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Very few Nigerians would believe that veteran Nollywood veteran, Joke Silva-Jacobs, is an adopted child of the Silva Family.
According to her, she was adopted from a foster home run by the Red Cross in Lagos.
Her parents were the late Chief E.A Silva, a reputable lawyer and his wife, late Dr Abimbola Silva a pioneering female doctor, who died in July 2015.
"But I got to know years later when I wanted to travel and was looking for my passport where my mum kept it. Since she was not around, I opened the box in her absence and I saw my adoption papers. I never discussed it with my mum because I felt it was something that would hurt her, that was why it was kept secret from me.
"Even in their wills, I was well protected. My Daddy is a lawyer (and he) said in his will that all his children, both adopted and biological, should be treated equally. I was not stressed in anyway. We were all well taken care of till my mum died at the age of 89. At 56, I still miss her but I know she has definitely gone back to her father.


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OPM Breach Reveals 5.6 Million Fingerprints Stolen
By Brandon Stosh on September 24, 2015 Data Breach, Internet Security
The Office of Personal Management (OPM) revealed yesterday morning that the breach of the OPM background check system included roughly 5.6 million fingerprints belonging to federal employees, contractors, and other individuals subject to federal background checks. The new number, alongside the latest discovery of archived data being stolen during the breach, now quintuples the amount of individuals whose fingerprints were initially believed to be stolen in the attack. According to investigators, the previous OPM breach estimated roughly 1.1 million fingerprints had been stolen. However, the new findings have not increased the number of individuals affected, which initially stood at 4 million til it was revealed two months ago that actual number of people affected in the OPM breach is 21.5 million.
Fingerprints stolen by the attackers were collected in part of the OPM's background investigations at all levels of sensitivity, ranging from the "National Agency Check with Written Inquires" (NACI) which serves federal employees with "moderate, low risk and non-sensitive positions," all the way up to top-secret sensitive positions. According to leaked statements from the Obama administration, the fingerprint information that was stolen is now, at a minimum, in the hands of the foreign intelligence services of China. How or what the fingerprint data will be used for remains a mystery.
"Federal experts believe that, as of now, the ability to misuse fingerprint data is limited," the Office of Personal Management's Press Secretary, Sam Schumach, said in a statement published Wednesday. "However, this probability could change over time as technology evolves. Therefore, an interagency working group with expertise in this area—including the FBI, DHS, DOD, and other members of the Intelligence Community—will review the potential ways adversaries could misuse fingerprint data now and in the future…[and]also seek to develop potential ways to prevent such misuse. If, in the future, new means are developed to misuse the fingerprint data, the government will provide additional information to individuals whose fingerprints may have been stolen in this breach."
The recent revelation comes at a particularity ironic time, while the U.S. is visiting the Chinese president Xi Jinping, who said during a public appearance in Seattle that the Chinese government does not condone the hacking of U.S. targets, while pleading to partner with the U.S. to aid stopping cybercrime.
"As part of the government's ongoing work to notify individuals affected by the theft of background investigation records, the Office of Personnel Management and the Department of Defense have been analyzing impacted data to verify its quality and completeness," reads the statement published on the official OPM website. "During that process, OPM and [the Department of Defense]identified archived records containing additional fingerprint data not previously analyzed. Of the 21.5 million individuals whose Social Security Numbers and other sensitive information were impacted by the breach, the subset of individuals whose fingerprints have been stolen has increased from a total of approximately 1.1 million to approximately 5.6 million."
The OPM downplayed the significance that the biometric breach could cause, adding that "federal experts believe that, as of now, the ability to misuse fingerprint data is limited." However, the agency said the ability to exploit stolen fingerprints "could change over time as technology evolves."
As the OPM investigation continues, the real details behind the breach seem to worsen with each headline.
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Junagarh Fort in Bikaner is one of the few forts that was NOT built on top of a hill. The fort was constructed in 16th century by Raja Rai Singh and it took almost 5 years to build this fort.
Entrance of Junagarh Fort
Artistically designed and carved walls and windows!
Artistic Corridors
The fort now also houses a museum which has collections of the ancient times.
Celing fan used by the rulers!
Ancient Darbar Hall, now a museum
Living Room of the rulers
War Souvenir
The above war souvenir was presented by British Government to Maharaja Ganga SinghJi of Bikaner in recognition of the services rendered under his leadership during the first world war. This was one of the planes that was shot down during the war!
The fort also offers beautiful view of the town. The modern town of Bikaner is built around this fort. The fort was earlier called Chintamani, but was renamed to Junagarh Fort when the ruler's family moved to Lalgarh Palace.
Junagarh Fort, Bikaner
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The AIM NetworkAIM ExtraJoining the War Club: Australia's HIMARS Purchase
Joining the War Club: Australia's HIMARS Purchase
Written by: Dr Binoy Kampmark
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Category: AIM Extra
Another needless, fatuous endeavour; another irresponsible drain on the public purse; another expression that the military-industrial complex Down Under is thriving in all its insidious stupidity. But Australia's purchase of HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) batteries from the United States can be put down to loneliness – or the feeling of being left out. And history shows that loneliness in the context of weapons and harm involves a need to acquire more means to do further harm.
The timing of the announcement this month seemed curious enough. Could it have been coincidental that it came soon after the Ukrainian strike using the HIMARS system that destroyed a makeshift Russian garrison with lethal consequences? It was certainly wonderfully grotesque timing, even if Australian defence officials had already yearned for the HIMARS system in 2022.
The HIMARS system is certainly getting its sales, proving to be a bountiful treasure for Lockheed Martin. Its lethal strength lies in accuracy over considerable distances and easy deployment. It is also indicative of a broader missile fetish that has gripped Canberra. To make the point, the Australian government also announced the signing of a contract with Norway-based Kongsberg to purchase Naval Strike Missiles for its naval destroyers and frigates, designed to replace the Harpoon anti-ship missiles from next year. Perceived obsolescence remains the militarist's nightmare and the weapons manufacturer's hope.
The nervousness towards Russian ambitions in Ukraine has done its bit to boost the purchases for countries historically clutched by the old empire and its interests. Last month, the Baltic states secured deals to attain the rocket system. Such purchases serve two purposes: to reassure the anxious and to fill the pockets of the ambitious. Defence ministers will always cue their performance. "It is a big step for our armed forces, this new system, and it will significantly enhance our national and regional capabilities," stated Lithuanian Defence Minister Arvydas Anusauskas.
The Australian example, however, is even less comprehensible, unless read through the demands and needs of a foreign power keen on keeping the gunpowder dry for war. Otherwise, there are no threats to speak of, except in the feverish mind of stupefied analysts subsided by foreign powers. Why, then, go for 20 of such systems at the cost of $385 million ($A558 million), which is more likely to be more expensive, given the refusal by government sources to reveal the actual amount?
James Heading, Director of Programs, Strategic Capabilities Office at Lockheed Martin Australia's Missiles and Fire Control did little to explain the broader necessity for such a system for Australia, turning it into a logistics fun fair for adult children prone to violent urges. What mattered was how good the killing system was, a toy the entire military family could have. "HIMARS employs a 'shoot to scoot' capability which enhances crew and platform survivability in high threat environments."
With gushing admiration, Heading spoke of "a generational leap in capability for Australia, taking Defence from cannon artillery to Long-Range Precision Fires that provide a 24/7 persistent, all-weather capability." Such historical comparisons are flawed to the point of caricature, but they tend to be predictable in weapons sales and the need to find ever more imaginative ways of killing. For all the posturing, Heading did lift the cover on the broader strategic value of supplying Australian forces with such weapons: the US imperium, namely, demands it. "HIMARS offers the Australian Defence Force the ability to use and share common munitions and to integrate into a coalition effort."
This poorly-cooked tripe was swallowed by Australian Defence Minister and chief weapon's fetishist Richard Marles, "The Albanese Government is taking a proactive approach to keeping Australia safe – and the Naval Strike Missile and HIMARS launchers will give our Defence Force the ability to deter conflict and protect our interests." (No account has ever shown any defence minister authorising purchases against the country's interests.)
The Australian Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy was also seduced by the whole issue of capability in the face of fictional demons, till one realises that the only demon being fantasised upon is located to Australia's distant north and known historically as the Middle Kingdom. To the ABC, he explained with a toddler's enthusiasm that Australia would now have "an Army ground-launched missile that can reach targets up to 300 kilometres away."
For all his confidence, Conroy's Washington masters were also speaking in his ear. "We are part of a developmental program with the United States called the Precision Strike Missile that will allow [the] the army to hit targets in excess of 499 kilometres. So, this will give the Australian army a strike capability they have never had before."
The US Defense Department was affirmingly clear in its rationale for endorsing the system's export to Canberra. "The proposed sale will support the foreign policy and national security objectives of the United States," wrote the Pentagon. "Australia is one of our most important allies in the Western Pacific. The strategic location of this political and economic power contributes significantly to ensuring peace and economic stability in the region."
The clods in defence are bound to be revelling in all of this. There are no bounds of accountability, no reason to argue against insensible procurements. It's all about the toys and using them in the next war.
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Kerri January 12, 2023 at 9:52 pm
By my calculations that should allow us to attack Papua New Guinea or Indonesia. 🤷🏼♀
Mostly agree, but take issue with this regarding the interests of the Baltic states 'to reassure the anxious and to fill the pockets of the ambitious'?
The Baltic sovereign states have every reason due to past and recent history to mistrust Russia, emphasised further by neighbours, the formerly neutral Finland's & Sweden's NATO candidacy, while Poland has started planning for massive standing military with much Sth. Korean kit, why?
Putin's Russia, but as Counter Punch's (Mr. Kampmark contributes) Eric Draitser complains, at best the US left has lost the plot following right wing talking points, or complicit in at least appeasing Putin or still claiming that Ukrainians are Nazis &/or don't exist, a la Tucker Carlson and conga line of sock puppets; he described them (GrayZone US grifters funded by Putin's caterer) as 'fake anti-imperialist sh*theads' and many have lost all credibility by false equivalence.
On Australia, it clearly shows some long term dysfunction in strategic, military supply planning and procurement when we spend decades planning for some kit, while other purchases like this example, are decided on 'the fly', but what is the strategy?
Harry Lime January 12, 2023 at 10:01 pm
OZ, 51st State of the crumbling empire of the US of A.When the fuck are we going to grow up?We might have changed governments,but not much else has changed. Kerri, we'd probably get our arses kicked.The bullshit rolls on, despite the rhetoric.
ajogrady January 12, 2023 at 11:50 pm
Albanese and in particular Australian Defence Minister, chief weapon's fetishist and brown tongued US sycophant Richard Marles have done a deal with the devil and traded Australia's sovereignty to appease the China hating, US loving Murdoch media while purchasing US military weaponry that is in the best interests of the US and most emphatically not in Australia's best interest. Albanese and Marles are answerable to the Australian people not the cringe worthy Murdoch media or the over bloated US weapons manufacturing industry. It is time that Albanese and Marles do what is in the best interests of the proud sovereign nation of Australia.
Fred January 13, 2023 at 12:54 am
Dr Kampmark: Hear hear. Along with F35s, submarines to be delivered with a generation in between, useless tanks, etc.you really have to wonder how adult the advisers/decision makers are. It's all waste.
New England Cocky January 13, 2023 at 5:49 am
With the USA (United States of Apartheid) degenerating by the day into civil disturbance across the nation, the wisdom of purchasing further third rate military equipment from the NE military industrial complex is merely more tribute from a vassal state.
Obviously Marles & the Department of Defence have watched the Ukraine situation and realised that the AUKUS subs are inappropriate for the defence of the nation any time in the next 30 years, so hit panic buttons to create paper propaganda showing that they are "taking action to provision the defence of Australia".
TOO LATE Boys!! The horse bolted back in the 70s when Canberra wisdom was suckered by the myth that the US would defend Australia.
All the US wants are our natural resources and has been prepared to garrison Tindal Air Base NT as back-up for the too many US arms industry operatives influencing Australian policy in Canberra.
If Canberra wants to defend Australia then our best interests are served by strengthening our economic links with Asia and trading our way in the commercial world. Has Canberra forgotten the Australian losses to the Americans in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan ALREADY???
GL January 13, 2023 at 8:12 am
Lockheed Martin announces their latest weapons system: The RBS Mark 1.
The Really Big Slingshot can fire 20 kilogram steel pellets up to a distance of 2 kilometres. Australia immediately announced that it is purchasing 175 units at a cost of $25 million per weapon. Lockheed Martin is allowing manufacturing of the pellets in Australia under a commercial in confidence licence.
Phil Pryor January 13, 2023 at 9:23 am
How can we get rid of entanglements which inferior puerile thinking by Australian operatives has given us, shackles on sense and independence? Potential aggression has been armed in the lie that this is defence. Scott Moron-Scone, Bony Tony Abort, back to Slack Jack Howard the whining Wart, we have lost any pretence of a plot, and Pine Gap, other bases, treaty handcuffs and cheap shortcut attitudes make us a target, ultimately to be baked, fried, atomised. For What? Obliteration, fellow Aussies??
Harry Lime January 13, 2023 at 10:16 am
While we're at it ,we might order some medium range trebuchets so we can fire the fuckwits who make these decisions into the Pacific.At least the public will get some satisfaction,and of course, viewing will be free.To add to the attraction, we could herd some sharks into the landing zone.BYO boat and refreshments.
GL January 13, 2023 at 10:39 am
The delivery date of the RBS Mark 1 has been pushed back by 7 years, now expected for delivery in 2072. Due to faulty rubber bands Lockheed Martin also announced that with ongoing R and D costs the new current price for the Mark 1 will increase by $5.5 million per item. An anonymous government source (while heavily on the sauce at lunch, but that's another story) told the reporter just before passing out that, "It's no biggie. When it comes to weapons we always find billions more to keep the Yanks happy."
Clakka January 13, 2023 at 11:24 am
That their 'noble' rationale is defence of citizens and culture against 'evil doers' (read 'others'), prima facie, appears to be revisionistic self-justification.
As infants, all are interested in the preservation of the self; food, shelter and association (love). From there develops language and an implanted world view. A world view attained at first by nearby experience later added to by deliberate inculcation.
Is the warrior's (and their provider's) development of motivation driven by:
revenge upon (or for) those nearby
revenge upon their inculcators
obedience to their inculcators
revenge upon others inability to think of anything else to do
avoiding a fear of failure in the gentle trades, sciences and arts
a fear of 'going it alone'
securing an implanted self by joining a 'club'
a quest for tinkering with and developing machinery (of war)
an ambivalence toward killing (of anything), murder and destruction
a quest for power, glory and its bling
Probably any or some or all of the above. And of course, the leaders, the politicians and religious heads and their toady media hacks well know it, and continue to ceaselessly manipulate it with their self-righteous cant since time immemorial. Such nonsense as "The greatest form of defence is attack."
Have we learned anything from barbarism throughout history, and its escalation to wars and waste, especially of the 19th and 20th centuries? The kind and gentle and forgiving have probably learned much. But education is replete with the manipulations of the leaders, the politicians and religious heads and their media hacks.
It creates a perverse circularity that becomes a foundational belief 'reality', a global insanity.
Although I have compassion, sympathy and forgiveness, I continue to have no truck with any of it.
It represents a failure to learn, to think and negotiate. As can be seen in the last 40 years of our increasingly sanctimonious manic world-of-the-west.
It would be good to get all of our political parties, and every member of our parliaments, to publish their 2,000 word thesis on the subject, so we can see what they're made of. But I know that's not going to happen, as all their war dabblings happen in secret. Yet, I have to vote.
Fred January 13, 2023 at 5:20 pm
Kerri: PNG yes, Indonesia maybe on a good day with the wind behind. The range of the rockets are: 32 km (basic rocket), 45 km (extended-range rocket) / 65-70 km (GMLRS) / 150 km (GMLRS-ER) / 300 km (ATACMS ballistic missile). Of course we will have to test fire (or decommission) all of the rockets before their expiry date as we certainly will not be using them in self defense.
GL: Maybe Lockheed Martin will come with a high density lightweight munition that doesn't load the rubber bands too much by gathering up the excreta talked about the need and usefulness of the HIMARS to Australia and compressing it into smelly parcels that puts the aggressors off their food.
I don't know which kindergarten the govt is taking input from to develop our defense strategy and what war toys to buy, but the govt needs to have a minister that can stand up to the "military experts" and call out their BS. Maybe even look at the results of some modelling and decide to put maximum effort into diplomacy rather than 2% of GDP on war junk: https://www.csis.org/analysis/first-battle-next-war-wargaming-chinese-invasion-taiwan
andy56 January 13, 2023 at 10:09 pm
while i support self sufficiency in defence, i am also a pragmatist. Sure we need HIMARS until i read the specs. 300km range. Couldnt even get out of darwin harbour with that sort of range. But really we need to use the tyranny of distance to our advantage. limit invasion window to cyclone season and dry season. Seriously , who the fuck has a navy big enough to transport its solders here for an invasion. As we see with Russia, ukraine has smashed russia's supply lines makeing invasion impossible from next door. we have at least 7000km from the chinese main land. the other issue is maintaining the supply of ammunition. we would last about …………..not long enough. as long as we store our fuel in the USA, we will be dry within two weeks. but the logistics for an invader would be a nightmare too.
Douglas Pritchard January 15, 2023 at 7:59 pm
I jumped for joy with the results of our last federal election.
Now, I know that was completly stupid.
Something in the Canberra air stinks because Albo is steering in the wrong direction and I really thought we would be saved.
After all now Wong will get it right.
When the next opertunity comes along, it will have to be someone demonstrating true independance.
Being a host nation to Satans daft agenda is no longer to our advantage.


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Why Boomers Are Designing Their Own Retirement Communities
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By Lisa Wirthman
For a growing number of baby boomers who are looking for an alternative to traditional retirement housing, senior "co-housing" offers a refreshing blend of community and independence. Co-housing communities consist of independent individuals who typically share a property yet live in their own housing units. Residents share common spaces as well as resources, ranging from lawn mowers to guest rooms.
"Too many boomers have seen their parents subside in unflattering ways," said Charles Durrett, an author and architect who designs senior co-housing spaces. "They are in an institution or living alone at home, both of which can be extremely lonely or disrespectful."
Durrett, who is credited with bringing co-housing to the United States from Denmark in the 1980s, recalls a time when his own mother was nearly ejected from a retirement home for having a bottle of Tylenol in her room. "I don't know anybody who thinks the way their parents aged is the way to go," he said. "Most of the people I know want to become more self-determined in how they live in the world."
Some 87 percent of adults ages 65 and older want to stay in their current homes and communities, according to AARP*. Senior co-housing is designed to make aging in place easier, said Durrett, who wrote The Senior Cohousing Handbook. Housing is usually one-story and compliant with the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990. With many seniors driving less, garages are often at the back of the complex with front-entry areas designed for pedestrian use.
Seniors organize their own activities, whether it's a shared dinner, making repairs or caring for a resident who needs help. The communities offer social connections, environmental benefits, self-governance, and greater independence and dignity for residents who can have as much privacy or community as they desire.
At the 16-home Silver Sage Village in Boulder, Colorado, each house provides a common dining area for hosting parties and has guest rooms that can be reserved for visitors, said John Huyler, 71, an eight-year resident.
An outdoor gathering area includes bike racks, a community garden and a woodworking shop. "Every time you walk in, you may see someone that you want to sit down with or invite to a movie, so that's a major functional difference," Huyler said.
Silver Sage Village opened in 2007 as one of the country's first senior co-housing communities in the country, with six units that are designated "permanently affordable" by the Boulder Housing Partners. The property is walking distance from restaurants, doctors, hiking trails and public transportation.
Residents serve on teams such as "Finance and Legal" and "Garden and Grounds" to manage different aspects of the community. As the residents collectively age — the average is about 70 — Huyler says he sees the need for more age diversity and a larger group of residents to share responsibilities.
Retaining Independence
Senior co-housing is not assisted living, although the accommodations and shared support typically allow residents to age in place longer. Some communities employ a shared caregiver, who is paid for by the residents who need the service but selected by the entire community to increase accountability, said Durrett.
At Silver Sage Village, no residents are currently in need of a caregiver, but a committee is exploring options for a time when needs may change, said Huyler: "It's all about communication and planning and thinking ahead."
When one older resident fell and broke her hip, residents took turns walking her dog and helping out in other ways. When the same resident later died, she had spent only a few months in assisted living. "I do not doubt that she was living in a house longer than she would have been if she hadn't had the community around," Huyler said.
Another resident, who has advanced Parkinson's disease, is often found outside where he contributes his handyman skills to the community. It's a more dignified way to live than sitting inside all day in front of the TV, as he might in a traditional retirement community, Huyler said.
"It helps him continue with a meaningful life," he added.
Evolving Interest
So far, interest in senior co-housing is evolving slowly, said Durrett. He thinks it will expand more quickly when the construction industry fully realizes and embraces the trend, and demand from boomers grows. "You can only drift about the country in your Winnebago for so long," he said. "You need something based on proximity."
"Most people move into senior co-housing because it makes life more convenient, more practical, more economical, more healthy, more interesting and more fun," he added. "It's just an infinitely different way to grow older."
Lisa Wirthman is a journalist who writes about business, public policy and women's issues.
*Source: AARP. "Livable Communities Baby Boomer Facts and Figures." April 2014
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What motivates people to hustle... to work to their capacity? In the long-run, it's not motivated by greed.
If you've ever been to In-and-Out Burger, you may have noticed how those employees hustle to get the job done, to get it done right, every time... all with a big smile on their face.
I stopped by one of their locations today and it was slammed. Those kids were just going for gold! While waiting for my order, I asked one of the employees candidly, "what motivates you and this crew to work so hard?"
I asked her to try to answer in one word. She laughed. "Two words? Ok, how many words do you need?"
She thought about it and replied: "Work environment." She said it's a really fun work environment where everyone on the team motivates one another in a positive way.
What fuels you to hustle... to keep working hard and to reach continuously for your personal best?
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Dans le monde de Ténébreuse, créé par la romancière américaine Marion Zimmer Bradley il existe, outre les hommes, gouvernés par la caste des Comyn, des races non humaines
intelligentes .

Les Hommes-chats

Hommes chats non humains avec un laran primitif. Ils furent créés par les hommes pendant
les Âges du Chaos.
Les guerres entre les hommes-chats et les hommes sont sanglantes, sans négociations ni prisonniers.

Référence : L'épée enchantée

Les Kyrri

Grands bipède humanoïde. Ils sont couverts d'une fourrure grise duveteuse et ont des visages simiesque aux yeux verts phosphorescent. Ils se protègent des contacts avec les étrangers par un champ électrique qui les entoure et délivre une décharge électrique. Ils servent de serviteurs dans les grands domaines.

Référence : L'étoile de danger

Les Chieri

Une des premières espèces natives de ténébreuse, que les explorateurs terrestres rencontrèrent lors de leur premier atterrissage.
Très grand, mince à paraitre fragile, visage triangulaire, yeux gris, peau translucide, mais à six doigts.
Race extrêmement vieille, avec des pouvoirs télépathiques et une physiologie hermaphrodite.
La race est en risque d'extinction à la suite d'une baisse de la fécondité de leurs femmes.
Des légendent racontent les unions fertiles entre humains et chieri.

Référence : L'étoile de danger

Les Hommes des Arbres

Ou peuple du ciel comme ils s'appellent eux-mêmes.
Race apparentée aux chieri mais qui ont pris un autre tournant au cours de leur évolution en refusant le feu. Ils vivent au-delà des Hellers, en altitude, dans leur cité suspendue. Ils ne sont pas hostiles et un commerce limité existe avec les humains, mais il se méfient de l'homme qui fait du feu.

Référence : Projet Jason, L'étoile de danger

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Feeling anxious or worried is normal, and it can happen to just about anybody, especially if there's an event that makes you feel nervous. Let's find out if guided meditation for stress and anxiety can help.
And while anxiety is a buzzword that we say frequently, there are specific signs that indicate whether or not you have one or more of the many anxiety disorders. Even though everyone experiences anxiety, not everyone has anxiety disorders.
So, if you're not sure whether you have an anxiety disorder or the occasional "normal" anxiety, here's an in-depth look at anxiety. Plus, you can find out how to manage it effectively and safely, without using any pharmaceutical medicines.
It's easy to think that anxiety disorders and normal experiences of anxiety are the same thing. Therefore it is rather easy to ask ourselves "Do I Have Anxiety"? For example, are you nervous before getting on a stage, or presenting a speech? I know I am! Several years ago, I competed in a music festival. I practiced the piano for months, and the week before the competition, I was a nervous wreck. I actually woke up in a panic one night, and immediately moved my hands into position to play. Even though this was an intense experience of anxiety, it wasn't an anxiety disorder because it wasn't chronic or disruptive. And believe me, once the competition was over, I slept like a baby again.
You may be asking what makes anxiety disorders different from my anxiety leading up to the competition.
The biggest difference is that anxiety disorders disrupt your life, to the point where you can no longer live your day-to-day life normally. That should be the most important point in answering Do I Have Anxiety to yourself. Anxiety disorders can be characterized by obsessive behavior, or behavior that is out-of-proportion to the circumstance. As is the case for many mental disorders, you feel like your emotions are out of your control.
Anxiety disorders actually comprise a number of mental disorders, and they're all marked by anxious, apprehensive, and fearful feelings. These emotions are typically directed toward a future event, whether real or imaginary. But what causes all of these negative feelings? Most of the time, anxiety is a response to outside situations, such as environmental or medical reasons. Anxiety is also influenced by brain chemistry or genetics. But in most cases, stress is what causes anxiety disorders.
Worrying about everything no matter how important or insignificant. This incessant worrying can last for months and present itself with physical symptoms, too, such as extreme tiredness. Having crippling doubts about yourself can also be a form of anxiety, and it can lead to obsessive thoughts and worry.
Sleep disturbances, caused by excessive worry and anxiety, that last for weeks or months.
Phobias, which prevent you from functioning normally. Everyone's afraid at one time or another, but when your phobia becomes an anxiety disorder, it's impossible to execute daily plans because your fear is overwhelming.
Digestive issues might not seem appropriate in a discussion about anxiety disorders. But the stomach is like a second brain, and if our mind is filled with worry and fear, it will disturb the rest of our body. Aches, gas, cramping, troubles with bowel movements, and even IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) can all result from anxiety disorders.
Social Anxiety Disorder can make it difficult to interact in a meaningful way with friends, family, and small groups. You feel shaky, nauseous, and even have a hard time eating or speaking in front of others. You might be afraid of embarrassing yourself, or of other people's judgement.
Separation Anxiety is just the opposite. Instead of feeling anxious when you're with people, you feel abnormally anxious if you're separated from someone who makes you feel safe and secure. This is more than simply missing someone; this anxiety prevents you from functioning in a normal way.
Panic Attacks don't need much explanation here, as they're a popular anxiety disorder. People who experience panic attacks often think they're having a heart attack – anxiety is a real issue!
OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) takes a normal, rational action, and blows it way out of proportion, to the point where it seems crazy. Common actions would be hand-washing, double-checking things over and over again.
PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) is another anxiety disorder where you experience flashbacks and anxiety due to a past, distressing event. This anxiety prevents you from growing in certain areas of your life.
When it comes to anxiety, people will often say, "It's all in your head", but as you can see, anxiety is a very real issue that needs to be addressed. Furthermore, anxiety is nothing to be ashamed of. It's a recognized medical condition that you can definitely manage. And when you do, you can live with more peace and balance.
Meditation might not seem like a legitimate way to reduce anxiety, but even research is finding that it's as effective as the anti-anxiety medications people take. And while meditation isn't a quick fix for anxiety disorders, it can truly help you manage your anxiety. Why is that?
Meditation affects our brain in many positive ways.
You see, anxiety makes the hippocampus smaller – that's the part of the brain that deals with memory. Anxiety also increases the amygdala, which deals with fear.
Now, these changes within the brain further complicate someone's anxiety disorder. On top of these changes, stress hormones alter the brain's chemistry and interfere with proper brain function, too.
But meditation can actually reverse these changes that anxiety causes in the brain.
Meditation also restores balance to the brain by lowering cortisol (the stress hormone), and by raising serotonin (the feel-good hormone). It puts the neurotransmitters back into equilibrium – even the neurotransmitters referred to as GABA, which help relax the brain.
Meditation is a practice that helps us focus on the present moment, which is just the opposite of most anxious experiences. Anxiety obsesses about the future, or gets stuck on traumatic experiences from the past. But meditation helps you be present in the here and now. And this can keep your anxiety from getting out of hand.
Anxiety also comes as a response to your thoughts. For example, if you have a phobia of flying, you might imagine many scary scenarios over and over again. But meditation helps us to observe our thoughts without getting caught up in them or judging them.
A counselor once told me that you can picture your thoughts as separate cars on a train, and instead of jumping onto one of the cars, you can simply watch them drive by across your mind. In the end, you can stay calm and not get carried away with them.
One of the most common ways to begin any meditation practice is to focus on your breathing. By doing so, you connect to your body, and feel more relaxed. This breathing also helps you feel more aware and present. If we make mindful breathing a habit, we can use it to re-center ourselves when we feel anxious and worried.
Many of the anxiety disorders are caused by stress, but meditation helps us look at life with less judgement. So, instead of seeing a future event as a threat, we can see it for what it is and remain calm. This is just one of the ways meditation mitigates our anxiety.
The best way to start meditation is to find a quiet and comfortable place where you can sit for 10-15 minutes without being interrupted. If you're at home, try to let others know that you're going to meditate, so that they won't disturb you on accident. And no, you don't have to sit cross-legged. Just find what's comfortable for you.
Once you're ready to begin, turn your attention inside of you, and focus on your breathing. You can keep your breathing the same, and simply observe it. And as you become more relaxed, your breath will become slower or deeper.
With a relaxed body, it's easier to tune into your mind, and become aware of what's happening inside it. The stillness and calmness, which you created with your mindful breathing, allows you to observe your thoughts instead of becoming them.
What is a Guided Meditation for Anxiety?
Now, if all of that sounds wonderful, but also totally impossible, don't worry. Even though meditation is a great tool to manage your anxiety, it can be hard at first. That's because people with anxiety disorders often have racing and obsessive thoughts. Additionally, fearful and worried thoughts are hard to overcome overnight.
It's also difficult being alone with our thoughts, and it's very easy to give up if you don't see fast results. So, instead of getting discouraged, it's a good idea to start with a guided meditation for anxiety.
This can be in a group setting if you have a local meditation/yoga studio nearby. Or you can find hundreds of guided meditations online. You can think of it as having your very own meditation coach, guiding your meditation practice.
Guided meditations help you stay in the present moment whenever your mind races off. They are usually very soothing and calm. What's more, the idea of meditating isn't as intimidating when you're supported along the way.
And one more thing: there's absolutely nothing wrong with using a guided meditation for anxiety. If you follow one, it doesn't mean your mind is weak, or that you're worse off than your friends. To be honest, when I first learned how to meditate, I went straight to YouTube, and listened to guided meditations. And I still go back to them when I need help meditating.
Deepak Chopra's Guided Meditation for Overcoming Everyday Anxiety can be a very useful tool if there's an upcoming event that's causing you anxiety.
In his exercise, you enter into a meditative state (find a quiet place and begin to breath mindfully). Then, try to imagine where the future is in relation to your body. (For example, is the future in front of, or beside you?) Next, picture yourself moving above your body, and toward the future when that anxiety-causing event is done. Then, look back on this event from your futuristic viewpoint and just hold it in your mindfulness. When you're ready, you can return to the present moment. You'll see that all of your previous anxiety about it is gone!
Another great resource for guided meditations is the Yoga Journal, including this one, specifically meant to reduce anxiety.
How to Effectively Practice 10 Minute Guided Meditation for Anxiety?
Choose a Meditation Style that You Like: Meditation is a very old practice. There are many different approaches and meditation techniques for anxiety. You may like visualizations or repeating a word or phrase. You might like to focus on a theme or simply focus on your breathing. With some simple research, you can easily find a technique that works for you.
10 Minutes Timer: Instead of having an indefinite time to meditate, decide on a specific length of time and stick to it. Once you choose the length of your meditation, set a timer and try to enter into your practice. Don't worry, the timer will let you know when you're finished!
Schedule Your Meditation: Practice makes perfect, so write it in your daily agenda and make it a steady practice. Many people find that a morning meditation is most effective for them, so it's worth a shot, even if you're not a morning person.
Find A Spot to Meditate: You probably won't feel too comfortable trying to meditate if people are walking in and out of the room. As a beginner, it can be difficult to focus if there are many disruptions. So, try to find a nice spot at home that you enjoy. It should be a place where you can sit for 10-20 minutes without being distracted.
Sit up: You're probably familiar with the images of people sitting in the cross-legged position. If that's not comfortable for you, you can always sit in a different position. The important thing is that your back stays straight; this helps your breath become deeper. So, you might be comfortable sitting on the floor or chair, but just make sure you're sitting upright, with a straight back. This way, you'll get the most out of your meditation.
Pay Attention to Your Body: Not only is it important to keep your back straight, but it's also important to keep tension at bay. You can release tension in your shoulders and relax your arms and hands. When you keep your jaw open (not your mouth!), it helps your body stay relaxed during meditation.
Be Patient: You probably won't become an overnight meditation success, and that's completely normal and okay. Just be patient with yourself and trust that you will benefit from all of your commitment and consistency.
Release Judgment: Don't be intimidated by social media, or feel bad if you're not a meditation pro. Love and accept yourself, exactly as you are, and remove any judgements you have toward yourself. Your mind will wander, but don't feel disappointed in yourself. The rest of the day is already full of negative thoughts, so let your meditation be a time when you can relax, and stop taking your thoughts so darn seriously!
Meditation has been shown to help people with anxiety disorders. And yes, while it might seem like a daunting commitment, it is well worth the time and effort. To get started, try any of the guided meditations mentioned here, or find one that resonates with you. Even though anxiety disorders are very difficult to live with, you can manage them with meditation. Hopefully, this 10 minute guided meditation article has brought you some insight and inspiration to do just that.


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Cork's Rebel General to be celebrated with 'Dan Florence O'Leary Day'
He is one of the great, unsung Cork heroes - the Barrack Street boy who became a general and fought his way across South America
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He is a hero to the people of Colombia and Venezuela. But in Cork, the story of this son of a butter merchant who went from Barrack Street to the revolutionary battlefields of South America has only just begun to be told.
Generalissimo Dan Florence O'Leary will be honoured in his native city this Saturday with a special day of celebrations and story-telling.
The Colombian Ambassador to Ireland will be in Cork to visit the birthplace of the man who left his Leeside home in 1817, joined the revolutionary armies of the great South American liberator Símon Bolívar and rose through the ranks to become his most trusted General.
O'Leary fought his way across the northern regions of South America, serving as a soldier, diplomat and statesman. When his great hero and friend Símon Bolívar died in 1830, Dan Florence ignored orders to destroy all of the Liberator's papers and instead hid them away until they could become a key resource for historians.
Once upon a time in the Whest- travelling the Schull & Skibbereen railway
As trusted aide de camp to Símon Bolívar, O'Leary was one of the key figures in the struggle for independence for Colombia, who are this year celebrating their 200th anniversary of independence.
Ambassador Patricia Cortés Ortiz will join descendants of O'Leary as guests of honour at a series of events on Saturday Sept 21st, to mark 'Daniel Florence O'Leary Day'.
Ambassador Cortes Ortiz and Sally O'Leary and Deirdre O'Leary will be welcomed to City Hall by the Lord Mayor John Sheehan on Saturday afternoon.
They will be joined by local historians and other members of the O'Leary clan and Lord Mayor Sheehan says; "We are honoured to welcome Ambassador Cortés to Cork, and look forward to connecting with Colombia in the 200th year since their independence, through a son of the city who made such an impact in that nation and throughout Latin America.
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"O'Leary, our 'Latin Rebel' demonstrated the spirit of his birthplace through his achievements in the struggle for independence in far away lands.
And through his writings and memoirs he left Latin America and Ireland with an important record of that time, and of Símon Bolívar himself, who he served under and who became a friend and mentor to him. We are very honoured that descendants of the O'Leary family will join us on the day.'
The group will travel to Barrack Street where he was born and will pay a visit to the nearby 17th century Elizabeth Fort.
A rare collection of the memoirs - all 32 volumes - translated into English, a collection of emeralds donated by O'Leary to UCC in 1850, a portrait and other artefacts will be on display in City Hall during the day.
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Daniel Florence O'Leary Day will conclude with free concert at the Triskel at 8pm featuring Julio Victoria and band, courtesy of the Colombian Embassy. This is a unique opportunity to see an act that has a huge following in Colombia and tickets are still available on Eventbrite
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The Morrow County post of the Ohio Highway Patrol is investigating the 7:45 p.m. crash on Ohio 746, west of U.S. 42 in Westfield Township.
Tony M. Fraley, 29 , of Marion , Ohio was eastbound on Ohio 746 in a 1994 Ford F250. According to troopers, Fraley drove off the left side of the road and struck a tree. He was transported to Morrow County Hospital in Mount Gilead where he died due to his injuries.
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Anthony Hardy was originally a Scottish wine and spirits distributor with an office in London. At some point, commuting between London, Edinburgh and the cognac warehouses in the Charente had probably become too much for him: Anyway, in the middle of the 19th century, Hardy settled as "Antoine" in the town of Cognac, bought vineyards and, in 1863, founded the distillery A. Hardy.
His cognacs became a much sought-after product in England and even more so in the Russia of Tsar Nicholas I - with the Tsar personally his best known customer. To this day, the House of Hardy, with its 60 staff members, is run by the family (already in the 5th generation). The annual production of 1.5 million bottles, however, no longer comes from their own wines but wines from bought fortified wines, which are distilled and stored at Hardy's. Hardy is thus able to respond flexibly to the respective wishes of its customers and create very distinct cuvées, which still meet the taste of cognac lovers all over the world (in more than 40 countries). One does not have to be a tsar to enjoy like a king!
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The Kaohsiung Aquas () are a Taiwanese professional basketball team based in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. They have competed in the T1 League since the 2021–22 season, and play their home games at the Kaohsiung Arena. The Aquas became one of the six teams of the inaugural T1 League season.

The Aquas have a copartnership with Kaohsiung Jeoutai Technology, signed multi-players originally play in the team. Jeoutai Tech is a semi-professional basketball team competes in the Super Basketball League (SBL), another league in Taiwan.

On April 17, 2022, The Aquas announced that they would play their playoff home games at Fengshan Gymnasium. On June 4, the Aquas defeated the Taichung Wagor Suns, 3–0, winning the 2021–22 season championship.

Franchise history

2021: Team creation
On 4 August, the Aquas traded their 1st round pick to New Taipei CTBC DEA for 1.5 million NTD. In the 2021 draft, they drafted I-Shou swingman Su Wen-Ju in the second round.

Home arenas
 Kaohsiung Arena (2021–present)
 Fengshan Gymnasium (2022)

Current roster

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Personnel

General managers

Head coaches

Season-by-season record

Notable players
Local players
  Hu Long-Mao (胡瓏貿) – Chinese Taipei men's national basketball team player, T1 League Finals MVP (2022)
  Li Han-Sheng (李漢昇) – Chinese Taipei men's national basketball team player
  Lin Jen-Hung (林任鴻) – Chinese Taipei men's national basketball team player
  Wu I-Ping (吳怡斌) – Chinese Taipei men's national basketball team player
  Wu Siao-Jin (吳曉謹) – Chinese Taipei men's national basketball team player
  Yu Huan-Ya (于煥亞) – Chinese Taipei men's national basketball team player
Type-III players
  Jason Brickman – ABL Finals MVP (2016), TBL MVP (2018)
Import players
  Xavier Alexander – TBL MVP (2019)
  John Bohannon – Jordan men's national basketball team player

References

External links

T1 League teams
2021 establishments in Taiwan
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Noroozetaan Pirooz!! WOW!! Two years have past and 100 reviews to be exactly! Why do I even bother to write the reviews, some have asked me during the past two years! Well, mainly because when I myself turned to Iranian music in the late 80's/early 90's there were no satellite-TVs nor Internet to get yourself up-to-date via, with recent events and releases, let alone to seek for advanced information about the industry and its history! In terms of media, the only available and reliable source of information for us Europe-based Iranians were the weekly LA-magazines and the annual NOROOZ-shows. I searched and researched the media for NEWS along with interviewing some older music fans and artists for a glimpse into the history. And I would have LOVED to have someone who systematically and periodically presented me with insight and information about my PASSION! But sadly, my dream never came true! A few years ago, by an accident I met someone who reminded me of the thirsty 15-year old that I once was back then! And that's when the idea of my music reviews was born. Articles that aim to serve the reader by offering personally stored knowledge and gathered information with a twist of relaxed and personal humour! Herby I would like to seize the opportunity and thank you all for sharing this personal achievement and milestone with me, especially those who have been with me all the way from the very first start! I COULD have done it without you, but hey …WHY WOULD I?! So thank you my dear friends for your precious time and attention!!
Mansour is FINALLY back with his highly anticipated new album entitled very cinematically "Faraari"! After having tapped the composer waters in the previous two albums, he has now decided to take on the main responsibility of the album's music, while collaborating with Babak Roozbeh as the MAIN lyricist along with Fred Mirza, Elton Ahi, M. Cheshmazar, Babak Sahraei and Homa Mirafshar. "Faraari" features 9 tracks and comes in a slipcased COMBO-package together with a 10-piece DVD packed with music-videos from "Divooneh" and "Faraari". The album is released on Taraneh Enterprises Inc..
Take the BOOT CAMP-chant-rhyming style of "Divooneh" and the "ROAD-MUSIC" mood of "Bezan Berim" and then stress and accelerate things up to an almost insane POUNDING LEVEL and you'll have the title-track!! "Faraari" is pale and has the charm that any "Divooneh"-REDUX can possibly have, which is next to nothing! Very disappointing, except for the energising pace of the song!
Now while we are at it, lets revive "To Azize Delami" too and revise it into "Mikhaamet"! What can I say, a pretty good song …but an over-used formula!
"Azaadi" is a PROGRESSIVE HI-NRG song with a groove derived partly from Cheshmazar's "Jesus Christ Superstar"-inspired "Talaagh"-beat! While the song might not seem like a commercial attempt at first, it is an obvious "flirt" with the POLITICAL MUSIC-trend that is currently flowing in LA! While the B- and C-list singers have found a lucrative market in the current freedom movement inside Iran, and the discontented Iranian youths thirst for fuelling anthems in particular, and "afford" to be more explicit in their lyrics and approach, the A-list stars are more cautious and "diplomatic" in their exploration of the market! The try to make sure that their "contributions" are conducted in a way that they can be both interpreted as POLITICAL (when the time is right!) and SPIRITUAL (when it's NOT!)! So is this a "spiritual freedom" or "socio-political freedom"?! It's for Mansour to know, and for you to wonder (*LOL*)!! "Azaadi" is arrangement-wise the most interesting and innovative track on the album.
Well, one thing is for sure! And that is that the commercial success of "To Azize Delami" has motivated an overrepresentation of its sound on this album! "Arezoomeh" is its second representative!
"Doroughgoo" comes as a song in spirit of the "Mano Bebakhsh" sound! Once again, a good song but TOO familiar to sound original!
One song "Divooneh" enjoyed as exclusive and FRESH, was "Gharaaemoon Yaadet Nareh"! A song that managed to "engage" through its different musical, lyrical AND vocal manoeuvres! For the creation of the BALLAD "Yaadete", however, Mansour and Mirza have made a detour back to 2000 and revived "Benevis" instead! A lovely BALLAD that fails to engage by being too formulaic and generic!
"Shirin" comes as a typical M. Cheshmazar-arranged song with the GHERI and uplifting groove. Even this song is based on the "To Azize Delami"-formula! This is perhaps the most MAINSTREAM song ever preformed by Mansour. A rather nice song in fact!
The ONE-HIT-WONDER Golnaraghi's OLD CLASSIC "Maraa Beboos" has now been used as a foundation for Mansour and the crew to build their own adaptation/addition on! A song that I had anticipated a long time with high expectations and what a disappointment it turned out to be! If you recognise the melodic ARABESQUE manoeuvres, its because they have been borrowed from Mustafa Sandal's MEGA-HIT "Aya Benzer"! All these borrowings without any credit to either the originators of "Maraa Beboos" or "Aya Benzer"! An argument in defence of such action would be that most people already KNOW about this legendary song, but on the other hand its never wrong to inform the younger generations about the RIGHT identity of their artistic institutions and heritages!!
Mansour was the second (Shahrum Kashani was the first) of the young LA-based artists to officially release a song in the memory of the victims of the tragic BAM-earthquake! "Eidi Nadaaram" is a very beautiful song in style with his songs from the YAMINI-era! This very same song helped to raise my expectations on this album and is without a doubt THE BEST song on " Faraari"! I love the dual meaning of this ROMANTIC REQUIM!
Without the slightest hesitation one can easily suggest that "Faraari" is Mansour's WEAKEST album till date! While the album will still be able to cash in on the last album's success in the short run, in the long run it is only a FAILED attempt to "commercialisation"! When I wrote the review on his previous album, I blamed the lack of innovation and creativity on the short period of time (only 11 months) between "Zendegi" and Divooneh", while I also praised him for trying to consolidate an annual record-release tradition! The postponing of the follow-up, however, made me believe that things MIGHT have been starting to happen and perhaps a whole reinvention of the sound was about to take place! Today, after 2,5 years, not only has Mansour let go that grip of the close-kept releases but with the highly anticipated result in hand, I could have not been MORE disappointed! How many copies can one copy and recopy before the original motif becomes virtually transparent? While the OBVIOUS disappointment is in the beyond-a-play-value WASHED-OUT and REPETITIVE sound, its causes should be pointed out and further stressed! Mansour has in this album, more or less single-handedly taken on the responsibility for the album's compositions! And while it is only positive that a singer elaborates on her/his creative ambitions, she/he must also have a realistic understanding and distance towards the actual "abilities"! Only "aspiration" is simply not enough! A full-fledged composer must have a certain flexibility and versatility, which Mansour unfortunately don't! His compositions are basically narrowed down to TWO repetitive generic formulas: the "Divooneh"- and the "To Azize Delami"-recipes practically sum it all up! While the compositions are the "Achilles Heel" of "Faraari", the SCHOOL-YARD-rhyming of Babak contributes further to its dire state! Most albums would "positively" enjoy a couple of Babak's charming pieces in his TRADEMARK lyrical style, but an ENTIRE album is just tooooooo BIG of a body to nourish with that simplistic style! The ONLY positive and actually innovative thing that the album offers, in terms of musicality, is the arrangement of one single song! The progressive style of "Azaadi" is simply breathtaking and should be further used and developed in the future HI-NRG songs. But pay attention that I said "used", not "overused"!
The beautiful and innovative "POP ART/Graphic ART" design of the package by Siros Kerdouni and the DVD-collection with a superb A/V-quality are other attractive features of this release! If you are a Mansour Fan, you've already picked up the album! But if you don't know the artist then is "Faraari" NOT the introduction that I would like to recommend!!


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The late Breckenridge poet Belle Turnbull heralded as an unsung master in new book
Local | November 19, 2017
Greg Hobbs
Belle Turnbull, in her later years, sitting at her desk.
Courtesy of the Breckenridge Heritage Alliance, Dr. Sandra F. Pritchard Mather Archives/ SHS-P.558 |
It's hard to imagine Colorado without its 14 million acres of publicly owned forests and mountains and grasslands. Among these protected areas is the White River Reserve, created by executive order by President Benjamin Harrison in 1891. Its 2.3 million acres of stunning vistas stretch from the Flat Top Mountains, up the Fryingpan River, over the Blue River's Tenmile Range and into the former gold-mining town of Breckenridge. The reserve today has eight wilderness areas, 12 ski resorts, four reservoirs and 10 peaks above 14,000 feet — Colorado's coveted "Fourteeners."
To get to know this stretch of mountains, you could hike some of its 2,500 miles of trail, or drive on its 1,900 miles of roads. Or you could ponder its history, which reflects Colorado's settling, when narrow-gauge railroads ran in and out of mining regions in the 19th century, bringing food in and minerals out, while timber-choppers relentlessly sliced through forest cover. Or you might think of this place in terms of its conservation history, part of a vast system of forests established throughout the Progressive Era. But perhaps the best way to know a place like this is to see it through the eyes of a good writer. Thanks to the publication of a new book, "Belle Turnbull: On the Life and Work of an American Master," we can turn to a nearly forgotten Colorado poet for insight and inspiration.
Born in Hamilton, New York in 1881, 10 years before the White River Reserve was created, the Vassar-educated Turnbull taught English at Colorado Springs High School from 1910 to 1936. She and her companion, the novelist Helen Rich, then moved to Frisco for two years and on to Breckenridge, settling into a log cabin with windows that looked out onto the Tenmile Range from 1939 to Belle's death in 1970. No other Colorado writer so authentically lets "the poetry take the poet where it wants, the way mountain weather does," writes George Sibley in one of several outstanding essays this volume includes.
Spread out a map of the White River National Forest when you read Turnbull's poems. Even better, take this edition of the "Unsung Masters Series" with you into the Great Divide country the next time you hit the trail. I like best the gems Turnbull sets within that narrow band of wetland seeps, wildflowers and pygmy forest located just above timberline. This is where "ancient mysteries" govern above and beyond homesteaders, timber-cutters and forest regulators. In her world, "Magistrate and forester / Exist forlorn in those rude airs / Where dwell the ancient liberties."
For Turnbull, the vast spaces and tiny, cutting edges of the Rocky Mountains and Continental Divide were places to encounter something transcendent, something beyond the forlorn tenure of land ownership and the edicts of landowners: "For since a rock's a long, long treasure: / a rock, a root, a south exposure: / the loan of these is our forever." Tracing the contours of this higher country, the poet borrows from Indigenous trails, tautly notched through mountain passes, before settlers moved in on them. The Great Divide becomes "a full-sprung bow," where "Stark is the streamhead where the narrow / Careless snowrills stop and go, / Atlantic, Pacific, freeze or flow." In Turnbull's eyes, a carpet of wildflowers is more than beautiful; it is there to prove you mortal. "Now at last I have eaten / that dark and pungent honey," she writes in "Chant," "which is distilled / out of blue-black monkshood, / marsh-child of forbidden beauty … / Now at last have I eaten / and am consumed."
Turnbull was an Easterner, enchanted by the mountains of Colorado, who made a home in the high country. Her work is exact, her imagery vivid. Through it, we find a way into the mountains — and a way home.
Greg Hobbs, a former Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, co-directs DU Law School's Environment and Natural Resources Program. His published poetry books include Colorado, Mother of Rivers: Water Poems.
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What is politics?
Blog • Politics • 14 Jan 2020 • Professor Christina Boswell FBA
We often refer to something as being 'political', or 'all about politics', to mean it boils down to a power struggle between people or groups. The idea is that politics is a process of manoeuvring to assert rival interests.
Of course, this notion of competition over interests or power is very relevant to politics with a capital 'P', or party politics. Indeed, we might start by defining politics as a process of competitive claims-making by rival parties, with the aim of mobilising support to put these programmes into action. But beyond this broad definition, it's useful to unpack what this competition is about and the way in which it plays out. Both of these questions will help us develop a rather more nuanced (and hopefully less cynical!) view of politics.
First, what is politics about? One of the classic answers to this question is that politics is about who gets what, when and how. On this view, politics is essentially about settling contestation over the distribution of material goods. This may have been a fair characterisation of politics in the post-World War II era – an era that saw the rolling out of progressive taxation and welfare provision by a relatively centralised state and a party political system based on a traditional left-right ideological cleavage.
Yet the notion that politics is solely, or mainly, about distribution has been challenged over the past three or more decades. The increasing salience of 'post-ideological' contestation around values and lifestyles suggests that politics is as much, or arguably more, about identity and culture as it is about material resources. Much of our contemporary political debate revolves around issues that are not neatly categorised as left or right, such as the environment, gender and sexual rights, immigration and security.
"Political contestation is as much about cultural identity and recognition, as it is about allocating material resources"
Another challenge to this classic view comes from the 'ideational turn' in studies of politics. Scholars have shown how politics is as much about contestation over ways of framing or narrating policy problems, as it is about struggles over distribution. Of course, the two may not be easily distinguishable: different ways of framing problems may have profound consequences for distribution. But the point is that politics is a battle of ideas, in which participants attempt to control the narrative through tapping deep-rooted values and beliefs, rather than invoking objective self-interest. This recognition of the importance of narratives chimes with debates on 'fake news' and the potential for significant divergence in the way rival political groups frame policy issues.
The second question is about the process of politics: how are these rival claims translated into policy? In multi-party democracies, the obvious answer to this is through winning elections, which allows parties to implement their programmes.
MPs leaving the State Opening of Parliament, December 2019. Photo by Adrian Dennis – WPA Pool / Getty Images
But this rather transactional account is misleading. Electoral competition tends to create a 'bidding war', in which rival parties promise ever more appealing programmes. Voters often assume that these programmes can be straightforwardly implemented – as if they are consumers choosing a product. But in reality, manifesto claims are often discarded or watered down in the face of limited resources, viability, or political veto. What results is disappointment and disillusionment in democratic politics.
One of the challenges for political science, then, is to chart and understand these changes in the nature of politics. We need to understand that political contestation is as much about cultural identity and recognition, as it is about allocating material resources and to make sense of the disappointment in politics generated by the gap between the transactional view and the messier reality. Only by elucidating these trends can we develop institutions that can renew democratic debate and trust in politics. No mean feat in the current political climate, but definitely worth our best effort.
Christina Boswell is Professor of Politics and Dean of Research of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2019.
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