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Preliminary results for January to June 2016: Telefónica Deutschland further expands data business and proposes dividend increase
New services such as O2 Banking and the partnership with Sky Deutschland drive data monetisation
Focus on digital transformation after integration successes of the first six months
Prospect of dividend increase to EUR 0.25 per share for the 2016 financial year; further increases envisaged for 2017 and 2018
Quarterly result of EUR 252 million due to the extraordinary effect from the sale of wireless towers to Telxius
Mobile service revenues in a highly competitive market down 1.5 percent in the first half of the year; outlook range narrowed
CEO Thorsten Dirks: "Our strategy of systematic data monetisation is paying off and will gain further momentum in the course of our digital transformation. Our shareholders should benefit from the positive business prospects through rising dividends."
Telefónica Deutschland is pressing ahead with the expansion of its data-centric business model based on innovative products and announces dividend growth for the next three years. Today the company announced an exclusive partnership with the pay-TV provider Sky Deutschland. Just recently, Telefónica Deutschland introduced several ground-breaking products with the presentation of the O2 TV & Video App and O2 Banking. These will help the company to further monetise the dynamically growing data consumption of its customers. The company expects additional momentum from its digital transformation, which is gaining increasing importance following the completion of key integration projects. As a consequence, a dividend increase to EUR 0.25 per share will be proposed to next year's Annual General Meeting. The company plans further dividend growth for the 2017 and 2018 financial years. In the second quarter of 2016, Telefónica Deutschland posted a net profit of EUR 252 million (previous year: EUR -68 million). The significant increase was mainly due to the sale of about 2,350 mobile telecommunication masts to Telxius, a subsidiary of Telefónica S.A., in April. In a highly competitive market environment, mobile service revenues were down 1.5 percent in the first half of the year. Against this backdrop, Telefónica Deutschland confirms its mobile service revenue outlook for the full year while narrowing the projected range. Telefónica Deutschland continues to expect that OIBDA excluding exceptional effects(1) will grow by a low to mid single-digit percentage.
"Telefónica Deutschland is a frontrunner when it comes to disruptive mobile offers for the digital lifestyles of our customers," said Thorsten Dirks, CEO of Telefónica Deutschland. "Our strategy of systematic data monetisation is paying off and will gain further momentum in the course of our digital transformation. Our shareholders will benefit from the positive business prospects through rising dividends." CFO Rachel Empey added: "We will increasingly see the positive impact of our investments in brands, networks and IT in the second half. By the end of this year, we will have already captured more than half of our targeted overall synergy run-rate of EUR 800 million in operating cash flow."
Realignment of brand and product portfolios largely completed
Telefónica Deutschland achieved further key integration milestones in the most recent quarter, focusing increasingly on the digital transformation of the company. Among other things, the realignment of the brand and product portfolios was largely completed during the quarter. O2 is now the sole premium brand. Blau is being established as the company's primary offering in the non-premium segment. BASE was repositioned as a pure online brand a few weeks ago. The company has made substantial progress with its network integration while continuing to push ahead with the expansion of the LTE network. LTE coverage now extends to 77 percent of the population. The network quality is also appreciated by partners. In recent weeks, several providers have shown interest in a wholesale LTE network access, and some of them have already been connected. Telefónica Deutschland is also moving forward with the network technologies of the future. As an important step towards the gigabit society, the company has set up a 4.5G live trial network in Munich in partnership with Huawei.
Digital transformation leads to tangible successes – partnership with Sky Deutschland
As the digital transformation gathers momentum, the company is creating increasing numbers of disruptive applications and products. Today Telefónica Deutschland announced an exclusive cooperation with the pay-TV provider Sky Deutschland. Offering attractive conditions without long-term contract ties, O2 customers will have mobile access to high-quality movies, series and in particular sports content such as Bundesliga and Champions League football. In June, O2 began offering its customers access to more than 70 TV channels through the O2 TV & Video App, provided in cooperation with TV Spielfilm. With O2 Banking, which was launched just recently, Telefónica Deutschland is revolutionising the mobile banking business. O2 Banking offers customers extra data volume and other benefits instead of low interest rates. In the new business field Advanced Data Analytics, which deals with the analysis of large volumes of data, Telefónica Deutschland is also performing pioneering work. In Nuremberg, the company's mobile telephone data help measure with unprecedented accuracy how street traffic affects air quality.
Earnings improve even when adjusting for exceptional effect from tower sale
The second-quarter result was characterised by the sale in April of about 2,350 wireless towers to Telxius, a subsidiary of Telefónica S.A. which resulted in a net capital gain of EUR 352 million. Consequently, Telefónica Deutschland posted a quarterly net result of EUR 252 million (previous year: EUR -68 million). Operating income before depreciation and amortisation (OIBDA) was up 76 percent from the second quarter of 2015 to EUR 791 million. Adjusted for exceptional effects and the effects from the sale of the masts, OIBDA improved 1.2 percent to EUR 459 million. In the first six months of 2016, OIBDA grew by 3.5 percent to EUR 860 million, mostly driven by successful synergy capture following the integration of E-Plus. Since the beginning of the year, competition has intensified especially in the non-premium business. In addition, there are headwinds from effects relating to the development of the customer base as well as regulatory effects. As a result, mobile service revenues declined slightly by 1.7 percent to EUR 1.36 billion in the second quarter. For the first half of the year the decrease amounts to 1.5 percent.
Customer data usage on the rise – video and music as key drivers
At the same time, the company again benefited from growing data consumption among its customers, driven primarily by their use of music and video streaming services. The mobile data consumption of O2 postpaid customers with LTE was up 42 percent year-on-year to 1.4 gigabytes (GB) per month(2). The greater data usage as well as upselling measures within the existing customer base supported the continuing positive development in average revenues per postpaid customer (ARPU). In the coming months, the cooperation agreements recently signed with TV Spielfilm and Sky Deutschland will further boost mobile data consumption. In the second quarter, the successful growth in the mobile data business was reflected in an accelerated rise by 14 percent in mobile data revenues, excluding SMS messaging, to EUR 574 million. Demand for smartphones and tablets has recently seen a noticeable slowdown across the industry. As a result, handset sales dropped 26 percent in the quarter just ended to EUR 226 million as compared with the very strong result in the same quarter a year earlier. With the decline in handset sales and slightly lower mobile service revenues, total revenues from April to June decreased to EUR 1.83 billion (Q2 2015: EUR 1.95 billion).
Continued strong growth in mobile customer accesses
The company achieved a substantial 1.2 percent increase in customer accesses to over 48.6 million at the end of June compared with the same date a year ago. The total number of mobile accesses increased 1.9 percent to 43.4 million, with 19.6 million of those being postpaid accesses. Telefónica Deutschland continues to focus on cross-selling and up-selling among existing customers. As a result, total churn decreased by 0.4 percentage points to 2.1 percent during the second quarter. At the same time, the company registered a strong 339.000 postpaid net additions, with partner brands showing an increasingly dynamic performance. At the end of June, the mobile prepaid customer base was 23.8 million. The demand for LTE again significantly increased in the second quarter. 9.4 million Telefónica Deutschland customers now use LTE-enabled devices and corresponding tariffs. This represents an increase of 54 percent over 12 months. The company also experienced a positive trend in the DSL retail business, where the upward trend seen in the first quarter continued into the subsequent months. The number of retail DSL connections increased by 2,500 in the second quarter. In the Germany-wide DSL fixed-line test conducted by the specialised journal Connect, O2 was able to improve its results despite being measured against tougher standards and was ranked third.
Efficient network investments – increase in the second half of the year expected
CapEx amounted to EUR 212 million in the second quarter representing a decrease of 13 percent year-on-year primarily on the back of more efficient CapEx spend. CapEx will increase in the second half of the year. Free Cash Flow (FCF) was mainly driven by the sale of towers to Telxius and totalled EUR 599 million in the first half of the year. Consolidated net financial debt amounted to EUR 1.36 billion at the end of June. The leverage ratio came to 0.8 which is in line with the company target and reflects high financial flexibility compared with the industry average.
2016 forecast reiterated
In the current financial year, Telefónica Deutschland will continue moving forward on its path to become Germany's leading digital telco. The focus is increasingly shifting from integration to the digital transformation. In recent quarters, competition has intensified especially in the non-premium segment. In addition, there are headwinds from effects relating to the development of the customer base as well as from regulatory effects. At the same time, data usage and the LTE customer base continue to grow. We still expect this data growth to drive an inflection point in our mobile service revenue trajectory in the future. Against this backdrop, Telefónica Deutschland reiterates its mobile service revenue outlook for the full year while narrowing the projected range. Mobile service revenues are now expected to show slightly negative growth in 2016. Telefónica Deutschland continues to expect OIBDA excluding exceptional effects(3) to grow by a low to mid single-digit percentage. The company reiterated its synergy targets for the merger with E-Plus. The outlook for investments (CapEx) before exceptional effects has been updated; CapEx is now expected to merely grow by a mid to high single-digit percentage due to the greater efficiency of network investments. Telefónica Deutschland has a solid foundation for further improvements in the operating results and free cash flow. Against this backdrop, Telefónica Deutschland expects to be able to pay out an increased dividend of EUR 0.25 per share (previously: EUR 0.24) for the 2016 financial year, with further growth expected for the 2017 and 2018 financial years.
1) Excluding exceptional and special effects. As of 30 June 2016 exceptional effects include restructuring expenses amounting to EUR 37 million and the net capital gain from the sale of passive tower infrastructure to Telxius amounting to EUR 352 million, while in the same period of 2015 a one-off gain from the sale of yourfone GmbH was registered. As of 30 June 2016 special effects consist of the impact which the Telxius deal had on OIBDA (EUR -6 million in the first six months of 2016) resulting primarily from higher operating lease expenses starting in May 2016. 2) Average monthly data use (in GB) of O2 customers with LTE-enabled smartphones (all tariffs). 3) Exceptional and special effects are excluded from our guidance. Exceptional effects include the capital gain from the sale of Telefónica Deutschland's passive tower infrastructure in Q2 2016. The OIBDA impact resulting primarily from higher operating lease expenses between May and December 2016 will also be treated as a special effect for 2016 and thus excluded from our guidance. 4) Excluding investments in spectrum in June 2015 amounting to EUR 1,198m (including capitalised costs on borrowed capital). 5) Proposal to the Annual General Meeting 2017.
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India, China 14th round talks to address military standoff lasted for 13 hours
NEW DELHI: The 14th round of Corps Commander Level Talks between India and China that took place at the Chushul-Moldo meeting point, on the Chinese side, lasted for around 13 hours on Wednesday, sources said.
The meeting ended around 10:30 pm.
Sources added that the Indian side was represented by the new 14 Corps chief Lieutenant General Anindya Sengupta.
New Delhi and Beijing have been engaged in holding talks on the Line of Actual Control in the Eastern Ladakh area to resolve the standoff. So far, 13 rounds of talks have been held.
The main push from the Indian side was for the resolution of Hot Springs friction point which emerged after the Chinese aggression last year.
While working towards establishing peace in the area, New Delhi has also maintained a high level of preparedness to thwart any misadventure by the enemy troops.Rapid developments have been made in terms of roads and habitats for troops.
Indian Army chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane on Wednesday said that the Army will continue to deal with the Chinese PLA in a "firm, resolute and peaceful manner" in the northern borders and it has been maintaining the highest level of operational preparedness in the region.
Addressing a press conference here, he said there has been positive movement in terms of disengagement at some friction points along LAC in eastern Ladakh.
"Along our northern borders, we have continued to maintain the highest levels of operational preparedness, while engaging in sustained dialogue with the PLA. We will continue to deal with the PLA in a firm, resolute and peaceful manner while ensuring the sanctity of our claims. Necessary safeguards are in place," Gen Naravane said.
"After persistent joint efforts, mutual disengagement has taken place at many locations. So there has been positive movement," he added.
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The 2006 Houston Texans season was the franchise's 5th season in the National Football League and the 1st  under head coach Gary Kubiak. The team improved on their 2–14 record in 2005 and finished 6-10, a four-game improvement over their previous season.

Offseason
On January 2, 2006, the day after the last game of the 2005 season, head coach Dom Capers and most of the coaching staff was fired by owner Bob McNair. General Manager Charley Casserly was spared, but would eventually resign in May.  On January 22, 2006, Bob McNair announced that Denver Broncos offensive coordinator Gary Kubiak would become the Texans' second head coach. Kubiak, a Houston native, was a candidate for the job in 2001 before the team chose Dom Capers. On June 5, 2006, the Texans hired Denver Broncos assistant general manager Rick Smith as Casserly's successor.

Player additions and subtractions
Additions:
DL Anthony Weaver
LB Sam Cowart (later released before season start)
RB Ron Dayne
WR Eric Moulds (trade with Buffalo Bills)
DB Dexter McCleon
DL N.D. Kalu
OL Brad Bedell
WR Kevin Walter
TE Jeb Putzier
OL Ephraim Salaam
WR Derrick Lewis
DB Guss Scott
DB Dexter Wynn
RB Samkon Gado
DL Thomas Johnson
OL Mike Flanagan

Subtractions:
WR Jabar Gaffney
TE Bennie Joppru
RB Moran Norris
DB Jason Bell
OL Milford Brown
OL Tyson Walter
RB Vernand Morency
QB Tony Banks
RB Jonathan Wells
WR Donovan Morgan
WR Corey Bradford

Draft

With their 2–14 record in 2005, the Texans earned the right to the first selection in the 2006 NFL Draft. Leading up to the draft most believed the team would select RB Reggie Bush out of University of Southern California, who was being compared to Gale Sayers and touted as the greatest prospect to ever enter the draft. Many local fans in Houston wanted the team to draft hometown hero Vince Young who had led the University of Texas to a Nation Championship in January. However, the Texans would choose neither and announced the day before the draft that they would pick defensive end Mario Williams out of NC State instead. Williams was signed to a six-year, $54 million contract.

The pick both shocked and angered fans and the team was ripped by the national media for making what many believed was one of the worst mistakes in NFL Draft history. With the first selection in the second round they selected Alabama linebacker DeMeco Ryans. Ryans would prove to be a steal as he would eventually be named the Defensive Rookie of the Year for 2006. The rest of their picks included Pittsburgh offensive tackle Charles Spencer, Miami (FL) offensive tackle Eric Winston, Wisconsin tight end  Owen Daniels, Virginia running back Wali Lundy, and Colorado St. wide receiver David Anderson.

Despite the fact that many believed drafting Mario Williams was a mistake, the Texans would go on to have the best draft classes of any team in 2006 according to most experts. Young and Bush did not live up to pre-draft expectations, while Williams would be selected to multiple Pro Bowls.

Staff

Roster

Uniform combinations
In 2006, the Texans wore five different uniform combinations.  They wore their blue jerseys and blue pants for the first time during a week 16 win over the Indianapolis Colts, along with wearing their white jerseys and white pants together for the first time in franchise history in the season opener against the Philadelphia Eagles.

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Note: Intra-division opponents are in bold text.

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Game summaries

Week 1: vs. Philadelphia Eagles

The Texans opened the 2006 season at home against the Philadelphia Eagles on September 10.  The Texans looked sharp early with QB David Carr throwing a 25-yard TD pass to former Bills WR Eric Moulds in the 1st Quarter.  The Eagles would tie the game with QB Donovan McNabb throwing a 42-yard TD strike to WR Donte' Stallworth. The Texans would retake the lead, however, after a 34-yard FG from K Kris Brown. Philadelphia took the lead late in the half with McNabb throwing a 5-yard TD pass to WR Reggie Brown and held on to it for the rest of the game.  In the third quarter, McNabb hooked up with RB Brian Westbrook with a 31-yard pass and then, opposing kicker David Akers ended the game in the fourth quarter with a 42-yard field goal. David Carr finished 18-of-27 for 208 yards and a touchdown and was sacked five times.

Week 2: at Indianapolis Colts

The Texans traveled to the RCA Dome for an AFC South battle with the Indianapolis Colts.  From the get-go, Houston trailed as opposing QB Peyton Manning threw a 10-yard TD pass to WR Brandon Stokley and a 21-yard pass to RB Joseph Addai in the first quarter.  In the second quarter, opposing Kicker Adam Vinatieri kicked a 39-yard field goal to further distance themselves from Houston.  The Texans would get a 43-yard field goal by Kicker Kris Brown, but Vinatieri also made a 43-yarder as time ran out in the half.  In the third quarter, the Colts continued to put the game out of reach with Peyton throwing a 15-yard TD pass to TE Bryan Fletcher and Vinatieri kicking a 38-yard field goal.  In the fourth quarter, Texans QB David Carr completed a 33-yard TD pass to TE Owen Daniels, but Indianapolis responded with RB Dominic Rhodes getting a 2-yard TD run.  Houston would get another TD on a 1-yard pass to TE Mark Bruener, but the Colts put the game away with RB Ran Carthon getting a 3-yard TD run.  After WR Andre Johnson provided Houston with a 10-yard TD pass, the Texans ending up losing their ninth straight contest against Indianapolis.

Week 3: vs. Washington Redskins

The Texans came home in Week 3 to take on the Washington Redskins.  In the first quarter, Houston got off to a good start, as TE Mark Bruener caught a 2-yard TD pass.  However, the Redskins would tie the game up on a 9-yard run by RB Ladell Betts.  From there, things went downhill in the second quarter, as WR Antwaan Randle El caught a 23-yard TD pass and RB Clinton Portis ran 30 yards for a touchdown.  In the third quarter, Washington continued to pound Houston, with Portis getting a 1-yard TD run.  In the fourth quarter, the Redskins would get one more scoring strike as kicker John Hall kicked a 46-yard field goal.  The Texans would get another touchdown, as QB David Carr threw a 2-yard pass to TE Owen Daniels and RB Ron Dayne would run it in for the 2-point conversion.  Unfortunately, Houston would fall to 0–3, losing 31–15.

Week 4: vs. Miami Dolphins

Staying at home, the Texans (still searching for their first win of the year) played a Week 4 intraconference match-up against the Miami Dolphins.  After a scoreless first quarter, Houston trailed early, as Miami kicker Olindo Mare got a 52-yard field goal.  Fortunately, the Texans would get a field goal of their own, with kicker Kris Brown getting a 32-yard field goal before halftime.  In the third quarter, Houston fell behind, as Mare kicked a 29-yard field goal for Miami.  In the fourth quarter, the Texans rallied against the Dolphins, as QB David Carr took the ball into the endzone from one yard out, then completed a 3-yard TD pass to WR Andre Johnson later in the quarter.  Mario Williams recorded his first career sack and added a half sack one play later. Afterwards, Houston would have to hold off a late rally by Miami.  Mare kicked a 22-yard field goal, and later got a touchdown, as QB Daunte Culpepper threw a 16-yard strike to WR Chris Chambers. Fortunately, the Texans prevented a two-point conversion when Mario Williams tipped the pass and held on to pick up their first win of the year.

Week 6: at Dallas Cowboys

Coming off their Week 5 bye, the Texans traveled to Texas Stadium for a rematch with their first-ever regular season opponent, the Dallas Cowboys, in a Lone Star State showdown.  Houston struck first, as Kris Brown nailed a 19-yard field goal for the only first quarter score for either team.  In the second quarter, Dallas managed to tie the game, as kicker Mike Vanderjagt hit a 22-yard field goal, but the Texans would retake the lead, as Brown booted a 48-yard field goal just as time ran out in the first half.  Unfortunately, Dallas took control of the game in the second half.  In the third quarter, QB Drew Bledsoe  connected with WR Terrell Owens for two scores (3-yarder and a 21-yarder).  In the fourth quarter, RB Marion Barber had a 1-yard TD run, Vanderjagt kicked a 21-yard field goal, and back-up QB Tony Romo hooked up with Owens on a 2-yard TD pass, Owens' third and final TD on the day.  Dallas cruised in the second half, outscoring the Texans 31–0, and with the 34–6 loss, the Texans fell to 1–4.

Week 7: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars

Following a disappointing 34–6 road loss to their cross-state rival, the Dallas Cowboys, the Texans were looking to rebound at home against division rival Jacksonville, and  they did. Houston did not trail at any point in their 27–7 trouncing of the Jaguars, in which they forced two turnovers, and dominated in total offense, tallying 349 yards from scrimmage to Jacksonville's 220. With the impressive upset, the Texans moved to 2–4, just one game behind the Jags for second place in the AFC South.

Week 8: at Tennessee Titans

Hoping to build on their surprising victory over the Jaguars, the Texans flew to LP Field for an AFC South showdown with the Tennessee Titans.  After a scoreless first quarter, the Texans trailed early, as Tennessee QB Vince Young ran 20 yards  for a touchdown.  Houston would respond with kicker Kris Brown nailing a 27-yard field goal.  However, things started getting ugly as Titans DE Tony Brown returned a fumble 40 yards for a TD.  In the third quarter, QB David Carr lasted for only one drive, which resulted in a fumble recovery for Tennessee.  He would be replaced with back-up QB Sage Rosenfels.  However, a Rosefels interception resulted in Young completing a 20-yard TD pass to WR Bobby Wade.  The Texans would respond with Rosenfels completing a 10-yard TD pass to WR Andre Johnson.  In the fourth quarter however, CB Pacman Jones returned a punt 53 yards for a touchdown.  Houston would try to retaliate, as Rosenfels completed two touchdown passes (a 1-yarder and a 2-yarder to rookie TE Owen Daniels), but in the end, any hope for a comeback resulted in a fumble, dropping the Texans to 2–5.

Week 9: at New York Giants

The Texans took a lead into the fourth quarter after David Carr scored a go-ahead touchdown on a 2-yard scramble with 1:14 left in the third quarter, capping an 18-play, 80-yard drive. He finished 21-for-30 for 176 yards and no interceptions. Andre Johnson, the NFL's leading receiver, had nine catches for 83 yards. Houston led 10–7 before Jeremy Shockey caught a short touchdown pass from Eli Manning midway through the fourth quarter. Still, the Texans had a chance at the upset and were driving when rookie linebacker Gerris Wilkinson forced fullback Jameel Cook to fumble at the Giants 35 after a short catch. Cornerback Corey Webster recovered with 5:11 to play, and the Giants ran out the clock for the win. Houston RB Wali Lundy was held to 43 yards on 20 carries for a 2.2 yard per carry average. Meanwhile, New York RB Tiki Barber averaged 6.8 yards per carry, gaining 115 yards on 17 carries. Mario Williams sacked Manning in the second quarter, increasing his season total to 4½, a Texans rookie record.  The loss made the team drop to 2–6 for the season and 0–4 against NFC opponents for the first time in franchise history.

Week 10: at Jacksonville Jaguars

David Carr threw for 167 yards and ran for 48 more, and the Texans defeated the Jaguars 13–10 to snap a 12-game road losing streak. The Texans upset their AFC South rivals for the second time in four weeks and won on the road for the first time since December 2004. David Garrard, making his third consecutive start in place of Byron Leftwich, was intercepted four times. Two came after Matt Jones bobbled perfect passes. Ernest Wilford also dropped two balls, including a deep one that could have been a touchdown. Carr directed a 70-yard drive to start the game and had two key runs. Wali Lundy scored from 1 yard, then Houston took advantage of Garrard's first turnover to make it 10–0. DeMeco Ryans pressured Garrard and forced a floater over the middle. Morlon Greenwood picked it off, setting up Kris Brown's 25-yard field goal.

Week 11: vs. Buffalo Bills

The Bills' WR Lee Evans and QB J. P. Losman were unstoppable in the first quarter, connecting for 205 yards and two 83-yard touchdowns. Evans' first-quarter performance was a Buffalo record for a period and just shy of the NFL record for yards receiving in a quarter of 210 by Baltimore's Qadry Ismail in 1999. The first touchdown came after Nate Clements' interception on the third play of the game. Both were after Evans got in front of Texans cornerback Demarcus Faggins for the easy score. The 83-yard TDs were career highs for both Losman and Evans and marked the first time in franchise history the Bills have had two 80-yard passes in a single game. David Carr opened 1 for 3 with an interception on his first pass before completing his next 22 throws. Carr finished 25 of 30 for 223 yards and no touchdowns. Carr tied the record held by Mark Brunell, who had 22 consecutive completions in Washington's 31–15 win over the Texans at Reliant Stadium on September 24. He tied Brunell's record on a short pass to Wali Lundy for no gain with 6:19 left. The streak was broken when his pass to Andre Johnson with 5:44 remaining fell short. Lundy cut the lead to 14–7 with a 17-yard run in the first quarter. That score was set up by a 17-yard reception by Eric Moulds on third-and-8. Samkon Gado made it 17–14 on a 1-yard run in the second quarter. Moulds also had a key third-down reception on that drive. Dunta Robinson gave the Texans the lead on a 9-yard interception return midway through the third quarter. Losman was throwing out of the end zone when Robinson intercepted the pass intended for Evans to score his first career touchdown and the Texans' first defensive touchdown since 2004. But after the offense failed to put the game away in the fourth quarter the Texans gave the Bills just enough time to beat them. Losman hit a diving Peerless Price in the back of the end zone for the 15-yard touchdown with 13 seconds left, giving Buffalo the 24–21 win.

Week 12: at New York Jets

The Jets held the Texans to just 25 yards rushing and cruised to an easy 15-point victory. Chad Pennington connected with Laveranues Coles for a touchdown and Cedric Houston ran for another in the third quarter to go up 23–0. Andre Johnson caught a 3-yard touchdown pass from David Carr with 3:51 left to cap a 76-yard drive for the Texans, and Wali Lundy's short reception completed the two-point conversion as the Texans finally put points on the board. It was a case of too little, too late however as the Texans once again failed to win two consecutive road games. They have not won back-to-back road games since 2004, when they beat Chicago (Dec. 19) and Jacksonville (Dec. 26). Carr was 39 of 54 for 321 yards, and Johnson and Eric Moulds each had 10 catches, but the lack of any running game doomed the Texans.

Week 13: at Oakland Raiders

The Texans became the first team since the Houston Oilers 25 years ago to win a game with negative yards passing, using Demarcus Faggins' 58-yard fumble return for a touchdown, two long returns on special teams and a pair of fumbles by Randal Williams to beat the Oakland Raiders 23–14. David Carr finished 7-of-14 for 32 yards, failing to complete a pass in the final 32 minutes. He was sacked five times for 37 yards, leaving Houston with negative-5 yards passing. The Texans were the first team since the Houston Oilers on Oct. 4, 1981, against Cincinnati to finish with negative yards passing and win. Late in the half, Carr had a run of three straight offensive plays when he was sacked and fumbled the ball. Carr lost the first two fumbles, including one returned 35 yards for a score by Kirk Morrison after Warren Sapp's in the final minute of the half to make it 14–7. Jerome Mathis, who missed the first 11 games recovering from a fractured foot, provided a spark with an 87-yard return of the second-half kickoff. Wali Lundy ran in from the 3 on the next play to tie the game at 14. Mathis was later used as a decoy when Dexter Wynn faked a reverse on a punt return and went 58 yards before being tackled by punter Shane Lechler at the 21. The Texans settled for a 42-yard field goal by Kris Brown to make it 17–14. A pair of fumbles by Williams led to two more field goals by Brown, putting the game out of reach. Rookie DeMeco Ryans led the defense for Houston with 14 solo tackles, a sack, a forced fumble, a fumble recovery and an interception.

Week 14: vs. Tennessee Titans

Titans rookie and Houston native Vince Young dealt the Texans their most bitter defeat of the season when he converted a third-and-14 into a 39-yard touchdown run in overtime, completing his triumphant homecoming. The former University of Texas star, who grew up just six miles from the stadium, ran into the end zone virtually untouched and then jumped into the stands to the open arms of a throng of burnt orange-clad fans. Houston's offense didn't do much until Ron Dayne entered in the second quarter. He handled the ball on eight of Houston's nine plays and scored his first touchdown as a Texan on a 1-yard run to give Houston a 7–6 lead. Dayne helped the Texans extend their lead on a 2-yard touchdown on the first drive after halftime. He finished with 21 carries for 87 yards. The Titans trailed 14–13 before Young engineered a 15-play, 88-yard drive ending with a 2-yard run by Travis Henry to give Tennessee (6–7) its first lead of the second half, 20–17. Young and Drew Bennett earlier connected on a 39-yard pass that got the Titans to the Houston 21. Henry cut to the outside and ran for the 9-yard touchdown three plays later to cut Houston's lead to 14–13. David Carr and the Texans had a chance to regain the lead late in regulation, but stalled and settled for a 46-yard field goal by Kris Brown that tied it at 20 with 2:09 remaining. The Texans got the ball back in the final moments of the fourth quarter, but chose to run out the clock. Carr was 17 of 23 for 140 yards, but was unable to come through when the Texans needed a touchdown.

Week 15: at New England Patriots

With the game scoreless early in the first quarter, the Texans faked a punt on fourth and one from their own 42...and failed. The Patriots' Kevin Faulk converted the Texans' mistake into an 11-yard TD run. Faulk also scored on a 43-yard screen pass, and Tom Brady threw another touchdown pass, covering 6 yards to former Texan Jabar Gaffney. The Patriots' defense had four sacks and three interceptions and held the Texans to 76 yards in the first two quarters. The Texans trailed 27–0 at halftime. Ron Dayne scored on a 1-yard run on the Texans' first series of the third quarter, but Ellis Hobbs returned the ensuing kickoff 93 yards for a touchdown to put the game out of reach. David Carr turned in another poor performance completing 16-of-28 for 127 yards and four interceptions.

Week 16: vs. Indianapolis Colts

Clad in all-blue uniforms for the first time in franchise history, Ron Dayne rushed for a career-high 153 yards and two touchdowns and Kris Brown kicked the winning 48-yard field goal as time expired to shock the Colts 27–24. The Texans used Dayne and rookie Chris Taylor to eat up the clock and exploit the Colts' suspect run defense, ranked last in the NFL, while taking pressure off David Carr and the struggling passing game. The win broke a nine-game losing streak to the Colts (11–4). It would be the Colts' last defeat before winning Super Bowl XLI. Mario Williams forced a Dominic Rhodes fumble on the Colts' second play. Anthony Weaver recovered the ball on the Indianapolis 47 and Houston would convert it into a touchdown, taking an early 14–0 lead. Houston led through most of the game until Peyton Manning and Marvin Harrison connected for their second touchdown, a 7-yard pass that tied it 24–24 with 2:41 remaining. Carr and the Texans then engineered a six-play, 31-yard drive that ended with Brown's winning kick. Carr was 16-of-23 for 163 yards and a touchdown and was not sacked.

Week 17: vs. Cleveland Browns

Chris Taylor ran for 99 yards with a touchdown as the Houston Texans defeated the Cleveland Browns, 14–6, at Reliant Stadium. Taylor carried the ball 20 times in the contest and Anthony Maddox returned a fumble 47 yards for a score, as the Texans won three of their last five games of the season to finish 6–10. David Carr managed the game well and finished 9-of-15 passing for 86 yards with an interception in the victory. Kicker Phil Dawson accounted for the only Cleveland points with two field goals. Charlie Frye, starting his first game since injuring a wrist in the Browns' win versus the Kansas City Chiefs on December 3, was 25-of-34 passing for 187 yards with an interception. Kellen Winslow had 11 catches for 93 yards for Cleveland (4–12), which lost its last four games. Winslow tied Hall-of-Famer Ozzie Newsome for most catches by a Browns player, with 87 in the loss. Reuben Droughns added 83 yards rushing on 19 carries in defeat.

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Hall of Famers Floyd Little, Lynn Swann, Kellen Winslow Sr. and Steve Largent are teaming up with Ohio Senator Rob Portman and two House members in Washington today to push Senate members for a commemorative coin to benefit the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
George Veras, president and CEO of Pro Football Hall of Fame Enterprises, said he's grateful to the members of Congress who want "to honor the legacy of the Hall, and promote the rich history and positive values of the game of professional football."
The Pro Football Hall of Fame has the world's largest collection of artifacts and documents related to pro football. All proceeds from the special U.S. mint coin would help support the recently expanded and renovated museum.


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Interview With Louise Goodman
by Ben | Jan 12, 2018 | Autosport International 2018, News | 0 comments
Louise Goodman has been involved in motorsport for many years and has joined former Williams Martini Racing team test driver Susie Wolff's Dare To Be Different initiative as an ambassador.
During the Autosport International Show at Birmingham's NEC Arena, Paddock Eye sat down with Louise for a chat:
We started by asking her:
How did you get involved in motorsport?
I sort of fell into it really, I was working in Pavo Racing, I was working as a journalist for Pavo Racing magazine. I was invited to a BBQ by a lady in the machine I knew who was having a BBQ, and while I was there I met a guy called Tony Jardine.
Tony was involved in motorsport, he had been working for a PR company and was just about to set up his own PR company and he was looking for somebody to go and work with him and I was looking for a slightly more, I was about to go away travelling and I was looking for an easier job, in inverted comma's, till I could get myself organised for my travels, so I left Pavo and I went to work for Tony. I worked for him for a couple of months, went off on my travels and whilst I was working for him for those couple of months, he had just sent up the business and our first client was camel, R J Reynolds and their camel brand and we launched their sponsorship of the Lotus Formula One Team, so that was really my entree into motorsport.
First event I'm there working with Aryton Senna. It was interesting actually because I was assigned after we had had the main launch, Tony was handling all the media interviews for Ayrton and I was assigned to look after the media interviews for Satoru because obviously there weren't as many media that wanted to get a one to one with him so at some point in the proceedings Tony grabbed me and said Ayrton has disappeared! Go and find him! So I went around to the back of the staging area and there was Aryton just starting to effectively take his overalls off, it was like as if he was finishing work for the day.
I didn't really know anything about the guy, all I knew was my boss had said get bloke and bring him back so I grabbed the zip on his overalls and said mate, you're not finished yet and dragged him out, and i think Ayrton was probably so gobsmacked at being manhandled by this woman that he sort of followed me out, you know there he was, so that was my entree into the motorsport world.
What was the first word that Eddie Jordan said to you?
It was probably hello, I can remember meeting him, I met him at the Jardine PR offices actually which were in Walton on Thames at the time and he comes down and so Eddie was sponsored by Camel, his Formula 2000 team so he had come down to have a meeting about you know PR matters for his team and in fact I acted as his press officer on the F2000 team for the first couple of races and then got switched over to a Formula One contract so he made an impression on me from the start, the fact I remember that meeting him.
What was the first Grand Prix you attended?
It was Brands Hatch, I don't know when, 1980 something, I went down with a bunch of mates one of whom factitiously had grown up near Brands Hatch so he knew a back road into the circuit and I can't for the life of me remember what year it was. It would have been early, early 80's sometime.
So I remember sitting half way up of what I now know is paddock hill bend and then you have the run up to the hairpin so we sat on the banks there. I think we wondered around the pits somehow. Don't ask me who won, I haven't got a clue, but I remember just thinking this is alright this isn't it?
I had always been interested in anything with cars and an engine. My mis-spent years were mis-spent on the back of motorbikes and I had a friend who raced a little bit, so there was a lot of hooning around in cars going around when I was young. So I guess motorsport was always something that appealed to me, so to actually get to a Grand Prix was great fun.
If you could drive any Formula One car past or present which one would it be or are there too many to choose from?
No, do you what? I think it would be the Jordan 191. I think because that the team I've had the strongest association with. It would either be that or I am just thinking of another one would be Adrian Newey's Leyton House, the 88 Leyton House because I worked Leyton House for a bit as well so it would be either one of those. Can I have two?
What advise would you give to people who want to enter motorsport as a reporter?
I would say for me it's very much about, well first and foremost you have to know your stuff, you know motorsport is, it's a spectator sport and it is something that excites and invigorates people but when you're working in it, it's a job so there's no point thinking you're going to get into motorsport and sit and enjoy watching races and chatting to racing drivers. It's a job so you've got to be in it for the right reasons and i think you've got to know your stuff. There's that gets you away from driver quicker than a ridiculous question or an ill advised question and it's the same thing from a PR prospective, you've got to understand the environment you're working with, the characters you're dealing with when you can do things, when to back off, when to push, all that sort of stuff and than a lot of it is about who you know so you've got to have the experience and the knowledge but you have to make contacts and get out there and meet people. My entire career in motorsport came about by meeting Tony Jardine at a BBQ, it was quiet fruitatious, I hadn't set out to do it but it does take those personal contacts to make those moves.


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Devoted Pioneer Chan Dies at 79
by Contributing writer
— Lyn Stoesen, News Staff
Diana Ming Chan, a California social worker and NASW Social Work Pioneer® who in retirement devoted herself to increasing the number of school social workers in California public schools, died Aug. 5, 2008. She was 79.
Chan and her husband Clarence donated more than $1 million over the past seven years to the NASW Foundation's Learning Springboard Endowment. The Endowment was established in 2000 to promote social work in San Francisco by placing professional social workers in the public school system.
"When I first met Diana over 10 years ago, I knew there was something special and wonderful about her," NASW California Chapter Executive Director Janlee Wong told the News. "She had a vision of school social work that I knew she would get accomplished."
"Through a determination that was always graceful, she is truly responsible for leading the effort to get a school social worker or social work intern in almost every school in San Francisco," Wong said.
In a column in the NASW California News, Wong described Chan as "one of those social workers who worked hard and effectively but never called attention to herself."
"Hundreds of children and families, many of them Chinese and immigrants, benefited from her prevention and treatment efforts in the San Francisco schools and communities," Wong wrote.
Chan earned her MSW from the University of Minnesota. She began her career directing youth and family programs and helped break cultural barriers as a Cantonese-speaking Chinese MSW in San Francisco's Chinatown. She trained social workers in clinics, churches and other nonprofit organizations and advocated for the recruitment and training of social workers of color during the civil rights and War on Poverty eras.
She taught at City College of San Francisco, San Francisco State University and in community agencies and public schools. She also worked as an educator at the Shun Tin Children and Youth Center in Hong Kong.
Chan retired in 2000, after decades of work as a social worker with children and families, including work as a school social worker. That year, the Chans established the Learning Springboard Endowment through the NASW Foundation, pledging $1 million toward the program. The Chans more than fulfilled the pledge with a final donation of $230,000 in 2007.
In 1978, California's Proposition 13, which reduced property taxes, led to major budget cuts in the state's school systems, including the elimination of positions for many school social workers who worked with children experiencing barriers to successful achievement. Through the Learning Springboard Endowment, the Chans have helped reverse the trend and rebuild the school social work program within the school system.
In his NASW California News column, Wong wrote that Chan was "very gracious, a gifted artist and dancer, but ever the organizer and leader. Her home was the setting for many a social work meeting with great food, great ideas, plans and actions."
"It was Diana's will and determination to greatly increase the number of school social workers in San Francisco schools and she did just that," Wong wrote. "Forming a movement, working with coalitions and applying her own personal resources, nearly every school in San Francisco now has a school social worker or social work intern."
"Diana Ming Chan used her experiences, her passion, and her resources to impact people's lives in a very direct way," said NASW Foundation Director Robert C. Arnold. "Without her commitment and the contribution from the Chans, many students would not have had access to needed services."
"She understood the importance of addressing problems before they reach a crisis point," Arnold said. "Her work to establish social workers in schools is a wonderful testament to her true belief in the power of social work. She will be greatly missed."
She was elected to the California Social Work Hall of Distinction and to the ranks of the NASW Social Work Pioneersw.
She is survived by her husband, Clarence, and their son, Harrison Leong.
For more information: www.naswfoundation.org


There is a book that has been around for 3,000 years or so. It seems to have taught princes and emperors – as well as guided the folk – in the East for millennia. In the West, we had to wait until a couple of centuries ago to find translations in our languages and gain a unique sort of richness, a well of metaphorical answers. Of course it is an oracle; of course it is about divination. I am talking about I Ching, yes!
Despite its old-age the book seems to be still in very good health today. Many people all over the western world are using it and studying it at present. I am one of these people. What is it that we look for when we pose a question to an oracle? What is it that we get when we receive an answer from one? My idea is that for both questions the simple answer is "uncertainty." In the former we put it into words; in the latter we define it (in the sense of specification). I guess we use the book not because we want to wipe uncertainty out of our lives, but because we need to define its place at a certain time, regarding a certain matter. This is something I have been thinking about for quite a while now: What do I use the book for? And I finally asked I Ching: What is uncertainty? And my reading of the answer I received is what follows here.
I will not go into particularities regarding how the book works; there is plenty of material for that online. I Ching says that uncertainty is hexagram 37 with a changing sixth line to 63. It makes no sense, I know. But it is full of meaning. Among other similar concepts, hexagram 37 means kindred people, people sharing a common living space (mankind?). The sixth line represents someone like a patriarch, a much respected, "impressive" person, someone who knows and can go back to their own truthful style. Hexagram 63 means "already complete," already across; and its sixth line warns about a danger: the danger of drowning in the middle of the river we have decided to cross.
I will risk some interpretations here. Uncertainty means being human among other humans on Earth, and uncertainty is to know. Something like: the more we know, the more we know we do not know. We turn into "impressive" beings when we know our own truth, when we choose the way we want to be among an indefinite and unknown number of choices. Then we come to know that our truth is never "already complete"; there is always the risk of finding our heads under water or falling. As if truth were something like a fence we are indefinitely balancing on. The aphorism could read: Uncertainty is what makes us human and turns us cautious. It is what defines us and protects us at the same time, because uncertainty is change.
There are scales for the readings, and we can also include our religious beliefs in the answers, our own worldview in terms of life and death, love, loss, freedom or happiness. I have a confession to make: I sent the question and the answer to some friends of mine who share I Ching readings so as to see how they dug into the answer and what scales they could give to it. Religious friends read something completely different; they read their own uncertainties (much as I read mine in the first paragraph). For Christian friends, the "patriarch" was God, and "already complete" meant "after life." This also makes a lot of sense. Uncertainty for them is: not knowing if there is a God (on the other side) once we have already crossed the river of life. Maybe, uncertainty here could mean fear that this life might be all, and that the river is there only for us to drown (and go back as a drop into some eternal current).
It is a fact that humans have dealt with uncertainty in many different ways and with many different results throughout history. None of the answers were even close to solving the issue. Some have even turned their provisional responses into powerful institutions. However, the way we address uncertainty does make a huge difference. A Delphic oracle can give us a clue as to what we can expect from an oracle when we use a question mark for our uncertainty. There is a dimension we all remember well in Delphi, that of "know thyself." However, there is also another dimension here that is not recalled as well: "care for thyself" could be a translation for the phrase epimeleisthai sautou. Oracles could be a great way of dealing with uncertainty.
Turning uncertainties into questions helps us both to define them and to find creative ways to act on them (not to deny them or find absolute solutions). I may say the book is still in good health because it brings us good health. When we do not feel the need to abolish anything – or to have the illusion of it – we find that everything that exists has its place, and even if we do not know it or we do not like it, if we can specify – somehow fix – our uncertainty, we can be ready to learn something new about ourselves or we can be willing to take better care of ourselves (and others) when confronting the unknown. Uncertainty could then become a technique of existence, a process during which we transform ourselves, a program, right, but one with an open end.


Sasha: Naijas female MVP… Better Recognize!
I settled into work this morning and put on my headphones trying to catch up on the latest Naija jams. Who is this Sasha self? I remember her name from some collabos with trybesmen a few years ago and one other song. From the moment I hit play I knew I was in for something. The intro had me sit up straight in my chair! This madam isn't playing o! Every now and then, I would forget myself and start bouncing around in my chair. (I can't afford to be jammin' like this at work with all this subprime mess going on!).
Ti Da Mo (recognize) jumps at you with that "if you don't know, better ask somebody" confidence. Guaranteed to keep you popping. A must have for my Naija party compilation CD; it has the makings of the classic party jam and I'm calling it! De Roof… De Roof! Ahaa Ahaaa… Ohoo Ohooo! Where are my boys? Where's my whistle?? (Damn, I miss Ibadan!).
A tear rolled down my eye as I listened to Baba mi (My Father) , a Yoruba acoustic rap rendition. One listen and I quickly realized this wasn't just a song. I immediately called my dad in Naija. "I just wanted to hear your voice, dad".
Asa, the new Naija musical sensation introduces yet another flavor as she reinforces Sasha's flow on Let Me Go. Only One? It's T-pain, it's Eve… no it's Sasha. E wa ba mi jo (Come dance with me) brings some well appreciated Jaara to round up the musical journey.
This CD has something for everybody. I'm not quite the rap connoisseur but I know a good album when I hear one. Sasha is a true story teller, poet and lyricist. Her message is sincere, positive, thought provoking and memorable. To echo her words, this is feel good music with a lesson. She seduces you with her wordplay and locks you in with her message… She made me laugh, smile, think and even cry.
Sasha, thanks for that complete musical experience, It was certainly worth the wait. 5 Akaras for this one o!


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Q: Showing app name in app chooser dialog My app (e.g, named "Awesome app")  intercepts a http link (say, it's a link to a Googlemap location). The link is handled in one activity named "View Activity", and it's not the main launcher. When a user clicks on that link in their email, my app appears together with Googlemap in the app-chooser dialog. However, it appears as "View Activity" instead of "Awesome app".
I don't want to change the android:label property of the activity to "Awesome app" since it shouldn't be named that way.
So, how do I show the app name in that case? Thanks.
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I tried adding <activity-alias> as suggested by zmarties, like below, however, my app is no longer listed in the app chooser dialog, any idea? Tks.
<activity-alias android:name=".Blahblah"
        android:enabled="true"
        android:exported="false"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/config_app_name"

        android:targetActivity="com.mypackage.activity.ViewingActivity" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />

            <data
                android:host="thehost.com"
                android:scheme="http" />
            <data
                android:host="thehost.com"
                android:scheme="https" />

        </intent-filter>

    </activity-alias>

A: You change what text gets shown by changing the label.  The fact that you don't want to change the label does not change the fact that that's the right way to do it.
If your problem is that as well as intercepting a link, that same activity has other uses for which you need to show a different label, then you need to split all those uses out into their own activities, so that they can each have their own specific label.  Those separate activities can all in fact be the same activity - see activity-alias

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89 contests in all, and as ever, not likely to be representative of the whole country. However, it is a significant sample, a good snapshot that provides something to mull over.
I am always disappointed when Labour does not field a candidate in every contest. Boast as much as we like about being the biggest party in the UK, bigger than all the others combines some claim (and I doubt) but we rarely best the Tories in contests fought. In fact the struggling Liberal Democrats almost match us in this yardstick. There are, the candidate numbers suggest, still only three truly national parties. Both UKIP and the Greens still have some way to go before they can justifiably make this claim.
David Cameron's party are still enjoying a post-General Election honeymoon. At some point though, and sooner rather than later, Labour has got to start eating into the Tory councillor base. It is too early to start worrying about no nett gains for us yet, but if this continues through next year then we will have to rethink our strategy.
Despite a miserable week health-wise, I did manage to put in a couple of hours yesterday evening in Rochford. I am glad I made the effort.
We expected a tough, close contest. We knew we had a great candidate, and that he had a great team. In the end our efforts were rewarded.
It was a close-run thing, necessitating a re-count. This was called for by the Conservatives who obviously felt that that four vote margin may have been counting clerk error – it was not.
Beforehand we expected it to be a three-way fight; no-one expected the Liberal Democrats to achieve anything in a ward where they have been notable by their absence for the last dozen years. The Conservatives were favourites, not only did they win here in May, but their candidate was recently made widower by the tragic death of the Conservative councillor, which necessitated this by-election.
See Softly softly (Rochford by-election) for previous results in this ward.
Westborough Marimuthu Velmurugan Independent Group Now left group. Is defending, but will have an official Independent Group candidate up against him.
This table shows who was elected in 2012, and whether they will be seeking re-election in May.
Belfairs – I have no idea whether the Independent Group will put someone up against Stephen. The other Independent in that ward, who has fought both elections since 2012, is a friend of Stephen's and unlikely to stand against him.
Blenheim Park – Graham has been privately talking about standing down for some time. His recent ill health has likely strengthened his resolve to make 2016 his retirement year.
Kursaal – Anne has chosen to contest her former home ward of Westborough. She did not seek re-selection in Kursaal.
Leigh – This will be Peter Wexham's comeback attempt, tempting headlines of "Lib Dems opt for youth"! I do not know whether Allan will seek somewhere else to contest.
Shoeburyness – There is some speculation that defeated Independent Anne Chalk will continue her vendetta against Mike and stand against him in May.
Southchurch – David has somehow managed to be de-selected, and end up with a brighter prospect in Prittlewell. However, this could be his swansong as Labour have high hopes for Prittlewell.
Westborough – Marimuthu has chosen the route of total independence. This is a brave decision, in a ward that many are seeing as a certain Labour gain.
If Matt Softly ends up winning next week in the Rochford by-election you can blame me; he became an activist after I knocked on his door one day. Sure, my blame is only partial, but I was there, at the beginning.
The following table shows the vote share percentages for the four parties standing in Rochford, in local elections in this ward since 2002.
UKIP are johnny-come-latelys here, and the Liberal Democrats rarely trouble themselves to stand in this neck of the wood. It has been a two-horse race for many years, even when other candidates have stood. It is either the Conservatives or Labour who triumph here, and I would be surprised if anything other than this was the case this time around.
It will come down to turnout, I expect. In some quarters this will be seen as another test for the new Labour leader, although I have to wonder why some think that. UKIP's presence introduces a test for their credibility after a poor General Election and a lot of in-fighting in Essex. The Conservatives will consider themselves favourites, if only because they are the most recent winners and their candidate is the widower of the recently deceased councillor who, tragically, is the cause of this by-election.
However, I am calling a narrow Labour win here, a gain that will double Labour's presence in Rochford District.
Four MPs is a doubling of the Labour presence in the House of Commons. The Liberal Democrats are down three, whilst the Conservatives (with one gain and one loss) see no change in their overall representation. UKIP are a plus one on 2010.
One of the more interesting statistics is that in all fifty-eight constituencies there was a swing from the Liberal Democrats to Labour. This is not true for the Conservatives, who can boast a swing from the Liberal Democrats in all but two seats; Cambridge and Clacton saw a swing from the Conservatives to the Liberal Democrats.
In twenty-seven seats there was a swing from Labour to the Conservatives, making thirty-one where that swing was reversed – which is reasonably good news for Labour and its supporters.
The smallest Liberal Democrat to Labour swing was in Clacton, where it was 0.2%.
Consequently I take an interest in their elections, and the fortunes of our candidates there. I was delighted to see, for instance, my good friend Allan Davies re-elected in May.
This chart shows the vote share for the parties in local elections in Basildon from 2008 up to today.
Labour appears to be holding steady (ish), but it does look like UKIP is eating into some of the Labour vote – and this is probably partially hidden by Lib Dem switchers. I suspect that there is all sorts of churn in voter allegiance.
It is a minority Conservative administration, with (I gather) unofficial support from the Independence Group.
A number of thoughts race through your mind on being told you have been selected as a Parliamentary candidate; amongst these is the enormous responsibility that has been placed on your shoulders. Your members want a campaign that makes them proud to be a part of a political organisation, and regardless of your chances your owe them to have at least given it your all.
I was selected last August, and I hope that I have worked hard enough. Despite the political climate that prevails in Southend West I think Labour did well. We finished a good second, hauling ourselves past the Liberal Democrats, as well as seeing off UKIP. Whoever follows in my footsteps, they will have the mantle of main challenger. Labour did well in the local elections, too, in this part of the borough of Southend-on-Sea, and we are well-placed in many wards now.
I must thank all my opponents and their workers for their campaigns. There is no democracy without choice, and despite my disagreements over what they each stood for, I at least acknowledge that the Southend West election would have been less diverting without their presence.
I wish Sir David Amess well in his role as my representative for the next five years. I also promise to play my part in challenging what he and his Government will be doing over that period.
I have the memory of a foot broken whilst canvassing, many charming and inspiring conversations, hours toiling over a keyboard, and the encouragement and hard work of all those who gave their time to help in my campaign.
I would finally thanks all those who voted, both for and against me. Democratic engagement is essential, and we only have to look to where in the world there is no democracy to see what a treasure we all have.


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Antecedents and consequences of electronic product code adoption and its implications for supply chain management: A framework and propositions for future research
Kee Hung Lai, Wing Yan Wong, T. C. E. Cheng, Cheong Leung Yeung
Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies
Although electronic product code (ePC) is a popular standard of inter-organisational communication for identifying and tracing trade items, its level of adoption varies among firms, many of which still confine their supply chain activities to manual processes and stand-alone operations. To provide a better understanding of ePC adoption, we surveyed the relevant literature and developed a theoretical framework, together with a set of research propositions, to account for the antecedents and consequences of ePC adoption for supply chain management (SCM). The framework and propositions provide the impetus for a research agenda that identifies the critical issues of technological adoption for SCM. We also discuss the implications of the theoretical framework for further research and provide recommendations on the adoption of ePC for SCM.
Maritime Economics and Logistics
https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.mel.9100166
Electronic product code
Process integration
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Hey – so im sort of at a loss here.
Yes the idea would be to find an entry on the lower time frames. If there are no significant levels around the price on the daily chart, it means it's in the grey area. We have no real control over the situation. Therefore, the daily chart isn't much help to the overall trade and would not feature as part of the 'story' I'm building for entering a trade. Since the price could still fluctuate around a lot on that time frame, as it is in the middle of the wave. It doesn't add to our conviction over the trade direction.


The beginning of every new year often gets us thinking about our goals—more specifically, our health goals. It's usually high on the list. Yet, as we are approaching the middle of January, the attrition rate of newly acquired gym memberships are not as high.
The misalignment of goals with action leads me to question: what exactly does "being healthy" mean to people? How do we want to feel, look, and live in our daily lives? Those are the three primary motivations.
I tend to view the world from the inside out. I realize how that sounds: self-involved, egocentric, self-serving, narcissistic, etc, etc. However, it's quite the opposite. I recently read an article about people who experience the world in this manner. The article detailed that what they are really doing is tapping into their FEELINGS of the type of person they want to be. So, what type of coach/partner/friend/daughter/woman am I, or do I want to be?
If I perceive the world from the inside, then I am motivated by, and capture the feeling of, success; the feeling of living longer, the feeling of freedom, the feeling of happiness, the feeling of ... well, you get the idea.
How can I translate all these negative emotions in a positive way?
We have full control over the feelings we want to feel and the life we want to have or live and experience. So, to tie this all together, our quest for a healthy lifestyle could be somewhere along the lines of: what is the feeling we want to experience in order to attain (or maintain) a healthy life or fitness goal?
I decided to take a random but very tiny (and maybe scientifically insignificant) poll, from a couple of folks who taught me their version of healthy — my parents. For my dad, being healthy means "living life," which is a "combination of [whole, organic] foods and exercise — you can't have one without the other." Wise words! For my mom, being healthy means "living a life that is pain free and disease free."
Being healthy is whatever we want to feel, whatever we want to experience, whatever we set our mind to, and whatever we desire. We all have a vision of what we want for the world or what it needs. Being alive and healthy is a pretty good start.
Shooting straight from the hip joint.


Finca Deborah illustrates the three methods of Geisha processing that we use: 1. Wet or Washed Method, 2. Natural Method, and 3. Honey or Semi-Washed Method.
As more and more coffee growers embrace sustainable practices and move toward utilizing every part of the harvest, the lowly coffee fruit – also known as cascara, which means skin or peel in Spanish – is seeing a renewed sense of purpose.
South Korea has emerged as one of the largest consumers of coffee in the world, and this is evident everywhere you look. Coffee shops line the streets and much of Korea's youth has given up on the leaf and turned to the bean.


The Beatles died for me at that very moment.
I am sitting here at my desk being too busy to breathe, and I am forcing myself to stop working long enough to tell you all about the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me.
And that amazing thing is my yuletide 2006 pinch-hit assignment, which was for Pat Conroy's Lords of Discipline. Which I signed up for having never read before, little knowing that Lords of Discipline would forever gain a place in my heart as the worst book I have ever read. Oh my god it was the most amazingly amazingly epically bad thing in my whole entire life.
I just went over to amazon to search inside the book for some of my favorite lines, which I still remember 2 years later because this book is that amazing. And now, may I present: Excerpts from the Best Book Ever.
Outside the barracks windows, the leaves when wind-blown crackled like thousands of errant wasps colliding in midair.
It was the sound of the lion and the train that I missed the most.
I wondered how many boys had broken under the fearful pressures of the plebe system. I wondered if the grotesque phantoms of their damaged spirits haunted the alcoves of the barracks for all times, recruiting others into their defiled tormented ranks with howls of gratitude as they watched the others come apart at the soul. The ague of suffering raged unchecked in the eyes of the recruit. Behind Poteete's eyes, the hive of terror was loose on him and each cell in his brain had become wasp-winged and deadly, each cell was hourglass-shaped, and each cell, tremulous with the diminutive thunder of hornets, felt the power of flight and the invulnerability of the swarm.
"Remember this, too, Will," Abigail said. "You need Tradd more than he needs you. Tradd can help you now. He can help you in your life. He can use his name and his friends to get you ahead no matter what you do."
"I wouldn't let him unzip my fly."
That was the gift and hunger I brought to my game. I did not have the talent to match the hunger, but, by God, I had the speed.
All of us were holding on to Pig, protecting him; by touching Pig, we were touching each other, felt the connection of our time together, the depth and awful brevity of our common history, and the dazzling intensity of our friendship. We had gathered in an indissoluble band around our endangered friend, and we touched him because it was the only form of speech or communication available. A transcendent feeling of superhuman, perfect solidarity with my friends overwhelmed me at that moment. I was dizzy with love and dread. I was connected to the heartbeats and pulses of my roommates by a benign, vital symbiosis, and I felt that I depended on them for blood and oxygen, and if one of them had abandoned the rest of us at that very instant, my spirit and my body could not have absorbed such trauma, such loss.
The hiss of the spray sounded like a colloquy of snakes in the parched summer grass. The first mosquito bit into my thigh. Clouds of gnats and mosquitoes began to swarm before my eyes. I counted eight mosquitoes on the neck of the boy in front of me. Our coming had stirred an invisible empire of insects, and we had come as food for that empire. Soon I felt the insects biting me in a dozen places. It seemed as though the entire motionless platoon disappeared beneath an awful living drapery of tiny wings and feathery black legs. Around me, I began to hear the moans of freshmen about to break from the ordeal by insect. The mosquitoes fed deeply and leisurely, as though they had come upon a freshly slaughtered battalion with the blood still warm and fragrant in the quiet veins.
... Now we were ludicrous, like actors in blackface.
...As I entered, I heard a radio somewhere in the barracks loudly playing "I Want To Hold Your Hand." I would never hear that song again without feeling the urgent movement of plebes being driven into that dark cell of heat and violence. I would never be able to appreciate the music of the Beatles, never be able to define my coming of age through their joyous lyrics, because of that one radio playing that one song... The Beatles died for me at that very moment.
My friends, my friends. The whole book is like this.
singlehandedly ends a centuries-old institutionalized system of racist hazing!
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singlehandedly keeps his friend from getting tragically expelled from the school, by getting called as a witness and exuding wit and warmth and snarky logic that defy the prosecution's case!
"Please, Will," Tradd said, close to tears. "Please. I deserve one more chance. Please don't leave me like this. We love each other. You know we do, Will. Tell me you don't love me. Yes, tell me that. Tell me you don't love me, Will."
"I can't tell you that, Tradd," I said. And I left the St. Croix mansion forever.
Pat Conroy, my friends. Ahh, ahh, I feel like I've been reunited with my true love.


No Amber Alert was ever issued, although Springfield officers asked the state Highway Patrol to send one out. The Patrol said this case did not meet the state's criteria.... By Emily Vacher, Trust and Safety Manager. Today, we are announcing a partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to send AMBER Alerts to the Facebook community to help find missing children.
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Possible acid reflux. May causes of sore throat & cough that come and go. Can be associated with difficulty swallowing. You don't have to have heart burn. Other symptoms include a hoarse or scratchy voice, bad breath, burping. Diet might contain acidy food, too. You could also have an infectious problem/lingering virus or untreated strep infection. Would see a doctor if persists for more in depth evaluation.
I'm suffering from sore throat due to acid reflux. No pain while swallowing food. Little irritation in right side of the throat while swallowing saliva from last 7 days. Little cough is also there. No fever. Thanx for help?
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Sore throat almost 3 weeks. No fever or cough. Not strep. Dont feel sick, throat hurts all the time, when I swallow or drink.?
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Cooking has not been at its best for the last few months with the summer heat killing my boys' appetite. But with a cool change, I can see their love for and request for food growing. Today's recipe was a special Easter breakfast request from them and though I am down with flu and fever, I simply couldn't ignore it.
Tharavu mappas is a spicy preparation of duck in coconut milk and is a speciality of Kuttanadu region in Kerala, otherwise known as the Rice Bowl of Kerala. So yes, this curry is also another speciality from my MILs kitchen. This curry, like all her Kuttanadan specials, is her special work of art in the kitchen. The sharpness of the roasted spices is well balanced with the sweetness and richness of the coconut milk. The potato pieces soak up rich fatty gravy and in my mind I have a never ending battle trying to chose between the potatoes and the duck pieces in the curry. The rich aroma of the coconut oil and the heavy spices fill your household but you have to taste this to appreciate the depth of flavours in this dish.
Let me take a few clicks before my boys lick the curry bowl clean; we are celebrating Easter in Kuttanadan style this year. Happy Easter folks!
1. Coarsely crush onion, ginger, garlic and green chilly and keep aside. Mix all the spice powders in water to make a thick paste and keep aside.
2. Heat coconut oil in a pressure cooker over medium heat. Add crushed onion mixture and salt and stir until it turns light brown. Add curry leaves and stir. Now add the spices soaked in water and stir to mix well. Keep roasting over low flame until a fresh roasted aroma rises. Add the duck pieces and mix until the spices coat well on them. Add thin coconut milk with vinegar and salt to taste. Pressure cook for 1 - 2 whistles. (The time to cook may depend on the size of your duck pieces). When the pressure dies, open the cooker, add cooked potato pieces and heat it over medium heat. Add thick coconut milk, mix well and when it is about to boil remove from flame.
Very tempting recipe.I am not used to have ducks,but i am doing to try the recipe with chicken.
Very tempting snap, never tasted duck in my life, but got to say it looks yummy , have seen a similar preparation in Master Chef!! Also the idea of placing the duck over lettuce leaf is great, gives the authentic feel. Love the appam anytime!!
Love the creamy and rich texture of the gravy,tempting clicks.
Mouthwatering..vayyil boat odikkaamm..Yummy ,Hope u had a great Easter!!
Happy Easter and I am going to try this with vegetarian duck.
duck and appam!! my what more tempting than this...already craving for it. happliy following ur space..do drop by mine as well.
Will try once for sure !!
Wonderful presentation, yummy & rich curry!
appam and duck!!! irresisitable combo!!! think its our blood. :) Also, do feel free to drop by my new blog - pick quicks when u get the time...glad if u wud be a follower there as well.