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ARLINGTON, Texas — Move over Fab Five, scooch aside Glen Rice and Rumeal Robinson, a new band of Michigan Wolverines is ready for the Final Four spotlight.
With Nik Stauskas draining 3-pointers, Mitch McGary dominating the paint and Trey Burke running the show, Michigan quickly dismantled Florida on the way to a 79-59 victory in the South Regional final Sunday afternoon at Cowboys Stadium.
So Michigan (30-7) will play Syracuse in a national semifinal on Saturday in Atlanta. It's the Wolverines first trip to the Final Four since the Fab Five lost to North Carolina in the 1993 national championship game.
Meanwhile, Florida (29-7) lost in the Elite 8 for the third consecutive season.
Michigan jumped ahead early behind breakout star McGary, who scored eight points as the Wolverines established a 13-0 lead.
McGary came into the NCAA Tournament averaging 7.3 points and 6.1 rebounds. But entering the Wolverines' fourth game of the postseason, he was contributing a team-leading 19.7 points and 12.3 rebounds. He finished with 11 points, nine rebounds, two blocks and five steals against the Gators.
McGary's two baskets to start the game — a fast-break layup on an assist from Tim Hardaway Jr. and a dunk on an assist from Stauskas — and Stauskas' 3-pointer from the corner set the tone as Michigan grabbed a 7-0 lead in the game's first 94 seconds.
Burke drove for a basket, dished to McGary for an inside hoop and hit a 3-pointer to boost the Wolverines to a 16-2 start. Florida never climbed back within 10 points.
From there, Stauskas stretched the lead to as many as 24 in the first half by hitting 5 of 6 3-point attempts. He went to the break with 19 points and Michigan led, 47-30.
Stauskas scored a game-high 22 points. Burke finished with 15 points and seven assists.
Michigan out-rebounded Florida 21-14 in the first half and the Wolverines, who made seven of their first nine shots, shot 51.4 percent from the field in the first half.
Will Yeguete and Kenny Boynton each scored 13 points to lead Florida.
NOTES: Michigan and Florida met for only the second time in the NCAA Tournament. Michigan won the previous contest in 1988 with a 108-85 win in the West Regional second round. … Florida entered the South Regional final with an 0-6 record this season in games decided by single digits. The Gators won their three previous NCAA Tournament games by margins of 32, 14 and 12 points. … By totaling 23 points and 10 assists, Burke became the first player to record a 20-plus-point, 10-assist game in the Sweet 16 since Florida coach Billy Donovan did it while playing at Providence in 1987. … The 14-point margin Michigan erased against Kansas was the largest deficit the Wolverines have overcome to win this season. … The last time Michigan reached the Elite 8, the Wolverines also played in Texas, losing to eventual national champion Arkansas 78-71 at Reunion Arena in Dallas.


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On the cut surface of the pelvis, identify the pubic symphysis and the retropubic space (of Retzius) located just posterior to it. Next, examine the urinary bladder. This hollow muscular organ lies in the true pelvis and is supported by the fibers of the levator ani muscle and the prostate gland. The most anterior and superior part of the bladder is the apex. The median umbilical ligament [near the tip of the probe, extending anteriorly and superiorly], a remnant of the urachus, extends from the apex of the bladder to the umbilicus. The posterior surface of the bladder is the base of the urinary bladder.
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Learn when and how to use Likert scale survey questions
Have you ever taken a survey and "neither agreed nor disagreed" with a question at some point?
That kind of question is known as a Likert scale. Likert scales are widely used to measure attitudes and opinions with a greater degree of nuance than a simple "yes/no" question.
Let's explore what makes up a Likert question, find examples, understand when you should use this tool, and see how you can put it to work for your surveys.
What's the definition of Likert scale?
A survey scale represents a set of answer options—either numeric or verbal—that cover a range of opinions on a topic. It's always part of a closed-ended question (a question that presents respondents with pre-populated answer choices).
The Likert scale, which falls under our definition of a survey scale, is a 5 or 7-point scale that ranges from one extreme attitude to another, like "extremely likely" to "not at all likely." Typically, they include a moderate or neutral midpoint.
Likert scales (named after their creator, American social scientist Rensis Likert) are quite popular because they are one of the most reliable ways to measure opinions, perceptions, and behaviors.
Compared to binary questions, which give you only two answer options, Likert-type questions will get you more granular feedback about whether your product was just "good enough" or (hopefully) "excellent." They can help decide whether a recent company outing left employees feeling "very satisfied," "somewhat dissatisfied," or maybe just neutral.
This method will let you uncover degrees of opinion that could make a real difference in understanding the feedback you're getting. And it can also pinpoint the areas where you might want to improve your service or product.
Likert scale examples
Likert scale questions are used in many different types of surveys, whether you are trying to find out how your employees feel about their work or what your customers think about your latest product.
To help you use Likert questions effectively, here are some examples of how they can look:
Customer satisfaction
Overall, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with our company?
- Very satisfied
- Somewhat satisfied
- Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied
- Somewhat dissatisfied
- Very dissatisfied
Employee engagement
I'm satisfied with the investment my organization makes in education:
- Strongly agree
- Agree
- Neither agree nor disagree
- Disagree
- Strongly disagree
Professional event feedback
How helpful was the content presented at the professional event?
- Extremely helpful
- Very helpful
- Somewhat helpful
- Not so helpful
- Not at all helpful
Or see more templates
When to use a Likert scale questionnaire
Since there are so many kinds of survey questions, how do you know when you should use Likert questions?
Likert scales are great for digging down deep into one specific topic to find out (in greater detail) what people think about it. So, think of using a Likert scale any time you need to find out more about…
- How people are reacting to your new product
- What your team thinks about a recent development in the office
- How your clients feel about customer service at your company
- How successful your public event was with attendees
…or any other questions where you need to measure sentiment about something specific and you want a deeper level of detail in your responses.
If you want to get a bit geeky about it, the deeper level of detail is what survey experts call variance. The more variance you have, the better you know the nuances of someone's thinking.
Take the legwork out of Likert scale questions
SurveyMonkey Genius helps you quickly build surveys with more confidence—just choose an answer type to automatically add a set of prewritten answer choices to your question.
Likert scale questions keep your respondents happy
One great thing about the Likert scale is that it can help you avoid some of the common pitfalls of survey design, like creating overly broad questions that respondents may find too hard to think about. This could lead them to get frustrated and start answering too quickly–spoiling the quality of your data.
Survey designers who are in a bit of a hurry sometimes reach for the broader types of questions–like "yes/no," "select all," open-ended, ranking, or matrix questions–as a sort of survey shortcut.
As a rule of thumb, though, in most of these scenarios they should trust their old friend the Likert scale, which will keep the respondent focused and happy with its simple, direct language.
Likert scales work better when questions are focused on one topic
It's important to keep each series of questions in your survey focused around the same topic. In the end, this will help you get more accurate results. Why? Because when the time comes for you to report the data, you want to analyze a score that sums up the results from a few questions.
For example, you could ask this initial question:
How satisfied or dissatisfied are you with the quality of the dinner you were served tonight?
And then follow up with:
How satisfied or dissatisfied are you with the quality of your appetizers tonight?
How satisfied or dissatisfied are you with the quality of the main course tonight?
How satisfied or dissatisfied are you with the quality of dessert tonight?
But here's one question you should leave for another section of the survey:
How satisfied or dissatisfied are you with service at the coat-check room tonight?"
Grouping questions about one topic together and adding up their responses to get a score–a "Quality of Food" score, in this case–you will get a more reliable measurement of the attitudes toward the particular product, service or event you're researching.
How to write Likert scale survey questions
Be accurate. Likert-type questions must be phrased correctly in order to avoid confusion and increase their effectiveness. If you ask about satisfaction with the service at a restaurant, do you mean the service from valets, the waiters, or the host? All of the above? Are you asking whether the customer was satisfied with the speed of service, the courteousness of the attendants, or the quality of the food and drinks? Bottom line: If you can get more specific, there's a higher chance that your Likert questions will deliver more valuable responses.
Be careful with adjectives. When you're using words to ask about concepts in your survey, you need to be sure people will understand exactly what you mean. Your response options need to include descriptive words that are easily understandable. There should be no confusion about which grade is higher or bigger than the next: Is "pretty much" more than "quite a bit"? It's advisable to start from the extremes ("extremely," "not at all",) set the midpoint of your scale to represent moderation ("moderately,") or neutrality ("neither agree nor disagree,") and then use very clear terms–"very," "slightly"–for the rest of the options.
Bipolar or unipolar? Do you want a question where attitudes can fall on two sides of neutrality–"love" vs. "hate"– or one where the range of possible answers goes from "none" to the maximum? The latter, a unipolar scale, is preferable in most cases. For example, it's better to use a scale that ranges from "extremely brave" to "not at all brave," rather than a scale that ranges from "extremely brave" to "extremely shy." Unipolar scales are just easier for people to think about, and you can be sure that one end is the exact opposite of the other, which makes it methodologically more sound as well.
Better to ask. Statements carry an implicit risk: Most people will tend to agree rather than disagree with them because humans are mostly nice and respectful. (This phenomenon is called acquiescence response bias.) It's more effective, then, to ask a question than to make a statement.
5 extra tips on how to use Likert scales
- Keep it labeled. Numbered scales that only use numbers instead of words as response options may give survey respondents trouble, since they might not know which end of the range is positive or negative.
- Keep it odd. Scales with an odd number of values will have a midpoint. How many options should you give people? Respondents have difficulty defining their point of view on a scale greater than seven. If you provide more than seven response choices, people are likely to start picking an answer randomly, which can make your data meaningless. Our methodologists recommend five scale points for a unipolar scale, and seven scale points if you need to use a bipolar scale.
- Keep it continuous. Response options in a scale should be equally spaced from each other. This can be tricky when using word labels instead of numbers, so make sure you know what your words mean.
- Keep it inclusive. Scales should span the entire range of responses. If a question asks how quick your waiter was and the answers range from "extremely quick" to "moderately quick," respondents who think the waiter was slow won't know what answer to choose.
- Keep it logical. Add skip logic to save your survey takers some time. For example, let's say you want to ask how much your patron enjoyed your restaurant, but you only want more details if they were unhappy with something. Use question logic so that only those who are unhappy skip to a question asking for improvement suggestions.
You have probably known Likert-scale questions for a long time, even if you didn't know their unique name. Now you also know how to create effective ones that can bring a greater degree of nuance to the key questions in your surveys.


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Tobin necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 60 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
We are a young, hip, software company with the world's first integrated online and offline marketing machine that was created specifically for wedding photographers. It's called "BrideMagnet.com"
It allows photographers to:
* Automate and track, test and optimize their marketing
* Make more money
* Be more pro by staying in touch with their prospects and clients and giving them a full on 'client experience' as opposed
* Never drop a lead
* Have more time to do the things they love (like shooting! Spending time with friends and family…whatever!) instead of being RUN by their business!
BrideMagnet prospects/customers are creatives!
They're photographers who are also entrepreneurs/small biz owners.
They are visual artists, and heavily scrutinize all things to do with visual art/design....so the logo is VERY important.
They're a young, hip crowd, generally speaking, so the logo should speak to that kind of person so that they KNOW it's meant for THEM. Modern, edgy, creative, YES!
I like the idea of having something something in the logo that speaks to the photographer element of the system. Like, lens leafs (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3303…1c4095.jpg)
integrated into the logo, like perhaps in the "g" in the word Magnet.
I need a version of the logo with the '.com' in it, and one without.
Note that the space where the logo is going to go is more suitable for a horizontally alligned logo. Of course the logo will also go in many other places for marketing materieals.
I like the twitter logo. My prospects are aware that twitter and other social media are the future of marketing, so I want to have have the BrideMagnet logo create an association with twitter if possible without ripping off the twitter logo.
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Film Finance Overwhelm (pt.2)/
Stacey Parks returns with a guest post -- and a sequel.
Because Film Finance Overwhelm (Part 1) was such a popular post, I decided to do a Part 2. And because many of the comments and emails I got came in the form of questions, I decided to make the format of this post in Q+A form. I think seeing the answers to some of the most commonly asked questions will clear things up for many of you.
As a refresher, the 4 Film Financing components I talked about in Part 1 – the ones that are working in today's market to independently finance films outside of the studio system are as follows:
1. Tax Incentives
2. Partnering With Production Companies
3. Pre-Sales
4. Crowd Funding
So let's move on to Q+A…shall we?
Q: What are the benefits from both sides of partnering with a Production Company or more experienced Producer?
A: The obvious benefit to the new or less-experience Producer is pretty obvious – you get to leverage someone else's track record to get your film made. But what about the benefit to the other Producer (the bigger one)? The benefit to them is that you are bringing them a killer concept and/or killer script that they didn't have before. In my own pitching experience I find that every single one of the Producers I speak to says they are always looking for the next killer project – and they don't really care where it comes from! Enter YOU. One of the keys to this approach is that hopefully you can bring more to the table than just a script, for example some kind of unique expertise. What areas of expertise do you have that you can contribute? Do you have existing relationships with foreign distributors for instance? How about marketing expertise? Are you a producer who can qualify for international co-production funds because you have a European or Australian or New Zealand passport? Think along those lines of some unique contribution you can bring to the partnership.
Q: What does it take to make a Pre-Sale when you don't have the typical 'package'?
A: It's a fact that the majority of Pre-Sales these days are done on 'packages' – meaning a script with Director and Cast attachments. So what if you have an atypical package meaning not a name director or big international stars? Well I'll tell you… I've seen this past year a few projects be successful at Pre-Sales by attaching the right Producer or Executive Producer. Yes, Producer and EP are also part of your package! Mind you these projects were also very commercial concepts, and not in the art-house/drama genre. Which brings up something else – sometimes, and I mean only sometimes, if your concept is so strong and commercial, you can mange a Pre-Sale or two ONLY based on that, even without having a big director or stars attached. In those cases what happens is who ever is buying from you, may insist on attaching an experienced 'name' themselves, so they can increase their level of trust and mitigate their risk.
Q: Aren't the administrative costs extremely high when closing a tax finance deal?
A: Yes, actually they are. They can be anywhere from 15% to 25% of your budget by the time to take into account the discounting that banks do, legal, financing fees, interest, etc. For this reason, it usually only makes sense to take advantage of tax incentive deals when your budget is $2 million or more (and some say $5 million or more). Because tax deals can be expensive to administer many Producers prefer to finance with equity rather than tax incentives, but equity isn't always available, and unless you are experienced with a track record, can be difficult to secure. Obviously the higher the budget of your film, the more tax incentives make sense for your production – for example when you start getting into the $5-$10 million budget range the numbers starting adding up even better. Having said that, I personally think it's always worthwhile to look into the option of shooting in places that offer favorable tax incentives, and run the numbers to see how everything pencils out. I know Producers who have resisted this for a long time, and have finally given in because not taking advantage of 20%-40% in rebates is considered simply irresponsible at this point.
Q: What percentage of budget can you actually raise with Crowd Funding?
A: Certainly I'm seeing people raise 100% of their budgets doing crowd funding campaigns, especially with budgets of $200K and less. However in most cases, I think if you can raise 20%-25% of your budget with Crowd Funding then you can wrap a traditional financing structure around that. The thing to keep in mind with crowd funding is that you want to keep your campaign donation-based instead of investment-based, as anything investment-based can put you into legal grey area. Obviously sites like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo are terrific platforms for running your Crowd Funding campaigns and the thing that I like best about raising money through crowd funding is that it can be a great way to raise development funds in the beginning, when you need things like a website and other presentation materials to get the ball rolling. By contrast, I've also seen Producers use crowd funding very successfully to raise finishing funds, because by then you actually have sample footage to show people, and there can be an increased level of trust that your film will actually be completed.
Q: What are the downsides to raising International Co-Production financing as opposed to International Pre-Sale financing?
A: International Co-Production financing is second nature to most European producers because that's their 'traditional' financing model. Nowadays however, even American producers are getting in on the action and the two biggest downsides I see with seeking International Co-Production financing are 1) The amount of red tape it takes to apply for government film funds, and 2) the amount of time it takes to get a project off the ground when you're relying on international co-production funds. With so many new ways of financing your film these days, even European producers are looking outside their traditional model of 'free government money' because it's simply just so much more efficient to cobble together the financing in other ways (using the 4 components I talked about above + private investors). And yes, most U.S tax rebate programs are much more efficient than the European government funds – quicker to get approval on and quicker to get cash-flowed.
So there you have it — I'd love to keep answering questions so please if you have any more, place them in the comments section below!
And if you want to delve deeper into Film Financing 101, check out the Virtual Intensive I'm putting on after Thanksgiving!
In the – Film Financing 2.0 Essential Training - I'll be covering these 4 components of financing in-depth over the course of a few weeks. Take a look at the details of this small group program, and grab a seat before it sells out. Join the movement to get your film financed for 2011!


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Bacon and Caramelized Onion Egg Salad
Makes 3 cups
Note: This egg salad, when just the yolks are used, is also a great deviled egg filling.
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 large onion, diced
2 cups chicken, beef or vegetable stock
12 hard-boiled eggs, peeled
3 slices cooked bacon, crumbled
1/3 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup sweet pickle relish
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
2 teaspoons dried thyme
Several grinds of black pepper
1. Heat the olive oil in a medium saute pan over medium heat. Add onions; saute for about 10 minutes, until they start to brown a little around the edges. Add the stock; cook for about 30 minutes or until the liquid has almost evaporated. Continue cooking for 10 more minutes, stirring frequently, until the onions become caramel colored. Let cool.
2. Chop the eggs into small pieces and place them in a mixing bowl. Add the onions and remaining ingredients; mix well. Serve immediately or refrigerate, covered, up to 3 days.
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I came across a fabulous and fast recycled project that has a great purpose! Its a yarn ball canister! This took about an hour to do the entire thing, including drilling the holes. The bottom canister is a recycled CD canister top.
This would be a great homemade gift to give to your favorite yarny! And a great way to destash and recycle, and last but certainly not least, an instant gratification project too!
Get the free pattern here: Yarn Ball Canister
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A Heathrow director has told residents living under the flight path, "you will not even hear the aircraft passing over your house" as he called for the capital's biggest airport to fly 24 hours a day.
Akbar Al-Baker, the head of Qatar Airways who sits on Heathrow's executive board and represents the Gulf state's sovereign wealth fund, made the comments at a new flight launch event this week.
His company is the second biggest shareholder in the airport with a 20 per cent stake.
He said: "The thing that is impending Europe's growth is that airports are locked up from 11pm until 5.30am, which is a very, very critical time for east-west transfer.
"If you live under the flight path of an airport, I assure you, over a period of time you will not even hear the aircraft passing over your house."
The comments were met with concern from anti-expansion protesters.
John Stewart, chairman of Hacan, said: "He has no idea what it is like to live under the Heathrow flight path.
"He has no evidence to say the noise will only be an issue within the airport itself.
"Our other concern is that this man is not only a director of Heathrow but his company is the second biggest shareholder in it."
But the west London airport distanced itself from the comments and said it had never argued for round-the-clock flying.
Sir Nigel Rudd, chairman of Heathrow, said: "Mr Al-Baker's views are his own and do not represent the views or policy of the Heathrow board or executive committee.
"We recognise that adding the flights Britain needs for growth must come hand in hand with reducing aircraft noise for residents.
"Round the clock flying from London is not an option. We take the concerns of local communities very seriously and have never argued for 24-hour flying."
Campaigners slammed the airport and said they rushed out comments due to embarrassment caused by Mr Al-Baker's claims.


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With a B.A. in political science and history from the University of Vermont and a wealth of knowledge of local politics, it was a given that Scott MacKay would become a weekly commentator for RIPR on Ocean State politics. He also sits on the RIPR Political Roundtable. As a former political reporter for The Providence Journal, MacKay has spent more than thirty years documenting the ins and outs of politics in Rhode Island and New England. MacKay is married to Dr. Staci Fisher, an infectious diseases specialist at Rhode Island Hospital.
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Barrett.demeria necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
2 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 66 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
A small video game company currently focusing on iPhone games and apps.
We are targeting gamers. Specifically gamers on the iPhone app store. We need an icon that stands out in the crowded app store. Or at least holds it own.
Any person submitting designs should be familiar with app store icon requirements. Specifically the sizing, proper scaling, etc. So we will require all the app store icon images scaled and rendered properly to the appropriate sizes. starting at the largest size of 512x512 for the iTunes store.
57 px, iPhone
72 px, iPad
114 px, iPhone 4
512 px, iTunes
29 px, iPhone Settings/Spotlight, iPad Settings
And if there are any other sizes that I am not aware of but the designer is.
The icon will be a Demon Box. Which is also the title of the game. The box itself is a deep/dark red. With an eyeball that actually sticks out a little bit on the box. On the side of it I have drawn three small skulls and some bones. But we are open to different creative things on this side. And also a bit of design around the edges would be interesting as well. But that's were you can come up with things and get creative. In the top you can see the box is open, and a bit of a puzzle/dungeon is revealed. Giving a slight sneak preview of what the game may have in store. I have included a screen shot of the actual game play puzzle so you know what to color the blocks and dungeon walls. The overall look and feel should be slightly cartoony. Black background.
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New CEO at Marathon Oil sees it as a journey
Lee M. Tillman, an engineer and former Exxon Mobil Corp. executive, last week took the reins of Houston-based Marathon Oil Corp., succeeding longtime Chief Executive Officer Clarence Cazalot.
Tillman, 51, oversaw global engineering staff at Exxon Mobil, where he began his career in 1989 as a research engineer. He earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Texas A&M and a doctorate at Auburn University in Alabama. Tillman spoke with the Chronicle about his new job at Marathon Oil, an independent exploration and production company since it spun off its downstream business in 2011. Edited excerpts:
Q: How did you decide to come to Marathon?
A: It was all about the journey that Marathon had started. In early 2011, Marathon decided to create this independent E & P company. I found it fascinating to be able to pick up on that vision and continue that journey. We are still in the early days of defining Marathon Oil as the independent oil and gas producer. Clarence and the team identified some clear advantages by making this change. First and foremost, it brings a focus to our E&P strategies and objectives. I also think it brings transparency to the investor community as well as to our employees. I think it also brings clarity to how we manage risk and how we manage our portfolio as well. It also added a dimension to Marathon Oil around being flexible and agile in this new opportunity space. We wanted to maintain our ability to develop world-scale, complex energy projects.
Q: How does the boom in unconventional plays fit into Marathon's strategy?
A: Like many companies, we have a good deal of focus and investment in the unconventional plays - particularly for us in the Eagle Ford (in South Texas) and the Bakken (in North Dakota and Montana). As you look at it from the lens of an independent, the unconventionals have some unique attributes that make them appealing. These include strong profitability, scalability, the ability to build toward more liquids-rich plays, and a moderate risk dimension. They are not considered higher risk plays. If you are in the deep water, you are making investment decisions that are in the hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions. In the unconventional plays, you can make a hundred $6 million decisions and that gives you a unique attribute. We need both aspects in our portfolio. Marathon has the breadth and depth to really span the opportunity space. We want the large, complex higher-risk projects, but the scalability and profitability of the unconventional projects is also a good balance within our portfolio.
Q: What factors do you consider when you decide whether to make an investment outside of the United States?
A: There are two elements of risk when we look at opportunities internationally.
The first is what I would call the "below ground" risk, which deals with the things that our engineers and geoscientists deal with all over the world: What is the geology and what is going to be the reservoir performance? There is also the "above ground" risk, which deals with the geopolitical environment, the host government, sanctity of contracts, rule of law, local content requirements, fiscal structure and durability - all of these things start coming into play as you move into the international space. Our shareholder demands that we look at that risk holistically. It's necessary but not sufficient to have the high-quality subsurface resource. You have to have all these other elements and dimensions in place as well.
Another component of international work is just how important relationships become. When you move into the international front, you are relying on strong relationships with national oil companies, with resource holders - you are in their country, you are working in their environment - and the strength of the relationships, the amount of collaboration to find that win-win value proposition, that is the other challenge.
Q: How has working in deep water internationally changed in the last five years?
A: It differs by region. As you look at West Africa, we as well as others have had great success in deep water. As you look at Brazil, it is less clear. Going back to that above ground risk, you have a resource holder and national oil company that really has not defined a material opportunity space for participation by the international oil companies and by smaller exploration and production companies. They have fantastic sub-surface there - great rock and great opportunities, but those other dimensions were just not quite there yet.
Q: How about deep water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico?
A: We continue to move the bar in terms of the technology requirements and the technology risk, whether that be in subsurface imaging, high pressure drilling, greater depths, higher temperatures - these are challenging systems. As you look at the cost of just doing an appraisal or exploration drilling, the costs are enormous - millions of dollars. If you need six or seven of these wells, you are suddenly in a multimillion-dollar development. Those are big, higher risk investments for our shareholders. It doesn't mean we shouldn't be operating there, and we have had some success there lately on the exploration side. It has some advantages on that above ground risk that we talked about, but you are carrying much more technology risk, because of the types of opportunities that you are chasing.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama intervened in Britain's emotive debate about its membership of the European Union on Monday, saying Prime Minister David Cameron should "fix" his country's relationship with the bloc before taking any steps to leave.
Speaking at a joint White House news conference, Obama delighted Cameron's advisers by endorsing his EU strategy at a time when the British leader is facing a revolt within his ruling Conservative party over the issue that threatens his re-election hopes in 2015.
Cameron is keen to unite his party on Europe, an issue that helped bring down Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher and dogged her successor John Major, another Conservative.
In his strongest statement on the subject yet, Obama said he agreed with Cameron's assessment that the EU was flawed and needed fixing, backing the prime minister's plan to try to overhaul the 27-nation bloc before giving Britons a vote on whether they want to stay or leave it.
"I will say this, that David's basic point that you probably want to see if you can fix what's broken in a very important relationship before you break it off makes some sense to me," said Obama.
"I, at least, would be interested in seeing whether or not those (reforms) are successful before rendering a final judgment."
Obama's foray into a fractious British debate gives Cameron a boost at a time when his leadership is under growing pressure from a powerful wing of his own party and a surging anti-EU party.
Eurosceptics in Cameron's Conservative Party see the European Union as an oppressive, interfering and wasteful "superstate" that threatens Britain's sovereignty and puts an excessive regulatory burden on its companies.
Cameron agrees, but wants to change it from within.
At a time when the euro currency zone is eyeing deeper integration, he says it is right that Britain reviews its membership as it originally only signed up to a free trade zone.
However, the prospect of a British withdrawal from Europe after 40 years has rattled many business leaders. They fear that pulling away from Britain's biggest trading partner will badly damage its fragile economy.
Faced with the prospect of many of his own Conservative lawmakers voting to censure his government for failing to enact legislation to prepare for a referendum, Cameron's position was beginning to fray as two of his own ministers expressed more skeptical views than his own.
Cameron's room for maneuver is limited because his pro-EU junior coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats, oppose a referendum.
But the growing popularity of the anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP), which did well in local elections by appealing to traditional Conservative voters, has unnerved some in his party who fear it will split the centre-right vote in 2015.
Though timely, Obama's support of Cameron's stance was nuanced.
Ultimately, he made it clear he thought that Britain's interests and those of the United States were best served by his close ally remaining inside the EU.
"We believe that our capacity to partner with a United Kingdom that is active, robust, outward-looking, and engaged with the world is hugely important to our own interests, as well as the world," said Obama. "I think the UK's participation in the EU is an expression of its influence and its role in the world."
Officials in several European countries have warned Cameron he cannot have an "a la carte Europe", choosing the bits he likes while discarding other parts he doesn't. Several high-profile critics at home have also said Cameron has no chance of reworking Britain's EU membership.
Earlier on Monday, Cameron had tried to quell talk of a revolt in his party, saying all his ministers backed his EU strategy.
Despite a growing clamor in his party to harden his line on Europe, Cameron stuck to his pledge to try to reform Britain's EU role, saying it would be wrong to give up before renegotiation talks have begun.
"You shouldn't give up before a negotiation has started," Cameron said. "The idea of throwing in the towel before the negotiations have started is a very, very strange opinion."
Up to 100 eurosceptic Conservative members of parliament are expected to back an amendment this week criticizing legislative plans unveiled by the government because they did not include a bill paving the way for a referendum on Britain's EU membership.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage said the only way Cameron could solve his Europe problem was to hold a referendum before the next election.
"If he doesn't, then I think he will go on leading a party that is hopelessly split," Farage told the BBC. "The dam has broken. I think the politics that dare not speak its name has now become mainstream."
Additional reporting by Costas Pitas and Peter Griffiths in London; Editing by Will Waterman, Guy Faulconbridge and Giles Elgood


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SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA and TOKYO, APRIL 5, 2006 -Toshiba Corporation and SanDisk (NASDAQ: SNDK) today announced that they have agreed to build a new 300-millimeter (mm) wafer fabrication facility at Toshiba's Yokkaichi Operations to meet fast growing demand for NAND flash memory. The announcement underlines NAND flash memory's position as the storage technology of choice for mobile products and digital consumer devices, including MP3 music players and memory cards for mobile phones, and Toshiba and SanDisk's determination to retain a leading position in this fast expanding market.
The companies plan to start construction of the new facility in August 2006, with initial production operations scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2007. Toshiba will fund construction of the building, while both Toshiba and SanDisk will provide funds for the manufacturing equipment. Fab 4 will be similar in size to the Fab 3 300-mm wafer facility now in operation at Yokkaichi.
The two companies started operation of a state-of-the-art 300-mm wafer fab, Fab 3, in summer 2005, at Yokkaichi Operations, and have proactively boosted the facility's capacity to meet market demand. Today's announcement reflects the companies' recognition of the need for construction of a new facility, in parallel with expansion of Fab 3, in order to meet anticipated demand for NAND flash memory products in 2008 and beyond.
Commenting on the new facility, Mr. Masashi Muromachi, Corporate Senior Vice President of Toshiba Corporation and President & CEO of Toshiba's Semiconductor Company, said, "The NAND flash memory market is enjoying rapid growth, to which Toshiba has responded by expanding production capacity. We will maintain leadership in the market through continued proactive capital investments in production capacity and advanced process technology and multi-level cell technology. Fab 4 will further secure our ability to respond to demand for higher-density NAND flash in this rapidly growing market."
Dr. Eli Harari, President and Chief Executive Officer of SanDisk, said, "This announcement is a bold step by SanDisk and Toshiba. For SanDisk, this demonstrates our optimism in the continuing growth in demand for our products in consumer electronics and handsets in the years ahead, as well as our confidence in the continuing future competitiveness of the Toshiba-SanDisk partnership. We believe the Yokkaichi Fab 3 which is rapidly ramping, together with the new Fab 4 will have a highly competitive cost structure. The resulting output will create a formidable supply base that is expected to significantly grow our product revenues from new markets and new geographies in the second half of this decade."
About Toshiba Corporation
Toshiba Corporation is a leader in the development and manufacture of electronic devices and components, information and communication systems, digital consumer products and power systems. The company's ability to integrate wide-ranging capabilities, from hardware to software and services, assure its position as an innovator in diverse fields and many businesses. In semiconductors, Toshiba continues to promote its leadership in the fast growing system LSI market and to build on its world-class position in NAND flash memories, analog devices and discrete devices. Visit Toshiba's website at www.toshiba.co.jp/index.htm
About SanDisk
SanDisk is the world's largest supplier of flash memory data storage card products. SanDisk, located in Sunnyvale CA, designs and manufactures solid-state data, digital imaging and audio storage products using its patented high density flash memory and controller technology.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, including statements about our business outlook, technological advancements, construction timetables, production schedules and output and effects on financial performance, costs of new fab facilitization, new markets and customers, supply and demand, and sales that are based on our current expectations and involve numerous risks and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate and may significantly and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. These risks and uncertainties are discussed in detail under the title "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for our 2005 fiscal year.
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How Huge Returns Mess With Your Mind
Happy New Year, investors.
Enjoy those gains that your portfolios earned this past week. Just don't extrapolate them.
This past Wednesday, the first trading day of 2013, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index jumped 2.5% after the White House and Congress agreed on a new tax-and-spending package. That was its biggest daily return in nearly...


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Resonate Yoga
Resonate Yoga is a yoga studio that offers classes at various locations around Melbourne, Australia. We specialise in prenatal yoga and children's yoga, but offer yoga classes for adults as well.
Please carefully read the requirements and target audience carefully, I'm not looking for a cookie-cutter "yoga website", I want something that captures how we differ from other yoga studios and what makes us special.
Resonate Yoga works a lot more with Western Anatomy and Physiology than conventional Yoga practices,
I believe that part of my job as a teacher is no to present people with a whole heap of ideas but to actually reach them. I have been known to stop a class plan mid way through and work on a basic concept such a posture or do a whole class based on back care because I have had students come in with back pain. I encourage my students to ask questions, make comments and tell me how they feel. We take our yoga seriously, but believe that enjoyment is part of the posses of relaxing and learning. I want the kind of students who resonate with this in my classes. These are my target audience.
I have had a number of students say that they like my classes because my classes are an extension of me. I don't pretend to be perfect, I don't pretend to be Christy Turlington (yogi and super model) and I don't pretend to be the Dali Lama. I stand in front of my classes and I be me, I present my information in the simplest clearest way I can think of and I let my students learn from my strengths, weaknesses and life experience.
My web site needs to attract the kind of students who are looking for me as a teacher, My web site needs to be an extension of me.
I want a one-page concept for our new homepage. Ideally a similar styled page could be used for sub-pages, but we are initially looking for a great frontpage.
I presently have a blog, but am looking to simplify into a simple, elegant front page. I have a logo that makes strong use of orange and yellow. I'd like to continue using this, as it presents our brand strongly, but the overall treatment of the page should be light, with lots of whitespace, in a similar way to http://www.yogasoup.com.au/.
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