Monthly Archives: December 2012

Happy New Year – welcome to 2013

Posted on December 31, 2012 by

     Approaching 9.00 pm on New Year’s Eve, as I prepare to say goodbye to 2012, I am thinking about how the year has been for me and wonder how it has been for other people I share with. … Continue reading →

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2012 in review

Posted on December 31, 2012 by

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 9,500 views in 2012. If every person who reached the … Continue reading →

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Rights of Disabled People – the wrongs of very few others.

Posted on December 7, 2012 by

In 1990, the United States enacted the Americans with Disabilities Act, which was one of the first such pieces of legislation in the world. It defined disability discrimination and has been a blueprint for many other similar laws across the … Continue reading →

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The Royal Family – established gender equality

Posted on December 4, 2012 by

  This short article has a surprising subject for me; the Royal Family, but I could not let this piece of news pass without comment. Today the countries of the Commonwealth agreed that a bill ending discrimination against women in the … Continue reading →

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