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It sounds like the Industrial and Trades sector of the economy has had a significiant wage rise over the last year. While we wait for the wages stats data, this is an interesting indicator. The national median hourly pay in the sector is now $27 an hour, up $2 from 2020/21. But this isn't just here, the world labour market is shifting just as the supply chains are.
Family of tech mogul Steve Jobs wrote an emotional statement on the 10th anniversary of his death on Tuesday that was featured on the Apple homepage along with a tribute video
'I think about Steve every day,' writes Sir Jony Ive (left), Apple's chief design officer under Jobs (seen right with Ive). Ive left firm in 2019 after reportedly growing disillusioned with Tim Cook (inset).
THE STORIES of two enterprising Victorians are bound up with a Yeadon mill which dominated the landscape for more than a century. Leafield Mill can be seen in these photographs, from the online archive of Aireborough Historical Society, along with images of two of the men who owned it. The mill was built by William Starkey as part of his attempt to recreate machinery described in the bible. Wesleyan preacher and cloth merchant Starkey wanted to power Leafield Mill using a perpetual motion device based on the “wheel within a wheel” from the book of Ezekiel. His doomed quest is desc...
EXCLUSIVE: Thrifty Duke of Edinburgh wore the same shoes from his 1947 marriage to The Queen for 74 YEARS (...and kept getting them resoled), reveals CBI boss Lord Bilimoria Prince Philip wore the black shoes he donned at his wedding the the then Princess Elizabeth at functions throughout his life The Duke told friend Lord Karan Bilimoria at a function in 2011 that he was wearing the shoes he had on at Westminster Abbey in 1947 The royal told him that he had put them on many times over the years and had them resoled as and when they were required Lord Bilimoria paid tribute to his down-to-e...