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Irish restaurants trawl Europe for chefs to fill 8,000 vacancies
Austin Hickey, BDO Director, presents to the RAI on the findings of a sector benchmark survey, conducted and analysed by BDO.
The Restaurants Association of Ireland (RAI) has sharply criticised the Government for the crippling skills shortage in the industry that is forcing Irish restaurants to hunt for staff abroad to plug a shortfall of up to 8,000 chefs.
Adrian Cummins, chief executive of the association, said it has been lobbying ministers for several years to get more work permits for non-European chefs, but to no avail. Speaking yesterday at the RAI's annual conference in Adare Manor in Limerick, he said Shane Ross, the Minister for Transport and Tourism, is "letting the industry down" by not fighting its corner on the issue.
"We've been lobbying the Department of Jobs and Enterprise, which is responsible for skills, for seven years on this," said Mr Cummins. "But we've been told that even if the Minister moved on [getting more work permits for non-Europeans], he'd be blocked."
He claims the Department of Justice, which controls immigration matters, appears to be heavily influencing the State's stance on the matter.
"There is no joined-up thinking from the Government on this. One department needs to take charge. That should really be the Minister for Tourism, but he is letting the whole industry down," said Mr Cummins. "He is not fighting for this on our behalf."
The estimated 7,000- 8,000 chef shortfall is growing by more than 3,000 annually, says the RAI. It wants restaurants to be allowed recruit chefs from anywhere in the world to help address the issue, which the RAI claims is restricting the ability of the industry to expand to meet demand.
Currently, only ethnic restaurants are granted work permits for non-EU chefs. For example, Indian restaurants can seek permits for Indian chefs, and so on. But Mr Cummins claims that even then, permits are hard to get: "Only a couple of hundred were granted last year."
The RAI is angry that the hospitality industry was not included in the list of sectors in which asylum seekers will be allowed work following a recent Supreme Court judgment on their right to seek employment. Mr Cummins said there must be large numbers of qualified cooks sitting idle in direct provision centres who could be allowed to work in the industry.
He also conceded that the industry itself could do more to address the shortage, and said it may seek State funding for an advertising campaign encouraging young people to consider a career as a chef.
Literature from Global Force, a recruitment consultancy that partners with the RAI to seek chefs abroad, says mid-ranking chefs de partie earn average salaries of about €30,000, while head chefs earn from €45,000 to above €70,000.
Meanwhile, the RAI on Monday released research from BDO suggesting 75 per cent of restaurants are confident about the future outlook, as the booming consumer economy stretches demand for eating out.
The research, presented by BDO director Austin Hickey, suggested that 45 per cent of restaurants reported increased turnover last year, with concerns persisting about increased insurance and labour costs.
One-third of restaurants surveyed by BDO increased staff numbers between 2016 and 2017, while a similar number plan to boost numbers in 2018. About 84 per cent of restaurants, however, reported difficulties hiring chefs.
The industry wants the Government to consider reconstituting CERT, the old State hospitality training body that is now part of Fáilte Ireland, to address the skills shortage.
Originally published by the Irish Times.
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Vince - This track is made up of a few rap songs chopped into little pieces, with live piano, bells, and organ overlayed. It reminds me of the way some people play drum solos that have no "rhythms", only hits and textures. It's a certain type of music that really appeals to me and this is one of the best examples of it I've ever made.
RPI Public Choice January 2003 - The point of these Public Choice Projects is that I ask a certain number of people to submit audio, from wherever they want, and I reassemble bits of all the requests into a single piece. In this case, I asked eight RPI freshmen to submit the audio.
Public Choice March 2002 - my mix - This rules of this round of the project involved two different sound collage artists mixing from 16 requests, without discussing the progress until both mixes were done. The only difference between the submissions for Marris's mix and those for mine is that Marris samples my request (as one of the 16) (a lo-fi recording of my bus ride home from high school) and I sample his pop-rap request. This sound collage is by far the longest on the page -- I managed to fill nine minutes without a dull or redundant moment.
Public Choice March 2002 - Marris's mix - You'll notice Marris and I both took the one 3/4 time signature song submited and made it 4/4, but in different ways. In my mix (at 4:27), the melody first appears with a rest added to fill the fourth beat, then (4:43) with the third beat stretched to take up two beats, and last (4:59) with the first beat stretched to take up two beats. In Marris's mix, the same exact section of the 3/4 song appears (during the end fade), but with the third beat played twice each time. When I first received Marris's mix, I thought maybe he had used some stuff that wasn't really submitted, but he explained to me that he had taken the raw-sounding guitar of the submitted punk rock song and slowed it down and reversed it, making it sound somewhat like a cello. Awesome.
Public Choice June 2001 - For this mix, I made the mistake of asking eight people for songs to sample and another four people for RAP TOPICS! When the rapper that said she'd do the project with me backed out, I decided to write and perform the raps myself. I'm actually not half bad at doing corny raps, but it's just not what I should be doing with my life. The topics submitted were: "pestalence [sic] and/or artificial cheese", "against chastity", "kitties", and "the adventurous life of a sea sponge". If you can't be bothered with embarassing rapping, please move on.
Public Choice 10.29.01 - My first Public Choice project and maybe my favorite. This mix, assembled from 7 submissions, doesn't use as many complicated techniques or clean cuts as the others, but it does have country, goth, pop folk, Broadway, psych drumming, and more all in under two minutes.
Scratchy - Harp, funky bass, funky drums, horn blasts, a goofy monologue, and scratching in under a minute. One of my earliest mixes, accessible for the whole family.
Sound Collage 6.9.00 - Where were you on the night of June 9, 2000?
Milkshake - My instrumental cover of the Kelis song (originally produced by the Neptunes). When I made this, I had gotten really good at arranging, but I wasn't so hot at mixing and producing. Someday I'll re-recording this arrangement. The musicians on this track are Dave Cheung (clarinet), Andrew Eckel (bass drum, bongos, acoustic piano, marimba, rainstick, snare drums, triangle, xylophone), Jonah Sacks (cello, electric bass), Peter Tu (viola), and Zane VanDusen (electric guitar).
Introduction to Communication Theory - Sessions - This is by a band I put together to be in the RPI Battle of the Bands. Our actual performance was more "accessible" than these three segments of our practices, not that that got us any votes. Musicians: Andrew Eckel (drumset), "Texas" Chris Mulvaugh (MORE drumset), Brian Reece (electric bass), Jonah Sacks (electric cello), Tom Aldridge (keyboard). Click for photos.
Capitaland Quarterley Theme - ...and this is the completed theme I gave them.


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Venues Top List of Virus-Fueled Layoffs
Arenas, stadiums and casino among businesses hit hard by furloughs
By Mediha DiMartino
Staples Center furloughed over 1,700 employees, including cooks, bartenders, cashiers, runners and wait staff. Photo by Ringo Chiu.
The first wave of furloughs reported to the state's Employment Development Department includes 9,591 workers from 36 companies in Los Angeles County. The number does not account for announced layoffs at 10 Macy's Inc. stores and other retailers who shuttered their doors in mid-March amid the Covid-19 crisis.
Nearly half of temporary layoff notices were submitted by Chicago-based Levy Premium Foodservice, a food and beverage concessionaire for major event and sports venues nationwide.
Locally the company has contracts with Dodger Stadium, the Los Angeles Convention Center, Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Staples Center and the Microsoft Theater at L.A. Live.
Staples Center absorbed the biggest hit, with 1,783 furloughed staff. The total includes 204 cooks, 209 bartenders, 316 cashiers, 199 runners and 217 wait staff.
"Levy's employees at the Staples Center always experience fluctuation in hours based on whether a sports league is in-season or off-season or seasonality of concert or other event scheduling," Jamie Clough, regional director of human resources for Levy, wrote in the letter to the EDD.
"Based on the information available to us at this time, we expect that the majority, if not all, hourly positions at Levy at Staples Center will experience either a further reduction of hours as compared to prior years, or will experience a temporary suspension of work based on Covid-19 related cancellations and closures," Clough added.
The company's workforce of 1,760 assigned to Dodger Stadium is also furloughed and includes 1,285 cashiers and 65 runners. It also temporarily laid off 426 workers at the Los Angeles Convention Center and 334 at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson.
Bicycle Hotel & Casino furloughed 1,500 employees. The casino is closed to the public until further notice.
Bicycle Casino, doing business as the Bicycle Hotel & Casino in Bell Gardens, said it furloughed 1,500 employees and that the casino is closed to the public until further notice.
"We expect the layoff to be temporary and plan to reopen when government social distancing and health outbreak orders and advisements that restrict the company's operations are lifted or modified sufficient to ensure the safety and health of our staff and customers," Cristina Stephens, Bicycle's director of human resources, wrote to the EDD.
Burke Williams Inc. in Inglewood sent a letter notifying the EDD that it had furloughed 887 employees working across eight locations, including Marina del Rey, Pasadena and Woodland Hills.
The spa chain "has temporarily closed its doors and ceased operations entirely," wrote Allyson Terrones, director of human resources and compliance, citing L.A. County's order to keep a distance of at least 6 feet from other people, which "makes it impossible for us to operate as a business."
The operator of the Pacific Park entertainment venue on the Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica Amusements, furloughed 341employees, including 66 ride attendants. The company cited the economic downturn caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and the temporary closure of Santa Monica Pier by the city of Santa Monica.
Shippers Transport Express in Carson said it will lay off 144 truck drivers because of unforeseen business circumstances caused by the coronavirus' disruption to the global supply chain.
"Given only a limited amount of cargo, at best, is now being shipped through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, STE will immediately experience a near shutdown of its drayage operations for the foreseeable future," company President Kevin Baddeley wrote in a letter to employees on Feb. 28.
Other companies reporting temporary layoffs include the Hyatt Regency Long Beach hotel with 429 workers, Empire Chauffeured Services Ltd. in El Segundo with 159, and downtown-based Citrus with 200.
The most recent EDD Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification report also included Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. in Century City, stating its "mass layoff" will include 135 workers, whose terminations are final, as well as Molson Coors Beverage Co.'s notice it will part with 425 workers.
The beer maker said in January it will cease operations at its Irwindale brewery by September and has offered Los Angeles-based Pabst Brewing Co. the opportunity to buy the facility for $150 million.
Closings, Layoffs Mounting in LA
AEG Announces Layoffs, Furloughs and Spending Cuts
County Unemployment Rate Jumps to 6.3% in March
Disney Leads Pack of Industry Cutbacks
Villaraigosa's Budget Includes Furloughs, Layoffs
Economists Say June Jobless Gain Is Only Temporary
County's Jobless Picture Gets Darker
Ghost Kitchens Venture Plans Extensive Hiring

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How do conversations with parents and coaches impact an athlete's coping skills?
After a tough game, the car ride home sometimes seems endless.
The tension can be excruciating. Frustration and disappointment fill the air. No one knows what to say, so no words are said. Those who risk a comment are often met with anger as the on-ice events continue to sink in.
It's not always this way, but it also doesn't have to be this way at all.
The car ride home is a valuable window of opportunity to not only digest what happened on the ice, but also for parents and children to develop their relationship. It also happens to be an area of interest for Katherine Tamminen, assistant professor at the University of Toronto.
Working with a group of Toronto-based athletes across hockey, figure skating and baseball, Tamminen and her team studied how the car ride home is perceived by both kids and parents. Their findings paint a picture of how that time frame can impact the parent-athlete relationship, for better or for worse.
If you're the type that likes to chat, it's all about how you do it.
Tamminen notes that there are no rules or guidelines to be followed by all, given the range of personalities and preferences involved. However, common themes did emerge in their research, namely that positivity reigns supreme.
A cool-down period was also a popular suggestion. Tamminen recalled that many athletes were aware of the emotional dynamics involved in post-game conversations and tailored their behavior based on their parents' emotions.
The relationship with a coach also weighs heavily on how a child experiences her time in minor sports. In many cases, a conversation with the coach is the first interaction a child has after key moments on the ice. As Tamminen and her team found, these conversations can contribute to how the athlete learns to cope with stress.
Let's say a child makes a turnover that leads to a goal by the opposing team. How should a coach handle the situation when the athlete returns to the bench – inquire or confront? Saying "What were you seeing out there?" instead of shouting "What happened out there?" can make a world of difference.
One approach lets the athlete problem-solve and reflect on other options, while the other amplifies the frustration felt by both the player and coach (and likely everyone else on the bench).
While many participants discussed how they deal with 7-0 losses, others shared lessons they aim to learn after 7-0 victories.
Finding the right way to talk about a bad shift or blowout win can lend to more meaningful conversations regarding matters outside of sport. Tamminen noted that children who felt supported by their parents felt more comfortable talking about things like school or friendships.
Next time you hop in the car after a game, remember that timing and tone can be the difference between an opportunity lost or a lesson learned.


We found this article really interesting. Ötzi the 5,300-year-old man found frozen in the Italian alps was found to have dined on too much bread and cereal porridge, scientists claimed after giving him a dental exam for the first time.
The Researchers were stunned by the poor condition of Ötzi's teeth, and found he suffered from several major cavities as well as a damaged front tooth probably caused by an accident. Bread was commonly eaten in the Neolithic period because of the rise of agriculture. The Researchers concluded that the iceman probably never cleaned his teeth, and suffered from bad breath as a result.


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The Marxist–Leninist League of Tigray (MLLT) was a semi-clandestine Hoxhaist Communist Party that held a leading role in the Tigrayan Peoples' Liberation Front (TPLF) in the 1980s. The majority of the TPLF leadership held dual membership in the MLLT, including Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia from 1995 until his death in 2012.

Formation of the Marxist-Leninist League of Tigray
The Tigray People's Liberation Front started as a student group during the rise of revolutions in the world in the 1960s. At the beginning of the inception of the TPLF, the main focus was an ethno-nationalist ideology. Later Marxist-Lennist views came to be an important part of the party ideology. This coincided with the spreading of Marxism-Leninism throughout the world and more specifically the upper classes, students, and educated population of Tigray. They started to focus on social issues, wealth inequality, and imperialism.

Mass strikes occurred in Ethiopia in 1974 causing large political confusion and change. The armed forces of Ethiopia formed the Derg, which took control of the country in the midst of the confusion. The Derg attempted to push other marxist groups out of the main political discourse.

In the late 1970's the TPLF started using guerilla warfare against the Derg to protest the political changes being made. The TPLF was following an ethno-nationalist ideology fighting for a free Tigray Region. The Marxist–Leninist League of Tigray formed in 1985 to help organize the fight against the Derg. The formation of the Marxist–Leninist League of Tigray also helped complete the transition to a complete Marxist-Lennist ideology intertwined with the ethno-nationalist foundation of the Tigray People's Liberation Front.

the MLLT was established in 1983 as "pre-party organization" called the Organization of the Vanguard Elements. This grouping would become the MLLT in 1985 to serve as a "vanguard party for the TPLF". According to Aregawi Berhe, the MLLT held its founding congress on 25 July 1985 in the gorge of the Wari River.

Importance of the Marxist-Leninist League of Tigray
Posing as orthodox defenders of Marxism-Leninism and allying itself with the communist current associated with the hard-line Enver Hoxha regime in Albania, the MLLT saw its goals as spreading Marxism-Leninism throughout the world and within the Tigray region.

At the beginning of the Ethiopian Civil War, The TPLF was unorganized in their plans and execution. With only an organization and no political party backing them they suffered large losses at the beginning. After the creation of the Marxist-Lenninst League of Tigray, the TPLF developed a cohesive discipline strategy because of the leadership of the MLLT. The TPLF with the help of the new vanguard party reorganized the structure of the army based on Marxist-Leninist ideology. In the process of reorganization, the MLLT attempted to clear out other parties and ideology that made up the front and center the views strictly on Marxism-Lenninism. Shortly after the reorganization, the TPLF pushed the Ethiopian army backwards, nearing Addis Ababa.

The power of the TPLF was transitioned and concentrated into The MLLT following the Leninist ideology of an intellectual intelligentsia leading the revolution. With this model as the new core of the TPLF, several policies were put in place. These policies aimed to address; land reform, class rule, and rights of nationalities.

Land Reform
The TPLF being run by the MLLT made many policy changes that were often compared to those made by the Derg previously. The Derg attempted land distribution before, but due to constant corruption and weak influence in the region of Tigray, they failed. The Derg pulled out of Tigray allowing for the TPLF and MLLT to decide how land reform should take place. During this conference the TPLF and MLLT decided to cement their place as the party for the peasants by allowing them to decide how to fairly redistribute the land.

Class Rule
The MLLT was the vanguard party for the TPLF until 1991. During the period between 1985 and 1991 the MLLT focused on the idea of class rule through mass organization. Through the mass organization initiative the MLLT and TPLF decided the direction and action of the party. Unlike the Derg, the TPLF and MLLT would use mass organization to inquire what policy or changes would be best.

Right of Nationalities
One of the most important pillars of the TPLF and MLLT because of how closely related to Marxism-Leninism it is, the TPLF and MLLT. Not trying to divide the country based on ethno-national borders the TPLF and MLLT worked to form a united coalition with other ethno-nationalist parties to demonstrate how a united Ethiopia could exist despite the many different ethno-nationalities within the country. This stance would become an issue with Eritrea later when the issue of secession arose.

Involved Conflicts
The emergence of the MLLT created some rifts with the Eritrean People's Liberation Front with which the TPLF was allied against the ruling Soviet-backed Ethiopian Derg. The MLLT took a much harder line on the role of the Soviet Union in the world, which they along with Albania viewed as social-imperialist and an enemy of the oppressed of the world. The EPLF held a more flexible line viewing the Soviet support for the Derg as a tactical mistake on their part and avoided any public denunciations of the Soviet Union. The opposition to the Soviet Union continues the trend of the MLLT aligning with the Albanian Party of Labour and leader Enver Hoxha.

Regarding Eritrea, The TPLF and MLLT were allied at the beginning of their inception with the Eritrean People's Liberation Front. Working together due to similar political goals, in the late 1980's the alliance broke down. The TPLF continued their belief that ethno-nationalist groups have the right to self determinate, and to go as far as to secede from their current country. The EPLF and Eritrea, similar to Ethiopia, had many different ethno-nationalities within its much smaller borders. The TPLF started to work with other Eritrean groups on the side due to this difference in platforms.

In 1985, the same year as the founding of the MLLT, the EPLF cut off the only route to Somalia from Ethiopia just before aid was being delivered to Ethiopia due to famine. The route was closed because the EPLF believed that the action taken by the TPLF and MLLT was an act of betrayal. The action taken by the EPLF would mark a change in the relationship by the two parties. Conflict was resolved as both the EPLF and TPLF continued their armed struggles. As the EPLF saw success in their war, they sent reinforcements to The TPLF to support their taking of the capital in 1991.

Fall of the Marxist-Leninist League of Tigray
The fall of the Marxist-Lenninst League of Tigray began in 1989 and continued until 1991. During its fall the TPLF changed their parties platform and beliefs. Moving away from Marxism-Leninism, the party moved their stance to Revolutionary Democracy.

In 1989 The TPLF and MLLT joined a united front against the Derg due to widespread state violence being committed. This popular front was the catalyst to the fall of The MLLT because Marxism-Leninism was no longer the central goal of the TPLF, but instead became the overthrow of the Derg.

In 1990 the shift from Marxism-Leninism began when Meles Zenawi announced the changing party platform to Revolutionary Democracy in a speech given in the United States.

With the coming to power of the TPLF in 1991 and the collapse of communist regime in Albania, the TPLF dropped all references to Marxism-Leninism. The leadership of the TPLF claims that the MLLT dissolved when the TPLF-backed Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front took power after the collapse of the Ethiopian Democratic People's Republic in 1991.

Notes

References
Young, John. Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia: The Tigray People's Liberation Front, 1975-1991 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
Plaut, Martin. The Legacy of Meles Zenawi. (Review of African Political Economy, 2012).

Gebregziabher, Tefera Negash. Ideology and power in TPLF's Ethiopia: A historic reversal in the making? (African Affairs, 2019).
Abbnik, Jon. The Ethiopian Revolution after 40 Years (1974–2014). (Journal of Developing Societies, 2015).
Lyons, Terrence. From victorious rebels to strong authoritarian parties: prospects for post-war democratization. (Democratization, 2016).
Paulos, Milkias. Ethiopia, the TPLF, and the Roots of the 2001 Political Tremor. (Northeast African Studies, 2008).
Selassie, Alemante. Ethiopia: Problems and Prospects for Democracy. (William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 1992).

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Communist parties in Ethiopia
Political parties established in 1983
Defunct political parties in Ethiopia
Anti-revisionist organizations
Factions of the Ethiopian Civil War
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fanatix | AFL | AFL star Jobe Watson admits to being injected with illegal drug
AFL star Jobe Watson admits to being injected with illegal drug
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Scandal at Essendon Bombers take on a new spin after shock admission.
Reigning Brownlow Medalist Jobe Watson has made the starting admission he was injected several times with illegal drugs, as part of Essendon's supplement program.
The Bombers skipper said he agreed to the injections as he was told they legal and were administered by the club doctor Bruce Reid.
However, Watson beleives he has not done anything wrong in taking the anti-obesity drug AOD-9604, which has become key to the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority's (ASADA) case in performance enhancing drugs in all football codes.
"I signed that consent form and my understanding, after it being given through (club doctor) Bruce Reid and the club, that I was receiving AOD," Watson said.
The World Anti-Doping Authority has released a statement recently saying AOD-9604 is on their banned list, a fact which surprised the Essendon captain.
"It did, because the understanding we had through the advice we got and through the medical doctor at the football club, that it was a legal substance," he said.
Watson and several players from the Bombers have been interviewed by ASADA offcials about their possible involvement with the club's supplement program last year.
Despite the admission of being injected with the illegal drug, Watson said he was confident of his innocence and wanted the chance to clear his name of any malicious wrongdoing.
"I don't have a feeling of guilt and I don't believe I've done anything wrong," he said.
"So all I want is the truth to come out.
It's not impacting on me, because … it's not a cloud hanging over me. I don't care how long it takes."
Despite the on-going saga surrounding the ASADA investigation, Essendon have continued to perform well on the field as they find themselves currently in fourth place.
The star on-baller said when news the club was in the middle of the investigation, it actually brought them closer and focused their energy more to continue to win in spite of being under the microscope.
"There were some flat patches, probably around the investigation when players' interviews were being conducted," Watson said.
"We could only lean on each other and we spoke on numerous occasions that the only people who knew what we were going through were the other people sitting next to you. That solidarity has held us in good stead so far."
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Giving the IRS Your Hard-Earned Money?
April 15th is Tax Day in the United States, and it is only a short week away. Are you sure you are getting all the deductions you deserve?
Nobody wants to pay the IRS more than he or she owes. Whether your taxes are completed and filed for this year, you have procrastinated and waited until the last minute or are just filing an extension, maximizing your deductions to lower your overall tax bill is prudent and reasonable.
One deduction that's especially relevant and useful for insurance agents — especially those who work out of the office — is the business mileage deduction of $.54 for every mile you drive for work.
The hard part of making sure you qualify for this deduction is to make sure you keep a log for every trip. There are some very specific IRS rules and guidelines you have to follow.
Moreover, if you correctly follow the rules, it could mean hundreds if not thousands of dollars in extra deductions on your personal tax return.
Fortunately, there are smartphone apps that are designed to help you keep track of each trip and the miles driven. I have downloaded and used several of these apps in the past. The problem is remembering to start the app at the beginning of the trip and stopping it at the end. Then taking the time to make a note about the purpose of each trip.
The MileiQ app solves these problems. I have been testing this app for a couple of months and am quite impressed with its capability and ease of use.
The big difference with this app is that it automatically detects when you are driving and keeps track of the miles driven for each and every trip. This automatic drive detection makes it easy to capture every mile you drive. No longer do I have to worry about manually logging every trip.
The app can automatically detect drives because it runs in the background, continuously detecting your speed and automatically converting each and every trip into miles driven. Even though the app is running in the background, it has been specially engineered to minimize its use of battery power.
Battery drain was one of my concerns when I started using the app. However, over the last week the program has accounted for only 6% of my total battery use. This is well within acceptable limits for me; especially given the amount of money it will help me save on my taxes.
The MileiQ website has an excellent article that explains the different types of business driving that will qualify for mileage deduction.
The app also allows you to give each drive a purpose with a simple swipe. This is important because not every trip is deductible. You can mark each trip as business, personal, medical, charity or any custom category you wish to create. Log any additional details you need for reporting mileage expenses to your employer or deducting mileage on your tax return. Be sure to check with your tax professional.
A website dashboard is available to view your drives, make changes to each drive, and customize your experience. It also allows you to keep track of all your drives by creating a monthly and/or annual report — essential documentation for taking deductions on your taxes.
Limited Plan: Completely free for up to 40 drives each month.
Monthly Plan: $6 per month for an unlimited number of drives.
Annual Plan: $60 annual payment for unlimited drives.
Click this link to receive a 20% Discount off your annual plan.
The more I use this app, the more impressed I am. While it will not help me with my 2015 taxes, I certainly will be taking higher mileage deductions on my 2016 taxes. I hope you will too!
What other ways have you found to track deductible mileage? Let me know in the comment section below.
I just started using Sherpashare. It's designed for rideshare providers, but mileage tracking is included in the "free" version. If I used iOS I'd probably give Stride Drive a try as well.
Rob, thanks for the suggestions.


I'm lucky to have a husband, Jordan, who also loves to travel and takes great pictures with his iPhoneX, which I'm sure will be featured here, as well as parents who oh-so-willingly take care of our furbabies while we go out and travel the world for two or three weeks at a time.
Thanks for following, I hope you enjoy the stories I share. Please feel free to engage, ask questions, share your own stories, and even teach me a thing or two, as I am definitely still finding my way with photography!


Just a note that I've added a commenting policy to the site. I really appreciate everyone's comments, and you folks that participate in the site are the main reason I still do this after all these years!
Thanks everyone, and keep on hackin'….
Some people just weren't raised right. I can't even apologize for them, there are too many.
Thank you for this! I've bookmarked it, just so I'll have it as a reference on the off-chance I should find myself with an audience big and general enough to need something like it.


U.S. Treasury yields mostly held their ground, inching up only slightly, early Tuesday as investors in government bonds awaited the start of the Federal Reserve's two-day policy meeting, which may offer Wall Street further clues about monetary policy, even if a rate increase isn't expected this time.
The 10-year Treasury yield was at 2.379%, up 0.5 basis point, compared with 2.374% late Monday in New York, the 2-year yield , the most sensitive to shifts in interest rate expectations, added 0.8 basis to 1.588%. The 30-year bond yield , ticked 0.3 basis point up at 2.886%.
Bond prices mover inversely to yields.
The Fed gathering, which isn't expected to see any changes to monetary policy, begins later Tuesday. Bond investors will watch for policy makers' views on the health of the U.S. and global economy and expectations for wage growth and prices, which have risen tepidly, bedeviling economists. Slack in price growth and wages, running below the Fed's 2% annual target for inflation, despite healthy growth in jobs, has helped to support buying in bonds because rising inflation chips away at a bond's fixed value.
President Donald Trump is set to reveal his choice for the next head of the Fed on Thursday, a White House official said (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-to-announce-his-pick-for-fed-chair-on-thursday-2017-10-30)., and a number of reports indicate that Fed Gov. Jerome Powell, who is viewed as likely to be less aggressive in raising interest rates than some rival candidates, is likely to be named successor to Chairwoman Janet Yellen.
"Looking outside of equities, Treasury yields certainly have started to move in an opposite direction over the last few days than many expect. While the market is certainly prepared for the next rate hike, yields have pulled back to breach the 2.40% area of support that was just exceeded last week in what many thought was a minor breakout," said Mark Newton, technical market analyst and founder of Newton Advisors in a Tuesday research note. He said that if the 10-year benchmark note yield falls below 2.36%, it "would sever the uptrend in yields and likely cause a big rollover" in the shares of banks and other financial companies that tend to benefit from a raising rate environment.
The yield on the 10-year Japanese government bond was at 0.064%, compared with 0.059% in the previous session. In Europe, the 10-year German bond , known as the bund, was at 0.382%, little changed from 0.385% on Monday. The yields on the 10-year Spanish bond was at 1.482%, versus 1.586% in the prior session. European yields have been reacting to a fight by Catalonia for its independence from Spain, which has implications for the integrity of the European Union and the euro .


As with the rest of our team, Jolie brings deep industry experience which will serve us well as we continue to meet the unique financing needs of Asia-Pacific entrepreneurs.
NEW YORK – CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT) a global leader in aircraft finance, today announced that CIT Business Aircraft Finance named Jolie Chung Howard, Vice President, Sales with responsibility for originating new transactions and managing all aspects of CIT business aviation relationships in Asia.
Howard joins CIT from TAG Aviation where she was Director, Business Development, responsible for client relations, marketing functions, contract negotiations, and service product development. Prior to joining TAG Aviation, Howard was a marketing and business development manager at Hong Kong Aviation Group. She is based in Hong Kong.


Our Mountain-Chalet "Hochkönig" offers room for eight people. On a living area of 135 m² you find two bedrooms furnished with infinity beds, two romantic attic rooms with two beds each and two separate bathrooms.Like all our Chalets it has a big, cosy parlour with a fireplace and a comfortable loden sofa. The rustic kitchen is fully equipped. The chalet has its own spa area with sauna and an outdoor whirlpool.To facilitate your stay, the Mountain-Chalet provides an antechamber with a shoe dryer, five HD- TV -sets, SONOS-Music, a guest bathroom and a wooden hut.
look forward to an unforgettable stay in the mountains!
Our Mountain-Chalet "Hochkönig" offers room for 8 people. On a living area of 135 m² you find two bedrooms furnished with infinity beds, two romantic attic rooms with 2 beds each and 2 separate bathrooms.
Like all our Chalets it has a big, cosy parlour with a fireplace and a comfortable loden sofa. The rustic kitchen is fully equipped and includes a wine refrigerator. Further the Chalet has its own spa area with sauna and an outdoor whirlpool. To facilitate your stay, the Mountain-Chalet provides an antechamber with a shoe dryer, five HD- TV -sets, SONOS-Music, a guest bathroom and a wooden hut.
Look forward to an unforgettable stay in the Mountain-Chalet with its incomparable view, in the Almdorf Sankt Johann, located in the countryside of Austria's Salzburg.


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I read Joanne Harris' Jigs & Reels for the first time a number of years back, and absolutely loved it. I was enthusiastic to read it again now, and enjoyed it even more the second time around.
Jigs & Reels is a collection of Harris' short stories. All the stories have a slight twist to them, whether it is outright magic, subtle fantasy, or just an unusual or unexpected perspective on life. They are enchanting, both light and dark, and a delight to read. They are also short (of course), and thereby make for nice bite-size bits of reading for busy weeks when a full-on novel is a bit large a commitment.


The Onion Tool helps us focus on the difference between the outer layer – what we observe, and the inner layer – what it means. This is often where we make mistakes in working across cultures, assuming that the behaviours we observe at the outer layer have the same meaning as they do in our own culture.
The Abacus describes the five major areas where cultural differences have an impact on work behaviours and allows us to undertake a gap analysis to identify our own profile and that of our target cultures.
The Five Choices Tool helps us think systematically about how we will resolve these differences in a business context.
The cultural differences we deal with at work are usually a mix of national, functional and corporate cultural differences, so the differences you observe may be different from those that individuals in other organizations will experience, and will certainly be different from the generalizations made in books or research that was often carried out 20 years or more ago.
In our training we focus on two important questions – where is the other culture relative to me, and is the gap big enough that I need to do something about it?
We can then use the three tools to plan practical improvements in areas like better meetings, decision making, cooperation and communication.
To find out more about our global and cross-cultural training, together with more free videos articles and podcasts, please visit www.global-integration.com.
And remember that in working across cultures we tend to notice what's different from our own culture, so any cultural differences you observe are 50% about you and 50% about them. One of the best outputs of cross-cultural training is learning more about yourself..
Thank you for watching and good luck.
I am interested in purchasing some training videos for a cross cultural class that I am developing in house for our company and for some of our suppliers.
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Delaware Reaffirms Entire Fairness Standard for Review of Director Compensation
By Audrey Fenske, Steve Quinlivan, Bryan Pitko and Jaclyn Schroeder
In a May 31, 2019 decision, and weaving in quotes from a nearly 70-year-old decision and a nearly 30-year-old SNL skit, the Delaware Court of Chancery, in Stein v. Blankfein et al, reaffirmed that in most circumstances decisions of directors awarding director compensation are subject to review under the entire fairness standard. The court also addressed the possibility of shareholder waiver of application of that standard to future director actions, but did not conclude as to whether such a waiver was even possible.
Ruling on a motion to dismiss, the court rejected director defendants' argument that the stockholder-approved stock incentive plans absolved, in advance, the director's breaches of duty in self-dealing, absent a demonstration of bad faith. Since the argument was rejected, the director decisions were subject to review under the entire fairness standard because the plans provided the directors discretion to determine their own awards.
The court also rejected the defendants' argument that the plaintiff failed to adequately allege that the self-awarded director compensation was not entirely fair.
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Q: How to search for a particular text using perl regex? Among the following strings listed below, I only need to search the first string..
  test A             <--- only need this string
  test A and test B  <--- don't need this string
  test A and test C  <--- don't need this string
  test A and test D  <--- don't need this string

Perl regex I'm using return all four strings above when I only need the first string listed above. How do I filter out the last three strings and only get the first string?

A: Your question is quite vague. Assuming that data matches what you've provided, and that your looking to filter a file on a line-by-line basis you can use a $ anchor as such:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

my $infile = 'in.txt';
open my $input, '<', $infile or die "Can't open to $infile: $!";

 while (<$input>){
     chomp;
     print "$_\n" if /test A$/g;
}

Where $ will match at the end of your string - in this case each line of the input file
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlretut.html

A: You probably need to use anchors:
/^test A$/

only matches the exact string "test A". But the question remains - why use a regex at all, if you're looking for a specific string?

A: You probably don't need the complication of Perl at all, as you can do this readily with grep, as follows:
grep "Test A" yourfile | egrep -v "B|C|D""

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Average income among households in the lowest quintile (or fifth) of the income distribution was about $19,000.
Furthermore, within the highest quintile, income was highly skewed toward the very top of the distribution: Average income among households in the bottom half of the highest quintile (the 81st to 90th percentiles) was about $151,000; average income among the 1.2 million households in the top 1 percent of the distribution was about $1.8 million.
Those amounts include social insurance benefits (such as benefits from Social Security and Medicare) but exclude the effects of governmental policies that directly affect the distribution of household income either through means-tested transfer programs or through the federal tax system.
Increased income among households in the lowest quintile by $12,000 (or more than 60 percent), on average, to $31,000.
Decreased income among households in the highest quintile by $74,000 (or more than 25 percent), on average, to $207,000.
CBO has analyzed the distribution of household income and federal taxes on a recurring basis for more than 30 years. For this report, the agency focused on the distribution of household income in 2014 because that is the most recent year for which relevant data were available when the analysis began. In addition, CBO assessed trends in household income, means-tested transfers, federal taxes, and income inequality over a 36-year period, beginning in 1979 and ending in 2014.


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Brawdy War Memorial
Pembrokeshire Memorials
Brawdy is situated at the northeast corner of St Brides Bay. The southern half of the parish is in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, and includes the villages of Penycwm and Newgale, and the hamlets of Eweston, Tancredston, and Trefgarn Owen. During the second half of the 20th century, it was home to a large Fleet Air Arm Station, HMS Goldcrest, and later became an RAF Station, before the base was given over to the army, and renamed Cawdor Barracks. Over the years several members of the forces who died while on service at Brawdy were buried within the cemetery at St. David's Church. The men of the parish who fell during World War Two are commemorated on a brass memorial plaque, which is situated within St. David's Church. There does not appear to be a memorial for any parishioners who fell during the Great War, but I have identified two, and these men are commemorated below.
Thomas Arthur Evans, Private, 307315, Lancashire Fusiliers. Thomas was born in Cornel Bach, Brawdy, the son of James and Sarah Evans. The family later resided in Knareston, Penycwm. He enlisted at Carmarthen into the army and was posted to the 2/8th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, which was attached to 197 Brigade, 66th (2nd East Lancs) Division. The Division concentrated on the Western Front by 16 March 1917 and moved to the Flanders Coast. At the end of September 1917 it moved to Ypres, and took part in the Battle of Poelcapelle. Thomas was killed in action here on 9 October 1917, aged 23. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.
William James, Private, 25272, South Wales Borderers. William was born in Brawdy, the son of Henry James. He enlisted at Tonypandy into the South Wales Borderers and originally served with the 10th Battalion, South Wales Borderers, which was attached to 115 Brigade, 38th (Welsh) Division. He was later transferred to the 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers, which was attached to 87 Brigade, 29th Division. He possibly joined the battalion after the re-organisation of the 38th Division early in 1918. The division had seen terrible fighting during the war but April 1918 would see some of the hardest fighting it encountered during the entire campaign, when it became involved in the desperate actions following the launching of the German Lys offensive on 9 April 1918. William was killed in action on 11 April 1918, two days into the battle. He is buried in Outtersteene Communal Cemetery Extension, Bailleul, France.
John Henry Adams, Sergeant, 1412902, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. John was the son of George Thomas Adams and Mary Eliza Adams, of Haverfordwest. He served with 37 Squadron, Royal Air Force, which was equipped with the Vickers Wellington, and operated in the Middle East in support of the ground offensive in North Africa. John was killed during the invasion of Italy on 27 January 1944. He is commemorated on the Malta Memorial, Malta.
George Leslie Bevan, Fusilier, 3977294, The Royal Fusiliers (City Of London Regt). George was the son of George Henry and Olive Mary Bevan. He had been born at Brawdy in 1923, and the family later moved to Ewell, Epsom, Surrey. George enlisted into the army, and was posted to the 2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. The battalion had been in France with the BEF at the outbreak of war, and reformed after the evacuation from Dunkirk. It moved to North Africa during March 1943, taking part in the campaign in Libya, before landing in Italy later that year. George was killed during the fighting around Monte Cassino on 13 May 1944, aged 20. He is buried in Cassino War Cemetery, Italy.
George Devereux Davies, Sergeant, 924555, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. George was the son of Austin George and Mary Ann Davies, of Brawdy. He served with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and was posted to 13 O.T.U., where he trained as an Observer. On 17 July 1941, George was part of the crew of a Bristol Blenheim IV, Serial R3805, which took off from R.A.F. Finmere, near Buckingham on a Navigation exercise. Whilst circling the airfield, both engines cut out and the Blenheim crashed, killing George and his Pilot. George was 27 years old, and is buried at Haverfordwest (Prendergast) Cemetery.
Vincent Gunner, Private, 14623416, The King's Own Scottish Borderers. Vincent was the son of Alfred Albert Victor and Martha Jane Gunner, of Penycwm. He joined the army late in 1942, and was posted to India with the 2nd Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers. After undergoing jungle training in India, the battalion sailed with the 7th (Indian) Division to Burma in September 1943. They crossed into the Arakan, and took part in the actions at Ngakydauk Pass. Vincent was killed in action here on 15 May 1944. He was 19 years old, and is commemorated on the Rangoon Memorial, Myanmar.


Mitchell is off the boat and back on the couch! Amy and Mitchell discuss parts of his trip, his show workload, gay friendly hotels, his showmance and what he's caught up on since being home. There's so much, we had to split it into two shows!
Music Featured on This Queercast: B-Tribe - "Lo Siento" and Rodrigo y Gabriela - "Hora Zero"


Following on from the weekend's leaked images, Porsche has revealed details of its new all-wheel drive 991 Carrera 4 range.
Beneath its skin, the innovative Porsche Traction Management ensures greater dynamics on all surfaces and in varying conditions, with the 257 kW (350 hp) 3.4-litre Carrera 4 hitting 100 km/h in 4.5 seconds (Cabriolet: 4.7s) and reaching a 285 km/h (Cabriolet: 282 km/h) top speed. Weighing up to 65 kg less than its predecessor helps the Coupe to require 8.6 litres of fuel every 100 kilometres (Cabriolet: 8.7 l/100 km) when specified with the optional PDK gearbox rather than the standard seven-speed manual. Double-declutching occurs automatically during downshifts in Sport mode on manual cars fitted with the Sport Chrono pack.
The 294 kW (400 hp) 3.8-litre-engined Carrera 4S cracks 100 km/h in 4.1 seconds (Cabriolet: 4.3s) and enjoys a 299 km/h (Cabriolet: 296 km/h) top speed, with a fuel consumption figure of 9.1 l/100 km for the Coupé (Cabriolet: 9.2 l/100 km).
Visual changes are relatively subtle, including swollen rear wheel arches adding 44 mm to the car's width, 10 mm wider tyres and that tell-tale light strip spanning the rear.
Equipment of note includes the optional Adaptive Cruise Control ACC), which controls vehicle speed and distance to traffic ahead. When specified with PDK, Porsche Active Safe (PAS) works with the ACC, helping to avoid front-end collisions. There's also a new sliding glass sunroof option.
Due to make their débuts at next month's Paris Motor Show before going into production at the end of the year, prices in Germany are €97,557 for the Carrera 4 Coupe (Cabriolet: €110,290) and €112,313 for the Carrera 4S Coupe (Cabriolet: 125,046).


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America's Best Pies 2016-2017 : Nearly 200 Recipes You'll Love EPUB
by Linda Hoskins
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Since 1995, amateur, commercial, and professional bakers have competed in the National Pie Championships to determine who makes the best pies in America. Americas Best Pies 2016-2017 is a collection of nearly two hundred delicious recipes that have won awards at the National Pie Championships. From the unusualdeep-dish deluxe banana split pieto the traditional, such as apple pie, every recipe has been reviewed by judges and determined to be an award-winning pie. These selections are considered some of the best of the best from across the country. When you start making these pies at home, youll see why!
Americas Best Pies 2016-2017 is packed with color photographs of the pies youll learn to make and love. As a special treat to give you a taste of what the championships are like, many of the photographs are of the actual pies entered in the competition. The recipes inside are clearly explained so that the expert and the future expert pie-maker can enjoy alike. Whether its apple, custard, strawberry, or raisin that captures your taste buds, youre sure to find a recipe that you cant wait to try. Just be sure to share your tantalizing creations with friends and family, and get ready to serve seconds!
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Yisrayl Hawkins Tells Scientists Exactly What Makes Life Function Properly in New Publication
Pastor at The House of Yahweh writes an online article explaining what role microorganisms play on earth and in the human body.
Yisrayl Hawkins, Pastor and Overseer of The House of Yahweh in Abilene, Texas, has released a new publication explaining how micro-kingdoms keep the earth and everything in it, working.
The article titled "Microorganisms Do Much More Than You Think" is a 19-page online document explaining how tiny microorganisms were created and designed to keep all things functioning properly. He says science is aware of some of the functions of these micro-kingdom, but does not realize their full potential. He adds, the
Scriptures clearly say what a big role the micro-kingdoms actually play in life.
"When I wrote about the real cause of global warming, I was writing it mostly from the information that Yahweh shows in the Inspired Scriptures. In the beginning book of the bible, the Book of Genesis microbes are mentioned in the first two chapters, but not under the name microorganisms. From the study of these two inspired chapters in the Scriptures, Yahweh shows me that He made mankind from microorganisms," Yisrayl says.
He writes, the atmosphere, or firmament, is made up of kingdoms of microbes. He explains that when we look up at the sky and marvel at the moon and stars, we are actually looking through countless kingdoms of microorganisms. Yisrayl says that similar to humans, these tiny microbes cannot do their job when they get sick, and mankind is breaking Laws that cause them to get sick and die. He says when mankind breaks certain Laws shown in the Scriptures, he causes harm to the microorganisms in his own body, in the water he drinks, and in the air he breathes.
"The bacteria, fungi, and even viruses live and thrive, breed, crossbreed and mutate in the universe. Many of these countless numbers of viruses were created and mutated by sinful activities of mankind," Yisrayl says.
He adds that when the viruses do damage, the microorganisms are sickened and cannot do their job;that is why we are seeing so many unnatural disasters today. He offers proof beyond doubt. Yisrayl invites scientists to study his work and promises they will find answers to the questions they have longed to understand.
The House of Yahweh has correctly restored the Heavenly Father's Name and the Savior's True Name in the translation named in Scripture as The Book of Yahweh.
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Ozarks Food Harvest's Full Circle Gardens Program has provided thousands of pounds of harvested produce from local gardens to families in need so far this season!
A record 80 million pounds of food was collected in support of food banks nationwide during this year's Stamp Out Hunger.
Hosted annually by the National Association of Letter Carriers, Stamp Out Hunger is the largest single-day food drive.
Boy Scouts across the Ozarks went door-to-door this spring to gather nonperishable food for Ozarks Food Harvest during the 27th annual Scouting for Food.
Together they collected a record 29,745 pounds of food and $442.43 to provide nearly 27,000 meals.
When 14-year-old Maisen arrived at Datema House, an alternative school and group home for teenage boys part of the Missouri Division of Youth Services, he was not excited at first about participating in community service.
Thirty-eight-year-old Amy often worries if she'll have enough food to feed her kids.
When it comes to hunger relief, I'm proud to say that Ozarks Food Harvest is one of the most effective nonprofits in the nation.
Seeing firsthand how hard the staff and volunteers work to provide food for our struggling neighbors is incredible. And so many of you generously give of your treasure to ensure no one goes hungry.
While I've always known of the great work being done here at Ozarks Food Harvest, the leading evaluator of nonprofits nationwide helped make that abundantly clear this June.
Our elected state and federal representatives are making decisions every day that affect our way of life and well-being.
As supporters of Ozarks Food Harvest, I believe it is our responsibility to stand up against proposed changes that would make it harder for our neighbors to get the food assistance they desperately need. Access to food should be a right of all Americans.
Thousands of children living right here in the Ozarks have a secret — they are hungry.
Some of these kids are hungry every day, and some might experience it only on the weekends of the school year or when they aren't in summer programs. But for the one in four kids facing this struggle, it is a painful reality.
For the sixth year, Arvest Bank held its annual 1 Million Meals campaign to raise food and funds for local people who struggle with hunger. This year's campaign at the Springfield and Nixa branches collected $3,125 and 1,662 pounds of food for Ozarks Food Harvest. The bank branch in Monett donated $447 to support its town's Weekend Backpack Program.
Walmart's nationwide Fight Hunger. Spark Change. initiative provided over $17 million to Feeding America food banks across the country. Ozarks Food Harvest was awarded $114,368 to fight hunger right here in the Ozarks.


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Apples & Honey Press: Jewish . . . with a Point
Categories: Behrman House Basics , Picture Books , Contemporary Jewish Life , Apples & Honey Press
Tags: values , apples&honey
It's not enough to teach our children HOW to be Jewish. Apples & Honey Press books also seek to show them WHY the values and the teachings of our tradition are important.
We offer a variety of resources to help you navigate the process.
Everything You Need to Plan for the New School Year
Our 2022 catalog features new resources for online learning, as well as many of the Behrman House materials you've relied on before. It also includes pull-out Judaica and Hebrew Curriculum Planning Guides (details below).
The 2022 catalog is now available online here.
We also have a limited number of printed catalogs available. If you would like a hard copy of the catalog, please contact customersupport@behrmanhouse.com.
Consult our
Behrman House, Apples & Honey Press Announce New Distribution
Behrman House Signs with Two Rivers Distribution
Agreement also includes trade distribution for Apples & Honey Press imprint as well as direct fulfillment to serve Behrman House educational customers
Behrman House and Two Rivers Distribution, an Ingram brand, announced that Two Rivers will now handle worldwide trade distribution for Behrman House and its children's book imprint, Apples & Honey Press, effective immediately.
In addition, Ingram's warehousing operation in Jackson, TN will handle all direct fulfillment to Behrman House's education and online customers.
"We are excited to partner with Two Rivers to help us expand and to ensure that our books are as widely available as possible. It's a great way to enter our 101st year," said David Behrman, Pr
Planning Curriculum? Help is Here
Consider three BIG IDEAS that encompass the key values and purpose of part-time
Countdown to Warehouse Transition
Our books are on the move.
The first three trucks of Behrman House and Apples & Honey Press books have been unloaded in their new warehouse in Tennessee, and another is on the way this week. In all, we are moving more than half a million books from Ohio.
Beginning this spring, Two Rivers Distribution, an Ingram company, will handle warehousing and distribution for Behrman House's school and online orders.
We are also putting the finishing touches on the systems that will be used to transmit your orders.
When we begin shipping from our new location in four to six weeks, you can expect to a dramatic improvement in shipping times for your orders.
As we transition to our new facility,
One Less Thing to Worry About: No Price Increases for 2022 at Behrman House
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With inflation concerns spreading, we know educators are worried about budgets for the coming school year.
With that in mind, Behrman House has decided to forgo price increases for 2022 and absorb any costs increases this year. You have enough to think about right now.
Behrman House to Change Warehouse and Distribution in 2022
Behrman House has signed with Two Rivers Distribution, an Ingram company, to handle its warehousing and distribution. Beginning in spring 2022 and in time for the important back-to-school season, Behrman House's school and online orders will ship from an Ingram facility in Jackson, Tennessee.
Two Rivers is a New York-based book distributor whose clients include Harvard Business Review Press, Merrell Publishers, Peterson's B.E.S. and Presbyterian Publishers.
"We are excited to partner with Two Rivers. Ingram's extensive capabilities will give us many more options for ensuring that customers get their orders when they expect them, said Vicki W
Warehouse Delays Are Not a Happy Way to Begin the New Year
Categories: Behrman House Basics , Digital , Tech Tools
The supply problems and shipping delays that are plaguing the entire U.S.—in fact the worldwide—economy have hit us here in Jewish education as well, and we want to provide you with an update on our book shipping situation.
As you may already be painfully aware, our Ohio warehouse partner is backlogged, and our shipments are running late, in some cases 2-3 weeks or more. We're in touch with them daily; they a re prioritizing our shipments and those of their other education-related clients, but they are having difficulty finding adequate staff. They have flown people in from other locations and have executive and other staff doing temporary duty in picking and packing books; so far it hasn't been enough.
In addition, while the war
Answers to Your Top Tech Questions
Behrman House is committed to supporting our customers when it comes to placing orders, using our digital products, navigating our site, and more. Here's what you need to know to work through common tech questions.
How do I place orders?
1. Order online.
All of our items are available at our online store: www.behrmanhouse.com
To take advantage of your religious institution discount and to order on your school's account, make sure you're signed in with your school's account before adding items to your cart. You don't need a coupon code if you're logged in and you will be able to see your discounted price right on the website as you browse. All eligible items will be discounted automatically so that you're always getting the best price.
Don't forget, if you placed your school order online last year, you can use it to plan your next order.


It appears Detroit has more than enough assets to solve its cash flow problems and put itself on solid footing, however there are two significant decisions that should be made prior to any disposal.
Which of these assets are needed for the city to attain its future objectives.
Which of these assets will provide the best return to the owner in the future?
What are the future plans of the city? What will be its population in five, ten, twenty years and beyond? What will be the land use needs of the city?
Which assets can be converted to cash soon enough to keep the creditors away from the door?
What are the contingent liabilities and transaction costs related to the sale of each asset?
What are the cash flow projections for the city in the future? If you don't know your cash needs in the future, how do you know you will get there?
Second, prior to making these decisions the city needs a plan that describes where it intends to go, how and when will it get there and how will it fund the process. Disposing of some of the city's assets to keep the wolf from the door is futile if the city does not have a plan allowing it to operate in the foreseeable future.
This is a daunting task and the Emergency Manager (EM) is not focused on it, nor should he be. His tenure is scheduled to end in less than 16 months and his task is to solve the immediate financial crisis. The City Council and Mayor should be focused on the long term portion of the plan. Unfortunately it is election season and everyone is a lame duck and thinking only of their life after the election.
It is critical that voters of Detroit demand the Mayoral candidates focus on the long term plan for Detroit. The candidates must be forced to get specific; if not with a final plan, with at least the methodology of how they will be reviewing the issues and what must be addressed. They need to clearly state their vision.
No one knows with certainty what the future holds. Everyone knows the future becomes more certain with a plan.


Rental Registration #: 18-1,375 Catch ocean views from this great contemporary in Hither Hills, one of Montauk's most desirable neighborhoods. Minutes to the private ocean access from this great beach house with four bedrooms, two and a half baths, and great room. Outdoor shower and great decking. A real summer treasure..


It's now September and time for another inmoov progress update. The transparent red I was using finally came back in stock for a day or so, and I was able to get another roll. That allowed me to print the right arm and the rest of the head parts. I need 2 or three more to print everything in it that I need.
I found a windows 10 tablet from banggood on sale! and got 2 high torque servos to start fitting in. also, I ordered two servo hats for the arduinos from amazon.
I'm hoping that I can find some time to dive into the programming side of this project soon. Having a designated pc should help.
this project is really starting to come together.
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NOTE: This item is no longer available - please see our Contemporary Pendant Lamps section for similar items.
Designed by Rico Espinet, the Marina Pendant Lamp is a sophisticated fixture with a long frosted white cased glass shade and chrome finish. This contemporary pendant light has an adjustable height with three 1/2" x 12" and one 1/2" x 6" suspension rods. One T10 60W bulb is recommended.


The decision dynamics of risky intertemporal choice: Preference accumulation, path dependency, and delayed optimism.
This seminar will be presented by Emmanouil Konstantinidis (Centre for Decision Research, University of Leeds).
Oct 25th: Dr Gillian Forrester (Birkbeck). Title: Motor Dominances and the Evolution of Human Cognition: A Cross-Species Perspective.
Nov 10th: Prof Sohee Park (Vanderbilt University). Title: Making Sense of the World; Schizophrenia as a Disorder of the Social Brain.
Nov 15th: Dr Stefaan Van Damme (Ghent University). Title: How pain and attention influence each other.
Nov 22nd: Silvio Aldrovandi (Birmingham City University). Title: The stability of "unstable" preferences and judgments: A rank-based approach to anchoring.
Nov 29th: Mary Watts (Emeritus Professor of Psychology, City University). Title: Building Bridges: Perspectives on reflective practice, infinite learning and research.
Dec 6th: Matt Field (University of Liverpool). Title: Cognitive processes in addiction: new directions and clinical implications.
Dec 13th: Emmanouil Konstantinidis (Centre for Decision Research, University of Leeds). Title: The decision dynamics of risky intertemporal choice: Preference accumulation, path dependency, and delayed optimism.


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Aman – jeden z kontynentów ze stworzonej przez J.R.R. Tolkiena mitologii Śródziemia
 Aman – Agencja Wywiadu Wojskowego Izraela

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Have You Heard About Bean Coffee Roasters Candles?
I'm amazed at what Rachel has put together. She shared with me some of the things that are unique to her candles beyond the proprietary Bean Coffee Roasters flavor/scent. She used a soy-based wax because it burns cleaner and is a more natural, sustainable alternative to traditional waxes (and some people are allergic to paraffin wax), cotton wicks that burn cleaner and contain no lead or zinc, and she raised the melting point temperature (through some form of magic I guess) so the candles don't start melting until they are supposed to.
Rachel has more options and formats under development in her workshop that she will be revealing soon so watch for more information. I know people will be wanting to have some of these candles around for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday seasons. If you're looking for gift ideas that are truly unique and guaranteed to bring joy to the recipients, buy them an assortment of Bean Coffee Roasters scented candles and a gift card for a couple free drinks. Rachel is hoping to have special gift baskets containing the candles available for us very soon.
Great job, Rachel! And thank you from your Bean family!
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Who's Who at Bean Coffee Roasters?
Bean Coffee Roasters epitomizes the direction of the coffee industry in the early 21st century. Always advocates for conservation, Bean Coffee Roasters strives to minimize waste, roasting small, individual batches of coffee, never serving any beans roasted over 36 hours ago.