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• The Age of Web Development

  
  Coding Geekette — Authority: 104
  We were talking about form design at the accessibility meeting at the Cleveland Sight Center this morning, and one of the regular Web Dev SIG attendees made a comment about how it depends on the age of designer as to whether labels or notes were put before or after an input field. Of course, I had to chime in "Oh ...
  1 week ago

• Stop Abuse, Stop Ageism (NEW ZEALAND)

  
  Spotlight on Elder Abuse — Authority: 140
  Stop Abuse, Stop Ageism 18 November 2009 Age Concern Media release Age Concern believes that elder abuse and neglect has its roots in ageism and lack of respect for older people. "Elder abuse is not okay whether its in a resthome or someones own home, and we all have the ability to do something ...
  1 week ago

• Dr. LaNada War Jack (formerly LaNada Means) will deliver the keynote address at the “YOU ARE ON INDIAN LAND” event on Nov. 20th

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 157
  LaNada Means (War Jack) on Alcatraz Island 1970[image is from here] Dr. LaNada War Jack (formerly LaNada Means), was a student leader here at UC Berkeley and organized the Third World Strike- which ultimately led to the development of the Ethnic Studies Program at Cal. Dr. War Jack along with Richard Oakes, co- ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is Bobby Bowden Too Old To Coach?

  
  Fan Interference — Authority: 117
  Over the past few months, I’ve become intermittently aware of the unrest surrounding Florida State’s football team. Apparently, prominent alumni and program boosters are upset at the state of the program, going so far as to call for 80-year-old head coach Bobby Bowden’s resignation. College football isn’t ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rewriting Shakespeares view of later life: No longer sans everything

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  In the famous speech given by Jaques in "As You Like It," starting out "All the worlds a stage," Shakespeare summarizes the seven ages of man, the last being old age: "Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, second childishness and mere oblivion; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans ...
  2 weeks ago

• Old Authors: Shut Up

  
  FictionBitch — Authority: 117
  Same old story from Robert McCrum as he adds fuel to the ageism of our literary culture once again . ( Its always the same old story , Observer, today.) Old authors ought to shut up, is his basic message, pointing to the thinness of Roths latest novel, the disappointment of Nabokovs recently revealed last, and the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Strictly Come Dancing: Arlene Phillips to join Sadlers Wells board

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Arlene Phillips whose controversial removal from the Strictly Come Dancing judging panel provoked accusations of ageism against the BBC has been made a director of Sadlers Wells.
  3 weeks ago

• UTMB ACCUSED OF AGE DISCRIMINATION

  
  UT: THE EYES OF TFA ARE UPON YOU! — Authority: 132
  The Blogmeister doesnt know the merits of this individuals particular case, but it does remind me of Dr. Frances Nestis case . In that instance, UTMB ran off a 70-year-old, female pediatrician (who had earlier, before UTMB had purged its EEO office in 2006 , made a claim of discrimination that stuck) yet kept a much ...
  3 weeks ago

• ODDS AND ENDS

  
  UT: THE EYES OF TFA ARE UPON YOU! — Authority: 132
  There doesnt seem to be a whole lot going today, so I thought Id seize the opportunity to talk about a few things that wouldnt, by themselves, rate a separate post: Klebe v. UT: I know I said that the judge would issue a decision on October 22nd.  He didnt.  Hes still considering the motions.  Ill give readers an ...
  3 weeks ago

• Am I Too Old To Find Work?

  
  CAREEREALISM: Because EVERY Job is Temporary — Authority: 506
  Dear J.T. & Dale: I’m an experienced, educated manufacturing manager who was downsized at the age of 62 in July of last year. I have been working daily through networking, Web sites and headhunters to find a new position. My wife thinks it is my age; although I don’t want to believe that, she may be correct. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Horoscopes for Elders ?

  
  Learning Curve on the Ecliptic — Authority: 129
  On an internet wander the other day, I happened upon a blog called "Time Goes By". Among the comments following 28 Octobers post, "The Essence of Elders", was one which brought up a point Id never even considered before.The blog post itself had addressed the issue of advertising aimed at elders (those generally ...
  4 weeks ago

• Letting Myself Off the Hook

  
  TIME GOES BY — Authority: 540
  For the past few days, Ive been wrestling some computer problems to the ground. If you are waiting for an email response from me, Ill get to it as soon as everything is in working order again – before long. Meanwhile, I decided to let myself off the hook to devote full time for a day to getting organized on this ...
  4 weeks ago

• Bystanders Watch Gang Rape: What ‘Doing Nothing’ Really Means

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 157
  [image making gang rape "sexy" is from here. And how many men protested this ads promotion of sexual violence against women by a group of men?]Below is a copy of CNNs story about why people who witness sexual violence against women often do nothing to intervene. In brackets and in bold are my responses to this ...
  4 weeks ago

• Burt’s Eye View: Henry Waxman Responds

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 797
  A while ago, I wrote a piece titled “ Blowing the Whistle on Waxman .”  In case you missed it, I explained that Henry Waxman and I had been friends beginning almost 50 years ago at UCLA.  I also said that we had seen each other infrequently over the intervening years once he went to Sacramento as a state ...
  4 weeks ago

• ObamaCare Line – 3

  
  Reflections From a Murky Pond — Authority: 123
  Assuming that ObamaCare is passed into law in America, people may in the future be calling the ObamaCare Line as the first step in receiving medical treatment. Here’s what such a phone call might sound like: The ObamaCare Line – Not Much For Gerontology Well, as over-the-top and hyperbolic as this video by ...
  4 weeks ago

• Human Rights Nonsense (8): Heightism or Height Discrimination

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 433
  (Quick reminder about this blog series , so as to avoid misunderstandings: I don’t want to imply that human rights are nonsense; regular readers know that the purpose of this blog is quite the opposite. What I want to do with the posts in this series is to point to the ways in which the language of human rights is ...
  4 weeks ago

• Navajo Women and Uranium Mine Poisoning: where Violence Against Women is a mutli-layered issue

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 157
  What strikes me about what you are about to read is the impossibility of comprehending "violence against women" from a white standpoint. White-centric analysis is utterly insufficient to grasp the depth and complexity of the forms of violence against women discussed below. For me, this piece, along with other posts ...
  5 weeks ago

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