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Young BD, et al. (2012) Identification of methylated proteins in the yeast small ribosomal subunit: a role for SPOUT methyltransferases in protein arginine methylation. Biochemistry 51(25):5091-104
Abstract: We have characterized the posttranslational methylation of Rps2, Rps3, and Rps27a, three small ribosomal subunit proteins in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, using mass spectrometry and amino acid analysis. We found that Rps2 is substoichiometrically modified at arginine-10 by the Rmt1 methyltransferase. We demonstrated that Rps3 is stoichiometrically modified by ?-monomethylation at arginine-146 by mass spectrometric and site-directed mutagenic analyses. Substitution of alanine for arginine at position 146 is associated with slow cell growth, suggesting that the amino acid identity at this site may influence ribosomal function and/or biogenesis. Analysis of the three-dimensional structure of Rps3 in S. cerevisiae shows that arginine-146 makes contacts with the small subunit rRNA. Screening of deletion mutants encoding potential yeast methyltransferases revealed that the loss of the YOR021C gene results in the absence of methylation of Rps3. We demonstrated that recombinant Yor021c catalyzes ?-monomethylarginine formation when incubated with S-adenosylmethionine and hypomethylated ribosomes prepared from a YOR021C deletion strain. Interestingly, Yor021c belongs to the family of SPOUT methyltransferases that, to date, have only been shown to modify RNA substrates. Our findings suggest a wider role for SPOUT methyltransferases in nature. Finally, we have demonstrated the presence of a stoichiometrically methylated cysteine residue at position 39 of Rps27a in a zinc-cysteine cluster. The discovery of these three novel sites of protein modification within the small ribosomal subunit will now allow for an analysis of their functional roles in translation and possibly other cellular processes.
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Today (August 15), the State Board of Nursing made a modification to their July 26, 2012 ruling regarding SC State University’s nursing program, to allow all current juniors and seniors to move forward in the nursing program. The Board mandated that SC State will have one semester (Fall 2012) to provide remediation for those students who scored below the national average in pharmacology, and provide the opportunity for those students to re-take assessment tests (ATI) in other courses, and score no less than a Level 2. Failure to meet these requirements will result in removal from the program.
The State Board of Nursing commended interim president, Dr. Cynthia Warrick for her leadership and vision for the nursing program and SC State, and is entrusting full confidence in her to ensure that today’s (August 15, 2012) mandate is carried forth.
“Today is a great day at SC State University. I sincerely thank the Board of Nursing for their modification in the previous ruling relative to the SC State’s nursing program. Our students who attended the meeting were true ambassadors for the program, and conveyed to the Board that they were evermore committed to becoming nursing professionals. I will continue to lead this effort along with Mr. Stanley Harris, interim nursing program director, and I assure the Board that SC State will comply with the current mandate. Again, I thank the Board for their renewed confidence in SC State’s nursing program, said Dr. Cynthia Warrick, interim president.

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There is a significant risk of development of pigmentary changes during treatment with targeted anti-cancer therapies, according to a recent study. Therefore, appropriate counseling and management are critical to minimize psychosocial impairment and deterioration in quality of life. A comprehensive search was conducted to identify studies reporting targeted therapy–induced pigmentary changes. The incidence and relative risk were calculated and case reports and series were reviewed to understand clinical characteristics. A total of 8,052 patients from 36 clinical trials were included. Researchers found:
- The calculated overall incidences of targeted cancer therapy-induced all-grade pigmentary changes in the skin and hair were 17.7% and 21.5%, respectively.
- The relative risk of all-grade pigmentary changes of skin and hair were 93.7 and 20.1.
- Across 53 case reports/series (n=75 patients), epidermal growth factor receptor and breakpoint cluster region-abelson inhibitors were the most common offending agents.
Dai J, Belum VR, Wu S, Sibaud V, Lacouture ME. Pigmentary changes in patients treated with targeted anticancer agents: A systematic review and meta-analysis. [Published online ahead of print September 14, 2017]. J Am Acad Dermatol. doi:10.1016/j.jaad.2017.06.044.
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The debate about what role 5G will play in different sectors is on the table, so we asked ourselves: how will 5G technology improve education?
5G refers to the fifth generation of mobile telephony technologies. It is the successor to 4G, the technology that provides connectivity to most of the devices we use today. The main characteristic of the transition from 4G to 5G will be speed. But what effects will this have on the education sector?
- Remote classes and hybrid models: faster connectivity will make remote processes more efficient. This will have a special effect in rural areas where 4G technology is still slow.
- Virtual and augmented reality: so far, existing technology has allowed some programs and pilots with virtual and augmented reality projects. The new connectivity will have the necessary speed and for content designed with these technologies.
- Personalized learning: figures such as virtual assistants will be part of an environment increasingly focused on understanding the needs of each student and creating specific learning paths for them.
- Changing the role of the teacher: 5G will increase the integrations of the so-called internet of things. This can improve the daily experience in the centers and the way teachers operate, reducing administrative work and allowing them to focus more time on the students.
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I’ve always been a playlist person, but for the past few years, I’ve started making playlists for almost every season each year. They’re not necessarily always thematic - cozy, coffee shop vibes in fall and beach party vibes in summer - but just what I happen to be enjoying at the time, which kind of naturally ends up being a little thematic.
My Summer ‘19 playlist consists of a pretty mixed bag of music, but a few artists stand out as ones I’ve been really into lately. Funny enough, four of the five noteworthy artists I’m talking about below incorporate a lot of nature references into their music.
I’ve loved Aurora for years and was so excited when her new album came out last week. So excited that a couple songs genuinely almost made me cry, they’re that beautiful.
God, I love them! I’m very late to the BTS train, but after I saw them on SNL, I became totally hooked. They really have a song for every mood too.
Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, and Phoebe Bridgers are all incredible artists on their own, but together they’re a true super group. Their songs are so stunning, the kind you actually just want to sit down and listen to, not just have as background noise. But they’re also great to fall asleep to.
Maggie Rogers //
If you’re not in love with Maggie yet, I don’t know what to tell you!
I first heard her new album in the car driving through Amsterdam, which maybe makes it even more special than it already is. It’s such a hauntingly beautiful album with lots of beautiful nature references in songs like “Orange Trees” and “Handmade Heaven”.
I hope you’ll give this playlist a listen when you’re on your next long drive, spending the day at the beach, or just hanging out home making drinks and dancing in the kitchen. 😊

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Dolly Parton Biography (Wikipedia)
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Parton is the most honored female country performer of all time. Achieving 25 Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified Gold, Platinum, and Multi-Platinum awards, she has had 25 songs reach No. 1 on the Billboard country music charts, a record for a female artist (tied with Reba McEntire). She has 41 career top 10 country albums, a record for any artist, and she has 110 career charted singles over the past 40 years. All-inclusive sales of singles, albums, hits collections, and digital downloads during her career have topped 100 million worldwide. She has garnered nine Grammy Awards, two Academy Award nominations, ten Country Music Association Awards, seven Academy of Country Music Awards, three American Music Awards, and is one of only seven female artists to win the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year Award. Parton has received 47 Grammy nominations.
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Tim Schafer kicks off the E3 2012 Bonus Stage on Wednesday discussing his Kickstarter campaign
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This man is my favorite icon in the gaming industry. He generally cares about the games he make's.
The game is called Cave, I'm sorry but this is not an orginal/funny title. Plus stop wasting time talking to the fans on the forums, just make a good game.
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The Cave, must...play...NOW! Shut up and take my money!
Tim Schafer is one of my favorite people in game development. So many classics he's helped create.
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ESTER ARUNGA and husband, QUINCY, arrested for killing their 3 year old son
– The Australian Police have arrested former KTN radio queen, Ester Arunga and her husband, Quincy Timberlake, in connection with the death of their 3 year old son.
According to Australia’s Channel 7 news report, Arunga’s 3 year old son was playing with his two year old sibling when he fell down the stairs in their apartment.
However, Arunga and husband Quincy Timberlake thought that the injuries were not so serious and they gave the boy pain relieving drugs and had him sleep
However, when the condition worsened in the wee hours of the night, they called medics but the boy died while being attended to.
Australian police have since taken both parents for questioning (standard procedure) while awaiting a post-mortem report to be availed by Friday.
If Arunga and Quincy are found culpable of neglecting their dead son, they will face a life sentence in an Australian jail.


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A head-up or heads-up display (HUD) is a visual tool that limits eye movement. HUDs are mostly found in aircraft and other vehicles where a digital interface displaying information similar to the vehicle’s dashboard is projected through the windshield.
In aircraft, HUDs show airspeed, altitude, horizon lines, headings, and turn/bank and slip/skid indicators, to name a few. For vehicles like cars, the speed, engine revs, distance and time of travel remaining, and fuel are all shown in the HUD.
HUDs are created mainly for the driver’s safety. They are integrated with GPS to keep the driver both informed and focused. HUDs are common features in aircraft, but are not available yet in all vehicles, although some auto manufacturers like Chevrolet, BMW, Lexus, Mazda, and MINI have already installed HUDs in their newer models.
HUDs can also be found in video games. They are the in-game user interface which shows the player’s health, items, and progress level. They also have easy access control functions and prevent the player from being distracted in the actual game.
HUD elements are great designs to add in your project. From creating video games, adding a futuristic element in your videos, or just experimenting by creating a video which lets two persons interact using HUDs, the entertainment factor of HUDs never gets old. Adobe After Effect templates is the best software to use for motion graphics, specifically for adding HUD elements in your videos. Here are some After Effects HUD elements you can use for your next project.
Eclipse HUD Elements
This bundle contains 242 animated clips in high definition, is QuickTime (PNG, Alpha-Channel, 29.97fps) ready, with a 29.97 frame rate, and is fully compatible with After Effects, Premiere Pro, Edius, Final Cut, Vegas Pro, and Resolume. Colors are easily customized and you can also add glowing effects. The bundle also contains numerous clips such as lines, loading, dots, cubes, folders, frames, circles, chip, barcodes, glitch, and gestures.
Digital HUD Pack
This free digital HUD Pack is compatible with After Effects CS5 or above, has a 30 fps frame rate, and also has 20 ready-to-use sets with 36 base blocks, 12 title blocks, an earth map, and an editable grid. All compositions are resizable with modular elements and you also get the option to create your own sets. A demo project is also included in full high definition with PDF tutorials included. No plugins are required for this HUD pack.
Ultimate HUD Builder
This ultimate HUD builder collection features After Effects CS5 and above compatibility, 1100+ elements, 170+ complex elements, 13 presets, 900+ modular elements, 21 categories divided into two sub-categories (complex & modular), 10 glitch transitions, over 20 backgrounds and overlays, five lens textures, five color correction presets, cockpit models rendered in 3D renders, vector 2D elements, and full high-definition resolution. No plugins are required for this collection. PDF tutorials and chromatic aberrations are also included. IN+LOOP animation was used in this collection.
370+ Big Bundle
This large HUD bundle is for free and contains highly detailed and stylized futuristic primitive circles, around 20 HUD frames, basic circles and circle elements, basic panels and panel elements, frames, HUD targets and rulers, and 20 hi-tech polygons.
21 HUD & Infographics Elements
This collection consists of 21 videos of various high quality (1080p QuickTime format with Alpha Channel) shapes and styles. This must be used with After Effects CS5 and above, but no third-party plugins are required for this pack.
HUD Opener Collection
This collection has a 1080p resolution, 29.97 frame rate, 0:06/0:12 default duration, pre-rendered presets, and is also fully customizable. Logos, text, and color opacity and volume can also be easily added and adjusted. No plugins are required for this collection.
Sci-Fi HUD Sights
This Sci-Fi HUD Sights pack is for free and contains high-resolution images and videos, two states for each target, and have been well-layered for animations.
This pack contains 11 unique and easy customizable graphics. This pack is compatible with After Effects CS4, CS5, CS5.5, and CS6. No additional plugins are required for this pack.

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It is not only folk music that has a long tradition in Bavaria. Welll-known composers left their marks, as you can discover for example in Augsburg's Mozart House, in Bayreuth's museums dedicated to Wagner and Liszt, in Dießen's Carl-Orff-Museum or the Richard-Strauss-Institute in Garmisch-Patenkirchen.
Bavaria is home to many famous orchestras. The Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bamberg Symphonic Orchestra belong to the leading orchestras internationally. Based in Munich's national theater, the Bavarian State Orchestra performs in one of the world's top-rated opera houses. The Munich Symphonic Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Hofer Symphonic Orchestra, the Nuremberg Symphonic Orchestra, the Bad Reichenhall Symphonic Orchestra and the Castle Werneck Chamber Orchestra offer top-class programs.
A varied musical program is also offered in numerous castles and monasteries such as Nymphenburg, Dachau and Schleißheim, Ottobeuren, Benediktbeuren and Seeon. In addition, a range of international music festivals such as the Bach Week in Ansbach, the Mozart Festival in Würzburg, the Kissinger Summer Festival in Bad Kissingen, the European Weeks Festival in Passau, the International Organ Week in Nuremberg and the Richard-Strauss festival in Garmisch Patenkirchen take place during summer. Jazz, rock and pop music is performed at various musical events such as the International Jazz Week in Burghausen.
The Bavarian Music Council has more than one million members and is the umbrella organization for Bavaria's musical life. Particularly in rural areas, amateur music plays a major role. 600.000 citizens are members in one of 11.000 choirs, brass bands and other instrumental ensembles organized by the Bavarian musical association "Singen und Musizieren in Bayern" ("Singing and music-playing in Bavaria"). 135.000 children and youths are musically educated in one of 220 Bavarian singing and music schools. The latter have become the basis of Bavarian music culture since the foundation of the registered association of Bavarian singing and music schools in 1970.
The Bavarian State Opera in Munich is one of the most traditional Bavarian stages for international opera stars. It is home of the Bavarian State orchestra, one of the best opera orchestras worldwide.
The Munich Kammerspiele and the Bavarian State Drama Theater at the Residenztheater are two of Germany's top-rated language theaters.
Operas, operettes and musicals are played in Munich's State Theater at Gärtnerplatz. Up-and-coming artists are educated in the Bavarian Theater Academy at Prinzregententheater. The Munich theater scene is completed by popular theater, youth theater ("Schauburg") and a wealth of private theaters, free theaters, boulevard theaters, cabarets and experimental theater.
Theaters in Nuremberg, Augsburg, Regensburg, Würzburg and Coburg cover musical theater, drama and dance theater. City theaters in Bamberg, Erlangen, Fürth and Ingolstadt focus on drama. Theaters in Hof, Landshut, Passau, Straubing, Memmingen and Dinkelsbühl are regionally significant.
Various children's and youth theaters such as Nuremberg's "Pfütze" (literally "puddle") and Mummpitz, or puppet theaters like the world-famous Augsburger Puppenkiste address the younger audience.
In summer, Bavaria turns into a festival landscape: Wagner fans from all over the world visit the Bayreuth festivals. Drama fans love to visit the Luisenburg Festival in Wunsiedel and the Feuchtwangen Cloister Playhouse. A fairly new festival in Andechs is dedicated to the works of Carl Orff.
Dancing has also got a long tradition in Bavaria. Folk dances such as the "Schuhplattler" are known worldwide. Classical ballet is brought to perfection in the Bavarian State Ballet. Internationally renowned choreographers show the recent trends in contemporary dance at the European dance workshop ("Tanzwerkstatt Europa").


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Pale Pink Hair Flower - Many Flower Styles - Jamie Rae
The beautiful pale pink hair flower hair clip takes center stage in this gorgeous piece adding a feminine touch to even the most rugged pair of jeans. Beautiful for little girls, big girls and mommies too! Each Pale Pink Hair Flower Clip is attached to a double-pronged alligator clip, covered in satin ribbon. Velcro is used to prevent slipping.
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I wanted to take some time to outline our funding structure to make sure that we are being fully transparent in regard to project funding. Our General Fund is dedicated to our daily operation and includes funding for staff, benefits, supplies, professional services, and capital outlays. Believe it or not, the budget for this fund is still well below 2011 levels. So even though our funding for daily operations has not fully recovered, we were fortunate to secure separate funding for special projects. The way we spend each of our funds is governed by the purpose for which those taxes were levied. We welcome these limits, since it is only when tax dollars are used appropriately and transparently that the tax payer can have confidence in the institutions they support. Our large projects for this year were all made possible by special funding dedicated to those particular needs.
Our parking lot and lift station project was funded by a collaborative effort with the City of Greenwood and the Redevelopment Commission (RDC). They committed $310,000 to help us improve our facility and we hope you agree that it has!
Our Heating and Air Conditioning (HVAC) project, gutters, and flooring projects were funded by a $1,000,000 bond received at the end of 2014. We had hoped that this money would stretch far enough to do some extensive re-flooring, but our Heating and Air Conditioning project ran into significant complications that might limit some of the other projects we had hoped to do. However, all that we discovered with our HVAC affirmed the timing of this project. If we had not secured funding when we did, our cooling system would have completely ceased functioning and we would have had no way to pay the expense to replace it (and we sure can’t open the windows!).
The update of the lobby and teen space is a joint project between the library and the Friends of the Library. Much of the beautiful work in these areas would not be possible without the individuals, businesses, and corporations who believe in our work enough to donate and partner with us.
So while we are spending a lot of money this year, it is all funding that has been provided for specific purposes – not one large fund we spend without oversight. The securing of special funding for these building needs is nothing short of miraculous. Our list of building needs at the beginning of 2012 was 30 pages long and we had no idea how we’d ever afford to bring our beautiful building back to stability. By the end of this year or early 2016 we will have completed almost all of those projects. It is beyond our wildest dreams.
You are a partner in this work, whether through your tax dollars or through your donations to the Friends of the Greenwood Public Library. We take seriously our responsibility to take care of a community resource you have funded, and to keep it shining for years to come. We know the construction interruptions have been constant this year – thank you all so much for your patience through it all!

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The militants “Dzhabhat-EN-Nusra” claimed responsibility for the downed in Idlib su-25
Moscow. 3 Feb. INTERFAX.RU — the militant group “Hayat Tahrir al-sham”, are banned in Russia “Dzhabhat-EN-Nusra” claimed responsibility for the Syrian Idlib shot down a Russian su-25, reports the Washington Post, citing associated with terrorists news Agency Ebaa.
The edition, in particular, quoted the commander of the air defense fighters, Mahmoud Turkmani, who said that the Russian plane was shot down using MANPADS, allegedly during the bombardment of the city Sarakeb in Idlib. He called it revenge for his people.
Earlier on Saturday, the defense Ministry said that in the province of Idlib, in the area controlled by the terrorist group “Jabhat-EN-Nusra” militants shot down from MANPADS su-25 patrolling the area of de-escalation. The pilot ejected, but was killed in battle.
After that, Russian troops inflicted by area attack plane strike with precision weapons.

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The residents of an entire village were forced to take out a rally to the District Magistrate's Office, holding their dyfunct electricity meter boards. This is the story of how that incident came to be.
The Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) was a scheme launched by Government of India for village electrification and for providing electricity distribution infrastructure in the rural areas. It is currently subsumed in the Dheendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY ) scheme.
Three years ago, a 25KV transformer and meters were installed for almost 100 families in Rohtas district of Bihar, under the Rajiv Gandhi Rural electricity infrastructure and Household electrification scheme. But after 3-4 days, the transformer malfunctioned and caught fire. Once the transformer burnt, these families started getting electricity bills ranging from Rs,1000- Rs.2000. During the installation, they remember being told that the usage of one bulb is to be free and that they wouldn't be charged for it. But since they refused to pay these bills, the electricity department started threatening them saying FIR's(First Information Report) would be filed against any defaulters. That is when all the residents decided to take out a rally to the District Magistrates office, following which the District Magistrate announced that the bills will be written off.
Beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna in Purva village, Uttar Pradesh, live in half-built houses while facing corruption and threats.
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A delegation of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality of the European Parliament, led by the Committee Chair Ms Vilija Blinkevičiūtė (S&D, LT), successfully concluded its work in the 61st annual session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York. Participants included Agnieszka Kozłowska-Rajewicz, Anna Hedh, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Beatriz Becerra Basterrechea, Ángela Vallina, Monika Vana and Daniela Aiuto. Members attended the session from 20 to 23 March 2017.
The delegation met UN Secretary General Mr Antonio Guterres, as a first European Parliament delegation since his taking up his duties. In the meeting, they mutually agreed that more women are needed in positions of power.
Members met several other counterparts from different UN organisations, such as UN Women, UNICEF, UNDP and OHCHR. The content of the meetings was cooperation on international scene towards greater promotion and protection of the rights of women and gender equality.
“It is even more important to look for synergies in our efforts now, that we experience worldwide backlashes against previously agreed standards on gender equality ”, said the Chair Ms Vilija Blinkevičiūtė (S&D, LT).
As part of the programme of the CSW, European Parliament organised a side event with the title European Parliament as a partner in the economic empowerment of women, with high attendance of delegates from all around the world. In the side event, the Chair presented the priorities of the European Parliament for the 61st session, including a call for an ILO Convention to provide an international standard to address gender-based violence in the workplace. Ambassador Carmelo Inguanez, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Malta to the UN stressed the importance attached by the EU Presidency to the EU accession to the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention). Ms Kozlowska-Rajewicz outlined the challenges faced by women in the newly emerging sector of digitalised economy, where the representation of women, although they are highly educated, remains worryingly low. And because the gender digital gap is increasing very rapidly, a threat exists of women being excluded from the digital fast-growing world. Possible solutions would include focus on education of girls in ICT-related fields. Ms Anna Hedh presented the main points of her upcoming report on economic empowerment of women in private and public sector which will focus on recommendations for improved work-life -balance conditions, mechanisms to reach equal pay for equal value work such as wage mapping, gender quotas and gender equality plans, but also pointing out the important role of collective agreements and social partners.
The EP delegation held also bilateral meetings with other national delegations, which included a meeting with H.E. Meher Afroz MP, Honourable State Minister for Women and Children Affairs of Bangladesh.
Meetings with the Chair of the CSW Bureau Ambassador Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, EU negotiations team and EU Member States representatives provided Members with the possibility to further express their views on what are the priorities of the European Parliament for the outcome of the CSW negotiations.

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Leaders of rural public health systems often experience challenges with accessing quality data on certain communities or populations, making it difficult to track and address health disparities, according to a study published in JAMIA.
While data can give rural communities the power to identify health inequities and inform decision-making, stakeholders in these areas often don’t have the means to access and use this information.
“Populations in rural areas already have suffered disproportionately from a lot of negative health outcomes,” said Betty Bekemeier, director of the University of Washington (UW) School of Public Health’s Northwest Center for Public Health Practice and a professor in the UW School of Nursing.
“Then on top of that, they lack the data, capacity and infrastructure to understand and better address those problems.”
To uncover the reasons for rural communities’ lack of data, researchers launched the Solutions in Health Analytics for Rural Equity across the Northwest (SHARE-NW). This federally funded, five-year project aimed to advance public health efforts in Oregon, Alaska, Washington, and Idaho through a better understanding of data access and capacity.
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Researchers conducted phone interviews with public health officials from all four states. The team found that rural communities faced significant challenges related to data use and collection.
“In our study with rural public health system leaders, we identified barriers to using data, such as 1) lack of easy access to timely data, 2) data quality issues specific to rural and tribal communities, and 3) the inability for rural leaders to use those data,” researchers said.
“In some cases, data needed to track disparities did not exist. Participants described searching for but finding no data meeting their needs. Without relevant data, participants felt their jurisdictions and communities were systematically excluded and that it was not worth it to search for data. Participants also wanted, but lacked, sub-county-level data to more precisely understand needs in specific areas.”
In other cases, researchers noted, participants did find relevant data, but the information was often scattered across multiple sources, making it difficult to identify appropriate sources. Some participants said that accessible data was often in complicated formats.
Many leaders said they lacked access to real-time data, including information on opioid abuse and social determinants of health. Participants also described having limited staff expertise and resources to collect and analyze data within their own facilities, as well as among partner public health organizations.
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“Many staff did not have formal training regarding data collection and analysis, and there was insufficient funding for training or for hiring those with the necessary expertise. Because of limited staffing, immediate pressures took precedence over comprehensive monitoring of health issues and disparities,” researchers said.
These data challenges were especially prevalent in tribal areas due to variation across tribes, smaller populations, and historic injustices related to data.
“You may have a very seemingly homogenous population on the face of it,” said Bekemeier, who is also the study’s lead author. “But you have small population groups that are very disproportionately impacted by certain issues, and leaders in those communities may not be aware that these problems exist, let alone how deeply individuals are affected.”
To address these problems, researchers advised that rural public health organizations advance their health informatics capabilities.
“The field of health informatics has the potential (and obligation) to offer solutions to address rural public health challenges regarding accessing and using data to address inequities,” the team wrote.
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“Professional health informatics organizations, such as the American Medical Informatics Association and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, should openly support proposed policies to provide affordable internet access for rural communities insuring the infrastructure is there for rapid communication, data sharing, and data transfer to help rural public health leaders access data and larger samples.”
The team also suggested that public health leaders use data visualization tools to better display data and educate stakeholders to support decision-making.
“Data visualization tools could support rural public health leaders in displaying data and telling the story of inequities while educating policy makers desirous of ‘high-quality information but in bite-size and readily accessible forms,’” the group said.
SHARE-NW will also build a readily accessible database and related visualizations to help health officials more easily discuss the makeup of their communities, identify local needs, and advance data-supported decisions. SHARE-NW is focusing on obesity, diabetes, tobacco, mental health, violence and injury, and oral health.
“If you have data, you can talk about what the issues are that need to be prioritized,” Bekemeier explained. “Now, we’re focusing on the six priority areas that were common across their community health assessments.”


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Karnataka is one of the south-western Indian states where agrarian distress as a major problem. Crop yields have been stagnant in the last decade, and coupled with increased input costs, this has led to reduced incomes and debts. There is an urgent need to study options to improve the sustainability of farming systems in Karnataka. One adopted strategy to stabilize agriculture in the state is organic farming, which is less dependent on external inputs. In this paper, we assess the sustainability of conventional and organic farming practices using the model TechnoGIN. TechnoGIN calculates inputs and outputs of farming practices, allowing assessment of its impacts on economic and environmental indicators. Data on inputs and yields have been collected in two districts in 2009 from farms with conventional and organic cultivation at the same time. Additional data were collected from literature and experts. Next, the current situation was assessed and projections were made towards 2015 for two scenarios per village, using either conventional or organic practices.
Modeling results show that for the study site situated in a dry region, Chitradurga, profits with organic farming are higher than in conventional farming, except for rotations that include onion. Input costs are lower resulting in lower financial risks with organic farming. Nutrient balances in organic agriculture were however found to be negative for all crop rotations indicating imbalanced supply of nutrients. This suggests it may not be possible to sustain current yields in the long term with current nutrient applications.
In the second site situated in a transition zone with intensive cultivation of commercial crops, Mysore, yields and profits are similar in organic farming compared to those under conventional practice, except for commercial crops like cotton and coconut where the profits are lower. The debt risk in case of crop failure appears to be practically similar for both types of farming practices in Mysore. Nutrient balances are generally positive, indicating that NPK supplies are not the main yield limiting factor.
It is concluded that organic farming can be a sustainable farming practice in Karnataka depending on regional conditions and the crops cultivated. Policies stimulating organic farming should therefore consider the regional differences and farmer's preferences.
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Newswise -- As hospitals across the United States develop policies to prevent worker fatigue and ensure patient safety, a study at Ohio State University has identified key strategies that might make the job easier.
Culled from high-risk environments as diverse as a railroad dispatch center and the NASA Johnson Space Center, the strategies address the most critical time during any workday -- the shift change -- when incoming and outgoing workers have to exchange information and hand-off important duties.
Shift changes have became even more important for hospitals since the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education instituted new rules in July 2003 cutting back residents' workload to 80 hours per week and giving them one day off in seven.
Systems engineers at Ohio State are examining the situation, with the idea that a safe and efficient hospital can be run on a shift basis just like other businesses, said Emily Patterson, a visiting researcher at Ohio State's Institute for Ergonomics.
"When research showed that extreme fatigue was causing medical residents to make errors, one of the arguments against letting them work shorter hours was that patients may not get continuity of care," Patterson said. "But there are other high-risk industries that already have a shift mindset. They could have forced people to work longer hours for continuity's sake, but they didn't. We looked at those industries to see what they could teach health care."
She and her colleagues watched workers change shifts at NASA Johnson Space Center, two Canadian nuclear power plants, a railroad dispatch center in the United States, and an ambulance dispatch center in Toronto. Hundreds of hours of observation yielded common strategies for safety and efficiency, which the authors report in the current issue of the International Journal for Quality in Health Care.
Of the strategies they identified, Patterson highlighted four as especially important:
-- Face-to-face verbal update with interactive questioning. In all four industries, the outgoing employee met with his or her replacement before leaving. That allowed for quick verbal and non-verbal (gesturing) communication of the previous shift's events, and gave the incoming employee the opportunity to ask questions.
"That strategy may seem obvious, but healthcare workers don't often see their replacements, just because of the way the work has been designed," Patterson said. "Yet the attitude we encountered from these other industries was, `how else would you do an update?'"
-- Unambiguous transfer of responsibility. The person who is taking responsibility should know that they are responsible, but everybody else should know it, too. At the ambulance dispatch center, for instance, everybody knew that incoming dispatchers hadn't officially taken over until they plugged their headphones into the control desk. In fact, one dispatcher felt that it was "almost insulting" for an incoming person to plug in headphones before the outgoing person had officially transferred responsibility, because it was "a sign of taking over."
-- Make it clear to others at a glance which personnel are responsible for which duties at a particular time. In each industry studied, the outgoing person always maintained responsibility until the handoff of duties was complete, and he or she would stay to work through any crisis that emerged during the handoff.
-- Overhear others' updates. Employees besides the incoming and outgoing ones can benefit from hearing others discuss the current state of events. They can also speak up when they hear information that isn't correct, to help prevent errors during the next shift. At Johnson Space Center, for instance, all the employees overhear these exchanges on a continuous audio feed.
The last item highlights one of the potential benefits of shift changes, according to study co-author David Woods, a professor in the Institute for Ergonomics and co-director of the Cognitive Systems Engineering Lab at Ohio State.
"Changeovers can bring dividends," he said. "They offer opportunities to catch mistakes. If you handle them badly, however, things can fall through the cracks. You can have a discontinuity of care. But the problem isn't the changeover itself, it's just that you need new techniques to do the changeover better."
One dividend: the incoming employee often has a fresh perspective. "The outgoing person may have been working on a problem for a while, and they've fixated on only one possible solution. One way to break that fixation is to bring in a new person," Patterson said.
"So these strategies can do more than just make shift changes possible, they can also improve operations overall," she continued.
The researchers were surprised by two findings.
First, even though experts have suggested that incoming employees should read back information that was given to them to prevent misunderstandings, none of the businesses in the study followed this practice.
And second, rather than discuss a standard list of items during every changeover -- to make sure nothing was missed -- the employees preferred to pick and choose topics depending on what they deemed most important.
Technology may help hospitals adopt some of these strategies, Patterson said. Some medical residents now carry personal digital assistants (PDAs). Nurses could benefit from a similar system, with outgoing nurses passing PDAs with audio and text notes to incoming nurses. The PDA would then be a clear signal of who was on or off-duty -- fulfilling another one of the strategies for good shift changes.
The study was sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Patterson was supported by a VA Health Services Research and Development Merit Review Entry Program award. Other co-authors on the paper included Emilie Roth of Roth Cognitive Engineering in Boston, RenÃ©e Chow of the University of Toronto, and JosÃ© Orlando Gomes of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
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Yesterday evening RF President Vladimir Putin gave the first complete estimation of the Salt-Lake Olympics. Russian athletes, participants of the Olympic Games were invited to the president’s residence in Novo-Ogarevo. President of the RF State Sports Committee Pavel Rozhkov and head of Russia’s Olympic Committee Leonid Tyagachev were also present at the meeting. The official part of the meeting concluded over a cup of tea.
Vladimir Putin treats the Olympic scandals philosophically: these are “moments that are to inure.” The president is sure, Russian athletes did their best at the Olympics, no claims can be presented to them. “We have got six gold medals, it is a very good result against the background of the pressing we experienced at the Salt Lake Olympics,” said the president. Thus, the athletes’ actions at the Olympic Games were satisfactory, unlike attitude of the Russian sports officials, lawyers, doctors and psychologists to the problem. They demonstrated lack of professionalism. Moreover, sports officials were extremely inactive during the Salt Lake Olympics.
RTR Russian television informs, the president held private conversations with some athletes: first, with pair skaters Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, about whom the first scandal arose at the Olympics, then with Olga Koroleva, the girl who turned out to be a real discovery in acrobatic free style at the Olympic Games; then with skier Mikhail Ivanov, who was perfect in the 50km event (he finished second in the event).
Vladimir Putin had also a twosome conversation with the coach of the Olympic hockey team Vyacheslav Fetisov. In the president’s words, the Russian team performed very well in Salt Lake City, that was certainly the coach’s desert. Although, as the president mentioned, “everybody wanted to see the Russian team the winner.”
As for the disappointment with the Olympics’ results, the president pointed out that the expectations had been originally extremely great. He also says, it would be wrong to accuse only the sports officials Leonid Tyagachev, IOC vice-president Vitaly Smirnov and head of the State Sports Committee Pavel Rozhkov of the defeat. Putin’s position on unfair refereeing at the Olympics is very steadfast. When Leonid Tyagachev said, the Olympic referees were biased against Russian athletes and the Russian team was ill-treated, Putin’s answer was immediate: “To be the best and win honestly, that is also the main sports principle, we should win unconditionally! To complain is the last and the worst that can be done.”
Regarding the president’s statements, he understands the situation in Russia’s sports sphere adequately. In his words, “we should analyze the recent sports failures to guarantee success in the future.” Indeed, important conclusions are urgently to be done now. President Putin hopes, Russia will have a chance to recover at the next Olympic Games in Greece and Italy.
Sergey Yugov PRAVDA.Ru
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Read the original in Russian: http://www.pravda.ru/main/2002/03/06/37915.html
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Who Killed Conservative Ideologue Jonathon Kay...
...and replaced him with this bag of compassionate centrist mush? The column is factually correct, but Jeezuz talk about no fun anymore. Can someone get his momma to smack a spine into him? I dunno what happened to the guy. I figure he must have got a glimpse of The Reaper, and is now trying to get straight with Jesus. Or maybe the wheels of the law gradually ground him down. But his "new direction" doesn't do me any good at all. With Conservative media outlets firing people left right and center and him gone soft, I'm running out of people to yell at.
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Sports radio KILT 610 AM has announced its most significant lineup shuffle in at least four years Wednesday, moving nighttime host Paul Gallant to mornings and rehiring former host Fred Davis while parting ways with midday host Cody Stoots.
Gallant, who has worked the evening shift for KILT since 2014, will now work morning drive (6-10 a.m.) alongside incumbents Mike Meltser and Seth Payne.
Sean Pendergast, Rich Lord and Ted Johnson will continue to host from 2-6 p.m., and the Houston Texans hour will continue from 6 to 7 p.m. The station did not announce programming plans for the 7-10 p.m. time slot now hosted by Gallant.
The lineup changes are effective Tuesday, said Sarah Frazier, market manager for Entercom’s Houston radio stations.
“Part of remaining on top is continuing to evolve with the needs of the Houston audience,” Frazier said in a statement. “I'm excited about the energy that Paul will bring to mornings and Fred and Landry will bring to middays.”
|KILT 610 AM (5 Kw, DA2)|


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New data from Tariffs Hurt the Heartland shows tariffs are hurting the economies of swing states—such as Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida and Michigan. Trade wars between the U.S. and China, the EU and Mexico have thus far cost an estimated $4.9 billion in these states.
“States like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania – they are agriculture states, but they are also retail states and they have a lot of small businesses, and they also have major manufacturers,” said Matt McAlvanah, spokesman for Tariffs Hurt the Heartland, in an interview with Yahoo! Finance. “What we’ve seen is that those states are being hit hard and there isn’t any sector of their economy that has been spared.”
Farmers and businesses have been most impacted by the extra costs associated with the tariffs. U.S. soybean exports to China dropped 82% from August 2018 to March 2019 compared to the previous year due to China imposing a 25% tariff on U.S. goods. This was in response to Trump initially implementing tariffs on Chinese goods in 2018.
In August of this year the trade war was escalated even further when President Trump announced further tariffs on China. The Chinese government in turn announced it was increasing tariffs on U.S. goods; the U.S. President responded by increasing tariffs on products from China yet again.
Read the full account of these back and forth tariff announcements.
State by state data
Tariffs Hurt the Heartland breaks down the costs for each swing state currently being effected by the tariffs.
The tariffs have so far cost farmers, businesses and taxpayers $962 million; in July alone that cost was $117 million. Exports from the state have dropped 46% on a year-to-date basis.
A total of $1.1 billion has been paid to date by those in Ohio, with $121 million paid in July. The amount of goods exported from the state have decreased 20% year-to-date.
In July Michigan paid $129 million due to the tariffs, and so far a total of $1.4 billion. Exports have dropped 6.6% year-to-date.
Taxpayers in Wisconsin have paid $598 million to date, and $65 million in July. Exports from the state have decreased 20%.
McAlvanah said the impact is especially detrimental in a heavily agricultural state like Wisconsin which has had more foreclosures over the past year than any other state in the U.S. these have mostly been of dairy farms, a commodity also hit hard by the tariffs.
In July Pennsylvanians paid $84 million, and to date a total of $900 million. Goods exported from the state have declined 13%. McAlvanah said the state has a variety of products being hit by the tariffs.
As of July 2019, the tariffs have cost consumers and businesses across the United States $6.8 billion. This is a 62% increase from the previous year and the highest in U.S. history.
Read "Tariffs Cost American Businesses $6.8 Billion in July" to learn more.
Many continue to speak out against the tariffs and urge a solution that will benefit all involved. The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) recently joined a coalition of over 20 organizations who have been adversely affected by the tariffs. Its goal is to ensure clearer guidelines and greater Congressional oversight with respect to Presidential use of tariff authority.
Whether the trade tensions between the U.S. and other countries will impact the upcoming 2020 presidential election is yet to be seen. But with the negative effect it's having on swing states that got Trump elected in 2016, there is a probability of administration changes.


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As a young cadet, Dengler made a name for himself as both a social charmer and a skilled survivor. While going through the Navy's six-day survival, evasion, resistance and escape (SERE) course, he frustrated his superiors and twice escaped from the mock POW camp. His legend quickly spread.
All these skills served Dengler well in 1966, the year the scrappy, free-spirited vagabond found himself bound, beaten, malnourished and surrounded by enemy soldiers deep inside a Laotian jungle.
Dengler is the title character in "Hero Found: The Greatest P.O.W. Escape of the Vietnam War," the latest offering by Menlo Park resident and Stanford University professor Bruce Henderson. For Henderson, whose previous books covered naval, space and North Pole voyages, "Hero Found" hits close to home. A former Navy man, he served with Dengler on the aircraft carrier "Ranger" off the coast of North Vietnam and befriended him after both men concluded their Navy service.
The main story takes a while to launch. The famous escape that Henderson teases in the subtitle doesn't occur until the second half of the book. Before that, Henderson serves up heaps of details about Dengler's scrappy childhood in Calw, Germany, where he relied on his stealth and wits to get his next meal; his voyage to America; his frivolous youth in the Bay Area and his enlistment in the U.S. Navy.
Along the way, Henderson takes detours to give readers "Top Gun"-style scenes of pilots in training and describes in great detail the Navy's facilities, ships and planes, including the Ranger and the A-1 Skyraider, a powerful but slow-moving plane commonly referred to as the "Spad." His tone is invariably respectful and his descriptions occasionally border on wistful, as when he describes the giant Spad as having the "deep, throaty sound of a World War II plane."
"Being a holdover from another time and place was part of the plane's charm, contributing to tradition and nostalgia — not only for Dieter but for the other pilots who signed up to fly Spads and the crews who maintained them," Henderson writes.
But Henderson saves his most nostalgic descriptions for the men who flew these planes.
"A 'typically cocky Spad jockey' possessed an abundance of 'style and derring-do,' and became accustomed to landing at a new base, shutting down the roaring engine that drove a 14-foot propeller and smelled of burning oil, only to have gawkers who saw 'sleek jets every day and couldn't care less' come over and stare at the A-1 asking endless questions,'" Henderson wrote, citing Navy Magazine.
As a Navy insider, Henderson has no problem perpetuating the popular characterization of ace pilots as smooth daredevils who don't always play by the rules but whose intransigence should be forgiven because of the heroism inherent in their job description. He acknowledges in his introduction that his heroes have always been pilots and, throughout the book, interrupts his main narrative to describe episodes in which Navy pilots get killed on duty in the early days of the Vietnam War.
The crafty and confident Dengler perfectly embodies the Navy-pilot mystique. In the first half of the book, he is outwitting his superiors, juggling girlfriends and stealing gasoline and automobile parts from cars parked on the street. But when faced with extreme adversity in the second half of the book, he rises to the challenge and orchestrates an improbable escape from a Laotian POW camp.
The book, as the title suggests, ends well, though Dengler's gruesome plight is not for the squeamish. Surviving both inside and outside the prison camp proves a tall order even for the master escapist. After his Spad is shot down and he finds himself captured by the Communist group Pathet Lao (and later by North Vietnamese soldiers), Dengler endures forced marches and bouts of malaria, routine beatings and starvation. Once in enemy custody, he and his fellow prisoners (including two American soldiers and civilian pilots from Thailand and China) are forced to subsist on putrid meat, often covered in maggots. They pry a rat from the jaws of a snake, scrape undigested grasses from the intestines of a dead deer, and stash away what little rice they get from their captors.
Things don't get easier when Dengler and his exhausted camp mates flee the enemy camp. Wounded, starving and increasingly disheartened, he and a fellow fugitive roam the jungle of Laos, float on a makeshift raft and get lost and demoralized. Dengler rummages for food, battles jaundice, malaria and hepatitis and flees from hostile villagers who are armed with rifles and machetes. By the time he is rescued and brought back to the Ranger, he weighs 98 pounds and, according to doctors, one day away from death.
Henderson was one of hundreds of shipmates aboard Ranger who welcomed an emaciated Dengler with a roaring ovation. The emotion of that moment, in July 1966, has apparently stayed with Henderson, whose own uncle went missing more than two decades earlier as a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps. Henderson never questions his protagonist's status as a "hero" or judges any of Dengler's actions, before or after the capture. The young German's years of cheating, scheming, lying and carousing don't reflect any character flaws; they merely serve to prepare him for the terrifying journey ahead.
Not surprisingly then, "Hero Found" reads more like a tribute to Dengler and, more broadly, to Navy pilots, than a dispassionate account of his escape. Henderson channels his experience in the Navy and his admiration for pilots into a gripping and compassionate war story, one that displays in gory details the horrors of 20th-century warfare. When Dengler returns to the Ranger, he is welcomed as a hero both for surviving an impossible trek through the Laotian jungle and for bringing hope to a group of soldiers who are just coming to terms with the danger of their mission.
Dengler's survival emerged a bright light amid the darkness and confusion of the early Vietnam War — a fact that wasn't lost by the Navy's public-relations machine. Shortly after he returns, Dengler collects medals, earns a standing ovation from a group of U.S. Senators, and tours classrooms, military groups and civic clubs to talk about his journey.
For Henderson, the story can't be told often enough. After leaving the Navy, he became a journalist, reconnected with Dengler and wrote a newspaper story about Dengler's escape — a story that he expands in the new book. He acknowledges that Dengler was "but one lost pilot and hero found," but points out that "for his fellow fliers and shipmates, and for me personally, his story of unending optimism, innate courage, loyalty, and survival against overwhelming odds remains our best and brightest memory of our generation's war."
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Click above for a high-res gallery of the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport.
The wraps – and the roof – have come off the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport here in Monterey, finally answering a question few have asked and even fewer will sample.
As you'd expect, Bugatti hasn't just hacked the roof off the Veyron and gone to the pub. The windshield is slightly higher, the daytime running lights have been tweaked and then there's the showpiece: a removable, transparent polycarbonate roof, which blends the A-pillars into two painted carbon fiber strips that lead into the massive air intakes feeding the 1001 hp, quad-turbocharged, W16.
If you stow the roof at home for the world's fastest open-air, four-wheeled experience and the heavens decide to open, a folding roof stored in the luggage compartment can be – according to Bugatti – "opened like an umbrella." With the soft-top in place, speeds are limited to an incredibly low 130 km/h (81 mph), otherwise, the Grand Sport can hit 252 mph with the polycarbonate roof and 224 mph with the top removed.
Bugatti made several structural enhancements to ensure the Grand Sport shares the same chassis rigidity and safety standards as its fixed roof counterpart. The monocoque has been reinforced around the side skirts and transmission tunnel, the doors feature new longitudinal beams, and the air intakes have been redesigned to include ten-centimeter-wide carbon fiber elements to protect occupants in the event of rollover.
Only 150 examples will be made available, with the first 50 going to registered Bugatti customers. The first model will be auctioned off at the Gooding & Company auction tomorrow night, with all the profits over the 1.4 million euro ($2.05 million) sticker going to charity.
Hit the jump for the press release.
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Bugatti expands product range
New Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport to be unveiled on 16 August 2008 at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance
Molsheim/Pebble Beach, August 16, 2008 – The world's most significant celebration of the automobile takes place annually in Monterey, California. This year, it will see some of the most elegant, exclusive, and valuable vehicles ever produced in over 100 years of motoring, with Bugatti set to play a prominent role. On the evening prior to the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, the highlight of the event, the marque renowned for impeccable automotive solutions, aesthetics and driving dynamics will unveil a second model to the world – the new Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport with a unique removable roof.
In response to customer demand, significant modifications have been made to the vehicle's complex structure to make possible open-top driving, thereby adding a new dimension to this high-performance sports car. Incorporating a host of new and innovative safety and equipment features, it is the world's fastest and most exciting roadster. It is immediately recognizable as a result of its slightly higher windscreen, stylized daytime running lights, and lightweight, transparent polycarbonate roof.
The main challenge in developing the new Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport with removable roof resulted from the unique structure of the fixed-roof Bugatti Veyron. An optimum combination of rigidity and lightweight engineering ensures the monocoque passenger cell of the original model is extremely strong while weighing an absolute minimum – it is a central element of the vehicle's structure. As the roof is an integral part of this, removing it meant the load paths had to be completely redesigned to maintain the vehicle's rigidity and crash safety, and to offer additional protection from side impacts and rolling.
As a result, the monocoque structure has been reinforced around the side skirts and the transmission tunnel. The B-pillars have been cross-stiffened using a carbon fibre support, and a central carbon plate has been positioned beneath the transmission tunnel to ensure the vehicle suffers from less torsional flexing than any other roadster.
The doors of the new Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport are made of carbon fibre, and house an integrated longitudinal beam.
In the event of an accident, this transfers the load from the A to the B-pillar, thereby dissipating impact energy. Furthermore, the two redesigned air intakes for the 16-cylinder mid-engine now feature 10-centimetre wide carbon-fibre elements to offer protection should the car roll.
Along with moisture-resistant, backstitched leather, a range of new equipment features has been added to the interior, including a reversing camera with 2.7-inch monitor in the rear-view-mirror, and the "Puccini" sound system with digital signal processor. When the roof is closed, the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport can reach 407 km/h, while speeds of up to 360 km/h are possible with roof off. Should it rain, an innovative folding roof stored in the luggage compartment can be opened up like an umbrella at any time. When this
folding roof is in place, the car can travel at up to 130 km/h. Assembled by hand at the company's headquarters in Molsheim, Alsace, the Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport will be available from March 2009 at the price of 1.4 million euros (excluding tax). Just 150 examples will be made, with the first 50 of these going exclusively to registered Bugatti customers. The first vehicle is certain to be highly sought after, and Bugatti has taken the decision to donate this specific car to charity. It will be sold to the highest bidder at the Pebble Beach Auction presented by Gooding & Company.


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2013 was kind of a strange year. Professionally it wasn't the best. A fickle real estate market had me wondering what the heck was going on. But when I looked at last year's "Best of 2012" post and compared it to this one, I was amazed what progress my landscape photography has made. I've really come a long way in a short time.
For the most part, I stayed closer to home this year. There was no grand 1,400 mile trip through four states like last year. I was happy to really explore areas I had only touched on in previous years going back and getting higher quality images. It also seems to me I was able to capture the landscapes in more dramatic ways. I made better choices as to when and where to go. The extra thought and planning really paid off.
(I was thrilled to see this blog post was added to the "Best Photos of 2013 by JMG-Galleries Blog Readers." I'm number 149 on the list of over 320 other photographers.)
Salome Creek Crossing
It was a cold winter day with mixed rain and snow when I shot this off the A-Cross Road near Roosevelt Lake. Salome Creek is a gorgeous tributary to the lake.
Desert Snow and Stream
This impromptu stream was a result of melting snowfall in the desert near Four Peaks. Snow in the desert usually happens at least once a year in the foothills of the peaks east and north of Phoenix.
Alpenglow on Four Peaks
This image was taken about the same time as the one above. The setting sun's rays just kissed the tops of the saguaros as it lit up Four Peaks. Sublime.
Hillside above Bartlett Lake
The wildflower bloom around Bartlett Lake was very nice this year. I had a blast climbing up the hillsides around the lake and found these great rock formations in the middle of a big bloom. See more: Bartlett Wildflowers
This was only the second time I'd visited this gorgeous lake in Prescott. The granite rocks and cliffs that make up the topography here make it a pretty special place for photography. See more: Watson Lake
This canyon is second only in size to the Grand Canyon. Located south of Williams, I hadn't even heard of the place until shortly before I visited. It's at the end of a long forest service road with a breathtaking view and totally worth the effort to find.
See more: Sycamore Canyon
PanSTARRS Comet over Phoenix
The PanSTARRS comet was quite the event and a fun shoot. I wasn't sure if the city lights would make this a no-go, but it turned out just fine. The moon's tiny crescent added a much needed element to the shot.
Moonset and Sunrise over Marble Canyon
This was an epic shoot and one of my favorites of the year. Located south of the Vermillion Cliffs in northern Arizona, this is a spot I've never seen any other photos of. I timed it just right with the full moon. A great sunrise was a huge bonus and made the trip extremely memorable.
Moonset over Marble Canyon
This was the shot I went to Marble Canyon for. I tried to shoot the rising moon, but it was too windy and the shots suffered. A high ISO and fast shutter speed made the shots too noisy. Clouds moved in and shut me down until 4:30 a.m. when the moon fell below the clouds and lit up the canyon. I couldn't have been more happy!
See more: Marble Canyon Splendor
Gamma Delphinids Meteor Shower
The top of Humboldt Mountain provided the perfect vantage point for a rather disappointing display from the meteor shower. Still, the Milky Way was very cool and the FAA transponder tower added something other-worldly to this panorama.
See more: Gamma Delphinids
4th of July Fireworks
This was the second year in a row I shot the fireworks at Tempe Town Lake. A pedestrian bridge over the lake provided an interesting foreground element.
See more: 4th of July Fireworks
Star Light over the West Fork of Oak Creek
I made several visits to one of my favorite secret locations at Harding Point above the West Fork of Oak Creek. This night shot was a fun one. It was so dark out, I had no idea if my camera was doing its thing and I was getting the shot.
Even though the falls weren't spilling at full strength, the light and conditions were ideal. I even managed to catch a small rainbow in this 180-degree pano.
Little Colorado Reflections
Not far upstream from Grand Falls, the Little Colorado River runs slow and smooth before its wild ride over the falls. It's not hard to see why they call it the "Chocolate Falls" from the mocha-color of the river. See more: Grand Falls
East Clear Creek Reflections
A day trip to the Mogollon Rim yielded a bunch of great captures. I stumbled on this creek when I took a chance on a forest service road leading back to the rim after shooting Blue Ridge Reservoir.
Blue Ridge Reservoir
I made a special point to get a good image of this amazing lake. The serpentine course of the lake was very appealing, but hard to photograph. Only one spot along the road provided an opportunity to capture it.
The top of Four Peaks was my destination for the Supermoon in July. A long look back into the valley was on the opposite side of the road I was photographing from. I was hopping back and forth between this view and the rising Supermoon and loving every minute of it.
The Supermoon has become a yearly photographic excursion for me. My location on top Four Peaks was ideal. See more: 2012 Supermoon
The Grand Canyon's South Rim
It had been ages since I had been to the south rim. The weather was a welcome relief from the 115 degree temperatures I'd left behind in Phoenix. At one point, I even got cold. The monsoon conditions made the canyon a veritable paradise for my camera and I.
Desert View Stack
One more from a very memorable afternoon at the Grand Canyon. This panorama was taken at the Desert View vista on the east side of the canyon. See more: South Rim of the Grand Canyon
Apache Lake Hillside Morning Light
A quick overnight trip to the Apache Trail yielded several keepers. This is one of Arizona's most beautiful drives and yet again did not disappoint.
Apache Lake Starlight
I took this single image at camp on Apache Lake the first night of my overnighter. I light-painted the water with a small handheld flashlight. It was the perfect addition to an already beautiful scene.
Apache Lake Narrows
...from the second day of my trip along the Apache Trail. The lake narrows down as you get closer to Roosevelt Dam.
I'd been through this area a couple years before and wondered what it would be like when the creeks were flowing. Fry and Kelly Creeks come together here to form Pumphouse Wash. The monsoon had dumped rain in the area most of the day before. It was absolutely beautiful and I shot my brains out for two days here.
It was really hard to choose just a couple shots from this area. I just fell in love with the spot and the undulating Coconino sandstone rock the creeks flow through.
Pumphouse Wash God Light
Okay, just one more from Pumphouse Wash. I swear, I shot every conceivable angle. The light and conditions were just that great.
Kelly Pocket God Light
After having a blast shooting Pumphouse Creek the day before, I woke to some pretty special conditions. Just down the road from my campsite was a thick patch of fog from all the precipitation the day before. This is undoubtedly my favorite shot of the year. The fleeting nature of the conditions made it even more special.
Organ Pipe at the Chiricahua National Monument
I made a extra effort to get to the Chiricahua's in southern Arizona this year. It had been on my bucket list for a while. An ancient volcano deposited ash that has eroded through the millennia to produce the rock pinnacles you see today. It was another great trip and lots of good photography. I even saw a very shy bear!
Chiricahua Mountain Sunrise
After spending the afternoon at the monument, I camped on top Chircahua Mountain. This was the scene the next morning from my camp. It was a total surprise as I'd ventured up the mountain on a dark moonless night looking for a place to camp and had no idea where I was.
Beaver Creek Bend
It had been forever since I'd been to Montezuma Castle outside of Camp Verde in central Arizona. This vista of a big bend in Beaver Creek is just off the main highway and the road leading to the monument.
I didn't spend much time at the monument proper. It's a very small park and there are only so many vantage points to shoot from. So, I got my shot and left as I was much more interested in the surrounding area. This is one of Arizona's great treasures and a must see though. See more: Montezuma Castle
Horses in the Verde River
The area around Needle Rock on the Verde River is another place close to home. I was totally shocked to happen on this herd of horses grazing in the river near Camp Creek. Better to be lucky than good sometimes.
Spur Cross Eyelash Clouds
I made several trips to the Spur Cross Ranch Preserve at the end of the year. I kept hoping the fall colors would finally be peaking, but was more than happy when the clouds put on this amazing show. See more: Spur Cross Ranch Preserve
Fall on the Salt River at Bulldog Rock
This spot on the Salt River is one I'd photographed several years ago and wanted to return to. See it here: Salt River. A passing storm made the conditions ideal. When the sun popped out I gasped out loud it was so beautiful. Located just off the Bush Hwy, Water Users Park is the location where bus loads of happy inner-tubers put their butts in the water and float down the river on hot summer days.
Even though I struggled professionally, it was the best year yet for my landscape photography. Looking back is always a good way to put it all in perspective and get me excited about the possibilities of the year to come.
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