Under any description of the start of my life, the odds were against me. With the untimely death of my mother at age 31 in September and the suicide of my father on the following Christmas Day, I was orphaned at the age of two along with six siblings. Through the efforts of a Methodist pastor, we were placed in the Methodist Orphans Home in Waco, Texas on January 21, 1937. This is the story of my life and how I was able to overcome those gigantic odds. Who would believe that the two-year-old orphan boy would later serve for the last twenty-five years of his career as the President/CEO of the agency that rescued him and his six siblings?
In the fourth edition of Daniels' Running Formula, legendary running coach Jack Daniels has refined his revolutionary VDOT system, providing more precise training pace plans and expanding coverage of ultradistance training, triathlon preparation, and training in challenging environments.
In looking over my life, it's interesting to realize how often some luck has been involved. Growing up in the San Francisco Bay area led to learning to love the Pacific Ocean and to getting to attend Sequoia High School in Redwood City, a school that I later realized had prepared me for winning National Championships, and medals in two Olympics. Our family's move to Montana led to lots of great hunting and fishing with brother Danny, and attending the University of Montana led to Danny, brother Jerry and I all being smoke jumpers for the U.S. Forest Service. That work also prepared Jerry for successful years with the CIA in Laos and Thailand, work that earned him three CIA medals of honor. Brother Kent was Montana State Trap-shooting champ and State champ in high school wrestling. My 4 years of military service sent me to Korea where I learned about the sport of modern pentathlon, and which also sent me to a year of study in a great Sport Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Next came graduate studies at the universities of Oklahoma and Wisconsin, which also led to many outstanding years of research in exercise physiology and how to be a successful running coach. Coaching years found me starting men's track and cross-country at Oklahoma City University, National Track Coach in the country of Peru, and women's track and cross-country coach at University of Texas. Then 6 years of research with Nike, followed by 19 years coaching runners at the State University of New York in Cortland to numerous national titles. I also began coaching post-collegiate runners, several of whom competed in Olympic Games, including a Silver-Medal winner in women's marathon. However, all of these accomplishments all take second place to my marriage to Nancy Jo Scardina, who was first a great runner (Olympic Trials qualifier in the totally-different events of 1500 and marathon), then was my Assistant Coach for 25 years during which she also became the mother of our two wonderful daughters, Audra Marie and Sarah Tupper. Sarah is an opera singer in New York City and Audra a very dedicated worker at the University of Washington in Seattle. Nancy has become a Registered Nurse and is as dedicated to that profession as she was to her running career. I always envy those for whom she provides aid. Few people have had the luck I have had. God bless Nancy Jo, Audra Marie and Sarah Tupper.
When retired CIA agent Jack Hammer moves to Key West and embraces a lifestyle modeled after his literary hero Ernest Hemingway, he thought he was retiring to a life of wine, women, and song—punctuated with a lot of fishing. That was until Penelope Cruz lookalike Rosie Mendez entered his life and turned it upside down.Against his better judgment, Jack agrees to help a friend of Rosie named Laura, who finds herself way over her head in an art heist caper pulled off by her cousin Carlos. Carlos sucks Laura's father Dominick into the crime when he talks Dominick into hiding eight priceless Impressionist paintings in his house in Clearwater Beach. When Dominick gets sick, Laura removes the paintings—worth more than $200 million—from her father's house and hides them in her SUV.That's when Jack Hammer reluctantly comes to the rescue. Jack agrees to help her extricate herself from her mob-connected cousin's ruthless scheme. The action takes place in Key West, Ybor City in Tampa, Miami, and along the coast of Connecticut as Jack Hammer zeroes in and hauls the culprit in to the authorities.
Recommended by "Runner's World" magazine as "the best training book" by "the world's greatest coach," "Daniels' Running Formula" provides an expert training and racing blueprint for dedicated runners of all abilities.
He may be little known today, but Ben Daniels was a feared gunman who typified the journeyman gunfighter every bit as much as those whose names have become legend. Yet his story has eluded researchers and yarn-spinners alike—until now. Two prominent western historians have teamed up to tell the story of Ben Daniels’s rise from outlaw and convict to presidential protégé and high-ranking officer of the law. Tracing his life from jailhouse to White House, from Dodge City to San Juan Hill, Robert DeArment and Jack DeMattos present a full-length biography of Daniels, the most controversial of Teddy Roosevelt’s “White House Gunfighters.” The book faithfully traces Daniels’s early years, the time he spent in the Wyoming Territorial Penitentiary, his rebirth as a Dodge City lawman—including the controversy over his shooting a man in the back—and his part in the Battle of Cimarron. Following military service with the Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War, Daniels was appointed by President Roosevelt as U.S. marshal for turbulent Arizona Territory. Daniels was as quick with his mind as with a gun, but he had a rough ride to redemption. This original biography belongs on the shelf of every gunfighter buff and anyone interested in the broader story of the Old West. It rescues Daniels from the footnotes of history and shows us the amazing life of one of the West’s most intriguing gunmen.
This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to bring out your fun side. Remember, funny people are made, not born. They came to being just like you and me, but they were able to develop their sense of humor at some point in their lives"--Amazon.com.
It is not difficult to identify acts of overt racism in America today. They are blaring and clear violations of civil and human rights. Unfortunately, as a nation, our attention is so focused on mitigating overt racism that we ignore micro-aggressions against people of color -- acts of racism that are equally as damaging but harder to identify because they operate within the law. NEGOTIATING A HISTORICALLY WHITE UNIVERSITY WHILE BLACK unpacks many of the difficulties awaiting a person of color in academic spaces, allowing the reader to experience the types of micro-aggressions that subtly maintain a "Whites only" culture within academia. Jack L. Daniel gives a face and a voice, sometimes via humor, other times via heartbreak, to the African American experience in historically White institutions of higher education. It is an honest, self-reflective autoethnographic narrative that is thought-provoking and timely, challenging African American students to take responsibility for their own pursuit of excellence while at the same time challenging faculty and administration to play their roles in ensuring equal education access and success. by Stacy Johnson
¡Este libro no es “políticamente correcto”! El mundo hoy enfrenta problemas críticos que la iglesia preferiría no discutir. A los pastores se les amenaza con demandas y cárcel si se atreven a tratar de ellos. Pero, mientras los cristianos permanecen callados, estamos perdiendo nuestro derecho de hablar. Aquí encontrarás seis historias escritas por Jack Chick, con entrevistas que revelan por qué las escribió y la investigación que las apoya. Te asombrarás al saber lo que el enemigo hizo mientras los cristianos guardaban silencio. Temas Polémicos confronta estos asuntos vitales: • El verdadero propósito de las leyes respecto al “crimen de odio” • Son homosexuales... y ellos quieren perseguir a tus hijos • La verdad oculta acerca de Alá • La pornografía: ¿un crimen sin víctimas? • ¿Es Calabozos y Dragones una puerta al ocultismo? • Israel: ¿amigo o desventaja?
I just don't understand women. How often have you heard yourself say that? It seems like just when you think you understand them, another comes along and throws you a curveball, ruining your game. Enter Jack A. Daniels. This witty, sympathetic, and perceptive author invites all men who have loved and lost and are now single and searching to consider the possibility that the problem isn't that we don't understand women . . . Often, the fact is that we don't understand ourselves. With The Man's Handbook for Choosing the Right Woman, Daniels, an experienced counselor and weekly columnist, gives us a rulebook to success. With coaching exercises at the end of each chapter to help you organize your team and insights into the various types of women we have encountered (or will in the future), this half-guide, half-workbook will motivate and inspire you to take control of your love life. Sometimes funny, sometimes serious, and always insightful, The Man's Handbook is a valuable guide to turn to on the long and bumpy road to finding your most compatible female companion. Pick up the book, get your head in the game, organize your team, and play to win!
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