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For Immediate Release
September 19, 2012
Gov. Quinn appoints new member to Illinois State Board of Education
Indian Prairie School District 204 Board President Curt Bradshaw to be sworn in
SPRINGFIELD – Gov. Pat Quinn today announced the appointment of Curt Bradshaw of Naperville to the State Board of Education. Bradshaw has spent the last seven years serving on the Indian Prairie School District 204 Board of Education, including a three-year stint as president.
"Mr. Bradshaw is a dedicated public servant who will strengthen our ongoing efforts to provide a world-class education to all students in Illinois," said Gov. Pat Quinn.
Bradshaw was sworn in today at the Board's strategic planning meeting in Bloomington. He replaces Chris Ward who stepped down previously.
"I am grateful for the opportunity to serve Illinois' two million students and will remain committed to achieving the best educational outcomes for each child," Bradshaw said.
Bradshaw is an Indian Prairie alumnus who was elected to its school board in 2005. Highlights during his tenure include a 1.4 point increase in students' average ACT score, construction and completion of a $125-million high school and an increased credit rating which placed Indian Prairie in the top 10 percent of districts nationally. Indian Prairie is the third largest school district in the state with an enrollment of about 30,000 students.
Bradshaw graduated from Waubonsie Valley High School and received a bachelor's degree in agricultural economics from the University of Illinois. He earned an MBA in finance and strategic management from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
Bradshaw is currently employed as senior vice president and head of product development at Nuveen Investments.A photo of Bradshaw is available at http://www.isbe.net/board/
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Signs Your Man Belongs On MTV's Jersey Shore
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Since the line between sweet meat-head and fervent-fist-pumper is often thin, our gal pals at The Little Black Blog of Big Red Flags gave us these warning signs to look out for. Bottom line: Any man who spends ninety minutes at the gym, forty-five tanning and thirty blowing his hair out — daily — will have little time for adoring you. —Glo
He's Gym-Obsessed2 of 12
Any guy who's beyond vigilant about his strength training regimen, considers Creatine powder a meal and is fanatic about taking supplements — without being a professional athlete — has way too much testosterone (and chemicals) pumping through his veins for us.
ON WONDERWALL: Jersey Shore's Stars Are Nothing Like Us
He's Hair-Obsessed3 of 12
Combine copious amounts of hair gel with a high-powered blow-dryer, and a man rife with misplaced ambition, and you can bet you'll be late for your dinner reservation while he's perfecting every product-covered spike of hair. Though, we do give Jersey Shore's Pauly D props for having a sense of humor about his signature locks. (This video shows how he gets his look.)
He Thinks Shirts Are Overrated4 of 12
We appreciate a killer bod, but we're not sure a man should bare all 24/7. And you won't find it sexy when your guy makes his pecs dance for the fiftieth time at your eight-year-old cousin's birthday party.
ON THE LITTLE BLACK BLOG: Signs She's Not The One
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While we're all for accessorizing, rhinestones aren't exactly what we have in mind for our man-of-choice's accoutrements. And, not gonna lie, an Ed Hardy-filled wardrobe totally reeks of Jon Gosselin.
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What's the harm of drawing a crowd with some dance moves? Um, when said crowd has gathered out of morbid fascination with your man's "beating of the beat." This behavior is occasionally funny when in jest, but frightening when in earnest. You don't want to be there when your guy's dancing like he's never danced before.
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He spits lines at any girl he sees and constantly informs you which ones he could be getting with … you know, if you weren't lucky enough to snag him first. We say, best to throw this fish back in the sea.
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He Fist-Pumps8 of 12
There's nothing wrong with a guy who's enthusiastic, or, well, "pumped." But if he habitually punctuates his sentences with fist pumps, you may not want to play second fiddle to his over-the-top hand gestures. (We do have to admit that the fist pump can show off those well-toned biceps quite nicely.)
He Fist-Fights9 of 12
There's nothing wrong with being tough, and — believe us — we want a man who can stand up for his lady, his family and himself. But if he throws bows for no reason, or eggs other guys on just so he can show that he's macho, he may need to get his anger in check.
He's Orange ... Literally10 of 12
A deep tan in January is not normal, and neither is the guy who insists on having one. If his life goal is to own a personal tanning bed, you may want to sneak out of his actual bed — this guy could be one short step away from calf implants. (Shudder …)
He Names His Abs11 of 12
This is just ridiculous. (Though, we did have fun making up our own Jersey Shore-inspired nicknames on this website.) While there's absolutely nothing wrong with dating a guy with manly muscles and a flawless tan, don't let his "situation" distract you from the situation.
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He Loves Himself A Little Too Much12 of 12
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Central Romantic Private Room
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면적18 m²
Floor No.
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- 실내 벽로
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|Francouzská, 101 00 Prague, 체코
|개인 방
|Acceptance rate
|< 50%
|Response time
|A few hours
|Calendar updated
|A week ago
The house is over 110 years. We have built it to modern standards, so it is now renovated and lovingly decorated.
You can communicate with us, both in German and in English and Czech.
We will help you have a pleasant and interesting stay in Prague.
Please note that the flat is non smoking
The price is for one person and one night.
|Weekly rate for 1 guest
|247375 ₩
|1 명 이상시 가격
|1299 ₩ 1박당/
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Peter's son Tobias checked us in and out. Location is very easy to get to the metro via tram to city center. The room is very clean and neat, the bathroom can get a little damp, but not a big deal. Breakfast is available at request for 100 Czech Crowns per person daily, but it's worth it if you like cold cuts, breads, fruit, yogurt, cheeses, and granola/cereal/muesli. Tobias recommended a few great spots to eat, which we tried and had some great meals. Wireless is not reliable and is best on the bed and the bathroom area. Overall, we had a great stay and would recommend to friends traveling to Prague!
A wonderful place to stay in the centre of the city! Although we arrived in the middle of the night, we were welcomed like it was in the middle of the day.
We loved the decorations and breakfast was excellent.
Wonderful service. Whenever we come back to Prague, this will be where we will stay again!!
Peter was an excellent host, friendly & couldn't help us enough when we asked for information - accommodation very comfortable, clean and cool being basement level we had no problems sleeping at night. - Enjoyed sitting in the garden drinking the lovely coffee which so good. We liked the location as we didn't want to be right in the centre of town but it was still within walking distance. I would recommend this accommodation & would stay here again.
Close to the middle of all the tourist sights. Nice,comfortable and clean. Loved the garden, great for a coffee and a read. Definately value for money. Would stay here again for sure!!
This must be the best place to stay in Prague for someone like me. It is easy to find, there is a tram stop very near and although in a residential area it is possibloe to walk to and from the city centre. The facilities are all excellent and the decor is warm and atmospheric. The breakfast is certainly worth buying and the entire family participate in making the guests feel like they are visiting close friends.
OK place. Very easy to go to the centre via the most convenient tram in town, stopping right at the door !
Well situated and easy to find. The room is very clean and cozy, and the shower is wonderful. The breakfeast is a good deal, and yes, the coffee is good. Moreover, there is a wonderful restaurant right up the street called U Bulinú.
If you are a really light sleeper (as I am), you should know that you can hear the tram until midnight and after 6:00 a.m., and that the common room for breakfeast is right outside the room - preparations begin at 8:00 a.m.
Great host. The room was immaculately clean with a comfy bed. Great breakfast for the price you paid and they have the best coffee. I would definitely stay with the Familie next time I am in Prague. Really worth it.
We enjoyed the cool room in the cellar (Romantisches Doppelzimmer ...) with outside temperatures up to nearly 40°C. Everything very clean, all you need there.
Good breakfast at adequate price, a charming little courtyard to sit and have coffee. Peter very nice, atmosphere very relaxed.
The building is simply fantastic! There's also an amazing little garden where you can relax and have a coffee (nextdoor there's a very nice coffeebar where you can buy very good coffee and cappuccino).
The room is really cozy and fresh.
The bus stop is right in front of the door, and very close to the city-centre.
We strong recommend to stay with Familie Lorenz.
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Asset managers sign up to NAPF stewardship scheme
Six asset managers with a collective £3 trillion in assets have signed up to a database which allows pension funds to compare and analyse their stewardship and governance policies.
Allianz Global Investors, Ashmore, Franklin Templeton, Jupiter, State Street Global Advisors and Vanguard have signed up to the National Association of Pension Funds' Stewardship Disclosure Framework, joining 51 other firms which are already part of the programme.
The new entrants will complete the work required by the end of the month. Pension funds can view the policies of asset managers which have signed up to the deal on the NAPF Stewardship webpage.
In a statement issued to the NAPF Conference, Joanne Seagers, chief executive of the NAPF, said the new signatories mark a "significant step" in ensuring that pension funds can understand the approaches taken by investment managers.
She added: "With pension schemes like those sponsored by BT, Barclays, British Airways, Marks & Spencer, Nationwide and Whitbread having signed up to the Stewardship code, it is hard to imagine why an asset manager would not want to disclose their stewardship credentials."
Rob Hardy of JP Morgan Asset Management said: "The sooner a proper market for stewardship, governance analysis and engagement emerges between rival fund managers, the easier it will be to determine their importance to clients and allocate resources effectively."
According to the NAPF, 15 asset managers representing assets worth around £4.5 trillion have not yet agreed to sign up to the scheme.
T Rowe Price, one of the original signatories to the programme when it launched in October 2013, said fund firms have a responsibility to sign up.
Tim Bird, head of institutional relationship management, UK and Ireland said: "As a guardian of our clients' money it is our fiduciary responsibility to ensure that we represent them. We believe that the NAPF's Stewardship Disclosure Framework helps us reinforce this message."
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Governance and Information Technology: From Electronic Government to Information Government
Book, MIT Press
September 2007
Editors: Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger, Faculty Affiliate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, David Lazer
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Developments in information and communication technology and networked computing over the past two decades have given rise to the notion of electronic government, most commonly used to refer to the delivery of public services over the Internet. This volume argues for a shift from the narrow focus of "electronic government" on technology and transactions to the broader perspective of information government—the information flows within the public sector, between the public sector and citizens, and among citizens—as a way to understand the changing nature of governing and governance in an information society.
Contributors discuss the interplay between recent technological developments and evolving information flows, and the implications of different information flows for efficiency, political mobilization, and democratic accountability. The chapters are accompanied by short case studies from around the world, which cover such topics as electronic government efforts in Singapore and Switzerland, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's effort to solicit input on planned regulations over the Internet, and online activism "cyberprotesting" globalization.
Governance and Information Technology: From Electronic Government to Information Government is the result of a collaboration between the authors, the Dubai Initiative, and the Dubai School of Government (DSG). The original papers were presented at a DSG conference held in Dubai in May 2005.
Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and chairs the Rueschlikon Conferences on Information Policy.
David Lazer is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Director and founder of the Program on Networked Governance at Harvard University. He is the editor of DNA and the Criminal Justice System: The Technology of Justice (MIT Press, 2004).
- Protecting Privacy by Requesting Access: Marc Rotenberg and EPIC
- The Swiss E-Government Barometer: Kuno Schedler Feels the Temperature of E-Government Services
- Telecities: Sharing Knowledge among European Cities
- The Governing of Government Information
- From Electronic Government to Information Government
- 'E-Government is an Outcome': Michael Armstrong and the Transformation of Des Moines
- Dubai's Electronic Government
- Weak Democracy, Strong Information: The Role of Information Technology in the Rulemaking Process
"The editors of Governance and Information Technology have assembled a strong juxtaposition of general overviews and concrete case studies to critically examine ways in which information and communication technologies are reconfiguring access to information both within government and between governments and citizens. This book not only challenges the idea that new technologies are democratizing access, but also presents alternatives conceptions, such as the development of an 'information class,' that will shape debate and research on the political implications of e-government"
—William H. Dutton, Director Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
"The e-governance revolution has transformed the way that government commonly delivers basic services. But has it transformed democracy? This is a first-class study of the complex processes of information flows between citizens and government. Drawing upon well-known experts and a diverse range of cases, the study provides provocative and important insights into processes of political communications, the uses and limits of information technologies, and the transformation of modern governments."
—Pippa Norris, Director, Democratic Governance Group, Bureau for Development Policy United Nations Development Programme
"So you thought information technology in the form of 'e-government' would save taxpayer dollars, improve government performance, increase transparency and accountability, and promote democratic participation--and all in a hurry too? Some first-rate scholars of the subject show how the several truths about these matters are much more complicated, and the reasons for them sometimes paradoxical."
—Eugene Bardach, Department of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
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RUSH: We had a call yesterday. The last call of the day was from a guy calling himself "Roy," and he wanted to talk about the whole global warming controversy. What a great Global Warming Stack we have today, too. (Laughing.) Let me just give you a little heads-up. "Climate Panel Recommends Global Temperature Ceiling, Carbon Tax." Nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah. I told you all of this is coming. What kind of arrogance is this? "A panel of scientists has presented the United Nations a detailed plan for combating climate change. [Voice of America]'s correspondent at the U.N. Peter Heinlein reports the strategy involves reaching a global agreement on a temperature ceiling." Which means that these scientists are going to tell the weather how hot it can get. That has to be what a global temperature ceiling is, as though we have any way of controlling this.
Oh, by the way, I had a lot of people thanking me for my detailed explanation yesterday of the Algore hypocrisy -- and Schwarzenegger, too, registering his jet with some carbon registry -- and explaining these carbon offsets. One of the best ways to explain it to people I think is to say, "I have concocted the Algore Gore diet. It's a variation of the old Marie Antoinette diet." Basically, Dawn, let's say that you and I live together, all right? Hypothetically here. And you tell me that you think I need to go on a diet. "Okay, I totally agree. I'm going to go on a diet. We're going to do the Algore diet, which is I eat whatever I want, and you starve. That way, I eat what you would normally be eating, and I call it a diet." It's also known as the Marie Antoinette diet. At any rate, lots more coming up in the Global Warming Stack today. Did you get a hold of Roy, Mr. Snerdley? Is he ready for one o'clock?
The last caller of the day yesterday was Roy Spencer, who is a highly acclaimed climatologist who used to work for NASA. I am really looking forward to talking to him. If you didn't hear his call yesterday, we only had about a couple minutes with him. I asked him for permission to get back to him, and he gratefully granted us that. His theory, among many... I've now done Wikipedia searches, Google searches on Mr. Spencer. He's truly a brilliant man. He started talking yesterday that the one thing that nobody can factor in when it comes to global warming, the effect on global warming and the temperature on the earth, is precipitation. He's made a career of studying this. He also is not a global warming advocate. He thinks it's basically a hyped crisis. He also, for example, used to believe in evolution and has become an ardent believer of intelligent design combined with evolutionary things, because evolution does take place, but it doesn't explain Creation. Obviously, it can't. I'm just giving you a heads-up on who he is. He also said precipitation and clouds have been a great factor.
But the whole point -- as I have astutely, instinctively pointed out over many, many broadcasts on this program -- is the climate of the earth is so, so complex that we may not even be able to as human beings to craft computer models that can factor in all the variables and come up with anything that's reasonable which results in scientists having to make guesses -- and why do they make guesses? They make guesses because they get funded to make guesses. It's all politics. There are scientists who have, in the manufacture of semiconductors, studied atmospherics in a closed environment which limits the complexity of the variables -- and even those model predictions are wrong, and those are tiny compared to climate models. Anyway, we'll talk with him in great detail at the top of the next hour. I'm really looking forward to it.
RUSH: It's time to move on to the latest in global warming. We had a caller in the last segment of the program yesterday identifying himself as "Roy." We asked if we could get back to him today. He's on hold, and we'll be getting to him here in mere moments. I just want to introduce him. His name is Roy Spencer, and he is a principal research scientist for the University of Alabama at Huntsville. He served as senior scientist for climate studies at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. He's the recipient of NASA's medal for exceptional scientific achievement, principally known (I'm reading here from Wikipedia. Sometimes there are errors there, so he can correct this) for his satellite-based temperature monitoring work for which he was awarded the American Meteorological Society Special Award. He is also a vocal supporter of intelligent design and denies the predominant scientific view that human activity is responsible for global warming. You are Dr. Spencer. You should have identified yourself that way. Welcome to the program, Roy.
DR. SPENCER: Hey, Rush. Well, nobody calls me doctor.
RUSH: Well, I'm honored to call you doctor. Does Wikipedia have it right here?
DR. SPENCER: Yeah. Yeah. I've always been scared of going to Wikipedia to read about myself, because, you know, people can put in some bad stuff in there if they don't like you. So I just stay away from it.
RUSH: Well, everything here is good. The only thing I noticed is you've been awarded something from the American Meteorological Society, a special award, and there is a climatologist at the Weather Channel who thinks people like you should be decertified.
DR. SPENCER: Oh, yeah, that's right.
RUSH: Heidi Cullen.
DR. SPENCER: I guess that's what happens when meteorologists get tied too closely to the media.
RUSH: You called yesterday and you wanted to say that my instincts on this global warming as you've heard me discuss them, are accurate. You started a discussion of the calculations here, these climate models, saying that they do not factor -- because it's not easy to do or maybe it's not even possible to factor -- in the role of precipitation and clouds. Could you start there, and basically whatever you were going to say yesterday, go ahead and launch.
DR. SPENCER: Well, I feel like -- and there are a few of us that are like this -- that the Earth has a natural air-conditioning process which occurs that is mainly through precipitation systems. Now, people will think, "Oh, well, you mean when they come by they cool off the air," and that's not what I'm talking about. It's about the Earth's natural greenhouse effect which is mostly water vapor and clouds. The Earth has a natural greenhouse effect that keeps the surface of the Earth warm.
RUSH: Isn't it true that the majority of greenhouse gases do come from the sources you just mentioned, not manmade sources?
DR. SPENCER: Well, yeah, that's true. Carbon dioxide is a relatively small part of the Earth's natural greenhouse effect. Now, the party line on this whole thing is that what we're doing is, with the increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, we're enhancing the greenhouse effect, and by now it's like about 1%. And since we're changing what's called the radiation budget of the Earth -- you know, like how much sunlight comes in and how much infrared radiation goes back out to space, since we're changing the radiation budget of the Earth -- the temperature has to change. This is the way you'll hear scientists explain the greenhouse effect. From a simple physics standpoint, it's a very attractive way of looking at climate change. There's a big problem with it, though. It makes it sound like the greenhouse effect is what determines the temperature of the Earth, and actually the truth is it's more the other way around. Given a certain amount of sunlight coming in, that is mostly absorbed at the surface of the Earth, weather processes happen which create the greenhouse effect because most of the greenhouse effect is from evaporated water which then turns into clouds, and of course water vapor is a strong greenhouse gas.
RUSH: I dare say I have to interrupt you at this point because most people who only pay attention to the crisis mongers, believe that there is no greenhouse effect other than that created by man. The whole notion of the greenhouse effect has led people to believe that man has totally manufactured this and that it's totally harmful. What you're saying is it's a natural thing that helps keep the Earth's temperatures moderate?
DR. SPENCER: Yeah, that's right. That's right. All the scientists agree with that. What you're talking about is the fact that the media distorts things so much that people don't get the right information. If you're using the media to rely on to get the science about this issue, you won't.
RUSH: Well, but the media is only relying on the scientists that they want to believe, and that to me is evidence of the political agenda that's attached to this. Let me get your reaction to this. There's a story that ran on the Reuters wire today -- and I want your reaction as an awarded climate scientist from the University of Alabama at Huntsville and NASA -- declaring the global warming debate over. "An international team of scientists urged the world's nation on Tuesday to act now to keep climate change from becoming a catastrophe." Companion story: "Panel of scientists has presented the UN a detailed plan for combating climate change. The VOA correspondent reports the strategy involves reaching a global agreement on a temperature ceiling." Now, how in the hell do we do that? How do we tell the world we're only going to allow it to reach a certain high temperature and then the global warming debate's over? What does that do to you as a scientist who doesn't buy into it?
DR. SPENCER: Well, yeah, that is a problem for people that really worry that we need to do something now because if we decide that all we're going to do now is policy, then we don't need to support the science anymore. But what I'd like to emphasize is sort of the bottom line of this whole debate -- and it's sort of what you've talked about -- which is, it all depends on how fragile you think the climate system is. The people that have built the climate models that predict global warming believe they have sufficient physics in those models to predict the future. I believe they don't. I believe the climate system, the weather as it is today in the real world shows a stability that they do not yet have in those climate models. Those climate models have a history of drifting. It took them a lot of years before they kept them from drifting too warm or too cold over time. That tells you it doesn't have the stabilization processes.
The point I wanted to make about precipitation was that it's precipitation systems that condition the rest of the air on the Earth. All of the air on the Earth is being slowly cycled through precipitation systems, which then gives that air its moisture characteristics. So when you're out on a beautiful sunny day golfing with not a cloud in the sky, you can thank a precipitation system somewhere for the weather you're having. In other words, they control the weather everywhere including the weather over the dessert where you don't have any rain. Precipitation systems control everything, and I think that they have a stabilizing effect. I'm not the only one that has this theory. There's a few other scientists, too, that have written on it. I think that's where the answer is in terms of climate sensitivity and whether we have much of an impact on it at all or not.
RUSH: Now, if you're right, I look at the ten-day, 15-day forecasts that you get from various weather sites, AccuWeather, the various weather services. They're not going to go much longer than three to five days on precipitation forecasts because they can't. If your theory is correct, the whole notion of predicting global warming 30 to 50 or even a hundred years out cannot possibly be done because predicting precipitation cannot be done on that scale.
DR. SPENCER: Here's where you have to be careful, Rush. The forecasting of weather is called "an initial value problem." You measure the atmosphere today, what it's doing, and you sort of extrapolate out in time with equations, of course. That's only good five or ten days out. For global warming forecasting, those models, what you're doing is sort of changing the rules by which the atmosphere operates. You're changing the greenhouse, one of the minor greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and trying to figure out how it's going to change average weather over a long period of time. So climate forecasting and weather forecasting are sort of two different things.
RUSH: Okay. I'm talking with Roy Spencer here from the University of Alabama at Huntsville, a former NASA scientist. Can you hang on through the break for a couple more questions?
DR. SPENCER : Sure.
RUSH: Before we go to the break, let me just ask. Is there catastrophic manmade global warming occurring?
DR. SPENCER : Well, I certainly don't believe so.
RUSH: All right. We'll take a brief break and discuss that in detail when we come back. Roy Spencer from the University of Alabama at Huntsville with us.
RUSH: Hi. Welcome back, folks. We're talking with Roy Spencer, principal research scientist for the University of Alabama at Huntsville, also a former senior scientist for climate studies at NASA at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville and a skeptic on the concept of manmade global warming. Roy, in trying to learn about you last night, I came across a piece in a blog that I like called the American Thinker written by Jerome J. Schmitt who is president of NanoEngineering corporation, and he has worked in the process equipment and instrument engineering industries for 25 years. He mentions you and your work on precipitation, your theories on precipitation as it relates to limiting the properties of precipitation systems and how they change with warming and so forth. Let me just tell you basically what his theory is here, or what his point is. He says that to model the climate of the Earth is so complex as to be practically impossible. He talks about how the semiconductor manufacturing business works, that they also try to control precipitation in a closed atmosphere within a vessel during the manufacturing process, and as such, they're very similar to climate models except that all the variables are controlled because they can be: it's a much smaller universe. The number of variables is way, way smaller, but even then, these models that use atmospherics to manufacture semiconductors are not reliable because they have so many limits.
He goes on to describe some of the things, factors that have to be included in a computer model of climate change -- and this by no means scratches the surface. He mentions things like solar flux and gravity and pressure, temperature, density, humidity, the rotation of the Earth, the currents in the ocean like the Gulf Stream, greenhouse gases, CO2 dissolved in the oceans. His basic point is this. He quotes you as writing that ?the role of precipitation is not fully accounted for in global warming models, and unless we know how greenhouse limiting properties of precipitation systems change with warming, we don't know how much of our current warmth is due to mankind, and we can't estimate how much future warming there will be, either.? Of course it was only back in the seventies that everybody, TIME Magazine, Newsweek, was warning us about global cooling and the coming of a new ice age. So people are confused about this but they're being scared to death. Kids are being told that they're destroying the animals; their parents are not doing enough, and they're having trouble sleeping at night! I know you look at this on a scientific basis, but how does all this impact you as a human being in addition to being a scientist?
DR. SPENCER: Well, it does bother me that so many people are worried about it, and I wish more meteorologists, atmospheric science types that really do have major reservations about how serious global warming is going to be, I wish they would speak up. The trouble is scientists are human, too, and there's this groupthink amongst climate scientists that global warming has created careers. It brings in money.
RUSH: That's the key.
DR. SPENCER: Well, that's part of it. Let me give you an example of the bias. Scientists have no way to be totally impartial, and let me give you an example of the bias. You've probably heard the phrase that the Earth's greenhouse effect keeps the Earth habitably warm. Have you ever heard that?
RUSH: Yes.
DR. SPENCER: Okay. In fact this is one of the very first things that was figured out about the climate system back in the 1960s, so I'm not making this up. It turns out that there's a actually a more accurate phrase than that related to the greenhouse effect, and that's that weather systems help keep the Earth habitably cool because they short-circuit 60% of the greenhouse effect warming that the greenhouse effect is trying to make on the surface of the Earth. If it weren't for the cooling effects of weather, the average surface temperature over the whole Earth would be about 140 degrees Fahrenheit.
RUSH: Wow.
DR. SPENCER: So, now, why is it that we only hear about the greenhouse effect and how it keeps the Earth habitably warm?
RUSH: Because the United States is being blamed for this. The people of the United States are being blamed so they'll be taxed.
DR. SPENCER: Yeah, but we never hear the fact that's more quantitatively accurate, that weather systems actually keep the Earth habitably cool. It's an inherent bias in the way people think, including climate scientists.
RUSH: About science, Michael Crichton once wrote that any time you see the word "consensus" associated with science that there cannot possibly be science, and his point is that we have all these UN scientists and others who are getting funding from various nations and institutions to do their work, and, of course, they produce results favorable to that desired by those who are making the grants. Then you have scientists like yourself who don't buy into it at all, but yet we're told "a consensus of the world's scientists believe X." That doesn't make it science, correct? There is not science here that has confirmed any of this.
DR. SPENCER: Well, that's absolutely true. Scientific truth isn't determined by a vote. You're reminding me of two Australian medical researchers who, for ten years, had to put up with ridicule over their theory that there was a bacterial basis for stomach ulcers. Bback then they were known as nitwits, and now they're known as Nobel Prize winners in 2005. So there's an example.
RUSH: Let me ask you about this. Again this is from Jerry Schmitt's piece in the American Thinker. This I didn't know. You ever heard of somebody named Vannevar Bush?
DR. SPENCER: No.
RUSH: Well, he writes, "Vannevar Bush's seminal 1944 policy paper unleashed the Federal government's unprecedented post-war investment in R&D in the hard sciences and engineering. Science was seen as the way to avoid (or at least win) another catastrophic war." Apparently the federal government getting involved in funding science research and development for the purposes of winning and not losing a war led to the whole concept here of governments funding various projects that they like. When you mentioned the money of many of these global warming scaremongers, I just wondered if that was not the origin of this. But since you've not heard of this man I'll leave that for another time.
DR. SPENCER: Well, from a scientific standpoint I have to admit that global warming is a legitimate area of study. I mean, I could be totally wrong. I don't think I am, and I understand why some scientists are really concerned. But like I told you earlier and what you've said before, it comes down to how much faith you have that you know enough about the physics to be able to model it accurately. Like you said, the problem is with models.
RUSH: You used the word "faith," and it's a religion with these people. It has replaced a religion to so many people. "We're destroying the planet. We've gotta do something about it. It's our fault." The parallels to this belief system and so many others which require faith are incredible. But the whole thing about this that is disturbing to me. You could be wrong, you say. They could be wrong, but they won't admit that they could be wrong. They have this knocked down, and they're using 150 years of research, Roy, when we cannot study... Well, we do know. We do know there have been ice ages without manmade input to global warming. We know there's been warming and cooling as natural cycles of the Earth. The presumptuousness and the arrogance of people today who think that we, human beings, in the twenty-first century are destroying the planet is something that offends my sensibilities. The vanity that these people have to think we have that kind of power over this massively complex creation is one of the things that I just instinctively use to disbelieve them.
DR. SPENCER: Yeah. I can understand that.
RUSH: All right. I know you don't want to talk about it because that's not in the area of science.
DR. SPENCER: (Laughing.) Well, there's a lot more faith involved in science than people realize.
RUSH: I appreciate that. Look, I really appreciate you letting us get back to you. This has been a tremendous opportunity for me to talk to you. I'm glad you called yesterday.
DR. SPENCER: Well, thanks. And we also made a special page for you. I have a weather website, and if you Google EIB Southern Command Weather, you'll find your weather page.
RUSH: Thank you. We'll find it!
RUSH: Would it be accurate to say the left hates preventive war? They hate preemptive war, right? We shouldn't have gone into Iraq. Iraq was a preemptive war based on the actions of 9/11. We weren't going to take any chances anymore that similar things would happen. We're going to go wherever it might be possible that a future attack could be launched. We had the stories of weapons of mass destruction and so forth. We don't need preemptive wars! We don't do preemptive wars! We're supposed to wait around 'til we get attacked and then we'll go into action. But isn't the left's attack on global warming preemptive?
As we just heard from Roy Spencer. He is a scientist who does not believe in the whole crisis of manmade global warming. There are others like him all over the place. There is not scientific agreement on this. So given that, why declare preemptive war on the climate, I would ask those of you on the left. You want to go out there and declare preemptive war on the climate when global warming hasn't attacked anybody. Wouldn't it be more consistent of you people to say, let the inspectors -- the climate scientists -- go out and do their jobs before we go off half cocked here and start raising everybody's taxes and blaming everybody and scaring the children of the world half to death over the deaths of the polar bears and so forth? It seems to me you people out there can't wait to declare preemptive war on the climate, and what you're actually doing is declaring preemptive war on the American people. A little thought that I wanted to throw out there.
(story) "Declaring the global warming debate over, an international team of scientists urged the world's nations on Tuesday to act now to keep climate change from becoming a catastrophe. … John Holdren, a professor of environmental policy at Harvard University and member of the scientific panel that crafted the report, 'We make the argument that it is essential that we get started now: not next year, not next decade, but now.'" Haven't we gotten started? We have gotten started. We've been getting started for 20 years. All of the discussion of alternative fuels and these hybrid automobiles and the carbon offsets. By the way, they continue to discover new species that nobody knew existed in various parts of the world, all the while we're supposed to be wiping them out with global warming. Another story is that to head off the worst of climate change, "Governments must pour tens of billions of dollars more than they are into clean energy research and enforce sharp rollback's in fossil fuel emissions if the world is to head off the worst of climate change, an expert scientific panel told the United Nations on Tuesday."
Of course, raise taxes! Just like Frontline magazine in India said yesterday, "If the rest of the world lived the way the United States lives, we would already all be dead because of global warming." And then this panel of scientists has presented the UN a detailed plan for combating climate change. The strategery involves "reaching global agreement on a temperature ceiling." They're going to tell the weather how hot it can get? How, pray tell, are we going to do this? If we can't control it, what are we going to do? Who we going to tell? When you go talk to the Earth's climate, who do you talk to? A global temperature ceiling? "A group of 18 scientists from 11 countries is calling on the international community to act quickly to prevent catastrophic climate change. In a report requested by the United Nations and partially paid for by the privately funded U.N. Foundation, the panel warns that any delay could lead to a dangerous rise in sea levels, increasingly turbulent weather, droughts and disease."
Well, you know what? Sea levels change. We always have turbulent weather. We always have droughts. Go talk to the people in west Texas. We always have disease. I just saw that a bunch of Hollywood celebrities are at risk for catching hepatitis A because of contaminated food at one of their A-list parties. There's always disease out there. People die from them every day. And get this. This is the bottom line, this is the nut paragraph: "The panel's recommendations include a series of steps to cut the rate at which temperatures are rising. Chief among them are a global agreement on an acceptable ceiling for temperature rise and finding ways of adapting to cope with the damage already done. Holdren, however, says even these measure will achieve very little unless they are accompanied by a global tax on greenhouse gas emissions." This is John Holdren of Harvard University.
We can go out and do all this. We can tell the temperature, "You're going to stop at X. You're not going to get any higher than that." We're going to go talk to whoever we have to talk to in the world, probably Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Have a good neighbors meeting with Ahmadinejad and say, "Mahmoud, the temperature is going to rise no more than X." We'll bring Syria into the discussion along with Iraq. We'll have a kumbaya agreement on this, hubba hubba. But even after we do all these things, after we've taken every step we can to prevent the rise in temperature that still won't be enough. No, no, no, no, no! "These measures will achieve very little unless they are accompanied by a global tax on greenhouse gas emissions." This is akin to having all these carbon offsets. I've got the new Algore diet to illustrate these carbon offsets.
See, I thought the idea for people who believed all this was to reduce your carbon footprint. But we now have learned that Algore spends all this money and uses all this energy in his mansion and his pool house in Nashville. Fine and dandy. But Algore said, "Oh, no, no, no! I am off setting my carbon footprint. I am buying carbon credits from others who are not using their allowable carbon footprint." So Algore is not reducing anything. He's not reducing his energy use. Same thing with Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger is going to register his jet, a GIII, with some carbon registry firm out in California and so he's going to go out and make his carbon footprint. He's not going to fly less. He's not going to take fewer people on his trips. He's going to keep doing what he's been doing. The carbon registry is going to plant trees. (Laughing.)
This is akin, ladies and gentlemen, to my telling you that I'm going on the Algore diet, and the Algore diet is this: I'm going to eat anything I want. I'm not going to make one change, not going to reduce my consumption of anything unless I want to. I'm going to have the biggest steak I can find three times a day, baked potatoes, lots of butter. I'm going to have caviar. You starve. That is how I will diet. That's the best way I can come up to explain the frivolity of these carbon offsets. Get this letter from a subscriber at RushLimbaugh.com: "Dear Rush, I joined your website today. I became a subscriber today because I have a nine- and seven-year-old who think the polar bears are drowning. I need help teaching them the truth. I have been a listener since 1988. Thanks for everything. Marybeth, a Rush babe." She's done the right thing.
My website is a veritable encyclopedia refuting all of this nonsense on global warming. A nine- and seven-year-old think the polar bears are drowning, and this is precisely how these people are using fear. Like I said, this is a direct parallel to the way kids told us back in the eighties, by Laura Dern on the Donahue show, "Do you know what it's like every day to get up with the possibility of being annihilated because of a nuclear blast? Do you know what it's like, Phil? Children are scared! We're scared!" Right. They're simply recycling the same old technique designed to make everybody feel guilty, pay more taxes, have the government grow, lose liberty, lose freedom, and the government knows best because you people are destroying the planet and you need to be blamed for it and you need to feel guilty and you need to pay the price. Hello, global carbon tax!
USA Today: "Declaring there is 'no more time for delay,' an international panel of scientists urged the world's nations Tuesday to stave off climate-change 'catastrophe' by boosting clean-energy research and sharply cutting industrial emissions that fuel global warming." The phrase "tipping point" is used in this story. We are near the tipping point for climate. But yet, ladies and gentlemen, I want to read to you from TIME Magazine, June 24th, 1974. "As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a climate upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe, they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades." This is TIME Magazine June 24th, 1974.
"The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age." The article comes complete with a graphic showing the upper one-third of the United States covered by a glacier. "Telltale signs are everywhere -- from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest. Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7 degrees F. ... When Climatologist George G. Kukla of Columbia University's Lamong-Doherty Geological Observatory and his wife Helena analyzed satellite weather data for the Northern Hemisphere, they found that the area of the ice and snow cover had suddenly increased by 12% in 1971 and the increase has persisted ever since. Areas of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, for example, were once totally free of any snow in summer; now they are covered year round." Of course Newsweek did the same thing, 1974, Newsweek, ran a story on the coming threat of global cooling.
What happened? What went wrong? Final story: "Twenty new species of sharks and rays have been discovered in Indonesia in a five-year survey of catches at local fish markets, Australian researchers said Wednesday. The survey by the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, or CSIRO, represents the first in-depth look at Indonesia's sharks and rays since Dutch scientist Pieter Bleeker described more than 1,100 fish species from 1842-60." Now, I just want to know how in the world all these species, which we never knew existed, all of a sudden have been found. Maybe they're brand-new. Who created them? Where did they come from? How can this be when we are destroying the species, causing them to go extinct with global warming?
RUSH: We had a drive-by question: How much does jet travel affect global warming? Nobody knows! All we can do is guess. I'm just going to give you my answer as a common, ordinary, everyday Joe. How long have we been flying jets, ladies and gentlemen? How long have we been launching space shuttles and rockets and so forth? Many, many moons. During those years we've had scientists tell us that we're in the midst of global cooling, got a new ice age coming, now global warming, and it's all the CO2 that's part of the exhaust from jet engines supposedly causing global warming, and yet, I don't see any of the scaremongers telling us we need to stop flying. They wouldn't be able to get around to their vacations if that were the case. Nobody is suggesting we stop flying. That's why the nonsense of the carbon footprint and carbon credits has been brought up, and that's why they attack on corporate jets. The carbon footprint for four or five people flying in a corporate jet, far, far, far greater than 200 people flying on the commercial jet. Schwarzenegger says, "Oh, I agree with that, so I'm going to register my plane and plant trees every time I fly. That will take care of the carbon dioxide emissions from my jet." It's bogus. It's bogus. Weymouth, Massachusetts. Kathy, I'm glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Hi, Rush.
RUSH: Hi.
CALLER: When the UN study had first come out, right at the beginning, I heard that only -- of the letters that they sent out to scientists, only 18% had been returned. Now, to me, that means 82% didn't bother. I'm sure some of them believed in it, maybe they didn't -- I mean it's from the UN; who cares? So I'm just wondering what we're doing here with 18% of the scientists who bothered to return their letters, we're supposed to now change the world?
RUSH: Well, I haven't heard that. It wouldn't surprise me. But look. Go back to our little discussion with Roy Spencer from the University of Alabama at Huntsville in the first half hour of this program. He made it very plain that money in the form of grants and donations is a large factor in the number of scientists who do supposedly support the whole concept of manmade global warming. Always follow the money. You just can't take the money out of it. By the way, the brilliance of this, you have to understand, is these people that are now the big, primary advocates of this can never be disproved, not in their lifetimes, because now the window we're looking at is 2100, 2080, 2050, and so they've brilliantly established the circumstance, "Well, it's going to warm up whatever number of degrees by the next hundred years."
Well, they're not going to be around to be proven right or wrong. It's really brilliant marketing the way they have set this all up. They're using every ingredient the left has perfected from the time of Karl Marx, folks, every damn one: get rid of real religion; create a false, phony religion where the god resides in Earth and in government. Just scare the hell out of as many young people as you can. Impose guilt on as many people as you can. They'll sit back and take the punishment in the form of brand-new taxes, larger governments and so forth. I don't know about only 18% of the scientists responded. All I know is that I'm glad Roy confirmed this for me, that science is not subject to a vote. There is no consensus in science. This is Art in Shepherd, Montana. You're next, sir. Nice to have you with us.
CALLER: Hello, Rush.
RUSH: Hi.
CALLER: I know we've had a long-term, continuing project at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii measuring the solar constant. They've proved that the sun, like all stars, is a variable star. And, in addition, recent astronomical data observing Mars has shown that Mars is warming at the same rate that we are. So that tells me that that's caused by the sun, not by man. Another thing is that every one of the greenhouse gases, the molecules of water vapor, carbon dioxide, and ozone, all absorb UV. They emit when the emit energy, infrared, and they reflect infrared back down to the Earth. Another thing is if the sun were getting warmer, the atmosphere, like all things when it's heated, expands, which means that the amount of absorption of the UV is still the same but the distance at the outer edges of the atmosphere between the molecules is less, so we're radiating the heat.
RUSH: That's actually a good point. I wish I would have asked him about the sun. You know, it's the one thing that these people leave out of global warming. Never, ever do they discuss the primary source of heat and all energy on this planet, and that's the sun. Art, thanks much for the call. Very, very interesting. I've heard this point about Mars being made of course as well.


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"Putting It All Together: The Real World of Fully Integrated CCS Projects"
A Study of Legal, Regulatory and Financial Barriers in Phase III of the U.S. Department of Energy Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships Program
Discussion Paper
July 2011
Author: Craig A. Hart
Belfer Center Discussion Papers
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: Energy Technology Innovation Policy; Environment and Natural Resources; Science, Technology, and Public Policy
The Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships (RCSP) program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is the United States leading effort to assess the performance, cost and risks of geologic carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) over a broad range of geologic conditions in order to assess its feasibility at commercial scale.
The program is organized as seven regional consortiums, each led by a university or national laboratory supported by industry partners that are tasked with conducting actual CCS projects within their region. The DOE launched the RCSP to develop the infrastructure and knowledge base needed to commercialize carbon sequestration technologies that will capture 90% of carbon dioxide (CO2) with less than a 10% increase in the cost of energy, and achieve 99% storage permanence.
The RCSP program comprises three phases: (I) characterization of national CO2 storage potential in deep oil-, gas-, coal-, and saline-bearing formations, (II) twenty-five geologic sequestration research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) test injection projects to validate that different geologic formations have the injectivity, containment, and storage effectiveness necessary for long-term sequestration, plus eleven terrestrial sequestration projects, and (III) nine commercial-scale geologic sequestration projects to demonstrate the engineering and scientific processes and to validate the long-term safe storage of CO2 in several major geologic formations capable of storing emissions generated from major point sources on a cost-effective basis.
The program has substantially completed Phases I and II, and is now implementing the Phase III projects. Appendix A lists the nine Phase III geologic sequestration projects surveyed in this study. The RCSP program was designed to provide real world experience on actual projects to researchers, regulators, project developers, investors, lenders, service providers and other stakeholders, and the projects were not intended to be challenge-free.
Phase III of the RCSP is important because full integration is a critical step to validating CCS technology, driving down its costs, and diffusing it broadly. Putting all the pieces of a first-of-kind project together technological, engineering, geological, financial, legal, and regulatory involves significant challenges. Full-integration also necessitates a high degree of coordination among project stakeholders (e.g., investors, lenders, equipment suppliers, CO2 sources, transportation providers, and pore space owners), and requires sophisticated institutional arrangements among these parties to allocate project responsibilities and risks.
In Phase III, financial issues posed the most significant barrier and dominated the outcomes in these projects, directly causing termination of three of them and contributing to termination of another two projects. Liability for sequestration of CO2 and lack of coordination among regulatory authorities also posed significant barriers. The financial, legal and regulatory challenges of fully integrated commercial-scale projects in Phase III are far more complex than encountered in the Phase II test injection projects that were the subject of an earlier study, and the need for policy support is more pressing. Phase III comprises nine planned projects that will inject and monitor between 1 to 5 million tonnes of CO2 into geologic formations, eight of which are saline formations. Several of these facilities will continue to inject CO2 after completion of the Phase III projects, in some cases up to 20 million tonnes of CO2 will be injected.
Phase III also demonstrates several leading capture technologies and applications. Three of the planned projects are commercial scale power plants (two post-combustion and one oxy-fuel), two are natural gas processing facilities, and two are ethanol production facilities. These seven projects are fully-integrated commercial facilities that would capture, transport, and inject CO2 as part of their planned operation. The remaining two projects inject CO2 from natural sources and therefore are not fully integrated operations because they do not involve industrial capture operations.
The nine planned projects that are the subject of this study were identified by the regional partnerships and approved by the DOE for inclusion in Phase III of the RCSP. The DOE RCSP program provides financial support for the sequestration component of these projects. These projects must seek other financial support for the capture and transport aspects from commercial sources, and may seek other federal financial incentives to supplement the DOE grant for the sequestration component.
During the period of this study, several of the original nine projects were terminated due to legal, financial, and regulatory barriers, and other projects have been or will be identified to take their place. This study evaluates Phase III of the RCSP based on the nine projects that were active as of mid-2009, tracking the outcomes through the end of 2010. It does not examine projects that replaced any of the original nine projects.
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Field Trips
- 1. A Look at Critical Zone Processes in the NW Sierra Nevada.
Sat.–Sun. 18–19 May.
- Canceled.
- 2. Granite, Glaciation, and Rockfall in Yosemite Valley, California.
Sat.–Sun., 18–19 May.
- Canceled.
- 3. From Deep to Modern Time along the Western Sierra Nevada Foothills between the San Joaquin and Kern River Drainages.
Sat.–Sun., 18–19 May. Cost: $240, Max: 24.
Jason Saleeby, Zorka Saleeby, Frank Sousa, Div. of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology.
- The western Sierra Nevada Foothills preserve ~500 m.y. of diverse geologic history initiating with the interaction of Panthalassa abyssal lithosphere with the passive margin of the SW Cordillera and accented today by rapidly evolving epeirogenic displacements arising from the ongoing removal of the mantle lithosphere that formed beneath the Cretaceous Sierra Nevada batholith. Our field trip will survey basement exposures that display key stages in western Sierra Nevada lithospheric evolution and geomorphic-stratigraphic relations that reflect geologically recent mobilization of the underlying mantle lithosphere. Key elements surveyed in the basement include (1) a deformed abyssal Moho section interpreted to represent an oceanic spreading ridge-transform intersection core complex; (2) a regional ophiolitic mélange interpreted to have formed along a major transform zone that truncated the SW Cordilleran margin and along which the California Mesozoic convergent margin nucleated; and (3) Early Cretaceous mafic intrusions that are typical of the western Sierra Nevada batholith and its extension into the Great Valley subsurface. Key geomorphic-stratigraphic elements include (1) An exhumed end of Cretaceous pediment surface and its implications on the remnants of Cretaceous paleo-relief throughout the greater Sierra Nevada; (2) anomalous subsidence along the eastern margin of the southern Great Valley interpreted to have arisen from initial mobilization of the underlying mantle lithosphere; and (3) rapid Quaternary uplift and hydrothermal fluxing along part of the southeastern Great Valley arising from the most recent focused phase of mantle lithosphere detachment from the lower crust.
- Relevant Theme Sessions: T1 Tectonic Processes that Build the Stratigraphic and Structural Record of Ancient and Modern Convergent Margins; T2 Mélanges: Comparison and Contrast Between Circum-Pacific and Tethyan Chaotic Rock Bodies, and Modern Submarine Analogues; T3 Oceanic Petrogenesis of Pacific-Type Convergent Margins; T4 Ophiolites and Suture Zones; T6 Using Detrital Zircon Age Data to Reassemble the Cordilleran Jigsaw Puzzle.
- 4. Middle Irvingtonian Fairmead Landfill Fossil Site and Fossil Discovery Center of Madera County, California.
Sun., 19 May. Cost: $50 Max: 24.
Robert G. Dundas, CSU Fresno, email@example.com; James C. Chatters, CSU Fresno Foundation, paleoscigmail.com; Eric Scott, San Bernardino County Museum, escottsbcm.sbcounty.gov.
- Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Fairmead Landfill fossil locality's discovery, participants will visit the Madera County Fairmead Landfill, the corresponding Madera County Paleontology Collection, and end at the Fossil Discovery Center of Madera County. The middle Irvingtonian aged (0.78 to .55 Ma) Fairmead Landfill fossil site was discovered in May 1993 during excavations for a new expansion cell at the landfill. Paleontological monitoring since 1993 has yielded thousands of fossil specimens representing 71 taxa (two fish, two amphibians, three reptiles, five birds, 29 mammals, one bivalve, one gastropod, 12 plants, and 16 diatoms). Fossils occur in distal alluvial fan channel, distal fan overbank flood or sheetflood, and marsh/lacustrine deposits of the upper unit of the Turlock Lake Formation. Fossils have been collected from a geographic area of more than 40 acres and stratigraphically from depths of 4 m to 20+ m below ground surface. The vertebrate fauna include Archoplites interruptus, Catostomus occidentalis, Caudata, Anura, Clemmys marmorata, Xerobates agassizi,Colubridae, Athene cunicularia, Branta canadensis, Tadorna tadorna,cf. Aythya sp., Zenaida macroura, Sorex sp., Paramylodon harlani, Nothrotheriops shastensis, Megalonyx wheatleyi, Canis latrans, Canis dirus, Vulpes velox, Homotherium sp., Smilodon sp., Miracinonyx sp., Lynx rufus, Panthera sp., Taxidea taxus, Arctodus sp., Spermophilus sp., Neotoma sp., Peromyscus sp., Microtus sp., Thomomys sp., cf. Dipodomys sp., Lepus sp., Mammuthus columbi, Equus sp., Camelops sp., Hemiauchenia sp., Tetrameryx irvingtonensis, Capromeryx sp., Odocoileus sp., and Platygonus vetus. The fauna is dominated by large herbivorous mammals, particularly open-country grazers and mixed feeders such as Equus, Camelops, Mammuthus columbi and Paramylodon harlani. Fairmead Landfill represents an age not well documented in the terrestrial vertebrate record of North America and helps to fill the gap in knowledge about the middle Irvingtonian.
- Relevant Theme Session: T13 Irvingtonian Paleoecology of Western North America.
- 5. LOCKED ROCKS: Hard-to-Access Outcrops of the Mesozoic Metasedimentary Framework and Gabbroids of the Early Cretaceous Sierra Nevada Batholith.
Thurs., 23 May. Cost: $70. Max: 33.
Diane Clemens-Knott, Dept. of Geological Sciences, CSU Fullerton; Jason Saleeby, Div. of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology.
- This one-day trip will begin/end with a one-hour highway commute from Fresno to the greater Visalia area. As we travel back roads through private ranchlands of the Stokes Mountain region, we will track the Mesozoic evolution of depositional environments as recorded in the batholith's metamorphic framework, progressing from (1) the Triassic ribbon cherts, carbonates, and distal turbidites of the Calaveras Complex; to (2) the Jurassic turbidites of the Kings Sequence; to (3) the Early Cretaceous siliciclastic and volcanic rocks of the Goldstein Peak Formation, which were deposited in a nonmarine, intra-arc basin during the earliest stage of Cretaceous arc activity. As we travel, we will inspect various Early Cretaceous rock types of the Stokes Mountain ring dike complexes, with the trip culminating at a spectacular outcrop of layered olivine-plagioclase cumulates—the most primitive rocks of the Cretaceous Sierra Nevada batholith. Various isotopic (igneous and detrital zircon U-Pb; Hf-Nd-Sr-O), geochemical, and geophysical data will be integrated into reconstructions of Mesozoic paleogeography, tectonics, and the dominantly gabbroic-to-tonalitic Early Cretaceous Sierra Nevada batholith.
- Relevant Theme Sessions: T1 Tectonic Processes that Build the Stratigraphic and Structural Record of Ancient and Modern Convergent Margins; T3 Oceanic Petrogenesis of Pacific-Type Convergent Margins; T6 Using Detrital Zircon Age Data to Reassemble the Cordilleran Jigsaw Puzzle; T9 AFC Processes in the Formation of Intermediate Magmas from Mantle to Crust.
- 6. New Views on the Evolution of the San Andreas Fault Zone in Central California and the Carrizo Plain.
Thur.–Sat., 23–25 May.
- Canceled.
- 7. Mélanges, HP Metamorphism, Subduction Accretion and Erosion, Subduction Megathrusts, and Ophiolites: The Franciscan and Related Rocks.
Thur.–Fri., 23–24 May. Cost: $205 Max: 50.
John Wakabayashi, California State University, Fresno, jwakabayashicsufresno.edu.
- We will visit exposures that highlight the rock record of convergent plate margin processes on round-trip from Fresno through Panoche Pass to the San Francisco Bay area. The trip will feature multiple stops with exceptional exposures of mélange matrix of Franciscan subduction complex showing evidence for sedimentary origins of block in matrix fabric and introduction of exotic blocks/clasts, as well evidence of two and possibly three burial-exposure cycles to blueschist facies or greater depth. At least one of these stops will view exposures that may represent the exhumed subduction megathrust. We will see the large-scale architecture of the preserved trench-forearc system and its implications for non-accretionary versus accretionary episodes, preserved ocean plate stratigraphy within different parts of the system, and the high-grade metamorphism that may record Franciscan subduction initiation. We will also view exposures of the Coast Range ophiolite, considered a good example of a supra-subduction zone ophiolite, along with the forearc basin cover of the Great Valley Group, including the basal olistostrome of the latter that includes high-grade metamorphic blocks.
- Relevant Theme Sessions: T1 Tectonic Processes that Build the Stratigraphic and Structural Record of Ancient and Modern Convergent Margins; T2 Mélanges: Comparison and Contrast between Circum-Pacific and Tethyan Chaotic Rock Bodies, and Modern Submarine Analogues; T3 Oceanic Petrogenesis of Pacific-Type Convergent Margins; T4 Ophiolites and Suture Zones; T6 Using Detrital Zircon Age Data to Reassemble the Cordilleran Jigsaw Puzzle.
- 8. Debris Flows in Recently Burned Watersheds in the Southeastern Sierra Nevada.
Thur.–Sat., 23–25 May.
- Canceled.


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mommas, thank you for the pillow advice (in fact, I have both, boppy and breast friend and I like boppy better), but that wouldn't solve my problem, since I have to do breast compressions to help my LO with her shallow latch, and having both of my hands tied up for hours and hours is very tiring and depressing. Side-lying is super-uncomfortable for the same reason
Today I experimented with breaking LO's latch when she wasn't actively sucking anymore, but keeping her in my arms (instead of trying to put her in the bassinet) and she happily slept in my arms for an hour an a half before waking up hungry (instead of attached to by boob). I'd say that's progress!
Also it seems that she doesn't need as much help latching in a football hold (though it does make her gassier), so I'll try utilizing that as well.


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~ Anglo-Saxon "Ecclesiastical Institutes" translated from Theodulphus by Abbot Aelfric about A.D. 1000; explaining the English term "shrovetide" (from "to shrive", or hear confessions) wherein the religious idea is uppermost; but before long, human nature allowed itself some exceptional licence.


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I wouldn't mind seeing those girls every day.
I loves me some "real" women, at least you know you have a chance at them, as small of a chance it may be!
great thread! more please.
very nice! but everyday? i wish
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"You're not even in the scouting report!"
Yeah it seems like a lot of these girls have or would have their own pron websites. I can imagine some of these pics taken from dating sites though. But who cares right, bring on the pics!


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Career Clinic: Working nine to five (and not a minute more)
I appear to be the only member of my team to work their contracted hours. All the rest go way over and I'm starting to feel like they (and my boss) resent me. What should I do?
Wondering why on earth it says nine-to-five in your contract when you seem to be expected to be there till all hours will feel familiar to many, especially in the City. A long-hours culture is seen as the norm in many roles and environments - not in your contract, but a fact of your life, whether or not it's productive (and physically present doesn't necessarily translate into physical profits, as we know). Does it really need to be that way? And what's the legal position on this, anyway?
Well, they can't make you, it's true. In fact, our laws recognise just how dangerous excessive hours can be to our health, with potential criminal sanctions under the Working Time Regulations. But despite a maximum average of 48 hours per week (over a 17-week period) in the UK, it's still possible for workers to opt-out of this rule, and the reality is that this happens in most City jobs - typically seen as the trade-off for better pay.
Employers often ask individuals to sign time-limit opt-outs when they sign their employment contracts. Most employees do not know that they do not have to agree to this - or that they can cancel their opt-out at any time, on seven days' notice - and it is unlawful to be penalised for doing so (eg. disciplined, passed over for promotion, or any other detrimental treatment).
Resentment from colleagues is always difficult to handle, and so being up-front about your stance here could help clear the air. It doesn't always work, since team members may still feel they are carrying your load, or alternatively, those who feel they had to do it may not want to see you have your freedom. But it is also possible that you could be the breath of fresh air that helps others to change too.
There are certain situations with additional legal protections that could apply to you - if they do, make sure you raise them. If you are a working mum, and need to leave for childcare reasons, you may have particular leverage here. It could then count as unlawful discrimination if you face any disadvantage because the ordinary practice is to work longer hours.
Discrimination laws can kick in for health reasons too, so if keeping to your set hours is on medical advice, which is important to bring to your employer's attention.
You might also want to ask yourself if this long-hours culture is really for you. You can then choose whether to accept it, walk away from it, or confront it by asserting your working time rights.
Lastly, a word of warning. There have been far too many instances of those suffering from "burn-out" or work-related stress conditions - who then regret not having taken action sooner. Your employer has a duty of care not to put you at risk of harm. Make sure they know if your working arrangements are impacting on your health. You then make it their responsibility to address it.
Samantha Mangwana is an employment lawyer at Slater & Gordon


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It's 11:30 a.m. and lunch should be almost ready, but this home of seven people has only a small bowl of boiling water on their firewood stove.
The father just came back from a busy morning at the farm, bringing some beans that would be used for lunch, the only ingredient of the first meal of their day.
The global food crisis has hit so many people. Guillermo, father of three Compassion-assisted children and another who isn't registered, used to have a steady job making bricks. But now he is no longer permanently employed. He lost his job because there wasn't enough demand for bricks. He found another job at a farm taking care of beans and a corn plantation. Those two partial jobs together make an income of about $37 per month for Guillermo and his family.
Ventura, Guillermo's wife, in her effort to help the home's income, baby-sits her granddaughter, making about $75 per month with which they have to find a way to cover all of the family's expenses such as food, clothes, water service, school supplies, soap, toothpaste, etc.
Since the family cannot buy as much as they used to, what they have in a normal day for breakfast is a cup of coffee with bread or just coffee.
For lunch, beans, a piece of cheese and tortilla that Ventura makes. And for dinner, most of the time is just another cup of coffee.
"The crisis has affected our health. We cannot improve our home or buy new kitchen utensils. My husband is working extra but still getting the same," says Ventura.
Many parents of registered children from child development center NI-147 lost their jobs at the factories. Bernarda, the center director, says,
"The majority of the people in our community used to work at the eight factories located in the area, but with the crisis, six of the factories have closed. By now almost 80 percent of the population is unemployed.
"The factories closed between July and August of 2008 as a result of the economic crisis in the U.S., the factories primary importing country. Alternative jobs have appeared like fishing in Lake Managua, selling firewood, domestic work, going to the dump, street sellers and farms.
"Families are desperate because they don't have food for their children. Kids get sick for not having a balanced meal, the local health center doesn't have medicine, and finances are not enough to pay a medicine at the pharmacy.
"Our country has been impacted significantly. Many people are leaving to go to Costa Rica, the United States or Spain to find a job to support their family and to have a better way of living.
"As a student center, we have not given up because of the crisis. We have faced it and continued on.
"In the short term, activities like monthly birthday celebrations have been reduced to one celebration every three months, field trips, camps, mother and father's day have been cut to be able to solve the food situation. We are very interested in that our children get some food at the center."
Reina, the partnership facilitator says,
"One of the reasons for this crisis in Nicaragua is unemployment. There are very little opportunities to find a job. Amendments have been made to the development center budget in order to reinforce the food area."
In the long term, student center staff hope to receive a special funding to give a daily meal to the children. The center is open three days a week. Last year, two of those three days, children received a meal and one day a snack.
As a consequence of the food crisis, this year children have one meal and two snacks. The meals include rice, chicken or beef, salad, tortilla. The snacks are cookies or sweet bread with milk or orange and carrot juice. The student center staff tries to give the best food they can to the children because they know these children need it.
Despite all the worries that parents and student center staff go through to feed these children, the children happily play and enjoy each other's company after having a good meal.
At the beginning of the year the registered children get school supplies, shoes, and a uniform. This is a great help to the parents, especially those with many kids like Guillermo, who has four school-age children. Their oldest daughter works at a factory and with the little she earns; she pays her own school fees.
Unable to cover the entire home expenses and without a good economic forecast for next year, Guillermo's family feels discouraged. However, in the midst of it all, Ventura says,
"We thank God for the staff, for Compassion and sponsors for helping the children of our community."
Out of Guillermo's children, Esmeralda is the only one sponsored. She likes to go to the child development center because she learns to color, pray, sing and she likes the food there.
Her sister Maria likes to go because she listens to the Word of God. Moses' story is her favorite. Auner, their brother, likes to sing and to eat at the student center. Bernarda says,
"Through this ministry, the dreams of the children will come true. If it wasn't for the ministry many children might be involved in gangs, but now they have a new vision to excel, to learn values. They won't grow in the same mentally poor home.
"Children know that things are possible in the name of Jesus. I thank God and Compassion's ministry for opening the doors to our church, trusting to partner with us.
"Thanks to the sponsors and donors for the support that makes this possible. Keep making an effort to help these children. God will bless you abundantly."


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A PICC is a long, thin tube (called a catheter) that goes into a vein in your upper arm. The end of the catheter winds up in a large vein near your heart.
The PICC helps carry nutrients and medicines into your body. It is also used to draw blood when you need to have blood tests.
A PICC is used when you need intravenous (IV) medical treatment over a long period of time or if blood draws done the regular way have become difficult.
The procedure is done in the radiology (x-ray) department or at your hospital bedside.
The catheter that was inserted is connected to another catheter that stays outside your body. You will receive medicines and other fluids through this catheter.
It is normal to have a little pain or swelling around the site for 2 or 3 weeks after the catheter is put in place. Take it easy. Do not lift anything with that arm or do strenuous activity for about 2 weeks.
Take your temperature at the same time each day and write it down. Call your doctor if you develop a fever.
It is OK to take showers and baths 7 to 10 days after your catheter is placed. When you do, make sure the dressings are secure and your catheter site stays dry. Do not let the catheter site go under water if you are soaking in a bathtub.
Your nurse will teach you how to take care of your catheter in order to keep it working correctly and to help protect yourself from infection. This includes flushing the catheter, changing the dressing, and giving yourself medicines.
After some practice, taking care of your catheter gets easier. It is best to have a friend, family member, caregiver, or nurse help you.
Your doctor will give you a prescription for the supplies you need. You can buy these at a medical supply store. It will help to know the name of your catheter and what company makes it. Write this information down and keep it handy.
Call your doctor or nurse if you have:
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Best Practices: Evidenced-based Nursing Procedures. 2nd ed. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2007:chap 4: Intravascular therapy.
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toaster wrote:Great Forum!!! Hope I'm not being redundant but I have not found past posts directly answering my questions.
So I have a new design in safety headgear. I've filed a PPA and I have NDAs from a few companies and have no success with two and am talking to another about licensing my idea. I have another fish on the line, a GIANT company, willing to assess my invention but they will only sign a DISCLOSURE agreement. No confidentiality agreed to.
1) Is a NDA sort of worthless as some have suggested? They would say and this company says your patent rights are really all you have.
2) Would signing such a toothless agreement be, in effect, a public disclosure as far as foreign patent rights go?
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'Life Under A Log' leads to real-life learning
HONESDALE, PA — Rachael Bayly, left, Samantha Howey and Gage Simons met a ringneck snake, a harmless, diminutive woodland inhabitant, during a new outdoor education program that took place at the Stourbridge Primary Center in Honesdale, PA recently. Second-grade classes participated in the exploratory woodland ecology program on the school grounds.
Following preparatory classroom activities, students ventured outside with customized pictorial field guides, clipboards and pens, magnifying glasses and an animal and plant checklist. They were introduced to basic concepts in ecology, including the importance of decomposition in forests, and explored the community of salamanders, invertebrate creatures and fungi that inhabit rotting logs and the undersides of rocks.
Tree and wildflower identification, past agricultural use of the woodlands and 350-million-year-old sandstone outcroppings were also topics for discussion. Tick-avoidance strategies were taught and put into practice. The program is an extension of the science and writing curriculum at Stourbridge and is supported by Reining Forest Products and the Honesdale Parent Teachers Association.
Earlier this year, students were introduced to wildlife tracking (see www.riverreporteronline.com/feature/16/2011/04/19/earth-awareness [1]). They are also involved in a new gardening project at the school featuring raised beds. The programs are developed and conducted by John Jose of Otter Creek Environmental Education Services, Beach Lake, PA (www.ottercreekenved.com [2]).
NY AG files lawsuit against DRBC
ALBANY, NY — New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, May 31 against the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) for its failure to undertake full environmental review of its proposed regulations for natural gas drilling in the Delaware River Basin.
Schneiderman had warned last month that he would take legal action, if necessary, to compel such a study, based on the requirement of the National Environmental Policy Act that federal agencies conduct a full review of actions that may cause significant environmental impact. Last week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the lead federal agency on the DRBC, indicated that it would decline to do so.
"Before any decisions on drilling are made, it is our responsibility to follow the facts and understand the public health and safety effects posed by potential natural gas development," Attorney General Schneiderman said. "The federal government has an obligation to undertake the necessary studies, and as I made clear last month, this office will compel it to do so."
Pond Eddy repair work complete
POND EDDY, NY — Emergency repairs on the Pond Eddy Bridge, which started on April 18 and were expected to be complete in mid-June, have already been completed. The repairs allow the weight limit on the bridge to be raised to seven tons.
Plans are in the works to put up a replacement bridge, with work expected to begin in 2013.
Apparent suicide at county jail
MONTICELLO, NY — The Sullivan County Sheriff's Office is investigating an apparent suicide that occurred Sunday, May 29 at the county jail in Monticello. Kerry Castello, 45, was being held as a fugitive from justice on a warrant from the state of Massachusetts charging six counts of armed robbery. Castello was arrested by state police and U.S. Marshals on May 19 at a relative's residence in the town of Liberty. He waived an extradition hearing and was awaiting return to Massachusetts.
A deputy discovered Castello hanging in his cell by a bed sheet at about 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 30. He was transported to Catskill Regional Medical Center in Harris, where he was pronounced dead. An autopsy confirmed the cause of death as asphyxia. Sheriff's detectives and the New York State Commission of Corrections are continuing the investigation.


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DNR to Hold St. Mary's River Oyster Leasing Public Meeting
The Maryland Department of Natural Resource (DNR) will hold a public meeting to discuss adding criteria to regulated oyster aquaculture inside of the St. Mary's River Oyster Sanctuary on December 6 from 3 to 7 p.m.
It is the Department's view that a regulated amount of oyster farming within the St. Mary's Oyster Sanctuary is compatible with the restoration effort. DNR is considering regulations and policy changes to allow private leasing as part of the overall restoration plan in this area.
One option is to maintain the status quo. The other option would stipulate that areas with average oyster densities of more than 15 oysters per square meter cannot be leased. This number is based on Chesapeake Bay Program's guidelines for what constitutes a restored oyster bar. This option is in addition to existing regulations including no more than 10 percent of a total sanctuary area may be leased, and leases may not be on Yates bars.
DNR will hold the meeting at the Hampton Inn, 22211 Three Notch Road, Lexington Park, Md. 20653. DNR encourages interested citizens to learn more and provide feedback online through the DNR Regulation pages.


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February 21, 2012
"Ask the Experts: What Would Iran Do With a Bomb?"
Op-Ed, Politics, Power, and Preventive Action, A Council on Foreign Relations Blog
By Micah Zenko, Former Research Assistant to Graham Allison, 20032006; Former Research Associate, Project on Managing The Atom, 20062008, Kyle Beardsley, Sarah Kreps, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 20072008, Matthew Kroenig, Former Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program, 20072008, Annie Tracy Samuel, Former Associate, International Security Program, JulyAugust 2014; Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 20112014; Former Research Fellow, Dubai Initiative, Fall 2011 and Todd Sechser, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 20042006
"Iran's leaders, like those in other states, want to remain in power. They want the regime in which they have invested and which serves their interests to endure. Foreign policy, in addition to safeguarding Iran's borders and national integrity, is a means for safeguarding the regime. Possession of a nuclear weapon will likely make Iran more impervious to attack and may make Iran bolder in its support for armed groups. However, possessing a nuclear weapon will is not likely to alter Iran's paramount foreign policy goals of national and regime security."


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April 3, 2013 —
LIVINGSTON MANOR, NY — The Catskill Art Society (CAS) and Sullivan County BOCES will host an opening reception for the annual CAS Sullivan County High School Art Show on Saturday, April 13 from 2 to 4 p.m. The exhibition will run until Sunday, May 5 at the CAS Arts Center.
The exhibition will present the work of high school students from all eight of the county's districts (Eldred, Fallsburg, Liberty, Livingston Manor, Monticello, Roscoe, Sullivan West and Tri-Valley) plus student work from Sullivan County BOCES. CAS puts together an outside jury panel of artists and experts that awards a first and second place ribbon in each category.
Gallery hours are Thursday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. or by appointment. The CAS Arts Center is wheelchair accessible. Visit www.catskillartsociety.org [1].


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Beloit police are asking gun owners to be more careful about securing firearms and keeping serial numbers after five guns were stolen from a home.
Police said a home in the 1500 block of Cleveland Avenue was burglarized Wednesday afternoon. A rear window was broken out and two flat-screen televisions, a laptop computer and five guns were taken.
The homeowner was able to provide serial numbers for two of the five guns. Police said that makes it difficult to return the other three if they're recovered and it makes it difficult to know where the guns came from if they're used in a crime.
The burglars took a Mossburg 500 shot gun, a .22-caliber Ithaca rifle, a .32-caliber special Winchester 94 rifle, a .380-caliber Taurus handgun and a .38-caliber Special Charter Ammo revolver. Police said several hundred rounds of ammunition, holsters and gun parts were also taken.
Beloit police said gun owners in the city should lock and secure their guns and keep serial numbers recorded and stored in a safe place.