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2 + 2 = 5
The phrase "two plus two equals five" ("2 + 2 = 5") is a slogan used in many different forms of media, but more specifically in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four[1] as an example of an obviously false dogma one may be required to believe, similar to other obviously false slogans by the Party in the novel. It is contrasted with the phrase "two plus two makes four", the obvious (by definition) – but politically inexpedient – truth. Orwell's protagonist, Winston Smith, uses the phrase to wonder if the State might declare "two plus two equals five" as a fact; he ponders whether, if everybody believes it, does that make it true? The Inner Party interrogator of thought-criminals, O'Brien, says of the mathematically false statement that control over physical reality is unimportant; so long as one controls one's own perceptions to what the Party wills, then any corporeal act is possible, in accordance with the principles of doublethink ("Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once").[2]
Coinage of the phrase
The earliest known use of this idea – that two and two could somehow become five – dates back to 1813 in a letter written by Lord Byron to his soon to be wife Anabella Milbanke in which he states "I know that two and two make four—& should be glad to prove it too if I could—though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 & 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure."[3]
Victor Hugo and Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground, the protagonist implicitly supports the idea of two times two making five, spending several paragraphs considering the implications of rejecting the statement "two times two makes four."
His purpose is not ideological, however. Instead, he proposes that it is the free will to choose or reject the logical as well as the illogical that makes mankind human. He adds: "I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too."
Dostoyevsky was writing in 1864. However, according to Roderick T. Long, Victor Hugo had used the phrase back in 1852. He objected to the way in which the vast majority of French voters had backed Napoleon III, endorsing the way liberal values had been ignored in Napoleon III's coup.[4]
In Napoléon le Petit, Victor Hugo writes: "Now, get seven million five hundred thousand votes to declare that two and two make five, that the straight line is the longest road, that the whole is less than its part; get it declared by eight millions, by ten millions, by a hundred millions of votes, you will not have advanced a step." Here, Hugo is echoing earlier French thought – Sieyès, in his "What Is the Third Estate?" uses the phrase, "Consequently if it be claimed that under the French constitution, 200,000 individuals out of 26 million citizens constitute two-thirds of the common will, only one comment is possible: it is a claim that two and two make five."[5]
It is very plausible that Dostoyevsky had this in mind. He had been sentenced to death for his participation in a radical intellectual discussion group. The sentence was commuted to imprisonment in Siberia, and he changed his opinions such that they would fit no conventional labels.
The idea seems to have been significant to Russian literature and culture. Ivan Turgenev wrote in Prayer, one of his Poems in Prose "Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: Great God, grant that twice two be not four." Also similar sentiments are said to be among Leo Tolstoy's last words when urged to convert back to the Russian Orthodox Church: "Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six." Even turn-of-the-century Russian newspaper columnists used the phrase to suggest the moral confusion of the age.[6]
Soviet planning
The Soviet Union began its first five-year economic plan in 1928. Its goals were ambitious from the start, seeking the immediate transformation of the USSR into an industrial nation. The consequences for underperformance during the plan were severe; managers who admitted missing their targets, even as those targets were revised upward, could be charged with economic wrecking.[7] After statistics from the first two years indicated that the plan was ahead of schedule, Joseph Stalin announced that the plan would be completed in four years.[8] Propagandist Iakov Guminer supported this campaign with a 1931 poster reading "2+2=5: Arithmetic of a counter-plan plus the enthusiasm of the workers." Stalin declared the plan a success at the beginning of 1933, noting the creation of several heavy industries where none had existed; at the same time, he urged more cautious planning in the future.[9]
George Orwell
George Orwell had used this concept before publishing Nineteen Eighty-Four. During his career at the BBC, he became familiar with the methods of Nazi propaganda. In his essay "Looking Back on the Spanish War",[10] published in 1943 (six years before the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four), Orwell wrote:
Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as "the truth" exists. ... The implied objective of this line of thought is a nightmare world in which the Leader, or some ruling clique, controls not only the future but the past. If the Leader says of such and such an event, "It never happened" – well, it never happened. If he says that two and two are five – well, two and two are five. This prospect frightens me much more than bombs.[10]
In the view of most of Orwell's biographers, the main source for this was Assignment in Utopia by Eugene Lyons, an account of his time in the Soviet Union. This contains a chapter "Two Plus Two Equals Five", that referred to Guminer's slogan.
However, Orwell spoke of the Nazis, so he may have been making reference to the Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, who once, in a debatably hyperbolic display of loyalty to Adolf Hitler, declared, "If the Führer wants it, two and two makes five!"[11]
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell writes:
In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?[12]
Self-evident truth
In his play Dom Juan, Molière's title character is asked what he believes. He answers that he believes that two plus two equals four.[13] Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true.[14] A belief is separate from knowledge.[15][16] Were certain absolute knowledge to exist, belief in an existential claim would be unnecessary. Molière seeks the freedom to believe that two plus two equals four. Orwell seeks the freedom to say that two plus two equals four, as an objective fact which the Party cannot touch.
René Descartes' realm of pure ideas considers that self-evident ideas such as two plus two equals four may in fact have no reality outside the mind. According to the first meditation, the standard of truth is self-evidence of clear and distinct ideas. However, Descartes questions the correspondence of these ideas to reality.[17]
In popular culture
- Popular English alternative rock band Radiohead used the slogan as the title for the opening track on the album Hail to the Thief.
- In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Chain of Command, Part II", Captain Picard is tortured by a Cardassian in a manner similar to the torture of Winston Smith by O'Brien from Nineteen Eighty-Four. During the episode, the Cardassian officer tries to coerce Picard to admit seeing five lights when in fact there were only four. Picard valiantly sticks to reality. Near the end when Picard is about to be brought back to his crew, he defiantly declares, once again, "There!...Are!...Four!...Lights!".[18] However, later in a counselling session with Troi, Picard admits that he believed he did see five lights at the end.
- In Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged,[19] the hero John Galt posits that "the noblest act you have ever performed is the act of your mind in the process of grasping that two and two make four".
- In presidential debates prior to 2009 Iranian presidential elections, reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi accused his interlocutor, president Ahmadinejad, of being illogical and said: "If you ask (the president) what two by two makes he would answer five." In the following days, one of the slogans chanted by Mousavi's supporters was "two by two makes five!"
- In Mikhail Bakunin's God and the State, he classifies Deism as: "Imagine a philosophical vinegar sauce of the most opposed systems, a mixture of Fathers of the Church, scholastic philosophers, Descartes and Pascal, Kant and Scottish psychologists, all this a superstructure on the divine and innate ideas of Plato, and covered up with a layer of Hegelian immanence accompanied, of course, by an ignorance, as contemptuous as it is complete, of natural science, and proving just as two times two make five; the existence of a personal God."[20]
- Media critic Andrew Keen uses the phrase in his critique of Wikipedia's policy to let anyone edit. He believes, along with Marshall Poe, that this leads to an encyclopedia of common knowledge, not expert knowledge. He believes the "wisdom of the crowd" will distort truth.[21]
See also
- Asch conformity experiments – for more on how the influence of a majority can affect how a single person thinks.
- ↑ Part One, Chapter Seven
- ↑ Part Three, Chapter Two
- ↑ Byron, George Gordon (1974) [Written 1813-1814]. Leslie A. Marchand, ed. Alas! the Love of Women: 1813-1814. Belknap Press.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Long, Roderick T. "Victor Hugo on the Limits of Democracy". Retrieved 5 December 2011.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Keith M. Baker; John W. Boyer; Julius Kirshner (15 May 1987). University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 7: The Old Regime and the French Revolution. University of Chicago Press. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-226-06950-0. Retrieved 27 January 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ e.g. Novoe vremia newspaper ("New Times"), 31 October 1900
- ↑ Peter Krenz (2006) A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End
- ↑ Stalin, Joseph (June 1930). Political Report of the Central Committee to the Sixteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.). Pravda, No. 177. Retrieved 10 October 2014.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Stalin, Joseph (7 January 1933). Joint Plenum of the C.C. and C.C.C., C.P.S.U.(B.) January 7–12, 1933: The Results of the First Five-Year Plan. Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow. Retrieved 10 October 2014.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Orwell, George. "Looking back on the Spanish War". orwell.ru.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Hermann Göring". Museum of Tolerance Multimedia Learning Center. Retrieved 18 February 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker and Warburg (1949). ISBN 0-452-28423-6
- ↑ "Moliere Don Juan Adapted by Timothy Mooney". Moliere-in-english.com. Retrieved 1 February 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Belief (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)". Plato.stanford.edu. Retrieved 1 February 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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- ↑ Video on YouTube
- ↑ Rand, Ayn (1999) [1957]. Atlas Shrugged. Plume. ISBN 0-452-01187-6.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings. Dover Publications. 2003. p. 199. ISBN 0486424650.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Keen, Andrew (2007). The Cult of the Amateur. Doubleday. pp. 39–40, 44.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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External links
- "Two Plus Two Equals Red", Time Magazine, Monday, 30 Jun 1947


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Targa Trophy 2010 is coming. This year, european car is teaming up with the premier lifestyle Triple Crown rally series as an official media partner. The first event is only a few weeks away, June 25 and 26, starting at the W Hotel in Hollywood and ending at the W Hotel in San Diego.
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I am pretty terrible at making a first impression. Realistically, I am terrible at making a twelfth impression, but that's beside the point.
In the history of worst first impressions I generally rank somewhere in between Benito Mussolini, Crystal Pepsi and the Segway. Hannibal Lecter accidentally stumbling into an American Vegetarian Association meeting still isn't as bad as a first impression that I usually end up executing.
Making a stellar first impression is a critical characteristic to posses when one lives next to a rental property like I do.
I've seen renters come and I've seen renters go. In their wake I have managed to leave behind a jarring series of embarrassing first impressions that would leave even Kim Jong-un envious — before he would strip you naked and feed you to starved hunting dogs that is.
So it stands to reason the relationships I have forged with neighbors in the past have been somewhere between astoundingly atrocious to outrageously awful — and that is putting it mildly.
I mostly blame my inability to make a good first impression for this.
Either that or it is my chronic anti-social behavior and my desire to be naturally mistrustful of outsiders that is to blame. It is one or the other that much I know for sure.
Loving thy neighbor might have been the par for the course in the Beaver Cleaver days of yore, but society has changed since then. Loving thy neighbor is optional and subject to a thorough social media background check.
My mentality on the matter at hand is to secretly observe new neighbors through the blinds. Then, after carefully considering whether or not it is worth the trouble of getting to know them, properly introducing myself as a member of polite society.
As a result it usually takes me a couple of months before I bother bidding a new neighbor with a kind wave hello or a general nod in recognition of mutual coexistence.
Or sometimes none of the above. Don't believe me?
Two neighbors back, my first impression involved a call to 911 concerning my brand-new neighbor. I was sitting on the couch when I noticed a man clutching a large butcher knife walking up to my neighbor's porch and he began frantically banging on the front door.
I try not to be a super nosy neighbor, but I tend to pick up on those sorts of observations if for no other reason than self-preservation.
My neighbor after that was a woman who kept weird hours. I think a whole year went by before I even considered introducing myself to her. What would I say to her anyway after such a long passage of time?
Then one day I had to introduce myself to her because my large maple tree fell over and nearly squashed her car.
Let's just say it was a terrible first impression I left that day and leave it at that.
A year later my other large maple tree tumbled over, nearly crashed on her house, and caused a considerable amount of property damage. Again, let's just say it was a terrible second (and last) impression and leave it at that.
Hoping to learn from the past I aspire to soon properly acquaint myself with my new neighbors before too much time passes. I just hope the first impression that I leave with them proves better than it has in the past.


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The first piece of advice everyone loves to spew right after you break up with your boyfriend is ... Don't jump right into a new relationship. But it's time to stop listening to all that unsolicited advice, because it turns out that rebound relationship might be the best thing you can do for yourself!
A recent study found that people who start a new relationship within seven months of a breakup are much happier than people who stay single. Yep, moving on is the best medicine. The study, surveyed 200 people about their current relationships and future relationships and none of the people who moved on quickly were suffering any ill effects from their decision. As a matter of fact, they had overall better well being than the participants who chose to follow that old school advice and stay single for a while.
So, why does rebounding work so well to heal that broken heart? Researchers claim a new flame will boost your confidence and make you feel desirable and wanted again. Not only that, but it is a great way to distract yourself from the hurt feelings and mourning of a lost love. So, next time you get your heart broken, the best medicine isn't a pint of Ben & Jerry's – the real way to heal is by getting your flirt on
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The Culture Gabfest: The "Are You Done Yet" Bonus Segment
Dana and Julia corner Stephen to ask him five questions about his recent book leave.
Stephen Metcalf is writing a book about the '80s and he doesn't like to talk about it.
But Stephen's back from a recent book leave, and Julia Turner and Dana Stevens, his Culture Gabfest co-panelists, have finally pinned him down. They were allowed five (and only five) questions about Stephen's book project.
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Brrrrrrrr! Do you feel the chill coming on? This statue of Jon Snow and Ghost makes us feel like Winter is here! It's so detailed that you can almost hear the snow crunching under Jon's boots.
Sculpted and finished by the artists at Gentle Giant Studios, this polystone statue of Ned Stark's bastard son and his direwolf is full of amazing details. From the texture of Ghost's fur to the swing of Jon's cloak, everything is just perfect. This huge piece would be a showstopper in any home and a conversation starter at the office.
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by Pete Mazzaccaro
The annual Blood Drive sponsored by the Chestnut Hill Community Association will take place on Saturday, Feb. 23, and again the drive will be in memory of the chairperson Liz Bales' friend Teresa Garofalo.
A model turned veterinarian, Garofalo died in August of 2010 of complications from acute myeloid leukemia, a bone marrow disorder in which abnormal white blood cells accumulate in the bone marrow and prevent the production of normal blood cells.
"Her treatment lasted a little more than three years," Bales said. "I got to spend a lot of those days with her. A lot of those days were great fun. Others were very hard. I learned a lot about her and about the value of life."
In the course of her treatment, Garofalo needed 400 units of blood, a milestone Bales optimistically hopes to reach by raising the same amount through the community blood drive.
Bales said that the drive is not just for Garofalo. It's about the many people in the same situation.
"This drive is really in honor of everyone who has a need," she said. "People need blood and especially this time of year when the supply is low."
Bales said she would do anything it took to make giving blood a comfortable experience.
"I'll hold your hand and we can watch your children," she said.
She added that anyone worried about the experience should go to the drive with a friend.
The blood drive will be held at Vare Field House on the campus of Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, 8000 Cherokee Street, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The drive will again be conducted by the Miller Keystone Blood Center, an organization that keeps donated blood in the local Philadelphia area.
Local businesses will also donate food for those who give. Bales said she was very grateful to the many local restaurants and bakeries that donated snacks last year.
Anyone who wants to give blood should call to make an appointment. Appointments will help Miller Keystone establish staffing levels for the drive. Anyone interested can make an appointment now by calling Noreen Spota at 215-248-8810 or emailing her at email@example.com
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Trust is confidence in ourselves, others, and our sense of the Divine. Trust takes a risk; in the absence of certainty, is assumes that goodness, truth, honor, fairness, or ability will prevail. For another person to place trust in us is a wonderful and delicate gift.
Sometimes people trust us to be or do more than we can. Children often trust their parents in this way. An expectation of perfection can make trust fragile and brittle so that it is crushed by disappointment. But if we honor trust as a gift and if we honor the vulnerability of the giver, trust can grow through and beyond disappointments.
Trust becomes resilient when it is grounded in reality – when it recognizes the imperfections and yet sees the through-line of goodness that lies beneath and beyond them.
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Because so many people, after this appearance, were sniping that my Marion had her tits done. In December, I posted that there was another possibility. Click here for a refresher. She's having a baby.
With Guillaume Canet, of course. I love them! And now they can't break up! For at least a year or two!
Us Weekly reported it first. Word is it'll be late Spring. And they will certainly test my Celebrity Baby Theory. Because, really, the two of them… it's perfect. A little stoned, yes, but perfect.
It's been a year since I last watched Jeux D'Enfants. Tonight then. And if you have never, I'm telling you, you'll love it.
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The Summit at Snoqualimie was brave enough to host the Shut up and Snowskate finals featuring the worlds top binding-less buzzards. The course featured the biggest snowskate features ever constructed in the history of this new to some people sport. Over 40 competitors turned out to battle each other in a series of events, including the world snowskate speed record! Optimal conditions brought out some of the largest quarter pipe airs seen to date in the twisted first leg of competition. Jake Tomlinson, currently number one in the world in the quarter pipe division, blasted consistent head high backside airs all day. Coming in hot behind Jake was Clarke Hurlbut. Clarke planted perfect backside body-jars over the hip, and boosted the steeziest frontside airs of the day. Clarke also unsuccessfully attempted to pull the first heelside rodeos off the hip several times but was ejected to the flats below. Legendary board binding user now gone strapless, Joey McGuire snapped a couple of sweet backside airs to start a new saga without being physically attached.
The boner box was up next—at a staggering twenty feet of stiff vertical fear. Most professional binding users would probably choke on its size. Few attempted and even fewer succeeded making it up half way up this new snowsk8ting feature. Jake Tomlinson wasn't scurred to get tuned up a couple times before reaching a seventeen foot height and walked away unscathed and victorious.
Next up was the Slash for Cash, where over 40 competitors raced kamikaze down a narrow snake run from the Summit. One snowboarder was seen poaching the course prior to the race, then unbuckling half way down in fear. This was the most intimidating of all disciplines due to boards, leashes and bodies stacking up throughout the course. Leashes are mandatory and for a good reason, tripping your homeys up when you stack in front of them. O There was only one way through this mess—straight threw the body bags. Once again Clarke Hurlbut held it together threw two heats arising victorious.
Once the slopes were swept by local patrol it was time to break the world speed record, or start one. It was scary to say the least, as thirty competitors were straight shot racing on the Summits fastest slope. Helmets were mandatory for competitors even thinking about trying to break the record. Clocking in it a whopping 43mph, Clarke Hurlbut broke the laws of speed wobbles and took the victory.
The three stop U.S tour would not have been possible without help from the Summit Krush Kulesza, Ryan Davis, Gnu Snowskates, Oneballjay, Electric, and Starfish.
Final Results:
Pipe Smoker: Jake Tomlinson
Radical Ripper: Clarke Hurlbut
Wookie Rail Ripper: Sean Davis
General-Lee Radical: Tyson Butler
Boner Boxer: Jake Tomlinson
Heaviest Snowskate: Mark Steinberger
Metric Maniac: Colin Sproute
Slash For Cash: Clarke Hurlbut
Pat Bonsor Award: Pat Bonsor
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As an insurance professional, I come across many retired folks and people who are hoping to retire one day. They have accumulated some money during their lifetime, and they just don't know where to put it that will allow them to get a good return without the risks of an up and down stock market.
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In spite of extremely low interest rates, many have turned to fixed interest vehicles like CDs, money markets, and fixed interest annuities because they are afraid to lose their money. The problem is that their money is losing purchasing power. Every year that they earn less than the inflation rate they are falling further behind. When that loss is compounded year after year it takes a heavy toll. Some people turn to bonds or bond mutual funds. High-grade bonds and bond funds tend to pay a slightly higher rate of return than the previously mentioned savings vehicles, but there is more risk – especially if one is purchasing low-grade bonds where the risk of default is higher.
Like the previously mentioned savings vehicles, high-grade bonds can also have trouble keeping up with inflation. In addition, they introduce another risk—new bonds are issued with a fixed interest rate at a price of $1,000. If interest rates rise and newly issued bonds are paying a higher interest rates, the value of the lower interest paying bonds goes down. Think about this. If you had bought a bond for $1,000, and it was paying 3% interest, would anyone pay you $1,000 for that bond if they could buy a bond for $1,000 that is paying 4% interest? Will interest rates rise in the future? There is an obvious risk of loss of principle with bonds.
Some people still turn to stocks and stock mutual funds with the hope of getting a good return. The problem is that the market tends to go down as well as up, and it can be difficult to recoup money once it is lost.If the market had a 50% loss one year and then a 50% gain the next, your average return would be 0% but would you be back where you started? The answer is no; if you had $100,000 and lost 50% you would be down to $50,000, if you then gained 50% you would only be up to $75,000. The stock market has not been kind of late; from the beginning of 2001 to the end of 2011 the S&P 500 returned an effective interest rate of 0.92% and the S&P 500 historically outperforms 85% of all mutual funds.
So how can people get a reasonable rate of return without taking market risk on their IRA/401K funds? I believe the answer is "indexing." With an indexed annuity the insurance company leverages your money to get you the best return it can without taking on market risk. Think about this – if an insurance company knew they could guarantee about a 3% return on their fixed investment portfolio, they could put about 97% of your funds in that portfolio and guarantee it would grow back to 100% by the end of the year. That would allow them to use the other 3% of the funds to try to get as high a return as possible. Historically, stock market index options such as the S&P 500, the Dow Jones, the Euro 50, etc. have been used to accomplish this goal. The insurance industry is now really getting creative by using indexes like the Trader Vick index (TVI) to maximize growth. The TVI is based on commodities like gold, silver, livestock, grains, and energy.
Using the Trader Vick index has many advantages:
• Inflation – In the last 4 years the US money supply has gone from $800 billion to $3 trillion. That's an increase of 300% in 4 years. The laws of supply and demand dictate that the US dollar must become less valuable. A less valuable dollar is the same thing as inflation. It takes more money to buy the same amount of goods and services. While this can be bad news for the consumer on one hand, it is good news for those who are holding commodities as part of their investment portfolio. If the price of goods and services goes up, so does the price of the commodities they are holding, which equals profit for their portfolio.
• National Debt – Our monster national debt can only be solved two ways. One – by spending less as a government. (Yeah, how's that going?) And two – by taxing more. Higher taxes take money out of the pockets of businesses (making them less profitable), which is bad for companies, and therefore bad for stock market returns. However, as far as commodities go, this generally doesn't affect the price of goods and services. This decouples and diversifies a client's portfolio from just looking to the stock market for gains.
• Population – This reason is simple, significant, and often overlooked. The population on the planet is growing exponentially – topping 7 billion people in 2012 (up from 2 billion in 1940, 3 billion in 1960, and 4 billion in 1980). This exponential growth in population places a huge and growing demand on physical commodities like corn, wheat, gold, oil, etc. Not only does this place a greater demand on these goods but it also decreases the available land to grow and produce these commodities. This creates a double whammy—exponential growth in demand and less land to produce the goods. Again, the law of supply and demand dictates that both of these factors must translate into higher prices for physical commodities—which is good for the TVI.
• Flexibility – Even though it's likely that there will be a long-term bull market in physical commodities, commodity prices are still cyclical. Prices go up and down just like you see at the gas pump. What's great about the TVI is that it's a long/short index, meaning that those participating in the index can make money when the index is going both up and down, unlike stock indexes that only make money when the stock market is going up.
• A safe way to invest in commodities – Whoever heard of a safe way to invest in commodities? No one. It's never been possible—until now! Let me show you a way to grow your portfolio when the commodity market goes up with a GUARANTEE to never lose money if the commodity market moves against you. This is unheard of! This is a game-changer!
• Diversity – Now consumers have the opportunity for true diversity. No longer do they have to hitch their retirement dollars solely to the stock market wagon. Now they can blend their returns between both the stock market and the commodity market. Most indexed annuities do not offer any kind of diversity. They simply offer different stock indexes. Global stock indexes are still stock indexes, providing zero diversity if we have a global crisis like we saw in 2008 and 2009. However, the TVI often performs the best when the stock market is plummeting. So for the first time ever consumers have the real opportunity to diversify their portfolio.
• Uncapped Index – Because of the nature of the TVI, insurers can offer consumers an uncapped index, which is different than the usual stock indexes that are generally capped. A consumer can now have a protected downside (zero market risk) and yet have an unlimited upside (with no limit to profit potential), THAT IS the best of both worlds and ONLY available with the TVI.
• The TVI has had positive gains in 18 of the last 20 years.
• Annuities with a TVI option generally offer a premium bonus and an income rider, which can effectively enhance a person's income during their retirement years.
People work very hard during their lifetime. If they don't have their money working just as hard for them, they are shortchanging themselves and their retirement plans. The truth is that people don't have to take on investment risk to get a decent return on their IRA/401K funds. I urge you to look into what a TVI Index Annuity can do for you!
Frank Guida is a financial advisor located in Whitehall, Pennsylvania. To contact Frank, visit his website at www.ABetterWayFinancial.com or call his office at (610) 440-1700.


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Bloomberg Reporters Had Full Access To Customer Usage Logs, Including Help Transcript Logs
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Incredibly, the reporters also had access to "help" transcripts of any customer and could call them at will, which apparently some of them did for fun.
Until recently, all Bloomberg employees could access information about when and how terminals were used by any customer. But after complaints by Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, Bloomberg says its 2,000 or so journalists no longer have access to that information, though other staff still do. Bloomberg has more than 15,000 employees.
The banks were concerned that Bloomberg News was keeping tabs on terminal usage in order to aid its reporting. JP Morgan specifically cited coverage of the bank's disastrous derivatives trading, known as the "London Whale," which Bloomberg was the first to reveal.
Several former Bloomberg employees say colleagues would look upThese are the kinds of things that small companies sometimes screw up with poor controls over information. But a massive company like Bloomberg -- especially when it deals with critical financial information -- you would think would have much tighter controls on information. I'd be curious if this violates whatever privacy policies Bloomberg has with its customers. At the very least, it should make Bloomberg customers pretty damn skeptical of continuing to use their terminals. Seems like a huge opportunity for competitors with better controls to step in.
chat transcripts of famous customers, like Alan Greenspan, for amusement on slow workdays. The transcripts were typically mundane and hardly incriminating, but who wouldn't enjoy watching a former US Treasury secretary struggle to use a computer? And, in theory, the substance of someone's query to customer service could reveal specific information that he's interested in, tipping off a reporter to a story.


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IBD at the End of Its First Century
G. Rogler, F. Kullman, P. Rutgeerts, R.B. Sartor, J. Schölmerich
Springer, Jul 31, 2000 - Medical - 321 pages
Although the first description of patients with what we now call Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis was published well before 1900, both disorders seem to be diseases of the twentieth century. At the very start of the twenty-first century, it therefore seems appropriate to look back and at the same time look forward and to assess what knowledge has been gained during the last 100 years and in what direction research and thereby clinical practice will go in the future.
This book, the proceedings of Falk Symposium No. 111 held in Freiburg, Germany, on June 19-20 1999, contains contributions from experienced senior scientists on the state of the art in pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment, together with unpublished and new findings from young researchers. Basic scientists and clinicians are thereby involved in an exchange of information which will lead to new directions for future research and clinical management of inflammatory bowel diseases.
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We've Trained The TSA To Search For Liquid Instead Of Bombs
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My carry-on goes through the scanner and comes out the other side. One of the guards squints at his monitor, then shoots me a hostile look. What's this, no plastic baggie? He pulls my luggage aside, opens it, and asks me to repack my liquids and gels "the right way."Smith does a good job highlighting the absurdity of all of this and pointing out, of course, that the guard is wrong. But later in the post he really keys in on the scary point of all of this: we've trained the TSA to look for unbagged liquids, rather than explosives. And they're doing that successfully:
I do as he wants. When I'm finished, I hand him the baggie so he can run the items through again.
To my surprise, he won't take them. "No," he says. "Just put them in your suitcase and go."
But ...
"Just put them in your suitcase and go."
I look at him for a minute. Apparently my having to repack them was a punishment exercise? All right, fine. Lesson learned, I unzip the approved, one-quart zip-top bag, and begin to dump the containers back into my toiletries kit.
"No!" interjects the guard. "Leave them in the plastic!"
"You have to leave them in the plastic bag!"
"But I'm already through the checkpoint. You already screened them."
He shrugs. "They need to stay in the bag."
"No they don't."
"Yes they do."
"They need to stay in the bag. You should know better."
Are we looking for liquids, or are we looking for explosives? A search for the former is not a de facto search for the latter. Not the way we've been doing it. Steve Elson tells the story of a test in which TSA screeners are presented with a suitcase containing a mock explosive device with a water bottle nestled next to it. They ferret out the water, of course, while the bomb goes sailing through.It's yet another case of where security theater is actually making us less safe. We've set up these rules that don't really help protect anyone, and yet the TSA folks are taught to follow the rules, rather than look for anyone actually looking to cause harm on an airplane.


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Valve Exec Explains How To Compete With Piracy
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He started out by pointing out something that we've discussed in the past: digital content is best viewed as a service, not a product. As a service, you focus on providing continual value -- and people are paying for that future value (which is a scarce good prior to delivery), rather than an infinite good already created. There's value in paying for that future (scarce) service, and it trumps paying for an abundantly available good.
From there, he noted that the reason "piracy" is doing so well is that the "pirates are ahead not just on price, but on service." In fact, he noted that since DRM decreases the service value for customers, it also tends to increase piracy, rather than decrease it.
Then, he showed how that combination of service and smarter pricing allowed the company to run experiments and make a lot more money -- competing quite successfully against piracy. The most stunning example: last weekend, the company ran an experiment with the game Left 4 Dead. It heavily discounted the price, and sales shot up 3,000%. And this wasn't just a case of building off a small base. The sales over the weekend were more than when the game launched.
In fact, it looks like a big part of the problem facing the industry is that they charge way too much for their products. Here are the numbers Newell shared from Valve's experiments with "sale" pricing:
- 10% off = 35% increase in sales (real dollars, not units shipped)
- 25% off = 245% increase in sales
- 50% off = 320% increase in sales
- 75% off = 1470% increase in sales
Between all of this, it's pretty clear, yet again, that "piracy" is hardly the issue. If you provide a valuable ongoing service at a much more reasonable price, there's no problem at all. Once again proving that the issue is a business model issue, rather than a legal issue. It's too bad so few old school content providers are willing to recognize this, and quite troubling that some folks in our government are still missing this as well. It's going to lead to bad laws and even worse enforcement of the law.


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In May 2012, a Japanese illustrator named Mao Sugiyama oversaw an event during which his post-op genitals were served up for dinner. Five people paid money to eat them! And that they did.
The event gained international attention. Japanese police began investigating the event, hoping to pin Sugiyama and the event's organizers for breaking food hygiene laws—that, or obscenity laws. Cannibalism, it seems, is not illegal in Japan.
This week, News24 reports that the case against the four individuals accused of wrongdoing was not strong enough, and it was subsequently dropped.
Ryou Tanaka, the politician overseeing the area in Tokyo were the event was held, was obviously not pleased and said that Japan needs to change the laws so nothing this bizarre ever happens again.
By bizarre, I'm assuming he means people eating penis for dinner.
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Examining gravestone
Stephanie Smith, representing a Baltimore citizen from the Civil War, tries to make out the information on the gravestone belonging to Peter Purviance who served in the military during the Civil War. Mount Auburn Cemetery hosts a pre-Memorial Day ceremony with a short parade with the Fort McHenry Guard Fife and Drum corps in conjunction with a pilot program with the Booker T. Washington Middle School in highlighting the role of U.S. Colored Troops.
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IUCN Patron of Nature, Salley Ranney, accompanied by businessman, environmentalist and philanthropist Ted Turner, paid a recent visit to IUCN's office in Bejing, China. IUCN's new President, Zhang Xinsheng, welcomed the IUCN Patron and joined Ms Ranney, Mr Turner, and a number of IUCN staff to discuss the role of IUCN and its Members in Chinese conservation.
As part of an American delegation visiting China, Ms Ranney, an American journalist and conservation activist, and Mr Turner sought to better understand China's environmental issues.
Among the range of issues discussed - including China's new leadership's role in the environment, the state of protected area and marine conservation and legislation, women's participation in climate change mitigation and adaptation, payments for ecosystem services (PES) and large scale elephant poaching in Africa - it was the latter two topics in which Ms Ranney expressed the most interest and concern for China's role.
President Zhang stressed IUCN's commitment to all of the issues discussed, and assured Ms Ranney and Mr Turner that IUCN will continue to work closely with its members and partners in China to promote nature-based solutions to China's most pressing environmental issues.


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Koogmo is published every other month or so. Except for the earliest back issues, you won't find Koogmo online. It's available in hard-copy only. Alternatively, you will find copies haphazardly distributed throughout the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex and other random places I happen to be visiting at any particular moment: laundromats, Greyhound bus stations, gas station restrooms, used-book stores, Hawaii, Mexico.
To order a hard-copy print version, send $1 (ONE DOLLAR!) to:
(Trades also accepted. Free to prisoners and other institutionalized individuals -- mad houses, whorehouses, intellectuals trapped in ivory towered shit-holes.)
Koogmo wants to make you famous
If you've got something you'd like to see printed within the pages of this fine, fine zine, mail it to the address listed above, or send it to the email address listed on my contact page.
I'm looking for short pieces (100 to 1,000 words) that are funny, quirky, or strange. Micro-fiction, weird fiction, bizarre anecdotes, stuff that the Reader's Digest would reject as being too risque or crude.
Payment: NOTHING. (Sorry, this is a home-grown effort.) I will, however, send you a few FREE copies! Be sure to include a return address with your submission.


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Historic Obama Collages
Newspaper front page and headline collages celebrating Barack Obama's historic victory in the 2008 Democratic primaries, his election as the first black president of the United States in the 2008 gene
Barack Obama Holiday Ornaments
Now that President Obama has been re-elected (thank gosh!), decorate your Christmas tree (or Hanukkah/Kwanzaa festivities) in celebration with these commemorative ornaments and stockings.
Obama: President for 100%
Unlike Mitt Romney, who claimed he didn't have to worry about 47% of voters, Barack Obama is and has been president of all 100%, and will be for four more years!
Stand with the 47% of Americans Mitt Romney said he doesn't have to worry about. A president's job is to worry about 100% of Americans.
Binders Full of Women for Obama
In response to Mitt Romney's debate comment about the "binders full of women" who came to work for him, this button points out that many more "binders full of women" support President Obama, who has s
Voldemort Votes Republican
Harry Potter memorabilia with a political twist.
Barack Obama: The 44th President
Obama presidential designs that will be great throughout his presidency. "Barack the President", America's first family, and other designs celebrating the 44th president of the United States.
Obama Specialty Supporter Gifts
Obama gifts and memorabilia for latte liberals, Prius drivers, Geeks and Eggheads, "Fake" (i.e. Northern) Virginians, and all the other ridiculous things that they said about Obama supporters during t
1.20.09: Celebrate Bush's Last Day
We've suffered through 8 long years of George Bush's failed presidency, and the moment we've all been waiting for is almost here. Celebrate President Bush's last day in office with these new anti-Bush
Dogs for Obama
Cute pictures of Barack Obama's biggest canine supporters.
Archive: Obama Nomination and Convention Stuff
Newspaper collages from the night Obama locked up the Democratic nomination, Democratic National Convention memorabilia, Clinton supporters for Obama, etc.
No Republicans Beyond this Point
Anti-Republican warning signs. Keep the bums out!
Funny Thongs
Caution, Warning and Danger signs that look really funny on thongs
Election 2004 Archive
This stuff is kind of out of date, but I figured I'd keep it up in case anyone still wanted it.


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Internet-Dept needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 161 designs submitted by 49 freelance designers.
The Bistro On The Beach logo is looking a little tired and old. It requires a refresh from a creative, and maybe even colour perspective.
Bistro on the Beach
The logo to be redesigned in a refreshed, more modern form. Please view old logo http://www.bistroonthebeach.co.uk/i…go_old.jpg
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Worship Times: Sunday @ 8:00 and 10:45 am
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Today was a day of confession.
While we marched we confessed our faith, and we confessed that all are made in the image of God and loved because of Christ.
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"We're not here to protest. We're here to confess."
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"We're not here to protest. We're here to confess." Pastor Esget, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Alexandria, Virginia.
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"There are a variety of reasons people abandon or choose not to adopt Christianity, and the best way to find out is to talk openly with your friends, without judgment." myc.ph/2HfhVBT #christiandifference pic.twitter.com/wCTUWoBTF3
All human being are priceless—regardless of age, appearance, ability, or history. God's Word of life not only reveals His immense care for all life, but also shows us how to love others.
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"Today's psalm addresses both false worship and outright rebellion. While much of the psalm is Law, don't miss the Gospel in 50:5! The sacrifice here is, of course, Christ's sacrifice of His blood on the cross!"
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"We're the Lutherans. And we'll confess Christ."
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"From the first century, the Church opposed abortion because Christians have always known the gift of life." @MattCHarrison speaking now at the opening of our #JoyfullyAlive conference here in Washington, D.C.
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We offer defaults for setting up your Xero account that will work for most online sellers (though we recommend consulting your accountant first whenever possible). In most cases, you can set up your Xero account and start keeping track of your transactions within a few minutes.
To celebrate our integration, Xero is kindly offering Squarespace customers 50% off their first 3 months of Xero. Click here to sign up. This offer is valid until March 31, 2014. Xero is also offering a free conversion from Quickbooks US editions to the first 100 Squarespace customers to sign up and will reach out directly if you qualify. Please note, the integration is currently only available for merchants based in the US.
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Seven months after the Jan. 12 earthquake, a large part of Haiti continues to reel in the aftermath of the disaster. Haitians are praying and hoping that relief comes their way soon and that summer tropical storms bypass their country.
A brief description of life in the displaced persons camps arrived this week from Junior Sinsmyr, the young man whom CNS photographer Bob Roller and I hired as a driver and interpreter during our 10 days of reporting from the Port-au-Prince area following the quake.
Writing in an e-mail, Sinsmyr, who lost his home and continues to live in a tent community near the international airport, described the situation as confused, even worse than in the days following the earthquake.
"I already change three tents," he wrote in English, his second language, "'cause rain and sun fall them apart, break them.
"Things are difficult here for those like me. The hunger is the first. Beside this, when the quake was just happened, it was so frustrated, but finding help easier than now. People do not care about others now," he said.
Sinsmyr's message was followed by one from Archbishop Bernardito Auza, papal nuncio to Haiti. He also wrote that life is hardly any better in the hundreds of tent camps that sprouted in the broad earthquake zone in the days after the disaster.
"It's always emergency from the humanitarian perspective," the archbishop said. "The camps are always the same as they were days after the earthquake. Some say that instead of diminishing, the camp populations have seen an increase, at least in some, attracted by aid distribution and possibility of cash-for-work, as well as the impossibility of finding better alternatives."
Efforts by agencies such as Catholic Relief Services to provide transitional housing has helped some homeless Haitians, but the overwhelming majority of displaced people remain under improvised shelter, he said.
"It's one solution to depopulate the camps and make sure the house is built on properties verified by owners," Archbishop Auza continued. "There are some NGOs (nongovernment organizations) that prefer to build permanent housing. But we are light years away from fulfilling the demands."
The archbishop said 250,000 homes are needed to house the 1.5 million people who remain in the camps. "We are still so far from that."


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Win a Pair of Tickets to the LMAO Comedy Series – What Are Your Favorite Funny Movies?
Friday, the new LMAO Comedy Series will have its first-ever performance at the State Room in Quincy. Everyone needs a good laugh now and then, so we hope you'll be able to join us. We have some tickets to give away. If you'd like to win, just drop the name of your favorite funny movie in the comments section, and we'll draw a winner at random!
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About the Microtransat
The Microtransat Challenge is a transatlantic race for autonomous boats. The race aims to stimulate the development of autonomous boats through friendly competition.
The 2018 transatlantic race is open to competitors for the duration of the year, please see the registered teams page for a list of teams who are intending to compete.
Latest News
- September 18th 2018 - Gortobot v3 Launches from Gloucester, Massachusetts.
- August 26th 2018 - SB Met becomes first boat to complete the Microtransat.
Live Tracking Maps
You can view the route taken by all the boats on the tracking page. Historical tracks from previous years are available on the history page.
Related Competitions
A spin off competition, the World Robotic Sailing Championships (WRSC) was created in 2008 and has taken place annually since then. This consists of a series of short races and other challenges for competing boats to undertake autonomously. Many teams who take part in the Microtransat (or who plan to) also attend the WRSC. Also attached to this event is the International Robotic Sailing Conference (IRSC), which allows researchers in the area a chance to meet up and discuss the scientific issues related to robotic sailing. This year's WRSC will be in Southampton, UK from August 27th to September 1st.
The SailBot competition is another competition for robotic sailing boats, which has taken place in North America since 2006. This is targeted at student teams and focuses on high performance short distance racing. This year's Sailbot will be hosted by Worcester Polytechnic Institute at Lake Quinsigamond, Worcester, Massachusettes, USA from June 10th to 15th.
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New Car Review
2014 Buick LaCrosse: New Car Review
Combining European styling with modern luxury touches and excellent fuel economy, all of Buick's new and redesigned nameplates are largely unrecognizable from the dated brand most Americans still remember. Stodgy and mild no longer have a place in the Buick vocabulary, and there is possibly no better example than with the 2014 Buick LaCrosse.
When the LaCrosse received a major overhaul in 2009, it was billed as the first car of a new generation of Buicks that was meant to attract a younger buyer. For the most part, the strategy has succeeded and, with the addition of both the new Verano and Regal to the lineup, as well as the continued success of the Enclave, Buick has been rewarded with strong sales growth.
The 2014 LaCrosse is an excellent choice for luxury shoppers seeking fuel economy and value. That's even true for buyers in cold-weather climates, since it features available all-wheel drive. Yes, it has a few foibles, but they are by no means deal breakers -- especially among the car's target market.
What's New for 2014?
The LaCrosse gets styling tweaks for the new model year, both inside the cabin and outside. Also, all LaCrosse models now include rear side-impact airbags as standard equipment.
What We Like
Luxury appointments and impressive standard features; good fuel economy; available all-wheel drive
What We Don't
Twitchy steering; base 4-cylinder lacks performance
How Much?
Fuel Economy
The LaCrosse offers two engines. Base-level LaCrosse models use the brand's eAssist 4-cylinder, which makes 182 horsepower and uses mild hybrid technology. It returns 25 miles per gallon city/36 mpg hwy with its standard 6-speed automatic. Drivers can also upgrade to the LaCrosse's 303-hp 3.6-liter V6, which returns 17 mpg city/27 mpg hwy. LaCrosse models with that engine feature optional all-wheel drive, which drops gas mileage to 17 mpg city/25 mpg hwy.
Standard Features & Options
The LaCrosse is offered in four trim levels. There's a base model, called simply LaCrosse, followed by the Leather, the Premium I and the range-topping Premium II.
The base-level LaCrosse ($34,100) is well-equipped, featuring 17-inch alloy wheels, satellite radio, dual-zone automatic climate control, cruise control, an 8-inch center touchscreen, Bluetooth, OnStar and an auxiliary jack for iPods and other music players. There's also a power driver seat and a tilt/telescoping steering wheel for driver convenience.
Upgrade to the Leather ($36,200) and you get leather upholstery, heated front seats, a rearview camera, a power passenger seat and driver memory settings. Fog lights are also standard.
The Premium I ($39,800) adds the powerful 3.6-liter V6 and 18-in alloy wheels. It includes perforated upholstery, ventilated seats, keyless entry and ignition, a heated steering wheel and a power rear sunshade.
Topping the range is the Premium II ($40,900), which adds chrome wheels and a Harmon Kardon surround-sound audio system.
The LaCrosse offers several options. Some features from upper-level trims are offered on lower models, for instance, but other important extras include a power sunroof and a rear-seat entertainment system.
The 2014 Buick LaCrosse comes standard with eight airbags, stability control, traction control, ABS and daytime running lights. The available Driver Confidence Package provides additional safety features that make the package an appealing value. They include a head-up display, articulated front headlights and a blind spot warning system.
In government tests, the LaCrosse earned the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's perfect 5-star overall crash-test rating. That includes 5-star performance in the front- and side-impact assessments, along with a 4-star rollover rating.
Behind the Wheel
While the interior of the 2014 LaCrosse is generally well designed and pleasing to look at, a week of hauling a family around gave us insight into its strengths and weaknesses. One of the car's best features is how well the engineers handled noise and vibration. In fact, the car was so quiet -- even on poorly maintained highways -- that the road sometimes faded away as an afterthought. With the engine off at every stop sign and red light, the quietness was even more noticeable in city driving.
Although the seats are generally comfortable for long rides, they could benefit from a bit more bolster for front passengers' hips and thighs.
To attract a younger, more tech-savvy buyer to the brand, Buick's smartphone integration is very good and intuitive. Connecting an iPhone to the system worked flawlessly, and the Bluetooth audio phone connection was clear and easy for incoming callers to understand, even at highway speeds. Buick's standard IntelliLink infotainment system also adds value.
Other Cars to Consider
Cadillac CTS-- The CTS is more of a driver's car than the LaCrosse, boasting rear-wheel-drive architecture and powerful engine offerings. Still, both cars offer well-priced luxury.
Lexus ES -- The ES is a pricey competitor, but it's also marked by a high-end interior, powerful engines and a hybrid that's far more efficient than the LaCrosse's eAssist powertrain.
Lincoln MKZ -- Lincoln's boldly styled MKZ provides a good challenger to the LaCrosse, thanks to a supple ride, a handsome interior and reasonable pricing. Plus, there's a hybrid that returns 47 mpg.
AutoTrader's Advice
The LaCrosse is an excellent near-luxury sedan, and we certainly recommend adding it to your list of cars to consider. If we were buying, we'd probably choose the Premium I. Yes, it's pricey. To us, however, the 3.6-liter V6 is a must-have. Plus, we like its extensive list of luxury goodies for just under $40,000.