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Strange story doesn't add up: Woman charged after husband, baby found dead in Arkansas
A woman whose 10-month-old baby and husband were found dead last week in the Ouachita Mountains was charged with manslaughter Tuesday after new details emerged about the deaths of her family members.
Brooke Floyd, 21, surrendered herself to authorities Tuesday and was released from jail on the $50,000 bond she previously posted. She was also arrested last week on suspicion of hindering apprehension and endangering a minor.
New court documents released Tuesday state Brian and Brooke Floyd went missing July 25 after taking methamphetamine and fleeing with their 10-month-old son Harper to the Ouachita Mountains, where they thought someone was following them. The couple's truck broke down near Blue Mountain Lake, and the two believed they were being attacked by unknown assailants.
Brooke Floyd later conceded the attacks may have been fake, and the couple may have actually been attacking each other, according to court documents.
The woman left her husband and son in the woods to go find help. She was later found by U.S. Forest Service workers, court documents state.
Floyd, of Greenwood, was arrested shortly after authorities found her. They began searching for her then-missing husband and son and found them both dead in a rural area of Yell County on July 29, not far from Brian's Chevy pickup truck near Blue Mountain Lake, authorities said.
An autopsy report states Harper Floyd died from abandonment and exposure, while Brian Floyd's cause of death is undetermined pending a toxicology report, according to court documents.
Brooke Floyd
On July 25 at 2:08 p.m., deputies with the Yell County Sheriff's Department went to the Booneville Police Department regarding Brooke Floyd being found in a ditch in the Ouachita National Forest by a forest service employee, court documents state.
Brooke Floyd was covered in scratches from traveling in heavy brush for an extended period of time, according to court documents.
She also had "significant" bruising on her arms, legs and sides of her face. She was barefoot when she was found, court documents state.
Brooke Floyd told authorities that she and Brian Floyd left their house around 1 a.m. that morning with their 10-month-old son Harper after they became afraid of people around their home trying to harm them, according to court documents.
She said that after they left Greenwood, they were being followed by people who were trying to kill them and that those people were following them in different vehicles, court documents state.
Brooke Floyd told deputies that a red truck and white car were chasing her family. They went by Brooke Floyd's parent's home, but they decided to keep driving for fear of the people chasing them hurting Brooke Floyd's parents as well.
They kept going, and they ended up in a wooded area, but she could not describe where it was. Brooke Floyd was rambling and incoherent, and she was very difficult to follow in conversation, according to court documents.
Brooke Floyd said they drove up a dead-end road, and Brian Floyd told her that the truck broke down at the end of it. She said that when they got out of the vehicle, they were attacked by the people who had been chasing them, court documents state.
Harper Floyd
She said that attackers shot at them and that Brian shot back before he got hit. Brooke Floyd told deputies the attackers shot the entire family, and at one point, she feared Harper would die because he stopped breathing. Later she said he started breathing again. Then, she said people stabbed them with knives but later mentioned there weren't any knives and nobody was stabbed, according to court documents.
Brooke Floyd eventually decided to go for help. She told deputies she went instead of Brian because he was having trouble walking. She also said she didn't take the baby because Harper was okay with Brian Floyd, court documents state.
The court documents state, "She did not show any emotion and did not appear to be frantic or even openly concerned about the baby's well-being."
When asked where her husband was, she indicated he was at the police station with her. Deputies informed her that he was not, and she said she thought he got picked up, too, according to court documents.
Deputies asked her if she had taken any medication because she appeared to be hallucinating, and she said she had taken Clonazepam and "Speed." Deputies asked if "Speed" referred to Methamphetamine, and she said yes. She told deputies that she snorted meth a day before everything happened. She also said Brian Floyd had snorted it, too. Brian Floyd had been awake for three days prior to the incident, court documents state.
She couldn't provide specific details about the exact location of Brian Floyd and Harper, but she said she had been walking through the woods for a while, according to court documents.
Harper Floyd was only wearing a diaper when she left him with Brian Floyd, court documents state.
Search teams formed after Brooke Floyd was taken back to Danville to be further questioned, according to court documents.
On July 28, after search efforts still hadn't yielded any results, authorities spoke with Brooke Floyd again who admitted she and Brian were under the effects of meth, and she knew most of what she said was false. She said Brian Floyd was hallucinating too, and they would tell each other what they were both seeing, leading them to believe their experiences were real, court documents state.
She told authorities that before she left Brian Floyd and Harper Floyd, she spent a night with them. During the night, they continued to hallucinate, and at one point when they thought they were being attacked, they were really just fighting each other, according to court documents.
During the fight, Brian Floyd told her he was going to "put Harper out of his misery," because he was "breathing weird." She managed to talk her husband out of it, but the next morning, the baby was covered in scratches from their fight during the previous night, court documents state.
Brian Floyd's truck was later found that day, according to court documents.
On July 29, the body of Harper Floyd was found lying face-down near a forest service road. Brian Floyd was found lying on his back in a wooded area approximately 0.13 miles away from where Harper Floyd was found, court documents state.
Brooke Floyd has a court date scheduled for 9 a.m. on Aug. 7 at the Yell County Circuit Court in Danville. Until then, she remains free on bond, according to a news release from Yell County Sheriff Bill Gilkey.
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So I've been playing around with Toodledo for a little while now, and it is an amazing concept, but I feel it can be improved in many areas. First of all, I don't feel like the system (the way it is layed out) is very fluent for users. I think that being able to flow is a very important characteristic for many users, including myself.
On your 'To-Do List' page, I would like to see a text box (or input field) where you can simply type something out real quick and hit enter. I think that would work for a lot of tasks that won't go in much depth, such as Buy Jump Rope or something. You wouldn't need a due date and what not for that.
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Overall, I think Toodledo has a lot of potential but it needs to be a simplified process and become more fluid for the average user.
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*I understand this concept could easily be mimicked by the folder feature, but again, I must reiterate the importance of the ability to flow. It would be much more convenient to simply have subtasks.
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There is a subtask feature. Although it does not work exactly how you would imagine a subtask to work, it does the trick!
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There is a subtask feature. Although it does not work exactly how you would imagine a subtask to work, it does the trick!
Cool. so what about the other stuff?
Toodledo has about the best flow I have seen. You haven't tried it yet it seems or you would see this. The Add Task button at the top is where a "test box" quickly opens, and if you click on "Add Multiple Tasks" you can add as many as you like as fast as you can type.
Subtask already exists.
The UI changes you mention - the Toodledo interface has developed to what it is after many user requests and much thoughtful development. There IS a one line per task view as well as the expanded views. Actually there are so many views available, with the ability to add or remove fields as you wish.
If you spend a little time checking it out you may see that there is already most of what you seem to want there.
- Try the Toodledo Firefox add-on for quick task adding.
- Simplifying the Navigation menu on the left... I think that's been requested or considered, because I agree, it would be nice. (I don't use Sharing, Calendar, Files, or Booklet.)
- Subtasks can be mimicked by using the notes field, if you aren't quite ready to upgrade to the pro account, or want a little more flexibility in how subtasks are implemented. I make checkboxes like this:
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I do have a pro account and sometimes use actual subtasks as well for some things, but there's a lot of cases where I prefer to keep my progress notes simpler.
The overall layout takes some getting used to, for sure, but once you realize how powerful it is, it's hard to even consider going elsewhere. It can be as simple or as complicated as you make it out to be.
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Confiscation and asset recovery: Better tools to fight crime
What is the scale of the problem?
On a global level, according to United Nations estimates1, the total amount of criminal profits in 2009 was approximately USD 2.1 trillion, or 3.6 of global GDP in that year.
There are no general estimates of the size of criminal profits in the European Union, but in some of the Member States. For instance, in Italy organised annual crime revenues were an estimated € 150 billion in 2011. In the United Kingdom in 2006 organised criminal revenue was estimated at £15 billion.
The global drug trade alone generated USD 321 billion in 2005 according to the United Nations. Trafficking in human beings is globally worth USD 42.5 billion per year according to the Council of Europe. The global market in counterfeit goods was estimated at up to USD 250 billion per year by the OECD. Corruption in the EU is estimated to cost as much as 1 % of EU GDP per year. In Italy the annual costs of corruption were estimated at € 60 billion per year by the Court of Auditors.
The sums confiscated by Member States are modest in comparison. For example, in the United Kingdom in 2006 £125 million were recovered by the State. More recently, in 2009, confiscated assets for example amounted to € 185 million in France, £ 154 million in the United Kingdom, € 50 million in the Netherlands and € 281 million in Germany.
What is already being done at EU level?
The existing EU legal framework (consisting of Framework Decisions 2001/500/JHA, 2003/577/JHA, 2005/212/JHA, 2006/783/JHA and 2007/845/JHA) has proven to be inadequate, unevenly implemented and under-used. As shown in the implementation reports published by the Commission, the existing rules are applied differently and confiscation and asset recovery activities are hindered as a result of substantial differences between Member States' legislations.
The Commission highlighted those shortcomings in its 2008 Communication
'Proceeds of crime – Ensuring that crime does not pay'.
Why propose new EU legislation?
Confiscation is a strategic priority in the fight against organised crime and needs a European approach. Criminal activities are often transnational and the assets of criminal groups are increasingly invested outside their country.
Organised crime groups engage in an increasingly wide range of profitable illegal activities, and reinvest substantial profits in legal activities. This affects the functioning of the Internal Market by distorting competition with legitimate businesses and undermines trust in the economy, affecting investment and growth. It deprives public authorities of funds needed to provide public services, particularly needed in times of crisis and budgetary constraint.
Today's tools for freezing, managing and confiscating criminal assets are not effective enough.
The proposal responds to calls for action from the other EU institutions. In 2010 Council conclusions called on the Commission to consider strengthening the EU legal framework for combating organised crime. In October 2010, the European Parliament adopted a report on organised crime also calling for new legislation on confiscation as soon as possible.
What is the Commission proposing to do now?
Today's proposal for a Directive aims to set up a more comprehensive and coherent EU legal framework for the confiscation of profit (assets) from serious and organised criminality. It will simplify existing rules and fill gaps which have benefitted criminals until now. It will, in particular:
What will the impact of the new rules be?
The new rules would have significant impact on criminal behaviour. They would oblige criminals to change their practices and make it more difficult for them to hide their assets.
Extended confiscation powers are already provided for in the EU legislation. This proposal streamlines the existing regime, by providing for a single minimum standard. It will be a lot easier to apply extended confiscation and will make cross-border cooperation easier.
The application of non-conviction based confiscation, (freezing and confiscating assets irrespective of a prior conviction of the owner in a criminal court), even in limited cases, may have a substantial impact on organised crime. In Italy the application of non-conviction based confiscation provisions to a dead suspect's heirs allowed authorities, in 2010, to freeze, in a single case, assets estimated to be worth at least € 700 million. In this case, a businessman suspected of being the "fiduciary person" of an important organised crime group, died from unknown causes. He had been convicted of participation in a criminal organisation by a first instance criminal court, but an appeal was pending. The assets frozen included 136 apartments, 11 warehouses, 75 land estates, 8 shops, 2 villas, 51 garages, company shares and bank accounts, for a total value estimated between € 700 million and € 2 billion. In 2008 Italy had passed legislation which could prevent the heirs from a deceased defendant, whose assets have been frozen, from legally inheriting the assets and having them released. The businessman's relatives were not able to explain the legal origin of all these assets, nor the huge disproportion between their declared revenues and the frozen assets.
The provisions allowing third party confiscation, even in limited cases, will mitigate the effects of the increasingly widespread practice by suspects of transferring property to a knowing third party to avoid confiscation.
The use of precautionary freezing powers in urgent cases, prior to seeking a court order or pending its request, will prevent that assets disappear and ensure that they remain available for confiscation.
The rules on effective execution of confiscation orders will prevent convicted persons, who were successful in hiding the proceeds of their crimes throughout the entire duration of criminal proceedings, from enjoying their ill-gotten wealth with impunity once they are released from prison.
How does confiscation work in practice?
The proceeds of crimes generating huge income and liquidity are converted into assets ranging from cash held in bank accounts to real estate, vehicles, livestock, artworks, company shares, businesses, collector's items etc. State authorities should be able to quickly identify and trace such assets, freeze them and manage them properly once they have been frozen.
Confiscation and recovery of criminal assets are two stages of a legal process whereby criminal assets are recovered in favour of crime victims, deprived communities or the state. At the heart of this process lies the determination by a court that particular assets are criminal and, thereby, liable to confiscation.
The first stage in the asset recovery process is the tracing and identification of assets. This phase involves law enforcement investigations (usually under the coordination of a prosecutor) and requires substantial financial investigation skills. National Asset Recovery Offices (AROs) in the Member States play a key role in expediently providing information to other AROs on the assets located in their territory (see last Commission report on Asset Recovery Offices – IP/11/464).
Once criminal assets are located in one or more countries, judicial procedures are needed to first freeze them and later to confiscate them. Assets should be properly managed between the time when they are frozen and the time when a confiscation order is issued, so that their value is maintained. After a confiscation order has been issued by a court (usually when the person is convicted), its execution is carried out.
A typical example is operation "Shovel" (2010), conducted by the Spanish authorities in collaboration with the United Kingdom, Ireland and Belgium and with the assistance of Europol. The targeted criminal group led by Irish and UK criminals was involved in drug and weapons trafficking, money laundering, forgery of documents and murders. Over 700 police officers were deployed in many Member States on the day of the operation (more than 145 persons and 100 companies were raided/involved?). "Shovel" resulted in 38 arrests (24 in Spain including two lawyers who facilitated money laundering operations, 12 in the UK, 1 in Ireland and 1 in Bulgaria). 60 luxury properties in "Costa del Sol", 25 luxury cars and 180 bank accounts were also frozen.
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Leaving behind everything that matters to her, she heads off to her own personnal hell to protect the ones she loves... After being blackmailed by the Volturi to join them, Bella and her coven go to Italy, breaking many people's hearts. While the others mourn, they fight to escape their jail. And when the do, what will they find in the world they left behind? Banner by Iris!
Third installment of the Untruthful Series. I suggest you read the others first. All charecters except Becka, Aaron, Alex, KJ and Jasmine belong to Stephenie Meyers.
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Chapter 1
I took a deep breath. This was it. Today was going to be the worst day of my life, and I was letting it happen. I was saving his life and his families. I was also losing my heart and dying.
Becka had called the Volturi, and had gotten it all set up for today. We would stage out deaths to save the people we loved and cared about. We no longer had a choice.
I went downstairs to find Charlie waiting for me. I felt so bad for him. Out of everyone I was leaving today, he would be the one I never would see again. Ever since I told him about the engagement, I had felt horrible. The time with him was so short. At least he had taken in it well.
"Hey there kiddo," he said cheerfully, totally oblivious to the fact that he would never see me again.
"Hey Dad," I said, smiling at him. I had already brought down all of my bags for the fake trip to Denver I was going on. He helped me take them all to my truck.
"Well, I guess you should head out. Are you meeting Becka at the airport?" he asked, sounding just like a concerned father.
I nodded. "Edward's going to see me off there too," I said quietly, staring down at his mothers ring. It felt like it actually belonged there. It was so beautiful, and always sparkled, even if there wasn't any light.
"Well, I'm glad you're going out to spend some time with your friends before you're married," Charlie said.
I smiled at him. "Me too," I said emotionally.
He put an arm around my shoulders and walked me over to my trucks door. "Well, have fun Bells. Be careful," he warned.
I smiled and nodded. I was almost glad I wouldn't be here to see his reaction when he heard I was dead…
"Well, I better head out," I said quietly, opening the door. He gave me a brief hug, and watched me drive off with a content smile on his face. It broke my dead heart.
I drove to Port Angeles in silence. I didn't turn on the radio, or open the windows. I just wanted to be alone with my thoughts.
We had everything set. Becka and Aaron had gotten a private jet disguised as a small airplane to take us part of the way, and then got fake tickets for a normal flight to Denver. That way, no one would die except us.
"Hey there Bella," Emmett boomed, making several people jump at his loud voice. I grinned at him, making myself seem happy.
"Hey there Emmett," I called back at him. I could see him smiling in the shadows of the pillar by the entrance, surrounded by his family. While Rosalie, Jasper, Esme, Carlisle and Emmett all looked at ease and comfortable, Alice and Edward seemed tense. I prayed she didn't see something and not tell anyone except Edward.
I grabbed all my bags, only to have Edward quickly walk over and take them all. He flashed me a crooked grin that made the breath leave my lungs in a love sick sigh. He chuckled and led me inside, his family following us.
When he set my bags into the bag storage area, he turned to me and wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me against him as we waited for my flight. I saw Aaron, Alex and Becka in the corner. They were giving me time alone before I left, for which I was grateful.
"Are you sure you don't want me to come with you?" Edward asked for the millionth time since I told him last week. His voice hinted towards the worry and stress he was feeling. And it would only get worse. Guilt stabbed me, and I moved away from that thought.
"Edward, I told you already. This is something the four of us have wanted to do since we were really young. I don't think they want someone they don't know to come," I said.
"They could get to know me if they
tried," he said thoughtfully.
I laughed. "Edward, I don't think they would want my fiancé who I can't form rational thoughts around to come. It would freak them out."
He smiled. "Alex and Becka are a couple, are they not?" he pointed out.
I shrugged. "But they aren't as open about it. They're like best friends, except they hold hands and hug each other and stuff like that. I think I've seen them kiss once, and that was like those French greetings more. You know, a peck on each cheek."
He raised his eyes. "I suppose I could see the difference then," he said quietly, giving me a quick kiss on the tip of my nose. I giggled slightly, and noticed the quick glance Becka gave me. She pointed to the clock, and I understood.
It was time to go.
I stood slowly, and Edward reluctantly followed my lead. We both walked over to the gate, with his family.
"We'll miss you sis," Emmett said, giving me a tight hug. I laughed and hugged him back, pretending to gasp for breath. With a small laugh he set me down.
Rosalie and Jasper both smiled at me. "Well, hope you have fun in Denver," Rosalie said uncertainly. I knew she wasn't sure about me going.
"Yeah, be careful," Jasper said with an easy smile. I nodded.
"Have fun." Carlisle said as Esme gave me a quick hug.
"I will," I lied convincingly. If you count crashing a plane and then going to Italy to be a slave as fun…
They all backed away then, and Edward came over. He looked at me, his face pained. "Please promise me you'll be careful," he whispered, unleashing his scorching eyes on me.
"I promise," I whispered obediently.
"Don't go off somewhere alone, and please remember that you are engaged. No going off with strange men," he ordered, a hint of humor in his eyes.
I rolled my eyes. "Hey, I'm wearing the ring, right?" I asked, showing him my left hand where his ring was on. I promised myself I would never take it off.
He took my hand, and gently kissed my middle finger, right above the ring. "Yes you are, and I am grateful for that."
"I love you," I whispered, letting all my feelings loose in that small phrase that I had said to him so many times. It was always true, and would always be true.
"I love you too," he said, kissing me lightly, though with passion. He pulled back with a sad smile, and pushed me to the gate, where Becka was waiting. "Go, have fun, and please call me once or twice."
I smiled and nodded at him. Then I waved to his family as Becka led me off into the tunnel, and I couldn't see them anymore.
Our trip had begun.
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BMWs - Still The Ultimate Driving Machines?
As for the future, the next 1-Series will be FWD, which BMW has always resisted. Would you buy a FWD BMW?
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Is BMW trying to be Lexus?0
Since some have said that Lexus tried to be a better Buick, maybe BMW is trying to be the ultimate Buick.0
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1 Series: Yes. Probably harkens back to the 'good ol' days' of BMW more than anything in the current line up. If it goes FWD that is blashphemy.
3 Series: Yes. But it seems to get a little softer with each iteration.
5 Series: Outside of the M5, no.
6 Series: This was always meant to be a Grand Tourer so I think it executes that pretty well.
7 Series: No. Just a big luxury car at this point. Probably more driver oriented than say an LS but thats not too difficult.
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I've only owned one BMW, an E30, so I don't presume to have first hand knowledge of the new models you listed. However, your comments square with what I've read. Heck, reports suggest that even the Z4 sports car has gone soft, or, at least, softer. If this is true for the models mentioned, it calls the veracity of "The ultimate Driving Machine" tag line into question.
BMW used to differentiate itself with superior driving dynamics, but this appears to be significantly less true today. However, it still charges a premium price. I'm wondering whether the company will continue to be the leading world luxury brand in sales. If it does, it means that most premium car buyers are more interested in luxury and features than performance and an outstanding driving experience. I'm thinking that a lot of brands deliver premium features, luxury and comfort at a lesser price, and lower cost of ownership. What am I missing?0
Some say they lost "it" (as did Porsche) when they started building SUVs.
That argument kind of begs the question of what they heck they were thinking with their version of the Isetta then. :shades:0
They weren't the "ultimate driving machine" in the 50s.
7er is little more than a S/LS competitor now, that's true. 6er has remained true, still something mostly for women with large sunglasses, and trust funders. 5 has been softened bloated up and toned down since the E39 - an E class from Bavaria now. 3er offers debatable value unless in a sweetheart year end lease and the right options. 1er it is then, but we don't get the cool dorky 3 and 5 door models seen elsewhere.0
Remember the "Baroque Angel?"0
I'd give them a pass on SUVs and the Isettas. Insofar as SUVs are concerned, they're functional transportation modules, and I wouldn't expect those adorned with a propeller to be exceptionally fun to drive. I'd expect them to be competitive, which they probably are. As for the Isetta clones, well, that was a different time. Survival was a primary goal, and these cute runabouts served as place holders for what came next.
Although the porky BMW cruisers don't happen to appeal to me, I give the company lots of credit for offering what the marketplace wants. To me, though, they've forfeited the right to call themselves the ultimate driving machines. I mean, do they offer a more ultimate experience than, say, Ferrari. or, arguably, the Corvette?0
The only BMWs that currently interest me are 1ers, 3ers, and M cars. We currently have an F10 528i service loaner and I absolutely despise the steering- devoid of feel, it belongs in a Buick or Lexus. It's also quite porky. My 1975 2002 and 1995 Club Sport 3 Series are exponentially more fun to drive than the bloated 5er. As for SUVs, my wife's 2004 X3 does a remarkably good impression of a 3 Series, and by doing so makes it a more involving drive than most any other non-M or non-SRT SUV.
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Just what I expected to hear. It's a shame that they've dumb downed the 5.2015 Mazda 6 Grand Touring, 2014 Mazda 3 Sport Hatchback, 1999 Mazda Miata 2004 Toyota Camry LE, 1999.0
Good to know about the X3.0
Those probably were less than sporty...but at the same time, they were used as police cars, so maybe they are fast and pretty.
Speaking of police cars, not long ago there were many BMW police cars in the UK, which kind of put the final nail in the Germanification of British industry, along with Morgan using BMW engines. I guess BMW engines are still pretty nice, but some of the cars mated to them aren't what the brand once represented.0
dino001 Tampa, FLPosts: 5,474All cars get bigger, heavier and more bloated with each new generation. It is true across the board. It is mostly comfort features that require power and add weight. Also raging regulators requiring more and more stuff, from multiple airbags, to stability control systems, to tire pressure monitors. All those things are nice to have, but you need both space to fit them and engine power to carry them around.
It seems the only true ultimate driving machines left are Lotus and couple of other exotics, which often don't even have a radio. Their approach is not what you want, but what you can do without. The rest is just marketing to make us believe we are better drivers than we really are. I'm not buying Lotus either
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M's head of engineering, Albert Biermann, admitted this week that there were no plans to fit three pedals in the next-generation M6 and M5 because the order rate was too low to justify the added work."
BMW Official Says No Manual Transmission for Next M5 (Inside Line)0
Oh, well, I wasn't going to buy an M5 anyway.0
The E60 M5 was never supposed to have a manual, and if memory serves, BMW relented and retrofitted one after the buff books in the US pitched a hissy fit. Shockingly, they knew what they were doing to begin with, and the retrofitted manual was panned by the same buff books as being a mistake.
Very sad about the F10 5-series. I had gone to their website and configured one with similar options as my 540 as a "if I won the lottery" car, but it sounds like I'd do just as well to dream about a Lexus GS.0
"The online sales option is aimed at a generation of drivers used to making daily purchases over the Internet, and will be an extension of the car configuration that most automakers offer customers to view models with desired options such as interior colors, seat materials and roof styles."
BMW to sell luxury cars for less online (Detroit News)0
-It's true that BMW plans to introduce a FWD 1 Series. Like most of you I think it's a bad idea but according to my reading the cars we know as Oners will be renamed the Two-Series and will retain rear drive.
-I seriously doubt that any enthusiast ever bought a Bimmer actually thinking it was the "Ultimate Driving Machine." That's just one of those meaningless B.S. ad slogans like "Chevy runs deep" . Probably everyone has their own idea of what the ultimate driver would be.
-I own two BMWs from the very early '00s (an E39 and an E46 Cabrio) or, as I like to call it, the Pischetsreider/Reitzle Era, when driving characteristics seemingly had higher priorities. I have noted the increases in weight and complication of BMW cars but this has happened to nearly every make.
It so happens I've received an invite from BMWNA to test drive a new F30. It's ironic that my cars have a number of features lacking in the current designs, among them are: hydraulic steering, a spare tire, a temp gauge, an oil dipstick and tires that don't cost twice as much to replace.
The trade off would be increased safety and performance but I'm not sure it's worth what we're losing. In any case, if I have the opportunity I'll drive the wee out of the new one (I assume a 328i or 328xi) and give you my impressions.
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My wife just picked up a CPO 2009 328i. As I wrote in another thread:
My wife loves it; handling, power, ride, interior- everything. She has noted that the Crimson Red paint and "facelifted" styling has many of her friends think that it is much sportier than it actually is.
Me? I could see having one for a daily driver if it had a stick and the Sport Package. That said, the 17" wheels and summer performance Conti tires give it a decent amount of grip and it is a very pleasant car to drive. In any event, I certainly prefer it to the new 528i loaner we had a while back. I do wish it had Xenons, but I have a set of Philips X-Treme Power bulbs to upgrade the OEM bulbs- so we'll see if that improves the adequate stock lighting.
Comparing the E90 to my F10 528i loaner it was no contest; I much prefer the naturally aspirated inline six and the hydraulic steering assist. I also like the 3ers relatively compact dimensions and sub-3500 pound curb weight. The RFT Contis will be pitched for conventional tires as soon as they wear out. Aside from that, I only pine for a dipstick and an oil or water temperature gauge(the F30 does have an oil temperature gauge).
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(the F30 does have an oil temperature gauge).
A gauge for oil temp but not for water temp? That's very odd IMO. It seems to me a water temp gauge would give quicker warning of potential problems.
Having the water temp readout has saved me on more than one occasion over the years.
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While the the 3-Series and the (ugy) 1-Series are regarded as great drivers cars, the new 5ers and 7ers have been called cruisers. The Avalon (or the TL or M) are, arguably, also cruisers, but cost much less than the larger Bimmers. Are the 5 and 7 better cruisers than their Japanese counterparts? If so, are they worth the extra money?0
I haven't driven the current models of any of those, but I'm sure that even the current "numb" 5-series will feel more connected to the road than an Avalon--they're very different animals.
Having owned both an E90 3-series and (presently) an E39 5-series, the old E39 feels heavier and less precise, and although the steering doesn't inspire as much confidence, it seems to have a similar level of grip in the corners (both vehicles had/have the sport package).0
Thanks for your response. What seems to happen is that the difference in driving experience, from a driver's car perspective, diminishes between BMW and more ordinary counterparts as size and weight increase.
I wouldn't expect the Avalon to have the same level of grip as a 5-Series with sport package, but I haven't read a comparison test that suggests that the latest generation 5er has more grip than the SH-AWD equipped Acura TL or Infiniti M.0
Well, it's not just a question of grip. What I particularly like about BMWs is their ability to let the driver know exactly what is going on at the contact patches. My experience behind the wheel of the F10 5er(non-Sport 528i and 535i) reveals that this ability is severely muted in the latest iteration of the 5er. The primary offender is the numb power steering. Still, if forced to buy a big sedan(a choice I hope I never have to make) I'd probably give the nod to the F10, if only for the fact that it is RWD.
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Rumors of good leasing deals in the US have been floating around (partly to try to keep ahead of Mercedes sales numbers).
Luxury carmaker BMW starts to feel industry pain (Reuters)0
"2012 profit targets look secure, but next year looks questionable.
Europe, now officially in recession after a second quarter in a row of negative growth, will make it more difficult to make money. China and the U.S. will not be enough to keep overall profits improving.
Still, BMW, and upmarket compatriots like Mercedes and VW's Audi, are doing better than most of Europe's mass car manufacturers, which are losing huge amounts of money with no end in sight."
U.S., and China, will buttress BMW in 2012, while Europe sputters (Detroit News)0
"Brisk sales this year also come from a rebound in the luxury auto market as well-heeled buyers who were nervous about the economy pull the trigger on car purchases delayed for several years.
Adding to the frenzy is the heavy advertising and attractive year-end specials offered by BMW and Mercedes-Benz as they duke it out for bragging rights as the nation's top luxury brand."
Luxury car sales on track to have best month in years (LA Times)0
"Oh, just watch how skillfully I maneuver my ultimate driving machine!"
I'll make one or two silent (as not to offend the oversensitive) demographic guesses about the driver.
Here's another0
The following is Edmunds' summary of the 2015 5-Series...
"Review of the 2015 BMW 5 Series
The 2015 BMW 5 Series is a comfortable, technologically advanced midsize luxury sedan with a very appealing set of skills.
Safety | Reliability
Superb powertrains; impressive fuel economy in most forms; elegant interior packed with high-tech features; smooth, quiet ride; advanced safety features.
Ho-hum handling; relatively small trunk; intrusive auto stop-start system.
What's New for 2015
A sport steering wheel is now standard on all models, as are LED foglights. Minor changes in optional equipment include an enhanced Executive package (now with a leather dashboard) and the removal of the Modern Line package."
Should the ultimate driving machine feature ho-hum handling and an intrusive auto stop-start system? BMW has gone soft, yet sales continue to set new records. I don't get it. What gives? My impression is that BMWs may still be good cars and SUVs, maybe even excellent ones, but the tag line "The Ultimate Driving Machine" no longer applies. If I want ho-hum handling, I'll buy a Camry. Oh wait, Toyota has tightened up the handling on the 2015 Camry, so maybe it's not so ho-hum anymore.
For the past few years, each new generation has moved away from being drivers' cars, and closer to being mainstream luxury cruisers.
Do you agree that "The Ultimate Driving Machine" tag line is deceptive, when applied to most newer BMWs, or disagree?0


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The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), a key player in the international Human Genome Project (HGP) and part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced today the launch of an unprecedented pilot study to explore the feasibility of large-scale sequencing of human DNA. This initiative, which is budgeted at over $18 million in the first year and $60 million over three years, marks the transition to the third and most technologically challenging phase of the HGP - determining the sequence of the 3 billion subunits, or bases, of human DNA. This initiative will involve six U.S. research centers and is projected to produce the sequence of about 3 percent of human DNA in the first two years.
According to Dr. Francis Collins, NHGRI director, these studies will help to streamline and cut the cost of DNA sequencing. If the pilot study shows such large-scale sequencing can be done rapidly, accurately and cost-effectively, the HGP will be poised to scale up its efforts to sequence the entire human genome on time, by the year 2005, which is the project's dominant goal. "I'm extremely optimistic that in three years we'll be in a position to go after the complete human sequence in earnest," said Dr. Collins.
The six groups participating in the pilot projects will strive for an accuracy level approaching one error per 10,000 bases, or 99.99 percent accuracy, in all regions of the genome. But, according to NHGRI's assistant director for program coordination, Dr. Mark Guyer, "The pilot project will help us determine whether it will be necessary to strive for 99.99 percent accuracy when we scale up, and whether it can be done cost effectively with the sequencing strategies emerging during the next three years."
Given the value of this information in a host of research settings, especially for finding genes linked to disease, sequence data from the studies will be uploaded rapidly into the public computer databases GenBank and Genome Sequence DataBase, and to World Wide Web pages at the project sites.
NHGRI is encouraging the grantees to release preliminary DNA sequence information to the research community within a few days or weeks of its discovery. This is much faster than research information is usually released, but the tremendous value of this data for disease research justifies this aggressive policy. The "finished" sequence, with all data double- and triple-checked, is to be placed in public databases soon after that.
NHGRI is discouraging pilot project scientists from seeking patents on the raw genomic sequence. The scientists are free to apply for patents if they have done additional biological experiments that reveal convincing evidence for utility of the sequence - a standard criterion for patenting. Patent protection encourages companies to invest the large sums of money needed to develop diagnostic and therapeutic products. However, according to NHGRI, patent applications on large blocks of primary human genomic DNA sequence could have a chilling effect on the development of future inventions of useful products. This policy responds to recommendations made by several advisory groups that helped formulate the structure and goals of the HGP, and those made at a recent meeting of scientists planning for large-scale human DNA sequencing.
The immediate challenge for the pilot study is to refine strategies needed to determine the order of the 3 billion bases in the genome, analyze that information, and present it to the rest of the biomedical research community. The amount of information involved is huge by conventional standards: if you were to print out all the information in the human genome, letter by letter, it would fill a stack of books as tall as a 12-story building.
When the HGP was launched in 1990, experts set out a series of goals that were to be met. The first, construction of a human genetic linkage map, was completed in 1994, a year ahead of schedule. The genetic map is used to study how diseases are inherited in families, and the goal was completed when the map contained enough landmarks to be equal to one marker every mile along a road leading from New York to San Francisco.
The physical map will probably be complete next year, also a year ahead of schedule. The physical map is used for locating the genes that are involved in disease and normal human development. When it is done, the spacing of markers will be equivalent to having a milepost every tenth of a mile along the road from New York to San Francisco.
To prepare for DNA sequencing, NHGRI has been supporting research on developing instruments, computer programs and molecular biology methods. In particular, just within the past year, NHGRI has committed approximately $25 million in two special initiatives to develop specific technologies that will decrease the cost and increase the throughput of large-scale DNA sequencing.
Projects to sequence the DNA of a bacterium, yeast, a worm and a fly have also been supported. These projects are an opportunity for scientists to "practice" sequencing on genomes that are much smaller than that of the human, but bigger than anything that had been sequenced before. They also help scientists understand human DNA, because the "model organism" DNA contains information very similar to part of the information in the human genome.
The pilot projects begin with lessons learned in model organism and smaller scale, human DNA sequencing, but also emphasize the continued need for innovation and labor-saving strategies. Indeed, the pilot projects will test a number of approaches that could have a profound impact on large-scale sequencing not only for the HGP, but for the rest of science and industry.
These innovations include full automation using robotic arms and advanced biochemistry to purify and make ready tens of thousands of DNA samples per day; computer systems to track hundreds of thousands of samples through the laboratory and collect and analyze millions of "letters" of DNA sequence; software to automate decision-making processes; and strategies for converting available DNA maps, which are of high quality but only moderate detail, into a form that will feed identified DNA fragments into the sequencing process.
The principal investigators and information on individual projects, including the dollar amounts for the first year of the grants, is provided:
Mark D. Adams, Ph.D., The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, MD ($3.2 million):
The TIGR group has experience in managing the sequencing of large numbers of small human DNA fragments and large blocks of microbial genomic DNA. It will now apply this experience to sequencing human DNA on the short arm of chromosome 16. Technology development will focus on efficient creation and use of DNA "libraries" to make the transition from physical maps to DNA sequence. In addition, software will be developed for sample tracking and data management, and to automate the assembly of sequence data.
Richard A. Gibbs, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX ($1.3 million):
Human chromosome X contains some regions with a high density of genes and other regions with much lower gene density. This group will scale up from its current investigational level of sequencing on this chromosome, to learn more about the structure of these different regions. Dr. Gibbs's group is fine-tuning DNA purification and reaction chemistry methods, and developing a series of new fluorescence energy-transfer dyes with the potential to improve the accuracy of automated reading of DNA bases. They will test a novel strategy for reducing the number of sequencing reactions needed to complete a region of DNA to high accuracy.
Eric S. Lander, Ph.D., Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA ($4.1 million):
In the process of playing a major role in assembling the physical map of the human genome, this group built an extremely efficient, high-throughput automated mapping machine and software for automated data analysis. They also set a very high standard for rapid release of genome information to the research community. Lessons learned in this process form the foundation of their new effort to develop an exportable robotic system that will be operated by a relatively modest team of 25 people, and have the capacity to sequence human DNA rapidly, accurately and cost-effectively. The entire sequencing process, including sample preparation, sample tracking and computer analysis of the data, will be embodied in the automated system. This group, focusing at first on chromosomes 9 and 17, will also develop automation to convert the current physical map to the map required for sequencing.
Richard M. Myers, Ph.D., Stanford University, Stanford, CA ($2.5 million):
This group has extensive experience in large-scale physical map construction. They will test a "directed" strategy that requires more up-front mapping but less-complex subsequent computation to sequence regions of chromosomes 4 and 21. In collaboration with industrial partners, enzymes will be developed to improve the up-front mapping steps, and "DNA chips" will be tested for verifying the DNA sequence.
Maynard V. Olson, Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle, WA ($1 million):
This group has identified critical technologies for incorporation into the DNA sequencing production line. They will reduce to practice a high-resolution mapping method in the context of sequencing, in order to decrease the number of sequencing reactions needed to assemble highly accurate sequence, and to provide a skeleton of information against which to check their results. These methods will be applied to sequencing in regions of chromosome 7. This activity will occur in parallel with a complementary project to develop additional technology and sequence regions of other chromosomes, supported by the Department of Energy, Office of Health and Environmental Research.
Robert H. Waterston, M.D., Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis, MO. ($6.7 million):
The world's largest contribution to sequencing of a single genome has been made by this group, in collaboration with John Sulston's laboratory at the Sanger Centre in Cambridge, Great Britain. Together they have completed over 37 million bases of the nematode worm, C. elegans, genome. Rapid public release of data is their hallmark. Leveraging this experience in genomic DNA sequencing, Waterston's group will test management structures for large-scale genomic sequencing, focusing initially on regions of human chromosomes 22 and X. They will continue to collaborate with the Sanger Centre to identify bottlenecks in the sequencing process, and will use a combination of automated devices, improved methods and computer software to increase data production and decrease cost while maintaining high accuracy.


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Machesney Park village Illinois Cable Broadband & DSL broadband internet providers
There are 3 types of broadband Machesney Park village internet providers. Typically satellite internet providers have been limited in their speeds. Satellite based broadband with speeds from 1-3Mbp has been typical (New technology has increased this to a top speed of triple that). Satellite is now offering blazing fast internet in Machesney Park village of up to12mbps. The internet providers have evolved to keep up with the bandwidth demands from their Machesney Park village IL internet customers.
The main advantage of a satellite provider is the access it affords homeowners in areas where DSL or cable broadband is not available. There is a vast area in rural America that depends on satellite for their internet needs. The new technology that is just being offered will enable these rural IL homes to enjoy the speeds previously limited to city dwelling DSL and Cable Broadband subscribers. As technology marches on, who knows, maybe there will be a internet satellite on homes in denser populated areas similar to the satellite TV expansion we have seen in the last 10 years.
DSL Internet Providers in Machesney Park village IL
Machesney Park village IL phone based DSL broadband is typically the least expensive of all the broadband internet providers. Speeds range from 1.5Mbps to 6Mbps depending on the distance from the ISP. The price is right, however DSL has a somewhat limited service area. DSL broadband has to be within an 18,000ft radius of the internet service providers central office. Call for Machesney Park village IL DSL internet availability.
Many people are confused as to exactly what DSL is. DSL is delivered to your home via the good old telephone wire. Yes, the wires running around the neighborhood. These same wires that have been used primarily for phone service. Pretty amazing how the internet providers new technology allows a small copper wires bandwidth to be split between phone service and DSL high speed internet. Probably much to many peoples surprise, only a fraction of the bandwidth is actually used for the telephone. This leaves you're your local phone provider with a huge opportunity to provide you with high speed internet.
DSL is an affordable answer for many home owners who are looking for an internet connection to their home. One draw back to DSL service is that it does require a telephone line service provider. In other words to Have DSL you need a Land-line Phone provider. But don't despair, the phone service internet providers realize many people today only have cell phones and do not need a landline service too. So within the last couple of years the internet providers have begun offering DSL without landline Phone service. The DSL internet providers call this a DRY LOOP. At first this option was a little pricey but as the competition among the Machesney Park village internet service providers has heated up recently, the prices have dropped. DSL can be a pretty neat alternative to Cable, as the price for internet service can be a little cheaper. If you do not have cable service at your home or use the internet where speeds of 1.5-6mbps are sufficient, then you can save a couple bucks and the internet service will be just fine.
Internet Providers in Machesney Park village by Cable
Machesney Park village cable internet service providers are in the middle as far as price range. Cable internet providers supply a vast part of our country with broadband internet. Cable usually is supplied to your home on a coaxial RG6 cable line from a nearby telephone pole. The readily available access to this form of broadband delivery gives your Machesney Park village cable company a huge advantage in the cable service provider's world.
Machesney Park village IL Internet Providers Speeds
Cable also boasts speeds as fast as 105 mbps. Although a bit pricey at these speeds, this wins cable, the holy cow that's really fast award. Typical Illinois cable internet providers speeds subscribed to by the average homeowner are in the 6-20mbps. This is a great and affordable option for Machesney Park village IL Internet to enjoy uploading and downloading large files and streaming a video with little or no buffering. Cable broadband internet providers have filled a new nitch in the market of IL. HD video streaming. A couple of years ago no one could have imagined the advances we have seen. What wonders will the cable internet providers achieve in the next couple of years. The internet and the data delivered to your home in Machesney Park village by your cable internet providers is truly amazing.
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What a world we live in today. Sounds like something out of a SIFI book. Machesney Park village is streaming video to their HD LCD TVs with 5.1 surround. You've arrived home and video conferenced with some clients in Hong Kong. Grabbed a cold beverage and downloaded a couple of HD movies to watch later. Your buddy calls your Machesney Park village home, and you answer on your VOIP sip phone. The wife is surfing the web to shop for a new laptop. Your smartphone rings and your off to the golf course. Perfect time to pull up that new GPS golf app on your smartphone. The internet and technology sure have changed things in a very short time. One thing you can count on, your internet providers in Machesney Park village Illinois will be evolving with us.
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Ramada Encore Doncaster3
First Avenue Auckley, Doncaster, DN9 3GP
Price FromView Rooms
- Very Good
- 287 guest reviews
"Servicable. Unpleasant shower area. Reception staff efficient & business-like. Not especially good for tourists, more for the business peopl..."
"Stayed one night as my 7 year old and I were flying to Lapland the following morning. Staff professional and friendly. Hotel room clean with..."
"On arrival reception and corridors warm and welcoming. Entered room and it was absolutely freezing. Reported it but got some smart arse answ..."
"We arrived early as we had travelled 200 miles to attend a funeral. The young lady on reception was amazing. She was professional and courte..."
"Ok stay room was nice and clean as well as being helpful Food wasn't great, breakfast which was supposed to be a buffet but cooked to order..."
About the hotel
Contemporary and stylish, this hotel is within walking distance of Doncaster Airport and has all the facilities needed for a great nights sleep and a relaxing break. Ramada Encore bedrooms are bright, spacious and have air conditioning, modern bathrooms with invigorating power showers, flat screen colour TV with radio, direct dial telephones and offer desk space with highspeed internet access. Our Hub restaurant and bar offers the perfect place to unwind and meet with friends or family.
Serving a wide range of wines, beers and spirits along with a choice of modern European dishes, the HUB is relaxed and informal with free Wi-Fi in rooms, conference rooms and guest lobby.
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- Hotel Non-Smoking Throughout, Disabled Facilities, Air conditioning in rooms, 24 Hour Reception, Cots available, Tea/Coffee making facilities in each room, Hairdryer in each room, Telephone In Each Room, 24 Hour Room Service, Limited room service for hot food, Laundry/Valet Service, Wake Up Call Available, Interconnecting rooms available, Ground floor bedrooms, Lift to all floors, Public Air Conditioning
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- Car parking available onsite
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- Wi-Fi Available, Meeting Facilities, In-room Broadband, In-room Modem Hook up, Wi-Fi Available In Public Areas, Business Centre, Private dining services
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- Restaurant, Lounge Menu, Bar, Breakfast to go
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- TV, Satellite TV, Radio
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- Disabled Access Public Areas, Disabled Access Bedrooms, Disabled toilets on ground floor, Wheelchair Access, Wheelchair Access To Reception, Wheelchair Access To Restaurant, Wheelchair Access To Bar, Wheelchair Access To Conference Rooms, Wheelchair Access To Disabled Car Parking Spaces
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- [Channels] News, [Channels] Sky Sports, [Channels] Movies (Pay Per View)
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It was the group selfie so big that it broke Twitter, and Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres snapped it with what apparently was a Samsung Galaxy Note smartphone.
If only Bradley's arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars pic.twitter.com/C9U5NOtGap
— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) March 3, 2014
It was about as impressive a product placement as you could get. Samsung was a big sponsor of Sunday night's Academy Awards ceremony on ABC, with ads for its TVs, smartphones and Galaxy Gear smartwatches running throughout the show.
However, as Danny Sullivan notes at the Marketingland blog, Samsung's chief rival Apple was a party crasher. That's because, while DeGeneres was snapping selfies onstage and in the star-studded audience with a Samsung device, backstage she was using an iPhone to tweet photos.
You wouldn't know this if you were just looking at Twitter via its Web page. But if you use a third-party client – such as Tweetdeck or Echofon – you can see what app was used to post her tweets. For example, here's the feed from @TheEllenShow in Echofon, showing the blend of Android and iPhone posts.
Sullivan counts five Samsung posts, four from the iPhone and one from Adobe Social, a tool from Adobe used to post in corporate settings. That one likely came from one of DeGeneres' staff. Many of her previous tweets are sent via that platform.
Apple also butted in with at least one iPad Air commercial during the Oscars, which stuck out among all the Samsung ads.
Also noted by Sullivan: Big Mamas & Papa's Pizza, the pizzeria Degeneres called upon to feed the hungry celebs in an awesome prank, took delight in tweeting out photos of movie stars grabbing slices of its pies. Here's Harrison Ford, apparently intimidated by what appears to be a supreme or maybe all-veggie pizza:
#Oscars #BMPP, Thank you @TheEllenShow! pic.twitter.com/ljSSLZBz6a — Big Mama's & Papa's (@BigMamasNPapas) March 3, 2014


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Reposted Aug. 18, 2011
LEWISBURG, Pa. — The green printing movement is having a big impact on college printing operations across the country. We ask Lisa Hoover, director of Publications, Print and Mail at Bucknell University, to tell us about these changes and how they're making a difference. || Ask the Experts archive
Q: First, what is green printing?
A: Green printing is anything you can do to lessen the impact on the environment - whether that's a choice of paper, printing fewer of copies of something, recycling what we have printed already, utilizing chemistry-free systems, working with FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) or SFI (Sustainable Forestry Initiative) certification processes, or reducing overall energy consumption.
Take stationery, for example. All of Bucknell's stationery items — everything from letterhead and envelopes to business cards — are made from paper that is made from 100 percent post-consumer waste. That paper is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council and is Green-e certified, which means it's made with 100 percent renewable energy. It's a really high-quality sheet, too.
Some people think recycled paper may not be as good, but many people find it difficult to tell the difference at this point. So, when we're looking at papers for other projects and print pieces, we also look at all these types of things — whether it's chlorine-free, how much of it is recycled content and its certification.
Q: What is the impact of these changes?
A: Over the course of one year, using 100 percent recycled Bucknell stationery has saved a total of 85 trees or 26,732 pounds of wood. Those 85 trees supply enough oxygen for 43 people annually. In addition, we saved 39,037 gallons of water, enough water to take 2,270 eight-minute showers; 8,105 pounds of emissions, carbon sequestered by 94 tree seedlings grown for 10 years; and 27,370 pounds of solid waste, equal to the amount of trash thrown away by 515 people in a single day.
Bucknell updated its digital production printing equipment this past summer. That's part of the green printing revolution, too, because it's printing on demand. We are migrating away from printing large quantities and warehousing them. Many times, data would change and then those documents would become outdated and need to be recycled. We're moving toward printing only what we need for the moment and, if there's a change, reprints can happen pretty quickly.
Q: Publications, Print and Mail has some other new systems on campus. Can you give a couple thumbnail sketches in how they contribute to the green equation?
A: Our new digital printing equipment uses a new kind of toner - an EA, or emulsion aggregation toner. EA toner is grown in labs in very small particles, much smaller than traditional toner. Because the particles are much smaller, it uses about 40 percent less toner on a page. The melting point is much lower, which means it doesn't require as much energy to fuse it on the paper. And, as an added bonus, it's an oil-free fusing process, which means better quality and less waste.
In 2008, we upgraded our offset plate-making equipment to be completely chemistry-free. Prior to that, we were using developing chemicals that had to be stored in hazardous waste containers and disposed of by safety services. Now, it's a completely water-based process.
We're also using vegetable-based inks on our printing presses. They're eco-friendly compared to the petroleum-based inks. Everyone seems to have heard about soy inks. Ours are not specifically soy-based, but they are vegetable-based, which is equally environmentally friendly.
And, as far as our copiers go, a few years ago we moved to a 30 percent recycled sheet for all the copiers and printers on campus. We stock 100-percent recycled copier paper for departments that want it.
Q: It seems like the smallest products can make a green difference.
A: Take the University calendar, for example. By using paper manufactured with 10 percent post-consumer recycled content, a print run of 20,000 saved eight fully grown trees, nearly 3,600 gallons of water and 2 million BTUs of energy. That project reduced greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 750 pounds.
That may not sound like much, but those small changes over many projects add up to real benefits.
Another example of our sustainability efforts includes Bucknell Magazine. Beginning in summer 2011, Bucknell Magazine is printed on paper that is FSC- and SFI-certified and contains 10 percent post-consumer recycled content. It was our goal to find a paper for the magazine that was environmentally and economically responsible, and we are pleased to report that we have been able to accomplish that goal this year.
Q: What about industry trends?
A: The big trend really started with the paper mills. They were a forerunner in sustainability in that they became accountable to ensure that the pulp they were using came from managed forests. FSC, the independent, nongovernmental, not-for-profit organization that was established in 1993, promotes responsible management of the world's forests and a lot of the paper now carries that certification. That means they are guaranteeing that the pulp they're making the paper from was made from trees that were specifically farmed to make paper and other wood products. There are several paper and wood product certification organizations throughout the world.
To follow that through, print vendors now receive certification to ensure that they guarantee a chain of custody of where that paper and pulp product came from and verify it has not been co-mingled with any other paper. Our print vendors know that we take this seriously. All of our primary print vendors are FSC-certified, and many hold multiple certifications.
Q: Does the green process point to a time when hard copy print disappears?
A: I don't think it will disappear completely. Obviously, if there are others way to communicate — through e-mail or the web, for example — that's been happening. Naturally, print volume has been declining over the past few years. But I think there is always going to be a place for print communication. I think we're going to be smarter in how we produce them — printing on demand instead of stockpiling printed materials and being smart about the papers, inks and processes we use to produce those print pieces.
In the future, the key is going to be tying it all together — the print side and the electronic side. The buzz right now is about QR codes — quick response codes, a two-dimensional bar code that ties in a piece of printed literature with the Internet and smart phones. That's really hot right now. We printed one in the fall print edition of Bucknell Magazine. We printed the code in an ad that highlighted the value of internships at Bucknell. The code linked readers to a video they could view on their smart phones featuring students talking about their successful internship opportunities.
QR codes are an excellent way to add dynamic content to a printed piece. For example, a QR code may be linked to additional interactive information about a particular story or event. Using a QR code on an event program can link attendees to live streaming data about that event, easily notifying them of changes in schedules, updates and additional information. It's a tremendous leap in making a printed piece less static.
During the summer, we will repost several "Ask the Experts" selected from among our most-read editions. New editions of "Ask the Experts" will appear on the Bucknell website on most Thursdays during the fall and spring semesters. If you have ideas for future topics or are a faculty or staff member who would like to participate, contact Molly O'Brien-Foelsch.
To learn more about faculty and staff experts who can speak on a variety of news topics, visit Bucknell's searchable Experts Guide.
Contact: Division of Communications


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Learn to forecast the weather after stress
RUB psychologists compare learning achievement with and without stress
Stressed volunteers use different strategies and brain regions
The experiment: Stress due to ice-water
Sixty persons were tested. Half of the participants had to immerse one hand into ice-cold water for three minutes under video surveillance. This stressed the subjects, as hormone assays showed. The other participants had to immerse one of their hands just in warm water. Then both the stressed and non-stressed individuals completed the so-called weather prediction task. The subjects looked at playing cards with different symbols and learned to predict which combinations of cards announced rain and which sunshine. Each combination of cards was associated with a certain probability of good or bad weather. People apply differently complex strategies in order to master the task. During the weather prediction task, the researchers recorded the brain activity with MRI.
Two routes to success
Both stressed and non-stressed subjects learned to predict the weather according to the symbols. Non-stressed participants focused on individual symbols and not on combinations of symbols. They consciously pursued a simple strategy. The MRI data showed that they activated a brain region in the medial temporal lobe - the hippocampus, which is important for long-term memory. Stressed subjects, on the other hand, applied a more complex strategy. They made their decisions based on the combination of symbols. They did this, however, subconsciously, i.e. they were not able to formulate their strategy in words. The result of the brain scans was also accordingly: In the case of the stressed volunteers the so-called striatum was activated - a deep brain region that is responsible for more unconscious learning. "Stress interferes with conscious, purposeful learning, which is dependent upon the hippocampus," concluded Lars Schwabe. "So that makes the brain use other resources. In the case of stress, the striatum controls behaviour - which saves the learning achievement."
Bibliographic record
L. Schwabe, O. Wolf (2012): Stress modulates the engagement of multiple memory systems in classification learning, Journal of Neuroscience, doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1484-12.2012