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The sanctity of Easter...how do you approach and honor this holy time of year? Now you can spend 40 days with Jesus—from leading up to His death on Good Friday, to celebrating His resurrection on Easter Sunday—and draw into worship and praise as never before. Select devotionals from Sarah Young's bestselling Jesus Calling are compiled into this gift book to create an experience of closeness with the Savior during the Lenten season.
You'll get through this.
It won't be painless.
It won't be quick.
But God will use this mess for good.
Don't be foolish or naïve.
But don't despair either.
With God's help, you'll get through this.
You fear you won't make it through. We all do. We fear that the depression will never lift, the yelling will never stop, the pain will never leave. In the pits, surrounded by steep walls and aching reminders, we wonder: Will this gray sky ever brighten? This load ever lighten?
In You'll Get Through This, pastor and New York Times best-selling author, Max Lucado offers sweet assurance. "Deliverance is to the Bible what jazz music is to Mardi Gras: bold, brassy, and everywhere." Max reminds readers God doesn't promise that getting through trials will be quick or painless. It wasn't for Joseph--tossed in a pit by his brothers, sold into slavery, wrongfully imprisoned, forgotten and dismissed--but his Old Testament story is in the Bible for this reason: to teach us to trust God to trump evil.
With the compassion of a pastor, the heart of a storyteller, and the joy of one who has seen what God can do, Max explores the story of Joseph and the truth of Genesis 50:20. What Satan intends for evil, God redeems for good.
Perhaps no book in this generation has had a more profound impact on our intellectual and spiritual lives than The Road Less Traveled. With sales of more than seven million copies in the United States and Canada, and translations into more than twenty-three languages, it has made publishing history, with more than ten years on the New York Times bestseller list.
Written in a voice that is timeless in its message of understanding, The Road Less Traveled continues to help us explore the very nature of loving relationships and leads us toward a new serenity and fullness of life. It helps us learn how to distinguish dependency from love; how to become a more sensitive parent; and ultimately how to become one's own true self.
Recognizing that, as in the famous opening line of his book, "Life is difficult" and that the journey to spiritual growth is a long one, Dr. Peck never bullies his readers, but rather guides them gently through the hard and often painful process of change toward a higher level of self-understanding.
"Do you remember the hospital, Colton?" Sonja said. "Yes, mommy, I remember," he said. "That's where the angels sang to me."
When Colton Burpo made it through an emergency appendectomy, his family was overjoyed at his miraculous survival. What they weren't expecting, though, was the story that emerged in the months that followed—a story as beautiful as it was extraordinary, detailing their little boy's trip to heaven and back.
Colton, not yet four years old, told his parents he left his body during the surgery–and authenticated that claim by describing exactly what his parents were doing in another part of the hospital while he was being operated on. He talked of visiting heaven and relayed stories told to him by people he met there whom he had never met in life, sharing events that happened even before he was born. He also astonished his parents with descriptions and obscure details about heaven that matched the Bible exactly, though he had not yet learned to read.
With disarming innocence and the plainspoken boldness of a child, Colton tells of meeting long-departed family members. He describes Jesus, the angels, how "really, really big" God is, and how much God loves us. Retold by his father, but using Colton's uniquely simple words, Heaven Is for Real offers a glimpse of the world that awaits us, where as Colton says, "Nobody is old and nobody wears glasses."
Heaven Is for Real will forever change the way you think of eternity, offering the chance to see, and believe, like a child.
Continue the Burpos story in Heaven Changes Everything: The Rest of Our Story. Heaven Is for Real also is available in Spanish, El cielo es real.
Bonus material in this special movie edition includes:Photos from the movie setUpdates from father, Todd, and son, Colton, on recent events including the making-of-the-movie experience"From the Set" Q&A's with the movie's filmmakers and actors
Her parents called her Lenya Lion because of her ferocious personality and hair that had been wild and mane-like since birth. But they never expected that, five days before Christmas, their five-year-old daughter would suddenly go to heaven after an asthma attack. How do you walk out of the ER without your daughter?
More a manifesto for high-octane living than a manual for grieving, Through the Eyes of a Lion will help you turn your journey into a "roar story" by guiding you tolook past what you can see with the naked eyesurvive Saturday—the space between promise and fulfillmentlet God turn your pain into a microphonecue the eagle and run toward the roar
Whether you're currently facing adversity or want to prepare yourself for inevitable hardship, it's time to look at the adventure of your life through Jesus' eyes—the eyes of a Lion.
"He has this story. And he has told it well. With candor. With honesty. With hope."
—Max Lucado, pastor and New York Times bestselling author of Before Amen
"One of the most powerfully transparent books I've ever read . . . a book we all need to read."
—Sheila Walsh, speaker, Bible teacher, and bestselling author of 5 Minutes with Jesus
"This is more than a book. It's a lifeline."
—From the foreword by Steven Furtick, pastor and bestselling author of Crash the Chatterbox
On December 10, 2009, McVea, a thirty-two-year-old mother of four, went to the hospital for a routine procedure. While undergoing treatment, her face suddenly turned a dark shade of blue, then black. Her mother screamed for help, and a nurse tried to revive her…to no avail.
Today, Crystal does not remember what happened in that hospital room during the nine minutes she was unconscious and unable to breathe on her own. She has no memory of the panic and the rushing nurses and the loud cries of "Code Blue."
She only remembers drifting off…and waking up in heaven.
This unexpected meeting of a self-described sinner and skeptic with her God changed everything. Raised Christian, she had left her faith behind after childhood abuse and the subsequent struggles and suffering of her troubled teens and early adulthood. She longed to believe but felt abandoned, broken, and undeserving.
A moving autobiographical testament to the power of divine love and forgiveness, Waking Up in Heaven shares the message of hope, healing, and compassion McVea brought back from her brush with God.
This brave, honest account of years lost to shame and guilt will inspire those who've stumbled along their own spiritual journey, with the uplifting reminder that no one is beyond the reach of grace and redemption, and that, in the words of the author, "God is real. Heaven is real. And God's love for us is the realest thing of all."
When tragedy strikes, people desperately search for answers. Believers and unbelievers alike find themselves turning to God. Best-selling author and pastor Max Lucado points to the only real answer to tragedy and crisis: Prayer. In God Will Use This for Good, Lucado helps us understand how to pray despite our doubt and fear.
We pray to stay sober, centered, or solvent. When the lump is deemed malignant. When the money runs out before the month does. When the marriage is falling apart. We pray.
But wouldn't we like to pray more? Better? Stronger? With more fire, faith, and fervency?
Yet we have kids to feed, bills to pay, deadlines to meet. The calendar pounces on our good intentions like a tiger on a rabbit. And what about our checkered history with prayer? Uncertain words. Unmet expectations. Unanswered requests.
We aren't the first to struggle with prayer. The first followers of Jesus needed prayer guidance too. In fact, prayer is the only tutorial they ever requested.
And Jesus gave them a prayer. Not a lecture on prayer. Not the doctrine of prayer. He gave them a quotable, repeatable, portable prayer. Couldn't we use the same?
In Before Amen best-selling author Max Lucado joins readers on a journey to the very heart of biblical prayer, offering hope for doubts and confidence even for prayer wimps. Distilling prayers in the Bible down to one pocket-sized prayer, Max reminds readers that prayer is not a privilege for the pious nor the art of a chosen few. Prayer is simply a heartfelt conversation between God and his child. Let the conversation begin.
Happiness and Healing are yours for the choosing.
We've all been hurt by other people, we've hurt ourselves, and we've hurt others. And as a result, every single one of us ends up with some sort of hurt, hang-up, or habit. But the question we all face is, Where do we go from here?
Life's Healing Choices offers freedom from our hurts, hang-ups, and habits through eight healing choices that promise true happiness and life transformation. Using the Beatitudes of Jesus as a foundation, Senior Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church and John Baker, who is also a pastor at Saddleback, developed the eight choices shared in this book.
In addition to practical, encouraging biblical teaching, each chapter includes two real-life stories of men and women whose lives have been transformed by living out the eight choices in this book. Through making each of these choices, you too will find God's pathway to wholeness, growth, spiritual maturity, happiness, and healing. You'll find real answers, real hope, and a real future -- one healing choice at a time.
Most of us believe in God's grace—in theory. But somehow we can't seem to apply it in our daily lives. We continue to see Him as a small-minded bookkeeper, tallying our failures and successes on a score sheet.
Yet God gives us His grace, willingly, no matter what we've done. We come to Him as ragamuffins—dirty, bedraggled, and beat-up. And when we sit at His feet, He smiles upon us, the chosen objects of His "furious love."
Brennan Manning's now-classic meditation on grace and what it takes to access it—simple honesty—has changed thousands of lives. Now with a Ragamuffin's thirty-day spiritual journey guide, it will change yours, too.
Includes a 30-Day Spiritual Journey Guide!
"Brennan Manning does a masterful job of blowing the dust off of shop-worn theology and allowing God's grace to do what only God's grace can do—amaze."
-Max Lucado, Bestselling author of The Gift for All People
For three years the disciples had been with Jesus, walking with Him and hearing everything He had to say. Yet Jesus told His closest friends that He needed to leave them so that the Holy Spirit could come—and that they would be better off because of it (John 16:7, 13-14). If this was true of the disciples, who spent every day with Jesus, how much more do we need the Holy Spirit actively involved in our lives today?
Sadly, the Spirit is frequently misunderstood, leaving many clueless about who He is and how He expresses Himself to us. The Holy Spirit is often portrayed as something "weird." But the Bible makes it clear that the Spirit is not something. He is someone—a Person who has promised to never leave your side. In this interactive book, John Bevere invites you into a personal discovery of the most ignored and misunderstood Person in the Church: the Holy Spirit.
Don't miss out on this amazing introduction.
Interactive book includes:
• Daily devotions
• Group discussion questions
• Bonus chapter with answers to some of the toughest questions about the Holy Spirit
It is the very character and essence of God in written form. As you study the Scriptures with an alert mind and a receptive heart, you will be strengthened, empowered, and filled with the hope that comes through a loving and growing relationship with Jesus Christ. We are who the Bible says we are, we can have what it says we can have, and we can do all that it promises we can do.
This is the heart of the message that Joel and Victoria Osteen share every week with an audience of millions around the world via television, the internet, and worship events. Their practical, uplifting message of hope found in Christ has changed the lives of individuals, impacted families, and literally transformed communities. They place an incredible value on the principles of the Bible, which have a miraculous, life-changing impact on anyone who is willing to study and obey its truths.
The Hope for Today Bible is filled with insights, notes, and encouragements from Joel and Victoria designed to help you grow deeper in your walk with God. It also includes specific verses that you can pray over your relationships, your children, your finances, and your health. In addition, "HopePoints" are key words and supporting scriptures related to topics such as favor, forgiveness, anger, depression, loneliness, self-control, and many more.
This Bible is presented in the New Living Translation, which combines phenomenal scholarship and textual accuracy with clear, easy-to-understand contemporary language. The Bible will come alive and become clear like never before.
Have you ever considered what it means to talk to God? Is it really possible to communicate with the Creator of all that exists and be able to understand His plans and purposes for your life?
Perhaps there are questions you desperately need answered. Maybe you are facing a trial that is too large or difficult to face on your own and you yearn for divine direction. Or it could be you are simply curious about what He would say to you.
In Prayer, The Ultimate Conversation, which is based on a lifetime of walking with the Father and fifty-five years of ministry founded on prayer, Dr. Charles Stanley not only teaches the disciplines of intercession but also explains how to fight life's battles through intimate communion with the Lord. Dr. Stanley discusses how to truly know God through communication with Him.
He explores topics such as:
—Learning to recognize the sound of the Father's voice
—Recognizing how your perception of God shapes your prayer life
—Winning your battles through prayer
—Finding true peace and joy through intimacy with the Lord
No matter what confounding questions, perplexing circumstances, or seemingly insurmountable dilemmas you are facing today, the solution to them is absolutely obvious to God—and He longs to share His answers with you. Draw closer to the Father. Get to know God by engaging with Him in Prayer, The Ultimate Conversation.
Praying God's Word is the perennial favorite Scripture-prayer resource designed to help us decisively overcome specific strongholds: pride, idolatry, addiction, loss, depression, unbelief, temptation, and more.
No matter how overwhelmed or out of control a person may feel today, Beth boldly reminds us that nothing is bigger or more powerful than the Lord. With this landmark book we learn to wield the sword of the Spirit, praying God's Word to break free from anything that has a hold on us until the joy and authority of Christ rules in our lives.
From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages--with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case for a splendidly godless universe in this first-ever gathering of the influential voices--past and present--that have shaped his side of the current (and raging) God/no-god debate. With Hitchens as your erudite and witty guide, you'll be led through a wealth of philosophy, literature, and scientific inquiry, including generous portions of the words of Lucretius, Benedict de Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Mark Twain, George Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Emma Goldman, H. L. Mencken, Albert Einstein, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and many others well-known and lesser known. And they're all set in context and commented upon as only Christopher Hitchens--"political and literary journalist extraordinaire" (Los Angeles Times)--can. Atheist? Believer? Uncertain? No matter: The Portable Atheist will speak to you and engage you every step of the way.
Life is hard, especially for Christians. It is certain that we will face difficulties, and that God will allow them, as He allowed the Israelites to become trapped between Pharaoh's rushing armies and the uncrossable Red Sea. But just as certain is the fact that the same God who led us in will lead us out. As The Red Sea Rules makes comfortingly clear, He is in control.
Using the Israelites' story in Exodus 14 as an example, Robert Morgan offers ten sound strategies for moving from fear to faith. Just as Moses and the Israelites found themselves caught between "the devil and the deep Red Sea," so are we sometimes overwhelmed by life's problems. The Red Sea Rules reveals that even in the midst of seemingly impossible situations God promises to make a way for us. His loving guidance will protect us through danger, illness, marital strife, financial problems, or whatever challenges Satan places in our path.
Red Sea Rules also is available in Spanish, reglas del Mar Rojo.
English Translation and Commentary
- Detailed commentary with extensive references to standard authorities, both classical and modern
- Comprehensive introduction deals with Islamic teachings and the collection and arrangement of the Holy Qur'an
- Extensive Index
"There is no other translation or commentary of the Holy Qur'an in the English Language to compete with Maulvi Muhammad Ali's Masterpiece."
-- Al-Haj Hafiz Ghulam Sarwar, translator of the Holy Qur'an
"To deny the excellence of Maulvi Muhammad Ali's translation, the influence for good it has exercised and its proselytizing utility would be to deny the existence of the light of the sun."
-- Maulana Abdul Majid Daryabadi, leader of Orthodox Muslim opinion in India)
...has all the merits of what is desired in a translation."
-- The Anjuman Himayat-e-Islam, Lahore, Pakistan
..".By far the best text currently available in the English language...incontestably one of the finest interpretations of the scared scripture of Islam. I have no hesitation whatsoever in recommending this translation to students and others seeking to understand the essence and epitome of the Quranic message."
-- Prof. T. Hargery, Director, African Studies, Northeast Missouri State University, Kirksville
..".an austerely faithful translation in English...based on a close study of commentaries of the Qur' an - the work of my learned name-sake Maulvi Muhammad Ali of Lahore...The translation and the notes...all demonstrate the labour of love and devoted zeal."
-- Late Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar of "The Comrade"
"It is certainly a work of which any scholar might legitimately be proud."
-- The Quest, London
Now the iconic anchor of The O'Reilly Factor details the events leading up to the murder of the most influential man in history: Jesus of Nazareth. Nearly two thousand years after this beloved and controversial young revolutionary was brutally killed by Roman soldiers, more than 2.2 billion human beings attempt to follow his teachings and believe he is God. Killing Jesus will take readers inside Jesus's life, recounting the seismic political and historical events that made his death inevitable - and changed the world forever.
The Israelites finally had land and the opportunity to start anew. Their leader, Joshua, spoke wisely about how to follow God's law and how to be successful. Joshua 1:8 says, "This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success." The Joshua CodeTM is a challenge to keep the Word in our mouths through memorization and in our hearts through meditation "day and night."
The fifty-two chapters in this volume are designed to lead you on a yearlong journey by spending each week memorizing and meditating on one Scripture verse so that it becomes a living part of your very being. Topics include grace, temptation, the three levels of prayer, fruit of the spirit, and more. The outlines in each chapter can also be used by the busy pastor or Bible teacher for guiding their members. God's Word is powerful and profitable when studied and applied by anyone, the young and the seasoned believer alike.
"You will both enjoy and profit from reading The Joshua Code. His emphasis upon the importance of Scripture memorization vibrates once more the lost chord of hiding God's Word in your heart." - Dr. John Edmund Haggai, Founder and CEO, Haggai Institute
"The Joshua Code literally cracks the code that every leader struggles with: In these uncertain times, with uncertain outcomes, how can a leader put first things first? The example of Joshua memorizing and meditating on God's Word moves us from success to significance. Most of all, the emphasis on Scripture memory fits in perfectly with our matrix at Student Leadership University that you will be the same person five years from now, except for the books you read, the people you meet, the places you go, and the things you memorize." - Dr. Jay Strack, President & Founder, Student Leadership University
"The Joshua Code is impacting our whole church as we memorize the Scriptures together. Each week the Scripture verse appears in our announcements and on Sunday evenings the verse is recited as a group and the devotional thoughts are read then discussed. This is bringing us together as a family around the Word of God." - Dr. Thomas Sherwood, Long Falls Church, Carthage, New York
"Whether on the football field or the field of life you need a playbook. My friend, O.S. Hawkins' new book, The Joshua Code, is a great resource in understanding the 52 verses every believer should know. I read it regularly in my own devotions and enthusiastically recommend it to my family, friends and fans." - Roger Staubach, NFL Hall of Fame Quarterback
Miracles are not reserved for the characters in the Old and New Testaments; they happen to everyday people.
Series creators Don Jacobson and K-LOVE Radio have joined together to produce one of the most remarkable collections of modern-day miracles ever compiled. From angel appearances in hospital rooms to a mother saved from a would-be assailant in Hyde Park, from a young autistic girl becoming a beautiful ballerina overnight to a young backpacker who walked away from a terrorist attack, It's a God Thing presents some of the most amazing stories of God's hand on our lives.
Be motivated as never before to look for and witness the incredible ways that God is interacting in your life and the lives of those around you.
"With their new book, It's a God Thing, I believe K-LOVE and my friend Don Jacobson will call friends of Jesus everywhere to look for His capers around the world! Do you know why God involves Himself in our lives? Because God is love and love does!" —Bob Goff, author of the New York Times bestseller Love Does
"Every day we all are faced with stress, situations we can't control and often the fear that we really are all alone. . . . These stories give us courage in times of peril and strengthen us when we feel helpless."—TobyMac, top Christian artist and Grammy Award winner
"In It's a God Thing true servants of God share how their lives were transformed when their understanding became the Father's. What a blessing to be a child of the King!" —Missy Robertson, star of Duck Dynasty
"There is so much going on around us that we never see. Life is all about perspective, and when that lines up with the hand of God, it is remarkable to witness. This book and collection of stories from my friends at K-LOVE will inspire and encourage you greatly!" —Andy Andrews, New York Times best-selling author, The Noticer and The Traveler's Gift
"Sometimes I'm guilty of looking so hard for God that I miss Him right in front of me. May we all be reminded through It's a God Thing that some of the simplest moments in life can quite possibly be some of God's greatest miracles."—Bart Millard, lead singer of MercyMe
"Nothing astonished people in the New Testament more than watching Jesus perform a miracle right before their eyes—and nothing inspires us today more than hearing He did it again! My good friend Don Jacobson, publisher of The Prayer of Jabez, has once again launched the perfect message for today—don't miss it!"—Bruce Wilkinson, author, The Prayer of Jabez
"There is nothing better than hearing others talk about the ways that God has intervened in their lives. Miracles happen every day all around the world. These stories are incredible."—Robert D. Smith, author, 20,000 Days and Counting
"God doesn't need for us to be aware of the miracles He's performing, but they're happening every day! It's a God Thing, a new book from K-LOVE, is a powerful vehicle to tell the story of a number of those miracles."—Brandon Heath, 2008 New Artist of the Year Dove Award winner
What is the most hopeful word in History? For Billy Graham, that word is SALVATION.
Billy Graham proclaimed God's Gospel with resolve and deep compassion. It is a message he preached for more than seventy years. And in this book you will sense its urgency, filled with hope for the future.
Salvation is what we all long for, when we are lost or in danger or have made a mess of our lives. And salvation belongs to us, when we reach out for the only One who can rescue us—Jesus.
The Reason for My Hope: Salvation presents the essence of that transformative message. It is biblical and timeless, and though simple and direct, it is far from easy. There are hard words, prophetic words, directed toward a culture that denies the reality of sin and distracts us from the veracity of Hell. But through its ominous warnings shines a light that cannot be extinguished—a beacon of hope that Jesus came "to seek and to save that which was lost" (Luke 19:10).
How to Practice will guide you toward opening your heart, refraining from doing harm, maintaining mental tranquility, and more. Divided into a series of distinct steps that will lead spiritual seekers of all faiths toward enlightenment, this accessible book is a constant and daily companion in the quest to practice morality, meditation, and wisdom. The Dalai Lama shows us how to overcome our everyday obstacles, from feelings of anger and mistrust to jealousy, insecurity, and counterproductive thinking. Imbued with His Holiness' vivacious spirit and sense of playfulness, How to Practice offers the Dalai Lama's own sage and very practical insight into the human psyche and what binds us all together.
Life is hard, especially for Christians. It is certain that we will face difficulties, and that God will allow them, as He allowed the Israelites to become trapped between Pharaoh's rushing armies and the uncrossable Red Sea. But just as certain is the fact that the same God who led us in will lead us out. As The Red Sea Rules makes comfortingly clear, He is in control.
Using the Israelites' story in Exodus 14 as an example, Robert Morgan offers ten sound strategies for moving from fear to faith. Just as Moses and the Israelites found themselves caught between "the devil and the deep Red Sea," so are we sometimes overwhelmed by life's problems. The Red Sea Rules reveals that even in the midst of seemingly impossible situations God promises to make a way for us. His loving guidance will protect us through danger, illness, marital strife, financial problems, or whatever challenges Satan places in our path.
Red Sea Rules also is available in Spanish, reglas del Mar Rojo.
Job was a God chaser. He said, "Oh that I knew where I might find Him!" David was one; he said, "My soul followeth hard after Thee." Paul was one too: "That I may know Him..." The passionate paths of God chasers can be traced across the pages of history from Moses the stutterer, David the singer, and Paul the itinerant preacher, to contemporaries like A.W. Tozer, Leonard Ravenhill, and countless others who share one common bond: an insatiable hunger to know their Lord. These are people whose relentless, passionate pursuit of Christ often made them appear foolish in the eyes of others. Yet, having tasted His goodness and glimpsed the invisible, they could be satisfied with nothing less.
Add your name to the list...become a God chaser. Who know? You might be one whom He catches.
Let's face it, we all have questions about relationships in life.
When you lay your head down on the pillow at night, do you find these questions about your relationship with God running through your mind? How can I know God personally? Can I find peace and true contentment? What is the purpose of my life? How do I know how God wants me to live? What is prayer?
Throughout our lives, we all face a long list of questions on relationships that trouble our souls and require real answers based on real truth. How do I forgive someone who has hurt me badly? Can I mend this broken relationship? When my world seems to be falling apart around me, who can I trust and in whom dare I confide? How do I know whether a person is the right one to date? Will my marriage survive? How do I nourish my child's heart? What do I do with my fears about expressing my love and care to a friend?
The good news is that in God's Word we find the answers to life's bewildering relationship questions.
We are not left to figure it out on our own and in our own strength and power. You are invited to begin a lifelong journey to discovering God's words of truth for your life and relationships, and to discovering God Himself in the words of His Book!
Scriptures, he saw that Catholicism couldn't save. This is the emotional story
of a Jesuit priest who left the Catholic Church and found salvation through
faith in Jesus Christ alone. He became a hunted man, because he knew the
carefully guarded secrets of the Vatican.
Every boy wants to be a hero. He wants to be powerful, dangerous. He wants to know . . . Do I have what it takes?
Every girl wants to believe that she is captivating, worth fighting for. She wants to know . . . Am I lovely?
Only you, Dad, can help your children find the answer to those questions. That makes you the most powerful man in your child's life. And as you will learn in this inspiring book, You Have What It Takes.
how Satan has worked for centuries to destroy millions. See his involvment with
governments and false religions. He makes himself look good, like an "Angel of
Light." (II Cor 11:14)
In his most popular work, Emmet Fox shows how to: Understand the true nature of divine wisdom. Tap into the power of prayer. Develop a completely integrated and fully expressed personality. Transform negative attitudes into life-affirming beliefs. Claim our divine right to the full abundance of life.
It's a radical, provocative idea: We're not entitled to get offended or stay angry. The idea of our own "righteous anger" is a myth. It is the number one problem in our societies today and, as Dallas Willard says, Christians have not been taught out of it.
As it turns out, giving up our "right" to be offended can be one of the most freeing, healthy, simplifying, relaxing, refreshing, stress-relieving, encouraging things we can do.
In Unoffendable readers will find something of immeasurable value—a concrete, practical way to live life with less stress. They'll adjust their expectations to fit human nature and replace perpetual anger with refreshing humility and gratitude.
The book offers a unique viewpoint, challenging the idea that Christians can ever harbor "righteous anger" or that there evenis such a thing for believers.
Few other books exist with such a radical, provocative proposal to consider. We have no right to anger. We are to get rid of it, period. Completely. And it is possible to choose to be "unoffendable."
Through the author's winsome, humorous, and conversational style, this book doesn't add another thing to do on a stressed-out person's ever-growing list. Better, it actually seeks to lift religious burdens from readers' backs and allow them to experience the joy of gratitude, perhaps for the first time, every single day of their lives.
With a close and studied reading of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope's awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix.
In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris's The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion.
The Bible is the best-selling book in history.
The Authorized Version, or King James Version, quickly became the standard for English-speaking Protestants. Its flowing language and prose rhythm has had a profound influence on the literature of the past 300 years.
Special good rendering ePub edition with the quick and easy navigation is suitable for all devices.
Just as she told her 6'1", 210-pound captor that his ultimate "purpose" in life was to end up spending the rest of his life in prison, preaching the teachings of Jesus Christ to his fellow inmates, Smith believes her own purpose is to spread that message of love to the rest of us. Juxtaposing the minute-by-minute tale of her experience with the never-before-told tragedies and triumphs of her own life, Unlikely Angel is a gripping tale of downfall and redemption, involving addiction, violence, death, loss, faith, and love. It is a story that will leave no reader untouched.
Joel Osteen nació en Houston, Texas, su vida ha sido dedicada a servir a todas las personas sin importar su ocupación o nivel de socioeconómico. Inició el ministerio televisivo de la iglesia Lakewood Church, donde trabajó junto a su padre, el pastor John Osteen. Durante diecisiete años ha llevado el mensaje positivo de esperanza de Lakewood a más de cien millones de hogares por todo Estados Unidos y a más de ciento cincuenta naciones.
• It's Time to Believe
• It's Time for Favor
• It's Time for Restoration
• It's Time to Trust
• It's Time to Stretch
Each section consists of readings that elaborate on one of the five ideas. As you travel through each day, you will find new and exciting ways to bring the teachings of It's Your Time into your life. Highlighting key stories from It's Your Time, this devotional also supplies passages and daily thoughts that offer messages of faith, hope, and strength to help you rise above any circumstance so that you can fulfill God's best plan for your life. Joel offers assurance that God does not want you to merely survive challenging times, He wants you to thrive. When you give your life over to Him, God will send opportunities your way so you can soar to new heights of fulfillment. He also reminds you that the bigger your burden, the greater your blessings to come.
It's Your Time
a) Sources of Islam, its essentials and doctrines -- The Holy Quran, Hadith, Ijtihad and Ijma
b) Principles of Islam, Iman (Faith), Attributes of God, Angels, Revelation, Revealed Books, Prophets, Finality of Prophethood of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, Life after Death, Taqdir, etc.
c) Institutions and Practices of Islam: Prayer, Zakat (Charity), Fasting, Hajj (Pilgrimage) Jihad, Apostasy, Social Relations (Marriage, Property, Inheritance, etc.) Food, Penal Laws, the State, etc.
Detailed index including an index of Arabic words and phrases.
Chapters include:
1. Birth Of The Bible
How the Scriptures came to be, and how Satan has attacked them for almost 1,500 years.
2. Don't Read That Book
You won't last long without food, and neither will any Christian last long without the Word of God. This Bible reading program will give you a balanced diet of spiritual food, every day of your life. But it will cost you something!
3. Prayer
Do you want to get RESULTS when you pray? Here are the keys to effective prayer, and how to deal with the things Satan uses to stop you.
4. Love
Some people are hard to love. Yet for some people, real love is the only way to reach them.
5. The Enemy
Every Christian has a mortal enemy. His goal? He wants you dead and in hell. Learn some of his many faces, and how he attacks Christians. He hates us all, because he knows that there is a day coming, when he will be cast into hell.
6. Pitfalls
Be careful! Things that can destroy your Christian testimony can be small, or unexpected.
7. Called Out
Being a Christian doesn't mean you're better than everyone else. It means you're forgiven. But you can't be the same as everyone else, either. God wants you to live in a way that is different, so you can have the same result as the Christian in this chapter.
8. Warn Them
Everyone who hasn't accepted Christ is on his way to hell, just like you were. Now that you have forgiveness, it's up to you warn your friends. If witnessing chokes you up, or you don't think you know enough of the Bible yet, here is a simple plan to help you be a real witness. You can't save anyone ... but Jesus will! Here's an easy way to tell them.
Some of the most talented, faithful, and amazing people in the Bible didn't know they had it in them, either—not until God revealed to them the truth about their identity and abilities, often in the midst of perilous trials and challenging situations.
Like these heroes of Christianity, all of us have untapped talents, unclaimed abilities, and unknown gifts waiting to be discovered inside us. Pastor Sheryl Brady believes God wants us to peel away the layers we try to hide behind, dissolve the excuses we use as camouflage, and reveal the beauty of our true selves. By sharing her own life journey as well as examples from history and current culture, Brady encourages us to reconsider the way we see ourselves and to reframe our own understanding of how we got there.
You Have It in You! asks: Do you know what you're made of? More important, do you want to discover the strengths lying dormant inside you? Brady hopes you will be inspired to view challenges as opportunities for self-discovery and faith enrichment. She believes she can give you a new perspective on all that God has brought you through and a greater awareness of all that you've accomplished and endured.
Have you ever found yourself thinking "Is it possible that where I am in life is as far as I will ever go? Have I maximized my potential?" We all have asked similar questions. Before you sell yourself short, take a moment and allow Pastor Sheryl Brady to become a bridge to help you step over every limitation. You are on the brink of something extraordinary in your life!
On 29 March 1990, David Icke visited a healer. What happened that day and in the months that followed changed his life forever. The former professional footballer, TV presenter and Green politician found himself on a wondrous, transformative journey of discovery. Guided by master souls from other dimensions, he went to Canada, the United States and all over Britain, meeting sensitives and helping to balance the disturbed earth's energy systems.
This journey led David Icke to write the explosive Truth Vibrations, a revelatory book which looks at the great mysteries which for centuries have baffled scientists, doctors and historians were unravelled for David Icke: why are we here? What is the truth about God and Jesus? What happens to us when we die? What are crop circles and who makes them? Did Atlantis exist? Most importantly, David Icke reveals who the Illuminati and the Babylonian Brotherhood are, exposing a global conspiracy that has been controlling the fate of the world's people for century by keeping it in a state of mass hypnosis.
But David Icke's Truth Vibrations also offers hope, through his new vision of the world and his prediction for an Age of Aquarius. Through his visions, David Icke has learned what is to befall humanity and what steps we can take to reduce the physical and emotional impact of the enormous changes that are about to confront our planet and all life upon it. During his spiritual journey, he discovered the truth vibration, an energy frequency which can break us out of our hypnotised state and allow us to face the challenges of the twenty-first century.
Many of the events he predicted in the eye-opening Truth Vibrations over 20 years ago have since come to pass, making David Icke's extraordinary story and the message that Truth Vibrations brings to every man, woman and child of supreme importance to the future of planet Earth. It is a must-read and will change your view of the New World Order forever.
Truth Vibrations: Table of ContentsIntroduction
Guided by the Light Life After Life Letters from the Gods The Grand Design Spirit of the Stones Lord of the Age Diamonds in the Mud Journey to Aquarius New Vibrations The Message Notes
Anarchy Evolution is a provocative look at the collision between religion and science, by an author with unique authority: UCLA lecturer in Paleontology, and founding member of Bad Religion, Greg Graffin. Alongside science writer Steve Olson (whose Mapping Human History was a National Book Award finalist) Graffin delivers a powerful discussion sure to strike a chord with readers of Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion or Christopher Hitchens God Is Not Great. Bad Religion die-hards, newer fans won over during the band's 30th Anniversary Tour, and anyone interested in this increasingly important debate should check out this treatise on science from the god of punk rock.


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ICD-9 Diagnosis Code 821.11
Fx femur shaft-open
Diagnosis Code 821.11
Short Description: Fx femur shaft-open
Long Description: Open fracture of shaft of femur
This is the 2014 version of the ICD-9-CM diagnosis code 821.11
Code Classification
Injury and poisoning (800–999)
Fracture of lower limb (820-829)
- 821 Fracture of other and unspecified parts of femur
- Fracture of lower limb (820-829)
Information for Medical Professionals
The ICD-10 and ICD-9 GEMs are used to facilitate linking between the diagnosis codes in ICD-9-CM and the new ICD-10-CM code set. The GEMs are the raw material from which providers, health information vendors and payers can derive specific applied mappings to meet their needs.
- S72.309B - Unsp fx shaft of unsp femur, init for opn fx type I/2 (approximate) Approximate Flag
The approximate flag is on, indicating that the relationship between the code in the source system and the code in the target system is an approximate equivalent.
- S72.309C - Unsp fx shaft of unsp femur, init for opn fx type 3A/B/C (approximate) Approximate Flag
The approximate flag is on, indicating that the relationship between the code in the source system and the code in the target system is an approximate equivalent.
Index of Diseases and Injuries
References found for the code 821.11 in the Index of Diseases and Injuries:
- Fracture (abduction) (adduction) (avulsion) (compression) (crush) (dislocation) (oblique) (separation) (closed) 829.0
- femur, femoral (closed) 821.00
- shaft (lower third) (middle third) (upper third) 821.01
- open 821.11
- shaft (lower third) (middle third) (upper third) 821.01
- femur, femoral (closed) 821.00
Information for Patients
Also called: Broken bone
A fracture is a break, usually in a bone. If the broken bone punctures the skin, it is called an open or compound fracture. Fractures commonly happen because of car accidents, falls or sports injuries. Other causes are low bone density and osteoporosis, which cause weakening of the bones. Overuse can cause stress fractures, which are very small cracks in the bone.
Symptoms of a fracture are
- Out-of-place or misshapen limb or joint
- Swelling, bruising or bleeding
- Intense pain
- Numbness and tingling
- Limited mobility or inability to move a limb
You need to get medical care right away for any fracture. You may need to wear a cast or splint. Sometimes you need surgery to put in plates, pins or screws to keep the bone in place.
- Ankle fracture - aftercare
- Broken bone
- Broken collarbone - aftercare
- Closed reduction of a fractured bone
- Closed reduction of a fractured bone - aftercare
- Hand fracture - aftercare
- Hardware removal - extremity
- Metatarsal fracture (acute) - aftercare
- Metatarsal stress fractures - aftercare
- Nasal fracture - aftercare
- Pin care
- Radial head fracture - aftercare
- What Are Growth Plate Injuries? - NIH (National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)
- X-ray - skeleton
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Leg Injuries and Disorders
Your legs are made up of bones, blood vessels, muscles, and other connective tissue. They are important for motion and standing. Playing sports, running, falling, or having an accident can damage your legs. Common leg injuries include sprains and strains, joint dislocations, and fractures.
These injuries can affect the entire leg, or just the foot, ankle, knee, or hip. Certain diseases also lead to leg problems. For example, knee osteoarthritis, common in older people, can cause pain and limited motion. Problems in your veins in your legs can lead to varicose veins or deep vein thrombosis.
- Blount's disease
- Bowlegs
- Common peroneal nerve dysfunction
- Femoral nerve dysfunction
- Femur fracture repair - discharge
- Foot, leg, and ankle swelling
- Iliotibial band syndrome -- aftercare
- Ischemic ulcers -- self-care
- Knock knees
- Leg CT scan
- Leg lengthening and shortening
- Leg or foot amputation
- Leg pain
- Shin splints - self-care
- Skeletal limb abnormalities
- Tibial nerve dysfunction
- Venous insufficiency
- Venous ulcers -- self-care
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We're a fun, youthful company so that needs to be expressed in the logo. At the same time, it can't be all fun and games because we do manage a fairly large fund of cash.
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(Reuters) - A dog show that draws about 2,000 purebred dogs and 25,000 spectators each year to Detroit has been canceled after 98 years due to a lack of sponsorship, officials said Thursday.
The Detroit Kennel Club's March show was one of only five large shows nationally where dogs were shown in competition and then lingered on the sidelines for public viewing and demonstrations, show chairman Richard Ford said.
Ford said the show attracted up to 40,000 spectators to a downtown Detroit convention center about a decade ago, but attendance has been in a gradual decline.
The cancellation was another blow for the city of Detroit, which filed for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history in July.
"Our shows have always been sort of to educate the public about purebred dogs," Ford said. "We had sheep-herding demonstrations, police dogs, hunting dogs. People always enjoy it."
Club spokeswoman Kirsten Borgstrom said dog food maker Purina ended a sponsorship three years ago. The club turned to professional fundraisers, but fell short of its needs, she said.
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Blast to the past with a culture shock bonding experience
By Angel Perkins
Friday night I got to attend a Styx, Blue Oyster Cult concert due to the kindness and generousity of my employer. Would I have purchased a ticket to this particular concert lineup on my own accord? Unlikely. Would it have been worth the $40-ish for a ticket? Most definitely.
I was born in (ouch) 1968 so the music performed was most popular in a time of my youth that I would've been more likely to spend my money on a Barbie doll or watermelon Bubblelicious than a record. The bands of my teens were more prone to big hair, spandex and eyeliner than the synthesizer-heavy Styx or the trippy-rants of BOC but I knew probably three songs of the latter and five songs of the former musicians' performances.
For my 14-year-old son, that as a teen I would've described as a "prep" (who is partial to Eminem and Cee Lo Green and who thinks Lady GaGa is "hot" rather than ridiculous) the 50-year-olds that he would normally familiarize with as doctors, teachers or lawyers that were in black concert tees or leather, bearing plastic cups of draft beer, periodically shouting "YEAH!" that made up the large majority of the audience were ... to say the least ... disconcerting. We both learned a lesson about a year ago. He showed me a guitar player on YouTube that overly-impressed him with his talent and finger dexterity. Because I have witnessed first-hand the gifts of Black Sabbath, Motley Crue, Poison, Guns N Roses, Ted Nugent, ZZ Topp, Kiss, Whitesnake, Ronnie James Dio, and approximately 15 other bands (of the concerts that I actually recall), I remained unimpressed.
So I "schooled" him. I searched and found Eddie Van Halen busting on Eruption and blew my son's MP3-rapping/XBox-loving little mind. Since then he has instilled a certain, let's say, personal RESPECT, for "classic" and "retro" music that makes him unappreciate Taylor Lisp and Justin Weiner. I learned that as I age, I AM becoming my mother and have come to the conclusion that teenagers, while still cute and intelligent, are pretty much oblivious and have no appreciation for anything of real value.
BUT, when musicians play SO WELL, and so PRECISELY (I hate shelling out for an artist only to find that their performance pales in comparison to what the radio/record/CD portrays) a moment of spirituality overcomes the listener (assuming they like that particular genre of music). A guitar, like a violin, can lift the spirits and make the audience literally feel the emotion of the chords ... especially when Tommy Shaw is touching them. Gargantuan speakers accentuate that nicely of course, especially when the drum beats inside you as if it has taken over for your heart's normal palpitations. The almost-geriatric artists of Friday night's show flipped their shampoo-commercial hair, gyrated the semi-inebriated mothers and grandmothers into a frenzy, and fingered guitar strings like hummingbirds on speed. And, when Lawrence Gowan's digits pressed those plastic keys, a MAGIC unimaginable spewed forth, that brought a young teenage boy to his feet ... pubescent vocal chords belting in an almost religious unison with the crowd, "I'm sail-eeeng a-waaaay..." and at the conclusion, followed by an explosion of lights and confetti, had the boy screaming "WOOOOO" with pinkie and index fingers splayed in universal rock-appreciation ... well, it made a mother proud.
It WAS truly moving in an unspoken bonding that broke beyond generations, socio-economic, social, color, and lifestyle boundaries and made me personally feel something my heart hadn't since I was 12. I stayed up past my bedtime. I got some loser's drink spilled on my shoe. I had to climb six flights of stairs in a claustrophobic stairwell of a horror-movie-dark and imposing parking garage. I had to eat greasy food in the car and had to stand up for the better part of four-and-a-half hours. But, the smile accompanied with the "thanks mom, that was cool," and the hug before bed that was followed by the chanting "Come sail away. Come sail away, come sail away with me-ee lad..." as he walked off through the house made it all well worth it and proved that rock n roll, REALLY GOOD rock n roll, IS ageless ... and perhaps it WILL never die. ...and it reminded me, Styx DOES rule!


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Monday, October 29, 2007
Oracle withdraws offer for BEA Systems
Oracle let its offer for BEA expire over the weekend, effectively kicking the ball over to Carl Icahn and other BEA shareholders that have been pushing for a sale of the company.
Oracle's offer was $17 per share. At first, BEA didn't respond. Then when it did, it said $21 was a fair price. Oracle said no, $17 is more than fair. No one else--such as IBM, H-P, or SAP, stepped in as an alternative bidder. So, Oracle let its offer expire.
David Parker at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey has more insight on what is likely going on behind the scenes at BEA:What a Mess. Oracle followed through on its resolve and terminated its $17 per share offer for the company on Sunday. Activist shareholder Carl Icahn will likely have to follow through on his threat for a proxy battle as our research for some time has concluded that BEA's Board of Directors had likely given Alfred Chuang, the company's CEO, yet another chance to try and right the ship operationally, under the auspices of the company's latest grand technology play, Project Genesis. Project Genesis is described as a new application-tier platform that is meant to converge its service-oriented architecture (SOA) technologies, business process management (BPM), Web 2.0 technologies and other tools and allow for both business and IT users to quickly assemble new application functionality.BEA is in a tough position. The company has long prided itself on its independence, a position that is increasingly difficult to maintain in the current wave of technology vendor consolidation. Although business for tech vendors has been quite strong this year, softness in consumer spending due to the weaker dollar and housing downturn could spread to business spending. Furthermore, as Parker points out, questions about BEA's future is likely negatively affect is ability to close new deals in the coming months. If so, its share price could weaken, making any future offer from Oracle likely to be even lower than its $17 bid.
We believe investor fatigue with BEA and its inability to drive sustained license growth is notable and few want to hear of BEA espousing yet its latest and greatest platform technologies that will disrupt enterprise computing. We hear internally there is a rallying cry to do everything possible operationally to stay independent and we believe even the heretofore closed cash coffers are being opened up to belatedly invest in needed sales, marketing and acquisitions. Even if the current drama ebbs and somehow the company is able to stay independent, those investors that are willing to re-engage on fundamentals must grapple with the potential for increased operating expenses in order to grow the business, potentially disruptive technology/product transitions and risks around acquisitions.
Ultimately we think there is still a probability greater than 50% that BEA is taken out and Oracle is the winner....The company may very well scrape by but recent events are likely to disrupt larger enterprise transactions.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Epicor to miss its revenue targets
Epicor just updated its forecast for its third quarter financial results, and the picture isn't pretty.
The firm says that revenue for the quarter will be between $110 million and $112 million. Wall Street has been expecting revenue in the neighborhood of $119.5 million.
Epicor's explanation for the shortfall is also weak. It blames its method for forecasting sales to more accurately reflect the timing of the close of larger orders. It says it has now changed its forecasting process and as a result it expects year-over-year software growth rates to be affected for the next quarter or two. It looks as if the firm is positioning itself for continued bad news.
Commenting on Epicor's announcement, David Parker at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey writes,This is the second quarter in a row in which the company has missed license revenue estimates and we feel this stems from an abrupt lack of focus with regards to mid-market customers, which we find surprising given that these customers are the company's core target market. Although we understand the desire to move the product up-market, we are hard pressed to find a valid reason for meaningful license misses simply because the company finds it challenging to balance a move up-market with historic success in the mid-market. In addition, our belief that the company can return to at least double-digit license growth is hindered when weak execution in the core market is combined with the intense competition from the likes of SAP and Oracle in the large enterprise market.As Parker points out, Epicor is in a tough position. Oracle and SAP are aggressively coming down into the mid-market, largely though VARs and resellers, and are doing a pretty good job of winning deals. At the same time, vendor consolidation has made buyers question the viability of smaller vendors. Epicor's announcement this week reinforces buyer fears that the firm is not on a winning path.
Ironically, Epicor has been one of the players behind the vendor consolidation trend--snapping up a series of even smaller players in the past years. This gives it a diverse portfolio of product offerings, but raises questions about its ability to support them all. It appears to be promoting its Vantage product as its flagship offering right now, as a way of countering perceptions that it is simply a rollup of smaller vendors. But its announcement this week shows that it's not being successful in this strategy.
Update, Nov. 15: Rumors of a layoff coming at Epicor.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Microsoft: the Rodney Dangerfield of open source
If you haven't been following the latest developments in the open source world, here's an interesting development. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has just certified two Microsoft licenses as open source.
This is a big deal. OSI is the organization that determines which software licenses qualify as open source, according to a list of 10 criteria. Microsoft submitted two of its shared source licenses, the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) and the Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL) to OSI, which generated an enormous amount of debate within the open source community concerning Microsoft's motives and whether OSI should approve such licenses.
In the end, however, OSI gave the nod to the two Microsoft licenses. OSI president Michael Tiemann wrote, "The decision to approve was informed by the overwhelming (though not unanimous) consensus from the open source community that these licenses satisfied the 10 criteria of the Open Source definition, and should therefore be approved."
Lora Bentley's blog on IT Business Edge has a good round up of the news.
Microsoft's motives
So why is Microsoft, whose CEO Steve Balmer once referred to the open source operating system Linux as a "cancer," now seeking approval of its two licenses as open source? I think the answer is two fold.
First, Microsoft needs to do everything it can to counter the perception (and reality) that it has monopoly power. For example, it is having to jump through very small hoops in Europe in order to comply with a 2004 anti-competition EU court ruling. Just this month it has agreed to make workgroup server interoperability information available to open-source developers. Like it or not, Microsoft has to open up and if it is going to open up it might as well do so on its own terms.
Second, open standards are increasingly valued by buyers in their technology decisions. For example, three years ago the State of Massachusetts proposed a mandate that all state documents be saved in open, standards-based file formats. This move nearly cost Microsoft the loss of its entire Office business in the state. Only intense lobbying by Microsoft got the state to draft specifications that allows state workers to continue using Microsoft Office, as long as they used its open XML format to save documents. Openness is part of the buying decision for many purchases, and if Microsoft wants to win it has to open up.
No respect
Which leads to a paradox. Why does Microsoft get so little credit for its move to open source, while companies like Apple get very little criticism for its continued reliance on proprietary systems?
Apple really likes open source--as a component of its offerings. For example, Apple incorporates open source code from GNU, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD into its Mac OS X operating system. But when has Apple ever--I mean ever--released any of its own code as open source? Its iPod music format is proprietary. iPhone handheld device can only operate on Apple's partner AT&T's network. Apple takes all kinds of legal and technical measures to keep these products closed.
Yet many of the same folks that criticize Microsoft for its perceived lack of openness are carrying iPhones and iPods.
Even a small thing like blogging shows how little respect Microsoft gets for openness generally. There is probably no company in the world that has more of its employees blogging--with corporate approval but little corporate control--than Microsoft. In contrast, Apple is like the old Soviet Union. The firm does not allow employees to blog as Apple employees, in line with its near-obsessive attempts to control information. It even posted a notice at its developer conference last year warning attendees not to blog any information presented.
Yet, nearly everyone thinks of Apple as cool.
Microsoft's public and private war against open source, historically, has a lot to do with its credibility gap in the open source community. Read the Halloween Documents if you don't know what I'm talking about. And, much of it simply goes with the turf of being the largest software company in the world.
The reality, however, is that even Microsoft is being forced by the market into open standards and open source. And that's good news for technology buyers.
Update, Oct. 25. A commenter (read here) points out that Apple released Webkit and Darwin as open source. Webkit is an application framework built with code that Apple developed along with components of the KDE open source desktop environment. Darwin is a desktop OS built with code from other open source projects along with code that Apple got from its acquisition of NeXT. I stand corrected.
Some of the other comments serve as evidence of my main point: Microsoft does not get much credit for open sourcing some of its code and--because of its own behavior in the past--may never get respect. It is probably being forced into openness for the reasons I outlined in the post, but regardless, Microsoft's actions are good for buyers.
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
SAP wins at Wal-Mart but reports slowing growth in U.S.
SAP just reported its third quarter results, with a 11% growth in new license sales worldwide but a measly 3% growth in the U.S. New license sales growth was stronger in other markets: 14% in EMEA and 25% in Asia-Pacific. SAP said it now expects overall software and related sales for 2007 to reach the upper end of its estimate of 12% to 14%.
SAP's growth vs. Oracle's
These results do not look great in comparison with Oracle's most recent quarter (its Q1). Last month Oracle reported a 35% increase in new license sales, including a 65% increase in application software revenue. Of course, Oracle's results include the benefit of its new acquisitions of Hyperion and Agile Software. Its not clear to me how much of the increase is due to revenues from those product lines, but it certainly can't explain all of the difference from SAP's growth rates.
Although the SAP versus Oracle story is interesting, I'm more concerned with what SAP's results mean for the business software sector overall in the U.S. I note that the market has been strong over the past couple of years, based on financial results for the major vendors as well as observations of the general level of sales activity. Do SAP's quarterly results point to a slow-down? Oracle's results seem to indicate a more positive outlook, although Oracle will say that SAP's slowing growth is caused by Oracle's winning deals against SAP. Complicating the picture: SAP claims its market share is increasing in the U.S., which is hard to imagine in light of the disparate growth rates of SAP and Oracle, unless they are both taking market share away from smaller players.
Win at Wal-Mart
Separately, SAP announced that it had won a deal with Wal-mart for financial management software. Wal-Mart is known to run mostly in-house developed systems, but apparently felt that the horizontal nature of accounting applications justified a departure from this strategy. SAP will replace some legacy systems while integrating with other internal systems. Terms of the purchase were not disclosed, but--this being Walmart--there's no way this can be a small deal.
In light of SAP's battle with Oracle, the Wal-Mart deal gives bragging rights to SAP--assuming the implementation is successful. Unfortunately, it won't be a quick. The first phase of a multi-phase implementation is expected to finish in 2010.
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Friday, October 12, 2007
Oracle bids for BEA Systems
There seems to be no end to Oracle's acquisition campaign. The latest move is a $6.7 billion bid for BEA Systems, one of the leading vendors of middleware. A successful bid for BEA will greatly strengthen Oracle's middleware and tools business and take a major competitor out of the picture.
Oracle has been hounding BEA, unsuccessfully, to sell for years. But BEA's recent share price decline, driven by its problems in accounting for stock option grants, has put BEA in a much weaker position. It hasn't helped that last month Carl Icahn purchased 13.2% of BEA's shares, hoping to force BEA to sell out to someone.
So now Oracle has stepped in as a willing buyer.
An AP story on Oracle's bid points out that Oracle has demonstrated its willingness to fight in order to complete acquisitions in a hostile manner if necessary. Its PeopleSoft acquisition in 2003 is the best example. There, Oracle even fought the U.S. Department of Justice, which sued Oracle in order to block the deal on anti-trust grounds.
It doesn't sound as if Oracle will need to fight that hard for BEA, however. BEA is wounded, and too many stakeholders will rather see Oracle's bid succeed, at a 25% premium over BEA's share price yesterday.
But Oracle's problem might not be BEA's willingness to sell--it might be other bidders. Carl Icahn spoke to CNBC a few minutes ago and indicated that he expects other potential buyers to make offers. He specifically mentioned H-P and IBM.
To which I might add, what about SAP? It's unlikely, with SAP just having offered nearly $7 billion for Business Objects, but it sure would be make things interesting.
Update, Oct. 13. As it turns out, according to the Wall Street Journal, Carl Icahn has already mentioned SAP as a potential alternative bidder for Business Objects. However, there appear to be reluctance on the part of all three bidders (IBM, SAP, and H-P) to make offers.A person familiar with IBM's thinking said IBM is unlikely to enter the bidding fray, because IBM typically buys small software companies, and the Oracle offer for BEA is already about twice as much as IBM has ever paid for an acquisition. Plus, this person said, there is enough overlap between IBM's WebSphere software and BEA products that it would probably raise antitrust scrutiny. An IBM spokesman declined to comment.If so, Oracle may not find much competition to its offer.
A person familiar with SAP's thinking said the company would be unlikely to be interested in buying BEA because it wants to focus on a competing product, called NetWeaver. An SAP spokesman declined to comment.
An H-P representative said H-P isn't interested in entering BEA's market, but declined to comment specifically on whether it had any interest in buying the company.
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Sunday, October 07, 2007
SAP to buy Business Objects
Vendor consolidation in the business intelligence (BI) space continues with SAP announcing its acquisition of Business Objects, one of the last independent best-of-breed vendors of such solutions.
The move is, in a way, an answer to Oracle's acquisition of Hyperion, a Business Objects competitor, earlier this year. Although SAP already has significant BI capabilities, it apparently felt the need to strengthen its offerings. Its acquisition of Business Objects certainly fills the bill.
Consolidation in the BI market has been going on for some time now. In 2003, Business Objects itself acquired Crystal Decisions, a popular developer of end-user reporting tools, used by quite a few enterprise system vendors. Shortly thereafter, Hyperion acquired Brio. As mentioned above, both Hyperion and Business Objects now are part of the two leading enterprise system providers.
SAP indicated that it intends to continue to operate Business Objects as a separate business. This will limit the cost-savings that SAP will realize from the deal, but it will probably be more attractive to customers that don't necessarily want to be tied to SAP. As the Wall Street Journal points out, it also helps SAP avoid having to deal with French laws that limit the ability of employers to conduct layoffs. Business Objects is headquartered in France.by Frank Scavo, 10/07/2007 10:42:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Friday, October 05, 2007
OpenMFG is now xTuple
I really dislike vendor name changes, but here's another one. OpenMFG, the open source ERP vendor, has changed its name to xTuple. It appears the name change is the result of adding a second product, PostBooks, in addition to the organization's existing OpenMFG product. So the name of the vendor had to be changed to something other than the name of the product. It makes sense, actually. Because PostBooks has applicability beyond the manufacturing industry, a new name was also needed for the organization that did not imply a strictly manufacturing-orientation.
The PostBooks product is not a separate product from OpenMFG. It appears to be a subset of OpenMFG code that the firm distributes on a truly open source basis (under the CPAL open source license). This allows users with limited needs or individuals that want to prototype a limited set of functionality to do so without getting involved in licenses or contracts. There's a comparison chart on xTuple's website that explains the functionality present in each product.
There's more information on the CPAL license in this InternetNews article, which quotes xTuple's CEO Ned Lilly on reasons for going with the new license.
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One of out of five Gen Y'ers has never written a paper check and diverse electronic channels are increasingly the way to serve this demographic, a new study concludes.
The Money Mindset Index from Western Union Bill Payments also found that 64% of Gen Y'ers pay half or more of their bills electronically, 55% plan to pay more bills online in the next six months and 74% prefer to receive paperless statements.
So how to best capture and retain this demographic that increasingly doesn't deal with paper coming or going?
"Develop a dedicated mobile strategy," David Shapiro, senior vice president, U.S. Products, for the money-moving giant told Credit Union Times.
"Although Gen Y is outpacing other age groups in adoption of mobile money management tools, and 21% percent have never written a check, they still embrace choice and flexibility in their bill payment options," Shapiro added.
He recommended that credit unions provide bill payment options that include comprehensive channels and payment methods that help to promote convenience, satisfaction and on-time payments.
"Leverage these channels to offer text alerts and email reminders, and become a partner in helping busy Gen Yers manage their finances and pay bills on time," the Western Union executive said.
The data came from a March 2013 study conducted in March 2013 by Javelin Strategy & Research among 3,202 respondents selected in representative proportions of geography, gender, age, income and ethnicity. The margin of error was 1.73 percentage points, Western Union said.


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jkody21 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 52 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
Restaurant Tools
I am developer that spends his free time writing websites and software for foodies, restaurateurs, and wine snobs. I tend to like simple and elegant designs in general.
The target audience is restaurant owners, managers, and staff...particularly those involved in smaller companies (1 - 5 locations).
I'm looking for a clean, professional logo for a new website targeted at restaurant owners and managers. The site, called Restaurant Tools (domain name restauranttools.com) will offer suites of software that will aid restaurants with their marketing, operations, and competitive analysis.
The site and software suite will be designed around the logo...in fact, the site designer (who I met through this very site) will be involved in the final selection process. I'm looking for something that will be the cornerstone of a brand identity.
The final selection will be easily transferable to other mediums (print, embroidery, etc.) and will be able to be adapted for other uses (e.g. print ads, banner ads, fav icons, etc). Also, I would like to have 2 versions of the logo, one plain, and one with a "beta" tagline.
For a deliverable, I would like to have the logo provided in web format (preferable png), as well as vector format as an illustrator file.
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Cullen/Frost Bankers Inc. (CFR) is Trading Lower on Unusual Volume for January 12Equities Staff Follow |
Cullen/Frost Bankers Inc. (CFR) experienced unusually high volume on Jan. 12, as the stock lost 2.3% to a closing price of $52.25. The stock saw 1.22 million shares trade hands over the course of the day on 12,329 trades. Given that the stock's average daily volume over the last month has been 745,021 shares a day, this represents a pretty substantial spike over the norm.
Cullen/Frost Bankers Inc. has a P/B ratio of 1.18. It also has a P/E ratio of 11.9. The stock has traded between $80.23 and $52.94 over the last 52-weeks, its 50-day SMA is now $65.30, and its 200-day SMA $68.13.
Cullen/Frost Bankers Inc is a financial holding company and a bank holding company. It offers commercial and consumer banking services, & trust and investment management, mutual funds, investment banking, leasing, and item processing services.
Headquartered in San Antonio, TX, Cullen/Frost Bankers Inc. has 4,154 employees and is currently under the leadership of CEO Richard W. Evans.
For a complete fundamental analysis analysis of Cullen/Frost Bankers Inc., check out Equities.com's Stock Valuation Analysis report for CFR. To see the latest independent stock recommendations from Equities.com's analysts, visit our Research section.
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Apropos needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 155 designs submitted by 46 freelance designers.
Apropos Markedsføring
Apropos Markedsføring (in english: speaking of Marketing)... is an ad agency with its strenght in effective marketing communication.
We help people developing their marketing strategy, and spend their marketing money in an effecive way.
We are a fullservice ad agency that provide services within online-marketing, tv and radio commercials and make movie presentations of big projects and companies (like amusement parks, conference hotels and so on)
The latter is our unique area (movie presentations), in which we have a lot of experience and competance. OUR values are: ENERGY, ENGAGING, UNIQUE, INTERACTING and INVOLVING.
We want to make movies, and presentations that reach its goals effectively and interacts with the receivers.
The company cooperates with other companies, within the area of music, sound, 3d visualization and casting.
We are in a typical B2B market (business to business) where we offer marketing services within many categories.
In that way, all companies that need marketing services of any kind, would be a potencial customer for us.
Our specific target audience would be bigger companies that have a concept that need a good presentation. For instanse a conference hotel, amusementparks, ski parks and so on.
The logo
The word "APROPOS" is the main word of the logo... the word "Markedføring" shall also be a part of the logo, but may be in smaller font.
I want the logo to have elements in it which makes it possible to use it in other designs without the whole name... Even though it is a long name, it should be easy to work with.
Feel free - but i would like a sharp color.
I want the logo to have a playful design WITHOUT seeming not-serious!
The meaning of the word
The word apropos is a very special word in norwegian... thats what we say when we are talking about something, for example a country... and then you remember that its this country that you are going to for the holiday and say "speaking of Turkey... me and my family will go to Turkey this summer" In norwegian we say "Apropos Tyrkia... "
Thats the meaning of the word... and maybe that can give you designers some inspiration....
When I tell the name of the company to norwegian people, they react on the name. I say Apropos Markedsføring... and then they are waiting for something more... And when they realize that its the company name... most of the people like the name. At least they will remember it.
The challenge
The word "Apropos" is an absract word, which means that there is no obvious symbol you can put next to it that would connect the name with the symbol.
Lets see what you designers can do:)
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Pelle P has its roots with yachting legend Pelle Petterson, Sweden's best yachtsman of all time and also an award-winning designer. In 2002 Cecilia Petterson decided to carry on the tradition and create a new brand of clothing for sailing, skiing and sportswear, clothing that was based on the experience of international competitive yachting, design and a yachting lifestyle. Giving us Pelle P - True experience.
Pelle P designs for both professional yachtsmen and anyone else who wants quality, function and fashion. Our technical sailing clothing is designed in collaboration with Team Artemis, which is competing in the America's Cup.


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So, how good is business for GM Financial? It set a record-low cost of funds last week, paying just 1.5 percent interest on an asset-backed securities transaction.
Dealerships will have to wait and see how much of that lower cost of funds GM Financial chooses to pass along at retail. But inevitably that will help GM Financial compete in the growing subprime market.
It gets more complicated than this, but the net effect is that on Sept. 5, GM Financial announced it borrowed $1.3 billion at only 1.5 percent interest. That beat the company's previous record low of 1.9 percent on an asset-backed transaction in June.
That's a big improvement. During the downturn, GM Financial's predecessor company, independent lender AmeriCredit, paid 7.5 percent in a July 2009 transaction. General Motors bought AmeriCredit in 2010, forming it into GM Financial.
In an asset-backed transaction, an auto lender basically sells off a bundle of loans to investors to acquire funds to make new loans. The net effect is that the lender borrows money from the investors that buy the asset-backed securities. The investors get paid over time, as consumers repay the loans.


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2010 GRAMMY Nominees CD
2010 GRAMMY Nominees CD Announced
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- (For a complete list of 52nd GRAMMY Award winners, please click here.)
The Recording Academy's GRAMMY Recordings has partnered with EMI Music to release the 2010 GRAMMY Nominees CD, the 16th edition of the best-selling series highlighting artists and songs nominated for the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards. The 20-song collection will be available Jan. 19 and a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the CD will benefit the MusiCares and the GRAMMY Foundation, two charitable organizations established by The Recording Academy.
"The diverse mix of tracks contained in this fine collection offer some of the great songs and artists that make up this year's talented crop of nominees," said Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy. "We look forward to another successful chart-topping year and to providing further support to the important work that MusiCares and the GRAMMY Foundation continue to do year-round. And, we thank EMI Music for their collaboration on this exceptional album."
The disc contains many of the most widely recognized GRAMMY categories with the 20 tracks representing nominees for Record Of The Year, Album Of The Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals, and Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals. The CD is made possible by a special arrangement with all of the major music distribution companies and rotates labels from year to year.
Artists featured on the collection are Adele, Beyoncé, the Black Eyed Peas, Colbie Caillat, Kelly Clarkson, Coldplay, Dave Matthews Band, Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood, the Fray, Green Day, Kings Of Leon, Lady Antebellum, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Pink, Rascal Flatts, Sugarland, Taylor Swift, U2, and Zac Brown Band.
"We're proud to be working with The Recording Academy to offer fans some of the year's most memorable music," said Ronn Werre, president of EMI Music Services and COO of EMI Music in North America. "This GRAMMY nominees CD features hit after hit from an eclectic group of talented artists. As well as delivering great value, it also supports the very worthy causes of MusiCares and the GRAMMY Foundation."
The 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards will be held Jan. 31 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, and will be broadcast live in high-definition TV and 5.1 Surround Sound on the CBS Television Network from 8–11:30 p.m. (ET/PT).


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I am a new user. I currently have moved from Vista to PClinuxOS. I use a PDA, but can't connect to it for my PIM. So, here is my idea.
If I use a usb card reader that reads SD cards, and
I put myInfoToGo on the SD card, and
I can plug it into any PC or Linux (through wine) to have access to all my PIM information, then
why can't a program be written for the PDA to access all the files sitting on the SD card? Why can't I be able to put the SD card into my pda and have PDA access to my PIM?
I can take any file off of the PC or linux and use it in my PDA.
If POCO can do this, I think there would be many people that would move to POCO and not have to worry about having to keep their PIM information in more than one place.
Someone tell me where I am missing the boat.


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Martinkt necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 38 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
CTTC Tours
CTTC Tours is a small company offering high quality Bicycle Tours with a very personal focus. We create and run bike tours because that is what we love. We are owner operated and our tagline is "Imagine the memories you'll bring home...". That, along with a sense of quality is the value we want to convey.
We have lots of photos and testimonials we would like to showcase, they can be used for comping purposes and found here http://picasaweb.google.com/cttctours .
Essentially we want the site to whet viewers appetites to get in touch with us in person.
Get our full story at http://cycling-centuries.com/fronto…_cttc.aspx
World travellers, Male and Female, 30's to 60's, middle to high income, based in USA / Canada / UK / South Africa & Australian. This is a well established market who knows exactly the product they are are looking for. Most will have travelled on a bike tour previously.
We also want to reach out to first time bike tourers.
We need two layout designs: Homepage & Bike Tours Landing Page. these will define the layout for the rest of the site.
The site should be simple, easy to navigate, memorable, friendly and appealing generally.
Guide your design by these keywords: Elegant / Simple / Engaging
The overall theme behind the site is that of a showcase or album - the real draw should be the content. The site design should perfectly lay out the content with minimal fuss and maximum ease of use.
The colour palette is white / gray / black / and yellow - but you are welcome to a dashes of colour to highlight sections or special information, etc. remember that a lot of colour will come from the images we use.
We have pretty much defined the Fonts used:
Body text Titles: Georgia
Body text: Trebuchet
Section Heading: script font Rage italic or Jane Austen.
We want to get viewers to ask for more information but at the same time linger on the site looking through photo & video galleries, testimonials, news and past events. So just enough info and images to get them interested - full itineraries are emailed to interested parties.
All pages will have custom widgets such as similar tours / postcards / testimonials / special offers, etc.
Entice and anchor viewers. Nice clean layout so they can find info they want at a glance. Not too much detail here, really just want to drive people into the site. The required elements are shown in the attached files - or as per our current homepage http://www.cycling-centuries.com
Bike Tours Landing Page
This is a landing page for bike tours, by country. E.g: http://www.butterfield.com/France.aspx
This will be the template for page navigation for the rest of the site, so we may need two menu bars - horizontal and vertical.
The homepage will naturally inform the inner page designs and we are open to creative ideas even regarding content elements, i.e, what information is shown on the given page.
Likes: Nice and simple / Easy Navigation / Friendly
Dislikes: Dated design / Not exciting / Does not exude quality
The web devs came up with these rather cluttered ideas that we don't like:
Likes: Crisp & Clear design / Very Detailed / Well planned navigation
Dislikes: Slightly Too Much Info / Impersonal
Likes: Crisp & Clear design / Well planned navigation / Builds up interest
Dislikes: Use of Flash / Slightly dated feel


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Jeffczyz needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 15 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
I am selling a product on Clickbank that is a combination of training and software. I need the Sales page layout to take on more of a mini site layout that will help sell the both training and the script.
The target audience is a combination of new and intermediate marketing individuals. Many are non-technical, so the site should be easy to navigate and understand.
I am looking for a a complete redesign of the site into a mini-site layout. The site will be a long form sales letter and the design should incorporate areas for Testimonials, Callouts, features, bullets, headlines, subheads and image callouts.
I am also looking for a simple logo redesign with a web 2.0 look. The logo will be for the Phrase CB Bonus Domination.
In a nutshell, I'm looking for a site facelift.
At the end of the contest I will need: PSD and fonts, HTML/CSS.
I am looking for the layout to be CSS based and use tables only when necessary.


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The mission of the Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions (CTP) is to 1) develop the ethical identities and leadership capacities of those serving in the professions, and 2) promote inter-professional collaboration in addressing social problems.
The CTP is motivated by two important convictions.
First, we hold that professionals are not just experts but are also custodians of our central social institutions, and need to take an active role in their development. We strive to foster a strong sense of vocation within Vanderbilt's professional students, encouraging them to identify the purposes, values and standards that motivate their work. Our fellowship program includes students from Vanderbilt's divinity, education, law, management, medical and nursing schools. We also endeavor to educate working professionals within Nashville and beyond about moral intelligence, ethical commitments and leadership abilities.
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