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|Many thanks to Chip for getting this page started! If anybody has ideas on how to better organize the boulders on this page, please contact myself or Chip.
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Awesome job, Chip! Thanks for the info.
Can't wait to do a little bouldering there...and to climb some trad as well.
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|Keep Eldo bouldering free. It's much better off without names, grades and directions.
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|That exploration aspect of bouldering in Eldo West may have hit a bump in the road. A boulderer was recently escorted out of the vicinity of Midnight Frightening after being informed that this was private property.
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I wasn't aware how much of this stuff was on private property. I'm guessing the landowner in question has the ridiculously huge red mansion past the visitor center. It's not surprising that a routesetter was told to leave, as gym rats are not known to be discrete or respectful when bouldering outdoors.
Anyways, I don't see any good reason to publicize this sensitive area, some of the more popular boulders are being severely trashed by ignoramuses. It would be best just to delete the bouldering section and keep these blocks off the radar, away from the prying eyes of the public. Peter, how have you contributed to Eldowest bouldering, aside from publicizing it on you blog and what place do you have in this conversation?
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Helldorado, I think that a more positive approach would be to figure out what the status on the ground actually is first. Mike McHugh and I have emailed about this already and may be working with the Access Fund, The BCC, and the FCC on what to do next.
Comments about the house of the possible landowner or characterizing the boulderer who was asked to leave as a gym rat only obscure the central issue which is whether climbers can visit these boulders. In the Flatirons, everything is on public land and the genie left the bottle a long long time ago.
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|Peter, to my knowledge that is The Grinch on the Gill Boulder, but I could be wrong. Looks like it though.
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Mr. Dodge, The Grinch is a variation to the Grouch ... see someone like jaeger's 8a.nu card for specifics.
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August 31, 2013
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August 30, 2013
In my top 5 worst ever films.
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August 16, 2013
Interesting premise - weak script.
July 21, 2013
"My name is Violet, and I was born into a world that you may not understand."
You got THAT right, lady!
And I counted 3 times she rehashed that line (this is a world that you may not understand)...it may have been even more times than that, I wasn't paying full attention, sadly...She reused that line so many times in the narration, it's as if it was some lame attempt to EXCUSE the convolution of the story and environment in which the story took place. Oh, right lady....it's NOT that the STORY is weird (and not in a cool way)and poorly executed...it's that I DON'T "get it". It's not YOU, it's ME...Geez, it's not enough of an insult that I paid as much as I did to see this...you have to insult ME too?
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I Don't Milla Jovovich.
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July 16, 2013
Bad storyline, bad effect, bad in all sides of aspects, maybe entertaining for the audiences, but for the professional movie reviewer, it's worthless to be watched
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June 22, 2013
Milla's acting chops are on point, as always, but Ultraviolet makes Aeon Flux look like Citizen Kane.
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June 15, 2013
One of those movies that I watch no matter how bad it is
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June 24, 2007
The writer and director of Equilibrium is back with another "video gamey sci-fi" movie. Jovovich takes a break from zombies and tries her hand at vampires. "Spectacular action"
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Jo - 2011-09-03
I adopted a Macaw KOKO about 3weeks ago from a friend who has had her since birth. She was sweet when I first got her. She has turned a little mean. I know its going to take time for her to get use to her know house but I was wondering if she is stressed out she has lost lots of feathers she is pulling them out and I'm worried don't know what to do. She eats and drinks well but every time she eats if i pet her she regurgates is this normal and her feather loss is this normal what do i do to make her more comforable?
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Jolene - 2009-06-10
I own a Catalina Macaw. I also want to add to my flock, hoping to find a shamrock or a ruby. I think that we should be worried about the endangered macaw species, but I also think there is a definite place for hybrid macaws, just as there is for other mutations in other birds. I love your site and I am always coming back here to look around... Keep up the good work educating people and birds...
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Mike - 2007-07-18
I know my macaws and when i got Cisco i was told he was a Catalina. I did some research and then thought he was a Camelot. Now maybe i see he is a Shamrock. Those two look very much the same.
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I really enjoyed your site. It was here where I learned what my new baby was. Levi is now 3 years old. We recently had a new addition to our family, a mate for our shamrock. Her mom is a military and her pop a catalina. She looks similar to shamrock, and blushes like her mom. leah
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I have a Blue and Gold Macaw named Sun Belly, a Capri Macaw named Kuno, and a Shamrock Macaw named Trouble. Trouble really lives up to his name, as he is an amazingly outgoing and curious bird and when he wants something, he'll go very far lengths to get it. His favorite food would have to be corn-on-the-cob, followed close behind by chicken, apples, and veggie pizza. I got Trouble from a well known, certified breeder. He is a great bird and a great pal.
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My friend James over at We Heart teamed up with SB Studio to produce a fantastic book highlighting British creatives. Take a peek below!
Collaborative drawings by illustrator James Hancock and his brother Tom, who has Downs Syndrome. Love how their styles balance each other.
"Shanks", by artist/designers Chen Chen and Kai Williams.
Collaborative works by Nicholas Alan Cope and Dustin Edward Arnold.
Rone and Meggs sent over new work and it looks like they've been goin' big! This first set of images is from a giant collab wall, and below that is some new work from each of them.
Collaborative drawings by Qavavau Manumie and Luke Ramsey.
Paintings by Roberto and Renato Miaz.
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Tara celebrates San Gennaro
Date: October 18, 2012
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Residents of Tara Golf and Country Club recently enjoyed a special night out, during the annual San Gennaro Festival Night.
John Rinell provided entertainment, while guests feasted on ethnic cuisine and enjoyed socializing.
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Aug. 7, 2013
Changing Boston's School Committee back from appointed to elected is a dangerous idea. Proponents forget how the old elected school committee usually overspent its budget, handled racial minorities poorly, and used the committee as s political stepping stone to higher office. Even worse, four members were indicted and two convicted of crimes, including one member taking kickback money from bus contractors. Read more
(UPDATED) Forums, forums, forums
Looking to catch a mayoral candidate in action? A list of forums and debates taking place over the next two months, as the city edges closer towards the Sept. 24 preliminary, is available after the jump. The list is a work-in-progress: times and dates are subject to change, and there are forums and debates we've probably missed. If you want to submit a listing, email firstname.lastname@example.com with the information. Read more
School officials hope to list finalists for superintendent by early next year
Jul. 17, 2013
Boston Public Schools officials are hoping to have a new superintendent in place by early next year, a time frame that would have finalists for the position in place in January or February, shortly after the swearing-in of the next mayor. Read more
Mayoral hopefuls talk education in Roslindale forum
Mayoral Candidates Address Education from Chris Lovett on Vimeo.
The candidates sat almost shoulder-to-shoulder on the stage inside Edward Brooke Charter School's auditorium, five on either side of the moderator.
Even with no opening or closing statements allowed, candidates looked down at the table, out into the large crowd, or quietly joked with one another as they waited for their turn. One question took fifteen minutes to get through, as each candidate weighed in with their response to the various questions.
Welcome to the life of a mayoral contender for the foreseeable future. Read more
Mattahunt and Mildred Ave. join forces for College & Career event
Apr. 5, 2013
The Mattahunt Wheelock Community Center will join forces with the BCYF Mildred Ave. Community Center to offer high school juniors and seniors a College & Career Engagement event on Thurs., April 18. Read more
School assign plan okayed; but Connolly begs to differ
In a 6 to 1 vote last Wednesday night, the Boston School Committee signed off on a sweeping overhaul of the school system's assignment process. The 57,000 students now attending the city's schools, along with their siblings, are grandfathered under the existing three-zone plan, which has been in place for 24 years. Read more
School Committee signs off on new student assignment plan
Mar. 14, 2013
In a 6 to 1 vote, the School Committee on Wednesday night signed off on a sweeping overhaul of the Boston school system's assignment process. Current students in the system of 57,000, along with their siblings, are grandfathered under the existing 3-zone plan, which has been in place for 24 years. Read more
School assignment panel OKs 'home-based' plan
Feb. 26, 2013
An advisory panel on the city's school assignment system on Monday night signed off on a plan providing students with a minimum of six choices. The plan uses an algorithm and students' home address to determine the set of choices, which will also include schools within a mile radius of the address, on top of new citywide schools. Read more
Connolly launches mayoral bid outside Brighton school
Feb. 26, 2013
Looking to make the city's school system the focus of his campaign, City Councillor At-Large John Connolly launched his mayoral bid on Tuesday morning outside of a Brighton school. He said he plans a "bottom-up" campaign, with a community organizer's mindset, similar to President Obama's campaign for the White House.
In a conversation with reporters on Monday, Connolly said he is ready to "ask every voter I can meet to consider me." Connolly has spent months building up his campaign kitty and he said last week that he was seriously considering a mayoral bid. Read more
School assignment panel to meet at City Hall on Saturday
Feb. 22, 2013
Awash in data and comments from the school department, parents, and outside groups, the panel tasked with revamping the city's school assignment system will meet at City Hall for a Saturday morning (Feb. 23) discussion. A vote is still planned for Monday night (Feb. 25) at Suffolk University.
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by George Malik on 05/15/13 at 09:42 AM ET
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I'm just "getting my feet wet" after a full three weeks on the shelf with the norovirus, so I don't know whether you'd like me to dig up every Red Wings-Blackhawks series preview out there, but MLive's Brendan Savage did an excellent job of finding and compiling over 30 series predictions, and as you might expect, the vast majority of the "experts"--Savage included--don't give the Wings a chance in hell of defeating the Hawks:
Virtually everybody likes the Blackhawks, who were 4-0 against the Red Wings en route to the NHL's regular-season championship with a 36-7-5 record.
Of the 33 predictions MLive.com dug up, only three picks went in favor of the Red Wings, who posted a 24-16-8 regular-season record before upsetting the second-seed Anaheim Ducks in the first round of the playoffs.
The other 30 prognosticators picked the Blackhawks and one went so far as to predict a Chicago sweep.
Continued, and I don't need to tell you that the rest of the interweb feels the same way, but if you're interested in rooting for the underdogs in a fashionable way, here's some free advertising:
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Pretty sure the LA Kings were underdogs in each series last year, too
Posted by Red Winger from Sault Ste Marie on 05/15/13 at 09:50 AM ET
It's going to be interesting to see how CHI deals with real, actual pressure. MIN gave them none, and I'm curious what happens if DET can take one in CHI, or if they can get CHI on the wrong end of momentum in DET, or…. well, there are a lot of scenarios.
Underdog of favorite, doesn't matter.
Posted by Primis on 05/15/13 at 09:57 AM ET
Underdog of favorite, doesn't matter.
Posted by Primis on 05/15/13 at 10:57 AM ET
Yup. Prognosticators can have their predictions, and they're just trying to sell papers and ones and zeros.
The-fuch-ever. Let's play some hockey.
Posted by SYF from The Revenge of Johnny E on 05/15/13 at 12:21 PM ET
Not sure what will happen in the series, but I take solace in the fact the the only people that count believe that they can win - that is the Red Wings themselves.
Posted by joedaiceman on 05/15/13 at 02:19 PM ET
Detroit is a bigger team, a grittier team. They need to play to those strengths, hard fore-check, hard pressure, don't get back into that "hang back and see what they do" style of play. Force the issue and puck support and it's ours.
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Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladesh's captain, has called for the appointment of a full-time coach ahead of his side's tour to New Zealand at the end of the year.
"I feel we desperately need a permanent coach, whoever it may be, Shaun [Williams] or anyone else. There is a big difference between a permanent and temporary coach. You can't expect teamwork with a temporary solution," Ashraful told the Daily Star.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board has been looking for a national coach since Dav Whatmore refused a two-year contract extension after spending four years with the team. Interim coach Shaun Williams, who took over in June, was at the helm for a tour of Sri Lanka and the ICC World Twenty20 in South Africa. Neither of the two tours was successful for Bangladesh and the strategies of the team management have been criticised, especially after some haphazard batting in the Twenty20.
National selector and former captain Akram Khan, who was part of the team management during the last two trips, also stressed on the need of a full-time coach. "I was only part of the selection process. I wasn't involved in game planning," he said. "Actually the captain and coach have the big role behind the planning. What I want to say is that we should have come out from the short-term solution immediately about the coach."
However, he expressed his satisfaction over the Twenty20 performance. "I think our performance was not bad because we fulfilled our target but the problem is that we were not consistent enough in any form of the game," he said. "What I felt was that our team couldn't play their natural game with the expectations getting higher."
Chief selector Rafiqul Alam also expressed his satisfaction over Bangladesh's performance in South Africa. "The batting problems might remain in the Twenty20 format but what is most important is that nobody took us lightly. I believe if anybody is good in the five-day game then he will be okay in any format," he said. "We have to shift our focus to the New Zealand trip and I think this year's National Cricket League will be crucial for the players because we are trying many things to make it worthy including the financial encouragement."
Rafiqul also believed that the team needs a permanent coach. "A permanent coach is a very important part but as well as that, we have to find the right man for the job and in that case you have to compromise on time."
Responding to allegations that Ashraful had attitude problems during the Twenty20 and did not listen to anybody during the tour, Rabeed Imam, Bangladesh's media manager, told Cricinfo: "Ashraful is a proactive skipper and he takes initiatives. He is confident enough to take decisions he feels are right and I don't see any justifiable reason why some people should be critical of that. He's also the senior-most pro in the side and has more experience at this level than any other player in the Twenty 20 team.
"He has excellent working relationship with the coach, coaching staff and selectors and they can vouch for that. The players also find him easily approachable as most are his age or near about."
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City Limits, a NYC blog reports that earlier this summer, the Department of Education requested a variance from the state, asking official permission to offer fewer librarians in schools. While the DOE says it recognizes librarians' value, in the face of fiscal challenges and technological changes the department is looking for alternative ways to provide students with library services. In place of hiring certified librarians, schools could train teachers to offer the same services, bring in parent volunteers or have librarians circulate between schools.
Meanwhile, elementary schools are exempt from the regulation altogether. Some elementary school libraries are staffed by teachers or librarians without certification. Some even go without.
And from the librarians' POV: "The idea that a shelf full of a books somehow replaces a librarian is wrong," says Christian Zabriskie, Executive Director of Urban Librarians Unite, a professional group that supports librarianship in urban settings. "If I'm exploring things about, say, my sexuality, drug issues, health issues, I can't grab those books in front of my peers," he adds. Zabriskie's own middle school librarian had a significant impact on his life by supporting him when he was being bullied and teaching him how to stand up for others.
The New York City Department of Education, one of the largest educational organizations in the world, has effectively given up on librarians. As DOE officials call for a variance to state law which requires the presence of a school librarian in every middle and high school in the state they have passing up on a key, high performing, cost effective, tool for student success.
There is a strange dissonance when it comes to libraries. We are both armored by our stereotypes and defeated by them simultaneously. People are ready to hurl themselves on the barricade of our intellectual freedom but when budgets come we are universally tisked and shuttled off into the budget memory hole, quickly snipped away. The idiom of the dusty shelves comes up in the press every time in order to evoke mood.
A wall will be built to permanently divide Windsor's west end library due to the security concerns of its neighbouring elementary school.
The Windsor Public Library board accepted the public school board's decision on Tuesday.
"This is not the ideal solution, but we understand that safety is a primary concern for parents and the school board," said Chris Woodrow, the library's acting CEO.
Chances are you have had contact with Scholastic Publishing at some point in your life: You might have read their magazines in school, or bought a book at one of their book fairs, or perhaps you've read Harry Potter or The Hunger Games? From its humble beginning as publisher of a magazine for high schoolers, Scholastic has become a $2 billion business and one of the biggest children's book publishers in the world.
With the majority of a high school library's irreplaceable book collection documenting African-American history lost, the ire of the community grows.
Highland Park residents will hold a public meeting at 6 p.m. Monday at the city's Nandi's Knowledge Café on Woodward Avenue to discuss the loss and what, if anything, can be done.
"Our history was stolen, it was trashed," said Linda Wheeler, a former special education teacher for the Highland Park School District said of the tossed books. "It rivaled the collections of many community colleges. You can't put a value on that. It is malicious destruction, it's a crime."
Earlier this month thousands of books from the library of Highland Park Renaissance Academy were thrown in the trash. Wheeler said the collection consisted of 10,000 books.
Wheeler's father and longtime resident Earl Wheeler said a parent volunteer in the district told him the library's books were thrown out.
"There were at least four (trash bins) and two were left before we discovered what was happening," Wheeler said.
Wheeler called historian Paul Lee, who rallied a group of volunteers. The group went at night with flashlights, climbed into two bins and retrieved 1,000 books.
Wheeler said he was told the library was being rehabilitated by the Leona Group, a charter management company that operates schools in Highland Park.
From The Detroit News.
David Javsicas, a popular seventh-grade reading teacher known for urging students to act out dialogue in the books they read in class, sometimes feels wistful for the days when he taught math.
A quiz, he recalls, could quickly determine which concepts students had not yet learned. Then, "you teach the kids how to do it, and within a week or two you can usually fix it," he said.
Helping students to puzzle through different narrative perspectives or subtext or character motivation, though, can be much more challenging. "It could take months to see if what I'm teaching is effective," he said.
Educators, policy makers and business leaders often fret about the state of math education, particularly in comparison with other countries. But reading comprehension may be a larger stumbling block.
School Librarians As Facilitators of Learning from R. David Lankes on Vimeo.
Twenty librarians in the Ogden School District could be out of a job.
The twenty Library Media Specialists were called to a mandatory meeting on Friday morning where they were told that their contracts won't be renewed and their positions will no longer exist starting July 1.
According to the superintendent, Ogden School District entered the 2012-2013 school year with a $2.7 million deficit. He said they've avoided cutbacks in past years, but they finally have to do it this year.
In 2012, Martin Richard, the 8-year-old Dorchester boy who was killed in the marathon explosions, marched at Boston's City Hall to call for peace.
Richard's second-grade class was there to "express themselves in a positive manner and become more engaged in the politics of the city," according to a Boston.com story about the march.
The school says it is grieving for Martin and his family. It released his statement and identified Martin's mother, another victim of the bombing, as a school librarian:
The Neighborhood House Charter School is mourning today the loss of our beloved student Martin Richard, during the tragic events at the Boston Marathon yesterday. He was a bright, energetic young boy who had big dreams and high hopes for his future. We are heartbroken by this loss.
We are also praying for his mother, Denise, our school librarian and sister Jane, another Neighborhood House Charter student, who were seriously injured yesterday. Our thoughts are with his father, Bill Richard, and older brother, Henry. They are a wonderful family and represent the very best this city has to offer.
Slashdot's great headline "Internet-Deprived Kids Turning To 'McLibraries' 315" for This WSJ Article on the digital divide was great.... "In many communities, after the library and the computer lab close for the night, there is often only one place to turn for students without internet access at home: the local McDonald's."


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Swamp rock 'n rockabilly night is coming to Manteca.
Fagundes Meats of Manteca is catering the drive-thru dinner fund-raiser for 2008 Sierra High School graduate Sierra Johnson who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, or ALL, just before Thanksgiving last year. She is being treated at the Oakland Children's Hospital where she is scheduled to have a bone marrow transplant next month.
The American Legion's big steak dinner is this Saturday, April 17, at the Legion Hall, 220 E. Yosemite Ave.
Victoria Martin is battling cancer.
RIPON – The crowd around the Marissa's Closet booth at the Crossroads Street Fair was almost overwhelming for Melinda Shaw.
LATHROP – The latest step in the City of Lathrop's continuing effort to rejuvenate the areas in and around the Historic Old Town District is being discussed at the next Planning Commission meeting on Wednesday.
San Joaquin City - or what few traces are left of it - is stuck in the middle of nowhere along the river it was named after to the southeast of the Airport Way crossing.
Can you judge a book by its cover?
Scenes from the BOYS & GIRLS BARN DANCE
Thirty-two McParland School students from the third through sixth grades participated in the San Joaquin County Science Olympiad at McNair High School in Stockton.
Is watermelon a fruit or vegetable?
South San Joaquin Irrigation District's 100 percent green energy portfolio also is generating plenty of green.
Wind gusts and steady rain ended the 14th annual Crossroads of California Sunday several hours ahead of schedule.
Pulte Homes started 19 new homes in the firm's Del Web at Woodbridge neighborhood in North Manteca during March.
LATHROP – Lathrop city officials want residents to read their lips: No new taxes for fiscal year 2010-11.
The double-crested cormorant is not on any endangered species list.
It is going to cost nearly $150 million for levee upgrades to protect Manteca, Lathrop, Weston Ranch, and parts of rural south Manteca from a 200-year flood.
It's now the $310 million question.
Jim Anderson - a popular home-grown rock singer that pays tribute to Elvis Presley's early years - is performing on the Main Stage of the 30th annual Sunrise Kiwanis Pumpkin Fair this weekend in downtown Manteca.
The Moving Wall - an 80 percent replica of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C., - is returning to Manteca a little more than 20 years after its first appearance.
Editor's note: This is an abbreviated version of a column about the Manteca High Vietnam Moving Wall ceremonies that former Manteca High student and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Sammy Davis appeared at that was published in March of 1993.
Good luck getting California's diverse special interest groups to agree on anything.
Educator Shane Smith is on the ballot for the Nov. 4 vote for Ripon City Council election even though he says he has been talked out of running because he is relatively new to the community.
The Home Energy Opportunity (HERO) program is considered as one of the fastest growing energy efficiency financing solution in the country.
You can tell a lot about a city by its garbage.
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text: Chapter Four Dissolving the Boundary: The Subversive Function of the Fantastic I am all for putting new wine in old bottles, especially if the pressure of the new wine makes the old bottles explode. --Angela Carter, "Notes From the Front Line" In the first part of The Magic Toyshop, the issue is involved in the setting and plots of reality while the unreal is interwoven periodically. With the progress of the plots, when the patriarchal force becomes more and more overwhelming, the elements of the unreal become increasingly obvious. After the killing of the swan, the boldness of carnival takes over and subverts the established order with a festival manner. I. The Hesitation of the Real and the Unreal Todorov specifies that hesitation is the major characteristic of the fantastic. A literary text has to create a world akin to the realistic world which the reader lives in; at the same time, the text has some extraordinary phenomena whereby the reader wanders between a natural or supernatural explanation. This hesitation can also be experienced by a character, in which case the reader will identify himself with the character and thus the sense of hesitation will be reinforced. In the novel, the setting is in southern London, the scenery is a working-class family, and characters are realistic. 53 Chen 54 Throughout the novel, there is no appearance of unusual magic performance. Even so, Carter constructs a world of hesitation no only for the protagonist but the reader. When Melanie first gets to the toyshop, she is often scared by the vivid toys and specimens: "a number of stuffed birds […] were disconcertingly lifelike and for a moment Melanie thought they were real" (The Magic Toyshop 41). In the living room, a painting of the white bull terrier is such an incredible verisimilitude that Melanie doubts whether the dog in the painting switches identities to the real dog from time to time: "as if it were a guard-dog […] on the constant qui vive [who lives] behind its glass eyes, taking turn and turn about with the real housedog, and the basket of flowers was stuck in its mouth in an attempt to disarm, an accessory borrowed to lend it a harmless look" (60). Then, a "real cuckoo" or precisely a stuffed real cuckoo flying out of the clock startles Melanie, which is such a "deliberate eccentricity" (60). Melanie's sense of reality is confused and bewildered by those toys and puppets. She is thrown into an eccentric world which she is not familiar with at all: "Nothing was ordinary, nothing was expected" (60). The sense of bewilderment is increased day by day, until Melanie cannot distinguish what is real from unreal. One day on the stair Melanie is startled by the dog's "uncanny quality of whiteness, like Moby Dick," and she wonders, "Which dog is it, the real one or the painted one?" (83) Living among those vivid puppets, Melanie's sense of reality is weakened. There are real birds made into toys; there are artificial puppets so much like real human beings. In the last scene of the novel, when Philip is trying to burn down the house, the white dog runs fast out from the house. "Did it or did it not carry a basket of flowers in its mouth?" Melanie doubts curiously Chen 55 (198). The most puzzling experience happens when Melanie alone sorts dining utensils in the kitchen. In the dresser drawer, there is a girl's delicate hand cut from the root, which is not a simple image of hallucination but a clear image with specific details: "[…] a soft-looking, plump little hand with pretty, tapering fingers the nails of which tinted with a faint, pearly lacquer. There was a thin sliver ring of the type small girls wear on the fourth finger" (The Magic Toyshop 118). Melanie is greatly frightened. Although Francie later comments that it is an illusion which is caused by Melanie's distress of losing her parents, Melanie is still certain that she sees a hand in the drawer. There is no explanation but only plenty of assumptions of what Melanie witnesses. Neither Melanie nor the reader can be sure about the answer of it. II. Love and Carnival: Destroying the Symbol of Patriarchal Violence Under Philip's patriarchal pressure upon the household, the members of the family still find their ways through in different means. First of all, love is what holds them together to face the predicament. The Jowles show their love toward each other without disguise and bashfulness: "They loved one another and did not care who knew it. Their love was almost palpable in the small room, warm as the fire, strong and soothing as sweet tea" (The Magic Toyshop 43). It is due to the abundance of love that can support their will to live in that toyshop. At night, when Philip is not in the house, the Jowles have their special amusement in the kitchen. Aunt Margaret plays the ebony flute; Francie plays the violin. Even the white dog joins in the performance, beating the ground with its tail rhythmically. Aunt Margaret is stunningly beautiful and at ease. Her hair is "loose and Chen 56 hung on her shoulders, a burning bush" (50), her smile is like an angel, and her eyes are "stars" (52). There is no word needed between Margaret and Francie: "They looked at each other, exchanging some meaning without words" (The Magic Toyshop 51). As for Finn, he plays a pair of spoons with fingers, not quite fluently. When sickened by his lousiness, Finn dances instead, and "[n]ot a note of music was without its corresponding motion of his eloquent and lively feet" (52). With this kind of carnivalesque delight, the Jowles act and move lively according to their own will: "these three had blended together as if it was the easiest thing in the world, forming a new, three headed animal taking comfortably to itself through Francie's hands and Aunt Margaret's lips and fingers and Finn's feet (76). They are such an "entity" which is "warm as wool" to resist the cold-blooded Philip (76). The night when Melanie faints for the sight of the girl's hand in the drawer, she is awakened by the gentle Francie, who checks the drawer and takes care of her. Aunt Margaret is very concerned about Melanie, and although she cannot verbally express her feeling, Margaret caresses Melanie with love just like a mother does to her child. Francie and Margaret form a "single arch of living substance raised up over her [Melanie], beneath she could sleep in safety" (122). Together with Finn, they are "three angels" watching over Melanie: "All the red people lighting a bonfire for her, to brighten away the wolves and tigers of this dreadful forest in which she lived" (122). This passage echoes William Blake's poem in Songs of Innocence and Experience, "The Tyger," in which the dreadful tiger hides in the "forests of the night" (2). Melanie leaves the easeful life of innocence behind and begins to experience the wary life in the toyshop, where Uncle Philip is the tiger, lurking around to find his Chen 57 victims. From that day on, Melanie loves her three angels whole-heartedly. She has entered the Jowles' "charmed circle" (123). Whenever she has time, Melanie helps Aunt Margaret to mend the clothes and Francie to polish his shoes. At Charismas time, Melanie prepares a little bottle of perfume for Aunt Margaret, and decides that she will polish Francie's shoes everyday in the following year. However, Melanie cannot do any thing for Finn, because since the day he is cruelly beaten by Philip, Finn has lost all of his liveliness and spirit, who is numb as a doll until he stands up for Melanie at the end of the novel. Lucie Armitt argues that Finn is a duplicate of Philip, that they not only "share a phonetic similarity of names" but also "share a fascination with women as spectacular commodity" (Contemporary Women's Fiction 211). Nevertheless, although Finn is more or less influenced by Philip's authoritative direction, he represents one of the new species of the gender roles in becoming, the "New Man" in Carter's Nights at the Circus (281). In Nights at the Circus, Walser is originally a traditional man who fits the social criterion of "the male," but when he encounters Fevvers, an aerialist who is famous for the pair of wings on her back, his perception of the real and unreal is completely challenged and subverted to the extreme. Walser can neither categorize Fevvers as an "ordinary" woman nor can he make sure that Fevvers is truly a "bird." Following the circuit with the circus, Walser gradually changes into a New Man, who transgresses the boundary of the orthodox conventions with Fevvers, who stands for the unconventional and anti-archetypical woman in a society. This kind of process of becoming typifies Finn's progress towards a new place besides the role given by patriarchy. Chen 58 Overruled by Philip's overwhelming authority, Finn manages to break through with his carnivalesque laughter. He is pounded by Philip because of being late three minutes for breakfast, yet Finn laughs to diminish Philip's authority: "[…] Finn slipping back and forth like an eel, a laughing eel, for he kept on laughing" (The Magic Toyshop 69). In Rabelais and His World, Mikhail Bakhtin manifests that laughter is one of the most important concepts of carnival. Laughter's "basis […] gives form to carnival rituals frees them completely from all religious and ecclesiastic dogmatism, from all mysticism and piety" (7). In medieval and Renaissance, carnival is a festival for the common people to utter their voices in their vulgar language and to celebrate the state of equality among various classes of social hierarchy and religion. The laughter is anti-authority, anti-sacredness, and anti-despotism. Finn's laughter embodies the spirit of carnival, resisting Philip's tyranny. "Why did he grin so much, showing his discoloured teeth?" Melanie wonders (The Magic Toyshop 72). In the gloomy and weighty atmosphere, Finn laughs to decrease the pressure of Philip's rage. The carnival laughter is "gay, triumphant, and at the same time mocking, deriding. It asserts and denies, it buries and revives" (Rabelais and His World 11-12). The rebel quality of carnival laughter serves as a means to confront Philip. At the night when Melanie is symbolically raped by Philip's swan, Finn decides to use Margaret's axe to chop up the swan. "[…] It was easy," Finn says (The Magic Toyhsop 171). The swan is not scary for its own sake, but for the power endowed. It represents Philip's authority as a father in a family, or rather the patriarchal domination in a society. 'It covered you,' said Finn. 'It rode you. I did it partly for your sake, Chen 59 because it rode you.' […] 'Besides, Philip Flower loved it so.' 'It was a ludicrous thing, the swan,' she [Melanie] said. 'But so much work went into it.' 'He put himself into it. That is why it had to go. Oh, I'm weary.' (174) Finn kills the swan for the violence it demonstrates, because what is behind it is actually Philip, and the swan is what Philip treasures and enjoys playing. The swan symbols the system which runs behind the patriarchy, the ideology which is set and reinforced by the male, which particularly dictates that the male imposes their ideology upon the entire human race. What Finn means by the sentence, "[h]e put himself into it," has double meanings. One is the meaning according to the commonly-used grammar, that Philip has devoted himself into the production of the swan. The other is that Philip literally puts himself into the swan, and that he puts his spirit into the swan and transforms into that swan, like Jupiter in the story of mythology. The swan epitomizes the symbolic order. What Carter manages to do is to reveal all those myths and the devices within those myths, because what she believes is "that all the myths are products of the human mind and reflect only aspects of material human practice" (71). She remarks that she is in the "demythologizing business" (71). One of the myths in the novel which Carter demythologizes is the story of "Leda and the Swan." Carter comments that she finds a lot of "raw material in the lumber room of the Western European imagination" for her constant topic of writing on sexuality (Notes 72). Carter uses the word "imagination" here negatively. Chen 60 So I feel free to loot and rummage in an official past, specifically a literary past, […]. This past, for me, has important decorative, ornamental functions; further, it is a vast repository of outmoded lies, where you can check out what lies used to be la mode and find the old lies on which new lies have been based. (Notes 74) (emphases added) The Western European literature is almost entirely built by the so-called "imagination" of the male, and the system of patriarchy results in the silence of the female, causing the female's voice to be all muffled. Sally Robinson concludes that the "overall effect" of Carter's works is to "drive a wedge between Woman and women, between male-centered metaphysical representations of Woman and the feminine, and women's multiplicitous and heterogeneous self-representations" (77). Robinson uses the single and capitalized "Woman" to indicate what the male imagines a woman should be, the femininity which fits in the male's agenda, and uses the multiple women to approve the difference and dissimilitude of each woman. Those "lies" composed by patriarchy dominate women for thousands of year; moreover, there are new lies fabricated still. The swan is the symbol of the aggregation of Western European literature, which is just what Melanie describes it as a "ludicrous" thing but been put "so much work" into (174). Andrzej Gasiorek proclaims that Carter is significant because she "walks the tightrope between carnivalesque fantasy and rational critique" (126). Not only does Carter create the realm of the fantastic for pleasure and liberation, but also for the critique of the real world. Therefore, Finn's act of destroying the swan is such a Chen 61 defiant act against the power of phallus, which is exactly what Carter does in her business of demythologizing: "'Finn, the enormity of it!' 'It is a gesture.' (171)" Finn is the only character, who finally determines to subvert Philip's domination by killing the symbol of phallus. One part of the swan is particularly difficult to be destroyed. […] And the swan's neck refused to be chopped up […]. It kept sticking itself out of my rain coat when I buttoned it up to hide it and it kept peering around while I was carrying it, […]. It must have looked, to a passer-by, as if I was indecently exposing myself and kept feeling to see if my fly was done up. (The Magic Toyshop 173) In this passage, the swan's neck keeps jutting out, as if it is Finn's phallus. Significantly, Finn, being a man, was symbolically castrating himself, who is at the same time deprived of the privilege at the control center. He does not choose to inherit Philip's position as a father and the phallus. Not only does Finn stand up for Melanie's sake but for his own sake, because he does not like the entire system of patriarchy. Besides, he cannot ignore the inequality like Jonathon does: "'Ah, but it was a pleasure to destroy the swan.' (173)" Jack Zipes summarizes the functions in Propp's study, and one of the basic motifs of the fairy tale is that the villain is "punished or the inimical forces are vanquished (4)," which is the climax of the story. In the fairy tale, the villain is meant to be defeated eventually and the "initial misfortune or lack is liquidated" (Propp 53). Zipes draws parallels between the force or "enchantment" and "petrification," and between the broken spell and "emancipation" (6). Only when the spell is broken can there be emancipation. Finn chooses to bury the remains of the swan in the pleasure garden where is Chen 62 the ashes of National Exposition of 1852, because Finn feels that "somehow it seemed best of all to bury it in the pleasure garden" (The Magic Toyshop 173). In the pleasure garden, there lies the statue of early middle-age Queen Victoria and various statues of "[d]ryads, slave girls, busts of great men, great men on horse (102)," which are characters in the myth, stories, and great men in legends. The pleasure garden represents history, what Carter calls the "repository of outmoded lies;" and each of those statues signifies the fabricated legend, the "outmoded" lie made to be believed and internalized by the people (Notes 74). Thus, the swan, the symbol of phallus, suits such a despairing place which "smells of rotten mortality" (102). Carter asserts that "I / we [women] are not the slave of the history that enslaved our ancestors" (74) (emphases added). History is composed by the male ideology, in which women are excluded. Women's voices are therefore marginalized and disregarded, enslaved by history which reinforces the patriarchal symbolic system. The next morning when the swan is gone and Philip and Jonathon go out to a gathering of model boat lovers, the house is filled with the atmosphere of joyfulness and carnival. There is "such festivity" in the kitchen, even bacon dances in the pan "for joy," and toast burns "with a merry flame" (The Magic Toyshop 183). In this casual atmosphere, Finn announces that he is going to sit on Philip's chair, in which Finn looks like the "Lord of Misrule" (183). Finn's act of sitting on Philip's seat / throne infers one of the major plots of carnival: the act of crowning and decrowning. Jackson points out that the menippea is "conceptually linked with the notion of carnival" (15). Carnival is the specific example of the menippea. Bakhtin notes in Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics notes that the "primary carnivalistic act is the mock Chen 63 crowning and subsequent decrowning of the carnival king" (124). The official authority and political hierarchy of the society are subverted in the process. Crowning / decrowning is a dualistic ambivalent ritual, expressing the inevitability and at the same time the creative power of the shift-and-renewal, the joyful relativity of all structure and order, of all authority and all (hierarchical) position. (124) Carnival emphasizes the fluidity and changeability, praises the vitality, and opposes the forces of convention and institution. By the act of crowning and decrowning, the institutional authority is pulled down from the high social position and the common people have the chance to be the king. The social order is neglected or intentionally subverted, forming a condition of up-side-down. After sitting in Philip's chair and announcing to the family members that he has dismembered the swan, Finn then takes the cup of Philip, on which is the word "Father," and smashes it. Finn discards the law of Father and thus there is no longer limitation and fear in their hearts. Everyone breaks into laughter. Francie starts to laugh "hugely, rolling in his chair," and he laughs "until the tears came seeping down his rough cheeks" (The Magic Toyshop 184). Aunt Margaret finally relaxes herself, and "for the first time […], she seemed to be examining the possibility of her own tomorrow," having her own freedom (184). When washing the dishes, they play with the soap and make it a "soap-sud carnival" (185). […] Melanie had never seen the brothers laugh so much. Francie sagged, a partially demolished tower, hooting and hiccoughing over the sink. Finn rolled on the floor, holding his stomach. Victoria caught the Chen 64 infection and went berserk, nearly stumbling off Aunt Margaret's lap with mirth. (185) They are all free from the symbolic order, growing spiritual strength. Melanie takes out and wears her trousers, which is forbidden by Philip. Margaret no longer wears the grey dress and the silver necklace, which makes her uncomfortable and restrained, and puts on the pearl necklace and a green dress given as a gift from Melanie instead. Then they start to play the music: "She [Margaret] was on the top branch of a happy tree, playing the flute with Francie, and Victoria stumbled on the floor. Downstairs, the shop lay in its Christmas Eve disorder, […] the kitchen brimmed over joy" (192). They drink beers, dance, sing, and play. Disregarding all the rules and laws, they do not repress their wills and desires anymore. Aunt Margaret and Francie embrace each other with love, not the love of families but lovers. Incest is always a taboo in the cultural realm. However, in the festival carnival, Bakhtin manifests that "carnival celebrated temporary liberation from the prevailing truth and form the established order; it marked the suspension of all hierarchical rank, privileges, norms, and prohibitions," and that "[c]arnival was the true feast of time, the feast of becoming, change, and renewal" (Rabelais 10). Because the laws are suspended, Margaret and Francie can show their true affection and become what they want to be; at the same time, the wise white dog gazes at them "uncensoriously" (The Magic Toyshop 194). As for Carter, the best adjective for her attitude toward the issue of the taboo of the incest and all of the restrictions and boundaries is exactly "uncensorious." […] she [Melanie] could see a charred stick in fireplace, […]. She found herself gazing at it as if it were the most significant object she had ever Chen 65 seen, as if it might start talking to her of past and present and future and a grand concept of them all as a whole in which incest had an explicable place. (196) (emphases added) The taboo of incest is defined and executed by the culture, and the culture, just like history, is defined and constituted by the patriarchy. Carter tries to inspect and undermine the prohibitions set by the law of the Father, finding a broader view beyond all the boundaries. III. Rewriting and Retelling: The Strategy of Parody Carter does not write to echo what has been said, but uses literary conventions as bases, altering them and then elaborating on her focuses instead. Therefore, Rod Mengham notes that Carter has the "impulse to challenge traditional forms and methods of narration" (4). The rebel characteristic of Carter is widely acknowledged by critics. As Robert Eaglestone points out, "her writing / retelling is always subversive" (198). Carter's strategy is not limited to the subversion of plots on the surface, but fundamentally the subversion of narrative techniques and literary forms as a whole. The Magic Toyshop is full of parodies of stories of mythology, the fairy tale, the Bible, and the genre of romance. A parody contains the characteristics of Viktor Shklovsky's "defamiliarization," a way of reconstructing perspective by "exposing and revealing" the literary tradition and canon, and of "laying bare the device," which is the means of self-consciously achieving defamiliarization (Waugh 65). In The Magic Toyshop, Carter utilizes numerous conventions, and one of which is the genre of romance. Flora Alexander Chen 66 specifically indicates that Carter's strategy is "to write lavishly within the discourse of romance" but in the meanwhile "to undermine this discourse with words which destabilise the romance mode" (71-72). In the first chapter, Melanie leaves with romantic expectations of her future; specifically speaking, she craves for the romance of love and an attractive husband. Nevertheless, her dream is broken after her parent's death, for in the toyshop, Melanie's hope for a "fancy" future can never be realized (The Magic Toyshop 7). In chapter three, Melanie wakes up in the room of rose wallpaper, which makes her resemble the princess of the fairy tale, the sleeping beauty. However, her prince charming is the vulgar and dirty Finn, who is "not a man like the men in whose arms she had imagined herself" (107). The fairy tale, to which this novel belongs, has also what Zipes calls the "[l]iberating [p]otential" of contemporary fairy tale. At the same time, Susan Sellers emphasizes the "balance between the retaining of familiar elements and the introduction of the new" (14). This fusion of the familiar and the new is exactly what Patricia Waugh defines as metafictional parody, which "offers both innovation and familiarity through the individual reworking and undermining of familiar convention" (12). While the familiarity provides a sense of security to the reader, the innovation provides a sense of novelty. The most significant characteristic of parody is that it is "double-edged," for it is "either destructive or as critically evaluative and breaking out into new creative possibilities" (Waugh 64-5). For Carter, both descriptions can be correspondingly true. In the allusion of "The Leda and Swan," by parodying the phallic swan in the mythology to be only an absurd paper-cut marionette, Carter demonstrates that the Chen 67 symbol of patriarchy is not what women is afraid of but the act of violence, rape. She even proceeds to a critique of Bible, the major and earliest resource and foundation of patriarchy. The Magic Toyshop is precisely a parody of the Garden of Eden, where human has to obey God's will in any circumstances. Philip Flower is the ruthless god not only in his puppet theater but also in the household. During an interview, Carter specifies that "the toyshop itself should be a secularized Eden: that's what lay behind the malign fairy tale I wrote" (Haffenden 80). When Philip returns from the gathering of model boat lovers, he finds out the love between Margaret and Francie. He sets a fire, intending to burn all of them. At this time, Margaret finally regains her voice: "Struck dumb on her wedding day, she found her old voice again the day she was freed" (The Magic Toyshop 197). At the end, Melanie and Finn find that there are only two of them sitting in the garden with nothing left: "At night, in the garden, they faced each other in a wild surmise" (200). They are expelled from Eden, which Carter recognizes as "the Fortunate Fall" (Haffenden 80). Even though it is a fortunate fall so that they can break away from fear and pressure, what waits in front of them is not a promising future. In When Dreams Came True, Zipes declares that "[r]arely do wonder tales [fairy tale] end unhappily" and that "[t]he success of the protagonist usually leads to (a) marriage; (b) the acquisition of money; (c) survival and wisdom; (d) any combination of the first three" (4). Not like the ending of any typical fairy tale with happy ending, The Magic Toyshop ends with the sense of uncertainty and desolation. In this case, marriage may be obtained but no fortune, and wisdom is still in the pursuit. Carter again parodies the genre of the fairy tale. In The Magic Toyshop, Carter Chen 68 has an "extreme self-consciousness" about her devices, and she is not afraid of "laying bare" those tricks in front of the readers (Waugh 2). Through those metafictional techniques, Carter constructs a parodic discourse in contrast to the grand-narrative of patriarchy.


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Upon hearing Chance The Rapper's Good Ass Intro, off his newly-released Acid Rap project, I immediately got that "oh sh*t" feeling that first came over me after first listening to Kanye way back in 2002. One reason for the nostalgia is that it actually sampled West, but the larger reason is because Chance's music contains that soulful Chicago sound I fell in love with as a 14-year-old. Well, if you shared that same feeling with me last month, then you'll share it again today as you press play on on Alex Wiley's Spaceship II, a pseudo-sequel to Kanye's Spaceship from his debut classic College Dropout. Produced by Wes Freeman, Spaceship II features a soul sample and blaring horns where Wiley and the aforementioned Chance take turns dropping verses, and to complete the circle Kanye's (former) right-hand man GLC provides some of his signature and insightful Isms. It's looking more and more like the latest generation of Chicago emcees are poised to truly make their mark. If you like what you heard on Spaceships II, be sure to check out Wiley's debut mixtape, Club Wiley, out now thanks to Closed Sessions.
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MSWIN demonstrated successfully by Barbour
Published: September 7,2009
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GULFPORT — Gov. Haley Barbour has conducted the first public demonstration of a new wireless emergency communications network designed to allow officials and first responders to communicate quickly and effectively in times of crisis.
In a demonstration staged from the emergency operations center at the National Guard Headquarters in Gulfport, which would serve as the state's forward operations center during an actual Gulf Coast emergency, Barbour used the new Mississippi Wireless Integrated Network (MSWIN) for the first time. He connected with agents of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, who were on duty in the Gulf of Mexico; the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency and Mississippi Department of Public Safety about 160 miles to the north in Jackson and the Jackson County Emergency Operations Center about 40 miles to the east in Pascagoula.
"Four years ago today, we quickly discovered that Hurricane Katrina had obliterated communications systems not only along the Gulf Coast but also far inland. First responders were unable to talk to each other except face-to-face, which was disastrous in and of itself as everyone was trying to get help to people who needed it immediately," Barbour said.
"Today, I am pleased to report to the people of Mississippi, we are developing a reliable, sustainable new system designed to vastly improve the ability of law enforcement and emergency personnel to share information during natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina and other emergencies."
MSWIN representatives utilized hand-held units that enabled them to speak to the various personnel. In addition to the mobile hand-held units and those that will be installed in vehicles, the MSWIN network includes a Master Site on Wheels (SOW) staged in Jackson and three mobile SOWs that can be dispatched anywhere in the state to establish or enhance radio communications in emergencies or special events.
The state selected Motorola as the vendor for the project, and the contract was executed in June 2007. Construction is planned in three phases. The recently completed Phase 1 covers the lower third of the state and includes a total of 44 sites.
"MSWIN is roughly 18 months ahead of schedule and on budget," said Bill Roach, executive officer of the Wireless Communication Commission.
Phase II, primarily Central Mississippi, will include 52 sites. Phase III, the upper third of the state, will include 47 sites.
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Junior Tidal is the Web Services and Multimedia Librarians for City Tech. You can contact him at email@example.com. You can find out more about him by visiting his profile on the library faculty page.
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