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. Learn the final truth about the Ring!In this much-awaited conclusion of the Ring trilogy, everything you thought you knew about the story will have to be put side. In Loop, the killer mimics both AIDS and cancer in a deadly new guise. Kaoru Futami, a youth mature beyond his years, must hope to find answers in the deserts of New Mexico and the Loop project, a virtual matrix created by scientists. The fate of more than just his loved ones depends on Kaoru's success.Loop is written as a stand-alone work though it is best enjoyed by fans of Ring and Spiral. The author's own favorite of the trilogy, this astounding finale is an emotionally resonant tale that scales conceptual heights from an angle all its own. Fiction about fiction has rarely been so gripping.
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I ♥… is a British television and compilation album brand by the BBC, which looks back at a specific year in each episode. The programs consist of celebrities and public figures discussing, reminiscing and commenting on the pop culture of the time i.e. films, fads, fashion, television, music etc. that relate to the program's overall topic.
BBC Made 3 series:
- I ♥…the 1970s premiered on 22 July 2000 in the UK, with the final part I ♥ 1979 premiering on 23 September 2000.
- I ♥…the 1980s premiered on 13 January 2001 in the UK, with the final part I ♥ 1989 premiering on 24 March 2001.
- I ♥…the 1990s premiered on 18 August 2001 in the UK, with the final part I ♥ 1999 premiering on 3 November 2001.
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VH1 produced a USA version of the series of this show for American television, beginning in 2002 with I Love the '80s. The programs consist of celebrities discussing American pop culture that relate to the program's overall topic. The series continued with programs focusing on decades, such as I Love the '70s, as well as doing sequels to previously done decades, such as I Love the '80s Strikes Back. 2008 featured the premiere of I Love the New Millennium, the first series to be completed before the end of the decade presented. The series has so far released two programs that were not focused on decades, with I Love Toys and I Love the Holidays. The use of the word "love" instead of the heart symbol was presumably to avoid a trademark dispute with the state of New York, owners of the I♥ trademark in the United States.
On February 20, 2010 VH1 aired six hours worth of the "best of" specials for Best of I Love the… Best of I Love the 70s, 80s and 90s from 1:00 to 7:00 pm. However these episodes only featured clips that were easy to license. Music that had been used in the clips in the previous I Love… series were replaced with generic tracks.
To deliver funny and memorable moments on the spot, the guests gradually switched from famous celebrities to less-known people with comedic backgrounds; this latter group rose in popularity as the shows are centered more on the subjects than the guests.
- I Love the '80s (2002)
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- I Love the '90s: Part Deux (2005)
- I Love the '80s 3-D (2005)
- I Love the Holidays (2005)
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- I Love the '70s: Volume 2 (2006)
- I Love the New Millennium (2008)
- Best of I Love the... (2010)
- I Love the 2000s (2014)[1]
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A number of I ♥… tie in albums were produced and released by EMI/Virgin.
- I ♥ 70s
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- I ♥ Ibiza
- I ♥ 90s
- I ♥ 2 Party
- I ♥ Summer
- I ♥ 2 Party 2003
- I ♥ Christmas

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President Barack Obama on Saturday was expected to start building the case for approval of a free-trade agreement with South Korea that he says would boost US annual exports of automobile, agricultural products and other goods and services by $11 billion.
Obama was due on Saturday to make a public statement on the pact, which has been held up for three years because of US auto and beef industry concerns.
A deal struck with South Korean negotiators on Friday sets the stage for congressional action on the pact in 2011.
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"Last month in Seoul I directed our negotiators to achieve the best deal for American workers and companies and this agreement meets that test," Obama said in a statement on Friday.
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Roy Retires
Sad day for Blazer fans. Our beloved Roy has retired after only 5 years in the league. So crazy that he plays only 5 years and makes 3 all-star teams, with many predicting he could surpass Drexler in many ways for the Blazers. It just unraveled so fast. To me, this is sadder than amnestying him. If we amnestied him and he signed elsewhere, it could have helped the team but we could have remained happy for Roy. Now, it is just a sad situation. I grew excited to see one more season of Roy, but at least he gave us one last memorable moment in versus Dallas. Some of my greatest Blazer memories have been due to Roy even though he was only here 5 years. I thank Brandon for all he did for the city of Portland and basketball fans everywhere. I hope that the team finds a position for him in the future.
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I just heard this on sports radio and was going to report it, but you beat me to it Myth.
Being a life long UW and Trailblazer fan. I've been a long time fan of Brandon. Sad to see that his career ended this way. I felt if he could have a had a full and healthy career, he would have deffinatly made it into the Basketball Hall of fame.
I wish him the best of luck in his future endevours
Hopefully he will stay with basketball in some aspect
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Agreed those 5 years were amazing with all his clutch shots,comebacks,etc I'm going to miss roy and I'm thankful for all he has done for us.He made what Portland is today once again thank you Roy :cry:
It's a sad day to be a blazers fan I heard oden had a setback too and he might not play this season..
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And Aldridge's heart condition came back. He is expected to miss a week or two (which could include the start of the season). With Portland's luck, Aldridge will have a heart attack and die this season.
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Very sad news, I couldn't leave bed for weeks after hearing this. It felt as if I lost a son of my own. Just so incredibly sad, a true hero, legend and mentor was lost. He was a great friend and player. Although it will be sad to not watch this man play the game he loves, I hope he still finds happiness. He is welcomed back to the commentating booth or anywhere else for that matter.
We love you Roy!
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Not a Blazer fan at all, but I just wanted to stop by and say it hurts to see Roy go out this way (IDC about the money, thats not what we are talking about right now, its BASKETBALL). Imagine yourself in his situation just for one second, one day you ARE the future of a franchise, your team is being talked about as a future championship winning team, and you are looked as one of, if not the best young player in the NBA. Boom you get a knee injury and never come back from it. Your last NBA moments you spent on the bench as a backup for Wes Mathews. Really made me sad, I hope he does well in life not only cause of this but because he really seemed like a humble and nice guy all around, hopefully he can one day make a comeback? But I doubt that...
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So I'm cleared to do whatever I want. Good thing because on Friday I helped move a sofa (granted it was an Ikea sofa so it was half as light as a normal sofa) and Saturday I distributed 40 lb bags of dirt in a sad attempt to level out the back yard (so not going to happen).
Sometime approaching my 40th birthday I decided I didn't want to look at my french daybed anymore. I bought it 100 years ago because I thought it was the perfect kids bed. And there it sat waiting for a kid for 100 years. It was too small for a guest bed (it's smaller than a twin believe it or not) and uncomfortable to sit on like a sofa because of the sides so it just gathered cat hair and was one more reminder how I'm not going to be a mommy.
I wanted it gone.
I was going to get a double bed, a respectable guest bed for real live guests. Then we moved next door and all our extra money went to renovating the blue house. The more we were here the more I thought what would be great is to have a pull out sofa. Then we'd still have the space of the room and be able to fold it out for guests.
Then my mom found a perfectly good (well stained and slightly ripped) Ikea sofa being thrown out (oh, rich people). She got it home and since I knew my mom has 3 extra sofas I said to her if you ever want to get rid of this sofa I'll buy it from you. And eventually she agreed. Then there were weeks, endless weeks of trying to organize how to move the sofa over here and move the day bed to her house in an empty bedroom. Finally Friday Brian and I rented a truck and move it ourselves.
It's not a fold out but that's okay. I can see how I like having a sofa in the space and maybe one day we can buy a fold out if that's what we decide is best of for the space. The awesomeness is getting the sad daybed out and something to replace it for FREE!
The daybed is gone. I've been looking at it since I bought it thinking about the kids I would have and the stories I would read them in that bed and now that I'm 40 with 6 years of infertility behind me I don't have to look at it anymore to remind me of the things I don't have.
...Which leads to my segway, because try as you might, somethings can not be escaped...
Yesterday we drove to visit a couple of my husband's college buddies vacationing about an hour away. This is the scenario that I still have the hardest problem with. The guys separate to talk about sports and the girls sit together and talk about their kids. I don't have kids so what do I possible have to contribute to the conversation? I was literally sitting on this beautiful perfect beach between the guys and the girls completely by myself. Completely by myself. It's the weirdest feeling.
I try to remind myself that it's like this for a reason that I'm supposed to feel like this and that I'm going to be okay and though I'm missing out on babies, my life is still going to be great and wonderful and just because I feel moments of intense sadness because I'm not a mom and therefore basically APART, I've felt this way most of my life, I can handle this. I think I just always thought one day I would feel normal and part of the normalcy of life, but just because I never will doesn't mean everything is terrible. I'm going to be okay. I wasn't even jealous of not having kids. I just wanted to be a part of it, part of the group, part of something bigger than myself. If I had kids I could talk about my kids, I could say mommy things like gotta go potty. We could gab forever the sweet anecdotes about our kids because what else would we talk about? That's all moms do, right?
Eventually Brian noticed me, honestly I was surprised it took him so long, and we walked down to the ocean by ourselves and I watched him jump in the ice cold water. When we got back I stood with him and the guys and eventually every one moved to the heated pool and then back up to the suite for dinner.
At one point I was sitting with Brian's friend's mom and we were talking and I was thinking to myself yes, maybe older women is the way to go to have things to talk about. Older women go to movies and travel and have pets and garden, this is perfect.
Conversation got quiet for a moment and then she said, "My granddaughter is a dancer."


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A proper oddity, this one, and one that I'll struggle to describe. It's a sex comedy, ok, but what kind? I'm not really sure, and it's utterly unlike anything I've ever watched before.
The set up is that Marc (Gilbert Melki) and Beatrix (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) take their children to a seaside cottage where Marc grew up. Their daughter immediately rides off with her biker boyfriend to Portugal, leaving son Charly and his gay friend Martin their only companions. Martin is infatuated with Charly, whose parents think they're lovers though Charly is hetero and the two kids are only letting the adults think they are both gay as a joke.
Beatrix also has a lover, who turns up to continue their affair, with Marc somewhat negligent and seemingly uninterested in his wife sexually, though it's clear they both love one another.
The plot is not too far-fetched and the characters behave, largely, realistically (though there are a couple of odd musical numbers which sit strangely in what is already a pretty odd film). Beatrix's lover seems, to me, slightly unpleasant and this detracts from her character, who is clearly meant to be sympathetic, having taken a lover due to spousal neglect, but his lack of either charisma or morals makes the affair more seedy than it need be, although there is more seediness in store.
The film and its characters get more interesting as it progresses, with some revelations and twists that reveal more about the characters and their situation without really resolving the flaws in them or, ultimately, the film.
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Under shade of a thatched-roofed schoolhouse, a young Ugandan girl stood among her classmates and addressed the group of newly arrived mzungo (white) women. "What do you herd?" she asked us in English. Our frozen smiles tried to betray our confusion. The translator clarified: "She wants to know what animals you keep," he said.
I didn't think I herded anything other than my children, who seemed at that moment even farther away than the thousands of miles of desert and ocean that separated them from this open-air African schoolhouse. In fact, Uganda is far enough from Connecticut that you have to tilt and twirl a globe in order trace a line between the two. A landlocked country crossed by the equator, Uganda lies between the two East African Great Rift Valleys and is roughly the same size as Great Britain.
One of my fellow mzungos stood: "I have a horse," she said. The child shrugged her shoulders. The translator intervened; the child responded quickly. "She wants to know," said the translator, 'what is a horse?'" The mzungo woman was quick with a reasonable clarification. "It's like a zebra," she said, "but without the stripes."
The barefooted girl from the small village in the remote district of Nakasongola in the middle of Uganda, asked the translator a reasonable question in response: "What's a zebra?"
I stood among these children, parents, teachers, New York-based donors and volunteers and my then colleagues from Save the Children, slightly woozy from the midday African sun. I was overwhelmed by the aroma of melting layers of cow dung coating the dirt floor to keep the dust at bay, but I realized my perceptions of Africa had been shaped as much by The Lion King as they had by Isaak Dinesen or National Geographic Magazine.
I was almost delirious with fatigue after having flown more than 27 hours from New York to London and then Kampala. Soon after arriving, my group and I loaded onto an old Land Cruiser and headed, on a crowded two-lane road with no markings, lights or discernable traffic rules, toward Nakasongola District to visit Save the Children's education programs there.
I already had been duly vaccinated, sun-blocked, hydrated and DEET-ed. I donned micromesh breathable clothing, all-weather shoes and Cipro pills in case of a bacterial emergency. As overcautious as any sheltered individual could be and protecting myself from everything I didn't know and was afraid of as a result, I would have thrown in a Hazmat suit for good measure if it had been available in a handy travel size.
Pastoralists (keepers of cattle) fill the communities of the sprawling Nakasongola District, where there are few traditional primary schools. Bonita, one of the Uganda-based staff members accompanying us, was among those who had helped implement education programs there in the late 90's, when she and her colleagues ventured with maps and word-of-mouth directions and drove into the bush to seek out parents and village leaders who wanted to help Save the Children bring schools to their communities. In Nakasongola District, families' incomes are centered on their livestock and they travel seasonally with herds to follow food and water sources. Children are vital components of sustaining a family's income and have critical and lengthy chores to accomplish daily. Regardless of their long hours they are exuberant about attending school and hungry for knowledge. Using sticks as calculators and dirt floor as workbooks, their joy in learning is palpable as it is unforgettable.
At each community we visited, Bonita was greeted with great reverence by children, teachers and parents. She waved off the praise with a dismissive hand and continued the business of overseeing her schoolchildren.
Travel to and from the programs was slow. Bonita pointed to an opening in the dense forest surrounding the main road and told the driver to turn. We traversed the muddy, hole-ridden dirt road, stopping occasionally for herds of long-horned cattle to amble past us. Navigating through the dense woods, the lead caravan driver took a wrong turn onto one of the smaller roads that interwove the dirt one on which we thumped along. The drivers conferred then pointed in opposite directions at the same time; the sun was setting and the malaria-rich mosquitoes were poised, I was certain, to feed on me at dusk. I became agitated at the thought of being hopelessly lost.
But Bonita continued to thumb through her local newspaper whose headlines of violence in the north of the country were interspersed with American tabloid phrases such as "Britney's romance gone sour." From the front seat she turned and calmly told us not to worry. "We get lost all the time out here especially during the rainy season when the roads wash away," she said, then continued her reading. I wanted to be like Bonita: unprotected by oral prophylactics and bug repellant. She was an intrepid and unassuming hero.
The world of the young schoolgirl from Uganda was a few square miles of countryside where her parents grazed cattle and where she was learning to read and write. That she did not know what a zebra is should not have surprised me; that we assumed she must know what is a zebra is because she lives in Africa was more disturbing. I'd arrived in Uganda shielded from its world by the conveniences of my own, making large assumptions that were based on a small amount of knowledge. I realized that just because I was able to cross the world I was no wiser than anyone who hadn't ventured farther than her own village.
Besides, the only zebra I'd ever seen was in the Bronx Zoo, which was in the village right next to the one in which I'd grown up.
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Some dismiss fashion as being only skin-deep, as superficial and irrelevant, a fantasy at best, exploitative and anti-feminist at worst. And there are aspects of this that are absolutely true.
But it is also true that fashion can change attitudes, it can help us reflect and it empowers us to be our true selves and try and be a positive influence on the lives of others.
Clothes, in a small way, inspire us be anything we want
Amy Poehler put it so concisely when she gave a two sentence explanation of a common female dilemma in a 2014 interview - to feel like you have to be many things at the same time - hardworking, but fun; feminine, but a tomboy; ambitious, but likeable; confident, but not bossy; make an effort with your appearance, but make it look effortless.
Her short, sharp comment on this really resonated with me, and find it an important point, particularly for how we bring up girls.
But I experience fashion as an enjoyable, visual tool to be all the different, contradictory things I in fact want to be. I might want to look like a boss one day, and dress in structured fabrics and clean cuts. I might want to feel super feminine for date night. Or I might want to make a statement and attract attention by wearing bold colours or big prints. I don't envy the guys, for whom it's essentially suits at work, suits for occasions and essentially dressed down versions of the same suits at most other times. Not exactly fun.
Clothes tell stories of the women who came before us
Collectively we seem to have fallen out of love with the longevity of great clothing. But keeping something for a really long time can be such a treasure, provided it's looked after well. I still own a handbag that my mother, who passed away long ago, owned and loved in the seventies. It makes me reflect on the ways in which her life as a young woman must have been different from mine, and in which ways quite similar. And if I do finally fork out on that breathtakingly expensive handbag that I've had my eye on for ages, I'll do so with the hope to pass it on to my daughter one day.
But this does require that we take a fresh look at how we value quality. It's perfectly fine to enjoy a few on-trend pieces that you won't love forever. But what I personally have no time for anymore is poor quality, which can sometimes be shockingly unrelated to how much you've 'invested' in a garment. Poor quality clothes are poor value because they fade, bobble and lose shape, so it's good to make a habit of considering price alongside likely longevity.
Clothes are made by women
Most seriously, fashion matters to feminism, because women account for the vast majority of workers in the fashion supply chain. It's a tricky subject as the garment industry can make a valid claim that it has brought comparatively high quality jobs to some of the poorest places, where those types of jobs are otherwise rare.
But it's also unequivocally true that garment workers are underpaid given the purchasing power of the end customer, that conditions are tough, that workers are often harassed, mistreated or indeed in danger.
So whatever your shopping habits, your personal relationship with fashion, and whether you shop at Asos or Net a Porter, it means a great deal to engage with and ask questions about the supply chain practices of your favourite brands to keep up the pressure on them to continue to increase transparency and improve workers' conditions. While much remains to be done, it all starts with us, the consumer looking behind the pretty branding.
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We work predominantly with women. Be it industry experts with vast experience, teams of young, impressive entrepreneurs with boundless energy, solo founders building incredible brands, or writers who passionately tell the story of what a better fashion industry can and must look like. And these women inspire us to keep aiming high every single day.
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Thursday's top stories and stocks with potential to move.
They say that the years seem to go by faster when you get older. I think that may be true. Only a week left till Christmas? It seems like we just celebrated it a couple of months ago.
Anyway, Asian stocks moved slightly higher overnight, with the Hang Seng and the Nikkei both up under 1%. Europe was a bit of a mixed bag early this morning. And here in the US, we're currently trading higher.
Here's what's piquing my interest today:
Take-Two (TTWO)
Yesterday after the bell, the software game publisher offered up its fourth-quarter numbers.
Excluding items, it earned $0.02 per share. Only trouble is, the Street was at a nickel.
And although its revenue number increased more than 10% over the comparable period last year, it still fell shy of expectations.
But the real kicker was the guidance: TTWO's looking for a $0.70 to $0.85 per share loss (non-GAAP). Analysts are reportedly at $0.22. For the full year, it's looking for between zero and $0.20 (non-GAAP) - a country mile below the $1.26 per share I'm seeing.
I'm not bottom-fishing on such disappointing news. In the days ahead, the shares could be under some, shall we say, pressure?
Pier One (PIR)
The Texas-based retailer disseminated its third-quarter numbers this morning.
Two words: Red ink. Pier One posted a $0.34 per share loss, as compared with the $0.22 per share analysts were expecting.
In any case, certainly not numbers to write home about.
I think the news about its NYSE listing is particularly important. As per CEO Alex Smith:
"As you know, our stock price has fallen to a level where we are below the continued listing standard for the NYSE. We have been and will continue to proactively work with the NYSE to maintain our NYSE listing... The Board is cognizant of the need in these difficult times to maintain optimal liquidity."
Frankly, I'd like to hear more about what it's going to do. Whatever the deal is, I have no intention of jumping in at this point. Frankly, even though retailers of virtually all stripes are struggling these days, I think there are better opportunities out there. Again, I'll pass - even at under $1.
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May 30, 2014
JASON VAN BRUMWELL, Petitioner-Relator,v.Jeff PREMO, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary Defendant-Adverse Party
Argued and submitted November 8, 2013.
CC 12C11135. Original proceeding in mandamus.[*]
Jesse Merrithew, Levi Merrithew Horst LLP, Portland, argued the cause and filed the brief for relator. With him on the brief were Michael Curtis and Kathleen Correll.
Timothy A. Sylwester, Assistant Attorney General, Salem, argued the cause and filed the brief for adverse party. With him on the brief were Ellen F. Rosenblum, Attorney General, and Anna M. Joyce, Solicitor General.
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This is the second of two cases that this court decides today regarding the interpretation and application of OEC 503(4)(c), the breach-of-duty exception to the lawyer-client privilege, OEC 503(2). In Longo v. Premo, 355 Or. 525, 326 P.3d 1152 (2014), we construed OEC 503(4)(c) to be a limited exception permitting disclosures of confidential information only as necessary for a lawyer to defend against allegations of breach of duty, and we directed the issuance of a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring a post-conviction court to issue a protective order. For the reasons that follow, we similarly grant mandamus relief to petitioner in this case.
In this original proceeding, relator (petitioner), who is the petitioner in the underlying post-conviction case, seeks a writ of mandamus to compel the Marion County Circuit Court judge presiding over the case (the post-conviction court) to issue a protective order with respect to documents and communications subject to the lawyer-client privilege. Petitioner's motion for a proposed protective order sought to prevent adverse party (the state), who is the superintendent of the Oregon State Penitentiary and the defendant in the underlying post-conviction case, from disclosing such information to third parties unrelated to the post-conviction case.
Petitioner was convicted in Marion County Circuit Court of two counts of aggravated murder and was sentenced to death. This court affirmed his judgment of conviction and capital sentence on direct review in State v. Brumwell, 350 Or. 93, 249 P.3d 965 (2011), cert den,
__ U.S. __, 132 S.Ct. 1028, 181 L.Ed.2d 757 (2012). Petitioner subsequently filed a petition for post-conviction relief,[1] asserting that his court-appointed counsel in his criminal trial had provided ineffective assistance in violation of his constitutional
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Last week, Cisco Australia hosted a roundtable of experts to explore the learnings from "The Connected World" – a global report which involved surveys of 2,600 workers in 13 countries – as it applied to Australia.
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people are in Generation X, ages 28 to 39. Current Population Survey (CPS)
less people in Gen X than in the Baby Boom, and Gen X is 32 percent smaller than Generation Y or the Echo Boom generation. (CPS)
of Gen Xers are married. U.S. Census Bureau (USCB)
of Gen X is in a minority group. (USCB)
of Gen X will be Hispanic in 2005, the largest of any minority group. Blacks will be the second largest group, accounting for 12.9 percent of Gen X's population. The U.S. Market for Young Adults: Generation X Grows Up, published by Packaged Facts (PF)
29.7 million
members of Gen X are parents. (CPS)
the average individual income of a person in Gen X in 2002. (USCB)
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the buying power of Gen X as a whole. Calculation from USCB and Packaged Facts data
$13 billion
The net worth of 39-year-old Michael Dell, founder of Dell Computer, college dropout and highest ranked member of Gen X on Forbes list of World's Richest People. Forbes.com
of people in Generation X are employed full or part-time. (PF)
of Gen Xers invest in stocks or stock options. Scarborough Research (SR)
of Gen Xers used the services of an investment planner last year. (SR)
of Gen X's parents are Baby Boomers, and the other 1/3 are in the War Baby generation and were born between 1940 and 1945. James Chung of Reach Advisors (RA)
of men in Gen X have never been married, 16 percent of women in Gen X have never been married, and 8 percent off all Gen Xers are divorced. (USCB)
of children under 18 living at home are in households headed by someone from Gen X. (RA)
of Gen Xers' mothers had a full-time job outside of the home when they were growing up. (RA)
of Gen Xers have earned some form of college degree. (USCB)
on average, the percentage more that a Gen X consumer spent on food than the typical American consumer in 2002. Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX)
of Gen X is obese. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
of Gen X belongs to a church, temple or synagogue. Simmons Market Research Bureau (SMRB)
of Gen X male internet users visited a XXX Adult website during February 2004. ComScore Media Metrix
is the average amount more that a Gen X consumer spends on entertainment compared with the typical American consumer. (CEX)


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Welcome back and thank you for taking a look at my 7th monthly installment of our family's meal planning. As many of you continue to share your stories about how following my monthly meal planner saved your family money somehow and helped to keep a fresh variety of meals flowing through your household it still makes me happy to know I can help at least one other family out. Those of you sharing your thoughts are still warming my heart! I am so glad that this series continues to make your lives easier and helps to keep your pocket books a little heavier each month.
Note: This meal planner includes all of our family's monthly menus for the next 4 weeks. We typically spend $300-$350 (not including sundry items) for one month of food for our family of four plus four dogs. Since we live very rural, if I do not continue to plan well in advance our family can end up spending more on the gasoline for our trip than we do for the food that we are actually there to purchase, especially with gas prices seemingly rising all the time around us. When we do our shopping once a month it is a big haul, but we do pick up fresh fruits, vegetables and milk every 2 weeks with some money that is part of the monthly budget.
This month I added a lot of new breakfast, lunch, snack, and dinner recipes, but still no multi-meal recipes, unless you count left overs. The weather is getting nicer everyday here, so I am starting to add back in Beck and Elizabeth's favorite lunches, fruit smoothies! I would also like to note that I have added a new shopping list to accompany the CostCo list. This is a new form that I have Beck and Elizabeth helping my husband and I use. I will be using it to have the children help me plan out what ingredients I needed for each month's recipes. I printed one copy for them to mark up while we all went the through the month's recipes. Then, we went through our pantry and refrigerator to weed out the ingredients we already had. Once that was done, I printed a new form and compiled my shopping lists. I found this was a great math lesson as the children added up cups, quarts, tablespoons, teaspoons, and sticks of all sorts of kitchen weights and measurements. I hope that this lesson and process can help you as well to make your shopping list creation educational and fun if you are participating along with us. Also, I know that each month ingredients will change and as the recipes do, so I will continue to update the lists to include the items that we continually use and leave blanks lines for extra goodies too!
I am happy to continue to share previous month's meal planners. I keep all the recipes, planners, and lessons on my blog, so please make sure to check out my Meal Planning Page for more tips and recipes for when it comes to monthly shopping from month's past!
In this month's free printable you will find my monthly meal planners complete with links, some of our family recipes that I compiled, a blank Costco shopping list, blank family shopping list, shopping lesson worksheets for educational purposes and so on! Hopefully this will help make your planning a little easier, more fun or at the very least, give you some new recipes. I will share my monthly meal planners with you each month as I create them for our family. Enjoy!
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Depending on your genetics and your structure, you may be blessed with massive quads but puny pecs. It makes sense to begin your weekly split routine cycle with your pecs. In other words, if your routine begins on a Monday after a Sunday rest, start with pecs and end the week with legs. Prioritize your weakest body parts first and your strongest last. That way, you'll be able to devote more energy and focus to bring up lagging body parts.
Your body's largest muscles include your legs, back and chest. When it comes to splitting, these body parts should be trained before you hit your smaller body parts such as your shoulders, biceps, and triceps. These smaller muscles function as support muscles for your basic lifts such as the bench press, squat, military press and so on. Tire these muscles out and you won't be able to grow your pecs, quads or lats effectively. For example, if you're working your back and your biceps, be sure to do your rows before your curls.
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Split routines can vary tremendously. Two of the more popular methods include the "push/pull" split and the "upper/lower" split. With the push/pull method, you divide your weekly routine into exercises that require you to "pull" and those which "push." For example, seated cable rows are a pull-type exercise. Push-type exercises include bench presses and seated presses. If you want to keep things simpler, you might consider an upper/lower routine. Train your upper body one day and your lower body another day. Whatever method you choose, stick to it for 8 weeks and see what kind of results you get before switching to another method.
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Day 4: Quads, hams, calves, abs
Day 5: Chest, back, triceps, shoulders, biceps
Day 6: Rest
Day 7: Repeat
3-Day Push/Pull Routine
Day 1: Back, biceps, abs
Day 2: Hams, quads, calves
Day 3: Chest, shoulders, triceps
Day 4: Rest
Day 5: Back, biceps, abs
Day 6: Hams, quads, calves
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China's work safety record is among the most dismal in the world, with Chinese officials reporting more than 130,000 work-related deaths each year. Scores of international experts are in Beijing for a conference to look for ways of improving worker safety.
International experts say the actual number of people dying in work-related accidents in China may be higher than the official figures indicate. They point out that information is still hard to obtain because the Chinese government considers statistics on industrial accidents a state secret.
In remarks at the conference in Beijing this week, International Labor Organization officials said many developing countries are experiencing an increase in occupational accidents and diseases as a result of rapid industrialization.
China, with its booming economy, is no exception. The government says that of the more than 130,000 reported work-related deaths, 15,000 occurred in mines and factories.
Robin Munro is a spokesman for the China Labor Bulletin, a Hong Kong organization that monitors workers' conditions in China. He says the central Chinese government has expressed a will to confront the issue of mine safety, but he says enforcement is a major problem at the provincial level, where officials sometimes reopen mines where accidents have occurred before safety issues have been addressed.
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Another beautiful day here in Las Vegas bringing you the best of CES, with the OCC team arriving at the convention center in limo driven style. Today we took a look at the manufacturers showcasing at the Sands Convention Center, the Venetian Hotel, and the Las Vegas Convention Center. There were some really big names here for us including the likes of CoolIT, Zotac, Super Talent, Crucial and more. As always we will be bringing to you today the best products available for you, so sit back and enjoy the day one coverage of the 2009 International Consumer Electronics show.
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Another well known company, and one we have reviewed products for is Zotac. Zotac has been showing strong in their graphics cards and not surprisingly they are again aiming for the top with the latest offering from NVIDIA including the GTX 295 and the GTX 285. You can see the sheer size of the GTX 295 card which makes calling it a beast an under statement. Another very nice product they had on display is a Mini-ITX motherboard based on the GeForce 9300 series chipset. This is a Socket 775 board that offers HD video playback, integrated wireless LAN, and more. This board is targeted for those wanting a nice HTPC with minimal hardware involved.
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If you only see one petrified middle finger in your life…
- By Faith Tucker
- July 28, 2010
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To be honest, I've never really understood why people go to crazy lengths to get the autographs of celebrities. It's just their name in squiggly, illegible handwriting, after all – not worth hours waiting in line, if you ask me. But you know what would be an exciting way to interact with famous people, especially those long since deceased? Go check out their petrified middle finger! Ok, maybe that isn't the most widely available option, but you Galileo fans out there are in luck. Make your way to Florence, Italy, and you will find nothing short of a Galileo Disneyland, including his tomb, an entire museum devoted to him and, you guessed it, his middle finger!
Galileo's middle finger preserved and on display
Photo Credit: Instituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza and NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
Perched along the Arno River and just around the corner from the magnificent Uffizi Gallery is the Museo Galileo: Instituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza (Galileo Museum: Institute and Museum of the History of Science). The museum houses the only remaining instruments designed and built by Galileo himself and the extensive collections of the Medici family and the House of Lorraine, the two dynasties that once ruled Florence, which represent the scientific landscape from which Galileo emerged and his ensuing effect on modern science, respectively.
St. Croce Basilica
Photo Credit: Amanda Westwood
The St. Croce Basilica stands out from a bird's eye view of Florence
Photo Credit: Shannon Hall
According to its website, the museum may "display more than 1,000 instruments and devises of major scientific importance and exceptional beauty," but let's be serious, you're going to make a beeline straight to the disembodied finger. The somewhat shriveled, spindly finger contrasts oddly with its ornate Easter egg-like pedestal, making the whole scene that much more surreal. As exciting as it may be to see the finger that adjusted that legendary objective lens to bring into focus so many wonders of our solar system for the very first time, you can't deny that it's just a little bit odd.
Galileo died in 1642, but the middle finder of his right hand remaining intact until 1737 when his body was relocated to its current resting place in the Basilica St. Croce by the last of the Medici Grand Dukes. His new tomb, which is conveniently located within walking distance of the Museo Galileo, boasts an impressive and extravagant mausoleum and shares the space with the tomb of Michelanglo.
Galileo's tomb in the St. Croce Basilica
Photo Credit: Shannon Hall
Contrary to public belief, Galileo neither invented the telescope nor was he excommunicated by the Catholic Church because of what he saw through it, but his life was certainly exciting and makes for a fascinating study in the philosophy of science and the intersection of science and religion.
In 1609, Galileo heard of a Dutch lensmaker named Hans Lippershey who had developed an instrument that could magnify distant objects up to 3 times with two lenses. He immediately began experimenting with lenses and within months had improved the magnification to 20 times. With his new instrument, dubbed a telescope, Galileo observed for the first time the rocky, mountainous surface of the moon, sunspots on the sun's surface, the phases of Venus and four of Jupiter's moons, among other things. All of these discoveries contributed to and solidified Galileo's suspicions that the Aristotilean understanding of the universe was not as accurate as the scientific world had long believed and that Copernicus and his heliocentric theory may not be so far off base after all.
However, Galileo's new evidence did not mesh well with the Catholic Church's interpretation of scripture at the time and so prompted prolonged discussion and disagreement between the two parties. Galileo wrote many books and pamphlets to defend Copernicanism, one of which was a treatise on what he thought the relationship between religion and science ought to be, written as an open letter entitled Letter to The Grand Duchess Christina.
Many rather conflicting accounts exist as to how this disagreement between Galileo and the Catholic Church actually played out. After reading a variety of different accounts, it seems to me that the Catholic Church in general was not particularly concerned with the scientific community's views of the universe and was more than happy to accept Copernicanism as a valid theory. But Galileo was determined to press the issue, thereby putting the Church in the difficult position of either wholeheartedly supporting an as yet unproven theory that conflicted with their interpretation of scripture or declaring it heretical. In the end, Galileo pushed so hard that he was called to the Inquisition where he was given a firm slap on the wrist for meddling in theology as a layman and was put under house arrest for the rest of his life in Florence's countryside.
The inscription on Galileo's tomb
Photo Credit: Shannon Hall
Regardless of the cultural context in which his work appeared, Galileo's life and work have certainly had an enormous effect on our knowledge of the universe, how we physically view the universe and how our understanding of the universe informs other aspects of our lives. And what have we done in honor of his foundational work? We have immortalized his finger. Perhaps it's a bit odd, but no one ever said astronomers were exactly normal…
I'll leave you with a quote of Galileo's in which he urges the scientific world to transition from seeing science simply as philosophy to seeing it as a mathematical and physical description of the world, as well as the link to a Swiss cartoonist who has represented Galileo's life (and many other famous scientists' lives) like no one else ever has:
"Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it."
~ Il saggiatore (The Assayer), published in 1623
And don't forget, if you only see one petrified middle finger in your life, make sure it's Galileo's!
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Wonderful writing, Faith, as always! Your blogging voice is spot-on. Keep it up.


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