Legendary opera singer Andrea Bocelli will be doing a live performance from the Duomo Cathedral in Milan, Italy on Easter Sunday, April 12.
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Andrea Bocelli Will Perform Live From Milan’s Duomo Cathedral
The Great Gatsby
MOMENT IN TIME
The Great Gatsby is published April 10, 1925: It has often been called the Great American novel, but when F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was first published it was met with decidedly mixed reviews. The New York Times called it “a curious book, a mystical, glamorous story of today.” While The New York World ran a review with the headline: “F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Latest a Dud.” Set in the Roaring Twenties, it told the tragic story of Jay Gatsby, a self-made man who profited – as so many did at the time – on the sale of black-market liquor during Prohibition. It was a novel that perfectly encapsulated the heady Jazz Age of lavish parties and social climbing, an era Fitzgerald himself described as a “whole race going hedonistic, deciding on pleasure.” A gripping love story, told with finesse, it nevertheless fell flat. The 20,000 copies of its first printing sold slowly, and there were still copies unsold from its second printing when Fitzgerald died in 1940. It is now required reading in English literature classes around the world and the story has been retold in film, theatre, ballet, opera, video games, TV movies and radio plays. Gayle MacDonald Opinion | America Will Struggle After Coronavirus. These Charts Show Why. – The New York Times
America’s economy has almost doubled in size over the last four decades, but broad measures of the nation’s economic health conceal the unequal distribution of gains. A small portion of the population has pocketed most of the new wealth, and the coronavirus pandemic is laying bare the consequences of the unequal distribution of prosperity.Consider first the most commonly quoted measure of the nation’s success — gross domestic product — in the chart below:
Source: Opinion | America Will Struggle After Coronavirus. These Charts Show Why. – The New York Times
Ottawa had a playbook for a coronavirus-like pandemic 14 years ago. What went wrong? – The Globe and Mail
A pandemic sweeps across Canada in one or two months. It is spread not only by the sick, but by people who show no symptoms. There are shortages of medical supplies and the health system struggles to keep up. The peak won’t come for months, and it will be accompanied by a surge in deaths. Soon after, the country will brace for a second wave.All of this is now true for the COVID-19 crisis, but the aforementioned scenario – a warning – comes from a 2006 federal report on pandemic preparedness. Fourteen years later, its words are eerily accurate.Long before COVID-19 emerged, top health authorities from across Canada put together a playbook to prepare for a situation strikingly similar to the one the country now finds itself in.
John Prine, Who Chronicled the Human Condition in Song, Dies at 73 – The New York Times
John Prine, the raspy-voiced country-folk singer whose ingenious lyrics to songs by turns poignant, angry and comic made him a favorite of Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson and others, died on Tuesday in Nashville. He was 73.The cause was complications of the coronavirus, his family said.Mr. Prine underwent cancer surgery in 1998 to remove a tumor in his neck identified as squamous cell cancer, which had damaged his vocal cords. In 2013, he had part of one lung removed to treat lung cancer.Mr. Prine was a relative unknown in 1970 when Mr. Kristofferson heard him play one night at a small Chicago club called the Fifth Peg, dragged there by the singer-songwriter Steve Goodman. Mr. Kristofferson was performing in Chicago at the time at the Quiet Knight. At the Fifth Peg, Mr. Prine treated him to a brief after-hours performance of material that, Mr. Kristofferson later wrote, “was unlike anything I’d heard before.”
Source: John Prine, Who Chronicled the Human Condition in Song, Dies at 73 – The New York Times
RG Richardson Interactive Finance-Financial Literacy
The RG Richardson Interactive Finance – Multi-language.
Financial literacy is the ability to understand and effectively apply various financial skills, including personal financial management, budgeting, and investing. Financial literacy helps individuals become self-sufficient so that they can achieve financial stability.
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B.C. Ferries will start screening passengers for COVID-19 symptoms or recent international travel before allowing people to board. Anyone who has flu-like symptoms or has returned from abroad . . .
Source: B.C. Ferries to screen passengers for COVID-19 as new regulations announced | Times Colonist
Benefits of Financial Literacy
Benefits of Financial Literacy
Financial literacy focuses on the ability to manage personal finance matters efficiently, and it includes the knowledge of making appropriate decisions about personal finance, such as investing, insurance, real estate, paying for college, budgeting, retirement, and tax planning. Those who understand the subject should be able to answer several questions about purchases, such as whether an item is required, whether it is affordable, and whether it’s an asset or a liability. Financial literacy education should also include organizational skills, attention to detail, consumer rights, technology, and global economics because the state of the global economy greatly affects the US economy.
This field demonstrates the behaviors and attitudes a person possesses about money that is applied to his daily life. Financial literacy shows how an individual makes financial decisions. This skill can help a person develop a financial road map to identify what he earns, what he spends, and what he owes. This topic also affects small business owners, who greatly contribute to economic growth and stability.
Financial illiteracy affects all ages and all socioeconomic levels. Financial illiteracy causes many people to become victims of predatory lending, subprime mortgages, fraud, and high-interest rates, potentially resulting in bad credit, bankruptcy, or foreclosure.
The lack of financial literacy can lead to owing large amounts of debt and making poor financial decisions. For example, the advantages or disadvantages of fixed and variable interest rates are concepts that are easier to understand and make informed decisions about if you possess financial literacy skills. Based on research data by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, 66% of Americans are financially illiterate. They lack the basic skills to reconcile their bank accounts, pay their bills on time, pay off debt, and plan for the future.
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Canada’s first stamp
MOMENT IN TIME-Canada’s first stamp 
Canada’s first stamp © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II ..© Photograph Canadian Museum of Civilization. It was over breakfast with Postmaster General James Morris that engineer, draftsman and surveyor Sandford Fleming suggested the beaver as a motif for the first Canadian postage stamp. The beaver represented the industry, ingenuity and perseverance of our young country. The Three Pence Beaver was issued on April 23, 1851. Canada’s first stamp. It was over breakfast with Postmaster General James Morris that engineer, draftsman and surveyor Sandford Fleming suggested the beaver as a motif for the first Canadian postage stamp. The beaver represented the industry, ingenuity and perseverance of our young country. The Three Pence Beaver was issued on April 23, 1851. Credit: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth / Canadian Museum of Civilization. Starting in the 16th century, fur trapping and trading became one of the main economic motivators keeping Europeans in North America. The beaver had a fine pelt prized in Europe for making hats, and the furs created a new industry that involved British, French and Indigenous people. As trading posts and forts spread, loyalties shifted, creating a turbulent time of alliances and igniting a battle for domination of the industry. Eventually, beaver populations fell almost to the point of extinction before Europe lost interest in the fur. In the 1920s and 30s, Grey Owl, a British immigrant who falsely claimed Indigenous heritage, wrote books and gave lectures appealing for the conservation of the species. Restrictions on beaver trapping were subsequently introduced. On this day in 1975, the beaver was declared an official symbol of Canadian sovereignty. The history of Castor canadensis is an essential component of the history of Canada itself, as the fur trade was a significant factor in the country’s exploration and settlement. Today, the iconic animal is common on coats of arms, brand logos, stamps, the nickel and, most importantly, in the wild. – Julianna Perkins Ellis Marsalis Jr., Jazz Pianist and Patriarch, Dies at 85 – The New York Times
Ellis Marsalis, a pianist and educator who became the guiding force behind a late-20th-century resurgence in jazz, while putting four musician sons on a path to prominent careers, died on Wednesday. He was 85.The cause was complications of Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, his son Branford said in a statement, which did not specify where he died.
Source: Ellis Marsalis Jr., Jazz Pianist and Patriarch, Dies at 85 – The New York Times
