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زب × كس زب × كس But the direction is quite constant: the axis does not move, at a rate of a little more than a half-degree per century. زب اسود في كس بنت Most of the people I encounter in my experience had no idea of how much abundance and opportunities and riches lie right under their noses. Becoming a werewolf simply by being bitten by another werewolf as a form of contagion is common in modern horror fiction, but this kind of transmission is rare in legend, unlike the case in vampirism. But the direction is quite constant: the axis does not move, at a rate of a little more than a half-degree per century.
زب يدخل فى كس We had decided that he would go back to work for someone else but could not find anything out there.
Both must blend in harmony to created balance in one`s life. زب اسود في كس بنت We usually think of the Earth`s axis as being fixed in direction - after all, it always seems to point toward Polaris, the North Star. They were overlooking and undervaluing all kinds of opportunities and assets and possibilities that were right there within their grasp. زب × كس It takes roughly 365 days for the Earth to go around the Sun once.
Most often described as a large white stallion with wings, they have been a mainstay of fantasy art for generations. Still, western scholars and new-age spiritualists rediscovered feng shui and led to a dramatic and often erratic revival of the practice on the North American west coast California and British Columbia from the early 1990s.


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WEBSITE OF THE DAY: Zen Pencils
Today's recommendation is definitely a contender for website of the year, let alone the day, and it comes courtesy of the good people @TheWriter.
At zenpencils.com you'll find inspirational quotes from some of the greatest minds in history.
So far, so humdrum, right?
Wrong. What happens here is different, as the owner of the site takes the quotes and illustrates them.
Some become posters while others turn into full-on comic-strip storyboards. It all depends on the quote and the whim of the artist.
However, each and every one of them becomes an artwork regardless.
The site is updated twice a week, depending on the artist's workload, and you can even suggest a quote for him to illustrate.
We love this site and, thankfully, there's an online shop where we can all buy prints of his best work.
From Einstein to Sagan to Ali, some of history's greatest minds get a fresh new artistic interpretation and we reckon it's a winner.
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Rolls-Royce has opened two new marine service centers in Galveston, Texas and Seattle, Washington. Rolls-Royce's global marine services network is dedicated to helping customers maximize the operational capability of their vessels and manage their costs most effectively. Headquartered in Singapore, the network now includes facilities in 32 countries and employs more than 1,000 support staff, engineers and technicians around the world.
Encompassing 40,000 square feet, the new Rolls-Royce Commercial Marine service center at Galveston will provide state-of-the-art repair and overhaul expertise in support of the company's entire portfolio of marine products to customers throughout the Gulf of Mexico region.
The decision to invest in the new Seattle service center was in response to increased customer demand and to be nearer the city's many marine customers. It is nearly four times larger than the previous Rolls-Royce facility it replaces and is located at Todd Shipyard, one of the largest shipyards on the west coast and a hub for cruise ships, container vessels and factory trawlers.
Local government and business leaders joined Rolls-Royce President of Marine John Paterson, as well as other senior executives from Rolls-Royce, at ceremonies to open both facilities.
In 2007, Rolls-Royce opened a facility at Miramar, Florida for the cruise and yacht industry, and later this year will begin operations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, serving customers in the South American market. In addition, the Group opened a new operation in Mumbai, India in 2008 and has recently expanded facilities in Singapore, Rotterdam, Holland, and Ulsteinvik, Norway.
KEP Marine – the manufacturer of type approved displays, computers and peripherals, announced the release of the affordable, high-quality KMGBL Glass Bridge Light Displays.
Strainstall designs and delivers a load measurement solution for the world's largest floating wharf at Port of Dampier.
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Rolls-Royce announced delivery of the twin fixed pitch propellers to Bath Iron Works for installation on the U.S. Navy's most modern surface combatant, the future USS Zumwalt,


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Nuclear power is poised to grow quickly in some parts of the world and could grow significantly here in the United States. Key decisions are pending, however, on how to structure that growth. MIT has completed a 3-year study on the Future of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle to address two overarching questions: (1) What are the long-term desirable fuel cycle options and (2) What are the implications for near-term policy choices? In this video, the study co-chairs - Professor Ernest J. Moniz, Director of the MIT Energy Initiative and Professor Mujid Kazimi, Director of the MIT Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems - join Dr. Charles Forsberg, Executive Director of the MIT Nuclear Fuel Cycle Study, and other members of the study group present and discuss the report's findings and recommendations. View the full report here.
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The consensus price target is a mean average of the most recent price target set by each analyst that has set a price target for the stock in the last twelve months.Ratings Breakdown: 3 Hold Rating(s), 14 Buy Rating(s)Consensus Rating:Buy (Score: 2.82)Consensus Price Target: $83.19 (9.96% upside) Current Analysts' Coverage Summary for Medtronic PLC (NYSE:MDT) Show: All Ratings For This Stock Only the Most Recent Rating From Each Brokerage DateFirmActionRatingPrice TargetActions7/26/2015BTIG ResearchReiterated RatingBuy$89.00 7/6/2015OppenheimerReiterated RatingOutperform$86.00 6/25/2015Sterne Agee CRTReiterated RatingNeutral 6/4/2015S&P Equity ResearchReiterated RatingBuy$89.00 6/3/2015WedbushReiterated RatingNeutral$75.00 -> $79.00 6/3/2015Needham & Company LLCBoost Price TargetBuy$90.00 -> $91.00 5/26/2015Evercore ISIInitiated CoverageHold$83.50 3/16/2015BMO Capital MarketsBoost Price TargetOutperform$85.00 -> $87.00 2/19/2015Deutsche BankReiterated RatingBuy$90.00 2/18/2015Morgan StanleySet Price TargetBuy$83.00 2/18/2015ScotiabankReiterated RatingBuy 2/18/2015Jefferies GroupBoost Price TargetBuy$83.00 -> $89.00 1/27/2015Goldman SachsInitiated CoverageBuy$90.00 12/5/2014Bank of AmericaBoost Price TargetBuy$80.00 -> $85.00 11/25/2014RBC CapitalBoost Price TargetOutperform$73.00 -> $81.00 11/19/2014Credit SuisseBoost Price TargetOutperform$70.00 -> $80.00 10/3/2014Wells Fargo & Co.Boost Price Target$80.00 8/18/2014Citigroup Inc.Reiterated RatingBuy$69.00 -> $71.00 8/18/2014Cowen and CompanyBoost Price Target$66.00 -> $76.00 6/18/2014BarclaysUpgradeEqual Weight -> Overweight$67.00 -> $73.00 6/16/2014JPMorgan Chase & Co.UpgradeNeutral -> Overweight$64.00 -> $78.00 6/16/2014William BlairUpgradeMarket Perform -> Outperform 11/20/2013Leerink SwannBoost Price TargetMarket Perform$60.00 11/20/2013Piper JaffrayReiterated RatingOverweight$58.00 -> $68.00 11/20/2013ArgusDowngradeBuy -> Hold (Data available from 7/28/2013 forward) Earnings History for Medtronic PLC (NYSE:MDT)DateQuarterConsensus EstimateActual EPSRevenue EstimateActual RevenueRelease LinkConference CallActions6/2/2015Q415$1.11$1.16$7.18 billion$7.30 billionViewListen 2/17/2015Q3$0.97$1.04$4.25 million$4.32 millionViewListen 11/18/2014Q2$0.96$0.96$4.37 million$4.40 millionViewListen 8/19/2014Q115$0.92$0.93$4.25 billion$4.27 billionViewListen 5/20/2014Q414$1.12$1.12$4.58 billion$4.60 billionViewListen 2/18/2014Q314$0.91$0.91$4.15 billion$4.20 billionViewListen 11/19/2013Q214$0.90$0.91$4.18 billion$4.20 billionViewListen 8/20/2013Q1 2014$0.88$0.88$4.11 billion$4.10 billionViewListen 5/21/2013Q4 2013$1.03$1.10$4.39 billion$4.50 billionViewListen 2/19/2013Q3 2013$0.91$0.93$4.03 billion$4.03 billionViewListen 11/20/20120.88$0.88$4.10 billionViewN/A 8/21/2012$0.85$0.85ViewN/A 5/22/2012$0.98$0.99ViewN/A 2/21/2012$0.84$0.88ViewN/A 11/22/2011$0.82$0.84ViewN/A 8/23/2011$0.79$0.79ViewN/A 5/24/2011$0.93$0.90ViewN/A 2/22/2011$0.84$0.86ViewN/A (Data available from 1/1/2011 forward) Dividend History for Medtronic PLC (NYSE:MDT)AnnouncedPeriodAmountYieldEx-Dividend DateRecord DatePayable DateShare6/19/2015quarterly$0.381.97%6/25/20156/29/20157/17/2015 2/20/2015quarterly$0.311.55%3/26/20153/30/20154/17/2015 12/4/2014$0.3112/30/20141/2/20151/16/2015 12/5/2014quarterly$0.311.63%12/30/20141/2/20151/6/2015 8/21/2014quarterly$0.311.92%10/1/201410/3/201410/24/2014 6/16/2014quarterly$0.311.98%7/1/20147/3/20147/25/2014 2/14/2014quarterly$0.281.97%4/2/20144/4/20144/25/2014 12/5/2013quarterly$0.281.93%12/31/20131/3/20141/24/2014 8/22/2013quarterly$0.282.12%10/2/201310/4/201310/25/2013 6/21/2013quarterly$0.282.13%7/2/20137/5/20137/26/2013 2/15/2013quarterly$0.262.21%4/3/20134/5/20134/26/2013 12/9/2012quarterly$0.262.44%12/13/201212/17/201212/28/2012 (Data available from 1/1/2013 forward) Insider Trading History for Medtronic PLC (NYSE:MDT)Transaction DateInsider NameTitleBuy/SellNumber of SharesAverage Share PriceTotal TransactionActions7/14/2015Carol A SurfaceSVPSell13,722$75.83$1,040,539.26 4/6/2015Richard KuntzVPSell31,768$77.39$2,458,525.52 3/25/2015Gary Lee EllisCFOSell43,183$77.81$3,360,069.23 3/13/2015Omar IshrakCEOSell20,000$76.24$1,524,800.00 2/19/2015Christopher J OconnellEVPSell50,361$78.22$3,939,237.42 12/19/2014Richard KuntzVPSell12,855$74.54$958,211.70 12/2/2014Shirley A JacksonDirectorSell1,102$74.43$82,021.86 11/28/2014Christopher J OconnellEVPSell42,921$73.95$3,174,007.95 10/6/2014Christopher J OconnellEVPSell15,388$64.98$999,912.24 8/26/2014Christopher J OconnellEVPSell28,000$63.57$1,779,960.00 8/26/2014Shirley A JacksonDirectorSell2,769$63.66$176,274.54 4/17/2014Catherine SzymanVPSell29,420$58.79$1,729,601.80 4/9/2014Richard KuntzVPSell2,512$60.98$153,181.76 4/1/2014Gary Lee EllisCFOSell4,246$61.48$261,044.08 3/28/2014Christopher OconnellEVPSell1,982$60.39$119,692.98 3/20/2014Catherine SzymanVPSell14,979$59.57$892,299.03 3/14/2014Omar IshrakCEOSell10,000$59.12$591,200.00 3/10/2014Neil AyotteVPSell1,845$59.64$110,035.80 12/4/2013Neil AyotteVPSell1,729$57.14$98,795.06 9/13/2013Omar IshrakCEOSell10,000$53.58$535,800.00 8/26/2013Catherine SzymanVPSell56,998$52.60$2,998,094.80 8/22/2013H James DallasVPSell32,332$53.19$1,719,739.08 8/21/2013H James DallasVPSell36,256$52.82$1,915,041.92 8/21/2013Shirley JacksonDirectorSell8,033$52.84$424,463.72 7/11/2013Christopher J OconnellEVPSell30,429$52.92$1,610,302.68 7/11/2013Gary Lee EllisCFOSell32,602$53.62$1,748,119.24 7/11/2013H James DallasVPSell69,889$53.72$3,754,437.08 7/1/2013H James DallasVPSell20,579$52.10$1,072,165.90 6/26/2013D Cameron FindlayVPSell75,042$52.20$3,917,192.40 6/19/2013H James DallasVPSell94,117$52.74$4,963,730.58 5/22/2013Richard H AndersonDirectorBuy4,800$52.32$251,136.00 5/10/2013Jack W SchulerDirectorSell34,230$48.24$1,651,255.20 (Data available from 1/1/2013 forward) About Medtronic PLC Medtronic plc is a medical technology, services and solutions company. 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Jonathan Wood wants a second chance.
The former star UBS trader, whose hedge fund SRM Global lost 85% of its value in its first two years of trading, plans to launch a second hedge fund in September, Financial News reports. And he's apparently getting a good response from the very people for whom he has lost so much money since September 2006.
SRM revealed its plans for SRM II in a letter to its investors, whose losses have been trimmed to about 80% thanks to positive performance this year. The Monaco-based firm offered current clients who invest in the new offering better terms, including a performance fee waiver until Wood doubles their money.
The launch date for the proposed new fund coincides with the end of the lockup period for the first investors in the first SRM fund. The firm said that that fund will offer quarterly liquidity after September with 60 days' notice.
SRM said the current economic environment is rife with opportunities, and added that it has won positive feedback from a number of investors in the existing, battered hedge fund.
SRM, which last year sued The Wall Street Journal for revealing its huge losses, recently lost its second attempt to force the British government to pony up more for Northern Rock, the now-nationalized bank that SRM owned more than 11% of.
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Orthodox priests picking their way through the battlements in Ukraine is a symbol of how this church is caught in the middle of an unholy conflict.
This is what is most important for us: The church is not to divide people but to unite people.
- Metropolitan Hilarion, head of relations for the Russian Orthodox church
The majority of people on both sides of the Ukraine conflict are Christian, and most but not all are members of the Russian Orthodox Church.
But the crisis is beginning to create a possibly serious conflict within the Russian Orthodox Church, and between the Church and the Vatican.
This has come after some church leaders in Ukraine - especially Catholic leaders - decided to push back against Russian influence, even asking US authorities to intervene.
That's according to Metropolitan Hilarion, the man responsible for foreign relations at the Russian Orthodox Church.
For many years, top officials from his church and the Vatican have been trying to set up a meeting between their two leaders, the Patriarch Kirill and the Pope.
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"Keep safe and don't let the wackadoodles get to you. They got to me and I suspect I will never be the same again." (Friend,AB) "The farsighted tend to get blindsided by the near sighted." Barry Kolb
"When you begin to think outside the box, you often become some other "leaders" lousy follower. That usually costs something" (Andy Rayner)
"Our guardian angels are bored." (Mike Foster)
It's where I feel I'm at these days. "In the second half of life, it is good just to be a part of the general dance. We do not have to stand out, make defining moves, or be better than anyone else on the dance floor. Life is more participatory than assertive, and there is no need for strong or further self-definition" (Falling Upward. Richard Rohr.120).
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A Museum Of Memories In My Soul
"The most important question is not, do I remember my memory accurately? .... The most important thing.... is to ask these questions:
Why have I chronicle these particular memories?
Why have I remembered them the way I have remembered?
How do they help me live and believe as I do?
This is the process of narrative spiritual formation. I have built a museum of memories in my soul."
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Human Story
"Storytelling is an important spiritual practice. It may even be essential to the way we humans have been designed.
You see, our stories are precious things. They are the foundation of our beliefs. They are the fuel of our hope. My soul has forgotten most of my stories. They have long ago drifted away into the fog. However, there are a precious few that my soul vigorously holds on to."
(Tony Kriz. Aloof)
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"We are all broken. That's how the light gets in." - Hemingway
Monday, July 6, 2015
When Our New Thing Becomes The Old Thing
"As institutions age they tend to harden into intransigent systems and displace the simplicity of life in Christ for their own needs. Our two-thousand-year-old experiment proves that whenever we convey the life of the Spirit to an institutional arrangement, the institution wins—not always quickly, but eventually.
While I'm grateful for the good they have accomplished they don't seem to be able to sustain a community of love nor display an accurate reflection of God's character.
How many congregations, mission groups, and Bible studies began as a small group of people in a home burned out on the rigidity of their previous group, hopeful for a better reflection of his life and love? Soon they grow into the very organization they had fled with the hope that this time all will go well because they have better people in charge. What they don't realize is that organizational needs shape its leaders, not the other way around. Many start out well intentioned, hoping to reform the institution and bring it back in line with the priorities of Jesus. That effort is usually short-lived as the needs of the institution to protect the influence and resources of the group require greater control in the hands of fewer people. The simplicity of loving one another will eventually get swallowed up in the process no matter how hard we try to resist. In the end, our institutions end up just like everyone else's."
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Wouldn't One Religion Be Different?
"During my first trip to Israel, I was a little put off by some of the people on our pastor's tour who were trying to convert our Jewish guide, Abraham. They kept making snide asides to him as to why he wouldn't accept Jesus as the Messiah. On the last day we stood by the bus as we were waiting for others to bring their bags from the hotel. I asked him if he had been offended by some of the things said to him on this trip. He passed it off with a wave. "Not at all,"he answered. "I've been doing this for twenty years. Everyone tries to convert me to their religion—Catholics, Pentecostals, Baptists, Reformed Jews, Orthodox Jews, Mormons, Muslims—everyone."Then he looked up at me with a smile. "Would you like to know why none of them convince me?""I would!"I replied. "Come with me,"he said as he led me around the front of the bus and onto the edge of the road. "Do you see that building down there with the Star of David on it?""Yes.""That's ours.""Do you see that steeple with the cross on it across the way?"I nodded. "That's yours."And then he pointed me toward the dome of a mosque on a hillside not far away. I nodded. "That's theirs."I smiled trying to imagine what he'd say next. "Take off the Star of David, the cross, and the dome, and underneath aren't they really all the same thing? You would think if one of us were serving the Living God, it would look different."He was right. Christianity doesn't look any different from the outside."
(Finding Church. Wayne Jacobsen )
Monday, June 29, 2015
Unlearning.... More Than Learning
"Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about un-becoming everything that isn't really you so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place."
Good Hearted People Or Leadership?
"I trust good-hearted people listening to Jesus more than I trust any hierarchy whose perspective is so easily skewed by the needs of their institution orthe realities that let them hold on to power. The historic heresies have not arisen from simple people following Jesus, but from someone trying to gain a large following."
- Wayne Jacobsen
Suffering Beautiful People.......
"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."
(Elisabeth Kubler—Ross)
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It's My Journey.
"I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may." (Leonard Nimoy)
Friday, June 12, 2015
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"Living Poor is like being sentenced to exist in a stormy sea in a battered canoe, requiring all your strength simply to keep afloat; there is never any question of reaching a destination. True poverty is a state of perpetual crisis, and one wave just a little bigger or coming from an unexpected direction can and usually does wreck things."
( Moritz Thomsen. The Saddest Pleasure : A Journey On Two Rivers)
Burn Down The Old One
"l was frightened but exhilarated. I had been only four years in the country but I had seen enough to hate the government and its timidities and in-efficiencies, the corruption of the police, and the shameless way the people were raped by the ruling families. I hoped that it was finally happening, that the whole poisonous and feudal system that enslaved the country would come crashing down. I had always dimly felt that when the people of Ecuador would gather together to topple the ever-changing but identical regimes that kept them slaves, that the terror would begin among the wild free Negroes of the coast, those men of spontaneity, vengeance, and emotion. If in their ignorance and their passion they would be unable to construct a new and fairly decent social system, at least they were capable of burning down the old one."
( Moritz Thomsen. The Saddest Pleasure : A Journey On Two Rivers)
"I stand at the window feeling the real beginnings of loneliness, or rather, feeling the beginnings of a desperation that I had anticipated and come looking for. (Moritz Thomsen. The Saddest Pleasure: A Journey On Two Rivers )
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
House Without A Planet
"What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?" #Thoreau
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Trust..... Bust
"There is no respect between the souls of two individuals if their minds can't trust each other and there is no trust between them if their hearts can't accept the truth of each other."
Anuj Somany
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Free From Becoming A "Somebody"
"... what it would be like to be free, free from the need to be spectacular, free from my addiction to people's applause, free from the burden of being a somebody."
(Jim Palmer. Divine Nobodies : Shedding Religion To Find God - And the unlikely people who help you.)
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Little Papacy Style Leadership
"During the last thirty-five years or so I have had the privilege of traveling to many countries and observing the church and it's leadership. As a result, it is my firm conviction that there is too much autocracy in the leaders of the Christian community, in defiance of the teachings of Jesus and his apostles, and not enough love and gentleness. Too many behave as if they believed not in the priesthood of all believers but in the papacy of all pastors." - John R. W. Stott
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Strangling Brennan Manning For This One.
When I get to heaven, I am going to find this man, and I am going to hug him in my sure fishermans grip, so hard, Brennan will beg God for My mercy.
"Recent studies have shown that the average congregation on a Sunday morning can tolerate only fifteen seconds of silence before someone feels compelled to break it with an announcement, a song, a prophecy, or whatever.
Ironically, the church itself often impedes our efforts to reach inward and upward toward God.
As Parker Palmer notes: "Too often the church is an enemy of our solitude. Too often the church is one more agent in the vast social conspiracy of togetherness and noise aimed at distracting us from encountering ourselves. The church keeps us busy on this cause or that, this committee or that, trying to provide meaning through motion until we get "burned out" instead and withdraw from the church's life. Even in its core act of worship the church provides little space for the silent and solitary inward journey to occur (sometimes filling the available space with noisy exhortations to take that very journey!)."
When the glory of the transcendent God is not addressed, our focus shifts to human behavior, the cultivation of virtues and the extirpation of vices, the qualities of discipleship, and so on. Personal responsibility replaces personal response to God, and we become engrossed in our efforts to grow in holiness. Our primary concern becomes our spiritual, intellectual, and emotional well-being. When other Christians ask us if we are happy, we automatically respond in the affirmative or brush them off with a benevolent smile even if we are close to tears."
(Brennan Manning. Ruthless Trust )
Saturday, May 2, 2015
Bible Whisky
"Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results."
(Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird)
Friday, May 1, 2015
Divided Because Of Our Shepherds.
"The reason we don't see one flock today is because we have hundreds of thousands of would-be shepherds leading people to follow their mission, vision, or program. Jesus said we'd be one flock when we have one shepherd. As long as we have thousands of men and women claiming to lead on his behalf and ensuring loyalty to themselves and their program, we will find ourselves in conflict with God's goal to bring all things together in him."
- Wayne Jacobsen
Why Speak of Brokenness In The Past Tense?
"The worst thing we do as a church is that we like to talk about our brokenness in the past tense."
- Jamie The Very Worst Missionary
Religious Obligation Enforcers
"The undercurrent to a life of obligation is the belief that God is not endearing, and life in him is not engaging. Until we see that the life of Jesus is the most engaging invitation we've ever been extended, we won't find our way into its joy. Knowing him will make all he wants for us an
irresistible reality."
- Wayne Jacobsen
Churching The Church Right Out Of Me.
"I guess the church just sort of churched the church out of me." (youth)
(Josh Packard. Church Refugees)
Thursday, April 30, 2015
O Divine Madman
"Fourteenth-century mystic Catherine of Siena is one of three women who have been honored by Catholic Christianity as Doctor of the Church, because of the depth of her writings on the spiritual life. She often began her prayers, "O Divine Madman." When this brilliant, fiery Italian woman was asked to describe the God of her journey, she whispered, "He is pazzo d'amore, ebro d'amore"—he is crazed with love, drunk with love."
(Brennan Manning. Ruthless Trust)
As Big As You Will Ever Get!
"You won, this time. But you are as big as you are ever going to get. And I'm still growing."
– Sir Edmund Hillary (to a picture of Mt. Everest after his first unsuccessful summit attempt)
Painless Music
"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
(Bob Marley)
Monday, April 27, 2015
Human Failure Is Only Sure Church Thing
"Human failure is the only sure thing that happens in church."
(Paul Russell)
Saturday, April 25, 2015
"Much of my growth in the Christian faith has been provoked from places far outside the Christian church."
(Tony Kriz. Neighbors and Wisemen)
Friday, April 24, 2015
What The Sun Lights Up Willingly
to see what is plain; what the sun lights up willingly;.."
Thursday, April 23, 2015
By Our Sweat Rather Than God's Provision
Second Agers are prone to get stuck on "by the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread," (Gen 3:19) rather than "my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory ." (Phil 4:19)
(Leonard Sweet. The Well Played Life)
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Wilderness Is A Fountain of Life.
"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life."
(John Muir)
Take Off Your Religious Work Boots
"When we get faith formidable, we take off our work boots and put on our dancing shoes . Then we begin to rock and roll the world."
(Leonard Sweet. The Well Played Life)
Rediscovered Jesus Springs
What is more foundational that all this talk about the church suffering from a lack "leadership" and "vision". Those are the easy things....
<blockquoye>"Those who desire holiness must learn and relearn to play with God. God-pleasing and Godplaying replace goal seeking and vision casting. Does your church life revolve around goals? Do you go through a vision-casting process every five years? Or do you seek to be quick to fall on your knees and spring fast on your feet to be the people of God in every walk of life? Participation in God's nature is the true goal of human life"
(Leonard Sweet. The Well Played Life)
Right or wrong, and not suggesting that making plans is evil, but for a long long time i have felt the real issue is not lack of vision, nor lack of leadership from people like me, or a lack of leadership toward me from others...
There is something deeper, more guttural we are not addressing with the bows and ribbons we are constantly playing with... Well the bows and ribbons I played with for 15 years..... Anyway, How do you measure transformation? The only thing Jesus said is "by their fruit you will know them." How do we lead, and vision cast a people who lost their "spring" and their "fall"? - that Leonard writes about...
If they have a living "spring", "fall", and "walk" my experience is they have no lack of vision and no need of my leadership.
The book of Collosians may have the only answer. When the people are off track, there is immorality, false teaching, a loss of love for others and for Jesus.... Paul's solution in Colossians was simple... to unfold a greater revelation of the person of Jesus. The only one who gives "springs", fixes "springs", and invented "springs"... no reason to spring without him. Can't help but "spring" with him....
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Problems We Have Or Problems We Are?
"Jesus didn't come just to save us from problems we have, but from the problem we are." (Myron S. Augsburger)
My Mark Our Our Music?
"Transitioning from making my mark, to let us make music."
(Andy Rayner)
Learning to Dance With A Partner
"Whereas a First Ager discovers his or her song and learns to sing it in the world, a Second Ager learns to dance with a partner and to make music within a symphony of voices."
(Leonard Sweet. The Well Played Life)
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Explaining Away God's Beauty
"Exuding a brisk air of professional enthusiasm and a suffocating spirit of hubris, I expostulated so brilliantly on the mystery of God that after one semester, there was no mystery left.
When I heard an elderly and saintly friar in the monastery comment, "The older I get, the less I understand about God," I assumed that it was his sincere attempt at modesty. Secretly, however, I pitied his shallowness. Looking back now, I shudder at my "profundity"
(Brennan Manning. Ruthless Trust.)
The treasury of a people's memory is found in their songs
"The treasury of a people's memory is found in their songs. If we want to teach First Agers to play with God, to play in God's Garden, to "wake up" and go out in mission into the world for service in the "playing field of life," then we must teach them the songs of our faith, along with their narratives and metaphors. These are the songs that make the lips quiver and the spine shiver and turn acts of faith into acts of art."
( Leonard Sweet. The Well Played Life)
Scripture to Precious to Be Left To Biblical scholars
"Sacred scripture is too important to be left exclusively to biblical scholars. Theology is too vital to be consigned solely to the province of theologians. To explore the depths of the God who invites our trust, we need the artists and mystics."
(Brennan Manning. Ruthless Trust.)
Friday, April 17, 2015
Wanting It To Be Something Other Than What It Is
"God has a way to nudge you into life.....To know this, God is at work in the world, He's at work in your life. If you don't see it right now, it's not because he is not doing it, it's because you want it to be something other than it is. And If you relax into this, and let it be what it is, he will lead you into a bigger space than you ever dreamed of, or would ever find on your own. "(Wayne Jacobsen The God Journey Podcast, April 17, 2005))
Thursday, April 16, 2015
tell the stories that prove that the life of faith can be lived in every place
"Meanwhile there is Jeremiah, and the people like him who keep showing up in our homes and communities and churches, who go beyond the boundaries of what is safe and comfortable, learn new languages, discover alien cultures, brave hostility and misunderstanding, and who have the scars and tell the stories that prove that the life of faith can be lived in every place and among all peoples— must be lived in every place, among all peoples."
-- Eugene Peterson, "Run with the Horses"
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Walking By A Different Vision
For you who walk a different path, differently.
As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone."
― Edgar Allan Poe
Common Sense Of The Morning.
"It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning."
(H.G. Wells, The Time Machine)
Monday, April 13, 2015
Crowds Lie, Make Us Spectaculars And Slogans.
Sigh.................. "In crowds the truth is flattened to fit a slogan.... The crowd makes spectators of us, passive in the presence of excellence or beauty. The crowd makes consumers of us, inertly taking in whatever is pushed at us. As spectators and consumers the central and foundational elements of our being human— our ability to create, our drive to excel, our capacity to commune with God— atrophy.
(Eugene Peterson, "Run With the Horses)
Thanks Karl Ingersoll
Sunday, April 12, 2015
Be At War With Your Vives
"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors , and let each new year find you a better man."
(Benjamin Franklin)
Misunderstood For Long Peroids Of Time.
"Entrepreneurs must be willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time. (Jeff Bezos. Amazon)
Creative Tension Between Teligion As Requirements and Religion as Transformation
"The relationship between grace and law is a central issue for almost anyone involved in religion. Basically, it is the creative tension between religion as requirements and religion as transformation. Is God's favor based on a performance principle (Law)? Or does religion work within an entirely different economy and equation? This is a necessary boxing match, but a match in which grace must win. When it doesn't, religion becomes moralistic, which is merely the ego's need for order and control. I am sorry to say, but this is most garden-variety religion. Real love of God or neighbor is much too dangerous.
In Romans and Galatians, Paul gives us sophisticated studies of the meaning, purpose, and limitations of law. He says its function is just to get us started, but it too often takes over. Yet Paul's brilliant analysis has had little effect on the continued Christian idealization of law, even though he makes it very clear: Laws can only give us information; they cannot give us transformation (Romans 3:20; 7:7-13)
__ Paul says, "Israel was looking for a righteousness derived from the law and yet it failed to achieve the purposes of the law. Why did they fail? Because they relied on being privately good instead of trusting in God for their goodness! In other words, they stumbled over the stumbling stone" (Romans 9:31-32). Law is a necessary stage, but if you stay there, Paul believes, it actually becomes a major obstacle to transformation into love and mercy. Law often frustrates the process of transformation by becoming an end in itself. It inoculates you from the real thing. Paul says that God gave us the law to show us that we can't obey the law! (See Romans 7:7-13 if you don't believe me!) In several contexts, Paul even says that the written law brings death, and only the Spirit can bring life (Romans 2:29, 7:5, 2 Corinthians 3:6). This man is religiously dangerous, but it did not take churches long to domesticate him.
Ironically, until people have had some level of inner God experience, there is no point in asking them to follow the ethical ideals of Jesus. It is largely a waste of time. Indeed, they will not be able to even understand their meaning and purpose. Religious requirements become the source of deeper anxiety. Humans quite simply don't have the power to obey any spiritual law, especially issues like forgiveness of enemies, nonviolence, self-emptying, humble use of power, and so on, except in and through union with God. The Spirit in me awakens the only power that can obey the law or know its true purpose.
(Richard Rohr. Grace and Law, Part I
Sunday, April 12, 2015)
Friday, April 10, 2015
God Speaks Through Asses So Be Humble
"This is one of my favorite Bible College stories.
He said, "Class you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here. So please remember this: that God spoke to Balaam though his ass, and he has been speaking through asses ever since. So, if God should choose to speak through you, you need not think too highly of yourself."
(Rick Mullins)
The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men.
"What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use —men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men, men of prayer."
(E.M. Bounds)
Sunday, April 5, 2015
There are two kinds of people in the world—those who live the adventure, and those who read about others' adventures.
"My brother and I were about the same age and of the same upbringing. But whereas I came home from that trip (a Safari in East Africa) lucky to have all my fingers and lots of stories, my brother had spent most of the trip reading a novel about adventures in Africa!
We both had a great time, but only one of us came home with stories to tell (and, obviously, I still do). There are two kinds of people in the world—those who live the adventure, and those who read about others' adventures. I determined a long time ago that I wasn't going to be someone who only read about the adventures of others. I would live the kind of life others would want to read about."
(Journeys To Significance. Neil Cole)(Journeys To Significance. Neil Cole)


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The cloud wars battle rages on. Gartner predicts that one in four cloud providers will be gone by 2015, making this a very high stakes battle for all concerned. The 800lb gorillas, AWS, IBM, Google, Microsoft, et al. continue their efforts for dominance. The latest salvo has been a price war between Google, AWS and Microsoft for their services. Pricing is spiraling downward at breakneck speeds. The others are sure to follow. Into this fog of war, another player has been working on winning the hearts and minds of customers and developers. SalesForce.com, one of the first and best known Software as a Service (SaaS) vendors, has set its sights on becoming the platform of choice for cloud development and deployments.
Will they succeed? They definitely can be considered a gorilla in their own right, approaching $5B in sales, and with a reported 1.5M developers, should not be taken lightly. Their approach is having an impact in the battle, forcing the other vendors and the industry to re-think how they look at cloud services, and could ultimately change the battlefield tactics in the ongoing cloud wars. To understand how a CRM vendor rose to that level of impact, becoming a contender in the cloud wars, one must trace their roots.
This Is Not Your Father's CRM
I know I am dating myself, but there was a time I worked in the industry when customer relationship management was literally a sales person's rolodex. Then, in the early 1990s, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) came into being as a concept. We graduated to digital rolodexes and small marketing applications like ACT. CRM really started to take off in the mid-90s when large ERP vendors such as Oracle and SAP joined the game. These vendors wanted to leverage their size and installed an ERP base to fuel the growth. CRM systems like those were large in-house applications with a myriad of marketing and sales services being added along the way.
Salesforce.com took CRM in a very different direction when they were founded in 1999. They were one of the first companies to truly push the SaaS model with their 'End of Software' marketing pitch and campaign. While we take SaaS for granted nowadays, this was a pretty radical approach at the time. To set some context, in 1999
- Approx four percent of the world's population was on the Internet
- Google had been founded just six months prior
- Amazon.com had been around for approximate five years (AWS was still seven years away)
Eleven years later, Salesforce.com rose to become the industry market leader in CRM, bypassing the ERP stalwarts SAP and Oracle, capturing 14 percent marketshare according to Gartner. In that timeframe their name became synonymous with SaaS (think, how many presentations on the cloud have you seen that give Salesforce.com as an example of SaaS?).
May the Force Be with You
In 2007, Salesforce.com again took the cloud industry by storm launching Force.com. Force.com provided a mechanism for customers and partners to build cloud-hosted applications that could easily integrate with the Salesforce.com core systems. Just as Salesforce.com had become synonymous with SaaS, Force.com led the way into the Platform as a Service (PaaS) world (some even credit Salesforce.com founder Mark Benioff as coining the term PaaS). According to Salesforce.com, within three years they had over 300,000 developers that had written over 180,000 custom applications. Recent reports have them at 1.5M developers. At their recent DreamForce 2013 conference, there were 130,000+ registered attendees from 84 countries and 350 partner companies participating.
Gartner's latest magic quadrant for Enterprise PaaS places Salesforce.com as the industry leader. Gartner views one of their key strengths as having the "...longest strategic and successful presence in the cloud application and platform markets. This gives salesforce.com the name recognition and reputation that, for many prospects, translate to a safe choice in the otherwise immature and unsettled PaaS market." The have become the 'safe' choice, just as in decades past the 'nobody got fired for buying IBM' concept.
This does not mean they are a perfect solution. One of my favorite phrases is "Everything is a tradeoff," and the Salesforce.com PaaS offering is no different. It is built around a proprietary cloud native relational DBMS (which is the underlying DBMS for the Salesforce.com product suite as well). Gartner cautions 'The proprietary nature of the Force.com platform deters adoption by many independent application development projects seeking to avoid vendor lock-in and prevents application migration projects from utilizing the platform.'
The Convergence of IaaS and PaaS, Changes in the Battlefield?
A recent article in Network World, 'Is the PaaS Market as we know it dying?', discusses changes and trends that are happening in the IaaS and PaaS space. The article raises the theory that these two major cloud models are moving towards consolidation. David Linthicum reinforces that viewpoint. He describes it as 'PaaS isn't dying, it's becoming part of IaaS'. As the ongoing price wars between the IaaS gorillas continues, it reduces IaaS to just a commodity item. Differentiators are needed to attract customers (and developers) to use this commodity for their cloud applications and deployments. Some of those differentiators can be platform services to facilitate development and application marketplaces to provide customers with easier transition to the cloud environments. IBM recently announced such a marketplace, and added PaaS to their portfolio with the acquisition of SoftLayer last year.
These differentiators are how Salesforce.com has been marketing and selling Force.com and what has made them the industry leader in the PaaS space. They have had their own marketplace, called AppExchange, with over 2,200 partner built applications including integrations with all the key social media technologies such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. The convergence of the IaaS and PaaS models can potentially play to SalesForce.com's sweet spot and make them a strong competitor to all the other 800lb gorillas in the ongoing cloud wars.
Will this be enough? Time will tell. The cloud market is not going away. Gartner predicts that cloud spending from 2013 to 2016 will be $677 billion worldwide. There is a lot at stake, so the cloud wars will continue for some time. SalesForce.com is more than capable of holding its own against the other 800lb gorillas in the ongoing battle for the cloud market share. Salesforce.com was born of the cloud and has not looked back nor rested on their laurels. When the predicted shakeout occurs, I think they will still be one of the ones left standing.
"We've just seen a huge influx of new partners coming into our ecosystem, and partners building unique offerings on top of our API set," explained Seth Bostock, Chief Executive Officer at IndependenceIT, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 16th Cloud Expo, held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City.
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This week, I joined SOASTA as Senior Vice President of Performance Analytics. Given my background in cloud computing and distributed systems operations — you may have read my blogs on CNET or GigaOm — this may surprise you, but I want to explain why this is the perfect time to take on this opportunity with this team. In fact, that's probably the best way to break this down. To explain why I'd leave the world of infrastructure and code for the world of data and analytics, let's explore the timing...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that HPM Networks will exhibit at the 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. For 20 years, HPM Networks has been integrating technology solutions that solve complex business challenges. HPM Networks has designed solutions for both SMB and enterprise customers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
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One of the ways to increase scalability of services – and applications – is to go "stateless." The reasons for this are many, but in general by eliminating the mapping between a single client and a single app or service instance you eliminate the need for resources to manage state in the app (overhead) and improve the distributability (I can make up words if I want) of requests across a pool of instances. The latter occurs because sessions don't need to hang out and consume resources that could ...
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You often hear the two titles of "DevOps" and "Immutable Infrastructure" used independently. In his session at DevOps Summit, John Willis, Technical Evangelist for Docker, covered the union between the two topics and why this is important. He provided an overview of Immutable Infrastructure then showed how an Immutable Continuous Delivery pipeline can be applied as a best practice for "DevOps." He ended the session with some interesting case study examples.
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The Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), which enables organizations to seamlessly run in a hybrid cloud model (public + private cloud), is here to stay. IDC estimates that the software-defined networking market will be valued at $3.7 billion by 2016. Security is a key component and benefit of the SDDC, and offers an opportunity to build security 'from the ground up' and weave it into the environment from day one. In his session at 16th Cloud Expo, Reuven Harrison, CTO and Co-Founder of Tufin,...
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Approved this February by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), HTTP/2 is the first major update to HTTP since 1999, when HTTP/1.1 was standardized. Designed with performance in mind, one of the biggest goals of HTTP/2 implementation is to decrease latency while maintaining a high-level compatibility with HTTP/1.1. Though not all testing activities will be impacted by the new protocol, it's important for testers to be aware of any changes moving forward.
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Alibaba, the world's largest ecommerce provider, has pumped over a $1 billion into its subsidiary, Aliya, a cloud services provider. This is perhaps one of the biggest moments in the global Cloud Wars that signals the entry of China into the main arena. Here is why this matters. The cloud industry worldwide is being propelled into fast growth by tremendous demand for cloud computing services. Cloud, which is highly scalable and offers low investment and high computational capabilities to end us...
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[slides] Storage for Docker Containers By @OnModulus | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #Docker #Containers #Microservices
Learn how to solve the problem of keeping files in sync between multiple Docker containers. In his session at 16th Cloud Expo, Aaron Brongersma, Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Modulus, discussed using rsync, GlusterFS, EBS and Bit Torrent Sync. He broke down the tools that are needed to help create a seamless user experience. In the end, can we have an environment where we can easily move Docker containers, servers, and volumes without impacting our applications? He shared his results so yo...
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Modern DevOps Tool Kit By @Logentries and @NewRelic | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #Containers #Microservices
Auto-scaling environments, micro-service architectures and globally-distributed teams are just three common examples of why organizations today need automation and interoperability more than ever. But is interoperability something we simply start doing, or does it require a reexamination of our processes? And can we really improve our processes without first making interoperability a requirement for how we choose our tools?
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Digital Transformation is the ultimate goal of cloud computing and related initiatives. The phrase is certainly not a precise one, and as subject to hand-waving and distortion as any high-falutin' terminology in the world of information technology. Yet it is an excellent choice of words to describe what enterprise IT—and by extension, organizations in general—should be working to achieve. Digital Transformation means: handling all the data types being found and created in the organizat...
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[session] DevOps State of Mind By @RedHatNews | @DevOpsSummit #DevOps #PaaS #Jenkins #Kubernetes #Docker
Rapid innovation, changing business landscapes, and new IT demands force businesses to make changes quickly. The DevOps approach is a way to increase business agility through collaboration, communication, and integration across different teams in the IT organization. In his session at DevOps Summit, Chris Van Tuin, Chief Technologist for the Western US at Red Hat, will discuss: The acceleration of application delivery for the business with DevOps
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Former Carolina Hurricanes player Bates Battaglia is cheering on his former teammates as they try to bring the Stanley Cup to his new hometown. The closer they get, the bigger the draw to the sports bar he co-owns in downtown Raleigh. The place was buzzing Monday night as the Hurricanes stole a come-from-behind victory over Edmonton in Game 1 of the finals. About a dozen televisions showed the game, and since Battaglia's place doesn't serve food, the bar ordered munchies for the crowd.continued
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