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This is fantastic. In this video, we see slow-motion video of water droplets falling on a dusty surface. Because the dust is made up of a special metamaterial, the drops become locked into different shapes as they bounce.
Usually water forms a spherical drop, since its molecules pull together via cohesion. When a droplet hits a surface, it will deform, but then it will attempt to pull itself into that lovely sphere again. This time, scientists have cooked up a little something different for the water by dropping them on hydrophobic powder (powder that repels water molecules), which also forms nanostructures. So when different drops fall on the surface, they become locked into the deformed shapes they took as they rebounded off the surface.
We see them take shapes depending on their viscosity and whether or not they ejected a bit of water as they bounced. Some turn into bowling pin shapes, and some into ice cream cones.
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Answering Paul Krugman
In a blog post this morning for the New York Times, Paul Krugman attempts, mischievously in my view, to score some ideological points.
Yesterday he and I were on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," and when the show had ended but the panelists were still seated together I said I'd just had one of those shows where you forget to make the two points you were most eager to make. Everyone smiled—that can happen. Then someone asked what the points were.
We had talked on the show about the shutdown and debt ceiling crisis, and I'd stated that the Republicans who'd pushed the shutdown had made a mistake, going forward without a serious strategy, endgame or plan. But, I said, the larger point I'd meant to make is that what's going on now in the GOP is not only a continuation of old fights but a big brawl between old-style, experienced or "establishment" Republicans, who put an emphasis on realistic strategy in order to win, and their rising challengers on websites, in talk radio and in some think tanks, who take a different approach, who are more slash-and-burn, or purist. And this fight, or split, while not new, is becoming more consequential to the party's future.
The second point I'd wanted to make, I said, is that for all the Republican Party's troubles, for all the fighting and fisticuffs, there is one great thing, and it is that the party is alive with idea and argument and debate. This is good, it speaks of a liveliness and vitality appropriate to a great party. And if I were a Democrat, I said, teasingly but also seriously, I would wish my party were engaged in such spirited debate, and be anxious that it is not.
Someone said there should be a new segment on the show called "What I Meant to Say," and we laughed, talked a little more, went our ways.
When I referred to what is happening among Republicans in the area of ideas, I had in mind a number of things – disagreements about tax policy that include subarguments about questions like the treatment of carried interest. There are real disagreements about the impact of an immigration bill on unemployed and underemployed U.S. citizens. There is a continuing and rising Republican debate about foreign policy, about what America's role in the world should be, of which the NSA spying debate is, in a way, a subset. There are both present and coming debates about spending. Must we be the party of cutting entitlements because they can bankrupt us, or are there other, more winning and in the end more constructive and realistic approaches that promote growth while taking into account the number of Americans who right now depend on government because of forces—globalization, for one—beyond their control? All these debates involve ideas about what is just, desirable, possible.
These are just a few issue areas. But there's a lot going on! And these debates are playing out in a lot of places, if least satisfyingly on Capitol Hill.
While Paul, in his post this morning, concedes it's possible to argue that "the GOP is full of ferment, with passionate arguments that are very different from the relative placidity of Democrats these days," he reminds us the truly sophisticated would understand "the much-ballyhooed rift between Wall Street and the Tea Party is entirely about tactics, not policies."
That is simply not true.
Some quick examples. Wall Street is pro-immigration and wants a bill; the tea party is not and does not. Wall Street would fight to the death for the favorable tax treatment of carried interest; the Tea Party would do away with it in a great populist roar. If there were another financial crisis and the banks wanted bailouts, Wall Street would argue passionately for it, and the tea party would fiercely oppose it. Even as we speak the tea party is calling repeal of the medical device tax in the Affordable Care Act another example of crony capitalism, while Wall Street, if you will, argues it's a matter of higher costs and jobs.
These are not tactical issues, they are or bear on serious policy questions.
Paul, in his work, often seems so immersed in an ideological world—in who is right and must be momentarily held high (they'll be wrong tomorrow) and, more frequently, who is wrong and must be denounced (Paul Ryan's ideas are not just "terrible", they're old)—that he doesn't even notice what is going on among those he disagrees with, or doesn't find it worthy of inquiry because whatever they're doing it couldn't possibly be in good faith. (My friend James Taranto summed up Krugman's blog post as, "Oh yeah? Well, the jerkstore called, and they're running outta you!")
A small point connected to this. Paul writes that he "really wanted to ask" me about what I meant, but "time was up." Actually time wasn't up. The show wasn't ending, it had ended. He could have asked me my thoughts right there, or afterwards, as we strolled, the two of us, from the studio to the street. There was plenty of time, if he was really interested.
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Education funding is an investment in the future – a future that can be highly unpredictable. So when the Alberta government asks universities across the province to produce "outcomes" largely oriented to developing the province's economy, it is walking on thin ice.
First, one must ask where is the data that indicates good economic outcomes are being achieved, not just by the university as a whole, but by each of its departments and programs? Second, what sort of "outcomes" are most important – finding a job in one's field within six months of graduation or making a contribution to society over a lifetime? The first type of outcome is measurable, the second much less so.
Yet, is it not towards the second form of outcome what we most want universities to contribute? Is not a university education most valuable because it fosters lifelong learning and a desire to contribute to the common good?
Universities at their best have never been machines cranking out new cogs to keep the wheels of the economy turning. That they are increasingly becoming just that is a sad reflection of society's narrow economic focus.
One finds a different approach in Vatican II's Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (Gaudium et Spes). The second part of that document focuses on five "urgent problems" in society – the family, culture, the economy, politics and the common good, and world peace.
The order is crucial. A strong family underlies everything. Without strong families, the culture (including education) is weak, the economy falters, the common good degenerates into individuals grasping for what they can get and civil strife increases. Equally pertinent is the fact that the whole second part of Gaudium et Spes is built on the foundation of the first part - even strong families are scarce where religious faith is lacking.
The first conclusion is don't expect universities to provide something they cannot. If children don't develop a work ethic and curious minds at home, they are less likely to pick them up at university.
Second, at least some parts of the universities should be oriented to strengthening the culture – a society that embodies a true and full humanity. Don't cut funding for philosophy and political science departments because their graduates don't quickly become professional philosophers and political scientists. If those grads are proficient in their disciplines, they will in good time make sterling contributions, typically in fields other than the areas they studied.
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In recent weeks, liberal politicians, editorialists, and policy analysts have vigorously attacked reform of Medicare based on a defined contribution financing. In fact, this approach to reforming Medicare has a long bipartisan tradition going back to the 1980s and Representatives Richard Gephardt (D–MO) and David Stockman (R–MI). In fact, much of this criticism is distorted, misleading, or just plain wrong.
Here are some articles that set the record straight:
Kaiser Study on Medicare Assumes Seniors Don't Like Lower Prices (Drew Gonshorowski)
The Heritage Foundation, 10/16/12
"The Kaiser study assumes that an entire class of Americans—senior citizens—is insensitive to price. In reality, seniors are price sensitive when they are presented with options. Already, 90 percent of retirees can and do choose the private health plans they like, ranging from supplemental insurance to Medicare Advantage and Medicare drug plans."
Presidential Debate Prep: Understanding Obamacare's $716 Billion in Cuts to Medicare (Bob Moffit and Alyene Senger)
The Heritage Foundation, 10/16/12
"As the Medicare debate intensifies, there still seems to be popular confusion regarding the $716 billion in 'savings' from Obamacare's Medicare payment cuts. Let us end the confusion."
The Problem with Kaiser's Premium Support Study? Seniors Are Smarter Than That—and So Are Health Plans (Joe Antos)
AmericanEnterpriseInstitute, 10/15/12
"The Kaiser report emphasizes a worst-case scenario. To reach their conclusion, the authors assume that no beneficiary would change health plans even if a less expensive option would save them hundreds of dollars a month."
Kaiser's Faux 'Study' of Premium Support (James Capretta)
National Review Online, 10/15/12
"It's a pattern of course. At critical moments in the campaign, a reliably liberal research organization releases a faux 'study' that is quickly picked up by the Obama campaign and turned into negative attack ads."
Manhattan Moment: Obama and Biden Will Turn Medicare into Medicaid (Paul Howard)
The Washington Examiner, 10/14/12
"[I]mposing Medicaid price controls on Medicare would harm the most vulnerable and sickest seniors today and in the future. Worse yet, it would irreparably damage a program—Part D—that is working to offer seniors high quality drug coverage at an affordable cost.
Turning Medicare into Medicaid is clearly their plan. But what are they really trying to accomplish?"
To read last week's Medicare Roundup, click here.


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After Leak, Rep. King Demands 'Zero Dark Thirty' Disclosure Report
Draft IG report says Panetta incidentally disclosed secret info to filmmaker.
June 6, 2013 -- After a draft report of a Defense Department internal investigation showed former CIA chief Leon Panetta incidentally revealed secret information in front of a "Zero Dark Thirty" filmmaker, Rep. Peter King today sent a letter to the Secretary of Defense demanding the final version of the report be released "immediately."
"I demand the immediate release to Congress and the American people of the results of the DOD IG's [Inspector General's] review of illegal disclosures of classified information to Hollywood filmmakers," King (R-New York) said in a letter to Secretary Chuck Hagel and in an identical letter to the Defense Department's Principle Deputy Inspector General Lynn Halbrooks. "These security breaches compromised special operations capabilities which protect our Homeland, and endangered our servicemembers and their families."
King called for the IG report in August 2011 following media reports that Hollywood director Katherine Bigelow and writer Mark Boal had been given unprecedented access to American intelligence and special operations personnel and information for their research on the decade-plus-long hunt for Osama bin Laden -- the final product of which would be the "based on first-hand accounts of actual events" film "Zero Dark Thirty."
An undated draft version of the IG's report, obtained and published by the Project on Government Oversight earlier this week, details communications, mostly by email, between the filmmakers, the Defense Department, the CIA and the White House.
It also discusses the June 24, 2011 award ceremony at CIA headquarters to recognize those who contributed to the bin Laden operation. At the ceremony, then-CIA Director Panetta identified the unit that took on the mission and revealed the name of the commander on the ground, even though Boal, a civilian, was in the large audience, the report said. Special operations personnel from the Defense Department, who were also in the audience, "were all 'universally… surprised and shocked' that a Hollywood executive attended this CIA Headquarters awards ceremony," the report says.
It had been reported months before that the Navy's SEAL Team Six was responsible for the mission, even down to the specific squadron, but the commander's name has not been disclosed publicly.
The draft report does not accuse Panetta of any wrongdoing and notes he had not been interviewed at the time of the draft's creation. A source close to Panetta told ABC News the CIA chief was not aware there was anyone in the room that had not been cleared for the secret information. The source also stressed the draft report was just that, a draft, and did not necessarily represent the IG's final conclusions.
Another portion of the draft report focuses on Boal's interactions with Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Mike Vickers and Vickers' work to put Boal and Bigelow together with U.S. Special Operations Command. It was during one of the meetings between Vickers, Bigelow and Boal that Vickers reportedly revealed the name of a special operations planner for the bin Laden mission, an allegation previously reported by ABC News. Top officials at the Special Operations Command had offered to allow the filmmakers to meet the planner, but explicitly asked his name not be shared. The meeting with the planner never took place, the IG's draft report says.
The report references the relatively small role played by the White House beyond "green lighting" the Defense Department to proceed with their discussions with the filmmakers and saying in June 2011 that the White House "does want to engage with Mark [Boal] but it probably won't be for a few more weeks." The White House did not discuss with the Defense Department, for instance, the advisability of providing filmmakers access to special operations personnel, it says.
It also says that no precautions had been taken "to prevent the compromise of [Defense Department] special operations TTPs [tactics, techniques and procedures]," but none had been exposed at the events covered in the report.
When Vickers' alleged disclosure came to light last December, allegations also arose that the Inspector General's office was delaying the release of the report in deference to Panetta's then-upcoming retirement. A senior Defense official said at the time that was incorrect.
"It's wrong for anyone to suggest the investigation has been held up for political reasons or to avoid embarrassment," the official said then. "The investigation simply hasn't concluded. These things often take time."
Almost six months later, the report still has not been officially released and a spokesperson for the IG's office told ABC News they do not have a projected date of completion.
"We are working diligently to complete the project as soon as possible," the spokesperson said, declining to comment on allegations of political pressure. In his letter to Hagel, King reminded the military chief that "any pressure placed upon DOD IG personnel, to prevent or prohibit them from carrying out or completing their investigation, would violate the Inspector General Act of 1978."
After "Zero Dark Thirty" was released in January, Panetta said it was "great," but he would have preferred to have been played by Al Pacino, rather than James Gandolfini.


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Rob McElhenney, star of of the FX comedy It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, is packing on the pounds for the show's upcoming season 7, premiering this fall. People Magazine reports he's already gained 50 pounds in an attempt to be goofier, at the cost of his health.
"It's been disgusting to watch him go through with this adventure," McElhenney's costar Charlie Day told Screen Junkies. He also expressed concern over the 34-year-old's well being, though he also thinks McElhenney has actually become funnier with the extra weight.
In general, the cast of It's Always Sunny is rail-thin, except for Danny Devito. But McElhenney, who welcomed a baby with wife and It's Always Sunny costar, is giving Devito a run for his money.


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This past Tuesday evening, a plane-size asteroid flew by, around 202,000 miles from the surface of the earth. Do you know the last time an asteroid that big came that close to us? 1976. According to the New York Times, scientists have known about it for six years. Six years? If I had been properly notified of this I would have flown my kite on Wednesday or sometime during the nineties.
See the full article, including a pic of the very asteroid that ruined my Tuesday, here.
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From President Kevin Bourassa:
The summer is flying by. Where has the offseason gone?
I am still really excited about the opportunities before us. I truly believe we are an association of opportunity. I think we will be giving players an opportunity to COMPETE and PLAY with their best friends and create a lifelong love of the game. We are currently taking applications for coaches, and the parade season is heating up. We will have a booth at all three local festivals selling cookbooks and t-shirts, as well as having a puck shooting range. We have the pancake breakfast/ equipment swap/ 5K Knights Trail run coming up as well. What a great way to show off our association to the community.
The opportunity does not stop with the players. There is opportunity for everyone to be involved. From coaches, to managers, to treasurers, to volunteers--the opportunities to get involved and share the experience with your child are endless. We ask that you really look at where you can help us as an association and dig in. A couple of hours from everyone within the association will really go a long way.
We have a Director of Player and Coach Development on board. His name is Rick McKelvie and you will all meet him shortly. You talk about having a legacy contact. Rick was one of the initial Irondale members that started Irondale Youth Hockey.
There have been a lot of changes and new people and so far it has been a fantastic experience. I do not see it changing over the years. We need to continue to recruit and retain players. Everyone can help. There are plenty of players that pick up the game at later ages and flourish, have success and simply love the sport. Continue to ask friends, and friends of friends, to come out and we as an association will do everything in our power to provide them with a very fun and meaningful experience.
Remember to tell the players that we are the Irondale Knights and that we CAN compete and we WILL compete, and we will have a great time doing it. Nothing better to see kids come off the ice after a hard fought game with a smile on their face knowing they COMPETED.
Make sure to check out www.iyhaleague.org for any updates and opportunities to help out.
LASTLY, the parades are upon us. Please try to get every skater out there rollerblading or walking in the new T-shirt or Jersey and have some fun with old friends in at least one of the parades or all three. There is strength in numbers.
Thank You,
Kevin Bourassa
IYHA President
IYHA has a new look! Check out IYHA's website to see our new brand. Nina Dojan, with the assistance of several additional IYHA members, developed the new brand in an effort to modernize the look of our logo, and bring it more closely in line with the IHS logo that appears on the high school jerseys. Dave's and Lettermen are aware of the new logo, and all future apparel orders should standardize on this logo. Not only will the new logo provide IYHA with a brand to "sell," there should also be less need to purchase new apparel each season as we strive for a common look.
Just a reminder that IYHA reimburses 50% of your cost for summer training. The max reimbursement is $250. Please submit receipts to Dan Marcouiller or Mike Nundahl for approval. Please take advantage of this IYHA benefit to improve your game in the off-season.
All those interested in coaching (Head or Asst.) at the Boys Traveling level please indicate your interest to Dan Marcouiller by filling out the online form at www.iyhaleague.org or by using the link below. The coach selection process will be completed by August 28th. If you have any questions, please contact Dan at
From Initiation Coordinator:
Two recruiting events have been scheduled to attract new players to our association at all levels: "Learn to Skate" and "Come Skate With Us." These events have been successful in bringing in new IYHA skaters and volunteer assistance will be needed. Please note the following dates and times (both events to be held at the SuperRink):
August 29 @ 12:50,
September 12 @ 9:40am, and
October 10 @ 3:10.
From Annikka Erickson Strong:
Please see the IYHA website for information regarding a benefit that is being held for Mike Rundle. Mike Rundle has melanoma and is receiving extensive treatment to fight the disease. We are trying to raise money to help him with the medical costs and loss of time at work.
Mike Rundle skated for IYHA from Initiation through Bantams. He also played on the Irondale High School Hockey team. He was an assistant coach for the Bantam level for several years. His parents Gary and Cindy Rundle were on the IYHA board for many years. Gary was equipment manager and Cindy was treasurer. Mike's sisters, Mindy and Kelsey also skated with IYHA. The family has given so much to the association!
We are also looking for donations to the silent auction. The benefit is being held at Moe's on Sunday, August 9th from 4-8pm. It is a spaghetti dinner and silent auction.
I hope the hockey families can give back to a young man that has been a part of the association for so long!
Thank you,
Annikka Erickson Strong
Website News
From Torri Johnson:
Registration: Online registration is the preferred method to register and will be available on the website starting early-mid August. Credit Card payments will be accepted! This year, you will be required to enter your USA Hockey Confirmation number as part of your IYHA registration. You can get prepared for this by registering now for USA/MN hockey ($40 fee-same as last year). Anyone born in 2003 or after still has to register with USA/MN hockey but does not have to pay the $40 registration fee. A link to USA/MN registration is on the right hand side of the home page. Additional information is available along the left hand side of the home page.
New Logo: If you need the new IYHA logo, it is available to download from the Association Pictures tab. Click on the Pictures tab along the left hand side of the home page.
New Season: On August 1st, the website will switch over to the new 2009-2010 Season. This will change sponsors that you see, pictures, and teams. Previous season teams are still available by changing the season under the Our Teams tab. Sponsors who support the Association for the 2009-2010 season will continue to be recognized with a scrolling banner across the top of the home page, recognition on our Sponsors page, and mention in the newsletter. If you procure a sponsor, send an email to either firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com with the sponsors information.
For Sale/Wanted - With a new season coming, post items you need to sell or items you are looking for on your website. You can even include a picture. The process is very user friendly. Click on the Exchange button along the left hand side of the homepage. You will need to validate your email first in order to post anything. This avoids spammers from posting things they shouldn't.
Valleyfair Discount - Take a look at the home page to see information about Valleyfair's Youth Sports Days, August 7-9. Take your family and friends to Valleyfair before the snow comes back. A substantial discount to admission is available for all Irondale Youth Hockey Association families.
From Tami Felling, Fundraising Committee:
The next Knight Out event takes place on Tuesday, August 4 from 11am - 8 p.m. at the New Brighton Acapulco. Go to the IYHA website and click on the fundraising tab for more details and to print the coupon--20% of your bill will be credited back to IYHA. What could be easier or more fun?
See you there!
From Darren and Rhonda McConnell:
The Flyer for the 5K is done. The date is September 26th, at the Mermaid. Check out the IYHA website and www.midwestevents.com. This has the potential to be a huge event! Spread the word!
From Kevin Bourassa:
Reminder to Medtronic employees: if you volunteer 40 hours or more of your time to IYHA, Medtronic will donate $500 in your name to IYHA (Time and Talent program). Others, please check with your employer to see if they have similar programs.
From Cindy Anderson:
The Cookbooks Are Coming!
The Cookbooks Are Coming!
"Faceoff Favorites", our IYHA cookbook, will be ready for the summer festivals.
Featuring 297 recipes from our hockey families, the cookbook will be selling for $12.00 and will be available at the IYHA recruiting table at the following events. Be sure to stop by and see us!
St. Anthony Villagefest
Friday and Saturday, July 31 - Aug 1
New Brighton Stockyard days
Friday through Sunday, Aug 7, 8 and 9
Mounds View Festival in The Park
Saturday, Aug 22
Volunteer Opportunities
Did you know that the largest fundraising events that IYHA is involved in are the November and January hockey tournaments that we co-host with Mounds View? The funds derived from these two tournaments (roughly $30,000) dwarfs all other sources of fundraising income that IYHA generates.
For this reason, the upcoming season will see a change in the required volunteer hour policy, with a majority of each family's commitment required to be fulfilled by working at these tournaments (or assisting in the pre-tournament efforts). The volunteer hours required for a successful tournament are enormous—over 1100 hours of scheduled time (and untold hours of unscheduled time). Please get involved early and often—the Tournament Committee is always looking for people interested in helping out and you can fulfill your volunteer commitment as well!
Additionally, if you are interested in a position with the Tournament Committee, current members are looking to train in future Tournament Coordinators and there is a special need this year for someone to step up and be "Raffle Guy," coordinating the yearly raffle and auction that is at each tournament.
Contact Monica Crandall for more information about volunteering or taking a position with the Tournament Committee.
Community Events
From Heidi Dulin:
REMINDER: Upcoming parades! PLEASE, PLEASE, support your hockey association.
Walk in the parades or donate some time at the festival booths.
contact Heidi: email@example.com
St. Anthony : Friday, July 31 @7pm
New Brighton: Thursday, August 6 @6pm
Mounds View: Saturday, August 22 @1 pm
We will send out separate e-mails prior to each parade with
specific information pertaining to just that individual parade.
We are asking kids to hand out hockey information with some really cool IYHA pencils to the crowds. If your child would like to throw candy too, we are asking the families to donate the candy that they would like throw.
Roller blades are fine for older kids. However, keep in mind that the New Brighton parade
is very hilly!
We would love to have kids of all ages , BOYS & GIRLS, feel free to bring a friend.
They don't have to be hockey players to support our association! I have extra jerseys for them too!
NOTE: If your child is under the age of 9, we are asking to have a parent or older sibling
please be present to walk the parade! It's so busy and it is very hard for a few adults
to assure the safety of so many kids.
Thanks! Heidi
10,000 Puck Club
Kids—bombs away! The 10,000 Puck Club is looking for members. Download your shot/save chart from the IYHA website and chart your shots (or saves) this summer and, if you reach or surpass 10,000 shots/saves, you will receive an exclusive long-sleeve t-shirt celebrating your hard work! Have fun with it and good luck!
Food For Thought
Ultimate "Guaranteed to Work" Off Ice Training
Off ice training has become more and more common with hockey players of all ages as facilities are made available and trainers for hire flourish. As with all on and off ice training the effectiveness is dependent on the athlete and the training environment.
Most agree that the long term outcome for athlete performance depends primarily on the make up of the individual athlete. Training regimes can certainly help an athlete do better but not that much better. An individual athlete can train to increase speed, quickness, and strength. Game understanding seems to be more difficult to learn for some regardless of what they do on or off the ice. Perception and the ability to see the ice well do not seem to be able to be easily learned especially as players get into their teen years and beyond.
Most coaches who have been at this more than few years have worked with kids who have spent an incredible amount of time and money on training programs and camps with very little to show for it. This is not necessarily bad as there are many lessons they learn in the process even though they do not reach the higher levels of the game. Maybe the time could be better spent in other areas.
There is one area of off ice training that each and every player can and should pay close attention to in order to insure they have an abundant number of choices and opportunities as they get older. This particular training is available to every single player in the country and it is free. The program is called an education and it only requires time and effort.
The NCAA reports that there are eleven dollars of academic scholarships available for every dollar of athletic scholarships and there are so many more academic opportunities for kids at all schools. Putting ones eggs into one basket is foolhardy at best.
The admissions requirements at major universities like Minnesota have gone up over the past decade. Yes, top athletes at Division 1 schools can be admitted with lower than average test scores, but it is important to remember that essentially a scholarship means the player is an employee of the school athletic department. Sports come first, academics second. Division 3 hockey schools do not offer scholarships and correctly put academics ahead of athletics. The long term goal should be a high quality education in order to be able to compete after hockey.
When I talk to college coaches and junior coaches across the country about players the first question they ask is "How are his or her grades?" You see, average grades and average ACT and SAT scores eliminates nearly half of the schools that an athlete can possibly attend. All of those hours of extra training off and on ice for so little opportunity when a world of opportunity exists for those who accept the academic challenge. On the other hand academic excellence combined with athletic ability opens the doors to so many more schools and the low numbers of qualified candidates means less competition
for spots. Think of the tremendous lifetime opportunities available to athletes who attend Ivy League colleges and other top academic institutions.
Finally, it is important to remember that for 95% or more of young athletes the athletic training will benefit them for only a few years, but a high quality education will benefit an athlete for a lifetime. Balance is the key. Train the body for sports and the brain for life.
Hit the weights and the books!
Prepare for the game of your life and more importantly the game of life.
Hal Tearse
Coach in Chief
Minnesota Hockey
July 2009
IYHA Board Meetings are open meetings.
Please feel free to come to the meetings. If you have an agenda item for the Board to consider, please contact the IYHA Secretary at email@example.com. Board meetings are held the third Thursday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at the New Brighton Family Service Center. Upcoming meetings will be held: August 20, September 17, and October 15.
Lake Region Board Meetings:
Lake Region Hockey meetings are open meetings. Contact Theresa Spiering for dates and times of upcoming meetings.
Sponsors for IYHA and teams are listed below. Please notify the IYHA Secretary of any additions or corrections. (Please forward information about websites and addresses, etc.) Many thanks to our sponsors!
IYHA: **Lake Region Hockey Association**, **Moes**, **Champps**, **Meisters**, **Big 10 Tavern**, **Make It Big Photos** and
**Dave's Sport Shop**.
Team Sponsorships:
Bantam A: **Response Fire Protection**, **WW Goetsch Assoc**, and **MN Conway Fire**
Pee Wee B: **Jensen, Bell, Converse and Erickson, PA**, **Western Bank** and **Dr John Hollerud, MD of Fridley Children's and Teen's Medical Center**
Once again, many, many thanks to our sponsors! Please support them!
When you see them, please tell them you are from Irondale Youth Hockey.
Irondale Youth Hockey Association (IYHA) Board Members 2008-2009
763-442-0435 (c)
Vice President
Monica Crandall
763-234-9316 (c)
Theresa Spiering
763-780-4548 (h)
Brent Eilefson
612-750-6428 (c)
651-636-3690 (h)
Ice Commissioner
Kara Chamberlain
Boys Program Coordinator
Dan Marcouiller
Girls Program Coordinator
Mike Nundahl
651-633-8287 (h)
Initiation Coordinator
Nina Dojan
612-599-2664 (c)
Tom Johnson
Beth Soberg
612-201-4861 (c)
District Representative
Chris Drews
651-329-3124 (c)
Non-Board Positions:
ACE Coordinator
IYHA Board meeting minutes are posted to the IYHA website when approved.
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Two people have been arrested in connection with the Jan. 17 burglary of the Fremont County Administration Building.
Douglas Aaron Ghiorso, 18, was arrested Tuesday at a Cañon City residence by SWAT officers and detectives from the Combined Investigative Response Team. Two others in the house were taken into custody on unrelated warrants.
The second suspect, a 17-year-old Cañon City juvenile, was arrested early Tuesday morning at the Kountry Korner store in Cañon City after a burglary there.
Ghiorso is also a suspect in that burglary but is believed to have fled the area as officers arrived.
Employees at the administration building discovered the damage from the burglary at about 4:45 a.m. Jan. 17.
Sheriff's Capt. Don Pinover said it appears that the suspect, or suspects, entered the building after breaking a window on the roof. They then dropped through the ceiling into the office areas and left the building by breaking a plate glass window in the Motor Vehicle office.
Pinover reported Thursday night that $200 was taken from the county treasurer's office. He said there is no indication that the suspects disturbed any files or computers, and authorities believe the burglars were only seeking money.
The Kountry Korner store was burglarized at about 3 a.m. Tuesday.
The Cañon City Police Department received a call from a local resident reporting three males going in and out of the store.
When officers arrived, they observed three males running east toward the KRLN studio on Central Avenue. The officers chased the males and located two of the three hiding in the grass.
Brent Roberts, 18, of Penrose, and a 17-year-old male, of Cañon City, were arrested. Roberts is being held at the Fremont County Jail and the juvenile is being held at a juvenile detention facility.
Officers searched the area and recovered many items that had been taken from the store, totaling more than $6,000.
The juvenile was transported to the Spring Creek Youth Services Center in Colorado Springs. Ghiorso is being held in the Fremont County Jail on a $15,000 bond on burglary and theft charges.
Also arrested on unrelated charges when Ghiorso was arrested were: Max Ryan Laate, 22, of Cañon City, on a warrant for failure to comply on burglary charges from Fremont District Court, as well as an escape charge from Pueblo County; he was being held on no bond. Robert Broman, 26, of Cañon City, on two failure to appear warrants.


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Remaining poor while living atop a vast field of wealth
GARDENDALE — From the window of her tin-roofed trailer, Judy Vargas can glimpse a miraculous world. It is as close as the dust kicked up by the trucks barreling by but seems as distant as Mars.
As you walk out of her front yard — where the chewed-off leg of an animal, probably a feral hog caught by a prowling bobcat, rots outside — a towering natural gas flare peeks over the southerly view. Across the railroad tracks and Interstate 35, a newly reopened railroad interchange stores acres of pipe and receives shipments of sand from Wisconsin to be used in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Next to the terminal is an expanding natural gas processing plant that lies in the heart of the Eagle Ford, a giant shale oil field that here in La Salle County alone produces more than $15 million worth of oil a day, or about one out of every 55 barrels produced in the United States.
This rural patch of thick mesquite in the brush country south of San Antonio had been known for something else. Five miles from here in Cotulla, Lyndon B. Johnson at the age of 20 saw hardship so searing that it would help inspire his war on poverty.
Now, it is the scene of one of the greatest oil booms the country has ever seen. But poverty endures in makeshift, barely governed communities called colonias, such as the one where Vargas shares her trailer with an ever-shifting assemblage of relatives.
Decades after Johnson took a teaching job here in 1928, the area, like the country, is a startling and incongruous mix of cascading wealth and crushing hardship. And though the boom has helped produce fortunes for some and comfortable lives for many, for others it exists within a rural landscape of unpaved streets without garbage pickup, where few dare to drink the tap water because it tastes and smells like chlorine.
Early one evening in May, Vargas, 28, cooked spaghetti for her three children and her grandmother. Vargas, a high school dropout, had just arrived home from her job as a restaurant cook. She and her grandmother, who works as a maid at a motel, make a total of roughly $1,500 a month, far below the federal poverty level of $2,325 for a family of five. Above their dining table, there was a portrait of the Last Supper and, tucked in a corner of the frame, a picture of Vargas' uncle, unsmiling in a white uniform and one of at least three incarcerated relatives. The family ate and swatted at flies as trucks roared by.
It is a different kind of poverty than it was in 1928, this time surrounded by a buzz of industrial activity, not empty stretches of scrub grass. But it feels as entrenched as ever, reinforced by bad luck, bad choices, a lack of education and the isolation that allows the poor to remain invisible and adrift in lonely, distant orbits.
"It feels the same to us," Vargas said of life amid the oil frenzy. "The money that they have, we didn't have it before. And we don't have it now."
A Rising Tide
Early one morning, after putting on makeup underneath a copper-colored strip of flypaper that dangled from the bathroom ceiling, Vargas slid her youngest child, Isaac, 5, into the back seat of her car. Her shift at the restaurant, a steakhouse in Cotulla where she made $9 an hour, would start soon, and she first had to drop Isaac off with a relative while her two older children were at school.
As Vargas approached the railroad tracks, on one of Gardendale's few paved roads, she slowed the car. A thick coating covered the street. "It's sand," she said as she drove over it, "but from where?"
Overnight, a truck carrying sand used for drilling wells had dumped some of its load.
The fracking sand — so powdery it seemed scooped from an exclusive beach — stretched for about 100 yards on roads outside homes and the Gardendale Qwik Stop, the colonia's lone store. In 2012, federal health officials issued an alert about the health hazards workers faced from exposure to fracking-sand dust. Breathing so-called silica dust can cause silicosis, a lung disease.
No one was sure if the sand had been left by accident or on purpose, but people suspected that the driver of an overweight truck had lightened his load. They are unlikely to find out. Gardendale has no mayor, no police department, and only a handful of tilting signs and streetlights. It is often used as an illegal dumping ground.
An estimated 500,000 people live in about 2,300 colonias in Texas, along its 1,200-mile border with Mexico. Many colonias have benefited from infrastructure improvements in recent years. Others remain institutionalized shantytowns without basic services like water and sewerage.
At least in part because of the oil economy, Gardendale is one of the better-off colonias. The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas found in a report to be released this year that 42 percent of the population of colonias in six Texas border counties — not including La Salle — lived below the poverty line, compared with 14.3 percent nationally. The median annual household income was $29,000. In La Salle County, other studies have shown that 39 percent of children live in poverty.
The boom has both given and taken away. School officials bought 1,300 iPads, one for every student in the district. And there are jobs — well paid in the oil fields for some, marginal in fast food joints and cheap motels for others.
But oil and gas have brought a new set of problems, including environmental concerns. During the peak ozone season in 2012, Eagle Ford operations in La Salle County daily emitted 12.8 tons of nitrogen oxides and 28 tons of volatile organic compounds — pollutants that produce smog and can cause health problems — according to a report prepared by the Alamo Area Council of Governments.
There have been 11 motor vehicle fatalities in La Salle County this year, up from two in 2007, which officials blame in part on a population boom and increased traffic from the oil and gas activity. Rents have skyrocketed. Newly hired teachers had such a hard time finding housing they could afford that the Cotulla school district opened its own trailer park for them.
Texas has reaped tremendous financial benefits from oil and gas. But the poor in the colonias seldom own the leasing rights for the natural resources that lie under the ground they live on. One-third of Texas' $48 billion in tax revenue last year came directly or indirectly from the oil and gas industry, said Bernard Weinstein of the Maguire Energy Institute at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Portions of the revenues go into the state's general fund as well as its so-called Rainy Day Fund, but very little of it is spent on social services and programs to assist the poor, although some helps finance public schools and universities.
So, despite the boom, Texas has some of the highest rates of poverty in the nation and ranks first in the percentage of residents without health insurance. Republican leaders have supported tapping the Rainy Day Fund for one-time investments in water and transportation infrastructure, but they have blocked attempts to use the fund for education and other services, arguing that it was designed to cover emergencies and not recurring expenses.
"Despite the bounty of the Eagle Ford, which is considerable and on the whole clearly positive, it is not a rising tide that lifts all boats," said Ray Perryman, a leading Texas economist and author based in Waco. He noted that Texas had long had a philosophy of limited government and an aversion to spending on social services, an attitude intensified by the current political environment.
"Texas is not a good place to be poor, and there is little political appetite for change," he said.
Surrounded by Activity
One day in May, Colt Ringer, 28, limped along near Vargas' trailer wearing a dusty black cowboy hat and carrying a .22-caliber Magnum revolver and .45-caliber pistol in holsters at his hip. He was returning home empty-handed after hunting feral hogs, which he kills for sport and for food.
"All of us are poor, in our own way," he said. "I don't get nothing off these wells right out here because I don't own the land. That just goes to show the golden rule: He who has the gold makes the rule."
The people of Gardendale, first settled in 1908, are an isolated, eclectic lot. Some are poor, but others are lower middle class. Goats are kept in the front yard of one house; a Cadillac is parked at another.
In 1996, Judy Vargas' grandmother, Ernestina Salinas, 68, paid just $300 for the lot they live on. Using $1,000 she made picking fruits and vegetables in Minnesota, she bought a run-down trailer that lacked running water and electricity. In 1998, a flood destroyed the trailer, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency provided her with a more modern one that she has frequently renovated.
The trailer has recently felt as if it had been visited by a traveling circus. At one point, 10 relatives were living there. Vargas and her three children slept on one king-size bed. Salinas, who has heart problems and diabetes, slept with a cross over her bed in a room awash with the fragrance of incense.
Lately, the family has been living on about $250 a week. Salinas receives an additional $500 monthly in Social Security benefits, but overall those inside the trailer rely very little on public assistance. Medicare pays most of the cost of Salinas' drugs, but with co-payments she pays roughly $40 a month for medicine. Vargas said she had no health insurance and pays for most of her medical bills out of pocket. They rarely follow the news, but in a state hostile to President Barack Obama's health care law, they do not understand the law and get the impression it is a shambles. No one in the family has applied for health care subsidies.
There is disagreement among officials, oil company executives and economists over why poverty persists amid the boom in the Eagle Ford counties.
La Salle County's top elected official, County Judge Joel Rodriguez Jr., said the boost in property and sales tax revenue from Eagle Ford activities had been offset by increases in county spending on road repairs, law enforcement, fire safety and administrative functions. He was critical of the support the oil and gas industry had provided to the poor.
"The oil companies come by for Thanksgiving with turkeys, or they may have a function to have pictures taken to show the world they are socially responsible, and then you'll never see them again," Rodriguez said.
But Rodriguez and others were skeptical of those who were unemployed in a region teeming with jobs and new businesses.
"The fact is we are handing out big checks to people, and we are still short on people who want to work," said Chris Faulkner, chief executive of Breitling Energy, an oil company that operates in La Salle County. "I would think that if I was living in one of these colonias, I would be running for the opportunity to say, 'This is my big chance, and I am going to jump on it,' but they are not doing that."
But at the trailer, there was much more focus on getting through the days than on getting ahead.
Late last year, Salinas returned from working the fields in Minnesota to find that squatters and scrap metal thieves had broken into the trailer. They stripped off the trailer's electrical wiring, stole the water heater and left behind food and dirty dishes. Vargas, who has lived in the trailer off and on since she was 10 or 11, returned to Gardendale from Dallas with her children and her common-law husband, worried about Salinas' safety.
Life, it seems, is lived one step ahead of disaster. One day, sheriff's deputies came to the trailer after a dispute that began when the girlfriend of Vargas' cousin left a 10-month-old baby by the side of the road in front of the trailer.
Some days, Vargas appreciates the colonia's quirky isolation. Other times, in a trailer held up on the dirt by concrete slabs, next to the pile of ashes where they burn garbage because no one picks it up, ordinary life seems extraordinarily hard. By June, the temperature was already above 100 as she drove through town. She rolled down all four windows — the air conditioner was busted — and the dust from the 18-wheelers filled the car like cigarette smoke, coating the Bible she kept inside.
A Hard but Satisfying Life
In early June, Vargas was at the kitchen table opening a box of cake mix. Her husband, Erick Olivares, 28, lit the charcoals in the rusty barbecue grill outside. The children splashed in a plastic pool. They were having a cookout. Olivares had been released from jail several days earlier. The crosses he had made for her and the children in jail hung from strings around the trailer.
Vargas laughed more, smiled more than she had in weeks.
"I am very happy," she said as she cracked the eggs for the strawberry cake. "Why wouldn't I be? My life is complete."
Olivares had spent six weeks in jail on charges of marijuana possession. He was optimistic about finding a job but had not yet done so. He was reluctant about working in the oil fields.
"It crossed my mind," he said. "It pays good, but I don't want to lose my arms or hands for that kind of money." Later, he gave another reason: "When you're a convicted felon, they ain't going to hire me."
Vargas quit her job at the steakhouse and returned to a place she had worked before — the motel where her grandmother is a maid. She cleaned rooms and pressed shirts for $9 an hour, and she got a second job as a waitress at another restaurant in Cotulla, earning $5 an hour, plus tips. Some days she worked at both jobs.
But the family was falling behind financially. It cost more than $2,400 to bail Olivares out of jail. Vargas had paid $820 but still owed the rest. When Salinas had hired a neighbor to rip out the cracked particleboard floor in the trailer and put in faux-wood flooring, one of Vargas' children had thrown the man's car key into a smoldering fire they had made outside to burn some trash. Vargas owed the man $300 for a new key and the cost of a tow. Her cellphone service was cut off when she failed to pay the bill.
Vargas dreams her children will have a better life.
"I wouldn't want my kid to be in no motel and no restaurant, getting paid minimum wage," she said.
One Wednesday evening, Vargas drove her children and her grandmother to the Living Faith Family Worship Church in Cotulla, which she had recently begun attending.
One of the ushers was a recovering drug addict. The pastor, Mark Linares, runs a barbecue stand outside his house. Vargas and her family walked in late, as Linares asked the audience to pray for a truck driver whose daughter-in-law was in a coma.
Everyone filed out of the red brick building, where there is a plaque by the front doors. Vargas and Salinas did not notice it. This was the old schoolhouse where Johnson first saw extreme poverty. During the collection, the worshipers had passed around a basket. Vargas contributes when she can. This evening she had nothing to put in.


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LAMB OF GOD's Willie Adler Posts Video of Home Recording Studio
Lamb Of God guitarist Willie Adler has posted a video of his home recording studio online. It can be viewed below.
Willie explained that while his setup may not be the most elaborate, it is sufficient for all his home recording needs: "It's basically what I use to write riffs and record music and demos and basically just have fun with," he said.
Willie uses Samson Zoom products and revealed that he would be heading to the company's headquarters today (Monday, September 24th) to help with concepts for equipment: "We'll basically talk about how I incorporate these products into my daily writing process and explain how I use them in order to benefit my writing," he explained.
Stay tuned as Willie will be posting more videos online soon.
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The tragic true story of the failure of GE technology in India has been told in a powerful new documentary by Micha Peled. Bitter Seeds — now showing at the San Francisco International Film Festival — details the predicament of central Indian cotton farmers, trapped in Monsanto's genetically modified seed scheme.
Farmers, refused loans by legitimate banks, borrow from illegal moneylenders at exorbitant interest rates in order to purchase Monsanto's expensive GE cotton seeds.
Engineered to contain the insecticidal bacterium Bt, Monsanto's GE cotton seeds are marketed as silver bullets that will make farmers rich. But the GE crops often fail — they require a steady supply of plentiful water (unavailable in this arid rainfed region) and lots of fertilizer (which farmers cannot afford), and at times the insecticidal action fails and the crop is destroyed by pests.
With no other crops or income sources to resort to, the farmers fall deeper and deeper into debt. Out of shame, thousands of farmers have been commiting suicide by drinking pesticides. Such deaths reached nearly 200,000 in the last decade alone, according to The Independent.
Unfortunately, the destruction of farmers' livelihoods is nothing new to Monsanto, a Big 6 pesticide company well known here in the U.S. for its flagrant violation of national laws — price-fixing, bribery, superfund sites, superweeds and superbugs are among the company's dubious claims to fame.
Holding corporations accountable
Like Monsanto in India, the global pesticide industry has a long history of getting away with human rights abuses around the world, in part because there is no single set of laws to which they are accountable as global corporations.
Last December, on the 27th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, PAN International launched a landmark initiative to hold the pesticide industry accountable for human rights abuses. The Permanent People's Tribunal, held December 3 - 6, 2011, in Bangalore, India, brought the six corporations that dominate the global pesticide industry — Monsanto, Syngenta, Dow, DuPont, Bayer, and BASF — to trial in the first ever global tribunal seeking justice for victims of the pesticide industry.
At the end of an intensive public trial spanning four days and five languages, the jury issued a scathing verdict that called for a roll-back of corporate control over the food system.
Learn More » Those in Northern California can catch a screening of Bitter Seeds at the San Francisco International Film Festival on April 21, 24 or 26. And on April 20, join PAN Senior Scientist Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, filmmaker Micha Peled and others for a discussion on the impacts of genetically engineered food and farming around the world.
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LAC ST. ANNE — For Roberta Beaulieu, the Lac St. Anne Pilgrimage is a family tradition. She's been coming since she was a little girl.
The 30-year-old Metis woman is familiar with the grounds, the shrine and the lake and she feels comfortable in the surroundings. She's proud of the fact the priest who runs the pilgrimage is a relative. Getting a blessing from him is a big thing for her.
Over the years, Beaulieu has heard of people recovering from terminal illnesses after dipping themselves in the water. Others have been able to throw away their canes and walk on their own after going in the sacred waters. She doesn't know what to make of those stories but she believes the water has the power to heal.
"What we usually do is when the lake is blessed, we take a couple of bottles of water home and throughout the year when you are not feeling so good or you want to pray you use the water to bless yourself."
Beaulieu lives and works in Grande Prairie but her family lives in Paddle Prairie Metis Settlement just south of High Level.
Her grandparents began the pilgrimage tradition decades ago and Beaulieu happily continues it.
Sitting on a bench in front of the statue of St. Anne, Jesus' grandma, Beaulieu, dressed in black, prayed under the hot sun with her eyes closed July 16, the first day of the pilgrimage.
"I pray to God and Jesus and then I say a little prayer like a Hail Mary and I ask for her blessings," she explained. "It's like a Catholic thing; you don't just pray to one saint."
She has heard St. Anne "landed on some rock" on the lake. "So the thing we do every year is we go into the lake and try to find the rock. A couple of times I touched the rock and I felt her footprints in there."
As a teen, Beaulieu and family used to tent for the duration of the pilgrimage. Nowadays they spend the nights in the comfort and security of their new camper.
This year she travelled with her parents, her little niece and her mom's cousin who brought friends from Tucson, Ariz.
"I've been coming all my life. My parents used to bring us here every year but it was my grandparents who made it important to our family. Now that I'm a grownup, I keep coming for their memory and stuff."
Beaulieu said coming to the pilgrimage and attending Mass refreshes her for the year.
"Whatever troubles you have you just come here, get a blessing and then you start your year again," she said. "Then a lot of times you'll run into people you haven't seen for years. If you walk around, you will run into somebody you know."
Sitting on a picnic table across from the concession is Edmonton's Melinda Billette, her six-year-old daughter Santana and her son Troy, 17.
They have been coming faithfully for the past 10 years to pray, confess their sins and visit family. Normally they camp. This year they came July 16, the first day of the pilgrimage, for the day.
For the Billettes the pilgrimage is an opportunity to see relatives from other places. They have lots of family from different communities in Saskatchewan and they were anxiously awaiting their arrival.
Like many pilgrims, the Billettes dip themselves in the sacred waters of the lake and take some of it home to use for blessings and to give to family and friends.
Standing on the shore of the lake besides two jugs of water was Aaron Half of the Saddle Lake Reserve. He was watching his eight-year-old daughter, Serenity, in the water.
Half, a father of three, comes on a regular basis with different people and camps for the duration of the event. This year he came for the day to attend Mass and to help out his mother Angelique, 77, who is in a wheelchair.
"The attraction for me is basic faith, I guess," he says. "I believe the lake has healing powers but it's all based on belief."
Half says he and his mother use the sacred water of the lake for prayer and for drinking on special occasions, particularly when they are feeling down.
The theme for this year's pilgrimage is The Many Paths to Reconciliation. Different native communities and parishes hosted the various Masses celebrated at the shrine.
The roots of the pilgrimage date back to 1844 when Father Jean-Baptiste Thibault blessed the lake - then called Manito Sakahigan or Spirit Lake and renamed it in honour of St. Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary. Before 1844, aboriginal families and clans and tribes were drawn to its shores for ceremonial summer gatherings.
Four hundred people attended the first pilgrimage 121 years ago. Now it is a major pilgrimage destination - the largest event of its kind in North America. This year an estimated 55,000 pilgrims, mostly aboriginal and Métis, were expected to make their way onto the pilgrimage site. An RCMP constable estimated that on July 17 alone there were 28,000 people on the site.


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Investors Business Daily does the math on the GM bailout.
Sale of the U.S. government's stake in General Motors Corp. ends a sorry saga. Not only were Americans lied to about the costs, but the bailout underscores why replacing market forces with federal bailouts doesn't work.
The Obama administration says it will unload 200 million shares — or about 40% of its holdings — back to GM right away. The rest, 300 million shares, are to be sold by March 2014.
[…]Well, GM on Wednesday said it will buy back the 200 million share government stake for $5.5 billion, or $27.50 a share.
The break-even point on the government's total holdings was $53 a share. But now, with $20.9 billion in taxpayer funds left to pay off from 300 million shares, the break-even point has risen to $69.72 a share.
In other words, at current prices, taxpayers are sitting with a loss of 61%, or nearly $15 billion, on their investment.
So where did the money go, then?
According to a study last summer by the Heritage Foundation, the $80 billion auto bailout gave the UAW and its members nearly $27 billion due to the fact that GM couldn't shed its outrageously expensive labor contracts, something it could have done in a normal bankruptcy.
As such, Obama didn't bail out the auto industry; he bailed out the unions. Without the unions' added costs, taxpayers would have owed nothing.
It's not hard to see how this happened. The UAW and its affiliates give tens of millions of dollars each election cycle, almost entirely to Democrats.
This union influence explains why Obama's auto czars, Steve Rattner and Ron Bloom, arranged a government bankruptcy for GM that flew in the face of hundreds of years of bankruptcy law and violated investor rights.
Bondholders took huge losses, while unions got a big chunk of ownership in GM stock that they weren't legally entitled to.
In a shocking display of favoritism and blatant unfairness, GM's union workers kept their pensions, while nonunion workers at GM spin-off Delphi lost theirs.
Those unions paid Obama back by working hard to get him re-elected. That's how socialism works.


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Police Car from the Future Denied Federal Funding
Carbon Motors' E7 police cruiser is denied funding from the federal Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing program.
By the Government Technology News Staff, with reporting by GT contributing writer Colin Wood.
Is the next generation of police cars up on blocks before they ever roll out of the lot? For at least one specialized U.S. manufacturer, the task just got tougher.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) denied Carbon Motors' application for funding under the federal Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing (ATVM) program this week, casting doubt on whether the company's next-gen E7 police cruiser will be built.
More than 500 orders from various law enforcement agencies had already rolled in for the vehicle, which was designed from scratch, intended to be the ultimate police car. Stacy Dean Stephens, co-founder of Carbon Motors and a former police officer, has labeled the vehicle a "homeland security platform."
William Santana Li, CEO and co-founder of Carbon Motors, said in a press release that the company was "outraged" at DOE's denial of the funding, claiming the decision was based on political posturing in an election year. According to Santana Li, Carbon Motors was the last of the applications for the program under active consideration by the agency that were "pushed aside."
According to the company's statement, other manufacturers that were denied by the federal government included General Motors, Chrysler, Next Auto, Aptera and Bright Automotive.
In an email to Autoweek, DOE spokesman Damien LaVera was vague on the details surrounding the application denial, telling the publication that while the E7 was an interesting project, an agreement couldn't be reached that would protect U.S. taxpayers.
In its press release, Carbon Motors announced that it will look for alternative financing to manufacture the E7, which has features quite different from the familiar police patrol car.
One of the biggest differences is the E7's engine, a "forced induction" diesel. The result is an engine with increased performance and 40 percent greater fuel efficiency than the average law enforcement vehicle, according to Carbon Motors. In addition, video cameras are installed in the rear compartment for monitoring and recording activity in the back seat.
On the exterior, the E7's light bar is flush-mounted into the body and wraps completely around the top of the car. The body panels are made from thermoformed plastic, which don't require paint because the color is inside the panels. The front doors and dash are fitted with ballistic panels, and the frame is made from hydroformed aluminum, a technology typically reserved for high-end sports cars.
"The truth is, government funds are already being used to pay for law enforcement vehicle substitutes — many of which function very effectively as retail passenger cars and none of which function well for the unique law enforcement mission," Stephens said in a statement.
"The Carbon ATVM loan (which would have been paid back with interest) would simply have ensured that the taxpayers were getting their money's worth as law enforcement end-users would benefit from using safe and efficient products that actually work well for their mission," Stephens added.
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RIM has opened an online portal for BlackBerry users who want to browse for apps on a larger screen, as the company moves to better emulate its hero Apple.
The BlackBerry store may not be bursting at the seams, but while RIM claims it has no interest in filling the shelves with tat it would still like to copy the rest of Apple's model and has launched a web-based application store that synchronises with a plugged-in BlackBerry device.
That requirement to synchronise with a device means that version 2 of the online store isn't entirely web-based - websites aren't really allowed to interact with plugged in peripherals, so BlackBerry users have to install a plug-in extension to get their browser to act more like iTunes.
The process also requires an online ID, but RIM has provided comprehensive help on getting your BlackBerry apps.
Version 1 of BlackBerry App World already allowed browsing for apps, and one could ask for an application to be sent to a BlackBerry via an SMS link, but now applications can be downloaded and installed directly.
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A Cape Cod cop has been placed on leave after he allegedly urinated on a fellow Metallica fan during a Boston concert and shouted that the Hispanic police officer who was arresting him looked like President Barack Obama.
A Cape Cod cop has been placed on leave after he allegedly urinated on a fellow Metallica fan during a Boston concert and shouted that the Hispanic police officer who was arresting him looked like President Barack Obama.
Brewster Police Officer Joseph A. Houston, 29, was placed on administrative leave after his Jan. 18 arrest at a Metallica concert at TD BankNorth.
Houston was arrested at 10:07 p.m. for trespassing at North Station by Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Police on the Purple Line (that's the commuter rail service). He is also accused of urinating on a concertgoer. That incident was reported to MBTA police by the concertgoer's parents.
"He is on administrative leave," Brewster Police Chief Richard Koch said. "We will run a parallel investigation independent of the criminal investigation concerning the trespass charges and possible charges with the Boston Police."
A Brewster Police lieutenant has concluded the investigation.
"He spoke to all the witnesses we know of," Koch said. "The officer does not have to speak to us."
The next step will be to confer with the Board of Selectmen, most likely in an executive session on Monday.
"From that will come the next step which may be a disciplinary hearing," Koch said.
Two MBTA police officers at North Station were approached at around 10 p.m. by a TD BankNorth security officer who informed them he had just ejected Houston from the Metallica concert at the TD BankNorth Garden for disorderly conduct after Houston allegedly urinated on a concertgoer.
In a statement from the victims, which was given when they filed a complaint at the District A-1 police station in Boston later that night, and paraphrased by Boston Police officer Joe Zanoli, they said an "unidentified male" who was seated behind them was very intoxicated and belligerent.
The suspect was reported to have urinated on one person and then lunging toward the victim's sister several times. He then made "inappropriate comments" and harassed the females in the group, according to police. The victim was observed to be visibly upset.
According to the security officer, when he told Houston he was being ejected from the concert, Houston flashed his badge and identified himself as a Brewster Police officer. The security officer also said he warned Houston he would be charged with trespassing and told him not to return.
The concert security officer pointed out Houston to the two MBTA police officers. The officers reported Houston appeared intoxicated. One MBTA officer noted, "I approached Houston and could smell a distinct odor of alcohol originating from his breath. I explained that security had previously ejected him from the premises and that he would have to leave immediately or face arrest for trespassing."
At that point Houston pulled out his wallet and showed his badge.
The MBTA officers explained he would still face arrest for trespassing if he didn't leave and escorted him outside.
According to the arresting officer, who was a Hispanic, "Houston stated 'Look at Obama,' which was directed at me in a loud disorderly manner."
When the MBTA officer went back inside the Garden to discuss the situation with the security officer, Houston followed and attempted to enter the lobby. He was asked once again to leave. Houston refused and said, "Let me talk to you. Let me talk to you."
At that point the officer arrested Houston for trespassing, while he protested, "Let me talk to you … I'm a cop."
"After a brief struggle, the suspect was handcuffed," the report said.
Koch said he received a call around midnight and as the next day was a holiday did not go to Boston until Tuesday, Jan. 20.
"I spoke by phone with some of the witnesses and got the MBTA police report and the following day (the 20th) went up to verify the information," he said.
Houston was arraigned on Jan. 20 in Boston Municipal Court and was released without any bail being set, according to Jake Wark, spokesman for the Suffolk County District Attorney's office. He was given a bail warning that if he re-offends he could be held up to 60 days without bail.
His next court date is Feb. 5, in Boston Municipal Court. Attorney Tom Drechsler, who often represents police officers, represented Houston. He could not be reached.
The parents of the concert attendee who was allegedly urinated on reported the incident to the transit police and went on to file a report with Boston Police.
Houston has been with the Brewster Police force for less than three years. Prior to that he was with the Nantucket Police Department.


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AUBURN, Ala. (AP) Auburn coach Gus Malzahn has hired Clemson co-defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach Charlie Harbison to the same position.
Malzahn announced the hiring Sunday of Harbison, who will work with defensive coordinator Ellis Johnson.
Harbison spent the past four seasons with Clemson and previously worked with Johnson during one of two stints at Alabama and another at Mississippi State.
He replaced Johnson as Mississippi State's defensive coordinator in 2008.
Malzahn calls Harbison ``a true professional and one of the class guys in college coaching.''
Harbison coached defensive backs at Alabama from 1998-2000 and wide receivers from 2003-06.