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The battle for Punjab
Punjab Assembly election: Riveting race
Ziya Us SalamVenkitesh Ramakrishnan
Published : Feb 06, 2022 06:00 IST
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi (centre) with Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi (right) and Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Navjot Singh Sidhu, at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on January 27.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann, the Punjab Aam Aadmi Party president, speaking to mediapersons ahead of the Punjab Assembly election, in Amritsar on January 30.
Amarinder Singh, former Chief Minister and president of the Punjab Lok Congress, after filing his nomination, in Patiala on January 31.
Farmers burning an effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a protest demanding the fulfilment of their pending demands, near Amritsar on January 31.
It is a three-cornered fight between the ruling Congress, the challenger Aam Aadmi Party, and the Shiromani Akali Dal, but the run-up to the upcoming election has been marked by all-round internal dissension, rampant defections and populist promises; and the BJP has been reduced to a non-entity thanks to the widespread antipathy of farmers.
In less than a couple of months,farmers in Punjab will be reaping the harvest of what they sowed some time ago. In this season of plentiful rain and balmy sunshine, their returns appear certain. After the Central government revoked the three controversial farm laws, their much-cherished mandis are likely to be agog with activity. After spending more than a year protesting outside railway stations, malls, mandis and public squares in Punjab, before moving to the borders of Delhi, the farmers look poised to reap the fruits of their grit, sweat and tears.
But the fate of those seeking to rule over them is not so certain, with major parties in the fray for the upcoming Assembly election grappling with what State Education Minister Pargat Singh called " public display of internal democracy ". Whether it is the strife-ridden Indian National Congress or its principal opponents, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), all the significant contenders are facing internal dissent, besides the usual wrangling over ticket distribution.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the ruling party at the Centre and the fourth pole of Punjab's political and electoral structure, does not face internal dissension on the same scale as the other parties, but it suffers from a colossal lack of popular appeal. So much so that the party and its new-found ally, the Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) led by former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, who was thrown out of the Congress barely five months ago, are not a significant contenders in any part of the State. Interestingly, one of the central themes in the run-up to the Assembly election was the widespread antipathy towards the BJP and the Central government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
As things stood in the first week of February, with barely 10 days left for polling, the degree of success in managing internal fights and the politics outside was increasingly becoming the key factor that would decide the fate of the two main contenders: the Congress and the AAP.
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The party that is able to assuage hurt egos, rally around the most disgruntled and ambitious legislators and limit the damage caused by infighting may just be the one smiling on March 10, when the results of the 117 Assembly seats will be declared.
But in a State that has had two Congress Chief Ministers within the same Assembly term and seen the defection of 10 AAP legislators, and where the SAD has two factions, that is a tall order.
Defections galore
Continuing the tradition of political defections, Jagmohan Singh Kang, a noted Congress leader and former Punjab Minister, joined the AAP in the first week of February along with his sons Yadvinder Singh Kang and Amarinder Singh Kang. A little time before that, Sukhbir Singh Badal, president of the SAD, welcomed Sandeep Singh Brar, erstwhile officer on special duty (OSD) to former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, into his party.
Other Congress leaders who switched allegiance to the SAD were Tara Singh Bhatti, Congress secretary and four-time municipal councillor, and Balwinder Singh, president of the Punjab Congress Committee's Scheduled Caste Cell.
The ruling Congress had its share of arrivals too, apart from departures. Balwant Rai Nath, Mayor of Bathinda, and Suresh Chauhan, a sitting councillor, left the SAD to join the Congress. Earlier, Malvika Sood, social activist and sister of the actor Sonu Sood, joined the Congress and was promptly rewarded with the party ticket to contest from Moga.
Harjot Kamal Singh, the sitting Moga MLA, immediately left the grand old party and joined the BJP in the presence of Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat.
The game of political musical chairs went on merrily.
AAP rides on high hopes
The AAP is hoping to be in the saddle this time although the Congress seems to have its nose in front. In 2017, the AAP was projected to win 70-odd seats by most opinion and exit polls then. However, a late surge by the Congress spoiled its chances, leaving the AAP with a mere 20 legislators in that election.
Realising the odds it is facing this time, the AAP did all the early running, getting a contingent of senior leaders from Delhi, including Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Raghav Chadha, MLA, to address party workers and voters in rallies that evoked a strange mix of hope and disenchantment.
While Manish Sisodia focussed on pricking holes in the Congress' claims of running better schools than the Delhi government, Raghav Chadha targeted both the ruling party and its predecessor, the SAD. Arvind Kejriwal also talked about the alleged success of his party's 'Delhi model' of governance.
The party hopes to replicate the 'Delhi model' with what it calls the '10-point Punjab model'. Speaking in Mohali, Arvind Kejriwal promised voters that if his party came to power in Punjab, it would ensure justice in all cases of sacrilege (in gurdwaras), wipe out the drug syndicate and provide round-the-clock free electricity supply across the State. Predictably, he also promised Rs.1,000 per month to every woman in Punjab over the age of 18. He added: "We will set up 16,000 mohalla clinics and provide free treatment to every Punjabi."
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The AAP believes that its strength lies in the success of its campaign based on the 'Delhi model'. However, its strength may also prove to be its Achilles heel. The party is still regarded by many observers to be Delhi-centric, even after five years in the State (the party was considered a dark horse in the 2017 Assembly election).
The more its leaders talk of the 'Delhi model' and claim that "if it can work in Delhi, it can work in Punjab too", as the party's chief ministerial candidate Bhagwant Mann does, the more itgives the impression of the AAP being a centralist organisation that will control the State by a remote from Delhi. This may not go down well with the electorate in Punjab.
Fear of remote control
Speaking to the media in early February, Bhagwant Mann said: "We have proved it in Delhi. Sheila Dikshit [former Delhi Chief Minister] left empty coffers. Schools were in a shambles. But the AAP turned it around. More than two lakh public school students shifted to government schools in Delhi. We can do it in Punjab too."
The announcement of Bhagwant Mann as the AAP chief ministerial candidate was clinching evidence that the party suffers from a lack of notable leaders. Bhagwant Mann is a popular artist with impeccable comic timing, and the party's sole two-term member of Parliament from Punjab, but he is known to have a drinking problem. During the general election in 2019, Arvind Kejriwal even had to announce that Mann had "given up drinking for the love of Punjab".
There is a whisper campaign on the ground that Bhagwant Mann's election campaign was being run from Delhi and that he was not allowed to meet the media without approval from the higher-ups in Delhi for fear of projecting a blemished picture. A local resident, who had dabbled in politics as a foot soldier of the Communist Party of India (CPI) in the 1980s, told Frontline : "Mann is a popular singer-comic, but his problems with liquor are well known. The fact that the party had to nominate him as its chief ministerial candidate shows that the shelf is empty. There are no local leaders with charisma. Kejriwal has appropriated all the power." He added: "Harpal Singh Cheema has been the leader of the opposition, but he is not popular among the rank and file of the organisation."
Anand Kumar, an early AAP leader who left the party shortly afterwards, said: "The AAP talks of good governance, tackling unemployment, not discriminating between Dalit Sikhs and Hindus. But it is still regarded as a centralist party. This does not bode well for the party as Punjabis have a strong local identity. There is an apparent division between Punjabis and non-Punjabis [among the public in the State]."
But Mann is unflustered by such criticism. He said: "We have a clear road map for Punjab. In first six months itself, we will use specialists, experts in all fields. We have to make a new Punjab. We have to get rid of corruption, give jobs, end mafia rule. I mingle with labourers, peasantry, shopkeepers. I have enough wealth. I do not aspire for more money. I realise the coffin has no pocket."
Freebies for all
At the moment, Punjab's coffers are also empty. The State is reeling under a debt of Rs.5 lakh crore. But that has not dissuaded political parties from promising the moon to their prospective voters. Once again, the AAP led the way, with Arvind Kejriwal talking of free electricity besides monthly doles for women. However, the Congress and the SAD have not been too far behind in competitive populism. The sole exception has been the Punjab Lok Congress, but it has no realistic chance of forming the government even as it enters the contest as the BJP's junior partner.
Taking note of Arvind Kejriwal's governance in Delhi, and his proclivity to go for the lowest common denominator, the SAD decided to up the ante. Soon after the elections were announced, party president Sukhbir Singh Badal came up with a 13-point charter of initiatives his party would undertake if voted to power. The party promised free power up to 400 units a month for all households and 75 per cent quota for the youths of the State in private sector jobs.
The SAD is contesting the elections in alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which has some clout among Dalit voters, although that influence has been steadily waning over the past few Assembly elections.
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Sukhbir Singh Badal said: "This signals the end of anarchy, chaos, confusion and misgovernance in Punjab. The present rulers have reduced governance to a circus joke. People will heave a sigh of relief that it is over, and the State will go back to the serious business of governance by the SAD-BSP alliance."
The SAD-BSP alliance's promises include a quota for women in jobs, reservation for government school students in professional colleges, cheap electricity to industries and a minimu support price (MSP) for fruits and vegetables. It has promised a grant of Rs.2,000 a month to women heads of families holding blue cards (who are below-poverty-line beneficiaries) and a Rs.10 per litre reduction in the price of diesel for agriculture consumers.
The SAD has also promised power at Rs.5 a unit for industries and interest-free loans of Rs.10 lakh each for students, besides an annual health insurance cover of Rs.10 lakh.
Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) chief Navjot Singh Sidhu joined the fray with his share of freebie announcements. He promised eight free cooking gas cylinders to homemakers every year, two-wheelers to girls who join college, Rs.20,000 to students passing class 12, Rs.15,000 to those passing class 10, and Rs.5,000 to students passing class 5.
As Sidhu sought to outdo Arvind Kejriwal and Sukhbir Singh Badal in promising freebies for all, Amarinder Singh said: "How will they raise that kind of money? They are fooling the electorate."
Sidhu on a sticky wicket
Incidentally, Sidhu himself is on a sticky wicket in his constituency of Amritsar East. He is facing the SAD's Bikram Singh Majithia, a formidable challenger, and is also facing tough questions about the lack of development in his constituency. His rivals have pointed out that his plans to build flyovers above railway tracks at Vallah Sabzi Mandi and Four-S Chowk have been reduced to a cruel joke by the man often seen on comedy shows in television.
Majithia is wanted in a case under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, but the Supreme Court gave him immunity from arrest in early February. Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana, heading a three-judge bench, said that Majithia will have to surrender before a trial court on February 23 and seek regular bail. Indirectly, it gave a breather to Majithia to contest the election on February 20. With Majithia and Sidhu not short of jibes against each other, there is no shortage of entertainment in the Amritsar East election campaign.
If Sidhu needs any solace, it comes from the fact that his own Chief Minister, Charanjit Singh Channi, is not exactly having a cakewalk in his constituency of Chamkaur Sahib. In fact, Arvind Kejriwal declared in end-January itself that the Chief Minister would face a tough challenge this time. In a bid to cover his bases, Channi also filed his nomination from the Bhadaur reserved constituency. It might prove to be a smart move as it sends a message to the Dalit electorate that the Congress means business, and that the party is not about to loosen its hold on the Dalit Hindu and Dalit Sikh vote, in that order.
Interestingly, after filing his nomination from Chamkaur Sahib, Channi went to offer prayers at the Dashmesh Garh gurdwara in Bhairon Majra, and then went to seek blessings at the Rudra Siva Temple in Pathran Wali after filing from Bhadaur. The choice of the place of worship was probably governed by the faith of a large section of the electorate.
Channi's moves
Ever since he took over as Chief Minister in September last year, Channi has made all the right moves, carving out an identity for himself. In a little under four months, Channi has done all the hard yards, talking endlessly of his humble origins and refusing to be drawn into a slugfest with the irrepressible Sidhu. He has literally taken the battle into Arvind Kejriwal's domain by putting up hoardings and billboards of his achievements in Punjab on the roads of Delhi, and even inside Delhi Metro. It may not translate into votes for his party, but it sends a signal to the AAP, his main rival, that Channi is playing to win.
Anand Kumar said: "He is not a pawn of Sidhu as was initially believed. The way he handled the Ferozepur incident where Prime Minister Narendra Modi had to return without addressing the people improved his stature. He has quickly moved to limit the damage arising from the non-fulfilment of promises relating to the issues of sacrilege and drugs."
Shortly after the Ferozepur incident, Channi said on Twitter: "Since ages, Delhi has been hostile towards Punjab but brave Punjabis have always given a befitting reply." Channi's attempt to project himself as the man at the helm, even as he pays lip service to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's initial idea of taking the workers' feedback before deciding on the chief ministerial candidate, has not gone down well with senior Congress leaders.
Even as the party sought the views of its leaders and workers on the Shakti App, his own party campaign chief, Sunil Jakhar, told party workers in Abohar, where his nephew Sandeep is in the fray, that he, and not Channi, was the most popular leader among them as a poll showed last year. Jakhar claimed that he got 42 votes while Channi brought up the rear with only 2 votes. He said: "I was the first choice of the MLAs. As many as 42 MLAs had voted for me, 16 for the now Deputy CM Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, 12 for MP Preneet Kaur, 6 for Navjot Singh Sidhu and only 2 for CM Charanjit Singh Channi."
Jakhar refused to go with Channi's campaign strategy of showcasing 111 days of his government while ignoring more than four and a half years of Congress rule earlier under Amarinder Singh. He told Frontline :: "We have witnessed remarkable progress on all fronts in the last five years. I do not subscribe to this 111-day achievement strategy. We have nothing to be embarrassed about."
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While that may or may not impact the final outcome, one thing is certain: the PLC-BJP-SAD (Dhindsa) alliance is a non-starter. In fact, Amarinder Singh's exit seems to have benefited the Congress. Anand Kumar said: "Amarinder Singh, widely regarded as a non-performing asset, is no more with the party. That would help the Congress."
The BJP's decision to contest 65 seats as the senior partner of the alliance could also help the Congress. Political observers said that the party has a realistic chance of winning only in Phagwara, Moga and Batala. In the last two seats, the party is being represented by Congress defectors Harjot Kamal and Fateh Singh Bajwa respectively. In Phagwara, former Union Minister Vijay Sampla is trying his luck. The party has an outside chance in a handful of other urban seats where the farmers' agitation did not take place on a large scale. Many observers said that BJP will eat into the votes of its erstwhile partner, the SAD, and help the Congress in case of a close contest.
Everywhere else, the party is a non-starter, with its mix of Hindutva, exclusionary nationalism, and one-nation-one language policy failing to appeal even to Hindu voters, who, at 38 per cent of the population, are in a position to affect the electoral fortunes in more than 90 seats. Incidentally, Dalits form 32 per cent of the population and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) account for an almost equal percentage. While there was no Dalit Chief Minister until Channi, all but one of the Chief Ministers until 2021 came from the Jat Sikh community.
Talking about the BJP's dismal presence in Punjab, Ajay Gudavarthy, political scientist and author of India After Modi , said: "If the BJP had talked of development, maybe they could have made some inroads. They are trying the same Hindutva template. Punjab has not had the Uttar Pradesh-Bihar kind of polarisation ever in its history. Even during 1984, there was no Hindu-Sikh polarisation. The RSS [Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh] is trying to build a non-issue. I wonder why they are even contesting 65 seats. They don't stand a chance. Forget winning, the candidates cannot even campaign in many places. Ninety per cent of them will lose their deposits."
He added: "Given the farmers' anger, I believe the BJP leaders would know the ground reality, but they are trying to tap new ground on their own; just as they broke their alliance with the AIADMK [All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam] in Tamil Nadu [for the local body elections] and are trying to expand there. I sense something insidious. They want to develop this narrative that wherever Hindus are in a minority, they are treated like this, and do not win anything."
On the dominance of Jat Sikhs, Gudavarthy said that Punjab has had Jat Sikh Chief Ministers because they have been economically dominant and the Dalits in Punjab have been very poor. He said: "Punjab did not have a Mandal movement, probably because Left politics was dominant. Wherever the Left was or is dominant, you do not have independent Dalit mobilisation."
Incidentally, in Punjab, the decline of the Left has given an opportunity to the BSP, which is looking to revive in this election. Amir Ali, an academic from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), said: "In Punjab, Punjabiyat is important. The BJP's Khalistani accusations against the farmers sitting on protest have not helped either. Amarinder Singh's alliance with the BJP is a manifestation of opportunism."
Both Sunil Jakhar and Amarinder Singh have accused the farmers' body of politicising the protest. Late last year, 22 farmer groups formed an organisation called Sanyukt Samaj Morcha, with Balbir Singh Rajewal as president, to contest the elections.
As Punjab gets ready for the February 20 election, one can safely say that despite the rare five-cornered contest this time, the main fight is still between the Congress, the AAP and the SAD, with both the farmers' outfit and the BJP-led alliance having no realistic shot at power. While Channi claimed his party would get a two-thirds majority, Sukhbir Singh Badal said that the Congress would be limited to 15 seats and that the real fight is between the AAP and the SAD.
Meanwhile, all the three major contenders are doing a good job of shooting themselves in the foot. If the SAD is fighting to ward off the public perception of its association with the farm laws and drug and sacrilege cases, but simultaneously supporting Majithia in the narcotics case, the AAP is struggling to find second-rung local leaders, and Bhagwant Mann has had only limited takers.
Of course, the ruling party, with dissenters emerging every day, is doing its bit to bring alive the Lucknow tradition of pehle aap (first you) politics. The cake is ready for the taking. It remains to be seen whether the Congress will get its act together in the nick of time.
(This story was published in the print edition of Frontline magazine dated Feb 25, 2022.)
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Q: Change Text Input field from Screen when i press a button in a popup window Python Kivy Hello I am try to make a type of dropdown selection for my text input using a popup window but it doesn't work .
Python code:
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    metri_schela = ObjectProperty()
    tip_motor = ObjectProperty()
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    def re_enter(self):
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    def selected_item(self,instance):
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A: Solved !
used app.root.get_screen('second').updatetext()

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Q: Is the number of bugs in a section of code proportional to the # of lines ? The square of the # of lines ? Are there any studies that aggregate data over a wide population of contributed code, that establish a correlation between amount of code written in a commit and the # of bugs discovered in that code ? It'd be hard to do in github without knowing whether a change was due to new functionality or a bug, but you could determine a relation between lines of code per commit and how much thrashing eventually goes on in that code.

A: It just depends.
If all your program does is Console.WriteLine over and over.. chances are it won't have any bugs no matter how big it gets.  If you're writing the next great document database, chances are you'll have a lot of bugs.
You couldn't scrape this information from github because you don't know how hard the problems people are trying to solve.. If most projects on gitHub are the complexity of a tic tac toe game, again, you probably won't see a ton of bugs. Your analysis could fool you and say "Wow codebases can expand with relatively few bugs or none at all!".
Bugs are more related to complexity, is what I'm getting at.

A: The only metric that I'm familiar with that tries to relate possible defects to program size is one of Halstead's complexity measures. The figure used is B = (E^(2/3))/3000 or B = V/3000 where B is the number of delivered bugs, E is the amount of effort, and V is the program volume. If you simplify down to the counted values, these equate to either B = ((n1/2)(N2/n2))/3000 or B = (N1 + N2) * log2(n1 + n2) where n1 is the number of distinct operators, n2 is the number of distinct operands, N1 is the total number of operators, and N2 is the total number of operands.
Your number of bugs per commit may be related to the delta in bugs before the commit and bugs after the commit.
However, the validity of Halstead's metrics have been questioned - if you search for academic studies, you'll find papers that indicate their validity as well as papers that seem to indicate little to no validity of the metric. To the best of my knowledge, they are not widely accepted nor is there overwhelming evidence that they are empirically valid.

A: Its proportional to the number of functions/methods not covered by unit tests.
Bugs = K + M * <functions that are not tested> - N * <Integration Test Coverage>


With summer weather finally arriving in many regions, several grower-shippers say they expect mostly high quality and promotable volumes of traditional Labor Day favorites sweet corn, watermelons and berries.
The sweet corn season started out about two weeks behind schedule this summer in Michigan, but the crop has since caught up, said Todd Van Solkema, chief executive officer of Byron Center, Mich.-based Van Solkema Produce Inc.
"We"re into our peak now, and all of it is U.S. Fancy," he said. "The quality is excellent, and we"ve got real good volume."
Goshen, Ind.-based Sunrise Produce Inc. also should have ample volumes of excellent quality sweet corn from its Indiana farms, said president Tom Kercher.
In addition, watermelons, which Sunrise Produce markets, should be plentiful.
"It"s cooled off, so the volume has slowed down a bit, which is actually helpful because nobody will have a glut," Kercher said.
And eating quality should be stellar.
"We haven"t had any drought, we haven"t had any excessive heat," he said "It"s just been almost ideal growing conditions."
The North Carolina corn-growing season has been similar, said Brad Peterson, salesman for Flavor 1st Growers &amp Packers, Mills River.
"The sweet corn"s coming along pretty good," he said. "The corn grows really well here in the mountains when it gets the right temperatures."
Volumes won"t be quite as high as they were for Memorial Day or July Fourth, but Peterson said they should still be ample enough to run on ad.
Although central California was experiencing hotter-than-usual weather in early August, Ryan Van Groningen, sales manager for Van Groningen &amp Sons Inc., Manteca, said it shouldn"t affect watermelon quality since their fields are near the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
The water body acts like a natural swamp cooler, lowering temperatures at night and allowing sugar accumulated in the fruit during the day to remain there.
Supplies should be adequate, although Labor Day isn"t as big a holiday as Fourth of July or Memorial Day because school has already started in many locations, Van Groningen said.
Sweet corn supplies from California, however, may be tighter, he said. Typically in late July, he"d expect $10.95 for a 48-ear carton. This year, he said it was running between $13.95-$14.95.
"Sweet corn has been a commodity that for the past few years has been pretty tough for growers to make any money," Van Groningen said. "I think every year you were seeing growers cut back gradually and then with the water situation, they cut back even more.
"This year we"ve had a market where it"s been pretty good supplies but not over-abundant because everybody"s cut back."
Darren Van Dyke, sales and marketing director for Brawley-based Five Crowns Marketing Inc., which also markets for partner GloriAnn Farms, Tracy, said he doesn"t see any supply hiccups in its tray-pack sweet corn for regular customers.
"We don"t see any issues as far as quality, and the size looks good," he added.
Supplies of California strawberries and raspberries should be adequate for holiday promotions, said Louis Ivanovich, a partner in Watsonville, Calif.-West Lake Fresh.
In late July, a warm monsoonal weather pattern stalled over the state, causing strawberries to have thinner skins and reduced shelf life.
But Ivanovich said in late July he hoped the weather returns to a more seasonable pattern shortly with warmer, drier days and cooler nights.
"Give the plants a week to catch up, and holding powers are going to be much better," he said.


After an afternoon of trekking around downtown Brisbane, delegates were pleased to relax with drinks and appetizers at the 480 Queen Street reception. The 32nd-floor conference space adjoins an outdoor deck, and served as the site of the networking reception for the Brisbane regional program. Craig Gibbons, CTBUH Brisbane City Representative and Brisbane Buildings Group Leader at Arup, thanked the hosts and attendees of the Brisbane program, extolling the special virtues of his home city. As dusk fell, the lights of Story Bridge and the city twinkled below the 32nd-floor outdoor reception, completing Brisbane's charm offensive for the day.


Christmas in Australia is very unique, and there's definitely some BIG difference between us and America at this time of year!
Here's a few of the differences between us. #Strayaaaaa!!!!!!!
In America: They snug up in their winter clothes, with their Christmas patterned socks, beanies and sweaters.
In Australia: We rock a pair of boardies, a bintang singlet and a Santa hat.
In America: They build their snowmen out of snow.
In Australia: We build our snowmen out of beach sand.
In America: They make wonderful and intricate gingerbread houses, with little gingerbread men that you can eat afterwards.
In Australia: We crack open a box of favourites. Every year. Without fail.
In America: They hand pick their Christmas Trees from the outdoors and they smell like fresh pine.
In Australia: We get (IF they aren't sold out) a tree on special for $39.99 from Kmart. It smells like plastic.
In America: They roast an entire turkey for Christmas dinner.
In America: We get a cooked chook from Coles.
In America: Their holiday drink is Egg Nog.
In Australia: Our holiday drink is Emu Export, AKA a can of Bush Chook.


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Tress Way has mastered punting, cooking and ping-pong. Is there anything he can't do?
"He's a man of many talents," Tress Way's wife, Brianna, says of him. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post)
Les Carpenter
Reporter covering Washington Redskins and NFL
November 28, 2019 at 7:00 AM EST
Here's the man who might be the Washington Redskins' MVP, locked in another vicious battle across the green playing surface. He is sweating now, eyes blazing, shirt flapping and arms flying as he fights to stay alive. A crowd has gathered, teammates mixing with writers and team officials, transfixed as Tress Way keeps smacking a white ping-pong ball on a table in the team's locker room after practice one day.
Across the net is Washington's long snapper, Nick Sundberg, perhaps the club's top table tennis player before the punter came along in 2014. Now they fight, as they often fight, two fully grown professional football players proving their dominance with rec-room ping-pong paddles clutched in their hands.
The smack of a plastic ball against the wooden table reverberates around the room, each blow bringing gasps. Sundberg grunts. He is about to lose, which is nothing new. Way almost always wins at locker room table tennis.
"Nick and I will continue to climb up, and we will be right there, and then he'll add some new aspect to his game," kicker Dustin Hopkins laments about Way the next day. "I don't know how he does it, but he's always a step ahead, man."
It seems there's nothing the 29-year-old Way can't do, from dropping left-footed punts inside the 10-yard line to sweeping through a Virginia table tennis league he likes to call "underground ping-pong" to inventing a board game that sold out in minutes after it was featured on national television to seizing the family cooking duties from his wife, Brianna.
In a dreary 2-9 season, Way, who leads the NFL with an average of 49.2 yards per punt, is one of the Redskins' few bright spots.
"He's a man of many talents," Brianna says.
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Vanquished teammates suspect he watches instructional ping-pong videos, scouring them for any edge. This is probably true. The same restlessness that allows him to master crafts off the field has led to his development into one of the NFL's best punters. Over the course of his six seasons, he has perfected subtle new features that might be undetectable to fans watching at home but are monumental in the forgotten world of special teams.
"He enjoys trying new things and trying to get proficient at whatever he is trying to pick up," Hopkins says. "It's like, 'Hey, if I'm going to do something, be good at it instead of going halfway.' "
"The first rule of underground ping-pong is you don't talk about ping-pong," Tress Way says.
He and Brianna are sitting in a booth at a Chick-fil-A not far from their Northern Virginia home, their standard lunch place on the weekly NFL day off, talking about the ping-pong league at a now-closed table tennis club called Slam. The league wasn't really secret; the players just called it "underground" because they played once a week in someone's basement.
But the league, as square as it might sound, perfectly explains the essence of Way: a man who loves to have fun, adores being surrounded by people and yet is fiercely competitive. So much so that after sweeping through the underground ping-pong league's second division, he wanted to play the league's top player — a man who represented Britain in the World Games.
It also says a lot about Way that he remembers he lost to the man, 11-4, 11-5, 11-6, winning another point each time they played.
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The desire to be good never shuts off. Once, when Way was about 10, he struck out three times in a baseball game, and his father, Leo, awoke in the middle of the night to a loud thwacking sound in the garage of their Tulsa home. He ran down to find Way had dangled a tarp from the garage's ceiling and was smashing baseballs into it off a tee.
"I got K'd three times today, Pop; that's not gong to happen to me tomorrow," Leo remembers his son saying.
Years later, after Way's redshirt freshman season at Oklahoma, Leo recalls that Way started carrying a football with him so he could constantly practice the most essential element of a punter's game: the drop. Even now, Way moves through the house where he and Brianna live with their 18-month-old twins bouncing the ball, trying to keep the feel of the perfect drop as children and dogs try to jump on the ball.
"I just hear boomp all the time as he walks around," Brianna says.
Way quit football once. This was in 2013, and he had just been cut by the Chicago Bears after going unpicked in that spring's draft. He went back to Oklahoma City, where he had been living since college, discouraged and unsure of what to do. Two days after returning, an old friend from Tulsa offered him a job selling medical supply equipment. The money was good. Way and Brianna were engaged, and he needed to do something, so he said yes.
But then the Redskins called. They were facing a left-footed punter that week and needed someone to punt to their returners in a workout. Way was torn. He had just taken a job that promised stability, yet the NFL was beckoning with the sniff of another chance. He texted Brianna, called his parents and asked his friends, each of whom said some variation of the same thing: Don't give up your dream.
So he went to the Redskins workout and then several others that fall, and at the end of the season, the Bears called. He and Brianna moved to Chicago, only to have the Bears draft a punter a few months later.
Way knew the Bears were going to keep the punter they drafted no matter how well he kicked in training camp, but he promised himself that he would punt so well that another team would eventually notice. When the cut came just before the 2014 season, it wasn't long before the phone rang, displaying a 703 area code. The Redskins had claimed him.
Washington special teams coordinator Ben Kotwica's instructions were simple. The team had a punter who had struggled that summer.
"You have 10 days," Kotwica said. "If you outkick him, you have the job."
"I walked out, first practice, and I have one of the best single sessions of my life," Way says. "Here I am in my Year 6 now; it's crazy how it worked out."
Two years ago, Way decided he was going to get better at directional punting. The decision was born from a season-ending conversation with Kotwica, who told him, "You are too good to be an okay punter." The challenge was to be able to hit punts in a way that the returner won't know where they are going. This isn't a simple thing to do. Punters give so many clues about their intent, from the way they stand to how they drop the ball.
Way went to the Redskins' video people and asked for tapes of two punters in particular: the Tennessee Titans' Brett Kern, whom Way believes to be the NFL's best directional punter, and the New Orleans Saints' Thomas Morstead, whom he calls "arguably the best punter to play the game," with incredible hang time.
He studied both, searching for pieces to steal, and started to wonder whether he could somehow mold the best parts of their games into his own. He worked that winter in Oklahoma's indoor practice facility, which has a lower roof than many, forcing him to hit the ball lower and work toward the sidelines.
By the next season, Way was hitting punts he had never kicked before and playing, as he calls it, "checkers vs. chess." The returner, he says, was playing checkers, trying to figure out which way the punt was going to come, while Way was playing a mind game on an entirely different level.
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He watched more tapes — including those of the Los Angeles Rams' Johnny Hekker and the Baltimore Ravens' Sam Koch — and soon he had adopted all of it. He knew he had succeeded when, during a game at Tampa Bay last season, he saw the Buccaneers returner turn to the sideline with arms upraised and no idea of where Way was going to kick.
Other punters are starting to notice.
"Hey, man, looks a little familiar," Koch said to Way this summer, noting how well Way had adopted his pre-punt stance.
Something is working. In the past year and a half, Way has had only one kick roll into the end zone for a touchback, the fewest in the NFL.
"Any edge you have, you've got to take it," Way says.
A few years ago, Way invented a trivia board game. He had so much fun at training camp, quizzing players and coaches on lists he made up of everything from the most successful college football teams to the highest-grossing movies, that he decided to put it together into a game called "What's Your Bid."
A few friends from back home helped him. They began a Kickstarter campaign to fund it.
"I'm definitely a people-pleaser," Way says. "There was this group of guys having so much fun with something I pulled out of thin air. I love that feeling. I love seeing people have fun. I love being the life of the party or the cause of people to have some fun. I don't sit very well."
The game was featured before the Redskins' "Monday Night Football" game in Philadelphia last December. Minutes after the segment aired, the game had sold out and the website crashed. The game has since been redone with new questions, but he isn't sure what to do with it. It turns out making and marketing your own board game is a lot of work. If a buyer is interested, he might sell the game.
"That's the tough part," he says. "It would be hard to let go because of how much fun people have playing it."
But there are only so many things a 29-year-old punter with two little children and a desire for world domination at everything from punting to table tennis can do.
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Bal Itak was a male Vulcan, a Starfleet officer, born in the early to mid-23rd century. Sometime prior to 2371, Vorik served under Captain Itak, and considered the senior officer a mentor. In 2379, Itak was assigned as commanding officer of the USS Hawking, during that vessel's exploration of the Delta Quadrant.


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Q: PHP - How to get custom customer attribute in order i am using Magento 1.9.0.1 and i am developing a custom extension.
Right now i am stuck at the following thing.
Like this i use to get the customers name from an order:
$CustomerName = $observer->getOrder()->getBillingAddress()->getName();

I have custom customer attribute called sms_on_order_change and i am trying to get the value of it like that:
$SMSOnStatusChange = $observer->getResource()->getAttribute('sms_on_order_change')->getFrontend()->getValue();

But it is not working.
Here is my config file:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
  <modules>
    <VivasIndustries_SmsNotification>
      <version>1.0.0</version>
    </VivasIndustries_SmsNotification>
  </modules>
  <global>
    <models>
        <smsnotification>
            <class>VivasIndustries_SmsNotification_Model</class>
            <resourceModel>vivasindustries_smsnotification_resource</resourceModel>
        </smsnotification>
        <vivasindustries_smsnotification_resource>
        <class>VivasIndustries_SmsNotification_Model_Resource</class>
        <entities>
            <smsnotification>

VivasIndustries_SmsNotification

            </smsnotification>
            <smsnotificationhistory>

VivasIndustries_SmsHistory

            </smsnotificationhistory>
        </entities>
        </vivasindustries_smsnotification_resource>
    </models>
    <resources>
        <smsnotification_setup>
            <setup>
                <module>VivasIndustries_SmsNotification</module>
            </setup>
            <connection>
                 <use>core_setup</use>
             </connection>
        </smsnotification_setup>
        <smsnotification_read>
            <connection>
                <use>core_read</use>
            </connection>
        </smsnotification_read>
        <smsnotification_write>
            <connection>
                <use>core_write</use>
            </connection>
        </smsnotification_write>
    </resources>
    <events>
        <sales_order_save_after>
            <observers>
                <vivasindustries_smsnotification>
                    <class>smsnotification/observer</class>
                    <method>orderSaved</method>
                </vivasindustries_smsnotification>
            </observers>
        </sales_order_save_after>
    </events>
    <helpers>
        <smsnotification>
            <class>VivasIndustries_SmsNotification_Helper</class>
        </smsnotification>
    </helpers>
    <blocks>
        <smsnotification>
             <class>VivasIndustries_SmsNotification_Block</class>
        </smsnotification>
    </blocks>
  </global>
  <adminhtml>
    <acl>
        <resources>
            <all>
                <title>Allow Everything</title>
            </all>
            <admin>
                <children>
                    <system>
                        <children>
                            <config>
                                <children>
                                    <vivas>
                                        <title>Vivas - All</title>
                                    </vivas>
                                </children>
                            </config>
                        </children>
                    </system>
                </children>
            </admin>
        </resources>
    </acl>
    <layout>
        <updates>
            <smsnotification>
                <file>smsnotification.xml</file>
            </smsnotification>
        </updates>
    </layout>
    </adminhtml>
    <admin>
        <routers>
            <adminhtml>
                <args>
                    <modules>
                        <VivasIndustries_SmsNotification before="Mage_Adminhtml">VivasIndustries_SmsNotification_Adminhtml</VivasIndustries_SmsNotification>
                    </modules>
                </args>
            </adminhtml>
        </routers>
    </admin>
</config>

Here is the extension that i am using for the creation of custom customer attributes: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/manage-customer-attributes.html
So guys, can you help me out so i can get the value of this custom attribute ?

A: It's very easy but not simple to understand.
First at all you should create the attribute for a customer.
After it check with this code
$customer   = Mage::getModel('customer/customer')->load($customerId);
$customerAttr = $customer->getSmsOnOrderChange();

Then you should update tables sales_flat_quote and sales_flat_order, please add a new column to the tables 'sms_on_order_change'.
Now some magic in your module!
In config.xml you should add this code:
<global>
    <fieldsets>

        <customer_account>
            <sms_on_order_change>
                <to_quote>*</to_quote>
            </sms_on_order_change>
        </customer_account>

        <sales_convert_quote>
            <sms_on_order_change>
                <to_order>*</to_order>
            </sms_on_order_change>
        </sales_convert_quote>

        <sales_convert_order>
            <sms_on_order_change>
                <to_quote>*</to_quote>
            </sms_on_order_change>
        </sales_convert_order>

    </fieldsets>
</global>

No events, no observer. It doesn't require.

A: to get the customer attribute sms_on_order_change on sales_order_save_after event , write this in the method orderSaved() in the observer
$customerId = $observer->getEvent()->getOrder()->getCustomerId();
$customer   = Mage::getModel('customer/customer')->load($customerId);
$customerAttr = $customer->getSmsOnOrderChange();
Mage::log($customerAttr,false,'salesOrder.log');


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No, this isn't a list of what you should do before a date — it's the steps you should take before you show up to your next job interview. A 2017 survey from recruiting software company Jobvite asked recruiters what would automatically disqualify a candidate during an interview — and many of their answers showed just how easy it is to make a deal-breaking slip-up.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Turns out, recruiters have seen a lot of strange — and some downright inappropriate — stuff happen in the interview room: 54% have interviewed a candidate who didn't know what company they were interviewing for; 32% have witnessed sexual harassment or sexist attitudes from a would-be hire (including 19% who have been hit on!); and 24% have met with a candidate who seemed intoxicated.
Moral of the story? First impressions are everything, and it's easy to give a bad one with even an honest mistake. (I mean, who hasn't brought a much-needed caffeine fix with them to an interview so you come off as pumped and energized about the position?) But if you know some killer answers to some of the most common interview questions — including the always dreaded "What are your strengths and weaknesses?" — then you may have a shot at redeeming yourself.


The owner of Patient's Pharmacy & Infusion has been arrested for allegedly defrauding Medicaid of almost $600,000. The owner is accused of submitting false claims to Medicaid for prescription medicines that were never dispensed.
The pharmacy owner is charged with one count of first degree Medicaid fraud. If convicted, she faces up to 30 years in prison and more than $2.9 million in fines.
The arrest came after an investigation by the state Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU).
It appears that the pharmacy owner was caught in a classic investigation technique. According to the government, the volume of medicines allegedly dispensed did not match up with invoices for the amount of medicines actually purchased.
Comparing dispensing data with purchasing data has become an important tool for Medicaid fraud investigators throughout the country, especially in investigations into pharmacists, pharmacies, and durable medical equipment (DME) supply companies.
MFCU investigators often obtain purchasing data from wholesalers and other suppliers before the pharmacists know they are under investigation. They then compare the amount of drugs purchased with the amount of drugs allegedly dispensed to determine if the pharmacy is seeking reimbursement for more drugs than it purchased.
If you are under investigation for Medicaid fraud or have been charged with a crime, you should know that the government has tremendous resources on its side. You should consult with an experienced Medicare and Medicaid fraud defense attorney immediately to protect your rights.
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Experienced yogis can explore and enhance their practice, while new students can deepen their understanding of yoga, coaching for women in a supportive and nurturing environment.
When groups of like-minded women get together, magic is created. Sacred Feminine retreats awaken awareness of the feminine form with beautiful flowing, simple yet sensual dance, and a deeper understanding, honoring and integration of energy and companionship.
This retreat is a container of practice in space full of beauty and sisterhood, connection with Nature and silence, dance and Goddess rituals, devotional chanting and much, much more.
Together we explore our highest potential as Sacred women, we discover a unique gift for each woman and we hold her as she moves into embodying her Nature.
We move beyond our limitations by exploring the strength of our femininity. We practice unveiling the wisdom and beauty already inherent in each woman.
You will leave this retreat transformed, deeply connected to your beauty, a lot more self-confident and empowered with an abundance of tools and insight into how to be in touch with your inner Goddess and at the same time be successful and active in the modern world.
This Retreat Can Be The Beginning Of Your Life Change!
Imagine yourself surrounded by a luxuriant tropical nature, in a boat trip on the backwaters and going daily to the beach, receiving an ayurvedic massage, eating Indian delicious meals.
As you make your way to the yoga shala you stroll through the tranquil gardens, you enjoy a rejuvenating meditation and yoga practice, before indulging in a fresh, nutritious and delicious Kerala breakfast.
Participate in our Sacred Feminine classes and practices. Take then some time to relax and unwind by the beach, enjoy a luscious Ayurvedic massage, stroll into Varkala for some sight-seeing.
For a truly holistic experience led by the most knowledgeable teachers from the Shiva Garden Homestay and retreat site, join us to re-energize, unwind and re-connect with your true self while soaking up the blissful surrounds of beautiful Varkala.
"Sacred Feminine is about connecting with your womb, your inner wisdom and empowering yourself as a Woman.
It's about respecting your Sacred Blood and using it in your ceremonies.
It's about staying silent and listening to the creativity latent in your 2nd chakra.
It's connecting with the Natural energies of the Moon, the Sun, the Earth, the elements and inviting them into your life.
It's about dancing in the sacredness of our bodies, closing our eyes and letting our soul flow with the music.
Sacred Feminine is about remembering that you are a Female and so, able to give birth naturally, in a homely environment and free of drugs.
It's learning about the grieving process of an abortion, and being abused in so many ways.
It's about respecting yourself as a Human Being and making yourself feel respected as a Woman.
A lovely peaceful quiet place surrounded by tropical trees and vegetation for you to heal, re connect and empower yourself only 20 minutes walking away from the beach, shops and restaurants.
Begin your journey by attending to the 3 days Sacred Feminine Workshop where you will have the opportunity to learn and practice Belly Dance, Oriental and free dance, receive shamanic teachings for woman's, learn rituals, and much, much more!
After 3 intensive days, indulge yourself in receiving 1 Indian Ayurvedic massage of 2h with oil and healing herbs powder massage. You will leave floating like a feather. Then have a delicious vegetarian meal with sea view in one of the best restaurants on the cliff and on the afternoon, we will go to the backwaters, Golden Island Shiva & Parvati Temple, we will then go to Durga Temple and watch the sunset on a desert beach.
This is the day to perform live the Full Moon Rituals, where we will go through several practices in nature, as well as on the retreat site.
Learn How to perform a relaxing massage with your friends and your partner. This day is an approach to massage where you can learn the basic movements for massaging your partners and/or friends.
In the last day, we will go through a unique experience of astrology for groups. You will get to know the main traits of your Numerology as well as your Mayan, Karmic, Chinese and Western Astrology. We will then understand better why individuals in the group get an affinity with each other. Besides this, you will get to know your soul purpose and Life Path, karmic lessons and personality traits to improve. (Does not include personal extensive readings).
Note: The schedule of the order of the activities can change depending on the Full Moon day in each retreat.
Note:This is a 7-day retreat. Your stay is for 8 nights and 9 days in total. We will start with the retreat the day after you arrive, so on the 2nd day. So you will be able to take your time to land and adjust to the surroundings and our place.
Check out is the day after the last day, on day 9, of the retreat at 11 am.
South India, Kerala (God's Own Country), Varkala beach, one of the Top 10 beaches in India, rated the 3rd place by tourists, and one of the First 30 Tour Destinations in the Planet, rated 28th place among the 100 top 'Best Value Index' around the globe.
The main beach is Papanasam beach. The word Papanasam means washing away sins. The legend says, that taking a dip in the waters of Papanasam Beach will wash away all the sins in one's life.
Shakti Ashram, Healing Center and Academy is surrounded by tropical trees.
Facilities Include: - fast Wi-Fi service, shared kitchen and mineral water. Excellent location in a quiet residential area with the beach and supermarket just 10 minutes walking distance.
5:00 PM Personal / free time for going to the beach, explore the Cliff restaurants and much more!
This room has been lovingly crafted to provide our guests with a comfortable and homely experience. Our room have one large comfortable bed and private bathroom. The room is ideal for single travelers, couples or couples with children. The rooms is well ventilated with two large windows.
This is a room with a private bathroom.
This is a common room with a shared bathroom and a dinning room.
Direction: Makairam, (House number VMC 29/84 D, 29/84E, Sy. No.41/1, in Varkala SRO), Vacharmukku, Varkala P.O. 695141, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
We are 10 minutes from Krishna Supermarket, in NorthCliff (5, 10 min walking) near Kurakkani Junction. On the opposite side of the road from Krishna Supermarket, looking to the left, there is a blue bus stop and a road going up between walled properties. Walk 5 to 10 minutes up this road. After a few corners, you will see purple Shakti Ashram paintings guiding you to the Ashram. We are just after the house on the left side with 2 white rabbits, around the corner along the left earth path. It is the first stunning house on the right side.
Shakti Ashram, Healing Center and Academy was launched by Sonia Indigo in January 2018 as an integrative result of many years of healing and counselling practice. It continued the mission of International Sonia Indigo Academy project, which started in 2012 in Varkala Beach, India and offered Retreats, Courses, Workshops, Therapies as well as Classes in the areas of Reiki, Yoga, Meditation, Life Coaching, Astrology & Numerology, Counselling.The Academy is an abode of peace and shelter from the pressures of mundane life. It provides a safe environment for personal development and the pursuit of a spiritual path. Our world-wide students often visit India looking for a deep connection to themselves, in moments of life change, and to experience the profound spirituality of Ancient India and ancestral Yoga, Ayurveda, healing, astrology and shamanic traditions.Here we offer a safe space, time, teachings, therapies and tools for the students/clients to recover from their daily life's, look inwards and make a real inner change.We also provide for our students, clients and guests a spiritual /alternative/esoteric library to make their own study as well as the guidance what could be a good book for them to read according to their needs.OUR MISSIONTrain Skilled Professionals in the areas of Reiki, Yoga and Massage with the courses Massage Course, Reiki Workshops levels I, II, III & Master level, the Workshop For Healers.Provide tools to help students find their own truth, transform themselves and start their Life Change process, offering the Life Changing Seminar and Sacred Feminine Workshops.Help people heal, know, accept, love, nurture and improve themselves at all levels (physical, emotional, mental & spiritual), inspiring them to believe and achieve their dreams. The Therapies available are Life Coaching Sessions, that include the following sessions: Psychotherapy & Counselling, Astrology & Numerology, Life Change & Self Transforming Process and Sacred Feminine. In the Academy you can also find therapies such as Reiki Distant Healing Sessions, Aqua-Floating Therapy and Yoga Classes and Retreats.Inspire and train yoga beginners and advanced practitioners to do their practice by themselves and deepen their knowledge in Meditation, Yoga, Chakras, Doshas, Diet, Pranayama, Asana Benefits, during the Yoga & Meditation Classes.In our Healing Center you can undergo one of the proposed treatment programs, book the therapies and yoga classes separately, take part in workshops, as well as receive a consultation and individual healing plan appropriate to you.We also offer Reiki courses for I, II, III and Master levels, including theory, practice, initiation and certification.We speak: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French.
Sonia is healing, facilitating, consulting, coaching and teaching since 2009 and shares her experience into her work and teachings gathered over 25 years of studies and practices in astrology (Mayan, Chinese, Karmic and Western), numerology, Feng Shui, massage (Swedish, Ayurveda, Thai and Reflexology), archangels, hatha yoga, meditation, reiki healing, shamanism, native women practices, womb awakening, women health and well-being, pregnancy, natural birth and parenting, tantra, Hindu, Tao and Buddhist philosophies, the law of attraction, A Course In Miracles, psychology, physiology, affirmations and key questions, aqua-floating therapy, childhood and past life regression, health, nutrition, the mind-body connection, leadership, relationships and co-dependency.Sonia combines her common sense, down-to-earth approach with depth, wildness and raw power; which are the unique signatures of her work. She facilitates at a depth where remarkable transformations, healing, and openings in women's (and some men's), lives are a common occurrence.
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Q: How do I make a custom world with advanced settings? I want to make a custom world using the Star System scenario so that I have planet, and I want to change some advanced stuff.
I click 'New World' then 'Custom World'.
I then click 'Star System' as my base scenario.
I then click 'Advanced' and fill out what I want.
After this I hit 'Ok'. This brings me back to the 'Custom World' screen, where the scenario is set to 'Easy Start Earth'. The settings I can see are not what I chose. If I start at this point, it will not be what I chose. If I don't start and click advanced again, I see none of the choices I made there.


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Archimedes Palimpsest Digital Release Changes Document
Mike Toth
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28 things to do during the summer holidays in Cornwall
PUBLISHED: 12:40 19 August 2020 | UPDATED: 09:11 26 August 2020
Eden Project. Copyright: Getty Images
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Plan your summer holidays timetable with our ultimate guide to days out and things to do in Cornwall
The Eden Project has been rightly described as 'iconic' - the gravity-defying biomes rising out of an old clay pit at Bodelva near St Austell. The vision of Tim Smit to build somewhere to showcase the world's most important plants became a reality (after a lot of blood, sweat, tears and fundraising) in March 2001. In the first three months there were over a million visitors. In the intervening 18 years, Eden has grown and grown.
The biomes have become lush and beautiful playgrounds for visitors young and old to explore. An educational charity and a social enterprise, Eden offers a brilliant day out again and again with an annual pass to allow unlimited entry in a year.
Explore the different areas - the Rainforest and Mediterranean Biomes, Outdoor Gardens, Wildlife Cornwall, Western Australia Garden, Invisible Worlds exhibition and art installations like the Giant Bee. Adventureres can tackle the Skywire - England's longest zip wire - and little ones can enjoy the soft play area.
There are lots of refreshments available (this is the home of the World Pasty Championships after all) which reflect Eden's buy local and sustainability policies. To support their policy to cut down on waste, bring your own bottle and refill with free water or your own cup for a hot drink discount.
Check online for advance admission discounts. Visit: edenproject.com
The iconic Eden Project is an action-packed day out. PICTURE: HUFTON AND CROW
Land's End offers a wide range of possibilites for families. There's over 100 acres of unspoilt and dramatic coastline with cliffs up to 120 metres high overlooking the Atlantic - landfall at New York is 3,000 miles away. It has a national designation as a Very Important Plant Area and supports a wonderful variety of flora and fauna.
Alongside the natural beauty, there are four attractions and additional entertainment throughout August with family fun days and fireworks displays on Tuesdays and Thursdays (check website for details). Little ones will love Aardman Presents: A Grand Experience featuring iconic Aardman characters Wallace and Gromit, Morph and Shaun the Sheep. Take a look in Wallace and Gromit's living room, experiment in the inventing workshops or help Shaun entertain the flock.
There's a 4D sensory film experience (be prepared for squirting and seats moving!) with Return to the Lost World and the latest interactive technology and special effects to conjure a magically scary world in Arthur's Quest when you can enter the terrible lair of the Dragon. For something more down-to-earth visit Greeb Farm and step back in time into a 200 year-old Cornish farmstead, perfectly restored.
Land's End is famous, of course, for the End to Enders - the people making the journey from here to the furthest reach of Britain, John O'Groats over 800 miles away. You can discover their story in a fascinating exhibition. No visit would be complete without a picture by the famous signpost.
Visit landsend-landmark.co.uk to check out online admission discount.
There are firework displays in August at Land�s End
National Maritime Museum Cornwall
For centuries, Falmouth's deep, natural harbour secured its place on global trade routes with cargoes arriving at their first port of call in England and was the home port of the famous Packet Ships which carried mail around the British Empire and beyond.
This seafaring past makes Falmouth the perfect location for the Cornish outpost of the National Maritime Museum. There's plenty of history and adventure to keep the grown-ups happy with more than 100 boats on permanent display alongside artefacts collected over 150 years by the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. It is home to the National Small Boat Collection - all craft less than 30ft long.
Younger visitors can head for the Awesome Adventurers Play Zone to dress up and join HMS Adventure, explore a deserted island with an underground cave and waterfall. There are sessions throughout August for little ones to learn how to become pirates. And head up for the Look Out and down for a chance to see below the waves.
The Titanic Stories exhibition, which had been due to close in January this year has been extended to 2020. It includes rare objects and artefacts which have never been seen before alongside personal stories of victims and survivors, including those from Cornwall.
Visit: nmmc.co.uk
St Ives has provided a haven for artists for centuries, attracted by the special quality of the light produced by the combination of sea, sky and sun. Since Victorian times the town has been associated with generations of artists including Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Patrick Heron and Mark Rothko.
Tate began an association with St Ives in 1980 when it took on the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden and a permanent gallery soon followed on the site of a former gasworks overlooking Porthmeor Beach.
It opened in 1993 and welcomes around 240,000 visitors a year. In 2017 the gallery doubled the size of its exhibition space.
This summer Tate Create sessions will encourage young visitors to make colourful and crazy costumes. The concept is inspired by the exhibition of work by Lebanese artist Huguette Caland.
This summer's other exhibition is by Dutch artist Allard van Hoorn who undertook an artistic residency in St Ives. His short films document a decade of projects influenced by his travels
Visit: tate.org.uk
The wonderful Tate St Ives overlooks the seafront at St Ives. PICTURE: HUFTON AND CROW
St Michael's Mount
Even the journey to St Michael's Mount, just off the coast at Marazion is magical. You can make the trip from shore to island in a boat or, if the tide is right, walk across the causeway.
The mount is one of Cornwall's most familiar landmarks with its own place in history and mythology. It was home to Bronze Age settlers and after the Norman conquest in 1066 monks from Normandy modelled the church and priory here on their own place of worship, Mont St Michel. It became a place of pilgrimage where four miracles are said to have happened in the mid-17th century. The island's steep terrain is topped by a castle and legend has it that Jack the Giant Killer defeated Cormoran who terrorised the locals.
St Michael's Mount is also a family home - the St Aubyns have lived here for more than two centuries - and you can admire the beautiful Victorian gardens and terraces stocked with plants which thrive in this microclimate. Discover the reality of life on the island which more than 30 people call home.
Visit: stmichaelsmount.co.uk
At low tide visitors can approach St Michael's Mount via the Causeway. PICTURE: NT IMAGES/HUGH MOTHERSOLE
The Lost Gardens of Heligan
The story of the gardens at Heligan - home to the Tremayne family for more than 400 years - is both tragic and romantic. For centuries they supplied fruit, vegetables and flowers for the estate. When World War I wiped out almost all of the workforce, the gardens fell into decline - the final blow being the devastating hurricanes of 1990. Tim Smit (later to build the Eden Project) and John Willis, a Tremayne descendant, stumbled on a tiny room used by the gardeners with an inscription on the wall 'Don't come here to sleep or slumber' dated August 1914. Today there are more than 200 acres of restored land. Visitors can explore woodlands, meadows of wildflowers, walled gardens, grounds and the farm. This summer Heligan celebrates the bumblebee and the butterfly in a summer of wildflowers and outdoor adventure with crafts and games.
Visit: www.heligan.com/
The Italian garden at The Lost Gardens of Heligan
THE BEST DAYS OUT IN CORNWALL FOR ANIMAL LOVERS
Newquay Zoo celebrates its 50th birthday this year. Originally established as a petting zoo, it now houses 130 different species - from antelopes and apes to zebras in 13 acres of sub-tropical gardens. Visit different zones including the savannahs of Africa and the rainforests of South America. Smaller creatures have their own tropical house.
Visit: newquayzoo.org.uk
Monkey Sanctuary
The sanctuary has been caring for primates for more than 50 years - rescuing them from an unsuitable life as pets and but cannot be released into the wild. There are more than 40 monkeys in the family including Capuchins, Barbary Macaques, Woolly Monkeys and Marmosets.
The south-facing gardens overlook Looe Bay and are packed with life including about 285 wildflower species and woodland. There's a Wild Play Area and a wildlife room exhibition which includes a bat cam.
Visit: monkeysanctuary.org
Best for Animal lovers: Looe Monkey Sanctuary provides a refuge for primates rescued from unsuitable homes
A wonderful underwater world is never far away in Cornwall. Discover more at the Blue Reef Aquarium at Towan Beach in Newquay. There are 40 fishy habitats including sharks, turtles, giant Pacific octopus, lobsters, crabs and corals. There's an underwater tunnel which takes you to the heart of the action
Visit: bluereefaquarium.co.uk
Old Macdonald's Farm
Discover life is like down on the farm, and meet lambs, chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, ponies and calves - alongside the more unusual alpacas and owls. As well as animals, there are tractors, roller racers, trampolines, climbing frames, crazy golf and miniature train and pony rides.
Visit: oldmacdonalds.co.uk
THE BEST DAYS OUT FOR GARDEN LOVERS IN CORNWALL
Trewidden
The 15-acre garden at Trewidden may seem modest compared to some Cornish gardens, but it manages to pack plenty in with a collection of more than 300 camellias and magnolias and one of the largest tree fern dells in Europe, planted in a redundant open-cast tin mine. The magnolias include the Trewidden Belle which is unique to the garden. Camellias have been grown at Trewidden since 1850 with some early plantings still surviving.
Visit: trewiddengarden.co.uk
TREWIDDEN Magnolias thrive in the gardens at Trewidden
Trengwainton
Cornwall's mild climate, the family estates and the enthusiasm of Victorian plant hunters has turned the county into a plantsman's paradise. Discover the plant hunter's art at Trengwainton near Penzance where species never before seen in this country started popping up in beds and borders. See magnolias, rhododendrons and subtropical varieties. The thriving walled kitchen garden was built to the proportions of Noah's Ark and there are woodland walks offering sea views across Mount's Bay.
Visit: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/trengwainton-garden
The Stream Garden at Trengwainton near Penzance. PICTURE: NT IMAGES/ANDREW BUTLER
Mount Edgcumbe
This country estate on the Rame Peninsula has plenty of parkland to explore around the house, which overlooks Plymouth Sound. The Earls Garden was created in the 18th century, close to the original Tudor House. There are more formal gardens below the house, most of them created in the 18-19th centuries
including those devoted to England, Italy, France, New Zealand and America. You'll also find the Fern Dell, the Jubilee Garden, the Rose Garden, the Relic Garden and the Bee Garden. There's also a Camellia Trail and a Tree Trail.
Visit: mountedgcumbe.gov.uk
THE BEST DAYS OUT FOR FOODIES IN CORNWALL
Colwith Farm Distillery
Learn how to make your own gin at Cornwall's first plough to bottle distillery. The distillery opened a year ago to produce Stafford's Dry Gin from their award-winning Aval Dor Vodka, made with their own potatoes. The gin features seven Cornish botanicals and joins other spirits with a local flavour -including a limited edition Aval Dor Rose and Hibiscus Vodka.
Visit: colwithfarmdistillery.co.uk
Learn how to make your own gin at the new distillery at Colwith Farm
Camel Valley Wine
Former RAF pilot Bob Lindo turned his passion for wine from a hobby into a thriving business when he created his vineyard at Nanstallon near Bodmin in 1989. Camel Valley are now recognised as makers of good English wine and champions of a Champagne method sparkling wine which beat the more established winemakers of France and Italy. The Camel Valley Sparkling Rosé has been named the best in the world three times. Throughout August there are Grand Tours and Tastings and the shop is open for wine sales and you can enjoy a glass on the terrace overlooking the vines.
Visit: camelvalley.com
Healeys Cyder Farm
Children will love the farm animals and tractor rides and grown-ups can learn all about the production of Cornish cyder. There are acres of beautiful orchards, the first distillery to be built in Cornwall in 300 years and new production facilities to explore. Entry to the farm is free, but it's worth paying for a guided tour of the orchards, the Cyder Museum, the jam and cyder-making facilities and enjoy sampling some of the produce.
The farm shop has lots of local food and drink and there's a restaurant serving up cream teas. You can also press your own apples, for a small donation to charity.
Healeys Cyder Farm is a great place to see how Cornwall�s producers create food and drink loved all over the world
Visit: healeyscyder.co.uk
THE BEST QUIRKY DAYS OUT IN CORNWALL
Bodmin jail
Cornwall has its fair share of unusual places to visit. A good place to start is Bodmin Jail, originally built for King George III in 1779 by prisoners who hauled 20,000 tons of granite from the nearby Cuckoo Quarry.
The imposing building spans six levels and reveals the reality of life for prisoners. The Execution Shed features a fully restored Victorian hanging pit where the last man to be executed in Cornwall died.
Exhibitions detail the hard labour carried out at the jail and the gory history but also reveal fascinating snippets from the past. During World War I the jail held the Domesday Book. and once hid the Crown Jewels.
Bodmin Jail is a fascinating destination – day or night
Visit: bodminjail.org
Shipwreck centre
There are more than 3,000 wrecks around the Cornish coast and this collection of artefacts has taken nearly half a century to amass.
As well as items from local wrecks, there are also exhibits retrieved by vessels that date back to ancient Egypt and Roman times as well as more recent sinkings such as the Scilly Isles disaster of 1707, the Mary Rose and wartime casualties including Royal Oak which was sunk by a German U-Boat in 1939 at Scapa Flow with the loss of 833 lives - one of the worst tragedies in British Naval history.
Visit: shipwreckcharlestown.co.uk
Minack Theatre
This open-air auditorium sits on the cliffs at Porthcurno overlooking the sea. The incredible Rowena Cade owned a house at the top of the headland and, alongside her gardener, created an amphitheatre for performances from the rocky landscape by hand. The very first performance here was The Tempest in 1932 and today more than 110,000 a year will see shows here.
Minack Theatre. Copyright: Getty Images
Visit: minack.com
THE BEST PLACES TO TAKE YOUR GRANDPARENTS IN CORNWALL
Glendurgan Garden
Many grandparents find themselves tasked with entertaining children during the summer holidays. Glendurgan ticks all the boxes - for grown-ups there are the beautiful gardens packed with camellias, magnolias and rhododendrons and lots of local history and wildlife information. Children will love activities aimed at them, the valleys that run down to the Helford River and beach and the laurel maze with child-sized hedges.
Visit: nationaltrust.org.uk/glendurgan
the laurel maze at Glendurgan with its children-sized low hedges. PICTURE: NT IMAGES/JOHN MILLAR
Children have their own special trail to follow around Lanhydrock and can discover all about life upstairs and downstairs on this impressive country estate. Learn how the land and Victorian kitchens served the Agar-Robartes family and explore more than 50 rooms including a special suite of children's rooms. Outside there is lots of parkland and ancient riverside woodland to let off steam, cycle trails and a popular adventure playground.
There's a sadness in the effects of young Tommy Agar-Robartes, sent home from the front after he was killed by a sniper in France during World War I.
Visit: nationaltrust.org.uk/Lanhydrock
Children exploring the Victorian kitchen at Lanhydrock. PICTURE: NT IMAGES/JOHN MILLAR
Pendennis Castle was built by Henry VIII overlooking the river and sea at Falmouth has played a role at key moments over the centuries from Tudor times to World War II.
In August there's six days of the Grand Medieval Joust when armour-clad knights compete to prove their superior power. Discover the secrets of their armour and weaponry and hear medieval executioner's most gruesome and gory stories.
Would-be young challengers can compete in their own battles. There's a feast of medieval entertainments and treats with Jester Peterkin and birds of prey.
Visit: www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/pendennis-castle/
In August there are regular skirmishes and jousts at Pendennis Castle
Lappa Valley Railway
Who doesn't love a steam train? At Lappa Valley at St Newlyn East near Newquay, you will arrive and depart the leisure park by steam train. Once in the park, there are two more steam railway lines - this time miniature tracks.
A single admission includes train travel, canoeing lake, crazy golf, pedal cars and indoor play carriages. There's beautiful Nature trails and a brick and turf maze for toddlers inspired by Cornishman Richard Trevithick's railway locomotive of 1804 which was the first in the world to run on rails. Reach the middle to ring the bell.
Visit: lappavalley.co.uk
BEST FOR HISTORY LOVERS
Trerice is a perfect time capsule - an Elizabethan manor house once the home of the Arundell family and surprisingly close to Newquay. Away from the busy streets and beaches of Newquay this is an oasis of calm.
Beautifully restored, one of the centre pieces is the Great Hall window with 576 glass tiles ranging in age from the 16th to 19th centuries. In the early days clear glass was a sign of wealth. The building houses an impressive collection of artefacts including a 300-year-old longcase clock. The gardens reflect the social standing of the house including a turf maze and the intricate Knot Garden in typical Elizabeth style. But don't be fooled - it was created in 2013.
Visit: nationaltrust.org.uk/trerice
St Mawes Castle
Facing Pendennis Castle on the opposite headland across the Carrick Roads is Henry VIII's St Mawes Castle, a beautifully preserved example of a Tudor coastal artillery fortress. The castles were built to deter a perceived threat by sea from Catholic France and Spain.
St Mawes Castle is built in a clover-leaf shape surrounded by octagonal outer defences. The interior is embellished by carved Latin inscriptions in praise of Henry VIII and his son Edward VI. There are magnificent views along the Fal Estuary and out to sea from the top of the castle.
Visit: www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/st-mawes-castle/
St Mawes Castle. Copyright: Getty Images/iStockphoto
Pencarrow
Pencarrow has been home to the Molesworth-St Aubyn family for almost 500 years and they still occupy a wing of the Georgian home on the edge of Bodmin Moor near Wadebridge surrounded by the glorious Grade II listed gardens. Pencarrow in Cornish means 'head of the valley' or 'high fort' and as you approach the house you will pass an Iron Age hill fort. The house that now standards at the heart of the estate reflected the Georgian fascination for Greek and Roman antiquity inside and out.
Enjoy a guided tour of the house to hear all about its history and admire some of the beautiful art including family portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds, porcelain by Meissen and Sevres, historic furniture and a series of marble busts.
In the garden there are ancient woodlands, a sunken Italian Garden with fountain, an ice house and palm house. Enjoy spotting the towering Araucaria araucana, nicknamed 'the monkey puzzle' tree by an intrigued visitor here.
Visit: pencarrow.co.uk
Wheal Martyn
Cornwall is an area rich in natural resources. At Wheal Martyn the indoor and outdoor museum will help you discover the Victorian clay works, once at the heart of a thriving industry.
Their brand new exhibition featuring the community's photographs of Clay Country. Borne out of the limitations of the recent lockdown, the #CelebrateClayCountry exhibition celebrates the unique and interesting industrial landscapes of mid-Cornwall. During a period when people were not able to enjoy the clay landscape in person, we asked our social media followers to share their images and thoughts on what the landscape meant to them. This exhibition features a wonderful selection of over 200 responses.
Visit: wheal-martyn.com
Wheal Martyn indoor and outdoor museum tells the story of Cornwall's China Clay industry
Tin Mining
The National Trust has been at the forefront of protecting and preserving Cornwall's tin mining past with the iconic engine houses littering the landscape. It includes the cliffs at Botallack near St Just with Wheal Edward and Wheal Owles which is part of the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site, familiar to Poldark fans as the location for the fictional Wheal Leisure.
Also part of the Heritage Site is nearby Levant Mine and Beam Engine which has a restored 1840s beam engine running on steam. It provides a useful insight into the world of tin mining. Other sites which help to tell the story include East Pool Mine with two giant beam engines at Pool near Redruth, the nearby home of Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick - Trevithick Cottage at Penponds - and Wheal Coates near St Agnes on dramatic cliffs carpeted with heather and gorse.
BOTALLACK – a view of the ruined engine houses Wheal Edward and Wheal Owles on the coast at Botallack. PICTURE: NT IMAGES/JOHN MILLER


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Seasoned leaders named to top roles within St. Luke's Health System
St. Luke's Blogs
Dave Self and Pam Lindemoen
By Joy Prudek, Notes and Announcements
St. Luke's Health System President and CEO Chris Roth has named the organization's head of acute-care services and the administrator of its provider network to head up key operations and administrative functions for the organization.
Pam Lindemoen has been appointed to serve as St. Luke's chief operating officer. Lindemoen joined St. Luke's near the beginning of 2018, coming from Dignity Health St. Mary's Medical Center in San Francisco, where she was president and chief executive officer. Before that, she was region vice president for Kaiser Permanente's Northern California Region, leading operations across 22 medical centers with 25,000 staff members for the organization's largest of seven regions, serving approximately 3.5 million health plan members. Lindemoen has been instrumental in helping to shape the system's population health capabilities in the past two years; she will continue to be responsible for the organization's acute-care services as she takes on the additional responsibilities of operations.
Dave Self, who has served as chief administrative officer for St. Luke's Health Partners, has been named to the new position of St. Luke's Health System's chief administrative officer and will have oversight responsibility for key functions including strategy and planning; communications, marketing and community health; IHT; external relations; contracting and enterprise business development and sales. As with Lindemoen, Self is a seasoned leader with an impressive history; prior to joining St. Luke's in 2014, he served as senior vice president and regional director of Idaho for PacificSource Health Plans, which he joined when the company acquired Primary Health Inc., where he was president and chief operating officer. Self has helped to shape the provider network and St. Luke's shift into value-based contracting; more than a third of the organization's revenues are tied to risk arrangements.
In addition, with St. Luke's Chief Human Resources Officer Phil Johnson's retirement, Erin Simms has been named interim CHRO. The search for Johnson's permanent replacement is ongoing.
Joy Prudek
Joy Prudek is the manager of public relations for St. Luke's Wood River.
Chris Roth begins new role as president and CEO of St. Luke's Health System


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The Iranians argue that they need to develop an enrichment capability because they cannot be assured of a guaranteed supply of fuel for a peaceful nuclear energy program, ElBaradei said at a panel at the World Economic Forum.
"I would separate the issues of using nuclear technology for energy and to produce weapons," he said. "I would call upon the United States to provide Iran with reactors, and I would call upon Iran to declare a moratorium on enrichment for at least eight or nine years" until the country can earn the global community's confidence.
Iran provoked an international outcry on Jan. 10 when it cut seals of the International Atomic Energy Agency at its main enrichment plant and resumed small-scale enrichment of uranium _ a process that can be used to produce fuel for generating electricity or material for atomic bombs.


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