"We compiled an enormous amount of studies of events, which we know influenced biodiversity during the past million years. It turns out species have been able to survive new conditions in their habitat by changing either their behaviour or body shape. However, the current magnitude and unseen speed of change in nature may push species beyond their ability to adapt".
Will species be able to adjust quickly enough to survive changing temperatures, precipitation and seasons? Many alpine plants, like the Comastoma Falcatum growing in high altitudes, are at risk because of climate change. (Photo: Egle Kudirkiene, 2018). Download press photo.
"We know animals and plants have prevented extinction by adapt or migrate in the past. However, the models we use today to predict future climate change, foresee magnitudes and rates of change, which have been exceptionally rare in the last million years. Thus, we need to expand our knowledge and improve our prediction models. Also, we must recognise the limitations of the models, because they are used to inform politicians and decision-makers about the effects of climate change on biodiversity".


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MIT Raises Incandescent Light Bulb from the Dead
By: David Russell Schilling | February 29th, 2016
New Incandescent Bulbs (Image Courtesy www.G7Power.com)
Much has been made of LEDs over the years; they were supposed to be the greatest thing since sliced bread. I have never liked them. Advertised as lasting 25 times longer than an incandescent light bulb and requiring 80% less electricity, my LED purchases have seldom lasted more than a few months and often just weeks. Clearly somebody, somewhere, has been raking in money at our expense. Besides, LED light bulbs never had the warm glow that I remember from incandescent bulbs.
Now MIT researchers have redesigned the incandescent light bulb so that heat radiation is recycled back to the filament to emit more visible light, making them significantly more efficient. The important point is these newly designed incandescent lights are reported to be several times more energy efficient than LEDs and compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs).
The following link to G7Power compares these three types of light bulbs, claiming superior performance for LEDs & CFLs, but again, I've never had a lightbulb last 35,000 hours or nearly four years.
According to the MIT team, the new incandescent bulb is not yet ready for sale because they believe the bulbs can be made even more efficient. Hopefully, this will be the case, and we'll never have to consider LEDs and CFLs again.
The following video explains the new incandescent bulb.
David Russell Schilling
David enjoys writing about high technology and its potential to make life better for all who inhabit planet earth.
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Win the Day
7 Daily Habits to Help You Stress Less & Accomplish More
By: Mark Batterson
Narrated by: Mark Batterson
Too many people delay, downsize, or shrug off their dreams just because they don't know where to start, but playing it safe doesn't account for the massive cost of a life not fully lived. Win the Day is the jump-start you need to go after your goals, one day at a time.
Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears
It's time you learned from the legend of Honi the Circle Maker - a man bold enough to draw a circle in the sand and not budge from inside it until God answered his prayers for his people. What impossibly big dream is God calling you to draw a prayer circle around? Sharing inspiring stories from his own experiences as a circle maker, Mark Batterson will help you uncover your heart's deepest desires and God-given dreams and unleash them through the kind of audacious prayer that God delights to answer.
Chase the Lion
If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small
Chase the Lion is more than a catch phrase; it's a radically different approach to life. It's only when we stop fearing failure that we can fully seize opportunity by the mane. With grit and gusto, New York Times best-selling author Mark Batterson delivers a bold message to everyone with a big dream. This is a wake-up call to stop living as if the purpose of life was to simply arrive safely at death. Our dreams should scare us. They should be so big that without God they would be impossible to achieve.
Rediscover the Adventure of Pursuing God
Most of us have no idea where we're going most of the time. Perfect. "Celtic Christians had a name for the Holy Spirit - An Geadh-Glas, or 'the Wild Goose.' The name hints at mystery. Much like a wild goose, the Spirit of God cannot be tracked or tamed. An element of danger, an air of unpredictability surround Him. And while the name may sound a little sacrilegious, I cannot think of a better description of what it's like to follow the Spirit through life. I think the Celtic Christians were on to something.
How to Hear the Voice of God
The voice that spoke the cosmos into existence is the same voice that parted the Red Sea and made the sun stand still in the midday sky. One day, this voice will make all things new, but it's also speaking to you now! That voice is God's, and what we've learned from Scripture is that He often speaks in a whisper. Not to make it difficult to hear Him, but to draw us close. Sure, in ancient times and in mysterious ways, God spoke to His people, but is He still speaking now? Mark Batterson certainly believes so. And he wants to introduce you to the seven love languages of God.
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Draw the Circle
The 40 Day Prayer Challenge
As thousands upon thousands of readers embraced the message of The Circle Maker, true stories of miraculous and inspiring answers to prayer began to surface. As those stories were shared, others were bolstered in their faith to pray with even more boldness. Draw the Circle shares 40 of those true, faith-building stories of God's answers to prayer, along with daily scriptures and prayer prompts.
This is a book I go back to at least on a year!
By Colleen on 29-01-2017
Play the Man
Becoming the Man God Created You to Be
Somewhere along the way, our culture lost its definition of manhood, leaving generations of men and men-to-be confused about their roles, responsibilities, and relationships and the reason God made them men. It's into this "no-man's-land" that New York Times best-selling author Mark Batterson declares his mantra for manhood: Play the man. In this inspiring call to something greater, he helps men understand what it means to be a man of God by unveiling seven virtues of manhood.
In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day
How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars
Your greatest regret at the end of your life will be the lions you didn't chase. You will look back longingly on risks not taken, opportunities not seized, and dreams not pursued. Stop running away from what scares you most and start chasing the God-ordained opportunities that cross your path.
A timely wake up call!
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Double Blessing
Don't Settle for Less Than You're Called to Bless
New York Times best-selling author and pastor Mark Batterson believes the key to radically increasing your faith, joy, and abundance can be found in these three words: Flip the blessing. His discovery started with a simple experiment. Whenever Batterson received a blessing, he would give a similar blessing away. If someone paid him a compliment or gave him a gift or went out of their way to help him, he would return the favor by doing something similar for someone else.
The Grave Robber
How Jesus Can Make Your Impossible Possible
The Grave Robber is a nonfiction Christian living book that discusses the seven miracles of Jesus in the Book of John and their importance for our lives today.
Trading Your If Only Regrets for God's What If Possibilities
With his trademark enthusiasm and contagious joy, Mark Batterson helps listeners overcome feelings of guilt, fear, and doubt because in Christ there is no condemnation. Unpacking the promises of Romans 8, he shows listeners that they are more than conquerors - right now and forever. And because of that, the possibilities for their lives are limitless. Christians from all walks of life will find themselves set free by this inspiring and entertaining listen.
A Trip Around the Sun
Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime
By: Mark Batterson, Richard Foth, Susanna Foth Aughtmon
What happens when we take Jesus at his word when he says, "I have come that you might have life and have it to the full?" New York Times best-selling author Mark Batterson and his mentor, Richard Foth, have done just that with their lives - and in A Trip Around the Sun, they show listeners how they too can experience their life and faith as the ultimate adventure.
God Speaks in Whispers
By: Mark Batterson, Summer Batterson Dailey
Narrated by: Mark Batterson, Summer Batterson Dailey
Length: 7 mins
Children often begin their faith journey with basic but big questions like How does God speak to me? This charming book from the best-selling author of Whisper and his daughter provides a fun and clever answer! God Speaks in Whispers helps even the youngest listeners look for God's voice in the universe: in creation, as he speaks through his followers, and in the Bible as he speaks through his word.
The Circle Maker for Kids
One Prayer Can Change Everything
By: Mark Batterson, Antonio Javier Caparo - illustrator
A terrible drought had hit the land. Gardens died, rivers ran dry; the Israelites had one last hope: Honi the Rainmaker. So they called upon him to pray, and Honi did something strange…something bold. Would God send the rains and save the people? Basing this story on his adult best seller The Circle Maker, Mark Batterson shares the ancient Jewish legend of Honi the Rainmaker with children to teach them about the power of prayer.
Draw the Circle: Audio Bible Studies
Taking the 40 Day Prayer Challenge
Join best-selling author and Pastor Mark Batterson as he reveals how taking up this challenge will not only change the way you pray today, but also dramatically impact the rest of your life. While this challenge won't be easy, and you will certainly experience setbacks along the way, as you pray through you can be assured that God will come through for you in new and exciting ways.


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Remais J, Hess J, Ebi K, Markandya A, Balbus J, Wilkinson P, Haines A, Chalabi Z. Estimating the health effects of greenhouse gas mitigation strategies: addressing parametric, model and valuation challenges, Environmental Health Perspectives, 122(5):447-55, 2014.
Moore J, Remais J. Developmental models for estimating ecological responses to environmental variability: structural, parametric, and experimental issues, Acta Biotheoretica, 62(1):69-90, 2014.
Wu J, Dhingra R, Gambhir M, Remais J. Sensitivity analysis of infectious disease models: methods, advances and their application, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 10(86), 2013.
Lam H-M, Remais J, Fung M-C, Xu L, Sun SS. Food supply and food safety in China, The Lancet, 381(9882):2044-2053, 2013.
Remais J, Zeng G, Li G, Tian L, Engelgau M. Convergence of non-communicable and infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries, International Journal of Epidemiology, 42(1): 221-227, 2013.
Carlton E, Liang S, McDowell J, Li H, Luo W, Remais J. Regional disparities in the burden of disease attributable to unsafe water and sanitation in China, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 90: 578-587, 2012.
Moore J, Liang S, Akullian A, Remais J. Cautioning the use of degree-day models for climate change projections: predicting the future distribution of parasite hosts in the presence of parametric uncertainty, Ecological Applications, 22(8): 2237-2247, 2012.
Remais J, Eisenberg J. Balance between clinical and environmental responses to infectious diseases, The Lancet, 379(9824):1457-1459, 2012.
Embrey S, Remais J, Hess J. Climate change and ecosystem disruption: the health impacts of the North American Rocky Mountain Pine Beetle infestation, American Journal of Public Health, 102(5):818-827, 2012.
Gong P, Liang S, Carlton E, Jiang Q, Wu J, Wang L, Remais J. Urbanisation and Health in China, The Lancet, 379(9818):843-852, 2012.
Dhingra R, Christensen ER, Liu Y, Zhong B, Wu C-F, Yost MG, Remais J. Greenhouse gas emission reductions from domestic anaerobic digesters linked with sustainable sanitation in rural China, Environmental Science & Technology, 45:2345-2352, 2011.
Remais J, Xiao N, Akullian A, Qiu D, and Blair D. Genetic assignment methods for gaining insight into the management of infectious disease by understanding vector, host and pathogen movement, PLoS Pathogens, 7(4): e1002013, 2011.
Remais J, Zhang J. Environmental lessons from China: finding promising policies in unlikely places, Environmental Health Perspectives, 119(7):893-895, 2011.
Worrell C, Xiao N, Vidal J, Chen L, Zhong B, Remais J. Field detection of Schistosoma japonicum cercariae in environmental water samples by quantitative PCR, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 11(7): 2192-2195, 2011.
Remais J, Akullian A, Lu D, Seto E. Analytical methods for quantifying environmental connectivity for the control and surveillance of infectious disease spread, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 7(49):1181-93, 2010.
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The Year Ahead2018-01-252018-01-25http://eecarter.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/EEC-brand-header600W.pngElizabeth Ellen Carterhttp://eecarter.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/shadow-of-the-corsairs-cover.jpg200px200px
I know it is almost the end of January, but I thought I'd share what's on my plate this year and to thank you all once again for all of your support and encouragement.
I've been blown away by the reception to the Heart of the Corsairs series.
This is my first "proper" series and I've found it more challenging, demanding, fun, exhilarating, emotional and exhausting all at once.
In each novel, I try to raise the bar in what I'm capable of doing as an author. I've tried hard not to shy away from complex characterizations, multi-faceted plot lines I've gone much further in exploring deep psychological issues in all of these stories.
Shadow of the Corsairs is yet to come and I've set myself a greater challenges – a story which is a prequel to Captive of the Corsairs, so we see the unstable Captain Kit Hardacre at his manic worse. Elias Nash is still trying to find his way in the world and is somewhat unworldly.
Morwena is a character to contend with, she is balancing life in a changing world complicated by her father's emergent dementia and managing her two brothers – one of whom is quite the villain. She is vibrant, passionate, a tough negotiator and fiercely loyal.
Jonathan is a character I've come to adore. There is no other way to describe him, but positively regal. He is measured, level headed, intelligent, curious, talented – which means he has to contend with the chaos of life as one of Hardacre's officers and his unconventional romance with the passionate Morwena – and that's on top of dealing with feelings for his late wife and the tragic loss of his children.
I'm right in the middle of writing their love story and to tie things up neatly to come full circle to the beginning of Captive of the Corsairs.
Although the Heart of the Corsairs is a self-contained series, Kit has proved to be such a popular character that I have plans for his legacy to live on. Unfortunately I'm sworn to secrecy at the moment.
I was hoping to surprise you all mid-year with fresh covers for two of my earliest books – Moonstone Obsession (my first historical romance) and its sequel Moonstone Conspiracy.
But it turned out that the surprise was on me as my former publisher announced I was getting rights to my first three books.
So I'm delighted to say Moonstone Obsession and Moonstone Conspiracy are back on the shelves as Amazon Kindle Unlimited titles for the first time.
Look at these gorgeous covers. I'm indebted to Dar Albert for her amazing work. For the first time ever, I love the Moonstone Conspiracy's cover. If you buy me a cup of coffee I'll tell you the full tragic tale of the horrid first cover…
In the next week or two, my first Medieval romance, Warrior's Surrender will also be back on the shelves with a new cover. Here it is:
But that's not the only surprises I have for you. As always there will be another beautiful Bluestocking Belles Christmas anthology – so do join us on February 10 for a Facebook party.
We have a surprise for you, but I can't tell you more, so you'll just have to come along and find out the news first hand.
Speaking of news first hand, the next edition of my magazine, Love's Great Adventure will be out in mid-March and boy, do we have a treat for you!
In May, I'll be in the United States for RT and if you're attending as an author or a reader, please do come up and say hello. This will be my first trip to the United States, so I'm nervous and excited.
And… I have a new standalone title coming out in August. This will be a full-length title and part of a loosely connected series and you'll love the theme and some of the big names in historical romance will be taking part. I'm hugely honoured to be included in their number.
So, we get to the final quarter of the year and it is then I hope to have the first title of a new series out. I'm really excited about this series. It's going to be filled with adventure, romance, intrigue and, hopefully, a little humour as well.
Before I sign off for now, I'd like to thank my darling husband for his incredible support. My alpha hero is also my beta reader, critique partner and structural editor – as well as editor for Love's Great Adventure – and life with him is Love's Great Adventure.
Well, I think my 2018 dance card is well and truly filled!
I love to hear from readers, so please to say hello. You do me a huge honour in allowing my fevered imaginings into your lives.
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Sahara Reporters has acquired a video of a confrontation on Saturday, October 27, between the Nigerian military and a parade of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), a Shia political movement. The video clearly shows young men, presumably Shia, throwing stones at the Nigerian military, who then responded with live fire. Traffic was stopped as apparent civilians fled for cover and some continued to throw stones at troops. Much about the incident remains unclear; a recent report put those killed at more than ten, though previous reports have suggested three or five.
According to Sahara Reporters, on October 27 the Shia were marching from Suleja to Abuja in preparation for a religious event called Arbaeen Symbolic Trek. The marchers apparently took a route that had not been approved by the security services. When the soldiers and police intervened, marchers responded by throwing rocks. The army and police responded with live ammunition.
In a press release, the military claimed, among other things, that troops "escorting ammunitions and missiles from Abuja to Army Central Ammunition Depot in Kaduna State were attacked by some members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria." The military spokesman, Major General James Myam, also alleged that members of the IMN procession "attempted to overrun the escorts to cart away the ammunition and missiles the troops were escorting," and that the marchers "established an illegal roadblock denying motorists free passage." A spokesman for the IMN rejected the military's description of events, claiming instead that the IMN protesters were peaceful and were attacked.
The IMN's three-day march began on October 28 in Abuja and included a call for the freeing of Shia leader Ibrahim el-Zakzaky, who has been under house arrest since 2015. Members of the IMN, marching in connection with the religious event, support of el-Zakzaky's release, or both, were reportedly fired on by the army on Monday, and clashes continued on Tuesday. Reports place the number of marchers and protesters in the hundreds, despite IMN claims that one million would attend.
Overall, the IMN claims some three million followers in Nigeria, though the country's predominately Sunni Islamic establishment says that the real figure is much less. In 2015, there was a bloody confrontation between an IMN march and the convoy of Tukur Buratai, the army chief of staff. In that confrontation, the army killed several hundred Shia IMN marchers. The military states that the IMN had tried to assassinate Buratai in the alleged attack on the convoy. El-Zakzaky has been under house arrest ever since. Objective observers have not found the official explanation credible.
The 2015 event is reminiscent of the 2009 confrontation between the security services and the followers of Boko Haram, then led by Mohammed Yusuf. A difference is that thus far, the IMN has eschewed violence.
The video of the October 27 confrontation, as well as the subsequent reports of action by the security services, is chilling because it clearly shows how poorly trained the security service personnel were, and how willing they were to resort to the use of live ammunition in the midst of marchers and otherwise innocent bystanders. The military explanation, should it be firmly disproven, would become yet another intentionally false claim made by the military to cover up their treatment of civilians.


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Христофор Зборовский (, умер в 1593 году) — польский дворянин, королевский подчаший (1574—1576), авантюрист. Сын каштеляна краковского Мартина Зборовского (ум. 1565) и Анны Конарской.

С 1574 года, когда его брат Самойло Христофор (Кшиштоф) был приговорён к изгнанию, проживал за границей, главным образом в Вене. Интригуя против польского короля Стефана Батория, вёл переговоры с германским императором и московским царём Иоанном IV.

После казни Самойло Зборовского его потребовали на суд сейма. В 1585 году на основании письменных доказательств он был обвинен в государственной измене и приговорён к бесчестию и вечному изгнанию. Стефан Баторий потребовал от германского императора выдачи Христофора Зборовского, но добился лишь приказа об изгнании его из австрийских владений. После смерти Стефана Зборовский, не ожидая разрешения, вернулся в Польшу и на сейме подавал голос за эрцгерцога Максимилиана. Потерпев здесь неудачу, он снова вернулся в Вену, где оставался и после того, как сейм 1591 года освободил его от наказания.

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 Żegota Pauli, «Pamiętniki du życia и sprawy Samuela и Krzysztofa Zborowskich» (Львов, 1846)

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Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (1809. április 21. - 1887. július 18.) virginiai ügyvéd, politikus és ültetvényes gazdálkodó volt. Az Amerikai Egyesült Államok kongresszusi képviselője volt 1837-től 1843-ig és 1845-től 1847-ig. 1847-ben az Egyesült Államok szenátorává választották és mandátumáról 1861-ben mondott le, mikor Virginia elszakadt az Uniótól. Az amerikai polgárháború kitörésével Huntert először az Amerikai Konföderációs Államok külügyminiszterévé választották (1861–1862), majd ezután konföderációs szenátor volt a kongresszusban (1862–1865) és Jefferson Davis egyik politikai ellenfele. A háború után Hunter nem tudott újraválasztatni magát a szenátusba, ehelyett Virginia állam számvivőjeként szolgált 1874-től 1880-ig. 1880-ban visszavonult a magánéletbe és farmján gazdálkodott. Mikor Grover Cleveland Demokrata párti politikust elnöknek választották 1884-ben, Hunter lett a vámmegbízottja a tappahannocki kikötőben.

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Back to school | From classic to quirky: Jewish-themed books for summer
By JNS.org | July 25, 2014
For kids — or even adults — who are looking for inspiring summer reading, here are some Jewish-themed classic, eccentric and fun books. While some selections are already included on many official reading lists, others reveal the versatility of the Jewish experience — spanning geography, language, time and the imagination.
"Someone to Run With"
by David Grossman
This novel by Grossman, a renowned Israeli writer, is about both a lost yellow Labrador retriever and a love story between a shy adolescent and a teenage street singer. In between, the story also touches on crime and drug addiction. The book is grittily realistic and bound to touch teen readers' hearts.
by David Liss
"The Coffee Trader" is set in 17th-century Amsterdam among the merchants of the city's Portuguese Jewish community. In addition to learning about the Sephardic Jews who took refuge in Amsterdam from the Spanish Inquisition, the book chronicles how a new and exciting product transformed European trade. If you haven't guessed what that product is from the title, I certainly am not going to spill the beans.
"The Queen's Fool"
by Philippa Gregory
Another historical novel by the author of "The Other Boleyn Girl." "The Queen's Fool" is the story of 14-year-old Hannah Green, who flees the Spanish Inquisition with her father to England. In England, Hannah is swept into the royal court, where she becomes a "holy fool" for Queen Mary and eventually Queen Elizabeth. All the while, as heretics are persecuted around her, Hannah must hide the fact that she is Jewish.
by Leon Uris
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Uris' famed novel was immortalized on the big screen in the 1960 film of the same name, starring Paul Newman. It is a story of the aftermath of the Holocaust and the birth of the State of Israel through the eyes of an American nurse and an Israeli freedom fighter.
by Elie Wiesel (mature content)
Holocaust survivor and human rights activist Wiesel recounts his life in a ghetto and several Nazi concentration camps as a teenager. The book is narrated by Eliezer, a Hungarian Jewish teenager who stands in for Wiesel. Eliezer and his father fight to survive first in a ghetto and later in the Auschwitz concentration camp, on a 50-mile death march, in a crammed cattle-car ride and finally in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
by George Eliot
This 19th-century classic novel explores the British Jewish community and the Zionist movement of its era. As the central character navigates through upper-class British society, he discovers his own true origins and begins to identify more with the Jewish community, an insular group that is largely excluded from the mainstream British society of the time.
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A young American man travels to Europe to find the woman who may have rescued his grandfather during the Holocaust. During this quest, he is accompanied by an elderly man guarding traumatic memories from the war, a dog named Sammy Davis Jr. and a Ukrainian translator who speaks broken English and imitates outdated American culture. The tale was made into a film in 2005 starring Elijah Wood.
"A Tale of Love and Darkness"
by Amos Oz
This autobiographical novel by Israeli author Oz chronicles the history of his family in Europe, the British mandate of Palestine and the early years of the Jewish state. The book's official summary calls it "the story of a boy who grows up in war-torn Jerusalem, in a small apartment crowded with books in 12 languages and relatives speaking nearly as many." Natalie Portman is directing and starring in a movie based on the book, currently being filmed in Jerusalem.
by Bernhard Schlink (mature content)
Although not Jewish-themed, "The Reader" is on this list as it touches on the aftermath of the Holocaust from the perspective of the Germans. This book may be inappropriate for younger readers: The book's central character, German 15-year-old Michael Berg, enters into a sexual relationship with a woman twice his age. In the process, the woman's Nazi past comes to the surface. The book was also adapted into a film starring Kate Winslet, for which she won an Academy Award in 2009.
by David Bezmozgis
In 1978, the Jewish Krasnansky family escapes the Soviet Union and finds itself stuck in Italy while waiting to secure visas for a new life in the United States. The characters are in limbo. The New York Times writes in its review, "The temporary Italian setting has been appropriately chosen, for it represents a passage between two worlds, much like the state of the Krasnanskys themselves, who have left their status as outsiders in one land to become outsiders in another."
by Francesca Segal
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This novel is the story of two Jewish fathers and their sons, against the backdrop of mid-1940s Brooklyn. Although they come from different Jewish communities — Hassidic and Modern Orthodox — the boys become best friends after they meet at a baseball game. Over the years, the growing men and their fathers clash over religion, the establishment of the State of Israel, and the changing world around them. The book also has a sequel titled "The Promise."
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"The Yiddish Policemen's Union" by Michael Chabon
The Sherlock Holmes-style crime genre gets a new twist in this novel by Berkeley author Chabon. Imagine an alternate universe in which during World War II a Jewish settlement was established not in the land of Israel, but in the U.S. territory of Alaska. In this fictional Yiddish-speaking community, a quirky and alcoholic detective is investigating a murder.
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a) Exploring the original role, meaning, ritual and value placed on food and the body in one's family, community and friends as well as the evolution of particular personal fears, associations and obsessions that have occurred with certain foods and body parts at various stages.
b) Confronting the challenges recovering from an eating disorder presents and the degree of difficulty involved in learning to live without this condition by breaking these obstacles down and listing a set of coping strategies for each.
c) Putting words to the emotional reality to be persisted through rather than retreated from.
d) Acknowledge how incredible, capable and strong those that find themselves walking this vulnerable and painful line are.
For anyone who has the strength, skills and character to survive the ruthless demands of an eating disorder can achieve anything they set their mind to and this includes recovery. If the energy devoted to maintaining an eating disorder is redirected elsewhere, the most fulfilling reality may eventuate.
List all the things you'd like to do, experience, be part of and have and what would have to happen for you to do these things; have these experiences; be part of these activities or communities and attain what you'd love to possess. Then on a separate page list all the things that are in the way and what needs to be done to remove them. Write down people, books and organisations that can help you as well as things you can do to help yourself. On a separate page break these things down by prioritising and listing what can be done this week, month, year and years from now, if you choose to.
Try laughing at how ridiculous and insignificant some of the things you take very seriously are by looking at them from a different point of view or questioning whether what you think matters actually does. After having done this return to the issue and inquire into the story of why this detail, situation, obsession or exchange had the power to mean so much to you. Take a moment to respect the reasons and empathise with why you felt and reacted the way you did and once you are finished doing this re-evaluate whether or not it can live differently in you now. Can it matter to you without it feeling like there's so much at stake that it disrupts your day?
Please feel welcome to put your suggestions in the comments section.
Eating disorders are often comorbid, meaning the individual also suffers from one or more of the following: Depression, Anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Bi-polar disorder, substance abuse, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Schizophrenia, self-harming behaviour… or a medical comorbidity such as bone disease, cardiac complications, gastrointestinal distress and diabetes.
It is estimated that 1 in 10 receive treatment for their eating disorder which is hard to treat; a reason is that the consequence of breaking the contract with an eating disorder unleashes the unwanted feelings it has kept at bay, numbed and split off.
Without an eating disorder to come between the individual and the unwanted feelings, all these negative emotions initially flood the individual trying to recover. It can feel as though they are alone, drowning in pain that shows no sign of passing. However, the pain, discomfort and unease does eventually subside and ultimately saves them from the eating disorder that has the potential to destroy the mind and body to premature death.
To overcome an eating disorder involves a commitment to abstain from disordered eating behaviour, preoccupation and ritual every hour of every day until it becomes–at some point– an automatic way or at least partially natural way of living. This is a lot to ask of someone who has been exhausted and hallowed out by the addiction, so motivation and a reason are very important to get clear on. Keeping in mind that to live is not necessarily reason enough to one who does not find life pleasurable, kind, fulfilling or manageable. This is why an eating disorder became possible in the first place.
In females, adolescence and pregnancy are considered major triggers so are periods of increased stress, loss and death of a significant other and relationship difficulties. For young women who develop disordered eating, the body transforming its shape into that of a woman might elicit feelings of disgust, shame, discomfort, fear, horror and intolerance of physically taking up more space. In instances where the individual is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, this stage of human development can be very triggering. Also, statistics show that bulimia is the most common eating disorder found in childhood trauma survivors and 34% of those diagnosed with bulimia report having experienced sexual abuse.
Eating disorders create a numbing effect or dissociation that enables a distancing from the overwhelming problems in interpersonal relationships, sexual intimacy, work, study and social obligations. They consume one's time; mind; are addictive and ultimately unsustainable. This maladaptive behaviour is described by sufferers as painful, scary and miserable and not how they wish to continue despite doing all they can to do so.
Why does the disordered eater proceed to lose everything to their eating disorder?
How is it that they get swept up in this physically painful and exhausting routine?
They know of no other way to cope with how devastating life feels to them. They are yet to develop adequate internal resources to emotionally and cognitively process their situation and healthy schema to assert wants and needs with efficacy. They are over-investing in the way things look to compensate for the unacceptability of how things are.
This is compulsive behaviour, a predominately unconscious set of reactions to circumstances, emotions and the body.
Eating disorders are addictions that over time become a way of life that is known, insular and familiar. There's a certain relief, high or euphoria in numbing oneself out through the state of emptiness achieved through starvation or purging or the 'carb coma' from a comfort food binge.
They feel confused, afraid and powerless and don't know what else to do.
Negative core beliefs and schema informing self-hate, rejection and need to inflict punishment and deprivation on the self.
How can those with an eating disorder learn to trust in other sustainable strategies to deal with anxiety, confusion, self-hate, inadequacy, insecurity and pain and stop relying on their eating disorder to hold at a safe remove, unbearable feelings and states?
For those who have not experienced disordered eating, addiction or the effects of childhood complex trauma, bullying… it might be difficult to understand why someone might cling to their eating disorder with all that they are even though it's killing them. For people wishing to understand, it may prove helpful to keep in mind that those caught in this excruciating lifestyle are not experiencing life as something fun, easy, full of possibilities, safe, benevolent and valuable.
Instead, life has the tendency to be experienced as predominately threatening, full of insecurity, incongruence, demands, confusion, loveless, judgmental and with impossible standards. If this is indeed the case and these individuals internalise their experience of the external world they can only treat and perceive themselves the way they see themselves treated and regarded.
Considering this, it is understandable that many with an eating disorder have expressed wanting to die and to in fact mention preferring death to gain weight or the discomfort of bloating, constipation and discomfort of having to digest food. The power of the high and release one gets from being empty after purging or not eating is the one thing that makes their life bearable cannot be underestimated.
To take the eating disorder away to prolong a life that is unbearable is rarely going to work without offering a convincing vision or story of how good their life could be and how this might be achieved. Why should it? What it takes to recover is asking a lot of a person without offering sufficient immediate payoff and relief.
The aim is to have those with an eating disorder taking in and keeping the nutrition they need, and this can be done gently with foods that cause the least amount of physical discomfort or strain on the digestive system. If the patient is not underweight, she or he doesn't necessarily need to gain weight, but they do need to satisfy their nutritional requirements, so they have the energy to get on with life.
Destructive thought patterns, OCD-like rituals surrounding food, exercise, daily routine and eating reinforce negative schema. I treat myself like a machine that needs to be punished because that's all I deserve for being stupid, ugly and useless. I don't deserve to eat and hate my body for feeling hungry and my mind for always thinking about food. I hate that I got weak and ate a carrot with coffee for lunch because I promised myself not to eat more than one meal a day until I reach my goal rate. Grrrrrh!
People with an eating disorder are cruel to themselves and use their relationship with food to act out this self-contempt, convinced they deserve this kind of treatment as well as using it to tolerate their daily life. The question is why do these people have these core beliefs about themselves? What is the story of their eating disorder and what would their life-story be without it?
Not all eating disorders are visible. For example, bulimia, where the body often remains within a deceptive healthy weight range, showing nothing of the dangerous dance they're in with an electrolyte imbalance, arrhythmia, stomach ulcers, esophagus tears and extreme dehydration. Signs of bulimia are easy to hide and for its story remain unknown.
These individuals can and do die in their sleep from cardiac arrest; high level of acid building up in their blood inducing a sudden coma, and death. Some other consequences are seizures or fits that can cause brain damage or even death; pancreatitis where digestive enzymes attack the pancreas in reaction to the excessive use of laxatives or diet pills. Electrolyte imbalance is common and can offset cardiac arrest and death; suicide and depression. Furthermore a gastric rupture can occur when massive amounts are consumed during a binge. Although they are not common, they often result in death; hypo and hyperglycemia caused when blood sugar levels are too high or too low from bingeing and purging/fasting and Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease which can lead to cancer in the esophagus.
For bulimics and binge eaters that are overweight, feeding the body nutrient dense food may actually result in weight loss that can be maintained once it has reached a point within their healthy weight range. While this can be achieved none of it means anything until the patient's life is actually bearable and something they want to live through without an eating disorder. In other words, what is making their life unbearable needs to be addressed with as great urgency, consideration and devotion as the maladaptive behaviour around food?
Without doing this all that is happening is that they are losing their eating disorder and because it is all many of these individuals have in this very compromised and damaged experience of life, they are likely to find themselves in it again. To take away a survival mechanism requires replacing it with something that works better, feels safer and serves the disordered eater in the way that their anorexia, bulimia or binge eating served them. Obviously, the new strategy should not have the same adverse or potentially life-threatening effects.
Without a replacement strategy that empowers the person with an eating disorder, it seems naive to ask them to let their eating disorder go. Something must be given back in return. To offer life to someone who finds it so hard they'd rather die is redundant. They need to be provided strategies and ways of seeing life that make it seem like something they could be part of and enjoy.
and letting the disordered eater speak for themselves as to what it is they need.
What are the symptoms trying to say?
Those with an eating disorder can speak for themselves should they wish to. If asked, people who struggle with an eating disorder receive the opportunity to say it on their terms, in their words and at their own pace.


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Hakanlar Çarpışıyor (Khans Are Fighting) is a Turkish historic action film by Natuk Baytan. It was released in 1977, during the most popular days of the Turkish historic films. The film is about the life of a Turkic warrior named Olcayto, portrayed by Cüneyt Arkın, who is the son of a Kyrgyz chief in Central Asia. When he was a small boy, Chinese troops attack their tribe and kill Olcayto's father. After this event, he decides to take revenge from Chinese warlords. Later, he would find a chance to do so when Chinese form an alliance with a Sheikh from South Asia, who uses all his efforts to kill Olcayto because of the love affair between his daughter and Olcayto.

One of the main motives of the film is the "Bozkır Yasası" (Law of the Steppe). During many key scenes of the film, characters act according to this notion which praises the success of a warrior. This also gives the film a nationalistic flavour which can be considered as an "essential" point of the genre.

Writer Erdoğan Tünaş possibly got his inspiration from Karaoğlan, the popular character of Suat Yalaz. Both Olcayto and Karaoğlan are from Central Asia, they are talented warriors, they have noble black horses and they both use swords which have grey wolf figures on their handles. Another important detail of the film is that Cüneyt Arkın's partner in it is Aytekin Akkaya, the same actor who also stars in the Turkish cult film Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam with Arkın.

Plot

Cast
Cüneyt Arkın as Halit,Olcayto and Başbuğ Toluğ (triple role)
Bahar Erdeniz as Zeliha, Olcayto's wife
Aytekin Akkaya as Tegin Khan
Hüseyin Peyda as Sheikh Malik
Turgut Özatay as Tun-Kay
Hikmet Taşdemir - Kabir
Reha Yurdakul - Celme Noyan
Levent Çakır - Sungur
Sönmez Yıkılmaz - Demirbilek El-Cerrah
Arseven Gümüş - Khaan
Süheyl Eğriboz - Kim-Yu
Mehmet Uğur - Çinli
Necdet Kökeş - Çakır
Cemal Konca - Şen-Kin
Muzaffer Cıvan - Moğol
Arap Celal - Hancı
Niyazi Er - Tağmaç Beyi
Yılmaz Kurt - Çinli
Kadir Kök - Çinli/Kara Sadi
Hakkı Kıvanç - Sheikh Malik
Ahmet Sert - Boğaç Usta
Doğan Tamer
Hamit Haskabal - Khan's henchman
Asım Par - Çinli
Yadigar Ejder - Cellat
Oktar Durukan - Yantar

See also
Cinema of Turkey

External links

1977 films
1970s action films
Films set in Turkey
1970s historical adventure films
Turkish historical adventure films
Historical action films
Turkish swashbuckler films
Films set in Asia
Films set in ancient India
Films set in Kyrgyzstan
Turkish films about revenge
Fictional Kyrgyzstani people


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/* eslint-env mocha */
'use-strict';

var Reporter = require('../index');
var Runner = require('./helpers/mock-runner');
var Test = require('./helpers/mock-test');

var fs = require('fs');
var path = require('path');

var chai = require('chai');
var expect = chai.expect;
var chaiXML = require('chai-xml');
var mockXml = require('./mock-results');
var testConsole = require('test-console');

var debug = require('debug')('mocha-junit-reporter:tests');

chai.use(chaiXML);

describe('mocha-junit-reporter', function() {
  var runner;
  var filePath;
  var MOCHA_FILE;

  function executeTestRunner(options) {
    options = options || {};
    options.invalidChar = options.invalidChar || '';
    options.title = options.title || 'Foo Bar module';
    options.root = (typeof options.root !== 'undefined') ? options.root : false;
    runner.start();

    runner.startSuite({
      title: options.title,
      root: options.root,
      tests: [1, 2]
    });

    if (!options.skipPassedTests) {
      runner.pass(new Test('Foo can weez the juice', 'can weez the juice', 1));
    }

    runner.fail(new Test('Bar can narfle the garthog', 'can narfle the garthog', 1), {
      stack: options.invalidChar + 'expected garthog to be dead' + options.invalidChar
    });

    runner.fail(new Test('Baz can behave like a flandip', 'can behave like a flandip', 1), {
      name: 'BazError',
      message: 'expected baz to be masher, a hustler, an uninvited grasper of cone'
    });

    runner.startSuite({
      title: 'Another suite!',
      tests: [1]
    });
    runner.pass(new Test('Another suite', 'works', 4));

    if (options && options.includePending) {
      runner.startSuite({
        title: 'Pending suite!',
        tests: [1]
      });
      runner.pending(new Test('Pending suite', 'pending'));
    }

    runner.end();
  }

  function verifyMochaFile(path, options) {
    var now = (new Date()).toISOString();
    debug('verify', now);
    var output = fs.readFileSync(path, 'utf-8');
    expect(output).xml.to.be.valid();
    expect(output).xml.to.equal(mockXml(runner.stats, options));
    fs.unlinkSync(path);
    debug('done', now);
  }

  function removeTestPath() {
    var testPath = '/subdir/foo/mocha.xml';
    var parts = testPath.slice(1).split('/');

    parts.reduce(function(testPath) {
      if (fs.existsSync(__dirname + testPath)) {
        var removeFile = testPath.indexOf('.') === -1 ? 'rmdirSync' : 'unlinkSync';
        fs[removeFile](__dirname + testPath);
      }

      return path.dirname(testPath);
    }, testPath);
  }

  function createReporter(options) {
    options = options || {};
    filePath = path.join(path.dirname(__dirname), options.mochaFile || '');

    return new Reporter(runner, { reporterOptions: options });
  }

  function getFileNameWithHash(path) {
    var filenames = fs.readdirSync(path);
    var expected = /(^results\.)([a-f0-9]{32})(\.xml)$/i;

    for (var i = 0; i < filenames.length; i++) {
      if (expected.test(filenames[i])) {
        return filenames[i];
      }
    }
  }

  before(function() {
    // cache this
    MOCHA_FILE = process.env.MOCHA_FILE;
  });

  after(function() {
    // reset this
    process.env.MOCHA_FILE = MOCHA_FILE;
  });

  beforeEach(function() {
    runner = new Runner();
    filePath = undefined;
    delete process.env.MOCHA_FILE;
    delete process.env.PROPERTIES;
  });

  afterEach(function() {
    debug('after');
  });

  it('can produce a JUnit XML report', function() {
    createReporter({mochaFile: 'test/mocha.xml'});
    executeTestRunner();

    verifyMochaFile(filePath);
  });

  it('respects `process.env.MOCHA_FILE`', function() {
    process.env.MOCHA_FILE = 'test/results.xml';
    createReporter();
    executeTestRunner();

    verifyMochaFile(process.env.MOCHA_FILE);
  });

  it('respects `process.env.PROPERTIES`', function() {
    process.env.PROPERTIES = 'CUSTOM_PROPERTY:ABC~123';
    createReporter({mochaFile: 'test/properties.xml'});
    executeTestRunner();
    verifyMochaFile(filePath, {
      properties: [
        {
          name: 'CUSTOM_PROPERTY',
          value: 'ABC~123'
        }
      ]
    });
  });

  it('respects `--reporter-options mochaFile=`', function() {
    createReporter({mochaFile: 'test/results.xml'});
    executeTestRunner();

    verifyMochaFile(filePath);
  });

  it('respects `[hash]` pattern in test results report filename', function() {
    var dir = 'test/';
    var path = dir + 'results.[hash].xml';
    createReporter({mochaFile: path});
    executeTestRunner();
    verifyMochaFile(dir + getFileNameWithHash(dir));
  });

  it('will create intermediate directories', function() {
    createReporter({mochaFile: 'test/subdir/foo/mocha.xml'});
    removeTestPath();
    executeTestRunner();

    verifyMochaFile(filePath);
    removeTestPath();
  });

  it('creates valid XML report for invalid message', function() {
    createReporter({mochaFile: 'test/mocha.xml'});
    executeTestRunner({invalidChar: '\u001b'});

    verifyMochaFile(filePath);
  });

  it('creates valid XML report even if title contain ANSI character sequences', function() {
    createReporter({mochaFile: 'test/mocha.xml'});
    executeTestRunner({title: 'Foo Bar module'});

    verifyMochaFile(filePath);
  });

  it('outputs pending tests if "includePending" is specified', function() {
    createReporter({mochaFile: 'test/mocha.xml', includePending: true});
    executeTestRunner({includePending: true});

    verifyMochaFile(filePath);
  });

  it('can output to the console', function() {
    createReporter({mochaFile: 'test/console.xml', toConsole: true});

    var stdout = testConsole.stdout.inspect();
    try {
      executeTestRunner();
      verifyMochaFile(filePath);
    } catch (e) {
      stdout.restore();
      throw e;
    }

    stdout.restore();

    var xml = stdout.output[0];
    expect(xml).xml.to.be.valid();
    expect(xml).xml.to.equal(mockXml(runner.stats));
  });

  it('properly outputs tests when amount of tests is wrong', function() {
    createReporter({mochaFile: 'test/mocha.xml'});
    // emulates exception in before each hook
    executeTestRunner({skipPassedTests: true});

    verifyMochaFile(filePath, {skipPassedTests: true});
  });

  describe('when "useFullSuiteTitle" option is specified', function() {
    var suiteTitles = ['test suite', 'when has parent'];

    it('generates full suite title', function() {
      var reporter = configureReporter({useFullSuiteTitle: true });

      expect(suiteName(reporter.suites[0])).to.equal(suiteTitles[0]);
      expect(suiteName(reporter.suites[1])).to.equal(suiteTitles.join(' '));
    });

    it('generates full suite title separated by "suiteTitleSeparatedBy" option', function() {
      var reporter = configureReporter({useFullSuiteTitle: true, suiteTitleSeparatedBy: '.'});
      expect(suiteName(reporter.suites[1])).to.equal(suiteTitles.join('.'));
    });

    it('respects the misspelled "suiteTitleSeparatedBy" option', function() {
      var reporter = configureReporter({useFullSuiteTitle: true, suiteTitleSeparedBy: '.'});
      expect(suiteName(reporter.suites[1])).to.equal(suiteTitles.join('.'));
    });

    function suiteName(suite) {
      return suite.testsuite[0]._attr.name;
    }

    function configureReporter(options) {
      var reporter = createReporter(options);

      reporter.flush = function(suites) {
        reporter.suites = suites;
      };

      suiteTitles.forEach(function(title) {
        runner.startSuite({title: title, suites: [1], tests: [1]});
      });
      runner.end();

      return reporter;
    }

  });

  describe('when "attachments" option is specified', function() {
    it('adds attachments to xml report', function() {
      var reporter = createReporter({attachments: true});
      var suite = {title: 'with attachments', tests: [1]};
      var test = new Test('has attachment', 'included attachment', 1);
      var filePath = '/path/to/file';
      var testsuites;
      var xml;
      runner.startSuite(suite);
      test.attachments = [filePath];
      runner.pass(test);
      reporter.flush = function(suites) {
        testsuites = suites;
      };
      runner.end();
      expect(testsuites[0].testsuite[0]._attr.name).to.equal(suite.title);
      expect(testsuites[0].testsuite[1].testcase).to.have.length(2);
      expect(testsuites[0].testsuite[1].testcase[0]._attr.name).to.equal(test.fullTitle());
      expect(testsuites[0].testsuite[1].testcase[1]).to.have.property('system-out', '[[ATTACHMENT|' + filePath + ']]');
      xml = reporter.getXml(testsuites);

      expect(xml).to.include('<system-out>[[ATTACHMENT|' + filePath + ']]</system-out>');
    });

    it('does not add system-out if no attachments were passed', function() {
      var reporter = createReporter({attachments: true});
      var suite = {title: 'with attachments', tests: [1]};
      var test = new Test('has attachment', 'included attachment', 1);
      var filePath = '/path/to/file';
      var testsuites;
      var xml;
      runner.startSuite(suite);
      runner.pass(test);
      reporter.flush = function(suites) {
        testsuites = suites;
      };
      runner.end();
      expect(testsuites[0].testsuite[0]._attr.name).to.equal(suite.title);
      expect(testsuites[0].testsuite[1].testcase).to.have.length(1);
      expect(testsuites[0].testsuite[1].testcase[0]._attr.name).to.equal(test.fullTitle());
      xml = reporter.getXml(testsuites);

      expect(xml).to.not.include('<system-out>[[ATTACHMENT|' + filePath + ']]</system-out>');
    });

    it('does not add system-out if no attachments array is empty', function() {
      var reporter = createReporter({attachments: true});
      var suite = {title: 'with attachments', tests: [1]};
      var test = new Test('has attachment', 'included attachment', 1);
      var filePath = '/path/to/file';
      var testsuites;
      var xml;
      test.attachments = [];
      runner.startSuite(suite);
      runner.pass(test);
      reporter.flush = function(suites) {
        testsuites = suites;
      };
      runner.end();
      expect(testsuites[0].testsuite[0]._attr.name).to.equal(suite.title);
      expect(testsuites[0].testsuite[1].testcase).to.have.length(1);
      expect(testsuites[0].testsuite[1].testcase[0]._attr.name).to.equal(test.fullTitle());
      xml = reporter.getXml(testsuites);

      expect(xml).to.not.include('<system-out>[[ATTACHMENT|' + filePath + ']]</system-out>');
    });
  });

  describe('Output', function() {
    var reporter, testsuites;

    beforeEach(function() {
      reporter = spyingReporter();
    });

    it('skips suites with empty title', function() {
      runner.startSuite({title: '', tests: [1]});
      runner.end();

      expect(testsuites).to.be.empty;
    });

    it('skips suites without testcases and suites', function() {
      runner.startSuite({title: 'test me'});
      runner.end();

      expect(testsuites).to.be.empty;
    });

    it('does not skip suites with nested suites', function() {
      runner.startSuite({title: 'test me', suites: [1]});
      runner.end();

      expect(testsuites).to.have.length(1);
    });

    it('does not skip suites with nested tests', function() {
      runner.startSuite({title: 'test me', tests: [1]});
      runner.end();

      expect(testsuites).to.have.length(1);
    });

    it('does not skip root suite', function() {
      runner.startSuite({title: '', root: true, suites: [1]});
      runner.end();

      expect(testsuites).to.have.length(1);
    });

    it('uses "Root Suite" by default', function() {
      runner.startSuite({title: '', root: true, suites: [1]});
      runner.end();
      expect(testsuites[0].testsuite[0]._attr).to.have.property('name', 'Root Suite');
    });

    it('respects the `rootSuiteTitle`', function() {
      var name = 'The Root Suite!';
      reporter = spyingReporter({rootSuiteTitle: name});
      runner.startSuite({title: '', root: true, suites: [1]});
      runner.end();

      expect(testsuites[0].testsuite[0]._attr).to.have.property('name', name);
    });

    it('uses "Mocha Tests" by default', function() {
      runner.startSuite({title: '', root: true, suites: [1]});
      runner.end();
      var xml = reporter.getXml(testsuites);

      expect(xml.indexOf('testsuites name="Mocha Tests"')).not.to.equal(-1);
    });

    it('respects the `testsuitesTitle`', function() {
      var xml, title = 'SuitesTitle';

      reporter = spyingReporter({testsuitesTitle: title});
      runner.startSuite({title: '', root: true, suites: [1]});
      runner.end();
      xml = reporter.getXml(testsuites);
      expect(xml.indexOf('testsuites name="SuitesTitle"')).not.to.equal(-1);
    });

    function spyingReporter(options) {
      options = options || {};
      options.mochaFile = options.mochaFile || 'test/mocha.xml';

      reporter = createReporter(options);

      reporter.flush = function(suites) {
        testsuites = suites;
      };

      return reporter;
    }
  });

  describe('Feature "Configurable classname/name switch"', function() {
    var reporter, mockedTestCase = {
      title: "should behave like so",
      timestamp: 123,
      tests: "1",
      failures: "0",
      time: "0.004",
      fullTitle: function() {
        return 'Super Suite ' + this.title;
      }
    };

    it('should generate valid testCase for testCaseSwitchClassnameAndName default', function() {
      reporter = createReporter({mochaFile: 'test/mocha.xml'});
      var testCase = reporter.getTestcaseData(mockedTestCase);
      expect(testCase.testcase[0]._attr.name).to.equal(mockedTestCase.fullTitle());
      expect(testCase.testcase[0]._attr.classname).to.equal(mockedTestCase.title);
    });

    it('should generate valid testCase for testCaseSwitchClassnameAndName=false', function() {
      reporter = createReporter({mochaFile: 'test/mocha.xml', testCaseSwitchClassnameAndName: false});
      var testCase = reporter.getTestcaseData(mockedTestCase);
      expect(testCase.testcase[0]._attr.name).to.equal(mockedTestCase.fullTitle());
      expect(testCase.testcase[0]._attr.classname).to.equal(mockedTestCase.title);
    });

    it('should generate valid testCase for testCaseSwitchClassnameAndName=true', function() {
      reporter = createReporter({mochaFile: 'test/mocha.xml', testCaseSwitchClassnameAndName: true});
      var testCase = reporter.getTestcaseData(mockedTestCase);
      expect(testCase.testcase[0]._attr.name).to.equal(mockedTestCase.title);
      expect(testCase.testcase[0]._attr.classname).to.equal(mockedTestCase.fullTitle());
    });
  });
});

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RECO recently returned to the Santa Clara Marriott to update the lobby, meeting rooms and guest rooms. Our last engagement at the hotel? Before Super Bowl 50, when every hotel in the Bay Area was frantically upgrading facilities to accommodate sell-out crowds!
For the hotel's popular lobby sports bar we needed to accommodate multiple TV screens while providing muted bar lighting that wouldn't distract sports fans.


Elsa also protects Olaf from some mysterious pink flames. Along with our favorite reindeer Sven, of course. After the logo flashes across the screen, we see Anna grab Kristoff's sword from his scabbard and swipe it at an unseen threat. The cold actually does bother us, anyway. The trailer opens with ice queen Elsa standing beachside as a storm rages on around her.
They are a woman with red hair, and a blond figure who emerges, floating from a pile of leaves. Also added to the cast are actors Evan Rachel Wood and Sterling K. Brown.
Perhaps these new characters could be the villains of the piece, but some fans are hoping otherwise. Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck direct Frozen 2 from a screenplay by Lee and Allison Schroeder (Hidden Figures).
If Elsa were to be given a girlfriend, it would make her the first LGBTQ princess - a step towards equality from Disney.
It comes in the form of mystical floating diamonds. Why she appears to be training for some kind of ocean ice-skating marathon is unclear, but fans will love seeing her unleash the superpowers she spent so long hiding in the first film.
The original "Frozen" was announced in 2011 and hit theaters in 2013.


Over the next few weeks, I will be sharing with you my fall album of beauty.
The Hosta's greet me in the morning through my kitchen view.
They have bloomed and are now preparing for the winter season.
But before they depart... they glow back their colors to me in the eventide.
They have completed their work.
I think we too often want to cut everything back before it is wilted to the ground. There is beauty in the last season of a perennial and everyday they look a bit different.
I'll enjoy your Fall foliage photos.
Beautiful...the fall hostas! Your post has me wondering if I cleaned up my hostas before we left home...or not. My memory is very short!
So, so pretty Marg - yes the autumn colours are beautiful and I look forward to your documenting of this before things are covered with "white".


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Luxury camping retreats complete with in-tent massages could be the future of weekend getaways
Melia Robinson
Mar. 22, 2017, 12:15 PM
Collective Retreats
Collective Retreats, a startup based in Denver, Colorado, wants to disrupt the hospitality industry by building where their competitors can't. The company develops luxury camping, or glamping, retreats across the country, inviting guests to reconnect with nature and each other.
"We look for places that you'd really want to be, where traditional hotels wouldn't or couldn't exist — the sides of mountains, the middle of a vineyard, or on the edge of a beautiful farm in the Hudson Valley," Peter Mack, founder and CEO of Collective Retreats, tells Business Insider.
Take a look at how Collective Retreats is rethinking the hotel experience.
Peter Mack spent 10 years at Starwood Hotels & Resorts, where he worked his way up from dishwasher to senior director of sales strategy. "I started to get frustrated because it became very apparent to me that the traditional hotel model is broken," Mack says.
A vintage car passes in front of the Four Points by Sheraton in Havana, Cuba.
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Most hotels and resorts spend the vast majority of revenue on real estate and upkeep, according to Collective Retreats. Mack and his team set out to flip the model on its head.
Collective Retreats partners with property owners whose land cannot be used for hotel development because of a lack of infrastructure or zoning laws, but are interested in listing it on the hospitality market. The company leases the land and builds retreats there.
Increasingly, consumers are ditching traditional vacations for "experiential travel," like staying in a tiny home, glamping, or booking a stranger's home through Airbnb.
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Source: Forbes
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Collective Retreats is what Mack calls "asset-light," which may be an understatement. The company's retreats feature luxury canvas tents spread at least 150 feet apart.
This is no ordinary camping experience, however. The tents provide access to the outdoors plus the "comforts of a Four Seasons," Mack says. They range from $500 to $700 a night.
Every rental has a king size bed, a wood-burning stove, wall plugs aplenty for charging gadgets, and a private bathroom — a necessity of a luxury product, Mack says.
No two tents look exactly alike on the inside. A designer scours estate sales to find furniture that fits the company's Americana aesthetic and is local to the destination.
The company currently operates two locations — in Vail, Colorado, and Moonlight Basin, Montana, outside Yellowstone National Park — and has another three in the pipeline.
The Vail retreat sits surrounded by 1,000 acres of working ranch land. Guests can explore the property on horseback or take in the views from the onsite winery.
The Yellowstone location is wedged between two of the country's top fly-fishing rivers. If hiking or boating isn't of interest, guests can always book an in-tent massage.
Both locations have farm-to-table dining. A complimentary breakfast of omelettes, fruits, and pancakes is included, and a three-course dinner is served under the stars.
Plus, guests' morning coffee is delivered to the steps of their tent.
Every guest is assigned a concierge who assists them with booking transportation, dining, nature activities, and even photo sessions to celebrate special occasions.
Before 2017 is up, Collective Retreats will expand to private properties in Sonoma, California; Austin, Texas; and Hudson Valley, located north of New York City.
The company's night rate, which reaches $700 during peak travel time, is steep considering only a sheet of canvas separates guests from the great outdoors. Mack proposes that the value proposition of a Collective Retreats stay beats a traditional hotel experience.
"The whole mission of Collective Retreats is to connect you with places, with people, with yourself," he says. It's hard to put a price tag on that.
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No "Year In Review" From WordPress….So!
What If We "Got Shot" of the Moon?!!
It would? So what exactly would happen if we just got rid of it altogether and there was no moon? Which there probably wasn't so far as many of us were concerned over Christmas! But say we blew it up?!! Blasted it completely out of the sky? After all do we actually need this shiny ball in the sky anyway?
All those tiny fragments of blown up moon would be far too small to stick back together and create a new, if rather misshapen and little moon, which would have at least managed a near normal gravitational pull on Earth…important scientific detail….
A lovely ring would form around Earth consisting of little lumps of moon shrapnel …very, very tiny ones…very pretty but trouble is they wouldn't be content with staying out there in space. Oh no, they would much rather make a regular and devastatingly determined habit of periodically hurtling out of their ring-world and slam-dunking into the Earth's surface, bombarding us with meteorites that should otherwise never have thought of coming anywhere near us…oh dear! Moulton moon rain, cities destroyed, countries obliterated….
On top of which, if we have blown the moon sky high all those particularly dangerous outer space meteorites that had previously hammered the moon's surface would no longer have anything to prevent them making a bee-line for Earth, happily re-creating the Moon's surface on the home-world! Great! Craters everywhere… Even more cities destroyed, countries obliterated….
In between moon rocks and meteorite bombardments from the rest of the cosmos, Earth, minus the moon's gravitational pull would develop a wobble…it had a little one before but it was stabilised by the Moon, which also protected it from the gravitational pull of the other planets…now it would have a huge wobble, and be pulled one way by Mars and another way by Jupiter – our planetary neighbours. Consequently with no moon to slow Earth's orbit down we would be flying merrily around the sun in a wildly unhinged and erratic orbit…. shortening Earth's day from 24 hours to only 8 – 10 hours.
Earth would be a very, very different place. As it would now be rotating so much faster, 160-200 km winds would be zooming across Earth's surface.
With Earth's now unstable axial tilt, we would see dramatic environmental changes over the course of thousands-millions of years – the loss of our conventional seasons and radical modifications in temperature would cause wide-ranging consequences for the growth of plant life and crops. This in turn would create some major headaches and very thorny problems for producing food for the billions of people dwelling on Earth. The animal world would have to adapt pretty quickly to a much shorter life pattern in terms of mating, migration and hibernation.
Moreover, the changing temperatures would lead to the loss of Earth's N and S Poles. To an extent this is already happening but in such circumstances melting ice would have a hugely dramatic effect on the oceans which would rise to a point where they change the all the world's coastlines.
Life on Earth both in countries and in cities would have no choice but to adapt pretty drastically in order to survive or disappear into extinction.
With no moon to affect the tides, which show a configuration related to the lunar phase cycle, Earth's oceans would become very tranquil and still. Solar tides would have a very small effect; about half that of the Moon, so there would be the odd wave or two. (Assuming we hadn't blown the Sun up as well 😉 ) Tides were also important in life's early stages of evolution so this would be terrible news for sea life which would rapidly become extinct. Barely-there tides do not mix oceans which therefore do not circulate nutrients required for sea-life's survival…so fishermen would quickly go out of business and no –one would be microwaving their "Fisherman's Pies" ever again!
Not quite the useless lump rock some people seem to think it is then!


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'Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash' Review: "A Jumbled Mess of Conflicting Genres"
Mark Tan Posted On September 11, 2021
As a storyteller, it's tempting to throw everything at the wall to see what sticks. Oftentimes, the combination of items is enough to make the spectacle worth watching. Even in situations where items slide down to the floor, seeing someone make a big attempt at all is enough to spark attention. And fittingly enough, director Edwin made that big attempt with his film Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash. Plenty of films have had a sincere romance at their center, and others have had elaborate martial arts. But almost none of them have tried this hard to combine the two styles. Whether the results are worthwhile, that's another question…
At the heart of the story is Ajo Kawir (Marthino Lio), a man who has a constant urge to fight. Whether for money or just for fun, Ajo is there to stand his ground and come on top. Unsurprisingly, there is a reason for his unwavering anger: he has a serious case of erectile dysfunction. Along the way, he meets a bodyguard named Iteung (Ladya Cheryl) and soon gets into a brutal fight with her. But even with Iteung tiring him out, Ajo cannot help but spark a romantic relationship. For the first time in ages, he wants to do more than try to be the last man standing. Still, there lies an uncertain future, and that causes the lives of both Ajo and Iteung to change.
If Vengeance succeeds at anything, it's in the ability to hook its audience early. First of all, Edwin makes his love for Hong Kong cinema clear in the combat scenes. The choreography borders on being balletic, and the camera only moves to emphasize the movement of the actors. Under no circumstances do the filmmakers render the pivotal fight between Ajo and Iteung into a total blur. In addition, it benefits a lot from its early 1990s setting. From minute one, the movie revels in its lo-fi, grainy aesthetic thanks to its use of 16mm film. And as for the music, it utilizes an electronic score that's simple and moody at the same time.
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I wish that the filmmakers found a way to maintain that initial momentum, though. Because past the opening act, Vengeance begins to completely fall apart at the seams. While the action element never quite goes away, it starts to shift into a dark, seedy tone that fits poorly with everything preceding it. In regards to the romance, it thankfully sustains itself for a while. After all, the middle act centers around a love triangle of sorts. Still, the transition between genres is not gradual, and it only gets worse the longer it goes on. Given that its 114-minute runtime is by no means speedy, it's clear we are in for a tedious grind.
Edwin and Eka Kurniawan's screenplay also has a huge issue with introducing too many details as it progresses. Based on how I described the plot, it seems like Ajo and Iteung become a couple that muscles through tough events together. And yet, there is a long stretch where the two don't interact with each other much at all. One can argue that this section intends to expand on Ajo's struggle with his own masculinity. However, this supposed exploration provides nothing that was not already obvious in the opening. And just to make things messier, a large portion of the final act centers around a character that may or may not be a ghost.
Like most movies that are jumbled messes, it's hard to blame any of it on the performers. Ajo calls for someone who can seamlessly move between expressing toughness and vulnerability, and Lio fits that bill admirably. Every time he takes part in a fight, he puts a ton of anger at the forefront. And for the times he tells Iteung about his impotence, his soft, boyish looks take center stage. Interestingly enough, one can say a similar thing about Cheryl. On top of being a love interest, she also has to be a nimble, unassuming fighter. And in that regard, she arguably makes a bigger impression.
I admire the filmmakers for doing their own spin on genre conventions. Furthermore, it functions as a solid proof-of-concept for Edwin as a director of Hong Kong-inspired action movies. Still, I like to think that capitalizing on potential is one of the best things a project can accomplish. And in the case of Vengeance, that is not something that seems to be under consideration. Let us hope that Edwin takes a more careful approach to craft a story in the future. – Mark Tan
Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash's release date has yet to be announced.
Mark Tan
A software developer that is also a passionate film fan. When I am not working on code or watching movies, I love to eat, hike and travel, though eating is a much higher priority than the others. Managing Critic for Full Circle.
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