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DNR Verifies Trail Camera Photo of Cougar in Northern Marquette County
A recent trail camera photo of a cougar in northern Marquette County has been verified by the Department of Natural Resources' cougar team.
The photo was taken at 2 a.m. on Wednesday, July 18 on private property. The landowner, who has asked to remain anonymous, met with DNR Wildlife Division staff this week to confirm the location where the photo was taken.
The photo is the 17th time the DNR has been able to verify the presence of cougars in the Upper Peninsula since 2008, coming only a month and a half after a previously confirmed photo from southern Marquette County.
"The growing body of evidence continues to indicate the presence of an unknown number of adult cougars in the Upper Peninsula," said DNR wildlife biologist Adam Bump, one of four DNR biologists specially trained to investigate cougar reports. "In the five years since we confirmed our first cougar report we have yet to receive any evidence of breeding activity, as all images and other physical evidence have been from adult cats."
To date, the DNR has confirmed eight separate sets of tracks, eight photos and one trail camera video from nine Upper Peninsula counties: Delta, Marquette, Schoolcraft, Mackinac, Chippewa, Ontonagon, Houghton, Keweenaw and Baraga.
"The increase in verified cougar sightings in recent years could be attributed to several factors, although the two most significant are probably the presence of more transient individual cougars moving east from established Western populations, and the growing number of trail cameras being used in the woods, making it easier to capture clear images of elusive cougars," Bump said. "We appreciate how cooperative the public has been in sending their reports and photos to the DNR for review. This cooperation allows us to effectively monitor cougars in the state."
Cougars, also known as mountain lions, were native to Michigan, but disappeared from the state in the early 1900s. The last confirmed wild cougar in Michigan prior to 2008 was an animal killed near Newberry in 1906.
Established cougar populations are found as close to Michigan as North and South Dakota, and transient cougars dispersing from these areas have been known to travel hundreds of miles in search of new territory. DNA evidence collected from a cougar hit and killed by a car in Connecticut in 2011 showed it had originated in South Dakota.
Although cougar sightings are regularly reported, verification is often difficult, due in part to a lack of physical evidence. Characteristic evidence of cougars include tracks – which are about three inches long by three and a half inches wide and typically show no claw marks – and suspicious kill sites, such as deer carcasses that are largely intact and buried with sticks and debris.
Protecting evidence such as tracks, scat and cached kills from the elements with a bucket or tarp greatly improves the chances that a reported sighting may be verified by DNR wildlife staff.
Wildlife biologists on the DNR's cougar team investigate evidence that is reported or submitted, and may visit sites to verify the location and collect additional information. The team then evaluates the collected information and decides whether the presence of cougars can be confirmed.
Reports of cougar tracks and other evidence should be made to a local DNR office or by submitting the sighting on the DNR's online reporting form at www.michigan.gov/cougars. If an emergency situation exists, call the department's 24-hour Report All Poaching line at 800-292-7800.
Cougars are classified as an endangered species in Michigan. It is unlawful to kill, harass or otherwise harm a cougar except in the immediate defense of human safety. To learn more about cougars and how to identify their tracks, go www.michigan.gov/cougars.


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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A woman who hit and killing a man on a cross-country bicycling trip in western Colorado has reached a plea deal with prosecutors.
Thirty-year-old Toni Rosales of Palisade, Colorado pleaded guilty to a charge of vehicular homicide Thursday. In exchange, prosecutors dropped other charges.
She was on her way to a court hearing in a previous DUI case when she fell asleep and struck 25-year-old Eunjey Cho of Princeton, New Jersey, a volunteer with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest in Spokane, Washington.
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Rosales' lawyer says she has not come to terms with childhood sexual abuse and often goes a week without sleeping.
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Long Island University has announced the winners of 13 George Polk Awards for 2010, including a Rolling Stone magazine reporter for producing an illuminating dispatch from the front lines of the war in Afghanistan and the Associated Press for its groundbreaking coverage of the Gulf oil spill.
The New York Times and the independent non-profit news organization ProPublica each earned two Polk Awards, while the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel was honored with a Polk Award for the third-straight year. Judges twice awarded the collaborative efforts of multiple news organizations. ProPublica, The Times-Picayune of New Orleans and PBS' "Frontline" won the George Polk Award for Television Reporting, while ProPublica and National Public Radio joined forces to produce work that garnered them the Polk Award for Radio Reporting.
"After a drought of several years, a number of major metropolitan newspapers produced significant investigative work during 2010," said John Darnton, curator of the George Polk Awards. "And for the first time, there were some truly noteworthy collaborative projects across print, television, radio and the Internet."
The George Polk Awards in Journalism are conferred annually to honor special achievement in journalism, with a premium placed on investigative and enterprise reporting. They were established in 1949 by Long Island University to commemorate George Polk, a CBS correspondent who was murdered in 1948 while covering the Greek civil war.
The 2010 George Polk Awards will be presented at a luncheon at The Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan on Thursday, April 7, 2011. Associated Press correspondent and former CBS News reporter Kimberly Dozier, who was seriously injured in a 2006 car bombing in Iraq that killed two of her colleagues, will be the citation reader. The program also will include a special presentation to Wilbert Rideau, a former death row inmate who earned the 1979 George Polk Award for Special Interest Reporting while working as the editor of his Louisiana prison's magazine. The annual George Polk Seminar will take place the preceding evening, Wednesday, April 6, 2011, at the Kumble Theater for Performing Arts on Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus.
Michael Hastings of Rolling Stone will receive the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting for "The Runaway General," a history-making piece that prompted President Obama's dismissal of U.S. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal as commander of all U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. Mr. Hastings' explosive magazine piece last summer revealed the strategic discrepancies and political infighting that underlies the American military mission. A veteran journalist who also has covered the Iraq War, Mr. Hastings followed Gen. McChrystal and his team of top advisers from Paris to Kabul to Kandahar, while building a profile that depicted Gen. McChrystal as an outsider who didn't get along with many top officials in the Obama administration. The Rolling Stone piece also included an array of disparaging remarks made by the Gen. McChrystal's loyal staffers about top officials in the Obama administration, including Vice President Joe Biden.
"Michael Hastings' magazine piece captured a worrisome cowboy mentality among Gen. McChrystal's inner circle," said Mr. Darnton. "The general's officers disparaged our allies, our diplomats and our top elected leaders – all of which pointed to a disconnect between Washington and the warriors that was disturbing and potentially dangerous."
The George Polk Award for Environmental Reporting will recognize the colossal effort made by the Associated Press in covering last year's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The AP was the first news organization to report that the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig had sank following an explosion. Later, AP investigative reporters detailed how equipment failures and deference to the chain of command helped bring about the disaster. In response to an AP report that revealed that more than 27,000 abandoned oil wells existed in the Gulf and that their condition was unknown to the industry or the government, President Obama ordered oil companies to permanently plug 3,500 of the neglected wells. The AP's multimedia coverage of the 206 million-gallon oil spill included a compelling video report that showed how it devastated the natural environment and the local economy.
The George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting will go to Clifford J. Levy and Ellen Barry of The New York Times for their courageous coverage of Russia throughout 2010. Based in Moscow, the two correspondents enlightened readers time and time again with hard-hitting reports that spurred candid discussion in Russia about how far the country had strayed from post-Soviet Union promises that no one would remain above the law. The Times' "Above the Law" series provided gripping accounts of Russians harassed, beaten and jailed by the same authorities they had stood up against. The powerful reports from Mr. Levy and Ms. Barry in many cases helped these beleaguered Russian citizens achieve vindication and a measure of protection. The Times stories — which included video reports — were cited regularly inside Russia, where journalists often are punished for such muckraking.
"Top Secret America," a two-year investigation that for the first time cast light into the shadows of the enormous ecosystem of military, intelligence and corporate interests spawned in the decade after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, earned The Washington Post's Dana Priest and William M. Arkin the George Polk Award for National Reporting. Ms. Priest and Mr. Arkin revealed that the business of keeping Americans safe is an operation that involves 854,000 people with top-secret security clearances working on counter-terrorism and homeland-security issues for 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 privates companies in some 10,000 locations across the U.S. The government's national security and intelligence system, the series showed, has grown so big and become so complex — and relies so heavily on private contractors — that it's virtually impossible to know whether it's fulfilling its most important purpose: keeping citizens safe.
The George Polk Award for Local Reporting will be given to the Los Angeles Times for its explosive report on the working-class city of Bell, where city officials were receiving some of the highest salaries in the country despite the fact that they were leading one of the poorest cities in Los Angeles County. Los Angeles Times reporters Jeff Gottlieb and Ruben Vives and a group of other staff writers revealed that officials in the city of 37,000 had bilked its residents of millions of dollars and secretly enriched themselves, even as they cut services and fired workers. Bell's city administrator was paid nearly $800,000 a year, and city council members made $100,000 annually for part-time jobs. As a result of the investigative reporting, eight current or former city officials were arrested on corruption charges. The Los Angeles Times stories on Bell also led the state controller's office to order municipalities to post the salaries of officials on the Internet.
For a series of stories that blew the lid off the hidden world of steroid use and fraud among law enforcement officers across New Jersey, Amy Brittain and Mark Mueller of The Star-Ledger will receive the George Polk Award for Metropolitan Reporting. In "Strong at Any Cost," the Newark-based paper revealed that hundreds of police officers, firefighters and correction officers regularly were using steroids and human growth hormones. Ms. Brittain and Mr. Mueller reported that, in most cases, the officers used their publicly funded health benefits to pay for the drugs, meaning state taxpayers footed the bill for millions of dollars in illegal prescriptions. The tenacious work of The Star-Ledger tandem resulted in a wave of action from state lawmakers and the presidents of New Jersey's two largest police unions — including an investigation by the state Attorney General's Office and calls for random drug testing for steroids.
Bloomberg News earned the George Polk Award for Education Reporting with an array of scathing reports that detailed how the for-profit college industry experienced tremendous growth in 10 years by targeting underprivileged students who qualify for federal financial aid. Reporters Dan Golden, John Hechinger and John Lauerman revealed that federal aid awarded to students enrolled at for-profit colleges skyrocketed to $26.5 billion in 2009 from $4.6 billion in 2000. These education companies marketed heavily to veterans and active-duty service men and women in order to profit from the GI Bill's school funding. The for-profit colleges also recruited poor and homeless people in order to gain access to federal loan aid, Bloomberg News found. The "Education Inc." series set the agenda for reforming an industry that had gone largely unnoticed despite educating 12 percent of all college students in the U.S.
The George Polk Award for Criminal Justice Reporting will be bestowed upon John Diedrich and Ben Poston of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for their compelling "Wiped Clean" series, which uncovered how infrequently the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives revoked the licenses of lawbreaking gun dealers and how easily those stores beat the system. The two reporters revealed how more than 50 gun shop owners facing federal scrutiny wiped away years of gun sale violations simply by changing ownership on paper, such as from father to son or from husband to wife. The impetus for the series came when Mr. Diedrich noticed a popular Milwaukee-area gun shop had changed its name from Badger Outdoors to Badger Guns. In "Wiped Clean," the reporters also revealed that federal gun laws allow felons to practice at shooting ranges in gun stores, since Congress does not require background checks on gun rentals.
Dexter Filkins and Mark Mazzetti of The New York Times won the George Polk Award for Military Reporting for a behind-the-scenes look at the war in Afghanistan. Through a seemingly constant flow of jaw-dropping scoops, the two correspondents disclosed the war's deeper and darker currents and subsequently altered public perception of the conflict. Their reporting showed the great extent to which the war effort is relying on cross-border operations between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the use of private contractors. While exposing the deceit and mistrust that lie at the core of the U.S. relationships with Afghanistan and Pakistan, Mr. Filkins and Mr. Mazzetti demonstrated that Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai is far more corrupt and more anti-American than even his critics had understood. Their reporting also revealed that a so-called Taliban peace negotiator was an impostor.
The George Polk Award for Commentary will be given to New York Daily News columnist Juan Gonzalez for columns that exposed a major scandal in New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration — a corrupt technology project that grew into a $700 million boondoggle as City Hall ignored persistent signs of mismanagement. Mr. Gonzalez's relentless reporting helped lead to the federal indictment of four consultants and two associates on charges that they orchestrated a fraud that cost city taxpayers more than $80 million. The city hired CityTime in 1998 to carry out a $63 million plan to overhaul the city's electronic payroll system. Mr. Gonzalez showed how the project ballooned into a public trough for private consultants with few tangible results. This is the second Polk Award for the veteran Daily News columnist. Mr. Gonzalez also won a Polk Award in 1998.
The George Polk Award for Radio Reporting will acknowledge a collaborative project conducted by National Public Radio and ProPublica that found the U.S. military was falling woefully short in providing adequate diagnosis and treatment of traumatic brain injuries suffered by soldiers. In "Brain Wars," T. Christian Miller of ProPublica and Daniel Zwerdling and Susanne Reber of NPR revealed that the military medical system is failing to diagnose brain injuries in tens of thousands of soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, with many of the veterans receiving little or no treatment for lingering health problems. Their investigation found that 40% of soldiers suffering from concussions were not receiving a correct diagnosis from military doctors.
The George Polk Award for Television Reporting will be given to ProPublica, PBS' "Frontline" and The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, La.) for a monumental collaborative effort that took an in-depth and unwavering look at the controversial and often brutal actions taken by the New Orleans Police Department in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. "Law & Disorder" investigates charges that police officers shot at least 10 people — killing a minimum of four — in the week after the 2005 catastrophe.
The report raised questions about whether police officers needed to use such deadly force and documented the police department's flawed and cursory investigations of the shootings. The news project revealed that in the midst of post-Katrina chaos, law-enforcement commanders issued orders to ignore long-established rules governing use of deadly force, reporting that a police captain told a group of officers that they had the authority "by martial law to shoot looters." A.C. Thompson of ProPublica, Raney Aronson-Rath and Tom Jennings of Frontline and Laura Maggi and Brendan McCarthy of The Times-Picayune will be honored.
The George Polk Career Award will be presented to Sandy Close, executive director of New America Media, an alternative news source that supports thousands of ethnic media outlets. For 37 years, Ms. Close has guided the pioneering efforts of New America Media, formerly known as the Pacific News Service. She has mentored many journalists who now work in the mainstream press, including A.C. Thompson, one of this year's winners of the Polk Award for Television Reporting. In 1995, Ms. Close received a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Award" fellowship; and in 1997, she co-produced the Academy Award-winning short documentary, "Breathing Lessons." Perhaps her proudest moment in journalism came in 2007, when she organized the Chauncey Bailey Project, a team of reporters whose investigative work led Oakland police to arrest those responsible for killing Mr. Bailey, who was a Polk Award-winning journalist.
On Wednesday, April 6, the annual George Polk Seminar, which is free and open to the public, will take place at Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts on Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus, located at the intersection of DeKalb Avenue and Flatbush Avenue in downtown Brooklyn. A 5:30 p.m. reception will precede a panel discussion, which will begin at 6:30 p.m. The seminar, entitled "Piercing the Veil of Secrecy," will feature Washington Post correspondent Dana Priest, winner of the 2010 George Polk Award for National Reporting; A.C. Thompson of ProPublica, who earned the 2010 George Polk Award for Television Reporting; and Rolling Stone's Michael Hastings, recipient of the 2010 George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting.
On Thursday, April 7, Long Island University will host the George Polk Awards Luncheon at noon at The Roosevelt Hotel, located in Manhattan at 45 East 45th Street (at the corner of Madison Avenue). A poster exhibit displaying work by the Polk Award winners will commence at 11:00 a.m. A limited number of tickets are available.
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Just to clarify- xDrive is a full time awd system
I have seen posts here numereous times that refer to the X3 xDrive system operating in RWD under normal conditions and only switching to awd when slippage is detected. I also have seen where some here think that the dash indicator means the awd system is kicking in. This is not true. xDrive is ALL TIME AWD per the following quote from BMW's techincal features page located at- http://www.bmw.com/com/en/insights/t...icle=mm_xdrive
Another key point is that the 4x4 dash indicator has nothing to do with the awd system, it indicates that DSC has kicked in and is modulating the engine power and the brakes to help stabilize the trajectory the vehicle is in and prevent the rear end from swinging out. Here is the quote from the manual itself-
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True dat. X-Drive is quite transparent most of the time, but it will make itself know in the slop or on slippery surfaces. It is much fun when pulling away from the unknowing RWDers on wet off-ramps . . .
Interesting. Funny, I asked that very same question to the salesman at the BMW dealer and was told that it's RWD and only AWD when slippage occurs.
Thanks for the clarification.
Salesmen are not to be trusted. They will say anything to make the sale. It is rare that one is truly knowledgeable about the product they are selling. They do exist but rare.
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2) Dealers need to inflate prices to keep a cushion so that they can make a deal with the guy who wanted silver but settles for white, because white's on the lot. You're also paying more because at the end of the model year the dealer has to drop prices to move the old inventory. If they pooled their inventory in 1-2 centralized locations nationwide or had perfect forecasting, you wouldn't have this over/under inventory situation.
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4) You're paying for the dealership itself, the lease, insurance, employees, benefits. Working directly with a website is much, much cheaper.
Lastly, service and sales do not need to be bundled. The fact that they've been bundled historically is not a reason to keep it that way going forward. When my Audi was out of warranty, I took it to a great, high-quality, local (walking distance) independent German car garage. It was great. As soon as my BMW goes off warranty in 2012, I will go back to FatCity here in Seattle.
People say, "The majority of people aren't yet willing to buy online." Well, I bet if word got out, that you got a great price, a really hassle-free experience, and avoided clueless salespeople by shopping on www.bmwusa.com, I bet that would change. Who had heard of Amazon.com ten years ago and look at them now!
So, imagine an experience like Apple's stores: you go in, there's a showroom for you to play with select models. But most purchases, particularly those that require configuration are ordered online and shipped to you. www.DWR.com works the same way. You go to the showroom to buy a $5K couch; you sit on similar couches and then custom order the combination of fabric and options you want. But there's no bargaining. There is only one price. You don't come onto boards like this and ask, "Did I get a good price?"
Why isn't this happening? Politics. The North American Dealers Association (NADA) has strong political clout and is lobbying against online car sales to "protect the consumer." They also have language in their contracts with the manufacturers to prevent the manufacturer from going direct and leaving the dealership with "stranded costs".
The first manufacturer to go out and acquire all of its dealerships and go direct could do incredibly well. Note that Tesla, which is starting a car dealership from scratch, is NOT building a dealership network. They're doing manufacturer-owned stores/showrooms (like Starbucks and Apple) and a built-to-order model (like Dell). Once they get big, they're going to have a $2K/car price advantage on every other manufacturer. There's a lot of cost built into the current supply chain. And as all of you know from WalMart, Amazon, Dell, etc. tightening up your supply chain is a huge opportunity.
This might seem revolutionary today, but think about when my 5-year-old niece goes to buy her first car 15 years from now. "What do you mean I can't just buy it online? I buy everything else online!"
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Last edited by iamthewalrus; 01-21-2010 at 11:37 AM.
I work at a marina where we sell outboard motors; people come in all the time with their internet research done, and want us to order just the motor they want (we keep a very small inventory). After the purchase, we may or may not ever see them again, unless a warranty or recall item comes up, but it allows Honda to be assured that the customer has a good experience with their product, and spreads the word or buys again.
As for warranty work, this is a question of insurance. BMW could "certify" multiple repair shops to do warranty work. You bring your car where you want to, and they submit to BMW for reimbursement. It's just like healthcare: I pick my doctor, and my doctor bills my insurance company. In this case, I pick my mechanic, and my mechanic bills BMW. There's no reason that sales and service need to be bundled at the same location.
Last edited by iamthewalrus; 01-21-2010 at 11:36 AM.
selling cars of any brand has become so promotion oriented that all the sales people want to discuss is their deal because the 'deal' is what they know. product knowledge is secondary. pressuring a potential buyer to buy now because an offer expires soon is just as much of an element of current BMW sales strategy as it is of any other manufacturer.
my wife wanted a Highlander...thank goodness she test drove an X3 first...because a friend had one and my wife liked it. the Toyota salesman, who had just finished a cigarette and had that appealing stale cigarette smoke aroma, stated that the dealer's policy was to have a sales person accompany customers on all test drives rode in the front passenger seat. the guy did not know sqadoosh about the Highlander, and didn't seem particularly embarrassed by his lack of knowledge - but he did know about the Toyota Sell-a-thon and called us non-stop with updates as the promotion wound down.
our BMW sales person (Mike Plohr with Isringhausen Imports) knew everything about the X3 just as he did about the newly introduced Z4 that i bought from him in '03.
anyhow, this is an interesting topic.
Also, I just told someone that my vehicle was RWD and the X only kicked in when needed. Jeesh, I thought I knew it all...
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when we bought the X3 we had done a fair amount of research and had a good idea of what X-drive was all about. our sales person, Mike, gave us more information and explained when it was useful and when to disable X-drive to put the X3 into 4 wheel drive. that input from him has been useful to know.
a couple of years ago there was a Ferrari of some sort in their show room with 1200 miles on the odometer. a person from St. Louis had ordered the car from Isringhausen, put up serious money to secure his order and waited a long time for the car to be built and delivered. he got so paranoid over the attention the car got when he drove it that he brought the car back to Isringhausen to sell for him...and lost tens of thousands in the process.
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Thx for sharing.
I have to say that link to BMW doesn't say "it's in all wheel drive all the time" .. it said it is in 40/60 ratio which means 60% of the power is on the rear wheels and that ratio adjusts when road conditions require it.
So a salesman saying that it's RWD and then it transfers to AWD when road conditions require it is pretty close to the truth, it's just dumbed down for the average consumer. This happens a lot in sales. It could also be the forgetting of certain facts and the salesman's memory degrading a little and then saying what he thinks is true. With BMW this is not exactly deception that is to their advantage in selling a vehicle. They would be a lot better off saying it's AWD or 4x4 all the time than saying it's RWD until the roads require AWD (I would think anyway)
Also I posted in a previous post about this stuff that when you turn DSC off that it disables MOST of DSC and then the X3 is in mostly AWD mode all the time.. This I got from the OWNERS MANUAL describing what the button does
Here is a visual explanation
Looking at the hardware, the system is locked up or not. There are no fluid couplings or anything like that involved. Cannot really run any kind of gear ratio in the transfer case without causing lots of binding.
Which leaves freewheeling differentials in front, rear, and middle and application of brakes to transfer power from one wheel to another.
So that 40:60 ratio suggests to me that the front brakes are always being applied to shift 10% of the power to the rear. Does not sound very fuel efficient to me.
vroom3440: did you watch the video? it isn't using the brakes to do that.
Thanks for posting that video, it was really awesome.
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Funny about this split front to rear. I had Subarus for many years and the auto subies are 90% front and 10% rear until things start slipping and yet what is advertised? symmetrical all wheel drive lol . . . yes the MT is locked 50:50 but not the autos . . . still to this day cannot fathom that logic in the Subaru advertising. So the point of this post - at least BMW advertise the truth.
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I shared that video on Facebook, and a friend of mine said "My 1947 Jeep does that." and no I don't think it's true. but I don't know anything about 1947 jeeps.
Brakes, come on
watch the video and LISTEN to it. There is, as many cars now have, a viscous (spelling) clutch that "slips" for a better word power to the front or to the rear.
The DSC uses the brakes to control under/over steer and keep the rear end from swinging out such as if you enter an off ramp to fast.
Here is a better explanation of it-
Both the new X3 and X5 use an innovative all-wheel drive system called xDrive.
Rich Brekus, manager of product planning and strategy, says, "Most companies show you how their four-wheel-drive systems go through the mud. We show you how well ours goes around corners."
With xDrive, driving torque is always transmitted to the rear wheels, while the portion sent to the fronts is controlled by a multi-disc clutch that can be fully open, fully engaged or at any level in between. Engagement pressure is applied by a servomotor through a linkage of levers, a ball ramp and a disc cam, directed by an electronic control system receiving inputs from the DSC via sensors for the rotational speed of each wheel, steering angle, vehicle yaw, lateral acceleration and the brakelight switch.
In normal driving, the split ranges from a nominal 40/60 to a maximum of 50/50 front-to-rear. In tight curves (including parking maneuvers) with low to medium torque, during heavy understeer and when antilock braking is active, the system is 100 percent rear-drive. Conversely, the rear proportion approaches zero when both rear wheels have near-zero traction. The DSC's traction control can reduce engine torque and apply individual wheel brakes to achieve maximum possible force to move the vehicle.
Transparently to the driver, xDrive also optimizes handling agility and stability on any surface by adjusting the torque split to correct for understeer or oversteer by directing more torque to the non-slipping wheels. It also increases torque to the rears under heavy acceleration and decreases it for light acceleration. All this happens so quickly (reaction time from sensing to control actions) that the system almost operates pro-actively, BMW says.
The system operates seamlessly. We drove an X3 on a stretch of undulating, twisty mountain roads outside of Carefree, Ariz. When the vehicle was pitched hard into a tight corner, the expected understeer wasn't there.
The vehicle also showed remarkable balance while driving on loose gravel roads, correcting steering input and keeping the vehicle going in a straight line.
While xDrive can handle torque split front to rear, side to side duties are handled by the DSC which is electronically linked to xDrive.
The xDrive system is manufactured by Magna Steyr and is available on both the X3 and X5. Though no official announcements have been made, BMW engineers say that the system is easily adaptable to any vehicle in the BMW line-up.
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yea that's why I asked "did you watch the video" because I thought it explained that the split power to the wheels isn't being applied by braking.
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[June 27, 2014]
LINCOLN - Why do coin collectors
collect coins? For Dean Baker of Lincoln the answer is pretty
simple, "Coins tell us about history." Baker was just one of several
coin collectors who participated in the Railsplitter Coin Show at
Jefferson Street Church on Saturday.
Taking place in the fellowship center, the area was filled with
tables of coins, paper money, and unique collectibles. Those who
were participating included several members of the local club plus
collectors from the Springfield and Bloomington clubs.
Around the room, most of the participants said they collected as a
hobby, but there were a couple of interesting businesses there as
Mike and Joey Johnson are second generation coin dealers from
Rochester. The business was started by their dads who are twins, Pat
and Mike Johnson. The family owned, Dollars & Cents Coin Shop, deals
in a variety of coins and they also do coin grading.
said he'd been doing grading for about three years, and Joey started
about a year ago. He said grading coins is an important part of
valuing a coin, and making a mistake can be very costly; so one
learns quickly how to do it right.
of the most expensive coins brought to the show by the Johnson's, an
1813 liberty head, large cent, priced at $3,600. Mike said its value
came from the fact that it is a very rare coin on today's market.
The unique thing about this old coin is its size. Few may know that
the original one-cent pieces were as large as, or larger, than
today's silver dollars.
interesting item the coin shop had on hand was the concave baseball
glove issued to commemorate the Baseball Hall of Fame. The special
made gold piece was purchased by order. According to the
Railsplitter Coin Club newsletter, the demand for the piece is
exceeding the mints' ability to supply, so many are still on
backorder. With a limited edition coin or commemorative, the value
can go up based on its lack of availability. On this particular
piece, which is cast in gold, the value will also fluctuate with the
price of gold. Mike pointed out this particular piece has a very
small amount of gold. For the gold alone, he said the piece is only
worth about $400.
Another interesting business at the show was Steve's Coin Rings of
Pawnee. When collectors sell coins, they often put several together
in "lots." In the lot, there may be 2, 3 or 4 great coins that have
value, but there will be that many or more that are more-or-less
junk coins. Dealers do this intentionally, pairing good coins with
bad ones knowing that buyers will pay based on the good coins, and
the seller will be able to get rid of some of his junk.
Steve Kern has come up with a way to create
something out of nothing, by turning his junk coins into rings. He
explained that the rings are made by working and shaping the coins
while preserving the images on them. He said he doesn't apply any
heat to the coin to form it, so when he's finished, one can still
see what coin the ring used to be. He pointed out the details of one
ring, showing that the outside of the ring was the face of the coin
while, on the inside of the back, one could still see what would
have been the back side.
Around the room, many of the others showing coins
said they did it just as a hobby because they like coins. Included
among those was Logan County resident Bill Haak, former fire chief
with the city of Lincoln. Haak was busy talking with visitors at his
booth, but did take time to point out his 2011 Olympics
Carl Borngasser and his wife run Carl's Coins in
Fairbury. Borngasser said having a lucky coin in your pocket isn't
always a good idea. Looking at an 1881 cent, he pointed out that
over time the 'lucky' coin has been worn down, and is now decreased
in value. If one wants a coin to carry in their pocket, there is
nothing wrong with that, but as a collector, that would never be
Mark and Kirk (no last name given) are hobbyists. They
collect coins as well as paper. Mark offered up a piece of
advice to would-be collectors -- "never, ever, clean a coin."
Kirk is interested in paper money and was happy to show off and
explain a silver certificate. Back when paper money was coming into
play, many people didn't want it. They preferred the jingle-jangle
of coins in their pockets. So the first bills printed were not
dollars; they were silver certificates. When someone was given a
silver certificates, it meant they could take it to the bank and
exchange it for silver coins. Of course, they could also use the
notes to make purchases. Eventually, the practice of exchanging
paper for merchandise caught on and the silver notes evolved into
dollar bills.
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In addition, "way back when," banks issued their own currency. Local
banks printed bank notes that were dollar equivalent. He pointed out
one such bank note he has in his collection that is from a bank in
Boston. He said one of the neat things about the bank note is the
artistry involved. Each bank designed their own notes, and they were
works of art in their own right.
Another collector from Springfield was Sue Wilson. Wilson enjoys
collecting pressed coins. Pressed coins are souvenirs that can be
purchased at many tourist attractions around the country. Typically
the buyer will insert a quarter into a hand operated press. He or
she can then crank out their own souvenir penny, which will come out
paper thin with an image of the tourist attraction.
Richard Pearce, who is the president of the Railsplitter Club,
collects foreign coins. Foreign coins he said are not made out of
precious metals like American coins are. Because of this they often
feel much lighter than a domestic coin. One of the most interesting
aspects of foreign coins is in their unique shapes. While all
domestic coins, with the exception of the Susan B. Anthony dollar
are round; foreign coins come in a wide variety of shapes.
also collects old bank bags. Among the items he had on display, and
for sale on Saturday was a drawstring bag from the First National
Bank in Lincoln. For those who may not know, the bank was located
downtown at the corner of Pulaski and Kickapoo Streets, in what is
now the burned out remnants of the Oasis Senior Center.
The bag carries an image of the building as it looked when it was
first built.
the person with the largest collection at the show was Lincolnite
Dean Baker. Baker has been collecting and studying money for over 50
He has in his collection some of the modern coins, such as the state
quarters. These coins he said are not valuable. He explained the
coins were mass produced, and everyone wanted and kept the coins
when they got them. Because there is such a high number of them on
the market now, none of them are worth a great deal. Only time will
tell if the coins will increase in value. What it would take for
that to happen would be for several who now hold uncirculated coins
to give up and spend them. Circulated coins are not as valuable as
uncirculated. Therefore, if over the years the number of
uncirculated coins drops, the value will rise.
Sometimes that happens, and sometimes it doesn't. Baker pointed out
that the bicentennial quarters issued in 1976, almost 40 years ago,
are still worth very little to a collector.
Baker said that for him the joy of collecting coins is that they
show our nation's history. "It is a great way to learn history,
especially when there was a war involved." He pointed out that in
1943, the penny was made of steel because the copper was needed for
the war effort. In 1964 silver money became silver coated with a
less expensive metal sandwiched in because the value of silver was
higher than the face value of the coin.
The Railsplitter Coin Club in Lincoln has been active since the
1950's and currently has approximately 40 members. They hold monthly
meetings at Friendship Manor and are always ready to welcome new
The meetings include coin auctions, a white elephant sale,
membership drawings, a 50/50 drawing, and opportunities to buy,
sell, and trade coins. The club meets on the third Wednesday of each
month at 7 p.m.
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