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John Eric Carver and Shrek are a retired Navy SEAL war dog team, now living in the mountains outside of San Diego. Both man and dog thought their life was now settled, finding peace on the 40-acre ranch they had moved to. But life, and a mutated virus, changed all that.

Nestled in a few verses in Luke's Gospel is a Jesus who would not have been tolerated today: He was not politically correct and He certainly did not try to save people's feelings. Steven Lawson unpacks these few verses, looking at the unashamed honesty, passion, and urgency with which Jesus explains the life-long cost involved in choosing to follow Him. True Christianity is the biggest sacrifice any person ever makes...but it is in pursuit of the most precious prize ever glimpsed.

The Cost Management Center Podcast is dedicated to helping its listeners manage organizational costs to make their companies perform better, innovate more, and… of course… become more profitable.In this podcast, we explore a wide range of methodologies and advice to reduce the company bloat and waste that creep into all organizations and stifles growth. Our focus ranges from broad strategic concepts, to specific industries, and even down to targeted spend and vendor categories. The common thread is that all topics center around reducing costs.The podcast is hosted by Duane Deason, author ...

In Large Language Model-Based Solutions: How to Deliver Value with Cost-Effective Generative AI Applications, Principal Data Scientist at Amazon Web Services, Shreyas Subramanian, delivers a practical guide for developers and data scientists who wish to build and deploy cost-effective large language model (LLM)-based solutions. In the book, you'll find coverage of a wide range of key topics, including how to select a model, pre- and post-processing of data, prompt engineering, and instruction fine-tuning.

This audiobook provides an introduction to money, including the use of trading, and the origins of coins and paper money.

With an easy-to-understand approach, Cost Estimation: Methods and Tools provides comprehensive coverage of the quantitative techniques needed by professional cost estimators and for those wanting to learn about this vibrant career field. Featuring the underlying mathematical and analytical principles of cost estimation, the book focuses on the tools and methods used to predict the research and development, production, and operating and support costs for successful cost estimation in industrial, business, and manufacturing processes.

Self Sabotage is a documentary-style podcast about clandestine systems, operational failure, and the psychological toll of sustained secrecy. The host served time in federal prison after selling real pharmaceuticals on the dark web during the pandemic, trafficking them personally from Rio de Janeiro to New York, Atlanta, and Miami. That experience provides context — not spectacle. The series focuses on how risk becomes normalized, how judgment erodes under pressure, and why the damage often continues long after release. No tactics. No instructions. Just analysis.

Soon to be a major motion picture by Vishal Bhardwaj, this double bill of pacey thrillers highlighting the exploits of India's intelligence agency will have your pulse racing. In The Zero-Cost Mission, India's relations with Bangladesh are undermined by the activities of the Jamaat-e-Islami, whose camps and facilities are being used to help Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence. The Wily Agent details the pitfalls of gathering intelligence in a foreign country, a delicate and complex business. A good source, however, can make the risks worthwhile.

Why policies should be based on careful consideration of their costs and benefits rather than on intuition, popular opinion, interest groups and anecdotes. Opinions on government policies vary widely. Some people feel passionately about the child obesity epidemic and support government regulation of sugary drinks. Others argue that people should be able to eat and drink whatever they like. Some people are alarmed about climate change and favour aggressive government intervention. Others don't feel the need for any sort of climate regulation.

The Cost of Survival is a serialized audiobook set in the Fallout universe. This dark, character-driven story follows a human captive inside a super mutant stronghold, where survival depends on learning rules that were never meant to be fair--and on deciding what parts of yourself you’re willing to lose to stay alive. ⚠️ Mature themes, violence, and psychological distress. Listener discretion advised. Unofficial fan-fiction set in the Fallout universe. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Bethesda Softworks.

We all wish we had more control. When our relationships are strained, when our bodies refuse to cooperate, when the future is uncertain, control promises security and peace. If only I were in charge, we dream. And this illusion seems more attainable than ever. Technology, science, medicine, and the internet all promise us ever-increasing mastery over our world. The problem is, control is a "devil's deal." The more we seek it, the more it betrays us. In place of predictability, it gives us anxiety. In place of certainty, it creates more complexity.

More and more people are building cool stuff in the cloud—but they spend way too much money doing it. The Cloud Cost Optimization Podcast takes a deep dive into the tech and trends of cloud computing and how to maximize its value at the lowest possible cost. We talk to experts in the cloud-native hyperscale world to learn their strategies that cut down waste and find hidden savings right now! Don’t get ripped off by your cloud provider. Learn more on https://www.tenacitycloud.com.

Do you have what it takes to become an author, but are not sure where to start? Promote Your Book gives enterprising authors the advantage they need to navigate the publishing industry and gain a better understanding of what book promotion is all about. This well-organized collection of the most successful low-cost and no-cost ideas provides solutions for both aspiring and seasoned authors in any genre. You will learn how to promote the book without changing your lifestyle; how to promote creatively, locally, and through social media; submit news releases and tip sheets; and more.

In this book, Dr. Bibhu Dash & Dr. Sameeh Ullah comprehensively explores the evolving international monetary system, intertwined geopolitical dynamics, and the burgeoning realm of financial technology. This scholarly work delves into the system's complex features, functions, and the far-reaching consequences of globalization. They meticulously dissects both positive and negative frictions within the monetary system, unraveling their repercussions on economies worldwide.

In The Coming Economic Collapse, Dr. Leeb shows that the U.S. economy is standing on the brink of the biggest crisis in history.

As the fast-growing economies of China and India push global demand for oil beyond production capacity, Americans will experience a permanent energy shortfall far worse than the one in the 1970s. The result will be severe financial hardship for most people, and once-in-a-lifetime opportunities for investors to become incredibly rich.

This is an urgent call-to-arms to avert an all-but-certain catastrophe and a survival kit for an era that offers us only two financial choices: poverty or wealth.

This audiobook provides 10 ways and reasons to use suppliers rather than employees, such as to provide more time for outside customer focus, cut management overhead, increase worker tenure, maintain more confidentiality and secrecy, and more. A must listen for managers at all levels, investors, and corporate suppliers.

After Flaco's betrayal led to the murder of Young Pablo by the Cubans he owed money to, his sister, Catrina "Kitty Cat" Alvarez, and her crew decide to exact revenge on the Cubans. What she doesn't know is that will mean she is accountable for the $20 million Manuel Colon, the head of the Cubans, owes his supplier, Don Renosa. What she also doesn't know is that her brother's murder is the least of her problems, as the betrayal she is about to face could cost her her life.

Young Pablo and his Spanish Harlem crew are used to getting money from every angle and aspect. Serious about his business, Young Pablo lays down anyone against him, including those who don’t show him loyalty. But when one of his crew, Flaco, who is also working with the rival crew the Black Mafia, decides to test him and gets away before justice can be served, a war breaks out. Soon Young Pablo, with his and his sister’s crew behind him, finds himself in the crosshairs of the dangerous Cubans. Now no one is safe - especially Flaco, who started all the chaos in the first place.

An “essential” (Times UK) and “meticulously researched” (Forbes) book by “the skeptical environmentalist” argues that panic over climate change is causing more harm than good Hurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Arctic...

We have lost the war on cancer. We spend $150 billion each year treating it, yet - a few innovations notwithstanding - a patient with cancer is as likely to die of it as one was 50 years ago. Most new drugs add mere months to one's life at agonizing physical and financial cost. In The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer, how we can do better, and why we must.