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New Drive-Thru COVID-19 Testing Site Coming To Bradley Airport Ahead Of The Holidays
Connecticut Public Radio | By Nicole Leonard
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Connecticut Public
Travelers coming to Connecticut must quarantine for two weeks upon entering the state if they're coming from an area with a high test positivity rate.
Beginning Monday, Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks will add a drive-thru COVID-19 testing site open to travelers and all other community members.
The Connecticut Airport Authority is partnering with Hartford HealthCare to run the site in parking Lot 3 off Schoephoester Road. This will be the health organization's ninth permanent testing location in the state.
Jeffrey Flaks, Hartford HealthCare president and CEO, said this is part of a larger effort to expand testing accessibility at a time when the coronavirus outbreak is picking up.
"Our testing across Hartford HealthCare has tripled over the past 30 days," Flaks said at a news conference Wednesday.
An additional 2,042 positive COVID-19 cases have been reported since Tuesday, according to state data updated Wednesday evening. The daily positive rate stands at nearly 6% just a week before Thanksgiving, normally the busiest travel holiday of the year.
Dr. Jim Cardon, chief clinical integration officer, oversees the network's permanent COVID-19 testing locations. He said demand at existing locations is growing -- evidenced by long wait times at several sites.
"We're working diligently to try and meet that demand," Cardon said, "and this just gives us a great opportunity to both help travelers who are coming in and out of the state, but also the communities, to where they have another place that they can come to get testing performed."
Flaks said the network is expanding hours at its testing sites and hiring more staff to try to speed things up.
People who want to access the new drive-thru site will not need a prescription or a referral from a medical provider. Officials said those who are uninsured can still get testing and will not be held responsible for payment.
Drivers can stay in their cars while they wait for a medical professional to perform a nasal swab. The specimens will then be sent to one of four third-party laboratories that Hartford HealthCare has partnered with to run tests.
The site will be open seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Bradley International Airport installed a testing service about a month and a half ago inside the terminal. Officials say that will remain in place strictly for passengers flying on any given day.
Kevin Dillon, executive director of the Connecticut Airport Authority, said COVID-19 has been "devastating" for travel and tourism -- passenger traffic at Bradley during the early weeks of the pandemic was down as much as 97% compared to the same time period last year.
That eased up a bit as mask wearing, social distancing and testing became more routine and reliable, he said.
"One of the things that we continue to struggle with in the travel and tourism industry is the travel advisories that exist in many states," Dillon said. "We understand why ... those travel advisories are in place, but we felt it was very important to push for a testing option."
Connecticut's travel advisory requires that people coming from another state or region with a seven-day average test positivity rate of higher than 10% must self-quarantine for 14 days. However, travelers can avoid this if they can produce proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken up to 72 hours prior to arrival or anytime after.
"It's been a very popular option with our travelers," said Dillon, who hopes a second testing site will help travelers stay safe and provide an additional service for the greater community.
Dillon said passenger traffic will jump next week for the holiday, but it still falls short of what travel looked like at this time last year.
Public health experts are warning people that getting tested for COVID-19 is still only one part of containing the pandemic. Cardon urged people to take preventive actions like mask wearing, social distancing and hand-washing hygiene.
"They help keep each other safe, they help keep the vulnerable populations safe," he said. "So, we just need to continue to stress that over and over again as people have become fatigued of doing this, but it's an important step as we move forward."
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Nicole Leonard joined Connecticut Public Radio to cover health care after several years of reporting for newspapers. In her native state of New Jersey, she covered medical and behavioral health care, as well as arts and culture, for The Press of Atlantic City. Her work on stories about domestic violence and childhood food insecurity won awards from the New Jersey Press Association.
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Q: Ubuntu server 20.04 LTS can't restart/shutdown the system Recently I assembled a tiny server based on Gigabyte GA-IMB370TN and Intel core i3-t9100.
Then I installed Ubuntu server 20.04 LTS on it. By the time I write it I did $ apt update; apt upgrade and it has 5.8.0-44-generic kernel.
I am unable to reboot or shutdown the system neither with $ reboot / $ halt nor with $ shutdown -r now / $ shutdown now
Then I found the systemd shutdown/reboot debugging guide at https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Debugging/
It says:

If shutdown (whether it be to reboot or power-off) of your system gets stuck, first test if the kernel itself is able to reboot or power-off the machine forcedly using one of these commands:
reboot -f
poweroff -f

If either one of the commands does not work, it's more likely to be a kernel, not systemd bug.

So I did it and failed to reboot or shutdown. Sometimes it just gets stuck, or it may print some kernel trace message related to echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs
When I installed Ubuntu server 18.04.5 LTS with kernel 4.15 and everything works just fine.
Although I have seen many suggestions, neither acpi= nor reboot= kernel options have helped me to solve it.
What am I missing ? By now I'm not going to upgrade to 20.04 until the problem is solved.

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Minister wants to flood land market
Posted in ALL news, Realestate and Home Loans, Uncategorized, tagged "prime earth", affordability, alarm bells, analysis, Anne Arnold, approach, Australians, Bill Marmion, blocks., budget, Canberra, cheapest, chief executive, co-ordinated, Colin Barnett, comprehensive, cut, Darwin, developer, established, expensive in Australia, flood, government, Hobart, home prices, housing, Housing Industry Association, housing lots, Housing Minister, housing supplies, Housing Supply, land, land in Perth, land stocks, Mark McGowan, median house price., nation-leading, negative equity, new, Nigel Satterley, perth, Premier, pressure, property market, Real Estate Institute of WA, ringing . real estate industry, RP Data, sacked, Shadow housing minister, shocked, speech to Parliament, square metre, Sydney, The State Government, Troy Buswell, WA on May 22, 2010| Leave a Comment »
New Housing Minister Bill Marmion has shocked the property market by saying he wants to flood WA with housing lots to cut home prices.
In a speech to Parliament that has set alarm bells ringing throughout the real estate industry, Mr Marmion said the Barnett Government's aim was to "bring house prices down".
"The Department of Land is looking at this issue very closely," he said.
"It owns land and it is looking at its land stocks and will release as much land as possible.
"That will reduce the pressure on housing supplies. Our aim is to bring the median house price down and to have it lower than the median house price in other States."
Mr Marmion, who took over the job last month after Troy Buswell was sacked, said the only thing the Government could do to achieve its aim was "release more land and houses". He refused to elaborate on his comments yesterday.
March quarter figures from RP Data put the median house price in Perth at $480,000, equal to Darwin, but behind Sydney ($500,000) and nation-leading Canberra ($510,800).
Hobart had the cheapest prices in Australia at $323,750.
The State Government established an Office of Land and Housing Supply in Thursday's Budget and is reviewing available government land which Premier Colin Barnett said would "achieve a comprehensive and co-ordinated approach to housing affordability issues".
Shadow housing minister Mark McGowan warned the policy could result in houses being worth less than what people paid for them.
"If people go into negative equity with their house, that's the worst possible outcome," he said.
Real Estate Institute of WA chief executive Anne Arnold said Australians stored their wealth in the family home and it would be "politically unwise for any government to go down that path".
But the plan won support from developer Nigel Satterley, who said land needed to become more affordable.
But he said the policy would not cut the price of existing houses.
"We're on the cusp of a block shortage and whatever the Government can do should be encouraged," Mr Satterley said.
Analysts at RP Data found in April that houses in Perth's cheapest suburbs cost at least $60,000 more than those in the most affordable areas in the other major Australian cities.
Hillman was named the cheapest suburb in Perth, with a median house price of $280,000 – higher than the cheapest suburb in Adelaide ($200,000), Brisbane ($205,000), Melbourne ($218,000) and Sydney ($219,000).
Perth had less than 10 per cent of its 259 suburbs with a median house price under $350,000, compared with more than 20 per cent in all other big cities.
Blocks of land in Perth were the most expensive in Australia, according to a recent analysis by RP Data and the Housing Industry Association, with a single square metre of "prime earth" now costing an average of $521.
Source : www.thewest.com.au
Save to curb inflation, RBA says
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Australians need to save more for the economy to avoid a more rapid run-up in inflation, triggered by nation's rising terms of trade, the Reserve Bank said today.
"In putting together the Reserve Bank's forecasts it has been assumed that more of this boost to income is saved than was the case in the earlier boom in the terms of trade," RBA assistant governor Phillip Lowe.
"This reflects two factors. The first is the different position of the federal budget and the second is the more cautious approach to spending currently being displayed by the household sector."
The federal budget, handed down this week, contained no major increases in public spending and is expected the return to a surplus by 2012-13.
In that time, the RBA forecasts Chinese steel production will continue to drive demand for Australian iron ore and coal strong, boosting the nation's terms of trade.
Terms of trade are the prices of a nation's exports relative to its imports.
"If this lift in saving does not occur, then demand in the economy could well be stronger than forecast, and this would put additional pressure on capacity," he said.
A lack of spare capacity in the economy has pushed the year-to-March inflation figure to 2.9 per cent from 2.5 per cent in the year to December, which surprised the RBA, Mr Lowe said.
"Disinflationary forces in the economy are not quite as strong as previously expected, largely because the economy has performed better than previously expected," Mr Lowe said, in the speech delivered to Colonial First State Investment Forum in Sydney.
The RBA expects inflation to fall only to 2.75 per cent later this year, less than originally anticipated after the release of the March data.
Retail sales have remained lacklustre since the middle of last year, after the end of the government's cash stimulus grants to households during the financial crisis. Six interest rate rises since October have also cut into demand at retailers, with a number of businesses including Fantastic Furniture, Clive Peeters and Woolworth's flagging weaker sales ahead.
The RBA lifted interest rates to 4.5 per cent his month, creating more headwinds for shoppers. The latest rate rise added another $46 to the average monthly repayment cost on a $300,000, 25-year mortgage.
Investors currently foresee no chance of an interest rate rise in June, but predict the official cash rate will be at 5 per cent within a year, according to Credit Suisse data.
The central bank predicts 3.25 per cent economic growth this year accelerating to 3.75-4 per cent growth in the next couple of years, amid rising prices for commodities exports.
Source : www.watoday.com.au
Flights 'cheaper than a carton of beer'
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TRAVELLERS can fly to destinations around Australia for less than the price of carton of beer thanks to cut-price airline Tiger Airways.
As part of its latest discount assault on rivals Qantas, Jetstar and Virgin Blue, Tiger Airways has aggressively cut the cost of some of its airfares.
For a limited time some of Tiger's one-way flights from Sydney to Melbourne cost as little as $25.51, the Gold Coast to Melbourne from $23.33, or Adelaide to Perth costs $22.78, including taxes, The Advertiser reports.
But there is a catch. While there are 30,000 seats available for various destinations, the price is for a one-way flight which must be taken on a Tuesday or a Wednesday between August 4 and March 24.
The discount flights aren't available during the summer school holidays, from December 15 to January 27, or on March 9 and 10.
Tiger Airways says the fares include all fees and taxes, so in essence, it is giving away the seat on the plane.
The fares include up to 7kg of carry-on luggage, but passengers are charged $10 for up to 15kg and $35 for up to 25kg of check-in luggage. The one-way discount fares include Adelaide to Sydney for $28.76 and to Melbourne for $25.14.
"For the price of a couple of movie tickets or a few beers you can travel some of Tiger Airways' most popular routes midweek," Tiger commercial director Steve Burns said.
"While everyone's tightening their belts in the current economic climate, it's nice to know you can still take a short break or get that work-life balance back on track with incredible deals like this."
Comparable airfares from Adelaide to Perth aboard Jetstar during the same period currently cost $79, with Virgin Blue's from $89 and Qantas's from $129.
King William Travel manager Sandra Cosic said people needed to be wary of what they received for a low fare, taking into account extra charges for luggage and other services.
"But there are some great deals out there," she said.
Tiger's 30,000-seat "Just Pay Taxes and Charges" sale is on until midnight tomorrow.
HOW TO PAY FOR YOUR FARE
Don't buy that carton of Platinum Pure Blonde for the weekend. SAVE $37.98.
Instead of heading out for dinner, stay at home and eat in. SAVE $20-$30.
Wait for that new movie to hit the DVD shelves instead of catching it on opening night. SAVE $34.
Give up that manicure. Your nails can wait a little longer. SAVE $40.
Bring instant coffee to work for a week instead of buying two a day. SAVE $35.
Catch public transport to work for a week instead of driving. SAVE $40.
Source : www.news.com.au
Swan slams 'selfish' CBA rate decision
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Treasurer Wayne Swan has taken aim at Australia's biggest home lender, labelling it selfish for lifting its mortgage and business lending rates.
Other banks have refused to rule out following the Commonwealth Bank of Australia's (CBA's) surprise decision to lift its home and business loan rates by 10 basis points to offset higher funding costs.
The opposition said the government's huge debt burden was putting pressure on interest rates, while a prominent market economist said it may force the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to cut the official rate again to counter any impact from CBA's move.
CBA said it took Friday's decision "reluctantly", but at a standard variable mortgage rate of 5.74 per cent, up from 5.64 per cent, it was still the lowest on the market.
The rate hike will add $18 a month to repayments on a $300,000 home loan over 25 years.
The bank said it had absorbed as much of its additional funding costs for as long as it could.
"Unfortunately, we have seen the bank's wholesale funding costs remain high and continue to increase as previous long term funding matures and is replaced with new funding at significantly higher cost," CBA group executive of retail banking services Ross McEwan said in a statement.
Such reasoning drew no sympathy from the treasurer.
There are ups and downs when it comes to those decisions over time, but there are few decisions I can think of that are more selfish than this one," Mr Swan told reporters in Brisbane.
"I think Australians, rightly, will be furious with the Commonwealth Bank."
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd echoed those sentiments during a speech to a business lunch in Brisbane.
"We are all in this together – businesses, workers, government and the Reserve Bank – and today's decision by the Commonwealth Bank runs counter to this nationwide effort," Mr Rudd said.
The other three major banks – ANZ, National Australia Bank and Westpac – said their rates were constantly under review.
NAB said it had no current plans to raise its home loan rate but noted "all Australian banks" had been incurring significantly higher funding costs for some time.
Opposition treasury spokesman Joe Hockey said the government was putting pressure on interest rates by running up a huge debt.
"Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan feigned outrage about this interest rate increase, yet they are directly responsible for it," Mr Hockey told reporters in Sydney.
"This is the beginning. You will end up with higher interest rates directly as a result of the spending binge of the Rudd government and the massive debt they are accruing."
Home buyers may be enjoying the lowest mortgage rates in 41 years, but have already missed out on about 30 to 40 basis points of the RBA's total 425 basis points of official rate cuts, with banks refusing to pass on the cuts in full because of the cost of funding.
For small businesses it has been even worse, being short changed by about 140 basis points.
The CBA's decision comes in a week that saw massive boosts to both consumer and business confidence, as well as data showing sustained growth in home lending – sucked in by low mortgage rates and a more generous first home owners grant.
April mortgage data showed loan demand has grown for seven straight months to a 14-month high, as well as record demand from first home buyers and the strongest interest from investors in nearly two years.
It also showed that the banks have cornered more than 92 per cent of all loans – a 33-year high.
Westpac chief economist Bill Evans said CBA's decision could well be countered by another cut by the RBA.
"If it does have an impact, particularly on confidence in the housing market, which has been the most encouraging source of recovery in the Australian economy, it may bring a rate cut back on the table at the Reserve Bank," Mr Evans told Sky News
Source : www.thedaily.com.au
See through the rebate debate health insurance
Posted in Cost of Living, tagged 30 per cent, Alex Denham, Andrew Lawless, block, Challenger's, change, claim, claiming the rebate, cost, Cost of Living, couples, current levels, cut, deductible, delivers, dropping, earn, extra tax, families, family income, Federal Budget, full premium, fund, government, head, head of technical services, health cover, health fund reduce, health insurance, health insurance rebate, higher, higher-income earners, income exceeds, income., increase, indexed, ineligible, insurance premium, investment, legislation, levels, limits, losses, Malcolm Turnbull, means testing, measure, Medicare levy surcharge, MLC's, monthly, more, net, Opposition leader, pay., paying, pension payments, personal, premiums, private health cover, proposed, rebate, reportable fringe benefits, sacrifice, salary, salary sacrificed to super, savings, singles, strategies, super contributions, tax, tax rebate, taxable income, technical services, threat on June 8, 2009| Leave a Comment »
The strategy : To work out how the changes to the health insurance rebate affect me.
I suppose it means I'll be paying more for my health insurance. That's the gist of it though it will depend on whether Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull delivers on his threat to block the legislation. As you may have picked up from the federal budget, the Government needs to find savings to fund higher pension payments.
One proposed measure is means testing the health insurance rebate, which currently allows you to claim a tax rebate of 30 per cent of the cost of your health insurance if you're aged under 65, 35per cent if you're 65 to 69 and 40 per cent if you're 70 or older.
Most people ask their health fund to reduce their premiums to take account of the rebate rather than paying the full premium and claiming the rebate in their tax return. For someone under 65, a monthly insurance premium of $250 could be reduced to $175. That won't change if you earn up to $75,000 if you're single and $150,000 for families. But if your income is higher, your rebate will be reduced or cut out altogether.
How will that work? Let's look at singles first. If you earn $75,001-$90,000, your rebate will be reduced to 20 per cent. If you earn $90,001-$120,000, the new rebate will be 10 per cent.
Once your income exceeds $120,000 you will be ineligible for the rebate.
For families, the combined income limits are $150,001-$180,000 for the 20per cent rebate, $180,001-$240,000 for the 10 per cent rebate and the rebate will disappear altogether once family income exceeds $240,000.
All income thresholds will be indexed to wages and will be adjusted for families with one child in the same way that thresholds are already adjusted for determining whether you have to pay the Medicare levy surcharge if you don't have private health cover. The threshold is currently lifted by $1500 for each dependent child.
The Government says the definition of your income for the rebate will be the same as for the Medicare levy surcharge. Challenger's head of technical services, Alex Denham, says this definition is changing from July 1 to include your taxable income, reportable fringe benefits, salary sacrificed to super or any personal deductible super contributions made and net investment losses. So higher-income earners won't be able to use strategies such as salary sacrifice to get or increase their rebate.
Would I be better off dropping my health insurance and paying the Medicare levy surcharge? The proposed measures also include a rise in this surcharge precisely to stop this sort of behaviour.
The 1 per cent surcharge will rise to 1.25per cent once income exceeds $90,000 for singles or $180,000 for couples and to 1.5 per cent for incomes exceeding $120,000 or $240,000. That extra tax may cancel out any savings from dropping your health cover.
MLC's head of technical services, Andrew Lawless, says a better option may be to make changes to your policy, such as increasing the excess you pay before claiming on the cover or reducing cover on ancillary benefits. However, to avoid the surcharge you must have hospital cover with an excess of $500 or less for singles or $1000 or less for families or couples per calendar year.
When will the changes come in? Not until July 1 next year, so you have time to check the final details if the measures are passed and weigh up your options.
It's worth noting that the Medicare levy surcharge income limits will be indexed from their current levels of $70,000 for singles and $140,000 for couples to the new $75,000 and $150,000 levels at this time.
It's Barnett the Builder
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Job creation and capital works projects will form the cornerstone of this year's state budget, West Australian Premier Colin Barnett says.
The WA government on Thursday will deliver its first budget since elected last year.
"It will be responsible and I think you will see it supports maintaining jobs and supports the future development of this state," Mr Barnett said on Wednesday.
"And you will see not only that, but a number of measures designed to maintain jobs, particularly in the small- to medium-size business sector."
The government is under pressure to maintain a surplus after Mr Barnett's commitment to deliver surpluses in the next two budgets.
While seeking to maintain the state's AAA credit rating, the government is also facing demands from WA's peak business lobby to deliver on an election promise to cut taxes by $250 million.
Mr Barnett said the state's budget and finances would need some "rejigging" to match a $263 million federal government commitment in Wednesday's federal budget to put the Perth rail line and bus station underground.
"Yes, we will have to have some rejigging of the state budget and finances because we originally sought 50/50 funding just to sink the rail line," Mr Barnett said.
"The commonwealth's taken up the point. It was an issue I discussed with the prime minister in Perth about three weeks ago and I just made the point to him quite informally that if we're going to sink the rail line it would actually be commonsense to sink the bus station too …
"He's obviously taken it on board so we're going to make sure that happens."
The federal government also pledged $339 million for a deepwater port at Oakajee, in the state's midwest, which will boost iron ore exports in the region.
The WA government had already spent about $20 million on Oakajee and private proponents were now spending $100 million on the design of the deepwater port and rail line, he said. Continued…
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Budget 09: Skilled intake cut by 6900 people
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THE federal Government has cut the skilled migration intake by a further 6900 people to help protect local jobs during the economic crisis.
But it will increase the number of people allowed to migrate to Australia for family reunions, the Government said yesterday as part of Budget 2009.
In March, the Government shed 18,500 skilled migration places in response to growing unemployment, which is forecast to hit 8.25 per cent in 2009-10.
The latest cut, the second to be made this year, brings the program down to 108,100 places in 2009-10.
Overall, the Government has slashed previous planning levels by close to 20 per cent.
Immigration Minister Chris Evans said the cuts would not be made to professions on the critical skills shortage list such as IT.
The migration intake in the coming year reflects the economic climate while ensuring employers can gain access to skilled professionals in industries still experiencing skills shortages," Senator Evans said in a statement. The Government will provide more opportunities for family reunions by increasing the family component of the migration program by 3800 places to a total of 60,300 in 2009-10.
"This boost … will benefit Australians who seek to have their parents, partners or children join them to live here permanently," Senator Evans said.
Overall, the migration program will total 168,700 for 2009-10.
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Australia prepares for Budget 09
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TONIGHT'S Federal Budget will be about three things – jobs, nation building and a path back to surplus.
That was the message from Treasurer Wayne Swan this morning as he again repeated the Government's mantra that there would be "difficult decisions" and "no easy answers".
Just hours from delivering a in Budget ravaged by a $200 billion writedown revenue, Mr Swan said he was working in the "most difficult set of circumstances in 75 years".
But he dodged questions about the likely impact on Labor in the polls, saying: "What we have to do is the right thing in the nation's long-term economic interests".
Wealthy retirees emerged as the latest group to pay the price for that stance today.
The Daily Telegraph reported they could have their pensions cut to help fund a $30-a week increase for almost one million single age pensioners.
The Government is expected to tighten the taper rate on the age pension, a method by which it claws back the welfare payment from retirees with an independent income.
It is just one of a number of cutbacks the Government is expected to outline as it tries to rein in an expected almost $60 billion Budget deficit.
The 30 per cent tax rebate for private health insurance coverage will be means tested, payouts for obstetric and IVF services under the Medicare Safety Net will be cut back and the increase in the first-home owners grant will be wound back.
Wealthy Australians will have their tax break on superannuation contributions cut in half and government superannuation co-contributions for low income earners will be slashed from $1500 to $1000 a year.
The "sin taxes" on alcohol and cigarettes could be increased.
But the Budget will announce an 18-week paid maternity leave scheme.
And it is expected to include a big-spending jobs package to combat an expected increase in unemployment to 8.5 per cent as a result of the global financial crisis.
The Opposition said the Budget cutbacks were made necessary by the Government's irresponsible big-spending stimulus packages in response to the global financial crisis.
The $30-a-week rise in the pension will go only to single age pensioners and will see the weekly pension rate rise from $284.90 to $315 a week.
It will answer criticism that the payment left in poverty those who relied solely on the pension.
The rise is also expected to be extended to single veterans and disability pensioners but will not go to single mothers.
The pension rise will cost more than $3 billion, and to help pay for it, the Government is expected to tighten means testing of pensions.
Currently, single pensioners can earn up to $41,000 and still receive a small pension payment.
They also qualify for a range of concessions on medicines, council rates, electricity bills and telephone allowances worth up to $10,000 a year.
Couples can earn up to $68,000 and still get access to these valuable concessions.
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I have been writing and performing music all my life, and at this point, that is a long, long time. I guess it all started with my mom. My first musical memories are listening and crying to scary music she brought home from her job at a local record company. Soon, I was singing himself (and my family) to sleep each night. Later, I took saxophone lessons at school, but had to stop because I couldn't stand the smell of my teacher's breath, or the huge gobs of saliva surged from my lips. When I was ten, I began piano lessons but eventually quit when I got tired of playing John Phillip Sousa marches and 30's ballroom dance tunes. I finally ended up training as a jazz guitarist for several years with a series of teachers. I love to sing, so I started writing songs as soon as I could play a few chords. I've been at it ever since.
When I was 15, I started performing with a four-piece band at weddings and other events. Emboldened by that experience, I took on a tougher crowd, the nuns at my high school. Somehow, I had the hutzpah or just plain ignorance to play Bobby Darin's "If I Was A Carpenter", a thinly veiled attempt to romanticize the life of Jesus, which I realized when I heard these words as they escaped from my lips: "If I were a carpenter and you were a lady, would you marry me anyway, would you have my baby." To my surprise and good fortune, the only reaction I got besides the swooning girls in the front row was a thin smile from Sister Elizabeth. At 16, I began playing my own songs in local "underground" coffee shops. Over the next ten years, I played in several progressive rock, pop and R&B bands, and was even invited to audition for the legendary Bar-Kays after the plane crash that claimed the lives of some of the group.
Over the next couple of decades, my focus switched to raising a family - four boys. However, I continued to write songs and began the slow process of assembling recording equipment. For the next ten years, I struggled with the technology, and eventually discovered that I was trying to do things with the equipment that it was no able to do. Eventually, with time, experience and training with Berklee College of Music and others, I built a commercial recording studio. Not long after it was built, I fell in love with the beauty of Ojai, California and moved myself and all my studio stuff there. Soon, I opened a commercial recording studio with my partners catering to local artists and LA-based movie production companies. I also performed in local venues and later, up and down the West coast. In 2012, I took a cross-country tour in my old RV, performing in Washington, D.C., Cincinnati, several small towns in the Midwest. After nine months on the road, I parked my RV in the Palm Springs, CA area. Since then, I found a great place to live and have been performing at local venues.
In addition to my live performances, I compose music for film and TV productions. To date, my music has appeared in a few cable TV shows including Kourtney and Khloe` (Kardashian) Take Miami, as well as independent films and more than 160 student shorts at colleges around the U.S.
I hope you enjoyed learning more about me. I would love to learn more about you! Please let me know what you think about my music, or anything else. Also, please sign up for my mailing list here so that I can keep you informed of new releases, performances and lots more.


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Nathan Owens American actor Wiki, Bio, Profile, Caste and Family Details revealed
Nathan John Owens is an American actor, model, and producer. Nathan is best known for his portrayal of Cameron Davis on Days of Our Lives and his series regular role as Jesse Morgan on the Lifetime comedic-drama series, Devious Maids.
Nathan Owens's career
Nathan Owens started his career as a Model. He appeared opposite Rihanna in the music video to her song, California King Bed and later, opposite Nicki Minaj in Va Va Voom. In September 2020, Owens joined the cast Batwoman in the recurring role of Ocean. He also starred in Ion Television's television film, The Christmas Sitters.
Unknown Facts About Nathan Owens
He has appeared in several issues of GQ, as well as many commercial and print campaigns for the Gap, Polo, Izod and Sperry.
He also has the distinction of being the second African-American ever to be featured in a fragrance campaign for Polo Ralph Lauren Big Pony.
He was signed by Major Model Management and Wilhelmina Los Angeles.
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Nathan Owens Biography
Name Nathan Owens
Real Name Nathan John Owens
Nickname Nathan
Profession Model, Actor
Date of Birth March 9, 1984
Height 6′ 2″
Weight Yet to be updated
Religion Christian
Hobbies Travelling, Listening Music
Hometown Daly City, California
Current City Los Angeles, United States
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Jayme's Fund for Social Justice (JFSJ) is a 501©3 not-for-profit organization in East Derry, New Hampshire. Since 2002, our mission is to promote programs and initiatives that support the human rights for all children.
We are proud to have strong community roots and a global message to help children become more compassionate, aware and pro-active in creating a better world.
Our work focuses on two key areas:
Inspiring and educating people of all ages on the importance of human rights for children by emphasizing community involvement; and
Encouraging youth awareness, participation and leadership.
We promote our mission with community initiatives and year-round events, education programs and student scholarships, and partnerships with organizations that share our vision.
JFSJ was launched in honor of Jayme Anne Lipkin-Moore. Jayme was a young visionary who turned her creative and intellectual talents toward social causes, particularly those affecting young people.
Jayme's passion, optimism and spirit remain strong and continue to guide us as we aspire for a legacy of hope and opportunity.
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D and I both still have our jobs and these cuts won't affect us too much, although we will miss that Monday morning Burger King breakfast splurge. We've been told that KRS has to make these cuts over a three-year period, so we have one more year of these kinds of tough cuts. Well, there could always be more cuts after that, of course, but we're keeping our fingers crossed. The biggest thing that keeps coming up is whether or not to cut the schools or families here. I've been told that it's been brought up every time there are budget cuts but so far, no one has really taken it seriously, until now. There's nothing final but I've heard through the coconut wire that the suggestion to make either of those cuts went higher up the decision chain than it usually does. We've heard that any major changes like that won't be implemented until closer to 2014, so we've got a little time. We're pretty good at rolling with the punches and we have some back-up plans so don't worry too much about us. I'll let you know when we know!
Of course, I also am very sad to think that we might never get the chance to live there. I must have discovered this island ten years too late!


Charlotte Tipton joined LSA in August 2005. Tipton's current practice areas include: consumer, housing and domestic relations cases (Mobile and Baldwin counties). She has also represented clients before the Alabama Department of Labor and the U.S. Social Security Administration. Tipton has served as Staff Attorney and Lead Attorney for the Mobile office. A graduate of the Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, The University of Texas at Austin and Auburn University, Tipton currently serves as Lead Attorney in the Mobile Office.


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1 Police Officer Shot, 2 Wounded on Paris Street; Gunman Dead
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The streets of Paris were the site of violence Thursday night, when a gunman opened fire on a parked police van on the Champs-Elysees, one of the most well-known avenues in the world. One police officer was killed in the gun battle and two wounded. The gunman was also shot dead.
The French Interior Ministry is conducting a terrorism investigation. "On the face of it, the officers were deliberately targeted," Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet told reporters. No names have been released as of yet, though apparently the suspect was known to harbor anti-police feelings.
The French presidential election is in just three days, and how to handle terrorism at home has been a major issue in the campaign, following a series of attacks across European cities. France has been a target multiple times, most recently last July with the Bastille Day attack in Nice. In November 2015, multiple terrorists set off suicide bombs at various locations in Paris.
The U.S. State Department has urged all Americans in Paris to avoid the Champs-Elysees area:
The area has been evacuated of civilians, with a huge police presence while the investigation continues.
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Playgrounds past their prime are a bummer, not to mention a serious safety hazard for joy-seeking younguns. So when Rotterdam's Kinderparadijs Meidoorn, an artistic activity center for kids, was in need of an upgrade, it became an opportunity to create a new and improved outdoor fun zone that's also a smart lesson in upcycling.
The team from local architecture office 2012Architecten was enlisted because of its "pragmatic approach," says firm representative Karola van Rooyen: Reuse–or "superuse," as they call it–is an essential part of the design strategy. "We see it as a challenge, and also a means to show to a wider audience what to do with the problem of waste materials." The existing space was in bad shape, but there were still salvageable elements. "In order to achieve a workable, budget friendly solution, we made an inventory of what was still useable, like the big slide, stones, and concrete spot in the middle we used for the panna cage," van Rooyen explains.