The U.S. is the richest and most powerful nation on earth...an opinion held by the vast majority of people. Only the later is true. The illusion of richness of the U.S. is nothing more than a house of cards built on a mountain of debt. The average person, age 20 and older, has racked up a consumer installment debt of about $9,000...has a home mortgage around $15,000...and is responsible for $30,000 of the government's public debt. The message of this book is grim. The U.S. has become drastically overextended...it will be un-able to live up to its commitments in the years ahead. Government data discloses a fiscal de-cline has been in progress since 1970. Further, it reveals a frightful truth. The U.S. has passed the point of no return, that is, the capability of fixing the problem without basically restructuring numerous and vital commitments. And the problem is not the public debt, it's the trust funds. By 1983, the trust funds were gobbling up 50 percent of all of the government's receipts. The tail began wagging the dog. 46.4 cents out of every dollar the government spent in 2001 was spent by the trusts, vis-a-vis 12.5 cents by the Department of Defense. Revealed now, for the first time, are the dollar numbers which spell out the fate of the U.S. Recent surpluses referred to by the White House and Congress, were created with smoke and mirrors. The smoke was Social Security funds and contributions by railroad workers and federal employees, for retirement, medical and hospital insurance, etc. When trust funds are excluded, the annual deficits neared one trillion dollars each year between 1998 and 2001. The last real surplus occurred prior to 1959. Annual interest expense exceeded 38% of receipts in 2002. Four of the 16 trust funds spell trouble with a capital T . . . and the death knell. As of the close of fiscal year 2001, these four trust funds had unfunded liabilities of $16.8 trillion. With the funded public debt of $5.8 trillion, total U.S. liabilities exceeded $22 trillion...an unbearable load for Big Sam . . . and it's growing daily. Being the leading nation in the world is not irrevocable...Rome, Spain, and England can so testify. For more info refer to website earl-hadady.com

Product development is the lifeblood of the food industry, from refining an established product range to developing completely new products. It is, however, a process fraught with risk that often ends in failure. So what then are the keys to making the process a success? Drawing on a wealth of experience gathered over 40 years, Food product development provides the answers.
The first half of the book examines the four core elements of product development: -
the business strategy directing product development; the various steps in the product development process; the knowledge required to fuel the process; the need for keeping the product development focused on the consumers needs and aspirations.
The second part of the book looks at managing the product development process in practice with four case studies of successful product launches. It also discusses how to evaluate and improve the process to make future product innovation more successful.
Filled with examples and practical suggestions, and written by a distinguished team with unrivalled academic and industry expertise, Food product development is a essential guide for R&D and product development staff, and all managers concerned with this key issue throughout the food industry.
Provides comprehensive coverage of the complete product development processIncludes a range of international case studies from various sectors of the food industryWritten by a distinguished international panel of experts

Highlights the persuasive devices most common to fascist appeals Fascism has resurfaced as one of the most pressing problems of our time. The rise of extremist parties and candidates in Europe, the United States, and around the globe has led even mainstream political commentators to begin using the term “fascism� to describe dangerous movements that have revived and repackaged many of the strategies long thought to have been relegated to the margins of political rhetoric. No longer just confined to the state regimes of the past, fascism thrives today as a globally self-augmenting, self-propagating rhetorical phenomenon with a variety of faces and expressions. The Rhetoric of Fascism defines and interprets the common persuasive devices that characterize fascist discourse to understand the nature of its enduring appeal. By approaching fascism from a rhetorical perspective, this volume complements established political and sociological understandings of fascism as a movement or regime. A rhetorical approach studies fascism less as a party one joins than as a set of persuasive strategies one adopts. Fascism spreads precisely because it is not a coherent entity. Instead, it exists as a loosely bound and often contradictory collection of persuasive trajectories that have attained enough coherence to mobilize and channel the passions of a self-constituted mass of individuals. Introductory chapters focus on general theories of fascism drawn from twentieth-century history and theory. Contributors investigate specific historical figures and their relationship to contemporary rhetorics, focusing on a specific rhetorical device that is characteristic of fascist rhetoric. A common thread throughout every chapter is that fascist devices are appealing because they speak to us in the familiar language of our culture. As we are seduced by one device at a time, we soon find ourselves part of a movement, a group, or a campaign that makes us act in ways we might never have imagined. This volume reveals that fascism may be closer to home than we think. CONTRIBUTORS Patrick D. Anderson / Rya Butterfield / Nathan Crick / Elizabeth R. Earle / Zac Gershberg / Stephen J. Hartnett / Marie-Odile N. Hobeika / Sean Illing / Jacob A. Miller / Fernando Ismael QuiÑones Valdivia / Patricia Roberts-Miller / Raquel M. Robvais / Bradley A. Serber / Ryan Skinnell