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Walk #12: Darley Dale, Stanton Moor and Rowsley General Data
Map of the walk Maps courtesy of Google Maps. Route for indicative purposes only, and may have been plotted after the walk. Please let me have comments on what you think of this new format. For a detailed table of timings for this walk, please see the table file. NotesThis was an enjoyable stroll from the Derwent Valley up to Stanton Moor, then back via Rowsley. The weather was far from ideal, with fairly heavy rain and snow for most of the day. A solitary snowman sat glumly in the middle of the Nine Ladies Stone Circle. Stanton Moor is one of my favourite places in the Peak District, and one that I do not get to visit often enough. There are many items of interest on the moor including four Bronze Age stone circles, the most famous of which is the Nine Ladies Stone Circle. This circle of small stones is hardly visible until you are on top of them, but what they lack in size they gain in ambiance - the surroundings are spectacular, with the low, scrubby trees that surround it giving it a sylvan feel. Nearby is the Earl Grey Tower, which was built to commemorate the 1832 reform act, and the Cork Stone, which has handholds that allow you to climb up to the top. DirectionsStart off in Darley Dale Station car park. There is ample parking in the surrounding area. Walk down the B5075 towards Darley Bridge and Winster. There is a pavement on the right-hand side of the road. Cross the River Derwent at Darley bridge and follow the road until you shortly get to a junction signposted to the left for 'Stanton'. Take this road and follow it uphill past the Einhoven Lead Works. You then pass through the hamlet of Warrencarr and onto a junction with a road heading uphill to the left. Follow this road uphill. The gradient slowly flattens out and you eventually reach a small inlet on the right which has a path going uphill from it. The inlet can be used to park 2 to 3 cars. Follow this path uphill and onto Stanton Moor. After a short while you reach a fence. Do not cross this fence but follow it around the moor until you reach a large stone tower. At the tower, cross the stile immediately to the west and head north across the moor for a short distance until you reach the Nine Ladies Stone Circle. Continue along he path northwards over a stile and across a field to Lees Road. Follow the road downhill past a junction and a massive piece of stonework to the right. Shortly after this, there is a stile on the left which is beside Endcliffe Quarry. Follow the path north=northeast down the hill to Stanton Woodhouse Farm. Follow the path to the right of the farmhouse which eventually becomes a tarmac track. Follow this track downhill all the way to Rowsley and the A6. At the A6 turn right and walk a few yards to a bridge over the River Derwent. From the bridge follow the A6 and take a right turn into an industrial estate. Follow the road for a short distance southwards and go through a stile in a fence to the right to join a path. This path goes south through the old Rowsley Marshalling Yard, and everywhere there are traces of it's industrial past amid the undergrowth and trees. Eventually you will reach a roundabout. Continue straight on through the gate opposite and down a track leading to Rowsley South station. If you so desire (and the trains are running) you may be able to take a steam train back to Darley Dale from here. Alternatively, walk across the car park southwards and take the footpath beside the railway line. This brings you after 3/4 of a mile to a road which you cross to regain the footpath on the opposite side, with a new housing estate to your left and the railway to the right. About 1/2 a mile later you reach Darley Dale Station once more. Distances
This makes a total distance of 8.7 miles, with 997 feet of ascent and 997 feet of descent.
DisclaimerPlease note that I take no responsibility for anything that may happen when following these directions. If you intend to follow this route, then please use the relevant maps and check the route out before you go out. As always when walking, use common sense and you should be fine. If you find any information on any of these routes that is inaccurate, or you wish to add anything, then please email me. All images on this site are © of the author. Any reproduction, retransmissions, or republication of all or part of any document found on this site is expressly prohibited, unless the author has explicitly granted its prior written consent to so reproduce, retransmit, or republish the material. All other rights reserved. Although this site includes links providing convenient direct access to other Internet sites, I do not endorse, approve, certify or make warranties or representations as to the accuracy of the information on these sites. And finally, enjoy your walking! Nearby walks


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Hike the reef bay. This five-and-a-half-hour, naturalist-guided downhill hike through the island's lush interior includes stops at ancient petroglyphs and a beautiful beach. Wear light hiking boots; bring a sack lunch and a bathing suit. Return by boat to Cruz Bay ($15 per person). For reservations, stop by the VINP Visitor's Center in Cruz Bay, or call 340.776.6201.
Take a kayak ecotour. A fascinating, educational two-and-a-half-hour kayak and snorkel tour takes you through the Mangrove Lagoon Marine Sanctuary, minutes from St. Thomas' Red Hook dock (a 17-minute ferry ride from St. John). Watch for languid upside-down jellyfish and spotted eagle rays. Virgin Islands Ecotours, St. Thomas; www.viecotours.com; 340.779.2155.
Snorkel at Trunk Bay. Deservedly christened one of the world's most beautiful beaches, this popular spot on St. John island features a self-guided underwater snorkel trail.
Where To Stay
Maho Bay Camps, Inc., St. John
A spectrum of comfortable, charming, and ecofriendly lodgings. Bring a flashlight (walkways are dark at night). For the most basic and affordable accommodations, try Maho Bay's tent-cottages. Sure, the showers are cool—but in the tropics, who needs hot?www.maho.org; 800.392.9004.
Where To Eat
The Fish Trap, Cruz Bay, St. John Casual, outdoor terrace serving fantastic fresh-fish specials. Try conch fritters with the house drink: local coconut rum blended with frozen lemonade. www.thefishtrap.com; 340.693.9994.
Lime Inn, Cruz Bay, St. John. Tropical, intimate setting. Don't miss the sensational clam chowder; locals have been trying to get the secret recipe for years. 340.776.6425.


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I had to respond to this discussion because I have a close friend who is going through the same thing. Of course you might guess my opinion of the color cards—a very dysfunctional system. Then teachers encourage parents to be dysfunctional at home—adding more punishment. Before I continue, I will say that there are many good things at my friend's child's school—including the teacher. The school and this teacher simply believe in Behaviorism—that punishment and rewards are the best way to motivate "good" behavior—very different from the Adlerian Psychology base of Positive Discipline. So, I will share with you the advice I have given to my friend.
Don't add punishment at home. Keep encouraging him to focus on solutions. My friends concern was that his solution was to be sent to his room for 5 minutes and she didn't think that was severe enough.
At this point I have to digress and editorialize. It is so interesting to me that parents and teachers are willing to keep doing a punishment over and over, even if it doesn't work, but stop doing a Positive Discipline tool after one or two tries because it doesn't seem to work--right away.
I told my friend to take his suggestion and send him to his room for 5 minutes (very different from punishment when it is his idea). When he comes out avoid discouraging lectures. Use encouragement. Just say, "I hope this works." If it doesn't work—which it won't because he is only a kindergartner and gets colored cards for things like talking (socializing with his friends)—which is developmentally appropriate for a Kindergarten child to do. (Arrrgggghhh!).
Celebrate every time he gets a colored card. This provides another opportunity for him to practice working on solutions. Every time he does, be encouraging and simply say, "Cool. I hope this works." No reprimands when it doesn't—just anther opportunity to practice problem solving—over and over and over.
Now lets time travel five years from now. Make some guesses about what a child might be thinking, feeling, and deciding about himself after many opportunities and encouragement to experiment with solutions when he gets into trouble. Then make some guesses about what that same child might be thinking, feeling, and deciding after experiencing punishment at school and at home every time he gets into trouble.
It is very important to consider the long-term results of what we do. Lately I have been using the analogy of what it takes for a child to learn to talk—years of example—first to say a word, then more listening to examples and encouragement to learn sentences, and more years to keep developing and perfecting language. Why do we expect immediate results for other kinds of learning. Why do we expect social (behavior) learning to be immediate? And, how well would children learn to talk if they were humiliated and punished every time they got it wrong.
Children learn what they live. If we want our children to grow up learning to be kind and firm and respectful, we better make sure that is what they live. Remember that encouragement is the foundation of Positive Discipline. As Rudolf Dreikurs said, over and over, "A child needs encouragement like a plant needs water. It is essential to healthy growth and development.
Listen to the excerpt below which beautiful illustrates how encouragement can work much better than punishment. The following is an excerpt from the Building Self-Esteem Through Positive Discipline MP3.
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Zoom in on "The Use of Myth in History" Prints
Library of Congress
Pocahontas, perhaps eleven or twelve at the time, did not save John Smith from death out of love for him.
Architect of the Capitol
The Apotheosis of Washington in the Rotunda of the Capitol makes a god of the first president.
The Use of Myth in History
Many Myths Are Designed to Explain Us as We Wish to See Ourselves
by Gil Klein
The crowd waited expectantly as Adrian Grantz, portraying Patrick Henry, rose to reenact the culmination of the debate of the Second Virginia Convention of March 1775. A couple hundred people from all over the country packed into Richmond's St. John's Church, the site of the original speech, as they do nearly every Sunday.
The words tripped out of Grantz's mouth as the hushed audience waited for the famous concluding lines.
"Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace—but there is no peace," Grantz said, his voice rising for the finale. "The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?"
Then, in a gesture that has been repeated by generations of schoolchildren, he raised his arms as though breaking the chains.
"Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
Cheers and applause. People stood in ovation.
Henry's "Liberty or Death" became a slogan useful in situations where action is summoned to defeat perceived tyranny.
But the historical fact is that though Henry did speak forcefully on that March day to spur the convention to action, we have no reliable record of what exactly he said.
The speech children have memorized for almost two centuries was committed to paper in 1817 by William Wirt, forty-two years after the event, in his biography of Henry. It was based on a recollection—not notes—of someone who had been there, Williamsburg's St. George Tucker. Wirt, who became attorney general of the United States, was himself an orator, but his best-known speech he took from Tucker and put in Henry's mouth.
Indeed, around the time Wirt wrote about Henry, amateur historians were crafting tales of the American Revolution as well as of the colonial era that were designed less to capture the facts than to create a founding myth for the young republic.
In the view of professional historians, these myths should be punctured. But historians do so at their peril. The myths are more beloved than the cold facts, and they are hard to kill.
Many of them are designed to explain us as we wish to see ourselves. They establish the national character and set the standard for coming generations.
Writer Joseph Campbell said that all cultures are based on myths: "What these myths have given has been inspiration for aspiration." Columnist Michael Gerson wrote of myth: "When these strings are touched, we feel the vibrations deep down. And we know that myths are not the same as lies."
The Past and history are different things, wrote British historian J. H. Plumb. People have always used The Past to explain the origins and purpose of human life, to sanctify government institutions, to validate class structure, to provide moral example. Only in the past two or three hundred years, he said, has historical study developed "to see things as they really were."
Said historian John Thorn, "Historians have an obligation to embrace myth as the people's history."
Unlike countries whose founding myths developed during the course of centuries, the American mythos was created largely by one generation writing in the early 1800s, said Ray Raphael, author of Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past.
"About twenty years had to go by before people could forget how ugly the Revolutionary War was," Raphael said. "As pressure built toward the War of 1812, people saw a need to develop in the younger generation a pride in their revolutionary heritage. They knew this experiment in republican government needed people who believe in it and are willing to defend it."
In 1790, Noah Webster wrote that "every child in America, as soon as he opens his lips . . . should rehearse the history of his country; he should lisp the praise of Liberty and of those illustrious heroes and statesmen who have wrought a revolution in his favor."
The creation of these stories coincided with the birth of public education in America. The historical and moral lessons imparted by Parson Weems about George Washington and the cherry tree or Longfellow's "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" or the Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock or John Smith's disputed rescue by Pocahontas became enshrined in textbooks for the masses.
Most of the American myths are based on historical fact. Henry did give a rousing speech to inspire the Virginia Convention to create a militia. The Pilgrims did settle Plymouth. An Indian girl by the name of Pocahontas was a figure in the settling of Jamestown. Paul Revere did ride into the Massachusetts countryside to warn that British soldiers were coming. Washington did try to live a virtuous life, though, cherry tree or not, he probably told a few lies.
The writers of these tales took those kernels of truth and embellished them, made them sound more romantic and uplifting than perhaps they were, and drove home a moral message designed to educate and inspire a new generation.
As every good storyteller knows, focusing on an individual's exploits creates a better tale. Make one person the hero, and readers and listeners will be engaged.
The writers of the nineteenth century, seeking a unifying power, made Washington the embodiment of a nation of contentious states. He, more than the flag, symbolized the United States. And without a doubt, Washington was the unifying force that made the Constitution possible.
But mythmaking? Stand in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol and look straight up. You see Constantino Brumidi's frescoe The Apotheosis of Washington, begun six years before the Civil War and completed in 1865. "Apotheosis" means transformation into god.
James Rees, the president of the Mt. Vernon Ladies Association, says that stripped of myth, Washington is still "America's first superhero."
Every good writer of history must first study the myths, author Raphael said. "You just kind of grandfather in these mythological aspects unless you are willing to examine them from scratch."
Making myths is an industry in Hollywood. Amy Henderson, the curator of popular culture at the National Portrait Museum in Washington, says, "One of the chief elements of American character is our ability to invent ourselves." She quotes from director John Ford's Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, who said, "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
Take the words of Chief Seattle, a nineteenth-century American Indian from Puget Sound, which inspired the modern environmental movement. Books, magazine articles, and environmental advocacy groups have trumpeted his lyrical message of 1854, words that extolled harmony with nature:
"I have seen a thousand rotting buffaloes on the prairie, left by the white man who shot them from a passing train. I am a savage and do not understand how the smoking iron horse can be made more important than the buffalo that we kill only to stay alive."
Though Chief Seattle existed, and he may have said something profound in 1854, he certainly did not mention railroads or buffalo or prairies, because he had not seen any of them, and the massacre of buffalo hadn't happened yet.
A Hollywood scriptwriter wrote the words in 1971. "It's very similar to the Patrick Henry speech," Raphael said. "Someone with a point to make takes an historical person who is close to making that same point and writes a speech for him using the current language that would resonate to the people of the times."
Ethan Allen knew how to make his own myth. At Fort Ticonderoga, historic interpreter Gordon Hamilton, dressed in the garb of a New York militiaman in the French and Indian War, leads visitors through the history of the fort, culminating in its capture at the beginning of the Revolution by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys, heroes of the state of Vermont.
Hamilton dramatically recounts Allen's words when a British officer asked by whose authority he invaded the fort: "In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress I am taking this fort."
Then he pauses. At least that's what Allen said he said when he wrote his memoirs. The Second Continental Congress had not yet met and had not authorized taking the fort. In fact, its first reaction was to give the fort back to the British. What Allen did say was more prosaic. According to firsthand accounts, Allen demanded of the fort's second-in-command that he get the commanding officer: "Bring the old rat out, or I'll run him through."
"That reality is kind of tough, especially on the Vermonters who come here," Hamilton said. "Ethan Allen is their folk hero. They were raised to revere him. They know that statement by heart. They feel sure he said it."
Writer Tony Horwitz traveled all over the Americas tracing the stories and travels of the early explorers from Christopher Columbus to the Pilgrim landing for his book A Voyage Long and Strange. Everywhere, he said, he found legends and myths—and people who didn't want to know otherwise.
"I came to the conclusion that no amount of fact is ever going to somehow triumph over these myths," Horwitz said. "They are with us. People cherish them and need them. They are comforting stories that we tell about ourselves."
Ex-Confederate generals eager to tell their side of the Civil War created the Lost Cause myth within a couple of years of the end of the conflict. In their minds, the war was not about slavery. Abolitionists caused it, and the North ground down the cultured and gallant South through overwhelming numbers and matériel. Robert E. Lee was the greatest general who ever lived. Ulysses S. Grant was a butcher.
"In terms of shaping how Americans have assessed and understood the Civil War, Lost Cause warriors succeeded to a remarkable degree," wrote Gary W. Gallagher in his book The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History.
Suffering in all of this were the ex-slaves who saw the rights they gained during Reconstruction disappear for nearly a century as Northern and Southern whites embraced the Lost Cause myth to reunify the nation.
"Many, if not most, Americans still see the Civil War era through the prism of Gone with the Wind," said Horwitz, whose latest book, Midnight Rising, recounts John Brown's story. "Gone with the Wind, both the book and the movie, have had more impact on how Americans think about the Civil War than the hundreds of thousands of scholarly works that have been written."
Though most American myths are created from a kernel of truth, some are just flat-out made up to achieve a historical purpose.
Walk into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, and right at the beginning is a portrait of Abner Doubleday. Next to it is the caption: "Abner Doubleday was a career U.S. military officer and Union general in the Civil War. Prior to entering the military, he attended school in Cooperstown and the Military Academy at West Point, graduating in 1842. Although Doubleday had a distinguished military career, he is best known as the supposed inventor of baseball."
Catch the weasel word? "Supposed."
Not only did Doubleday not invent baseball, no evidence exists that he ever played it, said John Thorn, the official historian of Major League Baseball, whose recent book is the latest to try to puncture that myth.
In the early part of twentieth century, Thorn said, Albert G. Spalding, a former player and subsequently a sporting goods magnate and National League official, was desperate to prove that baseball was purely an American invention. He wanted to counter claims from a British-born writer that the game originated in England.
He created a commission to explore the origin of baseball. It latched onto a letter written to it by a "demented mining engineer" from Colorado, who claimed that at the age of five, he was in Cooperstown and played with Doubleday as he invented baseball in 1839, according to Thorn.
But Doubleday was at West Point as a cadet without leave in 1839, Thorn said. In his memoirs, Doubleday never mentioned baseball. He did "invent" one piece of American history. He was at Fort Sumter and fired the first shot in reply to the Confederate bombardment. In a sense, he invented the Civil War.
On the hall of fame's third floor, a placard says Spalding invented the Doubleday myth in a "patriotic desire to see the sport as purely an American invention." But on the first floor, a placard says the museum owns the baseball used by Doubleday to invent the game.
"Abner Doubleday, despite my best efforts, will continue as the Father of Baseball the same way that Santa Claus will continue as the Father of Christmas," Thorn said. "We use myth and lie interchangeably. But they are not. Myth is more powerful than fact."
Virginia-based journalist Gil Klein was a national correspondent for the Media General News Service in Washington, is a past president of the National Press Club, and is an American University assistant professor. He contributed to the winter 2011 journal a story about the myths of the Declaration of Independence.
Suggestions for further reading:
- Gary W. Gallagher and Alan T. Nolan, eds., The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History (Bloomington, IN, 2000).
- Tony Horwitz, A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (New York, 2008).
- J. H. Plumb, The Death of the Past (Boston, 1970).
- Ray Raphael, Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past (New York, 2004).
- John Thorn, Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game (New York, 2011).


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Several long-standing OEM partners are working to harness the Mercury RIP Architecture in upcoming solutions. For example, Fujifilm today announced XMF 5.5 for the JetPress 540W, built on the Mercury RIP Architecture. In the coming weeks and months we expect to see new product announcements highlighting support for the Mercury RIP Architecture from a number of market-leaders, including Canon Production Systems, EFI, Kodak NexPress, Screen and Xeikon.
- "One of the reasons Fiery is the gold standard of the graphics arts industry is because of our partnership with Adobe," says Toby Weiss, EFI senior vice president and general manager of the Fiery Division. "Providing seamless integration with Creative Cloud and supporting the new Mercury RIP Architecture provide extreme value to our clients and partners."
- "NexPress**** was the first digital press to be driven by the Adobe PDF Print Engine", says David Dellert, chief software engineer for Kodak. "Now, with version 3, we will be integrating the Mercury RIP Architecture into our product line, to meet the ever increasing demands of the digital print business."
- "Xeikon plans to deploy the Mercury RIP Architecture in our X-800 line", says Jeroen Van Bauwel, director of product management for Xeikon. "Since the speed of our presses will continue to increase, scalability is central to our product strategy."
Adobe PDF Print Engine 3 is aligned with the Adobe Creative Cloud, including applications such as InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat. As a result, the most complex, high-impact graphics, designed with the latest authoring tools, will be accurately reproduced on-press.
What's new in Adobe PDF Print Engine 3? Here are the top three, and their user benefits.
- The Mercury RIP Architecture for the Adobe PDF Print Engine 3, manages multiple concurrent instances of the Print Engine for maximum throughput within a single system, or several systems on a network. It is able to dynamically load balance available work across multiple presses concurrently, ensuring full resource utilization.
- Adobe PDF Print Engine 3 can support continuously streamed PDF and PDF/VT in High Volume workflows, (such as HVTO and Transpromo), fast-growing segments of the print industry.
- Adobe PDF Print Engine 3 renders content which matches the display in Reader and Acrobat XI. Using the same core Adobe PDF technology at every stage of the print workflow ensures predictability and eliminates unwelcome surprises.
"With PDF Print Engine 3, Adobe continues to demonstrate our leadership in print – 30 years after launching PostScript and igniting the Desktop Publishing revolution. Faster processing and greater predictability translate directly into higher profits for our partners' customers: the printers of the world," says Naresh Gupta, senior vice president of Adobe's Print and Publishing Business Unit.
Today's announcement represents the continuing evolution of the Print Engine SDK, launched in 2006. Initially adopted by vendors in traditional offset printing, there are currently more than 90,000 units in live production around the globe. In the past three years, the technology has been embraced by market-leading vendors in Digital Production Printing (DPP) and Large Format Printing (LFP).
PDF Print Engine 3 replaces Adobe PDF Print Engine versions 2.5 and 2.6. PSPs and global print OEMs can learn more about PDF Print Engine 3 here.
– Mark Lewiecki, senior product manager, Adobe


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Men's Hats
You put together what seems to be the perfect outfit: the right pants, a shirt that fits you flawlessly, even your shoes are comfortable and complement your ensemble, but something is missing. Men's hats might go in and out of fashion, but there is always a style to suit any look. The vast apparel selection on eBay has men's hats in several classic and modern styles. You can find accessories that are ideal for formal events or casual wear. The collection of vintage men's hats includes authentic Stetsons and fedoras straight from a era when men rarely left home without a hat. For the colder months of the year, a quality men's wool hat is not only useful but necessary. Reliable sellers have both new and used caps made from varieties of wool, such as merino and lamb, to provide protection from the weather where it matters most.


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Thursday, March 22, 2007
Odd sentences one never imagines oneself cited in conjunction with
There's more, including a long chem(ically assisted) sex session, over at Contaminated Life, a blog related to architecture and fashion design at RMIT University (Melbourne). Somehow it all relates to what I once wrote about the under-appreciated Middle English classic Sir Gawain and the Carl of Carlisle (admittedly, a much less queer narrative than the Andrew narrative). Who knew that medieval studies had so much to say to "disciplinary purity, bodily taboos, and radical sustainability."
Actually ITM did. It's what we are all about (except for the radical sustainability -- I haven't a clue what that is).
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- Karl Steel said...
admittedly, a much less queer narrative than the Andrew narrative
I beg to differ. In relation to the norm, Andrew is--so far as his sex and drug use goes--an inexcluded other. He's the very image of excess through which the norm imagines itself as the site of just measure. Not so for Gawain. He's not a creature of the border brought into the norm only through interdiction and fantasy. Bracketing for the moment Gawain's standard role as the most excessively violent and sexual of Arthur's knights (do I have that right?), as a knight, Gawain is the very image of the norm. Unless this norm engages in excess, can have no story, no SGCC. In other words, Gawain's far queerer because his queerness is emphatically at the heart of what likes to imagine itself as straight.
We're back, I think, into the realm of identifying the Pardoner as the 'most queer' of the pilgrims, which is a move that fixes queerness as something on the border. It's much better, I think, to discover the inevitable queerness of the Parson (here I think I'm borrowing from something I read by Shayne Legassie, years ago).
(Caution on Andrew. Wait: his consumerism--the advertorial prose of "faded [Product] jeans, tight [Product] white singlet (?)" (let alone the reference to threadcounts)--puts him in the very center of consumer lifestyle capitalism, of the calls to (appropriate) that we middle-class Westerners must heed to keep our normality). - 9:18 AM
- Jeffrey Cohen said...
It is funny how the Andrew narrative of bodily disaggregation and resortment gets pulled in completely the opposite direction by its author's love of high-end consumer products. Note to said author: too many adjectives!!! I suppose the vector that consumerism moves towards is a stereotyped and shallow gayness rather than a queerness.
And as Gawain -- the most enthusiastically heterosexual (to quote my favorite phrase from the Pardoner discussion) of the knights -- being queer, hmmmm. - 9:37 AM
- Karl Steel said...
I suppose the vector that consumerism moves towards is a stereotyped and shallow gayness rather than a queerness.
Dropped a word in my previous response: I meant "puts him in the very center of consumer lifestyle capitalism, of the calls to (appropriate) consumption that we middle-class Westerners must heed to keep our normality." In other words, I think Andrew's consumerism is the queerest thing about him once I put him, not very interestingly, in line with American Psycho (a title clearly meant to be a pleonasm), and, more interestingly, in the camp with GW Bush, whose post 9/11 demand, if you recall, was that we go shopping. - 9:57 AM


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Au24 SE+ USB
Au24 SE+ USB
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Is it better to use single wire or bi-wire speaker cables?
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Is stranded or solid core wire best for audio cables?
Stranded wire is flexible whereas solid core is not and will tear when flexed. Some people make the point that these tears heal; however, where healing takes place there are still new crystal boundaries formed as scarring build up.
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Audience Audio Cables
Audio cables are often referred to as accessories. However, an audio system cannot make sound without cables installed which implies that they are essential components. And much like the other components in the system, cables must be chosen with the same research that one would perform in choosing an amplifier, a speaker or a turntable. Characteristics such as coloration, distortion and other anomalies must be minimized in order for the system to perform at its optimum. Too often, audiophiles and music lovers treat these essential components as after thoughts and end up compromising the performance of their carefully chosen audio gear.
The idea of cables as components is a controversial subject. There are many who think that "wire is wire" and don't accept that cables can either optimize or compromise the performance of an audio system. Traditional tests for difference in cable reveal very little if any electrical differences between brands. However, the human ear/brain is a far more sensitive and discriminating test apparatus and deciphers differences in cable brands rather easily. This ability can be developed much like wine tasting. As you become more experienced, differences, shadings and nuance become more readily noticeable.
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Finally, Audience cables do not sport the most impressive looking connectors or overly large outer jacketing. More often than not, the connectors that look best sound bad and can actually degrade performance. Fanciful jacketing is an added cost passed on to the end user and often obscures what lies inside. While simple yet elegant in appearance, Audience cables are designed to reach the highest level of performance.
Reviews for the Au24SE+ USB are here.


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Installing Linux Images to Flash |
It should be noted that all STM32F7 SOMs come with a default Linux image preloaded to the Flash. This is the same rootfs.uImage that is included in the Emcraft software distribution (refer to STM32F7 System-On-Module Release Materials). Clearly, as you proceed to develop your Linux applications against your specific requirements, you will need a way to install an updated Linux image to the target for deployment. This note explains how to do that. The example below refers to rootfs.uImage. This image is included as a prebuilt binary in the software distribution so you can always use it to revert to the factory default software, should you need to do that at some point. As mentioned above though, the process below will work for any bootable Linux image you build using the Emcraft software distribution. Before you proceed to install a Linux image to the NOR Flash, it probably makes sense to verify that what you have is indeed a bootable Linux image. You can do that by loading the image to the target from the network using the run netboot command (refer to Loading Linux Images via Ethernet and TFTP). It is important to understand that the same uImage that you load via TFTP can be loaded from the Flash as well. It doesn't make sense to install a Linux image to the Flash unless you have validated the image by loading it via Ethernet and TFTP. The U-Boot command sequence required to install a Linux image to the NOR Flash is defined for you by the U-Boot environment variable called update. Here is how update is defined in U-Boot by default: STM32F7-SOM> print update You will notice that the first command in update is a tftpboot command to download an image from the network via Ethernet and TFTP. Please refer to Loading Linux Images via Ethernet and TFTP for detailed information on how to set up your target and the development host for loading images from TFTP. Following tftpboot, there is a sequence of commands that erase those Flash sections where the Linux image will be installed to and then copy the image to the Flash. Here is a snapshot showing how update is used to install rootfs.uImage to the Flash: STM32F7-SOM> sete image stm32f7/rootfs.uImage Having installed an image to the Flash, just hit the Reset button on the baseboard to boot the newly installed image from Flash: U-Boot 2010.03-cortexm-2.1.0 (Sep 19 2016 - 11:18:48) On deployed units, you will probably want to optimize the boot time by setting the U-Boot bootdelay variable to 0. Please refer to Autobooting Linux from U-Boot for detailed information on how to do that. |


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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 12: Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, has pledged $10 million as its contribution to India's fight against COVID-19. As COVID-19 cases continue to escalate, this support aims to offer cash and urgently needed products to help the country in bringing the health crisis under control.
As part of the commitment, the company is directing more than $1 million to non-governmental and non-profit organizations that are directly serving the people impacted by the pandemic. The remaining $9 million donations are extended in the form of COVID-19 testing products, personal protective equipment, and other critical supplies from across the businesses.
In light of the severity of the situation in India, Amit Chopra, Managing Director, India & South Asia, Thermo Fisher Scientific said, "We are deeply concerned with the surge in COVID-19 cases in India. We realize our responsibility goes beyond serving our customers and extends to the actions we take to support our communities. At Thermo Fisher, we are leveraging our partnerships to swiftly mobilize resources to respond to the escalating testing and vaccine production needs in the country. In addition to these, we are partnering with several NGOs and remain steadfast in our commitment to serving our colleagues, customers, and society in India."
Furthermore, the company is ramping up the production of its recently launched CoviPath PT-PCR kits in its Bengaluru facility to support the ongoing testing drive in the country.
"We deeply appreciate the generous support and encouragement from Thermo Fisher Scientific during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their commitment and support of 4.6M VTM tubes will strengthen the system of collection, transportation, and storage of COVID test samples. This will greatly mitigate the pain and suffering of those most impacted", said Mr. Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog, and Government of India.
Thermo Fisher Scientific is at the forefront in the response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The company has established worldwide leadership in COVID-19 testing and is actively involved in supporting the research, development and production of vaccines and therapies. In addition, the company is also expanding its high-quality novel solutions while ensuring reliable supply chains to meet the unprecedented testing demands, to address the current and future challenges posed by the pandemic.
About Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $30 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or increasing productivity in their laboratories, we are here to support them. Our global team of more than 80,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services and Patheon. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com/.


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LAS VEGAS, NV -- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced that it has improved the light quality of its LED packages and modules based on a 90 CRI (Color Rendering Index) for use in advanced lighting applications. Samsung is showcasing these LED components at the LIGHTFAIR International trade show exhibition being held here from June 3rd through 5th.
"With our improved color rendering, Samsung's LED packages and modules now provide LED lighting makers with light quality that far surpasses that of conventional lighting applications, while adding to the energy efficiency of our LED lighting line-up," said Bangwon Oh, senior vice president of strategic marketing team, LED Business, Samsung Electronics. "With more than 90 CRI, the enhanced color reproducibility of our best product platforms will make them even more attractive to lighting designers worldwide." Samsung's LED product platforms include mid-power, high-power and chip-on-board (COB) packages as well as LED modules. With the improved CRI, Samsung LM561B and other mid-power LED packages can be used in a wider range of retrofit LED bulbs and downlights by reproducing colors comparable to those seen under natural sunlight. In addition, the improved high power LED LH351 series is suitable for MR, PAR and other spotlights that require high color rendering, along with high light output. Samsung's LED modules enhanced with 90 CRI include the LT-A302 module comprised of mid-power LED packages, and the SLE series, which uses COB-type packages. The LT-A302 is a linear, lens-attached module (LAM) with a thin, 21 millimeter-wide form factor. The SLE series modules are suitable for spotlights and track lighting that prioritize high light output. Samsung's LED packages and modules with over 90 CRI will be commercially available in June. About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in technology, opening new possibilities for people everywhere. Through relentless innovation and discovery, we are transforming the worlds of TVs, smartphones, tablets, PCs, cameras, home appliances, printers, LTE systems, medical devices, semiconductors and LED solutions. We employ 286,000 people across 80 countries with annual sales of US$216.7 billion.E-mail:
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Julia Lease has flown an American flag outside her Ohio residence for the past 36 years, but now she's being told to take down Old Glory.
Eighty-six-year-old Lease says she found a notice on her door but kept the flag up regardless. She was told her complex would send a second notice and take it down — something Lease called "stealing."
But a representative for New Life Multi-Family Management, which owns Lease's property, says the policy is "neutral" and it's not about the flag. It's an overarching rule that says no one can affix things to their buildings.
And this seems to fit right in with the string of flag controversies we've seen making the news.
Find out more with this Newsy video.


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God said that these days belong to Him. "You shall not do any work...They are days of Holy Convocation" (Leviticus23 :3). The Scriptures say: "Then God blessed the seventh day" (Genesis2 :3). God gave these days special importance although all days are for Him, and all life is for Him.
In order that it may not be understood by some people that this is the law of the Old Testament, Saint John the apostle said "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day." (Revelations1 :10)
Although he was an apostle and all his life was consecrated and devoted to God, yet he talked about the "day for the Lord";
a day which had special sacredness, on which the gates of Heaven were opened and on which he saw the Throne of God, the angels and groups of the Heavenly Hosts.
The times of the life of man are not all of the same standard. There are days which have special sanctity. There is no doubt that the day on which God appeared to Paul of Tarsus on the way to Damascus, and talked to him, reprimanded him. and chose him, was a holy day which had a special stamp on the life of the saint. There is also no doubt that the times at which he climbed up to the third Heaven, and saw things that cannot be talked about, were extraordinary times, which had special sanctity.
As it is in the life of the individual so is it in the life of the whole Church. The day on which God granted us His body, His blood and said "Do this in remembrance of Me" is a sacred day, different from the rest of the days.
The day on which the Lord was crucified for our sake and redeemed the whole world is a sacred day that is distinguished from all the other days.
Indeed, we always mention salvation and redemption, but the sixth hour has special sanctity each day. Friday of each week also has special sanctity. The passion week of each year has special sanctity and reminiscences; they truly are holy times.
God gave us different kinds of holy days, among which there are days for joy, such as the feasts, and days of humiliation before Him. All are holy days. For the sake of God we rejoice, and for His sake we are humiliated. All those feelings are holy.
The days of fasting are holy because in them there is self-control and the supremacy of the spirit over the body.
They are times of prayer, worship and closeness to God. This is why we are sanctified with all that.
The days of penitence are holy times in the eyes of God because they are times of reconciliation with Him. In their tears and gloominess they are holy days before God, like the days of feasts in their joy and praise.
The times of prayer are also sacred because in them, there is a special relation with God. Prayer sanctifies time. As the time is sanctified by individual prayer, so is it also sanctified in group prayer.
If there are certain times necessitated by organization or divine disposition for the meeting of all people for worship or meditation, these times are also assigned as holy times. We say this in spite of the fact that the whole life of man is consecrated for God, but that there are various grades of holiness. If sin is committed by any person at a sacred time or in a sacred place, it will be more dreadful and more defiled.
The sin of the sons of Eli the priest was more atrocious before God, and it deserved an equally severe punishment because it was committed in a holy place. Although sin is ugly wherever it is committed, yet the committing of the sin in a holy place indicates, in addition to sin, a contempt of the sanctity of the place. It is also a proof of the cruelty of the heart and makes the sinner liable for more severe punishment.
To commit sin during the period of fasting is more awful than on an ordinary day, because it indicates disrespect of fasting and its sanctity. It also indicates that the sinner does not benefit from the spirituality of fasting. In this respect, it is a complex wrong act that includes a group of mistakes.
In the same way, sin which is committed after partaking from the Holy Communion or on the same day, indicates disdain of Communion.
It is assumed that holy days have special influence that elevates man.
If a man is not elevated, or if he does not remain in his position, but goes downwards with sin, this indicates greater ugliness in disrespect of the sanctity of the holy days and their influence.
The attention paid by the Church to certain days like the sacred forty days of the Great Lent, caused it to make preparations for this holy period by assigning another week of fasting during which a person gives himself training so that he may enter into the forty holy days with a ready heart.
You may ask yourselves: 'What kind of fasting do we keep?'
There are some people who fast because of a certain problem. Their fasting will have its efficacy in heaven and earth. What then would be the effect of the fasting of thousands or millions of people, all at the same time?
What is important is that people should fast with the spiritual means that are suitable for fasting. I like the statement of Joel, the prophet: "Consecrate a fast," that is to say, that it is not an ordinary fast. It is not merely abstinence from food, but it is a spiritual, holy fast that has its effect before God and man.
This fast is sanctified by the prayers that are offered, the readiness of the heart, by being in the presence of God and because of penitence. Fasting without penitence is not a holy fast. The element of penitence in fasting is more important than the abstinence from food. The times of penitence, even without fasting, are sacred times. They are times of joy on the part of God and His angels in Heaven. The Scripture says "that there is great rejoicing in Heaven when one sinner repents." How would it be then if there was penitence for all the people, accompanied by fasting and prayer?
The times of service are also holy times, because in them, the kingdom of God is built up and many souls are drawn from afar to dwell in it.
You can make fasting holy by all spiritual acts. Train yourself for the sanctity of life in these holy days, so that this sanctity may become a permanent program in your life. A person who trains himself to let his times be holy, will feel the value of time in his life. He will not permit himself at all to waste his time in trifling, useless things.
Every minute in his life has its value; how then would be the hour and the day? A spiritual person once said 'All the people who are in hell desire one minute of life so as to offer penitence in it and divert all the course of their life and fate. ,
You have all this long life, this great treasure, not only of minutes but of hours and days. Do you appreciate the value of every hour? And do you do something equal to its value, or is your life lost?
Do not let your times pass, being barren, and not giving birth to something spiritual. Do not let your time be cheap in your eyes; do not squander it extravagantly in what does not benefit you or others.
If you have squandered your time in the past, you can now save what is remaining of your life.


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Data and Statistics
The TCICAA collects a large amount of data on the aviation industry. It publishes much of this, such as punctuality data, airline charges and ATOL licence holders to help consumers make an informed decision on air travel.
Information is also recorded on other areas - such as the profile of passengers, the level of air traffic at airports and the most popular destinations served by Turks and Caicos Islands airports. This data has been collected for many years and allows observers to build an historical picture of the Turks and Caicos Islands aviation industry.
In its role as a safety regulator the TCICAA records significant levels of safety data from the Turks and Caicos Islands industry - ranging from aircraft accident and incident data to air proximity reports and long- term worldwide safety trends.


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1 mH 8*10mm Power DIP Inductor (Pack of 5)
1 mH 8*10mm Power DIP Inductor (Pack of 5)
Availability: In stock
Brand: Generic
8*10mm 1mH DIP Power Inductor is a small choke coil power inductor. It has a wire wound on the core(magnetic or air), with leads attached to it for through-hole mounting. The power inductor also known as a choke coil, choke or differential mode inductors, is used to limit the alternating current through the coil.
It has a high Q factor, high self-resonance frequency, small magnetic flux leakage. Also, the power inductor has good magnetic shielding and is RoHS free.
Motherboards for laptop and desktop computers.
DC/DC converter in distributed power systems or VRM Applications.
Inductor for general purpose use.
Small size.
High Q factor.
High self-resonance frequency.
Small magnetic flux leakage.
Magnetically shielded.
RoHS free.
Package Includes:
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A while back I was speaking and asked for a show of hands, "How many of the wives have had too much affirmation over the past month?" Laughter broke out across the room. No, haven't had too much of that.
If Lisa is any indication, women often have the feeling that life is coming at them with the speed of a fighter jet and the chaos of a riot. Add to this the voices everywhere around them saying in subtle and not so subtle ways that the job they're doing isn't quite up to the mark. Wives often have the nagging feeling that they just don't measure up.
Let's drown out those voices with the applause of affirmation – words of beauty, truth, and love that every wife wants to hear, but also needs to hear often.
102 Words of Affirmation Every Wife Wants to Hear
1) You give a lot, and I appreciate how much you give.
2) You are beautiful.
3) You make me want to be a better man.
4) Thanks for your faithfulness to our family.
5) You are a godly woman.
6) I've learned a lot from you.
7) I've seen you grow so much.
8) I like spending time with you.
9) You're fun to be with.
10) What a fantastic meal!
11) You make wonderful things.
12) Thanks for your diligence in running this house.
13) Our kids are so fortunate to have you as their mother.
14) God wanted me to be happy . . . that's why He made you my wife.
15) You bring out the best in me.
16) You are a fantastic person.
17) You are a deep river.
18) You're as beautiful to me as the day we married.
19) My favorite place to be is with you.
20) I wouldn't be half the man I am without you.
21) You make loving fun.
22) You complete me.
23) God said, "It's not good for a man to be alone." It's sure good to be with you!
24) When I'm gone this week, just remember, home is where my heart is.
25) You are my world.
26) The Bible tells men: Love your wife like Christ loves the Church . . . I like my job!
27) I like going out with you . . . what are you doing tonight?
28) The laundry never stops coming . . . and you never quit. You're amazing and, I really appreciate it.
29) You are a hard worker.
30) You're so smart.
31) I value your insight.
32) You have a lot to offer.
33) I really admire your inner strength
34) I'm glad our kids have (will have) such an excellent role model.
35) You are (will be) an amazing mother.
36) You know you're my best friend, don't you?
37) I don't know what I would do without you.
38) You make me a happy man.
39) I'm amazed at the women you've become.
40) You accomplish a lot.
41) You are so thoughtful.
42) Thank you for respecting me.
43) I'm grateful I can trust you with anything.
44) I have total confidence in you.
45) I'm proud to be your husband.
46) God knew what I needed. That's why He brought us together.
47) I respect the woman you are.
48) My hat's off to you!
49) You've got great ideas.
50) I married up!
51) I rely on your intuition.
52) You're the finest woman on the planet!
53) I can face anything with you by my side.
54) I married a winner!
55) Our kids love (are going to love) you so much.
56) You are the best woman I know.
57) I don't deserve you . . . but, I'm glad you're mine!
58) I want to grow old with you.
59) Thank you for being so good to me.
60) You're an awesome lover.
61) I don't need anything else – just you.
62) I only have eyes for you.
63) I'll always be faithful to you.
64) You never have to wonder where I am.
65) Thank you for standing by me.
66) I really appreciate your loyalty.
67) You are a great cook/chef.
68) You're so creative.
69) I know you strive to please me . . . and believe me, you're successful!
70) I love what you make.
71) You are one talented woman!
72) You never stop giving.
73) You look fabulous in that outfit!
74) You make me look good!
75) When you walked into the room, you took my breath away.
76) You are an excellent wife and I'm a blessed man.
77) You bring me joy.
78) I love the home that you've created.
79) You work hard to make things wonderful.
80) The Song of Solomon has nothing on you!
81) I'm a better man because of you.
82) You are a unique person.
83) I'm glad I married you!
84) You'll always have my heart.
85) Your heart is safe with me.
86) God knew exactly what I needed in a woman.
87) You are God's perfect choice for me.
88) I wouldn't want any other life than the one I am living with you.
89) You are my dream girl.
90) You are a beautiful person, inside and out.
91) You've got what it takes to make things happen.
92) You impress me, you really do!
93) You are a woman of integrity.
94) I admire you.
95) I'm proud of how you handled situations like that.
96) You're no pushover. I love your spine of steel.
97) You are a considerate person, of me, and of everyone else.
98) You're one in a million . . . and you're mine!
99) I'm a rich man because you are my wife.
100) I'd be happy with you anywhere!
101) You make it all worth while. I wouldn't want it any other way.
102) I'll love you forever.
What words of affirmation does your wife love to hear?
You might also like: The Habit of Cherishing Her


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Although the eyes are examined during routine wellness exams, sometimes, when problems develop, a more in-depth examination is necessary. When the doctor needs to perform this more detailed exam, he or she will often use a device called a tonopen. Through a processed called tonometry, the doctor is able to calculate and measure the intraocular pressure of the eye. This measurement is gathered by assessing the fluids within the eye. An imbalance in the production and drainage of the fluids however, can lead to ocular problems.
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Pat R of Peyton CO sent me these lovely quilts! The Not So Top Secret Project quilt ( the red one) was made by Linda L of the Livermore Community Quilters. I sent it to Pat to quilt, and it multiplied to three quilts when it came back. Apparently this is what happens to my fabric stash too!
This Pinwheel quilt was made by Suzette H of Mesquite TX ( swooze.blogspot.com) and sent to Pat for quilting and then on its way here! I love it. Check out the borders!
The Crazy Patch quilt was made by Pat, quilted by Pat and sent up here to! Thanks so much Pat - you did an awesome job quilting all these. I sure appreciate you!
Today was the Colorado Quilt Council Meeting. It is a state wide guild - and I became a member today. Our speaker was Karla Alexander of Saginaw Street Quilts. She was quite funny, and I understood her well! She talked about lifting quilts from your stash. I liked that - now to go DO it!!
Have a great evening! I received another box last night - so off to take more pictures and enjoy more quilts. Its rough I tell ya - really rough!! ( just joshing!)


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Challenger Door has grown by 30 percent in each of the past eight years, and from a $30 million company in 2012 to a $70 million organization in 2016. According to Faroh, much of the credit for this phenomenal success can be attributed to Epicor ERP (now known as Kinetic). Since its implementation, the system virtualized almost every aspect of the company, while increasing overall efficiencies and providing a far better understanding of corporate metrics.
"Our people rely on Epicor solely to get the job done," explained Faroh. "We wanted the best system in the business. We chose Epicor ERP [Kinetic] because it offered a flexible solution that could easily be customized to meet both existing and future needs. Every person with a computer at the company now relies on Epicor in one way or another. From quote to cash, employees are connected in real time and able to answer queries and research historical data instantaneously."
In addition, Challenger Door has been extremely appreciative of the way Epicor ERP assisted people on the floor to build doors, and-as a result-make more money for the company. In the past, the specifications for each part and completed project had to be tabulated manually-taking anywhere from one-and-one-half to two hours for each precise computation. Epicor eliminated this process by automatically performing the calculations and supplying the necessary cut sizes to the production team via electronic tablets, so everyone is ready to start building upon arriving in the morning. Not only did the system free staff from these complex mathematical efforts, it also streamlined processes to enable the company to complete more intricate jobs in significantly less time.
Faroh noted that many of his customers are still operating with varying levels of technology. "Some of our clients are extremely sophisticated in technology, while others still handle transactions mainly in paper. With Epicor, it doesn't matter. We can easily e-mail customers purchase orders and other job details or print it out for their review. On our end, it's all equally simple."
The company benefits from the way Epicor stores historic data on "everything we build" for ready retrieval and display in spreadsheets and one-sheet summaries. This has given Challenger Door "an excellent picture of how everything looks from accounting and purchasing to shipping and billing."
According to Challenger Door IT manager Jared Myers, Cre8tive Technology and Design-a member of the Epicor Channel Partner Program and a leading provider of business solutions and software-has provided Challenger Door with not only another layer of flexibility, but also the ability to readily meet changing customer demands. "Partners like Cre8tive have enabled us to build whatever we want out of the system," said Myers. "They helped us develop solutions beyond what we could do ourselves. Thanks to Cre8tive and Epicor, everything we need is now at our fingertips. Anything we want to do is literally achievable. They have changed the way we do business."
"Without Epicor and Cre8tive's assistance, we could not have handled the ever-growing workload. Before Epicor, we really didn't understand how all the processes worked together. Now we know exactly what it takes to get a project started, finalized, and turn a profit," said Myers.


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In business, one seeks to establish a sustainable long-term competitive advantage — something that allows you to outperform or outlast others.
Cities provide multiple competitive benefits: their compactness directly affects time, energy, and resource efficiency. In addition, cities generate new ideas and cultural experiences by bringing together a critical mass of diverse people.
While technology has certainly made it possible for people to work from just about anywhere, this is really only useful for executing work which has already been broadly defined; when it comes to generating new ideas nothing beats face-to-face interaction. It is simply a higher-bandwidth form of communication, and ideation requires trust and some level of long-term interaction.
Car culture is inefficient and runs counter to a lifestyle designed primarily around face-to-face interaction and ideation. Idea-based industries (advertising, banking, technology) have long flourished in urban environments — the kind in which walking, bicycling, and public transportation are the most effective modes of transport.
The very idea of parking is a ridiculous and outdated concept. The notion that we should devote land, tie-up business resources in this feudal enterprise, and perhaps most ridiculously spend time looking for parking spots should convince anyone that this arrangement is not sustainable.
The strategic competitive advantages of cities are clear and incontrovertible. But if cities are so great, why are ours in such terrible shape?
Take Cleveland, for Example…
Most arguments against the benefits of cities tend towards the "Yeah, but" flavor — citing examples of how specific cities have failed. Such arguments are more informed by historical economics than by rational analysis of the present or future.
The argument in support of cities is deductive: inefficiency costs money, cities are more efficient, therefore cities have an advantage. The arguments used against cities are inductive: our cities have not worked well, therefore no cities can ever work well. One possibly valid reason to doubt the deductive argument is the very fact that so many people believe the inductive argument to be valid: the deductive argument can be invalidated only if the presumed efficiency never exists, which could happen if a critical mass of people does not accrue to realize it. Thus, the only thing in the way of a more efficient American future is our own doubt that it is achievable.
Here's how Americans have been duped about the nature of cities, and how we can overcome our 20th Century biases to realize the sustainable competitive advantage that awaits us in our cities.
Industrial America was not a particularly pleasant place. Cities were crowded with workers, factories, coal smoke, animal waste, polluted waterways, and with the possible exception of New York's Central Park were not designed environments in any way. It is quite understandable that people of means would have wanted to separate themselves from "common workers" and remove themselves to land surrounding the city. After all, land was the ostensible indicator of wealth for generations. Speaking generally, city centers were thus for people of lesser wealth.
America's great industrial centers required a vast supply of workers, and they came from across the globe. Each new wave depressed wages, which made them seem less desirable than the last, and clashing value systems created a constant xenophobic revulsion that made for de-facto segregated neighborhoods. Not wanting to risk these vagaries or witness these shifts, many opted for less dense, more stable environments.
Large numbers of low-wage workers densely packed in urban centers could be readily organized for collective bargaining. Henry Ford, in particular, hated this idea, not because he opposed the interests of those being organized, but because he hated the idea of someone profiting from those organizing activities. Ford was deeply anti-Semitic and he ascribed everything from banking to labor organizing as an evil influence of the Jew on the pastoral idea of the progress of industry.
As much as anyone else, Henry Ford invented the suburb and he did it to prevent workers from becoming organized. The Model T, and the suburban hierarchy it enabled, were not only the products of his business — they were a design element in the industrial, suburban future that Ford helped to create.
Industrial Consolidation
It is common to throw around words like "industrial decline" and to talk about the "rust-belt", but the fact is that the post-war period was marked more by prosperity and consolidation than any kind of "decline."
The capitalist system was just doing what it is supposed to do: create value for shareholders by eliminating inefficiency, and in many cases firms followed Ford's example by relocating to suburban locations where land was cheaper and unions could be more readily controlled.
Reflexivity is the idea that market participants can affect a market just by observing it. For example, a currency trader with an established track record can move a currency merely by stating an intention to take a position. In the same way, cyclical disinvestment in cities was launched by corporations who began to systematically disinvest in cities as part of their consolidations.
Systematic disinvestment in downtown areas by corporations led to a cycle of negative effects, almost all of which are what people mean when they talk about our "urban ills." But as intractable as these problems seem, they do not negate the deductive argument in favor of urban environment. Instead, the argument is more along the lines of Yogi Berra's, "No one goes there anymore — it's too crowded," which is both fallacious and clearly informed primarily by human perception.
Feudal Equilibrium
Reflexive disinvestment has affected politics in particular. Populations in many American cities are off 40% or more from their historical peaks (around 1950). Voter engagement in municipal elections has been abysmal; city officials are often elected on turnout under 25% and by margins of just a few thousand votes.
As a result, city politics often pulls in people more interested in using these positions for their own personal gain than for the greater good. However, there is a catch: if the abuses are too egregious, even more people will leave the cities and the parasite will kill its host. And so we end up with a kind of Peter principle of public service: each post is filled by someone competent enough to survive minimal public scrutiny and still get away with whatever shenanigans is motivating them. (Obviously this cannot be a fair characterization of every individual, but it is descriptive of the system as a whole.)
The political power establishment thus wishes to prolong this state of affairs; attracting large numbers of new, middle class voters will assuredly end their reign. So they do not advocate this; instead of implementing designs that would attract real investment, they talk about "getting tough on crime" and "fixing our schools," and sometimes they genuinely believe they can address these problems. However, these issues are just final effects of reflexive disinvestment; fix that and crime and schools will fix themselves.
American Exceptionalism
Americans are too often blind to lessons from other parts of the world. Europeans are too effete and socialistic; Asians are too "foreign". And everybody else, with few exceptions, is the enemy. We are not terribly good at stealing ideas from elsewhere, and we tend to over-value our own experiences.
Detroit's current failures do not mean that cities are inherently ungovernable or inefficient. Tokyo, Berlin, Paris, London, Shanghai, Seoul and countless others serve as examples of livable modern cities that are being productively adapted with 21st century designs. Within the US, a few cities like Portland offer hints at what can be.
Still, neither examples (nor counterexamples) affect the deductive argument. But when considering examples, Americans are biased towards negative American examples over positive international ones.
If one is going to try to argue against a deductive argument using an inductive one, it could at least be complete and balanced.
"But I Like the Suburbs…"
Thankfully, everyone is different. And often I hear people say, "But I like living in the suburbs." Or they point out that I (or others) did or do. [Full disclosure: I have lived in the suburbs, worked in the suburbs and the city, went to college in the city when I was younger, and just bought a house in the city because I think now is a good time to make that investment; I am also tired of spending time driving.]
But here again it is inappropriate to try to use single individual examples to invalidate the general deductive argument. I am also not making a judgment about the relative value of the city or the suburbs. Too often people feel that their lifestyle is being threatened, and that is not the point of this argument. The only relevant issues are economic: if someone wishes to live in the suburbs, they should expect to pay for it with time, fuel cost, relative isolation, and a potential long-term political marginalization.
And the fact is that they will probably be less happy. A study recently showed that commuting is the single-most injurious activity to happiness, while having dinner with friends created the most happiness.
Right now, we are subsidizing the suburbs with fuel costs which do not account for environmental externalities. There is no reason to expect this to continue; however even if it does, energy will never be free. Suburbs are a bad economic bet for this reason alone.
Race and Partisan Politics
These two issues are so complex and divisive, I will refrain from discussing them here, despite the fact that I have considered them both in great detail. Each deserves a post (or a volume of books) in its own right.
However it should be said: race is not important to the deductive argument, and neither is partisan politics. Positive, reflexive investment in cities will make them efficient, productive, and diverse; this is a centrist idea that should make both the left and the right happy. Politics and race are both issues that have all-too often been hijacked by people looking to promote their own interests, and Americans have been historically unable to perceive any issue free of these lenses.
Placing Bets on the Future
The long-term strategic advantage that cities can provide (specifically through time, energy, and resource efficiency) is not made any less real by our past failures; America's cities are indisputably its best hope for the future. The natural evolution of the American economy tends towards higher-order activity, and will ultimately settle on creativity and design at its apex. The longer we wait to begin a cycle of positive, reflexive investment in our cities, the longer we stall our country's competitiveness and our ability to innovate.
We must only convince ourselves that a more efficient and livable future is possible; the rest will follow.


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The growth in health care spending has slowed in recent years but could speed up again as the economy strengthens and the population ages. Even with slower growth rates, however, federal and state governments need to pursue reforms and innovations to keep public health programs sustainable.
The growth in health care spending has slowed in recent years but could speed up again as the economy strengthens and the population ages. Even with slower growth rates, however, federal and state governments need to pursue reforms and innovations to keep public health programs sustainable.
Massachusetts and Maryland are at the forefront of such efforts. Officials in other states and the nation's capital should watch how the experiments in these two states turn out and consider what lessons they may hold.
Maryland regulators recently received approval from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to limit the growth in hospital spending for each of the next five years to 3.58 percent. That is the state's average annual rate of per capita economic growth since 2002.
Maryland already has successful experience restraining growth in health care spending relative to other states because of a unique commission that sets the payment rates for all health insurers, including Medicare and Medicaid.
Under the new arrangement, to which hospitals and private insurance companies agreed, insurers will no longer pay hospitals for each individual service they provide. This "fee for service" system promotes excessive spending by rewarding the volume of services rather than of efficiency and results.
Starting this year, Maryland hospitals will instead receive "global payments" — fixed amounts for providing care for communities or groups of patients. State officials hope this will encourage greater efficiency and coordination, ideally reducing unnecessary hospital admissions and expenditures.
The state's rate-setting commission will be able to enforce the new rules and ensure that spending growth does not exceed the cap.
In Massachusetts, a law passed in 2012 limits the annual growth of health expenditures to the state's economic growth. This followed the state's landmark insurance reforms in 2006, which mandated health coverage for everyone in the state and served as a model for the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Spending on health care in the state, already high before 2006, is currently the highest per capita in the country. Thus, the 2012 effort created a Health Policy Commission to monitor spending growth and keep it on track. While the commission has limited enforcement powers, it can develop improvement plans with certain payers and providers who contribute to excess spending growth.
The state has promised to switch Medicaid and other state health programs from fee-for-service to alternative payment methods. An encouraging report by the state commission recently found that private insurers and Medicare are using global payments for a small but growing number of people. Providers are also implementing other reforms to deliver more coordinated, patient-centered care.
Five providers have agreed to participate in the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) model. Created by the Affordable Care Act, ACOs are networks of providers that receive global payments and use new methods to care for groups of Medicare patients. If the Massachusetts ACO providers give quality care while spending less than expected, they and the payers share the savings.
While some positive changes have been made in the state, there is still room for improvement. The commission estimates that 21 to 39 percent of total state spending on health care could be considered wasteful.
It says providers and state health programs need to reduce preventable hospital readmissions and unnecessary emergency room visits. Providers can also improve how they coordinate care for high-cost patients and those with multiple conditions. The state could also show more leadership by improving its online health insurance exchange.
Massachusetts and Maryland deserve credit for undertaking ambitious initiatives to rein in the costs of health care while improving its quality. While much progress still needs to be made in both states, if they succeed in meeting their goals they could serve as models for the rest of the country.


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