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ISO 20121 (full name: ISO 20121:2012, "Event sustainability management systems - Requirements with guidance for use") is a voluntary international standard for sustainable event management, created by the International Organization for Standardization. The standard aims to help organizations improve sustainability throughout the entire event management cycle.

Every event from a village barbecue to a major sporting event like the Olympics will have economic, social and environmental impacts. Water and energy resources are put under pressure, significant amounts of waste and carbon emissions can be generated. Sometimes events can put a strain on local communities. By 2005, practitioners within the events industry were becoming aware of the need for more sustainable practices.

Specifically, the Head of Sustainability at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, David Stubbs, was looking for a way to make good on the sustainability promises made in the London Games bid.

He raised the issue with the British Standards Institution (BSI) in the UK. This led to the creation of BS 8901:2007 "Specification for a sustainable event management system with guidance for use". After a period of review, the second version of BS 8901 was published in 2009.

BS 8901 was received very positively by the international event industry, and was soon being widely used. For example, COP15, the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, was certified as compliant with BS 8901 in December 2009. The Microsoft Corporation achieved certification to BS 8901 at its Microsoft Convergence®️ 2009 event in New Orleans, Louisiana, in March 2009.

1. What is the article mainly about?
2. What is one example of an event that comes with impacts?
3. Name another?
4. And the last?
5. How many types of impacts are there?
6. Name one?
7. Can the environment be impacted?
8. What other impact haven't we mentioned?
9. What is one type of resources can be strained?
10. What's another?
11. What is one type of emission this can generate?
12. What's another?

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A: 1. Event sustainability
2. a village barbecue
3. the Olympics
4. a major sporting event
5. Three
6. economic
7. yes
8. social
9. water
10. energy
11. waste
12. carbon emissions

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Philosophy of space and time is the branch of philosophy concerned with the issues surrounding the ontology, epistemology, and character of space and time. While such ideas have been central to philosophy from its inception, the philosophy of space and time was both an inspiration for and a central aspect of early analytic philosophy. The subject focuses on a number of basic issues, including whether or not time and space exist independently of the mind, whether they exist independently of one another, what accounts for time's apparently unidirectional flow, whether times other than the present moment exist, and questions about the nature of identity (particularly the nature of identity over time).

The earliest recorded Western philosophy of time was expounded by the ancient Egyptian thinker Ptahhotep (c. 26502600 BC), who said, "Do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit." The Vedas, the earliest texts on Indian philosophy and Hindu philosophy, dating back to the late 2nd millennium BC, describe ancient Hindu cosmology, in which the universe goes through repeated cycles of creation, destruction, and rebirth, with each cycle lasting 4,320,000 years. Ancient Greek philosophers, including Parmenides and Heraclitus, wrote essays on the nature of time.

1. Philosophy of space and time if a branch of what?
2. When was the earlies recorded weatern philosophy of time expounded?
3. What is the earliest texts if Indian and Hindu Philosophy called?
4. When did that date to?
5. Which Ancient greek philosophers wrote essays on nature and time?
6. Did the Vedas describle ccosmology?
7. How long did it describle the universes repeated cycles of creation to last?
8. What was the philosophy of space and time an insperation for?
9. What basic issues does it focus on?
10. Who said do not lessen the time of the following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit?

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A: 1. Philosophy
2. c. 26502600 BC
3. The Vedas
4. late 2nd millennium BC
5. Parmenides and Heraclitus
6. yes
7. 4,320,000 years
8. analytic philosophy
9. whether or not time and space exist independently of the mind and whether they exist independently of one another
10. Ptahhotep

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Affirmative action in the United States tends to focus on issues such as education and employment, specifically granting special consideration to racial minorities, Native Americans, and women who have been historically excluded groups in America. Reports have shown that minorities and women have faced discrimination in schools and businesses for many years and this discrimination produced unfair advantages for whites and males in education and employment. The impetus toward affirmative action is redressing the disadvantages associated with past and present discrimination. Further impetus is a desire to ensure public institutions, such as universities, hospitals, and police forces, are more representative of the populations they serve.

Affirmative action is a subject of controversy. Some policies adopted as affirmative action, such as racial quotas or gender quotas for collegiate admission, have been criticized as a form of reverse discrimination, and such implementation of affirmative action has been ruled unconstitutional by the majority opinion of Gratz v. Bollinger. Affirmative action as a practice was upheld by the Supreme Court's decision in Grutter v. Bollinger in 2003. Affirmative action policies were developed in order to correct decades of discrimination stemming from the Reconstruction Era by granting disadvantaged minorities opportunities. Many believe that the diversity of current American society suggests that affirmative action policies succeeded and are no longer required. Opponents of affirmative action argue that these policies are outdated and lead to reverse discrimination which entails favoring one group over another based upon racial preference rather than achievement.

1. where is affirmative action?
2. what is the disadvantage?
3. where is it used?
4. who?
5. when did it start?
6. is it widely accepted?
7. where was it decided?
8. how long has discrimination been going on?
9. is it still discrimination?
10. where did it come from

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1. United States
2. discrimination
3. employment
4. women
5. 2003
6. no
7. Supreme Court
8. decades
9. no
10. Reconstruction Era