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The Season of Bad Laws, Part 1: TM Dilution Revision Act
By Fred von Lohmann
Congress appears to be awash in dangerous trademark and copyright bills. One is H.R. 683, "The Trademark Dilution Revision Act," a revision to the trademark laws that includes a little-noticed change that will put those who want to poke fun at big brands in jeopardy. EFF, Public Citizen, Public Knowledge, and others have been pushing lawmakers to restore protections for fair use, news reporting, and noncommercial uses.
Editor & Publisher magazine has published an excellent overview of the issue:
Embedded deep in H.R. 683—"The Trademark Dilution Revision Act," which awaits what may well be a last look in the U.S. House of Representatives before being signed into law by President Bush—is language that would remove key free-speech protections that have been part of U.S. trademark law since 1996.
With only the most minimal notice in the mainstream press, the bill as it currently stands would remove three exceptions from part of the present trademark law:
News reporting and commentary.
Fair use.
Non-commercial use.
Elimination of the news reporting and commentary protections would overnight put newspapers at much greater risk of trademark infringement actions being brought against them, for everything from a columnist's or editorial writer's ill-received reference to a company's trademark, to, say, a news photograph of a homeless person's shopping cart parked in front of a row of gleaming, readily identifiable new-model cars at the dealership of a well-known automaker.
UPDATE: Just to clarify, the language of H.R. 683 currently includes exceptions for noncommercial activities, news reporting and fair use. But under the proposed language the exceptions would only apply to dilution claims. Under the existing law, the exceptions apply to all claims under "this section." So the bill doesn't eliminate these exceptions, but narrows the kinds of claims to which the defenses apply.
Deeplinks Blog by Mitch Stoltz | February 5, 2018
BMG v. Cox: ISPs Can Make Their Own Repeat-Infringer Policies, But the Fourth Circuit Wants A Higher "Body Count"
Last week's BMG v. Cox decision has gotten a lot of attention for its confusing take on secondary infringement liability, but commentators have been too quick to dismiss the implications for the DMCA safe harbor. Internet service providers are still not copyright...
Deeplinks Blog by Kerry Sheehan | December 12, 2016
The Music Industry Shouldn't Be Able To Cut Off Your Internet Access
EFF, Public Knowledge, and the Center for Democracy and Technology Urge The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to Protect Internet Subscribers in BMG v. Cox. No one should have to fear losing their Internet connection because of unfounded accusations. But some rights holders want to use...
EFF Lawsuit Takes on DMCA Section 1201: Research and Technology Restrictions Violate the First Amendment
Washington D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the U.S. government today on behalf of technology creators and researchers to overturn onerous provisions of copyright law that violate the First Amendment. EFF's lawsuit, filed with co-counsel Brian Willen, Stephen Gikow, and Lauren Gallo White of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &...
Deeplinks Blog by Elliot Harmon | July 20, 2016
More Copyright Law ≠ Less Copyright Infringement
If you only listened to entertainment industry lobbyists, you'd think that music and film studios are fighting a losing battle against copyright infringement over the Internet. Hollywood representatives routinely tell policymakers that the only response to the barrage of online infringement is to expand copyright or even create new copyright-adjacent...
Deeplinks Blog by Elliot Harmon | December 16, 2015
What If Elsevier and Researchers Quit Playing Hide-and-Seek?
Copyright Lawsuits Won't Stop People from Sharing Research In principle, everyone in the world should have access to the same body of knowledge. The UN Declaration of Human Rights says that everyone deserves the right "to share in scientific advancement and its benefits." The reality is a bit messier...
Pirate Bay Scores Rare Legal Victory
"This is a sensible ruling that will help protect free expression in Sweden," said Mitch Stoltz, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "The court recognized that Internet service providers shouldn't be held responsible for copyright infringement by their customers," he told the E-Commerce Times. If ISPs...
Obama Administration Seeks More Legal Power to Disrupt Botnets
Mark Jaycox, a legislative analyst for the EFF, said that the proposal from the Obama administration may be overreaching. "The blog post posits that IP/trade secret concerns are reasons that are not already covered to take down botnets. That's a civil/private context and we've seen private companies use the Lanham...
Music Industry Demands Action Against "Pirate" Domain Names
Despite the critique, it's far from clear that Tucows and other registrars are doing anything wrong. In fact, the Electronic Frontier Foundation notes that there is no law requiring registrars to disconnect pirate sites. "Domain registrars do not have an obligation to respond to a random third party's complaints about...
Son of SOPA: Advocacy groups fight renewed efforts by Hollywood to break the Internet
Advocacy groups are stepping up their efforts to prevent Attorneys General from reviving parts of the Stop Online Piracy Act on a state level. The groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Free Press, and Engine Advocacy, have written a letter to Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, who...
Ghost of Antipiracy Bill SOPA Haunts New Copyright Push
"Copyright touches everyone's lives now because we all have copying devices in our pockets and in our homes," said Mitch Stoltz, an attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He warned that digital-rights organizations will be ready to battle any legislation they see as a threat to online expression.


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Megane RS Keeps Up with Ferrari 458 Speciale on Nurburgring, Full Lap Together
First Shipment of Toyota Mirai Fuel Cell EVs Reaches UK, Don't Rub Your Eyes Yet
One month after the first shipment of Toyota Mirai fuel cell vehicles reached the US shore, a batch of Mirai fuel cell vehicles was unloaded at Toyota's import centre at Portbury, near Bristol.
Wait, what? Wasn't the Mirai destined only for Californian customers first?
Yes, it was and still is, but the models we are talking about here are part of the first consignment to reach Europe, ahead of Mirai's official launch in September.
In other words, as part of Toyota's global introduction of the world's first mass-produced fuel cell saloon, the four-door Mirai is being offered in selected European markets - the UK, Germany and Denmark.
The reason? A hydrogen fuel supply and retail infrastructure are being developed in these countries.
"With Mirai and its fuel cell technology, Toyota is working on delivering clean, safe and enjoyable mobility for the next 100 years. We are looking forward to the start of deliveries of the first Mirai to customers from September and to see the future taking shape on European roads. As with Prius 15 years ago, we are proud to bring yet another ground-breaking innovation to the marketplace," said Karl Schlicht, Executive Vice President Toyota Motor Europe.
In case you wanted to know, we can tell you that the limited number for Mirai fuel cell EVs available in the UK this year has already been snapped up.
To what concerns California-based customers, Toyota launched the online order platform for the Toyota Mirai fuel cell EV, which means future clients can start filling out the form and wait for Toyota's approval.
The Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle will offer an EPA-estimated 67 miles per gallon equivalent (mpge) city/highway/combined and an EPA-estimated driving range rating of 312 miles (502 km) on a single fill of hydrogen.
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My name is Eugenie. It's a French name. I am from Cameroon in Central and West Africa. I came to the United States about 8 years ago. I was an international student at Clackamas Community College, where I became involved with a man on campus and later found out that I was pregnant.
The news of my unplanned pregnancy was a big challenge.
In my heart, I knew what the Bible taught, so I felt guilty and ashamed for being pregnant. In African culture, a pregnancy outside of marriage is something that is not celebrated; instead it brings shame to the woman and her whole family.
The fear of what my family and people would say was overwhelming. I felt so scared and like a failure. I had so many questions.
My boyfriend really wanted me to have an abortion. At first I was against it, but eventually, even I considered ending the pregnancy.
It was, however, when my boyfriend and I watched the ultrasound video at the Pregnancy Resource Center, with tears in our eyes that we knew we wanted to protect our child and give her a chance to live. I had come to PRC considering abortion, but seeing the image of my baby on the ultrasound screen gave me the hope and strength I needed to carry my child.
Looking back, when I first visited the Clackamas PRC, I was distraught, considering abortion, and even suicidal. I was expecting to be judged and shamed. Instead, I was met with love and grace.
Although none of this was easy, I can see the hand of God through the support of my caring peer counselor and all of the women at PRC, my sisters in Christ, who stood by me during me during my pregnancy. PRC gave me hope and the women at that center have an unforgettable imprint on my life.
I found a reason to live, and the joy of being a mother. Now, years later, I give all the credit to God and will never regret going to PRC. My daughter is now 8 years old. She is beautiful, healthy, and a true gift. We named her Tresor, which means treasure in French. I believe she is a treasure from the Lord.
There have been many challenges in my life, and many that I face even today, but in the midst of it all, I have seen the Lord at work in the simplest things and I am thankful. As long as I live, I will talk about the goodness of the Lord and His great works in my life.


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(637) Chrysothemis – planetoida z grupy pasa głównego asteroid.

Odkrycie
Została odkryta 11 marca 1907 roku w Taunton (Massachusetts) przez Joela Metcalfa. Nazwa planetoidy pochodzi od Chrysotemis, córki Agamemnona w mitologii greckiej. Przed jej nadaniem planetoida nosiła oznaczenie tymczasowe (637) 1907 YE.

Orbita
(637) Chrysothemis okrąża Słońce w ciągu 5 lat i 231 dni w średniej odległości 3,16 j.a. Należy do planetoid z rodziny Themis.

Zobacz też
 lista planetoid 1–1000
 lista ponumerowanych planetoid
 rodzina planetoidy Themis

Bibliografia

Linki zewnętrzne

Nazwane planetoidy
Planetoidy pasa głównego
Rodzina planetoidy Themis
Obiekty astronomiczne odkryte w 1907

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We have been asked to co-host the BioethxChat tonight on Twitter ( #bioethx ), June 2nd at 8:30 pm (EST), to discuss Individualized Medicine and Ethics. The BioethxChat is run by @jchevinsky, to reach an interdisciplinary group of students, professionals, and members of the general public. Live chats are hosted every Monday at 8:30 pm (EST).


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Бурульча — річка в Криму, права притока річки Салгир. Довжина Бурульчі 94 км, площа водозбору 265 км². Похил 12 м/км (у верхівї 34 м/км). Водозбірний басейн річки вузький, витягнутий у меридіональному напрямку. Улітку річка міліє, зате в пору сильних дощів несе бурхливі води, змітаючи все на своєму шляху.

Бере початок з карстового джерела на північному схилі масиву Тирке-яйла, що з'єднує Долгоруківську й Демерджинську яйли. Тече територією Білогірського й Красногвардійського районів Криму. Упадає Бурульча в Салгир праворуч за 93 км від гирла, біля села Новомикільське. Але вода не завжди доходить до Салгиру, гублячись у річкових наносах біля села Холмівка. Використовується на зрошення полів.

Верхня частина басейну розташована на північному схилі Головної гряди Кримських гір, середня — у передгірній зоні, що включає поздовжню долину й Зовнішню гряду, і нижня — у рівнинній частині Криму. Долина у верхів'ї V-подібна, у пониззі — ящикоподібна. Річище шириною 2-8 м (до 20 м); місцями порожисте, глибиною 0,6 м. Села, розташовані в родючій долині річки, не випадково носять назви Кримська Роза, Квіткове, Ароматне, Курортне. У верхів'ях Бурульчі утворений заказник дикоростучих лікарських рослин — урочище Тирке.

Під час німецько-радянської війни у верхів'ях Бурульчі базувалися партизанські загони.

Притоки Бурульчи — річки Мала Бурульча, Партизанка, Суат.

Сточище Бурульчі межує із сточищем найбільшої притоки Салгиру — річкою Біюк-Карасу.

Література
 «Каталог річок України» . — К. : Видавництво АН УРСР, 1957. — С. 131. — (№ 2261).
  Ресурсы поверхностных вод СССР: Гидрологическая изученность. Том 6. Украина и Молдавия. Выпуск 3. Крым и Приазовье / Под ред. Б. М. Штейнгольца. — Л.: Гидрометеоиздат, 1964. — 128 с.
 Горный Крым. Атлас туриста / ГНПП «Картографія», Укргеодезкартографія ; ред.: Д. И. Тихомиров, Д. В. Исаев, геоинформ. подгот. Е. А. Стахова. — К. : ДНВП «Картографія», 2010. — 112 с.

Посилання

 БУРУЛЬЧА́  // ЕСУ
  Салгир і його притоки.
  Річки Криму.
  Словник топонімів Криму.
  Перечень территорий и объектов природно-заповедного фонда Автономной Республики Крым общегосударственного и местного значения по состоянию на 1 января 2001 г. (без г. Севастополя)

Малі річки України
Річки Криму
Річки Білогірського району (Автономна Республіка Крим)
Річки Красногвардійського району


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T-Wolves' Finch after ejections in loss to OKC: We need to be 'way more mature'
Lior Kozai
Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Chris Finch said his players let their emotions get the best of them during Saturday's 135-128 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder.
"The frustrations boiled over," Finch said, according to The Athletic's Jon Krawczynski. "It was not the most mature effort by us. We needed a way more mature effort than that. We needed to do the little things better like take care of the ball and make the next rotation on defense. I mean, that's what cost us the game."
Starters Rudy Gobert and D'Angelo Russell were both ejected in the defeat. The former committed a flagrant-2 foul in the second quarter, tripping Thunder forward Kenrich Williams after falling to the floor under the rim. Russell committed a technical foul and was promptly thrown out in the game's final minute, with the Thunder leading by seven points.
Four other Minnesota players - Jaylen Nowell, Jaden McDaniels, Kyle Anderson, and Anthony Edwards - were issued technical fouls at various points in the game.
"That's something that we got to work on as a team," backup center Naz Reid said. "Our veteran guys, they know better. They know they made mistakes, and they know that might've cost us moments in the game. We're not blaming anybody. It is what it is. We just got to be better."
The Timberwolves have now lost four of their last five games. They've allowed at least 135 points in three of those contests, their worst defensive performances of the season. To make matters worse, All-Star Karl-Anthony Towns is set to miss four-to-six weeks after suffering a calf strain in the Nov. 28 loss to the Washington Wizards.
Minnesota is 11-12 this season with a negative point differential. Gobert, the team's major offseason acquisition, is averaging 13.2 points and 11.4 rebounds, his lowest outputs since the 2017-18 campaign.


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module Logginator::Senders; end;

require('logginator/senders/udp')
require('logginator/senders/tcp')
require('logginator/senders/sensu')

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Story of the real disaster for the State
February 4 March 9 Chirag 0
Folks in Bihar have been heard saying, "Lalu ji ne charwaha vidayalaya khola aur shiksha ko maweshi ka chara bana diya, Nitish ji ne ek kadam aage badhkar saare charwaaho (uneducated) ko shikshak bana diya…(Lalu opened schools for the cow-herders and converted education into the fodder for cattle, while Nitish Kumar progressed upon it and employed all the uneducated people as teachers). Needless to go for the literal translation of the words; the invitation is here to critically engage with the issue of school education, in Bihar as well as in the whole Indian subcontinent. In spite of populist measures, that is perhaps the prerogative of those in power, there seems a 'profound myopia' toward the gravity of danger. In the following subsections, there is an attempt to make sense of the same with reference to some verifiable empirical evidences, based on the first-hand experience of the author.
I asked the teachers in a 'teachers' workshop' (not disclosing the venue and the organizers' name for the readers)-
What is the most important thing in school education?
The answers captured innocence as well as ignorance- some said students, some said transaction of knowledge, some other named curriculum, and still others pinpointed the power relations.
"Correct, all answers are correct; but what if I say that first and foremost is school teachers' education!"
All the participant teachers almost nodded in unanimity and perhaps in agreement. And this is the punch-line here: we take-for-granted the issues pertaining to teachers' education (notoriously called training program/ professional development program and god knows how many technical terms for the same). The blanket lack of critical awareness on this issue has caused us too much of damage to be recounted. It seems thateverything is fine as far as teachers' education is concerned. With state machinery handing over the responsibilities of educating teachers (alas! The term is training) to the private player in a neo-liberal India, the imminent danger is becoming graver. Corporate companies are bidding for the educational projects, related to educating teachers, as if teachers were the most passive things on this earth. And what happens at the instances of such biddings? The following is an attempt at a rough ( and partially conjectural) recapitulation of a scene.
Discursive Mise en Scene
The Central Board of Secondary Education opens the bids for the private stake-holders in Teacher-education. The idea is to find the best trainers/educators who could orient school teachers for Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE). All the private companies (corporate organization who claim to be in the business of education for no-benefit, no-loss) are bidding for the tender. The winner will get allotted (obscene) sum of money and conduct training programs for the teachers of the schools affiliated with CBSE. Objective, as it is put forth in the expression of interest' paper, is to enable the teachers to objectively evaluate students' holistic education (could holism be quantifiably evaluated- nobody at the CBSE to entertain this ugly question). The bidders have already made illuminating presentations with the help of extraordinary power-point slides. The presentations have highlighted all the possibly efficient models already tried and tested in the school of America and Europe. The best presentation is apparently one that has caught the audience unaware of the latest technique in teacher-training programs. Enough to suggest that approaches to school teachers of India suffers the absolute reliance on the techniques and formulas, as though teachers were robotic creatures without their autonomous faculty of critical thinking. In the age of irony the evil, arguably, becomes a source of success. This is what characterises the teacher-education programs in contemporary India and the successful business ventures of the private companies into the same.
This scene of bidding and pre-bidding presentations is a recurrent phenomenon. State governments are also opening the filed of school education for private parties (read companies), considering the private-public partnership an indispensable paradigm of thinking in the babudom of India. These are heavily funded projects. Recently the state of Gujarat invited biddings for the project on assessing teachers' need, measurement of students' success rate, and so on. National Council of Educational Research and training has also opened the counters to cordially encounter the private players. All goes for the public-private partnership, from influence-peddling to favoring the techno-smart educational companies. In this backdrop, it is imperative for the discerning minds to ask a simple question: what is the yardstick to judge the credibility of the private stakeholders. To complicate the simple question it could be added as to who are these private players and what is their vision (principle plus praxis). Could their credibility be judged by the annual turnover of their companies? Could they be called educators because their models of teacher-education converge with that of the international companies in the field of school education? What is the modus operandi of their business? What is the academic strength of these companies? What is the nature and scope of the educational researches sustained by these companies?
Teacher-Education: Contested Category
On very many occasions the heads of these organizations/companies come bare in the shallow hammam of their vision. In personal conversations the author of this article has gathered some theoretical and practical perspectives prevalent in these companies. This section of the article is a built on it. The first shocking revelation is the belief that school teachers of India are unthinking/unreflective minds. The whole business thrives on this assumption and it reflects in the designs of the professional development programs. The content heavy programs for teachers also reveal a desperate move on the part of the teacher-educators to prove themselves superior to their soft-targets, the school teachers. By extracting servile submission from the teachers the management/administration ensure the success of these training/educating programs. Interestingly enough, teachers have learnt the strategy of switching off themselves, at the level of mind and spirit, in the face of these programs. It is a universal commonsense amongst teachers that these programs have to be somehow coped. Only the rarest of the rare would seek for a lesson worth learning through these ill-designed content-heavy programs meant primarily for the self-fulfilling prophecy of the educators. And what is the prophecy- that teachers are incapable of thinking and educators have to prove it by dispensing almost everything under the sun. What rules the intellectual horizon of the teacher-educators and their bosses is the much abused saying owed to George Bernard Shaw- those who can, do; those who can't, teach. Secondly, the administrative bosses of the organizations, mainly the privately run ones, have no engagement with school teachers. They have seldom a day in their annual calendar spared for interacting with teachers who they intend to educate. The litmus test could be the fact that none of them could be patient enough to listen to teachers. Teachers are to be governed and instructed in their pedagogic pursuits. Ironically though, they will be votaries of the idea of teachers' empowerment and one of the organizational claim, writ large in their punch lines, would be about enabling-empowering teachers. More often than not they will mouth platitude on it, and, more often than not they will say in hush hush- those who fail to become anything in life eventually becomes a teacher. Not only the bosses, even educators who indulge in strange sorts of researches and design the training programs, know only to listen to their bosses. Let alone listening to school teachers' voices, wafting in the thin air, they do not listen to even their own conscience. The end product is often a design of training that suits the business interest of the organizations. Any teacher-training program is primarily designed to taste palatable to the organizational heads, and then to the funding agency. School teachers, who are the real targets of these programs, are the last to be thought of. Ask any of these educators/trainers or their bosses to speak impromptu on the needs of the school teachers of contemporary India, and they will be caught unawares, except a few vomiting politically correct-fragmented ideas. Given a platform, however, they all would wax eloquent for hours, at the price of the captive audience of school teachers in the training sessions. It has certainly yielded what is famously known in the researches on education all over the world, as 'training fatigue'. For further substantiation of the arguments, the following is a case study that emerged from an extensive participant observation in the so called non-profit making corporate organization called TeacherSITY.
TeacherSITY: a case study
TeacherSITY proclaims to be akin to a university of school teachers, as it writes on its website (see www.teachersity.org). It has been though far from any exhibit feature of a university. To put simply, as a university there could have been a regular engagement of educators with school teachers, through direct imparting of skills and lessons, or through seminar presentations, or research projects and so on so forth. Never has teacherSITY engaged itself with school teachers for a sustained length of time for either research or direct-indirect training programs (unless any program is heavily funded by a service-seeking agency). So it is not even akin to university for sure. Nor does it have any such accredition for the professional efficiency for its programs. More important is to note is the work-structure of the organization, which is corporate in design, structure, and motif. In addition to the necessary underpinnings of the accounts and human resource segments, the organization has a crucial part known as Educational Research and Design team (ERD team). It is this team often pitted against the idea of educating school teachers. As the nomenclature would suggest, the team would be conducting researches, writing papers, suggesting new trends in teachers' educational programs, and designing programs. None of these happen as such. The team does something called research without a library, for the organization has no library. The organization does not subscribe to a single educational journal often referred to in the research writings in the world. To top it all, the organization does not grant permission to the members of the team to visit any other library in the city for the survey of available literature. And yet the team engages with research (perhaps ignorance is really a bliss). It is all by the virtue of materials available online. To nip the guesses in the bud, the organization does not subscribe to a single online journal either. It has no subscription to ERIC or JSTOR. Thus the idea of research, as exhibit in the practice, is about flipping through anything and everything available in the digitized jungle of websites, copying and pasting models thereof, and producing models for training/educating teachers in India. It is not that the members (called faculty in the ERD team) of the team do not think originally or are not creative enough. It is however not required of them to be critical, questioning, creative and imaginative. They have to go around teaching school teachers about the virtue of innovation. But they cannot innovate themselves. Everything done by the faculty members over here is under the strong unrelenting control of the management, which evaluates researchers' with the sense of share and debenture market. The output must lead to generating revenues rather than insight: the official-instructional mantra for the faculty-researchers.
With the means of designing and researching, the team produces proposals to various government agencies for funding. Only the bosses have to decide as to which funding is more lucrative. Spending the energy of the team for the so called researching and writing toward a not so lucrative project is an imprudent sin for the company. It is once in a while that a member of the team would design a program to engage with school teachers that does not aim at the financial lucre. Any such program would be instantly dumped by the head of the organization. Also, that the latter would discourage involvement of hard-core academics in their research, design and program. It would like to find alliance with those who have clear interest in the status quo of the business. An unrelenting influence-peddling, persuasion and coercion go in the process of clicking a deal. Yes, it is a deal in crude business terms which earn more than just an opportunity to engage with the teachers.
It was with this nature and scope of the organization that TeacherSITY conducted school teachers' conference in collaboration with National Council for educational research and training and central board of secondary education in November 2010. The stated objective behind the conference, as mentioned in the concept note published on the website and on the conference brochure, was to accord the due respect to the intellectual ability of school teachers. To some extent it met the objective in having school teachers presenting their reflective papers. But the question is whether it was to be heard by the private stakeholders. It happened to be a ritualistic lip service to be a tool in the window dressing. Evidence was the fact that the organizers were keener about the numbers of teachers participating, and paying Rs. 1000 each as registration fee than about meeting the set/expressed idealistic objectives. Each teacher participating in the conference heaped abuses on the organizers (data of those teachers could be used to find evidences). And in spite of the defeated purposes, the orgnizers congratulated each other because their purpose was not defeated: the purpose of generating money and huge number of attending teachers. The number is truly an aphrodisiac for a Nero: the numbers of victims of the massive fire in the Rome, and the numbers of school teachers humiliated by educational system (public and private agencies involved).
Conclusion: For a Beginning
At last, getting back to the opening remark, if Bihar is setting all kinds of wrong trends in the selection of school teachers, it is also likely to set worse trends in teacher-education. For, Bihar is in India, and it is just another state lured by the illusive promises of neo-libreal thinking. Yes, Bihar is likely to be host to the likes of TeacherSITY, and many such stakeholders with dubious credentials. There are many more to be observed critically. One could randomly name organizations like I discover I or Educomp or such educational enterprises. They have been sources of anxiety among those who do not see everything fine with the taken-for-granted dyad of private and public organizations. These organizations can not encourage researches and rethinking on the approaches to teacher-education due to their structural reasons. Put simply, teachers' empowerment is a mere hollow slogan for them to be shouted in front of a funding agency. On the other hand the conventional Universities, where researches, reflections, and rethinking could be possible, have been already noted as remote from the issues of school education. At this critical juncture, when the inevitableness of public-private partnership is foregone conclusion, there is an imperative to have a critically watchful body of academia and civil society. We really need a systemic regulation of the educational projects, clearly defined yardstick to determine who could be a stakeholder in the educational activities and who ought not be allowed to venture, and a vision on the part of the public agencies such as NCERT, CBSE, KVS, and JNVS among others to be open to public auditing of the various projects. More so, in a country of burgeoning numbers of school teachers, it is necessary to ensure that they are not herded to every tom, dick and harry masquerading as teacher-educators.
The author has done an extensive participant observation at this organization, located at Said-ul-Ajab, in Delhi, in the period of May 2010 to February 2011.
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Veteran actress, Patience Ozokwo, turns a year older today September 14th. She shared these new photos on her Instagram page. Happy birthday to her.


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2021 Recruiting Spotlight
When Foes Become Friends: Hope Sivori
Hope Sivori has the heart of a champion. One of the most passionate and competitive players around, her success has been in large part due to her sheer refusal to lose. As a point guard, she's helped lead Mercy to two consecutive 6th Region Championships and a 2018 KHSAA Sweet 16 finals appearance. She has a propensity for making big shots in big moments, making her one of the most entertaining players to watch. When the Kentucky Junior All Star team was announced, it was no surprise that Sivori was on it.
In the first game against the Indiana Junior All Stars, Sivori looked right at home playing in her gym at Mercy. She shot 50.0% from the field, totaling 13 points, 4 rebounds, and 2 assists. She went on to average 11.7 points and 3.0 rebounds throughout the three game series. Her court vision and ability to make incredible passes has drawn interest from coaches at various levels. As she finishes the travel ball season with the Nike Lady Gym Rats, Sivori's recruiting profile is sure to blow up.
With her senior season around the corner, Sivori plans to enjoy and embrace every moment. As time has flown by, her many accomplishments have piled up along with it. But Sivori's high school career is not done yet, and we'll just have to wait and see how she dazzles us next.
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Cortisol is often called "the stress hormone" because its production increases in response to stress.
Middle-aged people who have higher-than-average levels of cortisol — a hormone linked to stress — circulating in their bodies tend to perform worse on memory and other cognitive tasks than their peers with average levels of the hormone, according to a study published in the journal Neurology.
Higher levels of cortisol were also associated with less volume in certain areas of the brain.
Cortisol, which is manufactured by the adrenal glands, is often called "the stress hormone" because its production increases in response to stress. The new study therefore suggests — but does not prove — that higher levels of stress may, over time, injure the brain.
Previous studies have linked high cortisol levels to negative effects on the human brain's function and structure. Those studies have been criticized, however, for involving small numbers of mostly elderly adults and for not always excluding people with dementia and other confounding health conditions.
For the current study, Seshadr and her colleagues used data collected from 2,231 middle-aged participants in the ongoing Framingham Heart Study. All were healthy and had no signs of dementia. Their mean age was 48, and slightly more than half (53 percent) were women.
The participants were given an initial series of tests to assess their memory and other cognitive (thinking) skills. About eight years later, they were asked to repeat the tests. During that second round of testing, the participants also had an early-morning (before breakfast) sample of their blood taken to measure their cortisol levels. In addition, most of the participants (2,018) underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to measure their brain volume.
The researchers stratified the participants into "high," "middle" and "low" cortisol groups. The cortisol levels of the middle group (740 people) ranged from 10.8 to 15.8 µg/dL.
After adjusting for potential demographic and health factors that can affect cortisol levels, such as age, gender, smoking and body mass index (BMI), the researchers found that people in the high cortisol group performed more poorly on the cognitive tests, on average, than those in the other two groups. They also had — again, on average — lower brain volume.
The associations were particularly strong for women.
The researchers looked to see if people with APOE4, a genetic risk factor for heart disease and Alzheimer's disease, might have higher-than-average cortisol levels. They found, however, that they did not.
This study is observational, so it doesn't prove that stress damages the brain. The study also comes with other important caveats. Most notably, the cortisol measurements were taken just once, and therefore may not reflect the participants' level of exposure to cortisol over time. Nor were they asked to quantify any stress they might have been under.
In addition, most of the participants were white, middle-class and suburban, so the results may not apply to other groups of people.
Still, plenty of other research has shown that high levels of ongoing stress can have a negative effect on health.
"This study adds to the prevailing wisdom that it's never too early to be mindful of reducing stress," she added.
Avoid drugs and alcohol. These may seem to help with the stress. But in the long run, they create additional problems and increase the stress you are already feeling.
Take a break. If news events are causing your stress, take a break from listening or watching the news.
FMI: You'll find the study's abstract on Neurology's website, but the full study is behind a paywall.


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Q: How to import pipe to 2 modules(AppModule and ChildModule)? I've got my main module - app.module.ts and it's child reports.module.ts.
I've got some components under reports module, and some under app module. I need to use my pipe in all of these components. However, when I import the pipe in App module, in reports I get error The pipe 'moment' could not be found. If I add the pipe import to reports module, I get error like duplicate declaration. What should I do? I'm new to angular, so can't find workaround.
reports.module.ts
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { CommonModule } from '@angular/common';
import {ReportsComponent} from './reports.component'
import { ReportsRoutingModule } from './reports-routing.module';
import { NgSelectModule } from '@ng-select/ng-select';
import { ReactiveFormsModule, FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
import { MdePopoverModule } from '@material-extended/mde';
import {FilesizePipe} from '../../pipes/filesize.pipe'
// import {MomentPipe} from '../../pipes/moment.pipe'
import {AppModule} from '../../app.module'

import { ReportComponent } from './report/report.component';
import { GeneralInfoComponent } from './report/general-info/general-info.component';
import { StaticAnalysisComponent } from './report/static-analysis/static-analysis.component';
@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    ReportsComponent,
    ReportComponent,
    GeneralInfoComponent,
    FilesizePipe,
    // MomentPipe,
    StaticAnalysisComponent

  ],
  imports: [
    CommonModule,
    NgSelectModule,
    MdePopoverModule,
    ReportsRoutingModule,
    ReactiveFormsModule,
    FormsModule,

  ]
})
export class ReportsModule { }

app.module.ts
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { ReactiveFormsModule, FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
import { AppRoutingModule } from './app-routing.module';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import {BrowserAnimationsModule} from '@angular/platform-browser/animations';
import { registerLocaleData } from '@angular/common';
import localeRu from '@angular/common/locales/ru-KZ';
import localeRuExtra from '@angular/common/locales/extra/ru-KZ';
import { HeaderComponent } from './layout/header/header.component';
import { LoginComponent } from './routes/auth/login/login.component';
import { HttpClientModule, HTTP_INTERCEPTORS } from '@angular/common/http'
import { LoaderService } from './services';
import {LoaderInterceptor} from './interceptors/loader.service'
import 'hammerjs';
import { NgxsModule } from '@ngxs/store';

import { UploadComponent } from './routes/upload/upload.component';
import { LoaderComponent } from './layout/loader/loader.component';
import { ReportsComponent } from './routes/reports/reports.component';
import {ReportsModule} from './routes/reports/reports.module'
import {} from './routes/reports/reports.module'
import { AutofocusDirective } from './directives/autofocus.directive';
import { NotificationCenterComponent } from './layout/notification-center/notification-center.component';
import { NgxsLoggerPluginModule } from '@ngxs/logger-plugin';

import {ReportsTableState} from './store/reportsTable.state';
import { QueueComponent } from './routes/queue/queue.component';
import { QueueTableComponent } from './routes/queue/queue-table/queue-table.component';
import { FailedAnalysesComponent } from './routes/queue/failed-analyses/failed-analyses.component';
import { MomentPipe } from './pipes/moment.pipe';
// import { FilesizePipe } from './pipes/filesize.pipe';
registerLocaleData(localeRu, 'ru', localeRuExtra);

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent,
    HeaderComponent,
    LoginComponent,
    UploadComponent,
    LoaderComponent,
    // ReportsComponent,
    AutofocusDirective,
    NotificationCenterComponent,
    QueueComponent,
    QueueTableComponent,
    FailedAnalysesComponent,
    MomentPipe,
    // FilesizePipe,
  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    AppRoutingModule,
    BrowserAnimationsModule,
    ReactiveFormsModule,
    FormsModule,
    HttpClientModule,

    NgxsLoggerPluginModule.forRoot(),
    NgxsModule.forRoot([
      ReportsTableState
    ], {developmentMode:true})
  ],
  providers: [
    LoaderService,
    { provide: HTTP_INTERCEPTORS, useClass: LoaderInterceptor, multi: true },
  ],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

A: You should have 3 modules, your pipe being in the third one.
@NgModule({
  declaration: [MomentPipe],
  exports: [MomentPipe],
})
export class PipesModule {}

By exporting the pipes in the third modules, you make them available wherever you import that thrid module.

A: Add the pipe to separate module, then import this module to AppModule and  ReportsModule.

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package com.intellij.execution.configurations;

import com.intellij.execution.ExecutionBundle;
import com.intellij.openapi.options.ConfigurationException;
import com.intellij.openapi.progress.ProcessCanceledException;
import com.intellij.openapi.ui.ValidationInfo;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.NlsContexts.DialogMessage;
import com.intellij.util.ThrowableRunnable;

import javax.swing.*;

import static com.intellij.openapi.util.NlsContexts.DialogTitle;

public class RuntimeConfigurationException extends ConfigurationException {
  public RuntimeConfigurationException(@DialogMessage String message, @DialogTitle String title) {
    super(message, title);
  }

  public RuntimeConfigurationException(@DialogMessage String message) {
    super(message, ExecutionBundle.message("run.configuration.error.dialog.title"));
  }

  public RuntimeConfigurationException(@DialogMessage String message, Throwable cause) {
    super(message, cause, ExecutionBundle.message("run.configuration.error.dialog.title"));
  }

  public static <T extends Throwable> ValidationInfo validate(JComponent component, ThrowableRunnable<T> runnable) {
    try {
      runnable.run();
      return new ValidationInfo("", component);
    }
    catch (ProcessCanceledException e) {
      throw e;
    }
    catch (Throwable t) {
      return new ValidationInfo(t.getMessage(), component);
    }
  }
}


Wes Lee Coyote needs extreme makeover!
WINNIPEG, MB – Being a university mascot for a big-time sports operation like the Wesmen Athletics program is a demanding job. From Wesmen Volleyball, Basketball, Soccer, Wrestling and Baseball, Wes Lee Coyote attends more than 50 games and events each year, dancing up a storm and getting the fans revved up. Every year up to five UWinnipeg students and a number of back-up faculty and staff are asked to put on the giant bobble-head coyote outfit and assume the role of Wes Lee. It's a lot of traveling, improvisation, and takes tremendous physical stamina.
The coyote costume is more than 15 years old. The idea of the coyote was Bill Wedlake's, former UWinnipeg Athletic Director, and Wes Lee Coyote made his first proud appearance as our mascot in 2001. The name Wes Lee honours our heritage, Wesley College.
At 105 years old in coyote years, and having attended more than 1,000 sporting events since his birth, Wes Lee is beginning to show his age. In fact, Wes Lee was recently examined by Dr. Susan Lingle, Associate Professor, Biology, UWinnipeg and was diagnosed with swollen head and mange.
At the recommendation of Professor Lingle, Wes Lee Coyote was recently booked for a spa day at the Fort Garry Hotel's TEN SPA.
Despite significant efforts by the professionals to improve Wes Lee's physical state, UWinnipeg has made the tough decision he now needs an extreme makeover and is turning to the community to help.
The new costume will include a hand sculpted head with battery operated ventilation fan (the current costume is extremely hot, leading to the swollen head diagnosis); inner and upper body padding ; new outer fur body; coyote tail; jersey with heat-pressed logo, name and number; athletic shorts; animal paw mascot gloves; and "walkabout" mascot sneaker feet.
In addition to the costume, Wes Lee will be provided with a custom made, water-resistant carrying bag which will keep his uniform together, to avoid loss and keep it clean while transporting it to and from events. He will also have a cooling vest system and fan unit – the closest thing to air conditioning available for mascots!
The cost of a new costume for Wes Lee is $5,000 and he will step out as his new and improved self in time to launch UWinnipeg's 50th celebrations in 2017. To help cover the costs, the University of Winnipeg Foundation has launched a Wes Lee Coyote crowdfunding campaign.


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RD.COM Knowledge Grammar & Spelling
Equality vs. Equity: What's the Difference?
Leandra BeaboutUpdated: Feb. 05, 2021
rd.com
Maybe you've interchanged the words "equity" and "equality" in conversation—but they don't, in fact, mean the same thing.
At best, using the wrong word can be embarrassing. At worst, you change the meaning of your sentence completely. Last year, many people searched for the difference between systematic and systemic. If "equity" and "equality" confuse you too, you're not alone. These are only a couple of common words and phrases that many people use wrong.
An equal foundation
Before defining "equity" and "equality," let's look at their common root word: "equal." According to Dictionary.com, "equal" was first recorded in 1350–1400. It comes from the Latin words "aequālis" (meaning "equal, like") and "aequ(us)" (meaning "even, plain, just"). Many frequently confused words have similar roots, like past and passed or who and whom.
Calling two or more objects equal simply means that they're alike in value or quantity. For instance, if you and your friend split a pizza into equal halves, you both get to eat the same amount.
What does equality mean?
The noun "equality" dates back to the Middle English period: the years 1350-1400.
Dictionary.com defines "equality" as "the state or quality of being equal." Simple enough, right? It's important to note that the dictionary doesn't mention fairness here.
Let's say, for example, that a toddler and a teenager want a cookie from the jar on the counter. Offering them both a 6-inch step stool is an example of equality. They receive the same treatment, regardless of their differences.
What does equity mean?
The word "equity" first appeared in the 1300s. It looks and sounds like "equality," but the term is much more nuanced. According to Merriam-Webster.com, "Equity is often related to justice or proportional fairness." Dictionary.com defines it as "the quality of being fair or impartial."
So, what does equity look like in the situation above? The teenager is probably tall enough to reach the cookie jar without help, so you could offer only the toddler a stool. That seems like an equitable solution. But sometimes it's not. What if the teenager is in a wheelchair? Or what if the teenager is locked out of the house? Equity depends on the situation.
What's the difference between equality and equity?
"Equality" and "equity" have the same root, but there's a significant difference in meanings. Equality involves everyone receiving exactly the same treatment, whereas equity requires fair treatment according to each person's needs and situation.
An example: A 4-ft. tall person and a 6-ft. tall person both want to peer over a 5-ft. fence.
Offering each person a stepladder is an example of equality. Offering the shorter person a stepladder is an example of equity.
Another example: A global pandemic suddenly forces schools to switch to e-learning. Distributing laptops to every student, regardless of whether they own them already, is an example of equality. Distributing laptops to only the students without personal devices (and perhaps using the extra funds to offer them wireless Internet access) is an example of equity.
The difference between equity and quality boils down to fairness. Equality is the equal distribution of resources regardless of the situation. Equity goes a step further by focusing on what people need to achieve the fairest outcome for all. Next, find out the 20 synonyms and antonyms people search for the most.
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Leandra is a lifestyle writer covering health, travel, and literature. A former high school English teacher, she covers books, words, and grammar for RD.com. When she's not on deadline, you can find her curled up with a new library book or road-tripping through Europe or the American West.
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East coast black metal quartet Mutilation Rites have been ascending the rungs of popularity's ladder rather quickly over the past year. After two impressive self-released CDr's and a monstrous split with Batillus, Mutilation Rites suddenly manifested on Wisconsin "thought-provoking metal" label Gilead Media's roster and, more recently, have joined the Prosthetic Records family. After seeing them perform with Lord Mantis, Batillus, and Sourvein in Chicago last July, I found myself in complete agreement with their popularity, but who couldn't deny themselves a nice, solid, undeniably American black metal band who pays homages to the right source material?
At a mere 17 minutes in length, the single-sided LP I Am Legion, released late last month on Gilead Media, is a short, sharp, shock of powerful, droning black metal. The three tracks presented, titled "Cloaca Maxima," "Blood Will Tell," and "Terrestrial Hell," are all re-worked, re-recorded versions of previous demo tracks, which were already pretty solid. While the material on this EP (Is it an EP? Is "One-sided 12-inch" a new length-based format?) isn't necessarily anything super new-sounding, taking more than a few pages out of the book written by Ihsahn and John Gossard in the 1990s, I Am Legion is still a pretty enjoyable listen. Sonically, even if they aren't reinventing the wheel by any means, this is still pretty solid, especially in the bass department. Maybe people still have an aversion to bass to recreate the tinny, direct-to-4 track sound of the 1990s, which is respectable, but it's nice to have some low-frequency "oomph"s to remind me that, yes, we are in 2012. Mutilation Rites are fine by me.
So yeah, as I said earlier, I Am Legion isn't really anything new, but it's performed well and sounds great. Mutilation Rites aren't out there to really change anything, anyway - I'm pretty sure they just want to play black metal. Apparently this LP, whose artwork is done by our buddy Rainbath Visual, comes with some nice goodies, including a patch and a button (I love extra goodies like that). I'll be seeing these guys, along with loads of other awesome bands, at Day 2 of Gilead Media Fest, which starts in three, yes, three days. Who will I see at extreme metal's most unlikely festival home in Oshkosh, Wisconsin?


Sometimes you need to take down your game temporarily. This might be for routine game maintenance, or because something's gone wrong.
The following pages (Urgent restart, Precaution restart, and Scheduled maintenance) cover the best-practice steps you should follow in these scenarios.
Where possible, we've listed the spatial commands for these steps, but you can also do many of them using the Console.
You can use a worker flag and the callback OnFlagUpdate to let players know that the game is going to stop. Which worker you set up the callback on depends on how you want to communicate the information to the players. For example, if you want to display a message to all players on their game clients, you'd set up the callback on your game client worker.
Set up your worker to register the OnFlagUpdate callback for a worker flag with a specific name (for example, urgent_restart) and to handle the flag's value (for example, a message). You shouldn't add the worker flag itself until you need to let the players know that the game is going to stop.
For the precaution restart and scheduled maintenance steps, you need a way of removing all players from your game. We don't provide any out-of-the-box ways of doing this, so you'll need to create your own.


Our treatment philosophy centers around the goal of preserving our patients' teeth till old age, and if possible for life! As such, we devote quality time in educating our patient on the importance of good oral hygiene. Important concepts like how to floss, how to brush efficiently, disease related gum conditions and the use of relevant dentifrices are regular topics discussed during routine checkup sessions.
We constantly remind our patients that "no pain doesn't mean no problems". Small holes that start to develop within teeth can be left undetected for long periods of time without causing any pain and discomfort.
During routine checkup appointments, our dedicated team of clinicians carefully inspect your teeth for any possible signs of cavities. If there are signs of cavitation, we hope to fill the hole as soon as possible.
At SmileArts, we employ the use of the Diagnodent, a laser decay detection device which is effective in spotting early stages of cavitation that are difficult to detect with the naked eye. This allows our clinicians to treat the small holes painlessly and conservatively, without the need for injections.
The advancement in bonding technology has made bonded tooth colored fillings very popular with dentists and patients. One of the greatest advantages of bonded tooth colored fillings is in its ability to stick to tooth structure as compared to silver mercury fillings. Silver mercury fillings require dentists to prepare a dimensional cavity form to hold the material. This often leads to increase in size of the hole and removal of more unaffected tooth structure.
The use of bonded tooth colored fillings omits the need to enlarge cavity size, allowing the clinician to treat the hole as conservatively as possible. At SmileArts, we are a mercury free practice and only restore teeth with bonded tooth colored materials.


The Allegheny River Lock and Dam No. 2 below the Highland Park bridge, which will produce an estimated 50,000 megawatt hours of power a year.
Within three years, Pitt plans to use a system in which hydroelectricity powers more than a quarter of its energy usage. This will be done through a partnership with the Boston-based hydroelectric engineering firm Rye Development.
Pitt signed a power purchase agreement with Rye Development to buy 100 percent of the energy produced by Rye's planned low-impact hydroelectric plant, which will be constructed on the already existing Allegheny Lock and Dam 2. The plant, Allegheny Lock and Dam 2 are projected to be finished and generating power by 2022, and will be located below the Highland Park Bridge fewer than five miles from Pitt's campus — a fact Dr. Aurora Sharrard, director of Pitt Sustainability, is looking forward to.
"Partnering with a facility that is going to be less than five miles from campus is a very unique thing that doesn't necessarily manifest itself every day," Sharrard said.
Rye Development owns eight permits for low-impact hydropower facilities on the Ohio, Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in and around Pittsburgh. According to Sharrard, Rye has been in contact with many businesses and organizations in southwest Pennsylvania, but Pitt was the first to agree.
"Rye has [been] trying to partner with a number of local institutions, companies [and] organizations to buy the electricity from these facilities, and the University of Pittsburgh was the first one to actually sign a contract with Rye to do so," Sharrard said.
Sharrard stated that there are three energy and emissions goals in the sustainability plan for 2030. Pitt plans to reduce both energy usage and greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent of the national baseline and Pitt's 2008 baseline, respectively. In addition, Pitt also plans to produce and procure 50 percent of electricity through renewable resources and strive toward climate neutrality.
Although Sharrard believes there is much to look forward to with the completion of the hydroelectric plant, she upholds there is still much to be done to help Pitt reach its 2030 goals.
According to Sharrard, if the plant operates at its full capacity, as it is expected to, it will generate about 25 percent of Pitt's electricity or 50,000 megawatt hours of power a year. This is in line with Pitt's commitment to having 50 percent of its energy come from renewable resources by 2030.
Rich Heller, senior manager of Electrical Utilities and Energy Initiatives at Pitt, explained that the electricity will be generated by the river's natural flow through the plant's turbines. For this reason, Heller described hydroelectricity as being a reliable and obtainable source of energy for Pitt.
However, the flow of the river will cause a fluctuation in energy according to the season, Heller said, comparing spring's wetter trends from melted snow and frequent rain to summer's dry, hot days.
The plant, designed by Rye, was licensed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as a low-impact hydroelectric facility. According to Heller, to be licensed as low impact by FERC there has to be a minimal effect on the environment where the plant is being built.
Pitt's movement toward renewable energy resources, like hydroelectricity, is a part of the 2030 sustainability plan. Joe Miksch, director of Media Relations, described the importance of setting goals for sustainable practices in an email.


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