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This little guide to Midwest java joints, perked up with anecdotes, jokes, and the author's own whimsical illustrations, will entertain and educate as you enjoy your daily jolt. Jeff Hagen scoured Wisconsin and beyond into Minnesota and Iowa, finding coffee shop gems that serve a great cuppa with delectable desserts, indispensable advice, or a quiet place to think.

Fantasy Healthball is the health and nutrition program rooted in fantasy sports. It is part fantasy game, part science, and all attitude. You compete directly with professional football players to meet your health goals. This personal approach is drastically different from other diet plans. It isn't about conforming to some new fad like low-carb or high-protein or low-sugar. It's about you and using your passion for sports to propel you to achieve your personal health goals. Starting as a popular website (FantasyHealthball.com) launched at the halftime of 2008's Super Bowl XLII, Fantasy Healthball turns passion for football into passion for great health and turns spectators into active players. You'll be actively engaged in the pro football game, without having to worry about a 300-pound linebacker planting you in the artificial turf! All of the great things about fantasy football combine to motivate and push you to improve your daily health challenges - and your long term health. By selecting one of our competition methods, the "on the field" actions of pro football players will relate directly to your healthy actions throughout the week. You'll earn "Healthpoints" for executing good decisions just like the pros earn points for executing a successful scoring play. The weekly result will be a win or a loss as you attempt to have a good season and even make the playoffs! When it is the off-season, you can play a health-only (no fantasy football) game called Training Camp against your friends, family, or yourself. Fantasy Healthball combines no-nonsense "Dr. Oz sort of health advice" wrapped neatly in a fantasy sports package built on competition and fun. It is like a powerful combination of Nutrition for Dummies, Dieting for Dummies, Eat This Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide, and your favorite fantasy sports website! You'll learn about calories, weight loss, eating strategies, exercise, and even how to perform a "Pantry and Refrigerator Exorcism!"

Pay tribute to "Betsy" -- an honored automobile portrayed in art and prose by Jeff Hagen. In short story form, owners tell why their "Betsy" won their heart.

To assist in moving intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) planning and execution forward from a fixed target and deliberate planning focus to one centered on emerging targets, the authors propose enhancing the collection management process with a strategies-to-tasks and utility framework. By linking collection targets to operational tasks, objectives, and the top-level commander's guidance with relative utilities, planning for the daily intelligence collections and real-time retasking for ad hoc ISR targets could be enhanced. When current tools are modified to provide this information, planners will be able to link collection targets to top-level objectives for better decision making and optimization of low-density, high-demand collection assets. Similarly, on the Air Operations Center (AOC) floor, intelligence officers will be better able to deal with time-sensitive, emerging targets by rapidly comparing the value of collecting an ad hoc collection with the value of collecting opportunities already planned. To handle the ISR demands posed by the rapidly changing battlefield of the future, this new, more-capable framework may be needed for making the best use of intelligence capabilities against emerging collection opportunities. Future research will focus on quantifying the advantages of this approach in comparison with the current process.

This report describes the resilience assessment framework that RAND Project AIR FORCE developed to assess the potential impact of integrating select commercial space services on U.S. Space Force (USSF) mission performance. Applying the framework to two example USSF missions, the authors show how the framework could provide a principled and flexible evaluation method for various USSF missions.

Over the past few years, commercial space services have significantly increased in capability and capacity in many missions of interest to the U.S. Space Force (USSF). As the USSF considers incorporating such commercial space services into its missions, it needs a principled and flexible assessment framework for evaluating how commercial contributions affect the performance and resilience of various USSF missions. This report describes the resilience assessment framework that RAND Project AIR FORCE developed to assess the potential impact of select commercial services on USSF space mission performance. The framework includes four components to help analysts consider the additional mission performance and mission resilience that a proposed commercial service could provide. The prospect of incorporating commercial capabilities into defense missions also raises the question of trustworthiness and information assurance. The assessment framework includes a subframework focused on grading information contributions from commercial services for trustworthiness. To demonstrate how the framework can be tailored to diverse missions by specifying the relevant mission assets or infrastructure, the commercial services available, and the mission performance measures, the authors apply the framework to two example missions: tactical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance and data transmit and receive network. They then discuss their findings and propose several recommendations for the USSF to fully leverage the benefits of evaluating commercial capabilities with the resilience assessment framework.

This report summarizes a series of reports on how U.S. joint long-range strike could better balance operational effectiveness, force survivability, and escalation management to achieve its objectives without triggering catastrophic escalation.

In this report--part of a larger study of prospective nuclear escalation risks in a U.S.-China military conflict--the authors explore potential escalation pathways that involve U.S. long-range strike and end with Chinese nuclear first use.

Mosaic warfare is named for the idea of creating a complex image from small pieces. This report studies Mosaic warfare and explores complexity of platforms, complexity of targets, and relative density of platforms and targets.

Although much work has been done considering the issue of airbase resilience #x14; especially in the Asia-Pacific region #x14; these studies have typically focused on a single aspect of the problem (such as hardening or runway repair) but have not considered the issues in total. There is a need to view the issue more holistically, especially given the strategic implications of U.S. power projection in anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) environments. The authors of this report developed a modeling framework and lexicon for conducting a detailed analysis of future Air Force operational resilience in an A2/AD environment; the analysis itself focused on different regions (Pacific, Southwest Asia, etc.) to bound the problem and identify a robust set of strategic assumptions and planning requirements. The study was set within the context of efforts to rebalance the joint force in the Asia-Pacific region. This report describes the Operational Resilience Analysis Model (ORAM) built for this effort, which was used to evaluate the impact of different courses of action from an operational standpoint. The authors explain the ORAM model, discuss the inputs that go into modeling Blue (friendly) and Red (enemy) capabilities, and illustrate the model using a simple notional case. They conclude with some suggestions for follow-on work to improve the functionality of ORAM and to address data uncertainties in the model.