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During the most recent excavation season at the Neolithic settlement of La Draga in northeastern Catalonia, archaeologists unearthed a significant set of wooden ruins that provide new insights into the architectural design strategies and construction methods of the ancient inhabitants of this historically important site. The discoveries included several wooden planks and other structural elements that would have supported houses and possibly other buildings as well. This is according to a statement issued by the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution, which has helped sponsor the La Draga excavations. Neolithic “Woodhenge” Discovered at Perdigões’ Complex Portugal Huge Neolithic Cursus Linked with Isle of Arran's Sacred Stones Revealed New Neolithic Construction Secrets Revealed in Catalonia First discovered in 1990 near the shores of the Lake of Banyoles in the city of Banyoles, La Draga is the only prehistoric lakeside settlement that has ever been found on the Iberian Peninsula. The site was occupied between 5,290 and 5,200 BC, and then again between 5,100 and 4,800 BC (the occupation was interrupted for 100 years by flooding). Read moreSection: NewsAncient PlacesEuropeHistoryRead Later 

Michael J. Fox has been living with Parkinson’s disease since he turned 30 in 1991. However, he kept his diagnosis under wraps, using pills to suppress his symptoms until the late ‘90s. The actor has since committed to raising awareness about the ravaging disease, which affects regular functions like movement and feeding. Last year, the father of four made assumptions about the cause of his diagnosis, stating that his lifestyle as a young man may have played a major part in his decline. He got candid about managing his expectations about his lifespan, admitting that he has doubts about turning 80. Why does Michael J. Fox have Parkinson’s? Instagram While receiving his honorary Oscar in 2022, Fox noted during his speech that he and Woody Harrelson did “some damage” back in the ‘80s, referring to their carefree lifestyle involving alcohol and partying. While speaking with Jane Pauley about his documentary titled STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie, he gave further details about his unhealthy lifestyle in his twenties, which may have cost him optimal health later. RELATED: A Leonardo DiCaprio Scene Drove Michael J. Fox To Retire From Acting Fox speculated that he may have a genetic predisposition to the disease, added to environmental factors, which may have been some chemicals he exposed himself to. The multi-talented entertainer recalled how wild his parties were, which meant no surprise if he had injuries or a bad fall that altered his system. He has learned to accept his condition and live a meaningful life nonetheless for as long as he can. Instagram Fox’s life now Amid his struggles with Parkinson’s, Fox made a surprise appearance at Coldplay’s Glastonbury headline performance on the Pyramid Stage over the week. He joined guitarist Jonny Buckland, drummer Will Champion, bassist Guy Berryman, and band frontman Chris Martin, who specially acknowledged him for igniting their existence as a music group through 1985’s Back to the Future. Instagram Although Fox retired from acting in 2020, he revealed his intention to do more work if he has time and someone offers him a good part. He added that he would love to reflect his reality on whatever project comes up, especially after the success of his documentary. He enjoys family time with his wife Tracy Pollan, with whom he shares twin daughters Aquinnah and Schuyler Fox, and Esmé Fox. Click for next Article The post Michael J. Fox Tragically Links Parkinson’s Diagnosis To Partying In The ‘80s appeared first on DoYouRemember? - The Home of Nostalgia. Author, Peace A

The more we learn about the attempt to kill Donald Trump, the more questions we have.  Over the past couple of days, I have been digging very deeply into what just happened.  To be honest, what I have discovered is extremely alarming.  At this point, there is a growing consensus that either the Secret Service was grossly incompetent or some sort of very insidious plan was being carried out.  I am going to share facts that have been documented, and I will allow my readers to come to their own conclusions. First of all, we have learned that a very large ladder was propped up against the AGR building.  I find it difficult to believe that the Secret Service could have missed someone climbing up this ladder on to a roof that had a direct line of sight to the platform… Chillingly some images show a ladder, hidden by dense shrubbery, propped against the side of the AGR building, leading directly to the rooftop across which witnesses later told law enforcement they saw Crooks scramble. The images of the strategically placed ladder have emerged as Secret Service admit they did not sweep the building where the shooter took his position, but instead entrusted that role to local law enforcement officers. Secondly, ordinary people in the crowd were pointing to the shooter on the roof well in advance, and apparently one police officer even went up there to investigate… Supporters in the crowd allegedly alerted police to the man, crawling onto a nearby building with a rifle in hand, and were ignored. And perhaps most shocking of all, one report claims a local police officer confronted the shooter on the roof before climbing down – seconds before Trump was hit. The moment that it was discovered that there was a man with a gun, Trump should have been whisked off the stage. Why that didn’t happen is a total mystery. And why didn’t the police officer that confronted the shooter on the roof take action? Instead, he reportedly went back down the ladder when the shooter pointed his rifle at him… Not long before shots rang out, rally-goers noticed a man climbing to the top of a roof of a nearby building and warned local law enforcement, according to two law enforcement officials. One officer climbed to the roof and encountered Crooks, who pointed his rifle at the officer. The officer retreated down the ladder and Crooks quickly took a shot toward former President Donald Trump, just 130 yards away. I realize that this police officer was not a member of the Secret Service, but this is still extremely shameful behavior. I am sure that this police officer will regret not taking action for the rest of his life. If you are in that position, you have to take the bullet.  That is your job. Of course it should have been impossible for a shooter to be on that roof in the first place because Secret Service personnel should have already been stationed there.  This is something that former FBI agent Bobby Chacon has commented on… Bobby Chacon, a former FBI agent, shared his confusion that the rooftop had not been secured considering how close it was to the stage. He told The Sun: “I am very surprised that the rooftop used by the gunman was not secured and locked down. “The rooftop was the closest high ground point with direct line of sight to the stage on which Trump was speaking. I think there was an error in planning and it would not have taken much resources or manpower to secure that rooftop.” According to the Secret Service, securing that particular rooftop was the responsibility of the local police… The Secret Service blamed local police for failing to secure the rooftop from which gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump, insisting it was outside the perimeter the federal agency was tasked with protecting. Instead, securing and patrolling the factory grounds of AGR International Inc. — located about 130 yards from the stage where Trump was speaking Saturday — was the responsibility of local Pennsylvania police, Secret Service representative Anthony Gugliemi said, according to the New York Times. That is a bunch of garbage. Any elevated position that has a direct line of sight to the political figure under their care should be the responsibility of the Secret Service. Anyone that would suggest otherwise should be fired. We have also learned something else that is quite alarming. According to CNN, a forensic analysis that has been conducted “suggests that as many as three weapons were fired”… Forensic analysis suggests that as many as three weapons were fired at the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday. The FBI said Sunday that the shooter acted alone. The first three shots were consistent with alleged weapon A, the next five were consistent with alleged weapon B, and the final “acoustic impulse” was emitted by a possible weapon C, per audio analysis by Catalin Grigoras, director of the National Center for Media Forensics at the University of Colorado in Denver, and Cole Whitecotton, Senior Professional Research Associate at the same institution. It appears that the first three shots were fired by the shooter. So who fired the subsequent shots? Were they all fired by the Secret Service? Hopefully we will get some solid answers. For more questions that we do not have the answers to yet, please see an article that I posted yesterday entitled “10 Burning Questions That Every American Should Be Asking About The Trump Shooting”. For the remainder of this article, I want to examine why it took the Secret Service so long to protect Trump. When President Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981, the Secret Service agents around him responded instantly.  Here is video footage of those fateful moments… That is how things are supposed to be handled if you have competent people running the show. Now compare the footage of Reagan being shot to footage of Trump being shot… The first thing that jumps out at you is that Secret Service agents are much too far away from Trump. From this point forward, that should be corrected. Agents should be able to get their hands on Trump in the blink of an eye if something happens. Once Trump is hit, it still takes them several seconds before they get to him. If it had been a competent shooter with a proper weapon, Trump could have been hit a dozen times by then. In such a scenario, Trump wouldn’t have had a chance of surviving. Did the Secret Service agents closest to him hesitate? I don’t know. But I certainly never want to see them guarding Trump again. Of course the shooter never should have been able to get any shots off. As Clayton Morris has documented, snipers had the shooter in their sights for 42 seconds before the first bullet was fired at Trump… If a man on a roof is pointing a rifle at Trump, you have got to take the shot. Period. But according to White House correspondent Susan Crabtree, the Secret Service has orders not to engage until the first shot is fired… The blowback against the Secret Service started within the hour of the assassination attempt and continued even after Trump and other credited the agency with saving Trump’s life by quickly killing a shooter crawling across a nearby rooftop. But a source within the Secret Service community tells RealClearPolitics that the agency rules of engagement in this situation are to wait until the president is fired upon to return fire. I don’t know who came up with these rules of engagement, but they are idiotic. Thankfully, the sniper that ultimately took out the shooter had very good aim… The Secret Service protocol requires that a counter sniper aware of a potential shooter to radio directly to intelligence division team to respond and investigate. In this case, the investigation may have been cut short by the shooter firing his weapon, so the counter sniper then fired as quickly as possible in return. The source praised the counter sniper who acquired the target and responded within three seconds, calling their performance “incredible.” “The counter snipers are highly trained and extremely accurate,” he said. If Trump would not have moved his head at the last moment, he would not be with us today. Shockingly, many on the left are very upset that the shooter missed.  In fact, a member of Jack Black’s band was asked to make a birthday wish and he responded by saying “don’t miss Trump next time”… Black is seen presenting his Tenacious D band member Kyle Gass with a birthday cake during their performance at the ICC Sydney Theatre in footage shared with Yahoo News. “Make a wish,” he urges, with Gass then seen blowing out the candles and says in a hushed tone, “Don’t miss Trump next time” — causing the crowd to erupt. While some are heard laughing and clapping, others are less impressed. I cannot understand how people can think like that. But the truth is that we are now more divided as a nation than we have ever been in my entire lifetime. For years, Democrats have been directly comparing Trump to a certain German dictator, and now the unthinkable has happened. In the end, everything that has happened probably makes it quite likely that Trump will win the upcoming election.  One “senior House Democrat” told Axios that lawmakers in his party have pretty much concluded that a second Trump presidency is now unavoidable… But the second senior House Democrat offered one reason for why it might: “We’ve all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency.” We shall see what happens. There is still a long way to go until November, and a lot can still happen. In fact, while I was writing this article there was another twist.  Trump has officially announced that J.D. Vance will be his running mate… After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio. J.D. honorably served our Country in the Marine Corps, graduated from Ohio State University in two years, Summa Cum Laude, and is a Yale Law School Graduate, where he was Editor of The Yale Law Journal, and President of the Yale Law Veterans Association. J.D.’s book, “Hillbilly Elegy,” became a Major Best Seller and Movie, as it championed the hardworking men and women of our Country. J.D. has had a very successful business career in Technology and Finance, and now, during the Campaign, will be strongly focused on the people he fought so brilliantly for, the American Workers and Farmers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota, and far beyond…. Let us hope that Trump and Vance take great care during the difficult months that are ahead of us, because we have now entered a period of great chaos for our nation and for the entire world. Now that people have seen how easy it is to get a shot at Trump, it is probably inevitable that there will be more attempts. Hopefully the next time there is a threat the Secret Service will not be slow to respond. Michael’s new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com, and you can subscribe to his Substack newsletter at michaeltsnyder.substack.com. About the Author: Michael Snyder’s new book entitled “Chaos” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com. He has also written seven other books that are available on Amazon.com including “End Times”, “7 Year Apocalypse”, “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of America”, “The Beginning Of The End”, and “Living A Life That Really Matters”.  When you purchase any of Michael’s  books you help to support the work that he is doing.  You can also get his articles by email as soon as he publishes them by subscribing to his Substack newsletter.  Michael has published thousands of articles on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News, and he always freely and happily allows others to republish those articles on their own websites.  These are such troubled times, and people need hope.  John 3:16 tells us about the hope that God has given us through Jesus Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  If you have not already done so, we strongly urge you to invite Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Savior today. 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With the wide and wild range of firearm instruction available to the public today, it can be hard to distinguish the good instructors from the bad on social media. When we find the good ones, we like to share them with the world so we can all have the chance to learn from the best. Two of our RECOIL editors got the chance to attend the grand opening of BRVO Tactical’s Sierra 1 training site in Arizona, up in the mountains north of Phoenix. It was a weekend filled with good times, great instruction, and some amazing sunsets. Meet The Instructors BRVO Tactical was founded by a mix of Army SF (a.k.a. Green Beret) and Arizona SWAT team members who combined their experiences and talents with outstanding results. The founder and lead instructor, who we’ll call simply “BRVO” for now, is still on active duty in Army Special Forces and is the senior 18B on his team. Thus the name BRVO (pronounced “Bravo”) Tactical. An expert in a wide range of tactics, weapons, and training, he offers an exemplary mix of know-how and communication to teach shooters of every skill level. BRVO Tactical’s other lead instructor Mike Wallace brings over 20 years of police experience and 17 years of SWAT experience, 16 of those as a SWAT sniper. Mike is also the mind behind most of the design and construction of the Sierra 1 site. From Mike’s brain to reality, the Sierra 1 site sports an impressive range of training options that feel like an amusement park for shooting enthusiasts. And they aren’t even close to being done with all the plans. Other staff at BRVO Tactical include more active-duty SWAT officers, firefighter medics, and military veterans — each experts in their fields who have a clear passion for sharing what they know. Grand Opening Event Officially launched in late June 2024, the grand opening was an awesome display of what BRVO Tactical has to offer. Less of a weekend dedicated to training any single discipline and more a demo of all the options, the grand opening was an event I’m glad to have been a part of… even if my weekend started rough with a doe elk jumping in front of my truck on the drive up. 7,000 Feet Closer To The Arizona Sun  To find the exact location of Sierra 1, you’ll have to attend a class, and you absolutely should. But to set the stage, the land at BRVO Tactical is beautiful just as a natural environment. Before the guns come out and the air fills with the scent of spent powder, you need to take a moment and just soak in the wonderful setting of the 100-acre property nestled on top of Arizona’s Mogollon Rim. At around 7k feet of elevation, training is possible even in July. While Phoenix bakes at 110 degrees, it is a much more comfortable mid-80s at the Sierra 1 site. Camping on-site is recommended and doesn’t cost extra, but hotels are available about 40 minutes from the location. I highly recommend camping. Whether you bring a tent, sleep in your car, or tow in an RV trailer, it’s worth it to spend each evening around the campfire getting to know the instructors and your fellow shooters. Flat Range  A flat range is a flat range in most cases, but what you do with the flat range is what makes all the difference. Day one of the grand opening involved some simple drills and instruction, mostly for the instructors to see how well the students did and to ensure we were all safe and sane shooters. Day two on the flat range ratcheted up the intensity with a competition stage for the shooters to test their mettle on. BRVO Tactical doesn’t go easy on anyone, so come prepared to run, sweat, and shoot with an elevated heart rate. The flat range competition stage included carrying a heavy bag of sand about 50 yards before engaging steel targets from several props, including a tank trap, tractor tire, and vertical post. The steel went from a small torso size down to a plate only a few inches round. Making hits while winded is a skill that never hurts to develop. BRVO Tactical has no shortage of creative shooting stations or targets for the flat range and can really turn up the difficulty when they want. Maybe next time they’ll have us roll or flip those tractor tires before shooting, as they’ve done in previous courses. Bay Two  A mid-range bay that looks out over the rolling hills of the property, steel targets can be found scattered in all sorts of places. From 100 yards out to over 700 yards, Bay Two has a lot to offer. If you want to train precision shooting, shooting around or through the brush, or doing some positional shooting out of the Humvee, Bay Two is awesome. The possibilities for this range are nearly endless and make for a great area to ease you into the longer shots possible on the land. Day One was filled with positional shooting and getting our rifles dialed in for shots to at least 300 yards with some special targets closer to 600. Having sniper instructors calling hits and misses makes life easier and got even the newest shooter with just a red dot to connect on steel. From wood props to tripods to the back of the Humvee, BRVO Tactical makes just a few pieces of equipment transform into a plethora of instructional opportunities.   Day Two on Bay Two was another stage that sounded easier than it was in practice. There were 5 steel pistol targets and 5 rifle targets, with 1 hit per target required and no penalty for immediate re-engagements. The pistol steel was placed at about 10 yards and the small gongs were a quick clean sweep for me. The rifle targets ranged from about 150 yards out to a little over 300 yards, and had to be engaged while making contact with any part of a wood tank trap. Again, not crazy hard, but very fun. I don’t mind bragging a little — I managed to pull the best time on Bay Two. Huge thanks to True Shot ammo for setting us up with some 77gr PMC ammo. Making hits past 300 yards is a lot easier when you’re shooting good ammo. CQB House  As a civilian shooter, CQB isn’t something I had a chance to be exposed to yet, so getting some room clearing instruction from people who knew what they were doing was a great piece of training for me. Focusing on single-man door entry and room clearing (since most of the class were civilians and the most likely time we would need to do this is clearing our own home), the staff broke the room into two sections. The SF instructor took one group of students and the SWAT instructor took the other half before the groups switched. Getting to see two styles and two schools of thought at almost the same time was not only interesting but highly educational. Big Red  Named after one of our own — Patrick, the man in charge at RECOIL OFFGRID — Big Red is a long and rugged trail that serves as a great way of leveling the playing field for students to see where they fall short. I won’t spoil all the details, but it involves several minutes of running over natural terrain and making hits out to 300 yards in some tricky conditions. If a target is missed, it can be engaged with a second shot, but two misses incurs a hefty 30-second penalty, so you’ll need to be careful and make every round count.  Big Red is fun. Hard, but very fun. Every student was gassed by the end, but grinning ear-to-ear and expressing a desire to go again. More to Come BRVO Tactical isn’t finished building everything they want to build. But given the way they approach training, they may never be totally finished. There is always something new you can do, or a new curveball they can throw to keep you on your toes. From sniper towers to second run-and-gun course to more CQB buildings, BRVO Tactical has more coming. The land at the Sierra 1 site is amazing. The training courses are impressive. But it is the staff that makes it worth it. Finding good education isn’t easy, but the guys in charge at BRVO Tactical are excellent.  Read More Subscribe to Recoil Offgrid's free newsletter for regular updates on more content like this. The Objective: BRVO Tactical's Reconnaissance Class Stress Testing Pistol & Carbine Skills at BRVO Tactical's – The Solution The Final Weapon: Low-Profile Carbine AR-15 Home Defense: Rogue Methods Low-Profile Carbine Class Review The Basics of Long Range Shooting with Apex Training Solutions Editor's Note: This article was modified from the original web article published by David Lane at Recoilweb.com The post BRVO TACTICAL: Training CQB, Flat Range, Long Range, And A Lot More appeared first on RECOIL OFFGRID.

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