At the intersection of politics, law and national security--from "protect us at all costs" to "what the hell have you guys been up to, anyway?"--A lawyer's life in the CIA. Under seven presidents and 11 different CIA directors, Rizzo rose to become the CIA's most powerful career attorney. Given the agency's dangerous and secret mission, spotting and deterring possible abuses of law, offering guidance and protecting personnel from legal jeopardy was, and remains, no easy task. The author accumulated more than 30 years of war stories, and he tells most of them.
Topics include: Why Economics Matters to Critical Care Clinicians, Overview of Health Economics: Basics Concept for Clinicians;Health Economic Methods; Costs of Critical Care Medicine; Economic Aspects of Sepsis and Severe Infections; Economic Aspects of Renal Failure and Acute Kidney Injury; Economic Aspects of Cardiovascular Disease; Economics of Mechanical Ventilation and Respiratory Failure and Comparative Effective Research and Health Care Reform.
I was in a hospital with a severe brain injury. I was semi-paralyzed on my right side: I couldn't speak or eat. I had double vision. I couldn't walk. And I was strapped to a bed for my own protection. But I do remember that room in the rehabilitation hospital-it was like no other room. More things happened to me in that one small space than had happened to me in my entire life." The victim of a devastating motorcycle accident, author John Kennedy Rizzo knows too well of the social, spiritual, and medical aspects of traumatic brain injury. Rising from Hell traces his path through partial paralysis, incapacitating depression, and terrifying panic attacks. On his long road to rehabilitation, Rizzo discovered ways to overcome impossible odds. He speaks with compassion and wisdom as he encourages brain-injured people to find their way to the enabled life that may well lie within their grasp.
John Kennedy Rizzo, the author of Rising from Hell, endorsed by world renowned Dr. Bernie Siegel who says, "It answers all the questions"; Rita's White House and now, German Willy: an American Hero. A most fascinating story of war in Germany, paradoxically, alongside two enemy soldiers who befriend each other. As the facts of the conflict are brought out in this story we find that many other soldiers of Hitler also preferred peace to that of war. Rizzo promotes peace and cooperation for all people of all times. German Willy is an unusual story of war that teaches the greatest lesson in life--to love!
Rising from Hell answers all the questions." --Dr. Bernie Siegel The victim of a devastating motorcycle accident, author John Kennedy Rizzo knows too well of the social, spiritual, and medical aspects of traumatic brain injury. Rising from Hell traces his path through partial paralysis, incapacitating depression and terrifying panic attacks. On his long road to rehabilitation, Rizzo discovered ways to overcome impossible odds. He speaks with compassion and wisdom as he encourages brain-injured people to find their way to the enabled life that may well lie within their grasp. Born in the Bronx, New York, John Kennedy Rizzo moved to Connecticut for graduate school and a subsequent teaching career. He earned a BS in sociology an MS in urban studies and a 6th Year Degree in Secondary Education Management. He currently conducts research on access and mobility for the disabled. Please watch for his next book, German Willy, a true story of his father befriending an enemy soldier during WWII in Nazi Germany.
This book is a collection of full color cartoons hand-painted in a medium of watercolors and ink. The cartoons are a combination of whimsical and comical individual characters as well as more complex action scenes. The the emphasis is on viewing by children, preferably in combination with their parents and/or relatives and friends. The cartoons and viewing suggestions encourage active involvement and interactions between viewers. Adults viewing with children are urged to elicit reactions from the children and give them many opportunities make comments, ask questions, make jokes, and relate to other children who may be present. Cartoons have the capacity to trigger a large and varied array of viewer responses, making for an enjoyable experience.
Starting at $499, the diminutive Mac mini-2.5 inches tall, 6.5 inches wide, and 2.9 pounds-is expected to become Apple's bestselling computer, with projected shipments of 100,000 units a month This book offers several projects-some easy, some more challenging-to help people tweak, modify, and transform a Mac mini Modest modifications include creating a Mac mini home theater, an appliance controller, and a travel kit; other more complex (but very cool!) mods require wielding a soldering iron Offers detailed, illustrated step-by-step instructions-including how to open the Mac mini, keep track of pieces, and avoid damage-that enable even novice tinkerers to complete the projects
The perfect guide to help administrators set up Apple's Mac OS X Lion Server With the overwhelming popularity of the iPhone and iPad, more Macs are appearing in corporate settings. The newest version of Mac Server is the ideal way to administer a Mac network. This friendly guide explains to both Windows and Mac administrators how to set up and configure the server, including services such as iCal Server, Podcast Producer, Wiki Server, Spotlight Server, iChat Server, File Sharing, Mail Services, and support for iPhone and iPad. It explains how to secure, administer, and troubleshoot the network, and shows Windows admins how to incorporate a Mac subnet into the Windows Active Directory domain using Apple Open Directory. Explains all the necessary information about administering, securing, and troubleshooting a network with Mac OS X Lion Server Enables you to set up and configure the server as well as the iCal Server, Podcast Producer, Wiki Server, Spotlight Server, iChat Server, File Sharing, Mail Services, and support for iPhone and iPad Helps Windows administrators learn to easily incorporate a Mac subnet into the Windows Active Directory domain using Apple Open Directory With this easy guide at hand, implementing Mac OS X Lion Server and administering a Mac network is a breeze.
Sitting at that very long table in that creepy old house with my Aunt Rita, my Uncle Willy and my cousin Diana (my new family); it was like something right out of the twilight zone, and all that I knew was that I was getting into something very big there and I was scared out of my mind. I didn't know what to do, nor what I could do even if I could do anything at all. Besides I had no choice in the matter. My mother Carol was dead, and my father Joe might have just as well have been dead. In fact, he was nowhere to be found, as I had been suddenly thrown into the world of the bizarre.
Discover what can be done with a network and how to do it from this guide that helps users understand home networking and getting up and running quickly.
Louise Rizzo was a first generation Italian-American woman, who grew up during the Great Depression and came of age during the World War II era. Like many of her era, she was filled with faith and hope in the American Dream. Well-read and passionate about sports, democracy, and family, Louise was properly rewarded with five sons and many more grandchildren. Upon her death in 2002, her fourth child, Dr. John Rizzo, decided to compile his memories of Louise's life lessons, which she usually shared over a steaming bowl of pasta that she made by hand in her kitchen. In Lessons from the Kitchen, John recounts tales of growing up in an idyllic neighborhood in West Springfield, Massachusetts, where common sense and a sense of adventure ruled the day and each evening came down to the three F's: family, friends, and food. While in these pages is one family's personal stories of struggle and triumph, the themes will resonate universally. You, too, should be able to point to someone in your past who taught you right from wrong, not only in words, but by example. For the Rizzo family and many others, Louise Rizzo did just that. Lessons of faith, perseverance, courage, patriotism, brotherhood, and loyalty abound. In addition, many of Louise's favorite recipes, which have delighted the tongues of countless folks are included after each chapter.
If you want to get to know Windows Vista fast but don't want to get bogged down in the details, you need a Visual QuickProject Guide! You don't need to know every feature--you just want to get your work done. Full-color illustrations show you how to perform each step of your project from start to finish. Low priced--why pay for more than you need? John Rizzo has been writing about computers for 20 years. His work has appeared in CNET, eWeek.com, the San Francisco Chronicle, PC Magazine, and other publications. John is the author of numerous books, including Customizing Windows XP: Visual QuickProject Guide. He also publishes MacWindows.com, a news and information Web site devoted to helping Mac users get along in a Windows world.
Have you ever wondered exactly how those beautiful lime or tangerine or blueberry iMacs work? Or how the operating system works on your iBook? Old and new generations of Macintosh users alike can find the answers in How Macs Work, Millennium Edition. Topics include: how different types of memory function, how data is stored, how FireWire transfers huge amounts of real-time digital data from consumer electronics devices like video camcorders into your Mac, increasing Mac speed and maximizing potential, how AirPort provides Internet access and creates networks on Macs without wires, and how Mac s new digital video editing technology can turn a VHS tape into polished digital video. The book will also explain how the Mac operating system works, including OS X ("OS Ten") the completely new implementation of the Macintosh operating system which features state-of-the-art technology throughout and an entirely new user interface called "Aqua.
Don Patrick is in love! The problem is, the rich, aging ex-Mafia crew boss is in love with Nora, his nephew, Ernie's, fiancée, and a girl young enough to be his granddaughter! Because the beautiful Nora is so warm and friendly to him, Don thinks that she's in love with him, too! Poor Ernie, is still a soldier toiling away for Hippy Fiore, who took over Don's crew, and is no longer of any use to his uncle. Don confides this to his best friend, a younger man, Dr. Bill Maltese.The doctor is shocked by his old friend's thinking, but rather than subject Don to the uncertainty of psychoanalysis, he comes up with his own scheme. He talks Nora into passing herself off as “Sophie,” a fictitious half-sister of the doctor's who he tells Don has been raised in a convent and is madly in love with him and actually wants to marry him. Don immediately forgets about Nora and goes through with a sham wedding engineered by the doctor, only to find that just as soon as the ceremony is over, “Sophie” turns into a domineering shrew and a spendthrift.This is part of the doctor's plan to bring Don back to his senses. But just when it seems like the farce is working Don decides to prove himself to Sophie by buying a five-story green building and going into the antiques business. Despite his total ignorance of his trade, everything goes great!Meanwhile, thousands of miles away, in Goose Creek, Alaska a giant grizzly bear devours an animal rights activist and his girlfriend. Sheriff Ajax Kincaid is unable to hunt the beast down because of pressure from the national media and PETA.Closer to home, WJIZ productions is desperately trying to replace the loss of its biggest customer.How do these seemingly unrelated events have anything to do with Don, Nora/Sophie and Ernie?Find out!
How Macs Work helps you not only to understand the jargon, but also marvel at the way technologies mesh to form the Macintosh. This bestseller edition has been updated to cover new models, the latest operating systems, QuickTime and Powerbook Wireless
Create a Mac network in your home or office There's no doubt about it: Macs, iPhones, and iPads have invaded the workplace. But, you don't need an IT department to administer a Mac network in your home or business. This friendly guide explains everything you need to know to set one up yourself using OS X Mountain Lion Server. First, you'll find an easy, quick-start way to implement OS X Mountain Lion on a Mac Mini. From there, you'll learn how to set up DNS, iCal Server, Podcast Producer, Wiki Server, file sharing, mail services, and more. This book helps you set up profile support for your iPhone and iPad and provides ways to configure iCloud in the home or office to keep your business data safe. Explains how to set up, secure, and troubleshoot a Mac network with OS X Mountain Lion Server Covers how to configure the server as well as DNS, iCal Server, Podcast Producer, Wiki Server, Spotlight Server, iChat Server, File Sharing, and Mail Services Shows Windows administrators how to easily incorporate Macs into their network Also covers support for iOS devices and ways you can use iCloud to keep your data secure when you hit the road for business travel Take control of your network and make administering it a snap with OS X Mountain Lion Server For Dummies.
The objective of U.S. Naval Intelligence is to harness the awesome power of the entity dubbed "Spearhead." Spearhead, meanwhile, has its own needs to fulfill, regardless of any pain or suffering by humans.
Providing solutions to scores of common problems faced by Mac owners, this addresses hassles associated with Mac OS X, iLife, Mac hardware, Microsoft Office and more in sharp detail.
The Ghosts of Langley offers a detail-rich, often relentless litany of CIA scandals and mini-scandals. . . [and a] prayer that the CIA learn from and publicly admit its mistakes, rather than perpetuate them in an atmosphere of denial and impunity." —The Washington Post From the writer Kai Bird calls a "wonderfully accessible historian," the first major history of the CIA in a decade, published to tie in with the seventieth anniversary of the agency's founding During his first visit to Langley, the CIA's Virginia headquarters, President Donald Trump told those gathered, "I am so behind you . . . there's nobody I respect more, " hinting that he was going to put more CIA operations officers into the field so the CIA could smite its enemies ever more forcefully. But while Trump was making these promises, behind the scenes the CIA was still reeling from blowback from the very tactics that Trump touted—including secret overseas prisons and torture—that it had resorted to a decade earlier during President George W. Bush's war on terror. Under the latest regime it seemed that the CIA was doomed to repeat its past failures rather than put its house in order. The Ghosts of Langley is a provocative and panoramic new history of the Central Intelligence Agency that relates the agency's current predicament to its founding and earlier years, telling the story of the agency through the eyes of key figures in CIA history, including some of its most troubling covert actions around the world. It reveals how the agency, over seven decades, has resisted government accountability, going rogue in a series of highly questionable ventures that reach their apotheosis with the secret overseas prisons and torture programs of the war on terror. Drawing on mountains of newly declassified documents, the celebrated historian of national intelligence John Prados throws fresh light on classic agency operations from Poland to Hungary, from Indonesia to Iran-Contra, and from the Bay of Pigs to Guantánamo Bay. The halls of Langley, Prados persuasively argues, echo with the footsteps of past spymasters, to the extent that it resembles a haunted house. Indeed, every day that the militarization of the CIA increases, the agency drifts further away from classic arts of espionage and intelligence analysis—and its original mission, while pushing dangerously beyond accountability. The Ghosts of Langley will be essential reading for anyone who cares about the next phase of American history—and the CIA's evolution—as its past informs its future and a president of impulsive character prods the agency toward new scandals and failures.
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