Find a new and historic recipe for a dish to put on your Thanksgiving table in What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking. This cookbook, published in 1881, is highlighted in a recent post on the Library of Congress Blog. Abby Fisher perfected her culinary skills as an enslaved cook on a South Carolina plantation but went on to establish a successful catering business in San Francisco and publish a compilation of her recipes—one of the first by an African-American. Learn more about this remarkable woman and, this Thanksgiving, sample a taste of history!

Click here to go to the Library of Congress Blog post, "Sample a Taste of History This Thanksgiving!"

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Happy Birthday Walt!: Digitized Walt Whitman Collections from the Manuscript Division

May 2019 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of poet Walt Whitman, who revolutionized the style and content of American poetry with his 1855 publication of Leaves of Grass. Whitman was also a journalist, printer, publisher, orator, and prose writer.

The Library of Congress holds the largest group of Whitman-related special collection materials in the world, including printed materials, rare books, photographs, and manuscripts. In this webinar program, Manuscript Division historian Barbara Bair highlights the content and research use of three digitized Whitman manuscript collections as well as programs celebrating Whitman’s birthday at the Library of Congress.

Date: Thursday, May 30
Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Registration (required): Please register via Eventbrite.

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Unlike '08, economic impact now is tied to the pandemic and health, so it is far harder to estimate damage.

Several sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, university endowments, limited partners, corporate investors and high net worth individuals have reached out to FPIs and PE fund managers in the last few weeks to convey their decision to partially or fully defer their commitments, people in the know said.

On April 17, the AIIB had doubled its initial COVID-19 Crisis Recovery Facility to $10 billion from $5 billion earlier, which made funds available to its members for urgent economic, financial and public health pressures and quick recovery from the crisis.

Following the record hike in excise duty on petrol and diesel, the total incidence of taxation on auto fuels jumped to 70 per cent of the retail price. But the retail prices are not impacted as the hike completely wipes out the fall in crude prices.

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Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014

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Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014

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International FLINS Conference (13th : 2018 : Belfast, Northern Ireland)

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Chapman, Stephen J., author

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Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (22nd : 2018 : Melbourne, Vic.)

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CLOUD (Conference) (12th : 2019 : San Diego, Calif.)

In this webinar, the tax lawyers of Minden Gross LLP will provide a practical overview of income splitting strategies available today. This webinar will review in detail the various attribution rules devised to thwart income planning, and guide participants to strategies still available for safe and effective income splitting.

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

May 12, 2015 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST

CCH Portal



The CCH Portal's bi-directional file exchange capabilities make it easy for you to securely deliver and receive client documents, facilitating collaboration and supporting the upload of even the largest files. In this webinar, we will show you how CCH Portal can help you and your clients to:

• Access vital documents immediately from any location with internet access via a secure, private repository.
• Organize documents electronically in cabinets and folders that mirror the way you store paper documents.
• Easily upload documents of all sizes without relying on an FTP server.
• Designate files as read-only or read/write for easier access and greater security.
• Check out documents to prevent other users from editing them while they are being updated.
• Maintain previous file versions in the document history.
• Search, filter, and display documents by file type, title, creator, keyword and more.

Register now for this FREE webinar and discover how CCH Portal can help you protect your clients' privacy and gain a competitive edge by delivering a new level of client service.

Available Sessions for this Seminar:

December 11, 2014 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM EST
December 17, 2014 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM EST
January 07, 2015 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM EST
January 14, 2015 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM EST
January 21, 2015 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM EST
January 28, 2015 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM EST

Sandhu and other top brass of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) have been on an inspection spree of projects, taking the benefit of no traffic on otherwise congested highways. NHAI, an official said, has at least 180 cases in arbitration involving a sum of about Rs 80,000 crore.

The All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC), the apex body for transporters that represents about 95 lakh truckers and transport entities, sought suspension of toll till May 3.

As the ministry of home affairs (MHA) made way for lifting curbs on certain sectors to get economic activity restarted, construction activity is still crawling, though it has started across various districts.

"The government is looking if NHAI can plan a township along the highway (Delhi-Mumbai Expressway) ... a Cabinet note has been floated for this," Road Transport, Highways and MSME Minister Gadkari said during an interaction with real estate body NAREDCO via a video conference.

Infra development will especially be critical for the success of the Make in India programme as manufacturing competitiveness critically depends on infrastructure, the final report of the task force submitted to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said.

The Thai's victory over his Ferrari rival gave Red Bull something to celebrate on a day that should have seen the return of Max Verstappen's home Dutch Grand Prix after a 35-year absence.

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