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Congratulations on your engagement! St Augustine's is a classic stained-glass with sandstone church that doesn't look empty with 60 guests, but can accommodate up to 200.
We're confident that we can provide you with not only a fantastic wedding day but also, and more importantly, a solid foundation for your married life.
We at St Augustine's are committed to upholding marriage as the best lifestyle choice for couples. If you are looking for a church wedding where you turn up on The Day and that's it, then please do not bother reading on, St Augustine's is not the church for you.
Any fool can get married. It's a lot harder to stay married.
Our commitment to marriage drives us to require that all our engaged couples undertake a relationship coaching course prior to their wedding, and our experience of preparing couples for marriage tells us that our marriage preparation program gives the best results for couples.
Every few months we run a Marriage Preparation Day, held on a Saturday from 9:30am to 3:30pm and you can expect:
- Strategies to help you better communicate, resolve any conflict and encourage each other
- Time out to talk through your expectations of marriage
- A mock wedding, complete with organist
- Suggestions for music, hymns & Bible readings to have in your wedding service
- No more than 8 couples
- Building a Strong Marriage Workbook
- Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea
There is no additional charge for all this. Our time together will be structured around the Prepare-Enrich relationship survey which you will need to complete sometime in the fortnight prior to the Day. One of our ministers will review your survey and tailor the breakout parts of the Day especially to your relationship.
Following your Marriage Preparation Day, your minister will meet with you to help you both think through the vows and promises that you will make on your wedding day. This will help you to better understand marriage and ensure that your wedding won't be an empty religious ceremony, but rather, you both will feel the weight of your promises as you make them. This will make your wedding a far more profound and memorable moment in your life together. These meetings also provide opportunity to tailor your wedding to meet your dreams!
Your minister will give you our Wedding Preparation Checklist which will ensure that every last detail of your wedding is covered, and we can suggest the names of various suppliers for you (e.g., organists, florists & photographers). We receive no financial incentive to recommend these suppliers to you – they are simply the best people we know.
The Fine Print
i. Securing your booking
If you would like to explore getting married at St Augustine's, we ask that you come to one of our Sunday services (8am, 10am or 5pm) to see the layout of our church and to get to know one of the ministry team over morning tea or supper after church.
We can then confirm your wedding booking, and map out a wedding preparation timetable that will ensure that you both will be completely prepared for your wedding and that nothing will go wrong.
"Nothing will go wrong, but if it does, we will fix it."
ii. Costs
There is no fee for your minister's time spent with you in preparing your wedding service, but we do charge couples $850 to get married at St Augustine's. This donation is directed towards
- the maintenance of the sandstone and stained glass that looks so good in your photographs,
- the costs of the Prepare-Enrich course & Marriage Preparation Day
- our ministers' Discretionary Fund which allows them to help families & individuals in financial crisis.
iii. Other Requirements
- We can make available silk bows to hang on the ends of the pews if you wish.
- We love bubbles, but not rice, confetti or flower petals.
- Should you opt for organ music during your wedding, we can recommend several organists to you, who charge approximately $200.
- Finally, we want you both make a point of regularly attending Sunday church services at St Augustine's prior to your wedding. We ask this for 2 reasons;
- you will have a chance to get comfortable with the minister who will marry you and the style of service that he or she conducts, and
- we know you love each other, that's why you're getting married. The best way to succeed at anything in life is to aim to achieve it at the highest level. The highest, best and purest form of love that we know is God's love for us. The Bible says that God loved us so much that he let his only son die in our place so that our sins might be dealt with so we might be brought back into a right relationship with God. We explain this love of God for us at our Sunday meetings.
"This is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to take away our sins." (The Bible.)
If you are divorced, you can still get married at St Augustine's. An additional appointment will need to be made with your minister as their licence to marry a divorcee requires an understanding of the circumstances surrounding the failure of the previous marriage(s), and to seek approval from our local bishop to marry that person. Whilst this is usually a formality, it should not be presumed upon, and so time will need to be made available to work this issue through.
We look forward to seeing you and your fiancé at one of our Sunday services (8am, 10am or 5pm).
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"The ideal forum: a bunch of people who are individually working away on
their own personal projects. Each participant has a vested interest; he or
she needs to deliver results first, and is discussing it with others only
— James Hague
I've been increasingly using friendfeed, and the number of my subscriptions has trended steadily down. The reason: ordering by time forces me to be strict in who I let in.
Every new watering hole for conversation — facebook, google reader, twitter, friendfeed — orders my reading by time to provide immediacy. Ordering by time renders it susceptible to frequent posters. The minute I subscribe to one, the diversity of my reading goes down. Other voices become hard to find. My response to this: never subscribe to frequent posters.
But this is a blunt heuristic. High-volume sources often have great posts. As the need for other views grows, I find coping mechanisms. Sometimes I give up and leave. Sometimes I build a replacement, and sometimes I find others have done so. Once I can get around pure time ordering, I heave a sigh of relief and subscribe to the people I want to without feeling constrained by volume.
So, friendfeed, please help me navigate this stage of my reading. Find ways to keep my reading diverse, even if I subscribe to Robert Scoble.
Lu Liu: How can we use serendipity to get out of homophily traps? I have a serendipity friend list. But if I can define my serendipity friends, then I guess they are not really serendipity friends by my expectation. In reality, I seldom read articles from that list.
Me: Yes, a serendipity list can't come from yourself. It must be an external recommendation. Automated since that's my bias :)
Time is key. What is serendipitous today is not so tomorrow. That makes it harder to 'define'. In practice, I suspect we must evaluate it like we evaluate porn: not by defining it but by categorizing examples.
Perhaps it can't be a list either, just one recommendation, with pride of place. I find I require time to appreciate something outside of my comfort zone.
Since it must take prime real estate it must be high-confidence. If nothing is good enough today, show me nothing.
Finally, it mustn't nag. Make it easy to dismiss, use the dismissal as a signal to learn from.
— Marshall Kirkpatrick
That's an understatement.
The one thing common to feedreaders, Twitter and Friendfeed: they order articles by time, and so incent people to post often. Keep posting, and your stuff is more likely to show up on people's screens. They become more likely to click on it, retweet it, share it on google reader, like it on friendfeed.
It can't be complete junk, of course; if you spam people they'll unsubscribe. But keep posting mediocre stuff and they won't.
In fact, people grow more tolerant of mediocrity in their feedreaders. Subscriptions have a way of getting out of control. Past half a dozen sources people lose track of what they're reading, and of who they've subscribed to. You can slip lots of crap by their eyeballs before they take the time to reorganize.
Some of your readers will give up on the medium for a time. They'll jump to the next great thing, somewhere along the facebook-twitter-friendfeed trajectory, and they'll find it works so much better! They'll think it's because of some shiny new feature in the new tool. They'll never realize it's just that they're subscribed to less crap. So they'll start subscribing to crap again, and the cycle will repeat.
A cynical strategy to game this world: write one smashing post every week or two, use it to get new readers. Interleave the smashing posts with hundreds of short, simple, unique pieces. They will keep you in the eyes of your readers once they've subscribed.
Even if you aren't this cynical, these are powerful and subtle forces. Most of us aren't pushing a brand or an agenda, and may not think we care much about clicks and links and shares. But we respond to social feedback. If more frequent posts yield more feedback, we post more frequently. It's easy to see the benefits, harder to see the ill-effects.
And ill-effects there are. When our reading is sorted by time, nobody reads. A conversational medium requires that its participants be good listeners. The alternative is monologuing, the realm of exhibitionists, clueless advertisers, and spam. When we're incented to post more frequently, the world gradually degrades to an advertising free-for-all. A garbage-in garbage-out world; fewer people saying interesting things; less diversity in what we read and who we read.
By shirking our reading we're poisoning the well for ourselves. Things must improve.
It's amazing how settled time-order has been in Web 2.0. Twitter is entirely realtime. Facebook has lots of filtering options; it's unclear who uses them. Friendfeed's 'best of day' view is a big improvement, but it is hamstrung in two ways. First, it isn't the default, so most people never see it. Second, it changes slowly and you can't page past the first page, so there isn't as much to read. If you read a lot of stuff you will find yourself returning to the time-ordered view.
Friendfeed has a second mechanism to manage volume: it allows you to organize your subscriptions into 'lists'. Google Reader's folders are analogous. Folders help manage the volume/value tradeoff; make sure you read the low volume feeds, then dip your toes into the torrent to taste. They're still a static organization, though. Removing a feed from a folder isn't easy to do while reading, so we put it off, and our folders pile up cruft (if we ever bother cleaning them up).
The cynical blogger gaming the system to stay in his reader's feedreaders need change nothing when feedreaders get folders. For the reader, removing a feed from a folder is as static and as hard as unsubscribing.
The good news is that things are easy to improve. When I built my own feedreader, it was amazing how quickly I preferred it to Google reader. A simple policy of fairness—I never show two stories from the same source—sufficed to compensate for nifty UI features, search, and social recommendations. One can do much more.
Update May 19: Gabor Cselle's built an iPhone app with a prioritized order for email! Leaving time order behind is not just for web 2.0 social tools.
Update Jun 6: Fred Wilson's comment points out several twitter apps to sort by popularity.
Thanks to Jonathan Nelson, Simha Sethumadhavan, Adrian Perez, and Shawn O'Connor for reading drafts of this.
Over at Mashable, Ben Parr wonders, "What is the future of RSS? Is social media a better alternative?" I believe the world is groping towards a better solution than either.
In two years I have switched several times between feedreaders like Google Reader and social news sites like Reddit, Twitter and Friendfeed. Feedreaders amplify the volume of my reading. Social news helps me find the highest quality stories. The tension between quality and quantity keeps me switching. With growing volumes of news in an increasingly-online world, feed readers and social news are each incomplete.
But I am an extreme case; most people read far less. Do power users matter? They can help highlight a trend. Every reader online wants relevant news; some just go to greater lengths than others. Perhaps the migrations of power users between feedreaders and social news sites can teach us how to serve all readers.
Feedreaders assume you want to read everything by everyone you subscribe to, and nothing by anyone else. Subscribe to too many, and those assumptions start to break down. Chronological ordering starts to suck. Frequent writers drown out the rest, regardless of who you care about. Sifting through the noise becomes a challenge.
The popularity of social news is largely explained by this challenge. 10% of the users on a social news site vote on stories, and only 1% comment. The rest of us are all using social news purely to find interesting stories, often because the feedreader didn't work out.
But using a social news site has its own drawbacks. You can't find as many stories. Stay at the front page or in a small community, and filtering works. Lower down the list, quality drops. A larger community provides faster turnover, but it's also susceptible to lowest-common-denominator effects - think pictures of lolcats or youtube videos.
Even when filtering works, you only find stories your friends find interesting. Over time, you start to ignore interests that don't overlap with your network. You risk spending time reading low-quality comments or flame wars. Echo chamber effects suppress dissenting voices, though those are often the most interesting.
In a healthy community people do their reading in private, and come together to discuss what they read.
If neither works, where does that leave us? Competing incomplete interfaces create false dichotomies. Asking readers to provide favorite sources is a good start, and so is voting on stories for your friends. Accepting recommendations from friends is a part of the puzzle, but a small part, lest you risk endlessly regurgitating each other's recommendations. There's no reason these signals can't be combined.
The essential property of both feedreaders and social news sites: they aggregate content from many sources before presenting it to the reader. We need a better aggregator, a feedreader that can handle firehoses. One that can rank stories smarter than just chronologically or alphabetically, perhaps even adapt to our changing interests.
What would such an aggregator look like? It would have scale, to discover feeds quickly, and to crawl all the feeds out there. It would have smarts, to connect you up with only the stories you find interesting, and to prioritize them. These are big changes; the new tool looks nothing like its forebears. What it resembles most is a search engine. It crawls and indexes everything it can find. Rather than responding to queries, it knows you and your tastes and alerts you to interesting pages. It can be consumed in multiple layouts wherever you go - facebook, twitter, your feedreader.
This is our vision at MeeHive.
Bruce Kasanoff thinks personalization could save newspapers, and here's how: Generate custom front pages for each user. Avoid echo chamberi effects by providing alternate views. To make money, don't advertise. Instead, generate targeted leads for the most influential of your readers. Above all, focus on making your readers smarter. Remember information for them, not just about them.
Personalization holds promise for newspapers, and also feedreaders, online aggregators, and social news sites. Get it right and you can win the attention of lots of readers. It's a traumatic change for newspapers to attempt, though. People change; tuning for individual users implies adaptation and learning. Newspapers would require ongoing manual attention, expensive and culture-altering manual attention. Attention to take away from journalism and content-generation.
There may be an alternative. Personalization is important if you face customers, but perhaps newspapers needn't face customers. The alternative is a division of labor (and revenues) between writers and publishers. Let newspapers focus on original research and writing, and take a share of ad revenues from the aggregators that send them traffic.
Clay Shirky: Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism. And journalism has always been subsidized.
Jack Shafer: What's gotten many newspapers in trouble today is poorly timed acquisitions. At the height of the bubble, no price was too high if a newspaper claimed to be the dominant daily in a market. Newspaper owners who overburdened themselves with debt are more vulnerable than the medium itself. Most struggling newspapers will survive at lower but handsome profit margins.
Here are three books with the same fundamental substance: Vedanta, 7 habits, Flow. But there's huge variation in the form. Vedanta, written in antiquity, states the truth baldly in dictums. 7 habits, from the late 80s, avoids putting the reader off by phrasing its dictums as choices. Flow synthesizes cognitive research to describe how the changes we make within ourselves lead to external improvements. That's an appealing formulation to me after 20 years of the self-help cliches spawned by 7 habits.
These books exemplify a trend: knowledge gets progressively more accessible, not just by ubiquity but by the form in which it's consumed. When knowledge was scarce readers were supplicants, happy to take it in any form. Now it is abundant, writing is a buyer's market with greater emphasis on form. The filters readers create—against the preachy, against cliches—coevolve with the gimmicks of sellers and the skill of writers.
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We had Al to drive us around on our special day! He was super sweet and very accommodating! Al was on time and very professional!
The only thing is that we never got to see the limo bus before and the "coolers" that are included on this limo bus are the red and white coolers you can buy from the store and they sit in the walk way not in or between the seats like other limo buses. And i recommend bringing your own music because the radio was all static, not sure if it was there areas we were driving. We still had a good time though!
I am so glad we chose A1 Mr. Limo for our wedding! They listened to what we wanted for our wedding day and made it happen! They were so flexible in making our day perfect, from taking the bridal party to the salon to shuttling guests to and from our hotel. Our driver, Elvin, was amazing. I would highly recommend them to anyone!
Congratulations on your special day! We are happy to hear that you enjoyed our services and your driver Elvin. Thanks for the review and we hope you will use us again for another special occasion or day!
We met A-1 Mr. Limo at a wedding event at the Great Lakes Mall. We were able to walk through their limo bus and eventually set up appointments to see the rest of their fleet. We selected a limo bus for 18-22 people and we ended up having 20. It was a bit of a snug fit, but it was so much fun. The driver was safe, professional, and cleaned the bus for us during stops. He was always on time and we never had to worry about where he was. We were able to have alcohol on the bus and even brought catering on board. We hooked up our iPod in the back to play our music, too. They were even able to give us a discount for paying up front in cash.
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By Amanda Walck
Five years ago this month, New Mexico artist Erin Cone had a taste of the artistic success she is enjoying today. Not only was she featured as an up-and-comer in Southwest Art's annual emerging artists issue, but her first solo show debuted on Canyon Road in Santa Fe. It was a sell-out.
Since then she has mounted nearly a dozen solo shows. "All of my shows are special to me, and I put a great deal of work into them," says Cone, noting that she focuses her energy on developing a distinct look and feel for each one. "Each show gives me a chance to explore something new while further clarifying my artistic vision."
Cone describes her figurative paintings as "distilled realism." Emphasizing the interplay of positive and negative space, she places the figure in minimalist compositions devoid of narrative. "I want to show the emotion left behind when the context is taken away," she says. "I am continually inspired by the human form and by the complexity and subtlety of emotion conveyed through a simple pose or gesture."
Her stylized acrylic portraits have become more refined over time, both technically and conceptually. "Each year, I take the basic principles that motivate my work and go a little deeper with them, refining my visual vocabulary to better express what I want to say," she notes. "I feel I'm a better painter just for the sheer number of hours I get to spend painting."
Cone's hard work has taken her career to a new level: Her paintings have been increasingly in demand, her prices have doubled in the past five years, and her gallery representation has expanded with her growing recognition. Cone's first West Coast solo show at Hespe Gallery in San Francisco in 2006 was important to her as a marker of success. "It was a high point for me in terms of sales, recognition, and in the culmination of a long-term goal I had set for myself," she says. Her next big goal is to add a studio onto her house.
"I have worked hard every step of the way, and I'm very grateful to have reached this point in my career at such a young age," says the 32-year-old artist. "I feel very fortunate for finding success in doing what I love."
She is represented by Nuart Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA; Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX.
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Born from Lament: The Theology and Politics of Hope in Africa by Emmanuel Katongole
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There is no more urgent theological task than to provide an account of hope in Africa, given its endless cycles of violence, war, poverty, and displacement. So claims Emmanuel Katongole, an innovative theological voice from Africa.
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I studied medicine at Odessa Medical University and trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley and Royal Free Hospitals in London, specialising in general adult psychiatry, rehabilitation psychiatry, personality disorders, psychotherapy and psychosexual medicine.
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ISA reform plan put to Hammond
A plan to reform Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs) has been put to the chancellor in time for Autumn Statement 2016 in less than four weeks' time.
Submitted yesterday, the plan is necessary because the UK's current saving policies are "a mess," amounting to an "incoherent jumble," says the plan's author Tom McPhail.
So "all the different competing ISA regimes [should be] consolidated into one 'Super ISA,' Mr McPhail, an adviser at Hargreaves Lansdown wrote in the Financial Times.
Such a financial product would give savers the opportunity to hold cash, shares, funds and incoming peer-to-peer investments in a single, comprehensive account, the plan says.
Not only would this untangle the web of different ISAs, but it would also permit the Treasury to retain some of the policy objectives it has committed to with one of its latest ISAs, the LISA.
"For the under-40s, withdrawing money from a Super Isa to buy their first home, the Treasury could still give a Help to Buy-style top- up," McPhail said.
The problem he cites with the current LISA framework is that while it is meant for the self-employed, two-thirds of them are ineligible for the LISA because they are over the age of 40.
In addition, research suggests that most LISA holders will use it as a long-term investment arrangement rather than for a house deposit, which was one of the government's aims.
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Location: Grenoble, Rhone-Alpes, France
As a Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer within Reports Production team, you will participate in Moody's Analytics Regulatory Reporting solution lifecycle. In this role, you will be in charge of ensuring the quality of the regulatory risk reports for all our banking clients. You will work on both maintaining of existing test plans and creating new test plans/cases for the banking reports according to the Basel II/III standards. You will also developed a broad knowledge in the BCBS and local Basel II/III regulations and reports.
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- Automate test cases via automated tools for regression test
- Work closely with the software engineers to ensure best quality of delivery
- Actively participate in reports SDLC using Agile methodology (Kanban)
The role is part of the ERS - Banking Reg Team (BRT) in charge of the regulatory reporting setup in order to adequately respond to the influx of new regulatory requirements in the banking industry. Our goal is to be able to support our clients around the world to the meet regulatory requirements of the banking regulation according to Basel II/III standards.
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STANDARDIZED tests are undermining efforts to improve math and science instruction, according to a recent study funded by the National Science Foundation.
The three-year, $1-million study is the first effort to measure whether teachers say that standardized tests influence their classroom instruction, says George Madaus, the study's principal investigator and director of the Boston College Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation and Educational Policy.
More than 2,200 fourth-through-12th-grade math and science teachers were interviewed for the study, titled "The Influence of Testing and Teaching Math and Science in Grades 4-12."
Urban school districts with a high population of minority students were found to be most negatively affected by teachers' tendency to "teach to the test."
In urban classrooms with many minority students, about 60 percent of math teachers and 63 percent of science teachers said they either teach topics known to be on the test or begin test preparation more than a month before standardized exams are given to students
"These practices were reported significantly less often in classrooms with few minority students," the report states.
Standardized tests are administered once or twice a year in most states and are often used to judge the performance of students and their schools.
ALTHOUGH curriculum reformers are calling for more emphasis on problem-solving skills and hands-on activities for math and science students, this study found little emphasis on such "higher-order thinking skills" in the most widely used standardized tests.
Instead, the tests require such low-level skills as rote memorization and recall, basic computation, and use of formulas.
"These tests are stressing adding, subtracting, dividing, and multiplying or using data from simple word problems," says Maryellen Harmon, a Boston College researcher. "None of that calls for high-order thinking that requires that they go in-depth into the concept, that they use math skills in nonconventional contexts, or pull together concepts from geometry and algebra."
Only 3 percent of the questions on standardized math tests measured "high-level conceptual knowledge," the study found. And only 5 percent of the math questions tested problem-solving and reasoning skills.
Science tests also emphasize low-level skills but to a lesser extent than math tests, the study found.
"If we are going to realize the hopes of educational reformers in math and science, we are going to have to reform these materials and bring them up to date," Mr. Madaus says.
But Peter Jovanovich, president of the Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School Publishing Company calls the study "disingenious, if not completely unfair." In the past year, new tests have been developed to reinforce current recommendations for math and science instruction, say Mr. Jovanovich and other textbook publishers.


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How are we gonna see Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao in May 2012, if he goes to jail for 90 days starting Jan. 6!!?
Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. was sentenced Wednesday to 90 days in jail after pleading guilty to reduced battery domestic violence and harassment charges before a Las Vegas judge.
The 34-year-old Mayweather also was ordered to complete 100 hours of community service and pay a $2,500 fine.
The plea deal avoids trial on felony allegations that he hit his ex-girlfriend and threatened two of their children during an argument at her home in September 2010.
Prosecutor Lisa Luzaich told Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Melissa Saragosa that Mayweather has been in trouble before and hasn't been punished.
"He just continually gets himself into trouble and he is able to get himself out of it as well," she said. "Essentially it is because he is who he is and is able to get away with everything."
"The only thing that's going to get this man's attention is incarceration," the prosecutor said.
Mayweather stood still in a striped olive vest and made no reaction when the judge imposed the sentence. He was told to report to jail on Jan. 6.
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This week was so very normal. Almost nothing interesting to say, except that Molly missed Girls Scouts for the fourth week in a row, because of weather. So sad. :-( The kittens are still bringing a lot of life and love to our house (the kids crack up when Yo-Yo bounds up the stairs so fast, he slides across whichever step he lands on), and I'm 15 weeks as of tomorrow, so that makes kittens who spill your water four times in a row kind of unbearable, but I'm working with it.
I've just been thinking lately...a little randomly, I grant, that since we've been married, we've lived in five different places. A little green house at the foot of a mountain, a little rock cottage outside my parents' house, a beautiful apartment in a tiny town outside of D.C., a cute house in the suburbs of D.C., and now a house downtown in a decent sized Southern city.
Because of our mortgage situation, I feel like we're finally putting down roots, which is just something fun to think about. Will our priest be the one to officiate our kids' weddings? Well, that'll be a looooong way down the road I hope. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. But if you think about it, being rooted is so, so important. My parents had many friends come attend our wedding when Stephen and I got married, and they still have many close friends because of a tight knit community where they live.
Part of me really wants that, although I know I don't have complete control over us staying here forever. I'm just thinking. If we ever do decide to uproot, it will be really painful for me, I think. I've grown to love the people here, and I feel like we're getting our feet very wet at the church we're attending. Friends are no longer just cute acquaintances. They're friends. Who matter. Deeply.... of course.
I'm writing a book!
Yep, yep yep, I'm writing a book! It's actually an e-book, and it will be published through the good people at RH.
No, it's not about marriage.
No, it's not about parenting...although I'd like to think that I'm the bomb-diggity. Heh. I will say that Stephen and I have been incredibly blessed with these children that we don't deserve.
No, it's not a novel. And it has nothing to do with NaNoWriMo! :-)
And no, it's not about skinny jeans. (insert embarrassed emoji face here)
It's about.... actually, I'm going to keep it a secret! But now you have a couple of hints to get you on the right track.
Get excited. And also? If anyone would be interested in getting on my "team," I'm looking for some sweet people who would be interested in pre-reading a rough draft version of it as a favor for me. (I'm looking at you, friends who I just emailed!) Anyone who has followed my blog in the past or who would be curious to be of help to me in these early stages, shoot me an email (info on my About page).
Wish me luck and offer me many a prayer as I venture down this book-writing path!
Book Update
I read Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter this week. It's about Hollywood, and Italy, and filmmaking in the 60's, among other things. It fulfilled the most beautiful cover from the MMD challenge. Did I like it? I did. I really did. I liked it. The language made me wince, and I contemplated not recommending it because of the R-rating I'd assign it, for language and adult content.
My biggest complaint or frustration would be around the middle, it seemed like the author was suddenly high on a quadruple shot of espresso, and the caffeine was making him excessively wordy in his description of a UK music tour, did I mention, chock full of promiscuity. But even despite wondering if that was really necessary, I have to be honest: the storytelling is fabulous, and the over all really high quality, first class prose. It's one of the most well-constructed books I've read in a long time. And it's kinda.... not juicy... but more romantic and much, much less dry than the books I read in February. So all in all, I'd say read it with your guard up, and you'll probably enjoy it.
I've already dug into Catherine of Siena, by Sigrid Undset, (author of Kristin Lavransdatter) and it is even better than I remembered it. I'm enjoying rereading it so much. Although parts of it can be hard for me to read, due to being an HSP, and her courage in the face of so many struggles, it is also a source of so much peace. Her life is a good reflection to read during Lent, for sure. Her sacrifices inspire me. I mean, let's face it, giving up all food for much of your life except the Eucharist is a little different from giving up chocolate or my cup of afternoon coffee. Worth a read! And that's an understatement. Check it out. Beautiful writing, and a beautiful saint.
If you've never read Flannery O'Connor, I have just been blown over by Good Country People this time around. It's not like her other stories. You know the ones where you get really worried about the ending halfway through, so you read the first part before bed, and the rest of it the next morning? Yeah, it eases up on the anxiety level that way. It's not like those; but it's still delightfully disturbing.
Funny Things They Say
Madeleine: (mumbling to herself while going potty, I come to check on her). I'm just talking to invisible Hans (from Frozen).
Frances: (to Madeleine) Have you ever had Cham-pay? It's like Shampoo, but it's Cham-pay. And it's a drink.
Madeleine: No.
Me: How do you know about that? And what does Cham-pay taste like?
Frances: It's from the song, 'If you are into Cham-pay...' (the Jack Johnson song)...and I don't know, I've never tried it.
Madeleine: Don't step in the poodles!
Me: Poodles?
Madeleine: Oops, I meant puddles..... that's hilarious.
Madeleine (playing with Frances in the yard, comes over to Stephen): Daddy, can I use your phone?
Stephen: ....
Madeleine: (very seriously, holding down the button) Siri, how do you find a snail?
Me: And this is where Daddy and I lived when we were first married... before we had any kids.
Frances: (Puts her hands over her mouth, stifling hysterical laughter) That's just... so weird.
Molly: I know why God made twins, Daddy. It's because he couldn't think of how to make them look different.
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General Discussion / AI Card Targeting« on: October 03, 2017, 09:08:09 PM »
I'm not really sure if I'd call it an issue or not, but it is an incredible annoyance for a player who's completed 2 games total: the AI refuses to use cards on each other. They only ever use them on me. Stealing my equipment, even if others have better things, hindering me even if someone else is about to win...it's irritating. Maybe make them sling something at one another every once in a while.
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I have been SUCH a fan of watercolors for years, but everytime I tried them I guess I got spooked or wasn't happy with the outcome. During those years though, I managed to pick up some materials to give it an eventual go, such as teeny tiny tubes of watercolor paint, and watercolor pencils.
Maybe since I was primarily doing acrylic work, I thought too much like an acrylic painter? Thats my guess. Watercolors work SO differently; they dry different, look different, and you have to apply them differently which really takes time to figure out. This past week during my lonely lunches at home, I have been subscribing to some art channels on Youtube and learning more about them. I always learn better when I can see it happening. So I decided to give it another go with some of the things I saw on there!
Yesterday, along with my materials, decided to practice some of these things. Like Bob Ross would say, "I got a little crazy." Only took three attempts to do something that I was mildly pleased with, but hey I'm still learning right? :-)
Anyhow, this is what I ended up with, A tabby "fattie" on a windowsill. Ever since Junior high I have been obsessed with outlining everything, so I enjoyed the look of white outlines using watercolors. They can be so precise! And I'm pretty sure I have gone a little cross-eyed in the process, but hey, it's a start. :-)


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Features of Constitution1
|Is there a constitution?
|Does the constitution provide for freedom of religion?
|Constitution Year
|Last Amended
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|International Constitutional Law (ICL)
|Source is an English translation
|Current as of
|May 11, 2011
Constitution Excerpts (clauses that reference religion)2
The Paraguayan people, through their legitimate representatives convening at the National Constituent Assembly, pleading to God, recognizing human dignity for the purpose of ensuring freedom, equality and justice, reaffirming the principles of a representative, participatory, pluralistic republican democracy, upholding national sovereignty and independence and joining the international community, hereby approve and promulgate this Constitution.
Article 24 (About Religious and Ideological Freedom)
(1) Freedom of religion, worship, and ideology is recognized without any restrictions other than those established in this Constitution and the law. The State has no official religion.
(2) Relations between the State and the Catholic Church are based on independence, cooperation, and autonomy.
(3) The independence and autonomy of all churches and religious denominations, without restrictions other than those imposed by this Constitution and the law, are hereby guaranteed.
(4) No one may be disturbed, questioned, or forced to give testimony by reason of his beliefs or ideology.
Article 37 (About the Right to Conscientious Objection)
The right to conscientious objection for ethical or religious reasons is hereby recognized for those cases in which this Constitution and the law permit it.
Article 43 (About the Right to Asylum)
(1) Paraguay recognizes the right to territorial and diplomatic asylum to anyone persecuted for political reasons or crimes or for related common crimes, as well as for his opinions or beliefs. Government authorities will have to immediately issue the respective personal and safe-conduct documents.
(2) No one who has been granted political asylum will be forced to go to the country whose authorities are persecuting him.
Article 63 (About Ethnic Identity)
The right of Indian peoples to preserve and to develop their ethnic identity in their respective habitat is hereby recognized and guaranteed. They also have the right to freely apply their systems of political, socioeconomic, cultural, and religious organization, and to voluntarily observe customary practices in their domestic coexistence as long as they do not violate the fundamental rights established by this Constitution. Indian customary rights will be taken into account when deciding conflicts of jurisdiction.
Article 74 (About the Right to Learn and the Freedom to Teach)
(1) The right to learn and to have equal access opportunities to the benefits of humanistic culture, of science, and of technology, without any discrimination, is hereby guaranteed.
(2) The freedom to teach, without any requirement other than having ethical integrity and being competent for the job, as well as the right to have a religious education and ideological pluralism are also guaranteed.
Article 82 (About Recognition of the Catholic Church)
The role played by the Catholic Church in the historical and cultural formation of the Republic is hereby recognized.
Article 88 (About Nondiscrimination)
(1) No discrimination will be permitted against workers for reasons of race, sex, age, religion, social status, and political or union preference.
(2) Special protection will be given to the work of physically or mentally handicapped individuals.
Article 129 (About Military Service)
(1) Every Paraguayan must be prepared for and must complete his services for the armed defense of the Fatherland.
(2) To this end, mandatory military service is hereby established. A law will regulate the conditions under which this duty will be discharged.
(3) Military service must be based on full respect of human dignity. In time of peace, it will not exceed 12 months.
(4) Women will not be required to provide military service but as aides, if necessary, during an armed international conflict.
(5) Those who declare conscientious objection will provide services to benefit the civilian population, in aid centers designated by law and operated under civilian jurisdiction. The law implementing the right to conscientious objection will be neither punitive nor impose burdens heavier than those imposed by military service.
(6) Personal military service, not determined by law or which is set up for the benefit or profit of private citizens or organizations, is hereby prohibited.
(7) The law will regulate the contribution of foreigners to national defense.
Article 197 (About Causes of Ineligibility)
(1) The following cannot be candidates for deputies or senators:
1. Those sentenced to a prison term by a final court decision until their prison term ends;
2. Those who, by virtue of a court decision, have been disqualified to hold public office, until the period of disqualification ends;
3. Those who have been sentenced for having committed electoral crimes until the term established by the sentence ends;
4. Judges, members of the Attorney General's Office, the Special Government Attorney for Patrimonial Affairs, the Ombudsman, the Comptroller General of the Republic, the Deputy Comptroller General, and members of the Superior Electoral Court;
5. Ministers or clergymen of any religion;
6. Representatives or proxies of national or foreign companies, corporations, or organizations that are concessionaires of services for the State or that administer projects or supply goods to the State;
7. Police or military personnel on active duty;
8. Candidates for president or vice president of the Republic; and
9. Owners or partners of mass media organizations;
(2) Those affected by the causes for ineligibility described in Sections 4 through 7 have until 90 days prior to the registration of electoral slates at the Superior Electoral Court to remove the ineligibility causes.
Article 235 (About Causes for Ineligibility)
(1) The following are ineligible to run as candidates for president or vice president of the Republic:
1. Cabinet ministers, vice ministers, under secretaries or officials of equivalent rank, directors general of public offices and presidents of councils; directors, managers, or general administrators of decentralized, self-supporting, autonomous, binational, or multinational state-owned companies, or those in which the State is a majority shareholder;
2. Judges and members of the Attorney General's Office;
3. The Public Defender, the Comptroller and Deputy Controller General of the Republic, the Special Government Attorney for Patrimonial Affairs, the president of Council for Magistrates, and members of the Superior Electoral Court;
4. Representatives or proxies of national or foreign companies, corporations or organizations that are concessionaires of services for the State or that execute projects or supply goods to the State;
5. Ministers or clergymen of any religion;
6. Mayors and governors;
7. Active duty personnel of the Armed Forces or of the National Police, except for those who retire at least one year prior to the day of election;
8. Owners or partners of communications media organizations; and
9. The spouse, blood relatives tot he fourth degree, or relatives by marriage to the second degree of the incumbent president or any who has held the presidential office for any length of time during the year preceding that of the election.
(2) In those cases falling under Section 1, 2, 3, and 6 of this article, the affected parties must resign and leave their respective offices at least six months before the day of the election, except for cases in which the vice presidency has been left permanently vacant.
1. Data under the "Features of Constitution" heading are drawn from coding of the U.S. State Department's 2008 International Religious Freedom Reports conducted by researchers at the Association of Religion Data Archives. The article by Brian Grim and Roger Finke describes the coding of the International Religious Freedom reports. A dataset with these and the other international measures highlighted on the country pages can be downloaded from this website. Used with permission.
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For a baby's gender reveal party, the parents can release pink or blue balloons or have guests reveal the gender via scratch-off tickets. The parents might also reveal the gender by handing out confetti poppers filled with pink or blue confetti.
The parents can have guests guess the gender by placing pink or blue ribbons onto a chalkboard or bulletin board or submitting a voting ballot. If the baby has a sibling, the sibling can wear a shirt with "I'm getting a baby brother" or "I'm getting a baby sister." Another idea is to put pink or blue candy or confetti in a piñata.


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Got a great solution to sell, but you just can't seal the deal?
Could be your perception of sales needs an "insight upgrade".
There's an erroneous idea out there that sales expertise is all about manipulating the customer into buying what they don't want or need. In reality, the art of selling, in essence, is about making the customer's dreams come true.
As the entrepreneur, you offer exactly what your client needs to solve their problems, achieve their goals, to propel them forward to wherever they want to be. Thus it follows that, in order for them to make use of your very effective solution, a fair and noble exchange has to take place.
Make the change to savvy thinking like that and, lo and behold, you've made a sale!
Inconsistent Overwhelm To Predictable Profits –
Empower Your Business!
Building a successful, sustainable business takes a crystal-clear vision, followed up by a subsequent strategic action plan initiating impactful activities and routines. Once implemented, the results of these tactics must be measured to gauge the effectiveness of everything you do.
Killer sales conversions, self-reliant systems and stellar KPI's; you CAN have it all when you have the right tools, systems and routines in place to sustain YOUR business.
This presentation is perfect for emerging and established entrepreneurs, solopreneurs and Healthprenuers who are truly keen on building a purposeful profitable business.
Noelle delivered tangible tools our members can implement to ensure consistent return on their efforts. Noelle is a positive, energetic presenter, who interjects a personal touch into every aspect of her presentation.
Noelle walks the walk, and talks the talk. Taunya Woods Richardson, President & CEO, Sharpen Your Saw International Inc.
Noelle is a fabulous speaker, she is living what she preaches and I would recommend her to anyone in business. Genevieve Casault, Business Advisor, Meyers Norris Penny
Excellent, totally down to earth, sensible and usable information. Clive Sharpe, Walker Financial Services, Franchise owner
Awesome speaker! I hope we can have you out for our National Sales Meeting. Dean Murphy, Novartis Animal Health, Territory Manager
Noelle I would say I found your presentation very useful. Your energy and goal directed ideas are excellent. Peter Graves, Director of Corporate Publishing Red Point Media
The information you delivered boosts our thought process on how to make more money and to stay on track. Lisa Wine, Garrett Agencies, Sales & Marketing Associate
Excellent speaker! You provided good solid fundamentals and practical steps to achieving goals. Sonia Mah, Gas Supply Manager, Nova Chemicals
Noelle provides an adrenaline rush with a unique positive perspective! Cindy Copp, Associate, Nova Chemicals