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Can Droopy Eyelid Caused by Nerve Injury Recover by Itself?
Recently, I have droopy eyelid on my right eye and the last thing I did was getting my tooth pulled out so I guess there must be something went wrong... READ MORE
Who Can Confirm Upper Bleph Muscle/Nerve Damage?
What type of doctor/specialist can confirm muscle and nerve damage after upper blepharoplasty surgery was performed? Are there any customary tests... READ MORE
Is Facial Nerve Damage Possible After a Lower Blepharoplasty, with Skin Removal, and Fat Repositioning?
I'm almost 2 weeks post op. Have swelling with hard lump where fat was placed. My lower lid is droopy along with what feels like nerve pain,(hot,... READ MORE
How to Help Nerve Damage After a Bletharoplasty and SOOF Suspension?
I had an upper and lower bletharoplasty and an SOOF suspension five years ago. I was unfortunately left with nerve/muscle damage. Although there is no... READ MORE
What is the Treament for Damaged Motor Nerve Fibers Post Eyelid Surgery?
I had eyelid surgery six years ago and was left with damage to the motor nerve fibers. Is there a treatment for this condition and if so how would it... READ MORE
I have uneven eyes, my left eye is smaller and irritates me. Can you help? (Photo)
When I was 13 I would get pink eye on my left eye every 3-4 months. I'm 18 now and I never get that pink eye. But, my left eye still irritates/is WAY... READ MORE
Will Medications Affect Blepharoplasty Healing?
I am 26 and had upper blepharoplasty plus brow lift 3 months ago, i was recently diagnosed with nerve damage which can numb my face from time to time.... READ MORE
Could an eyebrow injury cause nerve damage in rest of the face?
When i was a few years old i got a deep cut on the end of my eyebrow, and more than a decade later my eyebrow droops a little, eyelid droops, and that... READ MORE
Curious If My Eyelid Surgery Resulted In Nerve Damage?
I had my first eyelid op done may 23rd of this yr. my eye of course was swollen etc..but after a cpl wks i noticed it wasn't opening at all, even once... READ MORE
What are the signs/issues of muscle/nerve damage after having an Upper Blepharoplasty operation?
Thanks for your time and assist. What are the signs/issues of muscle/nerve damage after having an upper blepharoplasty operation? Would having a... READ MORE
Blethoplasty procedure successful? Eyes are still puffy, and hollowness wasn't corrected? (Photo)
16 m post op, the results on the lower lids are fading and the upper lid has some kind of nerve issue. The puffiness and hollow look is starting to... READ MORE
Are these common permanent complications after blepharoplasty? Ptosis, Lagophthalmos? Is it rare, or something you see?
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Can a swollen eyelid from dust mite allergy result in droopy eyelids? (photo)
So, a few months ago I had a dust mite allergy. I would wake up and find bumps on my arms, neck and legs and they would be pretty itchy. A few days... READ MORE
Is there anyway to prevent my eye from closing when I smile? (photos)
Im now 44 but at 12 years old I was a passenger in a vehicle crash and was ejected from the vehicle through the front windshield. The glass cut me... READ MORE
I had Chalazion removed 8 years ago and left in extreme daily agony. Was my nerve damaged?
I had a chalazion removed 8 years ago. I had the chalazion for 3 years due to misdiagnosis. There is a lump left over which is not the main problem.... READ MORE
Is it a must, prior acoustic neuroma surgery ,to protect eyes in case of face nerve damage?
I saw in consultation independed ophthalmic plastic& reconstructive surgeon two month after I underwent right acoustic neuroma surgery in October 2011... READ MORE
Would permanent nerve damage create difficulty in lifting sagging lid, requiring different surgical approach?
Lid sag is from skull based tumor surgery thirty years ago and I did not address it for fear of lid not closing or staying closed. Now with aging it... READ MORE
Possible Zygomalicotemporal Nerve Bundle damage during lower bleph and Soof Lift. Options? (Photo)
3 weeks post op - I've been back to doctor 2X for heavy scaring on right upper eye and corner, pain, numbness, dark circles and weird discoloration. 1... READ MORE
My friend just had upper and lower eye surgery for bags. A week later, she is unable to look up. Is this nerve damage?
Do I have nerve or muscle damage? Would it be best to have cosmetic surgery or try and fix the root of the problem? (Photo)
Left lower lid wont move after orbital floor fracture repair sustained by an MVA. I also have a fracture that was repaired on the left side of my... READ MORE


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I moved everything yesterday. the hardest part was fitting my body into positions to do the zip-tying. I would post pics, but I dont have the permission yet. Once I do I will post pics. You do have to be somewhat careful with the fiber optic cables, but they bend around fairly easy. I zip-tied the larger computer module in 3 places to the inner drivers side fender, behind the trim panel. Zip tied the TPSM under the hard plastic trim molding under where the trunk latches, and the convenience antenna right behind the rear taillight. I honestly cannot think of a reason why BMW didnt just design it this way...there is plenty of space, virtually ZERO chance of water or spills damaging the electronics, and the convenience antenna is now up higher and not under a tire and rim. Funny thing is, there are other electronics very close up above the drivers side fender/wheel well, and a relay or electronic solenoid under the trunk latch...so those areas not only have space to hold these other parts, but they are "dry" spaces...and any moisture that does get into these new spots is in the air, not physical. Oh well, there always has to be ne or two dumb things I guess.
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Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., has pressed the Obama administration to determine its enforcement policy for states allowing marijuana use. The senator has asked for assurances from the administration that state officials responsible for the licensing of marijuana retailers won't face criminal penalties for carrying out their duties under those state laws.
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The abrupt retirement of Mark Schwarzer, likely to be followed by other legends of the Socceroos' past two World Cups, exposes flaws in the system regarding national team duty and the game's continuing inability to manage these situations with foresight and care.
The idea was that Football Federation Australia would sign a coach after the last World Cup who would personally decide if, and when, such extraordinary and singular careers would cease.
This having not been carried out, a change was made that, for whatever reason, resulted in the immediate cessation of national team duty.
Resignation, actually. That is what you call a mess.
If Schwarzer wishes to look anywhere for answers, it should be to those responsible for managing the last coach and the regeneration of this World Cup cycle, who abrogated their duty until it was too late.
Rather than step aside in a blaze of glory for the new generation, with all the accompanying fanfare, Schwarzer is collateral damage of the failed implementation of a strategy that was publicly endorsed three years ago.
The opportunity to walk away gracefully was always open to Schwarzer and others, but the number of players who voluntarily opt to walk and potentially miss a major tournament is a very great deal shorter than those who stay until the bitter end.
We all have our view on what should have happened over the past three years but don't forget that, in Italy for instance, there are serious considerations by coach Cesare Prandelli of a call-up for in-form 37-year-old Francesco Totti, so different countries manage age in very different ways.
The ideal scenario would have been for regrowth to have occurred much earlier, giving the inheritors much greater international experience before forthcoming challenges. The transition could have been handled with far more respect.
The moment of qualification would have been ideal, for example, for a great gesture from the senior group that their work was done; they had carried us to the holy land for the third and final time, and were making way for the next generation. They should have at least offered to, anyway, leaving the door open for a smooth exit at any time.
This may not have been possible to engineer, as players are notoriously loath to leave behind the beautiful emotion of wearing the national shirt, and understandably so. Nevertheless the list of public and promotional opportunities to celebrate their sacrifice would have been long, loud and hugely valuable to the game.
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The National Hockey League's players union and owners have agreed to bring in mediators in a bid to end a lockout that has prevented the season from starting.
The mediation will be non-binding but the hope is that the third party will help get the two sides taking part again in meaningful talks on reaching a new collective bargaining agreement.
"I have had separate, informal discussions with the key representatives of the National Hockey League and the National Hockey League Players' Association during the course of their negotiations for a successor collective bargaining agreement," federal mediation director George Cohen said in a statement on Monday.
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Mediation was used in the 2004-05 lockout when the NHL missed its entire season because of a labour dispute.
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Gymnastics Falls at Two-Time Defending National Champions
By Evan Crane
Jan. 25, 2013 -
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The 15th-ranked University of Kentucky gymnastics team could not continue its blitzing start to the 2013 season, falling 196.575-194.8 to the two-time defending national champion No. 5 Alabama Crimson Tide on Friday inside Coleman Coliseum.
The loss was Kentucky's first in a Southeastern Conference dual meet this season after getting off to a school-record 2-0 start in conference play with wins over Auburn and Arkansas each of the last two weeks. Kentucky (4-2, 2-1 SEC) set or tied four career highs in the meet, including three on balance beam alone.
UK head coach Tim Garrison and Co. entered the meet against No. 5 Alabama in the midst of the best start in school history. UK started the season with a second-place finish in California, defeating Auburn and Arizona, before winning its first SEC road meet since 1999 two weeks ago at Auburn. Last weekend, Kentucky took down No. 9 Arkansas marking the first back-to-back SEC dual meet wins in school history.
Kentucky's best team score of the night came on beam when it scored a 48.975. Three Wildcats earned career-high or career-high tying marks on the event, including sophomore Shannon Mitchell who led UK with a 9.85. Juniors Kayla Sienkowski and Alexis Gross each tied a career high with a 9.825, while freshman Marissa Beucler grabbed a 9.75 and junior Alexis Gross a 9.725. Junior Holly Cunningham concluded the rotation with a 9.35.
The Wildcats did well on floor exercise with a team score of 48.875. Junior Kayla Hartley led Kentucky on the event with a strong score of 9.825, while sophomores Kenzie Hedges and Mitchell posted 9.8s. Harrison grabbed a 9.775, while freshman Tiarra Phipps scored a 9.675. Sophomore Shelby Hilton scored a 9.05.
UK scored a 48.65 on vault led by Hedges, who finished with a 9.825, which is just off her career high. Cunningham posted a 9.775 on the event, followed by Harrison, who scored a 9.725. Hilton grabbed a 9.7, while freshman Jill Chappel grabbed a 9.65. Hartley grabbed a 9.5 to conclude the UK scoring on the event.
Kentucky started the meet on bars, getting a career-high tying 9.825 from Hartley. Gross had a great routine for UK, scoring a 9.85, while Hilton earned a 9.75. Sophomore Sara Shipley posted a 9.625, while two Wildcats had mishaps with Harrison scoring a 9.25 and Sienkowski a 9.075.
Fans wishing to watch the meet on television can tune into Fox Sports South on Feb. 2 to see the meet. Kentucky's Jan. 18 win over Arkansas will air on the same network Saturday.
Kentucky will return to action next Friday night when it plays host to No. 7 LSU, marking the third consecutive meet for UK against a top-15 squad. The meet against the Tigers is set to begin at 7 p.m. ET inside Memorial Coliseum. For ticket information, contact the UK Ticket Office at (859) 257-1818.
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Final Scores
1.) Alabama 196.575; 2.) Kentucky 194.8
UK Scores: VAULT 48.65, BARS 48.3, BEAM 48.975, FLOOR 48.875
Vault: Chappel 9.65, Hartley 9.5, Hilton 9.7, Harrison 9.725, Hedges 9.825, Cunningham 9.775
Bars: Shipley 9.625, Sienkowski 9.075, Hartley 9.825**, Hilton 9.75, Gross 9.85, Harrison 9.25
Beam: Sienkowski 9.825**, Mitchell 9.85**, Beucler 9.75, Harrison 9.825**, Gross 9.725, Cunningham 9.35
Floor: Hilton 9.05, Phipps 9.675, Hedges 9.8, Mitchell 9.8, Harrison 9.775, Hartley 9.825
All-Around: Harrison 38.55
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There is no mistaking that Christian summer camps are in Dustin's blood. He grew up at Shady Grove Youth Camp – The Summit where his grandfather, Dr. Al Janney, had a ministry for most of Dustin's youth. His desire to continue that tradition but bring it to the youth of this generation is one of the cornerstones of Above the Waves this summer. Dustin has been serving in youth ministry for fifteen years and currently serves as the youth pastor at Avalon Church in Orlando, Fl. During that time, he has been in charge of many youth events including one-day camps and rallies. Dustin brings his extensive experience to Above the Waves this year. He's been dreaming of this camp for years and is so excited to see God's plan come to life. Dustin and his wife Brooke have two daughters and are expecting their first son this spring. He is very competitive and has likely played and won every camp game you have ever seen. Good thing he is coming up with all new ones for Above the Waves.
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Playing with her pert breasts she runs her hands down her body towards her smooth shaved pussy where she stretches and wriggels her way to a secretive and very intimate orgasm
They say it's bad to take work home with you. Well the opposite must be true when a shoot comes to the office.
Yep, new hottie Barbara comes to abby HQ to help out with some filing and photocopying but before you know it she's shedding her cute red skirt and tank-top and wandering around naked. Round bum, toned body and playful smile she tours the office while the team is beavering away creating more shoots for you. The question is, will she bother to get dressed before leaving?
Playful and sexually unstoppable Masie goes over and under the clothes which hide Haydens slim, toned and beautifully natural body before pulling them off to reveal Hayden to all; Hayden then tickles, spanks and moves around Masies small pert body, stimulating her with every touch.
Starting off painting Haydens nails things soon take a turn for the boisterous as the two dive on top of each other, entangleing their legs and stretching into a montage of beautiful, sensual and very sexual positions before reaching an intense climax at the end of the bed.
Aime is the well endowed young French girl backpacking around Australia making full use of her sexy accent and free spirit. She has a full bush, magnificent large boobs that tightly snuggle into her bikini as she tips her toes and a bit more into the bubbling Jacuzzi.
Let her whisper sweet and sexy French naughty stories into your ear...
Every day is new and exciting for us here at abbywinters.com, but when Barbara started walking up our stairs with her cute little smile we knew that day was going to a little more interesting than most! Wandering around our office in her suggestive little red skirt and tight top she not only helps out with a little bit of filing and photocopying, but also finds a little time to help herself to some mischievous play in the workplace. (which of course, we don't mind!)
Legs spread and stretched out between the filing cabinets she shows off her gorgeous toned body and pert large breasts. Moving through the office she tries her hand at some computer work and in office acrobatics!
Sitting naked on the window sill at the end of the day she contemplates her hard days work and we all, as you will, hope that this is not a just a one off!
The beautifuly bubbly and volumtuous Aime dips her large breasts and gorgeous curves into the warmth of the Jacuzzi as she slowly takes off her bikini over and under the water.
Teasing us not only with her French accent in the video she teses us with peeks and glimpses of her trimmed dark pubes and cute, seductive smile.
This shoot is so simple to explain. Charlotte = sexy smoldering hot naked awesome.
That alluring accent telling rousing sex stories, that incredibly fit body, those pert breasts, the long gorgeous legs.
I could watch this girl all day long and never get bored. Perfection with a peeerrrrr.
Dark Skinned voluptuous big breasted Nayomi teams up up with the pale blonde Kiwi Hayden in a hot double wank session.
When the t.v is not working theses girls entertain themselves and take matters into their own hands... They talk about having sex with other girls and their shared love of "pussy" and Nayomi tells story of her first oral sex experience with another girl at a very young age. They compare techniques and show each other how they masturbate. Maybe Hayden cheekily did unplug the t.v on purpose? ;)
Charlotte's gorgeous brown eyes and pert breasts really add to her amazing bubbly personality, and this multi-colored shoot shows that.
Charlotte also has extremely smooth and sensual skin, perfectly tanned from the Australian sun which she cant help but touch shyly and seductively. A real down to earth girl that enjoys showing off all shes got.
Gina and Steve are a very cute couple and in their first Girl Boy shoot we are treated to an intimate and passionate display of how this couple make love. It starts off very playfully with some flirting and chit chat in Hungarian. Then as the foreplay begins to heighten their arousal things progress into some more intimate and erogenous touching.
Gina and Steve have been together for four years and four days, their chemistry is undeniable as they lovingly caress, kiss, touch, such and pleasure each other until a sweaty breathless orgasm is shared. Gina has a long steamy build up to her intense orgasm and she doesn't hide her sated state.
Gina, "Was it really so good for you too?" Steve, "Yes! It was wonderful."
After a long day of school I picked myself up to have an afternoon lounge session with Dahlia.
This lounge session turned out to be a little more intense than I expected. This red haired sweetheart totally blew me away with her tiny kisses and girlish giggling.
I'm very pleased that I finally found a girl who has the same fair skin as I! And I do not feel sorry of having an extreme close up of her beautiful face when she orgasms twice. Hopefully you will get to see some more of that soon, as well.
If I can find the time for that, cause by finishing my semester a new challenge came on my path. This summer I will be trained to be a shooter for abbywinters.com.
Hopefully you'll enjoy my shooting work as much as my modeling work and please keep me posted on your thoughts on my forum.
Kus Nichole
The gorgeously slim and sexualy erotic Gina introduces her boy-friend Steve to abbywinters.com for the first girl-boy shoot in well over half a decade!
In this beautifully honest and sensual shoot Steve and Gina show their intamcy with each other, and open up thier sex life by treating each other to a melange of provocatively arousing oral sex followed by intensely passionate and loving sex. The shoot culminates in Gina on all fours, arching her back and writhing in pleasure as Steve enters her from behind to bring them both to a syncronised climax.
Models and staff members working together behind the scenes to bring you the finest erotic site that they can - that's what you'll see in the Backstage series.
It's really popular among our members, so be sure to look and see what all the fuss is about. Backstage 268 is up today!
Naughty glasses clad, hairy pale German girl Gretchen is upto no good again, this time she seduces the red haired, small breasted beauty Dahila, on the floor of her apartment.
Things get passionate early as horny Gretchen wastes no time to get into Dahlias pants. It's clear that Grechten is hungry for some some intense girl girl love and Dahila is more than happy to reciprocate. The two entangle in a solid lustful lady love session, sucking and licking each other into an orgasmic bliss.
Theses two beautiful girls are sure to raise your heart beat and get the blood flowing!
Sexy Nichole is back with another masturbation video. She slips off her tank top and softly teases her smooth fair skinned body. Playing with her pert nipples and pussy.
Nichole likes to close her eyes while she touches herself. I wonder what she thinks of? Probably a good question for her on the discussion boards. Her nipples are hard and erect this is a great intimate moment, not just because Nicole is hot but also because she manages not one but two body shaking orgasms.
Isadora looks so cool in her sunglasses and stylish top and white skirt as she wanders through the beautiful green field. Her read hair and red pubes look amazing against the lush open fields as the strips in the first long shot revealing her free flowing full bush.
It is a very picturesque location for an amazingly rare specimen. Along with the red hair and pubes, Isadora has freckles and large boobs. It is perfect for such a uniquely natural women to be set against such a spectacular backdrop and it all combines for an extremely beautiful return solo video.
Two stunning girls passionatly embracing themselves and each other in this erotically high-paced girl on girl set, Gretchens slim body and beautiful pert breasts presses up to and explores Dahlias sensual curves.
Dahlias vivid red hair tickles the insides of Gretchens long legs as the two experiment with position after position until helping each other reach an intense and deeply intimate climax.
Isadora's vivid red hair stands in gorgeous contrast against the lush greens of the grass field and deep blue of her small dress.
Laying between the grass she sensually undresses to reveal her stunning pale skin and soft tufts of golden red pubic and arm pit hair.
This shoot really does show of this all natural girl at her best in all natural surroundings.
Two words that together we love: Sexy Geek. That's what bookworm Jemma is and heavy on the sexy at that. Hangout on her bed for a while and listen to some literature as she lounges around in a flannelet shirt and her light purple g-string.
She teasingly removes her clothes to show you her beautiful, cute, trim and tall body. As well as her lovely smooth pale white skin. This is one study date well worth making and with a few sexy bonus surprises too. If only studying was this fun.
Beautiful and bubbly Nayomi is quick to get naked and cute Twyla likes this and watches her which lead them into fingering and rubbing themselves for the ultimate climax!
They flirt and clearly have a bundle of chemistry, Twyla "do you fantasize about things?", Nayomi "Yeah, mostly about eating a girl out".
Innocent and reserved, Jemma's a girl that seems that way at first. But you got to watch out for the quite ones! In the bedroom its another story, flirtatiously undressing and showing off her gorgeous figure, long legs and pert little breasts Jemma really comes out of her shell to show you her passionate side.
Its washing day and Alyssia is sorting her laundry, but she's soon distracted and sits on the floor and gently opens her nightie exposing a perfect pair of breasts.
She spreads her legs apart and starts to rub, masturbating intensively and panting softly. Her tanned body shakes and quivers while she cums hard and falls into a heap on the floor, satisfied and content.
So most of us know Iveta well through her 12 shoots that feature a range of sex, masturbation and one on one time. However in this solo new things are revealed. We already knew about Iveta's beautiful face, warm smile, buxom body and big boobs. But what some of us didn't know is all about her German heritage. She speaks it throughout the shoot and surprises us with her accent, as her English was so proficient in all her other shoots.
Iveta proceeds, teasing us by squeezing her cozi against her full boobs and writhing around on the bed throwing suggestive and sexy looks right down the barrel. Iveta you rock!
With her hairy armpits, glasses and hairy pussy, Twyla leads dark skinned and shaved Priya in an intimate masturbation session.
They met on Movie Night Girls and now here they are together again. Wearing matching socks and hats, they chat about clothes, vibrators and even compare techniques. Twyla draws it out and makes sure she comes as hard as she possible can. Don't you just love a woman that oozes sexuality and knows how to do it right for her?
We all know and love the sexy Christen. A popular model with a heap of very teasing shoots. And this is another to add to a stunning collection. However, this particular solo video is a bit different to the rest.
All silent. A roaming camera follows the every move of her sublime body and look of her beautiful face. She teases and seduces you with her wonderful round pert bum and boobs, and melts you into the palm of her hand with those big bold eyes and sexy facial expressions.
Models and staff members working together behind the scenes to bring you the finest erotic site that they can - that's what you'll see in the Backstage series.
It's really popular among our members, so be sure to look and see what all the fuss is about. Backstage 267 is up today!
Two Horny naturally beautiful girls, short haired blonde Kiwi lass Hayden with her tasty shaved vagina, and the red haired small breasted hairy beauty Dahila, start to have a relaxing picnic in the lush green bush, as the weather heats up, so do theses girls and the innocent picnic soons turns into a shag-a-rama in the bush.
Natural, erotic, passionate sex with two cute girls having some fiery sex and enjoying themselves.
Boob sucking, fingering, passionate kissing, pussy grinding, and pussy licking... there is something for everyone in this sex feast in the great outdoors!
If you missed Anges' first intimate moment then do yourself a favour and click here and open that gem in another window.
If you had seen that rousing first time display of masturbation by Agnes, then you will no doubt be looking forward to yet another scintillating offering from this stunning exotic Asian.
This petite minx is amazing. A simply gorgeous girl from head to toe. And best of all, she certainly knows her own body and exactly how to have intense orgasms during another spectacular masturbation session.
Lynley is full of energy. So bubbly and and talkative she explodes onto the screen and doesn't stop. We have seen Lynley before in a number of girl girl shoots but its nice to spend some one on one time as she takes us through the garage of a friends place.
Hoping on pushbikes bikes, motorbikes and juggling all feature. As dose the neatly trimmed full bush, long socks and lovely petite naked body of Lynley.


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John Wolseley could pass for a 19th-century gentleman explorer: an artist, naturalist and geographer rolled into one. But his work is also strongly contemporary. By Rebecca Lancashire.
Meticulously arranged on a wall in John Wolseley's gothic and gently crumbling studio/flat is a series of intriguing objects: a curving sliver of mangrove tree; an old-fashioned cartographer's tool for ruling parallel lines; a Chinese calligraphy brush; and a giant, half-skeletal leaf from the Malaysian jungle. It's tempting to see them as a guide to their owner.
Wolseley is an artist whose distinctive work often looks like fragments from ancient maps, with exquisite botanical illustrations, musings, scientific diagrams and snippets of poetry around the mountains and along the coastline. His intense investigations into the nature of place have taken him from Patagonia to the Wimmera and beyond. He once devoted four years to studying the Wallace Line (the zoogeographic divide between Asia and Australasia), examining the movement of the tectonic plates of Gondwana and Laurasia and the resulting ecosystems. The obscure and fascinating results included drawings showing the connections between, for instance, the Australian marsupial glider and the squirrels of Borneo.
With his mellifluous English vowels and dapper red waistcoat, Wolseley could pass for a 19th-century gentleman explorer: an artist, naturalist and geographer rolled into one. Some have even cast him as a romantic nomad, setting off on solo expeditions into the outback and cooking his goanna over the campfire with the aid of a good chardonnay.
But his work is also strongly contemporary. His maps are not readable in the conventional sense: they whirl about through time and space. As writer Barry Hill said in The Age in 1999. He is "a Renaissance man without the commitment to 'perspective'. His perspective lies in his historic application of different aspects of thought and feeling . . . while striving for penetrating metaphors of self."
Wolseley himself puts it more modestly: "The old gentleman naturalists were looking forward and discovering new things, whereas I am looking back, I am deconstructing that. I'm often the last to see something, rather than the first."
Alongside the search for greater connection with and understanding of the natural world, his paintings often become requiems for extinct, or near-extinct, species.
"Most people have a very goal-orientated job, but what I tend to do is to go to a place and just sit there and daydream, really," he says. "And slowly, because you are so quiet and still, you get to learn a lot about a place. I start with a lot of exploratory drawings which end up in the paintings as sort of collages, then I build up a picture of the place."
Comedian John Clarke had a different explanation for Wolseley's paintings. Wolseley recalls: "He once said to me, 'You weren't terribly good at school, were you John?' I said, 'No, not really.' And he said, 'You know what you are doing, don't you? You are still carrying on with your school project!' "
Wolseley may be passionate and deeply knowledgeable on all sort of subjects from the regent honeyeater to Blake's romantic poetry, but he's not in danger of taking himself too seriously. Under his desk is a blow-up plastic wombat and in the next room are boxes of field samples, with labels including "nests"; "discarded German deodorants"; "Benalla beer can" and "bustard feathers".
On top of his desk is a selection of books relevant to his latest show, The Memory of Fire, including The Conference of Birds by Persian mystic poet Farid Ud-Din Attar, and a novel titled The Psychology of Fire. And his own notebooks - their large, heavy pages covered in diagrams, drawings, and lines and lines of cursive script. They are his field journals, full of evocative jottings that are the beginnings of paintings.
Here's an excerpt from a recent trip - six months spent in the Royal National Park, south of Sydney, in the aftermath of the Christmas 2001 fires.
He recalls the sound of the fire as he drove past it, "of primeval suction as the raging inferno consumed all the oxygen and pulled into itself the air from miles around". Beside a dainty drawing of a firetail finch, he describes their "vermilion anvil beaks" flying back and forth between burnt and green ground - "between the raw and cooked".
In these blackened forests, and others in the Wimmera, Wolseley recorded the rapid regeneration of the bush with a kind of rapture and discovered a new way of drawing. The Memory of Fire includes large scrolls of paper covered in sooty-black, random lines. They were made by rubbing the paper over and through the skeletal, carbonised banksia, silky needle-bush and casuarina trees - or as Wolseley puts it: "walloping and caressing" what was left of the bush. "The pencil doesn't move over the paper but the paper moves over the pencil - and the pencil is a burnt tree," he says.
This natural calligraphy required the help of a group of friends to weave the paper through the forest, in what Wolseley likes to see as a kind of dance. "Just before we set off, a skein of straw-necked ibis - 50 or so - moved across the pale blue sky like a lengthening and contracting rubber band," he writes in his journal.
While he found spending time in a charred landscape "quite frightening, (you were aware of) the energy and terror of the fire"; the artist in him relished having everything "reduced to the bare bones".
"Often everything is so much covered in flesh and leaves that you can't see the inner structure," he wrote. And it suited his environmental conscience: "The job of the artist is to talk about those underlying cycles of regeneration; people are losing the ability to make connections with what is actually around them."
Now in his mid-60s, Wolseley came to Australia from England aged 38. He had studied at St Martins School of Art and also picked up a Diploma of Agriculture along the way. "I sat in a wood in Gippsland about three weeks after arriving here and a golden whistler appeared. I had never seen anything like it. Then I saw an Australian robin - I knew it wasn't a member of the robin family because they are not here - but it was strange because it looked exactly like the robin I had left behind in the west of England."
The naturalist in him was immediately at work and more than 20 years later his drive to navigate and map remains. "Scientists and artists are doing the same thing in different ways, looking for the pattern that connects, the meta-pattern. When you have finished a painting you suddenly say to yourself, 'That is what I was after'. You don't know it beforehand, whereas a scientist starts with a theorem that has to be proved. But that (same) search for meaning is there in my work."
The Memory of Fire is at Australian Galleries, 50 Smith Street, Collingwood, until August 31. John Wolseley will draw and talk about the ideas behind the exhibition at 3pm today at the gallery.
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Bad Guysby Linwood Barclay
"Fans of the crime caper will rejoice" that Linwood Barclay is back with the hilarious follow-up to his "riotously funny and irreverent" debut, in which paranoid pop Zack Walker plotted to transplant his city-savvy wife and two teenage kids to the tranquillity of the burbs–where planned communities prevail and fathers rest easy. Well, not quite…and now the Walkers have moved home only to find themselves living in the precarious crosshairs of urban sprawl once again, and Zack can't help but be worried–really worried–that just around the corner lurks the presence of some really bad guys.
Zack is back, and much to his family's relief, the work-at-home science-fiction writer has left the house to take a job as a features writer for the city paper. But now that Zack's incessant plotting can no longer be hatched from the comforts of his own home, he must be ever more vigilant to outwit the evil at large, whether in the suburbs, the city, or his own imagination. Zack is ready…or so he thinks.
While researching his first feature article, Zack stumbles upon a real-life crime scene, but what seems like an ordinary hit-and-run may actually be a homicide linked to a gang that's been burglarizing Crandall's high-end shops. Suddenly Zack finds himself at the center of a violent crime wave and destined for a confrontation with Barbie Bullock, an unsettling figure infamous in the crime syndicate for his ruthless business tactics and peculiar proclivity for collecting dolls.
And all is not quiet on the home front either. Zack's protective instincts launch into overdrive when he discovers that his daughter's rejected suitor has been tracing her every step and may harbor a much more ominous motivation than winning a Saturday night date. Nor does his son's strange behavior and recent friendship with a creepy computer recluse inspire joy in a father's heart.
As worlds begin to collide and boundaries between family and foe blur, Zack goes on the attack, and heaven help the bad guys when this resourceful father comes to make good on a deal gone bad.
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Chapter One
"So, what are you asking me?" Harley said. "Are you asking me for drugs? If you want drugs, there are drugs. There's alprazolam—that's your Xanax generic—or lorazepam; you've got your diazepam and—"
"Diazepam. It's not a cooking spray. It's Valium. There's a huge list of antianxiety prescriptions out there, some better than others, some downright dangerous. We don't use phenobarbitals anymore, too addictive, sometimes fatal. There's various herbal remedies, if you're into that sort of thing. Or, I don't know whether you've considered something like this before, but you could just lighten the fuck up."
Harley's not your average doctor. He's more of a friend, with a medical degree, and a successful practice, and an examining room, which I happened to be sitting in at this moment, somewhat under duress. Harley and I were buddies back in high school, then lost touch a bit while I went to college for an English degree and he went off to medical school. "Hey," I would say to him when we occasionally ran into one another, "just what kind of job do you expect to get with a medical degree?"
Years later, he became my doctor.
This appointment hadn't been my idea. It had been my wife Sarah's. And "idea" is probably the wrong word. "Ultimatum" would probably be a better one. "Go see Harley," she said, "or I'm going to call a divorce lawyer. Or smother you in your sleep."
The threat about the divorce lawyer didn't worry me that much. Sarah has a low opinion of the legal profession, and would probably choose sticking with me over engaging the services of one of its members. But the smothering-me-in-my-sleep thing, that seemed within her range of capabilities.
"The thing is," Harley continued, leaning up against the paper-covered examining bed, "there's a lot of shit to deal with in life, and sometimes that's just what you have to do. Deal with it. You're not the only one with a teenage daughter, you know. Mine's twenty-two now, seems to finally have her head on straight, but two years ago she was too busy boffing some out-there art student to study for her midterms. The guy did a show of sculptures made from raw meat. You had to go early."
"I can't seem to help it," I said. "I worry. I worry all the time. It's the way I'm hardwired. Sometimes I've let it get the better of me."
"I know," Harley said. "I watch the news."
"And I've been trying to do better, honest to God, but this thing with Angie . . ."
"How old is she now?"
Harley's eyes rolled, remembering. "And what did you do, exactly?"
"She'd promised to be home by one in the morning. She was going out with some guy from where she worked for the summer, at the pool store. She sold chlorine and algaecide and tested water samples, and there was this guy who worked there, young kid, who went around the neighborhood maintaining people's pools for them."
"So she started going out with Pool Boy."
"This is what you called him. Pool Boy."
"Not to his face, or to Angie. It was just a name I had for him, is all. Anyway, she was out with him one night, and I was already awake around midnight, and sometimes if I'm up that late, I'll stay up to make sure she gets home okay. I'll read. But if I read in bed, it keeps Sarah up, with the light on, so I went down to the living room, stretched out on the front couch right by the front door, so I'd be right there when Angie got home. Even if I nodded off, I'd hear her when she got in."
"Go on."
"Well, I guess I did doze off, and when I woke up, it was two-thirty in the morning, which meant Angie was way past curfew, way past when she said she'd be home. So I got up, went into the kitchen and called her cell, but couldn't get an answer."
"So, knowing you, you did what you do best," Harley said. "You panicked."
"I did not panic," I said. "I went out looking for her. I knew where Pool Boy lived—he lives with his parents—and what kind of car he drove, so I drove over there, and the whole house is dark, except for one light in the basement."
"Not a good sign," Harley said, nodding slightly.
"Yeah, well, I got out of my car, looked around his, then went up to the house."
"You knocked on the door at, what, nearly three in the morning?"
"No, I kind of didn't want to do that unless I knew for sure Angie was there, since I was probably going to be waking up Pool Boy's mom and dad, so I thought I'd just have a look in the basement window. I had to get down on my knees—they're these shallow windows, only come up about a foot from ground level."
Harley sighed, closed his eyes.
"There was a bit of a gap in the curtains, and I could see it was your basic rec room, wood paneling on the walls, old couch."
"And who was on the couch, I'm afraid to ask," Harley said.
"No one," I said. "Look, you need to understand, I don't want to violate Angie's privacy, I know what kids are up to today, but it's a safety thing, okay? I just needed to know that she was okay."
"So you didn't see her in the window," Harley said. "Was Pool Boy there?"
"Not inside," I said. "But when I got up from looking in the window, I noticed that he was standing next to me."
"Awkward," said Harley.
"And his dad was next to him. I guess the dad heard the car, his son was still up, they came out to investigate."
"Was this before or after they called the cops?"
"After. But by the time they arrived, we'd sorted it out. I mean, they realized who I was. Pool Boy said he'd dropped off Angie around twelve-thirty, and asked if I'd checked her bedroom before I'd come to his place."
"Which you hadn't."
"I was sure I'd hear her when she came in. But she says she tiptoed, didn't want to wake me."
"How long ago was this?"
"About a month. Before school started up again. Angie's still hardly speaking to me. And the thing is, now I think she's got some sort of stalker."
Harley dropped into the other chair in the small examining room. He was looking pretty exhausted. I seem to have that effect on people at times. "A stalker."
"Not the Pool Boy. I think they've broken up."
"There's a surprise," Harley said.
"Is this part of the new medicine?" I asked. "Crack wise while your patients open up to you?"
"Of course not. Go ahead. I shall remain nonjudgmental."
"She calls him a stalker, but you know how kids talk. Anyone who's interested in them they don't like is categorized a stalker. But he calls her a lot, shows up unexpectedly wherever she is. I'm just worried this guy may be some kind of a nutcase. But I'm kind of in a bad spot now, what with the Pool Boy incident being so fresh in everyone's mind, that anything I say or do looks like some kind of hysterical overreaction."
"Just because a guy calls her a few times and shows up where your daughter hangs out doesn't make him a serial killer."
"I know that. But I get, jeez, I get this knot in my chest, worrying about my family. It's not like we haven't had some problems in the past."
"That was then. That was an isolated incident." Harley leaned forward a bit in his chair, like he wanted our conversation to be more intimate. "Zack," he said slowly, "I don't want to put you on anything unless you feel it's absolutely necessary. It's better to work out your problems without medications."
"I totally agree," I said. "I'm not asking for a prescription. It's not like I'm a hypochondriac or something, although, if you did diagnose something, I'd have to conclude it was fatal."
"Maybe you need to focus your attention on work, get your mind off what's happening at home. What you're going through isn't any different than what every other parent goes through. We all worry about our kids, but we have to let them live their own lives, you know."
"So, when you're writing, doing your work, doesn't that help get your mind off other things? Isn't that a good way to reduce your anxiety level?"
I nodded. "For the most part."
"So, what are you working on now? Another book?"
"Well, I'm back with a paper now, The Metropolitan, doing features. You can't exactly make a living writing books."
"I liked that one you did, about the guy goes back in time to kill the inventor of those hot-air hand dryers in men's rooms before he's born. That wasn't a bestseller?"
"No," I said.
Harley looked surprised. I continued, "I'm doing a feature right now on this private eye, and the last few nights, I've been with him on this, like, well, a stakeout I guess you'd call it, hoping to catch some gang that's been smashing into high-end men's shops, making off with hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of stuff."
"Sounds interesting," Harley said. "But I trust it's not the sort of thing where you're exposing yourself to any real risk. You've had enough of that." I smiled tiredly. "Don't worry. From now on, I just write about stuff, I don't get personally involved."
"That's good," he said. "And what about the pharmaceutical option? You want a scrip for anything?"
I shook my head. "Naw, unless there's anything else you can recommend."
Harley got up, opened one of the stainless steel cabinets that held cotton balls and gauze and tongue depressors and bandages, rooted around in there and came out with a bottle of what appeared to be very expensive Scotch. He set it on the table next to him, found two small paper cups, and poured a couple of fingers' worth into each.
"I find this works well," he said.
Meet the Author
Linwood Barclay is a columnist for the Toronto Star. He is the author of several critically acclaimed novels, including Stone Rain and Lone Wolf. He lives near Toronto with his wife and has two grown children.
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Barclay's method is one of those inside/outside narratives, in that we get as much interior psycho-musings from worry-wart Zack, the protagonist, as we do any kind of story arc. He's one batso dude, and he drives everyone around him crazy, too. Part of the enjoyment here is being surprised by whatever new plot twist Zack stumbles over next, and sometimes he doesn't stumble over them.he makes them happen.by accident! I found this one more entertaining than Barclay's later novels, as those are more traditional, linear exposition of the crime, the slow reveal, the sidetracks, the jeopardies, and ultimately the surprise denouement. This one's all over the map, and therefore, for me, it was much more fun.
What a fun read!!
After finding the burbs worse than Tom Hanks (see BAD MOVE), super worrier Zack Walker returns to the inner city with his wife and their two teenage children. He lets his paranoia over the safety of children get a grip on him when his eighteen years old daughter Angie fails to come home by curfew. He stalks the home of her date ¿Pool Boy¿ only to be caught and learn his daughter is sleeping in her bed. --- Now his daughter is being stalked by apparently Trevor Wylie, a friend of her younger brother Paul, but she wants dad to stay out of it. Meanwhile the Metropolitan reporter is working graveyard stakeouts accompanying private detective Laurence on trying to prevent robberies. However, a peer who shares work with Laurence, Diamond is murdered on a concurrent stake out. As Zack investigates the homicide, he also stealthy tries to stop the stalker bothering his daughter; all this and more fears without taking medication. --- Zack is as nutty and paranoid as ever over the safety of his family as he sees bad doers under every rock. The humorous story line grips readers once they realize how foolish Zack takes things (never dawned on him to check whether his daughter was home) and never slows down until he places himself at risk from a killer and the stalker. Linwood Barclay provides a wonderfully jocular Noir starring a sympathetic Don Knotts like lunatic who no one understands. His wife threatens to use a pillow on him while he sleeps if he does not back off from his driving his family crazy over their wellbeing.--- Harriet Klausner
I would read more from him.
2nd book in a 4 part series very quirky and refreshing.
I always enjoy books by Linwood Barclay and especially the Zack Walker series. They're mystery thrillers with humor, a great combination! Try them, I'm sure you will enjoy them.
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Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Good mix of humor, action, and mystery. One question-- who the heck is Harriet Klausner? Grandma M
Very entertaining - Got me hooked on Barclay books
This book was very good from beginning to end. It was hard to put it down. Some parts of the book were hilariously funny. I found myself laughing out loud several times. I love the predicament Zack Walker is always finding himself in. If you want a good mystery/suspense novel to read then this is a very good one in a series of 4 by Linwood Barclay.


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Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 4, No. 825. Saturday, 20 November 1993.
Date: Friday, 19 Nov 1993 10:12:17 -0600 (CST)
Subject: re: Shakespeare in the Bush
Douglas Lanier recently asked for the citation for Laura Bohannon's
article, "Shakespeare in the Bush." It originally appeared in _Natural
History_, August-September, 1966. It was reprinted in Charles Bazerman's
_The Informed Reader_ (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989). I've used it
in my "Shakespeare for non-majors" courses as a way to raise issues of
ideology and the contingency of aesthetic values. It's an accessible,
engaging text.
Ron Strickland