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BELLAIRE – Belmont County Sheriff Dave Lucas and his department are getting the word out about a potential scam circulating through the area.
Monday, a Bellaire area resident reported and attempted internet financial scam.
Specifically, the resident advertised a house for rent and receive a response via the internet.
The inquiring individual claimed to be a 24-year-old John Yearwood who is living in the United Kingdom.
He claimed that he was relocating to the U.S. and was looking to pursue a research project with a well-known pharmaceutical company.
The subject then asked for the victim's name, address and phone number so that a rental payment check could be mailed. The subject provided an international phone number and email address to the victim.
Thursday, the victim received a check totaling $3,500 from Mr. "Yearwood."
However, the subject telephoned the victim and claimed that the check was mistakenly written $2,000 above the rental price. He asked the victim to mail a "money gram" to his address for that $2,000 to cover his moving expenses to the United States.
The victim became suspicious at this point and verified with the local bank that the check from Mr. Yearwood was not valid. The victim immediately reported this to the Belmont County Sheriff's Office.
The victim was also instructed to file a complaint at the FBI affiliated website of IC3.gov. This website receives the internet complaints and evaluates the case for intelligence and/ or investigation.
Lucas wants to warn all residents of this financial scam and to notify the Sheriff's Office at (740) 695-7934 if encountering this or any scam.


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When fresh powder starts to fall, get out on the slopes in the Marmot® Men's Motion Insulated Pants. Designed with Thermal R insulation, this pant eliminates the need for bulky layers so you stay comfortable and warm in intense winter conditions. Waterproof fabric combined with 100% seam taped 2-layer construction ensures you stay dry as you ride your favorite trails in the Motion Insulated Pants.
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Rated 5 out of 5�by Frozen up north Marmot Men's insulated Pants Great pants to put on when you hit the slopes! Great windbreaker! Hard to find sizes tall and slim enough but the Velcro adjustment (available only on some of the Marmot pants) helps to tighten them up. Have to go with a large to get enough length February 18, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5�by J Good pant with small design oversight Purchased pant for snow sports. For the price I got (40% off, I can't complain too much). Shipping was very quick - I selected free and received it earlier than the estimate. Size is accurate, but if you want some extra room for protection, like impact shorts, go a size up unless you are at the bottom end of the sizing chart. The insulation kept me warm and not sweaty during a day in the 30's. Biggest issue I had was with the front pockets. Zippers are designed to be pulled up (toward core) to close instead of down, which is my personal preference, and they have Velcro flaps to ensure pockets are sealed. However the Velcro section is really small and is designed to have the hard, prickly side, on the leg facing out and the soft side on the pocket flap that will cover over. If the pockets are left unvelcroed, the bottom part will then adhere to anything it touches - such as my jacket material - and start tearing the material up. February 13, 2014
Rated 4 out of 5�by scrubscrout Great Great pants for a great price. My only complaint is that the flaps over the pocket zippers is sewn down so tight that it makes it challenging to get into the pockets, and they catch snow on deep powder days. February 4, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5�by FunInTheSnow Very Warm and Good Quality I'm 5'10, and I wear 32/30 or 32/32 jeans. I purchased the mediums and they are a perfect fit. Also, the tags show that they are 20K/20K for waterproofing and breathability and they certainly feel that way. There are no vents but I don't think that's an issue at all. There is a bit of padding due to the insulation but the pants are not bulky. I agree with others, these are very well built and will keep you warm and dry. I would recommend them especially right now with 40% off (you end up paying around $75). I think if you order in store you might get free shipping but otherwise you can always add something to your order to exceed $99. I received them in 2 business days. For comparision: I also purchased TNF Slasher Cargo pants. They are more stylish, with the boot clip and vents, but they are not as warm. They also do not have as much insulation as these Marmot. I believe TNF are probably rated 10K/10K. March 6, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5�by Marmot Man Good pants! Caught these on sale. The pants are warm and very durable. Have not had a chance to use them yet, but Marmot has great products! I'm 6', 190lbs and bought the large. The length is just right, they're just slightly loose in the waist. They won't fall down while on the slopes though!!! Ha! February 14, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5�by MikeP Warm and dry After a long day of skiing in Park City, UT, I was very satisfied with these pants. They were warm, comfortable, and easy to wear. I initially ordered a large, because I am 30x34 in jeans and I was worried about length; the large waist was much too big, so I exchanged for the mediums, and they fit great! Would definitely suggest trying them in store if possible for the perfect fit. February 12, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5�by Sarvs Great ski/snowboard pants I bought a pair of these for a ski trip in CO and they did not disappoint. In 0 degree weather, my legs were warm in just the pants and a medium weight base layer. They are very durable, comfortable, and waterproof. February 4, 2013
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NEW?ULM – The August Schell Brewing Co. has been busy brewing beers for the coming fall and winter seasons.
Chimney Sweep, a black lager, has returned after an exciting first year. The beer was given its name as a tribute to the mysterious chimney sweeps of yesteryear who were considered a source of good luck. Chimney Sweep has a rich, roasty maltiness with notes of bittersweet chocolate and coffee. Chimney Sweep is available from October through February.
After a strong Oktoberfest season, Schell's is set to release its winter seasonal, Snowstorm. Just like every Minnesota snowstorm is different, so is the 2013 recipe. This year's Snowstorm will be a smooth Belgian-style golden ale. Chamomile and coriander add soothing herbal notes to its floral maltiness and warm, rich spiciness. Schell's Snowstorm is available from November through December.
Earlier this year, Schell's collaborated with German-based Gold Ochsen brewery for a combined 10 generations and 569 years of brewing experience to create the latest Stag Series release: August's Bock. This beer is a blond doppelbock, with a rich golden amber color, assertive hop bitterness and a robust malt character. Stag No. 8 is a limited release and will be available starting November.
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The second release from the Noble Star Series, Framboise Du Nord, will debut in mid-November. Five-thousand pounds of raspberry pure were added to 70 barrels of the initial Star of the North brew, giving this release a bright, neon red color with a pink foam head. This Berliner Weisse is refreshingly tart, dry and bursting with red raspberry flavor. Framboise Du Nord will be bottled in 750ml bottles next week and allowed to bottle condition for three weeks before being released in mid-November.


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The Pinal County Sheriff's Office Air Support Unit received its first aircraft, a 1976 Piper Super Cub which was obtained from Customs and Border Protection in March 2011. The Unit's second aircraft, a 1990 MD Helicopter 500E, was obtained in December 2011 after a lengthy procurement process. The funding was obtained from the Arizona State Legislature and signed by Governor Jan Brewer, because available air support was lacking in the county. Our third aircraft, a 1969 Hughes/MD Helicopters MH-6C was obtained in March 2012 using the LESO 1033 program and came from the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department. Prior to this, the Sheriff's Office had to ask other agencies to assist.
The Air Support Unit consists of 1 full-time helicopter pilot, 1 full-time mechanic/fixed-wing pilot, a full-time Tactical Flight Officer and 2 part-time pilots. Funding for the unit is provided by the State of Arizona and RICO (anti racketeering) seizure funds. Currently funds from the County General Fund are not utilized. We have acquired parts, equipment, tools and even a helicopter from the LESO 1033 Program Office. Use of the surplus program has allowed us to procure everything from flight helmets to a fuel truck with only 5,000 miles on it for basically the cost of shipping items.
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By SRBiologist
from Seattle, WA
About Me Scienctist
Comments about Learning Resources Primary Science Hands-on Discovery Lab:
I purchased this for a small school as I'm their science committee chair. In addition to many experiments and sensory bins, I thought this would be fun. I purchased two units and secured them to a table with velcro. However, the gloves easily detach every time a child put their hands in them. The gloves were also not easy to keep clean and resulted in mold. After only a week of use, the gloves split. I was really disappointed in the quality, although I did have reservations when I purchased it. I thought they wouldn't last long, but I thought I would get more than a week out of them in a small pre-K school setting. Guess not. I would use it at home in a controlled environment, but not anywhere else.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Fabulous Idea!
By Planet Weidknecht
from Pflugerville, Texas
About Me Parent, Teacher
Kids love science! Grown-ups hate messes! With the Hands-On Discovery Lab from Learning Resources, kids can love messy science and grown-ups can breathe easier. This see-through plastic box has a removable lid for easy filling or emptying, plus rubber gloves that attach to the front side so the entire mess stays in the box. It's a fabulous idea and I love this product!My preschoolers spied the Hands-On Discovery Lab sitting on the shelf and practically came unglued waiting until all their friends arrived so they could try it out. I have so many ideas for this box and thought we'd start with something not too messy so the children could learn the rules (for example, only the teacher gets to open the lid!). I filled it with popcorn kernels and let them take turns playing with it. Then I added water to it so we could see whether popcorn kernels sink or float (the answer is: some sink, some float) and they each waited patiently for more turns to explore the water and popcorn kernels together. I love the way the gloves are attached to the box and I love that the lid actually sits inside the lip of the top of the box. The kids and I are currently working on a list of gooey combinations we want to try in the Discovery Lab. This would be an awesome holiday gift idea!Disclosure: I received this product at no charge in exchange for my honest review.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Versatile Learning Experience
By Being MVP
from Orange, CA
This product was even better than I thought, because it is so versatile. You can use it for so many different purposes. And the Discovery Lab comes with its own Activity guide that explains how to construct a worm farm, a terrarium, and a recipe for the slippery slime. The best thing about the Discovery Lab is that all the mess is contained inside, and it is very easy to clean! The Discovery Lab is one of those toys that never grows old because you can keep reinventing new purposes for it. The Discovery Lab would be perfect for a classroom as well. I found the instruction guide to be a bit difficult to understand; some of the wording in the directions was unclear.
FUN & Education!
By Lynchburg Coupon Mama
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We recently had the opportunity to try out the Hands-On Discovery Lab! As soon as my boys opened the box, outside is where they headed! They immediately filled it up with rocks, dirt, worms and any bugs they could get their hands on. It started raining pretty hard and within a few minutes, our driveway was flooded. The boys sat on our back step and used the gloves to grab worms and bugs that were floating around. I love that the gloves can be changed out with caps so that the kids can create "bug homes" as they call them. Both of my boys are creative and made a really awesome dirt/rock/bug/worm home. They even made a little pond in it! Sadly, they dumped it out to start something new before I could get a picture :(Everything is easily washable with soap and water so when you make one mess inside, clean-up is quick and painless! We're going to try our hand at making some slime to play with - we've made it in the past and ended up getting it everywhere. Now we can make it and play with it without getting it all over my kitchen!This would be great for a teacher to have in the classroom for science lessons!
Awesome way to explore without the mess
By So Cal Coupon Mommy
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This is an awesome fun toy to allow your child to explore and play without the mess. My daughter hates to get dirty so I thought this would be a great way to allow her to try new things without all the mess and fuss of having her use her hands. We decided to make home made slime (post to follow) and put it in the discovery lab. Then we placed plastic animals and shapes inside to have her search for them. As she found them she told us what each one was. It was a lot of fun and kept her busy for hoursThe Discovery Lab comes with the lab box which is made of nice clear plastic which is very easy to clean once you are done with your adventure. You receive two latex–free gloves that lock into place on the outside to insure that the mess stays in. Plus you receive a lid for the lab which is also clear, it does have air holes for if you decide to put an animal or insect into the lab. You also receive to hole covers so when the gloves are not installed you can cover the glove holes and keep the contents inside.
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By Sweet Silly Sara
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I love finding toys that help my son learn by playing. As a psychology major I understand that play and learning have many benefits. Children develop many needed skills when they learn from playing, it also can help them to reach developmental milestones.Learning Resources offers many fabulous toys that make learning fun. In this review I want to share a really unique toy with you, the Hands-On Discovery Lab. This toy takes the mess out of hands on exploration and discovery.As the mother of a young boy, I know exactly how messy discovery can be. The Hands On Discovery Lab keeps experiments enclosed and clearly visible and allows your child to touch a variety of objects with no mess!You can cap the holes for the gloves and use as an observation station for viewing insects. My son really likes bugs, so this has been a great asset for me, I am not so fond of insects and the less I have to handle them the better!Or you can put just about anything messy inside that your little learner would want to touch and feel. I love that I don't have to endure as many discovery disasters now. I really like how easy to clean the Hands-On Discovery Lab is.I think this will be used much more in the coming years as the lab is very sturdy and durable. It is easy to keep clean with basic soap and water cleanings and it is a really fun item to enhance learning for your little ones. I would recommend it to parents of curious children. I think it would make a fabulous holiday gift or addition to a home school classroom. You can purchase the Hands-On Discovery Lab from Learning Resources.
Science without the Mess!
By Erin Lowmaster | Connected2Christ
from Oregon
The Hands on Discovery Lab was a solution to my dilemma of having to share the kitchen with my kids science experiments. This lab is really awesome and can be used for more than containing those icky sticky science projects but can be used as a observation station too!The Discovery Lab comes pretty much ready to go straight from the box. All I had to do was simply twist the non-latex glove rings into the lab structure for the specific project we were planning on doing! There are also side caps that you can use on the lab instead of you plan on doing a observation science projects instead of a hands-on one. The ventilated lid is great for anything that needs to breathe inside!The instructional activity guide that comes with the lab is very informative. It goes into to detail on how to conduct three different science projects which are as follows Working a Worm Farm, Building a Terrific Terrarium, and how to make Slippery Slime! You can do just about anything you can think up!My four year old daughter and I decided to make the Slippery Slime suggested in the activity guide. We had a blast! She really enjoyed helping me put together the ingredients we needed and then she got to play with it mess free inside the lab! The gloves fit over her hands with plenty of room for her to grow. Though it's suggested too that you can use regular household gloves too when these wear out. Clean up was a cinch too just using soap and water for the lab!One feature I wish it had was maybe a lock or some sort of tight sealfor the top of lab. That way if we decided to observe some insects or something and a tumble happened nothing would escape. Overall though, we really like the lab especially since there's promise when containing some of our science experiments that there will be no more messy clothes, dirty floor and table tops!I highly recommend Hands on Discovery Lab for any home or school classroom. It's totally fun way to observe science and get hands on without the messiness that often occurs!
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from Beebe, AR
Both of the gloves ripped at the seams. Used only once.
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Debates of Feb. 27th, 2012
House of Commons Hansard #84 of the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was agreement.
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Questions on the Order Paper
Routine Proceedings
3:50 p.m.
Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre
Tom Lukiwski Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Mr. Speaker, I ask that all questions be allowed to stand.
Questions on the Order Paper
Routine Proceedings
3:50 p.m.
The Speaker Andrew Scheer
Is that agreed?
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Routine Proceedings
3:50 p.m.
Some hon. members
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Request for Emergency Debate
Routine Proceedings
3:50 p.m.
The Speaker Andrew Scheer
The Chair has notice of two applications for an emergency debate. I will hear them in the order in which I received them.
The hon. member for Toronto Centre may go first.
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Request for Emergency Debate
Routine Proceedings
3:50 p.m.
Bob Rae Toronto Centre, ON
Mr. Speaker, given the debate in question period today and the amount of national concern that has been expressed, and that continues to be expressed, about what certainly would appear to be a pattern with respect to interference in the free decision-making of Canadians in the last election, this needs to be aired and discussed in the House of Commons.
The House has now passed a motion indicating the willingness on the part of all of its members to share information. The difficulty, as I suggested in question period, Mr. Speaker, is that it is the government that has access to most of the information, as well as the companies with which the government has contracted its polling research and its telephone calling information.
I believe it would be in the public interest for the House to debate this question at the soonest opportunity. I hope very much that the Speaker would recognize that this is not an event that can simply be described as something that has happened in one riding or another. It has to be seen as something that clearly has an element of central direction and planning. That is the issue the House needs to discuss and we need to share as quickly as possible the information that we have on that issue.
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Request for Emergency Debate
Routine Proceedings
3:50 p.m.
Elizabeth May Saanich—Gulf Islands, BC
Mr. Speaker, I rise on the same issue and ask for an emergency debate on what appears to be a coordinated attempt to subvert a free, fair and full vote on May 2.
Nothing is more important in a democracy than citizens being allowed and also in fact encouraged to exercise their right to vote, and the subversion of this is deeply alarming.
I am mindful of precedents. Certainly, Speaker Anglin back in 1978 said that the matter must be immediately relevant and of attention and concern throughout the nation. With all respect, I think that point has been made.
We know that the matter need not be of the kind of "emergency" or "crisis" as in the general sense of those words. Speaker Jerome spoke to this, as found in the Debates of February 22, 1978, at page 3128, which states:
—the provisions of the rule are such that I cannot hear any argument....
It seems...the Chair is in a rather invidious position.
Mr. Speaker, I sympathize with you at this point.
Speaker Jerome continued:
To take too restrictive a stance...would mean it would be almost impossible to get the benefit of this rule and to bring to the House a discussion of a matter which is important and requires urgent consideration, although it is not necessarily an emergency or a crisis, as the words have been used.
The precedents on this matter suggests that a matter such as this one that has been discovered now, although we have certainly known of it for some time, falls into the kind of category to which the Speaker referred back in 1977, where RCMP malfeasance in 1973 was discovered in 1977, and the Speaker found that those circumstances gave rise to an urgent matter that required an emergency debate.
I join my friend from Toronto Centre, and just as we had the unanimous consent of all members of this place to provide evidence of the wrongdoing that took place on May 2, I would hope we have the support and unanimous consent of all members to have an emergency debate on this matter today.
Speaker's Ruling
Request for Emergency Debate
Routine Proceedings
3:50 p.m.
The Speaker Andrew Scheer
There is no debate on applications for emergency debate and not having received notice of request for one from the member for Richmond—Arthabaska, I cannot hear the member at this time.
I have no doubt that members take these concerns very seriously.
One of the criteria in O'Brien and Bosc in setting out how the Speaker determines whether or not to grant an emergency debate mentions that when matters are being investigated by other administrative bodies, they are generally rejected. Given the fact that it is my understanding that these matters are being investigated by Elections Canada at this time, I do not think it meets the criteria for that reason.
The House resumed from December 12, 2011, consideration of the motion that Bill C-24, An Act to implement the Free Trade Agreement between Canada and the Republic of Panama, the Agreement on the Environment between Canada and the Republic of Panama and the Agreement on Labour Cooperation between Canada and the Republic of Panama, be read the second time and referred to a committee, and of the motion that this question be now put.
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3:55 p.m.
Ève Péclet La Pointe-de-l'Île, QC
Mr. Speaker, I rise here today to speak to Bill C-24 regarding the free trade agreement between Canada and the Republic of Panama.
I am very pleased to speak on behalf of the interests of the people of my riding, La Pointe-de-l'Île, I would like to thank them once again for placing their trust in me on May 2. I continue to work hard every day on their behalf.
It is important to mention that the NDP does not oppose free trade agreements, despite what the Liberals and Conservatives often like to say. They say that the NDP has always been against free trade and that our party opposes all free trade agreements. That is false. We do not oppose free trade agreements; we are simply saying that Canadians must benefit from them.
I would like to commend the important work done by our former international trade critic, the hon. member for Burnaby—New Westminster. Most free trade agreements do not benefit Canadians and we can see the result of that. Every time Canada has adopted a free trade agreement, our exports have declined and our trade balance has become increasingly negative. For instance, since the Conservatives came to power in 2006, the trade deficit has gone from about $16 million to $81 million. This proves that free trade does not create jobs in Canada; instead, jobs go elsewhere, to other countries.
That was my introduction.
By way of context, since the failure of the Doha round on freer trade, the Government of Canada, in all its wisdom, has decided to negotiate a great number and variety of free trade agreements, especially bilateral agreements, without any clear strategy and without taking into consideration the possible consequences for Canadian workers of adopting multiple free trade agreements. It has not taken into account the consequences that freer international trade would have on Canada's domestic markets.
We often hear the parliamentary secretary say that one job in five relies on trade, but there are still four jobs out of five that do not and therefore rely on commerce within Canada. Those are the jobs we are talking about here.
The government is trying to copy the strategy of the United States because to this government, any American idea is a good one. It seems that the government did not take certain essential factors, such as resources, into consideration. In the same breath as the government is making cuts to the public service, it is asking the departments of Foreign Affairs and International Trade to simultaneously negotiate 14 different agreements, with Morocco, the European Union, the Caribbean common market, Ukraine, India, Singapore, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Korea and the Dominican Republic. Exploratory talks are also under way with Japan and Turkey.
In terms of the negotiations under way with the European Union alone, a number of stakeholders are saying there is a major risk for Canada because we are in the process of negotiating an agreement that will have a direct, major impact on businesses here. No serious impact assessment has been made by the government or, if it has, the government certainly does not want to share the results with us. While the government is struggling to create jobs in Canada, it wants to export jobs abroad. That is irresponsible.
We might also talk about the trade balance, as I mentioned earlier. It is further proof of this government's inadequacy and of the Conservatives' failure to do a satisfactory job. In 2008, we had a positive trade balance of $50 billion. Since 2009, we have had a negative trade balance of approximately $5 billion.
The government should think seriously about creating jobs here before negotiating free trade agreements that, as we know, do not promote job creation in the Canadian marketplace.
The lack of a strategy is not this government's only shortcoming. A denial of the democratic process also seems to be this government's wont. The entire negotiation process is but a farce. It makes a mockery of the democratic process if the content of what is being negotiated is, quite simply, unknown. Everything is shrouded in great secrecy and the government's true intentions are kept secret from Canadians. We find out the details once the treaty is being ratified.
How do we expect members—who are supposed to represent the interests of their constituents—to do their job if the government keeps everything from them? There are no studies, no consulting of members, no opportunity for members to simply get information on the key negotiating points of the treaty. No information is provided. It is almost as if members had to go and ask members of the European Parliament, for example, for information on the negotiations. The government refuses to give members this information. It makes no sense whatsoever.
I am afraid that this will be a recipe for disaster and that the final product will reflect the interests of the major lobbyists, the multinationals and, of course, that small segment of the population, the top 1%. We are quite familiar with that concept.
Once again, it will be the workers who pay the price for this government's policies; they will have to pick up the tab for the caviar and champagne that the CEOs crack open when it comes time to celebrate the ratification of these free trade agreements. These individuals will in no way whatsoever take into consideration the thousands of people who will lose their jobs.
A report published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the CCPA, says that the treaty between Canada and the European Union will lead to a deepening of the Canadian trade deficit and massive job losses.
Economist Jim Stanford modelled three scenarios in order to study the socio-economic repercussions of such an agreement. In each of the scenarios considered, the model indicated a worsening of the current situation. It is important to understand that Canada already has a large trade deficit with the European Union of approximately $20 billion, of which $15 billion involves trade in goods and approximately $4 billion, trade in services.He estimates that this deficit already amounts to approximately 70,000 jobs that have relocated to Europe.
Based on the scenarios reviewed, a free trade agreement between the two regions could lead to the additional loss of somewhere between 28,000 and 150,000 jobs. According to Jim Stanford, this deterioration is due to the fact that Canadian tariffs are currently higher than European tariffs. This means that an agreement would first adversely affect Canadian products.
Is there a plan to correct this discrepancy, yes or no? The government refuses to tell us. Personally, I do not think there is one.
Unfortunately, the government does not stop there. The House is currently dealing with Bill C-24 on the implementation of the free trade agreement between Canada and the Republic of Panama.
Again, not only is the government not creating jobs, but it is sending our money to a tax haven. Could it be that tax havens serve the middle class? Tax evasion is not something to be taken lightly.
Panama is a tax haven, and not just any tax haven: it is one of the most active, one of the least co-operative and of the most integrated with organized crime. When large corporations and rich people transfer their assets to tax havens, it means that huge tax revenues are lost for Canadian taxpayers. None of this will benefit workers, whether they are from Panama or Canada.
Let me summarize. Our jobs are being transferred to Europe, our revenues are going into Panamanian banks, corporations are not paying taxes, billions of dollars that should be reinvested in education, health and infrastructure are lost, and I see no plan to help Canadian families make ends meet, and no plan to help the Canadian economy improve.
A fair tax system is based on everyone paying a fair share of taxes. The Government of Canada is losing $9 billion annually because of these tax havens. Does this mean that, in order to make up for this shortfall, it will have to increase the tax share paid by citizens and by small and medium size businesses? Or will it have to reduce the tax rates for big companies even more, to induce them to continue doing business in Canada? This will not change anything at all. They will continue to send their money to tax havens.
The government would have us believe that cutting taxes for big corporations will stop them from putting their money in Panamanian banks, which costs Canadian taxpayers billions of dollars, but that is not true. How can this government claim that the economy is its priority? Its real priority is exporting our jobs and our money and raising individual and small business taxes.
At the same time, the government is cutting services. Take, for example, Service Canada and employment insurance, a vital service that helps people who have lost their jobs put food on the table. One of my constituents lost her house because she waited three months for her first cheque even though claims are supposed to be processed within 28 days.
The government says that this agreement is good because Panama is an established market for Canadian exports and because there is significant potential for long-term growth in bilateral trade and investment. Some large Canadian companies have sensed good business deals in the making and believe that an agreement will facilitate trade with Panama, which has a dubious tax reputation. But what will be the cost to Canadians? That is the real issue the government should keep in mind during negotiations, not the interests of its big business buddies.
There are no restrictions on capital entering or exiting Panama. Transactions are protected by banking secrecy, and financial activity is not monitored. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development—the OECD—which is nevertheless fairly accommodating when it comes to evaluating how co-operative tax havens are, did not remove Panama from its grey list until July 2011. The grey list includes countries that have not signed a series of agreements to comply with international standards. The OECD Secretary-General, Angel Gurría, stated, "Panama has worked hard to achieve this milestone and has made remarkable strides toward complying with the international standards in a very short time." However, he cautioned that the global forum must still evaluate whether Panama's domestic laws will allow for effective availability, access to and exchange of information. He said, "The global forum will follow up to make sure they work as intended. It is important that Panama continues to work to fully implement the standards."
Panama is one of the world's worst tax havens. It is home to an estimated 400,000 corporations, including offshore corporations and multinational subsidiaries. This is almost four times the number of corporations registered in Canada. So Panama is not just any developing country. It offers foreign banks and firms a special offshore licence to conduct business there. Not only are these businesses not taxed, but they are subject to little or no reporting requirements or regulations.
The Canada-Panama trade deal would only make the tax haven problem worse. As the OECD has said, having a trade agreement without first tackling Panama's financial secrecy practices could incentivize even more offshore tax dodging.
As the member for Windsor West, the critic for international trade, has said, when we want to get into a fair trade deal, we need to have access to the same types of conditions and strategies as our competitors. These tax havens give advantages on trade arrangements that do not favour Canadian exporters, and that is why we have seen the trade surplus diminish under the current government and a trade deficit emerge and become the norm.
Our manufacturers and our workers abide by international and Canadian standards that prevent them from competing with corporations that are able to use subsidies or tax havens to reduce their costs and become more competitive, and so the relationship becomes unfair and unequal. The trade deal will not only increase tax haven abuses but will also make fighting them that much harder.
The NDP is calling for an agreement with Panama to transfer tax information. The United Kingdom, the United States, France, Italy and the Netherlands have already signed such an agreement. How can the government not respond to this demand? If the government really had the interests of Canadians and the people of Panama—who gain nothing at all from this transaction—at heart, it would stand up today and tell this House that it commits to requesting that an agreement to transfer tax information be included in the Canada-Panama free trade agreement.
In 2007, the Auditor General of Canada mentioned that she had expressed concerns about the fiscal arrangements for foreign subsidiaries on several occasions in the past. The June 2008 study by the Université du Québec à Montréal concluded that the five Canadian banks avoided paying $16 billion in federal and provincial taxes by means of their offshore subsidiaries between 1992 and 2007. I would call that a hemorrhage of tax dollars.
Statistics Canada reported that $88 billion in assets of Canadian corporations were transferred offshore, that is to tax havens, in 2003. The secrecy of financial transactions in Panama makes it a major site for money laundering. According to the U.S. State Department, major Colombian and Mexican drug cartels, as well as illegal Colombian armed groups, use Panama for drug trafficking and money laundering purposes. The funds generated from illegal activity are susceptible to being laundered through Panamanian banks, real estate developments, and more.
Because money laundering consists of using illegal investments to covering up the use of money obtained through crime, the Canada-Panama free trade agreement will promote, in Canada, the illegal transfers of these black market funds. Conversely, the Colombian and Mexican mafias, which are very active in Canada, will view the agreement as a series of formalities facilitating the reverse transfer of proceeds of crime.
The Canada-Panama agreement will foster illicit activities in that country and increase tolerance for such activities. Although the importance of dealing with problems caused by tax havens was highlighted at the 2009 G20 meeting in London, Canada is moving in the opposite direction and is creating a new means of facilitating the flight of capital. This type of strategy is irresponsible. Do we really want to foster money laundering and drug trafficking? The Conservatives, who like to pass repressive bills, should be outraged.
Let us be clear. The government is negotiating an agreement at the expense of Canadian workers. This agreement will lead to the loss of millions of dollars in tax revenues. This proves that a small country like Panama can dictate Canada's policy on tax evasion. If the Government of Canada cannot stand up to Panama, how will it defend our country's interests when negotiating with the United States or the European Union?
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Raymond Côté Beauport—Limoilou, QC
Madam Speaker, I would like to congratulate my hon. colleague from La Pointe-de-l'Île on her speech. I am honoured to serve with her on the Standing Committee on International Trade, where she pours her heart and soul into a subject that can be somewhat dry.
My colleague's speech raised some very important points. Teresa Healy, a senior researcher with the social and economic policy department of the Canadian Labour Congress, appeared before the Standing Committee on International Trade in the course of its work on the free trade agreement with Panama. When she talked about the issue of jobs in Canada, she raised a large number of concerns and pointed out that, again recently, the president of Panama announced many unilateral changes to labour law.
We know that Panama is far from being a model in terms of workers' rights. Furthermore, it has serious problems managing its own affairs when it comes to obeying tax rules. Can my colleague tell me if entering into this agreement would not amount to condoning the serious problems that exist in Panama in terms of labour law?
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Ève Péclet La Pointe-de-l'Île, QC
Madam Speaker, I want to thank the hon. member for the question. As a member of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights, this is an issue that concerns me a great deal as well. In fact, at the Standing Committee on International Trade, I have focused my speeches on human rights. There are certain provisions that have to do with human rights in the free trade agreement, but they are not an integral part of the agreement, but a separate part of the agreement.
The Americans have included these provisions in the agreement. Why is the Government of Canada refusing to ask the Government of Panama to specifically include provisions in the free trade agreement to ensure that labour rights and the fundamental rights of workers will be respected?
Here, the international organizations' fears might be realized if the government does not make more of an effort to ask the Government of Panama to stand up, be responsible and respect the rights of workers, as Canada asks of a number of its economic partners elsewhere in the world. Why not do the same in Panama? Why not ask the same of the Government of Panama? If we are talking about tax evasion and everything to do with organized crime, then it is even more important. In that type of country, human rights violations are even worse and people are generally much more at risk.
The government has to take a stand and call on the Government of Panama to respect human rights. This has to be spelled out in the agreement and not be a separate part of the agreement.
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Kevin Lamoureux Winnipeg North, MB
Madam Speaker, we in the Liberal Party also recognize the importance of labour laws and working conditions, the environment and so forth. Whenever we go into negotiations or discussions in regard to freer trade they have to be at the top of the list in terms of ensuring as much as possible that we are contributing to that debate.
The example I will use is the pork industry. In the province of Manitoba it is a huge industry with so much potential, much like many other industries across Canada that depend on foreign trade in order to sustain themselves and allow them to grow.
What is the New Democratic Party's position on trade in general? Does it support freer trade agreements with countries such as India, the Philippines, and other countries of that nature?
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Ève Péclet La Pointe-de-l'Île, QC
Madam Speaker, I began my speech by talking about the false stereotype that the NDP is against free trade.
I am well aware and I heard many witnesses who appeared before the Standing Committee on International Trade say just how important free trade agreements are. However, in my speech, I demonstrated that, most of the time, the Government of Canada negotiates free trade agreements that are detrimental to local Canadian farmers. We have a trade deficit, and our exports have been drastically declining for a number of years, which shows that our exports do not increase when we sign free trade agreements and that our jobs are going elsewhere.
We are not against trade. It is important to make that distinction. There is fair trade and international trade. We know that the world is experiencing an economic crisis, but that does not mean that we have to run to every country and claim that free trade agreements will solve all of our problems. On the contrary, these agreements will create other problems.
The NDP wants to ensure that the people of Canada benefit from free trade agreements and that these agreements create jobs and benefits in Canada before giving other countries all the advantages to the disadvantage of Canadians.
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Raymond Côté Beauport—Limoilou, QC
Madam Speaker, one point I find very striking when we look at proposed free trade treaties to be signed with small countries like Panama or Jordan, where there is really very marginal economic activity, is the eagerness of those countries to sign treaties with Canada. That is understandable, because Canada has an excellent reputation around the world, although it is deteriorating now that it is becoming increasingly sullied.
I recall one striking aspect of the 2008 campaign, when I ran for the New Democratic Party. I was approached by an entrepreneur of Latin American origin who told me that when he went to South America, he was told straight out that Canada was now no better than the United States, in terms of the things we have done that have seriously weakened our reputation.
Given what I consider to be unwise conclusions on the part of the government, does my colleague from La Pointe-de-l'Île share my concerns about Canada's reputation and its ability to serve as a model around the world?
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Ève Péclet La Pointe-de-l'Île, QC
Madam Speaker, yes, I share my colleague's concerns, but simply in terms of the fact that Canada seems to be playing both sides.
Canadians are hearing something totally different from what the government says in other countries. I observed this when I went to Europe with the Standing Committee on International Trade for the free trade treaty. What the Canadian government says outside Canada sounds reassuring: do not worry, everything will be fine, the government has a majority, and so on. That is a total denial of the situation in Canada that Canadian producers find themselves in. The government is signing free trade treaties, it is abolishing the Canadian Wheat Board, and it may want to discuss supply management.
We do not know what the government wants to do, but all I know is that what it says to Canadians in an election, and even here, is completely different from what it says outside Canada. At some point, everything is going to blow up in the government's face and it will not be able to continue along this road and sign 15 or 20 free trade treaties, thinking that Canadians are going to manage and will not understand the game it is playing now. The government is trying to distance itself from the United States as an economic partner, which is entirely legitimate, but to Canadians' disadvantage, which is not.


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Finding Beauty on the Street
"The wider world that perceives fashion as a frivolity that should be done away with. The point is fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life. I don't think you can do away with it. It would be like doing away with civilization."
Fashion photographer Bill Cunningham is a personal hero, and I'm not that interested in fashion. I'm inspired by who he is as a person. I keep a photograph of him tacked up in my cube with the caption, "I'm looking for something that has beauty."
Cunningham is compelled by clothing — not the celebrity status or pedigree of the wearer. He champions lively personal style wherever and whenever it captures his highly trained eye. On Sundays, I like to soak up his weekly "On the Street" feature in The New York Times. Now he's the subject of a new documentary, Bill Cunningham New York. It's the best film I've seen this year.
The documentary reveals Cunningham's incredible work ethic and the ferocious joy of his work. Now in his 80s, he spends his days riding around Manhattan without a helmet on a beat-up bicycle. His film-loaded camera is always at the ready (no, he does not shoot digital), cocked to shoot someone's interesting hat or low-rider pants.
In the evenings, he tours New York's society circuit, snapping photos at charity benefit functions. He never eats the food at these events, and even refuses to accept a glass of water. He says this would compromise his objective stance.
While fashion has been the driver of Cunningham's life and career, he describes his own personal style as dreary. While working, he wears a signature royal blue workman's jacket. For years, he lived in a monk-like studio above Carnegie Hall stuffed with filing cabinets for all of his negatives. It didn't even have a bathroom (it was down the hall). More recently, he has relocated to a bigger apartment. He asked to have the appliances and counters removed to make room for his files.
Bill Cunningham found his passion and calling in life. And because he did, he's given a gift to the rest of us. Here's a reminder from Cunningham to pay attention to what we see, and to look for beauty in our everyday encounters:
"Fashion comes from everywhere. It's all here and the streets are speaking to us."


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We take aviation so much for granted that it is hard to imagine life before airplanes appeared on the scene. A century ago, two events took place in Alaska that help illustrate just how profound some of those differences really are.
On March 13, 1913 three men in heavily loaded dog sleds departed from Fairbanks, intent on climbing Mt. McKinley. After mushing down the Tanana River to Nenana, the party grew in size to six, and continued the 170 mile trip to the gold mining community at Kantishna. They backhauled supplies pre-positioned the previous fall by riverboat, and advanced toward the Muldrow Glacier, on the north side of the mountain. On April 9th the group arrived at what would be their base camp, just short of the glacier. Unlike modern climbers, the party took several days to collect firewood (a source of fuel for heating and cooking) and to hunt caribou and sheep. The game meat was cooked and mixed with butter, salt and pepper to make pemmican, shaped into "two-hundred baseball sized orbs" and allowed to freeze. This locally manufactured food, along with rice and bread, would provide much of the energy needed by the four members of the team that would attempt the summit.
These details, and much more, are recounted in Tom Walker's new book, The Seventymile Kid. The story is an excellent read, that kept me on the edge of my seat, even though I am not normally a fan of mountain climbing stories. Along the way, I became fascinated with the logistics and modes of travel used getting to, and retreating from the mountain. From the descriptions in Walker's book, and a little research on the side, I decided to try mapping the route with the help of Google Earth. The journey started the fall before when Harry Karstens (the Seventymile Kid), hauled 4,500 pounds of supplies from Fairbanks by riverboat to as close as he could get, just before rivers froze up for the season.
I won't spoil the story of the climb for you, but will say that none of the expedition members were seasoned mountain climbers, and they faced a number of predicaments that required every bit of pioneering skill, creativity and stamina they could muster. Following the climb, the team came off the mountain on June 9th. By this time, snow had melted and the party walked about 60 miles to a boat that had been stashed the year before. They floated about 300 miles to Tanana, on the Yukon River, where "commercial" transportation (steam powered riverboats) was available. It wasn't until early July that Karstens made it back to his home in Fairbanks.
Google Earth's distance measuring tools revealed that the party had traveled about 966 by boat; almost 100 miles on foot (hiked, snow shoed or climbed); and over 400 miles by dogsled. By these calculations, that added up to 1,468 miles traveled to conquer Mt. McKinley the first time! And these are just the round-trip distances, with no allowances for the relaying of gear cached on the river, or the numerous shuttles during the climb itself. This map is online if you wish to examine the route in more detail.
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Today, almost 1,200 climbers a year attempt to scale Mt. McKinley. The lion's share of these depart from the town of Talkeetna, on the south side of the mountain, in a wheel-ski equipped airplane. They make the sixty mile trip in about half an hour, arriving at "Base Camp" on the Kahiltna Glacier—already a third of the way up the mountain, elevation wise. The climb is nominally a two week trip before being flown off the mountain. A little different from the three month duration of the Karsten-Stuck Expedition, that started in Fairbanks a hundred years ago. While many things have changed during that century, the airplane is perhaps most responsible for shortening that trip.
I mentioned that there were two events that year. About the time Karstens was returning to Fairbanks, James and Lily Martin were in town, and between July 3rd and 5th made the first powered airplane flights in Alaska in a 60 horsepower Gage-Martin biplane. As we approach the centennial of that occasion, events are scheduled to recognize that milestone in Alaskan aviation history. Stay tuned for more on this historic milestone!
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To commemorate this expedition, the University of Alaska Museum of the North has created an exhibit, Denali Legacy, 100 Years on the Mountain, that documents the climb, contains the journals of the four men who scaled the mountain, and numerous artifacts of this historic effort. In addition, descendants of the climbing party plan to start a memorial climb on June 8th, following the original route up the Muldrow Glacier, but taking advantage of the road into the park–and a Park Service bus–to put them with hiking distance of the glacier. Fairbanks Daily News Miner columnist Dermot Cole provides an overview of the planned climb.


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2010 Nada Manmai
Astringency - Pretty low.
Smoke - None.
Dryness-(mouth) - Some at the beginning.
Mouthfeel - Really thick, love it.
Huigan - Pretty light, could be better I suppose. Ku wei is decent.
Flavor - White sugar that turns into maple syrup. Very clean taste. Fruitiness in the later infusions that left my mouth tingling. The cha qi made me drowsy & spacey.
Overall value - $40/400g, same as the Mansai. Not sure which I liked better and I think it's too early to tell anyway.
Purchase again - Yep, I have 1 cake and probably won't buy another but this is due to me wanting variety. I definitely think this cake has aging potential. Leaves are whole and very intact, nice vibrancy.


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Testing Finds One-Third of US Retail Seafood Mislabeled
When is a red snapper really a red snapper? According to the latest DNA tests of seafood sold in U.S. restaurants and supermarkets, not very often.
Following U.S. Food and Drug Administration guidelines, the environmental activist organization Oceana found 33% of the 1,215 samples of seafood it tested between 2010 and 2012 were mislabeled. The group tested fish purchased at 674 retail outlets in 21 states.
Product mislabeling has dominated the headlines the last few weeks as stories of horsemeat-for-beef substitution rock European food processors and retailers, but substitution fraud has long been a problem for the worldwide seafood industry.
Companies that find themselves victims of food fraud can suffer serious hits to their reputations and sales, and those found to be engaging in mislabeling could face serious repercussions for their misdeeds.
In the Oceana report, only seven of 120 samples of "red snapper" turned out to be red snapper–an 87% rate of fraud. Fifty-nine percent of the tuna tested was mislabeled, with 84% of white tuna samples turning out to be escolar, which can cause illness to some people. In all, mislabeling was found in 59% of the seafood types tested, or in 27 of 46 types.
Mislabeled fish was found in 44% of retail outlets where it was purchased. Oceana said it found mislabeled fish in 74% of the sushi outlets in which it made purchases. Thirty-eight percent of restaurants that were tested nationwide had mislabeled fish, and 18% of grocery stores.
Oceana was unable to determine where in the supply chain the mislabeling was occurring. "With lagging federal oversight and minimal government inspection despite rising fish imports, and without sampling along the supply chain, it is difficult to determine if fraud is occurring at the boat, during processing, at the wholesale level, at the retail counter or somewhere else along the way," it said.
Oceana is advocating a nationwide traceability system that tracks fish from the time it is caught until the time it is sold to the consumer, saying this will keep out illegally caught fish and better protect public health. A group of 500 chefs last year also called for a federal traceability law. A bill was introduced in the last Congress to require seafood traceability, and Oceana's Beth Lowell said a new bill should be introduced in the coming weeks.
"We definitely think enforcement needs to increase," said Lowell, adding the FDA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have "dismally low" levels of inspections. "There is not a lot of enforcement of existing laws…given the high levels of mislabeling, it's clear the way we handle seafood needs to change."
Lisa Weddig of seafood trade association National Fisheries Institute said the key to stamping out fraud is better enforcement of existing laws. Authorities can use fish sales tickets to trace back at each step of the process to see where mislabeling is occurring, said Weddig, who heads NFI's Better Seafood Board, which was created to help fight fraud such as mislabeling and short-weighting.
"If the invoice came in as snapper and it says red snapper on the menu, then you know where the problem is," Weddig said, adding it's not the job of seafood distributors to verify if restaurants and supermarkets are properly labeling product. "It's the responsibility of the distributor to make sure the package they sell is labeled correctly."
Companies provide traceability systems to track fish throughout the supply chain, and U.S. supermarkets are required by law to list the country of origin for seafood. Beef sold in the U.S. was also subject to country-of-origin requirements, but objections from beef producers in Canada and Mexico have kept it from being enforced. The World Trade Organization is considering their objections.
It's highly unlikely horsemeat will find its way into the U.S. beef supply, said Jim Hodges, executive vice president of the American Meat Institute, a national trade association that represents companies that process 95% of red meat and 70% of turkey in the U.S.
U.S. processors haven't slaughtered horses since the mid-2000s, and all of that horsemeat was sold in Europe. The U.S. doesn't import beef from Europe because of concerns over mad-cow disease, and the U.S. has strict labeling laws and inspectors in every beef and poultry processing facility in the country, Hodges said.
"This is a European story," Hodges said. "The probability that we would have the same kind of issue here is extremely remote."
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In El Abra bay, in Bilbao estuary, we find the municipality of Getxo. Algorta is situated there: a town with an old fishing port, modern water sports facilities and beautiful small palaces near the beach. The Old Port in Algorta is situated at one end of Ereaga beach, a perfect spot to practise surfing, which also has lively nightlife. Narrow streets and white-washed façades with brightly coloured doors, windows and balconies can be found in the seaside neighbourhood. Many taverns serve pintxos (tapas served on bread) and banderillas (tapas on skewers) to have with a drink. The Usategi viewpoint affords amazing views of El Abra bay. At the other end of the beach there are sports facilities, perfect for practising snorkelling, sailing, kayaking… Nearby, in Atxekolandeta, there are small palaces and mansions built in the early 20th century. Some of the most emblematic are Lezama Leguizamón, Mudela Palace, Ampuero Palace, Aizgoyen Farmhouse and Arriluze Palace. This beautiful set of buildings is situated on the coastline and surrounded by gardens. In Arriluze Wharf the Casa de los Náufragos house stands out. A structure that was built following the style of Basque farmhouses is built on large arcades, with a circular lighthouse on top.


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Starting a Flight Department
When it comes to outright aircraft ownership, you basically have two choices: hire a management company to handle operations and maintenance or set up your own corporate flight department. Done right, either option will afford you convenience and safety. What it really comes down to is cost versus control.
Hiring a management company is often the less-expensive alternative and offers many advantages (see box on page 28). So if you want to start your own flight department, be prepared: it is a task whose difficulty and cash requirements are on par with those of a complex, capital-hungry business startup. At the outset, you'll have to get your mind around paying some really big bills and having little to show for it—perhaps months before you're even ready to go airplane shopping. After that, the expenses will just keep on coming.
Let's look at some of the costs associated with owning a small jet—a Falcon 10, for example. For a used model that sells for around $1 million or less, salaries and benefits for two pilots will run about $200,000 a year, according to the consulting firm of Conklin & de Decker. Add $27,000 annually to keep those pilots trained; $25,000 for hangar rental; $20,000 for insurance; $15,000 for charts, computerized maintenance programs and aviation weather service; and $16,740 for a refurbishment allowance. A few more incidentals will bring total annual fixed costs to $351,340—and that's without leaving the ground. The cost of flying, including fuel and maintenance, will be approximately $3,090 per hour, or about $7.22 per mile. So, assuming 409 flight hours per year, this older $1 million airplane will cost you $1.615 million more each year to staff and operate, not including financing costs. And that's if you're paying an outside vendor to do the maintenance. If you want to use your own mechanic(s) and equipment, be prepared to pay even more. And keep in mind that these numbers will rise over the life of your aircraft.
Then there is the paperwork. Years ago, I walked into a one-jet flight-department hangar. An entire office was filled with nothing but bookshelves packed with maintenance, operations and flight-training manuals; pilot operating handbooks; flight manifests; charts; maps; and logbooks. Starting a flight department kicks off a paperwork tsunami and your books had better be accurate and up to date. Whoever keeps them needs to be expert in the minutiae of FAA regulations.
As in any other business, finding the right people is the key to success.
But before you start recruiting, you need to have a vision for your flight department. Where will you base your aircraft and what aviation resources are in your area? How many hours a year do you plan to fly? Do you want 24/7 capability? How about the ability to fly internationally and, if so, where? For security and privacy reasons, do you want your own hangar? Your own maintenance operation? Do you see your flight department managing just one aircraft or eventually growing into a multi-aircraft operation? How long do you plan to keep the airplane? Is it leased or owned? At some point might you add a helicopter? Will you use the airplane for executive ad-hoc transport or more like a corporate shuttle? When it is gone for maintenance, what will you use for lift—airlines, charter, a fractional share or an interchange agreement with another jet owner that allows you to use each other's aircraft? Answering such questions now will guide you into the right aircraft today and ensure maximum future flexibility.
For the sake of this discussion, let's assume that this is your first jet; that you've decided you'll need only one; and that you want the convenience and total control that go with having full-time pilot employees. You can hire a chief pilot with impeccable management experience to set up your flight department or you can retain a consulting firm to kick-start it for you. For a fixed price of $45,000, for example, Jet Aviation's JetStart program can create a regulatory and insurance-compliant flight department for you prior to delivery of your jet and can also help with services such as a pre-buy inspection and pilot recruitment.
Finding the right chief pilot is the key to building a good flight department. The trick here is to not pay for someone's learning curve. Don't assume any pilot qualified to fly your aircraft can do everything else for you. "High-net-worth individuals and even some large corporations think if a pilot can fly an airplane, he must be smart enough to manage it, and that is so far from the truth," said Bill Quinn, a consultant and managing director at Charleston Aviation Partners, an aircraft brokerage.
Seek out someone with a lot of experience—by which I mean thousands of hours—in the make and model of aircraft you want to buy. He or she should hold an Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) license, the highest civil rating available. This individual should also be an effective manager and leader and should ideally hold an FAA airframe inspector designation or at least an airframe and powerplant (A&P) mechanic's license.
Aircraft owners sometimes are tempted to hire chief pilots who are long on charisma and short on experience. That can be a fatal mistake. A chief pilot's job is to keep you alive by delivering you to your destination safely and to operate your aircraft as economically as possible within the rules and regulations. It's a big job. In essence, you're hiring someone to run a multimillion-dollar company and if his judgment or performance is off, you can lose a lot more than money. A good chief pilot will be able to help with the pre-buy inspection, hire the right crew and oversee all issues and expenses associated with aircraft operation, including maintenance.
Some consultants believe that a chief pilot should concentrate on flying and that a separate director of operations should handle oversight for all non-flight responsibilities such as scheduling, maintenance and compliance. When you have five airplanes, you can worry about that.
Now, however, is the time to decide how you will maintain your airplane. This largely depends on where you want to keep it and how you want to pay for it.
At my home airport, we don't have any mechanics who know how to work on jets, but in 30 to 60 minutes, I could fly to factory-owned and independent service centers for all major brands of corporate aircraft, engines and avionics. Also, a small commercial airport about 20 minutes from me offers airline and air-freight service. So parts and technicians could be sent to me without much bother. However, if I were based in a more remote location, I might think about hiring my own mechanic or basing my aircraft at an airport with more maintenance resources and then having it dispatched to pick me up when needed.
When it comes to dealing with service centers and warranty issues, a pilot with mechanic training can be an invaluable advocate. By having at least one pilot who is a licensed mechanic, also, you can do little things such as fluid changes and top-offs and minor component replacement without having to fly to a service center.
Of course, not all aircraft maintenance and repair work is minor; on the contrary, the bills can be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars—or more. Nothing spoils the thrill of aircraft ownership more than a big, unexpected expense. Hourly airframe and engine maintenance programs from the aircraft builder, engine maker or an independent company can make your maintenance budget almost completely predictable and also give your aircraft a higher resale value. Even if you end up hiring a mechanic, they are generally a good idea.
Why a Management Company Might Be a Better Choice—or Not
If the prospect of setting up your own flight department seems daunting, try using a management firm first, advised Bill Quinn, managing director of the aircraft brokerage Charleston Aviation Partners. "The right management company will really give you an education," he said. "Try it for a year or two."
You may find that farming out the job is a better long-term choice for you. A management company can help you acquire the airplane and put it into service rapidly. It can provide you with flight crews you can hire on an hourly basis as opposed to being on the hook for annual salaries. It can handle all the paperwork, which can include all that pesky IRS documentation. And it can oversee all maintenance and warranty claims, insurance and FAA compliance issues. Because of economies of scale, moreover, the management company can often get insurance, fuel and spare/replacement parts at a discount. When your airplane is down for repairs, the company can arrange for alternative lift. It can also help you defer ownership costs by adding your airplane to its Part 135 charter certificate. It likely will place your aircraft in a shared hangar, often a cheaper alternative to building or renting your own.
There are inherent trade-offs with this arrangement, though. You'll basically need to make an appointment to use your airplane and it may not be available when you want it. If your lifestyle or business requires drop-of-a-hat flight scheduling, this is not the deal for you. Another company employs your flight crew and you'll likely not have the same crew for each flight. They will try their best to accommodate you, but it is not like having your own crew that really knows you and what you want.
Then there is the not-so-small matter of security. A management company will probably stash your aircraft in a community hangar stuffed with airplanes wingtip-to-wingtip, increasing the chances of "hangar rash" as they are constantly repositioned to get this or that one in or out. You can't really leave anything of value on the aircraft. This will be a problem if you want to keep your airplane stocked with expensive libations or nice china. (I had a friend whose wife used to keep her full-length mink on his airplane because she got cold riding in back—definitely not a good idea under this arrangement.) And of course potentially dozens of people will know your comings and goings, even if the management company has blocked your tail number from online snooping tools. I keep flashing back to that scene in the movie Wall Street when Charlie Sheen is able to gum up a competitor's takeover deal because a chatty line boy told him the destination of the other guy's jet.
Management fees include flat monthly charges for fixed costs, hourly fees for operating expenses and many other components, and they vary widely by aircraft size and complexity. "A management company is not cheap," warned Fred Happ, president of the New Hampshire-based consulting firm Aviation Solutions.
But in many cases, outside management remains less expensive than starting your own flight department, said David Wyndham, vice president of the consulting firm Conklin and de Decker. "Costs may favor the management company and so may risk management." This is particularly true if you operate all your flights under the more stringent requirements of FAA Part 135, the rules that apply to charter flights, as opposed to Part 91 private aircraft operations.
Nevertheless, management companies aren't for everyone.
The Flight Department Company Trap
Setting up an LLC just to own and operate your jet is asking for trouble—and it could be big trouble. See Jeff Wieand's Taxes, Laws and Finance column.
Enjoyed reading this article but would like to add a couple thoughts with regards to doing ones own flight dept. vs. a managed aircraft.
Owners should be careful hiring a pilot/A&P. I don't mean to downgrade the idea but most people who become A&P's then pilots would rather fly than work on the plane (corporate pilots). Its hard to be really good at more than one thing so your either a good pilot or a good mechanic but you will not be both when it comes to working on jets. If you truly want to keep your multi million dollar investment looking and running good, with the thought of stepping up to a nicer ride, then you should really consider finding a shop with a mechanic you can trust or hiring your own. Its a huge investment to have your own mechanic but with the right person you have the piece of mind that every time you and your family go out of town with the plane you'll have the knowledge that someone is continually looking out for your investment and your safety. A mechanic free's up the pilot(s) allowing them to concentrate on everything that goes along with the begining and end to a trip as well as being there to work issues when they come up vs. having to reposition for work.
When it comes to a managed aircraft the owner should look for someone with a good rep who actually treats the plane like their own. I've seen several managed aircraft where the people watching over the plane either are afraid to tell the owner about the expenses because they don't want to loose the business or are trying to make their own business look good by hiding cost. Their trying to make themselves look good by "keeping the cost down" and the owner never see's this until the sale of the plane comes along and an inspection uncovers all kinds of problems that the owner is now on the hook for.
A plane is a big investment, how you treat it is up to you. You did not get to the point where you could afford a plane by making bad decisions. Don't treat your plane any different.
I echo Chris's comments. The stakes in this game are high (your family or your key business associates). Therefor, it's imperative to hire the right leaders and managers for both your own flight department (if you choose that route) or your management company. It starts with "First Who." Collins already proved this (see Good to Great).
I also agree with Chris's remark to watch for undisclosed expenses. Too few people in private aviation understand that part of their paycheck is provided to tell the boss when something is unsafe, not legal, or simply dumb. Smart bosses listen. Dumb ones get fined, get hurt, or both. But, too often, because IC's (individual contributors) were hired to run things, instead of leaders and top-notch managers (who have the conviction to give the boss sound advice and stand behind it), sometimes unsafe or illegal situations become realities... and the key man (the boss) doesn't know. That's not serving the boss or the industry.
Great article. Well written, and quite accurate.
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How to compile the Couchbase stack on Windows
Installing a build environment
Download and install the latest "fullversion" of msysgit from http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list.
msysgit contains bash, gcc and other commonly used Unix tools. Unfortunately the installed compiler can't compile a 64 bit binary, so you need to install another compiler for that...
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win32/Automated%20Builds/mingw-w32-1.0-bin_i686-mingw_20100906.zip/download
You "install" the compiler by extracting the zipfile (normally, into c:\msysgit\msysgit\mingw64) and add the bin folder to your path.
You should also consider adding the following to your .bashrc file:
PATH=/mingw64/bin:$PATH export PATH
You need to download (and install) pthreads for the 64 bit compiler. A binary package is available from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/External%20binary%20packages%20%28Win64%20hosted%29/pthreads/pthreads-20100604.zip/download. Extract the file named pthreads-w64.zip within the zip file into /mingw64 .
The rest of the compilation steps should be performed from a msysgit shell.
Directory Structure
To be able to compile both 32-bit and 64-bit applications, installation of compiled binaries will be into /tmp/membase-build32 for 32-bit applications and /tmp/membase-build64 for 64-bit applications.
Build dependencies
Install libevent
Download http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent-2.0.7-rc.tar.gz and install it with the following commands:
gunzip libevent-2.0.7-rc.tar.gz tar xf libevent-2.0.7-rc.tar cd libevent-2.0.7-rc ./configure --prefix=/tmp/membase-build32 --disable-shared make all install cd .. rm -rf libevent-2.0.7-rc tar xf libevent-2.0.7-rc.tar cd libevent-2.0.7-rc ./configure --prefix=/tmp/membase-build64 --disable-shared --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --build=i686-pc-mingw32 make all install
Install cURL
Download http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.21.1.tar.gz and install it with the following commands:
gunzip curl-7.21.1.tar.gz tar xf curl-7.21.1.tar cd curl-7.21.1.tar cd curl-7.21.1 rm Makefile
Next, patch libtool in order to build a shared libraries on Windows. Apply the following patch:
--- curl-7.21.1-org/ltmain.sh 2010-05-27 21:20:16.000000000 +0200 +++ curl-7.21.1/ltmain.sh 2010-09-13 10:00:38.862248879 +0200 @@ -6685,6 +6685,19 @@ done done fi + + if test -n "$a_deplib" + then + case "$a_deplib" in + -lws2_32 | -lwldap32 | -lpthread) + newdeplibs+=" $a_deplib" + a_deplib="" + ;; + *) + ;; + esac + fi + if test -n "$a_deplib" ; then droppeddeps=yes $ECHO
Now build it with the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/tmp/membase-build64 --disable-static --enable-shared --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --build=i686-pc-mingw32
Build the Couchbase Stack
There is a Makefile that you may use build everything from scratch. "autoconf" tools are not available on Windows, so you need to log into a UNIX machine first to generate a configure file for all of the sub-projects couchbase is built up of. To do so, run the following commands:
git clone git://github.com/trondn/tools
cd tools/membase
mkdir win32 win64
ln -s ../Makefile win32/Makefile
ln -s ../Makefile win64/Makefile
cd win32
make -j preparesource
cd ../win64
make -j preparesource
cd ..
Due to the bug in libtool we need to apply the content of the patch above (it may not apply unless you are using the same version of libtool, but it's fairly easy to manually add.. Just search for "linker path" and add the content above the block).
If you've a patch file that applies cleanly you can fix all of the source with the following commands:
for f in `find . -name ltmain.sh` do cd `dirname $f` patch -p1 < /tmp/libtool.patch cd - done
You should now be able to build everything by running the following commands on your windows box:
for f in win32 win64 do cd $f make $f cd .. done


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