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What was Faith's childhood like, before she came to Sunnydale? A while ago, I was involved in a conversation about that in the comments on deird1's LJ, and gave a fairly in-depth reply. I thought it would be interesting to take that, polish it up and add lots more examples and inferences, and post it here for everyone to read.
There's probably not anything wildly controversial or surprising here, but I think putting it all together in one place helps paint a more accurate picture of her. Faith has always been one of the most opaque characters of the Buffyverse, because she hides her true feelings behind so many protective layers of feigned disinterest and self-reliance. Understanding her motivations is key to understanding her actions.
I should warn that since I believe it's well established that Faith was abused as a child - certainly physically and probably sexually - this post will contain discussion of subjects that some people may find triggering.
Nothing here is set in concrete, and I welcome posts from people disagreeing with my conclusions and speculations. Though I don't promise to agree with your counter-proposals. :-)
Faith's Childhood
Faith's surname - Lehane - is an interesting example of something that was made up by Joss outside the show and never actually mentioned in a broadcast episode. (It was, however, made canon in Season 8.) It's an Irish name by origin, and the first person who comes up in a Google search on 'Lehane' is an Irish-American novelist born in Boston. Joss has said that he picked 'Lehane' because it's a "good Southie name", 'Southie' here referring to South Boston.
This is something that still causes arguments in fandom. Faith's age is never mentioned on the show; the only direct evidence we have is that the shooting script for 'Faith, Hope and Trick' in S3 refers to her as "18-ish" (for reference, Buffy at that point was 17, almost 18) and in S4 she was tried and sentenced as an adult, so was presumably over 18 by then.
She is never shown going through the Cruciamentum, which presumably should happen on her 18th birthday - that suggests that she was under 18 when she arrived in Sunnydale, and had already rebelled and turned evil before her birthday. Alternatively, though, she might have already gone through it before ever arriving in Sunnydale (but in that case, why didn't she warn Buffy?), or have gone through it off-camera during one of the episodes in S3 where she didn't appear (which would be dramatically unsatisfying, but not impossible from a practical perspective - Faith wasn't a main cast character, after all.) Or - my preferred solution - the Watchers' Council had a bureaucratic snafu and never got around to putting her through the Cruciamentum. Giles was only her temporary Watcher until 'Helpless', and perhaps didn't have the authority to impose such a drastic test on her; and Wesley wasn't around long enough (and lacked the assertiveness) to carry it out before she rebelled.
As for other references, there is nothing conclusive. Buffy calls her "my bestest new little sister" but Faith calls Buffy "dressed up in big sister's clothes" when she comes to kill her wearing Faith-style leather trousers. Angel calls her "not much more than a child". Finally, while using the actors' real ages is always dangerous, it's worth noting that Sarah Michelle Gellar is three years older than Eliza Dushku, and when early Season 3 was being filmed Sarah was 20 compared to Buffy's 17, while Eliza was, in fact, 17 herself.
Long story short - my own preference, which doesn't contradict canon but has no conclusive evidence for it either - is to say that Faith is pretty much exactly the same age as Buffy. When I've needed a specific date of birth for her in fanfic, I used 30 December 1980, which not by coincidence is also Eliza Dushku's birthday. That makes Faith three weeks older than Buffy, and means she turned 18 a few days after the episode 'Amends'.
Faith comes from Boston, specifically South Boston. This is canon, from 'Faith, Hope and Trick':
"I'm sleepin' without a stitch on, suddenly I hear all this screamin'. I go tearin' outside -- stark nude -- this church bus has broke down and three vamps are feasting on half the Baptists in South Boston."
And even more explicitly from 'No Future For You':
"For the record, I'm a Boston girl. You know, like the tea party?"
South Boston is a slum region with a heavy Irish-American Catholic population. Wikipedia mentions that "portions of the neighborhood were also known in the early 1990s as being the poorest white urban neighborhood in the United States." The poverty of Faith's upbringing has clearly made an impact on her, but her presumed Irishness isn't something she's ever mentioned to my knowledge.
The only time Faith ever mentions religion specifically is in 'No Future For You':
"Only chumps believe in Heaven".
However, fanfiction often suggests that she had a Catholic upbringing, or even talk about her going to a school run by nuns. As far as I know the only evidence for this is circumstantial: she comes from a strongly Catholic area, and her parents gave her a Christian name that has religious symbolism. Even if she was brought up Catholic, though, she's apparently lost her belief.
The writers' idea of Faith's level of education seems to have varied over time. In 'Faith, Hope and Trick' she's telling Willow and Xander she dropped out of high school, which assuming she's 17 at the time could have been at most three years earlier:
"If I'd had friends like you in high school, I... probably still would've dropped out. But I might've been sad about it"
However, in 'Touched' she implies that she missed a lot more education than just the last couple of years:
"Oh. The school thing. I was kind of absent that decade."
True, that last remark was casual and may have been just an exaggeration. On the other hand, in 'Faith, Hope and Trick' Faith was still trying to fit in with the Scoobies, who - in her eyes - were all very conventional and middle-class and proper - and so may have exaggerated how long she stayed in formal education before dropping out, in order to seem more like them.
My own preference is to assume a bit of both: Faith attended school, at least in theory, right up to her mid teens, and was at least enrolled at a high school. However, she rarely ever showed up - at first perhaps because her mother kept her away, later because it bored her and she preferred to play truant, or got involved in other (less wholesome) activities.
Given how little education Faith had, something that's often got me wondering is just how literate she is. It's never mentioned specifically in S3 that she can't read, it's just a logic-based conjecture of mine. There are some hints that might support the theory, though: in 'Beauty and the Beasts' Buffy tries to convince Giles that the books spread out around the library were ones Faith was reading, then realises how ridiculous that sounds. When we see Faith by herself, she always seems to be watching TV rather than reading - the one exception is in 'Graduation Day'... but what she's looking at there, significantly enough, is a comic rather than an actual book with lots of text. I don't think she ever helped with the research, although I think it would be entirely in character for her in S3 to pick up a book and pretend to be studying it so as not to have to admit to anyone she couldn't read. Or at least, she can read a few words but struggles with anything complex.
Like I say, there's no evidence for this; it's just my fanon, but I think it works. Note that in S7 Faith definitely can read - she helps go through the police reports to look for Caleb - but my fanwank here is that as part of her quest for redemption, while in prison she took adult literacy classes.
Faith's mother was an alcoholic; this is canon. From 'Enemies':
"A dog's all I wanted. Well, that and toys. But mom was so busy, you know, enjoying the drinking and passing out parts of life, that I never really got what I wanted, until now."
It's also implied that her mother is now dead, and that while alive she used to hit Faith. From 'Faith, Hope and Trick':
"My dead mother hits harder than that! This is me, you undead bastard! You can't touch me!"
Note that last line in particular. It sounds very much like Faith was a helpless victim of violence for most of her childhood - when everybody and his dog could apparently "touch" her - but now she's a Slayer she can finally get some payback on the world.
However, 'No Future For You' shows the other side of the coin, that there was also affection between Faith and her mother:
"'Oh, the places you'll go!' Mom used to read me that book before she tucked me in... nights she was sober enough, anyway."
In some ways this is even more tragic than assuming an entirely abusive and neglected childhood for Faith. She did receive love and tenderness and a feeling of belonging - but only just enough to show her what she was missing when her mother instead frittered away her welfare cheque on booze, spent the evening passed out on the sofa, or lashed out at little Faith to punish her for some imagined sin. I imagine her childhood contained lots of disappointments and broken promises, until she finally taught herself to stop trusting anyone but herself, and to always expect the worst from people.
Faith's father is never, ever mentioned in canon - although she does make it very clear that she regards Mayor Wilkins as a father figure, filling a role she lacked in her own life. My assumption is that her father wasn't around at all during her childhood, although it's not impossible he was there in the early days. That would give Faith a vague memory of happiness as a very young child which was then taken away from her - her father left, or died, or something, and her mother turned to drink.
On the other hand, Faith may have got her picture of what a father would be like entirely from TV, and never actually knew her own at all. Maybe even her mother only vaguely knew him - Faith might be the product of a drunken one-night stand - but this is pure speculation.
There is one possible alternative - that Faith's father was actually around during most of her childhood, but he behaved so horrendously towards her (see below, under 'Child abuse') that she refuses to ever mention him or think about him ever again. I don't think that's particularly likely - Faith craves a father figure in her life, rather than shying away from them - but it is an option.
Just reiterating the point that Faith never even had toys as a child, because her mother spent all her money on alcohol instead. Plus, there's her ill-concealed jealousy of Buffy's middle-class lifestyle, mixed with pride and a refusal to accept charity from her.
Child abuse
As well as the emotional abuse and neglect, as I mentioned above it's pretty much canon that Faith's mother used to hit her. More speculatively, notice that Faith is telling the vampire in 'FHT' that even her mother hit harder than that. That at least implies that Faith grew used to being hit by stronger people as well, to the extent that being hit by her mother instead was comparatively less scary. Who might have hit her is unknown, although "her mother's boyfriend(s)" is the most obvious answer.
However, it's also widely assumed in fandom that Faith was also sexually abused as a child. This is based on her attitudes and behaviour as an adult, rather than any direct evidence in canon. She shows serious trust issues and lack of self-worth related to sex, but is also hyper-sexualised, taking it for granted that any two people interacting closely are sleeping together. From 'Beauty and the Beasts':
OZ: Jeff. He was in jazz band with us. They used to horse around.
FAITH: They were screwing?
OZ: I don't think so, but he hid her music comp book once.
Also, there's her assumption when Wilkins gives her her new apartment that he expects to be her sugar-daddy in return - her love and devotion for him seems to start right at the moment when he makes it clear he's not interested in her that way. As if she can't quite believe it's true. Most of the time, Faith seems to take it completely for granted that every man she meets will be sexually interested in her and want to have sex with her... which in an adult perhaps comes across as vanity, but I suspect has darker roots.
Equally significantly, Faith regards sex as involving just two things: physical relief and power. When Riley tells her "I love you" in 'Who Are You?' (when he thinks she's Buffy) her immediate reaction is to ask "What do you want from her?" In Faith's mind, love is a lie; people only say "I love you" to manipulate the other person into doing what they want. Connection is "just skin". In 'The Zeppo' she invites Xander into her bed purely to scratch a physical itch - although she's polite enough at the time - and the moment they've finished she bundles him out the door without even letting him get dressed. And afterwards, she mocks him for it:
"You'd dig that, wouldn't you? To get up in front of all your geek pals and go on record about how I made you my boy toy for a night."
Compare that to her glee in finally being able to beat people up instead of being the one receiving the beating. It seems very likely to me that after years of being the one forced to give sexual pleasure to others, Faith enjoys being able to treat other people the same way she once was. Sex, for her, is all about keeping score.
As for who abused her - it's unknown, but logically it would be the same person(s) I suggested above as being the ones to physically abuse her: her mother's boyfriend, or perhaps series of boyfriends. Or even worse, maybe the scenario was like the one in the 'Dollhouse' episode 'Briar Rose' (written by Jane Espenson and produced by Eliza Dushku), where a child sex abuse survivor's own mother hired her out as a child prostitute. Given the depth of Faith's issues - verging sometimes on full-blown psychosis - I don't think the abuse she suffered (whatever it actually was) was one-off or temporary; it was sustained over a long period.
I've suggested before now that in her youth, Faith was making a living out of petty crime, perhaps as a member of a gang. There's no direct evidence for that, other than her casual approach to other people's property ("Want. Take. Have".). That might have developed only after she became a Slayer, but personally I doubt it - although her sense of entitlement may have received a big boost. Fundamentally, Faith is a decent person at heart - her redemption in the later seasons is evidence of that - so I think she needs to provide herself with a justification to ease her guilt before engaging in crime. Unfortunately, she's had such a hard life that "The entire world is trying to screw me over" seems plausible to her.
Otherwise, the evidence is circumstantial. She dropped out of school. Her mother was an alcoholic, and then died, leaving Faith alone. She may even have run away from home earlier than that, to get away from the abuse. She apparently was never picked up by social services and put in a care home or with foster parents, although it's not impossible that at one stage this did happen, but she hated it and ran away again.So what was she doing all that time? Where did she get the money for food and clothing?
For that matter, where did she get the money to pay for her motel room and all those nights out partying at the Bronze in S3? The obvious answer is "by stealing". (Although 'selling drugs' and 'turning tricks' are also possibilities.) However, given Faith's deep-down sense of honesty she never quite managed to suppress, I suspect she'd only engage in crime against people she felt "deserved it" or "wouldn't miss the money", rather than indiscriminately.
Boyfriends and other relationships
This is another area where the writers' concept of Faith seems to have developed over time. In early S3, in 'Revelations', she's shown as having had a not unreasonable love life - more casual sex than Buffy ever dared to engage in, but nothing abnormal:
"Ronnie. Deadbeat. Steve. Klepto. Kenny. DRUMMER. Eventually I had to face up to my destiny as a loser magnet. Now it's strictly get some and get gone. You can't trust guys."
But in 'Dirty Girls', she gives Spike a rather different picture:
"This one guy I ran with, he liked me to dress up like a school girl and take this friggin' bull-whip. ... Every guy's got some whack fantasy. Scratch the surface of any granola-type dude? Naughty nurses and horny cheerleaders."
While in 'No Future For you' she tells Giles:
"But whatev, I think I've banged enough bankers to know how to fit in with higher tax brackets."
Just as a reminder: when she's talking to Spike about her exotic sex life, she's just escaped from prison, and before that she was in a coma for a year. Yes, she might have been brandishing that bullwhip in her off-moments in S3, whenever she didn't appear in that week's episode; but it seems more likely that she's talking about before she came to Sunnydale. When she was no more than 17, and possibly even younger. Now granted, I'm not sure the writers actually added up Faith's age when they gave her that dialogue; but it's still canon now. Unless she was lying to impress Spike, but why would she bother?
So what we've got is Faith, as an underage teenager, having sex with "bankers" and men who fantasise about schoolgirls and cheerleaders. Hmm. Doesn't really sound like your normal high school dating scene, even for a 'bad girl', does it?
So the question is, was she doing it for fun, or to get paid? My personal opinion leans more towards Japanese style "compensated dating" rather than outright prostitution. Call Faith a hooker and she'd punch you; but if she hangs around in nightclubs, wearing heavy make-up to try to look older and carrying a false ID saying she's 21, hoping to get off with some rich older guy, she'd see no problem with that. And if the guy buys her presents, takes her out for meals, and perhaps "lends" her a hundred bucks or so at the end of each week, that's not payment. And it's more honest than stealing - although if he has Faith over to stay the night, he might find a few small, valuable items missing the next day...
I've already suggested above that Faith was the victim of multiple sexual abuse as a child, but the way she talks about the "guy with the bullwhip", this later activity wasn't unconsensual on her part. It wasn't something she was forced into by a pimp or anything like that, or I doubt she'd be talking about looking him up again voluntarily. Given how she talks about "the way of the world", my suspicion is that teenage Faith had already decided that since all men lusted after her body, she may as well use that to her advantage. It even gave her a measure of power over them - the only power, until she became a Slayer, she ever possessed.
Incidentally, the scene with Lilah in 'Five By Five' seems to support this interpretation, although in this case the other person is a woman not a man. Faith has, apparently, just let herself be picked up in a nightclub by an older, expensively-dressed woman who is taking her home. When Lilah tells her she "might have misunderstood my intentions", Faith gets all defensive and makes out she actually just planned to steal Lilah's watch once the two of them were alone together - whether that really was her plan all along is unknown. (And the shooting script for the scene warns the actors to play down the lesbian subtext, which is possibly aimed at Eliza who, by all accounts, played it up for all it was worth in her scenes with Sarah on 'Buffy'.)
So where do the boyfriends fit in? Simple enough; in Faith's mid-teens. Perhaps while she was trying to go straight and briefly attended high school? But they failed her, or betrayed her, or something, and convinced Faith that they were really no different to the random older guys she met in clubs. They might come out with fancier talk, and spin the same old lie about "loving her", but really they were all the same.
"Every guy from... Manimal down to Mr I-Love-The-English-Patient has beast in him. And I don't care how sensitive they act. They're all still just in it for the chase."
Faith's Watcher
We know three things about Faith's Watcher. She was female. Faith was emotionally close to her and trusted her. She was killed, horribly, by Kakistos. There's also one inference: Faith says of Giles "If I'd known they came this young and cute I'd have requested a transfer" - which suggests that her own Watcher was significantly older than Giles, nearer 60 than 40.
My assumption is that Faith didn't actually know her Watcher for very long, simply because I can't imagine even a member of the Council allowing Faith to live the kind of life I've just described without intervening. Also, Faith's combat technique is even more untrained and wild than Buffy's, especially when compared to Kendra with her lifetime of intense training.
Note that Faith seems to give her friendship extremely quickly - to Buffy, to Gwendolyn Post, to Angel, to the Mayor - a sign of how starved for affection she really is. It's not unlikely that her bond to her Watcher was equally rapid. I speculate, therefore, that like Buffy Faith was only tracked down by the Council after she became a Slayer, at the end of Season 2, and was only with her Watcher for a few months over that summer before Kakistos killed her. Alternatively, she might have been contacted rather earlier, while still a Potential... but probably not much earlier.
So that was Faith's childhood. And then she met Buffy...
"This is friendship. Step one: you finally meet somebody you dig, somebody you can groove with, somebody who doesn't seem like all the other phony losers out there. Step two: they share a little of themselves with you, you share everything with them. Step three: it all goes to crap. They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it's the other way around. Someday, you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't ever be like it used to, 'cause that pain never really fades away. And in the end, no matter how many wicked good times you had together, you woulda been better off flying solo all along."


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My calendar is filling quickly. I'm filling it with the boys' baseball games, summer camps and my races.
It seems that I am either preparing for a race or recovering from a race. Many times I'm doing both at the same time. There doesn't seem to be any more of a tapering period.
When I first began running, and did my first marathon in 1999, I trained for Grandmas '99 for four months. This included a taper period of three weeks prior to the big day. I ran the marathon, recovered a few weeks and began to train for my second marathon, Twin Cities Marathon in September of '99. After finishing TCM I recovered for a few weeks and logged roughly 25 miles a week until the following February when I again began to train for Grandmas. This cycle repeated itself for a few years.
Then I found ultra-marathons. I found that I enjoyed running long distance. Real long distances. I discovered that my body adapted quite well to running and recoving from these ultras. I found that I really enjoyed being in 'marathon shape' at all times. I can run a marathon at a drop of a hat, or a 50K, or a 50 mile. That's an awesome feeling, especially from a person that couldn't walk a block without hacking out a lung or collapsing from the effort not too long ago.
Here's the race schedule for the summer:
April 16 McNaughton 100 mile race 29 hours, 7 minutes
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June 4/5 FANS 24 Hour Run
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As the front cover suggests (Led Zeppelin, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Fleetwood Mac, and Tom Petty) this Volume 3 Number 9 edition of The Music Gig is from the 1970s. May, 1977 to be exact. It's the only issue in my archives, and I have no recollection of whether I bought this magazine on a regular basis. The price was 85 cents. The Music Gig was published in New York by Editor in Chief Sam Chase, with Jean-Charles Costa serving as Editor. The format mimics Rolling Stone, with black & white printed pages except for an occasional dash of color. The back cover ad for Camel Filters is the only page in full color.
Chris Salewicz's interview with Jimmy Page is augmented by some distinctive illustrations by Charles Jackson Pate. Page reflects on rehearsals for a post Presence tour, the Led Zeppelin flick, The Song Remains The Same, and his confidence in the future of his band. Elsewhere, writer Steve Weitzman drops in on a Crosby, Stills & Nash recording session, and wonders if their first LP in years will put them back in the limelight. Susin Shapiro meets Tom Petty around the time of his debut release with The Heartbreakers and asks if that grin on the LP's front cover means he's cynical. Teri Morris delves into the history of Fleetwood Mac and its tradition of incorporating new members into the group. There are also articles on Genesis and Peter Gabriel after the split, Thin Lizzy, Steve Hillage, Natalie Cole, and Leo Sayer.
The albums section includes an extended review of Bad Company's Burnin' Sky; Pink Floyd's Animals; and a combined review of David Bowie's Low and Iggy Pop's The Idiot. Jim Green's Singles column offers his takes on The Kinks' "Sleepwalker" (spunky); KC & The Sunshine Band's "I'm You're Boogie Man," (less than memorable); and The Eagles' "Hotel California" (an unusual choice for a single). He was particularly impressed with The Nerves' "Hanging On The Telephone," declaring, "these kicky guys from SF are among the best exponents of the early English invasion sound since the real thing. Searchers, Hollies, Zombies - - even a dash of Rick Nelson!"
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High security greeted runners in Orlando on Thursday at the IOA Corporate 5k.
Some 16,000 people took to the streets around Lake Eola for the race.
It was the first major race following the bombing at the Boston Marathon, and extra police officers were there and swept for explosive devices.
From beginning to end, Orlando showed its support for Boston. There was a moment of silence at the starting line, and runners put their hands over their hearts at the finish to remember the victims.
Runners also donned signs, hats and ribbons.
"I just felt that I had to do something to represent -- let them know that we're thinking about them," runner Ray Nicole said. "Even though we're from Orlando, we're thinking about the people in Boston."
Even Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, who is a Tampa Bay Rays fan, showed support to his rival, the Boston Red Sox.
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This was the biggest running event in the country since the Boston Marathon. Security was enhanced. Bomb-sniffing dogs swept the site, and people were asked not to bring bags and coolers.
"We heightened our presence," Dyer said. "People can feel that they're safe and secure."
But despite any fears, Orlando turned out in force with about 16,500 runners and walkers.
Organizer Jon Hughes said it was the biggest turnout yet. He said there was a surge in registration after the bombing.
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From Kinross to Kent, Britain is home to all manner of beautiful gardens, ranging from wild and sprawling estates to compact, tidy arrangements. Here's a few of our favourites, taken from Make The Most Of Your Time In Britain.
Aberglasney Gardens
Once a grand Carmarthenshire estate, Aberglasney fell on hard times during the twentieth century and by the mid-1990s the house was totally derelict: its windows empty sockets, its masonry crumbling and its gardens choked with weeds. Just when it seemed doomed to collapse, a Restoration Trust stepped in, led by a team of experts who were determined to patch up the damage and perhaps reveal some of the glories of the past. The gardens (pictured above) were the main focus of their interest: they were known to date back well over 500 years, making them a perfect candidate for research. Their hunch has already paid off: little by little they have made some astonishing discoveries.
One of the earliest revelations was a real breakthrough. Carefully, the team excavated the stone-walled cloisters immediately west of the mansion, digging down through the centuries to discover a formal garden dating back to late Tudor or early Stuart times. Even more astonishingly, coins dating back to 1288 were found among the debris. Now that a re-creation of the early seventeenth-century layout is in place, you can wander the raised stone path that tops the cloister walls to admire its geometric lawns and think yourself back to the grandeur of the era.
On the south side of the house is another superb development: the ruined masonry of an ancient courtyard has been shrouded in glass, creating a subtropical hothouse. Named the Ninfarium after the glorious Italian gardens of Ninfa, there's a Zen-like calm to its shady, orderly pathways.
Aberglasney Gardens, Llangathen, Carmarthenshire, www.aberglasney.org
Drummond Castle Gardens
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The long beech-enclosed drive that leads to Drummond Castle has a sense of drama, but gives no inkling of the exotic vision ahead. The castle itself is a bluff medieval keep surrounded by turreted domestic buildings, all heavily restored in the nineteenth century. You pass through a courtyard to access a wide stone terrace, and the garden is suddenly revealed: a symmetrical and stately Italianate vision in the shape of Scotland's flag, a St Andrew's Cross. The lines of the cross are punctuated by urns and Classical statues, and at their centre is a seventeenth-century obelisk sundial. It's an artful garden in every sense: steep steps lead down to the sundial, and beyond the topiary and the neat flower beds a wide avenue cuts though dense woodland, continuing the line of the parterre's central path but making a visual connection between the formal garden and wider, wilder estate.
The first Lord Drummond began building the castle in the late fifteenth century, and in 1508 there is evidence that the estate supplied cherries to James IV when he was on a hunting trip. The sundial created by Charles I's master mason was put in place in 1630; in the following century the family was more preoccupied with assisting the Jacobite uprising than pruning the roses, but in calmer times in 1842 Queen Victoria planted two copper beeches here, and enjoyed walks in the garden with Albert.
It remains in feel very much a courtly garden. The paths seem tailor-made for stately strolling, giving you the space and time to admire the marble statuary, snooty peacocks and neatly clipped foliage. And when you've explored the parterre, don't miss the abundant blooms in the glasshouses, and the impressive kitchen garden.
Drummond Castle Gardens, near Muthill in Crieff, Perth & Kinross, www.drummondcastlegardens.co.uk
Mottisfont Abbey
Before you even get to the roses at Mottisfont Abbey – which is, after all, the point of the visit – you encounter some sensuous temptations. First you cross the River Test, arguably the finest chalk stream in England, which runs clear and shallow through gentle meadows fringed by grassy downland. This is the place for walks (the Test Way passes by here), or quiet sitting – or trout fishing, if you can afford it.
You then walk through Mottisfont's lovely grounds, a grassy haven bordered by chalk streams and studded with old oaks, sweet chestnuts and the improbably massive great plane. Then there's the Abbey itself, a mellow pile with Tudor wings and Georgian frontages and a stately drawing room whose eccentric trompe l'oeil decor – all painted swags and smoking stoves sketched in grisaille – was created by the English prewar artist, Rex Whistler.
But beyond the river and the house and the grounds lies Mottisfont's heart: its twin walled rose gardens. They are fabulous, harbouring one of the finest collections of old roses in the world. Among the six-hundred-odd varieties you'll find names that hint at exotic beauty, such as Reine de Violette, Tuscany Superb and Ispahan, and names that suggest a more blushing Englishness, such as Eglantine and the Common Moss Rose. Climbers, noisettes and ramblers trace glorious patterns on the high brick walls, cross pergolas or spill up into apple and pear trees. The shrub roses, meanwhile, crowd noisily between the box hedges and lawns and lavender pathways, jostling among the hosts of bulbs and perennials. There is something to see, then, right through spring and summer.
Mottisfont, five miles north of Romsey, Hampshire www.nationaltrust.org.uk.
Alnwick Garden
It makes sense to lock up dangerous criminals and wild animals, perhaps – but plants? Well, yes, when we're talking about these plants. Within the 40-acre Alnwick Garden, the botanical annexe to Alwnick Castle, lies a sullen little plot of deadly flowers and bushes deemed so dangerous that they too are kept behind bars. Visitors to this cultivated collection of botanical death should be wary. Don't sniff too hard, perhaps… Though one suspects their deadly pollen and spores could permeate even the ominous wrought-iron gates, fronted with skull and bone signs, that declare: "These plants can kill".
Unlike the rest of Alnwick Garden, the poison garden can only be visited on a guided tour. The heavy iron gates are locked behind you. This is serious stuff. Flame-shaped beds are planted with tobacco, mandrake, hemlock – and innocent-looking rhubarb, the stalks of which make lovely crumble, but whose lush green leaves can kill. Maximum security is applied to coca (for cocaine), cannabis plants and poppies, the heads of which contain all that's required to make opium, heroin and morphine.
Weaving through the garden, guides debunk myths, tell old wives' tales and impart ancient wisdom. Learn here about Old Man's Beard, rubbed by professional beggars into sores to make them weep piteously. Or the hallucinogenic properties of Deadly Nightshade. Chewing a humble laburnum leaf, you are told, will lead you to froth at the mouth and wildly convulse.
Alnwick Garden, Denwick Lane, Alnwick, Northumberland www.alnwickgarden.com
RHS Garden Wisley
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As you walk through the brick entrance arch at Wisley, you're hit by scented air wafting through from the flourishing acres beyond. And there really are acres and acres here – 240 of them, to be exact, all lovingly, scrupulously, passionately tended. Ahead lies the serene canal and walled garden; beyond, secretive paths lead through the Wild Garden's woodlands to the staggering new glasshouse, which rises out of an entire lake. The preternaturally heated interior heaves with tropical ferns and palms and creepers, all fighting their way towards the glass. There's even an indoor waterfall.
But why go straight on? A left turn takes you up a breathtaking avenue of lawn, between 20ft-deep mixed borders from which English cottage garden flowers dance and nod in coloured ranks. Beyond, there's the elegant rose garden, and beyond again what seems like an entire ecosystem of rhododendrons and magnolias on Battleston Hill. And beyond that, the Jubilee Arboretum rises back up towards the Fruit Field, which is really an entire hillside combed with 450 types of apple, plum and pear, many of them rare and rich varieties. It's not exactly encouraged, but on an early autumn day you could even quietly taste a windfall pear or two – or buy them in the shop later.
Wisley isn't all about loveliness, though, or even drama. Instead, it's alive with passion and energy. The Royal Horticultural Society is dedicated to research and education, so you'll see guided tours pausing to consider a fine clematis, enthusiasts gleaning tips from the model allotment, or maybe volunteers weeding through a host of experimental pumpkins.
RHS Garden Wisley, Surrey www.rhs.org.uk/wisley
Highgrove Gardens
It's amazing what a few words of encouragement can do. When the Prince of Wales bought Highgrove House, his family home near Tetbury in Gloucestershire, the estate didn't even have a lawn. Some thirty years later, what was once an empty landscape is now one of the most innovative gardens in Britain. Clearly, Charles has spent a lot of time talking to these plants.
Tours start at Highgrove House itself, surrounded by scented plants such as wisteria, honeysuckle, jasmine, holboellia and thyme, and meander for two miles through a series of interlinked gardens, from the immaculate Sundial Garden, fronting the house, to the Arboretum. Most eye-catching in its marriage of form and function is the Prince's Islamic-style Carpet Garden, a medal winner at the Chelsea Flower Show, whose colour and appearance – which includes fountains decked in elaborate zelij tiling – were based on the patterns of Persian carpets within the house.
Arguably the most interesting sections, though, are the Wildflower Meadow and the Walled Kitchen Garden. The former was co-designed with one of the UK's leading biodiversity experts, and – as an organically sustained initiative that also helps preserve the country's native flora and fauna – is a living example of the philosophy that underlines much of Highgrove and the Prince's nearby Duchy Home Farm. The meadow features more than thirty varieties of British wildflowers – ox-eye daisies, yellow rattle and ragged robin among them – and is home to some of the National Collection of Beech Trees, part of a conservation programme that safeguards the diversity of the country's plant heritage.
Highgrove House, Doughton, Tetbury, Gloucestershire www.highgrovegardens.com
Dawyck Botanic Garden
Edinburgh's famous Botanic Garden may get the royal seal and most of the press, yet a mere 45-minute drive south stands what is arguably the world's most exquisite arboretum. Sequestered in one of the most scenic corners of the Scottish Borders, Dawyck is a veritable masterpiece of horticultural passion and creativity, matured over three centuries into a stunning sixty acres of botanic forest.
The secret of this place lies in its range of species from climatically similar corners of the globe. One of the best times to visit is in spring, when you're welcomed by the Himalayan feast that is the Azalea Walk in full bloom. Over the brow of the hill, 300-year-old giant redwoods tower next to a rustling brook. Incredibly, these are actually infant trees, just a tenth of the way through their lives, and mere striplings compared to their 300ft-tall Californian forebears.
Just beyond the upward curve of the burn another giant hoves into view: the rhubarb-like gunnera plant feels truly exotic, even tropical, a South American specimen with foliage as big as a golf umbrella.
Atmospheric features like the old chapel, the stone humpback bridge or Dawyck House, relics of the garden's heritage as part of the Dawyck estate, give purpose to those panoramic shots, or you could zoom in to the striking snakeskin bark of the Manchurian striped maple, possibly an evolutionary disguise to protect saplings. Even if you forget your camera, Dawyck will imprint itself on your grey matter anyway, a humbling lesson in the glorious potential of landscape.
Dawyck Botanic Garden, Stobo, near Peebles, Borders www.rbge.org.uk/the-gardens/dawyck
Sissinghurst Castle
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The famous White Garden at Sissinghurst Castle is equally fascinating both at a distance and close up. There are several angles from which to admire it – framed by a shady arch, for example, or backed by the weathered walls of the Priest's House – and there's fresh beauty in every white iris, lupin and sunny-centred daisy.
It's one of a series of room-like areas of planting with which the poet Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson, a diplomat-turned-politician, adorned the grounds of Sissinghurst. When they arrived in 1930, the site was derelict, but Vita, who had an ancestral connection with the castle, saw in it an opportunity to shake off some of the sadness she felt at being shut out of the inheritance of her childhood home, Knole, simply because she was a woman.
The couple had different approaches to gardening: Harold enjoyed the discipline of orderly spaces separated by brick walls, yew trees and box hedges, while Vita was a romantic who enjoyed creating mysteries and surprises. In 1938, they opened the garden for an entrance fee of a shilling. The romantic-looking Elizabethan Tower that dominates the estate was originally a lookout; for the Nicolsons, it was the perfect vantage from which to survey their leafy domain. Climb up to its highest windows and you can see how beautifully the gardens, orchards and vegetable plots nestle within the Wealden countryside, complementing it just as they intended.
The garden at Sissinghurst Castle, Biddenden Road, near Cranbrook, Kent www.nationaltrust.org.uk
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Law enforcement personnel work a check point Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, in Midland City, Ala, below the home where Tuesday's school bus shooting suspect is barricaded in a bunker with a young child as hostage. Police, SWAT teams and negotiators were at a rural property where a man was believed to be holed up in a homemade bunker Wednesday, HAN 30, 2013 after fatally shooting the driver of a school bus and fleeing with a 6-year-old child passenger, authorities said. The man boarded the stopped school bus in the town of Midland City on Tuesday afternoon and shot the driver when he refused to let the child off the bus. The bus driver died. (AP Photo/The Dothan Eagle, Jay Hare)


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Adding one word at a time, students compile a list of words associated with a novel they have recently read, ranging from details about the plot to feelings about a character. Small groups of students then arrange the collected words into at least four categories using an online tool. Finally, students share their work by creating and presenting posters, which are discussed by the whole group. The discussion ranges from vocabulary and comprehension to literary analysis and reader response. Words from The Hobbit are used in the lesson as an example, but the lesson would work with any text students have read.
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Alright, let's start with a blackboard (see image with drawings). Breaststroke usually comprises of 4-5 phases, depending on how one thinks about it. One of the most important aspect of the breaststroke pull is that the arms move in one motion and there should be no pauses. The arms start slowly and speed up during the phases, similar to a motorcycle accelerating after standing on a red light. I will include the speed in kilometers next to the phases for better reference.
Phase 1: Glide (speed of arms 0 km/h)
During this part of the stroke, your body is the longest. Your head is between your arms, arms in a streamline and legs stretched with ankles touching. Your eyes are on the bottom.
Phase 2: Arm Pull (speed of arms 20 km/h)
The second figure on the above picture looks like a Y. The top two lines in the Y shape indicate arms. So, what do you do? Once your arms start coming apart from the streamline position, you have to "press your chest down" and basically spread the water in front of you. Your "palms are facing outward". Your "head is still down".
Phase 3: Elbows Together (speed of arms 50 km/h)
Then when you arms are spread apart wider than your shoulders, you need to start bending your forarms with palm starting with "your elbows locked in place" right at the surface "ahead of your shoulders". This is very important, the first part of the stroke is only in your forarms. Now, once your forarms are travelling backward, they are actually not going directly back, but moving toward your breast bone, right between your breasts. Once your fingers reach each other, "squeeze your elbows together". As you can see, in this phase, your body is the shortest with legs bent (more on this in the next post, let's only focus on arms here). One of the most important parts is to realize that "you should not pause in this phase". During the movement of your forearms from the extended Y position, your head is starting to come out of the water and your eyes are looking slightly forward. Once you squeeze your elbows your head is out of the water and looking somewhere in the distance where your eyes would meet with the surface of the water. Some swimmers like to keep their head down. I don't think that is wrong, it just depends how strong your legs are.
Let us know watch the video. There are a few flaws in the stroke, but it is good enough to give you the correct picture.
Phase 4: Arm Recovery (speed of arms 100 km/h - the arms should shoot out forward)
When your elbows are squeezed and you are taking a breath, it is time to reach with your arms forward along with the kick (more on this later). Your palms will naturally be facing upward when your elbows are squeezed, don't worry about this, you can rotate them while you are extending your arms forward. When entering water, watch for "not catching air bubbles in your palms". During the period the arms are going forward, the head is also moving toward the position in between the arms, so you can smoothly end up in the glide. "The arms and head stop their journey at the same time" and your body is in a nice gliding streamlined position now, eyes down and we go on to Phase 1 again.
As mentioned above, the arms are moving in one motion without pauses throughout the entire stroke until they are in the Gliding phase. If you are still unsure what is should look like, please watch the best breaststroker out there. Better, yet watch him break a world record in 200 meter breaststroke. I give you the world record holder and olympic champion Branden Hansen from University of Texas.
Hope you have enjoyed the journey of a breaststroke pull. Next, I will help you with the breaststroke kick - one of the toughest kicks to learn, but I have no doubt that you can do it. :) If you think you already know how to swim breaststroke, why not check out the top 5 common breaststroke mistakes post.


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Dogs have been used in military operations for centuries, but this outlandish suit of canine samurai armor from the Edo period is truly something special. Historically, there's a loose precedent for forcing your puggle into that undignified Darth Vader costume every Halloween.
This one-of-a-kind rawhide suit and lacquered wooden mask was for sale on the Japanese antiques site Toraba several years back. According to the seller, the armor hailed from around 1800-50 and was primarily used for ceremonial applications by the nineteenth-century equivalent of my favorite stock character, Hypothetical Insane Billionaire:
General opinion is that this set was made from a dog belonging to a very senior samurai, possibly a daimyo, who apparently was extremely found of this canine companion [...] This set is of dubious practical value, and was almost certainly produced as a novelty item to appease the whim of an apparently very wealthy, powerful, and one can only assume, somewhat eccentric samurai warrior. The armour was most like used likely limited in its use to being worn during [...] formal parade-like situations.
Now, one of you archaeologist types dig up some Egyptian and Viking dog armor tout de suite so I can finally accrue that venture capital for my million-dollar idea, The Fluffiest Warrior. For recent (old) samurai weirdness, see the samurai go to the Sphinx. [Via Eff Yeah Asian History]


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text: SpudRider Posted March 7, 2011 I recently purchased a Shorai, LFX09A2 battery for my Honda XR650L. The Shorai battery weighs 4.8 pounds less than the stock battery, and its small size allowed me to relocate the battery on top of the XR650L air box. 👍 I prepared the seat pan by removing the lateral rib that extends in front of the air box, and shaving the excess flashing from the vent holes. Then I removed all the contents from the battery box, and freed the wiring harness from the battery box. I disconnected the CDI unit, and pulled the fuses from the fuse box. After the battery box was empty, I removed it completely from the motorcycle, shedding over 10 pounds of highly placed weight. 😏 Next, I loosened all the wiring connected to the air box, and I disconnected all the plugs. I then pulled the wires leading to the battery box under the frame, and cleared them from the top of the air box. Next, I cut back the tape about 1 ½-inches from the fork on the main wiring harness. This allowed me to shove the main wiring harness down into the space in front of the air box.🤣 One of the wiring boots is located on the right side of the fuel tank. I rerouted all the wires leading to this wiring boot in front of the shock absorber. I also shoved the wiring boot coming from the right side of the fuel tank down into the space in front of the air box.🤣 I then prepared a flat surface for the Shorai battery by trimming the small, lateral wall on the top front of the air box.🤣 After lengthening the wires leading from the tail light and turn signals, I routed these wires from the left side of the bike, under the frame, into the area in front of the air box. I routed the wire from the rear brake switch from the right side of the bike, under the frame, into the same area. After placing the Shorai battery into position, I reconnected all the wires, and routed the CDI wire, the starter relay, and the fuse box outside the frame, to the right, rear end of the air box. After changing the position of the connectors on the starter relay, I mounted the starter relay, and the fuse box, onto the top, rear of the air box, outside the frame. I routed the CDI wire into the hole of the air box, and attached the CDI unit inside the air box with a zip tie. After reinstalling the fuses, I trimmed a small portion of the "wall" surrounding the air intake to allow me to connect the positive terminal to the battery. Finishing the job, I connected both battery terminals, and reinstalled the fuses. 😛 The saddle re-installs as easily as it did before.🤣 By removing the battery box, I shaved a little over 10 pounds from my motorcycle. The Shorai battery weighs 1.2 pounds, so the net weight loss resulting from this battery relocation was about 9 pounds.🤣 Spud🤣 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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UNC-Malawi cancer pathology laboratory is a model for Sub-Saharan Africa
The laboratory has provided an invaluable service to patients and has also built capacity at a national teaching hospital, according to an analysis of the first 20 months of operation published online by PLOS ONE.
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Since 2011, the University of North Carolina has partnered with the government of Malawi to establish a pathology laboratory in the nation's capital, building on an existing decades-long collaboration. The laboratory has provided an invaluable service to patients and has also built capacity at a national teaching hospital, according to an analysis of the first 20 months of operation published (date) online by PLOS ONE.
"A robust platform for cancer care and research now exists in a setting where it did not previously, and can serve as a model for similar interventions throughout sub-Saharan Africa," said Satish Gopal, MD, MPH, study author and member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center's Global Oncology Program.
In July of 2011, UNC and the Malawi Ministry of Health established a pathology laboratory at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Malawi's capital city of Lilongwe. Relying on a largely Malawian staff (Fred Chimzimu, Coxcilly Kampani, Prof. George Liomba), supported by UNC collaborators, the lab has now assessed more than 3,600 specimens.
The lab became one of only two pathology labs in the nation of 16 million, helping to relieve diagnostic delays that contributed to late diagnoses and early deaths for Malawians suffering from cancer. Cancer has become a growing health problem in Sub-Saharan African countries like Malawi, with disease rates more than doubling since 1999 due to factors such as HIV which increases risk of many cancers, population aging, and the widespread adoption of Westernized lifestyles,.
Importantly, staffing of the Malawi laboratory relies on Malawians, including Prof. George Liomba, a senior Malawian pathologist formerly with the College of Medicine in Blantyre, who has analyzed more than 95 percent of specimens after joining UNC full-time in 2012. While telemedicine technology purchased by UNC Lineberger has allowed for weekly consultations between the Malawi lab and UNC pathologists and physicians in North Carolina, Dr. Gopal said that the early experience has shown that a sustainable laboratory must rely on Malawian health care workers.
"Telepathology has been an important tool for collaboration, rather than a primary mode by which diagnostic interpretation are rendered. Importantly, it cannot be a substitute for training a sufficient number of Malawian pathologists and laboratory technicians to provide essential diagnostic services," said Dr. Gopal. In this regard, UNC has directly supported the training of technicians abroad who have now returned to Lilongwe to staff the lab.
Sustainability will be a major focus for the laboratory in the coming years, according to Dr. Gopal. Beyond the need for training local staff and physicians, the laboratory is developing locally appropriate fee schedules, and starting to provide diagnostic services to hospitals in surrounding areas outside Lilongwe. While external funds can provide the necessary support for training and equipping cancer facilities in the region, the ultimate goal must be independence from external support.
Additionally, the expansion of a cancer workforce in Africa is crucial, as the projected burden of cancer will continue to rise in the region. Pathology laboratories such as the UNC-Malawi partnership can begin the process of collecting data to allow governments to have a fuller picture of the prevalence of cancer in the region, in order to guide cancer control efforts at the local level.


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January 11, 2012
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Florida Democrat who chairs Democratic National Committee, blamed the Tea Party movement for the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona last year. She made the comments in New Hampshire this morning.
"We need to make sure that we tone things down, particularly in light of the Tucson tragedy from a year ago, where my very good friend, Gabby Giffords — who is doing really well, by the way, — [was shot]," she said, and then mentioned the Tea Party by name:
The discourse in America, the discourse in Congress in particular… has really changed, I'll tell you. I hesitate to place blame, but I have noticed it take a very precipitous turn towards edginess and lack of civility with the growth of the Tea Party movement.
You had town hall meetings that they tried to take over, and you saw some their conduct at those tea party meetings. When they come and disagree with you, you're not just wrong, you're the enemy.
It was determined that the accused shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, is mentally ill and unable to stand trial. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and has been undergoing forced medication in a federal prison hospital since July.
Loughner was not affiliated with Tea Party or conservatives and did not vote in the 2010 election.
Following the shooting, the establishment media attempted to portray him as a Tea Party supporter. The media cited a Department of Homeland Security report linking Loughner to American Renaissance, which DHS claimed promotes views that are "anti-government, anti-immigration, anti-ZOG [Zionist Occupational Government], anti-Semitic."
Following the news blitz and sensationalistic headlines portraying the shooting as political, the DHS admitted "the department has not established any such possibility, undercutting what appears to be the primary basis for this claim." It was later discovered that the memo came from the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center, not the DHS.
The insinuation by Wasserman Schultz that disagreeing with the government is akin to violence and terrorism arrives as the establishment tries to discredit Ron Paul and his supporters. In the lead-up to the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary, an umber of editorials characterized his supporters as coming from the lunatic fringe, as did so-called "conservative" heavy hitters on talk radio.
The DNC boss Wasserman Schultz did not mention Ron Paul, but her side swipe of the Tea Party serves as an indirect attack on the Paul campaign. Although much of the Tea Party has been hijacked by establishment Republicans, there is still a large contingency that supports Ron Paul and his call for a return to a constitutional republic.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Cosmetic SurgeryQ. What is the difference between cosmetic and plastic surgery?
A. Cosmetic surgery is a unique discipline of medicine focused on enhancing appearance through surgical and medical techniques. Cosmetic surgery can be performed on all areas of the head, neck and body. Because treated areas function properly but lack aesthetic appeal, cosmetic surgery is elective.
Plastic surgery is defined as a surgical specialty dedicated to reconstruction of facial and body defects due to birth disorders, trauma, burns, and disease. Plastic surgery is intended to correct dysfunctional areas of the body and is reconstructive in nature.
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A. The most important thing to remember is that the terms 'plastic surgery' and 'cosmetic surgery' are not interchangeable. Confusion about the terms has led to public misconceptions about the two specialties. Cosmetic surgery is the "surgery of appearance." It is elective and focuses on the aesthetics of beauty.
Q. How does the education differ between a plastic surgeon and a cosmetic surgeon?
A. Because the procedures and outcomes of each are quite different, the training of cosmetic surgeons and plastic surgeons is also very different.
As there are no residency programs specifically focused on cosmetic surgery, physicians pursuing cosmetic surgery have backgrounds that include medical school, a residency and/or fellowship program, preferably in a surgical specialty, usually followed by attaining board certification in that specialty, and post-residency training specifically in cosmetic surgery. This can be done through a cosmetic surgery fellowship program, as well as through workshops, seminars and lectures. Physicians with significant experience in cosmetic surgery become certified by the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery (ABCS), which has established a strict set of criteria to ensure experience and proficiency specifically in cosmetic surgery.
Plastic surgeons follow a similar path as many cosmetic surgeons. However, after finishing medical school they complete a residency and/or fellowship in plastic surgery, and then may become certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. At this point, a plastic surgeons additional training in cosmetic surgery is optional. If they choose, they may take steps to gain experience in cosmetic surgery through a fellowship training program, workshops, seminars and lectures, and then become certified by the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery after having completed the necessary requirements.
Board certification is extremely important in determining a surgeon's qualifications. Each of the aforementioned certifying boards has very different requirements and measures a physician's education and experience in different fields. It is important that the public as well as healthcare professionals understand these differences so patients can make informed decisions when choosing a surgeon for a specific procedure, whether it is a cosmetic or plastic surgeon. Education and patient safety are at the very core of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery's mission to advance the specialty of cosmetic surgery and quality patient care.
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All Fellows of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery are certified by the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery and/or have their initial board certification by one of the member boards of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) such as the American Boards of Dermatology, Otolaryngology, Ophthalmology, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Plastic Surgery. This provides some assurance of formal training in the fundamentals of cosmetic surgery. All of these specialty boards require at least four years of residency training in plastic and/or cosmetic surgical procedures and provide a solid base for the doctor's skills.
Many of these board-certified physicians will then go on to complete the requirements to undergo the rigorous oral and written testing and scrutiny to become board-certified by the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery, which has established a strict set of criteria to ensure experience and proficiency specifically in cosmetic surgery.
Q. What is the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery?
A. The American Board of Cosmetic Surgery is the only certifying board exam devoted to examining a surgeon's skill in cosmetic surgery of the face and body. It is an independent sub-specialty board that examines and certifies physicians in general, facial and dermatological cosmetic surgery.
Eligibility requirements include:
You can learn more about the ABCS and find physicians board-certified in cosmetic surgery at www.americanboardcosmeticsurgery.org.
Q. Where can I find out if a doctor has had malpractice suits against him/her? Where can I file a complaint against a physician?
A. Each state has its own Medical Board that licenses physicians and tracks complaints and disciplinary actions taken against physicians of all disciplines. Most states have online systems to quickly look up doctors by name. Contact your state's Medical Board or Department of Health to find the correct office. A listing of State Medical Boards may be found at www.fsmb.org under "Board Directory."
Q. What should consumers think about when they are looking for a physician to perform a cosmetic procedure?
A. The American Medical Association recommends that patients choose a health care provider based on his or her training, education, experience and demonstrated practice history. Ultimately, prospective patients need to choose a physician based on the procedure they are having. They should know how often their physician performs the procedure as well as his or her training in that area. Consumers should also speak with individuals who have received patient care from the physicians they are considering and ask to see results before committing to a doctor.
Q. At what age do most people have cosmetic surgery?
A. The average age patients receive cosmetic surgery is 41. Treatments such as breast augmentation, liposuction, rhinoplasty (nose job) and dermabrasion are common among younger patients while procedures including blepharoplasty (eyelift), breast lift, facelift and Botox® are more commonly sought by older patients.
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Located in Hanover, New Hampshire, Dartmouth has one of the oldest professional schools of engineering in the country offering an engineering sciences education unencumbered by departmental divisions that fosters cross-disciplinary innovation in research and teaching. Graduate programs include the Master of Engineering Management (MEM), MS, PhD, dual degrees with The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, and the nation's first PhD Innovation Program. Dartmouth undergraduates study engineering as part of a liberal arts education leading to the Bachelor of Arts (AB) degree; most majors take additional courses leading to the professional Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree. (See more about the AB/BE)
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Dunn's River FallsThe world Renown Dunn's River Falls is said to be the 8th wonders of the world. It is Jamaica's main attraction and is normally crowded by noon so we make it our first stop to beat the crowd rushing to enjoy this 600 ft of cascading spring fed waterfalls. So you get to climb it when it is least crowded and more private. Dunn's River Falls is known for it's exhilarating guided climb up the breathtaking cascades.
If you are unable or choose not to climb the waterfalls there are balconies adjacent to the water falls where you can see others climb.
There are also seats on the balconies. Another option is relaxing on the beautiful beach situated at the bottom of the waterfalls.
Cool Blue HoleThe Cool Blue Hole is definitely the #1 Water Attraction to see in Ocho Rios Jamaica. This 20ft. Cascading Waterfalls is definitely a hidden gem in the hills of Ocho Rios. Its Blue hazy waters are deep enough for the exhilarating cliff jumps & dives.
There is also a Tarzan Rope swing which makes the Blue Hole very fun for any age. Going to the Cool Blue Hole will definitely be your #1 vacation experience, its located on The White River which is a very popular attraction known for River Tubing & Rafting but the Cool Blue Hole is definitely the best spot on the river for swimming. (Persons should be able to swim.)
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Are you in London right now? If you are then, it is the opportunity for you to be a part of the biggest gathering of African designers or Africa inspired designers all gathering in London as we speak. Dates are August 3 and 4, 2012; venue is Spitalfields Market Hall, Brushfields Street, Spitalfields, London, E1 6AA.
60 Designers and 40 exhibitors would be showcasing the stuffs of which they are made of. Not only that, about a 100 gorgeous models from all over London, some from Nigeria would be the live mannequins at the 2 days show that would be out of this world. It has been tagged one of the biggest gathering of fashionable and very creative people in Europe this season.
Gtbank, L'Oreal Mizani, Maestro's Media, Tiannah's Styling, One Nigerian Boy, Afri Mobile, New African Woman, Money Gram, FAB Magazine, Catwalk Capture, Complete Fashion Magazine, OHTV, Brand Sierra Leone TV, Factory 78, BEN TV, Nollywood Movies Sky 329, Iman Entertainment and many more are partners and sponsors. Over 500 plus media representatives from all over the world have been accredited to cover the 2 days fashion & lifestyle extravaganza.
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My grandson fell in love with Narnia a few years ago after watching "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe." Last year we we started talking about making costumes and he and my granddaughter selected the coronation outfits - he is King Peter and she is Queen Lucy. With not actual pattern pieces, I improvised by looking at a lot of movie stills and wound up using crushed velvet for her dress and soft velvet for his tunic. I ripped out a lot of seams trying to get things right! Their capes are both lined in satin. It was a huge undertaking, but well worth the smiles and laughter! I recently returned from a trip to the Middle East, so I used a photo of a lion from our local zoo and put them all on a background of the Dead Sea for effect.


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Looking for amazing experiences on the doorstep of Australia's big cities? Look no further. We've gathered together the best excursions, from surfing and snorkelling to bushwalking and caving, to tempt you away from the charms of the cities.
Bushwalk the Blue Mountains, Sydney
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Just two hours from Sydney you'll find the Blue Mountains, a kind of Australian Grand Canyon. The rugged landscape – 10,000 square kilometres of chiselled sandstone cliffs and thickly forested valleys – provides peace and clean air along with awe-inspiring views and makes for a wonderful escape from the city. Explore the historic trails on a guided bushwalk, heading away from the viewpoints and clearly marked paths into the creeks and gorges below for a real 'Blues' experience. And for the more adventurous visitor, rock-climbing, abseiling or canyoning at one of the numerous climbing schools in the area will provide more active entertainment.
Visit Chillagoe, Cairns
Travel three hours west of Cairns and you'll experience a taste of the Outback in the mining town of Chillagoe. The main attraction of Chillagoe is the caves - most notably Royal Arch, Donna and Trezkinn, which you'll find bursting with natural sculptures including a few large stalagmites. Between the caves, lucky visitors may also catch a glimpse of some special wildlife - echidnas, kangaroos, black cockatoos and frogmouth birds. And don't miss the panoramic views from Balancing Rock or the Aboriginal paintings and engravings near the Arches.
Kakadu National Park, Darwin
World Heritage site Kakadu, a two and a half hour drive from Darwin, is Australia's largest national park. It's a veritable environmental mixing-pot, with a landscape of ravines, heathlands, woodlands, swamps, wetlands, mangroves and rainforest; home to 2,000 different plants and a third of Australia's bird species. For the best experience, tour the park on an early-morning walk or drive, where you may be lucky enough to see kangaroos, wallabies, wallaroos and dingoes.
The Girraween National Park, Brisbane
Known for its spectacular flowers, dramatic scenery and unique wildlife, it's well worth the three hour drive from Brisbane to reach the Girraween National Park. With more energy than skill, you can climb several of the giant hills with little risk, venturing past lichen-covered boulders and clear springs, through wetlands and open forest. Be sure to explore the graded walking trails to major sights like the Pyramids and the Sphinx, or venture up Mount Norman – the highest point at 1267 metres.
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Consistently great waves make Bells Beach, just 90 minutes drive from Melbourne, the out-of-town surfing Mecca. The reason for Bells' amazing waves are the swells coming in from huge southern ocean storms occurring every couple of days - the leftovers of which cause the surf to break over numerous sections of reef. Waves on the beach reach between one and three meters high, often much larger, and make for an excellent surf experience. Bells Bowl, which often benefits from the northwest wind, is the place to head for extra-great surfing.
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Chalet Cristal has a superb location, situated away from the main road in Val dIsère (1800m). It is only 150m from the La Daille telecabine, the Etroits chairlift, and the "Funival" a high speed funicular that carries skiers to the top of Bellevarde (2800m) in just a few minutes. From there is a huge choice of pistes including easy access to Tignes. You can ski back to within about 150m from the chalet, the same point as the Val d'Isère World Cup Downhill finish.
The centre of Val d'Isère is a short walk from Chalet Cristal 4. Alternatively you can use the free bus service that operates around Val d'Isère throughout the day and continues until 2am. The nearest bus stop to Chalet Cristal is only 100m away for the short ride to the centre of town.
Chalet Cristal 4 (Sleeps 9), Val d'Isère is situated on the second floor of this beautifully appointed chalet. Its excellent location and great design, with its wood and stone finish and Savoyard charm, make it the ideal home for our Val d'Isère guests. Cristal 4 has four spacious bedrooms all with full en-suite facilities and oak flooring with rooms 3 and 4 giving onto the balcony. The white-tiled bathrooms with lit-mirrors and heated towel rails are well designed and comfortable. The attractive open plan lounge and dining area has traditional-style furniture and oak flooring with plenty of comfortable seating around the wood-burning stove, creating a warm and welcoming place to relax and unwind. Its large picture windows create a pleasing sense of light and space and its South-West facing balcony provides a great outdoor space for guests to enjoy. The chalet has modern accessories such as a flat screen TV showing British channels, a DVD player for your enjoyment as well as free Wi-Fi internet access so you need never feel out of touch.
The chalet Cristal 4 hosts live in on the ground floor.
All rooms can take a cot.
Please note: We do not change towels mid week. Chalet hosts eat with guests.
Rm 1: Twin room ES shower & wc
Rm 2: Twin room ES shower & wc
Rm 3: Triple room ES shwr & wc
Rm 4: Double room ES bath and wc
On arrival in your chalet, handmade pre-dinner canapés and apéritifs will be served to you in the lounge while your experienced chalet host welcomes you to your chalet introduces you to the resort.
Start your day with a delicious cooked breakfast that includes bacon, eggs, Heinz beans or hash browns and mushrooms or tomatoes plus a selection of cereals, porridge, yogurts and fresh bread. Served 8am to 9am.
Scrumptious homemade cakes and a choice of teas are provided every day, best enjoyed while you relax in the lounge area in front of the log fire.
Home cooked evening meal served at 8pm with unlimited carefully selected red, white or rosé wine (6 days), with an additional 4th course of local cheese board with port on the Thursday evening.
•½ of Espace Killy •Fantastic après •Traditional chocolate box village •Skiable glacier
Ski never-ending pistes and powder, ogle at colossal peaks and cosy Savoie architecture, then end the day with some of the world's most wild and wonderful après ski. Val d'Isere is considered by many to be the best ski resort on earth, and we're inclined to agree.
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Night skiing: Yes, every Thursday
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Emmental is one example of a hard cheese. That means a cheese with a moisture content below 35%. Parmesan and Gruyère are two other well-known varieties. In the US this is a vast product category, popularised by the Swiss immigrants who took their cheese-making traditions with them to the new world in the 19th and 20th Centuries. It includes semi-hard cheeses that are grated to be use as ingredient in cooking.
When most people think of Swiss cheese, they think of Emmental. The holes in Emmental are caused by a special starter culture (used for acidification). It produces carbon dioxide and hence forms the bubbles that give Emmental its distinctive appearance.
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Together with our customers we make food safe and available, everywhere. Since the start in 1951 we have taken pride in providing the best possible processing and packaging solutions for food.
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