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In the next week or two, West Virginia officials will determine how much money will be left over from a $126.3 million federal stimulus grant to expand high-speed Internet across the state, Broadband Deployment Council members learned Wednesday.
For months, Broadband Council members have pressed state officials to estimate the amount of unused funds that will be available after the broadband project is finished.
Telecommunication industry sources have said that $25 million to $50 million could be left over.
"There has to be a ton of money out there," said Lee Fisher, a West Virginia Broadband Council member.
At Wednesday's council meeting, John Dunlap, a state Office of Technology administrator, declined to estimate the expected amount of leftover stimulus funds. But Dunlap said a figure would be available within two weeks.
Fisher said it's imperative that Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin be told as soon as possible how much money will be left over, so the governor can petition federal officials to reallocate any unspent funds for other broadband expansion projects in West Virginia.
"The governor has the right to ask that this money be reprogrammed," Fisher said. "I would like to see the council get some of that money."
In 2010, West Virginia received a $126.3 million federal stimulus grant to install fiber-optic cable and bring high-speed broadband to more than 1,000 "community anchor institutions" - mostly schools, libraries and health clinics.
The state has scaled back the project significantly. Fisher noted that the state's initial broadband project proposal was for 2,400 miles of fiber. The current plan calls for 567 miles of fiber.
So fiber installation costs alone should drop from about $60 million to $14.1 million - a $39 million savings.
But Broadband Council Chairman Dan O'Hanlon said other project construction-related costs were higher than expected, which could drive down the amount of leftover stimulus funds.
"The environmental assessment costs were a lot more than anybody ever dreamed," O'Hanlon said Wednesday.
The state budgeted about $78 million for construction costs and $56 million for equipment under the federal economic stimulus grant.
So far, the state has spent $39.3 million in stimulus funds for equipment, but only $5 million for construction.
Frontier Communications, which is installing the fiber, has been paid $330,000 out of the grant funds. Frontier government affairs manager Scott Cosco told Broadband Council members Wednesday that the company's billing on the statewide project was "current."
In response, Fisher said it doesn't make sense that Frontier would have been paid only $330,000, considering the company already has already installed 343 miles of fiber, which would cost about $8.5 million.
"If Frontier's billing is current, there has to be a lot of invoices sitting on somebody's desk in the state," Fisher said.
Asked about the invoices later Wednesday, Frontier spokesman Dan Page said, "We have provided the state invoices on an ongoing basis in accordance with the procedures we received from the grant implementation team."
The Broadband Council has requested that state officials give a report about any projected unspent stimulus funds at the group's next meeting July 25.
The state must complete all broadband expansion projects and spend the stimulus money by February or risk losing unused funds.
"If the governor is going to have any input, he needs to know how much money is unused," Fisher said. "I don't want things to drag along, and we have to give the money back."
Earlier this month, U.S. House Republicans asked the Department of Commerce's inspector general to investigate West Virginia's use of the $126.3 million stimulus grant.
The request followed a series of Charleston Gazette reports that raised questions about the state's decision to purchase more than 1,000 Internet routers at $22,600 each. The state is installing the routers primarily in rural schools and libraries, even though the "enterprise-class" devices were designed for universities, medical centers and large corporations. State officials have defended the $24 million purchase.
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Tool Feed Technology Enhances Production Honing
Nothing throws a wrench into a production machining operation like variation in the incoming parts. This obstacle surfaces particularly during abrasive machining processes such as honing, which is typically used to improve the quality of workpieces produced with upstream processes that may include boring, plating, drilling, reaming and heat treating. Once dialed in for one set of part conditions, an established production honing process can be thrown off balance when the mix of incoming part conditions or material parameters changes. In some cases, workpieces possess complicating variations of their own, such as the wall-thickness differences inherent to cartridge valves, connecting rods and injector bodies.
Typically, a production honing process is set up to use an abrasive tool with a specific grit size and bond optimized for incoming part conditions. Tool expansion to achieve the desired results and final size is programmed based on rate of time. The tool feed system then performs the same way on each cycle, starting with touch-off, sensed through spindle load or the force sensed on the tool feed system. Cycle time is always the same. However, when a batch of parts comes in with a different heat treatment than the prior batch, the operator must intervene. In this case, the tool may expand too quickly for conditions and be damaged. In the opposite case with a softer-than-normal workpiece, the tool will still expand at its programmed rate, when it might have been able to expand faster to reduce cycle time. Expansion at too slow a rate may also result in glazing of the honing stones, which won't self dress if the cutting force is too low. Typically, the operator tweaks the feed rate periodically to compensate for these variables.
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New tool feed technology that servo-controls the force in the honing tool feed system changes this dynamic entirely. The new Controlled-Force feature, which works in concert with the machine's standard rate-feed system, functions like cruise control to maintain the optimum cutting load on the honing abrasive throughout a cycle, without regard to the incoming part's hardness, geometry or size variation. In effect, the machine can detect what is happening in the bore when the abrasive contacts it, whereas with rate-feed alone, the machine feeds the tool per the program, not according to the real conditions the part is experiencing.
With Controlled-Force honing, the machine still uses a programmed feed rate, which is then increased or decreased to maintain a setpoint for the force load on the tool feed system. If the feed force drops off, the system increases the tool feed rate to compensate, resulting in faster cycle time. Feed force is monitored every few milliseconds during the cycle to ensure the tool always feeds at the highest rate possible for part conditions.
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In a typical scenario on a small pump bore, the tool expands rapidly at the start of the cycle until the system senses 150 N of force, and then climbs gradually to its 200 N setpoint.
Controlled-Force honing is particularly suitable for applications using metal-bond abrasives. In extensive tests with cartridge valve cages, it reduced cycle times by 25 to 50 percent. In testing with diesel cylinder liners, it cut cycle time 50 percent.
The Controlled-Force honing process is also engineered to produce more consistent surface finish results. In one application with hard steel parts, standard rate-feed honing produced Rz values of 2 to 7 microns. With Controlled-Force honing, the process consistently holds Rz between 5 to 6.5 microns.
Controlled-Force honing sometimes allows use of harder, more-durable abrasive bonds, where softer bonds may have been required in the past. As a result, the part yield for a given set of abrasives increases, while the abrasive cost drops. Likewise, Controlled-Force technology eliminates glazing of the abrasive because of too little cutting force. This ensures a steady, free-cutting, self-dressing condition for maximum metal removal in the shortest possible cycle time.
Connecting rods illustrate the advantage in honing parts with varying wall thickness. The con rod has the beam on one side (so the rod is very rigid in this thicker area) and the cap on the other side where wall thickness is considerably thinner. As a result, the bore has a tendency to distort more in the weaker area during honing. On these workpieces with irregular wall thickness, Controlled-Force ensures that the system never overloads the tool and distorts the bore.
Rate-feed will still be the exclusive tool feed methodology with certain honing tools that use a full wrap-around sleeve of metal-bonded diamond abrasive (rather than segments of abrasive) for full contact with the bore surface. These tools are particularly useful for bridging segmented bores, multiple lands, ports, keyways or crossholes. Rate-controlled feeding provides as many as five expansion profiles that can be used during a cycle for rapid part touch, cutting, sizing, finishing and spark-out.
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Stanton continues to be a thorn for Nationals
MIAMI -- The Nationals are having a tough time trying to stop Marlins right fielder Giancarlo Stanton at the plate. Since he entered the league four years ago, Stanton is hitting .329 with 16 home runs and 35 RBIs against Washington entering Sunday. Clearly those numbers are his best against any team in the league.
Stanton helped the Marlins tie the game on Saturday night, when he swung at a 1-2 pitch from closer Rafael Soriano and hit a mammoth home run over the left-field wall.
"The guy has a presence about him in the batter's box," Nationals right-hander Dan Haren said. "There are a few guys who are like that in baseball. He is really intimidating, he is a big strong guy. He can hit it out of any ballpark . He makes Marlins Park look small. With him, you really have to nibble at the corners. He has a really good eye, too. He takes his walks. He is a really tough out."
Shortstop Ian Desmond didn't have an answer for how to stop Stanton.
"He kills everybody. The guy is a master," said Desmond. "How do you stop him? There are a lot of teams out there asking the same question. He is a great ballplayer."


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What bothers me (and many others, I'm sure) is the fact that this fantastic zone is now phased out and empty. Presumably, the story of the zone isn't finished and may even see some closure by the time the current expansion's life cycle is over ... but what then? The most apparent answer is to make Gilneas City another Alliance capital city, but does the game really need a new dead urban center like Darnassus? Throughout the lifespan of World of Warcraft, players have asked for the ability to buy housing for their characters. Could an empty zone like Gilneas be good starting location for this kind of feature? Instead of a creating new world PVP location like Wintergrasp or Baradin Hold in the next expansion, could the ongoing struggle for the walled peninsula become the new focus of the war between factions (with all the associated rewards and daily quests)?
Now that Cataclysm has been out for a while, what can be done to make this zone a viable place to visit?


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BERLIN – Raymond M. Thompson, President and CEO of Taylor Bank, recently announced the promotions of Jennifer G. Hawkins to vice president and Michael Adamchak and Sandra Holloway Duncan to assistant vice-president. Additionally, Nancy E. Bunting was promoted to deposit services officer and Alysson E. Smith-DuPont to human resource manager.
Hawkins, who lives in Salisbury, was hired in February of 2001 as an auditor and operations officer. Located at the main office, she will continue in her role as chief accounting officer.
Adamchak resides in Berlin and came to Taylor Bank in July of 2004 as compliance officer and internal auditor. He works at the main office in Berlin.
Duncan of Berlin has been with Taylor Bank for 30 years. She began her career with the bank in the bookkeeping department. She works at the main office as account processing manager.
Bunting, a Selbyville, Del. resident, was employed by Taylor Bank in April of 1996. She recently transferred from the 91st Street branch, as branch manager, to become deposit operations officer at the main office. She works with the marketing department to promote services for the bank's commercial customers.
Smith-DuPont, a resident of Willards, was hired in March of 2008 to fulfill the role of personnel and benefits administrator. Her office is located at the main office in Berlin.
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SELBYVILLE – Touting its numerous amenities and closeness to Atlantic beaches, Where to Retire magazine recently designated Bayside in Selbyville, Del., as one of America's 100 Best Master-Planned Communities.
The recognition is given by Where to Retire biennially to communities that "offer excellent lifestyle for retirement." This year, the magazine's editors spent nine months reviewing several hundred master-planned communities throughout the country. Their selection included both age restricted active adult communities and ones, such as Bayside, that are open to all ages. The list of the top 100 communities appears in the July/August 2009 issue.
In a congratulatory letter, the magazine publisher remarked that Bayside was "among an elite group of developments that offer today's retirees a well-rounded, active lifestyle." The publisher added, "All of the communities are leaders in providing a high quality of life to those who are embarking on new adventures in retirement."
The lure of Bayside, according to the editors, are its amenities, such as the Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course, outdoor pools, fitness center, carousel, and outdoor stage, which can be enjoyed by the whole family. They also noted that Bayside is close to the Atlantic beaches and their various attractions, such as the outlets in Rehoboth, Delaware and the restaurants in Ocean City.
A Bayside couple interviewed for the article said their search for a home led them to Bayside because they were "seeking a sense of community" and every year they see something new added to the community's varied amenities.
"We are honored to be recognized as one of America's 100 Best Master-Planned Communities," said Doug Brown of Carl M. Freeman Companies. As a developer, our core purpose is to help people live better and we believe Bayside exemplifies this philosophy."
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WILLARDS – Atlantic/Smith, Cropper & Deeley recently congratulated Steve Soliday as top producer for May 2009. He is licensed in property and casualty insurance and has been with the agency since 2005.
Soliday is a graduate of Salisbury University and holds a master's degree in business administration. He resides in Salisbury and serves as a committee member for the Jack Purnell-Chris Thomas Memorial Tennis Tournament, which raises funds to support patient care at Coastal Hospice each year.
Advisors Earn Rankings
SALISBURY – Sperry Van Ness-Miller Commercial Real Estate, has announced that five of its advisors have been ranked among the top producers in the nation.
Sperry Van Ness corporate, one of the fastest growing commercial real estate firms in the country, ranks local advisors in the top 100 within the national firm. Year to date, four of Sperry Van Ness-Miller Commercial Real Estate's advisors from the Salisbury office placed in the top 100 and include Bradley Gillis, CCIM, No. 15, John McClellan, CCIM, No. 18, Brent Miller, CCIM, CPM, No. 21 and Henry Hanna III, CCIM, SIOR, No. 51. Tom Knopp from SVN-Miller's Seaford, Del. office ranked No. 85.


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Some speed limits are theoretically designed to keep you from killing yourself. Others are there to keep you from using too much fuel during a gas crisis. And still others are completely arbitrary.
Whether or not speed actually kills is a debate for another day. But if you look around at the vast majority of drivers on the road today, you'd have to agree that most of them shouldn't be cruising around at 120 MPH. However, some speed limits are clearly not designed with safety or fuel economy in mind. In fact, many speed limits seem designed to do nothing but irritate any motorist actually cognizant of the fact that they are currently driving.
One such speed limit exists on Interstate 95 through New Haven, Connecticut. 95 is one of the country's longest roads, and is the nation's busiest (and most incomplete) interstate highway. And, as anyone who has ever driven on it can tell you, it's a total hellhole. As it widens to about 6 lanes in each direction past the New Haven IKEA, the speed limit inexplicably drops to an almost-residential 40 MPH. Why on earth would anybody choose this? There is no valid explanation for a 40 MPH speed limit on a 12 lane superhighway.
I-95 is a personal pet peeve of almost everyone on the East Coast. It's a disaster disguised as a megalopolis, and one with shockingly inane speed limit changes occurring throughout its busiest sections. Where else in the country are there arbitrary speed limits? Too high, too low, or just plain weird? Pictures/maps in the comments or it doesn't exist.
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Last command sent to ESA's Planck space telescope
ESA's Planck space telescope has been turned off after nearly 4.5 years soaking up the relic radiation from the Big Bang and studying the evolution of stars and galaxies throughout the Universe's history.
Project scientist Jan Tauber sent the final command to the Planck satellite this afternoon at 12:10:27 UT, marking the end of operations for ESA's 'time machine'.
Launched in 2009, Planck was designed to tease out the faintest relic radiation from the Big Bang – the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). The CMB preserves a picture of the Universe as it was about 380 000 years after the Big Bang, and provides details of the initial conditions that led to the Universe we live in today.
"Planck has provided us with more insight into the evolution of the Universe than any mission has before," says Alvaro Giménez, ESA's Director of Science and Robotic Exploration.
"Planck's picture of the CMB is the most accurate 'baby photo' of the Universe yet, but the wealth of data still being scrutinised by our cosmologists will provide us with even more details."
The mission began drawing to a close in August, when the satellite was nudged away from its operational orbit around the Sun–Earth 'L2' point towards a more distant long-term stable parking orbit around the Sun.
In the last weeks, the spacecraft has been prepared for permanent hibernation, with the closing activities using up all of the remaining fuel and finally switching off the transmitter.
"It is with much sadness that we have carried out the final operations on the Planck spacecraft, but it is also a time to celebrate an extraordinarily successful mission," says Steve Foley, the Planck Spacecraft Operations Manager at ESA's European Space Operations Centre (ESOC).
"Planck was a sophisticated spacecraft flying a complex mission, but with tight teamwork from the mission controllers, flight dynamics specialists, ground stations and our industrial partners, Europe received excellent scientific value for its investment," adds Paolo Ferri, Head of Mission Operations.
ESA member states provided key technologies such as the innovative cooler that allowed the mission's instrumentation to be maintained at just one-tenth of a degree above the coldest temperature reachable in the Universe, –273.15°C, so that the spacecraft's own heat did not swamp the signal from the sky. This enabled temperature variations of just a few millionths of a degree to be distinguished in the CMB.
But cooling instruments to these extreme temperatures cannot be maintained forever and, indeed, the High Frequency Instrument (HFI) exhausted its liquid helium coolant in January 2012, just as expected.
The Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) meanwhile was able to operate at somewhat higher temperatures using the remaining two coolers and continued making observations until 3 October. After conducting post-science activities, it was manually switched off on 19 October.
The mission's original target was to complete two whole surveys of the sky but, in the end, Planck completed five full-sky surveys with both instruments. Moreover, by mid-August, LFI had completed its eighth survey of the entire sky.
"Planck continued using LFI right up until last week, exceeding all expectations and providing us with bountiful data to work with in the future," says Jan Tauber, ESA's Planck project scientist.
The first detailed image of the faint signal from the CMB from Planck was released earlier this year, after foreground emission from our own Milky Way Galaxy as well as all other galaxies had been removed. These latter data resulted in a new catalogue of objects, including many never-before-seen galaxy clusters in the distant Universe.
The 2013 data release provided revised values for the relative proportions of the ingredients of the Universe, namely normal matter that makes up stars and galaxies, dark matter, which has thus far only been detected indirectly by its gravitational influence, and dark energy, a mysterious force thought to be responsible for accelerating the expansion of the Universe.
"Planck has given us a fresh look at the matter that makes up our Universe and how it evolved, but we are still working hard to further constrain our understanding of how the Universe expanded from the infinitely small to the extraordinarily large, details which we hope to share next year," says Dr Tauber.
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For more on Planck's science highlights, see our article published on 18 October: Celebrating the legacy of ESA's Planck mission.
About Planck
Launched in 2009, Planck was designed to map the sky in nine frequencies using two state-of-the-art instruments: the Low Frequency Instrument, which includes the frequency bands 30–70 GHz, and the High Frequency Instrument, which includes the frequency bands 100–857 GHz. HFI completed its survey in January 2012, while LFI continued to make science observations until 3 October 2013, before being switched off on 19 October.
Planck's first all-sky image was released in 2010 and the first scientific data were released in 2011. The first image of the CMB was released in March 2013. The next set of cosmology data will be released in 2014.
The Planck Scientific Collaboration consists of all the scientists who have contributed to the development of the mission, and who participate in the scientific exploitation of the data during the proprietary period. These scientists are members of one or more of four consortia: the LFI Consortium, the HFI Consortium, the DK-Planck Consortium, and ESA's Planck Science Office. The two European-led Planck Data Processing Centres are located in Paris, France and Trieste, Italy.
The LFI consortium is led by N. Mandolesi, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana ASI, Italy (deputy PI: M. Bersanelli, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy), and was responsible for the development and operation of LFI. The HFI consortium is led by J.L. Puget, Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale in Orsay, France (deputy PI: F. Bouchet, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France), and was responsible for the development and operation of HFI.
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Senate panel approves gun trafficking bill
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- Anti-trafficking measure may be most likely to win approval by Congress
- Republicans remain concerned about unintended consequences of the bill
WASHINGTON — The first gun-related legislation passed out of a key Senate committee Thursday, setting up the first potential floor votes on the issue of gun violence in nearly a decade.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-7 to approve the bill, which would crack down on straw purchasers of weapons by making the practice a federal crime.
One Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, joined the panel's 10 Democrats in voting for the bill.
In his comments before the vote, Grassley said bill wasn't perfect but the "good faith" negotiations between himself, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., made him inclined to support the bill out of committee.
"Some on my side believe the bill needs more work to resolve outstanding issues between now and when the bill goes to the floor," he said. "That is something that I hope will happen with the chairman's help."
President Obama praised the committee's approval of the bill at a signing ceremony for the Violence Against Women Act.
"That's real progress. ... I urge the Senate to give that bill a vote," he said. "I urge the House to follow suit. ... We need to stop the flow of illegal guns to criminals."
It is against the law make a straw purchase — buying a gun for an individual who is barred from owning one — but proponents of changing the law say the way it is written makes it difficult for law enforcement to prosecute offenders.
The Leahy bill strengthens the language by barring a transfer if someone has a "reasonable cause to believe" that the firearm will be used in a criminal activity. Leahy has said the bill will bolster current law by making illegal the smuggling of weapons out of the USA. Individuals could face up to 20 years in prison for violations of the law under the proposal.
The committee also approved a Grassley amendment aimed at preventing another Operation Fast and Furious – a 2010 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives operation in Arizona that allowed illegal guns to be smuggled to Mexico.
The Grassley proposal would require that a top Department of Justice official sign off on operations "where federal firearms licensees are directed or enticed into selling firearms to individuals the Justice Department believes are purchasing guns on behalf of another for illegal purposes." Authorities would have to have "sufficient safeguards" in place to prevent the firearms from falling into the wrong hands.
Several Republicans on the panel raised concerns that the bill would unintentionally ensnare citizens who innocently transfer a firearm as a gift or in a raffle to an individual prohibited from owning a gun.
The bill specifically includes language exempting "any firearm that is lawfully purchased by a person" as a gift or as a prize in a legal "organized raffle, contest or auction" by a national, state or local organization from the penalties under the law.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, objected to what he said was a rush to put the measure up for a full Senate vote. He said he feared the committee was "passing legislation with unintended consequences that none of us would endorse, but which in our haste to try to show we're doing something we end up creating unintended consequences."
Thursday's meeting was initially scheduled to address four gun-related measures, but as the committee debated amendments to a ban on assault weapons, Leahy announced the meeting would recess so he and other Senators could attend a briefing on "a classified matter."
A proposed ban on assault weapons, along with measures that would expand background checks and improve school safety will be voted on when the committee reconvenes March 12.
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Based in Silver City, Aldo Leopold Charter School launched their Eco-Monitoring program several years ago to give students the opportunity to participate in gathering data in the U.S. National Forest. They discuss much of the important work that the students do, including collecting data on soils, aquatics, range, forest, and wildlife.
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Ipoh, MalaysiaKevin (เควิน) Khaosan
Perhaps most famous for its rich and varied traditional cuisine, Ipoh is one of the largest cities in the whole of Malaysia and can be reached easily by taking the train from the capital city of Kuala Lumpur. Situated on the banks of the mighty Kinta River, Ipoh is also known for its picturesque gardens and charming buildings, earning it the nickname of Bougainvillea City.
The Old Town district is the perfect place to explore on foot, and there are also plenty of pavement cafes and restaurants in this part of the city where visitors can simply sit and soak up the atmosphere for a while.
Ipoh is famous for its food, and there are a wide variety of dishes to try. People travel from as far away as Singapore to dine on delicious curries, noodle dishes and a huge range of local specialities. A good place to find cheap and tasty food is at the hawkers stalls that line the road and gather by busy markets, especially in the evening.
Those who have got plenty of time to spare in Ipoh will want to take a trip to the cave temples of Perak Tong. This area was established as a place of worship by a devout Buddhist priest back in q926, and a large number of caves and grottos can be found here, many of which have been decorated with murals, which some of the chambers feature Buddha images and are used as places of worship to this day.
The cave of Sam Poh Tong is located to the south of Ipoh and contains a turtle pond. Another interesting day trip is the temple of Kek Look Tong, which also features a cool cavern. Climb into the cave and walk through to the back, where you will discover the Chinese Buddha of Future Happiness. There is also an ornamental garden with ponds and pagodas behind the cave.


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Mexico Probes If Blast Was Attack Or Accident, 33 Dead
Mexico's government vowed on Friday to find out whether an explosion that killed 33 people at the headquarters of its state-run oil monopoly Pemex was a deliberate attack or yet another stain on the company's poor safety record.
Rescue workers continued to pull bodies from the debris on Friday and officials said the search would continue until they account for everyone inside the Mexico City building.
Government officials have refused to speculate over what caused the explosion on Thursday but said they had deployed large teams of experts to pore through the wreckage.
"The government is determined to find out the truth, whatever that may be ... whether it was an accident, negligence or an attack, whatever," Attorney General Jesus Murillo said on Friday evening. "We are not going to rule out anything."
He said the explosion did not cause a fire but refused to be drawn on what that implied about the cause. Parts of the reinforced concrete ground floor of the building caved in, and the ceiling was a mess of twisted metal pipes and ducts.
The blast at Pemex's complex in the capital killed at least 33 people and a further 121 were injured. The scenes of chaos have dealt another blow to Pemex's image, just as Mexico's new government is seeking to open up the oil industry to more private investment.
Speculation over the cause has ranged from a bomb attack, to a gas leak, to a boiler blowing up.
"A fatal incident like yesterday's cannot be explained in two hours. We are working with the best teams in Mexico and from overseas. We will not speculate," Pemex's chief executive, Emilio Lozoya, said on Friday.
New President Enrique Pena Nieto declared three days of national mourning.
Pemex, which was created when Mexico nationalized its oil industry in 1938, is a symbol of self-sufficiency but it has also been blighted by corruption, inefficiency and frequent accidents costing hundreds of lives.
The latest Pemex disaster is one of the first serious tests for Pena Nieto, who must overcome the legacy of his Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which ruled for much of the last century.
After seven decades in power, the party gained a reputation for corruption and cover-ups that have made Mexicans skeptical of whether they are being told the truth.
Investors have been closely following how far he will go in enticing private capital to boost flagging oil output in a country that is the world's No. 7 producer.
"This incident speaks very poorly of the image of Pemex management, and that's interpreted as additional risk in the market," said Miriam Grunstein, an energy researcher at Mexico's CIDE think tank.
A Pemex official said the damaged area of the company's headquarters was used for human resources in the corporate and refining divisions. It did not have a boiler or gas installations, the official said.
Former Pemex worker Ricardo Marin, 53, said there was nothing in the building that would explode and that the kitchen, where there would be gas, was on the other side.
"The only thing that occurs to me is that it was an attack - but against whom? There's no one with an important job down there," he said, waiting outside the Pemex hospital where a friend was in intensive care. "Maybe it could be a message to Pena Nieto, but not even that has any logic."
Pemex office worker Alfonso Caballero, who was one floor above the blast at the time, said he did not smell any gas and guessed it had been caused by machinery.
Mexican officials have not ruled out sabotage.
An official at the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said an "international response team" was on its way to Mexico City at the request of the Mexican government. The team includes explosive specialists and fire experts.
Pemex CEO Lozoya said the four floors most affected by the explosion normally had about 200 to 250 people working on them. About 10,000 staff work in the entire complex.
Red Cross official Isaac Oxenhaut said the ceiling had collapsed in three lower floors of the Pemex building.
The blast followed a September fire at a Pemex gas facility near the northern city of Reynosa that killed 30 people. More than 300 were killed when a Pemex natural gas plant on the outskirts of Mexico City blew up in 1984.
Eight years later, about 200 people were killed and 1,500 injured after a series of underground gas explosions in Guadalajara, Mexico's second-biggest city. An official investigation found Pemex was partly to blame.
Whatever caused the explosion, the deaths and destruction will put the spotlight back on safety at Pemex, which only a couple of hours beforehand had issued a statement on Twitter saying it had managed to improve its record on accidents.
"I suspect this was a bomb," said David Shields, an independent Mexico City-based oil analyst. "There are clandestine armies across Mexico, not just the (drug) cartels."
Shields pointed to the bombing of several Pemex pipelines in the eastern state of Veracruz in 2007. A shadowy Marxist rebel movement took credit for some of the blasts.
Meanwhile, George Baker, director of Energia.com, a Houston-based energy research center, said past history suggested the government could seek to exploit the incident.
He pointed to the 1992 Guadalajara blast and the subsequent deal that followed to overhaul the Pemex administration led by then-President Carlos Salinas, like Pena Nieto a PRI member.
"Salinas said he wanted a response from Pemex, and months later Pemex announced a restructuring. The restructuring had nothing to do with the Guadalajara accident, but it was used as a pivot to do something," Baker said.
Pena Nieto has yet to reveal details of his Pemex reform plan, which already faces opposition from the left.
Both Pena Nieto and his finance minister were this week at pains to stress the company will not be privatized.


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The Beatles with host
Ed Sullivan on the set of "The Ed Sullivan Show" on February 9, 1964.
The Fab Four's first
live appearance on U.S. television - a landmark in the British Invasion of
1960s pop music - drew more than 70 million viewers, the largest TV
audience ever for an entertainment program up to that time.
By CBSNews.com senior
producer David Morgan
Credit: CBS Photo Archives
Paul McCartney of The
Beatles is seen backstage before the group's appearance on "The Ed
Sullivan Show," February 9, 1964.
Originally titled
"Toast of the Town," "The Ed Sullivan Show" went on the air
in 1948 and ran on CBS through 1971.
Sullivan, a New York
newspaper columnist, was a starmaker, providing a nationwide audience for
countless musical, comedy and variety acts for 23 seasons.
Over the years his weekly variety program showcased
such major musical acts as Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, Ella Fitzgerald, the Beach Boys, Ray Charles, the Doors, Herman's Hermits, Janis Joplin, the Jackson 5, Creedance Clearwater Revival, and the Rolling
With George Harrison back at the Plaza Hotel
recovering from a cold, The Beatles rehearsed for their first appearance on
"The Ed Sullivan Show" with Neil Aspinall standing in for
Aspinall, a road manager and driver for The Beatles, would later
head their firm, Apple Corps.
The marquee of CBS'
Studio 50 on Broadway and 53rd Street in New York.
Sharing billing with The Beatles on "The Ed Sullivan Show" on February 9, 1964 were
Broadway star Georgia Brown and the child cast of "Oliver!", singer
Tessie O'Shea, impressionist Frank Gorshin, the comedy team McCall & Brill,
magician Fred Kaps, and the acrobatic group Well & the Four Fays.
Laboratories and Pillsbury were two of the show's sponsors.
Ed Sullivan is seen with Paul McCartney of The Beatles during
rehearsals on February 9, 1964, at CBS' Studio 50
in New York City.
Harrison and John Lennon of The Beatles performing at CBS's Studio 50 in New
York City, on Sunday, February 9, 1964.
During dress rehearsals, The Beatles recorded several songs - with different set dressings - to be broadcast on
"The Ed Sullivan Show" on Feb. 23, 1964. The group performed
"Twist & Shout," "Please Please Me," "and "I
Want to Hold Your Hand."
A view from the stage
of "The Ed Sullivan Show," featuring The Beatles, Sunday, February 9, 1964, in New York City.
From left: Ringo
Starr, Paul McCartney, host Ed Sullivan, George Harrison and John Lennon on the
stage of "The Ed Sullivan Show," Sunday, February 9, 1964.
Backstage at CBS's
Studio 50 in New York City, The Beatles pose with fellow "Ed Sullivan
Show" guest, singer Georgia Brown, who would performs songs from the
Broadway musical, "Oliver!"
Also among the musical's cast members was
young Davy Jones, a future member of the Monkees.
Host Ed Sullivan
reviews his TelePrompter notes on the stage of
"The Ed Sullivan Show," February 98, 1964.
The Beatles performed
five songs during their first "Ed Sullivan" appearance on February 9, 1964.
In the first half of the show they sang "All My Loving," "Till
There Was You," and "She Loves You."
A view from the control room of
"The Ed Sullivan Show," Sunday, February 9, 1964.
During dress rehearsals The Beatles surprised the studio
crew by requesting playback of their performance and adjusting microphone
levels, marking the control board dials with chalk. After returning from break,
the group discovered maintenance staff had cleaned all the chalk marks off the
control board.
For the slightly more than 700 seats at Studio 50, the show received
50,000 applications for tickets.
The Beatles perform
on stage at CBS' Studio 50, during the second half-hour of "The Ed
Sullivan Show," Feb. 9, 1964.
Their set included "I Saw Her Standing
There," and "I Want To Hold Your Hand."
a show at the Coliseum in Washington, D.C., and two concerts at New York's
Carnegie Hall, The Beatles traveled to Miami for another appearance on "The
Ed Sullivan Show," broadcast live on Sunday, February 16, from the Deauville
Hotel. For these two live performances, and for the pre-recorded songs
broadcast on Feb. 23, The Beatles - conquerors of the American airwaves - were paid $10,000.
CBSNews.com senior producer David Morgan


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Do you like to fart at parties or while flirting with a potential paramour?
A new public awareness campaign from the Ontario Ministry of Health is cheekily comparing a casual cigarette in social situations to flatulence.
"It's true that I fart but I wouldn't call myself a farter," a young woman says in the 53-second clip. "I'm a 'social farter,' I really only do it when I'm out with my friends who fart.
"We hang out, we drink, we dance, just have some fun being together, farting.
The Quit the Denial campaign targets young smokers age 18 to 29 who only smoke at parties or with friends.
The campaign states: "Social farting is as ridiculous as social smoking. Social smoking is smoking."
Another clip from the campaign has another woman expounding on how being "social ear-wax picker" is cool, sexy and sophisticated.
It appears as though the message is getting through with the farting clip reaching over 360,000 YouTube views since it was uploaded at the beginning of last week.


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What is microcephaly?
Microcephaly is a condition that is present at birth in which the baby's head is much smaller than normal for an infant of that age and gender. Micro means small and cephaly refers to the head. Most children with microcephaly also have a small brain and intellectual disability. However, some children with small heads have normal intelligence.
What causes microcephaly?
Microcephaly is either caused by exposure to harmful substances during the fetal development, or it may be associated with genetic problems or syndromes that may have a tendency to run in families.
Theories suggest that the following may predispose a fetus to problems that affect the normal development of the head during pregnancy:
Genetic disorders
Exposure to hazardous chemicals or substances
Methylmercury poisoning
Lack of proper vitamins and nutrients in the diet
Intrauterine infection with cytomegalovirus, rubella, or varicella virus
Prescription or illegal drug and alcohol consumption
Untreated phenylketonuria
Microcephaly can occur alone or in association with other health problems. Acquired microcephaly may occur after birth because of various brain injuries, such as lack of oxygen or infection. A number of genetic disorders also can cause microcephaly. Genes determine out traits, such as eye color and blood type, and can also cause disease. Inheriting an abnormal gene sometimes causes microcephaly.
Autosomal recessive and autosomal dominant are two patterns in which genes can be inherited in a family. Autosomal means that both males and females are equally affected. Recessive means that two copies of the gene, one inherited from each parent, are necessary to have the condition (in this case, microcephaly). After parents have had one child with autosomal recessive microcephaly, there is a 25% chance, or one in four chance, with each pregnancy, to have another child with microcephaly. Some genetic disorders that cause microcephaly are inherited in an X-linked fashion. While mothers are unaffected, there is a 50% chance that a male child will have the disorder. Female children have a 50% chance of inheriting the gene and the same risk of passing the disorder along to their children.
What are the symptoms of microcephaly?
Microcephaly strictly means a small head, and there are cases where microencephalic individuals have no other symptoms. But the following are the most common features that are seen along with microcephaly. Each child may experience a wide spectrum of symptoms.
Appearance of the baby's head is very small
High-pitched cry
Poor feeding
Increased movement of the arms and legs (spasticity)
Developmental delays
Intellectual disability
The symptoms of microcephaly may resemble other conditions or medical problems. Always consult your child's doctor for a diagnosis.
How is microcephaly diagnosed?
Microcephaly may be diagnosed before birth by prenatal ultrasound, a diagnostic imaging technique that uses high-frequency sound waves and a computer to create images of blood vessels, tissues, and organs. Ultrasounds are used to view internal organs as they function, and to assess blood flow through various vessels.
In many cases, microcephaly may not be evident by ultrasound until the third trimester and, therefore, may not be seen on ultrasounds performed earlier in pregnancy. The diagnosis of microcephaly may be made at birth or later in infancy. The baby's head circumference is much smaller than normal. During the physical exam, the doctor obtains a complete prenatal and birth history of the child. In older babies and children, the doctor may also ask if there is a family history of microcephaly or other medical problems. Sometimes the child is born with a normal head circumference but then acquires microcephaly because of a serious condition, such as certain genetic disorders, stroke, traumatic injury, or poisoning. The doctor will also ask about developmental milestones since microcephaly can be associated with other problems, such as intellectual disability. Developmental delays may require further medical follow-up for underlying problems.
A measurement of the circumference of the child's head is taken and compared to a scale that can identify normal and abnormal ranges.
Diagnostic tests that may be performed to confirm the diagnosis of microcephaly and identify abnormalities in the brain include:
Head circumference. This measurement is compared with a scale for normal growth and size.
Computed tomography scan (also called a CT or a CAT scan). A CT scan uses ionizing radiation (also known as X-rays) to generate 3-dimensional images of the body. Simple skull X-rays are rarely used in the evaluation of childhood brain disorders. CT is a diagnostic imaging procedure that uses a combination of X-rays and computer technology to produce horizontal, or axial, images (often called slices) of the body. A CT scan shows detailed images of any part of the body, including bones, muscles, fat, and organs. CT scans are more detailed than general X-rays.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A diagnostic procedure that uses a combination of large magnets, radiofrequencies, and a computer to produce detailed images of organs and structures within the body.
Blood tests
Urine tests
Genetic tests
Lifelong considerations for a child with microcephaly
There is no treatment for microcephaly that will return the baby's head to a normal size or shape. Since microcephaly is a lifelong condition that is not correctable, management includes focusing on preventing or minimizing deformities and maximizing the child's capabilities at home and in the community. For those children that have associated symptoms, positive reinforcement will encourage the child to strengthen his or her self-esteem and promote as much independence as possible.
The full extent of the problem is usually not completely understood immediately after birth, but may be revealed as the child grows and develops.
Children born with microcephaly require frequent examinations and diagnostic testing by their doctor to monitor the development of the head, as well as motor, social, intellectual, and language function, as the child grows. The medical team works hard with the child's family to provide education and guidance to improve the health and well-being of the child. Children with associated disabilities should be referred to the appropriate therapists for evaluation and intervention.
Genetic counseling may be recommended by the doctor to provide information on the recurrence risks for the disorder and any available testing.


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This is sketch #31 by The Scrappiest:
And the focus on Practical Scrappers this week was felt.
I combined these 2 elements to one layout:
The title: Reinforcement player (again, please correct me if I'm wrong)
The journaling says: Electra, the new sponsor of Maccabi Tel Aviv, gave her employees (including "Shekem Electric employees) tickets to a few games. Daddy went to a game and got a shirt. Fits me?
I used: Sonburn cardstocks, Sharpie, Ink It Up! black ink, felt, basketball button, paper piercer.


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Wider net needed in search for alien life
Odd-ball homes Astronomers may have to broaden their definition of what makes a habitable planet, after a new study has found life could survive on planets previously considered too hot or too cold.
The work, to appear in the journal Astrobiology and published on ArXiv.org, demonstrates the kaleidoscope of variables that can play a role in life's ability to survive on other worlds.
"The habitable zone is a region around a star where temperatures allow liquid water to exist on the surface of an orbiting planet," says NASA scientist Dr Stephen Kane from the California Institute of Technology.
Kane and fellow Caltech researcher Dr Dawn Gelino have used their study to create the Habitable Zone Gallery website resource for NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute.
"One of the things we're trying to do is find out if the Earth is unique, is there another planet like the Earth," says Kane.
"The Habitable Zone Gallery provides a research resource for people wanting to study planets that may orbit in this zone."
More 800 exo-planets (planets beyond our solar system) have been discovered so far, and thousands of candidate planets are still to be confirmed.
The laborious task involves collecting data sets of all known stars with planets, and calculating the habitable zone for each based on the star's luminosity.
Kane and Gelino then add the planets in that system to see if they reside in the zone.
"We were surprised to see just how different other systems are, with some planets on highly elongated and eccentric orbits similar to those of comets in our solar system," says Kane.
"These planets only spend part of their time in habitable zones, the rest of the orbit gets too hot or too cold."
"But does that exclude life? We know some organisms can survive in space and thrive under extreme conditions on Earth."
Kane argues other conditions such as a planet's mass, size and atmosphere should also be considered, because they also affect survival chances.
"For example we have found a planet with about 95 per cent the mass of Earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star," says Kane.
"But that planet is Venus, one of the most inhospitable places in the solar system, with a run-away greenhouse effect and no life."
Another example is Jupiter which orbits beyond the habitable zone, but exerts strong tidal forces generating enough heat for liquid water to exist below the surfaces of Europa and Ganymede.
"We should be considering the total energy budget of the planet or moon when we talk about habitable zone, not just its orbit in relation to its host star," says Kane.
Water and life
Another issue to be considered is whether liquid water is essential for life in the first place.
"We think of liquid water being essential because it's a natural solvent for organic chemistry and it's common," says Kane.
"But there are other chemicals that could serve as a solvent."
"All these need to be considered because there's a potential for habitability in regions we wouldn't expect."


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20 Places Every American Should See
Think you know America's essential sights? Compare your past trips with our picks for 20 domestic destinations every citizen should visit—from pop culture icons to patriotic landmarks. Consider it your star-spangled bucket list.
What makes a place essentially American? Besides being between our borders, of course? When the Budget Travel editors set out to compile a list of 20 can't-miss destinations in the United States, we knew there was no one right answer. A place couldn't be just historic, or only very beautiful, or merely iconic. But in the best cases, it might be all three. For days (and weeks), ideas were floated, debates were had, some favorites were voted down and others prevailed. The list we arrived at is no American-history textbook quiz—although historic sites are there, along with a sampling of cultural, nostalgic, and guilty-pleasure spots that, we think, evoke the kaleidoscopic American experience. While our list is unranked, incomplete and inherently subjective, we think it is also diverse, surprising, and informative—and well worth keeping in mind as you plan your next vacation itinerary. So why not map out a detour to one of these spots the next time you hit the road? Who knows—you might never think of this country in quite the same way again.
See our slideshow of 20 great American places
Highway 1, Calif.
Considering that the United States has more miles of paved roads (over 2.7 million) than any other country on earth, is it any wonder that road trips are practically a rite of passage here? One of the most meditative—and celebrated—drives you can take in the States is the 145-mile stretch of California's Pacific Highway 1 between San Luis Obispo and Monterey. Expect view after astonishing view of land meeting sea, as the road snakes and swerves high above the Pacific, past bright-green grasslands and redwood-forested canyons (byways.org).
Photo op:About two hours north of Monterey, Highway 1 crosses San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, a 75-year old marvel of engineering and aesthetics. If the bridge is totally obscured by fog, you can fake your Kodak moment in front of the giant photomontage at the bridge pavilion's new visitor's center.
Insider tip: Take a detour near San Simeon to see the mansion of William Randolph Hearst, the eccentric newspaper magnate made famous by Citizen Kane (750 Hearst Castle Rd., hearstcastle.org, tours from $25).
French Quarter, New Orleans, La.
No other American neighborhood provides as much eye candy as the cobblestone streets of New Orleans' French Quarter—known as "the Quarters" to locals—and we're not referring to the annual Mardi Gras parades, with their thousands of taffeta-draped harlequins strutting to funk, R&B, and Dixie. No, it's the architecture that's intriguing. Stroll this district, which is bounded by the Mississippi River, Rampart Street and Canal and Esplanade, and you'll glimpse nightclubs lit up in neon, French colonial townhouses draped in ivy, Creole cottages built on stilts, and antebellum mansions whose balconies are laced with intricate ironwork. The neighborhood's premiere event is the annual French Quarter Festival in April, which draws hundreds of thousands of listeners for a series of jazz performances, focusing more on up-and-coming artists than the better-known cross-town rival New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (neworleansonline.com).
Photo op: Jackson Square, a patch of moss-bearded oaks in the core of the French Quarter, is home to a striking statue of Andrew Jackson, the Renaissance- and Spanish Colonial-style St. Louis Cathedral, and Cafe Du Monde, which serves the city's signature beignets (fried dough treats).
Insider's tip: The visitor's center at New Orleans Jazz Historical Park offers free self-guided audio tours of famous music institutions, such as a favorite venue of the late trumpeter Louis Armstrong, Preservation Hall No. 4, which re-opened last year after a six-year closure post-Katrina (nps.gov/jazz).
National Mall, Washington, D.C.
There's no place in America where you get more historical bang for your buck than the National Mall—fitting, since two of its most famous memorials (to Lincoln and Jefferson) are stamped on our smallest coinage. This less-than-two-mile stretch of our capital city packs in those memorials, plus the Washington Monument, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, among others, and it's lined with Smithsonian Institution museums—none of which cost a dime to enter. Even if politics leaves you cold, there's sure to be something at one of the Smithsonian branches to get you going, whether it's the astronaut ice cream sold in the gift shop at the National Air and Space Museum, the inaugural gowns of First Ladies on display in the National Museum of American History, or the 45-carat Hope Diamond gleaming in the Natural History Museum (nps.gov/nacc and si.edu).
Photo op: The P.O.V. rooftop bar at the W Hotel has the best view of the Mall in the city (515 15th St, NW; whotels.com).
Insider tip: The Mitsitam Native Foods Cafe in the National Museum of the American Indian has the most interesting food on the Mall. Try the pulled buffalo sandwich with chayote squash slaw and the cinnamon-and-honey fry bread (mitsitamcafe.com, sandwich $11.25, fry bread $3.35).


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Stuffing the game hens before roasting them keeps the meat incredibly moist. Classic American ingredients—apples, cornbread, and fresh corn—make this a great recipe for a small Thanksgiving. But you may not want to wait that long before you try it.
- Yield
- Makes 4 servings
- Stuffing:
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1/2 cup chopped celery
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- 2 teaspoons chopped fresh sage
- 1/2 teaspoon coarse kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
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- 1 large egg, beaten to blend
- 1/2 cup (packed) coarsely grated sharp cheddar cheese (about 2 ounces)
- 6 tablespoons (about) fresh apple cider or fresh apple juice
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- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh sage
- 2 teaspoons coarse kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
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- For stuffing:
- Melt butter in heavy large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion and celery; sauté until beginning to color, about 5 minutes. Add apples; sauté until beginning to soften, about 3 minutes. Mix in sage, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon pepper; transfer to large bowl. Let stand until almost cool, about 10 minutes.
- Mix cornbread into vegetables. Add egg and toss to blend. Mix in cheese, then enough apple cider by tablespoonfuls to form stuffing that is moist but not wet.
- Game hens:
- Sprinkle cavity of each hen lightly with salt and pepper. Pack 1 cup stuffing into each (place any leftover stuffing into buttered ramekins and cover with foil). Skewer cavities closed with toothpicks or turkey lacers. Tuck wing tips under; tie legs together to hold shape. Mix sage, coarse salt, and pepper in small bowl; sprinkle over hens.
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Heat oil in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Place 2 hens in skillet. Sauté until brown, turning often with wooden spoons (to prevent tearing skin), about 10 minutes. Transfer to rimmed baking sheet, breast side up. Repeat with remaining hens. Drape 2 bacon strip halves over breast of each hen. Using kitchen string, tie bacon strips in place. (Place any ramekins of stuffing on baking sheet with hens.)
- Place hens (and extra stuffing) in oven. Roast hens until cooked through and juices run clear when thigh is pierced, about 45 minutes. (Roast stuffing 30 minutes.) Cut strings off hens. Transfer hens to plates. Spoon maque choux around hens and serve with extra stuffing.


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Why the optimism? Citigroup analyst Oliver Chen upgraded J.C. Penney (JCP) on Tuesday to a "buy" and called the retailer an "American comeback story." Chen said he's a believer in the company's turnaround plan, a back to basics approach focusing on private-branded merchandise that J.C. Penney is best known for.
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Spoilers for last night's The Americans below:
Not to get all hippie on you, but if people understood one another perfectly there would be fewer wars, hot or cold. Yeah, there would still be competition for resources and ancient grudges and flat-out evil. But conflict is bred from misunderstanding, and it also breeds misunderstanding. If someone is your enemy, you assume the worst about their intentions, and more than that, you project your own worst tendencies onto them.
And because you're enemies, you're guarded from your adversary and he from you. You become black boxes to each other, boxes that you fill up with your least charitable assumptions and your own least-proud history.
That's the dynamic behind "In Control," which The Americans starts from an already-familiar milestone—the assassination attempt against Ronald Reagan—and goes to a less-familiar place: What do the Soviets, and Elizabeth and Philip in particular, make of all this?
The title comes from Secretary of State Alexander Haig's aconstitutional claim to reporters that "I'm in control here" while Reagan was incapacitated. It's a historical footnote now, a moment of chain-of-command slapstick that reinforced the idea of the gung-ho secretary as a loose cannon.
That's how it may have looked here, but to the other side? It's an incapacitated leader and a general—a top general!—claiming command of the government. It is, potentially, a coup. All it takes is taking your own history of less-than-gentle transfer of power and screening it through your worst perceptions of your mortal enemy.
We know how the story ends, but Keri Russell plays Elizabeth's concern with such earnest intensity that I could have, for moments, believed I was watching alternative history. Maybe there was going to be guerilla warfare! This is what a top-tier drama, which The Americans is threatening to become, can do: make you accept its characters' perceptions so thoroughly that they supersede what you know about reality.
Reality, as Elizabeth knows it, says this: things go to hell. A leader is incapacitated and all bets are off. We get a further glimpse of her past in a flashback to Stalin's death, when her mother turns down a sexually freighted offer of security, in the form of canned goods. You have to rely on yourself, she says, a belief that now animates every inch of Elizabeth's tense frame.
Elizabeth has been in this country for years. She sounds like us and looks like us; she has the outside gestures down. But America is still a black box to her. (Less so to Philip, who more quickly catches on that things don't go down the way Elizabeth fears and imagines—maybe because his true belief in the cause has been shaken, although I look forward to the show filling in his background and worldview more.)
You can live in a country for years and years and yet have so much to learn about it. Not unlike a marriage.
By the same token, I'm loving the phase that we're in with The Americans, the first stage of a relationship, in which we're still learning about it and so it can still surprise us. The scene with the security guard, for instance. After the clock caper, you might think that we've learned the ground rules for this antihero show. Philip and Elizabeth are ruthless people, but they're not monsters. They will go to certain lengths to avoid killing, especially the innocent, if they can. And by extension, after that episode, you might think you know how The Americans works. It'll take the couple right up to the edge of cold murder, but at the last second it will yank the pillow away.
So when our couple got stopped outside Caspar Weinberger's house, I just naturally assumed that, yes, it looked like they were in a tight spot, but obviously the show was going to find some way to have Elizabeth sweet-talk the guy out of HOLY SHIT SHE JUST SHOT HIM IN THE HEAD. Like that.
I like that The Americans–inverting the usual TV gender dynamic—has made Elizabeth the more fervent, committed hardass, and Philip the one more conflicted (though not too much so) about their mission and what it requires of them. It's just one of the changeups The Americans throws at us; the show may not be entirely unique, but it departs enough from the standard formulas of cable antihero drama that I don't know what to expect yet when I watch it.
And I mean that in the best way. I hope that The Americans matures into a great show that runs for years. In the meantime, I'm loving this early phase, in which it's still a wonderfully disorienting foreign country.