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 ### Holiday Sync Cancellations
 
-We're cancelling our development sync meetings on the 26th of December and the 2nd of January given their proximity to holidays. Our final sync meeting of the year will be Tuesday December 19th.
+We're canceling our development sync meetings on the 26th of December and the 2nd of January given their proximity to holidays. Our final sync meeting of the year will be Tuesday, December 19th.
 
 ### Pony Development Sync
 
@@ -27,8 +27,6 @@ We have an open Zoom meeting every week for the community to get together and we
 
 There was no Office Hours this past week. Sean was ill.
 
-Interested in background? Check out the [initial conversation](https://ponylang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/234733-off-topic/topic/Algorithm.20Request.3A.20uniform.20and.20100.25.20coverage.20prng) from the Ponylang Zulip.
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 ## Community Resource Highlight
 
 We like to take a moment in each Last Week in Pony to highlight a community resource. There are many community resources that can go unappreciated until _just the right time_ when someone hops into the Ponylang Zulip asking a question or facing a problem we have all had at one time or another. Well here in Last Week in Pony, we make it **just the right time** to highlight one of our excellent community resources.