A national multi-stakeholder partnership for TB care and control is shaping up in India. Last week, representatives from a range of TB stakeholders participated in a day-long meeting at LRS Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases in New Delhi. The meeting was facilitated by the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IUATLD, The Union)'s India Resource Center.
India ranks first in the list of 22 TB high burden countries globally with about 1/5th of the world's TB cases. According to the World Health Organization (WHO)'s Anti Tuberculosis Drug Resistance in the World report (2008), India and China together have more than 50% of the world's drug-resistant TB cases. India also figures high-up on the list of high-burden multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) countries in the world.
However all is not that bleak – India has certainly made major strides in TB care and control, testing more than 40 million people for TB, rolling out anti-TB treatment to more than 9 million sputum-positive patients since 1997, every month more than 100,000 patients are put on Directly-Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) treatment, with more than 85% cure rate in sputum-positive patients, under the Revised National TB control Programme (RNTCP). However it is due to poor programme performance of DOTS that drug-resistant TB has been on an alarming rise.
"Partnerships in TB care and control is not new to India" said Dr LS Chauhan, Deputy Director General (TB), Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. "Since 1995, India has forged partnerships with different sectors to improve TB programme performances" added Dr Chauhan.
"Despite of the involvement of more than 2,500 NGOs, private practitioners, 260 medical colleges and 110 corporate sector hospitals in the RNTCP, the contribution of the TB programme is not at the desired level" said Dr Chauhan, clearly articulating the need that a lot more needs to be done to improve TB programme performance in India.
"There is a need now for close coordination and clear communication while working together to face the challenge of including those who are currently outside the reach of the public health system" said Dr Chauhan. "There is not enough coordination between different TB stakeholders at the district or state level, and not regular coordination at the national level" remarked Dr Chauhan.
Dr Chauhan also said that "the RNTCP programme cannot document every best practice or challenges faced at the grassroots in TB care and control, so other people need to take leadership and come forward". These voices of the frontline workers in TB care and control need to be well documented and 'heard' in order to inform the policy makers for a desired change to improve TB programme performance.
Recent reports have identified programmatic challenges impeding TB responses in India that include limited community awareness, sub-optimal community participation and sense of ownership, emerging challenges of TB-HIV co-infection and drug-resistant-TB management and limited access to quality TB care for the hard to reach, marginalized and vulnerable populations.
"8 million new TB cases diagnosed every year and two TB deaths take place every 3 minutes in India" said Professor (Dr) D Behera, Director, LRS Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases, New Delhi. "Just providing anti-TB treatment is not sufficient, treatment is interrupted due to poverty, unemployment, etc" added Dr Behera.
"At USAID, partnerships are the way to do business. Partnerships enhance efficiency and effectiveness, rational division of labour, maximize synergy" said Robin Mardeusz from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Robin highlighted one of the major benefits of the partnerships in providing multi-action innovative solutions. USAID has supported the secretariat of the national partnership for TB care and control to be hosted by The Union through a World Vision grant.
Another civil society partnership on TB which exists in India since March 2007 to complement India's RNTCP is the NGO TB Consortium which includes eight major civil society organizations contributing to TB care and control: Adventist Development Relief Agency (ADRA), Damien Foundation India Trust (DFIT), German Leprosy and TB Relief Association (GLRA) , LEPRA Society , PATH India , Project Concern International (PCI) India , TB Alert India and World Vision India.
One clear mandate of an effective and genuine partnership for TB care and control should be to help strengthen mechanisms for equitable access to information and meaningful participation, particularly of those undergoing anti-TB treatment, or those who have successfully completed their anti-TB treatment or those who are at increased risk of TB including people living with HIV (PLHIV). Without documenting these voices of the affected communities so that the best practices and challenges both inform the national TB programmes so as to improve the programme performances, India will fail to achieve the targets for TB prevention, treatment and care.
Another major mandate of such a partnership should be to radically scale up communications and advocacy to implement the Patients' Charter for Tuberculosis Care, so that affected communities can use the Patients' Charter to raise awareness and consciousness about the rights and responsibilities of people with TB, to strive towards achieving International Standards for Tuberculosis Care across the country.
How complementing will be the NGO TB Consortium to the National Partnership for TB Care and Control, is yet to be seen. Also how we build or help strengthen high quality and reliable platforms for information exchange, genuine dialogue and advocacy on TB/HIV issues, keeping the voices of the affected communities at the centre of such discourses, will be a daunting challenge.
May be it is time to step out of our organizational entities and join hands for better synergy to bring the affected communities in the centre of TB/HIV response and help India achieve the TB prevention, treatment and care targets it has set out for.


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El Riu Piedra, neix al terme municipal de Cimballo (Saragossa), a unes 3 llegües del monestir, porta dissolta en les seves aigües gran quantitat de carbonat de calci, á benefici d'un excés de àcid carbònic que, en despendre's, ocasiona la formació de calcària incrustant, que no només constitueix les estalactites i estalagmites a les grutes, sinó que dóna origen a grans masses d'aquella, en forma de Tova calcària, la qual rep al país el nom de tosca.

Pas pel Monestir de Piedra
Després de formar la sense igual sèrie de cascades que es van resseguint, passa el riu per una estreta llera i, salvant una alçada de 49 m, Es precipita a un abisme en una tallada angostura, la profunditat de la qual és impossible mesurar amb els ulls, vetllada com es troba pel vapor mateix de l'aigua que es desfà en pols a la meitat de la seva caiguda. Aquesta és la supèrbia cataracta anomenada "Cua de Cavall".

Aigües amunt, i a molt curta distància de la Cua de Cavall, es troba la cascada Iris, així anomenada pels efectes que en ella causen els raigs de sol en ferir de reüll, a la caiguda de la tarda, l'aigua polvoritzada que d'ella es desprèn. Més amunt es veu una altra cascada que porta el nom dels Fresnos, baixa. L'aigua corre en aquesta cascada atropelladament per diversos graons naturals, assotant els troncs de centenàries freixes que creixen a la seva riba, i es divideix en dos braços que cauran oberts sobre la Iris.

A través dels arbres es distingeix una altra cascada a gran altura, que és la dels Fresnos, alta, a la qual es puja per una escala que va seguint les corbes de l'aigua, i a mitjan escala cal aturar-se per gaudir d'un bell espectacle, ja que des d'aquest lloc es contemplen 10 cascades de baix a dalt i sis a vista d'ocell, lloc que pot qualifiqui sense por de Giesbach espanyol.

Tornant a la Iris i seguint remuntant el riu s'arriba a una vall circular, entorn del qual s'alcen muntanyes vestides d'esplèndida vegetació. Es diu aquest vall el Verjel, i és un bell prat creuat per amples i arenats carrers d'altíssims plàtans i solcada per murmuradors rierols. Entrant en un bosquet d'àlbers negres es troba la gruta de la Carmela, que ofereix en el seu sostre precioses incrustacions i rares labors, produint la llum que penetra per una obertura que hi ha al seu costat preciosos efectes de llum i ombres reflectides.

Des de la Carmela, i seguint el passeig de riu, s'arriba a la plaça de Carles Haes i al Bany de Diana, cascada que, millor que per la naturalesa, sembla disposada per la mà de l'home. Des d'aquest punt es puja per un lloc, que té una mica d'agrest i salvatge, conegut amb el poètic nom de Torrent de les Merles.

En arribar a l'altiplà, paral·lela a aquest torrent, es troba la primorosa Gruta de l'Artista, col·locada veritablement sobre un escenari. A curta distància d'aquesta, s'obren dues grutes més petites, anomenades de La Pantera i de La Bacante, i a una banda i l'altra d'aquestes grutes apareixen dues imponents cascades: La Capritxos "una de les més belles de Piedra, i La Trinitat, així anomenada perquè les seves aigües formen tres caigudes o salts, que es desprenen amb sonora i majestuosa pompa. Una altra cascada hi ha allà a prop que es diu La Solitària, perduda entre el més ombrívol i agrest, i les aigües alimenten un plàcid i petit llac que forma un dels encants de la vall del Verjel.

Seguint el camí que comença a La Solitària es troba una placeta, i des d'allí parteix una empinada escala que condueix a El Cañar, on l'aigua s'estimba enmig de punxegudes roques. Donant la volta pel deliciós passeig que envolta la vall, es puja per una ampla escalinata a la passejada de la cascada Sombria que condueix a les Cuatro Calles i al monestir.

Les cascades de El Vado, que disten uns 3 km del monestir, poden visitar-se anant per la carretera o seguint els marges de riu, ombrejat per doble filera d'arbres. L'anomenada El Vado és de grandiós aspecte i amb tot un teatre per a embellir; aquesta meravellosa cascada és potser la més bella de la qual formen el riu Pedra.

Costejant el riu s'arriba a un punt on el riu i camí desapareixen, però una profunda escala oberta a la penya viva descendeix al fons d'una vall envoltada d'altíssims i formidables murs de penyals i en el qual apareixen tres cascades: és a la una La Requijada, molt semblant a la Cola de Caballo, i encara que de menor altura més graciosa i esvelta, i són les altres dues la Niña, amb molt menor cabal d'aigua, i la de Los Peñascos, que més aviat és un torrent que és s'estimba entre aquells.

Seguint el curs de riu que recorre un estret i deliciosa vall, s'arriba a un lloc anomenat Los Argalides, espècie de llacuna situada a sobre del Parc del monestir, un altre dels bells llocs de Pedra, i en el qual es veuen un nombre infinit de petites i gracioses cascades ombrejades per anyencs i gegantins arbres. Seguint el camí que per la part alta de la vall del monestir contínua fins al bellíssim passeig conegut amb el nom de La Olmeda, s'arriba a l'hostatgeria.

Passant el pont que, junt a la Iris, travessen el riu i travessant el túnel que a la dreta s'obre es descendeix a la vall anomenada de La Hoz, on cau la cascada Cola de Caballo.

A poc tros de sortir de túnel es troba la cascada de Las Truchas, així anomenada perquè alimenta vivers i pesqueres on es crien milers d'elles. La cascada es divideix en tres braços, que la vegada se subdivideixen en petits rierols que murmurant mentre discorren entre penyes i males herbes, i als quals se'ls dóna el nom de Chorreaderos. Torçant a la dreta i passant per la font de la Fresnera, situada en un paratge encantador, s'arriba a un pont rústic, que es creua, i es troba el viatger en el punt on es descobreix la cascada Cola de Caballo, en tota la seva alçada i magnificència, dins del seu marc on roques calcàries i envoltada de grans mates d'aquella planta que els antics anomenaven cabellera de Venus. És el millor punt de vista per la cascada, i des d'aquí baix és com es pot apreciar millor tot el sublim del seu terrible salt. Darrere de la cascada es veu una obscura gruta suspesa sobre l'abisme, la boca tanca l'aigua amb cortinatge de transparent cristall. En ella nien milers de tudons.

Vistas de llocs per on transcorre el riu Piedra

Continuant la ruta del Piedra
Seguint la riba de riu entre frondosos arbres, i creuant un altre pont rústic, s'arriba a la porta de la Piscifactoria Central, a càrrec del ministeri de Foment, i perfectament muntada. La formen 22 basses o pesqueres de diferent extensió, en les quals viuen les truites dividides per edats. En algunes d'aquestes basses el fons està ple de plantes aquàtiques que crien milions de petits crancs que es recullen i serveixen d'aliment a les truites en la seva primera edat. És aquest establiment de piscicultura una obra acabada que pot servir de model i que facilita anualment molts milers de truites que es destinen a la repoblació dels rius espanyols.

De la Pesquera es passa a l'estany de la Peña, de tranquil·les i dorments aigües, i un dels llocs més encantadors, en què regna constantment afable i encisadora calma. Si se segueix una estreta senda que va pagant el llac, a un costat del qual s'alça, gairebé verticalment, la penya del Diablo, gegantí i formidable penyal de vasta i feréstega carena. A certes hores el llac es converteix en un brunyit mirall, i la fascinació és total; els penyals que l'envolten, la torre del Homenaje i l'ermita de Piedra Vieja, es reflecteixen en el llac i hi apareixen amb tots els seus més petits detalls i dibuixats amb una puresa de línies que se sobreposen a la realitat. A causa d'això se li coneix també a aquest llac amb el nom de llac del Espejo. Un dels diversos pous que amb les seves cristal·lines deus alimenta el llac és l'anomenat de Bengala, per la varietat de llums de diversos colors que en el seu fons es distingeixen a certes hores del matí.

Continuant per la mateixa senda s'arriba a un pont rústic, i per això es passa a la riba oposada, i per ella a una placeta, on a la dreta hi ha una rústica construcció en on es troba la deu d'aigua dita de la Salud o de la Peña. Al costat d'aquesta placeta hi ha una profunda fondalada d'aspecte salvatge, i des d'aquest lloc, veritablement romàntic, arrenca un camí que en seguir-lo és baixa a la vall de la Hoz.

Una senzilla làpida de marbre recorda, sobre la porta de la baixada, a la meravellosa gruta de laIris, que va ser descoberta el 1860. Per un pendent escala oberta a la roca, penjada unes vegades sobre l'abisme i voltada altres de tant en tant amb capritxoses estalactites, s'arriba a una gruta, espècie de tribuna, il·luminada pels raigs de sol, i des de la qual es veu caure molt de prop la gegantina cascada que retrona les oïdes amb el seu constant fragor i refresca l'ambient amb els seus vapors aquosos. Alguns esglaons més, des de cadascun dels quals van descobrint-se nous i sorprenents espectacles, s'obren pas, per fi, fins a la vora de la gegantina gruta (mesura uns 100 m. De llarg per 42 d'alt i 20 d'ample de mitjana), on surt el fragor de la pròxima cascada, i es descobreix amb sorpresa el vast recinte amb la volta d'enormes estalactites i el paviment de verdoses aigües. Una galeria corre per la banda esquerra fins al fons de la gruta, des d'on se la pot contemplar en tota la seva magnificència.

L'ombrívol i extens llac que forma el fons de la gruta, i els límits s'amaguen sota les molsoses roques que li serveixen de fonament; la gegantina volta d'estalactites que tanca aquell antre misteriós i ombrívol; la immensa cortina d'aigua que cau per davant de la boca de la gruta com un penjoll de plata transparent, els raigs de sol que des del seu ocàs vénen a penetrar a través de la brillant cortina, contínuament renovada, a l'interior de la gruta, l'atmosfera matisen amb els colors de l'arc de Sant Martí; el constant degoteig dels murs i voltes s'assemblen a una copiosa pluja d'espurnes de foc, revoltes amb maragdes i jacints; el constant i eixordador mugit, finalment, de la cascada, que sembla un huracà assolador o el ronc bram d'un volcà en erupció, constitueixen un quadre de tan alta sublimitat, que fan més per a vista i sentit que per descrita, la gruta que segons va dir el poeta Campoamor

Curs mitjà
En aquesta part de la llera es troben la central hidroelèctrica de la Requijada, amb una concessió de 2 m/s; el monestir de Pedra; el municipi de Nuévalos, on hi ha el salt de la Requijada; la desembocadura del riu Ortiz i l'embassament de la Tranquera.

Desembocadura
En el curs mitjà de Jalón, entre les desembocadures dels rius Monegrillo i Manubles, al terme municipal d'Ateca després de travessar Castejón de las Armas.

Afluents
A part de les deus citats anteriorment, a la llera del riu Piedra aporten el seu cabal al riu Ortiz, a l'altura de Nuévalos, i el riu Mesa, a l'embassament de la Tranquera.

Explotació
El riu s'utilitza per a molins, piscifactoria, forns de calç, reg i generació elèctrica.

Bibliografia
 Enciclopèdia Espasa, volum núm 44. 730/31 (ISBN 84-239-4544-8)
 Paulo Coelho; "A orillas del río Piedra me senté y lloré", ISBN 9788408045052

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Browns Will Not Receive Draft Pick for Trading RB Terrance West
By Chris Pokorny@DawgsByNature Nov 9, 2015, 3:17pm EST
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When the Cleveland Browns traded RB Terrance West, a 3rd round pick in 2014, to the Tennessee Titans leading up to Week 1 this season, it was reported that the Browns would receive a conditional 7th round pick in 2016 in return. The "conditional" part of that pick was based on playing time, and late last week, the Titans waived West after playing in just two games, which wasn't enough for Cleveland to net a pick.
Titans cut former Towson running back Terrance West, trade doesn't give Browns a draft pick due to playtime conditions of trade
— Aaron Wilson (@AaronWilson_NFL) November 7, 2015
With the Titans, West had 13 carries for 41 yards in Week 1, but lost a fumble. In Week 2, his "revenge" game against the Browns, he had 3 carries for 10 yards, with one of those carries being a fumble that helped lead to one of two Browns victories this year. West never saw another carry for Tennessee, despite the team being in a desperate search for a lead running back.
Nobody claimed West, who is now a free agent.
In other former Browns running back news, tragedy has struck RB Dion Lewis again. After finally getting a chance to shine in New England this year, he tore his ACL against the Washington Redskins. If coming back from a broken leg wasn't hard enough, this might end up being the final straw for a guy who had so much potential.

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Anti-SOPA Protests Planned Around The Country Today
NEW YORK kirsten gillibrand stop sopa pipa sopa meetup chuck schumer san francisco
Even though the House Judiciary Committee has moved its planned hearing on the Stop Internet Piracy Act from today until February — perhaps hoping that we'll all be too hungover from Super Bowl beer and wings to care — that's not going to stop people who are peeved about SOPA and its Senate counterpart, the Protect IP Act, from taking to the streets to have their say.
In New York, around 1,500 protestors are expected to take up a position outside the Manhattan offices of Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. The event, organized by the folks at the New York Tech Meetup, a group with more than 20,000 members.
Explain the organizers:
As much as we agree that infringing on copyrighted material should be eliminated from the web as much as possible, the cure that is being proposed and championed by the lobbying power of major copyright holding organizations like the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) will create a cure that is much worse than the disease and irrevocably damage the very nature of the internet and by extension, the future of New York.
On the left coast — more precisely in San Francisco — the 5,000-member strong group Hackers and Founders will be gathering at Civic Center Plaza starting at noon PT.
"Being an engineer and hearing what SOPA and PIPA would mean in terms of changes to the internet… We just couldn't stand by," Jonathan Nelson of H&F tells Consumerist about the protest. " And especially the radical, extreme and ham-fisted changes that it means to copyright enforcement, we figured we had to do something."
Nelson says he began to rally his group after the organizers of the NY Tech protest told him about their plans for Wednesday.
"These laws would fundamentally break the internet," he explains. "And as a community dedicated to the benefit of early startups… We decided to take a stand. So we are."
The NYC rally will take place between 12:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. at 780 Third Ave. (at 49th St). More info is available here. Our own Mary Beth Quirk will be on hand to talk to protestors and organizers.
In San Francisco, the Hackers & Founders protest will start at noon at Civic Center Plaza. Go here for more details.
Feel free to share details of other SOPA/PIPA-related protests you know about in the comments.
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One pilot brings the world to Iceland
Jon Kjartan Bjornsson has been a helicopter pilot for 35 years taking camera crews, directors and actors to some of the most stunning spots in Iceland.
Posted: Aug 6, 2020 8:01 AM
Updated: Aug 6, 2020 8:01 AM
Posted By: Fiona Tapp, Special to CNN
Ancient tales of trolls and magic live on in Iceland, an island nation of volcanoes, lava fields, glaciers and ice caves.
To fully explore every corner of the dynamic landscape, unravel local folklore and battle the natural elements, one must take to the skies.
Enter Jón Kjartan Björnsson, the pilot with a mission to show the real Iceland.
Björnsson, a helicopter pilot for 35 years, has taken camera crews, directors and actors to some of the most stunning spots in the country.
The thundering waterfalls and deep valley gorges seen in TV's "Game of Thrones" and the movies "Oblivion" and "Flags of Our Fathers" are thanks to Björnsson's expert navigation skills.
Björnssons' explains that since you cannot use a zoom on the wide-angle camera, the trick to getting that intimate feel is moving the actual helicopter close to the shot: "If it feels like you're close, you are close," he says.
Iceland, the alien planet
Although Björnsson loves to showcase his strikingly dramatic country, many of the shots he enables filmmakers to create are not presented as Iceland at all.
In fact, Björnsson says, "Whenever directors want to show somewhere on another planet, they shoot in Iceland!"
The aerial filming world is small, explains Björnsson, who describes it as a big family.
The desolate volcanic deserts, glaciers and lush mossy valleys seen on the planets of Eadu and Hoth in "Star Wars," in "Game of Throne's" Land Beyond the Wall, and in Thor's home of Asgard were all filmed in Iceland.
Iceland also stands in for an alien planet in the movie "Interstellar," where astronauts travel through a wormhole to find another home after Earth becomes uninhabitable.
And in the post-apocalyptic film "Oblivion," Iceland features as both a war-torn and ravaged Earth as well as its potential replacement, the planet of Titan.
Iceland immersion
In addition to work on feature films and television series, Björnsson is also responsible for getting the director and filming crew in the right spot for the FlyOver Iceland video used in the exhilarating experience based in Reykjavík.
The FlyOver exhibit, currently in Vancouver and Iceland and soon in Las Vegas and Toronto, takes visitors on a sensory ride suspended over a 20-meter (65.6-foot) screen. The experience blends some of those amazing sights depicted on film with the physical sensation of flying, including an actual mist falling on your face from a waterfall.
You might even get a whiff of fresh mountain flowers as you glide over a meadow.
In one stunning sequence in the Iceland film, Björnsson flies right through an impossibly narrow arch that has the whole audience gasping and holding their breath as they feel themselves trying to make it through the arch.
In fact, he tells CNN Travel the width was very comfortable at about 50 meters, but it sure looks and feels narrow as you embody the role of the silent passenger, sitting beside Björnsson, trusting Björnsson.
The finished footage from FlyOver and Björnsson's other projects -- full films and shows -- creates the impression that the audience is right there with him. It's as close as most people can hope to get to many of Iceland's otherwise inaccessible territory.
Remoter still
Remarkably for a man who has been flying professionally for over three decades, Björnsson says he is actually scared of heights and prefers low-level flying.
One scene in the eight-and-a-half-minute minimovie takes place at Iceland's highest peak, at 7,000 plus feet (2,134 meters) above sea level. "I almost had to close my eyes sometimes!" Björnsson quips.
Björnsson routinely has the opportunity to fly over places most Icelanders will never visit.
"Most of those sites in FlyOver are pretty difficult to get to unless you have a helicopter. The little lighthouse just south of Iceland is probably the most difficult one. But when you have the helicopter, you can go wherever you like to go!"
That remote and lonely little lighthouse is known as The Þrídrangaviti lighthouse and is located on the Westman Islands, about five miles off the coast of mainland Iceland.
The making of the movie
Some parts of the island do not feature in the final cut of director Dave Mossop's 2019 FlyOver Iceland video because weather conditions posed insurmountable obstacles.
Filming took place over a year and a half in all seasons. Mossop says that they were stranded for days in the northern part of the island when bad weather, including sideways snowstorms and zero light, made it impossible to film or to leave.
This part of the country seldom sees tourists and locals had warned Mossop that flying and filming would be difficult.
The challenging shoots, nonetheless, reaped great rewards: The helicopter's positioning gives viewers a grasp of the sheer scale of Iceland's glaciers, not visible in this way by land -- or even accessible.
Black sands, lava fields and deep green valleys look like a series of dramatic canvas landscapes stitched together into one true masterpiece.
"One of the most remote places that we got to visit and one that you would never be able to experience in its full effect from the ground is called the Tungnaa river, and I think it's one of the seven wonders of the world. It's just the most beautiful, wild, unbelievable river flowing from a glacier and spreading out over this silt sand," Mossop says.
When viewed from above in Björnsson's helicopter, Mossop says it looks like a three-dimensional Georgia O'Keeffe abstract painting, created by nature.
Directing danger
One of the most dramatic moments Mossop filmed in Iceland for FlyOver was a scene where kayakers come careening down the Goðafoss waterfall.
Mossop describes this as a "genuinely dangerous stunt." Although it wasn't the highest drop these adventure sports experts had navigated, it certainly was high stakes because of the sheer volume of water.
"The whole river channels into this notch and just piles off of this beautiful basalt column amphitheater and creates incredible impact at the bottom of the waterfall ... if it goes wrong, you're going to be buried under this mountain of water for minutes. And you could definitely, possibly, die," Mossop says.
Like much of the action filmed for this mini-movie, timing was everything.
"We were really fortunate we got a take that worked. And it's in the film and I think it's one of the most extreme and impressive shots I've ever worked on. It's such a beautiful location and such an impressive athletic stunt by both the pilot and the kayakers," Mossop says.
Mossop and Björnsson have captured something far more thrilling and dramatic than an alien planet or a fictional and magical world -- they have served up Iceland in all its rugged, other worldly beauty.
Thankfully for those of us who want to see it for ourselves, despite appearances, Iceland is actually located on our planet.
Small group tour companies such as Hidden Iceland organize trips to many of the amazing filming locations across the country including glacial hikes over Vatnajökull where you can visit the startling blue ice caves.
To see the country from Björnsson's point of view, however, you need to book a chopper. You can arrange a tour with the man himself through Nordurflug Helicopter Tours.
For the true Icelandic experience, choose a glacial landing, which costs around $725 USD per person.
Or visit FlyOver Iceland in Reykjavik. The ride costs about $33 USD.
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RCM Pandora's Locker
World Premiere of
PANDORA'S LOCKER
At The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory
The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory has commissioned a new opera, PANDORA'S LOCKER, from the multi-talented young Canadian composer and librettist Dean Burry, to be premiered at the new TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning in early December.
The contemporary youth opera, PANDORA'S LOCKER, is inspired by the Greek myth of Pandora's Box in which a young woman's curiosity leads to the unleashing of all the world's evils. It is a simple, archetypal myth, which reflects humankind's own hunt for knowledge and the potential for disaster upon its discovery. This search for information - keys to the future and past - is never more tangible than in the "up-and-down" lives of the average high school teenager.
PANDORA'S LOCKER, the first major operatic commission by The Glenn Gould School, was written specifically for a high school audience. Through the use of themes such as gender issues, sexuality, and gun violence, and a musical ensemble including modern "urban music scratch electronica", the opera places the Pandora myth within a contemporary, inner-city high school setting. It reveals the many elements of people's lives they seek to keep locked up, but which demand, sometimes violently, to be released. The composer/librettist Dean Burry (who also teaches a contemporary Canadian music class at The GGS) did not shy away from any of the hardcore issues, nor gritty language, in order to make an impact and to have the work resonate with teenagers.
The performances will be conducted and directed by two other talented young Canadians, the award-winning composer Brian Current and director Jennifer Parr. Current is presently the artistic director of the New Music Ensemble at The GGS and received rave reviews for his latest CD, This Isn't Silence. Parr, an accomplished director, well known for choreographing the sword fights for Opera Atelier, will also direct The GGS spring production of Mozart's Cos�� fan tutte.
"Dean Burry is one of the most dynamic and relevant compositional voices in Canada and is writing, almost exclusively, for opera. His past works hold records for the greatest number of repeat performances for a Canadian opera and his work for the Canadian Opera Company's after-school outreach program has set the standard with its quality and power to engage young audiences. He writes in a style that is both relevant and accessible, and his original libretto for PANDORA'S LOCKER is powerful and uncompromising in its honesty and inspiration." David Visentin, Associate Dean of The Glenn Gould School
WORLD PREMIERE!
Music & Libretto by Dean Burry
GGS New Music Ensemble and Glenn Gould School's Opera Division
Conductor: Brian Current
Director: Jennifer Parr
Friday, December 5, 2008, at 8:00pm
Thursday, December 11, 2008, at 11:00am
Saturday, December 13, 2008, at 2:00pm
Doors open 30 minutes prior to performance. General seating, first come first serve
At Mazzoleni Hall, The Royal Conservatory, 273 Bloor Street West, Toronto
For more information call 416-408-2824 x321 or visit www.rcmusic.ca
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Blog Post #1337 – Explosion Claims Worker
December 19, 2022 March 13, 2022 by Dan
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (November 2015)
A teenage worker was killed by an explosion that occurred at his worksite about 2 km south of Kinistino, Saskatchewan on November 03, 2015.
A statement from the Melfort, Saskatchewan detachment of the RCMP states that the 19-year-old male victim was performing welding work at the time of the incident. "He was cutting open a barrel with – I think it is called an oxyacetylene torch," says Constable Lorne Bennett of the Melfort RCMP. The barrel contained a type of spray foam, "and they all believed it was water-based, and it exploded. He was cutting the barrel, and boom."
The worker was pronounced dead at the scene. Police determined that there was nothing suspicious of criminal about the fatality.
The Occupational Health & Safety division of Saskatchewan's Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety sent representatives to investigate the scene. The Ministry spokesperson says the accident did not involve an employer-employee relationship – meaning that the incident was outside of the OH&S department's mandate and the Ministry did not have the authority to investigate it.
What does that mean, not our responsibility? Who has jurisdiction here? Why has someone died and no one deals with it? Sounds to me the people within the Ministry were trained up to the standards in Alberta.
Too bad! The province should follow the higher standards set in Quebec, Newfoundland, British Columbia and Ontario. Maybe workplaces will become safer.
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Sailing to Byzantium
New Menil Collection exhibition explores connections between Byzantine and modern art
By Michael Hardy 5/3/2013 at 10:28am
Crucifixion of Christ (detail). Crete. 17th Century. The Menil Collection, Gift of George R. Bunker.
Image: Paul Hester
Byzantine Things in the World
May 3–Aug 18
The Menil Collection
1533 Sul Ross St
menil.org
Byzantine art always held a special place in the hearts of Dominique and John de Menil, which is why the Menil Collection boasts one of the most outstanding Byzantine collections in the world. Now a new exhibition, Byzantine Things in the World, explores connections between the Menil's Byzantine works and the rest of its collection.
"In the last couple of years we've really renewed our commitment to Byzantine art," said curatorial assistant Susan Sutton. "We're trying to put Byzantine art in conversation with the other work in our collection. The real project of this exhibition is to make those connections, say, between Byzantine art and modern art—for instance, what are the connections between a Byzantine icon and a Donald Judd sculpture?"
Curated by Glenn Peers, Professor of Early Medieval and Byzantine Art at the University of Texas at Austin and a fellow at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies, the exhibition includes icons, reliquaries, pilgrim tokens, and other objects from the museum's extensive collection. Juxtaposed with the Byzantine artifacts are modern and contemporary works by Yves Klein, Brice Marden, Robert Rauschenberg, and others.


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Football At the 1920 Summer Olympics
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28 August 1920 (1920-08-28) -
5 September 1920 (1920-09-05)
Venue(s)
1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Fourth place
Top scorer(s)
Herbert Carlsson (7 goals)
Football was one of the 154 events at the 1920 Summer Olympics, held in Antwerp, Belgium. It was the fifth time association football was on the Olympic schedule. The tournament was expanded to 14 countries, including a non-European nation (Egypt) for the first time.[1]
At the first Olympics after World War I, Central Powers countries involved in the conflict (Germany, Austria, Hungary, and their allies Bulgaria and Turkey) were not invited. The English FA had withdrawn from FIFA (together with the junior partners from Scotland, Ireland and Wales) after their demand that the federations of Germany, Austria and Hungary be excluded had been rejected. FIFA nevertheless accepted the entry of a Great Britain football team, judging that countries entering the Olympic Games in other sports should not be hindered entering the football tournament.[2]
However, the gold medalists of the previous two Olympic football tournaments would not enjoy their participation long, as they were defeated 1-3 in the first round by Norway, who thus celebrated one of their iconic victories (to be followed by the elimination of Nazi Germany at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the 1993 win over England in World Cup qualifying, and the 2-1 defeat of reigning world champions Brazil at the 1998 World Cup).
The final (and gold) was won by host Belgium against Czechoslovakia (which participated in an international competition for the first time in their history) after the Czechs walked off to protest the officiating, and were subsequently disqualified from the tournament.[1]
Since Belgium had also received a first round forfeit after Poland failed to arrive, the tournament to determine the silver and bronze medalists had the beaten quarter-finalists (Italy, Norway, Spain and Sweden) facing each other to determine who would play the Netherlands, now assured of a medal.
The tournament ended with Spain winning the silver medal match, while the Netherlands won the bronze.[3][4][2]
Olympisch Stadion
Stadion Broodstraat
Jules Ottenstadion
Stade Joseph Marien
Olympisch Stadion Stadion Broodstraat
Capacity: 35,000 Capacity: Not known
Jules Ottenstadion Stade Joseph Marien
Capacity: Not known Capacity: Not known
16 teams entered the competition, which was organized on a knockout basis, but Switzerland withdrew before the first round draw had been made, meaning France were given a first-round bye.
14 teams entered the first round, with the winners joining France in the quarter-finals, and hosts Belgium received a first round forfeit after Poland failed to appear.
Norway defeated Great Britain in the first round, considered by Elo as one of the greatest football upsets of all time.[5]
Czechoslovakia, participating in their first international tournament, made it to the final, beating Yugoslavia (who also played their first ever international match in the competition), Norway, and France, while Belgium, coming off their first round forfeit, beat Spain and the Netherlands to qualify for the final.
The final was abandoned in the 40th minute and Belgium were awarded the gold medal after Czechoslovakia walked off to protest the performance of the English referee, John Lewis and his linesmen. [6]
A form of the Bergvall System[7] was used to determine second and third places. Firstly, the beaten quarter-finalists played off, and Spain emerged triumphant, overcoming Sweden 2-1 and Italy 2-0.
Under the original format, Spain would have played off against the three teams beaten in the main tournament by gold medalists Belgium, with the winners playing off for second and third, but Czechoslovakia had been disqualified, and Belgium had received a first round forfeit after Poland failed to arrive.
Therefore, Spain advanced straight to a silver medal match against the Netherlands, who had been beaten by Belgium in their semi-final. Spain won 3-1.
Kingdom of SCS
Vanik 20, 46, 79
Janda 34, 50, 75
Sedlá?ek 43 Report
Stadion Broodstraat, Antwerp
Referee: Raphael Van Praag (BEL)
Arabolaza 54 Report
La Butte, Brussels
Referee: Willem Eymers (NED)
Baloncieri 25
Brezzi 57 Report Osman 30
Jules Ottenstadion, Ghent
Referee: Paul Putz (BEL)
Gundersen 13, 51
Wilhelms 63 Report Nicholas 25
Olympic Stadium, Antwerp
Referee: Johannes Mutters (NED)
J. Bulder 30
Groosjohan 47, 85 Report
Referee: Georges Hubrecht (BEL)
Olsson 4, 79
Karlsson 15, 20, 21, 51, 85
Wicksell 25
Dahl 31 Report
Referee: Charles Barette (BEL)
Belgium were scheduled to play Poland, but Poland failed to arrive (due to the ongoing Polish-Soviet War); Belgium were awarded a 2-0 victory.
Bye: France
5-4 (a.e.t.)
Groosjohan 10, 57
J. Bulder 44, 88 (pen.)
De Natris 115 Report Karlsson 16, 32
Olsson 20
Dahl 72
Referee: Josef Fanta (TCH)
Vanik 8
Janda 17, 66, 77 Report
Boyer 10
Nicolas 14
Bard 54 Report Brezzi 33 (pen.)
Referee: Henri Christophe (BEL)
Coppée 11, 52, 55 Report Arrate 62 (pen.)
Mazal 18, 75, 87
Steiner 70 Report Boyer 79
Larnoe 46
Van Hege 55
Bragard 85 Report
Referee: John Lewis (GBR)
Gold medal match
Belgian player Robert Coppée opens the scoring of the final, with a penalty kick against goalkeeper Rudolf Klapka
The final was highly controversial, and is the only time as of 2020 that an international final has been abandoned. Belgium were awarded the gold medal by default after Czechoslovakia walked off the field in the 40th minute to protest the officiating with Belgium leading 2-0 after Czech left-back Karel Steiner was ejected for assaulting Robert Coppée.
The Czechs were unhappy with the performance of the 65-year-old English referee, John Lewis, who had already refereed the Belgian semi-final victory over the Netherlands, a match observed by the Czechs (it had taken place on the same day and in the same stadium as their own victory against France), as well as the English linesmen, Charles Wreford-Brown and A. Knight, who had allowed a contentious second Belgian goal in the 30th minute that Henri Larnoe had converted.
The Czechs immediately protested the result of the final, [note 1] but their protest was dismissed, and the Czech team were disqualified from the tournament.
Coppée 6 (pen.)
Larnoe 30 Report
GK Jean De Bie
DF Armand Swartenbroeks
DF Oscar Verbeeck
MF Joseph Musch
MF Emilie Hanse (c)
MF Andre Fierens
FW Louis Van Hege
FW Robert Coppée
FW Mathieu Bragard
FW Henry Larnoe
FW Desire Bastin
GK Rudolf Klapka
DF Antonin Hojer
DF Karel Steiner
MF Frantisec Kolenatý
MF Karel Pesek (c)
MF Emil Seifert
FW Josef Sedlá?ek
FW Antonin Janda
FW Vaclav Pilát
FW Jan Vaník
FW Otakar Mazal
Silver and bronze medal tournament
After the disqualification of Czechoslovakia, a match between Netherlands and France was planned to award silver and bronze medals, but France forfeited because most of its players were already returning home. It was then set up a knock-out tournament between the four teams eliminated during quarter-finals, the winner of which would have contested the Netherlands for second place.
[note 2] (a.e.t.)
Sardi 46
Badini 123 Report Andersen 41
Referee: Louis Fourgous (France)
Belauste 51
Acedo 53 Report Dahl 28
Referee: Giovanni Mauro (Italy)
Sesúmaga 43, 72 Report
Referee: Paul Putz (Belgium)
Silver and bronze medal match
Sesúmaga 7, 35
Pichichi 72 Report Groosjohan 68
This match was not part of the tournament, but was organised after both teams were eliminated. Some sources refer to this as an eighth place match or part of the silver and bronze medal tournament.
Abaza 43,
Allouba
Hegazi Report Dubrav?i?
Ru?i?
Referee: Rafael van Praag (NED)
Final positions:[2][8]
3 3 0 0 8 1 +7 6
4 2 0 2 9 10 −1 4
4 2 0 2 5 7 −2 4 Eliminated in playoffs
2 1 0 1 4 5 −1 2
1 0 0 1 1 2 −1 0 Eliminated in first round
4 3 0 1 15 3 +12 6 Disqualified
Source:[]
Hosts and tournament winners Belgium before the final
Team of Spain, silver medalist
Gold Silver Bronze
Félix Balyu
Désiré Bastin
Mathieu Bragard
Robert Coppée
Jean De Bie
André Fierens
Emile Hanse
Georges Hebdin
Louis van Hege
Henri Larnoe
Joseph Musch
Fernand Nisot
Armand Swartenbroeks
Oscar Verbeeck
Coach: Raoul Daufresne
Patricio Arabolaza
Mariano Arrate
Juan Artola
José María Belauste
Sabino Bilbao
Ramón Eguiazábal
Agustín Eizaguirre
Ramón Gil
Domingo Acedo
Silverio Izaguirre
Francisco Pagazaurtundúa
José Samitier
Agustín Sancho
Félix Sesúmaga
Pedro Vallana
Joaquín Vázquez
Ricardo Zamora
Coach: Francisco Bru
Arie Bieshaar
Leo Bosschart
Evert Bulder
Jaap Bulder
Harry Dénis
Jan van Dort
Ber Groosjohan
Felix von Heijden
Frits Kuipers
Dick MacNeill
Jan de Natris
Oscar van Rappard
Henk Steeman
Ben Verweij
Coach: Fred Warburton
Goalscorers
Topscorer Herbert Carlsson
Herbert Carlsson (Sweden)
Antonín Janda (Czechoslovakia)
Ber Groosjohan (Netherlands)
Robert Coppée (Belgium)
Jan Vanik (Czechoslovakia)
Félix Sesúmaga (Spain)
Otakar Mazal (Czechoslovakia)
Jaap Bulder (Netherlands)
Albin Dahl (Sweden)
Albert Olsson (Sweden)
Henri Larnoe (Belgium)
Sayed Abaza (Egypt)
Jean Boyer (France)
Guglielmo Brezzi (Italy)
Einar Gundersen (Norway)
1 goal
Mathieu Bragard (Belgium)
Louis Van Hege (Belgium)
Josef Sedlá?ek (Czechoslovakia)
Karel Steiner (Czechoslovakia)
Hassan Allouba (Egypt)
Hussein Hegazi (Egypt)
Zaki Osman (Egypt)
Henri Bard (France)
Paul Nicolas (France)
Fred Nicholas (Great Britain)
Emilio Badini (Italy)
Adolfo Baloncieri (Italy)
Enrico Sardi (Italy)
Jan de Natris (Netherlands)
Arne Andersen (Norway)
Einar Wilhelms (Norway)
Domingo Acedo (Spain)
Patricio Arabolaza (Spain)
Mariano Arrate (Spain)
José María Belauste (Spain)
Pichichi (Spain)
Ragnar Wicksell (Sweden)
Artur Dubrav?i? (Kingdom of SCS)
Jovan Ru?i? (Kingdom of SCS)
^ Their protests, translated from the original French, were as follows:
1. We were allocated an English linesman, which is in contradiction with the rules which state that each participating nation has the right to one of both linesman. This violation of the rules was prejudicial to us during the game, because the English linesman was not impartial and this is why we seek the cancellation of the match. Immediately after the game we brought this notice to the attention of M. Rodolphe Seeldrayers.
2. The majority of the decisions of the referee Mr. Lewis were wrong and it was obvious that it gave the public the wrong impression about our game. Also both Belgian goals were the result of incorrect decisions of the referee and we seek a rigorous investigation on that point.
3. During the match, Belgian soldiers were introduced to the crowd until they circled the pitch and because of their provocative presence our players were unable to play their normal game. As a result of the very regrettable incident at the end of the match when there was a pitch invasion led by the soldiers and our national flag was insulted we will not participate until we have received an apology from the (Belgian) soldiers.[7]
^ After 120 minutes expired with the score tied at 1-1, both captains and the referee agreed to play a second extra time of 2x10 minutes, meaning this match lasted 140 minutes.
^ a b Olympic Football Tournament, Antwerp 1920 - Overview on FIFA.com
^ a b c VII. Olympiad Antwerp 1920 Football Tournament by Karel Stokkermans on the RSSSF
^ THE VIIth SUMMER GAMES - Football Archived 2008-11-22 at the Wayback Machine on MarcOlympics.org
^ "Football at the 1920 Antwerp Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2018.
^ World Football Elo Ratings: Biggest Upsets
^ "VII. Olympiad Antwerp 1920 Football Tournament". www.rsssf.com. Retrieved 2013.
^ a b VIIeme Olympiade, Anvers 1920: Official report on LA84 Digital Library Collection
^ 1920 Antwerp Olympic Football Tournament on Football Mundial.com
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#9 Nikita Mazepin
Nikita Mazepin joins Haas F1 Team for the 2021 FIA Formula 1 World Championship having proved himself on-track throughout his junior racing career – collecting wins and podiums while sampling Formula 1 machinery along the way.
Mazepin's first taste of open-wheel racing came in the 2014-15 MRF Challenge Formula 2000 where he earned his first podium finish before going on to contest the 2015 Formula Renault 2.0 NEC series.
He then made a select number of starts in 2016 in the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 series and BRDC British F3 Championship, but his full-time focus that season was the FIA Formula 3 European Championship – competing for Hitech GP. In addition to his racing campaign, Mazepin was announced as a development driver for the Force India Formula 1 team.
A second season in the FIA Formula 3 European Championship followed in 2017, Mazepin collecting three podiums along the way to finish 10th overall. A debut run in a Formula 1 car was a standout moment that season, Mazepin testing with Force India at the Hungaroring in August of that year.
For 2018 there was a switch of teams and series with Mazepin contesting the GP3 Series with ART Grand Prix. Four race wins and eight podiums saw Mazepin finish runner-up in the championship which led to his graduation to the FIA Formula 2 Championship, remaining with ART Grand Prix, for 2019. His rookie season in F2 was combined with another opportunity to sample a Formula 1 car – this time with the all-conquering Mercedes outfit. Mazepin topped the test times in Barcelona in May 2019.
A return to Hitech Grand Prix saw Mazepin compete in the 2019-2020 F3 Asian Championship – netting one win and four podiums to finish third overall. Another full-team season in the FIA Formula 2 Championship followed with Hitech Grand Prix. A stellar season was rewarded with Feature Race victories at Silverstone and Mugello with six additional podiums recorded. Mazepin finished fifth overall in the hotly contested Formula 1 feeder series.
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from unittest.mock import MagicMock

from . import AsyncTestCase, AsyncContext
from notifier import compare
from notifier.model import *
from validator.checks.url import DEFAULT_USER_AGENT

class TestCompare(AsyncTestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        super().setUp()
        self.client = MagicMock()
        self.client.section_link.return_value = 'dummy_link'

    def test_strings(self):
        project = WtiProject('dummy_id', 'dummy_name', 'dummy_locale', 'file.strings', WtiContentTypes.ios)
        base = WtiString('id1', 'locale1', 'aaa http://www.link.com aaa', 'STATUS', '2015-01-22T00:05:01Z', False)
        other = WtiString('id2', 'locale2', 'aaa', 'STATUS', '2015-01-22T00:05:01Z', False)
        compare.diff(self.client, project, base, other)
        self.assertFalse(self.mock_request.called)

    def test_valid_plural_strings(self):
        text_base = {
            'one': 'AAA',
            'two': 'BBB'
        }
        text_other = {
            'one': 'ABB',
            'two': 'CAA'
        }
        project = WtiProject('dummy_id', 'dummy_name', 'dummy_locale', 'file.md', WtiContentTypes.md)
        base = WtiString('id1', 'locale1', text_base, 'STATUS', '2015-01-22T00:05:01Z', True)
        other = WtiString('id2', 'locale2', text_other, 'STATUS', '2015-01-22T00:05:01Z', True)
        diff = compare.diff(self.client, project, base, other)
        self.assertFalse(diff.md_error)

    def test_invalid_plural_strings(self):
        text_base = {
            'one': 'AAA',
            'two': 'BBB'
        }
        text_other = {
            'one': 'ABB',
            'two': '# CAA'
        }
        project = WtiProject('dummy_id', 'dummy_name', 'dummy_locale', 'file.md', WtiContentTypes.md)
        base = WtiString('id1', 'locale1', text_base, 'STATUS', '2015-01-22T00:05:01Z', True)
        other = WtiString('id2', 'locale2', text_other, 'STATUS', '2015-01-22T00:05:01Z', True)
        diff = compare.diff(self.client, project, base, other)
        self.assertTrue(diff.md_error)

    def _test_ios_text(self):
        project = WtiProject('dummy_id', 'dummy_name', 'dummy_locale', 'file.txt', WtiContentTypes.ios)
        base = WtiString('id1', 'locale1', 'aaa http://www.link.com aaa', 'STATUS', '2015-01-22T00:05:01Z', False)
        other = WtiString('id2', 'locale2', 'aaa', 'STATUS', '2015-01-22T00:05:01Z', False)
        return compare.diff(self.client, project, base, other)

    def test_ios_txt_success(self):
        self._test_ios_text()
        headers = {
            'User-Agent': DEFAULT_USER_AGENT
        }
        self.mock_request.assert_called_once_with('get', 'http://www.link.com', headers=headers)

    def test_ios_txt_fail(self):
        self.mock_request.return_value = AsyncContext(context=self.make_response(status=404))
        errors = self._test_ios_text()
        self.assertEqual(1, len(errors.url_errors))

    def _test_md(self, other):
        project = WtiProject('dummy_id', 'dummy_name', 'dummy_locale', 'file.md', WtiContentTypes.md)
        base = WtiString('id1', 'locale1', 'aaa\n\naaa', 'STATUS', '2015-01-22T00:05:01Z', False)
        return compare.diff(self.client, project, base, other)

    def test_md_success(self):
        other = WtiString('id2', 'locale2', 'bbb\n\nbbb', 'STATUS', '2015-01-22T00:05:01Z', False)
        errors = self._test_md(other)
        self.assertIsNone(errors.md_error)

    def test_md_fail(self):
        other = WtiString('id2', 'locale2', 'bbb\nbbb', 'STATUS', '2015-01-22T00:05:01Z', False)
        errors = self._test_md(other)
        self.assertIsNotNone(errors.md_error)

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In the 1970s and 80s he was very often in Europe to play with European musicians, especially in Switzerland, where Werner X. Uehlinger started HatHut Records just to document his music. Around that time Ken Vandermark heard Joe McPhee's album Tenor for the very first time and according to him this changed everything because since that moment he knew that this music was not only chaotic but "organized sound", as he calls it.
In the meantime Vandermark and McPhee have been playing together very often and in 2009 Vandermark, Jeb Bishop, Tim Daisy and Dave Rempis played arrangements based on McPhee's HatHut albums Topology, A Future Retrospective and Tenor, all of them albums which are typical for McPhee's concept of Po Music. Finally, McPhee agreed on Vandermark's suggestion to record an album with him as a soloist in front of a larger group playing his compositions. This CD is the result – and I guess there are no two opinions to the fact that it is simply great.
"Impressions of Astral Spirits/Age", the first track here, displays feverish, exciting, yet intimate communication – actually something very beautiful. After a New Orleans blues intro the track rises like a huge wave before it breaks and then crashes against a cliff bursting into a universe of ocean spray. Yet, this is only the beginning: "Impressions of Future Retrospective", the next track, is a monotonous, repetitive monolith starring Fred Lonberg-Holm playing a riff between Willie Dixon's "Spoonful" and Billy Cobham's "Crosswind". With him and Tim Daisy in the back Josh Berman, Dave Rempis and Jason Adasiewicz, whose vibes give this piece a strange film noir quality, are having a ball until Lonberg-Holm stops all of sudden for an expressive sax/cello conversation. The most beautiful and harmonic composition is "Impression of Sweet Dragon", a very subtle and fragile conversation between trombone, sax, clarinet and vibes, as if the instruments would caress each other before the others drop in. "Impressions Of Goodbye Tom B.," an unaccompanied tenor duet between Joe McPhee and Ken Vandermark, might be the most emotional moment for Vandermark because he could play this composition with McPhee 20 years after his father had played it to him. Nevertheless, my favorite is "Impressions of Knox" because of its irresistible sax blues riff and Lonberg-Holm's solo which tries to destroy everything but fails because the riff is too strong. And there is even a very short allusion to the James-Bond-theme. Who says that free jazz has to be deadly serious?
The nonet is: Joe McPhee: tenor saxophone; Jason Adasiewicz: vibraphone; Josh Berman: cornet; Jeb Bishop: trombone; Tim Daisy: drums; Kent Kessler; bass; Fred Lonberg-Holm: cello, electronics; Dave Rempis: saxophones; Ken Vandermark: clarinet, tenor saxophone.
It was truly the best addition. Any idea about the next CD?


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2021 Housing and Kitchen & Bathroom Awards
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Projects will be judged according to:
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Quality of workmanship 50
Design effectiveness of the complex and apartments including environmental sustainability 20
Innovation 15
Visual and market appeal 15
A residential apartment building is two or more storeys, not including car parking, and containing at least two self-contained dwellings. These projects must be classified as either Class 2 or 3 buildings under the Building Code of Australia.
Where there are other uses within the building, the residential use must be the predominant use.
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Recognising the vital work done by those behind-the-scenes in small to medium-sized businesses in the building industry.
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HIA host the Annual Apprentice Awards to recognise and inspire the next generation of apprentices for the construction industry.
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Formatter provides a set of commonly used data formatting methods.
The formatting methods provided by Formatter are all named in the form of asXyz(). The behavior of some of them may be configured via the properties of Formatter. For example, by configuring $dateFormat, one may control how asDate() formats the value into a date string.
Formatter is configured as an application component in yii\base\Application by default. You can access that instance via Yii::$app->formatter.
The Formatter class is designed to format values according to a $locale. For this feature to work the PHP intl extension has to be installed. Most of the methods however work also if the PHP intl extension is not installed by providing a fallback implementation. Without intl month and day names are in English only. Note that even if the intl extension is installed, formatting date and time values for years >=2038 or <=1901 on 32bit systems will fall back to the PHP implementation because intl uses a 32bit UNIX timestamp internally. On a 64bit system the intl formatter is used in all cases if installed.
The text to be displayed when formatting a boolean value. The first element corresponds to the text displayed for false, the second element for true. Defaults to ['No', 'Yes'], where Yes and No will be translated according to $locale.
The calendar to be used for date formatting. The value of this property will be directly passed to the constructor of the IntlDateFormatter class.
Defaults to null, which means the Gregorian calendar will be used. You may also explicitly pass the constant \IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN for Gregorian calendar.
Available calendar names can be found in the ICU manual.
Since PHP 5.5 you may also use an instance of the IntlCalendar class. Check the PHP manual for more details.
If the PHP intl extension is not available, setting this property will have no effect.
The 3-letter ISO 4217 currency code indicating the default currency to use for asCurrency(). If not set, the currency code corresponding to $locale will be used. Note that in this case the $locale has to be specified with a country code, e.g. en-US otherwise it is not possible to determine the default currency.
The default format string to be used to format a date. This can be "short", "medium", "long", or "full", which represents a preset format of different lengths.
The default format string to be used to format a date and time. This can be "short", "medium", "long", or "full", which represents a preset format of different lengths.
It can also be a custom format as specified in the ICU manual.
Alternatively this can be a string prefixed with php: representing a format that can be recognized by the PHP date()-function.
The character displayed as the decimal point when formatting a number. If not set, the decimal separator corresponding to $locale will be used. If PHP intl extension is not available, the default value is '.'.
The time zone that is assumed for input values if they do not include a time zone explicitly.
The value must be a valid time zone identifier, e.g. UTC, Europe/Berlin or America/Chicago. Please refer to the php manual for available time zones.
It defaults to UTC so you only have to adjust this value if you store datetime values in another time zone in your database.
Note that a UNIX timestamp is always in UTC by its definition. That means that specifying a default time zone different from UTC has no effect on date values given as UNIX timestamp.
The locale ID that is used to localize the date and number formatting. For number and date formatting this is only effective when the PHP intl extension is installed. If not set, yii\base\Application::$language will be used.
The text to be displayed when formatting a null value. Defaults to '(not set)', where (not set) will be translated according to $locale.
A list of name value pairs that are passed to the intl NumberFormatter::setAttribute() method of all the number formatter objects created by createNumberFormatter(). This property takes only effect if the PHP intl extension is installed.
Please refer to the PHP manual for the possible options.
A list of name value pairs that are passed to the intl NumberFormatter::setSymbol() method of all the number formatter objects created by createNumberFormatter(). This property takes only effect if the PHP intl extension is installed.
A list of name value pairs that are passed to the intl NumberFormatter::setTextAttribute() method of all the number formatter objects created by createNumberFormatter(). This property takes only effect if the PHP intl extension is installed.
The base at which a kilobyte is calculated (1000 or 1024 bytes per kilobyte), used by asSize() and asShortSize(). Defaults to 1024.
The character displayed as the thousands separator (also called grouping separator) character when formatting a number. If not set, the thousand separator corresponding to $locale will be used. If PHP intl extension is not available, the default value is ','.
The default format string to be used to format a time. This can be "short", "medium", "long", or "full", which represents a preset format of different lengths.
The time zone to use for formatting time and date values.
This can be any value that may be passed to date_default_timezone_set() e.g. UTC, Europe/Berlin or America/Chicago. Refer to the php manual for available time zones. If this property is not set, yii\base\Application::$timeZone will be used.
Note that the default time zone for input data is assumed to be UTC by default if no time zone is included in the input date value. If you store your data in a different time zone in the database, you have to adjust $defaultTimeZone accordingly.
The value to be formatted.
Formats the value as a currency number.
This function does not require the PHP intl extension to be installed to work, but it is highly recommended to install it to get good formatting results.
The 3-letter ISO 4217 currency code indicating the currency to use. If null, $currencyCode will be used.
Optional configuration for the number formatter. This parameter will be merged with $numberFormatterOptions.
Optional configuration for the number formatter. This parameter will be merged with $numberFormatterTextOptions.
if the input value is not numeric or the formatting failed.
if no currency is given and $currencyCode is not defined.
Formats the value as a date.
an integer representing a UNIX timestamp. A UNIX timestamp is always in UTC by its definition.
a string that can be parsed to create a DateTime object. The timestamp is assumed to be in $defaultTimeZone unless a time zone is explicitly given.
a PHP DateTime object. You may set the time zone for the DateTime object to specify the source time zone.
The formatter will convert date values according to $timeZone before formatting it. If no timezone conversion should be performed, you need to set $defaultTimeZone and $timeZone to the same value. Also no conversion will be performed on values that have no time information, e.g. "2017-06-05".
The format used to convert the value into a date string. If null, $dateFormat will be used.
This can be "short", "medium", "long", or "full", which represents a preset format of different lengths. It can also be a custom format as specified in the ICU manual.
if the input value can not be evaluated as a date value.
if the date format is invalid.
Formats the value as a datetime.
The formatter will convert date values according to $timeZone before formatting it. If no timezone conversion should be performed, you need to set $defaultTimeZone and $timeZone to the same value.
Formats the value as a decimal number.
Property $decimalSeparator will be used to represent the decimal point. The value is rounded automatically to the defined decimal digits.
The number of digits after the decimal point. If not given, the number of digits depends in the input value and is determined based on NumberFormatter::MIN_FRACTION_DIGITS and NumberFormatter::MAX_FRACTION_DIGITS, which can be configured using $numberFormatterOptions. If the PHP intl extension is not available, the default value is 2. If you want consistent behavior between environments where intl is available and not, you should explicitly specify a value here.
Represents the value as duration in human readable format.
Will be used to concatenate duration parts. Defaults to , .
Will be prefixed to the formatted duration, when it is negative. Defaults to -.
Formats the value as a mailto link.
The tag options in terms of name-value pairs. See yii\helpers\Html::mailto().
Formats the value as HTML text.
The value will be purified using yii\helpers\HtmlPurifier to avoid XSS attacks. Use asRaw() if you do not want any purification of the value.
The configuration for the HTMLPurifier class.
Formats the value as an image tag.
The tag options in terms of name-value pairs. See yii\helpers\Html::img().
Formats the value as an integer number by removing any decimal digits without rounding.
Formats the value as an HTML-encoded plain text with newlines converted into breaks.
Formats the value as a ordinal value of a number.
This function requires the PHP intl extension to be installed.
when the PHP intl extension is not available.
Formats the value as HTML-encoded text paragraphs.
Each text paragraph is enclosed within a
 tag. One or multiple consecutive empty lines divide two paragraphs.
Formats the value as a percent number with "%" sign.
The value to be formatted. It must be a factor e.g. 0.75 will result in 75%.
The number of digits after the decimal point. If not given, the number of digits depends in the input value and is determined based on NumberFormatter::MIN_FRACTION_DIGITS and NumberFormatter::MAX_FRACTION_DIGITS, which can be configured using $numberFormatterOptions. If the PHP intl extension is not available, the default value is 0. If you want consistent behavior between environments where intl is available and not, you should explicitly specify a value here.
Formats the value as is without any formatting.
This method simply returns back the parameter without any format. The only exception is a null value which will be formatted using $nullDisplay.
Formats the value as the time interval between a date and now in human readable form.
Using a timestamp that is relative to now.
Using a timestamp that is relative to the $referenceTime.
If specified the value is used as a reference time instead of now when $value is not a DateInterval object.
Formats the value as a scientific number.
The number of digits after the decimal point. If not given, the number of digits depends in the input value and is determined based on NumberFormatter::MIN_FRACTION_DIGITS and NumberFormatter::MAX_FRACTION_DIGITS, which can be configured using $numberFormatterOptions. If the PHP intl extension is not available, the default value depends on your PHP configuration. If you want consistent behavior between environments where intl is available and not, you should explicitly specify a value here.
Formats the value in bytes as a size in human readable form for example 12 KB.
This is the short form of asSize().
If $sizeFormatBase is 1024, binary prefixes (e.g. kibibyte/KiB, mebibyte/MiB, ...) are used in the formatting result.
Value in bytes to be formatted.
The number of digits after the decimal point.
Formats the value in bytes as a size in human readable form, for example 12 kilobytes.
Formats the value as a number spellout.
Formats the value as an HTML-encoded plain text.
Formats the value as a time.
The format used to convert the value into a date string. If null, $timeFormat will be used.
Formats a date, time or datetime in a float number as UNIX timestamp (seconds since 01-01-1970).
Formats the value as a hyperlink.
The tag options in terms of name-value pairs. See yii\helpers\Html::a().
Creates a number formatter based on the given type and format.
You may override this method to create a number formatter based on patterns.
Formats the value based on the given format type.
This method will call one of the "as" methods available in this class to do the formatting. For type "xyz", the method "asXyz" will be used. For example, if the format is "html", then asHtml() will be used. Format names are case insensitive.
The format of the value, e.g., "html", "text". To specify additional parameters of the formatting method, you may use an array. The first element of the array specifies the format name, while the rest of the elements will be used as the parameters to the formatting method. For example, a format of ['date', 'Y-m-d'] will cause the invocation of asDate($value, 'Y-m-d').
if the format type is not supported by this class.
Normalizes the given datetime value as a DateTime object that can be taken by various date/time formatting methods.
Whether to also check if the date/time value has some time and date information attached. Defaults to false. If true, the method will then return an array with the first element being the normalized timestamp, the second a boolean indicating whether the timestamp has time information and third a boolean indicating whether the timestamp has date information. This parameter is available since version 2.0.1.
The normalized datetime value. Since version 2.0.1 this may also return an array if $checkDateTimeInfo is true. The first element of the array is the normalized timestamp and the second is a boolean indicating whether the timestamp has time information or it is just a date value. Since version 2.0.12 the array has third boolean element indicating whether the timestamp has date information or it is just a time value.
everything else will be returned if it is numeric, otherwise an exception is thrown.
if the input value is not numeric.


Social media is undoubtedly a force of good in the world.
It has given a voice to the voiceless. It has enabled the rapid creation and sharing of all manner of images, audio and video on an unprecedented scale. It has allowed independent businesses to affordably take their products directly to potential customers. It has broken down barriers and connected people from all around the world.
Social media is undoubtedly a force of evil in the world.
It has given a voice to bullies. It has been linked to depression, suicide and school shootings. It has caused users of all ages to become addicted to their phones, unable and unwilling to have "real" conversations and left them vulnerable to predators. It has irreversibly shattered traditional media, journalism and business models.
The same technologies and networks that bring us together can be cruelly twisted to exclude each other, and it can be the cause of tremendous emotional suffering.
But if we are using it mindfully, it can also amplify our cry for help and summon the support of our friends and community reminding us that we are not alone.
We can't let ourselves get so wrapped up in our own posts that we miss the subtle warning signs that someone is struggling – the warning signs that someone might harm themselves or others.
At LaunchUX, a digital marketing firm that relies heavily on social media, we firmly believe in the positive power of social media as a professional tool, and we enjoy it recreationally as well. We use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, LinkedIn – name a social network and one of us is fooling around with it to see how it works. We're even dabbling in VSCO now that Hannah and Jacob (the helpful teenagers who we'll see more of later in this series) have explained to us what it is.
But many of us at LaunchUX are also concerned parents who are increasingly alarmed at what we see in the news.
How much screen time is too much for our children? How can we keep them safe from predators? How can we protect them from bullying against classmates? How can we make sure that they're not the ones doing the bullying? How can we know who is following them? How can we control how much of their information is public? Is it an invasion of privacy to look at their phones? (The answer to this one will probably surprise you).
The good news is that you're asking the right questions.
The bad news is that there are no hard-and-fast rules here.
Open communication between parents and children will be key, and the answers will vary from household to household.
What we hope to achieve with this talk and subsequent blog series is provide information from our knowledge of working with social media and with the research that our Marketing Director Janelle DelSignore has done as well as a frank discussion with two high schoolers with first-hand experience.
Here is what parents should know about kids and social media.
It's probably not surprising to hear that kids today spend a lot of time looking at screens.
What is surprising is how much.
Essentially, half the demographic under the age of 15 has access to some form of mobile device.
But the real surprise is that – as a society – we haven't figured out a universal approach to this issue that affects so many children.
Why are smartphones and tablets different? Why is it a problem that parents don't always know what their children are doing on these devices? What are parents up against today that previous generations didn't have to worry about?
One of the problems is that we haven't decided how to view the smartphone.
Sure. Although, teenagers rarely use it as one (the exception is to call their parents). But previous generations had landlines. There was a phone in the kitchen, and when you spoke to your friends, a parent was almost always nearby – on both ends of the call.
This is not the case with smartphones. Most of the communication is done on the go in the form of stealthy texts, Snaps or other postings – depending on your social network of choice (and there are many to choose from).
Well, sure. But not in the traditional sense. Not too long ago, a household was lucky to have a single computer to call its own. It was the "family computer," and everyone in the family used it. Friends from down the street who didn't have a computer would come over to use yours. Computers couldn't really do that much at this time. They could play some games off of CD-ROMs, and the dial-up internet left much to be desired.
And then there were the fights between the people who needed to use the family phone and the people who needed to use the family computer because you couldn't do both at the same time.
As long as parents regard it as either a phone or a computer, they will always be missing a huge part of the picture. And they will fail to understand how smartphones fit into the delicate balance that is the teenage ecosystem.
Smartphones – while resembling things we're familiar with – are actually something that's pretty new.
It's a device with more computing power than the computers used to put a man on the moon, and we put it in the hands of people who are too young to have a driver's license.
What could go wrong on social media?
Now, this is where the threats come in. We certainly don't want to scare anyone unnecessarily. Remember: we love social media. It's a large part of how we earn our living. But it's a real threat that we're facing.
There are a couple of different options.
First, we would encourage you to maintain an open parent-child dialogue. Communication guided by the tools and information in Janelle's presentation will get you asking the right questions and tell you what to look out for.
Next, there are technology solutions. After digging around a little bit, there are two that we recommend if you decide to take this route. We have personally gone through both software suites, and we were blown away by what they are able to do.
We're talking about Qustodio and Kaspersky Safe Kids. Both offer plans that accommodate multiple devices (which could be a set of siblings OR one kid with a phone, a tablet and a computer). The plans may vary, but it is now possible for parents to use services like these to filter the applications that children have on their phones or see how they're using it. Maybe they don't need to be on their phone at 1:00 a.m. Maybe they should be in bed. So go ahead and restrict access at that time.
They are both available in free and paid versions, and the annual fees seem to be worth it to get that control back of what is basically access for our kids to the entire world. And access for the entire world to our kids.
And that access is, after all, what we're really getting with smartphones and tablets.
When it comes to social media, where there is good, there is also bad.
As much as we love technology solutions (at LaunchUX we even offer remote support as a professional service), we highly recommend that you incorporate an open dialogue into your solution.
Failure to communicate will only cause more secrecy in a situation where transparency is critical. In the next installment, we'll look at how parents and children can co-exist on social media platforms to ensure safety without ruining the fun.
[From here, you can proceed to Part 2 or skip to Part 3].


Southern Missouri District is doing well in BGMC giving! Thank the Lord for those leaders dedicated to teaching our kids about being involved in the Great Commission! And thank you to churches who made BGMC a priority with all of your congregation, even many adults are giving to BGMC missions. You are making a difference in the lives of many Missionaries.
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Contact our District Office and ask for Jim. Let him offer creative ways to challenge your congregation to excel in BGMC. We want to challenge each pastor and church to new heights and possibilities for BGMC. Video clips and BGMC promotional materials are available at the link below. You may also call and request to borrow a Buddy costume, Inflatable, banner, or video clips for your next event.
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Why cheating is not a good idea?
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Why cheating is not a good idea? Cheating is also stealing because you are taking someone else's work and calling it your own. Cheating causes stress. When you cheat, you inevitably worry about getting caught. It can be very stressful if you get caught in a lie, or if you thinks someone knows about your cheating and might tell someone else.28 Sept 2015
Is cheating ever a good idea? Yet, in some cases, it's also possible that an affair can be the best thing for a couple. When two people consider it to be a turning point, cheating can actually become a positive opportunity for growth and change, even if it doesn't appear that way at first.
Why cheating is ethically wrong? Cheating in exams is unethical because it affects both the society and the cheating students in a negative manner. Cheating would constitute using somebody else's answers in an exam or using somebody else's work as their work. Therefore, cheating would be constituted as using work that is not yours.
Why worry about cheating is pointless? Paranoia over your romantic partner's potential to cheat is actually rooted in your own insecurities, suggests relationship coach Rachael Lay in her article "Why Worrying About Your Partner Cheating is Pointless." These insecurities can manifest in various behaviors, from sneaking peeks at your partner's text messages
Why cheating is not a good idea? – Related Questions
Why do people cheat on people they love?
A desire for change. Some people cheat when they want something different in their relationship or feel like things have become a bit too comfortable. They may desire variety in their sex lives or maybe some kind of adventure to offset their routine life.
What is effect of cheating?
The emotional and mental impact of cheating on the person in these types of affairs can be severe. People in affairs may feel increased anxiety or depression. They may feel overtaken by guilt. Feeling helpless or trapped in the situation are other common feelings.
Can you love someone and still cheat?
"In short, we're capable of loving more than one person at a time," Fisher said. And that's why, Fisher says, some people may cheat on their partner. It's why someone can lay in bed at night thinking about deep feelings of attachment to one person and swing to thoughts of romantic love for another person.
Is cheating OK in a relationship?
Some look at cheating as a black and white issue and others as one with many shades of grey. These differing viewpoints can cause big problems in any relationship. The question as to whether cheating is ever justified is both an ethical and moral one. The general answer for most is, "no", it is never okay.
Is cheating once OK?
Ruth said if you cheat once, regret it, and are happy in your relationship, you shouldn't tell your partner. If you had a one-time indiscretion and ended up cheating on your partner, chances are you have at least a bit of guilt. That doesn't necessarily mean you should tell your partner about what happened.
Is cheating an ethical issue?
Ethical Issues With Cheating
Regardless of whether we're talking about taking a test, gambling, or adhering to the rules of ethical business practices, cheating is on the list of things considered to be immoral. Plus, cheating gives some people an unfair advantage over others.
Is cheating considered unethical?
More simply, academic dishonesty consists of acts of cheating and plagiarism. In general, cheating is described as any of a variety of unethical behaviors.
Is infidelity morally wrong?
The 'infidelity' part of sexual infidelity depends on there being a commitment to be faithful to. Wasserstrom argues that sexual infidelity is prima facie morally wrong because it involves promise breaking (Wasserstrom 1998). However, a promise to be sexually exclusive is not often explicitly made by couples.
Is worrying pointless?
But worry is insidious, and almost always useless. It can be defined as "to give way to anxiety or unease; allow one's mind to dwell on difficulty or troubles." The key is that it is "giving way" to anxiety and allowing your mind to fixate on problems.
What is the fear of being cheated on called?
Like other phobias, pistanthrophobia is typically triggered by a person or event. "Many people have had a bad experience with a past relationship where they feel extremely hurt, betrayed, or rejected," says Dr.
Do cheaters cheat again?
Someone with a long history of infidelity, across multiple relationships, is more likely to repeat that past behavior. On the other hand, someone who cheated once is less likely to cheat again, especially if it was long ago and a lot has happened since then.
Should you forgive a cheater?
Forgiving is a Step Toward Trusting Again
Cheating shatters trust and the ability to trust, and forgiveness is one step you need to rebuild it. People who can't forgive cheating carry resentment, Friedman said. This resentment can prevent people from being honest and trusting.
Do cheaters get their karma?
If someone has cheated on you, you can be sure that they will get their Karma very soon. If you cheated on someone, you can also expect to pay for it sooner or later. Here is the breakdown of how Karma makes cheaters pay: Karma will make sure that cheaters realize their mistake.
How does cheating affect a man?
Getting cheated on is one of the most devastating and damaging things that can happen in a person's life. It can lead to emotional distress, anxiety, depression, an increase in risk-taking behavior and actual physical pain. A partner's infidelity can even change our brain chemistry.
Can a relationship go back to normal after cheating?
"Couples do and can stay together after an affair, but it takes a lot of work to repair broken trust." Klow says most couples don't recover when one cheats but "those that do can emerge stronger from having gone through the process of recovering from the affair." It takes time, however.
Is texting someone cheating?
The basic rule is: flirt by all means, but don't take action." This is when texting crosses the line and become cheating. There are a couple of other habits that could mean your partner is cheating on you or you're crossing the line. One of them to do with texting is the time that messages are sent.
Should you stay with a man who cheats?
So it's 100% understandable to dump someone who cheats. In some situations, it might be the best thing to do. But in many situations, it's also perfectly reasonable to stay. It doesn't mean you're defective or weak.
What it feels like to be cheated on?
You don't cheat on someone you love.
When you cheat on someone, they'll always be emotionally scarred. They'll have their walls up because they don't want to ever be hurt that way again. To feel like your world is crumbling, to believe that things like that happened, but just not to you.
Does cheating mean you don't love your partner?
So while it's easy to think that cheating means that your partner doesn't love you anymore, that's not necessarily that case. Someone who cheats for love is usually searching for a deeper bond with someone, but may be too scared to leave the relationship that's not fulfilling them emotionally, she says.
Is it true once a cheater always a cheater?
We've all heard the phrase "Once a cheater, always a cheater." We hear it so often many people take it as truth. And while cheating is never an excusable offense, this old adage is not necessarily true. Serial cheaters are often narcissists or people that are turned on by dishonesty.
Is cheating ethical or moral?
In this context the notion of cheating being wrong is intended in a moral sense. It is not applied in a pragmatic or aesthetic sense. For a moral judgment that any human action or form of behavior is morally wrong there would need to be some justification or reason upon which that judgment rests or is based.
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