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The findings released today from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index show that women ages 45 to 64 have the lowest well-being of any age group or gender.

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Assisted living facilities have been around in varying forms for decades. The average age in the United States continues to rise, making the need for newer, different, and better facilities more dramatic than ever. However, one company saw this need far before it became so apparent: NHC, which stands for National HealthCare Corporation, had its 40th anniversary this past week on July 23.

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I love my new iPhone (I’m writing this on it, using a wordpress iPhone app). Mostly my forty-eight-year-old eyes are doing just fine with the size of type on this device. But the inevitability of the inevitable cannot be discounted.

I found the below list via a Facebook friend’s post. I did little digging to find the referenced BBC article and it turns out this is a false meme that’s been circulating around for well over a year now. The BBC did report on something it called The Big Read, however, which was (a different) list of the most popular 100 books culled from a reader response poll asking BBC readers to list their own top 10 books.

There is more about this and links to others blogging about the meme here:

http://kriswager.blogspot.com/2009/02/bbc-100-book-meme-or-is-it.html

The BBC published this list of books, saying that most people have not read more than six of them. I wonder if we discount the people who don’t read books what the percentage might be? I think if more people read more books this would be a better world. I took a day off from work yesterday and while I was eating lunch I turned on the TV and watched an episode of Divorce Court. I think the people on that show (and probably the people watching it) contribute to the BBC’s low estimate of a well-read public.

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë

4 Harry Potter series – J. K. Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch – George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald

24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis

34 Emma – Jane Austen

35 Persuasion – Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne

41 Animal Farm – George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving

45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding

50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel

52 Dune – Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

72 Dracula – Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses – James Joyce

76 The Inferno – Dante

77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal – Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession – AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

94 Watership Down – Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Author Richard Paul Evans’ Facebook status update on Sept. 23: ‘On Monday I shook the hand of President Thomas S. Monson [LDS Church]. He looked at me and said, “You have nice wavy hair.” I said, “Thank you.” He said as he walked away, “It’s good to have hair.”‘

u’ll know in the movie, the bald man with the knives!! Goddddd he’s hot

and if you ever went bald you’d recall it because i’d cleverly call it, “rugs from me to you”

I’m 5’11 Bitch iSEE that Damn BALD SPOT!!!

Ever seen an Bird’s Nest before? Just look at anybody with an bald spot and behold! xD

when babies hav tht bald spot in the back of they head.« Idk y but tht IRKS my nerve!

You will never see a man holding hands with a woman that has a bald spot and a pot belly…

Got stung twice by wasps doing ministry work today. Once in the shin and once on the top of the head. I think he aimed for the bald spot.

Do i see Mr. C at the john mayer concert? He has such a distinctive bald spot, it’s got to be him.

Can’t do a thing with my bald spot today, maybe I should get hair extensions for a great comb-over…LOL

Trying to put my “#Expendables”-fueled testosterone high to good use by growing a Stallone-goatee and a Statham premature bald spot.

So you have a bald spot and you thought it was fine to grow your hair out and just braid over the gap? Ok ok ok ok ok.

Of course, now I wonder if “beautiful hair” is code for “you have a bald spot.” I don’t take compliments well. ;p

OMGaga Where are the gay men?! This middle aged lesbian is SO out of place! Lmao The only women my age are here w/their daughters. =|

As I stare down the barrel of middle age Deepak Chopra comforts me.

I never know what to dress if I go out with other middle age Dutch woman, (not generalizing) cant go to sexy or formal, not fitting in

Sylvester Stallone bans daughters from dating until middle age

Even the middle age woman know when preseason starts in san d

Hanging onto your youth or groovy middle-age?

The heavily made up middle age woman next to me smells like stale cigarettes and a wasted youth.

no cute, there like hoochie mama middle age white women shoes haha

Learned how to use the locks on toilet/shower cubicle door at 5. How can some people reach middle age and still not get it?

word like middle age folks going through mid life crisis and try to stay young

I know but instead of the common young ppl, it could be those of middle age peeps.

Too many to list. One at the moment would be middle age people with the mentality of a 16 year old. #thingsthatbotherme

??? Bumper sticker on a car driven by a big, middle age bald guy. http://twitpic.com/2b5ev1

Middle age is the time of life between youth and old age, usually thought of as being between forty and sixty. Various attempts have been made to define this age, which is around the third quarter of the average life span of human beings.

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