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Welcome to Kyoto Protocol Day!
The Kyoto Protocol is an international treaty which extends the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits State Parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the premise that (a) global warming exists and (b) human-made CO2 emissions have caused it. The Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan, on 11 December 1997 and entered into force on 16 February 2005. There are currently 192 parties (Canada withdrew effective December 2012)[4] to the Protocol.
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Georgia Tech Falls to Miami, 70-61 (ramblinwreck.com)
Here's how hard Miami worked on Wednesday night: By the end of the game, even coach Jim Larranaga had sweated through his dress clothes.
At this point in the season, whatever it takes.
Davon Reed scored 21 points, DJ Vasiljevic added 13 and Miami survived having a depleted roster to beat Georgia Tech 70-61 - bolstering the Hurricanes' NCAA Tournament hopes.
Dewan Huell scored 11 of his 13 points after halftime for the Hurricanes (17-8, 7-6 Atlantic Coast Conference). Miami played without guard Ja'Quan Newton, who is starting a three-game suspension for a violation of team rules, and lost center Ebuka Izundu 67 seconds into the second half with a left leg injury.
''Everybody stepped up,'' Reed said. ''We had some big plays from everybody. It was a big win for us.''
Josh Okogie scored 18 points for Georgia Tech (15-11, 6-7), which fell to 2-8 on the road. Ben Lammers added 15 for the Yellow Jackets.
Miami went 22 for 27 from the foul line - while Georgia Tech went only 2 for 3 from the stripe. Georgia Tech was called for 18 fouls, compared with only six for Miami.
''First time I've ever been through that in my life,'' Georgia Tech coach Josh Pastner said. ''Hopefully it's the last.''
Okogie's 3-pointer with 14:13 left put the Yellow Jackets up 46-45, but Reed and Huell combined to score the next seven for the Hurricanes and Miami wouldn't trail again. Vasiljevic made a 3 to push the lead out to 58-50, and Reed capped another flurry with a jumper that put Miami up 65-52 with 5 minutes remaining.
Bruce Brown logged 37 minutes for Miami despite being diagnosed with tonsillitis earlier in the week, and Huell went 21 minutes despite a foot injury that has needed several rounds of treatment in the last four days.
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Georgia Tech-Syracuse Game Sells Out (ramblinwreck.com)
For the third time this season, Georgia Tech will play before a sellout crowd when Syracuse visits McCamish Pavilion for a nationally televised Atlantic Coast Conference game at 6:30 p.m. Sunday evening.
Sunday’s game against a resurgent Syracuse team (16-11, 8-6 ACC) is a “Whiteout,” and all fans are encouraged to wear white. Georgia Tech’s legendary “Lethal Weapon 3” unit of Kenny Anderson, Brian Oliver and Dennis Scott, who led the Yellow Jackets to the 1990 Final Four and the ACC Championship, will be honored during the game and will be on hand to sign autographs before the game. The first 2,000 fans entering McCamish Pavilion will receive a free poster commemorating the trio.
“We’re really excited that our fans and our students have come out to support their team in such great numbers this year,” said head coach Josh Pastner. “They have made McCamish Pavilion a great home court for us and have been a huge reason we have been able to win some big games. Having another sellout Sunday night is tremendous.”
Tech has defeated three top-15 teams at home this season – No. 9 North Carolina, No. 6 Florida State and No. 14 Notre Dame.
Tickets are still available for Tech’s final two home games – NC State at 8 p.m. Tuesday night and Pittsburgh at 9 p.m. on Feb. 28 – starting at $25 per ticket. The game against the Panthers will be a “Goldout” (all fans encouraged to wear gold), and the Yellow Jackets will honor their six-man senior class.
Tech’s games against Georgia on Dec. 20 and Notre Dame on Jan. 28 also sold out. It will mark the first time the Yellow Jackets (15-10, 6-6 ACC) have sold out their home arena three times since their first season in McCamish Pavilion, when they played before a full house against Tulane, North Carolina and NC State.
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College basketball: What to make of this Georgia Tech team (ncaa.com; Wilco)
When Josh Pastner took the head coaching job at Georgia Tech in April 2016, he pored over film from every conference game the Yellow Jackets had played the year before.
After two weeks of practices with the team that summer, he gave his prognosis:
“Our margin for error is zero,” Pastner said. “We’re the most inexperienced team in all of college basketball. If we’re not near perfect or perfect in effort, execution and energy, we’re just not able to win. We have severe limitations. That’s what it is in a major rebuild job."
Now, in the final stretch of his first season, that seems like a pretty good call.
Georgia Tech is 15-10 on the year, 6-6 in the Atlantic Coast Conference, and has been beaten by seven unranked teams. Yet the Jackets also boast wins over three top 15 teams, too.
Will the real Yellow Jackets please stand up?
Georgia Tech hasn't always been so up and down. In the ‘80s and ‘90s, the Yellow Jackets were a powerhouse, once ranked in 11 straight preseason polls. When Josh Okogie, the homegrown freshman averaging a team-high 15.3 points per game, was in elementary school, Tech made it to the 2004 national championship game. When he was a sophomore in high school, he saw current teammate Tadric Jackson on TV in the Georgia state championship. The announcers mentioned that Jackson, then a senior, was committed to the Yellow Jackets. “When I was growing up, to play at Georgia Tech was a dream,” Okogie said.
But the Jackets haven’t won the ACC, either the regular season or the conference tournament, since 1996. They haven’t been ranked in the AP Top 25 since 2010, the last year Tech made the NCAA tournament. They’ve won 20 games in a season just twice since 2007.
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Consultant's study of I-81 replacement options in Syracuse to take 6 months (PS; Hannagan)
Consultants hired to review New York's options for replacing Interstate 81 in Syracuse are not expected to complete their report for at least six months, state Department of Transportation Commissioner Matt Driscoll told legislators Wednesday.
DOT spokeswoman Tiffany Portzer told syracuse.com last week that a report on the project by WSP/Parsons Brinckerhoff, an international engineering firm, would likely be done by late summer.
The DOT can't speculate on the results of the $2 million study that will look at all options for replacing the highway, she said.
Driscoll, who is the former mayor of Syracuse, made his remarks during a DOT budget hearing in Albany, The Citizen reported.
The DOT had been moving along with the bureaucratic process of deciding how to replace a deteriorating 1.4-mile raised section of I-81 that cuts through Syracuse.
It appeared after four years of study, 58 public meetings and 268 meetings with interested parties, such as elected officials and employers, the DOT had narrowed the replacement options to two. A final decision was expected later this year.
The DOT was looking at either demolishing the raised portion and creating a community grid that would reroute I-81 "through" traffic around the city and allow city streets to handle local traffic. The state is also considering building a taller, wider version of the current raised structure.
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