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BENTONVILLE, Ark. — To meet Gilbert Stuart's "George Washington," Norman Rockwell's "Rosie the Riveter," Andy Warhol's "Dolly Parton" and hundreds of other artworks less famous and more subtle, first fly to XNA.
That's right, Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport. Then drive 20 miles north, through farmland, forest and suburbs, to the home of the planet's largest retailer.
That's right, Bentonville. On Central Avenue, if it's autumn, you'll probably roll past 100-year-old houses under a dense canopy of fall colors. In the downtown square, you'll pass the storefront where Sam Walton's Wal-Mart empire was hatched as a five-and-dime in 1950.
Then the road dips into a woodsy ravine and a strange skeletal tree of gleaming silver rises from the grass. It's a sculpture by Roxy Paine, announcing your arrival at the shimmering, occasionally perplexing Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
Crystal Bridges, approaching its first birthday Nov. 11, is this country's wealthiest, most ambitious new art museum. Thanks to its arrival, a visitor to northwestern Arkansas now finds a fascinating jumble of heartland scenery, small-town sensibility, global commerce and American art, along with a measure of irony. After raising big-box stores around the world — and being blamed by many for the decline of Main Street commerce across America — Wal-Mart and its founding family have relaunched their hometown's downtown.
You might not guess this from the Wal-Mart home office on Southwest 8th Street, which shows all the ostentation and assertiveness of a suburban DMV office. But at least seven restaurants and a handful of food trucks have opened around the city's central square in the last two years, and last year Wal-Mart spiffed up its visitor center here. An ambitiously artsy lodging, the 21c Museum Hotel, is due to open early next year. At the recently expanded Phat Tire Bike Shop in the old Hotel Massey building, you can rent a hybrid bike for two hours for $18.
"You've got a little pond, that being Bentonville, that already has a giant alligator lurking in it, that being Wal-Mart," says Dayton Castleman, an artist, educator and bicycle shop salesman who moved here from Chicago during the summer. "And the museum is like dropping a 4-ton boulder in the middle of that pond. Kaboom!
"I think people are going to be studying what happens in Bentonville right now for years to come."
I started with the downtown square: stately courthouse, immaculate flowering plants and a statue honoring James H. Berry, a Confederate officer who became Arkansas' governor in the 1880s. On Saturdays, there's a farmers market, and on some Friday nights, there are acoustic jam sessions.
Not long ago, Crystal Bridges museum director Don Bacigalupi likes to recall, his 6-year-old son pulled out his violin and joined the jammers.
"It's an amazing experience," Bacigalupi told me, "to be part of that indigenous culture even as all of this new culture is arriving."
Good food too. I had excellent organic greens and ravioli at Tavola Trattoria; good guajillo salmon salad at Table Mesa Bistro; a restorative cup of iced coffee at the Pressroom; and a tangy BLT tartine (applewood-smoked pork belly with tomato chutney and arugula) at Tusk & Trotter. None of those restaurants existed five years ago.
The lodging options aren't as varied, so far — too many chain hotels, not enough independents. But I liked the owners' personal touches at the Laughlin House (opened 2011), a four-room bed-and-breakfast in an 1890s Victorian cottage a short walk from the square and Crystal Bridges. I also browsed the gallery space that the 104-room 21c Museum Hotel has set up as its advance office. (Another strong option to consider: the historic Inn at Carnall Hall, a former women's dormitory on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville, about 30 miles south.)
The Wal-Mart Visitor Center claimed me for about an hour with the authorized story of how founder Sam Walton conquered the retail world: After the five-and-dime in BentonviIle came other stores. In1962, he opened his first store with the Wal-Mart name in neighboring Rogers, Ark. In 1970, the company went public. In 1980, the company hit $1 billion in sales in a year. In 1993, it hit $1 billion in sales in a week. And now? More than $1 billion a day in net sales, with 2.2 million workers in 27 countries.
Once you venture beyond the square, it becomes clear that Bentonville is no sleepy Southern hamlet from Central Casting. It's bigger than that (about 36,000 residents), having tripled its population since 1990. When you add neighboring areas, including Rogers (which has its own historic district), Fayetteville and Springdale, you have a metropolitan area of more than 460,000 residents.
It's also whiter than I expected. In a state that's about 16% black, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that Benton County is just 1.9% African American. (For Beverly Hills, the number is 2.2%.) Yet Bentonville is increasingly worldly, thanks to Latino immigrants and the international corps of vendor representatives.
As Emmanuel Gardinier, general manager of the 21c Museum Hotel, likes to say (in his native French accent), "Bentonville is an international metropolis disguised as Mayberry."
It's less than a mile from the square to Crystal Bridges, which is surrounded by 120 carefully landscaped acres and several walking and biking trails.
Alice Walton, the Texas-based daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, founded it in 2005, spent untold millions on the building (the museum won't release a number) and millions more on the art. In the run-up to the Crystal Bridges opening last year, the Walton Family Foundation contributed $800 million. Wal-Mart contributed $20 million and is credited as the sponsor of free general admission for all. Of course, not everyone was grateful.
Jeffrey Goldberg, writing for the Bloomberg View website, called the whole undertaking "a moral tragedy" and "a compelling symbol of the chasm between the richest Americans and everyone else." Meanwhile, Abigail R. Esman, writing on Forbes.com, asserted that "Ms. Walton has done everything absolutely right" amid "the whining of the so-called 99 percent."
The property was designed by Moshe Safdie, the star architect who also worked on the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, and features a chain of buildings with glass walls and organic curves, sitting atop two spring-fed ponds. There are several outdoor artworks, most notably a James Turrell installation aimed at the sky and a sculptural version of Robert Indiana's much-reproduced "LOVE" design. Circling the complex, I shared trails with young mothers, prams, speeding cyclists, panting joggers and a family of deer.
Inside, Crystal Bridges covers five centuries with a mostly chronological layout, so you begin with Stuart's "George Washington" in the colonial galleries. You wind up with contemporary works such as Nick Cave's playful "Soundsuit" sculpture and an oversized, eerily detailed 2010 bust by Evan Penny titled "Old Self: Portrait of the Artist as He Will (Not) Be."
Among the 450 or so works in between, you find a collection that hits just about every note, from the populist touch of Warhol's "Dolly Parton" to the implicit racial politics of Kerry James Marshall's painting "Our Town."
The challenge in building and showing off the collection, Bacigalupi said, is establishing a reputation as a serious institution while welcoming newcomers who've never stepped into a museum. Whether it's management training or native Arkansan hospitality, I don't know, but I encountered several disarmingly friendly museum guards and shop clerks at Crystal Bridges.
In a largely admiring review in the New York Times last year, art critic Roberta Smith said the museum "could become a place of pilgrimage for art lovers from around the world." Smith's only complaints about the collection were the absence of pre-1900 folk art and the handful of big-name artists, including Jackson Pollock, who are represented now by minor paintings that don't match their mature work. But with $325 million earmarked for art acquisitions, Crystal Bridges is so well poised to grow that it makes people nervous.
Just last week, the museum was to unveil a newly acquired Mark Rothko. Some New Yorkers are still smarting over Crystal Bridges' 2005 purchase of the New York Public Library's Asher B. Durand painting "Kindred Spirits" for a reported $35 million. And it took a long court battle for the museum to buy a half-interest in Fisk University's coveted Stieglitz Collection. Opponents didn't want the works to leave Fisk in Nashville, but under the deal, the 101 works can now alternate between the institutions, giving Crystal Bridges a chance to display major works such as Georgia O'Keeffe's iconic painting of Manhattan's Radiator Building at night.
Anyway, it's easy and rewarding to spend hours with the art at Crystal Bridges. And I recommend the green couch near the Abstract Expressionists as a fine place to rest a spell.
My only quibble is that Safdie was so eager to dazzle us with the play of sunlight bouncing off the ponds that it can distract from the art itself. Also, all those glass walls have surely reduced the amount of space in which light-sensitive artworks can be placed. Basically, my indoors experience had a little too much outdoors in it.
That said, my outdoors experience the next day was fun. I zipped into the Ozarks on eastbound Highway 62, passing Pea Ridge National Military Park (where North beat South in a crucial Civil War battle) and the Anglers Grill at Beaver Lake (where the all-you-can-eat catfish special is $17.95).
On the outskirts of Eureka Springs, I stopped at Thorncrown Chapel, a 48-foot-tall glass-walled structure by Arkansas architect E. Fay Jones that often turns up on architects' lists of America's "best" buildings. I also had a quick look at Eureka Springs, a 19th century resort town that has evolved into a hippie-artsy tourist haven of shops and galleries.
And in nearby Fayetteville, I walked the University of Arkansas campus, the Dickson Street night life district and the town's downtown square, whose Saturday farmers market draws legions and has been honored by the American Farmland Trust.
Given another day, I'd have headed for the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale.
It's too soon to say how much Crystal Bridges is going to change northwestern Arkansas, but the early numbers are interesting. Museum leaders, who forecast 300,000 visitors in its first year, got about 500,000 in the first nine months. About a quarter of them came from more than 50 miles away, like me. So the pilgrims are coming, but will they multiply or dwindle as novelty fades?
I was thinking about this on my last afternoon in Bentonville. I had headed back to the museum entrance to have another look at that gleaming silver tree. I was tiptoeing across the flawless lawn, camera in hand, in search of the ideal angle, when I head a museum guard say, "Excuse me, sir."
Oh, well, I thought. I tried. And now I'll be scolded and threatened with banishment, as the guides do every time I'm caught standing in the wrong place at the Norton Simon in Pasadena.
"Sir," the guard continued, "are you the artist?" Then he grinned. "Because I've heard the artist comes around to photograph the tree. And I didn't want to miss him."
I hated to disappoint the guard. But more and more, I'm liking this idea of putting big museums in not-so-big cities.


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The Bruins fell short tonight against the Ovechkin-less Washington Capital's 5-3 in D.C. The B's were coming off big games this weekend against the top seeded New York Rangers and rivals the Philadelphia Flyers. The first period ended 1-0 with the Bruins on top after a goal credited to Rich Peverley which was actually hit in by the Washington defenseman. The second period, however, was a completely different period. Bruins and Capitals traded goals back and forth in a period which saw 5 goals, and the score dead locked at 3 going into the intermission. Seguin capped off the scoring that period with a beautiful backhanded goal, and it seemed the Bruins were in a great position as they hold the best goal margin in the 3rd period in the NHL. However, their hopes of taking the 2 points were dashed by Mathieu Perreault who gave the Caps the lead 7 minutes into the 3rd period with his 3rd goal of the game, and ironically, the Bruins last chances were dashed by an empty net goal by former Bruin Dennis Wideman.
This was obviously a disappointing loss, seeing as the Capitals were without their best player and the Bruins are clearly the better team this season. However, the Bruins had an emotional weekend and it showed as they seemed slower and out of gas in the 3rd period which is usually not the case. The Bruins now have a week off thanks to the All- Star break which will also be Ovechkin-less, and look to start the second half of the season off with a win against the streaking Ottawa Senators on Tuesday, January 31st. This could be a playoff preview and should be a great game to watch.
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I cannot believe its May.
Progress has slowed but we are on a better heading, closer to the finish and are still maintaining around 13-15 knots. We have certainly lost perspective of how fast we have been throughout this tour. I woke up this morning and was quite concerned that our boat speed average has dropped below 20 knots over the past four hours.
We were gliding along a flat sea at about 18. After splashing cold water on my face and wiping the sleep from my eyes, it suddenly occurred to me that most sailors will never sail 18+kts in their lives...I felt guilty for losing my appreciation of simply how fast we are.
It looks as though the weather is setting up nicely for us if we can sustain good speed over the next 48hours. So far has been better than predicted but we are very closely skirting this high pressure system.
For now the mast is quiet. We are all relieved that the sea is calm. We will surely see some fast down wind surfing in the final miles of the tour and concern has reached the boat about opposite loading on the mast joint. We always felt that if she fell it would be after a tack or a gybe. We have been going upwind for a long time and soon we will be in down wind conditions.
If you can imagine bending something back and forth until it fatigues enough to break, well that's sort of what we will be doing in regards to load application to the damaged ball.
I cannot help being confident though. In reflection to the distance we have travelled, I feel like I could swim to the finish from here.
In four to five days we could be back on land. I am expecting it to be a difficult transition. After the Whitbread Round the World Race I deliberately maintained my watch system,waking during the night, walking around the house. I remember one night in particular. I was woken by a storm. I got out of bed, rugged up and went outside. I sat amongst the trees, swaying wildly in the dark with the wind screaming through the branches. I couldn't help thinking that someone is experiencing this on board a boat at sea........Where is my boat? Where is my team? We should be there!
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Back in 2006, real life couple and frequent singing partners Tim McGraw and Faith Hill set out on their groundbreaking Soul2Soul II Tour, which was seen by over a million people. A fascinating coupling of old country and new country, it was a milestone moment in the genre's history, boldly displaying the pop music elements which have now come to dominate the Country scene. Now, 10 years later, they're back on the road for the Soul2Soul World Tour, which promises to be yet another record-breaker!
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AOM is characterised by a bulging red eardrum. Children with AOM will have a type B or C tympanogram and the eardrum will not move very well with pneumatic otoscopy. Medical records need to be reviewed. If the child has had 3 or more episodes in the last 6 months or 4 or more episodes in the last 12 months they have 'recurrent AOM' (rAOM). A small (pinhole) perforation on a bulging red eardrum is defined as AOM with perforation (AOMwiP).
Children will AOM will need to take oral antibiotics (i.e. amoxicillin) for at least 7 days and be reviewed in 7 days' time. Infants with rAOM will need to take antibiotics for 3-6 months to stop perforations occurring. Children with AOMwiP need to take oral and topical antibiotics and be reviewed weekly till the ear discharge is gone and the perforation heals. Children with ear pain can be given ananalgesic such as paracetamol.
Children with a wet perforation have ear discharge (pus) that can often be seen in the ear canal with the naked eye. A child with a wet perforation may have moderate to severe hearing loss.
If pus has been present for less than 6 weeks the correct diagnosis is acute otitis media with perforation (AOMwiP). If pus has been present for more than 6 weeks the correct diagnosis is chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM).
AOMwiP should be treated with oral and topical antibiotics such as amoxicillin and ciprofloxacin. CSOM should be treated with topical antibiotics only. Wet perforations need to be mopped and cleaned with tissue spears before eardrops can be applied. This should occur twice daily until the pus disappears. Families should be shown how to make tissue spears and perform tragal pumping (applying pressure to the outer ear to help deliver ear drops deeper into the ear canal). A sample (culture) of the pus inside the middle ear or as close to the perforation as possible needs to be collected for the pathology lab. Children with runny ears should be reviewed every one to two weeks until the pus clears. If the child has CSOM for more than three months they should be referred to an ENT specialist and an audiologist.
Children with a dry perforation are likely to suffer from moderate to severe hearing loss.
The perforation appears to be dry with no sign of pus near the perforation or in the ear canal.
Children with a dry perforation do not need antibiotic treatment. However, they need to be reviewed in 3 months time to make sure the pus has not reappeared. Hearing aids and speech therapy can be used to help reduce the effects of hearing loss. When the ear has been dry for more than 3 months myringoplasty (operation to repair the ear drum) is performed to close the perforation.
Effective medical treatment depends on accurate diagnosis. Practitioners need to be able to tell the difference between OME, AOM, AOM with perforation, CSOM and dry perforation. Accurate diagnosis should be made with a video otoscope, tympanometer and pneumatic otoscope. Medical records need to be reviewed and children will need to be followed up regularly in case a new perforation or ear discharge reappears. Accurate diagnosis is dependent on thorogh note taking. This involves recording the position and size of the perforation, the degree, colour and consistency of discharge, the condition of the eardrum (scarring, translucent, opaque) and the visibility of fluid or air bubbles behind the eardrum. The more detail documented the easier it is to assess the progress of the ear infection and appropriate treatment required at subsequent examinations. If there is doubt about the diagnosis video images should be sent to a doctor or specialist for a second opinion. If the child has persistent OME or dry perforation for more than 3 months they will need to be referred to an ENT surgeon.
Tympanometry is used to see if the middle ear works. It is not a hearing test. When a child has a tympanometry test a small probe is placed in their ear canal to create an air-tight seal. The probe contains a tiny speaker, a microphone and an air pump. The air pump changes the air pressure in the ear canal. The speaker plays a tone which changes in frequency (pitch) and in intensity (loudness). Some of the sounds produced by the speaker will travel through the middle ear and some of the sound will bounce back (reflect) off the eardrum. The microphone measures the amount of reflected sound in the ear canal. How well the eardrum moves indicates how well the middle ear responds to sound. When the eardrum moves it changes the air pressure in the canal. These changes are recorded by the tympanometer.
An otoscope is held in the hand and is like a small magnifying glass with a light to look inside the ear. When otoscopes are attached to a computer with a screen they are called video-otoscopes. To examine a child with a video-ostoscope the pinna (outer ear) is pulled up and back to straighten the ear canal. The examiner then eases the otoscope through the ear canal gently until a clear picture of the eardrum can be seen on the screen. By looking at the eardrum the examiner can tell if the patient has otitis media (OM) and make an accurate diagnosis. The pictures above were taken with a video-otoscope.
The pneumatic otoscope is an instrument that allows the examiner to see if the eardrum moves when pressure in the ear canal increases, like when sound travels through the ear. When the eardrum is intact but does not move or moves very slowly the patient is likely to have OM with effusion (OME). The pneumatic otoscope is like an otoscope only it is attached to a small air-pump which is a balloon on the end of a hose. When the otoscope part is inside the ear the balloon is squeezed and a puff of air enters the ear canal. The examiner then watches to see if and how the eardrum moves. Pneumatic otoscopy can cause discomfort to the patient.
Telemedicine is a process that allows health workers, nurses and doctors in remote areas to send pictures or videos of eardrums to specialists either live or via email for recommendations on diagnosis and treatment. Telemedicine saves a lot of time for patients who might have had to wait months to see a visiting specialist in their community.
The Clinical care guidelines on the management of OM in Indigenous populations recommend ciprofloxacin for CSOM instead of sofradex as there is a very small risk of ototoxicity (damage to the cochlea) from the active ingredients of sofradex - refer to comparative trials referenced in the guidelines.
Sofradex should only be used for infections in the external canal, i.e. otitis externa/swimmer's ear/tropical ear (when the eardrum is intact), but not for CSOM.
Ears can be syringed if there is profuse pus present in the canal or a foreign body such as an insect. Also, syringe to remove profuse soft wax or after using eardrops to soften impacted wax (if the eardrum is known to be intact).
Impacted wax may need to be softened with eardrops, e.g. cerumol, waxsol, or a solution of bicarbonate of soda. Dry or soft wax and some foreign bodies can be removed with alligator forceps or a wax loop using a head-light or other illuminating/magnifying instrument. Tissue/toilet paper spears are the method of choice for families to remove pus discharge before putting in eardrops. If available in the clinic, suction can be used. Cotton buds are not effective for removing wax or discharge - they are too fat and not sufficiently absorbent.
The Tissue spears: do it right DVD resource shows health personnel and families how to clean pus out of the ear using tissue spears. Diagrams, images and short videos are used to demonstrate. This resource should ideally be used by health professionals with clients and families so that they can help them understand some of the more complex ideas portrayed.
The Ear video/DVD was designed to assist health staff who are conducting ear examinations on young children to diagnose and manage the many forms of OM.
Four images of different types of OM are presented in the video with diagnoses and recommended treatments.
Health staff can work through a further 30 images of the ear and respond in a workbook to four questions:
A full set of answers can be found in the Ear video workbook - trainer version.
Images of tympanic membrane are available on the EarInfoNet. The video images are of the tympanic membrane during the various diagnoses of OM as well as one of a normal tympanic membrane. These can be used to assist in diagnosis of OM.
The Diagnostic ear assessment resource - self learning (DxEAR-SL) is designed as a educational exercise to improve abilities to:
practice assessing TMs and get immediate feedback.
The World Health Organisation training resource on primary ear and hearing care comprises four training manuals (basic level, intermediate level trainer's manual, intermediate level student's workbook, advanced level). The resources equips primary level health workers and communities with simple, effective methods to reduce the burden of ear and hearing disorders. The manuals include some very clear otoscopy images.
Children with 'persistent' OME or rAOM may be treated with grommets. Grommets (typanostomy tubes) are small plastic tubes that are inserted into the eardrum to let fresh air flow into the middle ear so that the infection can dry up and heal. Grommets also make the pressure on the inside and the outside of the ear the same. Grommets usually remain in place for 3 to 9 months. They usually come out of the eardrum by themselves when the infection has healed. Children should be reviewed every 3-6 months when the tubes are in place.
Myringoplasty is an operation that is performed to repair holes (perforations) in the eardrum. Material is 'grafted' over the hole and gradually the eardrum grows over. The 'graft' material is a small bit of tissue or cartilage which is taken from the patient. Grafts are usually taken from behind or in front of the ear. Children who have had myringoplasty may have blood stained pus draining from their ear for up to 4 weeks. If the discharge becomes smelly the child should see a doctor.
Adenoids are mounds of soft tissue located at the back of the nose, where the nose meets the throat. Adenoids attract bacteria and can cause lots of mucous when they become infected. They can become inflamed and sometimes cause breathing problems. Sometimes adenoids are removed to stop the production of mucous and ear infections reoccurring.
It is important to identify children with discharging ears early and make sure they receive appropriate antibiotic treatment. To improve diagnosis practitioners need to check medical records to see how long the child has had discharging ears. It is important to know the difference between AOMwiP and CSOM as they require different treatments. Regular weekly check ups will need to be organised to monitor the progress of the ear infection and make sure families are complying with treatments. Families may need instruction on how to clean ears with tissue spears before applying eardrops and why this practice is important. It is important to ensure that children have had their pneumococcal vaccinations.
It is important that this group of children receives medical treatment, speech therapy and audiological support. Parents should be encouraged to participate in their child's learning and language development. Parents also need to be aware of ways to communicate more effectively with children with hearing loss i.e. speak face to face. Parents also need to be aware of situations where a child's listening may be affected i.e. people talking in the background. Effective medical treatment depends on accurate diagnosis. Practitioners need to be able to tell the difference between OME, rAOM, CSOM and dry perforation. Accurate diagnosis should be made with a video otoscope, tympanometer and pneumatic otoscope. If there is doubt about the diagnosis video images should be sent to a doctor for second opinion. If the child has persistent OME or dry perforation they will need to be referred to an ENT surgeon.
It is important to know the difference between AOMwiP and CSOM as they require different treatments. AOMwiP is treated with oral and topical antibiotics, whereas CSOM is treated only with topical antibiotics. To improve diagnosis a video otoscope should be used and medical records will need to be reviewed. It is important that the size and position of the perforation is documented as well as the duration of discharge. Regular weekly check ups will need to be organised to monitor the progress of the ear infection and make sure families are complying with treatments. Families may need instruction on how to clean ears with tissue spears before applying eardrops and why this practice is important (see tissue spears). Children with CSOM need to have antibiotic eardrops till the discharge has cleared up this can take months. During this time children will need audiological reviews.
Children in this group need to be referred to an audiologist, a speech therapist and an ENT specialist for possible surgery; grommets for persistent OME and myringoplasty for dry perforation. Children in this group will require a hearing aid which can be arranged by an audiologist from Australian Hearing.
Effective management of OM requires coordination between health services and families. Early intervention is extremely important. Collaboration between local health centres and education services is recommended to help identify infants and young children at risk of CSOM. Local health and education staff should also develop a strategic plan to manage OM in the community. The strategy should involve coordination with specialist staff (audiologists, speech therapists and ENT surgeons). Measurable process and outcome indicators should be devised e.g. the frequency of children initially assessed, seen at follow-up, referred to specialists and with resolved ear infections.
Compliance to treatment is essential. Families may need reminders for visits and assistance with treatments. Rewards for positive clinical outcomes are recommended. Refrigeration of antibiotics can be problematic for some families. Alternative options such as: supervised dosing, use of intramuscular antibiotics, single dose azithromycin or the use of antibiotic sachets to be made up by families, can be used.
Parents should know that different stages of OM are treated with different antibiotics. To prevent the eardrum from perforating some young children may need to take oral antibiotics every day for long periods of time, sometimes months. If the child has runny ears it is important that his/her ears are cleaned daily with tissue spears and then eardrops (see making tissue spears). Stopping runny ears can also take months. Families need to be comfortable with the idea that stopping ear disease requires lots of patience and persistence.
The Care for Kids' Ears website contains the following resources recommended for parents and carers:
The resource materials are available to download from the Care for Kids' Ears website and hard copies of the resource materials can be requested using an online order form.
Coates H, Vijayasekaran S, Mackendrick A, Leidwinger L, et al. (2008) Aboriginal ear health manual. Perth, WA:
Darwin Otitis Guidelines Group (2010) Recommendations for clinical care guidelines on the management of otitis media in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations. Darwin: Menzies School of Health Research
Hawke M (2004) Hawke Library. Retrieved [date] from http://otitismedia.hawkelibrary.com/normal/Dr_M_Hawke_001
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Aurora Borealis Will Make A Colorado AppearanceGet ready for what may be a rare light show over the skies of Colorado. Thursday night and Friday night the Aurora Borealis will be super charged and should be able to be seen here in the central Rockies.
Massive Solar Flare Hits The EarthThe massive solar flare continues to hit the Earth Thursday afternoon with no major problems with power grids, GPS or other technologies.
Biggest Solar Flare In 4 Years Headed Toward EarthAny time a blast from the sun will reach the earth. It's the result of the largest solar flare from the sun in 4 years.


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Seems everybody is basing this off what he did or didn't do as a Jet.I'm pretty sure he started for KC last year and posted 50 tackles with a couple of sacks.We're talking depth here and presumably cheap so if we were to lose a guy like Wilk or Coples then having a still young back-up whose capable of starting can't be the worst move in the world.
Would rather that than drafting another DL when we have greater needs to fill even in the mid to late rounds.
Bleacherreport(yeah I know) had him rated s one of the top 30 3-4 DL in the league....interestingly Coples and Wilkerson were up there too with Mo ranked No2 behind only JJ Watt


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July 3, 2013 10:58:59 AM
PARIS -- Bolivia's president left Europe for home on Wednesday amid diplomatic drama, a day after his flight was rerouted and delayed in Austria amid suggestions that he was trying to spirit NSA leaker Edward Snowden to Latin America.
Bolivia demanded explanation from various European countries it accused of thwarting President Evo Morales' flight.
French officials denied Wednesday that France refused to let the plane cross over its airspace amid suspicions that Snowden was aboard. Spain, too, said the plane was free to cross its territory.
The plane carrying Morales home from Moscow was rerouted to Austria Tuesday night, in a new twist to the international uproar over Snowden and the widespread U.S. surveillance that he revealed. It took off again from Vienna shortly before noon Wednesday.
Bolivian and Austrian officials both say Snowden was not on Morales' plane, which left Moscow on Tuesday following a summit. Morales had suggested that his government would be willing to consider granting asylum to the American.
Snowden is believed to be in a Moscow airport transit area, seeking asylum from one of more than a dozen countries.
Bolivia's ambassador to the United Nations, speaking in Geneva Wednesday, continued to insist that several European countries had refused permission for the plane to fly in their airspace.
Sacha Llorenti said it was an "act of aggression" and that France, Portugal, Spain and Italy violated international law.
Llorenti said "the orders came from the United States" but other nations violated the immunity of the president and his plane, putting his life at risk.
Bolivian officials said that France, Portugal and Italy blocked the plane from flying over their territories based on unfounded rumors that Snowden was on board. Bolivia said Spain agreed to allow the plane to refuel in the Canary Islands -- but only if Bolivian authorities agreed to allow it to be inspected.
French Foreign Ministry spokesman Philippe Lalliot said Wednesday that Morales' plane had authorization to fly over France. French officials would not comment on why Bolivian officials said otherwise.
Spain's foreign ministry said in a statement Wednesday that the country on Tuesday authorized Morales' plane to fly within its airspace and to make the Canary Islands refueling stop and gave the authorization again on Wednesday morning after Bolivian authorities repeated the request.
A foreign ministry official declined comment when asked if Spain demanded the right to inspect the plane. The Spanish spoke on condition of anonymity because of ministry rules.
Officials in Portugal did not return repeated telephone messages seeking comment and Italian officials were not available to speak on the subject Wednesday morning.
In Vienna, an official said that Morales' aircraft asked controllers at Vienna airport to land because there was "no clear indication" that the plane had enough fuel to continue on its journey.
The official, who demanded anonymity because he was not authorized to go public with the information, said Austrian authorities could not comment on whether the plane was denied overflights by other countries.
"We don't know who invented this lie" that Snowden was traveling with Morales, Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca said in La Paz. "We want to denounce to the international community this injustice with the plane of President Evo Morales."
In a midnight press conference in La Paz, Bolivian Vice President Alvaro Garcia described Morales as being "kidnapped by imperialism" in Europe.
Leaks by Snowden, a former NSA systems analyst, have revealed the NSA's sweeping data collection of U.S. phone records and some Internet traffic, though U.S. intelligence officials have said the programs target foreigners and terrorist suspects mostly overseas.
French President Francois Hollande has firmly criticized reported surveillance of U.S. allies by the National Security Agency. Several French politicians on the far left and right have said France should offer Snowden asylum, but the French government has said it hasn't received any asylum request from him and has not offered public support for Snowden.
Snowden has applied for asylum in Venezuela, Bolivia and 18 other countries, according to WikiLeaks, a secret spilling website that has been advising him. Many European countries on the list -- including Austria, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Switzerland -- said he would have to make his request on their soil.
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A question I've been asked on more than a few occasions is whether or not John Judy is my real name. I suppose the questioners either sense (correctly) that I am a liar by nature or they simply can't imagine that "Judy" could be a real last name.
Interestingly I've never heard the same concern expressed over the more common feminine-sounding last names "Joyce", "Carroll", or here in Los Angeles "Kim."
To further address the issue for the still-curious, Judy is a variant of the original Swiss name "Schudi" from the Latin "Judex" meaning "perfect" or "good."
Anyone who knows me is now permitted to smirk.
Other variants include Judah, Tschudy, Tschudin, Tschudi and even Von Tschudi.
To answer two other frequently asked questions:
1. "No, we are not Jewish." However our family has been traced back to the year 870 A.D. and we were in the heart of Europe, so I'd be surprised if there wasn't some religious cross-pollination in all that time.
2. "No, I did not marry a girl named Judy." Neither has any other male family member of whom I know. Still, 870 A.D. til now, it's probably happened.
Speaking of 870 A.D. that's the year the earliest known Judy, Johann I, was born in Switzerland. He was born a slave, but they called him a "serf" back then because he had no rhythm. On May 31st 906 A.D. King Ludwig III elevated him to a Freeman and a Noble and we've all been disappointing our fathers ever since.
Anyway, from Johann's loins we all sprung if you believe the words of one "Baron" Marion Pomeroy Carlock (von Judy-Tschudy), the researcher and author of a 1954 genealogy titled "History and Genealogy of the Judy-Judah-Tschudy-Tschudin-Tschudi-Schudi Family of America and Switzerland, 870 A.D. to 1954 A.D."
It's pretty close to unreadable and contains at least one glaring error that I can personally attest to concerning the parentage of my Dad's half-brother. To be fair to The Baron, by 1954 there were and had been a lot of us and my Grandfather hadn't made it easy to keep track of his marital comings and goings.
The book does however contain a lot of information, some of it mis-spelled and all of it putting the best face possible on any family member mentioned. One has to appreciate the goodwill behind The Baron's efforts.
Among the items I found of particular interest were the following:
On page 48: "The History of Our Beautiful and Famous Coats of Arms (The Old and the New)"
According to a legend pertaining to our first Coat of Arms (or many of various designs), a descendant of our first Ancestor and Progenitor was RUDOLF von TSCHUDI, who in 1316, while hunting in the forest was suddenly attacked by the retainers of his kinsman HANS von SEEGER with whom he had a feud. When Rudolf (called der lange Riebling) saw his only weapon (a sword) shattered in the fight, he (with superhuman strength) jerked out of the ground a strong young hemlock (or fir) tree and with its uprooted trunk killed nine of his enemies and made the remainder flee for their lives. Ever since, his descendants and kinsmen everywhere in Switzerland and the World have carried and used their Coat of Arms on stationary, jewelry, wall shields and frames.
You'll have to use your imagination a lot here. Still working on finding a color image of this. It's 700 years old for gosh sakes.
DESCRIPTION OF FIRST COAT OF ARMS: A gold background with rich green (uprooted) hemlock or fir tree with red trunk and nine red cones in remembrance of the deeds in combat of their stalwart kinsman.
Okay, here's a variation on the 1316 Coat I found courtesy of a Google image search.
Up to the 17th Century, this and similar Coats of Arms were used exclusively. Not before 1632 did Hermann Hermanni in his "Pinus Tschudiana" carefully describe our Coats of Arms and this Manuscript some years ago was in the possession of Hans von Tschudi of Wiese, Canton Glarus and the "New" Compounded Coat of Arms was described as follows:
THE NEW COMPOUNDED TSCHUDI-TSCHUDY COAT OF ARMS SINCE 1632 "Aspera non Spernit"
"In squares of gold on the shield are shown in the first and fourth squares, black ibex (or harts, a species of wild goat) and in the second and third squares, uprooted green hemlocks (or fir) trees. There are two helmets: the one on the left side shows the horn of an ibex decorated with black cock feathers and on the other helmet is shown a hemlock (or fir) tree exactly like those on the shield. There is a crown shown between the two helmets and two alert lions on either side holding up the shield. These lions are gold (or light brown or tan)."
Since this "new" Coat of Arms was incorporated in 1769 in the Coats of Arms Book of Hans (Joh.) von Tschudi and was later shown on our Great Family Tree prepared and lettered by Heinrich Blummer in 1851, it is at this time (1954) universally approved and used by almost every country in the world where our people live.
Our device or motto is: "Aspera non Spernit" and when translated from the Latin, it means: "Spurn no Hardships" or "Fear no Difficulties."
(Ref. Documents in the State Archives in Glarus, Zurich, Schwyz, Luzern, Schwanden, Basel and the National Swiss Library in Bern (Berne)."
The book then goes on to list a second or perhaps expanded family motto:
Steadfast like the lions and our Coat of Arms
Take bravely up the fight against the wrong
With strong hands holding up the standard,
Character's highest decoration.
Striving upward great light to gain
Leads also on to higher life."
From "Ein Dandesbuch" St. Gallen, Switzerland"
And there you have it. We're here, we're Swiss, spiritually inseparable from numbered bank accounts, hot chocolate, neutrality and cuckoo clocks.
If you're a Judy (or just curious) here's a link to a site run by a man I've never met named Ken Judy who's delved into The Baron's book a lot more thoroughly than I have:
Please note also, any historical information based on the writings of Judy ancestor Aegidius (or "Giles") Tschudi must be thoroughly double-checked for reasons listed here:
Basically some of that Serf/Slave stuff and our first Coat of Arms may be kind of dodgey but we get to keep everything after 1572 including the cool Coat with the lions.
Finally, to all fellow Judys I say, "Be well and never travel in the forest without your uprooted hemlock (or fir) tree."


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KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan is in no rush to sign a pact with the United States setting out how many U.S. troops will stay after a NATO mission ends next year and may even delay a decision until after a presidential election, President Hamid Karzai said.
Foreign combat troops are due to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014, when the NATO-led mission winds up and the responsibility for fighting Taliban insurgents is handed over to Afghan forces.
But NATO plans to keep a slimmed-down training and advisory mission in Afghanistan after 2014 although the United States and other NATO allies have been slow to provide detailed numbers of troops for the force.
The United States has been putting pressure on Afghanistan to finalize a bilateral security agreement (BSA), which will mandate how many, and where, U.S. soldiers will remain once the NATO mission ends.
U.S. diplomats have said they want the security pact signed by October, to prevent it becoming an issue in the campaign for next year's Afghan presidential election.
"Although the Americans asked for October, we are not in a hurry and if the document is agreed upon during this government, good," Karzai told reporters at his Kabul palace on Saturday.
"And if not, the next president can discuss whether to or not to accept it."
The collapse of a similar pact between the United States and Iraq in 2011 - sparked partly by Iraq's refusal to provide immunity to U.S. soldiers serving there - led to the United States pulling its troops out of Iraq.
In a recent interview with Reuters, the commander of international forces in Afghanistan, U.S. General Joseph Dunford, said he had talked "at every level from district and province to members of parliament ... to President Karzai" and he was adamant the pact would be signed.
NATO's former top military commander, James Stavridis, recently said he thought about 15,000 foreign troops should be kept in Afghanistan, made up of about 9,000 U.S. troops and about 6,000 from other countries.
But U.S. officials support a smaller force of 8,000 to 12,000.
Last month, a senior U.S. defense official said the United States could pull out all forces, the so-called zero option, in the event of a failure to reach a deal with Kabul on legal guarantees for troops.
Talks on the agreement were suspended in June after the opening of a Taliban office in Doha, which enraged Karzai when the Taliban displayed their banner and flag, a reminder of their repressive rule over Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001.
(Reporting By Mirwais Harooni and Hamid Shalizi; Writing by Dylan Welch; Editing by Robert Birsel)


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Suspender belt guide
Suspender belt is a woman's undergarment consisting of an elastic piece of cloth worn around the waist to which garters are attached to hold up stockings. In the United States they are also known as garter belts
Suspender belts were a common, popular alternative to the girdle in the 1940s through the 1960s, especially among teens and young women. The garter belt was simpler and more practical than the girdle because it basically was used only to hold up stockings. It was considered more comfortable than a girdle. Some men's magazines featured models in garter belts and stockings, sometimes with slips or petticoats.
Suspender belts continue to be sold through specialty and some department stores, as well as catalogues and websites, because many women find them more comfortable than girdles or pantyhose. There is also a certain element of sex appeal, too, because many men like their wives or girlfriends to wear garter belts and stockings rather than pantyhose. There are also panties with attached garters, similar to those seen in some of the men's magazines in the early 1960s. Garter belts today are available in a variety of colors and materials; red or black satin garter belts are particularly popular. Six-garter and four-garter versions are available; women find the six-garter styles more practical. Many garter belts today are made of a mixture of nylon and spandex.
A garter belt normally had two or three garters on each side attached to a stiff, reinforced strip of material (at least two or three inches wide) that fastened around the waist. Three garters worked best in attaching the stocking because the two-garter version did not hold the stocking as tight.


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Tropical Fish Keeping - Aquarium fish care and resources
- Livebearers
- - no , not now:(
no , not now:( well my gourami is reaching 5cm and geting quite confident with my ADULT MALE PLATY and hes losing (the gourami) so honey has now moved on to the fry that are bigger and are in the main tank....i had 8 larger fry so i moved them into the main tank then i found 1 dead....so i moved 5 back and the other 2 are missing ....he is now showing his agressive side....its odd but he dosnt bother my adult male guppy?? coment if you can help :) |
gourami's need to be kept as pairs... that is probably why you see such aggression. sorry but he'll keep acting that way until there are more gourami's. Personally when I've had them I always kept a min of 4 in a tank. My suggestion, get at least one more. Also your specific species likes highly planted tanks with floating stuff as well. As a side bit of info. Btw I refer to "he" even though they are hard to tell unless they show color lol... anyways good luck!!! Let us know how it turns out. |
yes its a he ....and i have both live planted plants and floting :) |
in that case I refer back to getting 1-3 more to add to your tank, as long as it can support them. I've kept only one in a community tank and they just are aggressive as can be... by adding more of the same species they get a lot better. |
gouramis r like bettas they dont like company. |
I disagree with that, I've raised them for years in a 100g tank with community fish. they can be picky, but I never had issues with them... I kept 6-10 at a time in the same tank with everything else. also you can't say that about beta's because they do well with other fish. |
Though some gouramis can be a little irritable with each other, it's usually the bigger ones that do that (I'm looking at you, Gold Gourami). The little guys typically do fine in a community setting, in my experience. I agree with the previous poster in that a few more fish may very well curb aggressive tendencies. There's a chance it may not, but it's at least worth a try. |
1 Attachment(s) I use to have 4, 2 gold and 2 blue Gouramis. One of my blues was the biggest of the 4 and he didn't want to play nice at all...needless to say I gave him to my son-inlaw who has a 55 gallon and he seems happy being the only Gourami in there. |
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Voting Rights Advocates Sound Alarm As Supreme Court Hears Proof-Of-Citizenship Case
"If Arizona's brazen attempt to evade the mandates of the NVRA is upheld, it will make it tougher for voters in Arizona to register, and other states with legislatures that are looking to suppress the vote will surely try to pass copycat legislation," said Doug Kendall, president of the liberal-leaning Constitutional Accountability Center. "If the Court accepts Arizona's most sweeping arguments against the NVRA, its ruling could severely limit Congress' power to protect the right of Americans to register to vote."
Rick Hasen, an election law expert and professor at UC-Irvine School of Law, told TPM that the "implications of this sleeper case could be profound."
"If the Court holds that Arizona does not have to accept the federal form for voter registrations, it could have a major effect on the power of the federal government to impose rules on states for running congressional elections," Hasen said in an email.
The challengers will argue that Prop 200 violates the NVRA by creating an unlawful burden for people to register to vote. Arizona will counter that its law, enacted by voters in 2004 in an effort to prohibit illegal immigrants from voting, is permissible under the NVRA. Arizona says the Constitution does not let Congress pre-empt nondiscriminatory voting laws in states.
"In sum," Arizona writes in its brief, "this Court should find that the NVRA does not preempt Proposition 200's evidence-of-citizenship requirement to avoid the serious constitutional question of whether, as so applied, it intrudes upon the States' power under the Voter Qualifications Clauses to define and enforce voter qualifications in federal elections."
Opponents of Prop 200 want to draw more attention to the case, which comes as the high court also considers overturning a centerpiece of the Voting Rights Act. Unlike the pending VRA case, however, the Prop 200 case is not about discrimination in voting laws, but rather about whether requiring proof of citizenship is too burdensome.
"Our Constitution grants Congress the power to pass legislation which makes our federal elections freer, fairer, and more accessible," said Myrna Pérez, senior counsel at the liberal-leaning Brennan Center For Justice. "If that authority is undermined, voters could lose protections that are necessary and commonplace in today's world."


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Photography is literally writing with light. As you read through Lighting 101 you'll learn how to take control of your electronic flash. If you can imagine it, you'll be able to create it.
You'll learn how to take the flash that you probably already have attached to the top of your camera and use it off-camera to make beautiful, more three-dimensional photos. Once you learn the basics of controlling light, you'll quickly see that most lighting is intuitive, easy and fun.
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It's the location and the quality of the light that is most important, not how much you spent. By getting your flash off-camera, your images become more three-dimensional, more textural and more professional looking.
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My mom's been trying to help me settle in. . . she keeps asking me if I've met my neighbor (a twentysomething gal--saw her and said hi once, she responded with a hi and kept walking).
Mom accompanied me on a shopping expedition (who knew Target sells staplers but not staples?), and she planted a few flowers around my patio while I cleaned the car out in anticipation of taking it in Monday morning for repairs from the accident. There's little parking available in front of my building, so I had the car parked in front of the patio to carry a few things in the patio door. (Hate doing that for fear of trampling the lawn and tracking mud inside, but right now it's semi-Spring and everything's still dead.)
We brought all the car things inside and Mom put the gardening tools in the kitchen. I wanted to get on the road back to her house so I wasn't parked illegally for too long, and as we're getting in the car, my next door neighbor's patio door slides open and her boyfriend hangs out the door. He's talking on his cell phone--in his bathrobe. Hello!
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Despite what my critics would have you believe, my rejection of doping is all-encompassing, and not contingent upon learning the identity of the rider(s) involved in the scandal du jour. I have no interest in participating in, let alone leading, a "witch hunt" against Lance, and the effort I dedicated to exposing Levi's 1996 positive test was based solely on my disgust with the hypocrisy of those who viciously attacked Vino after his L-B-L win, while blissfully ignoring the former dopers in their own midst.
That Lance and Bottle are in the spotlight right now for all the wrong reasons is their fault - it's not a result of my having some conditional anti-doping agenda.
I hate doping in cycling because of its potential to wreak havoc with the lives of others, like it ultimately did to me. I repeatedly tell my story as a warning - a desperate one - because, as we see now - even the most moneyed athlete isn't immune to doping's destructive forces (even if he still claims to be clean, and thus doesn't even acknowledge how his alleged involvement with doping is destroying his own life).
If someone involved in doping is considering coming clean, I think it's crucial that they unequivocally reject doping, acknowledge the complete magnitude of their involvement, wash their hands of the cheating, the lying, the dishonesty, serve their ban and try to get on with their lives. I don't think that it's absolutely necessary that they prostrate themselves at the altar of public scrutiny and address what they did from a moral perspective, however. That arbitrary demand encourages too much political correctness, and makes it so that an athlete who might have doped in Chile in order to earn more money to support an extended family has to couch his actions in moral terms rather than just admitting that they were influenced by socioeconomic concerns.
Ok, I admit that my argument isn't as well-developed as I'd like it to be, but I don't have limitless time to devote to writing about this stuff. Send your suggestions, complaints and feedback to the usual address.
At the end of the day, right now, I guess I'm in the minority because I don't think that riders should be held to a segment of the public's whims and be made to "confess" to moral failings before they're "welcomed" back to cycling. There is a reason why WADA/UCI don't demand evidence of that kind of behavior when assessing post-sanction compliance. If that's how you genuinely feel, though, by all means - make that clear to your public. But I don't think the public has the right to demand that of the post-sanction athlete. Only a fraction of the world's cycling fans read Cyclingnews.com, VeloNews, Pez, etc...and yet the UCI serves a constituency of nations - all of whom are entitled to expect that their athletes will be treated fairly and uniformly.
But that doesn't mean that you, The Public, can't raise your voices and put forth your own suggestions and demands and requests related to anti-doping. In fact, I'd hope you would do just that in the case of the former Gerolsteiner team manager Hans-Michael Holczer, who this week claimed that Levi Leipheimer's blood values during the 2005 Tour de France "showed a very high probability of manipulation," according to German press agency SID.
As Cyclingnews.com advises us, "During his time as a team manager, Holczer was outspoken about doping in cycling and insisted on several occasions that he had confidence in his riders. He famously – and naively – claimed several years ago that he knew they were clean and that he simply didn't need to run internal tests like those performed by other teams at the time; this later came back to haunt him when both Bernhard Kohl and Stefan Schumacher tested positive for CERA during the 2008 Tour de France."
In case the dots aren't jumping out at you and connecting themselves, Holczer actually knew about doping on his team but covered it up, to protect his economic interests. Then, he pretended to the public to not know about doping on his team - to support his PR aims. And when his star riders, including my friend Bernhard Kohl, tested positive, he hung them out to dry but then threw them under a bus - in a desperate ploy to hang onto the sponsor and show himself to be "tough" on doping, but apparently also a rube who was easily fooled by those sophisticated cyclists.
One rider he chose not to flick was Levi Leipheimer - because the scandal that followed supposedly would have bankrupted Holczer personally, and it would have been a voluntary descent into hell. While the UCI asked Holczer to remove Levi from the team, Leipheimer was technically not (+) for doping, and so free to compete. Yanking Levi from the Tour team and firing him from the squad would have seen the American respond with the legal equivalent of the "Nuclear Option."
Yet now in 2010, Holczer has no problem whatsoever with crucifying Levi and publicly accusing him of the same blood doping he tried to cover-up in 2005. Where was Holczer then?!?
Are you surprised that Holczer is "telling the truth" now because he's promoting his new book, "Garantiert Positiv" ("Guaranteed Positive") - and presumably has an interest in selling as many as he can?
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- Anonymous07 August, 2010 02:32
Only thing surprising to me is that there isn't more of a storm in the German media calling Holczer an opportunist.
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WHAT IT MEANS: The Brooklyn Nets snapped an eight-game losing streak in Minnesota (November 2002).
They did so with a 91-83 victory over the undermanned but feisty Timberwolves on Wednesday night at Target Center.
The Nets (26-16) have now won three in a row, and improved to 12-2 under interim coach P.J. Carlesimo, 16-0 overall against sub-.500 teams (at time of game played). They trail the Knicks by a half game for the Atlantic Division lead.
Brooklyn didn't play well by any means, but overcame a 6-for-20 3-point shooting performance and 14 turnovers to come away with the win. The Nets out-rebounded the Timberwolves, 45-37.
BROOK-LYN: Brook Lopez, who will find out if he's named to his first All-Star team as a reserve on Thursday night, posted another fine line: 22 points, seven rebounds and two blocks on 10-for-16 shooting. Lopez hit his first four shots en route to 10 first-quarter points.
BROOKLYN'S BACKCOURT: Deron Williams stuffed the stat sheet to the tune of 18 points, eight assists, six rebounds and three steals, while Joe Johnson chipped in 18 points on 8-for-16 shooting.
C.J.'S DAY: C.J. Watson, who has struggled all season, delivered in a big way, scoring 14 points in 19 minutes off the bench -- including the team's first nine in the fourth quarter.
STAGNANT: The Nets started off the third quarter by making just one of their first 10 shots. At one point, they went 6:01 without a field goal, allowing the Timberwolves to cut a 14-point deficit to five. The Nets ended up going 6-for-20 in the third and were outscored 20-15 in the quarter.
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SHORT-HANDED:The Timberwolves were without Kevin Love, Nikola Pekovic and Alexy Shved.
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Looming on the dusk horizon like the teeth of the Cheshire Cat It mocks me because, as I zoom down the Slalom Slope of Christmas Present, I've forgotten it is TONIGHT! I've been too busy with the general Bling Ding Ring of preparations and Workshop FUN to pay attention to something very important. LIKE What the — am I going to WEAR? I just went through my closet and found NOTHING! My party frocks seem prehistorically lame and dowdy – even my old standbye – that gorgeous Red Shantung Silk Blouse that fits me like a glove is pointing and laughing and shouting LOSER at me because I wore that, ahem, the last time. I hate my clothes! And right now, there are 10 hrs between me and Cocktails with the Boss and ZIP NADDA nothin' is coming to mind… Stores are not helping – even though every Christmas as I shop for others, I REALLY shop for myself – I've seen nothing that rings my chimes and makes me dive for my wallet. I don't want to wear a camisole with a skirt! I was just kidding about that poncho I was going to make! I really want it but it just ain't gonna happen. And what about this? I see this outfit every day from the windows of the #66 at the Ralph Lauren store on Chicago Ave. (OK – the City is named Chicago – why did they name a Street: Chicago?!) It is one of their Party Looks for the Season – a long buckskin skirt with fringe topped by an Aran cabled tube top with long cabled arm warmers WITH (not done yet) All Winter White All the TIme… And is it just me, or does the Mannequin seem a little… COLD? Why oh why do we suddenly need total anatomically temperature correct Plastic Figures on display? It not only annoys the Locals but the Tourists Loud Tittering all the way down the street after they pass is giving me a migraine… I consulted with several male co-workers (I am the only female in my group) and they ALL voted for BLACK! ANYTHING black… When I asked about Strapless I was met with Guffaws a plenty and someone actually uttered the word PROM, but that was a reporter and he has a big vocabulary! It seems that guys maybe like to see that look on other people's dates, occasionally, but it really is NOTHING compared to Black Boots and a tight Black Skirt. The people have spoken…
floats my Company Christmas Party.
It is laughing at me…
a VERY long WIDE cabled scarf.
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Oh yes. She's definitely cold.
I have to agree with your co-workers. You can't go wrong with black. Ever.
I wanted, also, to thank you for your blocking tips from yesterday. I'm gettting ready to block a vest and I'm going to try the wet towel trick today! Good luck finding something to wear. I hate that.
How about black on the bottom, and Rapunzel on top? She's a party girl.
Black. Every guy I know and have known loves to see a woman in black!
Bonne Marie, you kill me. Nothing is worse than having nothing to wear. Also, I laughed because I do believe that I wore a strapless number to my own prom, oh so many years ago. Good luck in the search……I love black, but personally the surprise of some color is always nice too.
A SPLASH of color will be provided by a Red Velvet Tank top that is printed with sublte black paisleys…
It will be discreetly covered by this:
http://www.chicknits.com/furcollar.shtmlI have plenty-o-bling to pile on as well…
I dare you to knit that tank/armwarmers/scarf ensemble. You may get a case of hypothermia but you'll look smashing!
When you wrote that nothing you saw in the stores was appealing — I was thinking of that Ralph Lauren number before I even scrolled down!! Isn't it the best?!?
Black with some red and plenty of bling bling sounds like just the ticket for party-time. Too many folks in black with glasses of whiskey in their hands and this Irish Catholic thinks that she's wandered into a wake!
Absolutely gorgeous – it's a very exciting and sexy combination! You should buy it!
yep, she is definitely a bit nippy. i've never seen a mannequin so anatomically correct before. nippies or not, the outfit is gorgeous but i'm the kinda' gal that wears black and more black.
Go with the Ralph Lauren outfit, it is amazingly cool. Black is overdone in my opinion and I am just so tired of seeing all the black at parties. The last party I went to there was only one woman in a colour and that was myself. So my vote is anything but black, stand out in the croud.
My husband votes for black too. With red accents like a silk scarf and definately red,red,red nails.
Good luck, I've got to come up with something for Sat.. You must have caught on to the whole closet full of clothes mock fest, they have been snickering all day! -
Hey, wear what you want. It's not as if the men are the ones that will be shoved into dresses you'll fear exhaling and eating in because of tummy pucker. Nor will they be forced into two inch high heels that give you a blister in the first 15 minutes while ramming your toes into a point that a podiatrist would cringe at.
Lastly, it should at least get you some attention. Hollywood uses bright colored clothing on streets to seperate the star from the milling street crowd. Shouldn't it work the same for an office party?
Guess it is a bit too late for us to vote :) But I like BCBG's dresses. Very colorful and unique. -
Inquiring minds want to know…so, what did you wear?
I was about to ask what Leslie asked…. What DID you end up wearing?
I ended up wearing a soft green sheer knitted flare bottom & sleeved tight sweater with a black skirt, black tights, black heeled boots…
LOL…thanks for posting (now I can rest)! (just kidding). Sounds like a lovely outfit – I hope you had a great time!