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Thousands of people walk past them on Parliament Hill every day, unaware they are being watched by an odd trio of medieval ‘foliage folk.’
They are grotesques – a group of fantastical Gothic Revival figures chiseled into the exterior walls of the Parliament Buildings, their piercing stares and in-your-face expressions fixed forever in sandstone and time: The Wild Green Man with his wide staring eyes and bared teeth, the Foliated Green Man disgorging leafy material from his mouth, and the Horned Green Man sticking his tongue out at the world.
Thanks to a first-time-ever collaboration between the Royal Canadian Mint and the Dominion Sculptor – yes, one does indeed exist – these amazing century-old (and more) carvings have been reinterpreted into amazing pieces of art for the reverse sides of a series of three silver collector coins celebrating the sculptural art of Parliament. The obverse features the effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Canadian artist Susanna Blunt.
The first two coins were released in January and April. The final coin of the series (Horned Green Man) has just been released. The low mintage of only 4,000 coins of each design makes this limited issue especially attractive to serious collectors, but what makes this series unusual and special to everyone is the creative involvement of the man charged since 2006 with the stewardship of the architectural heritage of Canada’s Parliament Buildings – Dominion Sculptor Phil White. He is only the fifth person to hold the office.
The Mint’s product manager, Josh Bednar, said a brainstorming session with his product development team brought forth a discussion on gargoyles, which eventually led to a meeting with White. “He helped us to understand that most of the things we think of as gargoyles are actually not,” Bednar said. (Gargoyles have an architectural purpose, whereas grotesques are purely ornamental.) “We looked at different themes with Phil, and the Green Man series is what we came up with. He knows so much about the history of the architecture and symbolism.”
The Green Man motif is typified by the generous amounts of foliage associated with the images. While it has medieval origins as a symbol of regeneration and respect for nature, the motif itself gained renewed energy during the Gothic Revival of the 18th and 19th centuries.
White viewed the actual stone carvings as well as high-resolution photographs before choosing three images to reinterpret as two-dimensional drawings. Two of the originals appear on the East Block, while the third is on the Centre Block. For his interpretive sketches White arranged the perspectives and figures into a pleasing design to fit the coins. The figure of the Horned Green Man, a long, narrow sculpture, carved around the time of Confederation, required the most amount of modification to fit the circular format for the Mint’s engravers.
Bednar described the experience of working with White as unique. “We take drawings and turn them into coins every day,” he said. “But to be able to have a sculptor talk to an engraver – they speak more or less the same language. He went through the techniques of how the grotesques were cut so the engravers could understand how to interpret the drawings properly.”
A language of detail, apparently. Bednar said the engravers had an extensive discussion with White about how to represent the anonymous stone carvers’ chisel marks on just the background textures for the three coins. “The idea was to reflect the way it would have been done by hand originally in stone,” Bednar said.
At first glance the coins appear to have been engraved by a single person, but a trained eye can pick out the distinct hand of two different engravers: Konrad Wachelko (Wild Green Man), and Steven Stewart (Foliated Green Man and Horned Green Man) interpreted White’s designs into the stunning, ultra-high relief, 99.99% pure silver collector coins that are now on sale for only $149.95 each by the Mint through www.mint.ca.
“Architectural sculpture is intended to jump out at you,” White said. “The Gothic Revival movement was a whole different way of looking at craftsmanship and expressing joy for the work. The designs I did are inspired by what you’ll see on the sides of the buildings, but they’re not exact copies.”
White described his official responsibility as a combination of conserving the artistic heritage of the Parliament Buildings, and adding to the buildings in a respectful way. Uncarved stone blocks await the successive generations of carvers and sculptors who will continue to write the history of Canada on its walls.
“The Centre Block is an unfinished canvas,” White said. “I hope it always will be. These buildings are a wonderful architectural treasure on a world scale, and promoting their artistic heritage through these coins from the Royal Canadian Mint is a fantastic thing.”
Own a unique part of Canada’s history with these stunning historical works of art. The coins make a unique gift or fine addition to any collection featuring Canadian, historical, artistic, or political themes, and can be purchased through www.mint.ca.
The architectural artwork of Parliament
The buildings that make up Parliament Hill represent some of the world’s most important examples of the Gothic Revival architectural style. The Centre Block, East Block, and West Block combine elements of this style, born in Medieval Europe, in a way that is uniquely Canadian – applying Canadian imagery and materials to the Gothic form’s characteristic buttresses, pointed archways, and extensive stonework.
Canadians might be surprised to learn that there are thousands of works of carving and sculpture in and on the Parliament Buildings (about 3000 on the exteriors alone). This work includes sculptures of mythical animals and Canadian flora and fauna; decorative and ornamental carvings on doors, spandrels, and panels of stone and wood; wrought iron figures, finials, and grates; coats of arms and badges; high- and low-relief panels depicting historical figures and events (including a 16-panel frieze exploring 25,000 years in the history of the Canadian landmass and nation); busts, statuary, and likenesses; elaborately decorated vault ceilings; stunning stained glass works; and untold numbers of carved maple leaves.
The buildings also feature hundreds of grotesques, or carved fantastical ornamental figures, in wood and stone – a key feature of Gothic Revival architecture. One of the most common motifs for these decorative carvings is the Green Man, a figure found not only in medieval architecture but also on the structures of earlier civilizations in the Middle East, India, and Asia. Generally comprising a man’s face made of or appearing within dense foliage, the Green Man motif is said to symbolize annual and seasonal cycles and, more broadly, the notions of growth, rebirth, and resurrection. In the Gothic Revival context, these carved figures are often presented with ominous or humorous overtones.
The design for the grotesque of the Wild Green Man figure was found on the East Block of Parliament Hill. The wild, hairy, and mysterious Wild Man is a closely linked figure, also drawn from pre-Christian European mythology.
The grotesque of Foliated Green Man figure is also found on the East Block of Parliament Hill. Its inherent wildness and possible origins in pre-Christian mythology also lent it a pagan flavour that could be exploited in different ways depending on the application. On churches, for example, the figure could warn against natural temptations. On the wall of a pub, it could serve as a bacchanalian invitation. In this period, highly stylized high-relief “stiff-leaf” foliage also dominated architectural carving. The foliate male face disgorging stiff-leaf foliage from mouth, ears, even tear ducts, was thus a common form for the Green Man in the early Gothic period.
The variation of the Horned Green Man is much more common on North American Gothic Revival structures than on their European counterparts. Their horned projections vary from short or long straight horns and curled ram’s horns to antlers and even large tree branches emerging from the Green Man’s forehead. The source of this imagery may lie with pre-Christian nature deities such as the Celts’ Cernunnos, the Greeks’ Pan, and the Egyptian goddess Hathor, but one should not discount the role of the carver’s sense of humour or delight in the macabre. The horned Green Man’s popularity seems to have grown in tandem with Victorians’ rising preoccupation with the occult, which is perhaps not surprising given that the horned man or horned god has long been associated with supernatural power.
Did you know?
• Historians have proposed some intriguing theories about the sharp rise in popularity of the Green Man motif in Gothic architecture. Some point to the figure’s linkages to Middle Eastern mythology. The Sufi deity, Khidr, for instance was associated with artistic inspiration and would have been an attractive subject for carvers and sculptors. Similar figures are also found in Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Greek, Roman, and other traditions. Mythological cross-over may have been a natural by-product of cultural exposure that began with the rise of the Knights Templar and European incursions into the Middle East during the Middle Ages.
• Though horned Green Men are less common in classic Gothic ornamentation, horned demonic grotesques and gargoyles did become common in the Medieval period. Some researchers connect this darker imagery with the rise of the Black Plague, which cast a long shadow over humanity’s relationship with the natural world.
• Hidden among the hundreds of carvings in the Parliament Buildings are unicorns and dragons; whimsical likenesses such as those of Thomas Fuller, the original architect of the first Centre Block, and John A. Pearson, who designed its replacement after it was gutted by fire on Feb. 3, 1916; senatorial owls wearing wigs and holding shields; snarling gargoyles and chimeras; dinosaurs; winding telecommunications cables; figures from First Nations mythology; a senator playing golf; a three-tongued Member of Parliament giving a speech; a face with its finger before its mouth warning MPs to guard their secrets; and much more.
• For much of Parliament’s history, the Parliamentary carving shop was located in the basement of the Senate Chamber (Centre Block). Masons and carvers would work on site in summer when Parliament was not sitting, or at night—a work environment rife with irregularity and interruption. Eventually, the shop was relocated off site so that workers could retain regular working hours and work in natural light.
• The Centre Block’s carving work began in 1916 and is still underway. About 170 stone blocks included in the building’s original design have yet to be carved. The Canadian Parliament Buildings are the only North American federal government structures that still host this kind of full-time carving work beyond ongoing restoration.
• Canada has had five official state sculptors (known as the Federal Government Sculptor or the Dominion Sculptor), who are tasked with completing interior and exterior décor, restoration, and preservation of the Parliament Buildings: Cléophas Soucy (1936-1949), William Oosterhoff (1950-1962), Eleanor Milne (1962-1993), Maurice Joanisse (1993-2006), and Phil White (2006-present).
• In the 1990s, Dominion Sculptor Maurice Joanisse undertook the sizeable task of cataloguing every work of art on the exterior of the East, West, and Centre Blocks. He photographed and listed the condition, measurements, and history of each of these works. Some were in such poor repair that he was forced to stop his cataloguing process and fix them immediately. He ultimately compiled a database of more than 3,000 works on the exteriors of the buildings alone.
The Royal Canadian Mint
In January 1908, Governor General Earl Grey struck Canada’s first domestically produced coin, a 50-cent piece, to officially open the Ottawa facility of the Royal Canadian Mint on Sussex Drive. This manufacturing facility continues to operate, and is today responsible for producing collector and bullion coins, refining gold and silver, and handcrafting medals for Canada’s military and the Governor General of Canada awards like the Order of Canada. The Mint was first opened as a Canadian branch of Britain’s Royal Mint until 1931, when it was turned over to the Canadian Government. Only then did it become “The Royal Canadian Mint.”
Canadian Circulation coins were produced in Ottawa until the mid-1970s, when coin demand began to exceed manufacturing capacity. In April 1976, the Mint’s Winnipeg facility was opened to assume all of Canada’s circulation coin production, as well as to supply a growing list of international customers. Since 1976, Winnipeg has produced circulation coins and blanks (unstruck coins) for more than 75 different countries.
The global coin manufacturing industry recognizes the Royal Canadian Mint as a leader in technological innovation. Through research and development, the Mint has achieved many world firsts such as multi-ply plated steel technology (now used by 33 other countries), colouring circulation coins, starting with the 25-cent Poppy coin in 2004, and producing the 100-kilo 99.999% pure gold “Million Dollar Coin” in 2007. The Mint continued to break new ground with innovations such as the dramatic Vancouver 2010 Winter Games athlete medals, new security features for high-value circulation coins and the Gold and Silver Maple Leaf bullion coins, and a new high-resolution method for colouring circulation coins, first appearing on the 25-cent coin celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Canadian flag in 2015. The Mint has also used this technique to produce coloured circulation coins for different countries around the world.
Coin Certificate Text (general)
The Coin: This $25 coin is 99.99% pure silver, with a diameter of 36 millimetres and a nominal metal weight of 30.75 grams. Engraved in ultra-high relief, the coin features an original depiction by Dominion Sculptor Phil White of a Gothic-style grotesque inspired by a carving found on the Parliament Buildings. The obverse features the effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Susanna Blunt.
Varner, Gary R. The Mythic Forest, the Green Man and the Spirit of Nature – The Re-Emergence of the Spirit of Nature from Ancient Times into Modern Society. Algora Publishing, New York: 2006
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CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE
No, my heart is not bigger than the world,
It is much smaller.
It cannot hold even my griefs.
That is why I like so much to unbosom myself.
To undress myself,
To cry out,
To drop around newspaper offices, exposing myself
so cruelly at book-stores.
I need everybody.
Yes, my heart is very small.
Only now I see it cannot hold mankind.
The people who are here on the outside, on the street.
The street is too long. Longer, much longer than I
expected it to be.
But the street cannot hold all men either.
The street is smaller than the world.
The world is big.
You know how big the world is.
You know the tankships which carry petrol and books,
meat and cotton.
You have seen the different colors of men,
The different griefs of men,
You know how hard it is to suffer that much, to heap
up all of that
Inside the single heart of a man without blowing it up.
Just close your eyes and forget it.
Listen to the water against the glass pane,
It is so calm, It does not announce anything.
However, it trickles through your hands,
So very still! It goes by flooding everything...
Will the submerged cities be born again?
Will the submerged men return? Will they?
My heart does not know of it.
My heart is stupid, ridiculous and fragile.
Only now I find out
How sad it is to disown certain things.
(In my individual solitude,
I have unlearned the language with which men communicate.)
Of yore I listened to angels,
Sonatas, poems, pathetic confessions.
I never listened to the voice of people.
In truth I am very poor.
Of yore, I journeyed
Along imaginary countries, peaceful places to dwell in.
Untroubled Islands, though they were exhaustive and
prone to suicide.
My friends have gone to the islands.
The islands destroy man.
Yet, some of them have surkited and
Brought the news
That the world, the big world is growing up every day
Between fire and love
Therefore, my heart may also grow up, I
Betw@@n love and fire,
Between life and fire,
My heart grows up ten meters high and bursts out.
- 0, future life! We will create you.

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Minimum tariffs on life sentences will ensure punishment fits crime and send zero tolerance message to others – Farrell
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“A prisoner serving a life sentence can apply for parole after 12 years under current arrangements.
“This reform will give victims and the public at large more confidence that, in the most heinous murder cases, judges will have the discretion to set a minimum sentence.
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Kurds in Europe mobilise for Kobanê
The Kurdish people living in Europe step up their actions as the clashes in Kobanê become more violent
Answering the call of KCD-E in solidarity with Kobanê under the slogan “Time for Serhildan (uprising)”, the people from Kurdistan living in Europe took to the streets at many European centers today.
Thousands of Kurdish people demonstrated in front of parliaments and embassies in dozens of cities, raising one common voice promising to continue their protests until their demands are met.
Kurd ave organized protest demos in front of parliament buildings and embassies in Paris, Cologne, Berlin, Brussels, Amsterdam. Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Nurnberg, Saarbrucken, Hannover, Mannheim, Wien, Copenhagen, Bordeaux and many other cities in support of the Kobanê resistance.
The demos in many centers are expected continue during the night till morning. The information received by ANF from the demos in some cities are as follows:
Hundreds of people gathered in front of the French Parliament building demanding urgent aerial operations from France against the ISIS gangs. The protestors demanded to meet the authorities from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, however they have not yet received a response.
The National secretary of the French Communist Party Pierre Laurent and the parliamentary group chair of the party are said to be making efforts to arrange a meeting.
Some 200 people organised a sit-down protest in front of the Turkish embassy chanting slogans “Terrorist Turkey”, “Terrorist Erdoğan”, “Long Live the Kobanê Resistance”.
Some 50 Kurds occupied one of the biggest airports in Europe, the Frankfurt airport, in the evening hours on 26 September in order to call attention to the violent attacks of ISIS on Kobanê. The protestors demanded European support, primarily the support of Germany to the resistance in Kobanê.
A large group held a sit-in protest in Schlossplatz at the city centre. The sit-in will be ended today with a march .
3 thousand people organized a march at the city centre in the German city of Hannover on the call of Democratic Kurdish Community Centre. The protestors distributed thousands of leaflets giving information about the current situation in Kobanê. The members and representatives of some NGOs and political groups such as the components of Union of Democratic Forces as well as left-socialist groups joined the demo.
A day-long sit-down protest which started on Tuesday and ended on Friday evening was held at the historical Brandenburg Tor Square of Berlin.
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The Kurdish women taking an active part in the demo submitted to German national television ARD a dossier informing about the attacks on Kobanê.
Another march was organized today at Wittenbergplatz in Berlin in support of Kobanê resistance.
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A rally was organized as well in Landwehrplatz in Saarbrücken on Saturday afternoon.
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A sit-down action has started on Saturday in Kiel at Asmusbremerzplatz from 15:00 on.
The Kurdish people in Hamburg marched on Friday to the state parliament despite the police attempts and blockade to prevent the march.
On Saturday another march was organized in Hachmannplatz at 14:30.
Hundreds of protestors, gathering in front of the central station, blockaded the main road to the city centre in Essen, voicing solidarity with the resistance and people of Kobanê.
The Kurds in Holland occupied Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in order to call attention to the Kobanê resistance.
A march by Kurdish people took place in Wien as well, joined by many left-socialist groups and organizations.
TORONTO AND BRUSSELS
In Toronto and Brussels the address of the demos for the Kurdish people was the USA embassies. Gathering in front of the embassy buildings, protestors called for sensitivity in the face of the attacks the Kurds are being exposed to.
Belgium police attacked the protestors joining a solidarity demo in Brussels.
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A group of Kurdish people and their friends have started hunger strike at the Denmark Kurdish Culture Centre. Danish MP Nikoloj Villumsen who visited the strikers said “The only way to stop the attacks of ISIS on Kobanê and Sinjar is to arm those who are fighting against ISIS on the ground”.
A resistance tent was set up in Bordeaux on 24 September, remaining open each day between 11:00 and 19:00 and providing information about the attacks of ISIS on Kobanê.
The Kurdish students also boycotted the schools in Bordeaux in order to call attention to the ongoing attacks of ISIS gangs on Kobanê.

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Man Sitting & Child Standing Near Lake
An illustration of a man sitting on the shore of a lake and a child standing behind him pointing into to the water.
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Nasi Lemak /Malaysian Rice.
You can cook Nasi Lemak /Malaysian Rice using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Nasi Lemak /Malaysian Rice
- Prepare 2 cups of basamati rice washed and soak for 30min.
- It’s 2 cup of coconut milk.
- You need 2 tsp of ginger paste.
- You need 3 of bleads of lemon grass.
- It’s 2/3 of Green chillies.
- It’s 1/2 cup of Peanuts.
- It’s 2 of Onions Chopped.
- You need 1 of Cucumber chopped.
- You need 2 of Boiled eggs.
Nasi Lemak /Malaysian Rice instructions
- Take all the ingredients..
- Heat pan add rice, lemon grass, chills,salt,coconut milk,add Lill water..
- When rice is fully cooked remove lemon grass bleads..
- Rice is ready..
- Fry peanuts..
- Fry onions..
- Arrange Nasi Lemak.rice fried onions peanuts chopped cucumber boiled eggs. Nasi Lemak is ready..

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There were rumblings this week on the Radiohead subreddit that someone was threatening to leak 18 hours of unreleased material from the band’s OK Computer sessions, recorded by Thom Yorke himself across 18 minidiscs. One post claimed that the leaker was demanding “upwards of $150,000 for the entire set.” Now,
If you’ve been bopping your head to Lil Nas X’s hit song “Old Town Road,” you may have been unknowingly getting down to a little bit of Nine Inch Nails. The song, which takes a little bit of traditional country music and mixes it up with hip-hop, is actually built
Beach House have announced a string of North American tour dates, scheduled for late spring and early summer. The Baltimore duo’s itinerary includes several previously announced festival appearances, including sets at Bonnaroo, Bellweather, and the nostalgic-as-hell Just Like Heaven festival, as well as two-night stopovers in Brooklyn and Seattle. They’ll
Ryan Adams has been accused of engaging in abusive and manipulative behavior with young female artists he was ostensibly mentoring in a new report from The New York Times. The women who spoke publicly about their experiences with Adams include singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers, actress Mandy Moore (who is Adams’ ex-wife),
Vampire Weekend have announced a North American tour supporting their upcoming album Father of the Bride. Tickets go on sale to the general public on February 8 at noon, following a Verified Fan presale beginning on February 5. All U.S. ticket buyers will be sent a CD copy of Father
Of all the statements to come from the office of the Presidency in recent months, the new controversy surrounding Melania Trump’s $39 Zara military jacket feels like an incredibly low point. Printed with the phrase “I Really Don’t Care, Do U?,” the jacket was just the perfect attire for visiting


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Heather Russell, who was fired earlier this year as Fifth Third Bancorp's chief legal officer, has re-emerged in a new role.
BuckleySandler said in a press release Thursday that it had hired Russell to head its new financial institutions regulation, supervision and technology practice. The team combines institutional bank regulatory capabilities with the law firm's broader regulatory compliance, enforcement, transactional and fintech practices.
Russell had worked at the $141 billion-asset Fifth Third until the company disclosed in July that it had fired her over a "personal matter" that presented a conflict of interest. Russell later revealed to the Wall Street Journal in a statement that she had been terminated after informing the banking company's senior management about a personal relationship with Timothy Mayopoulos, Fannie Mae's chief executive.
Mayopoulos had disclosed the relationship in March to Fannie Mae's compliance and ethics office, which determined that no more action was needed as long as he avoided matters concerning Fifth Third, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Russell's employment history includes time as global chief regulatory counsel at BNY Mellon, where she created and led the company's global office of public policy and regulatory affairs. She also spent five years at Bank of America – where Mayopoulos had also worked – where she had been lead counsel for a number of the company's divisions.


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Why shouldn’t we be martyrs? There’s nothing else for most of us, anyhow. Everything was blurred. They are used to me, they only cry because they have become so used to being here. “My mind is full of confused stuff,” he said at length. “I know. ’ ‘It will be worth the pain, you will see. C. His guardian angel warned Spurlock to speak carefully. At least one of them was caught and put away. Dead or alive, I'll have him. Milice,’ Gerald translated. The first time, I overlooked the offence; but the second time, when I had planned to break open the house of his master, the fellow who visited you to-night,—Wood, the carpenter of Wych Street,—he betrayed me. ‘What a catalogue. " "Thank'ee, Sir," grinned Sheppard.
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Louise is one of my favorite pieces in the spring 2015 collection because it is such a versatile, wearable cardi.
Posts from the ‘inspiration’ Category
This week we were sent a copy of the new book, Pick Your Stitch: Build A Blanket by Doreen Marquart (Martingale Press, 2015) to review and giveaway – better yet we’re throwing in the Berroco Vintage Chunky yarn to knit the “Forked Blanket” project from the book.
Last week I shared a peek at Cirilia Rose’s new book, Magpies, Homebodies & Nomads. Thank you so much to everyone for sharing your thoughts on how you get inspired! I’ve collected a few of my favorite comments to highlight for you –
The long awaited release of Cirilia Rose’s book Magpies, Homebodies and Nomads: A Modern Knitter’s Guide to Discovering and Exploring Style (2014 Stewart, Tabori and Chang) finally came at the beginning of the month – and it’s a stunner.
Fall is such a magical time of year in New England. The trees fill with color, the streets fill with leaves, the weather has a bit of chill and Halloween creeps up on us. I was always told that Halloween is the one day of the year that spirits of the past walked among us. Easily scared as a child (…still am, really), I had to believe that most of these spirits were good even if they looked spooky. Read more


NET+ DocuSign at the University of California, Berkeley
Through Internet2 NET+, higher ed institutions like University of California at Berkeley leverage DocuSign to streamline and modernize administrative processes while reducing costs.
From onboarding new employees to processing vendor payments, implementing DocuSign has saved UC Berkeley time and money.
In 2018, the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley) took on the task of modernizing efficiency and security for its ever-growing mountain of documents, records, and signed contracts.*
“When you think about UC Berkeley being a university founded in the 1860s,” said Sina Carroll, UC Berkeley’s DocuSign Service Delivery Lead, “ the amount of paperwork involved with running a university for 150 years is staggering.”
Founded in 1868, UC Berkeley has more than 300 departments and basements full of records dating back to the school’s founding. UC Berkeley has 24,000 staff, and currently 2000+ active DocuSign users. The university annually processes more than 1,700 signatures in UC Berkeley Recreation & Wellbeing, the campus’s recreational sports department, alone. Before DocuSign, one had to find a single document within this mass of information.
“One of the most unsung impacts of DocuSign is on the daily administrative tasks,” Carroll continued. “We have shifted to a workflow where we can send someone a form capturing a signature and receive it back within minutes.”
*Note of Recognition: In 2017 and 2018, Marlita Kahn, the former service manager for DocuSign, spearheaded the effort to assemble a consortium of select departments to approve funding for a trial period to see what impact DocuSign could have on campus productivity. Through her vision and dedicated work, our campus came to see and agree that DocuSign could be a benefit. Because of her work, this consortium agreed to provide funding for this important tool. Kahn also envisioned the departmental management approach, which DocuSign now recommends to other universities.
Life Before and After DocuSign: Life before DocuSign was very different. The institution had lengthy hiring and onboarding processes for new employees, according to Carroll. DocuSign’s influence in this area illustrates the impact the system made.
“In the past, the hiring process took an average of two to three months with another three to eight weeks after hire for onboarding,” Carroll said. “With electronic workflow, the result is transformatory for staff onboarding required only one to two days.”
In terms of storage, the university currently saves around five tons of paper with DocuSign on an annual basis. Because these records have a retention policy, some documents can’t remain in the system past a certain point. With DocuSign, UC Berkeley has a complex integration in place to transfer documents from the system to secure university servers for lengthier retention.
“We set a [condition] in a DocuSign Connect module,” explained Joseph Mitola, an information systems analyst at the university, “which pushes notifications to our external system and, then, begins a content download of those documents into the UC Berkeley secure storage .”
DocuSign also helped the university improve its management of vendor payments. Previously, vendor payments were managed through a series of Excel spreadsheets. The process of vendor payment required many signatures, meaning the information was passed frequently from department to department with less security than is available now.
“Basically, the entire payment process for vendors is now completed through DocuSign,” said Vahid Nadi, a DocuSign service manager at UC Berkeley. “The forms, payment, and paperwork is all processed through DocuSign, and this has reduced time and increased efficiency for vendors and accounts payable – meaning vendors get paid faster.”
Implementing DocuSign: Implementing DocuSign came with a few challenges. Because UC Berkeley wanted to use campus authentication, the team needed to implement single sign-on, which took some time to set up. In addition, DocuSign uses email addresses as a primary key for authentication.
“This was pretty challenging, at first, because our systems have a numeric unique identifier, and users at UC Berkeley can have multiple identities,” Mitola said.
The volume of users signing on, many using different email addresses, was another challenge as the UC Berkeley team worked to sync with the CalNet campus directories.
“We decided to create multiple accounts meaning that each of UC Berkeley’s 300 departments would correspond to a different DocuSign account,” Mitola explained.
To make this happen, Mitola and the rest of his team created around 180 DocuSign accounts so far. This fits well with UC Berkeley’s department style of management. Despite the enormity of the task, the implementation only took about a month.
“Every time staff members would sign in, they’d be sent to a default account because we didn’t know what department they were affiliated with,” Mitola said. “They would go into this default bucket, and a process run would pick them up in our directory, find the right department, stick them in, and close the initial sign-in account,” he continued.
Monthly meetings with departments kept everyone on the same page during this transition.
Training UC Berkeley DocuSign Users, Building Community: DocuSign’s implementation took only a few months to get off the ground, but the next piece was training. Implementation was spread across 180 departments and involved training for document storage, email signatures, payments to vendors, student registration, applicant materials, housing management, and more. The number of UC Berkeley DocuSign users and the number of DocuSign features used in various ways was countless.
“Because this implementation information is hard to wrap your head around, we curated a website, which lays all of this DocuSign information out for departments to reference,” Carroll said.
The UC Berkeley team created a well-thought out plan for training. Any time a DocuSign user signed into the system and was linked to a certain department, this user’s email went into a main email list from which updates went out regularly highlighting the latest on DocuSign and training.
“When folks are provisioned into DocuSign as administrators, they’re given only a role in the demo environment until they complete training,” Carroll noted.
UC Berkeley also put a number of supports in place to facilitate the training of all current and future DocuSign users at the institution:
- DocuSign has its own website at UC Berkeley, eSignatures.berkeley.edu with links to training and accessibility, FAQs, and DocuSign departmental accounts.
- UC Berkeley offers DocuSign Introductory User Training as an option for all users. The training includes a slideshow, recorded session, and 35-minute walk-through video.
- Several courses are available to bookmark for anyone needing a refresher after completing the initial training. These courses are focused on specific tasks: beginner training, basic starting guide covering most departments, Template creation, PowerForm creation, WebForm creation, bulk sending, and a course for advanced DocuSign features.
- Training courses are available as self-paced, instructor-led, and even live.
- Open clinics and drop-ins are available for DocuSign support.
Despite the many training features available for UC Berkeley active account DocuSign users, the task of maintaining the training regularly was still a massive undertaking. Between the training and community provided by both DocuSign and UC Berkeley, however, keeping current and problem solving user issues isn’t a hindrance.
Quarterly community of practice meetings are used to keep DocuSign users communicating about usage issues and features. They cover topics like bulk sends, PowerForms, API applications, and document visibility. During meetings, different departments have the opportunity to present their experience with DocuSign. Community of practice presentations are recorded and made accessible to UC Berkeley active account DocuSign users.
A New Age for UC Berkeley: Nowhere is the shift to DocuSign more dramatic than during the pandemic. UC Berkeley had already begun implementing DocuSign in 2018, pre-COVID. Thanks to DocuSign, the transition to remote working was streamlined. Remote workers were able to maintain or increase their level of efficiency.
Today, UC Berkeley has a system in place for all users to get technical support when needed and for continued learning as DocuSign introduces more features. The institution holds regular meetings for its DocuSign users to learn and discuss. Attendance is sometimes as many as 150 users. UC Berkeley IT’s Campus Applications & Data also sends frequent newsletters to alert users of anything new coming from DocuSign. And, finally, DocuSign offers easily accessible technical support from its own site.
“We’ve saved over $47,000 in one year on paper purchasing alone,” Carroll said. “The benefits can be a little hidden in this respect, embedded into each department. But, you magnify this example across a campus of 27,000 people, and it’s really impactful.”
About the NET+ DocuSign Program
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Entries open for Nassau Cup and Fort Lauderdale to Key West Race
by SORC on 20 Sep 2013
Summer is over and it is time to start planning for the winter sailing season in south Florida and the Bahamas. SORC (Southern Ocean Racing Conference), along with prominent yacht clubs, is busy finalizing some of America’s finest point to point regattas. The regattas are planned conveniently so that work and sailing schedules can coexist.
First up is the 2013 Nassau Cup Ocean Race starting Thursday November 7th. Our next event is the 2014 Fort Lauderdale to Key West Race starting Wednesday January 15th.
Online registration is open for both events and makes getting involved only a few clicks away! Though the weather requests are not always met, the camaraderie and flow of rum are sure to be a part of these favorite long time regattas. Make plans now to come out and participate!
The 2013 Nassau Cup is setting up to be even better and bigger than last year. The buzz is on and we have heard from several competitors that are already getting geared up for this year’s kick starter to sailing in the South during the winter months. Mount Gay has offered to host our Skippers Meeting – complete with rum, give-aways and the prettiest girl servers in town! What a great way to start a race and then to the Bahamas in November! It doesn’t get any better than Nassau Cup Key West Race Montego Bay Race SORC website
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Filed under: asparagus, recipe | Tags: asparagus, easter, food experiment, mushroom, quiche, smitten kitchen, spring quiche
Long time no talk huh? Alas, just waiting waiting waiting for spring. And it didn’t come! Easter was very cold. But managed to make a nice dinner for the fam. Mom brought the nice flowers. And I made a quiche.
And here’s a close up of that quiche. I’m sort of proud of it, even though it kicked my butt.
Whenever I’ve made quiche it’s always been one of those little flat ones. Kind of uninspiring! I love those deep ones you get at a restaurant. How to make I wondered. A quick google of “deep dish quiche” helped me to find documentation of Smitten Kitchen’s similar quest. According to her notes, this was no easy feat. I don’t know what I was thinking, that I could manage to whip up something that a real cookbook author had trouble with, but guess I am temporarily mad from the lack of springtime. So–my first attempt–why not?!–for my family easter dinner, what could go wrong, eh??
For the crust:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 cup (2 sticks) very cold unsalted butter, cut into chunks
1/4 cup ice water
Neutral oil, for brushing springform
Sheesh. First the dough, an amazingly buttery thing, didn’t really come together. I did it in the food processor and not in a mixer like SK. Put the flour and salt in, and then whiz in the butter chunks until pebbly. Drip in the water, and it should come together a little bit.
I didn’t put enough water in, and it was all pebbly. But I’d already dumped it out, so I just pressed it together and popped it in the freezer for a bit. Rolling it out was hard and crumbly every where, but i dusted some water on it, and forged ahead. Pressed it into the tin and patched it up. I hung the crust over the edge as suggested, and then –as i don’t have pie weights or beans on hand–i dumped a bunch of split peas and lentils in there and baked it up. The instruction said 30-40 mins to cook the crust. It really did take forever. And halfway through I noticed that it had shrunken and fallen down. I didn’t have enough beans in there holding it up. So I just took it out of the oven and patched some more dough in there up over the edges and then put it back in the oven. Took beans out–hand picked out the ones that fell past my parchment boundary. And cooked it some more.
It looked ok, not super brown, but sort of cooked, and I was ready to move on.
1 Tbsp olive oil
1 pound mushrooms chopped
1 pound asparagus chopped
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 tablespoon (15 grams) unsalted butter
4 green onions, chopped (incl. some green parts)
1 tablespoon fresh thyme, minced (use 1 teaspoon only if dried/jarred)
3/4 cup grated swiss cheese
3 cups (475 ml) milk
1 cup (475 ml) heavy cream
7 large eggs, lightly beaten
Saute the mushrooms in oil with S & P, and add in the asparagus when mushrooms are nearly done.
Whisk eggs, milk and cream (SK used 2 cups cream–i used less and added an extra egg)
Now you’re ready to assemble. Layer in the cheese the asparagus mushroom, green onion and some egg. More cheese veggies, and egg. All is well. Decided to leave top cheese for later. Into the oven. Minutes later look in there, and naturally–I’ve managed to create a non-tight crust, and the egg is leaking out on the baking sheet (at least I knew enough to put one under it!) ACK! My nice deep quiche is rapidly becoming a thin sad little one. Not much I could do though, so just hoped it would cook up fast enough to seal itself. And it did. I put on the top cheese and finished cooking it. The unmolding was not too hard. And looked kind of like a crown or something! Nice rustic looking crust. No one cared I think, as the crust was sooo good!
Alls well that ends well I guess. A bit of a mess to clean up, but an educational experience for me. If I can do it, I’m sure you can too!
It was really really good and worth a shot!!
Filed under: asparagus, recipe | Tags: breakfast for dinner, brunch recipe, farm fresh eggs, fresh asparagus
Woo-ee we have been enjoying the asparagus crop. We’ve had maybe 6 meals? I made a Jamie Oliver inspired tart for easter. And then…eggs benedict! The first time I had no idea what I was doing. I’ve never made hollandaise sauce before, and I was trying to make one third of the recipe. Recipe for disaster that was!! I curdled the egg yolk and we had more of a hollandaise paste. It was still pretty yum though.
Tonight, alone, I made it again. Take two was mucho better.
Hollandaise sauce version 2.
one egg yolk. I used a knuckles egg (one of the smaller ones we get)
juice from one lemon (maybe this was a tad too much for the egg)
Whisk together in a double boiler. I didn’t have the pan too hot this time.
Meanwhile melt two tbsp butter. Then whisking constantly mete the butter into the eggs a teensy bit at a time.
Season with a bit of salt.
I started the asparagus first in simmering water in a large fry pan. Start the english muffins just before you add the eggs. Then add two eggs into the mix after I had the hollandaise under way.
Remove asparagus and cut into bite sized pieces and lay on top of english muffins when they’re done. Scoop eggs on top and add hollandaise and some salt and pepper. Enjoy while the cat looks on enviously! BTW, she did approve of the taste I gave her. She likes herself a good bit of egg.
The Jamie tart was ok. Well better than ok, especially for breakfast the next day!!!
Recipe is here. I used puff pastry instead of phyllo which would have been better probably. I thought it was pretty tasty, but maybe overkill for some great homegrown asparagus!!
Filed under: asparagus, farm, food, gardening, it lives!, recipe | Tags: asparagus, harvest, home garden, spring
What a banner day. After getting treed in, we decided to have asparagus for lunch. It’s been a long haul waiting for these bad boys to mature. I planted 25 crowns in spring 2009. And then I waited. And waited. And waited. And to add insult to injury I read in an extension document that you don’t REALLY have to wait three years. They said go ahead and start eating after two. Bummer. Anyhow we did the full wait. And today we picked them!
I simmered them in a bit of water in a fry pan. Then served em up with a drizzle of olive oil a shred of parmesan and some salt and pepper.
Verdict?: Holy cow!! Totally worth it! Amazing. (Perfectly cooked I might add). Delicious!
As you can see from this bed shot, Mom and Dad there just may be a spear or two for you when you get here!
We should get another dinner or two from the patch but I think we’ll need to grow some more. 25 plants–is it enough for us? Maybe not.
Beans on toast is another one of the bottom of the barrel dinners around here. That and some kind of quesadilla. I do saute an onion and spice up the Bush’s Vegetarian beans–but it’s a pretty lame dinner–though tasty enough. The doode tests me and asks for cheese in them too–which is highly un-traditional. But sometimes I oblige him.
It’ll be awhile before we can harvest our own crop of asparagus, but I notice the asparagus is starting to hit the grocery store. This is a meal we like that’s sort of a fancy beans on toast. The lemon zest makes it. You could add a garlic clove in there too maybe.
White Bean and Asparagus Salad via epicurious.
- 1 lb medium asparagus, trimmed
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon finely grated fresh lemon zest
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 (15- to 19-oz) cans white beans, rinsed and drained well (3 to 3 1/2 cups)
- 4 slices country-style bread
- 1 (1/2-lb) piece Parmigiano-Reggiano
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
Cut asparagus on a diagonal into 1/8-inch-thick slices.
Bring oil, lemon zest, juice, salt, and pepper to a simmer in a 4-quart heavy saucepan, then stir in beans and asparagus. Remove from heat and let stand, uncovered, 10 minutes. While beans stand, toast bread. Meanwhile, remove enough cheese from piece with a vegetable peeler to measure about 1/2 cup shavings. Add shavings to beans along with parsley, then toss.
Serve bean salad with toasts–epicurious suggests rubbing toasts with garlic and salt, but that seems too fussy.


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(Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman)
14A, 87 minutes
Megan Faccio, Melody C. Roscher, Ariel Schulman, Yaniv Schulman
I’ve always said the best documentaries are the happy accidents, the films that gradually reveal themselves to the filmmakers, as opposed to the filmmakers chasing subjects. Catfish reminds us of Capturing the Friedmans, my personal favourite documentary of the 2000s and perhaps the best example of an unintentional film which begged to be made. Such is the case with Catfish (coincidentally produced by Friedman’s director Andrew Jarecki). A complex story of love and romance in the digital age of social media, it is also a fascinating psychological character study of how social media can give everybody the opportunity to edit the world’s perception of their life.
The opening narration explains to us the seed by which their story found its spark. One day, photographer Niv Schulman, brother of the co-director, received a mysterious package in the mail. It is an oil painting, an artistic rendering of one of his published photographs. Not only iss the painting good, it was drawn by an eight-year old girl from Michigan named Abby. Fascinated by the gesture, Niv contacts Abby via email and they start up a friendly penpal relationship. In fact, his relationship extends to Abby’s mom, Angela and other members of her family.
Via Facebook, Niv meets Megan, Abby’s half-sister, a talented and gorgeous singer/dancer. Over the course of eight months, their Facebook correspondence snowballs into a legitimate internet romance. As the romance appears close to blossoming into a formal meet up, Niv and his filmmaking partners discover a curious discrepancy.
The filmmakers stumble upon a larger story, more complex than a mere internet story, expertly conveying their sense of discovery to the audience. They manage to wring out hairsplitting suspense just by showing Niv surf Facebook and Google facts about Abby and her family. Thus Niv and the filmmakers embark on a new millennium procedural investigation as thrilling as any detective novel, with social media outlets as their tools.
And when the boys choose to free themselves from the confines of their NYC office to physically visit the family, suddenly we find ourselves embroiled in a suspenseful chase. The visit to their Michigan farm in the middle of the night is rendered with astonishing real world Hitchcockian suspense.
And once we know where the film is headed, in the third act, the filmmakers reveal another seismic psychological shift in expectations. The filmmakers handle the truth with admirable poise and respect. And Niv, who at one time poured his heart out in the name of love to Megan, reconciles a betrayal by Megan’s deep psychological neuroses.
Catfish is captivating on so many levels. The examination of the internet and the psychology of perception and multiple personalities all contribute to this broadening of the documentary form itself. Which brings me back to Capturing the Friedmans, which Catfish joins on the shortlist of great films about great personal discovery.


The Supreme Court referring to the adultery law on Thursday said the law is discriminatory and it violates Article 14 as it punishes only the man and spares the woman portraying her as a victim. "Both parties in adultery derive the benefit of the act. Despite that one is treated as a victim and other is punished. There is no rationality in it", said Chief Justice Dipak Misra.
The court also referred, if a woman has right to say 'no', then it has to be accepted that she also does not lose her "sexual autonomy" after marriage, a Supreme Court judge said.
A constitutional bench, headed by Chief Justice of India, also comprised Justice D Y Chandrachud examining the penal law on adultery, also said that if a person indulges in an adulterous relationship, then this itself was an indicator of a "broken marriage".
A married woman, living in an almost broken relationship, does not lose her sexual autonomy just because she was married, the judge said. "When we accept that a woman has the right to say 'no', then we will have to accept that she has the right to sexual autonomy," Justice Chandrachud said.
Describing the provision as "manifestly arbitrary", the court asked if women were "chattels of husbands." Section 497 of Indian Penal Code whose validity has been challenged, says: "Whoever has sexual intercourse with a person who is the wife of another man, without the consent or connivance of that man, such sexual intercourse is guilty of the offence of adultery."
During the hearing, the court observed that "adultery as a ground for divorce can be viewed as a ground for reasonable restriction. So this wouldn't mean that there is no sexual autonomy. It only means there are valid limits to your sexual autonomy."
Senior counsel Meenakshi Arora appearing for a petitioner said, "If adultery has the genesis of women being the property of men, then on that basis, it has to be struck down." "As far as criminalisation or decriminalisation of adultery as an offence is concerned, it is in one compartment. Adultery cannot cease to be a ground for seeking divorce by an estranged couple in a court of law," the top court said.
"Mental cruelty is a ground for grant of decree of divorce. The question is whether adultery will tantamount to mental cruelty or not," Chief Justice Misra said.


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Since Columbine, over 150,000 students have experienced a school shooting. For us, the idea of hiding for your life with gunshots around you does not conjure up the image of a war zone the way it did for many of our parents. Instead, it evokes the terrifying vision of a probable reality, one that could take place during a normal day at school.
Growing up as a millennial means living in constant fear. It means that by the age of 13, all of my friends and I had developed the survival skill of mapping an escape route every time we entered a room. It means that nearly every show that’s set in a high school features a school shooting episode because it doesn’t feel authentic enough without it. It means that getting ready for school in the morning is equivalent to preparing for battle.
In many ways we were, and still are, preparing for battle when we go out into our everyday lives. To put this into perspective, the average American has a greater chance of dying from gun violence in the United States than if they had fought in Iraq. Consequently, going about our normal lives is more deadly than going to a war zone.
Even more specifically, the odds of being killed in a mass shooting are one in 11,125. Although I didn’t come across any statistics providing the likelihood of a student being killed in a school shooting, we can imagine that the chances are quite high.
So, what has been done to protect us — the young, the innocent and the vulnerable? Absolutely nothing. Time and time again, our lawmakers have proven to us that the right to own guns and their payments from the National Rifle Association (NRA) are more valuable than our right to life.
We are the successors to a society that has adopted complacency as the default answer to its problems. But we are anything but complacent. We are the trailblazers of change and the welders of America’s future. For better or worse, we have already dramatically altered the landscape of our home by ushering in a new climate of tolerance and forcing laws into effect that reflect that atmosphere.
More than any other generation, millennials are self-aware; we realize that our actions have consequences and we act according to which side of history we would like to be on in the textbooks our children will read. Watch the brave Parkland survivors go face to face with congressmen and witness what our “brattiness” can accomplish to create a safer country. When you are the ones being hunted, see how quickly you are willing to throw politeness aside if that means no child ever has to watch their best friend get gunned down again.
These are our lives being threatened. If no one else is willing to take down the NRA’s hold on our society, then we will. Many complain that we are ignorant snowflakes, but I will be damned if my children fear for their lives every time they attend school. So I will wear that snowflake like a badge of honor because I know that each life is unique and infinitely more valuable than a gun.
Morgan Manganello is a junior majoring in integrative neuroscience.


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Excellent guessing Riddlers! This week, it's all about the mystery of a crop circle. Lizzy's review will leave us spinning, and Thursday on Top of the Heap we'll have fun exploring this fascinating topic. Friday, get ready because The Character Book Club is meeting over at our friend Millie's blog, and Saturday, we always like to hear your thoughts on The DMS Wants to Know. See you all around the book block ; ) ~ F
A mysterious picture revealed below takes form in the space of the seeds we grow. Seen from above by all of us, the artist, it's said, rides a cosmic bus. Patterns twist into the maize, seeming to appear from out of the haze. The work breaks the barrier of all known reason. What's left is the idea of an imaginative season. Who's the one that makes it all round? Who turns those circles without making a sound? Whoever they are, they've sneaky precision, stealth like a cat, and serious vision. In the dark of the night, with no one around, a strange masterpiece begins, stamped into ground.
What am I referring to? Answer: A Crop Circle!
Make time to riddle and rhyme!
62 original riddles and illustrations
Available in all e-book formats


RBS SE100 awards recognise the UK’s top social businesses
Individuals with the most potential for ‘high value’ entrepreneurship are twice more likely than the general population to be in the process of starting their own business, a new survey reveals today.
The event explored today’s ‘always on’ world and the pressure Scots face as they struggle to balance life inside and outside of work.
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The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet announced the opening of the new 1.4-mile extension of Ky. 9/AA Highway on Facebook early Wednesday morning.
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When emotional pain becomes too much, many people don’t know what to do. For some, the only answer is inflicting physical pain on themselves.
Self-harm, or non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), is causing intentional pain, injury, or damage to one’s own body. Common forms include cutting, bruising, or burning, but self-harm also includes other actions, such as punching walls or pulling out hair with the intent of injuring oneself. (Note: This is different from trichotillomania, or obsessive hair pulling, which focuses instead on the act of pulling and not the injury that comes from it.)
Using self-harm as a method for coping with emotional pain can be hard to wrap your brain around if you’ve never experienced it firsthand. The negative stigma that surrounds it can make it even harder to talk about. But understanding self-harm can help clue us in to the complexities of our own and others’ experiences.
Getting to the root of why self-harm feels like the only option can lead to healthier ways of handling life’s stressors, however they manifest.
“There’s a symbolic component that’s pretty powerful,” says Dr. Janis Whitlock, professor emerita of Cornell University and director of Cornell’s Self-Injury & Recovery Resources research program. “People who self-harm describe this broad, amorphous set of emotions and then translate those emotions to one space on the body to experience healing.”
Some people self-injure to feel more in control when navigating difficult emotions or feeling triggered by something, such as a break-up, being bullied, or unhealthy family dynamics. “My son would self-harm on a regular basis in middle school,” says a second-year student at Utah State University in Logan. “He had a very traumatic experience in life, and I think this is how he dealt with the way he was feeling.”
There are other factors that can increase the chances that an individual will start self-injuring. “Anything that increases a perceived sense of emotional trauma or hurt can increase someone’s risk of NSSI [self-injury] behaviors,” says Dr. Whitlock. These factors might include:
- Another mental health diagnosis (e.g., research shows there is a high co-occurence of self-harm and eating disorders).
- A history of trauma, abuse, or neglect (e.g., a 2020 study found that individuals who reported childhood maltreatment were more likely to commit self-harm).
- Marginalized or misunderstood identities (e.g., research shows LGBTQ+ individuals, particularly those identifying as transgender and/or bisexual, are more likely to self-harm).
- Substance use (e.g., a 2019 study found long-term substance use to be a significant predictor of self-harm).
Not always. A major aspect of NSSI is in the name: non-suicidal intent. For people unfamiliar with self-harm, it can be hard to understand how hurting oneself is not the same thing as wanting to die, and pinpointing someone’s intent with self-harming actions might feel impossible. However, understanding intent is important when it comes to helping someone who self-injures.
Another important note is that abusing alcohol and drugs is not considered a form of self-harm, but it can exacerbate the problem.
If you struggle with self-harm, think about how you can redirect that thought process and energy into something different. Here are some ways to do that.
Reconnect with your body
One way to regulate your emotions is by getting back in your body through movement. This can help redirect the energy that comes up when you’re feeling self-harm urges. You could play loud music and dance around in your home (I do this regularly), go to the rec center, or take a walk outside for 10 minutes.
- Sink your heels into the floor and focus on how the ground feels.
- Play with an animal.
- Grab a chunk of ice and hold it in your hand.
- Light a scented candle and focus on the scent.
- Grab a snack—something with a strong taste, if you can—and let the flavor distract you. (I once had a therapist recommend biting into an onion: awful, but effective.)
There are plenty of other options out there for navigating difficult emotions. “Breathing exercises, fidget toys, and journaling can all help,” says a second-year student at Arapahoe Community College in Littleton, Colorado. Coming up with a list of options ahead of time can help, so it doesn’t demand too much mental power in the moment. Possible activities include:
- Creating art
- Listening to a podcast
- Calling a friend
- Playing a video game
- Working on a jigsaw puzzle
- Playing your favorite song
Ask for help
First, acknowledge that asking for help might feel scary or intimidating—especially if you’re having trouble recognizing that self-harm is something you’ve been using to try to cope. “People often don’t reach out if they deny there’s an issue,” says Dr. Whitlock. “Be honest with yourself about what’s going on and what support you need.”
When you decide to reach out, start with someone you can trust. This might be a friend or family member who you’ve spoken to about your mental health before, or a staff or faculty member on campus. “Find somebody—one person—to confide in, just to hear yourself say the words,” says Dr. Whitlock. “It’s helpful to start telling the story to someone.”
Work with a therapist
Having a large support system is incredibly helpful, and a therapist can be part of that. “If the self-harm is chronic, it’s probably going to be hard to stop without therapeutic support,” says Dr. Whitlock. A therapist can help you come up with different coping skills to try, and regular appointments create a space for you to check in with yourself and be honest about what you need.
The type of therapy you engage with is also important. “Look for therapists that are familiar with dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) or other modalities that focus on bringing one’s attention and thoughts out of the past or future,” says Dr. Whitlock. DBT is the most common form of therapy recommended for self-injury, but any format that strengthens your ability to stay in the present moment can be helpful. Remember, the ultimate goal is to find avenues that help you feel better.
“I didn’t want to feel hopeless and alone anymore,” says a first-year student at California State University, Channel Islands. “I decided to go to counseling to cope with my self-injuring tendencies. Every session I attended helped me gain the confidence to be myself and, most importantly, to love myself. Don’t be afraid to seek help.”
Janis Whitlock, PhD, director, Self-Injury and Recovery Resources research program, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
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