Lost Lake Tribune February 1, 2013

Senior Editor Falls on the Job

Minneapolis, MN- Lost Lake Tribune Senior Editor Benjamin Fugate had a nasty fall on the job on Tuesday Morning. At 2:30 AM, while working as an officer for Hannon Security, Ben was walking the perimeter of the property when he saw a man slipping and sliding on the ice about a block away. Ben prayed that man would be all right. The next thing Ben knew he was falling on his right side on the half-inch thick ice. The same man, who was slipping around, saw Ben and told him that he needed to go to the hospital. Ben asked this man if he was sure. The man said he was positive. After getting inside the building, this man, also a resident of the same building and an off-duty sheriff, called Ben Fugate’s boss and then called for an ambulance. Ben was taken to HCMC at 3 AM. Ben received 13 stitches in a gash to the right of his right eye. The wound looks like a Mercedes® logo. The stitches should be removed on Monday. Ben returned to work on Thursday morning at 12:30 AM. Thankfully, Ben is all right. He plans to put salt on the ice next time it is dangerous.

Large Pileup West of Indianapolis Claims One Life

I-70 looking east

I-70 looking west

Looking east on I-70

Looking West on I-70 Looking East on I-70

Plainfield- A victim of the I-70 crash in Hendricks County died of his injuries late Thursday, marking the first fatality in the massive chain-reaction accident that involved dozens of vehicles and shut down the interstate for hours. Harry Sohal, 25, from Ontario, Canada, died at Methodist Hospital. Authorities received word of his death Friday morning, as they tried to piece together what happened and urged patience during the investigation.

"It's not like a TV drama story where we wrap up everything in an hour," said Indiana State Police Capt. Dave Bursten. "It will take days for a crash of this magnitude to determine the exact number of vehicles. "and there were probably multiple crashes, rather than one big crash, that happened on both sides of the road. They just happened in close proximity to one another."

Even the number of people injured is difficult for police to determine with certainty, he said. "We initially were advised that 10 people were transported (to hospitals), but I think that number changed," Bursten said. "And a few people might have self-transported later in the day. ... These are things that take time."

The crash occurred fifteen miles west of Indianapolis around 2 p.m. Thursday near an overpass at Hendricks County Road 725 East. A major shutdown of the highway between Plainfield and Monrovia resulted. It reopened around 10 p.m. Thursday.

Authorities blamed the crash on snow squalls that severely limited visibility on the highway. Around 20 semitrailer trucks and at least 15 passenger vehicles were involved.

Information Gained From http://www.indystar.com/article/20130201/NEWS/302010339/Thursday-s-chain-reaction-70-wreck-claims-life

The Sun Might Actually Be a Factor in Global Warming

The Earth has been getting warmer -- but how much of that heat is due to greenhouse gas emissions and how much is due to natural causes? A leaked report by a United Nations’ group dedicated to climate studies says that heat from the sun may play a larger role than previously thought.

“[Results] do suggest the possibility of a much larger impact of solar variations on the stratosphere than previously thought, and some studies have suggested that this may lead to significant regional impacts on climate,” reads a draft copy of a major, upcoming report from the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The man who leaked the report, StopGreenSuicide blogger Alec Rawls, announced that the U.N.’s statements on solar activity were his main motivation for leaking the document. “The public needs to know now how the main premises and conclusions of the IPCC story line have been undercut by the IPCC itself,” Rawls wrote on his website in December, when he first leaked the report. Rawls blames the U.N. for burying its point about the effect of the sun in Chapter 11 of the report. “Even after the IPCC acknowledges extensive evidence for ... solar forcing beyond what they included in their models, they still make no attempt to account for this omission in their predictions. ... It's insane,” he said.

Some skeptical climatologists say that the statement in the U.N. draft report is important, but not game-changing.

“The solar component is real but not of sufficient magnitude to have driven most of the warming of the late 20th century,” Pat Michaels, the former president of the American Association of State Climatologists, and current director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute, said.

The U.N. report also says that the effect of solar activity will be “much smaller than the warming expected from increases in [man-made] greenhouse gases.”

An estimate from NASA said that solar variations caused 25 percent of the 1.1 ˚ Fahrenheit warming that has been observed over the past century.

But Michaels said that if the U.N. increases its estimates about how much the sun affects Earth’s temperatures, it might help the U.N. get its prediction models back on track. While the Earth warmed over the last two decades, it did so more slowly than the U.N. had predicted. “Climate science has the problem of trying to explain why we are now in our 17th year without a significant warming trend. As a result, you are seeing many forecasts of warming for this century being ratcheted down,” he said.

Others say that the focus on solar activity distracts from the big picture -- the fact that the Earth is warming.

“I see climate contrarians try this trick almost every time a big new solar study comes out. They somehow tend to neglect mentioning that solar variation is smaller than the heat-trapping power of carbon dioxide,” Aaron Huertas of the Union of Concerned Scientists reported.

To back that up, Huertas points to data that show that solar activity and temperature rose together from 1880 until 1960, but that then, solar activity stopped increasing -- even as temperatures continued going up.

“The basic evidence is that solar activity has varied a bit while global temperature keeps going up,” Huertas said.

But Rawls said that while solar activity has indeed stopped increasing, the important thing is that it remains at a historically high level.

“The simplest way to put it is: If you put a pot on the stove at the maximum temperature, and leave it on at that temperature -- are you telling me that the pot won’t keep warming?”

Rawls worries that if solar activity falls, the effects could be dire.

“Unlike warming, cooling really is dangerous, regularly dropping the planet into hundred-thousand-year-long glacial periods.”

NASA has said that there is evidence that the most recent “Little Ice Age” was caused by a dip in solar activity.

“Almost no sunspots were observed on the sun's surface during the period from 1650 to 1715. This extended absence of solar activity may have been partly responsible for the Little Ice Age in Europe,” during which temperatures were colder by about 1.8˚ F than they are today, he said.

But Huertas said that’s not what we should worry about at a time when the effects of warming are already being felt. “Climate change is affecting weather all across the planet and when it comes to extreme weather, the strongest links are to coastal flooding [and] heat waves,” Huertas said. “While climate skeptics are arguing on the Internet about drafts of the report, states like New York and New Jersey are working to help people rebuild their homes in ways that have a better chance of surviving more destructive storms and flooding in the future,” he said.

Information Gained from: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/01/report-show-un-admitting-solar-activity-may-play-significant-role-in-global/#ixzz2JiXfmVua

Warriors Varsity Teams Split Games during Final Home Stand

            The Fourth Baptist Christian Warriors played two sets of home games this week including the last two boys’ games on home court until the MACS tournament.

           

PLYMOUTH — Bethany Cressman finished with 23 points, mostly from the paint, and 13 rebounds to lead the Lake Region Christian Hornets to a 49-29 MACS victory at Fourth Baptist Tuesday.

Marlee Moore added 12 points and 10 rebounds and Emily Beltran dished out 12 assists for the 17-0 Hornets. After an early bucket, the Lady Warriors went ice cold in the second half not scoring for about 13 minutes while the Lady Hornets scored 20 straight points.

Fourth Baptist             21        8   —   29

Lake Region                25        24 —   49

FOURTH BAPTIST

Cara Hodak 6, Julia Van Luyk 4, Jayden Webster 2, Rebekah Kolacz 1, Emily Kolacz 4, Amanda Shell 2, Ashley Amborn 10. FG 12-39 (31 percent), FT 5-9 (56 percent). 3-point 0-2 (0 percent).

LAKE REGION

Autumn Martin 4, Marlee Moore 12, Grace Imdieke 2, Grace Czeczok 6, Bethany Cressman 23, Sam Snow 2. FG 22-57 (39 percent), FT 5-12 (42 percent). 3-point 0-1 (0 percent). Conference: 13-0. Overall: 17-0

Sources Include http://brainerddispatch.com/sports/2013-01-29/area-girls-basketball-moenkedick-pirates-upset-henning

            The boys’ varsity game was a barnburner. The Warriors took a 16-13 lead into the locker room at halftime. In the second half, the Warriors doubled their lead to 23-17. Then the Hornets banked in two straight three-pointers to tie up the contest. The Warriors then went on an 8-0 run. The Hornets stopped the bleeding with a basket to make the score 31-25. The Warriors answered with two points of their own to build their lead back to eight. The Hornets would not go away and sank two more shots from long-range to come within two at 33-31. Then the Warriors’ Senior swingman Michael King nailed a mid-range jumper from the right wing to give them a 4-point advantage. The Hornets scored another easy basket to pull within two. Then they fouled the Warriors’ point guard Robert Horn three different times to stop the clock. Horn missed the front end of a one-and-one with a short shot each time. After the first foul to put Horn on the line, Hornets’ coach Mike Snow said “that’s the guy we want to foul”. The Hornets strategy gave them the ball with 9 seconds left, down by 2 points. With less than five seconds to go, the Hornets tried a three-pointer and missed long. The putback also failed and the Warriors survived with the win! The Warriors were led by Senior center Matthew Bruffey with 14 points.

Final Line-

Fourth Baptist             16 19 — 35

Lake Region                13 20 — 33

FOURTH

Robert Horn 12, Michael King 5, Josh Peterson 2, Matt Bruffey 14, Weston King 3. FT 1-9 (11 percent).

LAKE REGION

Abe Indieke 6, Daniel Newton 10, Caleb Anderson 4, Hayden Brooks 8, Jake Christenson 5. FG 12-47 (26 percent), FT 1-5 (20 percent). 3-point 6-13 (46 percent). Conference: 6-5. Overall: 8-7. 

Sources include: http://brainerddispatch.com/sports/2013-01-29/area-boys-basketball-gobblers-handle-east-cetral-25

            On Friday, the Lady Warriors took on the Lady Blazers of North Metro, a Twin Cities area home school team. The Lady Warriors built the lead early and often by using the 1-3-1 full court press and a strong post game to go up 28-13 late in the first half. The halftime score was 29-17. In the second half, the Lady Blazers came out strong and cut the lead to 32-22 after a 3-point play; however, the Lady Warriors would not let their opponents take control of the contest. Fourth Baptist answered every basket of North Metro with two points of their own. The Lady Warriors’ Freshman guard Cara Hodak was fouled hard multiple times by different guards from North Metro but no intentional fouls were assessed and Cara remained in the game each time and hit her free throws to keep her team in charge. The Lady Warriors maintained their 3 to 4 possession lead until 2:30 left, when North Metro pulled within 6 points. Fourth Baptist finished the game strong with a 53-44 win.

            The boys’ varsity game was lopsided as the North Metro Blazers manhandled the Warriors to an easy 68-37 victory. The Warriors fought hard but could not hit any three-pointers and could not get any big defensive stops. The Blazers shot lights out from beyond-the-arc and dominated the paint to a comfortable victory.