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Luxury detached villa stands in landscaped gardens, with its own parking area, private pool, air-conditioning and heating in 3 bedrooms and lounge. No smoking and No pets. It sleeps 6 in comfort, in 3 large twin bedded rooms, each with its own en-suite bathroom. The villa is furnished to a high standard throughout, with brand new appliances and equipment.The villa has Wi-Fi connection.
|Sleeps up to 6, 3 bedrooms
|Nearest beach
|Belek 500 m
|Will consider
|Long term lets (over 1 month)
|Car advised
|Nearest travel links
|Nearest airport: Antalya 30 km
|Family friendly
|Suitable for children over 5
|No pets allowed, No smoking at this property
Features and Facilities
|Internet access, DVD player
|Private outdoor pool (unheated)
|Air conditioning, TV, Wi-Fi available
|Kettle, Toaster, Iron, Hair dryer
|Clothes dryer, Dishwasher, Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Freezer, Washing machine
|3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms of which 3 En suites
|Single beds (6), Dining seats for 6, Lounge seats for 6
|Linen provided, Towels provided
|Private outdoor pool (unheated), Balcony or terrace, Private garden
|Parking, Not suitable for wheelchair users
The Turkish Mediterranean Coast region
Places of Interest:
In neighboring regions, there is the Hellenistic / Roman city of Perge, which is rated second after Ephesus and the great amphitheater of Aspendos that still today can hold nearly 15.000 viewers. Nearby as well are the fantastic Manavgat Falls and the Roman city of Side with its large amphitheater. Only a few miles to the west is Antalya with its surprising harbour and ancient city and where Turkish handicrafts that have begun to be recognized internationally can be bought.
There is Burdur, the Roman city of Termossosa that is located in the high mountains above Antalya and was founded by Alexander the Great in 333 BC. The Hellenistic city of Olympus is also in this region.
The summer season is about 8-9 months long. The climate of the Belek area is typical Mediterranean: hot and dry in summers and temperate and rainy in winters. Sunshine is guaranteed form April to October and the winters are pleasantly mild. The winter lasts only from December to March. The summer is very hot with temperature often rising above 30°C in July and August.. The humidity is a little bit high, about 64%, and the average water temperature is 21,5°C. Showers are unlikely in the summer months, but the rainfall is quite high in winter.
Shops - Restaurants - Supermarkets - Banks - Cash machines - Cycling - Boating - Fishing - Horseback Riding - Jet Skiing - Parasailing - Sailing - Scuba Diving -Snorkeling - Surfing - Water Park - Windsurfing - Whitewater Rafting - Downhill Skiing (25 miles)
There are 15 golf courses within 15 minutes drive of the villa. The courses are:
The Pasha Golf Course
The PGA Sultan Golf Course
The Sueno Pines Golf Course
The Sueno Dunes Golf Course
The Carya Golf Club
The Pappillon Montgomerie Course
The Kaya Eagle Golf Club
The Cornelia Faldo Course
The Lykia Links Golf Course
The Gloria Golf New Course
The Gloria Golf Old Course
The Glora Verde Course (9 holes)
The National Golf Club
The Tat Golf Course (27 holes)
The Nobilis Golf Course
Prices can vary between approx 40 to 100 Euros, but temporary membership of the Kadriye/Belek golf society will provide approx. 20% (and sometimes up to 50%) discounts.
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12 Jul 2012
"Good villa for good relax"
Our group (6 adults and 1 infant) had a rest on the villa on June-July 2012. It was our 1-st experience to be on holidays on a villa and we have been choosing a good villa very long time - we have found the good variant. It is very nice villa, very comfortable, it has everything what you need for the rest and life: large bedrooms with bathrooms, large kitchen/dining/living area and very good swimming-pool. On Saturdays there is a farm market in Belek town where you can buy fresh vegetables, fruits and fish. Villa has BBQ – you can cook on it. Villa is situated little bit far from the beach (about 20 minutes on foot) – we advise to use the car. Every mooning we drove to Belek Beach (1,5 Turkish lira for 1 person entrance, 2,5 TL for 1 sunbed). We enjoyed the villa very much! Thanks a lot to owners!
15 Nov 2011
"A villa for all reasons."
Myself and 3 golfing chums were met at the airport by Deniz who sorted out our transfer hire car and villa keys. The villa is light and airy, large bedrooms and a very sociable kitchen/dining/living area. Despite some unseasonal weather we had a great time visiting local sights and Antalya town and also managed some golf. Belek town is a 20 minute dawdle from the villa, a return taxi 10 lira including tip. We paid for most things in local currency, its worth looking at the Turkish version of the menu in bars and restaurants, for some reason it always worked out cheaper than paying in Euros, the same seemed to apply at the golf courses. If you prefer a branded spirit would suggest you buy this in duty free on the way out as non local brands in the shops seemed expensive.The villa owners and local representives were all helpful and an excellent source for information and advice. All in all a great holiday experience which we hope to repeat again in the near future.
14 Nov 2011
"Beautiful Villa, peaceful location, great pool!"
The villa was lovely. Beautifully furnished with lots of room, all good amenities and had a great homely feel to it too. The villa does have a small BBQ which was enough for what we needed and the patio and pool were great. The pool is large enough to have a swim but doesn't have a shallow end. However, our 5 and 7 year olds could swim and had loads of fun jumping, diving. Belek itself is quiet but the town has some great restaurants and an amazing fountain display each night to music which the children really enjoyed. We had a car and we used it every day to go to and from the shops and to get to good beaches as we didn't enjoy the local beaches. The best beach we found was at Side and we'd highly recommend the drive there. Another great place to visit was Managavat Waterfalls - really good fun!
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Exploring the Global Mid-Ocean Ridge: A Quarter-Century of Discovery
Macdonald, Ken C., Oceanus
Professor of Marine Geophysics, University of California, Santa Barbara
There is a natural tendency in scientific investigations for increased specialization. Most important advances are made by narrowing focus and building on the broad foundation of earlier, more general research. This was certainly the case for the French-American Mid-Ocean Undersea Study submersible expedition launched 25 years ago. The mid-ocean target was the rift valley of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge spreading center. In the 1950s, Bruce Heezen of Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory collected wide-beam echo sounder cross sections of the rift valley and correctly surmised that it is part of a global rift system that wraps around the earth like the seam of a baseball. British and Canadian marine geologists took the next step and mounted a series of ambitious expeditions to study the Mid-Atlantic Ridge near 45 [degrees] N using every geophysical and geological tool available at the time. An American group focused its attention on the rift valley near 22 [degrees] N. However, the floor of the rift valley itself, where new oceanic crust intrudes and erupts, remained as obscure and enigmatic as ever. The hundreds of active volcanoes that occupy the floor of the rift valley were hidden from depth recorders by booming side-echoes of sound reverberating from the steep, 1,000 meter high cliffs of the valley.
Then, in 1972, three years after Neil Armstrong left the first human footprint on the moon, an international group of marine geologists initiated a bold advance: to explore the rift valley with the only vehicles that could take them there - submersibles. Despite a decade or so of deep-sea submersible experience, there was still considerable skepticism about their usefulness as scientific tools. However, those who believed prevailed, the French made the bathyscaphe Archimede and the submersible Cyana available, and the US offered the reliable underwater workhorse Alvin. The French-American Mid-Ocean Undersea Study (Project FAMOUS) was underway.
Precise base maps for the dive expedition were assembled using a US Navy classified multi-beam echo sounder, a French narrow beam echo-sounding system, and a deeply towed instrument package from the Marine Physical Laboratory at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California, San Diego). I recall the hushed amazement aboard the research vessel Knorr when we first saw high-resolution, deep-tow depth profiles slowly burned into the paper of our malodorous precision depth recorders. The rift's center shape finally was revealed clearly as a deep trough nested within a wider rift valley, which contained many hills that appeared to be volcanic cones. These sonar records were the base maps for the dive expedition, and a team of geologists was assembled to be the first mid-ocean ridge divers using Archimede in the summer of 1973.
Alvin and the other submersibles certainly proved their worth as scientific tools during FAMOUS, and they have been heavily used ever since. Indeed, the French and also the Japanese have replaced their original subs with vehicles that can dive twice as deep, to depths exceeding 6,000 meters. The FAMOUS geological work showed that the rift valley is created by large faults that break through the newly formed oceanic crust and that active volcanoes are abundant along the rift valley floor. The youngest volcanoes form a narrow zone of oceanic crustal creation only 1 to 2 kilometers Wide, remarkable when compared to the dimensions of the plates, which are thousands of kilometers across. FAMOUS magnetic, geochemical, gravitational, and seismic studies resulted in the most detailed and comprehensive investigation of a spreading center up to that time. So much was learned that in 1977 two entire issues of the Bulletin of the Geological Society of America were dedicated to the results of this unprecedented expedition.
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In response to meeting regional housing demand requirements stipulated by the Association of Bay Area Governments, the Downtown Area Plan Advisory Committee of Berkeley, California, considers a high-rise development plan proposed by city staff.
"Should downtown Berkeley sprout a highrise-studded skyline, complete with 14 new 16-story 'point towers' as a solution to regional government demands that the city add new housing?"
"That was one of the solutions offered by city planning staff at Wednesday night's meeting of the Downtown Area Plan Advisory Committee."
"The Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) has issued preliminary figures that will form the basis of a new mandate that would force the city to prepare the way to add 2,700 new housing units over the next seven years."
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"Under the proposed guidelines, the city would have to prepare for a total of 5,450 new housing units by 2035. Failure to comply could mean the loss of some state funding and programs."
"The high-rises-called 'point towers' because they are set back from lower street-frontages" -would each be as tall as one of the tallest buildings in the city.
"Looking at the point tower scenario, (Downtown Area Plan Advisory Committee) member and architect Jim Novosel said 'density for density's sake sucks,' agreeing with fellow member Juliet Lamont that any plans should include greenery. Winston Burton agreed, and stressed the need to include larger, three-bedroom units among the affordable housing to be created."
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I don't see the benefit of the proposed "point towers" (Vancouver style buildings, with a lower base and a tower rising in the middle of the street).
The illustration in the article shows a building with a five-story base and a 14 to 16-story tower that seems to occupy about one-fifth of the site. You could get the same density with a 7 or 8-story building - which would be much more human-scale than the sterile towers that they are proposing.
Proponents of the towers claim that they give better solar access to surrounding buildings - the same thing Le Corbusier and other modernists said to support his tower-in-a-park housing projects. I think that failure should teach us to build in a human scale.
Charles Siegel
I disagree with your assertion that a 7 or 8-storey building (with a large footprint) is preferable. A matter of opinion, I suppose, but I prefer tall, slender towers anyday to big, horizontal boxes. Also, "sterile" is an adjective which can be used to describe any building type. Slender towers can be sterile or they can be visually interesting, just like any other building.
Moreover, a slender tower atop a 5-story base is not a "Vancouver-style" building. Typically, in Vancouver, slender towers (sometimes as high as 40 stories) rise above a 2-story base; this looks a lot better (and lets in more light to the street below plus is more pedestrian-scale) than a big, blocky-looking 7 or 8-storey building running along an entire blockfront.
Go for it Berkeley... but keep the base of the building LOW (preferably two, but definitely not more than 3 stories).
Christopher C.
After traveling to Vancouver I would totally have to agree with you Chris. I would much rather live among the dense point towers of Vancouver, than the darkened canyon streets of Chicago. Vancouverseque towers really give a light, airy, and open feel to the city. It always feels as if the towers are somehow further in the distance than they really are. Though I also agree with Chris in that the bases of these buildings should be lower than they are in the picture and the towers should be taller and more slender. Those renderings look quite bulky. Go for it Berkeley. Then again this could totally be a matter of personal taste. At least until some study attempts to quantitatively prove then benefits and costs of either schema.
I traveled to Vancouver as a grad student to study the urban form there. I really liked it and found the scale to be appropriate to the street, as commenters above noted; the way they do treatments at street level eliminates many things that deter ped traffic [as anecdotes about 'stroller congestion' illustrate].
I take Charles to mean 'human scale' at the 'willing to climb stairs scale'. A 30-story tower won't be used in 30 years if energy replacements aren't found and cities depopulate as a result. I must say, though, one tower in Berkeley (or Sac for that matter) could likely look like a sore thumb standing there alone.
Energy costs are a point well taken. Likewise it also appears that it would be more expensive to build a taller slender building in the first place (fewer units per floor, more structure required, greater elevator requirements, etc). But then in contrast you also get increased community wide benefits (sunlight, fresh air, an open feel, roof decks or green roofs on top of the tower bases). That's why we need a study to compare these two schemas. And I also have to say that one tower in Berkeley could be viewed as an eye sore or an icon! Depends on how it's done. I think any town which over does something risks becoming sterile and monotonous. Even Vancouver could be viewed in this way with its overwhelming preference for the use of point towers. The point is that there is value in variety.
By human scale, I mean a scale that promotes human contact. In towers-in-a-park projects, people in the upper floors can see the distant view but cannot see what is happening right in front of their building; these projects seem impersonal because of this lack of human contact. Point towers try to fix this by setting back the towers and having human scale buildings at the sidewalk: of course, it is better to have this lower base than only towers, but the towers themselves are still impersonal.
Jan Gehl has the best discussion of this topic, and there is a scan and excerpt from his writing on my blog at http://preservenet.blogspot.com/2006/11/why-high-rises-seem-faceless-and.... Though he is less known, I think Gehl is as important a critic of modernist urbanism as Jane Jacobs, and I recommend his books to anyone who has not read them.
Even if you want towers elsewhere, you should consider that Berkeley is a special case because it is one of the few places left in the US that has a traditional skyline, with midrise fabric buildings and a symbolic structure (the Campanile) rising above them - as the cathedral rises above the fabric buildings of a medieval city and as the church spire rises above the fabric buildings of a Vermont town. Washington, DC, is the largest city in the US with this sort of traditional skyline (with the Capitol dome and Washington Monument rising above the fabric buildings), and I believe Berkeley is the second largest in the US. (Can anyone suggest of a city that beats Berkeley for second?)
I think John Galen Howard's urban design for Berkeley should be preserved rather than being marred by a highrise, just as Vermont towns should not be marred by highrises, and just as St. Petersburg should not be marred by a highrise (see http://www.planetizen.com/node/22320), because it is a historically important urban design and because this sort of traditional urban skyline has become rare.
Finally, consider how ordinary people react to high-rise towers. The committee in Berkeley rejected this proposal (one member said that it "sucks"). I think they would have been much more receptive to proposals to build infill in downtown at the intimate scale of traditional European cities. You can get plenty of density at this traditional scale, as in Paris and other European cities.
I think the same is true of most Americans, who could be attracted by intimate, human scale neighborhoods even if they are high density. The New Urbanists have been successful because they build intimate-scale nieghborhoods, even though they are denser than sprawl suburbs. I think we could be equally successful if we built intimate-scale urban neighborhoods; a good example is Santana Row in San Jose (though it should be transit-oriented).
Note that I am a long-time supporter of smart growth, and I have spent lots of time fighting Berkeley NIMBYs (see the related link of the original post). But I don't think we serve the cause of smart growth by adding high-rises to what is now a fairly human-scale downtown. This sort of thing will just convince people that the only alternatives are impersonal highrises or auto-dependent sprawl - and if those are the alternatives, I think most Americans will go for sprawl.
Charles Siegel
But I don't think we serve the cause of smart growth by adding high-rises to what is now a fairly human-scale downtown.
Good point, sir. Viscerally, Charles, I don't think a high-rise is right in that context, but I like them in Vancouver.
And I may, if I think about it, agree that the towers themselves are impersonal, but isn't the point that people move to downtown for the vitality and the amenities, and are drawn to the street where there is abundant human contact (again, in Van and not Berkeley)? Sure, they retreat to their towers, but go down to the street again and again.
Note to suburb-loving libertarians: I say 'they', as I don't live downtown. I like the rural lifestyle and my big garden, and I plan for a wide range of housing and don't expect to cram everybody, including SFD-loving two-hours-a-day-in-their-cars-freedom-loving-having-a-wide-range-of-auto-choice-suburbanites into only one housing "choice".
And I may, if I think about it, agree that the towers themselves are impersonal, but isn't the point that people move to downtown for the vitality and the amenities, and are drawn to the street where there is abundant human contact (again, in Van and not Berkeley)?
I think it is possible to have both human-scale buildings and abundant street life and vitality, as in traditional European cities. Plenty of street life in Paris or in NY's Lower East side, even though the buildings generally only go up to 6 stories (with some notorious exceptions in Paris, but there is lots of street life in the old mid-rise neighborhoods).
That sort of traditional urban neighborhood is my ideal, but I have to admit that the genii is out of the bottle, and it is too late to preserve traditional scale in downtown San Francisco, Vancouver, and (in fact) in most city centers in the world, with a relatively few exceptions that have not already been high-rised. In these places, I am not against building more high-rises, in a way that promotes street life - for the usual reasons of reducing sprawl and auto dependency.
Many people do like these high-rise neighborhoods, but I think we also have to accommodate large numbers of people who would not want to live in high-rise neighborhoods but would be attracted by traditional-scale neighborhoods.
Thanks, Dano, for agreeing with my point about preserving Berkeley's historic skyline. There will be a battle soon about a proposed convention center that is even taller than these point towers. When I tell people that Berkeley is the second largest city in the US that still has a traditional skyline, they stare at me and obviously don't know what I am talking about.
Charles Siegel


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Toward reconstructing the evolution of advanced moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera: Ditrysia): an initial molecular study
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1 Center for Biosystems Research, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
2 Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
3 Laboratory of Molecular Evolution, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
4 Department of Plant Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 361-763, Korea
5 Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55455, USA
6 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9, Canada
7 Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Apartat de correus 2085, 46071 Valencia, Spain
8 Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland 20705, USA
9 Encyclopedia of Life, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012, USA
10 Department of Entomology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012, USA
11 Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch, California Department of Food and Agriculture, 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento, California 95832-1448, USA
12 Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
13 Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, Münchhausenstrasse 21, D-81247 München, Germany
14 Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
15 Department of Biological Sciences, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan
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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:280 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-9-280Published: 2 December 2009
In the mega-diverse insect order Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths; 165,000 described species), deeper relationships are little understood within the clade Ditrysia, to which 98% of the species belong. To begin addressing this problem, we tested the ability of five protein-coding nuclear genes (6.7 kb total), and character subsets therein, to resolve relationships among 123 species representing 27 (of 33) superfamilies and 55 (of 100) families of Ditrysia under maximum likelihood analysis.
Our trees show broad concordance with previous morphological hypotheses of ditrysian phylogeny, although most relationships among superfamilies are weakly supported. There are also notable surprises, such as a consistently closer relationship of Pyraloidea than of butterflies to most Macrolepidoptera. Monophyly is significantly rejected by one or more character sets for the putative clades Macrolepidoptera as currently defined (P < 0.05) and Macrolepidoptera excluding Noctuoidea and Bombycoidea sensu lato (P ≤ 0.005), and nearly so for the superfamily Drepanoidea as currently defined (P < 0.08). Superfamilies are typically recovered or nearly so, but usually without strong support. Relationships within superfamilies and families, however, are often robustly resolved. We provide some of the first strong molecular evidence on deeper splits within Pyraloidea, Tortricoidea, Geometroidea, Noctuoidea and others.
Separate analyses of mostly synonymous versus non-synonymous character sets revealed notable differences (though not strong conflict), including a marked influence of compositional heterogeneity on apparent signal in the third codon position (nt3). As available model partitioning methods cannot correct for this variation, we assessed overall phylogeny resolution through separate examination of trees from each character set. Exploration of "tree space" with GARLI, using grid computing, showed that hundreds of searches are typically needed to find the best-feasible phylogeny estimate for these data.
Our results (a) corroborate the broad outlines of the current working phylogenetic hypothesis for Ditrysia, (b) demonstrate that some prominent features of that hypothesis, including the position of the butterflies, need revision, and (c) resolve the majority of family and subfamily relationships within superfamilies as thus far sampled. Much further gene and taxon sampling will be needed, however, to strongly resolve individual deeper nodes.


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They're using the NCAA Tournament's Midwest regional as a dress rehearsal for the 2009 Final Four, planting it in the home of the NFL Lions in downtown Detroit.
Aside from all the lame jokes about the good folks of the Motor City finally being able to see good teams play at Ford Field, the regional offers top seed Kansas the best possible chance at shedding its underachiever label.
However, that's not the best story. The Jayhawks were supposed to be here. Davidson and Villanova, two double digit-seeded breeds of Wildcats, were not.
Even as it won 22 in a row and ran the Southern Conference table, Davidson garnered a fair share of skepticism. Sure, it had tested big boys (UCLA, North Carolina, Duke) early in the season, but hadn't won any of those times, and a big deficit to Gonzaga in the first round in Raleigh only added to the questions.
Enter Stephen Curry, in the role of the tournament's biggest breakout star. All he did in the second half against the Zags was put up 30 points, 40 overall. And the son of Dell was far from done.
With no. 2 seed Georgetown seemingly safe on Sunday afternoon, up by 17 with less than 10 minutes left, Curry went off again. His 25-point second-half eruption (30 overall) provided for an improbable comeback, a 74-70 shocker over the Hoyas, and instant national celebrity.
Many high schools have a larger enrollment than Davidson, who claims just 1,700 (really good) students on its modest campus near Charlotte. Now, with able Bob McKillop at the helm, Curry unconscious and point guard Jason Richards leading the nation in assists, the Wildcats are in the Sweet 16 for the first time since Lefty Driesell was coaching them in 1969.
To do a full George Mason imitation, though, Davidson might have to beat the top three seeds in the Midwest, with the second step being Friday's regional semifinal against no. 3 Wisconsin.
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Hey there. This is Seth checking in from Piedra Grande, our high camp on el Pico de Orizaba. We had a good day coming over from Pueblo. We checked out of the hotel nice and early and drove over to Tlachichuca at the base of Orizaba. Packed our stuff, had lunch at the Reyes Compound, and then proceeded to drive up to the hut here at high camp. Once we got up here, we took a little hike. It was cloudy and right before the sun went down, the mountain finally showed itself. It was rearing up nice and high. We just finished with dinner and sorting a little gear and packing for the climb tonight. We'll be taking off right as it turns tomorrow, a little after midnight, maybe 1:00. We'll be going for the summit. Crystal clear skies right now and just a beautiful night, and everybody is tucked in and getting ready to climb. We'll check in, hopefully from the summit in the morning. Hope all's well back in the U.S.A.
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I'm All Natural, with Breast Implants.
I am a natural girl.
Mascara and the occasional eyeliner encase my eyes. I have fair pale skin that I have no intention of shellacking with bronzer. I hide my high heels deep in my closet, and excavate them like dinosaur bones on special occasions. I live in flip-flops I bought at Target. I welcome each little wrinkle that nestles itself on the surface of my skin. I love my age and welcome every year with open arms. I bow gracefully to the year behind for ripening my body and spirit and for leaving me with experiences and knowledge.
After 32 years, I can say that I have accepted my body. I am thankful for the body I have and the way it has gifted me over the years.
I love my body for granting me the freedom to experience life. I have climbed up mountains, skied down mountains, sailed the seas, traveled across the world, ran hundreds of miles, dove meters under the ocean and danced for hours on end. I can stand on my hands, my head and my feet with ease.
I have made love, given birth, breast-fed two babies, miscarried, starved myself, fed myself, hurt myself and healed myself.
I loaded 60 pounds on my petite frame with each of my pregnancies and lost all of the weight with patience, some healthy food and a daily yoga practice.
I love the strength, stamina and resilience of my body. I love my scars, my imbalances, my freckles, my moles. I love that my ears poke out just a little, and my nose has a tiny bump from falling on my face when I was four years old.
I am flawed and imperfect. I am all natural. I am all natural, with breast implants. They are a part of my body and have been since I was 18 years old.
Most people are shocked when they find out. I listen to the judgments and angry comments when a woman walks by with obvious enhancements.
"That is so gross. That is so unnatural. Why would anyone do that to themselves?"
I look up with a little grin and say, "I have them."
"What? No you don't! You?"
Yes, the all natural gal on the spiritual journey has breast implants.
The woman who helps other women embrace who they are on the inside and accept what's on the outside, has silicone under her flesh.
Some might call me a walking busty oxymoron or a hypocrite. I am not. I made a decision at the age of 18, and as my motto goes, I never regret anything I do or say because I meant to do or say it at that time. I made a choice to have implants and I am secure and content with the decision I made.
My father was a plastic and reconstructive surgeon. His work was concentrated in reconstruction of wounds and deformities, including babies born with cleft lips and palates, facial and hand deformities, burns, tumors. You name it, he did it. He removed, reconnected, restored and healed thousands of patients.
I used to go on rounds with him at the hospital and had the privilege of suiting up in surgical pajamas and headgear to observe his work. I watched as he constructed an ear out of cartilage from rib, placing it beneath the skin on the side of a little boy's skull. I watched as he put people back together like Mr. Potato Head. I was not privy to the world of insecure women who tried to bandage themselves with a little nip and tuck, thinking it would fix the gash in their self-worth and the rift in their marriage.
At 18, I approached my father from a place of pragmatism and maturity. I was skinny. The four years of starvation had taken a toll on my body and I looked like a boy, well not really, but the boob fairy definitely forgot to visit my chest. I was not dysmorphic about my body, yet when I looked in the mirror, what I saw did not match what I felt in my heart. I felt like a powerful, sensual, curvaceous, sexy woman and I wanted that feeling to physically manifest. I loved the idea of a little curve, a little substance to my figure that I could see and feel. I knew I did not want my breasts to be my handshake, I wanted them to blend in with the landscape of my body. My dad always said, if there was anything he could do to assist me in feeling as confident as I could, he would help. Who better than the man who created me, to give me what I wanted, breasts.
I knew that proceeding with the surgery meant I would be left with a scar. Cutting into flesh never goes forgotten by the derma, but that is what made my father an artist and master. He sutured with grace.
The scars left by his healing threads were just traceable for the patient to see, so they could always remember what they had healed from. Every moment of life lived, leaves us with a scar whether in our mind or on our body. A scar is a reminder and souvenir of the choices we have made on our path.
In my eyes, scars are beautiful. We are meant to get cut, scraped and worn from our years of living. Life is one big pumice stone that erodes away our newness and replaces it with age, experience, knowledge and wisdom (if we choose to learn from our experiences).
A scar may come in the form of a memory, a scar on our skin, a tattoo, a relationship that birthed from a choice we made, a possession we own, or anything else that leaves a trail or a mark of how we have lived and the choices we make along the way. My breast implants are two scars from a period of my life, and for that, I embrace them and my choice completely.
The decision itself is a scar upon my true path.
Cosmetic alterations become dangerous to our identity and well-being when they are founded on emptiness and honored as fullness.
If a woman has a facelift and is kind, generous, accepts the people around her and lives a life of service and goodness, then a facelift is only a facelift. The facelift is an alteration, like hemming the fabric of her skirt to fit her figure.
Another woman may have the same procedure, but she does not love herself. She is not fulfilled with her life, the people in her life, or herself. Nothing satisfies her and therefore, her facelift is detrimental to her well-being. She was depending on the facelift to bring her happiness, but it never will because she is empty on the inside. She will bring her skirt to be hemmed, but be unsatisfied with the work done because she is discontented and unaccepting of her being.
There is an epidemic of addiction to cosmetic surgery today. There are people who are obsessed with altering their outside. There is a thought process that leads to a belief, the "if I only changed____, I would be happy" belief.
It does not work.
People will stuff and tighten themselves to an unrecognizable state, and the result is suffering and misery. When we are full on the inside, everything fills us on the outside too.
When I was 18, I fell in the middle on the contentment spectrum when it came to my body. I now know that the voluptuous woman I was yearning for on the outside needed to be filled inside first. My spirit was crying out to be heard and acknowledged.
So, I experimented with different methods of giving her attention. I used my breasts to get attention. In college, I flashed them on spring break in Mexico. I squeezed them into little tops as a bull's eye to a man's libido, and I got attention. I got attention that was vapid and insincere because I was not being sincere with myself.
What we give ourselves is what we receive from others. I was giving myself nothing. Something was missing, something was lacking. I didn't like myself, so I lived outside myself for a while, and then I remembered the mature 18 year old that had approached her father about her outside. I addressed myself the same way. I reminded myself that my breasts were just an enhancement to my body. I told myself the work needed to be done to enhance my spirit. Sure, I did it backwards, but that was my journey. I honor and love my body for allowing me to live and function healthfully in this world, but it does not define me. Having small breasts or implants has no bearing on my depth and the goodness that resides within me. Now, I bare my soul not my breasts.
I have asked myself, "Would I have the surgery today if I had never had it done before?"
My answer is, I don't know. The fact is, I did it and I have implants. A couple of years ago, I had to have a replacement operation. It was necessary. I did consider removing them and not replacing them, but they became a part of my body like a pet does when it is adopted into a family. They became part of my structure. I had formed a thin layer of scar tissue around them. My body had healed around them as if hugging them into place. I wanted to keep them.
In reflection, I acknowledge they assisted me in the acceptance of my body. It looked right, from the moment I removed the bandages 15 years ago. The surgery was like hanging the last painting on the wall after moving into a new house, and living with implants is like living in that new house day after day, year after year. I still notice and appreciate the painting I hung that first day, but my awareness has shifted to how good I feel living within the warm walls of my home.
We are gifted with the body we have in order to live our lives. We have free will to do with it what we want. We have a choice to take care of it, hurt it, neglect it, honor it, fix it, not fix it, renovate it or keep it the same just as we would our home. Just like any home, it isn't the home that makes the owner happy, it is the owner that makes the home happy. My body is my home and it is now a happy home.
I know my happiness is not contingent on the size of my breasts, but I do smile when I look in the mirror. I smile at it all. I smile because my body is covered with scars of a life lived. I smile because I've lived another day and have wrinkles to show for it. I smile because I can still see stretch marks from my pregnancies and that scar from when I fell from my bike at five years old. I smile because I can see the happiness from the inside permeating on the outside. I smile because my breasts remind me of how far I have come—how I grew from a flat chested spirit to a voluptuous spirit. Not to mention, I really love my curves.
By Rebecca Lammersen
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Thanks for this Rebecca! You show great courage in opening your heart…even though you don't need to justify yourself to anyone! All we can be (and love) is who we are. Rock on yoga sista!
Your body, your choice, Rebecca. No one really has the right to criticize you for decisions you make regarding it. "Never criticize your neighbour until you have walked a mile in their moccasins."
Kudos to you for having the courage to come forward and write about it, knowing you may take some shots.
your dad gave them to you, thats just creepy
You comment might be right-on, but let's keep it constructive, instead of insulting.
Hi Helen, Thank you very much for voicing your opinion. You are free to your thoughts whatever they are. Have a great evening, Rebecca
my only question would be ethical. typically speaking, doctors do not work on family members, as a general rule. i would be curious as to why a hospital would go with this, or a doctor for that matter.
i would have thought that your father would have supported you and also found you an alternative surgeon, just to look at whatever ethical considerations might exist for him — or be in the minds of some of his colleagues at least.
but, this is not to say that what he did is unethical, simply that I do not know, and it raises the question based on that "general rule."
that being said, i have long thought of most plastic surgery — particularly cosmetic — as another extension of tattooing, piercing, and so on — another methodology of self-expression, of allowing the body to look the way that the individual wants it to look.
even when it might go awry in my eyes, i think that if the person is fulfilling that expression, then that is a wonderful thing. i'm thankful that a safe, effective method exists.
I disagree. I'd rather have my a person I trust do a procedure like that than a stranger. And as a plastic surgeon, I would assume to him it was a non-issue.
A courageous article with an intriguing perspective–reminds me of the speech at the end of "All About My Mother" (Pedro Almodovar–if you haven't seen it, you owe it to yourself…).
Great article! I too have breast implants; when I was younger I don't think anyone knew but now….well, 57 year olds don't naturally have breasts like this, haha, so it's probably easy to guess. I'm never judgmental about anyone's choices but my belief is that if something helps you live your valued life, it's a good thing.
It sounds like you have never really gotten over an obsession with external validation.
and it sounds like you think you have and everyone should, or else they are lesser?
Thank you to everyone who has commented. I appreciate every comment. They are your feelings and I am happy you are sharing them publicly
Thank you for sharing your story. Once again, I'm humbled to more fully learn and understand why people make the choices that they do, and to have the opportunity to challenge my judgments and prejudices. I'm happy that you're happy, and I honor your choices as fully as I can. I'm deeply grateful for your willingness to share so much of yourself.
Wonderful, Rebecca – great article and its wonderful to hear how comfortable you are with your body. Everyone can relate – enhancing breasts, hair color, nails, eyebrows, contacts! You are a great role model for your children – thanks so much for sharing your life with us!
Great article! And as a breast cancer (double mastectomy) survivor I always hope people do not pass judgement…One never knows why a woman has chosen to have implants…And as you so beautifully stated, it is a personal decision. It always amazes me when people pass judgement (as many did regarding my treatment decisions). Thanks you for a clear and thoughtful article!
f'ing love this one, thanks for sharing friend. love to you!
Do people really look at women's breasts and right away assume they are implants? It has never occurred to me to wonder if someone had implants. It's just not a part of my consciousness, and it's not my business. Your breasts are your business. I don't know how anyone here can decide what your psychological state is; we don't know you (at least, I don't). You say you feel good about yourself, and that's great.
It used to not be, until I'd started reading the wrong websites. I'd been told I needed a mastopexy when I was young, by my then fiance former husband. I told him to go shove it. It's in the last few years that the "New Beauty" trend started. I feel sorry for today's youth.
Honest. So much TMI on the web. Women should stop writing about this stuff. It really is your own business. Stop writing like that and I will stop looking: "Does she or doesn't she?"
And who are you to tell women what is OK to write? Don't like it, don't read. And really, "Stop writing like that and I will stop looking." ?? How about you take responsibility for where your eyes go?
The body acceptance part of the article–which constitutes its entirety–is quite empowering and encouraging of acceptance of our physical vehicle, our wonderful human beingness.
However the article does not discuss at all the rather numerous potential health risks caused by implants. I assume that since the article seems to gloss over this aspect of implant effects, that you've either ignored the issues, or you've not had any issues that you know about. If you've had no issues at all, you're very fortunate.
Regardless, it seems irresponsible to write an article regarding breast implants without at least a mention of the health risks.
To continue your paint analogy, it's as if you painted the home in a beautiful hue which doesn't quite occur in nature. The house looks fabulous. Sure, it would have been a fine, if slightly plain home, painted in a natural eggshell, but this one color is just out of sight. Put on a couple of coats, the place looks amazing–but the paint's got a bunch of synthetic materials in it that may or may not harm the inhabitants. Roll the dice. You don't get to see the result of that dice roll for another 30 years.
"…it seems irresponsible to write an article regarding breast implants without at least a mention of the health risks."
She is writing about her own personal experience, not about the health aspects of it. So, calling her article irresponsible is a bit obtuse.
Well, I am nothing if not obtuse.
Yet so is writing an article that claims to be 'all natural,' referencing breast implants. It's false advertising. She's trolling with the title of her article, and I'm a ferric mirror for her pot.
Well said Kettle.
Thank you for this comment. I agree. It's great to hear her perspective on accepting herself for who she is after the choices she's made. But the article comes off as a promotion for others to have breast implants–due to the house analogy that you quote–and that is why it's problematic to not also discuss the health risks.
I'm curious as to the women (and men) who judge a woman with implants has children and one of those children is a boy and that boy is circumsized. It's not natural but it's done thousands of time a day for no reason. A barbaric tradition that the infant is given no choice over. And isn't a boys penis something he should have full control over?
Cosign. Circumcision is bullshit.
since when do men have ANY control over their penises???? (sorry, just joking!)
I read this article yesterday and found myself thinking of it today hence the commentary. What is the message behind it? It brings to [my] mind images of a buddhist who sits on his cushion with a flask of whiskey close by and whenever an unpleasant sensation arrises, he takes a sip to get through it. Aahhh, all better – now his mind is equanimous and practice is so much "better". Either be it on the cushion or a yoga mat, we must be honest and truthful with ourselves. Truth is often painful (in this case, accepting the truth as it is "I have itsy bitsy chest") but accepting it AS IS and letting it go is what I think is truly a form of liberation from misery. I sense that the author of this article is still struggling with this issue and on a very deep level she is scared that she is not lovable just as she is. Nonetheless, I admire her courage to come out so boldly and open herself up to so much judgement and criticism. I bow to you Rebecca, namaste.
I think the point here was that at the age of 18, the author hadn't yet gained the insight she has today into her body image and becoming comfortable with it in its entirety – "accepting it AS IS". Now, she is accepting the fact that she did in fact make that choice, and yet she does not regret it, even in light of the fact that breast augmentation is riddled with constant judgement and scrutiny from people (like yourself).
Every choice we make echoes with us throughout our entire life, large or small, and it should be our decision to accept that given our mindset at the time, it was a sound decision. I personally think that is truly a form of liberation from misery.
Or we can try to cover up these choices, label them as right or wrong, just to appeal to who we believe we are today.
well said guest. exactly – there is a difference between sanctimonious posturing around what is the morally correct yogic way of approaching life on the one hand and taking the journey of finding genuine self-compassion for the past choices, mistakes, traumas and triumphs that make up our imperfect individual journeys.
Ah, but ethics exists and we do not live isolated, but in a social world. Personally, I would say getting boobs twice! Is a sin, bc there are so many sick and poor ppl in the world, not to mention ppl with negative body images. Writing this creates confusion in the minds of the weak, but for some of us, it's quite clear she is not very spiritual or mentally or physically healthy. Namaste desde México:)
Loved this, Rebecca! Beautifully written. As Carolyn Myss has said, "Your biology becomes your biography."
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LOVE this!
Why do we have to accept things that we don't like about ourselves or our lives when we have the power to change them. I always struggled with my breasts. I had a large ribcage and large hips. My breasts never grew. They were constricted and I later found out it was a congentital deformity called tubular breasts. I researched implants extensively and considered it for about 5 years. I went to numerous surgeons, some who wanted to give me "Frankenboobies" cutting off aereola and sewing it back on, and I just wanted natural looking proportionate breasts. Finaly I found a surgeon, I researched ratios of breast/hip/waist. I decided on making my breasts and hips the same measurement. I am very happy with them, my regular physician didn't know they were implants till he went to do an exam. They are not perfect but I am happy with them and not self-concious of being in a bathing-suit or undressed any longer.
I don't understand how changing or enhancing ones appearance is the same thing as drinking in emotional stress? But everyone has their own opinions and judgements.
I want to thank you so much for posting this. I have lost 130 lbs. and with it my chest. Between the weight loss and having breast fed two boys I am flat as a board. I have worked so hard to achieve this body, but every time I look at my chest I cannot help but be saddened. I have been considering breast implants, but struggled with that being against my life philosophy. This story has given me a great deal to consider and it is greatly appreciated.
Thanks for posting, Rebbecca! I got mine when I was twenty. I too, nursed two babies. I have pondered over whether it was the right decision for me long term. Sometimes I wish I could go back and do things a little differently, but I totally agree that after a while they're like part of the family 14 years later, they're just part of me, and I accept them. Thanks again for writing on this topic. Way to bare your soul!
Sorry to doubt but a father should not and would never operate on their child like that. Can't remember ever hearing of a physician doing this or a hospital allowing such a thing. Another physician would always be brought in. Did this happen in North America? Seems odd.
All I can say is I blame the patriarchy for making women feel their tat size is inadequate.
is it really the patriarchy or is it evolutionary biology?
Evolutionary biology is not telelogical. I recommend reading more than Desmond Morris, serious evolutionary theory…please.
It's 100% the patriarchy. The pressure to comply with this society's patriarchal ideals are so weighty that thousands of women will undergo deforming surgery to have giant bubbles put into their chests. You see, they could die having that done but the pressure is so ingrained that they will take that kind of risk. And god forbid they get one of the 300,000 sets from the French manufacturer that are full of jet grade silicone, not human approved silicone. Evolutionary biology theories about choosing a curvy fertile mate are just more ways to pressure women every day to be patriarchy compliant. I wear my tiny tats like a banner of pride and encourage others to do so as well. Because see right now mine are healthy and that's the most important thing. And having tiny tats doesn't keep dudes from bothering you either, unfortunately.
And, nowadays in New York City for instance, unlicensed (to perform medical procedures) cosmetologists do backside-augmentation surgery and the local tabs, like The New York Post, report on botched operations that are just shy of butchery.
Not everybody could afford a decent surgical procedure … or have the time/money to travel to exotic locales where a decent procedure could be gotten for a relative song.
And for what?
Evolutionary biology/psychology are in the armchair/pseudointellectual's armamentarium. They are non-proven theories …
Right on Yogateacher, I totally agree. High five!
I consider it as spiritual relation and that of more like humanistic Relation between father daughter the love of Father understood an 18 year old humans "need"as another Person …No way it states or Implies an Acceptance of inadequacy but it is Acceptance & True Love Says "I want for you what You want for you "Very Humanly Understanding of a Father with much Humility that is my perception
beautiful and nuanced article – i did feel though like something super important had perhaps been left out when i read this line "The four years of starvation had taken a toll on my body …"
which four years? why? how do you factor an eating disorder into this story with a passing 10 words?
did i miss something?
got it! thanks rebecca. courageous sharing and nice writing.
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I cannot celebrate rationalizations and excuses being made for the sake of inner consolation. Not giving a shit what anyone thinks isnt an "easier" or "better" position, I can assure you. Everyone has problems to deal with in life.
The ridiculously body-focused style of so-called "yoga" these days is so far removed from the ancient conception of that tradition, that it readily magnetizes people obsessed with appearances, "beauty" and so forth. These people are not on a spiritual quest, they are on a quest of personal glorification.
The need to continuously define identity is not evidential of "spiritual progress". You have recast your psychological issues in a new light, a new mask… but the deeper problems they consist of clearly remain the dominant motivational force in your life.
I was not expecting the overwhelming response to this latest article. It has been a lesson to me in itself. When we have the courage to speak our truth, it always fuels others to speak out. Some speak words of judgment, criticism and anger. Others speak words of love, support and wisdom. Neither one is bad, neither one is good. Every comment originates from how each individual feels about themselves as they project it onto me. Yet, I am protected because I took the first step into the light of courage. As I stand in that protection, I can not be inflicted with the hurt and pain it could cause. Instead, I accept that I have created a safe space for others to express themselves, and for that I am thankful.
The entire message of this article is non-judgment and free will, so I am sticking with that. I'm not judging as others display their free will.
if affects others…we /i want women to stop buying into this nonsense. it just isnt good for you. period. sorry – it hurts us when someone alters their bodies…what if my body was simliar to yours..and you had it changed!!! EEEWWW that is a direct hit . More should be dont to restore the emotional abuse in our heads -the physical abuse we place on ourselves to be accepted… and exclude the othersugh…just sickens me…i have struggled..of course…just fight the good fight…go truly naturall,, cuz this isnt.
it hurts us to see you be manipulated…at least that is how i feel when i see yet another get boob jobs cancer creatures they are. ..why would you do this? sad and scares me…what are we going – "suppose "to look like in the future. if it was courage…you wouldnt have gotten it done. even men like real ones… please get them out…they are so bad for you…in so many ways..this make me sad…so sad for our future.
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Thank you for this article. Your courage is an inspiration to me! I am currently looking into a deep valley of change…some necessary and some by my own choice. Both will change my appearance, and I needed some encouragement to dig deep inside and really look at and accept my true self. This is going to be a difficult and amazing journey…thank you for sharing yours!
Thanks for your perspective. I am in the opposite boat, a small person with outsized breasts. After years of suffering the bra strap dents in my shoulders, neck pain and headaches, it is hard for me to imagine wanting to augment.
I love this. You are a gifted writer. Thank you xx
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"I know my happiness is not contingent on the size of my breasts, but I do smile when I look in the mirror."
Huh? But, part of it is making you happy, if it is making you smile and the fact that you wanted bigger breast to feel more complete–matching the look on the outside that you "felt in your heart".
But, it does seem as though what the writer has expressed resonates with many readers. So be it.
do you not smile when you look in the mirror? Do you not augment your physical being with flattering clothing? Do you brush your hair? Groom yourself?
We males are rated in this culture by the " attractiveness" of the women we able to associate with. It is presumed that the more a "man" we are, the more "attractive" the women around us will be. The advertising media cultivate and exploit our tensions around sex ( actually around lack of closeness) for profit. Damage is done by the advertising "message" that only " beautiful" women are desirable, thus devaluing our relationships with the vast majority of women who don't look like the enhanced advertising " models." This tends to focus the attention of us males on the appearance rather than on the richness and individual humanity of each women.
Wow. Way to mansplain. The pressure must just be terrible. Puhleeeeze.
Reductionist and supposed to be satire, but there's truth to this:
"mansplain"? Wow. Feel the hate. Who you gonna marginalize next? "blacksplain"? "gaysplain"? "Muslimsplain"? Thanks for that glimpse into the dark, narrow little hole which your yoga practice has brought you to.
See Tim… The difference is those other groups are marginalized so they can't be splainers, men- not so much, so there is no comparison to draw. You're just being silly now and reacting like a classic bitter mansplainer. And my hole is none of your business.
Our society acts reluctant to recognize men as an oppressed group. The emphasis in the society is on men as agents of all oppressions. Yet thoughtful examination of the situation one can conclude that men are indeed oppressed. There is no designated group of people assigned by the oppressive society to carry out the oppression of males. ( This is different from the situation with some other oppressions, in which a particular group is " trained and assigned" to be in the oppressive role relative to another group. For example, whites are " trained and assigned" to install and perpetuate racism—oppression of people of color. Men are " trained and assigned" to install and perpetuate sexism–oppression of females.) In carrying out the oppression of men, the society as a whole plays the role of the oppressor. Nearly everyone in our societies plays some role in men's oppression and nearly everyone has rigid attitudes and " beliefs" that are oppressive to men. It will be essential to change these widely held attitudes and beliefs.
I guess the regular entitlement you benefit from every day just isn't enough is it? Now you have to manufacter some situation where people oppress men. What a riot. So much self absorption, so little time. Sometimes the new age sect is just way too much.
It is a common mistake to look for someone to blame when one is feeling how mistreated one has been. This is always a mistake. To blame another person is acting out a past hurtful experience that was wrong when it happened and is wrong to re-enact. The oppressive character of society has been in place and operating for thousands of years. No one in the present has freely chosen to play a role in it. Human beings never hurt each other by choice; only when unthinkingly and unawarely lost in re-enacting an old hurt of their own do they do this. The elmination of the sexist oppression of women is a necessary part of eliminating our own oppression. The culture's limited expectation of females is harmful and wrong and implies corresponding harmful expectations of males. Until women are free to choose any kind of life, men nor women will be free. Our liberation as males will of necessity enhance and support the liberation of women and children. Women and children are not to blame in any way for our oppression and do benefit at all from it. Any attitudes that put these interests in opposition are mistaken.
Thanks for writing this – I enjoyed reading your story and the wisdom you found along the way.
I have always thought that it is a little unfair that women with no boobs are allowed to buy a pair. Women(like me) who are naturally curvy usually tend to be larger everywhere. and women who are slim and athletic usually don't have big boobs. It's a level playing field, in a way! But when skinny women get fake boobs, we lose our one advantage- we cannot "buy" skinny……..
A pplause … lol ….We cannot buy small frames, either. As someone who wore a size 18 or 20 at that age and a size 12 or 14 now, I heartily agree. Oh, that was also in the era of a young Bo Derek, too – you could have it up top if the rest of you was tiny and uber-light with no hips (kinda like the precursor to the "yoga goddess" with a body made for rocking full headstand …. lol). You are so right. My advantage now, is pushing 60, and not caring …
i think it is women who want this…not men, lol and as far i as know…men like real breast..fake bleh
Great article – thank you for sharing!
So glad you wrote this! I was wondering if anyone else out there felt the same. I too was anorexic and when I finally became more accepting of my body I had issues because my curviness didn't match in the breast department.
I got mine at 23. I'm now almost 29 (the twins, as I call them, will be celebrating their 5th birthday next Friday!) and still think it was one of the best things I did for myself. It helped me feel more comfortable and accept myself better. In fact, it helped me accept myself the way I am and I think more positively the way I looked before surgery now in retrospect.
Now I'm vegan and try to go the natural route with medications, with products, with cleaners. But I cannot and will not regret my decision of adopting my twins. They're a part of me now and I feel good with them. Thank you for sharing!
I know a yoga instructor with implants. And she has a photo of herself in this exact same pose. Does it have a name? Her teaching is ego driven and centered around her. Im not implying you teach this way, but perhaps thats why the idea of breadt implants caged away in your body as you teach seems to miss the point if satya.I'm sorry you have implants., they are dangerous and so not natural. You can get them removed now with great results most of the time.
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This is very interesting, thanks for sharing your story. But, as a woman who didn't get her breasts, really until I was about 20 or 21, I wonder if, especially as a young woman with eating disorder issues, you don't even know what your breasts would have been had you given them time (and maybe a bit of extra weight?) – Everyone develops at different rates, and I'm not joking that it took years and years for my boobs to come in. I'm almost an hourglass now, at 35, but I was a total pear through my mid-20's because my breasts just took that long to fully form and then drop a bit so they weren't so high on my chest (and flatter because they were so tight and high up). Ani DiFranco sings about this very thing, about being a 'grown woman' with breasts that hang.
IN my case, the change in my chest (now a small C) has been kind of amazing to me – and I haven't had children, either. Breasts are really fascinating things, especially how they change over time and with fitness and fatness. Also, you seem to be an extremely fit person with very low body fat – it is rare to have both that physique and also full breasts. Gaining some healthy weight might have given you naturally fuller breasts. And your development was probably significantly slowed from starving yourself. So making such a choice at 18….you don't get to experience any of those changes, or even understand that a body is not a static thing (and shouldn't be!).
Anyway, I just feel like you missed out on seeing what your breasts would have become if you had let them. Mine are so completely different as to be unrecognizable from the same person over a time period of 15 years. I def did NOT like them when I was 18, 20, or even 24. But now, they're kind of awesome. They became themselves over a really long time and honestly, they now look like the ones I wanted when I was 18!
Again, thanks for sharing your story – it made me feel incredibly grateful that I didn't have access to easy or free plastic surgery when I was a frustrated young person. And really think about and appreciate my chest more. :))
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a wonderful read. thank you for sharing so openly so that we can be enriched by your insights, rebecca. until i read this i only had negative views on implants. i appreciate the mind expansion:)
Rebecca, THANK YOU. As a former teenage anorexic, vuloptuous inside and out, I also underwent implants at 18. And went crazy in college. And later found yoga, natural living, Bali — you name it, your article touched me deeply in so many ways.
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I don't mind people doing these operations but I mind them talking about how beautiful scars are. Because that does sound very hypocrite to me.


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We make a huge number of decisions every day. When it comes to eating, for example, we make 200 more decisions than we're consciously aware of every day. How is this possible? Because, as Daniel Kahneman has explained, while we'd like to think our decisions are rational, in fact many are driven by gut feel and intuition. The ability to reach a decision based on what we know and what we expect is an inherently human characteristic.
The problem we face now is that we have too many decisions to make every day, leading to decision fatigue – we find the act of making our own decisions exhausting. Even more so than simply deliberate different options or being told by others what to do.
Why not allow technology to ease the burden of decision-making? The latest smart technologies are designed to monitor and learn from our behavior, physical performance, work productivity levels and energy use. This is what has been called Era Three of Automation – when machine intelligence becomes faster and more reliable than humans at making decisions.
One day in October 2010, at a school in the Gaibandha district of northwest Bangladesh, a pupil noticed that the label on a packet of crackers she was eating had darkened. Fearing the crackers were contaminated – "the devil's deed", as she put it – she almost immediately fell ill, complaining of heartburn, headache and severe abdominal pain.
The condition quickly spread among her fellow pupils, and later to other schools in the area. Yet toxicologists could trace no contaminant, and all those affected were quickly discharged from the hospital after doctors found no trace of illness. The following week, investigators diagnosed "mass sociogenic illness," otherwise known as mass hysteria. The children, it seemed, had developed their symptoms simply because they had seen their classmates succumb.
Mass hysteria is thought to be an extreme example of a phenomenon that affects us all day-to-day: emotional contagion. Short of living in hermitic isolation, it is hard to escape it; we are vulnerable to the moods and behaviors of others to an extraordinary degree.
Emotional contagion caused the failure of successive banks at the start of the Great Depression in the 1930s, when investors suffered a collective loss of faith in the ability of these institutions to pay out. It is the force behind fuel crises, health scares and the spread of public grief (for example in Britain after the death of Princess Diana in August 1997). It is the reason why you are more likely to be obese if you have obese friends, and depressed if you are living with a depressed roommate.
But emotional contagion is not all bad – far from it. The mechanism behind it – our tendency to mimic each other's expressions and behaviors – is crucial to social interaction. Without it, anything beyond superficial communication would be impossible.
"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it," Albert Einstein reportedly said. I'd like to broaden the definition of addiction—and also retire the scientific idea that all addictions are pathological and harmful.
Since the beginning of formal diagnostics more than fifty years ago, the compulsive pursuit of gambling, food, and sex (known as non-substance rewards) have not been regarded as addictions. Only abuse of alcohol, opioids, cocaine, amphetamines, cannabis, heroin, and nicotine have been formally regarded as addictions. This categorization rests largely on the fact that substances activate basic "reward pathways" in the brain associated with craving and obsession and produce pathological behaviors. Psychiatrists work within this world of psychopathology—that which is abnormal and makes you ill. Read More
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
In 1959, John Howard Griffin, a white American writer, underwent medical treatments to change his skin appearance and present himself as a black man. He then traveled through the segregated US south to experience the racism endured daily by millions of black Americans. This unparalleled life experiment provided invaluable insights into how the change in Griffin's own skin color triggered negative and racist behaviors from his fellow Americans.
But what about the changes that Griffin himself might have experienced? What does it mean to become someone else? How does this affect one's self? And how can this affect one's stereotypes, beliefs and racial attitudes? That was the key question that my colleagues and I set out to answer in a series of psychological experiments that looked at the link between our bodies and our sense of who we are.
When considering extreme environments it is easy to make assumptions about personality, which on closer examination do not stand up to scrutiny. Take, for example, one of the best-researched personality dimensions: introversion-extraversion. Extraversion as a trait appears in all established psychological models of personality, and there is considerable evidence that it has a biological basis. The concepts of introversion and extraversion long ago escaped the confines of academic psychology and are widely used in everyday conversation, albeit in ways that do not always reflect the psychological definitions.
Broadly speaking, individuals who score highly on measures of extraversion tend to seek stimulation, whereas those who score low tend to avoid it. When asked to describe a typical extravert, most people tend to think of the lively 'party animal,' equating extraversion with a preference for social interactions. However, individuals who score highly for extraversion seek more than just social stimulation: they also tend to gravitate toward other stimulating situations, including active leisure and work pursuits, travel, sex, and even celebrity. Introverts, on the other hand, have a generally lower affinity for stimulation.
They find too much stimulation, of whatever type, draining rather than energizing. Contrary to popular belief, introverts are not necessarily shy or fearful about social situations, unless they also score highly on measures of social anxiety and neuroticism.
On this basis, one might assume that extraverts would be drawn to extreme environments, where they could satisfy their desire for stimulating situations, whereas introverts would find them unattractive. And yet, extreme environments may also expose people to monotony and solitude — experiences that extraverts would find aversive, but which are tolerated or even enjoyed by well-balanced introverts. The point here is that simple assumptions about broad personality traits are unlikely to provide good explanations of why people engage in extreme activities.
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
International airports are a busy place to be. Nearly 140,000 passengers pass through New York's JFK Airport every day. The internal security of the country depends on effective airport checks.
All departing passengers pass through a series of security procedures before embarking their plane. One such procedure is a short, scripted interview when security personnel must make decisions about passenger risk by looking for behavioral indicators of deception.
These are referred to as "suspicious signs": signs of nervousness, aggression and an unusual interest in security procedures, for example. However, this approach has never been empirically validated and its continued use is criticized for being based on outdated, unreliable perceptions of how people behave when being deceptive.
Despite these concerns, the suspicious signs approach continues to dominate security screening: the US government spends $200 million yearly on behavior-detection officers, who are tasked with spotting suspicious signs. This is a waste of money.
We tend to think of medicine as being all about pills and potions recommended to us by another person—a doctor. But science is starting to reveal that for many conditions another ingredient could be critical to the success of these drugs, or perhaps even replace them. That ingredient is nothing more than your own mind.
Here are six ways to raid your built-in medicine cabinet.
"I talk to my pills," says Dan Moerman, an anthropologist at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. "I say, 'Hey guys, I know you're going to do a terrific job.'"
That might sound eccentric, but based on what we've learned about the placebo effect, there is good reason to think that talking to your pills really can make them do a terrific job. The way we think and feel about medical treatments can dramatically influence how our bodies respond.
Simply believing that a treatment will work may trigger the desired effect even if the treatment is inert—a sugar pill, say, or a saline injection. For a wide range of conditions, from depression to Parkinson's, osteoarthritis and multiple sclerosis, it is clear that the placebo response is far from imaginary. Trials have shown measurable changes such as the release of natural painkillers, altered neuronal firing patterns, lowered blood pressure or heart rate and boosted immune response, all depending on the beliefs of the patient.
It has always been assumed that the placebo effect only works if people are conned into believing that they are getting an actual active drug. But now it seems this may not be true. Belief in the placebo effect itself—rather than a particular drug—might be enough to encourage our bodies to heal.
In the South Pacific there is a place so remote that few people have ever heard of it, let alone seen it: the Trobriand Islands. The Trobriands are located off the east coast of Papua New Guinea, and no white man had set foot there until the late 1700s. During World War I, however, the islands were visited by a man who would one day become a legend in the field of anthropology, Bronislaw Malinowski. Malinowski was a stork of a man—thin, pale, and balding—often seen wearing a pith helmet and socks up to his knees. He had terrible eyesight, was a hypochondriac, an insomniac, and on top of it all had a strong fear of the tropics—in particular, an abhorrence of the heat and the sultriness; to cope, he gave himself injections of arsenic.
Malinowski was, nonetheless, a keen observer of humankind. And as he watched the Trobriand Islanders go about their lives, he noticed something odd. When the islanders went fishing their behavior changed, depending on where they fished. When they fished close to shore—where the waters were calm, the fishing was consistent, and the risk of disaster was low—superstitious behavior among them was nearly nonexistent.
But when the fishermen sailed for open seas—where they were far more vulnerable and their prospects far less certain—their behavior shifted. They became very superstitious, often engaging in elaborate rituals to ensure success. In other words, a low sense of control had produced a high need for superstition. One, in effect, substituted for the other.
This post was originally published at The American Scholar.
Gestures are simple enough. Right? A spontaneous but well-timed wave can emphasize an idea, brush aside a compliment, or point out a barely obscured bird's nest to an obtuse friend. We use gestures to help our listeners follow along, and we make ourselves look warm and magnanimous in the process.
But on the other hand—and when you're talking about hands, the puns come furiously—sometimes gestures seem to have nothing to do with edifying or impressing. We gesture on the phone, and in the dark, and when we talk to ourselves. Blind people gesture to other blind people. A growing body of research suggests that we gesture in part for the cognitive benefits that it affords us. Tell us not to use the letter r, or challenge us to adopt a more obscure vocabulary, and our gesture use jumps.
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
Most office workers send dozens of electronic communications to colleagues in any given working day, through email, instant messaging and intranet systems. So many in fact that you might not notice subtle changes in the language your fellow employees use.
Instead of ending their email with "See ya!", they might suddenly offer you "Kind regards." Instead of talking about "us," they might refer to themselves more. Would you pick up on it if they did?
These changes are important and could hint at a disgruntled employee about to go rogue. Our findings demonstrate how language may provide an indirect way of identifying employees who are undertaking an insider attack.
My team has tested whether it's possible to detect insider threats within a company just by looking at how employees communicate with each other. If a person is planning to act maliciously to damage their employer or sneak out commercially sensitive material, the way they interact with their co-workers changes.


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Morocco thus become the fifth winners of the title in the almost 50 years history of the competition joining Tunisia, Iraq (four times), Egypt and Saudi Arabia (two times) as winners.
It was heart-breaking for Libya to reach this far but then to lose this way. But that is football and penalty-taking is also part of the game.


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Sites that Google's webspam team has severely penalized or banned entirely from the index can be very difficult to re-include, and thus, Matt suggested that "walking away" and "starting over" may be a more prudent strategy. In my opinion, this is largely due to link profile issues - if your site has a "spammy" link profile, it's tough to ask an engineer to sort out the wheat from the chaffe manually (or algorithmically) and stop counting only the bad links. Thus, re-consideration requests may not be as effective a use of time as registering a new site and trying to re-build a more trusted presence.
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STUART — Southeastern Printing beat out 3,500 manufacturers in South Florida to claim the Manufacturer of the Year award in the 126-200 employees category.
Southeastern CEO Don Mader says the award recognizes that his company has tightened the screws on its operation across the board.
"We've always been good manufacturers, but the turning point was in 2005, when I made the decision to break out into divisions and we were able to set things up correctly and to do things right," he said.
Southeastern prints catalogs and brochures along with other types of marketing materials and product labels.
Given by the South Florida Manufacturers Association, or SFMA, the award recognizes excellence in major areas such as strategic planning, process management and customer focus.
"They put out a quality product and they rated high on all the criteria," said Tom Kennedy, executive director of SFMA.
Founded in 1924, the company was in downtown Stuart before moving to 3601 S.E. Dixie Highway in 1963. Following hurricane damage to the building in 2004 and in 2005, Mader broke the company into divisions, expanding the printing operation in Stuart and establishing packaging divisions in Palm City and in Naperville, Ill.
"We were able to lay out the Stuart facility in a proper structure and it (the restructuring) gave us the opportunity to flex our ingenuity and to set up the company more efficiently," said Mader. The hiring of a new chief operating officer and a quality control manager was part of that initiative.
Southeastern's commercial printing clients include the PGA of America, Home Diagnostics and Liberty Medical.
On the packaging side, Southeastern prints packaging labels, printing 2.5 billion soda bottle labels for the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group last year.
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A tough economy, however, spurred growth on the packaging side.
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