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How the game works is that each player must attempt to have the most words. The game ends when all the pieces of popcorn are used up. You earn those words which are pieces...Read complete review
How the game works is that each player must attempt to have the most words. The game ends when all the pieces of popcorn are used up. You earn those words which are pieces of popcorn by having read the word featured on them correctly. When you draw a POP! card, you return all the cards you've gained back to the box. This way of playing was a bit discouraging to my daughter being challenged by a few words and achieving those only then having to put them all back and start over. However, one part of the rules is when a word is read incorrectly, you set it aside. Modifying the rules to allow for a retry of one of the set aside words is, in my opinion, a better way to play. Some other ideas are removing the POP! cards entirely, shuffling in the set aside words back in when a POP! is drawn, or some other variant you can come up with. The fact you can make your own house rules is what will keep me using it and probably both my children interested.Overall we pull out this bundle weekly and practice lots of sight word learning. My daughter literally asks for these often but only after we mixed things up. The bundle is a nice combo pack that will help grow your child's sight word knowledge from kindergarten even possibly through first grade. In my opinion, you'll get a whole lot more use out of the games if you opt to mix things up from the general playing rules.
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I love the idea of this game, but my daughter tired of it quickly. It is also difficult to learn sight words out of context. My 2-year-old and 5-year-old did love...Read complete review
I love the idea of this game, but my daughter tired of it quickly. It is also difficult to learn sight words out of context. My 2-year-old and 5-year-old did love it for playing movie theater though.
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By Hazza Snowball
from Surrey, UK
Comments about Learning Resources Pop for Sight Words™ Games Bundle:
I bought this item as I had seen a colleague using it during precision teaching sessions. Although the words are a little easy for my year 4 class (I didn't know where I would be this year...) I will certainly be adapting it to suit my LA children. The design and idea of children picking out popcorn is brilliant. My coordinator has already commented on how much she likes them.
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Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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By M_Oachs
from Burnsville, MN
I am focusing on sounds and sight words to get my son started reading. I am always looking for resources to help me teach him and I always find it from Learning Resources.My son is loving learning his sight words with the Pop for Sights Words Games Bundle. These cards provide sight word practice students will love! My son loves that these games look like popcorn containers and popcorn kernels since he LOVES popcorn! He loves to either play the game or use the cards as flash cards.If your child needs a little practice with sight words or you are just looking for a fun educational game for Family Game Night, I recommend Pop for Sight Words Game Bundle!
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By Children Teaching Mama
from Atlanta, GA
My 6 year-old has struggled with his sight words at school and has had trouble learning them. He absolutely loves this game and asks to play almost every single day. I have noticed such a change in his ability to sound out words and letters. Not only is it fun for him, but very educational. Since this is a bundle, I will be able to use this with him all year and he will continue to add on new words to his vocabulary. I'm very pleased with this game!
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By Nancy @ Arizona Mama
from Glendale, AZ
Pop for Sight Words Games Bundle includes 2 games for learning early sight words. Each game includes 100 cards with 92 different sight words and 8 POP cards. That is a total of almost 200 words. The instructions for the game are printed on the cute pop corn style box that holds the pieces. This makes it easier so they don't get lost. The instructions are simple. Each player takes a piece of pop corn. If the player can read the word they get to keep the card and if not then it gets placed in the un-popped pile. If a player chooses the "POP" card then they have to put all their saved pieces back in the box. The game continues until all the pop corn pieces are gone. I really like these two games. I feel like My son is starting to know some sight words and his Kindergarten teacher will be happy that he is already starting to recognize some. The game is simple and easily adjusted to fit the needs of your child or children.Read more at http://www.arizonamamablog.com/2013/07/learing-resources-pop-for-sight-words.html#PuAqI1ZfxtjMlkuL.99
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By Jubilee Reviews
from Lexington KY
Each game includes 100 different words to learn along with 8 special popcorn cards. The die cut cards make it look like a yummy box of popcorn ready to delve into! This game makes it easy to include several in the game. It also is super portable for those long drives in the car.They make learning those pesky words that we simply have to memorize, much more interesting!
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By Andrea
from Rockford, Illinois
This product is good for children to practice sight words. The level of reading can rage from very beginning words to more advanced. Fun way to engage children to learn while having fun.
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from Kansas
This is a perfect tool to help your little one learn how to read. After just a few short weeks of playing this with my son daily I heard several comments from his teacher that his reading skills has improved!


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There are 19 gym teachers in the Farmington School District who make more than $85,000 a year each. The average gym teacher's salary in Farmington is $75,035. By comparison, the science teachers in that district make $68,483 per year on average.
. . . In the Woodhaven-Brownstown district, 18.5 (FTE) science teachers average some $58,400 per year in salary, while 12 gym teachers averaged nearly $76,700. In Harrison, science teachers earned $49,000 on average while gym teachers averaged $62,000.
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House of Commons Hansard #35 of the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was board.
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G8 Summit
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
Alexandre Boulerice Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, QC
Mr. Speaker, the spokespeople may change, but the broken record sounds the same.
We know that the minister was involved in 32 projects, that he implemented a parallel process that was hidden from the Auditor General and administered from his constituency office, and that he did not submit a single document to the Auditor General even though senior federal officials were at the meetings. After being promised transparency and openness, Canadians are disappointed and for good reason.
When we will have a complete parliamentary investigation to shed some light on all the abuses of ethical and financial trust involved in the G8 funding?
G8 Summit
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
Calgary East
Deepak Obhrai Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Speaker, I agree with the member. It is the same old story. The facts have not changed. How many times do I have to tell him that the facts have not changed?
The Auditor General has aired this issue thoroughly. What else can I say? She came in front of the committee and said this very clearly. If he were a member of the committee, he would have known what the Auditor General said. I will repeat again that the facts have not changed. The answers will remain the same.
Foreign Affairs
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
Joe Daniel Don Valley East, ON
Mr. Speaker, the situation in Egypt continues to deteriorate for Coptic Christians. Copts, who make up 10% to 15% of the population in Egypt, are being targeted and persecuted for ethnic and religious reasons by hateful enemies. Countless murders of Copts have been reported in Cairo and across Egypt, and many others are going unreported.
My question is for the minister. What is our government doing to address this unprecedented violence toward the largest religious minority in the region?
Foreign Affairs
Oral Questions
2:55 p.m.
Calgary Southeast
Jason Kenney Minister of Citizenship
Mr. Speaker, last Friday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and I met with some 30 leaders of Canada's Coptic community to express Canada's solidarity with that community, particularly their loved ones in Egypt, to express once more this government's condemnation of the violence, particularly that by, apparently, members of the Egyptian military two weeks ago, killing innocent Coptic civilians.
The Prime Minister led the inclusion of an expression of concern about vulnerable religious minorities in the Arab Spring declaration of the G8 at Deauville. We have called upon the United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate the most recent killings. We are creating an office for religious freedom to, in the words of the Prime Minister, make the promotion of religious freedom a key pillar of Canadian foreign policy.
We will always stand in solidarity with those who face this kind of persecution.
Aboriginal Affairs
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Carolyn Bennett St. Paul's, ON
Mr. Speaker, it has been five full months since the terrible flooding in Manitoba and the evacuation of the first nations. The community of Lake St. Martin First Nation is still devastated. There were 727 citizens evacuated, most still occupying rooms spread across six hotels in downtown Winnipeg at a cost of $1 million per week. Children are not in permanent schools and families have no hope in sight.
Will the minister commit today to rebuild Lake St. Martin First Nation on the higher ground that is right next to that community?
Aboriginal Affairs
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Vancouver Island North
John Duncan Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development
Mr. Speaker, yes, Lake St. Martin is a very tragic story and we know that the community has been relocated. The children are now getting their schooling and we are working with the Province of Manitoba. I sent a special representative to look into the situation. We will be working with the province and looking at a relocation of the community.
Canadian Air and Space Museum
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Mike Sullivan York South—Weston, ON
Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives are again planning to dismantle the Avro Arrow, this time in Downsview, Ontario, and literally cutting it apart with torches, just like in 1959.
The Air and Space Museum has been evicted and is on a growing list of our heritage buildings facing the Conservative government's wrecking ball.
Last week, Rob Cohen, the CEO of the museum, said, "It is all pass the buck politics". When will the Conservatives stop passing the buck and step in to save this historic museum?
Canadian Air and Space Museum
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam
James Moore Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages
Mr. Speaker, first, even though it is called the Canadian Air and Space Museum, it is, in fact, a private museum and a private collection. The museum had a fundraising campaign, but it was not as successful as it had hoped it would be. This was a decision by Downsview.
The museum has not been paying its bills and it has not been paying the taxes, I understand. This was a responsible decision made by Downsview and by the Department of Public Works.
I have asked my department to work with our national museums and to ask the management of that museum what in their collection they would like to save, and to work with the government to make some of the collection available to some of our national museums.
We are showing leadership, both to the museum and to the collection, but also to taxpayers.
International Co-operation
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
John Weston West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country, BC
Mr. Speaker, Canadians are concerned about the situation in Pakistan.
While that country was recovering from the 2010 floods, monsoon rains, which began in August, have battered Balochistan and Sindh provinces.
Could the Minister of International Cooperation please inform the House how Canada is responding to pleas for relief?
International Co-operation
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Bev Oda Minister of International Cooperation
Yes, Mr. Speaker, Pakistan is once again suffering from a flood this year. Last year, when I visited Sindh province, I saw how floods can devastate families and children.
Canada did its part last year and will do so again, with $11 million this year to help Pakistan.
Canadians know that our government will ensure that victims get the food, clean water and health care they need.
Financial Institutions
Oral Questions
October 24th, 2011 / 3 p.m.
Glenn Thibeault Sudbury, ON
Mr. Speaker, Canadian consumers need protection from the predatory practices of the banks and credit card companies.
Excessive interest rates and high ATM fees hit consumers' wallets, while skyrocketing merchant fees make prices higher in Canada than our neighbours to the south, yet the Minister of Finance and the approach of the government have little effect.
Will the minister now admit that his approach is not working and agree to pass binding legislation to protect Canadian families, as outlined in the NDP motion passed by this House in 2009?
Financial Institutions
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Jim Flaherty Minister of Finance
Mr. Speaker, as the hon. member probably knows, one of the Senate committees has been asked by me, in my capacity as Minister of Finance, to have a look at cross-border pricing.
The committee is already hearing witnesses. I appeared before the committee last week. I look forward to the Senate committee reporting back with the facts. I would be happy to share those facts with the hon. member.
Public Safety
Oral Questions
3:05 p.m.
Elizabeth May Saanich—Gulf Islands, BC
Mr. Speaker, my question today for the Prime Minister is in relation to the fact that in the next few days we will be seeing the Canadian office of the International Association of Firefighters, representing 22,000 Canadian professional firefighters, on Parliament Hill asking us for three specific things.
They are looking for a national public safety officer compensation benefit, for access to vaccines and anti-virals in the case of a flu pandemic and for changes to national building codes to make it safer for them when they do their job.
Will government members commit that we can get this done for our firefighters?
Public Safety
Oral Questions
3:05 p.m.
Vic Toews Minister of Public Safety
Mr. Speaker, we work very closely with the firefighters on a number of issues and we continue to look forward to working with them.
I might point out the specific example that our government brought in with respect to hazardous materials and the moneys we paid in that respect to help train the trainers. We also brought forward the tax credit for volunteer firefighters, which the opposition parties voted against, which was very unfortunate.
Certificates of Nomination
Routine Proceedings
3:05 p.m.
Peter Van Loan Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 111.1, I have the honour to table, in both official languages, a certificate of nomination, with biographical notes, for the proposed appointment of Michael Ferguson as Auditor General of Canada. I request that the nomination be referred to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts.


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Cessna's CitationAir has stopped selling fractional shares as well as memberships in its Jet Access program and has ceased renewals for current customers. The Connecticut-based company–which is refocusing efforts on its jet card and jet management businesses–will honor existing fractional and Jet Access contracts until they expire. It will then buy back fractional shares "in accordance with our customers' agreements." Customers who want to stay with CitationAir will need to transition to a jet card.
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House of Commons Hansard #107 of the 37th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was finance.
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Her Excellency the Governor General transmits to the House of Commons the Supplementary Estimates (A) of sums required for the public service of Canada in the fiscal year ending on March 31, 2002, and, in accordance with section 54 of the Constitution Act, 1867, recommends these estimates to the House of Commons.
Government Response to Petitions
Routine Proceedings
November 1st, 2001 / 10 a.m.
Halifax West
Nova Scotia
Geoff Regan Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36(8) I have the honour to table, in both official languages, the government's response to two petitions.
Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act, 2001
Routine Proceedings
10:05 a.m.
Lawrence MacAulay for the Minister of Justice
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-40, an act to correct certain anomalies, inconsistencies and errors and to deal with other matters of a non-controversial and uncomplicated nature in the Statutes of Canada and to repeal certain provisions that have expired, lapsed or otherwise ceased to have effect.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)
Committees of the House
Routine Proceedings
10:05 a.m.
Andy Scott Fredericton, NB
Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the seventh report of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights pursuant to the order of reference of Wednesday, September 26, in relation to Bill C-15B, an act to amend the criminal code and the Firearms Act.
The committee requests a one week extension to December 6 to report the bill back to the House of Commons.
Committees of the House
Routine Proceedings
10:05 a.m.
Clifford Lincoln Lac-Saint-Louis, QC
Mr. Speaker, I have the honour to present, in both official languages, the second report of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage.
Pursuant to an order of reference dated Thursday, May 10, the committee has considered Bill C-10, an act respecting the national marine conservation areas of Canada, and agreed on Tuesday, October 30 to report it with amendments.
Canada Health Act
Routine Proceedings
10:10 a.m.
Mauril Bélanger Ottawa—Vanier, ON
moved for leave to introduce Bill C-407, an act to amend the Canada Health Act (linguistic duality).
Mr. Speaker, the bill we give first reading to this morning will add a sixth principle to the Canada Health Act so that the provinces, which administer health services, will respect linguistic duality.
Official language minorities in Canada have limited guarantees in the area of health services. The provinces must therefore show a willingness to offer health services to their minority, which is a poor guarantee, as the case of the Montfort hospital in Ontario recently revealed.
Anglophones in Quebec and francophones in the other provinces and territories are entitled to receive health care in their mother tongue, English or French, when they are at their most vulnerable, especially since the Canadian Constitution recognizes both languages as the country's official languages.
I hope we will soon have the opportunity to debate this bill in the House of Commons and then in committee.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)
Points of Order
Routine Proceedings
10:10 a.m.
Canadian Alliance
John Williams St. Albert, AB
Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order with regard to the supplementary estimates, which were tabled in the House of Commons just a few minutes ago, and vote 10 of Environment Canada and vote 10 of Natural Resources Canada.
I am rising at this time because of a reference of Marleau and Montpetit, at page 734, which states:
--members raise questions about the procedural acceptability of Estimates as early as possible so that the Chair has time to give "intelligent" consideration to these questions.
There is no doubt that the issue I am about to raise is quite serious and deserves the appropriate consideration.
Speaker Jerome also said in a ruling on December 7, 1977, at page 184 of Debates :
--supply ought to be confined strictly to the process for which it was intended, that is to say, for the purpose of putting forward by the government the estimate of money it needs, and then in turn voting by the House of that money to the government...legislation and legislated changes in substances are not intended to be part of supply, but rather ought to be part of the legislative process in a regular way...
Mr. Speaker, I also refer you to the remarks of Madam Speaker Sauvé on June 12, 1981 at page 10546 of Hansard when she said that it did not matter whether the amount spent was a large sum or simply one dollar.
As you know, Mr. Speaker, I maintain an interest in the estimates and the financial procedures of the House and I continue to be concerned that parliament has lost control of the public purse. Parliament must remain supreme, and when the government undertakes actions that I will now explain, it causes me a great deal of concern.
I also want to refer you to a motion tabled in the other place on June 14, 2001 at page 1192 of the Debates of the Senate of which I am sure you are no doubt aware. It states:
The actions of the Government of Canada in creating a private sector corporation as a stand-in for the Foundation now proposed in Bill C-4, and the depositing of $100 million of taxpayer's money with that corporation, without the prior approval of Parliament, is an affront to the members of both Houses of Parliament.
The Committee requests that the Speaker of the Senate notify the Speaker of the House of Commons of the dismay and concern of the Senate with this circumvention of parliamentary process
The Auditor General of Canada has expressed serious concerns with the events surrounding a $100 million grant to the Canada Foundation for Sustainable Development Technology of which $50 million has actually been paid out. These concerns were contained in her observations on page 1.34 to 1.38 of the Public Accounts of Canada for 2000-01, which were tabled in the House on September 27.
In March 2001 a not for profit corporation named the Foundation for Sustainable Development Technology in Canada was established by four Canadian citizens under part 2 of the Canada Corporations Act. Later the same month a funding agreement was signed between the Government of Canada and this corporation.
On March 22, the treasury board approved a temporary transfer of $25 million to vote 10 of Environment Canada and $25 million to vote 10 of Natural Resources Canada. The funds were to come from the government contingency vote, which is vote 5 under the treasury board's vote 5.
On April 5 the treasury board advised Environment Canada and Natural Resources Canada that they each had the authority to transfer $25 million to vote 10 from the treasury board's vote 5. On April 9, $25 million was paid to the corporation and charged to Natural Resources Canada vote 10. On April 11, $25 million was paid to the corporation and charged Environment Canada vote 10.
While the Appropriation Act No. 2, Bill C-29, received royal assent on June 14 providing Environment Canada for 2001-02 spending authority for vote 10 in the amount of $2.85 million for the grants listed in the estimates and Bill C-29 provided Natural Resources Canada with 2001-02 spending authority in the amount of $0.6 million for the grants listed in the estimates, these amounts did not include the two amounts of $25 million each since they were transferred from vote 5.
Today the President of the Treasury Board has tabled supplementary estimates which provide supplementary spending authority of $50 million to vote 10 for each of Environment Canada and Natural Resources Canada. The full amount for the foundation, I believe, is listed separately in the grants section of these two departments. When the bill receives royal assent, I expect that treasury board vote 5 will be replenished for the $25 million advanced to the two departmental votes in April 2001. I also understand that $25 million is expected to be paid by each of Natural Resources Canada and Environment Canada in January 2002 and charged to their respective vote 10.
Essentially, the government is appropriating money in one fiscal year, placing it into a separate account and spending it in future years. This is unacceptable. I refer you, Mr. Speaker, to Marleau and Montpetit at page 741 which says:
The Chair has cautioned that an Appropriation Act gives authority only for a single year and is therefore not appropriate for expenditure which is meant to continue for a longer period, or indefinitely.
That is what we have here. A foundation has been created with money appropriated by parliament which is meant to continue indefinitely.
The auditor general states in her observation at page 1.37 of the Public Accounts of Canada for 2000-01:
However, I question whether it was appropriate for the Government to use a general contingency vote to provide $50 million in temporary authority so the departments could make the grant payments to the Corporation, all before Bill C-4 received royal assent
Bill C-4 was given first reading in the House on February 2, 2001. The bill proposed the creation of the Canada Foundation for Sustainable Development Technology and proposed that any corporation proposed under part II of the Canada Corporations Act continue as the foundation.
Bill C-4 did not receive royal assent as the Canada Foundation for Sustainable Development Act until June 14. Prior to the House voting on supply, with specific funds for the corporation, which subsequently became a foundation, the government and the corporation signed a funding agreement on March 26. The government then transferred $25 million to the corporation on April 9 and $25 million on April 11, yet the request for supply has just been tabled in the House today, November 1, which is almost nine months later.
Members of the House as far back as 1971 have repeatedly objected to the government's use of estimates and appropriation acts as vehicles to spend money on programs that have not received legislative authority. Your predecessors, Mr. Speaker, have struck votes from the estimates several times: March 10, 1971; March 22, 1977; December 7, 1977; March 25, 1981; June 12, 1981; June 21, 1981; March 21, 1983; and March 21, 1984.
I refer you to the ruling of Mr. Speaker Jerome on March 22, 1977 at page 4221 of the Debates which states:
--the government receives from parliament the authority to act through the passage of legislation and receives the money to finance such authorized action through the passage by parliament of an appropriation act.
The auditor general continues in her observation to state on page 1.37 of the Public Accounts of Canada:
I also question Government statements that the Corporation had to be established and the funds transferred to it quickly or the spending...would lapse. Parliament had not granted any spending authority for 2000-2001; therefore, there was no spending authority to lapse.
This is a typical way in which this government appropriates and spends money without parliamentary approval. Let us not forget that parliament is supreme. The Prime Minister and his cabinet have no authority to spend the tax dollars of Canadians without prior approval of the House.
Standing Order 80(1) of the House is clear: It states:
All aids and supplies granted to the Sovereign by the Parliament of Canada are the sole gift of the House of Commons,...
That is the reason why the Magna Carta was signed away back in 1215, to remove the arbitrary power of the monarch and to replace it with the representatives of the people, who either approve or reject the government's spending proposal. As the saying goes, no taxation without representation.
The auditor general states in her opinion that it is likely parliament will approve the supplementary estimates, but that is no reason or excuse for the government to assume that the House will respond to its beck and call. If we are to be a rubber stamp where whatever the government proposes, it assumes we will approve, and whenever the government acts without our authority it assumes it will get it, then we might as well all go home.
I have stood in the House before and said that you have the title of Speaker because you speak for all of us. If this place matters to anyone, then in my opinion you must rule these votes out of order.
I concur with the auditor general who stated:
Finally, should Parliament not approve the Supplementary Estimates and thereby not give retroactive approval of the spending authority for the $50 million already paid to the Corporation, my reading of Vote 10 for both Environment Canada and Natural Resources Canada leads me to conclude that these two $25 million payments could not be charged to that Vote. This is because the grants to the Corporation do not fit within any of the classes of grants currently described in the Estimates of those departments.
Again, I draw your attention, Mr. Speaker, to the auditor general's conclusion that there has been no authority granted by parliament for this expenditure, which already has taken place.
If the House does not approve the supplementary estimates, the government would be required to obtain the return of the $50 million from the corporation, since no money may be paid out of the consolidated revenue fund without the authority of parliament. Yet the government is bound by its funding agreement with the corporation, and any action to recover funds would put the government in breach of the agreement. Quite simply, parliament has lost control of the public purse and $50 million of taxpayer money. Fifty million dollars is now outside the scope of the Financial Administration Act. This is completely unacceptable.
The auditor general concludes with strong language. She says:
I certainly hope that in the rest of my tenure...I will not see another such series of events carried out to achieve a desired accounting result.
I would also point out that the auditor general who was appointed this spring has almost 10 years left in her mandate. I am glad to see that the auditor general, an officer of parliament, is standing up for due process and proper control of the public purse in the country.
It is clear that the government has used smoke and mirrors to achieve its goal. In anticipation that the House would approve Bill C-4, it set up a private corporation with four shareholders, thinking that it could subsequently legitimize the foundation by having Bill C-4 approved and that this corporation, under the Canada Corporations Act, would be swallowed up by the foundation created under Bill C-4.
The government could not wait for parliament to speak and approve the legislation. It could not wait for parliament to speak and vote supply. Its arrogant, presumptuous attitude says that it will take this place for granted and whatever it wants, the members will do.
I ask you today, Mr. Speaker, to speak on behalf of all parliamentarians and state clearly and unequivocally that this place matters and that before the Government of Canada spends the money, we approve the request in the House.
Therefore I am asking that you rule both vote 10 of Environment Canada and vote 10 of Natural Resources Canada out of order and demonstrate once and for all that parliament is the guardian of the public purse.
Points of Order
Routine Proceedings
10:25 a.m.
Don Boudria Minister of State and Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Mr. Speaker, I intend to speak only briefly on this because virtually the identical issue was raised in parliament some months ago by the member, almost word for word. I wonder whether this is developing into a tradition, almost, that every time estimates or supplementary estimates are tabled the same point is ruled on. The Speaker has ruled on this before and I am almost tempted to say see my previous speech and see the Speaker's ruling last time. That would about end the contribution there.
However I would like to take a moment to talk about the estimates process to indicate certainly the goodwill of the government in this regard. First, in regard to the integrity of the entire process, it is this government that has initiated pre budget committee contributions of members. As a matter of fact, the prebudget debate in the House will be held in the House today. What a day on which to talk about parliament being emasculated or whatever the words were that were used by the hon. member. They were words which I certainly do not agree with.
Also as further evidence of the commitment of all of us to have parliament in the loop, as it were, we have modified the standing orders under the modernization committee and its report, the result of which is that a number of estimates, where the opposition is dissatisfied, will now be discussed right on the floor of the House of Commons. These are all initiatives supported by the entire House, mind you, but initiated by the government in an attempt to make the estimate process more transparent.
Finally, the hon. member is referring to what he says are expenditures that are done without statutory authority and he buttresses his argument on the following quotation at page 735 of Marleau and Montpetit, which refers to a decision made by a previous Speaker:
--supply ought to be confined strictly to the process for which it was intended; that is to say, for the purpose of putting forward by the government the estimate of money it needs, and then in turn voting by the House of that money to the government...legislation and legislated changes in substance are not intended to be part of supply--
Having previously said that there was no legislation that existed for the scenario he had described, the hon. member only a few seconds later admitted that in fact the corporation was done pursuant to an act of parliament, namely the Canada Corporations Act. There appears to be a contradiction at least in that regard.
I will end my comments with that, because as I say I think it is quite clear that the Speaker has ruled on a virtually identical proposition in the past. If my memory serves me right, and I believe it does, he ruled that the standing orders of the House had not been breached.
Points of Order
Routine Proceedings
10:30 a.m.
The Speaker
The Chair will certainly take the matter under advisement. I do not recall the argument being made before this Speaker, but it is possible that it has happened and my mind has perhaps allowed it to escape.
I will look into the matter and get back to the House in due course, looking diligently for the precedent referred to by the hon. government House leader of course.
I thank both hon. members for their intervention.
Committees of the House
Routine Proceedings
10:30 a.m.
Canadian Alliance
Howard Hilstrom Selkirk—Interlake, MB
Mr. Speaker, I move that the second report of the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food, a report concerning the future role of government in the grains and oilseeds sector, presented to the House on Tuesday, June 12, be concurred in. The member for Athabasca in Alberta, who seconds the motion, also has a real concern about agriculture issues in the House.
The interim report that the standing committee on agriculture put forward was based on the presentations of a number of farm groups and farmers, which set out the point that the safety net programs in place for agriculture at the present time in many of the provinces are not sufficient to take care of the financial problems and the other issues in agriculture that demand and need attention.
We have just heard a debate on a point of order in regard to the authority of parliament to maintain control of spending so that the Prime Minister and the cabinet do not just run off and spend money without the authority of parliament. In regard to agriculture, parliament should also maintain and be involved in this issue over and above what the minister of agriculture and the cabinet feel and deem to be the appropriate actions in regard to safety nets and what they deem to be the appropriate vision of agriculture for the future.
The last position of the minister of agriculture was simply that he would like to wait and see at some point down the road how the safety net programs are working. Then, if he sees that they are not working that well, he would try to take some action or go to cabinet to see if something can be done. That clearly is not sufficient.
In our report from the agriculture committee, just to re-emphasize to the members in the House how important agriculture is to the Canadian economy, we state things very clearly, and when I say we I am talking for all members of the committee on all sides, both government and opposition members, because we put this report through with full agreement. One sentence in that report states:
It is worth noting that the agri-food sector generates $130 billion per year and employs 1.8 million people.
We put that in the report because we wanted to emphasize to the House the importance of agriculture and to put forward to the minister the fact that his vision of the future of agriculture did not seem to be working for those farm families producing the food and in essence really struggling to make a go of it, particularly in the grain and oilseeds sector.
The report also refers to the fact that the farm income safety net has improved in recent years and is helping grain producers in Canada, but the slump in the grain and oilseeds industry seems to require more than one solution. With this in mind. the standing committee held hearings on the future role of the government in the grain and oilseeds sector.
That is the situation we are in right now. It has been exacerbated by the massive drought in Alberta and Saskatchewan in particular and by the extremely dry conditions that stretched from Prince Edward Island, where potatoes of course are one of the main crops, through to the other maritime provinces and Quebec and Ontario and also to British Columbia.
We need to continue to address agriculture in these times of security issues. The House has to spend the majority of its time on the war against terrorism but we cannot forget that we need to bring forward these other issues that are tremendously important to the average Canadian, to the average farmer and the average farmer's spouse and children who have to make a living in this country and who, by doing so, contribute significantly to the well-being of all Canadians. As we all know, food is number one after security.
I believe that to this point the minister of agriculture and the cabinet have not adequately addressed not only the drought issue but the issue of the safety nets. Farmers in every province are telling the minister that the safety nets do not work. They need improvement. Farmers see little or no action from the cabinet and the agriculture minister in making those improvements. Many suggestions have come forward and I will deal with a few of them in my speech.
I mentioned the impact of the drought. The grain and oilseeds sector, primarily based in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, has been impacted most by this drought situation. The safety net programs were not working for the grain and oilseeds sector before the drought and now we have the drought on top of that.
The minister already knows that the safety net programs are not working and that the time for action is now as opposed to waiting until Christmas or 2002 or 2003 before any action is taken in that regard.
The impact of the drought is of course particularly hard on the cattle producers of western Canada. The pastures have run out of grazing material for livestock. Ranchers have had to bring their cattle back from pasture early and are buying feed at very high prices, at $100 a tonne. That is a very high price for hay and that is what farmers and ranchers are paying now to keep their livestock alive.
With regard to the grain and oilseeds impacts, a Statistics Canada survey of 5,900 Saskatchewan farmers suggests that spring wheat production will fall by over 20% from last year. I think that figure is being revised all the time to show that it will be even worse. Canola production will be down over 38%. Durum wheat will fall by 49%. A lot of these crops are the very crops that are exported outside the country. They earn foreign hard currency which is then brought back into the country and makes us all wealthier. The grain and oilseeds sector is not simply circulating cash inside Canada and not creating any wealth.
The farm family in the grain and oilseeds sector that is trying to make a go of it on a zero net income or a net income of maybe $10,000 or $15,000 a year is creating wealth for the country and making all of us better off. I mentioned the figure of $130 billion a year in economic activity and the large number of jobs that rely on this sector.
In Saskatchewan alone the effect of the drought is estimated to be costing over $770 million. The province of Saskatchewan is asking for additional financing from the federal government. The Saskatchewan party is leading the charge in Saskatchewan to have the federal government shoulder its responsibility and do something that will keep the sector in Saskatchewan viable. There is serious consideration being given to the fact that many farms will go bankrupt.
That is not just a shallow statement. I was speaking with credit union officials in my riding. While we did not discuss individual farmers, we did discuss the overall situation on the farm. Massive numbers of farmers are having to go to their financial institutions to ask for restructuring of their lines of credit and mortgages on which they are no longer able to make payments. What they are doing is extending them over longer periods of time and trying to lower the amount of the payments.
Even the Farm Credit Corporation is having to collect back only interest in some cases and is not even trying to get the principal repayment. This is the situation in the grains and oilseeds sector in particular. That is why the standing committee on agriculture put forward this interim report to try to get attention from the minister at an earlier point than when we finish our hearings.
In regard to the hearings, the chairman of the committee came to the House and asked for moneys to be appropriated in order to travel and get input from farmers across the country.
At this point it is still quite up in the air as to whether we will get any funding to hold the hearings. The hearings are necessary to bring farm issues to the House. We need to hear evidence from presentations in the cities or on the surrounding farms and bring the evidence back to the House for the benefit of the minister and cabinet.
I can only encourage the House and all members of parliament to make it known that the agriculture committee is important enough to receive funding to do the necessary work.
In regard to what must be done, we do not always need large amounts of money put into the agriculture sector in the area of subsidies. There are many things that could be done.
I will start with a provincial issue although we do not have any authority in the House to do anything directly about it. I will point out and provide moral support to the issue of taxes on farm land, the prairies in particular because I am the most familiar with them, but also across the country where education taxes are falling on the farmland bases.
The individual farm family is paying an awful lot more in property taxes in regard to the education tax portion than the family living in a town or a city. That is because farmers have had to have a larger land base and there are fewer of them. This unfairness is something I hope provincial governments across the country are looking at. I hope they can find a better way to finance education by doing it more on the idea that those who are able to pay should pay. That of course has to do with net income.
I have already pointed out that many farm families have a low or negative net income. Still, the burden of these taxes are on these families and they have no choice but to pay. If they do not pay their property and education taxes their land will be seized and disposed of and they will be totally out of business.
We must improve our existing safety net programs to ensure they meet the needs of farmers. Here are some examples of the needed changes.
The crop insurance program needs to be improved to ensure it covers all the costs producers incur in seeding their crops. Regulations surrounding natural disasters must be amended to ensure farmers can receive compensation for inputs lost due to natural disasters.
We saw what happened in southwest Manitoba and southeast Saskatchewan a couple of years ago when the massive rains came throughout the spring. The farmers were not able to seed any crops. They lost all the inputs they had put into getting ready to produce a crop that year. They received no compensation whatsoever under the natural disaster provisions of the federal government because their losses were not considered to be infrastructure. However they were every bit as costly as if a building had been torn down by a flood.
If a better system had been in place farmers in southeast Saskatchewan and southwest Manitoba would have received disaster assistance for their flooded farmland back in 1998.
The net income stabilization account must be made more accessible to farmers in need. For example, instead of requiring the government's contribution to be brought out when farmers first accesses NISA, why can they not take out the portion they contributed and already paid taxes on? The money is theirs. Farmers could take it back out and leave in the government portion that is taxable.
People may ask why that would matter if a farmer is not making any net income on the farm. Individual farmers are subsidizing their farms by working off farm. Many farmers and/or their spouses work off farm and use the money to support the farm. They therefore have a taxable income although the farm portion is in a loss position. That is one change that could be made.
In regard to NISA, the minister has been well aware for some time that the expenses farmers pay for grain handling and transportation costs, which they pay from the farm gate right to the export point, are not eligible expenses for the calculation of NISA contributions.
This is a thing the government could change. Up to this point the government has been arguing that it cannot allow those expenses because the farmer is not the shipper and the wheat board is not the shipper. That was cleared up in the last agreement among the wheat board, the grain companies and the railways. They agreed that the wheat board is the shipper of grains and that as a result there should be no impediment whatsoever to having these as an allowable expense under the NISA program. There needs to be a modernization of the grain handling and transportation system.
Representatives of the wheat board appeared before the committee today and we were discussing the issue of GM crops and how to produce them. GM crops have tremendous potential to be a boon to humanity and mankind. The question of how we modernize the systems of grain handling and production is being resisted by groups like Greenpeace and other NGOs that feel progress should literally be stopped in regard to GM crops.
As I have said, wheat board representatives are here talking about these issues and trying to find solutions. I give them all the credit in the world for that. However the government and the Minister of Transport sit there and continue to rely on big regulation and big government instead of having a modern transportation system. We know from past experience when the government owned CN Rail that big government regulation does not work.
It is time the agriculture minister, the transport minister, the minister responsible for the wheat board and the entire cabinet get their acts together and put agriculture in the priorities of the government where it should be.
Committees of the House
Routine Proceedings
10:50 a.m.
Don Boudria Minister of State and Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Mr. Speaker, I move:
That the debate be now adjourned.
Committees of the House
Routine Proceedings
10:50 a.m.
The Acting Speaker (Mr. Bélair)
Is it the pleasure of the House to adopt the motion?
Committees of the House
Routine Proceedings
10:50 a.m.
Some hon. members
Committees of the House
Routine Proceedings
10:50 a.m.
Some hon. members
Committees of the House
Routine Proceedings
10:50 a.m.
The Acting Speaker (Mr. Bélair)
All those in favour of the motion will please say yea.


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Gowanda hears how Cattaraugus County can help
GOWANDA – The Department of Economic Development, Planning and Tourism for Cattaraugus County is looking to help municipalities in Cattaraugus County, including Gowanda.
Director of Cattaraugus County Economic Development, Planning and Tourism Director Crystal Abers addressed the Gowanda Village Board. Abers spoke on how the county can help the village with development opportunities. All the different economic development agencies within the county meet biweekly to promote local development.
"In the past when someone would come to us interested in development, … we would send them to the next person and they would send them to the next," Abers said. "Instead of that individual having to make three or four stops to get what they need, they come one time to us; we work together to come up with a package and present that to them."
Abers said that if the village has properties available for development, a form is filled out and filed with the county. Buffalo Niagara Enterprise and the county Industrial Development Agency are both organizations that work with Abers' office. If either organization wants land to develop, they will go through Abers and she will connect them with municipalities based on the forms filed with the county.
She also spoke of the county hazard mitigation plan. According to Abers, the village participated in the past and there is no cost to the village to be a part of. The hazard mitigation plan has to be applied for every five years.
"You have to submit it every five years and that's so you're eligible for hazard mitigation dollars," she said.
The village also reminded residents to place garbage stickers on bags before being placed out to the curb and sent a letter of support for the flood risk feasibility study. The Department of Environmental Conservation is the non-federal sponsor.
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered remarks on youth at a Town Hall in Tunis, Tunisia on February 25, 2012. Secretary Clinton said, "Now, the future is always somewhat uncertain, but what is certain to me is that it will be the young people of Tunisia who determine what the future will be. And many have asked: Why after so many years did change finally come to Tunisia and that change here in Tunisia spark change across the Arab world? And why did young people here in Tunisia strike the first blows for freedom and opportunity?
"Well, the first and general answer is that the rights and dignity of human beings cannot be denied forever, no matter how oppressive a regime may be. The spirit of human rights and human dignity lives within each of us, and the universal aspirations have deep and lasting power. A second reason is that you belong to a remarkable generation of young people, not only here in Tunisia, but across the world. It is an optimistic, innovative, impatient young people that I see everywhere I travel. Because in addition to your own courage and determination, there are underlying dynamics that are affecting young people everywhere -- changes in demographics and technology, economics and politics that are bringing together this unique moment in history.
"Young people are at the heart of today's great strategic opportunities and challenges, from rebuilding the global economy to combating violent extremism to building sustainable democracies. And I have fought, as some of you know -- some of the women that I was just saying hello to who are leading change here in Tunisia -- I have fought for years to put women's empowerment on the international agenda. I think it's time to put youth empowerment there as well.
"Now I realize, being young, you may be skeptical. It was a long time ago, but I remember being young myself. But the needs and concerns of young people have been marginalized too long by political and economic leaders. And the fact is today, the world ignores youth at its peril, because just look at the demographics. From Latin America to the Middle East to Sub-Saharan Africa to Southeast Asia, we are seeing what experts call a youth bulge. There are now more than 3 billion people under the age of 30 in the world. Ninety percent of them live in the developing world. And the numbers continue to grow.
"And you are living in a world that your parents, and certainly your grandparents, could never have imagined -- satellite television, the internet, Facebook. My late mother used to say, 'What is this about faces on the internet?' (Laughter.) And new communications technologies shrink your world but expand your horizons. Now everybody can see how others are living -- living in prosperity, dignity, and freedom, and they rightly want those things for themselves. And we can also see, as we have seen, terribly over the last weeks, what's happening in Syria. And I really commend the Tunisian Government for hosting the conference which was held yesterday."
Secretary Clinton continued, "So here's what the United States is trying to do. We're forming youth councils at our embassies and consulates to have direct contact with young people like yourselves, because for every problem, we want to seek a solution. We've also created an Office of Global Youth Issues in Washington to ensure ways to partner with you. And we have a young 24-year-old activist, Ronan Farrow, who's here today, who is our advisor on global youth issues.
"To paraphrase Steve Jobs, we not only need to think different; we need to think big, because if we don't, we will miss this moment in history. Now what do young people want? I think they want the same thing as what all of us want -- peace, prosperity, and dignity, a chance to participate, a chance for your voices and your votes to be heard and counted.
"And there are tried and true approaches that work. In economics, we need to encourage entrepreneurship. And we have here representatives from NAPEO. Where are our NAPEO representatives? We have Tunisians who have been successful in business who are partnering with us and others to create more economic opportunities. It is focused primarily on creating jobs for young people. And we've created the Global Entrepreneurship Program that connects investors with young people who have good ideas and are willing to work hard to see them realized.
"For example, this past fall, we sent a delegation of American investors and business leaders to Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria to meet and mentor young entrepreneurs. One of the people they met was a 25-year-old Algerian who is pioneering new e-commerce tools for communities with limited access to financial services. He came from a poor village in Algeria, and he knew that the people in his village did not have access to credit, did not have access to markets, yet they had cell phones. So using cell phones, he is providing applications that give people access to credit, to mobile banking, to information about how to start a business and how to build a business plan. An accomplished Tunisian scientist along with other Tunisian entrepreneurs have received scholarships to study business and further develop their ideas in America.
"We're going to build a momentum by organizing a Global Youth Jobs Alliance to bring in more partners and reach more people. And one area we're going to emphasize is expanding English language training all over the world, and especially here in Tunisia, because English has become the language of commerce, and to great extent the language of the internet, although obviously it's available in other languages. But it serves as a port of entry into the global economy. The Peace Corps is returning to Tunisia, and they will be emphasizing speaking English. We're using the internet to do English language instruction. We're already helping thousands of Tunisian young people with job placement and skills training. And we want to expand university educational exchange programs between the United States and Tunisia. This spring, a team of expert educators from America will travel to the Maghreb to build new links with regional business schools and training centers.
"Ultimately, we know what government needs to do. They need to crack down on corruption wherever it occurs, crack down on cronyism wherever it occurs, and diversify their economies and open their markets. I hear sometimes from leaders in this region that there is a certain fear about opening their economies, but I think that does a great disservice to the people of these countries that have so much energy, and especially to young people. Opening the economies will particularly advantage the young people of Tunisia and other places."
Secretary Clinton concluded, "So I think we're at an especially important moment. And I want to speak directly to the young women who are here, and those you represent across Tunisia, the region, and around the world, because some of the obstacles that young women face are unique. In too many places in the world today, laws and customs make it harder for women to start a business, run for office, even make personal decisions. Tunisia has stood out as a place that protected the rights of women and sent a message that there was no contradiction between culture and religion and opportunity and empowerment. And so for the young women and the young men who are here, Tunisia will need all of its sons and daughters in order to have the success you are seeking.
"We know something about how hard it is to build a democracy. We have been working at it for a very long time. We are now the oldest democracy in the history of the world, but we had lots of obstacles along the way. We fought a civil war to free African Americans who had been slaves. We had to amend our Constitution to let women vote. We continue to try to perfect our democracy. So don't be too impatient, but don't be in any way complacent. You have to keep those two in mind at the same time.
"Each of you deserve the same opportunity to live up to your own God-given potential. And I am very confident -- I am very, very confident that Tunisia will be successful because of you. Thank you very much."
You can read a transcript of the Secretary's remarks here.


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I agree that mozzarella, even Grande which I use, can be a bit bland. I toss a handful of freshly grated Pecorino Romano on my pies, and it gives the whole pie a flavor kick. Mark
I actually prefer Pecorino to Parmesean when using it on pasta, why not pizza?!Thanks,Mary Ann
Our Mozzarella is soft and elastic in texture and creamy white in color. It bakes consistently to perfect stringiness and has become a standard not only on the dairy shelves, but in the institutional markets as well. Frank J. Pepe's Pizza of New Haven, where the pizza originated, uses exclusively or Mozzarella.
As you can see from Reply 4 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,3545.msg29973.html#msg29973, I inquired at Calabro about Pepe's use of their cheeses.
I admire your critical pizza expertise - but rating Grande a 4 is a bit too extreme, IMHO Mark
, keep an eye out for Calabro. you'll never go back to
Walter, that sounds like a killer recipe. Pecorino can be salty & on occasion I have had salt issues when I has salted my sauce and then add too much Pecorino Romano. The Parmegiano Reggiano is a wonderful cheese but sometimes I end up paying 20 a pound! Can you taste the difference with it?


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Youth baseball sees many young players quit
NEW ULM – "We need to make these experiences for kids learning and fun experiences and not degrading all in the name of winning."
Those were the words of New Ulm Legion Gold assistant coach Bryce Boelter, who along with Gold head coach Bob Weier, both expressed their concern about the direction that New Ulm baseball is heading particularly in the youth program.
"There are a lot of kids quitting baseball at a very young age in New Ulm," said Weier, who is also the head high school baseball coach at New Ulm Cathedral. "That is a problem that has been discussed at the high school level and at the little league level. And it is a problem that the powers that be in the New Ulm Junior Baseball Association has recognized that problem and they are discussing it – they are trying to deal with it – there is a number of reasons why this is happening."
Weier said that one of the reasons is that there are not as many kids.
"Another problem, in no particular order is that some are electing to play other sports and another factor is that kids quit because they are not having fun," Weier said. "They are not given an opportunity to play baseball – some are labeled too soon on whether they are a good ballplayer or not. Some kids are good ballplayers right out of the chute while some kids are late bloomers.
"At the age of 10 or 11, if you are a good ballplayer and you are selected to those tournament teams, you seem to have that spot solidified," Weier said. "And the kids who are not selected and if they are not selected for a couple of years in a row, they begin to think why should I stick this out -these are the same kids that I am going to school with. I go to high school and I will not be playing that either so why stick it out?"
Weier said that at Cathedral his program gets players who want to pitch.
"But they have never been given a chance to pitch or they have been given a chance, have failed and are now shoved to the end," he said. "We found a couple of players who had never pitched and they did okay for us. The same thing goes for the Legion team the last three years – we are using kids who have thrown very little in high school but have been given an opportunity and have done okay for us."
New Ulm dropped Legion Blue this year because of a lack of numbers.
"That was a total shock to me." Weier said. "We knew that the numbers were kind of slim. We lose ballplayers every year. I think that it is essential for New Ulm baseball at the high school, legion and amateur level that the legion program has four teams – two VFW and two legion teams. In high school you need a team to cover all of the grades from 7-12 so that you can develop ballplayers. It hurts when you have a gap in there. Going down to one legion team is a huge detriment to New Ulm baseball – one program feeds the other."
"It not only effects the players who do not come out but think of the players who are out for these teams but because others did not come out they are missing those experiences," Boelter said. "Maybe they are pulled up or pushed down and they are not experiencing their chronical baseball education because of numbers that are not there. Sixth graders should learn the fundamentals of sixth grade and be prepared for seventh grade. Baseball is very chronological in skills just because of physical abilities and attributes that it takes to play this game."
Both Weier and Boelter are also surprised by the lack of baseball fundamentals when they arrive at the legion level.
"In the three years that we have coached Legion Gold, what we have done in practice and what we have organized and set before we have found out what the kids do not know about fundamental baseball," Boelter said. "Footwork and hand work and team play. There have been many occasions where we have introduced something, talked about it and go through it and the kids give us this blank look on their faces. Now we have to drop back and quite honestly we have to re-teach what years ago was probably taught in the eighth or ninth grade baseball level but has been skipped because of a lack of qualified practices where coaches do not know what to teach. When we get these players on the legion level we find ourselves dropping back in years trying to get them back up to speed. It makes coaching difficult to prepare kids for these situations when you have to drop back and teach them things they should have already known years ago."
Boelter said that there is a certain amount of knowledge that a person gains after high school baseball.
"Around here we are very local," he said. "Many of the coaches on the junior level are very local. We both attend baseball clinics and go to baseball seminars and we keep updated and studying the game of baseball. We try and pass on to kids what we think. In a nutshell, we are trying to make complete baseball players but there have been gaps skipped along the way."
Weier said that at the lower levels, he would like to see "a positive teaching-filled practice so the kids could learn and have some fun. That is hard to do. There is a wonderful indoor hitting facility here in New Ulm – the board that did that did a wonderful thing for the city but I am not sure it is being utilized to its fullest. And I do not know if I would at the ages of eight and nine use a pitching machine. I would use short toss."
"We need to have our program at the lower level be fun, learning and inclusive," Boelter said. "The one word that you do not see there is win. We need to teach, make better use of our facilities. I think that the New Ulm Junior Baseball Board should send out questionnaires to both parents and players and ask how do you feel this summer went, did you learn more about baseball and did you feel you were a part of a team atmosphere. None of this includes winning – it all involves about caring about the kids who come out about baseball because without them, you do not have a program, youth or amateur. Kids do not like to be made inferior at the youth level. We need to make these experiences fun experiences not degrading all in the name of winning."


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Four Perfect Days Running Costa Brava - Page 3
Photo by Chris Hunter
I hesitate, wondering what he has in store. Pablo veers off the trail and hops wildly from boulder to boulder next to the water. Without breaking stride, he flicks off his sandals, yanks off his top and sprints off the end of a wooden diving board, hitting the water with a sploosh.
By now I know Pablo well enough to know he won't let me off the hook. Reluctantly I remove my pack and unlace my shoes. My hyper-efficient tendencies—which serve me well in ultramarathons—kick in and I feel slightly annoyed with the delay. After all, we'd only covered a few miles and many more remain. As I stand there contemplating, Chris sprints past me and enthusiastically takes the leap. But my clothes will get soaked and I'll have to change and reapply sunscreen and we still have a long way to go …
The shock of plunging into the frigid sea is the face slap I deserve. Hauling myself onto the rocks with water streaming from my clothes, I laugh at my uptightness. Remember, Elinor, you're on vacation; there is no schedule, no objective.
After changing into dry clothes at the car, Chris and I follow the GPS's arrow pointing us inland. We miss the ocean's cool breeze and sweat under the sun's rays. Our feet sink into the sandy trail that takes us through a tree plantation. As we gain elevation, it turns to firm doubletrack surrounded by natural forest. After cresting the hilltop, we rocket down the other side until we reach a pancake-flat road leading us to the medieval city of Pals.
Traversing the ancient stone fortifications encircling Pals—reputedly Christopher Columbus' port of departure—cars and paved roads are replaced with pedestrians and narrow cobblestone streets. Being in Pals feels like visiting another era. At the center of its beautifully restored Gothic Quarter is a 13th-century Romanesque tower called Torre de les Hores, from where sentries would scan the horizon for pirates and other invaders.
It's all we can do to keep up with Pablo as he darts along streets so narrow my outstretched hands touch the buildings on either side. He abruptly halts in front of a small wooden door and motions us to sit at one of the three slim metal tables out front.
"We're here!" he declares.
Chris and I glance at one another, wondering what "here" means.
"Our run is done for today; now it's time for beer!"
We cheer and step through the small doorway into a room barely wide enough for a bar and a row of bar stools. We order three Estrella Damm Catalonian pilsners and take a seat outside in the warm sunshine.
Before long, Pablo reminds us that the day is not over; we have a spa appointment. A short drive takes us to Mas de Torrent, a luxury hotel of the prestigious Relais & Château Group. We walk through the hotel's manicured landscape to Mas Spa, a zen-inspired ultra-modern spa tucked into a lush garden. For the next two hours, hot-water jets massage my tired muscles, an ice-cold plunge pool flushes the soreness from my joints and rosemary-infused bath products refresh my senses.
Later that evening we drive to Mas Camangau hotel in the nearby town of Begur, and the owner, Miguel, greets us like old friends. His grey-streaked hair is pulled back into a short ponytail and his jovial face sports cheeks as round as his eyeglasses. Grey stone archways frame the entrance to each room of the 200-year-old-farmhouse-turned-boutique hotel, giving it a cozy yet regal ambiance.
Miguel leads us out a back door and down more steps into a garden patio. "Your room is in the back where the horses were kept," Miguel says with a chuckle. The old barn-wood door with iron fixtures opens to a charming room with a vaulted ceiling and modern amenities.
At what is normally my bedtime, Chris and I take our seats in the hotel's restaurant, where Miguel announces that he has arranged a special tasting menu for us. The first delicious bite of salmon ceviche served with vichyssoise sets the tone for what is a five-course feast of Catalonian delicacies. Between gulps of local red wine we savor bites of hand-made aubergine ravioli served with mussels and rosemary, then delicate fish filets on a tomato purée topped with olive tapenade and chives, followed by thinly sliced roasted duck topped with a sweet sauce made with strawberries, raspberries and sherry.
Every dish includes local ingredients and some personal connection to Miguel or his family.
"The father of the wife of my brother grows this melon," Miguel explains with pride when our server delivers two pieces of bisbalen, a Catalonian melon-jam-filled pastry dusted with powdered sugar. "And it tastes even better with this," he says, pouring a sweet-smelling, clear liqueur into a couple of shot glasses.
"Oh, no, none for me!" I say, thinking ahead to tomorrow's run.
"Well, I can't say no," says Chris as Miguel fills his glass for a second time.


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Not Dead Yet: The Infill of Cleveland's Urban Core
Mark Twain once said the "report of my death was an exaggeration". Perhaps the same thing can be said about the City of Cleveland.
While Cleveland's struggles are real, there are signs of a revival, particularly in Cleveland's downtown district. Moreover, select neighborhoods on the periphery of downtown are also showing signs of vitality. And while time will tell if the city is filling in its donut hole so to speak, the fact remains: there is a pulse.
Take the latest population figures in the 5 county metropolitan area. From 1990 to 2010, the City of Cleveland shrank, as did many of the suburban areas of Cuyahoga County. The growth mostly occurred in the increasingly exurban fringes of the metro, as well as on the edges of Cuyahoga County.
Except there is one outlier: downtown Cleveland. Over the last two decades, the neighborhood's population grew 96%, with residential totals increasing from 4,651 to 9,098. It was the single largest spike of any neighborhood, suburb, or county measured for the two decades under study. Downtown residential occupancy rates now stand over 95% and developers are eagerly looking to meet residential demand.
Historical analysis reveals that these trends have long been underway (see above). Before 1970, flight from the city accompanied growth in the suburbs and surrounding counties. By 1990, however, rapid growth began to materialize in downtown Cleveland. Moreover, population declines in Cleveland's inner core neighborhoods (see map for reference) bordering downtown began to slow. Between 1990 and 2000, these inner core neighborhoods broke with trends found in both outer core neighborhoods - where population loss hastens - as well in the suburban/exurban areas where population growth slows or begins to decline.
But questions remain. Are fewer people leaving the neighborhoods bordering downtown or are folks moving in? If it is the latter, are the inner core neighborhoods being "pulled up" by demographic shifts mirroring downtown's growth? Put simply: is a reverse in the donut hole in the making?
The answer is a (tentative) yes. An observed/expected analysis, performed by comparing the size of 10-year age cohort in 2000 (expected) and to its size in 2010 (observed), reveals that Cleveland's downtown re-densification may be spilling over into the adjacent inner core neighborhoods.
In downtown, there has been a remarkable jump in the size of the cohort falling between the ages of 15 to 24 in 2010. The majority of this group is made up of 22 to 24-year olds (51%), whereas 15 to 17-year olds make up only 4%. This 22 to 24-year old influx bumps up against the substantial increase also found in the 25 to 34-year old cohort. In all, this could foretell a turning point for Cleveland, since it is those areas attracting the "young and the restless" (as this cohort has been dubbed) that will be best positioned in an evolving knowledge-based economy.
Trends in other inner core neighborhoods are not as clear cut. In Ohio City and Tremont-two of Cleveland's gentrifying neighborhoods-the net inmigration of 25-34 year olds mirrors the pattern downtown (The term "gentrification" is used with pause in the Rust Belt, especially given the dearth of cheap housing that has resulted from an oversupply across the whole of the region's inner cities). Given that the Cleveland metro is losing its 25 to 34-year old cohort overall, evidence points to a core resurgence as opposed to a regional trend.
That said, not all inner core neighborhoods are experiencing the same pattern. Goodrich/Kirtland Park, a near east side neighborhood, has not seen much inmigration and Central-Cleveland's poorest neighborhood with a poverty rate of over 70%-is losing population across the board. In other words, the reverse of the donut hole is tilted towards the west side of the map, which speaks to the legacy of segregation in Cleveland that still casts its shadow on the city.
Another point of interest deals with the decline of the 2010 35 to 44-year old cohort. The exodus of the child-rearing age group may neutralize the gains made with the young. Be it because of school quality or safety concerns, this group's unwillingness to stay in either downtown or inner-tier neighborhoods gives pause to policymakers and politicians alike.
So what does it all mean for Cleveland? Well, in terms of policy, there are generally two schools of thought. The first focuses on retaining middle-aged people leaving the region by encouraging the growing 25 to 34-year cohort to "age in place" so as to catalyze school and community improvements that will make the inner core more family friendly.
The second school of thought involves letting the older cohort "go" in order to make space for the younger "brain gain" group. For proponents of the so-called "churn model", such as Jim Russell, an expert on migration and economic development, the issue isn't so much the inability to retain so long as there is a constant influx of fresh ideas and talent taking place.
Said Russell, when presented with the Cleveland migration data: "the suburban/exurban migration of the older cohort will speed up revitalization and make the young adults more dominant in Downtown, Ohio City, and Tremont. The urban core is a net importer of young adults and a net exporter of old adults. That's the antithesis of a dying city."
Cleveland-the antithesis of a dying city? Quite possibly.
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Guyana Goldfields Stock Getting Very Oversold
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