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Everybody [Beth] wants to go to Japan. Everybody [Beth and Linda] just hold hands [from Jan 5-20, 2010].
My kind of superhero- TIM GUNN
Welcome back Project Runway (but WTF in LA?!).
He really looks that BA in person.
This is all I can think about now. September 8 (the beginning of my graduate career) is going to be here awfully soon.
Rather than increase government spending and control, we need to address the root causes of poor health. This begins with the realization that every American adult is responsible for his or her own health.
Unfortunately many of our health-care problems are self-inflicted: two-thirds of Americans are now overweight and one-third are obese. Most of the diseases that kill us and account for about 70% of all health-care spending—heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes and obesity—are mostly preventable through proper diet, exercise, not smoking, minimal alcohol consumption and other healthy lifestyle choices.
Recent scientific and medical evidence shows that a diet consisting of foods that are plant-based, nutrient dense and low-fat will help prevent and often reverse most degenerative diseases that kill us and are expensive to treat. We should be able to live largely disease-free lives until we are well into our 90s and even past 100 years of age.
Health-care reform is very important. Whatever reforms are enacted it is essential that they be financially responsible, and that we have the freedom to choose doctors and the health-care services that best suit our own unique set of lifestyle choices. We are all responsible for our own lives and our own health.
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John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods |
Republicans have one idea to deal with the recession. No nationalized health care. We have like a 10 percent unemployment rate. We need the turnover! Problem solved.
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| — | Marc Maron, comedian |
Why jezeb3th?
After my dad’s wedding, my remaining family members gathered to play cards and drink the weekend away (typical Bainbridge behavior).
A few hands and a bottle of wine in, we start to talk about the tendency towards alliteration in both my family and Juli’s (my dad’s new wife) sister’s family. (Beth and Blair-and now Ben-and 3 J’s in the other family. I’d list them but I honestly don’t remember their names.) In order to fit in with the J’s, when Ben visits his cousins, they gave him a “J” name: Jamin (pronounced “jammin’,” from Benjamin).
My uncle Dave, who had been playing babysitter to his two young daughters (and intoxicated adult Bainbridges) the whole weekend, managed to put a few back and offer valuable insight. He declared that Blair and I needed “J” names to fit in with our new “family.”
“I think Beth should be Jezebel.” Ensuing laughter. ”No, I think it should be more personal, it should come from your name: how about Jezebeth?!”
When the shoe fits…
