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Katia volunteered to document their learning and reflect this week.
Here is what Katia had to say.
Katia: The past 2 days, we've been completing a checklist to get through all the documents for the DBQ we’re going to write tomorrow (next week if there’s a snow day [there was a snow day]). You need to read the documents and get 100% on a comprehension quiz before you get a code that unlocks the next document. I think this is beneficial to me because writing the actual DBQ is generally easy for me, but understanding what the document is trying to depict is the challenging part. It was logistically confusing to everyone at first, but overall the concept of the activity was effective and we’ll see how it helps us write the actual essay.
Me: I wrote a blog a few years ago about the structure of the lessons Katia described. You can read it here: Lock and Key Methods.
Katia: First thing on the agenda today was a familiar, short Schoology quiz in which we have to decide whether a component of the DBQ meets all the requirements to receive a point. In this case, they were thesis statements for the African response DBQ. These can be pretty tricky when you’re not sure how picky to be, and it gets subjective based on the person. I guess that just shows how blatant we really have to be with our writing so there is no doubt to the reader that we’ve included each little checkmark. We also discussed a lot about the prompt and how these essays are going to be laid out based on these examples, which helped out a ton in writing the actual DBQ. Believe it or not, essays are much easier when you know exactly what you’re trying to talk about!
Katia: It was time to start writing the actual DBQ. To group the documents into 2 different arguments, my partner Dino and I looked through the document quizzes we’d taken last week to see which had promoted violence and which promoted diplomacy. Relying on those quizzes made it easier than it has ever been. Based on the class discussion, we also tried to implement a cause-and-effect type reasoning, outside information, and redundancy of using the prompt over and over again. As I mentioned previously, we really have to be obvious with what we are trying to write. I felt really good about this writing and I know exactly where we’re going to go with it when we pick it up again, which is a pretty rare feeling. If we could train ourselves to analyze the documents like we did when we took the quizzes, it would make a huge beneficial difference.
This week was interrupted by a snow day, which meant that the student did not get to finish writing the entire DBQ until the next week. Despite the loss of the day, students were able to analyze all or most of the documents. Another student was supposed to reflect this week, but he was sick a few days and the snow day impeded his ability to do that.
Reflection: I wish I would have written a weekly blog years ago. More importantly, I wish I would have included the student perspective years ago. I love Katia's insight on the process. She stated, "writing the actual DBQ is generally easy for me, but understanding what the document is trying to depict is the challenging part." Katia typically does great in the class and does not seem challenged by most of what we do. But I love that she provided some insight into what works and gets her to dive deeper into her learning.
Katia commented on the writing which highlights the subjectivity of writing. "These (thesis statements) can be pretty tricky when you’re not sure how picky to be, and it gets subjective based on the person. I guess that just shows how blatant we really have to be with our writing so there is no doubt to the reader that we’ve included each little checkmark." The difficult part of teaching the course is that writing is subjective, yet the College Board attempts to standardize the test. This is difficult when students are working towards mastery, yet have a specific audience they are writing towards.
For me, the biggest takeaway from the week is working on getting students to reflect on what is working for them. I hope they walk away with a greater sense of what type of learner they are. Albeit, they are a course that has a very rigid curriculum. Through reflection, I hope they reveal how they learn and can help me focus on that skill set in the future.
Reviewing the week, the students were in a state flow. They did not really need me. I had set up a learning plan, which is still very teacher directed and another issue to address later, that gave the students a strong purpose, allowed the students to work at their own pace, and be challenged. It is great to see the students working together towards a common goal and not need me to validate their learning as much.

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Hezbollah is seeking the formation of a national unity government in Lebanon. It believes that the international protection enjoyed by Lebanon as a country, including from the US, will in practice also apply to it. On the other hand, the effort to form a broad government also enables Israel to clarify its demands. Israel can make the US and European governments more aware of Hezbollah’s effective control of the Lebanese political system, including the army. Israel can take the opportunity to remind them that Hezbollah is preventing any attempt to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1701.
This situation also facilitates the delivery of several simultaneous messages. A warning can be indirectly transmitted, mainly via the US, to Saad Al-Hariri and other partners likely to join the government. They should be warned that in the event of escalation between Israel and Iran, violence by Hezbollah will result in damage throughout Lebanon. Decision-makers and the public in Western countries can be prepared for this possibility. Support can be canvassed for the idea that the total failure of Resolution 1701 and UNIFIL constitutes convincing proof that Israel cannot rely on international guarantees and foreign forces for its security.
Operation Northern Shield, which began on December 4, 2018, was aimed against the attack tunnels dug by Hezbollah into Israeli territory. For the first time in its conflict with Hezbollah, Israel accused Lebanon of failing to halt Hezbollah’s aggression. Israel also accused the Lebanese army of cooperation with Hezbollah. Israel has threatened Lebanon that if Lebanon does not fulfill the task imposed on it by Resolution 1701, it is liable to find itself at war with Israel.
Lebanon’s official response has been unclear. Many internal and external parties and variables influence its responses. These include the internal Lebanese political situation, Iran, the US, the West, Russia, the UN Security Council, and others. One of the main factors dictating caution by Lebanon under the current circumstances is the political situation in the country.
Understanding this situation and its consequences requires a description and analysis of the political system, the balance of power between the main political and ethnic groups in the country, and relations between the Lebanese army and Hezbollah. A knowledge of this situation makes it possible to understand Lebanon’s response to Operation Northern Shield in the local and international arenas.
The political system in Lebanon is based on three power centers: the presidency, the parliament, and the government. Each one of these institutions is headed by a representative of one of the country’s major sectarian groups. The president is a Christian, the Parliament is a Shi’ite, and the prime minister is a Sunni. This arrangement is designed to preserve the ethnic balance in Lebanon’s governmental institutions.
This arrangement is still in effect. In recent years, however, the political balance in the country has tilted more and more towards the Shi’ites, especially Hezbollah. The organization was able to form a network of political alliances with various political and ethnic groups in Lebanon, including Christians and Sunnis, thereby neutralizing and obstructing the opposing political and ethnic forces. Hezbollah’s political power is obviously based on its armed militia. Hezbollah’s arsenal is more powerful than that of the Lebanese Armed Forces, and also that of many countries in the world.
Lebanese Parliamentary Speaker Nabih Berri, a Shi’ite, heads the Liberation and Development Party and the Shi’ite Amal movement. In practice, he is an ally of Hezbollah, despite the historic rivalry between Hezbollah and Amal. Lebanese President Michel Aoun, a Christian, founded the Free Patriotic Movement and formerly headed the Reform and Change bloc. He is also a Hezbollah ally with respect to “resistance.” The Druze parties also support resistance, despite the political rivalry between them.
Hezbollah has successfully stymied the political power of Saad Al-Harari, a Sunni who head the Sunni Al-Mustaqbal (Future) Party. This success was achieved through a series of maneuvers that demonstrated political sophistication and flexibility, combined with reliance on its military power. One of the most significant measures is the agreement it reached with Al-Hariri for containing the political struggle. What this agreement means in practice is that Hezbollah undertook not to take military action against its political opponents in the country, as happened in May 2008.
Al-Hariri undertook to refrain from public criticism of Hezbollah’s activity inside and outside of Lebanon against non-Lebanese groups classed as enemies, including the Syrian rebels, the government in Yemen, Israel, etc. This agreement is also part of the 2016 agreement between Al-Hariri and Aoun. Under this agreement, Al-Hariri supported Aoun’s appointment as president in return for Aoun’s appointment of Al-Hariri as prime minister during Aoun’s entire term in office, with Hezbollah’s support.
These agreements and understandings culminated in the breakup of the March 14 Alliance, a large and effective political bloc opposed to Hezbollah and its allies. They also weakened the power of Al-Hariri and his party in the Sunni community. He became the object of criticism, complaints, and anger from Sunnis, senior figures in his own party such as former Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, and decision-makers in Saudi Arabia, regarded as the patron of the Sunnis in Lebanon. At the same time, the agreement strengthened Hezbollah politically in Lebanon. Hezbollah gained the political tranquility it needed in order to step up its military campaign in Syria and build up its capabilities against Israel and other parties in the region.
Another significant measure by Hezbollah, mainly through allies such as President Aoun, was a change in the election law. This change increased Hezbollah’s strength in the Lebanese Parliament to a virtual majority, while substantially reducing the political power of Al-Hariri, its Sunni rival. Furthermore, Sunni parties allied with Hezbollah won 10 seats in Parliament in these elections, compared with 20 seats for Al-Hariri’s party. Hezbollah is now insisting that these Sunni parliamentarians be represented in the future government. Seven months after the elections, Al-Hariri still heads a temporary government in Lebanon. Lebanese law does not limit the time for forming a government.
The Al-Hariri government purports to be a national unity government. As such, it bestows legitimacy on Hezbollah and prevents Hezbollah’s political rivals who are members of the government from criticizing it. The balance of power in the government will reflect the balance of power in Parliament, where Hezbollah and its allies have a majority.
After Israel discovered the tunnels, it directly accused Hezbollah and Lebanon of responsibility. Lebanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Gebran Bassil, Aoun’s son-in-law and successor as party leader, immediately responded that he hoped that the result would be the rapid formation of a government that would enable Lebanon to meet the challenges.
Al-Hariri has a range of motives for supporting these agreements and arrangements. He wants to be prime minister, but he has major financial difficulties. He wants to ensure control by him and his party of Lebanon’s economic and monetary systems, even at the cost of Lebanon’s sovereignty and his principles. Saudi Arabia’s effort to dissuade him from the agreement with Hezbollah and Aoun failed.
The outcome of the struggle between Al-Hariri and Hezbollah also greatly affects other actors in Lebanon, such as the Lebanese Forces, which are moderating their criticism of Hezbollah. The Shi’ites are the politically strongest ethnic group. The two Shi’ite parties, Liberation and Development (Amal) and Hezbollah, cooperate closely. An opposition exists, but it is weak and fearful.
The Christians are divided between two main parties: the Lebanese Forces and Reform and Change. These two parties allied with each other two years ago, resulting in the appointment of Aoun as president. This alliance has been through many crises, however, and the chances of it achieving real unity are poor. The Sunnis are divided between Al-Hariri’s party and several small parties that jointly represent about a third of the Lebanese Sunnis. The Druze are also divided between two main parties dominated by the and Arslan families.
President Aoun, the commander-in-chief of the Lebanese Armed Forces, has a positive attitude towards the military wing of Hezbollah, provided that it does not use force in internal Lebanese affairs. Resistance to Israel is described as a joint goal of Hezbollah and the Lebanese army. In principle, Aoun favors a defensive military response by both the Lebanese army and Hezbollah to an Israeli incursion into Lebanese territory. This includes territory disputed by the parties, such as Shebaa Farms, the northern part of Kfar Ghajar, and Kfar Chouba. Aoun has expressed no opposition to date to Hezbollah’s offensive military operations outside Lebanon in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen, or to Nasrallah’s declaration of his organization’s intention to conquer the Galilee.
The Lebanese army also collaborates with Hezbollah both passively and actively. For example, the Lebanese army has not dared to appoint a chief military intelligence officer for southern Lebanon without Hezbollah’s consent. One officer who served in this position, Abbas Ibrahim, is the current chief of Lebanese general security, a Lebanese security force with close ties to Hezbollah. The Lebanese army and Hezbollah collaborated in the fighting against Jabhat Al-Nusra, a Syrian rebel faction that conquered Lebanese territory. The Lebanese army attacked Jabhat Al-Nusra from Lebanese territory in the west, while Hezbollah attacked from Syrian territory in the east. The Lebanese army and Hezbollah’s forces collaborate against Sunni terrorist squads in Lebanon. Lebanon’s army and security forces allowed Hezbollah fighters to cross the border in order to fight in Syria and to return to Lebanon without interference. However, they arrested Lebanese Sunnis who joined the Syrian rebels and returned to Lebanon.
Hezbollah aided the Lebanese army in a clash with the IDF in Kfar Al-Adisa in 2010. Lebanese army units visit a Hezbollah monument and museum in Mleeta. Many Sunnis, especially in the north, accuse Lebanese army intelligence of collaborating with Hezbollah.
The political and military situation portrayed here leads to the conclusion that Hezbollah now exercises direct and indirect control over Lebanon’s governmental and military systems and the important decisions made by them. In many respects, Lebanon has become a tool in the hands of Hezbollah. Lebanon’s ability to respond independently against Hezbollah is being increasingly constricted, although this situation is liable to cost the country dearly.
Lebanon was never capable of taking military action against Hezbollah. Hezbollah’s political opponents are aware of the Lebanese army’s inferiority. They remember how Hezbollah used its military power against the government and Al-Hariri in May 2008. Hezbollah invaded Beirut, while the Lebanese army stood aside and took no action to defend the state and its institutions. There can be no doubt that these events, together with the 1975-1990 Lebanese civil war, are deeply engraved in Lebanese public consciousness, especially among Hezbollah’s opponents. They prefer to avoid risking a military conflict or another bloody civil war that they would surely lose.
Despite their fear of its military power, Hezbollah’s enemies maintained the ability to oppose it politically until two years ago. The above-mentioned arrangements that made Aoun president and Al-Hariri prime minister, however, neutralized this option. One example of this was Aoun’s response to the statement by Al-Hariri and his faction about the Israeli operation against Hezbollah’s tunnels. Al-Hariri and his allies indirectly criticized Hezbollah, saying that Lebanon was committed to Resolution 1701 banning any military activity by any party whatsoever south of the Litani River, except for the Lebanese army. They did add that Israel should stop violating Lebanese sovereignty.
Parties in Lebanon assert that under pressure from Hezbollah, which did not like Al-Hariri’s statement, Aoun tried to retaliate against Al-Hariri. Aoun declared that he would demand that Hariri form a government on short order under the threat of having Parliament depose Hariri as prime minister.
Christian leader Samir Geagea is an exception in this matter. He declared that if the accusations were true, the government should officially demand that Hezbollah halt any action jeopardizing Lebanon. He wanted the government to send Hezbollah a message that the Lebanese government had exclusive responsibility for military and security decisions. However, although his party, the Lebanese Forces, doubled its parliamentary representation in the recent elections from eight to 15 seats, his political power is still limited. He is unable to do much without the help of the Sunni Al-Mustaqbal party. Geagea is also unwilling to attack Hezbollah now as he did in the past because he wants to become president.
A significant political opposition to Hezbollah, or at least political criticism of it and popular resistance to it, can occur if the system of agreements and understandings between Aoun, Al-Hariri, and Hezbollah is dismantled or substantially eroded. This could happen if Al-Hariri does not form the next government, or if the next government falls apart for some reason. Hezbollah and Aoun, however, will do everything they can to prevent this. Their strong interest in presenting an image of unity can give the Al-Hariri faction, a means of restraining Hezbollah, however limited, in its response to Israeli action, should exceptional events occur. The same thing is true, albeit indirect, for all supporters of stability in the region, including Israel.
As in the political arena, the Lebanese response at a state level is affected by Hezbollah’s defensive alliances and agreements. President Aoun and Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, who run Lebanon’s foreign policy, in all probability have no desire for a military conflict with Israel. Such a conflict will severely damage Lebanon and its economy.
On the other hand, they are making no real effort to restrain Hezbollah, as demanded by Israel, the US, and the Security Council. Lebanese daily Al Akhbar quoted Western diplomatic sources as saying that Lebanon had refused a request from Israel via the US to order its army to examine the tunnels in Lebanese territory.
Lebanon will provide Hezbollah with cover from the West and the Security Council. It will try to put Israel on the defensive by alleging that Israel is violating Lebanese sovereignty and Resolution 1701, thereby disavowing responsibility for Hezbollah’s actions south of the Litani River and in Israeli territory.
Aoun previously refused to assume responsibility for Hezbollah’s armaments, saying that the arms were regional in character and required a regional solution, meaning a solution with Iran.
Aoun nevertheless seems to be pinning his hopes on the Western and American umbrella that has covered Lebanon since the civil war began in Syria. This umbrella was aimed at protecting Lebanon from involvement in any war whatsoever. The West has no interest in the outbreak of another war in the Middle East. Such a war will result in another wave of immigration to Europe by Lebanese and Syrian refugees living in Lebanon. Furthermore, the US has strong and firm connections with the Lebanese army.
Aoun also believes, with justification, that the European Union will not agree to classify the political wing of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. He is relying on the West refusing to allow any significant change in Security Council Resolution 1701, such as invoking Section 7 of the UN Charter, which provides for the imposition of sanctions. The West fears that Hezbollah and its supporters in southern Lebanon will take revenge on Western soldiers participating in the UNIFIL forces. Aoun will also not agree to such a change, and without Lebanese approval, the UNIFIL forces will have to leave the area.
Aoun will again attempt to evade responsibility for Hezbollah’s weapons and offensive actions. He will dissemble and let the matter ride until the next crisis. As long as Lebanon is covered by the Western umbrella, he will be able to avoid responsibility. There are other possibilities, however, that he must consider. A major attack on Iran will certainly draw a response from Hezbollah. From there, it is a very short road to Lebanese involvement in a war with Israel.
The political and military situation in Lebanon makes it clear that Lebanon has neither the desire nor the ability to properly address Hezbollah’s threat to its sovereignty. Lebanon is doing nothing, despite the severe damage that it will suffer in a war against Israel.
Only international pressure and an abrupt change in American policy can sharpen Lebanon’s dilemmas, and undermine the political structure that Hezbollah has been able to impose on the country in recent years. Israel can play no direct role in this. It shares an interest with other players in the region, however, in taking diplomatic action, especially in US Congressional and European arenas. Discovery of the tunnels should be used to highlight the complete failure of the existing mechanisms for dealing with the problem.
 Over the past year, Hezbollah gave notice of its intention to take over Lebanon’s economic and monetary systems. See Simon, Elisheva, “On Hezbollah’s Intention to Seize Control of the Economic and Monetary Systems in Lebanon,” JISS, November 23, 2018, https://jiss.org.il/en/simon-on-hezbollahs-intention-to-seize-control-of-the-economic-and-monetary-systems-in-lebanon/.
 On December 10, 2018, during the IDF’s work on locating the tunnels, Lebanese army soldiers aimed their weapons at Israeli soldiers, whom they alleged had entered Lebanese territory.
 Aoun wants to be remembered as a president who labored on behalf of Lebanon’s welfare, independence, and sovereignty. Lebanon’s international debt totals over $80 billion. The country is in dire economic straits, and a war against Israel will push it towards total collapse.

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Striving to be the best, one plant a time.
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“Every year, the cultivated fields nestled in the foothills of Santa Barbara’s wine country turn a lush green, and the succulent fruit hanging from the vines ripen in shades of – yellow and red? That’s because I’m not talking grapes but chile peppers – millions of them.
‘I saw an opportunity and figured I’d give it a try,’ chile farmer Juan Cisneros says with a modest shrug.
Better Produce incorporates Good Agricultural Practices and Good Manufacturing Practices as a system. This concept is based on teamwork, continuous operation improvement, and three-way communication between sales, management, and production employees.
A Quality Improvement/Quality Control program has been established to address issues of, finished product checks, working conditions, equipment maintenance, safety while using equipment, sanitation, employee hygiene, etc. The management at Better Produce believes these measures will ensure that the finished product meets the highest standard of quality for the customer’s end use.
Better Produce has been operating since 1988. As a family owned and operated company we take special care in everything we do to ensure taste, quality, service and most of all safety.
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Amazon wants to be the brain -- and the heart -- inside your big-screen TV.
On Wednesday the company introduced a small black box called Amazon Fire TV that enables television sets to access Internet programming, including streaming shows from its Amazon Prime subscription service, and a giant library of video games.
The device will cost $99 and will start shipping immediately.
With it, Amazon will compete head-on both with streaming gadgets like Apple (AAPL) TV and console makers like Microsoft (MSFT) and Sony (SNE).
All of these companies, in various ways and for various reasons, want to supplement -- and, over time, possibly replace -- the set top boxes from cable and satellite companies that sit in most living rooms.
Amazon's Fire TV has several unique features, including a remote control with a voice recognition search feature, so a user can speak the name of a show, actor or topic and find that content.
"Voice is the next platform battleground," the Forrester analyst James McQuivey wrote on Twitter. He noted that Microsoft on Wednesday announced its answer to Apple's Siri and Google Now, a voice-activated assistant feature called Cortana.
Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos said Fire TV "has voice search that actually works." In a promotional letter on the Amazon home page, he wrote, "The old way of searching with a TV remote -- scrolling and clicking one letter at a time on an alphabet grid -- is painful. With Fire TV you simply speak the title, actor, or genre into the remote and you're done."
A remote with a microphone won't be enough for Amazon to win the streaming device wars, though.
At a press event in Manhattan, Amazon differentiated Fire TV by reading snippets of negative user reviews of other streaming media gadgets from Amazon.com. The complaints called out competitors like Google (GOOG) (maker of Chromecast), Microsoft, Apple, Samsung and Vizio by name.
The company said it identified three big issues that make streaming devices "too frustrating:" inadequate search tools, sluggish performance and closed ecosystems of apps.
Peter Larsen, an Amazon vice president called Fire TV "tiny" and "incredibly powerful."
One feature, called ASAP, predicts what TV episodes a user might watch next, and "queues them up so that they start instantly," Larsen said.
Fire TV may help advance Amazon's streaming TV ambitions. The company has started to introduce original shows, like "Alpha House" and "Betas," and has spent handsome sums of money to secure exclusive rights to other shows, like past seasons of Fox's "24." But its streaming service is a fraction of the size of Netflix (NFLX)'s library.
To underscore the point that Fire TV doesn't just exist to support its Amazon Prime service, the demonstration showed off non-Amazon programs like NBC's "Chicago Fire."
"It's the easiest place to watch Netflix," Larsen said pointedly.
The event also included a highlight reel for Amazon Studios' original shows, including a second season of "Alpha House," which is in production now.
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Amazon highlighted Fire TV's easy access to its children's programming interface, called FreeTime, and music and photos.
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As an artist I paint to discover my self, all those misteries and dreams that I carry inside. my works are a reflection of my personality.
Born in Mexico City in 1986.
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In 1998, I took my first art class, in which I developed my skill in drawing and acrylic painting. In that period of time, I learned a lot about well known and famous Mexican artists (for example: Rufino Tamayo, Jose Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Saturnino Herran, among others) and thanks to them, I decided to do my own work that relates to the Mexican art, culture and traditions.
In 2001, I moved to the United States with my family.
I went to Manteca High School for two years and during my time there, I took an art class and painted my first mural, where I had my first recognition and also during that period I won some crafts contests.
In 2004, I was studying art, drawing and painting at San Joaquin Delta College. In my painting class, my colleagues and I were chosen to work on a mural for the ESL class (English as a Second Language) and we title the mural “Building the dreams”, which I was awarded and recognized as a muralist painter.
In the meantime of my training, I met an artist named Guillermo H Kelly, who became my personal teacher and he taught me how to develop the oil technique more fluently and we worked together on some projects.
Over the years, my work (landscapes, portraits and still life paintings) have been bought by private collectors.
My goal as an artist is to be able to touch people’s feeling and make that emotional connection through my artistic works and why not, leave my mark in the history.


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Preface. Section I. Cytoskeleton and Cell Cycle. Microtubule dynamics in vitro and their relationship with cellular function (D. Job). Structure and function of two molecular motors and their pathways (R.H. Wade). The cellular machinery for chromosome movement (J.R. McIntosh). The role of microtubules in the creation of order in the cell (R.L. Margolis). Section II. Intracellular Communication - Membranes - Synapses - Time. Intracellular membrane traffic (M. McCaffrye, B. Goud). Signaling in sensory cells. Molecular structure and function of ion channels (U.B. Kaupp). Theoretical models for oscillations in biochemical and cellular systems (A. Goldbeter). Section III. Development of the Central Nervous System. An overview of nervous system development (O. Pourquié, F. Bourrat). Section IV. Student Seminars . Inhibition as binding controller at the level of a single neuron (Information processing in a pyramidal-type neuron) (A.K. Vidybida). Isolated nerve cell response to laser irradiation and photodynamic (A.B. Uzdenski). Section V. Lectures and Seminars presented at the summerschool but not published in the proceedings. The endomembrane system (D. Sabatini). The history of the two-stage model for membrane protein folding (D.M. Engelman). Post synaptic receptors and the organisation of the synapse (R. Kelly). Short reports on Ph.D. student seminars. Conclusion. Relations between physics and biology (B. Jacrot).
The first section of this volume corresponds to courses on the cytoskeleton, its various structures and its dynamics, especially during the cell cycle. The reductionist approach is favoured in this field and considerable effort is spent on finding out how these structures are built up from their component molecules, how they grow or decrease in size, how they interact with each other and with other cell components. The second section describes the endo membrane system of a eukaryotic cell and the regulated protein traffic that flows through it. Part III deals with the onset of higher levels of organization. Topics covered include the development of the central nervous system, the role of time in biology and theoretical models to describe biochemical and cellular oscillations. The volume concludes with a reflection on physics and biology and the author shares some of his thoughts on the different ways in which physicists and biologists tackle problems in their respective fields.

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If you're a writer (or aspiring writer), I'm guessing you're like me...you enjoy reading (of course!), but you especially enjoy reading books for writers. There is so much we can learn when we read about another author's experiences. Not only that, but it often provides us with extra motivation when we surround ourselves with other writers. It's nice to know that we are not alone. You are, after all, not the only writer to experience the dreaded "writers block". When we read books by other writers, for writers, we learn that we are not the only ones, perhaps, that scribble notes for future books on anything we can get our hands on (e.g. napkins, old receipts, etc.). We learn that other writers dream of owning (for display) an antique typewriter too (I thought I was the only one!).
Reading books for writers, by writers allows us to learn about others experiences (I also share regular exclusive author interviews here on my blog--- be sure to scroll through the blog and check them out, here. I interview both indie and traditionally published authors, and share exclusive interviews from authors who write everything from children's books, thrillers, romance, nonfiction and everything in between). And now, without further ado, here are 10 great books for writers, about writing. Which books on the list have you read? Which ones are you adding to your "to read" list right now?
And as a special bonus today, I'm sharing a brand new *COVER REVEAL* of my upcoming book, WRITE YOUR STORY: How to Jump Start Your Writing Career (by Stacey Ritz). The book is set to publish later this spring (2017)...stay tuned for release dates and more info.

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Interview: Alan Johnson MP | How Did They Do It?
Alan Johnson held some of the most senior roles in the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Having been elected to Parliament in 1997, he went on to become the Secretary of State for Work & Pensions, Trade & Industry, Education, Health, and finally Home Secretary.
Alan began his life in absolute poverty, growing up in one of the most deprived parts of London. The Johnson family had no central heating, no indoor toilet and his mother, Lily, was a victim of domestic abuse. She died when Alan was just 12 years old, making him and his sister orphans. He left school at 15 before taking up a job stacking shelves in Tesco and becoming a postman aged 18.
His early life is a sharp contrast with the experiences of most of his contemporaries on either side of the House of Commons. Far from being a career politician, one of Alan’s earliest pursuits was music, joining two bands, one of which was fairly successful and played at venues around London. His dreams of a life in music were finally ended when his guitar was stolen outside the White Hart in Islington and he moved into a more stable career path at the Post Office.
Known for being personable and quick witted, Alan worked his way up the trade union movement, and was elected to Parliament in 1997. In office he was in charge of two notoriously difficult departments, the Department of Health and the Home Office.
Often inspired by the problems he had experienced in his youth, Alan worked to reduce the overwhelming number of incapacity claimants and improve he lives of children in care, as well as dealing with the major policy issues of the day, such as counter-terrorism and hospital bugs.
You started out with nothing, no contacts, no qualifications and no particular workplace skills to mention. What personal qualities were needed to get Alan Johnson from stacking shelves to one of the great offices of state?
I suppose I had an ability to write reasonably well, speak reasonably well and argue and negotiate reasonably well. These are all attributes you needed in the trade union movement and attributes you need in Parliament.
I couldn’t say it was “determination” in my case as I never set out to be a Member of Parliament from the beginning. Having said that, you do need to have a certain amount of self-confidence in order to do these things, I certainly developed that from childhood. I had help from various people, principally my English teacher, who saw something in me that others didn’t seem to see so clearly.
Were there any specific experiences from your upbringing that gave you these characteristics?
I just liked reading and when you like reading you pick up a lot of the tricks of writing and how to express yourself. That love of reading was instilled in me principally by my mother, who took us down to Ladbroke Grove Library when we were just little tots. I think that has a lot to do with my success as most of what I have done I have been elected to do, rather than appointed to do.
You weren’t deliberately directing yourself to be a cabinet minister from a young age but did you have a sense at all when you were growing up that you wanted to do something political?
Not political, no. I had a sense that there might be an opportunity for me to write or be a musician. I always thought that something would come up, for example, when I joined the Post Office, I started reading the Post Office staff magazine and thought “someone must write that, maybe I could transfer over to that?”. So I always thought something would come up but I was pretty lethargic, I never set out to make it happen for myself. I never went and played in pubs as many musicians do off their own back to promote their work.
Could you tell me a bit more about the Area and the Inbetweens, the bands you were involved in?
The Area was just a band started by myself and two of my friends, Andrew Wiltshire and Danny Curtis. At the time Andrew and I were 16 and we thought Danny was ancient but he must have only been about 20. The three of us decided to form a band and advertised for two other band members. We had lots of gigs around London and as far out as Aylesbury College where we played to about a thousand people, that was our biggest gig.
We had all our gear nicked, including my amplifier which I was paying for another two years on hire purchase. The band that then invited me to join them was much more professional, they had a manager and their own amplifiers. They were multi-racial as well which was unusual in the mid-sixties, really unusual. Once again all our gear got nicked in Islington, including my fabulous guitar so I just could not go on. By that time I was about to get married and thought I would get a steady occupation so I joined the Post Office.
You have talked about your book being a biography of your parents, Steve and Lily and your sister, Linda. The book has been widely noted for not having an overtly political message. What message would you like people to take away from it?
I just wanted to tell a story about these two incredible women, my mother and my sister, but when a parent dies very young, you don’t know them very well, so the act of recreating and in a sense being their biographer, was the real challenge for me. I wanted to make it interesting and record that postwar life in Britain in the 50s which is often thought of as a prosperous time.
I was in one of the poorest areas because North Kensington, right back to the 18th century was a very poor area. So it was about telling the story of the location, the Notting Hill riots, the murder of Kelso Cochrane and then the experience of being in a school on King’s Road during the 1960s. If I wanted the reader to be left with any message it was that this is a well written book and that they understand the lives of people like Lily.
Did you ever feel like you were sorting out a particular issue during your ministerial career directly due to the experiences you had in your youth?
A few, yes, at Work and Pensions we were dealing with millions of people that had been consigned to a life on benefits in order to bring the unemployment statistics down. The numbers on incapacity benefit had gone up from around 700,000 in 1979 to 2.6 million in 1997. Everyone knew why that was, it was because after they left the shipyards or steel works as they shut down, they were ushered onto incapacity benefit.
It wasn’t a lot of money but it was higher than Jobseeker’s Allowance and you didn’t have to keep trying to get work. So in areas like Strathclyde, which was a particular hotspot, people were pushed to the margin of their own lives. When we started saying to people that we would change the law so that people could go back to work without having to go to the back of the queue, people were beating down the door to have the opportunity.
Another was education and looked after children [children in public care] who had a terrible time and who I could quite easily have turned out to be. Half a per cent of the child population are looked after children, but they go on to make up 20 per cent of the prison population. They were being put into care too easily, they were being moved around too much and pushed out too young. Those were the areas where I could relate what was going on to my own experiences.
Some politicians seem to get affected by the “hubris of power” after a few years in office. Margaret Thatcher is perhaps a good example of this. Did you find that you needed to ground yourself as the years went by?
I didn’t have that chip in my mental make-up! No, I didn’t have to ground myself, the people around me would do that anyway. You have special advisors as a cabinet minister and they are generally people you know and they wouldn’t let me get above my station. There are many MPs, on the Conservative side as well, who find the way that some of our colleagues treat people who they consider to be menial, or people who are not very important to their progression, really appalling.
I’ve heard stories of very senior politicians going on television and being very keen to chat to the presenters but their rudeness to the make-up team and the staff is extraordinary. You either have that in you or you don’t.
Most of the characters in the House of Commons do have an innate and very robust self-confidence that has been nurtured through experiences that you wouldn’t have had.
You get these sorts of characters that you are talking about but you wouldn’t be surrounded by them. They were there and they and to be dealt with. I wish I had gone to university, I think university gives you a certain confidence, it certainly gives you a network and what used to be called a “trained mind”. I was Higher Education Minister for a time and it was never a case of saying to people “I got where I am without university”, I was always arguing with young people that they could go to university and that they should aspire to go to university.
There is a sense that people who have come from a more privileged background have come from a different planet and I had no real link to them at all but that would have been the case whether I had been in politics or not, I just met more of them in politics.
John Prescott gets quite hung up on the idea that there is a huge gulf between him and people that came from different economic backgrounds.
Yes, why was John so prickly about all that? I think it was because he got a really bad press. It’s a chicken or the egg question. He used to get people like Nicholas Soames, who whenever he saw him would say, “gin and tonic please, waiter”.
I never had that, there were a few people who would use the fact that I was a postman as a reason why I shouldn’t be in the job. I would get the odd letter saying “that is what would happen when you put a postman in a cabinet position”. But in my experience that was a minority. John suffered more of that, perhaps because of the age he came through Parliament and because he was Deputy Prime Minister.
At the beginning of his autobiography, John Major wrote about how he had mentally prepared himself for no longer being Prime Minister way before he left office. He realised he would need to adapt to a time without the buzz of government, constant news interest, chauffeurs and the like. How did you prepare yourself for leaving office?
John could see the writing on the wall a long time before the ’97 election. We should have seen the writing on the wall and certainly the odds were that we were going to be out of office but in the end it was a hung parliament. I thought we might continue in government and when it turned out to be a hung parliament I thought we may go into government with the Lib Dems.
So it was very sudden, though probably less sudden for a Home Secretary because you keep protection for a while. You keep the car and all that whereas most ministers are shown the door and that’s it. You even ring your old private office two hours after you had lost government and whereas they would have said “Hello, Alan Johnson’s office”, they say “this is Theresa May’s place”. I was a bit at sea for a while and I hated shadowing the position. We had all agreed to shadow ourselves so one moment I was Home Secretary the next I was Shadow Home Secretary.
It must have been immensely dislocating.
It was awful and I hadn’t prepared myself for that. John Major didn’t have to in a way because he knew he was out as you don’t go anywhere after you have been Prime Minister. It’s Tony Blair’s famous phrase, “when you are in opposition you wake up every morning and think about what you are going to say whereas in government you wake up and think about what you are going to do”.
What advice would you give to some who is interested in a career in politics and government?
Get some experience of the world under your belt and don’t try to do it too young, I think there is a push back against that now. Consider being a councillor or doing something voluntarily for your community while you are getting on with your career. Do something that means you are dealing with people and representing people.
You can have an inverted snobbery about these things, William Pitt the Younger was 24 when he became Prime Minister, but that’s when people dropped down dead when they were 34. It is very hard for people to think that someone so young can be in Parliament making decisions about people’s lives when they haven’t got much experience of life. Charles Kennedy came in very young and he would admit that he couldn’t contribute as much as an older person could.
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Really liked this interview have just read Alan Johnson’s book and he certainly is a man of the people.


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Facts about Fire Extinguishers inform the readers about a tool used for control or extinguish small fires. During an emergency circumstance, people use it to extinguish fire. It is known as an active fire protection tool. If the fire is out of control, it is recommended for the people to call the fire department or fire brigade in your town. Why don’t you check the following post below for details about fire extinguishers?
An agent is found inside a hand-held cylindrical pressure vessel. If there is a small fire, you just have to discharge it.
The less common design of fire extinguishers is not equipped with cylindrical pressure vessels.
Fire extinguishers are present in all buildings in United States. A fire protection company will inspect it once in a year. However, the frequent inspection is needed in some jurisdiction in US.
A tag will be placed on the fire extinguisher to give details related to the recharge and annual inspection.
Fire extinguishers are available in two major types. Both are the cartridge-operated and stored-pressure extinguishers.
The firefighting agent and expellant are stored in the same chamber for the store pressure fire extinguishers.
Nitrogen is mostly used for dry chemical extinguishers. The air is found on the water and foam fire extinguishers. The most prevalent type of the device is the store pressure one.
The less common type of fire extinguisher is the cartridge-operated extinguisher. The industrial facilities employ it. It does not apply nitrogen. It employs the compressed carbon dioxide.
In United States, the major types of cartridge-operated extinguishers are spotted in dry powder and dry chemicals.
Other types of fire extinguishers are related to the design. You can choose the car mounted or wheeled fire extinguishers and handheld fire extinguishers.
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It doesn’t matter who you are, from time to time you will find yourself facing the big C’s: chaos, crisis and calamity.
We can speculate about why this happens all we want. But the fact is that it happens from time to time and it happens to all of us. So here is some help.
When you are facing chaos, crisis or calamity the first wisdom step is to get into a state of order within.
An orderly inner state expresses inner peace and clarity. A feeling of relief, wholeness and contentment pervades your being to its very core. In this state of inner order you rise above your problems and can see your way to solutions.
In fact, you are already living in your solution when you enter inner peace because you are feeling the way you really want to feel, experiencing life in the harmonious way that you really want to experience it. You have found what Pythagoreans referred to as the “Golden Mean”, the point of balance and harmony at the center of all things.
When we slip out of inner order we stumble into strife with life and discordant contention with other people. Driven by fear we try to make our lives right, but we are doing so from the wrong state. We can only create more conditions that match our inner state. Emotional chaos creates circumstantial chaos.
Your state radiates because your emotions characterize a dynamic energy condition. Sensitive people can tell how you are feeling without you telling them verbally, because they can feel how you feel. Even when others are not conscious of how you feel, their feelings are influenced by your feelings, and vice versa.
You are like a magnet attracting conditions that match the magnetic field of your emotional radiance. A chaotic emotional state causes circumstances, including the condition of your physical body, to move toward more chaos, more disorder, more things going wrong. A balanced, centered, harmonious emotional state moves your physical condition toward well being and every other area of life into an orderly flow in which things “just happen” to work out and fall into place for you.
Your internal, emotional state is really the foundation of your fate. Trying to control situations from a state of emotional stress is self-sabotaging. Whatever you create your emotional state is un-creating as long as you create from emotional turbulence.
Your emotions also impact your thinking. Your ability to think soundly and strategically, to come up with feasible creative ideas, to accurately observe and analyze facts are all compromised to the extent that you try to figure things out from a state of emotional stress.
So the next time that you find yourself facing a problem that you feel threatened by, the next time you find yourself worrying about what will be, make it your first priority to return to an internal state of serene clarity. It is only from that internal state of order that you can create more order in your life.
The first step to getting into the internal state of order is to recognize it for the priority that it is. We usually believe that we have to fix our circumstances first to feel calm and confident about things, but the opposite proves true. You cannot fix your life from a broken emotional state. Your state predicts your fate.
The next step is to watch your thinking, so that you can redirect your thinking away from whatever thoughts disturb your emotional state. This is called “mentally letting go” of the problem. You have to let go of the problem mentally in order to enter the right internal state where solutions appear.
As you continue watching your mind, keeping your thoughts off of your problems, imagine the feeling of inner peace that you want to feel. Relax your body, open your heart, and just try to imagine yourself feeling deep inner peace, contentment and relief.
Depending upon how much stress you are experiencing and how long you have been living in stress, you will gradually find your internal condition improving. Every little improvement within produces improvements without.
The more you practice living in a state of peace and poise to the best of your ability during whatever is happening in your life, the easier it will be to do so when you need it most. This is how to rise above chaos, crisis and calamity and succeed.
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text: Emergency Management is a system of plans designed to handle, or manage, large-scale emergencies and disasters including natural,technological or man-made disasters. Emergency Management is divided into four parts or phases: Mitigation (prevention), Preparedness, Response and Recovery. In the event that a disaster does occur, Emergency Management acts to coordinate response personnel and resources to address immediate damage and assists in recovery efforts to return the community back to its pre-disaster state.


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So totally excellent for dog hair (4dogs) and fine particles on my hardwood floor that they bring in from the great outdoors!!! They say to take the foam off and wash it, but instead, I use clear packaging tape and it pulls off almost everything! Once in awhile I will definitely wash it, but I am handicapped, in a wheelchair most of the time and I do what works and is easiest! All I know is that my floors feel totally clean and smooth again and I love this broom like no other before it!!

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We invited comments on our revised guidance on windows in early 2017. This was part of our update to our series of non-statutory guidance notes on best practices in Managing Change in the Historic Environment.
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Why is a mother having sleepless nights just because her daughter doesn’t want to have kids even after years of marriage? What kind of gender predicaments does an expecting mother find herself in as she nurtures her unborn child? How a 5-year-old infers matters about his inheritance? How pained is the life of aging grandparents who live miles away from their grandchildren? Why is a mother-in-law, daughter-in-law relationship doomed forever? Can anyone ever justify the extravagance of marriage ceremonies in India? And last but not the least how are people doomed when relationships go ugly and there are tiny lives involved?
I picked up this book for two reasons: firstly, the cover was attractive and got me curious(whoever said do not judge a book by it’s cover!). Secondly, I read the first story of the book and it was humorous and decided I definitely wanted to read this book. The stories had me laughing, nodding along furiously and shedding a tear or two. Hence, I would say I did like the read.
Anupriya is an eloquent storyteller who has given depth to day-to-day stories making them memorable. Many of the stories are structured as solutions to tangles we face in our everyday life. The stories reemphasize my belief that with a little bit of empathy, thought and work we can find answers to all our problems.
Her characters are well-defined and rounded and drawn from real-life, individuals we find all around us. The toddler with a mind of his own, young parents in need of some ‘marriage heat’, middle-class grandparents who have worked all their life to give their daughters a life and now pampering their grandchildren, a stay-at-home mother, and so on. I identified strongly with the character of Amrita; as a mother of two kids less than 5, her stories were right up my alley and enlightening. The clincher is that the author is able to put herself in the shoes of each of her characters and portray their emotions.
Xerox habits: There have been innumerable times I have discussed this with my husband: prospective couples should discuss their preferred “fan speed” before making the decision to get married to each other. Read this story to find out Anupriya’s take on it.
‘Letting go’ was written powerfully and answered the question: why even highly-educated women stay in abusive relationships as long as they do.
The ‘Jealous Mother-in-law‘ was heart-warming and made me wish for an ideal world where everyone has empathy.
The parenting stories were insightful and contained a host of perspectives for parents of young children. I did learn a lot from them.
The only suggestion I would give is to shuffle the stories around a bit, to improve the continuity(maybe group the parenting tales), but I guess the author knows best about her babies.


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Nose Surgery, commonly known as a Rhinoplasty or 'nose job' is a procedure which reshapes the nose by reducing or increasing its size, removing a hump, or by changing the shape of the top or bridge.
The nose is one of the defining characteristics of the face, perhaps the most important. Any disproportion or irregularity in the nose can make you self-conscious. Sometimes irregularities are inherited (the “family nose”) or they are the result of a sporting injury or accident.
As well as being unsightly, nasal deformity may also create physical repercussions such as breathing difficulties and sinus infections. Rhinoplasty can therefore not only dramatically improve the look of your nose and the overall symmetry of your face, but also its function.
The procedure is usually performed under general anaesthetic, although it can be performed under heavy or “twilight” sedation which reduces recovery time. Generally the surgeon will work from the inside of the nose; the skin and external area is not touched from the outside which means there are no visible scars.
In open Rhinoplasty a tiny scar is made outside. The actual technique used will depend on the type of reshaping to be done, and your surgeon will discuss this with you at your consultation.
What is The Cost of Nose Surgery?
Pricing is offered on a case-by-case basis during your consultation. As you can imagine, one patients’ requirements are wildly different to another patient. The cost of surgery will vary depending on how severe and drastic you would like your final result to be from your current look.
More subtle changes may not require as much work from your surgeon. On the flip side, a complete restructuring of the nose will require more from your surgeon and will cost more.
All of your options will be fully explained to you during your free consultation, including your surgeons expert advice. This will help you make the best decision.
As a general guide, rhinoplasty can cost anywhere from £3000-£6000 or more for the more involved surgery cases.
Can I Just Get A Nose Job on the NHS?
There are a few types of nose jobs available. Some are available on the NHS where some are not.
The first type is ‘functional’ nose surgery. Functional rhinoplasty is a procedure that is performed to help you to breathe. If your nose shape naturally, or through trauma is obstructing your breathing, then this can potentially be corrected on the NHS.
All of these conditions may affect breathing or cause some sort of pain.
What Types of Cosmetic Nose Surgery and Rhinoplasty Are There?
The other type of nose job, which isn’t available on the NHS, is cosmetic nose surgery which is undertaken for aesthetic purposes.
This doesn’t serve a functional purpose i.e. doesn’t help with breathing and therefore, the NHS doesn’t usually consider cosmetic surgery. Though, it could be argued that a cosmetic nose job does improve a patients’ quality of life. Generally, the NHS will not cover cosmetic procedures.
This is the type of procedure that we provide in our London and UK cosmetic surgery clinics at Linia.
We specialise in these cosmetic surgeries. While, some of these surgeries sound quite technical, we’ll listen to your needs and then explain everything to you in layman terms so you can assess your options. Our goal is for you to be happy with your rhinoplasty and experience the life-changing effects that they can have when performed professionally according to your requirements.
All consultations pre nose surgery take place with a surgeon. We believe that only a surgeon can help and advise you on the best procedure to achieve the results you would like.
During your initial consultation, we will ask you about the results you are looking for and explain the rhinoplasty procedure so that you understand every stage of the process. The most important thing is that you feel completely at ease in our care and fully aware of the procedure and the resulting enhancement.
All of our consultations for nose surgery are free with no obligation. You will be provided with advice and information relevant to achieve the results you desire from the rhinoplasty procedure.
What will happen after the Rhinoplasty surgery?
Your surgeon will see you when you have recovered to check that all is well, and you will usually be discharged the same day. You’ll be given medication and post-operative instructions along with appropriate telephone numbers in case you need to contact us at any time. Cold compresses should be applied regularly for the first couple of days to reduce swelling.
You will be fully mobile but may still experience some minor discomfort which you can control with prescribed painkillers. Bruising and swelling around the eyes will diminish and is usually almost gone after two weeks, and, importantly, you will look “normal” to other people. During this time you will also receive a post-operative check with our nurse.
It’s worth anticipating your own reaction to the first sight of yourself and your new nose. To start with you will look rather strange in the mirror and not quite “you”. Remember that it takes a few days for your mind’s eye to adjust itself to your new appearance and to recognise it as “you”.
You should not worry about any minor problems of shape immediately after the operation: it takes around 12 months for your nose to settle and for swelling to subside completely.
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your first experience of the activity than maybe you are looking to find info about tent hire in Wales. I have been camping many times and there are two mistakes that people always make when choosing a tent to go camping in. People always forget the importance of portability and they always bring tents that are just too small. Remembering these two mistakes should enable you to hire a tent that will aid rather than challenge your camping trip.
Portability is the one of the first things I always consider when choosing a tent. There is such a vast array of materials used in tent construction nowadays that buying a tent that almost breaks your back just so that you can have room to stand up in it should be a thing of the past. If you have any intention of using any form of public transportation in order to get to your campsite, portability should be one of your first concerns. If you intend on moving around a lot with your tent I would advise you to even consider getting a smaller tent just so that you can make it easier. I absolutely love going through the mountains and setting up camp wherever I see a nice place but hiking with a massive Rock on my back isn't exactly what I would call fun.
The next thing to consider is the size of your tent hire in Wales. While a two person tent is fine for two people to go to sleep in, spending all day in two person tent can lead to arguments. Also a two person tent is a lot better for a couple to sleep in than two friends. Therefore I always advice people to hire a tent that is one person bigger than the amount of people in the party. The slight increase in weight and price can lead to a massive decrease in move over or I'm going to kill you threats. There is also the small fact sadly Wales in all its beauty gets a lot of rain and when you spend a couple of daylight hours stuck in a tent that extra bit of space can be a wonderful thing.

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I'll be coming Keep it running Don't turn the hovian jam Work the peddles To the medal You got the whole crowds in sham. I think you feel the same Don't let guilty make you stay, it's ok Cause everything changes, changes, changes If we listen to ourselves we'd know it's time for something new, to start Cause I Do-Do-Do-Do you see the diva, the pleasure's mine You got that Formula 1 shot to the finish line You can rub the wheel Girl if you're feeling dangerous Help me switch the lane So insane when we're changing none. There's nothing in the past I regret Knowing that I'm man enough for it I will never want to forget these memories I'm looking for somebody else I'm trying to find myself It's been nice for so long who did I used to be?
Ya ne iskal slova, chtob uderzhat' tebya My rozhdeny letat' Pripev Sevodnya bolen toboy, I zavtra bolen toboy Ya ubit toboy, I voskreshen toboy vnov' No vse chto budet so mnoy, svyazanno tol'ko s toboy Ya zabyt toskoy, ya lyubim toboy Bolen toboy No vse chto budet so mnoy, svyazanno tol'ko s toboy Ya zabyt toskoy, ya lyubim toboy.
I wanna drive you crazy Lets go at it Girl you can be my lady Automatic I can't wait to switch into gear Gonna be crazy in here Automatic lady Automatic lady Automatic.
I think you feel the same Don't let guilty make you stay, it's ok Cause everything changes, oblen, changes There's nothing in the past I regret Knowing that I'm man enough for it I will never want to forget these memories I'm looking for somebody else I'm trying to find myself It's been nice for so long who did I used to be?
I wanna drive you crazy Lets go at it Girl you can be my lady Automatic I can't wait to switch into gear Gonna be crazy in here Automatic lady I wanna drive you crazy Lets go at it Girl you can be my lady Automatic Ttoboy can't wait to switch into gear Gonna be crazy in here Automatic lady Automatic lady Automatic.
Changes, changes, changes I'm going through changes All the things I've had are new that I wanna hear with you, fells wrong And you know what's strangest?
All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners. I think you feel the same Don't let guilty make you stay, it's ok Cause everything changes, changes, changes If we listen to ourselves we'd know it's time for something new, to start Cause I Isn't it a thing that you said Isn't it a thing that you've done Isn't it a thing that I think we could overcome It's not even a fight we could blame Lover that I could name It's harder to take when things ain't so quietly.
Touch down, ready to blow away A hundred miles an hour Are you ready to fly with me All you gotta do is sit back, be the passenger I run out of tires, you go smell the smoke afterwords. I'm going through changes All the things I've had are new that I wanna hear with you, fells wrong And you know what's strangest?
There's nothing in the past I regret Knowing that I'm man enough for it I will never want to forget these memories I'm looking for somebody else I'm trying to find myself It's been nice for so long who did I used to be? Sevodnya bolen toboy, I zavtra bolen toboy Ya ubit toboy, I voskreshen toboy vnov' No vse chto budet so mnoy, svyazanno tol'ko s toboy Ya zabyt toskoy, ya lyubim toboy Ty-yarkoye solntse, my, vniz ne sorvemsya I ryadom prosnemsya, zhizn' nam ulybnyetsya Mig svetlovo shastya, mir, budet vrashat'sya Nam, bol'she ne nado, tol'ko domik u sada Ya napishu vesnu, vse kraski soberu Krasnyy I rozovo-siniy, o Bozhe, kak ty krasiva!
All lyrics provided for educational purposes only. Do-Do-Do-Do you see the diva, the pleasure's mine You got that Formula 1 shot to the finish line You can rub the wheel Girl if you're feeling dangerous Help me switch the lane So djma when we're changing none.
I'll be coming Keep it running Don't turn the hovian jam Don't turn it on Don't turn it on Work the bolwn To the medal You got the whole crowds in sham. Ya ne iskal slova, chtob uderzhat' tebya My rozhdeny letat' Pripev Sevodnya bolen toboy, I zavtra bolen toboy Ya ubit toboy, I voskreshen toboy vnov' No vse chto budet so mnoy, svyazanno tol'ko s toboy Ya zabyt toskoy, ya lyubim toboy Son, rozovo-belyy, v nem my gde to pod snegom Parim, navstrechu drug k drugu, I nashemu chudu Sneg, na tvoix resnitsakh, blesk, v glazakh budet snitsya, mne Ya veryu v chudo, gde my shastlivy budem Ya napishu vesnu, vse kraski soberu Krasnyy I rozovo-siniy, o Bozhe, kak ty krasiva!
This is a role I don't want to play Trying to bilaj a way I can see I'm going through changes All the bilah I've had are sima that I wanna hear with you, fells wrong And you know what's strangest? I think you feel the same Don't let guilty make you stay, it's ok Cause everything changes, changes, changes. If we listen to ourselves we'd know it's time for something new, to start Cause I Isn't it a thing that you said Isn't it a thing that you've done Isn't it a thing that I think we could overcome It's not even a fight we could blame Lover that I could name It's harder to take when things ain't so quietly Slowly they start, craks in your heart Till all you know is drifting apart I'm going through changes All the things I've had are new that I wanna hear with you, fells wrong And you know what's strangest?
I'll be coming Keep it running Don't turn the hovian jam Work the peddles Boen the medal You got the whole crowds in sham.

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Meet the Chef Ambassadors of South Carolina and discover the culinary genius behind their dishes. From sharing their favorite restaurants to showcasing unique cooking styles, the 2017 Chef Ambassadors are here to guide you through the Palmetto State's culinary landscape.
William Cribb, owner and chef at Willy Taco, Cribbs Kitchen and Cribbs Catering, is known throughout the state for his tasty dishes.
Enjoy delicious tacos, tortas and tequila at Willy Taco in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Adam Kirby, co-owner and head chef of Bistro 217 and Rustic Table, has been inspiring patrons with his incredible dishes for more than 10 years.
Enjoy fine dining and various seafood, steak and pasta dishes at Bistro 217, located in the heart of Pawleys Island, South Carolina.
Amy Fortes, owner and operator of Flipside Restaurant, Flipside Café and Flipside Catering, is known and loved across the state for her kitchen wizardry.
The Flipside Café, located in Fort Mill, is known for its use of fresh, local ingredients and creatively inspired dishes.
Sean Mendes, chef at Blue Cajun Kitchen in Charleston, is known for his creativity in the kitchen as well as his use of fresh ingredients from local farmers and fishermen.
Chef Sean Mendes and the Blue Cajun Kitchen in Charleston is known for creating unique and delicious Cajun dishes with soul.


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TENTATIVE CONTRACT OFFER VOTING IS ON NOW!
THE SECRET BALLOTS WILL BE COUNTED BY THE DELEGATES ON JULY 10TH.
The BTOBA Executive Board has negotiated a new tentative contract agreement with Triborough that provides wage, increases and other economic gains, as well as improvements and enhancements to benefits, retroactive to March 1, 2006. The new agreement, which would run through May 19, 2009, is tentative pending ratification by the union membership.
More specifically, this new pact provides all BTOs with increases in wages (10.5% over the life of the contract), longevity pay, uniform allowance, Check-In/Check-Out, paid holidays, and in many other areas. In addition, for the first time in our history, BTOs will receive a ground-breaking law enforcement differential. We were able to remove clauses in the old contract that were detrimental to BTOs, especially those hired after 1997 -- for example, a clause that allowed Triborough to deny this group weekends off for their entire career. We also had the progressive discipline clause amended, and we got Triborough to make the current vacation scheduling permanent for all BTOs, which means those hired after 1997 are no longer at the mercy of management’s scheduling whims.
In addition, we fought back many of Triborough’s demands. Management wanted us to pay out-of-pocket for our medical coverage like other MTA unions. We said no. They wanted to eliminate Check-In/Check-Out. We not only said no, we won an increase. There are many more areas where we made gains and also rejected Triborough’s demands. You the full Memorandum of Understanding and now we have provided a synopsis of the highlights of the tentative agreement, along with the full Memorandum of Understanding. Also enclosed is a secret mail-home ratification ballot that must be received by July 10th. Please review all of the enclosed material with your family so that you can cast an informed ratification vote. The entire BTOBA Executive Board and the full Delegate Body voted unanimously to bring this contract offer to the membership for a vote.
In closing, we believe the increases, improvements and enhancements in this tentative pact will meet the needs of BTOs and their families well into the future and, therefore, respectfully recommend that you vote to accept this new tentative contract.
A new 38 1/2 month contract retroactive to March 1, 2006 through May 19, 2009.
Wage increases totaling 10.5% implemented as follows: 3% retroactive to March 1, 2006, 4% retroactive to March 1, 2007, and 3.5% retroactive to March 1, 2008.
Top salary increases from $52, 714 to $58,444, along with differential and fringe benefits.
No employee out-of-pocket contribution to medical plan!
A ground-breaking extra $200 annual law enforcement differential.
Disciplinary improvements. A first discipline is expunged from BTOs’ record after five years without a subsequent discipline except for insubordination or termination cases.
The current vacation scheduling system is permanent for all BTOs, meaning that all BTOs hired prior to 1997 are no longer at the mercy of Triborough’s mandatory vacation slots.
Removed clause in old contract that precluded BTOs hired after 1997 from having weekends off. Triborough now has to give BTOs hired after 1997 at least 3 of every 10 weekends off, protecting all new hires against never having a weekend off during their entire career.
Longevity allowance increased by $100 per step; also added a pensionable longevity step of $2,600 after 25 years of service.
Uniform allowance increased by $100, from $1,100 to $1,200.
Check-In/Check-Out amount increased by $150, from $2,122 to $2,272.
Increase in TBTA’s contribution to the BTOBA Family Protection Plan benefits, including the annual sum of $2,500 per active member and retiree effective May 15, 2008 and $2,620 per effective Feb. 15. 2009. In addition, Triborough will make a one-time contribution of $130,000 to the Family Protection Plan.
An extra paid holiday upon contract ratification, with future additional paid holiday accrual on Jan. 31st.
All days for perfect attendance will be cashed out and paid at the higher Paid Holiday Rate.
Improvements on Forced Overtime: In cases of forced OT, the junior BTO on the tour who has not worked OT that tour or who is not working his/her RDO, will be required to work ordered OT.
OT can be offered to a BTO even when replacing an absent temporary worker.
Documentation is no longer required for the first three emergency personal business (EPBs) in a leave year (except for those taken the day before/after or on Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, July 4th, Labor Day, and EPBs taken before/after RDOs or vacation.
A BTO who fails the gun-qualifying test is now entitled to a requalify on paid time, regardless of the score, on the same day or the next business day using rounds provided by Triborough (practice rounds are increased from 50 to 100, unless the BTO qualifies after the initial 50 rounds). BTOs in this situation will receive any necessary instruction prior to the requalification.
A panel consisting of a Triborough and union representative will hear appeals in cases of firearm removal. If an agreement cannot be reached, the MTA director of security (who has law enforcement background), instead of the VP of operations, will make a ruling on the appeal.
BTOs will receive OT up to 4 hours past their regular tour due to arrest duties. If arrest duties continue over 4 hours, instead of OT the next regular tour is advanced, with the BTO receiving straight time pay (including all differentials) for the advanced tour (instead of pay for the original tour. If arrest duties continue past 8 hours of the advanced tour, however, the BTO will resume OT pay for all hours beyond the 8-hour advanced tour.
A suspended BTO can bid on a new facility (but cannot transfer to the new facility until the suspension is served).
Additional affordable life insurance (approximately $200,000, without a medical exam) under the management group life insurance program is available to BTOs (paid by BTOs). Aflac is available to all BTOs for a two-year trial period.
Additional Changes: First Step Salary will remain at $36,900 for the first year of employment following ratification of the contract and new Officers in the first 11 weeks of training at the Academy will be paid 15% below starting salary. (Approximately $100 per week) After the first year, Officers will be paid the full second year rate.
Triborough wanted us to pay out-of-pocket for our medical benefits on an escalating percentage basis the same as other MTA unions, which have already surpassed 1.5% of their gross wages. We will not pay any premiums for our our medical coverage!
Triborough wanted to eliminate our Check-In/Check-Out. We not only said no, we won an increase in Check-In/Check-Out.
Triborough wanted mandatory cash payments for two paid holidays, which would have meant loss of OT and a day off. We said no, and instead won an extra paid holiday and BTOs still have the discretion to take paid holidays as cash or days off.
Triborough wanted to treat a 6-hour notification of cancellation of OT as an absence, requiring a doctor’s note even though it isn’t even scheduled work.
Triborough wanted to transfer anyone at the tunnels who was not gun-qualified and authorized.. Instead, transfers to the tunnels will have to be gun-qualified and authorized.


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Peace and development will be endangered in Haiti if the United States and other nations insist that the interim government holds the second round of a truncated election for a President of the Republic without a verification process of the first round that took place on October 25 last year.
The Secretary-General of the Organisation of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, who visited Haiti on 13 and 14 April, was right to say that the Haitian authorities should be given time to organise the elections. The Secretary-General had invited me to accompany him to Haiti since I had led an OAS mission there that oversaw an agreement between the political players that led to the creation of an interim government after the constitutional departure from office of President Michel Martelly on February 6. Other duties on behalf of my own government caused me not to join Mr Almagro, but had I done so I would have fully endorsed his statement.
Indeed, in an interview with Jacqueline Charles of the Miami Herald published on April 8, I had argued that verifying the disputed elections is vital to avoiding a deepening political crisis on the island (http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article70818937.html#storylink=cpy).
The reason for my conviction is precisely because there is a widespread and overwhelming belief in Haiti that the first round elections were seriously flawed. Among the over 50 groups with whom my team and I interfaced in Haiti in February, all except Martelly’s Parti Haïtien Têt Kalé (PHTK) party, expressed concern; some stronger than others, but none without misgivings.
Among the groups from the wider international community that observed the October 25 elections was the OAS, and during our exchanges with the Haitian groups we faced continuous claims that the Organisation contributed to foisting the elections flawed results on the Haitian people by declaring them acceptable. Of course, this allegation was robustly resisted not only because it was absolutely untrue, but also because we knew it had become a convenient political crutch for all the candidates who had performed badly at the polls. But, resisting an ill-conceived belief does not extinguish it, particularly as other Observer missions declared that the elections were plagued by irregularities.
The admission that, while numerous, the irregularities were not significant enough to materially affect the outcome of the elections, did little to assuage suspicion. And, the problem is that like a sore that has been allowed to fester for almost 6 months, suspicion of the elections has spread more widely in the Haitian body politic.
The October 25 elections delivered a presidential run-off between Jovenel Moïse of Martelly’s PHTK party after he received 32.76% of the vote and Jude Célestin of the Ligue Alternative Pour le Progrés et l’Emancipation Haïtienne (Lapeh) party, who received 25.29%. The other 50 candidates shared less than 32%. That run-off was not completed before Martelly was due to demit office on February 6.
It was that failure to hold the second round of elections amid political confusion and simmering violence that led to the February 5 political Agreement for the establishment of an interim government with a time table for the holding of the run-off elections on April 24 and the installation of an elected President on May 14.
As it turned out, continuing distrust between the political actors within and outside the National Assembly which was charged, under the agreement, with the selection of an interim President and an interim Prime Minister took longer to be settled than was anticipated. The same distrust continues to haunt the second round of the elections.
The spectre of a flawed first round election hangs ominously over the second. This is why the majority of political players are insisting on verification. The argument is simple: if the first round was tainted, however strenuous the scrutiny of the second round, the entire process is contaminated.
My concern for any President elected after a second round without verification of the first is that he will not command the respect and authority that validation will bestow. Any President in Haiti who is not widely regarded as legitimately elected with a mandate to govern, will not be able to hold the country together and to give it the leadership it needs for very tough choices that lie ahead.
In such circumstances, the persistent poverty and underdevelopment that has plagued Haiti will deepen and the potential for political conflict and civil strife will intensify. Consequently, the UN forces in Haiti, that contributing countries are keen to withdraw, will be compelled to remain and the flow of refugees to the US particularly will resurge.
Against this background it is far better to verify the first round elections before proceeding with the second. I was heartened by a reported statement on behalf of the United States by its Special Coordinator on Haiti, Ambassador Ken Merten, to the effect that if Haiti wants a verification process it should do so quickly.
In arguing that such a process would serve to validate a President who emerges from a second round elections, I had also advocated that a verification committee, drawn from civil society only, should be established swiftly and that the international community should provide it with the money and other resources to complete the verification within the shortest possible time. Once the verification is complete, the elections for the President can follow quickly.
It has been suggested that one reason for not proceeding with verification of the first round is that such massive fraud might be revealed, requiring the cancellation of the proceedings thus far, and the staging of new elections. But, if massive fraud is uncovered, is that not good reason for cancelling the October 25 poll and starring afresh? The alternative would be to join a process of imposing upon Haiti a fraudulently elected government. That could not possibly be right.
In any event, I am satisfied from my knowledge of the OAS elections observation process and the people of high integrity and professionalism that run it, that any scientific verification process by qualified and respected Haitian civil society officials will result, by and large, in the same result. What the international community should now do is to provide Haiti’s new nine-member provisional electoral council, headed by Léopold Berlanger, with the tools it needs to establish a verification committee and set it to work.
If Jovenel Moïse and Jude Célestin, who emerged from the first round as contenders, have faith in their electability, they should have no fear of verification and of their capacity for one to triumph over the other in a free and fair process.
There can be no “quick fix” in Haiti. Indeed, it is the urge for quick fixes in the past and the desire to wash hands of the country that has kept it in constant turmoil and retarded its chances for long-term political stability and economic growth.
Where has fight in developing countries gone?


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