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Facebook marketing is a must in today's Internet-connected world. Everyone who's anyone seems to have a Facebook page. It gives you a great opportunity to connect with people, building relationships and brand loyalty. But Facebook can have some pitfalls, too, so manage your personal account appropriately to ensure you're not hurting your professional reputation.
Facebook & Internet Privacy
One important thing to note about Facebook is that you have the ability to set your privacy levels so that people who are viewing either your personal profile or your Facebook Pages can only see certain information.
It's easy to adjust your Privacy settings to ensure that people are only seeing what you want them to see. To monitor and change your privacy settings:
- Login to Facebook
- Click on the arrow on the right side of the menu bar at the top of the screen
- Select "Privacy Settings†from the dropdown menu
From there, you'll have the option to select who can see status updates and photos, how you connect with new people, control what happens when people tag you or post on your wall, and manage past posts. You can also block people and apps, and manage your settings for ads, apps, games and websites.
Why Does Internet Privacy Matter?
There may be certain circumstances under which you wouldn't want information on your Facebook page to be publicly viewable. You can use the Internet privacy settings to customize who can see your content – and more importantly, who can't see it. To give you some examples of when you might not want people viewing your profile, imagine these scenarios:
- You're a recent college graduate interviewing for a new job. You wouldn't want potential employers to see drunken or unflattering pictures of you;
- You may be going through a divorce or breakup and want keep certain things private or only share them with specific people.
- You could be on a sensitive work assignment that would warrant hiding your details, such as a law enforcement professional wanting to maintain a low profile.
- You might be avoiding certain friends or family or just want a period where you can maintain your privacy.
Suspending or Deleting Your Account
While you can use your privacy settings to customize what people can see, you can also put your Facebook profile under temporary suspension. To temporarily deactivate your account:
- Login to Facebook
- Click the arrow at the right side of the menu bar at the top of the screen
- Select "Account Settingsâ€
- Select "Security†from the options on the left
- Click "Deactivate your account.â€
When your account is deactivated, no one can see your account or find you in a Facebook search. At any time, you can reactivate your account by logging in with your E-mail and password.
You can also permanently delete your account, but this requires you to fill out a form through Facebook. Facebook's system delays the deletion process in case users change their mind, so this action does not happen immediately.
When you permanently delete your account, some information, such as the messages you've sent to other people, may still be visible. Facebook states that their servers may also retain some material, such as photos and notes, but that material would not be accessible to other people using Facebook.
With the right approach to Facebook marketing you can build your professional image and connect with potential customers. But remember to monitor your Internet privacy settings, and make sure viewers are only seeing what you want them to see on your Facebook pages.


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Awareness Programs
National Relays. City Rallies. Dallas Memorial March.
With the mission to provide active ways to honor and celebrate our nation's heroes by connecting Americans to the sacrifices made by Military veterans, Law Enforcement, Firefighters, Rescue Personnel and their families. Carry The Load supports and hosts events throughout the year in which the public can participate.
Today, Carry The Load uses Memorial May leading into Memorial Day as the catalyst to bring awareness to our cause. These Memorial May Awareness events give Americans active ways to participate, donate and volunteer in honor of our nation's heroes.
We encourage all Americans to do something meaningful on Memorial Day, even if it is simply stopping for the moment of remembrance to remember those families who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. The National Moment of Remembrance, established by Congress, asks Americans — wherever they are at 3 p.m. local time on Memorial Day — to pause in an act of national unity for a duration of one minute. To learn more on how you can participate click here.
West Coast | East Coast
National Relay
The National Relay is a bi-coastal awareness event, which operates 24 hours a day, handing off the American flag every 5 miles of walking and/or cycling. The West coast route begins in Seattle, WA and covers 4300 miles, while the East coast route begins in Boston and jumps up to West Point, NY covering 2300 miles on the Memorial May journey towards Dallas. Both routes culminate in Dallas over Memorial Day weekend with a 2-day event to honor and celebrate those who have given the ultimate sacrifice on Memorial Day. Go to the East Coast Relay page or the West Coast Relay page.
City Rallies
Many cities across the country have joined our mission to honor our nations heroes during Memorial May. Some of these rallies are along the Relay route, where the relay bus and team will stop for an hour to celebrate local, hometown heroes. Other rallies are stand alone events that have grown organically to honor our heroes. Go to the City Rallies page.
Dallas Memorial March
This event, in Carry The Load's hometown of Dallas, is our flagship event and the culmination of the East and West Coast Relays. The Dallas Memorial March is a 2-day Memorial weekend event honoring service members and their families for the sacrifices they make. Participants join in the Memorial March at any time during the 2 days and walk even for just a few minutes. Go to the Dallas Memorial March page.

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Tennis Elbow
Has anyone ever trained (or not trained) with tennis elbow? I have it in my right arm. I am doing a therapy that is helping but it wont go away overnight.
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I've got plenty of experience with tennis elbow, in both elbows. It's like any other tendinitis, in that it is aggravated by activities of daily living and not necessarily great big athletic feats or obvious trauma, and that it easily becomes chronic if not cared for properly. It can get bad enough that even trivial activities like picking up a very light weight can be extremely painful.
If you don't have much experience with soft tissue injuries, you'll probably make some mistakes about when it is "healed", and do at least some of your learning the hard way (if you learn at all; some people are stubborn and never do). I don't believe that total rest is really good for tennis elbow in most cases (maybe even all cases, since the activities of daily living that can aggravate inflammation are so many and so trivial, even if you're "resting" you're aggravating it). In my all-too-extensive experience, the solution is to control the range of motion, manage inflammation, restrict activities as needed, and be patient. Control the range of motion with a good tennis elbow strap, which I recommend wearing pretty much constantly at first, not just for athletic activity - it will provide the right amount of compression and restrict your range of motion just enough to reduce the aggravation of the elbow. Manage inflammation with your anti-inflammatory of your choice -- used properly as an anti-inflammatory, NOT as a pain reliever. Restrict activity by cutting out some things altogether (pull-ups are probably a bad idea) and reducing the intensity and duration of others (suburi is doable for many degrees of tennis elbow, but lots of suburi with a big fat club of a suburito is not). And patience, well, we all have to learn that one with injuries. Learn to monitor the injury, to become sensitive to its moods and to learn the subtle signs: at the point where you feel "ow, PAIN", you've long past overdone it. It will come around if you do the right thing; if you don't, you'll just keep cycling back to zero, or worse.
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Great resource here, download the .pdf: http://www.drjuliansaunders.com/reso.../dodgy_elbows/
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I completely disagree with Mary with regard to limiting range of motion.
When I was doing a lot of heavy weightlifting I got tennis elbow in my right elbow and it was terrible.
This will be somewhat difficult to describe, but using some simple dynamic stretches for my wrist and elbow, and self-myofascial release on my forearm and upper arm using a tennis ball completely resolved the issue.
I have showed others a subset of the movements I used and was told that they could stop going to their physical therapists because my exercises worked better.
The cause of tennis elbow is in the muscles and connective tissue of the forearm, not in the elbow joint. You can alleviate the pain fairly quickly and easily.
You have to know your body.
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I've had this problem.
This really helped me!
For the english Version scroll down until "DEUTSCH / GERMANN . . . . english | dutch" and click "english".
(The menu on top seems not to work.)
It helped also some friends who suffered much more then me.
Like Michael said: Stretching is a very effective Therapie!
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Acupuncture helped me. I had tried a cortisone injection initially but apart from the pain of the needle not much else happened. As a skeptic i waited 4 months until I was convinced to try acupuncture. It started to get better but it was quite a long time until it had fully healed. I did use a strap to help alleviate pain during day to day activities.
Good luck and don't rush it
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Yes acupuncture helped me also, combined with ultrasounds therapy. But even when pain disappears, you need to be very careful next few months with strong locks on the elbow or weapons practice.
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I didn't disagree for arguments sake, and really don't know why you would want to argue this. I'm trying to share ideas with people that will hopefully help them, as I am sure you are too. I offer it up in contrast to things that I feel will be less or counter-productive. People can take or leave it as they choose.
You said:
Tennis elbow is caused by making repeated motions in a limited range with the hand closed.
It is alleviated (and prevented) by moving one's elbow through a full range of motion while one's wrist is stretched in a variety of ways. In addition to this, it is advisable that one address the tissue quality of their forearms. One does this through self-myofascial release, a.k.a. foam rolling.
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Tennis elbow, lateral epicondylitis, in the acute phase, is inflammation of the extensor tendons at the area of the insertion into the bone. Left untreated, it can deteriorate into epicondylosis-degeneration of the tendon (harder to treat).
I get good results with a form of deep tissue therapy called Graston Technique (instrument assisted soft tissue mobilization-IASTM) and cold (low level) laser therapy couple with a tennis elbow strap, home icing and exercises. The tissue therapy breaks down adhesions and granular tissue and the laser speeds healing. Stretching and exercise re-establish properly lined up scar tissue. Find a chiropractor or chiropractic orthopedist or physical therapist using Graston and Laser. They might also do Mill's Maneuver to break up adhesion. Ice is appropriate if acute and inflamed. It won't help much if degenerative (soft dark tendon with few inflammatory cells).
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A tennis elbow strap diffuses the stresses away from the site of injury. In bad cases, one cannot even hold a glass of water (personal experience). It helps let the area heal while allowing minor stress to help avoid diffuse scar tissue.
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The initial naming of the term comes from improperly execute back hands by tennis players. Extending the wrist under sudden load. Flicking the wrist to impart spin or hitting the ball off the sweet spot.
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I've hard really bad golfer's elbow for about six years (inside of joint rather than outside). Tried a variety of things. The pain has been so bad that sometimes, the pressure of a shirtsleeve was painful.
What has finally helped is body weight exercises with correct alignment and full range of motion (push ups, for example) and hanging up to a minute for four sets from a chinning bar twice a week. After six years, seems to be finally cleared.
Ellis Amdur
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Thanks to all who have replied. I am having good results so far with wrist bending with arm extended and wearing a band on my forearm neat the elbow.
I have heard of the hanging therapy mentioned by Amdur sensei and will give it a try.
So far so good. It's not gone yet but much better.
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Thank you, Ellis.
Golfer's elbow and tennis elbow are obviously related conditions. Both can cause intense pain. I know that from personal experience.
These conditions are not natural. Natural movement is all that you need to eliminate them for good.
Gimmicks, gadgets, and ibuprofen can't do that.
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Where is the site of injury?
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I had this when I started training more than 4 times/week. For me it was aggravated by kotegaeshi and sometimes shihonage. I used 'kiatsu' a pressure wrap and relaxed intensity in training and it slowly improved. My physician called it 'golfers elbow' and said it is common in certain sports and usually the 'athlete' won't rest properly so most just find a therapeutic Tx and alteration in the activity. I have to wonder if i built up enough scar tissue to keep everything stuck together better. I know that is not traditional thinking...just sayin'! Perhaps we build scar tissue in these areas for a reason?
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Wyoming Public Radio announces an exciting new weekend schedule beginning the weekend of August 23rd. Download a printable PDF of our new schedule here.
All your Saturday morning favorites remain with a new afternoon lineup beginning at 1:00 with eTown, music performance recorded live from Boulder, Colorado followed by the return of American Routes with Nick Spitzer from 2-4pm.
Sundays at 10am, we debut NPR's Ted Radio Hour with host Guy Raz exploring ideas, inventions and new ways to think and create. At 11, we whet your appetite for great food and cooking with America's Test Kitchen. Radiolab with Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich can now be heard Sunday afternoon at 1:00 followed by Travel with Rick Steves. We examine language through history, culture, and family on A Way With Words at 3pm. For those who miss the Saturday morning broadcast of Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, we'll play it again Sunday afternoons at 4pm.
We hope you enjoy the new lineup and let us know what you think via e-mail: email@example.com
New Weekend Programs:
1pm - eTown A national radio broadcast since 1991. Every eTown show is taped in front of a live audience Boulder, Colorado. The program features performances from many of today's top musical artists as well as conversations and information about the world around us.
2pm - American Routes "In the history of American radio, no series has come close to Nick Spitzer's American Routes in exploring the many streams of this nation's music." — Nat Hentoff, Wall Street Journal
American Routes is a weekly two-hour program produced in New Orleans, presenting a broad range of American music — blues and jazz, gospel and soul, old-time country and rockabilly, Cajun and zydeco, Tejano and Latin, roots rock and pop, avant-garde and classical. American Routes explores the shared musical and cultural threads in these American styles and genres of music — and how they are distinguished.
10am - TED Radio Hour with host Guy Raz is a journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions and new ways to think and create. Each episode includes riveting excerpts from the renowned TED stage where some of the world's deepest thinkers and innovators are invited to give the 18-minute "talk of their lives." The TED Radio Hour team takes the most compelling talks and organizes them around a common theme. But we don't stop with the TEDTalks. Host Guy Raz interviews the guests, delving deeper, dissecting the speaker's ideas and posing probing questions you'd like to hear answered.
11am - America's Test Kitchen with host Chris Kimball is a food program for right now. It's filled with clear, practical information, without the gourmet fuss. America's Test Kitchen is all about insights, tips and techniques that illuminate the truth about real home cooking. There will be some mystery, too, like why bad things happen to good recipes and the science behind good results.
1pm - Radiolab (moved from Friday 7pm - Undercurrents moves to Saturday 8pm.) Each hour we take a big idea, so big that it lives everywhere, hiding in a thousand places under different names, and we chase that idea, going wherever whim takes us. Along the way, hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich interview, argue, imagine, and discover the hidden connections that make this idea so surprisingly powerful. It's Technicolor radio. Radiolab is produced by WNYC and distributed by National Public Radio.
2pm - Travel with Rick Steves is a weekly one-hour conversation about travel, cultures, people, and the things we find around the world that give life its extra sparkle. Rick Steves is the leading authority on travel to Europe, and is extending his interest to global topics.
3pm - A Way with Words. A Way with Words is an upbeat and lively hour-long public radio show about language examined through history, culture, and family. Co-hosts Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett talk with callers from around the world about slang, grammar, old sayings, word origins, regional dialects, family expressions, and speaking.
Why is WPR expanding its weekend lineup?
WPR is committed to providing you the best programs with a variety of news, information and entertainment for your weekend. Our new schedule includes programs that are hits with public radio listeners around the country. Now Wyoming listeners can enjoy them as well. WPR still keeps most of the current weekend programs. Some have moved to different time slots and some can now be heard online including New Dimensions.


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Dear Alice,
There is a diet going around called the "Zone Diet." This diet seems to make a lot of sense. I would greatly appreciate your opinion on it.
Zone Me In
Dear Zone Me In,
Obesity has become an increasingly, um, large issue in the U.S., and theories abound to explain why. Barry Sears, Ph.D. creator of the Zone Diet, believes that the culprit of such wide-spread overweight is insulin resistance, which people develop as a result of eating too many refined carbohydrates and sugary foods. His solution? In addition to exercise, he recommends cutting out much of the sugar and carbs, and eating a lower carb, higher protein, and moderate fat diet in the ratio of 40 percent carbs, 30 percent protein, 30 percent fat.
Sears, a biochemist, has found that a diet high in carbohydrates causes an over-production of insulin, a hormone which helps the body use and store glucose. Too much insulin can lead to weight gain, which is the main focus here, but it can also create an imbalance in eicosanoids, a hormone-like substance that regulates inflammation. An imbalance in eicosanoids has been linked heart disease, cancer, and arthritis. Sears believes that eating a lower carb, higher protein, and moderate fat diet will balance these hormones within the preferred "zone," for most efficient insulin production, weight loss, and hormonal balance. The plan encourages people to eat often throughout the day — at least every five hours — which may help some to keep their metabolism stable, thereby burning calories more efficiently than less-frequent eating which allows blood sugar levels to fall.
The Zone pays special attention to the glycemic index of foods, which is a way to measure how quickly a food becomes sugar in the blood. The more quickly a food breaks down, the quicker it turns to sugar and requires an insulin surge. Low glycemic foods, such as cherries, grapefruit, nuts, and lentils, don't cause blood glucose levels to increase quickly, and therefore require lower levels of insulin than higher glycemic foods, which include white potatoes, corn flakes, and dates.
The diet focuses on strictly limiting high-glycemic foods, such as sweets, chips, and starches, and replaces them with more nutrient-rich and lower-glycemic choices like vegetables, some fruits, grains, lean meats and fish, and monounsaturated and omega-3 fats. Low-glycemic foods tend to be low in calories, so a significant reason people lose weight while on the Zone is because it is essentially a low-calorie diet.
Another reason some people tend to quickly lose weight on the Zone Diet is because of water loss. Because The Zone encourages people to eat significantly more protein than they were eating before, the body uses its own water (and we are 70 percent water) to digest this protein. Followers notice that they seem to be shrinking, and they are, but often because of dehydration. It is important to drink plenty of water on this diet to prevent dehydration, and to make sure the weight coming off is not just water.
Of course no two people have the same eating patterns, hormonal profiles, and genetics, so the same diet can't work in the same way for everyone. Weight control is much more complex than simply following a prescribed eating plan or a meticulous balance of nutrients. The satisfaction a person derives from his or her food is key in forming a healthful eating plan. For some, slightly higher carbohydrate intake is more satisfying; for others, slightly higher protein works better — the important part is eating a variety of whole unprocessed foods, keeping active with regular exercise, and making these changes permanent and sustainable, and not to mention, enjoyable.
The best approach to nutrition is one that allows you to enjoy that pleasure of eating a variety of foods while feeling healthy, fed, and fit.Alice!


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Uncharted 3 Will Be Keeping It Real
Since the Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception reveal at last night's VGAs, more and more info has been coming out, whether it be from interviews at the actual event, or both gamers and press analyzing the stunning trailer that was shown. It's clear Naughty Dog is taking it to the next level with the third installment of the Uncharted, but it leaves many asking how, considering how successful Uncharted 2: Among Thieves was. Naughty Dog has some answers.
At the VGAs the Naughty Dog team was interviewed by our friends over at Gamingbolt. During the interview they were asked if the gameplay would be "over the top". Naughty Dog had this to say:
"Well, we want to do better but not over the top for Uncharted 3, obviously we want to improve upon every aspect of UC 2 but we want to keep it realistic"
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Welcome to this week's Urban Survival Newsletter, brought to you by SurviveInPlace.com and UrbanSurvivalGuide.com.
This week, I'm excited to announce the release of my new book on Urban Survival Barter & Negotiating Skills, I'm going to cover three simple principles you can use to quickly identify the best improvised weapons in your immediate area. Finally, I'm going to tell you what you can do today to help stop Congress from censoring opposing views within 60 days of an election. This jackboot-bully bill is written to intimidate non-profits, small companies, and bloggers from having a voice in the political process. I really need your help on this.
Urban Survival Barter & Negotiating Skills
Great news for those of you who have been waiting for my ebook on Urban Survival Barter & Negotiating Skills! If you purchased the full course and chose to get additional lessons instead of the printed version of the course, it is now available for immediate download in the members area.
If you aren't in this select group, but are still interested in negotiating and bartering skills for disaster and survival situations, (who isn't?) you can still get access to this valuable information. Here's what's inside:
-10 powerful pre-planning steps. If you're not using these, you'll pay an average of 30% too much for all your private party purchases, as well as major purchases both now and in a survival situation.
-When you should use adversarial negotiating and when it will cost you dearly.
-On page 7, I'll tell you the one time you should NEVER negotiate.
-How to instantly identify and use 12 physical negotiating tactics that are probably used on you all the time.
-11 verbal strategies you can start using immediately…They're so powerful that many consider them "unfair."
-12 manipulative strategies you MUST be able to identify and how to counter them.
-The history and possible future of bartering.
-23 skills that will be especially valuable for bartering in a survival situation and 2 that you should avoid unless you are already an expert.
-58 items you should consider stocking up on for bartering. *This isn't your typical list that you see reprinted all over the place of what people THINK will have value. It comes from real life experiences by missionaries in 3rd world countries, former government employees who have "gone native" in various hell-holes, and city dwellers who had to survive in Mogadishu, Beruit, Berlin, Stalingrad, Buenos Aires, and even New Orleans.
Right now, I don't even have a sales page up for it, but if you go to surviveinplace.com/survivalbarter you can get instant pre-release access to it for $17. Over the next few days, I'll be adding an interview that I did with the creator of the FBI Hostage/Crisis Negotiating manual. It's VERY powerful stuff & you'll be able to download it as soon as it's available. Both the electronic and book forms of the Survival Bartering and Negotiating course are also available in the SurviveInPlace.com Platinum package, which is available at surviveinplace.com/platinum.php
Principlies of improvised weapons
One of the common questions that I get from students in the SurviveInPlace.com course is what they should look for in an improvised weapon.
That's a great question, and I'm going to give you some guidelines that you can use to help identify everyday items that you can use as an improvised weapon if you need to.
To start with, you need to accept the fact that your mind is your greatest weapon and every tool that you put in your hands will be limited or magnified by your mind.
That being said, you want to look for items that will give you an advantage over simply using your body. It's important to point out that oftentimes your best reaction to a surprise attack is going to be to immediately attack with your body's natural weapons rather than taking several seconds to identify and wield an improvised weapon.
Think of it this way. Many firearms instructors teach that the purpose of a handgun is to give you a way to react quickly and fight your way to your long gun. This is much better than being defenseless until you have your long gun in your hands. In the same way, you should view your hands as weapons to give you a way to quickly react and allow you to fight your way to a better weapon.
What kinds of everyday objects are going to be better weapons than your hands? Well, they're going to be objects that will give you an advantage over simply using your body.
These advantages are going to fall into one or more of the following catagories.
-Increased hardness/density.
-Increased focus.
-Increased distance.
Let me give you a few examples so you know what I mean.
If you can identify an object that is harder or denser than you are, it will allow you to do more trauma to an attacker than by simply using your body. If you swing your arm at someone's head and they block it with their forearm, it might be painful to one or both of you, but it probably won't take anyone out of the fight. If, on the other hand, you can swing a piece of rebar, fire poker, tire iron, metal flashlight, or dense wood staff, you will hardly feel anything and you've got a good chance of breaking your attacker's arm and taking them out of the fight for a few moments.
If you can identify an object that can focus your strikes, it will allow you to cut or penetrate more effectively than with your body. As an example, which is easier, to punch through a plaster wall with your fist or with a screwdriver? Some other improvised examples of this are the corner of hard bound books, chairs with legs, Bic pens, a broken bottle and pencils.
If you have watched very many fights, you know what an advantage reach is. In some cases, like if you're defending yourself with a firearm from a knife attack, it allows you to start damaging your attacker before they are in range to do damage to you. In thinking of improvised weapons, you can do this with a fire poker, a stout curtain rod, a cane, a chair, pepper spray, fire extinguisher, a bar of soap in a pillowcase, or a padlock on the end of a chain, to name a few.
Many of these improvised weapons will also give you the advantage of speed, but that is a secondary consideration.
You'll find that if you look for items that are hard/dense, help focus strikes, and or increase your ability to attack from a distance, you'll start seeing them everywhere. After a couple of days, you'll actually get bored of it because there are SO MANY of them around you.
The good thing is, once you train your mind to specifically look for objects that meet one or more of these three goals, you won't have to think about it anymore…it will happen automatically and probably without you even realizing it.
HR 5175 — The bill to silence oposition to incombants
Congress is currently attempting to ram another bill down our throats that will silence groups (and bloggers) that speak on political matters within 60 days of an election.
One of the common interpretations is that the bill will require groups and bloggers to disclose their membership lists if they mention public officials in mailings, articles, or advertisements.
Of course, labor unions are exempt from this bill.
The NRA was fighting this bill to help protect the First Ammendment rights of Americans. This week, in a disappointing turn of events, the NRA convinced House Democrats to agree to exempt them from the bill. As a result, the NRA publicly announced on Thursday that they will no longer oppose this bill that limits free speech.
Since the NRA stopped fighting for us, I need to ask you to help fight this bill. Specifically, I want to ask you to do 3 things:
1. Go to www.rallycongress.com/stop-hr-5175–disclose-act–now/ and fill out the online form to send emails, faxes, and or letters to one or more of your representatives.
2. Copy the email on this page www.rallycongress.com/stop-hr-5175–disclose-act–now/forward/ and send it to anyone you know who is concerned about First Ammendment issues. (If you have any troubles, please let me know)
3. If you're on social media, please send people to www.rallycongress.com/stop-hr-5175–disclose-act–now/ to let their voices be heard.
If you do one, two, or all three of these, please let me know by sending me an email or commenting below.
Let me know your thoughts on this week's newsletter by commenting below. Have a favorite improvised weapon? Let us know. Any "secret" negotiating or bartering tips? Help other preppers by sharing them below.
God Bless!
David Morris
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President Donald Trump forever changed American politics when he ran for the presidency in 2016. As a result of his win, many non-politicians are quite seriously considering running for office.
One of those people is rocker Kid Rock, who has been teasing a potential 2018 Senate run for a few weeks now. On Wednesday, he went on Facebook to talk about his potential run a little more, and to make an important announcement.
"The one thing I've seen over and over is that although people are unhappy with the government, too few are even registered to vote or do anything about it," the entertainer wrote in a lengthy Facebook post.
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In the post, Kid Rock didn't confirm that he was actually going to run (he claimed he still has yet to decide), but he did state that he would be taking steps to encourage voter registration.
"During this time while exploring my candidacy for US Senate, I am creating a 501(c)(4) — a non-profit organization for the promotion of voter registration. Not only can I raise money for this critical cause, but I can help get people registered to vote at my shows," he wrote.
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That's actually a very good thing. Kid Rock is using his platform for something good — which you don't see a lot of politicians doing these days.
More singers and celebrities should be encouraging people to sign up to vote. Even if we don't happen to agree with your brand of politicians, we all have the privilege of living in a country that has free and fair elections, and we should participate in them.
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Kid Rock also went after Democrats and the media in his post, sounding quite similar to Trump in tone — even if the off-color language is a little rural for the 45th president..
"One thing is for sure though … The democrats are 'shattin' in their pantaloons' right now … and rightfully so!" he wrote in one of the last lines of his post.
You can read his full post here. (Note: Some rough language in there.)
Right now it is very unclear if Kid Rock could actually win. There have been some polls that have indicated a rising interest in him, but the polls have also shown a lot of people aren't sure what they think yet, and it is far too early to make a prediction.
While many aren't really taking Kid Rock's run seriously, we should remind everyone that the media treated Trump the exact same way when he announced his candidacy — and now he is the president of the United States.
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text: MINNEAPOLIS - This fall, the Chippewa Valley Ethanol Co. will go in search of the humble corncob. A $150,000 state grant will help the central Minnesota farmers' cooperative test two collection systems to gather the small, scratchy harvest remnant: one that rides piggyback on a combine and one that follows behind. It's the next step that's, well, groundbreaking. The Benson, Minn., fuel cooperative intends to stoke its boilers with the cobs, after they've been transformed into a gas by a new technology that could do the same to all manner of refuse from the countryside, including wheat straw, sunflower hulls, wood chips and prairie grass. By next year, the Chippewa Valley cooperative expects to wean itself of 90 percent of the pricy natural gas it now needs to cook corn ethanol from members' crops. "This is a dynamic industry, and you can never rest," said General Manager Bill Lee, a chemical engineer and Tennessee transplant who stayed on to run the plant he helped build 12 years ago. The knock against corn ethanol all along has been that it doesn't substantially cut down on U.S. consumption of oil, because it consumes nearly as much of the fossil fuel in its making as it replaces in its use. But Lee is part of a growing chorus saying that's no longer true, if it ever was. They point to the U.S. Energy Department's most recent efficiency analysis, published last year, that credits ethanol plants with cutting their energy use by 22 percent from 2001 to 2006. More recently, Chippewa Valley and other small Minnesota cooperatives are leading the nation in innovations they expect ultimately will eliminate the use of fossil fuels at the ethanol plant and replace them with renewable energy such as wind and corncobs. Some analysts say there's more at work here than establishing "green" credentials. It's money. Producers must cut their major expenses - corn and natural gas. Corn and gas cost more than the going rate for ethanol many days on the commodity markets, said Robert Sharp, ethanol editor at Platts, an energy information publication. Those upside-down numbers were behind the recent decision by VeraSun Energy, one of the nation's biggest ethanol producers, to hold off opening three new plants - including one in Welcome, Minn., Sharp said. The company's stock price tells why: Down from $30 a share two years ago, it closed July 9 at $4.06. "I'm confident in saying the industry's margins are squeezed to the breaking point," Sharp said. Minnesota cooperatives are the logical leaders, according to several industry observers. They were among the earliest ethanol producers, starting in the mid-1990s, so they benefit from more experience and less debt than the newcomers. Also, most of their ownership is local farmers, who are likely to stick with a plant through tough times - especially when, like now, they have the hedge of good corn prices, said David Morris, vice president of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance in St. Paul, Minn. "Every plant is a little lab, thinking, how can we do this better?" Lee said. Chippewa Valley, with 980 local owners, has grown from 15 million to 47 million gallons a year. "And in 2005, we made the decision to get better, not bigger," he said. "To us, that means lower costs and more renewable energy sources." Chippewa Valley started its new biomass gasifer technology in April. The pipes, burners and controls fill an 80-foot-tall metal building, where it will turn plant matter into a gas that then powers the ethanol plant. It's the nation's only one of its kind in commercial operation, Lee and other plant operators said. Now, it's burning wood chips. But more significantly, it's designed to burn all kinds of raw materials, including corncobs. That gives the cooperative the ability to power itself on whatever fuel is cheapest and most available - corncobs in the fall, for example, Lee said. He's paying about $13 for 1 million BTUs of natural gas; and he expects wood chips and corncobs to cost less than half that. As a bonus, cooperative members also are part owners of Iowa-based Frontline Bioenergy, which developed the gasifier. Corn Plus in Winnebago, another Minnesota farmer-owned cooperative with about 750 members, replaces 60 percent of its natural gas with a somewhat different system it developed three years ago, General Manager Keith Kor said. The cooperative burns corn syrup, a byproduct of the ethanol process that used to clog up the operation. The syrup fuel has saved the members $18 million in natural gas, plus they sell the residue ash to farmers for fertilizer, Kor said. In March, Corn Plus became the first ethanol plant to produce its own wind power when it flipped the switch on two wind turbines, he said. They will replace about 40 percent of the electricity Corn Plus has been buying off the grid. About the same time, Corn Plus became the first ethanol plant to join the Chicago Climate Exchange - a small, voluntary version of a nationwide, mandatory cap-and-trade system that Congress is widely expected to mandate to control carbon pollution. As a net-non-polluter, Corn Plus qualified for 40,000 "carbon credits" - 10,000 of which it has already sold to polluters at $6 a credit. "We're banking the rest, because I think they'll be more valuable in the future," Kor said. The Central Minnesota Ethanol Co-op in Little Falls has plans to take biomass one step further: replacing the natural gas heat source and the corn feedstock with wood chips. It's a plentiful resource around the ethanol plant, where the Corn Belt gives way to northern woods, said General Manager Kerry Nixon. Central Minnesota is applying for a federal grant to design and build the technology that also will be able to extract enough moisture from the green wood to cover all the production-water needs. Nixon expects word on the grant in September. The federal government sees ethanol derived from cellulose as the growth area for the future, Morris said. The new federal ethanol standards require consumption of 36 billion gallons of ethanol by 2022, but only 15 billion of that is to be corn ethanol. The goal is to replace raw materials that people otherwise could eat - such as corn - with materials that they can't, such as wood or prairie grass, Morris said. Poet is not a small ethanol cooperative. It's the nation's largest ethanol producer at 1.3 billion gallons a year. The South Dakota-based company is rolling out a system that will burn gas from city landfills to power its ethanol production, CEO Jeff Broin said. Poet is about to build a pipe to deliver methane gas from the Sioux Falls, S.D., city landfill to its ethanol plant in Chancellor, S.D. The landfill now just burns off the gas, wasting the heat, Broin said. He expects the Sioux Falls landfill to provide at least 30 percent of the Chancellor plant's natural gas.


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2 Days in Gorman - Perfect Weekend Guide
Planning what to do for couple of days in Gorman? It is best to sort your preferences and then choose from the options available in city. Gorman replete of beautiful points of interest never fails to overwhelm the tourists with its natural view and historical architecture.
What to pack for 2 days in Gorman vacation?
As you are going on a 2 days Gorman vacation, compact luggage is ideal. Carry a backpack that can fit in your belongings or choose a compact trolley bag. You only need one pair of shoes that you're wearing, make sure you pick sturdy ones for all the walking and sightseeing. Check the live weather of Gorman and pack just what's needed! Do not forget to bring extra batteries for your camera, you won't have time to move back-n-forth to your room to charge them. Pro Tips: Carry your Passport and photo identification proof with you at all times. Carry a Gorman local map, a hard copy or in your phone.
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It is slightly difficult to explore the entire city in 48 hours time, but you can easily visit the hand-picked 8-10 points of interest in Gorman on your trip. You will have to travel a bit if you want to cover all the popular places in Gorman within 2 days. So, if you have any particular place in mind, then plan your Gorman visit accordingly. If it is a weekend trip, check for special events happening and plan accordingly.
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With so many things to explore, Gorman is a place to be. Walk along the streets of Gorman and soak in the very essence of its people, and culture, dine at its attractive restaurants; shop at its ambient stores, and unwind at one of its many green spaces. Wondering what to see in 2 days in Gorman? Triphobo offers you perfect itineraries that will cover all the must see places in Gorman. Start your day 1 in Gorman by visiting Hungry Valley Recreation Area, Gorman Motorsport Rentals in the morning. Experience the good food in the afternoon at local restaurants in Gorman. The best way to see Gorman and absorb its culture is by visiting Parks & Recreation Department and spending some time there. Afterwards take a cab or walk to the Pyramid Enterprises Campground which will take up the afternoon. With these Gorman weekend itineraries and 2-day trips, we can make sure you will not miss out on any fun!
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Apple's stock closed on Monday at US$604.59, up $7.08 for the day, marking a new 52 week high for the iPhone and iPad maker. The company's shares have been on the rise leading up to its 7-to-1 stock split scheduled for June 2. AAPL has traded as high as $607.33 in recent days, but has dipped back down before Wall Street's closing bell.
Apple's stock continues to climb as its 7-to-1 stock split gets closer
Apple's previous 52 week high came on May 5 with a $600.96 closing price, the company's highest since October 2012.
The company announced during its second fiscal quarter earnings report that it would initiate a 7-to-1 stock split in June. Analysts had expected a stock split announcement, but the 7-to-1 ratio came as a surprise.
Stock splits aren't new for Apple, although the company hasn't announced one for several years. The most recent came in 2000 and 2005. Both were 2-to-1 splits.
Apple's stock continued to climb in pre-market trading on Tuesday. Currently, Apple is sitting at $604.83, up 0.24 (0.04%).


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There are various hands-on activities available in Korea and many tourists both local and foreign visit experience-activity destinations just to partake in something new. Pottery-making is probably the most popular activity among all because of its foreigner-friendly services, such as language assistance and reasonable prices. But above all, the fact that they provide nourishing contents in learning Korea's traditional culture best explains its popularity.
On that note, Icheon of Gyeonggi-do region is heavily frequented for ceramic-making programs, and is recommended for international tourists as it has operated a ceramic program for a long time. Designated as the representative city of Korea's pottery culture, the city provides a one-day ceramic-making program for foreigners and is only a 40-minute bus ride away from Seoul. For most cases, the final products are ready to take home that day, but certain projects may require additional time for drying and baking. However, fret not as you can sign up to have your work delivered through air mail service later!
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Manufacturing in the 21st Century
Localization of Manufacturing in the Automotive Marketplace
Today's global marketplace presents new challenges for manufacturers throughout the automotive supply chain. Achieving and sustaining a strong market position in multiple regions, simultaneously, requires companies to identify operational solutions that allow for greater adaptability. Establishing localized engineering and manufacturing facilities, and creating strong connections between them, can be an effective approach for companies to increase their organizational flexibility and efficiency in adapting to ever-changing market requirements and customer needs.
At the launch of a new or technologically improved product, a single manufacturing facility may be sufficient to handle global production demands. However, as overall demand grows, along with the number of regional supply markets and varied requirements, there is a point at which a single plant can no longer efficiently meet all supply demands. This presents a crossroads for manufacturers, and one for which the window of time for decision-making is shortened greatly by the speeds at which different regional economies are growing around the world.
One solution to this challenge that has been successfully demonstrated by companies such as Dana Holding Corp. is localization of manufacturing. Employing approximately 23,000 people in 25 countries on six continents, the company provides the world's original-equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and the automotive aftermarket with regional product and service support through a network of nearly 100 engineering, manufacturing, and distribution facilities.
The decision to invest in localized production capabilities requires careful analysis. Benefits of localization can include enhanced delivery speed to regional customers; reduced importing and shipping costs; flexibility to satisfy specific customer and market requirements, including local-content requirements; the optimization of processes; and the incorporation of new practices and technologies. There are risks to consider, too. Regional market dynamics, labor demographics, government and cultural stability, local regulations, capital commitments, customer requirements, regional competition, and technological opportunities are among the factors that must be weighed in. When the analysis is executed correctly, success will follow.
In 2015, the Dana Spicer Thailand Gear Plant opened in Rayong and almost immediately proved instrumental in optimizing Dana's supply for the Asia-Pacific automotive market. The facility produces Dana's best-in-class Spicer® AdvanTEK® gear sets and supplies them throughout the region, allowing for more efficient delivery to customers. It also utilizes state-of-the-art production capabilities, such as near-net-form ring gear forgings, which creates a customizable production platform. Perhaps as important as any other factor, the facility's proximity to its customers throughout the region allows Dana to work more closely with them—providing engineering solutions and advanced manufacturing technology that help Dana's customers to grow, continue expansion of the regional automotive market, and have a positive impact on the local economy.
The success of Dana's Thailand facility mirrors the company's experiences in other countries within the region. Dana's technology center in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China, is an advanced research and development center that provides product and applications engineering for drivetrain, sealing, and thermal-management products for China and the Asia-Pacific region. The company also recently launched a technology center in Pune, India, that is devoted to the research, design, development, and testing of driveline products for the OEMs in the light-vehicle, commercial-vehicle, and off-highway markets.
These facilities are closely connected with each other, optimizing Dana's customer focus in the region. They are also closely connected with Dana's other technology centers, where information is quickly shared between engineers and production facilities, minimizing the time from design to production. Connections between manufacturing facilities also help to optimize global production.
As emerging economies continue accelerating the growth of regional automotive markets, companies will need to be nimble and flexible to gain or maintain their competitive footing. Based on these recent examples, sometimes it is the best policy to focus locally in order to grow globally.
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You think?
Old story, but now that the Packers are out, it's top of mind for Brett Favre and all Packers fans.
The owners of the Packers were so cheap, they didn't want to pick up a spectacular talent because they'd actually have to pay him, you know, money.
Moss wanted to go to Green Bay.
Favre wanted Moss to go to Green Bay.
Green Bay fans wanted Moss to go to Green Bay.
But Packers' owners did not want Moss to go to Green Bay.
So Moss went to New England.
The owners of most sports franchises are criminals, as we've pointed out in previous posts. Green Bay owners are no different.
They thought it was OK to let the Pats have Moss because he'd still be in the AFC, so the Packers wouldn't have to face them if and until they reached the Super Bowl. Now the Packers aren't in the super bowl - they probably would have been if they'd had Moss.
I feel bad for Favre. I've been a Favre-hater for a long time, but he balls, and played a tremendous season, despite ownership throwing him and his teammates under the bus.
...the Packers are owned by some type of public corporation thing - not a single tyrant owner. Needless to say that the fans and Favre did not get their way. I think it's funny that Packers management started lecturing Moss - like he was a little kid or something. Instead, he went to New England and onto the Super Bowl and said 'FU, Packers'. Good for him. He'll have another shot at that elusive Super Bowl championship next year, and the year after that, and the year after that...
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I don't know...it doesn't really bother me that a sports franchise didn't shell out millions to a superstar.
The owners are criminals for taking those huge subsidies for their stadiums. And the athletes are criminals for taking all those millions. It would be nice if just one athlete said "I'll take a comfortable $100k. That other $9.9 million you were going to give me - lower the cost of tickets. Or give some away."


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In the years leading up to World War II, the Lockheed Corporation built a production facility in Burbank, California. Incredibly, the 45 buildings spread out over 550 acres were all covered by giant tarps painted by the nearby Walt Disney Company to look like a housing development in case the Japanese attacked the West Coast. This was the setting for the 1942 Warner Bros. film Wings for the Eagle starring Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson, advertised by the studio as "It's Time-And-A-Half for Uncle Sam...and the Rest of the Time is for Love!" The plot of two men in love with the same woman takes a back seat to the need for getting planes manufactured and sent off to help with the war effort.
Originally titled Shadow of Their Wings, the film was directed by Lloyd Bacon, with a screenplay by Byron Morgan and B.H. Orkow. The original casting had Ronald Reagan co-starring but he was replaced with Morgan and Carson took Morgan's role.
Warner Bros. was given permission to shoot at the Lockheed plant, but each member of the cast and crew had to keep a birth certificate on them at all times for security reasons. The studio hyped up the connection with Lockheed in a full-page ad in Life magazine, dedicating the film "to the workers who actually build Wings for the Eagle. To the workers of America's Fighting aircraft industry...men and women devoted to the new gospel "We can! We must! We Will!"...Warner Brothers respectfully dedicated Wings for the Eagle. Wings for the Eagle is the dramatic, deeply human story of the people of the production lines. All their toil and tears and hard-won joy are in this mightily moving picture. We are deeply grateful to the War Department, to Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, and to all the men and women of Lockheed for their help in making this picture. Behind sentry-barred gates much of it was filmed, without the loss of a single production hour on Lockheed P-38s and Hudsons."
Wings for the Eagle was churned out quickly between January 12 February 1942 at both the Burbank plant and the Curtiss-Wright Aircraft Company in Buffalo, New York. This was the first film that Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson made together. Both vaudevillians, they had met years before in their hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and remained best friends until Carson's death in 1963. During production, Morgan and Carson became close with Ann Sheridan and the three would go on war bond tours together. Later, Morgan and Carson would visit hospitals and camps throughout the South Pacific during the war.
Wings for the Eagle received excellent reviews, with Variety calling it "inspirational without being preachy" and the New York Times reviewer praising both the writers and character actor George Tobias in particular. "Actually the romantic story is no better than the old one of two men and only one girl, a story which the authors casually set aside when they have a point to make. They are more concerned, fortunately, with the urgency of the factory's getting out its quota of bombers under the deadline...Certainly it is the story of Jake, his earnest patriotism and his restrained grief at the death of his son, which takes precedence over Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan's bickerings over the hand of Ann Sheridan-however understandable that may be. And acted by George Tobias, who in a series of steady performances has shown himself one of the best actors on the studio's payroll, the character of Jake becomes the core of the film. Mr. Morgan gives a breezy and friendly performance as the fellow who learns his duty, Mr. Carson is convincing as the husband who must have reached a mental stalemate at the age of 12, and Miss Sheridan continues to toss crisp retorts like flapjacks. If Wings for the Eagle doesn't soar inspiringly it is nevertheless very definitely on the right beam."
Producer: Robert Lord
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Screenplay: Byron Morgan, B.H. Orkow; Richard Macaulay (additional dialogue)
Cinematography: Tony Gaudio
Art Direction: Max Parker
Music: Frederick Hollander
Film Editing: Owen Marks
Cast: Ann Sheridan (Roma Maple), Dennis Morgan (Corky 'Cork' Jones), Jack Carson (Brad Maple), George Tobias (Jake Hanso), Russell Arms (Pete Hanso), Don DeFore (Gil Borden), Tom Fadden (Tom 'Cyclone' Shaw), John Ridgely (Alec Johnson), Frank Wilcox (Supervisor Stark), George Meeker (Personnel Man), Fay Helm (Miss Baxter, Mr. Gross' Secretary), Billy Curtis (Eddie, a Midget), Emory Parnell (Policeman at Garage), Edgar Dearing (Motorcycle Officer).
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"The Screen in Review: 'Wings for the Eagle'. Warner's Film Drama of the Men Who Build the Giant Bombers, Is Arrival at Strand Theatre" New York Times 1 Aug 42


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Once the landing pad for broadcast network also-rans, cable networks are churning out original programming in droves-attracting advertisers and building their brands based on original successes. "Sometimes the net effect of original programming helps increase acceptance of off-network repeats. It gives the networks cachet and a theme that helps brand it," says John Rash, senior VP-director of broadcast negotiation at Interpublic Group of Cos.' Campbell Mithun.
The quickest route to establishing a network's brand may be with one great hit-think about what "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" did for Bravo or "The Shield" did for FX.
"An original series can give you a lightning rod for all constituents: advertisers, cable operators and audience," says Jeff Gaspin, president of NBC Universal cable entertainment and cross-platform strategy.
A cable programming pioneer, Mr. Gaspin during a former stint at VH1 gave the green light to such channel-defining programming as "Behind the Music." At NBC Universal's cable net, his credits include Bravo's "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." More so than acquisitions, originals create buzz through press coverage and awards.
John Landgraf, president-general manager of FX, knows that well. With Emmys for such dramas as "The Shield" and "Rescue Me," the network succeeded where critics said it couldn't: It carved out a brand based on edgy shows. "Our programming has revolutionized the channel," he says. "It's made the channel an appointment destination." He says 70% of FX's audience comes from elsewhere, either another network or they turn on the TV, just for the show.
"No other show has dealt with police brutality the way `The Shield' does," he says. "No show's dealt with narcissism and grim obsessions of self-image that `Nip/Tuck' does. `Over There' [a new Steven Bochco Productions series about an army unit in Iraq] will be the first show to be done about a war while we're fighting" it.
This year, FX is pitching advertisers to integrate into original shows-including "Over There" and a six-episode documentary from "Super Size Me" director Morgan Spurlock.
TNT is launching two new dramas-"The Closer," starring Kyra Sedgewick, and "Wanted," starring Gary Cole. This summer it airs "Into the West," a big-budget miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg. Lifetime is upping its originals by 33%, offering up its first miniseries and a movie starring Mira Sorvino and Donald Sutherland. ABC Family is introducing its first original fare this summer with two movies and four series, including a reality show starring Venus and Serena Williams.
Media buyer buzz during the upfront centered on a few favorites to be breakout hits, including TNT's new drama "The Closer," SciFi's "Ghosthunters" reality show, and USA Networks' "Kojak." Another show with hit potential is "The Colbert Report," a Comedy Central spinoff from "The Daily Show." Starring Stephen Colbert, the satirical news show could begin in September.
Networks are responding to the pressure to produce hit series. When Mark Lazarus, president of Turner Entertainment Group, and his team at Turner decided to add another original recurring drama to TNT, they figured they'd commission 10 scripts, make three pilots and run one series. In the end, they chose two series they liked-"The Closer" and "Wanted."
"Creating a slate of original programming for both TBS and TNT has given us another avenue to have really good dialogue with the marketing community," says Mr. Lazarus, "We got to them many times a year with different strategies and ways that we can help them."
Audi is sponsoring the June 13 premiere of "The Closer." Meanwhile, TwinLab sponsored E!'s "Dr. 90210" and Hallmark Channel last year sold 12 single-sponsored limited commercial movie deals. Hallmark Exec VP-National Ad Sales Bill Abbott says ratings for those shows jumped an average of 32% over a typical original movie.
sponsorship options
If it's original programming a network has more freedom to bring in a marketer and work them into the plot or offer them a sponsorship role, says Mike Lotito, founder-CEO of Media IQ, which measures clutter on TV. "When you have an off-network acquisition, you can't reshoot the show, all you can do is run fewer commercials or run a single sponsor," he says. But "that doesn't work with a 22-minute off-network sitcom."
When it makes sense, networks are also open to organic product placement and integrated deals. This year Anheuser-Busch has signed a sponsorship and exclusive deal with FX to have its brand integrated into the FX-scripted comedy "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," which takes place in a bar.
A more subtle tack: Sundance Channel is co-producing with Grey Goose Entertainment a documentary series called "Iconoclasts."
Sundance went to Bacardi's Grey Goose vodka brand executives with the idea of creating a production division that would share both costs and credits for the series and fulfill Grey Goose's marketing mandate of aligning itself with "cool" brands.
Cable networks have learned that one home run is better than a number of singles so they are snagging big stars and edgy fare, all in a battle to generate buzz.


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For awhile it was a battle without good research on either side: proponents of low-carbohydrate diets claimed they achieved better weight loss than with any other plan, while many health experts kept insisting that calories – not carbs – matter for weight loss. Now we have some good studies on the effectiveness of low-carb diets.
Despite all the questions about how much carbohydrate we should eat, researchers say we may be overlooking a more important issue: the kinds of carbohydrate that we eat.
Experts say that the question of whether vegetarian eating is better than non-vegetarian eating depends on exactly what is in that vegetarian diet.
Are bread and other carbohydrates fattening? No. The problem isn't the carbohydrates themselves, but the now-widespread super-sized portions that are often to blame when weight seems out-of-control. And it is not just -junk foods- at fault here – even -healthy- foods in excessive portions spell trouble.


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You're hot, right?? And you've had enough of the classic ice cream??
Then it's time to try something really special.
- 250 ml. Milk
- 100-120 gr. Honey (I used thyme honey , brought from Crete, Greece)
- 2-3 Sprigs Thyme
- 100 gr. Goat Cheese
- 150 gr. Blackberries, Blueberries and Blackcurrants
- 120 gr. Brown Sugar
- 2 tablespoons Bourbon
In a small saucepan put the fruits and lightly mash them. Add brown sugar on top.
Warm the mixture over a medium-high heat and allow about 10 minutes until sugar melts and begins to turn into jam. Remove from heat, add the bourbon, stir and allow to cool (do not exaggerate with alcohol, if there is too much it's never gonna freeze).
In another saucepan warm the milk (not boil) toghether with the sprigs of thyme. Leave them on springs because in the end they'll be removed.
In the warm milk add the honey and stir until combined. Set pan aside.
In another saucepan, and this is the last, put the goat cheese. Add the warm milk little by little, stirring with a whisk. You'll notice that the cheese will melt in the milk and you'll finally get a thin cream.
Prepare forms and pour the cream mixture and fruits in layers. Add the popsicle sticks and freeze overnight.
To be able to taste this extraordinary delicacy you need to put the molds under running hot water about 20 seconds, then tap the corner of the table.
You have NO excuse not to make popsicles !!!
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A substantial amount of evidence demonstrates that birds are theropod dinosaurs, and that birds evolved during the Jurassic from small, feathered maniraptoran theropods closely related to dromaeosaurids and troodontids (known collectively as deinonychosaurs) [the small dromaeosaurid Microraptor shown in adjacent image]. The precise details of avian origins remain the subject of debate, and argument continues over whether proto-birds were tree climbers, leapers, terrestrial cursors, or combined some of these lifestyles. But because basal deinonychosaurs were small animals (not much different in size from basal birds like Archaeopteryx), it seems that small size was a primitive character of the deinonychosaur + bird clade (known as Paraves). We also know – thanks to the spectacular Lower Cretaceous fossils from Liaoning Province in China – that deinonychosaurs (and other maniraptorans) were feathered like birds. In other words, small size and an extensive covering of true feathers were primitive for paravians.
Based on what we know of the dinosaur fossil record, palaeontologists generally think that most of dinosaur evolution happened at relatively large body size (by which I mean at a mass greater than a few kilos), and in animals that were entirely terrestrial. Small size (<1 kg) and arboreal habits seem to have arisen pretty late, and only within maniraptorans. I'm not saying, by the way, that all maniraptorans were arboreal; just that it's somewhere within this clade that arboreal habits evolved.
Here, we look at a rather different proposal: the decidedly non-standard, non-mainstream Birds Come First (or BCF) hypothesis proposed by George Olshevsky. Rightly or wrongly, BCF has never been discussed in the technical literature (I have at least alluded to it in historiographical articles (Naish 2000a, b)), and all of George's articles on it have been in the 'grey' or popular literature (Olshevsky 1991, 1994, 2001a, b). Thanks, predominantly, to his activity on the dinosaur mailing list (a popular discussion list for dinosaur aficionados and researchers), George's BCF hypothesis was once well known and much discussed, and perhaps considered seriously by at least a few specialists [image below shows some of the 'dino-birds' integral to the BCF hypothesis (read on), with Archaeopteryx at far right. This illustration is © Luis Rey and originally appeared in Olshevsky (1994)]
It should be noted to start with that the name 'Birds Come First' is in fact rather misleading, as the hypothesis does not propose that birds in the proper sense evolved earlier than did other dinosaurs or other archosaurs: rather, it posits that small, bird-like, arboreal archosaurs were the direct ancestors of all the archosaurs that came later on (proper birds included). George was aware of this fact, and apparently considered the rather tongue-in-cheek alternative acronym GOODD, meaning George Olshevsky On Dinosaur Descendants. This was, of course, meant to be used in opposition to the also tongue-in-cheek BADD (Birds Are Dinosaur Descendants): the term George uses for the 'conventional' or 'mainstream' view of avian origins outlined in the first two paragraphs above. 'BADD' is bad, according to BCF, as it imagines that small size, feathers and arboreal habits all evolved very late in archosaur evolution, and exclusively within maniraptoran theropod dinosaurs [image below shows more of the 'dino-birds' integral to the BCF hypothesis. These are early forms that are imagined to be somewhere between the first archosaur and the first theropod in phylogenetic position. This illustration is © Luis Rey and originally appeared in Olshevsky (1994)].
The three 'problems' of the standard theory
Why does BCF have such a problem with the widely accepted, 'standard' view of bird evolution? Olshevsky points specifically to three problems: the 'time problem', the 'size problem', and the 'wing problem' (Olshevsky 1994, 2001a). The 'time problem' refers to the fact that basal birds (specifically, archaeopterygids) are older than other paravians. Bird-like maniraptorans (deinonychosaurs and so on) are younger than basal birds, not older than them as they should be if birds evolved from deinonychosaur-like ancestors. The fossil record indicates, Olshevsky argues, that the large, flightless maniraptorans (dromaeosaurids and so on) are more likely to be the descendants of the little, flying, bird-like forms, not the other way round. If you've followed the dinosaur literature you'll know that this idea did not originate with Olshevsky: Greg Paul first proposed during the 1980s that dromaeosaurids and other bird-like coelurosaurs might be the secondarily flightless descendants of archaeopterygid-like ancestors (Paul 1984, 1988a, b, 2002).
The second problem proposed by Olshevsky – the 'size problem' – asserts that the apparent miniaturisation of proto-birds required for the standard theory of avian origins is problematical given that animals tend to become larger during their evolution, not smaller (the infamous Cope's Rule). In the standard theory, no obvious explanation for the miniaturisation of the theropod dinosaurs ancestral to birds exists (Olshevsky 1994, 2001a). BCF gets round this (supposedly) by arguing that bird ancestors were small all along (going all the way back to the archosaurian common ancestor), and that the big archosaurs (ALL of them) evolved (on many, many separate occasions) from these small ancestors. In other words, BCF is compatible with Cope's Rule [the dromaeosaurid Deinonychus shown here, from wikipedia].
Finally, BCF points to the 'wing problem'. The standard theory requires that the avian wing evolved gradually from a limb originally used for predation. Olshevsky (2001a) argued that no convincing model 'explaining' this transition had ever been presented (he noted that various different hypotheses have been suggested: that wings evolved as exaptations from feathered arms originally used as insects traps, for shading eggs, for providing thrust, for aiding manoeuvrability when running, and so on). BCF therefore follows the same logic as that applied by those ornithologists who favour a non-dinosaurian origin for birds. Namely, that wings 'cannot' have evolved in a terrestrial context, but must instead have evolved in an arboreal setting, in animals that used their forelimbs to slow or control their movement during leaping, parachuting, or gliding.
Dinosaur phylogeny a la BCF
In order to provide a solution that takes account of these 'three problems', BCF kind of combines the 'trees down' model of avian origins favoured by some ornithologists (and by most palaeontologists in the post-Heilmann, pre-Ostrom era*) with the secondary flightless hypothesis proposed by Greg Paul. BCF proposes that dinosaurs and other archosaurs started their history as small, quadrupedal tree-climbers, already kitted out with spiny 'proto-feathers', and that a 'central lineage' of small, tree-climbing forms connected these Permo-Triassic forms with the birds proper that evolved later on. All of the key innovations that led to the modern avian condition – skeletal pneumaticity, endothermy, feathers, wings, reduction and loss of the 4th and 5th fingers, reduction of lateral toes and modification of the hallux, reduction and loss of teeth, tail stiffening and so on – evolved in this single unbroken lineage, the hypothetical members of which were referred to by Olshevsky as 'dino-birds'. Dino-birds perhaps resembled the numerous small, arboreal theropods – the arbrosaurs – invented for Dougal Dixon's fictional work The New Dinosaurs (a few arbrosaurs shown here). Whereas the conventional theory provides no obvious explanation for the incremental appearance of 'avian' characters in theropods and other archosaurs, BCF posits that they all evolved as logical improvements to the arboreal, gliding dino-bird lifestyle.
* If you've ever read anything about the history of bird origin theories, you'll know that birds were originally linked with other dinosaurs back in the late 1800s, most famously by Thomas Huxley. This view remained fairly popular until the 1920s when Gerhard Heilmann's book The Origin of Birds was published in English. Heilmann argued that birds could not have descended from dinosaurs (predominantly because dinosaurs lacked clavicles, or so he thought), and he therefore favoured the idea that birds originated from the so-called 'pseudosuchians': primitive archosaurs that were also thought ancestral to dinosaurs and crocodilians. This became the mainstream view until the 1970s, when a new look at the anatomical evidence (combined with new data from maniraptoran theropods) led John Ostrom to successfully resurrect the dinosaur hypothesis. The best and most complete review of bird origin theories is that provided by Witmer (1991).
Olshevsky has noted on several occasions that his model could be entirely compatible with any given 'standard' archosaur phylogeny. That his own, favoured phylogeny for archosaurs is decidedly non-standard is, therefore, effectively irrelevant, but it's worth discussing it here as it hasn't been much discussed elsewhere (I base my comments here on the details given in Olshevsky (1991, 1994), though I am aware that some of his views on the affinities discussed in those works have since changed). Olshevsky's views on non-dinosaurian archosaurs aren't really that weird: he imagines crurotarsans to form a clade that diverged early on from the pterosaur-dinosaur clade, and the sorts of relationships that he's proposed for phytosaurs, rauisuchians, aetosaurs, crocodilians are so on aren't that different from standard phylogenies (Olshevsky 1991, 1994). However, among the most controversial of his proposals is that the weird little Triassic reptiles Megalancosaurus and Longisquama [shown here] are dinosaurs, and part of a large group (termed Theropodomorpha) that also includes Marasuchus, Lagerpeton, herrerasaurids and theropods (Olshevsky 1991, 1994). Saurischia is not monophyletic in Olshevsky's scheme, and sauropodomorphs and ornithischians are united in Phytodinosauria (an association originally proposed by Bakker, and later mooted by a few workers, but otherwise no longer maintained by anyone). Within Sauropodomorpha, sauropods are regarded as the most basal clade as, in contrast to other taxa, they possess large fifth toes (Olshevsky 2001c).
Remember that, in BCF, all of the groups of large, terrestrial archosaurs have evolved separately from arboreal dino-birds: in the crurotarsans of the Triassic, in the separate waves of big theropods, in the sauropodomorphs, and in the separate ornithischian clades, we are seeing successive and independent archosaurian radiations, all of which came down from the trees and took anew to terrestrial life.
So there you have it. It would be wrong to finish here: what about a critique of some sort? I'll get to that next.
For previous articles on non-standard phylogenetic hypotheses see…
- Goodbye from the stem-haematotherm, goodbye from me
- Aquatic proto-people and the
theoryhypothesis of initial bipedalism
- Amphisbaenians and the origins of mammals
And for previous articles relevant to early birds and avian origins see…
- Feathers and filaments of non-avian dinosaurs, part I
- Feathers and filaments of dinosaurs, part II
- Long and Schouten's Feathered Dinosaurs, a review
- Tet Zoo picture of the day # 24 (on archaeopterygids)
- A stunning new Mesozoic bird… well, new-ish
- A quick history of tree-climbing dinosaurs
- Epidexipteryx: bizarre little strap-feathered maniraptoran
- A month in dinosaurs (and pterosaurs): 1, therizinosauroid fuzz
- A month in dinosaurs (and pterosaurs): 2, of alvarezsaurids and avialians
Refs – –
Naish, D. 2000. Theropod dinosaurs in the trees: a historical review of arboreal habits amongst nonavian theropods. Archaeopteryx 18, 35-41.
– . 2000. 130 years of tree-climbing dinosaurs: Archaeopteryx, 'arbrosaurs' and the origin of avian flight. The Quarterly Journal of the Dinosaur Society 4 (1), 20-23.
Olshevsky, G. 1991. A Revision of the Parainfraclass Archosauria Cope, 1869, Excluding the Advanced Crocodylia. Publications Requiring Research, San Diego.
– . 1994. The birds first? A theory to fit the facts. Omni 16 (9), 34-86.
– . 2001a. The birds came first: a scenario for avian origins and early evolution, 1. Dino Press 4, 109-117.
– . 2001c. Dinosaurs 2001. Column 3: Isanosaurus. Dino Press 4, 92-95.
– . 2001b. The birds came first: a scenario for avian origins and early evolution. Dino Press 5, 106-112.
Paul, G. S. 1984. The archosaurs: a phylogenetic study. In Reif, W.-E. & Westphal, F. (eds) Third Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems, Short Papers. Attempto Verlag (Tübingen), pp. 175-180.
– . 1988a. The small predatory dinosaurs of the mid-Mesozoic: the horned theropods of the Morrison and great Oolite – Ornitholestes and Proceratosaurus – and the sickle-claw theropods of the Cloverly, Djadokhta and JudithRiver – Deinonychus, Velociraptor and Saurornitholestes. Hunteria 2 (4), 1-9.
– . 1988b. Predatory Dinosaurs of the World. Simon & Schuster, New York.
– . 2002. Dinosaurs of the Air: the Evolution and Loss of Flight in Dinosaurs and Birds. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
Witmer, L. M. 1991. Perspectives on avian origins. In Schultze, H.-P. & Trueb, L. (eds) Origins of the Higher Groups of Tetrapods: Controversy and Consensus. Cornel University Press (Ithaca, London), pp. 427-466.


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Peacefully located in the green residential district of Brønshøj, this hotel is within 15 minutes' drive of central Copenhagen. It offers functional yet elegant rooms with traditional décor and cable TV.
Brønshøj Hotel's spacious guest rooms have a wash basin, a work desk and cable TV. Toilets and showers are shared.
During summer, guests can have breakfast on the terrace.
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The more chunky, bold & daring colored charms are, the merrier they would look around your wrist. Eye catching & glamorous with red/gold color, this multi charm heart bracelet comes from Betsey Johnson's collection. Hmm.. you can actually put this on to beautify your look with that simple little black dress of yours! What do you say girls?
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Headpieces by Liv Hart – Beautiful Like Poetry
The headpieces designed by artist Liv Hart are like poetry and impress us with their sensual kind of beauty.
Each piece is perfectly created with passion and handicraft like a moment of luck and allures with artful details.
Bewitching shades of gold impart charm, vintage rings remind us of precious heirlooms and the historic scenery of Lyndhurst Castle in Tarrytown created a marvelous ambience.
Liv Hart surprises with her sense for style and elegance and knows how to put her beautiful accessories into focus.
Breathtaking dresses designed by Samuelle Couture improved her lovely designs and the artful eye of photographer Laura Gordon accomplished amazing Fine Art compositions.
Translation: Marina Jenewein
ACCESSOIRES + HEADPIECES: Enchanted Atelier by Liv Hart
PHOTOGRAPHY: Laura Gordon Photography
GOWN: Samuelle Couture
RINGS: Trumpet & Horn
MAKE-UP: Ashlee Glazer
HAIR: Nikki Avanzino
LOCATION: Lyndhurst Castle
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