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It's been about a month as a Product Manager at Amazon and I've haven't made a single power point presentation. It's not that nobody trusts the new guy–lots of people are new. Instead it speaks to something a bit more deeply engrained in the culture of Amazon and how work is done.
Everything at Amazon–at least within my experience within AWS–when it comes to relating information is done with text. The PR/FAQ is designed to capture a new product and provide it with a customer perspective first. One-pagers which have a loose in format, capture a single concept or recommendation. 3-pagers provide a longer narrative and can be used as a convincing document. I've written each of these so far and read not a few. At the beginning of meetings, there is period of silence while people read the appropriate document. It helps load the information into working memory and saves the time it takes to verbally communicate the same. This way everyone quite literally on the same page when the discussion begins. Afterwards, the document serves as a reference for anyone else to quickly read and learn.
There is a power and agility in this method. There is a reason why text is one of the oldest forms of knowledge transfer. There is a power in words.


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Phillips 66 Announces Quarterly Dividend
By Business Wire News
The board of directors of Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX) has declared a quarterly dividend of 56 cents per share on Phillips 66 common stock, representing an increase of 12 percent from the prior quarter. The dividend is payable on June 1, 2015, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on May 18, 2015.
"This dividend increase demonstrates our ongoing commitment to shareholder distributions," said Greg Garland, chairman and CEO of Phillips 66. "Our focus on disciplined capital allocation allows us to continue to return value to our shareholders while also significantly growing our Midstream and Chemicals businesses."
Phillips 66 is a diversified energy manufacturing and logistics company. With a portfolio of Midstream, Chemicals, Refining, and Marketing and Specialties businesses, the company processes, transports, stores and markets fuels and products globally. Phillips 66 Partners, the company's master limited partnership, is an integral asset in the portfolio. Headquartered in Houston, the company has 14,000 employees committed to safety and operating excellence. Phillips 66 had $49 billion in assets as of March 31, 2015. For more information, visit www.phillips66.com or follow us on Twitter @Phillips66Co.
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Sypris Solutions, Inc. to Announce First Quarter Financial Results, Host Conference Call and Webcast on May 14
IRD Report on Voting Results From 2015 Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders

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Raw, organic, unfiltered and unpasteurized, apple cider vinegar is so much more than a salad dressing- you can use it on your skin, your hair, your house, and even your pets can benefit from its qualities. Apple cider vinegar is a completely natural product. It is made from apple juice and is fermented to hard apple cider. It is then fermented a second time to apple cider vinegar. There are literally dozens of uses! When using natural apple cider vinegar for our personal health and cleaning uses, we also instantly decrease the consumption of unnatural chemicals in our homes and daily lives.
Although there has been surprisingly little research about using vinegar for therapeutic health purposes, there are numerous dramatic claims about it. Perhaps the most researched and the most promising of apple cider vinegar's benefits are in the area of type 2 diabetes. Several studies have found that vinegar may help lower blood glucose levels. In 2004, a study cited in the American Diabetes Foundation's publication Diabetes Care found that taking vinegar before meals significantly increased insulin sensitivity and dramatically reduced the insulin and glucose spikes that occur after meals. Although the research to date looks favorable, more studies are needed to confirm the extent of vinegar's insulin stabilization benefits.
Recent studies have also shown that apple cider vinegar can aid in weight loss. For daily weight management, add 2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar to 16 ounces of water. This concoction can be sipped throughout the day. Data shows some limited, yet significant, weight loss benefits from sustained daily intake of acetic acid (which is a main ingredient in apple cider vinegar). In a 2009 study published in Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry, it was found that subjects that consumed acetic acid for 12 weeks experienced significant declines in body weight, abdominal fat, waist circumference and triglycerides.
This miracle vinegar helps to break up mucous throughout the body and cleanse the lymph nodes. Believe it or not, research suggests that apple cider vinegar can help with allergies because of its ability to reduce mucous and sinus congestion. When reducing the effects of allergies, it can also help stave off sinus infections and their related symptoms (sore throats and headaches). This vinegar is rich in natural enzymes that can help rid your body of candida -- yeasts that are attributed to thrush in humans. Candida also is blamed for creating symptoms of fatigue, poor memory, sugar cravings, and yeast infections.
Apple cider vinegar can be used as a rinse for your hair after shampooing, and will aid in increased body and shine. I recommend recycling an old shampoo bottle, then filling it with 1/2 a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar and a cup of cold water. Pour the solution through your hair after shampooing several times a week for dramatic results. Natural apple cider vinegar also regulates the pH of your skin. Dilute apple cider vinegar with two parts water, and spread the concoction over your face with a cotton ball to replace your current toner. You can do this at night after washing, and in the morning before you apply your moisturizer. A dab of apple cider vinegar can also be left on the skin overnight to fade age spots or acne scars. It is also a recommended agent for warts. For warts, soak a cotton ball in apple cider vinegar, then fasten the cotton ball over the wart with a Band-Aid overnight. The skin may swell some as it reacts with the solution. However, the wart will fall off. Once it falls off, the treatment should be continued for a few more days, to make sure the wart doesn't return.
As part of balancing the body's pH, apple cider vinegar creates an overall detoxification of the body. Research shows that it can help stimulate cardiovascular circulation and help detoxify the liver. Apple cider Vinegar will balance your entire inner body system. The body constantly strives to achieve a state of equilibrium. Apple cider vinegar helps the body maintain a healthy alkaline pH level. Research shows that higher acid levels (lower pH level) leads to a lack of energy and higher incidences of infection.
The use of apple cider vinegar is effective in repelling fleas and ticks on your pets. One part vinegar and one part water can be sprayed on your pet's fur and rubbed in generously to the skin. Saturate the entire coat, and continue every day for a few days to a week. Any flea infestation will surely be gone.
Apple cider vinegar will clean your toilets and have your bathroom smelling like apples! Just pour apple cider vinegar into the toilet, and allow it to sit overnight. It can also be used in dishwashers as a substitute for dish detergent. Mix 1/2 cup of apple cider vinegar with 1 cup water, and you can use this solution to clean microwaves, kitchen surfaces, windows, glasses and mirrors, too.
Vinegar is one of the best natural agents for removing certain pesticides and bacteria from your fresh produce. Use a solution of 10 percent vinegar to 90 percent water as a bath to briefly soak produce. Just place your veggies or fruit in the solution, swish it around, and rinse thoroughly. Just don't use this process on fragile fruits (like berries), since they could be damaged in the process or soak up too much vinegar through their porous skins.
There is even some positive preliminary research suggesting apple cider vinegar can help prevent cancer. A few laboratory studies have found that vinegar may be able to kill cancer cells or slow their growth. However, epidemiological studies of people have yielded confusing results. It could be partially related to the fact that vinegar is a diluted acid, specifically acetic acid, which is responsible for its sour taste and pungent smell. The pH changes it induces may contribute to some of its actions. Some of the dramatic benefits may also be derived from yet-to-be-identified phytochemicals (beneficial compounds in plants) that scientists are now discovering in a number of different foods. In fact, many of your strongest weapons against cancer are the phytochemicals found in fruits and vegetables.
Apple cider vinegar makes a delightful salad dressing. You can even make a vinegar-based coleslaw, rather than the usual creamy mayonnaise-based one. It is good on fish as well and serves as a great tenderizing marinade for meat, giving it a bit of zing. And it's tasty drizzled over cooked greens. It is possible that drinking a mild tonic of vinegar and water just before meals might improve your body's ability to absorb the essential minerals locked in foods. Apple cider vinegar might help you get more out of your vegetables and all your foods.
If you are considering taking it medicinally, remember that you should always dilute it with water or juice before swallowing, and if you plan on drinking it daily you should consider using a straw. Pure, straight apple cider vinegar can damage your tooth enamel or the tissues of your mouth and throat.
3. Kondo S, Tayama K, Tsukamoto Y, Ikeda K, Yamori Y. 2001. Antihypertensive effects of acetic acid and vinegar on spontaneously hypertensive rats. Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry 65(12) 2690-2694.


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Matteo Simone Trefoloni
Hometown: Siena
Speaks: Italian
Occupation: health technician
Matteo Trefoloni reached the Serie A in 2001 and became a FIFA referee in 2004. He was an Elite Category ref, but was demoted to UEFA Premier Category referee, when he heard he would be put back into the Serie B starting season 2010 - 2011, he quit.
UEFA (and FIFA) must have considered him one of the better refs at first , because he almost immediately took charge of qualifiers for Euro 2008 and the 2006 World Cup and matches in the UEFA Cup and Champions League.
UP A LOT AND DOWN A LITTLE
When he retired, Trefonloni said that at this stage of his life he should focus on job opportunities and his family. Our guess is that his demotion from the UEFA elite category must have had something to do with it as well.
Trefoloni was named in the Italian Calciopoli scandal. According to the book Verdachte voorzetten by Jurriaan van Wessem, Trefoloni for no apparent reason rewarded Lazio a free kick in the last minute of a match in an Inter x Lazio in season 2004-2005. Lazio equalized.
Statistics for MATTEO SIMONE TREFOLONI
Yellow 73 93 166
Red 5 5 10
Penalties 0.18 0.03 0.1
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MATCHES FOR MATTEO SIMONE TREFOLONI
Iceland Georgia 2009-09-09 3 - 1 2 (0-2) 0 (0-0) 1 (1-0) 0 (0-0)
round of 32 Athletic Bilbao Anderlecht 2010-02-18 1 - 1 3 (0-3) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
play-offs Shakhtar Sivasspor 2009-08-25 2 - 0 3 (1-2) 0 (0-0) 2 (2-0) 0 (0-0)
group stage Chelsea F.C. APOEL 2009-12-08 2 - 2 2 (1-1) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
group stage Sevilla FC Unirea Urziceni 2009-09-16 2 - 0 5 (1-4) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
qualifiers 3rd round Partizan APOEL 2009-08-05 1 - 0 8 (3-5) 1 (0-1) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
round of 16 PSG Braga 2009-03-12 0 - 0 1 (1-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
Group stage Nancy Feyenoord 2008-10-23 3 - 0 3 (1-2) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
Belgium Turkey 2009-10-10 2 - 0 4 (3-1) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
Romania Serbia 2009-03-28 2 - 3 6 (4-2) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
Netherlands Iceland 2008-10-11 2 - 0 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
group stage Sporting Barcelona 2008-11-26 2 - 5 3 (1-2) 1 (1-0) 1 (0-1) 0 (0-0)
group stage Celtic AaB 2008-09-17 0 - 0 3 (2-1) 1 (0-1) 1 (1-0) 0 (0-0)
qualifiers 3rd round Steaua Galatasaray 2008-08-27 1 - 0 7 (4-3) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
round of 16 PSV Tottenham Hotspur 2008-03-12 0 - 1 6 (1-5) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
group stage Crvena Zvezda Bayern Munich 2007-10-25 2 - 3 6 (4-2) 1 (1-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
group stage Fenerbahce SK CSKA Moskva 2007-12-12 3 - 1 4 (1-3) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
group stage Marseille Besiktas 2007-09-18 2 - 0 7 (5-2) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
qualifiers 3rd round BATE Steaua 2007-08-15 2 - 2 4 (1-3) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
group stage Levski Sofia Werder Bremen 2006-10-31 0 - 3 4 (1-3) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
play-offs England u21 Germany u21 2006-10-06 1 - 0 5 (2-3) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
round of 32 Glasgow Rangers Hapoel Tel Aviv 2007-02-22 4 - 0 5 (3-2) 1 (1-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
group stage Panathinaikos Rapid Bucuresti 2006-11-30 0 - 0 4 (2-2) 1 (0-1) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
1st round Celta de Vigo Standard 2006-09-28 3 - 0 6 (3-3) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
Hungary Bosnia-Herzegovina 2007-09-08 1 - 0 6 (2-4) 0 (0-0) 1 (1-0) 0 (0-0)
Latvia Denmark 2007-06-06 0 - 2 4 (2-2) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
Moldova Greece 2006-09-02 0 - 1 4 (2-2) 0 (0-0) 1 (1-0) 0 (0-0)
3rd round Hibernian OB 2006-07-22 2 - 1 6 (5-1) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
group stage Bolton Wanderers Zenit 2005-11-03 1 - 0 2 (0-2) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
1st round Mainz Sevilla FC 2005-09-29 0 - 2 6 (3-3) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
group stage Germany u19 Northern Ireland u19 2005-07-23 2 - 1 5 (1-4) 1 (1-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
group stage France u19 England u19 2005-07-18 1 - 1 3 (1-2) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
Greece Georgia 2005-10-12 1 - 0 7 (2-5) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
Netherlands Armenia 2005-03-30 2 - 0 4 (1-3) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
1st round Banik Ostrava Middlesbrough 2004-09-30 1 - 1 2 (1-1) 1 (0-1) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
play-offs France u21 England u21 2005-11-15 2 - 1 4 (1-3) 0 (0-0) 1 (1-0) 0 (0-0)
Russia u21 Slovakia u21 2004-09-04 4 - 0 3 (2-1) 1 (0-1) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
qualifiers 2nd round Lokomotiv Plovdiv Club Brugge 2004-08-04 0 - 4 3 (2-1) 1 (1-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)
3rd round Villarreal Spartak Moskva 2004-07-17 1 - 0 6 (3-3) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0) 0 (0-0)


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Funding Central is a free smart website for the whole voluntary and community sector, including social enterprise, providing access to thousands of funding and finance opportunities, plus a wealth of tools and resources supporting organisations to develop sustainable income strategies appropriate to their needs.
Grantfinder was developed to advise and guide professional clients on all matters relating to grant aid – from identifying what is available to whom, through to making an application. In the intervening years our distinguished client base has steadily grown, in line with the accuracy and reliability of Grantfinder which is now acknowledged as the UK market leader.
It distributes surplus goods from industry to voluntary organisations in the UK working at home and abroad. Mainly new goods, i.e. samples, seconds, end of lines.
The community funding support website for the Kingston upon Hull area.


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Pep Guardiola hints at major Man City role for Riyad Mahrez
Riyad Mahrez scored the only goal of the game as Manchester City beat Tottenham in the Premier League
Simon Bajkowski
Riyad Mahrez knew exactly how to mark his Manchester City goal against Tottenham when it came.
As the club record signing explained in a touching interview after the game, it has been a difficult few days for a man that has such a strong connection with the Leicester story and its owner, who tragically died along with four others on Saturday when his helicopter crashed outside the King Power Stadium following the game with West Ham.
Mahrez admitted he has had trouble sleeping since the incident, yet Pep Guardiola - having worked with the player for less than three months - did not feel the need to ask if the player was fine to play against Tottenham even though it would have been perfectly understandable if he hadn't.
If in part it was the coach allowing the 27-year-old to deal with things in his own way, there was also the idea that the summer buy is ideal for the big games.
"We spoke with him, how he felt," said Guardiola.
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"It's a big loss for all the families in Leicester especially and of course Riyad was part of that for many, many years. Of course it was tough.
"But I didn't speak with him in terms of how do you feel to play because I know how competitive he is and how he likes to play on the big events, big stages, and the personality.
"Sometimes playing games helps not to forget - because it's impossible to forget - but to live it in a better way."
Still in the infancy of his City career, Mahrez has already started at Wembley against Chelsea in the Community Shield and at the Emirates, Anfield and now Wembley in the Premier League.
When you compare that record to how Bernardo Silva and Leroy Sane, admittedly younger, started their time at the Etihad it is clear that Guardiola does see Mahrez as a big-game player.
A lack of goals and assists early on did not deter the manager, nor did the penalty miss at Anfield, and Mahrez is getting more up to speed with exactly what he needs to do and where he needs to be with every minute that passes.
Given Guardiola has twice suggested in the last seven days his team are lacking things both tangible and otherwise in their bid to be a 'real contender' for the league and Champions League - a recurring refrain from the manager - his comments on Mahrez suggest the 2016 PFA Player of the Year could be a significant part of the solution.
Especially if Mahrez starts the derby next Sunday, 2017 PFA Young Player Leroy Sane and the rest of City's forwards know they will have to show even more if they want to play in the biggest games.
Man City do the Premier League's job for them against Tottenham
Paul Scholes and Michael Owen disagree on half time incident in Liverpool vs Manchester United
Paul ScholesScholes and Owen discussed an interesting moment in the 0-0 draw between Man Utd and Liverpool at Anfield in the Premier League.


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Salutaris Medical Devices Receives 510(k) Clearance from U.S. FDA for SMD-Sr90-DA Radionuclide Brachytherapy Source
SalutarisMD SMD-DA Applicator (Photo: Business Wire)
December 20, 2016 12:02 AM Eastern Standard Time
TUCSON, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Salutaris Medical Devices, Inc. (SalutarisMD®) has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for their SMD-Sr90-DA™ Radionuclide Brachytherapy Source (RBS). The SMD-Sr90-DA™ RBS device is indicated for episcleral brachytherapy. The device is intended for use within a manual brachytherapy applicator system.
Dr. Laurence Marsteller, CEO of SalutarisMD, commented, "The SalutarisMD team is quite proud and excited to have reached this important regulatory and commercial milestone. It further validates our company's progress, and advances its clinical research agenda."
SalutarisMD is developing a minimally invasive procedure that can be performed in an outpatient setting in approximately 15 minutes. The patented and patent pending technology delivers a single-use brachytherapy procedure. SalutarisMD's technology is being engineered to deliver improved outcomes for wet AMD.
Caution: Investigational Device
About SalutarisMD
SalutarisMD® (Salutaris Medical Devices, Inc. and Salutaris Medical Devices, Ltd.) is a pre-revenue medical device company founded to develop an investigational ophthalmic treatment for wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD). HOYA Group announced in March 2015 that it had closed an investment financing in SalutarisMD to further SalutarisMD's growth strategy. For more information visit www.SalutarisMD.com or www.SalutarisMD.co.uk.
Salutaris Medical Devices, Inc.
4340 N. Campbell Ave. Suite 266
www.SalutarisMD.com
Salutaris Medical Devices, Ltd.
Level 1, Bessemer Building Imperial College
London SW72AZ +44 (0) 203 282 7166
www.SalutarisMD.co.uk
SalutarisMD
Joanne Vitali, US Communications Director
jvitali@SalutarisMD.com
Salutaris Medical Devices, Inc. (SalutarisMD®) has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for their SMD-Sr90-DA™ Radionuclide Brachytherapy Source (RBS).


BONATRANS GROUP has been cooperating with the Art school in Bohumin for a long time. At the end of 2017 the cooperation was ended by a competition for children studying art. The company received more than 30 pictures on the topic of "Christmas train".
Since the last year, we have been focusing on cooperation with children studying art programme. Plenty of competitions and challenges were set up during the year.
The winners of the Christmas competition will be rewarded at the beginning of 2018.


Vehicle stripped for repair before being cancelled due to jig brackets not being available, Engine and front end parts loosely fitted back in, there are some parts not with the vehicle, We highly advise viewing before bidding, front damaged, Various age related dents & scratches, viewing prior to bidding is recommended, Description is a guide only. We offer a competitive delivery rate on all cars, please call our transport team for a quote! Mileage not warranted.


Earlier tonight SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket launched from Cape Canaveral. And an image of the launch was caught by a weather satellite. Often referred to as the most powerful rocket in use, it deployed Arabsat-6A, an advanced communications satellite that will provide internet and communications services to the Middle East, Africa and parts of Europe.


Matt Cowe is a guitarist based in South Cumbria but originally from down south.
His guitar playing is influenced by many different musicians from a vaguely classical upbringing through pop, heavy rock, prog, jazz, gypsy jazz, country picking, avant garde, minimalism, folk, ska, swing, classical again and so on.
He was mainly self taught until much later when he took a degree in music at Middlesex University under the tuition of the great Stuart Hall (multi instrumentalist and all round brilliant musician). There he experimented with all sorts of different musics.
He likes to divide his playing between lots of different styles, very happy playing minimalist noises one minute and then Chet Atkins or Bach the next.


Citron is believed to be the first cultivated citrus fruit. Records in literature indicate that citron was planted in gardens of the Mediterranean region as early as in 4000 BC. There no unanimity of opinion about the origin of this fruit.
Citron is a shrub or small tree reaching 8 to 15 ft (2.4-4.5 m) high with stiff branches and stiff twigs and short or long spines in the leaf axils. The leaflets are evergreen, lemon-scented, ovate-lanceolate or ovate elliptic, 2 1/2 to 7 in (6.25-18 cm) long; leathery, with short, wingless or nearly wingless petioles; the flower buds are large and white or purplish; the fragrant flowers about 1 1/2 in (4 cm) wide, in short clusters, are mostly perfect but some male because of pistil abortion; 4- to 5-petalled, often pinkish or purplish on the outside, with 30 to 60 stamens.
Peel is yellow when fully ripe; usually rough and bumpy but sometimes smooth; mostly very thick, fleshy, tightly clinging; pulp pale-yellow or greenish divided into as many as 14 or 15 segments, firm, not very juicy, acid or sweet; contains numerous monoembryonic seeds, ovoid, smooth, white within.
The peel is candied and used in a variety of desserts. The pulp can be eaten, but is often too acidic for many people.
The fruit plays role in the Jewish Feast of the Tabernacles.
Citron is not a very climate specific fruit and can grow both in subtropical and tropical environments. For getting marketable fruits of attractive quality, irrigation will be needed in summer as well as winter months. Citron trees do not like standing water.
The ordinary type can further be categorized into two types. One has sour pulp. This type is called a "Bajoori" in North West India. The other type has acidless pulp. This is known called "Amritphal" in North West India.
In Mediterranean region, the acidic varieties include the Florentine and Diamante Citron from Italy, the Green Citron, the Balady Citron from Palestine. The sweet varieties of this area include the Corsican and Moroccan Citrons.


Salsa chicken is one of the easiest to make for your dinner. Sometimes all you need is just a jar of salsa and some chicken breast to cook up a delicious dinner quickly. In this Instant Pot Salsa Chicken recipe, I will show how you can throw in a couple of other ingredients to make it even more delicious and make the perfect salsa chicken in your Instant Pot.
Season the chicken with salt and pepper to taste and add it to the Instant Pot.
Add the oregano, cumin, and the salsa. Stir and cover.
Set the Instant Pot on Poultry mode and cook for 25 minutes.
Release the pressure, transfer the chicken and salsa to a bowl.
shred meat with a fork, and serve with some tortillas on the side.
This Instant Pot Salsa Chicken recipe can help you easily make restaurant-quality juicy delicious Salsa Chicken at home.


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Rachel Augustine Potter is an Assistant Professor of Politics. Her research interests include American political institutions, regulation, public policy, public administration, and the influence of separation of powers on bureaucratic decision-making. Her current book project addresses why some government agencies are successful in the notice-and-comment rulemaking process, while others fail. Her most recent research appears in International Studies Quarterly.


Scottish-based botanical studio and flower garden Pyrus was founded by florists and artists Natalya Ayers and Fiona Inglis. With backgrounds in fine and applied art they discovered a shared passion for seasonal, British grown heritage blooms and established their own cutting garden in a Victorian walled garden outside Edinburgh in 2011.
So the pair of you met in a florist shop in Edinburgh. Did you both set out to be florists?
Working with flowers has been a natural (and slightly unexpected) career for both us. We are surprisingly similar in that, having studied art, we found ourselves working in the same flower shop part time with no grand plan to pursue floristry as a career initially. It was a creative environment filled with fellow creatives and we both quickly became passionate about working with botanical material.
When and why did you decide to join forces and work together?
We joined forces and established Pyrus in 2011; we both wanted to grow and use local flowers for our work and shared a similar approach and ethos having completed art degrees and trained in the same flower shop. We were working as individuals but felt that taking on such a big project like a flower garden would benefit from two heads and pairs of hands. We haven't looked back, it can be creatively challenging working together but we have found the extra dialogue has more successful and interesting results. We are also much braver as a duo; taking on far more ambitious projects than we would on our own and pushing our boundaries.
You grow a large amount of the flowers that you use. How does this inspire your work?
You can't help but be inspired by the imperfect beauty of nature; there is nothing we enjoy more than cutting in the flower garden as the sun comes up or foraging in the woods and hedgerows searching for treasure. We are always drawn to the funny little stems that have grown with particular movement or a distorted shape; they represent everything we love about flowers. They are a world away from the straight, uniform, scentless varieties that are imported from Holland.
Can you tell us a bit about the flower scene in Edinburgh? Have you seen much of a change since you started working?
When we established Pyrus there were very, very few florist/farmers and micro growers in Scotland, let alone Edinburgh. Thankfully for the British flower industry, our business model is becoming more common and we have seen lots of studio florists popping up seeking out local flowers or growing their own. Networks such as the British Flower Collective and Flowers from the Farm are invaluable in supporting and connecting flower growers and florists across the UK; we have said from the beginning that we want nothing less than a flower revolution and we think this is just the beginning of a renaissance in the British flower scene.
How long have you been growing your own flowers and what lessons have you learned from growing?
Natalya: This is our fourth growing season and we have learnt so much along the way, every year is completely different so you can't take anything for granted. Our first season it rained all summer until August when everything flowered at once, the second season was so hot and dry that we had to water the garden most days, unheard of in Scotland! We have a big list of new plants we would like to try for 2016; the biggest challenges are successive crops without gaps, growing in volume as our business grows and thinking ahead to colour palettes and future trends.
Fiona: It's incredible when we think about how much we have learnt over the last four years. Neither of us were particularly experienced in growing when we started but that is one of the wonderful things about gardening is that you learn through doing, there are so many different paths. Our hot sunny days are limited in Scotland so it forces us to be more creative with our garden. We use everything and anything that we see beauty in, including the odd weed!
Is there an extra sense of satisfaction knowing that you have seen the flower from seed to bloom and its end use?
Natalya: Absolutely, we are very proud plant 'Mothers'. Growing flowers from seed and nurturing plants from germination to arrangement is an incredibly special and personal process. To stand back and look at an installation that you literally brought to life is so different to buying flowers from market.
Fiona: So much so, we literally love our flowers, they are our babies. So when we come to use them we want them all to have their moment to shine, each one is used to show off the best of it.
Do you think the commercialisation of flower growing has had a negative impact on the choice of flowers we have? Has the standardisation and 'perfection' of the flowers reduced their beauty?
In short, yes. For decades now we have been conditioned as consumers to the Dutch ideal of perfection which has bred flowers for longevity, stem length and disease resistance. Scent and what we would consider to be natural beauty has been forgotten in place of these sterile 'Barbie' blooms. Variety and choice was reduced to the strongest crops and over time that became our norm. It seems to be largely centered in the European flower industry, in America for example, there are hundreds of specialist flower farms sending their crops all over the country. We would love to see the British flower industry come alive again and start to cater for the growing trend of florists that want specialist blooms, competing with Holland is just not possible.
Do you think the current swing towards foraging and using more specialist growers is a backlash to the homogenisation of the flower markets and commercial growers?
We think that the increasing interest in this way of working is a combination of changing social consciousness and the rise of blogs and social media. Consumers (and florists) seem to be appreciating flowers now in the same way the slow and organic food movements became popular, looking for alternative and better ways of living and appreciating the simple things. At the same time, we were exposed to thousands of beautiful blogs and social media feeds showcasing the work of American florists, this 'new style' was far removed from European floristry and was actually a return to old fashioned methods and ways of using materials.
It is quite a brave decision to start growing your own flowers for sale when you dont have that gardening background. Did you worry about quantities or quality?
Natalya: Our backgrounds are in fine/applied art rather than horticultural; the decision to grow our own flowers was a result of working with imported blooms in flower shops but preferring the incredible scented garden roses that a local market gardener supplied. We both took courses at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Fiona spent time working on an organic farm learning to grow cut flowers. However, nothing could prepare us for taking on our first flower garden! Some would call us brave, some would say naïve but from the beginning the pleasure overcame our fear and it has always felt right to do it this way. We practice organic methods and, for all growers, there is a constant battle with pests, disease and the weather. It has been a massive learning curve but we have learnt to relax over the years; gaining as much knowledge from the failures as the successes.
Fiona: Yes, for the first year we weren't sure if we were brave or stupid! It is very hard work and we have had to learn a lot along the way but it has been so worth it. It is the only way we can get the kinds of flowers that we want to work with. Quantities and quality is always a gamble. We depend so much on mother nature. A crop of roses can be easily ruined by a down pour or a bed of lupins infested by lupin aphid but that's just what happens and we let nature do her thing. Disasters are always counter balanced by a three faced sun flower or a poppy seed head with a crazy curly stem.
What impact has growing your own flowers had on your style? Do you ever feel limited, particularly in the more barren months or does this just inspire you to be more creative with what you have and stay closer to the seasons?
Natalya: We are completely at the mercy of Mother Nature and we love it that way. It feels right to be working our way through the seasons, from the delicate buds and woodland bells in spring through the profusion of summer and textures of autumn, finally ending the year with the austerity of winter. Working in this way definitely impacts on our style, we often have to be more thoughtful and work a little harder to achieve a brief but we embrace that challenge and feel it is the essence of what Pyrus represents. There is always beauty to be found if you look for it; in the depths of winter there are branches covered with lichen, emerald mosses and berries clinging to the bushes which hold just as much joy for us as a garden rose in the height of summer.
Fiona: It's amazing what nature actually has on offer in those barren months, you just have to look a little harder. The times we feel limited are the times we have to push our creativity and more often than not produce our best work.
You are drawn to beauty in many floral forms – things such as 'imperfections' and decay interest you. Do you find your customers appreciate this too or do you keep these interests for personal projects?
We are incredibly lucky with our clients; they put a great deal of faith into our vision and often our brief is simply to be 'as creative as possible'. Fuel to the fire! Largely we find that our customers come to us because they are seeking something different, or feel a connection with our approach to botanicals. Event work aside, we are overflowing with ideas and processes we want to explore; working on creative projects allow us to create pieces for ourselves without constraint. Having said that, there are opportunities to work on exciting creative projects with commercial clients, for example the fashion industry can be a fantastic platform for boundary pushing, avant garde work.
You are very much interested in flower installations can you tell us more about this style and what draws you to it?
Natalya: Botanical installations are sculptural, three dimensional works that are either designed to be site specific or to transform the space they inhabit. It is this idea of using flowers and natural objects to explore an idea as art rather than floristry (which is perceived as a service) that interests us. To work in this way is challenging, exciting and sometimes surprising, the botanical material itself often dictates a piece or takes you in an unexpected direction.
Fiona: The beauty of flower installations is you are asking the viewer to look at the botanical elements in a different way from what they expect or are used to. You can present it in a way that allows the viewer to look at it and experience it differently. As a society we have become quite detached from nature and it's so important to start paying attention.
What is the main difference between these installation pieces and more typical flower arrangements ?
Natalya: Classic arrangements of flowers are beautiful and have their place but are not the only way of presenting our medium. We actually approach them in exactly the same way but the end result is very different. Regardless of whether the piece is an opulent urn arrangement for a wedding or a sculptural suspended piece the same amount of time and love tend to go into it.
Fiona: People have so many associations with flowers and they play various roles in our lives. Classical arrangements will always be arrangements to bring us happiness, comfort or memories. Installations serve the purpose of giving us experience or a new point of view.
What exciting things are on the horizon for Pyrus?
Natalya: We always have lots of projects in the pipeline, including exciting creative collaborations for 2016. However the most important project on the horizon is our move this autumn to a new and bigger (much bigger) flower garden in East Lothian. We have taken on a 2.5 acre Victorian walled garden which has been unused for years and are currently in the process of beginning groundworks and renovating our new studio space. It's the most ambitious and exciting project we have taken on so far and our plan is to fill the space with cut flowers to sell commercially in addition to our own crops. We are incredibly excited to move in and document the progress of our beautiful new space.
Fiona: We are expanding! We have always said we want to make local flowers accessible, which was virtually impossible when we started on our journey. Other people have a hunger for the kinds of blooms we want and we hope to be able to provide that to the market. 2.5 acres has so much potential; we plan to keep bees, collaborate with other creative projects and voluntary schemes and restore the garden to its former glory.


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A shop specialized in online downloads.
The biggest shop on internet with a large classical collection. From some tracks you can listen the first 30 seconds.
Start with clicking on "Switch to English at the top". You can listen to a few complete cd's and many sample tracks of this music shop at 24-48kbps wma.
You can pre-listen many of the Naxos cd's (registration required: 20 kbps asx files). With a free subscription you can listen a quarter of each track. With a paid subscription (about $20,- a year) the complete tracks.
A record company that embraces the internet. You can listen to many complete cds at 128kbps. Streaming audio only.
They sell a lot of Bach and baroque cds. On their listening pagse you can listen to two hours of fragments (typically 1:30) of cds at 64kbps.
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A record label with quite a lot of tracks.
No online samples here. Mikrokosmos offers each month a list that contains thousands of rare classical LPs (and 78s).
This is large database (250.000) of old recordings. You can search on keywords and get a list of recordings, but the crucial information (label and label nr.) is only displayed for paying members.


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Irish hotel sales topped a record €1bn in 2015
The value of hotel sales in Ireland topped a record €1bn in 2015.
In an upcoming report on the hotel sector, property consultants Savills Ireland note that demand for hotel assets was consistently strong in 2015.
This was due to a wide range of factors.
These include 14% growth in overseas visitors, Dublin hotel revenue per room growth of over 20% - as well as a significantly stronger US dollar and pound sterling, compared to a weaker euro.
Irish GDP growth of 7% was also cited as a factor for the growth.
Tom Barrett, director of hotels and leisure at Savills Ireland, said: "Ireland's tourism industry is now achieving record volumes, and combined with a strong domestic economic recovery, this is driving high hotel occupancy rates throughout the country".
"This positive position attracted the attention of both domestic and international hotel operators and investors in 2015".
Increasing focus on development
The firm also predicts that 2016 will see further recovery, with events such as the 1916 Centenary and the success of 'Star Wars'.
Savills adds that it expects the focus to increasingly turn to development - particularly in Dublin - due to a shortfall in hotel bedrooms.
Significant Irish hotel sales in 2015 included Dalata's purchase of Moran Bewley's Hotels, in addition to the Clarion in Cork and Clayton Hotel in Galway.
Private equity fund Lone Star purchased Jurys Inn - while the Intercontinental Dublin (formerly The Four Seasons) was acquired by a consortium backed by US businessman John Malone.
Other high-profile hotel acquisitions included Adare Manor in Limerick by Irish businessman JP McManus, and the Castlemartyr Resort in Cork which was sold to a British hotelier.


Whether it's a team of 2 or 100 people, brainstorming or simple decision-making sessions take up about 30 minutes to an hour. And more often than not, it has become normal to go for default decisions or to become swayed by other people's ideas instead of sticking for what we want or pitching something new to the table.
The same is true with us in Symph. While we can easily decide what program works for a certain web feature but it's difficult for us to decide where to eat. Except for Dave, Lotlot and Albert, they know what NOT to eat, so it's easier for them.
Over time, we've tried a lot of techniques to make collaboration more productive, engaging and efficient. Our team is our most important asset [even more important than internet] and we believe everyone has great ideas to contribute–as evidence, their ideas have made Symph what it is today. We also tried a lot of non-tech ways that we prefer not to discuss. Here's the evolution of the decision-making techniques we've tried over time.
Manual voting, the cult classic. While it makes us feel young (very similar to a classroom setting) and healthy (minor physical exercise involved), it makes everyone feel exposed, therefore hesitant to make their choices.
Verdict: It works, but not when you're a team of more than 10.
As much as possible, we'd like to keep a healthy work-life balance, and that means avoiding the intrusion of work when it comes to our personal spaces (e.g Facebook, Messenger and other social networks) And it's not that we block these applications in our office. We tried Facebook polls, really, but with it we become so easily distracted that we forgot why we logged in in the first place, thus doubling the decision time.
Verdict: We like to keep Facebook the procrastinating social network tool as it is.
Verdict: We think Slack is a great internal communication tool, but when it comes to helping us create decisions it becomes a long thread of conversations and emojis instead.
One of the most complex, but well-loved, is the Design Sprint. When it comes to our projects or core team meetings, we always find it handy to trust our sticky notes and stickers, most often integrating and hacking parts of the Design Sprint.
Verdict: While yes, we still love this process, we just can't help but feel bad for all the post-it notes and stickers that not only are they expensive, disposing so many only contributes less and less to helping the environment, too.
Decision Jam was inspired by the Lightning Decision Jam process that we also use quite often in Symph. And so, we built Decision Jam as a hack to Lighting Decision Jam–to help us initiate decision-making with the team quickly and efficiently. Decision Jam was also created with remote teams, introverts, and trees in mind.
All we simply have to do is create a Decision Jam room, invite and tell everyone involved to pitch their ideas and then vote. All this with the team's preferred devices in hand, be it a laptop or mobile phone.
It's more collaborative in way that it encourages everyone to pitch in their ideas for a certain topic [aka Jams] since everyone is anonymous–from pitching to voting. Ever since we've used Decision Jam, our brainstorming sessions have been cut from a usual 1 hour to 15 minutes or lesser!
Verdict: At the end of the day, it always felt good to know that we made decisions without leaving anyone's ideas unheard, and that we get to act on something we all agreed on. Plus, we get to save more trees and time while we're at it. It's safe to say Decision Jam is here to stay.
Try Decision Jam today and let us know what you think!
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Home  About the Coalition for the Homeless  FY 2018 Annual Report
FY 2018 Annual Report
The Coalition for the Homeless is the nation's oldest advocacy and direct service organization helping homeless men, women, and children. We believe that affordable housing, sufficient food and the chance to work for a living wage are fundamental rights in a civilized society. Since our inception in 1981, the Coalition has worked through litigation, public education and direct services to ensure that these goals are realized.
Program Accomplishments
Every day, the Coalition for the Homeless helps more than 3,500 men, women and children suffering in extreme poverty. Our 11 frontline direct service programs provide emergency food and clothing, eviction prevention, crisis services, permanent housing, job training and youth programs to address immediate needs while helping individuals and families overcome long-term barriers to employment and stability. Here is a summary of each program's recent accomplishments:
The Grand Central Food Program delivered between 800 and 1,200 hot, nutritious meals per night — every night of the year — to hungry men, women and children on the streets of NYC.
Our Eviction Prevention Program saved more than 800 households from the trauma of homelessness — keeping them in their own homes and out of the shelter system.
Our Crisis Intervention Program, a barrier-free, walk-in program where homeless and poor New Yorkers can receive immediate assistance with almost any issue, aided roughly 11,000 men, women and children in crisis.
The Client Advocacy Program helped 135 homeless adults with physical or mental disabilities – who had been languishing, all but forgotten, for years on the streets or in shelters – access critical disability benefits and find permanent supportive housing (affordable housing with onsite services).
The Emergency Mail Program gave roughly 1,500 homeless New Yorkers a secure, reliable and discreet mailing address where they could receive private mail as well as important documents from government agencies, potential employers and social service organizations.
The Bridge Building served as a stable home and sanctuary for 14 families who created a welcoming, close-knit community to recover from the shared trauma of homelessness.
Coalition Houses provided permanent housing and supportive services to 38 homeless single adults in three beautiful landmarked brownstones in Manhattan.
Our Scattered Site Housing Program gave 48 single adults and 18 families living with HIV/AIDS the dignity and security of safe, permanent housing.
The First Step Job Training Program offered 216 homeless and low-income women the skills, experience and confidence needed to find living-wage jobs.
Camp Homeward Bound, the nation's first summer sleep-away camp designed specifically for homeless kids, welcomed 300 children to our pristine lakefront campsite in Harriman State Park.
Bound for Success provided after-school tutoring and recreation as well as a summer day-camp to 53 homeless girls and boys living in a family shelter located in Brooklyn.
The Coalition's Advocacy team continued to utilize impact litigation, research and analysis, grassroots organizing, shelter monitoring and public education to protect the rights of all homeless and at-risk men, women and children in our city and fight for the proven, housing-based solutions to homelessness that will bring an end to this shameful crisis once and for all.
Below are some of our key advocacy victories in FY18.
Ensuring the Right to Safe, Decent Shelter for All Homeless New Yorkers. As a result of the landmark case Butler v. City of New York, the City must now accommodate all homeless people with disabilities and bring the shelter system into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Launch of the "House our Future NY" Campaign. The Coalition launched and is leading a major advocacy campaign to urge Mayor de Blasio to build more permanent housing for homeless New Yorkers. We are calling on the Mayor to double the number of units designated for homeless households in his 300,000-unit Housing New York 2.0 affordable housing plan from 15,000 to 30,000, with 24,000 units to be created through new construction. To date, the campaign's platform has been endorsed by 61 other organizations and most other major elected officials in New York City.
Expanding the Client Advisory Group. The Client Advisory Group (CAG) consists of residents of homeless shelters who meet every Tuesday evening in the Coalition's offices. Members drafted and collected signatures on petitions around housing and food quality in shelters, attended rallies for various campaigns and traveled to Albany to participate in a march with the national Poor People's Campaign. CAG members also wrote and distributed an inaugural edition of a quarterly newsletter – The Monitor – this summer documenting the tremendous work and impact of their advocacy.
Note: The charts above net out unrelated business expenses.
Download the CFH Financial Statement for the Year Ending June 30, 2019 (PDF).
View our Leadership List.


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Global dispersion of jews: Determinants and consequences
Sergio Della Pergola, Ira M Sheskin
Jews and geography have been inextricably related for millennia. We examine changes in the geographic distribution of Jews at different geographic scales, from worldwide to intra-urban. The chapter relies on data from surveys of the American Jewish population, the Israeli census, and other sources about issues of migration, demography, and religiosity. Being Jewish is both a religion and an ethnicity, which complicates enumeration efforts since there is no widely accepted definition of who is a Jew and who is not. We focus on the U.S. and Israel, which account for over 80 % of the worlds 14 million Jews. Mass migration of Jews to the U.S., the Holocaust, creation of the State of Israel, and mass migration from the Arab and Muslim world to Israel significantly changed the geographic distribution. Migration of Jews to the U.S. occurred during four periods: the Sephardic Migration (1654"1820); the German Migration (1820–1880); the Eastern European Migration (1880–1920s); and the Modern Period of Migration (1930s to the present). A major shift has occurred away from the Northeast to the South and West since WWII. The Jewish population of Israel is composed almost entirely of immigrants and their descendants. In 1951, after mass immigration following Israels independence, three-quarters were foreign-born and about half had lived in the country for 5 years or less. The share of Israeli-born in the Jewish population rose from 47 % in 1972 to 71 % in 2010 " after absorbing more than 1.3 million new immigrants. Jews remain a highly urbanized population; more than half live in five metropolitan areas: Tel Aviv, New York, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, and Haifa. U.S. Jews have remained a clustered population even as they suburbanized after WWII.
The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices and Politics
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9376-6_70
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Della Pergola, S., & Sheskin, I. M. (2015). Global dispersion of jews: Determinants and consequences. In The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices and Politics (pp. 1311-1343). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9376-6_70
Global dispersion of jews : Determinants and consequences. / Della Pergola, Sergio; Sheskin, Ira M.
The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices and Politics. Springer Netherlands, 2015. p. 1311-1343.
Della Pergola, S & Sheskin, IM 2015, Global dispersion of jews: Determinants and consequences. in The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices and Politics. Springer Netherlands, pp. 1311-1343. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9376-6_70
Della Pergola S, Sheskin IM. Global dispersion of jews: Determinants and consequences. In The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices and Politics. Springer Netherlands. 2015. p. 1311-1343 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9376-6_70
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abstract = "Jews and geography have been inextricably related for millennia. We examine changes in the geographic distribution of Jews at different geographic scales, from worldwide to intra-urban. The chapter relies on data from surveys of the American Jewish population, the Israeli census, and other sources about issues of migration, demography, and religiosity. Being Jewish is both a religion and an ethnicity, which complicates enumeration efforts since there is no widely accepted definition of who is a Jew and who is not. We focus on the U.S. and Israel, which account for over 80 {\%} of the worlds 14 million Jews. Mass migration of Jews to the U.S., the Holocaust, creation of the State of Israel, and mass migration from the Arab and Muslim world to Israel significantly changed the geographic distribution. Migration of Jews to the U.S. occurred during four periods: the Sephardic Migration (1654"1820); the German Migration (1820–1880); the Eastern European Migration (1880–1920s); and the Modern Period of Migration (1930s to the present). A major shift has occurred away from the Northeast to the South and West since WWII. The Jewish population of Israel is composed almost entirely of immigrants and their descendants. In 1951, after mass immigration following Israels independence, three-quarters were foreign-born and about half had lived in the country for 5 years or less. The share of Israeli-born in the Jewish population rose from 47 {\%} in 1972 to 71 {\%} in 2010 " after absorbing more than 1.3 million new immigrants. Jews remain a highly urbanized population; more than half live in five metropolitan areas: Tel Aviv, New York, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, and Haifa. U.S. Jews have remained a clustered population even as they suburbanized after WWII.",
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author = "{Della Pergola}, Sergio and Sheskin, {Ira M}",
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booktitle = "The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices and Politics",
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N2 - Jews and geography have been inextricably related for millennia. We examine changes in the geographic distribution of Jews at different geographic scales, from worldwide to intra-urban. The chapter relies on data from surveys of the American Jewish population, the Israeli census, and other sources about issues of migration, demography, and religiosity. Being Jewish is both a religion and an ethnicity, which complicates enumeration efforts since there is no widely accepted definition of who is a Jew and who is not. We focus on the U.S. and Israel, which account for over 80 % of the worlds 14 million Jews. Mass migration of Jews to the U.S., the Holocaust, creation of the State of Israel, and mass migration from the Arab and Muslim world to Israel significantly changed the geographic distribution. Migration of Jews to the U.S. occurred during four periods: the Sephardic Migration (1654"1820); the German Migration (1820–1880); the Eastern European Migration (1880–1920s); and the Modern Period of Migration (1930s to the present). A major shift has occurred away from the Northeast to the South and West since WWII. The Jewish population of Israel is composed almost entirely of immigrants and their descendants. In 1951, after mass immigration following Israels independence, three-quarters were foreign-born and about half had lived in the country for 5 years or less. The share of Israeli-born in the Jewish population rose from 47 % in 1972 to 71 % in 2010 " after absorbing more than 1.3 million new immigrants. Jews remain a highly urbanized population; more than half live in five metropolitan areas: Tel Aviv, New York, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, and Haifa. U.S. Jews have remained a clustered population even as they suburbanized after WWII.
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Good Girls Lie
By J. T. Ellison
Read by Fiona Hardingham
J. T. Ellison MIRA 9780778309185
Goode girls don't lie … Perched atop a hill in the tiny town of Marchburg, Virginia, the Goode School is a prestigious prep school known as a Silent Ivy. The boarding school of choice for daughters of the rich and influential, it accepts only the best and the brightest. Its elite status, long-held traditions, and honor code are ideal for preparing exceptional young women for brilliant futures at Ivy League universities and beyond. But a stranger has come to Goode, and this ivy has turned poisonous. In a world where appearances are everything, as long as students pretend to follow the rules, no one questions the cruelties of the secret societies or the dubious behavior of the privileged young women who expect to get away with murder. But when a popular student is found dead, the truth cannot be ignored. Rumors suggest she was struggling with a secret that drove her to suicide. But look closely … because there are truths and there are lies, and then there is everything that really happened. J. T. Ellison's pulse-pounding new novel examines the tenuous bonds of friendship, the power of lies, and the desperate lengths people will go to to protect their secrets.
Goode girls don't lie …
Perched atop a hill in the tiny town of Marchburg, Virginia, the Goode School is a prestigious prep school known as a Silent Ivy. The boarding school of choice for daughters of the rich and influential, it accepts only the best and the brightest. Its elite status, long-held traditions, and honor code are ideal for preparing exceptional young women for brilliant futures at Ivy League universities and beyond. But a stranger has come to Goode, and this ivy has turned poisonous.
In a world where appearances are everything, as long as students pretend to follow the rules, no one questions the cruelties of the secret societies or the dubious behavior of the privileged young women who expect to get away with murder. But when a popular student is found dead, the truth cannot be ignored. Rumors suggest she was struggling with a secret that drove her to suicide.
But look closely … because there are truths and there are lies, and then there is everything that really happened.
J. T. Ellison's pulse-pounding new novel examines the tenuous bonds of friendship, the power of lies, and the desperate lengths people will go to to protect their secrets.
"[A] high-tension thriller…Alternating points of view raise the suspense, blurring the lines between what's true and false." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author Bio: J. T. Ellison
J. T. Ellison is the New York Times bestselling author of the critically acclaimed Taylor Jackson series, including All the Pretty Girls, 14, and The Cold Room. She is the bimonthly Friday columnist at the Anthony Award–nominated blog Murderati and was named the Best Mystery/Thriller Writer of 2008 by the Nashville Scene.
Category: Fiction/Thrillers
Publisher: MIRA Publisher: MIRA
CDs: 10 CDs: 1


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Q: ¿Como hacer una petición http.put correctamente con ionic 2? Estoy haciendo una peticion put pero me devuelve un error, no se que estoy haciendo mal
this.http.put( url,body).map(res => res.json()).subscribe(
    data => {
        console.log('se completo la consulta creo que con exito', [data, this.modificiaciones]);
     },
    err => {
        console.log("error de la consulta: ", err);
    }
)

El error es el siguiente OPTIONS  net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE
y el console.log dice que el error es: Response {_body: ProgressEvent, status: 0, ok: false, statusText: "", headers: Headers, …}
Si elimino el método .subscribe() no sale ningún error, pero reviso si el registro de mi tabla en la base de datos fue modificado y no es modificado.
Las peticiones post funcionan perfectamente, es con el put es que tengo problemas

A: Debes añadirle las cabeceras
let headers = new Headers();
headers.append('Content-Type', 'application/json');

Y en la petición
this.http.put( url,body, {headers: headers})

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GRIM DISCOVERY
Man's body found in Tesco supermarket car park
The man's body was discovered at around 8.25pm on Sunday night
Jon Rogers
A MAN'S body has been discovered in the car park of Tesco supermarket in Yorkshire.
The authorities were called at 8.25pm on Sunday night to the store in Batley, West Yorkshire.
Police said they weren't treating the incident as suspicious
Emergency services discovered the body of a man in his 40s.
The Sun understands the man's body was not found inside a car.
Police sealed off the area as they launched an investigation.
The death is not being treated as suspicious.
A man's body was found in the store's car park
Surgeon in court for attempted murder after fellow doc left fighting for life
SPACE EVADER
Inside the £18million mansion it takes 30mins to walk around but no one wants
MIND THE NO GAP
Building sites 'to be shut down in DAYS' unless Tube overcrowding ends
SAVAGE ATTACK
Dog owner convicted as heartbreaking footage shows pet maul DEER to death
A file has been prepared for the coroner.
The Yorkshire town was the scene of a hit and run incident during New Year's Eve celebrations when a 21-year-old serviceman Joshua Adams-Mitchell was hit by a Mercedes outside a nightclub.
On Christmas Eve two Tesco shoppers were injured in an alleged hit and run incident after customers rounded on a blue Citroen C3 thought to belong to two suspected shoplifters in the car park of a branch in Rickmansworth which
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US approves Super Hornet sale ahead of Canadian decision
By: Valerie Insinna September 12, 2017
A Royal Canadian Air Force CF-188 Hornet approaches a U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron, March 4, 2015, over Iraq. The Hornets are on a mission to strike Da'esh targets in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Staff Sgt. Perry Aston/RELEASED)
WASHINGTON — The Canadian government has yet to reach a final decision on whether to buy F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, but on Sept. 12 the U.S. State Department gave the green light for an eventual purchase of 18 jets.
Last November, the Canadian government announced that it would explore a potential interim buy of up to 18 Super Hornets, allowing the country to take more time to figure out whether to eventually purchase the F-35 joint strike fighter.
Since then, signals from Canada have been mixed. In May, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suspended talks with Boeing after the company lodged a trade dispute with Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier. Earlier this month, Reuters reported that Canada was considering buying used F-18s from Australia instead.
Canada's defense minister threatens Boeing deal in speech
Canada's threat comes amid increasing trade disputes with the U.S.
By: Rob Gillies, The Associated Press
Despite the ongoing political quagmire, the U.S. State Department has cleared a $5.23 billion arms package that includes 10 F/A-18Es and 8 F/A-18Fs as well as associated engines, AN/APG-79 active electronically scanned array radars, 20mm guns, electronic warfare countermeasures systems, 100 AIM-9X Sidewinder missiles and other gear.
Although not common, there is precedent for the State Department approving foreign military sales before the international partner in question makes the formal decision to buy that weapon system. For instance, in 2009 the Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of its intention to sell 28 Super Hornet fighters to Brazil, a case with an estimated value of $7 billion. Brazil didn't select the winner of its fighter jet competition until 2013, when it chose the Saab Gripen.
Canada Plans to Buy 18 Super Hornets, Start Fighter Competition in 2017
Canada will explore an interim buy of 18 Super Hornet fighter jets from Boeing, a blow to Lockheed Martin that kicks a final decision on whether to procure the F-35 further down the road.
By: Valerie Insinna
Last year, Canadian Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan said buying the 19 Super Hornets was necessary to fill a capability gap caused by some of its CF-18 Hornet fleet soon reaching the end of their service lives. The plan was to start a new fighter competition sometime in 2017 after the release of Canada's defense policy review, he said.
Canada released its defense policy review in June but has yet to announce a fighter competition.
About Valerie Insinna
Valerie Insinna is Defense News' air warfare reporter. She previously worked the Navy/congressional beats for Defense Daily, which followed almost three years as a staff writer for National Defense Magazine. Prior to that, she worked as an editorial assistant for the Tokyo Shimbun's Washington bureau.
East Coast US Navy aviators to see their flight hours slashed for the rest of fiscal year
The Pentagon should treat Congress as a partner, not an obstacle
4 questions on NATO's capability investments
Maybe alliance tensions could land us in a better place
How do Americans feel about US arms sales? Not great.


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Hooray, a fun chalkboard item that I created! I feel like I finally got to join the party. Already for sale on our Etsy store, and soon to be available on the tradewindtiaras.com website!


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'Airbnb mafia' fund Wave Capital makes it official, closing its debut fund with $55 million
Connie Loizos	@Cookie / 2 years
A couple of weeks ago, Airbnb announced some major changes to the ways it compensates employees before it goes public.
At least two former Airbnb employees and a longtime VC will be ready to fund those who leave when it does. They've been waiting on this moment since last summer, in fact. That's when Airbnb's former head of data science, Riley Newman, left the firm to start work on a venture firm, quickly enlisting the help of his colleague of several years, Sara Adler (Airbnb's former head of corporate development) and former Madrona Venture Group principal David Rosenthal. What they set out to do with that fund, Wave Capital, is invest in marketplace startups, including — especially, even — those founded by other former employees of the home-rental giant.
It's an idea that has resonated with investors. Wave just closed its debut fund with $55 million in capital commitments, slightly more than the three were targeting. They've already begun putting it to work, too. To find out more about those bets, and where the three expect to shop next, we asked them for a few more details in a chat that has been edited for length.
TC: How exactly did this firm come to pass?
DR: Riley is really the hub for all of us; his wife and mine grew up together in Marin and have remained best friends since early childhood. As Riley's career at Airbnb progressed and my career in VC progressed, we talked about doing something together at some point in time.
RN: Meanwhile, Sara and I sat beside each other and together reported to the person who was effectively Airbnb's CTO and we were part of a number of working groups together. David and I started talking about doing something together and we quickly drew Sara into our plans.
TC: "Marketplaces" is both a huge mission for a venture fund and a narrow one. Why pursue it?
DR: For me, when I was at Madrona, we incubated the [dog services company] Rover.com and I saw the power of marketplaces and the importance of helping them get off the ground. And Riley and I talked a lot over the years about how he watched Greg McAdoo [formerly of Sequoia Capital and now of the venture firm Bolt] work with Airbnb in the early days, and the importance of a true lead board member. And we thought that between our three collective experiences, we could play that role.
SA: As a member of the corp dev team at Airbnb and at Dropbox and Facebook before that, I could also see the impact of investors even on the final stages of companies' journeys.
TC: You've now fully closed the fund from institutional investors, including the fund-of-funds Cendana Capital. How many companies do you expect to support with it?
DR: We think roughly 18 to 20 companies. We intend to lead every round and to take board seats. We want to play the same role as Greg did at Airbnb.
SA: We expect for each partner to do one to two deals per year.
TC: You haven't invested together in the past, and establishing an investing history together is usually really important to institutions that invest in venture funds. How did you persuade them that this wasn't an issue?
RN: It was definitely a process. [Laughs.] We were told no multiple times. We had not invested together and it did come up quite a bit and was a disqualifying thing for people who care a lot about that. We underwent a monster due diligence process with [the investment consulting company] Cambridge Associates that thankfully put us on [institutional investors'] buy list. But we dealt with every flavor of [no] before that. I think what won everybody over were the skill sets that each of us have, and how well-rounded they are in combination with one other.
SA: I think our approach [appealed to investors], too. It's kind of like what venture used to be 20 years ago, both in terms of the size of the investments we plan to make and the time and energy we intend to spend with the companies we fund.
TC: How many investments have you made so far, and how dependent on Airbnb are you for your deal flow? I know Nate Blecharczyk, Airbnb's co-founder and chief strategy officer, is an advisor to Wave.
RN: Alma was our first investment. We spent months with [co-founder] Dan Hill [who was formerly a director of product and performance marketing at Airbnb and whose startup connects prospective donors with local philanthropies]. We helped them firm up their marketplace design and design a long-term strategy and our [check] was built around a financial model that we built for them to get them from seed to a Series A round. We'll have to go out and execute on that, but that process determined what they needed.
We have another investment at the finish line.
SA: Airbnb will be a big part of our network, especially with our first fund, because we know exactly who the great people are at the company, which you only know by working with them. But across my time at Airbnb and Dropbox and Facebook, I've been a part of acquiring 30 companies and I've interacted with thousands more during the evaluation process, so there's a deep network of founders for us to draw from.
TC: There's so much late-stage capital sloshing around. Do you think about how it will impact what you're doing at the earliest stages of these companies' lives?
DR: The tail is really wagging the dog in a lot of cases right now. I don't necessarily see so much capital as good or bad; what's important to us is that founders use their capital as a tool to accomplish their aims. When you let capital start driving your decisions, there are very real unforeseen consequences.
TC: Are there any sectors about which you're particularly excited?
DR: We're sector agnostic. We believe in the business model, whether it's consumer or b2b or healthcare. Crypto, we're a little scared by, but I suppose those are marketplaces, too.


On April 27, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released proposed rules related to legislative changes to Medicare Part B reimbursement, the Medicare Access and CHIP Re-authorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). MACRA repealed the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula and replaced it with a new value-based reimbursement system, which consolidates several existing reporting and payment incentive programs.
MACRA establishes two paths for Medicare reimbursement for providers: the Merit Incentive Payment System (MIPS), which is a modified fee-for-service model, and Alternative Payment Models (APMs), which are payment models that reduce costs of care and/or support other value-based models. Most physicians are expected to enter the MIPS pathway in the beginning.
MIPS will begin in January 2019 and is based upon performance via a two year look back (i.e., 2017). Each category above has its own measures which are weighted to determine a composite MIPS. CMS is intending to set a payment threshold so that 50 percent of eligible clinicians receive a favorable payment adjustment and 50 percent receive a negative adjustment.
Payment adjustments are +/- 4% in 2019, 5% in 2020, 7% in 2021, and 9% in 2022. Exceptional performers are eligible to earn up to 10% additional bonus.
The complexity and uncertainty posted by MACRA/MIPS are expected to accelerate integration between physician practices and health systems. MACRA's value-based payment system will also require additional considerations to be applied in physician practice and physician compensation valuations.
There are three generally accepted approaches for valuing a practice, including the Income Approach, the Market Approach, and the Asset-Based Approach. Amongst the three approaches, the income approach is widely used, as it takes into consideration the specific facts and circumstances surrounding the subject company and values the business based upon the future cash flows it is expected to generate, without considering the benefits to be brought in by the buyer (i.e., buyer synergies). The income approach is frequently relied upon to value medical practices that have a significant amount of ancillary services.
With the advent of MACRA and MIPS, forecasting a physician practice's revenues becomes more complicated because the Medicare payments will become more heavily tied to quality and value, which are not reflected in the practice's historical revenue performance. Moreover, due to the budget-neutral nature of the favorable and negative reimbursement adjustments under MIPS, it becomes imperative that the valuator considers various qualitative factors influencing the subject practice's composite score and how it compares to the peers. For example, in 2019 penalties for these pay-for-performance programs would have been 5%for Meaningful Use, 2% for PQRS, and potentially 4% or more for VBM, which can have a significant impact on a practice's revenue if it does not meet the composite score threshold.
On the other hand, the valuator should consider the overhead required to support the administrative requirements set forth by MACRA/MIPS. Examples of such overhead include personnel and IT-related expenses and expenditure associated with data collection and analytics/reporting for MIPS. Although these expenses are not reported in historical financial statements, the valuator should appropriately project the additional expenses if the IT and operational infrastructure are not in place.
The sweeping shift toward value-based Medicare reimbursement may also call for adjustments in existing and future physician compensation strategies in both private practice and hospital-employment settings, as well as professional service agreements (PSAs). Appropriate incentive for quality and efficient care may be considered, within the fair market value limitations.
Although it has not yet been fully defined, the introduction of MACRA is expected to bring challenges and opportunities to healthcare providers and the health delivery system. Coker's dedicated valuation experts stay abreast of the development and are ready to provide guidance and consultative assistance in MACRA-related business and physician compensation valuation matters.


I took a picture of the tag on the side ..any info would be helpful.
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Give me Home Ministry and I will reduce crime by 50 per cent: Lal Babu Pandit
Published On: December 29, 2017 03:43 PM NPT
BHAKTAPUR, Dec 29: CPN (UML) leader and former Minister Lalbabu Pandit has claimed that he would reduce crime by 50 per cent were he to get the Home Ministry portfolio in the new government.
Speaking at the face-to-face programme organised at the Rafat Sanchar Club on Friday, Pandit said that he knew the way to reduce the crimes that take place in collusion between political and criminal elements, and any minister could minimize this sort of crime if he/she adopted the same tactic and strategy.
He stated that the country would take a big leap forward in terms of development in 10 years if every minister fulfilled his/her responsibility sincerely. The former Minister for General Administration also said that jobs could be created within the country for the hundreds of thousands of youth that are working abroad and Nepal could be transformed into a donor country in 20 years.
He said the province capitals would be decided by the Province Assemblies themselves in deference to the public aspirations, suggesting that however extensive discussions should be held before deciding the state capitals.
Leader Pandit said the left alliance would form a new government by January 21 after the unification of the two parties in the alliance and allocating the different party posts. He added that UML chairman KP Oli will lead the government. RSS
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