"Paris city hall has been fined 90,000 euros ($109,408) for having appointed too many women to top positions in 2018, in breach of a law aimed at ensuring gender balance....
A 2013 law meant to ensure that women get better access to senior jobs in the civil service requires a minimum of 40% of appointments for each gender."
Ludwig van Beethoven was born 250 years ago today, on December 16, 1770. He died at age 56 in 1827.
When I made a list of "the top 10 greatest classical composers," I ranked Beethoven #1. Click here for my thoughts on Beethoven and a few videos.
(Portrait by Ferdinand Schimon via Wikipedia.)
John Lennon died at age 40, 40 years ago today.
I did this blog post 12 years ago, linking to both of my parents' memories of being in the same city where he died on December 8, 1980.
Both of their posts mention that they named me John when I was born 99 days later. Now I'm almost 40 and I'm living on the Upper West Side, not far from where it happened on West 72nd Street by Central Park. I've walked by there many times, always thinking about it, never quite believing it really happened here.
