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  • 45th Session of Indian Labour Conference concludes

    The 45th Session of the Indian Labour Conference concluded in New Delhi with a resolve to provide universal social security coverage and assured pension to the entire working population. During the course of Conference the Labour Ministers of State Governments, Central Trade Union Leaders, Employers' representatives, and Officials of the central and state governments also deliberated on service ...

  • SAPVoice The Overlooked Social Media Marketing For Senior Citizens

    Though Madison Avenue largely forgets seniors in general, they are now a demographic grossly overlooked on social media. Those 65 years and older are changing: they are living longer, are more active, and becoming increasingly literate online. Not only does this age group have 47x the net worth of households headed by those 35 and older (according to AdAge), but they are now the fastest growing ...

  • Officials announce new retirement community plans

    VIENNA - A new multi-million dollar retirement community is being planned for the Parkersburg area as developers met with potential tenants Tuesday. Around 50 people attended a meeting at the Grand Pointe Conference Center in Vienna to look over the concept designs, floor plans and discuss the number of options of what will be included in the new Lakeside Landing development, which will be ...

  • Three elderly people die on WA roads

    An 89-year-old woman died after hitting a tree in suburban Perth while an elderly couple died in a car rollover in WA's south on Sunday ...

  • Old-age care recommended for rural Chinas elderly

    Sociologists believe the model, characterized with the elderly taking care of those even older should be recommended in China's rural areas where young workforce are migrating to large cities to make a ...

Movie Review

There's Something About Mary

There are two possible responses to the Farrelly Brothers' new movie, "There's Something About Mary": either you will think it childish, stupid, juvenile, and sick, and walk out of the theater in the first half hour; or you will think it childish, stupid, juvenile, and sick, and walk out of the theater after the movie is over with tears in your eyes from laughing so hard. Since 1994's "Dumb and Du ... ...

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  • Seniors compete in Ms. Conejo Valley pageant

    Wendy Hill, 70, of Encinitas (middle), hears herself named Ms. Senior Conejo Valley on Sunday at the Goebel Senior Center in Thousand Oaks. Hill shares the stage with contestants Gayla Kalp Jackson (left), of Moorpark, and second-place winner Sandra Miller-Erkus, of Agoura Hills. Hill will compete to be Ms. Senior ...

  • Australia way older than you think

    REMEMBER when you were taught that Australia was discovered by James Cook in 1770 who promptly declared it "terra nullius" and claimed it for the British ...

  • Mazzarri announces Napoli retirement

    Serie A wrap The 51-year-old decided to part ways with this season's runners-up after four years of guiding the club, but admitted it was not an easy decision to make. However, the former Livorno and Sampdoria manager believed it was the right time the players were taken in a new direction."The moment has come for me to reflect," Mazzarri told the club's official website, ...

  • Virginia Gibson Singer actress and dancer who starred in hit musicals of the 1940s and ’50s

    The pert dancer, singer and actress Virginia Gibson brightened several film musicals of the 1950s, notably the classic Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), in which, as one of the brides, she danced in the barn-raising sequence, one of the most exhilarating numbers in movie history, and led the rest of the girls in the song "June ...

  • Sicilian festival brings out nostalgia

    She and thousands of others converged on Little Italy for the 20th annual Sicilian Festival. India Street turned into a taste of Sicily, with a parade of musicians playing the Southern Italian song, Tarantella. There was also sidewalk art (the artists are called madonnari), a model Carretto (carriage and horse) and signature dishes, like Aroncini, which are rice balls filled with meat and ...

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