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Cohn Exiting White House Would 'Crash the Markets'A number of Twitter users spotted a tweet , later deleted, from a breaking news service called Breaking News Live that said Cohn, a former Goldman Sachs COO, was leaving the White House . USA stocks and Treasury yields extended declines in the afternoon in NY, after a van plowed into pedestrians on one of Barcelona's busiest streets, causing multiple deaths and injuries in an attack authorities are treating as terrorism.
3M CEO Inge Thulin joins exodus from Donald Trump manufacturing councilBut Trump's tweet was released only after members of both groups had already chose to disband, according to The Wall Street Journal . Before it was disbanded, The Wall Street Journalreported the leaders of 3M, General Electric, United Technologies and Campbell Soup all elected to quit the White House council on manufacturing.
War would be horrific, U.S. general tells Trump on North Korea responseDialogue is the only solution to the nuclear crisis in the Korean peninsula, and not military action, said Fan, according to a statement by the Chinese Defence Ministry. "We have a long way to go, but I am encouraged by the strong commitments of all to enforce those sanctions", the chairman said. In 2005, North Korea reached an agreement with six countries to suspend its nuclear program in return for diplomatic rewards and energy assistance but the deal later collapsed.
S. Korea, US defense ministers agree to closely coordinate against NK threatsThe Japanese Defence Ministry is also eager to bring forward the deadline of a plan to increase the number of Aegis ships from the current four to five, which is now set at the end of March next year. The Aegis Ashore uses components identical to those now found on Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force's Aegis destroyers. As the top US diplomat, Tillerson said Washington would continue diplomatic efforts "first and foremost", but "it is only prudent" that military action remains a choice.
Upcoming solar eclipse sparks scheduling of viewing partiesAstronomers and eye care professionals also warn that regular sunglasses are ineffective in this situation because they aren't created to block 100 percent of harmful rays. And if by some chance you get stuck in a meeting, or clouds decide to cover your view, this app has access to the NASA live stream. - Tree Filters: NASA astrophysicist Lynn Cominsky, who teaches at Sonoma State, suggests finding a tree and using its leaves as a filter.
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North Korea foreign minister suggested dialogue to Japanese counterpartPyongyang has said it was considering plans to fire missiles toward the US Pacific territory of Guam, although North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appears to have delayed the decision. "Together, we will deter, and if necessary defeat, any threat", Mattis said in a news conference with Tillerson and their Japanese counterparts following a meeting at the State Department.
PAT challenges acceptance of Kulsoom Nawaz's nomination papersAs scrutiny of nomination papers for NA-120 continues, Kulsoom Nawaz, the wife of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz's candidate for the seat, has left for London on a personal tour. "A total of 25 objections have been raised against Kulsoom Nawaz", Yasmin said and alleged that Kulsoom was deputy chairman of Capital FZE, a firm owned by her younger son Hassan Nawaz.
Prison riot kills at least 37 inmates in VenezuelaGovernor Liborio Guarulla had earlier tweeted that a "massacre" took place with at least 35 corpses counted. Guarulla said, "At midnight special forces showed up and through the night we heard gunfire and explosions". Venezuelan Observatory of Prisons Director Humberto Prado said that it is necessary to determine who is responsible for allowing inmates to become armed, if that was the case.
Pentagon preparing military options against North KoreaNorth Korea threatened last week to fire ballistic missiles toward the US territory of Guam . North Korea has in the past fired missiles and taken other steps in response to USA and South Korean exercises. The transcript was sent to The Associated Press on Thursday by North Korea's U.N. Mission. China's proposal for talks isn't honest, according to Ryan Hass, a fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington .
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Join Radix Media and Word Up Community Bookshop as we host an evening of literary works from our book, AFTERMATH: Explorations of Loss & Grief. Light refreshments will be provided, and the authors will be available afterwards to sign copies of the book.
Anna Schott is a writer who has also been a dog-walker, record store owner, and musician. Her personal essay "Getting it Down" is about her connection to a childhood friend who later contracts HIV.
Alex Shvartsman is a writer, translator, and game designer from Brooklyn, New York. Over one hundred of his short stories have appeared in Nature, Galaxy's Edge, InterGalactic Medicine Show, and other magazines and anthologies. His short story "Icarus Falls" explores the idea of memory and the relationship between a parent and child. Learn more at his website: http://www.alexshvartsman.com.
Laurinda Lind lives and teaches in New York's North Country near the St. Lawrence River. Her poetry has been in Comstock Review, The Cortland Review, Paterson Literary Review, and others. Her poem "The Lightkeeper Misses His Wife in 1996" dates back to her years as a journalist.
Embracing Grief: An Evening of Personal Narratives Friday, October 12, 2018 6:30–8:30pm Word Up Community Bookshop/Librería Comunitaria 2113 Amsterdam Ave. @ 165th St. New York NY 10032

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General Math Tips
Before the end of the school year I had a discussion with a mum who asked what her child could do in order to continue to be successful in math (e.g. "successful" in a very general, "life skills" sense). "Sam" had always struggled with math and had finally reached a place where she felt successful. Yay!
Mum and I had a great chat, and together (together in the true sense of the word as she had many excellent ideas as well) we came up with the following list of suggestions.
& so … If you had been a fly on my classroom wall you would have seen two women, working together, creating & building on the ideas of one another for the child.
(The Bonus: In the end I feel that I benefited as much as they did.)
Marvelous Math: A Mindlful Approach
"Be organized. Clear the Clutter"
– Organize your locker and desk at school. Organize your homework space at home. Keep binders, pencil boxes, all math materials well organized. Organize your time!
– Be organized in your thinking. When approaching a task have a plan; a method! If you don't have plans or methods find the, ask for them, adopt them, use them.
– Clear the clutter on the page. Approach activities and assignments clearly – methodically.
– Do assigned homework every night to the best of your ability. Pay careful attention to what seems to "flow" naturally and when you seem to get stuck. Have post it notes on hand to mark any pages on which you have questions or concerns.
– Find a homework buddy(s). Have a couple of friends "on call" if you find that you are beginning to feel at all frustrated or unsure.
"Establish an Understanding"
– Math is about making sense of our world. When given a question, activity or formula work through it until you understand it – e.g. know where formula came from & where it will take you. Don't just memorize! Understand! Internalize! Own it!
– It's also very important to understand the language of math. e.g. What does it mean to multiply? What are fractions? Why are graphs useful? When problem solving how do you know whether you need to add, subtract, multiply or divide?)
"Math Dictionaries"
– Use your math dictionary when necessary – keep it on hand. If your teacher is not making personal dictionaries in class then consider purchasing one. There are great books available for all ages and grade levels. There are also some wonderful online math dictionaries.
"Review & Repeat"
Never underestimate the importance of review and repetition when acquiring a new skill/concept.
"Play, play, play – Take risks – Have fun!"
Exude confidence. Believe in yourself! Dive right in! Be an active participant. Use manipulatives, doodle, draw, colour code, create!
Approach math in diligent and yet playful manner. It can be tons of fun to work with numbers and formulas.
"The Classroom Connection"
Listen, participate, share, question, celebrate.
"A Team Effort"
Teachers and parents are part of a student's team!
Your teachers and parents want you to be successful! Ask for help if and when you need it.
General Tips:
– Develop and use problem solving strategies consistently.
– Always show you work.
– Master your basic multiplication/number facts. If you haven't mastered them yet them have a chart handy.
– Play free online math games. There are a ton out there. Some good sites can be found here: http://5thchat.wikispaces.com/Grade+5+Resources+-+Math
– Read picture books that have a math theme/component.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers representing states rich in shale gas called for the Obama administration to expedite approval of liquefied natural gas exports on Friday, mounting the first real push in support of gas exports on Capitol Hill.
A bipartisan coalition of 21 lawmakers in the House of Representatives said the Obama administration needs to move forward with its review of companies looking to export LNG.
"We urge you to bring a renewed sense of urgency to the approval process," the group said in a letter to Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
Until now, lawmakers have mostly stayed on the sidelines regarding the issue of selling gas abroad, a prospect that has come to the forefront due to the booming U.S. natural gas sector, but potentially pits manufacturers against the oil and gas industry.
The few lawmakers that had been vocal about exports, including Congressman Edward Markey and Senator Ron Wyden, raised concerns that the United States might be at risk of trading away its newfound energy security advantage and raising prices for consumers.
Drilling innovations have allowed companies to tap vast shale gas reserves in places not traditionally associated with oil and gas production, such as Pennsylvania and Ohio. The rapid expansion has also led to a gas glut that has pushed gas prices down to levels producers say are unsustainable.
"One answer to the growing supply and demand imbalance is to allow American producers to capture a share of a growing global LNG market," the lawmakers said in their letter.
The letter in support of exports was spearheaded by Ohio congressmen Bill Johnson, a Republican, and Tim Ryan, a Democrat.
"We're certainly encouraged to see Congress weighing in on the issue at the Department of Energy," said Bill Cooper, head of the Center for Liquefied Natural Gas, a trade group for the industry. "We hope it's the start of a groundswell of support."
Critics of exports argue cheap gas prices have helped spur a manufacturing resurgence that is threatened by moves to sell U.S. gas to overseas. Dow Chemical has argued that the government should not allow unlimited gas exports.
The Obama administration, which must approve exports to all but a handful of countries with free trade agreements, is weighing about eight LNG export applications from companies, including Dominion Resources and Southern Co.
The department approved exports from just one project, Cheniere Energy's Sabine Pass terminal. After that approval, the department said it would wait on the results from a study of the economic implications of exports before acting on anymore applications.
While the study was initially due out in March, the department has pushed back its release, saying the report will come out sometime this summer.
In their letter to Chu, the lawmakers bemoaned the "stalled" approval process, warning that the United States could fall behind countries like Australia and Canada that are also moving ahead with plans to export gas.
Still, the lawmakers urged the department to carefully monitor market conditions to protect manufacturers' access to affordable natural gas.
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Why do I need to Know a Roofing Contractor?
There are multiple reasons as to why it is time to either get a new roof or repair your existing roof. Some of the reasons you may want to know a roofing contractor to help you with your roof are: Storm damage (wind damage or falling debris problems) Leaks Increase your property's overall value Building […]Read More
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Houses are comprised of many different parts. The foundation is what holds everything up, the walls create different rooms and the roof is what keeps Mother Nature at bay. Roofs are vitally important to keeping everything else in your home in the best possible condition. A leaky, damaged roof can allow the elements inside your […]Read More


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The real estate finance market has undergone significant change in recent years, with increased regulation, the entrance of more categories of lenders and changes to documentation. At CMS, we understand the challenges that these changes pose for you, having acted for lenders, developers, borrowers, sponsors, hedge counterparties and others on a wide range of investment and development transactions.
We helped to create the industry standard documentation on which most deals are based, and have helped clients like you fund assets such as commercial and residential real estate, ground rent investments, hotels, healthcare assets, theatres, logistics portfolios, shopping centres, house building and supermarket developments.
They are very easy to work with, proactive and personable. We have excellent communications with them and they help matters go smoothly.
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Writer-director, Biswajeet Bora made his Hindi debut last year with Aisa Yeh Jahaan, after assisting noted filmmaker Jahnu Barua for many years. Now back to his roots, Bora is all set with his upcoming Assamese film Bahniman. In a chat with Rohini Nag Madnani, the versatile filmmaker discusses some of his exciting plans
What prompted you to become a filmmaker?
Initially, I wanted to be an actor and, being from Assam, I started with theatre. I did a lot of work as an actor and also directed a few plays. Then I moved to Mumbai but couldn't make a mark as an actor and hence took a course in editing. I soon joined an editing studio and started working as an editor.
Acclaimed filmmaker Jahnu Barua, who has won 14 National Awards, spotted me while I was working on his film at a studio in Mumbai. He offered me the chance to assist him as an associate director but I was a little sceptical as I was not sure of the career path I wanted to take. After giving it a lot of thought, I joined Barua sir as an AD and worked with him for seven years.
How was Bahniman conceived?
In 2007, I made an Assamese film titled A Thousand Fireflies Sparkle. The film garnered a lot of critical acclaim at many international film festivals. After that, I made a few documentaries, which too were appreciated. In 2015, I made my Hindi directorial debut with Aisa Yeh Jahaan. I gave everything I had to that film but was heartbroken when it failed to impress the critics and turned into a box-office debacle.
Two months after the release of Aisa Yeh Jahaan, something came over me and I wanted to make an out-an-out commercial Assamese film. That's when I conceived Bahniman. I wrote the story of the film in three days and finished the screenplay with the dialogue in 16 days. The film is a masala entertainer.
Was it tough to get producers and distributors for the film?
The film is produced by Barnali Hazarika, a top Assamese film producer. I am glad to have a producer who understood my vision and wants to take the Assamese industry to the next level. As far as the distributor goes, I am lucky to have Aum Movies distributing my film. I wanted it to have a pan-India release and Aum Movies is one of the biggest players in our East region (Assam, Orissa and West Bengal). This is their first Assamese film as a distributor. They came on board after watching the rushes and first look of the film.
I was completely disheartened when Aisa Yeh Jahaan didn't work as I had worked very hard on that film. I was involved with every aspect of the film, whether marketing or any other theatrical decision. Now I am much more confident, thanks to the distributors we have for this film. I am sure our film will give tough competition to the Hindi releases Kahaani 2and Dear Zindagi.
Making a film is about team work, where you work with technicians. How has the team of Bahnimanadded to your vision of the film?
Half my technical team is based out of Mumbai and is part of the Hindi film industry. My cinematographer Titu Jena has assisted Kiran Deohans on many big Hindi films like Agneepath, Jodhaa Akbar and Action Jackson. The film's action directors are Kaushal-Moses, who have worked on many big-budget Hindi films as well. Even the editor of the film, Suresh Pai, has done a lot of big Bollywood films like Bheja Fry, Page 3, Jhankaar Beats and Aladin. I am blessed to have a team which has given 100 per cent to my film and made it technically supreme. They not only added to my vision but also made the film much bigger than I had intended it to be.
What challenges did you face considering yours is one of the very few big-budget Assamese films?
The film was made on a budget of nearly Rs 1 crore, a first in the Assamese industry. I am thankful to all my friends and well-wishers who worked in the film and did not charge a huge sum even though they have worked in so many big Hindi films. My target was to make the film in `80-90 lakh but we went in a little over that. Having said that, the film's work in terms of pre-production, production and post-production which is underway right now, went on smoothly. I am confident that the film will do well.
What is the current state of Assamese cinema?
Assamese films are content-rich and every year, two or three films get National Awards. Assam has a population of cultured individuals and hence commercial films have never been tried on a large scale. Assam is the only state in India which has a hugely successful mobile cinema, which conducts commercial plays in different cities. I am sure the audience will come to cinemas to watch the film. I hope the audience will also like the change that we are trying to bring about in Assamese cinema.
What's next for you?
I have two films in the pipeline, post-Bahniman. The first is a bilingual film in Bengali and Assamese, again a big-budget film. It will cater to the East Indian region of West Bengal, Orissa and Assam along with Bangladesh. I will start shooting in February next year. The second film will be a big-budget Hindi film that I want to start in November 2017. I want to show Bahniman to some of the studios and my friends in Mumbai as I am confident that the film will open many doors for me.


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Arkansas sues online payday lender
Arkansas' attorney general sued both companies -- Arrowhead Investments, Inc. and Galaxy Marketing, Inc. -- and their owner, Christopher Hodes. The suit alleges the companies issued loans with interest rates of 782% through various websites.
In its lawsuit, the state seeks to bar the companies and their owner from offering or collecting upon high-interest loans. It also wants the companies to return all payments to the borrowers.
In 2008, the state ordered all payday lenders to cease operations because, it said, lenders were violating Arkansas usury laws. The state's constitution caps interest rates on consumers loans at 17% a year, but many of these lenders were charging borrowers triple-digit interest rates. Payday lending representatives contended these weren't loans, citing an industry-drafted Check-cashers Act enacted in 1999.
To date, more than 250 payday lending locations in Arkansas have closed. Nationally, 15 states and the District of Columbia have set limits on high-interest loans. Arizona was the most recent state to take action. In July, a 10-year-old law, which allowed payday lenders to set interest rate as high as 460%, expired.
Arkansas consumers having problems with an online payday loan or debt collector attempting to collect on a payday loan should contact the Consumer Protection Division at 501-682-2341 or 800-482-8982.


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Get to know the "The Lost World" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle it is in the oldest region of the world named Roraima. The first continent in the world, home to unique species on earth. Come and enjoy our company experts and local indigenous guides who will make your visit an incomparable real adventure.
Day 1: Transfer by car 4x4 from Santa Elena to Paraitepuy (Roraima Base Camp), here the roads are finished and you can only walk this stretch is usually covered in an hour and a half. Once in Parai Tepui are completed with fixed backpacks we will undertake the walk that takes about 4 hours to (Tek River Camp) where our first camp is made. On the way a light lunch consisting of sandwiches and fruit is taken. On arrival at the site overnight tents left arm themselves and enjoy an excellent night outdoors. While walking through several hills, the climb is zero, since it is part of 1,250 meters above sea level and 1,140 meters above day sea level culminates.
Day 2: Breakfast and departure at 08:30 heading to the base camp in the foothills of Tepuy. This route consists of approximately 6 hours and is more intense than the previous day. The goal of this day is to reach the base of Mount Roraima where the second camp is established. From here the view of the Gran Sabana is beautiful and pretty detail that can see clearly the path so far. By this time you get to 1,835 meters above sea level.
Day 3: Departure at 09:00 for the summit of Roraima, this climb is done in about 6 hours. This is even more demanding than the first and second day, it ascends one of the slopes of Roraima until it stops. The vegetation and the magnitude of its walls are something really impressive.
It is a huge giant that rises vertically from the ground that magnitude no words can describe his greatness. At the end of the day an altitude of 2,710 meters above sea level is reached.
On the surface of Roraima are caves known as "hotels". They are big holes that simulate caves where the camps are usually put as they provide shelter from rain and wind. Depending on what is available, you use one or the other.
Day 4: This day is quiet, relaxing and hiking, take advantage to visit the attractions and natural beauty of the "Lost World" at the top of Tepuy Roraima; including: The valley of the glass, The Window + lots of nature jacuzzis and much more.
Day 5: Start of return and descent to the Tek river which can take about 6 hours, this is one of the most intense days because it gets off the tepui with all the weight on his back, the use of canes is recommended. This time you walk up to where he was the first camp.
Day 6: Return from the river to Parai tepuy Tek, the walk takes about 4 hours. Here we are again where it virtually now real all started. Our driver in 4x4 will take us to Santa Elena de Uairen to celebrate and perhaps now for the first time eat a delicious pizza and prepare our return the next day.
Tour types
Please bring:
- Cédula ID or Original passport (must pass the National Guard checkpoint in San Ignacio de Yuruaní).
- Insect repellent.
- Sunscreen.
- Cap Or hat.
- Lantern.
- medicines.
- Raincoat.
- Nonslip footwear.
- Bag Plastic to keep dry clothes in the backpack.
- Short, Light pants, sandals, sweater and thick socks cotton for both the cold to cross rivers with slippery rocks.
It is suggested that toiletries are biodegradable: Bath soap, hair shampoo and toothpaste.
Personal baggage to be carried during the journey consists of: bag or sleeping bag, sleeping bag (kilo and a half), insulator (½ kilo), carp (2 ½ kilos - shared with another person). The tent is for two people, or three if you wish.
You pack you backpack yourselves during the trek of 6 days (bring cookies - chocolate and toilet paper).
Included services:
The guide
Our guide is reliable staff and highly qualified to lead the expedition, experienced and excellent cook. Only in high season is no shortage of good guides, so reservations are required well in advance. Bilingual guides (Spanish - English). Please advise if necessary.
We offer a porter for every two people, and are the ones who will bring food equipment: the reverberatory (the kitchen high fuel called kerosene), food, pots and dishes.
The porters who are hired to carry food and cooking utensils, are not required all, for six days. As the food is consumed, and as it is leaving food in shelters road, porters go back to Paraitepuy. If you for some reason need help along the way you can hire the carrier that will be vacating to help you with your luggage. This payment is made directly to the carrier you.
The food is balanced, then the list of the food you buy is appended. We can not prepare individual menus. Meals are prepared the same for everyone. Considering using perishables, which is ham, cheese, chicken, be consumed first sausages, salami that can be left until the end. Same with the vegetables.
Vegetarians should let us know well ahead of time at least three days before the tour starts. There is a aditional cost for additional purchases of vegetables and fruits.
Each tourist will be given at the beginning of the trip a "lunch" for personal consumption during the six day trek that carry with them and administer to their discretion. This "lunch" consists of: 1 package bread sandwiches, cookies of various kinds, chocolate and toilet paper
Each guide is free to prepare meals at their discretion and knowledge. They are excellent cooks, everyone has their way of preparing food. Remember that it is not a la carte menu. They are eaten hiking. It will try to prepare the same for everyone. Except for vegetarians, we must call in time.
The days of walking no hot food for lunch is cooked. Sandwiches are made. This allows people further progress and avoid delays in the stipulated time for the walk of the day. Please give the bread that was given the first day because this is for your personal use during the six days.
Food shelters: On the way to Roraima, in the first camp in the Tek River and the second called base camp, in both food can be stored. It is therefore not necessary to take food from the fifth and sixth day to the summit of Roraima as it stays down. Also it allows us to cook indoors where we eat at real tables with chairs. In one of them there is room for tents if we are the first group to arrive. These expenses are included and covered in the price of the tour.
Check-IN: According convenience of the traveler
San Francisco de Yuruaní, Estado Bolívar.
Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia o the helicopter landing pad nearby - if not the Airport in Santa Elena
1) Responsibilities: Roraima Trekking is responsible for contracts and agreements with its customers in providing all our services. Just as it is not responsible for the wars, strikes, delays, fires, accidents and their consequences, epidemics, destruction of the mechanisms of government acts, theft, looting or any other cause beyond the company and accidents involving subcontracting services or delays in flights and transfers of commercial airlines. The company is not responsible for the consequences arising from the use or possession of drugs or narcotic substances in our programs and services.
2) Documentation: The tourist should bring their identification documents and visa consular problems if the default of the passport or lack of consular visa, the company is not liable for the costs incurred by the delay or total loss the contracted services.
3) Refund: Cancellation of contracted services by tourists, will be as follows: Eighty percent (80%) 30 days before the date of commencement of services. The seventy-five percent (75%) 15 days before the date of commencement of services. Fifty percent (50%) until a week before the start of services. Twenty-five percent (25%) until 72 hours before the start of the service.
4) No refunds if you have inadequate travel documents, leaving the tour at any time or use their services voluntarily for the traveler. In case of rain or bad weather or other compelling reasons that might endanger the safety of tourists in danger, the company reserves the right to modify, without the tourist is entitled to claim or recover.
5) Claims: All claims must be submitted in writing to our office, within forty-eight (48) hours of the conclusion of the service.
6) All conditions of employment services are considered accepted by:
1 - Acceptance of vouchers ranging services to clients by email, fax or any other mechanism.
2) the acceptance of vouchers for services that extend to customers via email, fax or any other mechanism
3 - The use of any part of the contracted services.
7- Reservations and payments:
To reserve a room, make a payment of 100% total amount of the tour or accommodation in order to ensure that trip and / or accommodation.
We do not accept any kind of payment the day of the tour for reasons of logistics).
We do not refund money for change of itinerary, change of plans, and other personal inconveniences.
- If after making the total or partial cancellation of the trip, the person or group of people decides to suspend the tour, in this case a credit note will be made to perform any type of excursion when prefer. You will be recalculated according to current rates and will not refund the money.
- Each time a payment is made either by electronic transfer, deposit or other means must email the details of the transaction (name, bank, # transaction, date, payment and specify the reason for the transaction.) having hired, any questions should be asked by phone or e-mail.
8-What our packages and accommodations include:
- Land and water transportation.
- Guide, indigenous guides. All meals and drinks (no alcohol, or snacks).
- All lodgings.
The lodge in Canaima National Park are provided by the indigenous inhabitants of the Pemón therefore does not possess an electrical infrastructure as the rest of the country and based power plants, they are limited to providing additional services as Hot Water, Air conditioning, TV, offer clean, comfortable and generally with a great view rooms and air conditioning is not needed since these are located at a height of over 900 meters above the sea.
In some cases the distribution of rooms will not be like the customer prefers. The Overnight in Santa Elena de Uairen first is natural tourist camps, there´s no availability will be in hotels or inns that are consistent with the package: In this case if there is a / c, cable tv, bathroom with hot water.
In Santa Elena there are only two (2) 4 star hotels we work and if you prefer you may stay there-provided there is availability. If you want to stay in a Hotel or Inn of four stars, you should call for the availability and the readjustment of its package.
Packages do not include:
The night should they one day before the tour contract, nor after the end the excursion night. are only the nights are included within the program. It does not include alcoholic beverages.
If in the above off the excursion LaGranSabana.travel 24 Hrs enter new tourists to the group beyond what was agreed between the parties, the company reserves the right to incorporate new tourists. LaGranSabana.travel well as ensures that all who wants tourists incorporate the group and is outside the range of 24 prior to the departure of the tour Hrs, n recalculate the commissionable prices according to the above indicated table.
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Zerry @ 2020-01-23 19:22:51
Is this s surprise to someone? It could be good also to open a little more from where comes delays with municipalities? Someone asking pocket money? Anyway, architects have made a great job for nice presentations, but who will finsnce Riga central station and airport changes? Never told, or?
Zerry @ 2020-01-22 08:17:56
Whoever he/she will be, the one needs to have s strong character and backbone. At the moment, in some cases, it feels that regions can be filled with whatever level police officers who do't give a sh** what the head in Riga says.
Zerry @ 2020-01-22 08:13:55
That is an interesting board there. When I saw on TV those board members I first thought it's something about bribery and corruption. Most likely Bondars is the only seriously competent. Hopefully those other ones understand the difference between ball and basket. Maybe next board should include Lembergs and Slesers? What comes to Vejonis, I wish all the best, and hope he won't be used as a tool to ensure aything else but the best for Latvian basketball, and healthy athletic lifestyle.
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"I had just assumed all the principal figures on both sides in this case were modest, self-effacing, kind of shy people," quipped Judge Jed Rakoff.
Perched high in the Federal Court Building near the southern tip of Manhattan, Rakoff's courtroom is not a natural habitat for bankers and financiers. If the wood-panelled walls and plush, though fading, carpet carried echoes of boardrooms familiar to Guy Hands and David Wormsley, little else did.
Here the market – long the judge and jury in both men's stellar careers – counted for nothing. Courtroom 14B was instead rich hunting ground for lawyers whose pockets were lined with increasing amounts of gold as the days ticked over. But in America's judicial system they, along with the judge, are subject to the will of the jury, which was picked on a sunny October morning almost three weeks ago.
Understanding risk is in the DNA of the private equity industry, but in dragging his old friend and closest adviser across the Atlantic, Hands was making a bet few bookies would have given odds for. It's something Hands, the maverick wunderkind of Britain's private equity industry, may have reflected on as the jurors were chosen. It was to them that the courtroom's two protagonists would offer their accounts of a fateful chapter in EMI's venerable history. Beyond the press, few in the courtroom had heard of two of the City of London's brightest stars. But many in the gallery had made the journey just to see David Boies, who put the case for Terra Firma, and Ted Wells, Citi's defender.
Their competing narratives were delivered in sharply contrasting styles. At 69, Boies was methodical, his body remarkably still as his brain fizzed; larger and younger, Wells's hands and arms flashed above the lectern as they played their part in his constant volcano of indignation that Hands had dared file the suit. Their opening statements delivered a hard-boiled version of the case they hoped the jury would suck on for the next fortnight. Citi was a greedy bank, happy, according to Boies, in playing "two sides of the street".
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Printable Letter Blends Puzzle
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There are 44 pieces altogether with 22 complete matches
Match the blend sound in a word with the picture that it belongs to. For example: Cl matches with the picture of a clock and Fl matches with the picture of a flower.
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The puzzle set includes these combinations for matching.
dr – drill, sh- shoe, sh-sheep, dr-drum, sn-snowman, tr-train, fl-flag, fl-flower, cl-clown, cl-clock, sp-spider, sp-spoon, sn-snail, tr-truck, gl-glove, gl-glasses, fr-frog, cr-crown, cr-crab, gr-grasshopper, st-star, sl, slide.
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Too Strange to Egnor
Dr. Michael Egnor, striving mightily to demonstrate that a brain is not an absolute requirement in order to operate on the things, is back with a double-header … and so soon after Opening Day!
Egnor has "responded" to Mark Chu-Carroll's criticism of his claim that Natural Selection is "a tautology, and therefore useless to modern medicine." Mark has amply demonstrated the emptiness of Egnor's attempt to answer the charge. But I thought I'd throw in a bit more. Egnor claims:
All permutations of "Natural Selection" — "survival of the fittest," "reproductive success," "mechanisms that contribute to the selection of individuals that reproduce," "sexual selection," "gametic selection," "compatibility selection" — reduce quite readily to "successful reproducers successfully reproduce," or colloquially, "survivors survive." The truth of Natural Selection is its logical structure. It can't be false. "Natural Selection" is logically true, but it's a weak theory because it's merely a tautology.
What Egnor is leaving out is that those reproducers, through heredity, pass along the very traits that make them able to successfully reproduce in that particular environment. In short, through mutation and selection, information as to how best to survive in that environment is added to the genomes of the descendant organisms.
Contrary to Egnore's assertion, however, that is not logically necessary. There are a number of ways that reproductive success could be decoupled from the genes passed to an organism's offspring. Throughout the 18th Century and into the 19th, Preformationism was a live scientific idea. Depending on the version, Preformationism held that each individual organism was complete in either the egg or sperm and merely developed by growing larger and "unfolding" (the original meaning of "evolution," before Herbert Spencer screwed things up). But such a fully-formed but tiny "homunculus" would, by implication, have all its sperm and/or eggs already, just as its parent before it had. Indeed, this "Russian Doll" situation would mean that all the individuals of a species came into existence when the original organism was created.
This, in turn, would mean that the traits of one individual are not passed on to another. They all come down from the original creation and the fitness of your ancestors had no effect on your biological traits. And that is only one possible way that fitness could be unrelated to the genes of descendants.
Thus, Natural Selection, within the entirety of evolutionary theory, is not a tautology but a prediction of the effect of environmental changes on the genetic makeup of populations and an explanation of (one of) the mechanisms by which such genetic changes come about.
As to Natural Selection not being important to modern medicine, it seems that immunologists disagree, as shown in this article from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. As the article (one out of many that can be easily found in a Google search) puts it:
First, let's make sure we're on the same page about how resistance develops. The development of antibiotic resistance is like really fast natural selection. When a selective pressure (such as a drug) is applied to a population of organisms (such as bacteria), the "fittest" organisms will be the ones that can survive and propagate in the presence of the pressure. In bacteria, the race is between the rate of mutation in the molecule that the antibiotic targets and the rate at which the bacteria are killed by the drug.
… [T]he longer the bugs survive under the selective pressure of the antibiotic, the greater the chance of developing a resistant strain. But another factor is the size of the population. Genetic mutation is essentially random. A mutation that gives rise to the specific resistance is going to be a rare event -- sort of like winning the lottery. But in this case, you're talking about a rapidly dividing, fairly large population to start with (if you were sick enough to have gone to the doctor in the first place, there's probably a good number of bacteria there already). It's like the difference between buying 100 lottery tickets and buying 1 million lottery tickets. You always have a chance with a few, but the odds of winning go way up with the larger "population" of tickets.
... [I]t's better to take the entire course (or none of it) than to take half of it—better to eliminate all the bugs or not to expose them at all to the drug than to expose them just enough to select for resistant strains.
In other words, doctors want you to complete the course of antibiotics because they hope any mutation will provide only partial resistance and they hope to kill off those mutated individuals before a further mutation will make the resistance too good. Leaving the partially resistant population to breed increases the likelihood of the further mutation.
I wonder if Egnor instructs his patients to complete the entire course of antibiotics he prescribes. If not, a good case can be made that he is committing malpractice. If he does, then what reasonable explanation does he have for why he does, even when an infection is already under control? If Egnor's simplistic version of Natural Selection is right, there is no immunological reason to continue the antibiotics once the infection is controlled.
As for the twinight game, challenged by Orac to produce examples of his claim that the "design inference" has been "of great value" in medicine, he ... um ... threw up a claim that Watson and Crick inferred design in order to untangle the structure of DNA.
They reversed-engineered DNA. They collected physical data about the structure of DNA (X-ray diffraction studies, Chargaff's rules, the physical chemistry of nucleotides, etc), and then they designed a model of the molecule to understand its structure and function.
Egnor is not clear how this infers design but it seems to have something to do with a single sentence he pulled off a Wikipedia page:
Sciences such as biology and physics can be seen as reverse engineering of biological 'machines' and the physical world respectively.
Besides apparently never having heard the word "analogy" in his life, Egnor seems to think every scientific enterprise that collects physical data and then tries to construct physical or conceptual models is using a "design inference."
But then, evolution is also using a design inference and why is Egnor so against it? ... Other than his utter confusion, that is.
And now for the real purpose of this post: to further propagate links to refutations of Egnor's proud ignorance and make sure anyone with a modicum of curiosity about his claims won't be mislead into thinking they are based on his knowledge of biology:
Egnor's latest kook-fests
Michael Egnor, Reverse Engineering and Genetic Algorithms
The latest from the World of Egnor
Egnor's awful example of "design inference"
Brain surgeon knows Jim Watson's mind better than Jim Watson
This statement is not a tautology
reverse engineering, the design inference, and geology
Egnor doesn't know how to think either
I did think of bringing up the grant's work in the Galapagos on finches but then I'd have to explain why the IDeologists poo-poo that and why they are wrong to do so and it was getting bigger than I wanted anyway ...
I'm trying to resist the temptation to quote-mine Egnor (turnabout being fair play, an' all). "The truth of Natural Selecction is [...] It can't be false. 'Natural Selection' is logically true".
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