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• Do not submit something that you had published somewhere else unless we can have permission to publish it here.
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• The editor has the right to suggest/request any changes or refuse to publish an article that could be deemed as highly offensive to the majority of our audience (we don't really see a situation like that happening but wanted to say something on the very rare chance that it would).
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