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Eras Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh College of Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University, Faizabad
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About Eras Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow
Eras Lucknow Medical College and Hospital (ELMC), Lucknow was established by the Era Educational Trust in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh in the year 2016. ELMC is recognised by the Medical Council of India (MCI) and the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India. The college offers undergraduate (MBBS), postgraduate (MD, MS, Diploma) and doctoral (Fellowship, Post Doctoral Certificate Courses (PDCC)) courses. ELMC is affiliated to Era University, Lucknow.
ELMC is located at Hardoi Road, Sarfarazganj, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Lucknow City Railway Station is 6.2 km away and Shakti Bus Stand is 3 km away from the college. Lucknow Airport VIP Terminal is 15.4 km away and it will take around 31 minutes to reach the college. Students can take a cab or a bus to reach Eras Lucknow Medical College and Hospital. The college is well connected with roads, railways and airways.
Estd. Year: 2001 Total Faculty: 358
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Eras Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow Admission Process:
Eras Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow offers admission to the undergraduate (MBBS), postgraduate (MD, MS, Diploma) and doctoral (Fellowship, Post Doctoral Certificate Courses (PDCC)) courses. Admission to the undergraduate courses will be done through the NEET-UG examination while for postgraduate courses, aspirants have to qualify the NEET-PG examination. The detailed admission process is given below:
For Undergraduate Courses (MBBS):
Candidates should qualify National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET-UG).
Further, the candidates have to register for the counselling process and choose ELMC, Lucknow as their preference.
Admission will be offered to the candidates on the basis of the marks scored in an entrance examination, seat allotment, document verification and fee payment.
For Postgraduate Courses (MD/MS/Diploma):
Candidates should qualify National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET-PG).
For Doctoral Courses:
Candidates have to fill an online application form on the website of ELMC.
Aspirants have to appear for an interview conducted by the college.
NEET scores are also considered for admission.
Final admission will be done after seat allotment, document verification and fee payment.
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Median Package :12 Lakhs
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Median Package :10.50 Lakhs
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Exam Date: 02 May, 2021 (Tentative)
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Exam Date: 18 Apr, 2021
Overall, I have thoroughly enjoyed my course
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Posted on 14 Oct' 15 by SHIVANK RATHORE
Great place to learn and grow as an individual. Countless opportunities to get involved with sport and other union clubs. Large campus university with a great community vibe. Not too far from a few big cities such as kanpur , if you ever get bored at the weekends!Overall, I have thoroughly enjoyed my course and my time at eras lucknow medical college. However, the marking and the organisation of the course could be improved as I feel marking is slightly confused at times with different lecturers contradicting their points when feedback is given.
Academically gud college
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Gud college for the students who really want to study hard..nyc hostel..gud food..but the last is no campus so the feeling to b in college remain lag in my lyf..and the fee structure is very high..everyone cant afford..dats the max cost for mbbs in up
Eras Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow has adequate infrastructure and facilities for the students and faculty such as a library with a collection of books, cafeteria to serve food to the students, gymnasium for the physical fitness, guest house for the guests visiting the college, separate hostels for boys and girls, computer lab, auditorium to conduct events, demo room, etc. Various other facilities like lecture theatres, animal houses, common rooms, wi-fi, doctors' residence, skill lab, etc are also available for them.
Library: The library of the institute is sacred to the book lovers and they happily spend their free time at the library and it has a rich collection of books.
Cafeteria: The college has a cafeteria that serves healthy food and snacks to the students and staff at an affordable price.
Gymnasium: ELMC has a gymnasium inside the campus that can be used by the students to maintain their physical fitness.
Guest House: The college has a guest house inside the premises for the guests visiting the campus for lectures, meetings, events, etc.
Hostels: ELMC provides accommodation to the students and has a hostel complex and has two separate hostels for girls and boys with all the essential facilities.
Computer Lab: The college has a computer centre for the students so that they can get practical knowledge for better understanding.
Auditorium: The college has an auditorium that can be used for conducting activities, events, workshops, annual functions, etc.
Demo Room: ELMC has demo rooms for the students to give them demos or to make them practice for better learning.
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Boys Hostel :ELMC provides good quality accommodation for its students. Separate hostel accommodation is available for more than 1100 boys within the campus, with round-the-clock armed security. Rooms are offered on a twin-sharing basis. They are big and airy with writing tables and comfortable beds. Each hostel has a dining hall and common room with TV, music system and other indoor facilities. Indoor games like carom, chess and table tennis are also available in boys the hostels. Hostel accommodation for more than 100 interns is also available. The food available at the hostel mess is primarily Indian. The administrative staff of the college eats the same food to ensure that quality and hygiene are maintained.
Girls Hostel :ELMC provides good quality accommodation for its students. Separate hostel accommodation is available for more than 1100 girls within the campus, with round-the-clock armed security. Rooms are offered on a twin-sharing basis. They are big and airy with writing tables and comfortable beds. Each hostel has a dining hall and common room with TV, music system and other indoor facilities. Indoor games like carom, chess and table tennis are also available in girls the hostels. Hostel accommodation for more than 100 interns is also available. The food available at the hostel mess is primarily Indian. The administrative staff of the college eats the same food to ensure that quality and hygiene are maintained.
Medical/Hospital :The college has a health center with a first aid facility for the students.
Gym :ELMC has a well-equipped gymnasium and sports ground with courts for volleyball, basketball, badminton, football ground- to name a few. Indoor game facilities like carom, chess, and table tennis are also available in both the hostels.
Library :An excellent, resourceful, fully air-conditioned and digitalized library with a built-up area of 40,000 sq. feet with a seating capacity of 500 in five reading halls and two computer labs. There are more than 15,038 books, including medical textbooks and reference books. The library subscribes to 150 Indian and 125 International journals along with 1400 international online journals with the fully open access system.
Sports :College holds Sports Meet every year since 2002 in the month of Jan/Feb. Which consists of athletics, Indoor & Outdoor games.
I.T Infrastructure :The College is having two separate computer labs with 50 computers where faculty and students can browse the internet and access online books and e-journals.
Cafeteria :State-of-the-art air-conditioned cafeterias with modern catering facilities are available for staff and students inside the college campus. No preservatives and colors are used in cooking.
Auditorium :Auditorium with a capacity of 1200 person is available with modern facilities. Co-curricular and extracurricular functions are organized here from time to time.
Laboratories :The college has a departmental based laboratories facility for the students.
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Transcript: John Beilein previews Minnesota
By Joe Stapleton
John Beilein addressed the media this morning on a conference call to preview Michigan's upcoming match-up with Minnesota (Thursday, 7 p.m.). The Wolverine head coach discussed the Golden Gophers, Mitch McGary's injury and the point guard situation. (Photo: Scott Mapes)
On Mitch McGary's surgery: "They have it scheduled."
On which date the surgery is scheduled: "Why don't we just keep those things personal on things like that. I think it's important that when people have surgery we don't have to make a national — he's going to have surgery, it's going to be shortly. Let's not talk about dates and things like that. I don't think that's anybody's business. But it will be shortly."
On what he's seen from Minnesota: "They're an 11-2 team. Again, we see a lot of veterans or they've been able to boost their roster through transfers. As a result, they've got a bunch of fourth-year players who are redshirts playing up front. And then the Hollins tandem that we've seen now for three or four years. They're just excellent guards. But really I think the difference has been Deandre Mathieu. I'm not even still sure where he came from, but he is a heck of a player. He's that lead guard that everybody needs to really be successful. It makes both Hollins better each time he's out on the floor."
On which player he would compare Mathieu to: "I don't know. What I love about him is he gets elevation on his jumpshot. His assist-to-turnover ratio is incredible. He doesn't shoot threes much but when he does they're really good shots because he's shooting such a high percentage. He just seems to be in control and running the team. It's been really really helpful for them. I can't think of anyone to compare him to right now."
On figuring out the rotation for Big Ten play: "It's actually simpler than you'd think. There's only nine guys who we'll be playing before we go into — Andrew Dakich is number 10 right now. We only have nine guys, so I anticipate nine guys playing in games, especially if there's any foul trouble at all. Sean Lonergan is number 11. If we have to go there, they're working hard in practice, but it's going to be eight or nine every single game."
On sticking with the current point guard situation: "That seems to be what has been successful for us so far. We get a good spark off the bench from both Spike (Albrecht) and Zak Irvin. And Jon Horford. He likes that role. It doesn't bother him one bit. Jordan's been a starter for a long time. It's good for Jon to maybe watch the game for a second to keep him out of foul trouble."
On knowing Mitch McGary is out: "It's the only advantage of this situation. At least we know right now and now we can move forward. While he has the surgery and goes through rehab, all these things, we're going to be right with him. But at the same time, it's definitive right now. This is what we have going forward, and now let's build it as we continue. He's a unique talent. I wouldn't say we had completely different plans, but there are some different things that he does that we were working towards. It does help to know what you have."
On the diminishing possibility of Glenn Robinson III playing the three: "We never really got to that point. If we would have been able to been successful in that plan, we would have needed a whole September and October with Mitch playing in that situation and get him so we could at least get him some time over there. But we never really got to that because when he came back, the one position he really knew was the five. Those differences in position can be night and day in terms of our sets. So we never really got to that point other than him running a few things. We have been playing the way we played before all year long, virtually."
On imparting a Big Ten mentality to players who are about to play their first season in-conference: "The last two days of practice have been intense. Of course, anybody who watched those four games yesterday could see the intensity. We practiced for a while yesterday. We had film, we had weights, we had a lot of things going on yesterday. But you watch, you can see that there's another gear that everyone's in. It's not unlike what you see when you're getting ready to play Duke or go to Iowa State or playing Arizona at home. It's a similar type of thing. But now you know the opponent better now than you knew any of those teams. So there's certainly a renewed interest in playing hard. Now, you have to play hard or you won't survive."
On whether or not he's familiar with Richard Pitino: "Not really. Whatever's on film. I'm sure he has a lot of similarities to the way his father coaches, but at the same time, he's his own coach. They're going to play multiple defenses, they shoot as many threes as we do. You got great guard play, and that's really key for the way he's playing. Never coached against, obviously, Florida International or him personally, so we begin that process of scouting what he likes to do and what his staff likes to do."
On the emergence of Glenn Robinson III: "He had a full-court drive the other day against Holy Cross, that we've been urging him to do all year long. He's got this other gear, and he's getting closer and closer to using it more and more. All we're going to do is continue to encourage him to play a north-south game whether he has an open shot and he shoots it in or driving the ball under control full-court, and then defense, being a north-south player on defense. Guard your man and get in there and rebound. All those things. He's got these great gifts. He knows he has them, and it's up to him and our coaching staff to make sure he uses them even more."
On the importance of starting strong in the Big Ten given non-conference record: "I look at it differently. I look at it as, you have to win some road games, and you have to win almost all of them at home, if not all of them. I don't look at someone and say, okay, we're not opening up with the third, fourth, fifth-ranked teams in the country, I don't look at it like that at all. You've got to find ways to win on the road, and you're not going to be at the top of the Big Ten if you don't do that. And then you've got to win at home. That's all we really care about at this time and this is one opportunity, the first of nine opportunities to get one of these road wins. You get nine times to do it. And the successful teams are going to win between four and six on the road. If we get one, then we're closer to that. As long as you win at home, four to six wins on the road puts you on a championship level. Again, this year, when the parity is probably the best it's been."
On replacing McGary's energy: "There are very few that will be like Mitch. Mitch really has that fire. On the other hand, I've seen between Jordan and Jon, our two captains, I've seen that a bit. Glenn is more of a quieter leader, but he can say things. Your primary guys who have to be involved in this are your point guards. They have to be involved in being an asset verbally on the floor for you. We're looking at all those areas every day. That is a big replacement, because Mitch brought a lot of energy to our team."
On the roles of Nik Stauskas, Zak Irvin: "Zak Irvin, he's got to get to the foul line more. I don't know if he's got five or six foul shots, he doesn't have many, but one of those was him getting fouled on a 3-point shot. That's an emphasis and that's with most freshmen — you've got to get in there. Nik was like that. nik did get there a little bit more last year. But Nik's on course for 200 foul shots right now and Glenn's on course for 150. That would be really good years. We have to continue to emphasize that. People are going to play him more as a shooter, and we love his shooting. But he's got to get to foul line by driving, by getting 50-50 balls, by going after rebounds harder than he is right now. It's all part of the process."
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Fried Chicken Juggernaut Popeyes Will Open Flagship London Restaurant at Westfield Stratford
The chain follows hot on the heels of Wendy's in a U.S. fast food land-grab
by James Hansen@jameskhansen Sep 24, 2021, 8:45am BST
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The Popeyes fried chicken sandwich.
U.S. fried chicken juggernaut Popeyes has picked Westfield Stratford for its flagship London restaurant. It will open in November 2021, replacing a KFC, which is justice about as poetic as can be applied to large American fried chicken brands and their market wranglings. Popeyes's arrival in London is the prelude to a longer-term plan of covering the country in Louisiana-style fried chicken restaurants, with it shooting for around 350 in its initial announcement back in March.
There will be no concessions or changes to the U.K. market on the menu, which is best known for its tenders, nuggets, and a famous fried chicken sandwich. When it comes to further expansion, chief executive Tom Crowley said that "All our locations will be carefully chosen, in communities that echo the Louisianan spirit synonymous with Popeyes®." The London communities that echo the Louisianan spirit synonymous with Popeyes® will be revealed in due course.
It's not the first fried chicken giant to make a move on the U.K. in recent times. Chick-fil-A, the fried chicken sandwich chain with a history of funding anti-LGBTQ+ organisations, had its lease cancelled by Reading's Oracle Shopping centre just a week after opening, following sustained protest against its arrival in England. It also closed its Scotland restaurant in a Highlands hotel (??) January 2020, quietly retreating from the U.K.'s shores.
Popeyes, founded in New Orleans in 1972, has been lent a much kinder position in the broader fast food poptimism movement, despite questionable sourcing and labour practices, and that position has translated into the kind of brand pull that compels a transatlantic expansion.
Consider the Popeyes fried chicken sandwich mania of 2019, in which the New Yorker declared that the sandwich was "here to save America," while ICE raided the poultry plants that likely made its domination possible and Popeyes joined every other fast food brand in shouting about whose chicken sandwich slapped on Twitter. A local connoisseur will surely be intrigued to see how this new arrival fits into the fabric of London's chicken shop culture.
Its move — and confidence in expansion at a time when COVID-19 and Brexit are putting significant pressures on both labour and ingredient distribution — is another sign of how big American fast food chains have the infrastructure and capital to make these kind of pushes in deeply uncertain economic times for restaurants. Those chains's capital is often amassed at the expense of wages and labour protections for their workers and ethical practices in their supply chains; those chains' low prices make food engineered to taste as good as it can accessible to more people, especially those economically and socially excluded from other areas of restaurant culture
Headlines in spring 2020 even proclaimed Popeyes "immune" to coronavirus, despite outbreaks in meat plants being well-documented and the previous sandwich boom, a market fluctuation much less pronounced than a global pandemic, leaving workers facing extended hours, no breaks, and even attacks from customers. Popeyes did sign up to the "Better Chicken Commitment" in early 2021, which aims to improve welfare standards at large chains and supermarkets, and the flourishing of merited questioning of its infrastructure in 2019 needs to be put in the context of the racial history of fried chicken in America, and who gets to enjoy food without being under a microscope.
Ultimately, when Popeyes makes its way on to these shores, it will go from being a big player to a new arrival; it will arrive with uncertainty and heavy expectation as much as considerable clout and anticipation. To some, it is a long-feted arrival; to others, it is just another fast food joint.


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EWL Members Ruhama Supports Northern Ireland's Bill on Trafficking and Exploitation
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(Dublin 23 September) Ruhama Supports Northern Ireland's Bill on Trafficking and Exploitation
Ruhama strongly welcomes the Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Further Provisions and Support for Victims) Billhttp://www.niassembly.gov.uk/Assemb... which goes to second hearing at the Northern Ireland Assembly today.
The Bill, which was introduced by Lord Maurice Morrow, sets out a range of robust measures to strengthen existing legislation and improve Northern Ireland's efforts in combating human trafficking. In particular, Ruhama welcomes the focus on the demand in the sex trade and the inclusion of sanctions for the buyers of sexual services.
Gerardine Rowley, Policy and Communications Manager, Ruhama said: "Lord Morrow's Bill takes the courageous step in addressing the unequivocal role of sex buyers in creating a market for traffickers and pimps; contributing to the wide spread abuse of women."
This Bill before the Northern Ireland Assembly today is timely as the Irish Government has just concluded an extensive consultation process on the future direction of prostitution legislation in the Republic of Ireland. The subsequent report from the Joint Oireachtas Committee for Justice made unanimous recommendations in favour of criminalising the sex buyer. They also recommend that those in prostitution be protected from criminalisation, which reflects the provision made in Clause 6 of the Human Trafficking and Exploitation Bill.
Gerardine Rowley said: "When it comes to the sex trade, criminals don't respect any border and women are moved around the island of Ireland on a daily basis; as a frontline service supporting women, this is something that we have direct experience of. It is therefore crucial that an all island legislative approach is needed when tackling organised prostitution and sex trafficking."
Gerardine Rowley went on to say "We call on all parties in the Northern Ireland Assembly to support Lord Morrow's Bill and send out a clear message that the exploitation of women and girls in the sex trade will not be tolerated. We are very hopeful that similar legislation to tackle demand will also follow soon in the Dail."
Ruhama is a core group member of the Turn Off the Red Light campaign; a broad coalition of 68 organisations including violence against women services, unions, migrant support groups, men's and children's services, all calling on legislation to tackle demand in the Republic of Ireland. Ruhama and other members of the Turn Off the Red Light campaign have met with politicians from Northern Ireland since the introduction of Lord Morrow's Bill and will be in Stormont for today's hearing of the Bill.
To read the bill, please see here.
Ruhama is a Dublin based NGO, working with women affected by prostitution and sex trafficking. It service users includes women located in Northern Ireland's sex trade. www.ruhama.ie
Ruhama's submission to the Department of Justice (Republic of Ireland) on the future direction of prostitution legislation in Ireland – Auguest 2012 http://www.ruhama.ie/easyedit/files/dec12fullsubmissiontooireachtas%20Word.pdf
Review on Prostitution Legislation by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice – report published 27th June, 2013 and available here in 3 parts. http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/oireachtasbusiness/committees_list/jde-committee/reports/
Link to the Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Further Provisions and Support for Victims) Bill in Northern Ireland: http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/Assembly-Business/Legislation/Current-Non-Executive-Bill-Proposals/Human-Trafficking-and-Exploitation-Further-Provisions-and-Support-for-Victims-Bill-/


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SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME WILL HOLD OFF MATRIX 4, SING 2, AND THE KING'S MAN DURING CHRISTMAS WEEKEND
Spotlight on December 23, 2021 0Likes Shaan Singh
Given the 37.1 million it earned on Monday, Spider-Man: No Way Home should be between 325-350 million domestically today. The current worldwide box-office total stands a little under 700 million, so it should be gliding over F9 and Detective Chinatown 3 by Friday. It will continue to sail along to pass 1 billion dollars at some point over the holidays, but how far it can ascend remains the question. Unfortunately, the film will have to continue grossing without China (due to tense diplomatic affairs), which means it will not gain enough traction to combat the likes of Avengers: Infinity War, let alone challenge for a 2 billion dollar worldwide gross.
But, enough nitpicking. No Way Home is about to become challenged by a slew of films for the Christmas holidays (which includes The Matrix Resurrections, Sing 2, The King's Man, Licorice Pizza, The Tender Bar, American Underdog, and A Journal for Jordan). It's not unusual to release several features during the holidays as families will have more times on their hands for movie going. However, pandemic issues have made it difficult for many to sell tickets.
No Way Home will hold off Matrix 4 and Sing 2, with a 90-100 million sophomore weekend (62-66% drop). The question is who will take second place over the Christmas five-day weekend frame. The fourth installment of the Matrix is releasing simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max, while the sequel to 2016's Sing is staying exclusively in theaters.
It's been almost twenty years since the Wachowskis' sci-fi series left an impact at the theaters. This time, Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss return at the helm with some new supporting characters. Nostalgia is the big selling factor of this feature, plus the mixed-to-positive reception gained. Sing 2 will cater to kids and families, although the musical genre has stumbled painfully this year. Meanwhile, The King's Man serves as a prequel to the original back in 2014. Licorice Pizza, one of the best films of the year, rolls into theaters on Christmas Day.
Again, it appears as conventional Christmas roster, offering a little of something for everyone to see (aside from the usual eye-grabbing comic book adaptations). COVID cases are surging again, so that might impact the totals this coming weekend a little more than expected. Hey, at least it's not as atrocious compared to last year's, when Wonder Woman 1984 earned under 20 million in its opening weekend (88% less than its 2017 predecessor) and second-place News of the World nabbed 2.4 million.
Spider-Man and Co. will brighten the holidays.
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The Division 2 Offers More Replayability Than First Game
On Feb 11, 2019, by Talha Amjad
The Division was a great game but the end game content was not impressive and that is something that Ubisoft noticed. Once you finished the campaign and reached level 30, there was little left to do. The Division 2 has much better replayability as compared to the previous title. I was able to play the private beta and not only can you play different missions at different difficulties, but the endgame content changes those stages altogether.
The Division 2 private beta included an end game mission and it was interesting to see the changes and how the enemies scale. When you finish the game a different enemy faction is unlocked and just like The Division this enemy faction has access to military technology which can be very tricky to beat.
There was this one mission which was fairly simple at normal difficulty and was challenging with hard difficulty but when I played it as part of the end game, the new faction made things a lot harder and I found myself dying over and over if I was not careful. As part of the mission you had to go into a room an activate a computer.
At easy and hard difficulty the room is empty and all you have to do is push the button. When you return to the mission after you have finished the game and do it over again not only are there different types of enemies that are tougher, the same room is no full of enemies and there is a timer in which you have to keep the computer from being shut down. It might not sound like much but it is something that you need to experience in order to appreciate.
The enemies in The Division 2 are not as spongy as the previous titles and you will find killing normal enemies much easier. The time to kill and enemy health has been reduced. Your character can also heal over time which can make things easier but there are certain factors that can keep you from healing over time.
The Division 2 also introduces specializations and you can choose from different classes. Each specialization has its own specialization weapon and perks that will come in handy on the battlefield. All things considered, The Division 2 is highly replayable and I will be playing the game at launch.
The first year content is going to be free and if you get the game with the season pass then you will only be able to play it a week earlier as compared to the players that did not buy the season pass and went for the standard edition of the game.
Let us know what you think about The Division 2 and whether or not you are interested in playing the game when it releases on March 15th.
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For many of us, choosing whether to get saline or silicone breast implants will not be an easy task—I know that it wasn't for me.
It's a little like asking me whether I want cake or pie.
Both are great, but tomorrow I might want something different than I do today. Give me 10 options and I can easily narrow it down to 2... but give me 2 options, and that's where I hesitate.
This is where a handy pro/con list came into play. The list was close. Almost too close. For me, the deciding factor came down to ruptures or leaks. It's a real possibility, and when that day comes, which will I feel the most comfortable with?
I knew if I had a leak with a silicone implant, it would probably be a "silent leak." This is where the implant doesn't rapidly deflate, but slowly leaks out over time. Sometimes the silicone will stay in the capsule, but sometimes it doesn't.
Being the borderline hypochondriac that I am, I knew I would constantly worry that a potentially harmful substance was leaking into my body.
In the event that I do have a rupture, my body knows how to safely absorb the solution.
I try to live my life as healthy, and organic as I can. I have a little garden, love local foods, work out 4-5 times a week, and juice for dinner a few nights a week... you get the idea.
Since I am very intentional about my lifestyle, I wanted my breast implants to mirror that part of my life.
Knowing that my body will definitely be ok if my breast implants ruptures gives me a wonderful peace of mind.
This really comes down to personal preference. In general, most silicone implants will have a feel that is more like natural breast tissue compared to saline implants.
Understandably, some women would prefer to know immediately if there was a leak or rupture of an implant, in which case saline may be the better option for the reasons that Jenny mentioned.
That being said, it's very rare that a silicone implant ever ruptures, and there are no harmful effects if that were to happen by some chance.
Now that we have Ideal (structured) implant, there is a good option for women who prefer the peace of mind of saline, but also want a more natural feel to the implant.
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The bus network in Vietnam is extensive and covers most of the country. There are major terminals in most provinces which serve both local and interprovincial bus routes. There are many private bus companies operating throughout the country, and in larger cities and major tourist destinations such as Hanoi, Danang and Ho Chi Minh City there are public bus services run by the cities' Department of Transport.
Bus (buýt) services usually run between 05:00-18:00, although some routes may operate until 20:00. Buses are usually manned by two members of staff – the driver and a ticket inspector. Tickets may be bought from the bus station or from the ticket inspector. Staff working on Vietnamese buses are unlikely to speak English so many foreigners take a slip of paper with their destination written on to show when purchasing a ticket for a bus journey. Local buses are cheap, although they are often very crowded and do not have air-conditioning.
Express interprovincial coach services are usually large, modern and comfortable. Many provide free Wi-Fi, TV and water facilities. Some coach companies also have their own rest stations with restaurants and shops along the route. Tickets should be bought from the registered ticket booths at the bus terminal.
Children under the age of five travel free of charge and tickets are half price for children between the ages of five and ten. Discounted monthly tickets are also available for regular users.
Most coaches are not equipped with facilities for disabled passengers, although some special services are available on some routes.
Taxis are a convenient and popular means of transportation in Vietnam, especially for foreigners. They operate in all of the big cities and can also run to rural areas. Reputable taxi firms always carry a logo on the top of the car.


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Q: how to handle server being down when piping curl to grep I am trying to write a script to query a web server API and check for a value but I am having trouble trying to figure out how to best go about it. So far what I am doing is using curl to get a response and then piping that to grep to look for a pattern. If the pattern exist, I do one thing, if not, I do another.
if curl http://192.168.1.2:8080/api/query | grep -q mypattern; then
    echo "success"
    else echo "boo"
fi

But if the server is down I don't know how to handle that neatly because the server being down produces the same result as not finding the pattern. What I want to happen is for curl to keep making the request until the server responds and then grep the result. I know I could probably do it but it will be very kludgy. One thought was a loop to curl first until the exit code is 0 but I'm sure there is a more practical way. Any ideas?

A: Try this:
#!/bin/bash

n=5              # number of times to try.

testserver(){
    read server mypattern <<<"$@"   # read values of server and pattern
    try=1                           # lets start with try number 1.

    while (( try++ < n )); do       # have tried enough times?
        test="$(curl --max-time 10 "$server" 2>/dev/null)"
        (( $? == 0 )) &&            # If the connection was valid.
        [[ "$test" =~ "$mypattern" ]] && echo "success" && break 1
        sleep 5m                    # wait a little before trying again.
    done
}

testserver "http://192.168.1.2:8080/api/query" "SomeStringToTest"

A: This doesn't seem too kludgy:
if while ! curl http://192.168.1.2:8080/api/query; do sleep 1; done |
    grep -q mypattern; then
    echo "success"
fi

you might want to limit the number of time you call curl.  You could do that with something like:
i=0; if while test $((i++)) -lt 4 && ! curl ...

A: One can use $PIPESTATUS:
#!/bin/bash
if curl http://192.168.1.2/api/query | grep -q mypattern; then
  echo "Found pattern"
elif [ "${PIPESTATUS[0]}" -eq 0 ]; then
  echo "Server up"
else
  echo "Server down"
fi

A: curl has an inbuilt timeout status, with a dedicated exit code (28).
From the documentation:

--connect-timeout <seconds>
              Maximum time in seconds that  you  allow  curl's  connection  to
              take.   This  only  limits the connection phase, so if curl con-
              nects within the given period it will continue - if not it  will
              exit.  Since version 7.32.0, this option accepts decimal values.

.....

28     Operation  timeout.  The  specified  time-out period was reached
              according to the conditions.

So you could script the main loop like this:
#!/bin/bash
#mypattern.sh example

query="$1"
mypattern="$2"
dogrep () {

if (grep -q "$mypattern" /tmp/result);
    then
        echo "success"
    else
        echo "boo"
fi
}

curl -s --connect-timeout 5 "$query" -o /tmp/result

curlresult="$?"

case "$curlresult" in
"0") dogrep ; exit ;;
"28") echo "Could not connect to server" ; exit ;;
*) echo "something else went wrong" ; exit ;;
esac

*

*$1 is the API URL

*$2 is the pattern

Example Results:
bash: >./mypattern.sh "http://google.com" "The document has moved"
success

bash: >./mypattern.sh "http://google.com" "The document has movde"
boo

bash: >./mypattern.sh "http://fjbdjhf" "The document has moved"
something else went wrong

bash: >./mypattern.sh "http://real.server.address.that.is.down" "The document has moved"
Could not connect to server

In the above:

*

*Example 1: Successful connection, and successful pattern match

*Example 2: Successful connection, and no pattern match

*Example 3: Not even a real server, this is the exception case

*Example 4: Real server, but cannot connect, times out in 5 seconds

I'm sure this could be perfected to some degree more to your specific requirements if you tweaked the conditions of the server being down.

*

*In this example case:
"server being down" means that the host resolves to a real address, and the connection attempt is not otherwise rejected within 5 seconds.

*

*If this were an API address on the internet, then a simple ping check to your ISP gateway in there to verify connectivity to the internet in general, plus the 5 second timeout would cover pretty accurately a server being effectively down.

*In your case, being on a LAN, you'll have to work out what exact conditions mean the server is down, but this template breaks up the parts enough to make it simple to accomodate those various factors.

A: while ! CURL_OUT="$(curl http://192.168.1.2:8080/api/query)"; do
    sleep 5
done
if echo "$CURL_OUT" | grep -q mypattern ; then
    echo "success"
else
    echo "boo"
fi

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Jin Jun Mei, a "child of the current millennium", is a high grade black tea from Fujian's Wuyi Mountains, with only the buds and attached youngest leaf being picked for this tea. Our Wild Zheng Shan Jin Jun Mei is handpicked in a widely untouched bamboo forest, located at 1100-1500m altitude in Wuyishan's 'Zheng Shan' area, and mostly manually processed. Its exceptional taste is coined by a spicy sweetness and a broad spectrum of pleasant and unobtrusive roast notes.
For more information and illustrations please refer to the detailed product description below.
The unsually high mineral content of soils has earned the Oolong teas the former volcanic Wuyishan is best known for besides its (Lapsang) black teas the designation as as 'rock teas'. Tea from the Wuyi core area ('Zheng Shan') had been greatly valued at the imperial court as a 'tribute tea' since the time of the Tang dynasty and – where reaching the market at all – used to be traded at highest prices in those times. The nutrient-rich soils of Wuyishan are responsible for a particularly high content of vitamins and minerals, while at the same time coining the characteristic and highly individual taste and aroma profile of Wuyi 'Zhengshan' teas.
The special terroir – both the soil and the climate produced by the steep cliffs safeguarding Wushishaa n's core area from the onset of outside wind and wheather – today is protected through 'UNESCO World Heritage' status. The protection relates to the fields nature, landscape and culture, whereas the UNESCO has defined several zones with different levels of protection and individual weighting of the above-mentioned fields. The zone with the greatest scope of protection is the actual Wuyi core area, the so-called 'Zheng Shan' areal.
The village of Tong Mu, located in Wuyishan's zhengshan areal, has been known for its most special black teas coined by the Wuyi terroir. Especially Lapsang Souchong has gained worldwide fame through mentionings in reputed classic novels as well as through its special type of processing that is unique within the world of black teas. The idea to bestow higher picking standards (pure buds, 1+1 or 1+2) of tea picked from the Bohea variety prevalent aroung Tong Mu village and the mountain with the same name, from which also Lapsang Souchong ist produced, with a name – and thereby an identity – of their own, is just as young as the current millennium. In order to understand, why such distinction became necessary in the first place, we'll have to take a somewhat bigger and throw some light on the historical background and development of Lapsang Souchong at first.
The discovery of Lapsang Souchong tea, in the West today one of the most commonly known terms of Chinese tea culture, according to legend is owed to mere coincidence: at the times of the Qing dynasty, China's last imperial dynasty lasting from 1644-1912, the inhabitants of the village Tongmu, located at famous Wuyi mountain in the Chinese province of Fujian, were once forced by some odd circumstances to dry their tea leaves much quicker than usual. To achieve this, they decided to heat the tea leaves over the hearth fire of burning pine wood. The resulting strong smoke aroma and flavor proved to greatly camouflage the the less desirable taste features of the used, basically low quality (third or fourth grade) tea leafes of the local Wuyi Bohea subvariety. Moreover, the smoke aroma and flavor made this tea something special, i.e. a specialty, which quickly established a a popular variant among Westerners, while Lapsang Souchong was long considered a "poor-man's-tea" among the Chinese themselves. So initially, too produce the actual original Lapsang Souchong, preferably minor quality tea leaves (a possible meaning of "Souchong" is 4th and 5th leaf) were smoke-dried over fires of fresh-cut pine wood.
The scene underwent drastic change, when Tongmu village in 1979 was declared a Word Heritage Area by the UNESCO: the value of the cropland withing the borders of the UNESCO protection zone multiplied within no time, making the cultivation of lower quality tea unprofitable and effecting a shift towards the cultivation of higher quality tea in general. Part of the set of restrictions coming with the World Heritage Site status was a strict ban on any pesticide use within the UNESCO protection zone, meaning another contribution to higher selectivity of crop and processing quality, but naturally also a desirable health and environment-friendly warranty seen from the perspective of aware consumers and environmentalists.
The production of Lapsang tea in the village of Tongmu and the surrounding mountains has mainly developed into two directions since: once Lapsang "Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong", both sticking to the classic processing scheme and at the same time upgrading it by using higher quality tea and leaf grades as well as a more restrained smoking process, and since the 1990's the development of a new branch, Lapsang Jin Jun Mei, for which only the young spring buds of the Bohea tea plant are picked and then smoked gently in the further processing, in order to enrich the superior taste and aroma qualities of this tea by a decent note rather than overlaying it. You will find a detailed comparison of both development branches of Lapsang tea in our pertinent Siam Tea Blog article Lapsang Souchong, Zheng Shan Xiao Zhong, Lapsang Jin Jun Mei – all the same?.
Wild Zheng Shan Jin Jun Mei, a well-qualified member of our 'Biodiversi-TEA' line, is the product of a small settlement in Zhengshan area, counting no more than about 50 inhabitants, who organized in an agricultural cooperative, where labor and gains are shared equally between the members. Part of the areals farmed by the cooperative is a widely untouched bamboo forest located at 1100-1500m altitude on Tong Mu mountain, where more than 100 years old bushes of the Bohea tea variety grow dispersed among the bamboo trees and other shrubs and weeds in a biodiverse environment. Their leaves are traditionally processed to black teas such as Lapsang Souchong by the cooperative, with the best picking standards now mostly reserved for the production of Jin Jun Mei.
Wild Zheng Shan Jin Jun Mei is picked with a '1+1' picking standard, meaning that only the young bud with its pertaining youngest leaf are (hand-) picked in the traditional way. Also, most of the processing inthis cooperative is still done just like centuries ago: withering of the freshly plucked tea leaves – mechanical rolling for breaking up the leaf surfaces and initiate the oxidation process – oxidizing to the desired degree of oxidation – roasting in a wok pan over charcoal fire for fixation, in this case with very little smoke development due to the use of well-dried pine wood.
The dry leaves have an evenly dark color, contrasted by the golden color of individual tips. Fragrance and taste are reminiscent of that of the sweet Longan fruit native to China and hardly show any loss even with long storage periods. Rather, the fragrance even intisifies with time, while the broad, but never obtrusive roast aroma will lose edge with time, making the overall taste of Wild Jin Jun Mei appear ever softer, given proper dry storage. Due to the wild character of Wild Zheng Shan Jin Jun Mei, this tea contains far higher concetrations of both vitamins and amino acids than conventionally cultivated tea. Both is contributing to this tea's characteristic, full-bodied taste that friends of mild and sweet Dian Hong teas or stronger Keemun or Assam teas will similarly embrace.
both teas show very individual – though similarly amicable – taste profiles also due to their different picking standard (1+1 vs. pure buds).
While our Lapsang Jin Jun Mei Golden Eyebrows is dominated by a fruity-sweet not combined with strong roast aromas, there's a mild and malty sweetness prevailing in the Wild Zheng Shan Jin Jun Mei, accentuated by a broad, but nevertheless unobtrusive roast note that fits perfectly harmonious into the tea's overall taste profile.
The best approach to the preparation of Wild Zheng Shan Jin Jun Mei 1+1 is by using the most common standard for preparing quality Chinese black teas: pour 200-350ml water of a temperature of 90+°C over 3-5g dry tea leaves and let infuse 2-3 minutes according to personal preference. Depending on infusion time and dosaging, Wild Zheng Shan Jin Jun Mei has the potential for 2-3 delicious infusions (second infuison: 3-4 minutes, third infusion: 5 minutes).
Delicious tea! Prepared western style as directed. I'm not a tea connoisseur, but I am a huge fan of great tea and this one is very smooth and has a sweetness to it that is unlike any tea I've tried before. I like a full bodied tea and prefer Pu Erhs… but I LIKE this tea!
I would characterise this tea as possessing refinement; more subtle and restrained than some of the bolder Fujian or Dianhong black teas. There are chocolate and malt tones, and a very subtle background smokiness, which, in this tea, enhances its character. Very happy that I ordered this tea.


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STRIKE WHILE THE IRON'S HOT: After almost an entire year on strike, SAG-AFTRA and the studios it named in its grievance have come to a tentative deal, thusly ending the video game voice actors' strike. But what was agreed to? What does this mean for the future of voice actors and game development going forward? Andrew and D. Bethel talk it out.
RELATED EPISODES & LINKS:
Episode 112 – "God King Teddy Roosevelt" – in which D. Bethel and Andrew discuss the breaking voice actors' strike.
Worth A Look #11 – Where D. Bethel links to an article from Vice's Waypoint that breaks down the voice actors' strike.
Despite saying "We don't talk about that" when referencing Konami's upcoming Metal Gear Survive, that game has been discussed on numerous occasions:
Bethel, Dan. "News Blast: Metal Gear Survive." This discusses the announcement trailer from Gamescom 2016.
Episode 105 – "Conditional Evil": When both D. and Andrew discuss that reveal trailer (starts at 25:36)
Episode 107 – "Spock's Screams": When D. talks about watching the gameplay footage released from the game (starts at 22:03).
WORKS REFERENCED:
"SAG-AFTRA Reaches Tentative Agreement to End Video Game Strike." SAGAFTRA.org, 25 September 2017.
Sarkar, Samit. "Voice Actors, Video Game Makers Reach Tentative Agreement." Polygon. Vox Media, 25 September 2017.
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"The Ongoing Voice Actor's Strike is More Than Just a Little Drama" by Ian Williams via Waypoint
Source: SAG-AFTRA
It may surprise some reading this that the voice actor's strike against the video game industry is still in effect. We discussed it back in October on Episode 112, around when it started, and even though the media coverage around it has died down, many voice actors are still struggling to get their voices heard, pardon the pun. In fact, the loudest spike I've heard on the incident since that initial furor was at the beginning of December during the 2016 Video Game Awards. Video game voice actor monolith, Nolan North, won the award for Best Performance through his work on Naughty Dog's Uncharted 4: A Thief's End and had some choice words to say about the strike, albeit in vague––and, perhaps, surprising––terms:
Ian William's article highlights the major developments that have happened since the strike began, but a point relevant to North's speech stuck out to me. This strike is not about voice actor vs. developer––let's be honest, each needs the other. However, North sees it this way, as do many others, and it makes me wonder if this narrative is constructed by certain parties or one that organically surfaced due to the limited media attention as well as general reader ignorance of how games are made. Perhaps it's both. Either way, this false conflict between developer and performer isn't good for either side and, especially, for the creative side of the industry as a whole:
"I know who wins the battle between game developers and voice actors. It's the game corporations." -Keythe Farley, National Chair of the Interactive Negotiating Committee
While the plight of voice actors in video games have been only recently brought to light through the strike (and mostly forgotten), a highly visible topic over the last five years or so has been the rather horrible working conditions developers have to slog through to get games done. From the frightening revelations of the dying giant, Konami, to the recent issue of Crytek employees not getting paid for months only to have the company shut down a bunch of its studios once the news went public (which highly reeked of the almost immediate implosion that was 38 Studios). However, if the voice actors can get the deals they need to be able to do their best work, it could be the first step the industry needs to reconstruct as a whole. The squeaky wheels get the grease, but a smart mechanic realizes it may be indicative of a larger problem.
"My Name is Ozymandias" by Bill Coberly via The Ontological Geek.
Not to get somber, but Bill Coberly's article hits on something I think we're only going to see more of as, especially, my generation extends into old(er) age. A big aspect of our parents' culture that my culture (basically Generation X and Millennials) have rejected is the idea that the things which brought us joy as children must be abandoned to be successful or healthy as adults. Some people fully embrace all of nerd culture and plaster their homes and themselves completely in things that they loved as children (tattoos of cartoon characters, clothes patterned with triforces, or shelves lined with Marvel toys, for example), others have that one activity––playing video games, reading comic books, loving science fiction––that they bring with them into adulthood, expectations be damned. As time moves on, more and more people will have experiences like Coberly did with his father. "My Name is Ozymandias" is a touching piece about Coberly finding save files for Civilization IV on his father's computer after his father died. His dad was a "normal" guy whose "quirk" (by old world standards, that is) was that he loved strategy games and RPGS, and apparently played Civ IV nigh obsessively. The piece is a powerful reflection on their relationship, how games unite father and son, and what to do with the digital data left behind for survivors.
This last aspect is incredibly interesting because save files are, in essence, verbs in stasis. They are records of us doing something and stopping so that we can come back later and pick up from where we left off to continue to do. In this case, the "do" is to play Civ IV.
Screenshot of Civilization IV. Source: Ontological Geek
Coberly inadvertently points to a larger cultural place video games (and other sundry nerdy things) will inevitably play in family relations. There may be, if not games, then franchises or love for a genre that may be passed on from parent to child. Or, perhaps, even save files. I think of games built around crafting and creation––can servers of Minecraft be part of a heritage? Can we inherit the hard drive with my mother's Steam library downloaded on to it?
While not involving a death, I have had a moment where video games, in this case, played a particularly powerful role in my relationship with my father. My dad is decidedly "old school." He does not dalliance with video games beyond Tetris or Spider Solitaire. When he was young, he buried himself in the science fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Ross Macdonald's world of crime and detection and expressed himself by drawing Martian vistas and alien women in gauzy veils that hugged their curves. But he abandoned most of that with maturity. By the time he was my father, he was an academic of philosophy and history, and was nerdy about them as long as they were huge books with full indices and academic references.
I took a chance one day as he was up visiting my wife and me for a weekend. As mentioned, my dad is a history buff, especially of California transportation––especially of Los Angeles, where he was born and raised. Having played through Rockstar's L.A. Noire, and knowing how much effort they put into recreating late 1940s Los Angeles, I figured he would at least have fun tearing it apart as I drove around in old cars and showed him a digitized version of his former home.
My dad actually has memories of when L.A. actually looked like this. Source: Rockstar Games
The following was a comment I wrote on the defunct gaming website, Known Griefers, as a response to their question: What is a game that you have bonded with family over? It has been edited for grammar and accuracy.
My dad was born in 1940 in Hollywood, CA. Late 1940s & 1950s L.A. was his stomping ground and he remembers it fondly. He became a professor of philosophy and taught that for forty years before retiring to become a professional historian of none other than 1920s-1950s L.A. When he drives through L.A., he sees none of the modern desolation that has descended upon that city. Instead, he still sees bright trolley cars clanging their bells down the street and dudes who wear fedoras and three-piece suits while Duesenbergs and Hudsons grumble down the street in jet-black finishes.
Basically, my dad still imagines an L.A. Noire world. So, having played the game extensively, I nervously asked him if he wanted to see a video game I owned last time he visited. He begrudgingly agreed and as soon as the game loaded and the city opened up on my television, any hint of skepticism evaporated. We looked at as many cars as possible and he drove me around the city on memory alone. We wandered through the lobby of Union Station and even got up to the rail yards. We scoped out the Hall of Records and tried to get into the Roosevelt Hotel, but couldn't. While it isn't an exact replica of the city (we tried to find his aunt's house, to no avail), it was pretty damned good, enough for an old man to nearly be brought to tears by it, as if he were looking out a younger pair of his own eyes at the city he once saw so clearly and now only sees in nostalgic visits. If I had any complaints about the game (which were very few), they lost any validity because of the game's ability to make my dad experience something he never thought he'd get a chance to do again.
While not a lineage passed down from one generation to the next like Coberly experienced, this is an instance of a "new" technology, a "nerd" technology, one pushed off as "childish" and "immature" really helped strengthen the bond between father and son in a way––and I say this without hyperbole––no other medium could have done and it will be something I never forget.
Episode 112 – God King Teddy Roosevelt
WEEK IN GEEK: Andrew steps into a new reality when he tries out PlaystationVR with the help and aid of friend-of-the-show, Taylor Katcher, while Dan starts watching ABC's new procedural show, Conviction, which he instead considers to be a time-travel continuation of Agent Carter, which also starred Hayley Atwell.
I KNOW THAT VOICE: A week ago, voice actors in the SAG-AFTRA union strike against major video game developers in the hopes of renegotiating contracts for voice acting in video games. Dan and Andrew investigate.
SWITCHEROO: Nintendo released a trailer for their long-speculated, highly anticipated new console, the Nintendo Switch. Andrew and Dan examine the possibilities that seem to be promised in the trailer and whether Nintendo can make good on them.
Let us know your thoughts about this week's topics by leaving a comment at forallintents.net. Join the official Facebook page for links, updates, and conversations with other listeners. Subscribe to the show on iTunes and leave a review to help spread the word. Also be sure to check out and subscribe to our official YouTube channel.
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-"Sogno di Volare ('The Dream of Flight')" by Christopher Tin (from Civilization VI)
-"Troops March On" by Nobuo Uematsu (from Final Fantasy VI)
-"Ha Ha Ha Ha (Yeah)" by White Denim
-"The End (Reprise)" by Jack Wall & Sam Hulick (from Mass Effect)


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package orm

import (
	"fmt"
	"reflect"
)

type m2mModel struct {
	*sliceTableModel
	baseTable *Table
	rel       *Relation

	buf       []byte
	dstValues map[string][]reflect.Value
	columns   map[string]string
}

var _ tableModel = (*m2mModel)(nil)

func newM2MModel(join *join) *m2mModel {
	baseTable := join.BaseModel.Table()
	joinModel := join.JoinModel.(*sliceTableModel)
	dstValues := dstValues(joinModel, baseTable.PKs)
	m := &m2mModel{
		sliceTableModel: joinModel,
		baseTable:       baseTable,
		rel:             join.Rel,

		dstValues: dstValues,
		columns:   make(map[string]string),
	}
	if !m.sliceOfPtr {
		m.strct = reflect.New(m.table.Type).Elem()
	}
	return m
}

func (m *m2mModel) NewModel() ColumnScanner {
	if m.sliceOfPtr {
		m.strct = reflect.New(m.table.Type).Elem()
	} else {
		m.strct.Set(m.table.zeroStruct)
	}
	m.structTableModel.NewModel()
	return m
}

func (m *m2mModel) AddModel(model ColumnScanner) error {
	m.buf = modelIdMap(m.buf[:0], m.columns, m.baseTable.ModelName+"_", m.baseTable.PKs)
	dstValues, ok := m.dstValues[string(m.buf)]
	if !ok {
		return fmt.Errorf("pg: can't find dst value for model id=%q", m.buf)
	}

	for _, v := range dstValues {
		if m.sliceOfPtr {
			v.Set(reflect.Append(v, m.strct.Addr()))
		} else {
			v.Set(reflect.Append(v, m.strct))
		}
	}

	return nil
}

func (m *m2mModel) AfterQuery(db DB) error {
	if !m.rel.JoinTable.Has(AfterQueryHookFlag) {
		return nil
	}

	var retErr error
	for _, slices := range m.dstValues {
		for _, slice := range slices {
			err := callAfterQueryHookSlice(slice, m.sliceOfPtr, db)
			if err != nil && retErr == nil {
				retErr = err
			}
		}
	}
	return retErr
}

func (m *m2mModel) AfterSelect(db DB) error {
	return nil
}

func (m *m2mModel) BeforeInsert(db DB) error {
	return nil
}

func (m *m2mModel) AfterInsert(db DB) error {
	return nil
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OpenStack continues to conquer the corporate environment. At present, the complex, which unites several Open Source projects and serves the creation of infrastructure of cloud services and cloud storage, operates in 75 public data centers and thousands of private clouds, scaling by 10 million computing cores. However, as noted by the portal ZDNet, OpenStack always pursued two problems - a problematic transfer from one version to another, as well as difficulties with deployment on servers without pre-installed OS, or bare metal. Recently released version of OpenStack 18 Rocky is aimed at eliminating the accumulated shortcomings, as well as introducing new opportunities.
OpenStack open source cloud has always worked well on various hardware architectures - virtual machines (VMs), graphics processors, containers and physical servers, but, as already mentioned, the deployment of OpenStack on bare metal was accompanied by complexities. To simplify this, the OpenStack Ironic service has gained new and improved capabilities for management and automation. In turn, the OpenStack Compute (Nova) service, which is responsible for creating, starting, restarting, stopping the VM, has got support for servers without OSs-that is, users can manage the physical infrastructure in the same way that they manage the VM.
Among other improvements Ironic can include the following:
• User BIOS settings: The BIOS is used to initialize the hardware and has many configuration options that support various configuration options. Among other things, they can improve performance, configure power management settings, or enable technologies such as SR-IOV or the Data Plane Development Kit. Ironic is also responsible for configuring the virtualization of network functions;
• Groups of conductors: by conductor in Ironic is a service that uses drivers to perform operations on the equipment. The new version of OpenStack has the property conductor group that imposes restrictions on the access of nodes to a specific conductor. This allows users to isolate nodes based on their physical location, which reduces network junctions and increases the security and performance of connections;
• RAM interface for disk deployment: Ironic has a new interface for diskless deployments, which can be useful for scalable and high-performance computing. The interface is needed to create instances and quickly deploy large-scale work environments.
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English teacher opens up mini library in classroom
Braden Ward
Senior Xavier Adams browses Katie Anderson's catalog of books on Sept. 20, 2019.
Braden Ward, Staff Writer
2019 Teacher of the Year Katie Anderson has built up a large collection of books over the past two years.
"I had a bookshelf last year in my room. I had been bringing in books for students for independent reading," said Anderson. "I decided to make it a permanent fixture in my classroom."
Students can check books in and out of her mini library by utilizing the QR codes posted above the bookshelves. There are multiple genres of books such as young adult fiction, nonfiction, "classics," and contemporary fiction.
"I have a lot of contemporary fiction that tends to be popular," said Anderson. "Students really like to read Stephen King and James Patterson."
Many of these books are used at the beginning of her classes, where she allots time for students to read for personal enjoyment.
"I'm hoping to continue to grow the collection," said Anderson.
Braden Ward, Commentary Editor
Braden Ward is a third year journalist and currently serves as the commentary editor for The Current. Braden plays for the school's baseball team and hopes...


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Topics: Divorce & Remarriage, Uncategorized
A Christian Vision of Marriage and Family, Part 1
Dr. Mohler is the President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a council member for CBMW. This post originally appeared at AlbertMohler.com on May 17, 2006.
[Dr. Mohler is the President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a council member for CBMW. This post originally appeared at AlbertMohler.com on May 17, 2006.]
"For the first time inits history, Western civilization is confronted with the need to define the meaning of the terms 'marriage'and 'family.'" So states author Andreas J. Kostenberger who, with the assistance of David W. Jones has written God, Marriage, and Family: Rebuilding the Biblical Foundation.
This sense of crisis and the need for definition sets the stage for this book and its central thesis—that the only way out of our present cultural confusion is a return to a biblical vision of marriage and family.
As Kostenberger observes,"What until now has been considered a 'normal' family, made up of afather, a mother, and a number of children, has in recent years increasingly begun to be viewed as one among several options, which can no longer claim to be the only or even superior form of ordering human relationships. The Judeo-Christian view of marriage and the family with its roots in the Hebrew Scriptures has to a certain extent been replaced with a set of values that prizes human rights, self-fulfillment, and pragmatic utility on an individual and societal level. It can rightly be said that marriage and the family are institutions under seige in our world today, and that with marriage and the family, our very civilization is in crisis."
In one sense, the statistics tell the story. The great social transformation of the last two hundred years has led to an erosion of the family and the franchising of its responsibilities. The authority of the family, especially that of the parents, has been compromised through the intrusion of state authorities, cultural influences, and social pressure. Furthermore, the loss of a biblical understanding of marriage and family has led to a general weakening of the institution, even among those who would identify themselves as believing Christians.
At the cultural level, Kostenberger suggests that the rise of a libertarian ideology explains the elevation of human freedom and a right to self-determination above all other principles and values. The quest for autonomy becomes the central purpose of human life, and any imposition of structure, accountability, boundaries, or restriction is dismissed as repressive and backward.
Within the Christian church, Kostenberger discerns what he identifies as a "lack of commitment to seriously engage the Bible as a whole." As he correctly observes, evangelical Christianity has no shortage of Bible studies, media production, parachurch ministries, and the like. Yet, most Christians are woefully unaware of the deep biblical, theological, and spiritual foundations for marriage and the family that are central to the Christian tradition.
"Anyone stepping into a Christian or general bookstore will soon discover that while there is a plethora of books available on individual topics, such as marriage, singleness, divorce and remarriage, and homosexuality, there is very little material that explores on a deeper, more thoroughgoing level the entire fabric of God's purposes for human relationships," he observes. To fill this void, Kostenberger and Jones, along with Mark Liederbach, who contributed sections on contraception and reproductive technologies, attempt to offer an integrative approach that would establish a biblical theology of marriage and family. The primary focus of Scripture, they assert, is "the provision of salvation by God in and through Jesus Christ." Nevertheless, the Bible also addresses an entire spectrum of issues related to marriage and the family—extended to issues such as human sexuality, gender, reproduction, parenthood, and more.
Kostenberger and his co-authors begin their consideration of marriage and family in the book of Genesis, establishing the starting point for these considerations in the doctrine of creation. Throughout the volume, a complementarian understanding of the relationship between men and women is affirmed, and the man and the woman, both created in the image of God, are assigned different responsibilities and roles.
Early in the book, Kostenberger makes an audacious claim: "Our sex does not merely determine the form of our sex organs but is an integral part of our entire being." This flies in the face of the postmodern claim that gender—indeed the very notions of male and female—are nothing more than the product of social construction and ideology. This complementarian arrangement is correctly grounded before the Fall and its consequences.
Yet, Kostenberger gives careful attention to the effect of the Fall and the consequences that follow. Thus, sin and its effects becomes the explanatory principle for all confusion over gender, sexuality, marriage, and the integrity of the family.


Kirin Sinha, 25, is the founder and CEO of Illumix, a Lightspeed and Maveron backed AR gaming and technology company focused on developing adaptive and immersive experiences for the mobile phone. Previously, she founded SHINE for Girls, a national nonprofit targeted at encouraging middle school girls to pursue the study of mathematics. Not your typical gamer or CEO, Kirin is a Marshall Scholar and holds Masters degrees with honors in mathematics and statistics.


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If one was to conceive of an excellent all-purpose fullsize revolver today, what would it look like? It would be first durable, and reliable, have 6 or 7 shots, and be chambered in .357 Magnum, allowing the use of .38 Specials, of course. It would also be very accurate, and have an action that would be hard-wearing, and would maintain its smooth, manageable trigger over a long time.
As you are probably already thinking, this revolver is not a fantasy. There have been many legendarily excellent wheelguns come and go over the years, but few have codified the modern revolver as well as the Ruger GP100 and Smith & Wesson Model 686.
Aside from being two of the most common among fullsize revolvers, both are renowned for their accuracy and reliability. Argument rages this very second over which is superior. Is either superior to the other, or is this one of the classic "six of one, half dozen of the other" arguments? In this article, I'll examine the strengths and flaws of each and let you decide.
The 686 is mostly a refinement of the S&W's iconic revolver pedigree, established with their K/L frame revolvers. The frame, cylinder release, sideplate, and crane arrangement are unmistakably S&W. In this instance, the L frame of the 686 denotes a medium-large frame, and is typical of modern, fullsize .357 Magnum offerings from Smith & Wesson. The 686 first debuted in the 1980's alongside the Model 581, 586 and 681.
Since then, there have been several design revisions tweaking and changing things about various components in the gun. While a few iterations have been controversial, like the internal keyed locking system added in the early 2000's, the 686 shows the considerable refinement that Smith & Wesson is known for, and enjoys terrific popularity.
The GP100 is descended from one of the most loved and successful U.S. service revolvers in history, Ruger's own Security Six. Drawing from that gun as a basis, and blending a little DNA from its cousin, the .44 Magnum Redhawk, Ruger created something new: a robustly framed service revolver, one with no sideplate (like the Security Six) and featuring triple-locking of the cylinder, thanks to the lever arrangement of the crane borrowed from the Redhawk.
In addition, Ruger dispensed with the traditional design of the grip on the frame, and instead created a sort of peg that holds the mainspring and hammer strut, and allows great flexibility in the size of grips, large or small, to be installed.
Now that we have gotten to know our contestants a little bit better, let's get our scorecards out and compare pertinent features.
Today, you will find no great advantage of one over the either when looking at variety. Both manufacturers offer 6 and 7 shot versions. Both can be had with long or short barrels. Either are available in enhanced trim, with smoothed actions, accurized barrels and extended or smoothed controls, though Smith & Wesson has more custom variants available than Ruger from the factory, with their Performance Center lineup.
Models with short barrels, aggressively textured grips and combat sights are available from either maker, and would be fine guns for general concealed carry. Longer barreled models with tuned actions can take full advantage of the .357 Magnum and give great performance as a hunting or home-defense gun.
Whatever role you are looking to fill with a fullsize revolver, be it hunting, concealed carry, or general defense, both the 686 and GP100 have models to suit the task.
The 686 is what you might call more of a traditionalist's revolver: as mentioned above, its design is an echo of classic S&W heritage. It features a sideplate on the stainless-steel frame which is removed for service and disassembly, a conventional grip arrangement, and a flat mainspring.
Components in the fire control and rest of the gun are likewise traditionally Smith and Wesson and show a high degree of refinement, and the action is significantly nicer than the Ruger out of the box, with all major components evidently smoother in operation.
The GP100 was something of a departure from traditional revolver designs of the time, but benefits from it in several ways. The frame, lacking a sideplate and being over-built in typical Ruger fashion, is very strong compared even to the rugged 686.
The entire gun, once the grip is removed, can be detail stripped with no sideplate removal required. Even the trigger group itself is removed as a unit from the bottom of the frame. The components of the action, while far from crude, lack the precise fitment and polish of the Smith and Wesson, but are similarly overbuilt like the rest of the gun.
The GP100 is thought by many wheelgun aficionados to possess one of the strongest actions, if not the strongest action of any .357 Magnum revolver, and is capable of withstanding tremendous punishment. Like the 686, it is made of stainless steel.
While the GP100 looks a little beefier than the 686, weight difference between comparable models is negligible, less than an ounce for 4" bbl. models.
The stock 686 has a clear advantage over the GP100 here: out of the box, the trigger of the 686 is smoother, with noticeably less stacking and a cleaner break in double-action and a precise, short single-action pull. The GP100 trigger is approximately the same weight, but the travel is a little longer and feels heavier, with noticeable stacking about 2/3 of the way through the travel, with a little snag near the end in double-action, and a slightly gritty single-action break.
This is partly due to the coil mainspring of the Ruger compared to the traditional flat mainspring of the S&W, and partly due to the superior overall fitment and finishing found on the fire control components of the 686.
However, the Ruger action can be cleaned up significantly, and will improve through repeated use. Polishing of engagement and friction surfaces will do much for the GP100's trigger pull. Nevertheless, bone stock, the 686 is better.
If comparing enhanced guns, it is a dead heat, although Smith and Wesson still has an edge, but only just. Comparing the triggers of tuned variants of either will reveal excellent, smooth, light double-action pulls, and shiveringly short and crisp single-action breaks.
Neither has any great advantage in the area of controls. The 686 has its cylinder release located immediately to the rear of the cylinder, in line with the bore, and is pressed forward toward the muzzle to release the cylinder.
The GP100 has a release located in the exact same location, but is a button that hinges inward to release. Both are positive in operation and easy to operate. Any edge here goes to the S&W, as it can accept an extended "gas-pedal" type release that is easily actuated by the shooting hand thumb without breaking the firing grip. Not a tremendous advantage, but worth mentioning. Hammer spurs on both are well knurled, and easy to grasp.
Sights vary on these guns depending on the model, but both can accept aftermarket front and rear sights, with the GP100 having a small perk here due to its easily uninstalled front sight. This is thanks to a clever spring loaded plunger arrangement, allowing a quick and simple change of front sight. Both have high-visibility and ruggedized options available from the factory.
Both revolvers are capable of very good mechanical accuracy. This author has shot many examples of each over the years in various configurations and found the accuracy of one to be on par with the other. The somewhat rougher trigger of the GP100 is a hindrance for fast, precise double-action work, though, and makes that accuracy potential harder to realize.
I once had the opportunity to compare both the GP100 and 686 with 4in barrels, firing both from bench rests in single-action mode at known distance targets at 25 and 50 yards. I was able to produce groups in the 2" range at 25 yards and about 4" at 50 yards. This is admittedly a small sample size, but my research and experience with other examples of each has solidified my opinion that both guns will shoot equally well with appropriate loads.
I recall a test conducted back in the late 1980's, comparing the accuracy potential of the Ruger against the Smith and Wesson in a Ransom rest. For those readers unfamiliar with a Ransom rest, it is a heavy mechanical vise fitted with an insert to hold a specific gun with absolute steadiness, and is used predominately for accuracy testing by removing the human element from the equation. Each gun was tested with 20+ different loads for accuracy on a 25 yard target, and each gun with its best load grouped around ½ of an inch, with the difference between being measured in a couple tenths of inch. Certainly, if the shooter does their part and with proper load selection, either gun will deliver all the accuracy required for any endeavor.
If I had to choose one, or make a decisive recommendation, it would boil down to degrees of advantage: The Ruger has a stronger action, but you should be honest with yourself if you have any need to take full advantage of that strength: if you are not shooting a constant diet of barn-burning maximum pressure loads through the gun, does it confer any benefit? The 686 is a highly rugged and durable gun, and will also withstand constant use of full-power .357 Magnum loads.
The trigger is noticeably nicer on the 686 out of the box, but the GP100's trigger is easily improved if you have the skills, patience, or money to see it done, bringing them much closer to parity.
If you don't care to immediately start modifying a new gun in order to enjoy the benefits of a nice action, the 686 would be the better choice, or you would be best advised to purchase an upgraded GP100.
The stock Ruger is less expensive than the Smith and Wesson across most variants, usually by about a $100 or so, but if you are considering the cost of upgrading the trigger or purchasing a performance model to bring it to parity with the 686 per the above paragraph then the savings are nil. I myself would have the stock GP100 trigger improved, considering that a good DA pull is essential for fast and accurate shooting with a revolver as a defensive arm.
For the tinkerer without real gunsmithing skills, the GP100 may be a better choice, as detail disassembly and reassembly is somewhat simpler than the classic Smith and Wesson revolvers, and while it is the rare revolver whose parts require no fitting and adjustment for proper function, the design of the Ruger makes repair and correction of issues somewhat easier.
As unpopular as this opinion might be, it is nonetheless mine that both of these revolvers are excellent and evenly matched in every essential category. Both will serve well in a defensive role, concealed or not, or for hunting and competition. For my money, I could flip a coin and be entirely satisfied with either.
I would gravitate to the GP100, as I already have several big-bore .44 caliber Ruger revolvers and would prefer to keep my guns as similar as possible. That nomination is of course entirely preference, subjective, and in no way a slight to the 686.
Whichever one you choose, you have my assurances that both are excellent examples of their class, and this is a rare, rare case where you could make a purchase based on aesthetics alone and still arrive home with a great gun.
These two icons of the American revolver are in truth so closely matched as to be two sides of the same coin. If you prefer the no-nonsense design of the GP100 or the timeless, refined mechanism of the 686, both are deserving of your dollar, and your trust. Even in this age of the polymer striker-fired pistol, the wheelgun endures, and the two discussed here are among the very finest for serious shooters.
So which is your favorite? Or do you go the third way with a Colt? Let me know in the comments!
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The first most important thing about any firearm is it must feel good in your grip! This applies to handguns, long guns shotguns……whatever.
The KGP-100 felt GREAT in my hand and no need for different grips.
I have a First Generation KGP-100 4 inch bull barrel/full shroud adjustable sites.
I can place a dime on the front of the barrel behind the front site and dry fire DA and the dime does not move. No Gun Smith has ever touched any internal parts.
You fail to mention that one can polish the action of the GP-100 by lots of dry firing. It does not hurt the pistol because of the transfer bar.
One can shoot 500-1K of rounds (like in a semi-auto) will do a lot of polishing and you do not need any gun smithing or special tools or any tools at all.
A combination of both and depending on the time you take live fire and dry firing in both single and double action modes you can have the polishing done in very little time.
I prefer Rugers and normally give them the edge FOR MY PURPOSES…..which may vary but I want the strongest and toughest and most reliable at reasonable cost that fits my grip or in my arms I can get….NOT because I do a lot of shooting or with normal or HOT Loads.
But because IF I am out in the middle of nowhere and everything I have with me I need to trust it will not break and is pretty much MISTER MURPHY Proof!
That does not mean that all the rest out there are not MISTER MURPHY Proof……It means I buy what I prefer and what I want, fits my hands or my arms with long guns, that works for me.
In general if it feels GREAT and is reliable, consistent, and accurate, and works for you, I have to say if it is not broke it does not need fixing! How can you improve on such a weapon? Other than say going from a single shot to something else for example.
I have a question about Colt and the Pythons………..I have heard that at least for a short while Colt was producing some Pythons with internal parts that were subject to breakage. Anyone have any info on this?
just the fact that you can field strip a GP100 and truly clean the trigger group win's it for me. you only 1 special tool to fully disassemble a Ruger double action revolver. and that tool is a screwdriver blade with a hole EDM in it to remove the ejection rod. I have had to remove the side plates on a S&W and do not look forward to doing that again anytime soon.
If Smith & Wesson would get rid of that internal lock I would buy their revolver. I just don't like the fact that there is another potential for problems with the gun's functioning.
I have a GP-100 and it is my favorite range handgun. I have owned all the Glock 9mm's (G43, G26, G19, G17, G34), Ruger LC9S, Sig P238, SP101, LCR38, Ruger MarkIII 22/45, Walter PPK/S, Ruger LCP, LCP Custom, and S&W 642 PC Enhanced Action (no IL). Of all these, I still enjoy my GP-100 the most for range shooting. For carry I use my 642.
Everyone has their opinion, and, thankfully, the gun manufacturers have produced firearms that fit most people's preferences and needs.
You know…., when I pick up Smiths and Rivers at my LGS I'm just not seeing the "Smith triggers are much bettt" thing. I'll pick up a 686 plus and right next to it a GP100 Match Champion and im liking the Ruger trigger better. Right next to both of them is a Redhawk in 45 Colt and it's better than both and then I pick up a Ruger LCR and it has the best double action trigger of any revolver in the store. Maybe it's just me, but I'm not seeing it. Were Smith triggers better in the past, All the guns I'm talking about are new?
I believe out of the Box the S&W trigger is slightly better. But over the past 10-15 years S&W quality appears to have decreased. The Ruger is a modern Revolver and the Smith a bit antiquated. The Ruger Trigger is a very good trigger and can be improved with some simple DIY work. Easy to take down with a simple pin that is included in the grip. S&W has history on their side…Ruger has technology and innovation for a more rugged and reliable firearm.


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3 teenagers are charged with robbing Lakeview smoke shop
January 3, 2022 CWBChicago Lakeview
Three teenagers face felony charges after destroying merchandise and robbing a Lakeview smoke shop on Sunday evening. A fourth offender got away.
The teens entered Pipes & Stuff, 3174 North Clark, and began breaking display items around 7:21 p.m., according to a police report. One of them grabbed the cash register and smashed it on the floor, said Kellie Bartoli, a CPD spokesperson.
The group gathered up the money and ran south on Clark Street, Bartoli said.
Police rounded up three of the teens near the Wellington and Diversey CTA stations after searching the area for nearly 45 minutes.
Bartoli said two 16-year-old boys were charged with robbery. A 15-year-old boy is charged with robbery and obstructing identification. He also had an outstanding warrant, according to Bartoli.
On December 15, two smoke shops were robbed within hours of each other in the same general area.
The first hold-up was reported at Novelties and Stuff, 3248 North Clark, around 1:30 p.m. A store employee told police that two men entered the store, hit him in the head, and robbed the business, according to a CPD report.
Later, four men attacked a 46-year-old male clerk during a robbery of Halsted Smoke Shop, 3448 North Halsted, around 8:49 p.m., a separate CPD report said. The offenders pepper-sprayed the store employee and took a cash drawer, according to a police media statement.
No arrests have been made in the December incidents.
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I've been working on lots of designs lately and they are each at different stages - some have just been quickly sketched as ideas, a couple have been charted (including a new version of my Cup Cakes mini cushion) and two are being stitched. But yesterday I had a great day stitching the 4 mini door-hangers (one is double-sided).
The idea for these door-hangers came while I was experimenting with my sewing machine! I was trying to reproduce part of my 'A Pirate's Life' mini cushion using the embroider function of the machine and chose the skull and crossbones section of that mini cushion to work on. Then I thought of making it up into a little hanging decoration and the ideas just spread from there. I added the Keep Out wording and thought it would be great to produce in cross stitch, so other stitchers could create their own from my chart. This just led on to the other sign names including 'Enter at your own risk' and 'Do not disturb'. Then thinking of what other door signs would be useful I came up with the Engaged/Vacant design which is double-sided so can be turned around depending on what status is needed for the toilet/bathroom door!
These designs are so quick to stitch making them great fun and it's very rewarding when one hanger can easily be completed in a few hours. The PDF chart pack for these mini door-hangers is available from my website via this link: Mini Door-Hangers Cross Stitch Chart PDF.
Now it's back to the stitching of my Canada mini cushion.