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Environmental groups criticise lack of mandatory restrictions on greenhouse gases.
Germany and other European countries have been calling on the US to adopt firm targets for cutting carbon dioxide emissions.
Merkel has proposed a commitment to cutting global greenhouse gas emissions to 50 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050 and limiting the worldwide temperature rise this century to two degrees Celsius.
Washington has strongly objected to the draft declaration.
"The way to meet this challenge of energy and global climate change is through technology and the United States is in the lead," Bush said.
The US plan would see countries set "mid-term national targets and programmes" depending on "their own mix of energy sources and future energy needs".
The strategy was met with scepticism by environmental groups.
"This is a transparent effort to divert attention from the president's refusal to accept any emissions reductions proposals at next week's G8 summit," Philip Clapp, president of the US-based National Environmental Trust, said.
"After sitting out talks on global warming for years, the Bush administration doesn't have very much credibility with other governments on the issue."
The US is the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases and has refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, which requires signatories to make targeted cuts in emissions.
Charlie Kronick, climate change expert a Greenpeace, said: "The only way you can get a grip on carbon emissions is to cap and trade them globally.
Bush has rejected that, so there are fundamental contradictions in these declarations."
"This is utterly nonsensical. There is a con at the heart of the way that the US is approaching this. Unless they are willing to participate in the global efforts to reduce carbon emissions, the rest of the world is going to have to go on and make a framework which the US can join later."
Bush plans to hold a series of meetings on ways to limit global emissions by a set amount by about 2050.
About 15 countries would be invited, including two nations that like the US are major polluters, China and India.
Those two developing nations are exempt from the mandatory targets and Washington has cited this as a reason for not submitting the protocol for ratification by the US senate.
UN negotiations on a new protocol on climate change to replace Kyoto will begin in earnest at a conference in Bali in December.

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Officials on Tuesday identified two people who were killed in separate crashes less than two miles from each other on the 15 Freeway in Rancho Cucamonga early Sunday morning.
The first crash happened at around 5:25 a.m. in the northbound lanes south of Etiwanda Avenue, and the second happened at approximately 6:45 a.m. in the northbound lanes just south of Foothill Boulevard.
The first crash, a five-car collision, killed Ramiro Durazo, a 71-year-old Victorville resident, according to the San Bernardino County Coroner’s Office.
Durazo, driving a 2013 Toyota Prius, was driving in the right lane at an undetermined speed when he struck the rear of a 2005 Ford Escape, the California Highway Patrol said. The Prius stopped, straddling the No. 3 and 4 lanes, where it was hit on the left front side by a 2005 Honda Odyssey. A 2009 Volvo semi then struck the Prius from behind, causing Durazo to be ejected onto the shoulder and the Prius to slide down an embankment.
Durazo was not wearing a seat belt, the CHP said.
The second collision, involving six vehicles, killed Renee Freih, a 55-year-old Laguna Niguel resident, the coroner’s office said. A 38-year-old Whittier man was driving his 2005 GMC pickup in the No. 2 lane and did not see traffic stopped in front of him, the CHP said. The driver braked and swerved to the left, striking Freih’s 2017 Ford Fusion. Freih’s car then struck a 2008 Honda CRV.
Freih was pronounced dead at the scene, the CHP said.
No one has been arrested or cited in either crash as both remain under investigation, CHP Officer Jesus Garcia said.
Per CHP log: The are two fatality collisions on the northbound 15 Freeway this morning, one logged at 6:49 a.m. north of Foothill Blvd. in Rancho Cucamonga, the earlier at 5:26 a.m. south of Baseline Road, also in Rancho Cucamonga. There is a SigAlert for the earlier collision.

industry_corpus2: Transportation


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Curtis Blaydes understands that he will not be challenging for the UFC’s heavyweight title next, but the rising star continues to bash the promotion’s decision to give Brock Lesnar a title shot.
Blaydes began campaigning for a title shot after he took out Alistair Overeem in dominant fashion in June. Not long after, however, the UFC announced that Lesnar will fight new champ, Daniel Cormier, sometime in early 2019. Lesnar is still completing a one year suspension he was handed by USADA, and has no official wins on his record since 2010.
Recently Blaydes spoke with MMA Fighting, and while doing so, he had this to say about Lesnar’s title shot.
“I hate it. It just slows down our positions, slows down progress, because the ultimate goal is to get to the title, and it’s like, it’s already [decided],” Blaydes said. “I thought the purpose of us fighting is to prove who gets the title shot, and then Brock Lesnar, who hasn’t fought in two years and hasn’t had a legitimate win in eight years, because even when he beat Mark Hunt, that win was negated because he tested positive, so a guy like him who jumps in off the strength of his popularity — and don’t get me wrong, I know he’s very popular, just like CM Punk is very popular. That doesn’t mean he’s good. That’s not what that means.
Blaydes has gone 5-1, with 1 no-contest, in the UFC thus far.

industry_corpus2: Sports


text: (blue) crushing on the #VSxMaryKatrantzou looks? Better shop them now—they’re selling out fast!!

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On February 29, 2016, Axis Ban bought 9,57,48,762 shares of face value of Rs. 10/- each, or 4.99% equity stake, in Max Life Insurance Company Limited from Max Financial Services Limited, previously known as Max India Limited, and Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company Limited for a total cash consideration at par (Rs. 10/- per share) of Rs. 95.75 crores.
Of this, Axis Bank has purchased 7,65,60,635 shares of face value of Rs. 10/- each, or 3.99% equity stake in MLIC, from MFSL for a collective cash deliberation at par (Rs. 10/- per share) of Rs. 76.56 crores and 1,91,88,127 shares of face value of Rs. 10/- each, or 1% equity stake in MLIC, from MSI for an aggregate cash consideration at par (Rs. 10/- per share) of Rs. 19.19 crores, post receipt of necessary regulatory approvals. Subsequent to this transaction. Axis Bank’s equity stake in MLIC has increased to 5.99%.
MLIC, a joint-venture between MFSL and MSI, was built-in on July 11, 2000 and is mainly engaged in the business of life insurance in India. As of March 31, 2015, MLIC is one of the most important life insurers in India with a paid-up capital of Rs. 1,919 crores. The gross premium collected by the MLIC was Rs.8,172 crores in the financial year ended March 31, 2015, Rs. 7,279 crores in the financial year ended March 31, 2014 and Rs. 6,639 crores in the financial year ended March 31, 2013.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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It's the Rheo Thing: Nitrogen Enriched Gasoline???
Surely Shell employs some chemists--wonder what they think of it?
I did a lot of research on this topic, and my article might interest you and your readers to know there is 5x the epa standard of detergent in shell's new fuel. I also go into explain the science behind it, and the additive is nothing more than bio diesel.
Thanks for the comments, the link to your article and the links in it. There still seems to be considerable speculation on what it is, but you certainly put it better than I that the approach Shell took is getting them lots of backlash.
I'm trying to work that out now, and will post appropriately when it happens.

industry_corpus2: Petrochemicals


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Fifth grader Iris uber Alles has been irritated all year long by her math class. Last fall Iris brought up the subject of her math class and said unhappily that she must have done terribly on her standardized tests last year, because she'd been put into a math group that was too easy for her. We parents made inquiries and found out that, for reasons which remain completely inscrutable to us, the children's school doesn't do ability grouping in the fifth grade for math. Iris wasn't, as she thought, cut loose from the higher achieving girls' group; that group didn't exist any more.
The result has been that Iris has been severely underchallenged and bored all year. The Sober Husband, who is the self-designated Math Parent (and indeed he's overqualified for that job -- the man has a highly respectable Erdos number and has taught math at the college level), reached out as tactfully as he could a few times to the math teacher, hoping to get Iris harder work, but it hasn't panned out.
In theory mixed ability groups give the regular students the opportunity to see and learn from more advanced kids, but I doubt Iris's presence is inspirational to anyone. While some of the children are truly struggling with the material, they are confronted by a bored and sarcastic Iris, no doubt sighing and rolling her eyes.
Iris gleefully shared the other day that "we're doing fractions, and the teacher asked, 'I have five fifths and I take one away; what do I have?' and a girl said, "Umm, three sixths?'" Iris laughed heartily. I felt a twinge of sorrow for the child who drew Iris's scorn in her mathematical struggles (I have talked to Iris a few times about the need to be tactful and polite to others in these situations, but I don't think it sinks in).
I feel for her teacher. I can understand that presented with a group of students with a wide variation in abilities, a teacher naturally ends up focusing on the lower-performing end. Additionally, she needs to try to get these students interested in math and to believe that they can be good at it, and how can that be helped by having Iris huffing over the indignity of having to do the too-hard-for-them, too-easy-for-her work?
Yesterday Iris reported indignantly that her teacher taught them a rather time-consuming method for reducing fractions and gave them a big sheet of fractions to reduce. "Momdude, it took forever! Like ten minutes for each fraction to write all that out! So I raised my hand and said, 'I can do all these in my head, so do I have to do that method? Can I just write the answer instead?' and the teacher said no!" Iris was outraged.
"Well, you only have about two more months," I said.
"Nineteen more classes," she snapped back.
"Wait, you figured out how many more math classes?"
"No, the teacher did," Iris informed me. "When I complained, she told me there were only 19 more classes."
I laughed. "Oh, Iris, she probably has a calendar where she's crossing off how she's getting rid of you. Maybe on the last day, there's a smiley face. Or a little drawing of you she can scratch out." We both laughed. (Of course, I am sure the teacher is far too professional for that, but I'm also sure her life would be easier if Iris weren't in this class).
It's a little late for this year, but you should consider the Bay Area Math Circle.
the SH should make and offer an iPad app to all of iris's teachers counting down the days.
besides, once she's in her new school she's going to be wistfully remembering the days she was the smartest.

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Galileo Factory is a large medal game from Sega. The machine has a large criss-crossed roller coaster like structure in the center of the unit. Players maneuver coloured balls on the coaster by using a small wheel, and the aim is to drop the balls in a particular place. There are also a variety of bonus games and jackpots available.
This is a fan made video of SEGA's Galileo Factory 2 medal game machine.
This is a fan made video of Sega's Galileo Factory Medal Game.
A video by DigiInfo at the AOU 2009 of the Galileo Factory medal game.
Galileo Factory is medal redemption game by Sega.

industry_corpus2: Gaming


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Green-e is the nation's leading independent certification and verification program for renewable energy and greenhouse gas emission reductions in the retail market. The Center for Resource Solutions, the national nonprofit that administers Green-e, works to increase the amount of renewable energy used worldwide.
Effective December 2007, the CRS discontinued beneficiary use of the Green-e logo. This policy was uniformly applied to all paper companies that participate in the Green-e Marketplace Program. Consequently, purchasers of Neenah Paper products are not permitted to use the Green-e logo or the claim “Green-e” on their printed materials. When using a Green-e Certified sheet from Neenah Paper you may make the claim: "Made with 100% Certified Renewable Energy."
Organizations that buy Green-e® Certified renewable energy (or generate their own electricity) can apply for Green-e logo use through Green-e Marketplace. Green-e Marketplace provides forward-thinking companies with a simple, nationally recognized logo they can use to communicate their commitment to renewable energy to their customers and shareholders. The Green-e logo is the nation’s leading symbol of renewable energy excellence and distinguishes Green-e Marketplace participants as environmental leaders.


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Everyone has adopted a sinful habit at some point in his or her life. From gossiping to envy and lying, several life-dominating behaviors tend to pull us away from the principles of God’s word.
Developing a bad habit is common amongst almost every individual, but what is most important is finding an effective way to break it.
Here are a couple of steps to take towards overcoming whatever habits you might be dealing with.
Acceptance is the primary step towards making a change for the better. People who fail to admit that they have been repeatedly doing something bad tend to program their minds towards continuing the habit.
Start by examining yourself thoroughly, or ask someone to do it for you if you have to. After identifying this habit, acknowledge the fact that it is indeed something negative. Acceptance will help you become fully aware that you have some overcoming to do.
Sinful habits can be unbelievably hard to break, especially when they are habits you developed a long time ago.
The second step towards your overcoming process is by making an agreement with yourself that by a particular day, month or year, you would have gotten rid of your bad habit for good. Let it become one of your personal goals and ensure to review it from time to time.
E.g. by the 1st of January 2019, I hope to officially be free from my habit of drinking too much alcohol.
Write your targeted date down somewhere, perhaps inside your diary or pin it up on the wall.
There are multiple ways to break a sinful habit, but it has to be accompanied with critical thinking and hard work. Once you accept that you have a sinful habit and have set a targeted date to overcome it, it is then time to take some action.
Taking action simply means creating effective measures that you propel you to your breakthrough. As each habit has its own way to be overcome, it is important to sit down, (alone or with counsel) and figure out what disciplinary avenues work best for you.
Take these actions over and over again, until it becomes a part of you. Remember, practice makes perfect.
Although this is part of taking action, it is also a step we’d like to expatiate on.
There is always a story behind every sinful habit, but to overcome it; you have to get rid of the root of the problem first.
Something must have triggered you to develop your bad habit. So ask yourself, what made me develop my habit? Was it a friend? Stop contacting that person. Was it a movie on your laptop? Delete it. Was it a place you visited? Be sure to never go there again. Was it the school you attend? Make a transfer.
Whatever has influenced or can influence your bad habit must be completely gotten rid of, otherwise, your progress might be hindered.
The quest to fight a sinful habit can be very difficult. It will not be an easy journey, of course, but rewarding yourself as you make progress is an effective way to keep you motivated until you finally reach your goal.
Treat yourself to something you love each time you make an improvement towards overcoming your habit. For example, if you move from spending 7 hours of drinking, to 3 hours, treat yourself to something nice. It could be an activity you enjoy, your favorite chocolates or a simple gift to yourself.
Alternatively, you could tell someone else to do the rewarding for you. Make a deal with a friend that each week you improve on a sinful habit, he or she would reward you with anything you want.
Rewarding yourself is only a strategy to keep you motivated throughout your journey.
Once it seems as though all hope is lost, or you feel like you’re becoming emotionally or physically strained, do not be afraid to involve others.
As embarrassing as some sinful habits can be, it’s better to overcome it with the help of others than to carry on in shame.
Seek help from those around you. Ask your family members, close friends or devoted colleagues for assistance as soon as you feel you need some extra support!
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Welcome to the world of the Petticoat Pirates – whipping up a storm in ribbon and lace! With heart-shaped eye-patches, magical powers and mermaids for friends, these girls are pirates with a difference. Living aboard their ship in the Periwinkle Lagoon, Marina, Aqua and Oceana are surrounded by the sparkling seas, which hold all sorts of adventures. One day, three beautiful mermaids come to the lagoon to ask for help. A creature of the deep has let out all the sea snails on their underwater mer-farm, leaving behind nothing but a shiny scale. Can the feisty pirate lasses work out what happened and bring the sea snails safely home?
Give Petticoat Pirate Aqua an amazing new look!
Can you help Marina, Aqua and Oceana out of a muddle?
Can you find the Petticoat Pirates words?
This book is about three pirates, the Petticoat Pirates called Aqua, Marina and Oceana. It is a story about how the Pirates use all their skills to help three mermaids solve a mystery about how the gardens were destroyed. They live on a pirate ship sailing the ocean and having fun and I enjoyed reading about their adventure, it was really exciting and if I could go on an adventure with them I would. I felt a bit sad to find out The Nori was a lonely mermaid living in a castle on her own. It made me happy when she made friends with the other mermaids. It was very funny when Oceana had a wet foot and I loved her dress and all the pirates were very pretty. I found the book easy to read and absolutely loved it. I would love to read some more stories of their adventures. I think this book is suitable for girls who like an adventure aged 7 and above.

industry_corpus2: Literature & Emotions


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If the menu to your left looks appealing, please allow the host of CMG, Chet Betz, to lead you to your seat. He’ll look smart, cloth hanging over his arm, as he intones our upcoming special: “Lupe.” “Lupe?” you’ll say? “Yes,” he’ll respond, “here at CMG, we have loved Lupe forever! Your server, Mark, will be with you momentarily.” Unfortunately, I don’t look as good as Chet in my work clothes, but I’ve got my serving skills down, and I want you to be prepared for what’s coming. So before we get to the Food and Liquor (don’t worry—sommelier Clay is in the wine cellar, honing his skills), I’m going to offer another tasty appetizer to cleanse your pallet.
Touch the Sky may just be a teaser (or, more cynically, an advertisement) for his end-of-June full length, but, as my Thunderantics have already demonstrated, I’m a fan of scotch, and on this mixtape Lupe goes down like a warm, comforting, highly alcoholic single malt—the perfect pre-meal treat. His flow graphs Ghostface over GZA; he spits about Cecil Rhodes, The Flintstones, hustling, skateboarding, all with equal alacrity; even in mixtape format, he uses beats as vehicles for performance, rather than, as is often the case in hip hop, to fill obligatory style slots (although, to be fair, the last third here drags a bit); and, most refreshingly, the problematic sexism and homophobia that regularly complicate my love of hip hop are basically absent. And he fills out that punch card while flirting with widespread popularity as if it’s just, y’know, a thing that might happen.
I think that might be the factor that slightly complicates Clay and Chet’s appraisal of Lupe—backpack meets major label, sure, but also without effort. I mean, I think it’s his goal to court the charts and the underground, but it’s because he wants to court people, which is of course why the paradigm works. And I agree with Chet—it’s sometimes confusing and won’t be everybody’s thing—but I wonder if part of that confusion stems from the fact that this all sounds so natural. I’m still confused that I’ve danced in clubs to “Mrs. Jackson” too, but that doesn’t change the popularity of the song, and Lupe has got some of that quality. On this mixtape he throws his skateboard-romance single (“Kick, Push”) in front of an absolutely caustic revisiting of Kanye West’s “Diamonds of Sierra Leone,” and then follows that duo with his single-ready guest spot on “Touch the Sky?” Outside Outkast, I don’t know of another rapper that could pull that particular triad off.
And, in each context, he’s so good. “Conflict Diamonds” makes Kanye’s complication of the floss industry an evisceration, weaving extended and increasingly complex meters into a highly conflicted essay about the role of diamonds in Lupe’s life. If “Cecil Rhodes saw war and genocide / into the countryside / just to get his shine on” Lupe fears “what De Boers and his peers used to do / before the world really knew / just to get their mine on.” Doubling the meter mid-verse, Lupe notes he didn’t have a clue “that the rappers was helping the rapers / raiders of the villages / pillages of the schools / shooters of the innocents / torturers of the witnesses / burners of the businesses / and my bracelet was the fuel.” The overriding message is impossible to escape; Lupe makes it the focus of the song, and without the (excellent, but fairly apolitical) Presidential interlude that Jay-Z launched on West’s version, the implications here are impossible to escape, at the same time that the overt politics are made more effective through the fact that their urgency is complemented by the relative speed of Lupe’s delivery. He notes you can’t be a hypocrite until you know, but guess what? You just listened to the song.
“Lu Myself” is another phenomenal demonstration of Lupe’s skill on the mic; over the “Lose Yourself” beat, he focuses his delivery around phrases that end with a double “e” monophthong, grinding his teeth every time he spits the syllable, losing it for several measures to become weightless in the beat, only to bring it back to punctuate his phrasing, emphasize the word, and reassert the forward momentum of the song. “Absolutely Fiasco” has him going up on his end phrases at counterintuitive moments in the verse: “that’s the unofficial master plan / minus any unforeseen traffic jams / like my songs carrying the clubs like / Bagger Vance / or getting caught by the long arms / like Mr. Fantastic / damn.” I’m gushing, and that’s longer than I normally like to quote lyrics, but Lupe is incredibly skilled at making his punchlines set-ups, and making a coherent narrative work through his verses, whether he’s talking politics or just talking himself up. Elsewhere, and I’ll avoid saying too much about the tracks slated for the album, “Kick, Push” manages to use skateboarding as a metaphor for racism, youthful alienation, moving forward and life, and romance, all skillfully, and all without making the idea seem cliché. Meanwhile, “Hustlaz Song” runs Lupe parallel to Ghostface, allowing him to rock the traditional themes of hip hop with a whole series of metaphors that are each themselves intriguing and complete ideas.
The one reservation I have about Lupe, and what separates him from the Wu, or Outkast, or, to a lesser extent, Jay-Z, is focus. Touch the Sky presents a young artist doing almost everything I love about hip hop better than a whole lot of other artists in a whole slew of contexts, and the un-tempered energy and skill that flow off this thing are both incredibly exciting, but Lupe is still finding a distinct creative voice that will make him unique (and not just better) within the hip hop milieu. Which is fine, ‘cause “Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik” is no “Mighty O,” or hell, no “Rosa Parks,” so if Lupe can maintain this level of skill (of which this mixtape is as much a survey as the full length)? If he can do that and find his sweet spot, everybody better run for cover.
It’s been lovely serving you, but my time is up. In a few weeks? Dinner is served.

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment