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"If you can dream it you can achieve it."
Dear Friends,
Please understand this point - there is a lot of misinformation and disinformation that is continually bandied about as the 'secret to success' or the 'mindset of millionaires' or a thousand other taglines for why you are not yet as successful as you want to be.
Part of this garbage (yes, that's strong, I know) is the popular, "If you can dream it you can achieve it" platitude or variations on that theme.
If you can dream it you can achieve it - not so much
Haven't thousands, if not millions, of researchers, clinicians, and care givers dreamt of finding a cure for cancer? Why hasn't it happened yet?
Because dreaming isn't the only thing necessary.
It also takes work, which yes, those researchers, clinicians, and care givers are putting in. But that's not all, because if it were just about dreaming and working we would have found the cure already as dedicated as those professionals, some of my friends included, are.
So what's missing in all of this? Timing and God's will. If you don't believe in God, that's unfortunate, because the preceding statement is the absolute truth.
If it's not in God's timing or in His will, it's not going to happen no matter how badly you want something or how hard you work for it.
If I dream of having $100 million but it's not God's will or not yet time for me to have it according to His eternal purposes, it's not going to happen, plain and simple. It doesn't matter how badly I want it or how hard I work or what books I read or what positive thoughts I send out into the universe. It's NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.
Does that mean we just sit back and wait for His timing and will to kick in? Of course not.
We get to work on what we believe we ought to do and what He inspires us to do. And we work hard at it.
Then we let Him take care of the results.


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So you're probably asking yourselves, why did a grown man read Peter and the Starcatchers? I could say that I read it so you wouldn't have to, but that would be Wrong. That would be A Lie. I read it because it was written by Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry and because I had high hopes for it. Unfortunately, those hopes were pretty much dashed.
I thought the book was sort of OK at the beginning, but the more I read, the less impressed I was. For one thing, since Barry had a hand in it, I thought it would be hilarious. I was wrong. There are a few laughs and some mild amusements. That's it. And, let's face it, the writing is, well, . . . pedestrian. It doesn't have any sparkle.
Then there's the plot. Ridley Pearson came up with the idea to write a "prequel" to Peter Pan, which wasn't necessarily a bad thing. But then he decided to explain everything that James Barrie left unexplained: why Peter can fly, why there are mermaids in Neverland, where Tinkerbelle came from, and so on. The bottom line here is that some things are best left unexplained, at least as far as I'm concerned. Like magician's tricks. They astound me when I see them performed, and I don't want to know how they're done. When you know that, the fun is gone. Especially when the explanation is as long-winded as it is here.
Reading this book made me realize again that not just anyone, even if he's Ridley Pearson or Dave Barry or a combination of the two, can sit down and write a magical children's book. It made me appreciate even more what J. K. Rowling has done with Harry Potter.
Peter and the Starcatchers will probably sell a gazillion copies. Pearson and Barry have at least that many fans between them. Maybe I'm wrong about the book. Maybe kids will love it. Anything that gets them to read is fine by me.


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Project engineers are responsible for overseeing the various stages of development for a variety of products and projects. It is their responsibility to make sure that the various parts are progressing, and that the project works as a whole. Project engineers are generally involved at every level of developmentfrom concept to production and everything in between. This often requires them to know about a broad range of subjects, from economics to materials.
The variety of tasks and greater level of responsibility require organization, patience and the ability to deal with people well. At times, it can even involve asking people to do you favors. For example, project engineer Kathy Hugle often has no more than two months' notice on some of her projects. Says Hugle, "Most of our projects are long-term and mine tend to be very short-term, so as a general rule when I walk up to someone [with an analysis to review] I'm asking them to interrupt their schedule."
Scheduling for engineers like Hugle and Scott Vigal of Data Transmission Network is often made difficult by the sheer number of projects they are overseeing simultaneously. Says Vigal, "I can have 15 open projects on my board at any one time, and one of the hard things is managing the work flow," because each project is in a different phase.
NAME: Kristin Van Reesema
Title: Senior Project Engineer
Company: CMS Energy, Dearborn, Mich.
Education: B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University
Job Description: "I'm involved with the initial contact for potential development or buying projects. I evaluate what we're looking for, asking whether the project fits with the company's strategy and existing assets. It also involves looking at what types of contracts are involved in the acquisition and how they impact the economics of the project.
"The job involves looking at a project from a physical and paper standpoint. On a more general level, it's understanding the industry, reading industry magazines and knowing what's going on in the business."
Current Projects: "Recently we did an acquisition of a pipeline called Panhandle. Parts of what I did involved evaluating the economics, the revenues, the expenses, and what we could do with the project and determining if there were other projects that could be added to make it more economical. [After that,] we went in to their management, negotiated a deal and signed the purchase order and sale agreement. Right now I'm working to move it through the Federal Antitrust Commission. We just completed the due diligence stage which is where we review operations and ask: is the pipe good, does it need repairs, what will the repairs cost, how many people work there, can we run it cheaper, etc."
Biggest Surprise About Working: "Making sure that the people who have expertise are part of the team. Quality people are important. When there's a missing link it hurts the project more than you think."
How She Knew This Was the Field for Her: "I started with the details and design. I moved away from that because I wanted a broader view of how the project was impacting the company, a sense of what there was for the company to do and how it made money. I went from design to project managing because it offered a better understanding of the whole operation."
Advice to Future Project Engineers: "Getting a design base is important. Starting in design or operations is a good thing because it gives you exposure to the operations of the facility. Then, when you move into project management you understand what's required to get the details done."
NAME: Jim Quinn
Title: Project Engineer
Company: Imperial Schrade Corp., Ellenville, N.Y.
Education: B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology
Job Description:
- Product design
- Tooling design
- CNC [computer numerical control] programming for cutting and tooling prototype parts
- Dealing with outside vendors, mold-makers and toolmakers
- Coordinating outside work and the print work necessary to get the parts in house
Current Projects: "Currently I have a design project. We're a cutlery manufacturer and I'm working on a new knife. I took it from a marketing sketch to CAM/CAD renderings to a prototype which was approved by the marketing department. Then I coordinated the necessary engineering drawings, jobbed out the molding aspects to the mold-maker, and dealt with an outside supplier for rivets and fasteners. And finally I implemented it on the production floor. It's about a six-month process from a sketch to production."
Why He Accepted His Current Job: "There were a variety of job responsibilities, not just one particular thing. I am involved in everything: machine maintenance, plant maintenance and design. It's a small company with a large array of things to do, and the job's not the same day after day."
Biggest Surprise About Working: "Paperwork. I was really surprised at the amount of paperwork involved in a project."
Biggest Problems Encountered: "Primarily I debug the programming and repair malfunctioning machines."
Advice to Future Project Engineers: "Hands-on skills are very important, for example, being able to create prototypes on your own without relying on the toolroom personnel. Also, it's important to be patient and have the ability to deal with people well."
NAME: Kathy Hugle
Title: Project Engineer
Company: Vogt-Nem, Inc., Louisville, Ky.
Education: B.S. and M. Eng., Mechanical Engineering, University of Louisville
Job Description: "We supply industrial-size steam boilers and I specialize in the after-market aspects and deal with some of our licensees overseas. As a general rule part of my day is spent with my ongoing after-market repair or replacement projects, overseeing the engineering, reviewing the drawings, coordinating the activities with drafting and other departments, checking on materials and requisitioning materials. The other half of my day is spent in technical support for the field and for our licensees and manufacturing partners overseas. Support can be anything from doing a review to analyzing test data to make sure the units are performing as they are guaranteed, to interfacing with the customer to make sure that everybody's happy with everybody else's performance."
Current Projects: "One of my ongoing projects is with a licensee in Turkey. It's an emerging market and there are a lot of small units going in over there. We do the thermal design of [the boiler] and give them the information and they finish the mechanical design. With our support they build the unit, install it, get it performance tested and kicked off.
"I also have the after-market in the United States. We are replacing about two-thirds of the pressure parts in one of the boilers that had a water quality problem. We are installing an economizer section, basically a water heat transfer section, in the back end of a boiler that was built in the mid '80s by one of our competitors."
Why She Accepted Her Current Position: "I like the fact that I need to be an expert in a few things but I also need to know a little bit about a lot of things. What I like about this job is it's always a learning opportunity. Especially in my position supporting our licensees, I get a lot of questions all the way across the board, from boiler water quality to structural engineering. I've even learned a little bit about seismic codes the world over and it's pretty much the main reason that I took this job as a project engineer. I get into a little bit of everything."
Biggest Surprise About Working: "Probably getting used to how information flows in a company and the fact that you're working with personalities instead of problems in a book. There are people who don't want to hear 'Hello, how are you? Have you had a nice day?' when you walk into their office. They prefer that you state the problem so they can give you an answer and everyone can get on with their lives. You do, of course, have to work with the fact that in an office some people get along with each other better than others.
"Sometimes on an engineering team, stating things one way instead of another in a meeting can prevent a long drawn out argument between two of your team members. You have a tendency to think that all engineers will be practical and there will be no personality issues and I haven't run into any extremes, but it is something that you have to learn to take into account, especially when you start dealing with people outside the company."
Non-Technical Skills Needed to Succeed: "A good command of the language. People are not careful how they phrase things. For example, you get a request and you can't tell what it's really asking for. It could be a yes or no answer or it could be something where you have to do 12 hours worth of work. I've learned to be careful how I state things, and to keep it short and sweet. Engineering is a technical profession and you have got to get down on paper in simple terms exactly what you're doing, or what you want."
NAME: Scott Vigal
Title: Special Projects Manager
Company: Data Transmission Network, Omaha, Neb.
Education: Associate's Degree, Computer Science, Community College of the Air Force; B.S., Computer Science, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Job Description: "As the engineering project manager, I manage a team of programmers that develop applications. Right now my team is focused on stock market applications and processing stock market feeds to support the Data Transmission Network products. I review the status of our current projects, checking on the progress. The work involves project requirements, planning, coding, testing, design reviews, things like that. We serve quite a few industries, including automotive, electrical equipment, freight industries, agricultural, financial, energy, weather, aviation, government, turf management and construction. The engineering department is basically a corporate resource to Data Transmission Network and the different product groups."
Current Projects: "We just finished up a project in which the Nasdaq-Amex stock market had some requirements that they needed their vendors to display in their feed. That involved changing a number of applications and when we went through the project requirements I matched up the work to be done with the right engineer. Then we let them come up with what had to be done, write the requirements and then actually do the work. After that we all did the system testing together."
Biggest Problems Encountered: "There are always going to be things that come up that you don't expect. For example, one of our data vendors will have a problem and we have to react very quickly to protect our system or implement changes for our customers. Several months ago there was a meteor shower that presented some technical problems for us in which we had to make contingency plans in case our satellites were hit by meteors. That's something that you don't expect every day."
Non-Technical Skills Needed to Succeed: "I think communication and writing skills, aside from the programming skills, are the things that can really help somebody. That's what we all try to work on, writing good documents, good specs, keeping our systems documented well so that if we were to lose somebody we know what that person was working on. With project management you want to have very well documented systems and system designs. At DTN we look at our people as true engineers and we expect them to come up with the design and that points to the need for good writing skills because we have to write out component designs.
"Also general communication skills are important. We're working with other teams in other departments within the company, and we don't expect the product areas to be the experts in the technical field, that's our job. We have to really pin down what the project requirements are. It almost requires interviewing skills."
How He Knew This Was the Field for Him: "Computers always interested me and I started doing computer programming and determined that's what I wanted to get my degree in. I did that and right after school I fell into a job with a small company here in town. Working for that company got me introduced at DTN and I started as a programmer here. As the company grew, the projects started getting much more complicated and numerous. We had to build this project engineering functionality into our engineering department and as one of the more senior people, those duties passed to me so I kind of fell into it."


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Review: "Summer Shorts" – Series A at 59E59 Theaters/
David Roberts
"10K" Written and directed by Neil LaBute
In "10 K" a Man (played with a delicious passive coyness by J.J. Kandel) and a Woman (played with an equally delicious aggressive coyness by Clea Alsip) meet at a suburban ("Whispering Pines") park and decide (after a good stretch) to jog together. Immediately, both disclose the less-than-satisfying natures of their married-with-children statuses. The Woman's two-year-old is always "underfoot" and she leaves the child at home unattended and her husband "doesn't listen." As the pair work up a considerable sweat, the marital ennui becomes playful seduction, the Woman more aggressive than the Man. Their banter includes some odd racist agenda on the part of the Woman which seems to do nothing to advance the plot driven by these characters' otherwise believable conflicts. Predictably, the heat of the run fires up the possibility of a tryst but both decide to forego that diversion from reality.
There a many double entendres like the Man's, "Right, but...I mean...people need relief." And Mr. LaBute's text skillfully reveals the real motivations of the pair and their impressive reserve of frustration and disappointment. They each desire a new life, a different life, but lack the conviction and the "plan" to achieve that level of freedom. Director LaBute keeps the pace up in this delightful extended metaphor for all the 10Ks humankind runs every day, mostly coping, often compromising, and – for better or worse – "getting back" to their realities with the promise of "meeting again" at the same place and time.
"Glenburn 12 WP" Written by Vickie Ramirez and Directed by Kel Haney
Although Ms. Ramirez's script requires the reader/audience to confront the important issues of racism, colonialism, and privilege, her characters seem not to be as full developed as they might be to deal with such significant conflicts. Troy Davis a twenty-something African-American man (played with just the right amount of millennial hipster bravado by W. Tre Davis) enters a small Irish pub near Grand Central Terminal. The bartender is not to be found and after assuring the missing barkeep he "is not stealing anything," Troy settles in to wait to order a beer and is soon joined by Roberta Laforme (played with seductive aggressiveness by Tanis Parenteau) a thirty-something woman who is a member of the Mohawk Nation and an attorney.
Troy flirts with Roberta, and after getting rebuffed, the two engage in a convoluted discussion about race, gender, sex, white privilege, the discontent of the marginalized, and the missing bartender Kieran. Although their conversation raises important and rich questions about the topics raised, it is so clearly intended to set the stage for Robert's unexpected revelation about her two visits to the bar and the reason for Kieran's absence that it becomes forced and uninteresting.
Why Troy is not participating in the "protests" and why Roberta has returned to the bar and why Kieran is missing is all answered in Ms. Ramirez's "Glenburn 12 WP." The question to be answered is whether the 30 minute discourse (although it is key to the mystery) is enough of a reason to wait for the shocking solutions or why Roberta askes Troy to call the police.
"The Sentinels" Written by Matthew Lopez and Directed by Stephen Brackett
Matthew Lopez's short is the best of the three in Series A and deals with the important process of grieving and bereavement. As the thanatologist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross affirmed in her ground-breaking writings on the stages of grief, different people grieve differently: some go from denial to acceptance in a year, some stay stuck on bargaining for years. Alice (Meg Gibson), Kelly (Michelle Beck), and Christa (Kellie Overbey) have met on the same day (September 11) at the same place to remember the day the Twin Towers were destroyed by a terrorist attack and their husbands were killed in that attack.
These three women are the self-appointed sentinels who guard the collective memory of those who lost loved ones in the 911 terrorist attack and who preserve memory of the horrific event itself. Matthew Lopez's remarkable script shows how three disparate women have dealt with grief and bereavement over the ten years after the attack (including the year they choose not to meet). Even more remarkable is how Mr. Lopez chooses to tell this story from 2011 back to the year before the fall of the twin towers when the three women meet their husbands at the Windows on the World restaurant atop the north tower of the World Trade Center.
Meg Gibson's Alice is the glue that holds the trio together and assures the continuity of the memorial meetings. She never remarries. Ms. Gibson's performance is authentic and believable and deeply rooted in her craft. Michele Beck's Kelly does remarry but remains faithful to the group and its commitment to remember. Kellie Overbey's Christa needs to get on with her life – move on – and eventually loses interest in the group. Under Stephen Brackett's meticulous direction, this ensemble cast captures the distinct personalities of three women to deal with grief in unique and authentic ways. Zuzanna Szadkowski shines as the waitress at the restaurant where the women meet.
SUMMER SHORTS runs through Saturday, August 29. The general performance schedule is Tuesday - Thursday at 7:15 PM, Friday at 8:15 PM; Saturday at 2:15 PM and 8:15 PM; and Sunday at 3:15 PM & 7:15 PM. For individual performance dates for Series A and Series B, download the calendar at https://www.dropbox.com/s/9h1p0vf8khgweb8/SummerShorts2015_Calendar.pdf?dl=0. Single tickets are $25 ($17.50 for 59E59 Members). A Pair of Shorts (a ticket to both Series A & B) is $40 (available until August 12). To purchase tickets, call Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 or go to www.59e59.org.


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My latest project is Grand Banks, a seasonal oyster bar on deck of the historic F/V Sherman Zwicker. Docked at Hudson River Park's Pier 25 in Tribeca, the 142 foot sailboat is a museum quality example of traditional boat building and the largest wooden vessel in New York City.
The project was conceived and developed with Mark Firth, founder of Diner and Marlow & Sons, my brother Miles, who is my partner in the development firm Arts & Leisure, and Adrien Gallo, our director of operations; and designed in collaboration with Eric Cheong head of design for Ace Hotels.
Operating in conjunction with the not-for-profit Maritime Foundation, Grand Banks presents on-board exhibitions on maritime history and a curated lecture series with notable speakers on topics ranging from seafaring culture to aquatic sustainability.
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Annotation: Claire is heartbroken when her lifelong crush, her best friend's older brother Daniel, is tragically killed in a seemingly random shooting. Months later after her own near death experience, Claire is shocked to discover that she can communicate with Daniel's spirit which is stuck in "the fringe," and that his murder might not have been random after all.
Personal thoughts: Although this book did a pretty good job of creeping me out in parts, I had some trouble in finding something to latch onto to make it a novel I really loved. I thought Claire and Daniel were interesting characters, but I didn't feel like I really got to know them in the story. The first few chapters (when Daniel was still alive) were my favorite in the book, and I wish that the author had spent a little more time developing Claire and Daniel and their relationship before jumping into ghosts-ville. I also didn't really understand the "bad guy" or why he was so mean-spirited, my final guess being that the author simply meant for him to be just crazy. Overall, I did somewhat enjoy the novel, but it was one of those reads where I felt like I really could have loved it had it lived up to its potential fully. Either way, I am looking forward to seeing what Courtney King Walker comes up with next because she seems to definitely have some interesting ideas up her sleeve.
Plot summary: Since she was a little girl, sixteen-year-old Claire and her best friend Addie have been joined at the hip with Claire's older brother, Matthew, who also happens to be best friends with Addie's older brother, Daniel. The four have years of memories growing up together, the boys playing pranks on their annoying little sisters and the girls trying to keep up with their older brothers' games. Now that they're older, however, Claire and Daniel are just beginning to discover that they actually have feelings for each other. Daniel isn't just Addie's older brother, but is handsome and kind, and Daniel likes Claire's adventurous and whimsical nature. Just as their relationship begins to blossom, however, Daniel is tragically killed in what appears to be a random shooting at a party. Addie, Matthew and Claire are completely heartbroken by the loss. In the months following his death, the three grieve in their own ways: Matthew going off to college, Addie focusing on her social life, and Claire wondering why her brother and her best friend are trying to move on from something that she feels has altered her life forever. Everything changes, however, after a freak accident causes Claire to nearly drown in a lake near her house. As she is losing consciousness beneath the surface of the water, she sees Daniel's face, and he pulls her to shore. At first she thinks she imagined it, but Claire soon realizes that her near death experience has given her the ability to communicate with Daniel's spirit. But how can Claire keep her newfound connection with Daniel a secret? And was his murder truly random, or was someone, or something, else behind Daniel's death?
Review: In her first book, author Courtney King Walker creates a bittersweet and often creepy ghost story that is interesting but doesn't exactly leave the reader with warm fuzzy feelings when it's all said and done. The story begins in a very non-paranormal fashion: Claire is a free-spirited girl who finds herself falling for her best friend's older brother, Daniel. Since the novel is told by dual narrators, both Daniel and Claire get to express the events of the story from their perspective, and Daniel's description of his realization that Claire was more than just his best friend's kid sister is very sweet. The story abruptly changes, however, after Daniel is murdered (shot in the head, to be exact.) This plot element was jarring, and the sweetness that was established in the first few chapters almost completely disappears. Claire discovering her new found connection with Daniel's spirit is nice, but it does come after she nearly drowns. There is also a vengeful ghost who has it in for Daniel, and decides to haunt Claire after he discovers that she and Daniel have found a way to communicate. Everything in the plot seems to have a negative aspect to it, something that made it hard to get the romantic feelings flowing while Claire and Daniel fall more in love with each other. Some side characters are introduced throughout the story as well and are never fully vetted, leaving the reader slightly confused when they end up playing a large role in the plot. Overall, fans of ghost stories are likely to enjoy On the Fringe, but as a romance and a completely developed novel, the book leaves a bit to be desired.
Genre: Fiction/Ghost Story
Reading level: Grade 7+
Similar titles: Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake, Hereafter series by Tara Hudson, Envy: An Empty Coffin Novel by Gregg Olsen, Juliet Immortal by Stacey Jay, Lightbringer by K.D. McEntire, The Poisoned House by Michael Ford.
Themes: Ghosts, murder, revenge, romance, friendship, grief, loss.
Awards/Reviews: Positive reviews on Amazon.com.
Series Information: N/A
Discussion questions:- What was the significance of the silver ring in the story? What did it symbolize about Claire and Daniel's relationship?
- After Daniel's death, explain the difference between the way Matthew, Addie and Claire grieved. Which way do you think was the most "normal"? Do you think that one method of grieving is better than another?
- When Claire almost drown in the lake on the night of her birthday, do you think a part of her wanted to die? Why or why not?
- How do you explain the "connection" between Daniel and Claire after she almost drowned?
- Why do you think Aden couldn't forgive Daniel?
- How do you explain the relationship between Aden and Felix?


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Analysis: Why Max Verstappen can handle F1
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AUTOSPORT's junior single-seater expert MARCUS SIMMONS has covered 2015 Toro Rosso Formula 1 signing Max Verstappen in European Formula 3 this year
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Matthew 15:21-28, Romans 11: 1-2, 29-32, Psalm 133, Genesis 45:1-15
Is Jesus a Racist?!! Headlines – White Supremacist meeting in Virginia, Michael Brown shooting: police, protesters clash again in Ferguson!
Jesus and his disciples travel from the Jewish territory, where they were born and raised in around the Galilean area, to the north and east territory by the Mediterranean Sea. The towns of Tyre and Sidon were port cities and were considered a non-Jewish area occupied by Canaanites but still under the Roman occupiers. The land of the Jews known today as Israel was previously the land of Canaan gentiles. The land of Canaan was the land that Abraham and Isaac were buried. It was from the land of Canaan that Jacob traveled to Egypt to live with Joseph his son during the famine we are reading about in this morning's scripture. After Jacob died Joseph carried Jacob's remains back to this land of Canaan and gave him a stately burial in the same Cave as were buried Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebecca and Jacob's first wife, Leah.
This land of Canaan was the Promised Land that Moses led the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, now formed as God's chosen people, out of Egypt to occupy and claim this land that was promised by God to His chosen.
So when Jesus and his disciples arrived many of the inhabitants of this Tyre Sidon area were Canaanites who remained hostile to the Jews because the Jews conquered their land under Joshua after their exodus from Egypt.
The scriptures in Mark indicate that Jesus had brought his disciples to this region to avoid the multitudes of people that they were surrounded with everywhere they go. This was to be providing a time of rest. But the respite didn't last very long.
Breaking into their quiet, peaceful sojourn comes a pagan, gentile, Canaanite woman interrupting their calm—crying out to Jesus, trying to get his attention. Obviously very loudly and very disruptive to the disciples, she was determined to get Jesus to notice her. This woman was not crying out to Jesus for herself, she was pleading for a healing of her terribly suffering, demon-possessed daughter.
It is clear that the word what out about Jesus, the word of mouth had even spread into this gentile community despite the fact that there was no twitter, no face book, no newspapers and no live TV coverage of events. The news had come even though Jesus had never set foot before in this area. Before this trip, Jesus entire ministry was to the Jews, the chosen of God before now.
This woman, however, believed the stories she heard about the healing of the paralytic, the blind men being healed and just recently the feeding of the 5000 plus and she believed this was a man like no other. This was her chance; maybe her only chance to actually see and plead her case before this Jesus. "Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is suffering terribly". Haven't you and I pleaded with God for someone we love who is suffering and seek His healing? We know her pain, don't we?
Matthew records that Jesus makes no direct response to her, he seems to ignore her, he did not say a word. Does this seem like the loving Jesus we are so familiar with in our Bible? She is not disrespectful, this woman is addressing Him as Lord—she seems to know who He is, she seems to have faith in Him despite being a Canaanite.
What is Jesus up to in this behaviour? Doesn't this smack of racism? Is Jesus a racist?!! I think the disciples take their cue from this apparent indifference. Vs 23: So his disciples came to him and urged him, "Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us." They didn't plea her case, they didn't come and ask Jesus to help her, no! They are concerned that she is bothering us, she is annoying, who does she think she is a Canaanite woman wanting help from us Jews.
Jesus doesn't send her away but doesn't speak to her directly about her plea for healing. Instead, he does explain himself to His disciples. "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel." He is saying He is sent only to the chosen people, the people who came into your land as conquerors from the Exodus of Egypt, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and Joseph.
Now we, non Jews, who have read the book from cover to cover, know exclusivity is not His ultimate mission right? Readers of Matthew in this specific text are discovering something that doesn't seem right about the character and actions of this man Jesus—"I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel." Hmmm?
This Canaanite woman obviously herd the response of Jesus but it did not deter her at all. She persisted in coming to Jesus, kneeling before Him and crying, "Lord, help me!" But again Jesus replied to her in a way that appears outright rude referring to her as a dog. "It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs."
This seems so out of character, so unkind for Jesus to say yet the disciples were probably hi-fiving each other in celebration. This is what we want to hear, putting these dogs in their place! The disciples had grown up, being told they were the chosen people, that they had a Messiah coming who would overcome the Roman pagan occupiers. They had learned and cheered the stories of Abraham and Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, King David, Solomon, and Samson the heroes of the Torah. They were taught not to associate with non-Jews, not to intermarry with pagans like the Canaanites, they were all dogs, not worthy like themselves, children of God. This was the disciple's ingrained attitude, their predisposition to non-Jews and Jesus appears to be reflecting their attitude. But was he?
It was Jesus who chose to come to this area of the unclean, this community populated by these 'dogs'! Was He creating a teaching opportunity to prepare these very disciples for their mission to take the good news of salvation to the whole world, the whole world including the Jews? YES! Remember Matthew declares in 28:19 "go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit."
Clearly Jesus had a mandate from God His Father to bring the gospel of salvation to the Jews and to all God's creation…but first He has to overcome generations and generations of prejudice, hate, discrimination, ingrained bigotry that is within His own disciples. The God of all history, the God of Creation of this earth and the whole universe, the Lord God Almighty needs to equip His Son's disciples for their impending role—to take the message of salvation to world and be prepared to die if necessary for the sake of this message!
So was Jesus going to turn the table on prejudice and bigotry that very day? I believe YES! Clearly Yes! And by God's providence this gentile, Canaanite woman, with a hurting heart for her daughter, was the means. Her determination, her faith in coming to Jesus was not being deterred by the 'attitude' of the disciples nor was she being taken in by Jesus repeating the historic tradition of the Jewish religion. This was the time, this was the occasion that Jesus could teach His disciples a most important understanding.
Her response to Jesus statement, "It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs" was not going to prevent her from making her point …and appropriately Jesus point. Matthew and Mark both record she argues boldly and even contradicts him, "Yes it is, Lord,""Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table." WOW!
She is agreeing with Jesus that the bread, the true bread of God is to come to the Jews but and this is the key point but even the dog's or gentiles can receive the Master's or God's blessings if only the scraps and crumbs. The mere crumbs of God's bread or blessings and mercy would be all it takes to overcome the evil spirits and to heal her daughter.
Then Jesus said to her, "Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted."And her daughter was healed at that moment.
She got it. She understood who Jesus is, her Master, her Messiah, and her daughter's also. Jesus affirms she has a place at the table. This passage has earned its way into our Holy Communion liturgy, in the prayer of humble access. When we state that "we are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under your table Lord but you always delight in showing mercy." WE know now what she understands that it is not who she is, where she is from, what her status in life is or what her race, colour or education that counts in receiving God's mercy—it is her faith!. Some people have written that this Canaanite woman is the first gentile convert recorded in scriptures.
Paul, as you all know, was himself a rabid Jewish Christian hater converted to Christ, and he proclaims "If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." Paul affirms the Canaanite woman's faith when he states, "For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13 for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
I expect that Jesus had a lot to share about His mission and His disciple's attitude, prejudices and mindset about gentiles, you and me. He was equipping them for their mission field as they leave this area and proceed to their next destination and destiny. They may have felt let down with the revelation that salvation was for all and not just the Jews. Paul addresses this plainly in today's scripture.
"Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.2 God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew."
Christ came into the world to save sinners and we all are sinners. We all have prejudices, and God wants us to face up to them and judge them in light of our personal salvation. Can we who have been saved by Jesus death and resurrection still retain prejudice and hate against Jews today? NO! Can we overcome the prejudice and hatred displayed by a few people in Charlottesville, Virginia, Ferguson Missouri or the prejudice of some Canadians against the people of Canada's first nations? YES
We who have been saved by Jesus death and resurrection must share this same good news with all people—whatever their background, financial status, race, colour or position? Christ, our Saviour will judge us, you and me, if we are not a welcoming community to all who seek to discover their saviour in our community. Amen.
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Mark 7: 1-23, James 1:17-27, Psalm 15, Deut 4:1-9
You could hear the children yelling, "Are we there yet?!" It was a long trip, forty years long. The people of God, who God rescued from slavery after 400 years in Egypt, are massing on the banks of the Jordan river, opposite Jericho. They are about to enter the promised land, the land flowing with milk and honey and take possession of this land. Moses speaks to those who need a new start. A new start to a life with great promise and hope. As Moses states, " Look, I now teach you these decrees and regulations just as the Lord my God commanded me, so that you may obey them in the land you are about to enter and occupy. Obey them completely, and you will display your wisdom and intelligence among the surrounding nations. Deut 4:5&6 NLT What are the decrees and laws Moses is referring to? The 10 commandments of course. These are familiar to just about everybody. Sometimes we know all too well what the commandments mean. A short Story. Like one little girl in a third grade Sunday School class. Her teacher was giving a lesson on the commandment, "Honour your father and mother." The teacher asked, "Now does anyone know a commandment for brothers and sisters?" This sharp little girl raised her hand and said, "Thou shalt not kill."
Moses would have been impressed! Moses was most assuredly impressed when he says in wonder and amazement. "What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the Lord our God is near us whenever we pray to him? Thinnk about it people! When we compare the gods of the Egyptians, Canaanites, and gods of their forefathers in Babylon it is clear—there are no other gods like our God. Their gods are man-made caricatures in stone or wood, images of strange design and... and totally useless to pray to for help or direction. They are especially useless to seek a personal relationship because they are inanimate.
Our God is all knowing, He hears and responds to prayer. Our God is unlike all others because He is a living God and a loving God, a participant in His creation. This understanding requires critical decisions in these Hebrew people since it calls for a way of life that differs greatly from what the dominant pagan culture presents.
The prevailing culture of their time focuses people on worshiping inanimate objects, sacrificing women and children to satisfy supposed angry gods and participating in sexual rituals that at are debasing to people. Frankly speaking, the culture of today is not much different from the culture that the Hebrew people had to contend with in their day. Today, there is almost godlike worship for movie stars, celebrities and sexual fantasies on the internet. Today there is a growing godless people, self-focused people that flaunt against anything Biblical and righteous and worthy in the sight of the one and only God. There are political leaders supporting Anti-Christian values, there are well financed opposition to values we used to consider sacred and now the once minority opinion reigns supreme.
So Moses poses this question to these blessed people about to enter into a new land with the power and might on their side to prevail against evil and oppression. Deut 8 what other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and laws as this body of laws I am setting before you today? NO nation! Only a people who are God's people, you are a nation who has been rescued from slavery, debasement, and abuse. Be a right-living people, a God honouring, a people honouring nation. Follow just laws so you can live in peace and protection. Just as they are about to cross the Jordan Moses provides a caution to these people.
9 Be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them. Well, Biblical history tells us that those blessed people had short memories and were easily seduced away from the truth of God's love for His people. Yes it is true, in our lifetime people forget God's commandments and memories fade and soon generations of God's precious people are pursuing a lifestyle that enslaves and debases them again.
We discover in Mark's gospel, Jesus is once engaged in a dispute about religion with the Jewish leaders and Pharisees. They have come all the way from Jerusalem to confront Jesus in Galilee.
Jesus contends with the religious leaders who have manipulated these laws that God gave His people. They scheme in favour of man-made laws and traditions that enslave people to meaningless ritual but are not God honouring, God pleasing behaviour. They are defending their culture, their lifestyle, these Pharisees, and declaring it required of all Jews to comply. Jews are not to eat unless they ceremonially wash their hands and observe the traditions of the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles. Pompously the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?" It is more an accusation than a question really—we got you this time!
Jesus doesn't defend himself or disciples. But instead uses the very Word of God to make His point. "Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written, "This people honours me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; 7 in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines.' 8 You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition." Isaiah 29:13 He calls these Pharisees hypocrites. Now that is a very strong term to apply to religious leaders then and now. The dictionary defines a hypocrite as a charlatan, and actor or a person who simulates goodness and virtue but it is only a pretense. You have the audacity to teach your opinion as doctrine. Traditions made by man cannot be substitutes for the commandments of God. But they are in this country and the USA, Europe, and UK. Seemingly reasonable man-made rules like freedom of the press and charter of rights and freedoms can be manipulated against God's commands—a good constitution idea that has been used to cause people to abandon the commandments of God. The Judeo-Christian values that we know we are supposed to live by are ignored. We know today that preaching the gospel from the Bible is considered a hate crime under these man-made rules. The Pharisees are back only in a new role today as regulation police against Christian values.
Then Jesus changed His focus to the crowd again and said to them, Ignore these hypocrites! "Listen to me, all of you, and understand: 15 there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile." Mark 7:14&15
21 For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder, 22 adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, envy, shamelessness, slander, pride, folly. 23 All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person." Mark 7 21 - 23
Jesus is intensely focused on bringing these people into a relationship with God their Father through the acceptance of Jesus as their Saviour. He is really clear—get yourselves ready for God's kingdom. Symbols of religiousness don't cut it. Seek the kingdom of God, this is what counts. It doesn't matter what you eat, it matters what you believe and do, that impacts on your relationship with your God. The corruption of the human heart is rooted in desire for worldly things and status. Isn't the scriptures saying to you and me, it isn't religion that prepares us for eternal life—it is about a relationship with God, through His Son and you need to be careful, and watch yourselves. Jesus is shifting the focus from questions of ritual purity to preparation for that kingdom.
So if some people think being considered religious by others is a worthy goal, if people think going through the motions of worship in a church occasionally, makes us worthy to stand before our God when our time comes, we are mistaken. James, the half brother of Jesus, states in the Message version verses James 1, 26 & 27: Anyone who sets himself up as "religious" by talking a good game is self-deceived. This kind of religion is hot air and only hot air. Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption from the godless world.
So the faithful need to respond in action not in talk.
Every generous act of giving, acts of mercy, or support, or friendship to the needy and less fortunate is our witness to our faith in Jesus as Saviour. My friends in Eternal Hope. Wherever you find yourself – our actions speak louder than our words.
So my friends James states clearly we have behaviors to cultivate as God's beloved. -- be quick to listen, slow to speak, and eager to care for those most vulnerable. All of these things are within our reach. What parent doesn't want to be slower to anger with his or her children? What friend doesn't want to be a better listener? Aren't all of us in a position to offer help and support to those in need? Jesus restates the 10 commandments into 2 laws. Love God and love and respect and treat each other as we would want to be treated ourselves. Let's make it happen in your life! Amen.
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The American Dream has failed us - God has not./
We Catholics have a problem. A faith problem.
Disclaimer: this post may feel a bit like a post-reformation schismatic attack. It may seem like I'm leaving out a major, important factor, but I'm not. There is no part two for the sake of this blog, so if you need a Paul Harvey to give you the rest of the story and put your pious soul at ease, you will find it here (James 2:26).
I'm a cradle Catholic, but I grew up in a predominately evangelical non-denominational Christian community. My childhood faith is landmarked by Bible churches, backyard clubs, summer camps, youth retreats, lock-ins, FCA...all of it. I could tell you several moments where I encountered Christ and entered deep relationship with God, and almost all of these encounters were outside of R.E. (CCD, CFF, CCE, whatever letters they put together that stood for classroom catechesis or "definitely not as cool as your best friend's youth group"). In short, I had (yes, HAD) a youthful deep appreciation for Jesus Christ as my personal Lord, and Savior. (It saddens me that even typing that combination of words now seems superficial and cliche, but back then it was the real deal.)
As my faith matured, it became something much more Catholic. My spirituality was nourished by the Sacraments and I read a ton of the writings of Saints who lived very devout relationships with Christ; something so authentic that I had seen in my Protestant friends and mentors, but hardly ever in the witness of a Catholic. In zeal and a desire for more in my relationship with Christ I saturated myself in theology and mission and now, years later, have arrived at a new problem. Let me cut to the chase...
Recently I've been listening to a lot of mega-church pastors on the radio, mostly from California, a lot of them trendy hipster, with bold, Francis-like simplicity. One of my recent morning commutes, in the death trap that is IH-45 South, brought me back to the faith of my younger years. The pastor wasn't saying anything superbly original for a non-denom. He was talking about faith as a free gift from God and grace which we don't and can't earn for ourselves. He spoke of Christ's salvific sacrifice, which was once and for all who believe. As I listened to his words I honestly found myself becoming frustrated by his message. This is the same recycled stuff that Protestants use over and over again and it never goes any deeper, it never really requires action. It engages people to a rallying point of emotion so they keep coming back. They keep coming back because their hearts are stirred by the message and they want more of Christ. Oh wait, is this a bad thing? Their preaching effectively makes people, including myself, desire Jesus, and I'm frustrated by it? And here I encountered my heart problem, the problem for many Catholics, especially those like us in a living relationship with Jesus. We are too afraid of faith without works that we miss the point of faith. We Catholics have a faith problem. Follow me...
I'm often a performing orphan when it comes to my relationship with God. The world after college often pushes me to live like this. I feel the need to do things, to pray more, to love people, to give more generously, to suffer with joy, IN ORDER FOR GOD TO LOVE ME. These things that I'm not doing enough of, or could do more, make me feel like God is only my Father if I perform well and am pleasing to Him. I'm fatherless, unless I choose Him. It's a normal battle for the Lord to remind me that I'm His child and it is who I am, not what I do, that defines His love for me. This pastor's words struck the same chord.
I think that too often we don't take the time to really think about salvation, grace, and faith because we are afraid that the works part will be tossed out. It's like, 'faith and grace are free, Salvation in Jesus is free, but...' Because of this, the true power of Christ's sacrifice and love isn't given enough time to permeate and we are too quick to jump to talking about works, the requirements of relationship, need for prayer, call to action. We say that true Love demands a response without sitting and wrestling with how true, passionate, UNCONDITIONALHis love is. The demanded response becomes our focus and now the free gift, the greatest gift we've ever received, is diminished. The thing is, this 'doer' faith hijacks our view of who Jesus is and what He did. He subtly becomes the distant God with the laundry list of maintenance you need to get close to Him, and is no longer the man who risked everything, and fought relentlessly unto death to be with you for eternity. Suddenly, a simple faith becomes complicated because when we get Jesus wrong, we get everything else wrong. Who is Jesus? What is so great about what He did? What does it mean for us? What can we do to deserve it? What is faith? These are the questions anonymous pastor was answering with such inescapable fervor that my frustration was broken through and broken down in surrender to the immeasurable, relentless love of God. Here is the truth:
Jesus is the Son of God who sought out those who were sick, dead, broken, exhausted, alone, ignorant, addicted, buried in shame and sin a chose to heal them, forgive them, look them in the eye and hand their dignity back to them--a dignity he gave them in the first place, which was never lost, just misplaced. He reminded them who they were, just as he tells us who we are. "Are these things insignificant? Did they not move God to descend to human nature and visit it, since humanity was in so miserable and unhappy a state?" (CCC 457). The reality is we all have fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). Every. One. No one in this world is good enough for heaven. No one has done enough good works, or prayed enough, or brought enough people to Jesus, or attained a certain level of virtue that merits heaven. In a success minded world, we'd like to think we've earned it, like we've done our part to be good people, just good enough to earn heaven. But we can't earn it. Nothing we could do could make Him love us less, but nothing we could do could make Him love us more. Salvation cannot be bought by us. It was bought by Him for us.
We all are charged with grave sin, but we stand like Barabbas, knowing what we deserve and praying for freedom with Jesus at our side stepping forward to take the place for us. We had no hope until He died the most brutal death man can imagine. He did it for me. He is the only reason we have hope of the eternal now. Let it sink in and don't move past it. We need to stay here. Stay in the place where we acknowledge God's love in sending Jesus, to live and to die, rejected and betrayed by us, and to rise, so that in His rising we may also rise from our sin each day and rise at the end of days. If it has become cliche then we are missing Him pouring out His aching love for us even now in this moment. If we stay here in gratitude we realize the only thing we can do is to accept it. Accept Jesus and all he has done as more than enough for all of our needs, accept that we can't earn it and that faith isn't merely human action (Hebrews 10:5-7), but believing and receiving this gift, His Son (Romans 3:24). Faith is simply emptying your hands of whatever things you try to bring to God to prove your worth to Him, and coming to Him with absolutely nothing, and receiving His free gift of faith--His free, unmerited, entirely sufficient grace. This grace is for now, and for us to be saved.
"Believing in Jesus Christ and in the One who sent him for our salvation is necessary for obtaining that salvation...since without faith it is impossible to please [God]" (CCC 161).
"Faith is an entirely free gift that God makes to man" (CCC 162).
How glorious and marvelous this gift of His Love is! Who can compare to Him? Who would reject this gift upon knowing it and seeing that it is entirely free? Do we believe His love is free?
Rest here. Stop here. Jesus Christ died for you to be with Him, and you don't have to do anything or be anyone else to be His. Nothing. No catch, or "only if you live this way from now on". Is that what you believe? Do you see His love as entirely unconditional? I know I still have to sit with this because of all of my own conditions. He harbors no conditions. (Ephesians 2:8)
P.s. I'm praying for all of you this Thanksgiving and I hope it's a day of gratitude for this grace and faith given to us by our loving, provident Father.


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Working In A Brothel
An Insider's Guide On What's It Really Like
If you've ever wondered what it's like to work in a brothel and what goes on behind the scenes, then you've come to the right place. Let me tell you my story. When I first started off working in the adult industry, I had ZERO idea what to expect.
Some of my friends were already doing it and making an absolute fortune and to be completely honest, I got really envious that they were able to spend like crazy on clothes, handbags, jewellery, concert tickets; you name it… and still have more than enough money left to cover the cost of their fancy cars and lavish apartments and regular exotic holidays.
I decided that I wanted to give it a try.
But thousand of thoughts were going through my head… what would it be like? Could it actually be "fun"? Rather than putting it off, I took the plunge and jumped into adult work head-first.
To be perfectly honest, there were LOTS of things that I had wrong about the industry. Heaps of myths and misconceptions in what I'd read in magazines and what I'd seen in the movies.
Sure like any job, it has its ups and downs, but for the most part, it was really exciting. I couldn't believe how quickly it transformed my life, gave me a flexible lifestyle and I felt empowered.
I went from trying to make ends meet, to partying in some of Sydney's most glamorous nightclubs. I am now living life on MY terms the way I want to.
Now, when my friends tell me about their 'normal' jobs, I need to stop myself from yawning. If they only knew what a normal day for me looks like…
What's so ironic, is after seeing my lifestyle, more and more of my other girlfriends are asking if the adult industry could be for them too. So that's why I created this website. A website that helps women around Australia to learn more about the industry and help them decide if adult work is right for them.
Adult work is a LOT of fun – but before you go out and join any old brothel – read this website. Learn how to stay safe, happy AND earn loads of money!
So if you're new, check these out:
I've also added more 'day in the life's' of other women.
So if you decide adult industry work is for you – rock on! All that's left for me to do is wish you success in this exciting and fun career!
Good luck!
How Does A NSW Brothel Work?
Never been in a brothel before? You might be thinking mood lighting, leather couches and smooth jazz music playing in the background. While that's true, you need to remember that a brothel is just like any other Australian business with management and everyday routines. So here's how a New South Wales brothel works and how you might be a part of it.
Why Would You Work In A Brothel?
If you've heard from your girlfriend that working in a brothel earns thousands fast – in less than a week – then you heard right!
Brothel work means fast cash, so if you're behind on your bills, struggling with credit cards or just want to splurge on a new outfit, then brothel work might be for you.
How To Choose The Right Brothel To Work In
Like everything in life, there are good brothels, and not so good brothels. If you follow these points below – then yes – working in a brothel is an excellent lifestyle choice.
Taking the extra time to make sure you work in a great brothel can mean the difference between a happy rich life and an AMAZING experience or the opposite.
Who Can Work For Themself In The ADULT Industry?
Great question and I get asked that a lot. So here's my official answer… even if you're a student, single mum or not skinny as a runway model… you can still join this industry! And I can guess, the next thing you're going to ask is…
How To Get A Job In A Brothel
Before starting, you need to be 18-years-old or over to work at a brothel. You'll need to provide current photo proof of age (this is confidential). One would also need to be an Australian Citizen/Resident or have a current work Visa if you are from overseas.


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-S1/S2 any discipline
– Min GPA 3.00
– Age 22 – 26 yrs old
– Have variety extra curriculum experience
– Have experience in leading activities
– Excellent Communication Skill
– Good Health Stamina
– Willing to be placed anywhere within Indonesia
Valid until
31 March 2009
Job type/status
Permanent – full time
English profiency
Asst Manager Activation Implementation Management
Education Level
Job function
Customer Development
Job Description
– Actively search and develop potential business partner for outdoor supplier
– Monitor and evaluate existing business partner capability nationally
– Ensure high quality merchandising and outdoor visibility and display placement nationally.
– Conduct pitching process for 3rd Party Outdoor, supplier GT Visibility
– Monitor and control delivery tools and POS Material
– Lead and ensure high performing MUT (Merchandising Unit Team)
– Responsible for budget and expenses monitoring in the department
– Monitor and check implementation of GT / Outdoor Visibility & MUT Capability
Further information on job
– S1/S2 any discipline
– Min 1 yr relevant experience in activation implementation
– Max 30 yrs old
– Active as leader in various organisational activities
– Excellent Communication Skill
– Good Health Stamina
– Possess driving license (SIM A)
– Willing to be placed anywhere within Indonesia
Valid until
28 February 2009
Job type/status
Permanent – full time
Max 30 years old
English profiency
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There's no room for romance in the numbers game. Points are scored every time you land a snog, a grope or a full-on shag. Hit the respective button and the built-in siren will announce news of your success to the world. The Pocket Slutometer: funny, flirty – the notch in the bedpost for the digital age!
Definitely not the gift to brag about when your girlfriend is around, you two-timing scum. The Pocket Slutometer can be pre-ordered for £6.99. Strange thing though – there is no reset button with this.


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Pretty standard.
My nieces thought so too when they recently came to visit, and the ball was sitting in the middle of the living room.
Until it started to move by itself.
I asked my eldest niece to try and move the ball with her mind.
She concentrated hard.
And then....lo and behold...it moved!
She was amazed of course. Little did she know I was controlling it from an app on my Galaxy tab!
You see....this is no ordinary ball....this is Sphero 2.0
The world's first app-controlled robotic ball!
Take a look at my little video showing the Sphero 2.0 in action.
Of course, an app controlled ball that shoots around the room, changes colour and even dances is cool enough!
But there are SO many things you can do with the Sphero (Aside from convince small children that they have the power to move things with their minds, of course....)
There are more than 25 compatible apps to choose from with Sphero which include multi-player games, arcade style games and much more.
The Sphero is water proof, pet proof and...I can confirm....baby proof! Tyne has dropped it a good few times and it is completely unharmed!
It really is such a clever little gift idea, and I was amazed to learn that it costs less than £100!
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It seems like efficiency, mission, and solutions should be our focus. Less time spent, more impact created, more value added. We gotta work smarter.
I'm finding it's all about proportionality. The more targeted we get, the closer we get to down, up, up.


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Self-Regard has to do with one's confidence and/or the ability to respect oneself.
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Not having enough self-regard is not healthy either as the person who does not have a healthy level of self-regard may come across to others as lacking confidence.
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From the blurb: For Fin it's just like any other day--racing for the school bus, bluffing his way through class, and trying to remain cool in front of the most sophisticated girl in his universe. Only it's not like any other day because, on the other side of the world, nuclear missiles are being detonated. When Fin wakes up the next morning, it's dark, bitterly cold, and snow is falling. There's no internet, no phone, no TV, no power, and no parents. Nothing Fin's learned in school could have prepared him for this. With his parents missing and dwindling food and water supplies, Fin and his younger brother Max must find a way to survive all on their own. When things are at their most desperate, where can you go for help? This haunting dystopian novel thrillingly and realistically looks at a nuclear winter from an Australian perspective.
I loved this book. I loved it so much that I read it in about three hours – I was unable to put it down and from the moment Fin gets a panicked call from his mother my heart was racing and it did not stop.
Fin is an average guy in his final year at high school. He lives with his dad, his young step-mum, and his younger brother. His mum left them two years ago for a job and a boyfriend in the city. Fin has a crush on classmate Lucy Tenningworth and their teasing and flirting was adorable and amusing. Fin's devotion and protection of his brother and later Lucy was admirable, he steps in when no one else will be there for them. I really liked the depth of his character, he has a hobby (drawing) which he continues to do during the war, and he also turns to music; rationing out his iPod battery so he can listen to a song a day.
The setting was vivid, I could easily picture snow falling in an isolated small town in the mountains, as well as their dangerous journey to Sydney. The actions of the characters felt realistic; the stockpiling of food, the fear, the time frame – it all felt well thought out and thoroughly researched.
The book has been billed as similar to Tomorrow, When the War Began and it definitely had a similar vibe, as well as feeling similar to The 5th Wave (minus the aliens). If you like these two books, then you will like The Sky So Heavy, because it is even better! If you had issues with The 5th Wave (the most common I've read about are the insta-love and the POV switching) then you will be pleased to know that there is no insta-love as Fin and Lucy were already friends, and the story is told from Fin's perspective only.
I liked that we got a snapshot of life before the nuclear winter hit, we saw Fin at school, at home, his dad's attitude towards them, and his friendship with Lucy. We also got some history on Arnold 'Noll' Wong and the racism and bullying he'd been subjected to since year three.
The book has a lot to say on our present situation involving asylum seekers, it definitely left me thinking about the attitudes we see here, and the similarities between the fence that goes up around Sydney, and the way we guard our country against people seeking refuge.
Like all books involving survival, I started to consider what I would do in the characters' situation, here are my top tips:
1. Hide your food supplies around the house, not just in the kitchen. This way, if people raid your house, they won't get all your food
2. Raid your local school - the canteen will have supplies
3. Be compassionate, help others, stick together
The Sky So Heavy is a thrilling and thought-provoking read. It highlights a lot of the issues we're seeing in our country at the present time while providing the reader with an engaging story.
Seeing as Fin has such a love of music, I thought I'd pick a song to pair with the book. I was listening to this the other night and not only did the mood seem right but the lyrics "oh no, not me. We never lost control" really stood out to me. Here's the Nirvana version of The Man Who Sold the World (bonus: Dave in a skivvy!)
Thank you to the lovely people at UQP for my review copy.
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The French Press is a great option for preparing multiple cups of coffee - sizes go all the way up to 12-cup brewers. The coffee produced is usually heavy and robust, perfect for waking up.
1. Warm up your French Press with hot water heated to 201℉. This gets the press heated so that your drink is even tastier at the end.
2. Measure your coffee. Typically, you'll want 1 gram of coffee to every 17 grams of water. For our 4-cup French Press, we use 40 grams of coffee to 672 grams of water.
3. Grind your coffee. You're going to want a pretty coarse grind for the French Press.The size of your grind should roughly resemble small breadcrumbs.
4. Add your freshly-ground coffee to your French Press.
5. Start your timer. Slowly pour 200g of water (heated to 201℉) over the coffee. Let it bloom for 45 seconds. The bloom is an important part of the coffee brewing process, as it's when the coffee is degassing. You'll see the coffee rise and bubble as this happens.
6. After 45 seconds, stir the coffee well.
7. Pour the remaining 472g of water over the coffee, and let it brew, placing the top section on the French Press to keep heat from escaping.
8. At 4:00 minutes, slowly plunge down until you reach the bottom.
9. Pour your coffee into cups or pour it into a different carafe. It's important to get the coffee out of the French Press as soon as it's done brewing, or else it will continue to brew and turn into a bitter, muddy cup that isn't very pleasant.
10. Enjoy your coffee!


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It's a big ugly world out there and our ability to navigate it successfully can be determined to a large extent by our childhood experiences.
For the lucky ones, those formative experiences were generally happy and will have enabled youngsters to thrive into well-functioning adults. Unfortunately, less fortunate people are haunted by their childhood memories, traumatised by them throughout adulthood. I am Bosnian – and I know too many of the latter.
Having just finished translating (from Bosnian into English) a book written to help child refugees of war in my country deal with their trauma, I was struck by an article I read this week about a mystery illness that has affected the children of asylum seekers in Sweden. I was interested to learn that over the last two years there have been reports of hundreds of cases of perfectly healthy children suddenly withdrawing completely, ceasing to walk or talk, or even open their eyes. They're not always new arrivals, either. In many cases those affected have lived in Sweden for years, have learned the language and have apparently adjusted well to their new, Nordic-lives. Then, months and sometimes years later, something within these children stirs and resurfaces.
Experts say this Resignation Syndrome is a way for these children to protect themselves from what they've experienced. Others suggest it is because they fear being returned to their home countries where they experienced the original trauma.
And yet it seems these migrant children have become political pawns in Sweden, much as immigrants are in many other countries around the world.
Whether you're here in Scotland or in Sweden, the derogatory accusations hurled at asylum seekers and refugees are very similar. They are often said to be trying it on, lying about their age or country of origin; they're stretching our schools and public services to breaking point; they're pushing crime rates up. This to me is fake news deserving of that name, and the intention of these headlines appears to be to cast suspicion on these children and their families, only adding further to the agony they are trying to escape.
The question so rarely asked, however, is why 50 million children across the world are still forced to flee their homes in this, the 21st century.
According to the Refugee Council, world events often correlate directly with asylum applications; last year people were most likely to seek refuge here from the Middle East, desperate to escape on-going conflict and the murderous advance of ISIS.
And, while the pictures we may see on TV perhaps make us think that most refugees are coming to Europe, it simply isn't true. The UN's Refugee Agency estimates that nearly 90% of the world's refugees are sheltered by developing countries, often just over the border from the war zones they are fleeing.
But go back and think about your own childhood experiences. While they certainly play a part in building our resilience in adult life, they can't protect us from losing everything in the future.
Always remember that many asylum seekers and refugees who come to our shores once thought of themselves as the lucky ones. My parents, who are very much in the 'happy childhood' category, certainly never thought they'd be forced to leave our home, their successful careers, family and friends, to leave that all behind at a moment's notice.
When we left Bosnia in the 1990s, first my mother and my sisters and me escaped on a bus, and only much later was my father able to leave the country and find us. Most of all, they never imagined in the years before that time that their three children would experience the trauma of war at home and then the stigma of being refugees abroad.
Given my experience of fleeing a war-torn country, where would you imagine I'd rate my childhood on the ever-so crude scale between bliss and misery? Well, despite everything, I undoubtedly class myself as one of the lucky ones.
I also know not to take any of it for granted. And I don't.
Sabina Kadic-Mackenzie is an associate partner at Charlotte Street Partners.


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