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Together, team earns win that's unconventional
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - For a team such as the Red Sox, taking three out of four games from the last-place Kansas City Royals would not seem like a significant accomplishment. Isn't that what they're supposed to do?
But these were not the same Red Sox who have spent much of the summer in first place. Kevin Youkilis went on the disabled list Thursday with a strained back. David Ortiz hasn't played in a week because of a sore right foot. Jacoby Ellsbury was hit in the back with a pitch Friday and sat out the weekend.
"I don't care who you are,'' backup outfielder Darnell McDonald said, "you lose three All-Stars and that's a big deal.''
But the Sox were resilient, stitching together a somewhat unconventional 6-1 victory yesterday to take the series.
Jason Varitek drove in a run with a triple, his first since 2007. McDonald, whose batting average hadn't been over .182 all season, had three hits, including a home run. Rookie Ryan Lavarnway added two hits, one an RBI double.
Another struggling hitter, Carl Crawford, also homered as the Sox left for Texas with a sense of satisfaction.
"That was a big series for us,'' Varitek said. "This team needed to play well and we did.''
Sox starter Jon Lester (13-6) was working on a one-hit shutout going into the seventh inning. Impressive as that sounds, the lefthander was not particularly sharp. He had walked three and was at 100 pitches to that point.
"My stuff at times was good, other times it was a matter of trying to do too much,'' Lester said. "I didn't really have that putaway pitch I've had in past games.''
The Sox had taken a 3-0 lead on Varitek's RBI triple in the fifth and solo home runs by McDonald and Crawford in the sixth and seventh, respectively.
But Lester almost let the lead slip away. Rookie Johnny Giavotella started the seventh with a triple. Another rookie, catcher Salvador Perez, drew a walk before Mike Moustakas pounded an RBI single into right field.
Manager Terry Francona took no chances, turning to Daniel Bard. It was the earliest his setup man had been in a game since April 20.
"Don't want to give up runs with him sitting out there,'' Francona said. "He's our best trying to get out of innings.''
The Royals wanted Alcides Escobar to bunt. But he fouled off two attempts before striking out on a slider. Bard tamped out the rally easily from there, getting a fly ball and a force at second.
Bard has inherited 29 runners this season and just three have scored. The first batter, he said, is the key to stopping rallies.
"The easiest way to do that is to strike a guy out or get a ground ball,'' Bard said. "[Escobar] was definitely trying to bunt and he's probably one of the best bunters in the league. I kind of got lucky that he fouled those balls off. From there, you pitch for the strikeout in that situation. I kind of went from there.''
Lester, watching from the dugout, marveled at how quickly Bard ended what could have been a big inning.
"That's big,'' he said. "It's nothing unexpected from him. He's done it since he's been up here. It's big to have a guy like that in our bullpen.''
Said Varitek: "Getting out of that jam was the biggest part of that game.''
The Sox scored three runs in the eighth to secure the victory. Marco Scutaro, batting leadoff in place of Ellsbury, started the inning with a double. McDonald singled and then Adrian Gonzalez singled to center, scoring Scutaro.
Jed Lowrie added a sacrifice fly and Lavarnway an RBI double to left field. Lowrie played third base for Youkilis while Lavarnway subbed for Ortiz as the designated hitter.
The Sox remain a half-game behind the Yankees, who won at Minnesota. But some pressure was released with yesterday's victory.
"I think it's huge, especially considering who we're about to play,'' Bard said. "Taking three out of four here maybe lets us take a little bit of a deep breath. Not that we're going to play less hard in Texas. But the pressure's not there.
"If we had gone 1-3 here or even 2-2, it would feel like we had some ground to make up. Now we can just go in and play our game.''
The Rangers are in first place in the American League West. They also swept three games from the Sox at the start of the season, scoring 26 runs.
"We're going to have something to prove to those guys,'' Bard said. "It's fun. Anything that makes it more competitive makes it more fun.''
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(Contemporary Literary Criticism)
O'Casey, Sean 1880–1964
O'Casey, an Irish dramatist and essayist, began his career writing ballads and short fiction. The political struggles of modern Ireland are central to his early work, which is essentially naturalistic in character. His later works blend elements of naturalism with expressionism and are concerned with the more universal problem of individuality in an age of conformity. O'Casey used dialect in his plays to add verisimilitude to setting and character and to establish mood. (See also CLC, Vols. 1, 5, 9.)

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Two snowy owls have hatched at Drusillas Park and have been turning heads at the award winning zoo in Alfriston.
The little hoots were discovered by keepers on June 12 and 14 and are making egg-cellent progress.
The chicks are the first to be successfully reared at the zoo in over 15 years and staff are delighted.
Fluffy and grey, the tiny snow-balls currently bear a greater resemblance to ugly ducklings.
However, as new feathers replace the down, the birds will gradually turn lighter and eventually develop the stunning white plumage of their parents.
In the wild, these beautiful birds inhabit the chilly skies above the Arctic, where temperatures are incredibly low and snow is common.
Pairs generally mate for life and build nests at ground level, laying up to 11 eggs at a time.
Proud parents, Zapper and Zephyr were introduced at Drusillas Park in 2008, after winging their way from Drayton Manor and Linton Zoo respectively.
Both of them have been looking after the chicks, who are dependent on them for food and care for approximately seven weeks.
Located just off the A27, Drusillas Park is open daily from 10am.
For more information, please telephone 01323 874100 or visit www.drusillas.co.uk


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You know you want him. Miami rapper Pitbull is in high demand, and he's out for world domination. The 29-year-old cubano is readying his first Spanish language album, Armando, just in time for summer, and soon he'll land stateside for a tour that'll take us from his mixtape days to a dance club daze. Latina.com recently had a chance to get the 411 from Mr. 305 himself about his new plans. Here's what he had to say:
"I Know You Want Me" has gone double platinum. Congrats.
It's about to go triple platinum. It's already way up there. I think it's the number one video ever in the history of You Tube. It embodies the true meaning of music as a universal language. It's a song that's a hit all over the world. Even if people don't understand, they like it. For me that's the power of music.
Your first Spanish language album, Armando, is dropping in June. What can we expect?
You can expect a record with a lot of global sounds. We're going to have mambo in there. It's dedicated to my father who passed away three years ago. And the reason I named it Armando is because his favorite song was Frank Sinatra's "My Way" and I feel like I've done it my way in the music business. I want everybody to feel good with this album.
Is the Planet Pit album coming out in the fall?
Planet Pit will be coming out late this year or next year for sure. We're already working the pre-single, which is the single before the single, which is "Alright" featuring Machel Montano. It's another record that will be full of world music. I got a chance to see that with Rebelution because at [my former label] TVT they would block my music from being international. Now I see the bigger picture.
How do you juggle it all?
You have to strike while the iron is hot. I feel like that's what I've been training for. All those years of learning how to survive in the music game has got me ready to go to war and step up to the plate and hit a home run. This is what I've been working so hard all these years for, to be ready for this type of moment.
What's going on with the Mr. Worldwide's Carnaval tour?
It'll be in the U.S. from May 25 through June 27. It's the evolution of Pitbull. It's going to start the way I started, through hip-hop, through crunk and then go into everything I've been through with music so that people can understand how hard I've worked. People can see that it's not all club music; that I've done all kinds of music and survived. My school of hard knocks 101. We're going to have carnival dancers, jumpers, and that carnival feel.
Are you surprised by the reaction people have to your music?
Definitely. I'm on my way to Europe. And then I'm on my way to Asia—to some countries I can't even pronounce. It's a great feeling to go somewhere and see people enjoy music that they can't even understand.
What happens after the tour?
I'll be taking August off. I love the water, the ocean. My goal in life is for my kids to have a future and for me to live the Corona commercial every day of my life. You know the one, he reaches for the Corona and by mistake he gets his phone and makes it skip in the ocean. I want to do that every day of my life. Ha ha. But instead of a Corona, it'd be a Ketel One with water and a lot of lime. That's my drink.
You collaborated on Cypress Hill's "Armada Latina"; were you a longtime fan?
Oh man, Cypress Hill opened so many doors for us Latin rappers in the game. I don't even like to use that word, Latin rappers, I really don't, but a rapper who happens to be Latin. To be able to work with them was an honor, for one, and for two, they're cool as fuck; they're just real people. To be able to have the voice of Marc Anthony took the record to the next level.
You've done a lot of collabos; how do you choose who you work with?
I really don't to be honest with you. If the song's jamming—whether it's Juanita, Pepita or Janet Jackson—I definitely want to be a part of it.
Anyone you really want to work with?
I had always wanted to work with Celia Cruz, may she rest in peace. Azucar.
I read you were doing something?
Hopefully with technology, I'll be able to make something happen. Another person that I'd love to collaborate with would be Jay-Z. I'd like to see our worlds meet. I think it'd be something real special.
You're all about bringing cultures together. Why is that?
I come from a city that has a bunch of different cultures. To be able to live in a city like that, you have to adapt to the environment and know how to be part of a community. Music has allowed me to do the same and bring cultures together like the city I was born and raised in. It's second nature.
You recently received the key to the city of Miami and were also crowned King of Calle Ocho; how significant is that?
To me it's two of the most significant things that have happened in my career and in my life. I grew up watching people who weren't even from Miami get the key and thinking 'why don't we give it to someone from Miami?' And then to be able to see people like Celia Cruz, Gloria Estefan, Willie Chirino on Calle Ocho and then be the King of Calle Ocho. It's a fairytale. It means so much because I'm born and raised here, and bleed, breath, shit 305.
What's the most important lesson you want to pass on to your four kids?
The appreciation of hard work. The appreciation of opportunity. The appreciation of freedom. I want them to understand what it is to be a Cuban-American, a Latin American and how many people are losing their lives trying to get to the United States, trying to enjoy the American dream, the freedom that we have. I want my kids to know how hard I've worked for them. I want them to never lose their culture and never lose their hustle.
How do you keep the Cuban side alive in them?
Through food, through music, through language. By teaching them different sayings my grandma used to tell me: Dime con quien tu andas y te dire quien eres. Those couple of words really mean something. I'll always have their culture in their veins, in their blood, in their hearts.
Anything you want to do that you haven't done yet?
I'm dying for Cuba to be free so I can go over there.
What about career-wise?
2009 was my first free year in the music business; 2010 is the invasion; and 2011 is when we're going to create the empire. I'm dying to get the pipeline up and running. You work so hard for the money and now it starts to work for you. That's what I'm dying to get to.
You're always dressed sharp; do you have a stylist?
My stylist is Armando Christian Perez, me!
What do you do for fun?
Like I said, I love to be by the beach, music and my little drink, and I'm good to go. Oh and a hot woman of course. That's all I need.
Are you single?
I'm single, bilingual and ready to mingle.


text: Foldover strikes diverse in appearance, probably obsolete Collectors' Clearinghouse column from the September 15, 2014, issue of Coin World By Mike Diamond , Special to Coin World Published : 08/28/14 Print Text Size A A This 2001 cent received a normal first strike and a foldover, uniface second strike. This specimen displays an axial fold and asymmetrical positioning of the composite tongue. Image courtesy of Mike Diamond. This rare in-collar foldover strike required positioning at the very edge of the striking chamber, a tangential orientation, and a perfect axial fold in the direction of the striking chamber. Image courtesy of Mike Diamond. The reverse face of this 1999 cent shows an extreme paraxial fold that has left a small tongue fused to the back of the reverse face (black outline). The opposite pole shows an edge strike. Image courtesy of Mike Diamond. This 198x cent folded toward the striking chamber when struck on-edge. Image courtesy of Mike Diamond. A foldover strike occurs when a planchet or coin is struck on edge and folds from the impact. Any number of scenarios can produce this rare vertical positioning of the planchet. It can enter the striking chamber spinning or rolling on its edge. It can be kicked into a vertical position when thrust against a coin left behind in the striking chamber. An airborne planchet can even be caught in midflight by the descending hammer die. The most recent foldover strikes I know of are dated 2001, so this seems to be an obsolete error type that modern high-speed Schuler presses used at United States Mint facilities are incapable of generating. Appearance highly variable As might be expected of such a fluke event, the appearance of a foldover strike is highly variable. Variability includes the distance of the bend from the planchet's equator, the positioning of the struck tongue along the convex edge of the "taco," the size of the tongue, and the relative contributions of the tongue's two fused flaps. Also variable is the presence, size, and patency of any "loop" that forms as the two halves of the taco are pinched together. Appearance is, in turn, dependent on thoroughly random starting conditions. These include the planchet's contact point on the anvil die face and whether the bend is directed toward or away from the striking chamber. Also important is the planchet's angular orientation to the circular die face (tangential, oblique, or orthogonal). Stated another way, the silhouette of a peripherally placed planchet would respectively appear as a circle, an oval, or a vertical line when viewed from across the striking chamber. Frequent slippage of the planchet during the downstroke of the hammer adds an additional level of complexity. 2001 Lincoln cent struck twice Our first example is a 2001 Lincoln cent that received a normal first strike and a foldover second strike. It's evident that the vertically positioned coin was peripherally located because the second letter of WE is preserved on the edge next to the tongue. The bend pointed away from the striking chamber (producing a patent loop) and is perfectly symmetrical (an axial or midline fold). On the composite tongue, the obverse flap is fractionally smaller than the reverse flap. The tongue is asymmetrically positioned along the convex edge of the taco. Some consistent patterns This example does document some consistent patterns that can be detected in double- and triple-struck foldover cents. In such errors, the outside of the fold always shows the Lincoln Memorial. advertisement Subscribe to our Newsletters advertisement You are signed in as:null No comments yet


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There's smoke coming out of vents and a red light is flashing on the bottom right round windowPost created: 2013-01-22 Type of Equipment: Furnace Views: 174
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There's smoke/fumes coming out of vents, no heat anymore. There's a red light flashing on the lower right round window of two round view-windows. The horizontal wide square box on top is hot, esp on bottom of it (this all is after I take the front panel off).
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First, is there a fire or is smoke still coming from the vents? If so you may need emergency help.
The flashing red light is indicating an error code. This is a two digit number. The first digit is indicated by a number of short flashes followed by a number of long flashes. The code indicates the general area of the problem, but is not a specific diagnosis. Given the situation as you describe it you should call a certified HVAC technician to come diagnose the problem, make sure the furnace is safe, and fix the problem.
To learn more about the error codes you can go here: http://www.manualslib.com/manual/25568/Carrier-Carrier-58mcb.html?page=15.
You can find a certified tech in your area here: http://www.furnacecompare.com/perl/find_contractors.pl.
Good Luck!
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NEW Hearts head coach Robbie Neilson has been handed responsibility for negotiating with signing targets this summer – with a little help from mentor Craig Levein.
Levein indicated when he was unveiled as director of football earlier this month that a major part of his role would be to educate Neilson and the club's other coaches so there would be a seamless transition if one of them left in future.
And Neilson has revealed the on-the-job training is not confined to the coaching side of the game as he bids to piece together a squad for next season.
Dundee United midfielder Morgaro Gomis and St Mirren defender Darren McGregor are two of the players the Tynecastle outfit have been linked with in recent days.
And Neilson said: "I've been doing the majority of the negotiating and it's a learning curve for me, which Craig Levein is helping me with.
"I'm gaining experience but I don't think I'd be able to do it without him beside me, just to instruct me on what to do here and there, and how to structure things.
"Craig has been fantastic with me, giving me advice and helping me through it.
"He's allowing me to deal with the agents and the contractual side but if I need to bounce anything off him then he's there.
"I've always been on the other side of it.
"For the last four or five years of my playing career, I dealt with my own financial negotiations.
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The U.S. Senate contest in Illinois could go down to the wire as Republican Mark Kirk and Democrat Alexi Giannoulias are still running close headed into the campaign's final week, a new Tribune/WGN poll shows.
Kirk held a 44 percent to 41 percent advantage over Giannoulias, but the slight edge fell within the poll's 3.7 percentage-point margin of error. Another 7 percent were undecided — a key category of voters both parties are spending millions of dollars to sway with President Barack Obama's former Senate seat on the line in a nationally significant contest.


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Fall Fruit: Recipes from the Blogosphere
As we near Halloween, my seasonal fruit larder is changing. Gone are peaches, plums and nectarines replaced by pomegranates, apples and persimmons. Hamada Farms and Twin Girls Farm supply my pomegranates, and I choose apples from Hidden Star Orchards, Devoto Gardens and Flatland Flower Farm. As usual, I turn to my fellow bloggers for recipes and creative ideas about this fall fruit.
Elise's Simply Recipes is normally my first stop on the Internet for recipes. "Try the recipe from Elise's site," I often tell friends asking how to make pork this or beef that, "I trust her recipes and they've always turned out for me." I've had the pleasure of tasting Elise's apple butter, and am looking forward to trying the recipe for myself this year.
Jocelyn blogs about food at her site Brownie Points in Portland. I found a great recipe for Apple Spice Pancakes with Pomegranate Syrup on her site that I'd like to try. Local food blogger Fatemeh has an interesting recipe for Cocoa-Pomegranate Roast Chicken with Eggplant Stuffing that looks like it would be great to serve to guests. And wrapping up the pomegranate recipes, Stacey at Just Braise has a delicious looking recipe for Bourbon-Pomegranate Molasses Beef Short Ribs with Broccoli Rabe
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Here on Bay Area Bites, Shuna gave us her persimmon pudding recipe a couple of years ago that looks tempting.
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Other fall fruit recipes from the blogosphere include:
Persimmon Bread from David Lebovitz
Curried Apple Couscous from 101 Cookbooks
Cinnamon Vanilla Applesauce from the Eat Local Challenge blog
Apple and Cumin Lentil Salad from Chocolate & Zucchini
Tarte Tatin from Orangette
Roast Pork with Braised Fennel, Apples and Onions from Too Many Chefs
Quince-Pomegranate Cranberry Compote from Seattle Bon Vivant
Pomegranate, Pear, Fennel and Arugula Salad from Cook Sister
Monkfish on Wild Rocket & Pomegranate Seeds from Delicious Days
Fuyu Korma from Sourdough Monkey Wrangler
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Domestic Violence is a whole community responsibility and great partnerships are being developed within the wider Australian Muslim community that are serious about approaching this issue in a cooperative and sustainable way.
This ABC News Report by Danuta Kozaki, Senior Reporter ABC News, aired on the 2nd March 2014 discusses this issue and that domestic violence is no longer being seen as a women's issue and the work that is being done in the community.
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Investigators with the Washington County Sheriff's Office expect to complete their investigation into Lumberjack Days, Stillwater's popular summer festival, by the end of May.
Sheriff Bill Hutton said investigators have been actively working the case for months. "We're trying to get everything done," Hutton said Wednesday, April 25. "Lots of interviews have gone into this. It has not been set on a shelf."
The Lumberjack Days Festival Association was accused last fall of issuing worthless checks for more than $35,000 to three vendors and the Stillwater Area High School boys hockey booster club.
Once the investigation is complete, the case will be turned over to Washington County Attorney Pete Orput for possible charges, Hutton said.
Organizer Dave Eckberg, who could not be reached for comment for this story, has said festival proceeds were down dramatically last summer because of bad weather.
The Stillwater City Council voted in February to terminate its contract with the Lumberjack Days Association and later approved a one-year moratorium on summer festivals.
Mary Divine can be reached at 651-228-5443. Follow her at twitter.com/MaryEDivine.


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He's calm, collected. He's generally sarcastic during most initial interactions, mainly to see people's responses. If he's in a pissed off mood, he reverts into himself and avoids others as much as possible. He likes alcohol and cigarettes (not really), but that isn't a personality trait, now is it? However, it does have to do with how he interacts with people. He will take out a cigarette any time that he feels either bored with company or uncomfortable. Silence bothers him - if he is in the presence of others, he needs for them to be speaking at all times.
He doesn't usually get recognizably agitated, but he will sometimes seem that way because he can be a bit cold and calculating. He dumbs down his speech often as a way of trying to connect with people who are not from his home. Whenever he slouches, it is not out of habit but more out of an attempt to seem "normal"; as a result, he looks very lopsided and strange when he does so.
Physical Appearance
5' 3", relatively short. Lanky. He has dark hair and dresses rather formally - usually in a dress shirt, pants, and suit shoes. If he looks frazzled, it's because he had a bad day. His nose is incredibly straight and triangular-shaped, and his eyes are a bright blue. They change from green to yellow and then back to blue at times, but are generally a light shade of blue. He wears a leather mask at all times - depending on the day, it's either a mask with horns at his temples or a plain, black mask that covers around his eyes and above his nose.
Special Powers
James is actually human, but he can conjure up and control fire. Perhaps he's a witch, then. But he has no recollection of being one, and doesn't use fire for anything other than to light cigarettes and the occasional hearth. He sometimes uses it for other things, but let's not discuss that.
His Likes, Dislikes
He cannot stand eggs or meats. He prefers to eat vegetables and fruits as often as possible; it could be for the sole reason of making his c** taste delectable. He also does not like bland conversation, but most people make it and do not strike his attention in any way.
He enjoys things that smell good, like flowers and food cooking on a stove. He enjoys biting into fruits that squirt all over. He also likes to pick flowers from gardens.
James is from Isiris (ih-seer-ees), an enclosed kingdom of peculiar protocols and mannerisms. While he's extremely sarcastic, he knows better - he was raised to stand tall, walk elegantly and fluidly, and to speak appropriately to people. He misses it, a lot. So why did he leave if he misses it so?
He actually was forced to because his father was going to sell him into slavery as their family was not doing so well financially. He was wealthy according to standards of the outside world, but the price of things in Isiris was higher than anywhere else. A mere apple would cost fifty U.S. dollars.
Writer's Notes: I have not finished this yet. It is still in its first stages.
Tell me, princess,
[Mood:] [Heart:] [Health:] [Everything else:]
[Mood:] [Heart:] [Health:] [Everything else:]
Now when did you last let your heart decide?


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If any European city needed a radical structural rethink, it's Paris.
Its walls may have been demolished a century ago, but some Parisians still see their city as a fortress. Residents living inside the French capital's narrow official limits (an area called "Paris Intramuros") are cut off from their city's later expansion by the canyon of the Boulevard Periphérique beltway, a form of motorized rampart whose breadth and congestion draws a sharp line around the city core. The suburbanites who live beyond (usually in conditions far more metropolitan than any American suburb) are often regarded as a separate breed, with problems that are exotic and possibly even threatening to the "real" city itself.
This sharp, archaic border does more than just institutionalize the metropolitan snobbery endemic to big cities. It creates a sometimes toxic disconnect among the people who live in Europe's largest urban area. If any European city needed a radical structural rethink, it's Paris.
Back in 2007, it got just that. Launched by then-President Sarkozy, the over-arching Grand Paris plan promised to reshape the French capital region. Seventy-thousand new homes would be built annually for 20 years, a new top-level suburban university inaugurated, the transit network hugely expanded and perhaps most significantly, the city's power structure would be redrawn.
Those goals have taken some major knocks since the plan's launch (more of which later) but last month $39 billion was agreed for the plan's cornerstone project: the construction of 72 new transit stations and 200 kilometers of train tracks, most of them in the suburbs. This expansion will not just make travel easier, it will better integrate Paris Intramuros with its suburbs and may soften the division between the two.
Currently, that division is pretty sharp. There's nothing exclusively Parisian about big city prejudices – Manhattanites used to be just as bad with their "bridge and tunnel" sneers, only ditched since high rents (not open-mindedness) shifted much middle class action to Brooklyn. What makes Paris different is that the situation is so extreme. Of the 10 million people who live in and around the city, only 2 million are within Paris Intramuros, the limits of what is officially called Paris. The border of this area follows a line of 19th century fortifications that were demolished only in the 1920s (and mourned long after) though the city had long since exceeded their limits. This boundary was further reinforced from the 1950's onwards by the Peripherique's construction on the same site.
The results of this are various. While there are still working class districts within Paris, poorer residents have largely moved out (or been pushed), frequently to large-scale housing projects on the periphery. As these new suburbs have aged, many have become neglected poverty traps, portrayed (and sometimes demonized) as the stomping ground of a disenfranchised immigrant underclass. This is a partial view of the Paris suburbs, of course, much of which consists of single-family sprawl. The area contains France's main financial district, while Paris' immediate western suburbs are France's richest area after the city itself. This makes the separation between the region and Paris proper only stranger, heightening the sense that by turning its back on the suburbs, the "real" Paris is in some way turning its back on its future.
Trivially, these differences are played out through various, possibly imaginary social markers. Suburbanites are said to kiss hello four times ("true" Parisians kiss twice), be wedded to their cars (as opposed to metro trains, bikes and taxis) and shop at the tatty Forum Des Halles shopping mall, handy for suburban rail but supposedly shunned by urbanites. Despite the assumption of its superiority, this disconnect has downsides for inner Paris too. If the suburbs are a dumping ground, the city core risks crystallizing into a museum piece, an antique butterfly secured on a pin. Compared to London, the city has done brilliantly in preserving small businesses and markets, but it's becoming increasingly staid, living on its past, with a sense that its identity fixed hard and permanently decades ago.
These are the conditions the Grand Paris plan has been working against. Undeniably ambitious – Le Monde dubbed it "pharaonic" – some of its goals have already been rejected. Initially, the plan intended to unite Paris and its suburbs into a single political area, but suburban mayors have fought this off, perceiving the move as a power grab by the city core. Likewise, the plan for 70,000 new homes a year has been tempered somewhat – no year since 2007 has produced more that 40,000. Other aspects of the plan are nonetheless alive and well. Construction has begun on an elite science and technology university designed to rival Harvard and MIT. Planned for a South-Western greenfield site in the area the French already call Silicon Valley Européenne, it should accept its first students in 2020.
And then there's that mammoth transit expansion. Dubbed the Grand Paris Express, it will create four fully automated new suburban metro lines and extend two that already exist, creating two orbital rail rings for Greater Paris by 2030. Costing $39 billion in total, it will also (as this Le Monde report notes) produce from five to seven Olympic swimming pools' worth of tunnelling debris. The fruit of a national culture that embraces major public infrastructure projects (and as a result has produced a world-beating transport system across the board), Paris' plans make London's recent tinkerings with its network look almost shy.
Significantly, it's Metro lines that the suburbs are getting, as up to now these areas have been served mainly by the RER (Réseau Express Régional) network. This network covers much ground in both the suburbs and Paris Intramuros, but integrates poorly with the Metro and thus inadvertently segregates suburbanites and metropolitans. Not only will this stretched, overcrowded network get some relief, the sense of two separate systems will be softened. Compared to the plan to create a single city authority, this may not be especially radical. In a needlessly divided city, it's nonetheless an encouraging sign that Paris is thinking hard about its future.
Top image: Paris (Luciano Mortula / Shutterstock); Paris suburb (bensliman hassan /Shutterstock)


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Rand Weakens for Sixth Day as Europe Debt Concern Curbs High-Yield Demand
The rand weakened for a sixth day versus the dollar as Europe's debt crisis threatened to deteriorate and China took more aggressive steps to cool its economy, curbing investor appetite for higher-yielding assets.
South Africa's currency depreciated as much as 0.7 percent to 7.0152 per dollar and traded 0.3 percent weaker at 6.9860 at 5:25 p.m. in Johannesburg, from a previous close of 6.9650.
European Central Bank council member Miguel Angel Fernandez Ordonez asked Ireland to make a "final decision" on its fiscal crisis to calm markets, underscoring pressure on Ireland to accept a bailout and help reverse a sell-off among the euro- region's deficit-laden nations. Greece's budget shortfall last year was revised to 15.4 percent of gross domestic product from 13.6 percent, making it the largest in the euro region, Eurostat said.
"The biggest pressure on the rand is coming from the debt problems in peripheral Europe," Brigid Taylor, a currency analyst at Rand Merchant Bank in Johannesburg, said in a telephone interview. "The China issue is also a bit of a negative for commodity-based currencies like the rand."
Commodities fluctuated on concern that China may take more tightening measures after it ordered its four biggest banks to cease loans to property developers and U.S. retail sales rose 1.2 percent in October, the most since March.
Bonds, FRAs
Bonds in Ireland, Portugal and Greece have plummeted since EU leaders agreed on Oct. 29 to establish a new rescue fund from 2013 that would require investors to cover a portion of future bailout costs. Germany is pressing Ireland to seek aid before a Nov. 16 meeting of European finance ministers to calm market volatility and win agreement on the EU plan to make investors help pay for future bailouts, a German government official said.
Government bonds fell in South Africa, with the benchmark 13.5 percent security due September 2015 declining 16 cents to 126.03 rand. The yield on the bond rose 3 basis points, or 0.3 percentage point, to 7.04 percent.
Forward-rate agreements, or FRAs, showed money-market investors reduced bets the South African Reserve Bank will lower its 6 percent main interest rate when it announces its next decision this week on Nov. 18. The cost of three-month contracts for cash due in one month added 2 basis points to 5.7235 percent.
"Although the market is priced for a 50 basis-point cut this week, we think the Reserve Bank might leave rates unchanged," said Taylor. "If a rate cut comes it might only be in January."
The so-called 1x4 FRA contract fell to 5.69 percent on Nov. 4, the lowest since the central bank first introduced the repurchase rate in 1999.
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Paul Ryan Elected Speaker
Washington — This morning, Paul D. Ryan (R-WI) N/A% was elected Speaker of the House. Heritage Action released the following statement from chief executive officer Michael A. Needham:
"Speaker Ryan has an opportunity to unite Republicans by embracing a bold, conservative policy agenda. This moment did not occur by chance. Conservatives have delivered Republicans historic majorities in both the House and Senate, and they have a right to expect results.
"No member of Congress is above accountability. Heritage Action will continue to advocate positive, pro-growth policies that provide opportunity for all and favoritism to none, while providing real-time accountability when leaders and members stray."


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Baltimore Ravens: Free Agent G Ben Grubbs to Visit New Orleans SaintsMarch 13, 2012
The Baltimore Ravens allowed their Pro Bowl offensive guard Ben Grubbs to hit the open free agent market today and he already has a visit lined up.
Grubbs is set to meet with the New Orleans Saints tomorrow, according to Mike Triplett of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. The Saints themselves are preparing to lose the services of their own Pro Bowl guard, Carl Nicks, and Grubbs would serve as his replacement at starter.
The Ravens and Grubbs have been in ongoing negotiations, and at one time were reported to have offered him a considerable sum of money.
However, whatever the amount that was offered appears to not have been enough and Grubbs is willing to move on with another squad that's willing to lock him down to a lucrative long-term deal.
Should the Saints or some other team land Grubbs, look for the Ravens' chances to pick up Wisconsin center Peter Konz (who can also play guard) to rise, or for the team to grab a veteran in free agency. They could also potentially do both, depending on the free agent they sign.
Grubbs is one of 12 Ravens to hit the open market on Tuesday; Baltimore will likely re-sign a handful of them, but clearly, it's not likely that Grubbs receives a new offer.


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It would seem as though they have totally disregarded this letter.
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This weekend, close to 60,000 farmers, homesteaders, progressives, hipsters and hippies will converge on the small town of Unity for the 34th annual Common Ground Country Fair.
Billed as a three-day celebration of rural living, the fair lacks the honky-tonk of carnival rides and midway games and instead emphasizes organic farming, environmental sustainability, traditional skills and Maine folkways, with a hefty dose of music, exhibits, speakers, demonstrations and vendors.
The more than 60 food booths serving local, organic eats and the state's only all-organic farmers market make the fair a must-attend for foodies. But with everything from a 5K run to a film series, the fair has a little something for everyone.
"There are so many phenomenal presenters at the fair," said fair director Jim Ahearne of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, which hosts the yearly gathering. "There are almost 700 unique events taking place over the three days. Even for me, it's a little bit overwhelming."
One of those events is the annual Manure Toss, sure to bring out the farmer in everyone who gives it a try. The competition takes place on Saturday, with the contest for distance at 10 a.m. and the contest for accuracy at 2 p.m.
If you're not ready to get your hands dirty but want to see farm animals in action, check out the sheepdog demos taking place at regular intervals each day or watch the cow parade at 9:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Friday and 4 p.m. on Saturday.
The Common Ground 5K goes off at 8 a.m. on Sunday, and while it's too late to register as a runner, you can watch it before the gates open at 9 a.m.
Want to gain new skills or knowledge? Here are a few suggestions from the hundreds of daily offerings: How to start a fire with friction (9 a.m. Friday through Sunday and 3:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday); how to host a home funeral (2 p.m. Friday through Sunday); how to milk a goat (3:30 p.m. Friday through Sunday); how to access medical marijuana (10 a.m. Saturday); how to make wines with fruits and flowers (11 a.m. Saturday); how to commute by bike (noon Saturday); how to dye with indigo (1 p.m. Saturday); how to use a composting toilet (2 p.m. Saturday); how to protect children from toxic substances (noon Sunday); and how to weatherize your home to save energy (2 p.m. Sunday).
Other attractions include a folk art area, an environmental action tent, a social and political action area, vendor marketplaces, livestock barns, an exhibition hall, and a health and healing area.
"One thing that's unique about the Common Ground Fair is all the vendors that are here, they have to apply," Ahearne said. "We look for exhibitors that not only fit topically but also represent the best of what's out there."
Musical acts perform on four different stages all day throughout the fair. Highlights include Jerks of Grass (4:30 p.m. Friday), Emilia Dahlin (4:30 p.m. Friday), Over a Cardboard Sea (noon Saturday), The Toughcats (12:30 p.m. Saturday), Eric Bettencourt (12:45 p.m. Sunday) and Marie Moreshead (2 p.m. Sunday). All of the above perform on the Spotlight Stage with the exception of Jerks of Grass and Over a Cardboard Sea, both of which will be at the amphitheater.
On Friday night, the "Meet Your Farmer" film series will screen at 5 p.m. in the exhibition hall. The series consists of eight shorts produced for Maine Farmland Trust by filmmakers Cecily Pingree and Jason Mann.
At 5 p.m. Saturday, the fair hosts a screening of the documentary film "A Chemical Reaction," which chronicles the efforts of a Canadian dermatologist to ban the use of landscaping pesticides and herbicides after she discovered a connection between her patients' health and exposure to these chemicals.
With so many people arriving at the fair, the rural roads surrounding the fairground will get snarled with traffic backups. You can avoid the wait, and save $2 off the ticket price, by driving to a designated parking lot and then riding your bike the rest of the way to the fair.
Another option is to take the Brooks Preservation Society train directly to the fairgrounds from stations in Unity and Thorndike (an all-day train pass costs $10 for adults and $5 for children ages 10 and under), or go to www.mofga.org to find a carpool heading out from your hometown.
Staff Writer Avery Yale Kamila can be contacted at 791-6297 or at: [email protected]


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July 27, 2013
Pet of the Day
One year old
English Spot Rabbit
Downsville, New York, USA
his is Romeo the English Spot rabbit. He is a year old. He's been training for rabbit hopping competitions and has won a few awards. We live in the little town of Downsville in the Catskill Mountains, in New York. What makes him special is he can do "rabbit agility." He's super fast and is friendly when he needs to be. We also have taken him to several rabbit shows and he has won many ribbons. Romeo is one of the
rabbits you will ever meet. Romeo has become a daddy to six little ones in the past month (who are rabbit hoppers in training), a picture is attached of them also!
Romeo can jump sixteen inches. He's very adorable, and he walks on a leash. I take him everywhere, and feed him treats. He's a magnificent bunny all around. He is very outgoing, but is stubborn when he gets annoyed. He loves treats, especially yogis. Romeo's trick is jumping hurdles, much like a horse would. Romeo is very sweet, but gets annoyed when he can't move around , because he
to run so much. He came from a ARBA (American Rabbit Breeders Association) registered Rabbitry called , "watch me run spots". Romeo's father is named Marcel, and he is a grand champion. Romeo is a very special bunny. His girlfriend is Maltese Cross' Midnight Rose, and she is a registered grand champion English Spot. The English spots are one of my favorite breeds (of the 46 breeds in the ARBA). Like Romeo proves, they are friendly and active, and have
of personality. They are overall very nice rabbits.
Romeo jumping
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Officers pulled over 23-year old William Monge-Betancourt and another man Friday night, for speeding at 126th Street and Lexington Avenue in Harlem.
They stopped the vehicle on the westbound side of the Cross Bronx Expressway, where police say they found marijuana and narcotics in the car.
While in custody, Monge-Betancourt allegedly wrestled free from an officer and ran across the highway against oncoming traffic.
The other suspect was arrested without incident. Police say the officer suffered a minor hand injury when Monge-Betancourt ran away.
William Monge-Betancourt is described as being a 23 year old male Hispanic. He is approximately 5'8", 175 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).
The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at http://WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or by texting their tips to CRIMES (274637) then enter TIP577.


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