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The Batter's Box 2013 Connie Mack Team
After a successful 2013 summer season where our 18U team Finished 3rd in the Connie Mack 18U Elite State Tournament. The Batter's Box (BB) is pleased to announce the fifth season of The Batter's Box Connie Mack (CM) with four teams: 18U,17U,16U, and 15U summer baseball teams. The Batter's Box teams will be comprised of high school players from all over to fill the roster. The Connie Mack program is designed for top performing high school players to play in Colorado's most competitive summer baseball organization. Over 95% of our alumni have moved on to play college baseball.
The BB CM teams will play a full summer schedule of tournaments selected to expose the players to college scouts and TWO INSTRUCTIONAL DAYS PER WEEK. Participation is by invite only or through a special tryout on March 16th, 2014, at 10:00 AM at Mountain Vista High School.
The teams will be coached by Lee Martin, Ron Quintana, and Matt Woytek to name a few. Each team roster will consist of 16-18 players.
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- Affordable Options: Top level coaches, tournaments and participation at an affordable price.
- Commitment: Commitment to past and current Batter's Box players. Players outside the Batter's Box family will be added to fill specific needs.
- Indoor Training Facility: Connie Mack players will receive access to the Batter's Box indoor training facility.
- National Tournaments:Batter's Box Connie Mack Team will compete in three National tournaments and Six tournaments over all that give players an opportunity to showcase their skills to scouts outside our region.
Batter's Box 18U Team
- "Cherry Creek Classic Tournament" - Denver, Colorado
- "Kansas State Showcase Tournament" - Manhatten, Kansas
- "Garden City CC Showcase Tournament" - Garden City, Kansas
- "Irish Select Wood Bat Showcase Tournament"" - Notre Dame University
- "High Desert Classic Showcase Tournament" - Alberqurque, New Mexico
- "Boulder NIT Tournament" - Boulder, Colorado
Batter's Box 17U Team
- "Cherry Creek Classic Tournament" - Denver, Colorado
- "MSSC / Crowder College Showcase tournament" - Joplin, Missouri
- "Garden City CC Showcase Tournament" - Garden City, Kansas
- "Cherokee Trail Tournament" - Denver, Colorado
- "Midwest Shootout Showcase Tournament" - Topeka, Kansas
- "High Desert Classic Showcase Tournament" - Alberqurque, New Mexico
The cost per player is $1,600.00 for the 18's and 17's, $1,200 for the 16's, and $1,000.00 for the 15's which includes the following (Pitcher only price of $1,000 for the 18's):
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- Team entry into ALL tournaments
- Summer membership to the BB facility
- Uniform tops (x2), pull-over, shorts, travel shirt, and hat
- Coach travel and hotel expenses to the out of state tournaments
- Balls and other associated baseball equipment
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The situation in Syria raises the question of who will deal with bad guys in a libertarian non-state world. Laurence Vance has correctly written that this is to be done voluntarily. It shouldn't be done by states that compel the financing of the resources they devote to military activities, that create new political problems by their interventions, and that are subject to political interests that create perverse incentives. States are singularly poorly arranged to deal with perceived injustices beyond their borders.
In a libertarian world, any of us could start an organization to deal with injustices. There would be competition in providing justice services (as well as policing services) of various kinds. People would subscribe to the services of their choice. Many writers have sketched out how this might work.
Suppose I am concerned with genocides and wish to stop them. I start a company called AGM, standing for anti-genocide militia. It's financed by concerned people who subscribe as they would to a charity. I hire young men and women who wish to serve in the armed militia part of the enterprise. The success of AGM will depend on how well I deliver what the subscribers want. I will face competition from other AG providers. I cannot afford to waste my limited manpower in cases where stopping the genocide is unlikely. Furthermore, I will be intent on devising low-cost ways to stop the genocide. This might mean novel ways of capturing or otherwise inducing the leaders of a genocide to stop it. It might mean arming resisters. Using the militia as a force is expensive. I will want to create an effective, mobile force, and I will have to care very much for their training and safety in order to deliver the services at low enough costs to assure the viability of the enterprise. States do not have these incentives.
In sketching out this kind of system, none of us knows what innovations will occur or how effective they might be. It is impossible to provide a blueprint. What we are saying is that the incentives of such a system will work better at achieving the objective than does the existing system of states. We know that AGM will have a focused mission, supported by focused financing and ways for subscribers to evaluate the job being done. None of this focus is present in the system of states because it does a broad range of programs via collectivized financing. In fact, the incentives of the state system are for states to engage in genocide, usually under war or warlike conditions of isolation. The incentives are also for states to avoid getting involved in another state's genocide, for fear of dragging the whole nation into war. AGM would not have that problem.
To avoid having a host country be blamed for AGM's activities, it should make itself an international or world organization at the outset. It should not have an incorporation in any one country.
To overcome the perverse incentives of the state system, the world is moving toward a UN system and a responsibility to protect doctrine. This seemingly beneficent solution is actually extremely problematic. If it leads to a world government and a world militia managed by a single world government, that could not be more dangerous to liberty. What's more likely is that the UN system, as in the past, becomes a political tool for coalitions of states. No matter how you look at it, the UN is very distant from each of us as individuals. Whereas a company like AGM is directly tied to its subscribers and therefore has a great deal of consent built into it, the UN has no such immediate connection. Government by consent goes out the window.
The system of states should not be directed into being perfected as a world state or a monopoly provider of justice or anything else. Instead it would be better if the character of the state were altered. States right now have control over a territory and all the people and resources in that territory. Those controls need to be relaxed so that borders lose their significance. When people can easily move themselves and their goods anywhere in the world without being subject to the range of taxes, regulations and controls that states typically impose, this changes the nature of the state. It defangs it.
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The Boys & Girls Club of Dane County is proud to inspire confidence in our youth participants.
Meet Denzel Irby
In 2011, 18-year-old Denzel was named our Youth of the Year. Denzel has been a member of the Club since he was seven years old, and found the Club to be a safe haven and a fun place to be. Denzel overcame many difficult circumstances, including his father's drug addiction and his mother's absenteeism. Thanks to the strong will of his grandmother, and donors like you who invested in programming at the Club, Denzel was able to start college this fall and is currently studying Theatre & Performing Arts at DePaul University in Chicago. While many doors will open for kids like Denzel, our doors will transform their lives!
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In 2005, at the age of seven, James opened an account at the Boys & Girls Club's STAR Credit Union with a $2 deposit. When he came home and told his mom, she was surprised. "Really?" she said. "You did that on your own?" Little did she know what would become of that $2 savings account. At our Credit Union, children can open an account with only 25 cents, and can save up to a $500 account limit. James saved until he reached that $500 mark. He and his mom withdrew the $500 and opened a Certificate of Deposit at Summit Credit Union. But James was not satisfied. This summer, at age 12,
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MOBILE, Ala. Last week's historic flooding left the city of Mobile with some costly repairs to damaged roads. Mayor Sandy Stimpson said Tuesday the city hopes to get some help from the federal government.
The flood waters are gone, but people are still detouring around several roads that were damaged by the historic flood.
Mayor Sandy Stimpson said damage in both the city and county combined may qualify Mobile for federal aid money.
"FEMA was here yesterday, they'll be here today. They'll go out on site. They'll do their own assessment of the expected costs based on their knowledge. Then they'll see if we meet the minimum threshold from a county perspective," Stimpson said.
Mayor Stimpson said three of the biggest projects are in Mobile. The reconstruction of McGregor Avenue will cost between $100 thousand and 125 thousand dollars. The work could be completed in about four weeks.
It will take three months to repair Girby Road. That job could cost up to $200 thousand dolla The road and sidewalks washed out on Museum Drive during the storm. The city estimates it will take six weeks and 80 to 100 thousand dollars to repair.
The city council voted unanimously to approve emergency repair work on the three jobs. It means the engineering department can accept bids on the work without the required advertising.
The Mayor said the goal is to get the work done as quickly as possible. And if Mobile is approved for FEMA money the government will reimburse most of the cost.
"I think it could be as much as 75 percent. The county threshold, we have to have a million and a half in the county for us to meet the county threshold," Stimpson said.
Those three projects aren't the only ones the city has to tackle, but they are a priority.
The city also had some good news for people who are still trying to clean up behind the flood. After getting some calls from angry residents who were ticketed for putting out debris from the flood on non trash pickup weeks, Council President Gina Gregory asked the city to lighten up. Public works officials have now agreed to be more flexible while people are trying to get their lives in order.


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According to Skull
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26 Dec 2005
On my travels I ran into a couple of people reading Kerry O'Keeffe's
According to Skull
This was not surprising as this was the best selling sports book of Christmas 2004. In fact it was the only sports publication to challenge the plethora of titles by Lance Armstrong.
Both people told me that the "book was good, but not as funny as they were expecting". After reading the book all I can say is "gee some people are hard to please".
The book is written almost like a
Sportsman's night scrip
t (of which Kerry is one of the most popular exponents of), with Kerry O'Keeffe moving from one amusing anecdote to another. During the book we encounter some great characters and some very amusing situations, from the author having to pass up a barbecue at the of Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall's mansion to attend "a stuffy cricket dinner, with old farts" (the 1980 centenary of cricket dinner) to the form guide on the plane trip to England for the Ashes battle in 1977. This was the infamous "how many beers can one man drink from Australia to England?" The winner was no surprise - the 5/2 favourite, Doug Walters, with 44 cans!
The book is not all beer and skittles though, as Kerry bares his soul on issues such as alcohol abuse and his many years in the wilderness once his first class cricket career wound up. He drifted from one dead end job to another, staying at pubs until stumps because he simply "did not want to return home to a lonely flat".
Even during these dark times the O'Keeffe's humour shines through, such as the time he took the 'new carpet saving jar' much to his wife chagrin, and punted the lot on the Melbourne Cup.
You get the impression from reading the book that Kerry O'Keeffe was not the biggest fan of the Chappell brothers' demeanour or captaincy ability. In fact O'Keefe would be the first Australian player from the era of Ian Chappell that does not rank him the best captain of the period. Instead he nominates John Benaud (younger brother of Riche) as the best captain he played under.
Kerry O'Keeffe is fast becoming an institution on Australian radio. He brings great humour to the ABC cricket coverage, and seems to have one of those styles you either love or hate. He has formed some great on-air chemistry with some of the international broadcasters, in particular Harsha Bhogle (pronounced Bogley) Here is some of their best banter:
Harsha: How do you think Gillespie is looking this morning Kerry?
Kerry: Not too good. He looks stiffer than a triple scotch!
Harsha: (puzzled and with head starting to wobble): Stiffer than a triple scotch did you say?
Kerry: Yeah. He's that stiff!
Harsha (in a serious tone): Kerry how many stiff ones do you have a night?
Kerry: I am 54, Harsha ONE!
And those people told me it was not that funny? If you want a laugh and also some serious cricket talk you should have a look at
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I'm just glad the spam craps sorted for good. few weeks ago, because of the spam, I couldn't be bothered to visit the forum and I've completely dropped out of the pickems. good job mods.
I'm just glad the spam craps sorted for good. few weeks ago, because of the spam, I couldn't be bothered to visit the forum and I've completely dropped out of the pickems. good job mods.
"I leave this as a declaration of intent, so no one will get confused. 1: Si vis pacum para bellum. Latin. If you want peace, prepare for war. 2: Frank Castle is dead. He died with his family. 3: In certain extreme situations, the law is inadequate. In order to shame its inadequacies, it is necessary to act outside the law. To pursue natural justice. This isn't vengeance. Revenge is not a valid motive, it's an emotional response. No, not vengeance. Punishment "
More drama than a Jones-Cormier presser!
Congrats again Disposable and Hillbilly.
Look forward to how things go from here.
What's funny to me is that I was strongly considering buying the site in December. Glad a new owner stepped up to revamp this forum. The main page was shit before. Looks great despite a billow of ads.
Stay classy.
Except when it comes to the exoduses. There should be a thread listing the vags who flee.
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I started to post this earlier. I'm not sure if I finished and submitted it. It's been chaotic for me lately. If I did sorry about the double post. Anyway congrats the new mods. I hope riv and Ramma still post here. I've learned a lot from them over the years.
"He's got big balls. I like that." -Josh Koschek on Frank Trigg's balls.
Congrats to the new mods. Hope to see Riv and Ranma keep posting regardless of admin status.
really though, congrats to the new mods. fair minded are they, and leaders of the astray.
They have my confidence.
but all this has made me think. we need a thread about our favorite moments on the forum.
my first two are all the poor souls who lost sig bets to me. I still think Mitzjudo is the MAN for wearing that Baroni sig I made him wear. and he did it like the man he is.
also the epic Trigg resistance. I laughed every time I logged on.
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Waterbury school board poised to hire retired administrators to help with discipline
WATERBURY -- After Mayor Neil M. O'Leary shot down two plans to add new discipline staff to city middle and high schools, school officials are preparing to try his far-cheaper suggestion.
O'Leary wants to hire 10 retired school administrators to take most of the discipline burden off school vice principals and principals. The part-time job would pay about $150 per day, or $27,000 yearly, and would not include benefits or union affiliation.
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wtbywtchdog wrote on Feb 22, 2013 5:36 AM:
conservative1 wrote on Feb 22, 2013 9:22 AM:
I thought it was against the Charter to be hired back for the same job you retired from? Or will they go the way of the "consultant"? Wouldn't these consultants actually have to be employed by a separate company?
The whole thing turns my stomach. "
zsparkz42 wrote on Feb 22, 2013 10:36 AM:
wtby teacher wrote on Feb 22, 2013 10:42 AM:
I am only kidding but it would NOT surprise me.
Vice Principals = manage discipline and day-to-day operations
Principals = focus on Instruction and coaching/supervising to ensure quality teaching staff "
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WTBY Teacher 2 wrote on Feb 22, 2013 1:08 PM:
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Wtby educator wrote on Feb 22, 2013 1:20 PM:
Big Sir wrote on Feb 22, 2013 4:23 PM:
If I were you I would invite the principals of the following schools to your office:
Bucks HIll
N. End Middle
West Side Middle
Crosby HS
Start with the 6 worse.
And sit them all across your desk and have your sleeves rolled up and say the following:
"Start enforcing the boards discipline policies and start writing students up and suspending them when needed". In short start acting like leaders and run your schools like I am paying you to. If not your lazy butts will be polishing a chair downtown for the next 6 months, while I bring in a principal from our system that alreeady does those things to run your school and when after those 6 months your school climate improves you will be FIRED.
Mayor come on stop spending more to get what your already paying for. You know whats not being done and which schools, your smarter than this crap. "
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deeh7 wrote on Feb 22, 2013 10:30 PM:
Confused wrote on Feb 23, 2013 3:27 AM:
What would an "attendance specialist " do? Specialize in attending to those who are not in attendance. Does it include benefits?
How about one or 10 ISS rooms, where the students can spend day doing their assignments.
In the short time I was in the city's employ, no adult came to my classroom for the first 60 days.
That's all. "
blue star wrote on Feb 23, 2013 9:06 AM:
wtby teacher wrote on Feb 23, 2013 11:16 AM:
We need to simplify, streamline, and prioritize our educational system if we want our youth to be ready to compete in the world. Maybe education should NOT be mandatory. If a parent doesn't value education for their child, keep them home to run the streets. Forcing them to attend school will not result in a different outcome at graduation time and will cause many students along the way to lose their wanted education because everybody is distracted by those who misbehave and disrespect. "
Michael Gugliotti wrote on Feb 23, 2013 1:12 PM:
The school disciplinary policy is a big part of the problem. It was designed to allow students to behave poorly up until a certain point before they are faced with serious consequences. For instance, offenses/violations are rated by a numbering system. Offenses 1 thru 3 amount to a slap on the hand. Students recognize how far they can push the envelope before they cross the line. I suggest that those that are interested take a close look at the policy and decide for yourselves if it is to restrictive or not. IMO, the policy is flawed and does not allow for the proper discipline of unacceptable behavior. The policy, in essence, has created an atmosphere of acceptable bad behavior, in my opinion, to reduce the number of arrests or suspensions. I don't think I need to elaborate on that thought any further. To the Rep-Am: obtain a copy of the school discipline policy and let the readers make an informed opinion on whether or not these added disciplinary positions are needed. "
between the lines wrote on Feb 23, 2013 11:35 PM:
If the Principals started taking discipline seriously and started expelling the trouble makers, two things would happen. The system would be rid of the worst offenders, the others would straighten up when a REAL threat of SEVERE discipline was there. Then we would need less administrators. Teachers could teach. Good students could learn. Until them the Mayor will throw barrels of money at education, the BOE will spend it on more administrators, the Superintendent and principals will cruise along like things are great and we'll keep footing the bill. "
wtbywtchdog wrote on Feb 23, 2013 11:38 PM:
I would also point out that the mayor is proposing PART TIME people, if it is so needed as the ED wanted full time it would be 54,000/yr. Quite a bit for administrators already receiving some of the highest pensions in the city. "
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The exalted brand name of today's Excalibur Emergency Road Kit got us wondering: what did the real King Arthur keep on hand for his own roadside emergencies? Or other legendary dead people, like Julius Caesar or Joan of Arc or Fred Flintstone? Since years of TV abuse have dulled our imaginations, we were unable to think of anything. As usual, we must turn to you, the rabble, to bring our murky visions into clarity. Your challenge:Show us what a historical figure would keep in his or her roadside emergency kit.As usual, "historical" means "dead." Even better: "dead before we were born." Don't bother doing anything related to Anna Nicole Smith. Such behavior demeans us all.
Post your entry here by 11:59 PM CST on Sunday, March 18, 2007. Prizes are $20/$50/$100 for 3rd/2nd/1st. The rules and
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width to 450px. If you need a place to host your pictures, try www.imageshack.ws or www.photobucket.com.
We have no connection to either, but they seem free and easy to use.
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Interesting.. I probably won't have time to enter, again..
I'm in.
Ooooh this looks fun, I wonder how hard it is to find good pictures of dead people. . .
Getting ready to throw it on the grill...
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Thomas Jefferson never traveled without assistance.
Ok, so I missed the dead part... Teddy's not dead but Mary Jo is... does that count?
That's my kind of hunger strike.
I'm in for sure...well, if my weekend trip with the family doesn't get in the way.
I just bought my boyfriend the Everglide S-500 Professional Gaming Headphones and I was wondering if they work on regular XBOX?
ashro420 wrote:I just bought my boyfriend the Everglide S-500 Professional Gaming Headphones and I was wondering if they work on regular XBOX?
Ashro, please post this question in the product's thread. However, they should work with xBox if there is some way to plug a standard headphone jack into the speakers he uses with it.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego could certainly use some of the creature comforts from their emergency kit!
tgentry wrote:Earhart idea
Dang, I gathered a bunch of sources for her before going to sleep, no point to it now. I had an inflatable raft, a GPS device, a bunch of books (Kon Tiki, China Voyage: Across the Pacific by Bamboo Raft, Coconut lover's Cookbook, Swiss Family Robinson, Swiss Family Robinson, ), and about ten different storage containers. At least I can use them. :^(
For the Amelia Earhart entry, add a pack of Lucky Charm cigarettes!
Moses and the Burning Bush
Fire Extinguisher
Good thing he kept that in the basket.
Why are you making these kits so complicated?
"Why are you making these kits so complicated?"
This whole entry just had me cracking up. A really great concept.
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Nice. You might want to make it "T. ROOSEVELT"
updated below
plinth wrote:Why are you making these kits so complicated?
OMG. When did McGuyver die? (and how is that possible? with his talents, he should be able to get out of anything)
Josephus wrote:OMG. When did McGuyver die? (and how is that possible? with his talents, he should be able to get out of anything)
IMDB says the series died in 1992, so I'm thinking that's when he entered the realm of historical figure!
Honest Abe never left home without his trusty smart phone with coast-to-coast voice and data coverage .
plinth wrote:IMDB says the series died in 1992, so I'm thinking that's when he entered the realm of historical figure!
hmm. but I saw him in a commercial recently- maybe at the Superbowl?
-sorry, I don't mean to doubt your entry- Its a winner.
Colored w/ crayon.
My pen gave out half way through this causing a blue/black hybrid, I hope it's hard to tell. Crayons seems to have hid most of it.
Archimedes, math dude, always kept a pair of extra hands around "just in case" he ran out of his own fingers and toes.
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hmm. but I saw him in a commercial recently- maybe at the Superbowl?
-sorry, I don't mean to doubt your entry- Its a winner.
You are correct, Richard Dean Anderson is not dead...However I still like the entry! :-)
And I'm pretty sure you can figure out where I got the bag :-)
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Nice. You might want to make it "T. ROOSEVELT"
I considered that. still, there was no Franklin Roosevelt when Teddy was around.
Queen Victoria never went anywhere without her Prince Albert!
Queen Victoria
Prince Albert in a can
Ah just a bit too late for the first of I'm sure many Einstein entries...
can i stake claim to ben franklin and the kite?... don't expect much more than a design using paint and stick figures
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Shouldn't this be attached to the appropriate thread.
I just did.
thanks for your service. i just attached it to the main thread. Too bad the "evil one' destroyed the real main thread a few months ago.
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Satya Nadella: Microsoft's Chief Believability Officer
NEW YORK (TheStreet) - Microsoft (MSFT) has a new Chief Believability Officer. That may be the big takeaway from the software giant's first earnings report under recently appointed CEO Satya Nadella.
As Microsoft continues to invest in a mobile and cloud first transformation of its software products, Nadella said on Thursday he will ask hard questions about the believability of the company's projects and investments.
"[We] are all the time reviewing, and one of the things that I feel as a leadership team we have really picked up the pace on asking the hard questions, what is the believability of any one of our plans?" Nadella said on the company's earnings call. "[At the end of the day, to me, I want to be very accountable to you all, to our customers, to our partners as a team by executing on our plans very well... that's what matters," he added.
Those comments came in direct response to an analysts' inquiry into any ongoing strategic review at Microsoft since Nadella took the company's helm earlier in 2014. Microsoft's products now span traditional PC software, a new mobile operating system, cloud software-as-a-service (SaaS) products, gaming consoles and a sprawling mobile hardware division acquired from Nokia (NOK).
WATCH: More market update videos on TheStreet TV ' More videos from Kori Hale Nadella's comments, while vague, give insight into a critical issue for Microsoft investors. After a decade of mostly failed consumer hardware launches, will Microsoft continue to chase after the likes of Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG) and Samsung? Those companies have have built an impressive array of smartphone and tablet offerings, both in hardware and software, and have results to show to their shareholders. In contrast, Microsoft has a fewer than 5% share of the tablet market after a few years of effort on the Surface and billions of dollars spent. Microsoft has communicated no plans to close the spigot and the acquisition of Nokia's struggling handset business indicates spending on consumer devices is likely to rise significantly. But subtly, Nadella may be laying the foundation for a more focused operation. If former CEO Steve Ballmer repeatedly failed to launch smartphones and tablets and, according to media reports, laid the foundation of his exit by demanding the company's board approve a deal for Nokia's handset operations, Nadella may move in a different direction. Microsoft is likely to only invest long-term in consumer hardware if Nadella believes a return on such investments is "believable." As Nokia begins to become a part of Microsoft's financial picture, Nadella will have to defend future quarters' earnings results. Google's previous acquisition of Motorola Mobility shows a deteriorating hardware unit can burden even the best businesses in the tech sector. As Microsoft consolidates Nokia, Google will be divesting Motorola Mobility. Transition, Transition, Transition, Transition "I think the key word to take away is transition," Sterne Agee analyst Robert Breza said of Nadella's remarks on Microsoft's earnings call. "I sum up this quarter in two words: execution and transition," Nadella said in prepared remarks. He used the word 'transition' four times on Thursday. Microsoft is finally seeing the results of a big investment in its Office 365 software, which integrates much of the company's best software with mobile devices. Azure, its SaaS cloud platform, is also showing strong growth. Office 365 revenue grew over 100% versus year-ago levels and Azure revenue grew over 150%, Microsoft said on Thursday. Devices and consumer revenue grew 12% to $8.30 billion, while commercial revenue at Microsoft grew 7% to $12.23 billion. Overall, Microsoft's GAAP revenue fell slightly year-over-year to $20.4 billion, indicating that falling consumer demand for PC-based licenses continues to hamper growth at the company. Breza expressed confidence that Microsoft will successfully navigate a move of its Windows, Office and IT businesses from PCs and onto mobile devices. He, however, believes that strategy may take more time than investors and analysts expect. "The good news is we know Microsoft will be able to transition. The question is how much time and how much pain we have to endure," Breza said in a telephone interview. Sterne Agee currently rates Microsoft "neutral," given Breza's belief that consensus estimates are too high. Nokia may soon drive estimates down. Microsoft provided fourth-quarter and full-year earnings guidance on Thursday; however, those forecasts critically excluded the financial impact of Nokia's operations. "The fact that they wouldn't talk about Nokia was an obvious indication that numbers are coming down," Breza said. CFO Amy Hood said on Thursday that Microsoft didn't provide Nokia-related financial guidance because accounts at the company still need to be converted to GAAP accounting once the deal closes. Conveniently, the acquisition closed on Friday.
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11 Frighteningly Fatty Holiday Foods
Theres something about the holidays that makes us want to indulge a little OK, a lot. But a couple trips down the buffet line can pack on the pounds. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, the average person gains about one pound each year between Thanksgiving and New Year's (some studies indicate up to five pounds). But what if you could have your cake and eat it too? Here, some festive foods to avoid and healthier substitutes that taste just as delicious.
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The traditional version, whether homemade or store-bought, contains whole milk and cream, packing about 400 calories and 19 grams of fat into one creamy cup and thats before it gets boozy.
Healthy Substitute: Make your own using low-fat milk and equal parts egg whites to whole eggs. (Add a bit of cornstarch to thicken it.) Homemade eggnog also allows you to adjust the seasoning and sugar to your taste. Or, try one of the store-bought beverages made with rice or soy milk. Thinner than regular eggnog, these drinks contain about half the calories and one-tenth of the fat of the conventional version, while still retaining that spicy holiday flavor.


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Road Warriors share their favorite hotel-room views
It might be one of the few perks of life on the road.
In between meetings and sales calls, corporate trekkers are sometimes able to take a moment to enjoy a beautiful view, whether it's from a hotel balcony, a plane or the window of a rental car heading to the next appointment.
"I really appreciate and love watching the land and the country move below my airplane," says Dale Molski, a business consultant who lives in Seattle. "I have traveled for 20 years in business, and I still appreciate the landscape and the vast differences across the country. That is my special view that makes business travel all worthwhile."
For travelers wanting a room with a particular vista, an online service launched last month is aiming to make the search a bit easier. Travelers who click on TheMostPerfectView.com can book a luxury room overlooking some of the world's most sublime sights.
MORE: Road Warriors reveal best hotel-room views
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Founder Paulo Palha says that he was inspired to start the service by what he looks for in his own travels.
"For me, it makes a lot of sense," says Palha, who worked as a bank marketing director before launching the hospitality site. "If I want to go to Paris, I would like to open the windows and see the beautiful Eiffel Tower. … I think it's a very important part of the experience."
The site features about 150 hotels, Palha says. Travelers can search for a room based on the views they want, of an iconic landmark, for instance, or by destination. If you want to set your watch by Big Ben, you might reserve the Claude Monet Suite at London's Savoy. The Hotel De Larache in San Pedro De Atacama boasts a view of Chile's volcanic mountains. And you can gaze at the Taj Mahal from a room at India's Oberoi Amarvilas in Agra.
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Visitors staying at the Savoy might look out the window and find this view of the British capital.
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USA TODAY's Road Warriors, who rack up millions of miles a year, count some of the world's most famous landmarks among their favorite sights. But they also appreciate lesser-known or more subtle scenes as they crisscross the globe.
"My favorite view is from a high room in the" Marriott San Diego Marquis & Marina says Scott Morris, who works for a computer company and lives in Austin. "From there, you can see all of Coronado Island. … But the best part of all is all the Navy and civilian water traffic coming right behind the hotel into port. Not just boats, but helicopters, aircraft and SEAL Teams training."
For Colby Reeves, a construction firm executive from Knoxville, Tenn., it's "the lights on thousands of small fishing boats in the sea off the coast of South Korea on a night flight from Tokyo to Seoul."
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Charles Tatelbaum, an attorney who lives in Fort Lauderdale, says his favorite view is from the concierge lounge on the ninth floor of the Istanbul Hilton. "One can look up and down the Bosporus, have a complete view of the European and Asian sides of Istanbul, a view of some major mosques and an unobstructed view for 10 or more miles."
Brian Kujala, a sales manager who lives in Grand Rapids, Mich., has several favorites. In Maui, it's "sitting on a lounge chair at the Four Seasons or Marriott … staring out over the Pacific with the volcano in the background." In Brussels, it's relaxing at a bar in the area surrounding the Grand Place town square, "at dusk, when the lights come on at the courthouse."
Carl Woodin, a multimedia producer in Maple Glen, Pa., casts his vote for "any hotel overlooking Sydney Harbor and the flight from Reykjavik (Iceland) to JFK (airport), where you fly low over Greenland."
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Pam Sievers doesn't always get a hotel room with an idyllic view, but she gets her fill on long drives up California's Highway 101, or in Washington State, peering at the mountains that give way to desert hills between Seattle and Richland.
"You maybe have a problem to solve," says Sievers, a sales representative, who's on the road 15 out of 20 work days. "You can really … work out solutions as you drive."
Others say it's the plane ride that provides the most scenic route. Jennifer Welch, a flight attendant who has homes in Kihei, Hawaii, and Hillsborough, Calif., says her time in the air gives her "front row seats to the sunset." It's especially good when flying from east to west, she says. "The sunsets seem to last forever."
But Scott McKain, a speaker and author from Fishers, Ind., says the best view is decidedly more down to earth.
"As corny as it sounds," he says, "the best view in the world is when I walk from the garage into the house, put my bags down, and see my family and my home after a long business trip."
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a walk along the river, nice quite place for a meal...
The day would start at the Tate Britain, followed by travelling by boat up the Thames to the Tate Modern, ending up in the bar with a nice bottle of red to watch the sun set over London,
A long quite dinner at a very upscale restaurant that you choose. Discussion on whatever topics we choose.
Coffee Shop, Museum, Park, Bookstore, Mall
I believe in earning my man while I am learning my man so my first date would consist of a visit to a museum, picnic in the park and a long walk getting to know one another without time restraints or interruptions.
first dates are awkward enough. Coffee and conversation is a great start.
My first date idea would be to go on a Picnic at a nice park with a walking trail.So we can spend time talking and getting to know each other.We can in joy some finger food and wine, or something stronger if you like.
maybe at the galleries or at the museum.. or simply in the reference section of the library...
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Capitalism Beyond the Crisis
Smith viewed markets and capital as doing good work within their own sphere, but first, they required support from other institutions—including public services such as schools—and values other than pure profit seeking, and second, they needed restraint and correction by still other institutions—e.g., well-devised financial regulations and state assistance to the poor—for preventing instability, inequity, and injustice. If we were to look for a new approach to the organization of economic activity that included a pragmatic choice of a variety of public services and well-considered regulations, we would be following rather than departing from the agenda of reform that Smith outlined as he both defended and criticized capitalism.
Historically, capitalism did not emerge until new systems of law and economic practice protected property rights and made an economy based on ownership workable. Commercial exchange could not effectively take place until business morality made contractual behavior sustainable and inexpensive—not requiring constant suing of defaulting contractors, for example. Investment in productive businesses could not flourish until the higher rewards from corruption had been moderated. Profit-oriented capitalism has always drawn on support from other institutional values.
The moral and legal obligations and responsibilities associated with transactions have in recent years become much harder to trace, thanks to the rapid development of secondary markets involving derivatives and other financial instruments. A subprime lender who misleads a borrower into taking unwise risks can now pass off the financial assets to third parties—who are remote from the original transaction. Accountability has been badly undermined, and the need for supervision and regulation has become much stronger.
And yet the supervisory role of government in the United States in particular has been, over the same period, sharply curtailed, fed by an increasing belief in the self-regulatory nature of the market economy. Precisely as the need for state surveillance grew, the needed supervision shrank. There was, as a result, a disaster waiting to happen, which did eventually happen last year, and this has certainly contributed a great deal to the financial crisis that is plaguing the world today. The insufficient regulation of financial activities has implications not only for illegitimate practices, but also for a tendency toward overspeculation that, as Adam Smith argued, tends to grip many human beings in their breathless search for profits.
Smith called the promoters of excessive risk in search of profits "prodigals and projectors"—which is quite a good description of issuers of subprime mortgages over the past few years. Discussing laws against usury, for example, Smith wanted state regulation to protect citizens from the "prodigals and projectors" who promoted unsound loans:
A great part of the capital of the country would thus be kept out of the hands which were most likely to make a profitable and advantageous use of it, and thrown into those which were most likely to waste and destroy it.4
The implicit faith in the ability of the market economy to correct itself, which is largely responsible for the removal of established regulations in the United States, tended to ignore the activities of prodigals and projectors in a way that would have shocked Adam Smith.
The present economic crisis is partly generated by a huge overestimation of the wisdom of market processes, and the crisis is now being exacerbated by anxiety and lack of trust in the financial market and in businesses in general—responses that have been evident in the market reactions to the sequence of stimulus plans, including the $787 billion plan signed into law in February by the new Obama administration. As it happens, these problems were already identified in the eighteenth century by Smith, even though they have been neglected by those who have been in authority in recent years, especially in the United States, and who have been busy citing Adam Smith in support of the unfettered market.
While Adam Smith has recently been much quoted, even if not much read, there has been a huge revival, even more recently, of John Maynard Keynes. Certainly, the cumulative downturn that we are observing right now, which is edging us closer to a depression, has clear Keynesian features; the reduced incomes of one group of persons has led to reduced purchases by them, in turn causing a further reduction in the income of others.
However, Keynes can be our savior only to a very partial extent, and there is a need to look beyond him in understanding the present crisis. One economist whose current relevance has been far less recognized is Keynes's rival Arthur Cecil Pigou, who, like Keynes, was also in Cambridge, indeed also in Kings College, in Keynes's time. Pigou was much more concerned than Keynes with economic psychology and the ways it could influence business cycles and sharpen and harden an economic recession that could take us toward a depression (as indeed we are seeing now). Pigou attributed economic fluctuations partly to "psychological causes" consisting of
variations in the tone of mind of persons whose action controls industry, emerging in errors of undue optimism or undue pessimism in their business forecasts.5
It is hard to ignore the fact that today, in addition to the Keynesian effects of mutually reinforced decline, we are strongly in the presence of "errors of…undue pessimism." Pigou focused particularly on the need to unfreeze the credit market when the economy is in the grip of excessive pessimism:
Hence, other things being equal, the actual occurrence of business failures will be more or less widespread, according [to whether] bankers' loans, in the face of crisis of demands, are less or more readily obtainable.6
Despite huge injections of fresh liquidity into the American and European economies, largely from the government, the banks and financial institutions have until now remained unwilling to unfreeze the credit market. Other businesses also continue to fail, partly in response to already diminished demand (the Keynesian "multiplier" process), but also in response to fear of even less demand in the future, in a climate of general gloom (the Pigovian process of infectious pessimism).
One of the problems that the Obama administration has to deal with is that the real crisis, arising from financial mismanagement and other transgressions, has become many times magnified by a psychological collapse. The measures that are being discussed right now in Washington and elsewhere to regenerate the credit market include bailouts—with firm requirements that subsidized financial institutions actually lend—government purchase of toxic assets, insurance against failure to repay loans, and bank nationalization. (The last proposal scares many conservatives just as private control of the public money given to the banks worries people concerned about accountability.) As the weak response of the market to the administration's measures so far suggests, each of these policies would have to be assessed partly for their impact on the psychology of businesses and consumers, particularly in America.
The contrast between Pigou and Keynes is relevant for another reason as well. While Keynes was very involved with the question of how to increase aggregate income, he was relatively less engaged in analyzing problems of unequal distribution of wealth and of social welfare. In contrast, Pigou not only wrote the classic study of welfare economics, but he also pioneered the measurement of economic inequality as a major indicator for economic assessment and policy.7 Since the suffering of the most deprived people in each economy—and in the world—demands the most urgent attention, the role of supportive cooperation between business and government cannot stop only with mutually coordinated expansion of an economy. There is a critical need for paying special attention to the underdogs of society in planning a response to the current crisis, and in going beyond measures to produce general economic expansion. Families threatened with unemployment, with lack of medical care, and with social as well as economic deprivation have been hit particularly hard. The limitations of Keynesian economics to address their problems demand much greater recognition.
A third way in which Keynes needs to be supplemented concerns his relative neglect of social services—indeed even Otto von Bismarck had more to say on this subject than Keynes. That the market economy can be particularly bad in delivering public goods (such as education and health care) has been discussed by some of the leading economists of our time, including Paul Samuelson and Kenneth Arrow. (Pigou too contributed to this subject with his emphasis on the "external effects" of market transactions, where the gains and losses are not confined only to the direct buyers or sellers.) This is, of course, a long-term issue, but it is worth noting in addition that the bite of a downturn can be much fiercer when health care in particular is not guaranteed for all.
For example, in the absence of a national health service, every lost job can produce a larger exclusion from essential health care, because of loss of income or loss of employment-related private health insurance. The US has a 7.6 percent rate of unemployment now, which is beginning to cause huge deprivation. It is worth asking how the European countries, including France, Italy, and Spain, that lived with much higher levels of unemployment for decades, managed to avoid a total collapse of their quality of life. The answer is partly the way the European welfare state operates, with much stronger unemployment insurance than in America and, even more importantly, with basic medical services provided to all by the state.
The failure of the market mechanism to provide health care for all has been flagrant, most noticeably in the United States, but also in the sharp halt in the progress of health and longevity in China following its abolition of universal health coverage in 1979. Before the economic reforms of that year, every Chinese citizen had guaranteed health care provided by the state or the cooperatives, even if at a rather basic level. When China removed its counterproductive system of agricultural collectives and communes and industrial units managed by bureaucracies, it thereby made the rate of growth of gross domestic product go up faster than anywhere else in the world. But at the same time, led by its new faith in the market economy, China also abolished the system of universal health care; and, after the reforms of 1979, health insurance had to be bought by individuals (except in some relatively rare cases in which the state or some big firms provide them to their employees and dependents). With this change, China's rapid progress in longevity sharply slowed down.
This was problem enough when China's aggregate income was growing extremely fast, but it is bound to become a much bigger problem when the Chinese economy decelerates sharply, as it is currently doing. The Chinese government is now trying hard to gradually reintroduce health insurance for all, and the US government under Obama is also committed to making health coverage universal. In both China and the US, the rectifications have far to go, but they should be central elements in tackling the economic crisis, as well as in achieving long-term transformation of the two societies.
The revival of Keynes has much to contribute both to economic analysis and to policy, but the net has to be cast much wider. Even though Keynes is often seen as a kind of a "rebel" figure in contemporary economics, the fact is that he came close to being the guru of a new capitalism, who focused on trying to stabilize the fluctuations of the market economy (and then again with relatively little attention to the psychological causes of business fluctuations). Even though Smith and Pigou have the reputation of being rather conservative economists, many of the deep insights about the importance of nonmarket institutions and nonprofit values came from them, rather than from Keynes and his followers.
A crisis not only presents an immediate challenge that has to be faced. It also provides an opportunity to address long-term problems when people are willing to reconsider established conventions. This is why the present crisis also makes it important to face the neglected long-term issues like conservation of the environment and national health care, as well as the need for public transport, which has been very badly neglected in the last few decades and is also so far sidelined—as I write this article—even in the initial policies announced by the Obama administration. Economic affordability is, of course, an issue, but as the example of the Indian state of Kerala shows, it is possible to have state-guaranteed health care for all at relatively little cost. Since the Chinese dropped universal health insurance in 1979, Kerala—which continues to have it—has very substantially overtaken China in average life expectancy and in indicators such as infant mortality, despite having a much lower level of per capita income. So there are opportunities for poor countries as well.
But the largest challenges face the United States, which already has the highest level of per capita expenditure on health among all countries in the world, but still has a relatively low achievement in health and has more than forty million people with no guarantee of health care. Part of the problem here is one of public attitude and understanding. Hugely distorted perceptions of how a national health service works need to be corrected through public discussion. For example, it is common to assume that no one has a choice of doctors in a European national health service, which is not at all the case.
There is, however, also a need for better understanding of the options that exist. In US discussions of health reform, there has been an overconcentration on the Canadian system—a system of public health care that makes it very hard to have private medical care—whereas in Western Europe the national health services provide care for all but also allow, in addition to state coverage, private practice and private health insurance, for those who have the money and want to spend it this way. It is not clear just why the rich who can freely spend money on yachts and other luxury goods should not be allowed to spend it on MRIs or CT scans instead. If we take our cue from Adam Smith's arguments for a diversity of institutions, and for accommodating a variety of motivations, there are practical measures we can take that would make a huge difference to the world in which we live.
The present economic crises do not, I would argue, call for a "new capitalism," but they do demand a new understanding of older ideas, such as those of Smith and, nearer our time, of Pigou, many of which have been sadly neglected. What is also needed is a clearheaded perception of how different institutions actually work, and of how a variety of organizations—from the market to the institutions of the state—can go beyond short-term solutions and contribute to producing a more decent economic world.
—February 25, 2009
Smith, The Wealth of Nations, I, II.iv.15, p. 357.↩
A.C. Pigou, Industrial Fluctuations (London: Macmillan, 1929), p. 73.↩
Pigou, Industrial Fluctuations, p. 96.↩
A.C. Pigou, The Economics of Welfare (London: Macmillan, 1920). Current works on economic inequality, including the major contributions of A.B. Atkinson, have been to a considerable extent inspired by Pigou's pioneering initiative: see Atkinson, Social Justice and Public Policy (MIT Press, 1983).↩
Health Care, Elsewhere: An Exchange July 16, 2009
Smith, The Wealth of Nations, I, II.iv.15, p. 357.↩
A.C. Pigou, Industrial Fluctuations (London: Macmillan, 1929), p. 73.↩
Pigou, Industrial Fluctuations, p. 96.↩
A.C. Pigou, The Economics of Welfare (London: Macmillan, 1920). Current works on economic inequality, including the major contributions of A.B. Atkinson, have been to a considerable extent inspired by Pigou's pioneering initiative: see Atkinson, Social Justice and Public Policy (MIT Press, 1983).↩


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The continued snow drought is keeping me in the higher elevations. That said – the snow is still great up there! This week's ski is a winter variation on one of my running posts from last summer, the Sugar Hill Reservoir run. Start this ski tour in the Brooks Road parking lot,which is found about a quarter mile from Rt. 125 just east of The Rikert Ski touring area. This parking lot is a popular starting point for skiers, snowshoers, and snowmobilers. I have also found that it is a great place to ski in low snow conditions, like this year, or early in the season before the first serious snow dumpings hit. Once again, some of the best skiing is on snowmobile trails this season, and since the lower 2/3 of the Brooks Rd. climb is groomed for and by snowmobiles, this is where I started!
The first hundred yards or so were pretty rocky, so I made a mental note to make sure I was not going too fast at the end of the descent (a little literary foreshadowing there) so that I wouldn't get hurt. The snow coverage got a lot better as soon as the climbing started, however, except for a few short stretches where overhanging pine trees diminished the ground snow cover. These few minor problems aside, it was a steady easy climb on skating skis due to the fast, granular snow which has seen a few freeze-thaw cycles and just enough traffic to keep it from icing up. I knew the lowest 2/3 of the road would be fine, as this section is almost always well groomed for snowmobilers, and had planned on turning off the road towards the Sugar Hill Reservoir – following the route of my aforementioned summer run. I was pleasantly surprised, however, to see that the upper reaches of Brooks Rd. had been groomed for skiing for the first time in my recent memory. I presume our friends at Blueberry Hill have run their super-duper ski groomer Pisten Bully over this section at some point in the not too distant past, as this stretch is not open to winter motor sports. After about another mile of easy climbing, there was a slight descent to the end of the road. Given that it had been a few years since I last ventured up here in winter or summer, I was a little bit surprised to see the road end prematurely, but I followed the less impeccably groomed trail beyond this point. I quickly saw why the road had ended – apparently the old bridge up here had washed out at some point, and it was replaced by a nice little footbridge. I am not sure when exactly this went in, but I suspect that it was another of the fixes necessitated by the massive thunderstorms which wreaked havoc on Hancock, Ripton and East Middlebury in August 2008.
Brooks Road Washout Bridge
Immediately past the new bridge, the remnants of the old road funnel into a true trail, marking the entry into the Blueberry Hill Ski Touring Area, so continuation beyond this point leaves you morally and fiscally obligated to drop by the touring center and pay for use of their well-kept trails. I have no objection to paying their very fair fee, but since I really didn't have time to make full use of their trails, I chose to turn around and return to my car. The return was fast and easy, and with the steady, but not too steep descent I thought I would use my GPS to see how fast I could get going. The very lowest sections are the steepest, so this provided to opportunity to check my pace. While my speed was not at all alarming, I wanted to see if I could at least break 20 miles per hour, so was skiing with my eyes on my wrist rather than the trail. Just a little faster……A moment after I saw my speed break 20, (21 mph to be exact), I looked up and saw a small bare patch in the snow which was too late to avoid! Note to self – old granular snow makes for easy gliding, while old granular dirt does not. While my skis put on the brakes, the momentum of my body kept the rest of me traveling along briskly, with the expected result. Ouch! Fortunately, the worst bruises were to my ego as I got up, dusted off, and returned to my waiting car a short distance away.
This ski trip is 12 km (about 7.5 miles) round trip with about a 750 ft climb and descent.
With the dearth of fresh snow and thinning cover, I usually head for higher altitude terrain. While pleasantly surprised by the conditions at the Rikert Ski Touring area last weekend, I had a hunch that the cover would be even better on Forest Service 59, which has the advantage of being just a little higher up the mountainside. Skate skis are usually the best call in these conditions – it is hard to set the good deep tracks for optimal classic skiing when the cover is light.
Forest Service 59 is the dirt road which passes behind the Breadloaf Campus before climbing into the mountains and eventually looping into backroads Ripton. While the road is fully accessible to 2WD vehicles in the summer, it is plowed for only the first mile or so, and never sanded during the winter. Nonetheless, the lower segment makes for poor skiing due to the modest vehicular traffic it receives. One can reach the well-covered upper reaches through the Rikert trail system, however. On this day, I warmed up with an easy partial loop on the Batell Trail. After the short descent on this well-travelled trail, take a hard right up the short climb onto Fletcher, and another right turn shortly thereafter onto Gilman. After crossing FS 59 at this point, follow Gilman for a kilometer or so, until it rejoins FS 59 higher up. Here, take a left turn onto 59, but if the cover is thin, don't worry about it, as this only lasts for a hundred yards or so. You will immediately reach a sign indicating the end of winter maintenance for motorized vehicles (other than snowmobiles), and this is where the skating gets great.
This road is maintained for snowmobile travel for many miles, and I have found that the groomer which they use for these machines makes for a near perfect ski skating surface. Thanks once again to VAST and the snowmobilers who support it! You can also ski here on classic skis, or course, but the wide road, lack of tracks, and frankly, lack of snowmobiles, makes a long easy skate most appealing.
At this point, you can pretty much go as far as you want. The road climbs gradually, but relentlessly for about 10-15 min until you reach the height of land. From this point on, the skiing is very easy, with a few short descents and climbs, and is a great place to really stretch out your stride and go for great gliding. I found this trail very reminiscent of much of the course for the Gatineau 55, a ski marathon on the Worldloppet tour which I sort of competed in many years ago. No time for a marathon today, so for my much shorter ski I arbitrarily chose to turn around after a few miles at the Sawmill Clearing, which also serves as the trailhead for the easy climb up to Breadloaf Mountain. Perhaps I will carry my snowshoes on my back another day to add this climb to the short ski tour.
While you know you are going uphill most of the way out, you don't realize how much you have climbed until your return – I was amazed to see that my return took barely half the time of my trip out. Cruising back to the touring center by pretty much the same route made this a 13 km (8 mile) trip – just right for a busy Saturday when I had other family needs to attend to.
After my last post on the Blueberry Hill ski touring area, I had to follow up with a post describing a favorite loop at my home in the mountains, the Rikert Ski touring center on the Breadloaf Campus. I have purchased a season's pass here pretty much every winter since I moved to Vt, and I can't say enough good things about the place and the people who run it, so I won't! The Rikert area has many kilometers of great trails, but has a compact trail layout, so I am going to describe a route which includes some of their lesser known trails, and some less maintained sections of forest service land outside the ski area boundaries. This loop includes some perfectly manicured terrain, skier-packed side trails, and a short section on Forest Service 59, an unplowed dirt road which is maintained by VAST (Vermont Area Snow Travellers, aka Snowmobilers).
Starting at the touring center, take the trail descending directly into the woods towards Breadloaf Mountain. This trail is labelled as the "first loop" as it is the start of the 7.5 Km loop used by the Middlebury College Ski Team for the winter carnival races. Follow this trail as it makes a quick climb, short descent and veers right for another short climb. Go straight on Holland, which continues the gradual climb. A short distance after topping out on Holland, you will see an ungroomed but usually well skied trail descending to the right. This trail is usually referred to as "Brown Gate". There are a few springs in this section of trail, so watch out for a few bare spots. An opening in the forest to the right marks the beginning of a series of beaver ponds. The trail eventually makes a sharp right to a bridge which crosses over the outlet of the beaver ponds, but if the little buggers have been recently active, the bridge is sometimes under the ice. From here it is about . 75 Km of climbing until you reach the brown gate which gives the trail its name, where the ski trail system meets FS 59. If you are reading this, and wonder how on earth you will ever follow these instructions, just remember (as the blogger furrows his brow and does his best Yoda imitation) No wrong way, there is, only new ways. Hmmmmmm.
Take a left here on the VAST-maintained trail. I rarely see snowmobilers here, and when I do, I step aside, wave pleasantly, and thank them, as it is their dues which keeps the trail maintained. I am looking forward, however, to the extinction of the smoky and loud 2-stroke machines and their eventual replacement with quieter and less noxious 4-stroke engined snowmobiles. Another Km or so of easy climbing brings you to the height of land, where the trail takes a soft left turn, and starts to descend. Keep your eyes open for a tighter trail descending to the left. You will recognize it when you see a no snowmobiling sign on a trail frequently well packed by snowmobiles. The next few Km are a long fun descent which eventually bring you back into the outer fringes of the Rikert trail system. There is a gorgeous section paralleling the Middle Branch River. Shortly after you cross the river on a major bridge, there is a hard left up a short steep hill. Head up this, and then take the right fork when the trail splits again. You may notice a wooden sign pointing to Breadloaf, but this is easy to miss as it is in need of a paint job. Stay on this trail, which eventually passes through a pine forest before emerging in a clearing adjacent to the Robert Frost Cabin.
Frost spent the summer and fall here every year from 1939 until his death in 1963. I have noted that many locations around New England lay claim to Robert Frost, although "Robert Frost lived here" historical markers are not quite as common as "George Washington slept here" seems to be in the Mid-Atlantic states! The large white farmhouse below is the Homer Noble Farm, which made the news two years ago, when it was vandalized by a large group of high school-aged kids drinking beer. The New York Times article discussing this sad incident can be found at
This sobering thought aside, the bluebird skies and blue kick wax conditions made for yet another ahhhhhhh… moment on a perfect day. From this point on, just follow the obvious trails back to the central sections of the ski touring area, and kick it in back to the touring center.
The total distance on this loop was 13 Km, with a 700 ft altitude difference between the highest and lowest points. You will notice, I am giving all distances in Km now. This is so that I can maintain credibility in the nordic skiing world, where apparently English system measurement is verboten.
As promised, I am posting occasional ski tours over the winter. I have been an avid cross-country skier even longer than a runner – in fact I started running in the first place to stay in shape for skiing, feeding my delusions that I was a nordic racer. Some of my ski tours are within the confines of ski touring areas, while some are along less manicured routes. Today's post is the former. There are two fabulous ski touring areas in the mountains above Middlebury, and the Romance Mountain route is part of one of them, the Blueberry Hill Ski Touring Center in Goshen. A previous post on their summer race, the Goshen Gallop, described some of the same trails, albeit under very different conditions. Blueberry Hill does charge a trail fee for use of the ski touring area, but it is well worth it for well maintained trails, gorgeous winter scenery, and includes homemade soup for lunch in the touring center lodge.
Since I knew the trails would be well groomed, I chose my skate skis for a little extra speed, but the well-set tracks would have been great for classic style skiing as well. This tour starts heading behind the Inn and follows the road to the south. After about 3/4 of a mile, follow the trail with a sharp turn back to the left, where it climbs for a few minutes, before taking the next right. After a few minutes of continued gradual climbing, this short section tops out in an open meadow with the best views of the day – the view towards the main ridge of the Green Mts. from the side of Hogback Mt.
After a short descent, the trail joins a forest service road which continues to climb gradually along the south side of Romance Mt. One of the trails heading off to the left has had a sign reading "Ned Gillette's Dip" for many years, so while slurping my soup at the end of the ski, I asked the owner, Tony Clark, about the significance of the sign. Ned Gillette was one of the world's most accomplished adventurers, a close friend of Tony's, and a frequent skier at Blueberry Hill. Ned was senselessly killed in a robbery while trekking in the Karakoram in 1998. Apparently, during one running of the American Ski Marathon, a 50 Km race formerly held at the area, Ned broke both skis simultaneously at the dip in the trail with the aforementioned sign. Probably the only time I ever finished ahead of him in a race…. Shortly after this point, the forest service road dead ends, and the ski trail begins its serious ascent, marked by an ominous rusty yellow gate.
Over the course of the next mile, the trail climbs close to 1000 vertical feet. Just keep telling yourself how much fun the descent will be. The trail winds upwards through young hardwood forest (probably lumbered in the not too distant past) with so many false summits that when you reach the top, you almost expect a sign saying "just kidding". When I finally topped out, I could tell from a few patches of yellow snow that I was not the first person to be relieved at reaching the high point! The trail reaches about 2700 ft elevation, and this could be the highest groomed cross country ski trail in Vt.
As you might guess, the descent is fast, with several sharp turns, but in good enough condition that you can push it without fear of getting upended by rough spots, other than the occasional sitzmark. Snowplowing is a horrible waste of potential energy! After about 5 min of this more technical section, the trail settles in to a more gradual descent, making for fun fast skiing. The second trail merging from the left will take you back to the ski touring center. You can tell you have missed it, if you hit another forest service road, necessitating just a few minutes of backtracking. After a short, fast final descent to the touring center, I was enjoying the day too much to call it quits, so I added on a short section below the touring center. Cross the meadow below the touring center and follow the obvious trail heading into the woods. From here on, the trail is pretty flat and fun cruising. Take the left turn onto the "Beginner Loop", and this brings you back after a few fast miles, albeit with a few road crossings. The full loop was about 11 miles, and took me about 2 hours with a few stops to catch my breath and take pictures.


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Kyle writes:
1979 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe Review
Hot, rickety, gas sucking, and the seats will kill you after an hour.
My 79 L-82 Stingray Corvette — She is a SEXY car! Fast, beautiful, dangerouse and lets face it... squeaky! GM had some problems with this generation of corvette. They were building 50,000 a year out of a factory never intended to build more than 10,000 a year. So things were missed! Lots of loose trim and rattles and I don't think the clock worked since the day the car was built. But lets not forget what counts! She's fast. Really fast! And I'm going to make her FASTER! My corvete is the L-82 High preformance model! And she just happends to be the fastes north american car made that year! She runs flat 15 in the 1/4. But that just to start. With the ZZ383 and TKO600 going in to her (not to mention 195 series Firstone tires) I'm aiming to run to some solid 11s. This is my race car. She sucks gas and goes fast! And that's what counts!
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Jack writes:
1979 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe Review
classic muscle
old and fragile
79 Vette — This car looks good and is fun to drive. I have done extensive work to restore this car and still needs interior trim work. It is still a Corvette, the only genuine American sports car. It will only go up in value.
Primary Use: Sport/fun (spirited driving, track racing, off-roading, etc.)
Robert writes:
1979 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe Review
it looks pretty superb
all the stuff thats broken in it
Holy Sweetness — I love this car! Technically it's my dad's car, but he said I can drive it on dates. It's not the 'Vette in the photo, but it looks pretty similar to it. We need to fix it up a bit and make it run better. it gets about 10 to 15 miles per gallon
Joel writes:
1979 Chevrolet Corvette Review
the way it likes to chug gas, to bad its not a 454 and manual trans
In A One-line Summary..... Well Its A Corvette What Else Needs To Be Said. — Built in the mighty USofA then was 1 of 200 shipped to Canada then brought back where its goin to stay....with me forever. T-tops, L-82 V8...(well kinda lol), oyster interior. next were gettin headers and sidepipes, MSD ignition system, maybe a 4speed auto trans, redo the interior (same color), hopefully a functioning cowl hood, and PAINT and a lil body work.
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1979 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe Review
Great looks
35 years old
Sharp But Old School — This was a nice car, I had a 76 just like it but that was a 4 speed. I would have liked it more if it was a 4 speed. After 35 years the rubber and plastic starts to degrade. Won't own another old catlike this. They are treat show cars but not as daily drivers. The technology is just out of date. I got a lot of great comments on it as it was in very good condition. Ended up taking a loss dollar wise but learned that I am not mechanical enough to own this old of a car.
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cbenjr118 writes:
1979 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe Review
Looks sharp, lots of people comment on how nice it is. Handles great.
Power locks need work. Not a Z06.
Looks Great For 35 Years Old. — Runs and drive great, just want newer Vette with Z06 power. This is Corvette number 6 for me. Just love them and working on them making them as perfect as I can. Getting old, just want my last one a stick with lots of power.
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1979 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe Review
Low miles(47k) -L-82 4sp - Black with Red Leather Upholstery
I Have Owned It For 30 Years — When I graduated High School in 1979 I saw this car new and swore someday I would Own it. Four years I got one and have never regretted it. Other than spinning a rod bearing racing a 74 Charger it has never let me down. It's a True Survivor Car
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rockets57 writes:
1979 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe Review
Good looking car second nicest of C-3s
Bad year for a Hi-Po car gas was hard to get so they made cars that tried to burn less
Great Starter Car For Someone — Really like the car and it's looks wish that was a better year for muscle cars !!! Since it's historic you can pull the engine and re-billed or put a nice create motor in then it will be a very nice ride
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Dave1979Vette writes:
1979 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe Review
Great Style and performance. American made...
32 years old requires new parts
Little Red Corvette — My dream car. Summer is too short in Buffalo to enjoy but still have at least 7 months of fun. Ever since high school in the 70's, I have loved Corvettes. My favorite years are 1963-1969, followed by the 70's and early 80's. My favorite colors are red, black and admiral blue. I finally found this corvette at a reasonable price in July 2011, and have been enjoying my dream car. My son has also fallen in love with corvettes, so he will be passed this car.
Primary Use: Sport/fun (spirited driving, track racing, off-roading, etc.)
Kendell writes:
1979 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe Review
comfortable, fast, and a real good eye catcher, and very reliable
wouldn't avoid this car for nothing
All I Got To Say Is Its My Baby And I Wouldn't Sell It For A Million Dollars — I absolutely love my car its a 1979 corvette l-82 dark green all original with the rare 4 speed transmission. i take the car out for a cruise about once a month and it is all of the parades in my hometown. its the most reliable vehicle i have out of six and there all 1995 and newer. but like i said its fun to drive, reliable, and its my baby.
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