for us, the lepage center is funny. we have history in our name. in fact, we are a center about contemporary events. we use history as a lens to examine them. for us, where our discussions about contemporary events happening, they largely happen on twitter. they largely happen through hash tags and things like that. of all the social media we were going to embark on first, we decided to embark on twitter. that way we could interject some of our commentary and scholarship into existing conversations that were happening around topics that were important to us. for example, we spent this first semester of programming focusing a lot on the issue of fake news, but examining it from a historical perspective. what we determined, this question of fake news was actually sort of a moment of crisis of authority. traditional authorities from whom we received information, there has been a shift in who we trust, where we get them from. this crisis emerges out of that. we had historical journalists interrogating this premise and we used twitter as a way to interj

as i mentioned, we also now have history communication fellows at the lepage center aat v at the lepage center aat v villan. i think that's another great avenue for training, giving students on the job experience, putting together a podcast, working with you on media, presenting things in five or ten-minute chunks. i think the movement is growing. >> that's another and i think there are a number of universities around the country that now have masters degrees in public history for people going into the fields of museums and libraries and other government agency and research institutes, curating and collections and so forth. so that would be a welcome addition into many of those masters programs. i know the university of new orleans has a masters program and public togethhistory tied tr with its military program. any questions or comments? yes. [inaudible] >> there's about 3,000 of them out there. we just got to execute some reforms and they have too much of the population there to leave it all. do y'all want to add something there? >> i'd like to say that's one of my predecessors at the

>> for sure. >> the lepage center is on twitter. we are live tweeting right now. >> i wasn't kidding. >> you can follow us. if you really want to reach long audiences, you have to be on snap chat. we don't have the capacity to be on snap chat right now. all these new technologies are tools. they are tools that can be used for a lot of different purposes and reasons, depending on what you are trying to achieve. for us, the lepage center is funny. we have history in our name. we are a center about contemporary events. we use history as a lens to examine them. for us, where our discussions about contemporary events happening, on twitter. of all the social media we were going to embark on first, we decided to embark on twitter. we could interject some of our commentary into existing conversations that were happening around topics that were important to us. we spent this first semester of programming focusing on the issue of fake news and examining it from a historical perspective. this was a moment of crisis of authority. traditional au

>>@lepage center. but i mean, if you really want to reach young audiences, you have to be on snapchat, which we don't have the capacity to be on snapchat right now. all these technologies are tools. and they're tools that can be used for a lot of different purposes and reasons depending on what you're trying to achieve. for us, the lepage center is -- it's funny. we have history in our name, but we're a center about contemporary events. we use history as a lens to examine them. so for us, our discussions about contemporary events happening, they largely happen on twitter and they largely happen through hashtags and things like that. of all the social media that we were going to embark on first, we decided to embark on twitter. that way, we can interject some of our commentary and scholarship into existing conversations happening around topics that were important to us. so for example, we spent this first semester of programming focusing a lot on the issue of fake news. but examining it from a historica

the first two lepage fellows of anywhere. and those are the graduate students specifically working with us to develop and hone the communication skills as well as helping us to communicate the historical scholarship through the new medium. >> i want to come back to the whole issue of the social media in a moment, but brian, you want to finish up with this first question in the round of questions? >> sure. i will see if there is anything left to say, and answering the question of breaking through the noise and how to do that and i know that everybody in the panel believe s th believes th believes that the first order of noise is to produce first rate scholarship. we have not mentioned it that much, but it is very important, and one center that i am c connected with at the university of virginia the jefferson scholars runs the national fellowship program which has funded over 150 post-docs who work specifically on understanding politics in the united states from a historical perspective and we work hard to get the first-rate sc

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. >> -- paul lepage. >> pleasure to be on. is it a good thing? it is. le we have done it with maip and it's been a resounding success. what it really does, what the opponents should look at, is it takes away isolation, interest creates new relationships, improves the quality of life, it helps the labor force. most of all, it transitions them to a path to go towards commercial assurance and other forms of employer-sponsored insurance. it is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. >> trish: let me ask you sort of a more specific situation, you saw that some people could get an exemption, blake put a list of examples up, one of the examples is if you were caring for some one. would that include, say, a single mother who maybe has four little ones all under the age of five, that she can't get out to a job for, because she would have to find some one to care for her children. would that be included for example in maine? >> yes, it would be. as a matter of fact -- >> trish: she would be okay? >> that is one of the classes -- yes, a class we want to protect. i strong