As a thoughtful libertarian from the Austrian school of economics I believe government participation in the economy should be minimal; limited to creating an equal playing field for all (not equal outcome) and help set the rules for the pursuit of happiness.
Source: Larry Berman: The moral hazard of government largesse – Article – BNN
| Hello, As you might have seen in our latest newsletter, we at Kobo have been supporting the UK’s publishers association in its lobby to #AxetheReadingTax and equalise the rates of VAT applied to books by removing VAT on digital editions of titles. For centuries in the U.K., physical books have never had any kind of tax or VAT applied to them because “books are special”. We believe that this goes for eBooks and audiobooks too and that they should also be VAT exempt. We felt strongly about this as digital reading in all formats is important for accessibility and preferred by many younger readers in the U.K.In March, the U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Runi Sunak announced in his budget, that he would be removing VAT from eBooks on the 1st December 2020. A few weeks ago, in response the COVID19 pandemic, he announced he would be bringing this change forward to 1st May 2020. As you provide us with the Suggest Retail Price (SRP) for your eBooks distributed through Kobo Writing Life, you now may wish to lower your GBP prices by 20%, to pass this saving on to customers. You can do this easily in the Set the Price section of your book. If you have any questions or queries relating to this news, please let us know. Yours in writing, The Kobo Writing Life Team P.S. At the time of writing the UK government has not announced any plans to remove the VAT from digital audiobooks. You can learn more about the campaign here. |
Singapore Interactive Job Guide App and eBook
There are hundreds of job boards, both generic and niche, as well as aggregators, social media channels, networking groups and staffing company websites to choose from.
2020 presents a series of Employment Interactive Job Search, Economic Interactive Notes, Financial Market, Money and Banking terms and definitions with over 9900 quick links! Great for students on anybody that wants to keep up with all the terminology. This is an interactive series that helps guide you and keeps you up to date on all the employment and job search terminology, tools and help guides; past and present including access to charts, graphs and video presentations on the subject. Educational learning tools! Google Play App for IOS and Android and searching in 10 languages.
Your resume is your first opportunity to make a good impression with hiring managers. But how can you create a document that makes you stand out from the crowd? Your resume is your first opportunity to make a good impression with hiring managers. But how can you create a document that makes you stand out from the crowd?
Compare starting compensation for hundreds of positions and customize them for your market. Everything you need to identify salary trends and set your hiring budget or negotiate a job offer is at your fingertips. Compare starting compensation for hundreds of positions and customize them for your market. Everything you need to identify salary trends and set your hiring budget or negotiate a job offer is at your fingertips.
Here are the resources to help you throughout the process, from identifying a promising opportunity and writing a resume to interview with potential employers and negotiating a job offer. Get expert tips and advice for landing the right role for you.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that fewer people should start careers in finance and law and instead focus on innovation.“In the United States especially, there’s an over allocation of talent in finance and law. Basically too many smart people go into finance and law,” Musk said in an interview with the comedian Joe Rogan that aired Thursday. When asked by Rogan if being a billionaire makes people see him in a different light, Musk said yes.
Source: Elon Musk: ‘Too many smart people go into finance and law’
Two hundred years ago, two brothers crossed the Atlantic for Scotland’s wave-battered Isle of Skye, where they founded the picturesque Talisker Distillery. Today, a typical visit to that storied distillery concludes with a five-minute stroll through peaty countryside to the Oyster Shed, where the morning harvest from nearby waters is served on the half shell. Two drops of Single Malt on a freshly shucked oyster instantly merges the briny landscape, the whisky, and the nearby sea. It’s that symbiosis that inspired Talisker, a sustainably focused spirits brand, to expand its conservation efforts to New York Harbor. The project? It, too, pairs whisky with oysters—about a billion of them.
Source: The Scotch Whisky Brand Helping to Restore Oyster Reefs | Outside Online
When they were home in Brooklyn Heights, Emily Roebling and her husband, Washington, could look toward the East River and see how work was progressing on the Brooklyn Bridge. Washington was in charge of construction. He took over after his father, the bridge’s genius engineer, John Augustus Roebling, died in 1869. Then Washington suffered the bends working in the pneumatic caissons he had designed for the underwater foundations of the towers, and Emily saw the project through to completion.When the bridge opened in 1883, she was the first to cross it in a carriage.
Source: Brooklyn Bridge, Star of the City: Here’s a Tour – The New York Times
Looking for a cleaner, more sustainable path forward, Venice nautical design firm Nuvolari Lenard launches the Thunder water taxi. The 14-seater stays true to the classic wood style of Venice’s luxury water limousines while incorporating a new diesel-electric hybrid propulsion system designed to cut emissions. The result is a timeless watercraft that offers zero-emissions city cruising and more robust diesel range.
Source: Venice hybrid water taxi melds modern technology with classic design
MOMENT IN TIME: MAY 6, 1856
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| In this photo released by the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna former Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud is pictured in 1931. Austria and the world will be celebrating Sigmund Freud’s 150th birthday on Saturday May 6, 2006. (AP Photo/Sigmund Freud Museum) |
| Sigismund Schlomo Freud was on born on this day in 1856 in the Austrian Empire, and was the first son from his father’s third marriage. Sigmund became the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating disorders such as anxiety and depression through a “free association” dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst. He focused on the impact of childhood experiences and the unconscious, and created terms such as Oedipus complex, and explored the relationship between the id, ego and superego. He wrote celebrated books including The Interpretation of Dreams and Civilization and its Discontents. During his life, he attracted many wealthy patrons, followers and admirers, including Carl Jung, Salvador Dali and Virginia Woolf. Freud’s approach continues to be controversial as many challenged its science and therapeutic success, while others felt it hindered feminism while inspiring such works as The Second Sex and The Feminine Mystique. What cannot be denied is the impact Freud’s work had on society in line with other major thinkers of his era: Darwin, Marx and Einstein. Freud was a heavy cigar smoker and proponent of cocaine as an analgesic. Suffering from mouth cancer, he died at the age of 83 in 1939 shortly after fleeing to London to escape the Nazis. – Graeme Harris |
Employment Interactive Job Search App and eBook
There are hundreds of job boards, both generic and niche, as well as aggregators, social media channels, networking groups and staffing company websites to choose from.
2020 presents a series of Employment Interactive Job Search, Economic Interactive Notes, Financial Market, Money and Banking terms and definitions with over 9900 quick links! Great for students on anybody that wants to keep up with all the terminology. This is an interactive series that helps guide you and keeps you up to date on all the employment and job search terminology, tools and help guides; past and present including access to charts, graphs and video presentations on the subject. Educational learning tools! Google Play App for IOS and Android and searching in 10 languages.
Your resume is your first opportunity to make a good impression with hiring managers. But how can you create a document that makes you stand out from the crowd? Your resume is your first opportunity to make a good impression with hiring managers. But how can you create a document that makes you stand out from the crowd?
Compare starting compensation for hundreds of positions and customize them for your market. Everything you need to identify salary trends and set your hiring budget or negotiate a job offer is at your fingertips. Compare starting compensation for hundreds of positions and customize them for your market. Everything you need to identify salary trends and set your hiring budget or negotiate a job offer is at your fingertips.
Here are the resources to help you throughout the process, from identifying a promising opportunity and writing a resume to interview with potential employers and negotiating a job offer. Get expert tips and advice for landing the right role for you.
MOMENT IN TIME
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| Six of the Group of Seven artists, plus their friend Barker Fairley, sitting around table at the Arts and Letter Club in Toronto in 1920. From clockwise around the table, starting at the left: Frederick Varley, A. Y. Jackson, Lawren Harris, Barker Fairley, Frank Johnston [Francis Hans Johnston, known as Franz or Frank], Arthur Lismer, and J. E. H. MacDonald. Photo by Arthur Goss. Originally published August 27, 1960, Globe Magazine, page 42. |
| For more than 100 years, photographers have preserved an extraordinary collection of 20th-century news photography for The Globe and Mail. Every Monday, The Globe features one of these images. This month, we are looking at the Group of Seven, whose inaugural exhibition was 100 years ago. |
| This 100-year-old photograph shows six members of the Group of Seven at the Arts & Letters Club in Toronto around the time the group formed in 1920. From left, they are: Frederick Varley, A. Y. Jackson (in the foreground with arms on the table), Lawren Harris, Barker Fairley (a painter who was not a member), Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer and J.E.H. MacDonald. Franklin Carmichael, the youngest of the original seven, is not present. The picture was taken by the city photographer Arthur Gross, better known for documenting poverty in Toronto. |
| The Arts & Letters Club, which still exists, was a gathering place for the artists where they could share their frustrations over the conservative environment of the day. Alone, the artists were often relegated to back corners in exhibitions of academic art and subject to reactionary reviews. Together, as a school dedicated to painting northern landscapes in styles inspired by Post-Impressionist European art, they proved successful at convincing Canadians their art was a dynamic national expression. |
| Johnston dropped out and was replaced by A.J. Casson in 1926, but the association lasted until MacDonald’s death in 1932, after which the artists formed the larger Canadian Group of Painters. |
