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Opening remarks by John Hendra at the Asia-Pacific Regional Preparatory Meeting for CSW58
Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Good morning. I am very pleased to be here this morning to speak on behalf of UN Women. I would like to express my warm appreciation to Nanda Krairiksh, Director, Social Development Division and our colleagues at ESCAP who are co-hosting this meeting with UN Women, and to the Asia-Pacific Regional Coordination Mechanism Thematic Working Group on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women for their cooperation and support.
I would also like to acknowledge the important role that the Asia-Pacific Region has played during past CSW meetings, and in the discussions underway on the Sustainable Development Goals and the post-2015 agenda – including of course the leadership of Indonesia in the Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Post-2015, and of the Philippines in the CSW Bureau. I very much appreciate the full participation of civil society who has been actively engaged.
Over the next two days we will discussing the critical 20-year review – 'Bejing+20', the challenges and achievements of the MDGs for women and girls, and the way forward to ensure that CSW58 achieves strong Agreed Conclusions and lays the foundation for gender equality to be comprehensively and robustly addressed in the new post-2015 development agenda and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
I would like to try to set the scene for this discussion, in particular as it relates to i) the challenges and achievements of the MDGs, ii) lessons learned for the new development agenda, and iii) where we are now in the post-2015 and SDG process along with some of the implications for the discussion at CSW58.
As you know, the MDGs have made a significant contribution to development and poverty reduction since they were formulated in 2000. They have helped make a difference in hundreds of millions of people's lives, and have certainly helped shape the development landscape. The proportion of people living on less than USD $1.25 a day fell from 47 per cent in 1990 to 22 per cent in 2010. And in the Asia-Pacific region there has been strong progress in terms of poverty reduction: the incidence of extreme poverty declined from 52 to 18 per cent between 1990 and 2011.
But as we also know, progress has been uneven both within and between countries. Almost two-thirds of the world's poor live in the Asia-Pacific region. And as the 2012/2013 Asia-Pacific MDG report shows, progress has been slow in a number of areas – including the prevalence of hunger and food insecurity, high levels of maternal mortality and child malnutrition, and persistent gender inequalities.
What's more, the MDG's focus on national averages often obscures very significant inequalities within countries. Despite strong progress in reducing poverty, the Asia-Pacific region is experiencing rising inequality and a widening gap between rich and poor, with increasing income disparities in many countries. Furthermore, high levels of inequality in education and life expectancy are evident in many of Asia's largest economies. Jobs are not keeping pace with economic growth. Between 2009-2011, while average annual GDP growth was 7.6 per cent , formal employment grew by only 1 per cent. What's more, about 60 per cent of the region's workers are in vulnerable employment, and the region accounts for almost 73 per cent of the world's working poor.
Women in particular in the Asia-Pacific region continue to face severe deficits in health and education, and in their access to power, voice and rights. The skewed male-to-female sex ratio at birth is just one example, averaging 106.2 in East Asia and 15.7 in South Asia. Women are less likely to own assets, and women's participation in non-agricultural wage employment increased only marginally from 28 to 31 per cent, between 1990 and 2009. What's more, the region has seen slow progress in terms of women's participation in decision-making, with the second-lowest percentage of parliamentarians who are women.
Indeed, intersections between different forms of inequalities compound discrimination and exclusion for specific groups, including on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, geographic location, income, age, disability, HIV status, sexual orientation and gender identity. And as the examples I gave earlier illustrate, women – in particular the most vulnerable and disadvantaged women – continue to be excluded from full access to the benefits of development, and MDG achievement.
There can be no doubt that inequality, and in particular gender inequality and gender-based discrimination, impede progress towards achieving all development goals. Critically, the MDG framework, important though it has been in focusing attention and resources, including for MDG3, does not go far enough to address the structural inequalities and discrimination that underpin these inequalities, and undermine sustainable human development.
These include women's disproportionate responsibility for unpaid care work, lack of access to assets and resources, low participation in decision-making at all levels, denial of sexual and reproductive health and rights, and persistent and widespread violence against women and girls. We cannot expect to make progress unless we address these underpinning barriers to gender equality, women's empowerment and women's rights.
Furthermore, as evidence clearly shows, gender equality has a real catalytic effect on achieving all MDGs and inclusive and progressive human development, good governance, sustained peace and a more harmonious relationship between people and planet – all of which are at the core of sustainable development and achievement of human rights.
That is why it is so critical that we focus on acceleration of actions to achieve the MDGs, in particular goals such as reducing maternal mortality, where progress is seriously lagging. It's therefore very welcoming to see that a number of governments in the Asia-Pacific region are investing in MDG acceleration initiatives at the national and sub-national levels. It's especially critical that in our efforts to accelerate MDG achievement, we really invest in addressing inequality, gender inequality, and promote gender equality, women's rights and women's empowerment across all goals and priorities.
What's more, any new generation goals adopted in the post-2015 agenda must, in my opinion, be: i) transformative, and really tackle the structural factors that constrain progress, ii) universal, applying in all countries regardless of economic status, and iii) rights-based, fully aligned with key international instruments such as CEDAW, with equality, including gender equality, at the centre.
The new post-2015 agenda and SDGs must build on the lessons learned from the MDGs, by directly tackling unequal power relations between men and women, and persistent social norms and gender stereotypes that serve to impede progress and discriminate against women and girls. They must robustly integrate gender across all goals and targets that are developed and address multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, and must also address the broader context for the realization of gender equality, such as the impact of economic crises, persistent conflict, climate change and environmental degradation. The new development agenda must also build stronger institutions, governance and accountability to deliver real change for women and girls.
That's why we believe that a transformative, comprehensive goal that builds on MDG3, together with comprehensive integration of gender concerns in all goals, targets and indicators, is required. Such a stand-alone goal on gender equality, women's rights and women's empowerment must in our view address three critical dimensions. It must:
- End violence against women. Globally, one in three women will experience violence in their lifetime, most often at the hands of an intimate partner. We must end the scourge of violence. Gender equality and women's empowerment are simply not possible if we don't end violence and fear of violence – and if societies still consider gender-based violence to be acceptable.
- Expand women's capabilities and access to and control over resources, so that they have full choice and options about how to live their lives. This is especially critical in the Asia-Pacific region where so many women are concentrated in informal, vulnerable employment, lack access to and control over assets and property, and where gender gaps in education and health persist, in particular in South Asia as well as among specific-sub groups of women. We must also directly tackle the gender-based roles and expectations, and the social and familial control that constrain women's choices and distort outcomes for individual women and girls, as well as society as a whole. Ensuring women and adolescent girls' sexual and reproductive health and rights is also critical.
- Ensure that women take full part in household, public and private decision-making. Women continue to be significantly under-represented in politics and policymaking, with very low rates of participation in some of the most developed economies in the region. It's critical that women have an equal voice and participate in and influence the processes and institutions that shape public policies, and household and private sector decisions.
As we enter into the CSW discussions, and as Member States start to negotiate the Sustainable Development Goals and the post-2015 agenda, it is vital that we tackle the unfinished business of the MDGs, including poverty eradication, health and education, and decent living standards. But just as critically, we must address the missing issues in the MDG framework, and really move beyond the MDGs to bring together poverty eradication and sustainable development in one agenda, establish a universal framework that addresses poverty and inequality wherever it occurs, and ensure that the rights of all – and in particular women and girls – are fully realized.
There is no doubt that there are challenges ahead. There is already a strong consensus emerging in discussions of the Open Working Group, including just last week, that poverty eradication must be the objective of the post-2015 agenda, that completing the MDG agenda is important but not sufficient and that transformative change is needed to address the challenges ahead. There's also agreement that there should be one single set of goals that brings together the development agenda (the post-MDGs) and the environmental agenda (the SDGs). Members of the OWG are calling for flexibility in order to reflect different country priorities and realities.
There is consensus that the "unfinished business" of the MDGs must be addressed – key issues such as food security and nutrition, access to quality education and employment, health including communicable and non-communicable diseases, water and sanitation, and sustainable energy. And there's an emerging view that some issues – social protection, youth, and gender equality – need to be addressed throughout the framework.
However, a number of issues remain. These include how the new development agenda will address governance and rule of law, and peace and security, as well as how to address climate change in light of ongoing negotiations under the UNFCCC towards a 2015 universal agreement given that a set of Goals that doesn't speak to the climate change challenge will not be seen as credible. Finally, there is no consensus yet on how to extend the partnership beyond the traditional donor-recipient country relationship to include stronger private sector engagement – or even partnerships to deliver each goal. Overall, there is support to address gender equality, women's rights and women's empowerment in the post-2015 agenda and the SGDs. A number of Member States have indicated they support a stand-alone goal on gender equality, while others are calling for gender to be mainstreamed across the framework.
Looking forward, I think it will be very important to now start thinking about the targets and indicators we want to see included in the framework, both within a stand-alone gender equality goal, and in other dimensions of the new agenda. We also need to consider how best to take forward the MDG acceleration effort so that we get the most out of the final push to achieve the MDGs for women and girls. Finally, as you know, the Beijing+20 review and the ICPD review are underway, and we need to ensure that these reviews, the CSW58 and 59, and the process of developing the post-2015 agenda and the SDGs are fully aligned, and mutually synergetic and reinforced so that gender issues are fully reflected, and we can really draw on country-level experiences and lessons learned to inform the new global sustainable development agenda.
This is a critical juncture for women and girls. We cannot afford to lose any ground on gender equality and women's rights. And that's why as UN Women we are seeking your commitment and engagement to ensure that we secure strong agreed conclusions that really address gender equality, women's rights and women's empowerment across the MDGs framework, and lay a very strong foundation for a post-2015 agenda that is truly transformative, universal, and rights-based, with gender equality and women's empowerment at its heart.
We count on your support in this regard, and I look forward to strong report that we can take forward from this regional consultation into the CSW58 deliberations. Thank you.


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Dara-Lynn Weiss attracted national media attention by putting her obese 7-year-old daughter on a diet, writing about it in Vogue, and ultimately scoring a book deal. Her story is relevant in America, where 1 in 3 children are obese. There's a need for information on how parents can help their overweight children—but Dara-Lynn, who fat-shamed her daughter in public, got it all wrong and only sets a bad example for other moms in similar situations. And as we all know, the last thing the world needs is yet another example of bad parenting.
When Bea Weiss was 6 years old a pediatrician diagnosed her as clinically obese. Bea was 4 ft. 4 in. and 93 pounds.
Bea's mother, Dara-Lynn Weiss, sprang into action and put her daughter on a strict diet. The Manhattan socialite also fat-shamed Bea, humiliated her in public, and once she denied her daughter dinner because she consumed brie, filet mignon, baguette and chocolate at her school's French Heritage Day. Another time she stopped her daughter from eating a salad because it was overly dressed.
Dara-Lynn, who is a chronic dieter herself, shares these details in a provocative tell-all article titled "Weight Watcher" running in the April "Shape" issue of Vogue. Fashion photos of the mother and now-slim daughter accompany the article.
You can't find the article online but bloggers are sharing bits and pieces of it all over the Internet.
Here's a bit about the salad incident:
I stepped between my daughter and a bowl of salad nicoise my friend was handing her, raising my palm like a traffic cop. "Thanks," I said, "but she already ate dinner."
"But she said she's still hungry," my friend replied, bewildered.
I forced a smile. "Yeah, but it's got a lot of dressing on it and we're trying–"
"Just olive oil!" my friend interrupted. "It's superhealthy!"
My smile faded and my voice grew tense. "I know. She can't."
My friend's eyes moved to my daughter, whose gaze held the dish in the crosshairs: a Frisbee-size bowl bursting with oil, tuna, eggs, potatoes, olives.
And here's another disturbing excerpt:
Sometimes Bea's after-school snack was a slice of pizza or a gyro from the snack vendor. Other days I forced her to choose a low-fat vegetable soup or a single hard-boiled egg. Occasionally I'd give in to her pleas for a square of coffee cake, mainly because I wanted to eat half of it. When she was given access to cupcakes at a party, I alternated between saying, "Let's not eat that, it's not good for you;" "Okay, fine, go ahead, but just one;" and "Bea, you have to stop eating crap like that, you're getting too heavy," depending on my mood. Then I'd secretly eat two when she wasn't looking.
Dara-Lynn clearly handles her daughter's weight problem in the wrong way, and she's setting Bea up for a life ridden with body image issues and eating disorders.
"She did everything we recommend people don't do," Lynn Grefe, president of the National Eating Disorders Association, told Time. "To us, diet is a four-letter word.
Weight problems among America's youth are real with 1 in 3 children being overweight. We all like to blame this sobering number on fast-food chains and the food industry but ultimately the responsibility lies with the parents of these children. And how can a parent help an overweight child?
Parents certainly can't cull any advice from Dara-Lynn's sensationalized article. She can only tell you how to destroy your child's self image.
I only wish that Vogue ran an article about a parent who got it right. Putting a child on a diet is a delicate, complicated situation and parents could use an example of a parent who handles her child's obesity with thoughtfulness, love and care. Parents don't need yet another example of bad parenting, nor do we need another parent who's exploiting their children and neurotic parenting style for media attention. Shame on Vogue for printing this article.
The sad thing is that bad parenting sells. Dara-Lynn has been written about by bloggers at media outlets ranging from the HuffingtonPost to BabyCenter. And MediaBistro's GalleyCat just announced that Dara-Lynn scored a book deal with Random House's Ballantine to write a memoir, tentatively titled "The Heavy." Can we all agree to not buy a copy?

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Goodbye 2012 and goodbye blog.
I said it would happen, and now it's really here: this is my last post as DIY Dilettante. This doesn't mean that I'm not busy dreaming up more career ideas–dog musher, website developer, and sunglass designer have all been recent interests–it's just that I'm too busy trying to make a few of them reality.
You may have noticed that, even with some variety of career fields, there have been prevalent themes. Poet, Irish writer, bookseller, novelist–they're all facets of the same desire to make writing even more central in my life. Between adding a few freelance copywriting gigs, storyboarding my first children's book, and finishing chapters 2-20 of my novel, 2013 is sure to be a year full of writing.
Which is, alas, why I no longer have writing energy left for this blog. I love it dearly, will miss it dearly, and am so glad that some of you have enjoyed it as much as I have. Thank you, thank you, thank you. And Happy New Year.
Here's an excerpt of WordPress's 2012 report for my blog:
19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 150,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 8 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.


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Spanning the fields of design and art practice, Glenn Shrum's work with light places him at the center of converging professional disciplines. Originally trained as an architect, Shrum received a Masters of Fine Arts in Studio Art with an emphasis on lighting installations and light art history from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2008. In addition to his professional activity as principal of Flux Studio, Glenn Shrum is an active member of the international lighting design and education community. He is a professional member of the Professional Lighting Designers' Association (PLDA), International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) and the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America. Recent projects include Villa I Tatti Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence Italy, The National Children's Museum outside of Washington DC and the National Aquarium, Baltimore.
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The dude is still playing at a high level right now but if he makes it another 2 years I'll be happy. Next draft I think it's extremely important that Kevin Colbert and Mike Tomlin really look at drafting a top flight NT to step in for Casey in 2012 or 2013. The 34 defense doesn't work without a Casey Hampton type player on the field.
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Clementine's Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
5 dozen 2 inch cookies
12 ouncesGhirardelli Semi-Sweet Chocolate Baking Chips
1 cup butter, softened
3/4 cups packed brown sugar
1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup unsifted flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
3 cups oats, uncooked
1 cup walnuts, chopped
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- In a large bowl, beat butter with sugar and brown sugar at medium speed until creamy and lightened in color (about 4 minutes).
- Add vanilla and egg, and mix on low speed until incorporated. Stir flour with baking soda, salt, and spices; add to creamed mixture, mixing well. Stir in oats. Fold in chocolate chips and walnuts.
- Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased cookie sheets.
- Bake 8 to 9 minutes for a chewy cookie, 10 to 11 minutes for a crisp cookie.
- Cool 1 minute on a cookie sheet; remove to wire cooling racks. Store in tightly covered container. Makes about 5 dozen 2" cookies.
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The Manhattan Quilters Guild presents a collection of nineteen quilts created specifically for YARDWORKS, and constructed within the constraint of one square yard, both literally and metaphorically. Guild members drew upon memory, fantasy, architecture, language, and landscape to produce this touring exhibition of art quilts. Techniques and processes include piecing, applique, printing, painting, photography, and various methods of hand and machine stitching.
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(NEW YORK) Burberry Prorsum
Christopher Bailey delivered a fantastic collection of his take on bohemian chic with The Bloomsbury Group serving as inspiration this season. The Bloomsbury Group were an influential group of writers, artists, and intellectuals in Britain during the first half of the 20th century. What ensued were the brands' classic trench coats and purses, painted and worn with long painted scarfs belted at the waist. There were big slouchy knits in boho patterns, painted shearling jackets that came cropped or just below-the-knee, and stellar colorfully printed blankets thrown over the shoulders of a cream prairie dress or a pale pink cashmere coat. Cara Delevingne closed the show in a colorful leg-revealing chiffon dress, with a printed blanket thrown over one shoulder that revealed the mod's initials, "CDJ" monogrammed near the bottom. Sign us up. On the heels of his new CEO appointment, Bailey is proving that he hasn't lost his creative chops that helped put Burberry back on the map, despite his rise up the corporate ladder.
Velvet, lace, fully croc dresses and coats with Elizabethan collars, rich brocade, embroidery, and jeweled dresses lavishly floated down Erdem's runway this season. Coats that came unhinged at the elbow with jeweled cuffs and metallic Turkish blue jacquard and black split sleeve fully croc jacket with a high collar were standouts in the outerwear department. An A-line embroidered black dress sported unfinished fringe that looked like the embroidery had been pulled, a sheer lattice beaded long sleeve cocktail dress, and a baby blue caplet cocktail dress with a burgundy jeweled floral print stunned in the evening wear category. Top that off with some ultra-chic pointy ankle strap Nicholas Kirkwood shoes, and you have a collection with lots of luxurious pieces to lust after.
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Timid dressers need not apply for Roksanda Ilincic's Fall 2014 collection. Let's start with the belts, composed of thick rectangles of gold held to the body with large elastic bands. That was nothing compared to a confetti-covered strapless gown, featuring a smattering of tiny blue squares, yellow circles, and orange diamonds. But that's not all: There were also skirts with uneven hems, one hitting the knee and one extending down to the ankle in panels of baby blue and camel, a patchwork fur coat paired with a patchwork dress, and a navy dress with PVC cutouts. There was something riveting about Ilincic's busy collection that implores one to pore over the looks for hours, soaking up every last detail. Including those pointy loafer-esque flats sporting proper doses of fringe.


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Human remains found in Flagler Estates area | News
ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. -- Human remains were found early Tuesday morning in Flagler Estates in St. Johns County.
The St. Johns County Sheriff's Office believes the remains could be those of 67-year-old Barbara Parchem.
The remains were found in clothes similar to those worn by Parchem the last time she was seen according to Joel Bolante St. Johns County Under Sherrif.
Police said they are investigating a person of interest but are not disclosing the name at this time.
Along with assistance from the Florida Wildlife Commission, the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office began searing the area around 7:30 a.m. this morning.
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On the new Showtime comedy series House of Lies, actress Kristen Bell plays Jeannie Van Der Hooven, a talented and highly ambitious member of Marty Kaan's (Don Cheadle) team of management consultants. Crafty, flirtatious and a bit mysterious, Jeannie does everything she can to keep her personal life personal, but she's not above getting down and dirty with a different guy in every city she visits.
While at the TCA Winter Press Tour, Collider got the opportunity to sit down with Kristen Bell for this exclusive interview to talk about how the head of the network approached her directly about doing the role, the appeal of doing more provocative storylines, how much fun she's having working with the extremely talented Don Cheadle (who is also an executive producer on the series), how she never would have imagined that she would have her toes sucked on TV, and that she craves diversity in her acting roles, but is also spontaneous when it comes to choosing projects. Check out what she had to say after the jump.
Collider: How did this come about for you? Were you approached with the role?
Kristen Bell: I was approached by David Nevins. He just called me up and said, "Would you be interested in this?" I already felt a spark of excitement, after being directly approached by the head of the network. Also, knowing that Don Cheadle was attached, it would have had to have been horrendous for me to not have said yes. Luckily, when I read it, it was brilliant and it was a very easy decision.
How much did they initially tell you about Jeannie Van Der Hooven, and how much have you been able to contribute to her?
Bell: They did not tell me a lot, at all. She wasn't the main focus of the pilot, and they were trying to make me happy or satisfied by saying, "She's going to unfold. It's going to be a big character." But, in all honesty, I didn't really care. I liked the people I was working with. I liked the material. I was excited to work with Don Cheadle. Even if I was only in one scene an episode, it didn't really bother me. I don't crave being the main character. So, for the pilot, I wasn't given a lot of info. But then, as we started to shoot the season, you see Jeannie's hometown and her parents and where she came from, and you understand her more. So, I was given all those details by (show creator) Matt Carnahan, once the season started.
When you do something like this and it's developed over the course of the season, what sort of backstory did you do for the character?
Bell: Well, I didn't know a ton about her backstory for the pilot, so any questions I had, or to figure out how she would react to certain situations, I just asked stand-alone questions and asked Matt Carnahan if this is what he pictured, as well as our director, Stephen Hopkins. They kept me on track. But then, as we started the series, we all sat down and talked about our characters. I think it was of paramount importance that we knew who they were prior to meeting them because it's very difficult to play a believable slick rick type person without knowing what the building blocks are, or how they got there, to be such a shark.
Was it nice to get such great response to the first episode?
Bell: Yeah, it's flattering. Our writers did a really good job of balancing everybody's characters out and making them specific enough to interact with each other. No character is like another, on this show. They do not blend together. They are all very, very dynamic and very different personalities, which is what is so interesting about the show.
In going back to television, what made Showtime the perfect pairing for you? Was it because of the freedom you have there?
Bell: Yeah, it was the freedom to be a part of more provocative storylines, and it was the shooting schedule. Doing 12 episodes versus 22 is night and day, in difference in your life. When you shoot 22 episodes a year, you're lucky if you see your family once at Christmas. Shooting 12 episodes a year, you actually get to interact, as a human being, with your friends and your family. For me, I can fill my cup up with real human interactions that allow me to be an actor. If I had no basis for relationships, as Kristen Bell, the human, I couldn't be an actress.
What's it been like to get to work with Don Cheadle and develop the relationship between your characters?
Bell: He's so exceptional, it blows my mind. I'm so jealous of him, in every way. He's a better human being than he is an actor, and he's a damn good actor. He's a storyteller, by nature. He elevates all of the material around him. He's extremely easy to work with because his goal is to tell a great story and have fun while doing it. He has zero ego, which is sometimes surprising for an actor that's that talented and established, I would imagine. He's just really, really fun to work with. I can't say enough good things. I adore him and, secretly, I'm just jealous of everything he does because he's wonderful.
For people who are unfamiliar with the world of management consultants, how would you describe what your character does for a living?
Bell: We had one management consultant sum it up and say, "Your only goal is to attach yourself to the host and bleed them dry." It's not unlike an actor's job. You are to walk in every room and appear necessary to the other person, to make sure that they need you, by the time you part ways, and that they call you again. The goal in management consulting is to manage the company from the sidelines, basically. We walk in and, using our powers of manipulation and bullshit techniques, get them to sign us on for a contract, and then pass all the after-work to the junior executives at the company, and then we go catch the next fish.
Is she the kind of person where you feel like there isn't anything she wouldn't do, or does it ever weigh on who she is?
Bell: In the beginning of the season, I thought there was nothing she wouldn't do. But, she starts to ask herself that question, towards the end of the season. Jeannie is very compartmentalized, so she has a strange ability to effortlessly lie to other people, as well as herself. That starts to catch up with her, throughout the course of the season.
When you hear Don Cheadle go on Jimmy Kimmel and say, "Just give it time, Kristen Bell will drop trou on the show," does that make you nervous at all?
Bell: What are these pervs talking about?! All right, I see how it is. I'm going to YouTube that interview. That's amazing! I could take them both at the same time, with my eyes closed. They wouldn't even know what hit them. No, I'm not afraid of Don Cheadle and/or Jimmy Kimmel. No, it doesn't make me nervous. You know, I wasn't pressured at all by the network. As racy as Showtime is, the nudity is voluntary. When I had scenes of a sexual content, I wasn't asked to take any clothes off. I was asked, "What are you comfortable with, in this scene?" The approach is paramount. I don't feel like I was forced to do anything. But, I'll drop trou, if Jimmy and Don really want me to.
Could you ever have imagined you'd have a scene in a TV show, where you had to have your toes sucked?
Bell: Never! I read that and I almost fell out of my chair. But, Matt Carnahan is a weird motherfucker, and there are people that like that. You know what? I didn't hate it. It was weirder than I thought it was going to be, but it wasn't unpleasant. People love feet. What is it about that? It takes all kinds. Showtime gets weird, and this show gets weird, which is what I love about it.
Are there a lot of times, when you get a script, that you wonder how you're going to pull it off?
Bell: There was one scene where I had to dance in my underwear, but it was supposed to be sexy, which was so difficult for me to get the guts up to do. If it were funny, I could pull it off, but it was supposed to be genuinely sexy and I don't have that gear. It was really making me giggle 'cause I was insecure. I got through it with a couple of pep talks from the female writer who wrote the episode, thank god, but that one was difficult to get through.
How quickly will viewers get to learn more about Jeannie's background and why she is the way she is?
Bell: About mid-way through the season. She is very clandestine in the first four or five episodes. You don't know a lot about her and she plays up her mystery for very specific reasons, and then you find out why.
Were there any clients that you thought were the most entertaining?
Bell: In the pilot episode, I loved working with Greg Germann. I think he's so funny, so fantastic, and so quick. And, he makes a lot of appearances, throughout the whole season, because we just can't get enough of him. I really liked his through-line and I liked working with him a lot.
What do you look for, when you're considering projects to sign on for?
Bell: It's less strategic than you think. I crave the diversity because I'm an actor and it's more fun to play different types of characters, but I'm pretty spontaneous as well, so I don't rule anything out. I don't say, "I would not ever do a horror movie," because tomorrow, the best horror movie ever written could come across my desk. So, I try to keep my options open. I just look for good material that I can connect to.
With the people involved, it's more about trusting that they will elevate the material, and being excited to work with them. I feel that Don Cheadle has made a lot of great choices in his career. I think he's really smart, he's really savvy, and he's really talented. To hear that he was attached to something, I became immediately interested. But, I'm pretty spontaneous when choosing projects, I think. It's more difficult then just going, "Well, here's what I want to do next," and then waiting until it comes to you because you'll never get a job again. So, you have to work with what you're given. I'm really lucky. It's all about what opportunities are available to you.
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A bill making it illegal for landowners to allow drinking by minors on their property has won the final approval of the Iowa Senate.
The Senate voted 47-0 Thursday to send the legislation to Gov. Terry Branstad.
The measure originally prohibited landowners from permitting anyone under 21 to drink.
The Senate concurred with a House amendment that limits offenses to those who permit people younger than 18 to drink on their property. Lawmakers also agreed to pass a provision exempting landlords and other property managers who may be unaware of minors drinking.
Under the bill, first violations would carry a simple misdemeanor charge and a $200 fine.
Sen. Robert Hogg, a Cedar Rapids Democrat, says despite changes to the legislation, it makes progress in fighting underage drinking across the state.


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Tell me how I did on my wood... No tutorial used... http://localhostr.com/files/bb424f/wood2_1.png WARNING: 1200 x 1200
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Hmmm, about the same as the professional companies that make fake wood flooring: it looks like plastic.
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...what kinda wood were you trying for?
It's a good start, you "just" have to make more imperfect. Have a look at real wood for reference: http://images.google.com/images?q=wood%20texture
Good luck!
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it's like more than brown water
It looks way too smudged
and the color is a little bit odd to me, maybe its just me
While I can tell that you were trying to make wood, I cannot say that it looks very real, and that is mainly becasue of the way it was smeared around in photoshop or whatever it was you used
it doesn't look very natural that way
Making the lines darker could help as well
Maybe try smudging each color seperatly
Hmm but its not like I'm an expert on drawing wood but I do a lot digital art
-hope this was a bit of help


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Bank of America
Florida Default Law Group
Law Offices of David Stern
Lender Processing Services
Litton Loan Servicing, LP
Cheryl Samons
Security Connections, Inc.
Action Date: October 10, 2010
Location: Charlotte, NC
On October 8, 2010, Bank of America announced it was extending its suspension of foreclosures to all 50 states. A review of the documents used by Bank of America to foreclose readily shows why this was the only appropriate action for Bank of America. In thousands of cases, Bank of America has used Mortgage Assignments specially prepared just for foreclosure litigation. On these assignments, the identity of the mortgage company officer assigning the mortgage to BOA is wrongly stated. Who has signed most frequently as mortgage officers on mortgage assignments used by BOA to foreclose? Regular signers include the "robo-signers" from Lender Processing Services in both Alpharetta, Georgia and Mendota Heights, Minnesota. LPS employees Liquenda Allotey, Greg Allen, John Cody and others, using dozens of different corporate titles, sign mortgage assignments stating BOA has acquired certain mortgages. When the mortgages involved originated from First Franklin Bank, BOA used Security Connections, Inc. in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Employees Melissa Hively, Vicki Sorg and Krystal Hall also signed for many different corporations for BOA. Litton Loan Servicing in Houston, Texas, a company owned by Goldman Sachs, also produced documents as needed by BOA, usually signed by Denise Bailey, Diane Dixon or Marti Noriega signing as officers of at least a dozen different mortgage companies and banks. BOA also has used mortgage assignments signed by Cheryl Samons, the office administrator for the Law Offices of David Stern, who has admitted to signing thousands of mortgage documents each month with no actual knowledge of the contents. On other cases, employees of the law firm Florida Default Law Group have signed for BOA, using various titles, including claiming to be Vice Presidents of Wells Fargo Bank, all while failing to disclose they actually worked for Florida Default. in most of these cases, BOA is acting as Trustee for residential mortgage-backed securitized trusts. These trusts are claiming to have acquired the mortgages in 2009 and 2010, even though the trusts deadline for acquiring mortgages was often in 2006 and 2007. In hundreds of cases, the mortgage assignments presented by BOA are actually signed months AFTER the foreclosure actions were commenced. At least 50 trusts using BOA as Trustee are involved in using these fraudulent documents. Each trust has between $1.5 billion and $2 billion of mortgages. The BOA documents have been used in thousands of cases, pending and completed, for at least three years. This massive problem cannot be "fixed" in 90 days, but a nationwide suspension of foreclosures is a good, responsible beginning.
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Useful tools geared toward promoting student success — online advising programs, intervention systems, degree audit software, and others — are cropping up in various places within your institution's IT infrastructure. But often, these powerful tools become siloed, and valuable academic planning resources for students are scattered throughout campus. At the University of Washington, however, developers are making sure that UW's "MyPlan" will be integrated with other relevant tools and data. Jill Yetman, MyPlan project manager at UW, talked with CT about the strategy.
Mary Grush: What was the original motivation for UW to begin work on MyPlan?
Jill Yetman: Part of the motivation for starting work on MyPlan came from hearing feedback from students at UW, that they found it very challenging to go about academic planning, and that it was difficult to get access to the information they need in order to make some of their academic planning decisions. Another key piece is, with the recession and lowered state funding at the University of Washington — and I think this is similar across the country — tuition prices have been going up significantly. The cost of having to stay on one more quarter for degree completion has become exceedingly expensive. Providing tools for students to be able to proactively map out their completion to graduation, is critical. So there is certainly an imperative there. Those are two of the key factors in the motivation to start on MyPlan in 2011.
Grush: Who on campus supported the effort?
Yetman: One of the things that our leadership did was to approach our Student Technology Fee Committee and ask them to sponsor this effort. They now have sponsored it for the last three years, and we are waiting for their decision about the fourth year. Their sponsorship has really given us the ability to emphasize the students' needs. We've also looked, certainly, at what advisors want to accomplish in MyPlan, and we've tried to provide advisors and students with really solid communication, to help them achieve a plan more fully. But because it's been student-funded, we've had students on our team, and we've reviewed student feedback to shape the tool. We've really been able to focus on students: What is the student experience, and what are their needs?
Grush: I understand that UW is a Kuali partner institution, but what were the reasons developers chose to build MyPlan in the Kuali Student framework?
Yetman: As far as why we built MyPlan in the Kuali Student framework, that was really a decision around the future of the University of Washington's student information system. UW is highly invested in Kuali Student, with the other modules — there's Curriculum Management, which allows administrators to edit the course catalog information; as well as Kuali Student Enrollment, which is more focused on what courses are available, the time schedule, and what students are enrolled in. So efforts to build those other modules are going on and we realized that in time, they will also be implemented at the UW. So, building out MyPlan in the Kuali Student technology stack allows us to be ready for the future and really see this as one major, integrated system.
A key goal is to get away from the idea of something like 17 separate applications to do your work. Instead, we want to see one single system where there's a more seamless experience.
Grush: What are a few of the aspects of MyPlan's functionality that integrate with other systems on campus?
Yetman: Here's a quick sketch: MyPlan displays academic record information; what the student has already completed. It also shows the course catalog and brings in scheduling information and course section information. Each of those data sources is brought in through Kuali Student web services. We have our underlying legacy information in the mainframe, which goes through a web service layer, which then goes through the Kuali Student web service layer. Students, upon deciding which courses they are interested in taking, can now send that set of courses off to our registration system, as a handoff. Once the Kuali Student Enrollment module is implemented at UW, it will replace our registration system.
Grush: How long has UW been using MyPlan on campus?
Yetman: We did our first release at UW in 2012. We've been releasing updates to that anywhere between one to two months — every 6 to 8 weeks we release new features.
Grush: Is it also UW's intention to offer MyPlan code to the Kuali Foundation for inclusion in Kuali Student?
Yetman: As I mentioned, we started building out MyPlan in the Kuali Student technology framework. But we had the need for MyPlan's functionality before that functionality was actually on the Kuali Student roadmap. So, we had a review of the deep technical layer with those who were well versed in Kuali Student. This way, it can be, in the future, integrated into Kuali Student.
Once we released MyPlan at UW, Indiana University approached us. They basically took our code and released it at Indiana University. Since then, UW and IU, through the Kuali Student consortium, have been collaborating on turning MyPlan into the "Kuali Student Academic Planner". This work is moving toward a founders' release of Kuali Student Academic Planner, a limited release that supports other partner institutions with a code base and a set of features for academic planning. We expect the founders' release sometime this coming fall. Subsequently, a KSAP 1.0 full release will be made available to a broader set of institutions. At that point, any institution should be able to obtain open source licensing of the Kuali Student Academic Planning software as part of Kuali Student, through the Kuali Foundation.
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Manic Tendencies And Sleep Problems Can Be Easily Controlled Using Inhibitory Nutritional Supplements
A Pictorial And Musical Preface
The Picture Below is of my son Willy showing off his muscles in February 2008, when he was about seventeen and a half years old. Willy generated the Leading ADHD and Bipolar Recovery Story In the World Between the Summer of 2004 and the Summer of 2009. It is Still the Leading Recovery Story in the World in these regards. What my son Willy and I Discovered in the Alternative Medical Arena threatens the collapse of Pharmaceutical Medicine Worldwide. It is Absolutely A God Given Miracle that I am Still Alive. Allen D
1) Andy Cherry – Our God's Alive
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This Bruce Springsteen Sunny Day Video is a Real Treat If You Have Not Seen It Yet! Even if you have seen it—> It is Still A Real Treat! Thank You Bruce! Allen D
Dear Fellow Americans:
I am all better now, perhaps just a little tiny bit fatigued from an 80 hour straight work block (with no sleep at all) that was voluntarily undertaken by me in regard to blogging Critical and Time Sensitive Patriot Movement Educational Material with WordPress.
All you have to do in order to Adequately Control Manic Tendencies and/or a Problem with Getting To Sleep is to swallow a few dozen wisely chosen nutritional supplements or so!and drink a glass of practically anything but milk or hard liquor (beer is fine for most).
I drank Coca Cola tonight with my Supplement Regine because I needed the acid in it to break down some tablets that I had, instead of the capsules I normally use. I should perhaps note that my stomach does not make enough stomach acid. I am chronically deficient in this regard unless I take stomach acid supplements to make up for this deficiency.
Within five minutes or so of my taking the supplements that I needed to be able to go to sleep, I slept like a stone for about 3.25 hours. Upon Wake Up I felt Just Fine! as a result of swallowing a small handful of inhibitory nutritional supplements.
It's like hitting the Reset button on Your Brain to do the above.
It's >>So Incredibly EASY!<< 2 >>Accomplish the Above when you know what you are doing.
This Is All No Surprise to me (the above)—> for I have personally used very similar methodology hundreds of times on myself in the past sixteen years or so (since the Fall of 1997).
I sure as hell do know what I am doing when it comes to this stuff because—>
I have Led the World (#1) in this Particular Area of Understanding (knowing how to use inhibitory nutritional supplements to maximize therapeutic results) since early September of 1997.
I learned much of the above the hard way—> by repeated life experiences and repeated life mistakes—> the latter of which I learned how to resolve better and better over time.
Allen D and Mark J and Heroic Help from Our San Francisco Hippie Gang of WordPressWarriors for the Truth!
A Very Closely Related Blog—>
How I Slowed My Brain Down and Got Off Sleep Medication (2010)
How I Slowed My Brain Down and Got Off Sleep Medication (2010)
Dear Friends:
I am a person with a bipolar diagnosis. I have had at least a few hundred episodes each of mania and depression since 1963, the year of my bipolar onset. (I am currently 58 years old; my bipolar onset occurred when I was age 11.)
I was heavily symptomatic of bipolar disorder from 1963 until the fall of 1997 (at which point "I got much better" as a result of self-applied alternative medicine). My bipolar symptoms had become more frequent and more severe as I got older (until I got better, of course).
As early as my teenage years I knew that "there was something wrong with me", but I had no clue what it was. Nor did I seek professional help for any of my problems.
After over twenty five years knowing "something was wrong with me", things finally got so bad I knew I needed help.
In 1992 I began to see a psychologist to try to sort out my life problems. After about a year of seeing this psychologist every month or two, she referred me to a psychiatrist so that I could receive medication for depression. (I was misdiagnosed as a unipolar depressive at this time.)
I was first correctly diagnosed with bipolar disorder in June 1994. This occurred as a result of voluntarily admitting myself to rehab center in Syracuse, NY while I was in a state of mania.
After an eight month trial on lithium, I gave up on it, and threw it in the garbage. Lithium greatly dulled my mental acuity, and my hands still shook "such that I could not sign my name on a check", despite taking only 900 mg. of lithium. Lithium did nothing to help my depressive episodes at all. (Depakote did not work for me as a mood stabilizer either. My manic states "blew through it like it was water".)
My bipolar condition got to the point where I could hardly sleep for almost two years unless I took some sort of medication.
In the fall of 1995, I was prescribed first Ambien. I was very disappointed with Ambien. It only gave me about three to three and a half hours of sleep. Sominex, an over-the-counter sleep medication that I had been taking for months prior actually gave me a bit more sleep than Ambien did.
When I saw my psychiatrist again, I asked him for a sleep medication that was much stronger than Ambien.
The first medication that I took for sleep that worked for me such that I got six to eight hours sleep was Xanex. This medication was first prescribed to me in February 1996.
Within a matter of weeks of my first taking Xanex, after steadily moving up in dosage of it due to the fact I was becoming tolerant to it, I had "blurred vision" in one eye when I woke up. And this blurred vision did not go away for quite a few hours. I immediately called my psychiatrist. He told me that I was having an adverse reaction to Xanex. And he told me to immediately stop taking it. This adverse reaction occurred despite the fact I was only taking .875 mg. of Xanex (less than one milligram) at this time. (I am sensitive to benzodiazepine medications.)
For a few weeks after having an adverse reaction to Xanex, I took nothing for sleep. For these few weeks I was seriously manic for the entire time.
In April 1996, I got my first prescription for Klonopin. This was a medication that I requested from my psychiatrist. He was a bit hesitant about giving Klonopin to me, due to the fact I had had an adverse reaction to Xanex, which was another benzodiazepine medication. I was a bit insistent for a prescription for Klonopin, and my psychiatrist wisely relented and gave me one.
After having an adverse reaction to Xanex, I had decided to learn as much as I could about medications myself. I learned about Klonopin by reading some books about medication in March 1996.
I had become tired of my psychiatrist making all of my medication choices for me. He had prescribed a number of different medications to me in the past two years. Only one of these did I feel had really done me any good (Zoloft). The rest of the medications I had been prescribed in these two years either did not help me, or their side effects were intolerable. So I decided to see if I could make some better medication choices myself.
Klonopin worked well for me in the beginning, just as Xanex did. I could finally get some sleep. In the beginning, I got about five hours of sleep (or sometimes even six hours of sleep) with Klonopin. (I was admittedly also smoking pot at night when I was taking Klonopin. For over a decade pot had helped me somewhat in regard to sleep.)
Then the same thing happened, just as the books that I had read had told me it would. I built up a tolerance to Klonopin, just as I had built up a tolerance to Xanex. I needed more and more Klonopin to go to sleep, just as I did the Xanex. And smoking pot at night before I took Klonopin was just not enough for me to get enough sleep.
After I got up to 2 mg. of Klonopin within a few months of taking it (I had started on .5 mg), and began to feel that I needed even more, I thought to myself "enough is enough". I decided "I am not going to just keep taking more of this stuff", like I did with Xanex.
As I did not know quite what do to at this point, I sought professional advice. I did not go to my psychiatrist for this professional advice. I went to see a person that I considered an expert on drugs. This person was an ex-heroin addict that repeatedly claimed to have taken "every drug under the sun", both legal and illegal. And he was a person that I highly respected.
I asked Billy (not his real name) "What should I do?" "I need more and more Klonopin to go to sleep." "Would it be better for me to keep taking more Klonopin, or would it be better for me to drink some alcohol with the Klonopin so I can go to sleep?" Billy would not give me a direct answer. He said to me over and over "What do you think?" But you could tell what he thought by reading his face… he thought "You dummy, of course drink some alcohol with the Klonopin if it helps you to sleep rather than keep taking more of that s…t."
So that is what I did. I began to drink a few bottles of beer, along with taking my Klonopin and smoking pot.
I was on Klonopin and pot, and then Klonopin, alcohol, and pot for almost eighteen months straight. Sometimes I got four hours of sleep. Sometimes I got five hours of sleep. It was infrequent that I got any more. Eighteen months of this.
I knew I was in deep trouble at this point (throughout most of 1996 and 1997). I knew that my Klonopin, alcohol, and pot routine for sleep could not last forever. I knew I had better find a better answer to my problems with sleep. And I knew "I was fighting for my life".
In August of 1997 I began to add the amino acid taurine to my sleep regime. By the first week of September, less than a month after adding taurine (and other amino acids) to my sleep regime, I was off both Klonopin and alcohol completely. And I no longer needed pot to go to sleep.
By the end of October 1997, about two months after taking four amino acids (taurine, tryptophan, GABA, and glycine) every night to go to sleep (with some vitamins and minerals as well) I was getting the best sleep I could remember… going all the way back to the late 1960's.
In September and October of 1997, I also did a number of other things besides take amino acids, etc. for sleep in order to overcome my bipolar diagnosis. I took a wide range of nutritional supplements daily. I cleaned up my diet. I got a series of colonics. (These helped me enormously.) I identified and eliminated a number of hidden food allergens. And I corrected my gut flora with probiotics and anti-candida measures.
Two supplements that I added to all of the others that I was taking in October of 1997 had an immediate and absolutely profound effect on me. They slowed down my brain just like lithium did… but without any negative side effects whatsoever. These two supplements made me drive slower, made me think slower, and made me talk slower. They also substantially lowered the volume of my voice. These two supplements were L-carnitine and phosphatidyl choline. I soon found that the more phosphatidyl choline I took, the slower my brain fired. This was a huge breakthrough for me. I had finally found the answer to my lifelong problems of often having "racing thoughts", "fast speech", and "speech much louder than normal".
The specifics of my using L-Carnitine and phosphatidyl choline are as follows:
I took a 500 mg. capsule of L-carnitine in the morning. (Sometimes, but not often, I used acetyl L-carnitine instead of L-carnitine. I did not notice a difference here.) I also took three, and sometimes even four, capsules of phosphatidyl choline in the morning. Each capsule contained between 420 and 460 mg. of actual phosphatidyl choline. I took this L-carnitine and phosphatidyl choline with my other supplements in the morning. These "other supplements" covered the entire vitamin and mineral range. They also contained some capsules of essential fatty acids.
I knew deep in my heart in the fall of 1997 that "I had found most of the cure for bipolar disorder". Not just for myself, but for the rest of the world.
In looking back at this time from where I stand today in 2010, I feel that I only made a few mistakes in what I had learned thirteen years ago. (None of these mistakes were critical in regard to my beating manic depression.)
In deciding to use the four amino acids of taurine, tryptophan, GABA, and glycine for sleep in 1997, I now know I could have done better in regard to the four amino acids that I had selected. Today I only use three amino acids for sleep. These are taurine, tryptophan, and histidine. If I was to use a fourth amino acid for sleep, it would be GABA. Glycine has always been a very weak sleep aid for me.
My standard night baggie for sleep for years contained the following:
1. Three 500 mg. or 600 mg. capsules of taurine.
2. Three or four 500 mg. capsules of tryptophan.
3. Three 500 mg. capsules of GABA.
4. Five 500 mg. capsules of glycine.
5. One 50 mg. capsule of vitamin B complex.
6. Three 1,000 mg. capsules of vitamin C.
7. Three capsules of calcium/magnesium/vitamin D.
I took somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,200 to 1,500 of the above night baggies between September 1997 and August 2002, when my access to substantial fiscal funds ran out.
Since August 2002 I have only been able to supplement myself on an off-and-on basis. My best guess is that since 2002 I have taken perhaps another 500 to 750 night baggies as per the ingredients listed above.
Sometimes I did add three 500 mg. capsules of inositol to the above baggies, as I felt it this supplement belonged in them.
A few years ago, I discovered that an author that I had repeatedly read (Robert Erdmann) was right about histidine. This amino acid is one that is quite sleep helpful for me. I now place more importance on histidine for sleep for me than either GABA or glycine.
My current night baggie, and one that is very effective for me for sleep, contains the following:
1. Three or four 500 mg. or 600 mg. capsules of taurine.
2. Three or four 500 mg. capsules of tryptophan.
3. Three or four 500 mg. capsules of histidine.
4. One 100 mg. capsule of vitamin B complex.
5. Three 1,000 mg. capsules of vitamin C.
6. Three tablets of magnesium.
Sometimes I also add one tablet of a quality vitamin mineral preparation to my current night baggie as well. I do this because I never want to miss an opportunity to get more essential nutrition into my body.
If my experiences in regard to slowing my brain down or getting a good night's sleep are any indication of the truth, it would be foolish for any person with similar problems to ignore what I have learned.
Using drugs to treat "functional nutrient deficiencies" is nuts! This is not being done because it is "the best science available"… it is being done for the money it makes those persons that are making and prescribing the drugs.
I may not be here to tell stories such as the above that much longer. This is due to the fact that it has become quite apparent to me that some portion of the pharmaceutical drug industry is aware that (1) "I have found the cure for bipolar disorder", (2) "I have found the cure for schizophrenia", and that (3) my knowledge in regard to how to properly treat a depressive state has been world leading for over a decade.
I turned 58 on September 17, 2010. Let's hope I live to see 59.
Allen Darman
Four other blogs on inhibitory nutrients and/or sleep that are related to this one can be found at:
Two egroup posts on inhibitory nutrients written in 2003
Taurine and other inhibitory nutrients
An egroup post on using lithium vs. raising acetylcholine
An egroup post I wrote in 2005 on sleep
The Original Copy of this material is here>http://nutrientscure.wordpress.com/2010/09/29/how-i-slowed-my-brain-down-and-got-off-sleep-medication-2010/
Willy Darman's Baggie Idea Dooms Big Pharma Unless>>> (8-24-2011)
Dear Friends:
This blog is being written for those that have not heard "the story of Willy" over his 8th to 12th grade years yet.
There are three versions of my son Willy Darman's recovery story (and soon to be a fourth). One version was written in June 2006, one was written in August 2007, and one was written in June 2009.
June 2006: http://nutrientscure.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/my-son-willys-original-adhdbipolar-recovery-story/
August 2007: http://nutrientscure.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/willys-three-year-adhdbipolar-recovery-story/
The blog below has a before and after picture of Willy at 10.5 and 17.5 years of age.
June 2009: http://my.opera.com/nutrientscure/blog/an-update-regarding-willys-amazing-recovery
For those persons that are not familiar with Willy Darman
My son Willy became an original discoverer of great healing truth when he was a thirteen year old child. Willy hit a home run for the entire world in the summer of 2004 when he insisted "Dad, just put everything together supplement-wise that helped you to get better, and I will take it all at once". (Willy re-invented the decades old wisdom of a pioneer nutritionist named Adelle Davis when he said this.)
Willy worked hard on his recovery for years… putting forth effort in school, effort at home and in a health club lifting weights, and effort in regard to running. This hard work proved the validity of his simple yet profound discovery (of putting a wide range of nutritional and natural supplements together) in an anecdotal sense.
Willy taught the world a number of great lessons in regard to what health and health recovery is all about.
Willy proved that all essential nutrients matter, as far as one's mental and physical health goes.
He proved that gut floral health matters.
He proved that avoidance of food allergens matters.
Willy proved that the simple measure of eating an apple or two can be an effective gut purge after ingesting some food allergens.
He proved that even a thirteen year old child can learn how to adequately correct malabsorption in himself.
He proved that one part of a supplement regime in order to heal should consist of the entire nutrient range taken all at once (assuming such is taken in an adequately complete and an adequately balanced fashion in which to do so).
Willy proved that even a thirteen year old child can effectively supplement himself (or herself) without any adult supervision other than guidance from afar. (I am a non-custodial father.)
Willy proved in a rather profound manner that drug-oriented medicine's current chemical answer to either ADHD or bipolar disorder is absolutely nuts.
Most important of all, Willy proved to the world that even a thirteen year old child can understand most (if not all) of the fundamentals of the human body that are needed to be understood in order to be able to cure oneself.
In May 2010 Willy was asked "how long could he hold his breath underwater?". He jumped in the pool to find out. He was underwater for five and a half minutes. From a weak sickly child all throughout his childhood Willy at nineteen years of age held his breath under water for five and a half minutes… on top of all of the other remarkable feats of strength or endurance he has accomplished.
Willy went from a weak sickly child throughout his childhood to "one in a million" his age and weight in regard to overall health, strength, and endurance. He overcame ADHD. And he overcame bipolar disorder. Willy did so despite the fact he ate what I consider a very mediocre and imperfect diet.
Willy is soon to begin his third year of college, and is doing very well.
Willy is proof by single anecdotal case that Willy's Baggie, some gut biology correction, and some food allergy avoidance can have an absolutely profound effect on one's mental and physical health.
The anecdotal case of Willy's recovery (from an ADHD diagnosis, classic bipolar symptoms, and sickly childhood health) threatens the collapse of drug-oriented medicine. As many times as they have tried to kill me since January 2010, make no mistake about this.
Willy Darman's Baggie of synergistic supplements is so broadly healing that it dooms Big Pharma. It dooms Big Pharma unless its bribery of FDA officials succeeds in taking numerous healing nutritional supplements away from the general public (as they are trying to do now).
Allen Darman
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It would behoove us all if Google, Facebook, WordPress, etc. (etc. are from Silicon Valley or Related) All Sent Representatives to NYC or nearby when the Mafia and I had had time to "Get Our Stories Straight", and We Were Ready To Meet with You. We will Let You Know when this is. ADOGG
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Willy Darman's Baggie Idea Dooms Big Pharma Unless>>> (8-24-2011)
This blog is being written for those that have not heard "the story of Willy" over his 8th to 12th grade years yet. ADOGG
The Hoax of Obamacare was foisted upon the American Public Fraudulently>>> And Primarily Because of What My Son Willy And I Had Discovered About Natural Healing. ObamaCare was "a law that what bought and paid for by Special Interests, and by Use of the Mafia to Judiciously Apply Force When Necessary.ADOGG
The Best Solution For America To Change For the Better involves a Mutually Respectful Collaboration between Silicon Valley, the Patriot Movement, the American Public, and the American Mafia. ADOGG
I cannot imagine that the American Mafia would not be wise enough to join us. At this point, I am Operating Under the Assumptive Standpoint that the American Mafia and I Are Going To Be Great Friends Quite Soon. There is a Win-Win Fiscal Deal here between us for sure! Silicon Valley agrees with this, and Firmly>>> So Do I. ADOGG
The Great Discovery Of Willy's Baggie Was Almost Certainly Corrupted At Its Sources
For well over a year I have known that the co-discovery that my son Willy Darman and I made in 2004 and improved on later in regard to the tremendous therapeutic power of a wide range of nutritional supplements has almost certainly been corrupted via Mafia pressure being put on either Vitacost or Jomar Laboratories or both.
What my son and I co-discovered (Willy's Baggie) had the power to not only topple a large portion of Big Pharma's lies, it had the power to potentially topple the United States Government (which mandates using only a drug to diagnose, prevent, treat, and/or cure ALL diseases).
If I was fiscally able to order the ingredients of either Willy's Original Baggie or Willy's Baggie II today I am almost certain that "they would not work" the way that they did back in the 2004-2009 era.
The co-discovery of Willy's Baggie that my son Willy and I made simply had to be stopped. (This was the Primary Reason behind all of the Mafia attempts since January 2010 to take my life.)
Vitacost.com was sold at some point. Who acquired it? Why was this very successful company sold? Was Big Pharma/Mafia pressure applied to the founder to sell? These are all very valid questions.
Jomar Laboratories (JomarLabs.com) is a fairly small company that sells Free Form Amino Acid Blends in Campbell CA… one that is certainly not big enough to stand up to outside pressure. I am almost certain that outside pressure by the Mafia on behalf of Big Pharma was applied to these folks. If not, I'd sure be surprised.
The discovery of Willy's Baggie is almost certainly "now useless in regard to fomenting Justifiable Revolution in America". Any Revolution in America that may or may not occur is going to have to rely on other issues, such as the Truth in regard to Corporate, New World Order Agenda and Mafia control of America, 9/11 Truth, etc.)
The Mafia would perhaps be wise to "switch sides" and help the Revolution in America vs. help the corrupt Corporate Structures that it does now. In my opinion, all of the past would be forgiven if such was the case… and being Good could be just as profitable as what the Mafia is supporting and doing now.
At some inevitable point in the foreseeable future the Internet is either going to be shut down, or fully or selectively Federally Controlled.
The clock is ticking.
Will the American Public Adequately Wake Up Before American Freedom Is Forever Lost To Corporate and NWO Agenda Control?
And will the Computer, Computer Software, and Internet Industry Become Brave Enough Soon Enough In Order to Actively and Collectively Intervene to help the American Public Adequately Wake Up before Internet Freedom And Freedom In General Is Forever Lost?
Allen Darman (with help from his heroic WordPress Collaborative Internet Team)


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It's difficult not to be slightly awed by Logan and Noah Miller. First, there's their physical presence—a one-two punch of looming, squared-jawed, broad-shouldered manliness that makes their brief but loathed foray into modeling seem an obvious choice—and then there's what they've accomplished, which is nothing short of miraculous.
Growing up, the identical twin brothers had their sights set on a career in major league baseball. But when that dream evaporated under the hot Arizona sun that beats down on minor league training camps, they found themselves blindly embarking on a film career. Without any experience, or even the knowledge that the written form of a film is called a "screenplay," the Miller Brothers set off on a path that brings them to the December 17 release of "Touching Home," an independent feature they wrote, directed, produced and star in alongside four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris, who they signed to the project by accosting him at a film festival.
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"Touching Home" is an unabashedly sincere and heartbreaking semi-autobiographical film about the Millers' relationship with their father (played with breathtaking brilliance by Harris), a man who struggled with alcoholism, was homeless for the last fifteen years of his life and died suddenly in prison. It was in the coroner's office, holding their dead father's hand, where the brothers swore they'd get the film made within a year, and through an astonishing series of events, they kept their word, ultimately assembling a cast and crew with eleven Oscars and twenty-six nominations.
Speaking in swirling tandem one afternoon at their favorite Santa Monica coffee shop, they describe the dark days that brought them to LA for "an extended pitstop" on their way home to Northern California, their naivete when they began the scripting process by reading a few screenwriting books—"We were complete idiots," Noah laughs—to finishing their feature debut and landing a mega-agent whose rooster includes Michael Bay. Asked how they had such an incredible string of good fortune, Noah says without hesitation, "Because we'd had such a string of bad fortune, it finally evened itself out. If there's any justice, or whatever you believe in in the universe, you can only get so many No's and eventually you'll get a Yes."
"And, if you're diligent, it becomes a constant game of leverage," Logan adds. "Once you build that momentum, you just keep driving it."
"And we always were prepared," Noah interjects. "We were always going to make the movie, it just turned out we made it in the way we did."
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"But it started growing," Noah continues. "It's easy to look at the end and say, 'Oh, this is where we knew we were going to go,' but each step opened a new door and we had to say, 'Okay, how do we build on this opportunity that we didn't see?'" He compares their first filmmaking experience to Lewis and Clark-style exploration. "You know you want to head west but you don't know how you're going to get there."
On the other side of the filmmaking process, an ordeal they chronicled in their book, "Either You're In or You're In the Way," Logan says, "We're in a similar position to before we made the movie, but we're in a better position because we have a little more credibility and the experience of having been through the entire process."
"When you do it on your own and smash your face a million times, you learn so much," Noah smiles.
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There's not much left to do. You've printed out the 2010 fantasy baseball rankings. You've paid attention when I went over my fantasy baseball sleeper posts. You even drew a mustache on your mirror so every time you look at yourself you look like me. The only thing left for you is actually taking part in a fantasy baseball draft. No sweat, you've been mock drafting for the last two months. First few rounds fly by. You're cool with a capital Clooney. Rounds 5 through 8 come and go. Nothing to it! You pack a bowl for yourself for your glaucoma and shotgun it into your cat's face. Round 9 comes, Adrian Beltre is drafted right before you and now the first bead of sweat forms. Where are all of the third basemen?
Suddenly, you're burning up like you just chugged a bottle of Emeril's Creole Seasoning. Worse, you have cotton mouth and have no time to go to the sink. Outside, it's raining. Then "Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink…" starts playing on loop in your head. Over and over again like a Lady Gaga song chorus. You look up at the draft timer and you have 30 seconds left. You look at the reflection of yourself in your framed supposed-to-be-ironic poster that reads, "The glass is half empty, deal with it" and you begin to sob. Not happy "I just won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar" sobs, but sad "Please let me out of your van; I don't want my skin to be made into a suit" sobs. With three seconds left, you draft Chris Davis.
Immediately, everyone in the draft room begins to mock you. Nice reach, I think Matt Stairs is still available for your corner!… Hey, I didn't know Bill James was drafting with us!… You suck! And, with that, you open the window to your bedroom and jump out. Luckily, you live on the first floor and only bruise your ankle. You limp back through the house, ignore your Mom's take-out-the-freakin'-garbage complaints, sit back down at your computer and zombie your way through the rest of the draft. Only half paying attention because you know you screwed up the Davis pick.
It was a reach. You probably could've took Davis a few rounds later. But it's not the ruination of your draft. Reaching is a part of drafting. If you're not reaching for guys that you want then you might not know which guys you want. You don't want to reach every single round, but sometimes it's not only appropriate but it's necessary. Wouldn't you rather have a guy you want in the 9th round then a guy you don't want in the 16th? Draw an emoticon on your hand and learn to smile again. It'll be all right.