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MARTINSBURG - A former Martinsburg man who pleaded guilty earlier this year to negligent homicide and driving under the influence in connection with an accident that left a Maryland woman dead was sentenced Monday to 18 months of home confinement in Berkeley County Circuit Court.
Jeffrey W. McKinney, 40, who now resides in Frederick, Md., pleaded guilty Sept. 18 to the two misdemeanor offenses as part of a binding plea agreement on the day his trial was to commence.
McKinney was originally indicted in May 2010 on charges of felony driving under the influence causing death and failure to yield. The plea agreement was reached because of errors that were made during the investigation of the March 18, 2010, accident in Berkeley County that resulted in the death of Mary Frances Punt, 57, of Hagerstown.
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McKinney had been scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 13 by West Virginia 23rd Judicial Circuit Judge Gray Silver III, but the hearing was continued until Monday because of an issue related to his driver's license that had prevented Silver from sentencing him to home confinement.
Sometime after 2010, McKinney moved to Ashburn, Va., and obtained a valid driver's license there. His privilege to drive in the state of West Virginia was subsequently suspended, but his Virginia driver's license remained valid. McKinney now lives in Maryland, but because his right to drive in West Virginia is suspended, he was unable to obtain a Maryland driver's license as required by law.
"His Virginia license can't technically be surrendered, but he can't drive on it either," Berkeley County Prosecutor Pamela Games-Neely said.
McKinney required transportation to his job in order to pay for the cost of his home confinement, one of the conditions of the plea agreement that was reached. Games-Neely said his girlfriend has agreed to drive him to and from work and McKinney's attorney, Harley Wagner, told the court his client would be eligible for a vehicle interlock program in West Virginia in May.
Silver subsequently sentenced McKinney to one year in jail on his conviction for negligent homicide and six months in jail for his conviction for DUI first offense. The sentences were suspended for 18 months of home confinement under the terms of the binding plea agreement.
"This is incarceration, not probation," Silver said.
Silver also ordered that McKinney serve four consecutive weekends at the Eastern Regional Jail beginning Jan. 11 and fined him $500 for the negligent homicide conviction and $100 for the DUI first conviction.
"This, obviously, is a very serious case and a very sad case involving the victim's family members as much as it involves the loss of life," Silver said.
In the months following McKinney's indictment more than two years ago, several pretrial hearings and suppression hearings were held regarding what evidence would be allowable at McKinney's trial.
Silver said it became quite clear to the court and the parties involved that a jury could have returned a verdict either entirely in favor of the state or the defense based on the admissible evidence.
"Neither the state nor the defense were particularly happy with this agreement, but both sides understood the significant risks of going to trial," Silver said.
He also said the court and the court's probation department accepted the plea agreement with "some reluctance," but did so based on the realities of the case.
"In sum, both parties did the best they could in reaching a plea agreement based on the evidence and risk of going to trial," Silver said.
Neither Wagner nor McKinney chose to make a statement prior to sentencing.
Games-Neely said she had discussed the agreement with the victim's brother, who previously made a victim impact statement to the court.
"He understands the difficulties the state was confronted with," Games-Neely said.
The case was investigated by the Berkeley County Sheriff's Department. Wagner had argued at previous hearings that the arresting officer failed to follow proper field sobriety test protocols, and the defense was successful in having evidence of two of three tests suppressed. Wagner also said that a full accident reconstruction was not performed, nor was there an autopsy performed on Punt to determine her cause of death.
The accident occurred at the intersection of U.S. 11 and Berkeley Station Road. McKinney told police he was traveling south on Williamsport Pike and started to make a left-hand turn onto Berkeley Station Road when the accident occurred. McKinney told police he was returning home from a bar and said that he had five or six beers that evening.
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Yes, that is more snow falling outside your window, but forecasters with the National Weather Service in Buffalo say there's nothing to worry about.
"It's just normal winter weather," said meteorologist Tom Paone.
Light snow, in the range of one to three inches, is expected to fall today and another inch or so overnight.
A winter weather advisory will be in effect until 9 p.m.
"Normal," Paone reiterated.
"Compared to what we just had, this will be nothing," he said, referring to Wednesday night's storm that dumped a foot of snow across the region.
Today's snow is part of a large system affecting New York State and Pennsylvania. It's expected to head toward New England later tonight.
Paone urged anyone driving to expect slick conditions.
"Normal precautions," he said.
The high for today should be at about 30 with a low of 23.
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Monday, January 14, 2013
In my opinion, Spokane, Wash., is one of Americas most fun-loving cities. Soft adventure is right outside your luxury hotel. Raft the serene Spokane River, bike the picturesque Hiawatha Trail, photograph roaring falls in Riverfront Park. For an exhilarating aerial view, Back Country Aerosports will take you on a breathtaking ride in their ultra light aircraft over golden valleys.
Does anyone in Spokane ever go indoors?
The Davenport
Im joking of course. Travelers with exquisite taste stay at the grand Davenport Hotel. Built in 1914 by Louie Davenport, the property was lauded as one of Americas exceptional hotels, for the attentive service, luxurious guestrooms and stunning architecture.
Davenport said We wish you are so well pleased with your visit here that you will be glad you came, sorry to leave and eager to return.
The Davenport was Americas first hotel with air conditioning, a central vacuum system, a pipe organ and dividing ballroom doors.
This is where the first Crab Louis was created and served.
Imagine the parties. Stars and VIPS like Mary Pickford, Tyrone Power, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, Bob Hope and Elvis Presley created excitement and glamour. So did many U.S. Presidents and the writers Zane Grey and Dashiell Hammett.
By 1945, Davenport had sold his hotel, and after several decades she was nearly demolished.
Fortunately, Walt and Karen Worthy bought and restored The Davenport in 2002 to her original glory. Shes once again one of the worlds finest hotels, proudly a member of Conde Nasts Gold List. Now the stars are back, like Sting, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Jerry Seinfeld.
Spacious sunny guestrooms are elegant with oh so comfortable beds, Travertine marble baths, original artwork and serene city views. Pamper yourself at the spa, swim in the pool, shop for gifts at Davenport Home Boutique. Dine on Crab Louis and fresh seafood at Palm Court Grill or sip espresso in the stunning lobby bar.
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Venture out and sample Spokanes many diverse restaurants and wineries. We enjoyed a glittering evening at Barrister Winery, where winemaker Greg Lipsker poured endless glasses of his award winning reds. We dined in their romantic 100-year-old Barrel Room, catered by Sante Restaurant and Charcuterie. Sante owners Jeremy and Kate Hansen serve only fresh, organic, locally procured seafood, meats and produce.
We relished their delicate scallops, pork tenderloin, mixed greens and decadent chocolate cake.
For more casual fare, try the crispy fried fish sandwiches at ODohertys Irish Grille, a lively Irish pub in the heart of downtown Spokane.
Breakfast in a charming historic train car at Franks Diner, where youll feast on spinach omelettes and blueberry pancakes.
Franks outstanding food and service deserves their Best Diner and Best Breakfast in Spokane awards.
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Love fishing and boating? Try a day trip to Sandpoint, Idaho, just over an hour from Spokane. Charming Sandpoint was named Most Beautiful Small Town in the USA by USA Today/Rand McNally, and for good reason.
Browse the unique shops, art galleries, restaurants and take in a theatre or music.
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Rent a sunny lake home in Dover Bay and spend the whole summer here, relaxing in this special award-winning town.
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Minutes from downtown Spokanes lively art, shopping, and restaurant scene is a beautiful area called Greenbluff, consisting of almost 40 privately owned farms.
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Recognize curricular service learning using this definition: Curricular SL is any intentional, active, reflective work related to course outcomes, and which students do to meet community needs. Students and community members must learn from each other; reciprocity and interactions are key. If an agency is involved, it cannot be a large corporation; however, a hospital could be a SL site (Furco, 2009).
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By Chris Mooney • Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - 08:52
On climate change, we're politically polarized—which would be bad enough, but that's not all. The hole we've dug is even deeper—as new research clearly suggests.
There's yet another study out on Democrats, Republicans, and climate change, this time from Lawrence Hamilton of the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. Over the last two years, in a series of regional surveys, Hamilton asked nearly 9,500 people questions about climate change—from Appalachia to the Gulf Coast, and from New Hampshire to Alaska.
Across all these regions, he consistently found the following phenomenon: Democrats and Republicans who claimed to know less about the climate issue were more like one another in terms of whether they accepted the science. Democrats and Republicans who claimed to know a lot about the issue, by contrast, were vastly polarized—with knowledgeable Democrats overwhelmingly accepting the science, and knowledgeable Republicans overwhelmingly denying it.
"Political polarization is greatest among the Republicans and Democrats who are most confident that they understand this issue," writes Hamilton. "Republicans and Democrats less sure about their understanding also tend to be less far apart in their beliefs."
This core finding itself is not new—a 2008 Pew survey also found that Republicans with a college level of education were less likely to accept the science of climate than Republicans who lack such education. Other studies have also underscored this fundamental point. But for precisely that reason, Hamilton's research kind of puts it in the realm of indisputable political fact. Not only are we polarized over climate change, but our knowledge and sophistication, when combined with our politics, make matters worse.
How could this be? For Hamilton, the explanation lies in the interaction between how we get information (from trusted news and Internet sources, we think, but we're actually being selective) and our own biases in evaluating it (objectively, we think, but again, we're actually being selective). "People increasingly choose news sources that match their own views," Hamilton writes. "Moreover, they tend to selectively absorb information even from this biased flow, fitting it into their pre-existing beliefs." In other words, we're twice biased—based on our views and information sources—and moreover, twice biased in different directions.
Thus it really makes a lot of sense that those who are paying less attention to the climate issue, whether nominally Democrat or Republican, are less polarized and less sure of themselves. They're not working nearly as hard at reaffirming their convictions, and refuting the convictions of the other side. (Hamilton's study implies, though, that that they may have a different problem—they know so little that they may be more likely to be buffeted by the weather in terms of how they think about climate. If it's hot out, maybe they'll worry. If it's cold, they'll scoff.)
Overall, the big picture is that our society is not making up its mind in anything like a rational or scientific manner about climate change. That's unfortunate–but it would be a form of denial itself at this point to reject the finding.
Badgersouth replied on Permalink
GoFigure & Titus
As evidenced by the content and quality your last two posts, the two of you have spent way too much time rattling around in the Climate Denial Spin Machine.
Titus replied on Permalink
Just started actually
Just getting started.
I got this job to set up a program of Environmental Stewardship in the company I'm working for. Decided to hone up on the focus areas; waste, food, chemicals and climate change. Couldn't get my head around how my company was going to change the climate in any measurable way without imploding. These past few weeks have been a great education for me. I now understand the emotions and arguments involved and much better equipped to manage them.
The rest is history………
Phil M replied on Permalink
"Couldn't get my head around
"Couldn't get my head around how my company was going to change the climate in any measurable way without imploding."
Wow, its gone from how can our one country changing energy habits affect the climate to how can one company change the climate?
Its a bit like the arguments industries were making between the 70-80s about CFCs. How can stopping our emissions of CFCs stop the ozone hole expanding? It will affect us too much economically & others are doing it too, what about them!?
The point is, if everyone does their bit, then like a fund raising drive, the little bits when pooled together add up & make a difference to the total.
Titus replied on Permalink
What's your point
I share what initial ignited my interest in the subject and get a tirade in return.
You guys really know how to engage in conversation.
You have a big problem to overcome in this respect.
anonymous replied on Permalink
What ignited your interest was denial
What ignited your desire was your greed.
What continues burning at your mind is your failure to understand a damn thing.
What is poisonous is your need to ignore any evidence any conclusions and any discussion that could intefere with your religion both about the evils of government, the evils of ecology and the overwhelming need to be master of the planet.
Titus replied on Permalink
Oh; and BTW
Have you got anything else you can bring to the table other than an out of date and currently unsupported prediction of a 2009 report?
Please provide the evidence rather than knee jerk incorrect personal stereo typing which says more in your guilt rather than defense.
Titus replied on Permalink
Re-read on last post
"guilt rather than defense" would be better phrased by: "dearth rather than substance".
Getting there………
anonymous replied on Permalink
so a report less than 2 years old is outdated
yet not once has titas complained about the age of GF's 935 papers of rather more ancient provenance.
'course since titas gets all his stuff from blogs, there's no need to wait for peer review or publishing, but just bang out any old crap on the web and he'll swallow it.
anonymous replied on Permalink
Weird: does NOAA have a time machine?
Source: "NOAA: Past Decade Warmest on Record According to Scientists in 48 Countries – Earth has been growing warmer for more than fifty years," NOAA News Release, July 28, 2010.
NOTE: The PAST DECADE is warmest on record.
Now, how does another year added on make the past decade at 2009 not at 2009 the warmest decade?
Only in the diseased brain of a denier in complete spastic overload.
Phil M replied on Permalink
Gold from the academy of sciences
"Most people rely on secondary sources for information, especially the mass media; and some of these sources are affected by concerted campaigns against policies to limit CO2 emissions, which promote beliefs about climate change that are not well-supported by scientific evidence. U.S. media coverage sometimes presents aspects of climate change that are uncontroversial among the research community as being matters of serious scientific debate. Such factors likely play a role in the increasing polarization of public beliefs about climate change, along lines of political ideology, that has been observed in the United States."
"Climate-change deniers, in other words, are willfully ignorant, lost in wishful thinking, cynical or some combination of the three. And their recalcitrance is dangerous, the report makes clear"
Describes Titus, Go Figure & Gareth perfectly.
anonymous replied on Permalink
Yet more repeats of the same lying crap
"Satellite temperatures show basically no warming since 1998."
But the data accepts a trend of about 0.15C per decade nonetheless.
anonymous replied on Permalink
The evidence isn't man doing it, moron
The evidence is that CO2's doing it.
The only thing changing CO2 levels enough to explain the change in CO2 is man.
"That which is seen".
CO2 is a greenhouse gas, we've changed CO2 enough to account for it.
Past actions of CO2 has caused warming, so you have to explain why it isn't doing it this time.
ahem (Joanne's husband speaks out)
Very brief one page summary of the situation (Dr Evans was deeply involved in climate research, and -up to a point - enjoyed that gravy train)
anonymous replied on Permalink
You mean the Dr Evans who admits he lies
You mean the Dr Evans who admits he lies to get funding?
THAT Dr Evans? So why do you believe him?
Ah, is it because he's saying something you Truly Believe in?
That'd be it.
"There are now several independent pieces of evidence showing that the earth responds to the warming due to extra carbon dioxide by dampening the warming"
Yes, because by heating up, the energy going out will increase.
This is called "Global Warming".
PS I note that it's OK for go figure to use blogrolls. Two faced of him, isn't it. This is why he likes Dr Evans.
You are in denial !
anonymous replied on Permalink
And despite a cooler sun, temps are up!
Have a look at the solar output over the past few decades:
The last time the sun was this quiet was 1995.
But look at this graph:
The temperature in 1995 was 0.3C cooler than in 2005!
Maybe it was a fluke. The time before that the sun was this cool was 1986. But the temperatures then were 0.4C cooler!
PROOF that the sun hasn't caused it and that any records cherry-picked out from data will be broken when the sun comes back to its wonted splendour.
Dr. Evans says nothing that I haven't said earlier. He is a scientist, and states the real science very clearly in less than one very readable page. In summary, the proponents of AGW (the "warmists/alarmists") have no basis for their claims - they are speculating, not any different than the folks now scurrying around claiming that May 21st is doomsday (except in that case the issue will be completely resolved on May 22nd).
Evans was on the gravy train himself until it became obvious that the "science" (related to AGW claim) was wrong. I have provided references to him and, earlier, to Jones because they were (Jones still is) members in good standing at your Church.
Evans gives up the gravy train, and that makes him a "liar" ? His statement is quite clear. You should know what question to put forth on your other favorite blogs. See what they have to say. Notice how your church members will obfuscate the very issue that Evans directly addresses. See if you can find a clear rebuttal. (calling Evans a liar does not qualify) (I'd be very interested in seeing that rebuttal, but don't send me to me site that is merely bloviating. If they can't clearly explain why Evans is wrong, I'm not interested.)
Incidentally, your immediate name-calling response is completely consistent with the Church of AGW treatment of its ex-members (? excommunicated) …..
anonymous replied on Permalink
Dr Evans has said he lied to get funding.
He's said many other things. When he was 2 he said "Da da". You never mentioned that, did you.
"He is a scientist"
No, he may once have been one, but no more.
"and states the real science very clearly in less than one very readable page."
No, he states very obvious bollocks in one very nutcase page. Of course, you lap it up because you're a believer.
"Evans was on the gravy train himself"
And he said that. He said HE lied to get funding. Why now do you believe him? Denial was worth $16million to Patrick.
"until it became obvious that the "science" (related to AGW claim) was wrong."
Except he hasn't managed to prove that in any form WHATSOEVER.
"Evans gives up the gravy train, and that makes him a "liar" ?"
No, Evans himself says he's lied to get funding. THAT makes him a liar.
"His statement is quite clear."
It is: he says he's lied to get money. Somehow you can't see it.
"See if you can find a clear rebuttal."
To what?
He says:"It's a scam". Everyone else: "No it's not a scam".
"There's a feedback reducing the warming": This was already rebutted: a warmer planet radiates more, this is why you EVENTUALLY reach equilibrium. So he's not saying anything the IPCC and AGW doesn't say.
"for each bit of warming due to carbon dioxide, they claim it ends up causing three bits of warming due to the extra moist air.": False. Go look at the source code for one climate model:
NOWHERE does it make that assertion.
"During the warming of the late 1970s, 80s, and 90s, the weather balloons found no hot-spot": Because the hot spot is hard to measure and weather ballons are not made for climate work: different balloons, different calibrated sensors.
And during the 2000's, the hot spot has been seen.
"At this point official "climate science" stopped being a science."
At this point Evans stops being a scientist. Absence of evidence is not proof of absence. Such an assertion is where Evans stops being a scientist.
"The official thermometers are often located in the warm exhaust of air conditioning outlets"
False. In fact, rebutted by no less a personage than Anthony Watts:
"Global temperature is also measured by satellites"
I thought global temperature couldn't be measured, GF? Are you saying that you've changed your mind, or that Evans is wrong and satellites don't measure global temperature?
"which measure nearly the whole planet 24/7without bias."
False. Microwave sounding units measure radiative intensity and this has to be converted BY A COMPUTER MODEL into a temperature profile.
Such a bias has already caused Roy Spencer's data to be adjusted to correct the failure. UAH and RSS now show a trend of between 0.15 and 0.13C per decade. Satellites also have to measure a vertical volume. Since the stratosphere is cooling, the satellite values are lower because it sees less radiation.
" The satellites say the hottest recent year was 1998"
Makes no difference: that is a weather measurement, not a climate one.
"and that since 2001 the global temperature has leveled off."
ABSOLUTELY FALSE. You cannot determine a trend different from 0.2C per decade since 2001, therefore the satellite information DOES NOT disprove AGW, the IPCC or even state that the temperatures are now flat.
anonymous replied on Permalink
But you believe him because you like what he says: confirmation bias.
GoFigure coughs again!
'Dr. Evans says nothing that I haven't said earlier. He is a scientist…'
Correction, was a scientist, because now he eschews the principles of science by distorting the same as is evidenced from his stuff about a 'tropical hotspot'. Do you recall GF, that 'hotspot' you kept barfing a few posts ago and do you recall my mention of something called the lapse rate. You should check it out - but hey you don't want facts and evidence spoiling your day now do you.
David Evans Doesn't know what the hot spot is.
Category: Global Warming
Posted on: December 20, 2008 10:45 AM, by Tim Lambert
Back in July, David Evans had on opinion piece in the Australian claiming:
The greenhouse signature is missing. … The signature of an increased greenhouse effect is a hot spot about 10km up in the atmosphere over the tropics.
This is wrong. The hot spot is not the signature, since you get a hot spot, no matter what the cause. The signature is stratospheric cooling combined with tropospheric warming and that has been detected.
Despite being told this, Evans repeated his false claim on ABC radio prompting Barry Brooks to explain again that:
the hotspot was not a signature of the greenhouse effect - it is a signature of warming from any source
Evans just ignored this as Brooks relates:
Unsurprisingly, [Evans] deploys the standard non-greenhouse theorist approach of yet again blithely ignoring any refutation and simply repeating the exactly the same arguments again in a third forum. So, yet again, a climate scientist had to patiently refute this.
So guess what we find on ABC Unleashed on Friday? Evans repeating all the false claims from his earlier pieces. (Though he has cranked up the rhetoric and is now making defamatory statements about climate scientists.) And, of course, he includes this:
The signature of an increased greenhouse effect consists of two features: a hotspot about 10 km up in the atmosphere over the tropics, and a combination of broad stratospheric cooling and broad tropospheric warming.
I suppose we should count our blessings that he deigns to mention the stratospheric cooling thing.
Evans volunteered to defend his piece at Club Troppo. I pressed him on his claims:
The hot spot is not the signature of greenhouse warming. The IPCC report you cite does not say that it is. I quoted the relevant part above. Here it is again:
The observed pattern of tropospheric warming and stratospheric cooling is very likely due to the influence of anthropogenic forcing, particularly greenhouse gases and stratospheric ozone depletion.
His response
Now Tim, look at the sentence after the one you quoted: "The combination of a warming troposphere and a cooling stratosphere has likely led to an increase in the height of the tropopause." That increase in the height of the tropopause IS the hotspot! The hotspot arises in AGW theory because an increase in greenhouse gases (of CO2 due to humans, and of water vapor due to increasing temperature) pushes the top of the tropopause higher, thus replacing cold stratosphere with warmer troposphere at the top of the troposphere – which is at about 10km over the tropics. (Btw, it now appears that the atmosphere just drops out water vapor as it is replaced by CO2, to keep the total greenhouse effect about constant. This is the nub of the argument, and where AGW went wrong.)
Despite going on endlessly about the hot spot for a half a year, Evans doesn't even know what it is. The hot spot is not an increase in the height of the tropopause. You'd get that from uniform heating of the troposphere as well. The hot spot is a decrease in the lapse rate, as the team at RealClimate explains:
[The hot spot] really has nothing to do with greenhouse gas changes, but is a more fundamental response to warming (however caused). Indeed, there is a clear physical reason why this is the case - the increase in water vapour as surface air temperature rises causes a change in the moist-adiabatic lapse rate (the decrease of temperature with height) such that the surface to mid-tropospheric gradient decreases with increasing temperature (i.e. it warms faster aloft). This is something seen in many observations and over many timescales, and is not something unique to climate models.
And increasing CO2 does not decrease water vapour. See, for example Dessler, A. E., Z. Zhang, and P. Yang (2008), Water-vapor climate feedback inferred from climate fluctuations, 2003-2008, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35:
Warming temperatures evaporate water, increasing humidity. This increase in humidity has the potential to further warm the atmosphere because water vapor is a potent greenhouse gas. This water vapor feedback has the capacity to about double the direct warming from greenhouse gas increases. Using satellite data, Dessler et al. (2008) observed and quantified the behavior of atmospheric water vapor and the water vapor feedback during variations of the Earth's climate between 2003 and 2008. They found that global averaged surface air temperatures on Earth varied by 0.6°C during the years analyzed, with specific humidity over most of the troposphere increasing with rising global surface temperature averages. Relative humidity increased in some regions and decreased in others, with the global average remaining nearly constant at most altitudes. The water vapor feedback implied by these observations is strongly positive, similar to that seen by climate models. The magnitude of the feedback is similar to that obtained if the atmosphere maintained constant relative humidity everywhere.
Update: See also Chris Colose's post on Evans' confusion. And Evans sticks his foot deeper into his mouth:
I understand that the water vapor treatment of the models used to be simply to assume constant relative humidity. So in the models, as temperature rose there was more water vapor. Water vapor is a greenhouse gas, so creates a hotpot. (Which is why those models show a hotpot for any source of warming, and why a hotspot is so associated with an enhanced greenhouse effect.) However observations show that since the 1940s the relative humidity has been steadily dropping, pretty much everywhere as I recall (sorry, do not recall link).
Not only does Evans not know what the hot spot is, he doesn't know what causes it. More water vapour means that there is more condensation up in the atmosphere. Condensation releases latent heat. That latent heat creates the hot spot. And notice the way he counters a link to a peer-reviewed paper that shows that relative humidity stays the same as the planet warms, with a "do not recall link" cite.
from, and please visit original before commenting to ensure you are clear as to who wrote what:
Also note this section:
The hot spot is not the signature of greenhouse warming. The IPCC report you cite does not say that it is. I quoted the relevant part above. Here it is again:
The observed pattern of tropospheric warming and stratospheric cooling is very likely due to the influence of anthropogenic forcing, particularly greenhouse gases and stratospheric ozone depletion.
Which extends what I wrote about satellite temperature measurements in a recent post.
You see some of us have been round these blocks before. It seems you have only just fallen into the pile of do-do left by Watts, Nova etc.
And I have not even warmed up yet!
anonymous replied on Permalink
As to the gravy train
It isn't the scientists getting the big bucks:
CEO of texaxo got $1million in 1981.
Patrick Michaels $16million from lobby groups.
No comparison
Talking about lobbyists' money is fruitless, unless you include our own government, which dwarfs all other expenditures in that area. Our government has expended billions (that's with a "b") on studies related to global warming. The grants and contracts in this area are enormous, and all of them focused on the "alarming" global warming - which is a hoax.
Look at the SCIENCE. Evans puts in clearly in just a few paragraphs.
Why do you suppose the proponents of AGW never mention satellite temperature readings? (Basically no warming for the past decade, and arguably, since 1998. (But…. that's not the issue. We have warming, we have cooling, all the time. The issue is whether humans are having an impact, and speculation (which is all the warmists' have) is NOT evidence. In fact, the warmist models ALL project a hot spot. Thousands of weather balloons, and satellites up there, but there is no hot spot. Their theory does not stand.
anonymous replied on Permalink
It's certainly devastating to your case
Which may be why you're against it.
16million dollars is a LOT of gravy. And Evans wants some of it.
He's said he's willing to lie to get the bennies. Why don't you believe him?
"Evans puts in clearly in just a few paragraphs."
Evans puts a load of bullshit in just a few paragraphs. I've already rebutted several, but you can't read it because it disproves you and if there's anything you hate more than AGW being right, it's you being wrong.
"Why do you suppose the proponents of AGW never mention satellite temperature readings?"
Why do you suppose they don't mention it? Why do you make that assumption when it's trivial to find out that you're wrong:
Microwave satellite data have been used to create a 'satellite temperature record' for thick layers of the atmosphere including the troposphere (from the surface up to about 10 km) and the lower stratosphere (about 10 to 30 km). Despite several new analyses with improved cross-calibration of the 13 instruments on different satellites used since 1979 and compensation for changes in observing time and satellite altitude, some uncertainties remain in trends.
So, since you now KNOW that they actually DO mention it, why do you say they don't?
Because you have read nothing but merely repeat what you've been told to say.
"Basically no warming for the past decade, and arguably, since 1998"
You never bother to read a thing, do you?
"We have warming, we have cooling, all the time."
We don't have them just because we sit here in the sunshine. There's a REASON they happen. One reason we get warming is CO2 increases.
And when those CO2 increases are the cause of mankind's actions, that makes the warming from the CO2 changes Anthropogenic.
Anthropogenic Global Warming.
"Thousands of weather balloons, and satellites up there, but there is no hot spot. "
The hot spot has been seen, idiot.
And it's no indicator of AGW. http://www.skepticalscience.com/Dispelling-two-myths-about-the-tropospheric-hot-spot.html
Badgersouth replied on Permalink
Consequence of manmade climate change…
Global food supplies will face "massive disruptions" from climate change, Olam International Ltd. predicted, as Agrocorp International Pte. said corn will gain to a record, stoking food inflation and increasing hunger.
"The fact is that climate around the world is changing and that will cause massive disruptions," Sunny Verghese, chief executive officer at Olam, among the world's three biggest suppliers of rice and cotton, said in a Bloomberg Television interview today. "We're friendly to wheat, corn and soybeans and bearish on rice."
Shrinking global food supplies helped push the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization's World Food Price Index to a record for a second month in January. As food becomes less available and more expensive, "hoarding becomes widespread," Abdolreza Abbassian, a senior economist at FAO, said Feb. 9, predicting prices of wheat and other grains are more likely to rise than decline in the next six months.
Corn futures surged 90 percent in the past year, while wheat jumped 80 percent and soybeans advanced 49 percent as the worst drought in at least half a century in Russia, flooding in Australia, excessive rainfall in Canada, and drier conditions in parts of Europe slashed harvests.
Source: "Climate Change May Cause 'Massive' Food Disruptions," Bloomberg, Feb 15, 2011-02-23 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-15/climate-change-may-cause-massive-food-disruptions-olam-s-verghese-says.html
Badgersouth replied on Permalink
Consequence of manmade climate change…
"Climate change is already having an effect on the safety of the world's food supplies and unless action is taken it's only going to get worse, a Michigan State University professor told a symposium at this year's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science."
Source: "Climate Change Affecting Food Safety," ScienceDaily, Feb 22, 2011 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110221101319.htm
Badgersouth replied on Permalink
Consequence of manmade climate change…
"Bad news for—achoo!—those who sniffle, er suffer their way through ragweed—sniff, snort, itch—season: A team of researchers has found that increased warming, particularly in the northern half of North America, has added weeks to the fall pollen season."
Source: "Climate Change Extends Allergy Season in North America: Pollen season is lengthening in proportion to warming observed in North America.", Scientific America, Feb 21. 2011 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=climate-change-extends-allergy-season
anonymous replied on Permalink
Even astrophysicists are in on it!
The Maunder minimum, an era of very few detectable sunspots in the century after their discovery in 1610, suggests the solar sunspot cycle was not in operation at this time. Other evidence suggests the presence or lack of a solar cycle is related to changes in the solar luminosity output. Past ice ages of the Earth could be the result of a diminished solar luminosity output. Monitoring of the solar constant in the last decade from spacecraft suggests there are variations on the order of one-half percent.
and on that whole "how can you measure temperature? Measured every single molecule" (which, oddly enough, doesn't apply when GF doesn't want it to apply):
The temperature of the solar "surface" (the photosphere) can be defined in several ways. Application of the Stefan-Boltzman Law (energy emitted per second per unit area = σT4) yields a value of 5,800 K. Wien's law, which relates the peak intensity in the spectrum to the temperature of the emitting material yields T = 6,350 K. This discrepancy between the two values results for two reasons. First, the emitted light comes from different depths in the photosphere and thus is a mixture of emission characteristics of a range of temperatures; thus, the solar spectrum is not an ideal black body spectrum. Second, absorption features significantly alter the spectrum from the shape of a black body spectrum.
So it seems like, despite not having measured ANY of the sun's atmosphere, scientists still seem to be able to calculate a temperature of the sun.
Is this supposed be a response to something? It's clear you've learned how to cut and paste, but other than that, why do you think it's relevant?
anonymous replied on Permalink
Evans has been paid hundreds of thousands
Evans has been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to deny AGW and rubbish the IPCC and the scientists by the fossil fuel lobby in the past three years alone.
anonymous replied on Permalink
GoFigure supports greed and deception
He never reads anything that would cast doubt on the well-oiled heels of the paid denialists like Evans who have recieved hundreds of thousands (up to millions) of dollars from the fossil fuel industry intent on squeezing out all the profit possible from fossil fuels.
He supports them because he's as venal as they are.
anonymous replied on Permalink
why does gofigure accept satellites
why does gofigure accept satellites can measure global temperatures but insists that there is no such thing as a global temperature?
Why does gofigure insist that the IPCC doesn't mention satellite data when they include it in their reports?
Why does gofigure insist that AGW is just a scam to rake in money but insists that any money donated to get people to deny AGW is irrelevant?
Because he's a denialist.
It's not worth responding to most of your juvenile diatribe. (Are you by chance a teenie bopper?)
If the IPCC is now recognizing satellite readings, then you should have a good look because it doesn't buttress the quotes you've provided of things happening "faster". Flatline temps for 10 years, continual reduction of temperature increase by even the warmists, now down to .15C per decade (and that's a big exaggeration.)
There's only one issue here- the science. You can babble on, but you're quite obviously not capable to providing any evidence that man has an impact on temperature.
All you're really doing is talking about weather. Nice neighborly talk, but not relevant to the only relevant issue. What part if any, of warming is being brought on by man?
anonymous replied on Permalink
You have no case, so avoid like hell
You can't answer or rebut so you ignore. Again you display the MO of the denialist: ignore, lie and repeat the stale canard.
You're a moron, aren't you?
"If the IPCC is now recognizing satellite readings"
But YOU "knew" they didn't because Evans (a self confessed liar) said they didn't.
Now that you KNOW that they did, you're trying to make out that you and he weren't lying little scumbags all along.
"then you should have a good look because it doesn't buttress the quotes you've provided of things happening "faster""
I did have a good look. You'd better have a good look at what I said:
The temperature since 2008 is strongly up.
The satellites show global warming.
RSS satellite data:
2005 March: -0.795
2011 March: -0.162
Therefore the satellite temperatures I have pointed out show that the warming is still hugely significant and upward, unlike your continued fabricated lies attest.
All you're really doing is talking about weather. But you never consider this when it's YOU talking about it, do you.
Another denialist MO.
Swap each and every argument to fit your preferred conclusion with absolutely no shame: the mark of a pathological liar.
anonymous replied on Permalink
UAH dataset shows global warming
Look at this graph:
The temperature since 2008 is strongly up.
The satellites show global warming.
RSS satellite data:
2005 March: -0.795
2011 March: -0.162
A warming trend of +0.1055 C per year!
anonymous replied on Permalink
Where is most of the gravy?
Here in commercial land:
or here in government:
YOU decide!
anonymous replied on Permalink
Un-informed denial: go figure.
He's certainly been an eye into the denialist method, hasn't he, though?
Ignore all evidence.
Make up facts.
Repeat ad nauseum.
Badgersouth replied on Permalink
Climate change impacts...
Scientists from Queen's and Carleton universities head a national multidisciplinary research team that has uncovered startling new evidence of the destructive impact of global climate change on North America's largest Arctic delta.
"One of the most ominous threats of global warming today is from rising sea levels, which can cause marine waters to inundate the land," says the team's co-leader, Queen's graduate student Joshua Thienpont. "The threat is especially acute in polar regions, where shrinking sea ice increases the risk of storm surges."
By studying growth rings from coastal shrubs and lake sediments in the Mackenzie Delta region of the Northwest Territories – the scene of a widespread and ecologically destructive storm surge in 1999 – the researchers have discovered that the impact of these salt-water surges is unprecedented in the 1,000-year history of the lake.
Source: "Striking ecological impact on Canada's Arctic coastline linked to global climate change," Queen's University, May 16, 2011 http://www.queensu.ca/news/articles/striking-ecological-impact-canada-s-arctic-coastline-linked-global-climate-change
recent NRC report
A commentary below, by the Heartland Institute on a recent "scientific" proclamation by the NRC covering "global warming". As it turns out, I'm probably a better informed - and clearly less biased - student of global warming than the NRC group involved in this news release, and that's truly sad. That's why it's important to figure out for yourself what's going on. Neither is there enough time to bother figuring out the agenda of the players behind it. Doesn't really matter- they're wrong in any case.
"The media is having a field day claiming the NRC report provides objective proof that humans are causing a global warming crisis. The Washington Post editorial board, for example, writes in a May 15 editorial that the NRC report shows 'climate-change deniers, in other words, are willfully ignorant, lost in wishful thinking, cynical or some combination of the three.'
"In reality, the NRC report is the opinion of a mere 21 authors – most of whom have no formal training in climate science, and nearly all of whom had a longstanding record of global warming activism prior to being selected to serve on the panel.
"For example, the chairman of the NRC panel is a nuclear engineer with no formal training in climate science, and the vice chairman served for years as a top staffer for the Environmental Defense Fund environmental activist group. Other panelists include staffers for WE ACT for Environmental Justice and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. These are far from objective voices or qualified climate scientists.
"Far from providing objective, expert proof of a global warming crisis, the NRC report provides objective proof that – despite their grandiose-sounding names – the National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council are more interested in political agendas than objective, fact-based science."
James M. Taylor
Senior Fellow – Environment Policy
The Heartland Institute
anonymous replied on Permalink
Heartland Isntitute: Paid Stooges
While Heartland once disclosed its major supporters, it now refuses to publicly disclose who its corporate and foundation funders are. In response to an article criticizing the think tank for its secrecy, the group's President, Joseph Bast, wrote in February 2005:
"For many years, we provided a complete list of Heartland's corporate and foundation donors on this Web site and challenged other think tanks and advocacy groups to do the same. To our knowledge, not a single group followed our lead. However, critics who couldn't or wouldn't engage in fair debate over our ideas found the donor list a convenient place to find the names of unpopular companies or foundations, which they used in ad hominem attacks against us. Even reporters from time to time seemed to think reporting the identities of one or two donors–out of a list of hundreds–was a fair way of representing our funding or our motivation in taking the positions expressed in our publications. After much deliberation and with some regret, we now keep confidential the identities of all our donors."
It has also claimed that "by not disclosing our donors, we keep the focus on the issue."
Following the compilation of this SourceWatch article and articles on other websites, Heartland posted a list of responses to what it claimed was "misinformation" about the group. On its funding it stated that "in 2007 it received 71 percent of its income from foundations, 16 percent from corporations, and 11 percent from individuals. No corporate donor gave more than 5 percent of its annual budget … ExxonMobil has not contributed to Heartland since 2006. Indeed, gifts from all energy companies - coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear - combined did not exceed 5 percent of Heartland's budget in 2007."[20] (Heartland states that its 2007 revenue was approximately $5.2 million.[20] Based on this Heartland statement, in 2007 foundations provided approximately $3.69 million, corporations contributed $832,000 and approximately 1,600 individuals[21] Energy companies – "coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear" – contributed approximately 5% or around $260,000.)
GoFigure goes all confused-again
'The media is having a field day claiming the NRC report provides objective proof that humans are causing a global warming crisis. The Washington Post editorial board, for example, writes in a May 15 editorial that the NRC report shows 'climate-change deniers, in other words, are willfully ignorant, lost in wishful thinking, cynical or some combination of the three.'
Oh! Dear! More spin.
You will find that this report is from the NAS (National Academy of Sciences) and the list of contributors can be found here:
Note their affiliations and areas of expertise and keep in mind my comments about the multidisciplinary nature of climate study.
By contrast James Taylor your Heartland champion is a lawyer. Now there is a real problem. If you don't get it GoFigure then go figure.
The title of the following makes my point clear and the article demonstrates, yet again, the mendacious nature of GoFigure's arguments.
National Academy of Sciences slams climate disinformation campaign, flawed media coverage
WashPost editorial: Climate change denial becomes harder to justify
May 16, 2011
Last week I blogged on the major new climate report from the National Academy of Sciences, which called on nation to "substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions" starting ASAP.
A commenter pointed out a paragraph I missed buried on page 35 in the brief discussion of how "Many factors complicate and impede public understanding of climate change":
Most people rely on secondary sources for information, especially the mass media; and some of these sources are affected by concerted campaigns against policies to limit CO2 emissions, which promote beliefs about climate change that are not well-supported by scientific evidence. U.S. media coverage sometimes presents aspects of climate change that are uncontroversial among the research community as being matters of serious scientific debate. Such factors likely play a role in the increasing polarization of public beliefs about climate change, along lines of political ideology, that has been observed in the United States.
Wow (considering the source).
The NAS is pretty darn bland and conservative as evidence by 90% of the contents of this report. So this is a hard slam against the mass media for being suckered by the fossil-fuel-funded anti-scientific disinformation campaign and generally miscovering the story of the century.
And for those in the anti-scientist and/or breakthrough bunch who primarily blame the victims for both the disinformation campaign and the resulting polarization, the U.S. National Academy is calling BS on you.
Of course GF you won't bother reading down this far before exploding all over.
Badgersouth replied on Permalink
Be forewarned
Confuscious say:
"People who pat themselves on the back all day likely to tear rotator cuff."
Evidence please, linking CO2 to planetary warming.
anonymous replied on Permalink
Links from planetary CO2 to warming
Anyone want to bet that gobby here won't bother reading ANY of it?
Badgersouth replied on Permalink
Speaking of the Heartland Institute...
The Heartland Institute has a long history of shilling for corporate lepers. Since 1993, it has received $190,000 from Philip Morris USA and maintains a smokers' rights section on its website called "The Smoker's Lounge." Its global warming section is more active. It features a handy list of denial talking points ("Scores of peer-reviewed studies contradict global warming alarmism") and links to full-page ads Heartland has run in the Washington Post decrying the media for hyping "false claims of impending 'planetary emergencies.'"
Heartland, which has received $670,000 from ExxonMobil and its foundations since 1998, views itself as a bulwark against a leftist domino effect. "Fighting global warming extremism is essential," its website says, "if we are to stop a resurgence of radical environmentalism and left liberalism on a wide range of other public policy issues."
Source: The Dirty Dozen of Climate Change Denial – No. 7: The Heartland Institute,Mother Jones, Dec 4, 2009 http://motherjones.com/environment/2009/12/dirty-dozen-climate-change-denial-06-heartland-institute
Standard response.
But why not instead find out who at the NRC was involved in that dogma, and find out what their credentials are. (Since you are not competent to understand and deal with the science.)
anonymous replied on Permalink
Can't be done: it isn't dogma
What YOU have is dogma. Note how you twist and change your argument with no regard to coherency:
GF: Satellite temperatures are flat since 2005
Me: UAH shows significant upward warming from 2008 to date. RSS shows severe warming since 2005
GF: That's weather!
Me: The temperature over the last 30 years is significantly up
GF: But it's not between 1998 and 2009
Note how he uses weather to define his argument, but refuses to accept similar data in refutation.
YOURS is the dogma.
anonymous replied on Permalink
Yes, a standard denier respons
1) "Look over there!"
2) Run away
3) yell "Poopy head" over your shoulder
4) Claim "I WON!"
You, Go Figure,
a) deny that global temperatures can be measured
b) insist that Evans is right when he says satellites have measured global temperatures
c) insist that the global temperature is cooling
You cannot understand even simple maths, let alone the science. So you complain that others don't understand the science. Dunning-Kruger.
Titus replied on Permalink
So many posts!!!
Life on this post has moved on a pace since I last logged on. Lots of information; too much for me absorb in a short time. However, I will do my best. Thanks to you all.
Thought to share a thought scanning through the comments and it's related to my work as a program/product manager having worked with companies turning research into products for many years.
For great research to be useful and successful it needs to go through a long and exacting process of business evaluation, regulatory, Q&A, design, engineering, manufacture, marketing etc. Research never, in my experience, makes any marketable product/service without that process. There are a few pure research companies; pharmaceuticals have some that sell their research. However, their research is purchased by companies who then put it through their product management process.
This process gives prospective customers confidence that the product is what it's sold to be (of course there are exceptions so please do not go that route).
To give another example close to my heart. I dislike flying and need great assurance to be flying at 35k feet. I do know that the plane was designed to extremely high engineering standards to pass regulations. I know it's maintained in the same way by specifically trained engineers who follow exacting procedures and then work is signed off as approved. I know that when a plane is sold the maintenance history is the highest selling point and has to be approved. This goes some way towards my risk assessment to take a ride on the plane.
I hope you can see where I'm going with this. There's great research but it's going directly to media and politicians. It's missing regulatory, Q&A, design, engineering etc. I know you will probably point to the IPCC but for whatever reason it has definitely lost public trust.
In my case this lack of trusted process is probably the greatest cause of my questioning. Does this make any sense to you? And BTW I'm not a denier or a conservative.
Thanks again for this opportunity……
anonymous replied on Permalink
Those things are missing from denialist arguments
Those things are missing from denialist arguments but are in evidence in plenty for the IPCC and accepted climate theory that leads to AGW under our current actions.
"There's great research but it's going directly to media and politicians."
Patrick Michaels gets paid by the fossil fuel $16m just to state that AGW is false. Heartland Institute is paid by the fossil fuel industry to host papers. Blogrolls abound for denialist arguments. The entirety of Fox is dedicated to denial of AGW.
Where is the IPCC media budget in comparison, titas?
"It's missing regulatory, Q&A, design, engineering etc. "
The denialists have missed regulatory goals:
Lied to congress:
And makes up stuff:
And insist they know more about the published papers than the authors do:
Yet the CRU have been persecuted:
and again:
yet they're exonerated by independent boards time:
and time:
Q&A doesn't exist for denialist arguments:
with depressing regularity
But it wasn't "the Autidors" who found a typo in the IPCC WG2 paper, it was the IPCC scientists themselves:
The source code for a GCM is designed and well written and been available for years
but denialists insisted no such model was available, it was all kept hidden:
And the public trust has remained on the side of the science:
The one lacking design, Q&A, oversight and support is the denialist screed.
anonymous replied on Permalink
You ARE a denier
Your actions say you are. You (like every other denier) want to believe you're a skeptic, but your complaint that the IPCC and climate science they report lack oversight, regulation, etc is laughable and you have NOT ONCE treated with skepticism ANYTHING that denies AGW is a problem or we have to start doing something about it.
1. The action of declaring something to be untrue: "she shook her head in denial".
2. The refusal of something requested or desired.
Definition for denialism:
Denialism is choosing to deny reality as a way to avoid an uncomfortable truth: it is the refusal to accept an empirically verifiable reality. It is an essentially irrational action that withholds validation of a historical experience or event.


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on October 15, 2012 - 12:28 AM
, updated October 16, 2012 at 6:35 AM
Paul Weisenburger saw his friend sitting in the chair and thought he was napping.
"I thought he was asleep," Weisenburger said of Father Joseph F. Moreno Jr. "I pushed the door open and saw him sitting in the chair. I didn't realize it at first, and then I took his pulse."
Weisenburger, a pastoral administrator at St. Lawrence Catholic Church, spoke candidly Sunday of the scene he encountered when he found Moreno dead of an apparent suicide inside the rectory.
Without revealing too much of what he saw, he mentioned a gun found by Moreno's side.
"He took his own life," Weisenburger told reporters. "The investigation is still going on. But from what I know, it's quite clear."
Throughout Sunday night, both during a vigil inside the church and later outside addressing a crowd carrying candles and balloons, Weisenburger spoke of the stress Moreno had been under.
He mentioned specifically Moreno's time as a first responder during 9/11 and how the experience left him forever changed.
Several other members of the parish mentioned the pressure Moreno was feeling about his unwelcome impending transfer from his beloved church, although Weisenburger said that was but one of many things that weighed heavily on the priest's mind.
"Just a lot of pressure on him." Weisenburger said when asked what might have led Moreno to take his life.
Several of the speakers at the vigil described Moreno as a man who cared for others while struggling with his own emotional problems.
"It shakes our faith. It shakes our being," Sister Jean Klimczak said of Moreno's death. "All his life, he administered to people. He saved lives, but he couldn't save himself."
In the midst of the vigil – there was a crowd of at least 350 people on hand - one of the speakers suggested everyone try to recall how they met Moreno.
The crowd was then instructed to share their stories with someone near them and, for the next 10 minutes, a loud buzz filled the church as people exchanged tales about a man they grew to love and admire.
"Just as we enter this mystery of Father Joe's life," one of the speakers said, "we continue to remember his love."
Moreno, 54, was well-known among first responders and in the neighborhood around the East Side church, and those who knew him tried Sunday to understand why a beloved priest could meet such an ending.
Several members of St. Lawrence sent letters to the Diocese of Buffalo last week pleading for Moreno to remain at the church, on East Delavan Avenue near Eggert Road, and people who knew him said he was upset at having to leave.
Mary Pachla sought out Moreno on Wednesday to show him the letter she sent.
"He said, 'I feel like I was kicked in the stomach,' " Pachla recalled.
Moreno, who was the sacramental minister at St. Lawrence, was to move temporarily to the rectory at St. Bernadette Parish in Orchard Park, and the Rev. Francis "Butch" Mazur is to become the temporary administrator of St. Lawrence on Oct. 17.
Knowing that staying at St. Lawrence was not an option open to him, he was in discussions with the diocese to become a hospital chaplain.
Bishop Richard J. Malone, who arrived in Buffalo in August, said earlier Sunday, before the evening vigil, that he had one meeting with Moreno during which the priest suggested that he become a hospital chaplain.
"He said, 'I have a recommendation for you, Bishop.' I said, 'Let's hear it,' " Malone said Sunday, adding that Moreno did not appear despondent during the meeting.
The diocese was still working out where Moreno would end up.
Malone acknowledged Moreno's death during a Mass at Our Lady of Victory Basilica that kicked off the church's "Year of Faith." Speaking to reporters after the Mass, Malone would not discuss why Moreno was being moved out of St. Lawrence, saying the diocese does not discuss personnel matters.
"He was very sad," said Judy Bauer, president of the Pastoral Council at St. Lawrence. "You could tell by talking to him that it was stressing him out."
Moreno's death came as a complete shock to Bauer.
"I didn't see that coming at all," she said.
Moreno was a chaplain at the World Trade Center site after Sept. 11, 2001, and he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, Bauer said.
To encourage him, church members told him that he would succeed at his next assignment.
Moreno, who was ordained in April 1986, had lived at the church for more than a decade, Bauer said. Though he was never officially the administrator there, he handled some administrative responsibilities and helped stabilize the church's finances, Pachla said.
Moreno was effective in getting donations for the church's food pantry when it ran low, and his connections with comedian Jay Leno and Yankees star Derek Jeter brought in donations sometimes used in fundraising, Bauer said. He was also generous with people in need who showed up at the church and organized holiday dinners for people who had nowhere to go, she said.
"They wanted Father Joe at the helm," Bauer said of the parish. "They wanted him to remain there as pastor and it just wasn't meant to be."
The outpouring of support for a beloved priest who is departing is not unusual, Malone said.
Moreno was known for being one of the first to respond to the crash of Flight 3407, for bringing pizzas to drivers stranded in a winter storm and for ministering at St. Francis Home in Williamsville and at St. Mary Parish in Cattaraugus.
"I think we'll hear more and more of the legend that Father Joe is as the days go by," Malone said.
He inspired people around him to reach out to the poor and hurting, Pachla said.
"He has always been someone who I consider a very Christ-like man and priest," she said. "We loved him because he loved others."
Malone described Moreno's death "like a punch in the stomach" and called it a "Good Friday" experience for people who knew and loved him.
"Christ in his resurrection conquers death ultimately, so there's hope here, but it doesn't take away the sadness, the pain, the confusion," the bishop said.
Funeral arrangements are expected to be announced this week.
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MIFFLINTOWN - Opening day for the Juniata baseball team finally came Wednesday, and an impressive pitching performance by the Indians' Chad Eberle coupled with an offensive explosion boosted the home team to a 13-0 season-opening victory over Tri-Valley League opponent Greenwood.
Eberle was unflappable on the mound despite the chilly conditions as he pounded the zone consistently with his fastball and mixed in an occasional hook that kept the Wildcats off balance.
"We did a lot of watching," Greenwood coach Mark Sherman said. "He (Eberle) was throwing a lot of first-pitch fastballs and getting ahead."
The scrappy right hander chiseled his way through Greenwood's first three hitters of the game, striking out two and inducing a pop up. Given the conditions, it looked as though a solid pitching performance and one or two runs could be the difference in the game.
The Wildcats, however, came out more aggressive in their half of the second stanza and Adam Harrison drew a lead-off walk and he quickly found himself at second base following a Mitch Taylor single - the two runners executed a double-steal that set the stage for the six hitter, who Eberle struck out. A walk by Greenwood's Josh Ferguson loaded the bases but Eberle squashed the rally as he struck out the next two hitters.
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"He couldn't throw a strike last night in the gymnasium - and then he comes out here and does that," Beward said. " I knew he had it in him."
The second inning Wildcat threat would be the last of the day for the visitors as Juniata took control in the home half of the frame. A leadoff triple by Ty Treaster spelled the beginning of the end for Greenwood as hits by Andrew Boyer, Eberle and Stephen Zearfaus contributed to the six-run inning. Austin Berry, Jon Ruble and Derek Snyder all drew walks to chip in toward the game-changing inning. A nice piece of hitting with runners in scoring position by Dylan Loudenslager also plated a run in the inning.
"It was overall a real team effort," Beward said. "We got off to a slow start in the first inning but we got it going."
The Indian rally forced a pitching change by the Wildcats, inducing an early exit for Taylor. The freshman was not originally slated to pitch, but arm soreness for Greenwood's top pitcher forced the late move.
"That's his (Taylor's) first start," Sherman said. "Our number one was going to throw but his arm was feeling sore during warmups so we gave Mitch the ball."
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Mike Hinchman, CEO of Valley Health Care Inc., answered questions from the Randolph County Board of Education Tuesday about his offer to set up in-school health clinics in five schools....
this is the most ridiculous idea i have ever heard. sounds to me like this clinic is in need of clients. ill take my kids to the dr thanks.
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PotBelly....why not? They work for free selling cookies and oranges/apples and candles for other companies. This crap needs to stop. Kids should only be 'focused' on LEARNING.
Don't these clowns realize PARENTS take their kids to drs and we don't need drs in the schools? Beware of the 'real' reasons for this. They going to hand out ******s, give shots you know nothing about or abortion pills without your knowledge? This STINKS. I perceive a lot more homeschooling or private schooling happening soon if they allow this.
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Valley Health Care Inc. has the most INCOMPETENT drs in four counties. Ask anyone who has been there. Most won't go back. I would NOT give permission for these people to touch my child. THIS is a bad bad thing for schools. You know other healthcare facilities will want in on this and where does it stop?
Schools are for TEACHING. Get all this other JUNK out of our schools. Politicians have been using kids as guinea pigs for decades. They use them to sell corporations' products for them...aka....cookies....oranges.....how do you like your kids being used for FREE CHILD LABOR compliments of deals between politicians and corporations???? Think about it. No wonder kids don't learn anything anymore. They're busy WORKING.
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Why not throw in a McDonalds and a couple Subways while you're at it?
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A marvelous concert is taking place this weekend in Kleinhans Music Hall. It's called "Hungarian Spirit." And as the concert's centerpiece, Michael Ludwig, the concertmaster of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, is performing "Violin Concerto in A Minor" by Karl Goldmark.
Few people know this concerto. It has not been heard in Buffalo since Josef Krips conducted it, with Nathan Milstein as soloist, in the 1950s. And Ludwig, we're used to seeing him on stage, leading the violin section.
But seriously. The performance Saturday night was amazing.
If Ludwig were a big-name visiting soloist and you paid big money to hear him, you would be crowing and telling your friends. He's a terrific violinist. He did a bang-up job with the Goldmark, which is a virtuosic, romantic delight from the word go. His playing had strength and style, from the dips into the low ranges of the instrument to the whistley high treble.
In person, Ludwig seems on the shy side. As he soared through this concerto, he became a different person. At one climactic moment in the first movement, as the orchestra billowed around him, he leaned backwards, the violin overhead, the music just pouring out of him. A first-movement cadenza was stunning, assertively played, with the kind of rhythm that has you holding your breath. At the end of the first movement, by the way, everyone just said the heck with it and cheered.
The rhapsodic slow movement was lovely, with Ludwig playing rhapsodic legato lines. The orchestra, led by Music Director JoAnn Falletta, supported him with grace. The last movement saw Ludwig's bow flying practically nonstop. As we neared the end, the music seemed to tip over the edge. I wonder if this influenced Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Before the last notes were through, the crowd jumped up as one and began applauding and yelling "Bravo!" Ludwig took multiple curtain calls and then gave us a flashy encore, Vittorio Monti's "Czardas." It's a famous violin encore piece, a gypsy song, and Ludwig reveled in its gypsy rhythms. What a night for Ludwig. He was on fire.
The rest of the concert was also gripping. The evening opened with Zoltan Kodaly's "Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song (The Peacock)." It's hard to follow the variations if you're new to it, but it will entertain you. Principal flutist Christine Bailey stood out, as did many other musicians.
The Suite from Bela Bartok's "The Miraculous Mandarin" was a riot of color and crashing excitement. I would like to see this ballet sometime. I cannot imagine what spectacle would do justice to this riot of sound. At its apex, it's amazing to look on the orchestra, all the musicians going full tilt all at once. Kids would like this concert. There is so much going on.
Franz Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" ended the night. It's better known as a piano piece, but Ludwig's orchestration of it is rich and witty, full of chirps and jingles. This sensuous, commanding music must have inspired Johann Strauss. Principal Clarinetist John Fullam gave it a lot of finesse, with his flourishes and fine sense of timing. It ended in a blaze of glory.
Catch this concert if you can. It repeats at Kleinhans today at 2:30 p.m.
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The Department of Theatre & Dance Department will kick off the 40th anniversary year of the Zodiaque Dance Company with "CELEBRATION 40," the company's fall concert, Nov. 13-17 in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 2 p.m. on Sunday. A special Gala Concert will take place at 7 p.m. on Saturday featuring a pre-show performance by Zodiaque Studio Dance Ensemble and the presentation of Zodiaque Distinguished Awards and Zodiaque Directors' Awards.
"CELEBRATION 40" is a featured event of the College of Arts and Sciences' centennial celebration.
The concert includes an awe-inspiring array of diversified choreography performed by current UB dancers and UB alumni. The company exhibits a tremendous range of styles and repertory, and fosters tradition, while continuing to encourage the creation of new works by faculty, students, alumni and guest choreographers.
The concert features work choreographed by UB dance faculty members Tressa Gorman Crehan, Kerry Ring, Shelley Hain, Joyce Miller Lichtenberger and Tracy Navarro, and UB alumni Rebecca Guile-Wind, Jon Lehrer, Anne Beck and Roberto Villanueva. Zodiaque's signature bow is staged by director Tom Ralabate. Guest alumni lighting designers are James Hergenroder and Carlie Todoro-Rickus.
The gala concert on Saturday features a one-night-only performance of alumni awardees Roberto Villanueva and Jenny LaRoche, and alumnus Matt Pardo. Other honorees include Tressa Gorman Crehan, Rebecca Guile-Wind, Shelley Hain, Lynne Kurdziel Formato, Jenny LaRoche, Joyce Miller Lichtenberger, Donna Massimo, Tracy Navarro and First Niagara Bank.
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If you took a vote of Penn State fans - timely since we're coming out of election week - chances are the Big Ten's approval rating, even now in the Nittany Lions' 20th season, would not carry a majority.
(And based on the events of the previous year, you can be sure the feeling is mutual.)
There are presumably 50 percent of you who would still prefer a driveable Eastern schedule sprinkled with the glamour intersectional games of yesteryear. Or, further dreaming given that Pitt and Syracuse are now members and Notre Dame is partially so, perhaps eventual entry into the ACC would be more appealing.
But that's a discussion for another day.
What isn't debatable is the fact that one of the best things that could have happened to Penn State since the Lions' move to the Big Ten has been Nebraska's entry into the conference.
The two schools have much in common as the two newest members of the historic league that picks its members carefully - two in 60-plus years - Penn State as the eastern-most representative and Nebraska fulfilling the western role.
Joe Paterno and Tom Osborne were giants who stayed their entire careers in one place.
The programs have won a combined seven national titles with one of them, the Cornhuskers' crown of 1994, forever stuck in the Lions' craw.
Nebraska leads the series, 7-6, and most of the games have been extremely meaningful. A quick highlight recap:
1981: The Lions won, 30-24, in Lincoln - still one of the better road wins in their history as Todd Blackledge entrenched himself as the starting quarterback.
1982: Penn State won, 27-24, on a late controversial call at Beaver Stadium that served as a springboard to the Lions' first national title and capped a 2-2 split of the four-game series.
1983: Nebraska, still smarting from its only loss a year earlier, humbled a Lion team that was still hung over from finally being crowned No. 1. Result: 44-6 in the Kickoff Classic.
2002: After a regular-season interruption of 20 years, Nebraska arrived to one of the most electric atmosphere in Beaver Stadium history and the Nits, at night, buried Frank Solich's Huskers, 40-7.
2011: A mere three days after the Board of Trustees fired Joe Paterno, and a week following the arrest of Jerry Sandusky on horrific charges that would ultimately land him in prison for the rest of his life, Nebraska came to Beaver Stadium and won, 17-14, in Tom Bradley's interim-coaching debut. The game was a sidelight to the feeling of grief and unity felt in the stands.
2012: PSU is 6-3. Nebraska is 7-2. Both teams have been good but not great. Nebraska has a chance to go to its first Rose Bowl as a Big Ten member; Penn State, ineligible for a bowl, could deliver its best win in a season that has already surpassed expectations in Bill O'Brien's first year.
O'Brien has never been to Nebraska, but he was already informed of the classy reception he's likely to receive. And he knows Memorial Stadium will be fully: It has been since 1962.
"From what I hear, they have respectful fans," he said.
That's true. Nebraska fans traditionally don't boo the visitor. Paterno liked to tell the story of his team receiving a standing ovation as it left the field following a victory in 1981, and on the Lions' last trip to Lincoln, in 2003, I can recall Cornhusker fans lining the path to the visitors' dressing room and cheering Penn State's players.
Now, in the wake of the Sandusky scandal, perhaps that could change. A few Iowa fans dressed up in prison grab with Sandusky's name on their backs, but if that happens, it would be a radical departure from Nebraska's past.
Before Galen Hall was Penn State's offensive coordinator, a tenure that ended last year, he spent 18 years in the same capacity at Oklahoma - when the Sooners and Huskers were Big 8 rivals and often playing for a high-stakes Thanksgiving week game with a berth in the Orange Bowl and/or national title on the line.
"Nebraska has always had great fans," Hall said earlier this week. "They were very nice to our [Oklahoma] fans, very nice to our players, very football-knowledgeable and very much behind their own team but a very good crowd.
"Nebraska fans are very classy and very hospitable."
It's the kind of atmosphere in which college football should be played and the kind that frankly has been lost at times at some of the mega-stadiums, including Penn State, where crowd control has been an issue.
"Nebraska-Penn State, that's what college football is all about," O'Brien said. "You have two big-time college football programs that have two good coaching staffs and a lot of good players. Hopefully, it's fun."
It should be win or lose.
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The Stockton Police Department said the shooting occurred Tuesday on the 700 block of North Airport Way.
Officer responded on reports of shots fired. When they arrived, they found the two victims.
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