A few business managers get to hold the 'RONA' reins - buy companies, build factories, and conquer continents. Most managers in business do not have this level of opportunity but in many ways can have more impact. This book presents a practical approach to business management, aimed at those in business.
Ryan Taggert was heading back to Denver to step off the gun trail and win a mayoral election. But fate had something else in store for him as an old man and a young boy stumble into his camp in Monument Valley with a tale so desperate it cannot be ignored. Taggert pledges to help the dying man by returning stolen sacred stones from an ancient Anasazi kiva. Stones that had brought the old man nothing but bad luck from the moment he took them. Taggert also promises to return his young grandson to his mother holding down a stage line outpost in Southeastern Utah in the heart of Ute country. A woman so unusual, and so daring, that the Utes call her unoop'ekunt kookwup' mumowts' and fear her powerful medicine. But when Taggert reaches the stage station he runs into an attacking Ute war party which leaves him for dead and steals the boy, his mother, and leaves the station in ashes. When Taggert awakens, he finds himself a prisoner of a Navajo woman with a new baby, two horses, and a dead husband. Vowing death to the Utes, the widow forces Taggert to redeem her husband's dead spirit by killing the men who shot him. Tracking the Ute war party into a high mountain canyon, Taggert devises a desperate plan. Using the mother, her crying baby, and the spirit of the kiva stones, Taggert attacks. But not even the Great Spirit could have conceived what the Navajo woman does next and Taggert barely escapes with his life and those of the woman and boy. Once on the trail, they are pursued by Utes and Navajos alike who have grown to fear Crazy Broom Woman whose legend has quickly spread across four states. Knowing the sacred kiva stones are the cause of all their troubles, Taggert leads them to the Pastoras in eastern Arizona along the New Mexico border. There they climb up into a cliff dwelling to find an even stranger mystery that sends Taggert on the most incredible experience of his life. For once he steps into the kiva, he is spirited back a thousand years to the time of the dwelling builders, those before the Anasazi, before the Ancient Ones, before the time of the ancestors. Taggert is drawn across time and space to save a woman and her people from being lost to the pages of history. This is another Taggert adventure of the Old West. Taking place in the Four Corners area, the adventure begins and ends in 1891. In between is an incredible journey to the past where the mystery of cliff dwellings and a forgotten people unfold; where Taggert's life, and the lives of those he loves, depends on the whim of sacred stones that described for the ancients the four corners of the world and the three gods that formed it.
Over 60 applicable recipes to administer and manage System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch About This Book Overcome the challenges of administering System Center Configuration Manager when deploying single and multiple-hierarchy sites Help your organization to build a custom-line of business apps and also protect the server against malware threats with Endpoint protection Get easy guidance and best practices to help you work with SCCM Who This Book Is For If you are an intermediate to advanced administrator who wants to administer SCCM and understand how to solve particular problems/scenarios, then this book is for you. You should have a working knowledge of SCCM, however, knowledge of the latest version is not required. What You Will Learn Administer System Center Configuration Manager Upgrade computers from Windows 7/ 8.x to Windows 10, using Serivce Plans to keep Windows 10 machines up to date Manage Compliance Settings effectively and monitor it with SSRS Manage Sites in System Center Configuration Manager and also learn to create collections, leverage role-based administration (RBA), and support clients over the internet without a VPN connection Implement multiple methods to deploy the client, as well as how to be proactive in monitoring client agent health Achieve Mobile device management with Microsoft Intune In Detail This practical cookbook is based on the 1602 current branch of System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). It shows you how to administer SCCM, giving you an essential toolbox of techniques to solve real-world scenarios. Packed with over 60 task-based and instantly usable recipes, you'll discover how design a SCCM Infrastructure, and dive into topics such as the recommended SQL configuration for SCCM and how to deploy Windows 10 with Operating System Deployment (OSD). You will learn to easily manage Windows 10 devices by deploying applications, software updates, and feature upgrades, andl be able to leverage Mobile Device Management (MDM) using SCCM and Microsoft Intune. Finally, you see how to gather the inventory of all your PC park and create reports based on it. By the end of the book, you will have learned the best practices when working with SCCM and have a handy reference guide for troubleshooting. Style and approach This cookbook is full of quick recipes that show you how to administer SCCM and will help you understand how to solve particular problems/situations encountered in day-to-day tasks.
Squiggly Bulgy Worm has a lesson to learn! Will he understand that being good is better than being rude and mean? Can he be persuaded by a hungry bird to change his life? This is the first in a series of stories showing children that it is best to choose kindness and always do the right thing. Find out how Squiggly escapes a life of misery and anger to be freed by none other than a hungry bird! Welcome to this, his first adventure of many more to come!A portion of the proceeds from this project are donated to Food For Life GLobal, helping to feed the hungry worldwide. Visit them at ffl.org for more information! Together we can make a difference and spread a little kindness!
The goal of this book is to serve both as a practical technical reference and a resource for gaining a fuller understanding of the state of the art of spacecraft momentum control systems, specifically looking at control moment gyroscopes (CMGs). As a result, the subject matter includes theory, technology, and systems engineering. The authors combine material on system-level architecture of spacecraft that feature momentum-control systems with material about the momentum-control hardware and software. This also encompasses material on the theoretical and algorithmic approaches to the control of space vehicles with CMGs. In essence, CMGs are the attitude-control actuators that make contemporary highly agile spacecraft possible. The rise of commercial Earth imaging, the advances in privately built spacecraft (including small satellites), and the growing popularity of the subject matter in academic circles over the past decade argues that now is the time for an in-depth treatment of the topic. CMGs are augmented by reaction wheels and related algorithms for steering all such actuators, which together comprise the field of spacecraft momentum control systems. The material is presented at a level suitable for practicing engineers and those with an undergraduate degree in mechanical, electrical, and/or aerospace engineering.
This biography of Josiah Mason, prompted by the bicentenary of his birth in 1795, covers the philanthropist and pen manufacturer's connections with the city of Birmingham. These include: the establishment of an orphanage, his scientific developments in electroplating, his establishment of the pen-nib trade, charities still active at Birmingham University, and the Josiah Mason Trust.
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