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TTN Caring Collaborative Website
Offers Members “One Stop Shopping”
If you’ve been looking for information about TTN’s Caring Collaborative but didn’t know where to start, visit the TTN Caring Collaborative website. There you will find resources to help you get started with the program; dates and information about orientations and neighborhood group meetings if you’re already a member; copies of the Caring Times newsletter; and a Health & Wellness Resource Directory, researched and compiled by TTN volunteers.
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| Diversity |
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Changing America's Attitudes on Race
 Almost two years ago we observed that the baby boomer generation had played a significant role in transforming attitudes about race in America over the past 40 years. We credited boomers as being the generational "pivot point" in race relations.
Posted: August 17th, 2010
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We’re Here. We’re Queer. We’re Retiring
 As America’s gay population ages, LGBT seniors are opting to
retire among their own. The last place lesbians and gays want to go when they
retire is back
into the closet.
Posted: June 8, 2010
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Women and Economic Power
 Rising female consumer power is changing the way companies design, make and market products — and it’s more than just adding pastels. Women are a force not to be underestimated, pushing 80% of consumer spending in the U.S. alone.
Posted: August 31, 2010
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Overhaul Will Lower the Costs of Being a Woman
Being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition. That’s the new mantra, repeated triumphantly by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senator Barbara A. Mikulski and other advocates for women’s health. But what does it mean?
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| Links We Like |
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Woman Around Town
A great website for, about and written by women, and mainly focused on the New York area: www.womanaroundtown.com.
February 2009: And be sure to check out feature article When Media Frenzy Descends on Your Building, written by TTN member Eleanor Foa Dienstag.
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One Day University
One Day University brings together award-winning professors from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and other top-tier schools to create the most stimulating day of college available anywhere.
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Letting Go
I was a master of transitions. Until I met my own.
Posted: August 3rd, 2010
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Going Gray "Golden Girls" Style
I recognize I -- as well as my fellow Gen X’ers -- will at some point
have to face living in old age. We can’t avoid it so why not embrace
it?
Posted: January 12, 2010
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Back to the Nest Puts Families to the Test
With jobs tight, more parents expecting to turn their children's
bedrooms into guest rooms are once again finding their refrigerators
empty and their laundry tubs full. But more than the economy is at play as more young adults move back in with Mom and Dad.
Posted: July 20, 2010
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| Technology |
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Social Media in 2020 and Beyond
If you're one of those people who don't get all the fuss
over Twitter and YouTube, hoping they'll simply go away, you may not
want to read the results of a new survey by the Pew Internet &
American Life Project, in partnership with Elon University's Imagining
the Internet Center. If, on the other hand, you're an eager participant
in these social media
outlets, or aspire to Tweet or join Facebook yourself, but fear that
time has passed you by, the survey being released Friday should set your
mind at ease
Posted: July 13, 2010
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