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3slices King's Hawaiian Sweet Bread
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1/2ounce black olives
3ounces whipped cream cheese
3ounces smoked salmon
1-- ripe tomato, sliced
1ounce red onion, thinly sliced
2ounces cucumber, sliced
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2-- cherry tomatoes

  1. Toast King's Hawaiian Sweet Bread on both sides.
  2. On a 6-inch skewer, thread pepperoncini and black olives halfway up; set aside.
  3. To assemble sandwich, spread cream cheese on one side of each slice of bread. On the first slice of bread, top the cream cheese with half of the salmon, tomato, onion, cucumber and lettuce. Top with second piece of bread and repeat with remaining half of fillings. Top with third piece of bread. Slice into four equal triangles, securing with skewers.
  4. Add pickle and tomatoes for garnish.

Nutritional Info *per serving

  • Calories 770
  • Glycemic Load 0
  • Fat 45g
  • Saturated Fat 19g
  • Polyunsaturated Fat 3.5g
  • Monounsaturated Fat 13g
  • Cholesterol 135mg
  • Sodium 1850mg
  • Potassium 910mg
  • Carbohydrate 64g
  • Fiber 6g
  • Sugars 20g
  • Protein 31g
  • Trans Fat 2g
  • Vitamin A 60%
  • Vitamin C 45%
  • Calcium 25%
  • Iron 30%
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Title: Utility maximization with consumption habit formation in incomplete markets
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Abstract: This dissertation studies a class of path-dependent stochastic control problems with applications to Finance. In particular, we solve the open problem of the continuous time expected utility maximization with addictive consumption habit formation in incomplete markets under two independent scenarios. In the first project, we study the continuous time utility optimization problem with consumption habit formation in general incomplete semimartingale financial markets. Introducing the set of auxiliary state processes and the modified dual space, we embed our original problem into an abstract time-separable utility maximization problem with a shadow random endowment on the product space. We establish existence and uniqueness of the optimal solution using convex duality by defining the primal value function as depending on two variables, i.e., the initial wealth and the initial standard of living. We also provide market independent sufficient conditions both on the stochastic discounting processes of the habit formation process and on the utility function for the well-posedness of our original optimization problem. Under the same assumptions, we can carefully modify the classical proofs in the approach of convex duality analysis when the auxiliary dual process is not necessarily integrable. In the second project, we examine an example of the optimal investment and consumption problem with both habit-formation and partial observations in incomplete markets driven by It\^{o} processes. The individual investor develops addictive consumption habits gradually while only observing the market stock prices but not the instantaneous rates of return, which follow an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. Applying the Kalman-Bucy filtering theorem and Dynamic Programming arguments, we solve the associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman(HJB) equation fully explicitly for this path dependent stochastic control problem in the case of power utility preferences. We provide the optimal investment and consumption policy in explicit feedback form using rigorous verification arguments.
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Subject: Time non-separable utility maximization Consumption habit formation Convex duality Auxiliary processes Incomplete markets Kalman-Bucy filtering Verification lemma
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Cyclic Redundancy Codes (CRCs) provide a first line of defense against data corruption in many networks. Unfortunately, many commonly used CRC polynomials provide significantly less error detection capability than they might. An exhaustive exploration reveals that most previously published CRC polynomials are either inferior to alternatives or are only good choices for particular message lengths. Unfortunately these shortcomings and limitations often seem to be overlooked. This paper describes a polynomial selection process for embedded network applications and proposes a set of good general-purpose polynomials. A set of 35 new polynomials in addition to 13 previously published polynomials provides good performance for 3- to 16-bit CRCs for data word lengths up to 2048 bits.


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The present article describes the probable speciation of68Ga radionuclide just before labeling to DOTA peptides for PET imaging. The68Ga eluted from an anion exchange column after its purification was analyzed for its elemental composition and pH at several stages. Neutron activation analysis of the eluted fractions yields the concentrations of Na and Cl, pH measurements indicate the concentration of free H+ions in the medium and specific activity calculations indicate the concentration of68Ga in the solution. Using all these information we get the idea of speciation of no carrier added Ga in the eluted fractions from CHEAQS programme. The estimations indicate that Ga is mostly present as GaCl2+in the total MiliQ eluate. However, just before labeling of DOTA the pH of the Ga-containing eluate is adjusted to ~3.5 using HEPES buffer and at that condition Ga remains as Ga3+species which is responsible for a successful and efficient labeling. The MilliQ eluate collected before actual labeling was estimated for trace elements using inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry was found to contain a few ppb of Al, Co, Pd and Pt that did not interfere in the actual labeling. A clear idea about the prerequisite of68Ga species before labeling to a peptide might be of special interest for its judicious application as a radiopharmaceutical.

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Hamburgers, shawarma and bruschetta are special varieties of sandwiches; hamburgers are best eaten hot; they contain ground beef (or bacon) and cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickles, or condiments inside a sliced bun, while shawarma consists of chicken, turkey, beef, lamb or veel placed in a sandwich wrap with vegetables and pickles. Alternatively, you can grill slices of bread and top them with tomatoes, olive oil, cheese, meat, garlic and basil to get a bruschetta platter.

To give your sandwich platter a sweet spin, arrange some peanut butter sandwiches on a separate plate. Peanut butter is generally spread over slices of white bread, although the sandwich can also include a layer of jelly or jam, and can be served either heated or at room temperature.

In the modern world, most of the people are turning towards fast foods and junked foods only because it saves time and taste is good. Each and every person knows that there are many health related problems if you are continuously eating these fast foods and junked foods. Even then, everyone keeps on continuously eating the fast foods. The world would have been a lot better if people were a bit responsible and didn’t promote the sale of fast food and junked foods.

These foods are just like cancer, killing each and everyone slowly. There was a time when people ate green papaya that will have healthy foods to remain healthy, but these days people eat fast food to save time because time is money. So everything boils down to money, and there is nothing to think about health when it comes to money. People need to change their thinking and maintain their lifestyle to live a healthy life free from all the fast foods. People should consider eating the fruits which are naturally grown and have no side effects.

What is raw food?

Fruits and vegetables are the best things a person could ever eat. It is not that the fruits don’t taste good, but they are just addicted to the fast foods. Fruits and vegetables are full of vitamins and minerals, unlike fast food which have nothing except slowly kill you. I think people should eat the raw food instead of cooked food and fast food. All the cooked food is not fast food, but eating the raw food like fruits have a lot of benefits. Most importantly they are healthy and don’t have a side effect. You can have a lot of variety in the raw food also. You can follow the raw food cookbook which is available in the market.

Raw food vs. cooked food

When you cook the food above 102 degree Fahrenheit all the enzymes present in the raw food start to break down. And till the food is cooked, the maximum of the good properties of the enzymes are lost. While, when you eat the raw foods, all the enzymes are on the fullest, and you can get the full support from the raw food regarding the health issues. All the enzymes, vitamins, minerals and nutrients present in the raw food directly enters the body and without any loss.

The amount of energy you get from the raw food, you will feel more alive and healthy. Your brain along with the body will work faster and better that before as you are getting the pure energy. There are many health benefits of eating raw food. But even with the fruits and vegetables, there are who use the harmful chemicals to increase the production. These chemicals are harmful for the human body.

Liquor stores available around use to include different types of drinks including wine. But in case you want to be more special, or you want a specific bottle of wine that you cannot find in the liquor store, for sure the online field can turn into the best deal. There are some simple steps to consider just to make sure that you can make the right purchase in the shortest period possible.

Reliable store and account creation
First of all it is quite important to find the right wine online in Australia. This is a very important task in order to find a reliable shop that can help you in purchasing the best products. Usually, a simple search for the help of a searching engine can help a person find a wide range of virtual wine shops. But on the same time you have to check the right details that will ensure the reliability of the chosen page. Once you are sure of the choice made you just have to consider the idea of creating an account on that page. The account will track the purchasing process and will help in keeping a history of your transactions on that certain web page. In case there are complications, this account tracking will help you in solving any other issue. Anytime you would like to make a purchase in this virtual shop you can choose to login into your special account.

Actual purchase and payment
After you have read the different details of the store such as the shipment methods and other important issues, the next step is based on the actual purchase of the product. This means that you can take the best wine online in Australia by simply clicking on the button that says “add to the cart.” You can purchase wines in different quantities and different types according to your needs. You can simply scroll down and see the different products available or you can search them with the help of the closest searching bar in order to not spend more from your precious time. After that, you have to finalize the transaction based on the payment you have to make for the products purchased. There are different ways to finalize the payment. Some people use credit cards while others agree to make the payment only when the products will arrive at home. It is very important to feel secure when making these options.

At the end of the process, you will just have to wait for the bottles of wines to arrive directly at home or at the address you have included in the specific requirements when creating the account. You just have to be there in order to take the shipment and make sure that the wine is in good quality. In case you have complaints, you have to ask the shop professionals about them right away. This is how it can be quite easy to purchase bottles of wine by the help of the online field.

To shop for French wine online, go to http://www.nicks.com.au/store/imported-wines/french-wine-online

As people are growing old with every passing day, they are currently trying to work on some of the best ways, to live a healthy and medicine free life. As people are likely to age more and plan to live an active life, they are growing more interest in good living condition. As employees are trying to save some amount by cutting out the medication expenses, they need to look for some of the other means, to substitute the challenge. Thus, the growth of wellness related coaches can be seen nowadays.

Important new career prospect for many

Just 10 years down the lane, no one has heard of the term wellness coach. Now, the importance of this working sector is growing at such a fast pace, that it becomes really difficult to get in terms with only one coaching center. Through these coaching centers, you are likely to develop and at the same time sustain the present robust physical and mental health structure. There are so many wellness centers, which you are likely to come across nowadays. Just enroll your name for those coach centers, which have been associated with this field, for more than a decade now. For more tips to improve your wellness and being through books, check this out

Improving the health condition

There are so many positive points available, which make health coaching one of the most proficient servicing areas, of all time. Just get in touch with the professionals immediately, and you will love the answers, you can get.

While dealing with simplest structure, the coaches are going to help the needful to improve the wellbeing and health condition.

These are done in the most personalized manner, to make the wellness structure more proficient among the users.

Now, you can get the right balance between the weight loss routine, and handle the stress in the most proficient manner.

Overcome the struggle well

With the help of health and wellness coaching, you can increase the present value and look of your health. These coaching can help in overcoming some of the most promising struggles of your time.

It can help you to build proficient skills related with self-motivation structure.

On the other hand, you can get the right notion associated with self-awareness

Get in touch with the best resilience and confidence structure with these courses

The professionals can help in making the changes accordingly and in a sustainable mood

Get the best professional help

Once you have made up your mind to choose the right wellness routine, get in terms with the professionals, as soon as possible. Apart from building up motivational look, you can even get back your old life. Lose out some weight and get the young 20s look, within a jiffy. There are so many positive options available, for your needs and to match up your requirements.

It is a fact that Garcinia Cambogia has several benefits. It has proven very effective in treating people who suffer obesity and other weight-related ailments. Obesity has become a global problem. The busy lifestyles and irregular schedules that most people have to contend with have been responsible for the increased cases of obesity and excessive weight gain. The busy lifestyles as well as irregular schedules have made it harder for many people to watch what they eat. This is why the consumption of junk foods has gone up in the recent past. Some people are unable to set aside time for exercises, hence the decision to buy garcinia cambogia.

It is alright to buy such products online, especially if finding them locally is an impossible task. Therefore, any person who finds great hardship in obtaining Garcinia Cambogialocally should not worry about buying it online. However, check that it is of the best quality first. This is very important. Garcinia Cambogia has proven very effective as an appetite suppressant. Many people gain weight primarily because of their strange eating habits. However, by suppressing appetite, it is possible to control weight gain and reduce the chances of being afflicted with obesity. Use the Garcinia Cambogia to reduce appetite and pangs of hunger that lead to eating too much food.

Garcinia Cambogia helps control cravings, which can lead to feelings of laziness and lethargy. By controlling cravings, it is possible to boost vitality. This is why Garcinia Cambogia has been cited as one of the most effective products in boosting or enhancing vitality. This product helps control craving for foods that are rich in carbohydrates. This way, the body feels highly revitalized and does not have to worry about laziness. Digesting carbohydrates makes the body feel very tired. Moreover, a regular intake of Garcinia Cambogia improves the quality of sleep, making it easier to wake up in the morning feeling refreshed and highly revitalized.

Garcinia Cambogia helps improve immune system. It makes the immune system much stronger, thus able to fight off different types of diseases that would make somebody feel tired and reduce energy levels. A regular consumption of Garcinia Cambogia helps provide adequate protection against swellings/inflammations, flu, bowel complaints and colic symptoms. Researchers have also shown that Garcinia Cambogia can help prevent or fight ulcers. This is because a regular intake of this product helps deal with issues of acidity, which is the main factor behind the annoying, highly uncomfortable and painful ulcers.

In summary, investing in Garcinia Cambogia has several health benefits. Purchasing the product is an investment as it helps improve overall health. The product helps improve vitality, prevent ulcers, and fights obesity and extreme weight gains. The product helps suppress appetite, which has been cited as one of the main factors responsible for the increasing cases of obesity and excessive weight gain. Take enough of this product, and use it safely in combination with Deer Antler Spray as well as other supplements that do not add harmful chemicals to the body. For more info about boost vitality visit http://www.boostvitality.com.au/

The world has been really moving fast in terms of development and technology. This has beencontributed by the fact that individuals from various communities have made innovations afterlong periods of study and research. Most of them have even travelled to countries far from theirhome for that same purpose of education. As a result there has been erosion of culture among theyouthful generations who have followed their career paths to other areas which are not theirhome places. This has been contributed by the fact that the individuals have met other cultures of a particular community and have chosen to assimilate it in order to fit in the environment of the new communities.

Talking about culture erosion, we talk about Japan. The country has been for long associatedwith success in development at various fields which include technology, research among others.The population of Japan is very big such that most of the individuals have seen the need of focusing their efforts in terms of professional experience elsewhere. This has led to invasion of their in the African continent, the main purpose being development of their careers. In areas such as Africa the Japanese have found different culture and tradition that do not in any way relate to theirs. This means that they have missed a lot in terms of meals, good sushi included.

Sushi is a Japanese food consisting of cooked vinegared rice. The rice is combined with otheringredients such as vegetables, sea food and at other times tropical fruits. It can be prepared witheither white or brown rice. The methods of cooking might however vary in one way or anotherdepending on the type of cook that was handling the specific kind of preparation. In foreign countries, the Japanese do not enjoy these meals to their much desired level of satisfaction. This is due to the un-presence of cooks who can indeed prepare the meals.

Another factor leading to the issue of unsatisfactory issue is that of lack of sea foods in Africasince most of the inhabitants depend on majorly fish. The trend may be however reversed in thecoming days. This is because the catering industry has received a major recognition in the recenttimes by the fact that they have been responsible with providing the much needed individuals who have the ability of preparing foreign food. The individuals have used their education to the pleasure and satisfaction of the foreigners.

Some of them have even gone to the extent of providing sushi in Western Sydney catering services in various countries. The service have ensured that individuals get the meal any time they need it, be it at variousspecified joints or at their door steps. Other individuals also provide sushi platters at affordableprices. This has in one way promoted the conservation of the cultures of Japan and other foreign nations whose meal services have been provisioned. The same has also led to great level of cooperation between individuals and nations as well.


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Average Retirement Savings of Retirees 2011

Based on the Federal Reserve Board Panel Survey of Consumer Finances, median retirement savings (plus investments, not including a primary residence or value of pensions) is $333,000 for families where the head of household is retired for 2009.   The average non-residential debt was $42,000 for net financial assets of $291,000.

Note that this is a measurement by household and not by retired individual.

This appears to be much more than other sources report, although insufficient for retirement comfort (see following analysis).  The discrepency between sources may depend on how “retired is defined.”  The above data was based on surveys and apparently on how the survey respondent classified themselves.  Other data sources however define retired as receiving some type of retirement compensation (e.g. pension, social security, etc).

Based on very limited data from a recent survey by the EBRI in 2011, average retirement savings (plus investments, not including a primary residence or value of pensions) is in the neighborhood of $20,000 – $50,000 (see table below). It may be more accurate to state that the figures below reflect the median, rather than an average.

Only 17% reported savings exceeding $250,000.  Based on many calculations I have done, retiring in 2011 would require at least $1 million to live comfortably yet very conservatively (assuming no other income).  Of course, if one receives a $4,000 monthly pension and lives in rural Alabama, you could likely retire comfortably with no retirement savings.

It is a widely agreed in the financial community that 4% is a safe annual withdrawal rate from a retirement nest egg. That means from a one million-dollar portfolio, one could safely withdraw $40,000 annually and increase that $40,000 by 3% annually to offset inflation and never run out of money.  If a hypothetical retiree requires the $40,000 annually as per our example, and feels comfortable relying on the $20,000 social security annually due him, then he needs only $20,000 annually from savings.  This could be fulfilled by a $500,000 portfolio. (You can get your own estimates of retirement income and required savings).

But as the table below indicates, average retirement savings are sorely lacking as 68% of retirees say that social security, a tenuous source of income, is a major source of retirement income.  The second most important source, again uncontrollable by the retiree, is employer pensions (which particularly in the public sector, are at risk). View the table:

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Growth? With dole queues growing again, very few in Spain will notice

Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, under whose tenure unemployment jumped to a record high of 6 million people out of work, has made job creation the centrepiece of his campaign for re-election campaign later this year. But in contrast to positive growth signals, the latest jobs figures confirm a catastrophic record, argues Vicente Clavero For … Continue reading

Still on air: how 20 Greek TV workers are keeping the flag flying for independent public broadcasting

French journalists Erwan Manac’h and Marie Chambrial find a group of colleagues in Greece weary but in determined spirits and experimenting with a new type of broadcasting, as they continue on air 24/7 despite the forced closure of the ERT state TV a year ago. They were thought to be history when the government axed the signal in … Continue reading

French left goes Greek

France’s left is in a sorry state. It took a bashing in local elections in March and then European elections in May. The ruling socialists plunged to an all time low of less than 14%. The radical Front de Gauche, comprising the communists and other leftists like Jean Luc Melenchon, polled just 6.3%, down from … Continue reading

Portugal and the Troika three years on

By Catarina Oliveira Three years ago the Portuguese Government called in the Troika. “Save wages and pensions,” was the pretext but that did not happen. Today the dramatic social consequences of the entry of the Troika in Portugal are easy to analyse. A look at the figures shows the spiral of impoverishment in which the country is … Continue reading

How PM Renzi’s Jobs Act will sink Italy

Italy’s new PM Matteo Renzi has pledged to slash the country’s record unemployment with his American-branded ‘Jobs Act’. But his labour reforms, which will see short term job contracts extended for up to 3 years, are more of the same medicine applied since the turn of the 1990s that have been such bad news for … Continue reading

Valls as France’s new PM is poor casting – but that’s not the worst of it

By Jacques Sapir After what can only be called one of the worst defeats suffered by a “Left government” in local elections, a defeat that saw cities won by the Socialists over 100 years ago pass into the hands of the Right (Limoges), French President François Hollande has decided to thank the Prime Minister, Jean- … Continue reading

Inside the Greek laboratory

IN THE RADICAL PRESS / MEMOIRE DES LUTTES A new book publishing the views of Greek scholars and professionals on the impact of Troika policies has helped Bernard Cassen understand better the criminal nature of market fundamentalism pursued by Brussels, Frankfurt and Berlin You have to be very naive to believe that the fury of the “troika” against Greece … Continue reading

Fast Facts: Gender Social Inequality and Austerity in Europe

Europe’s austerity fetish and longer term neo-liberal reforms promoted by Big Business, Governments and the EU Commission hurt women disproportionately. Here’s a few facts to illustrate the point.   Europe wide  The gender pay gap is around 16% It ranges from more than a quarter (27%) in Estonia to around a fiftieth (2%) in Slovenia. … Continue reading

7 reasons why Greece is going on strike this week

Greek workers will hold a 24-hour strike this week to protest against austerity measures and public sector layoffs demanded by the country’s international lenders, led by the IMF-ECB-EU ‘Troika’. Greece’s public and private sector unions ADEDY and GSEE will launch a 24-hour general strike on Wednesday, November 6th 2013. Here’s seven reasons why they will … Continue reading

Who will represent the educated precariat?

The crisis in Spain and elsewhere has accelerated the emergence of a new social group , making it much more visible in the media and in social and political terms. But unions and the are failing to respond to their needs, argues Bruno Estrada* The crisis in Spain has accelerated the emergence of a new … Continue reading

Italy in the Summer: A Bel Paese for tourists, not so beautiful for the workers

By Roberta Manieri Employers blame the crisis and the need to cut costs. From Italy’s South to the North, workers are being blackmailed into accepting increasingly exploitative working conditions, say unions representing workers in a sector employing around a million people Quality, dignity and professionalism should go hand in hand with the job. Even more … Continue reading

Troika destroys 500,000 jobs in Portugal

The austerity measures demanded by the Troika have destroyed half a million jobs in Portugal. This year, Portugal will have fewer people employed than in 1960. And in 2014 the situation is expected to worsen further. According to Diário de Notícias newspaper, reporting on figures published in the Summer 2013 Economic Bulletin of the Bank of Portugal, ‘already this … Continue reading

If we continue with austerity we will hit the point of no return

By Giorgio Cremaschi If a patient is given an aspirin at the point that he becomes ill and a fever takes hold, the drug may work. But if you wait without giving him anything, just recommending a strict diet, and the fever grows and the disease becomes chronic and complicated, then an aspirin no longer … Continue reading

Democracy or the Euro?

According to the German Constitutional Court it is not acceptable that “the most important decisions at European level be negotiated in anonymous corridors of the Brussels bureaucracy.” In Italy too, we should ask ourselves whether it is right that economic policy is torn from popular sovereignty and dictated by foreign countries and international financial oligarchies. … Continue reading

Six reasons why Portugal held a general strike this week

Portugal’s two main confederations held a general strike Thursday – the fourth general national stoppage in two years. Why? Since 2011, when the government of Portugal signed up to the Troika bail out loan conditions of austerity and neoliberal ‘reforms’, this is what has happened: Real wages have fallen by 9.2% Household spending has fallen … Continue reading

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Right On 2012 Time? US Department Of Homeland Security Authorizes National Laboratory To Join Loughborough University’s Effort To Overcome Public Resistance To The Mark Of The Beast

Friday, October 7, 2011
By Paul Martin

Loughborough To Lead International Identity Management Study

October 05, 2011

Loughborough University issued the following news release:

Professor Liesbet van Zoonen of Loughborough University and a team of colleagues from Dundee, Essex and Northumbria universities have received a 1.36m Pounds grant to examine taboos and desires around future technologies of ‘identity management’.

The three-year IMPRINTS project is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). An additional grant has been awarded by the Department of Homeland Security in America to the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to simultaneously conduct the study in the US.

IMPRINTS (Identity Management: Public Responses to Identity Technologies and Services) aims to assess how and why UK and US publics will engage with particular future practices, services and technologies of identity management, while resisting others.

Iris and full body scans, and face or voice recognition have already become well-known practice, but innovations like implantable chips, odour scans, online ‘object’-passwords and mobile identity sharing are on the horizon. It is unclear whether and why members of the public will embrace these innovations or reject them.

Professor Liesbet Van Zoonen, who holds the chair in Media and Communications at Loughborough University, explains:

“There is a peculiar paradox between the eager sharing of personal details on social network sites, and the deep anxieties about, for instance, biometric identification or a national identity card.

“In this project we aim to gain a better understanding of such anxieties and appetites, and understand the way citizens will respond to new identity management technologies, services and practices in order to promote trustworthy and pleasurable processes of identity verification.”

To achieve this understanding, researchers will work with stakeholders from civil society and government, security and commercial sectors in both countries.

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Monday, August 26, 2013
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By JS Kim
Monday, 26 August 2013

The first signs of hyperinflation have arrived. As I will explain later in this article, it began last week with the meeting of POTUS Obama and his most supportive lobby, the banking industry. Just a few months into Obama’s first term as US President in early 2009, I penned an article, “8 Reasons Why the Obama Administration Will Not Solve this Crisis by the End of 2009.” Although the title of that article title sounds absurd today, idol worship was so high of Obama immediately following his election not only in the US but all across Europe, that media commentators across the world were implying, and sometimes matter-of-factly stating, that Obama would be well on his way to solving the global monetary crisis by the end of his first year as POTUS. In direct opposition to the media love affair with Obama, shortly after his election in 2008, I objectively studied Obama’s support of a massive bailout plan for banks in his first months of service and his freshly minted appointments of Timothy Geithner, William Daley, William Donaldson, Robert Rubin, Roger Ferguson and Paul Volcker to his economic advisory board and key cabinet positions. Based upon my findings, I concluded that beyond a shadow of a doubt, banking cronyism would expand, multiply, and go unprosecuted under Obama’s watch.

The Obama administration has given a lot of lip service with zero follow-through to prosecution of criminal banking behavior, the most recent being AG Eric Holder’s following very empty promise: “Let me be very, very, very clear…if we find a bank or a financial institution that has done something wrong…those cases will be brought” (emphasis not only mine but Holder’s as well!) Unfortunately since that time, though numerous indisputable cases of banking criminal behavior have been uncovered and presented to Holder, Holder has shown no spine or willingness to enforce his prior promise. As a consequence of the refusal of the top attorney in the United States to enforce the rule of law and to prosecute industry-wide criminal banking activity, the first signs of hyperinflation have arrived.

The real national debt, despite having been falsely frozen at the falsely advertised figure of $16.699 trillion for more than 90 consecutive days for no other reason than it has reached the designated limit, clocks in at a whopping $220 trillion if you include all unfunded, off-balance liabilities such as Medicare and Social Security (Source: Economist Laurence Kotlikoff).

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Thursday, January 17, 2013

Glenn Ford: Don’t You Dare Conflate MLK and Obama

Black Agenda Report
January 16, 2013.

“Had King survived, his break with Obama would have come early.”

Back in 1964, under prodding from a BBC interviewer, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. predicted that a Black person might be elected president “in 25 years or less.” Four years later, shortly before his assassination, King confided to actor/activist Harry Belafonte that he had “come to believe we're integrating into a burning house." We now see that the two notions are not at all contradictory. At least some African Americans have achieved deep penetration of the very pinnacles of white power structures – integrating the White House, itself – while conditions of life for masses of Black folks deteriorate and the society as a whole falls into deep decay.

The fires lit by the “giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism” that Dr. King identified in his 1967 “Beyond Vietnam: Breaking the Silence” speech are consuming the world, now stoked by a Black arsonist-in-chief. Domestic poverty hovers only a fraction of a percentage below the levels of 1965, with “extreme poverty” the highest on record. Black household wealth has collapsed to one-twentieth that of whites. Today, more Black men are under the control of the criminal justice system than were slaves in the decade before the Civil War, according to Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow.

The intervening years have shown that Dr. King’s 1960s visions were not in conflict: the rooms at the top floors of the national house may have been integrated, but the building still burns.

The deepening crisis of capitalism, the triumph of Wall Street finance over industrial capital, the increasing imperial reversion to international lawlessness in a desperate bid to maintain global supremacy – all this was predictable under the laws of political economy. Had the assassin’s bullet not found him, Dr. King would have continued his implacable resistance to these unfolding evils, rejecting Barack Obama’s invasions, drones and Kill Lists with the same moral fervor and political courage that he broke with Lyndon Johnson over the Vietnam War. Absolutely nothing in King’s life and work indicates otherwise.

“The very notion of a grand austerity bargain with the Right would have been anathema to MLK.”

One school of thought holds that corporate servants like Obama could not have taken root in Black America if Dr. King, Malcolm X and a whole cadre of slain and imprisoned leaders of the Sixties had not been replaced by opportunistic representatives of a grasping Black acquisitive class. In any event, had King survived, his break with Obama would have come early. Surely, the Dr. King who, in his 1967 “Where Do We Go from Here” speech called for a guaranteed annual income would never have abided Obama’s targeting of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid in the weeks before his 2009 inauguration. Forty-five years ago, King’s position was clear: “Our emphasis must be twofold: We must create full employment, or we must create incomes.” The very notion of a grand austerity bargain with the Right would have been anathema to MLK.

Were Martin alive, he would skewer the putative leftists and their “lesser evil” rationales for backing the corporatist, warmongering Obama. As both a theologian and a “revolutionary democrat,” as Temple University’s Prof. Anthony Monteiro has described him, MLK had no problem calling evil by its name – and in explicate triplicate. His militant approach to non-violent direct action required him to confront the underlying contradictions of society through the methodical application of creative tension. He would make Wall Street scream, and attempt to render the nation ungovernable under the dictatorship of the Lords of Capital. And he would deliver a withering condemnation of the base corruption and self-serving that saturates the Black Misleadership Class.

He would spend his birthday preparing a massive, disruptive action at the Inauguration.

BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at

Comment: Excellent critique by Glenn Ford and unlike Norman Solomon below the views expressed are drawn from a position of conviction that has consistently called-out Obomber for being the sellout Uncle Tom that he is.

I have read that Obomber will use MLK's personal bible at his inauguration and I find this disgusting.

One more reason to join those folks who will be working to disrupt the Lord of the Drones' inauguration.

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Your Hometown on Multiculturalism

Peter Roberts gasps in horror at what multiculturalism and the practice of importing massive hordes of welfare colonists have done to the homey suburb where he grew up:

When you see your homeland, which was what Greenacre was, turned into a minefield, or a battlefield, or a refuge of drug dealers, criminals, drive-by shooters and terror — you find yourself in a quandary. It’s all part and parcel of the greater good, of the New Australia, of the emergence of alternative cultures — it’s just a settling-in process.

Whatever the apologists say, it’s traumatic to read about the new Greenacre where I had my roots. It’s tragic to see things go so wrong.

The police are powerless. I’ve seen it first-hand. They are harassed and intimidated for simply doing their job. The Premier says we can have confidence in the police to apprehend the culprits of a recent murder in Wilbur Street. Even if they do, which is unlikely, as the local residents live in permanent fear of reprisals, can they stop the next shooting and the next?

Australia has some of the most repressive laws in the world regarding firearms ownership. As in Chicago, this results in deadly anarcho-tyranny.

Soon Greenacre/Lakemba will be an enclave of little Lebanon, with all the worst features transported from a failed country to a new one, one still proud of its tolerance. I am told time and again that tolerance is not weakness. A bit like saying appeasement is not weakness. But I’m growing more sceptical.

That was my home — the place where I simply couldn’t imagine living anywhere else once — transformed to the place where I could never imagine living again.

Greenacre is a suburb of Sydney. It could just as easily be a suburb of London or Los Angeles.

Eventually the civilized will run out of places to retreat to. Then the whole world will be the Third World. Multiculturalism will have triumphed.

Greenacre Australia
Multiculturally transformed Greenacre.

On a tip from Andrew M. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.

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Lem Satterfield

Q&A: Lujan brings a rugged style to Jones fight

NEW YORK — RingTV.com caught up to rugged Argentine slugger Sebastian Lujan, who plans to wage an inside battle against unbeaten welterweight contender Mike Jones in Saturday night’s HBO Pay Per View-televised clash  at soldout Madison Square Garden.

The 31-year-old Lujan (38-5-2, 24 knockouts) will pursue his 13th straight win and his seventh knockout during that run against the 28-year-old Jones (25-0, 19 KOs), whom he is fighting for the No. 1 spot in the IBF’s ratings with the winner meeting IBF No. 2-rated Randall Bailey (42-7, 36 KOs) for the organization’s belt that was recently vacated by Andre Berto.

Jones-Lujan takes place on the Miguel Cotto-Antonio Margarito undercard. Margarito stopped Lujan in the 10th round of a WBO welterweight title bout in February of 2005.

Jones is coming off a second-round knockout of Raul Munoz, which was accomplished in June before his hometown fans at the South Philly Arena. Prior to Munoz, Jones battled through consecutive majority and unanimous decisions over Jesus Soto Karass in February and June.

Jones stands 6-foot tall, giving him a six-inch advantage in height over the 5-foot-6 Lujan, who is coming off a ninth-round knockout of Mark Melligan in July.

Lujan spent time preparing for Jones by training alongside Margarito, Soto Karass and RING No. 1-rated lightweight and WBA beltholder Brandon Rios (28-0-1), who will defend his belt on Saturday night’s card opposite Johnny Murray (31-1, 18 KOs).

Lujan discussed his preparation and his plans for Jones in this Q&A below.

Translated by Robert Garcia.

RingTV.com: Do you have an answer for Jones’ strategy should he decide to box and stay on the end of his jab?

Sebastian Lujan: He can say whatever he wants. But at the end of the night, it’s only going to be him and me in the ring. At that point, we’ll see what happens, but I know that I’m prepared to go in there and do my job.

RingTV.com: Can you talk about your knockout loss to Margarito?

SJ: For that fight, I didn’t train well for that fight. But either way, he was better than I was at the time, so he was still going to beat me.

I’m glad that we fought against somebody like Margarito at that point in my career, because that fight set me up for the rest of my career.

It brought me a lot of attention to get into some decent fights later on and ultimately I’m still here doing well.

RingTV.com: I understand that there was a problem with one of your ears in that fight?

SJ: Margarito got me with a good punch to my ear and opened my ear up and that’s what happened. That’s a part of boxing, and it was a good experience looking back.

RingTV.com: How helpful was your training in Mexico alongside Margarito, Rios and others like Soto Karass?

SJ: It was a very good experience training with Margarito. Just enjoying the time there and the experience and the lessons that you can learn from a guy with his experience.

This is not the first time that I’ve worked with Margarito. I worked with him before and helped him as a sparring partner. It’s a pleasure being around him.

But I sparred with the best for this fight. I was with Margarito, Soto Karass helped me out a lot. We sparred with Brandon Rios in there. I had the best sparring.

RingTV.com: Did you learn any tips on how to fight Jones from Soto Karass?

SJ: My opponent will have to be very well prepared to be able to handle me. Jones can say anything that he wants. At the end of the night, it’s just going to be me and him in that ring together.

Jones is goingt to have to be prepared to get in there and fight. Because Soto Karass told me some things. Soto Karass told me to stay on him.

He said, “stay on him, stay on him,” because he doesn’t like that. I know that Jones doesn’t like to fight that way, but we do. We do like to fight lke that.

Photos by Chris Farina, Top Rank Inc.

Lem Satterfield can be reached at lemuel.satterfield@gmail.com

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Harry Pratt

Price’s rise to the top will rattle obsessed Fury

There is a growing feeling that David Price, and not Tyson Fury, is the best, most exciting heavyweight contender on English shores.

The new and still-undefeated British and Commonwealth titleholder would love the chance to prove it but knows that will not happen any time soon with countryman Fury intent on sidestepping him.

Fury labelled Price “a bum” a couple of weeks ago, an attack which the 28-year-old Liverpool star has dismissed as unintelligent – given Fury (18-0, 13 knockouts) vacated the two belts which Price (13-0, 11 KOs) won in his home city last Saturday.

For now, there is nothing Price can do to settle the domestic dispute. So, instead, he plans to continue his own perfect rise up the world ladder, confident that will be more than enough to seriously rattle the cage of his mouthy Manchester rival.

“It just shows the intelligence of the man to call a boxer as good as me ‘a bum’,” said Price, Merseyside’s first-ever British heavyweight champion after his explosive fourth-round KO over Sam Sexton at the weekend. “Fury is not on my agenda because he had the chance to defend these British and Commonwealth belts, against me, but decided to relinquish and go elsewhere.

“There is a rivalry that goes back to the amateur days but it wasn’t much of a rivalry. It was more like an obsession – with me from him – because I was doing everything he wanted to do. Now, we’re in the pros, it’s going to be exactly the same…unfortunately for him.”

If Fury is off the radar, where does Price, who looked several classes above Norwich opponent Sexton, head from here? Aside British outcasts David Haye and Dereck Chisora, who are due to meet on July 14, there is nobody at home to trouble him.

But while some are calling on him to break the Klitschko brothers’ grip at the top of the division now, the respectful 6-foot-8 Price believes that would be jumping the gun.

“The British title is a massive achievement for me. It outdoes winning bronze at the Olympics and gold at the Commonwealth,” he said. “I’m buzzing, but this is just the start and I want to go onto much bigger things.

“What we have to do is select opponents, who are going to test me and get me ready for the Klitschkos, if they’re still champions by the stage I’m challenging for world titles. We don’t want to get ahead of ourselves just because I’ve beaten Sam Sexton.

“He’s a good fighter but there are much tougher opponents out there and I’m nowhere near the finished article. There is a lot of hard work to be done in the gym, which I’m willing to put in to get to where I want.”

His promoter Frank Maloney is in no rush either, very much aware Price may not have to face either Wladimir or Vitali Klitschko en route to a world title – should the Ukrainian pair retire before his man is ready.

“I think he’d hold his own with the Klitschkos now, and maybe beat them. But now is not the right time for those fights,” said Maloney, who used to manage former heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis. “If they are still here in 18 months, then it might be right.

“But I believe 18 months’ down the road, the Klitschkos will be out of the business and the boxing world will be looking for a new king.

“I’d like David to win the Lonsdale belt outright, if there is the calibre of opponent out there, then step up to European level and then the world stage. He’s on the world stage now but when he goes for the world title, we want him ready to win it and bring it back to Britain.”

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Samba City: Historical Landmark and Carnival Attraction

Cidade do Samba (Samba City) brings together the samba schools in their Carnival preparations.

By Michela DellaMonica, Contributing Reporter

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL — Cidade do Samba (Samba City) located near the Port Zone in Rio, brings together the samba schools from the Grupo Especial (Special Group) division and is home to the schools’ Carnival preparations and float building. Normally there are daily events for visitors to enjoy a preview of Carnival, but due to construction work the site is temporarily closed to the public.

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Crowds at an open event in Cidade do Samba (Samba City), photo by Pedro Kirilos/RioTur.

The massive warehouses that occupy the 93,000 meters of land where Cidade do Samba is located were once the trading grounds for slaves arriving in Brazil from Africa. It is here where many say the first steps and sounds of samba were born.

Today, the Samba City is consolidated as a core of production of genuine Brazilian art and culture with fourteen warehouses, one for each Grupo Especial samba school and two warehouses for the LIESA (Samba School League). The order in which the samba schools occupy each building is determined every year by the rank from the Carnival competition.

“Cidade do Samba was always a top pick destination for my cultural tours in Rio,” Neyla Bontempo, a private tour guide, told The Rio Times. “As soon as daily visits are permitted again, I’ll be sure to continue to bring my guests here to enjoy the spirit of Carnival.”

As several of the major samba schools are located some distance outside Rio, it has posed a challenge when transporting the elaborate floats to the Sambódromo. In 2003, mayor Cesar Maia wanted to establish a central location to assist the samba schools in the logistics of their artistic vision with the ultimate completion of Samba City in 2006.

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View of the Samba City complex, photo by Martin Kocandrle.

After a fire in 2011 that incurred costs of R$10 million in damages, the city of Rio and the Liga das Escolas de Samba (Samba School League) held a competition amongst local architects in hopes to rebuild. Winning architect Vitor Wanderley and his team had a vision that went beyond just the Samba City.

“We envisioned the project to include a little more than Cidade do Samba: with a Multimedia Museum that will show temporary exhibitions for the public…” says Wanderley.

Samba City forms a triangle through the neighborhoods of Saúde, Santo Cristo and Gamboa with the outskirts of the geometric figure being the warehouses of each samba school. Each warehouse is structurally unique and has three floors, one for building the floats and props and another for sewing costumes.

“The shape of the land did not allow us to plan and divide each one just like the other,” says Wanderley. The center houses the Botequim da Cidade do Samba, which serves food and cold drinks and has four kiosks to buy souvenirs.

General admission to Samba City is R$5, or R$2 with proof of residency or for students. It is located at Rua Rivadávia Correa nº 60, Gamboa in front of Armazem 11, five minutes from Pier Maua and Novo Rio Bus Station and easy to access for those who come from the South Zone (via the Aterro Flamengo bus line), Barra da Tijuca via the Yellow Line highway (Linha Amarela) and the International Airport via the Red Line highway (Linha Vermelha).

To make reservations, once it reopens, call (55-21) 2213-2503 / 2213-2546 or email Visit the web site to see when the next public event will take place.

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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Tea-Filled Weekend in Toronto: Part 1

Last weekend (August 9-11) started off with a lecture at The Tea Emporium on Friday presented by the Tea Association of Canada.

James Norwood Pratt is the world renowned San Francisco based tea author and expert acknowledged to be the person that helped bring about North America's present Tea Renaissance.   Originally from North Carolina "Norwood", as he likes to be referred to, is every bit the Southern gentleman; charming, enthusiastic, soft spoken and a dynamic story teller.

He just recently updated "The Ultimate Tea Lover's Treasury" first published in 1982.
"Tea is humanity's favourite habit. We drink it because it makes us feel good and it is good for you".  The audience mainly consisted of Tea Association members.

The hour and half lecture went through the basics covering the six types of teas - White, Green, Yellow, Oolong, Black, and Puerh.  It was an engaging refresher.
Then came autograph time! I missed my chance to pick up the "Tea Dictionary" last year at the World Tea Expo, so this lecture and book signing was a prime opportunity!  This book's for me!
Photo: R. Drolet
and this one's for my friend, Raymonde, who's also a Certified Tea Sommelier
Valerie (James Norwood Pratt's lovely wife), Shabnam (owner of The Tea Emporium), Louise (President of the Tea Association of Canada), me and Norwood
Photo: R. Drolet
This lecture was only the start of last weekend's tea-filled adventures.  Watch for Part 2 as the tea adventures continued at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre with the Tea!Chai!The! Festival, which was part of the Fusion Cooking Festival celebrating Pan Asian sights, sounds and tastes!

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