We all have those days when we have nothing to wear. Nothing in the closet seems to be working. You find yourself sitting in heaps of clothing and all of them just aren't right. It is a nightmare but luckily there are a fee apps that will always come to the rescue when you are in for some outfit inspiration.
Polyvore is yet another app I could spend too much time on. Not only do I enjoy browsing through other people's collages but I enjoy making my own to. It's fun and easy to use. There are thousands of items to choose from ranging from dresses, shoes and bags to art, decor and home ware. It is such a great platform to inspire others and get inspired. People put together the loveliest outfits which will definitely inspire your choice of clothing. Creating perfect looks for anything from concerts to date nights.
If are looking for a dose of street style, Stylekick is the place to go. It is a great source of inspiration and you can also shop the looks. It is almost like Instagram but just fashion. Amazing right? They also recommend items and outfits for you, just like a a guardian angel. It is a lovely platform and I enjoy looking at the everyone's unique street style. Definitely adds a kick of style when I am in need of inspiration.


A rootkit allows someone, either legitimately or maliciously, to gain and maintain command and control over a computer system without the computer system user knowing about it. This means that the owner of the rootkit is capable of executing files and changing system configurations on the target machine, as well as accessing log files or monitoring activity to covertly spy on the user's computer usage.
Most users are familiar with common threats such as viruses, worms, spyware, and even phishing scams, but many users are unfamiliar with this potential computer threat.
There are legitimate uses for rootkits by law enforcement or even by parents or employers wishing to retain remote command and control and/or the ability to monitor activity on their employee's or children's computer systems. Products such as eBlaster or Spector Pro are essentially rootkits that allow for such monitoring.
However, most of the media attention given to rootkits is aimed at malicious or illegal rootkits used by attackers or spies to infiltrate and monitor systems. But, while a rootkit might somehow be installed on a system through the use of a Trojan virus of some sort, the rootkit itself is not malware.
Detecting a rootkit on your system is easier said than done. There is no off-the-shelf product like there is for viruses or spyware that can magically find and remove all of the rootkits of the world. There are various tools to scan memory or file system areas, or to look for hooks into the system used by rootkits, but most of these tools are not automated tools and those that often focus on detecting and removing a specific rootkit.
Another method is just to look for bizarre or strange behavior on the computer system. If there are suspicious things going on, you might be compromised by a rootkit. Of course, you might also just need to clean up your system.
In the end, many security experts suggest a complete reinstallation of a system compromised by a rootkit or suspected of being compromised by a rootkit. The reason is, even if you detect files or processes associated with the rootkit, it is difficult to be 100% sure that you have in fact removed every piece of the rootkit. Peace of mind can be found by completely erasing the system and starting over.
As mentioned above regarding detecting rootkits, there is no packaged application to guard against rootkits, and while they may be used for malicious purposes at times, some are not necessarily malware.
Many malicious rootkits manage to infiltrate computer systems and install themselves by propagating with a malware threat such as a virus, however, and you can defend your system from rootkits by ensuring it is kept patched against known vulnerabilities, that antivirus software is updated and running, and that you don't accept files from or open email file attachments from unknown sources. You should also be careful when installing all software—pay attention during software installation wizard processes to see what is being installed, and read carefully before agreeing to EULA's (end user license agreements) because some may state overtly that a rootkit of some sort will be installed.


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GE Aviation expands Brisbane propeller maintenance, repair and overhaul facility
5 Mar, 2014 | News
Brisbane, Australia – GE Aviation today announced the expansion of its maintenance, repair and overhaul facility at Brisbane airport.
The expansion of the building, as well as capital, personnel and training investment will enable the base to complete Bombardier Q400* and Bombardier Q400 NextGen*, SAAB 340 and Fokker 50 propeller repairs for regional turboprop fleets in the Asia Pacific region.
GE Aviation Regional Executive, Max York, said the expansion demonstrated a long-term commitment to supporting fleet operators in the region.
"GE is committed to supporting existing and new customers in the region. This marks a long-term investment to support the growing fleet here and enables us to broaden the scope of capabilities that we can offer our customers," Mr York said.
"As the only facility in Asia Pacific to service the Bombardier Q400 propeller system, the expansion will also provide productivity improvements including shorter lead times and reduced stock holding and freight costs."
The 20,000 sq. ft. Brisbane site is certified by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority of Australia (CASA), the European Aviation Safety Authority (EASA) and to the global aviation standard AS:9110. The existing GE facility is located at Brisbane airport and Q400 aircraft propeller repair operations were initiated in January 2012.
*Trademarks of Bombardier Inc. or its subsidiaries.
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(Minghui.org) A woman who resides in the Rizhao Economic Development area in Shandong Province believes that Falun Dafa is good and has read the main book of the practice, Zhuan Falun. She has one child and became pregnant again in 2012.
The Chinese one-child policy dictates only one child per family. Therefore, she knew that the local government wouldn't allow her to have the second child. So she didn't go out much, and hoped that the unexpected baby would be born safely.
Even though she was very careful, people found out when she was eight months pregnant. The Party secretary of her village told two Village Women's Committee members to force her into having an abortion.
Two women from the committee took her to the hospital, but the exam results showed that she wasn't pregnant. The two women were dumbfounded and thought the apparatus in the hospital was out of order, because the woman's stomach was so large.
They decided to have a test done in another hospital. The results were the same. They still couldn't believe it and told the woman to pull up her clothes so they could check for themselves. To their surprise, her stomach became flat when she pulled up her clothes. The women were startled by what they saw. They stopped the pregnancy checking.
A month later, the woman gave birth to a healthy baby boy. After experiencing this miracle she began practicing Falun Dafa.


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We have had several people who have written in about this subject, when another's bereavement retriggers your grief. They thought that things were progressing well for them, in dealing with their personal grief, until a friend experienced a loss. Then, suddenly, they found themselves once again deeply reminded of their own emotional pain.
This is actually something that is quite common. If you lost a spouse or child, having another friend go through this experience naturally reminds you of what loss was like for you. It's very common that you hear someone else at a funeral sharing their own similar experience with a new griever, when, ideally, they should be focused on their friend's need to share their story.
Even the headlines can be triggers for our grief!
This has been a year of many loss related headlines. Stories of mass shootings, hurricanes, wild fires and stories of sexual misconduct, to name but a few, have dominated the news. If you have personally experienced a similar event in your life, it's understandable that such stories retriggered the emotional turmoil that you felt in the moment of that loss. This does not mean that you were not successful, on some level, in dealing with that loss in that earlier timeframe, but simply that those memories were once again brought to the surface.
The vast majority of people try to cope with loss on an intellectual level. They try to use logic to deal with their emotional pain. They give themselves very logical reasons why they should not continue to "feel bad" and stuff those painful feelings deep inside. When it's a loss that involves wrong doing by another, they focus on taking legal action to deal with their pain. Such actions may "convince" us that we are feeling better, but often that is an illusion. Since, as we were taught growing up, our intellect is emphasized as the way to deal with any problem, we often use it to downplay the intensity of the emotions we actually feel.
Unfortunately, grief is an emotion, and emotions are rarely successfully addressed with logic. Even though we might suffering from a broken heart, we often try to deal with that pain by using our head to discount its significance. This is reinforced in us when we try to tell others about our grief, and they give us logical reasons why we should not feel bad. In your heart of hearts, you know that those comments do not make you feel better, but you suppress those feelings of sadness anyway.
Grief that is suppressed stays with you.
With the passage of time and the continued efforts to discount their emotional pain, many people think that they have "recovered" from their emotional losses. They actually think that they have succeeded in putting that pain to rest and that they are "fine" with it. Perhaps the best definition I have ever heard for the word "fine," when it comes to emotional pain is "Feelings Inside Not Expressed!" That emotional pain still exists, deep inside, but it's not shared with others. It's further proof that the old cliché that "grief just takes time" is anything but true!
When you find yourself reliving your grief, when you hear of similar losses in others, it's time to take truly effective action to move beyond the power it holds over you. The most effective action plan that I have ever found is spelled out in "The Grief Recovery Handbook." This book outlines the roadmap to recovery that is The Grief Recovery Method.
This approach does not use logic to deal with the pain of emotional loss, but rather is focused on dealing directly with the emotions that loss generates. It looks at exactly what is being retriggered in terms of those unexpressed feelings and walks you through the process of addressing them. Those who follow this action plan normally find that when they are later reminded of their loss, whether by headlines or something they experience in daily life, it may give them a moment of remembrance of their experience, but it does not again overwhelm them.
Following the Grief Recovery Method does not involve intense therapy, but it is therapeutic. It helps you identify those things that trigger (and retrigger) your emotional pain and gives you opportunity to address those moments in that relationship so that you are not negatively impacted by them on that same level in the future. It's focused on dealing with the "unfinished business" in your relationship and those things that you wish might have been different, better, or more.
When I first went through Certification Training in The Grief Recovery Method, almost 35 years ago, I thought this approach was far too simple to be effective, until I took the actions for myself. I was stunned by how much positive impact they had on the loss issues in my life. Using these tools literally changed my life and all for the better! Since that time, I have had to opportunity to help many others use these tools and they were equally impressed with the differences they made for them as well. I share this with you only because I am sure that many of you might be wondering if this approach to dealing with the emotional pain of loss really works. I know from firsthand experience that it does helf with grief and loss support!
If you have found instances in your life when another's bereavement retriggers your grief, it's a signal that you need to take more effective action to deal with the emotional losses you have experienced. The Grief Recovery Method can help you take that action!
Thank you for sharing this article. I reposted it because any time I have triggers, I ask myself what is the real reason behind these raw emotions. When I use the Grief Recovery Method on the root loss, the painful emotions decline. I am so grateful that inner joy and even good memories and dreams are the positive replacement.
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Americans Have No Clue What the True COVID Numbers Are > Americans Have No Clue What the True COVID Numbers Are
Americans Have No Clue What the True COVID Numbers Are
Dr. Mercola September 22, 2021 September 9, 2021
Knowledge gives you the power to make informed decisions based on evidence. A bank will not lend money to an entrepreneur without a business plan. Companies that operate without a budget will fail.
You would not consent to fly in a plane with a pilot who didn't have his license. You wouldn't knowingly hire an attorney who didn't pass the bar. You wouldn't get into a taxi with a driver who couldn't drive.
And yet, many have been making health decisions based on misconceptions, misinformation and sometimes outright lies. A report1 released in 2020, six months into the pandemic, revealed that most Americans had significant misconceptions of the risks involved from COVID-19. Months later, evidence suggests not much has changed.
Firm Calls Results 'Nothing Short of Stunning'
Six months after the start of the pandemic, investment management organization Franklin Templeton Investments, in collaboration with Gallup,2 released a report about Americans' understanding of the COVID-19 infection. The research focused on fundamental and undisputed facts of the risk for individuals and did not address any information that might be seen as controversial, such as treatment options and lockdown policies. In the report, the firm wrote:3
"Six months into this pandemic, Americans still dramatically misunderstand the risk of dying from COVID-19 … These results are nothing short of stunning. Mortality data have shown from the very beginning that the COVID-19 virus age-discriminates, with deaths overwhelmingly concentrated in people who are older and suffer comorbidities.
This is perhaps the only uncontroversial piece of evidence we have about this virus. Nearly all US fatalities have been among people older than 55; and yet a large number of Americans are still convinced that the risk to those younger than 55 is almost the same as to those who are older."
The Franklin Templeton-Gallup Economics of Recovery Study of Americans found there were misconceptions in the general population about the risks associated with infection. The analysts then separated the beliefs and compared those to the actual data. This is from the report:4
On average, Americans believe that people aged 55 and older account for just over half of total COVID-19 deaths; the actual figure is 92%.
Americans believe that people aged 44 and younger account for about 30% of total deaths; the actual figure is 2.7%.
Americans overestimate the risk of death from COVID-19 for people aged 24 and younger by a factor of 50; and they think the risk for people aged 65 and older is half of what it actually is (40% vs 80%).
When the data were broken down by age groups they found that most people under age 65 really had no concept of the actual number of deaths for their age group:5
Percent worried about serious effects
Percent of actual total deaths
18-24 59.1% 0.1%
55-64 69.8% 12.2%
"The discrepancy with the actual mortality data is staggering: for people aged 18–24, the share of those worried about serious health consequences is 400 times higher than the share of total COVID deaths; for those age 25–34 it is 90 times higher."
Writing in Wirepoints,6 Mark Glennon commented on the findings saying, "The only good news there is that folks 65 and older are much more aware of the heightened risk for their own age group."7
The report8 identified two major culprits of the fundamental misunderstanding of basic facts from a COVID-19 infection. Those culprits were misinformation predominantly shared on social media and the partisan bias for Democrats to "mistakenly overstate the risk of death from COVID-19 for younger people." Templeton's chief investment officer Sonal Desai, Ph.D., commented:9
"This, sadly, comes as no surprise. Fear and anger are the most reliable drivers of engagement; scary tales of young victims of the pandemic, intimating that we are all at risk of dying, quickly go viral; so do stories that blame everything on your political adversaries.
Both social and traditional media have been churning out both types of narratives in order to generate more clicks and increase their audience."
Recent Evidence Suggests Nothing Has Changed
The data for the Templeton-Gallup study were gathered between July 2, 2020, and July 14, 2020, and were based on a sample size of 10,014 U.S. adults.10 As disturbing as these misperceptions reported in the news and shared on social media may have been in the first six months of the pandemic, later evidence suggests not too much has changed.
February 10, 2021, CNN reported11 that 25% of the people surveyed thought there was a small risk to returning to prepandemic levels of activity and 66% reported there was a large or moderate risk. The poll was taken between February 5, 2021, and February 8, 2021, and "based on a nationally representative sample of 1,030 people age 18 and older."12
From this small sample, CNN found that the group least likely to view COVID-19 as a risk were people aged 18 to 29. However, the percentage of individuals in this age group was nearly equal to that found in the Templeton-Gallup Study done seven months earlier.13
In the Templeton-Gallup Study,14 59.1% of 18-to-24-year olds were worried about serious side effects, while in the CNN poll,15 58% of 18- to 29-year-olds were worried about serious side effects. Yet, the percent of death in that age group is also nearly identical: 0.1% in July 202016 and 0.4% in August 2021.17
The partisan divide identified in the Templeton-Gallup Study can also be found in vaccination rates around the country. In other words, Democrats are more likely than Republicans to be fully vaccinated.18 This follows along with data found in the CNN poll,19 which revealed that 76% of the people who had been vaccinated continue to see COVID-19 as a high risk.
Based on the percentage of individuals who are vaccinated in the U.S., there continues to be nearly a majority of Americans who are operating under the misconception that the infection has a broad effect on every age group. According to Mayo Clinic's COVID-19 tracker20 approximately 52.7% of adults in the U.S. were fully vaccinated on August 31, 2021.
The Washington Post21 reported August 2, 2021, that 70% of adults had received at least one shot. Extrapolating this information, if 76% of those who are vaccinated believe that COVID is a broad risk for the population, this means from 40% to 53.2% of the country continues to hold this belief.
From the small CNN22 sample, it appears the percent who are worried about serious side effects across a broad age range may not have dropped significantly since the first six months of the pandemic, and 18 months later people continue to operate under misconceptions.
Those Who Didn't Take the Jab Think It Is the Greater Risk
Another published poll by23 conducted from July 15, 2021, to July 27, 2021, found that 67% of adults have received the COVID vaccine and 3% say they will get it as soon as they can. This number has remained relatively unchanged since a previous poll in June 2021.24 Of those who responded, 10% want to "wait and see" how the vaccine performs and 14% say they will "definitely not" get a vaccine. This number has also remained relatively steady since December 2020.
A fourth poll25 found that vaccinated individuals are nearly twice as likely to worry about the new COVID variants over those who were unvaccinated. Additionally, the same poll shows that many of the unvaccinated adults believe the shot is a bigger risk than the infection, which is opposite from the 88% of vaccinated adults that believe the infection is a larger risk than the vaccine.
The majority of unvaccinated adults believe that the news media have "generally exaggerated" the seriousness of the pandemic, which is likely the result of publishing broad data without accurately representing the number of individuals who are seriously ill or who have died.
President Biden is quoted in The Washington Post26 reiterating the same data from health experts in the U.S. Biden said:27 "If you're unvaccinated, you are much more likely to, one, get COVID-19; two, get hospitalized; and, three, die if you get it. This is a tragedy."
However, this is opposite of data from other reporting countries such as Israel and Scotland, where half or more of those hospitalized in August and September 2021 were vaccinated.28,29,30,31
When misinformation is being spread from the top down, it's easy to understand how Americans continue to believe the infection is killing equal numbers in each age group. While any death from this infection is one death too many, so is any death from heart disease, lung cancer, car accidents and drownings.
Yet, people have not stopped eating poorly, smoking, driving cars and swimming. Nor has the government mandated these activities stop.
If the Pandemic Is so Bad, Why Censor Social Media?
The debate over social media censorship is raging.32,33,34 At no time in history could you imagine that people would support censoring ideas in a country built on freedom of speech.35 Your rights to free speech and "peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances,"36 are your First Amendment rights. And yet, some news media and opinion writers have long lists of utopian-like advantages to censorship that include:37,38,39
Reducing conflict and avoiding panic in emergencies
Adding layers of security to internet platforms
Stopping perceived "false" content and influencing public opinion
Keeping the local population under control
Protecting social media users
The issue with these purported advantages is that someone must be responsible for determining what should be censored, what is false information and in what direction public opinion should be influenced — not to mention how to decide what events would warrant "controlling" the population, and what the control measures might be. In other words, censorship ensures that the opinion of a few will influence the majority. And that's what has happened in the past 18 months.
As has been demonstrated, many Americans are unaware of the real numbers behind the COVID-19 pandemic. And yet, it appears that the only people being censored in social media are those who oppose the vaccine, who want to ensure proper treatment for those infected and who share their physical health challenges after taking the genetic therapy injection.
In other words, Americans are still uneducated by the news media or information posted in social media about the number of people who died from the COVID-19 infection and about proper treatment. The information being censored, and called false content, has enabled the government to reduce conflict by reducing debate over vaccines, masks and treatment protocols, as well as helped keep local populations under control.
These are the very same so-called "advantages" listed for censorship which have been used to manipulate your behavior and influence your thoughts. Ironically, one of the arguments against censorship is that:40
"It reduces the overall intelligence of the general public. Censorship requires that the general population be under tight controls so that specific outcomes are achievable every time. It is an attempt to prevent individuals from discovering what the truth of any situation happens to be.
Even an attempt at suggesting that content is fake or untrustworthy … is a way to create censorship from an official capacity."
Unfortunately, it's clear that much of the population doesn't realize what their acceptance of censorship is doing to them. It's not just about losing your freedom of speech and right to think freely; allowing censorship at the levels you're now seeing also reinforces your compliance while it represses your access to truths — truths that could save your life.
Blinded From Science or Lies?
As was written in the report from the Franklin Templeton-Gallup Study, the American public has been "blinded from science," and more often than not, it has been done using lies. In fact, some of the inconsistent statements made by health experts are positioned in the same statements or interviews.
For example, in an interview with MSNBC, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to the president of the U.S., exhibited his unique brand of justifying behavior as he talked about the virus and the shot program, saying:41
"The delta variant is the totally dominant variant now in this country. More than 80 or 85%, and in some areas 95%, but even more importantly it is clear now that when there are breakthrough infections, namely people who are vaccinated but still get infected with the delta variant, which happens because no vaccine is 100% effective.
We've learned clearly now, without a doubt, that people who are vaccinated get a breakthrough infection, actually have enough virus in their nasopharynx, that they can actually transmit it to other people and have documented transmission to other people."
From here he advises all people who have been vaccinated to wear a mask indoors to prevent the spread of the infection. His explanation is that the Delta variant has "changed the entire landscape." However, as we know from other viruses, the coronavirus will continue to mutate and change, which means, from Fauci's explanation, people will always be wearing masks to prevent the spread of a continually mutating virus.
The interviewer points out that as the virus continues to change, it means we won't be able to "turn the page on coronavirus, because there might be new variants ..."42 to which Fauci responds, "It doesn't have to be if the overwhelming majority of the people in this country get vaccinated. We could nail this down by just crushing it."43
So, within the space of four minutes Fauci said that without a doubt, people can get infected after vaccination and carry enough virus to transmit the infection — BUT — if the overwhelming majority of people are vaccinated the virus would be crushed.
This highlights the need to seek out verifiable news reports and independent research evidence. However, it isn't enough to know it yourself. In this period in history, it is everyone's responsibility to share the truth in a nonadversarial way that helps to educate your family, friends and neighbors without alienating them.
Source: Articles http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/09/22/misunderstanding-covid-numbers.aspx
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The 965th Airborne Air Control Squadron is part of the 552d Air Control Wing at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.  It operates Boeing E-3 Sentry aircraft conducting airborne command and control missions.

The first two antecedents of the squadron were active during World War II.  The 595th Bombardment Squadron served as an Operational and Replacement Training Unit, before being inactivated in a general reorganization of Army Air Forces training units.  The 165th Liaison Squadron performed special operations in India and Burma from September 1944 until the end of the war, when it returned to the United States for inactivation.

The unit's other predecessor unit was activated in 1955 as the 965th Airborne Early Warning and Control Squadron.  It performed air defense patrols off the Pacific coast of the United States until inactivating in 1971.  It was activated again at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma in 1978 as the 965th Airborne Warning and Control Squadron,

Mission
Provide the combat Air Force with airborne systems and personnel for surveillance, warning and control of strategic, tactical, and special mission forces.

History

World War II

Bombardment training

The 595th Bombardment Squadron was first activated at Mountain Home Army Air Field, Idaho on 16 February 1943 as one of the four original squadrons of the 396th Bombardment Group. After initial organization and equipping with Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers, the squadron moved to Moses Lake Army Air Base, Washington.  There the squadron acted as an Operational Training Unit (OTU) for B-17 units. The OTU program involved the use of an oversized parent unit to provide cadres  to "satellite groups"  In August 1943, the unit's mission changed to being a Replacement Training Unit (RTU).  Like OTUs, RTUs were an oversized units.  Their mission, however was to train individual pilots or aircrews.

In November 1943, the 595th moved to Drew Field, Florida, where it would remain for the duration of its active service. However, the Army Air Forces was finding that standard military units, based on relatively inflexible tables of organization were not well adapted to the training mission.  Accordingly, it adopted a more functional system in which each base was organized into a separate numbered unit. The 592d was inactivated on 1 May 1944 at Drew Field, Florida.
Its personnel and equipment became part of the 326th AAF Base Unit.

Special operations in Burma

The 165th Liaison Squadron was activated at Asansol, India as part of the 1st Air Commando Group in September 1944. It flew evacuation missions and provided light transport services for ground forces in Burma from 6 October 1944 until 23 April 1945.  It returned to Asansol that month and remained there until October, when it returned to the United States and was inactivated at the port of embarkation.

Air defense patrols

The 965th Airborne Early Warning and Control Squadron was activated in August 1955 at McClellan Air Force Base, California.  It flew long range surveillance, beginning in the late 1950s and rotated aircrews to Southeast Asia from, after about 4 April 1965 until it was inactivated in June 1971.

Airborne warning and control
The 965th was reactivated at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma in 1978 to fly the Boeing E-3 Sentry.  The squadron became non-operational the following year, although it remained on the active list.  It resumed operations in 1984.  The following year, the lineage of the 595th Bombardment Squadron and 165th Liaison Squadron were consolidated with the squadron.  It flew combat support missions over Panama from, 20 December 1989 – 24 January 1990 and in Southwest Asia from, 17 January – 6 March 1991.

Operations
World War II
Vietnam War
Operation Just Cause
Gulf War
Iraq War
Operation Enduring Freedom

Lineage
 595th Bombardment Squadron
 Constituted as the 595th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) on 29 January 1943
 Activated on 16 February 1943
 Inactivated on 1 May 1944
 Consolidated with the 165th Liaison Squadron and the 965th Airborne Warning and Control Squadron as the 965th Airborne Warning and Control Squadron on 19 September 1985

 165th Liaison Squadron
 Constituted as the 165th Liaison Squadron (Commando) on 9 August 1944
 Activated on 3 September 1944
 Inactivated on 3 Nov 1945
 Consolidated with the 595th Bombardment Squadron and the 965th Airborne Warning and Control Squadron as the 965th Airborne Warning and Control Squadron on 19 September 1985

 965th Airborne Air Control Squadron
 Constituted as the 965th Airborne Early Warning and Control Squadron on 28 April 1955
 Activated on 8 August 1955
 Inactivated on 30 June 1971
 Redesignated 965th Airborne Warning and Control Squadron on 28 February 1978
 Activated on 1 July 1978
 Consolidated with the 595th Bombardment Squadron and the 165th Liaison Squadron on 19 September 1985
 Redesignated 965th Airborne Air Control Squadron on 1 July 1994

Assignments
 396th Bombardment Group, 16 February 1943 – 1 May 1944
 1st Air Commando Group, 3 September 1944 – 3 November 1945
 552d Airborne Early Warning and Control Wing, 8 August 1955 – 30 June 1971
 552d Airborne Warning and Control Wing (later 552 Airborne Warning and Control Division, 552 Airborne Warning and Control Wing, 552 Air Control Wing), 1 July 1978
 552d Operations Group, 29 May 1992 – present

Stations

 Mountain Home Army Air Field, Idaho, 16 February 1943
 Moses Lake Army Air Base, Washington, 10 April 1943
 Drew Field, Florida, 5 Nov 1943 – 1 May 1944
 Asansol, India, 3 September 1944
 Tamu, Burma, 14 October 1944
 Yazagyo, Burma, 6 November 1944
 Asansol, India, 27 November 1944
 Kawlin, Burma, 28 December 1944 (detachment operated from Inbaung, Burma, 3–22 January 1945)

 Ye-U, Burma, 10 January 1945
  Asansol, India, 21 February 1945
 Shwebo, Burma, 22 January 1945
 Sinthe, Burma, 14 March 1945
 Asansol, India, 25 April–6 October 1945
 Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, 1–3 November 1945
 McClellan Air Force Base, California, 8 August 1955 – 30 June 1971
 Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, 1 Jul 1978 – present)

Aircraft
 Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (1943–1944)
 Norduyn C-64 Norseman (1944–1945)
 Stinson L-5 Sentinel (1944–1945)
 Lockheed RC-121 Constellation (1955–1963)
 Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star (1963–1971)
 Boeing E-3 Sentry (1978–1979, 1984–present)

References

Bibliography

External links
552d Operations Group Fact Sheet

Military units and formations in Oklahoma
965
1955 establishments in Oklahoma

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The terms Nobilissimus (most noble) and nobilissima familia (most noble family) have been used since the 11th century for the King of Hungary and his family. But it were then only a few that were mentioned in documents as such:

 in the year 1055 Bela I of Hungary.
 in the year 1093 Saint Ladislaus I of Hungary.
 in the year 1161 Ladislaus II of Hungary.
 in the year 1213 Gertrude of Merania.
 in the year 1226 Coloman of Lodomeria.
 in the year 1386 Saint Hedwig of Poland.

Besides the most noble family of the King of Hungary were three other families mentioned in court verdicts in the 14th century in Hungary and in Dalmatia as "nobilissima familia" (most noble family):

 in the year 1322 the most noble family of Budislav de genere Percal in a supreme court verdict in a case about the right of jurisdiction in a village.
 in the year 1340 the most noble family of Job Zabroczky de Kesmark, because he could through his genealogy verify, that his family once had come from Dalmatia, because he was the son of Adam, son of Demetrius, son of Jonas, son of Hervard, son of Koloman, son of Gothard, son of Benedictus.
 in the year 1360 the most noble family of duke Gilet de Fraknó, because he gave Fraknó back to the crown.

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Hungarian noble families


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Minerva was a merchantman launched in 1773 in the East Indies. She traded there for more than 20 years before she made three voyages for the British East India Company (EIC). The first EIC voyage was from 1796 to 1798. In 1799 she transported convicts from Ireland to Australia while under charter to the EIC. From Australia she sailed to Bengal, and then back to Britain. She underwent repairs in 1802 and then traveled to St Helena and Bengal for the EIC. She was lost in 1805 or 1806 under circumstances that are currently unclear.

EIC voyage #1 (1796-98)
Captain Thomas Blany (or Blamey) sailed Minerva from Southampton on 22 May 1796, bound for Bengal. She reached Gibraltar on 14 June, Santa Cruz de Tenerife on 8 July, and the Cape on 19 September. She arrived at Diamond Harbour on 10 February 1797.

The British government planned an expedition 1797-8 against Manila. The EIC held eight regular ships, and three "dismantled ships" in India to support the expedition, and hired some others. Minerva, one of the hired vessels, left Calcutta on 25 April, and passed Diamond Harbour on 3 May. However, a peace treaty with Spain resulted in the British cancelling the planned expedition. Minervas owners claimed demurrage; the amount they claimed was £2,508 6s 8d for 106 days.

Homeward bound, Minerva, reached the Cape on 29 August, and St Helena on 29 September. She arrived at the Downs on 30 January 1798.

Lloyd's List for 2 February reported that Minerva, Blaney, master, had run afoul of , Salkeld, master, from Bengal, in the Downs. Castor was on shore at Ramsgate, and the cargo was expected to be saved.

Minerva was admitted to the Registry of Great Britain on 14 April 1798.

Convict transport and EIC voyage #2 (1799-1801)
Under the command of Joseph Salkeld (or Stalkeld), Minerva left the Downs, on 6 August 1798, arriving in Cork on 10 August 1798.  The government had compelled the EIC to charter the vessels the government had engaged as convict ships, rather than chartering the EIC's East Indiamen to carry convicts. The EIC had originally refused to charter Minerva, but under government duress the EIC reversed its original decision, chartered Minerva for a voyage from India on her homeward journey from Port Jackson, and waived its usual surveys.

Minervas departure was initially delayed due to the brig Lively, commanded by Captain Dobson, not arriving in Cork until 29 January 1799. Further delay then occurred due to the poor health of Irish political prisoners Lively had carried down from Dublin. These combined to postpone Minervas departure by more than a year. Surgeon John Washington Price, inspecting Lively, recorded in his journal that the prisoners were, 'in the most wretched, cruel and pitiable condition I'd ever seen human beings in'. He further recorded, 'It appears to me that Mr. Dobson endeavors to aggravate the punishment of these wretches by every means in his power.'
Seven of Lively prisoners died before the remainder were eventually transferred to Minerva, along with other rebel prisoners from Cork's North Gate Bridge Gaol before it sailed from Cork, Ireland on 24 August 1799 with 165 male and 26 female convicts. Three children of convicts and a fourth belonging to Joseph Holt were born during the voyage. Minerva also carried a detachment of 20 men from the New South Wales Marine Corps to guard the prisoners, and several passengers. One passenger was Joseph Holt, who as a general for the United Irish, had led a large guerrilla force that had fought against British troops in County Wicklow from June–October 1798. A second passenger was Henry Fulton, who was a clergyman in the Diocese of Killaloe, and who also had been involved in the Irish Rebellion of 1798. Both men travelled to Australia with their families, all sharing a cabin. They were not convicts per se. Holt was among seven transportees who had agreed to self-exile in lieu of punishment. Fulton may have been numbered among the 70 men classified as political prisoners. A third notable passenger was Captain William Cox, who had been appointed paymaster of the New South Wales Corps.

Minerva sailed in company with  and some other vessels. On 14 September, Minerva parted from Friendship, and their escort, , left them to return to Ireland. Two weeks later, on 30 September, Minerva exchanged shots at some distance with two strange vessels that sported Portuguese colors, but both sides did not pursue the matter. Three days after that Minerva encountered two Spanish vessels, a galleon and what appeared to be a prison ship. The British made ready to fight as Spain was an enemy of Britain's. The British also permitted Holt to form a gun crew from among the political prisoners, they having agreed to fight. As Minerva approached, the supposed prison ship fired a broadside. At that, Salkeld sailed away, and so did the Spaniards. Later, Holt admitted that had the Spanish boarded, he and his men would have mutinied.

Minerva reached Rio de Janeiro on 10 October and arrived at Port Jackson on 11 January 1800. She arrived there a month before Friendship. Three male convicts died on the voyage; this was a particularly low rate for such a long voyage. Salkeld had a liberal attitude with respect to restrictions on the conduct of the female convicts and a number of marriages eventuated. Holt later credited Cox with fostering the humane treatment of the prisoners that had resulted in the low death rate, and ended up managing Cox's farm.

Minerva left Port Jackson for Bengal in April 1800. She arrived at Calcutta on 7 June. Homeward bound, she passed Kedgeree on 27 October, reached St Helena on 24 February 1801 and Ascension Island on 22 March, and arrived at the Downs on 26 May. She had travelled with several other EIC "extra ships", viz , William Ward Farrer, master, , Scott, master, and . , a 12-gun storeship, had been their escort.

In 1802 Minerva changed hands, and underwent extensive repairs by Perry. At this time she had her measurements taken, and her burthen was reported as changing from 440 tons to 560 tons. Her new owner was James Pycroft, and her new master became George Weltden.

EIC voyage #3 (1802-1803)
Weltden left the Downs on 14 June 1802, bound for St Helena and Bengal, and in company with the East Indiaman . One of the passengers on board was Henry Salt, who would later go on to become consul general in Egypt and a noted Egyptologist; he was travelling as secretary to Viscount Lord Valentia. Minerva reached Madeira around 29 June and St Helena on 20 August. From there she reached the Cape on 20 October. At the Cape she picked up the future General Vandeleur and a portion of the 8th Light Dragoons. She separated from Lord Eldon at the Cape and reached the Nicobar Islands on 5 January 1803; she arrived at Calcutta on 29 January. On her homeward bound trip she passed Saugor on 10 March, reached the Nicobars again on 13 April, Colombo on 10 May, St Helena on 2 August, and Cork on 29 November, and arrived at the Downs on 12 December.

Minerva had left Britain during the Peace of Amiens, which broke down in March 1803. Weltden received a letter of marque dated 6 July 1803, i.e., after he had left.

Later career
The 1803 Lloyd's Register notes that Minerva had a new master, one Dodds by name. The letter of marque issued on 11 October 1804 to "Dods", shows her armament as two 9-pounder guns and twelve 24-pounder carronades.

The 1806 Lloyd's Register shows Minerva as travelling between London and Barbados, and armed with fourteen 24-pounder carronades. The entries continue relatively unchanged through the 1808 Lloyd's Register, and then end. However, the Register of Shipping for 1806 has a voyage of London—Jamaica, and the notation "LOST".

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Ships of the British East India Company
Convict ships to New South Wales
1773 ships
British ships built in India
Age of Sail merchant ships
Merchant ships of the United Kingdom
Maritime incidents in 1798
Maritime incidents in 1806
Shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean


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We can't not make the playoffs, its that easy. We have to beat the Pats once because we need to show the NFL that the Pats don't own us. Last but not least if we don't have a winning record and if we make the playoffs with a 9-7 record we will eventually lose because we have no home-field advantage. I think the Jets have a tough first half schedule but can rebound and have a 10-6 or a 11-5 season. But if the elder players don't step up big when it matters and get fatigued by week 16 we won't have a chance at going anywhere this season.


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Studio Television Production and Directing
Concepts, Equipment, and Procedures
Andrew Hicks Utterback
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Studio Television Production and Directing: Concepts, Equipment, and Procedures
This updated third edition of Studio Television Production and Directing introduces readers to the basic fundamentals of studio and control room production.
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Powered by the Liquid State Platform, the Logan City Council app, City of Logan, offers citizens a convenient way to stay engaged, informed and connected with their council.
Logan City Council is the 7th largest local government (by population) in Australia and is home to 3210,000 people from more than 217 different cultures. With such diversity, Logan City Council aimed to find innovating solutions that could be deployed to engage the residents of Logan.
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Scheduling changes, January 2019
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The Joan Rivers Show
Here is a quick rundown of what's in, what's out, and any notable changes that occurred at the start of the year.
(These are general overviews, and not something that will go over a schedule line by line. If you think I missed something important or if there's an error, let me know in the comments.)
Goodbye: Good Morning, World, Welcome Back, Kotter, What's Happening!!, What's Happening Now!!
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Weekends: The daytime and evening schedules return to back-to-back airings and many shows are shuffled around. Good Morning, World and Welcome Back, Kotter are gone. The late night repeat of Johnny Carson is dropped and many of the real retro shows move to late night Saturday.
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Hello: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Thunderbirds
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Weekends: Digging into the British archives again, Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons air in the late afternoon/early evening.
Hello: The Office, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet (1967)
Goodbye: The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, The Real McCoys, The Virginian, Alias Smith and Jones, Miami Vice, The Munsters,
Weekdays: The Comcast-owned netlet does a hard reboot to most of its schedule. A Lone Ranger block occupies every morning while previous weekday shows Emergency!, Adam 12, Make Room for Daddy, and Quantum Leap are pushed to weekends. Hart to Hart and The Rockford Files migrate from weekends and two-hour Columbo episodes now air every morning. In the evening, The Office, joins the large sitcom block of Will & Grace, Frasier, and The Nanny.
Weekends: The Virginian and Wyatt Earp are replaced by The Lone Ranger, Lassie, and Kojak. Newcomer Dragnet (the 1967 version) joins Emergency!, Adam 12 while The Bionic Woman and The Six Million Dollar Man move from Sunday evening to Saturday evening. The evening hours includes a Murder, She Wrote movie. The Sunday evening lineup is now a sitcom block, similar to the weekday lineup, but hidden in the late night hours is Make Room for Daddy.
Hello: The Joan Rivers Show
Weekdays: In the early evening, the 1990s daytime syndicated talk show The Joan Rivers Show joins the lineup, replacing one of the episodes of Laugh-In.
(Note: I try to keep up on the programs airing in the late-night Lost TV block, but sometimes fall quite behind.)
Hello: Boston Legal, Law & Order
Weekdays: The netlet really steps up by dropping movies from most of its schedule and scaling back on reality crime program reruns. Unsolved Mysteries, Law & Order, and Boston Legal join its weekday lineup.
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Weekends: Daytime shuffling does not subtract anything but does add a small Flying Nun block and a lot more Roy Rogers Show. In the evening, Perry Mason and Matlock are reduced to single episodes to make room for a Bob Newhart Show block. Later in the evening, Hart to Hart and T.J. Hooker are added to Saturdays.
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Hello: Amen, Cher
Weekdays: Amen joins the network's comedy slate in the early morning.
Cher is now the overnight variety show.
Weekends: A long Married… with Children airs late Sunday/early Monday.
Goodbye: Grounded for Life
Weekdays: The morning Grounded for Life block has been replaced with Night Court and 3rd Rock from the Sun.
Weekends: The Drew Carey Show is dropped from the late afternoon and moves to both the early morning with Cybill and the late night.
Hello: Crossing Jordan, Promised Land, Strong Medicine, Unforgettable
Unforgettable, Crossing Jordan, Strong Medicine, The Good Wife, and Promised Land are added as the network reduces its schedule to, at most, back-to-back episodes.
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Four out of ten customers in the GCC are ready to switch to a digital-first relationship. Our aim is to lead the digital revolution in the GCC through launching next generation technology platforms such as crowdfunding, robo-advisory, payment solutions and more. ALGO Bahrain collaborates with regulators, governments and financial institutions to drive the FinTech industry revolution).
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Lacking extensive resources as a foundation, the scope of our work has been limited. But we have developed a successful scholarship program that provides high-school education for local children so that they can better help their communities to develop. We have also collaborated with the local school, building a dining area, library, installing a drinking water system, and carrying out workshops with youth in sexual and reproductive health and rights. In addition we have worked with a group of women would-be entreprenneurs to develop tourism related businesses, and the local council to encourage organizational skills.
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Finally, a Freeride Event for Sit-Skiers
Because the powder is deeper when you ski sitting down.
Eugene Buchanan
The back of Andy Campbell's orange, fiberglass-shelled Praschberger sit-ski reads die living. He just flew 20 feet off a jump, bounced 20 more feet, and is now lying on his side below a wind lip on Colorado's Buffalo Pass. The impact sheared the bolts off his monoski and Campbell's unable to move. He's still buckled into his seat, but it's no longer attached to the ski underneath. "That should have held up through that," he says as guides try to Humpty Dumpty him back together. They eventually haul him out in a toboggan.
It's not the first time Campbell has had to be lugged off the slopes. But it's the first time it's happened in the backcountry. Campbell's here for the first-ever Legends of the Deep Powder Exhibition, a one-of-a-kind event put on by Access Anything, adventure-travel guides for people with disabilities, and Steamboat Powdercats. While every other disabled-skiing event involves either gates or skiercross (as in the X Games) on a manicured resort run, this one has some of the best athletes freeskiing off-piste, each competitor etching three tracks into fresh snow.
Campbell, 32, has picked himself up in the past. Three months after returning from the invasion of Iraq with the British Army, he was rock climbing with a friend when his anchor broke on a rappel, sending him 65 feet to the ground and to life in a wheelchair. In the hospital for seven months, he thought of what he could still pursue in the mountains. Eventually he joined the British Adaptive Ski Team.
The guides, of course, are aware of the extra care these skiers need. Sit-skier Lucien Smith, 44, promised them he wouldn't push his tibia up into his knee again. Two years earlier at an adaptive camp, he sit-skied into a rock, broke his tibia, and was unaware it was broken until that night in the shower.
Smith, experienced with other adaptive contests, made the promise because he relishes this unique event. "I don't have the tolerance to wait around and run gates," he says as the competitors ride the cat up for lap number two. "That's the only other avenue available to adaptive skiers."
While today's event was originally designed as a competition, organizers and participants are happy to call it an exhibition—especially since it marks the first time Access Anything has targeted such challenging terrain for skiers with disabilities. Legends of the Deep is poised to someday turn into a full-fledged event, like the extreme big-mountain championships for able-bodied skiers, that will award the title of best adaptive powder skier in the world.
"It's all about skiing with friends and having a good time," says Access Anything founder Craig Kennedy, who was paralyzed from the waist down after a skiing accident in 1994. "A lot of people don't think we can compete on this level, but we can."
Back up top, the cat doors fly open and the skiers file out. The two monoskiers who were riding in the aisle slide backward down a makeshift wooden ramp. Before them are acres of powder. While the fresh snow is harder to ski because they can't hop or unweight their turns, there's an upside: Face shots come easier when you're sitting two feet off the ground.
On the final run, skiers soar off the wind lip, Campbell flying farther than the able-bodied guides. At the after-party, prizes are awarded for best line, air, crash, and face shot. Campbell, who'll compete in the X Games the following weekend, wins the air and crash categories.
Later, wheeling up to the pool table, he sinks a combo shot and lines up another. "Skiing isn't supposed to be about sliding down a racecourse for a medal," he says, his eye level with the table bumper. "It's about getting into the mountains and enjoying life, one face shot at a time."
Three Adaptive Skiers Who Charge
Ron McMorris: McMorris, an above-the-knee amputee, calls his peg leg Pete. At Legends of the Deep he won the lack-of-face-shots award, not for want of trying, but because he's a stand-up three-track skier.
Andy Campbell: Has the number 13 stenciled on his monoski. "After the accident everyone said how sorry they were and how unlucky I'd been," he says. "But I feel the exact opposite. I feel lucky to be alive."
Craig Kennedy: The brains behind the event. Kennedy runs a company, consults for Boeing, wrote two books, and mentors at-risk youth. Oh, and he also skis at least 70 days a year.
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Freeride World Tour: Final Results at Squaw Valley
It was a dramatic few days at Squaw Valley, but the big-mountain competition took place Tuesday on Silverado. The men's ski winner was Sweden's Henrik Windsted; the women's ski winner was Jackie Paaso, a Squaw local who got a wild card to compete at the event. Here are final results and videos of the winning lines.
Winter Olympics Event Calendar
Whether you're heading to Vancouver to watch the Olympics or just tuning in from your TV, we've got a schedule of the events you don't want to miss from February 12-28. And if you are traveling to watch the Games live, we've got some helpful pointers on where and when to eat, ski, and party.
What's Happening to Women on the Nissan Freeride World Tour?
Big mountain athletes Crystal Wright and Jess McMillan tell us what they think about the changes to the Nissan Freeride World Tour.
Cabral Leads 7 U.S. Moguls Skiers Into Finals
Freeride World Tour: Racer Julia Mancuso is Competing in the Verbier Xtreme
As if two Olympic silver medals wasn't enough, ski racer Julia Mancuso has decided to take on the Verbier Xtreme this weekend, the final stop on this year's Freeride World Tour. The venue for the big-mountain competition is the Bec de Rosses, a massive face filled with rocky cliff bands and no-fall zones. Find out why Julia is taking on the challenge.
Freeride World Tour Announces 09-10 Tour Stops
Socci, Chamonix, Squaw Valley, Verbier. Not a bad list of places to travel. If you're competing on the Freeride World Tour, that's exactly we're you'll be headed in 2010.
Skier Superpipe to be Included at X Games
Two new events—male skier superpipe and snowmobile knockout—are added to the roster for the 2010 Winter X Games, planned for January 28-31 at Buttermilk in Aspen, Colorado. Plans don't yet include women's superpipe. We asked X Games competitor Jess Cummings why.
Behind the Scenes with Bode: An Interview with Bode's Dad
With a gold medal from Sunday's super combined at the Winter Olympics in Whistler, Bode Miller is smashing the record for the most medals earned by an American ski racer. We sat down with Bode's dad to talk about how Bode got into skiing, his biggest weaknesses, and why he didn't show up to the event celebrating his medal.


Economist Will Dunning released a report today entitled, "How To Dissect A Housing Bubble" that refutes the widespread consensus that Canadian housing is overvalued.
Interested in reading how he came to this conclusion? You can download his report here.
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The bad news? It's Monday again. Don't despair, there's good news to be had, too. Three excellent video game deals are available today for fans of co-op, zombies, dragons, and precious metals.
First up, House of the Dead: Overkill for the Wii is on sale for a mere $12.99. Kat thought highly of the game, and if a few hours of Zombie killin', lightgun style, is your thing, you might check it out.
One of my favorite XBLA titles, Magic the Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers is the Gold deal of the week, and has been reduced 50% to a paltry 400 MS Points. If you've ever been curious about the mega-popular card game, it's worth a try, believe me.
Not a Gold member yet? Amazon is running a sale on the 12 month Gold cards, discounted to $34.99. Hope these deals brightened your Monday a little bit!
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Don't forget to have a sense of humor as you embark on this fun pose.
Baby Bakasana just might be the cutest pose ever. Here's how you do it in 4 steps.
Baby Crow Pose, or Baby Bakasana, may be the world's smallest and cutest arm balance. It's a cousin of Karandavasana (Duck Pose) from second series Ashtanga Yoga where the legs are in Lotus. Baby Bakasana has all of the same actions as Karandavasna without the deep Lotus hip-opener (it can also be lowered into from forearm balance).
One of the key areas to focus on in this pose is the shoulders. We're trained to keep our shoulders over our elbows in most poses and, without proper thought, taking the shoulders past the elbows can easily turn into dumping. The correct action is to physically shift your shoulders forward without losing support. Make sure to keep your upper outer arms firming in and the shoulders resisting the descent toward the hands. Once you get into the full pose it may not feel "right" and because it's so darn tiny! You are so close to the ground you can't even "pick up" into the pose, you simply point your toes and you're off the ground.
Moral of the story—this is a silly, cute pose that is meant to be enjoyed. Pack your sense of humor and enjoy your journey into Baby Bakasana!
It's important to prime your spine for Baby Bakasana because there will be an enormous amount of rounding in the full pose. Start in a squat balancing on the balls of your feet with your big toes touching. Separate your knees and walk your hands out in front of you until your arms are straight. Reach your forehead down toward the ground as you lengthen your heels toward the mat behind you. Breathe here for 8 breaths.
In Baby Baksana, the correct action is to physically shift your shoulders forward without losing support.
Stay low from Step 1 and just walk your hands in and place your forearms onto the mat parallel to each other. Wrap your knees around the upper outer edges of your arms. Spread all 10 fingers evenly and press down on both sides of the wrists. Keep the gaze slightly past your fingertips and begin to lean forward, keeping the knees actively hugging around your arms.
Continue to learn forward so your face gets closer to the ground. I like to joke that there is a bowl of your favorite food in front of your hands and you don't have a fork, so you have to go face first! It will feel as though you are folding your biceps onto your forearms. Just be careful not to lift the elbows—they will stay flat the entire time. Once you lean forward, resist the weight of the legs on your arms by hugging the shoulders. Point just your left foot (you're so close to the ground you won't be able to lift it, just point).
Baby Bakasana is supposed to be fun. Make sure you have a sense of humor as you "play" with this pose.
Round your upper back deeply as if you could sprout wings out of your shoulder blades. Continue to squeeze your knees around your arms as you lean forward a pinch more and point your second foot so both feet are now off the ground. Round your upper back, firm your elbows down, and keep your gaze slightly forward without any strain in your neck. Spread your toes and hold for 5 breaths, then release your feet to the ground.
Kathryn Budig is an international yoga teacher who teaches online at YogaGlo.
Kathryn Budig is the yoga teacher behind AIM TRUE, a regular writer for Yoga Journal. Her organization Poses for Paws raises funds to support animal shelters through yoga events. She shares the moments, places, and people that motivate and move her with #findyourinspiration. Discover what inspires her here in challenging asana, feel-good flows, and tips and tricks of the trade to help you advance your practice.


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Boundary Commission to undertake an Electoral Review of Buckinghamshire Council
Matthew Clark | March 2, 2021
The Boundary Commission are to undertake an Electoral Review of Buckinghamshire Council.
The first phase of that Review will be to determine what should be the appropriate size of the Council in terms of the number of Councillors.
On Thursday 25th February 2021, at a meeting of the Buckinghamshire Council Standards and General Purposes Committee, it was agreed that a submission would be made to the Boundary Commission about the future number of councillors for Buckinghamshire.
A Working Group was set up by the Standards Committee to look at the Council's governance arrangements and structures and information regarding the electorate, housing growth etc.
Other key considerations were the future agenda for the Council, its ambitions concerning the involvement of Members in the strategic direction of the Council, the Scrutiny and Regulatory functions, and the role and workload of Members as leaders in their localities.
Evidence from previous reports, submissions and benchmarking was considered alongside new information and analysis including the challenges of a post Covid world. Having considered all this, the Working Group have recommended a figure of 120 Members. This information will now be shared with the Boundary Commission who will take this into account in their own deliberations.
It is anticipated that the Commission will consider their decision and make it known after the elections in May 2021.
Councillor Jonathan Waters, Chairman of the Standards and General Purposes Committee at Buckinghamshire Council, said: 'The decision of the Commission will clearly impact the democratic decision-making of the Council and the role of all elected Members.
With this proposal for 120 Councillors, the Unitary Authority will have halved the Councillor numbers from those in the legacy councils. This number balances the need to deliver an efficient and effective Council, while ensuring that the bond and partnership between Councillors and residents, Parish/Town Councils, Residents Societies and Community Groups continues to be strong.
The Committee also wanted to ensure Councillor representation from those who are employed, have families or are in a caring role, and from all ages and backgrounds to ensure a truly diverse Council to represent our communities without excessive Councillor hours becoming a barrier to entry.'
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With the help of scalp massaging, I was able to grow my hair from arm pit length to waist length in about 1 year and 6 months.
After reviewing several of my articles, I noticed I failed to mention scalp massaging. How can I overlook this? If you review my Feature of the Month post, you will notice I mentioned scalp massaging.
I scalp massage every wash day and several times per week. It is so automatic at this point that I simply overlooked documenting this step in previous blog posts.
If you have not tried scalp massaging, you are missing out! I look forward to it after a long day at work. Not only is scalp massaging relaxing, research suggests it promotes hair growth by opening blood vessels and stimulating blood circulation.
My massage sessions are quick and to the point. I prefer to massage with an oil or moisturizer to minimize the potential for broken or split hairs from the friction of the massage.
I apply product of choice to my hair and scalp and gently rub and knead the scalp while watching tv. I seriously can be done in about 2 minutes flat from applying product to scalp massaging, but hey, what fun is that. I normally massage for about 5 minutes so that I can get into the moment, relax and free my mind. Truth be told, I don't watch the clock, I just massage and gauge it from there.
I vary the product used. However, my favorite is Jamaican Black Castor Oil. I have used Tropical Isle and Sunny Isle with the same positive results.
I've been using Jamaican Black Castor Oil for about 4 years and absolutely love it.
I've tried regular castor from the grocery store and there is no comparison. Jamaican Black Castor Oil softens hair from root to tip like nobody's business. It has also helped to thicken some troubled areas along my hairline.
Some hair enthusiasts suggest regular castor and Jamaican Black Castor Oil work the same but that has not been my experience. I feel there is difference in thickness, application and effectiveness with Jamaican Black Castor Oil being the better of the two.
I often will transfer my Jamaican Black Castor Oil to an applicator tip bottle and add a few drops of peppermint oil since peppermint oil is stimulating and can also accelerate growth.
My newest love though is Hairitage Hydration's Jar of Joe. It is simply divine and smells delicious like a fresh brewed cup of coffee (yum!). This is a quadruple threat because it can be used for skin moisturizing, hair sealing, shedding and growth. This product is formulated perfectly because my hair loves it despite it not being a fan of black coffee rinses for hair shedding.
Jar of Joe Ingredients: Coffee Butter (Coffea Arabica Seed Oil and Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil) Cocoa Butter, Castor Oil, Coconut Oil, Jojoba Oil, Rosemary Extract, Coffee Essential Oil.
All of the products mentioned can be used to seal in moisture although I typically only use them for scalp massaging. On the rare occasions that I opt to seal with them, it is usually in the colder months because these are heavier products which offers lasting benefits in the chilly temps.
Spill the tea. What have you done to grow long relaxed hair fast?
I love JBCO, it makes my new growth so soft and manageable especially once i'm passed 8 weeks post. I tend to do scalp massages just before I prepoo with any oil of my choice but I don't ever remember to do them, so thanks for the reminder.
Sure thing! I was scalp massaging daily back in 2010ish and I got the most growth that year. It definitely works wonders.
I do regularly do scalp massages also. They are so relaxing and my scalp tingles (in a good way) for a while after I do them. I don't use castor oil because it is too heavy for me so I use jojoba oil with some essential oils mixed in. Castor oil is great for my edges and as a prepoo though!
Yay Jaime! That's awesome. Jojoba is an excellent oil but it just didn't soften my hair like jbco. Does jojoba soften your hair and what essential oils are you mixing in if you don't mind me asking?
It softens a bit, but it adds more shine than anything. I like it because it doesn't leave as much build up when I'm between washes. I mix in lavender, rosemary, tea tree and peppermint to stimulate growth and help control dandruff.
will def get that Jar or Joe. so you wash it out after you use it to massage?(like a tea rinse) does it also make your growth soft? That's what I need *sigh* JBCO is so thick and my haior is fine..not sure how i can use it..maybe mixed with grapeseed or just use a small amount to massage..what says you?
Joe: I leave it in, no washing. It definitely makes the new growth softer. It's not thick and heavy like jbco. It's more whipped, creamy and lighter of a product in comparison. Joe should work great for your fine strands — will spread easier and not snap your hairs. I would mix jbco with an oil your hair loves. Mine loves extra virgin olive or avocado so I'd go with one of those. If you hair loves grapeseed then definitely use that instead. In a small applicator mix a little of jbco & grapeseed with a 50:50 ratio to see what you get. If you like it, rock on. If not, then increase the amount of grapeseed until you have thinned out jbco enough. Let me know how it goes.
How do you apply the Joe? You mentioned that you put the JBCO in an applicator to apply but was wondering how you apply the Joe (just purchased today, hoping to help speed up growth rate). It seems like it would be any oily mess and not as effective if you try to just apply it from the the jar with the fingertips to the scalp.
Hi Tara, I apply it with my fingertips for scalp massaging or sealing. It's not an oily mess. I haven't tried transferring it to an applicator tip bottle because straight from the jar works great. How do you plan to use it?
Oh and, I don't find that it speeds up growth. If anything, the coffee helps with shedding. I think the scalp massages plays a part in the growth factor because it increases blood flow to the scalp. I like Jar of Joe so that's the product I chose to use. Scalp massaging can be accomplished with any good product or oil. Sulfur based products are known for increasing up growth as you may be aware. Just sharing a little tip should you not see faster growth with a coffee based product….try a sulfur product if your scalp doesn't reject sulfur.
I didn't realize you had replied. Thanks so much for your response. I've been using a mixture of castor oil/grapeseed oil/coconut oil/tea tree oil for my scalp massages twice/wk and I've been noticing more shedding than usual. Can't figure out if it's just the scalp massages or the oil use. Still haven't received my jar of joe but still looking forward to trying that for my scalp massages. The only sulfur product I have is sulfur 8 bc it is great with my dandruff, but haven't used it in a while or as regularly as I used to. Since that has a lot of mineral oil/petrolatum would it even be beneficial as a growth aid?
Hi Tarra! Thanks for replying back. You should try tea rinses to help calm the shedding. It could be seasonal shedding as some ladies tend to experience increased shedding in the winter. I don't particularly see an increase in shedding during the cooler months. Not sure why — I do take vitamins on the regular (GNC Be Wholesome). Maybe skip the scalp massages and see if things stabilize. Joe is a great product. I love it! I never stick with growth aides long enough to know if they work. I do know that some had great success with sulfur based products. Sulfur can be drying so watch out for that. If your hair does fine with mineral oil/petrolatum, then you should be fine. Some ladies have no issues with these ingredients. The only true way to know if it'll work is to give it a try. It's crazy how what works for one may not work for another. Truly trial & error (unfortunately).