In this volume, experts on government examine historical as well as contemporary contexts to government structures in the United States and the states of the former U.S.S.R. Throughout, the contributors look at federalism at both local and national levels, and they try to assess how and why the two systems developed as they did. While the political history of the former Soviet Union favored a central monopoly-of-power system over a pluralism-of-separate-authority approach, this provides only part of an answer to a complex issue. Taken together the collection provides an exhaustive examination of the opportunities and obstacles presented by government structures, which reflect the need for both local autonomy and concerned action. This volume will be of concern to political figures and policymakers, constitutional experts, and political scientists.

Discover various techniques to develop maintainable code and keep it in shape. Key Features Learn all about refactoring - why it is important and how to do it Discover easy ways to refactor code with examples Explore techniques that can be applied to most other programming languages Book DescriptionRefactoring improves your code without changing its behavior. With refactoring, the best approach is to apply small targeted changes to a codebase. Instead of doing a huge sweeping change to your code, refactoring is better as a long-term and continuous enterprise. Refactoring TypeScript explains how to spot bugs and remove them from your code. You'll start by seeing how wordy conditionals, methods, and null checks make code unhealthy and unstable. Whether it is identifying messy nested conditionals or removing unnecessary methods, this book will show various techniques to avoid these pitfalls and write code that is easier to understand, maintain, and test. By the end of the book, you'll have learned some of the main causes of unhealthy code, tips to identify them and techniques to address them. What you will learn Spot and fix common code smells to create code that is easier to read and understand Discover ways to identify long methods and refactor them Create objects that keep your code flexible, maintainable, and testable Apply the Single Responsibility Principle to develop less-coupled code Discover how to combine different refactoring techniques Learn ways to solve the issues caused by overusing primitives Who this book is forThis book is designed for programmers who are looking to explore various refactoring techniques to develop healthy and maintainable code. Some experience in JavaScript and TypeScript can help you easily grasp the concepts explained in this book.

An inspirational story on coming to terms with Breast Cancer. Supported by friends, family, clergy, pets, and her church, Terry Wolfe found the grace to accept her misfortune through kindness and sharing. Always at her side on this very personal journey is the wisdom and helping hand of her savior, Jesus Christ.

Amanda Lemon and her curious twins quickly learn there is a thin line between madness and genius. Their new home of Purgatory, Illinois is not the idyllic small town they thought it was. What will happen on Halloween? Is the ancient society known as ECHO lurking in the shadows? Waking Purgatory is a riveting mystery exploding with unfulfilled family legacies soaked in despair against mankind's obsession to open and explore the blind spot between heaven and hell.

At the fabulous Windamere Resort, Katie Jones decides to fulfill a dream by starting an employee rowing team. First she must convince a handful of misfit female employees to abandon their stale lives and join her. Next she must unravel the hotel secrets that surround her mysterious and misanthropic boss, Simon Simples. This tragicomic novel moves nimbly from start to finish with entertaining characters that resonate from our personal lives.

Wade Jones is a good man, an honest man, a broken man. When his wife Katie sends him to Colorado for the summer to regain his confidence as a kayaker and reunite with callused old friends, Wade never expected to meet his former college sweetheart, his bitter old coach and a mysterious teenaged boy. Each wants something from Wade that he can't provide with considerable and unseen consequences. And then there's the river... a giant, snarling whitewater snake. It wants something from Wade, too. Maybe his life. Set against a mythic Western landscape checkered with history, Hickey abducts the reader with engaging characters set in motion in a fast-paced plot that keeps you guessing.

Role-playing is an easy way to create engaging, informative, and inspiring sessions during your Staff Training at the start of the summer. Unlike traditional role-playing, the situations to be covered in this session will come with two descriptions: one for the Camper (sometimes Campers), and one for the Counselor. In almost all challenging situations with campers, counselors do not know everything affecting a camper's thoughts and actions. With dual descriptions, the audience (counselors at orientation) and "Campers"(roles acted out by selected staff) will have a greater insight into what is happening, than the Counselor (a volunteer from the audience) arriving on the scene to resolve the problem. It makes the role-playing more realistic.... and entertaining. These sessions are designed to get all of your staff involved-from the 20-year veterans in leadership positions to the 17-year-old first-timers. Contained in this book are over 100 role-playing situations covering a broad range of camp situations and a step-by-step process for running the training from preparation to debriefing.