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Translating Molière for the English-Speaking Stage: The Role of Verse and Rhyme
(1st edition)
Part of the Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies series
This book critically analyzes the body of English language translations Moliere's work for the stage, demonstrating the importance of rhyme and verse forms, the creative work of the translator, and the changing relationship with source texts in these translations and their reception. The volume questions prevailing notions about Moliere's legacy on the stage and the prevalence of comedy in his works, pointing to the high volume of English language translations for the stage of his work that have emerged since the 1950s. Adopting a computer-aided method of analysis, Ploix illustrates the role prosody plays in verse translation for the stage more broadly, highlighting the implementation of self-consciously comic rhyme and conspicuous verse forms in translations of Moliere's work by way of example. The book also addresses the question of the interplay between translation and source text in these works and the influence of the stage in overcoming formal infelicities in verse systems that may arise from the process of translation. In so doing, Ploix considers translations as texts in and of themselves in these works and the translator as a more visible, creative agent in shaping the voice of these texts independent of the source material, paving the way for similar methods of analysis to be applied to other canonical playwrights' work. The book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in translation studies, adaptation studies, and theatre studies
AN Theatre studies, CF linguistics, CFP Translation & interpretation, DS Literature: history & criticism, DSB Literary studies: general, DSG Literary studies: plays & playwrights

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If you work in tech, you might've gotten a raise last year, and/or received a bigger bonus.
Tech jobs site Dice's annual salary survey reports the biggest annual jump in average tech salaries in 2015, up 7.7 percent to $96,370. And for the first time since the survey began more than a decade ago, average tech salaries reached six figures in eight metro areas, led by Silicon Valley.
The average tech salary in Silicon Valley was $118,243, a 5 percent year-over-year increase. Tech professionals in New York City, the metro area that came in second, saw their salaries rise more than 11 percent to $106,263. The other metro areas with average six-figure tech salaries are, in order, Los Angeles, Boston, Seattle, Baltimore/Washington, D.C., Minneapolis and Portland.
Reasons for the pay hikes reflect a hot tech jobs market: 38 percent of those surveyed received merit raises, 23 percent changed employers, 10 percent got promoted.
Other tidbits from the survey:
- 39 percent of those surveyed received a bonus in 2015, about the same as 2014.
- Bonuses averaged $10,194, a 7 percent rise from the year before.
- Contractors saw their average wages rise to more than $70 an hour, a more than 5 percent increase.
- Top tech skills that paid the most were in the cloud and big data fields, including HANA, Cassandra, Cloudera and OpenStack.
- Job satisfaction crept back up after a couple of years of declines, to 53 percent of those surveyed.
The Dice results are in line with another recent tech jobs survey, in which Glassdoor identified the "best" jobs this year, many of which were tech jobs. Many of those workers command six-figure salaries.
Dice's survey is based on the responses of 16,301 employed tech employees from Oct. 6, 2015 to Nov. 25, 2015.
Updated above: Average tech salaries reached six figures in eight metro markets, not seven.
Photo: Computer engineers work at the Tesla auto plant in Fremont in 2012. (Patrick Tehan/Bay Area News Group)
Tags: Dice, employment, Jobs, pay, salaries, survey, tech jobs


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text: Winthrop Public SchoolsTitle I ProgramJulie Fotiades, Title I Coordinator617-846-5509 email@example.com Not Supplant PolicyIt is the practice of the Winthrop Public School District that funds designated for Title I services are to be utilized only to supplement the regular education program.Title I funds are not permitted to be used for anything other than supplemental services for Title I identified students. Funds from the Title I grant are not to be used to supplant services that are already provided or should be provided by Winthrop Public Schools.The Superintendent of Schools and the Title I Coordinator will ensure that the Title I money is spent only at the following targeted assistance schools: the William P. Gorman Fort Banks Elementary School, the Arthur T. Cummings Elementary School and the Winthrop Middle School.At the school level, the building principal and the Title I Coordinator will ensure that the Title I teachers provide supplemental services only to students who have been identified as eligible for Title I services by multiple criteria. At no time are the Title I teachers at the targeted assistance school used to supplant services that are and/or should be provided by the Winthrop Public School District.This policy is shared with all staff at the targeted assistance schools.John Macero Julie FotiadesSuperintendent of Schools Title I CoordinatorIlene G. Pearson Bobbie FinocchioPrincipal PrincipalWilliam P. Gorman Fort Banks School Arthur T. Cummings SchoolMartha KelleherPrincipalWinthrop Middle School


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Older people and financial services: the CML's response
Published: 15 April 2016 | Author: Bernard Clarke
The financial needs of older people could be better served by the kind of innovation that emerges when all interested parties work together in a favourable regulatory environment, our new submission to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) argues.
In our response to the FCA's discussion paper on the ageing population and financial services, submitted today, we say that we have not identified any specific products, services, methods of mortgage distribution or other aspects of the industry that are particularly associated with poor outcomes for older borrowers. But there is clear evidence, we believe, that some reforms – even on a relatively modest scale – could help older people.
A recent example was the FCA's decision allowing providers to switch off the need to assess affordability for borrowers wanting to take out a lifetime mortgage which starts with interest payments, but can later be converted into a roll-up loan. The reform introduced by the FCA addresses an aspect of the changes we called for in our retirement borrowing report, published last December.
Although this looks like only a small measure, it is significant because it allows the lifetime mortgage market to develop more sensibly to meet the needs of consumers. The effect of the FCA's reform is to remove an unnecessary barrier to the provision of safe, worthwhile and consumer-friendly lifetime loans.
Clearly, innovation has the potential to widen choices for older borrowers in the mainstream mortgage market. And this could extend not just to product features but also to the way in which mortgages are distributed. Our response argues, for example, that many older borrowers could benefit from the digitisation of services and mortgage distribution channels. Conversely, however, we do not believe that the financial services industry should exclude people from being able to take out products based on whether they do, or do not, feel comfortable in using a digital platform.
More generally, we and our members remain committed to ensuring that products and services meet the needs of older people. In pursuit of this aim, we have contributed to a range of cross-industry initiatives, including the Money Advice Service's steering group on older people in retirement, the British Bankers Association's vulnerability task force and the FCA's ageing population project.
Removing barriers for older people
Our own work on how the mortgage market could better serve older people has focused on both borrowing into and in retirement. We set out our findings at the end of last year in two reports, Retirement borrowing: Reality, perceptions, projection and potential and Consumer demand for retirement borrowing.
One key finding of those reports was that only a small number of advisers are able to help older borrowers with residential and lifetime mortgages, while also offering financial advice. This is partly because advisers are supervised under different regulatory regimes for these different activities. This compartmentalising of financial advice can also be reinforced by the way in which distribution has evolved over time of specific types of products, which have come to be associated with specific types of firm.
In some ways, the issues raised have become more complicated as a result of the introduction of pension liberalisation rules last year. Older consumers, in particular, may now need advice about both mortgages and pensions, and how they affect each other. But there are few advisers qualified to cover both areas. So, consumers may be forced to seek advice from two different professionals before being able to decide what to do.
There are other examples in which the way markets have evolved over time means that they do not always work as well as they might for consumers, whose needs are also changing. In the lifetime mortgage market, for example, older people are more likely to consider consulting their families and using the power of attorney. But this is less likely to occur in the mortgage market. So, there is scope for more sharing of best practice. This could provide better support for the customer, and perhaps a better experience for both lender and borrower alike.
Regulatory barriers
Prudential requirements may also unintentionally create barriers for firms seeking to develop financial services markets. We therefore recommend closer co-ordination between the FCA and the Prudential Regulation Authority to consider these issues and whether some liberalisation might help, while still maintaining regulatory standards.
Another concern is that European requirements to hold capital under the Solvency II directive could restrict the availability of lifetime mortgages and the funding of other products that could help older borrowers. We would like to see scrutiny of the rules for holding capital to seek to ensure that they do not unnecessarily restrict the supply of lifetime mortgages.
The effect of pension freedoms
Following the introduction of pension freedoms last year, we support consumer groups in calling for an expanded role for guidance currently provided by the Pension Wise service. We have volunteered to help prepare scripts for consumers and to support the service in other ways, so that those using it can better understand – and take into account – mortgage and housing debt issues when making decisions about what to do with their pension savings. We would also like to see the scope of the pension advice service expand, so that users have a better understanding of all their housing options.
Similarly, advisers in the mortgage market may be able to help their customers more if they had a better understanding of the evolving needs of borrowers as they get older. When helping a younger customer considering taking out a loan that will extend into retirement, for example, advisers need build into the picture the fact that borrowers are likely still to be adding to their pension pot. So, they will need to consider future pension contributions and investment returns. When borrowing in retirement, however, the customer is likely to be drawing from pension savings, and so is in quite a different set of circumstances.
To help lenders develop products that might better suit the needs of consumers, it would be welcome to have more data on how people are responding to the pension freedoms introduced a year ago. Of course, this will only emerge over time, and perhaps become clearer again as consumers adjust to the range of choices available to them.
Our submission recognises and supports the need for greater collaboration between different strands of the financial services sector, consumers, regulators and government to improve the range of options for older borrowers. We have made some good progress but there is much more to do through sharing best practice, identifying emerging trends, and developing new products and ways of distributing them.
We will continue to support the lead of regulators and the government in seeking to achieve a better outcome for older people. The UK's ageing population presents a major and growing demographic challenge. But the commitment of the lending industry to work closely with others can deliver better outcomes for consumers.


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Coast Mountain Bus Company route 701 'Coquitlam Central Station / Haney Place / Maple Ridge East / Mission City Station'
|Service Area
Port Coquitlam
Pitt Meadows
Maple Ridge
|Coquitlam Central Station
Dewdney Trunk Road at 248th Street
Haney Place*
Mission City Station**
|Port Coquitlam Transit Centre
NFI XDE60 (one trip only)
|701 Coquitlam Central Station
701 Maple Ridge East
701 Maple Ridge East via Samuel Robertson***
701 Haney Place*
701 Mission City Station**
* select weekday trips and alternating weekend/holiday trips
701 Coquitlam Central Station/Maple Ridge East is a bus route operated by Coast Mountain Bus Company in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Route Details
This is an east-west route running between Coquitlam and Maple Ridge via Pitt Meadows. Service between Haney Place and Maple Ridge East is every 15 to 30 minute frequencies on weekdays and half hourly on weekends and holidays. It is a Frequent Transit Network (FTN) route for the portion between Haney Place and Coquitlam Central Station with service 15 minutes or better, 15 hours or more of the day, seven days a week.
The route departs Coquitlam Central Station by access road onto Mariner Way and then Barnet Highway followed by Lougheed Highway eastbound across the Pitt River Bridge and then onto Harris Road southbound. From Harris the route turns east onto Dunn Road and into Maple Meadows Station. It then exits the station onto Dunn Avenue, 200th street, and then Maple Meadows Way and Dewdney Trunk Road until Haney Place by way of Edge Street and McIntosh Avenue. Trips to Maple Ridge East depart Haney Place by Edge Street back onto Dewdney Trunk Road eastbound until its eastern terminus on 250th Street at Dewdney.
Four weekday trips continue from Haney Place towards Mission City Station by exiting Haney Place onto 226th street. The service then takes a left onto Lougheed Highway until its terminus at N Railway Avenue at Mission City Station. Return trips depart Mission City Station and onto Horne Avenue. The service then takes a left onto Lougheed Highway and right on 226th Street and into Haney Place.
Westbound trips from Maple Ridge East depart from Dewdney at 248th Street to Haney Place. Trips entering Coquitlam Central Station route from Lougheed Highway to access road.
When school is in session, many iterations of the route are in place in both directions.
Three special eastbound trips from Coquitlam Central (one AM and two PM) route from Lougheed to Dominion, Ottawa, to Lougheed and continues its regular route to Maple Ridge East.
Another eastbound trip routes from Dewdney Trunk via 240th Street, 102nd Avenue, Jackson, 104th Avenue back onto 240th Street, Dewdney Trunk to 250th Street, Smith and then 248th Street back onto Dewdney Trunk Road.
Additionally, two westbound trips depart from Dominion Avenue at Lougheed Highway during the PM peak and serves Archbishop Carney Secondary School. These trips terminate at Coquitlam Station.
Another westbound trip starts from Dewdney Trunk Road at 248th Street and follows the regular route to terminate at Haney Place. This trip continues as an R3 Lougheed Hwy and runs RapidBus XDE60s.
701 Mission City Station Stops
The 701 is a local service that does pick-up and drop-off at all stops on all branches except the 701 Mission City Station, where there are special stopping procedures.
There is local service between Coquitlam Central Station and Haney Place for trips to/from Mission City Station. Trips towards Coquitlam Central Station from Mission run non-stop between Mission City Station and Haney Place. Trips towards Mission run non-stop between Haney Place and Mission City Station but do drop-offs at Lougheed Highway & 227th Street and 228th Street.
|Bus Connections
|Local service between Coquitlam Central Station and Haney Place
|Haney Place
(Bay 6 – Maple Ridge East)
(Bay 7 – Coquitlam Central Station)
745 746 748 749 791
|Lougheed Highway & 227th Street
|733 745
|Lougheed Highway & 228th Street
|733 745 746
|Mission City Station
|31 32 33 34 35 39
Points of Interest
- Coquitlam Centre
- Coquiltam Central Station (Bay 6)
- Westwood Mall Shopping Centre
- Lions Way Park
- Agricultural Park
- Harris Road Park
- Pitt Meadows Station
- Hoffman Park
- Golden Meadows Plaza
- Pitt Meadows Public Library
- Maple Meadows Station (Bay 2 – Coquitlam Central Station) (Bay 3 – Maple Ridge East/Mission City Station)
- Meadow Ridge Centre
- Haney Place Mall
- Haney Place (Bay 6 – Maple Ridge East/Mission City Station) (Bay 7 – Coquitlam Central Station)
- Maple Ridge Municipal Hall
- Memorial Gardens
- Garibaldi Secondary School
- Mission City Station
- December 1991 - Service introduced as 701 Maple Ridge East/South Haney/Coquitlam Centre/Vancouver during Community Link service roll out in Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge[1]
- October 1993 - Morning Vancouver-bound peak hour trips revised to use the Clarke Street Queue Jumper in Port Moody[2]
- June 1994 - Select trips operated by articulated buses; some trips to operate as 190 Coquitlam Station/Vancouver between Coquitlam Centre and Downtown Vancouver[3]
- September 1994 - Midday service to operate between Coquitlam Centre and Haney Place; service east of Haney Place operated by Community Link buses except during peak periods[4]
- November 1999 - Route became equipped with bike racks[5]
- October 2001 - Haney South service discontinued and service between Haney Place and Maple Ridge East discontinued after 8PM daily due to low ridership and funding shortfall[6]
- April 2003 - Re-routed from Lougheed Highway to Harris Road and Dewdney Trunk Road (no service lost)[7]
- December 2005 - Routing revised to cover service lost with the cancellation of route 709 East Maple Ridge/Haney Place[8]
- April 2006 - Service extended to Maple Ridge East from Haney Place on Sundays and holidays; service to South Haney discontinued and replaced by a route extension of the C43[9]
- January 2008 - Select trips used to test the TMAC system prior to full fleet installation[10]
- June 2008 - Route joined the Frequent Transit Network (FTN)[11]
- August 2008 - The new Haney Place Transit Exchange officially opened[12]
- December 2016 - TrainBus service discontinued; select weekday trips extended to Mission City Station[13]
- ↑ The Buzzer December 6, 1991 Issue translink.ca, retrieved 08-03-2017
- ↑ The Buzzer October 8, 1993 Issue translink.ca, retrieved 02-05-2020
- ↑ The Buzzer June 17, 1994 Issue, translink.ca, retrieved 16-12-2017
- ↑ The Buzzer August 26, 1994 Issue, translink.ca, retrieved 16-12-2017
- ↑ The Buzzer October 29 1999 Issue, translink.ca, retrieved 19-11-2017
- ↑ Service Cuts for October 15, 2001 listed by route number, translink.ca, retrieved 20-12-2009
- ↑ The Buzzer April 18, 2003 Issue, translink.ca, retrieved 12-01-2017
- ↑ The Buzzer November 25, 2005 Issue, translink.ca, retrieved 16-12-2017
- ↑ The Buzzer April 24, 2006 Issue, translink.ca, retrieved 23-08-2015
- ↑ Translink Access Transit Stakeholder Update, translink.ca, retrieved 20-12-2009
- ↑ The Buzzer June 20 2008 Issue, translink.ca, retrieved 16-12-2017
- ↑ Haney Place bus exchange officially opens, translink.ca, retrieved 16-12-2017
- ↑ The Buzzer December 16, 2016 Issue, retrieved 19-01-2017


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Udupi, Feb 21, 2019: Tanushree Pithrody, a 10-year-old girl from Udyavar near Udupi, will try to set a record for the "most number of rolls in one minute in Dhanurasana posture" and enter the Golden Book of World Records on February 23, Saturday.
Tanushree had performed 42 full-body revolutions in one minute and set the Guinness World record for most full-body revolutions maintaining a chest-stand position. She achieved this feat here on April 7, 2018.
She will attempt the new feat in the playground of St. Cecily's Educational Institutions here at 5 p.m.
She is a student of class 5 at the St. Cecily's Kannada Medium School. She learnt yoga under Hariraj Kinnigoli.
She is also learning Bharatnatyam under the guidance of her teacher, Radhakrishna Kodancha, and training in Yakshagana under Aditya Ambalpady.
She has been donning "Huli Vesha" and performing during the Krishna Janmashtami festival here for the last two years.


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Hello. I posted two new events for March for CD Youth on the Events Calendar: http://thecrackden.com/events/
Please start checking the calendar regularly for other Seaside events. I know a number of different people are planning things!
Seaside BEACHSIDE Cook-out in Batterie - March 7, 2015 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
This will be one of the new series of field-trips that are being conducted between Columtreal University and the Seaside School/Youth Center. CU Dean, Jack Inkpen and CU Student, Dani Mattelle will take a field-trip of any CD Youth who wish to join us for a cookout on the beach in Batterie and a lesson about the balance of a 'food chain', but it will be disguised as a campfire story. It should be a fun learning opportunity for CD Youth, especially the young ones.
CU and SEASIDE Big Brother / Big Sister BOWLING MIXER - March 15, 2015 @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
This event will take place in the bowling alley on the basement level of the Student Union building at Columtreal University. This event marks the beginning of a new program between CU and Seaside, which is partially facilitated by the Hathian Civil Services Center: A Big Brother/Big Sister club, which is designed to match up CU students with Seaside youth for mentoring partnerships. Come bowl with us on Sunday afternoon. All CD Youth are welcome, kids and teens, orphaned or not.


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You're stopped at a red light during your morning commute. As you sip your coffee, another driver rear-ends your car. Your rear bumper has a small dent and your airbags did not deploy. Your neck feels a little sore at the time of the crash, so you don't get medical treatment. Three days later, you start noticing pain shooting down your arm and up your neck. Could that minor car accident have caused a serious injury? Unfortunately, the answer is "yes."
Your Spine Is Complicated and Sensitive
Your spine is composed of many delicate structures. Typically, doctors break the spine down into five sections:
- Cervical: the seven vertebrae between your head and shoulders
- Thoracic: the twelve mid-back vertebrae that support your ribs and protect your heart and lungs
- Lumbar: the five vertebrae in your low back
- Sacrum: a series of fused vertebrae that connect your spine to your hips
- Coccyx: your tailbone
Each section of your spine helps to support your entire body and transport messages to and from the brain.
RELATED ARTICLE: Understanding the Costs and Complications of a Spinal Cord Injury
Within each section of our spine, different tissues and structures exist:
- Vertebrae are interlocking bones that create your spinal column.
- Discs are the shock absorbers for your spine. A disc has a fibrous exterior (called the annulus) that holds a gelatinous material inside (the nucleus).
- The spinal cord is a complicated bundle of neurons that transmit messages between your brain and body.
- Your spinal nerves include 31 pairs branching off your spinal cord and communicating messages to specific parts of the body.
- Ligaments are fibrous bands of tissue that hold your spine together and protect it.
Many of the spaces that your nerves and soft tissues pass through are extremely narrow. For this reason, swelling, inflammation, and "mild" injuries can cause serious pain and dysfunction.
A Minor Auto Collision Can Have Serious Consequences
While insurance companies often argue that a "minor," "no damage" car crash can't cause serious injuries, this simply isn't true. During a car wreck, your body is subjected to many forces, including acceleration, deceleration, rotation, and more. These can cause serious damage to your body, especially if you're rear-ended or t-boned.
Your neck is particularly vulnerable in a crash. Rapid acceleration and deceleration can make your neck whip back and forth, causing whiplash. Injuries to the soft tissues that hold your spine together can cause neck and shoulder pain, headaches, and other symptoms. While whiplash is a temporary condition for some crash victims, other people take longer to recover and require intensive medical treatment.
You might also experience sprains, strains, compression fractures, or a spondylolisthesis (when a vertebra slips out of alignment).
RELATED ARTICLE: Do You Have Any of These Delayed Symptoms After a Car Wreck?
"While insurance companies often argue that a "minor," "no damage" car crash can't cause serious injuries, this simply isn't true."
Preexisting Conditions Can Make Your Injury Worse — But That Should Not Affect Your Injury Lawsuit
Most adult spines are already affected by degenerative disc disease. According to some studies, 37% of people in their 20s have degenerative disc disease in their spines. Even if you don't regularly experience back pain, there's a good chance that you have some degeneration in your spine. This makes your spine more prone to injury during a car crash.
For example, suppose you have a tiny disc bulge in your neck. Most people are completely unaware that they have bulging discs because they never experience significant neck pain.
However, even a tiny, undetected disc bulge can put you at a higher risk of injury during a car crash. Acceleration and deceleration during a collision can put pressure on your spine and its discs. If a disc is already compromised, it's more likely to rupture or herniate, which can require expensive and complicated surgeries and rehabilitation.
While the insurance company might try to deny your claim by arguing that it was a preexisting condition, Texas applies the "eggshell skull rule" in car accident claims. Therefore, insurance companies must accept injured victims as they are, degenerative changes and all, and cover their claims when an accident causes a condition to worsen.
RELATED ARTICLE: What Is the Eggshell Skull Rule and How Does It Apply to Texas Car Accident Cases?
An Experienced Lawyer Can Help Explain Your Injuries and Help You Recover Compensation
Insurance companies and their experts love to point out medical studies implying that low-speed collisions do not cause serious injuries. However, a well-prepared legal strategy and expert testimony can effectively debunk the insurance company's claims using the specific details of your situation.
Every person and crash is different. The forces involved in your collision and their impact on your body will depend on multiple factors, including:
- The types and sizes of vehicles involved
- The point and direction of collision (rear-end, T-bone, or head-on)
- How fast each car was moving
- Where you were positioned in the vehicle
- Whether you were wearing a seatbelt
- Your age, height, weight, and gender
- Whether you had preexisting conditions that increased your risk of serious injury
- Whether your airbags deployed properly or any other vehicle parts were defective
With all of these factors involved, a "minor" accident can be much more devastating than it seems — especially when a victim's unique health conditions increase the risk of injury.
RELATED CLIENT STORY: Minor Collision Causes Major Injuries; Betsy's Story
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When you work with Crosley Law, a skilled car accident lawyer will carefully assess your crash, the evidence, and your losses. They may also consult with medical, biomechanical, and accident reconstruction experts. Armed with this information, we fight for our clients, demanding fair compensation and closure after a crash.
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Many areas experienced moderate to severe flooding and serious beach erosion.
In Ocean City, authorities were trying to figure how to remove a large bell buoy that broke free from its mooring during the storm and washed up on the beach.
Officials from New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection were expected to join other state officials to tour different shore points Monday afternoon.
Those locations were scheduled to include Ortley Beach, Long Beach Island, Stone Harbor and North Wildwood.


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Get RESTy With It
Preview 2 of the WCF REST Starter Kit is now available on CodePlex. I covered an earlier version of the Starter Kit during our Northeast Roadshow last December. As you may recall, the WCF REST Starter Kit enables you to pretty quickly build singleton and collection resource-based services that support both Atom, XML, and JSON serialization formats.
The update adds a new
HttpClient class that streamlines the connection to and invocation of RESTful calls, with support for the primary REST HTTP verbs – GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE. Another really cool addition is an add-in that creates a serializable class based on an XML string, making it just that much easier to consume REST-based services, regardless of where they are hosted.
There's four great labs as well to get you started (which I got to check out pre-release). So, even if the only thing you know about REST is how to spell it, these concise exercises will get you up and running in no time:
- Lab 1 – Hello REST
- Lab 2 – Addressability
- Lab 3 - REST Collection
- Lab 4 - Consuming RESTful Services
Download the WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2 here.


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Original soundtrack by Burkhard Dallwitz
The recently broadcast ABC TV Mini-series, The Secret River was richly supported by a stunning soundtrack, written, arranged and produced by Burkhard Dallwitz, who is one of Australia's foremost screen composers.
The drama is based on Kate Grenville's best-selling novel of the same name, which is an epic tragedy about early colonial times. It's set in the early nineteenth century, on what was then the frontier, the Hawkesbury River, 50 miles beyond Sydney.
William Thornhill, an illiterate Thames bargeman and a man of quick temper but deep feelings, steals a load of timber and is transported to NSW in 1806. Like many of the convicts, he's pardoned within a few years and settles on the banks of the Hawkesbury River. The Governor grants him land, but of course, conflict arises with the indigenous over the land.
The soundtrack is very beautiful, lyrical and evocative of the time without being pastiche, and is orchestrated for violin, mandolin, viola, cello, double bass, harp, flutes, whistles, bodhran, guitar, piano and virtual instruments. Interestingly, the strings were performed by The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and recorded in Prague. The composer captures a full range of expression, at times dramatic and powerful, whilst at other moments, sinister, poignant or eerie.
The composer writes: "As the drama builds … my approach was to have the music become more minimal and still. Perhaps this is best demonstrated by the tracks Staking a Claim, and I See You Dickie. These seemingly very different pieces are essentially the same theme. Staking a Claim, with its 6/8 time signature and harp and piano ostinato underscores Will's (William Thornhill – main character) ambition to secure a future for his family, no matter the cost. The much slower and reflective tempo of I See You Dickie follows the same harmonic progression, yet underscores the terrible secret that Will has to live with for the rest of his life."
The title track however is not composed by Dallwitz, but written and performed by Shane Howard and Archie Roach.


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HAWC's first DC event of the year will take place on SATURDAY, MARCH 16th at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum at 12pm. The event will feature a multimedia presentation on the Jewish community in Greece before the Holocaust. If you are interested in attending the event, please RSVP to Vicki Georges at email@example.com. The event includes lunch and is $20/person. You mail either pay at the door or send a check to:
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Presentation Information:
The diverse collection of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum includes original films, recordings, oral histories, photographs and other artifacts depicting the prewar Jewish life in Greece. These items form the basis of the Museum's collection. Staff from the Museum's National Institute for Holocaust Documentation will present about the Sephardic Communities and the Holocaust Initiative by highlighting some of its unique collections, including beautiful black and white and color home movies shot in Kastoria, Greece right before the war, as well as photos and oral testimonies. This behind-the-scenes look into the Museum's collections will provide a rare glimpse into the lives of the Greek Jewish community before the Holocaust.
The National Institute for Holocaust Documentation collects artifacts, documents, photographs, film, music, and oral testimonies to document the events of the Holocaust and understand the relevance of this history in our own time. Part of the collection includes original artifacts of Sephardic Jews—from Greece, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and throughout Europe and North Africa—who suffered displacement, persecution, or discrimination under the rule of Nazi Germany and its Axis partners between 1938 and 1945. Items that belonged to the victims, survivors, and witnesses tell their stories, testify to their experiences, and preserve their history. The Museum is in a race against time to rescue these artifacts before the eyewitness generations are no longer with us.
Museum Speakers:
Leslie Swift, Chief, Film, Oral History, and Recorded Sound, National Institute for Holocaust Documentation, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Jaime Monllor, International Outreach Officer, National Institute for Holocaust Documentation, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
The schedule is as follows:
12pm -- Lunch in Classroom A on the Concourse Level of the Museum
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Chips and Sausage: Meet the Author – Friday 26th January
A new book by Daniel Zuchowski titled, Chips and Sausage: A Guide to Ireland and Her Wonders is a very affectionate look at the island of Ireland – a guide full of humour, warmth and love for our country and her amazing people. A book illustrated in colour and covering a multitude of topics from the Irish Family, Names, to Work Ethic, Politeness and Tourist Mistakes!
Daniel is a linguist, language consultant and teacher trainer and will be here Friday 26th January at 3.00pm to talk us through his experiences which led to him to write Chips and Sausage with illustrations from the book.
If you would like to attend, this is a first come first serve event, so get here before 3.00pm to get your place! The event page can be seen here.
More information about the Guide to Ireland can be found via these links: Facebook, Twitter & Instagram.


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Transform districts into polygons for visualization in sumo-gui. Using the options --hue, --saturation, --brightness the colors can be controlled. Each of these options supports values from [0, 1] as well as the special value random.
<SUMO_HOME>/tools/districts2poly.py myNet.net.xml myDistricts.rou.xml
Only districts using the attribute
edges are currently supported
Parsing a number of networks and taz (district) files with shapes this script writes a taz file with all the edges which are inside the relevant taz. The taz files must be in the format generated by polyconvert.
<SUMO_HOME>/tools/edgesInDistricts.py -n myNet.net.xml -t myDistrictPolygons.add.xml
Call option --help for additional details.
Filter a taz (district) file using a network file and a vehicle class so that only edges which allow the given vehicle class are included in the taz definitions.
<SUMO_HOME>/tools/district/filterDistricts.py -n myNet.net.xml -t myDistricts.add.xml -o filteredDistricts.add.xml --vclass passenger
Call option --help for additional details.
Finds edges that are opposites of each other and puts them in a common district (TAZ). This can be used to improve routing in conjunction with trip attributes fromTaz and toTaz.
<SUMO_HOME>/tools/generateBidiDistricts.py myNet.net.xml
Call option --help for additional details.
Example usage#
When applied to a typical OSM network, and edge and the edge with the negated id describe opposite direction edges of the same road. The generated bidi-taz would look like this:
<taz id="-123" edges="-123 123"/>
<taz id="123" edges="-123 123"/>
<trip> definitions that would typically use attributes from and to
instead use the attributes fromTaz and toTaz:
<trip id="someTrip" from="123" to="456" depart="0"/>
<trip id="someTripWithBidiTaz fromTaz="123" toTaz="456"/>
The second definition would allow departure from either edge 123' or -123 due to the way the taz 123 is definied. This can prevent unwanted turn-arounds and the beginning and end of generated trips and thus simplifies trips created from mapping of geo-coordinates.


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Samsung is in talks to acquire the Jay Z-owned media streaming service TIDAL, the New York Post reports.
"Samsung is re-engaging," a source told the New York Post. "They are working on something really big, and they're keeping it very quiet in case it leaks."
Jay Z acquired the streaming service for $56 million in January 2015. Two months later, he established the TIDAL Mafia by bringing on such A-listers as Kanye West, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Daft Punk, Jack White, Nicki Minaj, Madonna, Rihanna, Usher, Alicia Keys, & J. Cole to become partners.
Samsung has expressed interest in acquiring TIDAL before, and they inked a $20 million deal with Jay Z in 2013 and a $25 million deal with Rihanna in October 2015. TIDAL hit the million subscriber mark in September and has gained 1.5 million subscribers since the release of The Life of Pablo.
Acquiring TIDAL may be Samsung's best bet to enter the music streaming game. Spotify, which has 25 million subscribers, and Google have both been eyeing TIDAL as a potential acquisition. Apple, Samsung's chief rival in the phone and consumer electronics game, has already established itself with iTunes and Apple Music. Don't be surprised to see Jay Z get an excellent return on his $56 million investment if he can come to an agreement with Samsung.
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(Reuters) - NASCAR driver Travis Kvapil was left without a ride for this weekend's race after his orange stock car was stolen from a motel parking lot early Friday, forcing him to drop out of the event.
Kvapil and other Team Xtreme members were staying at the Drury Inn in suburban Atlanta when they discovered that their truck, 26-foot trailer and the most valuable contents inside - their primary car and a backup engine - had vanished from the parking lot.
The car was Team Xtreme's only vehicle and it was forced to withdraw from Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, said owner John Cohen.
"Wow. Anyone near Atlanta find my stolen Cup car let me know! Unreal," Kvapil said on Twitter.
The theft of the items was valued at nearly $375,000, Morrow, Georgia, police said. Surveillance tapes show the thieves struck at about 5:30 a.m.
Cohen said the team would enter next weekend's race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Reporting by Steve Ginsburg in Washington; Editing by Bill Trott


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CHATSWORTH, Calif. -- Capstone Turbine Corporation (www.capstoneturbine.com) (Nasdaq:CPST), the world's leading clean technology manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, announced today that it received an order for two C200 microturbines to provide combined heat and power (CHP) for a Jamaican hotel.
The propane-fueled microturbines will provide electrical power to the site loads, and the thermal energy from the microturbines exhaust will be utilized via an absorption chiller to provide chilled water to the building's heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system. When deployed in this configuration, the total system efficiency can exceed 80%, providing significant savings to the customer. Additionally, the microturbines reduce the customer's dependence on the local utility grid, which can be unstable, unreliable and very susceptible to severe weather events such as hurricanes.
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During the most recent hurricane season, virtually all Capstone microturbines in the affected areas remained fully operational. In the case of St. Thomas, one resort that was able to continue operating after the hurricane was with its 1.8MW gas-fired Capstone microturbine power plant. Reportedly, it was the only resort in the area with both power and water after the storm.
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This Mouthwatering Ice Cream Trail In Michigan Is All You've Ever Dreamed Of And More
Warmer weather is slowly making its way into the Great Lakes State, and you know what that means: it's nearly ice cream season! We've compiled a list of some of the best spots in Michigan to indulge in your favorite sweet treat — and it makes for one of the most delightful weekend adventures imaginable. For an interactive map of our trail, click here.
Please note that for the sake of driving time, we've only included ice cream shops in the Lower Peninsula in this particular article. That said, we would love to hear your recommendations for the best U.P. creameries in the comment section! In the meantime, take a look at our picks for six of the best ice cream spots in Michigan — and prepare your taste buds for an incredible journey.
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France Shutting down some of France's older nuclear plants will not result in an increase of the country's CO2 emissions, according to its government; just how remains to be seen. There is a concern that some of the ageing nuke plants will be replaced by gas-fired technology. The French Government will decide in early 2019 on the proportion of nuclear in the country's generation mix.
Germany Germany's faltering Merkel coalition agreed to a new plan on cutting CO2 emissions by 55% by 2030. They also agreed to phase out coal fired generation, but without offering a timeline. Germany is one of the biggest polluters in Europe. They also intend to draft a joint proposal with France to introduce a European carbon floor price.
Global Gas in all its forms, including biogas and bio-methane will overtake oil as the primary source of global energy by 2040 and coal by 2030, according to BP. BP is estimating global demand for gas to increase by 1.6% per year, primarily led by growth from China. Oil demand is expected to grow by 0.8% year on year over the same period.


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According the memo obtained by Pinoy R.N. from the Board of Nursing website, nursing colleges must submit the following forms to the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) in order to secure "special orders" for graduation:
- Summary Performance Evaluation for Intra-Partal Care Competency
- Summary Performance Evaluation for Immediate Care of the Newborn Competency
- Summary Performance Evaluation for Intra-Operative Care Competency
This new requirement is in accordance with the PRC - BON Memorandum No. 1 Series of 2009 issued in April of this year. Copies of all pertinent memorandums mentioned are posted below.
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One Womans Epic Struggle for Peace With China
By Rebiya Kadeer with Alexandra Cavelius
Illustrated. 423 pages. Kales Press. $28.95.
It is the awkward fate of China, more than any
other country, to be arriving late to any number
of parties where most other revelers are either
long gone or leaving, having declared the
celebrations déclassé. Such is the case with
Chinas booming smokestack economy and with its
ardent new fling with the automobile, with its
desire for a deep-water navy built around
aircraft carriers, and with its ambition for a
space program that will land on the Moon.
China is also just beginning to grapple with the
creation of what most in the developed world
would recognize as a modern legal system and
acceptable standards for human rights, and it is
in much the same position with its cobbling
efforts to reinvent the welfare state.
Most anachronistic of all, though, is the
countrys treatment of its two largest
minorities, the Tibetans and Uighurs, both old,
non-Han indigenous civilizations that claim
meaningful autonomy in Chinas vast,
resource-rich and sparsely populated west. Our
Western legacy of land expropriation and
slaughter of native peoples by European settlers
and imperial armies may give us little to cluck
about, but in todays world the rights and
interests of native peoples have rightly won greater recognition.
In this memoir, "Dragon Fighter," part defiant
political tell-all, part engrossing personal
saga, Rebiya Kadeer paints a vivid picture of her
life as a mother of 11 and a businesswoman who
spent nearly six years in prison on her way to
becoming the Uighur peoples most prominent dissident.
Since its Communist revolution of 1949 China has
employed a brimming catalog of tactics to bring
its western region to heel. These include
invasion; disappearing of political leaders;
gerrymandering to disperse minorities across new,
eccentrically redrawn provinces, flooding the
cities with subsidized Han immigration; limits on
worship, government control of clergy,
desecration of temples and harsh repression.
Even Westerners who pay relatively little
attention to China will be at least vaguely
familiar with the plight of Tibetans, whose
religious leader, the Dalai Lama, has been
lionized by the Nobel committee and received at the White House.
Such is not the case with the Uighur, a central
Asian people who are distant relatives of the
Turks and native to what China calls the Xinjiang
Uighur Autonomous Region, or the New Frontier, an
area three and half times as large as California,
whose indigenous people look all but set to join
the ranks of historys great, overrun losers.
One thing the Uighur, spelled Uyghur in this
book, have never had is a leader with great
recognition outside China, like the Dalai Lama,
who has contributed a brief introduction for this
memoir of Ms. Kadeer. She writes: Politicians
and human rights organizations from all over the
world were active on behalf of Tibet. The
conditions in the Uyghur nation were much the
same. But interest from abroad in the two, though
literally we were next-door neighbors sharing a
common border and both under Chinese occupation,
could not have been more dissimilar.
Nor, she might have added, scarcely could the
plight of these two neighboring peoples, both of
which have long maintained cultural and often
political autonomy on the periphery of imperial
China, be more fundamentally similar. That the
Uighur have never enjoyed anything like the
global sympathy extended to Tibetans stands out
as a historical oddity that may have something to
do with their predominantly Muslim culture, which
evokes little of the warm feeling engendered by
Tibets red-robed, incense-burning, sutra-chanting Buddhists.
In the end, though, even this may not matter. Ms.
Kadeer writes perceptively about the many
humiliations imposed by Beijing on the Uighurs,
including routine business harassment and forced
abortions, massacres and barriers to trade and
contact with other central Asian neighbors.
Beijing makes it hard for the Uighurs to believe
in anything but ultimate submission to the grand,
centrally conceived plans of a powerful China.
On one level Ms. Kadeers book is a routine
account of recent Chinese history. Much more
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the remarkable rise from modest roots to a life
as, the author claims, the wealthiest woman in
China and a politically prominent member of the National Peoples Congress.
Here, though, the book is marred by language that
betrays limited modesty and perhaps even limited
self-knowledge. We are constantly reminded of the
authors qualities: she is chaste, smart,
beautiful, clever, strong, indomitable, selfless,
moral, wise and fearless especially fearless.
By the end of the book, however, the last of
these claims will leave few readers in doubt.
Through sheer force of personality Ms. Kadeer
overcomes a bad marriage to an abusive husband,
then seeks out and marries a former political
prisoner and poet, telling him flatly that after
our wedding, our first task will be to liberate the land.
Years, several children and many arduous
commercial voyages across China later, having
built a fortune (and a big reputation) in
department stores and real estate, while she and
her second husband dreamed of liberating the
land, Ms. Kadeer begins to attract the wooing
calls of the party. Her big moment comes in a
speech before the Congress in Beijing, in which
she boldly switches the approved text to ask: Is
it our fault that the Chinese have occupied our
land? That we live under such horrible conditions?
If not the first time she had spoken truth to
power, it was certainly the beginning of the end.
Soon afterward Ms. Kadeer was arrested on her way
to a meeting with a member of the United States
Congress. She was tried, imprisoned for nearly
six years and exiled to the United States.
This remarkable life is now added to the saga of
the Uighur people, a people without leaders.
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"The worst crime is faking it." -Kurt Cobain
I was at a wedding this past weekend (which was really fun - seeing my past students getting married is always encouraging) and as I was watching people milling around the thought occurred to me "How many of these people are faking it?" By "it" I mean the positive and happy spirit that is punctuated by a "Great!" when asked how they are doing.
The reality is that being less then forthright about how we are doing at a public function is not necessarily terrible but it says something about our character. When someone asks us a direct question like "How are you?" you have 3 basic choices:
1. Be really honest. Ex/ "My spiritual life is in the toilet and we are $30k in debt - how do you think?"
2. Don't lie but don't share all (be vague). Ex/ "Could be worse," "Alright," "Not too bad."
3. Fake it. Ex/"Great! Couldn't be better! Can't complain about anything!"
Eventually faking it always gets us in trouble. It is deception and deception is wrong. In the above example the effects are minimal - we usually just feel deceptive which makes us feel worse about ourselves and more alone. But faking it in ministry is very bad. Faking it as a worship leader, faking it as a pastor, faking it as a (cough, cough) counselor - eventually it catches up with you. Living deceitfully always takes it's toll. Sometimes it results in moral failure, frequently it is burnout, depression, or losing one's faith.
Personally, I am tempted to fake it because it gets immediate results. We like not being real: we get to keep our job/ministry, people still think well of us, we avoid the awkwardness. But such rewards sacrifice long term health for short term gain.
I'm not saying we should be vulnerable and true with everyone but everyone should be vulnerable and real with someone. Vulnerability is not a sign of weakness - instead it's a sign of strength and courage. Vulnerability is a form of self-love and love for others. We need to realize that when we are in community fakeness affects everyone. When someone is fake it encourages others to be fake - when someone is real it encourages others to be real. One should also not use vulnerability as a way to get attention or to manipulate others - I have seen that happen and that is not good either. But fakeness eventually hurts everyone - you, me, our community, and eventually the body of Christ. Is there an area where your fakeness is hurting you/others? What can you do to change things?
Monday, May 25, 2009
The Temptation To Fake It
"The worst crime is faking it." -Kurt Cobain
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- Liane said...
After weeks of people asking me "how are you doing" after my first miscarriage I started saying "ok" even when I felt bad. Often because I didn't think they really wanted to know, or I didn't wanted to take up their whole time. Often peope just ask because, I mean I don't think the sales person really cares, so i guess we get used to faking it
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11/11/18 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time - Fr. Reggie
Monday | November 19, 2018 | 13:30 PM
There are two ways of being generous: the way of the scribes, and the way of the widow.
The scribes were the experts in interpreting the Law of Moses, and the Law of Moses was the core of Jewish culture.
And so the people of ancient Israel respected and reverenced the scribes.
But Jesus was unhappy with them. Without a doubt, they worked long, hard hours; they were always busy with worthy projects. But, unfortunately, their natural intellectual gifts and elevated social function had gone to their heads. Instead of exercising their leadership as a service to the nation and to their neighbors, they were flaunting it to stoke their vanity, increase their comfort, and enhance their reputation. The higher they climbed, the more they looked down on everyone else. They considered themselves superior because they gave more time, talent, and treasure to the Temple than anyone else. But this was a one-dimensional view of generosity. The scribes were forgetting that all those external things were actually gifts God had given them in the first place.
What God truly wants from us is something more, something deeper: he wants our love; he wants us to trust in him.
This is what the poor widow gave to him. She didn't just share some of her abundance; she handed over to God all of her wealth, saying to him: "Lord, you are my good shepherd, and I will follow wherever you lead." That was a prayer the scribes never prayed. They considered that they were doing God a favor by serving him; the widow understood that God was the one doing the favors.
That's the kind of generosity God wants to see flourish in each one of us: the generosity by which we give to God not just our stuff, but our heart.
Generosity of the heart, true Christian generosity, frees us from the self- destructive shackles of anger, resentment, and vengeance.
In 1995 in Cook County, Illinois, a man was on trial for drunk driving. While he was driving drunk, he had collided with and killed two pedestrians. The case was a simple one, because the man pleaded guilty and was willing to accept his sentence. The man's mother came with him to be present at the trial. After the proceedings were finished, another woman came up to her. She introduced herself as the mother of one of the victims of the drunken accident. Then she said, "I just want you to know that I know you must be in great pain, and that I feel for you. I know your son didn't mean to do it. I just wanted you to know that." Instead of being blinded by her own pain and suffering, this woman was able to reach out and comfort someone else, someone related to the very man who killed her own child.
That's the kind of interior strength and freedom that comes from a truly humble, self-forgetting, generous heart.
As St Vincent de Paul used to say:
"The most powerful weapon to conquer the Devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it."
Unless we gradually transform our self-centered, scribe-like tendencies into a Christ-centered, humble generosity like that of the widow, we will never be able to attain true Christian wisdom or experience true Christian joy.
We can do two things to foster this transformation.
First, we can ask God, every day, to purify our hearts, because without his grace we can do nothing (cf. John 15:5).
Second, we can practice. True, life-transforming virtue can only be developed by conscious effort. It doesn't come from pills or feelings; it comes from exercise. Virtues, in this sense, are like muscles: the more we use them, the stronger they get. And the best place to exercise heart-felt, selfless generosity is at home.
In fact, family life is designed by God to be a gymnasium for all Christian virtues. It is easy to put on the appearance of generosity, like the scribes, when we are interacting with people outside our family circle, because they only see us every once in a while. At home, our family members see us all the time, and so they know the good, the bad, and the ugly. And so, finding creative ways to serve our family members is a sure path to purify our hearts of selfish motives; they simply won't be impressed with our efforts – they know us too well.
There is little chance of family members praising us too much for helping with someone else's chores even when they didn't ask us, or for being the first to forgive after an argument or a fight, regardless who was at fault, or for leaving the last cookie for someone else without expecting any reward for ourselves.
God wants to give us the freedom and joy of a truly generous heart.
And he will, if we ask for his help, and if we do our part by practicing at home.
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