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This digital document is an article from JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1712 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Should the physical education profession lobby to become a "core subject" when No Child Left Behind is amended?(Issues)
Author: Ryan R. Bradshaw
Publication: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 77Issue: 2Page: 12(3)

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This is a NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER DAHLGREN DIV VA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A605673. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: This plan for system requirements engineering defines the stepsnecessary to engineer Surface Navy Theater Air Defense (TAD) as a system. Thehigh level architectures and requirements that result from this process areintended to guide future development priorities and road maps, describefunctional allocation alternatives, and define interface controls required forsafe and effective deployment of Surface Navy TAD. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Joint Force Quarterly, published by National Defense University on October 1, 2008. The length of the article is 6189 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Revisiting the seventies: the third world comes of age.(Recall)
Author: Thomas C. Reed
Publication: Joint Force Quarterly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2008
Publisher: National Defense University
Issue: 51Page: 148(8)

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This unique guide, the only available text that examines the practice and procedure of the coroner's court from the standpoint of a practitioner acting for the bereaved, contains a wealth of tips and tactical guidance from leading practitioners in the field of inquest law. There is a digest of resources and guidelines necessary to hold public authorities to account, guidance on how to approach narrative verdicts, with supporting precedents, and practical advice and information on preliminary steps, funding, disclosure and hearings.Much more than simply a guide to current practice and procedure, this influential book lends a powerful voice to the debate for a more just, fair and effective inquest system. It contains historical detail and a comprehensive analysis of future developments that will be invaluable to all those who share the view that the coronial system is in need of fundamental reform. Since the last edition of this book, the article 2 duty to provide full investigation into death in certain circumstances has transformed the law of inquests.This edition contains the most comprehensive analysis of the impact of the European Convention on Human Rights on coronial law with practical guidance on how to use the law. It is an essential reading for barristers, solicitors and other advocates, coroners, campaigning organisations and public bodies. ... Read more

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Chapters: People From Monahans, Texas, Jay Thomas, Guy Clark, Kathy Whitworth, Deanna Dunagan, Danny Mason, Lane Turner, Jim Colvin, Doug Smith. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jay Thomas (born July 12, 1958) is an American actor, comedian and radio talk show host]. Thomas was born Jon Thomas Terrell in Kermit, Texas, the son of Katharine "Kathy" (née Guzzino) and T. Harry Terrell, Sr. He was raised in his Italian American mother's Catholic religion (his father was Protestant). Thomas attended Jesuit High School in New Orleans, where he grew up. He is a graduate and holds a masters degree in Sociology from Jacksonville University. He lives in Southern California and is the father of three sons, Samuel, Jacob, and JT. Thomas fathered JT years earlier with another woman and gave him up for adoption. Thomas and his son John Harding are reunited and have spoken about their reunion on the Dr. Phil show. John Harding is the lead singer of the band JTX. Thomas is perhaps best known for his recurring roles. The first on the sitcom Mork and Mindy, on which he played Remo DaVinci, the Italian deli-owner, from 1979 until 1981. He then played the hockey-player-turned-travelling-ice show-skater second husband, Eddie LeBec, of Carla on Cheers (1987-1989). He also appeared on Murphy Brown as a tabloid talk show host, Jerry Gold, who was also one of Murphy's love interests (1989-1998). Thomas won 2 Emmy Awards in 1990 and 1991 for "Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series" for his portrayal of Jerry Gold on Murphy Brown. His voice characterasations include Zeus In the animated series "Hercules" and best friend to the "American Dad " on FOX. Thomas also starred in the short-lived 1990 show Married People. Thomas played Russell Myers, a writer who worked at h...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2508240 ... Read more

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Coming Home is a Journal and Devotional designed to offer inspirational messages for armed service personnel and their families. Each page format contains a Scriptural quotation, devotion, and space for journaling thoughts and prayers. The quotes and devotions offer thoughts to carry you through the day.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR


Reverend Danny Lynchard

Danny Lynchard was ordained as a Baptist Minister at age twenty and has been in the ministry for more than thirty years. Lynchard pastors at Fisher Baptist Church in Sand Springs, OK. He is a licensed private pilot and the Director of the Tulsa Police/Fire Chaplaincy Corps, where he has served for over 20 years. In this capacity he oversees a high number of volunteer chaplains who work with 1000+ law enforcement and firefighter personnel. He directly observes investigations and has personally dealt with over 800 families during times of catastrophic grief.His chaplaincy role has placed him in the living rooms of virtually every faith in America.He received training in Critical Incident Stress Debriefing, Mass Fatality Incident training through Federal Emergency Management Authority, and multiple law enforcement related operations. He founded the Peace Officer Prayer Partners which went worldwide.He is a dynamic speaker, an accomplished musician and a freelance writer for several Christian publications.
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Just Beautiful
This was a beautifully written story which I was sad to see end.It truly touched my heart.I was totally transported into these people's lives.The stories were so different, yet the same--the journey we call life.I can't wait for Scheinmann's next book.Bring it on!

Engrossing
This wasn't a book I would have chosen...possibly because the title had the word 'love' in it and possibly because it was a Judy and Richard recommendation (they DO review some good books, but the fact that they never seem to dislike any...whereas I do....puts me off).
However, it was picked for the reading group I belong to and... I loved it!!

Love does play a major part , but not in a soppy way. The book begins with Leo who wakes up in hospital in South America to the realisation that his girlfriend Eleni is dead...then the chapters alternate between Leo's story and that of Moritz Daniecki a young soldier caught up in WWI on the Russian Front. In between the chapters are journal pages which include factual information on the trials of love in the animal kingdom; from crabs to elephants...sounds odd but is relevant and interesting.

This book is stunningly realistic, whether it's the battle of Gnila Lipa and the graphic description of war, backpacking in South America or the fun and friendship of university.
Roberto was fascinating, I can't have been the only reader considering researching quantum physics can I? ;-)

Overall though, it makes you realise the importance of having someone to talk to who understands, the knowing that you're not the first person to have known grief and...the realisation that life does go on.

Humourous...sad, heroic, brave, inspirational...a book to cover all emotions.

Parallel stories eventually hook up
When I'm desperate for a good book, I turn to Book-of-the-Month Club, one of the best sources for mid-list writers who don't get a lot of promotion. That's where I found Danny Scheinmann's RANDOM ACTS OF HEROIC LOVE.

RANDOM ACTS is really two parallel stories. In 1917, Austro-Hungarian soldier Moritz Daniecki escapes from a Siberian prison and walks seven thousand kilometers to find Lotte, the girl he left behind. He has several near-death experiences but his quest for Lotte keeps him alive. This one is based on Scheinmann's grandfather's experience. The second story jumps ahead to 1992. Leo Deakin's wife, Eleni, is killed in a bus accident in Ecuador.He blames himself and has an awful time getting over her death. Leo's thread takes some time to develop; he's a doctoral candidate, studying ants. Lots of people try to help him overcome his grief. Perhaps the most interesting is Roberto Panconesi, a physics professor with a unique perspective on the afterlife. Leo attends his lectures and keeps a notebook with illustrations. They're included in the book. I began to look forward to them; they're about love occurring in the natural world. Red ants mate in mid air. The Arctic Tern circumnavigates the globe to breed in the Arctic. It takes Scheinman almost three hundred pages to connect the two stories.

I chose this book because of the POW story and wound up loving it because of the Leo story. Roberto Panconesi shows Leo that colliding atoms are irretrievably connected until another relevant collision occurs.In other words, Leo won`t get over Eleni until he finds another girl.

Phenomenal book that deserves to be read
I bought this book on a recent trip to England, where it is available everywhere in paperback.For a good part of the book I was happy to be reading a well-written, enjoyable story (or two stories, as it seems), and it was only at about 2/3 of the way through that the hyperbole surrounding the book became obviously justified.When I was done, all I could think was "wow" and wish forlornly that there was still more to read.A truly wonderful little book, that deserves publication and mass distribution in the U.S.

2 beautiful love stories...
Five stars are not enough! 'Random Acts of Heroic Love', is an incredible debut novel from Danny Scheinmann. A labour of love in itself; in his acknowledgements the author says it took six years and numerous drafts to get it right, but all that painstaking work has paid dividends. It's a wonderfully rich, insightful and wrenchingly emotional novel.

The story begins in 1992 with Leo, a young PhD student, waking up in an Ecuadorian clinic to find that his girlfriend Eleni is dead. Eleni. His soulmate. The other half of his whole. She's been killed in a bus crash they were in - the only victim of the crash. Leo's loss, and his attempt to go on living, picking up the pieces of his previous existence, without Eleni, is just one half of the book. Leo turns to Physics to try and find some answers and interspersed throughout the pages of the novel are facsimile pages from a journal Leo was keeping to help him get through Eleni's death... One of the quotes Leo finds is the one I used for the title of my review.

The other story, which picks up at chapter 3, is every bit as heart-wrenching. It is the story of another young man from Galicia, Moritz Daniecki, caught up in the war on the Russian Front as a soldier from 1914 through to 1917. In 1914 before the outbreak of war, young Moritz meets the love of his life, Lotte, and they declare their love for each other before Moritz goes to war. During the war he suffers unbearable conditions before finally escaping from a prisoner of war camp in Sibera. Moritz tells the story of how he is driven across the Siberian wilderness by his everlasting love for Lotte. It is her memory and the letters that he writes to her that keeps him going on his journey... not knowing what he will find at the end.

The two stories are truly beautiful. Both young men are kept going through each and every day by their memories of love, and the connection between the two is revealed at the end (if you haven't already guessed). Superbly written. The harshness of a Siberian winter and First World War horrors are vividly brough to life by Scheinmann. The book takes you on a non-stop emotional roller coaster and only those with cast-iron feelings will remain unmoved! An exceptional book.
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Chapters: Trevor Dawkins, Peter Thomas, Mal Roche, Gary Allison, Tom Reynolds, Emilio John, Danny Payne, Otey Cannon, Ian Filby, Dirk Denkers, Daniel Mammana, Mark Bryant. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 36. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Senior club appearances and goalscounted for the domestic league only.* Appearances (Goals) Trevor Dawkins (born July 11, 1945 in Thorpe Bay, Essex) is a retired English professional football defender. He spent seven seasons in the Football League, five in South Africa, and seven in the United States, most in indoor leagues. Following his retirement in 1985, he coached for fourteen years in the U.S. indoor leagues. He was the 1986 AISA Coach of the Year, 1991 MISL Coach Of The Year and 1996 CISL Coach of the Year. Dawkins began his professional career with West Ham United when he was fifteen. In 1964, he entered West Ham's first team. In 1978, he moved to the United States where he signed with the Sacramento Gold of the American Soccer League. He played at least two seasons in Sacramento, with part of the 1979 season spent as a player-coach. The team withdrew from the league following the 1980 season and Dawkins joined the Cleveland Force of the Major Indoor Soccer League. In 1984, Dawkins signed with the Canton Invaders of the American Indoor Soccer Association. While he remained with the team the entire year, he never saw first team time. In 1979, Dawkins became the head coach of the Sacramento Gold for the last four months on the American Soccer League season. On July 11, 1985, Dawkins was hired as the head coach of the Canton Invaders in the American Indoor Soccer Association. He took the team the AISA title and was named AISA Coach of the Year. He took the Invaders to the 1987 championship series which they lost to Louisville. He began ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22717711 ... Read more

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Chapters: Trevor Dawkins, Peter Thomas, Mal Roche, Gary Allison, Tom Reynolds, Emilio John, Danny Payne, Otey Cannon, Ian Filby, Dirk Denkers, Daniel Mammana, Mark Bryant. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 36. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Senior club appearances and goalscounted for the domestic league only.* Appearances (Goals) Trevor Dawkins (born July 11, 1945 in Thorpe Bay, Essex) is a retired English professional football defender. He spent seven seasons in the Football League, five in South Africa, and seven in the United States, most in indoor leagues. Following his retirement in 1985, he coached for fourteen years in the U.S. indoor leagues. He was the 1986 AISA Coach of the Year, 1991 MISL Coach Of The Year and 1996 CISL Coach of the Year. Dawkins began his professional career with West Ham United when he was fifteen. In 1964, he entered West Ham's first team. In 1978, he moved to the United States where he signed with the Sacramento Gold of the American Soccer League. He played at least two seasons in Sacramento, with part of the 1979 season spent as a player-coach. The team withdrew from the league following the 1980 season and Dawkins joined the Cleveland Force of the Major Indoor Soccer League. In 1984, Dawkins signed with the Canton Invaders of the American Indoor Soccer Association. While he remained with the team the entire year, he never saw first team time. In 1979, Dawkins became the head coach of the Sacramento Gold for the last four months on the American Soccer League season. On July 11, 1985, Dawkins was hired as the head coach of the Canton Invaders in the American Indoor Soccer Association. He took the team the AISA title and was named AISA Coach of the Year. He took the Invaders to the 1987 championship series which they lost to Louisville. He began ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22717711 ... Read more

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In Boogie-Woogie, Danny Moynihan casts a satirical eye over an extraordinary milieu: the nineties New York art scene.With a nod to Mondrian's abstract masterpiece, 'Broadway Boogie-Woogie', Moynihan sets out to recreate the energy of that period of excess.In doing so he paints a deliciously lurid and subversive picture of the lives and loves of artists, dealers, and wannabees in a cut-throat world. Boogie-Woogie is a novel of tremendous originality and verve.
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great book
This book captured my attention from the first to the last line.
I really love all the characters!

Vapid to the Max.
This book focuses on the most mindless aspects of the art world--the parties and openings that are the least interesting aspects of the scene.If you read this, don't think you're getting anything but the most obvious and vapid commentary.I was really disappointed by this book.

sarcastic, real, funny
this book is one of those you cant put down, sarcastic humor and realistic scenarios. Highly reccomended!

saddie-waddie
This volume has received mostly favorable reviews and has been promoted as an excellent guide to the 90s art scene in New York. Unfortunately, the neurotic fixation of the author on graphic sex detracts from any appreciation of the "art scene".The organization of the book, especially the 3-5 line interspersed episodes, are distracting.It would have been better to have had 4-5 short stories, than snippets interwoven, so that keeping track of all the characters (with similar fixations on sex, rather than art)might be more easily accomplished. Gives the tone of NCY 90s art scene- but not the substance.

Fantastic
Anyone who has any interest in art or the art world will find this novel an entirely realistic and hugely entertaining read.Highly recommended. ... Read more

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The Government Inspector, also known as The Inspector General- is a satirical play by the Russian playwright and novelist Nikolai Gogol, published in 1836 and revised for the 1842 edition. Based upon an anecdote allegedly recounted to Gogol by the writer Pushkin, the play is a comedy of errors, portraying human greed, stupidity, and the deep corruption of powers in Tsarist Russia.The top officials of a small provincial town, headed by the Mayor, react with terror to the rumors of an Inspector General to be sent to their town for an undercover inspection. The flurry of activity to cover up the various misdeeds and clean up the town is interrupted by the report that a suspicious person from Saint Petersburg (at that time, the capital of Russia) has already arrived two weeks ago and is staying at the inn. That person, however, is not an inspector; it is Khlestakov, a young light-headed and ambitious office clerk from the capital who is travelling to his parents' estate. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Luc Longley, Danny Granger, Michael Cooper, J. R. Giddens, Daniel Santiago, Kenny Thomas, Mel Daniels, Patrick Dennehy, Charles Cornelius Smith, Ruben Douglas, Ira Harge, Daniel Faris, Rickey Williams, Ryan Kersten. Excerpt:Charles Cornelius Smith (known simply as Charles Smith ; born August 22, 1975 in Fort Worth, Texas ) is an American professional basketball player currently playing with Efes Pilsen Istanbul in the TBL . NBA and Euroleague career Smith has played for the Denver Nuggets , the Portland Trail Blazers , the Miami Heat , the Los Angeles Clippers , and the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA . A prolific scorer, he starred in European national leagues with Makedonikos Kozani , Virtus Bologna and Efes Pilsen SK . With Italian team Scavolini Pesaro in 2005, he won the first-ever Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy as the best scorer in the 2004-05 Euroleague . He was also the MVP of the ULEB Cup final in 2006-07 playing with Spain 's Real Madrid Baloncesto . Back to Turkey for the 2008-2009 season, he signed by Efes Pilsen . Collegiately, he was a star at the University of New Mexico , and he played high school ball at famed Dunbar High School in Fort Worth. Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Daniel Faris (born 2 May 1987 in (Greenbrae, California) is an Lebanese American basketball player. He is a six-foot-nine-inch tall power forward . Faris played four years of NCAA Division I basketball at the University of New Mexico . In his senior season, he averaged 12.1 points and 6.4 rebounds per game en route to being named to the All-Mountain West Conference second team. Faris is also a member of the Lebanon national basketball team . He competed with the senior team for the first time at the FIBA Asia Championship 2009 , where he saw action in four... ... Read more

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The Inspector-General is a national institution. To place a purely literary valuation upon it and call it the greatest of Russian comedies would not convey the significance of its position either in Russian literature or in Russian life itself.

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