until the children were a bit older and answered an ad in the Arizona Republic for a part time administrative assistant. When asked what she knew about the mortgage industry, she gave an honest reply – "not much, except that I've been through the process several times." When asked about her job experience, Debbi told them about her work with troubled teenagers at a residential facility, Maryville Academy located in Des Plaines, IL. For whatever reason, the interviewers found this experience to be a perfect match to work with mortgage bankers.
Debbi decided she would stay with AMLA for one year and then return to social work. However, she was surprised at how interesting the job would prove to be – both by learning about the complexities of the mortgage industry and also learning about the ins and outs of meeting planning and hotel contract negotiation. Debbi took some basic mortgage banking courses and joined the local group of MPI (Meeting Planners International) and AzSAE (Arizona Society for Association Executives). In 1994, Debbi and the AMLA Board mutually decided it was time to have a full time Executive Director. And the rest, as they say, is history. After 30 years with AMLA, Debbi still finds the job challenging and truly enjoys working with AMLA's members.
Debbi has a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology/Sociology from Elmhurst College. She and her husband, Andrew are avid tennis fans and dog rescuers. They currently have 2 rescue pups named Sophie and Kalie.