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Guns, gunpowder, and firearms have been around for quite some time. Gunpowder first showed its face in China around the 9th century, then spread to the Middle East, and Eastern Europe until finally reaching Western Europe sometime after the Crusades. Firearms have existed in some form as well, ever since the Chinese Empire Of The (Southern) Song mass-produced hand cannon — handheld (heavy) gunpowder-filled tubes — as an improvement upon the hand-grenades already in use by militiamen in urban garrisons 1232, though this wasn't enough to change the course of their century-long losing war against the Mongols. And in 1364, we have the first recorded use (by troops of the Mongol-led Chinese Empire of the Yuan) of shooter-lit wicks by hand that ignited gunpowder that was loaded into a gun barrel - the matchlock arquebus. So guns actually had a place in the medieval world and are not a purely modern phenomenon. So why do Fantasy fiction and RPG developers treat it like a Red-Headed Stepchild? In their worlds, guns don't exist. Cannons maybe, gunpowder possibly, rockets if they're having a good day... but no guns. There are three main issues tied with this trope. Mix and match troopers. It's frequently attributed to the assumption that guns ended the era of knights; while it might be that creators of works of fantasy think this, the assumption itself isn't true. Guns and knights existed side-by-side for over 300 years. After the advent of guns blacksmiths would deliberately shoot at their armour — and customers would look for the dent, because it indicated that the armour would stop bullets. That's the origin of the term 'bullet proof' — the armour was proofed (tested) against bullets. Early guns were not superior to traditional projectile weapons in every respect. They were more like crossbows, point-and-trigger (minimal training requirement) weapons with low rate of fire (and initially used a trigger mechanism borrowed from them). In fact, an English officer seriously suggested in the late 18th century (i.e. around the time of The American Revolution) that the Redcoats go back to the longbow, for the improved rate of fire. He was ignored, of course; he had forgotten about the training issue... although the English had still been using longbows as late as the Thirty Years' War, causing enough deforestation that one of the reasons they switched was because there was hardly a yew tree left in Europe anymore. The real change in warfare was the Swiss introduction of pikes in the 15th and 16th centuries — much like the Greek phalanxes, but the Swiss were much more known for charging with them. They were first stopped by the fittingly-named Francis I of France, who used field fortifications — and musketeers. Knightly charges had been showing vulnerabilities for some time before this happened, though. They were a widespread tactic in Medieval age as it was a long established tradition dating back to when Frankish and Anglo Saxon chiefs/kings would smash poorly equipped infantry whilst on horseback surrounded by trusted warriors. Although some nations still maintained effective disciplined infantry (Anglo-Saxon England, for one, and the core of it was kept intact by the Normans), it generally required a large body of professional soldiery that didn't exist. Although cavalry had long proved their worth, and was easily provided by the feudal/manorial social system of the time, cracks appeared by the 'High' Middle Ages. They were only dubiously useful in the Crusades (11th through 14th Centuries), and useless against the Mongols, as both the Mongols and the Turks used light cavalry and didn't field solid ranks of troops. Longbows had difficulty penetrating plate armor (the difficulty dependent on the bow and armor), contrary to popular belief, but Cr�cy and Agincourt did reveal further problems — at Cr�cy (1346), the French lost because their horses had no barding armor, and so had no protection against arrows, but at Agincourt (1415), they lost because they did have barding armor, and so got stuck in the mud. Yet worse were the introduction of very literal Panzerkampfwagens in the Hussite Rebellion (1415-1436) — the Bohemians (modern Czech Republic and Slovakia) invented the wagon circle to defend against Hapsburg knights, and attacked with massed wagons carrying light cannon and ten or twelve peasants with flails. They won, by the way; moderate Hussites had religious freedom in Bohemia until the Thirty Years' War (when they got caught up in the Catholic-Protestant wars that had begun with the Smalkaldic War of 1525 and were annihilated). So, in short, knightly charges were dead without needing firearms to kill them. Personal firearms (including cavalry pistols) were if anything more useful in countering the new styles of heavy infantry; before long, though, the musket meant the conversion of knights into cavalry (not necessarily noble, and taking orders from the general rather than acting largely on their own), and the relegation of pikes to uselessness except in defending against cavalry attack. (The Janissaries managed to fight with musketeers without using any pikemen at all.) Although plate armour was worn up till the middle of the 17th century, improvements that led to increased muzzle velocity and higher bullet calibre rendered it pointless to have without making it thicker and heavier, which was just not practical. That's why you see pictures of 17th century troops in metal breastplates and helmets, whilst by the 18th they'd abandoned them, though the garish colours and tricorne hats are quite spiffing. Breastplates and helmets wouldn't return until World War I, when the sheer quantity of shrapnel put out by modern artillery (plus the technique of indirect fire that allows one to deliver said shrapnel even if you can't see where the shell will land) brought both back (often based on medieval designs; compare the kettle hat to the Brodie and Adrian helmets or the sallet to the iconic Stahlhelm). The use of mixed pikes and firearms (pike-and-shot) continued for quite a long time, but by the end of the 17th century the arrangement had more or less disappeared. The reason was the widespread adoption of an innovation that came from (according to legend) an ingenious blacksmith of Bayonne, France, who realized that a gun was basically a pike-staff that could shoot bullets. Attach a blade to the end of a gun (called a bayonet to this day), and voila! you have a serviceable spear. After some problems - like how to remove a blade that you inadvertently jammed in your gun - were ironed out, bayonets were more or less standard issue in European arsenals. They still remain in use today, though more as a utility knife and a training tool for aggression. Never bring a gun to a sword fight. Of course, there are also dramatic reasons for this trope.
"By Heracles, this is the end of man's valour!"As cool as gun fights can be, they just can't accomplish the level of intensity of a one-on-one duel with swords. If a hero has a gun, he can just shoot the villain from afar. But with swords, they can get up close and personal, engage in witty banter, look each other in the eye, and, if one gets that fatal cut or thrust in, engage in the drama of watching the other die. This is why even modern-day Action Movies will often have their final showdown be a hand to hand confrontation between the hero and the villain rather than a gun fight. The reason may also be that guns are too modern. They're the primary weapon of choice in the real world. If fantasy authors want to achieve that escapist, ancient feel in their story, they have to use ancient weapons. Guns don't have that level of romance. This could also be the reason why Automatic Crossbows are excused despite being functionally similar to guns. There is also the widespread perception that guns take all the "skill" or "honor" out of fighting and make the heroes look cheaper: no intensive training with ancient masters, just "BANG! He's dead." This is also the reason for the Gun Fu trope as authors mix hand-to-hand combat tropes with gunplay in an attempt to capture the choreography lost from using a gun instead of a sword. One is only left to wonder if some long time in the future, where they fight with yet-unimaginable weapons, it's going to be guns that carry the "oldie but goodie" flavor of cold steel in today's fiction. Ready, aim... fireball! May or may not be justified in Magitek settings. Why bother with explosives when you can blow somebody up with a fireball? Because anyone can use a gun, but not everyone can throw fireballs. This is a common issue of technology versus magic: technology works for people who haven't spent years studying the sacred mysteries. (The same problem exists for longbows.) But if the magic trinket can be activated by anyone, why bother with explosives when you can blow somebody up with a fireball from a wand? 'Point, say the command' is just as simple as 'point, pull the trigger' assuming a wand doesn't just need a thought to activate which in itself is advantageous. With greater power and availability of magic this becomes less and less of a problem. In other words why bother with a gun that's heavy, has limited ammunition and chances of jamming when you can use a little inconspicuous stick that has limitless shots and can be used for a variety of functions aside from killing. Especially true if the setting can have small wands or similar magical trinkets capable of mass destruction. The same can't always be said of guns unless they're some kind of Magitek. This is the reason that, for the most part, guns aren't used in the Eberron setting of D&D (although they do exist).
—King Archidamus of Sparta (IV century B.C.), according to Plutarch, on seeing the missile shot by a catapult. (Thirty Years' War-era writers thought the same.)
Despite all of this, there are writers who are talented enough to make guns work in their fantasy settings and even have them achieve a level of coolness equal to medieval weaponry. Perhaps it's understandable why guns aren't seen much in fantasy settings, but it's still nice (if you like guns in your fantasy) when authors manage to do it. After all, there were not only loosely historical The Three Musketeers, but Baron Munchausen himself used a firearm and it didn't make his stories any less of... what, Heroic Fantasy? Of course, it could just be that guns scare children and therefore are never, ever to be in a children's show... even if magic is just used as a stand-in for guns instead. Conversely, assuming that gunpowder must automatically exist once reaching a certain level of advancement is to fall into a logical fallacy; development can happen at different rates in different fields, especially in a world that already has Functional Magic to make long-ranged destructive attacks. This is particularly the case if the functional magic and/or setting results in tactics differing greatly from the setting in which early guns found their first use in real history: firing in volleys using soldiers marching in ranks on battlefields. Guns present their own set of logistical issues in the form of supplies of gunpowder, as well as the cost of munitions (which severely curtailed the number of rounds of ammunition that gunpowder armies could use in training until the second half of the 19th century). Or maybe the author outright despises guns and wants to create a world where they - and whatever other technologies the author may think are ruinous - do not exist for that purpose alone. One historical note apt to be ignored is that the discovery of gunpowder was a major fluke in human history, perhaps the most major one. Unlike many other technologies— unlike metalworking, stone-cutting, carpentry, writing—as well as inventions like spoons, swords, wheels, bows, etc., which were independently discovered/invented all over the world, gunpowder was discovered exactly once by accident by people who weren't even looking for it: Chinese alchemists trying to create an elixir of immortality. While eternal life eluded them, they found this gunpowder stuff was highly flammable and, with the right formula, highly explosive. The Chinese used gunpowder weapons in their desperate, losing war against Steppe-Tribes and seized upon them as a way of turning the tide. It didn't work, but they ended up with an effective formula and a series of cheap mass-produced weapons based upon it (chiefly pole-grenades and pole-guns for use in defending against siege-assaults). It didn't take long to spread to India, where local warlords figured out ways to use it in their own wars, and eventually the Middle East where it was also popular for the same reasons. It even ended up reaching the quintessential backwater of the pre-modern world, Europe, after a while. Of course, none of this is to say that gunpowder wouldn't be invented eventually in most scenarios, but only in more or less in the same sense as the old thing about how infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters would eventually produce the works of Shakespeare. Justifying the Trope There are a number of ways to justify the trope, for those that care to take the time, mostly based on engineering concerns or historical analogy: 1. Literal gun control — The main reason that it took three centuries for gunpowder to cross from the Song Empire to Europe was that the alchemical 'recipe' was the equivalent of a state secret in each new realm it spread to. In a fantasy culture, even in the absence of that kind of state control of military technology, the people who do all the alchemy tend to be the same people that work with magic, who are easily motivated to keep it a "trade secret" to avoid competition in the realm of fireball-tossing. 2. Missing ingredients — Saltpeter, especially, can be rendered essentially unavailable by basic changes to biology or terrain. For instance, if bats are magical enough to make wandering through caves collecting guano an extreme hazard to life and limb (not a stretch in D&D-based stories) making the stuff isn't worth the pain even if you know how, and it's certainly not common enough to waste on projectile weapons when you've got perfectly serviceable crossbows that have better penetration anyhow. 3. High explosives happened first — If someone worked out how to multiply nitrate glycerine or toluene before working out a low explosive like gunpowder, society may have skipped over to bombs and given alchemical explosives a reputation for being something you don't want anywhere near your face. 4. They exist, but they're not cost-effective — In the medieval period and, really, the entirety of history up through the Crimean War/US Civil War, personal firearms were not quite as long-ranged as crossbows and lacked the penetrating power and reliability, and mostly took over because they were cheaper to maintain and manufacture, transport, store, and make ammunition for than bolt or arrow weapons (India and Europe fought so many internal wars that the scarcity of bow-wood made bows more expensive than guns after about the 16th century or so). All it takes is iron being scarce and/or wood plentiful (making bows cheaper as well as better),note , a military that just doesn't do much naval warfare or siegesnote , or a military and society that just doesn't do much warfare full stopnote and you have very few people using guns. This is exactly how things actually happened, as so spectacularly illustrated by the First Opium War of 1840-42 - wherein the forces of two European societies who'd had fought through more than 3 centuries of virtually non-stop gunpowder warfarenote faced off against the forces of an Empire which (starting from a similar if not greater standard of gunpowder-usage) hadn't fought a siege or naval battle for three centuriesnote . The result was... predictable. Dungeons and Dragons, notably, takes a combination of justification 4 and analogy to real-world medieval firearms: you can purchase them, and they're even simple weapons (you don't need to be a soldier to use them), but they're short-ranged, slow-loading, extremely expensive, prone to failure, and not really any more powerful than their wood-and-iron counterparts, though lucky (critical) shots occur more often.


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Podcast Awards Update
We've been nominated for Podcast Awards in the People's Choice and Technology categories. Yay!
Thanks for your support! Voting begins today. TWiT Army, you know what to do.
We've been nominated for Podcast Awards in the People's Choice and Technology categories. Yay!
Thanks for your support! Voting begins today. TWiT Army, you know what to do.
After a little fussing and fighting I think I've made our main feed iTunes compatible. Apple, being Apple, just had to add a bunch of new tags, and iTunes ignores some of the canonical RSS tags, so it's Apple's way or the highway. I'm not sure how often Apple updates things - not very from the look of it - but eventually the iTunes feed should look as nice as the others. It's kind of embarassing to be the only podcast in the Top 20 with a broken image link.
According to Feedburner's stats, we're getting an additional 20,000 downloads a day from iTunes, so it's worth getting this right. (With a conservative 250,000 downloads per episode we're easily the most listened to podcast in the world.) Now if only we can get featured in the iTunes Technology Podcast section.
By the way, a very hearty thanks to timmyc25 for the logo we're using for iTunes. It's one of several user contributed logos I've been using around the site, as album art, and so forth. We have so many great ones to choose from - thanks to all of you for your contributions.
In the process of fixing the feed for iTunes I've dressed up the RSS in general. From now on all show notes will appear in the RSS description tag, so you'll be able to see them in your aggregator as you listen. (Try it with iPodderX, Safari, Firefox, etc.)
Thanks to Patrick for his heroic efforts in the past two weeks. I'm back from my travels and will resume production duties for TWiT 14. I'm hoping to have a visit from a special guest on that episode - a former Screen Saver cast member who's been strangely silent for the past few months.
See you Sunday at midnight!
My apologies on the delay on delivery, but yesterday was the first full day on a new job (12 hours... counting time spent w/ HR paperwork... joy.), and today's the second.
A big thankee to Robert for updating ya, since I was offline until fairly late last night.
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Leo's back in the saddle for Episode 0014 this Sunday. That should get us back on track for Sunday night delivery.
I'm not certain when Ep. 13 will be ready for consumption. Soon I hope. You will have a better ETA tomorrow.
I will make it a point to keep everyone updated when the release of our Sunday shows slips behind schedule.
If we cannot consistently get the show out (late) Sunday evening, then the least we can do is post a quick note saying so.
On this week's show, I mentioned two places outside of the Vegas strip that I enjoyed visiting. If you feel the need for speed, take a drive out to the XPlex Racepark and enjoy a great 1-mile course with three classes of karts to choose from (mild to wild). By the second lap, you will forget about any monetary losses incurred at the craps table.
Howdy all... couple of quick things. First off, AOL will have no impact on our content, except to make it faster for ya'll to download it. So stop worrying about that.
Second, we really want to thank EVERYONE that's pitched in so hard w/ server bandwidth, torrent hosting, and a general good spirited drive to make TWiT as easy as possible to download!
Third... AOL, for whatever you might think of the software on the disk that arrives w/ the supermarket ads, knows a bit about dealing w/ massive amounts o' data... and, no there are no AOL ads in the podcast, nor are we making any money off of their hosting us... tho we are stoked about having enough bandwidth in one place for everybody to hit.
Wanna try the fastest TWiT download ever?
Check this out!
Thanks to AOL (and epecially our fairy godmother over there, Jeff!) for a ridiculously fast feed!
We'll have the iTunes feed pointing to this ASAP (if it's OK w/ AOL) and you can go ahead and fire up ye olde iPodderX.
Whatever's bothering you probably isn't that big a deal.
If you're even more out of the loop than I am, then, well, go to Google news and search on London and you'll find out that three Underground stations and a bus were bombed today.
To borrow Wil Wheaton's phrase "send some mojo."
My Mom would probably suggest prayers.
In any case, take a moment and send them some goodwill in whatever fashion you see fit... even if you're not one of the persons wondering if friends, coworkers or family are among lost or injured.
My apologies for the delay. The editing studio is in Petaluma, I'm in San Francisco, I moved into a new house this weekend, and I'm working on a new job this week.
And I had no idea how much I'd forgotten about editing audio.
No excuse for TWiT being late, I agree, but I wanted to let ya'll know I haven't just been sitting around the house playing Battlefield 2 on the new cable modem and mainlining organic cheetos from the local co-op.
Fresh TwiT tonight, I promise!
(This dispatch was sent as we're steaming into the Helsinki harbor - 4:49A local time.)
The bad news is that Patrick fell asleep while trying to edit TWiT 12. He's going home and will come back and finish it later.
The good news is that AOL Radio has very generously agreed to host the high quality MP3 feed. The posting process isn't finalized yet, but once it is your downloading problems will be over. I will move the main feed at feeds.feedburner.com/twit off Coral and onto AOL's servers. Should make things much more reliable.
To calm people's fears - this will not change things for you in any way. You will not be required to sign up for anything, nor will you have to listen to AOL radio. The feed will work exactly as before with no action required on your part. The folks at AOL just like TWiT and wanted to support it.
As a side note - those of you having difficulty with iTunes subscriptions should probably start using the main feed, too.
We'll let you know when 12 is ready to download.


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The Passion of the Christ DVD Release Date.
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Tim Burton Producing A New Animated Film!
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Former Salem teacher to face new theft charges
Stephen Pierce, 47, is facing a receiving stolen property charge for allegedly pawning roughly 40 pieces of jewelry worth about $33,000 from an Atkinson couple he was friends with, according to an indictment.
The thefts happened over the course of a year between March 2011 and last April, prosecutors said. Public defender Christine List did not say in court papers what kind of new charges Pierce will be facing, but police have acknowledged they have spent months scrutinizing records of area pawn shops.
Pierce, who taught eighth-grade at the Woodbury School in Salem, faces up to 7½ to 15 years in prison on his latest theft case. List said in court papers that she hopes to negotiate a global resolution to the case to include any new charges handed down by the grand jury.
Judge Marguerite Wageling agreed to delay the hearing so prosecutors and the defense can try to work out a new agreement.
Pierce's teaching career suddenly came to a halt in May, a month after a Nikon D60 camera disappeared from a school yearbook program. Pierce had stolen the camera and sold it to a local pawn shop. Salem police linked Pierce to the theft by reviewing pawnshop slips at the store. Pierce had to submit his driver's license to the pawnshop in order to sell the camera, and got $150 for it.
He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor theft charge in circuit court and received a suspended seven-day jail sentence. More charges came after the Atkinson couple - who were friends of Pierce - saw that he pleaded guilty in the theft case and noticed some of their personal belongings around the house were missing, police said.
Pierce's new plea and sentencing date is April 23.
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For greater ROI and improved patient outcomes, hospitals rely on breast reconstruction surgery following oncological procedures. Hospital systems, however, are concerned that they aren't doing enough to get the message across about the availability of reconstructive surgery following a lumpectomy, or partial removal of the breast. If they do get the message across, there would be greater ROI for the hospitals as well as increased satisfaction for the patients, says Terry Myckatyn, MD, director of breast and cosmetic plastic surgery at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths, with 80% of breast cancers treated for breast conservation therapy such as a lumpectomy. Congress guaranteed universal coverage for breast reconstruction after cancer surgery in 1998, but nationally only 30%–40% of women who had mastectomies now receive breast reconstruction.
At Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, where Myckatyn sees patients, about "70% of our patients who undergo mastectomy will have a reconstruction surgery, which is well above the national average," he says. The hospital attributes the tally to the hospital's relationship with primary care physicians, as well as education programs.
"What dictates a patient having the surgery is referrals from a physician," Myckatyn says. "You can be in a referral pattern that detects more mammograms and detects more breast cancer. We are the downstream effect, basically, from that pattern."
Ultimately, "this is a complex procedure that requires more buy-in on the patient's part," he adds.
State governments are taking steps to improve education about breast reconstruction. In New York, for instance, a law requires doctors and hospitals to discuss options for breast reconstruction with their patients before performing cancer surgery, to explain insurance coverage information, and to refer them to another hospital, if necessary, for reconstructive surgery, Myckatyn says.
Only now has the hospital begun to evaluate patient satisfaction scores related to plastic surgery and breast reconstruction.
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This summer, students in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications interned at companies nationwide, gaining out-of-classroom experiences crucial to their future success in the industry.
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The School of Library and Information Science recognized individuals, programs and organizations that have had a statewide impact on improving literacy in South Carolina.
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Kirstie Russell jumped right into her studies in integrated communications. Munich. Berlin. The pool. And soon, she'll be climbing out into an exciting career.
Cocky brought some extra special readers to the library. Not only did they hand out 160 books, they also handed out vouchers to games.
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Conferences, Research, and Outreach
School Discipline Workshop: Best Practices in Addressing Student Behaviors While Keeping Schools Safe (August 6, 2014)
This seminar for school administrators addressed the research, application and implementation of best practices in school discipline. The state and federal legal requirements relating to school discipline were covered, as well as the research demonstrating the need for reforming school disciplinary policies. Participants had the opportunity to hear from school administrators from across the state who have been successful in implementing disciplinary reforms. The seminar was co-sponsored by Loyola's Education Law and Policy Institute and School of Education, together with the Illinois State Board of Education.


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Special Correspondent
Administration has suffered a setback
CHENNAI: AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa on Tuesday said issues such as power cut, spiralling cost of essential commodities, closure of industrial estates, retrenchment of lakhs of workers, stagnation in the IT and industrial sector, revenue deficit and deterioration of law and order had proved that the administration in the Tamil Nadu had suffered a setback.
Reacting to Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi's allegation that she was indulging in a diatribe against him, she said in a statement as general secretary of the AIADMK and Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly it was her duty to explain the real situation to people.
Ms. Jayalalithaa said had the DMK heeded her advice and withdrawn its support to the Congress-led UPA government, a ceasefire in Sri Lanka could have been achieved.


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Fraser talked to the AP about Broadway, his preparation and a fateful taxi ride.
On Preparation:
"Everything you need to know as far as preparation, whether you're doing Shakespeare or a contemporary piece, should all be right here [he's holding a copy of the play]. And if it's not, then there's a clue about where to find it if you're paying attention." But, "in the end, it pretty much becomes about just brute memorization and burning calories. You put all the glittery bits aside"
On Choosing To Do Broadway:
"You have to look at your calendar, your life. Am I going to do another 'Mummy' movie? Hey, guess what? I have bills to pay, too. But you just have to carve out the six to eight months that it takes to commit to it."
On A Fateful Taxi Ride:
When he was a child, he lost his family while visiting New York City. A taxi driver picked him up and drove him back to his hotel, all the while talking about theater. "He said something to the effect of, 'I'll see you on the Great White Way, kiddo!' I thought, 'Wow. New York is the coolest place. I guess a seed of some sort was planted."
On The Future:
"I'll be here until March, until I get fired or something. If it goes on any further and if I get a call that I have got to go and clobber some more mummies or something like that, I'll think about it. But for right now, I'm happy as a clam."
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The Arcopedico Flower is a women's casual slip-on mary-jane with cut out detailing.
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