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A 39-year-old Utah man is now facing multiple charges after a college student who was missing for five days was found naked and covered in coal inside his home, reports say. Brent Brown, of Loa, has been charged with aggravated kidnapping, rape, object rape and obstruction of justice following the discovery of a Snow College student on Saturday, according to Fox 13. He is now being held without bail. The saga involving the student began on the night of Dec. 13, when she was last seen leaving her dorm building in Ephraim. The next day, her roommates reported her missing...

NBC anchor Chuck Todd said Sunday on “Meet the Press” that the outrage parents are experiencing over critical race theory was “manufactured.” PBS reporter Amna Nawaz said, “Specific to this idea of critical race theory. I spent time reporting on this county in Virginia about an hour outside of Washington. To your point, this is something mobilizing people and resonating very deeply. It was about a 100-degree day, dozens and dozens and dozens of parents, mostly white in this largely affluent county, showed up to a school board meeting, for in the first one they attended, specifically because of this...

Yesterday we had students walking out of school all over the country to protest gun violence. Now, in Baltimore and some other cities, there may be a different type of walkout. Teachers are objecting to the idea of any of them being trained and armed, so much so that if there are any armed teachers in the school they will walk out as well. (CBS Baltimore)

I just thought this was a neat view of the volcanoes on the Big Island. Click for full-size. The Pu'u O'o crater is in the foreground; outflowing lava degasses through the crater then enters the tube system and flows toward the sea. The Halemaumau plume (the vent has gotten a little more active in the past few days) is in front of Mauna Loa. Mauna Kea is on the right.

WMO/IAEA Experts Meeting Boulder 19-22 September 2005 Revision of the international calibration scale for CO2-in-air: WMO-X2005. Pieter Tans1, Conglong Zhao2, and Kirk Thoning1 1 Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory, NOAA 2 Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder The fifteen Primary Standards that define the current MO Mole Fraction Scale for CO2-in-Air have been in existence since early 1991. They became the basis of the WMO Scale during the WMO CO2 Experts meeting in 1995. The first calibrations of these cylinders were carried out by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the WMO Central Calibration Laboratory...