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Monday, 24 June 2019

How to Stretch Your Feet

Your feet endure a great amount of stress each day from constantly allowing us to move around. It is important to stretch your feet to help prevent them from becoming injured. Your toes may easily deform into unhealthful positions if they are not stretched.

One of the most common reasons for toe deformities are the shoes you may be wearing. Shoes that are too tight may fold and shift the toes out of place. Heeled shoes may also push your toes upward. Forcing your toes into an unnatural position which may cause the muscles to tighten and prevent them from reverting to normal length. Another common reason is improper use of foot muscles. Many people fail to use the muscles in their feet or toes when they walk. Lastly, the positioning of your feet while walking may also cause toe deformities. If you walk with your feet facing outward, your “push-off” phase is on the side of your big toe instead of the bottom of your foot. This may cause the big toe to eventually tighten into a new shifted position.

There are many reasons why stretching your toes may be helpful. One reason is that healthy spacing may aid in avoiding calluses and other injuries that are caused by rubbing.  Stretching will also prevent you from developing toes that curl, hammertoes, or bunions.

A great way to stretch your toes is to place them in your hands and bend them all downward; this will help you stretch the top of your foot. Next, you should repeat this process but instead bend them upward enough to feel a nice stretch in the bottom of your foot. You should then try to pull each toe apart from the next and pull any toes that are bent upward until they are back downward.

If you are looking to practice stretching your entire foot, you can try a towel stretch. This is done by sitting on the floor with your legs in front of you. Take a towel and wrap it around your toes. Afterward, pull the towel toward you with your toes and hold this position for 15 to 30 seconds before releasing. Practice this stretch for three sets. Another stretch your feet are towel lifts. This is done by sitting in a chair and trying to pick a towel up from the ground with your toes. Try lifting the towel with your little toes for five sets before switching feet.

If you are an athlete, or exercise often, it is especially important for you to practice stretching your feet. Those who suffer from foot pain caused by poor footwear, plantar fasciitis, or long hours of standing at work may also benefit from foot exercises.

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Whether in practice or in the game, athletes put their bodies through great stress. Some sports demand more from the body than others. However, every sport has an element of inorganic movement or unnatural motion. For example, in softball, a pitcher winds up and flings her body with an incredible amount of dexterity in order to get the most ideal velocity out of her pitches. This motion, incredibly taxing on the body, can cause serious injury.

One of the most common issues of athletic injuries happens in the feet. If it’s a damaging fracture that leaves the athlete sidelined or just a simple turf toe, foot injuries can still be very frustrating and painful. Regardless of the sport, athletes still require use of their feet in some fashion. This is why foot therapy is extremely vital for getting athletes back on the right track to return to the field.

No matter the injury, the best way to speed up the recovery period is to receive physical therapy. Physical therapy has proven to work for millions of people. Professional physical therapists are specifically trained to help people return to proper form from any injury.

During physical therapy, you will go through organized training in order to get back into form. Sometimes training can be quite difficult, especially in the beginning when there is more pain and the foot feels awkward. To alleviate this, you will do basic twisting and stretching exercises in order to get flexibility and foot mobility back up. The therapist will also massage the injured area to activate and relax muscles. Over time you will eventually move up to strengthening exercises, designed specifically so that the injured area is exercised.

Foot therapy for sports is a modern science miracle. Unlike other treatments that may employ the use of fancy chemicals and terminology, physical therapy is an evidence-based practice that offers the same benefits. Due to huge advancements in the knowledge of muscles and joints, doctors can turn catastrophic injuries around so that athletes can return to the game once more.

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Monday, 10 June 2019

Athlete's Foot

Athlete’s foot is an extremely contagious infection caused by a fungus that results in itching, burning, dry, and flaking feet. The fungus that causes athlete’s foot is known as tinea pedis and thrives in moist, dark areas such as shower floors, gyms, socks and shoes, commons areas, public changing areas, bathrooms, dormitory style houses, locker rooms, and public swimming pools. Athlete’s foot is difficult to treat as well because of the highly contagious and recurrent nature of the fungus.

Tinea is the same fungus that causes ringworm, and is spread by direct contact with an infected body part, contaminated clothing, or by touching other objects and body parts that have been exposed to the fungus. Because the feet are an ideal place for tinea to grow and spread, this is the most commonly affected area.  It is, however, known to grow in other places. The term athlete’s foot describes tinea that grows strictly on the feet.

The most commonly infected body parts are the hands, groin, and scalp, as well as the feet. Around 70% of the population suffer from tinea infections at some point in their lives, however not all of these cases are athlete’s foot. Just like any other ailment, some people are more likely to get it than others, such as people with a history of tinea infections or other skin infections, both recurring and non-recurring ones. The extent to which a person experiences regrowth and recurrent tinea infections varies from person to person.

Sometimes people will not even know that they are infected with tinea or that they have athlete’s foot because of a lack of symptoms. However, most experience mild to moderate flaking, itching, redness, and burning. However, some of the more severe symptoms include cracking and bleeding skin, intense itching and burning, pain while walking or standing, and even blistering.

Because of the recurring nature of the tinea fungus and the athlete’s foot it causes, the best way to treat this condition is with prevention. You can take some preventative measures such as wearing flip flops or sandals in locker rooms and public showers to reduce contact with the floor. It also helps to keep clean, dry feet while allowing them to breathe. Using powders to keep your feet dry is a good idea, as well as keeping your feet exposed to light and cool air, to prevent the growth of tinea. If you do happen to get athlete’s foot, opt for using topical medicated creams, ointments or sprays. These treatments help eliminate and prevent it from coming back.

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Monday, 03 June 2019

Flatfoot is a foot disorder that is not as straightforward as many people believe.  Various types of flatfoot exist, each with their own varying deformities and symptoms.  The partial or total collapse of the arch, however, is a characteristic common to all types of flatfoot.  Other signs of flatfoot include:

  • “Toe drift,” or the pointing outward of the toes and the front part of the foot
  • The tilting outward of the heel and the tilting inward of the ankle
  • The lifting of the heel off the ground earlier when walking due to a tight Achilles tendon
  • Hammertoes
  • Bunions

One of the most common types of flatfoot is flexible flatfoot.  This variation usually starts in childhood and progresses as one ages into adulthood.  Flexible flatfoot presents as a foot that is flat when standing, or weight-bearing.  When not standing, the arch returns.  Symptoms of flexible flatfoot include:

  • Pain located in the heel, arch, ankle, or along the outside of the foot
  • Overpronation, or an ankle that rolls in
  • Shin splint, or pain along the shin bone
  • General foot aches or fatigue
  • Pain located in the lower back, hip, or knee

Your podiatrist will most likely diagnose flatfoot by examining your feet when you stand and sit.  X-rays may be taken to define the severity and help determine the treatment option best for your condition.  Nonsurgical treatments can include activity modification, weight loss, orthotics, immobilization, medications, physical therapy, shoe modifications, and ankle foot orthoses (AFO) devices.  If nonsurgical methods prove ineffective, surgery may be considered.  Multiple surgical procedures can correct flatfoot; and depending on your specific condition, one may be selected alone or combined with other techniques to ensure optimal results.

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For those of you deep into home automation, using documentation compiled by Terrence Eden, me and Harm Otten wrote some Node-RED code to retrieve battery status from the same API that the the Renault Z.E. app uses. I’ve posted it on gitlab.

It outputs an MQTT message every 15 minutes. If there is more than one car associated with the login, more than one message is sent. A message looks like this

In my setup the message finds it’s way to a dashboard on my Android phone using MQTT dash, a Node-RED dashboard and like all other MQTT messages a MariaDb database on my Synology NAS for logging.

Somebody in the UK forum asked what would happen if you’d press the Start button while driving. Time for an experiment.

  • Pressing once: only thing happens is Cruise Control tripping off ;
  • Long press: nothing happens;
  • Five short presses: “ignition off”. Car starts coasting. No abrupt bleeding of speed. Brake servo remains primed, as is power steering.

To re-engage, let it coast for a few seconds, then short press again. It will do this even while the gear is in D!

One small software bug was detected while testing: the dashboard consumption / regeneration arc is gone and the “READY” label won’t go away until a “proper” cycle is done.

All testing was done done on the motorway, 100 km/h, 2013 Q210.

Disclaimer: don’t try this at home.

Picture tells more than words. Made from two sheets of back-to-back glued foam rubber, see this post. Thank you user “TomTomZoe”! user “Urban” had this brilliant solution for the sticky shelf. We’ve published a more permanent solution here  but nonetheless I immediately applied some duct tape 😉

We have an exciting new release coming up in a few days. Next to the inevitable bug fixes, we have a few new features we think you will love.

  • In the technical section, there is now a separate screen for the 12 volt battery. You can monitor here the voltage of the battery over time. Maybe we need to add current later. We’re not entirely happy about the color coded status lines, indicating charging and car status, but it was a needed compromise at this moment to show the changes in time.
  • We have slightly modified the consumption screen. We removed the capacity in Ah from the upper graph and replaced it with the SOC percentage from the lower graph. In the lower graph, we added a gradient representing the difference between real distance traveled and the change in the range indicator. It starts in the middle and will go up (red) if the range indicator decreases more than the distance traveled, or down (green) if it decreases less. We believe it is much more useful because it indicates if your initial planning, whatever that was, is still on track. If you love the old version, it has moved to the experimental section. We might depreciate it later though.
  • There is an experimental option to make a raw dump of all the frames we use. We need both your help and this activity to check out reports we’re getting about weird values when CanZE is used on Q90 and R90 cars.

Stay tuned and feedback, as always, is much appreciated.

Why does my dongle not work? Is it working? What version is it? Why do only some of the values get displayed?

I recently discovered an app that can test a dongle and tell you what version it is, so also what features it implements:

Here is what the app produces for my MaxiScan dongles, which advertises itself as an v1.5 …

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11 January 2018

The Communist holocaust and its lessons for the 21st Century

By Philip Vander Elst

For at least half a century, nearly every secondary school pupil and university student in Britain has learnt about the evils of Nazism and Fascism, and the crimes of Hitler, Mussolini and Franco. One enormously important subject, however, has generally been missing from the education curriculum: namely, the horrendous and universally destructive nature and record of Communism.

Whilst mainstream historical textbooks and political commentary have typically described Stalin’s purges and repressive rule during the 1930s and ’40s, and the post-war Soviet occupation and subjugation of Eastern Europe, their coverage of 20th-century history has tended to downplay the role of Lenin and Trotsky as the original architects of Soviet totalitarianism, rarely emphasising the full extent or scale of the bloodletting for which these two men were responsible during the early years of Communist rule in Russia (1917-1924).

The repressive nature and sanguinary record of Communism in Asia, Africa, and Latin America – in countries like China, Vietnam, Cuba, and Mozambique, to mention only a few examples, has been similarly minimised or ignored. Worst of all, there has usually been little adequate discussion of the totalitarian ideological roots of Communist tyranny – of the fact, for example, that Marx and Engels were quite open and explicit about their hostility to freedom and democracy, and their support for revolutionary violence, the physical extermination of their opponents, and the ruthless suppression of all dissent in their future Socialist State.

Not surprisingly, these failures of omission have helped to produce a lopsided and morally distorted understanding of recent modern history, particularly that of the Cold War. Instead of recognising, from the very beginning, the inherently totalitarian and globally aggressive character of Communist ideology, many on the Left spent decades constructing alibis to excuse Soviet and Chinese despotism, a pattern repeated in relation to other Communist regimes in Cuba, North Vietnam, Nicaragua, and other parts of the Third World.

To counter these misconceptions, we must begin at the beginning, with a brief explanation of the central link between Marxist ideology and Communist totalitarianism.

 The overwhelmingly powerful moral case against full-blooded revolutionary socialism, or communism, is based on one very simple truth amply confirmed by experience. And that is, that abolishing private property, nationalising industry, and giving the State control over all housing, employment, education and welfare, necessarily destroys personal independence as well as the economic autonomy of all non-governmental media and social institutions.

The resulting centralisation of all authority, resources and decision-making in the hands of government and its omnipotent bureaucracy renders it inevitable that such a concentration of absolute power in the ruling socialist elite will eventually prove corrupting and end in tyranny. To believe otherwise is to disregard the moral frailty of imperfect and fallible human nature, as well as the lessons of history. Even if the motivation of the ruling socialist revolutionaries in any particular society is purely altruistic, their passionate desire to use the coercive power of the State to remake the world, and create a perfect utopia of social harmony and justice, will always make them intolerant of all disagreement and resistance. And that, of course, brings us back to the historical phenomenon of the Communist Holocaust.

The terrible and neglected truth is that not only is revolutionary socialism an experiment in coercive social engineering that has failed in every continent, but the price in blood and tears of its global failure over the past century has also been colossal, dwarfing by far the combined loss of life incurred in both World Wars. According, for instance, to The Black Book of Communism, the English edition of a scholarly and exhaustively documented country-by-country indictment of Communism written by a group of mainly French historians, some of whom are former Marxists, at least 94 million people have been killed by Communist regimes since 1917, through executions, assassinations, forced labour, man-made famines, and the civil wars and uprisings provoked and bloodily repressed by them.

Other estimates of the human cost of Communism are even higher than this already shocking figure of 94 million. For instance, in his equally exhaustive landmark study, Death by Government, the late Professor R. J. Rummel, political scientist and former Director of the Haiku Peace Research Centre at the University of Hawaii, calculated that the total death toll from Communism was over 105 million, and his detailed estimates did not include the human cost of Communism in most of Eastern Europe, or in Third World countries like Cuba and Mozambique. Even so, his figure is double the total number of casualties (military and civilian) killed on all sides during World War 2.

Another more recent study, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism, by the American historian and political scientist Dr Paul Kengor, offers a particularly powerful, wide-ranging, and well-documented critique of revolutionary socialism, including a damning analysis of its fellow travellers in the West. And it too suggests that the Black Book seriously underestimates the human cost of Communism.

“Take the figure for the Soviet Union, where the Black Book records 20 million dead,” writes Dr Kengor: “Most accounts of the total Soviet death toll exceed 33 million, and some estimates are twice that… Alexander Yakovlev, a high-level Soviet official who became one of Mikhail Gorbachev’s chief reformers and in the 1990s was given the official task of trying to tabulate the victims of Soviet Communism, estimates that Stalin alone ‘annihilated… 60 to 70 million people’… A similar level of bloodshed was wrought solely by China’s Mao Zedong, who was responsible for the deaths of at least 60 million in China, and more likely over 70 million, according to the latest biographical-historical research… Also too conservative is the Black Book’s North Korea number, which does not include the 2 to 3 million who died in the famine of the late 1990s, a famine resulting directly from Communist policies.”

Indeed, to get a full sense of the scale of the devastation and human tragedy of this particular Communist man-made famine, adds Dr Kengor, you need to realise that “Two to three million dead was roughly 10 to 15% of the North Korean population. That percentage of the American population would be 40 million people. (America lost 300,000 dead in all of World War 2).”

All in all, concludes Dr Kengor, and allowing for the fact that the Black Book may have also underestimated the dimensions of the Communist holocaust in Cambodia (Kampuchea), “The total deaths caused by Communism in the twentieth century are closer to 140 million” – a figure more than twice the population of Britain and more than 23 times the total number of Jews murdered by Hitler.

Dreadful though these statistics may be, they obviously cannot convey the full horror of what decades of Communist rule has meant for the populations beneath its iron yoke. Numbers, however impressive, cannot tell the citizens of a free country what it feels like to have to conceal one’s thoughts and opinions daily, for fear of being denounced to the secret police, or what it feels like to be in their prisons awaiting interrogation and torture. They cannot tell you what it feels like to be a slave in the Gulag, or to have to spend a whole day in a queue for the most basic necessities, because shortages of food, medicine and clothing, and other staple products, are endemic within a centrally planned State-controlled economy. Nor, finally, can statistics convey what it must be like to have to ask for official permission to travel, or to change one’s job, or how it feels to be denied freedom of conscience and worship.

To begin to visualise and appreciate something of the suffering endured by different categories of people, as well as whole populations, you have to read the memoirs and listen to the personal testimonies of the victims of Communism. Of this now extensive literature, the most plentiful, for obvious reasons, describe the experience of life under Soviet Communism, notably the writings and speeches of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, particularly his great and partly autobiographical three-volume history of Soviet totalitarianism, The Gulag Archipelago. Less well-known, but equally powerful, is Against All Hope, the prison memoirs of the Cuban poet and human rights activist Armando Valladares, first published in Britain by Hamish Hamilton in 1986 and dedicated “To the memory of my companions tortured and murdered in Fidel Castro’s jails, and to the thousands of prisoners still suffering in them.”

Given that the late Fidel Castro, and his revolutionary sidekick, Che Guevara, were revered and popular political and cultural icons of the New Left in the 1960s and ’70s, and remain widely admired figures on Western university and college campuses, Left-wing fans of the Cuban Revolution would do well to read Valladares’ memoirs, as well as his speech of February 23 1988 to the UN Commission on Human Rights, describing and reflecting upon his 22 years as a political prisoner in Cuba.

To quote just a short but vivid extract from his testimony on that occasion: “I recall when they kept me in a punishment cell, naked, with several fractures on one leg which never received medical care; today, those bones remain jammed up together and displaced. One of the regular drills among the guards was to stand on the steel mesh ceiling and throw at my face buckets full of urine and excrement. Mr Chairman, I know the taste of the urine and the excrement of other men: That practice does not leave marks; marks are left by beatings with steel rods and by bayonet thrusts. My head is still covered with scars and you can feel the cracks.”

Liberal admirers of the Cuban Revolution, who have included Hollywood stars and prominent American journalists and politicians, should also take note of the fact that Castro’s Communist regime is estimated by scholars and human rights organisations to have been responsible for the deaths of around 100,000 Cubans and the flight of well over a million refugees to the USA since 1959. Furthermore, to quote the Cuban exile and historian of the Cuban Revolution Humberto Fontova: “According to the [New York based] human rights group, Freedom House, 500,000 Cubans (young and old, male and female) have passed through Castro’s prison and forced-labour camps. This puts Fidel Castro’s political incarceration rate right up there with his hero Stalin’s.”

Double standards and an inability to acknowledge the full truth about Communism have not only characterised the attitude of large sections of the Western Left towards Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution. It also characterised (and continues to do so) Left-wing attitudes to the Vietnam War (1963-1975) and American foreign policy in general. As a result, a widely accepted narrative has grown up which portrays the “anti-war” movement of the 1960s and early ’70s as a movement of noble idealists, bravely resisting an “immoral war” waged by successive American Presidents against a heroic and supposedly authentic South Vietnamese “national liberation movement”. The reality, of course, was very different.

From the very beginning, Ho Chi Minh, founder (in 1930) and leader of the Indo-China Communist Party, and a Comintern agent and loyal follower of Lenin and Stalin, aimed to establish an all-powerful Communist dictatorship over the whole of formerly French Indo-China. The first stage of this process, the setting-up and consolidation of his Communist regime in North Vietnam, in the mid-1950s, was as characteristically bloody as the equivalent stage in all other Communist revolutions. According to Professor Rummel’s painstaking and detailed calculations, for example, drawing on a variety of credible sources, around 150,000 North Vietnamese peasants were slaughtered during the so-called “land reforms” of this period, and that is a relatively conservative estimate. In 1956 a further 70,000 North Vietnamese were murdered in campaigns of political repression, a figure that does not include the many victims of periodic internal Communist Party “purges”. Not surprisingly, all this repression provoked armed peasant rebellions that were also bloodily suppressed, at an estimated cost of between 10,000 to 15,000 lives. “All told,” writes Professor Rummel, “from 1953 to 1956 the Communists likely killed 195,000 to 865,000 North Vietnamese. I conservatively estimate the toll as around 360,000 men, women, and children.”

Around the same time all this blood was being shed, knowing the fate that awaited them if they stayed in the North, some 727,000 to 1 million North Vietnamese refugees (about 60 per cent of them Catholics) fled to the non-Communist South after 1954 – further powerful evidence that whenever ordinary people have had the chance, they have always voted against Communism with their feet, risking life and limb to do so, like the Cubans fleeing Castro after 1959, and their equivalents fleeing equally repressive Marxist-Leninist dictatorships in Red China, North Korea, and other parts of the Communist world.

Unfortunately for those Vietnamese refugees, however, their escape from the North did not in the end secure them from the danger of Communist violence and tyranny. Like the rest of the majority non-Communist South Vietnamese population, they became the victims of Ho Chi Minh’s terrorist campaign against the South, planned, organised and meticulously controlled by the North Vietnamese Communists in Hanoi. Long before the arrival of any significant American military presence in South Vietnam in 1963 and 1965, the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas of the so-called “National Liberation Front” were murdering South Vietnamese soldiers, officials and civilians in every part of the country, a campaign of terror and mayhem that escalated throughout the 1960s and was accompanied by every kind of atrocity, including kidnapping and torture, the decapitation of village headmen, the bayoneting of pregnant women, and the burying alive of other unfortunate captives.

Rummel estimates that a total of about 66,000 South Vietnamese civilians were assassinated by Hanoi’s terror squads, people who “because of the good job they were doing in a village, their honesty, industriousness, or leadership, or because of their beliefs or outspokenness, were murdered – sometimes with the greatest cruelty and pain.”

Finally, far from ushering in some new reign of peace, liberty, and social justice, as so many in the anti-war movement predicted or hoped, night descended on South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia (Kampuchea) after the withdrawal of the Americans and the final Communist victory in 1975. In a matter of just weeks or months, the unfortunate inhabitants of these three countries plunged from the frying pan of political authoritarianism, or partial, corrupt and imperfect democracy, into the totalitarian fire of revolutionary socialism.

The nature and scale of the Cambodian genocide organised by Pol Pot and his fellow Khmer Rouge revolutionaries, which killed around 2 million people, or roughly one third of the entire population between 1975 and 1979 (to cite Rummel’s careful, conservative estimate), is too well-known to require detailed elaboration here. The fate, by contrast, of the conquered people of South Vietnam, did not, it is true, involve quite the same descent into Hell as in Cambodia (Kampuchea), but it was terrible enough.

According to Nguyen Cong Hoan, a former official of the new post-war Communist government in the South, anything from 50,000 to 100,000 South Vietnamese were executed outright during the first year under the new regime. Others estimate the true number of post-war executions to have been at least or at most a quarter of a million. Taking these and other sources into consideration, Rummel’s conservative calculation hovers around a figure of 100,000 executions.

In addition to all this and the abolition of freedom of enterprise, movement, conscience and speech, the collectivisation of society and destruction of liberty in South Vietnam also involved the imprisonment of vast numbers of her citizens in the “re-education” and forced labour camps of the Vietnamese gulag.

“Based on a 1985 statement by [Vietnamese] Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach,” states Rummel, “ 2,500,000 people may ultimately have passed through these ‘re-education’ camps.” Furthermore, he continues, “One estimate is that at least 200,000 people also died or were killed in them. This is probably a high, however. Taking account of the death toll in the similar Stalinist and Maoist gulags, a more likely figure is around 95,000.”

Little wonder that Truong Nhu Tang, a former Communist Minister of Justice in the Provisional Revolutionary Government, had this to say in 1981, two years after his own flight from Vietnam: “Never has any previous regime brought such masses of people to such desperation. Not the military dictators, not the colonialists, not even the ancient Chinese overlords.”

The post-1975 Communist holocaust in Indo-China should not have taken anyone by surprise, not only because of the lessons of previous Communist revolutions, but also because Communism’s crimes against humanity have been the inevitable outcome of its ideology, one which from the very beginning made no secret of its commitment to terror, violence and repression, to bring about the triumph of the socialist revolution. Only by gaining total and undivided control of the coercive power of the State, and then using that concentrated power to control every institution and every facet of the individual’s existence, its founding fathers believed, could the utopian goal of a radically transformed society, and the creation of a perfect new socialist man, be achieved. That is why Marx and Engels never hid their belief that their socialist end justified whatever means might be necessary to bring it about, however bloody, as this concluding quote from their collective correspondence demonstrates:

“It will be necessary to repeat the year 1793 [the beginning of the “Reign of Terror” of the French Revolution]. After achieving power, we’ll be considered monsters, but we couldn’t care less.”

For more information, including sources, see the full version of this article at http://www.cobdencentre.org/author/philipvanderelst

Philip Vander Elst is a writer and C.S. Lewis scholar


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Principal, Business Development in New York at CBIZ

Date Posted: 2/13/2020

Job Snapshot

Job Description

CBIZ CMF is a division of CBIZ (NYSE: CBZ) with a service line focused on mergers, acquisitions, and transitions for private equity-backed firms across North America.  Our professionals are dynamic, operations-oriented financial executives who are accustomed to the issues, ambiguity, and interpersonal dynamics of businesses going through transitions and transactions.  Culturally, the division is an entrepreneurial, service-oriented, and team-centric, meritocracy.  We are looking for “A” players to round out our team.

CBIZ CMF is fortunate to have additional scale and competencies through our parent company CBIZ (NYSE: CBZ) and their over 100 offices and nearly 5,000 employees in major metropolitan areas and suburban cities in the U.S.  In partnership with our parent company, additionally, we are able to offer a comprehensive set of services including: Tax, Audit, Valuation, Risk & Advisory, Corporate Recovery, Benefits, Property & Casualty and other insurance related services.

CBIZ has been honored to be the recipient of several national recognitions: 2019 America's Best Mid-Size Employers by Forbes, 2019 Best Workplaces in Consulting & Professional Services by Great Place to Work® and FORTUNE, 2019 Workplace Excellence Seal of Approval by the Alliance for Workplace Excellence, and one of the Top 101 highest scoring companies in the country for Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation by the National Association for Business Resources.

About the Role

This role reports to the Managing Director and head of our Financial Sponsor Coverage team and is critical to expanding our market share with clients and prospective clients in the Greater New York City metropolitan area.  The role is based in CBIZ’s New York City office at 5 Bryant Park.

Essential Functions and Primary Duties

  • Identify, network into, and establish relationships with junior and mid-level professionals at private equity firms, investment banking firms, and other M&A constituents in the Greater New York City metropolitan area.
  • Nurture and leverage existing firm relationships to expand contacts within a PE or IB group.
  • Prepare team members for telephonic and in person meetings by completing information sheets necessary to conduct successful calls/meetings.
  • Help schedule, participate in, and lead follow up on telephonic and in person meetings.
  • Log and update all data tracking fields in SalesForce after telephonic and in person meetings.
  • Log and track advancement of individual professionals along our sales cycle continuum.
  • Use tools including PitchBook, LinkedIn etc. to navigate.
  • Send best practice emails to probe for needs where CBIZ can deliver solutions.
  • Attend conferences to market CBIZ and optimize brand awareness.
  • Work with Marketing to follow up on specific lead generation campaigns.
  • Present actionable business intelligence off fund news to properly stay top of mind and advance more individuals at more funds.
  • Learn and maintain in-depth knowledge of new services, industry trends and competition.
  • Must live in the Greater New York City metropolitan area.

Preferred Qualifications

  • The ideal candidate will possess 6+ years of client service and/or sales experience in a professional services organization.
  • Familiarity with alternative investment asset classes strongly desired.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and
  • Ability to demonstrate contact development through leveraging personal and professional network.
  • Proven ability to establish multi-level relationships within a single firm.
  • Ability to recognize and prioritize action across multiple prospect opportunities.
  • Must be a self-starter that can work independent of daily oversight.
  • High level of maturity and professionalism while displaying tenacity.
  • Candidates should possess an intellectual curiosity.

Minimum Qualifications

  • The successful candidate will have a Bachelor’s degree.
  • Minimum 3 years’ experience working for a professional services organization.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills plus presentation skills.

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Expert Advice and Strategies for Successful Negotiations

Valerie is currently the CEO and owner of Valerie Martinelli Consulting, LLC. in which she offers Life, Leadership, and Career coaching for women as well as various Management and Human Resource consulting services such as program development, management, and evaluation, human resource audits, and employee handbook and other policy developments.

Negotiation is an important subject for women in their careers, whether they are job searching, seeking a promotion, or just wanting to learn this skill. I find that this is one of the most difficult topics for women to understand and act on appropriately. Many fail to recognize that it could be years of additional work to earn the same salary as those who negotiate.

Why Should Women Negotiate?

When women do not even attempt to negotiate, they are leaving money behind. What they may not realize is that this money is not just part of your salary; it also becomes part of your retirement. Also, men negotiate at a much higher rate than women. This becomes part of the disparity as to why men make more than women. However, women should start negotiating at an earlier stage of their careers as well in order to earn exactly what they are worth throughout the duration of their careers. I emphasize learning these skills because women should practice before negotiating a salary. We also negotiate more than we think we do- in life and work situations we often times negotiate for things that we want. Negotiation gets a bad reputation with women because it can be difficult to discuss money. Women also worry about risking their reputation with their employers for fear of being labeled or being perceived as greedy.

Think about a $100,000 salary and when one person negotiates and receives $105,000 and the other does not. So, what is the cost of that? If you’re thinking $5,000- that is an incorrect analysis. When negotiating a salary, you need to consider that amount compounded and how it affects your salary, earnings potential, and retirement. When I work with women through the negotiation process, I teach them that their ask is important because it not only affects their current paycheck but future ones as well. We tend to get involved in the current situation and not fully realize that this information provides us leverage for future negotiations and our actual earnings potential as well.

What Are Some Common Errors Women Make When Negotiating?

Women are often times ill-prepared. They do not do a good job preparing by knowing how much more they want and why. They also do not know how to tell their counterpart persuasively why they should receive what they want. Women also have lower expectations. The problem with this is that when you have lower expectations, you receive lower outcomes because expectations drive behavior. Women do not necessarily receive less because they are female but because their expectations drive their behavior and the ask during their negotiation.

As you move through your career, you acquire knowledge and experience, your growth should also include some promotions, which will come with asking for a salary increase. One last error that I have seen women make is that they tend to lose their confidence. Role playing and mock negotiation sessions are very helpful to learn the proper techniques and to gain confidence prior to an actual negotiation.

When women do not even attempt to negotiate, they are leaving money behind. What they may not realize is that this money is not just part of your salary; it also becomes part of your retirement.

How Should Women Think About Negotiation?

Women are concerned with their reputations when negotiating. Research suggests that male bosses tend to penalize their female employees for negotiating in a way that their male counterparts are not. Female bosses tend to penalize both male and female employees when deemed necessary.

What women need to do is become more comfortable discussing their core competencies and why they are negotiating for a raise. It is important to be comfortable with the fact that they have earned it, deserve it, and are worthy of it. I understand that we are notorious for undercutting ourselves and settling for whatever we can get or for the greater good, rather than what works in our favor. Much of this requires letting go of stereotypes and the fear of being labeled. If we let those fears drive our thoughts, careers, and earnings potential, then we may not ever make any progress in advancing ourselves or our careers.

Women also need to learn how to take the right approach, which should be a communal one. If you don’t make it about yourself but rather about what you can do for someone else, it negates the negative reputational effects for women. This approach is effective for women because they are not as good as men at negotiating for what they want because of their expectations. However, if women are negotiating for someone else, then it can be very effective and successful strategy for getting what is necessary. Most women also believe that it is unacceptable to be greedy on their own; however, the communal approach turns it into a care-taking tactic. So, how can women make their negotiations more representative and more successful? Here are some of my top tips and strategies:

  • Assess: Is this a situation where you can influence the outcome? If not, then I advise that you should wait.
  • Plan: Negotiation can be conducted best if you planned beforehand. This is not something that should be done on the spur of the moment. Decide what it is that you want to achieve. Be sure to understand what is important to your counterpart and why they are creating a specific a problem or making a particular decision.
  • Prepare: This is a must. Use your network, seek a coaching session, do your research about the comps in your industry and location. If you are prepared to lead your counterpart through the negotiation session, then they will see why you are asking for more.
  • Package Your Issues Together: If you go issue by issue, it will seem more adversarial than if you frame them together and state the recourses that you need to be effective. Remember, your ask should be centered around what you need to help solve a specific problem that keeps you better off and your counterpart whole.

Lastly, seek professional guidance beforehand, maintain your confidence, and don’t be afraid to ask!

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The Birth of a Nation (2016)

Aja Naomi King comforts Nate Parker.

Aja Naomi King comforts Nate Parker.

(2016) Historical Drama (Fox Searchlight) Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Aja Naomi King, Penelope Ann Miller, Aunjanue Ellis, Dwight Henry, Mark Boone Jr., Jackie Earle Haley, Gabrielle Union, Colman Domingo, Esther Scott, Roger Guenveur Smith, Tony Espinosa, Jayson Warner Smith, Jason Stuart, Chiké Okonkwo, Katie Garfield. Directed by Nate Parker

It has been more than 150 years since slavery ended in this country and still it is necessary for the descendents of those in bondage have to remind us that Black Lives Matter. It is sadly evident from the shenanigans of the followers of Donald Trump, from the evidence that the KKK is still alive and well and for the institutionalized racism that allows people to think that flying a Confederate flag isn’t offensive to a sizable percentage of the population that we still have a long way to go.

However when Nat Turner (Parker) was alive slavery was in full force and there was no end in sight. He lived in Southampton County, Virginia and as a boy (Espinosa) played with the scion of the plantation owner. The owner’s wife (Miller) saw something in the young boy and sought out to teach him how to read – although only the Holy Bible, because she felt that would be the only book useful to him. After the plantation owner passed away his son Samuel Turner (Hammer), now grown, orders Nat back to picking cotton much to his mother’s disappointment.

However, it turns out that Nat has a talent for preaching the gospel and it seems to calm down the slaves – it might not hurt that Samuel was, as owners go, fairly reasonable and less cruel. The local parson (Boone) witnesses Nat’s testimonial and suggests to Samuel that he send out his slave to surrounding plantations to placate the workers by preaching to them the Gospel. As this would put direly needed coin in Samuel’s pocket, he agrees and Nat begins to see first-hand what the conditions on other plantations are like.

He also meets Cherry (King), a comely house slave that he urges Samuel to buy. Eventually he lets her know that he’s smitten by her and she eventually relents to his charms. The two are married Gullah-style but as Cherry is now working on a neighboring plantation, they see each other rarely.

But tensions between slaves and whites are growing exponentially and after Cherry is brutally raped by white slave catchers led by the despicable Raymond Cobb (Haley) and soon thereafter his friend Hark’s (Domingo) wife Esther (Union) is raped by a lusty slave owner from a neighboring plantation. Nat begins to realize that the entire institution of slavery is unjust and that it is his duty to help the Lord strike it down. In August of 1831, he and a group of his fellow slaves, pushed beyond their limits, go on a spree, attacking plantations and killing the owners and their families. The first blows of a civil war have just been struck, although none will know it at the time.

Some (including myself) will compare this to 12 Years a Slave and there are some things that do make the comparison palatable. Both films show the brutality of slavery and both films show how unjust it was. However while 12 Years was a lot more intellectual an endeavor, this is from the gut. It captures the rage of angry black men who certainly have a great deal to be angry about.

This is clearly a passion project for Parker who produced, co-wrote, directed, and starred in and likely sold tickets in the box office for. Passion projects can be double edged swords when it comes to doing biographies. There can be a tendency to mythologize the subject and I think Parker indulged in that a little bit here. The Nat Turner that is depicted here is almost saintly until the sexual assaults drive him to lead a bloody uprising in which women, children and even infants are murdered. One has to deal with some of the gruesome deeds that occurred at the hands of Turner and his followers, however justified they may have been. I don’t believe I’m being racist when I say that Turner, about whom little is really known from a historical perspective, was likely not that nice; what we do know about him suggests that he had hallucinations – or visions if you like – of angels and divine beings (which to be fair are depicted in the film) and that he himself felt that he was being called by God to dispense justice to the slave owners and lead his people out of bondage as a modern day Moses.

Parker is at a bit of a disadvantage, truth be told; Turner was a rarity among slaves in that he could read but most of what we know about him comes from Confessions of Nat Turner: The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia written by the white lawyer Thomas Ruffin Gray and supposedly based on his actual confession, although many historians question its validity. Parker had to fill in a lot of blanks and does the best he can. Even William Styron, who won a Pulitzer Prize for The Confessions of Nat Turner in 1968, had to essentially invent Parker as a fictional character, which brought a lot of outrage from African-American intellectuals and civil rights leaders at the time.

The depictions of the horrible things suffered by slaves at the time may be among the most graphic ever put to film and may be too much for sensitive viewers. For my own part, I’m glad that Parker chose to go this route; too often Hollywood has portrayed slaves as sad people in chains singing “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” and wondering when oh when Lord will we be free. The reality of their existence was brutal and inhuman and while there were slave owners who were compassionate, there were many who were not.

Parker gives a searing performance as Turner and he shows a ton of screen presence here. He is supported by Hammer, whose character is a borderline alcoholic and certainly not always a kind and gentle man towards his slaves. Domingo is a tower of strength in his role as Hark, one of Turner’s confidantes and closest friends.

I do think that Parker would have benefitted with a little more objectivity in the script; it feels like the storytelling here is a bit rote and a bit too linear. That’s more or less just quibbling over grammar in a sense, and shouldn’t deter that many from going to see this.

Some right wing sites have drawn parallels between the film and the Black Lives Matter movement and perhaps that was intentional, but to be honest I don’t think Parker is advocating that black men rise up and start slaughtering white people indiscriminately; after all, that approach didn’t end very well for Turner or the others that rose up with him.

The film has generated some controversy based on Parker’s past legal issues. You can read about them elsewhere. I find it a shame that they have likely had an effect on the attendance for a very good movie about a very worthy subject. That’s not to vindicate Parker or what he allegedly did, albeit he was acquitted of all charges against him. I’m not a big believer in punishing someone for something they’ve already been acquitted of not doing. While the guilty sometimes get wrongly proclaimed innocent, more often people are acquitted because they are innocent.

This is an intense cinematic experience that is sadly mostly out of theaters. It should soon make its way to home video and who knows; if it gets any Oscar attention it might well get a theatrical re-release. Either way this is a movie worthy of your attention for both historical and cinematic reasons alike. It’s most definitely an angry young black man film, but it behooves all of us to listen to what angry young black men have to say.

REASONS TO GO: The Nat Turner story deserves to be told. The depiction of slavery is as brutal as any film has ever shown it to be – which is a good thing. Strong performances by Parker, Hammer and Domingo elevate the film.
REASONS TO STAY: Those with right-leaning tendencies may find the film to be polarizing. Muddies up history a little bit and makes safe storytelling choices.
FAMILY VALUES:  There is brief nudity and some fairly disturbing violence.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT:  Although the film depicts the turning point in Turner’s decision to revolt as a brutal assault on his wife, in reality his writings don’t acknowledge that he was married, although there is evidence that there was a marriage. Contemporary accounts do mention that he trusted her with his plans for the uprising but whether or not they were actually husband and wife still remains a mystery. Most historians regard the reason for his rebelliousness as spiritual visions and consider it unlikely that he felt his marriage, if it did indeed exist, was a valid one.
CRITICAL MASS: As of 11/7/16: Rotten Tomatoes: 74% positive reviews. Metacritic: 68/100.
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The Last Exorcism

The Last Exorcism

This isn't Kansas anymo...oh yeah it just might be.

(2010) Supernatural Horror (Lionsgate) Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell, Iris Bahr, Louis Herthum, Caleb Landry Jones, Tony Bentley, John Wright Jr., Shanna Forrestall, Justin Shafer, Carol Sutton, Victoria Patenaude, John Wilmot, Becky Fly, Denise Lee, Logan Craig Lee. Directed by Daniel Stamm

Belief is a powerful thing. Once we lock something in our mind that we believe is so, we make it so consciously or unconsciously. The mind can make us sick – and be a powerful healer.

Reverend Cotton Marcus (Fabian) has been a Southern hellfire and brimstone preacher since he was a child. Like many preachers, he also performs exorcisms. He doesn’t actually out demons; he uses parlor tricks and special effects to suggest to his “patients” that the demon has left them. Most of the time, they feel much better.

But Cotton’s own son was born with serious medical issues and the death of someone during an exorcism (not one Cotton was involved with) have opened his eyes to the harm he could well be doing. He decides to perform one last exorcism and chooses a subject at random; the Sweetzers.

He enlists a documentary crew to capture his last exorcism on film and show the practitioners to be the charlatans they are. The “victim” is Nell (Bell), a bright and cheerful teen whose father Louis (Herthum) is a fundamentalist who makes Pat Robertson look like Bill Maher. Nell’s brother Caleb (Jones) is suspicious of the whole thing and with good reason.

Nonetheless, Cotton convinces Louis to let them perform the exorcism and with the usual smoke and mirrors, Cotton is successful. He leaves the farm, thinking that he is done with exorcisms and finished with the Sweetzer family. He has no idea how wrong he is.

The conceit of the movie is that you’re seeing the “documentary” footage shot by the crew; as the movie wears on and things get more and more strange, the unexplainable tends to feel more realistic and believable than it might on a Hollywood sound stage. That works to the movie’s favor.

Also to the good is Fabian as Cotton Marcus. Cotton is a bit of a scalawag, a born salesman for God who can earnestly sell his flock on the power of Jesus as easily as he does in the deliciousness of his grandma’s banana bread recipe. He is also suffering a bit of a crisis of faith; he is tired of the games and the tricks and yearns to set things right. His family isn’t so sure about his change of heart but his wife Shanna (Forrestall) supports him.

Of the film crew, we mostly see Iris (Bahr), the producer and sound engineer (hey, it’s a low budget shoot) and she delivers the requisite amount of fear and panic. Herthum is also steadfast as the farmer whose belief and faith never waver, to the point that he’s willing to kill someone to prove it.

Despite its flaws (and indeed, occasionally because of them) this is as effective horror film as I’ve seen recently, a pleasant surprise that came from producer Eli Roth, who helmed such films as Cabin Fever and Hostel. There are some real scares here on a real low budget, mostly revolving around Nell who gets tossed about like a rag doll in some scenes. There is some subtle commentary on faith, religion and the gullibility of man. There are some solid performances. Basically, this is just a well-written movie that has an ending that is unfortunate, but that doesn’t negate the hour plus of film that preceded it. If not for that ending, this would have a perfect rating and that doesn’t happen for horror films often, but this one very nearly deserved it.

WHY RENT THIS: One of the scariest horror movies of the last few years. Really makes good use of the whole found footage genre. Surprisingly well-acted.

WHY RENT SOMETHING ELSE: The ending was really disappointing.

FAMILY VALUES: Plenty of bad language and a few somewhat disturbing crime scene images.

TRIVIAL PURSUIT: The movie spent ten years in development following a “60 Minutes” story on the subject which led to a bidding frenzy.

NOTABLE DVD EXTRAS: The Real Stories of Exorcism featurette looks at actual exorcism and interviews people who have been exorcised. There is also footage of the actor’s auditions on the Blu-Ray edition.

BOX OFFICE PERFORMANCE: $67.7M on a $1.8M production budget; the movie was a blockbuster in every sense of the word.

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We made it to the final part of my 4-part blogging series!  In this series, we’ve discussed how to set a strong foundation for your blog. Today I’m bringing it all together to set your blog up for success.  There’s also some tips from two of the UK’s top bloggers, In The Frow and Em Talks, as they share what they would tell themselves if they could go back to the early stages of their blogging life.

Here’s a recap of the series so far:

1 – Start with your Blogging Why

2 – 3 Steps to Blogging Consistently

3 – 5 Ways to Get Your Blog Seen

4 – How to Set Your Blog up for Success (this post)

In this post, I’m taking you through what you need to have in place to create a successful blog.  There’s a misconception there is no more space in the blogging world, it’s over-saturated and only the “big” bloggers can achieve anything.  For me, I believe there is room for everyone to blog but it takes time and there really is no such thing as an overnight success.

How to set your blog up for success

What Is Blogging Success?

Success if different to everyone.  It’s important to define what a successful blog would mean to you.  This can change over time as you achieve your goals and stretch yourself.  Some measurable aspects of success might be your monthly readership, working with certain brands or earning a specific amount of money every month.  It could also be about inspiring your readers or making new online relationships.

When you are looking at your own success, it’s important to not compare yourself to others.

It’s ok to use other bloggers as your inspiration.  More importantly, you need to create your own goals to work towards building your own success.

In order to achieve the success you want in the future, it’s important you put in the work now.  Overnight success may seem to happen from the outside but you will never see the hours bloggers spend on their blogs behind the scenes.

Em Talks Blogging Tips

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In part 2 of this series, I shared how consistency is the key to success – I believe this is the case in all parts of life.  This is something Em Sheldon from Em Talks, a beauty, lifestyle and travel blog agrees with.

“Consistency is key! I wish I didn’t give up with my YouTube and then have to try again 3 years later. Same with blogging, I was quite on and off with it at the start and my quality really wasn’t great. We get scared as no-one is reading to begin with but eventually, the audience will come!” – Em Sheldon, Em Talks.

Do you need to Hustle?

Hustle is a word banded about so much on the internet when it comes to blogging.  If you’re not blogging 24/7 are you really committed?!  I really don’t believe this and I don’t advocate this mindset, as I recently shared on Instagram.

Of course, you need to work hard.  Nothing comes easy but you do need to create a life and blog balance.  Organisation, consistency and knowing your why are all great ways to keep you focused when you need to.

In The Frow Blogging Tips

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Victoria McGrath of In The Frow agrees.  According to Influential Blogs, she is the 6th biggest beauty blogger in the UK.  Although, In The Frow also covers lifestyle, fashion and travel.

“I’d probably say – try to find a work/life balance as soon as possible. Seeing your friends is just as important as growing and writing your blog, and you need to organise your time better to be able to enjoy both work and your social life side by side!” – Victoria McGrath, In The Frow

It’s important to remember consistency, balance, organisation and of course, a want when it comes to achieving your goals to create a successful blog.

By setting the groundwork for your blog, you are more likely to be able to achieve your goals.  Over this series, we’ve looked at knowing your why – The reason you are blogging in the first place.  I shared the 3 steps to blogging consistently, a point which Em also emphasised in order to achieve success.  How to stand out online and finally today we looked at how to create your own success

It’s been lots of fun sharing this blogging series.  I want to wish you all the success when it comes to your blog.

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NaPoWriMo – Day One – ‘Later’

Later, when the tulips had dropped their petals. Later when the cards had been tucked away. Later when the phone stopped calling. Later when the house was cold and empty and the latch on the gate caught in the wind… That was when the tears came.

Night is a solitary endeavour. When the world shrinks to the size of a skull. Memories are painted on the darkness, dissected in the gloom, relived, reviled, returned to the boxes where the came from at the break of dawn. Doors hang looser on their hinges, those memories of chanced lost, wonders of what could have been.

Break my mind with words

when the darkness is deepest

and the hour is lost.

It’s day one of NaPoWriMo, [National Poetry Writing Month]. I haven’t used the prompt for today with this piece but I might put up another poem later if there’s time. I managed to forget that today was the start of NaPoWriMo until a few minutes ago so I’ve had a slight panic seeing as it’s half nine at the moment here in the UK.

Instead of the NaPoWriMo prompt I’ve used today’s Daily Post Prompt: Later

If you’re taking part in NaPoWriMo as well let me know in the comments below. If not then why not check it out! It’s a fantastic month of poetry and people. Why not give it a try?

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Carol Forrester is a writer trying to be a better one. She’s currently working on a poetry collection 'It's All In The Blood'. She has a 2:1 BA degree in history from Bath Spa University, enjoys judo at least twice a week, and tries to attend poetry events around the Midlands when she can. Her flash fiction story ‘Glorious Silence’ was named as River Ram Press’ short story of the month for August 2014 and her short story ‘A Visit From The Fortune Teller’ has been showcased on the literary site Ink Pantry. Her poems ‘Sunsets’ and ‘Clear Out‘ were featured on Eyes Plus Words, and two of her poems were included in the DVerse Poets Pub Publication ‘Chiaroscuro’ which is available for purchase on amazon. More recently her poem ‘Until The Light Gets In‘ was accepted and published at The Drabble and her poem ‘Newborn’ was published by Ink Sweat & Tears. She has been lucky enough to write guest posts for sites such as Inky Tavern and Song of The Forlorn and has hosted a number of guest bloggers on her site Writing and Works.

  1. ‘Night is a solitary endeavour. When the world shrinks to the size of a skull.’ I found that so rich – conveying a sense of the weight of times when we feel aloneness and overwhelm that I’m sure any human can relate to

  2. sandrinespycher says

    Very beautiful. I like the repetitions. I think “relived, reviled” sounds awesome. Well done!

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1. Donna Sturdevant Edgar
    November 4, 2013 @ 12:52 pm

    This really hit me. My daughter is 12 and it’s been years since she was invited to a birthday party too. Last time I asked her if she wanted a birthday party, she said there was no one to invite. Breaks my heart. I thought that if we lived in a neighborhood with more kids, she’d have more friends, but after reading this, I realize that the answer really is no.

  2. Pam Zercher
    November 4, 2013 @ 12:58 pm

    Miss Jenn is a treasure.

  3. Kim Richards
    November 5, 2013 @ 3:58 pm

    Thank you! This was wonderful

  4. Ginger
    November 6, 2013 @ 1:18 pm

    I loved that Jack recognized where he’d be happiest! Yeah for all the Miss Jenn’s in the world.
    Advice please. I was wondering if Jack has any friends who are autistic? Is that like putting two introverts in a room together with a tv, or is it somehow easier to make friends with someone who’s brain is more similar? I ask because it’s become clear to us recently that our son exhibits most of the traits of Asperger’s. I’ve been struggling to figure out how to help him fit into the world socially. I’ve seen the same thing with adults. He’s doing great at school for the firs time this year (in a preK program, holding off on actual kindergarten still) and I think it’s all because his teacher just accepted him, quirks and all. He feels some tiny connection to her that he’s never had before with anyone at school. I’m so very thankful for her, but I so wish he could learn to play with other kids and have a companion to “fight bad guys” with or do beyblade battles. For the most part I just accept him for who he is which is the kid who is very excited about Halloween because he loves candy but doesn’t actually wear his costume and is over trick-or-treating after the 3rd house and the kid who hates “playtime” at school, refusing to play with the toys but is happy to sit at the table and cut and glue instead. Accepting him the way he is, I think, has been immensely positive for us, but I still feel like he needs to have at least a few relationships outside our tiny family. I don’t know any other kids on the spectrum here, but I could seek them out if there was a chance it would make a difference in successfully forming a friendship.

  5. Missy
    November 7, 2013 @ 12:30 pm

    I read this the first time and went away to weep a bit. Now that I’ve wiped my nose and pulled on my “Mama Needs To Get It Together” pants, I realize that I wept because each of us who have a “Jack” get this, on some level. And it hurts.

    But, as usual, you provide a ray of light that shines hope. And for that – and a ton of other reasons – I love you. You are my people.

  6. lgrainger125
    November 9, 2013 @ 2:25 pm

    Thanks for a glimpse into your son’s world. It has helped me to understand a challenging student in my class. My interactions with him will change because I read about your wonderful Jack!

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1. debbensmom
    January 6, 2014 @ 11:29 am

    With my 35 year old son with autism it is Lean Cuisine meals. He eats one every day for lunch when he is at work. He does not eat sandwiches. He will allow me to buy Stouffers or Marie Callendars, finally. He likes to find the best deals in the frozen food section. And each meal MUST HAVE MASHED POTATOES! No noodles. No rice. Mashed potatoes. Yes, Ben still lives with me – but at least he does have a ‘real’ job .

  2. Missy
    January 7, 2014 @ 5:21 pm

    Trying to make peace with what the future holds is tricky, isn’t it. Admitting that it isn’t all “smelling tulips” right now, though, is a huge step towards that peace, my friend. I’m admitting the same right next to you. Shoulder to shoulder. Thank you for giving me the courage to.

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Nothing says summer like a convertible. I’d been hankering for some wind-in-my-hair action all summer, so of course when it was time for me to test the Chevrolet Camaro SS Convertible, we got hit with record-breaking heat, which made the idea of putting the top down intolerable. That heat was followed by rain. To put it bluntly, I didn’t get all the top-down time I wanted in the Camaro.

But, based on test drives early in the morning and late at night when the temperature wasn’t unbearable, I can say that, as a convertible, the Camaro is impressive. I picked it up at a press event in Maine and drove the two hours back home to New Hampshire with the top down. In contrast to the BMW 3-Series convertible I had driven earlier that day, the Camaro was quiet, even with the top down. In the BMW, I had to blast the stereo just to hear a few snatches of music. In the Camaro, I could listen to NPR with the top down on the highway and hear every word (though listening to NPR in a Camaro is a lot like listening to country music in a Maserati).

With the top up, the Camaro convertible suffered from wind noise and roof flexing. That’s common in most soft tops, though. If the Camaro were my car, I’d solve these problems by only driving it with the top down. Having the top up on such a pretty, summer-fun car is a shame.

Speaking of pretty, the Camaro got appreciative looks almost everywhere I took it. This is not a car for fitting in. But, even in New Hampshire where people aren’t ostentatious, people liked the look-at-me Camaro. By people, of course, I mean men. Guys in parking lots, road workers, other drivers and my husband could not get enough of the Camaro, and more than one tried to lure me into a drag race. Women seemed pretty indifferent to it.

Top up or down, the Camaro had plenty of power, a smooth six-speed manual and better handling than I expected. Other sporty cars have rides harsh enough to ruin a weekend jaunt, but the Camaro was comfortable for long hauls. All in all, it’s a great convertible – so long as you have something else to drive when the weather won’t let you put the top down.


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Limousine Hire in Bacup!

We provide limousine hire and chauffeur cars in the Bacup area with onward travel to any destination. We cover the entire LA, BB and CA postcode area.

Limousine hire in Bacup. Hire a American stretched limo from Cars for Stars (Lancaster)If you are looking for a reliable company where you can hire a limousine or chauffeur driven car in the Bacup area, then you have come to the right place. Cars for Stars (Lancaster) is the local franchise of award winning company, Cars for Stars Limited, a national company providing chauffeur driven cars and limousine hire in the UK. Cars for Stars (Lancaster) covers the Bacup area, providing limousine hire, wedding cars and chauffeur cars. If Cars for Stars (Lancaster) do not cover your area, you can find your nearest branch by selecting the link on the left, marked 'Other Branches'. Here is a map of the area we cover.

Cars for Stars (Lancaster) only offer the very latest limousines for hire in Bacup. Therefore, our customers need not be concerned that they will be expected to compromise in terms of style, service or quality. Why? Because we take a great deal of pride in the limos and cars we provide, keeping them in tip top condition, because this is our business and we know that our clients from Bacup would accept no less. In addition, one of the benefits of being part of a larger network is that, if we do not own or operate the specific limo or chauffeur car that you are seeking, we can almost certainly arrange for one to come to Bacup from a neighbouring Cars for Stars branch. Provided of course Cars for Stars has one available!

All Cars for Stars branches are fully licensed for private hire, this means that the business, the vehicles (cars and limousines) and, of course, Limo hire in Bacup? - Cars for Stars (Lancaster) offer a range of the very latest limousines for hire including Chrysler, Lincoln and Hummer limos.the chauffeurs are all licensed for private hire. In addition, all of our chauffeurs must pass a medical and a criminal records bureau check before they can work as a chauffeur. So if you are seeking to hire a limo in Bacup, you do not have to take any chances with an unlicensed limousine company.

We pride ourselves on being responsive to our customers needs and honest in our approach, something that is sadly, not always the case in the limousine hire business. If you need to hire a limo (or chauffeur car) in Bacup and you would like to take advantage of our no obligation, free quotation for your limo hire, airport transfer, wedding limousine or chauffeur driven car, then simply complete our online form. During normal working hours, we will usually respond within an hour or so, outside of these hours, you should receive a response within 12-24 hours. We will send you a written quotation by email, detailing the type of vehicle (limo or car), itinerary, price, our terms and a link so that you can view high resolution images of the limousine (or chauffeur driven car). Hiring a limo in Bacup has never been so easy! Remember, this is only a quote, you are not asking for, nor are we accepting a booking at this stage. So, no obligation on either party!

The specifications on our limousines vary, but all are fitted with mood lighting, strobes, lighting ropes, two or more televisions, music system and DVD player. Some are also fitted with a PlayStation or iPod connection. If there is something specific that you want to use on the limousine, please check with us at the time of booking, that way we will ensure that someone checks that everything is working okay prior to the hire, after all, you just never know.

Cars for Stars is a well established limousine operation, with an enviable reputation, because we all take a great deal of pride in getting it right. We would like to claim a 100% success rate, but we can't, but that is not stopping us trying and we are much better than many of our competitors!

No matter whether you are looking to hire a limousine for your wedding, a Birthday or anniversary celebrations, a school prom, a sporting event such as Royal Ascot, an airport transfer or business travel, you can rest assured that we will offer you quality, value for money and good service.

So if you are looking to hire a limousine or chauffeur driven car in the Bacup area, please give us a call or complete our online enquiry form for a quote, we think you will be pleasantly surprised. Limo hire, chauffeur cars, people carriers and wedding cars in Bacup from Cars for Stars (Lancaster).

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Cars for Stars Limited operates through a local franchised branch network. Most of our franchises are independently owned or operated by Cars for Stars Limited. Where we do not have a franchise in place, the enquiry will normally be handled by head office or the nearest Cars for Stars branch Through our network we can offer our customers a wider choice of American stretched limos for hire. For example, colours available include white, black, silver, candy apple red and blue. In addition, we operate various models which include the Chrysler 300, Lincoln Town Car and Hummer limousines.

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Chauffeur Cars in Bacup?

If you are looking to hire a modern chauffeur driven car in the Bacup area, then Cars for Stars will be able to provide you with a wide choice, whether it is for business travel, leisure trips, weddings or airport transfers. Our extensive range includes the Rolls Royce Phantom, Bentley Arnage and Maybach, complimented by our executive cars which include top marquees such as the long wheel based versions of the jaguar XJ, mercedes S Class and BMW 7 Series. Our luxury cars, popular with business travellers on a budget include the class leading Chrysler 300, as well as Mercedes E Class and Audi A6. Whilst all of these cars are not necessarily available from Cars for Stars (Lancaster), they can be hired through us. from a neighbouring office, keeping things uncomplicated for our customers.

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All of our limousines and chauffeur driven cars are available for weddings and civil ceremonies. We will decorate the wedding cars with ribbons and bows in a colour of your choice.

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How to Find The Best Architectural Firm For Your Commercial Building

Finding an architect, or finding anyone in any given field for an upcoming project, is increasingly easy thanks to the internet. That may not always be a great thing, though. The information you can find online is never a substitution for human connection, and so you should never hire someone without first meeting with them. […]

4 Reasons Why Your Commercial Remodel Is A Good Idea

Often, business owners think of remodeling their office space, accompanied shortly thereafter by a throbbing headache. It’s off putting, to know that you will have to disrupt and even potentially halt your business proceedings in order to accomplish your remodel. While there may be a few temporary interruptions and inconveniences as a result of your […]

4 Things You Should Share With Your Architect

Going into an architectural project, as a consumer, is an exciting yet somewhat nerve wracking experience. You have a vision in mind for this building or renovation, but you personally don’t have any way of making that vision come into reality. This is why hiring an actual architect for this sort of project is vital […]

How Simple Renovations Can Bring New Life Into Any Building

Often, when you see a building, or any space really, you tend to take it at face value. It’s hard to see it for anything other than what it is. But what you don’t see, is the potential beyond what’s already there, beyond what already exists. Small and simple renovations can absolutely transform any building […]

3 Architecture Trends on The Rise

As with any medium, trends within the architecture and design world are constantly changing and morphing. With these trends, we’re able to become more innovative, and see more creative answers to challenges architects and builders have faced for years. We accept these trends with open arms! There’s nothing better than finding new and better ways […]


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2019 Holiday Hours!

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Car Wash USA Express – Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio Christmas Eve: Normal Hours of Operation Christmas Day: Closed New Year’s Eve: Normal Hours of Operation New Year’s Day: Closed Car Wash USA Express – Colorado & Texas Christmas Eve: Close @ 4pm Christmas Day: Closed New Year’s Eve: Close @ 4pm New Year’s Day:

Car Wash USA Express Sponsors Rock The South

By |2019-10-22T15:19:48+00:00June 6th, 2019|Categories: Sponsorships|

-- Free Tickets and Car Washes Gave Back to the Community -- CULLMAN, AL, June 6 – Car Wash USA Express takes great pleasure in bringing music of a different kind to car-driving, music-loving Southerners via its sponsorship of Rock the South this past weekend.   Joining the musical extravaganza’s family of sponsors for the first time,

Troy, Alabama Is Home To New Car Wash USA Express

By |2019-10-22T23:43:32+00:00May 23rd, 2019|Categories: New Openings|

TROY, AL, May 23 – More than 600 area residents turned out for the free car wash day on April 18 to celebrate the opening of the Car Wash USA Express at the site of the former United Car Wash and to enjoy the friendly, effective 3-minute car wash. “We were blown away by the turn-out

Mountain Home, Arkansas Gives Warm Welcome To New Car Wash USA Express

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OLIVE BRANCH, MS, May 10 – More than 1,600 residents of Mountain Home, Arkansas have visited the new Car Wash USA Express since its official grand opening on April 26, gratified by the introduction of a totally new car washing experience to the Twin Lakes area.  Car Wash USA Express is the only express car wash

Car Wash USA Express Sponsors Toledo Speedway And All-Star Monster Truck Tour

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-- Free Speedway Ticket Giveaways and Car Wash “Test Drives” Start in May -- OLIVE BRANCH, MS, May 1 – Marking its recent expansion to the Toledo market and its kinship with car enthusiasts far and wide, Car Wash USA Express today announced its sponsorship of the 2019 Toledo Speedway season, which includes presenting sponsorship of


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CASE67593: Decumbiture for Mr John Franklin (PERSON49347)

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RN Mr Iohn francklyn of {sic} fell sicke last night h. 8 p. m. 1629 /of Mavorne\ /30 y\

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Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition,;f2-participant=Mr%20John%20Franklin%20%28PERSON49347%29;f3-querent=Mr%20George%20Franklin%20%28PERSON49342%29;f4-info=Urine, accessed 24 February 2020.


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RN Apr 17. h. 6. 38. p m I came to Sr Henry longfilds howse quæro n{un}c an evadet 1605. this motion came not in my hed vntill this 20 of Apr yet I will for experienc sake see how it would fall out if I should have set it for yt weddensday wch I forgote. I set this figur not before satterday when the motion

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Tutoriales sobre RegExp

Eloquent JS

RegExp Objects

El Constructor

The RegExp constructor creates a regular expression object for matching text with a pattern.

Literal and constructor notations are possible:

new RegExp(pattern [, flags]);
  • The literal notation provides compilation of the regular expression when the expression is evaluated.
  • Use literal notation when the regular expression will remain constant.
  • For example, if you use literal notation to construct a regular expression used in a loop, the regular expression won't be recompiled on each iteration.
  • The constructor of the regular expression object, for example, new RegExp("ab+c"), provides runtime compilation of the regular expression.
  • Use the constructor function when you know the regular expression pattern will be changing, or you don't know the pattern and are getting it from another source, such as user input.
  • When using the constructor function, the normal string escape rules (preceding special characters with \ when included in a string) are necessary. For example, the following are equivalent:
var re = /\w+/;
var re = new RegExp("\\w+");
  • RegExp.prototype.exec

The exec() method executes a search for a match in a specified string. Returns a result array, or null.

If you are executing a match simply to find true or false, use the RegExp.prototype.test() method or the String.prototype.search() method.

If successful, search returns the index of the regular expression inside the string. Otherwise, it returns -1.

When you want to know whether a pattern is found in a string use search (similar to the regular expression test method); for more information (but slower execution) use match (similar to the regular expression exec method).

The replace() method returns a new string with some or all matches of a pattern replaced by a replacement.
The pattern can be a string or a RegExp, and the replacement can be a string or a function to be called for each match.

> re = /apples/gi
> str = "Apples are round, and apples are juicy."
'Apples are round, and apples are juicy.'
> newstr = str.replace(re, "oranges")
'oranges are round, and oranges are juicy.'

The replacement string can be a function to be invoked to create the new substring (to put in place of the substring received from parameter #1). The arguments supplied to this function are:

Possible name Supplied value
match The matched substring. (Corresponds to $&.)
p1, p2, ... The nth parenthesized submatch string, provided the first argument to replace was a RegExp object. (Corresponds to $1, $2, etc.) For example, if /(\a+)(\b+)/, was given, p1 is the match for \a+, and p2 for \b+.
offset The offset of the matched substring within the total string being examined (For example, if the total string was "abcd", and the matched substring was "bc", then this argument will be 1
string The total string being examined
Ejemplo de replace
[~/javascript/learning]$ pwd -P
[~/javascript/learning]$ cat f2c.js
#!/usr/bin/env node
function f2c(x)
  function convert(str, p1, offset, s)
    return ((p1-32) * 5/9) + "C";
  var s = String(x);
  var test = /(\d+(?:\.\d*)?)F\b/g;
  return s.replace(test, convert);

var arg = process.argv[2] || "32F";

[~/javascript/learning]$ ./f2c.js 100F
[~/javascript/learning]$ ./f2c.js

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Expresiones Regulares Extendidas (a la Perl)
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XRegExp. Unicode
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> console.log("\u03B1")
> "Πα".match(/\u03A0(\u03B1)/)
[ 'Πα', 'α', index: 0, input: 'Πα' ]

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By a strange historical accident, \s (whitespace) does not have this problem and matches all characters that the Unicode standard considers whitespace, including things like the nonbreaking space and the Mongolian vowel separator:

\s casa con el carácter unicode Mongolian Vowel

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HBO movie ‘Clear History’ casting kids and water skiers in Massachusetts

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Academy Award nominee Kate Hudson stars as the glamorous Mrs. Haney.
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The HBO Films semi-improvised comedy movie “Clear History” is in production and casting for the film’s extras will be ongoing throughout the shoot which will continue through early November, 2012. The casting director in Boston is seeking children and teen extras, as well as adults. They are also casting teens and adults who are great water skiers. These are fully paid positions, and no prior experience working as a background performer is necessary. Filming is taking place in the North Shore region of Massachusetts.


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Fans who have been patiently awaiting a new album from Sam Hunt will have to wait until at least 2020 to hear his latest project. However, the singer says he hopes new music will be on its way soon after the new year. In a recent interview with Billboard, the country star revealed that he is scheduled to hand in his finished sophomore record to his record label on January 1 -- but Hunt still has plenty more work to do in the recording studio before that deadline arrives.

"We have four songs finished, so I've got another handful to go," he told Billboard. "We'll be recording through October, November."

Hunt earned four No. 1 hits from his first album, including "House Party" and "Take Your Time." He topped the charts again in 2017 with "Body Like a Back Road," then waited a full year to drop his one-off single, "Downtown's Dead." Between writing songs and savoring married life with his spouse Hannah, with whom he tied the knot in 2017, Hunt has mostly kept a low profile.

Although album details are still sparse, Hunt did reveal that "Nothing Lasts Forever," a track he began adding to his live set lists last year, will appear on the album. Fans will also get to hear a studio version of the newly-debuted song “Sinning With You,” which Hunt called "a commentary on growing up in the South and the conflict with religion and being in a relationship before you're married and all that comes with that."

The 34-year-old says he's bringing back heavyweight producers Zach Crowell, Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne, who also worked on his hit 2014 debut Montevallo, to help produce this new batch of music. Although Montevallo made waves for its blend of country, pop, R&B and hip hop, Hunt says he doesn't plan on trying to crossover into the pop world for good.

"I definitely, if anything, will slide back into even a more traditional sound," he explained. "I like the idea of being adventurous and finding new ways to combine styles and to try to come up with something new and fresh. So that is important to me, but I don't see myself actively trying to cross over."

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Dec 26, 2019 | Merck Manuals
‘Intermittent Fasting’ Diet Could Boost Your Health

Here comes the new year, and with it hordes of folks looking for ways to fulfill resolutions to eat healthy. Intermittent fasting is a legitimate option they might want to consider, claims a new review in the Dec. 26 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.