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To: Road Walker who wrote (345638)	8/3/2007 6:07:20 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576164

Bush will host rival climate talks to UN By Fiona Harvey in London and Mark Turner at the UN Published: August 3 2007 19:40 \| Last updated: August 3 2007 19:40 George W. Bush will host talks with government leaders on climate change in Sep- tember – three days after the United Nations holds a key meeting on the same topic . The US president’s timing is likely to raise UN eyebrows. Ban Ki-moon, the secretary general, has called a high-level conference on the issue in New York on September 24, a day before the UN general assembly opens. But the White House said that although Mr Bush would be attending dinner at the UN on September 24, his diary for earlier that day had not been set. A spokeswoman said the UN meeting had “no bearing” on the timing of the Washington talks on September 27 and 28. But she added that it “worked out well” that other governments would be in the US to discuss climate change earlier that week. The US president has written to 15 heads of government, the European Commission and Portugal, the current holder of the EU presidency, to ask them to attend his meetings. The UN conference is for more than 100 government leaders. Mr Bush wrote: “At this meeting, we would seek agreement on the process by which the major economies would, by the end of 2008, agree upon a post-2012 framework that could include a long-term global goal, nationally defined mid-term goals and strategies, and sector-based approaches for improving energy security and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.” Mr Bush said before the Group of Eight industrialised countries’ summit in June that he would set up a conference of big emitters – independently of the UN – to discuss climate change. But he was criticised for seeking to circumvent the UN process and then agreed that the US would begin negotiations within the UN framework later this year on a successor to the Kyoto protocol on curbing greenhouse gases, which he had previously rejected. Friday’s announcement of the date for Mr Bush’s talks, and his refusal to commit to attend the UN meeting, seemed to show that the US had not given up on its own alternative approach. Time is running out for a deal on what should replace Kyoto when it expires in 2012. Officials hope the high-level UN talks in September will help break the international deadlock on climate change, ahead of a key meeting in Bali in December at which negotiations on a successor to Kyoto will begin. A UN spokesman said: “We certainly hope this [Mr Bush’s meeting] is an effort to make sure any of the results of that [UN] conference will be followed up on.” Critics of the Bush administration’s stance on climate change cast doubt on the Washington meetings. Elliot Diringer, director of international strategies at the US-based Pew Center on Global Climate Change, said an agreement calling on countries to curb emissions voluntarily, rather than legally binding emissions cuts, was not enough. “Binding limits on emissions is something the administration has resisted from the start. If this is just to carry on with a voluntary approach, then it could be worse than useless,” he said. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2007 ft.com

To: Road Walker who wrote (345638)	8/4/2007 5:17:16 AM
From: Taro	Respond to of 1576164

Sure, we also started 7:00 and worked until 4pm with half an hour off. It took me almost an hour to get there by bus. Same thing going back again. Taro

To: Road Walker who wrote (345638)	8/5/2007 4:43:08 AM
From: Elroy	Respond to of 1576164

I worked the assembly line at Toyota in Toyota City Japan for four weeks when I joined Toyota Motor. I was in bummper pre-assembly! Every new employee had to work the assembly line to get an understanding of Toyota's core activity. We worked an 8 hour day and then 1.5 hours of overtime. But the crap thing was we worked dayshift one week, then switched to nightshift the next week, so you were always "jetlagged" for the first three days of the week. I did it for 4 weeks and thought it was crazy, but some of the people I worked with did it for their entire careers.