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One of my bird drawings! This is a Crimson Chat. I like the names... anyway some big news! The joint exhibition that Dave and I are doing entitled "House of Birds" is on Feb 27, Thursday from 6:30pm onwards at Pepper Cafe. If you're in the area, come by and check out the art!


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Bozell No Longer Thinks Limbaugh's Attack of Fluke Is Offensive (If He Ever Did)
Over the past week, Brent Bozell has been shifting himself and his Media Research Center from occasionally conceding that Rush Limbaugh's three-day denigration of Sandra Fluke caused offense to aggressively pushing the idea that there was nothing offensive about it at all.
As we documented, Bozell waited five days to speak out on Limbaugh's attack on Fluke, waiting until Limbaugh was forced to apologize in the face of an advertiser exodus before he was spurred into action.
We started seeing this last week in Bozell's column, when he starting seriously pushing his pet distraction of highlighting offensive things others have said, declaring that these were "far nastier, far more insulting than Rush Limbaugh has ever said in his entire life." Bozell omitted exactly what Limbaugh said about Fluke or anybody else, preventing his readers from making a direct comparison.
Also: Really? Worse than denigrating Fluke as a slut? Worse than likening a 12-year-old Chelsea Clinton to the White House dog (which, contrary to Noel Sheppard's revisionism, the transcript shows he did deliberately)?
Bozell repeated this dubious argument in his hypocritical letter to MSNBC demanding that Ed Schultz be fired, asserting that Schultz's "a history of insults a hundred-fold worse than anything Limbaugh has ever said." Needless to say, Bozell did not offer the algorithm he used to calculate that Schultz's insults were "a hundred-fold worse" than Limbaugh's.
This idea that Limbaugh is a lovable fuzzball (to use Limbaugh's own self-description) is spreading elsewhere in the MRC empire.
In a March 14 MRC TimesWatch item, Clay Waters was outraged that the New York Times described Limbaugh as an "offensive figure," going so far as to ludicrously defend Limbaugh by declaring that calling Fluke a "slut," unlike what Bill Maher said about Sarah Palin, can be printed ina family newspaper:
New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter wrote a column for Wednesday's Business section on the "offensive figure" Rush Limbaugh ("After Apology, National Advertisers Are Still Shunning Limbaugh") on the radio host losing advertisers after his "slut" comment on birth-control activist Sandra Fluke was inflamed by the left.
But the Times has thus far ignored the counterexample raised by conservatives of comedian and HBO "Real Time" host Bill Maher, who used a far more vile word to describe Republican Sarah Palin in March 2011. (The word's very offensiveness makes it unprintable, unlike Limbaugh's "slut," comment, a standard of obscenity that actually shields Maher.)
It's looking more and more like Bozell's initial, grudging criticism of Limbaugh was just for show. Like a loyal dittohead, Bozell probably really believes that Fluke is a slut and deserved Limbaugh's denigration.
The only problem with that, of course, is that his current war against liberal offenders makes him nothing less than a total hypocrite.
AIM's Kincaid Still Can't Quite Admit Proposed Uganda Law Would Kill Gays
Topic: Accuracy in Media
For the past two years, Accuracy in Media's Cliff Kincaid has championed a proposed draconian anti-gay law in Uganda while denying the fact that it would permit the death penalty for mere homosexuality. Now, Kincaid is pushing the law again in defense of an American anti-gay activist accused of helping to inspire the law.
In a March 15 AIM column, Kincaid writres that the proposed law "had a death penalty provision for certain homosexual acts, such as sex with children." In fact, as we've documented, the proposed law counts "aggravated homosexuality" -- which the law defines as, among other things, a previous conviction for homosexual behavior -- as an offense punishable by death.
Nevertheless, Kincaid insists that the U.S. media "falsely called" the propsed law the "Kill the Gays bill" -- even though that's exactly what it would do.
Kincaid spends most of his column defending anti-gay activist Scott Lively from a "frivolous lawsuit" filed by "the George Soros-funded Center for Constitutional Rights" accusing Lively of crimes against humanity for his role in advising Ugandan lawmakers on the anti-gay law. Kincaid claims that Lively is being target for merely "criticizing homosexuality during a trip to Uganda." In fact, the CCR accuses him of much deeper involvement:
Scott Lively has been working with anti-gay forces in Uganda since 2002. In March 2009, Lively, along with two other U.S. Evangelical leaders, headlined a three-day conference intended to expose the "gay movement" as an "evil institution" and a danger to children. Lively likened the effects of his advocacy to a "nuclear bomb" in Uganda and stated that he hopes it is replicated elsewhere. The Anti-Homosexuality Bill emerged one month later with provisions that reflected Lively's input. As in Uganda, Lively aims to criminalize LGBT advocacy elsewhere and has worked with religious and political leaders in Russia, Moldova and Latvia to that end. He states he has spoken on the topic of homosexuality in almost 40 countries and advises that "the easiest way to discourage 'gay pride' parades and other homosexual advocacy is to make such activity illegal."
Kincaid uncritically repeats Lively's defense that he opposes any death-penalty provisions in the proposed Uganda bill, but no documentation is offered to back up Lively's story.
Kincaid selectively quoted from an Open Society Institute blog post, writing that "the Open Society Institute acknowledged that its 'Initiative for Eastern Africa' had drawn 'scrutiny from conservative leaders' in Uganda 'for supporting sexual minority groups.'" The blog post details the OSI's effort to purchase a newspaper ad space for a tribute to murdered Ugandan gay activist David Kato, noting that one newspaper group demanded the OSI soften language stated the undisputed fact that gays in Uganda "are routinely subject to arbitrary arrests, hate speech, torture, vigilante violence, and persecution." Does Kincaid support this kind of censorship?
Kincaid also whined:
For simply reporting on Uganda's efforts to save their nation from Soros and his international networks, this columnist was falsely attacked as someone supporting death for homosexuals. The obvious purpose of such attacks is to silence critics of homosexuality and the Soros agenda for the U.S. and Africa.
Well, if Kincaid is supporting this law -- and he gives no evidence he has changed his mind about it -- he is indeed supporting death for homosexuals. It's not anyone else's fault but his own that he can't deal honestly with the facts.
NewsBusters Hates the Comedy Defense -- Except for Limbaugh
Scott Whitlock uses a March 16 NewsBusters post to complain that Stephen colbert said that the Taliban "evidently have a better track record on women's issues" than Rush Limbaugh. Whitlock further complains:
Liberals, including Colbert and Jon Stewart themselves, will immediately jump to the "we're just comedians" defense. However, considering that outlets like MSNBC routinely promote their clips and portay them simply as cultural satirists, it's worth noting the extreme, often hateful tilt of their comedy.
Whitlock seems to have forgotten that his NewsBusters colleagues defended Rush Limbaugh's misogynistic attack on Sandra Fluke as a joke.
As we've documented, Whitlock's fellow MRC employee Brent Baker said of Limbaugh's hateful demand that he wantsvideo of Fluke having sex: "Obviously, a bit of humor which escaped the overly-sensitive left-wing/media axis always looking to be offended." And another MRC co-worker, Ken Shepherd, insisted that Limbaugh was speaking "facetiously" when he denigrated a female author by saying, "What is it with all these young, single white women, overeducated -- doesn't mean intelligent."
It's more than a bit hypocritical of Whitlock to denounce the comedian defense when his own co-workers used the exact same defense to try and protect Limbaugh.
Posted by Terry K. at 12:14 PM EDT
Farah Falsely Smears Fluke As 'Avowed Fornicator,' 'Slut'
Joseph Farah apparently loves Rush Limbaugh so much -- they worked together in the 1980s when Limbaugh was a local radio host in Sacramento and Farah was dragging the Sacramento Union even farther to the right -- he mindlessly repeats his most sleazy insults.
From Farah's March 16 WorldNetDaily column:
Rush Limbaugh calls an avowed fornicator who testified publicly before Congress about the financial hardship of paying for contraceptives a "slut," which she is, according to the dictionary definition, and dozens of national advertisers capitulate to boycott threats.
We're not sure what "dictionary definition" of "slut" Farah is referring to here, but given that Sandra Fluke has never discussed her sex life in public, let alone in her congressional testimony, it can't be a volume existing on this plane of reality.
It seems that Fluke has a more credible claim of defamation against Farah than Farah has against Esquire magazine.
Noel Sheppard Channels 'Wayne's World' In Bashing Rosie O'Donnell
It's hardly the sign of a competent media critic when he starts channeling 20-year-old teen movies. But that's how Noel Sheppard reacts to Rosie O'Donnell losing her TV show on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Sheppard states this in a March 17 NewsBusters post:
I really am deeply saddened by this news and wish my former classmate all the best...NOT!
There you have it: Sheppard channels the juvenelia of "Wayne's World" to offer "media criticism."
The MRC must be proud.
WND Baselessly Claims Man Who Threatened Arpaio Is A 'Fanantical Supporter' of Obama
A March 14 WorldNetDaily article states that "A Tennessee man described as an Obama 'fanatic' has been convicted of threatening to kill Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his family, possibly in connection with the lawman's investigation into the president's eligibility for office." The article goes on to state that "Authorities say [Adam Eugene] Cox's postings indicate – and his own mother confirms – that Cox is a 'fanatical supporter' of Obama." The "fanatical supporter" quote is repeated in a March 16 WND article by Joe Kovacs featuring Rush Limbaugh's claim that themedia is ignoring the threat against Arpaio.
Even though the articles put "fanatical supporter" in quotes, the person who said that is never identified. Turns out it's Arpaio himself -- and he's wrong.
The Phoenix New Times points out that despite Arpaio's description of Cox as an "Obama fanatic" conflicts with his actual writings, in which he claims "Satan "ordered" him to kill "birthers" to spark a war between political parties in order to decrease the population in America.
Just consider this another part of WND's sucking up to Arpaio in order to keep him promoting the WND birther agenda.
MRC's Graham: What Are All Those Gays Doing At the White House?
Tim Graham is having another anti-gay freakout, folks.
The headline of Graham's March 16 NewsBusters post reads, "Was Obama Playing Politics By Loading State Dinner Guest List With Gays?" Graham goes on to note that "fifteen prominent gays" attended the state dinner at the White House for British prime minister David Cameron. He then goes on to list them, noting that this may be part of an effort to "end the media-enabled charade that Obama (the 'committed Christian') opposes 'marriage equality.'"
Of course, Graham has long been a gay-basher, and this obsession with gays at the White House is just another part of that.
Obama Derangement Syndrome Watch, Supersize WorldNetDaily Edition
As Obama's favorability ratings keep bouncing back up toward 50 percent, the only plausible explanation is that close to half of America's voting public is so addicted to government benefits that they are prepared to re-elect a Marxist who has clearly demonstrated that he intends to completely free himself of the constraints of the Constitution.
-- Robert Ringer, Feb. 22 WorldNetDaily column
Put in the most simple terms, we are at a crossroads because Barack Obama has brought us there. He is the first genuine Marxist to sit in the White House, and his agenda is to dismantle our capitalist economy and destroy American influence in the world.
Obama's policies place us at this crossroads of history. This year is different because there will be no turning back from the road to European-style socialism and Caesarism if Barack Obama wins a second term. Rick Santorum understands this.
-- Tom Tancredo, Feb. 24 WND column
The fish stinks from the head down, and this is Obama's foreign policy. Is it any wonder that jihadist attempts in this country have skyrocketed under this president?
-- Pamela Geller, Feb. 28 WND column
There have been many people in the history of the world who called evil good and good evil. None of them lasted very long. America has had presidents before who called good evil and evil good, but none, I believe, with the audacity of Barack Obama.
-- Joseph Farah, Feb. 29 WND column
What makes matters even more perilous, notwithstanding the desire of these mullahs to not only obliterate the promised land of Jews and Christians, Israel, but to wipe the United States off of the face of the map as well with their soon-to-be-manufactured atomic weapons and long-range missiles capable of being delivered to our shores, is the now transparent fact that our own so-called president, Barack Hussein Obama, is in at least his heart also a Muslim. This, more than anything else, explains his near complete disdain, if not hatred, for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the nation of Israel.
Whether it is siding with radical Islamic groups like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and other Arab states, resulting in the overthrow of leaders like former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and others friendly to Israel and the West, or taking no real action, save for meaningless so-called economic sanctions to "stop" the Iranian march to nuclear weapons, Obama is no Roosevelt of Churchill! Instead, he is apparently bent on furthering Islamic domination around the world and cutting the United States, with its Judeo-Christian roots, down to size. And, if you think this is too far a stretch, then study the history of Obama's Kenyan father, who as a proud anti-neocolonialist, socialist and Muslim despised the United States and the West. Indeed, this scenario, an American president like Obama, being so heavily influenced by his father, is why our Founding Fathers wrote into the Constitution, and the Supreme Court has agreed, that an American president must be a "natural born citizen" who is the offspring of two American citizens.
So the Obama problem is not just a Netanyahu-Israeli problem, but our own collective problem. The plain fact is that we have not only a socialist, but, even more dangerous, a Muslim sympathizer and traitor in the White House.
And that is why we all are in such peril, not just the state of Israel.
-- Larry Klayman, March 2 WND column
On the other hand, our dear leader in the White House shows a great deal of compassion toward his favorite world citizens, Mideast Muslims. He cheered the protesters in Egypt, yet ignored pro-Western protesters in Iran who were hoping at least to receive his moral support.
-- Robert Ringer, March 7 WND column
Sure, President Barack Hussein Obama – a Muslim sympathizer not coincidentally born to a socialist Muslim Kenyan father – has intentionally been negligent, along with his Democratic comrades, in allowing this cancer to grow to the point where it not only is an imminent threat to Israel, but also Europe and the United States – but Republicans as well bear a significant responsibility for the mess we now find ourselves in.
Obama is a traitor, but there has been no political counterweight to his treachery from the other party. We no longer have a republic, but just a bunch of dangerous political hacks from both sides of the aisle occupying time, space and "growing fat" in Washington, D.C., at our expense!
Almost every week brings a new reason for the United States House of Representatives to bring impeachment charges against President Obama. The question of the day is not why he should be impeached but why it hasn't already been done.
-- Tom Tancredo, March 9 WND column
MRC Doesn't Back Up Attack on 'GCB'
A March 12 MRC Culture & Media Institute article by Lauren Thompson attacks the new TV show "GCB," claiming it has a "true agenda of degrading Christianity, conservatives, and Texans." Thompson goes on to assert that the show contained "a total of 72 attacks on the Christian faith" in its first two episodes, with the second episode alone "mocking Christianity a total of 42 times."
Strangely, though, Thompson provides no list of all 72 instances of these "attacks."
Why? Certainly Thompson made a list of the alleged offenses -- that's how she knows there are 72 of them. Why not post that list along with her article?
We're guessing that at least some of those purported "attacks" are specious at best, designed to run up the numbers in order to bash the show.
So, Ms. Thompson, what are you afraid of? Post the entire list.
Newsmax Remains Unenthused About Romney
As with the aftermath of Super Tuesday, the aftermath of Tuesday's primaries in Mississippi and Alabama is continuing to leave Newsmax less than enthused about the prospect of Mitt Romney as the Republican presidential nominee.
Here are a couple post-election headlines from Newsmax:
Gingrich: Romney 'Inevitable' Claim 'Collapsed'
Santorum: Fox News 'Shilling' for Romney
GOP Delegate Math Growing Bleak for Romney
Pressure Mounts on Romney for Illinois Victory
Romney Spends $12 Per Vote, Santorum Just $3
In addition, before the election, Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy posted a column that began: "I am continually amazed how those at the Romney campaign continue to act victorious when they have such a poor case to make about cinching the nomination."
Ouch. None of this unenthusiasm, by the way, precludes Newsmax fromcranking up its hype machine for Romney should he actually get the nomination. It's done that sort of flip-flop before.
Brent Bozell Demands That Obama Break the Law
Not content with merely dispiaying rampant hypocrisy in attacking liberals who say offensive things in order to distract fromthe offensive things Rush Limbaugh has said, Brent Bozell has expanded to launching a really dumb attack on President Obama.
For the past several days, Bozell has been tweeting this message, changing the number of days appropriately: "Obama's had XX days to decide what to do with misogynist Bill Maher's $1 million check. It should have taken one."
First, Maher did not donate that $1 million to Obama; he donated to Obama's PAC, which by law Obama has no control over. By asking Obama to direct his PAC to do something, Bozell is asking Obama to break the law.
Second, Bozell's raginbg hypocrisy again rears its ugly head. Whatever day Bozell lists as Obama havnig not yet decided "what to do with misogynist Bill Maher's $1 million check" is the exact same number of days Bozell has had to issue meaningful criticism of Rush Limbaugh's misogyny, and he has utterly failed to do so. As the man said, it should have taken one.
Why should anyone take direction from Bozell when he doesn't even have the basic decency to genuinely criticize Limbaugh for the same misogyny he bashes others for? We can't think of a reason.
Farah Laughably Claims He's Never Said Anything 'Hateful or Defamatory' About Gays
A March 14 WorldNetDaily article brands the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation's new Commentator Accountability Project -- which seeks to track statements made by anti-gay activists -- as an "enemies list" whose goal is "to limit the effectiveness of their media outreach."
The article includes the responses from numerous people on that list, one of which is WND's very own Joseph Farah:
In response, Farah said he has never spoken a hateful or defamatory word about homosexuals in his life.
"The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation should more accurately be called the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Criticism," said Farah. "These people actually believe that if you have a different viewpoint and a different value system from them you are a hate-filled, bigoted monster. Here's a group that claims in its own name that it is 'against defamation,' but actively defames those with whom it has disagreements. Not one example of hateful or defamatory language is offered as evidence against any of those listed in this report."
Here are some of the things Farah has said about gays that we are to believe are not "hateful or defamatory":
Likening those to favor the legality of gay marriage to terrorists.
Expressing unhappiness that Rick Perry doesn't hate gays as much as he does, and advocating the dissolution of the United States over gay marriage.
Descended into paranoia after being called out on WND's anti-gay agenda.
Called a group of gay conservatives "blight on the conservative movement."
Is concerned that journalists don't engage in enough gay-bashing.
Endorsed a discredited book claiming that the Nazi Party was dominated by homosexuals.
Is angry that homosexuality is no longer defined as a psychiatric disorder.
Additionally, he employs a rabid homophobe as a White House correspondent, Les Kinsolving, who Farah has granted a weekly space to denigrate gays.
It's also laughable that Farah is portraying others as censors when his own website does the very same censoring of views it opposes. John Woodman, anyone?
Updated: Friday, March 16, 2012 8:16 PM EDT
CNS Oil Industry Shilling Watch
CNSNews.com keeps up its shilling for the oil industry -- which has funded CNS' parent, the Media Research Center -- in a spate of recent articles.
In a March 13 article, Penny Starr lets the American Petroleum Institute uncritically attack Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's claim that the oil and gas industry is not taking advantage of the leases it already holds. Starr does not permit anyone to respond to the API's claims.
Melanie Hunter managed to derive three separate articles out of a C-SPAN interview with former Shell Oil President John Hofmeister. The first, in which Hofmeister claims that, in Hunter's words, "the U.S. won't have enough oil to fill gas tanks whatever the price and that high gas prices could lead to another recession," is seemingly contradicted by the second, in which Hofmeister notes that the recession has reduced U.S. demand foroil, and has a result "the [oil] companies are not just going to let gasoline sit in storage tanks, when the demand by Americans has been reduced. They're going to sell it outside the country, which is what they're doing."
Hunter seems uninterested in exploring whether U.S. oil needs would be better met if oil companies weren't exporting U.S. petroleum products.
The third article reinforces the right-wing talking point that most new drilling takes place on private land and that federal land permits have been "dramatically reduced in the last several years."cns
Hypocritical Bozell Accuses MSNBC of Hypocrisy
Brent Bozell writes to MSNBC president Phil Griffin:
Dear Mr. Griffin,
Your network, working on marching orders from Media Matters, is on a mission to take Rush Limbaugh off the air. Far from being an independent journalistic enterprise, MSNBC is the very essence of a political lapdog of the far left.
Just last night on MSNBC, Ed Schultz, Al Sharpton, and Lawrence O'Donnell all devoted time on their programs attacking Rush. In each case, they grabbed at thin air looking, looking, looking for the opportunity shamelessly to keep the story alive.
These assaults by MSNBC have nothing to do with what he said about Sandra Fluke, and everything to do with censoring prominent voices on the right. Gas prices are nearing $4 a gallon, the unemployment rate hovers over 8%, the US debt is soaring to astronomical highs, but MSNBC is too busy to cover these legitimate news stories. Instead you go after Rush.
And you're doing it in the most hypocritical manner imaginable.
While your network continues to attack Rush, you personally continue to employ Ed Schultz. Ed Schultz, the man who called Laura Ingraham a "right wing slut."
If what Rush said is so offensive that it deserves your network's obsession with having him removed, then what are you going to do about a host who has a history of insults a hundred-fold worse than anything Limbaugh has ever said? Unless you fire Ed Schultz, you are a complete hypocrite.
It's time you take responsibility for hiring and promoting this hate-filled misogynist, and resign.
Hoo-boy. Where to begin?
We have the utterly shameless hypocrisy of a man who has offered nothing but the most tepid, milquetoast criticism of Rush Limbaugh's misogyny lecturing somebody else on hypocrisy about offensive remarks.
We have a man who has a regular weekly slot on Fox News, the political lapdog of the far right, lecturing somebody else about purported "marching orders from Media Matters" (which he offers no evidence of) and media bias.
We have someone who is paying his employees handsomely to steer the topic of discussion to anything except Rush lecturing someone about covering Rush.
We have a man who gave his organization's "William F. Buckley, Jr. Award for Media Excellence" to someone who calls women sluts and femi-Nazis.
And how, exactly, did Bozell calculate that Limbaugh calling Fluke a slut and a prostitute, that she's "having so much sex she can't afford her own birth control pills," that she's "round-heeled," that she "wants to be paid to have sex," and that she should "post the videos online so we can all watch" -- a torrent of sleaze inspired by one of Bozell's own employees, Craig Bannister -- is oneone-hundreth the insult of any single thing Ed Schultz said? Does the fact that Limbaugh is a conservative and, thus, is granted immunity by Bozell for these sleazy insults play a major role in that calculation?
If MSNBC must fire Schultz, Bozell must demand that Limbaugh not only be fired from his radio show but also that he return his Buckley award to the MRC. Unless that happens, he's an even more complete hypocrite than he already was.
Updated: Thursday, March 15, 2012 6:43 PM EDT
WND Presents Pro-Birther News Report As 'Balanced'
A March 13 WorldNetDaily article touts the "stunner" of a purportedly "balanced" news report by a CBS affiliate in Phoenix on the press conference for the "investigation" by Joe Arpaio's cold case posse into President Obama's "eligibility."
But if you watch the segment, it's clear that it's slanted in favor of uncritically presenting only what the posse concluded, and there's no "balance" whatsoever in the form of telling the other side of the story, which is that birthers are pushing discredited conspiracy theories.
Funny idea of "balance" there, WND.
WND also presents as a "stunning challenge" birther posse leader Mike Zullo's claim that anyone who thinks the posse's conclusions are nothing but "B.S." should prove it.
But as WND should know by now -- but won't tell its readers about -- the posse's claims have been discredited. WND doesn't actually care about "balance."

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ER 3.8, Union Station: Leaving on an El Train
Posted in TV tagged Abby Keaton, Al Boulet, Carla Reese, Charlie Chiemingo, ER, Maggie Doyle at 5:05 pm by Jenn
Summary: Doug is taking another turn in the healthmobile, this time with Chuny as his nurse, and stationed in the room of some sort of community center. Charlie comes in with a baby she's been watching who needs to get some vaccinations. She pretends to be the baby's mother so she can give "parental" consent. Doug notes that Charlie should be in school, so she says they have the day off for Career Day.
At County, Carter greets Susan on her last day at work. He examines her patient, Mr. Reynolds, and declares that he needs surgery for an abdominal aneurysm. Susan gets Carter and Doyle to agree that he should be treated medically instead. Doyle says she still has a lot to learn, but Susan says she herself took a while to get the hang of things. Carol tells Doyle that Susan was always this good.
Mark goes by Susan's apartment, which is now all packed up. He's hoping to move in. The landlady is thrilled that he's quiet, has no live-in girlfriend, and won't be throwing any parties. When he gets to work, Weaver tells him about some budget issues and how Susan's departure will negatively affect them. However, she's okay with Mark going home if he needs to, since he's having some neck pain. He says he'll stick around, because of course he's not going to miss these last few hours with Susan.
Susan's worried about leaving County shorthanded, but Mark assures her that they'll get through. He tells her he signed the lease on her old apartment. The two of them show Doyle how to fix a man's dislocated hip, not realizing that Doyle knows how to do it and didn't need any help. Megan is finally going home, and her parents want to take a picture with Benton. They think he did as much for the baby as Keaton did. Keaton thinks Benton should just be grateful for a good outcome.
Carter comes by to see Keaton, pretending he's there for a literature review. She'll go over his first draft that afternoon. This all goes over Benton's head. Susan's working until 2:00, then catching a train to Phoenix at 4:20. She thinks Mark is acting weird, even though he's been supportive of her move. Carol asks if she's having second thoughts. Susan says she's never felt more sure of a decision, but yes, she's having second thoughts. Carol says she's never looked happier, so she must be doing the right thing.
Mark asks Susan for a second opinion on a patient who might be at risk for a pulmonary embolism. It doesn't sound like he really needs a second opinion at all, just an excuse to talk to Susan. Doug and Chuny return from the healthmobile, and Chuny reveals that the immunization program they've started was Doug's idea, so he volunteered to go out into the community. They're ready for Susan's party, which will include a cake shaped like a cactus. Carol thinks Susan will hate the party, but Doug says that's why they're doing it.
He notices Mark's neck issues and asks if he ever declared his feelings for Susan. Well, of course not, Doug. Mark's a wimp. Keaton prepares Benton for an operation, having him visualize the anatomy and the procedure. She sees the beauty in the human body, while Benton just sees the body parts he's been studying for years. It turns out that the patient Mark asked Susan for a second opinion about was actually Weaver's, which clues Susan in to Mark's true intentions.
Haleh's being summoned to neuro to fill in, like Lydia was previously. The nurses have caught on to the administration's attempts to mess with nurses who are close to maxing out their pensions. Carol isn't going to let it go on any longer. Lydia has brought in her wedding dress and says she's going to return it. Al G. keeps putting off their wedding, and Lydia's not sure why he proposed in the first place. The nurses complain about men being spineless. Mark, overhearing, says, "Whatever you're talking about, I'm sure you're right."
Carol tells whoever ordered Haleh to neuro that she won't be going up. Connie and Haleh are impressed with her, even though she doesn't succeed. Carol promises that this will be the last time an ER nurse is sent to another department. Susan tells Mark that he can't put her in the middle of his conflicts with Weaver anymore (especially after today, since she won't be around). She knows they work well together, and she's worried she won't have as good a connection with anyone in Phoenix. But Mark needs to form that connection with the other doctors at County.
Al catches Jeanie on her way to the hospital and gives her divorce papers. He wants her to have their house and car. If he can get his assets down and prove that he doesn't have insurance, he can get his medications through a state program. Al has recognized that everything Jeanie said about him on Halloween was true, and he needs to be a better person.
Paramedics bring in a drunk pregnant woman who's very unhappy to be in the ER. She's also not happy to be pregnant. Doyle sedates her, and moments later, her water breaks. Doyle is angry because the woman was clearly drinking in an attempt to kill her baby. Susan tells her to call Social Services, though Doyle isn't sure they'll be able to do anything. She asks a chaplain to come pray for the baby.
Jeanie gets Mark to talk to a diabetic patient named Siebert who would much rather see Susan. He comes in for help managing his diabetes, though his condition isn't usually that bad. Really, he just wants to chat with Susan about his personal life. Mark grows more and more impatient, finally telling Siebert that Susan is leaving County. When Siebert gets agitated, Mark tells Malik to call psych.
Chuny shows Doug the bloodwork from the baby Charlie brought to the healthmobile, which shows that he needs further examination. Al G. brings in a sick homeless man, taking advantage of the location to try to talk to Lydia. He tells Mark and Carol that he hasn't been putting off the wedding because he doesn't want to get married. Carol tells him that if he wants to be with her, he should just go through with it. Al G. says he spent all morning trying to get a marriage license and a priest, but all the priests in the city are at a CPR class. Carol points out that the hospital has a chaplain.
Benton and Keaton operate together with assistance from Carter. The patient's anatomy gets complicated, and Benton has to let Keaton take over. Doug tries to get in touch with the baby's mother, but all he knows is that she's a single mother living in a home for…well, only single mothers, so that's not much help. Psych arrives for Siebert, but he's taken off. Susan says all he ever needs is tea and someone to listen to him.
Lydia is talking to Al G. again, and Carol thinks he'll be able to talk her into getting married. Mark is clearly jealous that they'll get a happy ending while his crush is moving across the country. Benton feels bad for having to step out of the surgery, but Keaton appreciates that he recognized he wasn't ready. He did 90 percent of the job by studying the anatomy, but he didn't do the other 10 percent, which was just taking a few minutes to understand what he was looking at. Carter interrupts to tell Benton that they're needed in the ER for a wedding.
Carol, Susan, Haleh, and Connie help Lydia get ready while Mark pins a boutonniere on Al G. Randi reports that there are no traumas coming in, so they should hurry up and do the wedding while they have a chance. Carol takes a Thanksgiving flower arrangement from the front desk so Lydia will have a bouquet. The staff gathers in the waiting room and sings the wedding march as Lydia joins Al G. and the chaplain at the end of the "aisle."
Chuny accidentally interrupts by walking by and calling out for information on a stool sample. Lydia tells her where she can find the chart she needs. Oh, what lovely vows. Doug hits Connie with the turkey from the flower arrangement and Carol takes it away from him, because he's a child. The chaplain works Lydia and Al G.'s jobs into his brief message, saying that they care for and protect others in the city, and now they're going to care for and protect each other.
Carter arrives late and whispers that Benton sends his regrets, as he was pulled into an emergency surgery. He tells Jeanie it was for a patient with testicular torsion. Who among us hasn't been to a wedding where those words were spoken? Mark and Susan are definitely thinking about each other as the chaplain talks about love and stuff. In fact, we have to watch them look at each other instead of Lydia and Al G. as they say their vows and are declared husband and wife.
Jeanie tells Weaver that Al gave her divorce papers, the most unselfish thing he's ever done. Doug and Carol noticed Mark and Susan looking at each other during the wedding, and wish they could have been honest about their feelings for each other. Doug wonders why she's even leaving. Carol says that Susan doesn't have a life here. The single women of the ER gather for the bouquet toss, but Susan catches it without even trying. She and Mark promise each other they'll always be friends.
Carter goes to Keaton's office for his "literature review"…which actually does start with the review. She wants to make sure they're not drawing any attention to their relationship; they need to keep it completely separate from their work. Keaton doesn't think it's a big deal anyway, since she's not his boss. No, just his boss' boss. Clearly, she's so happy with Carter that she hasn't thought through all the possible consequences.
Weaver tells Mark that the drunk mom is facing attempted-murder charges. They guess that Doyle bypassed Social Services and called the police. She says she wanted to make sure the case didn't fall through the cracks. Mark tells her it's not her job to scare moms with criminal charges when they're supposed to be treating everyone, no matter their circumstances. Doyle yells that if she's called to testify against the mom, she'll do it on her own time.
Carol meets with Mary Cain, the admin she hopes will keep ER nurses from being sent to other departments. Mary notes that since ER nurses are so well-trained and versatile, it makes sense to place them in other departments when they're needed. Plus, nurses are expensive, so the hospital needs to use them more effectively. Carol points out that the ICU is a better place for ER nurses. Mary likes her perspective and asks her to serve on a monthly reengineering committee.
Weaver stalls Susan from leaving by giving her a patient while they set up for her surprise goodbye party. But a big trauma comes in, so everyone has to abandon the cactus cake. Susan's patient is a senior-citizen bodybuilder with a minor injury. He'll be 74 when he has his next competition, and he's loving his life.
Done with her final shift at County, Susan goes to the lounge to get her things and sees that her friends were going to throw her a party. She walks through the ER, looking in on everyone, and doesn't say goodbye to Mark, who doesn't even see her in his trauma room.
Later, Mark is upset that Susan didn't even leave a goodbye note. Carter asks Benton if he can leave by 7:00, since he has a date. Benton warns him not to slack on his literature review, or he'll tick off Keaton. He thinks Keaton is a little nuts, and he doesn't like her psychobabble. She doesn't act like a surgeon. Carter defends his secret girlfriend.
It turns out Benton also has a date, though he mixed up the night he was supposed to go out with Carla. Carter meets her and offers to give her a tour, since Benton's busy. Benton doesn't seem to want his two worlds to collide. Mark criticizes Jeanie for a medical decision she made, but Jeanie says he told her it was okay. He can't yell at her when he was distracted over Susan. Doug pulls Mark aside to go for a walk.
Carol tells the nurses that they'll no longer be sent to neuro or other wards, but they'll still have to work in the ICU sometimes. Haleh and Chuny suggest getting new contracts. Connie refuses to go to the ICU, but Chuny says she won't be sent there, since she's nowhere close to maxing out her pension. Haleh warns Carol that all her defending of the decision makes her sound like management.
Doug tells Mark that he should go try to catch up with Susan before her train, so he can say a proper goodbye. Mark argues that Susan's already made up her mind and is leaving. Doug says that's not the point – he can either tell her how he really feels, or he can say nothing and regret it for the rest of his life. That means he'll be miserable forever, and make everyone around him miserable, like he has been all day.
Carter is paged away, so Carla pulls Benton into the suture room so they can…do some literature review. Meanwhile, Mark waits impatiently at the El station, then takes a cab to his apartment. The landlady tells him that he just missed Susan, but she left him a note. As he rushes back to the El station, Doug looks for the baby's mother at the facility where Charlie said they were living, but no one by that name has been there all month.
Mark returns to the El station, finally catching up to Susan as she's about to get on the train. He tells her he wants her to stay, blurting out that he loves her. He feels stupid for not saying it before. Susan says she already knew. Mark asks her again to stay, saying they belong together. Does she really not feel the same? Susan just stammers that she's sorry. Mark is her best friend, and she's not sure how she'll get by without him, but she doesn't belong there anymore.
Mark emotionally says that he doesn't want to lose her. She kisses him, then tells him she'll never forget him. As the train pulls away, she yells to Mark that she loves him. But she's going to Phoenix, and they're never going to get together. Because by the time she comes back to Chicago, he'll be with someone else, and then he'll be dead. Uh, spoiler.
Thoughts: I'm using "literature review" as a euphemism for making out from now on.
Why didn't Lydia and Al G. get married in the hospital's chapel? Who wants to get married next to a busy hallway?
Carla's so charming early on that it's hard to believe she's the same person who becomes such a mess later on.
Carla tells Carter she has a Caribbean restaurant, and he replies that he and his family used to vacation in the Caribbean. That's such a WASP response. Nice touch, writers.
Amy H said,
Okay I've been rewatching ER on HBO Max and I found your commentary when I Googled episode synopsis; these reviews are awesome! Thank you for taking the time, I feel like I'm watching with a hilarious friend.


Meet the new Givenchy Girl, Alyona Subbotina, having a runway exclusive-opening Givenchy Fall 2011 show is fantastic for rookie's debut. Alyona is from Kazahkstan and currently based in Singapore (Represented by Mannequin) where she is developing her model portfolio as well as studying at university. First time I recognize her when she's in Singapore, despite having never worked in major market, her book has gone from strength to strength.
Alyona has an awkward beauty and completely typical of Tisci's Muses-say it, Maria Carla, Lara Stone, Lakshmi Menon, Natasha Poly, Ranya Mordanova, Iris Strubegger, Daphne Groeneveld, even Lea T with mostly of them has an intense staring look and hand-picked by Tisci itself to translate his vision, so no wonder if Alyona has been selected to opening Givenchy show, she's more than just suitable for it. Tisci also proved he's a man with an expert eye to accredited with launching the careers some of the world's leading supermodels, and I hope today will be including Alyona Subbotina.


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U.S. donates more than 110 million COVID-19 vaccine doses abroad -White House
by jcp August 3, 2021
By Susan Heavey and Jeff Mason
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States has donated over 110 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to more than 60 countries so far, the White House said on Tuesday, as the world grapples with the fast-spreading Delta variant of the coronavirus.
President Joe Biden will announce the donation tally later on Tuesday, the White House said in a statement, calling the donations "a major milestone" in the pandemic fight.
Biden, who is scheduled to deliver remarks on efforts to combat the novel coronavirus at 3:45 p.m. ET (1945 GMT), had earlier pledged to donate at least 80 million COVID-19 vaccine doses worldwide.
"Today's announcement is a fulfillment of his promise and a significant downpayment on hundreds of millions of more doses that the U.S. will deliver in the coming weeks," the White House said in a statement, adding that the majority of doses were shared via COVAX, an international program aimed at helping developing countries access COVID-19 vaccines.
In late August, the United States will also start shipping 500 million doses of Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE's vaccine to 100 lower-income countries, the statement said.
Advocates believe the United States could be sharing even more.
"We could give away lots of what we have and still be fine," said Gregg Gonsalves, assistant professor of epidemiology of microbial diseases at the Yale School of Public Health.
Helping the rest of the world would benefit the United States in its domestic fight as well, he added.
"If we don't control it everywhere, we're not gong to control it anywhere," Gonsalves said.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky told reporters on Monday that, as of Saturday, there were about 72,000 new cases per day of COVID-19 in the United States, a 44% increase over the previous week and higher than the peak in the summer of 2020.
The race to inoculate the global population has taken on a new urgency as the more easily transmitted Delta variant strengthens its hold in the United States and abroad, leading to increased hospitalizations and deaths, the vast majority among the unvaccinated.
COVAX, backed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, seeks to secure 2 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses for countries in need by the year's end.
In June, a WHO official said many nations did not have enough doses to continue vaccination efforts or had simply run out.
The White House on Tuesday said it would work with COVAX and other regional partners to ensure the donated vaccines were equitably delivered.
(Reporting by Susan Heavey and Jeff Mason; Editing by Bernadette Baum and Bill Berkrot)
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One of the ways that you can rebuild your credit is with a secured credit card. Using a secured credit card can help you establish a better financial reputation if you have made a few mistakes, or even if you don't have enough of a credit history for an unsecured credit card.
However, secured credit cards often get a bad rap. This is because there are several issuers that basically gouge you in order to make money off the fact that you have poor credit. These credit issuers offer very low credit limits, charge a number of high fees, and may require ridiculous security deposits.
Some of the worst secured cards require a $300 security deposit, but only offer a credit limit of $250. At the very least, look for secured card, like the US Bank Secured Visa, that will give you a credit limit that equals your deposit, up to $5,000. Many of the worst secured cards won't even let you get a credit limit of $5,000, no matter what your security deposit is. Plus, the US Bank Secured Visa will keep your deposit in an interest-bearing account.
Another decent choice is the Capital One Secured Card. In fact, if your poor credit is at the upper end of the "bad credit" range, you can get away with a lower security deposit. In fact, you can get a $300 credit limit with a security deposit of $49 or $99 in some cases. (Of course, if your credit is truly atrocious, Capital One will require a security deposit of $200).
Another consideration is the setup fees and other fees. Many of the best secured credit cards don't offer setup fees. The Digital Federal Credit Union secured credit card does require that you make a $10 donation to Reach Out for Schools if you want to join the credit union and apply for its card, but that's a low cost to pay for a secured card — especially since there is no annual fee.
The US Bank Secured Visa and the Capital One Secured cards don't have setup fees, and their annual fees are reasonable, at $35 and $29, respectively.
Many secured cards will charge setup fees ranging from $25 to $100, and then charge annual fees of between $35 and $75 on top of it. With some cards, you can have half of your credit limit used up just in the initial fees you pay. Stay away from cards that are excessively expensive, since you will end up paying interest on all those fees as well — especially if you get a card that doesn't offer a grace period.
Finally, make sure you pay attention to the interest rate. Many secured credit cards charge up to 29.99% APR — or more in some cases. There are even cards that charge 35.99% APR. The best secured credit cards have relatively low rates. The Digital Federal Credit Union Secured card is one of the best deals, with a rate of 11.50%, and no cash advance fee or higher interest rate for cash advances. In fact, it's a fairly decent credit card even by non-secured card standards.
More likely, though, you'll pay between 18.99% and 25.99% APR when you get a secured credit card. This isn't too bad, as long as you pay off your balance each month. Watch out, though! Some secured cards start charging interest immediately, with no grace period. If possible, get a card with a grace period so that you aren't charged interest as soon as you make a purchase.
With a little research, it's possible to find a secured credit card that will get the job done, and not charge you an arm and a leg.


Hogg was playing with Walker Church Lads in his native Newcastle when Leeds City saw him as a future prospect and brought him to Elland Road in September 1909, when he was still only nineteen. He was earmarked for the lower grade teams to help him gain experience and hopefully mature into a good goalkeeping prospect. He had been with City for just one year when he was thought ready for the first team at the start of the 1910-11 season. Harry Bromage had been the City first choice for several seasons, but was injured for the start of the campaign and the twenty-year-old acquitted himself well in the first three games that he deputized, as each of the games were lost by a single goal, but it was enough for City to recall their experienced keeper as soon as he was fit. Hogg did play a further ten games that season and the ageing Harry Bromage was allowed to leave at the end of the season. However, Leslie Murphy was recruited from Ireland as first choice and Cecil Reinhardt was also brought in as cover which relegated Hogg to third in the pecking order. After Murphy had played the first six fixtures, of which only one ended in victory, it was Hogg who was called upon for two games before Murphy resumed for the next eight fixtures before Reinhardt took over for four matches. Murphy then returned for four games until Reinhardt was restored for the next eight, but it was Hogg that finished the season as number one with six consecutive games. Just as Hogg thought he had established himself with the departure of Murphy back to Ireland, new Manager Herbert Chapman opted for experience and brought in the ageing Irish International Billy Scott. Once more it was back to the Reserves, but as Reinhardt had also left it was a straight fight between himself and Scott. While Scott started as first choice he only played five games after the turn of the year as Hogg finished the season as the man in possession. Hogg remained the first choice keeper for the next season and a half until Willis Walker took over in February 1915. Hogg did not play for Leeds again as the War broke out and Hogg played for Houghton Rovers and then Palmer's (Jarrow). It was not until 1920 that he signed for First Division Newcastle United but never made their first team.


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Afghan Alternatives: Issues, Options, and Policies
Edited by Ralph H. Magnus
Transaction Books, 1985, 221 pp
Reviewed By Donald S. Zagoria
This is a very useful collection of papers and discussion on Afghanistan. Jiri Valenta suggests that the Soviets have three options: continuation of the present limited, protracted commitment hoping for a long-term military solution; a large-scale military escalation; or a "Finlandization" style of negotiated withdrawal with security guarantees but without the continuation of a Leninist regime in Kabul. He favors a two-track Western policy of increased military aid to the resistance coupled with serious diplomatic overtures to the Soviets to try to bring about a "Finlandized" Afghanistan, the best outcome the West can hope for under present circumstances. In another good essay, Noor Husain, director of Pakistan's Institute for Strategic Studies, observes that Pakistan confronts a "megacrisis." It is situated at the geopolitical crossroads of central, south and west Asia, in close proximity to three nuclear powers and next to the highly inflammable Persian Gulf. On its western borders there have been conflicts involving the Soviet Union, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, the PLO and the peacekeeping forces of the West. He sees South Asia as the key to control of the Gulf.
More By Donald S. Zagoria


The final puzzles for the Ponoko Design contest are posted and I have some updated thoughts (see here for my earlier comments if you missed them).
First, an overall observation on the contest. I think many of us, myself included, failed to adequately describe our puzzles and games. Zen didn't explain that there were many extra pieces, Ponoku didn't explain it was for kids, etc. Personally, I put very short descriptions on my puzzle when I could have explained much more. There was a lot of important description for WIM that I put in the pictures. With more information, some of my opinions have changed.
Zen - Looks very nice and elegant in final form. I like the "brochure" that goes with it -- very classy. I said this wasn't a puzzle or game, but I'll revise that. There are plenty of extra pieces, which means that there is a solitaire game aspect to it. You don't have to win or lose for it to be a game. Somebody once said "it's how you play the game." I wouldn't mind having Zen on my coffee table.
Portrait Puzzle - The halftoning looks very, very nice. To be clear, it is a puzzle, just not a difficult one, at least for anyone who solves a lot of puzzles. The combination of the spiral arc and the radial lines make it an easy puzzle. But, for non-solvers and kids, it's a different story. This might very well succeed for them and there certainly is a very satisfying conclusion. If the halftone rastering isn't outrageous, I might use it myself in the future (I'm a pretty serious photographer). The high cost of the puzzle ($400) might be because of that but I actually suspect it's the curved cutting (and I hope so).
Ponoku Anyone - Looks better in final form than in mockup, but it is clearly much easier than a Sudoku. There are 29 givens plus the big help of the pairs and triples of numbers. Because the givens are glued-down (which wasn't obvious before), there is just one solution (with no givens, there would be at least 1,679,616 ways it could be assembled, and probably many more). The final photos show kids solving and I can see it working for them and it might even serve as a good introduction to Sudoku as it's definitely more tractable.
Marble Madness (watch video) - Physically, the construction looks very nice, though a bit complex. I am not sure how playable the game itself is. It looks to me like the game is mostly luck, with little potential for strategy. This works fine for young kids who just enjoy the activity, but, for them, the mechanics might be too hard. I just don't feel it completely succeeds.
Tessa - (Updated June 3rd) Looks stunning in final form. It's not obvious, but this is indeed a puzzle. The pieces are not the same from end to end, so you must find the right pieces to go in each spot. I had said this was mechanical to assemble, but that was wrong. Since the pieces all look the same, it's hard to tell if this would be fun or frustratingly difficult to put together. In any event, it certainly shows that a puzzle like this could work very nicely. Compare this with the two-color Trifolia puzzle from Kadon.
Underground Maze (and plans)- Clearly a trivial puzzle to solve, except for very little children, but I like the mechanics and the "sandwich" construction. Very cool. The same techniques could apply to more complex puzzles.
Crane Mobile and Pteradactyl - Final versions look just like the mockups, which is nice to see, though I still think they are toys, not puzzles or games. But they are nice toys, particularly the Pterodactyl. I do think kids would have fun disassembling and reassembling them.
Layer Puzzle (and here) - The description says it is a tough solve, but I am a bit dubious. In any event, I think it would be fun and I think it could be solved over and over. Looks very cool when complete (and even when incomplete).
California County Puzzle - This puzzle has not been updated (and it still doesn't do much for me).
Match the Typeface - This puzzle has not been updated (and I still have concerns that it won't work well enough for it's probable target audience -- kids).
Build (h)and Share (watch video) - This really turned out nicely and the YouTube video really shows it off. I think this is a complete success with only one slight flaw -- it appears that you can construct an unsolvable maze, especially if you're putting the pieces on somewhat randomly.
Erik & Styx Double-sided Puzzle - I think I've figured something out -- if I understand it correctly, the pieces are not double-sided. Instead, all pieces have part of an image on one side and are blank on the other side. When you make one of the figures, half the pieces are up and half are down. When you make the other figure, all the pieces are flipped, so that the ones that were up are now down and vice versa. The puzzle is figuring out which of the pieces go with which of the figures. If I'm right, this makes the puzzle a lot more interesting and the designer would do herself a favor by explaining this better (though I do think it would work better with stronger images). If I'm wrong, never mind.
Puzzle Box - Unfortunately, the final pictures don't show me enough to get a better (or worse) opinion. It doesn't help that everything is black, so I'll add the one comment that it would look more elegant if the levers were a contrasting color. Could be interesting, but it's hard to tell.
InterlaceCircle - This puzzle has not been updated. This is probably the best puzzle, but I just can't conclude that without seeing the final Ponoko-made version. We can tell from other entries that they didn't always come out like predicted. Sorry.
Gears - Certainly looks a lot better in photographs, but this part of the description bugs me: "It's harder than it seems, you will need all but one piece." It's just not elegant to have a piece left over. The too-tall rods also bother me and I think might make it more fragile. I think there is a clever idea here but the puzzle as a whole doesn't work. Contrast this with the Gears puzzle that Google had as part of the online puzzles for The da Vinci Code movie. Like some others, what's here lends itself more to a set of puzzles than a single puzzle.
Of course, I have no idea who Ponoko will pick. But here are my personal choices.
Updated June 3rd with corrections on Tessa puzzle.
After playing around with designs and pricing on Ponoko - it would be nice to have a comparison for how much it would cost to purchase each puzzle/game.
If it has curves and raster engraving then it probably would cost a bundle to produce.
My vote is also with the layer puzzle. Stylish and minimalist - something to have on the desk for coffee breaks.


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Q: Scraper downloading and saving just 20 images I am trying to download and save images using a scraper but it only downloads the first 20 images while I want it to download as many images as possible.
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import os

url = "https://www.google.com/search?q=cats&sxsrf=ALeKk01diaA8AhwZsRpiMkZxaTUY6MuN4Q:1624119375856&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj62uGTjKTxAhWMIsAKHV12B74Q_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1848&bih=949"
folder = "images"

r = requests.get(url,stream=True)
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text,"html.parser")

images = soup.select("img")

try:
    os.mkdir(os.path.join(os.getcwd(),folder))
except:
    pass
os.chdir(os.path.join(os.getcwd(),folder))

i = 0

for image in images:
    if i != 0:
        link = image["src"]

        with open(str(i) + ".jpg", "wb") as f:
            im = requests.get(link)
            f.write(im.content)
            print("Writing: ",i)

    i += 1

A: with this code i get 109 jpeg
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import os
my_UA="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.98 Safari/537.36 OPR/58.0.3135.107"
headers = {}
headers['User-Agent'] = my_UA
url = "https://www.google.com/search?q=cats&sxsrf=ALeKk01diaA8AhwZsRpiMkZxaTUY6MuN4Q:1624119375856&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj62uGTjKTxAhWMIsAKHV12B74Q_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1848&bih=949"
folder = "images"

r = requests.get(url,stream=True,headers=headers)
soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text,"html.parser")
images = soup.select("img")
try:
    os.mkdir(os.path.join(os.getcwd(),folder))
except:
    pass
os.chdir(os.path.join(os.getcwd(),folder))
i = 0
print("total images found=",len(images))
for image in images:
    link=""
    if image.get("src"):
        link = image["src"]
    elif image.get("data-src"):
        link = image["data-src"]
    if link and not "image/gif;" in link:
        with open(str(i) + ".jpg", "wb") as f:
            im = requests.get(link,headers=headers)
            f.write(im.content)
            print("Writing: ",i)
        i += 1

-there are 2 properties "src" and "data-src"
-It skips gifs.
-For more files you can do it with selenium for example

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Where two or three of David Cameron's old friends are gathered together, they usually ponder the paradox. The PM is able and articulate. He has a strong personality. Why, therefore, is he bad at projecting himself? Why are there reports, from all over the country, of alarm and despondency in Tory associations? People who desperately want to be loyal Tories are complaining that they do not know who their leader is or what he stands for. So what is he doing wrong?
There is a basic problem. Mr Cameron does not have the right temperament to lead a party of drug addicts in difficult times. (The drug is, of course, Thatcherism.) David Cameron is equable. At ease in his own skin, he is neither driven by anger nor by the vexations of nostalgia.
Many politicians are prone to if-only-ism. Late at night, over a ruminative whisky, they construct scenarios which would transform the political landscape – if only several crucial factors were radically different. Margaret Thatcher was a chronic if-only-ite. David Cameron would regard all that as a complete waste of time. His political creed is realism, realism, realism. If it could never work, what is the point of fantasising about it? Mr Cameron is the Platonic idea of the Anglo-Saxon pragmatist.
But many Tories still clasp another idea to their bosoms. A wonderful girl who became a warrior queen – whose refusal to be bound by the constraints of reality enabled her to save her country: who became our greatest ever peace-time leader. To many Conservatives, Margaret Thatcher is still the template of political leadership. In thus extolling her, they are right, and wrong.
Back in 1979, she was exactly what the country needed. In plain view, there were enemies: the Soviet Empire, lawless trade unionism, the nationalised industries, chronic inflation. By 1990, they had all been defeated, except for inflation, and even in its case, there had been a profound cultural change. Inflation was no longer seen as chronic and incurable, but as a blight and a disgrace. After all, the resurgence of inflation was the principal cause of her losing the leadership. As long as British history is studied, historians will be arguing about the Thatcher legacy, and any account which seeks to belittle her achievements would be worthless.
That said, the battles of the 1980s should not be regarded as a normal chapter in the history of British politics. If at all possible, we should try to avoid conducting government as if it were a form of social warfare. In many cases, it will be necessary to proceed via compromises: to introduce reforms which cut with the grain of the wood, instead of merely cutting down the tree. Margaret Thatcher may never have admitted it, but she understood all that far better than the mythology acknowledges. Take public spending. During her premiership, it increased steadily. Take Europe. By 1990, the EU's powers to regulate British affairs were significantly greater than in 1979. In both cases, indeed, she could be criticised, for being insufficiently Thatcherite.
Some Tory radicals believe that there is an inescapable choice between low taxes and high-quality public services. A wise Tory, while agreeing with Professor Laffer that lower tax rates will produce higher tax revenues, should also understand that many voters would find that a paradox too far. Subtle persuasion will be necessary to convince the voters that tax cuts, far from being the enemy of public services, will help to pay for them. But if Tories ever fall into the trap that the Lefties will set for them, and appear to claim that it is more important to cut taxes on the rich than to improve services for the poor – the argument will be lost. So will general elections.
There is an analogy with Europe. According to the opinion polls, many Tories now think that we could solve our problems with the EU by pulling out of it. If only life were that simple. If we are to have a viable economy, it is vital that we should continue to run a large proportion of the European continent's financial services. In Paris and Frankfurt, they may not agree. We British have always made a high proportion of our income on the high seas. That must continue. For the rest of this century, our economic ties with China will be steadily more important. Our hopes of economic growth are crucially dependent on that relationship. But in large measure, the Chinese will value us because we are a conduit to Europe. We have to find a way of exploiting Europe to our advantage: of turning table d'hôte into à la carte. We will not achieve that by slamming the door behind us.
These are endlessly complex questions, which should work to David Cameron's advantage. Most of those who have known him for ages agree that he has a wonderfully clear mind. Twenty years ago, when he was a young special adviser at the Treasury, he was endlessly good at taking one through difficult economic questions. You can only do that if you are absolutely on top of the subject. From what I hear about Prime Ministerial meetings in No 10, that is still the case. He sets off into the argument like a combine harvester, sweeping up and digesting as he steams ahead, never allowing himself or anyone else to be diverted by false hopes or unrealistic alternatives. He is also determined to ensure that he is surrounded by first-rate advisers, so that nothing ever slips through because it has been insufficiently scrutinised.
That is how a good prime minister ought to behave. So why is he not given more credit? To return to the opening paradox, why are his own troops so dismayed? There is a simple explanation. He has not done nearly enough to take the public into his confidence. From the outset, he realised that everything was going to be much harder than he had assumed a couple of years earlier, in the era of sharing the proceeds of growth. He had still hoped that by mid-Parliament there would at least be the prospect of good news; and this is a man who was designed to be a good news prime minister.
As it is, in Margaret Thatcher's favourite saying, there is no alternative. The Prime Minister should employ a stratagem which is under-used in politics, and which is frequently successful because it is so unexpected: honesty. He should trust the electorate; treat voters as grown-ups; explain his view of events; admit his mistakes. He should also remind the British people that we have surmounted far worse problems in the past. He should not insult his hearers' intelligence by promising solutions which would depend on events outside his control. No one should feel condescended to; no one should feel that he is dumbing down his message.
"Trust the people," said Gladstone. As Mr Cameron is in coalition with Liberals, he might as well steal their best-ever slogan.


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KISS Announces Final Concert Date Ever
The band added 75 dates to the 'End of the Road' tour
Bob Diehl
The KISS End of the Road tour has a stop sign in sight, but it's way off in the distance. The band says the marathon trek will come to an end on July 17, 2021 in New York City,
Singer Paul Stanley made the announcement during their performance on the KISS Kruise over the weekend, while revealing 75 additional dates on the tour.
"We got a lot of great stuff planned, and we're gonna give you everything y'all deserve," Stanley promised. He pointed to a countdown clock behind the stage. At the time, it showed 622 days, 23 hours, 49 minutes until the final show.
The End of the Road tour began on January 31, 2019 in Vancouver and will have lasted two and a half years before all is said and done. KISS was already scheduled to perform in Australia, New Zealand and Japan this fall, and will now reportedly return to the U.S. starting February 1st in Manchester, NH.
While overseas this month, KISS will be involved in one of their most unique gigs ever. They'll be plugging in above the Indian Ocean with the goal of enticing sharks. Experts say they love the low-frequency sounds of hard rock. A select few KISS fans will be listening to the show and watching for the feared fish from the safety of a glass-bottom boat.


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A.	If such facility is proposed to be located in a village, the chief executive officer representing the town shall nominate four candidates, the chief executive officer representing the county shall nominate four candidates, and the chief executive officer representing the village shall nominate four candidates for consideration. The list of candidates is to be submitted to the President Pro Tem of the Senate or the Speaker of the Assembly within fifteen days of receipt of notification of the pre-application preliminary scoping statement.
A.	Yes. The statute provides exemption for:
(a) electric generating facilities with a generating capacity of less than 25 megawatts;
(b) electric generating facilities for which the federal government has exclusive siting jurisdiction;
(c) electric generating facilities for which the federal government has concurrent siting jurisdiction and has exercised such jurisdiction to the exclusion of state regulation;
(d) normal repairs, replacements, modifications and improvements of a major electric generating facility, whenever built, which do not constitute a violation of any Article 10 certificate and which do not result in an increase in capacity of the facility of more than 25 megawatts;
(e) electric generating facilities of 200 megawatts or less constructed on lands dedicated to industrial uses where the electricity generated is used solely for industrial purposes on the premises;
(f) electric generating facilities for which an application was made on or before July 12, 2012 for a license, permit, certificate, consent or approval from any federal, state or local commission, agency, board or regulatory body; and.
(g) electric generating facilities under construction on July 12, 2012.
A.	The presiding examiner will award funds on an equitable basis to participants during the pre-application phase to be used to make an effective contribution to review of the preliminary scoping statement, and thereby provide early and effective public involvement.
A.	No party that is not a signatory to the stipulation is barred from timely raising objections to any aspect of the preliminary scoping statement and the methodology and scope of any stipulated studies or program of studies in any such stipulation. A party that is a signatory to the stipulation may not object to any aspect of the preliminary scoping statement and the methodology and scope of any stipulated studies or program of studies covered in any such stipulation, unless the applicant fails to comply with the stipulation.
A.	A notice of intent to be a party must be filed with the Secretary to the Siting Board.
A.	Yes. All proceedings on an application including a final decision by the Siting Board must be completed within 12 months from the date of a determination by the Chairperson that an application complies, except that the Siting Board may extend the deadline in extraordinary circumstances by no more than 6 months in order to give consideration to specific issues necessary to develop an adequate record. The board must render a final decision on the application by the aforementioned deadlines unless the deadlines are waived by the applicant.
A.	The Siting Board must consider: (a) the state of available technology; (b) the nature and economics of reasonable alternatives; (c) environmental impacts found pursuant to subdivision two of this section; (d) the impact of construction and operation of related facilities, such as electric lines, gas lines, water supply lines, waste water or other sewage treatment facilities, communications and relay facilities, access roads, rail facilities, or steam lines; (e) the consistency of the construction and operation of the facility with the energy policies and long-range energy planning objectives and strategies contained in the most recent state energy plan; (f) the impact on community character and whether the facility would affect communities that are disproportionately impacted by cumulative levels of pollutants; and (g) such additional social, economic, visual or other aesthetic, environmental and other considerations deemed pertinent by the Siting Board.
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The Dunedin Tertiary Open Day is an immersive event designed to give you a first-hand experience of what the tertiary environment is like.
Dunedin Tertiary Open Day 2019 will be run over two days this year, Sunday 5 May and Monday 6 May. However, Monday is still the main day with all the usual activities – Expo, tours, presentations, sessions, etc. Sunday is a supplementary afternoon comprising of additional Health Science First Year presentations, college and campus tours, and a variety of other sessions and activities (see programme). If you are only able to attend Monday 6 May, you will still be able to see everything there is to offer, but if you can attend both days, you'll have a more relaxed and comprehensive experience. See the programme for specific times on both days.


Director Vasja Mihelcic, Scientist: Dr. Bostjan Dvorak, Production assistant: Jayson Rocha.
We are proud to announce that Windrose SAS distribution is bringing the documentary titled "The Chronicles of the Caterpillar man" to the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers in Stockholm that is held from 5-8.12.2016. It will be the first official presentation of the documentary to the film professionals from around the world.
The WCSFP's annual event is a must-attend gathering for producers, broadcasters and distributors working in specialist factual television.
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In lieu of flowers, a fund has been set up for Missy's Grandson Clark. Any branch of Canandaigua National Bank will accept funds for the benefit of Clark R. Templeton.
Missy was a loving, caring wife who stood by Van's side since June 21st, 1986. They had a wonderful life of adventure together, beginning with a cross country honeymoon trip and ultimately prospected for gold for two years. They returned to Rochester, NY and had their daughter, Amy D. Moir. Five years later Missy gave birth to her son, James "Jimmy" G. Moir IV. She loved these two children more than anything in the world. On June 20th, 2019 Missy stood by Amy's side as they welcomed her grandson, Clark Robert Templeton into the world. He was the light of her last year and she loved him dearly.
Missy stepped away from work after Jimmy was born to raise her two children. She watched the children of many wonderful families during this time as well. She remembered them all fondly and loved caring for them and watching them grow up. After these years, Missy returned to work at Canandaigua National Bank and had a wonderful career there. She loved her work, her coworkers, and her regular customers.
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Missy is survived by her husband of 34 years, James G. "Van" Moir III; daughter, Amy D. (Douglas J. Templeton) Moir; son, James G. "Jimmy" Moir IV; grandson, Clark R. Templeton; mother, Karen D. Webster; sister, Kimberly A. (Larry Dunton, Jr.) Webster; brother, Neal R. (Kelly) Webster; nieces and nephews, Kyle R. Webster, Michaela A. (Jared) Walker, Tyler R. Webster, Emily E. (Nate Miller) Hacker; and many Aunts, Uncles, Cousins and Friends whom she all loved dearly.
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Hammersmith Station
Postcode: W6 8AB
Categories: Buses, Step-Free Access, Tube, Tube Termini
Locales: Hammersmith
Hammersmith Station is actually two separate stations. There's also a reasonably large bus station above the District/Piccadilly part.
Hammersmith Station, District and Piccadilly Lines
Zone 2 Station / Streetmap Link / Journey Planner
Lines Served
District Line: west Ravenscourt Park Hammersmith Baron's Court east
Piccadilly Line: west Acton Town Turnham Green
(early morning/late evening) Hammersmith Baron's Court east
This is a good place to change between the District and Piccadilly lines, since you just need to walk across the platform to do so (there are only two actual physical platforms; one westbound and one eastbound — each has a side for the District line and a side for the Piccadilly Line) — in other words, cross platform interchanges. In fact, when Earl's Court Station was recently closed to the Piccadilly line due to engineering work on the escalators (late 2001 till Spring 2002), Hammersmith Station and South Kensington Station were the recommended places for people to change from the Piccadilly line to the District line if they wanted to travel via Earl's Court. (Baron's Court Station is similar, but wasn't officially recommended for the same manoeuvre, possibly because it has narrower platforms).
There are two exits, each leading into the Broadway Shopping Centre. The eastmost one is closed earlier than the other, at 10pm; it also opens slightly later (I've arrived here pre-6am, and only the westmost entrance was open --Kake).
Copies of the Metro newspaper are available from the westmost exit, or the bus station upstairs, but as with most stations they run out by around the end of rush hour.
Where To Alight
Depends on which exit you want. Westbound trains, go for the last carriage but one for the eastmost exit, and the first carriage but one for the westmost exit.
Where To Get On
Piccadilly Line eastbound: The far left of the platform (front of train) seems to have a lower tourist-density on arrival, also this is the only part of the platform that isn't particularly visible from the steps, so only regulars tend to wait here.
Architecture and Points of Interest
This station is a four-platform one. It's recently been refurbished and is a good example of a late-1980s style Underground surface station.
Cash machines
Two of them (I think Link and HSBC), inside the ticket barriers at the westmost entrance (bear left after entering the barriers and head for the back of the hall).
There's a kiosk selling cold drinks, chocolate, crisps, and a couple of papers on the eastbound platform. It's not open at all times, but it's always been open when I've been there on a weekday morning between say 7 and 10. There's what looks like the same thing on the westbound platform, but I've never seen it open, probably because I'm only ever on that platform after 5:30pm.
The Broadway Shopping Centre that the station exits into has toilets that cost 20p. They close around 11, though, IIRC.
Nearby food
The Broadway Shopping Centre has a quite nice Costa Coffee, plus the Old Trout pub, which I've not yet tried but does food. There's also a Tesco Metro.
The bus station upstairs has a little caff (again, I've not tried it).
If you want something a little more late night food-like, the Lebanese Taverna is good and close, but slightly complicated to get to. After passing the ticket barriers, depending on which exit you're at, either go straight ahead towards Tesco Metro, or go left and walk through the shopping centre until you see Tesco Metro. Either way, pass on the right of Tesco following signs for [Hammersmith Apollo]?, follow the window of Tesco around to the left, through the automatic doors, and down the steps to your left into the subway. Follow the subway right through without turning off, and once you're up the steps at the other end you should see it on your right.
Step-Free Access
This principally applies to the H&C line station, but I think that the District & Piccadilly has disabled lifts to the platforms.
Hammersmith Station, Hammersmith and City Line
Across the road there's a station at the terminus of the Hammersmith and City Line. There is no link between them; you have to leave one, cross the road and enter the other.
Being a terminus, all the trains are eastbound. There is a display that shows you which platform the next train will be departing from, but you can't see it from the platforms, only from the ticket barriers.
Hammersmith Bus Station
Upstairs from the <nowiki>District/Piccadilly</nowiki> station; has at least 8 or 9 different stops and serves lots of routes. Really grim at school and pub chucking-out times. I have met some interesting people while waiting for my bus here, though.
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