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December 2, 2021
Key findings
Despite EU and Member State policy efforts to support young people in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, young people were also hardest hit by job loss during the COVID-19 crisis. Overrepresented in the sectors most impacted by pandemic restrictions and more likely to work on temporary contracts or part time, 12% of 18- to 29-year-olds who responded to at least two rounds of the Living, working and COVID-19 e-survey reported that they had lost their job, with 12% of students also facing unemployment.
Unemployed or inactive young people were most likely to experience housing insecurity than other groups during the pandemic (17% in spring 2021) and reported difficulty making ends meet (43%), as well as having no savings (39%); however, over half of young people reported living with their parents, which provided some security. Unless young people can participate actively in education and the labour market there is a high risk of their long-term disengagement with serious implications for their and society’s future.
The COVID-19 crisis had a disproportionate impact on young people’s life satisfaction and mental well-being compared to older groups. This improved between spring and summer 2020 when lockdowns eased but dropped to its lowest point in spring 2021 when restrictions and school closures returned, contributing to a decrease in life satisfaction and mental well-being where nearly two-thirds of young people were at risk of depression. Young people’s trust in institutions overall also remained higher than other groups despite being hardest hit by the COVID-19 crisis in terms of mental health and employment. It will be important for policymakers to build on this social capital and ensure investment in youth remains at the top of the EU policy agenda.
A wide range of measures were introduced to support young people during the pandemic. These included the reinforced European Youth Guarantee, national initiatives to keep young people in education, and measures to reduce barriers to existing financial support and social protection specifically for young people; however, many of these policy responses were temporary. To ensure greater resilience in future crises, it will be crucial for policymakers to prioritise long-term measures for young people, such as permanent improvements in access to work and apprenticeships and measures to increase job security.
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https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/sites/default/files/ef_publication/field_ef_document/ef20036en.pdf
Impact of COVID-19 on young people in the EU
https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/report/2021/impact-of-covid-19-on-young-people-in-the-euKey findings
Despite EU and Member State policy efforts to support young people in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, young people were also hardest hit by job loss during the COVID-19 crisis. Overrepresented in the sectors most impacted by pandemic restrictions and more likely to work on temporary contracts or part time, 12% of 18- to 29-year-olds who responded to at least two rounds of the Living, working and COVID-19 e-survey reported that they had lost their job, with 12% of students also facing unemployment.
Unemployed or inactive young people were most likely to experience housing insecurity than other groups during the pandemic (17% in spring 2021) and reported difficulty making ends meet (43%), as well as having no savings (39%); however, over half of young people reported living with their parents, which provided some security. Unless young people can participate actively in education and the labour market there is a high risk of their long-term disengagement with serious implications for their and society’s future.
The COVID-19 crisis had a disproportionate impact on young people’s life satisfaction and mental well-being compared to older groups. This improved between spring and summer 2020 when lockdowns eased but dropped to its lowest point in spring 2021 when restrictions and school closures returned, contributing to a decrease in life satisfaction and mental well-being where nearly two-thirds of young people were at risk of depression. Young people’s trust in institutions overall also remained higher than other groups despite being hardest hit by the COVID-19 crisis in terms of mental health and employment. It will be important for policymakers to build on this social capital and ensure investment in youth remains at the top of the EU policy agenda.
A wide range of measures were introduced to support young people during the pandemic. These included the reinforced European Youth Guarantee, national initiatives to keep young people in education, and measures to reduce barriers to existing financial support and social protection specifically for young people; however, many of these policy responses were temporary. To ensure greater resilience in future crises, it will be crucial for policymakers to prioritise long-term measures for young people, such as permanent improvements in access to work and apprenticeships and measures to increase job security.
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https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/sites/default/files/ef_publication/field_ef_document/ef20036en.pdf
December 2, 2021
© 2002 Roman Coppola, The Strokes, Cult Records and Sony Music Entertainment
(gig archives and performances of artists, for the fans - non profit)
Recorded 2nd Feburary 2002 for MTV at Hollywood Center Zoetrope Studios, Los Angeles
New footage surfaced from Douglas Weiss so I compiled it into a previous version of this concert
Most of the audio from this new footage is in mono but the quality itself is vastly superior
*Pre-broadcast: *
0:00:45 When It Started
0:04:10 Is This It
0:06:55 New York City Cops [stereo]
0:10:31 *Start of broadcast: *
0:11:34 Alone, Together
0:15:19 Barely Legal
0:19:35 Someday
0:22:55 Soma (the best version ever?)
0:28:03 Take It or Leave It
0:31:43 Between Love & Hate (1st take) (partial, early version) [LQ]
0:33:09 Trying Your Luck (1st take) [LQ]
0:36:50 New York City Cops (2nd take) [LQ]
0:41:15 Trying Your Luck (2nd take)
The Modern Age (1st take, music video) [copyright]
0:44:55 The Modern Age (2nd take) [stereo]
0:48:40 Hard to Explain [LQ]
0:53:11 Last Nite
0:56:36 Meet Me in The Bathroom (early version) [LQ]
0:59:55 Between Love & Hate (2nd take) (early version) [LQ]
The Strokes - Live at MTV $2 Dollar Bill Concert 2002 [Full] [HQ]
© 2002 Roman Coppola, The Strokes, Cult Records and Sony Music Entertainment
(gig archives and performances of artists, for the fans - non profit)
Recorded 2nd Feburary 2002 for MTV at Hollywood Center Zoetrope Studios, Los Angeles
New footage surfaced from Douglas Weiss so I compiled it into a previous version of this concert
Most of the audio from this new footage is in mono but the quality itself is vastly superior
*Pre-broadcast: *
0:00:45 When It Started
0:04:10 Is This It
0:06:55 New York City Cops [stereo]
0:10:31 *Start of broadcast: *
0:11:34 Alone, Together
0:15:19 Barely Legal
0:19:35 Someday
0:22:55 Soma (the best version ever?)
0:28:03 Take It or Leave It
0:31:43 Between Love & Hate (1st take) (partial, early version) [LQ]
0:33:09 Trying Your Luck (1st take) [LQ]
0:36:50 New York City Cops (2nd take) [LQ]
0:41:15 Trying Your Luck (2nd take)
The Modern Age (1st take, music video) [copyright]
0:44:55 The Modern Age (2nd take) [stereo]
0:48:40 Hard to Explain [LQ]
0:53:11 Last Nite
0:56:36 Meet Me in The Bathroom (early version) [LQ]
0:59:55 Between Love & Hate (2nd take) (early version) [LQ]
December 1, 2021
https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/last-child-tax-credit-payment-until-tax-time-2022-what-you-need-to-know/
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The cost of Manchin and Sinema's obstructionism: Last child tax credit payment until tax time 2022
December's check will be the final advance payment.https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/last-child-tax-credit-payment-until-tax-time-2022-what-you-need-to-know/
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December 1, 2021
To celebrate the recent release of Issue No.3 of The Modern House Magazine, we’re sharing a story from our series that celebrates the very best and most influential examples of British modernism, The Classics. For issue No.3, our Editor, Charlie Monaghan, and Lead Photographer, Elliot Sheppard, discovered how four ambitious young architects came together in the early-mid 1960s to design a house on a sleepy Cornish creek – setting their intention for redefining modernism in the latter half of the 20th century. Two members of the group would become some of the biggest names in architecture to this day, while one would build another house on the same creek that embodied their high-tech vision. To see this story and many more in print, pick up your set of issue No.2 and No.3 today.
Charlie: If you had big ambitions in architecture in the early 1960s, Yale University’s department of architecture was a good place to be. The faculty was chaired at the time by Paul Rudolph, a leading American modernist who had been taught by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius at Harvard. On the Yale campus were buildings by Eero Saarinen and Louis Kahn, the latter having joined the faculty in 1947 – a time in which his colleagues would’ve included Josef Albers and Philip Johnson, still making appearances at Yale in the 1960s. A new library by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill was about to start construction. Serge Chermayeff and Vincent Scully were professors. The best architects in the world were teaching in buildings that represented the most experimental architecture of the time. In 1962, a group of Brits were just about to graduate. Their names were Norman Foster and Su and Richard Rogers.
They had arrived in 1961 from an austere postwar Britain that hadn’t embraced modernism in the way the United States, fuelled by economic prosperity, was doing with unfretted fervour. Richard had arrived in the US by sea, on the Queen Elizabeth. “It had towered over Southampton,” he later recalled. “In New York, it was dwarfed by the buildings.” America was big, bold and modern – a glamorous, energised contrast to war-scarred Europe. The trio were in their element, inspired and invigorated by the US architectural scene.
Penniless but eager, they relentlessly toured works by Frank Lloyd Wright, blagging or sneaking their way into buildings such as Fallingwater. They went to see Kahn talk in Philadelphia, forged close relationships with Chermayeff and Johnson, and drank martinis with James Stirling at Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building in New York. It was the experience of being immersed in architecture, as much as their education, that was formative for the ambitious trio.
How four architects set the agenda for late 20th-century modernism on a quiet creek in Cornwall
https://www.themodernhouse.com/journal/the-classics-creek-vean-pillwood-house/To celebrate the recent release of Issue No.3 of The Modern House Magazine, we’re sharing a story from our series that celebrates the very best and most influential examples of British modernism, The Classics. For issue No.3, our Editor, Charlie Monaghan, and Lead Photographer, Elliot Sheppard, discovered how four ambitious young architects came together in the early-mid 1960s to design a house on a sleepy Cornish creek – setting their intention for redefining modernism in the latter half of the 20th century. Two members of the group would become some of the biggest names in architecture to this day, while one would build another house on the same creek that embodied their high-tech vision. To see this story and many more in print, pick up your set of issue No.2 and No.3 today.
Charlie: If you had big ambitions in architecture in the early 1960s, Yale University’s department of architecture was a good place to be. The faculty was chaired at the time by Paul Rudolph, a leading American modernist who had been taught by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius at Harvard. On the Yale campus were buildings by Eero Saarinen and Louis Kahn, the latter having joined the faculty in 1947 – a time in which his colleagues would’ve included Josef Albers and Philip Johnson, still making appearances at Yale in the 1960s. A new library by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill was about to start construction. Serge Chermayeff and Vincent Scully were professors. The best architects in the world were teaching in buildings that represented the most experimental architecture of the time. In 1962, a group of Brits were just about to graduate. Their names were Norman Foster and Su and Richard Rogers.
They had arrived in 1961 from an austere postwar Britain that hadn’t embraced modernism in the way the United States, fuelled by economic prosperity, was doing with unfretted fervour. Richard had arrived in the US by sea, on the Queen Elizabeth. “It had towered over Southampton,” he later recalled. “In New York, it was dwarfed by the buildings.” America was big, bold and modern – a glamorous, energised contrast to war-scarred Europe. The trio were in their element, inspired and invigorated by the US architectural scene.
Penniless but eager, they relentlessly toured works by Frank Lloyd Wright, blagging or sneaking their way into buildings such as Fallingwater. They went to see Kahn talk in Philadelphia, forged close relationships with Chermayeff and Johnson, and drank martinis with James Stirling at Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building in New York. It was the experience of being immersed in architecture, as much as their education, that was formative for the ambitious trio.
December 1, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/opinion/abortion-supreme-court-women-law.html
On Dec. 1, the Supreme Court will consider the constitutionality of Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. If the court decides to uphold the Mississippi law — as it may well do — that would mean American abortion rights would no longer be protected up to the point of fetal viability, or about 24 weeks of pregnancy.
Replacing this viability standard, which has been in place since 1992, with some lower threshold is sometimes framed as a necessary compromise between people who oppose abortion rights and those who support them. The suggestion is that Americans should relinquish the right to abortion in the second trimester to preserve access in the first, which is when about 90 percent of abortions take place.
But before the Supreme Court agrees to compromise the rights of tens of thousands of people, Americans need to understand what that would mean for their lives and those of their families.
I led a scientific study designed to answer that question. The Turnaway Study included almost 1,000 women who sought abortions from 30 facilities across the country, including many women who got abortions later in their pregnancies. It is easy to demonize these people. The assumption is that they were irresponsible or simply waited too long to make up their minds.
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Why Women Need Abortions After 15 Weeks
What Happens When It’s Too Late to Get an Abortionhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/opinion/abortion-supreme-court-women-law.html
On Dec. 1, the Supreme Court will consider the constitutionality of Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. If the court decides to uphold the Mississippi law — as it may well do — that would mean American abortion rights would no longer be protected up to the point of fetal viability, or about 24 weeks of pregnancy.
Replacing this viability standard, which has been in place since 1992, with some lower threshold is sometimes framed as a necessary compromise between people who oppose abortion rights and those who support them. The suggestion is that Americans should relinquish the right to abortion in the second trimester to preserve access in the first, which is when about 90 percent of abortions take place.
But before the Supreme Court agrees to compromise the rights of tens of thousands of people, Americans need to understand what that would mean for their lives and those of their families.
I led a scientific study designed to answer that question. The Turnaway Study included almost 1,000 women who sought abortions from 30 facilities across the country, including many women who got abortions later in their pregnancies. It is easy to demonize these people. The assumption is that they were irresponsible or simply waited too long to make up their minds.
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December 1, 2021
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dr-ozs-pennsylvania-senate-run-shows-a-sick-journey-from-political-joke-to-candidate
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Dr. Oz's Sick Journey From Political Joke to Senate Candidate
Critics have long called him a quack for hawking dubious treatments. Combine that with the modern Republican Party and a surging pandemic, and this could get ugly, fast.https://www.thedailybeast.com/dr-ozs-pennsylvania-senate-run-shows-a-sick-journey-from-political-joke-to-candidate
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December 1, 2021
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/30/peacocks-plague-california-city-tracy-birds-relocate
Dozens of feral peacocks and peahens are roaming the streets and leaping from the rooftops of Tracy, California. They claw at shingles and defecate on porches. Their calls, especially in mating season, echo through the community. They have no fear of pets nor people.
Errant peafowl have milled around the city’s Redbridge neighborhood for years – some believe they originally came from a now-defunct nearby dairy farm – but the numbers have increased as the birds keep multiplying. Now they’re everywhere, and ruffling some residents’ feathers.
“I’ll have like eight of them sitting on my porch railing pooping,” said Stephanie Voress, proprietor of the Redbridge General Store. “They’re a nuisance, but they’re beautiful.”
In recent weeks, some community members decided that something had to be done. The homeowners association of Redbridge, a gated community, has proposed to humanely relocate about 30 to 40 peafowl through a deal with the city and a contract with Bay Area Wildlife Services.
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Roaming peacocks plague California city: 'They're a nuisance, but they're beautiful'
Multiplying birds have become an issue in the city of Tracy, wailing loudly and unleashing poop ‘like soft serve’. Now residents want to relocate themhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/30/peacocks-plague-california-city-tracy-birds-relocate
Dozens of feral peacocks and peahens are roaming the streets and leaping from the rooftops of Tracy, California. They claw at shingles and defecate on porches. Their calls, especially in mating season, echo through the community. They have no fear of pets nor people.
Errant peafowl have milled around the city’s Redbridge neighborhood for years – some believe they originally came from a now-defunct nearby dairy farm – but the numbers have increased as the birds keep multiplying. Now they’re everywhere, and ruffling some residents’ feathers.
“I’ll have like eight of them sitting on my porch railing pooping,” said Stephanie Voress, proprietor of the Redbridge General Store. “They’re a nuisance, but they’re beautiful.”
In recent weeks, some community members decided that something had to be done. The homeowners association of Redbridge, a gated community, has proposed to humanely relocate about 30 to 40 peafowl through a deal with the city and a contract with Bay Area Wildlife Services.
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December 1, 2021
Andersson’s agenda
https://socialeurope.eu/anderssons-agenda
Who governs Sweden? The question that puzzled Swedes and foreign observers alike during the past few days has been settled: Magdalena Andersson is prime minister. Confusingly enough, she was elected already last week, but had to resign only hours after the applause rang out in the Riksdag, after the Green Party decided to leave the government when the red-green coalition failed to secure support for its budget in the chamber.
Sweden’s constitution does not require the prime minister to be positively endorsed by a majority in parliament. Instead, he—now she—only has to secure tolerance from the MPs, and the opposition was one vote short of the necessary 175, in the 349-seat parliament, to deny that.
At 10 o’clock in the morning of November 24th, 100 years after the introduction of universal suffrage for men and women, the glass ceiling finally broke—also in Sweden, young girls can now imagine themselves as prime minister. Four out of five Nordic countries now have a female premier: Sanna Marin in Finland, Mette Frederiksen in Denmark, Katrín Jakobsdóttir in Iceland … and Magdalena Andersson in Sweden.
Budget vote
Andersson was visibly moved when the vote came but she had little time to celebrate. While tolerance is enough to become head of the government, the procedure to pass the state budget is different. Here, the parliamentary rule is that the most well-supported budget proposal passes. Before Andersson was even formally installed as prime minister, in the vote on the budget later that day the Centre Party would support only its own proposal, withholding 31 votes decisive for the red-green budget to pass. This followed tough negotiations with the Left Party (27 seats) to secure its support.
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Magdalena Andersson has been elected the first female prime minister of Sweden. Again.
Andersson’s agenda
https://socialeurope.eu/anderssons-agenda
Who governs Sweden? The question that puzzled Swedes and foreign observers alike during the past few days has been settled: Magdalena Andersson is prime minister. Confusingly enough, she was elected already last week, but had to resign only hours after the applause rang out in the Riksdag, after the Green Party decided to leave the government when the red-green coalition failed to secure support for its budget in the chamber.
Sweden’s constitution does not require the prime minister to be positively endorsed by a majority in parliament. Instead, he—now she—only has to secure tolerance from the MPs, and the opposition was one vote short of the necessary 175, in the 349-seat parliament, to deny that.
At 10 o’clock in the morning of November 24th, 100 years after the introduction of universal suffrage for men and women, the glass ceiling finally broke—also in Sweden, young girls can now imagine themselves as prime minister. Four out of five Nordic countries now have a female premier: Sanna Marin in Finland, Mette Frederiksen in Denmark, Katrín Jakobsdóttir in Iceland … and Magdalena Andersson in Sweden.
Budget vote
Andersson was visibly moved when the vote came but she had little time to celebrate. While tolerance is enough to become head of the government, the procedure to pass the state budget is different. Here, the parliamentary rule is that the most well-supported budget proposal passes. Before Andersson was even formally installed as prime minister, in the vote on the budget later that day the Centre Party would support only its own proposal, withholding 31 votes decisive for the red-green budget to pass. This followed tough negotiations with the Left Party (27 seats) to secure its support.
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