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2023 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

I’ve been actively seeking out non-binary authors and trying to read print a little more. average read per month: 9.5 average read per week: 2.2 The always-updated booklist, going back to 1997, lives at jessamyn.info/booklist and it has its own RSS feed.

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2022 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

Previous librarian.net summaries: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. I’m also retiring my “people of color/non-Western” category only because it relies too much on surface impressions/names. average read per month: 12.

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2021 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

Previous librarian.net summaries: 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. Here are stats for the books that I finished. average read per month: 9.6. average read per week: 2.2. number read in worst month: 6 (February). number unfinished: 0.

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COVID-19: Employer-Based Insurance (with Dave Jones)

Policy Chats

He previously served as California’s Insurance Commissioner from 2011 to 2019. Jones served in the California State Assembly chairing the Assembly Health Committee, the Judiciary Committee and the Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services from 2004 to 2011. Learn more about Dave Jones via [link].

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COVID-19: Employer-Based Insurance (with Dave Jones)

Policy Chats

He previously served as California’s Insurance Commissioner from 2011 to 2019. Jones served in the California State Assembly chairing the Assembly Health Committee, the Judiciary Committee and the Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services from 2004 to 2011. Learn more about Dave Jones via [link].

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CIVIL RIGHTS/CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: Pitt Bull Owners’ § 1983 Action May Proceed

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

731, 735 (2011)). To overcome qualified immunity, a plaintiff “must ‘plead facts showing (1) that the official violated a statutory or constitutional right, and (2) that the right was clearly established at the time of the challenged conduct.’” at 287 (quoting Ashcroft v. al-Kidd , 563 U.S. at 286 (citing Dollar Loan Ctr. Afdahl , 933 F.3d

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004). There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. The plans were not connected to anything.

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