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So you want to get a Mac. Just sayin’.

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“The Obama administration gave them a grant of $3.7 million. I’ve been hearing about that. We’ve instructed that if any grants are going to that area, we are looking at it literally about an hour ago and also early in the morning,” Trump said.

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Bronze swords have been found by the thousands in graves, rivers, and bogs all across Europe. But because the alloy is so soft—and easy to mangle compared with later iron weapons—historians have long wondered whether these swords were battlefield tools or mere status symbols. Now, a team of archaeologists has staged modern fights with bronze swords to measure the resulting microscopic dings and dents. Sword-on-sword contact was a “big part” of Bronze Age fighting, they found, done with specific, artful moves that spread from region to region over time.

Bronze is actually harder than you might believe. If you can find a hardware store that sells bronze piping (not as available now as it used to be) or a marine supply store that sells bronze fittings, check it out.

CBS Insists Trump, GOP More Interested Saving Economy Than Lives

Are They Against Hope? CNN Trashes New Guidelines, Warns It Could Cause Deaths

Seth Meyers Calls Out CNN for Airing Trump’s “Propaganda Session”

Sniping by Rice, Schiff Won’t Slow Acting DNI Grenell

Column: The Late-Night Comedians Rage at Trump (But Marvel at Pelosi’s Ice Cream)

NY Times in Denial: ‘W.H.O., Now Trump’s Scapegoat, Warned About Coronavirus Early and Often’  Which they didn’t, of course; they said ‘not a problem’ until the corpses started piling up.

Deadspin Calls President Trump Self-Centered ‘Idiot’ Only Interested in Seeing Himself on TV

Univision’s Biased Coverage Of Trump Coronavirus Response On Display 

Joe Scarborough: Dr. Phil And Dr. Oz Spreading ‘Propaganda’ For Trump

Covid-19 Farce: Democrats Hint at New Impeachment Proceedings Over President Trump’s WHO Funding Stop

Cocky Joy Behar: Biden Could Disappear and Still Win Election Because of How ‘Bad’ Trump Is

California Mayor to Resign After Comparing Trump Supporters to KKK

‘Maybe He Should Get Up And Go To Work’: Gov. Cuomo Hits Back At Trump During Coronavirus Briefing (Trump Slams Cuomo: “Spend Less Time Complaining And More Time Doing”)

Howard Dean Refuses MSNBC Appearances Until Network Stops Showing Trump Briefings  Win-win.

Alyssa Milano Blames ‘Most F-ked Up President Ever’ for Lockdown Protests

More Than 400 News Outlets Partner With A Project Seeking Media To Beef Up Climate Coverage Amid Pandemic

Climate Change – Ebb and Flow of the Tide –Part 2 of 3

The pandemic could steer us toward a sustainable, resilient future

2020 expected to be Earth’s warmest year on record, scientists say

Climate change: US megadrought ‘already under way’

Alarms ring as Greenland ice loss causes 40% of 2019 sea level rise

Impact of a second Dust Bowl would be felt worldwide  Well, so would another asteroid strike.

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Though the bar exam is traditionally administered in July, the National Conference of Bar Examiners has already scheduled alternative dates for the fall. Meanwhile, a growing number of state bars have declared that they will permit new grads to practice law under the supervision of a licensed attorney until the bar exam can be offered again. Other states are considering waiving the exam requirement entirely for people who complete a term of supervised practice.

All of which raises the question: Was the exam necessary in the first place? In an era of specialization, few lawyers will ever use more than a tiny fraction of the material covered on the bar exam. But, for state bar associations, the exams are a useful way to hold down the number of lawyers.

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We have an early example of a fully-formed “lawyer foyer” – a full two-story entryway featuring a curved or otherwise showy staircase and a chandelier that can be seen from the outside via a transom window larger than the door above which it sits.

Let’s all have some fun laughing at somebody else’s taste. (They’re rich, so they don’t care what we think.)

The Other McCain is on the case.

For some time now, it has been apparent that a large percentage of people infected with COVID-19 are either asymptomatic or have such mild symptoms that they have never been tested for the virus. From an epidemiological perspective, this is a double-edged sword. If you’re infected but asymptomatic, you can spread the disease without knowing it. This probably explains, for example, why New York City went from having just one known case in early March to having hundreds of cases within a couple of weeks. It’s possible that many who spread the virus never knew they were infected because they never had symptoms.

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A vaccine for COVID-19 may be available by September, according to Oxford University scientists who are developing the vaccine.

A report in The Times of Israel said the scientists are expected to commence human trials next week for a coronavirus vaccine. A total of 510 people between the ages of 18 and 55 have been recruited to take part in the trial, The Times said, quoting British tabloid The Daily Mail.

He said that she said that he said that she said….

Babylon Bee.

An unknown masked man was attacked by a group of masked men, but he was saved when a mysterious masked man fought off the attackers.

Soon to be a major Netflix series … maybe … sometime….

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I am not making this up.

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The piece goes on to mention — twice — that Trump touted the drug, and notes that Media Matters says that Fox News touts the drug. But it offers no evidence that the woman’s death had anything to do with hydroxychloroquine.

Despite strongly suggesting that Trump had a hand in death of a defenseless 65-year-old woman, the reporter failed to speak to the physician who prescribed the drugs, or even to obtain additional confirmation about the cause of death.

And even if the drug did play some role in the woman’s death — it’s certainly possible; every drug has side effects, and there are over confirmed 200,000 coronavirus cases in New York City — the piece offers no evidence that doctors in Queens, New York are handing out z-packs because the president mentioned hydroxychloroquine during a press conference.

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The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to widen even further the growing class divides now found in virtually every major country. By disrupting smaller grassroots businesses while expanding the power of technologies used in the enforcement of government edicts, the virus could further empower both the tech oligarchs and the “expert” class leading the national response to the crisis.

In our increasingly feudal society, the small property owning yeomanry who operate the local businesses essential to Los Angeles shopping streets, and New York neighborhoods are already under threat and will be squeezed further by both the pandemic and its aftermath. But even more hard-pressed will be the growing, propertyless serf class that includes laid-off workers and the roughly 50 to 60 million workers in essential jobs, notes a new report from Richard Florida, and of those, 35 to 40 million require close physical proximity as opposed to those who can retreat to safety behind their computers. Roughly 70% of these workers are in low-wage professions, such as food preparation, and often, despite their increased risk, often lack health insurance from their employers.

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I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

Pakistan Re-Arrests 4 Men in Daniel Pearl Killing

Ride-by Shooter Arrested in Malmö

Sudanese Migrant Kills 2 During Knife Attack In Southeastern France

Knife Jihad in Romans-sur-Isere

NATO Meeting On COVID-19 Erupts In Greece & Turkey War Of Words Over Migrants

The Ikhwan in Switzerland, Part Two

Sweden Beset By New Crime-Wave Of “Humiliation Robberies”

Investigation Exposes Terror Ties Behind Islamist Charity’s Humanitarian Facade

*Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment*

Culture-Enriching Food Riots at the Asylum Center in Halberstadt

More Than Fifty Migrants Break Into Melilla

US Army Officer Reportedly Killed In Deir Ezzor Ambush: Syrian Media

5 Rockets Hit US Base in Afghanistan, ISIS Claims Responsibility

The Ikhwan in Belgium, Part 2

Stabby “French” Muslim Was Sick of Infidels

SOMALIA: Skilled Slaves Sought

Child Sex Abuse Rampant At Pakistan’s Islamic Religious Schools: Report

Culture-Enrichers in Udine Ignore Social Distancing, Spit at Carabinieri

Thanks to the Coronavirus, the Muezzin is Yodeling in Germersheim

Culture-Enriching Urinator Refuses to Serve His Sentence

Migrant Youths Riot In Belgium Despite Coronavirus Lockdown

Illegal Migrants Overwhelm Portopalo

Turkey Plans To Send Fresh Wave Of COVID-Infected Migrants To Europe, Report

NIGERIA: Islamic Terrorists Make A Statement

Palestinian Authority Joins Islamist Extremists in Spreading COVID-19 Conspiracies

“Major Blow To US”: Large Group Of US-Backed Fighters ‘Defect’ To Assad Forces 

Iran’s IRGC Comes Within 10 Yards of US Navy Vessels

Iranian vessels come dangerously close to American military ships

Iran Caught Spreading Disinformation on Social Media Against US, Israel

Iraq Warns That ISIS Now Using Coronavirus Crisis To Reestablish ‘Virtual Caliphate’

EnergySails Aim to Harness Wind and Sun To Clean Up Cargo Ships

Climate Claim: President Trump’s Travel Bans Shows We Need More Global Governance

Media Pundits, Lawmakers Push Claim That Stimulus Checks Will Be Delayed, Despite Treasury Department Statement Indicating Otherwise

New York Times Lauds WHO Against Trump, Quotes CCP Stooge’s Criticism

Hillary Clinton Says Trump Has No ‘Authority’ To Stop US Funding Of WHO  Sure he does. Democrats like Hillary gave the President that power; she didn’t bitch when Obama ruled by decree.

Declassified Horowitz Footnotes Show Obama Officials Knew Steele Dossier Was Russian Disinfo Designed To Target Trump

STUDY: CNN Airs Least of Coronavirus Briefings, Network Skips 7 Hours Over Past Two Weeks  They’re not in the business of reporting news, they’re in the business of bashing Trump.

Andrew Cuomo Hires McKinsey To “Trump-Proof” New York’s Plan To Reopen Economy

Biden Slams Trump: Acts Like ‘Nothing Is His Responsibility’

MSNBC’s Ruhle Suggests Biden Create ‘Shadow Government’

MSNBC Host Proposes Biden Form ‘Shadow Government’

A Left-Wing Group Targeting Trump Accepted $100K In Stock From A Chinese-Controlled Tech Firm, Filings Show

Outlets That Covered Steele Dossier During ‘Russiagate’ Go Silent as Steele’s Ties to Kremlin Revealed

‘Feminist’ Jessica Valenti: Vote for Biden Because ORANGE MAN BAD!

Joy Behar And Sunny Hostin Ask Lindsey Graham If Trump’s To Blame For Coronavirus Response

Biden Bashes Trump Base While Admitting He ‘Probably’ Can’t Reach Them

MSNBC Claims Trump Holding WHO Funds Is ‘Trying to Find a Scapegoat’  I guess they haven’t been paying attention.

‘His Narcissism Knows No Limit’ — Adam Schiff Criticizes Trump, Accuses Him Of Delaying Checks To Put His Name On Them

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The natives grow restless.

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I had no idea that such things existed, but it makes perfect sense.

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But nobody cares because, hey, it’s Africa, and white people are having problems of their own.

The moral of this story is that nobody gives a shit about what happens to foreigners when people in your town are having problems.

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Well, at least this hystericon will prod California to take some steps against this scam.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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As Tucker presses him on what legal authority he has to overrule the Bill of Rights, Phil Murphy keeps saying “science.”

But then, it turns out he’s also unable to answer very, very basic questions about the “science” he’s citing as his authority to repeal the Constitution.

He also can’t explain what “science” says that it’s safe for people to be in close contact in a liquor store, but not in a synogogue.

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Yeah, we really want to give these incompetents more money and power.

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In addition, new reporting says that the WHO was complicit in the Chinese cover-up from the very beginning, and that China knew about the virus but allowed it spread throughout Wuhan (and through the world) through six critical days.

Instead of warning their own citizens, China pretended there was no problem at all.

Rich Lowry, National Review cuck, attempts to cement his  position as a Servant of the Crust.

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This appears to be a very useful device, if you cook. If you don’t, it still looks like a useful device.

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Well, that’s what happens when Democrats run your state.

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The Speaker of the House has not only a small ton of ice cream, we notice, but also not one, but two enormous Sub-Zeros in her mansion on Pacific Heights in San Francisco to console her, not to mention her vinyard on the banks of the Napa River, and a million-dollar condo on the Georgetown waterfront. Odd, isn’t it, how filthy rich the tribunes of the poor and leaders of the war against the rich tend to be?

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Our news media have a business model that depends on stirring up hate & discontent.

Our political class get off on ordering people around so that they can be seen to be ‘doing something’.

This is not a good combination.

And YOU have to pay for it all.

Enjoy.

Alex Tabarrok, a Real Economist, is not afraid to go there.

I was surprised when Trump won. The economy was doing well, Trump had charisma but was erratic and made what seemed like many missteps (like disparaging people in the military) that it didn’t seem plausible he could win. Yet, he plowed through the Republican primaries and gathered a base of support that even people who have reason to hate his guts like Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham even they kowtowed. I don’t want to revisit the debates about why Trump won but one of the reasons was that his base felt disrespected by coastal and media elites–their religion, their guns, their political incorrectness, their patriotism, their education, their jobs–all disrespected.

And now maybe it is happening again. From the point of view of the non-elites, the elites with their models and data and projections have shut the economy down. The news is full of pleas for New York, which always seemed like a suspicious den of urban inequity, but their hometown is doing fine. The church is closed, the bar is closed, the local plant is closed. Money is tight. Meanwhile the elites are laughing about binging Tiger King on Netflix. It doesn’t feel right. I can understand that or feel that I must try to understand that.

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The Pennsylvania senate has passed a measure which would partially reopen the state by lifting the lockdown on most of the state’s businesses imposed by Gov. Tom Wolf (D), according to The Hill.

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Amid 20 years of fanfare about how big, dense cities are the future, the country had kept spreading out with nearly all population growth since 2010 occurring in the urban periphery and smaller cities. As a new study from Heartland Forward, where I am a senior fellow, demonstrates, both immigrants and millennials—the key groups behind urban growth—are increasingly moving to interior cities and even small towns.

The coronavirus, which has hit major American cities hardest so far, is likely to accelerate that trend.

Duh. Any urges I had to live in a dense city core in a high-rise apartment just evaporated. The woods are more and more inviting.

Both cases and deaths have been overwhelmingly concentrated so far in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and New York. Gotham has been the American epicenter; dense regions seem especially susceptible to pandemics. This has also been the case in Europe. Half of all COVID-19 cases in Spain for example have occurred in Madrid while the Milan region accounts for half of all cases in Italy and almost three-fifths of the deaths.

Not to mention that major metro areas are behavioral sinks and, not coincidentally, ruled by Democrats.

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Sure, we want to give these people more money and power.

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One thing is likely: higher education is in for severe belt-tightening. Enrollments are likely going to decline—maybe a little, possibly a lot. State subsidy monies will likely decline given the financial blow governments are suffering. Private gifts will decline, as will, in time, endowment income (in the short run, schools will probably raid their endowments some to assist with cash flow shortfalls).

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The financial reality is this: colleges are going to have to change, for example by shedding massive administrative bloat or by having some classes taught online very cheaply by foreign academics working for a fraction of American academic pay. COVID-19 may hasten the demise of a distinctive academic institution, tenure.

Which of those do you think college administrators will choose?

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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At home with only two Sub-Zero refrigerators plus a wide selection of ice-cream, servants, single malts, and heroin suppositories.

It’s a tough life being a Public Servant. (Or is it?)

What ever happened to ANTIFA? You would think, with state governments being fascist right and left (mostly left), they would be Occupying The Streets. But … nothing.

For that matter: If, as we are told by The Media, blacks are suffering disproportionately to The Virus, where is Black Lives Matter

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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s handling of the COVID-19 lockdown has stood out as one of the most severe and arbitrary in the US. Michiganders are unable to purchase gardening supplies but lottery tickets are fine. They can travel to Walmart but not to their cabins in the countryside. They can paddle a canoe but can’t ride a jet ski.

Many officials and citizens have had enough. A group of county sheriffs announced Wednesday that they will not enforce some of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s lockdown orders. At the same time, thousands of Michiganders gathered at the state capitol to protest her actions in a rally they dubbed “Operation Gridlock.”

Sheriffs from four contiguous counties in the northwest corner of the lower peninsula are placing their constitutional duties above the governor’s mandates.

Well, that’s what happens when Democrats run your state.

Acosta: Trump Is ‘Baghdad Bob’ on Coronavirus, Attacking China, WHO Is ‘Distraction’

Seth Meyers on Trump: ‘He’s so shallow he barely exists in the third dimension’  The Guardian.

Trump and Kushner could reap a pandemic windfall  Washington Post.

Trump’s comments ‘a full retreat,’ CNN’s analysts say  As of course they would.

On MSNBC, Reza Aslan Likens White Evangelicals to ‘Doomsday Cult’

‘Cover-Up’: Media Dust Off Trump Impeachment Playbook for Virus Crisis

Rep. Maxine Waters Claims Trump ‘Is Slow Walking America To Dictatorship’

Joe Scarborough: ‘You Can’t Be Conservative and Support Donald Trump’  Obviously, Scarborough things ‘conservative’ is a synonym for ‘sellout’, as his own career amply illustrates.

CNN Fact-Checker Ignores Biden Flubs Despite Vow to Cover ‘Both Sides’

ABC, CBS Demand CDC Director Trash Trump’s ‘Dangerous’ Funding Cut to WHO

Pelosi Says Trump’s Decision To Cut Off Funding For WHO Is ‘Illegal’ — Vows It Will Be ‘Swiftly Challenged’

BBC Touts Medical Editor Charging Trump with ‘Crime Against Humanity’ on WHO

Celebs in Lock-Down: Reiner & Co. Call Trump ‘Mentally Ill,’ ‘Dictator’ and Joke That He’s a Pedophile

Cardi B Slams ’45’ And Bernie Sanders Calls Trump The ‘Most Dangerous President In Modern History’ In Livestream Rant

‘Trump Is Killing Us’ Message Projected Onto Washington, D.C. Buildings

Stacey Abrams’s Group Will Target Democrat Who Endorsed President Trump

Senior Officials Reject Washington Post’s Claim That Trump’s Name Appearing On Stimulus Checks ‘Reeks Of Partisanship’

‘A Weak Person, A Poor Leader’ — Nancy Pelosi Explodes On Trump

Salon Fever: Trump and White Christian Nationalist Using Virus to Undermine Democracy

Meet “Anonymous” – And Here’s How Trump Aides Outed Her

MSNBC Spends Two Hours Siding with Pro-China WHO Over U.S. Since Trump Is ‘Worse’

How The Green New Deal’s Renewable Energy Mining Would Harm Humans And The Environment

Amazon Fires Employee Climate Warrior Leaders

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If it wasn’t already clear before the coronavirus outbreak, China is particularly aggressive in how it tries to control the spread of information, not just in regard to its own citizens, but people around the globe.

The COVID-19 pandemic has put these efforts on overdrive.

One eye-opener came when President Donald Trump got aggressive last week with a reporter from Phoenix Television, who first stated that Chinese companies such as Huawei and Alibaba have donated supplies to the U.S.

Then she asked the president: “Are you cooperating with China?”

Trump responded by asking if she worked for China or if her company is owned by the Chinese state.

Despite her denial, the answer essentially is “yes.”

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Of course. Who wouldn’t want to vote for an ugly black female race pimp to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency?  I guess Al Sharpton is regretting his choice of gender identity….

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The medical experts at The View Wednesday, sneered at Surgeon General Jerome Adams after he warned minority communities to stop dangerous lifestyle choices, such as smoking, that greatly increase one’s risk for dying from coronavirus at last Friday’s task force briefing. As data continues to show how black communities have been impacted disproportionately by COVID-19, co-host Sunny Hostin invited the show’s guest, Democrat congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, to spurn the Surgeon General’s common sense advice and insist that we needed socialism to combat “systemic racism” instead.

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We often ascribe a basic level of humanity to even the cruelest leaders, but People’s Republic of China leader Xi Jinping’s actions have forced us to rethink this assumption. Although the emergence of the novel coronavirus now known as SARS-CoV-2 was probably not due to China’s actions, the emphasis that its authoritarian system places on hiding bad news likely gave the disease a sizable head start infecting the world. But most ominously, China’s obsession with image and Machtpolitik raises serious questions about its lack of moral limits.

At some point the Chinese Communist Party learned of the epidemic and made a decision to hide its existence, hoping it went away. Exposés in Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post and the Chinese mainland’s Caixin show that the information that did flow out of China early in the crisis did so only because of the courage of individual Chinese people in the face of government repression. People in the Wuhan epicenter, however, began to get wise — and scared (here and here) — by the end of December 2019, forcing their government to say something. The authorities gave the impression of a nontransmissible disease already under containment. We know now this was entirely false, likely designed more to ease civil unrest than protect the people.

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Because they’ve done such a great job so far.

One of the first things they teach you in business school (or used to) is that when somebody screws up you don’t give them a promotion and a bigger budget.

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We have to have paper attestations filled out: name, address, date of birth, and only one of five allowed reasons to travel can be selected, one person in the car, and then the form is signed and dated. Six days ago, that was revamped to be signed by the date and the time stated, as outings can be for no longer than one hour. Just to be clear, when Steve cycles to the village early for the bread he must have this with him. We have moved to the app that the police can scan, but again it needs to be altered to reflect the time, etc., each time you go out.

Shopping is a nightmare, as I am supposed to stay here. I am allegedly high-risk, so we tried the web-serviced “Drive” collection system operated by French supermarkets. There are now no delivery systems here and, actually, the dreadful website for the collection system would have had you tearing out your hair – I think we are barely sane. Using it was a nightmare as the search engine was not very good and who ever coded up the products should have been fired.