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Bayanihan 3 unlikely to hurdle Senate before break - Sotto
Posted at May 31 2021 10:54 AM | Updated as of May 31 2021 11:07 AM
MANILA - Bayanihan 3, the stimulus package aimed to address economic and social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, is unlikely to be approved at the Senate before it adjourns at the end of this week, Senate President Vicente Sotto III said Monday.
"Bayanihan 3 for this last week might not be able to hurdle it before the Senate...We have barely 4 days and there are a lot on our plate," he told ANC's Headstart.
The measure was approved by the House of Representatives last week. It has a counterpart measure in the Senate authored by Sen. Ralph Recto, but there is at least one glaring difference, said Sotto.
House OKs P401-B Bayanihan 3 bill
"There are differences and practically there is a very contentious issue in the Bayanihan 3…Kung ilang billions na being proposed for pension (How many billions are being proposed for pension). We don't feel that it should be included in the Bayanihan 3," he said.
The Senate leader added, the "main reason" that the Senate is not rushing to pass this measure is that funding for Bayanihan 2 is "still partly intact."
"The programmed funds I understand has only been 50 percent of the total allocation and out of the 50 percent that has been allocated, only 70 percent is used," he said.
"Aside from the time constraints, there is difficulty to finish up Bayanihan 2, which we have extended up to the end of the year. Bayanihan 3, with differences from the House and the Senate version, very doubtful in the next 4 days," he added.
Instead, the Senate may take this up after it resumes session on July 26, said Sotto.
Apart from ayuda or monetary assistance, Sotto said the Senate would also like to prioritize allotting P110 billion for the procurement of COVID-19 medication and vaccines. This would include the handling of the coronavirus shots, hiring of health workers, hazard pay for them, and testing and treatment under state insurer PhilHealth.
The Philippine economy remained in recession with gross domestic product contracting 4.2 percent in the first quarter of 2021. The economy contracted by 9.6 percent last year following strict COVID-19 lockdowns.
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27 used others' credit cards at Apple stores
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Published Thursday, February 03, 2011
A crafty crime ring honed a very 21st-century scheme, authorities say: gleaning stolen credit-card numbers online from data thieves, deploying the numbers for a million-dollar, cross-country Apple store shopping spree and using social media to boast about it all.
The scam was so successful that one member branched off to start his own syndicate, and the original ringleader taught his girlfriend how to keep the scheme going while he was in jail, authorities said as they detailed the scheme Wednesday. Arrests of the 27 suspects began Tuesday and were continuing.
The Brooklyn-based group compromised hundreds of accounts as members scooped up laptop computers, iPads, iPhones and other popular products at Apple Stores around the nation, from New York to Portland, Ore., and from Orlando, Fla., to Wauwatosa, Wis., Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. and the U.S. Secret Service said.
At the heart of the "S3" group was Shaheed Bilal, 28, who enlisted his girlfriend, Ophelia Alleyne, and his brothers, Ali, 23, Isaac, 25, and Rahim, 21, to help oversee the scheme, authorities said.
"This was, in essence, a family affair," Vance said.
It eventually sprawled out to include more than a dozen people who were recruited to act as shoppers, several men accused of reselling the ill-gotten goods and a whole spin-off group, authorities said.
Shaheed and Ali Bilal, 23, and Alleyne, 29, have pleaded not guilty to grand larceny and other charges and are being held on various bail amounts. Alleyne's lawyer, Verena Powell, said she "is proclaiming her innocence"; Ali Bilal's lawyer, Daniel Gotlin, declined to comment.
Shaheed Bilal's lawyer didn't immediately return a telephone call Wednesday; the names of lawyers for the other Bilal brothers weren't immediately available, and no telephone numbers for the brothers could be found.
After buying the stolen account numbers through underground websites, the group stored the data in shared e-mail accounts and then printed up phony Visa and MasterCard cards in the shoppers' names, using equipment commercially available and intended for businesses that create magnetic keycards and the like, authorities said.
Then the shoppers would fan out to use the cards in Apple Stores in major cities such as Los Angeles, Atlanta, Las Vegas and St. Louis, and smaller communities such as Short Hills, N.J., and Stamford, Conn., according to an indictment. The thieves sometimes charged more than $3,000 worth of products in one stop, but other transactions were as small as a $53.45 tab for a laptop case, the indictment says.
Visa Inc., based in San Francisco, and MasterCard Inc., based in Purchase, N.Y., representatives said the companies recommend that merchants look carefully at cards and match signatures to customers' names. But it's unclear whether any of that would have flagged the allegedly fraudulent transactions in this case; the cards would have the shoppers' names but the victims' account numbers encoded in their magnetic stripes, authorities said.
Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple Inc. declined to comment on the case.
Shaheed and Isaac Bilal at point used the social networking site Twitter to trumpet an online video of themselves bragging about using forged credit cards at a restaurant, authorities said. Bilal's Twitter accounts and the video have apparently been removed.
Shaheed Bilal was so enmeshed in the scheme that while jailed in an unrelated case from May to December 2010, he told Alleyne from jail how to run the scam, authorities said. And when Bilal was released, he got back into business with a new e-mail handle: "rightbackonit," authorities said.
Meanwhile, one of the men recruited as a shopper, Anthony Harper, split off in September to run the scam with an 10-person ring of his own that hit Apple Stores in locales including Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh, prosecutors said.
Harper, 28, remains at large, and prosecutors didn't know whether he has a lawyer. No telephone number for him could be found.
The two groups kept some of the merchandise but took the rest to men who bought it at below-market prices and resold it at a profit, authorities said.
Authorities say they seized three guns, $300,000 in cash, and bank accounts during the investigation.
"These crimes can move quickly from the Web to the streets," Vance said.

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Time for public leadership
Floods in York, December 2015
One needn't look far to find examples in the news of messed up leadership. This is why our forthcoming session with Robert Phillips on trust is so timely.
From the news over Christmas, we have:
Sports Direct under fire for employment conditions that effectively paid people below the level of the minimum wage.
Ongoing repercussions of Volkswagen's cheat technology designed to bypass regulatory tests on vehicle emissions.
Flooding around Britain and allegations that authorities have repeatedly failed to manage water streams and invest in defences to a level sufficient to protect the public.
If Robert's argument is that trust is an outcome of leadership, not its message, how do the above examples match up?
Sports Direct appears to have grasped that action is needed more than words. Its founder, Mike Ashley, has pledged to increase pay levels and declared an ambition to become "the best high street retail employer after John Lewis" – an objective he acknowledges will be achieved only after a long haul.
Volkswagen's new chief executive, Matthias Müller, has been criticised for trying to move on from the emissions scandal without having reassured – through action not words – that the firm has gripped the culture that brought about its deceptions.
But the floods possibly contradict Robert's thesis, as the Government and local authorities have so far attracted little blame for the plight of flooded households and businesses.
What has this to do with coaching? Robert advocates a new approach to leadership – which he calls "public leadership". This recognises the broad responsibility of organisations towards their communities and society, beyond whatever narrow sectional interests they exist to pursue. If this is accepted, should coaches play any role in inviting leaders to engage with this agenda?
More generally, where organisations fail there is an onus on diverse sections of society to hold them to account. Michael Skapinker – a long-time observer of corporate scandals – makes this point in relation to the recent decision by the Financial Conduct Authority to drop its investigation into banking culture:
"For the system to work so that people do not lose trust in it, companies need to be corrected when they go wrong. Because regulators sometimes fail to do what they should — such as the FCA now and its predecessors before 2008 — others need to pile on the pressure, whether it is legislative committees, the media, consumers, campaigners or researchers. It was a research group, the International Council on Clean Transportation, that alerted the US authorities to VW's suspicious emissions. Some of these groups over-reach. More often, they allow malpractice to go undetected, as much of the media did before the 2008 crisis. That is why one part of society needs to step in when another does not. It is through their actions that the system is kept honest, more or less, or at least honest enough for it to keep functioning. Criticism can sting, but we all need it if we are not to sink into cynicism."
If, as coaches, we aspire to be viewed as professionals, we must engage with this discussion and work out where we stand in relation not just to our corporate clients but also to trust in the system as a whole. Can coaching as a profession be trusted to stand up for society's interests when we work inside organisations, or are we at risk of colluding with corporate agendas gone astray?
Join the discussion with Robert Phillips on 21st January.
Trust is an Outcome, Not a Message
21 January 2016, 6.30–8.30pm
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For the most part, the automatic heuristics seem to be doing the right things for Xcode's XCTest.  We have identified a few cases where we should perhaps discuss doing a little extra. Almost everything seems like it imports reasonably according to the API guidelines (https://swift.org/documentation/api-design-guidelines/ <https://swift.org/documentation/api-design-guidelines/>). The few cases that we think need tweaking are detailed here.
These are the changes from how the API imports automatically that we are considering. I would love to hear any comments or suggestions.
There's a glitch in the importer that is making XCTestSuioteRun's addTestRun: import as addTest. We're tracking this as a bug in the importer. In the meantime, I would fix this in Xcode's XCTest explicitly.
Here, the importer just isn't smart enough to detect that the prepositional phrase that really identifies the argument is "boundBy", not "by". We're also tracking this as a possible thing to fix in the importer. In the meantime, I would fix this in Xcode's XCTest explicitly.
This next little family is a bit more subtle. The first two have a noun which just restates the type, so by the guidelines we would remove them. Technically the last one's noun is a role, not a type and so what the importer is doing is correct. But it feels inconsistent if we remove the type names but leave that one alone. To make it a little more consistent, the suggestion is to move identifier inside the parens as a required label so all these related functions have the same "outside the parens" part of their names.


Yesterday after I wrote my poem to honor our veterans, the muse descended and I sat here writing all day. The kids were home and fortunately had homework, so I didn't need to worry about them keeping busy.
I had four columns going at the same time and the ideas just kept coming. Usually, when the muse descends like that, it's inconvenient and I can't stop to write it down. I did lose some stuff yesterday because the muse kept pounding on me as I was cooking dinner.
Isn't that how it usually is? When we feel most inspired, we are helpless to do anything about it. Sometimes when I've had a bad day, I'll plot the next day just as I'm falling asleep and start feeling inspired, only to have the ideas fade away in my dreams. Sometimes I think the inspiration isn't really real, it's just in the hallucinogenic frame of mind we have just when we are falling asleep. If I were to wake up and try and capture it, it would probably be as fleeting as trying to fall asleep again.
All I know, is my life is very bright and successful in those moments before sleep. Maybe it's just good for our brains to have that euphoria at some point during the day, even if it is just as we're going to sleep. When I'm in that place, I'm thin, fit and a well-known writer.
In the waking hours I have to be happy with pleasantly plump, out of shape and a writer who is known and loved by my friends. And that's okay for now. I've gotta have something to dream about.


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Note: Beans, soil (or potting mix), a small container (jam jar lid) and cotton wool are required to perform experiment, not included.


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The Victorians and their world
The Victorians continue to fascinate and absorb, with their dynamism, their contradictions, their principles and their shortcomings. Their world can seem a different planet, yet it was the birthplace of our own. We will look at the Victorians in their own terms, their ideals, their failings and their dreams.
'The history of the Victorian age will never be written', wrote Lytton Strachey in 1918; 'we know too much about it.' A century on, we can have a better sense of perspective on this fascinating period of dynamism, creativity and imagination and of poverty, cruelty and prejudice. The Victorians revelled in topsy-turveydom and no wonder: theirs was a time of enormous advances in technology to improve human life, yet it also led to the mass poverty and heartless utilitarianism which drove Dickens to reach for his pen to cry out for a bit of humanity.
This course will give you an introduction to some of the most important aspects that characterised this fascinating age. Starting with a look at the Queen herself - in many ways the least 'Victorian' of the leading figures of her age - we then look at Parliament, the ultimate Victorian institution, the pride and sense of public service that went into the Victorian city, and at the deeply-held moral and religious beliefs that drove the Victorians in so much that they did. Central to their outlook was the Victorians' belief in the importance of hard work, the enemy of idleness and moral degeneration - which is why we must also look at Victorian crime and punishment. That in turn leads us to Victorian children (were they angels or devils?) and that takes us inevitably to relations between Victorian men and women and to the 'separate spheres' they inhabited both in public and within the Victorian home. Running through all of this are the works of art and literature that made the Victorian age so culturally rich and which illustrated their dreams, their beliefs, their fears and their outrage.
We end the course with a look at the twilight years of the age and of the 19th century, the decade of the Boer War and the Oscar Wilde trials, a troubled fin de siècle that foreshadowed the approaching age of the First World War. That conflict was in many ways a twisted product of the huge self-confidence and expansionism of the Victorian age; it is no coincidence that Lytton Strachey's attack on Victorian hypocrisy was written in the war's shadow. But we can look at the Victorians with greater detachment than he could - and perhaps with greater understanding.
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Arts & Culture, Living Savannah
"Southern Discomfort: Art Inspired by Flannery O'Connor" on display Thursday and Friday, Feb. 2 & 3
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"Converge / Reveal (ation)" by Jack Metcalf
It's not often that I get short of breath when I open my mail, but that's what happened a few weeks ago when I realized that a big package with a zillion individual stamps on it was from Jack Metcalf in Missoula, Montana.
Jack isn't as familiar a name in the Savannah arts community as other artists who are participating in "Southern Discomfort: Art Inspired by Flannery O'Connor" sponsored by the Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home, but his meticulous, provocative work told me that he would do something special. O'Connor herself might have taken particular delight in the name of his website: fowlthoughts.com.
Jack's "Converge / Reveal(ation)" is one of 43 pieces by about two dozen artists that will be in the show today and Friday. In an accompanying letter, he told me that the palette reflects that of the kitchen of his Southern granny; the "unzipped amphibious apparatus" references O'Connor's own statements about the tendency toward dissection of fiction rather than the enjoyment of it; and so on. The title obviously references both "Everything That Rises Must Converge" and "Revelation".
"The Horrible Thought" by Lind Hollingsworth
Because we got such an immediate and enthusiastic response from the first artists that we asked to participate, we quickly realized that we had to cap the invitations. We've been asked repeatedly about "when" we'll do this again, but I think the better question right now is still "if" — a lot will depend on how the silent auction goes. Since we essentially commissioned work, we did not expect artists simply to donate their work. We worked with each on an acceptable starting price and are splitting sale prices (a few artists have already told us that the work is an outright donation).
"Above Cortana's 1" by Daniel E. Smith
While some artists like Jack approached the project in a completely non-illustrative way, others delved deeply into the intense visuals of the plots (each artist was offered a copy of O'Connor's National Book Award-winning The Complete Stories). Lind Hollingsworth's "The Horrible Thought" is a brilliant evocation of the moment when the Grandmother in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" realizes that she has led her family down the wrong road. Toomsboro can be seen on the map behind her in the collage elements of the piece.
Daniel E. Smith's "Above Cortana's 1" and "Above Cortana's 2" were inspired by "The Geranium", which mingled in the creative process with Dan's own memories of growing up in New York.
"The Geranium" by Curtis Bartone
Curtis Bartone, who had a solo show last year at the Telfair Academy, also was inspired by "The Geranium" and produced one of his gorgeous drawings exploring the tensions between the natural world and urban life.
I'm especially pleased that we ended up with such a great mix of media in the show, including photography. Ellen Susan, whose use of Civil War era technology to create portraits of contemporary soldiers has earned wide acclaim and several museum shows, created "Violins and Grays", an ambrotype (literally an image on glass) exploring symbolism related to O'Connor's Catholicism. (I could probably write three pages about Ellen's piece, but that sentence will have to suffice.)
I could go on and on and on about the work. As one of the organizers and as one of the installers, I feel like I have some sort of relationship to every piece.
"Violins and Grays" by Ellen Susan
Arguably the signature piece in the show comes from Mary Lawrence Kennickell, who grew up in Milledgeville and who knew O'Connor. Mary Lawrence, a longtime docent and support of the Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home, created a portrait of a young O'Connor using nothing but titles and passages from all of O'Connor's stories. It seems a fitting portrait for O'Connor, who seemed to be wholly herself even as a child.
My apologies to all the other artists that I don't have time or room to talk about all the work here.
Within a couple of weeks, we hope to have a web page on the Childhood Home's website with all the work and other information.
The Savannah Morning News previewed the show here.
"Primary Thoughts" by Mary Lawrence Kennickell
There's a wonderful piece in Connect Savannah.
The Facebook event invitation is here.
"Southern Discomfort: Art Inspired by Flannery O'Connor" will be on display on Thursday February 2nd from 4 to 7 p.m. and Friday, February 3rd from 2 to 5 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m. Bids can be placed anytime, with the silent auction closing at about 8:30 p.m. on Friday.
1704Lincoln gallery is at the corner of Lincoln and 33rd streets. A big shout out to Blanche Nettles Powers, who is giving us free use of her gallery and has donated to the show as well.
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Kitchener's Aporia sculpture gets $27K facelift
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Published Monday, July 27, 2020 6:35AM EDT Last Updated Monday, July 27, 2020 12:09PM EDT
KITCHENER -- Kitchener's most mysterious sculpture now has a fresh new look.
The Aporia sculpture has stood on Frederick Street for 40 years and it's now being restored.
The work began earlier this month with the region promising the refresh would still respect the artist's original intent.
While at the same time, noting there is actually very little information on what the sculpture is meant to represent.
They say that part of its lure is the fact it sparks so much discussion, and so many nicknames, ranging from the giant intestine to a noodle.
The region says that the restoration will come in at a cost of $27,000 and included the restoration of the original fibreglass structure and a complete resurfacing of its original orange colour.
The sculpture was created and installed back in the 1980s.
Regional officials say all of the work was done in consultation with the original artist.
The Aporia fixture at Fredrick Street sported a fresh new look on Sunday.
The Aporia fixture in Downtown Kitchener is getting restored


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'Baby Shark' Swims to the Top of YouTube Charts With Record 10 Billion Views
It's a children's song, but if you have also been humming Baby Shark Doo Doo Doodoo Doodoo all day long, we don't blame you. Fun and catchy, Pinkfong's "Baby Shark" has hit a huge milestone. On January 13, it became the first video in the history of YouTube to hit 10 billion views. With this, the gap has further widened between "Baby Shark" and the second most-watched video on YouTube, Luis Fonsi's "Despacito" (7.7 billion views).
Produced by South Korean educational entertainment firm Pinkfong, "Baby Shark" features the voice of Korean-American singer Hope Segoine. The song was released in 2016. In November 2021, the song had been viewed 7.04 billion times, making it the most viewed video on YouTube at that time.
Here's the "Baby Shark" music video:
After the song reached the 10-billion milestone, Pinkfong asked kids across the world to share their "Baby Shark Dance moments" to commemorate the "special milestone."
Here are some reactions on Twitter,
The song's popularity has only grown over time. On January 12, 2019, the song debuted at the 32nd spot on the Billboard Hot 100, its highest position yet.
"Baby Shark" has even spread its fins into a Nickelodeon pre-school series called Baby Shark's Big Show in 2021. Nickelodeon also stated that a feature film based on "Baby Shark" was in the works.
"Baby Shark" has attracted a plethora of celebrity fans too. With the support of Sophie Turner and Josh Groban, James Corden performed the song in 2018. Bebe Rexha, John Legend and his daughter Luna, Celine Dion, and others covered it a year later, in 2019.
The Washington Nationals, an American professional baseball club, adopted the song as their rallying cry. In December 2021, an NFT collection based on Baby Shark was also launched.
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match delayed - rain • 11th Match, Group A • YODI • Basseterre
When West Indies couldn't blow Allan Border's house down
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A look back at the 1984 Port-of-Spain Test, when Border put together one of the all-time great Test performances
S Rajesh21-Mar-2020
Thirty-seven years ago on this day, Allan Border stitched together one of the great backs-to-the-wall performances in Test history, against one of the best teams of all time. This was when West Indies cricket was at its pomp, in the mid-1980s, and during a 18-year period when they didn't lose a single series at home.
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In this Port-of-Spain Test of 1984, their bowling attack included Malcolm Marshall, Joel Garner and Wayne Daniel, and they got into the act straightaway after Australia were put in to bat. Australia were 16 for 3 when Border walked in, and the score soon became 50 for 4 and 85 for 5.
With some support from Dean Jones, Border lifted Australia to a first-innings total of 255, but he was left stranded on 98 as Daniel and Garner mopped up the tail.
After West Indies piled up a first-innings lead of 213, their bowlers were at it again, reducing Australia to 41 for 3. For the second time in the match, Border walked in with Australia in huge trouble, and for the second time in the match, he defied West Indies' pace attack for over four hours and 250-plus deliveries.
In a game where the next highest score by an Australian batsman was 48, Border finished with a match aggregate of 198 not out. While the other Australians were dismissed every 35 deliveries, Border faced 583 without being dismissed once. In the 25-year period from 1976 to 2000, when West Indies won 20 out of 23 home series, no overseas batsman faced more deliveries in a Test match in the Caribbean.
Border's 583 balls is also the second most by a batsman in a Test match in which he batted twice and was not dismissed. Stephen Fleming is the only one who has done better, facing 710 deliveries without being dismissed against Sri Lanka in Colombo in 2003.
In the second innings, it seemed Border would end up well short of a hundred, but with Australia nine down and struggling to save the match, Terry Alderman joined him in a most unlikely match-saving tenth-wicket stand of 61 undefeated runs. Alderman faced 69 balls in his innings, more than all the Australian batsmen except Border and Jones. That remains in the top ten for the longest innings by a No. 11 batsman in terms of balls faced, in the third or fourth innings of a Test which the team didn't end up losing.
As for Border, that was arguably his finest Test performance. Not surprisingly, it ranked as high as No. 12 in the Cricket Monthly's 2016 list of the best Test performances of the last 50 years.
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Q: Terraform Block Resource Failing on Syntax I have a formatting issue that I cannot figure out. The soa_record seems to fail on the email. Maybe the soa_record block is not being defined correctly?
Code and error below.
variable "private_dns_zones" {
  description = "A list of Private DNS Zones and their properties."
  type = list(object({
    name                = string
    resource_group_name = string
    tags                = map(string)
    soa_record = object({
      email        = string
      expire_time  = number
      minimum_ttl  = number
      refresh_time = number
      retry_time   = number
      ttl          = number
    })
  }))
}

resource "azurerm_private_dns_zone" "this" {
  for_each            = { for n in var.private_dns_zones : "${n.name}" => n } #name of private dns zone is unique
  name                = each.value.name
  resource_group_name = each.value.resource_group_name
  tags                = merge(data.azurerm_resource_group.this[each.value.resource_group_name].tags, each.value.tags)
  soa_record = {
    email        = each.value.soa_record.email
    expire_time  = each.value.soa_record.expire_time
    minimum_ttl  = each.value.soa_record.minimum_ttl
    refresh_time = each.value.soa_record.refresh_time
    retry_time   = each.value.soa_record.retry_time
    ttl          = each.value.soa_record.ttl
  }
}

ERROR
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│ Error: "soa_record.0.email" only contains letters, numbers, underscores, dashes and periods
│
│   with module.private_dns_zones.azurerm_private_dns_zone.this["zone1.local"],
│   on Modules/privatednszone/main.tf line 22, in resource "azurerm_private_dns_zone" "this":
│   22:     email        = each.value.soa_record.email
│
╵
╷
│ Error: "soa_record.0.email" only contains letters, numbers, underscores, dashes and periods
│
│   with module.private_dns_zones.azurerm_private_dns_zone.this["zone2.local"],
│   on Modules/privatednszone/main.tf line 22, in resource "azurerm_private_dns_zone" "this":
│   22:     email        = each.value.soa_record.email

A: If you check Azure docs you will find that they use email format without @. For example:
--email myhostmaster.mysite.com

Thus I guess, that you have to follow same format in TF.

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Spiral Tree Guards are very low cost per unit, and they are very quick and easy to deploy; a Spiral Tree Guard does not usually need an additional tree stake or fastening to hold it in place; The Spiral Tree Guard is a complete, self-contained protection system – it's an 'in one package' offering you peace of mind (your plants and saplings are safe) and taking the minimum time to install / deploy. It is this ease of use and speed of deployment that makes Spiral Tree Guards the single most cost-efficient and genuinely effective way of protecting your young plants and trees from both chemical and animal attack.
When compared to other techniques, such as Tree Shelters, standard wire fencing or even standard staking, the Spiral Tree Guard is so simple and quick that other options immediately seem outmoded: once you've used Spiral Tree Guards, especially if you have to protect several plants or young trees, the time you save and the effortless way in which they 'just get the job done' will astonish you; you really will wonder why you haven't always been using Spiral Tree Guards instead of your current system.
In fact, Spiral Tree Guards have been in wide spread use for some time across the Northern Hemisphere: for many years Spiral tree Guards have been used to protect young trees, seedlings and even single-stem edge plant varieties against damage from rabbits, hares, sheep and deer and human 'trampling'.
The major advantage of a Spiral Tree Guard over the traditional methods of protecting your plants is of course the spiral's ability to 'grow' with the plant it is protecting: as your plant or sapling matures, the spiral slowly expands, eliminating the 'strangulation effect' that is common when staking a plant with plastic ties. Because the Spiral Tree Guard 'dynamically accommodates' the growing plant, the resulting mature specimen is healthier and does not show the kind of marks and 'injuries' that are often visible on staked or fenced specimens.
Ventilation holes are an important factor when selecting Spiral Tree Guards. Studies have shown that the young trees develop better and more reliably with ventilation holes which reduce the effects of mildew and leaf burn, both of which stung young tree growth. However if the planting area is to be regularly sprayed with any chemical weed killer, then there should be no holes in the guards.
Tree Spirals are without doubt THE most environmentally friendly, safe and effective method of protecting everything from saplings and young plants shoots, through to hedge and border plants.


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Avetik Isahakyan House Museum
By dpwpadmin | Sunday August 20th, 2017
Karine is 56 years old, who was born in Gyumri. She first worked in a kindergarten, then in a school as a teacher. She has been a guide in the Mher Mkrtchyan House Museum for 10 years, only after then did she become Isahakyan's House Museum's Director. She loved everything related to culture when she was a child. She finds it is important to work in a museum, because it is the way to transfer the culture to the future generations. She prefers Armenian literature. Some of her favorite poets are Avetik Isahakyan, Hamo Sahyan and Paruyr Sevak. She loves her family most in this life, which is also her biggest accomplishment. She appreciates honesty, kindness and devotion most in humans. Karine is married and has 4 sons. In 5 years she sees herself in Gyumri and hopes to have some grandchildren then. Her inspiration she considers to be her sons, and especially notes, that it is important to be loved a woman, wife and a mother in the family. However, she considers her colleagues also to be her inspiration, because she cannot imagine her job without them. She believes Avetik Isahakyan and Mher Mkrtchyan always help her from the sky. She feels desperate to see Gyumri emptying. She believes Gyumri theatre is a wonderful one and recommends anyone visit there ever. She claims anyone visiting Gyumri will be filled with warmth. A real Gyumrian should be warm, honest and hospitable in her opinion. She would like to see Gyumri through her childhood wings. Some places in the world she would want to visit are those, where Avetik Isahakyan has been.
Gohar is 63 years old, who chose the light industry as her future sphere for work. She is married, has 3 children and 6 grandchildren. She considers her biggest achievement to be her family, and her biggest inspiration: her children. She would love to live in the United States so she was financially a helping hand for her family. She is working in the museum for 13 years. Her favorite part of the museum is the yard, which is taken care by her. In her opinion, a real Gyumrian should be ambitious and hard-working, and these characteristics are what Gohar considers most unique about Gyumri and its people. She loves everything about Gyumri and is proud to be a Gyumrian. One thing she would change about people is the aggressive behavior. In life she likes her children and grandchildren most.
Ruzanna is 26-year-old guide in the museum. Though in childhood she dreamt of becoming a doctor, she finally became a historian. Ruzanna is married and has a child. She finds her family to be her biggest achievement. Her biggest inspiration in life is her father. Her biggest fear is any kind of war. She likes the Gyumri Square most in the city. Her favorite country is Canada because it is more of a democratic one. Her favorite color is white since it represents purity to her. She loves listening to music, reading books. Her favorite Armenian writers are Avetik Isahakyan and Hovhannes Tumanyan. She loves most the hospitality about Gyumrians. And in her opinion, a real Gyumrian should be patriotic. She appreciates the purity in humans most. Her biggest desire is to see the world peaceful.
Clara is a 57-year-old engineer, who then ended up working in the cultural sphere. Her knowledge of English language first led her to a gallery named "Style", where she has worked for 16 years. It has been three years, since Clara started to work in Avetik Isahakyan House Museum. She is married, has a wonderful husband and two children. In five years she sees herself in Gyumri taking care of her grandchildren. One of her aims is to see her grandchildren already stable in their careers. In her youth she preferred American literature, while now she is more likely to read Armenian literature. If not in Gyumri, she would still live in Gyumri. She likes the streets of Gyumri. She considers favorable lifestyle very important for people, as it will make people smile. In Clara's opinion a Gyumrian should be hard-working and ambitious. In life she loves the kindness most.
Ruzanna is 66 years old, and though by profession she is an engineer, she has been working in Avetik Isahakyan's House Museum for years. She is married, has two daughters, four grandchildren and two great grandchildren. She considers her family and her grandchildren her biggest achievements in life, and in five years she wants to be with them again. Ruzanna mentions, that as long as the person lives, he always has some dreams. She is her own inspiration. In her opinion, a real Gyumrian should be humorous and unique. If not in Gyumri, she would still like to live in Gyumri. Her favorite place in Gyumri is Gorky Park. She recommends anyone to have a walk in the whole city. She would like to see Gyumri cleaner and peaceful. In life she would change the human psychology.
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Judge halts banker's extradition to Gainesville
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua -- A judge halted the extradition of an American banker charged with money laundering in Gainesville, citing problems with the original extradition order, officials said Tuesday.
William Cooper of California, who managed an offshore bank in this Caribbean country, is charged with scamming U.S. investors between 1994 and 1997 by taking advance payments for loans he allegedly said he would secure.
Often offshore banks exist only on paper and, although registered in one country, are run in another.
Saying federal officials in Florida applied for Cooper's extradition before Antigua had ratified its extradition treaty with the United States, High Court Justice Ian Mitchell threw out a magistrate's 2002 extradition order Monday.
Mitchell also said the alleged crime hadn't been an offense in Antigua at the time and couldn't have applied to Cooper.
Cooper said Tuesday he was not guilty. "I handled the transactions on their behalf, but I didn't know what was involved," he said.
Mitchell ordered authorities to pay Cooper $18,000 to compensate his legal costs.
Antigua authorities did not say how much Cooper is accused of laundering through American International Bank.
Cooper said Tuesday, however, that the account for advance loan payments totaled $1.8 million when the bank went into receivership in 1997. The government shut the bank down because it failed to meet international standards.
Attorney General Gertel Thom said that if U.S. authorities can provide information to link Cooper to an offense recognized in Antigua at the time, the government would resubmit the extradition request.


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Historic moves for climate and prescription drugs
Despite Republicans' best efforts, the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act this past weekend – 51-50.
This is a big deal. A really big deal.
Next, it's headed to the House, and I'm ready to help pass this historic legislation!
The Inflation Reduction Act is the largest investment in clean energy ever.
It will lower energy costs for Americans and create at least 500,000 jobs.
For too long, the climate crisis has driven up prices for working families, made weather more deadly and more unpredictable, and threatened our children's future. It's about time we took steps to combat it.
When this bill hits the House floor, I am all in.
Progressive legislation like this is possible. Can you chip in to help build the progressive majority up in Congress?
I'll let you in on something. Big Pharma doesn't want the Inflation Reduction Act to pass because they know it will help Americans spend less on medications.
Medicare will be able to negotiate drug prices, and there will be a $2,000 annual spending cap for Medicare users.
This will be a game-changer for our seniors and most vulnerable, who've had to choose between life-saving medication and putting food on the table.
The best part about the Inflation Reduction Act is that it won't raise taxes on working families. It will live up to its name and provide much-needed relief for Americans in all 50 states.
Is it a perfect bill? No. Do I wish it went further? Absolutely. But it is still a strong step forward, and I can't wait to vote yes.
Our slim progressive majority has passed some life-changing legislation. Just imagine what a stronger majority could do. Can you chip in now to build up the progressive majority in Congress?
The victories are coming closer together. Let's keep up the fight for an economy that works for everyone.


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Just over a decade ago Houston Public Library's Jo Collier brought together a group of local lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community historians,archivists, and scholars as part of the library's LGBT speaker series. Recognizing commonalities and opportunities in their diverse organizations and programs, the group formed Houston Area Rainbow Collective History (ARCH) as a space for discussion, collaborative planning, and news sharing. Houston has long had a vibrant and influential LGBT community, and the individuals and organizations that met as ARCH had taken on the responsibility to collect, preserve, and share their community's history.
A Newspaper clipping of the first Gay Pride Parade in Texas.
Community-led archives are essential to the preservation of unique historical collections of books, archives, and artifacts that mainstream government or academic archives have typically neglected or undervalued. Community archives are often ventures of "self-representation, identity construction, and empowerment," and indictments of the failures of mainstream institutions to include marginalized populations such as racial or ethnic minorities, faith groups, and the LGBT community. Archivists struggle to define what a community archive is, but increasingly recognize that it is the "diversity, fluidity and lack of fixity which makes the community archive sector so dynamic and vibrant." Community archives come about in many different ways, but they frequently develop organically from within the community, are led by one or two key individuals, and are often recognized as the "authentic voice" of that community. Houston's LGBT community-led archives reflect this purpose and position in their organizations and their collections. Here are some of them from ARCH.
Click here to access the LGBT History Research Collection in Special Collections at the University of Houston Libraries.


Back in 2012, I blogged here about an employee who took her mother to Las Vegas on a vacation. The two ladies spent time playing slots, shopping on the Strip, people-watching, and dining at restaurants. The mother had terminal cancer, but had no specific plans to seek medical treatment in Las Vegas and was never hospitalized or treated by a physician.
The employee then sued for violations of the Family and Medical Leave Act.
An Illinois federal court ruled here that the employee had a tenable FMLA claim because she was "caring for" her mom, who had a serious health condition (terminal cancer), by helping her with basic medical, hygienic, and nutritional needs. It did not make where the care was administered. It just mattered that the employee was caring for her sick mom.
Yesterday, the Seventh Circuit affirmed in this opinion, where, again, the issue came down to what it means to "care for" a family member with a serious health condition.
Sarah's basic medical, hygienic, and nutritional needs did not change while she was in Las Vegas, and Beverly continued to assist her with those needs during the trip. In fact, as the district court observed, Beverly's presence proved quite important indeed when a fire at the hotel made it impossible to reach their room, requiring Beverly to find another source of insulin and pain medicine. Thus, at the very least, Ballard requested leave in order to provide physical care. That, in turn, is enough to satisfy [the FMLA].
So, if your employee needs time off to care for a significant other with a serious health condition, get an FMLA medical certification to satisfy yourself that the leave is covered.
Otherwise, what does it matter where the employee cares for a loved one?


At the surface, software and music seem to be very unrelated disciplines. When you look closer, you might be surprised to see that they have much in common. Creators of software can actually learn a few things from the world of music.
Software and music are two things to which I have dedicated a large portion of my life. Music was spoon-fed to me. Software came along later, basically when I needed to make a decision about what I was going to do professionally.
At first sight, software and music are very unrelated things. Software is easily associated with geeks that give logical instructions to machines through cryptic lines of code. It may seem as something cold and scientific. Music, on the other hand, is an expression of emotions that speak directly to the heart and soul of people. It is something warm and artistic.
Despite this obvious difference, there are more similarities than one might expect. Understanding these can actually help to develop better software.
Software is typically considered as something functional. Good software supports the needs of people and the business. It helps to get things done in an effective and efficient way. Nothing less, nothing more. Great software has the potential to transform the behavior of people. It's no longer about the quantity of the features (the notes), but about the impact they make. To the customer, the experience is the service.
In order to deliver software with an exceptional experience, it's no longer sufficient to take the sum of all features. It needs to tell an interesting story. It needs to connect with people at an emotional level. How do musicians succeed at doing this? The secret starts during composition.
As you probably know, composition is the process of creating a new piece of music. Like all works of art, it's a creative, non-linear process. Even a genius like Mozart did not make his masterpieces by simply writing note by note. Writing music involves a lot of experimentation and prototyping. It requires playing and listening. It's sketching with notes, trying out what works and what doesn't. Along the way, some fundamental rules of the game have emerged. Some things naturally sound better than others.
This whole process is quite similar to design. It requires a creative mindset and process. The discovery of value and what to build is a non-linear path that iterates through activities for understanding the problem, identifying potential solutions and validating them. What complicates things is that technology, the instrument on which software is played, is changing continuously and evolving rapidly.
Performing music is different than composing. It's a matter of execution and playing the notes right. Everybody knows talent isn't enough. It takes years of exercise to master an instrument completely. Practice makes perfect. You also need to be able to perform as a team, listen to each other and be in tune.
Although playing music is about creating something, the amount of creativity required for performing music is less than for composing. Plenty of people, even professionals, play music and do it very well without creating something entirely new. They read the score, interpret the composition and produce what others have imagined and written down before. They may even do it with a quality and precision that exceeds that of the composer.
Developing software is comparable to performing music. It requires technical know-how and mastery of tools to produce the intended design effectively and efficiently. Unless you are able to get all the details right at once, you will benefit from approaching development in an iterative way. Coding is rehearsing. Great programmers don't just write code. Like good musicians, they interpret the design and augment it.
Some people master both composition and performance. Singer/songwriters and jazz musicians are good examples from the world of music. Designers that know how to code and programmers with design skills are a similar kind of breed. It's not a necessity for an individual to have all of these skills, but both sides are needed to deliver the end result. The exact mix determines the style. Traditional development processes can be compared to classical music. The complete analysis and design of the software is done before development starts. Lean and agile methodologies are more comparable to jazz. Designers no longer provide a detailed up-front description of the software to build. Instead, they establish a vision and a structure that leaves room for developers to improvise.
In order to deliver better digital products and services, those involved in the creation of software need to understand and appreciate the difference between composition and performance. The focus, skills and approach of these activities are different. Not everyone can be good at both, which is why we need to complement each other through cross-functional collaboration.
The style of your process, traditional or agile, influences the balance between composition and performance. Traditional processes have a clear separation between these activities. Agile processes leave more room for improvisation during performance.
In the end, both software and music are about people. Musicians as well as software creators aim to provide their audience a great experience. The experience takes place when listening to or using the end product. As software developers we need to focus more on the end experience it evokes with people.


(ICIS) -- US ethylene spot margins fell by 1.4% in the third week of June due to a drop in ethylene (C2) spot prices, the ICIS margin report showed on Monday.
C2 margins fell to 34.96 cents/lb (USD 771/tonne, EUR 540/tonne), from 35.45 cents/lb a week earlier, using ethane as a feedstock. The drop followed a 1% average decline in C2 spot prices in the week ending 17 June.
C2 for June traded at 65.25-66.00 cents/lb last week, down from 65.00-67.50 cents/lb a week earlier, pressured by loosening supply and a softer outlook downstream resulting from weaker polyethylene (PE) demand.
US PE export demand has softened because of competition from lower Asian prices, while domestic demand is weakening as US buyers move to the sidelines in anticipation of lower prices.


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Roman Petrowycz Bezsmertny, ukr. Роман Петрович Безсмертний (ur. 15 listopada 1965 w Motyżynie w obwodzie kijowskim) – ukraiński polityk i nauczyciel, deputowany, wicepremier.

Życiorys
Ukończył studia w Kijowskim Instytucie Pedagogicznym (1990). W 1997 uzyskał stopień kandydata nauk w Narodowej Akademii Nauk Ukrainy. Pracował jako nauczyciel historii w szkole średniej.

W latach 1994–2007 sprawował mandat deputowanego do Rady Najwyższej. Należał do Partii Ludowo-Demokratycznej, z której przeszedł do Bloku Nasza Ukraina.

W 2005 pełnił funkcję wicepremiera ds. reformy administracyjno-terytorialnej w rządach Julii Tymoszenko i Jurija Jechanurowa. Od maja 2006 do lipca 2007 był przewodniczącym rady, następnie komitetu wykonawczego Ludowego Związku "Nasza Ukraina". W kwietniu 2007 został zastępcą szefa sekretariatu prezydenta Wiktora Juszczenki.

W lutym 2010 mianowany ambasadorem Ukrainy na Białorusi. Został odwołany w czerwcu 2011. W 2014 stanął na czele wspierającej Jurija Łucenkę partii Trzecia Ukraińska Republika. W 2019 był kandydatem w wyborach prezydenckich, otrzymał ponad 0,1% głosów.

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Nota biograficzna na stronie pic.com.ua

Ambasadorowie Ukrainy na Białorusi
Deputowani Rady Najwyższej Ukrainy
Kandydaci na urząd prezydenta Ukrainy
Politycy Naszej Ukrainy
Wicepremierzy Ukrainy
Urodzeni w 1965

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An attempt to define Hume's voice within the Dialogues.
In the wake of new discoveries within the fields of science and mathematics, philosophers of the 18th century began to turn to reason in attempting to solve all conflicts, including those of religion. Hume?s Dialogues emerged during this time in response to the prominent ideal within society that human reasoning and logic stood at the base of the unraveling of the secrets of the universe. Debates abound as to discerning the voice of Hume within his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. Though some profess Cleanthes as Hume?s mouthpiece, myriad evidence exists to the contrary. The introductory statements of Pamphilus indicating the obscure and indeterminable nature of the philosophy of natural religion support the theory of Hume?s perspective more closely resembling the philosophy of Philo than that of empirical theist Cleanthes. Philo?s successful casting of doubt upon the utilization of reason as a basis for natural religion, Cleanthes?s failure to transcend the doubt cast, as well as the composition of the work itself, as a dialogue, provide further evidence as to the voice of Hume?s skepticism. Failing to offer a definitive conclusion as to the determination of the nature of God, Hume, in true skeptic fashion, merely invokes opposition to the prominent theory of reason-based religion. Indeed, Hume exhibits his belief in the work that no definitive conclusions of natural religion can ever be ascertained, whether they are based on human reasoning or revelation.
Throughout the work, Hume provides philosophical skepticism through the character Philo in an attempt to debunk the assertions of empirical theist Cleanthes that religious belief can be rationally grounded in experience. Supporting a fideist view, Hume displays the inherent fallacy within the underlying logic of reason-based religion through the exhibition of the lack of evidence Cleanthes provides to justify his assertions. Cleanthes argues that by merely looking at the world, man can gain sufficient evidence that allows him to justifiably draw conclusions concerning the nature of God. He utilizes the analogy of comparing the universe to a splendidly constructed machine. Because the ?machine? of the universe runs so intelligently, Cleanthes argues that one may infer the superb intellect of its designer. He avers, ?the order and arrangement of nature, the curious adjustment of final causes and plain use and intention of every part and organ of the world all bespeak in the clearest language the intelligence of the cause or author? (Hume 32). Philo swiftly exhibits the fallaciousness of this reasoning, pointing out that the basis of Cleanthes?s argument relies on the assumption that the same logic employed within our world applies within that of God. This, Philo avers, reduces the argument of the supremacy and infinity of the wisdom of the divine if a mere mortal may employ the same logic as an omniscient creator. ?Your method of reasoning, Cleanthes, renounces all claims to infinity of the intellectual attributes of the deity. As your logic falls under our cognizance, it is not infinite? (35). Philo provokes incessant inquiry into the assumption that the divine mind is human-like and can be conceived by humans, highlighting to Cleanthes the anthropomorphism at the base of his theory.
The emerging of scientific, astronomical, and mathematical discoveries within the late 17th and early 18th century, in particular those of Newton and Galileo, shed an entirely new light on the understanding of humans? relationship with the divine. Society credited the unraveling of the mysteries of the universe to the utilization of reason, rather than revelation, thus inspiring philosophers to turn to the scientific method in attempting to solve all conflicts within society, including religious debates (Newman 1999). Cleanthes utilizes the theories of Copernicus and Galileo as a basis for rebuttal to Philo?s assertion that human reasoning fails to explain the nature of God and his relationship with man because of our lack of experience within any other world. Cleanthes inquires to Philo, ?would you say that one should withhold his assent on the arguments of Copernicus and Galileo for the motion of the earth because their explanations were too magnificent for the narrow limits of human reason? Have you other earths? ? (Hume 8). Philo informs Cleanthes of the fact that the Copernican system owes to its existence the study of the revelations of the sun, moon, and other planets of the solar system. Philo points out that Cleanthes fails to provide any analogies of the same kind upon which he may support his theory. Philo asserts that the only true way in which one can aver conclusions as to other universes and the nature of our creator is to possess experience of them. The only means of accepting probable theories on natural religion occurs when the theorizer provides his account of actual observations of other ?worlds being formed under his eye and observing the whole progress from the first appearance of order to its final consummation?. Only then may he cite his experience and deliver a possible theory (22).
The ambivalence of the character Demea lends support to the theory of Philo representing Hume?s voice within Dialogues. Representing traditional orthodox Christianity, his vacillation between reason and revelation indicates the compelling argument Philo presents. Though he fails to agree with either conclusively in the end, he seems to lean more toward the principles of Philo than those of Cleanthes. In regard to the ability of man to look within nature to gain evidence as to the nature of the divinity, Demea claims, ?the unity of the divine nature is very difficult, if not absolutely impossible, to deduce merely from contemplating the works of nature? (54).
Pamphilus?s introduction of the Dialogues provides additional support to the theory that Hume speaks within the character Philo. Just as Philo asserts throughout the work, Pamphilus states that natural religion remains among the subjects ?peculiarly adapted? to dialogue writing, which are those of philosophy that remain ?so obscure and uncertain that human reason can reach no fixed determination with regard to it? (1). Although some argue Pamphilus declares Cleanthes the ?winner? of the dialogues, the fact that Pamphilus reveals his status as a formal pupil of Cleanthes indicates his conclusion of the principles that ?most closely approach the truth? may be biased and unreliable.
Hume?s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion provokes inquiry into the prominent 18th century assertion that religious beliefs can be rationally grounded in experience. Hume attempts to exhibit the fallacy of this logic by employing a dialogue in which the characters engage in a debate as to the theory?s logical basis. Through Philo, Hume?s exhibits his disbelief in the ability of human reason to provide compelling evidence as to the existence of an intelligent creator, primarily because he feels man possesses no comparative evidence of another world on which to base his conclusions. The anthropomorphic bias of any theories man provides remain limited to the present life, and will always inherently possess within them the inexperience of man in the world of the divine. Though Hume may have believed in the existence of a deity and world beyond human comprehension, he desired to prove within Dialogues that neither he nor anyone else could produce evidence to justify such a claim.
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Most of us have read or watched on television the adventures of Vikram and Betaal. This is where the author delivers a masterstroke by making Betaal a part of this story, thus binding every spots together in the plot, devoid of any loopholes. 'The Guardians of the Halahala' is as perfect as it can get, and if the first book in the series is any indication of what's next to come, then 'The Vikramaditya Trilogy' can very well emerge as a modern day masterpiece.
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Since 1987, public pension funds have accrued approximately $7 trillion in revenue, said NASRA, of which $4.3 trillion, or 61%, is from investment earnings, with 27%, or $1.9 trillion, coming from employer contributions, and the remaining 12%, or $844 billion, coming from employee contributions. Because public pensions rely on investment returns for a majority of their revenue, the lower the investment returns are, the more governments will have to spend to cover the shortfall.
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Wondering how you can travel while doing your part to protect the planet? Wanting to be more sustainable or environmentally-minded while you see the world doesn't mean your wanderlust needs to take a backseat. From carbon offset programs and supporting small local business, to staying in hotels with eco-friendly credentials, there are many ways to make sure your footprint falls lighter on your next holiday. Start thinking about any smalls changes you can make to your next trip with these 11 easy ways for travelling more sustainably.
1. Offset Your Carbon When Flying
Make a positive impact on the planet by offsetting your carbon every time you fly. Carbon offset programs are commonly operated by travel businesses – airlines, cruise lines, travel agencies – and allow passengers the opportunity to compensate for or neutralise the emissions made during their travels. Offsetting usually happens by making a financial contribution to the program, and this support is then funnelled into projects that work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, such as protecting native rainforest or delivering renewable energy sources to communities around the world.
2. Shop Local
Purchasing from small local businesses and producers not only supports the area's economy; it also cuts down on the carbon emissions that go hand-in-hand with importing goods. If you can, give the chain stores, restaurants and cafes a miss in favour of independently-run options. The same principle applies for those all-important souvenirs; try looking for more unique or one-off pieces instead of mass-produced trinkets.
3. Minimise Your Plastic Use
It's no secret that overconsumption of plastic is wreaking havoc on the environment, especially the world's oceans. There are many different ways to cut down on plastic use without adding inconvenience. Carry a canvas tote to use instead of a plastic shopping bag; sit down at restaurants and cafes to save on takeaway packaging; trade disposable plastic water bottles for a refillable one. You can even purchase a bottle with a built-in filter for countries where the tap water isn't safe to drink.
4. Opt Out of Animal Tourism
Wildlife encounters form the basis of many travel plans, be it seeing lions and leopards on safari in Africa, spotting toucans in the Amazon, tigers in India, or penguins in Antarctica. These experiences, when offered through verified operators, are truly spectacular. There are however, many practices the world over in which animals – especially those kept in captivity – are exploited, mistreated or neglected for the sake of tourism. If you do want to visit an animal sanctuary, reserve or park, always do your research. Who is it operated by? Is it accredited by animal welfare bodies? What are the reviews left by past visitors? If you're venturing into habitats on wildlife-spotting adventures, also be sure to research the tour company or guide to confirm they follow best practices by not getting too close, have safety procedures in place, and take care not to disturb the environment.
5. Choose Sustainable Transport Options When Exploring
Moving around on foot is one of the best ways to explore a new destination, particularly if you're in a city. It cuts down on carbon emissions from vehicles, plus you'll get the chance to see more of a city by wandering side streets, alleyways and hidden paths – instead of going straight from Point A to Point B. Renting a bike is another eco-friendly option, and bike-sharing services are widely available in many cities around the world. If you can't cycle or walk to where you want to go, make like a local as much as possible and jump onto public transport.
6. Use a Reef-Safe Sunscreen
While normal sunscreens do a great job of protecting our skin, some are not-so-great at protecting natural habitats and environments. Sunscreens may contain ingredients that damage coral reefs, causing coral bleaching and even the death of coral if the systems are exposed to these toxins regularly. If your next holiday will have you in the water frequently, think about picking up reef-safe sunscreens – there are plenty available on the market now. Check the ingredients to make sure it is free from oxybenzone or octinoxate, and opt for mineral-based ingredients like zinc oxide and titanium dioxide instead. Try to always use reef-safe sunscreen when swimming, surfing, snorkelling or diving, and consider reef-safe sunscreens even when you're not headed to the water – especially if you are visiting an island or seaside destination. The ingredients from your sunscreen can be washed down the drain when you shower or rinse your hands and may end up in water systems anyway.
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One of the biggest dilemmas travellers can face when overseas is feeling obliged to give out money, gifts or trinkets. While this practice has been commonplace in the past, the idea today is that it can foster a system of dependency and begging, particularly in children. Even giving something as small as a pen to a child who asks for it can encourage the behaviour. So, as hard as it can be, it is best to avoid giving to beggars. If you would like to help the communities you visit, look into verified organisations that run social welfare programs and partner with local outreach efforts.
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One of the best parts about travelling is the food; experiencing different cuisines, new ingredients, and exciting flavours. And savouring as many local eats as you can while away has an added benefit, as the more local a food item is, the less carbon emissions were likely required to transport it. Favour restaurants that support local farmers or even grow their own produce, shop for snacks or ingredients for self-cooked meals at farmers' markets, and try to eat seasonally if possible (the latter is also great for travelling on a budget!).
10. Limit Your Laundry
Hotel and resort laundry services are renowned water-wasters, and while one of the appeals of staying in these accommodations can definitely be fresh linens and fluffy towels, the effort to maintain this luxury requires an incredible amount of water. Try to use your bathroom towels more than once or twice and ask for bed linens to be changed every other day. Consider washing or rinsing what you can of your clothes yourself in a bathroom sink or bathtub (using eco-friendly detergent, of course), or hold off until you're down to your last pair of clean socks before outsourcing laundry to a local service.
11. Research Eco-Conscious Accommodation
Not all accommodation options are created equal, and when it comes to sustainability, eco lodges and green hotels are top-tier. Eco lodges aim to have the lowest environmental impact possible, often strive to work in harmony with and benefit local communities, and are usually found in destinations famed for unspoiled nature, such as the rice fields of Bali, the rainforests of Costa Rica, or the African savannah. Green hotels also use sustainable practices, but are more frequently located in big cities or more urban destinations. Look for hotels that use solar panels or other renewable energy sources, towel and linen reuse programs, recycling systems, electric car charging stations, bike rental, and environmentally-friendly bathroom amenities.
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