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This was not my first time to go to ESTHETIQUE(TM) and as always Dr Margaret gave good advices. I will go back again soon and will continue recommend this place.
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Lovely service ive had botox a few times and i was very very pleased the lady was also very sweet and i would recommend this clinic and all their services
This is the third treatment in my course of three. Dr. Tania is excellent: very little bruising and almost no swelling at all. I went out the same night. Not sure if mesotherapy is lessening the dark circles under my eyes but it did help reduce the indentation/line at least temporarily.
Dr. Tania is very experienced and professional. The only downsides are that there is quite a lot of bruising under the eye area and the swelling the next day is very pronounced.
Dr. Asta is great. She explains the treatments thoroughly, what to expect, and doesn't recommend treatments that she doesn't feel are right for you. She also gave me her cell number and texted me several times to check on my progress.
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I purchased an offer for 5 treatments and a £30 voucher and the value for money has been reflected in my low scores. I have no problem with my therapist she was lovely although she did struggle with my eyebrow wax due to the room being too dark. However my disappointment lies in the offer which stated that it would be 12 hours of treatments and no mention of any restrictions on the additional £30 voucher. On booking my treatments I was advised that it consisted of just 2 hours and therefore all treatments were just a taster(i was assured by the receptionist that they would correct this detail on the offer) Today I contacted the venue to make an appointment to redeem my voucher at which point I was advised that it could be only used against 1 hour treatments (all of the qualifying ones advised to me seemed to be over £60) The manager was not interested when i pointed out that the offer was misleading and surely not the best way to gain new clients! Needless to say I will not be returning.
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A high-profile collaboration announced today by Durham biopharmaceutical company Spyryx Biosciences is the latest in a string of breathtaking announcements by three young Durham companies with promising treatments for deadly lung diseases.
NCBiotech News
- T3D Therapeutics, a young Research Triangle Park company started with loan help from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to test its lead drug candidate in patients with Alzheimer's disease.
- Bayer CropScience continued to dazzle observers at its North American and global Seeds headquarters today with a grand opening of a $33 million office renovation project while also breaking adjacent ground for a $34 million research greenhouse.
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- The president of Chapel Hill pharmaceutical start-up Eppin Pharmasays a $75,000 loan late last year from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center was an "absolutely critical" lead-in to a $225,000 NIH grant announced today.
- When it comes to the $24 billion outsourced drug development industry, North Carolina is the undisputed – and still undefeated – heavyweight champion of the world. It's home to 128 contract research organizations employing over 21,000 people within the state and tens of thousands of others around the world.
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- Delivering precise treatments customized for each person's unique genetic makeup is the powerful promise of personalized medicine, and North Carolina is already a leader in this new era of genomics-based health care.
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- North Carolina's life science sector grew four times faster than that of the rest of the nation over the last decade. Even so, a study of the state's industry says the best is yet to come, as the state builds on its "SuperSciNCe" – its prodigious research and innovation strengths in such growing markets as medicine, agriculture, biomanufacturing and health informatics.
- Funding and other support from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center helped lay important groundwork for a possible $1.2 billion influx from Vertex Pharmaceuticals to Durham cystic fibrosis drug developer Parion Sciences.
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- Morrisville medical imaging company Bioptigen, a 2004 Duke University spinout which makes specialized high-resolution imaging devices for non-invasive diagnoses of eye diseases and other medical applications, has reached agreement to be purchased by German powerhouse Leica Microsystems.
- A genetic testing laboratory recruited to the state in 2011 with help from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center is about to expand.
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Because of climate change, spring, summer, fall and winter in the temperate zones are all arriving on average 1.7 days earlier than they ever have before. The changing climate with its more extreme weather is affecting many plant and animal species, disturbing their habitat and disrupting ecosystem functioning. How will plants and animals deal with these challenges?
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Deficit terrorism has lately turned to deficit hysteria. With Germany leading the way, most Eurozone countries appear ready to implement austerity programs. The United Kingdom, under its new Conservative/Liberal overlords, appears to be taken with austerity too. And Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan have all jumped on the bandwagon. But it doesn't look like this bandwagon will include Brazil and Argentina. They've had their fill of austerity, and the prescriptions of the IMF, and they're not taking on neo-liberal ideology again any time soon. The question is what should the United States do?
I've already written about the consequences of joining the race to the bottom (for example, here and here) as the Peterson Foundation, The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform and perhaps the President, seem to want us to do. They promise not to be very pretty, and, in particular, to deepen the recession and perhaps result in a Great Depression II. But what happens if we say no to that, and decide instead to implement a Federal Jobs Guarantee (FJG) Program, a payroll tax holiday, and a Grant to the States of $500 per person to ease their financial difficulties and save jobs?
The domestic effects of that would be to produce full employment in the short run, end the recession, and enable more people to meet their mortgage payments, so that there would be fewer toxic real estate assets. In the longer run, people would move from the FJG program, into the non-Government sector, reducing the size of the FJG program. Here's my view of the global consequences of such an expansion in the context of a world gone mad with austerity.
First, of course, the international money boys and the globalists would be screaming about our fiscal irresponsibility in putting the interests of the American Middle Class, poor people, and older people ahead of their perceived financial interests. They will engage in an orgy of forecasts of doom and assertions that the international credit agencies will downgrade the US's debt rating and that this will result in much higher interest rates for US debt instruments. If the US is threatened with such a downgrade, it can and should respond with a statement indicating that it has no solvency risk since it can always meet its fiscal obligations, and that if such a downgrade takes place it will immediately stop issuing debt instruments in coordination with its spending. Since, if the US does actually goes through with this it would drive short-term interest rates down to near zero, this will have the effect of showing the financial markets that they don't control US interest rates, but that the US can easily do so given its authority to spend without either taxing or borrowing.
Second, of course, whether or not the above scenario occurs, those nations that have embraced austerity, will find themselves with a great need to export goods to prevent their economies from totally collapsing. Their desire to export to the US market, which will have been once more invigorated with consumer demand by full employment programs and other Government spending to end the recession, will leave them with little choice but to accept USD in return for their goods, and to price those goods sufficiently low to prevent the rise of US competitors.
The resulting imports are real wealth for Americans, and with most nations trying to export, but not to import, US citizens will have a great opportunity to acquire that wealth in return for nothing more than dollar credits. Of course, we won't be able to export much ourselves initially because austerity in other nations will lower demand, so our balance of payments will go increasingly negative. But this will only increase the holdings of foreign citizens in USD, until a breaking point is reached. That breaking point would come sooner if we stopped issuing debt instruments when Government spends, because other than leaving their currency in Federal Reserve accounts and earning zero interest, holders of USD will have only one other choice, namely buying American goods and services.
Third, the initial growth of exports to the United States, will also have the effect of draining off some of the USD the Government created to bring the domestic economy to full employment and use of domestic productive capacity. When that happens the Government will have more room to spend to maintain full employment without causing inflation. In addition, just as the US credit expansion since the 1990s has driven the world economy in the past, the US Government spending expansion can drive it in the future, until other nations begin to understand that austerity in Government spending in their own nations isn't the driver of prosperity, and that if they want their own citizens to begin to acquire real wealth they have to stop sending it to the United States in return for mere electronic credits, and begin to emulate the US in resorting to functional finance to ensure that their own populations are fully employed.
Fourth, it's unlikely, that there will be any inflationary consequences if we choose full employment rather than austerity. Why should there be? In the beginning, the gap in employment will be filled by Federal jobs that perform services of various kinds and produce various intangibles at the minimum wage. As time goes by and the privates sector wakes up and draws people out of the FJG program and into private sector jobs, increased wages and profits will produce greater demand, but much of that will be bled off by imports, so that expansion of demand for US private sector productive capacity will be gradual and also will be in new industries where imports are not dominant. In this kind of expansion there won't be any demand pull inflation. Of course, there could still be sudden price shocks coming from artificial scarcities caused by market manipulations in certain commodities like oil. But the economy will be able to adjust to these without accelerating inflation.
Fifth, and not least at all, if the US chooses this course, we would, destroy, for good, the myth that austerity accomplishes any good in a recession or depression. It's important to do this because austerity hurts people, and the myth that justifies it ruins lives. This myth has no basis in fact, and seems to have a certain appeal only for those who have a taste for hair shirts and flagellation experienced by others, while they themselves experience few or no material sacrifices themselves, and may even benefit from austerity because the measures accompanying it give them a chance to profit.
So, apart from the other benefits of choosing to end the recession through fiscal expansion for ourselves, we could do great good for other nations as well. For all they would have to do would be observe our example, and see that it worked, and then the curse of resurgent Hooverism, also known today as deficit hawkism, terrorism, errorism, and sometimes, even hysteria, would be gone forever. The march toward plutocracy we have seen for the past thirty-five years would be ended. And, finally, the prospects for real democracy grounded in a greater measure of economic and social equality would be enhanced.
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1 Growth and Development Strategies Harrod-Domar Growth Model Named after two famous economists: Sir Roy Harrod of England and Professor Evesey Domar of the US who independently formulated the model in the early 1950s. The development of this theory needs to be put in perspective of the Marshall Plan employed in Europe after World War II and the Depression of the 1930s. Another economist, Sir Arthur Lewis, formulated a theory of labor while walking down the streets of Bangkok in the 1950s. He suggested a "surplus labor" model in which only capital was constant. This theory came out of the large number of unemployed workers in the Depression and the large number of underemployed rural people in LDCs. Lewis suggested that building factories would soak up this labor without causing a decline in rural production. Since you had a surplus of labor, stated Lewis, machines – not labor – were the binding constraint on production. Production was proportional to machines. The supply of available workers seemed to be unlimited. In this time period, the USSR (the Soviet Union) was an example of an economy that had grown by pulling in excess labor from the countryside (and by instituting forced savings). Lewis also said that "the central fact of economic development was rapid capital accumulation." The relationship between growth and Investment (accumulation of capital) is defined as the ratio of "required" investment to desired growth and is called the Incremental Capital-Output Ratio (ICOR) and is thought to be somewhere between 2 and 5 How the Harrod-Domar Growth Model works The basic model assumes that it is a closed economy and that there is no government, no depreciation of existing capital so that all investment is net investment, and that all investment (I) comes from savings (S). b3c6c1c1-46d0-4a49-8eb5-061410aeb9da.doc 18 January 2006 2 Assume that there is a relationship between the total capital stock, K, and total GDP, Y. For example, if $3 of capital is always necessary to produce $1 of GDP, it follows that any net additions to the capital stock in the form of new investment will bring about a corresponding increase in national output, GDP. Now suppose that this ratio, known as the capital-output ratio, is 3 to 1, and we define this as k. Assume that the national saving ratio, s, is a fixed proportion of national output. Assume that total new investment is determined by the level of total savings. Therefore: Savings, S, is some proportion, s, of national income, Y, such that S = s (Y) Investment, I, is defined as the change in capital stock, K, such that: I = ∆K Total capital stock, K, bears a direct relationship to total national output (or income), Y, as expressed by the capital-output ratio, k, (new investment as a percentage of GDP) then: K = kY or K/Y = k or ∆K/∆Y = k or ∆K = k (∆Y) b3c6c1c1-46d0-4a49-8eb5-061410aeb9da.doc 18 January 2006 3 Since total national saving, S, must equal total investment, I, then: S = I From above we know that: S = s (Y) and that I = ∆K and ∆K = k (∆Y), so I = k (∆Y) Therefore: s (Y) = k (∆Y) Now, divide both sides of the equation above first by Y and then by k, we obtain the following equation: s/k = ∆Y/Y Note that ∆Y/Y is equal to the rate of growth of GDP (the percentage change in GDP) This gives us the Harrod-Domar Equation of economic development that states that: The rate of growth of GDP (∆Y/Y) is determined jointly by the national saving ratio (usually expressed as a percentage), s, and the national capital-output ratio (expressed as an integer), k. Therefore: 1) The growth rate of national income is directly (positively) related to the savings ratio, i.e., the more an economy is able to save – and therefore invest – out of a given GDP, the greater will be the growth of that GDP. 2) The growth rate of national income is indirectly (negatively) related to the economy's capital-output ratio, i.e., the higher is k, the lower will be the rate of GDP growth. b3c6c1c1-46d0-4a49-8eb5-061410aeb9da.doc 18 January 2006 4 In order to grow, economies must save and invest a certain portion of their GDP. How can we use this formula? Assume that the national capital-output ratio of an LDC is 3 and that the aggregate savings ratio is 6% of GDP, then it follows that this country can grow at a rate of 2% per year. ∆Y/Y = s/k % growth of GDP = 6%/3 % growth in GDP = 2% Now, if national savings rate can be increased from 6% to 15%, then GDP Growth can be increased from 2% to 5% as seen below. ∆Y/Y = s/k % growth of GDP = 15%/3 % growth in GDP = 5% The "tricks" of economic growth, according to this model, are simply a matter of increasing savings and investment. The main obstacle to or constraint on development then is the relatively low level of new capital formation or investment in most LDCs. Therefore, the 'savings gap' or what is later referred to as the 'Financing Gap' can be filled either through foreign aid or private foreign direct investment. (See the handout Calculating ICOR for information on incremental capital- output ratio and how to calculate it. Basically ICOR is equal to the ratio of investment to GDP divided by the real economic growth. The smaller the value, the more efficient the investment.) b3c6c1c1-46d0-4a49-8eb5-061410aeb9da.doc 18 January 2006 5 Is development merely a function of Investment in capital or, by extension, a function of Saving? Would aid based on this formula lead to the economic growth needed for attaining the takeoff stage (see info on Rostow on page 6) and achieving development? There are other considerations to be taken into account because this model in the 1960s up to the 1990s did not work, though the Harrod-Domar Equation and ICOR are still employed today for quantifying AID to LDCs. The Harrod-Domar model is still applied today to calculate short-run investment requirements for a target growth rate. Development economists calculate a "Financing Gap" between the required investment and available resources and often fill the "Financing Gap" with foreign aid. "Financing Gap" equals difference between the required investment and the LDC"s savings This model promised LDCs growth in the short-run through aid and investment. How is the 'Financing Gap' determined: Using our example above for increasing growth from 2% to 5%, assume that the country does not have enough saving and is only able to increase its saving ratio from 6% to 12% by instituting a mandatory old-age pension program. How much aid would need to be furnished? In order to reach a target of 5% growth with an ICOR (k) of 3, Investment (as a % of GDP) needs to be 15%. Aid or foreign direct investment in the amount of 15% (necessary Investment) - 12% (projected National Savings) or 3% of GDP needs to be provided for investment. capital-output ratio = 3 desired % growth in GDP = 5% Investment (as % of GDP) required to achieve this growth = 15% I (as % GDP) required (15%) – S (12%) = 3% of I required in aid Target growth rate times ICOR gives investment requirements; a down side of this is that countries that saved less received more aid. b3c6c1c1-46d0-4a49-8eb5-061410aeb9da.doc 18 January 2006 6 This is a short-run model since the aid provided this year went into invest- ment for this year which will go into next year"s economic growth. In order to continue growth, the process has to begin over again for the next year. The Harrod-Domar Growth Model is fit together with W. W. Rostow's, an economic historian from the United States, stages of growth as laid out in The Stages of Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto. The stages are: 1) Traditional society: largely agricultural based, low productivity, low standard of living 2) Preconditions for takeoff into self-sustaining growth 3) Takeoff into self-sustained growth: important characteristics in this stage are high savings and investment rates 4) Drive to maturity 5) Age of high mass consumption Rostow's Developmental Stages of Growth Real GDP per capita Time b3c6c1c1-46d0-4a49-8eb5-061410aeb9da.doc 18 January 2006 7 Rostow"s takeoff stage reasserted the ideas of Lewis and Harrod-Domar. The ICOR employed by Rostow to determine the takeoff stage was 3 - 3.5. In the period 1950-1995, Western countries gave one trillion US dollars (measured in 1985 dollars) in aid. Since virtually all of the aid advocates used the Harrod-Domar/Financing Gap model, this was one of the largest policy experiments ever based on a single economic model. The graph on the previous page looks very similar to the production function graph where output is a function of labor and the more labor employed enables a larger amount of output to be produced. By adding other factors of development, such as capital, you have the Rostow Graph of Developmental Stages. However, there are non-quantifiable elements that are equally as important. Many of the implicit assumptions made by Western countries in this time period were inappropriate and irrelevant. An adaptation of the Marshall Plan would not succeed in LDCs as it had in Europe because the European countries receiving aid possessed other conditions necessary to convert new capital effectively into higher levels of output: 1) Necessary structural conditions such as, for example, well- integrated money markets, banking systems, and highly developed infrastructure such as transportation facilities 2) Necessary institutional conditions such as, for example, well trained and educated manpower and an efficient government bureaucracy 3) Necessary attitudinal conditions such as, for example, the motivation to succeed or the work ethic, social and economic mobility, and modern concepts including rationalism, scientific thought, and individualism The Rostow and Harrod-Domar models of economic growth and development implicitly assume the existence of these same attitudes and arrangements in LDCs. In many cases they are not present and neither are the complimentary factors such as: Managerial experience, skilled labor, and the ability to plan and administer a wide variety of development projects b3c6c1c1-46d0-4a49-8eb5-061410aeb9da.doc 18 January 2006 8 It is not possible to state that development is simply a matter of removing obstacles and supplying various "missing components" like capital, foreign exchange, skills and management – a task in which DCs could theoretically play a major role. Besides physical capital which is the definition of capital in the Harrod- Domar model, there is human capital, organizational capital and technological knowledge which all come into play in economic growth and development. Another problem with the Harrod-Domar model is that more labor is a factor in increasing total GDP, but only Investment in capital (machines) is taken into account. Recapitulation of some problems with the Harrod-Domar Growth Model: 1) It equates growth and development 2) Domestic savings are insufficient so a financing gap arises 3) Labor is not a consideration for economic growth 4) Other structural, institutional, and attitudinal preconditions for economic growth and development are not taken into account 5) Foreign aid financing is not necessarily channeled to the investments with the highest social rate of return 6) Soft loans may cause debt repayment problems later and loans as well as savings were subject to "capital flight" 7) It"s a model that promises LDCs growth in the short run through aid and investment (Soft loans are made on favorable terms; hard loans are made on market terms.) b3c6c1c1-46d0-4a49-8eb5-061410aeb9da.doc 18 January 2006 9 Michael Todaro's definition of development in Economics for a Developing World: Development is a multidimensional process involving changes in structures, institutions, and attitudes as well as the acceleration of economic growth, the reduction of inequality, and the eradication of absolute poverty. Development must represent the entire gamut of changes by which an entire social system, tuned to the diverse basic needs and desires of individuals and social groups within that system, moves away from a condition of life widely perceived as unsatisfactory, and moves towards a situation or condition of life regarded as materially and spiritually "better". Globalization - involves the spread of economic, social and cultural ideas across the world, and the growing uniformity between different places that results from this spread. It has come about as a result of the increased integration of national economies through the growth of international trade, investment and capital flows, made possible by rapid improvements in technology. (Information for these pages was based on Economics for a Developing World by Michael Todaro and The Ghost of Financing Gap by William Easterly) b3c6c1c1-46d0-4a49-8eb5-061410aeb9da.doc 18 January 2006
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