Columbia's Omni-Heat Electric vs. Wim Hof: Another Day at the Office

BearGryllsFans - Man vs Wild Bear Grylls compilation

Last Meal

What would you have if it was your last meal? 

Sooner or later you'll dance with the Reaper.

Dana Fuchs Band - Songbird

Ra Ra Ra - Here Come the Mummies

'Joe Bonamassa 'India/Mountain Time' live 08

An Army at Dawn, My current read

An Army at Dawn, by Rick Atkinson

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, by Rick Atkinson. A fluid, intelligent, hands-on account of the first major U.S. involvement in the war in Europe in World War II. Filled with vivid anecdotes, insightful quotes, clear battle maps, concise narrative and dead-on analysis, An Army at Dawn makes the case that Africa was a training ground for the U.S. Army, without which Victory in Europe would have been far from certain. Mr. Atkinson has a way with words that brings history to life and makes it relevant in the modern age.

Portal: No Escape (Live Action Short Film by Dan Trachtenberg)

The Dana Fuchs band- Live From NYC- "Rather Go Blind"

MUSTANG SALLY

Impact Slideshow

Impact Training Lift -Off 278

Here Come the Mummies -"Booty"

It's a Great Day - Paul Thorn

The Most Interesting Mormon in the World #1

Inspirational Positive Affirmation Video

Danny Macaskill - Industrial Revolutions

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Love Struck Baby / Rude Mood

Joe Bonamassa- Woke Up Dreaming (GoPro cam)

Flight of The Conchords on Letterman

Joe Bonamassa - You Upset me Baby Rockpalast 2005

Joe Bonamassa - You Upset me Baby Rockpalast 2005

"You Upset Me Baby"

That's right!

Yes, she's 36 bust,
28 in the waist,
44 on the hip.
She's got some crazy legs.

It upsets me baby.
Ooh, upsets me baby,
Yeah, I'm tellin' you
She's so fine,
Somethin' that you ought to see.

Well, she's not too tall,
Complexion is fair.
It knocks me out
The way she wears her hair.

You upsets me baby.
You upsets me baby.
Like beein' hit by a fallin' tree,
Woman what you do to me.

Well, I try to describe her.
It's hard to stop.
I better stop now
In case I got a weak heart.

You upsets me baby.
You upsets me baby.
Like beein' hit by a fallin' tree,
Woman what you do to me.
Yeah!

Yeah!

Try to describe her.
It's hard to stop.
I better stop now
In case I got a weak heart.

You upsets me baby.
You upsets me baby.
Like beein' hit by a fallin' tree,
Woman what you do to me.

It upsets me baby.
It upsets me baby.
It upsets me baby.
It upsets me baby.
Like beein' hit by a fallin' tree,
Woman what you do to me.
That's right.

Hoh!

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Joe Bonamassa - The River (2006) Rockpalast

Joe Bonamassa Story of a Quarryman Live 2009

Joe Bonamassa Had To Cry Today

"Fill your hands you sonofabitch!"

Hey Impact Family! Time for KOOL-AID

KOOL-AID!

Blues Traveler - Carolina Blues

Blue & Evil - Joe Bonamassa

Black Country Communion - Song of Yesterday (Live in Hamburg)

What it is Kid - ZZ Top with lyrics!

26% of Americans who don’t know what nation we declared independence from

Happy 4th of July! Today in 1776 we declared our independence from Britain. Remember that, because you don’t want to be in the 26% of Americans who don’t know what nation we declared independence from today. Today’s infographic is all about the day that allows us to go all out and celebrate this great nation of ours. Celebrations usually including fireworks, bbq, drinking, etc.
Although America doesn’t have the reputation it once had with the rest of the world, I believe that we can make a come back. We are the greatest nation, I don’t say that out of arrogance, but out of pride in this country. We have the perfect ingredients to be top dog, we have just hit a road block at this moment. With capitalism we have competition and within our population we have our many different cultures, not to mention the perfect amount of compassion for others (all our social programs). Again I do acknowledge that right now all of that is in the crapper and we need to get our act together.
Although each of us has our different beliefs as a whole we are a pretty patriotic nation, and it shows in the naming of our cities. There are 35 places with the name Eagle in the United States, the most populous being Eagle Pass, TX, where my parents are from! Hopefully you’re not in a burn ban like Austin and will get to enjoy fireworks today. [via]
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Think different

Nom Nom Nom Nom, Babies! - PIcture Song

Death Bed Philosophy

What will you regret if you never attempted before you die?

Nestled in Park City, Premier Fitness Camp Named 'Best of State' Participants at Utah fitness retreat lose nearly 100 pounds

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/6/prweb8532064.htm

Check out this press release we did for a new client, Premier Fitness Camp in Park City,  The won the "Best of State" for 2011!

Joe Bonamassa - Seagull

Books I Have Read This Year

1.  Unbroken     by Laura Hillenbrand
2.  No Man Knows My History     by Fawn Brodie
3.  The Imperial Cruise     by James Bradley
4.  The Only Thing Worth Dying For     by Eric Blehm
5.  Unleash The Warrior Within     by Richard "Mack" Machowicz
6.  Under The Banner of Heaven     by Jon Krakauer
7.  The Black Shrike     by  Alistair MacLean
8.  Where Men Win Glory     by  Jon Krakauer
9.  In Harms Way     by  Doug Stanton
10. Porter Rockwell     by  Rockwell & Borrowman
11. It's Your Time     by  Joel Olsteen
12.  An Insiders View of Mormonism     by  Grant H. Palmer
13.  Fly Boys     by  James Bradley

I am currently reading:

"The Element",  by Sir Ken Robinson PhD
"The Fearless Mind",  by Craig Manning PhD

    

'Joe Bonamassa 'India/Mountain Time' live 08

North Sea Jazz 2009 Live - Joe Bonamassa - Just got paid (HD)

Optimized Press Releases; the New Secret Weapon for Business

Optimized Press Releases, the New Secret Weapon for Business

By Rick Wahlquist

Internet users around the globe have surpassed 2 billion.  73 percent of adults and 76 percent of teens are getting their news online. Yahoo and Google News have larger audiences than CNN or BBC for that matter. The dramatic shift in online news consumption requires a shift in strategy to reach an audience.  A well written optimized press release has the ability to reach millions of interested customers almost instantly. 

Beside the sheer number of readers, another benefit of utilizing an optimized press release is the inbound links to your website.  Every time your optimized press release is posted on another website, it creates a link back to your site.  These inbound links have a tremendous effect in increasing your rankings in the search engines.  Your exposure can by multiplied as the press release is passed around social networking sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.  50 percent of people in the U.S. now have a profile page on a social media site.  25 percent of frequent social networkers follow a brand or company on a social networking site.

With the exposure from a well written optimized press release, you will receive increased awareness for your brand.  Increased brand awareness equals more business.  Because those reading your release have come to it using certain keywords and phrases, they are an interested audience.  You now have a unique ability to share the value your product or service to that audience that has already expressed an interest in your offering.

For the optimized press release to be noticed by editors and reporters it needs to read like a news story.  If your release sounds or feels like an advertisement in any way, it will be dismissed very quickly.  Your story needs to be informative in the, who, what, when and where sense but also be interesting and informative. 

A major bonus of the optimized press release is the SEO factor that can be gained by building in key words and phrases that are part of your keyword strategy.  Submitting a monthly press release is a vital part of any SEO strategy.  Many companies spend thousands of dollars each month on SEO and PPC tactics and fail to utilize the “secret weapon” of the monthly optimized press release. 

The infographic, which is a visual representation of information, is an excellent way for your optimized press release to have added effectiveness and maintain longevity.  An infographic will keep a story in circulation much longer than a traditional press release.  This in effect multiplies the effectiveness of the release as it takes on a life of its own on the web being shared over and over again.  If a picture is worth a thousand words, an infographic is worth a thousand links.

The optimized press release is the new secret weapon in your arsenal for success online.  If you have not implemented a consistent press release campaign, you can be certain that your competitors have.  In today’s fast paced online world it is harder and harder to be top of mind and stay in front of your customers and prospects.   By establishing a strategic online marketing plan that includes regular optimized press releases you can stay ahead of the pack and beat out your competition.

Schools Are Hurting Our Kids!

I have recently become a fan of Sir Ken Robinson.  I was at a conference where he spoke and had one of those moments where you here someone speaking that you know what they are saying is profound and correct.  It will be one of those times when I look back and realize I had a paradigm shift in thinking.  As I have reached middle-age-hood, the more I realize that my perceptions and belief systems are in many cases the result of thoughts and circumstances that are not of my making.  There is nothing wrong with that per se, except now I seem to be reviewing many of those perceptions and deciding if they are indeed what I believe.  Ergo Sir Ken Robinson who points out that our educational system as we know it today, virtually around the globe, was put into place to serve the needs of the industrial revolution.  We heavily stress math and sciences above all else.  Art and creative subjects are relegated to second and third class status.  Up until recently I would have agreed with this "prioritization" of subjects.  Sir Robinson points out that there are many types of intelligence and each is significant and important.  We each learn differently and what is good for the goose isn't always good for the gander.  Where would the world be without Albert Einstein, Elvis Presley, Mick Fleetwood?  It was Einstein that said, "Imagination is more important that knowledge".  Imagination and creativity are knowledge.  And creativity is as needed and important as any other field of study.  We quite literally educate out of our kids the ability to be creative.  We want to punch out a robot that will get a good ACT score, become an engineer or doctor, these are good citizens.  I wonder what Jim Henderson's parents thought when he went up to them and said, "Mom, Dad, I want to be a puppeteer". 
If you would like to see Sir Ken Robinson speak on the death of creativity by the education system you can click this link.  He is engaging and very funny.  

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

A Tribute to My Unknown Mother

I can only imagine what panic and fear grips a young woman who realizes that she is in deep trouble, the kind of trouble that is a life-changer,  the "what will the neighbors" say kind of trouble.  This is bigger trouble than wrecking your dad's car or a bad report card.  Bigger than getting caught shoplifting that candy-bar when you where a kid and your mom makes you go confess your deed to the manager.  No, this is BIG kind of trouble. This kind of trouble that won't let you sleep at night because the questions are coming at you like a 90 mph brushoff pitch.  Questions like, "What am I going to do", "How did this happen", "What will my parents say, will they still love me", "Where will I go".  For a young woman from a small Utah town in the 60's, this kind of predicament is not allowed.  I wonder at times what she felt that first time someone she knew saw her with an unmistakable bump that is now too large to hide.  I wonder if she had someone who was nice to her and offered her an encouraging word, or just sit with her and hold her hand.  I wonder these things because I can only imagine.  But what I don't have to imagine is the fact that she loved me.  I know she loved me because I'm here.  I pay tribute to my birth mother who in spite of her own comfort, reputation and standing, sacrificed dearly so I could have life. How much easier would have been for her to quietly take care of the problem. I also can only imagine how much pain she went through in bringing me into this world only to have the much more intense pain of handing the little bundle to someone else, a stranger really, with the hope that she is doing the right thing.  She honors my with her unmeasurable sacrifice. She also sacrificed seeing me hit my first baseball, earn my first merit badge, my first date and my first child...her grandchild.  While there are lots of thing I have to imagine, you see, she also has to imagine, that was part of the deal.  I was given a gift, my gift was having two moms.  The mom I don't know but can only imagine and the mom that rocked my to sleep at night and put bandages on my knees when I fell and went to parent teacher conferences.  They both love me and I love them both.  One day in this life, or more likely the next, I will embrace my moms, thank them and tell them as I look into their eyes how much I love and respect them.

I love you mom, Happy Mothers Day.

Your son,

Rick

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Anarchy In The UK

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - Pinball Wizard live at the BBC ...

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - Psycho Killer at the BBC Proms

Hitler - An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman . . .

What Can I Do to Decrease My Flatulence? | eHow.com

What Can I Do to Decrease My Flatulence? eHow.com

La Vie En Rose Trailer

La Vie En Rose

The Only Thing Worth Dying For

So I just finished my latest read, "The Only Thing Worth Dying For", by Eric Blehm.  I was enthralled by the story telling of Blehm.  I was instantly connected to the Green Beret's mission and felt like I was embedded into the unit.  This book takes us into the inner workings of Afganistan and the defeat of the Taliban by a small, but highly effective combat unit of Green Berets using "Unconventional Warfare" to bring down an oppresive regime and support Hamid Karzai in his effort to unify his country from a splintered group of tribal factions to a unified country.  It was refreshing to gain an understanding of the goings on without the author trying to spin me into his opinion of the war, which after reading the book I couldn't tell you what Blehm's opinion of the war in Afganistan is.  Unlike James Bradley's books, which I have thoroughly enjoyed, but felt in his story telling that I was being "sold" on the authors political agendas. 

"The Only Thing Worth Dying For", is a book that anyone wishing to have a better understanding of the difficulty of what has been going on in Afganistan, would greatly appreciate and take away an appreciation for the sacrifices and difficulty of creating stability in an unstable region.  I highly reccomend reading this book.

Rick

Edith Piaf - Non, Je ne regrette rien

The Amputee Rap by Josh Sundquist/Tribute to my Bro.

Double Dream Hands mash up - All the single ladies!.mov