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RUSH: So Benghazi, that's "a long time ago." "Benghazi happened a long time ago." I mean, why is everybody bringing that up now? Yet everything remains the fault of George W. Bush. From the Weekly Standard: "White House spokesman Jay Carney said in response to a question about the September 11, 2012 Benghazi terror attack that it 'happened a long time ago.' 'Let's be clear,' said Carney.
"'Benghazi happened a long time ago. We are unaware of any agency blocking an employee who would like to appear before Congress to provide information related to Benghazi.'" Really? See, this is the modus operandi of the regime -- any Democrat regime, actually. You stonewall it for a few months, and then after a few months go by you say, "It's an old story." Didn't Watergate happen a long time ago? It still seems to be really relevant, Watergate.
Benghazi is not even eight months ago. Anyway, it's a bit ironic to hear Jay Carney talking about spreading misinformation. Isn't that what he does for a living? "Yeah, it's a long time ago," or, "We're not aware of any whistleblowers being prevented from coming forward..." No, that's why they're going on TV disguised in masks with their voices altered. Let's go to the audio sound bites. We have a montage here, January, April, Monday, and today. It's Hillary, John Kerry, Obama, and Carney talking about the lack of importance of the Benghazi information...
HILLARY: (screeching) Was it because of a protest, or was it because of guys out for a walk one night decided they would go kill Americans? What difference does it make?
KERRY: We got a lot more important things to move on to and get done.
OBAMA: I'm not familiar with this notion that, uhhh, anybody's been blocked from testifying.
CARNEY: Benghazi happened a long time ago.
RUSH: That was Hillary back in January. "Was it because of a protest, or was it because of guys out for a walk one night decided they would go kill Americans? What difference does it make?" What difference does Benghazi make now? That was January. John Kerry in April. "Well, we got a lot more important things to move on to, get done here." Benghazi, who cares? Obama in April, "Uh, I'm not familiar with this notion anybody been blocked from testifying."
Carney, "It happened a long time ago." Nothing to see here. "What difference dos it make?" So this is the modus operandi: Stonewall it, and then it's "an old story
" that nobody is interested in. All these months later, the FBI finally releases surveillance photos of the suspects. They had these pictures on day one. This is like the LA Times has a story today on health care. "Part-Timers to Lose Pay Amid Health Act's New Math." Now, this is a cover-up.
The LA Times could have reported this story two months ago, or two years ago!
Two years, when Obamacare was in its infancy when it was being debated, we knew this. We knew that companies were gonna shift people from full time to part time so they wouldn't have to cover 'em. The LA Times, just today, reports this. It's a cover-up. It's the same thing with the regime here on Benghazi. Happened eight months ago? "That's forever ago! It doesn't matter. That's old, doesn't matter. It's irrelevant." So now we have, after all these months, the FBI finally releases surveillance photos. They had these pictures on day one, just like everybody in the media knew about Obamacare on day one. Instead they blamed the video.
He's a montage for you...
OBAMA: I don't care how offensive this video was, it was terribly offensive and we should shun it.
HILLARY: (haltingly) This video is disgusting and reprehensible. It appears to have a deeply cynical purpose, to denigrate a great religion and to provoke rage.
CARNEY: Let's be clear. These protests were in reaction to a video that had spread to the region.
OBAMA: You had a video that was released by somebody who lives here, sort of a shadowy character, who is -- an extremely offensive video.
CARNEY: The unrest we've seen has been in reaction to a video.
OBAMA: A crude and disgusting video sparked outrage throughout the Muslim world.
RICE: It was a spontaneous, not a premeditated, response -- a direct result of a heinous and offensive video.
OBAMA: I know there are some who ask, "Why don't we just ban such a video?" The answer is enshrined in our laws. Our Constitution protects the right to practice free speech.
RUSH: That's Obama talking to the Star Wars bar scene at the UN General Assembly trying to explain to them about our Constitution. They're laughing under their breath. "We know what it says. That's why we hate it! You don't have to preach it to us." Anyway, they knew. They've had these photos since day one. They've had these surveillance photos since day one. But they had to go out and blame the video to try to distract everybody.
Tuesday night, Special Report on the Fox News Channel. The correspondent, Adam Housley, interviewed an unidentified special operator -- face blacked out, voice changed for the interview. Obama says, "I don't know why anybody wouldn't come forward. We're not trying to stop that." This guy is trying to tell the truth about what happened at Benghazi. Housley says, "The US has identified the mastermind of the Benghazi attack, who is still in Libya and still walks free; is that right?"
OPERATIVE: (distorted voice) We basically don't want to upset anybody. And the problem is if Ambassador Stevens' family knew that we're sitting on information about the people who killed their son, their brother -- and we could look them, as a government, in the face -- then we're messing up. We're messing up.
RUSH: Again, an unidentified special operator on Fox -- face blacked out, voice altered for the interview. Adam Housley says to him, "The US has identified the mastermind..." And, by the way, they're not talking about the guy in jail that did the video. They've given that up now. "The US has identified the mastermind of the Benghazi attack, who is still in Libya and still walks free; is that right?" The guy says, "We basically don't want to upset anybody.
"And the problem is if Ambassador Stevens' family knew that we're sitting on information about the people who killed their son, their brother -- and we could look them, as a government, in the face -- then we're messing up. We're messing up." So we had to try to pretend we didn't know what had happened and blame the guy who did the video. And now they're saying, "Well, that's a long time ago. It doesn't matter."
But Bush is still being blamed for everything, folks.
RUSH: "What difference does it make now?" Jay Carney may as well have said that. "You know, Benghazi, it's a long time ago. What difference does it make now?" I remember people, I might have been one of them myself, but I do remember other people say at the time that an obvious cover-up was underway, I remember people saying, "This is not going to go away." This is gonna haunt the regime, and it is. That is proving to be accurate. And, by the way, the media is again today and last night very concerned with the status of the regime and their second term.
I think there's more going on here than simply trying to goose Obama into getting back into gear, getting energetic. I think there is some serious concern that the wheels have come off Obama's agenda. I think they really fear it. I'll demonstrate what I mean as the program unfolds.
Back, however, to Fox News last night, Special Report, the correspondent Adam Housley interviewing the special operator, unidentified, face blacked out, voice altered for the interview to protect his identity. He's a whistleblower, and he is scared, maybe alarmed that he could be targeted if his identity were known.
After the special operator, responding to Housley, who claimed we know who the mastermind is. He's still in Libya, and he's still walking around free. The special operator said we didn't want to upset anybody. If Ambassador Stevens's family knew that we were sitting on information about the people that killed their son, we couldn't look 'em in the face as a government. And the special operator then had this to say.
OPERATIVE: (distorted voice) We have all the capability, all the training, all the capacity to kill and capture not only terrorists involved with the specific events of 9/11 and Ambassador Stevens' death, but terrorists who are feeding other regions, including Europe that eventually could affect our national security in the short-term. We're not talking midterm or long term. This is short-term.
HOUSLEY: The community is pretty frustrated?
OPERATIVE: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. It's a daily frustration.
RUSH: Now, I know that some people on the left are thinking that Fox went out and found this guy. He's an actor or he's a malcontent member of the military. He's a conservative Republican, has it in for the regime, and they'll try to dismiss this guy and his colleagues that way. There's a problem with that, though. There are people that really feel this way. You know as well as I do there have to be people all over, as he said, the Special Ops community, military community. They know what our capabilities are. They know what was available that night. They know what could have been done. They were prepared to do it. That's their job. That's why they sign up.
An American ambassador was under attack in a consulate. That's what they're there to do is to defend and protect those guys, and they were told to twiddle their thumbs. And then after that they sit around and they watch a cover-up. But that happened a long time ago. As Hillary said, "What difference does it make?" What's that got to do with anything? What difference that make? So they are coming forward.
Now we go to CNN. Erin Burnett OutFront last night. She spoke with their Pentagon correspondent, Barbara Starr, about the release of photos of the suspects, which, again, they had on day one.
BURNETT: The question is, why did it take about eight months to figure this out, to get these photos to the public? Would it ever have happened if there didn't continue to be such incredible controversy about Benghazi?
RUSH: And this is what the CNN infobabe said.
STARR: Well, that's a great question, Erin, to which there's no immediate answer. What a surprise. The FBI says they're doing it simply because they're at the point in the investigation when it makes the most sense, but you're right, eight months later, these men, where they are? Who even knows where they are? But they want to talk to them. They said this video surveillance camera saw them there the night of the attack and they want to see what they know about it. Not calling them suspects yet. It raises some very interesting questions. What else does the FBI know? What kind of cooperation are they getting from the Libyans? Why are they focusing in on these three men and these pictures of them there the night the attack happened back in September?
RUSH: And why now? Eight months later. So that's the latest on Benghazi. We've got potential suspects. We've got video surveillance that has 'em on video since day one. And in reaction to the special operator coming forward in disguise, voice altered, and the availability on the release of the photos and the video, the administration says, "Well, that's eight months ago, that's old now." Again, the modus operandi.
RUSH: Davenport, Iowa, as we head to the phones to start. This is Emmerich. Great to have you here. Hi.
CALLER: (garbled throughout) Hello, Rush. Thank you for taking my call. It's a privilege being on your show.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: I have a question. Is anybody other than myself concerned about the stonewalling deception or whatever you want to call it pertaining to Benghazi when you compare that to Boston, and how in Boston -- within 24 hours -- they had the video screened; within 72 hours they were in hot pursuit and actually in apprehension of the suspects?
RUSH: That is an excellent question. I don't think it needs even any added analysis or commentary from the host. That's how well stated your question is.
CALLER: Well, thank you.
RUSH: You bet. It's a great question. We have had lots of excellent questions, and that's entirely due to the inspiration these people are getting from me. It always is the case. Just kidding. That's the kind of stuff that the 24-year-old girls start getting mad at and saying I threaten them and they leave. It's just a little braggadocio humor. "Nobody's supposed to be that sure of themselves, Mr. Limbaugh! Nobody is, nobody is -- and you're not either! You're just thinking it."
RUSH: Jim in Manassas, Virginia, you are next on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.
CALLER: Rush, it's great to talk to you. I just want to let you know this Benghazi thing has really roiled me and the cover-up that's ongoing is monstrous. This is unprecedented. I worked in the White House Situation Room under three presidents: Nixon, Carter, and Reagan. And no president --
RUSH: Whoa, whoa, whoa, how does that happen? You couldn't have been a political appointee, then, you had to be career.
CALLER: I was an intelligence officer.
RUSH: Okay. Okay.
CALLER: And no president would have summarily gone to bed after having been told by a secretary of defense that an ambassador was missing and under attack and that people were being killed. There's no way. I mean, look at Carter.
RUSH: Jim, that's the thing. We don't know that he went to bed, but from five o'clock until three the next morning or four, he's off the grid. Nobody knows where he went. He told Hillary and Leon Panetta (paraphrasing), "You guys deal with it, whatever you need to do." But the consulate and ambassador, under assault, under military attack, and nobody knows where he went.
CALLER: Well, the thing is the three principals didn't even talk to each other, Hillary or Panetta or Obama. I mean, this is outrageous. Given the kind of activity that's available in the Situation Room, I worked there decades ago, but you can imagine what there is now. You know, they had their finger on the pulse of everything, everywhere.
RUSH: Jim, get over it. It happened eight months ago.
CALLER: Right. No, but these men, their lives were snuffed out. They could have been helped and saved. And this man, this president and Panetta and Hillary turned their backs on them.
RUSH: You know, it looks that way. That's the thing. It looks that way and then they blame it on the video. They treated this incident as though it's akin to the cost of doing business. "Well, if we're gonna have a consulate, it's gonna sometimes come under attack when somebody does a video. It's gonna happen." If it's ever learned that he was out shooting hoops in the White House gym... whew. I don't know that that's what was going on. If attention continues to be ratcheted up on this, and then in context, yeah, he was out playing basketball, yeah, low-information voters would care about that. If just out of the blue he's playing basketball and the thing happened seven months ago, that's all that's known about it all, it wouldn't have any impact on 'em at all.
It's gonna be hard for the media to fend off, to hell with the low-information voter. If that's ever learned, it will be tough for Cokie Roberts and Brokaw to go on TV, "Well, we totally understand. You gotta play hoops, get ready for your brackets," or whatever the hell, it's gonna be a hard thing to defend.
RUSH: Sharyl Attkisson, CBS News. She's been one of the few Drive-By reporters pursuing the Benghazi story, and she said yesterday that she feels alone pursuing it. She really has been. She's really been the lone wolf pursuing Benghazi. But it's continuing to unfold. It really has.


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NORWALK, Ohio – Sometimes you just have to stop and ask yourself, what the heck am I doing?
That was the question racing through Graham Foster's mind as he packed up his beautiful bright red 1968 Camaro and made the 2,500 mile haul from Fort St. John, British Columbia to Memphis, Tennessee for the Summit World Finals at Memphis International Raceway.
Foster left more than a week before the race itself to assure that he would make to the track in plenty of time. And by Sunday night, that 5,000 mile roundtrip tow was made completely worth his while as he escaped a grueling competition in IHRA's premier doorslammer class to claim the 2013 IHRA Top Sportsman World Championship.
"Let's just say it took us a while to get here," Graham said with a laugh. "We left last Friday and let me tell you, when you are filling up on fuel, it really makes you think about the trip. But once we got here, it was all worthwhile. Even if we didn't win a round, it was worth it. We got here and had fun and that is what this sport is all about."
But Foster's long drive and championship victory wasn't the end to this story. No, once at the track Foster ran into a few issues with his car and was forced to turn to the racers, a collection of drivers that regularly compete thousands of miles from his hometown, and ask for help. And the response that he got, well, not even Foster could believe.
"I was blown away by just how friendly and helpful everyone was. From the IHRA crew to the racers, everyone was willing to lend a helping hand and let me tell you, that really saved our weekend," Foster said. "We had a few issues with the car. We had to change out a flex plate, find a transmission cable and eventually change out the entire transmission. It was a bit of a struggle, but we had a lot of help from fellow racers who came to our aid. They all pitched in and made our weekend possible. It is like one big family out here and that is what makes this sport different than any other."
Once Foster got the issues worked out on his car, he went to work on Sunday eliminating many of the same drivers that helped keep him in the competition. His first two rounds included wins over defending Top Sportsman World Champion Mike Thompson and Division 4 heavy hitter Kamron Wright and ended with a showdown with Warrenton, Virginia's Mike Koontz and his 2000 Chevrolet S-10.
With the championship on the line, Foster nailed the tree with a .005 light and ran a 7.618 second pass at 176.42 miles per hour on a 7.58 dial to take the win mere inches at the line.
"It is hard to believe that we won. It was a pretty tight race. We were both dialed in pretty close, so I just went out there and did my job and thought that as long as the car works, we are good," Foster said. "It repeated and everything fell into place. After it really sunk it, I kept wondering, did I just do this? It was pretty exciting."
Foster added wins over Wright, Thompson and Jim Cairnes to reach the final, while Koontz recorded victories over Rick McDonough and Mark Payne in the only class to go five rounds on Sunday.
Amazingly, Foster's car worked like a charm with four out of his five lights on the afternoon zeroing in on triple zero. He had lights of .002, .005. .007 and .005 with a .022 throw in during the semifinals to help propel him to the win.
"Everything went bout as smooth as could be. There really weren't any surprises and the track was great. Really the only issue we had was that we lost our crew chief after the first run because he had to fly back," Foster said. "But we had everything setup and we didn't have to touch the car after he left. It just worked and took us all the way to the win."
Now, after 30 years behind the wheel, Foster will take the coveted No. 1 with him back to western Canada where he will be the most targeted racer in the country as the Top Sportsman representative for the IHRA.


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Winemaker's Notes
Dark plum red color. A nose of assertive chocolate and spice, shrouded in a freshly mixed fruitcake mixture (Irish Christmas cake). From out of an aromatic mist, scents of olive tapenade, creamy mustard seed and almond may be detected. New Oak? Not likely. Evenly weighted across the palate - facilitated by mouth-coating tannins. A mix of cooked beetroot and liqueur chocolate are intertwined with darkberried fruits. Maturation in older oak has sensitively assimilated all flavor and structural elements, sans intrusion.
Penfolds Bin 28 is a showcase for warm-climate Australian Shiraz - ripe, robust and generously flavoured. First made in 1959, Bin 28 is named after the famous Barossa Valley Kalimna vineyard purchased by Penfolds in 1945 and from which the wine was originally sourced. Today, Bin 28 is a multi-region, multivineyard blend, with the Barossa Valley always well represented, providing a substantial proportion of the fruit for this vintage.
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Australian Wine Companion - "Dark, deep red-purple; in traditional Bin 8 style, stiffened a little by the '07 vintage; the dark fruits on the bouquet and medium- to full-bodied palate run through plum, blackberry, licorice and chocolate; typical tannin and oak management. "
The Wine Advocate - "The 2007 Kalimna Bin 28 Shiraz is a style that never sees any new oak, only older American hogsheads. It has intense warm blackberry and lifted kirsch aromas with some chocolate and black olives. Full-bodied with crisp acid and medium-firm fine tannins, it gives a good concentration of evolving fruit and a long finish. Drinking now, it has the stuffing to cellar to 2019."
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Barossa ValleyBarossa is red-wine territory, with red grapes consisting of about two-thirds of the region's plantings. The reds, Shiraz in particular, are lauded for their rich, concentrated flavors and aging potential. Old vines of Shiraz and Grenache are popular, many up to 80 years old. The valley is home to some of the most famous vineyards of Australia - this is where the first Penfolds Grange was made. Whites are also found, mainly from the Semillon grape – these wines are as full-bodied as the reds although harder to find. Riesling and Chardonnay are also planted.
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Fare-thee-well, Jeremy LinFebruary 25, 2012 at 9:24 AM | Posted in Basketball, Fan-dom, Sports | 6 Comments
Tags: Brendan Mackey, Carole Lombard, Clark Gable, Dave Ramseur, Gary Nelson, Jack Mackey, Jeremy Lin, Joe Sommers, Knicks, Luke Mackey, Marv Albert, Walt Frazier, Willis Reed
They say that Clark Gable never got over the death of Carole Lombard and I have never gotten over the golden Knick period that began with the drafting of Willis Reed and ended with the wrenching travesty known as the trade, the betrayal, of the greatest Knick of them all, Walt Frazier, to Cleveland. In that time we had our two championships but for those with their ear to the radio voice of Marv Albert, it was a period like none other in our lives. I will in a future post name the names once again but this piece belongs to Jeremy Lin.
Of course I heard of Jeremy Lin just after his first start and his tremendous first game. I read of his 38 points against Kobe Bryant and the Lakers. My son Brendan, a die-hard, was in Lin-topia right from the start. Then I got a message from the good Dr. Ramseur about Lin and the southsider Gary Nelson chimed in. Most surprising of all, Joe Sommers, he of the single-digit handicap, sent Lin-signals from South Carolina.
I had not seen a minute of play as I sensed that the bubble would burst the minute I tuned in and so it came to pass. I watched much of the game against the Heat and it was painful to see Lin stripped so often but more so to see him shoot so many floaters. Floaters are doomed and Clyde never shot one, to my memory.
I had, in that early Knick stretch, as much intense pleasure (and some pain) as any man deserves. I can't take anymore and I have nothing left to give. I wish you well Jeremy Lin and I leave you in the capable rooting hands of my son Brendan and my grandchildren, Jack and Luke.
The Smoke of DamoclesDecember 3, 2010 at 5:54 AM | Posted in Personal Development | Leave a comment
Tags: Knicks, Madison Square Garden, Pete Mularchuk
As I lay in bed my heart pounded and if this was a cartoon and not real life, my pajama top would have looked like a tent going up and down. I thought I was about to have a heart attack.
It was October 25th, 1975 and it turned out to be the most important day in my life. At twenty-five years old I was an over-weight salesman who had adapted to the habits of that life in those days which included coffee and doughnuts in morning and drinking later in the day. I was average as far as these things went.
What was somewhat different from others but by no means unique was that my father had his first heart attack when he was in his early thirties and had several since. In 1975 he was still alive and my second thought was that I would go before him and as ill has he generally was, that was ridiculous. My father's health had been a sword of Damocles over me since the day, as a young boy, I opened the door to our house and saw him pale-faced. A man, a good Samaritan, had taken him home after an attack.
On that October night I had been to a Knick game with my friend Pete Mularchuk. In those days you could smoke at Madison Square Garden and I did, though growing up I thought that it would be the last thing that I would do. After the game we went to a diner and I bought what was to be my last pack of cigarettes, Pall Malls. I smoked half of one and put it out. My throat was raw.
As I lay in bed, scared as I had never been before or since, I swore that I would never smoke another cigarette and I haven't.
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By Leonard Pitts Jr.
You might have missed it amid other headlines, but the Supreme Court came down on your side last week.
Granted, it's not your side if you're one of those folks who spend the day on the phone pestering people to change their long-distance service or buy vacation timeshares. If you are in fact one of those people (hereinafter referred to as "them"), let me offer a few words on behalf of the people you pester (hereinafter referred to as "us"):
And don't let the doorknob hit'cha where the good Lord split'cha.
For the rest of us, here are the details: Last week, the top court refused to hear a challenge to the Federal Trade Commission's Do Not Call List. As you probably know, by adding your phone number to that list (which you can do at www.donotcall.gov) you are legally protected from those annoying telephone solicitations that invariably pull you away from your meal, your nap, or your sweetie. The only exemptions are for charities, political organizations and pollsters. All other telemarketers are forbidden to call under threat of an $11,000 fine for each violation.
The American Teleservices Association, which represents hundreds of telemarketers, had argued that in drawing such a distinction, the ban violated telemarketers' right to freedom of speech. But an appeals court ruled, and the Supreme Court apparently agreed, the distinction was warranted because commercial telemarketers engage in practices that are uniquely invasive, abusive and annoying.
And there's more good news. The House of Representatives passed two bills last week that would levy heavy fines against those who install so-called spyware in your computer, i.e., software that surreptitiously changes your security settings, tracks your transactions and transmits your personal data.
Taken together, the headlines from the House and the high court represent welcome victories for the right to privacy some of us find implicit in the Bill of Rights. Frankly, privacy needs all the help it can get just now.
It's not just spyware and telemarketers. It's the spam epidemic, it's the Patriot Act, it's junk faxes, it's those discount cards your supermarket uses to keep track of your buying habits.
It is, in other words, a growing sense of intrusion and surveillance so pervasive that you wonder if there are still places you can go to where someone is not monitoring your activity, trying to sell you something, or both.
It occurs to me that George Orwell was only partially right. His classic novel "1984" postulated a totalitarian government watching all the people all the time.
And granted, government will seize any opportunity to snoop — witness the aforementioned Patriot Act. But actually, it's big business that is leading the invasion of your and my privacy.
Consider how your personal information is bought and sold, companies you do business with ratting you out to others you'd never buy from in a million years.
Consider that you've got to give up your name, address and other vitals just to read certain newspapers online these days. Consider that telemarketer calling you by your first name and implying with a perky tone of voice a friendship that does not exist, all while trying to sell you something the computer says you need.
So yes, I think the court and the Congress are moving in the right direction. I just wish they'd move a little faster.
Because the private spaces in our lives, the ones accessible to no one but us, the places that are commercial free and without hype, those places where one is free to simply be … those places are going away faster than the Amazon rain forest.
Some people call that progress. But if you're like me, you find it more than a little creepy.
I guess that's the difference between us and them.
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At present, Huber Suhner's Empalme, Sonora plant employs approximately 275 workers. When the new buildings' production capacity becomes functional, the company's workforce will increase to over 500.
According to Mark Cunningham, the company's President and General Manager, "Our initial positive experience in Empalme with The Offshore Group coupled with a significant market commitment to our Masterline extreme hybrid product (Fiber Optics and Power to the Antenna – F/PTTA) Line has given us the confidence to significantly expand our Mexican production. This move allows us to better serve our customers and the market growth currently seen in North America. We look forward to increasing output and profitability of our company as we ramp this additional production lines in Mexico."
EDITOR'S NOTE_ Huber + Suhner, Inc., Essex Junction, Vermont, is the North American subsidiary of Switzerland's Huber Suhner AG.


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Purpose of review: This review assesses the role of food allergy in the pathophysiology of gastroesophageal reflux disease, colic and constipation in infancy.
Recent findings: Frequent regurgitation, persistent crying and constipation are common clinical problems in infancy. A subgroup of infants with these conditions may respond to hypoallergenic diets, but only few randomized clinical trials have been conducted. Skin prick testing and food-specific antibody levels are usually not elevated in these infants, whereas atopy patch testing may diagnostic. The mechanisms by which cow's milk and other food allergens induce gastrointestinal motility disorders are not understood. Apart from cell-mediated reactions, non-immunological effects of food constituents on gastrointestinal motility and gut microbiota may be involved in the pathogenesis. In the absence of reliable diagnostic tests, dietary elimination and re-challenge are usually required to confirm food allergy. A trial of amino acid-based formula or an oligoantigenic maternal elimination diet may be indicated in infants who have failed conventional medical treatment.
Summary: Food allergy may contribute to gastroesophageal reflux disease, colic or constipation in infancy. Infants with these conditions often respond to hypoallergenic formula or a maternal elimination diet. Further research is needed to define the mechanisms and clinical markers of gastrointestinal food allergy in infancy.
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The National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) honored KLRU as one of 17 stations for excellence in content production, promotion and marketing, community engagement, and instructional media.
KLRU brought home two awards in Community Engagement for their work in Play to Learn and An Eastside Education.
Play to Learn began when the United Way for Greater Austin asked KLRU to design a ten-week workshop for parents and youth residing in the poorest sections of town, where school readiness rates were only 12 percent overall. The Play to Learn sessions served over 500 families with a completion rate over 90 percent, created a sense of community, and was invited to the 2015 White House ConnectHome Summit.
"[Play to Learn is] deep community engagement, deep results based on solid research," the Awards Judges review panel said. "I am obsessed with this very well laid-out program. This is SUPER impactful work. I am amazed at how many kids and families have been touched by this."
The awards presentation was a highlight of NETA's annual professional development conference.
An Eastside Education was a six-part digital news project that followed students, teachers and staff at an Austin high school under threat of closure by the state. For years, Eastside Memorial High School has been plagued by failing test scores and negative headlines. An Eastside Education spent one semester at one of Austin's lowest-income schools, as teachers, parents, administrators, and students fought to meet state accountability standards or watch their school be closed.
A custom-built website was built for this project and includes seven chapters, with video, in-depth narrative, imagery, infographics, and links to external resources.
"This is how to take a new, fresh look at a chronic problem," the Awards Judges review panel said.
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Assisted Living: The Need for Creation of Affordable Options
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Description: Assisted living, the fastest growing segment of the senior housing industry, allows individuals to remain as independent as they prefer and still receive necessary services. However, assisted living residences exist primarily to serve those seniors who can pay for the services from their own savings/income. We are facing a critical need for housing options for both the current senior generation and the soon-to-be-retired baby boomers. How will access to assisted living be opened to all types of payors? How will states fund the growth of assisted living? The purpose of this paper is to discuss opportunities for expansion that will make assisted living an affordable option for the low- and moderate-income elderly.
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Empowerment: The Paradigm for Success for the Nursing Homes of the 21st Century
Date: December 1999
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Description: For a workplace to be successful, it needs to have a higher morale, thus leading to higher quality of care for residents. For a workplace to be successful in empowerment, it must have developed strong teams, and everyone must work as a team and respect one another. The research for this paper focused on many issues. The most important part of my research came from a study of the nursing assistants at Jennings Hall (JH) in Garfield, Ohio. From the data received, I concluded that the two biggest problems in many nursing homes are lack of respect and lack of team-centered attitude.
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Humor and Nursing Home Residents
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Description: Although humor is a generally accepted part of everyday life for humans, its existence, importance, and positive influence on older persons are often underestimated. The purposes of this study are to determine whether humor is a normal experience for nursing home residents, enhancing their activities of daily living, and whether it plays a role in contributing to their psychological well-being. The study includes a discussion of research on humor, particularly as it relates to the elderly and the aging process; analysis and comparisons based on interviews with residents on the subject of humor and review of their psychological state as evaluated by the MDS 2.0 nursing facility assessment; individual case studies, and anecdotes illustrating the beneficial contributions humor brings to the lives of nursing home residents.
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Long-Term Care Administrator Licensure and Certification: An Emerging Health Profession
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Description: The long-term care administrator profession is one that is both new and evolving. The unique historical perspective of this health profession is brief in the number of years it encompasses and crucial in understanding the current issues facing the profession. Administrator experiences provide a point of reference regarding the profession's structural problems. Ethical considerations play a dynamic role in administrators' daily jobs as well as their continued licensure. The significance of the profession's ongoing problems at the state and national level causes the need for alternatives to the current system. A combination of these alternatives must be embraced to assist in the recruitment and retention of long-term care administrators.
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Witchcraft: a Targeted Societal Discrimination Against Women in Northern Ghana
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Description: A combination of aging and poverty is becoming dominant in African society today, at a time when African countries are expected to be recovering from poverty, and are projected to house the economic growth of the next century. The emergence of aging in African context and the aging of the world population will expose the weakness of the current mechanisms used for older people around the world. As economies grow around the world, the distribution gap between the affluent and the poor widens, and the constant struggles for wealth, power, and social status, amidst scarce resources, continue to be sustained. To remain in charge of economic resources, the powerful few devise means to disenfranchise the weak, and witchcraft accusation is one of such tools used in Northern Ghana today. A new wave of witchcraft accusation has caught the attention of many in Northern Ghana. These victims with certain socioeconomic characteristics appear helpless and without defense against such accusations. As a result, they suffer untold hardships and are often compelled to leave their homes and to reside in camps reserved for witches. This study was undertaken to identify those sociodemographic characteristics, which are commonly shared by witchcraft accusation victims. These sociodemographic ...
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Objective: Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality especially in immunocompromised patients, and extensive work has been done in the field of diagnostic imaging. The purpose of our study was to evaluate functional metabolic image findings of 18F-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) in the patients with invasive and noninvasive forms of pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA and NIPA, respectively).
Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 24 consecutive patients who had pulmonary aspergillosis among the patients who underwent 18F-FDG PET/CT to evaluate lung mass or fever of unknown origin. Demographic feature, multiplicity, visually analyzed 18F-FDG uptake patterns (isometabolic halo, isometabolic nodule, hypermetabolic nodule, or other), and the peak standardized uptake value (SUVpeak) of the pulmonary lesions on PET/CT were evaluated.
Results: Of these 24 patients, 8 were diagnosed with IPA and 16 with NIPA. Patients with IPA were significantly younger (48 vs 62 years), and immunocompromised conditions were more frequently observed in these cases (88% vs 6%). Multiple lesions were noted in 50% (4 of 8) and 19% (3 of 16) of IPA and NIPA patients, respectively, and the predominant patterns on 18F-FDG PET/CT were the hypermetabolic nodule pattern (6 of 8 patients, 75%) and the isometabolic halo pattern (8 of 16 patients, 50%) in IPA and NIPA patients, respectively. The isometabolic halo pattern was not observed in IPA patients. The median SUVpeak was 4.5 (range, 1.3–8.9) and 1.6 (range, 0.5–3.1) in IPA and NIPA, respectively.
Conclusions: 18F-FDG PET/CT findings differ between IPA and NIPA patients. Pulmonary aspergillosis in immunocompromised status with a hypermetabolic nodule pattern on 18F-FDG PET/CT seems to have high possibility of IPA. In contrast, an isometabolic halo pattern and an isometabolic nodule pattern on 18F-FDG PET/CT seem to have high possibility of NIPA.
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The 15% Solution - Really!, Right Now! - The Case For E15
The Rev. Bart Muller of Brighton refuels at a rare ethanol pump at a Citgo in Dearborn Heights. Image Credit: John T. Greilick / The Detroit News
The 15% Solution - Really! ... Right Now! The case for E15.
Lately, we all have been confronted with the realization that our dependence on foreign oil puts our county and our culture in real peril.
We have fascist monotheistic Muslim leaders and communistic dictators standing up in the chambers of the United Nations deriding our way of life without any power to back up their claims other than that they supply our nation with oil to fuel our free way of life.
Further, the radical Muslim world uses the resources gained through the sale of oil to our country to declare war and attack it with out provocation.
Some call for a boycott of Citgo as a reaction to statements made by Hugo Chavez at the UN, and others claim that we should all go out and purchase hybrid technology or flex-fuel automobiles - Right Now! – to place a dent in the flow of monies to these fascist monotheistic Muslim enemy forces that want to spread their influence on our freedoms and growth in our way of life.
Here is a strategy we can implement - Right Now! – through legislation without much increase in the investment and additional impact to our existing infrastructure.
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15 percent ethanol fuel is best bet
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We often hear about beating high gas prices and breaking the bonds of Big Oil through increased production of E85 fuel, which is 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline. Greater use of ethanol certainly will decrease our national thirst for oil. Alternative fuels such as biodiesel and ethanol are important vehicles in our drive toward energy independence, and Michigan is helping lead the way.
This state is part of the growing national commitment to these renewable fuels. All of us should recognize their role in a stronger economy and cleaner environment. But rather than anoint E85 as the sole solution, we should cruise before we race.
In the short term, E15 is the best option because that 15-percent ethanol blend can be dispensed today from existing pumps and can safely power nearly every car.
Few service stations currently are able to sell E85, with just a dozen or so in our state and fewer than 1,000 nationwide. Moreover, automakers must make time-consuming, costly commitments to build flex-fuel vehicles.
Billions of dollars and many years are needed to convert retail fuel networks for E85, even with government subsidies. Adding that new product requires $60,000 to $100,000 in updated pumps and new storage tanks at each service station. Also, it will take many years to expand the nation's ethanol production to the point where E85 can be readily available. The E15 blend with 85-percent gasoline, by contrast, can flow now.
It's no coincidence that Michigan is at the center of this growth industry. With an ideal combination of agricultural resources, automotive technology and research expertise, our state provides a natural base for America's greater use of alternatives to fossil fuels made from petroleum. We are extending Michigan's tradition of auto industry innovations with 21st century fuel research and development. As a participant in Michigan's fuel industry for 30 years, I'm excited about the future. My company began blending biodiesel last year and is an investor in the Michigan Biodiesel LLC plant that begins production soon in Bangor.
State government is helping as well with recently passed legislation that decreases the tax on alternative fuels and gives economic incentives to encourage service stations and fuel plants to sell more renewable fuel.
Alternative fuels blended here plant the seeds for lasting environmental, economic and energy security benefits. By embracing fuels made from home-state corn and soybeans, lawmakers nourish our state in important ways. The mass expansion of renewable fuels production will benefit us in years to come as E85 and biodiesel become cornerstones of our energy strategy. But as we look toward the future, let's also take advantage of today's opportunity and offer incentives for the immediate use of E15 fuel.
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President Bush greets Pope Benedict XVI at airport. AP Photo.
We noted earlier that Pope Benedict XVI said he will address immigration issues during his visit to the United States. National Catholic Reporter columnist John Allen, author of "The Rise of Benedict XVI," has posted a "rush transcript" of the pope's remarks on his flight to Washington.
Here is the exchange on immigration:
Q: I'll ask the question in Italian, but we would love to have just a greeting in Spanish. With the enormous growth in the Hispanic presence, the Catholic church in the United States is becoming steadily more bilingual and bicultural. Yet there's also a growing "anti-immigrant" movement in America. Do you intend to invite the United States to welcome immigrants well, many of whom are Catholic?
Benedict XVI:Unfortunately I'm not ready to speak in Spanish, but I offer a greeting and blessing for all the Spanish-speakers! Certainly I'll talk about this subject. I recent had the ad limina visit from the bishops of Central America, also South America. I saw the scope of this problem, above all the grave problem of the separation of families. This is truly dangerous for the social, human and moral fabric of these countries.It seems to me that we have to distinguish between measures to be taken immediately, and longer-term solutions. The fundamental solution [would be] that there is no longer any need to immigrate, that there are sufficient opportunities for work and a sufficient social fabric that no one any longer feels the need to immigrate. We all have to work for this objective, that social development is sufficient so that citizens are able to contribute to their own future.On this point, I want to speak with the President, because above all the United States must help countries develop themselves. Doing so is in the interests of everyone, not just this country but the whole world, including the United States.In the short term, it's very important above all to help the families. This is the primary objective, to ensure that families are protected, not destroyed. Whatever can be done, must be done. Naturally, we have to do whatever's possible against economic insecurity, against all the forms of violence, so that they can have a worthy life.I'd like also to say that although there are many problems, so much suffering, there's also much hospitality [in America.] I know that the bishops' conference in America collaborates a great deal with the Latin American bishops' conference. Together they work to help priests, laity and so on. With so many painful things, it's also important not to forget much good and many positive actions.
Given the importance being ascribed to the Catholic vote in this year's elections, the pope could well influence the immigration debate if he publicly frames immigration as a moral issue involving family unity. American Catholics are divided on the issue, polls show, while the church advocates strongly for immigrants' rights.


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The Globalization of Martyrdom: Al Qaeda, Salafi Jihad, and the Diffusion of Suicide Attacks
Book, Johns Hopkins University Press
December 2008
Author: Assaf Moghadam, Former Associate, International Security Program (ISP)/Initiative on Religion in International Affairs (RIIA), 20092010; former Research Fellow, ISP/RIIA, 20072009; former Research Fellow, ISP, 20042006
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This groundbreaking volume examines the rise and spread of suicide attacks over the past decade. Sorting through 1,270 terror strikes between 1981 and 2007, Assaf Moghadam attributes their recent proliferation to the mutually related ascendance of al Qaeda and its guiding ideology, Salafi Jihad, an extreme interpretation of Islam that rejects national boundaries and seeks to create a global Muslim community. In exploring the roots of the extreme radicalization represented by Salafism, Moghadam finds many causes, including Western dominance in the Arab world, the physical diffusion of Salafi institutions and actors, and the element of opportunity created by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He uses individual examples from the Middle East, Southwest Asia, and Europe to show how the elite leaders of al Qaeda and affiliated groups and their foot soldiers interact with one another and how they garner support—and a growing number of converts and attackers—from the Muslim community. Based on over a decade of empirical research and a critical examination of existing thought on suicide attacks, Moghadam distinguishes the key characteristics separating globalized suicide strikes from the traditional, localized pattern that previously prevailed. This unflinching analysis provides new information about the relationship between ideology and suicide attacks and recommends policies focused on containing Salafi Jihadism.
Praise for The Globalization of Martyrdom:
"A rigorous and important examination of suicide attacks executed by Osama bin Laden and the movement he inspires. This timely book is a valuable contribution to an improved understanding of suicide attacks, terrorism, and Al Qaeda alike, and provides plausible policy recommendations to help stem the further spread of this tactic."—General (ret.) John P. Abizaid, former commander, United States Central Command
"One of the most thorough and important works available on this often misunderstood subject. Assaf Moghadam's authoritative study provides a welcome corrective to many of the canards and misperceptions that unfortunately comprise at least some of the conventional wisdom regarding suicide terrorism. The author's masterful treatment of this phenomenon's history and its contemporary growth and evolution, alongside his incisive analysis and perceptive policy recommendations, makes The Globalization of Martyrdom a welcome and seminal contribution to the field of terrorism studies."—Bruce Hoffman, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, author of Inside Terrorism
"This book is a 'must read' for all concerned with post-9/11 terrorism. Assaf Moghadam has broken new ground with this highly original analysis of the globalization of suicide attacks by al Qaeda and the Salafi Jihadist movement. Thoroughly researched and fully documented, the author brings to light the central role that ideology plays as an enabler in the escalation of this particularly insidious form of terrorism. This is clearly demonstrated in those insightful chapters discussing such complex concepts as takfir, tawhid, and istishhad. Moghadam's empirical analysis leaves no doubt that al Qaeda and the Salafi Jihad movement has over the last several years moved suicide terrorism to center stage in their global ideological fight with the West. This fine book concludes with thoughtful recommendations on ways to counter this challenge."—Richard H. Shultz, Jr., The Fletcher School, Tufts University
"This is an authoritative and updated study on suicide attacks that is better than any other research published in the field. Moghadam offers a clear conceptualization of a complicated phenomenon and a fascinating historical background of the various manifestations of suicide in political contexts."—Ami Pedahzur, University of Texas, Austin
"A tour de force by an important new contributor to terrorism studies. This learned corrective to the received wisdom on suicide attacks shows that military occupation alone fails to account for their proliferation. Moghadam's conclusion that the fight against suicide missions should involve counter-ideological strategies will greatly enhance international security."—Jessica E. Stern, Harvard Law School
Assaf Moghadam is an assistant professor and senior associate at the U.S. Military Academy's Combating Terrorism Center at West Point and a postdoctoral fellow at the International Security Program/Initiative on Religion in International Affairs at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He is the author of The Roots of Terrorism.
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Type of Camera Single-lens reflex digital camera
Effective Pixels 16.2 million
Image Sensor Nikon DX format (23.6 x 15.6 mm) CMOS sensor
Image Size (Pixels) 4,928 x 3,264 [L], 3,696 × 2,448 [M], 2,464 × 1,632 [S]; D-movie:1920 x 1080 / 24p, 1280 x 720 / 30fps, 1280 x 720 / 25fps, 1280 x 720 / 24fps, 640 x 424 / 24fps
Sensitivity ISO 100 to 6400 in steps of 1/3, 1/2, or 1 EV, plus HI-0.3, HI-0.5, HI-0.7, HI-1, HI-2 (ISO 25600)
File Format NEF (12 or 14-bit lossless compressed or compressed RAW), JPEG (Baseline-compliant); MOV movie (H.264/MPEG-4 AVC compression format with Linear PCM sound; Stero sound with external microphone)
Storage Media SD memory card (SDHC and SDXC compliant)
Shooting Modes 1) Single frame shooting [S] mode, 2) Continuous low shooting [CL] mode: 1-5 fps, 3) Continuous high shooting [CH] mode: 6 fps, 4) Quiet shutter-release[Q], 5) Self-timer mode, 6)Remote Control 7) Mirror-up mode
White Balance Auto (TTL white-balance with main image sensor and 2016-pixel RGB sensor), Incandescent, Fluorescent, Direct Sunlight, Flash, Cloudy, Shade, preset manua, choose color temperature
LCD Monitor 3.0", 921,000-dot, low-temperature polysilicon TFT LCD, allows up to 170-degree viewing angle, 100% frame coverage, and brightness adjustment
Playback Function 1) Full-frame, 2) Movie Playback, 3) Thumbnail (4/9/72, calendar) playback, 4) playback zoom, 5) Faces detected during zoom, 6)Slide show 7)Histogram display 8)Highlights, 9) Auto image rotation, 10) Image comment
Delete Function Single image, Selected images, images taken on a selected date, All images (except protected images)
Interface USB 2.0 (High-speed), Video output, HDMI output (Type C mini-pin connector),Accessory terminal, Stereo mini-pin audio input
Picture Angle (in 35mm [135] format equivalent) Approx. 1.5x lens focal length
Viewfinder Fixed eye-level pentaprism; built-in diopter adjustment (-3 to +1.0 m-¹)
Focusing Screen Type B BriteView Clear Matte Mark II screen with AF area brackets
Viewfinder Frame Coverage/Magnification (with 50mm lens at infinity; -1.0 m-1) Approx. 100%/ Approx. 0.94x
Autofocus TTL phase detection, 39 focus points (9 cross-sensors) by Nikon Multi-CAM 4800DX autofocus module; Detection range: -1 to +19 EV (ISO 100 at 20°C/68°F)
Focus Modes 1) Autofocus (AF): Single-servo AF (AF-S); Continuous servo AF (AF-C); Auto AF-S/AF-C selection (AF-A), predictive focus tracking activated automatically according to subject status 2) Manual focus (MF): Electronic rangefinder can be used
Exposure Metering System 1) 3D color matrix metering ? (type G and D lenses), color matrix metering II (other CPU lenses), 2) Center-weighted (weight of 75% given to 8-mm circle in center of frame), 3) Spot metering (meters 3.5-mm circle centered on selected focus point)
Exposure Metering Range (at normal temperature [68°F/20°C], ISO 100 equivalent, f/1.4 lens) 1) 0 to 20 EV (3D-Color Matrix or Center-weighted metering), 2) 2 to 20 EV (Spot metering)
Exposure Control 1) Digital Vari-Program (Auto, Auto [Flash Off], 2) Scene ( portrait; landscape; child; sports; close up; night portrait; night landscape; party/indoor; beach/snow; sunset; dusk/dawn; pet portrait; candlelight; blossom; autumn colors; food; silhouette; high key; low key); , 3) Programmed Auto [P], 4) Shutter-Priority Auto [S], 5) Aperture Priority Auto [A], 6) Manual [M], 7) U1 (user settings 1) ,8) U2 (user settings 2)
Auto Exposure Bracketing 2 to 3 exposures in increments of 0.3, 0.7, 1.0, 1.3, 1.7, or 2.0 steps to (+-) 2.0 EV
Shutter Electronically controlled vertical-travel focal plane shutter; 30 to 1/8000sec in steps of 1/3, 1/2 or 1 EV plus bulb time(with ML-L3) and X250
Sync Contact X-contact only; flash synchronization at up to 1/250 sec
Flash Control 1) TTL: i-TTL balanced fill-flash and standard i-TTL flash for digital SLR using 2,016-pixel RGB sensor are available with built-in flash and SB-900, SB-800,SB-700, SB-600, or SB-400, 2) Auto aperture: Available with SB-900 or SB-800 and CPU lens, 3) Non-TTL auto: Supported flash units include SB-900, SB-800, SB-28, SB-27, and SB-22S, 4) Distance-priority manual: Available with SB-900, SB-800 and SB-700
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Self-Timer Electronically controlled timer with duration of 2 s, 5 s, 10 s, 20 s; 1–9 exposures at intervals of 0.5, 1, 2, or 3 s
Depth of Field Preview Button Yes
Remote Control Via Wireless Remote Control ML-L3 (optional)
GPS via GP-1 GPS Unit (optional)
Supported Languages Total of 22 languages: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish
Power Requirements Rechargeable EN-EL15 Li-ion battery, EH-5a AC adapter (available separately; requires optional EP-5A power connector )
Battery Life (on a fully charged battery) Approx 1,050 shots
Tripod Socket 1/4 in. (ISO1222)
Dimensions Approx. 132 × 105 × 77 mm
Weight (without battery, memory card or body cap) Approx. 690g
Supplied Accessories (may differ by country or area) Rechargeable Li-ion battery EN-EL15, Quick charger MH-25, Rubber Eyecup DK-21, Camera strap AN-DC1, Body cap BF-1B, Eyepiece cap DK-5, Accessory shoe cover BS-1, USB Cable UC-E4, Video Cable EG-D2, View NX 2 CD
Other Features Expeed 2 Image Processing Engine, D-Movie (Full HD recording; external stereo microphone input; in-camera movie editing), Full-time servo AF (AF-F) movie recording, Dual card slots for SD memory cards
Lens Construction (Elements/Groups)
15/11 (1 ED glass element, 1 aspherical lens element)
Picture Angle with Nikon DX Format
76° - 15°20'
Minimum f/stop
Closest focusing distance
0.45m (through the entire focal range)
Maximum reproduction ratio
Filter Attachment Size
Lens Cap
Lens Hood
Lens Case
Dimensions (approx.) (from the camera's lens mounting flange)
76.0 x 89.0mm
Weight (approx.)
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Front lens cap LC-67, Rear lens cap LF-1, Bayonet hood HB-32, Flexible lens pouch CL-1018
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Take Us Out to the Ball Game
Have a ball with these fun games!
- Grades: PreK–K
- a gym ball that bounces well
Children will engage in fun, cooperative games that develop gross-motor and memory skills.
1. Invite everyone to form a circle on the playground so that you can explain the game rules. Start by showing children how the first person bounces the ball on the ground and says her own name, then bounces the ball a second time, says the name of another child, and throws or bounces the ball to that child. The child who catches the ball goes through the same steps, and the game proceeds until everyone has had a turn. The goal is to keep the ball moving around quickly.
2. Try playing this game in a different form. Ask everyone to sit in a circle. Explain that the first child taps his thighs with his hands, says his name, claps his hands, and says the name of another child. That child follows the same pattern, and so on. When children are comfortable with this version, encourage them to think up their own patterns to do. For instance, one child might tap his thighs, clap three times, and tap again before he says another name. If children forget, encourage the group to help out, or you can just start the game over.
3. Play another name game that encourages listening skills, coordination, and cooperation. Ask one child to stand in the middle of the circle with the ball, throw the ball up in the air, and say another child's name. The child named then runs into the center of the circle to try to catch the ball before it drops (or on one bounce), while the first child runs back to her place in the circle. The activity is repeated until everyone has had a turn.
Tip: Most children enjoy having adults participate in their activities. Your participation provides an opportunity to model the actions of the game, assist children who may be having difficulty, and increase children's enjoyment in the game as you share your enthusiasm.
Spin-off: If children enjoy the challenge of repeating and building on one another's patterns, suggest this variation: Ask everyone to stand in a circle, give the ball to one child, and encourage her to say her name and then create a pattern of motions incorporating the ball. For instance, she might say her name, bounce the ball twice, and throw the ball up in the air and catch it before she says someone else's name and passes the ball on. Again, ask children to add one new movement for each turn and to help one another remember the pattern.
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Children can learn about more outdoor activities as you read these fun books together.
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- Monster Math Picnic by Grace Maccarone
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