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China's village doctors take great strides
Village doctors have dramatically improved access to health care in China's rural communities over the last few decades. Cui Weiyuan reports.
China's barefoot doctors were a major inspiration to the primary health care movement leading up to the conference in Alma-Ata, in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan in 1978. These health workers lived in the community they served, focused on prevention rather than cures while combining western and traditional medicines to educate people and provide basic treatment.
Dr Philip Lee, then a professor of social medicine at the University of California in San Francisco, wrote glowingly in the Western Journal of Medicine about China's primary health care system after visiting the country in 1973 as part of a United States of America (USA) medical delegation. He said prior to the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, epidemics, infectious disease and poor sanitation were widespread. "The picture today is dramatically different ... there has been a pronounced decline in the death rate, particularly infant mortality. Major epidemic diseases have been controlled ... nutritional status has been improved [and] massive campaigns of health education and environmental sanitation have been carried out. Large numbers of health workers have been trained, and a system has been developed that provides some health service for the great majority of the people."
Dr Zhang Zhaoyang, the deputy director general of China's Department of Rural Health Management, says the barefoot doctor scheme had a profound influence on the Declaration of Alma-Ata. "WHO research in the 1970s found problems relating to the health-cost burden and unequal distribution of health resources. To try to solve the inequality, it did research in nine countries, including four cooperation centres in China. China's experience inspired WHO to launch the health for all by 2000 programme."
Zhang says the barefoot doctor scheme, initiated by central government but largely administered locally, had its origins in the 1950s. "The name barefoot doctor became popular in late 1960s after an editorial in the People's Daily by Chairman Mao in 1968," he says. "The name 'barefoot doctor' originated in Shanghai because farmers in the south were often barefoot working in the paddy field. But China's village doctors had been there long before. In 1951, the central government declared basic health care should be provided by health workers and epidemic prevention staff in villages. In 1957, there were already more than 200 000 village doctors across the nation, enabling farmers to receive basic health care at home and work every day. The barefoot doctor scheme was simply the reform of medical education in the 1960s. In areas lacking medicine or doctors, village doctors could go through short-term training - three months, six months, a year - before returning to their villages to farm and practise medicine."
Zhang says the scheme has evolved over the decades, though the term barefoot doctor is no longer used. "The scheme has never stopped. In the early 1980s, the State Council (the Central People's Government, the highest executive organ in China) directed that barefoot doctors, after passing an examination, could qualify as a 'village doctor'. Those who failed would be health workers and practise under the guidance of the village doctors. The village doctors and rural health workers still undertake the most primary health work - prevention, education, maternal and child health care, collecting disease information. The quality of [care provided by] rural doctors keeps increasing in line with social and economic development."
Dr Liu Xingzhu, the programme director at the Fogarty International Centre at the National Institutes of Health in the USA, was a barefoot doctor from 1975-1977. Aged 19, his senior secondary school classes were interrupted during the Cultural Revolution drive to equip people with practical skills. "The county's health bureau organized medical training in my school and provided free accommodation and food. The trainers were the best from the county's central hospital in various fields. Many of the doctors were dispatched from the urban hospitals during the Down to the Countryside Movement (when Mao decreed 'privileged' urban youth go to rural areas to learn from workers and farmers) and showed great professionalism. They were very good trainers and doctors.
"After graduating in June 1975, I became a barefoot doctor at the Suliuzhuang commune (in northwestern Shandong Province, south of Beijing) serving 1800 residents. Despite the knowledge I learned from the strict training, the conditions and equipment in the countryside were very limited. I was given only a bag of some basic medicine with two syringes and 10 needles."
Therein lay both the strength and weakness of the barefoot doctor scheme. It provided the rural poor with health care not known in pre-Revolution days, but the doctors' limited training, equipment and medical supplies meant they could not do a lot.
Another of the barefoot brigade, Dr Liu Yuzhong, still offers basic health care to his fellow villagers after 43 years' service. Now 69, he is known by patients as a caring, skilful doctor, though he says, "I learned something of everything, but specialized in nothing." He adds: "There are great advantages to having a barefoot doctor in the village. The patients are all my neighbours. I know each family's situation, lifestyle and habits. Since I see my patients very often, even if I cannot diagnose precisely the first time, I can follow up closely and give a better diagnosis the next time."
When the rural cooperative health-care system was dismantled in the 1980s as a result of China's economic liberalization, Liu Yuzhong was hired by the local Dingfuzhuang Health Centre on the eastern outskirts of Beijing. "I was lucky because I had passed a Ministry of Health exam in 1981 and acquired the certificate to practise as a village doctor."
Liu Xingzhu believes health-care services did suffer in the late 1970s and early 1980s when the agricultural sector was privatized. "The barefoot doctors, who were paid collectively by the commune, lost their source of income. Many turned to farming or industry. The most direct effect was that few did inoculations or provided primary health care for the peasants. Many diseases that had been eradicated emerged in the countryside again."
The user-pays system introduced in China in the 1980s left many out of pocket or unable to afford treatment. The government in recent years has recognized the need to increase health spending and promote new health insurance schemes, a reflection perhaps of China's special commitment to a primary health care system that "everyone can enjoy, reflects social equality, is affordable for everyone and matches social and economic development," according to Zhang. Dr Lei Haicho of the Department of Health Policy and Regulation at the Ministry of Health, says the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme introduced in 2003 now covers more than 800 million rural residents, while public financing of the health system has increased substantially.
Zhang maintains, however, health-care standards have risen steadily in China, thanks in part to the work of village doctors and health workers, who, he says, receive excellent training and support. "The maternal mortality rate in rural China has decreased from 150 per 100 000 before 1949 to today's 41.3 per 100 000. The infant mortality rate for the same period has decreased from 200 per 1000 to 18.6. China now has more than 880 000 rural doctors, about 110 000 licensed assistant doctors and 50 000 health workers." He believes primary health care has also helped reduce poverty in China. "Only with a health body can people undertake education and production activities and improve their living standards. Village doctors have played a significant role in preventing people from becoming impoverished."
Despite the challenges China faces in providing a modern health-care service to all of its 1.3 billion people, the barefoot doctors and their successors can still show the way to the rest of the world in primary health care, according to Zhang Lingling. Writing in the Young Voices in Research for Health 2007 essay competition sponsored by the Global Forum for Health Research and the Lancet, the doctoral student at the Harvard School of Public Health said: "The impact of barefoot doctors in rural health-care services still exists. Today, both researchers and policy-makers have widely acknowledged it is hard to bring people to work in rural areas. Even the developed countries have experienced a difficult time attracting medical professionals to rural places [so] training local people seems to be the optimal solution [in] building sustainability in rural health-care services."
Liu Xingzhu also believes the Chinese model can inform other countries' approach to primary health care. "Chinese experience showed that to promote primary health care, the key issues are human resources and medicine. Chairman Mao advocated there was no need for five years' training; one year was enough to train a doctor. Short-term training focusing on specific types of work, such as antiviral treatment or prenatal care, is sufficient to meet the demands of primary health care, especially in the countryside or poverty-stricken areas."


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Taking the Kids -- and meeting future baseball superstars on Cape Cod
We're sitting on the grass with several hundred parents and kids on a balmy summer night in Falmouth, Mass., on Cape Cod watching the Falmouth Commodores play the Orleans Firebirds.
We have come to watch the Cape Cod Baseball League -- 10 teams comprised of 350 elite college players from around the country.
"I've been coming to Sea Crest since I was 5 and I'm 43," said Kathleen Donovan, of Boston, who was relaxing at the pool at the Sea Crest Beach Hotel on Buzzards Bay in North Falmouth.
The Sullivans come all the way from Scotland to Falmouth every summer. "Our friends don't understand why we come," said Louise Sullivan.
Wherever visitors are from, rooting on these players and these teams has become a top Cape Cod tourist attraction, drawing some 330,000 fans over the summer. "Nothing else draws nearly that many people on the Cape," says John Gardner, who serves as a spokesman for the league's all-volunteer organization.
A big part of the appeal: The chance to watch future Major League players and future superstars -- for free. At June's Major League draft, 13 of the 18 collegiate players drafted were Cape League alumnae. There are 265 Major League players who spent a summer playing baseball on Cape Cod -- among them Matt Harvey playing for the New York Mets; Buster Posey for the San Francisco Giants; Chris Johnson for the Atlanta Braves and Jacoby Ellsbury for the New York Yankees -- and the league counts 1,040 players dating back to Babe Ruth's time, including his Yankees roommate "Jumping" Joe Dugan.
That's why it is such a popular guessing game to figure out who will be the next generation's stars. These elite college players come from around the country -- California and Nevada, Florida and Missouri, Virginia and Kentucky, and live with some 200 families who volunteer to house and feed them.
"I love being here," said Matt Hall, who plays for Missouri State and is a pitcher here for the Falcon Commodores. He comes over to pet our pooch because he said she reminds him of his dog at home.
The fact that the kids know some of the players from the camps makes watching the games more fun, the parents here say. Besides, "This is much more in the budget than the Red Sox," said Laurie Farley, here with her two kids and three others happily sucking lollipops.
The players patiently sign balls for all of them at the end of the games.
"It's good old-fashioned baseball," said Brian Garside, here with his 8-year-old daughter Caroline from near Boston. "And the sunset will be gorgeous."
"So laid-back," agreed Hannah Sullivan, 15, here with her mom and younger sister from Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Just like a Cape Cod vacation. Take the 264-room Sea Crest that's been welcoming families for nearly 50 years. Kids were playing Marco Polo in the pool and jumping in the waves as we ate take-out from Red's -- named for former Celtics coach and president Red Auerbach, who once co-owned the hotel.
There are complimentary activities for everyone -- morning yoga, face painting by the pool, sand castle-making 101. Sure the Donovans could have rented a house for less money -- there are 50,000 to choose from on the Cape and simple rooms here in the summer start at more than $300 a night. "But that's a lot of work. I'd rather pay for people to wait on me on vacation," she joked. She chose well: The newly renovated Sea Crest has one of the best beach locations of any hotel on the Cape, locals say.
The Cape, just 20 miles at its widest point, is surrounded by water. Take your pick of 115 public beaches, 106 miles of bike paths and 42 golf courses. No worries if it rains. There are 83 museums and 2,400 shops.
"Every year it gets more expensive," says Michael McDonough, 50, laughing, here with his wife, three kids and extended family. He has been coming here since he was 12, he said.
"This is about the only place I'm not dragging the kids these days," his wife Lisa adds.
And that counts for a lot toward vacation harmony. The baseball game seemed that rare vacation moment when parents and kids seemed genuinely happy at the same time.
Said Amy Vickery, observing the crowd, and her happy kids: "What more can you want?"
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The United States National Security Agency (NSA), an intelligence agency under the US Department of Defense, today announced a new program to "prime" college students for careers in "Cyber Ops."
Called the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations Program, it's the result of the President's National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education. The program's goal is "to ultimately yield a larger pool of professionals with expertise" in the protection of national cyberspace.
The program will "identify institutions that offer a deeply technical, interdisciplinary curriculum centered on fields such as computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering." Additionally, it will offer selected students the opportunity to attend "cutting-edge summer seminars" at NSA.
Participating schools will receive a "CAE-Cyber Operations" designation for five-year periods. The first four to be selected are Dakota State University, the Naval Postgraduate School, Northeastern University, and the University of Tulsa.
The CAE-Cyber Operations programs will exceed other cybersecurity courses by focusing on "specialized cyber operations—collection, exploitation, and response."
The NSA's announcement says that participating students and faculty members will not be engaged in NSA work. However, participants in the seminars "will be hired as temporary NSA employees."
Presumably, talented participants might be offered positions within the NSA. They will, at the least, be identified by the organization.


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The Iraq War: Still a Massive Mistake
There's a growing narrative that Iraq's solidifying democracy makes the seven years of US war and occupation a worthy enterprise.
Some observers have even spun Iraq's March 7 elections as proof that democracy promotion via military occupation can succeed. Don't believe the hype. The Iraq war remains a mistake of mammoth proportions. And Iraq's election represents a pyrrhic victory, as the economic, political, and moral costs of the occupation far outweigh any benefits.
First are the sacrifices in terms of blood and treasure. The broad consensus is that the war has cost the US economy well over $700 billion – with the meter still running. The Iraq war has also left nearly 4,400 American troops dead, more than 31,000 physically disabled, and countless more psychologically traumatized.
According to most estimates, more than 100,000 Iraqis have been killed since the invasion. More than 2 million displaced Iraqi Sunnis, who fled into neighboring Jordan and Syria, are adding instability to an already politically precarious region of the world.
The war also upset the regional balance of power, as it substantially strengthened Iran's influence in Iraq and severely limited US policy options toward Tehran's clerical regime. No amount of prewar planning or "boots on the ground" could have prevented the Islamic Republic's political push into a neighboring country with a 60 percent Shiite majority. The removal of Saddam Hussein as the principal strategic counterweight to Iran paved the way for the expansion of Iranian influence in Iraq, and has enabled Tehran to back, with far greater impunity, its political allies in Baghdad.
Even before 9/11, Iran possessed a budding nuclear program, the region's largest population, an expansive ballistic‐missile arsenal, and significant influence over the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah. By adding to that list enhanced political influence in Iraq, Iran can be somewhat more assertive geopolitically in the region, further limiting US policy options.
A third side effect of the war waged purportedly in democracy's name is that it came at the expense of America's already frayed reputation in the Muslim world. Far from being seen as a benevolent liberator, the United States was perceived as a blundering behemoth – and an abusive, hypocritical one to boot.
People of the region are well aware of Washington's policies toward Iraq in the decades preceding 9/11. Policymakers tacitly supported the Baath Party's suppression of the Iraqi Communist Party in 1963, and helped restore the Baathists to power after a takeover by pro‐Nasser Arab nationalists in 1968. From 1980 to 1988, during the Iran‐Iraq War, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency gave Hussein battle‐planning assistance, satellite imagery, tactical planning for airstrikes, and information on Iranian deployments.
As The Economist detailed last fall, torture became routine under the US‐supported Maliki regime. Hussein‐era tactics of censorship are also reemerging. The government announced plans to censor imported books and the Internet, and rescind the protective anonymity of e‐mailers and bloggers. These repressive policies are quite similar to those imposed by yet another US‐supported dictator in the region: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. As modern‐day Egypt and now Iraq demonstrate, countries with procedural elections yet devoid of liberal norms can merely be Potemkin villages masquerading as democracies.
A fourth consequence of the war in Iraq – and one that should determine whether it is deemed a "success" – is that it did little to keep America safe from Al Qaeda, the perpetrators of 9/11. In this respect, what makes "Bush's war" in Iraq arguably one of the biggest strategic blunders in US history is not just the litany of failures it caused but the opportunities America lost. The disaster in Iraq diverted badly needed intelligence assets, public attention, and congressional oversight from the forgotten war in Afghanistan.
Maybe that's why two GOP members of Congress who recently visited the Cato Institute in Washington revealed that most Republicans on the Hill now believe the Iraq war was a mistake. They also said that "more than half the Republican caucus" believes the way the US began the Afghanistan war was a mistake. Today, polls show that most Americans say the invasion of Iraq was a "mistake" and "not worth it."
As defenders try to argue that the war was justified, the most important lesson we must take away is not that more troops, better tactics, and improved cooperation can produce success the next time around. Rather, it is that wars have the potential to expose the limits of military power and armed interventions should be undertaken only when absolutely critical to a nation's security.
Seven years later, let's hope Americans have learned the right lessons. Let's hope, too, that fortunes in the Middle East will turn for the better, not just for the US and its tarnished prestige, but for the millions of innocent civilians uprooted by conflict.


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|Letter to Croatia from the Chair of the Committee, dated 13 September 2011, seeking clarification of whether Croatia notifies the affected Party's public only after the public hearing has been held in the Party of origin.
|Response from Croatia, dated 17 November 2011.
|Letter to Croatia from the Chair, dated 19 December 2011, informing the Government of Croatia that the Committee was satisfied with the clarification provided.
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So earlier today imagine my squee-ish delight when I spotted a zine I'd never seen before with the tag line, "Easy Ideas for Hands-On People." I practically started drooling. I grabbed it off the stand and immediately began thumbing my way through it. Inside I saw...
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All that just in the one issue! Plus, each of the projects has a DIY versus purchase cost comparison along with a difficulty rating and estimated time requirement. Needless to day, the zine took up residence in my shopping cart and I've had my nose in it ever since I got home. The name of this new gift from the pantheon of DIY deities is "Fresh Home" and, at least for now, I think I'm in love. There's only one thing about it I don't like at this point, and that's it's decidedly yuppie feel. I'm used to consuming my DIY literature smothered in punk rock/alternative sauce. But I'm willing to look past the pastels and sweaters tied 'round the shoulders as long as they keep coughing up great ideas, projects and plans. If you're a hardcore DIY'er like me, check it out for yourself. Because it's brand new, you can subscribe for only $10 (half off the cover price).


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That's the word Glee co-creator and executive producer Ian Brennan uses to describe the summer of 2011 when it was reported that stars Lea Michele, Chris Colfer and Cory Monteith would be among the graduating seniors and would not be returning Season 4.
"I was like, 'I can't believe this is such a huge deal,'" Brennan tells TVGuide.com. "We had to do a lot of reassuring to people: Not only are you not going to miss any of the characters you love this season, but we're probably going to follow them when they graduate. It was more of a nuisance than anything."
New Glee Season 4 posters: New York takes a bite out of Rachel! But where is Quinn?
Fourteen months later, (most) burning questions about what post-graduation Glee will look like will be answered when the Fox musical comedy returns with a slightly new format, new faces and a new location — New York City! "We put a lot of thought in it. We didn't take a hiatus. We kept writing through what would normally be a five-week break just to make sure we cracked the way we wanted to tell the story," Brennan says. "It was on our minds all last season and it's been on our minds the entire series."
The Season 4 premiere Thursday (9/8c, Fox) will be split between two narratives. There are new faces competing to join the newly crowned national champions New Directions while the club's former shining star Rachel Berry finds herself at the bottom of the superstar food chain — and on the receiving end of constant verbal assaults by NYADA dance teacher Cassandra July (a fiery Kate Hudson). "It just really started to click and then I realized, this isn't the first time we've done this — we've split the narrative before," Brennan says, referring to Kurt's tenure in blazers at Dalton Academy during Season 2. "It was fairly seamless, and I actually think it's the same thing here. Musicals just allow you a little bit more room creatively. ... We have the visual splash of being able to film in New York and, in my mind, when you watch that first episode, it expands the scope of the show in a very adult way."
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But for a show that boasted 15 series regulars last year, why expand at all? For one, Brennan said the show's creative team wanted to avoid a M*A*S*H-like scenario, where the Korean War was stretched to 10 years instead of three. "You can't really tell a high school story without hitting high school milestones like homecoming and graduation and prom and your first kiss," Brennan says. "All those things need a passage of time."
Plus, the show wasn't ready to lose its most important characters. Instead, the writers wanted to explore how the graduating seniors would make good on Mr. Schue's (Matthew Morrison) whiteboard wisdom. "Rachel, like it or not, is really the core of the show," Brennan says. "She's sort of like the ultimate underdog and it felt weird to pull her out of that. She's part of this continuous story. ... You want to actually see, 'What does that mean once you leave that womb?' Rachel goes from being a big fish in a small pond to a very small fish in the biggest pond ever."
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The writers are also freshening things up by adding several new characters. After all, there are six empty seats in the choir room that need to be filled by sectionals and new people that Rachel will encounter in the Big Apple. These new additions include Marley (Melissa Benoist), Jake (Jacob Artist), Kitty (Becca Tobin) and, at NYADA, Brody (Dean Geyer). "They just pop in a really interesting way, and I really think people are going to like them," Brennan says. "You get to see the glee club and the high school experience through fresh eyes. ... You're able to go back to basics."
But what will happen next season after another group of longtime glee clubbers, including Artie (Kevin McHale) and Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz), flip their tassles? Stay tuned. "We have a general idea of where we're going to land and what that last episode [of Season 4] is going to look like," Brennan says. However, he reassures fans (again), "The DNA of the show will never change."
The new season of Glee premieres Thursday at 9/8c on Fox.


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Date: December 8, 2019 - December 8, 2019
Time: 4 p.m.
Location: Hermance Family Chapel of St. Basil the Great
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A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols is the Christmas Eve service held in King's College Chapel at the University of Cambridge (our College's namesake, St. John Fisher, served as chancellor of the University from 1504-1514). The Festival was introduced in 1918 by Eric Milner-White, dean of King's College, to bring a more imaginative approach to worship. It was first broadcast on radio in 1928 and is now broadcast via radio and television to millions of people around the world.
On Sunday, Dec. 8, Fisher's All-College Choir, under the direction of Sarah Mancini-Goebert, will present Advent Lessons and Carols. The service includes carols and readings from the Bible with accompanying celebrational hymns. The All-College Choir is comprised of students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members.
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2014 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter T5 First Look
Freshening the original, in time for the competition.
The "we invented the car" folks now selling Mercedes-Benz cars, trucks, and buses like to brag that their Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft ancestors also invented the truck in 1896. Roughly 100 years later, Mercedes introduced the original Sprinter van, which made its splashy North American debut -- all narrow and light and fuel efficient and maneuverable -- in 2001 as a Freightliner, and in 2003 as a Dodge. It got a total makeover in 2006, and this year -- just in time for its first real Eurovan competition in the form of the Ram ProMaster and Ford Transit -- it gets a freshened face, an even more efficient powertrain, plus enhancements in the safety, comfort, and convenience realms.
Joining the 3.0-liter/188-hp/325-lb-ft V-6 turbodiesel and five-speed automatic that has been propelling all recent Sprinters, is a new 2.1-liter four-cylinder turbodiesel, featuring two-stage turbocharging, state-of-the-art direct fuel injection at 26,000 psi courtesy of piezo injectors, and a dual-mass flywheel and balancing shafts that reportedly allow it to idle quite smoothly. Meeting the toughest U.S. and European emissions regulations requires an AdBlue selective-catalytic reduction agent that's replenished via a filler under the hood. With output rated at 161 hp and 265 lb-ft (the latter from 1400-2400 rpm) and the added leverage of a (world van exclusive) seven-speed automatic transmission and new 3.69:1 axle ratio, this BlueTEC four-cylinder is the standard engine in all Sprinters -- even the 11,030-pound GVWR models. We'll let you know how sprightly that I-4 feels as soon as we get a chance to drive it, but we suspect bigger-is-better American customers will spring for the now optional V-6 when ordering 3500-series Sprinters.
Other fuel-efficiency optimizing efforts include a smart-charging alternator that ramps up battery recharging during deceleration and braking; electro-hydraulic steering assist, a fuel pump that tailors its output to demand, and a freewheeling A/C compressor that produces little or no drag except when needed. Sprinter GVW ratings exempt it from EPA fuel economy testing, but Mercedes claims the V-6 delivers nearly 25 mpg on the highway (30 percent better than similar gasoline powertrains), and the I-4 is said to be 18 percent more efficient than the V-6 turbodiesel.
Other enhancements for 2014 include a new grille, lamps, LED daytime running lamps, and a less smiley bumper fascia design that incorporates a step to aid in cleaning the windshield and extends the nose by 2.4 inches. The hood is slightly higher for pedestrian safety. Inside the steering wheel, shifter and seat are redesigned, and there's a new radio head unit with 5.8-inch screen, Bluetooth, iPod and aux connectivity, and available Becker MapPilot navigation. (The last employs a controller that plugs into the glovebox, so a fleet could prewire all its vans for nav and share a smaller number of controllers.) A new Active Safety Plus Package brings Blind Spot Assist, Lane Keeping Assist, Highbeam Assist, and Collision Prevention Assist; Parktronic can also be added. And the stability control system can sense and compensate for a shifting load in the truck.
A combined total of some 5 million durability miles have enabled Mercedes to stretch the Sprinter's service interval to 15,000 miles, which greatly reduces a business' cost of ownership (note that SCR replenishment will be required before that mileage unless the vehicle is used strictly for constant-speed highway running). The multiplexed electrical system features silver-coated connectors to resist corrosion for long-term durability, and the Sprinter is available in a vast array of configurations on two wheelbases (144 and 177 inches), three body lengths, two roof heights, with optional left-hand sliding door and seating for 2, 4, 12, or 18 passengers. All of this seems to engender extreme loyalty and causes customers to hang onto their Sprinters for a long time, making used ones a rare enough commodity to rank the Sprinter as the only Mercedes-Benz offering to achieve a 5-star resale-value rating from the Automotive Lease Guide, retaining 50 percent of its value after three years and 60,000 miles (the next-best Benz is the S-Class at 3 stars).
Passenger and crew cab window-van models are imported directly from Duesseldorf, all other North-America-bound Sprinters are built there, partially disassembled, shipped to Charleston, South Carolina, and reassembled to avoid the 25-percent chicken tax. Pricing of the 2014 model has yet to be announced, but we expect the added feature content to offset the four-cylinder's potential price drop, leaving base prices virtually unchanged from the current $36,165 (chassis cab), $37,285 (cargo van), and $41,315 (passenger van) -- that's already a premium over the front-drive Ram ProMaster ($27,525/$29,625/-), and it's likely to fall directly in line with Ford Transit pricing. Let the sales race begin...
Upfitter's Dream
Currently, some 75 percent of Sprinters are sold with modifications provided by one of 85 companies certified through Mercedes-Benz's Sprinter Preferred Upfitter Program in such diverse categories as luxury vans, high-cube bodies/boxes, expediters, ambulances, recreational vehicles, service bodies, refrigeration, armored, and broadcasting. The certification process involves factory visits by M-B personnel to assure quality and compliance with safety standards. Approved upfitters get product info in advance, and can have the vehicle's electronics system tailored to suit its needs. For example, the headlamps can be programmed for "wig-wag" back-and forth blinking in an ambulance.
Most upfits are facilitated, contracted, and arranged by the Mercedes or Freightliner dealer. Invoicing is usually separate, but upfits within 110 percent of the original price of the Sprinter (i.e., a $50,000 upfit of a $45,000 Sprinter) can be rolled into a lease payment. Several upfitters have located plants adjacent to the Sprinter's Charleston final assembly location, which allows their customers to save on delivery charges by utilizing Mercedes-Benz's factory-to-dealer delivery infrastructure.
Two of these include Morgan Olson's Ultimate Delivery Van, an 850-cubic-foot 4000-pound payload high-cube featuring options like a sliding side door, hydraulic lift gate, and walk-through access from the cab; and Paul Maranda Enterprises' 111CA service body. Lightweight composite construction means this 50-inch-wide by 17.4-foot-long pickup body with container boxes on the side weighs just 1250 pounds, leaving 4500 pounds for payload.
Other examples of the upfitting trade on hand at the Sprinter launch included an RV from Winnebago Industries. The Class C (chassis-cab) View Profile 24V model features side and rear bump-outs with a full bath and galley kitchen. Winnebago also offers Class A and B RVs (the only manufacturer to offer all three on the Sprinter), all of which are said to achieve 15-20 mpg on the highway. Airstream's Interstate ranks as the best-selling Class B van RV in the U.S. for two years running. It seats eight, sleeps two, and offers a full bathroom and galley.
The Traumahawk Ambulance by American Emergency Vehicles comes in Type II or III configuration based on either the 2500 or 3500 series Sprinter, boasting fully ducted A/C and heat, with 6 feet of stand-up room to work. And finally, Midwest Automotive Design's Business Class Van serves as a ground-based biz-jet, with captain's chairs, multi-media entertainment, refreshment coolers, etc. all swathed in luxurious faux leather and real wood.
Many of the upfitters present professed reluctance or refusal to adapt their products to the Ram ProMaster and Ford Transit. We shall see...
Sprinter's Great-Grandfather
Postwar delivery van production didn't resume at Mercedes-Benz until 1956, when the simple, no-frills L319 arrived, sporting an incredibly short, blunt nose, a leaf-sprung rigid-axle chassis, and body configurations that included cargo vans with two roof heights, a minibus, chassis cabs, and pickup trucks with one or two rows of seats. Motivation was provided by one of two four-cylinders: a 1.8-liter, 43-hp diesel or a 1.9-liter 65-hp gas-burner, and yet payload ranged from 3550 to 4250 pounds. Power steering was an optional extra. Design-wise, it featured a horizontal grille like those on Mercedes' sports cars, which the trucks would use for years to come. By late 1961, a 2.0-liter 50-hp diesel relieved the 1.8, at which time production was consolidated in Duesseldorf, where Sprinters are made today. Just two new van designs have been introduced between the L319 and Sprinter; the T2, and the TN/T1, so at 19 years young, don't expect a radical Sprinter reboot for a little while yet.


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Defying all odds, the Mets' prediction of a Johan Santana-pitched Opening Day at CitiField may actually come true. According to Adam Rubin, the Mets and Santana are confident enough to announce he will be the starting pitcher this Thursday.
After throwing an intensive bullpen session Saturday, New York Mets left-hander Johan Santana walked by manager Terry Collins and proclaimed: "You've got your pitcher for Thursday."
A day later, after Santana met with general manager Sandy Alderson, Collins and the rest of the rotation Sunday morning inside the manager's office, that proclamation was affirmed.
Santana will be held on a pitch count of around 95 pitches and manager Terry Collins has noted that the April schedule will allow Santana to ease his way back slowly.
There are still a few days for this to blow up in New York's face but it looks like something good is finally happening to the Mets.
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Brazilian folk tales
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In a land cursed by eternal sunlight, Moonchild – a lone hero destined to ascend the forbidden tower – must seek out the black dragon and restore the natural order of night and day. Explore the enduring themes of growth and redemption in this stunning debut from Brazilian indie developers Swordtales.
In a journey that spans a lifetime, help Moonchild take her first baby steps, developing new abilities and discovering new ways to interact with the world around her. Drawn from traditional South American mythology and developed in Sao Paulo, Toren is a welcome showcase of emerging new talent within today's vibrant videogames industry.


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Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is now Open Source MS-PL
The source for ASP.NET MVC has long been available up at http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet. The source has been "Available" so I usually call this "Source Opened" as opposed to "Open Source."
ASP.NET MVC has been "Free" as in "Gratis" since it started. That means, "Free like Beer." As ScottGu just blogged about moments ago, today, it's also "Libre" as in "Free like Speech." You can do what you want with the source.
Today, ASP.NET MVC is now Open Source and licensed under MS-PL. That means you can change it, redistribute your changes, even fork it if you want. MS-PL is an OSI-Approved Open Source License and you can read the legalese on their site.
"The Ms-PL contains no platform restrictions and provides broad rights to modify and redistribute the source code."
As a reminder, MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) is another .NET Framework component that's MS-PL, as is the DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime) and IronRuby. The Ajax Control Toolkit and Silverlight Toolkit is also MS-PL.
These are all baby steps, but more and more folks at The Company are starting to "get it." We won't rest until we've changed the way we do business.
If you like, you can download and install ASP.NET MVC 1.0 from inside of the Web Platform Installer 2.0 directly.
Congrats to ScottGu and PhilHa and the team for making this happen. Now, go bask in the source as the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 download has been updated with a zip of the source. I hope Miguel is dancing today.
If you have any questions about the future, legal stuff, etc, I'll defer them to ScottGu (leave them in his comments).
(This is not an April Fools joke. It's for reals.)
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DeRobert & The Half-Truths, Eli Paperboy Reed and the True Loves, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
We're a classic soul group with great material and a kick ass lineup. Eight strong, three female backup singers and a killer rhythm section. Members: Stephanie - Voice, Rachel - Voice, Ricky - Voice, Guitar, Mikael - Bass, Robert - Guitar, Greg - Drums, Luigi - Trumpet/Trombone, Brian - Saxophone


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I went to Costco in Japan WAY back in 2009 when I went camping with some other teachers. At the time I thought it was cool to buy some foreign food that was hard to buy in the regular supermarkets but I never thought to get a membership.
I think that one was near Sagamino. I didn't really know where we were because I didn't drive. Recently I found out there was one only about a kilometre away from where I lived in Tomioka, Kanagawa! I really regret not exploring more when I lived there.
So today armed with my Australian Costco membership I thought it'd be a good opportunity to see how different it is to the local version.
Although there is a closer Costco in Kawasaki, we opted to go to the Kanazawa Seaside (closest to Tomioka). We also wanted to check out the marina and Mitsuo outlet stores not too far from Costco. To get there we caught the Keikyu Seaside line (change to it at Shin-Sugita), and got out at Torihama. Note that this is where to get out only for the Mitsuo Outlet/marina!
The place is quite nice. I took a few photos here. We looked at some interesting shops. She liked a watch in the Seiko store, and I bought a cool Graniph t-shirt to replace the similar one I gave to my brother. There was a Lego store but the prices were normal. I couldn't find a R2D2 keyring. I had bought a new one but darned if I can find it.
She had in mind to catch the train to get closer to Costco, but I didn't think it was that far away. Being a hot sweltering day it definitely felt longer to get there. My bad.
Costco in Japan is quite similar to back home but definitely more "Japanified". Here you can buy a sushi tray which sadly they don't do in Australia. The bagels have a few extra flavours too. They had samples out like in Australia but whereas there isn't any formal etiquette to getting said sample, here people LINED UP to receive their sample. I actually got told off for not following local custom. I am a BAD, BAD gaijin ne.
We bought what we could practically carry to the station. We first walked the wrong way back but soon got back on track. The closest train station is Sachiura station.
If I was still living there I think I would've got a membership. Access to western food in Japan, while available, is fairly limited. For 4,000 yen (+tax) I think it's definitely worth it, probably more so than here in Australia.


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Our cameras just don't seem up to the job. We stand slack-jawed along a wooded trail trying to capture the brilliant turquoise of the river in the Tolmin gorge below. Coming from Western Canada, I have seen my share of glacial water, but the rivers in the Soca Valley region of Slovenia are so postcard perfect that our cameras are hopelessly outmatched.
While preparing to leave for this Central European nation, friends repeatedly asked; "Why Slovenia?" Well, it hadn't been on my bucket list either frankly. What would the first nation to leave the former Yugoslavia and the only one in the EU have to offer besides an abundance of consonants? I was charmed immediately by the capital city Ljubljana, but I became a convert in Most na Soci (meaning bridge at Soci). This small valley town at the confluence of three rivers epitomizes the Slovenian experience.
I tasted my first burek, a cheese pastry I can't stop dreaming of here, accordion music accompanied us, and of course, the 138-kilometre-long Soca River beguiled us here.
One day, we cycled along a sun-dappled well-maintained riverside trail in the morning, paddled Soca's calm waters in the afternoon and watched from the sidelines as a national bike race sped by (sheer bike shorts and all).
The next day we walked the Tolmin Gorge trails; then carried on for another kilometre up to a tiny village. Hot and tired, we were rewarded with panoramic views, beer, homemade cheese and conversation with the owner's son. Worth every step.
Slovenia turned out to be a gorgeous mix of Western Canada nature and old Europe charm complete with red tile roofs, ubiquitous castles and families bringing in the hay with a scythe, a rake and broad shoulders. Photogenic scenes of nature, architecture and public art abound.
The country is so small you can enjoy an early morning hike or ski in the Julian Alps, check out magnificent caves mid-afternoon and arrive at the coast in time for a late dinner. All at a much cheaper price than its more well-known neighbours. (Our mid-morning cup of coffee doubled in price the day we crossed into Italy.)
Outdoor enthusiasts come here for the fly fishing, the 10,000 km of hiking trails, the white water kayaking and calm water canoeing, the bird watching and the biodiversity. Thrill seekers leap off cliffs and paraglide in perfect thermals soaking in glorious views, they scream down mountain-bike trails that have made Slovenia the European centre for mountain bike competitions. Or they join the pelotons of touring cyclists racing through pretty towns and villages on route to a finish line.
I am no thrill seeker, though I did long to hang in those thermals with the 20-odd others we saw floating past Heidi-like peaks and pastures into verdant valleys. My newly acquired fear of heights stopped me, but I now wish I had pushed myself a little and jumped tandem with a guide. It would have been magnificent.
About the size of Switzerland, Slovenia is known for its focus on sustainability. Over a third of it is protected, 60 per cent is forested, including a virgin forest. Each year, more than 1.2 million more trees are planted.
But Slovenia hasn't always been a peaceful place to commune with nature.
From the Romans in the sixth century on, its history is pockmarked with tales of cruelty, war and foreign domination. The Peace Museum in Kobarid shows in graphic detail how more than 100,000 men died in an ultimately fruitless, but ferocious alpine battle for territory, including Trieste, Italy.
A trail through the area called The Walk of Peace traces some of the unforgiving terrain these men trod in coldest 1914 winter. Both world wars, the Communist era and the Ten Day War to independence in 1991 all shaped these people and forged the pride they show for their homeland. Despite decades of foreign domination, it has remained 83 per cent Slovene, but in a nod to peaceful coexistence, both Italians and Hungarians with only 0.4 per cent of the population combined enjoy protected status with a seat in parliament.
While it still has to work out a few kinks to become thoroughly wired for tourism, Slovenia's charm helped us forgive its old-school arrangements. Not for long, I suspect. Like so much of central and southern Europe, tourism may be all that can keep the creditors at bay. Requiring guests to wire payment for accommodations in the mountains, as we had to for our cabin in Most na Soci, has got to go.
Still, the cabin offered a central locale from which to explore the Goriska region. Some scenes from the film Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian were filmed in the Soca Valley.
I was touring the country with two women friends. In our mid-50s and reasonably fit, we were up for adventures, but also for wine tasting, car touring and slow days at the beach. Slovenia is divided into 11 regions each with its own delights to discover. We chose to focus on three of them: the pretty capital city Ljubljana, the mountainous region of Goriska and the coast and karst region bordering the Adriatic Sea.
With a population not quite reaching 300,000, Ljubljana's economy still buzzes around its old city where you can see vestiges of the five millennia of its history, including the remains of the Roman city of Emona and the medieval castle (now a museum and culture centre).
Baroque building facades, decorative portals and uneven roofs complete the picture.
Lined on both sides by outdoor cafés, bars and restaurants, I loved the way the Ljubljana River bisects the town providing a picturesque urban path. The streets and squares contain an impressive array of public art including a series of bizarre sculptures that resemble the zombies who stole the Black Pearl from Captain Jack Sparrow (in Pirates of the Caribbean).
Most striking is a series of beautiful bridges spanning the river at convenient junctions. We stayed in a small Air BnB apartment two blocks from the Dragon Bridge, so named for the four dragons guarding the river from each corner. It is one of the most photographed sights in the city and made a perfect landmark for us to find our way home.
For our breakfast, we would cross the bridge for espressos and luscious, local strawberries at the daily farmers market.
On the coast we stayed in Izola. We rented an Air BnB apartment in a villa on the sea. After six days of touring, I can't tell you how pleasant it was to settle in the shade of the villa's gardens with a book and a glass of wine. As the spirit took me, I would stand, stretch and stroll across the garden to the beach for a dip in the 24 C Adriatic Sea.
Izola is a perfect base from which to enjoy the coast.
Twenty minutes by car and you are in the walled city of Piran, where visitors and tour buses park outside and walk in. Loved by the camera, Piran juts out into the sea like a shark's fin lined with restaurants and topped with a tower. The soft evening light enhances its beauty.
It's a perfect place to enjoy Slovenian dinner along the seaside.
Portoroz is the coastal town for tourists. There's lots of hotels, casinos and shops.
But I preferred the more Slovenian Izola to stay.
After spending almost two weeks in Slovenia, I know I want to return. There are so many adventures I want to take, especially the paragliding, but maybe the white water rafting too.
Slovenia's consonants, natural beauty and the burek have won me over.
If You Go Come in June when the air is warm but not too hot. Go to: www.slovenia.info for a ton of good information.
The caves: Slovenia is home to some amazing caves and is the birthplace of the term karst for caves. The most visited is the Postojnska Caves which include a network of 20 km of passages, galleries and chambers. You take a train 1 km into it, then walk another 2 km. The Skocjan Cave, which is a UNESCO Heritage site offers a less touristy cave experience and there are several others as well offering their own special features.
Predjama Castle: Ten kilometres from Postojna Cave stands this picturesque castle. Perched on a 123-metre cliffwith a maze of caves and tunnels behind, it was the perfect hideout for a "robber baron" who is the subject of a romantic legend. Held siege in the castle, Knight Erazem Lueger confounded the soldiers by getting supplies through the cave passages behind it. Legend says he would toss apricot pits down on the soldiers to torment them. Every July, the castle site returns to the Middle Ages with costumed characters and a medieval tournament named for Erazem.
The Lipica Stud Farm: This is one of the oldest stud farms in the world and the birthplace of the beautiful white Lipizzaner horses.
Slovenian ice cream: The Slovenia ice cream is wonderfully fresh and delicious. Kavarna Cacao, on the river through the old town was voted the best ice cream and the best café in Ljubljana. We loved the ice cream in Piran as well.
Where to stay: We had good success with Air BnB where we could choose self-contained apartments which allowed us to make our own breakfasts and lunches. But there are many hotels in the city and inns in the towns. We stayed in three locations in the country, but it is possible to stay in Ljubljana and do day trips in a rented car to all corners of the land.


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- Yield
- serves 6
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 1/2 cup golden raisins
- 1/3 cup sunflower seeds
- 3 tablespoons sesame seeds
- 4 large stalks fresh broccoli, chopped into small florets, cooked, drained, and chilled
- 4 cups bow tie noodles, cooked, drained, and chilled
- 2/3 cup Hellmann's mayonnaise
- In a skillet, heat sesame oil and sauté raisins, stirring frequently. Remove with a slotted spoon, and set aside in a small bowl. Quickly sauté sunflower and sesame seeds in remaining oil, stirring frequently, and remove to another small bowl.
- In a large bowl, toss broccoli, bow ties, raisins, and mayonnaise, combining thoroughly. Just before serving, toss with sunflower and sesame seeds.
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The Second Avenue Deli Cookbook by Sharon Lebewohl, Rena Bulkin and Jack Lebewohl. Copyright © 1999 by Sharon Lebewohl, Rena Bulkin and Jack Lebewohl. Published by Random House Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved.
Born with a soupspoon in her mouth, Sharon Lebewohl grew up in the deli business, working at the Second Avenue Deli and learning her father's secret recipes firsthand. Since her father's death in 1996, Sharon has worked with his brother, Jack, to oversee the Deli's daily operations and to ensure that her father's spirit is kept alive there. She is deeply rooted in the Jewish community and is active in many Jewish women's groups. Sharon is also the mother of three teenagers.
Rena Bulkin began her career in Paris, writing about European hotels and restaurants for The New York Times International Edition . Returning to her native Manhattan after several years abroad, she worked first at The New Yorker and then at New York magazine. She has written fifteen Arthur Frommer travel guides, as well as numerous magazine articles on travel, food, and other subjects. A close friend of the late Abe Lebewohl's, she has a long history with the Second Avenue Deli, where she has worked on many public-relations campaigns.


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On Monday, an anonymous user posted a photo on 4chan of a Burger King employee standing on two tubs of shredded lettuce with the caption, "This is the lettuce you eat at Burger King." Using the photo's embedded GPS data, it only took 4chan users 15 minutes to track down that the photo was taken at a Burger King in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. The three employees involved in the photo have been fired.
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Valentine's Day
34 comments:
- Janet Johnson said...
I think you've perfectly defined "romantic dinner." :)
And wow, PB&J bars? I can't believe I haven't heard of these before. I'm loving your recipes!
- February 20, 2011 at 7:57 AM
- Brownieville Girl said...
I'm impressed they made it to day 2!!!
I agree with you that the most romantic meal is one everyone will like :-}}}
- February 20, 2011 at 8:14 AM
- Chiara "Kika" Assi said...
Spaghetti and meatballs is also very romantic because of the scene in Disney's "The lady and the tramp"!
- February 20, 2011 at 8:50 AM
- Jess said...
Thanks for another great recipe! What a cute Valentine's Day with the family (love the sharing of poems)!
- February 20, 2011 at 9:31 AM
- Valerie Gamine said...
I've been wanting to try Ina's recipe for these for such a long time!
They look delicious! And I can't think of anything more adorably romantic than p.b. & j. :D
- February 20, 2011 at 9:41 AM
- Joanne said...
I'm so glad you made and liked these! I would consider these the perfect V-Day treat, but that's because I'm a peanut butter fanatic. I'm glad to hear you had such a sweet V-Day...even better because you got to spread out the love over TWO days!
- February 20, 2011 at 9:50 AM
I don't like peanut butter by itself, but I love it in baked goods.
I have a blog award for you.
- February 20, 2011 at 10:09 AM
- Beth said...
Kika, you're so right about the romance of spaghetti and meatballs!
Valerie, knowing your love of peanut butter, you would adore these bars.
And thanks for the inspiration, Joanne! These were great!
- February 20, 2011 at 11:39 AM
- Beth said...
Medeia, I'm not usually a fan of PB either, but it was awesome in these bars. I'll be sure to check out your blog! Thanks!
- February 20, 2011 at 11:39 AM
- Heather said...
Hi Beth! I wanted to stop by and say "thank you" for visiting my blog! I am so glad that you did because it seems as though we may have a lot in common. You see, I am also a chauffeur and a baker. I started my blog in July too! I loved your comment about the romance of spaghetti and meatballs...it is one of the few meals that everyone in my family will eat too. And, I almost forgot....I love Ina Garten too! I look forward to visiting your blog again! :)
- February 20, 2011 at 12:09 PM
Your definition of a romantic dinner is a perfect dinner in my house. There is just something so satisfying about a meal that everyone will eat!
- February 20, 2011 at 4:12 PM
- Barbara Bakes said...
Sounds like a lovely Valentine's day. I don't think these scrumptious treats would make it a second day at my house.
- February 20, 2011 at 5:29 PM
- Sharon K. Mayhew said...
What a wonderful family Valentine's Day! I love the idea of doing poems for each other. I'll have to try and convince my husband to participate in that next year. My daughter would love it, as she writes poems all of the time. Great idea, Beth! Thanks for sharing with us.
- February 20, 2011 at 5:50 PM
- Belinda said...
These are sinfully delicious!! How sweet - the poems are a great idea. My poetry is kinda limited to Roses are Red variety....
- February 20, 2011 at 6:31 PM
- Claudia said...
When the kids were younger we always did special Valentine's Dinner taking into account what everyone would eat. This is so perfect and Lady and the Tramp certainly found spaghetti romantic! The bars are the sweetest ending to your lovely eve.
- February 20, 2011 at 6:40 PM
- Carol said...
They look so good! And what a perfect Valentine's dinner, special indeed!
- February 20, 2011 at 7:47 PM
- Unknown said...
These bars would not be safe any where in my vicinity! I love peanut butter baked into cookies or bar cookies- I would have loved these for Valentine's day:)
- February 20, 2011 at 8:57 PM
- Lindsay said...
I love that you share poems with each other. What a nice and thoughtful way to celebrate the day. And, I have been eyeing those bars in Ina's cookbook, but have yet to make them. Glad you liked them!
- February 20, 2011 at 9:12 PM
I think it's safe to say that Peanut Butter would beat Chocolate in a Street Fight, any day. I love it when people do a PB+J sandwich outside of a sandwich!
- February 20, 2011 at 9:25 PM
Yum! I have had my eye on a recipe like this for a while now...they look delicious! :)
- February 20, 2011 at 9:37 PM
- Bkloss said...
You're going to KILL my diet!! :) Good.
- February 20, 2011 at 11:54 PM
- Fresh Local and Best said...
I saw these peanut butter and jelly bars on Joanne's blog and was as enticed as I am right now! These are perfect for sharing with your loved ones, and nothing beats a classic combination like PB&J.
- February 21, 2011 at 12:03 AM
- Emma said...
Sounds like the perfect Valentines Day dinner :)
- February 21, 2011 at 1:19 AM
- Needful Things said...
I'm with Chiara - spaghetti & meatballs makes me think of lady & the tramp.
My daughter and I are the huge PB&J fans in our house so I think we'd love these bars!
- February 21, 2011 at 9:50 AM
- A Canadian Foodie said...
I didn't mean to neglect you! Please investigate uploading Feedburner to your site so that I can subscribe by e-mail - I never get to my feeds or readers. Really, ever. I try - so I have just subscribed to all sites to have new posts delivered into my mailbox... thus, I missed you AGAIN!!!!
I think anything homemade is a labour of love - be it chocolate or peanut butter - or SOUP!
This recipe looks really yummy and I would feel pretty loved if someone baked this for me!
- February 21, 2011 at 10:34 AM
- Katerina said...
This is such a lovely treat for celebrating Valentine's. It is so nice to celebrate with your family that day!
- February 21, 2011 at 12:04 PM
- Monet said...
This does sound perfect...and it makes me eager for the day that Ryan and I will have children. I know I will try to make V-day as special as my mom made it for me! Thank you for sharing your words and this recipe. And thank you for your kind thoughts on my own blog. I appreciate you!
- February 21, 2011 at 6:14 PM
- Mary Bergfeld said...
It sounds like you had a perfect Valentine's Day. Your dinner sounds great and the peanut butter and jelly bars at, as Ina would say, to die for. They really look good. I hope you have a great day. Blessings...Mary
- February 21, 2011 at 6:27 PM
- laxsupermom said...
Yum! We have that same dilemma. 4 is too early, and 9 is too late. The bars sound delicious! Thanks for sharing.
- February 22, 2011 at 7:39 AM
- Rita said...
I do love your description of a perfect Valentines's meal. Sound like you really love your family. Peanut butter and jelly in a bar just has to be good.
- February 22, 2011 at 1:35 PM
- Sweet And Crumby said...
I totally agree that the perfect Valentine's Day dinner when you have kids is just a meal that everyone will eat. Win, win. We made homemade pizza. Your bars look so yummy. Have a great week, Beth!
- February 22, 2011 at 4:06 PM
- shaz said...
You had me at PB&J and set my heart racing :) Sounds like a lovely Valentine's day.
- February 23, 2011 at 10:47 PM
- Sue said...
Peanut butter and jelly in bar form? Can't get much better than that!
- February 25, 2011 at 8:22 PM
- Amie Kaufman said...
Wow, all I had to see was the picture to know I was sold.
I'm now 3-4 weeks away from having an oven that works, with the renovations nearly finished. My husband thinks it's hilarious that I keep showing him recipes from your blog I'm going to trial when it's installed!
- February 27, 2011 at 6:00 AM


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Wigginton leaves lasting mark on Redmond
Veteran utility man looking to latch on as non-roster invitee with Marlins
JUPITER, Fla. -- An impact player, that's what managers and general managers covet, a player who regularly fills the role of game-changer. That's often a position player, usually one with uncommon power or speed. The greater the impact and the more often it is demonstrated, the more likely it is that the player will be identified as a star as well.
In 12 big league seasons as an on-the-field nomad with the Mets, Pirates, Rays, Astros, Orioles, Rockies, Phillies and Cardinals, Ty Wigginton never qualified as a star. He's had his days, even some weeks. But the term "impact player" seldom was applied to him as it would be to players whose names were routinely in headlines.
These days, Wigginton is in Marlins camp as a 36-year-old, non-roster, job-seeking, utility man of intriguing resumé. And here, if nowhere else in Florida or Arizona, he is recognized as impact player, recognized by at least one of the decision-makers who will determine whether his career will move to South Florida. Marlins manager Mike Redmond has an appreciation for the 2014 wannabe, one born nearly 11 years ago when Wigginton made quite the impression on the then-Marlins catcher.
Wigginton left an impression as well.
He was the Mets' baserunner at third in the sixth inning of a game played at Shea Stadium on April 18, 2003. Jason Phillips reached base on an ensuing infield ground ball because the play was at the plate. Wigginton was thrown out. Redmond was nearly knocked out. And an inning later, he was taken out, his day cut short by the mass and might of the player now in his camp.
"Oh, he hit me hard," Redmond said on Sunday morning. "I had to leave the game a few innings later. He hit me on my left side I remember. That's the way he played. That's the kind of player you want on your team."
The tale came to light as Major League Baseball is deciding whether to take steps to eliminate collisions at the plate. Neither Redmond nor Wigginton favors creation of a rule that would eliminate aggressiveness and hard-nosed play from the game.
"I'm against all new rules," Wigginton said after Sunday's workout. "Replays on home runs? I'm sure Babe Ruth lost a few. The rules have worked for a long time. Leave the game alone."
As Wigginton spoke, another non-roster veteran, Reed Johnson, happened by. "Said Wigginton: "Yeah, Reed's probably lost -- what? -- 17 or 18 over the years."
"Yeah, no big thing," Johnson said. "It just cost me hundreds of millions of dollars."
Redmond awaits a clear description of a rule curbing collisions at the plate before he will pass judgment. But he is leaning toward no rule is a good rule. "It's part of the game, you have a rule, and you take away aggressiveness from both the runners and the catcher."
The manager smiled when he was told of a play at the plate, years ago, involving Jim Ray Hart, a muscular, non-nonsense third baseman with the Giants, and Cardinals catcher Tim McCarver. Hart slid into McCarver with such force that Hart's spikes became imbedded in McCarver's shinguards. Hart's shoes and McCarver's shinguards had to be removed before the players could be untangled.
And who can forget Pete Rose and Ray Fosse at the All-Star Game? Or Kevin McReynolds, then with the Mets, bowling over Dodgers catcher Mike Scioscia and his reputation for blocking the plate? McReynolds scored the winning run in the first game of the National League Championship Series in 1988. On that play, the irresistible force pushed the immovable object out of its path.
And when Willie Mays played for the Mets against the Braves in the early 1970s, he once slowed down after rounding third and signaled Felix Millan, the trail runner, to follow him. Mays arrived at the plate just before the throw and obliterated catcher Biff Pocoroba. Millan scored standing.
"I've always liked those kinds of plays," said Wigginton, who doubted he had the speed to copy Mays' play. "I figure, once you're on base, the idea is to score any way you can. If the hitter does everything he can to get you in, it's your responsibility to do everything you can, too."
Wigginton has had an inordinate number of memorable collisions. His left shoulder put Mets catcher Josh Thole on the disabled list because of a concussion in 2008. He also crushed Yadier Moilina, Jason Kendall and one-time Diamondbacks catcher Koyie Hill. The one with Hill was bloody," Wigginton said, smirking. "But we both survived."
Wigginton, as much as any player in the big leagues, has a reputation as a bona fide bone-bruisers. He says a few opposing catchers have told him, while he was batting, "You can have the plate."
Redmond was not of them. He held his ground against Wigginton in 2003. "It was like we were playing football," Redmond said after that game. And he got smoked. "My left side got all locked up."
Years later after he had moved on to the Twins and Wigginton was a member of the Rays, Redmond approached Wigginton before a game. "I admitted to him that he'd just about knocked me out. And I said 'I just wanted to make sure he felt it, too.' He said he threw up for hours. That made me feel better."


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Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are coming off strong convention-driven shows, the other late-night hosts are cracking wise about the campaign and the Internet is proving an increasingly potent forum for political humor. And now, after a four-month layoff, "SNL" is back too– and, as in 2008, planning some Thursday night primetime "Weekend Update" specials featuring quick-witted head writer Seth Meyers leading up to the election.
"SNL" remains not just a prime political comedy battleground for entertainers, but for candidates – dating from then-President Gerald Ford's taped cameo in 1976 to John McCain and Palin's live appearance shortly before the 2008 election.
As we've noted, the importance – or perceived importance – of the campaign comedy circuit only has grown in this presidential election cycle. Romney, who showed good humor reading a "Top 10 Things Mitt Romney Would Like to Say to the American People" list on "Late Show With David Letterman" in December, reportedly has been invited on "SNL." It's a fair bet that President Obama – no stranger to entertainment shows during his term, most famously visiting Jimmy Fallon to "slow jam" the news in April – would be welcome to go live from New York.
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What does the Fn button do?
The Fn (Function) button is a customizable button that allows quick access to predetermined menu options.
The Fn button options available are common menu items that are accessed frequently. The selections may vary from camera to camera, but some of the most common are MY MODE, TEST PICTURE, RAW, MF, ONE-TOUCH WHITE BALANCE, and PREVIEW. Your camera model may have additional options to select from.
The Fn button can be assigned in the camera's SETUP menu under BUTTON/DIAL and then Fn FUNCTION. Once the menu option has been assigned to the FUNCTION button, pressing the FUNCTION button activates the preselected menu option. Some assigned menu options are only activated while the Fn button is pressed and held in combination with the shutter button (TEST PICTURE, for example), while other options are toggled on and off with each press of the Fn button (RAW, for example).
Here are two scenarios in which the FUNCTION button would come in handy:
In a studio shooting situation using electronic flash, it may take a number of test shots to refine a lighting setup. Rather than filling up the memory card with numerous test shots, set the FUNCTION button to TEST PICTURE. Before each test shot, press and hold the FUNCTION button and then shoot. The test shot will be saved to the camera's buffer memory but not to the memory card. The test shot will appear on the LCD with the word "TEST" in the upper right corner of the LCD and remain there for evaluation until the OK button is pressed.
If your camera has ART FILTERS and you want to shoot with an ART FILTER but also want a normal image, you need to shoot in RAW+JPEG. If you are shooting JPEG and have the RAW option assigned to the FUNCTION button, when you press the FUNCTION button the camera is toggled into the RAW+JPEG shooting mode and you will get an ART FILTER JPEG and a normal RAW image at the same time. Pressing the FUNCTION button again returns the camera to the JPEG only shooting mode.
Your camera may have other buttons that can also be assigned menu options much like the FUNCTION button. For example, if you have an E-PL1 PEN and don't shoot video, the direct video recording button can be assigned menu options as a second FUNCTION button. For the alternate buttons and the options they can be assigned, in the camera manual's Index, look for FUNCTION options in the Symbols menu at the beginning of the Index.
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