My father in Me" is a compilation of stories experienced by Andy Kelley, former Underwater Demolition Team member (Navy Seal), and his son, Patrick Kelley. This book illustrates how the life of one person can positively influence multiple generations through example, word and intent. In turn, it helps us understand that we too, alter the lives of others as we interact in both positive and negative ways. "My Father in Me" also demonstrates how the "Kelley Mystique," a dangerous genetic trait, intrinsically motivates an individual to do some of the craziest things. This collection of life experiences, both humorous and heart-breaking, are wonderfully woven into a beautiful fabric called life. Each chapter, accentuated with a family picture, takes us step by step closer to our Heavenly Father through a deeper relationship with His Son, Jesus Christ. The book asks probing questions and addresses awkward life situations that are frequently avoided. Ultimately, "My Father in Me" uncovers the purpose of life and the importance of love and family.
This refreshingly frank handbook shows teachers how to close the achievement gap in their classrooms by teaching students innovative paths to academic success. Drawing on over 20 years’ experience, Kelley presents straightforward strategies for helping learners improve their grades and test scores and experience greater school engagement—all while streamlining the teacher’s work to yield maximum efficiency. Strategies include team-grading essays, using Socratic seminars and sworn statements, allowing for re-dos, and ruthlessly pruning assignments, among others. Often humorous and irreverent in tone, this guide will be the talk of the break room. Includes online digital content.
Become an expert in meetings, screen share, audio, video, and AI in Zoom by learning advanced techniques and gaining insights from Zoom expert, Patrick Kelley Key Features Explore features such as webinars, attendee engagement techniques, analytics, and reporting Leverage AI to increase effectiveness as a meeting organizer, presenter, and attendee Discover advanced content and collaboration tips and tricks to create presentations that are engaging to the audience Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book DescriptionThe last few years have completely changed the way we collaborate and communicate. Whether it’s internally with coworkers at a large enterprise or externally with prospective clients and customers, Zoom has created a new way to interact with people in real-time as well as asynchronously. This cookbook delves into all aspects of Zoom, moving beyond just meetings. You’ll get started by exploring key areas such as audio, video, chat, webinars, advanced reporting, and analytics. Next, you’ll progress from discovering simple Zoom video and audio calls to understanding features such as whiteboards, hardware integration, and phone capabilities. Gradually, you'll discover advanced techniques for effective content presentation, while configuring users and features from the admin portal. The last set of chapters cover advanced features on security and privacy as well as how to make the most of AI Companion to reach out to your audience with better content, clarity, and expertise. By the end of this Zoom book, you’ll be well-versed with the entire Zoom app and all the modalities available.What you will learn Harness Zoom's features and functions beyond just video meetings Understand how to use Zoom for multiple communication modalities Discover advanced techniques for presenting content effectively Find out how to configure users and features from the admin portal Get hands on with Zoom phone, chat, email, and calendar Configure Zoom hardware and software effectively Secure Zoom with security and privacy techniques Use AI Companion to work more efficiently and productively Who this book is for This book is for any user looking to get the most out of Zoom’s collaboration or communication tools.
This title introduces readers to the Denver Broncos, providing exciting details about today's stars and going deep inside the key moments of the team's history. The title also features informative "fast facts," a timeline, and a glossary. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing Company.
This title introduces readers to the New York Jets, providing exciting details about today's stars and going deep inside the key moments of the team's history. The title also features informative "fast facts," a timeline, and a glossary. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing Company.
America needs an American solution to saving the homes and the people, and here is an American solution - a revolutionary idea of economics and political conversation. The means to providing for greater personal wealth to every American and securing a universal health care system without massive taxation or the progressive liberal (socialist) idea of massive government. Keeping American companies in America, re-creating an environment where hiring and employment is the focus, where opportunity and hope are more than slogans and change is not merely a word used. The means to this future very simply offered in a to the point format, meant for the people to understand and demand in one voice. America needs leadership and direction not traditional political posturing and partisan finger pointing. Freedom and liberty are not secured through government dictate, only through the people which government must facilitate their means and the pursuit of individual choice and success.
In a time when the global and national economies seem to favor so few and harm so many, when the threats to the common good are so prevalent and so deep, how do people of faith think about these issues and act with those who are most vulnerable? Living the Catholic Social Tradition: Cases and Commentary addresses these challenges through contemporary theory and research conducted within the framework of the rich Catholic social tradition. Co-editors Kathleen Maas Weigert and Alexia Kelley combine four essays from leading scholars with eight concrete case studies based on community social justice projects across the country. This unique combination of theory and reflective practice provides university students and adult learners with a framework for understanding the Catholic social tradition and a demonstration of its positive social impact on the people it serves. The reader first learns about the challenges facing Catholic universities in educating the current generation about the Catholic social tradition. The next essays provide insights into the ways in which the tradition frames and contributes to social change; approaches to understanding the key concepts and documents that make up the tradition; and an understanding of the forces confronting change agents in major metropolitan areas. Undertaken by younger scholars and activists, the eight case studies tackle the issues that grass roots groups and visionary leaders face as they try to bring about positive change in their communities. Living the Catholic Social Tradition will help readers assess and address different social justice issues within the framework of Catholic social thought. In that process, readers are called upon to think how they might not only contribute to the tradition, but develop it further, thus bringing the Catholic social tradition alive in contemporary times.
Charles Albert MacDonald, born of Scottish descent in 1902, father of three, husband to one, WWII war-hero and grandfather—claimed to be many things that he was not. His true birth name was Carlos Alberto Roder, of Trujillo, Peru. Born to a large family of generational cane farmers where on a scorched slice of dusty earth, he grew up hard. And in the year of 1916, our young tough Carlos, a.k.a. Carlito, fell in love with perhaps the right girl, but most certainly the wrong daughter. The daughter to one Rafael Morales Torres, chief commissioner of the Peruvian Civil Guard, and in more intimate circles, known as just “El Jefe.” Carlito’s life was set to end well before he’d reached his seventeenth year. His flaunted love affair with El Jefe’s one precious daughter landing him in a black cell, cut deep beneath the great Inca Citadel of Machu Picchu. Until his father, four brothers, and a family burro named Sid, changed his life’s course forever. Once freed, Carlito was stowed aboard a tattered fishing schooner bound for the Republic of Costa Rica. Hidden away from the prying eyes of those who sought to take his fledgling life. Or so they’d thought. From Central America he traveled on across the sultry Caribbean Sea and into the vast cerulean bluster of the Atlantic Ocean. To stand upon Liberty Island in America’s New York Harbor. Huddled, tired and poor, yet free. Free to gaze upon Auguste Bartholdi’s Lady Liberty in all her glory. Where he’d step from a rusted, Irish-made steamer to start a new life under the name, Charles Albert MacDonald. His Peruvian roots and family all but forgotten. Left behind to become the bloodied prey of a new Peruvian order and El Jefe’s brutal rise to power. The girl that would one day be the mother of his child, left behind to perish in agony. To pay for their indiscretions from this life to the next within the callous hands of true evil—the hands of her adopted father—El Jefe. Charles discovered the many horrifying truths late in life, hollowing his soul, rendering him a broken man. Left to ponder endlessly over a myriad of “what if’s.” The demons of his past roaming freely within him, pulling and pushing at his sanity. But what if he could go back in time to right the wrongs he unwittingly set to motion? To rewrite his life’s tortured story? On the morning of August 28th, 1982, Charles Albert MacDonald passes on. But in an aberrant turn of events, well beyond the natural course of things, he’s given an “option.” A chance at the redemption he’d pleaded and begged for throughout his life. But as he’ll soon find out, true redemption has its price. You see, old scores never really die, they lie in wait, lurking hungerly in the shadow.
Major Kelley chooses three empires with which to compare our current intelligence circumstances. Each of these faced challenges in understanding peoples; Rome in the first and second centuries AD, the Ottomans in the 16th to 18th, and Britain in India in the 18th to early 20th. Kelley feels these warrant study in light of our need to deal with peoples whom we may seek to influence. The author also asks: ?If power shapes knowledge, does knowledge also shape power This is a delightful exercise in erudition in which key postmodern insights and reasoning are used to gain political understanding. Full of surprises and insights, Kelley takes his readers through an enchanted forest peopled by Foucalt, T.E. Lawrence, J.S. Bach, Borges, Idries Shah, Hobsbawm, Jung, Baudrillard, and many more. One hopes our educated, certified, and degreed military and intelligence leadership can penetrate a work this rich, deep, and ultimately useful. (Originally published in color by the NDIC Press)
Based on true events, this tale recounts the 1911 theft of history's most famous portrait, Leonardo da Vinci's MONA LISA, through the spririted narration of the proud thief himself.
In the US Army there are only a few men who are able to earn all three tabs worn on the uniform, the Airborne Tab, the Ranger Tab and the Special Forces Tab. Those men are known by many terms, but one of them is Triple Canopy. These are three stories from the career of Patrick O'Kelley, a triple tabber. Airborne - the story of him being a sniper during the invasion of Grenada. Ranger - the story of the loss of a friend during a training accident. Special Forces - the story of operating behind Iraqi lines during Desert Storm.
Eboni Walker bears the scars of a recent emotional trauma--bitter, disillusional, and angry, her first encounters with the dashing Paul, a race car driver, are less than warm ...and ROCKY. Paul, too, is one of the 'walking wounded', and each may be exactly what the other needs in order to become whole again. But can she let another man into her heart once more? And will he be able to return to his former glory? Each busy with their own unique careers and thoughts, will they be able to surmount the differences between them, and life's obstacles--finding the love they both need so very much? A love story that delivers all the emotion and erotica it can...with the subtlety of a twenty-pound sledgehammer. 'Love At The Limit' is a book you won't be able to put down--and will want to tell everyone you know about. It is also--uniquely--a story that can be shared with the MAN in your life: with enough thrills and drama inside to keep HIM enthralled as well!
Fourteen scriptural events from the Advent and Christmas story are depicted in lush paintings and accompanied by uplifting text that is fresh and contemporary but with a timeless feel of a classic. Ideal for private, family, or group use with children ages 7-12, this new Christmas custom includes a Scripture passage, a brief meditation, a lesson, and a prayer for each station.
The book revolves around four characters all from very different backgrounds who share a bond in Heaven. Through gritty flashback scenes of their lives we discover that our four characters, even with their dark pasts and heartaches, in the end can't escape what is meant to be. Two very simple, sweet love stories are told and the connection of our characters is revealed, adding not only drama and emotion but also depth to this riveting tale. Through this dramatic love story and its characters Patrick sets out to put a different spin and light on the one thing we all strive to find in this lifetime and beyond "real pure love.
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