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Browsing Research documents by Author "Lund, Lars"
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Grønlands hjemtagelser 1980 til 1993 og smådriftsulemperLund, Lars (Frederiksberg, 2018)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: After home rule in 1979 Greenland gradually takes over expenditure of general government from Denmark during the 1980ies. Step by step Denmark gives a subsidy to Greenland covering what were the Danish expenditures. Nearly the entire subsidy comes in four lumps, 1980, 1985, 1987 and 1992. Subsequently the subsidies have been regulated according to the increase in costs for the Danish general government in providing services. Supposing government expenditures being a constant fraction of GDP, we calculate what would have been the hypothetical Danish expenditures to the four areas and then compare these to the actual Greenlandic expenditures in 1994 and 2014. Actual expenditures are much higher than the projected Danish ones. Especially this is true for general public services and education where the level is more than twice the projection. The article's point of view is that a large part of the overshooting is due to small scale diseconomies. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9677
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Analyse af situationen i 2000Lund, Lars (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Participation rate on the Greenland labour market: situation of year 2000 A goal is that a large part of the population of normal working age is employed. The participation rate is one of the statistics used to describe the performance of the economy in this respect. Two sources are used to arrive at an estimate of the rate both for Greenland in general and for four regions defined by four so called growth towns: Nuuk, Sisimiut, Ilulissat and Qaqortoq. They are Statistic Greenland's publications on employment and on unemployment. There are some difficulties using the available data: the employment and unemployment surveys refer to periods whereas the potential workforce is counted at a date. Furthermore persons with yearly income below an arbitrary limit of 40.000 DKK are sorted out even though they should contribute to the number of full year employed. The participation rate is found to be much higher in Nuuk than in the other regions. For Greenland as such the number is in line with figures for Western Europe and North America. Characteristics of people not in the work force are looked for. To some extent a connection exists to the number people receiving pension as disabled, people in education, and those on leave because of childbirth, but the relation is imperfect and great differences are seen between regions. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7604
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Lund, Lars (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The paper defines a base model of the airborne passenger traffic to and in Greenland showing the number of passengers on every non-stop connection. The type of airplane is defined for each route, and that determines the flying time. The number of connections and capacity utilization are fixed with due regard to the timetable of Air Greenland and the density of traffic on each route. Assumptions as to the cost per hour as a function of the duration of the flight are made for each aircraft. Applying this to different investment scenarios for airports and landing strips an index for the costs of supply of air traffic is found. Using this index the supplier's cost savings in the scenarios are found as a percentage of the relevant sale. A number of reports from recent years have information about the necessary investments in the scenarios, and matching these with the changes in costs permits the calculation of present values for the different projects. Apart from direct savings there are derived benefits in some of the scenarios the most prominent being the possibility to abandon Kangerlussuaq. The calculations include these indirect effects. Two scenarios have high present values: the use of Keflavik as hub, and the construction of a new airport with a 3000 meter runway south of Nuuk: two rather different scenarios, the first dominated by current savings, and the second dependent on a large fixed investment. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7526
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befolkning, arbejdsstyrke, beskæftigelse, erhvervLund, Lars (København, 1998)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7530
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priser og realindkomstLund, Lars (København, 1999)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Real income on Bornholm is described by comparing the region with the capital area and the country. Region specific prices are constructed for housing expenditure and for services. Weights for these parts of household budgets and the residual are found from panel surveys of household consumption. Relative prices of the consumption bundle for each year in the period 1987 to 1996 are found for both those who own there dwelling and those who rent it. Median incomes for entrepreneurs, employees and workers are constructed. Combining data on incomes and on relative prices gives estimates of real incomes. The result is that households of employed persons are relatively rich on Bornholm during the period. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7609
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Lund, Lars (København, 2000)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7545
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arbejdsmarkedet på Bornholm 1987 til 1996Lund, Lars (København, 2000)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7580
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Lund, Lars (København, 2006)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: A new local government structure is announced for Greenland from 2009. If the reform is carried through, Nanortalik the most southerly town will come together with Qaqortoq, then the new centre, and Narsaq. A suggestion by the mayor of Nanortalik about the number of civil servants that should move to the centre is the basis for calculating the potential loss of gross income (wages and profits) in the first years of the reform. With the civil servants follow some adults and children. On top of the direct loss of income come derived losses determined by a multiplier process. The size of the multiplier is estimated to be around 1,25. This is based on assumptions about income levels, expenditure patterns, and local income parts of sales. Full implementation of the reform could mean a loss of 5 plus percent of gross income. If other probable losses (e.g. fewer elected members of the local authority) are added in, the loss could rise to more than 7 percent. Tax rates are assumed not to be lowered by the departure of civil servants to the centre. To the contrary an increase in the tax rate for Nanortalik is envisaged as this small town in these years enjoys an advantage from taxing local people and foreign skilled workers operating a nearby gold mine. It is stressed that the paper doesn't evaluate the proposal for a reform, neither for the South of Greenland nor for Greenland as a whole. It is about possible very short term local effects URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7521
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Lund, Lars (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7632
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Abstract: The Greenland infrastructure for the airborne traffic uses Kangerlussuaq, Søndre Strømfjord, as hub. New scenarios may change that, and one possibility is the construction of a large airport at Nuuk with a 3000 m runway. The trunk line will then be between Copenhagen and Nuuk. In that case the village Kangerlussuaq will be abandoned. The paper analyses the size of the economic gain to Greenland of such a change. Using official statistics and information collected for the investigation a description is made of the employment structure and the income earned in the trades represented in Kangerlussuaq. It is then discussed to which extent people do tasks that will still be needed with the new structure and to which extent they will be set free to go into alternative production. The last possibility is regarded as a saving or as an increase in resources for Greenland, and the estimate is that this gain will amount to around 40 percent of the contribution to GDP in Kangerlussuaq. The saving is modified a little by the need of some new investments in Nuuk, mostly for housing. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7507
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Lund, Lars (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Abstract: The balance of payments of Greenland has special features due to an important current transfer, bloktilskud, from Denmark. The trade balance does not exhibit a deficit of this order of magnitude but comparison of the bloktilskud and the deficit is difficult as official figures are available for the merchandise trade only. Figures for services are missing. However, guesses about the size of a deficit in the services' trade do not easily discard the impression of a large surplus on the current account. Over a ten year period it is suggested that accumulated surpluses could be twice the level of Greenland's GDP. This seems unlikely, but the available data raise a puzzle that ought to be addressed as it nourishes suspicion of unobserved accumulation of wealth. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7550
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Med særligt henblik på grønlandske forholdLund, Lars (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Resource rents and models for taxation of these rents. Some references to the situation for Greenland. After a general introduction to the concept of rents the risk of distortion by double taxation of the normal capital income to investment is explained. Cash flow taxation or deduction in the tax base of investment times the risk free interest rate can be used to avoid this double taxation. Among other instruments to secure a part of rents for the public sector are direct participation and selling rights to exploit the resources by auction. The greater part of the paper is about taxation of rents in fisheries. The regulation is assumed to be based on professional advising and individual transferable quotas. Duties on the quota or a general cost increasing tariff, e. g. on fuel, are administratively simple models for taxation. Cost increasing indirect taxation has the good quality of incentive compatibility, as it supports the effort reducing aim of regulation. A concrete example illustrates a possible taxation of the prawn/shrimp fishery combining a duty on the quota with a tariff levied on the catch. Some comment are given on a recent report on the shrimp fishery (2005), and it is criticised for highlighting the theoretical qualities of Greenland's fisheries policy, but neglecting the regulation and also to which extent incomes derived from quotas end up as income for Greenlandic households. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7559
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Lund, Lars (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The focus is effects of investments in airports and runways on the market for air travel and more in general for the production possibilities of the economy. In the case of Greenland two types of impacts can be sorted out. One is more efficient production of air transport due to increased density in the utilization of the net because of no use or less use of the airport in Kangerlussuaq. The other effect, connected to the first, is that resources are set free by avoidance of double work receiving the same passengers (and goods) in Kangerlussuaq and especially in Nuuk. Transformation curves are used to illustrate both effects and the first is dealt with also in an ordinary price quantity diagram. Using previous calculations and estimates done by the author two specific scenarios are treated in the theoretical framework presented: one is a lengthening of the runway in Nuuk to 1799 m and less intensive use of Kangerlussuaq, the other is the building of an airport south of Nuuk with a 3000 m runway in combination with abandoning Kangerlussuaq. Profitability and amortisation of the investments are reviewed in transformation curve diagrams. On the assumptions of the calculations both scenarios are profitable, but by far the most profitable is the big investment south of Nuuk. Concluding remarks stress the preliminary character of my calculations, but they also point out that decision makers' choice of scenarios to be discussed and compared is unstable. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7500
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Lund, Lars (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Processing ashore of raw materials from the fisheries tend intuitively to recommend itself because more creation of value added in this manner should take place in Greenland. However, we observe the opposite tendency: production is shifted aboard on factory trawlers and catches are shipped directly to export markets or may be so after transshipping in e.g. Nuuk. It is shown that this actual development indeed is the prediction of location economics. In the case of unemployment it may be optimal to secure raw materials for processing on plants ashore, an aim that may be achieved via subsidies. The optimality of such policy is discussed using concepts from cost benefit analysis, and it is demonstrated how the shadow price of labor has a crucial role. Shifting to the macro level capacity restrictions on plants and on the labor market are pointed out. The effect of taking raw material ashore is illustrated with a macro production function, which is assumed to have a positive marginal product until the capacity limit is hit. This, however, may take place after the noninflationary augmenting level of employment has been reached. Finally the possibility of alternative and better policies than the one relying on subsidies is touched upon. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7570
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This infopgrahic is the work of Flowtown, a social marketing startup, and the designers at Column Five Media who specialise in producing infograhics. They've tapped into the popularity of iconic painter and television personality Bob Ross to bring you this easy-to-digest view of social media sites. In this artistic interpretation of our social media landscape Facebook is portrayed as a mega mountain with 600 million happy little users, and Google Buzz is a desert with "swirly tumbleweeds."
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RIO TINTO has warned that the federal government's plan to crack down on the tax minimisation strategies used by global companies such as Google and Amazon could "come back to bite" Australia if other countries started doing the same.
The comments by the mining company came as the federal Assistant Treasurer, David Bradbury, cautioned that Australia's corporate tax base risked becoming unsustainable if authorities failed to keep pace with dramatic structural changes in the global economy.
Mr Bradbury outlined plans to convene a specialist reference group of business leaders, tax experts, academics and community representatives to examine measures to combat the practice.
He said the digital disruption brought about by the internet and changes in technology had transformed the way economic activity was occurring.
He said these changes were putting pressure on the corporate tax system in Australia.
"Increasingly, governments are discovering the lack of effectiveness in the digital age of international tax concepts created for the industrial age," Mr Bradbury told an Institute of Chartered Accountants national tax conference.
He proposed that corporate tax should be based on profits that reflect the "economic activity" attributable to Australia. Currently, corporate tax in Australia is levied on the source of activity.
Company documents filed with Australian, European and Asian authorities show the Australian arms of Apple, Google and eBay are part of complex networks of subsidiaries held by their US parents
through intermediary companies in tax havens.
In April, the Tax Office hit Apple with a $28.5 million bill for back taxes. Google Australia declared a loss of $3.9 million last year and paid just $74,176 in Australian tax, despite generating revenue of more than $1 billion here.
But Rio Tinto's tax head for the Asia-Pacific region, Ross Lyons, said if the government started tinkering with the source-based tax regime, and instead focused on where income was generated to try to capture companies such as Google, then it could end up costing the government revenue.
Speaking after the event, Mr Lyons said from Rio's perspective, the big miner did not have any income sourced in China and that's why Rio pays a very low amount of income tax: because that's the way a source-based tax system works and the Chinese accept that.
"[But] if the government wants to start unravelling that sort of concept in Australia to try to tax foreign taxpayers on the basis that they should be paying more tax because they've got sales in Australia, watch out, [because] other countries might start doing the same to us," he told BusinessDay.
Mr Lyons said if the Chinese government suddenly said it would start taxing some of the income that Rio Tinto booked in Australia and paid tax on in Australia, then companies like Rio could make use of the double tax agreement between the two countries.
"We could claim credit relief in Australia for the Chinese tax paid, so the loser would be the Australian government at the end of the day, because the tax agreement makes it quite clear that you don't tax income twice," he said.
Mr Lyons said the Henry tax review offered a better alternative for what the government was trying to do.
"The Henry review actually said [to] look at a more modern expenditure-based tax that deals with e-commerce and deals with destination as to where the business spends its money.
"I think that kind of idea is what the government needs to start looking at," he said.
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For most of her life, Estelle Sherry has known only that her 22-year-old brother died in Italy during World War II. But thanks to the work of one man she's never met, she now knows what happened to her brother.
It all started with a letter from Italy and a stranger holding answers for a family who has lived in the dark for 70 years.
"It's like going through a death all over again," said Estelle Sherry.
In 1942 Estelle's older brother joined the United States Army Air Forces to fight in World War II. First Lieutenant Herschel Howard Mattes nicknamed his kid sister Steloola, and that's what he decided to name the plane he flew.
Two years later, after his deployment to Europe, his family was simply told he wouldn't be coming home.
"He was listed as killed in action. That's all we knew," said Estelle. "We knew it was in Italy. Nothing else."
That is until Estelle's son, Stephen, received that letter. It revealed what happened to the uncle he's only heard stories about.
"It's difficult knowing that there are people you have never met and have very little knowledge of and that are lost," said Stephen Sherry.
The letter came from Dr. Vincenzo Lucherini. He lives in Manziana, Italy, the place he says Mattes died.
During the war Americans liberated the city from German occupation.
"He felt any of the Americans who were killed or went down in that town should be honored and back to their families," said Estelle.
Through correspondence the family discovered that during a mission targeting railway cars the 22-year-old's plane was shot down. It's believed his remains are buried in the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery and Memorial in Italy.
For most of her life Estelle has wondered what happened, and now a complete stranger has brought her hope her brother may finally come home.
"In any day and age to have someone who is that kind and concerned I think is amazing. Just amazing," said Estelle.
Estelle says those with the Department of Defense do believe her brother has been located. The next step is to do DNA testing.
On Saturday Estelle and her family will meet Dr. Lucherini for the first time.


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LETTER- Trunk uses Brazen manipulation
I admit that The Brazen Careerist is not my favorite column as most of the essays are a series of suggestions on how to manipulate the real experiences, knowledge, and humanity of a person into a product that can be sold to the highest bidder, but I found the July 8 column, "Career Lore," particularly disturbing due to what I perceived as the author's disregard for human suffering in favor of furthering her own career.
She told potential employers that she was near the World Trade Center when it collapsed in order to gain their attention and respect, even though that fact was non-essential to explaining her credentials as a writer. I hope I'm incorrect in viewing her anecdote as demonstrating blatant disregard for 3,000-plus lives and a willingness to capitalize on tragedy to further her career, but unfortunately Ms. Trunk has made it seem that she is quite willing to manipulate herself and others in order to climb the corporate ladder.
Tips for navigating the workplace are great, but when they come at the expense of human dignity, I hope that people take it upon themselves to maintain a sense of respect for their fellow man as well as themselves.
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Alexis Taylor (left) and Lindsey Bray (right) are both expected to compete in Friday's Hokie Open in Blacksburg, Va.
Meet Information Course Information Blacksburg Weather Seven Liberty cross country runners will wrap up their respective 2013 seasons at Friday afternoon's Hokie Open. The low-key meet will mark the seventh straight year Liberty has competed in an event at the Virginia Tech Cross Country Course in Blacksburg, Va. The day will feature two shorter-than-usual races, beginning with a men's 6K at 4:30 p.m., followed by a women's 4K at 5:15. Jacob Onifer is expected to be the lone Flames entrant in the men's race, with Lindsey Bray, Mary Cate Cooper, Kaitlyn Hutchins, Alexis Taylor, Megan Versen and Terrill Zentmeyer set for the women's competition.
Weather Report The weather will be a bit cool Friday afternoon despite the forecasted sunny skies. Temperatures are expected to be in the upper 40s in Blacksburg.
Checking Out the Course The terrain is mostly flat at the on-campus Virginia Tech Cross Country Course, which will be a welcome change for the Liberty runners who just competed in the Big South Cross Country Championships at the hilly Vista Links Golf Course on Saturday.
Friday's race will make it seven straight years that Liberty has competed in a race at Virginia Tech, but only two of the Flames' entrants (Jacob Onifer and Mary Cate Cooper) have ever run there. This is the first time the Flames have been represented at the Hokie Open since 2007.
Onifer has raced at the course twice, competing unattached at the 2011 and 2012 Virginia Tech Alumni Invitationals. In 2011, he opened his collegiate career with an 18th-place finish at Virginia Tech, coming in ahead of teammates Zach Barker and Will Reeves.
Additionally, Cooper was the Lady Flames' No. 10 finisher at the 2012 Virginia Tech Alumni Invitational, coming in 43rd overall.
From A to Zentmeyer The first Liberty women's cross country runner in program history with a last name starting with "Z," Terrill Zentmeyer enjoyed a unique introduction to the team on Saturday. The Big South Cross Country Championships marked the first time that the freshman from Odessa, Fla., got the chance to wear a Liberty uniform in competition. She was the No. 10 runner for the Big South runner-up Lady Flames, coming in 78th overall in a 5K time of 22:29.48.
Bouncing Back from Big South Four of Liberty's entrants for the Hokie Open raced at the Big South Cross Country Championships on Saturday, helping the Flames win the men's team title and the Lady Flames earn the women's runner-up trophy.
Jacob Onifer was the men's team's No. 9 finisher, coming in 38th overall in an 8K time of 28:03.
On the women's side, Alexis Taylor (57th place, 20:42) ran in the No. 8 spot for the Lady Flames, Lindsey Bray (62nd place, 20:58) was No. 9 and Terrill Zentmeyer (78th place, 22:29) was No. 10.
Reaching the Finish Line Friday's Hokie Open will most likely be the final race of the 2013 season for each of Liberty's competitors there. The Flames and Lady Flames will be limited to seven entrants apiece at the 2013 NCAA Division I Southeast Regional Championships, which are set for Nov. 15 at Panorama Farms in Earlysville, Va.
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Crimp flag terminals are a type of solderless electrical connection that are used to terminate stranded wires.
What are crimp flag terminals used for?
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Monday, August 29, 2011
Volcanic Ramblings Part 2: A Dedication
3 comments:
- Dana Hunter said...
What an amazing teacher. I always loved the ones who made me work my arse off and didn't take excuses for an answer the most. Without them, I wouldn't have much of a mind. And they'll be with me the rest of my life.
Going to go blow my own nose and wipe my eyes now, then get on with the Salt Creek madness...
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Thanks for this post, Lockwood.
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Thank you for this post. It reminds me of a professor I dealt with at my former college. (Unfortunately, I was in the process of a psychological breakdown at the time I took his mineralogy course and he didn't understand that.) Ironically, he was a metamorphic petrologist.
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National Dialogue on Students at Risk Conference
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Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Thank you Niki I'm pleased to join you, my panel colleagues and the champions of youth in this room for a discussion about the economic, social and health impacts of dropping out of high school. For a day and a half now, you've engaged in students at risk dialogue with public officials, community leaders, health experts, academics, program directors and the impressive list goes on from Sister Bernadette O'Reilly and the Rossbrook House story in Winnipeg, to Dr. Carl Porter and the early child development link, not to mention, Norman Rowen and the Pathways to Education story in Regent Park, Toronto. I also want to thank Veronica Lacey (and The Learning Partnership) for inviting me to participate in this important and timely forum - a forum which is helping to connect the entire country on this national and international issue.
I remember well when "the plight of students at risk in Canada" was the subject of a National Roundtable involving senior policy decision makers from across Canada on January 26, 2005. The day culminated in a keynote dinner address by Dr. Douglas Willms, Director of the Canadian Research Institute for Social Policy at the University of New Brunswick. And I also remember Veronica's comments following the event: "It is a moral, social and economic imperative to reduce the gap between students who achieve and those who fail. As the issue is urgent and complex, the dialogue and responsibility for the solution must be embraced with pan-Canadian resolve and action." So here we are once again - and I think it's safe to say that we hear the call to action.
It's been said that, "the capacity to learn is our most abundant and precious resource." Education is the foundation of Canada's economic well-being and the prerequisite to sustaining our quality of life. Quite simply, dropping out of high school doesn't pay.
Michael Bloom, Director of Education and Learning, the Conference Board of Canada sums it up well: "Knowledge is the currency of our economy and learning is a key to maintaining productivity, competitiveness and prosperity. By stimulating innovation in public education and learning systems, Canadians will become more highly skilled, creative and adaptable-qualities leading to an innovative society and a better workforce." Again, dropping out of high school simply doesn't pay.
So let's talk about the economic impact of students dropping out of high school - and some ideas to help address this issue. At the same time, it's useful to keep in mind that the social and health impacts are all interconnected. To get us started, it's helpful to recap the landscape:
"The evidence also suggests that potential employers are less likely to hire high school dropouts. The unemployment rate among dropouts aged 20 to 24 in 2004/05 was 19.4%, double that for all others in this age group, a reality that will be reflected in earnings and longer term prospects." In other words, dropping out of high school simply doesn't pay!
"The labour market in Canada rewards those with education." High school drop-outs have a harder time finding work than others who follow secondary school through to completion and perhaps continue in the education system. To quote from one of the Canadian Council on Learning pieces, Lessons in Learning: "The good news is that high school dropout rates have been declining steadily over the past decade. The bad news is that among certain sub groups - rural and Aboriginal students in particular - the rates are well above the national average."
"The substantial decline in the dropout rate over the past decade suggests that many of the programs put in place to encourage young people to stay in school until they graduate (including second chance programs) are meeting with success." Yet despite the progress, there remain over 200,000 young Canadians who can be called dropouts. "This is even more concerning, given the evidence that some young dropouts do reasonably well in school in terms of academic performance."
It's been accepted for many years now that students who don't complete high school, face many more challenges later in life, than students who do. A 2005 report from the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey, entitled "One-Third of a Nation: Rising Dropout Rates and Declining Opportunities", alerts readers that not enough is being done to curtail rising dropout rates and their economic costs.
"This is a story of losing ground," writes author Paul Barton. "At the same time that the dropout rate is increasing and out-of-school education and training opportunities are dwindling, the economic status of young dropouts has been in a free fall since the late 1970s. Employment and earnings prospects have declined and even for those who work full time, earnings have dropped steadily to averages around the poverty line for a family with children."
Barton goes on to say: "Almost 45 years ago, James Conant, former president of Harvard, said that the dropout problem was 'social dynamite.' The explosion has occurred, and will continue to occur. This is seen in growing prison populations and increasing welfare costs; in ever lower wages; in a limited labor supply for, we are told, an economy with an increasing appetite for educated workers; and in the likelihood of raising a new generation with dim prospects of doing better - and perhaps of doing worse." Dropping out of high school simply doesn't pay!
Barton paints a grim picture for the United States but also adds: "The nation has proven it can focus on improving education achievement while students are in school in this there is a promise that it can also give such focused attention to keeping them in school until graduation." Canada can think and do likewise - it's our call to action.
Not surprisingly, "a large and growing body of research findings suggest the more education, the better, especially when it comes to making a smooth transition into the workforce. The consequences of dropping out can be great, and there are many concrete things that schools, families (and yes business), can do to help students stay in school" - to help our future workforce become leaders in the new economy.
The bottom line is the bottom line. "Having a high school education and diploma, not only can provide entry to postsecondary education (college or university), it sends a strong signal to prospective employers. In 2004, the unemployment rate among people aged 25 to 44 who did not have a high school diploma was 12.2%, while for those whose highest level of education was high school, it was much lower, at 6.8%. Moving to higher levels of education, the unemployment rate continues to drop, although not to the same extent."
It bears repeating dropping out of high school simply doesn't pay!
Canada is obviously moving in the right direction - we've made progress with our dropout rate - however this is no time to be complacent, as there's much work to get done. Besides, progress must be nurtured to continue. The dropout statistics suggest that future success in prevention will depend on our ability to reach out to particular sub-groups that are experiencing above average dropout rates - young males, young mothers, students in rural areas and aboriginal students.
We must focus on aboriginal students - on community-based learning, on employment and on language and culture. "The aboriginal population is the fastest growing segment of Canada's workforce. More than half of this population is under 25. About 400,000 aboriginal young people are poised to enter the job market over the next 20 years." Promising job opportunities and careers will encourage Aboriginal students to stay in school and help them make the transition from school to work. RBC's Aboriginal Stay in School Program is one example of many in this room, in Vancouver, in British Columbia and across Canada we need to push the envelope on this "students at risk" priority.
The same goes for male students, young mothers and students in rural areas. As the recent Canadian Council for Learning article and other sources suggest: rural schools may want to partner with local businesses to create stay-in-school or school-to-work initiatives. "Male students may be more inclined to stay in school if they can see a direct connection between schooling and near-term employment opportunities. School-to-work programs including co-operative education and apprenticeships are extremely valuable in this regard. And programs that enable young women who become pregnant to continue their education while caring for their children remain important. Affordable, high-quality child care is a critical component of any such program." Again, dropping out of high school simply doesn't pay!
I also want to weave in three more noteworthy and interrelated elements to our dropping out of high school doesn't pay economic dialogue - they include: early child development, literacy and what I refer to as ego-strength:
For many years, people here today (and countless others), have made a major and collective contribution to early child development, literacy, ego-strength and supporting stay in school initiatives. We're often more successful when creating strong partnerships among schools, businesses, governments and communities - by adopting a holistic approach. You're assuming a leadership role by encouraging educators, business colleagues, not to mention community administrators to do what most of you are already doing. Share best practices and show up at best practices - find out what's going on in your community and communities from coast to coast. Talk to students, invite business/educator contacts to workplaces, schools and symposiums and connect decision-makers/influencers to students so they can listen to one another directly.
In his presentation, "Wait to Fail" Dr. Douglas Willms (who I mentioned at the start of my remarks) makes several thought-provoking observations, including one about redefining school readiness. He says: "Learning readiness is not a characteristic of a child. All children are ready to learn. Instead, think about learning readiness as a characteristic of a school. Is a school ready to meet the learning needs of the children it serves?" His comments made me reflect on a similar and perhaps related question: if we presume that most high school students are ready to learn at work, is a business ready to meet the learning needs of its student employees - do we make our opportunities and environments enticing enough so that they prefer to finish high school first and even go beyond?
As Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty maintains: "Building a well-educated and highly skilled workforce is the most important thing we can do to ensure our future prosperity helping our students succeed is the most important thing we can do to help them achieve their full potential." In this day and age, it may be hard to find an issue that enjoys unanimous political agreement, but I'll go out on a limb here and suggest every Premier in Canada would share this perspective.
Connecting what students learn in the classroom and how they apply this learning in the workplace makes good economic sense. Providing both students and educators with more opportunities to discover and experience the work environment also makes good economic sense. Student participation in the workplace, chatting with young people about their futures and nurturing positive attitudes about work and school, also makes good economic sense for RBC - and for other corporations/businesses too.
In short, the economic impact of students dropping out of high school is enormous. High school students represent a huge pool of talent - a huge pool of largely untapped talent that's getting ready to be engaged in business, in public service and in communities - to be contributors to a robust economy. We can help students get ready in school - to value school. And we can help students get ready for the workplace - to value the workplace. This is not an option, this is an imperative - the intrinsic link between education and economic prosperity is too significant to ignore.
In order for learning to become a way of life, increasing educational opportunities must become the shared goals of stakeholders - from students and teachers, to parents and grandparents, to business people and volunteers. As a father and businessman, I'm strongly convinced that our children and students deserve nothing less. As such, I'll close by saying it one more time for good measure: dropping out of high school simply doesn't pay!
Thank you.


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Japan and the Hague Convention: but will foreign parents really see their kids?
Lee Jay Walker
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It appears that the Japanese government is mulling over signing the Hague Convention and giving rights to international parents. However, it is abundantly clear that for parents who are caught up in "this ongoing nightmare" and for future foreign parents; then the signing may become "a dead letter?"
This article is not based on the Hague Convention because I believe that major barriers will still be put in place. Also, what are the ramifications of the Hague Convention for the international parent who got married in Japan and whose children were brought up in Japan?
My focus is on the countermeasures which will be used by the Japanese legal system, marriage counselors, solicitors representing the Japanese parent, politicians who oppose the ratification, and other vested parties.
In several articles in the Japanese press, and also commented on in the BBC, it specified that "Critics have raised concerns over joining the pact, saying it could endanger Japanese parents and kids who have fled abusive relationships."
Roland Buerk who is a correspondent for the BBC highlighted the case of Alex Kahney who is a British national. However, while the article was sympathetic towards Alex Kahney and other fathers and parents who are caught up within the failed Japanese legal system.
He failed to challenge or give credence to the statement by Akiko Oshima who is a marriage counselor. Therefore, Roland Buerk from the BBC allowed Akiko Oshima to state "These women who come back, do not do it because they want to."
"They feel this is the only way out. They want their child to be brought up in Japan, and not in the host country where the father is abusive and she has no control over her children's education, and so forth. Not even, say, getting a job to support herself. This is the problem."
Firstly, why does Akiko Oshima imply that the father is always abusive? Are we meant to believe that every single foreign father in every case is the problem and not the Japanese spouse?
This comment is tinged with sexism and racism because each case must be judged on merit and not based on the ethnicity of the individual or the sex of the parent.
Even more alarming; why didn't Roland Buerk challenge this comment or at least state facts about the implication of what Akiko Oshima was stating?
It appears that Akiko Oshima by her comment is implying that Japan cares about "child abuse" but why didn't Roland Buerk challenge her on this issue?
After all, you have very few articles which highlight this serious situation and all the positives were negated. Therefore, let us see if Akiko Oshima is factual about Japan caring about "child abuse" because she implies that women are leaving foreign nations because "They want their child to be brought up in Japan, and not in the host country where the father is abusive."
However, when did Japan take child abuse seriously? In 2008 you had 42,664 cases of child abuse and in 2009 you had 44,210 cases of child abuse. New laws passed were meant to give welfare workers more power to apply for warrants in child abuse cases.
However, in 2008 only two warrants were asked for and astonishingly in 2009 only one warrant was asked for. This fact paints a different picture to the one being painted by Akiko Oshima and her statement should have been backed up by facts.
Therefore, basically, out of over 86,000 reports of child abuse only three child warrants were asked for. Given this, then clearly the rights of the child in Japan is not being taken seriously and Akiko Oshima should focus on reforming the Japanese legal system and systematic thinking; rather than making "sweeping comments" and implying that Japan is a haven for child rights who are being protected by abusive foreign fathers.
In a case involving two young children who were starved to death by their "abusive mother" then let us analyze this sad and tragic case. After all, international parents need to know that countermeasures are being taken in order to deprive them from seeing their children and the sweeping comment by Akiko Oshima should set off alarm bells.
In this tragic case Japanese neighbors tried to help these two young children who were starved to death slowly by their mother. Therefore, neighbors contacted the child welfare department in Osaka but sadly like the earlier figure states, nothing was done.
Yes, child welfare officers knocked on the door five times but at no point do they seek a warrant or to see the children. They also did not contact the police and because of this systematic failure these two young children died slowly and in mass pain and suffering.
If people within Japan or organizations are concerned about child abuse and abusive parents then let me be frank; they have 86,000 cases in order to help the innocent child being abused in Japan between 2008 and 2009.
Also, these are only the reported cases because silence appears to rule the day or maybe people have given up because of the inept system?
The decomposed bodies of 3 year old Sakurako Hagi and her baby brother, Kaede, aged 1, were found after months of inactivity by the child welfare organizations.
The mother, Shimomura, aged 23, stated that she wanted "to flee from everything and have time to myself…I knew they wouldn't be able to survive if not given food or water. I abandoned them and killed them as a result."
Shimomura killed her children but the child welfare institution was also behind the deaths of these two children because they failed to help and rescue them from the pits of hell.
In another case in Osaka a mother killed her child because the child had thrown away her console game.
Shizuku Tanaka, aged three, was suffocated and put in a garbage bag by her mother and boyfriend. This child had her hands and feet taped up and died in agonizing pain because Yui Tanaka, her mother, and her boyfriend, wanted to play a game and apparently the child was noisy.
Her mother stated that "Even when we scolded her, she didn't listen." Apparently Yui Tanaka had stated the previous year that "Even if this kid died, I wouldn't cry."
Randy Collins, father of Keisuke Christian Collins, stated in his article called The Façade of Honor and Respect that "Another façade by the Japanese is that when confronted with these staggering numbers, the same mantra is said over and over again: 'We are protecting our women and children from abuse of the Americans'."
Like Randy Collins comments, and the figure of only three warrants out of 86,000 reported child abuse cases implies in 2008 and 2009; then the concern of protecting the rights of the Japanese national from the abusive father is "a red herring."
I have not focused on the Hague Convention because it is abundantly clear that countless obstacles will be put in the way. Also, how about the rights of the international parent who was married in Japan and whose child or children were born in Japan?
Not only this; how about the rights of Japanese nationals who can't see their children in Japan. You have so many areas which the Hague Convention does not cover.
Yes, it is clearly a huge step in the right direction but I fear that it will become "a dead letter" for many parents who are already caught up in this nightmare.
The same applies to future parents who will face the sad reality of the Japanese legal system.
I believe that it is essential for international parents and Japanese parents to focus on countermeasures and obstacles which will be put in their way. Therefore, the facts must be given in order to debunk individuals who want to play "the Japanese female victim card."
Every case must be judged on merit and when you have two parents who love their child or children then joint access is essential. In some cases the best sole parent may be the Japanese mother, the Japanese father, the international mother or the international father.
In truth, each case will have special factors but let us not forget the child or children because it sometimes appears that they do not count in the legal system of Japan.
Racism must be taken out of the legal system and the same applies to sexism and enforcement powers in Japan are needed.
International parents who have pressurized national governments and embassy staff have done well to get so far. However, the path ahead remains difficult and countermeasures are being taken before the ratification of the Hague Convention.
Therefore, it is vital that stereotypes are debunked and this certainly applies to "the female victim card" and the issue of "abuse."
I also must add that many females have also been victims of the Japanese legal system because enforcement powers are ineffective within the Japanese legal system.
In truth, so many areas need to be changed in order to give rights to left behind parents and left behind grandparents.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called the Nazi Holocaust "the most heinous crime" against humanity in modern times, in an apparent bid to build bridges with Israel days after troubled peace talks collapsed.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the overture on Sunday, saying Abbas's Palestinian power-sharing deal with Hamas, which led Israel to suspend the negotiations on Thursday, put him in partnership with an Islamist group that denies the Holocaust and seeks the Jewish state's destruction.
"What I say to him very simply is this: President Abbas, tear up your pact with Hamas," Netanyahu said on the CBS news programme Face the Nation.
Abbas's message, published in Arabic and English by the official Palestinian news agency WAFA, coincided with Israel's annual remembrance day for the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust, and included an expression of sympathy for the families of the victims.
"What happened to the Jews in the Holocaust is the most heinous crime to have occurred against humanity in the modern era," WAFA quoted Abbas as saying at a meeting a week ago with an American rabbi.
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Abbas has condemned the mass killings of Jews in World War Two before and challenged allegations, stemming from a 1983 book he authored, that he is a Holocaust denier.
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The peace negotiations, championed by Kerry, were facing an April 29 deadline, with little public sign the two sides were making progress toward a U.S.-mediated deal to extend the talks.
Netanyahu said in the TV interview, however, that he had negotiated in earnest for nine months, working closely with Kerry, and "we made some significant progress".
Palestinian officials have blamed Netanyahu for the peace impasse, noting he failed to carry out a pledged release of Palestinian prisoners and citing Israeli announcements of further construction in settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Netanyahu has said Abbas's refusal to recognise Israel as a Jewish state blocked progress in talks aimed at ending decades of conflict and creating a Palestinian state.
The Palestinian unity accord followed seven years of failed reconciliation attempts after Hamas seized the Gaza Strip from forces loyal to Abbas in 2007.
The agreement envisages the formation of a Palestinian government of non-political "technocrats" within five months and new elections six months later.
On CBS, Netanyahu said Abbas "cannot embrace Hamas and say that he wants peace with Israel". In a separate interview with CNN, Netanyahu reiterated he would never negotiate with a Palestinian government backed by Hamas, a group that both Israel and the United States regard as a terrorist organisation.
Hamas officials were not immediately available to comment on Netanyahu's Holocaust-denial accusations.
But in an open letter to a senior U.N. official in 2009, Hamas branded the Holocaust "a lie invented by the Zionists". Hamas was protesting U.N. plans at the time to start Holocaust studies for children in Gaza.
Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial, gave a guarded welcome to Abbas's statement on Sunday.
"Holocaust denial and revisionism are sadly prevalent in the Arab world, including among Palestinians," Yad Vashem said. "Thus the statement, that the Holocaust is the most heinous crime to have occurred against humanity in the modern era, coming from Abbas, might signal a change."
Additional reporting by Jim Loney in Washington; editing by Andrew Roche


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Zuckerberg bonded with WhatsApp CEO over coffee, dinners3 min read . Updated: 20 Feb 2014, 09:10 PM IST
The purchase would be the biggest Internet deal since Time Warner's $124 billion merger with AOL in 2001
The purchase would be the biggest Internet deal since Time Warner's $124 billion merger with AOL in 2001
San Francisco/New York: The relationship between Facebook Inc and WhatsApp Inc started in spring 2012 over coffee at a German bakery. It was consummated on Valentine's Day with chocolate-covered strawberries, after just five days of talks.
Facebook, the world's largest social network, agreed on Wednesday to acquire mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp for as much as $19 billion in cash and stock, seeking to expand its reach among users on mobile devices.
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive officer, first reached out to WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum in early 2012, inviting him for coffee at the bakery in Los Altos, California. They ended up talking for more than two hours, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
The two became friends, meeting frequently for dinners and hiking together.
On 9 February, Koum, 38, went to Zuckerberg's house in Palo Alto, California, for dinner. That's when the conversation about a possible deal became serious, the person said. The two first talked about how they could work together more closely on Zuckerberg's Internet.org initiative for connecting the world on mobile devices.
Zuckerberg, 29, then proposed that their companies join together and that Koum join Facebook's board. Koum took a few days to think it over. Five days later, on 14 February, Zuckerberg was having dinner with his wife at home when Koum showed up, strawberries in hand. They then negotiated a price.
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The purchase would be the biggest Internet deal since Time Warner's $124 billion merger with AOL in 2001, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The accord includes $12 billion in stock, $4 billion in cash and $3 billion in restricted shares, Facebook said on Wednesday. WhatsApp has more than 450 million members, with 1 million users being added daily, Facebook said.
Mountain View, California-based WhatsApp, which is popular in Europe and Asia, lets users send messages through its service on mobile devices based on different operating systems including Apple Inc.'s iOS, Google Inc.'s Android, Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Phone and BlackBerry Ltd.'s software.
Unlike traditional text messages, which consumers pay for through their mobile-phone plans, WhatsApp is free for the first year and costs 99 cents a year after that. It competes with Tencent Holdings Ltd.'s WeChat in China, KakaoTalk in South Korea and Line in Japan, as well as Facebook's own application, Facebook Messenger.
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Koum co-founded the company with Brian Acton, 42, in 2009 after almost a decade as an engineer at Yahoo! Inc. Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital invested $8 million in WhatsApp in 2011, for a more than 15% stake that is now worth about $3.5 billion, according to people with knowledge of the deal.
Koum's likely windfall from the deal stands in stark contrast to his years as a teenager, when his family relied on food stamps after emigrating from Ukraine.
Acton grew up in Michigan and was employee No. 44 at Yahoo, working on advertising, shopping and travel services, according to Wired. He later hired Koum at Yahoo and served as his mentor, inviting him over to his house and taking him skiing, Forbes said.
The two founded WhatsApp with the idea that smartphone users should be able to easily message each other without incurring fees from phone carriers. They eschewed marketing and didn't employ a public relations person, relying on the word-of- mouth recommendations of its users instead.
Koum said in a statement on the company's website that WhatsApp will remain autonomous and operate independently.
"There would have been no partnership between our two companies if we had to compromise on the core principles that will always define our company, our vision and our product," he said. BLOOMBERG
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Kepler Outreach Program
Four centuries after Johannes Kepler first described how planets orbit the Sun, NASA's Kepler mission launches in search of Earth-size planets around distant stars.
Kepler will seek evidence of planets by observing more than 100,000 stars continuously, looking for the tiny dip in brightness caused by a planetary transit. I'm sure that Johannes would be amazed; I know that I am. The launch is scheduled from Cape Canaveral, Fla., at 10:49 p.m. EST on Friday, March 6, 2009. That's tomorrow, and the countdown in underway. The excitement is palpable.
Kepler is the first spacecraft capable of discovering Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of distant stars. ESA's CoRoT spacecraft is finding "super-Earths" which are planets several times the mass of Earth. CoRoT's planets are in short period orbits, which means that the planets are close to their stars and are high temperature orbs. The latest CoRoT discovery is roughly twice the size of Earth. Ground-based telescopes search for exo-planets using spectroscopy, and have discovered a bounty of giant planets. More than 340 planets have been discovered, including 37 systems with multiple planets. Altogether, planets have been found orbiting more than 280 nearby stars. Amazing!
So far, planets as small as Earth have not been found. The Kepler mission is specifically designed to search for Earths in the habitable zone of other stars. This will take time. One transit is not sufficient. Discoveries must be confirmed by at least two additional transits, for a minimum of three transits. For a planet like Earth in orbit around a Sun-like star, the transits would be about a year apart. Thus, confirmation would require three years. The initial observation period for Kepler is 3.5 years, and it may be extended.
Bill Borucki, the Principal Investigator for the Kepler mission, has worked on the idea of finding Earths for more than 20 years. At first, he had to convince NASA that seeking small, terrestrial-type planets using the transit method was feasible. Could equipment be designed and launched that could actually accomplish the very precise observations needed to detect small planets? Borucki and his team proposed the Kepler mission four times to the Discovery Program. Following the third proposal in 1998, Dave Koch the Deputy Principal Investigator was granted research funds to build a CCD camera and Bill Borucki was granted funds to build a testbed. Together they formed the proof of concept. They built a physical simulator in the labs at NASA's Ames Research Center and successfully demonstrated that the transit method could detect Earth-size planets. In the next round of Discovery proposals, two years later, the Kepler Mission made the first cut and was ultimately selected in December 2001 as the tenth Discovery mission. Today, a large team of scientists and engineers at NASA Ames Research Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, non-profit organizations (including the SETI Institute) and several universities are working together on Kepler, which was constructed by BATC (Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation) in Boulder, CO. (From Edna DeVore's Kepler Mission - Aiming at a New Earth)


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In an April 16 story about Egypt's economy and request for an IMF loan, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of an economic expert. The correct spelling is Halime, not Haline.
A corrected version of the story is below:
IMF leaves Egypt after hearing from opposition
IMF team leaves Egypt without broad backing from opposition for government's economic plan
By AYA BATRAWY
Associated Press
CAIRO (AP) - A team from the International Monetary Fund left Egypt without getting broad backing from the opposition for a government economic plan aimed at getting a key $4.8 billion loan, political blocs said Tuesday.
Egypt's main factions say they agree in principle on the need for the loan, seen as a lifeline for the country's battered economy, but there are concerns over unrest if painful austerity measures linked to it are not backed by political consensus.
The IMF said in a statement that its delegation met with a range of political figures and Cabinet officials during the nearly two week-long visit that ended late Monday. In previous, shorter trips, the IMF has only focused on meeting with government officials.
The country's political polarization has further delayed reaching agreement around the deal.
Finance Minister El-Morsi Hegazi, who will meet with officials in Washington D.C. this weekend for annual IMF and World Bank meetings, said the government's meetings with the international lender were "fruitful."
But opposition groups including liberals, socialists and ultraconservative Islamists said the government was not being transparent about economic measures that it said could hurt Egypt's poor. They also accused the IMF of trying to curry support for President Mohammed Morsi's reform program.
Egypt's economy has been hard hit by the two years of turmoil that followed the ouster of longtime President Hosni Mubarak. The government is confident that the $4.8 billion IMF loan would not only cover part of its huge deficit, but also signal to investors that Egypt is again a safe bet after two years of turmoil that started with the 2011 uprising that unseated longtime President Hosni Mubarak.
Most in Egypt appear to agree that the country needs the IMF loan to unlock around $15 billion of aid and investment. It would help prop-up foreign reserves that were at $13.4 billion last month, down more than two-thirds of what they were prior to the uprising.
But in Egypt, where half of the country's 85 million people live at or below the poverty line of $2 a day and rely on government subsidies of wheat and fuel for survival, many are balking at the measures that might be necessary to secure the loan.
The opposition as well as bankers say measures by Egypt's central bank to regulate the devaluation of the local currency are linked to IMF conditions. The pound has lost 11 percent of its value against the U.S. dollar since early December, sparking concerns of wider inflation.
Opposition spokesmen from several groups said that they could not approve the plan because neither the government nor the IMF would fully disclose its details.
The Nour Party, an ultraconservative Islamist group that is the second-largest force in parliament behind Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, said that the government has not made clear how it plans to spend the money, and criticized the IMF for "interfering" in Egypt's internal affairs.
"It is our right to know what the international requirements are that will be imposed on the country, which is requesting a loan, and if all countries requesting loans also face such meddling in so many details," the party said in a statement after the meeting.
The Congress Party of former presidential candidate and Arab League chief Amr Moussa also had reservations.
"They should have talked to people about what steps they are taking to get this loan ... and consult and ask for advice," said spokesman Ahmed Kamel, adding that the money should not be used "to put out (budgetary) fires."
Mohammed Gouda, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's economic committee, dismissed the complaints and said discussion of reforms is taking place in parliament.
"But how can the government announce plans that are still being discussed and hashed out?" he said. "The plans change daily and publicizing them will create confusion."
An IMF official contacted for response referred The Associated Press to the lender's statement, which said that the "mission made progress" during its meetings.
"All sides concurred on the need to protect the vulnerable sectors of society when implementing reform measure," the statement said.
The IMF said the government intends to take "further actions" that tackle the country's fiscal deficit, specifically mentioning austerity measures that have begun to take shape targeting energy subsidies.
Meanwhile, a new government study Tuesday found that unemployment reached 12.7 percent last year, up from 12 percent in 2011. The budget deficit is expected to widen by more than $1.7 billion to reach $28.6 billion, according to state-run media.
Egypt has a long history of unrest over planned or implemented economic reforms perceived to hit the poor, notably the 1977 Bread Riots. Many Egyptians also feel that, with parliamentary elections scheduled for some time later this year, the president's party may be reluctant to push forward with painful subsidy cuts that may hurt them at the polls.
Expert Farah Halime, of the Rebel Economy blog, says the IMF wants reforms to appear as part of a homegrown plan.
"According to (my) meetings with IMF representatives and EU reps that work closely with IMF, the bottom line is there must be a political consensus," she said.


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1 Kings 15 King James Version (KJV)1. Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah.2. Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. Maachah…: also called, Michaiah the daughter of Uriel Abishalom: also called, Absalom3. And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.4. Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem: lamp: or, candle5. Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.6. And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.7. Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.8. And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.9. ¶ And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.10. And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. mother's: that is, grandmother's11. And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.12. And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.13. And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron. destroyed: Heb. cut off14. But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.15. And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the LORD, silver, and gold, and vessels. things: Heb. holy16. ¶ And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.17. And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.18. Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,19. There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; come and break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me. depart: Heb. go up20. So Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.21. And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.22. Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah. exempted: Heb. free23. The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.24. And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead. Jehoshaphat: Gr. Josaphat25. ¶ And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years. began…: Heb. reigned26. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.27. ¶ And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all Israel laid siege to Gibbethon.28. Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.29. And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:30. Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.31. ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?32. And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.33. In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.34. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
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Silicon Valley is known for it's technology and high-tech innovation. But around the time the dotcom era was booming, there was a creative birth of another kind.
The Cinequest Film Festival, Silicon Valley's homegrown independent film festival, launched in 1990 and has been getting bigger, better and more well-known ever since. The festival prides itself on featuring little-known filmmakers and talent from our own back yard and around the world and has garnered a global audience.
Now in it's 20th year, Cinequest is turning out some of the most techically-advanced works ever and is branching out, launching a production company and forming a group to help underprivileged teens around the world who aspire to become filmmakers.
The festival's founder, Halfdan Hussey told our friends at the Mercury News, "We have always seen ourselves as pioneers," for a good reason. They have always embraced technology, implementing digital filmmaking and distributing films online relatively early, and recently announced a contest for filmmakers in the smartphone age.
What's good for the festival is good for the city too. This year's celebration is expected to draw 80,000 people, all of whom will come equipped to spend. Hussey figures the festival generates about $5 million a year for budget-challenged San Jose.
More than 200 films from 45 countries will be screened at this year's Cinequest Film Festival. The curtain lifted on Tuesday and the festival runs through March 6. Films are showcased at theaters throughout San Jose, including the Camera 12, Camera 3 and the California Theatre. Check out their schedule to see what's showing when and where.
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