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Etihad Airways has announced record financial results for 2013, with net profit up 48 percent to $62 million on revenues up 27 percent to $6.1 billion.
The record performance also saw earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) up 22 percent to $208 million and earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, amortization and rentals (EBITDAR) up 30 percent to $979 million, a margin of 16 percent of total revenues.
This marked the third successive year of net profitability, in the airline's 10th year of operation.
James Hogan, president and CEO of Etihad Airways, said:
"This is another important step forward in our journey as a growing, commercially successful business. We have hit every financial target for each of the last seven years, bringing sustainable profitability to a business which has grown from just $300 million in revenues in 2005 to more than $6 billion today."
Hogan said: ""We have delivered that through our unique strategy, which has seen us combine industry-leading organic growth with wide-ranging partnerships and minority equity investments in strategically important carriers around the world."
He said: "This journey has seen us evolve from a highly successful airline into a growing aviation and travel group, with the infrastructure and strategy to develop even further in our second decade."
Hogan said: ""We are particularly pleased to deliver a return for our shareholder, while also playing a major role in the development of trade and tourism within the emirate of Abu Dhabi."
Revenue increased by 27 percent to $6.1 billion (2012: $4.8 billion), on passenger numbers up 12 percent 11.5 million (10.3 million).
Revenue Passenger Kilometers (RPKs) — measuring passenger journeys — increased by 16 percent to 55.5 billion (47.7 billion), while Available Seat Kilometers (ASKs) — representing capacity — grew by 17 percent to 71.1 billion (61 billion).
These figures reflected strong growth in passenger traffic volumes, in a year when Etihad Airways added six new destinations – Washington DC, Amsterdam, Sao Paulo, Belgrade, Ho Chi Minh City and Sana'a — and increased capacity on 18 existing routes. At year's end, the average network-wide seat load factor was 78 percent, unchanged from 2012.
The airline has announced nine new destinations for 2014 — the US cities of Los Angeles and Dallas-Fort Worth, the European gateways of Rome and Zurich, Jaipur in India, Perth in Western Australia, Phuket in Thailand, Medina in Saudi Arabia and Yerevan in Armenia.
A key driver of Etihad Airways' growth in 2013 was its partnership strategy, based on wide-ranging codeshares and its unique approach of minority equity investments in strategically important airlines. This has accelerated network growth, giving it the largest route network of any Middle Eastern carrier, reaching almost 400 destinations; boosted sales and marketing opportunities in key markets around the world; and allowed significant business synergies and cost savings.
This strategy delivered revenues of $820 million in 2013, up 30 percent ($629 million), and represented 21 percent of total passenger revenues for Etihad Airways.
Hogan said: "Our codeshare partnerships have been an important part of our business performance for the last seven years. But it is our equity investments which are really taking off now, allowing us to build integrated networks and schedules, develop common products and services and most importantly, identify business and cost synergies. These synergies are outstanding. Our joint purchasing taskforces are delivering real and significant savings across all equity alliance members, giving each of us real competitive advantage through lower unit costs."
In addition to its four existing equity partners — airberlin, Air Seychelles, Virgin Australia and Aer Lingus — Etihad Airways announced investments in three additional carriers in 2013.
Regulatory approval was received in November to acquire a 24 percent stake in India's Jet Airways. At year's end, Etihad Airways was awaiting regulatory approval for two other investments, a 49 percent stake in Serbia's national carrier, Air Serbia (formerly Jat Airways) and a 33.3 percent shareholding in Darwin Airline, a regional carrier based in Switzerland.
In August, Etihad Airways formalized a five-year contract to manage Air Serbia. Then, in November, Etihad Airways announced the creation of a new sub-brand, Etihad Regional, which Darwin Airline would become the first to adopt.
Etihad Airways also increased its stake in Virgin Australia from nine percent to 19.9 percent through incremental on-market purchases, after receiving approval mid-year from Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board. Etihad Airways demonstrated further support for Virgin Australia by participating in its AUD$350 million capital raising.
Etihad Airways commenced seven new codeshare partnerships in 2013, entering agreements with South African Airways, Kenya Airways, Air Canada, Korean Air, Air Serbia, Belavia and Air Baltic, taking the portfolio total to 47. Together with the equity partner airlines, these deals increased the virtual network of Etihad Airways to almost 400 destinations.
Etihad Airways' cargo division delivered a standout performance in a stagnant air freight market, with cargo revenues up 30 percent to $928 million ($716 million) on volumes up from 367,837 to 486,753 tons.
"This shows what focused business strategy can deliver," said Hogan.
"We have identified cargo as a major growth opportunity for Etihad Airways and its partners, and this will be a billion dollar business in 2014."
In 2013, Etihad Airways also made important investments in its long term business infrastructure, diversifying its activities to ensure greater control over its own service standards and delivery.
In January, it acquired three subsidiaries of Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) — Abu Dhabi Cargo Company (ADCC), Abu Dhabi In-Flight Catering (ADIFC) and the ground handling business, Abu Dhabi Airport Services (ADAS).
From this investment, Etihad Airways created a new wholly-owned subsidiary, Etihad Airport Services, which now operates Etihad-branded ground handling, cargo and in-flight catering services not only to support its own services, but those of other airlines at the Abu Dhabi hub. This transaction transferred more than 4,000 new employees to Etihad Airways.
In February, the airline concluded the implementation of the SabreSonic information technology system as a single platform for passenger services functions including websites, reservations, airport check-in and baggage dispatch and retrieval. The partnership with Dallas-based Sabre Airline Solutions represents a 10 year, $1 billion commitment.
As well as improving the total product delivered by Etihad Airways and increasing revenue opportunities, the 2013 investments and partnerships, including codeshares, enabled the company to reduce costs and increase productivity.
In accordance with its shareholder mandate to operate as a fully commercial entity, Etihad Airways continued to build its portfolio of financing partners, increasing from 60 in 2012 to more than 70 in 2013.
The airline raised $2.14 billion on the commercial markets in 2013, bringing its total to almost $9 billion, primarily for fleet development.
Etihad Airways also continued to strengthen its risk management through active hedging against major variables including foreign exchange, interest rates, jet fuel prices and carbon emission pricing.
"These financial institutions invest in Etihad Airways because they understand our business model and the journey we are on. They recognize a business which grows organically and through acquisition, invests in long-term infrastructure and business development, and identifies and mitigates risk across all areas," said Hogan.
In 2013, the airline received 16 passenger jets, of which 11 were new aircraft – six wide-bodied Boeing 777-300ERs, four narrow-bodied Airbus A320-200s and the airline's first Airbus A321.
There were also five wide-bodied Airbus A330-200s obtained from Jet Airways, three of them leased and two purchased.
Etihad Cargo added three new freighters — two Boeing 777-200Fs and one Airbus A330-200F. It also "wet leased" a Boeing 747-400ERF from KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, and a Boeing 747-8F from US operator Atlas Air to replace two older aircraft.
In November, 2013, coinciding with its tenth anniversary, Etihad Airways signalled its long-term growth intentions when it announced the largest fleet order in its history, for up to 199 aircraft and 294 engines, at a current list price of approximately $67 billion.
Firm orders were announced for 87 Airbus and 56 Boeing aircraft, with 56 options and purchase rights to support additional growth opportunities, not only for Etihad Airways, but potentially for members of its airline equity alliance. The new aircraft deals also include rights to defer deliveries if required.
Combined with existing orders, including 41 Boeing 787 Dreamliners, 10 Airbus A380 super jumbos and 12 Airbus A350XWB (extra wide body), the November fleet announcement increased the airline's pipeline of new aircraft on firm order to more than 220.
In 2014, Etihad Airways plans to introduce 18 new aircraft, including its first Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner and Airbus A380 super jumbo, both of which are scheduled for delivery in the fourth quarter.
The airline also concluded late in December an agreement to acquire five Boeing 777-200LR jets from Air India to help accelerate network growth.
In addition to new aircraft to accommodate traffic growth, Etihad Airways continued to invest heavily in new product during 2013, with initiatives including luxurious new airport lounges in Washington DC and Paris, new Business Class and First Class lounges in Abu Dhabi, and the commencement of a program to introduce on-board Wi-Fi, mobile phone connectivity and live television on board.
The airline also launched its Flying Nanny service, introducing more than 750 cabin crew members who have been specially trained to assist families traveling with young children.
A further measure of the airline's growth was the increased membership of the Etihad Guest loyalty program.
In 2013, membership numbers increased from 1.9 million to 2.3 million, up 21 percent, representing an average increase of 1,100 new members per day.
At the close of 2013, Etihad Airways employed 13,535 employees in the core airline business, an increase of 27 percent over the 10,656 in 2012. Including the new Etihad Airport Services subsidiary, the group employed a total of 17,603 people from 142 nationalities.
Of this number, the core airline employs 1,468 UAE nationals, 17 percent more than 2012. The Etihad Airways Emiratization program includes schemes for cadet pilots, engineers and graduate managers, in sales and at airports.
"Against a difficult economic and geopolitical environment, and fierce competition in key markets including the Middle East, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas, the 2013 results mark an outstanding performance," said Hogan.
"The global market remains challenging in 2014 but the macroeconomic picture is improving in key economies around the world," he said.
"We believe our new model, and the investments we have made in product, service and infrastructure, mean that Etihad Airways is positioned strongly for top-line growth and bottom-line delivery," said Hogan.


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The turnover of leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives has produced a new cadre of leaders.
This is important not only for the policies they pursue in Washington but for the elected positions they may seek down the road. Perhaps the Republican with the brightest future in the state is Darrell Issa, a veteran House member from Southern California.
For Republicans, Issa has feet in both the Tea Party and traditional conservative camps. As Chair of the House Government Oversight Committee, Issa is in a prime position to expose government waste, a favorite Tea Party theme. As a multimillionaire and former electronics company magnate, Issa also relates to the business community. In short, he is the connecting point between two important segments of his political party.
Issa gained fame in 2002 when he provided $2 million in seed money to begin the recall of then-Governor Gray Davis. Along the way, he actually thought about running as a candidate to replace Davis, but backed out when he saw the high negatives that accompanied his name. But in politics, 2002 is a lifetime ago.
In the past, Issa was known as someone who shot from the hip. He also had some difficulties with the law at a young age.
Even recently, he was quoted saying that President Barack Obama was the most corrupt president in history--he's since modified that statement. He also has moderated his positions as chair of the Oversight Committee, describing himself as the taxpayer's best friend by making sure that government does not waste money. For many, it's an appealing approach.
All this puts Issa in position to be a major player in California politics next year when incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein must decide whether to run for re-election. With Feinstein turning 79 in 2012, it remains to be seen whether her age will be a factor for her or others.
If Feinstein decides to retire or is viewed as vulnerable, Darrell Issa may be the Republican to lead the challenge. Given his background, wealth, residence and values, Issa could be formidable if he chooses to run. Sure, there may be other Republican challengers, but as of now, Issa would appear to have a leg up on the rest.

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Agent Incentives
To show our appreciation for the effort and passion our agents put into their business, we've created multiple programs and ways to reward them. Hard work and dedication do not go unnoticed at The Alliance. If you join our team, you could be rewarded through one or more of the following incentive programs!
Each year The Alliance offers an all-expense paid vacation to agents who have proven that they're committed to being successful with NAA®. Some of these trips have included cruises to the Bahamas and the Greek Isles, adventures in Banff, Canada, and fun in the sun in Aruba, Fiji, Cabo and more! Our event planners only choose luxury accommodations so that you get the full Alliance experience no matter where you are! To find out more about how to join us on an upcoming trip, visit www.allianceeventures.com.
The Alliance Ring of Champions
When an agent is inducted into The Alliance Ring of Champions, they've joined the rankings of the top agents – some of the best in the country. Earn your promotion as an Alliance Board Member and you'll receive a trophy, gold ring and a cash prize at a national award ceremony. Those in the Ring of Champions are also invited to join exclusive trips and training opportunities.
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Would you like to earn money for charity simply by doing your job? At The Alliance, we help people with life insurance everyday – but we don't stop there. We also give away $1,000 checks to the charity of your choice if you reach a set monthly sales goal for at least three consecutive months. You have the opportunity to earn several of these checks a year! We've given away more than $95,000 to charities since the program started in 2013 and we don't intend to slow down! To learn more about this program, please visit www.goodsamaritanbonus.com.
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In many industries, including insurance, women haven't been given a chance to rise to the top business rankings or they haven't been recognized for their achievements. The Alliance does things differently, so we created a program called Elite Ladies of The Alliance. Women who get over $100,000 issued paid in one year are recognized at a national award ceremony with an exclusive diamond lapel pin! These ladies also have special training sessions and conference calls.
Because we partner with so many amazing carriers and we have so many awesome agents, The Alliance is able to have at least one contest running almost at all times. Prizes include everything from extensions to our trips to lead credits, t-shirts, designer sunglasses, TVs, laptops, iPads, watches, gift cards, books, helicopter rides to a weekend away at The Albright Leadership Cabin.
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D. Wayne Lukas leads all modern-day trainers with four Kentucky Derby wins, the first coming via the front-running filly Winning Colors in 1988, and the Wisconsin native made an incredible mark during the late '80s and '90s, winning a record 13 Triple Crown races. The 77-year-old conditioner is no longer churning out champions like he did in his heyday, but he will look to return to prominence this year with Oxbow, a smashing 11 1/2-length winner of Saturday's Grade 3 Lecomte Stakes at Fair Grounds.
Lukas swept both stakes last weekend in the new Kentucky Derby scoring system, upsetting Monday's Smarty Jones at Oaklawn Park with Will Take Charge. It was a big weekend for the Hall of Famer.
Speed is a virtue in the Lukas playbook and Oxbow possesses plenty of it. Teaching him to relax may need to become part of the equation -- the free-wheeling colt had everything his way early on a slow pace Saturday -- but Oxbow is progressing nicely at three and is well-bred for the 1 1/4-mile Derby distance.
Will Take Charge produced a more workmanlike victory versus a questionable cast, defeating Remington stakes winner Texas Bling by a hard-fought neck, but he gamely overcame a wide trip and is out of the outstanding racehorse and broodmare Take Charge Lady. His half-brother Take Charge Indy was relatively unaccomplished at two but really came on as a three-year-old, capturing last year's Grade 1 Florida Derby.
Lukas, a former teacher and basketball coach, has mentored some of Thoroughbred racing's top current trainers. His former assistants include Todd Pletcher, Kiaran McLaughlin, Dallas Stewart, Mark Hennig, George Weaver and Mike Maker.
"Those guys still call me 'coach,'" Lukas told Steve Haskin a few years ago. "And I considered myself a coach, as well as teacher."
The "coach" takes great pride in passing knowledge along to others, but Lukas is still fiercely competitive and never lacks confidence in his horses.
"You guys (the media) didn't even know he was in the race, did you? If you had to make a living handicapping, you'd all starve to death," Lukas said of Oxbow, who was listed at 6-1 on the Lecomte morning line. "When (jockey) Jon (Court) gets back here tomorrow (to his Oaklawn Park base) I'm going to make him give half the mount money back because he didn't have to do anything. All he had to do is hang on."
Oxbow broke on top and quickly seized control in the mile-and-70-yard Lecomte, entering the first turn on a short lead. The fractions were soft (:24 2/5 and :48 2/5)and Oxbow did not face pressure until the conclusion of the far turn when Heitai advanced from second to engage the pacesetter.
The pair hooked up at the top of the stretch but the challenge proved short-lived as Oxbow readily dismissed the 19-1 outsider and ran away in the final furlong.
Runner-up Golden Soul, a 7 1/4-length maiden winner at Fair Grounds on December 30 for Stewart, closed late to be a clear second in his stakes debut, a solid effort from the Perfect Soul colt who was last of nine after a quarter-mile. Fear the Kitten, the Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club fifth-placer, closed belatedly from off the pace to get third.
None were in the same area code as Oxbow, who finished up superbly in the Fair Grounds stretch.
"This horse has a beautiful stride and a high cruising speed," Lukas said. "When you watch the replay you see his ears are pricked and he's just in a cruising speed the whole way around there.
His final time (1:43.30) was much faster than four other races Saturday at the distance (1.34 seconds better than the second-best), but the slow early fractions contributed to Oxbow's 94 BRIS Speed rating. While perhaps a bit underwhelming, that figure does represent a career-best for the improving son of Awesome Again.
Awesome Again captured the 1998 Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs and Oxbow is out of Tizamazing, a full sister to Horse of the Year Tiznow, winner of the 2000 Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs. Oxbow is bred similarly to last year's Grade 1 Haskell winner and Belmont Stakes runner-up Paynter, who is also by Awesome Again and out of another full sister to Tiznow.
Oxbow needed a few starts before breaking his maiden at Churchill Downs on November 25, netting a 90 Speed rating after leading wire-to-wire for a 4 3/4-length decision. Lukas then shipped him to Hollywood Park for the Grade 1 CashCall Futurity on December 15, but Oxbow drew an outside post (11) and weakened to fourth after chasing the pace wide.The CashCall could prove to be a key two-year-old prep race with the winning Violence, runner-up Fury Kapcori and third-placer Den's Legacy all meriting respect this year.
Oxbow took a nice step forward in the Lecomte, but it's still January and the competition will get steeper in the months to come. It will also be interesting to see how he fares when facing more pace pressure. But Oxbow stamped himself as a serious prospect Saturday and I am taking a glass half-full approach with the Lukas runner.
Oxbow is expected to point toward the Grade 2 Risen Star at Fair Grounds on February 23.
Smarty Jones
Will Take Charge got hung out extremely wide from post 9 in the one-mile Smarty Jones and continued to travel well off the rail down the backstretch and the final bend. He was never more than a couple of lengths back stalking the pace during the early stages, advanced into contention on the far turn, and entered the short stretch at Oaklawn in a head-to-head battle with Texas Bling to his inside.
Will Take Charge took command late, prevailing by a hard-fought neck over Texas Bling, who saved second by a head over 9-5 favorite Always in a Tiz. The winner gained a measure of revenge after finishing second to Texas Bling in their previous outing, the December 9 Springboard Mile at Remington Park. Will Take Charge was overlooked at 12-1 in the Smarty Jones, with Texas Bling, a 128-1 winner of the Springboard Mile, leaving the starting gate at 18-1.
Texas Bling, a son of sprint sire Too Much Bling, lasted the one-mile distance on Monday, but it's difficult to envision him being a serious factor at longer distances on the Derby trail. Always in a Tiz didn't enjoy the best of trips, but he had the leaders in his sights turning for home and lacked the needed rally. The lightly-raced son of Tiznow may benefit from his first experience at a route, but he will need much more in the future.
By Unbridled's Song, Will Take Charge broke his maiden in his second career start, a seven-furlong maiden on Keeneland's Polytrack, but never fired when testing graded rivals in the Kentucky Jockey Club, finishing last of 13. His form looks much better this year, with his last two BRIS Speed ratings (93 and 91) towering above his prior dismal numbers, and while he still has a lot to prove from a class-standpoint, Will Take Charge rates as an up-and-coming colt.
Will Take Charge appeared to stumble in the gallop out after the finish line, but Lukas said the colt checked out fine afterward and mentioned the Grade 2 Rebel Stakes on March 16 at Oaklawn as a possible target.
Derby Top 10:
- Normandy Invasion -- Grade 2 Remsen runner-up has posted three works this year; pointing to the February 23 Risen Star.
- Violence -- Unbeaten colt returned to worktab for Pletcher last Sunday; the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth on February 23 is his goal.
- Overanalyze -- Remsen winner has worked twice so far this year; will head to Grade 3 Gotham on March 2 for Pletcher.
- Fury Kapcori -- In regular training since late December for Hollendorfer; returns in Grade 2 Robert Lewis on February 2.
- Oxbow -- Lukas runner joins list off Lecomte romp; Risen Star is likely next.
- Shanghai Bobby -- Juvenile champ returns against a nice field in Saturday's Holy Bull.
- Frac Daddy --Kentucky Jockey Club runner-up appears to be training forwardly for McPeek in advance of Holy Bull.
- Flashback -- Sharp debut winner for Bob Baffert will make highly-anticipated stakes bow in Lewis.
- He's Had Enough -- Breeders' Cup Juvenile runner-up could make second dirt start in Lewis.
- Goldencents -- Doug O'Neill trainee made it two straight stakes wins in Grade 3 Sham; Grade 2 San Felipe on March 9 is possible.
Next time
Saturday's Grade 3 Holy Bull at Gulfstream Park is the lone points race this weekend and the 1 1/16-mile test has attracted some top Derby hopefuls in South Florida. Unbeaten two-year-old champ Shanghai Bobby will start from the rail among 10 rivals and likely second-favorite Frac Daddy is drawn to his immediate outside.
Grade 2 winner Bern Identity, Gulfstream Park Derby scorer Itsmyluckyday and Kentucky Jockey Club third-placer Dewey Square add further depth to what promises to be a dynamite race.


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How bird flocks work
Flocks of birds and how they seem to move together have always fascinated any observer of them. New research from the Universities of Exeter and Cambridge reveals for the first time that, contrary to current models used to explain the movement of flocks, the differences between bird species and social relationships between individuals play a critical role in determining the dynamics of mixed-species flocks. The unified behavior of bird flocks has puzzled scientists for hundreds of years. One naturalist from the turn of the century even suggested telepathy may be involved. There have since been less esoteric explanations, including mathematical models that show that repeated interactions among individuals following simple rules can generate coordinated group movements. However, these models usually rely on the assumption that individuals within groups are identical and interact independently, which may not reflect reality.
A flock is a group of birds conducting flocking behavior in flight, or while foraging. The term is akin to the herd amongst mammals. The benefits of aggregating in flocks are varied and flocks will form explicitly for specific purposes. Flocking also has costs, particularly to socially subordinate birds, which are bullied by more dominant birds; birds may also sacrifice feeding efficiency in a flock in order to gain other benefits. The principal benefits are safety in numbers and increased foraging efficiency.
Flocks may consist of one species or many species.
Jolle Jolles, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge's Department of Zoology and author of the paper, said: "Spectacular collective behavior can be found in a large range of animal species, and we now know that often these complex coordinated group movements may be the result of individuals following simple rules. However, rarely are the individual characteristics and social relationships within them taken into account. Our research highlights that these striking displays of group behaviour are much more complex."
By analysing high-resolution photographs of mixed flocks of rooks and jackdaws (both from the corvid family), the researchers found that rather than individuals interacting in a consistent fashion throughout the flock, interactions depended on social dynamics between the different species as well as relationships within a species.
The Western Jackdaw, sometimes known as the Eurasian Jackdaw, European Jackdaw or simply Jackdaw, is a passerine bird in the crow family. The Rook is a member of the same crow family in the passerine order of birds.
The researchers discovered that birds prefer to fly close to members of their own species, and that the larger and more dominant rooks take the lead by flying near the front of flocks. Additionally, the lifelong, monogamous pair bonds that are characteristic of both species seem to be reflected in flight, as birds often fly particularly close to a single, same-species partner.
Dr Alex Thornton, principal investigator of the Cambridge Jackdaw Project, now at the University of Exeter and author of the paper, said: "Together, our findings demonstrate that to understand the structure of groups — such as bird flocks — we need to consider the characteristics and relationships of the individuals within them."
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Well that didn't take long! It was only last week that we reported on TV networks buzzing over a new sitcom from Michael J. Fox, with director Will Gluck (Easy A) and writer Sam Laybourne (Arrested Development). Now reports have NBC winning a big bidding war to land the project, which Fox will star in. This bodes well for NBC, which finished third at the end of last season's network ratings. The deal is even sweeter for Fox, as the network has committed to a 22-episode run before a pilot has even been filmed. Hit the jump for more details on how the deal went down and what this means for Fox fans in the future.
Vulture follows up on the story they broke last week, saying that NBC narrowly edged out CBS to land the Fox project. ABC was actually expected to win since they held the scheduling advantage with a half-hour time slot at 9:30pm on Wednesdays following Modern Family. Fox's sitcom, which is said to be loosely based on his life, seemingly fit well into the ABC show framework, but NBC was the network who walked away with the prize. So what did they give up to get it?
NBC's Robert Greenblatt made concessions for the creative team of the Fox and Sony Pictures Television project, as well as promising significant marketing muscle. The move was compared with a deal CBS's Leslie Moonves made over a decade ago to lure Bill Cosby back to television.
The half-hour sitcom will film in New York and is slated to appear in NBC's lineup starting in the fall of 2013. The year-long run-up will likely give NBC time to film a pilot and find a showrunner in advance of the rest of the shows vying for time slots.


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Jurors hear alleged pirate make demands on call
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jurors in the piracy trial of a Somali man who served as a translator during a hostage siege heard him making demands on a recorded phone conversation with a negotiator for the ship's owner.
On the Nov. 12, 2008, call, which was played in Ali Mohamed Ali's trial this week, a negotiator for the Denmark company Clipper Group tells Ali that the two sides need to go back to negotiations and "not through threats like this one."
"No, no, no, no, no," Ali replies. "Listen, I'm telling you clearly what they are saying. I don't know how, how far they can go with it." He demands that the negotiator get back to him within a half-hour.
But the ship's captain, Andrey Nozhkin, who also participated in the call, testified that Ali whispered a comforting word to him after the call was over: "Bluffing."
The two images -- an aggressive negotiator and a calming presence -- are at the center of Ali's trial. The government alleges that Ali negotiated a ransom on behalf of Somali pirates during a 2008 takeover of a Danish merchant ship in the Gulf of Aden, near the Horn of Africa. Ali's lawyers say he was essentially a prisoner himself and tried to help the crew as best he could.
Nozhkin, who wrapped up two days of testimony on Friday, said that at the time of the call -- about five weeks into the ordeal -- negotiations were at a dead end. The captain said that Ali had said if the pirates didn't get what they wanted, the ship's navigation equipment would be destroyed and the crew would be taken ashore.
Testifying for the government, Nozhkin recalled how Ali instructed him to make the call to the negotiator: "My speech was supposed to be emotional" so the company believed how serious the situation was. With one of the pirates pointing a gun at him, Nozhkin probably didn't have to do much acting. He said Ali gave him an "outline" of what to say, but Nozhkin also made it clear that some of the words weren't of his choosing.
Nozhkin, who is from Estonia, testified in Russian through a translator; although he speaks English, it's not his first language. But jurors heard him speaking English on the call, telling Clipper's negotiator, "Let them think about the crew also, otherwise they can lose not only the vessel but the crew also."
The pirates were "not bluffing," Nozhkin said on the call. "They're not joking. The negotiation is finished. You have to make an offer, OK?"
Ali then gets on the phone and says, "You heard what he's saying and that's the truth. That (is) exactly what they want to do and it is your mistake by just dragging your feet."
Pirates had seized the M/V CEC Future in early November 2008, and Ali boarded the boat a couple of days later. Nozhkin described Ali as wearing "beautiful" white clothing, in contrast to the pirates' clothes, some of which looked like rags. Ali also had an expensive-looking suitcase and was treated with respect and curiosity by the pirates.
Nozhkin added that Ali made a point of saying he wasn't a pirate. Ali, an English speaker, soon contacted the company and relayed the pirates' demands, Nozhkin said, and also reviewed outgoing messages that the captain sent to the company.
Nozhkin said he had a "business-like relationship" with Ali, but that the two men would also talk about home and family. "We were not two soulless robots," he said. During cross-examination by one of Ali's lawyers, Matthew J. Peed, the captain said that Ali let him and other crew members use his cellphone to call their families. And Nozhkin said he never saw Ali with a weapon, and didn't recall being threatened or insulted by Ali.
As negotiations dragged on, Ali's stock with the pirates began to plummet. According to Nozhkin, Ali said he had discussed a percentage of the ransom he might get -- 10 percent at the beginning, gradually decreasing to 1 percent and finally, nothing. Ali had told him that Clipper would pay him a bonus, and the pirates "thought Ali was playing both sides." According to the government indictment, Ali received a separate ransom of $75,000. Ali's lawyers say the payment he received from Clipper came two weeks after the siege ended.
At one point, Ali was locked in his room for two or three days while another interpreter came on the ship.
The pirates, who initially demanded $7 million, finally received a $1.7 million ransom in January 2009, which was delivered in a container with a parachute that was dropped from a plane. Nozhkin said the pirates took the money into his office to count it, and that he didn't remember seeing Ali there, although the captain said he wasn't there the entire time. Nozhkin injected some levity into the trial when he recounted a joke he told the pirates after opening the container: "I said "Oops, there's no money in it,'" prompting laughter from the jury.
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A snail climbs to the bridge of my nose, leaving a moist trail of goo on my cheek. I can see its little eyes waving as another snail slithers up, racing to be the first to reach the peak. One slips, and slides in its own mucus, down my face and on to my neck, leaving goose bumps in its wake.
JRT visited the Tokyo branch of the spa Ci:z.Labo to try out what the spa calls the first live-snail facial treatment in Japan.
The service attracts a mostly female clientele in their 30s to 50s, and although men can also opt for the live snail treatment, none have done so yet. "I've observed that women will endure more pain and fright than men, if it's for beauty," a spa attendant told JRT.
For a hefty ¥24,150 ($242.82), patrons can choose the Celebrity Escargot Course, in which their face will be slathered with snail-slime extract cream and massaged for an hour. Ci:z.Labo's snail-slime cream, like others on the market, contains 73% slime extract. Why settle for that when you can get the original slime? For an extra ¥10,500 you can choose the Optional Snail Course and enjoy freshly made snail slime as the creatures slink across your face for a long, long five minutes.
Snail slime started to be recognized for its potential in beauty treatments in the 1980s, when Chilean snail farmers noticed that their skin healed quickly and left little scarring when they gathered snails for escargot. It is primarily marketed as an anti-aging cream and acne solution, as well as a treatment for scars and burns.
According to Ci:z.Labo, a mix of protease, allantoin, and mucin within the snail slime gets rid of dead skin, minimizes pores, and moisturizes the skin.
To be sure, scientific evidence of the effectiveness of snail treatments is hard to come by, but the products and facials featuring the mollusk have been quick to take off.
The natural limits to a snail's output mean that at the Tokyo spa, home to five snails, the treatment can be scheduled only for a single customer per day. They're fully booked for the next few weeks, the spa attendant said.
The snails are affectionately known as "celebrities" within the spa, as they live the high life compared with the nami mai mai, or the ordinary Japanese snail. These little celeb snails are fed an all-organic diet--carrots, Japanese mustard spinach, and Swiss chard—and are always kept in a room set to 20 degrees Celsius. Of the five in-house snails, there are three "regulars" that are more frequently chosen for their superior mucus-emitting ability, the spa attendant said.
As the snails wiggled their way around this JRT reporter's nose, the attendant explained that the snails slime more when they are surprised, or have certain moderate levels of stress, such as a change in a client's body temperature.
"They were hard to raise," the attendant said. She noted that while their snail cream is imported from Switzerland, the spa had raised its snails from birth. The regulated schedule and strict diet are part of the spa's efforts to keep them from picking up harmful bacteria that might irritate the skin.
When JRT asked whether readers can try this at home, perhaps with a snail from the garden, the attendant answered with a firm "No."
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The messages muted, speech
without voice.
The poverty of the time, inscribed
on windows, wall
posters, signs
of the permanently cheated.
Movie poster, vicinity of Moundsville, Alabama: photo by Walker Evans, March 1940
The use of signs and texts to lend a self-labeling quality to his quiet, restrained formal compositions is one of the qualities that allows us to see Walker Evans as an American classicist.
He was notoriously a purist in photgraphy, exchewing (most notably) flashbulbs and colour.
That little interest nowadays attends Walker's work is not too surprising, as every Booby Bozo on the street can make a picture of himself, provided his arms are long enough. Who needs classical composition when your own face is the center of all your pictures.
The photos here were taken by Evans for the U.S. Resettlement Administration, later to be re-named Farm Security Administration. Evans worked there from 1935 to 1938, off and on.
Later he went on to become a sort of editor-at-large with Fortune magazine.
Here is one of his striking photo-essays for that publication:
Pan in the Weeds
I'm not sure people know how to look at all. There are photographers out there; we're just drowning in that see of idiot faces and can't draw them out.
That other reading called for: "The poverty of the time/ inscribed". Where are the critical responses to such signs. We've become illiterate at the very moment the writing's on the wall.
My sense of the thing is that photography has largely devolved into something along the lines of facebook and twitter, that is, an instrumental means to increasing the world's consciousness of one's existence; a contribution to one's own fame, a stock in which no one can ever hold too many shares (even as the quantitative proliferation of such images defeats this very purpose, each image drowning in the seemingly infinite sea of images -- can anyone ever actually look at them all?).
There's a high end gourmet restaurant in this neighborhood to which wallets fat with plastic are attracted from all round the world. The quality is said to be variable, the portions small, but the cachet of such glam dining is tremendous. So one sees these little gaggles of tourists gathered round the outer gates, as if an apparition of celebrity were anticipated. But no, it's merely the tourists taking pictures of themselves and each other, in front of the famous gates. In a world quantified as a multiplicity of monads, the greatest celebrity is always the One(self).
I love this poem, the crushing end--or is it the end?
This poem is Richard Brautigan throwing rocks at the police station in Eugene as a teenager...
"signs dreams of the permanently cheated."
Nobody has said it better that this. I cannot breathe reading these anguished words. They clobber. A deadly poem. Too true.
I miss the people who read these signs. Are they really gone? Am I one of them?
Susan, the frogs sing hymns to you, ergo you must be [t]here. This must be a sign. Those frogs are not dummies.
Fish, watermelon
what more is there
to life?
The fish has a frown
mouth turned down.
The coquis sing to anyone and everyone, well mostly themselves and each other--their piercing little cries drown out the washing machine surf. They are new arrivals and miss their true homes--Puerto Rico.
If it's not too ironic to insert this last-page quote from your blue-ribbon collaboration with and about Robert Creeley, Tom:
"One had the company."
It's a great book, btw. I saw Creeley read (with Duncan and Levertov, I think) at the 92nd St. Y in the early '60s, and again in the '80s at St. Mark's (introduced by Ed Sanders). I'd courted my wife-to-be with his books in the '60s but lost touch with his work after my wife died in 1970. Your book is a great re-introduction to his work by way of his maturing over the next several decades into a master poet (despite my initial misgivings over what seemed some antiquated hipster mannerisms). Bless you for what you have done for "what matters" with some great adventurers in life and literature.
One has to wonder at Lincoln Market's sideboard advertising--how often did prices fluctuate and how were these changes incorporated into the sign? Any way you look at it, an American original.
Among the various items in this post, the photographs are, as they should be, I think, the star, but so also are your comments about Evans and the current largely de-evolved state of photography as it pertains to Facebook and Twitter. Examined through the lens of self-photography or the phenomenon of people constantly changing their Facebook "profile" portraits, Facebook becomes more annoying and, in some ways, alarming, than ever. I know a woman who recently moved to northern California who thinks that the only thing that makes her worthwhile is the fact that she's extremely pretty. She's a lovely person and mistaken about that, of course. I would say that she updates her portrait daily. It's the most neurotic, lonely and unsociable thing I've ever seen. In the words of the (now) late Helen Gurley Brown, when describing her requirements for articles appearing in Cosmopolitan, these portraits have no "me and you" about them; they "do not sit down and visit." Ms. Brown's editorial instructions were related to me, by the way, by a former Cosmo employee who is my daughter's godmother. When Joanna graduated college, her first job was as an assistant there, and her duties included acting as the magazine's poetry editor (who knew?) and writing the Letters to the Editor section (both the "letters" and the responses). Like Walker Evans, I guess Ms. Brown had artistic vision. Curtis
seems to me that
nowadays (the majority of) people
,particularly in this American Kulchur,
lost sight of what is really valuable on a
personal level
& instead look to what publicly brings (instant)
Just maybe we need to step-back
open mind-heart & eye to appreciate ordinary
beauty & stop our "love affair" with the high achieving,
the polished (slick), and the famous?
when looking at moon / open eyes
Pleased that people are interested. Here's a bit more Evans:
Walker Evans: Patterns of Habitation / Edward Dorn: The Top List
I'm always grateful to see something in the world for the first time, or as if for the first time. These world things might be right here in this moment or they might have happened or existed seventy-five years ago and thousands of miles away. But how is it far if you can see it, now, at least this once.
In a recent New York Times series called "The Case of the Inappropriate Alarm Clock" -- which is in good part a rather trivial debunking of the impression of verity in the work of the early FSA photographers -- Errol Morris quotes William Stott, a historian of the FSA photography project. Stott met Evans while a grad student and teacher at Yale.
He insists the enigmatic Evans never abandoned his curious personal devotion to the ineffable fact of the real, in its particular human structures -- "the made world".
"His vision [was] of the untampered beauty of the made world, not the natural world, but the made world — he always said that he enjoyed living in nature, but nature bored him as a subject. But what man did, what man had fashioned fascinated him. You also have something that nobody has connected Evans with — the whole Purist aesthetic in American art. Ralston Crawford who paints the Whitestone Bridge in the late forties. And you have Charles Sheeler. The world is beautiful; you don't manipulate it to find the beauty.
"One thing that Evans is famous for saying is what matters in photography isn't the camera, it's your eye. It's seeing what's beautiful. And he himself really didn't have all that much interest in photography at the end of his life. He was collecting things. He just liked collecting junk... You went into his house and saw he'd have to push the junk aside on his bed to lie down and go to sleep at night. He said it was a kind of sickness with him. He much preferred the handmade stuff. But he believed that even machine-made clutter, if you kept it around for a long time, became beautiful, too. And it may simply have been the day I happened to be with him on the beach. He would pick up flotsam and jetsam from the beach. And one of the things that we brought home was a fireman's glove, or some kind of very specialized plastic glove, that would be used for handling dangerous or hot material. It had washed up on the shore. And it was a hideous orange. He was always in favor of waiting 30 years with photographs. He said after 30 years, you will know what you have. And maybe his feeling was, if you held that for 30 years, you'd have something that was beautiful, too.
"You wanted to have something that seemed to have a patina of history about it. What was so shocking about that Dayglo orange glove that Walker picked up was that it just screamed of artificiality. God almighty, why would Walker Evans pick that up? Well, let me tell you another little anecdote. He came down and he stayed with my wife and me for a couple of days. And then we put him in a hotel that was right by campus. I was walking around with him a lot. He was very old by this time, because he'd had half of his stomach taken out, very stiff, had trouble bending down. There was at this time a movie theater that gave out brightly colored paper tickets. There were some stubs on the ground. And I could see he was stopping to decide which he would pick up. And I, being in my thirties and spry, went over and picked up one and came to hand it to him. And he had stooped and picked up another. And he said to me, "You don't get the right one, do you?" When I packed up his things for him to go back, he had squashed beer cans that had nicely eroded. They were not the current, very thin aluminum cans. They had a patina of history on them. It was just an appetite for actuality that he really had. He just thought these things were lovely. He didn't care that anybody else thought they were."
. . . time, inscribed
on windows, wall
posters, signs
dreams . . .
grey whiteness of fog against invisible
plane of ridge, red-tailed hawk calling
in foreground, sound of wave in channel
to be understood, described
in order for the word
which is that, dreamed into
existence, other hand
grey white of fog against top of point,
whiteness of gull on tip of GROIN sign


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He's condescending, and trying to demonstrate he is smart, at the expense of the characters. He can do excellent once off episode's like blink, or the girl in the fireplace, but any of his long running stories become a mess fast
I think they made a musical about that, right?
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Sounds like an average afternoon in Florida.
Don't fucking judge me, I've got tentacles for a face.
Someone broke a thing that affects many other things, but no one knows where first thing is. I'm having an awesome day.
Quote from: Trivial on July 20, 2017, 01:54:13 amSomeone broke a thing that affects many other things, but no one knows where first thing is. I'm having an awesome day.This has been my entire professional life.
Copied from previous Open Bar, didn't see this shiny new one:I've been reading stories of complex social engineering schemes that pentesters and criminals have used to compromise entire corporate networks, and I've just been thinking about how no complexity or effort would even be required to compromise my company's entire network (And all the networks and companies we support). Literally no one would question a single person walking right into our building, and walking up to any computer left open and alone, and breaking into it using publicly available, no-hardware-required Windows 7 boot-time exploits, and installing whatever list of malware they desired.It's disturbing, actually. Considering we support several of the largest Fortune 500 companies, you'd think we'd spend a little more effort on security.Oh yeah, I forgot, we have these nice, security badges. Good thing no one can get one at the security desk just by asking for one and providing information that is publicly available. Nope, not at all...
Generally speaking companies don't implement even the most basic security until somebody rubs their nose in it publicly.
My Google Fu is failing me, but I recall a story about a hacking challenge, where the IT security guy was boasting how strong their firewalls, etc were, and dared a certain hacker to try and get access to a particular server. So, the hacker dressed up as maintenance, walked through the front door unquestioned, went to the server field, unplugged it, and walked out with it under his arm.Like I said, I can't attest to its veracity because I can't find the link, but it sounds true.
Without the correct paperwork, pentesting is still criminal, and inviting another person to do it makes you an accessory. Not telling you not to, just don't want you to stumble into criminal actions accidentally.


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The return of the white-tailed deer as a major game species in Iowa is a tribute to good landowner attitude and progressive management, research and enforcement programs. Likewise, responsibility for the future of deer in Iowa depends upon the cooperation of hunters and landowners, preservation of critical timber habitat, legislative support and continued professional management of the resource.
General Deer InformationA Review of Iowa's Deer Management Program
Like other states in the midwest Iowa produces some outstanding white-tailed deer. Abundant food and mild winter weather make it possible for Iowa's whitetails to become large in body weight and, if allowed to grow to maturity, often possess impressive antlers.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) maintains a record book of the largest antlered deer harvested in the state with firearms and archery equipment. Those who successfully harvest a deer in Iowa with trophy-sized antlers are encouraged to enter the rack in Iowa's big game registry. Award certificates will be issued by the DNR to eligible entries that meet minimum standards (shown below).
In order to qualify for an award, the rack must be measured by an official measurer. You can search for an official measure in Iowa by searching those certified through the
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There is no charge for measuring or submitting entries for the Iowa record book. Because of shrinkage in varying degrees, the rack must be air dried for at least 60 days following the date of kill before it can be officially measured. There is no time limit concerning how long ago the deer was killed for measurement purposes or for entry into the Iowa records.
The scoring system used for Iowa records is identical to that used by the Boone and Crockett and Pope and Young Clubs, but the minimum qualifying scores differ from these national clubs. Iowa award certificates will be presented in ten classes. The classes with minimum scores for each are as follows:
Deer taken under a kill permit for depredation purposes will not qualify for this program.
Deer hunters who want to have their trophy rack officially measured should call one of the official Iowa measurers listed above to set up an appointment to have the rack measured. If the rack meets the minimum scores listed above the measurement form should be sent to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, ATTN: Deer Records, Wallace State Office Building, 502 East 9th Street, Des Moines, IA 50319.
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Thank you to all of the hunters who donated deer to the HUSH program during the 2018 hunting season. More than 3,900 deer were donated, generating just over 620,000 meals to Iowa's less fortunate!
Whether you're a deer hunter, a locker owner or volunteer in your community, there is a vital role you can play. As a hunter, consider buying extra antlerless-only deer permits to help reduce the deer population. By participating in HUSH, hunters can continue to hunt after they would normally stop and thus help reduce the deer population and provide high-quality venison for the needy in Iowa. You can donate any legally taken deer of any sex from any season. For the avid deer hunter in Iowa this presents itself as the perfect opportunity to hunt longer and have a direct impact in a local community. Hunters must be properly licensed to hunt deer. All deer licenses include a $1 per deer surcharge to fund the HUSH program.
Participating lockers skin, bone and grind the meat into two-pound packages of pure venison. Local social service agencies distribute the venison to needy Iowa families in the area. The 70 lockers that participated in 2018 received $75 for each processed deer. Find a locker near you:
The Iowa DNR partners with the Food Bank of Iowa and their affiliates throughout the state to make sure the venison is distributed to qualified Iowans. The Food Bank of Iowa receives $5 administrative cost for each deer distributed.
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"I embarrass them all the time," the Democrat told Ryan Seacrest's KIIS FM radio show on Election Day. "But Michelle is very good about making sure that we're creating a space for them where they can have sleepovers. They can go to the mall. They can go to the movies. They're going to homecomings at their school."
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Because at the end of the day, Barack said Sasha, 11, and Malia, 14, "just want to be treated like everybody else."
But will they be treated like other girls their age when it comes to dating? "I think that any young man who has the guts to get through Secret Service deserves a hearing," the president joked.
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"The truth is, Malia and Sasha are just wonderful young ladies," Obama said. "They're smart, they're funny, and most importantly, they're kind and respectful to everybody. "
Aw. That's a very sweet, very Dad thing to say.
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- Reversing light in rear light cluster
- Automatic two zone climate control air conditioning
- Cabin pre-conditioning via iDrive or BMW i Remote App
- Central locking switches for door, fuel filler cap and luggage compartment
- Four grab handles integrated in roof lining
- Front and rear side armrest integrated into door trim
- Front armrest
- Glovebox with light
- Illuminated charging socket with visual display of charge status
- Luggage compartment access via BMW roundel
- Multi-function controls for steering wheel
- Nivala cloth/Sensatec leather upholstery
- Rear centre armrest
- Steering wheel column manual adjustment
- Three spoke sport leather steering wheel
- Two cupholders
- Interior lighting, front centre over interior mirror and rear centre automatic interior light activation when door is opened
- LED ambient lighting in door trim
- Luggage compartment lighting
- Welcome lighting
- BMW Navigation pack - 2 Series
- Extended storage pack - 2 Series Active/Gran Tourer
- No smoker package
- 3 point seatbelts on all seats, front pyrotechnic belt tensioners and belt force limiters, rear coded belt buckles
- Airbag - Front driver and passenger, front and rear head, front side, curtain head protection, manual deactivation of front passenger airbag possible
- Battery safety cut-off
- Child proof locking system in rear door
- Crash Sensor - activates hazard/interior lighting unlocks doors
- Seat belt security check for driver and front passenger
- Seatbelt warning
- Side impact protection
- Twin horns
- Tyre pressure monitoring system
- Warning triangle and first aid kit
- Child seat ISOFIX attachment for two outer rear seats and front passenger seat with anchorage points
- Front head restraints
- Front sports seats with electric side bolster adjustment
- Manual 40:20:40 split folding rear seat with removal of 60:40 sliding bench
- Three rear headrests
- Locking wheel bolts
- Remote control with integrated key with silver highlight
- Start/stop button with Comfort Go keyless engine start and auto Start/stop deactivation button
- Thatcham 1 alarm system with remote control and engine immobiliser
- Electronic differential lock
- Sunvisors with vanity mirrors and ticket pocket
- Reduced rolling resistance tyres
- 17" Burnished double spoke alloy wheels finished in orbit grey - style 549
- BMW mobility tyre sealing system
Technical Options
- HC+NOx: N
- Noise Level dB(A): 68
- NOx: 0.009
- Particles: 0.0001
- Standard Euro Emissions: EURO 6
- WLTP - CO2 (g/km) - Comb - Max: 47
- WLTP - CO2 (g/km) - Extra High - Max: 54
- WLTP - CO2 (g/km) - High - Max: 61
- WLTP - CO2 (g/km) - Low - Max: 61
- WLTP - CO2 (g/km) - Medium - Max: 41
- Bore: 82
- Catalytic Convertor: True
- Compression Ratio: 11.0:1
- Cylinder Layout: IN-LINE
- Cylinders: 3
- Engine Codes: XB2131M0
- Engine Layout: FRONT TRANSVERSE
- Fuel Type: TURBO INJECTION
- Gears: 6 SPEED
- Number of Valves: 12
- Stroke: 94.6
- Valve gear: DOHC
- EC: True
- EC Combined: 148.7
- WLTP - FC (l/100km) - Comb - Max: 182
- WLTP - FC (l/100km) - Extra High - Max: 166
- WLTP - FC (l/100km) - High - Max: 16
- WLTP - FC (l/100km) - Low - Max: 39
- WLTP - FC (l/100km) - Low - Min: 39
- WLTP - FC (l/100km) - Medium: 45
- WLTP - MPG - Medium - Max: 31
- Any aspect of the vehicles safety cause concern?: Data Not Available
- Badge Engine CC: 300
- Badge Power: 2.2
- Based On ID: N
- Coin Description: xe
- Coin Series: Sport
- NCAP Adult Occupant Protection %: N
- NCAP Child Occupant Protection %: N
- NCAP Overall Rating - Effective February 09: 224
- NCAP Pedestrian Protection %: 1.5
- NCAP Safety Assist %: M1
- Service Interval Frequency - Months: N
- Special Edition: Data Not Available
- Special Order: Data Not Available
- Timing Belt Interval Frequency - Months: N
- Timing Belt Interval Mileage: N
- VAT qualifying vehicle - Seek advice from HMRC: 228
- Vehicle Homologation Class: 0-100
- 0 to 60: Data Not Available
- 0 to 62: 6.7
- Engine Power KW: 165
- Engine Power RPM: 4400
- Engine Torque LBS.FT: 284
- Engine Torque MKG: 39.3
- Engine Torque NM: 385
- Engine Torque RPM: 1300
- PS: True
- Top Speed: 126
- Alloys?: True
- Space Saver?: Data Not Available
- Tyre Size Front: 205/55 R17
- Tyre Size Rear: 205/55 R17
- Tyre Size Spare: TYRE REPAIR KIT
- Wheel Style: DOUBLE SPOKE STYLE 549
- Wheel Type: 17" ALLOY
- Height: 1556
- Length: 4354
- Turning Circle - Kerb to Kerb: 11.3
- Wheelbase: 2670
- Width (excluding mirrors): 1800
- Width (including mirrors): 2038
- Boot Capacity Saloons: 400
- Fuel Tank Capacity (Litres): 36
- Gross Vehicle Weight: 2180
- Luggage Capacity (Seats Up): 1350
- Max. Roof Load: 75
- Minimum Kerbweight: 1675
- No. of Seats: 5
- Payload: 505
BMW 2 Series Active Tourer LEADING FROM THE FRONT? (73/100)
The 2 Series Active Tourer will be remembered as the first front-wheel drive BMW. Here's the revised version. Jonathan Crouch looks at what's on offer.
Ten Second Review
Front wheel drive and BMW. It's not often you see those words in the same sentence. Equally unusual is the idea of any kind of BMW MPV. We're here though, to look at a car that brings all of these things together, the Munich maker's 2 Series Active Tourer, a five-seat people carrier that's here been usefully updated.
In 2006, BMW ran an advertisement in many popular magazines. It featured a rabbit with puny back legs and outlandishly big front legs which looked plain wrong, underlined with the caption "That's why we don't have front wheel drives." The message was clear. Cars that sent their power to the front wheels were inherently second rate, an exercise in cost-cutting. Fast forward to today. One of BMW's best selling models is their 2 Series Active Tourer. And it's front-driven. Some may call that hypocrisy, while others recognise that BMW needs to adapt to a changing marketplace. It's also true that BMW has been building and selling front-wheel drive cars for years, albeit with MINI badges rather than BMW roundels on their noses. Almost 20,000 2 Series Active Tourer models have been sold in the UK since the original launch in 2014 and the UK is this model's third best selling market. So it's important for BMW to get this revised model right.
Driving Experience
Just because this vehicle drives the front wheels doesn't mean that BMW has decided to go on a manic cost-cutting frenzy. Where you might expect to find a compact torsion beam rear suspension, BMW has instead fitted a much more complex and expensive multi-link rear end. It's almost as if the Bavarians are overcompensating for something. The 2 Series Active Tourer also benefits from a chassis where weight has been taken out where possible with the use of ultra-high strength steels in key stress points. As before, a broad selection of three and four cylinder engines are on offer, plus there's a petrol Plug-in hybrid variant if you want it. For petrol people, there's the three cylinder 218i with 140hp and the four cylinder 220i with 192hp. Beyond that's, there's the 225xe iPerformance Plug-in hybrid, which mates the 218i engine with an 88hp electric motor and puts out a combined 224hp. Diesel buyers are offered three options; the three cylinder 216d with 116hp, plus a couple of four cylinder options, the 150hp 218d and the top 190hp 220d (also available with xDrive 4WD). The mainstream powerplants team up with three transmission types, including a new seven-speed dual-clutch Steptronic unit. BMW xDrive intelligent all-wheel drive is also available. Turbocharging for all four-cylinder units is now a two-stage arrangement involving twin turbos. This enables even quicker engine response with increased efficiency.
Design and Build
This is a compact MPV and as such, it's fairly inevitable that the basic shape is going to be somewhat generic. Cover the badges and grille and most would probably identify this as a Mercedes. The details are nicely executed, but this remains one of the more conservative designs, though BMW has tried to liven up the look of this revised version a little with a larger front kidney grille, redesigned front fog lamps, smarter wheel designs and twin tail pipes on all four cylinder variants. As before, this Active Tourer runs on a lengthened version of the MK3 generation MINI chassis, with the wheelbase extended to 2,670mm. Here, we're looking at the five-seat Active Tourer, but there's also a mechanically-identical 7-seat Gran Tourer body shape available. For a company with no real track record in MPVs, the Munich maker has clearly been studying what works in rival cars. There are sliding and reclining rear seats that allow you to prioritise space for passengers or luggage. Maximum boot space is a respectable 468-litres - which is 20-litres less than the Mercedes B-Class. The rear bench is a versatile thing that can split 40:20:40 and when fully folded there's access to up to 1,510-litres. The front passenger seat also folds to accommodate items up to 2.4m long. Interior changes to this revised model include redesigned seats and a smarter auto gear lever.
Market and Model
Inevitably, this Active Tourer model sits at the premium end of the mid-sized five-seat MPV segment. Prices start at around £26,000 and rise to around £35,000. A 7-speed Steptronic auto 'box is optional with the three cylinder engines, while an 8-speed Steptronic auto is offered either as an option or as standard on the high-torque powerplants, depending on the variant you're looking at. If safety's a priority, you'll want to look at the optional 'Driving Assistant Plus' package. This includes 'Active Cruise Control' and a 'Traffic Jam Assistant' that, in heavy traffic, is able to control the car's speed, steer automatically and keep it in its lane. Also available is Lane Departure Warning and the City Braking function, which applies the brakes automatically at speeds up to 37mph in response to an imminent collision with a car, motorcycle or pedestrian, for instance. The Parking Assistant takes care of manoeuvring into parking spots that are either parallel or perpendicular to the road, while its ultrasonic sensors also help to search for suitable spaces up to a speed of 22mph.
Cost of Ownership
The 1.5-litre turbo petrol engine that many customers will inevitably gravitate to in the 218i variant makes some extremely good numbers, recording 48.7mpg on the combined fuel economy cycle and 132g/km. Economy figures that good make you wonder why you'd pay extra for the diesel but the additional torque of the 216d will prove a draw for many and 65.7mpg combined cycle economy (113g/km of CO2) isn't going to put too huge a dent in the family budget. The usual suite of BMW EfficientDynamics energy-saving features is responsible for making those vaguely implausible looking figures, including Auto Start Stop and ECO PRO. When in ECO PRO mode, the throttle response is adjusted to encourage a more economical driving style. The extra economy created in that ECO PRO setting is fed back to the driver, with the in-car displays showing the additional number of miles achieved. The ideal choice for eco-minded buyers will of course be the iPerformance 225xe Plug-in hybrid version. BMW claims this derivative when fully charged can offer you a 28 mile all-electric driving range. Combined fuel consumption is 122.8mpg, which equates to CO2 emissions of 52g/km. Owners will need around two-and-a-half hours to fully recharge the lithium-ion cells from a standard domestic power socket using the standard charging cable. Faster charging is possible from a BMW i Wallbox, which can top up the battery in around one-and-a-half hours.
Did you ever expect to see a BMW model range built around front wheel drive with an MPV body shape and offering the option of a three cylinder engine? We're not sure we ever did. Of course the front-driven layout gives this 2 Series Active Tourer a less driver-orientated feel than you'd find in other BMW models. The brand's traditional buyers may not like that, so it's just as well that this car isn't aimed at them. No, you'll be interested in a 2 Series Active Tourer if your need for practicality is greater than your need for a BMW. But you'd still rather like one. If that makes sense to you, then this car will too. Its closest rival, the Mercedes B-Class, doesn't have the same kind of spark and the only other alternative is a much frumpier more conventional mainstream brand MPV. All of which means that BMW's appealing spin on ordinary family motoring will probably continue to attract a ready audience. People who probably never thought they'd be buying from this Munich maker. They won't be getting 'the ultimate driving machine' because that's not what they need. Getting instead what may very well be 'the ultimate small people carrier' will suit them very well indeed.
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To recognize the Chinese New Year, I wanted to celebrate with food. A quick shake of the Urbanspoon app had us standing outside Mark Pi's China Gate. Located off North Meridian, hidden in a strip mall like so many Indy restaurants, I hadn't noticed it despite living close. From outside, it looked like it was busy, so I was excited to give it a try.
We were greeted with a warm smile and friendly service. However, rather than being seated, we opted to order take out from the bar. Along one side of the restaurant, we found that though the tables were full, the bar was empty. Overall, the atmosphere is comfortable yet slightly upscale. It isn't your basic take out Asian, but fresher, more inviting. We decided to grab a seat and order a roll to share while enjoying a beer and waiting for our food.
With only two beers on draft, we each ordered one to compliment our rainbow roll. After watching the sushi chef at the end of the bar (behind the sushi counter), we were presented with a beautiful plate. It was a bit more jazzed up than a normal plate, adding a bit of flair. I haven't seen lemon served on top of sushi before, but I liked that just by touch alone it helped freshen up the fish even though it wasn't needed. The fish was fresh and vibrant in taste. The rice was clean in flavor, sticky in texture and a great vehicle for the avocado, crab, and crisp cucumber. It was quite a large portion as rainbow rolls normally are, so I was happy that we split it. As we wrapped up our appetizer, our entrees were delivered. We paid our bill and made our way home.
I didn't get to try hubs entree, but he enjoyed his pepper chicken saying it had a nice kick without being an overkill in spice. I opted for the classic hunan prepared with scallops. The gentlemen who took our order gave us a great piece of information – they use fresh peppers. So when you ask for spicy, or for them to hold off, it isn't quite something they are able to do. It all depends on the peppers that they have, rather than creating different levels of spice with prepared peppers. I liked the fresh approach and was hoping to have some spice to the hunan. Success – with my first bite there was some heat, but not overwhelming. The mushrooms, baby corn, and broccoli were cooked perfectly, crunching with crispness and vibrant in color. There was great flavor to the hunan sauce without a hint of being overly salty, which I sometimes get. The scallops, bay scallops, were small but tender, cooked well. I would have liked a bit more out of the seafood option, but appreciated that it was at least an option rather than the standard chicken or shrimp. I substituted brown rice, and was disappointed it was an extra charge, but still was cooked properly.
Serving size was large, as I expected, and made great leftovers the next day. It was a bit more pricey than I was anticipating for the evening, but they are going for an above average Asian concept. The service – all friendly and personable. I enjoyed speaking to the owner while we enjoyed our sushi and waited for our dinner. I also appreciated that he was honest in that they haven't advertised too much, because he wants his staff to really understand the food as they continue to build their menu. There were flairs of Korean food, and I could tell how passionate the food and culture. He doesn't just want his guests to enjoy the food, but understand the flavors. I'd return to continue to sample items off the quite extensive menu and the sushi they continue to develop.
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Truth: Doug Workman
How did a 39-year-old self-proclaimed "recreational skier" from Connecticut rise to the top of the ski-bum pyramid? After four years escorting clients up rock faces for Jackson Hole Mountain Guides, Doug Workman was brought into the Valdez Heli-Ski Guides fold in 2004. Along with stints avalanche forecasting in Utah and patrolling at Jackson Hole, Workman has guided in France, Iceland, and Antarctica and locally with Jackson's High Mountain Heli-Skiing. Last year, he was named snow-safety advisor for Swiss gear and apparel brand Mammut, but Workman keeps it real by chasing Jackson locals around the mountains near his adopted hometown.
For me, it's all been about Alaska. There's nowhere else where you meet people who have a really hardy sense of adventure and a certain appetite for risk. There are still people who come to Valdez who are scraping their pennies together to make it happen for a week or even a day.
My clients are mostly people who work in finance. There's also a group of big-wave surfers from Oahu who are real-estate agents and insurance salesmen. It's cool to develop friendships and working relationships with people who are living in a world that we don't see around here.
Chamonix is awe-inspiring. Everywhere you look there are places where you can go and get hurt. Antarctica is the most beautiful place I've ever been. Every night the boat moves and you really don't know what you are going to see, much less ski, next.
I hate to blab about Doug Coombs because it seems like everyone loves to capitalize on any kind of friendship they had with him, but nobody I've ever met could give clients the amount of confidence that he was able to give them.
I'm constantly reevaluating how I do things to make sure I live, because statistically, if you're in dangerous places 200 days of the year for 100 years, you're opening yourself up. Just living in this town, you become hyperaware of how easy it is to die. I don't think six months go by where I don't have a close friend die, which sounds horribly morbid, but it's the truth.
People die regularly in Chamonix and the communities don't freak out, because they understand that there's an assumed risk, and if you increase the numbers then more people are going to get hurt.
We're all going to die. I have friends who are dying from MS and friends who are dying from cancer. I used to think it was really trite and cliché when people said, "At least he died doing what he loved." Then a good friend hung himself and it really sharpened my focus. There's a plus side to people dying doing what they love.
I'm inspired by people in Jackson who are as good or better than any world-class alpinists and skiers, and a lot of them are also managing family life and a business. I don't have that balance at all. It's really hard to exit when every time I turn around, someone hires me to go on the trip of a lifetime.
The reality is, the Grand [Teton] is a pretty damn easy ski run if you ski it in the right conditions. In the end you're skiing an average steep run and you have to do some rappelling. That's the joke about ski mountaineering. At any point you can just build a snow bollard or drive a picket and start rappelling.
It's pretty bold to say you've done a first descent, because more often than not, someone else has been there before you and just never said anything about it.


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This release of Adobe Prelude offers an update of the product icon, and a host of general stability and security bug fixes.
- Prelude now supports HEIF format files.
- You can use a new Preference option to generate media browser thumbnails continuously.
For more information on preferences, see Setting Prelude preferences.
Prelude now supports the following new file formats:
- ARRI Alexa LF (Large Format)
- Sony Venice v2
Performance improvements:
- Hardware-based encoding and decoding for H264 and HEVC formats provides better performance and faster rendering.
- Improved image processing provides more responsive playback and rendering.
This release of Adobe Prelude offers general stability of the product and bug fixes.
The earlier versions of Adobe Prelude have introduced several bug fixes. For more information, see Adobe Prelude fixed issues.
This update of Adobe Prelude has fixed the issue in marker display in the Marker panel. In the earlier versions, you could be unable to view markers in the Marker panel in the List/Logging workspace when you switch from Rough Cut workspace. This update works fine if you open a single media (not a rough cut) in the Rough Cut workspace. If you open a rough cut media and switch from Rough Cut workspace to List/Logging workspace, refresh the Marker panel.
The earlier versions of Adobe Prelude have introduced several bug fixes. For more information, see Adobe Prelude fixed issues.
New in the October 2017 release
The visual keyboard shortcut is here to enhance your editing experience. Use the Visual Keyboard Shortcut Editor to see which keys have been assigned shortcuts and which are available for assignment.
For more information, see Keyboard shortcuts.
New in the October 2017 release
The Export Media pop-up now has a Separate Mono Tracks checkbox. You can enable this check box to export the audio in the media as a one-to-one mapping. When the checkbox is left unchecked, the audio output will be Stereo.
This release of Adobe Prelude offers minor enhancements and bug fixes. The update has fixed issues including loss of data while using auto delete preference and loss of tag colors when adding tags using unassociated metadata panel. Errors related to comment markers not displaying description by default are also fixed.
The May 2017, April 2016, January 2016 and November 2016 release of Adobe Prelude introduced several fixes. For more information, see Fixed issues in Adobe Prelude.
New in the November 2016 release
This release introduces Team Projects, a hosted service that lets editors and motion graphics artists work collaboratively in projects within Prelude CC, Premiere Pro CC, and After Effects CC. This service adds deep collaboration features such as version history and smart conflict resolution. Post-production professionals can share their edits and get the latest changes from collaborators, allowing concurrent changes to happen on a single project – which is powerful for workflows where you can ingest clips in Prelude at the same time when visual effects and motion graphics are being done in After Effects and the edit is being refined in Premiere Pro.
To learn more, see Working simultaneously in shared video projects.
New in the June 2016 release
This release of Adobe Prelude delivers optimized performance of AVC LongG format in the following workflows:
- Media ingestion
- Smoother playback
- Improved logging workflow
Note: This enhancement is also extended to other miscellaneous workflows.
New in the June 2016 release
This release of Prelude introduces options to filter the various categories of Events such as information, warnings, and errors through an Event dialog box.
For more information, see Prelude workspace.
New in the March 2016 release
Prelude now supports the ability to use multi-channel audio mapping.
For more information, see Using Audio Channel Mapping in Prelude
New in the November 2015 release
You can now export markers of a selected clip in text files (.txt) in addition to CSV files (.csv) and well-formatted HTML pages (.html) through the Export Markers dialog box (File > Export > Markers).
New in the November 2015 release
Prelude now supports the HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) file format.
For more information on file formats supported in Prelude, see Supported file formats for ingest.
New in the June 2015 release
Adobe Prelude CC now lets you add voice-over to Rough Cuts. Although Prelude lets you add Audio clips separately, you can use the voice-over feature to record audio clips on the fly, without the need for a separate recording software.
You can record and overlay voiceovers video footages during the basic editing process, before the final sequence is complete. Adobe Prelude lets you add multiple voiceovers to a Rough Cut, as well.
For more information, see Add Voice-over to Rough Cuts.
New in the June 2015 release
You can now use the new API to ingest media in to a Project directly. Previously, on using the Ingest API, the Ingest dialog was displayed as an extra step before you could select and eventually ingest media (video and audio clips).
Now, you can simply use the new Ingest Media API to select media files you want to ingest, and the selected files are added to the Project at the click of a button. The new API, not only ingests the media, but all related data files (.xmp) that contain markers and other meta-data.


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ORLANDO SOLAR BEARS vs. SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS
Feb 7, 2020
The Solar Bears will continue the 2019-2020 season as members of the South Division, which also includes the Atlanta Gladiators, Florida Everblades, Greenville Swamp Rabbits, Jacksonville Icemen, Norfolk Admirals and South Carolina Stingrays.
Tickets for the team's 2019-2020 season are now on sale via Ticketmaster and the Amway Center box office.
The Orlando Solar Bears are the proud affiliate of the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning and members of the ECHL, the premier "AA" hockey league in North America. In seven seasons of operation, the team has qualified for the Kelly Cup Playoffs five times. The Solar Bears are owned and operated by the Orlando Magic and the DeVos Family, and play at Amway Center, the 2012 Street and Smith's Sports Business Journal Sports Facility of the Year.
Officially licensed Orlando Solar Bears replica team jerseys, apparel, and headwear can be purchased at orlandosolarbearshockey.com/shop.
Event Times
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