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Supermarket giant Asda has fired the latest shot in the petrol price war by cutting the price of unleaded petrol by two pence per litre.
The store says its new national price cap meaning that, unlike other retailers who work on average prices, drivers will pay no more than 105.7 per litre on unleaded while diesel remains at a national price cap of 107.7 per litre.
This new drop means drivers across the country will pay no more than 105.7 per litre for unleadedAndy Peake, Asda
The supermarket says it is is the only retailer that has a national price cap at all 272 filling stations.
Andy Peake, Asda's senior director for petrol, said: "We're now seeing unleaded move back to its traditional place after two months of diesel being the cheapest fuel grade.
"This new drop means drivers across the country will pay no more than 105.7 per litre for unleaded."
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Petrol prices reach six-month high
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British and Irish Lions kicking coach Neil Jenkins has said that the Lions kickers are the "best of the best."
Leigh Halfpenny, Owen Farrell, Jonathan Sexton and Stuart Hogg have been almost faultless so far during the Lions tour of Australia, landing a combined total of 55 out of their 64 shots.
Australia, on the other hand, have been poor with their kicking and this was magnified when Kurtley Beale missed two glorious opportunities to win the first test for Australia, by missing two late penalties.
As a result, Jenkins feels that the Lions are fortunate to have the quality that they do in the kicking department. He stated: "We are lucky to have the kickers we have.They are the best of the best."
"Leigh gets nervous now and again and he gets on top of himself and needs to stand back.
"But for a lad of his age, he's done fantastically well already and is maturing all the time."
First choice kicker Halfpenny was even singled out for individual praise from the coach. "It generally is goal-kicking that wins or loses test matches," he said.
The Lions have a 1-0 lead in the series and face Australia again this Saturday before the final test in Sydney on July 6.
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These guys were everywhere I went yesterday. Every step I took and tons would fly up. I was pelted in the face more than once by them.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Grasshoppers Assaulting Me!
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hah! i love when you post about bug encounters. i know just what you mean about being pelted--the grasshoppers up at my parents' cabin explode out of the grasses when you walk past, it's like fireworks.ReplyDelete
I do enjoy watching them scatter from my impending footsteps, as if the I just kicked through a puddle of water. Let me indulge the little girl in me for a second — it reminds me a little of that scene in the Little Mermaid where all the fish and bugs are try to make things feel surreal and romantic.ReplyDelete
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Saturday, 1 June 2013
Tillypronie garden opening
The garden is looking lovely in the evening sunlight, before tomorrow's open afternoon (from 2pm to 5pm, with tea and cakes, as always; all proceeds to charity). Such is the lateness of spring that there are still some narcissus in bloom, and the bluebells are coming into flower beneath the rugosa roses. The rhododendrons are already opening, but the azaleas only just beginning to unfurl. The weather forecast is good, and baking well underway. (All my fingers crossed that the skies may stay clear...)
Up here in the Highlands, the curlews are nesting, and oyster catchers are looking quite at home beside the stream. It's so peaceful, yet the world around us is busy, busy... baby birds to be fed (including the swallows beneath the eaves), and a host of young animals on the hillsides. Long days, short nights, and nature hurtling forwards, after that long frozen winter. Does a new season look more glorious with each passing year?
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- Rouge Noir said...
Fingers crossed weather stays as good. I believe that new season look more glorious each year because we perceive natural beauty on a deeper level as we grow older.
- 1 June 2013 at 14:54
- Justine Picardie said...
Quite agree; each passing year makes spring more precious.
- 1 June 2013 at 15:45
- Lilac In May said...
It does Justine, the sun, the warmth and the new, bright green shoots feel like a miracle after the last winter.
- 2 June 2013 at 00:48
- Justine Picardie said...
Update: the sun shone over Tillypronie and beyond, and lots of people came to the garden opening, which was lovely.
- 2 June 2013 at 09:59
- Rouge Noir said...
That's great to hear. Glad you enjoyed it. I've spent my afternoon at the Hampstead Heath Park, just beautiful.
- 2 June 2013 at 10:02
- Justine Picardie said...
Hampstead Heath: London's lungs...
- 2 June 2013 at 16:20
- Sue said...
Love the new Harpers this month Justine.I can't believe how much I look forward to the post arriving nowadays...Well done.
- 5 June 2013 at 05:11
- enid said...
I too loved the new Harpers. The flowers issueis wonderful and it is has so much to read and so much to see. You have really put your stamp on it. I loved the srticles by the authors on their favourite flowers and am so excited by the Bibliotherapy section.
- 5 June 2013 at 09:18
- Justine Picardie said...
Thank you Sue, thank you Enid. So pleased to know that readers are enjoying Harper's Bazaar. A good magazine should feel like a friend -- on your side, by your side. Just finishing off the August issue, which has some wonderful writing in it... and beautiful pictures, too.
- 5 June 2013 at 15:30
- Fiona Bird said...
I went chanterelle foraging today. I wasn't successful but there again, I spied so many violets that I didn't feel guilty gathering a handful for vinegar. I love Scotland in spring, it's so colourful and there's the anticipation of summer.
- 8 June 2013 at 11:18
- Justine Picardie said...
Scotland in the summer, when the sun shines, is heavenly.
- 9 June 2013 at 16:24
- kairu said...
I always love your garden photographs, Justine, but I am also loving your front-row snaps from the couture shows...I was looking at the ethereal creations from the Armani and Chanel catwalks and reflecting, how much has changed for you since I first found this blog. It's been about five years now, I can hardly believe it - a journey of discovery, evolution, reinvention, heartbreak and love. That Harper's Bazaar now bears the unmistakable stamp of your touch shows that beneath the trappings of the fashion world your voice remains true to all that drew me here in the first place...
- 4 July 2013 at 13:51
- Justine Picardie said...
Thank you, Kairu -- that's the greatest compliment you could give me, and I'm so pleased you recognise so much of what is dear to my heart in Harper's Bazaar...
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Mega Man Board Game Rushes Past Kickstarter Goal with $415K
Sure, Mega Man has seen some dire times lately. But thank goodness for the Blue Bomber's devoted fans. With IDW's monthly Mega Man comic book line and Eddie LeBron's Mega Man fan film, Rock, Roll, Rush and Dr. Wily's forces are being kept alive by having such a admirable followers. Enter Jasco Games with one of the only new Mega Man games to come out in a long while, Mega Man: The Board Game.
According to Polygon, Jasco's original Kickstarter goal was set at $70,000, which was met long ago during the Kickstarter page's duration. Now officially licensed and able to include all your favorite maniacal mavericks, Mega Man: The Board Game has ended its Kickstarter program with a whopping total of $415,041 from 2,639 generous pledges. As you can see in the video below, Jasco Games went all out in trying to develop the best Mega Man game you could ever experience without playing from an actual cartridge. The success of this Kickstarter also shows that there is still a viable fan base for Mega Man out there in the modern world. And while Mega Man Legends 3 and various other Mega Man lines might have been cancelled, we can still Rock. Plus, there's the upcoming, fan-funded Mighty No. 9 from the original artist and co-creator of Mega Man, Keiji Inafune.
Dr. Light might have helped upgrade Rock to the year 20XX, but Jasco Games are retrofitting Mega Man, Dr. Wily, and all your favorite Robot Masters to your table top once Mega Man: The Board Game gets released in Oct. 2014.


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Penn State ex-President Spanier arraigned, released on bail
HARRISBURG — A judge on Wednesday arraigned former Penn State University President Graham Spanier and released him on bail at a brief court appearance on charges he lied about and concealed child sex abuse allegations involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
Spanier, accompanied by his wife, signed paperwork after his bail was set at $125,000, but he was not required to post any of that amount. District Judge William Wenner ordered him to forfeit his passport and be fingerprinted. Spanier didn't enter a plea.
Defense attorney Elizabeth Ainslie told reporters her client is "not guilty, absolutely" and disputed prosecutors' claims Spanier conspired with athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz. She said Spanier, who testified before a grand jury in the matter, has not been given the opportunity to present his side of the story.
"This wasn't a conspiracy of silence," she said, echoing the charge made last week by state Attorney General Linda Kelly. "That is ridiculous."
Authorities last week charged Spanier, 64, with perjury, obstruction, endangering the welfare of children, failure to report suspected abuse and conspiracy for his actions in response to complaints about Sandusky showering with children. Spanier has claimed he is being framed for political purposes.
He served as Penn State's president for 16 years but was forced out a year ago after Sandusky was charged along with Curley and Schultz, who were two of Spanier's top underlings. Spanier is on paid leave as a member of the faculty.
Along with the charges against Spanier, prosecutors added counts against Curley and Schultz. They were arraigned Thursday. Wenner told Spanier and his lawyers the Nov. 16 preliminary hearing date would likely be delayed a month or two.
A jury in June convicted Sandusky, 68, of 45 counts of abuse of boys, including some at campus facilities. He was sentenced last month to 30 to 60 years in prison.
Spanier's lawyers put out a statement last week that accused Gov. Tom Corbett, who was attorney general when the investigation began, of orchestrating the charges to divert attention from questions about why it took three years to bring charges against Sandusky. They said there was no factual basis for the Spanier charges and said the grand jury report was "a politically motivated frame-up of an innocent man."
Corbett spokesman Kevin Harley called the claims "the ranting of a man who has just been indicted for covering up for a convicted pedophile. His arrogance reveals a man who has just found out that he is not above the law after all."


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A new survey just released by global consulting firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited (DTTL) indicates a startling disconnect may be taking shape between executives and younger workers: namely, that younger workers feel today's business leaders are only paying lip service to the importance of innovation in the world of business.
That's a big deal in the opinion of Deloitte Global CEO Barry Salzberg (at right), because he feels innovation at the institutional level is needed to sufficiently shift an organization's mindset to allow new ideas to truly emerge and thrive – and trucking companies are dead-center of that need, as a bevy of regulations governing safety, driver work hours, fuel economy, and others get tighter and tighter.
DTTL surveyed close to 5,000 workers from the "millennial" generation across 18 in order to see how their "world view" where innovation is concerned aligned with the perspective currently espoused by their bosses.
As it turns out, they didn't align well at all, for while 78% of the those "millennials" polled believe innovation is essential for business growth, just 26% feel that their business leaders are doing enough to encourage practices that foster innovation.
That's a bigger deal than many may think, noted Deloitte, as the firm's research is discovering that innovation is also an important component of talent recruitment and retention. For example, two-thirds of the millennials surveyed by DTTL said innovation is a key factor in making an organization an employer of choice – and remember, millennials are forecasted to make up 75% of the world's workforce by 2025, a subject I've touched on in this space before.
"While our current business leaders can debate how and where to innovate, it's clear how much importance our future leaders place on innovation—not just as a driver of business growth but also as a catalyst for solving society's most pressing problems," Deloitte's Salzberg added.
That being said, though, there are "discrepancies" in terms of what millennials believe are the requirements for innovation, Deloitte's research discerned:
- 39% of respondents believe that encouragement and rewards for idea generation and creativity is a requirement for innovation to occur, whereas only 20% say their current organization operates in this way.
- 34% say providing employees with free time to dedicate to learning and creativity is key to an innovative environment, versus 17% who characterize their workplace that way.
- 32% consider openness and the freedom to challenge as key to innovation, versus 17% who say this is visible in their organizations.
- 42% believe in the importance of encouraging innovative thinking at all levels of the organization, versus 26% who describe their places of employment that way.
The reason carriers should pay attention to surveys like DTTL's is that millennials – regardless of what truckers might think of them – are the labor pool of the future. They will be the drivers, technicians, freight schedulers, and countless other personnel required to keep trucks rolling. Indeed, even as we speak, that generational "changeover" is starting to pick up speed.
"A generational shift is taking place in business as baby boomers, many of whom may have been wedded to the 'old way' of doing business, begin to step down from their leadership roles to retire," Salzberg stressed.
"As a result, real opportunity exists for organizations to step up and create the conditions and commitment needed to encourage and foster innovation in their work environments," he added. "And there's a tremendous upside if we get this right: we can better retain talent, remain more competitive into the future, and more positively impact society."
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Sunday I was so tired in the afternoon I thought I'd lie down. Nearly three hours later, I woke up to my studio at night. I thought of all my favorite things on holiday evenings: walking in Manhattan with the smoky scent of burnt-roasted chestnuts, watching The Nutcracker, wrapping presents, Zuzu snuggled by the woodstove, my tree and its vintage ornaments, and the aroma of baking from my husband's kitchen.
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This unusual species of deserts,brushy savannah, and arid woodlands is closely related to buteos and Common Black-Hawk. Unlike other American raptors, they breed year round.
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MrCarey wrote:Seems like every QB is projected 300 with 3 TDs. ESPN is a joke, news at 11.
hawkfan333 wrote:Is how is the seahawks D going to stop the number 1 offense that is so good. But what i dont get is why nobody is asking is how is the patriots offense going to move the ball on the number 1 ranked defense in the league. It just bugs me how we are always made out to be the inferior team.
T-Sizzle wrote:Re OP: the media also thinks Obama can do no wrong and Biden's immature outbursts were fantastic. A 10 year old child's opinion means more to me than anything the media spews. They are not objective AT ALL and anymore love to interject themselves into the story instead of just reporting.
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I have been worrying a bit recently that the book of this blog, The Bad Cook (which is out TODAY, purchasable here)*, is going to be a disappointment.
This hadn't crossed my mind until very recently - until recently I had always flicked through it sniggering to myself and going "This is great!!! Definitely worth £1.99." But now I'm not so sure.
"Does it represent value to my readers?" I think as I sit with a cookbook on my lap, staring out of the window and trying not to pick at my cuticles because it drives my husband nuts.
So I have decided today to alert you to a recipe, which I would pay someone £1.99 to tell me about, which will assuage my feelings of fraudulence.
It is for a turkish eggs thing that Peter Gordon does at his restaurant brasserie cafe thing Les Providores in Marylebone High Street. It is NOT in fusion (sic), which is his cookbook, so I had to source the recipe off a New Zealand website, convert all the measurements, try it out and photograph it.
I'm sure that's worth £1.99.
So these turkish eggs are poached eggs with yoghurt and a chilli butter. I understand if you think that yoghurt and eggs together sounds gross but I promise it isn't. This is an incredibly delicious, almost addictive taste and it is very easy to put together for a light supper for you and someone you love. Or just for you alone.
Do not worry if you aren't brilliant at poaching eggs - I am absolutely hopeless and mine came out just about okay.
So here we go - turkish eggs for 2
2 eggs - the fresher they are, the easier they will be to poach
200g greek yoghurt
1 tbsp olive oil
large pinch of chilli flakes
70g butter
some chopped parsley if you have it
NB - you will notice that there is no salt specified in this recipe. It is not an accident. You can, of course, add as much salt and pepper as you think this needs but personally, I think the lack of salt, the slight blandness, is a really important aspect to this - I don't think the flavours need it. But you must do whatever you like.
1 In a bowl whisk together the yoghurt and olive oil. It is this whisking and whipping of the yoghurt that makes it so delicious, in my view. You CAN add here a small scraping of crushed garlic, but I don't think it's neccessary.
2 In a small pan melt the butter gently until it takes on a very pale brown colour - this takes about 10 mins over a low heat. Don't be tempted to razz it hot otherwise it will burn. Once it looks to you like it has taken on some colour, add the chilli flakes and swirl around in the butter. Put to one side.
3 Now poach your eggs in some simmering water for 3-4 mins. If you add 100ml white vinegar to the water it should in theory help the process.
4 To assemble, divide the yoghurt between two bowls, then drop an egg on top, pour over the chilli butter and scatter with parsley.
We ate this with toasted sourdough, as they do in Les Providores, but I think this would also be terrific with any sort of flatbread or pitta.
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Tech Thursday: iPhone Battery – Make It Last Longer
If your iPhone battery seems to be holding less and less of a charge here are some ideas to help make it last longer.
Push e-mails: If you have a number of emails accounts, your phone could be checking them as often as every fifteen minutes. If you turn off the "Push" feature, and set it to Manually instead, then your iPhone checks for e-mails only when you actually open the e-mail app. Your battery will go a lot farther.
GPS checks: In Settings->General->Location Services, you'll see a list of all the apps on your phone that are using your phone's location feature to know where you are. That checking uses battery power. Turn as many as you can off.
Notifications. Similarly, in Settings->Notifications, you see a list of apps that are allowed to display pop-up notifications. They monitor what's going on with your phone-and that take power. Turn off the ones you don't really need.
Background apps: Make sure you do not have a huge number of apps open. Again, battery power is being used in the background. Quit all of the apps that you can. Double-press the Home button to open the multitasking app switcher. Hold your finger down on any icon until they all start wiggling. Tap the little X close boxes to manually quit open apps.
Now watch your battery and hopefully you will have power longer.
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Jury Convicts Woman in $25 Million Nationwide Telemarketing Fraud Scheme
As posted on November 7, 2011 on http://www.jusice.gov/usao/gan/
ATLANTA, GA -KARA SINGLETON ADAMS, 40, from Marietta, Georgia, was found guilty by a federal jury today on charges of wire fraud, conspiracy, and structuring financial transactions, relating to a $25 million nationwide telemarketing fraud scheme.
Three co-defendants have already been convicted in the scheme. ADAMS' husband, JASON JAMES EYER, 35, of Marietta; JAMES ADOLPH SCHOENHOLZ, 39, of Atlanta; and BRITTANY DUNPHY, 40, of Orlando, Florida, all pleaded guilty to related charges before ADAMS' trial. SCHOENHOLZ and DUNPHY testified at the trial.
United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said, "This multi-million dollar fraud scheme used simple tactics. It started out with automated phone calls to consumers in almost every state in the United States, and the scheme quickly escalated to high-pressure telemarketing sales pitches. Many citizens are struggling in this economy and have incurred significant credit card and other debt. This case demonstrates that people need to carefully research any person or firm who makes promises to reduce or eliminate debt in a way that seems too good to be true, because fraudsters are out there seeking to prey on their economic situation."
"The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is continuing to investigate and will pursue such criminal activity which centers on consumers and tries to take advantage of them. These are complex schemes and they have the potential to take millions of dollars from victims, and we will continue to track them down," said Shelley Binkowski, Acting Postal Inspector in Charge of the Atlanta Division.
John Sours, Administrator, Governor's Office of Consumer Protection, said, "This has been a long, involved case. We are gratified by the jury's decision, and we would be remiss if we did not thank our partners in this effort, the United States Postal Inspectors and the United States Attorney's Office."
ADAMS was found guilty on 9 counts of wire fraud, 7 counts of structuring financial transactions and 2 counts of conspiracy, after a two-week-long trial. The jury found her not guilty on two additional counts of structuring financial transactions. The jury reached their verdicts after approximately 4 hours of deliberation.
According to United States Attorney Yates, the indictment, the charges, and evidence at trial: Starting in 2008 and continuing through December 2009, ADAMS, EYER, SCHOENHOLZ and DUNPHY conspired to defraud consumers with credit card interest rate reduction programs through a variety of schemes and companies. Using various company names, the defendants initiated automated telephone calls to consumers throughout the United States to promote the sale of the defendants' credit card interest rate reduction program. Consumers were either greeted by a prerecorded message instructing them to "press 1 now" if they would like to have their credit card interest rates lowered or directly solicited by a live telemarketer offering to lower the consumers' credit card interest rates. Consumers who pressed "1" were connected to a live telemarketer, who used a script promising to substantially lower the consumers' credit card interest rates and save the consumers thousands of dollars in interest payments. The telemarketers claimed they had a special relationship with the creditors which would allow them to negotiate lower rates on the consumers' behalf.
The consumers were told they would become debt-free much faster, typically three to five times faster, than they would without the program. Consumers were also guaranteed that their monthly payments would be no higher than their current monthly payments on their credit card accounts. The consumers were assured there was no out-of-pocket cost associated with the interest rate reduction program. They were promised that the savings of the program would cover the cost of the program, which was between $749 and $1,495. Consumers were also told that this savings would be realized within 30-45 days and were promised a full refund of their purchase price if they did not achieve $4,000 in savings.
According to the evidence, the victims did not in fact receive what they were promised. The defendants had no special relationships with any creditors. In many instances, no attempt was made to negotiate a lower interest rate for consumers' credit cards. Even when the telemarketers actually cold-called a victim's credit card company, the rates were rarely lowered and the victims did not save the thousands of dollars promised in the sales pitch.
ADAMS, EYER, SCHOENHOLZ and DUNPHY then took additional steps to mail those victims a fake "financial analysis" payment plan with figures which had been purposefully manipulated to show a savings of at least $4,000, when, in fact, no savings had been realized. The defendants used this falsified payment plan "savings" to claim that they had satisfied the program's guarantee and deny the victims who sought refunds of the $749 to $1,495 in fees that they had paid.
The companies involved in the scheme included "Economic Relief Technologies," (ERT), formerly at 1820 Water Place, Suite 250, Atlanta; "SafeRide Warranty," formerly at 1820 Water Place, Suite 255, Atlanta; and "VP Marketing," (VPM), formerly at 1820 Water Place, Suite 195, Atlanta, Georgia.
The group also used many other names, such as "Clear Breeze Solutions;" "Money Works;" "Client Services;" "Financial Protection Center;" "Life Change Solutions;" "Express Debt Elimination;" "Capital Resources;" Express Corp Advisor;" "Express Corp;" "Card Services;""Credit Services;" "Americare Software Solutions;" "A Better Tomorrow;" "Helping Hand Resources;" "Auto Protection Center;" "Warranty Services;" "Auto War;" "Assured Warranty;" "Debt Suite, Inc.;" "Total Curb Appeal, LLC;" "Debtworks Software, LLC;" "DM Associates, LLC;" "VersaDebt Corp;" and "FYI Tech, Inc."
The victims were located in a total of 46 states with the losses totaling over $25 million. ADAMS and EYER spent millions of dollars from the proceeds from operating the scheme in a little over a year at a variety of luxury hotels, high-end retailers, jewelers, casinos, exotic automobiles, as well as payments to private tutors for their children.
On November 30, 2009, the Federal Trade Commission obtained a temporary restraining order against ADAMS, EYER, and SCHOENHOLZ, and a federal judge appointed a receiver to take over the companies and find any and all assets derived from the fraud. Evidence at trial showed that at that same time, the three were in the Phillippines, attempting to start up an identical business. While in the Phillippines, ADAMS contacted her family members, LEIAH WATSON, 33, and ROGER DALE WATSON, 41, both of Atlanta, instructing them to remove company documents and computers from her Marietta residence and hide them, in violation of the federal judge's order, in an attempt to obstruct the FTC receiver's investigation. DUNPHY later obtained the computers and documents, sold the computers and wired the proceeds to EYER in the Phillippines.
EYER has already agreed to a binding plea agreement in which he will serve 10 years, 6 months in prison. LEIAH WATSON and ROGER DALE WATSON pleaded guilty to charges of violating a court order on October 6, 2011, and will be sentenced on December 20, 2011, at 9:30 a.m. A sentencing date for SCHOENHOLZ and DUNPHY has not yet been set.
Sentencing for ADAMS and EYER is set for January 5, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. before United States District Court Judge Charles A. Pannell, Jr. ADAMS faces a maximum sentence of 25 years for each wire fraud count, 5 years for each conspiracy count, and 10 years for each structuring count. She also faces a fine of up to $500,000 for each structuring count. In determining the actual sentence, the Court will consider the United States Sentencing Guidelines, which are not binding but provide appropriate sentencing ranges for most offenders.
This case is being investigated by Inspectors from the United States Postal Inspection Service, and investigators of the Georgia Office of Consumer Affairs.
Assistant United States Attorneys Jamila M. Hall and Jeffrey Davis are prosecuting the case.


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New bakery in Fort Meade has goal of yummy treats, tribute
Yummy Bites owner Karen Riner reaches for another of her "sweet treets" at her bakery on West Broadway.
Karen's mom, Sandra Merrill, stops by once or twice a week to lend a hand at decorating and creating cake masterpieces.
No doubt, this creation, a combination of cake pops and wedding cake, looks "toadally" delicious.
When Karen Riner decided to open a bakery in Fort Meade, she had two goals.
One was to create "yummy treats," everything from cookies to cakes. The second was a little less obvious, but perhaps no less important to Riner: Pay tribute to her father.


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The Rivals of Aristophanes: Studies in Athenian Old Comedy
Duckworth and the Classical Press of Wales, 2000 - Poetry - 556 pages
Due to the scarcity of surviving texts by other poets, it is easy to forget that Aristophanes wrote for competition and that rivalry was an important component in the rhetoric of his comedies, especially Clouds and Knights . This important study, comprising 26 essays by leading international scholars presented at a conference held at the Institute of Classical Studies in London in 1996, aims to promote a better understanding of Aristophanes' work by assessing that of his many rivals, including Cratinus, Hermippus and Eupolis, who regularly triumphed over Aristophanes at major civic festivals. The papers also consider the evidence for Aristophanes' rival poets in other sources, notably painted vases. The chapters are divided into five sections: editing comic fragments, poets of Old Comedy, the transition to Middle Comedy, literary themes and social themes. Contributors: Kenneth Dover, W Geoffrey Arnott, Wolfgang Luppe, Ralph M Rosen, James Davidson, S Douglas Olson, Dwora Gilula, David Harvey, Jeffrey Henderson, David Braund, Giorgos Kavvadias, Ian C Storey, Thomas Braun, Heinz-Guenther Nesselrath, Keith Sidwell, N J Lowe, Bernhard Zimmermann, Stephen Colvin, Michael Silk, Angus Bowie, John Wilkins, Nick Fisher, Andrew Dalby, Edith Hall, Christopher Carey, Alan H Sommerstein, Paola Ceccarelli, Ian Ruffell.
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The Bisons did not get back from their trip to Fresno, Calif., until Monday evening. They have a road game at Western Kentucky in Bowling Green Wednesday night at 6 and then return to Atlantic Sun play Friday and Saturday at Kennesaw State.
"This will give us a chance to let our players catch up in school and give us some time to practice a little bit," said Forehand. "This is a crucial week for us."
Forehand doesn't expect the team to have any kind of a drop-off after playing Fresno State in a four-game series. They won the first game of the series, but could not get another win, watching a 6-2 lead disappear into a 7-6 loss Sunday afternoon.
"You don't like to lose games, but I think we matured a little bit," said Forehand. "We came back in game two after we gave up 11 runs in one inning. We didn't win the game, but we handled the situation a lot better than we would have two weeks ago. We would have liked to come with a split, but we grew as a team.
"We all expected to go into the park of the national champions and win. We played well enough in all of the games. We were in every inning except maybe three or four over the weekend. We had a chance to win three games. We are disappointed we didn't win more games, but happy with some of the things that came out of those losses."


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All this stuff has been around for a while, but MS is taking the bold step to commercialize it. The new product is called Microsoft Surface. Pretty slick:
The videos on the MS Surface homepage are also worth watching, though do have an overzealously awesome attitude.
Note though that none of this is new technology — it's just that a mainstream software company has decided to convert established ideas into a mainstream product. Here's a set of videos of other surface computing projects:
The BumpTop Project at UToronto does file management using a surface.
TouchLight by MSR
MultiTouch Displays by Jeff Han, and his spin-off Perceptive Pixel
Frustrated Total Internal Reflection — the technology that powers most of these interfaces
Reactable from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. MS totally stole their "shapes" idea.
And last, but definitely not least, is my entry to this game :)
Last winter I took a class with Prof. Michael Rodemer called "Interactivity and Behaviour". I tried to build a tabletop that reacts to where you touch it, changing lights and modifying the music that it plays. The video is a little lame, but it was fun to build the damn thing!


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SPRINGFIELD – Imagine walking into a government office, asking for $5,000 and being handed a check – without anyone bothering to verify whether you qualify for the money.
That's how the state has been managing its Medicaid program for years.
While nobody actually gets handed a check, they receive a benefit with a value of about $5,000 – and a real cost to taxpayers.
Folks who apply for the health insurance program, which is reserved for low-income folks, are granted the coverage, but not enough has been done to ensure recipients are answering questions truthfully to determine whether they really qualify.
For some, basic questions are never verified, including: How much do applicants really earn? Do they really live in Illinois? Are they U.S. citizens?
Ever since the Medicaid program began expanding under former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Republican lawmakers, in particular, have been waving the red flag and crying, "Are all of these folks really eligible?"
Blagojevich was dismissive of the concern.
Our current governor, Pat Quinn, has given the matter lip service, and it has taken him four long years to do anything.
What he has done so far is in- adequate.
Just ask Illinois Auditor General Bill Holland, who un- covered major problems with the program.
"When the first batch of enrollees were reviewed they found about 60 percent weren't eligible for the program," said state Rep. Patti Bellock, R-Hinsdale. "That says to me there is a major problem with the administration of this program."
"The bipartisan committee I was on predicted that if the administration did a full scrubbing of the Medicaid rolls, they would find 300,000 people enrolled who weren't eligible. Taking these people off of the Medicaid rolls would save $350 million."
Jonathan Ingram, a senior fellow at the Illinois Policy Institute, said there are many things that make the Illinois Medicaid system attractive to out-of-staters.
"Eligibility here in Illinois is broader than in most of our neighboring states. So it makes it attractive for people to enroll here who actually live elsewhere," he said.
Also, he said, little is done to weed out citizens from other countries unlawfully residing in the U.S. from being a part of the Medicaid system – for which they are not eligible.
But now the Quinn administration wants to do something about all of the people illegally gaming the system. It has signed a contract with a firm that will carefully examine each person's eligibility to receive Medicaid.
"I honestly think the reason the Quinn administration is finally doing something is because the bond houses are putting a great deal of pressure on him to reform pensions and the Medicaid system," Bellock said.
Regardless of why the Quinn administration is taking action – or at least trying to – it is clear its efforts have hit a snag that could cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
And that snag has a name: the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.
The government workers union doesn't like Quinn having an outside firm scrubbing Medicaid rolls.
They think that work ought to be done by state workers, who would just happen to belong to – you guessed it – AFSCME.
Never mind that the state does not have the workforce or the technology to get the job done. AFSCME smells potential new membership dues pouring into its coffers – if the state is forced to hire more workers.
The administration has sign-ed a two-year contract with Maximus Health Services, an outfit specializing in this type of work.
But now that $76 million contract is in danger because an arbitrator recently ruled that the state couldn't hire the Virginia-based firm.
The arbitrator said the administration should use state union workers instead.
"That doesn't make any sense," Bellock said. "These are the same people who enrolled these ineligible people in the first place."
Hopefully Quinn has the good sense to appeal the arbitrator's ruling.
Or, better yet, the General Assembly ought to pass a law making it clear that such contracts with outside firms are legal.
After all, our cash-strapped state doesn't have a dime to waste.
Scott Reeder is a veteran statehouse reporter and the journalist in residence at the Illinois Policy Institute. He can be reached at email@example.com. Readers can subscribe to his free political newsletter by going to ILNEWS.ORG or follow his work on Twitter @scottreeder


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More than 200,000 people from across the nation traveled to the National Mall for the March on Washington for Jobs and Equality on Aug. 28, 1963.
Fifty years later, the city is celebrating the anniversary of the historic march by hosting numerous events including faith services at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, youth educational programs and a speech by President Obama.
Here are the major events during the anniversary:
- A 50th anniversary march and rally will be held Saturday, Aug. 24, from 8 a.m. to noon. The "National Action to Realize the Dream" event has been convened by Martin Luther King III, Rev. Al Sharpton and the National Action Network. Speakers include Sharpton, Martin Luther King, III, Congressman John Lewis, Attorney General Eric Holder, Myrlie Evers-Williams and the families of Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin.
- The Global Freedom Festival will be held on the National Mall, Aug. 24 through Aug. 27. It's open to the public and is hosted by the King Center and the National Park Service.
- The Commemorative Concert of the 57th Annual SCLC International Convention will be held at the Washington Convention Center on Aug. 23 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
- The Newseum is hosting a special event, "Reflections on the March on Washington and I Have a Dream Speech 50 Years Later: A Conversation" with Simeon Booker, author of Shocking the Conscience, Aug. 22 from 6 to 9 p.m.
- President Barack Obama will stand at the Lincoln Memorial to give a speech Aug. 28, commemorating Dr. King's speech in the same location 50 years ago. The "Let Freedom Ring" Ceremony will be from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and features speeches from Congressman John Lewis, who spoke at the March on Washington in 1963; Ambassador Andrew Young; and Oprah Winfrey, among others.
Here's the complete list of events during the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington:
Wednesday, August 21
Praise and Worship Service for the 50th Anniversary March on Washington
Time: 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Location: Mt. Airy Baptist Church
1100 N. Capitol St. NW
Capacity: 1,500
Thursday, August 22
Celebrating the Legacy of Youth in the Movement
Protect Our Voting Rights & Social Justice Youth Organizing Training
10th Annual Black Youth Vote! National Civic Leadership Training Conference
Time: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Location: National Education Association
1201 16th St. NW
Hosted by the NCBCP Black Youth Black Youth Vote!, NAACP, NEA, Generational Alliance,
NAN Youth Move
Register at the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
Celebrating the Legacy of Women in the Movement: Past Present and Future
An Intergenerational Roundtable
Time: 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Location: U.S. Capitol, Cannon Caucus Room of the Cannon Caucus Building
Invitation required; to register go to www.ncbcp.org
Celebrating the Legacy of A. Philip Randolph & Bayard Rustin
44th Annual A. Philip Randolph Institute National Conference
Time: Kickoff at 2 p.m.; conference continues through Aug. 27
Location: Hyatt Regency
400 New Jersey Ave. NW
Hosted by A. Philip Randolph Institute
To register, go to www.apri.org
Reflections on the March on Washington and I Have a Dream Speech 50 Years Later:
A Conversation with Simeon Booker, author, Shocking the Conscience
Time: 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Location: The Newseum
555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Friday, August 23
Drum Majors For Justice Redeem the Dream National Summit
Time: 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Grand Hyatt Hotel
1000 H St. NW
Drum Majors For Justice Future Leaders Celebration
Time: 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Location: Freedom Plaza
14th Street and Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Redeem the Dream National Summit and Reception
Time: 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Location: National Museum of African Art (Smithsonian Institution)
950 Independence Ave. SW
Celebrating the Legacy of Youth in the Movement
Protect Our Voting Rights & Social Justice Youth Organizing Training
10th Annual Black Youth Vote! National Civic Leadership Training Conference
Time: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Location: National Education Association
1201 16th St. NW
Hosted by NCBCP Black Youth Black Youth Vote!, NAACP, NEA, Generational Alliance & NAN Youth Move
To register go to www.ncbcp.org
National Town Hall Meeting on Poverty & Economic Empowerment
Moving Together, Moving Forward: Jobs and Freedom
57th Annual SCLC International Convention
Time: 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Hosted by Southern Christian Leadership Conference, SCLC Poverty Institute
To register go to http://www.nationalsclc.org
Youth Mass Meeting & Pre-March Rally
Time: 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Location: Metropolitan A. M. E. Church (tentative)
1518 M St. NW
Commemorative Concert
57th Annual SCLC International Convention
Time: 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Hosted by Southern Christian Leadership Conference
To register, go to www.nationalsclc.org
Saturday, August 24
50th Anniversary March on Washington National Action to Realize the Dream March & Rally
"Jobs, Justice & Freedom"
Time: 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Location: Lincoln Memorial
National Conveners: Martin Luther King, III & Rev. Al Sharpton, National Action Network
Global Freedom Festival
Time: 2 p.m. - 7 p.m.; continues through Aug. 27
Location: The National Mall 7th & 14th streets NW
Sunday, August 25
"I Have a Dream" Gospel Brunch with Denyce Graves
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Location: The Willard, 1401 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
For tickets, click here.
Monday, August 26
Bayard Rustin Forum on Human Rights
Time: 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Location: Lincoln Theatre 1215 U St. NW
SCLC Legacy & Leadership Gala
Time: TBD
Location: Capital Hilton 1001 16th St. NW
Tuesday, August 27
50th Anniversary March on Washington Conference on Civil Rights: "Marching Forward By Looking Back"
Location: Howard University
To register, click here.
Virtual Education Panel: "50 Years of Struggle; Youth Driving Economics, Education and Social Change"
Time: 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Location: School Without Walls (streamed online)
To watch, click here.
Wednesday, August 28
Interfaith Service
Time: 9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Location: Shiloh Baptist Church
Invitation Required
March for Jobs and Justice
Time: The march will begin at 9:30 a.m.
Participants will assemble at 600 New Jersey Ave. NW at 8 a.m. and proceed to the United States Department of Labor at 200 Constitution Ave., and then to the United States Department of Justice at 950 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. The march will end at a rally on the National Mall.
"Let Freedom Ring" Ceremony
Time: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.; worldwide bell ringing at 3 p.m. EST
Location: The Lincoln Memorial
Speaker: President Barack Obama. Former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter also are expected to attend.


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Audio Performance Verification Using PESQ® and POLQA®
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With more and more apps running on smartphones, there is a risk that voice calls could totally drain the batteries of these mobile devices. Features like DRX (the power-saving mode in LTE) should improve power consumption a lot, but the application behavior needs to be tested and analyzed in a controlled emulated network environment.
The R&S®CMWrun sequencer software tool collects samples from the R&S®NGMO2 power supply and displays the current drain on the phone over time. Specific signaling trigger events, such as LTE attach and IMS registration, cause an increase in current consumption that is clearly visible in the current drain diagram. The current drain diagram is also correlated to events at the IP level by using IP traffic analysis (R&S®CMW-KM051), which indicates which app or IP flow impacts the battery lifetime.
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Carrier Acceptance Test
Due to the increasing complexity of technology, leading operators have specified their own simulator-based acceptance test requirements for mobile handset testing that goes beyond GCF/PTCRB certification. These test plans cover areas such as protocol, radio resource management, data performance and location based services (LBS) and allow network operators to be confident that a device launched on their network will not cause problems and that their users will receive the quality of service they expect.
In terms of VoLTE, operator-specific test plans for IMS and VoLTE need to be passed in order to obtain operator acceptance. Rohde & Schwarz supplies solutions based on the R&S®CMW500 wireless communication tester that help mobile network operators create their own schemes for IMS and VoLTE conformance testing, as well as for audio/speech performance acceptance testing.
IMS and VoLTE conformance testing
As the IMS becomes more prevalent within mobile operator core networks, new customer and value-added features, such as VoLTE, rich communications services (RCS) and videotelephony, are attaining greater importance and are now coming to market.
Audio/speech performance acceptance testing
The audio quality of VoLTE and legacy standards such as GSM, WCDMA and CDMA2000® depends on several network and mobile device factors, including radio conditions, packet loss, packet delay, jitter and jitter distribution.
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R&S®CMW500 - Protocol Tester
- Scalable setup from single box to multibox
- Support of all major technologies (LTE, LTE-A, WCDMA, GSM, CDMA, TD-SCDMA, WLAN) in one box
- Support of
- LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation
- WLAN offloading
- eMBMS
- Hybrid voice over LTE (hVoLTE)
R&S®CMW-PQA Test System
- Performance testing under realistic and repeatable conditions:
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- Call performance and reliability
- Battery performance
- Video performance, including eMBMS performance
- Self organizing networks (SON) / automatic neighbor relations (ANR)
- Reject cause behavior
- Over-the-top (OTT)
- Further enhanced ICIC (feICIC)
- Performance testing under realistic and repeatable conditions:
R&S®CMW-ATE terminal testing solution for IMS and VoLTE
- Approved IMS, VoLTE and RCS network operator test plans
- Support of IMS and VoLTE conformance testing
- Support of WLAN offloading
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- Coverage of all LBS test needs
- Protocol testing including protocol conformance (U plane and C plane)
- Minimum performance
- Full support of all positioning methods
- A-GNSS such as A-GPS, A-GLONASS, A-BeiDou
- Network-based positioning methods such as OTDOA, eCID
- Coverage of all LBS test needs
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- Support of all major cellular technologies (LTE, WCDMA, GSM, CDMA, TD-SCDMA)
- Support of LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation
- Support of various operator acceptance test plans
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Anime Lupin the Third, one of the greatest things ever, is returning to television with a new series. It's the first new Lupin anime series on TV in 27 years.
Dubbed Lupin the Third: A Woman Called Fujiko Mine, the anime follows the exploits of Fujiko Mine, the anime's iconic female character. This new episodes will centre on her.
Sayo Yamamoto, of Michiko e Hatchin fame, is directing the series. She is the first female in a long line of male directors, such as Hayao Miyazaki, to direct Lupin.
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The numbers, as they say, do not lie. According to Town and Country, an East End real estate firm that provides detailed information from 11 different markets in the area, some villages and towns have made notable jumps in sales, while some have stayed stable, and only two have not met the sales for the previous quarter.
Leading the way is Shelter Island with a 44.4-percent gain in the number of houses sold compared to the same quarter last year, followed closely by Bridgehampton, which includes, in this study, Water Mill and Sagaponack, with a 40-percent jump due in part to "the 'super ball' bounce in the Sagaponack south market," according to a statement from Judi Desiderio, the chief executive officer of Town and Country. "There's nothing like investing in East End dirt."
Amagansett experienced a 24-percent gain in sales and a 13-percent increase in median home prices. Southampton Village has seen the largest jump in market sales, with median home sales up 41 percent, and a 135-percent gain in home-sale volume, or the dollar amount of the sales.
In the East Hampton area, including Wainscott and Springs, the prices for the houses sold have increased, but there were fewer sales than in any other area on the East End, according to the report. However, East Hampton Village had the same number of sales as the same quarter last year — eight to be exact — but their combined sales prices were double what they were in 2010. So, although there were no sales jumps, there was a 91-percent gain in total home sales volume.
Montauk, like East Hampton Village, had almost the same number of sales as the same period last year — one fewer — but had a 14-percent jump in volume, due to the increased prices of the properties sold.
The property sales in Sag Harbor, which includes Noyac and North Haven, tell an interesting story. Twenty houses sold in the second quarter of 2011, compared to 25 in 2010, but the money generated by those sales rose from $31 million in 2010 to over $57 million this year, an 84-percent jump.
Over all, according to the report, the total home sales value for all 11 Hamptons markets is up 28 percent from $586 million in the second quarter of 2010 to $751 million in the same quarter this year. That was coupled with a 14-percent increase in the median home sales price from $925,000 to $1.05 million.


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2005 Buick LaCrosse ReviewThis car review is specific to this model, not the actual vehicle for sale.
New midsize sedan is smooth, comfortable, roomy.
The 2005 Buick LaCrosse replaces both the Regal and the Century as Buick's midsize sedan, representing 50 percent of Buick's annual car sales. Buick says it has the competition, specifically the Ford Five Hundred, Dodge Intrepid, Honda Accord, and Toyota Camry, beat on a number of fronts, including quietness and overall refinement. This is a car that was well on its way to completion when GM vice-chairman and product guru Bob Lutz joined the company, and charged the Buick team to delay the program one year, get the car right, and then introduce it. It's pretty clear that the wait, and the extra effort and money invested into the program, were worth it.
LaCrosse is not an all-new car by any means. It's built in Canada on GM's W-car intermediate platform, one of the oldest in the GM chassis inventory. But about 80 percent of the parts and systems underneath are new, along with new interior and exterior designs.
The LaCrosse has a rich, high-quality looking interior with attractive woodgrain trim, nicely presented instruments and controls and available leather seats with nice-looking gathered stitching. Buick's Quiet Tuning has made the new LaCrosse one of the quietest, most pleasant cars to ride and drive in among the entire class.
The LaCrosse rides smoothly and quietly, but its steering is much more precise than previous models and it turns into corners crisply with little body lean. The V6 engines offer good power, growling under acceleration, but smooth and quiet when motoring along, and the transmissions work flawlessly.
New features make a well-equipped LaCrosse a safe, all-weather family car with nice conveniences. Among them: a remote starting system that will work from up to 500 feet away, great on cold winter mornings; OnStar, which will dispatch emergency crews to your precise location if you have a wreck and don't respond to operators' calls; XM Satellite Radio to pick up FoxNews, CNN, ESPN and other broadcasts; and StabiliTrak, which can help keep you from skidding off a slippery road.
The LaCrosse comes in three models. The CX ($22,835) is the base model and it comes with cloth upholstery and manually operated air conditioning. The LaCrosse CX is powered by a cast-iron 3.8-liter overhead-valve V6 engine that was first introduced in Buicks back in 1979, the continuously improved and now rated at a modest 200 horsepower. Anti-lock brakes (ABS) are optional.
The middle model, the CXL ($25,335), comes with leather upholstery, automatic climate control, ABS, and quite a list of additional standard equipment. The CXL also uses the 3.8-liter engine.
The CXS ($28,335) is the performance car of the family, with GM's new high-feature 3.6-liter V6 with modern double overhead cams and variable valve timing develops about 240 horsepower. The CXS gets its own suspension and steering system, 17-inch tires and wheels, and a raft of additional touches like driving lights under the front bumper.
The LaCrosse is available with five- or six-passenger seating: either bucket seats with a center console and shifter or a 40/20/40 bench seat with the shifter on the steering column. Standard features include tilt wheel, remote keyless entry, power driver's seat, programmable power locks, power windows, and a six-speaker AM/FM/CD system. All models come standard with OnStar including a one-year subscription.
Options include side curtain air bags ($395), StabiliTrak chassis control on the CXS model only ($495), XM Satellite Radio ($325 with one-year free subscription), power sunroof ($900), remote starting ($150), heated front seats ($295), 17-inch chrome wheels ($695), and a chrome package ($295). A Gold Convenience option package ($1,150) is offered with a leather steering wheel with redundant climate and audio controls, a universal transmitter, auto-dimming rearview mirror, heated outside mirrors, six-way power passenger seat, rear park assist, and rear reading lamps. Two cast aluminum wheels are available, one 16-inch and one 17-inch.
LaCrosse is unmistakably a Buick sedan, with its trademark vertical bar waterfall grille, long nose, long slopes and simple body curvatures. They've added a tiny third side window behind the C-pillar to add some visual interest. About the only new design theme is at the rear, where there is a discernible dent in the decklid that ties the taillamps together. There is a single, slender chrome side spear on the doors and body in lieu of anything sportier.
The base LaCrosse CX comes with 16-inch wheels and bolt-on faux alloy wheel-covers and has almost no decoration at all. Body, door, and fender gaps are noticeably smaller than on the Regal and Century, and the new aero headlamps are said to be 35-percent brighter. CX models can be identified by a grained graphite-color finish on the rocker panels underneath the doors, while other models have these panels in body color.
GM's aging W-car architecture has been torn apart and put back together to improve the LaCrosse's ride and handling by several orders of magnitude. The old steel front cradle has been replaced by a lighter, stronger, stiffer extruded aluminum one that holds the engine, transaxle, steering and suspension tighter, controls powertrain rocking, and weighs 20 pounds less.
Buick says the new car is designed with more high-strength steel content than Regal and Century, a magnesium cross-car beam behind the instrument panel, another cross-car beam behind the rear seats, steel reinforcements in the rocker panels, interlocking door latch system, high-strength steel door beams, and a double-thick Quiet Steel floor pan and firewalls, all added in the name of crash safety and quietness. Altogether, Buick says, about 40 additional pounds of sound deadeners have been added to the car, including structural foam in the front fenders.
The Buick designers were given a much longer wheelbase, two inches longer than the old Century and Regal. And all of it was dedicated to back seat legroom. My 6-foot, 4-inch frame can sit behind a 6-foot, 4-inch driver with plenty of room to spare now.
The LaCrosse interior is altogether new and different from the cheapie Regal and Century rent-a-car interiors. There are fewer but larger individual pieces, built to closer tolerances, for a richer, higher quality look inside. The instruments and controls are presented in white on black, and each of the three round dials in the deeply tunneled instrument panel has a chrome ring around it. Very nicely presented, sportier-looking than previous instruments, with small-diameter chrome-ringed knobs arrayed around the dashboard.
The center stack is done in a mica-flecked flat black, with a trip computer and driver information system that's easy to put through its menu, though the information panel is so glossy that it's hard to read in the morning or afternoon light. The entire dashboard is decorated with a very good imitation woodgrain material. The new front bucket seats in the five-passenger model are clad in leather in the CXL and CXS versions, with a new silk-impregnated vinyl on the seat side panels that emulates leather in look and feel, and a new type of stitching.
Buick makes quite a point of talking about Quiet Tuning, a program of eliminating, tuning out, absorbing, covering up and masking noise sources all over the car, a combination of substituted parts and different types of added sound insulation in the engine, on the firewall, under the toeboard, inside the wheel wells and in the roof. Taken together, the system has made the new LaCrosse one of the quietest, most pleasant cars to ride and drive in in the entire class.
New optional features available on the LaCrosse that were never available on the Century or Regal include a remote starting system that will work from up to 500 feet away, OnStar, XM satellite radio, and StabiliTrak, and if we were ordering a LaCrosse, we would add all of these excellent systems to make a truly complete, safe and all-weather family car.
Driving Impression
We drove all of the LaCrosse models at the car's introduction in northern Michigan. Both of the available V6 engines have been tuned to give a nice, healthy growl on full throttle, but disappear into the background in high-gear cruising.
The standard 3.8-liter engine is rated at 200 horsepower and 225 foot-pounds of torque, a cast-iron V6 that's been fitted with electronic throttle control (ETC), a stiffer crankshaft, an underhood silencer, new pulleys, new power steering, and a structural oil pan all in the name of less mechanical noise. With all of its new parts, the 3.8 is the same gutsy V-6 it's always been, with good torque on demand, smooth, quiet operation, and 29 miles per gallon on the highway in the new car.
The new 3.6-liter, the so-called high-feature V6, with double overhead cams and electronic throttle control has quite a bit more horsepower and torque, revs more freely, but comes only in the CXS (at a $3,000 price penalty). The final numbers are expected to be 240 horsepower at 6000 rpm and 230 foot-pounds of torque at 3200 rpm, and 28 mpg.
The transmissions in all three versions worked flawlessly. All models use GM's high-capacity 4T65-E transaxle, which has only four forward speeds, not five or six as in some of the newest designs.
The base suspension used in the CX and CXS has been stiffened at the rear about 20 percent more than the outgoing Regal and Century, with a larger stabilizer bar. The more powerful CXS gets the Gran Touring suspension with stiffer front and rear stabilizer bars, as well as Magnasteer electric power steering. The optional StabiliTrak suspension package comes with Magnasteer II power steering.
We found the CSX more sporty to drive through the trees on an autumn day in northern Michigan. The steering has the same good feel and turn-in power as in the other LaCross models, but the ratio is quicker. In all three models, the suspension rides more quietly and smoothly, and the steering precision is of a much, much higher order than the Century or Regal, really biting into the pavement when you want to turn, with terrific body roll control.
Three different traction control systems are offered: CX and CXL versions use a speed-based system that works with engine torque and fuel cutoff. this helps eliminate front wheelspin when accelerating on slippery surfaces for more stable control. The performance CXS uses GM's full-range electronic traction control, which selectively applies the brakes at one ore more wheels as needed to restore traction. GM's optional StabiliTrak system improves driver control during emergency or evasive maneuvers. StabiliTrak uses sensors to detect the direction the driver is steering the car and if the car is not responding adequately, it applies the brakes selectively and precisely to the left and right wheels and reduces throttle to help realign the vehicle's path with that being steered by the driver.
The 11.7-inch ventilated front and 10.6-inch solid rear disc brakes with ABS are brand-new Delphi brakes, larger, stiffer and more powerful than before. On our middle CXL model, they worked just fine to haul the car's 3500 pounds down from supralegal speeds whenever a sudden 90-degree corner popped up, with a brake pedal feel and deceleration curve that feels like Mr. Lutz ordered it to his personal specifications.
Buick's long tradition of fine sedans is served and continued very well by the new LaCrosse. It is a very quiet car that surprises the new driver with its steering precision, road manners, and handling crispness. The interior has been given extra attention since Bob Lutz ordered a re-do, and that, too, has paid off handsomely.
We don't know that the LaCrosse will compete directly with the Accord and Camry, but it is certainly a worthy competitor for all the American-made competition in the $30,000 sedan class.
Jim McCraw filed this report from Pellston, Michigan.
Model Lineup
Buick LaCrosse CX ($22,835); LaCrosse CXL ($25,335); LaCrosse CXS ($28,335).
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Options As Tested
Sunroof ($900); XM Satellite Radio ($325); chrome-plated wheels ($650); Gold convenience package ($1150); remote start ($150); StabiliTrak ($495).
Model Tested
Buick LaCrosse CXL ($25,335).
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No agreement in White House meeting on spending cuts
WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Barack Obama blamed Congress for failing to prevent $85 billion in forced government spending cuts that take effect on Friday, saying that the sharp reduction will harm economic recovery.
The president met with congressional leaders at the White House prior to briefing reporters, but no agreement emerged to avert the automatic austerity that both sides oppose.
He called them "dumb, arbitrary cuts" that are "unnecessary and inexcusable."
"I genuinely believe there's an opportunity for us to cooperate," Obama said, adding that "what doesn't make sense is to replace this set of arbitrary cuts with an even worse set of arbitrary cuts."
After the meeting, which lasted about 45 minutes, House Speaker John Boehner told reporters that the House will take up a measure next week to authorize federal funding beyond a March 27 deadline to prevent a potential partial government shutdown.
The funding measure is unconnected to the spending cuts, known in Washington jargon as sequestration, and Boehner reiterated his opposition to Obama's call for more tax revenue to be part of any solution.
"I am hopeful we wont have to deal with the threat of a government shutdown while we are dealing with the sequester at the same time," Boehner said.
The White House meeting also involved Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
The cuts involve roughly 9% for a broad range of non-defense programs and 13% for the Pentagon over the rest of the current fiscal year. They officially take effect just before midnight on Friday.
They are the result of a deep political impasse over federal spending.
The cuts were placed into law in 2011 as leverage in negotiations on deficit reduction — something so draconian that no one would ever want them to take effect. However, no deal has emerged since to stem the red ink.


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Immigration reform isn't the only issue as to which Rand Paul is embarrassing himself these days. The Senator's "Fourth Amendment Restoration Act of 2013" represents a stunning combination of ignorance and hysteria.
Andy McCarthy demonstrates Paul's ignorance. He writes:
[T]he bill is unacquainted with the Fourth Amendment — either the one given to us by the Framers or even the one enlarged over time by Supreme Court jurisprudence. . . .Senator Paul's proposed law asserts: "The collection of citizen's [ACM: I take it he means citizens'] phone records is a violation of the natural rights of every man and woman in the United States." A citizen's "natural right" to telephone-usage records that are actually the property of third-party service providers? I wonder what St. Augustine would have made of that.
Not content to contort natural law, Paul then works his magic on positive law. He alleges that collection of records of telephone activity (but not the content of phone conversations) is somehow "a clear violation of the explicit language of the highest law of the land."
By "highest law of the land," Paul is referring to the Constitution's Fourth Amendment. The senator apparently did not read the Fourth Amendment before cutting and pasting it into his bill. It requires (in relevant part) that "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, shall not be violated."
Perhaps Senator Paul will edify us on how it is "clear" that a phone record, owned and possessed by a telephone service provider (not the customer), qualifies as the person, house, paper, or effect of the customer, such that the government's acquisition of it violates the Fourth Amendment. The federal courts have consistently, emphatically rejected this implausible suggestion, holding that government's collection of phone records does not even implicate the Fourth Amendment, much less violate it.
McCarthy proceeds to explain why "what Paul is advocating is a Constitution even more warped than the 'organic' one progressive jurists have contrived" and why Paul's "proposal bears no resemblance to the Constitution of the Framers."
McCarthy's analysis deserves to be read in full, rather than summarized by me.


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