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  • $20m aged-care home for Muswellbrook

    See your ad here Little Company of Mary, the company that runs Calvary Mater Hospital, has announced it will buy 3.4hectares of Muswellbrook Council's Brennan Park land to build a 92-place aged-care community.The new complex will include 60 hostel and nursing home places and 32 independent living units.The announcement is also set to solve a problem facing Hunter New England Health about ...

  • Seniors remain in hospital after attack in Wetaskiwin-area home

    Marion (left) and Dawne Gilchrist are shown in this 2011 family photo celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary. The couple was assaulted and robbed by an intruder at their Wetaskiwin-area rural property on May ...

  • Single mother with fluctuating income keeps retirement goals in sight

    Lydia is 52 and single with two children, age 16 and 21.They live in suburban Toronto, where the older child is in fourth-year university.Two and a half years ago, Lydia was laid off from the job she worked at for 20 years. After her severance pay ran out, she worked off and on in a number of temporary assignments as an executive ...

  • Anthony Hilton Byrne’s right on pension funds – bigger is better

    To Birmingham for an interesting speech from Liam Byrne - he who as a member of the Labour Government Treasury team famously left the note after the 2010 election warning the incoming Chancellor there was no money ...

  • Proposal before OMERS would require employees to work longer to get full pension

    Ontario municipal pension fund giant OMERS has received a proposal from some of its employer members to increase the amount of time it would take for workers in the plan to gain a full pension from 35 years to 38 years.The proposal will be voted on at the end of June, but would require significant backing from union representatives at the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System to be ...

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The New World

The New World

Given that the gap between writer/director Terrence Malicks second and third films, Days of Heaven (1978) and The Thin Red Line (1998), was a full two decades, the mere seven years between The Thin Red Line and his newest film, The New World, comes close to con ... ...

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  • Corpus Christi couple embody Older Americans Month theme with compassion for patients

    Rachel Denny Clow/Caller-Times Wayne Atzenhoffer, a volunteer at Christus Spohn Hospital Shoreline, gets Tina Peña a cup of coffee while she gets an infusion at the Cancer Center on Tuesday. Since 1994 the couple has volunteered at Christus Spohn Hospital ...

  • Newbury Park financial planner pleads guilty to stealing from elderly client

    The District Attorney's Office said Hormell was hired by the victim's family in 2008 to manage her extensive financial holdings and oversee a monthly spending budget for her. Over the next five years, he stole more than $160,000 from her by using his access to her bank accounts and ATM card, prosecutors ...

  • Woolwich suspect was victim of frenzied knife attack aged 16

    London street witnessed a murder and was himself stabbed in a frenzied knife attack five years ago, the Guardian has learned.Michael Adebowale, who was pictured holding a blade minutes after the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich on Wednesday, had been caught up in an earlier fatal incident in January 2008 when he was 16.One person was murdered in the bloody episode, having been ...

  • Banana consumption increases thanks to aging populaion

    Banana consumption increases thanks to aging populaion . MAY 20, 2013 04:56. . Bananas proved to be the best-selling fruit, followed by tangerines and apples, for two consecutive years from 2011 to 2012, according to a 10-year statistics on fruit sales compiled by the Lotte Mart. Tangerine sales topped the others between 2003 and 2010.The super-supermarket said aging population was the ...

  • Washington University professor steers X Prize to Alzheimers

    A Washington University professor and a team of experts won a brainstorming competition that led the X Prize Foundation to raise a $50 million prize to motivate scientists and researchers to find effective treatments and potentially a cure for Alzheimers disease. The X Prize Foundation awarded a $10 million prize in 2004 to the first company that built a spacecraft capable of carrying three ...

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