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- Want to know more about connectomes or programmable bacteria? See what happened when we brought together four speakers, a performer, and a lively and engaged audience for a salon on Science, Living Systems, and the Edge of Change in Washington, DC.
READ: Eco IQ's, Violas, Mammoths, and Genes that "Seek and Destroy"
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- This week we also released Massoud Amin's 2009 PopTech talk on the critical need for a "Smart" Energy Grid. Massoud believes this will provide national as well as environmental and financial security.
WATCH: Massoud Amin: A Smart Grid
- We explored a bunker in the Arctic that stores the seed for human survival. Agricultural impresario Cary Fowler gave the PopTech audience a sneak peak of the seed vault as it was being constructed.
WATCH: Cary Fowler: Conserving Bio-Diversity
- We congratulated 2009 PopTech Fellows, Josh Nesbit and Jason Aramburu for acceptance into the Echoing Green Fellowship program.
WATCH: Josh Nesbit: Mobile Healthcare and Jason Aramburu: New Energy
- We're still collecting quotes on failure. We got some great ones this week, so keep 'em coming. "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." – Henry Ford
Get Involved!
- Did you attend the Science, Living Systems, and the Edge of Change salon in Washington, DC? Did you take pictures? If you did, be sure to add us add as us a contact on Flickr and add your pictures to the PopTech flickr pool.
- We've been thinking a lot about our conference theme, "Brilliant Accidents, Necessary Failures, and Improbable Breakthroughs" and how lots of wonderful things come about when you're not looking for them. Let us know if you come across any great quotes or examples of the role accidents, failures and serendipity play in success.
- Are you or someone you know passionate about science, technology, and social innovation? We're looking for amazing, energetic people to join our growing team.
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A 'Book Tune' For Every Book
Editor's note: Rapper Abdominal, who performed at PopTech in 2008, participated in the first 'Book Tune' released by Book Tune Records. Below is an edited excerpt from a longer piece, by Book Tune Records President, Jonathan Sauer.
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I've forgotten most of what I've read. And so have you. An audacious claim? I would venture to say it's just an inevitable consequence of the human condition. If I were to ask you to glance across your bookshelves right now, taking in the many book titles you've read, and then, suddenly, if I were to present you with a pop quiz on the spot, asking that you recount for me, with any degree of detail and specificity, the contents of each of these books, you would presumably fail, abysmally. I know I would.
Photography by Aaron Bird
This human inconvenience of forgetfulness is a function of what psychologists call the Curve of Forgetting, which basically holds that immediately after initial exposure to new knowledge we have a very high recall rate, but thereafter our knowledge gains dissipate at a very rapid rate within the first 24-48 hours, and then continue to dwindle to ever smaller levels over the next 30 days, until we retain only a tiny fraction of what was conveyed. Given more time, you might find that it's as though you were never exposed to this new information at all, as though it was someone else who read this material, an imposter, not you at all. One day knowledge simply folded up its tent, and left town.
We're getting back pennies on the dollar, for our time invested. So, the question naturally arises, "Can we do better? And, "If so, how?"
It turns out, we need not look far at all: music is the answer, the 'song' format specifically. What we propose is a 'book tune' (i.e. a companion song) for every major book, so we never again forget what we've read.
Download to learn more about Book Tunes.
Eco IQ's, Violas, Mammoths, and Genes that "Seek and Destroy": A PopTech Salon
Last night at the House of Sweden in Washington, DC, PopTech brought together four speakers, a performer, and a lively and engaged audience for a PopTech Salon on Science, Living Systems, and the Edge of Change.
Behind the scenes at the House of Sweden before the Science, Living Systems & The Edge of Change salon in Washington, DC. Photography by Kris Krug
Right now our nation and our planet face unprecedented challenges, and the sciences have a more important role to play in society than ever before. As a result PopTech has made a commitment to the sciences through a variety of new programs, including last night's science salon.
Each of the speakers in attendance is involved in work that has profound implications for positive social change in areas ranging from conservation to medicine; social networking to environmental cleanup, and each had big, actionable ideas to present.
Beth Shapiro is a geneticist who is shedding new light on how species respond to environmental change. She suggested that climate change is key to understanding species extinction, but also concluded that humans themselves share responsibility for much of the most recent extinctions. Beth gathers DNA from mammoth bones to do her research
Beth Shapiro. Photography by Kris Krug
Justin Gallivan is a biochemist who "reprograms" genes to "seek and destroy" toxic herbicides. Justin's work has huge implications for controlling gene expression.
Justin Gallivan. Photography by Kris Krug
H. Sebastian Seung is a neuroscientist who is helping computers see the connections between the brain's neurons. Sebastian introduced the concept of connectomes— the mapping of all neurons in the human brain— as the core to understanding what it means to be human. As he put it, there are millions of miles of wires inside your brain— "plenty of opportunity for mistakes."
H. Sebastian Seung. Photography by Kris Krug
Yasser Ansari uses mobile technology for wildlife exploration, and is bringing citizen science to the masses through Project Noah. Project Noah is designed to "boost our ecoIQs" and our knowledge of the wildlife that surrounds us.
Yasser Ansari. Photography by Kris Krug
Christen Lien, is a "viola artist" whose music has been described as "ethereal and otherworldly; a bridge to the divine. "It's not a violin; it's a viola!" Christen opened and closed the PopTech Salon with two beautiful dreamlike pieces. Sublime.
Christen Lien. Photography by Kris Krug
Both audience and speakers alike enjoyed conversing and relaxing together.
During the day, PopTech videotaped several speakers and participants. (Huge thanks for NSF for providing us with our amazing crew, Cliff Braverman and Steve McNally)
Look for more about last night's salon over the upcoming days. Thanks to to the speakers and participants who participated in this extraordinary night! Special thanks to Intel and the NSF for their sponsorship of this event.
For more images of the salon by Kris Krug visit our Science, Living Systems & The Edge of Change set on flickr. If you have any of your own images, share them in the PopTech flickr pool.
This Week in PopTech: OK Go, Auditory Collages, Ultragreen Packaging
- We are over the moon to announce OK Go as our first performers for PopTech 2010. OK Go just released their latest music video — we know this one's going viral.
WATCH: End Love
- We released videos from the Chicago Salon that present ideas about how networked mapping and the innovative application of multiple technologies can more deeply reveal the dynamics of problems as well as drive social change.
READ AND WATCH: Visualizing Data to Drive Social Change
- We were moved by Ocean Voices' ethereal auditory collages.
LISTEN: Ocean Voices
- We loved this quote by Joel Garreau: "Innovative cultures have in them fables of 'honorable failure.' — knowing losing as winning."
- We were proud to learn that Steelcase has adopted 2009 Fellow, Eben Bayer's biobased, ultragreen packaging.
WATCH: Bio-packaging
- We read about why Tom Friedman thinks that we are both the enemy and the solution to the oil disaster.
READ: This Time is Different
Get Involved!
- Do you live in the DC area? There are a few tickets left for our PopTech Salon in Washington, DC, which will feature three scientists at the cutting edge of potentially world-changing discoveries. The event is free but space is limited.
- We've been thinking a lot about our conference theme, "Brilliant Accidents, Necessary Failures, and Improbable Breakthroughs" and how lots of wonderful things come about when you're not looking for them. Let us know if you come across any great quotes or examples of the role accidents, failures and serendipity play in success.
- Are you or someone you know passionate about science, technology, and social innovation? We're looking for amazing, energetic people to join our growing team.
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Announcing OK Go at PopTech 2010
Photo credit: Edwin Roses
We are incredibly excited to announce that OK Go is performing at the PopTech 2010 Conference in October!
If you haven't yet seen the band's incredibly innovative videos — from their Grammy Award-winning "Here It Goes Again" to the amazing Rube Goldberg machine built for "This Too Shall Pass" — check them out. We can't even imagine what these guys will cook up for the PopTech Conference. You won't want to miss it.
Check out their new, just-released video, "End Love."
Register today for PopTech 2010.
Visualizing Data to Drive Social Change
Several weeks ago, PopTech held a Chicago salon that focused on social mapping, and the ability to leverage networked technologies and old-fashioned communication alike to express local knowledge and perceptions as well as economic data and other figures that are often otherwise practically inaccessible to citizens.
Two of the featured speakers offered ideas about how networked mapping and the innovative application of multiple technologies can more deeply reveal the dynamics of problems as well as drive social change.
Patrick Meier, Director of Crisis Mapping at Ushahidi, was in attendance to talk about how the open-source mapping project has used the aggregation of information to respond to emergencies in near real-time.
Patrick Meier at the PopTech salon on Social Mapping and Social Change, May 2010.
The Ushahidi platform relies on distributed data collected via text message, email, and web that is then visualized on a map or timeline. The project first began as a way to help track citizen reports of post-election violence in Kenya in 2007. Since then, Meier suggests in his talk, Ushahidi has been used by numerous organizations around the world for a variety of situations. These include tracking elections in a number of countries, enhancing Al Jazeera's coverage of the January 2009 violence in Gaza, supporting WildLife Direct's citizen wildlife tracking initiative in Kenya, and identifying clean up efforts in the wake of record snowstorms in the Washington D.C. metro area this past year. Most recently, a nonprofit environmental health group called the Louisiana Bucket Brigade has deployed Ushahidi (in conjunction with a kite camera project that PopTech previously reviewed) to monitor the coastline in the wake of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
"Ushahidi had FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) calling in on day five, saying, folks, whatever you do, don't stop mapping, you're saving lives."
Around minute 4:50 in his talk, Meier explains Ushahidi's role in the Haitian earthquake response and recovery. A number of organizations marshaled the assistance of thousands of individual volunteers, who translated and aggregated text messages as well as United Nations situation reports and news stories onto a Ushahidi platform customized for the Haitian disaster. The distributed response also took advantage of the country's cellular technology infrastructure, which remained operational, to distribute a mobile "short code" that made it possible for affected Haitians to send text messages at no cost. The use of text messages made it possible for crisis teams to handle individual requests – about 1,000 text messages a day – a level of response normally impossible during crises. The Ushahidi platform also made it possible for disaster responders to filter requests by geographic area or type of need. Meier recalls that these affordances made it possible for near real-time communications in devastated Haitian communities on a scale "completely unprecedented in the history of disaster response."
"Ushahidi had FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) calling in on day five, saying, folks, whatever you do, don't stop mapping, you're saving lives."
PopTech Social Innovation Fellows Erik Hersman and Ory Okolloh are also part of the Ushahidi leadership team. Hersman spoke at PopTech in 2008. For more on Ushahidi's Haiti response, check out this video.
Laura Kurgan, director of the Spatial Information Design Lab at Columbia University, also spoke at the Chicago salon. The Lab is a "think- and action-tank" that visualizes complex political and social data, such as incarceration rates and financial expenditures, that help re-envision the relationship between architecture, criminal justice, and community investment.
Laura Kurgan at the PopTech salon on Social Mapping and Social Change, May 2010.
In her talk, Kurgan focuses on the lab's mapping and visualization efforts in New Orleans.
Reconstruction efforts in response to Hurricane Katrina have helped drive the radical transformation of public infrastructures like education, health, and housing. Yet Kurgan notes that the criminal justice system has largely been ignored. In fact, her maps reveal that in neighborhoods like Central City, which has the highest incarceration rates in New Orleans, per capita spending on prisons has increased since rebuilding began.
Kurgan points out, "the predominant governing institution" in neighborhoods like Central City is prison.
Her maps reveal that money is spent "on the neighborhood, but not in the neighborhood." In other words, Kurgan points out, "the predominant governing institution" in neighborhoods like Central City is prison.
Here, Kurgan's lab has also served as an intervention, helping to map the work of local organizations working in Central City in order to strengthen the connections between them.
For more on Kurgan's work in New Orleans, check out the lab's recent report on the subject.
Laura Kurgan also spoke at PopTech in 2009, watch her talk here.
Graphic visualizations of the Chicago salon by Peter Durand can be seen here.
I heard an episode of The Writers Almanac a few months ago that got me thinking about serendipity. I learned that lots of wonderful things have come about when researchers were looking for something else, including Silly Putty, penicillin, the principles of X-rays and chocolate chip cookies. Viagra was developed to treat hypertension and certain kinds of chest pain; it didn't do such a good job at these things, but researchers found during the phase of clinical trials that it was good for something else.
"Accidental sagacity" was how serendipity was first described, when Horace Walpole (the 4th Earl of Orford, in case you didn't know) coined the term after reading a fairy tale called The Three Princes of Serendip (Persian for Sri Lanka) about three royal boys who were always making accidental discoveries of things they weren't looking for.
Accidental sagacity.
Between now and PopTech 2010 we'll be exploring the theme of Brilliant Accidents, Necessary Failures, and Improbable Breakthroughs and we want your help. Have you come across any great quotes or examples of the role accidents, failures and serendipity play in success?
Send us what you find (firstname.lastname@example.com), and we'll post some of them!
This Week in PopTech: Irrationality, Violence Interrupters and Smart Growth
- We caught up with PopTech Speaker Dan Ariely about his new book, The Upside of Irrationality. Dan's 2009 talk may explain why paying banking CEOs huge money actually makes them more stupid. At PopTech 2009, Dan discussed an excerpt from his new book, The Upside of Irrationality, about the role of emotions in the workplace.
- We went behind the scenes to learn about the work of Violence Interrupters in Chicago.
- We were awed by Chris Jordan's incredible new interactive website.
- We were inspired by The Smart Growth Manual and reminded of how Assaf Biderman's 2009 PopTech talk explained how distributed technologies can be used to create more sustainable ways of interacting in urban environments.
- We discovered why Dan Ariely thinks failure "means a kind of success."
- We found out that 2009 Fellow, Jason Aramburu has been named one of America's Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs 2010 by BusinessWeek for his work with re:char, developing low-cost technologies that fight climate change while improving the quality of degraded soils.
- Our network was well represented by PopTech Board Members Jason Rzepka and Andrew Rasiej at The #Promise (an initiative to advance how companies and consumers can work together to address pressing global challenges). We also heard a nice shout out to PopTech Social Innovation Fellow initiatives, Frontline SMS and Ushahidi for their post-quake efforts in Haiti.
Get Involved!
- Do you live in the DC area? Mark your calendar for a special PopTech Salon in Washington, DC, which will feature three scientists at the cutting edge of potentially world-changing discoveries. The event is free but space is limited.
- Are you or someone you know passionate about science, technology, and social innovation? We're looking for amazing, energetic people to join our growing team.
If you'd like to receive a stream of these updates (and more) throughout the week in real time, you can follow us on Twitter, Tumblr, sign up for our Newsletter and subscribe to us here on the PopTech Blog.
On the Street With Violence Interrupters
Several weeks ago, PopTech held a brainstorming session in Chicago to investigate how social mapping tools can be used to create positive social change. As a test case, we talked with CeaseFire Chicago.
To learn more about CeaseFire's work to prevent gun violence, PopTech caught up with several members of their team who attended the brainstorming session. What follows comes from several conversations that I've had with Dr. Gary Slutkin, Executive Director of CeaseFire, and CeaseFire Interrupters Timothy White and Eddie Bocanegra.
Gun violence in Chicago. It happens over money or a girlfriend or a neighborhood block. It happens over the smallest and most common of things. Someone steps on someone else's shoes. Someone looks at someone the wrong way. And once it happens, retaliation is likely.
"They're angry. And they have a reason to be angry," Eddie Bocanegra, told me recently. "You know, maybe their closest friend just got shot. Or maybe the individual himself just got shot and he's sitting in the hospital with a gunshot in his leg, and the only thing in his head is I'm going to go back as soon as I'm able to walk.
"Think about it. For the past two or three years, who knows, probably even longer than that, he's seen his friends getting shot, and it becomes normal… In his mind it's like Ok, this is how we live."
And that was exactly what went through Eddie's mind when his close friend got shot and wound up paralyzed from the waist down. He was angry and ready to act on what he'd learned from the streets. "My intention was to go back and shoot somebody and inflict the same kind of pain that my friend was going through," he told me.
Eddie Bocanegra describes the past that inspired him to support young men who turn to violence as a coping mechanism for anger. Video shot by our friend, Daniel Stephens.
Like Eddie, Dr. Gary Slutkin grew up in Chicago. But while Eddie spent fourteen years and three months in prison, Gary spent a large part of his career in Africa, working on some of the developing world's biggest health issues – AIDS, TB, and cholera. When he returned home to Chicago in 1995 Gary focused his attention on an epidemic much closer to home.
"People told me about children shooting other children with guns, and I saw the magnitude of the problem," he told me last year. "I asked people what they were doing to try to address it, and the things that were being expressed to me didn't make any sense. I didn't know what we would do, but I knew that what was out there had no chance."
Gary established a violence prevention approach called CeaseFire. Over time, he says the violence plaguing his hometown began exhibiting to him all the signs of an infectious disease. His work evolved in recognition of this, and today, based on behavior change and health/epidemic control methods, CeaseFire is reducing shootings and violent crime in the inner-city Chicago neighborhoods where it is employed, by an average of 45%.
Part of what makes CeaseFire unique and successful is its use of Violence Interrupters, men and women who have or build a rapport with gang leaders and other at-risk youth, and who intervene in potentially violent situations before anyone pulls a trigger. The Interrupters typically have a background on the streets and have spent time in prison. Ex-offenders usually have an extremely challenging time getting a job after they're released from prison, yet when Eddie applied to work as Interrupter his background was an asset. Like the other Interrupters, Eddie can read the streets fast, and knows what will or will not work in any given situation.
"Most of the time it's that anger and the ego…and the friends on the sideline cheering them on telling them 'go do this, go do that'," he told me. "I might get another Interrupter to calm the cheerleaders down… Then I'm able to pull him aside and have that personal communication with him, and I can feel my way around him. It's like doing a psychological analysis to decide what approach I'm going to take with him. Every situation is different."
"A lot of times I'll share my experience… 'Hey, everything you're going through, I've been through before. But the difference is that just like you, I didn't know how to control this anger. I didn't know how to vent. I didn't know exactly what avenues I actually had. So I'm here to help you with that. Vent. Talk to me. How can I help you?'"
He talks more quietly, trying to control his emotions, "I didn't have anybody back then to kind of process this stuff", he told me, "With CeaseFire, I'm given that opportunity to actually make a difference, to maybe reach out to individuals such as myself… well, just to reach out to individuals…who are living the way I was living at one time."
I am reminded of talking to another Interrupter, James Highsmith last year. He said, "I helped create this beast, so I feel like I have no other choice but to do something… This is what you're supposed to do. I be thinking What can I do, what can I do more, what magic thing can I do to make this stop….? This is what I think about every day. What the hell can I do to make everybody stop killing each other?"
Eddie Bocanegra
Driving his beat in West Chicago, Minister Timothy White waves to people who frequently call out to him. His charisma is palpable. "This is the area I grew up in," he tells me. "This is also the area that I ran the streets in, so I'm familiar with this area, and a lot of people are familiar with me." This is the hallmark of the CeaseFire Interrupter. He tells me that fathers, unwilling to call the police on their own sons, and equally unwilling to have their sons kill someone, have called him in desperation. "My son's in the basement loading up. Can you talk to him?" And later, both father and son have thanked him.
He tells me that if he himself can't stop a potential act of retribution, he'll know someone who can. "I'll threaten to call his uncle…And he'll be like, 'WHAT?! You're going to call my uncle?' 'He the only one you listen to. So I'm going to see what he says about you going out and killing everyone today.'"
Tim has a social fluidity that's quite unusual. He understands how to do the violence mediation in an effective way because he has real social credibility with people active in the streets. At the same time, he walks into the PopTech brainstorming session with complete ease.
He explains to the group that currently the Interrupters' use of technology is fairly basic, simple text messages back and forth between Interrupter and the streets that deliver information about the location of a situation that's unfolding. Most of the real communication happens in person. Like Eddie, he points out that each situation is different, and his work depends heavily on human experience. "It's almost as if it's intuition. When you're out there, there's no one particular method. You just have to read the situation."
Driving around, one of the few places at which we slowed down is Tim's father's church: "My father is the pastor… My father was a real busy man ministering to other people. Sometimes he didn't even see what I was doing… until it was too late." Tim puts his own kids in basketball and football, and tells them who he was and the mistakes he made. And his children have kept out of trouble. He tells me, "God covered them… I slipped through the cracks …Sometimes one or two will slide through the cracks; here and there you get a bad apple. But that wasn't bad because what the devil meant for evil, God has turned around and worked it for good, so my background became my resume."
With his troubled background as his resume, Minister Tim White now works with Ceasefire to intervene in troubled situations before conflict turns to violence.
Dr. Slutkin doesn't spend a lot of time thinking about how he feels about saving lives, he told me last year. "I keep my mind on the idea of the program. I am interacting with these Interrupters and the outreach workers, and I think I spend more time thinking about them and who they are, and in a way, kind of how much I love them really. I'm really inspired by them and what they're doing and how much they're putting into it. So my mind is on how exciting and cool and challenging and brilliant and committed they are…And how much we've got to get help to get it to another level…My mind is so much more on the unfinished business."
I asked him why he does this work. At first he reacted as though the question simply didn't make sense. Why does anyone do what they do? "At one level, I think you don't even know." He hesitated and sighed, "I mean I've been working on the largest issues I could find time after time because what else should you do with your time?
"I feel that as a result of the interaction of all of the experiences that I've had – you know I've really trained under some amazing people, you know, people who lead the smallpox campaign, who lead the AIDS campaign for the world… And now I'm learning from all these guys on the street and… we've GOT to do it. It's an absolute obligation to take this as far as we can take it."
Check out presentations and more behind-the-scenes videos from our Social Mapping Workshop and Salon in Chicago.
Science, Living Systems, and the Edge of Change: A PopTech Salon
On June 22, 2010 from 6:00pm – 9:00pm (EST) in the Alfred Noble Hall at the House of Sweden in Washington, DC, PopTech will bring together three speakers and a musical guest for a special salon event featuring a new generation of scientists who are exploring, mapping, harnessing, and shaping complex living systems. Their work has profound implications from conservation to medicine; social networking to environmental cleanup.
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Seating is extremely limited – Event is free, and an RSVP required. (hashtag: #poptech)
In this special PopTech Salon you'll meet scientists and researchers including:
Beth Shapiro, the geneticist who is shedding new light on how species respond to environmental change
Justin Gallivan, the biochemist who is 'programming' bacteria to eat pollution
H. Sebastian Seung, the neuroscientist who is helping computers see the connections between the brain's neurons
Special Guest:
Christen Lien, the "viola artist" whose music has been described as "ethereal and otherwordly; a bridge to the divine."
PopTech would like to thank the National Science Foundation and the Intel Corporation for their generous support of this program.
Social Mapping and Social Change
Read our Recap of the PopTech Social Mapping Salon
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Australian Open Day 5 Preview
Published January 20, 2011 06:30
Third Round, Friday
Rod Laver Arena
[1] Caroline Wozniacki (DEN #1) vs. [29] Dominika Cibulkova (SVK #32)
Head-to-Head: Wozniacki leads 5-2
Wozniacki is bidding to reach the fourth round for a seventh consecutive major; she has reached the third round or better at every Grand Slam since the start of 2008. While some sniff at the young Dane's consistency, it's an impressive (and rare) feat. And despite a lacklustre lead-up, so far this week the 20-year-old has been all business, reminding us that she is a genuine title contender. That said, she's faces one of her best contemporaries today, and will need to step it up a notch. Cibulkova, who followed a similar trajectory as Wozniacki before injury stalled her progress at No.12, appears to be finding her old self. Indeed, last week in Sydney the 5'3" pocket dynamo beat Wozniacki for her first-ever win over a reigning No.1. That should give her the confidence to force the play, which is her best hope. However, Wozniacki is prodigiously good at blocking out disappointment and getting on with the job.
[11] Justine Henin (BEL #13) vs. [23] Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS #26)
Head-to-Head: Henin leads 16-2
If this match sounds worthy of a Grand Slam final, that's because it is: Henin beat Kuznetsova in the title match at Roland Garros in 2006 and Flushing Meadows in 2007. But if the Belgian has owned the Russian in the past, the lopsided head-to-head is curious, because Kuznetsova is one of just two players to beat Henin twice when she was No.1 (Serena being the other). Likely, then, that both will see this as a clean slate. Having professed her need for matches because she could hope to approach former levels, Kuznetsova was reassuringly impressive, physically and mentally, in beating Sam Stosur in Sydney last week. Henin, too, has been gently talking down her chances while quietly building momentum, both at the Hopman Cup in Perth and here in Melbourne. Forget about rankings and the muddied waters of the past couple of years. These two still rate among the sport's very best; brimming with variety, they could well produce a classic.
[4] Venus Williams (USA #5) vs. [30] Andrea Petkovic (GER #33)
Head-to-Head: First meeting
Such is Petkovic's charisma and star quality, it is no insult to say the tennis world has been praying for her results to catch up. Happily, gradually, that is happening. Exhibit A: Her come-from-behind blitz of Marion Bartoli in the Brisbane semis was breathtaking evidence of the über-fit German's capabilities. She'll relish the opportunity to play a legend under the lights, with a place in the second week at stake. Venus needed every ounce of her champion's valor to make it past Sandra Zahlavova in the last round, and it is unclear how much of a factor her stomach muscle strain will be; Petkovic may need to suss out the lay of the land before she settles on the best course of action. Then, if she finds herself in a winning position, the trick will be to not think about it too much - or want it too much. Because such thoughts have brought her undone in the past, and a sliver of doubt is all Venus will need.
More to watch…
Maria Sharapova, the No.14 seed, faces dangerous German Julia Goerges on Hisense. Sixth seed Francesca Schiavone plays Monica Niculescu first up on Margaret Court Arena, to be followed by Chinese ninth seed Li Na against Barbora Zahlavova Strycova. No.8 seed Victoria Azarenka faces South African Chanelle Scheepers on Show Court 2, while in an all-unseeded affair, Anastasija Sevastova and qualifier Vesna Manasieva face off on Court 3.


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This past weekend deserves an honorable mention in the Our Life Is Crazy Hall of Fame.
Back story: I've been sick for a week. Thus, my poor housekeeping skills are at an all time low. It looks like a bunch of sticky crap has exploded on all of the surfaces and walls of the kitchen.
The two-year old launched an entire bowl of Fuse Beads off the kitchen table. So there's that. You can never completely clean up a Fuse Bead incident of that magnitude.
And let's not forget the three loads of clean laundry waiting to be folded and the wet clothes in the washer that are starting to smell suspect. How many times can one wash the same load of clothing? Apparently many, many times.
I'm not even sure that the clean laundry should be considered clean at this juncture. Every time I open the laundry room door our dog bum rushes the laundry baskets, jumps in and kicks everything out. He does this weird snorting and circling thing in the clothes once his stubby legs have landed him in said baskets. I suspect he may be urinating on the clean clothes.
If the dog has been pissing on the clothes I will only be able to whisper obscenities because I've lost my voice. This has thrown my daughter (who is on the Autism Spectrum) for a complete loop.
She keeps growling: Stop. Whispering. At. Me. Stop. Whispering. At. ME. I guess this a welcome change from Stop. Yelling. At. Me. Really, I'm not one who yells a lot, but any tone of frustration in my voice causes her to think that I'm going to lose my shit.
Granted, I am generally going out of my mind, but I really do try to keep that masked by a tone of kindness and understanding.
Bah ha ha ha ha grinding teeth while entertaining ideations of drinking an entire bottle of wine.
So as I mentioned in an earlier post we decided to appease my daughter's soul-crushing reaction to finding out that there is no tooth fairy (You are the worst mother ever and you've ruined my entire life), and put an end to her three-year long Adopting a cat will mean that all of my dreams have come true campaign by getting her a kitten.
If you have ever spent any length of time with a kid who has autism you will learn that they tend to obsess, and obsess hard.
So, for the last week Ruby has been talking non-stop about getting the kitten. She brought a whole pile of cat care books home from the library and explained to me at great length how to read a cat's body language.
She made lists of things we need to purchase for the cat. She chewed over a slew of names (Blackberry? Dina? Dingleberry?). She could barely sleep.
When the big day arrived we all went to the Cat Adoption Team shelter together. Ruby's excitement was at a fevered pitch. She hopped from cage to cage extolling the virtues of each cat.
This one is so friendly! (The cat was cowering in the corner of a cage, eyes dilated, fur on end.) This one is so playful! (The cat was clawing at the cage as if gunning for blood). This one is very sleepy! (The cat was geriatric, sleeping, or dead, would not rouse even with poking).
Meanwhile the two-year old had eaten about ten of the complimentary double stuffed cookies offered at reception. Geeked up on sugar and arms filled with cat toys he ran up and down the aisles yelling: Kitty! Kitty! Kitty! Kitty! I touch! I see! Give me kitty!
We ended up chosing an adorable, sweet, feisty black fuzzy three-month old kitten that was recommended by Extreme Cat Lady Volunteer on Duty. Before we could leave, Extreme Cat Lady adoption counselor insisted on giving me thirty minutes of instruction about kitten care. And kitten food. And kitten poop.
We finally got the kitten home, got her set up in the bathroom, assured Ruby fifteen times that the kitten would indeed always be hers. The kitten, now known as Alice, was pleased as pie about her new digs.
Food? Purr! Litter box? Purr! Small toddler holding her by the neck? Purr! Toys? Purr. Two children fighting over her? Purr. Small toddler freaking out that older siblings are petting her? Purr.
Awesome, I thought. This kitten is bullet proof.
Then we unleashed the dog. The dog sensed something was awry and ran to bathroom door. He went pug style crazy. Snort, snort, snort, snort, cough, cough, snort. The kitten, having heard the monstrous pug noises blew up like a little puffer fish and began hissing and growling at the sound of the dog.
I decided I had to escape the madness for a couple of hours. As I drove back home to pick up my husband for date night, I got a call. He sounded unhappy. Very unhappy. He had just experienced a Major Toddler-Kitten Incident.
The Major Toddler-Kitten Incident went like this:
In a moment of total insanity, my husband left the two-year old alone with the kitten and a full box of kitty litter. He returned a few minutes later to find the entire bathroom, toddler, and kitten covered in kitty litter, kitty litter dust, and kitty poop clumps.
He then stripped toddler down to a diaper, disposed of kitty litter covered clothing, and left the half-naked toddler with our older kids so he could quickly walk the dog (who had just eaten and is a ticking fecal time bomb after food ingestion).
While husband was walking the dog, the toddler freaked out. The freak out caused him to take a huge poop that blew out the diaper. Meanwhile the babysitter arrived to complete chaos and no husband in the house.
What I thought as my husband told me the story:
Seriously? You left the toddler alone with a kitten and a box of kitty litter? And, You left the toddler alone with the older kids who don't know their asses from their elbows?
What I said: Oh man. I'm so sorry.
By the time I pulled into the driveway everything appeared to be in control. My husband warned me to stay in the car so the two-year old wouldn't flip out again. The babysitter had everything in control.
My husband finally joined me in the car, ready for date night. He smelled like a cloud of kitty litter and toddler poop. He had the look of a lunatic. We stared at each other, laughed, and nodded in silent agreement. Yes, this is our life. Kitty litter. Toddler poop. Dog pee. Chaos. Love.


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In this photo John Paddock looks like a fairly nice young man. The uniform (Richmond Robins) and the haircut scream 1970s, and it seems like it's been at least that long since Paddock saw the show.
He was a Washington Capitals draft in 1974 (the year they took Greg Joly 1st overall) and ended up being dealt to the Flyers for a pretty decent player (Bob Sirois). After that it was purely cash transactions, and he played a total of 87 games in the NHL during 5 regular seasons.
Paddock is unusual in that he's been a career coach (pretty much) in the AHL, winning a ton of games and building a solid resume. If Paddock had chosen baseball and become a manager, he would have been in the big leagues several times before, but the NHL seems to have a different way of looking at AHL coaches (often hiring friends, recently retired legends or junior coaches).
Paddock was a good coach for the Winnipeg Jets for 3+ seasons (two of which saw them finish over .500) but for a good dozen years he's been in the background, bubbling under.
I believe his hiring by Ottawa is a brilliant move. This is a guy who has earned the opportunity, has a tremendous resume, and one would think he is looking at this opportunity as a chance in a lifetime to make his mark on the coaching profession.
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Are governments interested in keeping us 'dumb'?
Educated citizens are difficult to govern - this is a recurrent argument I've encountered while discussing education with various people.
Do you think it's in a democratic government's best interest to keep its citizens ignorant by maintaining largely outmoded school systems and educational policies, a lack of transparency, or the failure to encourage social and political participation? Or would a democratic government prefer to work with an educated, involved citizenry?
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Mar 27 2013: Edward Long hit the nail on the head.
In the USA, students - in their compulsory state-sponsored schools - are taught provable outright lies about their own nation's history as well as how their government is supposed to work. This makes it impossible for the people to fix what is broken, while they beg to be victimized.
In addition to the overt lies, there are the covert lies - in the form of censorship - where information that all should know is not mentioned. America was supposed to be a country that is "of, by, and for the people" and those skills essential to running such a government are not in the curriculum.
Furthermore, because the pot-smoking hippies of the 60s and 70s refused to be drafted and objected loudly to an unfair and unjust war - forcing the War in Viet Nam to come to an end in spite of the fact that the government wanted it - pot (a non-addictive drug that makes you loving and sleepy) is now a Schedule I drug - listed as more dangerous than meth, cocaine, and other drugs that actually make people violent.
There has been a considerable "dumbing down" in America, and as a result, we are now a nation of functionally uneducated sheeple. All who want to keep a people oppressed deny education. The people have become the enemy of the state.
If people knew how much they don't know, and how they are being used, they would be sick - and no human being who knows what government is doing to them would be able to respect it.
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India in London: Day 9 round-up
Wang took the first game 21-18 and was leading 1-0 in the second when she decided that she could not carry on with the right knee injury that she picked up after a heavy landing at the end of the first game.
World No.5 Saina became the third Indian to win a medal from the 2012 London Games after shooters Gagan Narang and Vijay Kumar won bronze and silver, respectively.
Though Saina, seeded fourth, took off well with exquisite defensive shots in the first game, the Chinese recuperated in no time to equalise at 5-all.
From thereon it was a Wang-dominated game all the way and the Indian could not match her pace making many errors. She made several poor line judgements giving away at least four points to the World No.2.
Wang, a former World No.1, constantly caught Saina on the backfoot and the Hyderabadi, looking nervous, could not pick her cross-court smashes nor her drops at the net. The second seed took a lead of 17-10.
The 22-year-old Indian was not great with the execution of shots and earned a few points with Wang making errors.
However, Saina tried fighting back at the end of the first game after Wang reached game point (20-14). The Commonwealth Games gold medallist then saved four game points to make it 18-20.
But a match point away, the Chinese made a heavy landing, while hitting a smash, and fell on the floor writhing in pain.
The referee called for medical time-out. The tournament doctor came in and tended to her knee. The World No.2 returned to the court with a heavily strapped right knee. Surprisingly, she immediately sealed the game smashing Saina's serve.
Though, she won the first point in the second game, she again dropped on the court in pain.
Saina went to comfort Wang, who had no choice but to retire as she could not carry on.
The match was awarded to Saina, who hugged her opponent becoming India's second woman to win an Olympic Medal after weightlifter Karnam Malleswari at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
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2012-13: Played 40 rounds of golf and in all but one tournament (14 total) over the course of the 2012-13 season ... finished third on the team in stroke average at 74.3 ... turned in his best round of the season on Feb. 19 in the second round of The Prestige at PGA West as he fired a 69 ... that low round score led to a 14th place finish overall at 1-over, 214 ... three weeks later he earned a 13th place standing at the Lampkin Grips San Diego Classic with a 3-over, 219 performance.
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Previously he was the executive assistant at the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, one of the department's top three leadership roles. Prior positions include policy advisor in the Governor's Office in Wisconsin; staff economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisors; and special assistant to the president at the social policy research organization MDRC. He has taught public management at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the University of Singapore.
His 2011 book, What Works in Work-First Welfare, explores why some employment programs in New York City are more effective than others at helping people get and keep jobs.
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Last week the band Riot In Paris won the OMA for "Most Extreme Fan Outreach," and to celebrate their victory they wrote a brand-new inspirational song for Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips titled " 7 Down, 1 To Go."
For those who have been dozing under stones, the Flaming Lips scored the Guinness World Record for the Most Live Concerts in 24 Hours (Guinness needs to update their digs) as a part of the third O Music Awards last week. The show was a 24-hour roadtrip through the American South, and the whole thing was livestreamed on OMusicAwards.com.
Riot In Paris found out about their award during the course of the show, an honor handed out to them for their Twitter-based project, Track Me, for which they wrote a series of songs based on fans' tweets. After informing the band of their victory, we called up Brooklyn hip-hop duo Pete and Mercy and asked them to write a song for Wayne Coyne.
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MAYFIELD - The Bannertown 50 Plus Club met for a social hour and meeting on July 25. Before lunch, Devotions were conducted by Patrick Keane. The reading was "God is for Us." He then led the group in prayer.
President Carl Edwards opened the meeting with the Pledge of Allegance. In the absence of the vice president, Edwards called the roll. Twenty were and one guest, Pat Ryfa, were present.
In Sunshine news, Jane Bonfey will continue with birthday cards to members and will send a get-well to one of our members who is in the hospital.
Nila Edwards reported on a meeting of the activities committee. Our next meeting Wednesday will be a picnic at the Rice Homestead. A "Blue" Auction will be held: Members bring something blue wrapped in blue. Everyone is to bring a place setting and drinks along with a covered dish.
After a discussion, it was decided by motion to cancel twodates in the calender: Oct. 3 and Dec. 26.
People signing up for trips must pay for the trip by the first of the month in which the trip is scheduled. If not paid, no reservation will be made for that person or those persons.
Edwards said he hopes to see all at the OFA Senior Picnic.
Drawings were held. The door prize was won by Lorrie Valk, the 50-50 by Joan Bezio and the $1 by Mid Ellithorpe.
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MADISON, WI (WTAQ) - The man accused of killing three elderly family members in southwest Wisconsin was given a new confinement at a mental institution Thursday.
Visiting Judge William Foust ruled that 31-year-old Jaren Kuester of Waukesha was not competent to stand trial.
Kuester's attorney, Guy Taylor, said he was surprised by the finding because the defendant's mental condition has been getting better with new medication. Taylor expects the new confinement to be temporary.
Foust will re-evaluate Kuester's mental state on November 25th.
Kuester is charged with five felonies after he allegedly broke into a farmhouse in Lafayette County in April -- killed Dean, Gary, and Chloe Thoreson with a fireplace poker -- and then drove one of the victims' pickup trucks to Waukesha to see his father.
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Protestors took to the streets of major Turkish cities, which included Ankara and Istanbul, after nearly 284 people lost their lives in the country's worst mine accident on May 13.Read article ›
Protestors took to the streets of major Turkish cities, which included Ankara and Istanbul, after nearly 284 people lost their lives in the country's worst mine accident on May 13.Read article ›
The telecoms authority of Turkey, TIB, has banned the streaming video-sharing website YouTube a day after an Ankara court ordered TIB to lift the ban on social networking website Twitter.Read article ›
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Recently, Bruce Berkowitz, a "Stock Manager of the Decade," initiated a long position in Sears Canada. In the fourth quarter he bought more than 6 million shares in the company, with the total transaction worth more than $68 million, accounting for around 1% of his portfolio. Berkowitz also owned 16.94 million shares in the company's parent, Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD), which held a 51% stake in Sears Canada. Let's look closely to see whether or not investors should follow Berkowitz into Sears Canada.
A Spinoff from Sears Holdings
Sears Canada, which was partially spun off from Sears Holdings, is a multi-channel retailer with 122 department stores, 371 specialty stores, 16 floor covering centers, nearly 1,600 catalogue merchandise pick-up locations and 105 Sears travel offices. Sears Canada had two main sales channels: the Retail Channel (Hometown Dealer, Outlet, Corbeil…) and the Direct Channel. In 2011, Sears Canada generated more than $4.6 billion in revenue and $50.3 million in losses. At first glance, Sears Canada didn't seem to have a lot of debt. As of October 2012, Sears Canada had $1.15 billion in total stockholders' equity, $227 million in cash and only $37 million in both long and short-term debt. However, the operating lease, $501 million in total, was not included in the long-term debt. At the beginning of 2012, Sears Canada reported that it had around 19.6 million square feet for store locations, including 16.5 million square feet of full line Department stores, and 2.1 million square feet of Sears Home stores.
Berkowitz is More Interested in the Parent
Berkowitz might receive Sears Canada stocks due to the partial spin off from Sears Holding. After the spin off, Sears Holdings owned 51% of Sears Canada, and Eddie Lampert owned a 27% stake in Sears Canada. Actually, Berkowitz has been quite bullish on its parent, Sears Holdings. With 16.94 million shares, or 13.4% of his total portfolio, Sears Holdings was the second biggest position in his investment portfolio. Regarding Sears Holdings' investment, Berkowitz mentioned that it was not a retail play but a liquidation play. The liquidation value of Sears Holdings lies in two areas: merchandise inventory and real estate. Berkowitz said that the market was trading at the liquidation value of the retailer's inventory. For real estate, he conservatively estimated that if the real estate was fully valued on the balance sheet, Sears would be worth as much as $160 per share.
A Big Rival is Coming to Town
In October, it was reported that the US retailer Target (NYSE: TGT) was preparing to enter Canada. Target is one of the big box retailers in the US, operating around 1,778 stores across the US. Target is trading at $63 per share, with a total market cap of $41 billion. The market is valuing Target at 7.82x EV/EBITDA. Canada will be Target's first expansion outside of the US. It intended to open around 125 – 135 stores in March and April at locations that used to belong to Zellers. Barclays Capital commented that Sears Canada was considered to be the most at-risk among Canadian retailers due to its significant overlapping offerings, at up to 70%. In addition, 37% of Sears Canada's locations were less than a kilometer away from a Target store.
At the current trading price of $9.60 per share, the total market cap of Sears Canada is $970 million. The market is valuing the company at 9.45x EV/EBITDA. Its parent, Sears Holdings, generated $470 million in LTM EBITDA. With $4.93 billion in market cap, Sears Holdings is valued at 17.7x EV/EBITDA. One of its peers, Canadian Tire Corporation (NASDAQOTH: CDNTF) is worth $6.5 billion in the market. Canadian Tire is valued at a much cheaper valuation, at 8.13x EV/EBITDA. Canadian Tire has a quite strategic retail network in Canada. At least one store of the company is within 15 minutes of 90% of Canadians. The retailer has more than 1,700 outlets in Canada, with a total of 30 million retail square feet.
Commit to Turning Around
Sears Canada has recently announced that it would stick to its three-year turnaround plan as the CEO Calvin McDonald was not satisfied with the company's performance over the last year and a half. Sears Canada is trying to upgrade service and refocus on several important categories, including mattresses and major appliances. In addition, it has been constantly evaluating its store portfolio. It had closed three big downtown stores in Vancouver, Calgary, and Ottawa. McDonald said, "The business, financially, is still healthy. We have a strong balance sheet, we have no debt. We still have access to a lot of means to drive the transformation."
Foolish Bottom Line
Sears Canada seems to commit to turning the business around by boosting services and restructuring its retail focus. Investors need to dig deeper to better understand the potential value of Sears Canada's real estate. Personally, I would rather wait to see any further developments before buying the stock.
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The department encourages SEPs in communities where environmental justice may be an issue; therefore, primary consideration was given to those applications that would benefit northeast Denver and Commerce City neighborhoods and communities.
An informational session was held on April 18, 2012 at the Whittier Community Center in Denver and provided the following presentation: Introduction to SEPs
The SEP Pilot Evaluation Committee was comprised of representatives of the department, the City and County of Denver, Commerce City, and Suncor Energy. The committee recommended 8 applications to receive a total of $1.2 million in SEP funding. The recommendations were approved by the department and Suncor Energy in September 2012.
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Unlike the Commonwealth of Virginia, Bedford County has a budget.
The problem is, the county will only be able to appropriate local revenue until the state adopts its budget. Monday night, the county's supervisors adopted an $89,337,592 general fund budget on a 6-1 vote.
Gabrielle Clauser, a Bedford County homeschooler who recently turned 15, loves horses.
She's been riding since she was 7 and is planing on becoming a veterinarian specializing in horses.
The love of horses started with a summer camp. Clauser said that her mother asked her if she wanted to go to summer camp. Summer camps were not exactly her cup of tea, but this one involved horses. That got her attention and she decided to try it.
When Debra Woodson was named Bedford County's Teacher of the Year, it was as if her entire educational career passed before her eyes.
"It was very exciting," she said of the announcement made at a banquet earlier this month. "I never expected it in a million years. I was just so surprised."
Bedford County lays claim to being the best in several areas.
The county seat proclaims itself to be "The World's Best Little Town."
Many feel the Peaks of Otter are the most scenic mountains in Virginia.
Olde Liberty Station has one of the best cheesecakes you'll ever sample.
Add to that list: The best high school girls soccer player in the nation.
A request to delay a decision on closing either Moneta Elementary School or Body Camp Elementary school failed on two separate votes Thursday night during a meeting of the Bedford County School Board.
An occasionally angry crowd of parents filled the auditorium at Staunton River High School for a public hearing held so they could voice their opinions on the possibility of closing an elementary school in the Staunton River attendance zone.
"This is an information hearing," said School Board Chairman Gary Hostutler as he opened the public hearing. Hostutler said the school board was there to gather public input and would not answer questions at that time.
The Bedford County Board of Supervisors heard from a group of area residents, at its regular meeting last week, urging the board not to close Moneta Elementary School.
The meeting was held on a Tuesday night, rather than the usual Monday night, because of the Memorial Day holiday. The supervisors hold a citizen comment period at the beginning of each meeting.
A new initiative to promote positive behavior in Bedford County Public Schools is showing impressive results. And people are noticing.
Bedford's focus will once again turn to that fateful day, 70 years ago, when Operation Overlord commenced and the men of Co. A, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Division joined thousands of others as they stormed the beaches of Normandy.
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Bedford County Director of Tourism Sergei Troubetzkoy is leaving his position here to become the city of Lynchburg's director of tourism.
Lynchburg City Manager Kim Payne announced Tuesday that he had appointed Troubetzkoy to that position, effective July 2.
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DETROIT (Reuters) - To look over the roster of racy new and future vehicles at the 2014 North American International Auto Show here, the initial impression is that U.S., European and Asian automakers want to turn back the clock to a time when performance and speed trumped concerns about energy and the environment.
So-called green cars — electric vehicles, hybrids and hydrogen fuel cells — are being heavily overshadowed at the Detroit show by sports cars, in a broad spectrum of sizes, shapes and price segments, from Ford Motor Co's
"Sex sells. Speed sells," said Michael Tracy, principal at Michigan-based consultancy the Agile Group. "People don't talk about wanting to buy a Camaro because the base V6 gets great mileage."
In fact, there is more than a hint of green lurking in even the sexiest sports cars at this year's Detroit auto show, which opens for media members this week. Take the new Mustang, which this fall will offer buyers the choice of a 420-horsepower 5.0-liter V8 - a throwback to the classic street cars of yesteryear - or an economical 2.3-liter four-cylinder EcoBoost engine that still cranks out an impressive 305 horsepower.
"We're seeing a new era of performance cars that are very safe, very fuel-efficient and more mainstream," said industry consultant Lincoln Merrihew, of Millward Brown Digital.
The latest edition of Volkswagen AG's
Under the familiar hatchback shell of the long-running Golf, VW has fitted a 290-horsepower turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine. VW said it is the most powerful Golf ever sold in the United States, but it also surpasses the fuel economy of the 2013 edition, with an EPA highway mileage rating of 31 miles per gallon. To help improve the car's stability and traction, all-wheel drive is standard.
The definition of "performance" is evolving, from the old-school values of straight-line acceleration and cornering capability. As with the Mustang and the Golf, engines are getting smaller to improve efficiency, but devices such as turbochargers provide more power, so there is less tradeoff between going faster and going farther.
Perhaps the epitome of the modern sports car is Kia's GT4 Stinger, a compact, low-slung four-passenger model fitted with a 315-horsepower turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine that hints at a future rear-wheel-drive performance model from the Korean manufacturer.
Makers of traditional sports cars are reducing weight, which further enhances both sides of the power versus economy equation.
Even the 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z28, which goes on sale this spring, has benefited from General Motors Co's
Both the M3 and its two-door companion, the new 2015 M4 coupe, also provide an array of driver assistance systems, including a new Active Driving Assistant that warns of an impending collision with a pedestrian.
Enthusiasts will find many of the same safety systems and focus on efficiency in the latest supercars from Europe, Asia and the U.S., notably the 620-horsepower 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06, which goes into production late this year.
Chevy also aims to amp up the fun quotient for Corvette owners. Later this year, the 2015 Corvette will offer an optional Performance Data Recorder — essentially a built-in high-def videocam and microphone that will enable drivers to record up to 13 hours behind the wheel and play it all back on the car's in-dash touchscreen or upload it to Facebook and other social media sites.
Five years ago, during the depths of the U.S. auto industry's recession, "excess went out of fashion," said consultant Merrihew, as auto companies parked their performance models to focus on greener technologies.
Now that the economy has rebounded and automakers are redefining performance as a combination of speed, safety and efficiency, "that stigma is starting to fade," he said, "and performance cars are OK to buy again."
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FAIRBURN, Ga. (AP) - A coroner has identified a man who died while cutting tree limbs in suburban Atlanta over the weekend.
The Fulton County Coroner's Office says 21-year-old Tim June, of Roswell, died after the accident on Saturday in Fairburn. Police Sgt. Anthony Bazydlo told FOX 5 News that June was about 50 to 60 feet above the ground when the accident happened.
Authorities say he cut one limb but another snapped and hit him. Bazydlo says a witness told investigators that he stopped moving immediately after he was struck with the limb.
Investigators say the combination of blunt force trauma and June becoming tangled in his safety equipment likely contributed to his death.
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