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Still loving Xfce and I have been using the Xfce apps instead of their heavier counterparts - and that includes Thunar since 1.6.2 has the tabs feature.
There are two things that I miss from when I was using another desktop environment that included Nautilus instead of Thunar:
1. I was able to set it up so that when I was viewing the files as icons, the file-sizes appeared below the file names under each icon. That way I didn't end up switching back and forth from icon view to detailed view.
2. I was (somehow, do not remember how) able to set it up so that, if the file was an audio file, I could hover my mouse cursor over the icon and the audio file would start playing, for a "preview."
Are there any plans to add the above features to Thunar? I don't know how difficult it would be, whether or not it would add a lot of "bloat" to the app or, indeed, whether or not there is any interest.
Thank you for all that you do,
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I agree these are some good features, but I think Thunar's main goal is to be as light as possible.
I think the second point is not important now. More important is to include other basic features such as Safe Removal. I've search all over the internet for a solution to Safely Remove Devices in Xfce, but with no success. The only way is to use the command-line udisks or palimpsest (graphical app) (both are the same). Every file manager I've tried so far has this feature, but in Thunar is missing. Thunar is my favourite lightweight File Manager by far and I hope you guys to include this feature in the next version.
Isn't it so that you always can put it in from the repository?
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We have been able to unmount volumes from thunar since a long time ago. Just click on the arrow that appears next to mounted volumes.
I know but that only unmounts the Device. When I click on Safe Removal in Palimpsest my device shuts down completely. I think this feature must be implemented like the unmount function.
I know but that only unmounts the Device. When I click on Safe Removal in Palimpsest my device shuts down completely. I think this feature must be implemented like the unmount function.
Install "ejecter" to have possibility to unmount devices from the panel.
I'll stick with Palimpsest for now...
I can see why
Strange, in my Xubuntu12.04 ejecter works just fine, and has never crashed.
In the case a dev is reading this, I add some things to the wishlist:
* support for .xdg-volume-info files (to use custom drive icons, asked about that much time ago, seems due to a gtk-gnome bug, I don't remember anymore...)
* text files thumbnails like gnome 2 (showing inside text)
* drag and drop or paste text into a folder or desktop creates a text file containing it (like gnome 2)
* when double clicking executable text files, ask if run or open with editor
* custom columns like nautilus
* as already said, ability to "safely remove drive" not just unmount
Obviously adding everything could be not OK for a lightweight file manager, I just posted this so maybe someone may think about it...
Thank you anyway for your work!
What's the difference between "safely remove" and "unmount?" I had assumed that it was just semantics, that "safely remove" was the same function and just a transplant from Microsoft Windows, where users might not know what mounting/unmounting means.
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What's the difference between "safely remove" and "unmount?" I had assumed that it was just semantics, that "safely remove" was the same function and just a transplant from Microsoft Windows, where users might not know what mounting/unmounting means.
Actually, I was asking myself this question long time ago and I though there was no difference until I plugged out my usb and after the second plug in, it dind't show up, like it was broken. I had to delete the partition of the USB then create a new volume in order to work again...
I don't know what's the difference, but I think that with safe removal you detach the device virtually, then physically. Plus when I click unmount, my device doesn't disappear from desktop but stays invisible and ready for use.
I'm really glad that someone is actually reading our posts and has intention of doing something. If those features in the list below could be implemented, the file manager would have a finished look and touch. My suggestion is to make some of the features choosable so that the user can decide for himself, whether they are heavy or not.
Edit: As I was shifting around my the icons in the side pane, I noticed that I can't move the system icons or do anything else with them (Home, File System...). Another feature that you can include, as I think, is the ability to add new categories in Side Pane and also separators also. :)
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What's the difference between "safely remove" and "unmount?
udisks --detach
detaches the drive (from man udisks).
For example, my external hard disk if just unmounted stays on until cable is disconnected, while with safely remove it is powered down via software.
Then I need to disconnect-reconnect it to use it again (or maybe there is some software trick to power it on again ???)
I prefer to use "software power down" before disconnecting it, but I'm not sure if I'm just paranoid or if it's really safer.
... Remembering when on my 386DX you had to run "park" before shutting down pc :-P


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I did not invent the term, nor have I explicitly approved it or disapproved of it. I consider myself pro-life because my views on abortion, capital punishment, euthanasia, assisted suicide, embryonic stem cell research, and IVF are all consistent with positions of the pro-life movement.
Thank you for calling me dishonest, though. I find that ad hominems are the best way to show confidence in my views, and clearly you agree.
The abortion debate is one that seems to be getting louder and louder in today's society... This is my take... Abortion is wrong, in all cases except if it is endangering the life of the mother. From a religious or secular view I believe that the very Idea that this is still something we debate is rather sick. Am embryo, a fetus is not just a living thing, it is the embodiment of human potential. From the moment it is created it has the potential to be a great person. To think, to create, to love, to be loved. It has the potential to change the world, and taking that away is just sick and frankly a crime against the species as a whole. A human being is the most powerful thing in the known universe and cutting it off before it gets a chance is just not right. Please tell me I am wrong.
Despite this cognitive dissonance, I would never advocate for it to be illegal and I believe, wholeheartedly, that abortion should be widely available and inexpensive (or free).
This is disingenuous, Mooby. The "pro-life" movement concerns itself specifically with abortion, not with any of those other things.
Your intellectual honesty, or lack thereof, is of very great relevance here; indeed, if you are not being honest, it calls your whole argument into question.
"I'm doing science and I'm still alive."--J.C.
Quote from: jaimehlers on January 06, 2014, 11:25:01 AMThis is disingenuous, Mooby. The "pro-life" movement concerns itself specifically with abortion, not with any of those other things.No, he's right. To expand on that, there is a very specific collection of, more or less, coherent perspectives that are considered Pro-Life and they do include anti-abortion, IVF, capital punishment, etc. These are also generally rooted in catholic doctrine and endorsed by the RCC, though I am sure you would find some non-catholics among the movement. However, it is a little like the way people abuse the word "theory". There are other anti-abortion folks who also call themselves "pro-life" who do not subscribe to all of the above views, as you pointed out. In my experience (not rooted in data) these tend to be the majority of the pro-lifers. Possibly because of that, when people say "pro-life", it is generally implied to be the latter, and not the former. Moob, who is catholic unless I am mistaken, means the former.
Excuse me?
What you're describing is a specific type of ad hominem fallacy: tu quoque. So yes, it is indeed an ad hominem fallacy.
However, it is a little like the way people abuse the word "theory". There are other anti-abortion folks who also call themselves "pro-life" who do not subscribe to all of the above views, as you pointed out. In my experience (not rooted in data) these tend to be the majority of the pro-lifers. Possibly because of that, when people say "pro-life", it is generally implied to be the latter, and not the former. Moob, who is catholic unless I am mistaken, means the former.
This actually underscores the point I'm trying to make.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is only one of a number of organizations that are opposed to abortion. They may be pro-life in most, if not all, respects, but can you say the same about every other anti-abortion group out there? You shouldn't imply or state that because a group calls itself pro-life, that they actually are pro-life in every respect. That is what I refer to by disingenuousness - not noticing or ignoring other "pro-life" groups (which aren't pro-life in most situations), while pointing to a few that are.
Someone, like, say, you, can point to a specific pro-life group like the USCCB, giving the implication that the entire pro-life movement is like that, when in fact it isn't. That's dishonest,
anti-abortion groups have focused the idea of being pro-life specifically on being opposed to abortion, as a form of propaganda so they can refer to their opponents as pro-death or anti-life.
Which point are you trying to make? If it is that he is disingenuous, I disagree. He clarified what he meant in some detail. http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/forums/index.php/topic,24328.msg593251.html#msg593251
He agreed this did not necessarily include everyone who called themselves "pro-life", but that there was a range of issues covered. He also left room for discrepancy, since he said he was not the "lord of labels". I agree, Mooby can be obnoxious and slippery, but let's not get carried away.
I'm pretty sure that I mentioned earlier that there are people who identify as "pro-life" but do not apply it to all life issues. I also never claimed that every organization has the same goals. I am most familiar with the Catholic pro-life stance, which is why I cited the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.
If you think that abortion is the only face of the pro-life movement, then you must not be paying attention. The pro-life movement has spoken up on several life issues over the past several years. When embryonic stem cell research and cloning became realities, pro-lifers spoke up. During the Terry Schiavo controversy, pro-life activists (along with disability rights activists) spoke up. When Oregon legalized physician-assisted suicide, the Oregon pro-life groups responded. Yes, abortion is certainly the biggest issue pro-life movements face due to its scope, but it's not the only issue the movements address.
I explicitly stated the entire pro-life movement wasn't like that, so perhaps you should read my posts before calling them dishonest.
In other words, this claim of yours that American pro-life groups only focus on abortion is a load of garbage
I like "pro-life" because it has a broader scope than "anti-abortion" and more accurately describes my position.
I think "pro-choice" and "pro-life" are actually pretty good descriptors of each side's position on the issue, which IMO is important because the two sides are arguing two fundamentally different things. "Anti-choice" and "anti-life" are rather poor descriptors, by contrast, because the pro-abortion camp is not motivated against life and the anti-abortion camp is not motivated against choice.
I went back several posts to get some additional context, and so I caught that. However, your original response to me on this, which was two words and a link to the USCCB website, was not very helpful. In fact, it added to the appearance of being disingenuous.
Are you willing to acknowledge the point that referring to a movement as pro-life (or pro-choice, for that matter) lends itself to calling opponents of that movement anti-life (or anti-choice)?
You may define "pro-life" as being anti-abortion, anti-euthanasia, anti-stem cell research, and so on, but those are all things you are against.
Even you admitted that abortion was the biggest issue facing pro-life groups. Perhaps you should spend some time considering just how much - or how little - emphasis those groups actually give to anything besides abortions, instead of simply reading their mission statements. For example, check how much funding those groups put towards abortion stuff, as opposed to the other issues you mentioned.
This may come as a shock to you, but I consider myself pro-life as well as being pro-choice - and more to the point, not pro-abortion.
Is it ethical to try to keep someone who's lived a long life alive when their body starts to fail, whatever they want?
Is it ethical to make a woman go through the trauma of childbirth just because she got pregnant, when she was using birth control?
You might have different answers than I do on those questions, but one thing's for sure - it isn't ethical to try to force others to abide by what you want, or to coerce them into doing it (say, through the law).
That last sentence of yours is exactly why calling one side pro-choice and the other pro-life doesn't really work. I think you'll find that there's a surprising amount of overlap between the two sides once you get past the true believers.
You quite confidently told me I was disingenuous and proceeded to tell me wrong information about what I believe without citing anything to back it up before I gave you that response. "Excuse me?" was the most polite way I could think of to express my reaction to such a disrespectful and arrogant reply.
I did not think to repeat my post from before because I had no reason to think that you wouldn't have read it.
No. I'm willing to acknowledge that some proponents on each side throw those terms around[1], but I don't see the use of the terms themselves of implying the opposite. 1. with anti-choice being about 3.7 times more popular than anti-life, if Google search results are to be believed
Again, here is my view: "if you want to twist it to assume that those who consistently assume positions on life issues that allow for the killing of a human as "anti-life," that's your problem." Same goes for pro-choice.
I do not define it that way. I define it as an ethical philosophy that places the intrinsic value of a human life as supreme.
Abortion is the one issue that has been constant for 40+ years and has resulted in millions of deaths. Other issues tend to come up when they're prominent. Embryonic stem cell research opposition arose with said research, and succeeded in barring funding for new stem cell lines. Euthanasia is still outlawed in the US, and assisted suicide has not spread nationwide. Capital punishment is only opposed by some pro-life groups, and is much smaller in scope than abortion (1359 U.S. executions since 1976 vs. 3126 U.S. abortions since this morning.)
So yes, they spend the majority of their resources facing the biggest issue.
If we're going to use the terms more casually, then I can give the same response.
No, I don't think it is.
I don't see how the birth control part is relevant. And no, I don't think it is, but I think it's even less ethical to intentionally kill a human.
Are you extending this to things like seat belt laws and speed limits? I find your position a bit vague here.
And what is this overlap?
The point I was trying to make was that there are groups which hide under the umbrella of "pro-life", but are narrowly focused, or else claim to have a broad focus (such as in their mission statement), but their emphasis is narrow.
I still think he is at least being somewhat disingenuous;...
I called you disingenuous because you said, "I did not invent the term, nor have I explicitly approved it or disapproved of it", and then went on to say how you considered yourself pro-life for various reasons - suggesting that you did indeed approve of the term as it applied to you, and by extension, others who are pro-life.
You might consider that it's very easy to springboard from "anti-life" to "murderer" and other such choice terms. Also, you need to read what I wrote a bit more carefully. I said that those terms lend themselves to name-calling, which they do. I'll certainly grant that not everyone engages in such name-calling, though, but it does happen. However, that might just be human nature at work.
Quote from: MoobyAgain, here is my view: "if you want to twist it to assume that those who consistently assume positions on life issues that allow for the killing of a human as "anti-life," that's your problem." Same goes for pro-choice.That's phrased somewhat awkwardly. 1. As in "not excellent, not poor, but fair."
Which is what I was looking for. You can't define what someone is very well merely by stating what they are not. But here's a serious question for you, then. If the intrinsic value of a human life is supreme, how do you determine relative value? For example, most adults instinctively try to protect children, even at the risk (or cost) of their own life. How would you work that into your philosophy?
That begs the question - what exactly are you considering an abortion?
In any case, what about other things which result in human deaths, such as smoking, to name one? According to the CDC, the number of Americans who die as a result of smoking is up to 443,000 per year (which doesn't touch on health costs, both to the smoker and to others). That may not be as high as the number of abortions in the USA, but it's still a pretty substantial number. And it's not something I hear pro-life groups talk about, let alone contribute money to.
Can you elaborate? Because you pretty clearly indicated that you were heavily pro-life...so I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this now.
What about someone who has a fatal illness, or cancer, and who doesn't want to be made to stay alive just for the sake of staying alive?
Why do you say the fact that she was using birth control is not relevant? And, if a woman gets pregnant, it's unethical for her to seek to end the pregnancy no matter what? If she used birth control, if she was raped, if there's a good chance of her dying as a result? None of those change the ethical equation?
I left that open intentionally to see how you would respond. I'm a little disappointed that you'd stretch it that far.
I was referring to forcing or coercing people into abiding by a group's ethical beliefs, say in abortion, or stem cell research, or other things along those lines.
For example, if someone wants to donate gametes to a scientific organization with the understanding that they'll be used to further stem cell research, I'd consider it highly unethical for a group to try to outlaw or forbid it because they disagreed with the practice.
as an aside, and just to satisfy my curiosity, does that me you are also against IVF and contraception?
I also gave examples above of people who identify as atheists yet disapproves the term "atheist" and a feminist who identifies as a feminist yet disapproves of the term "feminism." It's odd that you'd catch the thing I posted earlier yet miss the part I posted later.
I have no formal position on the word. None. As I've said earlier in this thread, the term is neutral to me. I neither approve of it nor disapprove of it. I do think it does a fair[1] job of summing up the general position of the pro-life crowd on life issues, but otherwise I don't really care all that much. Not everything in the word perturbs me, and the word "pro-life" does not. 1. As in "not excellent, not poor, but fair."
People are going to call names regardless of what terms we use. "Murderer" will be used regardless of what those against abortion call themselves. Are "anti-life" and "anti-choice" such huge problems that we need to abandon the terms "pro-life" and "pro-choice?" I don't know. Probably not. Do I particularly care, and/or does it affect my life in any significant way? Not really.
My bad. In other words, I don't run around calling people anti-life. If you hold a position contrary to pro-life ideals, and because of this you wish to infer that you're "anti-life," be my guest. If someone else calls you anti-life, feel free to punch them or whatever won't get you arrested.
Excellent question. The basic tenet of the philosophy is that human life has an intrinsic value that supersedes all other values. So regardless of how much money you're paid, it's always wrong to kill someone, for example.Because of this, the conflicts we address are generally between the potential death of one life vs. another. Obviously we could go on for pages discussing the nitty gritty details, but in general we err on the side of protecting the more innocent party. For instance, if your life is being threatened by someone else, it is ok to use self-defense that may result in the aggressor's death because you are the more innocent party. Also, we tend to look more to positive action vs. passive inaction. For instance, a mother throwing her child in front of a car is far more culpable than a mother who fails to be a hero by diving in front of a car to save her child.
Any induced termination of a human from conception until delivery.
Smoking is a risk factor for all sorts of things that can lead to death, but it is not a form of suicide. People generally don't smoke because they want to kill themselves, smoking generally takes many years to cause death, smoking itself generally doesn't cause death but rather leads to smoking-related health conditions, and not everyone who smokes will die from their smoking.In other words, smoking is a huge health problem and should be addressed, but it doesn't really fall under the mantle of pro-life. We're focused more on the things that are intentional, direct affronts to human life.
If you're for legalized abortion but can also be pro-life in the sense you value life, then I can be against legalized abortion but pro-choice in the sense that I still want to provide plenty of options. There are many choices that can be made that limit abortion or eliminate it altogether, and I'm all for having as many options as possible. Just not the option of abortion.
Birth control certainly does not. Making a rule that a woman who used birth control can get an elective abortion over those who did not suggests that it's the latter woman's fault she has an unplanned pregnancy, that the latter woman deserves her pregnancy for not taking the proper steps in advance. It's thinly veiled slut shaming.
I realize rape is contentious, but it still doesn't change the equation for me. Rape is a terrible, terrible thing, but for me it comes down to the intrinsic value of human life overriding the terribleness of the rape.
Risk to health is a sticky one, because here you have risk of death by passive means vs. an intentional killing. I'd say the latter is worse but then again I can't ask everyone to be a hero. So I'm going to weasel out and say that after exhausting all other options (and it's very rare that some other option isn't at least available to try), it might be ok. Preferably killing via double effect if it's at all possible.
Then you shouldn't have left it that open. I prefer couches to love seats; if you give me room to stretch out, I'm going to stretch.
That's done all the time, though. Laws forbidding stealing coerce people who don't believe in personal property to abide by the majority's ethical beliefs. Laws forcing a group or government to recognize a same sex marriage impose an ethical belief on that group/government. And so on.
I'd say it's not my (or the government's) business in most cases where the effect is limited to those making the decision. But on an issue centering around whether one human is allowed to kill another, I think it perfectly within the rights of the government to protect the latter person from being killed.
Donating gametes just concerns you, so I'm fine with it.
A miscarriage is a natural death, so no.
That you're apathetic? That you don't think about it?
Then maybe you can enlighten me on something. If you don't particularly care about things like this, then why are you talking about it?
Seems to me that in the former case, the mother is committing murder, whereas in the latter, the mother is simply not acting. Is it correct to say that you would find a mother who died to protect her child by throwing herself in the way of a car even less culpable for causing her own death because she acted to save another?
Also, what about a situation that's less clear-cut? Like, say, someone who's otherwise innocent risking their life to help save the life of someone who's not. Let's say you have a convicted murderer, and someone gets beaten to death shielding him from an angry mob?
I can't say I agree; this seems like mincing words to get around inconvenient facts. When you consider that the average smoker cuts at least a decade off of their lifespan due to those health problems you acknowledged, when you consider the harm that smokers can do to others, including reducing their lifespans - especially to the 'unborn' that pro-life people make their top priority, not to mention young children born to parents who smoke - seems to me that it fits the bill of an intentional, direct affront to human life. But that's just my opinion.
While those aren't a direct result of putting the value of a human fetus above that of a grown human woman, they're the natural end result of such an attitude, at least over time. That's what happens when you automatically value one specific quality over every other. Doesn't matter whether it's innocence, intelligence, physical strength...whatever. By valuing one quality more than all others no matter what the circumstances, you necessarily must value all those others less.
The problem being that this attitude basically treats an entire category of human beings - women - as if the value of their lives is less because they can get pregnant. That they don't have the right to make decisions about something intimate to them like what they can do if they get pregnant. That devalues their lives even under the best of circumstances - it treats them as if they don't have the right to make such a decision for themselves.
There is something to be said for exercising discretion.
The latter doesn't force anyone to get married to someone else of the same sex, though. Indeed, all it really does is ensure that same sex couples get the same rights as opposite sex couples already have. As for the former, what it actually does is keep someone who doesn't respect personal property from imposing that ethical standard on others.
Even if it's donating gametes for the express purpose of fusing them with other gametes (and thus having a fertilized egg)? Though I suppose you'd call that in vitro fertilization, even though it really isn't.
In the sense that there's nothing 'wrong' with it, I agree. But someone dying in a car accident is hardly a natural death. Would you consider that wrong?
Quote from: Mooby on January 08, 2014, 08:41:29 PMA miscarriage is a natural death, so no.So death induced by god is fine. Thank you for highlighting your double standards.
Quote from: Ataraxia on January 09, 2014, 02:50:02 AMQuote from: Mooby on January 08, 2014, 08:41:29 PMA miscarriage is a natural death, so no.So death induced by god is fine. Thank you for highlighting your double standards.It much worse than a death caused by god. When popping the soul into the zygote, god already knew it was have to die so why even pop a soul in anyway?Oh, and while we are at it, how does the theist know when the soul is popped into the zygote/foetus/baby? It would actually seem more likely that the soul is added just before birth to save wasted souls.
I'm not the one who brought it up. Other people got bugs up their butts and started calling me disingenuous over it. But I agree with you that I really shouldn't need to defend the fact that I don't have an opinion on the word. It's not my problem.
Someone choosing to undergo a high risk of death in the name of heroism is fine by me. Unless the person getting beaten to death was trying to commit suicide rather than save another.
Regardless of your opinion, it's just way too nebulous and indirect to qualify as a life issue. IMO it's much better classed as a health issue.
That's an argument from consequences, though.
I am fine with a woman making whatever decision she wants about herself. I am against giving her the choice to kill someone else. If she finds a way to remove her pound of flesh without spilling blood, I'm all for it.
If you wanted to exercise discretion, then you should have done so when you asked the question.
Are you shifting your view? You merely said before that no law should force or coerce others to abide by someone else's code.
Yes, I would call it that. [wiki=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivf]"In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a process by which an egg is fertilised by sperm outside the body: in vitro."[/wiki] How is what you described different from that?[1] 1. Unless you somehow intended "fusing" to denote artificial insemination?

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Atlanta . They have not been getting much scoring from their third- and fourth-line centers.
If Briere is going to miss six weeks, it's likely that general manager Paul Holmgren will add a veteran forward to the mix.
Brendan Shanahan would have been a perfect fit _ and the Flyers made a strong run at him. At one point, Shanahan was leaning toward the Flyers, but he ended up signing with
New York home and his kids don't have to change schools.
Forsberg, 35, has been skating and testing his ailing right foot in and mulling a comeback; he reportedly would be willing to play for
Colorado or the Flyers.
"If it doesn't work now, I'm forced to give it up for good," Forsberg told the Swedish tabloid Expressen on Tuesday.
Forsberg made a late-season return to
Colorado last year, but injuries kept him out of nine of 18 regular-season games and three of four games in the second round of the playoffs.
Forsberg won two Stanley Cups with the Avalanche, who are currently a longshot to earn a playoff berth this season.
The Flyers are one of a handful of strong Eastern Conference contenders, but they need a healthy Briere. Or a suitable replacement _ preferably someone with good size who can match up against physical teams like
Washington in the playoffs.
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Vegeta119 wrote:*is suprised he didnt see a "Keep Decoy Out" rule*
You missed a rule.
I agree. Most MEPs I've watched were a total waste of time. Mainly it's these band tribute MEPs that take the cake at sucking..Minion wrote:i wanna stop seeing all of these band tribute MEPs. i don't think i've ever watched one that didn't suck.
BunofGovt wrote:Tell everyone ahead of time that each submission is going to be reviewed for acceptability.
Review the submission/have someone else review it and decide if you want to keep it in, have the editor make some edits to see if it gets better, and if you don't want it, tell the editor why.
I've had that happen to me before, I have no problems with it (waah!) as long as I know why I'm... um ... why the submission is being rejected.
BasharOfTheAges wrote:I'm honestly thinking of doing something MEP related soon, and since the other guide thread was locked after 2 years of no posts i gues this has become the defacto sticky for advice...
Anyway, what's the best way to ensure quality asside from handpicking all the editors for the project and hoping they'll give you the time of day / commit to the project? I'm interested in keeping the quality of what i'm proposing fairly high, and really wasn't sure of how to go about setting up a thread here when the time comes - a screening of past work? Of course i plan to pass the mix i'm using around to people before hand... but if worse came to worse and everyone was busy (as i can see many people are), what would be the more acceptible means of saying "i don't want people in this project that suck?"


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Choiix Cruiser Review
Have you had enough of your track pad on your laptop? Maybe you are sick of having a ton of cords sticking out of your laptop when you are trying to get some work done while on the road, what ever your reason is for looking at a new laptop mouse, Choiix may just have the solution you are looking for. Choiix has just released a new wireless laptop mouse full of some useful features for the laptop user on the go. The Choiix Cruiser is an ultra portable, small wireless mouse that will work on just about every surface you could think of, making it a perfect solution for your on-the-go needs. This is no gaming mouse so you are going to be getting the basic mouse features, however it is designed to fit your needs. I am very curious how this mouse is going to stack up against the competition out there.
Closer Look:
Taking a look at the packaging for the Choiix Crusiser, you are going to see that the front has a clear plastic cover that allows you to not only have a first hand look at the Cruiser but the Choiix Micro-USB wireless adapter for the mouse to communicate its movements to the computer it is connected to. When you look at the front of the package, you are also going to see the Choiix logo printed above the Cruiser logo. Under the Cruiser logo you are going to find a little bit of information about the mouse, it is a 2.4G wireless Blue Trace mouse packaged with a mouse pad. This is going to allow you to know exactly what you are getting inside of the package. At the bottom of the front of the package, you are going to see the Blue Trace Sensor badge with the description printed below it saying "provides the high precision and no surface limitations including most types of glass". When you take a look at the back of the packaging, you are going to see the Cruiser logo printed again, you are also going to find two different sections of features, one for the mouse pad and the other for the mouse. There are a few printed pictures to help illustrate these features.
When you open up the packaging for the Choiix Cruiser, you are going to find not only the mouse and the Micro-USB adapter, but you are also going to find two AAA batteries, the Cruiser Mouse Pad, as well as the user manual. The mouse pad has the Choiix logo printed in the bottom left hand corner with some different colored square designs above it to give it a more modern/appealing look to it. The mouse pad measures in at about 8" x 5.25" which is going to make it easy to put inside of your laptop carrying bag for safe keeping during your travels. The batteries that are included are Energizer, not some off the wall no-name brand. The Micro-USB wireless adapter is so tiny that it will literally fit on top of a quarter, it comes in at around 0.75" x 0.5".
Taking a look at the Choiix Cruiser, you are going to see that the overall design to the mouse is really simple, you have your necessary buttons, the right and left clicker as well as your scroll wheel and scroll wheel clicker. Those three buttons are the only ones that are included on the Choiix Cruiser, there are no side buttons on this mouse, however they are not really needed in everyday usage, they are just more of a convience. The back of the mouse has the Choiix logo printed on it to remind you who's mouse you are using, but the back of the mouse is really quite simple as well. The front where you are going to see your buttons and scroll wheel is pretty much just as simple as the back of the mouse.
The top of the mouse has a nice non slip rubber coating to keep your hand more relaxed while using the mouse. You are also going to see on the bottom of the Choiix Cruiser that there is a sticker with the model number printed on it as well as the serial number just in case you may need to keep track of the mouse.
Taking a look at the bottom of the mouse, you are going to find the On/Off switch so that you don't always have the mouse on and run down your batteries, right next to the On/Off switch, you are going to find the Blue Trace laser that is going to allow you to use your mouse on just about any surface that you may want to, which includes some types of glass surfaces! At the bottom of the mouse, you are going to find a button that is labeled Connect, this is what you are going to press once you have the mouse on for it to locate the USB adapter and begin transmitting its movements to the computer. You are also going to find a switch at the bottom edge of the mouse, this is going to pop the bottom section of the mouse out and raise it up for a more ergonomic feel to it. When you have the mouse poped up, you are going to find a hole at the back of the mouse with another switch by it, this is where you can keep the usb adapter inside of the mouse so you never will loose it.
When you adjust the height of the mouse, you are going to see a little bit of a difference in the design of the mouse, and it is going to look a little bit more comfortable to hold on to while you are working on your laptop. The height is adjusted by about half of an inch, which while in the palm of your hand, is going to be a huge difference.
Now that we know what the mouse looks like, it's time to take a look at the specifications as well as the features of the Choiix Cruiser.


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Manchester innovates: Actions vs. political hot airEDITORIAL
November 16. 2013 1:25AM
What was it that the losing mayoral candidate claimed over and over about Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas? Lack of vision? No legacy like a baseball stadium? And the mayor just rolled with the punches, saying talk is cheap.
Turns out, Mayor Gatsas has been quietly working, with many others, on a program that holds the promise of leaving a legacy for the Queen City far more important than a ball field.
As unveiled at Tuesday night's Board of School Committee meeting (and referenced in today's City Hall column on Page A3), the plan is to transform Manchester High School West into a learning center for science, technology, engineering, math, and art. The acronym is STEAM, so we are supposed to think of STEAM Ahead, Manchester.
Cute. But we don't think they should abbreviate. Words have meaning and science, technology, engineering, math and, yes, art, are important words for students and for the city's future. The plan is to encourage West students to enroll in these programs and, in many cases, obtain up to a year's college credit for doing so.
Nothing worth doing is going to be easy. But such a program is worth trying and the under-used West High is the perfect place to do it. If successful, it can be broadened to the other high schools.
Soon-to-be former alderman Patrick Arnold, the mayoral candidate, can now wipe the egg off his face. And he may one day be joined in the face-cleaning by members of the Hooksett school board who are hellbent on ending their tuition contract that sends high school students to Manchester in favor of farther-away Derry.
"West is Best'' may have a new ring to it.


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Finshed for Now: The Man Room
This space is mostly for the Mr. so he picked the finishes (specifically the paint color and floor tiles) and I did the rest with his approval. Obviously its a totally different style than the rest of the house but I like to think it reflects my husbands sense of adventure. Despite there being some pretty big limitations (those poles! no natural light! lots of doors!), it still feels open and has a good flow.
Added bonus: Its just about the only room in the house where there are no toys or other evidence of living with a 1 year old. Only time will tell how long that with last.
Sources can be found here.
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What a great man cave! I love it!ReplyDelete
Man Room? -Do you mean a Man Cave?ReplyDelete
I'm not that much of an expert since there is no (shackled) Mr. PinkP. in my life(bedroom), but... shouldn't a man cave be a room designed by men only & be a bit more... (I don't know)!? Oh, and yep the TV could be bigger. But don't tell him, no need to feed the monster.
Besides that, OYFG! I love the Globe & Map... gorgeous! :)Replies
Wow, it looks great! I too think the TV is too small but I've also fought the fight with my husband and lost. Now that we have a bigger TV I must admit he was right. Not that I would tell him though. ;)ReplyDeleteReplies
Hey - don't tell him that!Delete
All joking aside, we will eventually get a bigger tv for him (even though this one seems perfectly fine to me) . I had been waiting to hang the artwork while he was thinking over brands and models. Two years later, we are still waiting so I figure I might as well just do what I can now and I can rearrange when he decides.
Sorry, but he's right! You need a bigger tv!!Delete
Love this, S. It looks great! Love that media console/mid-century credenza.ReplyDelete
It looks so great! I love some of the quirky accessories!ReplyDelete
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I love it!! Such a great mix of textures and colors. I love the gallery wall and that rug is spectacular!!ReplyDelete
Looks great, Stefanie. I'd totally hang down there!ReplyDelete
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No. It was one of the big selling points of the house when we bought it. It was dry as a bone so none of that dank/mustiness of many basements.Delete
My hubs has a 55inch tv in his mancave that only seats 2 people and he still says it isn't big enough! They're never quite satisfied when it comes to their TVs.ReplyDelete
Truer words have never been spoken. If it were possible, he would make the entire wall a tv screen.Delete
Where did you get the couch from?ReplyDeleteReplies
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Yes, its tile - selected entirely by Mr. L. I didn't like it then and I still don't like it now but it does the job. I was very happy to cover it up with a rug :)Delete
love! can you share where the world posters came from? (sorry if you already did I and I glazed over the answer in the comments.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks. I got them from an ebay seller (noah image) a few years ago when the prices were very cheap. The prices have definitely gone up in the past few years but still pretty reasonable. http://stores.ebay.com/Noah-Images/Vintage-Posters-/_i.html?_fsub=547661012&_sid=742607152&_trksid=p4634.c0.m322Delete
Beautiful! Love the wide plank flooring you chose.ReplyDelete
OMG! It is gorgeous like EVERYTHING you do!!!! I love it! Where did the sign come from...the one that says ________ days without lost time? Love that! And if not a bigger TV, how about multiple TVs so he can watch a few games at a time? (sorry) :-)ReplyDeleteReplies
Ooooh I love it, especially the travel bits!ReplyDelete
I love the rug? Can we have more details on it, please? :)ReplyDeleteReplies
The rug is NuLoom Chevron in gray - which looks more blue than gray but I like it a lot. I first saw it on Rugs USA but an eagle eye reader suggested I check out the same rug at Overstock which had it $100 cheaper. I just checked today and RugsUSA has it $100 cheaper than Overstock. So it pays to price compare.Delete
Other source info can be found here: http://www.brooklynlimestone.com/2014/01/man-room-sources.html#.Ut_z0WQo6Wg
Gorgeous space! Love, love, love that rug!ReplyDelete
Love the space...as I love everything you do. I keep imagining we will bump into each other next time I am in NYC (it will be in March by the way) and we will be instant best friends. :) On a less stalkerish side note, I am in the market for a good sectional. What is your opinion on the quality of yours? Keep in mind I have a 4.5 and almost 2 year old little boy so it will take A LOT of abuse!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Julia. With as many people as we have, I don't think a bump in will be likely (I dont even bump into people I know!).Delete
We purchased a sectional from Jennifer Convertibles primarily because their delivery service would take the couch apart so it could be brought into the tight squeeze hallway door that leads to our basement. As a result, our options were pretty limited. If I had more options, I would have gotten something a little more structured (I dont like the loose pillows on the back). That said, its held up perfectly fine. The material is a microfiber that seems to attract plenty of cat hair but is easy to clean. And the price was reasonable. So overall I would give it a good review but would suggest a couch with more structured back cushions since I imagine those would get ruined fast with 2 boys. Hope that helps!
Would love to hear more about the rug and the coffee table! Thanks!ReplyDeleteReplies
Source post is up: http://www.brooklynlimestone.com/2014/01/man-room-sources.htmlDelete
Hi! I was just wondering how tall your ceilings were! We have 6 1/2 foot ceilings in our basement (with some lower pipes we're getting rid of, hopefully) so I'm just trying to imagine our possibilities! :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Liz - Our ceilings are 8 feet I believe. Certainly tall enough to walk around without any issues of hitting the ceiling. We had a low ceiling basement in our last house and had it dug out a few feet - it was a big project but made such a huge difference! Good luck!Delete


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The Spirit of the Downs is an exhibition by Sussex photographer Oliver Perrott.
The exhibition, which was showing at the Court Gardens Vineyard, Ditchling until October 16th, will be relocating to Highdown Vineyard, Ferring, West Sussex, from October 29th - with a Private View between 6:30 and 8:30pm on the 28th.
The 'Spirit of the Downs' is inspired by the South Downs way and the environment within the South Downs National Park. The images are captured on traditional film and explore the natural landscape and how it has been moulded and influenced by man's activities.
I visted the exhibition on its final weeked at Ditchling. The full series of 30+ photographs, which can be viewed on Oliver's website, features a range of traditional and contemporary vistas, intimate landscapes and portraits of people using and enjoying the landscape. Not surprisingly, the exhibition mainly features the more 'crowd pleasing' traditional and contemporary vistas.
Perrott's images - which are somewhat reminiscent of the work of Jem Southam in style - eschew picturesque landscape clichés and instead feature vistas which highlight the forms, patterns and textures of the South Downs landscape. I was particularly struck by two images. The first, a beautifully illuminated and simple intimate landscape of grass and water; the second, (shown below) a grander vista of the Downs meeting the sea, with a costal path picked out by a splash of light.
© Oliver Perrott
There's also a book on display where you can browse those photos from the project that are not part of the exhibition.
All the photos displayed in the exhibition are available as Limited Edition prints.
The exhibition is well worth a visit. It's great to see a local photographer producing such a varied project on the Downland landscape - a landscape that, with the possible exception of certain spots such as Beachy Head, doesn't garner the level of photographic attention it deserves.
Exhibition Details:Highdown VineyardA259 Littlehampton RoadFerringWest SussexBN12 6PG
Private View: Fri 28th Oct 6:30 - 8:30pm
Open to the Public:29th October 2011 to 30th March 2012Tues - Sat: 10am - 5:30pm Free Entry
The exhibition is produced by the Fawn Art Consultancy and supported by Village Interiors, Bell Gardens Ltd, Peacehaven Framing and Spectrum Photographic.
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We've been rather slack with featured photos in the last couple of months. We'll attempt to keep it regular from now on.
Ian's Flickr stream.
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A quick plug for a photography competition in aid of a local Sussex-based charity - National Talking Newspapers & Magazines.
The competition's theme is 'Weird & Wonderful'. Successful entries will be included in the charity's 2012 fundraising calendar.
The final date for entries is 22nd June 2011. It's a great opportunity to help a worthwhile cause.
Competition Details.
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Nova Photography (our day job) is staging their first Summer Exhibition of Photography by its Photo Club in The Pub students.
Sue Turner presented her series 'Ways In'.© Nova Photography
The exhibition showcases the work of three Photo Club in the Pub students, Pippa Nevard, Sue Turner and Peter Turner. The exhibition also includes photographs from a number of other students that have participated in the innovative Photo Club in Pub course, a six month group photography course for beginners and intermediate level photographers. The course encourages students to look at the world in a different, more creative way, learning photography and meeting creative, like-minded people. Club members meet once a month in a local pub, each month reviewing images from a previous assignment and discussing a new assignment. Part of The Exhibition - Foreground Photo by Jane Potter© Nova Photography
Exhibitor Ian Seccombe© Nova Photography
The Exhibition will then be open from 10am to 6pm from Wednesday 8th to Tuesday 14th June 2011. Please note the exhibition is closed over the weekend.The Nova Photography Centre is located just north of the Nevill Crest and Gun pub on the A26, just south of Tunbridge Wells.
Everyone welcome!
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Opening tomorrow as part of the De La Warr Pavilion's 'A Nod to Cage' season, Lucy Phillips is showing work from her ongoing project 'What Cannot be Seen'.
Lucy says: "what cannot be seen is an attempt to create a visual and textual archive of the unseen by returning to the fundamentals of photographic image making. Inspired by my own experiments with pinhole photography and French artist Sophie Calle's use of the camera as a covert device, I constructed 20 pinhole cameras from matchboxes and invited people to take part in a postal photography project via a Facebook status update. Participants were sent a camera loaded with photographic paper, instructions, and an invitation to photograph 'what cannot be seen'. The cameras were returned to me to be developed, together with an explanation of what the participant had photographed and why."Almost immediately the project developed its own momentum, with results being far more intriguing than I had anticipated. I was unprepared for the way that many people appeared to use the camera as a form of confessional and I was also gratified to find people becoming excited by the process of creating an image using such a basic piece of technology."Since these initial cameras were sent out, over a year ago, more than 100 people internationally have participated in the project. Some are friends and family; others are unknown to me. What started as an experiment has become an obsession and an exploration of the power of simple imagery and words to transcend individual experience."An ongoing project, and one which may never end, what cannot be seen is an invitation to reveal, to create and to play."
The exhibition runs 19 May - 5 June. There will also be a special event for participants and the public on Friday 27 May at 7pm, part of a Random Fridays event of performances and installations throughout the building.
More info.
Posted by Simon C on 05/19/2011 at 12:04 AM in Exhibitions & Events | Permalink
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Apologies for the brief hiatus!
Normal service should resume shortly...
Posted by Simon C on 05/18/2011 at 11:28 PM in SPP News | Permalink
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This month the Sussex Photography Project is featured in Sussex Society Magazine.
Four fine photographers who have had photos displayed on the website were featured:
Chester Tugwell - www.chestertugwellphotography.co.uk
Jack Taylor
Rhys Davies - www.rhysdaviesphotography.com
Vivienne Blakey - www.vivienneblakey.co.uk
A big thank you to all the above for allowing their photos to be used.
The magazine is freely available from a large number of outlets around the county. More information on the Sussex Society Magazine website.
Posted by Simon C on 04/08/2011 at 08:02 PM in SPP News | Permalink
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The East Sussex Open exhibition previews tomorrow at the Towner in Eastbourne.
The exhibition brings you the best of East Sussex's artists and makers, chosen via an open selection process. The exhibition includes work from a range of disciplines (including photography) and features work from, amongst others, St Leonards-based Lucy Phillips who we've featured previously on SPP and who exhibited at our My Sussex Exhibition.
The exhibition continues from 2 April - 2 May, and includes curator and selection panellist Sanna Moore's free talk and walk through the exhibition, with exhibiting artist Colin Booth, on Tuesday 19 April at 12.30pm.
Exhibition DetailsTowner, Devonshire Park, College Road, Eastbourne, BN21 4JJT: 01323 434670
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Jessica Simpson Jeanswear Sneak Peek!
Jessica Simpson shows Just Jared a sneak peek of her new Jessica Simpson Jeanswear fashion line at one of her NYC showrooms on Tuesday (June 22).
The 29-year-old entertainer wore a vintage New Kids On The Block t-shirt from What Goes Around Comes Around. "It was the very first concert I went to!" she laughed. "They were my life."
For the event, Jessica created an entire JustJared.com-themed closet, with screencaps of the site all over the doors. Loved the extra special touch!
Jessica's brand empire has reportedly made $500 million from all of their shoes, handbags, swimwear, lingerie, outerwear, and even luggage. It's a Jessica Simpson world, we're just dressing in it!
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Four Tet | DNO57
The hottest UK star pushing against electronic-ecstatic jazz boundaries has just hooked up with next planet's saviors of soul. This is Four Tet vs the Sa Ra Creative Partners! Colliding in a "Contusion" of Calypso-inflected tack-synth-melodies, squelchy rude basslines and utterly serious 'supercool' speak, this is the most explicit fun anyone's had with Four Tet's musical parts since Jay Dee got involved last year!
Ubiquity-signed Sa Ra have created a massive impact on the modern music world with their inventive blend of soul and hip hop slinkiness displayed on the debut "Glorious" and "Double Dutch" 12"s, a P-Funkadelic mastershow at London's Cargo, and remixes so far for the likes of N*E*R*D*, Medeski Martin and Wood and Roots Manuva. The super-producers sure show signs of confidence with the tricky joyful noise of their bold re-casting of Four Tet's percussive explosion of a track from the new album Everything Ecstatic. The rhythms are as bendy as you like and the party has never sounded so close and wild. We're also treated to Four Tet's own "Sun, Drums and Gamelan" remix of the track, which recalls Rated X-era Miles Davis. Not a bad place to find yourself.
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Several provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — the health care reform legislation signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010 — will help individuals with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, as well as their caregivers. Learn about them here. Please note that various parts of the health care reform law will be implemented at various times over the next few years. This page will be updated regularly as more information on specific provisions becomes available. Sign up for our e-newsletter and get the latest info on health care reform and Alzheimer's.
Medicare and health care reform law
Care coordination
Home- and community-based services
Insurance for individuals with early onset Alzheimer's
Quality of care
Medical research
Consumer health insurance website
The Department of Health and Human Services has launched a new, easy-to-navigate website — http://www.healthcare.gov/ (in Spanish at http://www.cuidadodesalud.gov/) — to help individuals find what health insurance options are available in their communities.
Medicare and the health care reform law
Drug rebates for seniors
At a certain point under the Medicare prescription drug program – a point known as the "coverage gap" or "donut hole" – Medicare stops paying part of the costs of a senior's prescription drugs, requiring seniors to pay the full cost themselves. This gap will be phased out by 2020. And, in 2010, all seniors who reach the coverage gap will receive a $250 rebate.
Fact sheet: The $250 Rebate for Beneficiaries Who Enter the Coverage Gap
Detection of possible cognitive impairment under Medicare
beginning January 1, 2011, for the first time, there would be a Medicare preventive service benefit for the detection of possible cognitive impairment.
This would increase the likelihood of early detection of cognitive impairment, thereby increasing the rate of diagnosis and allowing patients and families to plan their care at an earlier stage. The Alzheimer's Association submitted comments in support of this regulation.
Medicare Annual Wellness Visit fact sheet (2 pages)
Transitional care
A new Medicare transitional care pilot project will provide services to seniors at a high risk of reentering the hospital. Those with cognitive impairment are specifically included in the pilot project.
Care coordination
Individuals with Alzheimer's often have one or more other chronic medical conditions. As a result, care coordination – effective communication among medical and community care providers and connecting an Alzheimer's patient and his/her family with the services they need – is crucial to providing better medical care and to increasing the opportunity to remain at home. On this front, the final health care bill:
Establishes an "Innovation Center" at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to test various ways to promote care coordination in the Medicare program, with language specifically encouraging CMS to test care coordination models that include people with cognitive impairment and dementia;
Creates an "Independence at Home" pilot project to provide high-cost Medicare beneficiaries, including those with Alzheimer's, with coordinated, primary care services in lower-cost settings, rather than more expensive institutional settings;
Allows groups of health care providers who join together to provide care for Medicare patients to share in any cost-savings they would achieve by being more efficient and cost-effective, provided that these "Accountable Care Organizations" coordinate care for those with multiple chronic conditions; and
Provides private HMOs that participate in the "Medicare Advantage" program with a bonus payment for undertaking care coordination among seniors enrolled in their plans.
Home- and community-based services
Federal Medicaid payments will increase for those states that provide home- and community-based services to individuals who are otherwise eligible for nursing home care. This will encourage more states to provide – or to continue to provide – care for seniors with Alzheimer's in their homes and communities, rather than only through nursing homes.
CLASS Act
A new voluntary insurance program will help people who are unable to perform two or more functional activities of daily living pay for nonmedical services and supports – to help them remain within their homes and communities for as long as they can. Individuals pay premiums while they are working and then are eligible for cash benefits if they become functionally impaired. Eligibility for the cash payments specifically includes people who develop substantial cognitive impairment. Benefits can be used to pay for such things as home modifications, assistive technology, accessible transportation, homemaker services, respite care, personal assistance services, and home care aides.
Insurance for individuals with early onset/younger onset Alzheimer's
Previously, it has been difficult for individuals with early onset (also known as younger onset) Alzheimer's disease – those younger than age 65 – to get and keeping private health insurance. The federal government will now provide premium subsidies to low- and moderate income individuals to help them purchase insurance as well as subsidies to businesses that provide health insurance coverage to retirees aged 55 to 64. More important, insurance companies will be required to:
Issue insurance to all individuals who want to purchase it, thus ending pre-existing condition exclusions;
Renew the policy to any enrolled individual wishing to renew;
Maintain insurance for individuals who pay their premiums, thus ending the practice of rescinding the insurance coverage of high-cost individuals; and
Limit the premiums charged to older individuals to no more than three times the amount charged to younger individuals.
These new insurance rules take effect in 2014. In the interim, the health care reform law established Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plans in every state for those who cannot get health insurance because of a pre-existing condition.
Fact sheet: Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plans – Frequently Asked Questions
As of July 1, in states where the program is administered by the federal government (see Fact Sheet for a list of those states), you do not need a denial letter from an insurance company to prove the existence of a pre-existing condition. Instead, a doctor, physician assistant or nurse practitioner can provide a letter stating that you have or had a medical condition, disability or illness within the last 12 months. Below is a sample letter developed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for this purpose. Simply take it with you to your doctor.
Sample Physician Letter to Certify the Existence of a Pre-existing Condition
Quality of care
Workforce training
Skilled nursing facilities and nursing homes will now be required to provide dementia management training for nurse aides. In addition, training and certification programs will be developed for home care aides to ensure they know how best to provide for an individual's needs, including the needs of those individuals with dementia. Finally, funding will be provided for dental training programs, including programs that teach oral health care for people with cognitive impairment.
Quality indicators
For many diseases, expert panels of doctors and scientists have established quality care indicators – best medical practices for treating and caring for someone with a particular disease. Alzheimer's disease is not one of those conditions. The Department of Health and Human Services will now identify the diseases and conditions for which there are no quality care indicators and will then develop indicators for those conditions.
Family caregiver assistance
Education and training grants will be provided to Geriatric Education Centers. To receive the federal funding, these Centers must offer at least two free or nominal-cost courses a year to family caregivers, including instruction on managing the psychological and behavioral aspects of dementia.
Medical research
A new medical research program – the Cures Acceleration Network – will focus on developing treatments and cures for high-need diseases. Currently, many laboratory discoveries never make it to market; that is, no treatments or medications are ever developed. The Cures Acceleration Network will emphasize funding research that bridges the gap between laboratory discoveries and actual treatments so that more patients can benefit from discoveries made in the lab.


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STOCKTON - Bob Thomason witnessed many positives from his Pacific men's basketball team last week.
STOCKTON - Bob Thomason witnessed many positives from his Pacific men's basketball team last week.
The Tigers went 2-2, starting with a hard-fought loss on Monday at home to Oral Roberts, followed by wins over Xavier and Saint Mary's and a loss to Cal at the DirecTV Classic in Anaheim. Pacific was televised three times on the ESPN network while in Anaheim, and those who watched the Tigers saw a team that plays unselfishly and defends with abandon.
Pacific (3-4) made it home Monday morning and today will begin preparing for a game against another high-profile opponent, No. 12 Gonzaga on Saturday in Spokane, Wash.
"We're finding out what we do well, what we don't do well," Thomason said after Sunday's 78-58 loss to the Golden Bears. "We've got to build that confidence that we can compete against big teams."
On Nov. 19, Pacific battled but fell down the stretch against Oral Roberts, losing to the Golden Eagles, 69-67, in similar fashion to its 66-61 loss the previous Friday at Fresno State. The Tigers took a 1-2 record to Anaheim with a first-round matchup against perennial NCAA Tournament participant Xavier. Pacific shocked the Musketeers 70-67, becoming the first Big West Conference team to win a first-round game in the sixth year of the DirecTV Classic. The Tigers played exceptional defense and found success inside the paint. Trevin Harris came off the bench to score a team-high 16 points.
The following night, Pacific controlled a Saint Mary's team that features high-scoring guard Matthew Dellavadova, a member of the Australian national team. Lorenzo McCloud scored 18 points, and Rodrigo De Souza and Sama Taku alternated guarding Dellavadova and held him to 16 points, half his production the previous game against Drexel.
The tournament took a break Saturday, giving the Tigers time to enjoy Disney-land before Sunday's game with Cal of the Pac-12 Conference. From the opening tip, the Golden Bears' length and size, and playmaking guards Allen Crabbe and Justin Cobbs bothered the Tigers, who seemed to lose some of the verve they showed in their previous two games. Pacific cut Cal's lead to five points in the second half, then the Golden Bears stepped on the throttle and shots that fell the previous two games didn't go through the net for the Tigers.
"I've got to give Pacific credit," Golden Bears' coach Mike Montgomery said after Sunday's win. "They're tough."
After Saturday's game at Gonzaga, the Tigers have home games Dec. 4 against Nevada, Dec. 8 against USF, and Dec. 15 against Santa Clara before traveling to Moraga on Dec. 19 to play Saint Mary's again and then a home game on Dec. 21 against Cal Maritime leading to their Big West Conference opener on Dec. 29 at Long Beach State.
"The next month we're really going to find out about our team coming to practice with great purpose and fine tuning what we have going," Thomason said. "If we do, we have a chance, but we don't want any setbacks with attitude and effort."
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23 Tiny, Easy Tips to Use at Networking Events
People do business with people they know, like, and trust. People refer people they know, like, and trust. Think about what makes you know, like, and trust others. Then take that laser focused intent with you to every networking event you attend. You'll have more fun, expand your influence and become more successful. What could be better?
Okay – you're at a networking event, now what?
1. Come early – the 15 minutes before the event are where the ice gets broken. The initial conversations that help people get comfortable are where stories are told and initial impressions made. I remember Sean showing me the website about how to make cheese (honestly, before that I couldn't remember his name.)
2. Wear something that's a conversation starter – it makes it easier for the other person to walk over and make a friendly comment to break the ice.
3. Show up often – If it's the third time we've met, now I can ask something from last time. Secretly, the first time I was overwhelmed from meeting too many new people and you got lost in the overload. Please don't hate me.
4. Act like the host – There is someone in the room who doesn't know anyone and might feel uncomfortable. Note, they're standing by themselves. Make their day by introducing them to someone friendly, has something in common, or might be a good business contact.
5. Say their name – After they've introduced themselves, use their name. "It's nice to meet you Sean". People feel good when they hear their name and chances are you'll remember their name later.
6. Smile – It makes the other person more comfortable, and you too.
7. Meet people more, not more people – Don't look around the room for the 'next' person you need to talk to. When I'm talking to you, you're the only person in the room.
8. You're NOT working the room – You are connecting with people building trust, relationships, and connections.
9. Get people to talk – ask them questions like, "What do you love/enjoy most about what you do?"
10. Listen, no really – ask questions you really want to know the answer to, "What do you see as the coming trends in your industry?"
11. Treat each business card you receive like it's an introduction – Read it, comment on it. Make sure it doesn't get lost. Give yours only after it's appropriate.
12. Remember something for next time – It's okay to write it on the card. We all know that committed, busy, successful people have systems.
13. Give a complement – be sincere; it will make their day.
14. Share a story not a sales pitch – An interesting, unique story will be more memorable than your 30-second infomercial.
15. Give before getting – Ask, "How would I know if I ran into your ideal client or prospect?"
16. Exit gracefully – "Well, I don't want to take up all your time. I'm sure you have other people you want to talk to and so do I. I'd like to continue our conversation, so why don't we plan to get together? I'll call you next week."
17. Stay late – the best conversations happen after the event, that's where you get past 'small talk' and can follow up on something they said.
18. Give generously of your time – We remember people who've helped us. Be someone helpful.
19. Be trustworthy – Little things like showing up, being happy, talking to people, and being consistent communicates trust.
20. Touch them later – a nice-to-meet you card, a quick voicemail, an article about what you've discussed will make you likable.
21. Ignore naysayers – That little voice inside that says "no one will call me so what's the use" is that same voice that doesn't want you to be successful. We all have that and some of us have real people saying it too. Unless they are successful, busy people in your own field and stage of development, ignore them.
22. Have faith – Success is the result of small efforts repeated. No one came here today waiting to write you a check.
23. Keep improving – Each event, be a little more sincere, a little more attentive, a little better follow up. You'll be amazed at your skills by this time next year.
These tiny steps will make you enjoy your networking events more. You'll get more people
that you know, like, and trust so you can be a better resource to your clients. And yes, more
people will know, like, and trust you too.
Why go to all this effort?
"You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you."
- Dale Carnegie
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Why Each And Every One Of Us Deserves The 'Grand Gesture'
When I saw the movie Magnolia, I was too young to understand the meaning of this quote: "We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us." It would take me years to truly comprehend it. But when I finally did, it slapped me in the face.
Things I've said or done, or the people whom I've tried to forget have always come back again at some point in my life. I may have considered myself done with the past, but the truth is we don't really have a say in the matter sometimes. It's unfair, it's confusing and it throws our world into a tailspin in which there are no words. But how do we respond to it? Do we ignore it? Do we indulge? Do we defend ourselves? Or do we accept that certain things are out of our control? I don't have the answer.
Despite everything, I received both an email and a comment on my personal blog from Swede last weekend:
"Call me. I'll buy sushi."
The comment came in just after midnight on a Friday; a Friday in which I was so hungover that I was dead asleep so I didn't receive his invitation for sushi until the next morning.
As someone who is over-analytical, I read it 20 times. What did it mean? He wanted to know me again? He wanted to apologize? He missed me enough that he reached out to me?
Having changed my number to avoid any infiltration of him upon my life, I knew how to read between the lines. What he actually meant was: "I'm drunk. I want sushi. There is no place in Brooklyn that serves sushi at this hour, but there's that place on 9th Street, the one we used to frequent, so let's go there. Also, no one else is around, so you're basically my last resort." Yes, that's what he meant.
Had I been awake, I would have taken him up on his offer, like the fool I am. I know it would have ended in both of us drinking too much sake, he wouldn't be able to make it back to Brooklyn, so I'd offer him the convenience to spend the night at my place. He'd refuse to remove his jeans he never washes, so I wouldn't allow him in my bed, and he'd pass out on the floor. I'd put a pillow under his head; a pillow that he'd toss aside in the middle of his sleep, we'd awake with me in my bed and he on the floor, and I'd be booking my next flight out of town. Yes, that's how it would have happened. I'd bet my life on it.
When I told my friends about this, aside from them condemning any future contact with him, it was agreed that he doesn't deserve to know me anymore. He doesn't get to be privy to my life, unless he made the "grand gesture."
In their minds, the grand gesture would be a detailed apology in words on paper, or a theatrical scene outside my window. But he's Swedish, that is not how they roll. That is especially not how he rolls, so I can quit staring out my window.
It's no secret how I felt about him, how I feel about him or the effect he continues to have on my life because I allow him to have the upper hand. But after lunch with a friend I realized, whether you're a former friend, a former lover, a former whatever the fuck Swede was, you don't get to have me back in your life so easily. I can buy my own damn sushi.
So for all of us who have been there and have given in, let's recap some of the most famous "grand gestures" in film and television to inspire us to never settle for anything less. Like I said, I can buy my own sushi… and so can you.
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AS A FRESHMAN IN 2013: Redshirted in 2013.
HIGH SCHOOL: Varsity Volleyball 5A State Tournament 3rd Place (2010) ... Varsity Volleyball 5A District Runner Up (2010) ... 5A State Sportsmanship Award and Academic Award (2010) ... 5A State Tournament (2012) ... Kuna Classic Tournament 2nd Place (2012) ... 3-year letter winner for Boise High Volleyball ... Team Captain (2012) ... All Tournament Player Wood River (2011) ... Idaho Statesman Varsity Volleyball Player of the Week, Sept. 10-16, 2012 (2012) ... 5A Volleyball 1st Team All-Conference Player (2012) ... Boise High Varsity MVP Award (2012) ... Boise High Varsity Best Offensive Player Award (2012) ... All Conference Player of the Year Runner Up (2012) ... Gatorade Player of the Year Nominee (2012) ... Senior Year Stats: Sets Played: 55, Hitting Percentage: .258, Digs: 129, Total Blocks: 98, Serving Aces: 18 ... Played for Club Idaho 16Gold (2010-11), 17Gold(2011-12), 18Gold (2012-13) ... AAU Nationals (2012) - brought up to 18Gold Club Idaho in the spring ... Spokane PNQ 9th Place (2012) ... Idaho Classic Champions (2013)- qualified for Junior Nationals ... Team Captain 16 Gold, 17 Gold, 18 Gold (2010, '11, '12).
PERSONAL: Daughter of Steve and Gail ... has two siblings, Kelsey and Mac ... Kelsey also attends SCU ... plans on majoring in Biology and minor in Mathematics ... career goal is to be a radiologist ... her grandfather, Jim Nystrom, played football at San Jose State ... Boise Rotary Century Scholar (2013) ... National Honor Society (2012) ... United States Army Reserve Student Athlete Award (2013) ... AP Scholar with Honor (2011) ... Key Club (2011) ... Morrison Knudsen Nature Center Volunteer, 2009-2012 (200+ hours) ... YMCA Volleyball Coach, Summer 2011/2012/2013 (96 hours) ... Idaho Bird Observatory Volunteer, 2011 (25+ hours) ... Boise Architecture Project Volunteer, 2012 (12 hours) ... outside of volleyball she enjoys swim team, golf, tennis and skiing ... majoring in biology.
I chose Santa Clara because it had the right balance for me with a strong volleyball program and great academics. I wanted to go to school outside of Idaho and I have always loved California, especially the location of SCU in Silicon Valley. When I visited, it was everything I had hoped it would be plus more. I felt very welcomed by the team and everyone on campus, and after hearing so many wonderful things from being in an SCU family, it wasn't hard for me to realize that this was where I wanted to be.


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I'm about to turn this off. Unwatchable right now.
Man we are getting burned by Luke Walton.
TV's going off. Goodnight.
Stick a fork in em they are done, at least they did not get the broom treatment.
Well, the Jazz team might as go Waco Texas on themselves and not go to Los Angeles because this is way over
Kobe was just simply too good tonight. The 3 3's while he was on the bench absolutely killed us. Oh well it was either this or lose to them in the WCF. Maybe we'll have some positive moves this summer. At least I won't have to stay up until 2 AM anymore.
The only way we can win this series if Kobe gets hurt. Just lost 4 of 5 against them already. It's over.
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Pan roasted halibut is golden and tender. Fava beans and asparagus pair nicely with the fish, this dish is full of flavor.
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
1/2 cup shelled fava beans
3/4 lb. pencil asparagus, tips cut into 1-in. pieces, stems cut into bite-size pieces
3 tbsp. olive oil
1 1/2 lb. skinless, boneless halibut fillet (3/4-in.thick), cut into 4 pieces
3 tbsp. thinly sliced shallots
1/4 cup dry white wine
1/2 cup vegetable stock
3 tbsp. unsalted butter
3 tbsp. chopped thyme or flat-leaf parsley, plus a few sprigs for garnish
1. Preheat oven to 450°F. Cook fava beans in boiling water for 1 min. Transfer beans with slotted spoon to bowl with ice water; peel off coating and set beans aside.
2. Add asparagus stems and tips to boiling water and cook for 3 min. Drain and transfer to ice water; drain and set aside.
3. Heat oil over med.-high heat in wide, heavy-bottomed, ovenproof sauté pan. Season halibut with salt and pepper; sauté until golden brown, about 4 min.; turn fillets over and put pan in oven for 6 min.
4. Remove pan from oven, set fish aside on plate; return pan to stove over med.-high heat. Add shallots, wine, and broth. Raise heat to high and bring to a boil; let boil until slightly reduced, about 3 min. Add fava beans, asparagus, and butter; cook until butter melts and thickens broth and vegetables are warmed through, about 1 min. Season with salt and pepper and stir in thyme.


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Learner AnalyticsPage address: https://www.mnsu.edu/its/academic/learnernanalytic.html
Overview: Learner analytics is part of the "big data" conversation. In essence, the strategy implies that we do three things:
- Assess students early, often, and meaningfully in a course -- including assessments of non-graded motivational indicators, such as logging into the course web site and doing ungraded practice problems (for example);
- Identify those students who, at every assessment moment, fall below a threshold for understanding or engagement; and
- Quickly and efficiently stage meaningful interventions for those students who are struggling to help them get back on the right track.
This strategy is powered by the fact that, increasingly, our assessments and course activities are conducted in a digital context. For more information about Learning Analytics at MNSU, please refer to our Learner Analytics page under Innovation.


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Power-tool Joinery: Tight Joints on the Loose
Two matching mortises connected with a strong 'loose tenon' will help strengthen any project.
By Bill Hylton
Pages: 36-40
From the April 2004 issue #140
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I may be a power tool kind-of-guy, but I still favor traditional joints, those proven through centuries of use.
The mortise and tenon is one of those joints. It has been in use for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, with examples found in ancient Egyptian furniture.
I've pretty much settled on loose-tenon joinery as my mortise-and-tenon variant of choice. Just about anywhere you'd use a traditional mortise-and-tenon joint, you can use a loose-tenon setup. I've used it for commonplace frames, post-and-rail constructions and leg-and-apron assemblies. I've also used it to reinforce cope-and-stick joints.
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Certain touches in Gil Cesena's Wilson Way shop confirm he has been barbering an unusually long time. Like the yellow rotary phone hanging on the wall. Or the Nehi Soda machine.
Certain touches in Gil Cesena's Wilson Way shop confirm he has been barbering an unusually long time. Like the yellow rotary phone hanging on the wall. Or the Nehi Soda machine.
Probably the clincher is the stack of his customers' obituaries.
"Just reminder of what they looked like," Cesena said. "Sometimes other people ask when they died. So I just pull it out and tell 'em."
The white-haired Cesena was sitting in his chair, alone, idly watching TV weather (another hot one in the Valley) when a visitor entered to ask if he'd really been in the same spot for 54 years.
"Yeah, I got here in October of 1959," said Cesena, who's 75. His longtime acquaintances rib him about this. "A lot of 'em say, 'You still alive? I thought you died a long time ago.' "
On the contrary. Cesena has been the constant as his stretch of Wilson Way changed over the decades from a thriving and close-knit commercial district to a local synonym for blight.
There are still many good businesses on Wilson Way. And good people. Traffic remains high. But it's not what it was when Cesena moved into the Growers Barber Shop.
Back then, the area behind his building was a giant produce market. Farmers - growers, if you prefer - came in as early as 2 a.m. from the countryside. Unloading produce into rented stalls, they sold to produce buyers for supermarkets and to individual customers. A hive of heartland activity.
Everybody repaired to Chet's, the corner caf� where two sisters cooked pita and served open-faced sandwiches with gravy and peas, and the "Mayor of Wilson Way," Pete Busalacchi, held court and played dice from his station behind the bar.
Across the street (which until 1964 was Highway 99) truckers lived at the Lido Hotel, the guys who ran tomatoes to the canneries or cherries to San Francisco or peaches to L.A. Or the guys whose wives had kicked them out.
It was Italian mostly, but also Latino, even Japanese. A lot of them grew up in the southeast neighborhoods where old paisanos crushed wine by the barrel in their basements.
Cesena remembers spreading the pulp in the field next door after the crush and sampling the wine as reward. "We got our taste of it."
And the corner markets sold Genoa salami, olives, anchovies and Cacio de Roma cheese, and the kind Italian grocer gave kids a free chunk of bologna now and then.
"It was basically all working class," Cesena said of his 'hood, Scotts Avenue at Sierra Nevada. "Real close. You didn't even lock the doors."
During the war, his dad worked longshore at the port. His mom, from Jalisco, kept house. After high school he joined the Air Force for a four-year stint.
When he got back - in the late 1950s - he joined the bricklayers union but was laid off. After barber college, he apprenticed a year on Charter Way, then moved to the Growers Barber Shop.
And stayed.
"I still got the farmers - well, they're thinned out a lot," Cesena said. "When I got here, they were in their 40s. It's gone through a couple generations."
And the name has changed, to Growers Styling Salon.
His customers are guys like Archie Sparkman, 85. Sparkman has been Cesena's customer for, "Thirty years, I think. At least." He drives in from Valley Springs.
"Old habits are hard to break," Sparkman said. "I know what I'm going to get when I go in there. A nice, pleasant personality. We talk a lot, joke a lot, talk about old times, and how we're outliving all our old buddies."
Well, not all. Dan Lovecchio still brokers produce out back.
"He's a good guy, and he knows how cut your hair right," Lovecchio said. "Most of my men go there to get their hair cut. My two kids, they got their first haircuts there."
Cesena isn't happy about Wilson Way's decline. Like the streetwalkers who saunter past his shop, though most usually work farther north by the old motels and a block over on Sierra Nevada Street.
"The ones on Sierra Nevada, they're usually druggies," Cesena said. "I feel sorry for the people walking there with kids, pushing strollers and two or three kids tagging along."
Business has slowed. "Sometimes I sit here for two, three hours and say, 'What are you doing here? You could be doing something else.' "
But he has no plans to retire.
"I don't know. I feel pretty good. I just had a goin'-over on my heart, and it's all right."
Besides, "I enjoy the people that come in," Cesena said, recalling one farmer. "I remember he came in and said, 'My wife left me.' He said, 'She went off with another bozo.' "
Cesena advised divorce. And he further counseled: "Don't show any emotion. Treat her with respect. And don't take it out on the kids."
"And he did exactly that. Two of his kids have graduated from college, one's in college in San Diego. He comes in and I say, 'Well? Did you fall in love yet?' "
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"We enjoy contemplating the most precise images of things whose actual sight is painful to us, such as the forms of the vilest animals and of corpses." – Aristotle, Poetics
We are the amateur disaster videographers. We record horrible events and tragedies. Spontaneity is key. Luck is essential. A strong stomach is encouraged.
We don't have fancy shmancy HD cameras. We didn't go to film school. We don't know Ken Burns from Ken's Steakhouse. But we do know a dramatic event when we witness one. And we know that something is compelling us to pull that iPhone out of our pocket to point and shoot.
Cave paintings. Imagine ghostly stick figures hunting a mighty mastodon. That's the human urge to record hair-raising, fatal instances. Fast-forward to yellow journalism: Hearst and Pulitzer started an arms race to sell newspapers through sensationalist gore. Capturing the moment where JFK's blood splattered Jackie's pink jacket was just a fluke initially, but it grew to so much more. Media companies clamored to buy the film off of Zapruder, and even today, it has hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube. Even though the genre of online video is new, the motive behind it is not.
Are we terrible people? Are we sick monsters banking on human suffering? Do we just jealously feed off of others' misery? No. We fulfill a basic human need, just like food, like water, like shelter. The need to stare. The need to gape. The need to be shocked. This need is evolutionarily beneficial. We gaze at these atrocities to remember them, to mentally note just how they happened, in order to prevent them in the future. It's psychology. It's innate. It's human nature.
And let's not forget widespread activist revolutions, like the Arab Spring of 2010. Without our twisted genre, the Western World would only know the horror through bland newspaper articles and cheesy, watered down documentaries five years later. Raw footage, however macabre, tells you what's really happening now. And isn't that what democracy is all about? To give the general public hard data to inspire action?
Our genre is more than a type of online video. It's a tool. It's a weapon. It's as dangerous as the events it displays. Don't take our genre lightly. Don't watch too many in one sitting. Don't get sucked into a rubberneck whirlpool of horror and fear and guilt. Ultimately, you have to go on with your unremarkable life, because not all of us can pull out a camera phone and shoot the shooters.


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