Steve Wills had Juvenile Diabetes and would spend most of his life trying to avoid or deny his medical problems. After receiving news that he had cancer, he wrote this book to reflect on and document his evolving views of illness, life and mortality. Steve will take the reader on his personal journey to the "edge of reality's precipice.
New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller! From the bestselling author of The Beauty of What Remains, a guide to writing a meaningful letter about your life. Writing an ethical will, a document that includes stories and reflections about your past, is an ancient tradition. It can include joy and regrets, and ultimately becomes both a way to remember a loved one who is gone and a primer on how to live a better, happier life. Beloved Rabbi Steve Leder has helped thousands of people to write their own ethical wills, and in this intimate book helps us write our own. Because our culture privileges the material over the spiritual, we sometimes forget that our words carry greater value than any physical thing we can bequeath to our loved ones. Rabbi Leder provides all the right questions and prompts, including: What was your most painful regret and how can your loved ones avoid repeating it? When was a time you led with your heart instead of your head? What did you learn from your biggest failure? Including examples of ethical wills from a broad range of voices—old and young, with and without children, famous and unknown—For You When I Am Gone inspires readers to examine their own lives and turn them into something beautiful and meaningful for generations to come.
This kit provides users with a legally valid will, quickly and easily. Step-by-step instructions show how to fill out all forms, select beneficiaries, assign an executor, and choose a guardian for minor children. Includes all the necessary forms with line-by-line instructions. Good in all states except Louisiana.
Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs)--languages geared to specific vertical or horizontal areas of interest--are generating growing excitement from software engineers and architects. DSLs bring new agility to the creation and evolution of software, allowing selected design aspects to be expressed in terms much closer to the system requirements than standard program code, significantly reducing development costs in large-scale projects and product lines. In this breakthrough book, four leading experts reveal exactly how DSLs work, and how you can make the most of them in your environment. With Domain-Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL Tools, you'll begin by mastering DSL concepts and techniques that apply to all platforms. Next, you'll discover how to create and use DSLs with the powerful new Microsoft DSL Tools--a toolset designed by this book's authors. Learn how the DSL Tools integrate into Visual Studio--and how to define DSLs and generate Visual Designers using Visual Studio's built-in modeling technology. In-depth coverage includes Determining whether DSLs will work for you Comparing DSLs with other approaches to model-driven development Defining, tuning, and evolving DSLs: models, presentation, creation, updates, serialization, constraints, validation, and more Creating Visual Designers for new DSLs with little or no coding Multiplying productivity by generating application code from your models with easy-to-use text templates Automatically generating configuration files, resources, and other artifacts Deploying Visual Designers across the organization, quickly and easily Customizing Visual Designers for specialized process needs List of Figures List of Tables Foreword Preface About the Authors Chapter 1 Domain-Specific Development Chapter 2 Creating and Using DSLs Chapter 3 Domain Model Definition Chapter 4 Presentation Chapter 5 Creation, Deletion, and Update Behavior Chapter 6 Serialization Chapter 7 Constraints and Validation Chapter 8 Generating Artifacts Chapter 9 Deploying a DSL Chapter 10 Advanced DSL Customization Chapter 11 Designing a DSL Index
A beautiful keepsake journal inspired by For You When I Am Gone to help you create your own ethical will. In For You When I Am Gone, Rabbi Steve Leder taught us how to write an ethical will, a letter to our loved ones that helps them understand what we have learned about how to live a meaningful life. Now, in this beautiful journal, Rabbi Leder provides prompts, exercises, and inspirational quotes to help us write our own ethical wills. As a helpful companion to the previous book or a complete stand-alone, this journal will show each of us how to create a lasting, meaningful legacy while enjoying the process of examining our lives.
I wrote this book for students studying the area of Wills and administration of estates. I have drawn on my own experience participating in the core skills module dealing with Wills and administration of estates on the Legal Practice Course (LPC). In the initial chapters I have tried to outline the relevant law, use problem scenarios to apply law to factual situations. I have then gone on to discuss the interview process and the use of a checklist to structure and focus interviews and interview technique and interpersonal skills generally. I have also included recent developments in this area of law between 2017 and 2019. I hope you find this book useful for your studies.
You're no idiot, of course. You know how to save money, plan important family events, and pay your bills on time. But when it comes to writing your will and estate plan, you feel confused. Don't panic The Complete Idiot's Guide to Wills and Estates helps make sense of the legal aspects of writing a valid will and disposing of your estate the way you want to. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get:
Collects Incredible Hulk (1962) #6; Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #31-33; Daredevil (1964) #162; Incredible Hulk (1968) #249; And Material From Tales To Astonish (1959) #26 And #42; Amazing Adult Fantasy #7, #10 And #12-14; Strange Tales (1951) #94, #97, #110, #115, #126-127 And #146; Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #1 And Annual #1; Tales Of Suspense (1959) #48; Speedball #1 And Marvel Super-Heroes (1990) #8. Celebrate the career of a true Marvel Visionary! Best known as the co-creator of the amazing Spider-Man, Steve Ditko illustrated Spidey's adventures for four years and introduced dozens of classic villains. But even as he infused Spider-Man's world with grounded realism, Ditko took readers on mind-bending romps through twisted and mystical realms with another massively popular co-creation, Doctor Strange! Plus, Ditko's unmatched creative vision is on full display with the debuts of Squirrel Girl and Speedball - and scores of rarely seen fantasy and sci-fi work from Marvel's Atlas Era!
The decline of the Christian churches in the West is undeniable but commentators differ in their understanding of what this represents. For some it shows a decline in interest in religion as such; for others, religion has not declined, it has only changed its shape. Possible candidates for Christianity's replacement are the new religious movements of the late 1960s and what is variously called New Age, alternative or contemporary spirituality. Secular Beats Spiritual offers a detailed study of the religious and spiritual innovations of the last 50 years. It assesses their popularity in the UK and concludes that the "not decline-just change" view cannot be sustained. Serious interest in spirituality has grown far less quickly than has the number of us who have no religious or spiritual interest. The most popular and enduring movements have been the least religious ones and those that have survived have done so by becoming more "this-worldly" and less patently religious or spiritual. Yoga is popular but as a secular exercise program; Transcendental Meditation now markets its meditational technique as a purely secular therapy; British Buddhists now offer the secular Mindfulness; and the Findhorn Foundation (Europe's oldest New Age center) is no longer the germ of a counter-cultural communalism but sells its expertise to major corporations. Steve Bruce also demonstrates that, although eastern religious themes (such as reincarnation and karma) have become more popular as the power of the Christian churches to stigmatize them has declined, such themes have also been significantly altered so that what superficially looks like the easternization of the West might better be described as the westernization of the easternization of the West.
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