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Has anyone seen an article by Rocco explaining how dead money is making money?
I think he should explain as to how wrong and as to why he was so wrong on SIRI XM.
My guess as to why it was dead money was he is long P and has an interest in a competing industry which I may add does not make money.
Since the stock has recently spiked considerably Rocco should be writing an article explaining as to why he was incorrect and how great the stock is moving forward, He has been giving a perception that the only reason SIRI is dead money is because he owns P.
He could change this perception with a positive article at this point
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The royal family have always been a cornerstone of British heritage, so if you are looking for things to do in London this month, why not take a trip to Buckingham Palace?
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Every year, hundreds of thousands of people flock to visit the palace, along with other royal households such as Hampton Court Palace and Kensington.
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Buckingham Palace
One of the most striking things about this palace is the fact that it is furnished with some of the most invaluable works of art known to man.
The palace often hosts some of the greatest ceremonies, investitures and state visits that are organised by the royal household.
Visitors to the residence will get a unique chance to visit the state rooms, which are regularly used by the Queen and members of the royal family for entertaining official guests.
The palace is rather impressive in its scope and magnitude and contains over 19 state rooms in the palace, along with 52 royal and guest bedrooms, 78 bathrooms, 92 offices and 188 staff bedrooms.
Kensington Palace
There are a multitude of things to see and do at Kensington Palace. Here you can make your way through the magnificent King's and Queen's state apartments.
But perhaps the most special aspect of a visit to Kensington is the unique chance it offers to get up close and personal with the late monarch Queen Victoria.
Throughout the rooms where she once lived, there are displays of personal objects used by the Queen plus intimate accounts of her private life.
Hampton Court Palace
This residence is the former household of the colourful and flamboyant King Henry VIII. This beautiful building is furnished with a vast array of tapestries, works of art and luxurious furnishings.
It is also surrounded by 60 acres of intensely beautiful greenery, which include the famous maze and Great Vine.
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"As teenagers spend more time indoors, they miss out on essential morning light needed to stimulate the body's 24-hour biological system, which regulates the sleep/wake cycle," reports Mariana Figueiro, Ph.D., Assistant Professor and Program Director at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Lighting Research Center (LRC) and lead researcher on the new study.
"These morning-light-deprived teenagers are going to bed later, getting less sleep and possibly under-performing on standardized tests. We are starting to call this the teenage night owl syndrome."
In the study just published in Neuroendocrinology Letters, Dr. Figueiro and LRC Director Dr. Mark Rea found that eleven 8th grade students who wore special glasses to prevent short-wavelength (blue) morning light from reaching their eyes experienced a 30-minute delay in sleep onset by the end of the 5-day study.
"If you remove blue light in the morning, it delays the onset of melatonin, the hormone that indicates to the body when it's nighttime," explains Dr. Figueiro. "Our study shows melatonin onset was delayed by about 6 minutes each day the teens were restricted from blue light. Sleep onset typically occurs about 2 hours after melatonin onset."
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I don't mind starting so late. I think if I started when my Dad wanted me to, I would probably be dead by now - I had no sense back then.
My ol' man has been riding M/C's since he was 14 and was racing them by 18 (he rides a 2004 R1 now and he's 55). He is able to strip down bikes to their nuts and bolts (including that 2004 R1) then put them back together again with his eyes closed - although, I do wish I had that skill. Anyway, when I started University, he wanted to buy me a M/C as a cheap form of transportation around Edinburgh but me being me, wanted a car. Well, Scottish winters are friggen cold
and it rains all friggen summer. Dad couldn't afford to buy a car (he was paying for me to attend Uni after-all but I didn't appreciate that back then). Anyhoo, I was too stubborn; "if I couldn't have a car then I'll be dang it if I were having a bike", so I ended up spending the next 4 years walking in the pissing rain
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Now, when I call Mum and Dad, Dad is enthusing all the time about "bikes this and bikes that".
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The F650 was my first which I sold last year, went 6 months without a bike and recently bought a R1200GS. I loved my Dakar but I'm really enjoying that 1200...."Thanks" Dad to keeping the faith.
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There will be two versions of John Fox today — the public figure, and the head football coach.
Fox, the Broncos' new head coach, made his Denver community debut Tuesday morning when he delivered the keynote speech to more than 1,000 business leaders at the Boy Scouts of America annual sports breakfast at the Pepsi Center.
He admitted it was an arena in which he wasn't exactly at ease, though that was hardly evident in his speech, in which he introduced himself by talking about his family and football background. He also promised that the Broncos would "win games" and spoke about the need for the Broncos to draft an impact player with their top pick, No. 2 overall, much like the Carolina Panthers did when they selected Julius Peppers at No. 2 in Fox's first year in Carolina.
"Public speaking is not one of my favorite things to do, but in this case, I think it's a wonderful thing to do," Fox said.
After his speech, Fox left the breakfast at around 8:45 a.m. and headed for the airport, where he, John Elway and Brian Xanders boarded a plane bound for Auburn's Pro Day in Alabama.
Auburn, who has two potential Top 5 picks in defensive tackle Nick Fairley and quarterback Cam Newton, is the first stop in a multi-campus tour for the Broncos' brain trust. The group will also visit Alabama (to see defensive tackle Marcell Dareus) and Texas A&M (to see linebacker Vonn Miller) this week. Dareus and Von Miller are also considered possible top five picks.
"For me, the Pro Day is more for the individual meetings. You set it up, put them on the board, get to really find out what's inside of the helmet, instead of just watching tape," Fox said. "Our scouts do a great job as far as finding out about players. But for coaches, and head coaches in particular, it's the first time we have the time to really meet these guys and find out what makes them tick."
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Based out of London, the trio are making a splash with their latest single. It has a sound that reminds me of a female Jack White, and their blues rock approach instantly caught my attention.
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The guys are making great progress in recording the upcoming album. They're about half way through the process and are very excited about how it is turning out. Mike and Tom are currently laying down some vocals .
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The process of choosing which songs "make the cut" is painstaking... After a year of writing some 40+ songs, MxPx and Producer, Dave Jerden, have selected 18 tracks to be recorded. While the new record will not contain all 18, most will make up the 11th release from the boys from Bremerton.
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Yes, pre-orders are refundable up to 2 weeks after launch day. The clock doesn't start ticking when you place your pre-order.
Yes, pre-orders are refundable up to 2 weeks after launch day. The clock doesn't start ticking when you place your pre-order.
I pre-ordered this on Steam a couple of days before launch. As of right now, it is sat on 1h50m playtime and I'm not touching it again until either we have news on when a major patch is expected or we start to get close to two weeks after release.
Because of Steam's new refund policy. If you have less than 2 hours playtime on a game and it is less than 2 weeks since release (or less than 2 weeks since your purchase, if you purchased it post-release), you are eligible for a refund. The game in its current state is a very sorry sight indeed.
My personal experiences with it haven't been as bad as some. I have an i7 3820 @ 3.66ghz, an Nvidia 980 and 16gb of nice fast RAM. I also, crucially, have a 500gb SSD that I use for my OS and for drive speed sensitive games (as well as some big old traditional drives for everything else). Running from the SSD and with an
When I first installed the game to one of my traditional drives, performance was appalling. While framerates when stood still doing nothing were the same, taking almost any action in-game, from moving around to entering a vehicle or changing areas, would produce large framerate drops, hideous stuttering, broken textures and texture pop-in. This game has some serious issues with data streaming from storage drives.
The game is also ugly to look at. Ok, ok, I'm being a bit harsh there. As a bare-bones PC port of a late-cycle 360 or PS3 game, it would have looked ok. But compared with PC versions of recent efforts like Shadows of Mordor, Grand Theft Auto 5 and The Witcher 3, this looks terrible. Bear in mind that all of the above run at higher and steadier framerates with all settings maxed on my PC. In Arkham Knight, NPCs movements are repetitive and robotic, textures are low-resolution (the game will only allow "low" or "medium" detail textures to be selected, implying higher detail textures were removed at the last moment) and basic visual effects from the console versions are missing.
My experiences put me at the better end of the scale. I have a powerful PC with a single-Nvidia-GPU setup. Weaker PCs, or even more powerful PCs with multi-GPU setups or AMD cards seem to have things much worse. I've only experienced one crash to desktop - but that's as many crashes in under 2 hours of play as I've experienced in almost 30 hours of play in The Witcher 3.
A few wider points about this; while this game is particularly brutal in terms of its drive speed requirements, it is part of a broader picture that drive speed is starting to matter as much as CPU and GPU speed for PC gamers in terms of actual in-game performance (rather than just load-times). Watch_Dogs, Far Cry 4 and Dragon Age: Inquisition all suffered from in-game stuttering issues when running from a traditional drive - though not to anything like the same extent as Arkham Knight. An SSD large enough for games as well as the OS is becoming non-optional for serious PC gamers.
Second, this is the first real stress-test of Steam's refund system. To their credit, Valve seem to be honouring Arkham Knight refund requests without any qualms. And it's surely no coincidence that the first "broken" PC port to go out after the refund system was introduced has led to such a dramatic reaction by the publisher.
Indeed, still remember buying my copy.
The banning of video-games has never really taken off in the UK, though not for want of trying. The BBFC had a good go at it with Carmageddon, but the subsequent backlash and (successful) appeal scared that organisation away from heavy involvement with games for quite a long time afterwards.
Manhunt 2 was originally banned in its uncut form, I think, though it was granted certification after a few seconds of footage were cut. And I think there was some other PS2-era shooter (The Punisher?) which was also refused certification without minor cuts.
Actually, the most notable "banned game" in the UK was never actually banned at all. It was Rule of Rose, a generally inoffensive (though not, to be honest, very good) Japanese PS2 survival horror game. Some fuckwit Brussels politician decided he was going to launch a moral crusade against games and picked this as his target. He made allegations about the game's content with were so egregiously untrue that they'd have made even Jack Thompson blush. However, as releases like that are generally have a marginal business case as well and as the game was being (incorrectly) accused of promoting paedophilia and child-murder, the publisher canned the release in the UK and a handful of other European countries.
I ended up importing a US copy just to see what the fuss was about. It was all pretty tame stuff (and the game itself was crippled by terrible controls and a lot of backtracking - common problems in survival horror games of that era). Most video-game controversies, like Carmageddon, Postal, Grand Theft Auto and Hatred, are at least partly courted by the game's developer. I always felt sorry for Rule of Rose, despite the fact it wasn't very good, because the controversy came out of the blue.
Sorry - I should have explained this more than I did. The Zones are technically a part of the public transport charging system (for underground, buses and some rail services) and are arranged in a series of concentric circles. Most of the bits of London that tourists see are in Zone 1. As you get further out, you get more residential areas, as well as (in the outer zones), formerly free-standing towns like Bromley and Croydon which the London sprawl has swallowed over the years.
But while technically a means for working out how much a public transport journey costs, the Zones are more regularly used in London parlance, particularly when talking about house-prices and so on. There's a perception that the more successful you are, the more central the Zone you can afford to live in. But one of the points of my original post was that this has turned into a bit of a false expectation over time; status conscious people are paying exorbitant prices to live in Zones 1 and 2, when they could have a much better quality of life (often with equally good access to the important bits of the centre) living in the outer zones.
As people working in the media tend, as a broad generalisation, to be acutely status conscious and to assume that their own experiences are more representative than they are, the stereotype that all of London is over-priced and over-crowded gets more of a public airing than it deserves.
If I've seen a waterfall once, I don't really need to see it again. To be honest, a single waterfall sighting every few years is more than enough for me. I'm not really into nature; it gets dull fast and most of it smells of cow poo.
I'd rather live somewhere that gives me access to one of the largest and most varied employment markets in the world, as well as a first-rate range of cultural and social amenities.
And London Underground can indeed be a bit grim... which is why I don't use it. The great thing about being south of the river in London is that you are more likely to use surface rail than underground. Faster (since you can get trains to the outer stations that don't stop at every point along the way), generally less crowded (though peak trains can still be busy) and you get a decent view crossing the Thames into Victoria.
Like trying to stay in Zones 1 and 2 and insisting on being north of the river, clinging to proximity to tube stations is another big mistake that a lot of London residents make. The tube is a convenient way to make short journeys around central London, but surface rail will generally make for a faster and more pleasant commute from home if you have the option. Personally, I never go more than a few stops on the Tube (with the exception of the occasional hike out to Heathrow, which is a pain to reach by other means until we get Crossrail).
That's another reasonable option and I have friends who do it. Hell, I spent 18 months commuting from Cambridge (close to 15 years ago now) and it wasn't too bad. Wouldn't be possible these days, though - Cambridge living costs are almost as nuts as central London now.
The only thing you have to watch for with the longer distance commuting is that you really can find yourself at the mercy of rail fair increases; some of the season ticket prices can get very steep indeed once you go beyond the London boundary.
Not quite...
A lot of the negative preconceptions around London are based on tales from people who are determined to cling to the city centre. I used to be one of them; living in a tiny, poxy flat in Zone 2 and paying through the nose for it.
I then took stock, realised that I was spending so much on being close to the centre and was so stressed out by the downsides (noise, antisocial behaviour, general crowding) that I wasn't actually enjoying the supposed benefits. So I bought a place - at a fairly reasonable price - in Zone 5 (and south of the river to boot). From stations within a few minutes walk of where I live, I can be at Victoria station in less than 20 minutes and London Bridge in less than 25. I also get a pleasant, leafy environment, a rock-bottom local crime rate and decent - albeit very mainstream - local shops and amenities. And I'm not exactly mega-rich... "reasonable middle-income" is probably the best description.
If you want to do the full on hipster thing of living in the middle of town so that you can cycle to work and walk to your local pop-up organic smoothie yurt before going window-shopping for hemp underwear, then unless you are rich, you will have no money, will live in squalor and your impressions of London will sour pretty fast.
If you want good access to the city's big employment centres and cultural highlights, then just conquer your snobbery about the outer Zones (a point-to-point ticket from Zone 5 doesn't cost much more than a Zone 1-2 travelcard) and going properly south of the river.
Unfortunately, when I phoned them up, they told me no such thing was possible. This was in late 2013, though, so it's quite possible they no longer had the parts. Plus mine had gone down completely to the YLOD, which has a reputation for being unrecoverable.
I see a lot of cynicism in this thread - much of it entirely deserved. However, from a broader perspective, this is undoubtedly a good thing - and not just in terms of "yay, I can play more things on my new console".
Why? Because it goes some way towards mitigating what was looking like a real risk of a "lost generation" of console games.
As older platforms have gone out of circulation, PC emulation has generally been there to keep titles playable. Hell, when my first-gen back-compatible PS3 died on me and I had to replace it with a non-back-compatible slim model, I was able to carry on playing my PS2 games from the original discs via PC emulation.
But there is currently nothing like working emulation of the 360 and PS3 and, given those platforms DRM measures and general hardware eccentricity, it seems reasonable to suppose that we are years, if not decades, from actually seeing it (if we ever do).
Neither 360 nor PS3 hardware was of the highest quality. The early builds of both consoles had high failure rates - legendarily so in the case of the 360 - and while later iterations improved matters somewhat, there's no getting around the fact that they both remained essentially disposable and short-lived devices built as cheaply as possible.
So at some point in the not-too-distant future (within5 years maybe? Certainly within 10) working 360s and PS3s are going to get harder and harder to find. And with no emulation for them, there is a good chance that a good chunk of the (huge) catalogue of games for those platforms is going to end up inaccessible to everybody bar specialist collectors.
Now, a good chunk of the library for both consoles is basically disposable junk anyway. Does it matter massively if a few iterations of Madden and FIFA end up lost to posterity? Not really. In other cases, games are being "rescued" via "HD remasters" for current generation platforms (which can, admittedly, feel like a rip-off), as has happened with The Last of Us and and as will soon happen with Gears of War and Uncharted. In other cases, developers looking to make money from their back-catalogue may put out PC ports. We've seen this rescue a few absolute classics like Valkyria Chronicles, as well as some more... shall we say... eccentric choices like the Hyperdimension Neptunia games.
But that still leaves a lot of games - including those which were subject to exclusivity agreements but didn't sell well enough to merit an HD-remaster - stranded. There are some good and noteworthy games here; Lost Odyssey, Vanquish, Eternal Sonata and so on.
Now, if the Xbox One has back compatibility all of a sudden, that means that we have at least a temporary stay-of-execution on all three of those games I just mentioned. Plus the fact that they're running on PC-like hardware keeps alive the prospect that we might see them running on "proper" PC hardware at some point further down the line. And if you care about preserving an unbroken history of gaming's development, then this matters. If you don't think that keeping that chain intact matters, then just ask the BBC how they feel about all of those Doctor Who episodes they threw into the trash.
Of course, we still have some PS3 exclusives that are essentially marooned; and that Cell architecture is going to render any kind of emulation, whether on general PCs or on current or future Sony console hardware, a bitch. That leaves some excellent games (the PS3-era Ratchet & Clank games were superb and a lot of Japan's output for the latter half of the last console cycle was PS3-exclusive) still stranded. But maybe this step from MS will put some pressure on Sony.
Hopefully, the PC-like architecture of the current generation will make back-compatibility less of an issue going forward, though there are still issues about the extent to which many games are essentially dependent on PSN or XBL network architecture.
Which could well be the salvation of the Xbox One. Back in the PS2/Xbox/Gamecube generation, cross-platform development was a PITA because the three platforms were so different from each other.
However, the PS2 had an installed base way that was way larger than either of its rivals. So for a lot of small and mid-sized developers, the obvious solution was to develop only for the PS2; it would give you 90% or more of your sales anyway.
I had a friend who worked at a mid-tier developer during that time who worked on a multi-platform game. The irony was that the technical limitations of the PS2 forced compromises all over their game design; features that had to be cut or scaled down and maps whose size had to be reduced. But even though they could have made a better game for the other two platforms, the PS2 version was king, because it was going to rack up most of the sales. Meanwhile, the Gamecube version was way more trouble than it was worth; several game-functions had to be redesigned because of the lack of buttons on the Gamecube controller and that version ended up with a simpler, less flexible and less well balanced combat system as a result. Often forgotten - controller configuration matters as much for ease of porting as what's inside the console itself.
The game did just about well enough to get a sequel. They binned the Cube version and just about decided to keep the Xbox version, though it was a close-run thing. Only the PS2 version made a profit.
Last generation, the PS3 and 360 had broadly similar installed bases. Ok, there were geographic differences; the 360 was ahead in the US while the PS3 was way ahead in Japan. But by and large, both consoles had a roughly similar sized market. So unless you were being paid for exclusivity, you really needed to target both.
This time around, the PS4 is ahead in all markets and sat on at least twice the Xbox One's global installed base. If cross-platform development wasn't easy, then I could see a lot of developers deciding to cut Xbox One versions of their games, even without financial inducement from Sony.
I don't work for easyJet. However, I do work in the aviation sector. EasyJet have a phenomenal safety culture and are among the safest airlines in the world. I see this article as evidence that they are investing money in improving their safety practices.
Almost every first-world airline knows that safety is an area where you don't cut corners. If you're not a state-owned flag-carrier, then a single crash can (and probably will) wipe out your whole business. This goes for the low cost carriers as much as for the legacy airlines.
Your prediction is bollocks, pure and simple.
It's true that the consoles have a good backlog. This is why I still have my PS3 (well, that and it's a better media player than either of the new consoles). And it's true that if you haven't owned a console before and want one you can get lots of cheap games for, the PS3 and 360 are still worth considering.
But that's different to making them viable platforms to target for new games. People who buy new games tend to want to experience that game with the best experience possible (or in some cases, the best experience possible without the cost of a high-end PC). So sales of new games are already proven to be much higher on the current-gen rather than legacy platforms and most major publishers have now dropped PS3/360 support for all but casual and kids' titles.
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WASHINGTON Say you're sorry. That's what the Pakistani government says it wants from the United States in order to jump-start a number of initiatives between the two countries that would help the hunt for al-Qaida in Pakistan and smooth the end of the war in Afghanistan.
Pakistan wants the U.S. to apologize for a border incident in November 2011 in which the U.S. killed 24 Pakistani troops with several air strikes. The U.S. has expressed regret for the incident, a diplomatic step short of an apology, and said it was a tragic case of mistaken identity, in which each side mistook the other for militants and both sides erroneously fired on the other.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton even explored the possibilities of an apology with a Pakistani diplomat in a London meeting but then backed off when the Pakistanis insisted the apology be timed for maximum political impact on their turf.
The Pakistanis have put the apology at the top of a long list of demands to address what they see as insults to national pride and sovereignty - from the Navy SEAL raid onto Pakistani territory last year that killed Osama bin Laden to the steady U.S. drone strikes on Pakistani territory. A lot of these demands are now up in the air with the news Tuesday that Pakistan's high court had dismissed the prime minister, a move that could usher in months of turmoil in the country's government.
From the American point of view, Pakistan has not done enough to stop attacks on U.S. troops carried out by the Taliban and members of the Haqqani clan who shelter in Pakistan's tribal areas.
So the two nominal allies are at a standoff.
A look at what that means for the U.S. taxpayer, the war and counterterrorism efforts:
Pakistan shut its borders to NATO resupply convoys heading to Afghanistan because of the deadly November incident. The U.S. and NATO had been trucking supplies in and out of the Afghan war zone from the Pakistani port of Karachi. The Pakistanis charged the U.S. $500 per truck. Because the U.S. has not apologized for the airstrike, Pakistan has closed that route, and supplies to U.S. and NATO troops have been taking a northern route that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says is costing an extra $100 million a month now and could grow as the U.S. starts to withdraw equipment in advance of the 2014 troop drawdown in Afghanistan. Negotiations have stalled over reopening the routes, mostly over the apology, and it's clear the Pakistanis plan to charge double or more to use their route if they reopen it.
For the Pakistanis, the impasse over the apology means other longstanding issues cannot be resolved, like the resumption of all U.S. security aid to Pakistan. Pakistan still receives roughly $1.2 billion in annual security assistance, but last summer the U.S. halted or suspended hundreds of millions of dollars in aid - and reimbursements to Pakistan for helping secure Afghanistan's border - over another squabble. That one was over Pakistan's irritation that the U.S. didn't brief its leaders before launching the successful raid against bin Laden, who had been living for some time in the Pakistani garrison town of Abbotabad. In retaliation, Pakistan expelled U.S. military trainers, and the U.S. cut off some aid.


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"It was a great season," said Strube. "I think as disappointed as the girls may be right now, if you had told them before the season that they'd play for a state title, they might have giggled at the thought of it."
The Plainsmen can think about making a return trip to Hudson Valley Community College next season. While they graduate six seniors including Ray, Roz Alexander, Andrea Mangione and Kayla Wheeler, they will have Weber, Setter and forward Meg Rogers back in the starting lineup.
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In response to Jeff Spaleta's recent query about the sorts of projects that could make use of NightLife, I'd like to pose the research in our group as an example of the type of work
that could readily use such a resource. Short version:Our public protein structure prediction server, Robetta, relies upon farming our computationally intensive steps to NCSA's clusters, via CONDOR, to provide timely access to our group's methods for the general academic community. But we find that our resources are stretched thin and at times we are unable to provide the researchers the sort of quick response that allows their research efforts
to proceed.If we had access to more computing power, even that available from modest periods of inactivity, we could put that power to work to address many pressing issues in bio- medical research such as HIV/AIDS vaccine design, improvement of existing drugs and/or design new drugs, and creation of new methods to harness biology to address issues such as carbon sequestration.
Overly-long version:I run the various computing infrastructures for David Baker's computational biophysics group at the University of Washington, http://www.bakerlab.org. The group's primary computational focus is the de-novo prediction of the 3-D structure of proteins from the linear sequence of amino acid in the given protein chain. The algorithm under constant development here, Rosetta, is an embarrassingly parallel, Monte Carlo application that requires significant amounts of CPU time to discover the "best" protein structures in a statistically significant fashion. And this approach
has enjoyed modest success over the past few years.The group's success has led to a broad interest in the availability of the methods to the academic community. The code (which is freely available to academic researchers) is challenging to use correctly and the post-production data crunching can be daunting. As a result we created a publicly available, automatic service - robetta (http:// www.robetta.org) - roughly 4-5 years ago to allow anyone to use the methods via the service. We've been victims of our popularity and the server was soon awash in work that pushed the wait times from a day or two to almost a year.
To gain more horsepower, we began a collaboration with NCSA and the CONDOR group to farm our work to their systems - via CONDOR - and that has proven quite successful at keeping the wait times
down to the range of "months". I'd specifically like to point out that the CONDOR group has been VERYhelpful with our CONDOR issues - their goal is your successful use of CONDOR and they're good at it! We've been using CONDOR on our local infrastructure for ~8 years and are quite happy. The transition to CONDOR wasn't as challenging for the scientists as I feared and it's integration into Globus
make using remote resources straightforward.We have researchers from a wide variety of fields who use this service as an integral portion of their research effort, despite the somewhat slow turn-around time. But this summer is the bi-annual, world-wide CASP contest (http://www.predictioncenter.org/casp8/, blind testing of methods, lasts May->August) and, by popular demand, the automatic service is turned towards the many "targets" of the contest which some use as starting points for their work. This leaves many researchers waiting for their work to be
addressed until the contest is completed.If we could access more computing power we would be able to keep the service working on the non-CASP related work during these contests and improve turn-around time in general.
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Monsanto purchased select assets of Agradis, a firm focused on developing sustainable agricultural solutions. Monsanto's purchase includes the Agradis name and its collection of microbes that can improve crop productivity. Monsanto has also acquired the company's R&D site in La Jolla, California. Agradis was formed in 2011 by Synthetic Genomics (SGI), a privately held company led by J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., and Mexican firm Plenus, S.A. de C.V.
"Agradis' collection of plant-associated microbes will support Monsanto's efforts to provide farmers with sustainable biological products to improve crop health and productivity," says Steve Padgette, Monsanto R&D investment strategy lead.
The assets of Agradis not purchased by Monsanto include castor and sweet sorghum breeding and genetic optimization technologies, as well as a novel product used to prevent fungal growth on fruits and vegetables. These assets will continue to be advanced by SGI and Plenus in a new company, AgraCast.
Monsanto also established an agricultural research agreement with SGI. The multiyear research collaboration will focus on the analysis of microbe-plant communities and screening for beneficial microorganisms that could be used to develop additional biological products to improve agricultural productivity. In addition, Monsanto made an equity investment in SGI.
"SGI and Plenus formed Agradis with the belief that our extensive expertise in microbial genomics could accelerate advances in agriculture," says Dr. Venter. "We look forward to working with Monsanto to continue to generate innovation in agribusiness."
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Rosetta Resources Inc. Announces 2013 Financial and Operational Results and Reaffirms 2014 Outlook *Grew annual daily production and proved reserves by 34 percent and 39 percent, respectively, versus 2012 *Replaced 528 percent of production from all sources; 402 percent through drill bit *Increased total project inventory by 59 percent to 790 MMBoe *Added two additional Upper Eagle Ford pilot test areas *Reaffirms 2014 capital, volume and expense guidance HOUSTON, Feb. 24, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rosetta Resources Inc. (Nasdaq:ROSE) ("Rosetta" or the "Company") today reported fourth quarter 2013 net income of $29.5 million, or $0.48 per diluted share, versus net income of $42.3 million, or $0.80 per diluted share, for the same period in 2012. Adjusted net income (non-GAAP) for the quarter was $51.0 million, or $0.83 per diluted share, versus $42.0 million, or $0.79 per diluted share in 2012. The increase in non-GAAP net income was primarily due to production growth in core areas. For the year ended December 31, 2013, Rosetta reported net income of $199.4 million, or $3.39 per diluted share, versus net income of $159.3 million, or $3.01 per diluted share, for the same period in 2012. Adjusted net income (non-GAAP) for the year was $227.9 million, or $3.87 per diluted share, versus $2.77 per diluted share in 2012. Adjusted net income increased versus 2012 primarily due to increased production and higher oil and gas prices. A summary of the adjustments made to calculate adjusted net income is included in the attached "Non-GAAP Reconciliation Disclosure" table. "In 2013, Rosetta was successful in expanding our operations into a new basin that added a significant number of future growth locations to our project inventory. Our entry into the Delaware Basin provides a core asset in an oil-rich unconventional resource area that is complementary to our core Eagle Ford position, and we are accelerating development programs in both areas," said Jim Craddock, Rosetta's Chairman, CEO and President. "As we grow our operations, project execution and financial discipline will be a priority which will position Rosetta to continue to deliver strong returns and long-term shareholder value." 2013 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results Production for the quarter averaged a record 52 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day ("MBoe/d"), an increase of 17 percent from the same period in 2012 and 2 percent from the prior quarter. Production for the year averaged 50 MBoe/d, up 34 percent from 2012. The increase for all periods was a result of production growth from the ongoing development of the Company's Eagle Ford assets and production from the acquired Permian Basin assets. Oil production in 2013 averaged 14 thousand barrels ("MBbls") per day, an increase of 43 percent from 2012. Natural gas liquids ("NGLs") daily production also increased by 43 percent compared to the prior year. A summary of the Company's quarterly and annual production results and average sales prices by commodity is included in the attached "Summary of Operating Data" table. Revenues for the fourth quarter of 2013 were $204.8 million compared to $178.3 million for the same period in 2012. Fourth quarter revenues including realized derivatives were $217.9 million in 2013 and $177.7 million in 2012. During the quarter, 82 percent of revenue was generated from oil, condensate and NGL sales, including the effects of realized derivatives, as compared to 81 percent for the comparable period in the prior year. For full-year 2013, revenues were $814.0 million compared to $613.5 million for the same period in 2012. Full-year revenues, including realized derivatives were $830.4 million in 2013 and $593.8 million in 2012. For the year, 82 percent of revenue was generated from oil, condensate and NGL sales, including the effects of realized derivatives, as compared to 81 percent a year ago. Direct lease operating expense ("LOE") for the fourth quarter was $2.61 per barrel of oil equivalent ("BOE"), a decrease of eight percent versus the third quarter on a per-unit basis. For full-year 2013, direct LOE increased by three percent to $2.49 per BOE primarily due to the addition of Permian operations in the second half of the year. Direct LOE for Eagle Ford operations decreased by seven percent to $1.81 per BOE versus the prior year. A summary of the Company's production and operating costs on a per-unit basis is included in the attached "Summary of Operating Data" table. 2013 Proved Reserves As previously reported, proved reserves as of December 31, 2013 increased by 39 percent to 279 million barrels of oil equivalent ("MMBoe"), comprised of 66 million barrels of crude oil and condensate, 99 million barrels of natural gas liquids and 677 Bcf of natural gas. Of the total proved reserves, 60 percent are liquids and 32 percent are classified as proved developed. Included in the total are 83 MMBoe of reserves additions, primarily from development success in the Eagle Ford shale, 23 MMBoe of reserves acquired during the year, and 11 MMBoe in net downward revisions. The revisions are primarily associated with changes in projected condensate yields within the north central area of Gates Ranch. Rosetta replaced 528 percent of production from all sources including net reserve additions from drilling activity, price revisions, proved acquisitions and performance revisions. Finding and development costs, excluding proved acquisitions, totaled approximately $12 per Boe to organically replace 402 percent of production. The estimated standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows from Rosetta's proved reserves at December 31, 2013 was $2.3 billion, representing an increase of 25 percent from the prior year. In 2013, the Company also achieved significant growth in total project inventory with approximately 790 MMBoe of net risked resources, including proved undeveloped reserves. The amount reflects a 59 percent increase to the inventory portfolio as compared to year-end 2012. Operational Update In the fourth quarter of 2013, Rosetta made capital investments of approximately $293 million, drilling 53 gross operated wells and completing 41 wells. Capital spending for full-year 2013 totaled $899 million, excluding acquisitions. The Company drilled a total of 150 gross operated wells and completed 113 gross wells. Capital spending included $600 million for drilling and completion activity in the Eagle Ford shale where 111 wells were drilled and 79 completed. The capital program also included approximately $66 million for facilities projects. Several central production facilities were constructed or upgraded during 2013 to handle the increased Eagle Ford production. EAGLE FORD The Company operated five to seven rigs in the Eagle Ford area during the quarter. At the end of the quarter, 61 drilled wells were awaiting completion up from 53 in the prior quarter. The following table details Rosetta's Eagle Ford gross well completion activity by area as of December 31, 2013: 4Q 2013 2013 Completed Drilled Awaiting Completed Completed To Date Completion Gates Ranch 16 44 140 28 Briscoe Ranch 3 12 16 16 Karnes Trough 1 9 26 0 Central Dimmit 0 7 12 7 Tom Hanks 3 4 4 10 Lopez 2 3 3 0 Encinal 0 0 4 0 Eagle Ford 25 79 205 61 Daily production from the Eagle Ford was 48 MBoe/d in the fourth quarter, an increase of nine percent from the prior year and flat versus the prior quarter.Twenty-five gross wells were completed in the fourth quarter and 79 wells were completed during 2013.At Gates Ranch, 16 wells were completed and no wells were added to the total of 28 drilled wells awaiting completion at year-end 2013.Three wells were completed in the fourth quarter at Briscoe Ranch with 12 total wells completed during 2013.Also, development continues in both the Lopez area and the Tom Hanks lease where ten total wells have now been drilled and completion activities are currently underway. Well performance on Rosetta's largest Eagle Ford asset at Gates Ranch in Webb County continues to be in line with expectations at 55-acre well spacing. Approximately 292 of the estimated 432 Gates Ranch lower Eagle Ford well locations remain to be completed.Gates Ranch well spacing tests continue with two Upper Eagle Ford pilots on production.A third Upper Eagle Ford pilot area was drilled during the fourth quarter and will soon be placed on production.The Gates Ranch Upper Eagle Ford pilot areas are being closely monitored by the Company's technical teams and plans are to update progress on the initial two pilots later this year. On the L&E lease in central Dimmit County, a fourth Upper Eagle Ford pilot has been drilled and is now on production.Also in Dimmit County, 32 of the 68 planned well locations at Briscoe Ranch have been drilled with 16 on production and 16 awaiting completion.In 2013, Rosetta successfully delineated the Tom Hanks acreage in LaSalle County and full development is underway. Four wells were completed in 2013 and by yearend 10 wells had been drilled and are waiting on completion. Since beginning operations in the Eagle Ford area, Rosetta has completed 205 gross horizontal Eagle Ford wells as of December 31, 2013.Approximately 76 percent of the Company's identified Eagle Ford inventory locations, excluding Upper Eagle Ford, remain to be drilled and completed.In 2014, the Company expects to drill and complete about 14 percent of the remaining lower Eagle Ford locations. PERMIAN BASIN Rosetta's production from the Permian averaged approximately 3 MBoe/d in the fourth quarter, an increase of 55 percent from the third quarter.The Company operated five to six rigs in the Delaware Basin area during the fourth quarter.During the quarter, 20 gross wells were drilled including 18 vertical wells and 15 gross vertical wells were completed.The Company also completed one gross operated horizontal well in the fourth quarter. Rosetta is currently operating three horizontal rigs in Reeves County, including one rig drilling the initial well of the Company's first multi-well pad to begin testing well spacing.Also, completion operations are underway on the second of three horizontal Wolfcamp wells spud during the fourth quarter of 2013.Approximately 91 percent of Rosetta's identified Permian net horizontal and vertical inventory locations remain to be drilled and completed. Financing and Derivatives Update At the end of 2013, the Company's borrowing base and committed amount totaled $800 million under Rosetta's Senior Revolving Credit Facility ("Credit Facility").On February 24, 2014, Rosetta had no borrowings outstanding with $800 million available for borrowing under the Credit Facility. During January 2014, Rosetta placed additional derivative swap positions for 2015 NGL production and 2016 gas production.The attached "Derivatives Summary" table outlines the Company's overall commodity derivatives position as of February 24, 2014. 2014 Outlook Rosetta's 2014 capital budget is $1.1 billion, excluding acquisition capital. The previously announced capital program is based on a four to five-rig Eagle Ford program and plans to drill and complete roughly 90 – 95 gross wells.During 2014, the Company does not expect to increase its current count of Eagle Ford drilled wells awaiting completion.The budget also includes a six-rig Permian program, including plans to drill and complete approximately 50 – 55 gross operated wells in the Delaware Basin, about half of which are horizontal wells. Rosetta's capital project activity in 2014 will benefit from further improvements in drilling and completion costs achieved during 2013.Eagle Ford total well costs decreased by $0.5 million per well and now range from $6.0 - $6.5 million per well, assuming average 5,000-foot laterals and 15 completion stages.Permian vertical well costs have also declined as originally projected and are currently averaging $3.6 million, with more recent well cost estimates approaching $3.2 million per well. The Company reaffirms the planned capital spending level and the previously announced full year 2014 production guidance range of 60 – 65 MBoe/d.The average oil ratio is expected to be approximately 30 percent in 2014 with total liquids estimated at 63 percent.The Company's cost per unit expense guidance for full year 2014 outlined in the attached "Summary of Guidance" table is also reaffirmed. Rosetta Resources Inc. is an independent exploration and production company engaged in the acquisition and development of onshore unconventional resource plays in the United States of America.The Company owns well delineated positions in the Eagle Ford area in South Texas and in the Permian Basin.Rosetta is based in Houston, Texas. [ROSE-F] Forward-Looking Statements This press release includes forward-looking statements, which give the Company's current expectations or forecasts of future events based on currently available information. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts, such as expectations regarding completion of the proposed acquisition, drilling plans, including the acceleration thereof, production rates and guidance, proven reserves, resource potential, incremental transportation capacity, exit rate guidance, net present value, development plans, progress on infrastructure projects, exposures to weak oil, natural gas, and NGL prices, changes in the Company's liquidity, changes in acreage positions, expected expenses, expected capital expenditures, and projected debt balances. The assumptions of management and the future performance of the Company are subject to a wide range of business risks and uncertainties and there is no assurance that these statements and projections will be met. Factors that could affect the Company's business include, but are not limited to: the risks associated with drilling and completion of oil and natural gas wells; the Company's ability to find, acquire, market, develop, and produce new reserves; the risk of drilling dry holes; oil, liquids and natural gas price volatility; derivative transactions (including the costs associated therewith and the abilities of counterparties to perform thereunder); uncertainties in the estimation of proved, probable, and possible reserves and in the projection of future rates of production and reserve growth; inaccuracies in the Company's assumptions regarding items of income and expense and the level of capital expenditures; uncertainties in the timing of exploitation expenditures; operating hazards attendant to the oil and natural gas business; drilling and completion losses that are generally not recoverable from third parties or insurance; potential mechanical failure or underperformance of significant wells; midstream and pipeline construction difficulties and operational upsets; climatic conditions; availability and cost of material, equipment and services; the risks associated with operating in a limited number of geographic areas, including the Permian; actions or inactions of third-party operators of the Company's properties; the Company's ability to retain and hire skilled personnel; diversion of management's attention from existing operations while pursuing acquisitions or dispositions; the Company's ability to integrate the newly acquired assets and operations, including the assets acquired in the Permian; availability and cost of capital; the strength and financial resources of the Company's competitors; regulatory developments; environmental risks; uncertainties in the capital markets; general economic and business conditions; changes in commodity prices that were not anticipated in the acquisition of the assets and operations in the Permian; industry trends; and other factors detailed in the Company's most recent Form 10-K and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.If one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize (or the consequences of such a development changes), or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual outcomes may vary materially from those forecasted or expected. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements except as required by law. References to quantities of oil or natural gas may include amounts that the Company believes will ultimately be produced, but are not yet classified as "proved reserves" under SEC definitions. We use the term "net risked resources" to describe the Company's internal estimates of volumes of natural gas and oil that are not classified as proved developed reserves but are potentially recoverable through exploratory drilling or additional drilling or recovery techniques.Estimates of net risked resources are by their nature more speculative than estimates of proved reserves and accordingly are subject to substantially greater risk of actually being realized by the Company.Estimates of net risked resources may change significantly as development provides additional data, and actual quantities that are ultimately recovered may differ substantially from prior estimates. Rosetta Resources Inc. Consolidated Balance Sheet (In thousands, except par value and share amounts) December 31, 2013 2012 Assets Current assets: Cash and cash equivalents $193,784 $36,786 Accounts receivable 122,677 103,828 Derivative instruments 4,307 14,437 Prepaid expenses 9,860 5,742 Deferred income taxes 27,976 311 Other current assets 1,284 1,456 Total current assets 359,888 162,560 Oil and natural gas properties using the full cost method of accounting: Proved properties 3,951,397 2,829,431 Unproved/unevaluated properties, not subject to 755,438 95,540 amortization Gathering systems and compressor stations 168,730 104,978 Other fixed assets 26,362 16,346 4,901,927 3,046,295 Accumulated depreciation, depletion and (2,020,879) (1,808,190) amortization, including impairment Total property and equipment, net 2,881,048 1,238,105 Other assets: Debt issuance costs 25,602 7,699 Derivative instruments 5,458 6,790 Other long-term assets 4,622 262 Total other assets 35,682 14,751 Total assets $3,276,618 $1,415,416 Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity Current liabilities: Accounts payable and accrued liabilities $190,950 $122,210 Royalties and other payables 78,264 61,637 Derivative instruments 4,913 -- Total current liabilities 274,127 183,847 Long-term liabilities: Derivative instruments 433 563 Long-term debt 1,500,000 410,000 Deferred income taxes 136,407 10,086 Other long-term liabilities 17,317 6,921 Total liabilities $1,928,284 $611,417 Stockholders' equity: Preferred stock,$0.001 par value; authorized -- -- 5,000,000 shares; no shares issued in 2013 or 2012 Common stock, $0.001 par value; authorized 150,000,000 shares; issued 62,032,162 shares 61 53 and 53,145,853 shares at December 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively Additional paid-in capital 1,182,672 830,539 Treasury stock, at cost; 724,755 shares and 581,717 shares at December 31, 2013 (24,592) (17,479) and 2012, respectively Accumulated other comprehensive loss (108) (63) Retained earnings (Accumulated deficit) 190,301 (9,051) Total stockholders' equity 1,348,334 803,999 Total liabilities and stockholders' equity $3,276,618 $1,415,416 Rosetta Resources Inc. Consolidated Statement of Operations (In thousands, except per share amounts) Year Ended December 31, 2013 2012 2011 Revenues: Oil sales $475,119 $318,782 $156,284 NGL sales 198,966 160,461 125,301 Natural gas sales 147,028 93,711 163,382 Derivative instruments (7,095) 40,545 1,233 Total revenues 814,018 613,499 446,200 Operating costs and expenses: Lease operating expense 53,336 35,138 28,822 Treating and transportation 71,338 51,826 22,316 Taxes, other than income 31,075 24,013 18,151 Depreciation, depletion and amortization 218,571 154,223 123,244 Reserve for commercial disputes 20,450 -- -- General and administrative costs 73,043 68,731 75,256 Total operating costs and expenses 467,813 333,931 267,789 Operating income 346,205 279,568 178,411 Other expense (income): Interest expense, net of interest capitalized 35,957 24,316 21,291 Interest income (2) (7) (42) Other expense, net 314 60 903 Total other expense 36,269 24,369 22,152 Income before provision for income taxes 309,936 255,199 156,259 Income tax expense 110,584 95,904 55,713 Net income $199,352 $159,295 $100,546 Earnings per share: Basic $3.40 $3.03 $1.93 Diluted $3.39 $3.01 $1.91 Weighted average shares outstanding: Basic 58,571 52,496 51,996 Diluted 58,830 52,887 52,616 Rosetta Resources Inc. Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows (In thousands) Year Ended December 31, 2013 2012 2011 Cash flows from operating activities: Net income $199,352 $159,295 $100,546 Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities: Depreciation, depletion and amortization 218,571 154,223 123,244 Deferred income taxes 100,876 95,904 56,170 Amortization of deferred loan fees recorded 8,421 2,856 2,248 as interest expense Stock-based compensation expense 10,979 18,539 29,010 Loss (gain) due to change in fair value of 16,345 (19,662) (12,124) derivative instruments Change in operating assets and liabilities: Accounts receivable (18,849) (26,454) (41,215) Prepaid expenses 21 (2,780) (226) Other current assets 172 680 287 Long-term assets (108) 650 (450) Accounts payable and accrued liabilities 37,370 (19,997) 765 Royalties and other payables 16,627 10,948 37,409 Other long-term liabilities 3,413 (3,572) (8,863) Income taxes (2,181) -- -- Derivative instruments -- -- 12,736 Net cash provided by operating activities 591,009 370,630 299,537 Cash flows from investing activities: Acquisitions of oil and gas assets (956,892) -- -- Additions to oil and gas assets (871,092) (622,168) (432,951) Disposals of oil and gas assets (1,304) 88,527 242,588 Net cash used in investing activities (1,829,288) (533,641) (190,363) Cash flows from financing activities: Borrowings on Credit Facility 670,000 290,000 -- Payments on Credit Facility (880,000) (110,000) (100,000) Repayments on Restated Term Loan -- (20,000) -- Issuance of Senior Notes 1,300,000 -- -- Proceeds from issuance of common stock 329,008 -- -- Deferred loan fees (28,280) (1,980) (3,150) Proceeds from stock options exercised 4,981 910 3,792 Purchases of treasury stock (7,113) (6,183) (4,400) Excess tax benefit from share-based awards 6,681 -- -- Net cash provided by (used in) financing 1,395,277 152,747 (103,758) activities Net increase (decrease) in cash 156,998 (10,264) 5,416 Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of 36,786 47,050 41,634 year Cash and cash equivalents, end of year $193,784 $36,786 $47,050 Supplemental disclosures: Cash paid for interest expense, net of $24,824 $20,834 $19,044 capitalized interest Cash paid (received) for income taxes $2,941 $(105) $(405) Supplemental non-cash disclosures: Capital expenditures included in Accounts $118,725 $88,844 $57,546 payable and accrued liabilities Rosetta Resources Inc. Summary of Operating Data (In thousands, except percentages and per unit amounts) Three Months Ended December 31, Twelve Months Ended December 31, % Change % Change 2013 2012 Increase/ 2013 2012 Increase/ (Decrease) (Decrease) Daily production by area (Boe/d): Eagle Ford 48,065 44,163 9% 47,614 35,853 33% Permian 3,463 -- 100% 1,832 -- 100% Lobo -- -- 0% -- 733 (100%) Other 220 176 25% 200 601 (67%) Total (Boe/d) 51,748 44,339 17% 49,646 37,187 34% Daily production: Oil (Bbls/d) 14,962 11,673 28% 13,695 9,553 43% NGLs (Bbls/d) 17,439 15,895 10% 17,529 12,218 43% Natural Gas 116,079 100,629 15% 110,528 92,494 19% (Mcf/d) Total (Boe/d) 51,748 44,339 17% 49,646 37,187 34% Average sales prices: Oil, excluding derivatives $88.60 $90.52 (2%) $95.04 $91.16 4% ($/Bbl) Oil, including realized 88.55 88.13 0% 93.74 89.66 5% derivatives ($/Bbl) NGL, excluding derivatives 34.12 31.18 9% 31.10 35.88 (13%) ($/Bbl) NGL, including realized 34.73 33.44 4% 32.83 37.84 (13%) derivatives ($/Bbl) Natural gas, excluding 3.62 3.34 8% 3.64 2.77 31% derivatives ($/Mcf) Natural gas, including realized 3.77 3.69 2% 3.76 3.28 15% derivatives ($/Mcf) Total (excluding realized $45.24 $42.58 6% $45.31 $42.09 8% derivatives) ($/Boe) Total (including realized $45.76 $43.57 5% $45.82 $43.63 5% derivatives) ($/Boe) Average costs (per Boe): Direct LOE $2.61 $2.46 6% $2.49 $2.42 3% Workovers 0.98 0.35 180% 0.39 0.09 333% Insurance 0.05 0.05 0% 0.06 0.07 (14%) Treating and 3.97 3.55 12% 3.94 3.81 3% Transportation Taxes, other than 1.43 1.59 (10%) 1.71 1.76 (3%) income (1) DD&A 13.69 11.50 19% 12.06 11.33 6% G&A, excluding stock-based 3.68 3.38 9% 3.42 3.69 (7%) compensation Interest expense 2.09 1.47 42% 1.98 1.79 11% (1) includes production taxes and ad valorem taxes Rosetta Resources Inc. Derivatives Summary Status as of February 24, 2014 Notional Average Average Daily Settlement Derivative Volume Floor Prices Ceiling Prices Product Period Instrument Bbl per Bbl per Bbl Crude oil 2014 Costless 3,000 83.33 109.63 Collar Crude oil 2014 Swap 6,000 93.13 Crude oil 2015 Swap 10,000 88.58 Crude oil 2016 Swap 1,000 84.40 Notional Daily Settlement Derivative Volume Fixed Prices Product Period Instrument Bbl per Bbl NGLs 2014 Swap 10,000 37.10 (Includes Ethane) NGLs 2015 Swap 5,000 31.87 (Includes Ethane) Notional Average Average Daily Settlement Derivative Volume Floor/Fixed Ceiling Prices Prices Product Period Instrument MMBtu per MMBtu per MMBtu Natural gas 2014 Costless 50,000 3.60 4.94 Collar Natural gas 2015 Costless 50,000 3.60 5.04 Collar Natural gas 2014 Swap 30,000 4.07 Natural gas 2015 Swap 40,000 4.18 Natural gas 2016 Swap 20,000 4.02 Rosetta Resources Inc. Non-GAAP Reconciliation Disclosure (In thousands, except per share amounts) The following table reconciles net income (GAAP) to adjusted net income (non-GAAP) for the three months and twelve months ended December 31, 2013 and December 31, 2012.Adjusted net income eliminates the unrealized derivative activity from our financial commodity derivative transactions, transaction and financing costs associated with the Company's Permian Acquisition, and charges for commercial disputes, all of which affect the comparability of operating results, along with the related tax effects.The Company uses this information to analyze operating trends and for comparative purposes within the industry. This measure is not intended to replace the GAAP statistic but rather to provide additional information that may be helpful in evaluating the Company's operational trends and performance. Three months ended December Twelve months ended December 31, 31, 2013 2012 2013 2012 Net income (GAAP) $29,495 $42,340 $199,352 $159,295 Unrealized derivative 13,064 (593) 16,345 (19,662) loss (gain) Transaction and 125 -- 7,958 -- financing costs Reserve for 20,450 -- 20,450 -- commercial disputes Tax (benefit) (12,154) 214 (16,169) 7,098 expense Adjusted net income $50,980 $41,961 $227,936 $146,731 (Non-GAAP) Net income per share (GAAP) Basic $0.48 $0.81 $3.40 $3.03 Diluted 0.48 0.80 3.39 3.01 Adjusted net income per share (Non-GAAP) Basic $0.83 $0.80 $3.89 $2.80 Diluted 0.83 0.79 3.87 2.77 Rosetta Resources Inc. Summary of Guidance 2014 Full Year MBoe/d 2014 Average Daily Production 60 - 65 $/BOE Direct Lease Operating Expense $2.85 - $3.10 Workover Expenses 0.60 - 0.70 Insurance 0.05 - 0.05 Ad Valorem Tax 0.65 - 0.75 Treating and Transportation 4.20 - 4.60 Production Taxes 1.30 - 1.40 DD&A 14.60 - 16.05 G&A, excluding Stock-Based Compensation 3.40 - 3.70 Interest Expense 2.55 - 2.80 CONTACT: Investor Contact: Antoinette D. (Toni) Green Vice President, Investor Relations & Planning Rosetta Resources Inc. firstname.lastname@example.com Rosetta Resources Inc. Logo
Rosetta Resources Inc. Announces 2013 Financial and Operational Results and Reaffirms 2014 Outlook
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