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This post is part of the Workplace Anthropology series.

In offices throughout the United States, workers are anxiously looking to the coming of Friday. For many of you—myself included—Monday meant a return to the office and a reinvestment in wage/paid labor. By this point in the week, you've hopefully hit your stride and are comfortably settled in your work week rhythms, and you're probably looking forward to the weekend. But between the two of us, how engaged are you actually with your tasks? How attuned are you to the overall culture of the company? If you had to make the assessment for yourself, what would your response be?

According to a 2013 Gallup report just 13% of employees worldwide are actively invested in the success of their work-related tasks and are committed to the growth and development of the organizations that employ them. They're outnumbered by disengaged employees by 2:1. The latter are emotionally disconnected and are less likely to be productive.

If we bring these numbers into perspective locally, Gallup's data suggests only 30% of the American workforce identifies itself as engaged. The remaining 70% can cost companies up to $550 billion each year; they're more likely to steal from their companies, have higher rates of absenteeism, and drive customers away. It's more than a case of the Monday-morning blues. These numbers suggest that burnout is on the rise—and spreading beyond the typical high-stress professions it has long been associated with.

Burnout is a work-related disorder that results from prolonged experiences of stress, which can stem from work overload, role ambiguity, a lack of autonomy, and low social support. It's characterized by a lengthy list of symptoms including exhaustion, disinterest, boredom, heightened irritability, feeling unappreciated, loss of concentration and feelings of detachment. And if allowed to fester, burnout can result in depression, substance abuse, and make you more susceptible to illnesses overall.

Research published in PLoS ONE identifies three types of burnout:

  • The frenetic type, for example, will throw themselves further into their work in the pursuit of success, often working past the point of exhaustion. Their sense of being overloaded might grow but they'll continue to work, often at the expense of health and personal relationships.
  • The under-challenged type emerges in monotonous conditions where there is little room for growth and personal development. With time, they'll grow bored and indifferent.
  • The worn-out type simply gives up when faced with stressful conditions. They may neglect tasks by failing to acknowledge the work that needs to be completed.

These types give us a way to see the nuances of burnout beyond their general symptoms. It's more than just apathy. These types may also reveal a deeper connection between burnout and coping strategies which, the authors argue, could give us clues on how to shape corporate and wellness policies down the line.

Burnout seems to be a clear indicator that something is wrong. Even if we don't want to acknowledge that we're facing a tough situation, the symptoms we're experiencing are signals that we're unhappy and our employment situation is unbalanced. In this light, burnout itself is may be a coping mechanism. However, when it's framed against more general coping trends (like cognitive or behavioral coping, cognitive or behavioral avoidance, emotion-focused coping or substance use), burnout looks as though it may be a progressive culmination of ineffective coping strategies.

For example, the frenetic type is inclined toward more active coping strategies, including being problem-focused. They will look to solve issues, which will likely continue to grow in circumstances of chronic stress and lead to feelings of being overloaded and degrees of disengagement. The under-challenged type can be caught in a loop of avoidance as they erect a barrier of emotional detachment, which further contributes to a sense of being devalued and under-stimulated. And the worn-out type may find that disengagement strategies encourage neglect by creating and maintaining distance between the individual and work. When these strategies fail to work in chronic stress conditions, they can quickly escalate to enable burnout symptoms.

While the authors of the PLoS study note that the common factor for developing burnout is the degree of passivity exhibited by the individual, none of this is to say that employment context is not important. If you're dealing with high degrees of stress, it's highly likely you'll experience some degree of burnout at some point. But the bigger question is why don't we seem to be talking about it?

Search for "burnout" and the majority of the news results you'll found are Canadian or based in the EU. The scarce recognition of burnout in the United States is noticeable and what exists reads like the same general piece over and over again. We’re dancing around the topic despite the potentially serious impact of burnout because there is also be a degree of stigma in the assignment, particularly in a market where jobs are still somewhat difficult to come by and employees may feel pressure to perform (or appear as if they are). Burnout suggests you don't fit with the company—that you can't cut it at work, in life, at anything. It implies that you're not a prime candidate.

Denial, which is a huge factor in the progression of burnout, is also at work on a larger social level: we acknowledge the problem with general self-help articles, but place the burden of diagnosis and treatment largely on the individual with suggested tips for identifying and managing symptoms. This overlooks the ways in which organizational and social structures can create a setting for burnout. Organizations are asking employees to "do more with less" which means larger workloads and managers who are stretched too thin themselves to provide support, guidance, and mentorship where needed. Between workload and connectivity, it's virtually impossible to turn off—and if you do, there may be a slight nagging sensation of "someone may need me." This creates the right conditions for frenetic, under-challenged, and worn-out types to take root and spread.

The nature of the available literature, as well as the large number of reportedly disengaged employees, hint that we may be well on our way to normalizing burnout. And maybe that's unavoidable. But perhaps if it is normalized, we'll begin to think about it beyond the individual and the impact on profit.

So remember that question at the beginning? If you had to assess your engagement, what would your answer be?

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Montero-Marin, J., Prado-Abril, J., Piva Demarzo, M., Gascon, S., & García-Campayo, J. (2014). Coping with Stress and Types of Burnout: Explanatory Power of Different Coping Strategies PLoS ONE, 9 (2) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089090

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In 2007, while teaching at George Johnson's Science Writing Workshop in Santa Fe, I met a talented young writer named Jessica Reed. We've stayed in touch over the years and corresponded on many topics, especially on mental health issues. After my recent rant "Crisis in Psychiatry!," which riffs on the latest debate over the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Jessica responded with her usual thoughtfulness. I asked her to elaborate for readers of this blog, and she sent me the comments below. –John Horgan

I owe my life to the mental health system, yet as a student of science, I have always been deeply ambivalent about the state of psychiatry. Through years of alternating conviction and doubt, of romanticizing, of stigmatizing and de-stigmatizing, I have been sure of this much: in a less enlightened time, I certainly would have been in worse shape. In the animated series Dr. Katz, comedian Emo Phillips says, “I don’t know if I believe in psychiatry... around 1820 if you were having mental problems they would manacle you inside a well and pour ice-cold water on you until you almost drowned. It’s too bad they didn’t have TV commercials back then, ‘cause, you know: Ask your doctor if being manacled to the inside of a well and almost drowned is right for you.

While I’m grateful that no one has manacled me to the inside of a well, my psychiatrist and I remind each other regularly: the science of treating mental illness is still in its dark ages. Therapy is often ineffective. Medication is rudimentary. Our Bible—the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM—is a joke. This is what I say regularly, anyway, so I was surprised to feel flushed with panic when I read that the head of the National Institute of Mental Health, Thomas Insel, is moving NIMH research “away from DSM categories.” This is more than just a decision about where to place research dollars. Fundamentally, the NIMH is reconsidering everything. That’s how it feels, anyway. It feels like what little I had to cling to has been ripped away from me. It feels like being abandoned.

I wish I could speak better of our time. Our therapy is all over the place. There are competing schools of thought, ranging from Freudian psychoanalysis to cognitive behavioral therapy. To complicate matters further, there are as many therapeutic personas out there as personalities, so even if you were to choose in advance a school of thought you deemed reasonable or promising, you never know what your therapist will be like.

Our drug treatments are crude. We stumble together, doctor and patient (that’s if you’re lucky enough to be working together), searching for a tolerable combination of meds: one to mitigate each specific core problem and one each to fix the side-effects of the first. Despite advances in neuropharmacology—we know the names of several key neurotransmitters, have an inkling of what they do normally, and we know the mechanisms by which some of these drugs act—we haven’t the foggiest notion why some drugs work for some people and not others. We don’t know why some drugs work for a while in one person and then quit working. We really don’t know why drugs designated for one purpose seem to be effective in completely different arenas—for example, it is historical accident buffered by only a primitive notion of mechanism that anticonvulsants double as mood stabilizers.

The one standard psychiatry had was the DSM. It’s where we stored our collective, agreed-upon (by a few select committee members) definitions and categories of mental illness. “How many weeks have you been unmotivated? More than two? Then you are clearly clinically depressed.” In the past several decades, we’ve seen the politics of homosexuality, transsexuality, and gender identity evolve in this manual. We’ve seen lumpers and splitters get their hands on the definitions. My affliction, manic-depression, comes in many flavors: Cyclothymia, Bipolar I and II, with further codes about the relative severity of the diagnosis. Usually, my doctor officially codes me 296.80, Bipolar Disorder Not Otherwise Specified. I’ve always said that I refuse to become defined by the label. And yet… sign insurance forms with it for over a decade and see how cozy 296.80 starts to feel.

Insel says patients with mental disorders “deserve better” (than the DSM), and I believe his plan to replace it with the new Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) is well-intentioned. RDoC focuses on genetic markers and hard neural and cognitive data. That sounds great. What worries me is that the paucity of such data leaves people like me—at least temporarily—out in the cold. When I was groping for answers in high school and college, I was disappointed every time my thyroid test results came back normal (abnormalities could have confirmed hypo- or hyperthyroidism). In high school they tested my blood hormone levels and found nothing. Each time the hard data came back free of anomalies, I felt more lost. Something was causing my symptoms, and they were not all even arguably “subjective”: surges of sleep deprivation and weight loss cycled with the reverse. There was no question there was a biological basis for my problems, and when doctors shrugged, I wanted to cry. (It was disturbingly easy, on the other hand, a few years later to rattle off a list of symptoms that aligned with the DSM and have doctors hand me the Bipolar diagnosis within twenty minutes.)

I’ve lamented the lack of a test for Bipolar disorder for sixteen years. I should feel relieved about the NIMH announcement, but I'm uneasy about what comes next. When will there be a test? Suppose there is a test, and I fail? How would that explain my life? For over five years, I questioned and resisted my diagnosis. It was three years before I consented to medication. It has taken me a long time to come to terms with it, but I finally have, and like it or not, it is part of my identity.

The whole field of psychiatry is stepping back to regroup. This is what I wanted. So why do I feel more scared than I did a week ago? I’m happy if we admit that our approach thus far has been confused, misguided, ill-advised, sometimes profit-driven, and reckless, but until a wholly changed psychiatry emerges from the RDoC approach, please, please, please let’s not stop trying to figure it out. –Jessica Reed

Photo: Jessica Reed, George Johnson (right) and John Horgan, Santa Fe, 2007.

Postscript from John Horgan: Ms. Reed is my guest here on this blog, so if you respond to her essay, please be respectful. I will delete rude and abusive comments.

Postscript from Jessica Reed: This was a personal, reflective piece. I was not speaking for anyone but myself. I certainly was not speaking for those who have experienced psychiatry by force. While my experience has not been entirely positive—I would need a book to cover the gamut of experiences I’ve had—on the whole it has been more helpful than harmful. I am fortunate to have a doctor who respects my decisions and whose expertise I respect. We consider ourselves a team, and he has never asked me to do anything I wasn’t comfortable with. Probably more importantly, I am fortunate to have a supportive network of family and friends. Since we have found a framework to explain a lifetime of symptoms (the DSM “construct” called bipolar disorder), my family and friends have been better able to help me cope with a host of problems. If NIMH research is successful, this construct might one day be replaced by another explanation or set of explanations that are more physiologically based. I would welcome that. My point in this piece is simply that change can be painful.

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Sharing cultural heritage

I found this article, which speaks to the use of technology as a means to share cultural heritage with indigenous communities in Australia. The authors note some of the difficulties with access in remote communities, but the overall result seems quite positive.

McClellan, D., & Tanner, K. (2011). Knowledge Discovery Empowering Australian Indigenous Communities. Information Technologies & International Development, 7(2), 31-46.

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Software Development Outsourcing

The past years have seen customer relationship management become more and more important to businesses. This has inevitably led to the increasing demand for business applications, which has increased the need for software development outsourcing.

Custom software development isn’t so easy, even if you don’t use complex technologies. The biggest challenge companies face when hiring out their custom app development projects is actually understanding what they want until they see it.

For small startups with limited funds, this can be a problem. Usually, these companies decide to cut costs by foregoing design and focusing on programming only. But, if your startup thinks that coding is the only thing that matters, think again!

Custom software development outsourcing is the only way for small businesses to create apps that can truly help their business grow. Outsourcing your app development project brings you the important advantage of being able to work with a team of developers, designers, testers and analysts all at once.

In addition, you don’t have to think about finding the money or resources needed for hiring employees for this job because it’s one cost-effective solution no matter what industry you are in.

What is Software development?

Software development is the process of building software for computers and machines that run with the help of computer programs. Developers create these computer programs that include instructions, predictive analytics, logic, computational algorithms to solve problems, build features or add functionalities.

What is Software development outsourcing?

“Software development outsourcing” is the use of external resources to provide custom software. It can include both web and desktop applications, mobile apps, websites, enterprise resource planning software (ERP), Open source projects, customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, accounting software or any other type of custom application. It is significantly more cost-effective for many businesses than building an in-house team to create the desired product.

Why Use Software development outsourcing?

Outsourcing is currently one of the most popular mobility solutions and business models for software development companies looking to grow their company.

Outsourcing allows developers specialising in different technologies to work together on projects requiring their combined skill sets. This often results in higher quality products that are delivered faster.

In addition, outsourcing allows companies to access talent from across the globe, which results in a wider variety of skill sets being brought to the table on each project.

Most outsourced projects take place on an ad hoc basis. Still, there are others that follow a more stable pattern like long term contracts for maintenance and updates to existing software or monthly retainers for future development work.

The former is typically used by businesses seeking assistance with specific short term goals. At the same time, the latter is often implemented by companies that need ongoing assistance maintaining and/or updating their software functionality. In either case, outsourcing companies understand what clients want and offer services to help them make it happen.

Advantages of Software development outsourcing

There are several advantages to outsourcing software development projects, which is what makes it so popular with companies looking to expand.

Some of the most commonly cited include:

1.    Flexible cost structure

Businesses can scale up or down as needed when working with an outsourced company without changing their budget. This allows them to only pay for services being used at any given time.

2.    Access to specialised skill sets

While many developers specialise in different technologies, it’s still difficult to find one whose skill set matches your requirements exactly. By outsourcing work internationally, you can access a greater variety of talent, allowing you freedom when selecting team members for your project.

3.    No requirement for additional office space

Not all companies have enough room to house an in-house development team, which creates a challenge when trying to expand. Even if adequate space is available, it can be difficult and costly to monitor developers working remotely.

Outsourcing means you don’t need to worry about these issues and can instead focus on getting your product developed as quickly as possible.


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In 2013, total hospital charges for children and adolescents age 20 years and younger with a primary musculoskeletal-related diagnosis were $7.4 billion. Musculoskeletal trauma (41%) and deformity (37%) were the major contributors to total hospital charges, but all conditions contribute to the overall economic impact of musculoskeletal conditions in this age group. Furthermore, while musculoskeletal condition hospital charges represent 5.2% of total charges for all medical conditions for the age 20 years and younger age group, the number of discharges represent only 2% of total hospital discharges for any medical condition in this age group, indicating that musculoskeletal conditions may be more expensive to treat than many other childhood conditions. (Reference Table 7C.13 PDF CSV)

It is important to note that the overall cost of musculoskeletal conditions in the 20 years and younger population is much greater than just hospital charges. First, the $7.4 billion includes only hospitalizations with a primary, or first, diagnosis in the databases, representing less than 2% of 2013 healthcare visits with any musculoskeletal condition diagnosis. Not included in this burden are expenditures for visits to emergency departments, outpatient clinics, and physicians’ office, as well as other medical care expenditures such as physical therapy, rehabilitation, and medications.

While gender is not a factor in the distribution of hospital charges, age is a major contributor. Children in the middle years of childhood, especially ages 10 to 13 years, have a higher share of total hospital charges (16%) due to musculoskeletal conditions than any other age group. Musculoskeletal condition hospital charges are also a higher share for those age 14 to 17 years (14%) and ages 5 to 9 years (8.6%).

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I'm not thinking AB will fire anyone at this point....we have to suffer through five more games but at the end of the season, everyone needs to go! I cannot believe there are actually people on this board saying TD gets a pass. That's insane.

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How do You Hook an American Eel on A Line?

American eels are lively on a line, making them both fun fish to reel in and great live bait for larger game.

But whether it’s catching them in freshwater or using them in saltwater, American eels can be tricky to handle.

How do you hook an American Eel on a line?

To catch an American eel on a line, go fishing at night and be prepared to exhaust them. To hook an eel on a line as live bait, hold the eel with a dry rag and drop it into the water as soon as you’ve hooked it.

Fishing for eels can be a surprisingly fun challenge. From proper tackle to where you can find them, you’ll need to be prepared before you can try your hand at catching one.

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Catching Eels on a Line

For freshwater fishing, there are very few fish that are as feisty as an eel.

But to catch an eel on a line, you’ll need to know how.

One of the most important things to note is that eels are nocturnal.

During the day, they’ll hide in the mud or under rocks.

If you want to catch eels, bring flashlights and headlamps and get ready for some night fishing.

American eels are opportunistic feeders.

A large night crawler often makes good bait, but you should also be able to use stink bait, herring, shiner, or anything else that they can catch the scent of.

It’s an open discussion on how strong your line needs to be, but a 10-pound test main line should work in most cases. If you want to err on the side of caution, a 12-pound test monofilament line might be your best bet. A

nd if you want to go lighter, you could drop down to as low as a 6-pound test line.

Eels have small mouths, so try number 4 to number 2 baitholder hooks.

Since eels are such strong pullers, avoid any light-wire models or else the eel might straighten out your hook.

To recap, a setup for eel fishing might look something like:

  • Line: 6- to 12-pound-test monofilament, abrasion-resistant
  • Hooks: #4 to #2 baitholder
  • Bait: large nightcrawlers (or just about anything they’ll smell)

Whether you’re in a river, pond, or lake, you’ll want to cast your line in an area where shallow water suddenly turns deep.

Once the eel’s taken a bite, fight it until the fish tires.

If an eel doesn’t bite within a couple of minutes, reel your line in and recast it.

When you’ve reeled your eel in, you can either beach the eel on the shore or use a small, stiff net that the eel won’t get tangled in.

Hooking Eels as Live Bait

While eels may be fun to fish for in their own right, to most they’re better known as live bait.

Their strength, liveliness, and hardiness make them one of the best live baits for catching many different species. And?as a catadromous fish?they can be used in saltwater.

Since eels are so lively and slippery, they can be difficult to get on a hook. You’ll need to be clever to grab onto them. Some use ice to get their eels to slow down and be more manageable while hooking.

To do this, keep your eels in a bucket of ice while fishing.

But if you want your eels to be in fighting form, there are other ways to handle eels without resorting to icing them. If you’re keeping your eels in water, use a small fishing net to scoop the eel out, then grab it from the net with a dry rag. Eels are much easier to hold with a dry rag wrapped around them.

Once you have a firm grip on them, eels can be hooked like most bait.

For saltwater fishing, Owner 8/0 or 10/0 hooks should do the job. Put the hook through the eel’s bottom jaw and out of its eye socket.

Do not let go of the eel until you’re ready to put it in the water.

As soon as you let go, the eel’s going to start twisting and potentially tangle your line. Get it over the water first, then let it go straight in.

Once the eel’s in the water, give it a few seconds and you can reel it back up.

It should now be a bit calmer and less likely to tangle your line.

Things to remember when hooking eels as live bait:

  • Don’t grip them with your bare hands (unless you choose to ice them).
  • Try to use larger eels, they’ll stay lively for longer (eels longer than 12 inches).
  • Drop them in the water when you first let go. You can reel them back in after they’re settled.

American Eel Fishing

For freshwater sport fishermen, the American eel has proven itself to be a fish that’ll put up quite a fight once hooked, making it a worthwhile challenge.

For saltwater fishing, they’re better known as great live bait.

American eels are a catadromous fish, meaning they spend most of their life in freshwater before migrating to the sea to breed, and have been known to range as far north as Greenland and as far south as Venezuela.

Before any eel fishing is done, you should check to see if you need to get an eel permit wherever you fish.

American eels, or Anguilla Rostrata, are considered threatened in Canada and endangered by the IUCN Red List Criteria.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, however, hasn’t applied the Endangered Species Act on American eels.

Eel fishing in the Atlantic Canada region can be dated back to the First Nations. Natives would use stone weirs to corral eels into shallow water, then spear them.

In the 1980s, eels were one of the top fish species in Ontario’s commercial fishing industry.

The decline in eel populations, however, has put pressure on reducing commercial fishing.

If you’re good to go for recreational eel fishing in your area, then you’re in business for some fun action. As far as freshwater fishing goes, eels are one of the strongest fighters on a line.

Important things to know before you go fishing for eels:

  • Go fishing at night. American eels are nocturnal and won’t begin biting until twilight.
  • Eels will twist like a snake. Be prepared for a fight even after you’ve reeled them in.
  • Avoid using large nets. Eels can become tangled and injure themselves.
  • Eels are biters and secrete a slime when threatened.

As fun as eels are to catch in their own right, they’re probably better known as bait for the saltwater game.

But even when used as bait without going through any of the trouble of catching them on a line you should still prepare yourself for some trouble when hooking them.

Whether you only care about eels in the context of catching striped bass and cobia, or if you actively want to try an original North American tradition, eels are worth the trouble.

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Can I go fishing for eels during the day?

American eels typically hide in the mud or under rocks and logs during the day. It’s not impossible to catch eels during the day, but it’s not as ideal as fishing at night when they’re more active.

What other ways are there to get eels for live bait without reeling them in?

Your local bait shop may sell eels and would be your best bet for fast, convenient eels. American eels are also often usually caught with traps or “pots.”

Are eels good to eat?

Eels, once a staple in North American diets, have a sweet, meaty flavor. They can be prepared in a variety of ways (smoked, grilled, fried, baked) and, in some areas, jellied eels are considered a treat.

Nice to know: How Many Volts Does an Electric Eel Have?

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The author of this post is Bob Hoffmann. Bob has spend most of his childhood fishing with his father and now share all his knowledge with other anglers. Feel free to leave a comment below.

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Behold the Future

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An intriguing autobiography set to poetry of a young girl's life coming of age. Take a journey and explore her views on Love, Racism, Family and Self Expression. This book is designed for both young and old. If you are trying to reach a young teenager or if you are a young teenager yourself, then this is the book for you. Enjoy!

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A moment..

“He heard the voices of his friends, closed his eyes, and took a first little sip of the coffee. The sun was warming in his face, and on his arms too. The sweet background of people chatting and little sounds of a spoon touching a saucer, feeling the sun, relaxing in the whole body, he loved these little moments of pure bliss and happiness. The mind was slowly swirling with long gone memories of beautiful views of coast lines in boiling heat, the water sparkling and shimmering, and with flowers in red and white in the foreground, and the feelings of emancipation and freedoms… or from the summer days of youth, on a little pier, in the early morning hours with the sea as a smooth mirror surface of blue skies and little droplets of sun, closing his eyes and loving to be alive.”

A cup..

“Then at times, the wide open horizons unfolded in life once again. A sudden change, a little trip, a change of scenery, some mountains or lakes or open fields of beautiful scenery, some peaceful animals and rolling hills and fresh air.

It could be blended into the usual habits and rituals of daily life, peaceful hours of reading or staying in touch with old friends, easy chats or deep interesting talks with new people, a quiet walk in modest nature, or sipping the coffee carefully from a new cup in a new place, or the same one for a while, a cup you had gotten a bit familiar with over some days, or some months, or perhaps even one with strong emotions connected to it, from the person who gave it to you, the time you bought it, or some specific talks or moments which were still quietly and firmly a part of the cup – and subtly remembered or felt at times clearly, but mostly unconsciosly but slightly influencing the mood or the tenor of the feelings, silently infusing some tiny blobs of emotions, briefly felt but sometimes lingering for hours, adding some little color or aspect to the perception of the world, to how you see and feel the room around you, or how you experience the people and streets, the sounds, and your own thoughts.”


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A Real Thrill

It’s just a box, you might say,

Got one at Costco the other day.

It’s not too fancy I’ll admit

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  1. I love cats too – and I’m dearly hoping to get a couple of kittens before the end of the year x If I do I’ll be sure to put an empty box on their Christmas list x

    1. Thank’s Alys, I think ALLLLL kitties are adorable. Mr B says “they have to be, why else would people put up with all the hair”. (really, he’s a bigger moosh than me and Blossom thinks he’s her boyfriend)

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19 March 2021

COVID-19 – Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Rehabilitation in Irbid Schools

Especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of functioning WASH-Services in School are of utmost importance. Therefore, BORDA, supported by the COVID-19-Emergency fund of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, conducted a series of interventions to improve the situation in […]
16 November 2020

COVID-19: Prevention and response in Al Azraq, Jordan

The ISSRAR consortium has partnered with the SDC to provide different forms of support to the local community in Azraq to help reduce the spread of the virus and its related health and economic impacts
25 August 2020

ISSRAR in 360 degrees: Tour a constructed wetland design

In this virtual reality (VR) experience, see how the ISSRAR project envisions a two-stage constructed wetland designed to treat wastewater and sludge to the highest effluent standards
7 July 2020

COVID-19: BORDA distributes hygiene kits in Al Azraq, Jordan

Through a health campaign complementary to the ISSRAR project, BORDA is supporting official efforts to manage and overcome the COVID-19 pandemic in Al Azraq
7 October 2019

Inauguration of de-sludging truck in Azraq

At the end of August, BORDA handed over a German funded de-sludging truck to Mr. Marwan Iseed, the Mayor of Al Azraq Municipality in a ceremony organised by BORDA
29 May 2019

At Feynan Ecolodge, a new system ensures waste is not always wasted

BORDA Jordan was part of the May 2019 inauguration ceremony for the newly constructed wastewater treatment system at Feynan Ecolodge
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WE talk: Behavioural Change

In the third instalment of the WE talk series we brought together religious and community leaders to talk about behavioural change and how to best address fair governance and engage with individuals to bring about meaningful change.

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Hansen Quality of Mercy    Don Carter Nick of Time

Toymaker Bif Bang Pow! has revealed the fourth series of its Kenner style action figure line for The Twilight Zone.  The new series will be sold as San Diego Comic-Con exclusives.  Partnering with online superstore Entertainment Earth, the figures, limited to a run of only 672 pieces each, will first be sold during San Diego Comic-Con next month at the Entertainment Earth booth #2343.

The new figures include color versions of William Shatner’s Don Carter (“Nick of Time”), Jerry and Willie (“The Dummy”), and Leonard Nimoy’s Hansen (“A Quality of Mercy), plus the almost-a-borg female robot Alicia from “The Lonely” and Anne Francis’s Marsha White from “The After Hours.”

Alicia Lonely    Jerry and Willie Dummy

The figures feature five points of articulation consistent with 1970s style action figures, and will be accompanied by a holographic sticker.

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If supplies remain–and they likely will for this line–pre-orders will be shipped in August.  Click on any of the photos above for more details and to pre-order the figures from Entertainment Earth.  Once they run out they’re gone, so act fast.

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Seeking competent counsel when charged with a crime, no matter how seemingly simple or inconsequential, is a must. In many cases, the District Attorney will try to railroad cases where defendants are not represented by attorneys, either the public defender or private counsel, and urge the defendant to enter a guilty plea. Realistically, the vast majority of individuals charged with a crime, misdemeanor or felony, ultimately "plead out", meaning they plead guilty or no contest to one or more of the charges, in exchange for some level of leniency in sentencing or reduction in charges.

However, before deciding to take an offer from the District Attorney, it is highly advised that an individual speak with a criminal defense attorney who is capable of identifying possible defenses to any allegations or weaknesses in the District Attorney's case. After all, the District Attorney bears the burden of proving the defendant to be guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, so in the event a competent criminal defense attorney identifies a strong enough defense or can poke holes in the District Attorney's case (e.g., lack of evidence, uncredible eyewitness testimony, chain of custody issues, etc.), it may be advisable to try the case and fight the charges.

Furthermore, there are several instances where poor police work or improper compliance with procedure can lead to a dismissal. Law enforcement has a legal duty to comply with strict procedure and honor constitutional rights of the accused, and any breach of that duty may be grounds for recourse. For example, evidence uncovered pursuant to a search unsupported by a warrant or probable cause can be supressed, even if that particular piece of evidence in and of itself implicates the defendant (e.g., unlawful search of a vehicle uncovers methamphetamine; even though possession of methamphetamine is a felony, the evidence itself cannot be used against the defendant, and for lack of other circumstantial evidence that the defendant possessed methamphetamine, the case will likely be dismissed).

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The National Hot Dog & Sausage Council (yes there is one) estimates that Americans consume 20 billion hot dogs each year. Nearly 1 in every 10 hot dogs is eaten at a ballpark, but if you’re craving a hot dog in Boston and aren’t at Fenway Park, here are some good alternatives.

Speed’s Hot Dogs

42 Newmarket Square
Roxbury, MA 02118
(617) 839-0102

Hot dogs in Boston are synonymous with Speed’s, which looks a lot like an over-sized ice cream truck parked in a lot in Roxbury. Named the best hot dogs in the entire country by the Wall Street Journal, these ½ pound all-beef dogs are marinated in apple cider and brown sugar, and then charcoal grilled. The relish, mustard and other toppings are all homemade. Expect a line, and bring cash for these $7 meal-sized dogs. Note: hours vary by season and the truck is closed in really bad weather.

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Lower Depths Tap Room

476 Commonwealth Ave # 1
Boston, MA 02215-2712
(617) 266-6662

The biggest reason Lower Depths makes the list is simple: price. Where else can you buy a tasty $1 Fenway Frank (not the same as the ballpark) and pile on your choice of creative toppings? Their full menu of hot dog toppers includes options like crème fraiche, mango salsa and mac-n-cheese. The all-beef dogs are grilled and served on a buttered bun. Wash it down with their large selection of beer on tap or by the bottle. Cash only.

Trina’s Starlite Lounge

3 Beacon St
Somerville, MA 02143-4353
(617) 576-0006

Craving a hot dog wrapped in bacon? Cooked Monte Cristo style? Served over a plate of Spaghetti-o’s? Those are all past dog-of-the-day specialties at Trina’s.
Their all-beef dogs are cooked on a griddle. Every day offers include a basic dog, corndog and chili cheese dog; there is also a creative concoction on each day’s menu. If you head over for their Monday brunch menu (12 – 4 p.m.), you can try a brunch dog, topped with a fried egg and cheese and served on Wonder bread.

2080 Day Blvd
South Boston, MA 02127
(617) 268-5685

Expect a line out the door on a hot summer day. Sullivan’s is a seasonal favorite on Castle Island, open February through November. They serve grilled Kayem dogs in all natural casings, which earned the nickname “Sully’s snap dogs.” Basic toppings and a toasted bun complete the package, for under $2. Order yours “All Around” (mustard, relish, onions) or “All-Inc” (mustard, relish, ketchup, onions), then eat it overlooking the ocean.

Spike’s Junkyard Dogs

108 Brighton Ave
Allston, MA 02134
(617) 254-7700

Big all-beef dogs served on freshly baked French rolls are Spike’s claim to fame. Order one of their standard combos (like the tomato, pickle and hot pepper-topped Junkyard Dog), or create your own topping combination. Be sure to check out their menu of daily specialty dogs or you might miss out on the tastiest selections. Spike’s serves veggie dogs for the same price, and their Allston location is cash only. Also locations on Boylston Street and in Somerville’s Davis Square.

Have a favorite hot dog we missed? Let us know about it in the comments below.


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Power Assisted Exercise equipment is suitable for anyone looking to achieve their fitness goals regardless of age, ability or fitness levels.  Beneficial for seniors, and people with long term medical conditions who would not otherwise be able to exercise or happy to go to a gym. Power Assisted Exercise equipment offers a positive solution for those seeking rehabilitation exercise.

Rehabilitation Exercise

Unlike conventional exercise which relies solely on your own muscle power, assisted exercise allows you to work passively or actively depending on your strength. This means when muscles are weak due to illness or surgery you can still exercise and go through large groups of muscle movements. The health benefits of exercise speeds up the recovery process and gets you back to normal movement faster than if you did nothing at all. The great thing also is you will feel no pain after the exercise as the equipment assists you to do the exercise.

What Conditions Benefit from this type of Exercise?

There is a growing body of evidence to support that regular exercise improves physical function, self esteem and mobility and is beneficial for those with long term conditions such as:

  • Diabetes, Fibromyalgia, Arthritis
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Between 30 and 60 minutes depending on your health status.  The first two sessions will be a minimum of 45-60 minutes.

This is completely flexible and depends on your time availability.  Try to attend at least twice a week to see results. If you want to come every day that is great!

You do not need to wear trainers.  Any footwear is acceptable except flip flops.

Just arrive in your daily clothes, no special clothing is required.

Yes.  A small towel in case you sweat and to cover the neck pillow.  Also a bottle of water to keep you hydrated. Water is available to buy.

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I have been through a few lvls of abusive relationships. I will ring the bell! and help others in any way I can.

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not physically or emotionally abusing women.

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Spreading awareness and help women by fight against violence.

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helping young girls around me, making them aware of their rights, explaining them not to take any kind of abuse and raise voice against it

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The 'Literature Windows' I & II

"The 'Literature Windows' possess the musical qualities of their gothic architectural antecedents, the five perpendicular lights creating rhythm within rhythm. The twenty iterations, however, pitch measure and interval against a more runaway tempo, re-multiplied in the columns of découpage text. These are themselves open-ended; famous first pages from Death in Venice, The Great Gatsby, Brave New World, leave us mid-sentence. The slim mullions and foliate mouldings also, at times, turn from stone to writing as their ink outlines falter, doodle, fly off. Medieval canon becomes modern jazz." – Carol Jacobi, Curator of British Art at Tate Britain, from The Journal of Stained Glass Vol. XXXIV, 2011.


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Cherry Blossom (Lincoln’s Inn), 2017

"'Cherry Blossom' is a breathtaking exercise in pinks, depicting cherry blossom in bloom, one of the true pieces of magic the natural world delivers to us each year. The blooms are in the top eight panels of the screen: the bottom four have a different naturalist vision, one in which thousands of small spots and marks create an even pattern across the surface. The effect is one of a dramatically enhanced Pointillism.

Pointillism, or Divisionism, was a method of depiction – a style in fact – first developed by painter Georges Seurat in the 1880s, whereby small dots of pure colour were used in place of brushstrokes. The dots were juxtaposed based on the then-new theories of complementary contrast of colours, so as to create a vibrant, even surface across the canvas, a tapestry of shimmering light. After Seurat, many adherents to the style carried it forward into the 20th century, where the concept of juxtaposing dots and marks of pure colour interested many pioneering Modern painters and designers, including Matisse, André Derain, Piet Mondrian, Jan Toorop and Henry Van de Velde. The ‘all-over’ pattern of marks effectively eliminated composition in terms of juxtaposed forms and was vital for the rise of pure abstraction. Brian Clarke was the first to really use this in the context of stained glass. In 'Cherry Blossom', the technique provides a radical contrast to the cherry blossom in the upper panels." – author and curator Paul Greenhalgh in The Art of Light.

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A simple psychological suggestion for acing your next job interview

Interviewing tips are a dime a dozen. “10 steps to a killer interview…” “5 words to avoid in any interview…” As far as I can tell, though, precious few of these tips are based on much scientific evidence.

What does science (psychology in particular) have to say about comporting ourselves in a job interview? Quite a lot, actually, but one of the most important lessons concerns how we present our abilities—namely, whether we wow them with the breadth of our abilities or focus on a thematic few. I’ll leave you in suspense about the bottom line except to say that its adoption can make interviewing more negotiable.

Consider the following scenario. You’re interviewing for a highly senior job at a highly impressive company. You’ve been invited to meet with three separate interviewers (separately), after which the three of them will presumably meet to discuss you and the other candidates.

Now, here’s the question. In your meetings with the three interviewers, should you:

  1. Emphasize the same three abilities to all three people, telling everyone about your impressive analytic, bookkeeping, and communication (A/B/C) skills, for example, or…
  2. Emphasize three separate abilities to each person, telling the first interviewer about your A/B/C skills but the next person about your diligence, extraversion, and flexibility (D/E/F) and the third person about your G/H/I?

It depends on the relevance of these particular skills for the job, of course, but let’s assume abilities A-I are all quite relevant. Which option should you choose?

I’ve asked this question of many students, and most prefer the latter. If you could emphasize three separate abilities to three separate people for a whopping total of nine, why would you ever emphasize a wimpy three? Wouldn’t that just leave them wondering about your diligence, extraversion, and flexibility, for example?

Well, mathematically, yes: 9 > 3. But we need more than math to understand what will happen here—we need psychology.

Imagine you emphasized your three separate skills to the three separate interviewers, and they’re now meeting to discuss your candidacy. How will the conversation go? Something like this:

  • Interviewer 1: “I was really impressed with her analytic skills!”
  • Interviewer 2: “Huh? Well, I don’t know anything about that, but I was sure impressed with her flexibility.”
  • Interview 1: “Huh? Not sure what you mean, but her bookkeeping skills could really help us out.”
  • Interviewer 3: “Huh?

You get the picture: This conversation’s not gonna go very smoothly, and guess who’ll pay the price.

But now let’s imagine you’d emphasized the same three skills to all three interviewers. How’s that meeting likely to go?

  • Interviewer 1: “I was really impressed with her analytic skills!”
  • Interviewers 2 and 3 (jumping out of their chairs with enthusiasm): “Me too!”
  • Interviewer 2: “And how about those bookkeeping skills?!?”
  • Interviewers 1 and 3: “Amazing!”

Just moments later, all three interviewers would go out for beers, having identified the right candidate in the first one minute.

You get the picture. Since you stayed on message with all three interviewers, you gave them a lot of common ground—what psychology calls common information or common knowledge. Decades of research show that, when groups of people make a decision together, they rely heavily on common information—information on which they all already agreed even before meeting. Indeed, compared to whatever private information they might have brought into the meeting, group members tend to trust, discuss, and use the common information a whole lot more. So when they share a lot of common information—about your A/B/C skills perhaps—the decision becomes easy. But when they have little in common—as they did when you mentioned nine separate skills—well, the conversation quickly becomes contentious. It seems they can’t agree on anything, so you seem scattered and unhirable.

The implication of the common information effect is pretty simple: If you want to make a good impression on a group of interviewers, you’re well-advised to stick to a few common themes rather than wow them with the breadth of your abilities. Be thematic!

But what if your three thematic skills don’t cover all the skills they need? Well, it doesn’t have to be three. Include as many skills as you’d like, knowing that they probably won’t remember more than 3 to 7. But what if they ask questions that have nothing to do with your three thematic skills? You obviously want to answer the question that’s asked; otherwise you’ll seem awfully strange.

  • Interviewer 1: “Tell me about your flexibility”
  • You: “Well, I’m very good at bookkeeping.”

But, as any experienced interviewee knows, any question has many appropriate answers, some of them relating more closely to your themes.

Bottom line: consistency is generally helpful when meeting with a group of interviewers. Just one suggestion from psychology. Hopefully it helps!


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Movie reviews: 'The Expendables 3,' 'The Giver'

"The Expendables 3" (PG-13) **1/2 (out of four)

In their solo efforts in recent years, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger have largely hit the wall trying to resuscitate their once-glorious action movie careers. But there's no question when the two gather up their old action movie buddies for an "Expendables" chapter, the sum total of these fixtures from the 1980s and '90s usually adds up to some solid entertainment – and the latest installment in the franchise in no different.

"The Expendables 3" got some seriously publicity early in production because of co-star Bruce Willis' reported outrageous salary demands, which, of course, resulted in his unceremonious exit. In his stead is a much more likeable Harrison Ford as a new character, along with new cast mates Wesley Snipes, Antonio Banderas, Kelsey Grammer and Mel Gibson – who all individually provide performances far more as entertaining than anything the "Die Hard" veteran could have mustered.

The plot of "The Expendables 3" is pure '80s action movie formula, as a group of uniquely skilled mercenaries are tasked to get ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks (Gibson), who just happens to be the co-founder of the original Expendables with Barney Ross (Stallone). This time around though, Ross tries to shutter his aging, veteran buddies after a failed mission in favor of younger group with the same talents who are hip to the technological advancements of the day.

While the action in "The Expendables 3" is run-of-the-mill, the film easily scores big points for not taking itself too seriously. The movie boasts a great sense of humor, from Snipes, whose character muses about a stint in prison that mirrors the actor's personal troubles; to Schwarzenegger, a Z-grade actor who appears to be – I'm still not quite sure – mimicking his broken English dialogue with his still-thick German accent, shouting lines like, "Look out for da choppah!" It's laugh-out-loud funny stuff.

Ford appears to be having a great time as a retired military chopper pilot-turned-government fixer who hires the Expendables to execute their latest mission, and Banderas is hilarious as a mercenary for hire who can't get a job to save his life because of his manic, chatty personality.

Grammer also fits the bill with swagger and gusto as an old friend of Ross who helps the lead Expendable form his younger and hipper team. Meanwhile, the polarizing Gibson still continues to create conflict for moviegoers, as his powerful screen presence, even in a cookie-cutter bad guy role, is so strong that it almost makes you forget his personal behavior off-screen.

The interesting thing about "The Expendables 3" is that, while the film packed to the gills with actors, director Patrick Hughes still manages to strike an even balance of his talent old and new. While "Expendables" veterans Dolph Lundgren, Terry Crews, Jet Li and Randy Couture mostly take the back seat to the youth movement –which includes Kellan Lutz ("The Twilight Saga"), boxer Victor Ortiz and female MMA star Ronda Rousey – they still have enough presence to make them relevant to the proceedings.

Apart from the very capable and always likeable Stallone in the lead role, Statham is really the only veteran apart from Schwarzenegger who has a role equal in weight to the new cast members. All told, none of the Expendables are, well, expendable yet, as another adventure (hopefully they'll retain Ford, Grammer, Banderas and Snipes) is surely on the way.

"The Giver" (PG-13) **(out of four)

Another dystopian thriller adapted from a best-selling novel, the biggest thing "The Giver" has going against it is timing. Published by author Lois Lowry in 1993, "The Giver" is unique in that it preceded similar dystopian fare like the "The Hunger Games" series and "Divergent" series on the page, but comes at a time where both have taken foothold as major film franchises.

As a result, "The Giver" – at an unusually short 94 minutes for a book adaptation – feels like a weak, thin knock-off, in comparison.

"The Giver" is set in the future in a seemingly utopian society where an idealism called "Sameness" has eradicated the pain and strife of peoples' lives through a series of daily injections – but also rid them of their capability to experience emotions.

The society, however, begins to unravel when teenager Jonas (Brenton Thwaites), inherits the position of Receiver of Memories from The Giver (Jeff Bridges), a person who stores humankind's past memories before the Sameness came about. Even though Jonas is under the close watch of the Chief Elder (Meryl Streep), he begins to defy the society's norms as he discovers their existence is more dystopian than one of bliss – a discovery that ultimately puts his life in danger.

Also produced by Bridges, "The Giver" starts out with tremendous promise as a black-and-white film, accurately representing an emotionless society that makes you feel like you've stepped into an episode of the "The Twilight Zone" or "The Outer Limits." Coupled with a strong cast – which also includes Katie Holmes, Alexander Skarsgard, Odeya Rush and a barely recognizable Taylor Swift in small, but pivotal role – there's no doubt "The Giver" has the wherewithal to be an effective film, but just doesn't give enough.

The problem with "The Giver" comes when the film's emotion begins to surface and, effectively, gets its color. It's then Jonas identifies someone with the same traits as his own in the form of a crying infant, whose secret he tries to protect from The Elders. The scenarios he puts this kid through as a result is where the movie completely spins out of control, almost to the point where it's so bad it's laughable. Maybe the book's faithful fans will make more sense out of it, but for the rest of us, "The Giver" just seems like a squandered opportunity.

Tim Lammers is a veteran entertainment reporter and a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association. He annually votes on the Critics Choice Movie Awards. Locally, he reviews films for BringMeTheNews, “KARE 11 News at 11” and various Minnesota radio stations.

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Who wakes up like this?

What is your natural state? I’m thinking just-got-out-of-bed, flatmates-are-all-away, no-chance-of-seeing-anyone-for-hours-(maybe-days)-natural state. Your lazy, effortless, easy-peasy, bare-bones basics. And how much does that differ from when you actually leave the house, or facetime someone important, when you get dressed and do your hair and decide how you’re going to present yourself to the world that day? And in which state do you feel more like yourself?

I did a little experiment over lockdown. When we weren’t seeing anyone, weren’t going out, when it was just me in the middle of the countryside, with my family and my dogs, I stopped putting on makeup, stopped doing my hair, stopped wearing anything other than old jeans and trackies. I wanted to see whether this mattered at all, whether I genuinely enjoyed all the extras and additions included in getting dressed, or whether I was only putting on makeup to wash it off at the end of the day, whether I was  putting in earrings just for them to come with me around the house, unseen, and then be taken off before I fell asleep, whether it was all pretty but pointless. The answer was surprising – I felt lost without it all. For about a month, I made absolutely no effort to dress up like me; I rocked up everyday to breakfast in the exact same state as when I went to bed. (Except of course I kept brushing my teeth, because I’m not an animal, and I obviously did my skincare routine, because I will continue to wash my face, apply serum and moisturise even if I’m running for my life from a true zombie apocalypse). And it made me feel weird. What I found, essentially, is that the me that I feel most me as is dependent on how I have chosen to present myself. I found that through stopping all of what I had been seeing as performative actions made me lose skills. Some of my ear piercings closed up through lack of use. I still have not remastered the skill of winged eyeliner. For me personally, I am most myself when I am wearing the clothes I have chosen, when I have the hair colour I picked out in Boots, in the style I feel like that morning, when I have applied the pretty basic makeup I wear most days, when I have put on the very basic jewellery I wear every day, and when my stupidly expensive nails look their best. While that may not be my most ‘natural’ appearance, it is my most ‘authentic Honor’ appearance.

I want to take a lot of makeup wearers back to the first time they made their forays into the world of beauty products. I think everyone’s journey follows a roughly similar trajectory. You rocked up at Boots, or Superdrug, and drifted around the aisles, touching literally everything, until you stumbled upon Maybelline, where you picked up the Dream Matte Mousse and some WaterProof Mascara (always Waterproof – I don’t know what ordeals we thought we’d be going through to constantly warrant this).  Then you drifted slowly, but irrevocably, towards the bright green eyeshadow, and the blue mascara. It was garish, it was colourful, and your dad definitely made a joke about someone giving you a black eye when you came downstairs wearing it for the first time (I’d like to be clear; I am basing this experience completely on starting wearing makeup in the UK, between roughly 2009 and 2013).  After this initial foray, of which there are a limited number of (secretly treasured) photos, you grew up a bit, learnt some skills, and started going for the ‘no-makeup makeup’ look, where you try to look both as pretty as possible, and as if you have put in as minimum effort as possible. A ‘natural’ look. And then, after a couple of months, or years, of this, you again began to experiment with makeup, after becoming comfortable with your ‘natural’ base. The culmination – you have found your own style. Hurrah. Living the dream. Expressing yourself. Feeling your best everyday. I’m proud of you, babe.

If you have followed this trajectory, you will have noticed that a no-makeup makeup look, supposedly ‘natural’, rather than being a reversion to your most basic state, is actually just a step in a process. I am not at all interested in discussing how a glorified ‘natural’ image is damaging to young people, who think that everybody wakes up looking exactly like models – this is obviously a ‘Bad Thing’, but I’m not trying to work out when you feel like you’re closest to a beauty standard. I’m trying to work out when you all feel most like yourself. To me, this is the concept of ‘authenticity’ – whether being ‘natural’ is the same as being ‘authentic’, whether you have to lean towards one at the cost of the other, or whether they work together to produce you.

As far as I can tell – after thinking about this on and off for a couple of months – is that no matter how far an individual varies from what is considered ‘natural’ in appearance, the more choice they have in how they present themselves, the closer their outer appearance is to their inner character and self. However, it would seem that when somebody tries to control their appearance, or alter it, without taking into account subconscious biases, beauty expectations, repressed aspects of their identities – all the things we hate –  both the authentic and natural are lost. You need to know why you want to present yourself in a certain way – is it because of what makes you able to be most yourself? Is it what hides the aspects of yourself, your body, your character, that you find most displeasing? Is it what makes it easiest for those around you to be nice to you? If you don’t figure these things out, then you might just be masking yourself with the identity you wish you had, which in the long term would not be that fun of a game to play.

A different dimension of the balance between natural and authentic must also be understood in terms of the base you begin with – there is always a limit. There’s only so much you can control. And there’s only so much you should control. And there’s also only so much that you know how to control.

I have found that, in general, men are often more limited by how they can present themselves than womxn – if they want to keep inside of what is considered the ‘norm’. While it would seem to me that each day womxn can and do appear as various versions of themselves, each day appearing closer or further away from their ‘normal’ appearance in a myriad of variations, men are saddled with a more static image.  Men often have less access to tools for subtly changing their appearance and the way they present themselves than womxn. I would say that they are also encouraged to do so far less frequently. This could be taken as a greater acceptance of ‘natural’ men than natural womxn, or as a parameter for self-expression and authenticity. While I am mainly thinking of quite heteronormative men with this very generalised statement, I have been told that there are certain categories of gay men, each with a ‘look’, and that the pressures to fit into certain visual stereotypes of homosexuality are very present.

In writing this article, I have found myself thinking a lot about the tagline for WAH Nails, a nail salon that was huge a few years ago. ‘Fake hair, fake nails, real talk, WAH Nails.’ In a way, this kind of sums up what you’ve read today – fake hair, fake nails, real talk (we can cut the WAH promo). Fake looks do not equate to disingenuous conversation; an altered appearance does not negate authentic behaviour. I think that you need to find your personal balance between natural and authentic, and that the key to this is being in control of the way you present yourself to the world. This is not the be all and end all of self-expression or being yourself but, for me, it has its place in my list of priorities.

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