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Bid Presentation Transcript: Bill Clinton
U.S. President Bill Clinton, the honorary chairman of the USA Bid Committee, was the final presenter on Wednesday for the USA Bid Committee's presentation before FIFA's Executive Committee
Thank you very much President Blatter, members of the Executive Committee. To those of you whom I had the pleasure of meeting in South Africa it's good to see you again and I hope your time will permit those I did not meet to visit with me a little while I am here.
I'd also like to say a word of appreciation and respect to the countries who are competing with the United States for this bid. I have reviewed the outlines of your proposals, and as a competitor, I'm sorry to say I found them all rather persuasive. I honor your devotion to your nations and to this cause.
It is my privilege to serve as the honorary chairman of the U.S. bid. You have already heard from our President, Barack Obama, who fully committed the United States government to the bid. Attorney General Eric Holder is here with us and if there are any specific questions you have about any matter unresolved in your mind relating to those commitments, he is in a position to answer them.
One of our finest players, Landon Donovan, has made his case. I think more by the power of his example than the persuasive words he spoke. Landon shows where soccer will go in America's future. He's just a little younger than my daughter and their generation was really the first generation of Americans to embrace soccer at a young age.
I still remember going to watch Chelsea play when she was six and seven years old, thinking that something magical was about to happen in America because finally we had a sport that you could play with a ball and a pair of shoes, that you didn't need a lot of expensive equipment to play, that every American without regard to income or background could participate in.
That first generation are all grown now, there are millions more of them to support this World Cup than there were in 1994 when we set the attendance records. My great friend Morgan Freeman has told you about the diversity of America, which you saw in the film. I'd like to be more specific. Those cities that were up there, several of those cities have residents within the cities from more than 150 different nations. A majority of them have residents in the counties in which they're located from more than 100 nations.
I tell everyone that maybe America's best claim to this World Cup is that we have the only nation you can put the World Cup that can guarantee that no matter who makes the finals we can fill a stadium with home nation rooters.
In the magnificent game that the United States fought with Ghana and lost in South Africa, afterward, most Americans were heartbroken. But, in Miami, Florida there is a Ghanaian bar that was full on that night of Ghanaian Americans wrapped in the flag of their native land cheering as they all said for the only time against the United States.
In Philadelphia, where there is a sizeable Ghanaian community but not large enough to support a bar, an Irish bar gave them safe haven and the Ghanaians came there to cheer for their team. I make this point because I think it's important that all the teams who come to any World Cup venue feel that they too, are playing at home. Not just for people watching on television.
Sunil Gulati has given the last 26 years of his life to growing the sport of football in America with the tremendous results he outlined. I trust his vision of the future because he has made the last 26 years happen in America.
I'd like to use my remaining time to put this discussion into the larger context of FIFA's mission. Since I left office about 10 years ago, I have worked all over the world through my foundation. On building health systems in thirty developing nations, on selling the world's least expensive AIDS medicine in 70 countries, providing life -saving medicine to about half of the people in the developing world who get it, 70 percent of the children who are alive because of it.
We work on fighting climate change in economically beneficial ways in countries with very low income like Tanzania and the wealthiest countries of the world who are looking for ways to reduce their carbon footprint, increase their national security and strengthen their employment base.
We work on sustainable development and education and health and job creation in Latin America and Africa. We fight childhood obesity and help inner city entrepreneurs in the United States. All over the world people come at the opening of the United Nations to the Clinton Global Initiative every year to build a network of givers, private citizens committing to do public good.
I try to help when asked in natural disasters. I have worked for two years for the United Nations to help rebuild Ache in Indonesia and the rest of South Asia after the tsunami and it is now my great honor to be the co-chairman of the interim reconstruction commission in Haiti. Perhaps the hardest and most challenging but in some cases the most rewarding work I have done.
My work has taken me to more than 100 countries since I left office and everywhere I have seen the power of football to lift people up and bring them together across the lines that would otherwise divide them.
I know in his remarkable book How Soccer Explains the World Franklin Foer says that it basically is an arena for tribal combat short of war. Doubtless it is in some places, but that has not been my experience. My experience with football is on a simple field in Zambia. Where I saw several teams of young Zambians coming together in a tournament to promote greater awareness of and support for prevention of HIV and AIDS.
My experience includes one of our global initiative partners --Playing for Peace. Bringing together Arab and Israeli children in the Middle East to play football together in the hopes they would learn to understand one another, like one another, and work for a common future and in Northern Ireland and in Cyprus.
My experience is seeing every day, all across America millions of young children take to a soccer field during school recess or after school. Building not only teamwork, but building a healthy lifestyle to fight our number one public health problem in America, childhood obesity.
In South Africa, a country I know well and love I saw the dream of hosting the World Cup lift the esteem of a whole country when they proved they could pull it off and it gave them a whole different take on what is possible, not only for South Africa but for the entire African continent.
The unifying power of this game to address the major challenges of the 21st century world, with all of its inter-dependence, to reduce its inequalities and instabilities, to transform it into a place of shared responsibilities and shared opportunities is enormous. It's the main reason I agreed to do this work on the American committee.
I believe that FIFA is the main reason that soccer has become a unifying force in the world and not just an arena for tribal combat. I believe your commitment to make every World Cup something more than the contest of the game. To address the larger challenges that all of the players and their families and their fellow country men and women face back home is one of the defining characteristics of this organization. And I believe the United States is perhaps in the best position to support you in fulfilling that mission.
Consider this, after the earthquake in Haiti, which is the poorest country in our hemisphere, where even before the quake, 75 percent of the people were living on less than two dollars a day and 85 percent of the people had no electricity in their homes. More than half of the families in a nation of more than 300 million people actually gave some money to help the people of Haiti survive the emergency and begin to rebuild their country.
FIFA's social responsibility mission deserves to be supported every bit as much as the games. You have committed to providing clean water to five million people, if you come to the United States we'll make sure you meet that commitment and exceed it.
The state of the art facilities, the infrastructure already in place and already discussed and the enthusiasm of our people will allow you to focus your energies on making sure everybody in the world enjoys the games and making sure your broader agenda is realized.
You won't have to worry about construction deadlines or ticket sales. Even in 2010 in South Africa the United States citizens accounted for the second largest block of purchased tickets after South Africans. You will be free to elevate this game as never before and show how it can make the world a better place. I hope you will bring the World Cup to the United States.
I have now been to four of them. The one I will never forget, the opening game in 1994 in Chicago in the United States, in 1999 Mia Hamm's team winning that astonishing game at the last moment with the last kick in California and in South Africa and before in Germany. There is something magical about it.
But now that you are committed to moving the world through the games and beyond, I hope you will consider the potential we have to ensure that you succeed. If you give us the honor, we'll do our best.
Thank you very much.


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New Jersey Cop & His Son, Fans Of New York Rangers, Get Beat Up By Group Of Philly Flyer Fans!
"A group of Philadelphia Flyers fans brutally beat a New Jersey cop and his son - dressed in Rangers garb - outside a famous Philly cheesesteak shop Monday. Three Broad Street bullies clad in Flyers jerseys sucker-punched the Woodbridge, N.J., officer before pummeling him and his son after they fell on the ground outside Geno's Steaks. NBCNewYork.com identified the cop on Wednesday night as Neal Auricchio, a former Marine. "He got banged up pretty badly," his father Neal Auricchio, Sr., told NBCNewYork.com. "Stitches in the one eye, and the other eye is pretty puffed up. He went for a CAT scan today, and we're waiting for the results on that." Cops may have caught a break Wednesday when one Philly knucklehead, Edward Neary, took to the Facebook page of the Broad Street Hockey blog and confessed."
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ON THE AGENDA | FEBRUARY 25TH, 2011 | Scott Bittle
Let's start with the obvious. Social Security is a beloved and vital program that needs changes. Politicians are afraid to touch it, and some its staunchest supporters say we don't need to talk about it now because its problems aren't all that serious. The irony is that not talking about Social Security -- and not touching it -- is the riskiest choice of all.
Reprinted from The Hill's Congress Blog
Let's start with the obvious. Social Security is a beloved and vital program that needs changes. Politicians are afraid to touch it, and some its staunchest supporters say we don't need to talk about it now because its problems aren't all that serious. The irony is that not talking about Social Security -- and not touching it -- is the riskiest choice of all.
If you've been following the debate over Social Security, maybe you've seen the year 2037 popping up regularly. That's when the Social Security system empties the assets from its Trust Fund, at least based on current projections. In 2037, Social Security will only be able to pay 78 percent of promised benefits, not the full amount people are expecting (http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/2010/tr2010.pdf).
It seems strange to us, but some people use this projection to argue that the situation with Social Security isn't so dire, and that we shouldn't be discussing it in the context of debate over the country's massive deficits (including columnist Bob Herbert, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/opinion/25herbert.html, or http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/11/09/deliberate-distortions-create-false-sense-of-urgency-for-social-security-cuts/). Some argue that any discussion of Social Security's finances is just a stalking horse for a radical conservative plan to get rid of the program in favor of private accounts.
But there are multiple reasons to be alarmed by these numbers and multiple reasons to start talking about how to stabilize Social Security's funding now, not later:
Reason No. 1: "Having money" in the Trust Fund isn't as reassuring as it sounds.
For decades now, Social Security has been running a surplus, and the government has been using the extra revenue to pay other bills and avoid raising taxes. It's been putting special Treasury bonds into the Trust Fund in return. The government is obligated to pay the $2.6 trillion in special Treasury bills -- no doubt about that. That's only fair. The people who have been paying into the Social Security system for decades will get their checks. Unfortunately the Congressional Budget Office says Social Security will need to start dipping into the Trust Fund this year, and the money to cover the Treasury bills (estimated to be some $600 billion over the next decade) has come from somewhere. Since the government doesn't have the cash on hand, it will need to cut other spending, borrow even more money, or raise other taxes. This means there'll be even more pressure on the budget.
No. 2: Whatever we do to stabilize Social Security will work better if we do it earlier, and don't wait until the last minute.
If you believe the best solution is for higher income workers to pay Social Security taxes on more of their salaries (In 2011, Social Security taxes stop when your income hits $106,800), then it's better to start while most of the huge baby boom generation is still working and in the peak of their earning years. If you believe in trimming benefits for affluent retirees or pushing back the retirement age, then it's much better to let people know what to expect early, while they have time to make adjustments in their own planning. When it comes to retirement, you can put most of us into the "please don't surprise me" camp.
No. 3: A 20 percent drop in Social Security payments would be devastating.
The idea that Social Security could still pay 78 percent of what it's promised to pay shouldn't comfort anyone. Using current numbers as an analogy, the average payment would fall from around $1,200 a month to less than $1,000 -- that's $12,000 a year. (http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/quickfacts/stat_snapshot/). Since low-income seniors get about 80 percent of their income from Social Security, the effect on them would be disastrous. Social Security makes up more than half of the income for seniors overall, so middle-income retirees would take a hit as well.
No. 4: 2037 isn't that far away.
True, it's not right around the corner, but as the saying goes, time flies. Most people can envision the time a couple of decades away when their small children finish college or when they finally pay off their mortgage. Most of us, in fact, make all sort of financial decisions with these future events in mind. And realistically, the country will start feeling the pinch much sooner than that, as the government works to come up with the money needed to repay the Social Security Trust Fund.
So if you care about Social Security and want it to remain strong, here's the dilemma: Are we going to start making the changes that will put it on a sound financial path, or are we going to keep procrastinating? Being seduced by the juggling act of trust-fund accounting carries real risks. If we let this problem go for another decade, all that's going to do is to let a relatively manageable problem grow into a terrible one. Right now, we can still implement relatively acceptable fixes, such as raising taxes on higher income workers or recalculating benefits for future retirees to protect lower-income Americans while asking more of Americans with means. Changes like this could take this problem off the table for a generation. But if we convince ourselves that the problem isn't so serious and wait until 2037 is breathing down our necks, the fixes will be big, jarring, and probably unfair.
So are we going to let 2037 be the year we break our promise to Americans who have worked hard for decades and counted on this country's sense of fair play? If we do, 2037 will be the year Americans should hang their heads in shame.
© 2011 Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson, authors of Where Does the Money Go? Rev Ed: Your Guided Tour to the Federal Budget Crisis
Scott Bittle, author of Where Does the Money Go? Rev Ed: Your Guided Tour to the Federal Budget Crisis, is the executive editor of PublicAgenda.org, twice nominated for the Webby Award as best political site. He is also an award-winning journalist.
Jean Johnson, co-author of Where Does the Money Go? Rev Ed: Your Guided Tour to the Federal Budget Crisis, is the Executive Vice President of Public Agenda, has more then 20 years of experience understanding public attitudes on a broad range of issues. She has also written for various publications such as USA Today, Education Week, and the Huffington Post. .


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Author Notes: A word about Uncle Pasquino. He's a ranter. You can see his broadsides all over Rome. Especially in Piazza Bramante, but also in via Babuino. He's 100% Romanaccio. A bit scary. What Pasquino loves about this trippa is that it brings together all of the favorite flavors of Roman cooking: offal being the quinto quarto (the fifth quarter), lots of celery, a bit of pepperoncino, and a bit of mint combined with grated cheese at the end. What we miss is the Roman nepitella, a mint which is closest to pennyroyal if you can grow that yourself. But substitute whatever mint you might have at hand. But by the way, Evan Kleiman, the Alice Waters of Los Angeles has been persuading the folks at Coleman Family Farms to produce things like nepitella for her restaurants and the public at large. There is a God.
This dish is straight out of the Testaccio district of Rome, slightly off the tourist border, it really is Rome's kitchen. I mean it. This is the old slaughterhouse district where workers might have been paid in part with the quinto quarto.
You must begin with good honeycomb tripe, the honeycomb is the second stomach of your favorite ruminant. - pierino
Food52 Review: Don't be afraid -- there's nothing to cooking tripe. You just slice it up and simmer it in salted water until it's tender. Most of your time here is spent preparing a sauce for the tripe. You soften red onion, garlic, red pepper flakes celery and celery leaves. And to this you add some wine and marinara sauce (pierino included a friendly shortcut -- storebought marinara sauce. We used Rao's.) And then you're home free. You add the tripe, let it simmer for a bit to meld the flavors, and then spoon it into bowls, with pinches of parmesan, pecorino and mint dropped on top of each serving. The only caveat -- simmering tripe is one of the most pungent smells. Crack a window, or two or three. - A&M —The Editors
Serves: 4
pound honeycomb tripe, rinsed and sliced into 3" x ½ "strips (you can use flat tripe, but it won't be as good, remember you have four stomachs to work with).
tablespoon olive oil
red onion, chopped
ribs celery, sliced thin
All of the best green leaves you've saved from the celery, chopped
cloves of garlic, peeled and "hammered" (you are allowed to use a real hammer for this but keep in mind that you are not driving nails)
cup white wine
cups cups tomato sauce, preferably homemade but we will give you the hall pass if you use a good sauce from a jar such as Rustichella D'Abruzzo, but we trust you to make your own tomato sauce
dried red peppers, or use hot red chili flakes (the use of chipotle pepper in this dish will consign you to an airlocked Vatican anteroom with Papa Ratzinger FOREVER. And after FOREVER you get Bobby Flay)
cup pecorino romano cheese
cup parmigiano cheese
tablespoon finely chopped fresh mint leaves
- Place the tripe strips in a deep pan and cover them with water. Bring to a simmer with some coarse salt and hold it there, covered, for 1 to 2 hours. Check for tenderness, but also check periodically if more H2O is needed.
- Meanwhile sauté the onion, garlic and hot pepper in olive oil, just to color slightly. Add the celery and cook together for maybe 5 minutes more then hold off of heat.
- When the tripe is tender add it to the pan with the other ingredients, stir and heat to medium high. Add the wine and reduce.
- Add the tomato sauce to the trippa, return to simmer, cover for about ½ hour more. Taste for salt.
- Combine your grated cheeses in a bowl with your chopped mint.
- If the tripe is tender to your taste and the sauce is well flavored, plate it up, with a generous spoon load of cheese and mint to top it.
- A note on celery leaves. The average supermarket variety tends not yield much in the way of leaves. This is a shame because they are packed with celery flavor. You can buy better celery at a farmer's market for half the supermarket price. Celery should be dark green and bursting with chlorophyll. If you respect its flavor you will be rewarded. As a contorno serve some nice dark greens cooked as you like them. Oh, Oh, Oh if only I could get real puntarelle here to be served up with some anchovy dressing. Oh, my God.
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There are office pranks and then there are office pranks. This ceiling-mounted, ping-pong-ball-firing robot is distinctly in the latter category.
Built by someone from the CKBot group at UPenn's Modlab, this terrifying little device hides in the ceiling above a cubicle. When activated, it pops up a ceiling tile and unleashes a hot fury of ping pong balls down on the unsuspecting victim. It is, in a word, amazing. [Modlab via BotJunkie]


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Also on the stove, a giant pot of spicy, hearty chili to which we added roasted butternut squash.
Recipe : Butternut & Beef Chili
Here is my prep area - orange slices for the cider.
I set the tables with brown craft paper, heirloom pumpkins and bittersweet.
We made Hot Hubbard Squash Goat Cheese Dip served with toasted baguette rubbed with garlic.
Field Greens Salad with Apples, Dried Cranberries and an easy to make Balsamic Vinaigrette
Recipe : Butternut & Beef Chili...
I'll be posting all of these recipes throughout the day and the rest of the week - stay tuned!
Again, my next class is "The Thanksgiving Host" - here is a link with more information!


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The Hohe Tauern National Park is the largest protected area in the Alps. It's an island of ecological diversity in the heart of Europe – and one of the most spectacular landscapes on Earth! Our concern is to bring you closer to this natural world of wonders, whilst filling your holiday with unforgettable first-hand experiences.
The Glockner cycle path through the Möll valley
An attractive family-friendly cycle path in the midst of the high mountains – is there such a thing? Yes, of course: the Glockner cycle path ("R8") through the Möll valley combines a magnificent high-alpine setting with comfortable cycling alongside one of the cleanest rivers in Austria. Our tip: Take the bus up and come downhill on your bike!
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Rich in superlatives with nature all around: the Hohe Tauern National Park and the mountains surrounding it are the largest ski tour territory in the eastern Alps! The choice in this unique wintry wonderland of nature ranges from gentle tours for beginners to climbing the highest mountain in Austria, the Grossglockner, on skis.


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The snack manufacturer announced the recall due to a recall by Blommer Chocolate Co. of its confectionery coating. The coating contains milk powder ingredients that were recalled due to a concern over salmonella contamination.
According to CNBC, no illnesses have been reported to date, and none of the snacks sampled have tested positive for salmonella.
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This is the latest sale report from North American Fur Auctions
Record Attendance Creates Record Prices
February 22, 2013
NAFA, nor any other auction house in North America, has ever seen a buyer attendance for a fur sale such as we saw here in Toronto this week. Registration for NAFA's 2013 winter sale was over 700 buyers, with 470 from Hong Kong/China, more than 100 from Russia and Greece and 50 Koreans. This, combined with buyers attending the sale from Turkey, Eastern Europe, North America and other European countries, meant our auction room was full to bursting each selling day.
Throughout the wild fur sale, Hong Kong/China was exceptionally active, but in many articles, we also enjoyed strong support from Russia and Greece. In the exclusive fashion category, we still saw excellent buying from the top fashion houses in Europe and North America.
NAFA's wild fur promotion has been an important factor in increasing China's buying of wild fur. It was only a few years ago that China showed very limited interest in wild fur. Today, with the huge amount that NAFA has now cumulatively invested in wild fur promotion, this has all completely changed. We have to recognize that fur is in fashion in China, where up until now, ranch raised mink was their number one article. Without NAFA's wild fur promotional programs, it would not have been possible to sell articles like Fisher, Sable and most of the Raccoon into this important market at these levels. Coupled with the coldest winter in 28 years in China, this has created an unbelievably strong fur market.
In all of the long haired articles throughout our wild fur sale, the trimming trade was very active. This reflects the popularity of fur trim on all types of outerwear.
New highs were achieved for Fisher, which saw the traditional buyers having to compete with Chinese retail manufacturers for the first time. Prices increased 50% to 70% over February 2012 levels. The average price was $156.67 with the Top Lot sold for $350.00
Close to 100,000 Can/Am Sables also saw an incredible price increase over last February of 55% to 60%. Again, the traditional buying markets of Russia and Greece had to compete with Hong Kong/China, which dominated this sale. However, Russia and Greece still took their fair share of all of the goods offered. The average price was $144.29 with the Top Lot sold for $650.00.
Over 400,000 Raccoon sold 100% at an overall average of $31.20, compared to $16.90 last year, an increase of over 80%. However, the heavier, better sections quite often saw price increases of 100%. The influence from the trimming trade was felt throughout the Raccoon sale as they took the lion's share of the goods. Here again, China dominated, with good support from Russia and Greece. This was not only a truly unbelievable accomplishment, but long overdue for this important article. The Top Lot was sold for $240.00.
Muskrats advanced 10% over our very strong sale last February, with an average of $11.51. Again, China dominated in this important article. The Top Lot was sold for $54.00.
160,000 Beavers sold 100% at an Eastern average of $37.73 and a Western Average of $31.03. Price averages declined 18% overall from last year's February very high Beaver sale. This result is somewhat better than expected and reflects the ongoing dressing problems for this article. Again, China dominated. The Top Lot was sold for $400.00.
Otters had a very strong sale, advancing over last year's already high levels. Again, China dominated, with good support from Greece and Russia. Better quality Otters are now being sheared and used for men's coats. The average price was $112.58 with the Top Lot sold for $260.00.
Lynx sold under very strong competition with Russia, Greece and China all in the mix to buy. This resulted in a 40% increase over last February. Nearly all of the Lynx will be used for trimming. The average price was $194.44 with the Top Lot sold for $525.00.
Lynx Cats produced new highs, with all major markets competing for this beautiful article, which is mostly used in the big sizes for trimming and the smaller sizes for garments. Greece and Russia dominated with good support from China. The average price for Westerns was $589.08 with the Top Lot sold for $3,000.00.
Coyotes sold exceptionally well with Italy, Canada and China competing aggressively for all sections. Premiums were paid throughout for heavier, better quality Westerns, which averaged $93.98 with the Top Lot sold for $1,400.00.
Red Foxes sold under strong competition with premiums paid for heavier goods, better colours. Again, China dominated with good support from Europe and Russia. The average price was $65.78 with the Top Lot sold for $340.00
The sale concluded today with Grey Foxes, which sold 100% under good competition at advancing prices, primarily to the trim trade. Again, China dominated. The average price was $45.91 with the Top Lot sold for $68.00.
The combination of the record attendance of buyers from all major markets, the fact that fur is fashion, especially in China and Russia, and the long cold winter in China, came together to generate the "perfect storm" for our producers.


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I am a capitalist at heart. I believe in businesses making a dollar and I am always looking for different profit centers that fitness facilities are using to help drive revenues. And there are plenty — ranging from in-club advertising to personal training to pro shops — and everything in-between. But I do have a problem with clubs profiting off of product or services that do not promote the healthy lifestyle that is at the heart of the fitness industry.
That's why it troubled me the other day when I was leaving the gym to see a parade of kids (who were attending school break camp — a great profit center for family-friendly facilities) dragging their moms, dads and nannies to the vending machine to get their fill of Snickers, Milky Way and M&Ms. Oh, and don't forget the cola to wash it all down. Not that I begrudge anyone (myself included) the occasional bag of M&Ms, it is just that in the fitness environment I don't see the place for these types of snacks. I mean beer and cigarettes offer decent margins and I can't imagine any health club selling these to its members: "You've had a great workout, why not sit back with a cold one in our cigar bar."
I also indulge in the occasional (OK, more than occassional, it's something I'm trying to get down to occasional) Big Mac or KFC meal — but I wouldn't expect to see a counter open in a health club in place of the juice bar or healthy café (more fine examples of profit centers) although the profit margins are, I would expect, very good.
This is even more important when children are being exposed to these mixed messages. They are bombarded with unhealthy snack items at home, camp and at school — not to mention during the many hours of TV they are watching instead of running and playing outside, but that is a topic for another day. Reinforcing these unhealthy eating habits at fitness facilities will only lead to poor habits, increasing overweight and obesity statistics and leading to another generation of out of shape Americans to try to get into your clubs — not to mention making it hard on current adult clients to reach their fitness and health goals.
Am I overestimating the damage that a candy machine can have? Possibly. But as schools and hospitals move toward phasing out these profit centers or switching to healthier snacks such s fruit, yogurt, etc. maybe health clubs should consider leading the way — solidifying the industry's reputation as one that cares more about the health of its patrons and all Americans more than a buck.
There needs to be a line drawn between turning a profit and sticking to the mission of the industry to help create a healthy and fit population.
I won't pass judgment on the club mentioned here or any club that decides that the line isn't where I would assume it should be, but if the industry as a whole is going to move forward and get the message about its mission out there it is time to decide what is more important, the bottom line or leading the way to a healthier lifestyle.


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Mary Petry Named Secretary of State Board
Mary Petry, manager of disability services at Somerset Community College, has been named secretary of KY AHEAD, the Kentucky Association on Higher Education and Disability board. Petry has worked with persons with disability for 20 years. She began when she was appointed to the ministry for persons with disability for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky. Petry has a masters degree in math education from Eastern Kentucky University and has worked at SCC for nearly 18 years, 15 of those in disability services. Disability Services at SCC has offices at both the Laurel and Somerset Campuses.
KY AHEAD is a non-profit professional organization whose purpose is to promote communication among professionals in post-secondary education in order to improve the development and implementation of services to persons with disabilities.


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The following is the precursor that lead to this thread about Libertarianism and Socialism and any other form of government others wish to add to the discussion.
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The following is a response by MCT
So, you're for institutionalized violence. I think that is immoral. I think you do not understand the concept of rational self-interest, if you are asking if individuals include women and handicapped people. I think you, like so many others, are emotionally swayed by need and therefore value it more than production. Need is not a value. And equality is not possible. Money ceases to have value if you give it away based on need. You have never seen laissez-faire capitalism. Every failure of the system is due to government intervention or a government sanctioned support of the federal reserve bank.
And what scrutiny are you referring to? You do not have a proper foundation to even have an opinion on AR's philosophy, as you do not yet fully grasp even the law of identity, let alone more than a few additional concepts, which are basic and foundational, and need to be understood to even see why a limited government that values individual rights is moral. How can you have moral certainty and not even understand the nature of concept formation and knowledge acquisition? You use metaphor as a basis of knowledge. I think if we are talking about what we can know about the metaphysical nature of reality and the epistemological nature of the mind, we can have knowledge about morality, which is objective and based on the structure of our mind, and how individuals are of concern in morality, since morality is a single person's guide to life. When you group people together and talk about moral decisions, you are talking metaphor. These people might be alike in some ways, but are necessarily different and unequal in others. The only thing we share in terms of morality is our singular consciousness and our need to operate in an autonomous rational way to be happy. The nature of humans and happiness is such that you need to obtain happiness by achieving your own goals. It does not help to give out money, after it goes through the necessarily corrupt lobbyists, governmental officials and intermediaries, to the needy without discrimination or judgment. Giving out money based on need fosters and grows the welfare state.The organization of institutionalized violence is not equipped to help people make more of themselves.
The sheer number of patients I have seen in the emergency department who use it as their primary care office because we cannot turn them away is nothing less than an immense and horrific waste of time and money, that doesn't help the people that use the system this way. And they look at me like I'm an asshole, when I question how 2 seconds ago they told me that 2 days ago they were walking, talking, thinking, speaking, eating, drinking, peeing and pooping normally and that they collect disability or unemployment for a living, because they were in a car accident 15 years ago and have chronic back pain that they do not see a doctor for or know the status of. They have multiple children, have IPhones, tatoos, piercings, new shoes, gold teeth, nails did and what-not talking about how, in this economy, they can't find a job. Yeah right, Walmart and McDonalds stop hiring? They can jump up and down, text and laugh, but they can't find a job or aren't able to work. Thousands, I've seen personally, thousands, in my so far very short career as an ER doc.
Yeah, the rich are so because they deserve it; they earned it. And with their own labor, not with that of their employees, the employess get paid for their work. An agreed upon wage is not exploitation. Soliciting the government for other people's money is exploitation. Private enterprise can do everything that government can do and better, save for the monopolization of retaliatory force, the government's only proper function. Nothing wrong with charity or philanthropy, but sacrifice is evil, theft by mob rule is evil.
Profit trumping people is just about the worst false dichotomy I have ever heard. People are best left to earn what they can, based on their ability. Paying people for their need, out of the pockets of those who earn it, creates this shit we have here. Saying that free markets and free trade aren't free is ignoring the very meaning of them. One, they have never existed. Government money went into education super early in America's history. Thomas Jefferson's idea. Government intervention has increased ever since. And then when the robber barons and bankers got together with the government in the early 20th century, created the Fed. And we have the industrial-military complex. All our major impedance to progress is because of too much government. Not, not enough. Two, the whole concept of political freedom is that the only thing we all have in common is our autonomous nature, to be free is to be free of the force of another. The complex processes of an economy or trade between autonomous entities cannot be improved upon by penalizing profit and subsidizing welfare. This free society certainly won't work well for those who wish to live off of others, but less people in the economy willing to work would be unsuccessful, if they could keep their earnings and get paid for what they do. And we don't need the government for those who are truly unfortunate enough to not be able to or willing to fend for themselves. Your ideas of people's limitations and what ever excuse to value need and suffering instead of achievement and productivity are moot in a free society with a very small government.
Whether you wish to believe it or not, you do not have a choice about it, your moral purpose of your life is your own personal happiness. It is the only thing that is an ends in itself. All other values are obtained for your happiness, even when you are giving your last piece of bread to your child. Altruism is a fallacy and perceived rational self-interest is actually what happens inside the human brain. Regardless of what you think your moral code is.
Reply by Jason Spicer
Oh, my. MCT, I'm with you when you assert that the probability of the impossible is precisely 0.0%. What else could it be? And all the definitions of god I've ever seen are clearly logically impossible. But I'm afraid you've jumped the shark with Ayn Rand. If she had stuck with Objectivism as a philosophy of epistemology, she might have been all right, but her megalomania and her utter, swinish contempt for her fellow humans did her in as a moral philosopher. It must have been tough to have lived under Stalin's fist, but she rather drastically overcompensated in a way that's largely indistinguishable from the regime she hated so much.
Rand's grasp of healthy human nature was nonexistent. All the supposedly sympathetic characters in her novels were megalomaniacal narcissistic creeps, just like her. You appear to be some sort of doctor. Watch the Mike Wallace interview with her and tell me she wasn't a certifiable sociopath.
No disrespect to any ER professional, but an ER hardly provides a statistically valid sampling of humanity from which to draw any conclusions about much besides health issues. Even then, anecdotal recall is simply not a valid research methodology.
Taxation is not theft, regardless of how often libertarians (feudalists) say that it is. Libertarianism is not capable of producing a utopia, because it is just another name for feudalism. In any anarchic social system, gangs inevitably form around strongmen and then you just have the same old shit that's been tried for most of human history and found severely wanting. Ask yourself why libertarianism has never actually been observed in the wild, and the obvious answer is because throughout history we have called that kind of arrangement feudalism.
Our problem now is not too much government, it is too much corporate power. There can be no such thing as a truly free market, because it is never the case that one participant has exactly the same amount of market power as another participant. In particular, producers always hold more cards than consumers. Consumers are always at a disadvantage, so power inevitably concentrates in the hands of a few, leading to repressive regimes every bit as unresponsive to the concerns of the little guy as Stalinism was. By ignoring inequalities in market power, you retreat into a libertarian fantasy.
And I'm sorry, but this is just a laughable statement: "All our major impedance to progress is because of too much government." Utter bilge. Corporations and wealthy people have caused plenty of problems and tend to do so in proportion to how much market power they have.
It's also laughable to claim that the rich are so because they earned it and deserve it. While this may be partially true in some cases, all rich people are standing on the shoulders of others, their parents, teachers, employees, road-builders, swindle victims, etc. People do not exist in a vacuum. Economic actors do not act in a vacuum. Rich people get rich because of other people, even if they treat those other people honorably to a fault.
Morality is about people living together. Morality doesn't exist when one person is considered in isolation. One person's happiness, therefore, cannot be the basis of morality. Morality is all about human interaction, so other human's needs must be taken into account. Libertarianism (feudalism) is a moral and political failure from the outset, because it can never satisfy the needs of more than a tiny percentage of humanity. Whether you wish to believe it or not, we are all in this together. Many people behave irresponsibly by leeching off the system (from small time welfare queens to corproate welfare queens to outright Ponzi schemers). Many others behave irresponsibly by rejecting the very idea of compassion.
I have no doubt that I will never be able to sway you from your position on this, MCT, but you're pretty much in the wrong line of work if you're a fan of Ayn Rand.
Reply by MCT
The Mike Wallace interviews were my very first introduction to AR actually. And I was very impressed with her intellectual honesty. And her appeal to reason instead of emotion. And I agree with almost everything she says in those videos. Most people's arguments against her stem on how she is mean and selfish. They call her, or her characters narcissistic, egomaniacal and so on. Her opponents rail in insult from her being swinish to selfish to uncaring as if she created suffering and is responsible for it. I understand that life can be painful, but doing more harm after that, by frocefully, yes under the very real threat of incarceration, forcefully taking money from those who make the world a better place. Her opponents appeal to compassion really is simply just a demonstration of negative emotions that stem from not being able to integrate the proper meaning of selfishness.
A narcissistic person has a personality disorder and the problem is that they think of themselves only and not in how they relate to others. They are unaware of their disorder. The proper objective understanding of the concepts of selfishness and rational self-interest are within a contextual framework that involves fair interaction with other people. That's the whole point. People are most moral, free, happy, when they are not forced to do anything by others. Free trade is based on the relationship between individuals and why the government just can't help, morally and actually. Objectivism explicitly delineates its rational self-interested nature, it is not narcissistic.
I think what you understand about the socioeconomic issues in an emergency room could probably just about fit into the Grand Canyon. First of all, every walk of life at some point enters the emergency room. Those who take care of themselves, whose parents decided to get an education or financial stability before having ten kids, who brush their teeth daily, who have medical insurance, who go to their follow up appointments, who have a primary care doctor, likely come less, but they do come. I originally went into emergency medicine for the emergencies, which these people come in with, regardless of their moral choices in life or how fortunate they are. You can't avoid going to the ER. And then there is a very large group of people, empowered by the US government, to use this system to make their own lives worse, because they can and don't know any better. We are literally paying millions of Americans to sit on their asses and make bad choices. There is no need for a prospective double-blinded randomized study to accurately assert that this colossal fail is because of bad governmental policy. I am a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians and have spent time in many ER's throughout the country and have been to conferences throughout the country as well, where it is openly discussed as a drain on society. So, I know that this phenomenon is ubiquitous in every town in America that is bigger than a bread-basket. That's what you people are buying with my money. I am not saying that there aren't a few thousand people who do good with whatever support is stolen from the hard-working people of this country, but that it doesn't matter. It is institutionalized aggression.
You do not have the higher moral ground, when it is you, the socialist, that must, first and foremost, violate the rights of one person to give to another. It is most certainly theft, institutionalized, sure, but theft nonetheless, at a very real threat of violence.
I am not for feudalism. I am for a small government that is only concerned with individual rights. It is there to uphold them. Every single individual's rights as an individual. You don't get more points for being part of a particular group. It is the institution of monopolization of retaliatory force. It is very clearly not feudalism and not anarchy. Maybe you need to learn a little bit more about egoism and capitalism. Because, so far, I'm 'hearing' that AR's ideas are mean, people with money are mean and corporations are mean because you think you can divide groups of people arbitrarily and say that it is the the producers fault and responsibility to do something about the arbitrary dichotomies you make. People will be mean sometimes, that's one thing, institutionalizing the government's ability to rape the rich and then 'get into bed' with some other rich people/corporation while claiming it is a lack of taxes that is the cause of the people's misery and not the government itself, is just corrupt and immoral, but apparently a perfect smoke screen for people like you.
These groups of people you claim the producers are standing on the shoulders of are abstract and metaphorical, not real like every single individual. There is no hive mind, that is an oxymoron, there is no social consciousness, that to makes no sense. Only individuals think and decide, not groups. The shoulder metaphor is just that. The teachers and whoever got paid for their work. They don't get more pay, because you think they should have it. Economic interaction entails making agreements and then honoring them. You want whoever is less successful in life to get more than their fair share of the trade. You'll agree to work for a wage and then demand more from other people that earned more. It is pathetic and we humans, well some of us, are better than that and don't need the government to foster the size of groups of large numbers of need and 'entitled' people. It does not matter that they are needed to purchase the goods the producer makes, they got the goods, when they bought them, they don't morally get more after because they are a consumer. Feudalism, anarchy, classes, all arbitrary metaphorical likes, not actual descriptions of anything but, government by land owner, no government at all and simple statistics, classes don't exist like people do.
Oppressive are such only through government assistance, not because of fair trade. People will, by definition, always be unequal. The only way to make as fair as possible is to respect everyone's rights the same, not some more than others dependent on their need and ability.
Morality most certainly concerns the individual. Every moral decision ever made was made by an individual and in respect to their perceived self interest. If you were alone on a desert island, you would still need a set of rules to guide your decision making process.
We really can do better than institutionalizing violence. Private business, charity, philanthropy and so on can do anything a government can and should other than keeping the peace, based on our personal freedom.
I do not reject compassion. Respecting everyone's individual rights to their own life is more compassionate that robbing the rich to give to the poor. The poor cannot be helped by giving them little government assistances here and there. They can only achieve their own happiness. It cannot be bought. But their dependence on welfare can be enabled. And as for my job, I went into and still value emergency medicine immensely because of the knowledge, experience and money that I gain in return. It just so happens that I also value greatly the personal fulfillment I get in being able to help many people on a regular basis in the most difficult times in their lives. My patient's emotional well-being is very important to me. This is not a secret to those I work with. I love my job and this is very consistent with an egoistic personal philosophy and a necessarily egoist morality.
Reply by Jason Spicer
Sorry, MCT, but that's all just bullshit rationalization. We have a social contract. Taxation is how we pay for it. In a democracy, we get to help decide how to allocate the taxes. You can call it theft until you're blue in the face, but grownups know it isn't theft. And successful people in any economy very much depend on actual, real people: parents, teachers, customers, employees, etc, etc, etc. Nobody at all gets anywhere in life without lots of help from lots of people, not anywhere close to all of it compensated financially. It is seriously delusional to suggest otherwise. The self-made man is a pure myth.
And libertarianism is precisely feudalism. For all the tripe I've heard spewed in defense of libertarian ideals, I've never once heard anybody explain how it would actually work in practice without a powerful government there to enforce contracts, keep the peace, protect individuals and small groups from predation by larger or more powerful individuals or groups, and, hey! That sounds kinda like big government!
And again, if libertarianism is such a great idea, so workable in practice, why has it never been observed in the wild? Surely it can't be because of all of us powerless welfare recipient leeches, unworthy to lick the boots of the deserving. No, it has never been observed because it always turns into feudalism. It really is sort of amazing that libertarians refuse to admit that any such system in practice is no more than a collection of fiefdoms with powerful people at the top of each one. All the little guys would have to swear allegiance to one of the big boys or be gobbled up. Government would simply do the bidding of the oligarchs. Come to think of it, that's kinda what we have now. You're just irritable because we actually have instituted your glorious dystopia and you don't like it, because it doesn't work the way you wanted, or because you don't happen to be one of the powerful. I guess you don't deserve it.
In any event, this has just about zero to do with the thread topic. Ayn Rand had no rational link from atheism to anarcho-capitalism, and neither do we.
Reply by MCT
Feelings is all I'm getting from you.
I don't go from atheism to capitalism. I get to atheism and capitalism and egoism by use of reason after looking at and describe what actually is, instead of what it feels like or seems like or what I would want it to be. You continually refuse to define your concepts objectively. You throw extra meanings that are not essential and omit ones that are. Libertarians are not the same thing as anarchists. Anarchy is no government. Libertarians might, as I do, think that the appropriate government is a small existent government that does, in fact uphold laws that would stop individuals and groups of individuals, like corporations or needy socialists from gaining favor with the government or from hurting each other. Cops, military and law courts as well as more laws and government on local levels. Under this system, which again includes laws and a government, making it different from and not anarchy, would retaliate with force against anybody violating the individual rights of another person. This does not however include one person's perceived right to another person's money.
Separation of church and state and separation of economy and state is the only moral use of a government. Asking the organization that specializes in the monopolization of retaliatory force to redistribute wealth, teach our children and take care of our sick is asking for disaster. This is your dystopia, not mine.
You say taxes are not theft, but again fail to define theft and taxes objectively. Taxes are the confiscation of personal property, in my case, against my will at the threat of violence from the mob empowered government. They are not voluntary. The taking of my earned money against my will is theft/robbery. That is the meaning of the words. The only social contract we have is that I will pay what you vote away from me, so I can stay out of jail, because the majority want it that way. There is no unspoken contract. I do not agree that I have a social responsibility to take care of anybody. As I said, I have plenty of compassion and enjoy helping people and giving to charities of my choosing, but throwing money at the government to satisfy some perceived unfairness by varying groups of people is not compassionate. It's wasteful. In fact, giving money to people without discrimination is more damaging than simply throwing it down the drain. All you are purchasing is poverty.
Feudalism is a description of medieval life revolving around lords and fiefs. It is inaccurate and annoying to repeatedly call it that. At least, for posterity on this thread, for your own sake, admit that you use metaphor as a basis for conviction. Feudalism of hundreds of years ago might be like other forms of government, but is not the same as any, lest it too would be called feudalism. A libertarian society would not allow rule by the few or land-owners. Every single individual would have the same rights under a libertarian society. The person with 150 acres in southern California has the same rights as a person renting a shack in the ghetto. And in this society, people would be paid a dollar for every dollar they earn, they would get to keep that dollar and pay for services that they use, like roads, healthcare, education, citizenship, charity, whatever, as long as it didn't directly involve violating another's individual rights.
Egoistic morality and individual rights do not imply that people are alone or that they can make a million dollars without the fair trade and voluntary cooperation of other people, but it does not require exploitation, coercion and force. People, in a free society, could buy what they want and producers use that money, that was traded for a good, to make profit. The producer does not then need to pay other people in addition for being alive and in the same society, unless of course you value sacrifice and need over liberty and production. All the help a person gets is either paid for or given voluntarily. We do not owe each other anything for being alive. I do not owe you anything, but respect for your autonomous and sentient nature. I do not owe you because you may have less than I or 'need' more than I. If you want more, you should either earn it or ask for it, but not demand it by force. And if you vote so that the government comes and threatens me with jail time or taxes, then there is our social contract. Coercion.
Libertarianism, or a political structure, organizing how civilized people interact in society cannot be found in the wild, because, one, it would cease to be the wild with a civilization on top of it, but simply because people have not been able to be intellectually honest enough to face rationality. Your concern is like asking, around 500BC why, if democracy is so great, why hasn't it been seen. Well, because people are emotional animals and are only now waking up to reason. It is a slow process.
Hi MCT,
How are things?
I always enjoy reading your posts.
I agree with the premise of libertarianism.
how is the libertarian government/state to be funded if it isn't funded through a coercive tax. If the libertarian system is self funded and self regulated then fine. But if the libertarian system wants protection from the state, how is this state protection to be funded?
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Hey, thanks. Things? Well, I'm happy and successful despite being a slave to the "99%".
Paid citizenship, fee for service and voluntary taxation seem very reasonable to me. Private enterprise, charity and philanthropy, I think, can do the rest. And who's to say the government can't make money otherwise, say providing additional related services like construction, man-power, tech, security? At any rate, the socialists should be trying to figure new ways to fund the causes they deem important rather than insisting that the cumbersome inefficient war machine that is the government take it from the producers and disburse it haphazardly and indiscriminately, perpetuating and growing the welfare state. There is no need for coercion of any kind for humans to be moral and happy. Only monopolization of retaliatory force. The funding is there. We smart humans can figure out how to get without coercion. If we trust our honest intellect over our feelings, that is.
I like both Socialism and Libertarianism.
Socialism for our first phase of life, until we reach adulthood. The reason for this is that we should all be guaranteed an education, medical services, clean drinking water, during our initial phase of life.
After that, Libertarianism. Once we become adults, we should all be able to live life how we wish and make our own decisions and live by them.
But we have moved right off topic here, we're supposed to be discussing gods no existence.
Reply by MCT
Why should we all be guaranteed anything? And shouldn't only the people that think things should be guaranteed pay for it? That first phase you are talking about should be guaranteed by the parents. People should not be having kids before they can provide for them. Shouldn't it be their responsibility? I did not ask for all of the millions of kids, and adults, I am forced to help take care of. And I don't want to take responsibility for them.
but you live in australia....I thought we had an Idiocracy at the moment, Given our population of beer drinking, football cheering, idiots, how do you have any hope for the implementation of any system that does not work with the 99 percent of fools?
@MCT.....What do you call civilization?
Also our evolutionary brains are hard wired to be altruistic.
I always ask a libertarian, what if no one volunteers to pay taxes.
Free markets that are not restrained will fail. History has shown us that.
Civilization is people living in cooperation with attempts at subordinating society to moral law. And history, as a whole, shows us that prosperity follows from individual freedom.
Our evolutionary brains are hard wired to act in our rational self interest, which often includes cooperation and compassion. In every single act that stems from a moral decision, the chooser is always the final arbiter, they must and do ask themselves if some action is what they want to do.
There are many benefits that one would get for paid citizenship and fees for services as well as volunteerism. I would volunteer. That's more than no one.
"Free markets that are not restrained will fail. History has shown us that."
-This is an abject lie. You do not know this. There has never been a free market. You think that you have proof that a libertarian society would fall apart into few powerful people ruling over many in squalor. Not true. I think the reason you think this is because of what you have been told. Of course the people that want your vote for power, from both the right and the left, are going to bicker over what statistic has changed over the last 10, 20 or 30 years and use it as evidence to argue their point. You can attempt to temporarily change the economy one way or another and may often have an effect, but they are really just putting their fingers in a dike to have another leak spring up and as long as we are rewarding need, penalizing productivity, micromanaging lives and financing it with dept, it will continue its downfall from a time long ago since shortly after the inception of this supposedly free country. Groups of people began soliciting and receiving special interest from the federal government in the 18th century.
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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — Getting a glimpse of Tim Duncan's first NBA basket reminds you of many of the nearly 8,000 other shots he's made during his Hall of Fame career.
No flash or anything extra, just a man doing his workmanlike best to get the job done. It's a shame we need to be dazzled to take notice of greatness.
It pains us that we only step back and appreciate Duncan's exploits when he passes a milestone the way he did Friday night in Utah, becoming the leading scorer in Spurs' NBA history with 20,810 points — to old school hoops heads Duncan is still 2,792 points behind "The Iceman," George Gervin, who dropped 23,602 points during his Hall of Fame career that three seasons with the ABA Spurs.
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich summed it up best:
"There's no flash, no beating the chest. Just go up and down the court, go home and get a sandwich."
Duncan's big night was celebrated appropriately, they won in Utah for the first time since April 2009 and improved to 10-1 for the first time … which was perhaps the most surprising development of the night.
And history will be much kinder than we are to one of the game's truly all-time great talents. Whatever Duncan lacks in sizzle he makes up tenfold in substance.
When you pass up the likes of Gervin and David Robinson on the career list for anything, you know you're in elite company. And that's why we're going to spend the 24 hours after Duncan's fabulous Friday night celebrating him the way he should be celebrated. Why wait until he's done to show him the proper respect he deserves?
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Walter Perry Jr. and his wife Gwendolyn "Joyce" Perry had adopted an infant boy 10 months earlier in 1978.
It was about six years after the family moved from Las Vegas to Loveland and seven years after they had married.
Walter worked in construction and landscaping. The family was active at the Church of Christ. Walter and Joyce would often drive the church's school bus. They taught Sunday School.
On May 29, 1978, an infant was born in Denver. The Perrys adopted the child and named their adopted son Kimo.
Shortly after midnight on March 12, 1979, the couple was awakened by flames.
There were too many flames inside the home to get to a back bedroom where tiny Kimo was in his crib, so Walter and Gwendolyn escaped from the front of the home.
They ran around to the back of the home to see if there was a way to get to Kimo.
Walter Perry tried to rescue his son who was still inside the one-story home, but suffered severe burns in the process.
Neighbor Steve Montel awoke and saw a "glare" on the curtain, according to an account in the Loveland Daily Reporter-Herald.
Montel looked out the window and saw that the Perry home was on fire. He immediately called 911. It was 12:54 a.m.
Just then, she heard banging at the door.
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Got the firstlight for a trip that required me to fly with my tent. It's great to have the lightweight tent, but the tent material is so lightweight that the footprint almost feels like a necessity.
Get the ground tarp.
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If you have a firstlight and you are going to use it at all when not in total lightweight mode it makes sense/I would suggest having the ground tarp as well. Firstlights are not the most durable tents, they are not supposed to be and therefore it will really save the floor of the tent if you want to use it car camping and or any form of camping when weight is not as issue.
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If you are looking for a sturdy shelter that is very light weight, this is your tent. It is compact and durable. I carried it for thirty miles through the Whitecloud mountains without worrying about pack space or weight. At night, my wife and I easily fit ourselves, our pads and sleeping bags along with some spare clothes, food, and other miscellaneous small gear into this tent. I do not yet own the vestibule, but I am sure that our packs would have fit there nicely. Tall and wide people might have more trouble fitting inside.
The tent does not come seam-sealed. It comes with a do-it-yourself sealant kit. The process is simple and effective. We received rain every night on our trip, one night up to four hours or more of heavy rain. The tent did its job. We stayed dry.
Ventilation is an issue. Condensation is heavy unless the front door is left wide open, but this is not a good idea in a rainstorm without the vestibule. The inside of the tent had to be dried each day before packing.
The footprint is waterproof and durable. It is also lightweight. It does seem a couple of inches too short.
Overall, it is one of the best tents I own. It is a reliable piece of equipment. I look forward to testing it out in more situations.
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I bought this tent for high altitute alpine camps. I recently used it around 12500ft and it performed excellently. Wind gusts were in the 50 mph range, and the tent was pretty stable. I didn't use steaks, anchors or guylines however, so with these it would be pretty bombproof. As far as condensation goes, I did get a thin layer of frost on the inside, but that was only after I boiled two liters of water for the days summit attempt. Other than that no condensation with the vent window open. Great overall, price and weight are definitely right. The seam sealer is kinda hard, and there is not enough supplied with the tent, but an extra bottle costs $4. Well worth it. Great high altitude cold weather tent.
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the nylon is very durable, it is rubber coated on one side. it has six grommets and elastic cords, which is fine. it will hold up well, but it is a bit heavy considering how light the firstlight tent is.
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When you spend this much for a tent, it would be insane not to get a ground cloth. Its very nice to have if it rains, or youre camping anywhere other then on sand, and it takes up no room at all in the pack.
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USS KITTY HAWK — To help sailors aboard USS Kitty Hawk learn more about fitness and nutrition, the ship's Morale, Welfare and Recreation hosted a "Biggest Loser" contest.
Chad Quinn, Kitty Hawk's afloat fitness director, says the program is an adaptation of the popular TV show, "The Biggest Loser." The object was still to see who could lose the most weight in six weeks, but participants came together as teams of four instead of competing individually. Every week, the teams were measured and weighed, and each inch or pound lost was one point added to the overall score.
Weekly competitions, such as a 10K relay race using treadmills in the ship's gym, helped teams to add points.
Quinn says that many sailors enrolled in the program were not regular visitors to the gym but signed up after being encouraged by friends and co-workers.


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Firstie was wanting an Egg Nog cake for his special December day. Not finding a recipe for "egg nog cake" anywhere on the web, I did the only thing that a girl can do in that situation: I panicked.
Then my creative brain kicked in and reminded me that cake making was pretty straight forward in its formula; just give it the appropriate seasonal flair and it should work. I was completely unprepared for how well it would work. I served it with our homemade Vanilla & Ginger Snap ice cream for a very memorable day, and a definite new family favorite.
I hope that you get a chance to try it, and that you love it as much as we do. Cheers!
C = Cup and tsp = teaspoon
1 1/2 C butter, softened
1 1/2 C extra-fine granulated sugar
4 egg whites
4 tsp vanilla extract
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp ground clove
1 little splash of bourbon
2 C all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/3 C Egg Nog, plus a bit more to reach consistency*
Vintage Bourbon Cream Frosting (below)
* When I first made this recipe, the consistency was close to dough-like, so I kept adding a bit more egg nog to get more of a batter. Still not quite what I was expecting, but the end result was fabulous.
350* oven
1. In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until creamy.
2. Beat in egg whites one at a time.
3. Beat in vanilla and spices.
4. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with egg nog, beating just until combined. Don't overmix.
5. Spread evenly into two greased and floured 9-in round baking pans.
6. Bake at 350 degrees F for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
7. To cool, put your cakes directly into the freezer from the oven for 45 minutes, then remove to the counter for decorating.* PLEASE only do this with metal pans; the extreme temperature change could cause any sort of ceramic or glass pan to shatter.
8. Ice with Vintage Bourbon Cream Frosting.
9. Top with crushed ginger snap cookie and chill for one hour.
10. Cut into 16 slices and serve with Vanilla & Ginger Snap ice cream. Deo Gratias for simple joys!
– For goodness sake, please do NOT use margarine; you will absolutely break my heart. And besides, nothing says love like butter.
– My vanilla doesn't have alcohol, so my amounts may be greater than those with alcohol-based vanilla; you may want to adjust your vanilla accordingly.
– I really do recommend the freezer right after baking; I have had consistently moist cakes, despite the fact that I don't really know what I'm doing. Just make sure to use metal pans if you go right to freezer from the oven. You will love it!
– Oh, and always double the vanilla (the doubled amount is already in this recipe).
– For the egg nog, I used Hub's homemade twist, "loosely based" on Sal's Easiest Egg Nog (Hub's changes were to substitute half & half for the low-fat milk, and to use more eggs).
1 Qt half & half*
9 whole eggs
A couple of handfuls of sugar
A bunch of vanilla
And probably some cinnamon and nutmeg
Mix it all up in a bowl and chill it in the fridge.
Makes enough for the cake. Hopefully.
* Hub says, "I only used half & half because the store was out of heavy cream." Lord, how I love this man.
2 blocks cream cheese
1/2 C softened butter
1 1/4 – 16 oz boxes powdered sugar (a bit more or less to taste)
8 tsp vanilla
2+ tsp Kentucky bourbon (or more according to taste)
1. Cream the cream cheese and butter.
2. Cream in the powdered sugar.
3. Cream in the vanilla and bourbon.
4. Chill 30 minutes or until cakes are out of the freezer.
I use an alcohol-free vanilla, and tend to use more than in alcohol-based vanilla; you may want to adjust your vanilla accordingly….The picture is a half-iced cake, to give an idea of consistency and texture of the frosting. I was running a little late, so didn't chill it but 15 minutes and it was still wonderful.
For Homemade Ice Cream:
2 C milk
1 C extra fine sugar
3 C heavy whipping cream
6 tsp vanilla
2 tsp cinnamon, ground or freshly grated
1+ C Ginger Snap cookie pieces, about the size of a sweet pea, give or take.
1. Using a hand mixer, dissolve sugar into milk.
2. Add heavy whipping cream, vanilla and cinnamon and beat on medium for one minute.
3. Place mixture into ice cream machine. Follow manufacturer's instructions for making ice cream.
4. Five minutes before the ice cream is done mixing, add the Ginger Snap cookie pieces, a bit at a time.
5. When ice cream is done mixing in the machine, remove to a freezer-safe bowl and chill for an hour.
For Store-bought Ice Cream:
1 package vanilla ice cream
3 tsp vanilla (no such thing as too much vanilla)
2 tsp cinnamon, ground or freshly grated
1+ C Ginger Snap cookie pieces, about the size of a sweet pea, give or take.
1. Soften the ice cream (I like to leave mine on the counter for a bit).
2. Stir as soon as it's "stirrable". (Oh, yes, you'll learn all sorts of new words here.)
3. Stir in vanilla and cinnamon.
4. Add cookie pieces, mixing in thoroughly.
5. Leave out for a bit, so that the ice cream softens the ginger snaps just a bit.
6. Place in freezer to set, about an hour or so.
This is a really wonderful softer ice cream, especially when served with the Egg Nog cake. After it's set in the freezer, you can leave it out for 20 minutes before serving, or cut back on your freezer time. Whatever works for you.