Up North: stories of Alaska" is a memoir of the ten years Michael Downey spent living and working in Alaska. It covers topics like commercial fishing, sports fishing, hunting, dramatic plane crashes and rescues--page [4] of cover.
A physical journey turned into a deeply spiritual experience. As he and a former student traveled through Vietnam, Dr. Michael Downey encountered the "heart of hope." The exotic flowers, the spicy dishes, the flamboyant ao dai worn for celebrations, the clang of bicycles spoke with subtle intensity of life fully lived.
Daisy and Duke Duckworth are celebrating their 25the wedding anniversary in Hawaii, but their vacation in paradise is threatened when Duke is mistaken for superspy Peter Smith. Feyodor "Fatty" Arbackle and his henchman Dmitri are out to get Duke who is being protected by the real Peter Smith and fellow agent Candace Kane and her Uber, Duber. Will the couple survive? Will Duke ever learn how to use the camera on his phone?
ABOUT THE BOOK One way or another, Robert Downey Jr.'s reputation as a drug addict and a playboy has been an essential aspect of his career and public persona since he broke out in the 1980s. The influence of his habits is unquestionable, from the way his real-life struggle with substance abuse mirrored his character Julian's rapid deterioration in Less Than Zero to the winking acknowledgment of his past problems in more recent roles like hard-living hero Tony Stark in the Iron Man franchise and literary cocaine icon Sherlock Holmes. Downey has been showered with critical accolades, award nominations and big paychecks on both sides of addiction. The real question is whether his audience prefers him as a fascinating scoundrel or a delightfully profane poster boy for redemption, and if it's even possible to have one without the other. When Mel Gibson made headlines in 2006 for a drunk driving arrest and the antisemitic rant that followed, Robert Downey Jr. was at the head of a very short line of people in Hollywood to come to his defense. Downey and Gibson met on the set of Air America and would be close friends ever since. Gibson told W Magazine in 2007, “He was one of the first people to call and offer the hand of friendship. He just said, ‘Hey, welcome to the club. Let's go see what we can do to work on ourselves.” That was the voice of today's Robert Downey Jr. That was the man post-rehab, post-prison, post-divorce and post-disaster that very nearly ruined his career. That was the voice of the man who couldn't get a gig in the movie business for two solid years until Mel Gibson footed the toxic insurance bill for Downey's role as the lead in 2003's most important flop, The Singing Detective. Robert Downey Jr. spent significant periods of time between 1996 and 2001 in rehabilitation centers and prison, resulting in so many high-profile legal battles and breached contracts that he struggled to get any work at all following his release from the Corcoran II drug treatment facility. In the three years following his lauded supporting performance in Wonder Boys (2000), Downey's only screen credits were three short films and a run on the Fox series Ally McBeal that ended with him being fired for drug-related behavioral problems. This led to years of trouble qualifying for the insurance coverage that has become de rigueur for A-list actors signing onto a major motion picture. When Mel Gibson vouched for Downey during the production of The Singing Detective, he was putting his own career on the line as well. The film may have crashed critically and financially, but it put Robert Downey Jr. back on the silver screen. The Singing Detective was an adaptation of a BBC miniseries of the same name. It was the kind of project that could have been great but was ultimately doomed to fail. It got batted around Hollywood for years being toyed with and ultimately passed up by the likes of David Cronenberg and Robert Altman until it landed at Icon Productions, the company Mel Gibson formed with Bruce Davey, a fellow Aussie in the film business. Dennis Potter, who wrote the original Singing Detective, had been dead for a decade by the time director Keith Gordon brought it to the screen in the U.S. The result was a jumbled mess of postmodern storytelling that abandoned the irony and allusions to World War II England that made the BBC production resonate beyond its intentionally disorienting conceits. The story of a pulp mystery novelist who escapes the pain of advanced psoriasis through fantasy, The Singing Detective is a mess on the screen but a fascinating (if unintentional) reflection of its star. Robert Downey Jr. not only grew up in front of the camera, he has often been indistinguishable from the characters he plays... ...buy the book to keep reading!
A renowned writer and teacher opens up the mystery of Christ's descent into hell on Holy Saturday, revealing a spirituality that recognizes Christ's solidarity with us in our own suffering and trials.
Adolescent males crave guidance on how to integrate their spiritual selves into their rapidly changing bodies and lives. This groundbreaking resource addresses male teen psychology, theology, socialization, and authentic spirituality to help Catholic young men understand the complex issues swirling about them. Digging Deep includes easy-to-use, active lesson plans that complement the Voices series resource manuals for teen boys' female counterparts. The book can be used for gender-specific activities for boys, or it can be combined with the Voices series to plan concurrent boy-girl sessions. Digging Deep also includes retreat suggestions for fathers and sons. It's the most important resource you can buy for nurturing the growing spirituality of the young males in your school or parish.
As Archbishop of Los Angeles, Cardinal Roger Mahony was renowned for the wisdom and insight imparted in his writings. Here we have collected some of his best work in the area of ministry and mission, crafted in collaboration with his theological advisor, Dr. Michael Downey. In his active retirement, Cardinal Roger Mahony, Archbishop Emeritus of Los Angeles, continues to work for immigration reform in the United States. In addition to serving as Professor of Theology in various universities and seminaries in the United States and abroad, Michael Downey has been the Cardinal's Theologian since 1996. Book jacket.
This groundbreaking book is distinctive for the explicit attention it gives to the communal, intersubjective, cultural, and linguistic embodiment of the workings of God in the world. It emphasizes not simply acting justly but living with, in, and from the justice of the triune God by which we are justified. Finally, it offers an important sacramental and liturgical grounding to the Christian understanding of both justice and the triune God. David N. Power and Michael Downey make clear to contemporary believers why a spiritual and sacramental life that is ordered by its trinitarian orientation must include the desire for justice. In short, it is an ethic of social justice that springs from contemplation of the Divine Trinity in the world.
This poetic book on the Trinity offers reflections on the inter-personal dimensions of God and spells out the implications for spiritual life. While recent studies on the Trinity converge on the profoundly relational character of the mystery, less attention has been given to the way in which language of the Trinity speaks to the deepest desires of the human heart, the region of wound and wisdom wherein we long for loving communion with God and others. Michael Downey shows us that the doctrine of the Trinity is a grammar by which Christians speak of the ineffable mystery of God's constant, eternal giving as gift. By accepting this gift we participate in the divine life.
This comprehensive and self-contained textbook presents an accessible overview of the state of the art of multivariate algorithmics and complexity. Increasingly, multivariate algorithmics is having significant practical impact in many application domains, with even more developments on the horizon. The text describes how the multivariate framework allows an extended dialog with a problem, enabling the reader who masters the complexity issues under discussion to use the positive and negative toolkits in their own research. Features: describes many of the standard algorithmic techniques available for establishing parametric tractability; reviews the classical hardness classes; explores the various limitations and relaxations of the methods; showcases the powerful new lower bound techniques; examines various different algorithmic solutions to the same problems, highlighting the insights to be gained from each approach; demonstrates how complexity methods and ideas have evolved over the past 25 years.
The definitive text in its field, McGlamry's Comprehensive Textbook of Foot and Ankle Surgery, is the ideal reference for the podiatric or orthopedic surgeon, resident, or student preparing for certification exams. From perioperative management to postoperative complications and considerations, this must-have resource prepares you for a full range of podiatric surgeries and procedures ranging from routine trauma of the foot and leg to compound deformities, enabling you to face any challenge with confidence. This is the tablet version of McGlamry's Comprehensive Textbook of Foot and Ankle Surgery which does not include access to the supplemental content mentioned in the text.
A collection of writings of Cardinal Roger Mahony that covers a range of topics. What they have in common is a concern for ministry to meet the needs of the local church in Los Angeles. He focuses on priestly ministry and identity, and broadens to include attention to the ministry of lay persons, deacons, women, and bishops.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Parameterized and Exact Computation, IWPEC 2004, held in Bergen, Norway, in September 2004. The 25 revised full papers presented together with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The topics addressed focus on all current issues in this new approach to designing algorithms.
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