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New Delhi: After being surprised by Reliance Industries Ltd's (RIL) December quarter earnings, analysts have found new reasons for optimism and a re-rating of the stock.
Following the announcement of its quarterly earnings on 18 January, at least 11 brokerages have raised their price target on RIL.
The Mukesh Ambani-led company, India's largest by market value, reported a net profit of Rs.5,502 crore for the three months ended 31 December, up 24% from the year earlier. Its revenue in the same period grew 10.1% to Rs.96,307 crore. The analysts' estimate compiled by Bloomberg had pegged RIL's net profit growth at 14.4% and revenue growth at 6.45%.
The strong show was largely led by RIL's refining business, which saw operating profit more than double year-on-year, and its petrochemical operations, where margins improved sequentially.
On Monday, RIL's share gained 2.35% on the BSE to close at Rs.920.05 a share, its 52-week high. The bourse's benchmark index, the Sensex, gained 0.31% to 20,101.82 points.
Over the last one year, RIL has gained 15.97%, while the Sensex has risen 20.09%.
The brokerages that revised their price target on the RIL stock were Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Deutsche Bank AG, ICICI Securities Ltd, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Edelweiss Securities Ltd, IDFC Securities Ltd, Standard Chartered Bank, Motilal Oswal Securities Ltd, Barclays Capital Inc., Kotak Institutional Equities Research, and Bank of America-Merrill Lynch.
What analysts like is that the improvement in earnings is the result of core operations returning value rather than non-operating income inflating the bottom line. In the December 2011 quarter, other income (earned mostly through treasury operations on RIL's excess cash) contributed 30% to its pre-tax profit. This proportion dropped to 25.4% in October-December 2012.
Goldman Sachs, in its report dated 21 January, said it expects RIL's gross refining margin—the difference between the value of petroleum products sold and the cost of processing crude—to improve between fiscal 2013 and 2015 on "refining capacity delays, closures and improving oil demand". The brokerage added that it continues to believe that "RIL's major capex (capital expenditure) in core segments will lead to a structural improvement in its margins and cash returns over medium term."
Positive updates on RIL's shale gas business in the US, the launch of its telecom venture, or value-accretive acquisitions in its core business, could be catalysts for a stock re-rating, Goldman Sachs said.
Though RIL's hydrocarbons exploration and production business continues to flounder, with turnover and profitability steadily falling over the last several quarters, analysts are bullish on its prospects. This is partly due to guidance provided by RIL at the analyst meet on Friday, and in part because of the recent regulatory clearances received by the company for future exploration work.
Various brokerage reports, including Goldman Sachs's, that were issued after the analyst meet said the RIL management indicated that the decline in natural gas production from the D6 reservoir in the Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin would be arrested by fiscal 2015, and volume ramp-up from specific fields within the reservoir would begin by fiscal 2017.
"We believe the recent improvement in the pace of regulatory approvals indicate a change in policy stance on the oil and gas sector where delayed approvals over the past two years adversely affected exploration and development activity," Deutsche Bank said in a report dated 19 January. "Over the next year, we expect progress on integrated development of KG D6, restarting of exploratory drilling, and an almost doubling of natural gas price to support the stock."
UBS Securities India Pvt. Ltd, in a report dated 19 January, said a potential move by the government to raise gas prices post 2014 was another potential trigger for RIL in the near future.
Barclays, however, does not expect "material EPS (earnings per share) growth until
2016", when RIL's offgas
cracker, petcoke gasification project and new exploration and production projects begin. RIL has announced a capital expenditure plan of $12 billion for over the next five years to augment capacity at its integrated refining and petrochemicals complex at Jamnagar in Gujarat.
2016", when RIL's offgas
cracker, petcoke gasification project and new exploration and production projects begin. RIL has announced a capital expenditure plan of $12 billion for over the next five years to augment capacity at its integrated refining and petrochemicals complex at Jamnagar in Gujarat.
"Even so, questions on growth will recur unless Reliance builds a deep $25-30 billion project inventory in its core energy space, in our view," Barclays said in its report dated 21 January. "Its diversification efforts (organized retail has yet to break even; telecom, to launch in 2013, will be capex intensive) have been a drag on return ratios."


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PALM BAY, Fla. - Palm Bay police officers unveiled a new anti-theft tool on Tuesday that tracks stolen items by putting a clear, glue-like substance on their belongings.
Cop Dots contains a micro dot with a serial number unique to the person who owns the items.
The substance will be sold for $30 at the 41 Lowe's department stores throughout Central Florida.
"When you buy a pen we would like you to mark all your property at one time," said Shawn Andreas, president of Cop Dots.
Using Cop Dots will also help victims get their stolen items back faster.
"We've not seen anything like this, in the market that is proactive in technology, than this is," said Palm Bay police chief Doug Muldoon.
Brevard County Sheriff's Office, Cocoa police and Orlando police will be using the Cop Dots program.
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PHILADELPHIA - Basketball season is officially underway at the University of Pennsylvania. The women's basketball team opened the 2013-14 campaign on Friday with their first preseason practice.
Under fifth-year head coach Mike McLaughlin, the Quakers return nine letterwinners from a season ago and bring in five new members in the Class of 2017. Penn also returns all five starters from the 2012-13 squad that earned the program's first-ever postseason victory and reached the semifinals of the Women's Basketball Invitational.
Penn's 18 wins last season tied for second-most in program history and the team's nine non-league wins matched the school record set in 1999-00. Penn's 18-13 overall record marked the first winning season since 2004-05 and the team's best record since the 2000-01 team set the school standard with 22 wins.
The Quakers will begin their 2013-14 campaign on Saturday, Nov. 9 against St. Francis Brooklyn at The Palestra. Tip off is at 2 p.m. The schedule is also highlighted by a pair of ACC opponents with Notre Dame visiting the Cathedral of College Basketball on Nov. 23 and the Quakers heading to Miami on Jan. 1. Ivy League play begins Jan. 11 against Princeton.


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CHILDREN and staff at Cannington Primary School held a 'wellie day' in support of the Somerset Flood Appeal.
The children at the school and|pre-school wore their wellies to school and made a collection in support of the appeal fund.
Some of the children in Beech class also organised a cake sale for the whole school to enjoy.
Everyone was able to go to the hall to choose cakes from the wide selection made by the children and their families.
Deputy head teacher David Frowde said: "We have been talking about the seriousness of the flooding on the Somerset Levels in class and in our assemblies, and the children were all keen to do something to help.
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BERLIN—Sony Corp.'s mobile division did what it could to stand out from the crowd at the annual IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin, highlighting new devices with long-lasting batteries that work as extensions for its popular PlayStation gaming console.
The Japanese consumer electronics giant—who has been in restructuring mode for a number of years—on Wednesday unveiled its holiday mobile devices portfolio.
The company is set to release a host of devices, including two smartphones, the flagship Xperia Z3 and the smaller Z3 compact, in addition to an 8-inch tablet, all powered by Google Android operating system.
Moreover, the company's product lineup includes two new smartwatches, a more basic activity tracker called the SmartBand Talk, and a more powerful smartwatch running Google Android Wear software, called the SmartWatch 3.
With competition intensifying on the smartphone market, Sony clearly attempted to stand out. Kuni Suzuki, who heads the company's mobile business, said one of the key features of the Z3 flagship phone is its long lasting battery, which the company claims will last for two days straight without charging.
What's more, the company's mobile unit is trying to capitalize on the popular PlayStation 4 gaming console, which has now sold over 10 million units since launching late last year, widely surpassing Sony's own forecasts.
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Sony's mobile unit, which has been named as one of three pillars on which Sony now rests, needs a strong showing this fall. Last month the company sharply cut its forecast for smartphone sales this year. The smartphone unit posted an operating loss in the fiscal first quarter ended June.
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Uh oh! Seems there's some unhappiness brewing over at TLC. "What Not to Wear" co-host and fashion expert Clinton Kelly didn't hold back when he talked to Joy Behar and PopEater columnist Rob Shuter on the subject of fellow TLC star Sarah Palin.
According to Shuter, Kelly called "Sarah Palin's Alaska" an "eight-hour info-commercial on my network."
"What bothers me most about her is her hypocrisy," Kelly told Behar and Shuter. When further probed by Behar, Kelly continued, "Look at nature. Look at this beautiful Alaska. Look at how beautiful everything is. Let's go kill something because we need some meat in the refrigerator."
Clearly, Aaron Sorkin, who declared Palin "deranged," isn't the only one who was unhappy with seeing her shoot and kill a caribou on the show.
Shuter also reports that Kelly isn't the only TLC star who's not thrilled to be sharing a network with Palin. Sources told the columnist that after spending days with the former governor to shoot an episode of "Alaska," "Kate Plus 8" star Kate Gosselin "isn't very fond of her either."
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So, didn't want the actual first day of the off-season to go without a post … plus I had some player quotes to transcribe from yesterday.
Here is my column from The Journal News and LoHud.com today.
Fore, right!
Dan Girardi:
On getting through Game 5 with a mangled finger (he had it wrapped yesterday) and another bruise on his leg:
"It was pretty tough, but it was that time of year where we needed everyone to be playing and everyone to be playing hard. It's just, kind of, suck it up and battle through whatever you have. Everyone's nicked up here and there. It's just what you have to do at this time of year."
Does he need any further medical treatment?:
"No, just rest it, make sure it doesn't get infected. That's it."
"Just got to take it easy. A couple weeks here pretty much, marinating, doing nothing, just let everything heal. Then spend some good quality time with the family in the summer."
On what Tortorella said, that he was the best defenseman in the series:
"I don't … I just tried to play my game, play hard, do my best to help the team win. To get that compliment from Torts is obviously, it's quite a big deal for me as a player, that he sees my game improving, and playing well, and that he knows that I can play that way. It's definitely good to get those comments."
"It's not the finish we wanted, got knocked out early. But I think we really had a good year with our resilience and staying with the gameplan and not getting away from it. We came back a lot this year and had a lot of comeback wins; obviously a lot of injuries, but guys came in and played the spots, did their jobs right. We got in the playoffs, and that's all that really matters. Get in the playoffs and anything can happen there.
"Moving forward, we've got a good group of guys that have been together a couple of years. Obviously you want to get farther every year, but the main thing is to try and have a good year and get into the playoffs."
"We do have a fairly young team and obviously we have some older guys to help us along the way, help guys like myself, Staalsie, Cally, Dubi, to start taking on some of that leadership role. And as a core group of the team, we've got to take responsibilty and be leaders and play well to help the team win, and not just kind of keep relying on that we're still really young and still growing. I think we've got to be ready. That's the way our team is built now, on some youth and some guys who have been here a while, like ourselves. We've just got to make sure we're heading the guys in the right direction."
"That's got to help you as a player, knowing the team's putting some extra expectations on you. … I love having that responsibility and being able to show what I can do under those circumstances."
Henrik Lundqvist:
"When I look back at the series, it definitely wasn't a 4-1 series. We were right there almost every game and we had an opportunity to win some games. But we didn't grab it. That's very frustrating and disappointing to lose and be out this early. We just have to learn from it."
"Our biggest opportunities were in Game 1 and Game 4, where we had a chance to win. When you play a good team like Washington you really need to grab that opportunity. All year we were pretty good in the third period with the lead."
"It's always a weird feeling when it's over. It's really intense and so exciting, and the next day it's all over. It's weird."
"Overall it was a good year, a fun year. A great group. It was a great feeling to reach the playoffs and be back there again and feel the atmosphere and excitement, especially playing at home. It's hard to be really satisfied, though. You lose in the first round. The goal this year was to have a good run in the playoffs. And I think we had a chance. We didn't get it done.
I asked him of the team goes into next year in a better position because the foundation of the identity of the team is in place:
"Oh, I haven't thought about next year yet. I think, hopefully it carries over. There's a lot of contracts that need to be signed here, and obviously we don't know what the team's going to look like next year, yet. But the foundation is there. We have a lot of good young hockey players who hopefully will keep improving and hopefully just learn from this year and the past years and get better and smarter. Me personally, like I said, with this year I'm happy with the way I played. Of course, some games could have been better. But overall I played a lot of hockey and I'm pretty happy with the performance."
On progress from two years ago to this year, both resulting in first-round losses to Washington:
"I think we were closer this time, but it was a 4-1 series. It's weird the way it works. This time around we definitely had a chance. Two years ago, I felt the difference between the teams was bigger. We just didn't manage to get it done in a couple of games here. We had a really big opportunity to win. But when I look back at the six years I've been here, the team has changed a lot. A lot of new players. I feel now with the core we have, with a lot of young defensemen, really good defensemen and skilled forwards, we definitely have something to build on. But again, you start next year, and it's hard to say we're going to be good for two or three years because every summer a lot changes."
"Right now it's just disappointment. It's hard to be satisfied when you lose this early. We wanted to be playing right now. Two weeks ago we were so excited to be in the playoffs, and now it's all over. So it was a quick turnaround. I'm going to sit down and think about my year and about what I can do better and try to improve next year."
"I felt good. I felt like I was in a good place physically and mentally and going down the stretch I wanted to play every game. I wanted to be out there and help the team. There was no question that I didn't want to sit on the bench and rest. I wanted to be out there and play."
"I think early on I got a lot of rest. It was different. I wasn't used to sitting out, play a few games, then sit out a game. It was definitely different mentally. In the long run it was good for me, and I think in the future I just have to get used to it. Our goal is still to play for another month and a half. I think that's the time when it's really going to pay off."
"This year is the first time I've felt, you're not going to have that many opportnities. I'm getting older. I'm still 29, but you also realize, to get a great team together — you need some bounces too, to get there — that's what I'm talking about, when the opportunity's there you need to grab it. As you get older you realize you really need to grab it because you don't know when it's coming next time. But, hopefully I have another 1o years. I don't know. I don't know how long I'll play. But we have a good group here. Yes, we need to improve, but it's a start and we'll see what happens over the summer. A lot of contracts are up. We'll see how the team's going to look next year."
I asked him if the prime of a career of a goalie starts a little later, or lasts a little longer, than a skater's prime.
"I don't know. We'll see if I get better or worse. No, I think if you look at other goalies, yeah, a lot of guys, they improve as they get older because you learn the game better, you learn how you work as a person, because such a big part is the mental part. And when you realize that — not realize, but you get smarter, how you approach games, how you approach the pressure, just being able to mentally be in a good place. I don't think you get better technically as you get older. I don't think you get faster. I don't think I'm faster now compared to when I was 22. But mentally, I think I've grown, so I think that's the biggest part."
I assured him that I had covered a few goalies who got dumber as they got older.
He cracked up. "I get smarter. I don't know about your goalie buddies."
On getting married:
"Getting older. I'm growing up, I guess. It's time."
Said he would take a few days to decide on World Championships, though there were reports last night that he wouldn't play.
Then the same guy started asking him restaurant questions. Unlike Avery, and typically like Lundqvist, he gave some straight answers, even though he didn't look comfortable talking about his new side business.
Vinny Prospal:
On where he's going to be playing next September:
"I didn't know where I was going to be last September. So it's the way it is. I mean, I'm not 26 anymore. So it goes from year to year and, like I said, hopefully I'll be back here. This is a fun team to play on and I'd like to continue here."
On his knee allowing him to get through a season:
"That was one reason I said no to the World Championship, to make sure that I'll train as much as possible to make sure there is strength in the leg, that I'll play as many games as possible. I don't really intend to go through what I went through last year when it gave out on me after the first two day of training camp."
"You can do stuff to prevent that, that's to make sure your quad muscles are strong."
"Let's put it this way, I really had no time not to produce. If I wanted to play and get some ice time … when you pronounce yourself healthy to play, you have to go out there and be a factor, and even though it was like a roller coaster, up and down, I still scored some goals, put up some points, so it's something that I was hoping for, to get an opportunity like that, because it could have gone the other way as well. Maybe I would have to tell you there's no chance I would be back."


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NEW MEXICO: Returning senior who had a long-awaited breakout campaign in 2012 after a lingering knee injury forced him to redshirt in 2011 ... a fast, shifty runner who proved to be extremely durable for his size as the featured back in 2012 ... has good vision and excellent hands out of the backfield ... also a fearless competitor on special teams ... named a 2013 team captain during spring practice ... unofficially clocked at 4.5 in the 40 during high school when he was one of the most dominant RBs in the state of Texas...did a fine job in the classroom, earning Academic All-MWC honors in his first semester at UNM...very involved off the field while in high school as a member of Fellowship of Christian Athletes and as a volunteer coach for the Pearland Hurricanes youth football team...after Hurricane Ike hit the area, he removed heavy debris and destroyed furniture from the homes of the elderly and less fortunate living in his neighborhood.
2013 (SENIOR): Namedto the Maxwell Award preseason watch list, whichannually goes to the best college football player in America ... on the preseason College Football Performance Awards watch list ... named preseason first team All-Mountain West by Bleacher Report, Bloguin.com, College Sports Madness, Athlon Sports, and Phil Steele ... was chosen one of four team captains by his teammates ...
saw his season cut short after only 10 games, but still managed to rush for over 1,100 yards for the second straight season, finishing with 1,122 on 189 carries for a career-high mark of 5.9 yards per carry … the yardage is the ninth most in a single season in school history … earned Second Team All-Mountain West honors for the second straight season … recorded 10 total touchdowns (nine rushing, one receiving) and averaged 116.5 yards of offense per game … named Mountain West Offensive Player of the Week for his effort against UTEP on Sept. 7 … rushed for 291 yards and a career-high tying four touchdowns on a career-high 41 carries in the Lobos' win over the Miners … rushed for 192 yards and a touchdown against UNLV on Sept. 28 … it was the second most rushing yards for him in a single game, behind only his MW record-setting 338-yard performance against Air Force in 2012 … played only one series after halftime vs. New Mexico State on Oct. 5 but still rushed for 126 yards and three touchdowns … at Wyoming on Oct. 12 he rushed for 104 yards and added 43 more receiving yards, including the first touchdown catch of his career on a career-long 24-yard reception … passed the 3,000 yard rushing mark for his career with 72 yards at San Diego State on Nov. 2 … rushed for 179 rushing yards against Air Force on Nov. 8 … named the Reese Hill Offensive Most Valuable Player and the Bill Brannin Most Valuable Player as voted by his teammates … finished his career fifth all time in rushing in UNM history with 3,233 yards and fifth in carries with 609 while his 26 rushing touchdowns rank sixth … appeared in 39 career games (25 starts) for the Lobos.
2012 (JUNIOR):A team captain who enjoyed a record-setting season during his first year as the featured back of the offense by gaining 1,469 rushing yards with 15 TDs ... earned second-team All-Mountain West honors ... played the last third of the season on a pair of sore hamstring muscles ... Finished with 59 rushing yards on 16 carries vs. Colorado State on Nov. 24 to break UNM's single-season rushing record of 1,450 yards, previously held by DonTrell Moore in 2003 ... also scored on a 1-yard run for his 15th rushing TD of the season, to rank second all-time on the schools list, and had one catch for four yards. ... carried the ball 18 times for 145 yards against Nevada on Nov. 17 ... had a career-long 76-yard run on the Lobos' first play of the third quarter against the Cowboys ... rushed for 109 yards and one touchdown on 32 carries against Wyoming on Nov. 10 ... caught two passes for 32 yards against the Cowboys ... named one of three team captains for the remainder of the season prior to the game against Wyoming ... led the Lobos in rushing with a 136-yard effort against Fresno State on Oct. 27 ... rushed for two touchdowns and had a 57-yard rush against the Bulldogs ... also caught two passes, one of which was for a career-long 20 yards ... had a record-breaking day at Air Force on Oct. 20 as he set a new school and Mountain West record for rushing yards in a game with 338 on a career-high 39 carries ... was the first player to rush for 300 or more yards in an FBS game this season ... also scored three touchdowns against the Falcons and had a 68-yard run in the first quarter ... recorded one catch for five yards, giving him 343 all-purpose yards, setting a new record for a conference game ... earned numerous honors for his record-breaking day including Mountain West Offensive Player of the Week, College Sports Madness Mountain West Offensive Player of the Week, and honorable mention Running Back of the Week by College Football Performance Awards ... recorded his third 100-yard rushing game of the season against Hawaii on Oct. 13 as he set a new career-high in carries with 35 ... finished with 161 yards and scored two touchdowns against the Warriors ... his TDs were a 23-yard run in the first quarter and a one-yard rush early in the second quarter ... also caught one pass for nine yards against Hawaii ... was named Mountain West Co-Offensive Player of the Week and College Sports Madness Mountain West Offensive Player of the Week for his work against Texas State on Oct. 6 ... set then-career highs in carries (23), yards (191) and touchdowns (four) as the Lobos defeated the Bobcats 35-14 ... led the Lobos in rushing for the second straight game against No. 24 Boise State on Sept. 29 ... finished with 86 yards and one touchdown on 18 carries against the Broncos ... recorded his first career 100-yard game in UNM's win over New Mexico State ... finished with 129 yards on 21 carries ... scored his first touchdown of the season on a 29-yard run against the Aggies with 5:49 remaining in the third quarter ... started his first game of the season at Texas Tech and finished with 12 rushing yards ... made his season debut against No. 17 Texas on Sept. 8 ... rushed for 51 yards on 11 carries with a long of 18 yards and tied for the team lead in receptions with two against the Longhorns.
2011 (REDSHIRT): Hurt his ankle during fall camp and, after missing the first few games, was placed on his redshirt season.
2010 (SOPHOMORE): Played in 11 games with 5 starts and continued to improve throughout the season...led UNM in rushing with 373 yards in his first full season...had two touchdowns including his first career TD at New Mexico State on Oct. 9...averaged 33.9 yards per game, including a long run of 38 yards at Air Force...finished the year with 21 catches for 121 yards...emerged as the primary running back late in the year...had a career-high 97 yards against Wyoming on Nov. 6...also a 23.6-yard average on eight kickoff returns.
2009 (TRUE FRESHMAN): Added a tremendous spark to the offense in his first 6 collegiate games (1 start) as a 19-year-old rookie...led the team in rushing in 4 of his 6 appearances...averaged a team-best 44.8 rushing yards/game (269 total on 61 carries - 4.4 avg.) with a long of 22...21 catches (92 yards, long of 13, 4.4 avg.) were 2nd among Lobo RBs...led the team with averages of 60.2 yards from scrimmage (361 total) and 99.0 all-purpose yards (594 total) per game...team-best 23.3-yard average on his 10 kickoff returns with a long of 49...29 yards on 6 carries in his week 7 debut vs. UNLV...Academic All-MWC honoree.
`09 HIGHLIGHTS: vs. Colorado State...Huge performance to help lead the Lobos to their first victory...season-highs with 15 carries for 87 yards...had 50 yards on 6 rushes in the 4th quarter, including a 22-yard burst with one minute remaining to set up the Lobos' game-winning field goal...also had a 3-yard run on 4th-and-1 to set-up the Lobos' 2nd TD of the night...racked up a season-high 183 all-purpose yards, including a 49-yard kickoff return - the team's longest of the year - to set up a pivotal TD run by fellow true freshman RB Demond Dennis...vs. No 22 BYU...Team-high 140 all-purpose yards on 21 touches...caught 8 passes out of the backfield for 47 yards, including a long of 13, and had 25 yards rushing on 10 carries with a long of 9...also averaged 22.7 yards on his 3 kickoff returns with a long of 34...at No. 14 Utah...Led the team once again with 54 yards on 11 carries against one of the MWC's toughest defenses...did an excellent job of spinning and bouncing off would-be tacklers and slashing through narrow creases for additional yardage...long of 16...also added a 28-yard kickoff return...at San Diego State...Team-high 63 yards on 13 carries (4.8 avg.) with a long gain of 14...4 carries for 26 yards in the 1st quarter and had 7 carries for 31 yards in the 3rd quarter...also had 3 catches for 15 yards (long of 12) and did a fine job of pass protection against a blitz-heavy defense.
HIGH SCHOOL: A 2009 graduate of Pearland (Texas) HS, which is a Houston suburb...hometown is pronounced PARE-land...ran for 4,415 yards and 61 TDs in a brilliant prep career...all-state by the Texas Sportswriters Association in 2008 when he finished third in Class 5A rushing with 2,117 yards...also tied for the state scoring crown with a school-record 35 TDs...averaged 7.8 yards per carry...four-year varsity letterwinner for head coach Tony Heath...helped the Oilers to the 2008 District 22-5A title...all-county and district 24-5A offensive player of the year as a junior...also ran the 100 meters for the track team.
PERSONAL: Born Feb. 14, 1990, in LaMarque, Texas...full name is Kasey Jamal Carrier...son of Kevin Carrier and Norma DeVault... graduated in May of 2013 with a degree in Criminology at UNM.
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IN one corner is a phalanx of smartly suited planning and legal experts whose names are suffixed with an admirable array of initials denoting hard-earned degrees and qualifications while besides them sit several hefty boxfuls of documents that include statements in triplicate, examples of legal precedents and door-step thick volumes pertaining to the case in hand.
In the other corner are Richard and Betty Uzzell and their son Kevin.
But why has a down-to-earth, working-class couple gone head-to-head with the borough council over the crucial matter of Swindon's redevelopment on this morning of May 24, 1983?
It is the climax of an unusual – in Swindon's case, unique – David versus Goliath-tussle that has seen the proverbial little man give the sprawling conglomerate a bit of a run-around.
At the heart of the confrontation is the Uzzells' house at 6 Westcott Street on the edge of Swindon town centre.
It is a modest, tidily kept and nicely decorated three-bedroomed Victorian mid-terrace. As far as Richard and Betty are concerned it is also their castle.
For several years they have lived with their two sons in what has become the last house standing.
Somewhat conspicuously, their abode sits in the centre of a desolate landscape that does a passable impression of a World War Two bomb site. Complete with its lone, doleful chimney, their residence is supported on each side by a derelict, bricked-up property.
Everything else around it, including their local pub The Gardeners Arms, has long since been flattened. It has even become an attraction. People go out of their way to gape and to take photos.
The council want the Uzzells to budge but the Uzzells are not for budging. To quote father-of-two Mr Uzzell, 59: "I just don't care if they send the bulldozers in. I'm not bloody moving from the house I have lived in more than 20 years."
Their decade-long spat with Thamesdown Council – which finally concluded exactly 30 years ago this month – highlighted the rapidly and in many ways controversially changing face of Central Swindon.
During the Seventies, rows of century-old terraces were levelled to make way for modern homes, offices and shops. But some felt the heart was being ripped out of the old redbrick railway town. The Siege of Westcott Street takes seed during the early 1970s when the council informs scores of residents living along, or just off the west-side of Westcott Place that they have to shift.
A £1.8 million development has been earmarked for the site including 86 homes for the elderly. But Richard Uzzell – who ironically works for the council – is not having any of it.
The family had been forced to move from another part of Swindon in 1955 due to redevelopment and they don't wish to do so again. By 1975 virtually all of their neighbours have cleared off after accepting council compensation.
Their homes have either been demolished or – as the Adver somewhat poetically puts it – reduced to shells that "await the bulldozer's kiss of death."
Speaking from the doorstep of her freshly painted home, housewife Mrs Uzzell tells the Adver in December, 1975: "It's taken us 20 years to finish buying it and now we own it. We have done it all up completely – we just don't intend to move."
The council applies for a compulsory purchase order but the Uzzells oppose it and – in a rare victory for the small man – win.
As time goes by Thamesdown council becomes increasingly rattled. Their development plans are being stalled by one stubborn couple. They feel a bit daft. The Adver reports in January, 1980 that some housing committee members are "beginning to show signs of losing their tempers." Committee chairman Les Gowing is shaking his head as he tells fellow members: "The public have been waiting ten years for this development and I am beginning to wonder if it will ever get off the ground."
He adds, with no little grit: "It's time we went to town on this."
You can understand his frustration. The Uzzells have to move for the common good. In their hearts Richard and Betty know this.
They have put up a good fight and have gamely stuck to their guns. They have demonstrated they are not going to be pushed around by a faceless corporation. They have poked out their tongues at the pen pushers. But as with most things, it now boils down to cash.
The council offers them the market value of their house which isn't much as it is stuck in the middle of a wasteland. The Uzzells do not accept because they cannot buy a similar sized town centre property with the proffered sum.
Chewing over the situation on his doorstep Mr Uzzell tells us: "They can start their old people's homes without knocking down my house. I don't want to stop the development."
All they want is a fair price, he shrugs; that or the offer of a similar sized house in a similar location. The row rumbles on for a few more years. Mr and Mrs Uzzell become well known via the pages of the Adver as Swindon's "defiant couple."
Their home is a local landmark. Swindon's premiere pop group XTC use a dramatic photograph of the Uzzells' residence on the sleeve of a 1982 single, the appropriately named Ball and Chain.
A reinvigorated compulsory purchase order (CPO) is drawn up but hundreds of people sign a petition supporting the couple so the issue will be decided at a public inquiry. A now retired Mr Uzzell, however, remains "defiant." He does not, we report, give "two hoots" about any inquiry.
"I don't give a damn what the outcome of the inquiry is," he tells us. "And I don't care how many compulsory purchase orders they send me. I'm staying."
Covering the hearing in May, 1983, I am scribbling away wondering how the Uzzells can possibly get any sort of result against a body that commands such resources, technical know-how and high-brow representation.
As a journalist I am of course completely impartial and report only the facts. But you can't help rooting for the underdog.
The couple don't say anything during the inquiry. Kevin, who is in his 20s, speaks for them. He reveals that his parents have just received an offer of £12,500 – a hike of more than £4,000 on its predecessor four years ago.
But a swift recky around Swindon estate agents reveals no houses of a similar size for anywhere near that price.
When Thamesdown is given permission a few months later to serve a CPO, Mr Uzzell remains – true to form and to quote my own 1983 story – "defiant." He cannot find a three bedroom house for under £19,000, he says.
In April, 1984 XTC's ball and chain duly swings into the now iconic-cum-symbolic redbrick structure that increasingly resembles the Alamo. It is 11 years since the first houses in Westcott Place/Westcott Street were razed.
After drawn-out negotiations the couple has accepted a better deal.
They don't say what it is but are satisfied. So David did not, in the end, fell Goliath. But he gave him a bit of a slap and, for more than a decade, led him on a merry old dance.
Over the years the stand-off between Mr and Mrs Uzzell and the council generated a number of missives to the Advertiser's Letters Page.
This one is from E Geary, of Whiteland Road, Swindon on January 25, 1980:
"I was utterly appalled to read about the man who won't leave his home. Not because he won't (how I admire him for making this stand!) but because he is being harassed.
"Surely this man has suffered enough.
"He has had to watch his friends and neighbours leaving one by one, with the associated problems of vandalism and the value of his home has dropped with no chance of sufficient compensation.
"Come on you councillors. Treat this man as you would wish to be treated in similar circumstances. Pay him enough to buy a home at least as good as the one he has."


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An alternative would be to tie the coupon paid on rescue loans to the growth of the country's economy. When the economy is in recession, the debt interest burden will be lower, helping the country to boost growth; when economic growth picks up, GDP-linked payments will be higher precisely when the country can afford it. Read more


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TORONTO - Although eager to try his hand at television, Oscar-nominated director David Fincher admits he knew all along there would be nothing conventional about his first foray into serialized drama.
It would be slick, big-budget, packed with heavyweight actors and done exactly the way the "Fight Club" director wanted.
In the end, that meant Fincher's political drama "House of Cards" wouldn't debut on television, per se, but on Netflix — the online streaming service available only to subscribers.
"We ended up in a partnership with a company who seems like they were more closely aligned with the show that we wanted to make and the way that we wanted to make it," Fincher says in a recent interview from Pasadena, Calif., noting that the big premium cable players also expressed interest.
"In the end the best choice, I think, was Netflix who said, 'We love what this is and we love where it can go and we'd like to see you swing for the rafters.'"
Netflix ordered two batches of 13-episode seasons — a commitment virtually unheard of for network and cable television outlets these days — and reportedly sunk $100-million into a program poised to be their new flagship.
Perhaps fittingly, "House of Cards" seems to have more in common with a theatrical feature film than a typical TV drama: There's the obvious pedigree of Fincher, the fact that it stars film veterans Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright and a script by the Oscar-nominated "Ides of March" scribe Beau Willimon.
Spacey takes centre stage as smarmy congressman Francis Underwood, a power-hungry chief whip who goes after his enemies with Machiavellian fervour when he's passed over for secretary of state.
Wright plays Frank's equally cunning wife Claire, whose own ambitions centre on expanding her charity work to a global enterprise, even if it means throwing some of her well-meaning colleagues by the wayside.
The sprawling ensemble includes Kate Mara ("American Horror Story") as smart young journalist Zoe Barnes, whose career ambitions draw her into a dangerous relationship with the manipulative Frank.
The story is dense and cerebral, Wright acknowledges by phone from the recent TV critics' press tour in Pasadena, Calif., where Netflix gained a berth alongside more typical small screen networks.
"But it's also very human in the (characters') ambition, the level of ambition and what kind of drive and fortitude it takes," says Wright, who says Fincher courted her for the project while they filmed "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo."
It's been roughly 25 years since the former "Santa Barbara" regular has done anything on the small screen.
But Wright says she was lured to "House of Cards" by the show's pedigree and Fincher's pitch: "'Do you want to play Lady MacBeth to Kevin Spacey's MacBeth?'"
"I think the beauty of it is I have somewhere to go, that I'm not just the shell of evil," she says of her character.
"The woman, the human emerges, breaks through. The shell starts to crack slowly."
Fincher says he took interest in the project after seeing the 1990 BBC miniseries "House of Cards." That series was based on a novel by a former political insider, Michael Dobbs.
For those eager to compare, the British version is also available for immediate streaming on Netflix.
The first 13 episodes of the U.S. reboot meanwhile, will be available Friday, says Netflix boss Ted Sarandos.
"It really is the first major television show to be produced for this format," Sarandos says of expectations people will watch more than one episode at a time — while some may even attempt to watch all at once.
"We don't spend any storytelling time catching people up — no exposition, no 'previously on' and 'on the next' previews. What you end up with is a show that is crafted to be a much longer experience, more like a feature film. More like a 13-hour film that you can watch in whatever the size bites you want."
That forced everyone involved to think about storytelling in a completely different way, says Fincher, whose lengthy film credits include "The Social Network," "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "Zodiac" and "Se7en."
"It's one thing when Tony Soprano, you know, behaviourally shows you all these different facets of himself over three months (on HBO's 'The Sopranos'). And then it's a completely different thing when you have the DVDs in your hand and you watch his reveal over seven or eight hours," he says, noting that the on-demand nature of "House of Cards" meant plot points could be delivered more in the way of "a dropped hint."
"There were things that we trimmed and that we changed because we were like, 'We get it.'"
Fincher says he, Willimon and executive producers Josh Donen and Eric Roth sat down to watch all 13 hours over two days.
"It's a slightly more literary experience," he says of on-demand watching.
"You stop when you want and you pick it up and if you really want to turn the pages it's all there. And if you don't — you want to savour something or you're upset by something — you can kind of set it down. There's an odd intimacy in its presentation which is sort of fascinating."
Original programs like "House of Cards" are key to getting audiences to rethink where and how they get their home entertainment, Sarandos has often said.
It's also key to revamping Netflix's image as simply a library of past-date TV series and films.
The company made its first stab at must-see original content last year with "Lilyhammer," starring Steven Van Zandt as a New York gangster who goes into hiding in Norway. A second season is slated for fall, with several more titles running the gamut from edgy comedies to horror fare.
The Toronto-shot murder mystery "Hemlock Grove" starts April 19, the acclaimed comedy "Arrested Development" gets new life in May, "Weeds" producer Jenji Kohan backs the prison-set "Orange Is the New Black" in late spring, while the new Ricky Gervais series "Derek" is slated for summer.
Sarandos says "Arrested Development" is especially suited to binge-watching since storylines and jokes are intertwined from episode-to-episode.
"There are jokes that are set up in the first episode that have punchlines in the third episode and then callbacks in the eighth episode. (Creator) Mitch (Hurwitz) has really embraced the format when he created this show," he says of the new episodes.
"The largest complaint of the network, which was Fox in the case of the U.S., about 'Arrested Development' when the show was on the air was that it was just 'too much.' People couldn't follow it week-to-week because there were too many characters and too many storylines and it's the complete opposite of what we wanted. We wanted more depth and more characters and more storylines."
He says Netflix plans to release 14 new episodes in May.
Sarandos says it's all about giving his subscribers "ultimate choice."
"Current television executives — I get a lot of advice from them — tell me how stupid this is," he sneers.
"(They say) part of the excitement of a show is dragging it out and that consumers really want to wait and waiting is part of the process. I just don't believe that. I don't think that waiting is part of what people like about a TV show. And if you do want to wait, then just wait."
Season 1 of "House of Cards" is available Friday on Netflix.


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SAEED Ajmal's stay with Worcestershire comes to an end next week but his time with us has been invaluable.
For a county like ourselves to get the number one spinner in world cricket was a massive coup and he will be sorely missed when he leaves after the LV= County Championship Division Two game against Leicestershire, which starts tomorrow.
Saeed is a world-class talent and has a fountain of knowledge. You don't get the chance to play with the game's superstars very often and the lads have tapped into his knowledge which he's been more than happy to share with them.
It's been a fantastic experience for all of us and hopefully we can get him back in the future.
I think he likes the area, his family have been settled, so it would be good if we can get him back in years to come.
He's a nice guy too, a character and very well liked and I am sure the fans have enjoyed watching him bowl, some of his spells have been outstanding.
But, while Saeed leaves us, we have another top talent in the form of Mitchell McClenaghan coming in.
He's going to train with us for a week and hopefully he can have a huge impact.
Mitchell is a different type of bowler, a nasty left-arm quick, so we will possibly change the wickets slightly to get a bit more pace to suit him and the other seamers.
Jack Shantry, Charlie Morris and Joe Leach have bowled superbly and it will also be an opportunity for Shaaiq Choudhry and Brett D'Oliveira with the red ball.
Mitchell will bring a lot to us and I am looking forward to seeing him in action.
Hopefully, he can get some wickets early on in the innings and then mop up the tail. He's got a point to prove in red-ball cricket.
He's keen to get in the New Zealand side for next year's tour of England and is eager to prove he can do well in English conditions.
Another player looking to make his mark is Andrew Flintoff, who returned to competitive action for the first time in five years against us at New Road in the NatWest T20 Blast last week.
He's a crowd pleaser and one of the modern era's great entertainers.
I thought he looked incredibly fit although we didn't get enough wickets to see him in the middle.
But he did a pretty good job with the ball and he's not back to just make up the numbers.
Meanwhile, Moeen Ali is back in action for England against India at Trent Bridge, which looks a very flat pitch and has been dominated by the batters.
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Awkward: Fox Business Network rebuts Palin on food prices
Last week when she picked a losing fight [1] with a Wall Street Journal reporter over the cost of food prices, Sarah Palin insisted grocery store prices had "risen significantly over the past year or so."
Except that, of course, they haven't [2].
If Palin was looking for more proof, she could turn to this news online report [1] from the Fox Business Network [emphasis added]:
Menu items for a classic Thanksgiving dinner [3] -- including turkey, stuffing, cranberries, pumpkin pie and all the basic trimmings -- increased in price by about 1.3% in price this year, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.
The big ticket item -- a 16-pound turkey -- was actually cheaper this year, at $17.66. That was roughly $1.10 per pound, actually a decrease of about 6 cents per pound, or a total of 99 cents per whole turkey, compared with 2009. While the whole bird was the biggest contributor to the final total, it was also the largest price decline compared with last year.
Unless by food prices being up "significantly," Palin meant they were up one percent, then she's still wrong about grocery store inflation.
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Mnesia Table Fragmentation
From ErlangCentral Wiki
This HOWTO describes how you make Fragmented Mnesia tables and how to use them.
Let's say I have to make a book library index application. There's a table I use to record all the available library books. The record structure is as below. Due to the high volume of data, I want this table to be fragmented in a single Erlang node. If you want to make this fragmented table distributed, you may refer to http://erlangcentral.org/wiki/index.php?title=Distributing_a_Mnesia_schema tutorial on making distributed table. All the rest of the work related to table fragmentation remains same.
Sample Fragmented Table
I need this table to be disk_copies. Other modes also operate the same way.
-record(book_info, {isbn, name, author, keywords, category, description}).
Start an Erlang node
Our example node foo@example has the default disc storage path set to the directory Mnesia.foo@example in the current directory.
erl -sname foo
The directory can be overridden by using -mnesia dir '"/path/of/your/preference"' ' when starting the node.
Let create a disk based schema by running,
Create the Fragmented table with 20 table fragments
In this example all 20 fragments are in the same Erlang/Mnesia node. Also the fragments are disc_copies.
mnesia:create_table(book_info, [{frag_properties, [{node_pool, [node()]}, {n_fragments, 20}, {n_disc_copies, 1}]}, {index, [name, keywords, category]}, {attributes, record_info(fields, book_info)}]),
Data operations
In order to be able to access a record in a fragmented table, Mnesia must determine to which fragment the actual record belongs. This is done by the mnesia_frag module, which implements the mnesia_access callback behaviour. Wrap standard Mnesia operation functions inside the function and pass to mnesia:activity/4 with callback module mnesia_frag.
Add records
Create a function which calls mnesia:write/3.
AddFun = fun() -> mnesia:write(book_info, Record, write) end
Now call that function inside mnesia:activity/4 as below.
ok = mnesia:activity(transaction, AddFun, [], mnesia_frag)
Notice that I have used the activity access context as "transaction". Transaction makes sure that the operation is all successfull or all fail (atomic). AccessContext I can use are,
{transaction, Retries} sync_transaction {sync_transaction, Retries} async_dirty sync_dirty ets
For example if you want to do above activity in dirty mode, you can write,
ok = mnesia:activity(async_dirty, AddFun, [], mnesia_frag) Refer to mnesia:activity/4 documentation for more info.
Select records with limit
As an example let's select books by Author "steve" with 10 books limit. Remember 10 is not a hard limit. Create a function with mnesia:select/4 function.
MatchHead = #book_info{author = "steve", _ = '_'}, Guard = [], Result = ['$_'], MatchSpec = [{MatchHead, Guard, Result}], SelFun = fun() -> mnesia:select(book_info, MatchSpec, 10, read) end,
Now call that function inside mnesia:activity/4 as below.
Result = mnesia:activity(transaction, SelFun, [], mnesia_frag)
Result -> '$end_of_table' | {[Objects], Cont} | transaction abort
In a fragmented table, if it returns {[Objects], Cont} and the number of objects returned is less than the number of objects expected (10), you need to recursively run mnesia:select/1 with the return Cont (continuation) until you get the expected number of results or '$end_of_table'.
SelFun2 = fun() -> mnesia:select(Cont) end, Result2 = mnesia:activity(transaction, SelFun2, [], mnesia_frag)
Result2 -> '$end_of_table' | {[Objects], Cont} | transaction abort
List of fragmented tables
To obtain the list of tables, use mnesia:table_info/2 with the option frag_names:
mnesia:activity(async_dirty, mnesia:table_info/2, [store, frag_names], mnesia_frag).
That's it! Now you know how to write a basic Mnesia fragmented tables program.


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A young man died as a result of an "unprovoked" attack on board a train, after saying to his assailant "wagwan", a court has heard.
Graphic designer Rhys Stacey Parchment, 25, is standing trial at Blackfriars Crown Court charged with the manslaughter of 24-year-old Warsame Warsame, who was living at YMCA Surbiton.
He is accused of punching Mr Warsame twice in the head on a train travelling between Raynes Park and Wimbledon on March 2, 2013.
Mr Warsame was found unconscious on a different train an hour later, and died in hospital from a bleed on the brain on March 4.
Opening the case for the prosecution on Wednesday, Zoe Johnson QC said: "In an unprovoked attack, this defendant punched Warsame Warsame twice in the head with so much force he fell to the floor.
"Although he was able to get up, he had suffered a catastrophic injury to the brain.
"An hour later he collapsed and subsequently died in hospital two days later."
The court heard how Mr Stacey Parchment had boarded the train at Surbiton, on his way to play football.
Mr Warsame boarded the train at Raynes Park, and walked through the carriage Mr Stacey Parchment was sitting in, he court heard.
Passengers reported hearing Mr Warsame say "wagwan" - a popular greeting spoken in a Jamaican patois - before Mr Stacey Parchment got up from his seat and confronted Mr Warsame, Miss Johnson said.
Mr Stacey Parchment punched Mr Warsame once in the head, sending his head back and striking an interconnecting carriage door, she claimed.
A second blow, also to the head, put Mr Warsame on the floor, it was claimed.
The prosecution claimed witnesses heard a female passenger tell Mr Stacey Parchment he should not have punched Mr Warsame.
Mr Stacey Parchment allegedly replied: "Yeah, well, he's a prick," before leaving the train at Wimbledon station.
Miss Johnson said Mr Warsame was confused and incoherent immediately after the attack, and repeatedly told passengers who tried to assist him: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."
He also left the train at Wimbledon, before boarding another train towards Waterloo.
The jury was shown CCTV stills of Mr Warsame on board the train holding his head, before slumping across two seats.
But the court heard there was no CCTV of the fight itself, because a camera in the carriage was not working.
Miss Johnson said: "He has his head in his hands, he's fidgety, he lays across two seats and eventually collapses.
"The train arrives at Waterloo. Warsame does not move, and he remains lying there until the train leaves Waterloo, going back in the direction of Wimbledon."
Mr Warsame was found unconscious and snoring between Wimbledon and Raynes Park.
The court also heard how the 24-year-old had a pre-existing medical condition requiring regular dialysis.
He was also on anti-psychotic medication, following an attack inside a Kingston nightclub in 2007 that had altered his behaviour, the court heard.
But he had not taken the drugs the day before the attack, and had punched a fellow resident three times in the face earlier that morning, the jury heard.
Mr Stacey Parchment, of New Barns Avenue, Mitcham, denies manslaughter.
The trial continues.


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AN inquest into the death of an unidentified man who died in a collision with a lorry on the M42 near Alvechurch has concluded with an open verdict.
The incident, which saw the man on foot when he was struck and killed by a Heavy Goods Vehicle on the northbound carriageway between Junctions 2 and 3, happened on December 16 last year.
Despite numerous enquiries and the release of CCTV images officers were not able to establish the identity of the man.
Last week police circulated a poster in the Sparkhill and Acocks Green area of Birmingham where it is believed he had connections and may have been living in a hostel.
The poster carried a picture of the man who is thought to have been in his 40s and recently signed on as a patient at a medical practice in Birmingham - although he did not turn up for an appointment.
He was of Middle Eastern appearance and told staff he was born in France and spoke Arabic.
Part of the poster was translated into Arabic and it also included a picture of some Yale keys on a pink fob which was found on the body.
The medical cause of death was multiple injuries.
The inquest recorded a verdict of open conclusion.