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New 2019 MitsubishiMirage ES Hatchback
- Stock: 290515
- Fuel Economy
- 33.0/41.0 mpg City/Hwy
- Exterior Color
- Sunrise Orange
- Interior Color
- Black
- Body/Seating
- Hatchback/5 seats
- Transmission
- 5 speed manual
- Drivetrain
- front-wheel
- Engine
- 1.2L I-3 cyl
Mitsubishi Mirage
Highlighted Features
- Wireless phone connectivity
- Exterior parking camera rear
- Split folding rear seat
- Remote keyless entry
- Steering wheel mounted audio controls
- Rear window wiper
- Spoiler
Detailed Specifications
- 1-touch down
- 1-touch up
- Air conditioning
- Driver door bin
- Driver vanity mirror
- Front beverage holders
- Illuminated entry
- Passenger door bin
- Power windows
- Rear beverage holders
- Remote keyless entry
- Speed control
- Tilt steering wheel
- Front anti-roll bar
- Front tires: 165/65SR14.0
- Front wheel independent suspension
- Power steering
- Rear tires: 165/65SR14.0
- Wheel size: 14"
- 1st row LCD monitors: 1
- AM/FM radio
- Primary LCD size: 7.0"
- Speakers: 4
- Steering wheel mounted audio controls
- Wireless phone connectivity: Bluetooth
- Basic warranty: 60 months/60,000miles
- Corrosion perforation warranty: 84 months/100,000miles
- Powertrain warranty: 120 months/100,000miles
- Roadside assistance coverage: 60 months/ unlimited distance
- Front seats: bucket
- Max seating capacity: 5
- Rear seats: bench
- Split folding rear seat
- Cylinder configuration: I-3
- Drive type: front-wheel
- Engine liters: 1.2
- Engine location: front
- Fuel economy city: 33mpg
- Fuel economy combined: 36mpg
- Fuel economy highway: 41mpg
- Fuel tank capacity: 9.2gal.
- Horsepower: 78hp @ 6,000RPM
- Number of valves: 12
- Recommended fuel: Regular Unleaded
- Torque: 74 lb.-ft. @ 4,000RPM
- Transmission: 5 speed manual
- Variable valve control
- Bumpers: body-color
- Door mirrors: body-color
- Power door mirrors
- Rear cargo: liftgate
- Spoiler
- Compression ratio: 10.50 to 1
- Engine bore x stroke: 75.0mm x 90.0mm (2.95" x 3.54")
- Engine displacement: 1.2 L
- Engine horsepower: 78hp @ 6,000RPM
- Engine torque: 74 lb.-ft. @ 4,000RPM
- Exterior body width: 1,666mm (65.6")
- Exterior height: 1,509mm (59.4")
- Exterior length: 3,795mm (149.4")
- Front headroom: 991mm (39.0")
- Front hiproom: 1,240mm (48.8")
- Front legroom: 1,059mm (41.7")
- Front shoulder room: 1,313mm (51.7")
- GVWR: 1,320kg (2,910lbs)
- Interior cargo volume: 484 L (17 cu.ft.)
- Interior maximum cargo volume: 1,331 L (47 cu.ft.)
- Passenger volume: 2,441L (86.2 cu.ft.)
- Rear headroom: 945mm (37.2")
- Rear hiproom: 1,179mm (46.4")
- Rear legroom: 869mm (34.2")
- Rear shoulder room: 1,295mm (51.0")
- Turning radius: 4.6m (15.1')
- Wheelbase: 2,451mm (96.5")
- Display: analog
- Exterior parking camera rear
- Front reading lights
- Low tire pressure warning
- Rear window defroster
- Rear window wiper
- Tachometer
- Trip computer
- Variably intermittent wipers
- ABS brakes
- Dual front impact airbags
- Dual front side impact airbags
- Electronic stability
- Ignition disable
- Knee airbag
- Occupant sensing airbag
- Overhead airbag
- Panic alarm
- Traction control
Dealer Notes
All vehicles are one of each. A dealer documentary service fee of up to $150 may be added to the sale price or capitalized cost. All financing is subject to credit approval. Prices exclude tax, title, and license and are valid for Washington residents only. All transactions are negotiable including price, trade allowance, interest rate (of which the dealer may retain a portion), term, and documentary service fee. Any agreement is subject to execution of contract documents.Every reasonable effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this data. Please verify any information in question with a dealership sales representative. Price includes: $250 Loyalty Rebate. This extends to an immediate family member or domestic partner living at the same address as current registered Mitsubishi, Saturn, Suzuki, or Scion owner (proof of same residency required). Exp. 01/02/2020, $500 - Military Program. Exp. 01/02/2020, $500 - Customer Rebate. Exp. 01/02/2020 $1,000 Trade discount (must be 2005 or newer under 100,000 miles). Exp. 12/31/2024 $1000 financing discount through one of our 4 preferred lenders $1,000 - Exp. 01/01/2025
KBB.com Consumer Reviews
- 3.0
Cheaply made but reliable
By Rez on Saturday, September 07, 2019Car is compact and was a very good price brand new. Nothing spectacular about this car other than it is reliable. Don't have a passenger visor mirror, no passenger arm rest, or a middle compartment between the driver and passenger seat. The noise from outside the car is pretty loud, I'm assuming because of how cheaply the car is made and lack of insulation. Doesn't hold it's value.
- 5.0
amazing, we love the car
By johnl64 on Thursday, June 15, 2017We were looking for a first car for our 17-year old daughter. Saw a 2014 Mirage w/40K miles on a local dealers website. The price was in our ball park so we went to look but were skeptical. First, Im 6 3, 225lbs and when we went for the test drive I thought there was no way Id fit comfortably in any seat. Well I was wrong. Drivers seat, passenger seat and rear seats were no problem. Second, we were concerned by the pros reviews so during the test drive (4 of us in car) I pushed the car hard - it performed - we were totally impressed. Third, not flashy, no bells or whistles but with power windows, a/c, decent radio/speaker combo, look of dash, enough space in back, etc... all just right. Last, no idea how but they even fit a spare tire. Yup, we bought the car, she absolutely loves it and so do we.
- 4.0
It will get you back and forth
By PA Ownr on Saturday, September 07, 2019The transmission is obviously terrible. It holds a low, low gear all the time and the engine violently revs up. The steering is numb as others have stated. Why such an honest review? Because the car is mechanically sound. Its our 2nd mirage now, traded the 2015 DE model for loaded 2019 GT. It has better options and still gets 44 MPG.


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Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is set to meet with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell this week to discuss a possible reduction in his six-game suspension for violating the league's personal conduct policy, reports ESPN.
The suspension stems from a March 2010 incident in Milledgeville, Georgia, in which Roethlisberger was accused of sexually assaulting a college student at a nightclub. He was not charged in that case, but the league took its own disciplinary action. If the suspension is reduced, Roethlisberger would be eligible to play in the Steelers October 17 game against Cleveland. He's currently slated to be out until a Halloween matchup with the New Orleans Saints.
Goodell has praised the quarterback's efforts at reforming his life in advance of their sit down.
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"I'm very encouraged by what's he's doing," Goodell said. "I'll take the period of time that I have before making the decision and make it probably right before the regular season."
Roethlisberger played briefly in the Steelers next to last pre-season game against the Denver Broncos, going 4 for 6 for 67 yards.
The two-time Super Bowl winner is no stranger to off the field controversy. In 2006, Roethlisberger was involved in a serious motorcycle accident in which he was not wearing a helmet. He also was accused in 2008 of sexual assault while in Lake Tahoe for a celebrity golf tournament.
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Amy Poehler dropped by "The Tonight Show" Wednesday, where the comedienne chatted about the Emmy Awards and enjoyed a drink – and a cigarette – courtesy of the late-night host.
The "Parks and Recreation" actress kicked off the segment by taking about her recent Emmy nomination, and made light of never winning an award, despite her numerous nominations.
"It's a very fancy loser's lounge," Poehler joked. "There's a lot of really great people in the loser's lounge that I get to hang with every time."
Although the 41-year-old said she enjoyed attending the Emmy's, she confessed the awards show would be more fun if she broke one rule.
"You know, what I wish is that you could drink," Poehler told Leno. "The Golden Globes, everyone's a little loose and back in the day the Emmy speeches were kinda angry and weepy because everyone was a little drunk, and I wish everyone can bring that back."
But Poehler's confessions didn't stop there. She also revealed that she wished people could smoke on talk shows.
"I don't smoke, but I do think it looks cool," Poheler quipped.
Ever the accommodating host, Leno proceeded to present the actress with a martini and a cigarette. After taking a quick savor of each, the actress declared they tasted "awful."
"I liked it in theory but not in practice," she said, stubbing out the cigarette.
The visit came a week after Poehler announced her separation from fellow actor Will Arnett. In early September Poehler and her husband of nine years announced they were separating after nine years of marriage. The couple have two sons, 3-year-old Archie and 2-year-old Abel.
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Valley wrangle: Museum wins mill squabble
Over the objections of preservationists, the Frontier Culture Museum has signed a deal to buy a historic Shenandoah County mill that it will move to a reconstructed 1850s-style village.
The Museum signed the contract October 13, museum executive director John Avoli says. He declines to disclose the purchase price.
Shenandoah County preservationists organized a foundation to buy the 240-year-old structure near the West Virginia border and raised about $200,000 to pay the asking price and keep it where it is.
But the owner, Shenandoah apple orchard owner Gordon D. Bowman II, believed the building's long-term interests would be best served by Frontier Culture's $1.2 million preservation plan, Avoli says.
Disassembly will begin by spring, according to Avoli, and the museum aims to have the building reconstructed in Staunton by 2007.
The Zirkle Mill was built by one of the Valley's first German settlers around 1760 in Forestville. It last served as a mill in the 1950s and most recently was used as a furniture workshop beginning in the 1980s, according to the foundation.
Frontier Culture wants to feature the building as part of a $10.5 million expansion of museum exhibits.
The museum displays links between 18th-century farms in Europe and the homesteads of the valley's early European settlers.
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Bottom-heavy Mets system has stars
Harvey, Gorski, Edgin pitched in at Class A Advanced St. Lucie
By Andrew Pentis / Special to MLB.com | November 23, 2011 5:00 AM
According to Paul DePodesta's math -- as you would expect, it checks out -- four of the Mets' six stateside Minor League affiliates combined on what equates to an 90- to 91-win season in the Majors. (Make that 90.4275534. The man of "Moneyball" fame doesn't round off his decimal points, so neither will we.)
Overshadowing the relative struggles of Triple-A Buffalo and Double-A Binghamton, Class A Advanced St. Lucie (72-68) and Class A Savannah (79-60) were finalists in the Florida State and South Atlantic leagues, respectively. Short-season Brooklyn (45-29) secured a Wild Card berth in the New York-Penn League, while Rookie-level Kingsport (39-29) narrowly missed out on the Appalachian League postseason.
So it should come as no surprise that nine of those New York farmhands named organizational All-Stars spent most of 2011 in the Class A or short-season ranks.
"Hopefully," said DePodesta, the Mets vice president of player development and amateur scouting, "those guys make our decisions tougher as the funnel gets tighter in Double-A and Triple-A."
Mets Organization All-Stars
Catcher -- Camden Maron, Savannah (one game), Kingsport (58 games): A 34th-round Draft pick in 2009, Maron played Gulf Coast League games over his first two pro seasons before emerging in 2011. The 20-year-old New York native batted .317 overall and sported a 38-36 walk-to-strikeout ratio.
"He has a very advanced approach at plate for such a young guy," DePodesta said of the Appalachian League postseason All-Star. "This was his first opportunity to play full-time and he took advantage. Defensively, he's solid and he's going to get much better."
First base -- Allan Dykstra, Binghamton (121 games): Sharing the surname of a famous ex-Met, this unrelated Dykstra batted .267 and established career highs in home runs (19) and RBIs (77). That success came after he batted .241 in the hitter-happy Cal League as a member of the Padres organization in 2010. He was San Diego's first-round pick in 2008.
"Considering the difference playing in the Cal League and the Eastern League, he performed especially well," DePodesta noted.
Second base -- Reese Havens, Binghamton (58 games), St. Lucie (three games): A line-drive, gap-to-gap hitter if there ever was one, Havens batted .289 at Binghamton and collected 22 extra-base hits in an injury-shortened campaign. Back problems cropped up in June and July.
"Whenever Reese has been healthy, he has always been able to perform," DePodesta said. "He's a natural hitter."
Havens, selected 22nd overall in the 2008 Draft, is New York's No. 9 prospect.
"Big-league hitter," echoed new Buffalo skipper Wally Backman, who managed Binghamton last season. "The issue with him has always been health. If he had stayed healthy [in 2010], I believe he would have been the second baseman for the Mets [in 2011]."
Third base -- Richard Lucas, Brooklyn (69 games): Lucas batted an even .300 with 28 extra-base hits, a welcome improvement from his .212 full-season campaign at St. Lucie in 2010. The ball appeared bigger than usual for Lucas in July: He went 35-for-96 and scored 28 runs in 27 games.
DePodesta said he projects that Lucas, a New York-Penn League midseason All-Star, will stay at third base and potentially develop into a middle-of-the-order hitter.
Shortstop -- Danny Muno, Brooklyn (59 games): Embarking on his first pro season, Muno led all Mets farmhands with at least 200 at-bats in hitting (.355) and was in Ted Williams territory with his torrid second half (.396). The New York-Penn League midseason All-Star also impressed with a 43-39 walk-to-strikeout ratio, while his .466 on-base percentage led the league.
"I don't think many players had a better year than Danny Muno. He did everything," DePodesta said, adding that Muno has a chance to continue his career at shortstop.
Juan Lagares, Binghamton (38 games), St. Lucie (82 games): Lagares suffered an ankle injury in 2010 and, according to the Mets, it slowed him during Spring Training. Everything appeared OK by Opening Day, however, as he went on to lead all Mets full-season players in batting (.349), increasing his .338 mark at St. Lucie to .370 in Binghamton. The six-year Minor League veteran had never batted above .279 at any level.
"Unbelievable year," DePodesta said from Arizona, where Lagares hit .303 in 15 games in the Fall League. "The move obviously didn't faze him."
While Lagares drew only 26 walks, he also fanned only 76 times in 120 games.
"The biggest thing for Juan this year was his plate discipline," said St. Lucie skipper Pedro Lopez, who also managed Lagares, as a taxi squad player in the AFL. "Managing the strike zone has helped him out. We're talking about a kid who was a free swinger a year ago; now he has a better understanding of what a strike is."
"He can definitely play [defense] in the big leagues right now," Backman added. "It will depend on what the organization wants, but for me, he can go to Triple-A [in 2012]. He is probably the best player I had for the year, and I only had him for half a year."
Travis Taijeron, Brooklyn (56 games): Another NY-Penn League All-Star, Taijeron split time between left and center field in 2011 but lands on this list thanks to his bat -- he hit .299 with nine homers and 44 RBIs. Despite the small sample size (this was Taijeron's first pro season), the front office believes it has a power hitter on its hands.
"Ike Davis went to Brooklyn and didn't hit a homer the entire summer, then hits [19] in the Majors, so it's very difficult to project," DePodesta said, using the Mets' first baseman for comparison. "Taijeron's strength isn't going away, his power to right-center isn't going away, so that should all serve him well in the future."
Gregory Pron, Kingsport (58 games): A 42nd-round pick last June, the physically gifted Pron -- he's a svelte 6-foot-6 -- batted .318 in his debut season. DePodesta gave Pron, who plated 34 runs and scored 42, a strong chance to begin 2012 with a full-season affiliate.
Utility -- Josh Satin, Buffalo (38 games), Binghamton (94 games), New York (15 games): With his silky smooth swing, Satin led all Bisons with at least 100 at-bats in batting (.317) -- he hit .323, counting his time with the B-Mets -- and led the organization with 35 doubles. He also set career highs in extra-base hits (57) and RBIs (76). Defensively, the Eastern League All-Star played at least 20 games at first base, second base and third base.
"No matter where he goes, that's all he does -- hit," DePodesta said of the 26-year-old former Cal product. "We think he's a guy who can play multiple positions and we think he's a Major League hitter."
His Double-A manager said Satin displays average ability at third and is too balky for second. He worked to improve his outfield technique in the Venezuelan Winter League.
"Defensively, that's where Josh lacks," Backman said. "I love the kid to death, but if we can make him adequate at any position, he is a big league hitter. If he dedicates the same time he does to his hitting, he'll get there. [Moving to the outfield] puts him in a better position to go to the big leagues and stay in the big leagues."
Veteran first baseman/designated hitter Valentino Pascucci also deserves mention. Pascucci, who recently signed a Minor League contract for the 2012 season, led the system with 91 RBIs and finished second with 21 homers.
Right-handed starting pitcher -- Matt Harvey, St. Lucie (14 games), Binghamton (12 games): In his first pro season, the seventh overall pick in 2010 led the organization in wins. His 2.37 ERA at St. Lucie ballooned to 4.53 in Binghamton, but his strikeout-to-walk ratio never wavered. The Futures Game selection fanned 156 and issued 47 free passes over 135 2/3 frames.
"We were tremendously pleased," DePodesta said. "Matt obviously came with high expectations. Our goals for him were for him to get established on a five-day schedule.
"There's no doubt in our mind he could go to St. Lucie and dominate without using his changeup. He went to Binghamton and continued to work on his pitches. There were times when I'm sure it would have been easier to throw a fastball by a guy and get out of an inning, but he knew it was more important to work on his craft."
The University of North Carolina product showed improvement at Double-A in August, going 5-0 with a 2.67 ERA in five outings.
Backman, who calls Harvey "intense," is impressed with his repertoire.
"I compare him to [Jeurys] Familia, but he's got more stuff than Familia," he said. "They're both power fastball, power breaking ball guys [while their] changeup is a work-in-progress. When I graded [Harvey] out, I had him as a No. 2 starter on a championship-level, big league team."
Familia won half of his 10 decisions and recorded a 2.90 ERA in 23 starts, 17 for Backman at Binghamton. The native of the Dominican Republic fanned 132 over 124 innings.
Lopez said Harvey "has all the making of a great starter" but cautioned that he should be more aggressive earlier in counts, innings and outings.
"The way he went about his business of getting guys out -- in college, you don't have a pitch count, but in the pros you do," Lopez said. "You have to manage your pitch count to be able to pitch deeper into games. His first couple ballgames, he was coming out early."
Zack Wheeler -- think Harvey with a cutter -- thrived at St. Lucie after being acquired from the Giants in the July trade involving All-Star outfielder Carlos Beltran. In six starts, he went 2-2 with a 2.00 ERA and struck out 31 over 27 innings.
"Wheeler and Harvey, both of these guys have phenomenal stuff," Lopez said. "Time will tell whether they will pitch in the big leagues."
Wheeler, Harvey and Familia fill the first three slots on New York's Top 10 Prospect list.
Left-handed starting pitcher -- Darin Gorski, St. Lucie (27 games): The FSL Pitcher of the Year (and MiLB.com's Class A Advanced Best Starter) won his first 10 decisions, although he actually began the season in the bullpen.
"We had a bit of an embarrassment of riches of pitching at St. Lucie. He didn't even get to start the year in the rotation because of that. He got in there and took off," DePodesta said of the 24-year-old southpaw. "He became the ace of that staff and anchored it when Harvey left. We wanted him to experience being the No. 1 guy and pitching in playoff games."
Gorski, a 2009 seventh-round pick, went 11-3 with a 1.98 ERA as a starter and led the FSL in overall ERA (2.08) and WHIP (1.00). He also struck out 140 in 138 2/3 frames, including a career-high 13 on May 26 while holding left-handed hitters to a .171 batting average.
"Darin is probably the biggest surprise of this year," Lopez said. "We knew he had the potential to become the type of pitcher he became, but it was a matter of time. It took Gorski two years to put everything together."
In addition to his slider, improved fastball command was key.
"He always had a changeup," Lopez said, "but nobody swung at it because he could never command his fastball. Next thing you know, he was graded as having the best changeup in our league."
Relief pitcher -- Josh Edgin, St. Lucie (25 games), Savannah (24 games): The power-armed lefty went 1-0 with a 0.87 ERA for the Sand Gnats, finishing 3-1 with a 2.06 mark across two levels. He fanned 76 in 66 innings and earned 27 saves.
Edgin's 93-96 mph heater, the strongest of his three-pitch menu, wasn't what impressed his manager most.
"No fear, he just went after hitters," Lopez said of the second-year pro. "That's the biggest thing he brings to the table."
"He has a chance to move quickly," DePodesta added.
Andrew Pentis is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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At Newtown High School, Adam Lanza had trouble relating to fellow students and teachers, but that was only part of his problem. He seemed not to feel physical or psychological pain in the same way as classmates.
Richard Novia, the school district's head of security until 2008, who also served as adviser for the school technology club, said Lanza clearly "had some disabilities."
"If that boy would've burned himself, he would not have known it or felt it physically," Novia said in a telephone interview. "It was my job to pay close attention to that."
Novia was responsible for monitoring students as they used soldering tools and other potentially dangerous electrical equipment.
He recalled meeting with school guidance counselors, administrators and with the boy's mother, Nancy Lanza, to understand his problems and find ways to ensure his safety, but there were other crises only a mother could solve.
"He would have an episode, and she'd have to return or come to the high school and deal with it," Novia said, describing how the young man would sometimes withdraw completely "from whatever he was supposed to be doing," whether it was sitting in class or reading a book.
Adam Lanza "could take flight, which I think was the big issue, and it wasn't a rebellious or defiant thing," Novia said. "It was withdrawal."
Authorities on Saturday continued a wide-ranging investigating into the second-deadliest school shooting in US history, trying to understand what led the young man to kill his mother in their home and then slaughter 26 children and adults at a Connecticut elementary school before taking his own life.
A law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss the unfolding investigation, said Lanza had been diagnosed with Asperger's, a milder form of autism.
People with the disorder tend to function poorly socially, but can be highly intelligent.
If he did have Asperger's, his lack of sensation could be related to the disorder, said psychologist Elizabeth Laugeson, an assistant clinical professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. People with Asperger's can be overly sensitive to things like touch, noise and pain, or sometimes under-sensitive, she said.
Back in their teenage years, Adam and his older brother, Ryan, were both members of the tech club, which offered students a chance to work on computers, videotape school events and produce public-access broadcasts.
It was popular among socially awkward students, but Adam, while clearly smart, had problems that went beyond an adolescent lack of social skills, Novia said.
"You had yourself a very scared young boy, who was very nervous around people," Novia said.
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Adam was not physically bullied, although he may have been teased, Novia said.
The club gave the boy a place where he could be more at ease and indulge his interest in computers. His anxieties appeared to ease somewhat, but they never disappeared.


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The Spiral of Extremism
Recent events made me think about a particular chicken and egg problem: What comes first, political polarization or media polarization? And how much damage can media polarization do in a political system? The answer to the first question is probably: they're mutually reinforcing, but the media wouldn't be polarized if there wasn't a polarized audience to begin with. The answer to the second question is less obvious, but relevant to all political systems where the media can tip the scales toward one side or the other, or possibly one extreme or the other.
It is a commonplace by now that the fragmented media landscape in many countries, much amplified by online media, allows members of the audience to get exposed only to political content that they actually agree with. There is so much out there, you never really need to listen to the other side. In the recent Presidential elections in the United States, this led to a curious phenomenon. The media on the right, and also voters on the right that mainly focused on those media, were convinced that their candidate would win and were genuinely surprised when he didn't. The media on the left played the same trick on its audience. The media in the middle covered the election as if it was a close race, which it wasn't, in order not to scare part of their audience away. Overall, one had to turn to foreign media to lose some of the bias.


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Tonight, on the A State of Trance radio show, Armin van Buuren premiered the official anthem to the upcoming A State of Trance 600 world tour. With its powerful melody, mysterious break and wicked pay-off, 'The Expedition' is the perfect tune to get you ready for this unique happening!
No tour is complete without the sounds of an official anthem. After the success of last year's 'Invasion' anthem by W&W, Armin decided to invite no one less than Markus Schulz for a musical rendezvous. 'The Expedition' is the massive result, representing an ASOT world tour bigger and more advanced than Armin has ever done before. Balancing the sounds of the two trance giants, it builds and builds, rapidly unfolding its inner layers. Want to know what it sounds like and start your own little ASOT 600 pre-party?
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Snap Judgment : Grey Zone - Snap #210
Today we cross over Checkpoint Charlie into the "Grey Zone." Stories about people who for some reason or another are forced into the world of dark cloaks and twisted allegiances.
Master fo Disguise
When the CIA had to rescue six Americans hiding in Tehran, they called on Tony Mendez, CIA Chief of Disguises. True to form, Tony scripted a cover story made in Hollywood . . .
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Who's Your Granddaddy?
Rita Daniels attempts to get to the truth about her grandfather's profession.
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Babyface Bomber
What happens when a 15-year old boy in the middle of a war zone discovers a way to bomb the government?
This piece was inspired by Shane O'Doherty's book, The Volunteer: A Former IRA Man's True Story.
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For Love or Country
When strangers followed Miriam Moscowitz home from work one night, she thought something felt wrong. She never considered facing the betrayal of everything she held dear.
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Back in the day, Snap host Glynn Washington worked as a junior diplomat in Malaysia. He discovered that in the business of deception, you never know who the enemy is.
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A former French spy, Herve Jaubert, moves to Dubai to build a submarine factory. Unfortunately, things turns sour, and Herve needs to make a hasty escape.
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Looking back over DiS's almost-positive DiS review of Broken Records' first album, Until The Earth Begins To Part, it seems that the problem with it was that it was stuffed with unused potential. Now, as the band release their second album, this is clearly a problem they haven't quite overcome. On one hand, they are writing heartfelt rock songs with a folk edge that Springsteen would happily groan over. But for all the complexity in the actual arrangement of those songs, Broken Records seems sadly satisfied in restricting their experimentation to the ambience and atmosphere of their music around the edges.
For example, there are sweetly sinister jangling chords to introduce 'The Motorcycle Boy Reigns'. It could go either way in terms of mood, and the interesting part about the pattern they've chosen is that uncertainty. But when it's time for the bass to come in, it is heaped on like treacle, with a clumsy groove that pushes the track too far in one direction. When the chorus kicks in, it isn't as agonised as you'd hope, and starts to feel quite plain. This does lead well into a pretty, elegant outro which would have been awkward to reach from a more intense preceding section. But on the whole, it all feels as though Broken Records weren't quite sure what they wanted to do with the song so stuck firmly in the middle of the road.
They set out a more resolute manifesto on opening track 'A Leaving Song'. The Scottish drone of the guitar, the clattering drums, all lead into a soaring chorus that is drenched in torrential cymbals. It combines to form a folky, hyper-sensitive brand of indie-rock, draped in tartan and typical of what you'd hope Broken Records could define themselves as. The vocals are sensitive, but there's a high enough quality of songwriting to steer the band away from crummy, tokenistic whining.
The same can't be said of 'The Cracks In The Wall', with a preachy attitude and a particularly soggy coda that tries to sound wise and heartbroken, but ends up sounding immature and dull. Similarly, 'Ailene' is ruined by a hackneyed folk chorus that could easily soundtrack a Scottish tourist board advert and fails to match the sincere frustration of the rest of the song. When sincerity is lacking, Broken Records falter.
But where it is present, they succeed. So the final feel-good chorus of 'A Darkness Rises Up', for example, swells with genuine hope and optimism. And the stark, cold piano on 'I Used To Dream' is effective for the exact opposite reasons. Here, the bass and the strings start to work in tandem, rising to a crescendo as the rhythm intensifies and the suspense builds up, before it all collapses back to that lonely piano, like the sound of giving up.
But for these successes, Broken Records only really sound comfortable on 'You Know You're Not Dead'. It has an accessible, Springsteen-like pace, but with a much more abstract approach to arrangement than The Boss. It feels, finally, like Broken Records have worked out, with those reverb-soaked guitars, how they want to make their music sound, while admitting that really, they just want to write honest, earnest rock songs. It is, all at once, accessible as a song, but interesting as a piece of music. But the problem with Let Me Come Home overall is that, as before, there is a bit too much of the former and nowhere near enough of the latter.
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Brother Grimm
Oscar-winner Matt Damon has long-since proven his versatility by handling a diversity of demanding roles. His memorable performances have come in pictures which cut across all genres, flicks like Good Will Hunting, Saving Private Ryan, Rounders, Ocean's Eleven and Ocean's Twelve, The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy, Finding Forrester, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Dogma, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Jersey Girl and Eurotrip.
With The Brothers Grimm, Matt again makes the most of an opportunity to demonstrate his impressive range. This bio-pic, which co-stars Heath Ledger, is very loosely based on the lives of the legendary authors of over 200 classic fairy tales, including Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, and Little Red Riding Hood. Here, he reflects on what it was like adopting an accent to work with a very adventuresome director, namely, Terry Gilliam of the legendary Monty Python's Flying Circus.
KW: Was it fun making this movie with a director who is also a comedian?
MD: Yeah, but it was a different kind of fun. Hard work fun. There was a lot to kind of geek out about, because Terry shoots with 14mm lenses and 17mm lenses, so you can kind of see the whole world. Then he packs the frame so densely, from side to side, and really deep, that you have like 15 elements working in any one shot. So, all these different departments have to get their jobs done perfectly in order for the shot to work. The fun and rewarding part of our day was when we'd actually get a shot that was Terry Gilliam approved, and we could move on to another one.
KW: How did you decide on your accent for this role?
MD: Well, that was Terry's decision. Even though the Grimms are German, he didn't want us marching around the forest going, "Vat are you doing?� But he still wanted it to sound foreign, though, particularly to Americans. So, he went with English.
KW: Did the British accent come easily to you?
MD: No, it was really hard for me. I've found that I don't really have a problem with accents in this country. I can just go there and fall into it. But with British, there are just a lot of sounds in that accent that we don't have that I really have a lot of trouble hearing. And I've lived in London. I did a play over there a couple of years ago. So, I've spent a lot of time there. It's just that I can't hear it, and you have to develop certain muscles that we don't use, in order to do it. So, it was really hard for me.
KW: Do you relish the challenge of playing a character which tests your ability to stretch?
MD: Yeah, I won't name names, but I've asked actors, "Why aren't you excited about what you're doing?� And they say it's because they're going to play the same guy that they play every single time. It's become like going to the salt mines for these guys. For me, each movie's so different.
KW: Why so?
MD: I think it's a combination of the directors you choose and having a philosophy of wanting to try things that are different, whether they succeed or not, and. There's nothing straightforward about Terry. And I think this is also a philosophy which works in terms of how to live your life.
KW: So, is it crazy on a set being run by a comedian like Terry Gilliam?
MD: No, everyone's really focused. It's unbelievable working with him. His sets are like a church. The quietest I've ever experienced. You can't imagine it. That's the one thing that makes it not feel like a movie set, is how quiet it is. Everyone's pretty happy to be working for him, so it's kind of a reverential a
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GOP primary underdog Jon Huntsman discussed his youthful rock and roll ambitions on "The Late Show" Wednesday and proved he hasn't lost his keyboard chops.
Huntsman may share his higher-profile rival Mitt Romney's clean-cut Mormon family man image — but unlike Romney, Huntsman has a dark past. Sort of.
A past that, before it involved two terms as Utah governor or a stint as ambassador to China, involved some rock and roll.
With Huntsman as his guest on "The Late Show" Wednesday, David Letterman unearthed an old photograph of Huntsman's late '70s pro rock band, Wizard — replete with the requisite long hair.
Huntsman admitted that he really expected to hit it big playing proggy keys.
"I wanted to be Paul Shaffer," he said.
And without missing a beat, Huntsman joined Shaffer and the rest of the CBS Orchestra to accompany their rendition of "Johnny B. Goode" on piano.


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MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (AP) Abdel Nader scored 23 points and Northern Illinois hit 10 3-pointers en route to a 74-61 victory over Central Michigan on Wednesday night.
Nader hit 4 of 5 3-pointers for the Huskies (4-13, 2-3 Mid-American), who snapped a three-game losing streak that included a 71-34 loss at home to Western Michigan their last time out. Northern Illinois was 10 for 19 from beyond the arc and shot 49 percent overall from the field.
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Friday, April 10, 2009
25 Random Things About My Family Tree
1) Four of my five grandparents were born and raised at least 600 miles from where I was born and raised and currently live. This has made it difficult to do research until the last five years or so, when so many records have gone up online.
2) I have five grandparents because I consider my "step-grandfather" as a real grandfather and really do not like to distinguish hm as a step-grandfather.
3) I did not cite sources for the first 10 years or so of my research.
4) My great-great-grandmother, Nellie May Reynolds, was born illegitimately in Oct 1890 in Sanilac County, Michigan. Her mom, Cora King, was 15 years old. Oddly, her father was actually named on the birth record as Douglas Reynolds, who seems to have died from tuberculosis in Aug 1890, just two months before she was born. He was 24 years old. Nellie was living with her mom's first cousin, William King, and his wife, Nancy Keys, at the time of the 1900 U.S. census. I wonder if they had legal custody of her. As far as I can tell, they did not have any children of their own.
5) My paternal grandfather was an only child, and so were both of his parents.
6) All three of my grandfathers served in the U.S. armed forces. One of them also served in the Canadian armed forces. None of my great-grandfathers served in the military.
7) My great-grandfather's name was Bienvenue. I think that's one of the strangest names I have in my tree.
8) My great-grandmother, Mabel Ellen Crysler, was possibly 5th cousins with Walter P. Chrysler, who founded the Chrysler corporation. I need to confirm the sources.
9) I found out that my good friend from high school is actually my 10th cousin twice removed. I was doing research on my mom's side and found one of my maternal 4th great-grandmothers was named Priscilla Demaray. Apparently, Demaray was previously Demarest. I then traced the Demarests back to Hackensack, New Jersey and New York. I knew my friend Stephanie's Demarest family was from Connecticut/New York. I found a book by the Demarest Family Association, which contained Stephanie's great-grandparents and my line as well. The funny thing is that both Stephanie and I grew up in Louisiana. Her dad grew up in New York or Connecticut, and my mom grew up in Michigan. My line was apparently the Loyalist branch of the family during the American Revolution who migrated to Canada and then to Michigan.
10) The families the Demarest's married into are my only Dutch ancestors that I've found. The Demarests were French Hugenots.
11) My family still owns the house my great-great-grandfather, Maurice Boneaux, built in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. My third-great-grandfather, Dominique Boneaux, was the first one to own the land in our family. He was a French immigrant. Unfortunately, our family no longer lives on the land or in the house. It is leased and sub-leased out.
12) My 5th great-grandmother, Marie Marthe Mouton, was the sister of Alexandre Mouton, the 12th governor of Louisiana and U.S. Senator. He was the godfather of her daughter, my 4th-great-grandmother, Cidalise Elizabeth Dugas.
13) My most recently arrived immigrant ancestor to the U.S. is my great-grandmother, Jennie Grace Christina Plaine. She immigrated from Canada around 1924.
14) I used to think my third great-grandmother, Edmonia Domingue, was Cajun French like the rest of my Louisiana ancestors. After doing more research, I found that her family's name was originally Dominguez and that they were of Spanish ancestry from the Canary Islands.
15) My great-great-grandmother, Marie Alice Sonnier, only spoke French, although she was a fourth-generation American.
16) My most recently arrived immigrant ancestor to North America is my third great-grandfather, George Plaine, and his wife, Mary Ann Trumpass. They married in Norfolk County, England in 1850 and immigrated to Canada around 1857.
17) My 2nd great-grandaunt, Myrtle Lavina Pemberton, married her first cousin, Hayes Wheeler Finkle, twice and divorced him twice (or maybe he divorced her).
18) My third-great-grandfather, John Pemberton, fought in the Civil War alongside his younger brother, Stephen, who died from sickness during the War. John brought him all the way from Virginia to Ohio trying to get him to their mother before he died.
19) My third-great-granduncle, Charles Pemberton, had 4 daughters. Susanna was possibly in an industrial school for girls in 1900, married at least 5 times, and was hit by a car when she was 86 years old while crossing the street. Mary died from tuberculosis at age 30. Martha ended up in a mental hospital. Nellie married at least 6 times. Two of Charles' sons died in WWI, and another son died of tuberculosis at age 28.
20) My great-great-grandfather, William Harmon Proffitt, was a a circuit-riding preacher for the Methodist Episcopal Church in Oklahoma from 1900-1944. He lived in at least 6 different counties.
21) Going back to #19, Charles died at the age of 82 when his own dog, who had rabies, bit him and infected him with rabies.
22) Going back to #4 above, my great-great-grandmother, Nellie May Reynolds, who was born illegitimate, married at age 14 in 1904 to Ernest Crysler in Sanilac County, Michigan. She gave birth to 5 children and died at the age of 26 from ptomaine poisoning. I've looked this up and found that it was food poisoning. This was only 7 days after her last child was born. I'm wondering if her death was related to childbirth rather than food poisoning. My sister said that if the baby's blood was a different type than her mother's, it may have contaminated Nellie's bloodstream during the childbirth process. They may have just said food poisoning because of excessive vomiting, which the bloodstream poison would have also caused. Something I will have to investigate more.
23) My mother has a twin brother, and my future father-in-law has a twin sister. My first cousin, Jeff (on my mother's side), who gave me this idea on Facebook, has a fraternal twin brother, Joe. I have a set of fraternal twins who are second cousins, Brandy and Brenda, also on my mother's side. My great-great-grandmother, Florence Minnie Hillman, who was born 23 Jul 1867 in Alvinston, Lambton, Ontario, Canada, had a twin brother, Peter Hillman. My great-great-grandmother, Alvina Lesperance, had red-headed twin boys, James and Joseph, born in 1921, who died within 2 years of their birth.
24) It looks like my 3rd great-grandfather, Joseph "Numa" Sonnier, and my 3rd great-grandmother, Anna Wise, were living in the household of Eugene Richard in 1880 in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Numa was working as a farm laborer and Anna as a servant. Their grandchildren, Bienvenue Trahan and Beatrice Marie Boneaux, married in 1929 in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana.
25) Anna Wise is also one of the few non-Cajun French ancestors I have from Louisiana. Her father, Andrew Wise, immigrated from Germany to New York City and then to Louisiana. He fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War. He married Anna Grey of Ireland in a Catholic church in Mobile, Alabama, in 1862 while he was stationed there during the War. Anna Grey followed him to Chattanooga, Tennessee for the Battle of Lookout Mountain. Their son, Adam Wise, was born near Chattanooga in Feb 1863. I need to verify the sources on this, however, because the Battle of Lookout Mountain did not occur until Nov 1863.
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What an interesting family background! You must have had a lot of fun learning about all this in your research. This is a great idea and when I get caught up on some of my posting I'd like to use it (with attribution, of course).ReplyDelete
Thanks, Greta! That would be awesome if you used my idea!ReplyDelete
I like the idea of the #25 things, but I do not know if I have 25 to write about. Well, maybe I have to think on that.ReplyDelete
Ptomanine was caused a lot by improper canning preparation. Just after childbirth, I would suspect that it could have been caused by contamination during the delivery. Improper hand washing, most of the births happened at home.
A lot of information about bacteria and sterilization weren't known then. If the infant would have died after being born I would check out tetanus (lockjaw), the umbilical cord could have been cut with unclean scissors.
Thanks for the info about ptomaine poisoning. This gives me new possibilities to explore. I'm pretty sure the birth did happen at home b/c they lived in a rural part of Michigan. The baby survived the birth. Only the mother died. The strange thing about the baby is that some online family histories say her name was Edith May, but when she died in 1986, her name was Mary Margaret in her obit. In my great-grandmother's obit, her name is given as Mary as well. I guess I will have to seek out her birth record.
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Yesterday we reported a vulnerability in Google Wallet. If the product is installed on a rooted Android phone, a quick, simple brute force attack can extract the PIN and allow a thief to spend your Google Wallet funds. The simple solution—don't root your phone. Comments around the Web suggested that won't help because the thief could root the phone ex post facto. Fortunately, that's not the case. Unfortunately, today brings more bad news.
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A Google spokesperson quickly responded to my post about the PIN vulnerability yesterday, saying "The zvelo study was conducted on their own phone on which they disabled the security mechanisms that protect Google Wallet by rooting the device. To date, there is no known vulnerability that enables someone to take a consumer phone and gain root access while preserving any Wallet information such as the PIN. We strongly encourage people to not install Google Wallet on rooted devices and to always set up a screen lock as an additional layer of security for their phone."
I double-checked with Google and was told that rooting an Android phone will wipe all data. That statement struck me as odd, because there are a number of well-known ways to root an Android phone without wiping its data. For example, unrevoked.com automatically roots most EVO phones, and the Super One Click utility will root a wide variety of phone types.
I checked back with Google; they remained adamant that rooting a phone wipes its data, period, and asked me to forward any evidence to the contrary. Eventually we sorted out a communication problem. As Russell Holly, ExtremeTech's top Android expert, verified, many Android phones can be rooted without wiping their data, but no device that supports Google Wallet can be treated this way. Rooting a Nexus S 4G will definitely wipe its data.
That being the case, if you refrain from rooting your phone you're protected against the PIN vulnerability. You should still go ahead and take the additional security steps recommended by the researcher who discovered the problem: enable a screen lock, disable USB debugging, enable full disk encryption, and keep your device fully up to date.
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Google's problems didn't end there, however. A site titled The Smartphone Champ revealed a second flaw, one that works on any phone rooted or not.
Simply put, a thief can gain access to all funds in your Google prepaid card by wiping out Google Wallet's data and launching it again. On launching without any data, Google Wallet invites the thief to connect with a Google account and create a new PIN. But since the prepaid card is linked to the device, not the account, all the thief needs to do is select the default card for instant access to your funds. A video on the Smartphone Champ site walks through the simple steps required.
Google has verified this vulnerability. A spokesman stated, "We strongly encourage anyone who loses or wants to sell or give away their phone to call Google Wallet support toll-free at 855-492-5538 to disable the prepaid card. We are currently working on an automated fix as well that will be available soon. We also advise all Wallet users to set up a screen lock as an additional layer of protection for their phone." (Actually, no matter what sort of mobile device you use setting some kind of screen lock is a must.)
The Google representative I spoke with this morning confirmed that a fix will be released as soon as possible, probably within a few hours. If you're one of the lucky few whose carrier and hardware support Google Wallet, you'll want to keep your phone extra safe and watch closely for that fix.
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Even though this BCS mumbo jumbo hurts my brain, I'm pretty sure the winner moves one victory away from a possible spot in the national championship game. The loser might fall to the Cotton Bowl. Or tomorrow's Grey Cup. Who really knows? There's a lot on the line, OK. Hell, they're even making weird Nickelback-like songs about it for crying out loud! (.mp3)
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Red tape not a worry for emerging industry
The for-profit ridesharing industry prides itself on being fast, convenient and tech-driven.
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Last month, the sector reached a milestone when the California Public Utilities Commission adopted landmark rules requiring the industry to follow many of the same standards as taxi companies. Ridesharing businesses will have to conduct criminal background checks on their drivers, establish a driver training program and carry insurance policies that cover at least $1 million per incident.
While there's not much that's hip about government regulation, transportation and business experts said ridesharing won't lose its cool factor or otherwise fade away. Several said investors are likely to pour more money into these companies now that the commission's benchmarks are in place.
"I don't think (the rules) create any barriers. In fact, I think they open up opportunities," said Daniel Sperling, director of the UC Davis Institution of Transportation Studies.
Before, ridesharing companies were "operating in this in-between territory" where they faced fines and cease-and-desist letters because they were unregulated, Sperling said. Now, the businesses have a road map to follow.
"I think this is providing a framework for moving forward," Sperling added. "It reduces uncertainty for investors."
That doesn't mean the fast-growing sector is out of the regulatory thicket. Critics, including leaders of the taxi industry, have said the commission should approve even stricter insurance mandates on ridesharing businesses. The commission plans to meet in one year to review its initial set of requirements.
Major ridesharing companies
Uber: Founded in 2009 in San Francisco. Company serves 42 cities across 18 countries. It offers luxury and low-cost service for individuals and groups, with set fares. Uber launched service in San Diego County in June 2012. More info: uber.com.
Lyft: Started in June 2012 in San Francisco by founders of ZimRide. Company serves 12 cities in United States, and is integrated with Facebook. Riders are encouraged to pay "donations" to drivers. It launched in San Diego in July. More info: lyft.com.
Sidecar: Started in 2012 in San Francisco. Company serves six cities in United States and follows "donation" model. It launched in San Diego in September. Its core audience is professional women in their 20s. More info: Side.cr
Contrasting structures
The for-profit ridesharing model kicked into high gear last year with the launch of Lyft and Sidecar in San Francisco. Uber, also based in San Francisco, started in 2009 with its luxury rides and added lower-cost service in 2012.
Ridesharing drivers typically own and maintain their cars, set their own schedules and often live in communities where they work. Some are former taxi drivers who decided to leave behind that industry for what they said is greater money and independence.
Drivers are not employees of the ridesharing companies, which facilitate rides and take up to 20 percent of each fare. Some of these businesses call the fares "donations."
The utility commission's recently adopted rules don't limit how many ridesharing companies can operate in any particular region or how many drivers they can have.
In comparison, the taxi market in San Diego is restricted, with a limit of 993 cabs allowed to pick up passengers in the city.
The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System charges $3,000 for a taxi permit, which can be privately sold by its holder for tens of thousands of dollars more.
Most taxi drivers in this area lease their vehicles.
Rapid expansion
The ridesharing sector, also known as peer-to-peer ridesharing, has spread from the West Coast to dozens of cities across the United States. Much of the local region's ridesharing is offered in downtown San Diego, Little Italy and Hillcrest, with some service provided in outlying suburban cities.
Customers are typically young adults living in big cities. In a phone interview, Sidecar CEO Sunil Paul said his company's average riders are "20-something, professional (and) urban-dwelling women."
Boosters of the ridesharing model said those demographics are key to fueling what they said is a revolution in how people get around.
"This is the future of transportation. You can just see that with how quickly we're growing," said Christopher Ballard, general manager of Uber San Diego.
In September, he said, Uber launched service in Dubai; Bangalore, India; Shanghai, China; and Capetown and Johannesburg, South Africa. Those locations add to the more than 40 cities in 18 countries where Uber already operates.
Company officials have said it won't take them long to adhere to the CPUC rules because they already have strict rules for drivers.
Attractive investment?
Investors have pumped millions into the burgeoning industry. One prominent example is the $60 million that Lyft received in May from the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Three months later, Lyft announced that it had logged 1 million rides.
While financial information is under wraps for large parts of the ridesharing sector, at least one company, Uber, said it's making a profit in the cities where it has operated the longest. In addition, Ballard said Uber's founder recently talked about the company experiencing average monthly revenue growth of 18 percent during the past year. Ballard said revenue growth in the San Diego region exceeds that pace.
Ridesharing likely has more investment money coming its way, said Tygarajan "Soma" Somasundaram, an associate professor of marketing at the University of San Diego's School of Business Administration.
Somasundaram said investors will find the industry attractive because it's buoyed by a younger generation comfortable with the "sharing economy." Older residents, he said, may be skeptical of sharing a car with a stranger unless it's a traditional taxi or shuttle.
He suggested that younger people, especially those who can't afford a car or have chosen not to buy one, are more willing to rideshare. That's because they've grown up with today's smartphones and other modern technology, he said, and place greater trust in the online driver ratings established by ridesharing companies.
Of course, ridesharing businesses will need to keep clients happy with those signature traits — fast, convenient and tech-driven. Can they do so and maintain their hip image as the sector adapts to government oversight and possibly more scrutiny from regulators?
If rules weigh down these companies, ridesharing customers like Brooks Allen, 25, of San Diego may revert to the old way of getting a ride.
"Lose that (convenience and competitive price) and I'll come out on the curb and hail a cab," Allen said recently in Little Italy.
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The California Public Utilities Commission last month approved a set of regulations for the ridesharing industry. Among other things, these measures:
• Mandate criminal background checks for drivers.
• Require companies to create a driver training program and a 19-point safety inspection for all participating vehicles.
• Set 21 as the minimum age for drivers, who must also have a valid California driver's license and at least one year of legal driving history.
• Require drivers to obtain a license through the commission.
• Establish a zero-tolerance policy on drugs and alcohol for drivers.
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For the past 10 years the School of Music has collaborated with the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland in a series of educational exchanges that have enabled dozens of students and faculty to experience music study, teaching, and performance in a different culture. To date, these exchanges have included classical guitar, music therapy, music composition, orchestral studies, wind band performance, jazz studies, voice and opera. Notable among these many collaborations was a 2007 opera project featuring Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro". In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the partnership, another Mozart opera and staple of the operatic repertoire "Don Giovanni" was chosen for performance and presented in the Silesian Opera House in late November of 2013 and in Louisville's Brown Theater on January 24 & 26.
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The band's membership includes many UofL music alumni and other professionals among its membership. Featured in the ensemble's Chicago program were conductors Speck, Brad Rogers (MM 1989) and Director of Bands at Oldham County High School, Nan Moore, Director of Bands at Louisville Male High School, and UofL emeritus professor and Director of Bands Acton Ostling, Jr. Repertoire performed included music by UofL music composition professor Steve Rouse, UofL graduate Brant Karrick (BM 1982), and featured performer Jason Ham, euphoniumist with the West Point Academy band.
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On the Guarding of the Heart," a piece for chamber orchestra by Serbian-born composer Djuro Zivkovic has won the 2014 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition.
The 20-minute work "makes a huge emotional journey in a relatively short period of time, moving through many landscapes between the mysterious, moody opening and the ecstatic conclusion," said award director and UofL music composition faculty member Marc Satterwhite. "The composer also makes wonderful use of the colors of the 14-piece ensemble. The instruments are used in fascinating ways, both traditional and otherwise … that shape the sound of unnatural, echoing beauty," Marc continues. Zivkovic, 38, describes the piece as an "instrumental cantata" inspired by the religious music of Bach. Its main theme is the need to return to oneself. "It is about hard-achieved detachment, stillness and watchfulness, it's about solitude and exile," the composer said.
Born in Belgrade in 1975, Zivkovic has lived in Stockholm, Sweden since 2000. He is active as a violinist and violist and teaches at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm.
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Bill Clinton wore his "Secretary of Explaining Stuff" hat Wednesday to defend President Obama's health care law, arguing that it's time to drop opposition to what Republicans slam as "Obamacare."
"We need all hands on deck here. The health of our people, the security and stability of our families and the strength of our economy are all riding on getting health care reform right and doing it well," Clinton said in remarks at his presidential library in Little Rock. "That means we have to do it together."
The speech by the 42nd president is the first in a series of events planned this fall by the Obama White House aimed at improving public awareness of the law as key provisions take effect. On Oct. 1, open enrollment and health insurance exchanges in states will begin. Those exchanges will help people find and buy insurance coverage.
Clinton outlined why he says the law will help health care costs go down and give more people greater access to insurance coverage. He took a step-by-step approach, going through everything in the law from who gets covered to how exchanges work and what needs to be improved.
"This does give us the best chance we have to achieve nearly universal coverage, provide higher quality health care and lower the rate of cost increases, which we have got to do in a competitive global economy," he said.
Republicans generally view the law as a costly government intrusion into people's lives. The Tea Party movement and congressional allies, such as Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and Ted Cruz of Texas, have spent the summer drumming up support to withhold funding to implement the Affordable Care Act.
These lawmakers say they are prepared to vote against any bill to fund the government that doesn't bar spending for the health care law – even if it prompts a government shutdown.
"If this was the best defense of the increasingly unpopular law that the administration could muster, it doesn't bode well for Democrats running in 2014," RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said in a statement. "And it certainly isn't fair to all of the people who trusted the president to keep his promise that this would make health care more affordable. Instead, Americans across the country are feeling the real effects of this law all across the country — hours cut, jobs lost, premiums rising."
It's not the first time Obama has turned to Clinton, with whom he once had a frosty relationship, to help him explain policies and garner public support.
Clinton campaigned often for Obama in the 2012 election and delivered a forceful speech at the Democratic National Convention arguing why Obama was worthy of a second term. Obama joked afterward that he should appoint his predecessor the "Secretary of Explaining Stuff," and the moniker stuck.
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Paul Walker Autopsy Delayed, Candlelight Vigil Held at Crash Site
Paul Walker's deadly car crash keeps getting grislier. The 'Fast & Furious' actor died in a one-car accident on Saturday afternoon (Nov. 30), and now reports say that his body was so badly burned in the wreck that it can't yet be positively identified.
TMZ reports that Walker, 40, and the driver in the crash, race car driver and Walker pal Roger Rodas, need to be identified by their dental records.
As a result, both of their autopsies have been delayed until a positive identification can be made. The autopsies are expected to be performed later this week.
Rodas was driving the Porsche Carrera and allegedly speeding when he lost control and collided with a tree. The vehicle was engulfed in flames and both Rodas and Walker were burned badly and pronounced dead when authorities arrived at the tragic scene.
After police cleared the bodies and wreckage from the scene of the accident, fans and loved ones held a candlelight vigil for Walker and Rodas.
Our thoughts are with Walker, Rodas and their loved ones.