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Global deal reached to limit use of powerful greenhouse gases

Edit International Business Times 15 Oct 2016
Nearly 200 countries have agreed to limit the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFC).This type of greenhouse gas is used in refrigerators and air conditioners.Countries are divided into three groups with different deadlines to reduce the use of HFC.These gasses are 10,000 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.Europe and the US committed to a reduction of 10% by 2019 and 85% by 2036 ... ....

200 nations reach legally-binding deal to limit greenhouse gasses

Edit WPTV 15 Oct 2016
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Nearly 200 nations have reached a deal, announced Saturday morning after all-night negotiations, to limit the use of greenhouse gases far more powerful than carbon dioxide in a major effort to fight climate change. The talks on hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, were called the first test of global will since the historic Paris Agreement to cut carbon emissions was reached last year ... The U.N ... ....

Denver Pioneers take down No. 2 Boston University

Edit Denver Post 15 Oct 2016
On the heels of last weekend’s 0-2 last-place showing as host of the Ice Breaker Tournament, the Denver Pioneers fell from No. 3 to No. 10 in the national rankings. But what the rankings don’t take into account is that DU, per NCAA rules, only had three full practices before facing Ohio State and Boston College last weekend at Magness Arena ... “Towards the end of the second they were gassed,” Janssen said ... ....

Global deal reached to limit powerful greenhouse gases

Edit The Jakarta Post 15 Oct 2016
Nearly 200 nations have reached a deal to limit the use of greenhouse gasses far more powerful than carbon dioxide in a major effort to fight climate change. The talks on hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, were called the first test of global will since the historic Paris Agreement to cut carbon emissions was reached last year ... That's three years earlier than India, the world's third-worst polluter, had first proposed ... The U.N ... ....

Police fire tear gas at anti-government protesters in Dakar

Edit Reuters 14 Oct 2016
Hundreds of anti-government demonstrators in the Senegalese capital are tear-gassed by police during a protest against unemployment and oil contracts. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). ....

PAFA Presents World War I and American Art (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Oct 2016
(Source. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts). PAFA Presents World War I and American Art ... November 4, 2016 - April 9, 2017. Press preview. Thursday, November 3, 10 a.m ... The exhibition includes numerous high-profile loans, among them John Singer Sargent's monumental painting, Gassed, from the Imperial War Museums in London ... Gassed brings together many themes that are essential to the story of the war and this exhibition ... Prelude ... and Mrs ... J....

What Reagan can teach us about handling Russia

Edit The Oklahoman 14 Oct 2016
World War III did not break out. Moscow relented and signed a peace accord in Geneva in 1988. In other words, the Russian Bear blinked ... So it was no surprise that as the Wall Street Journal reported, intercepted phone calls between Russian officials and Iranian counterparts caught them boasting how "easy" it was to stop Obama from retaliating when Bashar Assad gassed to death 1,500 civilians in August 2013 ... ....

Rocket motor concept could boost CubeSat missions (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Oct 2016
Typical spacecraft propulsion systems utilize fuels that are intrinsically hazardous, like hydrazine, or compressed gasses ... A pyrotechnic igniter provides the heat to initiate burn in a high-nitrogen, high-hydrogen fuel section, releasing gasses very rich in hydrogen. Those gasses flow into the oxidizer section and the chemical reaction there creates ......

Cash-strapped U.N. faces huge challenges in Mosul offensive

Edit Reuters 13 Oct 2016
ERBIL (Reuters) - The United Nations says it bracing for the world's biggest and most complex humanitarian effort in the upcoming battle for the Iraqi city of Mosul, which could make up to 1 million people homeless and see civilians used as human shields or even gassed. ....

The United Nations says it bracing for the world’s biggest and most complex humanitarian effort ...

Edit Daily Star Lebanon 13 Oct 2016
The United Nations says it bracing for the world’s biggest and most complex humanitarian effort in the upcoming battle for the Iraqi city of Mosul which could make up to 1 million people homeless and see civilians used as human shields or even gassed ... ....

Luxury theater opening in downtown Las Vegas this month

Edit Review Journal 13 Oct 2016
The eight-screen luxury Eclipse Theaters, at the corner of South Third Street and Gass Avenue, is expected to open later this month and will feature a bar, lounge and restaurant ... ....

How Shakin' Stevens new album led him to the brother he never knew

Edit BBC News 13 Oct 2016
Pop star Shakin' Stevens discusses how researching his family history for a new album led to some surprising revelations. Incredible though it may seem, Shakin' Stevens was the UK's biggest-selling singles artist of the 1980s ... Key to that plan is Echoes Of Our Time, Stevens' first album in almost a decade ... For example, his father, who was gassed in the trenches of World War One, never spoke of his experiences ... "There was no money at all....

BEN IS BACK! (TBS - Turner Broadcasting Systems Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Oct 2016
(Source. TBS - Turner Broadcasting Systems Inc). Thursday, October 13, 2016 Share. Share on facebook Email this article. Cartoon Network's ultimate superhero and global superstar, Ben Tennyson, is back in an all-new series of Ben 10. Ben 10 launches on Saturday 8th October at 10am on Cartoon Network. [London, UK] ... The liquid goo's and gasses he excretes from his eyes and mouth possess a wide range of uses, including being highly flammable....
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