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Recommended by physical therapists, these wraps retain both heat and cold and transfer it to joints or muscles for superior therapeutic treatment for injuries or pain. Developed by Dr. Edward Stout, an expert in polymer chemistry, the body wraps are made of a tough, flexible high-glycerine gel that can be microwaved for heat therapy or chilled in the freezer for cold applications. The latex-free wraps are leakproof, even if punctured, and require no more preparation than a quick microwave or a brief time in the freezer (they won't freeze solid). The safe, non-toxic gel won't dry out or harden, and remains flexible even at -20� F. Wraps stay hot or cold for up to 40 minutes, move easily with you, and can be worn under clothing after physical therapy or strenuous exercise. Neck Wrap. 20" L x 10" W.
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Works quite well
By Dave
from Oregon
I have thoracic outlet syndrome and carpal tunnel, and my neck and shoulder muscles are constantly tight and sore. I use this wrap every day, sometimes hot and sometimes cold... it retains its heat for 15 to 20 minutes, and will stay cold a little longer. I'm quite happy with it.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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(3 of 3 customers found this review helpful)
Works like magic!
By "Pain in the Neck"
from Hallandale Beach, FL
Ordered this to replace heating pads whichhelped to relieve chronic and painful neck muscle spasms, but were pretty awkward to use without tying the heating pad to try to keep it in place.Hammacher-Schemmer's HOT/COLD WRAP has saved theday. It's more effective as any heating pad I've used PLUS oh so easy to use with its special anatomical design and velcro tab to keep it inplace (all around the neck) for as much time asyou wish to. Yes, I think I'd definitely call ita magical product!
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oooh so good!
By Elle
from Philadelphia PA
The arthritis in my neck is a constant discomfort....sometimes more painful.This seems to ease pain and stiffness.I wish it would stay warm longer.
A Superb Design
By Lothar Aeronaut
from Issaquah, WA
Few cold packs (needed to relieve a pinched nerve in the neck region) are as easy to apply and as efective as this one has proven to be for my wife, who has severe osteoporosis.
Easy and better than any other hot pack!
By Eddie
from NJ
It is better than the professional physical therapy packs that I used in my practice.
(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)
comforting moist heat
By TopDoc
from Dover, DE
it is too small for a man's neck. I am going to try adding a mitten clip so my fiancé can wear it too
By Pain in the Neck
from Texas
I suffer from chronic neck pain and I use an ice pack every day. I was searching for one that would wrap around the neck and this one is perfect. It has some weight to it unlike conventional ice packs but that is a good thing. It feels amazing and stays cold for a long time. Highly recommend!
Hammacher Schlemmer hot/cold neck wrap.
By Pain in the neck.
from Salt Lake City, Ut
I like the fit. I don't like the velcro tearing the inside of the hot/cold case. I am not sure if I can wash the case. Maybe an additional cost down the road for a new case when this one wears out. You may have to build your own.
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By Jim
from Decatur, AL
Works well when you apply directly to the skin, it has a barrier to the cold cell. It does not stay cold very long compared to other cold packs. Also the Velcro strap is not long enough for me, might work for females.
Very relaxing
By HyacinthClare
from Mesa, AZ
My husband puts it on just before he goes to bed and it relaxes his aching neck.
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Toshiba has started sample shipments of a VGA, 1/4 inch CMOS image sensor - TCM5126GBA - for automotive view cameras.
The TCM5126GBA integrates a high dynamic range (HDR) function that reproduces high quality images of objects backlit by the sun and vehicle headlights. The product has a small chip-size package (CSP) combined with through-silicon via (TSV) technology. This reduces the size by 30% against equivalent products and will contribute to the downsizing of view camera systems.
The sensor also incorporates a picture flip function that can flip output images horizontally and vertically, an on-screen display function that outputs preliminary-set parking guidelines together with the image, and a zoom function for use in rear view cameras in parking assist systems. The built-in timer function sustains output of images when the gear stick is shifted from reverse to forward, allowing drivers to see a continuous movie when reversing into a parking space. The stand alone operation support (SAOS) function makes the sensor operate automatically when power is supplied without external microcontrollers, and will contribute to simplification of view camera systems.
- Wireless broadband developments in Southeast Asia markets
As of 2013, the 10 ASEAN nations had a total of over 700 million mobile subscriptions, with the CAGR from 2003-2013 reaching 24%. This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the various mobile broadband markets in ASEAN and looks at the respective trends in 4G LTE development for those markets.
- 2015 global tablet demand forecast
This Digitimes Research Special Report provides a 2015 forecast for the global tablet market and analyzes the strategies of key market players such as Google, Apple, Intel, and Microsoft.
- 2015 China smartphone panel trend forecast
This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the strategies of key China-based major panel makers BOE, Tianma and IVO for attacking the different market segments through technology and pricing, and their relationship to local vendors Huawei, Lenovo, ZTE, Xiaomi and Coolpad.


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The GUIShell project is a collection of utilities facilitating the use of the GTK+ toolkit in shell scripts through the gtkshell utility. The ACE configuration environment provides sample scripts utilizing gtkshell for desktop utilities. rootcat provides the ability to display messages to the root window using Xft, allowing one to write status display scripts.
HGL is a compiler/interpreter suite for developing images. It features its own simple but powerful language, Lua integration, output in various formats as well as runtime input handled by plugins, and easy integration into various environments like Web servers or graphical applications. The input is taken from a source file, which has to be compiled for quick and frequent access by the interpreter. An interpreter then runs the compiled files, takes input from custom plugins (if neccessary), and outputs its result via custom plugins.
cproto generates function prototypes for functions defined in the specified C source files to the standard output. The function definitions may be in K&R or ANSI C style, or in the lint library form. cproto can also convert function definitions in the specified files from the K&R style to the ANSI C style.
AVInfo is a utility for displaying AVI, MPEG (1 and 2), OGM, MKV, and IFO (DVD) information. It returns the length of a clip, FPS, resolution, codec, audio and video bit rate, number of key frames, sound parameters, the number and type of streams, and the language for audio/subtitles. It then generates a file list with statistics (HTML, plain text, or CSV).
nefu (network fidelity utility) is a Unix daemon that monitors services over the network. It uses a "no false alarms" fault verification algorithm, and understands network dependancies. Natively-monitored protocols include ICMP echo (ping), SSH, IPP, DNS, HTTP, POP, NTP, IMAP, SMTP, and LDAP, as well as having facilities to execute external programs. Status pages are available via finger or the Web.
Nonpareil is a microcode-level simulator for HP calculators introduced between 1972 and 1982, including the HP-35, HP-45, HP-55, HP-25, HP-34C, HP-38C, HP-41CV, HP-11C, HP-12C, HP-15C, HP-16C, and other models. The necessary microcode is included, as is a microcode assembler. The GTK+ toolkit is used for the user interface.
OpenDaemon provides a model of work along with its supporting APIs that allow anybody to implement a server of any kind, for any protocol. Its main goal is to help provide an advanced data storage solution that is flexible enough to allow its user to choose from a broad set of parsers, data extractors, processors, or any other supporting API. The generic server platform system is meant to make development of the data storage solution more open and distributable.
Alliance CAD System is a set of EDA tools and portable cell libraries for VLSI design. It covers a wide range of the standard design flow (from VHDL up to layout). It includes a VHDL simulator, RTL synthesis tools, place and route tools, netlist extractor, DRC, and a layout editor.
FIM (Fbi IMproved) aims to be a highly customizable and scriptable image viewer targeted at the users who are comfortable with software like the Vim text editor or the Mutt mail user agent. It is based on the Fbi image viewer and works either in the Linux framebuffer console or in the X system. It features the ability to filter the list of images with regular expressions, Vim-like autocommands, command line autocompletion and history, completely customizable key bindings, external/internal scriptability, and much more.
A PHP class to authorize and access APIs using OAuth 1.0, 1.0a, and OAuth 2.0.
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United Airlines - Important Bankruptcy Information
Dear Member:
As you may be aware, United Airlines filed for bankruptcy on December 9, 2002.
In connection with its bankruptcy proceeding, United has issued a Notice of Deadline for any person who wishes to assert a claim against
United, including bringing a wrongful death action. This deadline requires people to file a claim in bankruptcy court by May 12, 2003 to
preserve his/her claim against United. If you or your family are considering taking legal action against United Airlines in connection with the September 11th attacks, you should contact your attorney to learn more about this deadline.
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'Taylor sat out Thursday's 3-2 win at Boston and had five goals, including two in his last four games, and five assists in 45 games with Buffalo this season. The team also announced that forward Jason Botterill was assigned to Rochester, a move the Sabres made prior to their game against Boston.'
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America's First New Oil Refinery in Nearly Forty Years is Coming to Emery County
The Governor's Office of Economic Development, this week, has helped clear the way for construction of America's first new oil refinery since 1976.
Emery Refining LLC plans to construct the $225-million plant, four miles west of Green River, in Emery County.
The state will provide a $12.7-million tax credit to the company.
Construction is expected to begin later this summer. The plant will be capable of processing up to 15 thousand barrels of crude oil, per day.


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Healthy Aging: Lessons from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging
BLSA's IDEAL Future
We have learned a great deal from the BLSA and a growing body of aging research. But there is much more to explore. In 2009, while continuing other areas of research, the BLSA will begin to examine the genetic, environmental, social, and behavioral factors that preserve health and function for a rare fraction of the oldest old adults. The BLSA has developed the Insight into the Determinants of Exceptional Aging and Longevity (IDEAL) study, which will focus on people 80 years and older who are living free of physical and cognitive disease. Taking advantage of research strategies already standard for the BLSA, the aim of the new study is to identify factors that distinguish extraordinary health at very advanced age from non-"ideal" aging. Further, IDEAL aims to discover the physiological, environmental, and behavioral risk factors that result in the loss of exceptional aging status over time. Although research exists on the relationship between long life and functional decline, we still know relatively little about why certain individuals have excellent health well into their eighties while others experience disease and physical decline earlier in life.
Previous research findings looked at whether or not long life and healthy aging are familial traits. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Twin Study, for instance, found extreme longevity has a relatively low inheritance (about 20 percent, although the genetic effect tends to be higher at older ages) while maintaining physical function in late life appears highly inheritable (50 to 60 percent). However, the study did not identify the specific factors contributing to longevity and healthy aging.
According to the NIA-supported New England Centenarian Study, centenarians (individuals 100 years and older) can be divided into three groups: "survivors," 42 percent of the study population; "delayers," 45 percent of the study population; and "escapers," 13 percent of the study population. Survivors had an age-related disease before age 80, delayers were not diagnosed with an age-related disease until after age 80, and escapers reached year 100 without ever having an age-related disease. In the IDEAL study, scientists will focus on individuals able to delay or evade disease and disability into their eighties — the delayers and the rare escapers.
The IDEAL study will offer a greater understanding of the mechanisms that are important to exceptional aging. There are many potential benefits of the IDEAL study:
- Scientists will be able to study traits that have long been of interest to the research community.
- Studying these participants over time will provide data needed to compare the delayers, who eventually develop disability, and the evaders, who never become disabled.
- Identifying factors that lead to "ideal" aging may be used to develop strategies for improving the health of all people as they get older.
In short, the IDEAL study continues the BLSA's research interest in advancing what is known about healthy aging. Findings from this study perhaps will translate into actions that preserve health and physical function for very long-lived individuals.
In Their Own Words: Reflections from the BLSA Staff
Dr. Jeff Metter
I have been with the BLSA since 1987, when I was hired as the study physician. During my time with the study, I have seen the BLSA make a number of changes to adapt to shifting times, research questions, and needs. The early years of the study focused on understanding the dynamic changes that occur within individuals as they age. In doing so, the BLSA made major contributions to our understanding of how individuals age and characterizing the aging process. As the study matured and our understanding of aging increased, research questions gradually began to examine the transitions between aging and disease.
I came to the BLSA from the Veterans Administration, where I was the physician on a chronic care ward, specializing in stroke and neurological disease. What was most striking to me at the time was the vitality of many elderly members of the BLSA as compared to those I knew from the VA. Individuals in their seventies and eighties were active, running businesses, and participating in activities not normally associated with older adults. In more recent years, I have seen people in their eighties and nineties with the same level of energy that I once observed in 70- and 80-year-olds. What I wonder now is whether our older population is healthier and more robust or I am now older and observing others in a different light. It is probably both.
Thank you to the BLSA participants for your efforts and commitment. The study would not exist without you.
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'The Sabres will have their cracks at the first-place Senators before the regular season concludes, meeting them four more times — twice at home and twice on the road. The first meeting will be Saturday in Ottawa.'
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Washington, D.C. June 26, 1997 – The Portrait Monument of Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, the three women who initiated and then led the battle to enfranchise half our population, was finally honored today during a Congressional ceremony in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda hosted by Sen. John Warner (R-VA) and Rep. Constance Morella (R-MD).
"Now that the statue has been transported from the Crypt, which held it for so long, let this be more than a politically correct gesture, but instead let this herald a new Renaissance for our nation," said Senator Warner. "A time of reconciliation, not only for budgets, but race, gender and spirit. Let this statue and today's celebration signal that we are a people who remember that the Seal of our nation E. Pluribus Unum stands for: Out of Many – One."
House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who broke away from budget reconciliation meetings to participate in the ceremony said, "I hope that when citizens, particularly younger citizens, come to this particular statue they will say, 'what questions will I face in my lifetime that are worthy of the dedication, courage and persistence that these women had.'"
To the tens of thousands of citizens from across the country who fought in a four-year struggle to see the statue moved out of the Capitol basement, where it stood for 76 years, the elevation of the statue represents the profound contributions by women that have been glossed over and left out of history.


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"The Incredible Shrinking Barnes & Noble." This was the LA Times' blog post yesterday. I like it and I have stolen it. It speaks volumes to the future of the mall. Entertainment centers for browsing shoppers are shutting down.
Barnes & Noble sees 30% fewer stores in the next decade. The bookseller had 726 stores in 2008, 689 stores in 2012 and in 10 years this will drop to 450? Perhaps this is optimistic? The certainty is that there will be much shuttering.
Barnes & Noble's projected closings and Target's new price-matching policy are all signs of retail in distress. The trend toward mobile shopping is likely to have a lasting impact on the retail landscape.
The physical bookstore could become a thing of the past.
With the mobile consumer in mind, a yoga studio could sell books about spirituality and enable customers to tap their phones to order a physical or digital book in a context-rich environment. The same is true for a doctor's office, a movie theatre and other locations.
Barnes & Noble executives are undoubtedly aware – as Borders executives before them – that the 2010s are eerily reminiscent of the music industry in the 2000s. Books, reading, and commerce behaviour has changed.
The relationship between shopper and store has changed.
Does this mean good riddance to bookstores, publishers, agents? Perhaps there is a new, more efficient order in town? Perhaps a new, streamlined business model would be both good for consumers and good for the industry long term?
Unquestionably the market and mall is primed for new disruptive models. Amazon coming in with Apple-like book genius bars? New purchase, delivery and consumption models that live between the store and the Amazon cloud?
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Gabriella Blum is the Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law at Harvard Law School, and Co-Director of the HLS-Brookings Project on Law and Security.
Following her studies of law and economics at Tel-Aviv University, Blum joined the Israel Defense Forces, and served as a senior legal advisor in the International Law Department, Military Advocate General's Corps. During her military service, she was involved in the Israeli-Arab peace negotiations, Israeli strategic cooperation with foreign forces, and the administration of the Palestinian occupied territories.
After completing the L.L.M. and SJD degrees at Harvard, she returned to the IDF, and then joined the Israeli National Security Council, Prime Minister's Office, as a strategy advisor. In 2005, she returned to Harvard to join the Law School faculty.
Blum is the author of Islands of Agreement: Managing Enduring Armed Rivalries (Harvard University Press 2007), and of the co-authored book (with Philip Heymann), Laws, Outlaws, and Terrorists: Lessons from the War on Terrorism (MIT Press), as well as of several journal articles on international law and the laws of war.
Research Interests: Conflict Management, Counter-Terrorism Operations, Laws of Armed, Conflict, Negotiation, Public International Law
Select Publications:
Blum, Gabriella. "The Dispensable Lives of Soldiers," Journal of Legal Analysis, (2010).
Blum, Gabriella. "The Laws of War and the Lesser Evil," 35 Yale Journal of International Law 1 (2010).
Blum, Gabriella. "The Role of the Client: The President's Role in Government Lawyering," 32 Boston College International and Comparative Law Review (2009). (Symposium Issue)
Blum, Gabriella. Islands of Agreement: Managing Enduring Armed Rivalries (Harvard University Press 2007). Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
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"My goal is to provide the best care, allowing you to return to an active, pain-free lifestyle."
Dr. Marc Breslow is a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon with a subspecialty certification in sports medicine. He treats athletes of all ages, from children to the elderly. He specializes in treating primarily knee and shoulder problems, although he also treats other injuries caused by sports, hobbies or work.
The most common shoulder problems he cares for are rotator cuff tears, fractures, dislocations and separations. He commonly treats knee injuries involving the anterior cruciate ligament, meniscus, cartilage, and tendons.
In providing care, Dr. Breslow stresses communication with his patients and their families, educating them about their condition and recommended treatment. His goal is to return patients to their pre-injury level of activity in a safe and efficient manner.
Fracture Care,
General Orthopaedics (Adult & Pediatric),
Knee Pain & Injuries,
Shoulder Pain & Injuries,
Workers Compensation/IME
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Sports Medicine
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For example: Everyday I have to look into the mirror and tell myself that I'm a sexy beast. Or something like: Everyday I have wear a certain colored pair of underwear for each day of the week.
You get it. XD
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Everyday I have to eat ONLY greek yogurt and blueberries for breakfast. No more, no less.
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Ambernath is a city and a municipal council in Thane district in the state of Maharashtra, India. The name Ambarnath literally means Lord of the sky. Ambarnath is the site of a very old temple dedicated to Lord Shiva, dating back, to 10th century. The temple is carved out of stone in Hemad style construction. A popular hill station called Matheran, and Titwala, which has a famous Ganesh temple, are close by. If you are looking for car rental Ambernath let us know and we will be happy to provide you with best budgeted deals for . Book cabs in Ambernath


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The Islanders just earlier today named Scott Gordon as their new head coach for the upcoming season. The AHL coach of the year will not return to Providence to defend his coaching title, moving up the ranks for his first big league job. I'm sure Garth Snow is hoping that Gordon will grow with this young Islanders squad, and there's no doubt this team will be going through some growing pains, although Doug Weight was signed to make the transition easier for the kids. The 45-year old Gordon beat out Paul Maurice and Bob Hartley for the job. Reading Snow's comments, it seems like there won't be any "philosophical differences" between the two, unlike the strenuous relationship he had with former coach Ted Nolan. Asked about what type of system fans should expect to see come October, Gordon has emphasized a defense-first system, although I wonder how he'll accomplish such a thing without a marquee defenseman. Brendan Witt and Andy Sutton are serviceable shut-down guys, but they're not considered top-pairing calibre players. However, they do have Trent Hunter, whom I believe is one of the most underrated two-way players in the game today. I also wonder if this means that Mark Streit will be asked to be more defensively responsible than he has in the past, which may lead to lower offensive production.
The Hockey Hall of Fame has caught fire in recent years for turning a blind eye towards female hockey players and their contributions. The US HHOF named their four inductees today, headlined by Cammi Granato, making her the first woman to be ever inducted into the Hall. Granato, arguably the most famous female American hockey player led the Americans to an upset over a heavily favoured Canadian squad at the 1998 Nagano Olympics, capturing their first and only gold medal in Olympic competition. She currently works for NBC's hockey coverage and a partner of BelaHockey, a hockey manufacturing company that caters exclusively to female hockey players. She will be inducted into the US Hockey Hall of Fame on October 10 at the University of Denver along with Brett Hull and former Ranger teammates Brian Leetch and Mike Richter. Take a page out of their book, I say.


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UHMC Executive Committee
Minutes of the Meeting of Friday, October 14, 2011
1. Attendance. The Executive Committee meeting was convened at 8:34 a.m. Present were Chancellor Clyde Sakamoto, Kim Gray, Interim Assistant Dean David Grooms, Vice Chancellor John McKee, Diane Meyer, Brian Moto, Karen Muraoka, Allan Pan-Takase, Vice Chancellor Alvin Tagomori, Vice Chancellor David Tamanaha, Lori Teragawachi, Elaine Yamashita, and Flora Mora.
2. Visit by Chair and Members of Senate Ways and Means Committee. The Chancellor and other administrators met with the Chair and Members of the Senate Ways and Means Committee yesterday, October 13, 2011, during the Committee's visit to UH Maui College. The Committee was apprised of UHMC plans, activities, and projects. The Chancellor and other administrators will meet with the House Finance Committee next month.
2. Institute for Hawaiian Music. SONY representatives visited the campus and met with the Chancellor, administrators, and IHM faculty. IHM demonstrated music recording techniques using a tablet computer. UHMC and SONY discussed the possibility of collaboration with regard to the IHM program and UHMC television studio upgrades. Further discussions are anticipated.
The Executive Committee briefly discussed reasons why SONY would collaborate with UHMC, including SONY's possible interest in new content.
3. Budget Update. Vice Chancellor David Tamanaha reported that Vice President John Morton's draft budget reduction plan provides some relief for UHMC from potential budget cuts this year; however, next year may pose challenges for UHMC and other campuses. (UHMC had been facing as much as a $2 million budget shortfall due to electricity rate increases, faculty salary restoration costs, and other expenses.)
Vice Chancellor Tamanaha distributed spreadsheets regarding the FY2012 budget. Under Vice President Morton's plan, only 4.88% of an $11.1 million legislative reduction in UH appropriations (or $541,169) will be allocated to UH community colleges. Apportionment of the budget reduction among community college campuses will be based largely on campus reserves. Inasmuch as UHMC reserves are small, $0 of the total reduction will be apportioned to UHMC. The largest reduction, $51,543, will be apportioned to Kapi'olani Community College.
Further, UH System will transfer to each community college amounts necessary to make up the difference between projected incremental tuition revenue and faculty salary restoration costs. The total amount of such transfers to all UH community colleges will be about $1.5 million.
Also, UH System will pay the revenue bond payment of $280,000 due from UHMC in October 2011.
Vice Chancellor Tamanaha distributed a UHMC Draft Budget Reduction Plan (10/10/2011). Under the Plan, a number of positions will be frozen to reduce spending this fiscal year. If implemented, the Budget Reduction Plan would reduce UHMC expenses by approximately $1.385 million and result in a $500,000 carryover reserve. Vice Chancellors have been asked to review programs in light of the Draft Budget Reduction Plan.
Vice Chancellor Tamanaha forecasts that next fiscal year probably won't be as difficult as this year because faculty salary restoration costs are likely to be covered by a projected increase in tuition. Moreover, UHMC is anticipated to benefit from energy savings from work being performed under contract with Johnson Controls.
4. Kulanaa'o Update. Peter Savio has informed UHMC that he has terminated his management contract with the owners of Kulanaa'o. The Chancellor and others are communicating with the owners to plan for the transition to new management. All at UHMC are encouraged to identify potential users for the facility (for example, Engineering Technology, Akamai Workforce Initiative), particularly for summers, the Spring 2012 semester, and the 2012 - 2013 school year. Vice Chancellor Alvin Tagomori will serve as coordinator for this effort.
5. Strategic Planning. Vice Chancellor John McKee presented a PowerPoint presentation on the UHMC Strategic Planning and Assessment Process. (See PowerPoint slides.) The Process involves the Executive Committee, Institutional Assessment and Effectiveness Committee, Faculty and Staff Development Committee, and a Strategic Planning Council (to be formed). The effort will include the development of Goals and Institutional Level Outcomes.
6. Adjournment. The meeting was adjourned at 9:20 a.m.


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The Canadian short-track women's relay team has always been made up of five members.
The difference this time around is all five are wearing silver medals.
Anouk Leblanc-Boucher didn't compete in the preliminaries or semifinal of the 3,000-metre relay and needed to get on the Palavela ice yesterday to get her medal.
The bronze medallist in the 500 metres skated in the final, replacing Amanda Overland.
Korea won the race in a time of four minutes, 17.04 seconds. The Canadians, the reigning world champions, crossed the line in 4:17.34.
Leblanc-Boucher said her silver meant more than the bronze because it was a team effort.
"Now we can all be happy together," the Prevost, Que., native said. "We always have five girls that can do it. The results would have been the same if it was Amanda (a Kitchener native)."
Leblanc-Boucher, Overland, Alanna Kraus of Abbotsford, B.C., Kalyna Roberge of St-Etienne de Lauzon, Que., and Tania Vicent of Laval all stood on the podium.
"It's a hard thing . . . to be taken out, but it's the thing that must be done if we want five girls to win a medal," Vicent said.
Overland and Krauss moved to Montreal to train full time with the other three women.
"We needed to stick together and train as a team to attain this silver medal," Leblanc-Boucher said.
The Italians won the bronze after China was disqualified for blocking Italy on the last exchange.
"It was hard to be on the outside," said Tianyu Fu, a veteran of the Chinese team. "Everyone was pushing. There is nothing we could have changed. We prepared very well and believed in us. Mistakes happen."
Fu was the overall World Cup champion in the 2002-03 season.
The short-track relay medal was the 100th awarded at these Games and Italy's 10th -- the country's first in Olympic women's short-track.
Canadian rookie Roberge, 19, was the best skater for her squad. Twice she moved Canada to second spot from third during the 27-lap race.
Roberge, a former figure skater, said she was hoping to be even more aggressive.
"I really wanted to go from third to first," she said.
Vicent added that "Kalyna might be small, but know that skaters are afraid of her."
The medal continues Canada's streak of reaching the podium in the relay since it was first contested in 1992-- a gold, two silvers and two bronze medals.
The women complained about the lack of coverage given their sport, other than during the Olympics.
"We would like to see more (short-track) World Cups on TV and we don't. You see all of the other sports," Leblanc-Boucher said.
"Our sport gets forgotten about a little bit during the four years leading up to the Games," Krauss said.
Four Canadians qualified yesterday for quarter-finals on Saturday -- Eric Bedard and Francois-Louis Tremblay in the men's 500-metres and Vicent and Overland in the women's 1,000 metres.


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In conversation with
Lord Meghnad Desai
In association with Youth Forum on Foreign Policy and Eclectic Times
"Asia Rising: Implications for the World Economy"
These issues raise some key questions: On the domestic front, what are the appropriate economic policies that will allow India to continue weathering the crisis and to maintain healthy growth while addressing persistent challenges of poverty and inequality? On the international front, can India and China play a greater role in stabilizing the global economy, especially by assisting the ailing economies of Europe and the United States? If India and China are to take up the challenge of bailing out Western economies, what can they expect in return? For example, will the West in turn heed India's long-standing demands of greater representation and decision-making power in organisations such as the IMF, World Bank, UN Security Council, etc.? Taking a long term view, what would be an appropriate path for the two Asian economic giants in the near future as the global crisis unfolds?
Meghnad Desai(MD): Okay, let me start by, Joseph Stiglitz is not just a practical economist, he is one of the greatest theorists, and I respect him more as a theorist when we used to work in different economic departments. Now, you have been warning western countries about the weakness of the financial structures, their lack of regulation somewhat. What we are witnessing now is the rise of Asia and the relative decline or slowing down of the west, now do you see this arising from a common set of circumstances? Or do you think this is going to be a completely new world in which we are going to live?
Joseph Stiglitz (JS): First of all, I think you need to think about this in historical perspective, in 1820, China and India together has more than 45% or more, 50% of the global GDP. And then a series of things; colonialism, unfair trade agreements, unfair trade practices, industrial revolution resulted in the shared GDP of these two countries going from near 50% down to less than 10%. When we are thinking about what is going on now is a correction of this historical anomaly. With 40% of population in India and China, of the world's population, there is no reason why they do not have a much larger share of global GDP, I think that's what you are seeing. What has accelerated the process are, on the one hand, the mistakes in the United States and Europe, and that's the financial deregulation and there are some discussions in India to follow that deregulation, a mistake I think. The second thing is that, I think there has been some very good policies followed in India and China, but particularly one of the things that is important, is that, we've realized that what separates developed from less developed countries is not just the gap in resources, but also a gap in knowledge. And there's been a re-orientation in trying to close that gap, and India has done a very good job of doing that, and that's allowed growth rates that no one ever thought was possible before. So I actually think that there's no reason why that gap shouldn't continue to close and convert back to the world we had before the 1820's.
MD: Can I give another interpretation which you can then challenge. That all that has happened is that, the western countries have lost the habit of saving, they are spending. Asian countries have learnt the virtues of saving and hard work and what we are witnessing is Asian countries are now practicing the old methods of capitalism, and Europeans and Americans are now in a post-capitalist euphoria. Would that be self correcting?
JS: That's a clear part of it and just to give you some numbers on that. Before the crisis in United States, the household savings rate had gone down to zero. That obviously is not sustainable, and it wasn't sustained. And the result of this, in the case of China, the problem they have is too much savings. The savings have been close to 50% of GDP. But the implication of that is, even though China's economy is much smaller still, the total savings originating from China now exceeds that in United States. And that's going to have profound effects going forward.
MD: Now one thing one could say in this, addition, is that Asia has a demographic dividend as they call it; it's got a rising population, whereas in the west, they have a stagnant population. So, in a sense, these things are adding to narrow the differences between the regions. Do you think that's of any importance, or do you think that is a minor.....
JS: What some people like Bernanke said in the United States was that the problem was a savings gap. I think that was basically a wrong view, because it wasn't as if the world was saving too much, it was that the savings was not well used. There are huge needs for retrofitting the world for global warming, needs for development, needs for addressing the problems of poverty, and to say there was too much savings from a global perspective was just wrong, it was absurd. The problem was the global financial market was not using the savings efficiently. And it was a failure of global financial markets, and that goes back to the question you asked in the beginning, it was really the failure of de-regulation, the failure to trust financial markets to allocate savings to manage risk well and they didn't do it. De-regulated markets did a very bad job of it.
MD: Now going one thing further, will a reform of the global governing institutions, IMF, World Bank, perhaps giving the emerging economies a bigger role, would that improve the efficiency of the international monetary system? Or you think it's more the private financial markets which are the problem not the regulatory system.
JS: I think both. I think both are part of the problem. I think it's inevitable that the emerging markets will eventually get more voice, but it's also almost inevitable that United States in Europe are going to be resisted and it's going to be very difficult. I was at a meeting of the IMF just last fall and one of the speakers from Asia made the observation, he quoted one of the American officials ten years ago, who said, when people were complaining about the U.S. having too much voice in the IMF, the American official said, "He who calls the piper, calls the tune" and he said, "Now that we're paying the piper, we call the tune." And there was a little bit of grimace on the part of some of the other people in the room but that's the reality of where we are going that it's clear where the savings is, where the money is, and that will change the global economic balance of power, inevitably.
MD: Now let me move to one another thing that was mentioned earlier by the Chief Minister and from the podium. There is poverty in Asia, there is poverty in the developed countries, these are I presume different sorts of poverty and they have a different card of solutions. Would you say the Asia needs the standard economic solutions of higher productivity, more investment, more education whereas in west they is a different kind of issues about incentives and somewhat poverty.
JS: I think there are some similarities and some differences, let me talk about one of the general principles, a lot of people used to think that trickle-down economics. That is, you let the economy grow, and everybody is going to benefit. An expression that was used in United States was that, 'a rising tide lifts all boats'. That's not true. It's not true in developed countries; it is not true in developing countries. It's a common failure. As an example, in United States, our GDP was growing steadily until 2008, but most Americans were not sharing. So today, most Americans have an income lower than what it was in 1997. And the typical worker, say, a male worker, working full time today has an income that's comparable to what it was in 1978, over thirty years ago. So even though it has grown, it hasn't gone to most citizens let me say, it's not just the poor, it's even the middle that's not participating.
That's the same problem in emerging markets, the problem in India, you've had a lot of growth but a lot of people have not benefited from that growth. So governments I think have to really think hard about how to shape economic policies to make sure that everybody benefits from the growth. We call that inclusive growth. And some policies actually hurt the people in the middle and the bottom; can cause more poverty. You know, financial de-regulation causes instability. It's always the people in the bottom who suffer. So that's an element that is common between developed and developing countries. Where it's different, I think is, in United States we are rich enough that we could eliminate poverty overnight if we wanted to, we have the resources. India is not really at that point, and that's why the challenge of making sure that you continue to grow so you have more resources, so you can share some of those resources with the people in the bottom and eliminate poverty, that makes the challenge or difficulty in India much greater.
MD: You were an author along with Amartya Sen of the famous study of the measurement of GDP and well-being. Would you say that is more germane, the idea was that GDP was not a good measure of well-being, not an adequate measure of well-being and that report caused a lot of good discussion. Would you say that particular perspective is more relevant to developed countries, as for the developing countries the old GDP is a good war-horse?
JS: No, I think the issues that we raised are equally relevant but the form they take is different. The Chief Minister said you have to have different policies for different countries, even different parts of the country. So let me just give you an example, what we emphasized were two or three points, the first thing is that GDP does not talk about what's happening to most citizens. (Distribution) The distribution issue.
The second thing that we emphasized was sustainability, environmental sustainability, economic sustainability, social and political sustainability. In United States, we had growth but it was sustainable. In India one of the concerns right now that, your agriculture in many parts of the country is not sustainable even though growth is small, it's using up the ground water and it's not environmentally sustainable and the planet as a whole is not environmentally sustainable because of global warming so that's the second thing. That's an issue for developing countries as much as it is developed countries.
The third issue that we emphasized that there are many other aspects of well-being that are not captured well in GDP and you need to think of more holistically about a society in which people are better off, in a meaningful sense. An important aspect for that, for instance is jobs. And jobs, employment is not only important because of the income to which it gives rise but it's an important part of people feeling meaningful, a meaning to their lives.
MD: Now you have been walking in the backward Assam, having this first-hand experience of the economy. So, coming closer home, Assam is rich in natural resources, do you think there is a problem of fostering development by using natural resources. Would that have a conflict of sustainability or do you think there is something Assam can do, encouraging certain activities which is productive and sustainable.
JS: Let me first say, the general principle, which is that, every society, every country, every state, needs to think about its natural comparative advantage to leverage off that, to use those. Markets won't use them necessarily well on their own, and that's particularly true in the case of natural resources. Markets don't price natural resources correctly therefore they are not the right incentives, there are huge problems of externalities, and therefore there needs to be a more pro-active role in government in shaping these policies. Around the world I think the countries that are lucky enough to at this point of time have preserved their natural resources, should really take an active policy to try to maintain that going forward.
Most of the world has lost their environmental heritage, but Assam is lucky that it still has so much of these natural resources, there's obviously a challenge because of the confrontation between settlement and some of the natural resources. And therefore managing that is going to be very difficult but I think the economics can work out on a positive side. That is to say, I think it can be an important component to development, eco-tourism, organic farming, all of these are important components. It was mentioned that I had the opportunity to walk around some of the rural villages and you can really see the potential in this area. We visited an organic tea plantation, and one realizes that the chemicals...It was right near the park and chemicals that have previously been used obviously get into the ground water, into the environment. And what one does at one place has effect on others. And this was a very impressive initiative to try to prevent those kinds of spillovers.
MD: Now, you talked a lot about government, some people would say in a stereotypical sense a state is a good neutral actor but in actual form, what we actually get are governments which might make mistakes, are corrupt or driven by short-term considerations. Is there a better way of talking about government, some rules of good governance? Or should we rely more on collective action, which is more civil society, NGO's...Can NGO's play a role in economics?
JS: I think that we need civil societies, we need...You know, sometimes we talk about the market and the government as if they are the only two actors. I think that's wrong. I think you need an act of civil society to be a check. When I was in the Clinton administration though, one of the most interesting projects, you might say, initiatives that we had was something we called re-inventing government and what we did was, we went through every department in the government and asked a question – why was the role for government? What were we trying to do? What were the alternative ways of doing that? Could we do it better? Were we serving the population which was our goal, better? Which was in many areas successful, not in all the areas but I think it attained a lot of success. In a sense, in a democracy, there is always this pressure, from the citizens for us to deliver more. It's not the same as market pressure but it's the pressure from the voters.
And we were having a conversation in the cars when we were coming up here about the issue of populism and some people say populism is a bad thing and I said, "What is populism?" It's giving people what they want and if that's not what democracy is about, what is it about? I really liked the remarks of the Chief Minister in saying that this is the, you might say, the market pressure on the political side like the market pressure on the market side.
MD: Let me just explain that a little bit further. I would say populism is giving people something without charging the proper price for it because the price falls somewhere else in the system. Now one of the big debates going on in India, as you are no doubt aware, is about corruption. And whether corruption has become part of the system because that is the way it performs its tasks. Or whether one can go on having populist policies as it clear them off corruption...Have you given thought to corruption as such...
JS: Let me just say, the problem is a serious one and it's serious both in the public sector and the private sector in every country. If I look at what went on in the financial sector in United States, we don't use the word corruption but it was corrupt and the consequence was a greater waste of resources than any demographic government has ever been engaged, literally the cost to society in trillions of dollars. So you have to keep this in perspective, perfection is not our goal but it is improving things. I think that there are some aspects of our democracies which contribute to this problem. And that we ought to think about and figure out how to address those and they are not necessarily easy. I thought more about the case in United States obviously than India, in United States, what contributes to corruption American-style is the fact that our elections are so expensive, we need to have campaign renounce reform, we need to make it easier for people to vote, so there are a number of political reforms that I think would actually reduce the extent of corruption.
Audience interaction
Lady from the audience: Good afternoon Professor Stiglitz, Lord Desai, thank you very much for coming to Assam. My question pertains to what this means to Assam and Northeast in general, especially for India in terms of geo-politics? And what are the implications for India with China, what is the geo-political issue?
MD: I think one can look upon Assam's situation as they say in business school not so much as a challenge but as an opportunity. Obviously there is a problem with China in relations but unless it explodes, it will go on getting better and easier for China and India to trade with each other, exchange populations ...There are 7000 Indian students in China as I was told yesterday. Now I think the greatest opportunity for Assam is Myanmar on its border which was kind of asleep for 50 years. It's going to wake up, going to be lot of investments there; it's going to be growth area. So east of Assam there's going to be rapid growth area than there has been over the past years. So it might be possible for Assam to take advantage of these new opportunities. So don't think of these things entirely negatively, there may be with sufficient ingenuity and using the skills of the people and plus investing and improving under the skills, it would be possible for Assam to benefit, so I would say geo-politics can look bad but it is something that one can use creatively and use it to enhance Assam's growth opportunity rather than think of it negatively. Because thinking of it negatively does not help you, you're not going to be able to go to war with China so let's take advantage of it, and let's hope that things improve.
JS: I very much agree, you know, I mentioned before, the economic strategies have to be based partly around your natural comparative advantage, and what was a disadvantage of your location is becoming an advantage with the change in geo-politics. The fact is...I visited Burma a year ago, I am going in February, it is opening up, it is likely to open up, it is not fully transparent but it's likely to be opening up and they are engaged in a lot of trade with China and in a way this area becomes much more open and Assam rather than being cut off from India becomes India's window to Southeast Asia and to China and that really is a real opportunity and you start thinking about....China's main interest, I believe, is economic. Any complex society has different people with different agendas but the main interest in China is economic growth and therefore this is a new opportunity for reaching out, a real opportunity for Assam as well.
Audience: The mass of the people, they are poor, they are not there as consumers or producers, I mean they are not producing them or consuming them. That means they are left out of the economic loop, I would like to have your comments on it. He talks about these great resources that India has, the natural resources but we find in recent times, there is a transfer of natural resources from public domain, i.e. government hands to the private i.e. the corporate and secondly we also find that is why we have some conflicts in certain states, specially with regards to land acquisition, and secondly we find that the economic production system here in India, in certain sectors, we find that the poor are not producers of goods, specially consumer goods, also as consumers so they are basically left out of the economic loop. I would like to have your comments on that.
JS: Let me first answer the first part of the question, this is a problem in a very large number of countries, where the country's natural resources are turned over to the private sector at prices that are not really reflecting their true value. It was a problem in United States that we fought, where mining companies get access to the resources playing just the normal royalties. We have got better in some areas like oil and gas but we still don't auction them off in a way that optimizes revenues, and there's an important NGO called Revenue Watch that's been working very strongly to try to make sure that people get the full value of these natural resources. And I do know that in some parts of India, this has been a problem like in coal mines and in other resources, have not gone the value....They have been given away, and that obviously is...
Another example of a natural resource is spectrum and as you know the sale of the spectrum was a source of some sensitivity. And that's a problem again in many countries, around the world designing good spectrum auctions so that you get the full value of it. We know how to do it, and unfortunately it is often under a lot of political pressure not to do it well. The other question is a broader question that related to inequality more generally, and again let me talk about in the context of United States, then I think you can see the implications of in on other countries. One of the interpretations of the crisis, the great recession, the financial crisis in 2008 was that, what was happening in United States was that the incomes at the bottom and even in the middle was going down as I mentioned, even though GDP was going up, most people's income was going down and the problem is their income was going down, they couldn't buy goods, and there would be insufficient demand. So we figured out a solution, we said, continue to consume as if your income was going up.
Don't let the fact that your income in going down both you but of course what that meant, the only way you can continue to spend when your income is going down is to borrow, and that was not sustainable. So in a way, one interpretation of the crisis was exactly that the poor, the bottom was not participating in the economy so this is one of the reason why it's important to have policies to make sure that all the people participate in the success of the economy.
MD: You know one of the things that happened in United States in particular, in western states in general, about 40 years ago, after the oil price rise, a lot of simple manufacturing processes shifted out to Asia, so people who had good stable jobs in America or in Europe, job which afforded a car, a house...Suddenly those jobs disappeared and they could either move down to low-paid service sector jobs or they were unemployed in Europe. And so this is the kind of collapse in the standard of living which stagnated the average wage in the U.S. Now that problem has now reached a climax and when the developed countries get out of this crisis, they would have to invent jobs that give people an adequate amount of living but that would require a serious re-distribution of opportunities and assets. In India it's a different problem, in India, very often I would say, poverty is the result of low productivity, either because you live in areas which are arid zones or because you don't have assets like land or implements, tools and so on. So we have to raise the productivity of poor people in order for them to be able to take part in the consumption sector. Because first of all, they have to earn enough to be able to consume enough and you can't really have one without the other. So I think, in India it's a long running problem, it's not so much a problem of subsidizing people where they are although one should not complain about that, it's giving them the opportunity to be able to get out of poverty on a sustained basis. And that is a more tricky anti-poverty policy that we have to design.
JS: Can I just make one more remark that the problems in United States are not just that the jobs have moved to India, China, and Asia. But also we have become the victim of our own success; productivity increases in manufacturing in particular were so fast that they were faster than the increase in demand so even if there hadn't been the outsourcing, the number of jobs would have gone down. And people would have to move to other sectors, so this is an example of the kind of restructuring that in a dynamic economy that you have to do, and the market often doesn't do it very well. It was the same problem 75 years ago, the Great Depression where we had such success in agriculture that in the 19th century in the west, still today in India, most people got their income from agriculture. It took most of the population to grow the food that people needed.
Today in the United States, only about 2 to 3% of the population grows more food that even an overweight population can eat. So they had to move from agriculture to other things, they moved from agriculture to manufacturing, well now they need to move from manufacturing to something else and the market is not very good at that kind of transition.
Audience: My question is to Professor Stiglitz, since the theme of this discussion is Asia Rising, so what do you think the emerging economies of Asia emulate and avoid about western economies.
JS: I think the things they need to emulate are some of the things that we did earlier, like savings. I think strong investment in education, good universities. Our important role in investment in research and technology, I think those are some of the bases that provide molasses of long term economic growth. I think one of the things that one should avoid are the high inequality that is arising in the United States, where we grew most rapidly in the United States from 1950 to 1973 or so, was a period where we has increasing equality. Things were getting closer together and it was also a period of rapid economic growth. (And full employment) And full employment and the period since then have been run on lower growth and growing inequality. The other thing I think that, we didn't treat the environment very well initially and we have done a lot better job in the last 30 years. I think it's very important for Asian countries to recognize it's a lot easier to maintain the environment than to destroy it and try to re-create it. In your cities, it a lot easier to do what you can as early as you can to create more livable cities, public transportation systems, things like that.
Ankur Jyoti Bhuyan, Cotton College: Through your theories, you have expressed your concern to make the concept globalization more meaningful and human oriented, and you have suggested some provisions like changing the view of capitalist views of development. You have provided through your theories that the capitalist view of government should be changed, would you please elaborate this point?
JS: The point is that, what I have always claimed that you need a balance between the market, the state and the civil society. So you need a balance which you might say a market economy, but it's a managed market economy that un-federate market economies like financial markets in United States, always run into problems. There has been crisis for the 200 more years of capitalism, it's inevitable. There have been problems of exploitation, of predatory lending, of all kinds of exploitation. So you need exploitation of the environment so one has to understand that markets do certain things well, but markets fail in certain other ways, governments fail. And so it's the interaction of the two and the civil society that you try to balance out the strengths and the weaknesses of each of these institutional mechanisms.
Ankita Sharma, Handique Girl's College: We know that China and India are the fastest growing economies of the world. In fact China has the second largest economy in the world. Asia has accumulated over 4 trillion dollars of foreign exchange reserves, but many western economies see this as a bad thing. How do you see it and how can it be utilized?
JS: Well, this is a question that we have discussed in many meetings together, international meetings. My view is, I think you agree, we need a international reserve currency. A system in which dollars are held as a reserve currency is really an artifact of the past. It's inconsistent with the 21st century, and there was a great deal of hope that in the G20 meeting this year, there would be progress in helping construct a new global reserve system. President Sarkozy wanted it, the head of the Central Bank of China wanted it, the Russians supported it. The U.N. Commission of experts on the international monetary fiscal system that I chaired also supported it. And said it was the most important reform in the international financial system, unfortunately United States vetoed it. And the reason was very clear; United States likes the ability to borrow from other countries at a zero interest rate. We all would like to borrow at a zero interest rate. But the point is that the current global reserve system, the dollar based system is not sustainable and it's only a matter of time before it falls apart and the real question in my mind is whether it will end in a orderly or disorderly way and I would like to move in an orderly way to a new global reserve system.
One of the things that one can do that is standard drawing right, with IMF issues which is right now not a proper currency, it's just sort of a claim, now if we could. ...the SDR consists of dollar, yen, sterling and euro are combined currency. Now one of the things we should be doing is adding to that basket of currency. Currency like RNB, rubles, riyal, the rupee, so broaden the structure but then make it a real....something that people can make settlements in, people can hold in reserves, it will become the store of value as well as a means of payment. If we can get the international system to evolve towards that so that it is not a single dollar based system but a multi-currency based system, it will be more stable and it will be more equitable. Right now the system is not equitable so that requires some fundamental changes in the governance of the international monetary fund which is one of the issues we have been discussing.
JS: He said it's not equitable, the current system, one of the consequences of the current system is that poor countries, emerging markets are lending to United States and Europe money at zero interest rates, money is moving in the wrong direction, it's going from poor countries to rich countries which is uphill, which is not the way it should go. Now I shouldn't advertise but those who want to read more about this, there is a chapter in my book, Making Globalization Work which I devote to the topic. It is available in Penguin books, as a paperback.
MD: I would say that Joseph Stiglitz writes very good, clear books which if you read, you will learn a lot. And he's not paying me for this.
Anisha Choudhury, Ahom Jatiya Vidyalaya: In a developing country like India, how can the common people get involved in the development of economy?
MD: I think in a variety of ways, for example you can be part of the civil society movement, which can be for micro-finance or self-help groups, or you can be in movements against corruption, you can actually see that your neighbors and their daughters go to school because one the of the big gaps of development is that daughters don't get as much education as sons do. The general awareness is one the big gaps in development. And all of us can take part in that because one of the tragedies in India is that for every thousand males, there are only 832 women. So somewhere 170 women have gone astray. These kinds of day to day issues, literacy, health, general balance, a self-help, these are the development issues. This is what people can do. To the extent that we can improve our own performance and encourage our neighbors to improve their performance that will add to development because lots of small things will make big things happen.
JS: and just let me add one further thing, I agree with everything you said, almost every activity that leads to the well-being of the economy, of society is part of development. So that somebody who is creating a new business, particularly if they do it in a way that's corporately social, responsible, is good for the environment is contributing to the development of the country.
Priyam Saharia, Meghalaya: Since you have had the experience of travelling around Assam for the last couple of days, I hope you had a good time. I just wanted to know since you have also been in the thick of working with the IMF and international organizations, how do you feel about the local interests, like the rural farmers gets represented in the IMF or personally, when you were travelling do you feel a disconnect between what you see on the ground and how policies are formed at the international macro level.
JS: I mean there are many problems. That's a very good question; one of the problems is the issue of governance of the international institutions that we talked about before. The international institutions have been run in the past by the G7, G8, and advanced industrial countries with relatively inadequate representation from developing countries and emerging markets. The second problem is the ministries who represent each country at the IMF and the World Bank tend to be the finance ministries, and the finance ministries are worried about budgets and finance markets and not about the rural markets and the poor and that would be true in our own country, let alone in another country. So that's just not what they are thinking about. So those are two long standing problems in these institutions. At the time that I was in the World Bank, the World Bank did a better job I thought than the IMF partly because the focus of the World Bank, the official motto was reducing poverty. And poverty is a very large section of the poor and the rural sector. And so it was very hard for the World Bank to ignore the rural sector if they were going to fulfill their mission of attacking poverty. And while not everybody at the World Bank was focused on this, there were a lot of people who were. I think the good news is more recently the IMF has changed. I don't want to say it's totally changed but it's changed in some very important ways.
Sujoy Paul, Assam University, Silchar: Asia rising or the growth of Asia, how far is this sustainable or what are the requirements for sustaining this growth?
JS: I think that there is no reason that Asia's growth can continue to be up to 6-7% for a very long time, the reason that is there is still a very big gap between the per capita income in Asia and the per capita income in the advanced industrial countries. And there is no reason why this gap should exist, it's not based on natural resources, it's based on two things: investment in human capital, in infrastructure and fiscal capital, and it's based in a gap in knowledge. And that knowledge gap has been closing very rapidly, and with the high savings rate in some Asian countries, even resource gap is being closed at an extraordinary rapid rate. But there is still 10, 20, 30 years before the differences in per capita income will be significantly diminished to the point where I think these growth rates will not be sustained.
MD: My answer would be, it's good governance or bad governance rather than political attitude. I can look across and there are socialist countries which have been successful and failure, capitalist countries success and failure... So it is not so much political attitude, if politics is expressed as ideology. It's basically what people do in terms of practices, setting up regulatory systems, practicing good governance, encouraging high saving, giving incentives for hard work, those are the things underlying the political attitudes and if that is right, I think we can allow any kind of political rectory to go on. Maybe I am being very skeptical but I would like to see beneath political rectory and see precisely what is happening.
JS: Let me just add one point to that which is , I think there is a real, in some quarters, there is a danger of, you might say extremism. In the United States, we had the Republicans who are saying that governments shouldn't be regulating. And then we wind up with the kind of problem we wound up before the great recession. Where the government shouldn't do anything about the environment then you wind up with a real environmental disaster. So the bottom line is there is a wide range of pragmatic institutions that will work and different countries have found different way, different institutional arrangements that have worked for them but I think there is a risk of ideology distorting the economic frame-work in ways that are counter-productive.
Audience: Is the present economic crisis, by crisis I also mean the Occupy Wall Street movement, is the inherent crisis of greed, inherent crisis of capitalist system?
MD: Well, I don't think so...
JS: I think that the issue of morality; things like greed is a serious one. Looking at, say the United States, the American bankers that exploited the poorest people, engaged in predatory lending, obviously there was a problem of basic morality, but there are so many that did this that I come to the view that it is systemic problem that they had incentives to behave badly. That encouraged bad behavior and that's one of the ...that's why you need to have regulatory systems.
MD: My view is that it's not a crisis of global capitalism, because India and China are more or less capitalist countries. Lot of emerging countries are having perfectly good growth and trying to do better by its people so if there is a problem of capitalism, it's from a certain kind of capitalism. Certain countries can have pursued some policies that they should not have pursued. So capitalism is going on, there's no alternative being constructed yet, indeed in the middle of the worst crisis of capitalism in the west, socialist parties are losing elections. So there is that part about it so I think what really matters is not so much capitalism in general, but what particular countries manage by way of good policy or bad policy.
Audience: I have a local issue to ask Professor Stiglitz, and international question to Lord Meghnad Desai. The local issue, you have visited in the last couple of days, the states of Assam, you have seen the agrarian society, we have two very important parties, on one side we have the production team, if you are talking about production, we have the end users or consumers, there are two scales that get the end products to the consumer, we have several stages where we have, what I would call it, non productive influencers, these non productive influencers will increase with arithmetic progression from the time of production to the end users, government of India have recently introduced institutions like WalMart and like, these institutions could shorten or eliminate this non-productive influencers, and get the production team to the consumer team in a much better effective way, there have been both for and against, Government of India, even the Prime Minister has taken the initiative to do this, that's my first question.
My second question to Lord Meghnad Desai, you have seen the Eurogen collapse starting from Greece, Italy, Spain and also to great extent the Republic of Ireland, now your country has been from the beginning state out of the Euro's, the whole brunt of the collapse is being borne by Germany and France mainly and now it has been backed by recently, with the support of the IMF and they thinking of having the Central Bank as assistance to have the reserves, do you think the British Government even recently have not to come to the rescue of the ...Do you think it was the right decision for UK to be out? Do you think, now that we did the right things by not joining the Euro?
JS: To answer a very complicated question, very briefly, I think it's very important to get greater efficiency in the bringing of goods from the farmers to the market and it's clear that it could be done much more efficiently than it is done typically. What is the best way of doing it though is a more difficult question. I think many Americans, at best shall I say, have mixed feelings about WalMart, you mentioned one example because it has bad labor policies, it has been accused of discrimination, it acts in some places in a monopsonistic using it's bargaining power and so one wants to make sure that one has in place the right regulatory framework, that would avoid these kind of adverse effects that could occur from allowing dominant entrants into the Indian economy.


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Tax Facts Index
East Baton Rouge Parish
Department of Finance
Vol. 17, No. 2
April 2006
Hotel/Motel Occupancy Tax
Over the last several months, important tax
changes have been made regarding the hotel/motel industry. During the first
extraordinary session of 2005, Act 60 was passed which repealed the "thirty (30)
day rule" that exempted guests renting a hotel/motel transient guest room for
thirty days or more from the 4% hotel/motel occupancy tax. In addition, Act 60
also repealed the exemption of the occupancy tax on those hotel/motel rooms
rented on an annual contract basis for consecutive or non-consecutive days. As a
result of this legislation, these deductions will no longer be allowed beginning
with the January 2006 Hotel/Motel Occupancy Tax report.
Hotel/Motel Sales Tax
The following was taken from a Notice of Intent
issued by the Louisiana Department of Revenue, Policy Services Division, dated
February 24, 2006, and specifically deals with a more restrictive definition of
the term hotel for sales tax purposes.
The Department of Revenue, Office of the Secretary, as authorized by and
pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, R. S. 47:1511,
gives notice of its intent to amend and adopt Louisiana Administrative Code
(LAC) 61:I.4301 relative to sales tax applicable to transactions for hotel
services. Louisiana Revised Statute 43:4301 as well as the Uniform State and
Local Sales Tax Definitions have been changed as follows:
Hotel -
a. The term hotel has been defined under R.S. 47:301(6) to be somewhat
more restrictive than normally construed relative to the size of the
establishment. Those establishments engaged in the business of furnishing
sleeping rooms, cottages or cabins to transient guests that consist of six such
accommodations at a single business location meet the statutory definition. If
an establishment has fewer than six sleeping rooms, cottages or cabins at a
single business location for transient guests, the establishment is not a
hotel for purposes of state and local sales or use tax. The
statutory definition of hotel excludes facilities with fewer than the
specified number of accommodations from collection of state and local sales
or use tax.
b. (i) In determining whether an establishment furnishes hotel services to
transient guests, it is determined that a guest who transacts for the services
of a hotel, regardless of the length of time that the hotel services are used,
is considered a transient guest and the transaction is subject to sales tax.
Where a hotel provides permanent residences to permanent occupants, the
transaction is not subject to state and local sales or use tax.
For the transaction to be considered a rental as a permanent residence to
permanent occupants, the physical properties of the space must provide the basic
elements of a home, including full-sized and integrated kitchen appliances and
facilities. Additionally, the occupant must use the facilities of the hotel as a
home with the intent to permanently remain. When all conditions of the above two
standards are met, the occupant may be considered non-transient for the purposes
of the state and local sales or use tax. A lease with a hotel for
a period of not less than one year will be considered as evidence in support of
permanent residency status, when the area rented contained the required physical
properties of the hotel accommodations at the beginning of the lease. Proof that
hotel rental contained the requisite physical properties of the hotel
accommodations within a unit continuously rented by one person or family for a
period greater than one year will be considered as evidence in support of
permanent residency status. The Department may require additional evidentiary
support of claims of non-transient status.
(ii) For the purposes of state and local sales and use tax collections
under R.S. 47:301 et seq. a guest of a hotel is a natural person.
This change will become effective May 20, 2006, and affects sales tax only.
Please direct questions regarding this topic to the Revenue Division 389-3084.
Sales Tax
Due Dates
Following are the sales tax due dates for the second quarter
of 2006:
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Corradina Caporello, born in Rome, received a B.A. from Columbia University, an M.A. from Queens College, and an M.Ph. and Ph.D. from Columbia University.
She has taught Italian language and literature at Columbia University, John Jay College, Queens College, Hofstra University, and C. W. Post campus, Long Island University. She is the author of The Boccaccian Novella: Creation and Waning of a Genre.
Dr. Caporello, a member of the Italian Honor Society, trained with Evelina Colorni. She has coached Italian operas in the United States, Canada, Italy, Israel, and China and has taught master classes in Taiwan, Japan, and Mexico, as well as in the United States.
She has been a member of the Juilliard School faculty since 1984. Dr. Caporello joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 1995.


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Monday, June 22nd, will be the one-day Hitter's Specialty Clinic running from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. for grades 9-12. Tuesday, June 23rd – Friday, June 26th will be the Junior and Senior camps. The Junior camp is for grades 4-8 and will run from 9-11:30 a.m. The Senior camp is for grades 9-12 and will run from noon-4 p.m.
In the Junior camp, campers will learn the basic skills of serving, passing, setting and spiking. They'll also be exposed to on-court positioning for serve receive and defense.
In the Senior camp, the campers will receive individual and group instruction on skill development, team offense and defense, and conditioning specifically for volleyball. They'll also be taught serving, passing, setting, spiking and blocking, as well as watching demonstrations of these skills by the camp staff.
Fees for the camps are as follows:
Hitter's Specialty Clinic - $30 (includes a BC bag)
Junior Camp - $70 (includes a BC bag)
Senior Camp - $110 (includes a BC bag)
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This is the lantern that provides 14 days of continuous light on four D batteries. The lantern's LEDs use a fraction of the energy of traditional bulbs, allowing them to produce 160 lumens of bright light for 336 consecutive hours on the lowest setting (175 hours on high). Its cylindrical design provides 360� of unimpeded illumination, and the bulbs produce almost no heat, making the lantern safe for children and uninteresting to insects. The lantern has a durable waterproof case and it will remain buoyant and operational if dropped in water. An integrated handle ensures ease of portability and can also be used to hang the lantern for hands-free lighting. Requires four D batteries. 12 3/4" H x 6 1/2" Diam. (1 3/4 lbs.)
An excellent lamp. It was a horserace between this and an oil lamp for our reading lamps in the event that electricity fails in 2012; we purchased one unit of both for testing purposes in our home. Your lamp won out because the light is very white and clear, batteries last an incredibly long time, and with two of them, you can read a newspaper comfortably. Plus, no fire hazard from spilled lamp oil!
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Very nice lantern
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Nicely made lantern. Reminiscent of old Coleman gas lanterns with mantles, but safer.
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Friends came back from a camping trip and showed me how they use this lantern in their home office: Hands-free and wide illumination for seeing USB ports behind the computer! So much better than trying to hold a flashlight while searching for connections. It has revolutionized my life! The perfect office accessory. It lives at my feet under my desk. Also gives peace of mind in case the lights go out. I haven't had it long enough to know what it is like trying to change the bulbs, though.
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In the world of green building, innovation and measurement criteria are quickly developing side-by-side. Green rating systems and customer demands are evolving, and challenging concrete producers and contractors to keep up or be left out. While associations help members stay current with educational materials and seminars, there is still some confusion about sustainable concrete construction.
Navigating the maze of sustainable terminology and documentation takes significant time and resources, which are luxuries many concrete producers can't afford. Fortunately, producers are not alone. Collaboration with designers, contractors, and materials suppliers is the new green trend in the concrete industry.
Many entries in THE CONCRETE PRODUCER's GreenSite Awards highlighted such partnerships. These projects show how a team approach can improve concrete's sustainable contribution, beyond simply meeting specifications for recycled or locally sourced materials.
From the ground up
In Orlando, Fla., Tarmac America teamed with BASF and contractor Dewitt Custom Concrete to make a new subdivision a greener place to live. The producer used BASF's Eco-Efficiency Analysis tool to quantify the environmental benefits of its Green Crete Concrete.
They determined Green Crete reduces the amount of CO2 emissions by 18% and uses 10% less energy per yard than a standard residential concrete mix.
Tarmac asked Orlando-based Dewitt to help identify the best application for Green Crete. The contractor suggested pouring two test slabs in the Lake Forest neighborhood, and was pleased with the results. The mix, which contains 50% fly ash by weight of the total cementitious content, had good workability and a smooth finish. Its balance of the high-range water reducer Glenium 7500 and slump retaining admixture, Rheotec Z-60, eliminated the need for adding water at the jobsite.
In addition to easier placement, Green Crete's high strength, low shrinkage, and long-term durability has resulted in the partners' commitment to using it for every slab in the neighborhood.
BASF also worked with Eastern Concrete Materials, based in Elmwood Park, N.J., to develop two high-strength mix designs for columns in New York's One World Trade Center building. The concrete included substantial amounts of fly ash, slag, and high-range water reducers to exceed performance targets. The project is the 2010 GreenSite Readers' Choice winner.
Home green home
The owners and designers of the Melone Residence in Edgartown, Mass., wanted to make the 7100-square-foot home a model of energy efficiency. They chose a concrete composite deck system as the structure's "backbone" for its durability and efficiency. The deck's long interior spans created large open spaces with a relatively thin floor.
The concrete contractor, Trademark Services, of Vineyard Haven, Mass., suggested that the engineer specify macropolymeric structural fibers instead of traditional steel and rebar reinforcement. This reduced the amount of energy-intensive materials used in the home.
The contractor worked with concrete producer Goodale Construction Co., of Vineyard Haven, to ensure that the minimal concrete waste was 100% recycled in ready-to-fill forms or as aggregate. This contributed to the project's LEED waste management requirements.
Thanks to the team's close collaboration, the home has earned Energy Star's Home Energy Rating Systems (HERS) index of - 5 (a net zero energy home would have a HERS Index of 0; the home is actually an energy producer). The Melone Residence has earned the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED Gold rating, and may also meet requirements for LEED Platinum.
For full descriptions and photographs of all GreenSite Award entries, visit www.greensiteawards.com.


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Brevard, N.C. - Michelle Prata and Jennifer Nyman took singles victories on Sunday afternoon at the McCoy Tennis Complex, but Young Harris swept all three doubles matches in recording the 7-2 victory over the Tornados.
Brevard suffers their first loss in the 2012 season in falling to 2-1, while Young Harris improves to 7-3.
Jane Plevako and Charlotte Dawson topped Claire Dillman and Prata on court no. 1, 8-2, while Charlotte Moreau and Katie Bryant defeated Elise Labus and Nyman 8-3 on court no. 2. Lina Pava and Stormy Dvorak completed the sweep to put the Mountain Lions up 3-0 after their 8-0 victory over Lindsay Hostetter and Ellie Bartholomew.
Young Harris took victories on courts 1, 2, 4 and 6 to record the victory in the match. Prata gave the Tornados their first point on court no. 3, defeating Moreau in straight sets 6-1, 6-2, while Nyman topped Bryant in three sets on court no. 5, winning 4-6, 6-3, 10-6.
Brevard returns to the road on Monday, February 27th as the Tornados take on UNC Asheville in a match rescheduled due to inclement weather. First serve between the Tornados and the Division I Bulldogs is set for 12 p.m.
Singles competition
1. Jane Plevako (YHC) def. Claire Dillman (BCW) 6-1, 6-1
2. Charlotte Dawson (YHC) def. Lindsay Hostetter (BCW) 6-1, 6-1
3. Michelle Prata (BCW) def. Charlotte Moreau (YHC) 6-1, 6-2
4. Lina Parrra Pava (YHC) def. Elise Labus (BCW) 6-1, 6-1
5. Jennifer Nyman (BCW) def. Katie Bryant (YHC) 4-6, 6-3, 10-6
6. Stormy Dvorak (YHC) def. Ellie Bartholomew (BCW) 6-0, 6-0
Doubles competition
1. Jane Plevako/Charlotte Dawson (YHC) def. Claire Dillman/Michelle Prata (BCW) 8-2
2. Charlotte Moreau/Katie Bryant (YHC) def. Elise Labus/Jennifer Nyman (BCW) 8-3
3. Lina Parrra Pava/Stormy Dvorak (YHC) def. Lindsay Hostetter/Ellie Bartholomew (BCW) 8-0