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Second Quarter Net Sales Grew to $30.5 Million Including $3.6 Million
From Transition to Sell-In Method of Accounting
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 8, 2017--
ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ACAD), a biopharmaceutical company
focused on the development and commercialization of innovative medicines
to address unmet medical needs in central nervous system (CNS)
disorders, today announced its unaudited financial results for the
second quarter ended June 30, 2017.
"Our commercial efforts continue to drive strong financial performance
with solid market uptake for NUPLAZID in patients with Parkinson's
disease psychosis," said Steve Davis, ACADIA's President and Chief
Executive Officer. "Following positive data from our Phase II study in
Alzheimer's disease psychosis and recently completed End-of-Phase II
meeting with the FDA, we are excited to start our Phase III program in
the next couple of months."
During the second quarter of 2017, ACADIA generated $30.5 million of net
product sales of NUPLAZID, which includes the one-time recognition of
$3.6 million associated with the transition to the sell-in revenue
recognition method of accounting from the sell-through method.
Starting with the second quarter of 2017, based on its determination it
had sufficient volume of activity to reasonably estimate its allowances
for rebates and chargebacks, ACADIA began to recognize revenue at the
point of sale to its specialty pharmacy and specialty distributor
partners, commonly referred to as the "sell-in" revenue recognition
method. Previously, ACADIA had deferred the recognition of revenue until
it obtained evidence that its specialty partners had dispensed the
product to a patient or had sold the product to a government facility,
long-term care pharmacy or in-patient hospital pharmacy. The $3.6
million one-time adjustment was deferred revenue as of March 31, 2017
and represents product held by specialty pharmacies and specialty
distributors at such date.
For comparison purposes, the following table presents NUPLAZID's pro
forma quarterly net product sales under the sell-in method, if ACADIA
had been able to reasonably estimate its allowances for rebates and
chargebacks from the time of launch in May 2016.
Pro Forma Reconciliation of Sell-Through to Sell-In Method
Pro forma NUPLAZID net sales, sell-in method
Recent Highlights
Financial Results
RevenueNet product sales of NUPLAZID, which was first made
available for prescription starting in May 2016, were $30.5 million for
the three months ended June 30, 2017 compared to $0.1 million for the
three months ended June 30, 2016. For the six months ended June 30, 2017
and 2016, ACADIA reported NUPLAZID net product sales of $45.8 million
and $0.1 million, respectively.
Research and DevelopmentResearch and development expenses
for the three months ended June 30, 2017 were $34.2 million, compared to
$20.5 million for the same period of 2016. For the six months ended June
30, 2017 and 2016, research and development expenses were $69.6 million
and $43.3 million, respectively. The increase in research and
development expenses during the 2017 periods as compared to 2016 was
primarily due to increased clinical costs related to the schizophrenia
and depression studies ACADIA initiated in the fourth quarter of 2016.
The company also incurred additional personnel and related costs
associated with its expanded research and development organization
during 2017 as compared to 2016.
Selling, General and AdministrativeSelling, general and
administrative expenses for the three months ended June 30, 2017 were
$61.5 million, compared to $50.8 million for the same period of 2016.
For the six months ended June 30, 2017 and 2016, selling, general and
administrative expenses were $127.3 million and $78.3 million,
respectively. The increase in selling, general and administrative
expenses during the 2017 periods as compared to 2016 was primarily due
to costs incurred to support ACADIA's commercial activities for NUPLAZID.
Net LossFor the three months ended June 30, 2017, ACADIA
reported a net loss of $67.4 million, or $0.55 per common share,
compared to a net loss of $71.3 million, or $0.63 per common share, for
the same period in 2016. The net losses for the three months ended June
30, 2017 and 2016 included $18.2 million and $13.9 million,
respectively, of non-cash stock-based compensation expense. For the six
months ended June 30, 2017, ACADIA reported a net loss of $155.3
million, or $1.27 per common share, compared to a net loss of $121.1
million, or $1.08 per common share, for the same period in 2016. The net
losses for the six months ended June 30, 2017 and 2016 included $33.8
million and $25.8 million, respectively, of non-cash stock-based
compensation expense.
Cash and InvestmentsAt June 30, 2017, ACADIA's cash, cash
equivalents, and investment securities totaled $417.3 million, compared
to $529.0 million at December 31, 2016.
2017 Financial GuidanceACADIA expects that full-year
NUPLAZID net sales for 2017 will be between $105 million and $115
Conference Call and Webcast InformationACADIA management
will review its second quarter financial results and operations via
conference call and webcast later today at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The
conference call may be accessed by dialing 844-821-1109 for participants
in the U.S. or Canada and 830-865-2550 for international callers
(reference passcode 12799639). A telephone replay of the conference call
may be accessed through August 22, 2017 by dialing 855-859-2056 for
callers in the U.S. or Canada and 404-537-3406 for international callers
(reference passcode 12799639). The conference call also will be webcast
live on ACADIA's website, www.acadia-pharm.com,
under the investors section and will be archived there through August
22, 2017.
About NUPLAZID® (pimavanserin)NUPLAZID
is the first and only FDA-approved treatment for hallucinations and
delusions associated with PD Psychosis. NUPLAZID is a non-dopaminergic,
selective serotonin inverse agonist preferentially targeting 5-HT2A receptors
that are thought to play an important role in PD Psychosis. NUPLAZID is
an oral medicine taken once a day with a recommended dose of 34 mg (two
17-mg tablets). ACADIA discovered this new chemical entity and holds
worldwide rights to develop and commercialize NUPLAZID.
About ACADIA PharmaceuticalsACADIA is a biopharmaceutical
company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative
medicines to address unmet medical needs in central nervous system
disorders. ACADIA maintains a website at www.acadia-pharm.com
to which we regularly post copies of our press releases as well as
additional information and through which interested parties can
subscribe to receive e-mail alerts.
Forward-Looking StatementsStatements in this press release
that are not strictly historical in nature are forward-looking
statements. These statements include but are not limited to statements
related to guidance for fiscal year 2017 NUPLAZID net sales; the
benefits to be derived from NUPLAZID (pimavanserin); the utility of
pimavanserin in indications other than hallucinations and delusions
associated with PD Psychosis; and the timing or results of future
studies involving pimavanserin. These statements are only predictions
based on current information and expectations and involve a number of
risks and uncertainties. Actual events or results may differ materially
from those projected in any of such statements due to various factors,
including the uncertainty of future commercial sales and related items
that would impact net sales for 2017, the risks and uncertainties
inherent in drug discovery, development, approval and commercialization,
and the fact that past results of clinical trials may not be indicative
of future trial results. For a discussion of these and other factors,
please refer to ACADIA's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 2016 as well as ACADIA's subsequent filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. You are cautioned not to place undue
reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the
date hereof. This caution is made under the safe harbor provisions of
the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All
forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this
cautionary statement and ACADIA undertakes no obligation to revise or
update this press release to reflect events or circumstances after the
date hereof, except as required by law.
(in thousands, except per share amounts)
(in thousands)
Important Safety Information and Indication for
NUPLAZID (pimavanserin) tabletsWARNING: INCREASED
MORTALITY IN ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH DEMENTIA-RELATED PSYCHOSISElderly
patients with dementia-related psychosis treated with antipsychotic
drugs are at an increased risk of death. NUPLAZID is not approved for
the treatment of patients with dementia-related psychosis unrelated to
the hallucinations and delusions associated with Parkinson's disease
NUPLAZID is an atypical antipsychotic indicated for the treatment of
hallucinations and delusions associated with Parkinson's disease
Contraindication: NUPLAZID is contraindicated in patients with a history
of hypersensitivity reaction to pimavanserin or any of its components.
Reactions have included rash, urticaria, tongue swelling, circumoral
edema, and throat tightness.
QT Interval Prolongation: NUPLAZID prolongs the QT interval. The use of
NUPLAZID should be avoided in patients with known QT prolongation or in
combination with other drugs known to prolong QT interval including
Class 1A antiarrhythmics or Class 3 antiarrhythmics, certain
antipsychotic medications, and certain antibiotics. NUPLAZID should also
be avoided in patients with a history of cardiac arrhythmias, as well as
other circumstances that may increase the risk of the occurrence of
torsade de pointes and/or sudden death, including symptomatic
bradycardia, hypokalemia or hypomagnesemia, and presence of congenital
prolongation of the QT interval.
Adverse Reactions: The most common adverse reactions (≥2%
for NUPLAZID and greater than placebo) were peripheral edema (7%
vs 2%), nausea (7% vs 4%), confusional state (6% vs 3%), hallucination
(5% vs 3%), constipation (4% vs 3%), and gait disturbance (2% vs <1%).
Drug Interactions: Strong CYP3A4 inhibitors (eg, ketoconazole)
increase NUPLAZID concentrations. Reduce the NUPLAZID dose by one-half.
Strong CYP3A4 inducers may reduce NUPLAZID exposure, monitor for reduced
efficacy. Increase in NUPLAZID dosage may be needed.
Renal Impairment: No dosage adjustment for NUPLAZID is needed in
patients with mild to moderate renal impairment. Use of NUPLAZID is not
recommended in patients with severe renal impairment.
Hepatic Impairment: Use of NUPLAZID is not recommended in patients with
hepatic impairment. NUPLAZID has not been evaluated in this patient
Pregnancy: Use of NUPLAZID in pregnant women has not been evaluated and
should therefore be used in pregnancy only if the potential benefit
justifies the potential risk to the mother and fetus.
Pediatric Use: Safety and efficacy have not been established in
pediatric patients.
Dosage and Administration: Recommended dose: 34 mg per day, taken orally
as two 17-mg tablets once daily, without titration.
For additional Important Safety Information, including boxed warning,
please see the full Prescribing Information for NUPLAZID at https://www.nuplazid.com/pdf/NUPLAZID_Prescribing_Information.pdf.
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Thursday September 28th, 2017
Recovery Day!!!
Warm up-
Dodge Ball
1st Time you get hit 5 Burpees
2nd: 10 AS
3rd: 100m Run
4th: You're out!!
Teams of 3:
10 Min AMRAP
-Cals Assault Bike
Immediately into:
10 Min AMRAP
-Cals Rowing
Immediately into:
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-Cals Ski Erg
*Score is all combined Calories
Post WOD-
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Halloween is on its way on the night of 31st October with halloween activities of trick or treating, ghost tours, bonfires, pumpkins, costume parties and haunted houses…and it's the only time of year where vampire and werewolf looking gnashers are totally acceptable!
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Exodus 34:29-35
2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2
Luke 9:28-43
Since, then, we have such a hope, we act with great boldness, not like Moses, who put a veil over his face to keep the people of Israel from gazing [on God's glory]. — 2 Corinthians 3:12
This is one of the central themes in the New Testament, indeed in Christianity as a religion: that with Jesus Christ no longer is God veiled, a terrible presence before whom we can only cringe in fear, whom we can only approach indirectly, through observing a code of complex rules and through the rituals of a sacred priesthood. No, our God is the God revealed in Jesus, a human being like ourselves. Jesus who knows our weakness, our doubts, our confusion, our sins. But Jesus who has saved us from ourselves, who loves us and calls us to be with him.
It is a very powerful idea. We make a mistake if we treat it as simply a contrast between Judaism and Christianity. The contrast between the veiled God and the transparent God runs through all religions. Let me read you these words by the most prominent Roman Catholic liturgical scholar in America today, a Jesuit named John Baldovin who teaches at Boston College:
To put it simply (and I hope not over-simply) religious folk can be divided into two basically opposed groups which opt for either "control" or "freedom" as the basis for religious life. What is Christian religious faith about? Is it about bringing basically sinful people into conformity with God's very demanding will for the world? Such a God is loving to be sure – but Gods love has very definite limits. Or is it about offering people a vision of God's world, the reign of God as proclaimed by Jesus – a vision which serves more as an invitation than a threat? In other words, are Scripture and Tradition vehicles for limiting and controlling our access to God or are they inspirations of a pattern of relating to God which must be renewed in every age and place and which can only be offered to human beings, never imposed upon them?*
I don't know about you, but for me the last few Sundays at Holy Cross have been some of the most remarkable in the twelve years I've been here. It began with Charles LaFond's homily three weeks ago in which he likened an epiphany – the name of this season which today brings to a close (the Greek word means "manifestation" or "showing forth") – to God turning on a light bulb, God saying "yes" to us, God's people. God, said Charles, is always turning on light bulbs, always saying yes. That's his nature; he's that kind of God.
And then two weeks ago we participated in a drama about God's calling. (And "calling" is another form of light bulb turning on, of God saying yes to us.) God calling the prophet Jeremiah; God calling Jesus; God calling us. We talked about fear – how fear holds us back from responding to God. In many ways, to be honest, we'd rather have a veiled God than a Jesus God. If God is fearsome, we have an excuse for not responding – it's too hard, it's too scary, I don't know enough, I'm not worthy. We saw in the gospel that day how the people in Jesus's home town turned against him because it was too threatening to think that the home town boy, someone just like them, might be the Messiah, the one to actualize the reign of God in their midst.
And then last week, with the Bishop's visitation. The message of the gospel was Jesus's call to us to fish for people, to change human lives – including of course our own. "Put out into the deep," Jesus calls us. "Do not be afraid." The Bishop asked us what we'd need to "go fishing." He asked us what held us back. I had invited him to open up his sermon, asking questions of us, letting us respond. He did, and you did a wonderful job with it. A year ago even, it would have been difficult. There would have been awkward silences. But we've come a long way, haven't we, in putting aside our fear of real participation in worship – as opposed to being spectators of a performance done by others.
Last week we moved the chairs into the open, circular pattern around the Altar and Lectern. We'll keep them that way during Lent because it will facilitate some Atrium presentations we'll be doing on some of the Sundays in Lent. I know some of you don't like this seating arrangement. I still hear people say that they want to look at me, not at each other. But you know, it's something I think we need to work on. It has to do with what Fr. Baldovin was talking about. We are the people of God – all of us, not just a few ordained folks. We are the celebrants of this Eucharist – not just me, the priest. This Holy Communion is a communion horizontally with one another, all in the great circle around the Table, not just vertically with a veiled God somewhere up in the sky. It's important that our worship show this, because how we worship shapes how we live.
So now Epiphany ends – this season of marvelous light bulb turnings on, of hearing God say yes to us, of hearing God's call. And in the gospel story of the Transfiguration, we go back down the mountain to resume our journey to Jerusalem, to the Cross. Luke's account of the Transfiguration is telling, because no sooner do the disciples get back down that they fail in their mission; they're unable to cast out a demon from a sick child. It was all mountaintop moment for them, no carry through to the challenges of real life.
And what about us? I hope as you reflect on your life this Lent, as you take on disciplines that will help you repent and renew, you will not just work on dieting and exercise and bringing more food for the pantry – good as all those things may be. I hope you will think about your fears. We all have them, the things that hold us back from being part of the dance of God. Give them up, these fears. Take off the veil you've put on God. As St. Paul wrote to the Corinthians, found your life on hope and "act with great boldness." If you do, you will experience the love and power of Jesus Christ – you will be ready for Easter.
* John F. Baldovin, S.J., "The Changing World of Liturgy," Anglican Theological Review, Winter 2000, Vol. 82, No. 1, p. 67.


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Abortion, Aggression and Libertarianism
Libertarians would seem like natural allies of the preborn. The fundamental principle from which libertarianism is deduced is non-aggression axiom. This axiom is simple: it is never right to commit aggression (violence) against another person, except in the case of self-defense. Common sense would seem to dictate, then, that abortion, the most grievous kind of aggression, would be opposed, but that is not the case for the majority of libertarians.
The Libertarian Party platform itself is pro-choice, saying the government has no place intervening between the woman and her womb's occupant. It's a private matter, they say, and a woman has the right to her own body, ignoring the claims of the preborn person to life, liberty and his/her own bodily integrity.
Some libertarians will go so far as to acknowledge that the fetus is indeed a human person with rights, but those rights do not trump the mother's right to her own body, just as no one has a right to someone's private property. Murray N. Rothbard advanced such a claim in his "Ethics of Liberty", saying that the mother doesn't have the right to kill her baby, just to "evict" the child from the property of her body. If the baby dies, then he/she dies, but the mom is not unjust or guilty of any wrong doing.
The most libertarian politician of all time (arguably) is Ron Paul, who is himself pro-life, after witnessing an abortion by C-section when in medical school in the 1960's. To those who hold that pro-choice is the correct libertarian viewpoint, Ron Paul argues that such incorrect first principles lead to disastrous consequences:
"A case in point is a young libertarian leader I have heard about. He supports the "right" of a woman to remove an unwanted child from her body (i.e., her property) by killing and then expelling him or her. Therefore, he has consistently concluded, any property owner has the right to kill anyone on his property, for any reason... Such conclusions should make libertarians question the premises from which they are drawn."
Look to the real cause of a problem pregnancy from a property rights view. The fetus is innocent because he/she did not cause their own life or the pregnancy to happen. And because this causal chain did not start with the baby, abortion is simply aggression against innocent preborn human persons. Libertarians view the human body as the first claim of property rights (hence the use of the euphemism "eviction" for abortion). And in the case of an unwanted pregnancy, both the mother and the baby have rights over the property of their own bodies, which are supposedly now in conflict. So let us look at the moral claims from the perspective of property rights.
There are three different scenarios of legitimate use of force against an aggressor. First, if someone were to trespass onto your property in a threatening manner, you would be justified in using force to repel the aggressor from trespassing on your property. In a second scenario, imagine you dragged a passer-by onto your property, you cannot then shoot them for being a trespasser. You were the aggressor against the passer-by, who is an innocent. It would be the passer-by who would have legitimate claims to repel you, even if you were both on your property. This is because the cause of the trespass is entirely your fault.
Now let us imagine a third scenario. A bully grabbed a passer-by and dragged them on to your property. Again, it is not the fault of the passer-by that the trespass occurred and so remains innocent and blameless in this situation. The bully is the aggressor and any injustice created by the passer-by's presence on your property is solely the blame of the bully. The solution to this trespass is to repel the bully, the attacker, not the passer-by.
In order to discover who is to blame in all three scenarios, we have to understand the chain of causality. If we declare that causality doesn't matter, only the fact that someone is on my property, then it would be open season on every passer-by! Then any property owner could grab someone they didn't like, drag them onto their property, and execute them.
In the case of pregnancy, the libertarian pro-choice advocate would like to have us believe that all unwanted pregnancies are akin to the first scenario: the preborn baby is the unjust aggressor to the property of the mother's body. This is a logical, scientific, philosophical and theological absurdity!
The fetus had no choice in the sexual union that brought him/her about, had no input as to who the father and mother ought to be or when and where conception should take place. The baby is the innocent passer-by in the other two scenarios.
In the second, the baby is the consequence of consensual sex, even if the pregnancy was the result of failed contraceptive use, because the mother still chose to enter into the only state of affairs that may result in a pregnancy. In the third scenario, the baby is the consequence of rape, where he/she did not ask for their dad- the bully- to be a vile and sinister person, did not ask to be procreated in such a circumstance, but is nonetheless there in the situation as an innocent. We all recognize it as an abuse of justice to punish an innocent for the crimes of another.
Concluding thoughts. The Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion according to the worst logic imaginable: we don't know if the preborn baby is really human life or not, therefore a mother has the right to destroy him/her. To those fence-sitters that think this is a good argument, just remember the words of the G.K. Chesterton who tells us that if you are going to bury a man, it is not enough that you think he's dead, or that he's probably not alive. You have to know that he's dead! We have to err on the side of life if there is a doubt as to the life of an individual.
The same is true with abortion: if we don't know the preborn child's status, then we ought to err on the side of life. A mother does not have a right to a dead baby. No one does.


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The Pros of a Press Release
The press release is a standard platform that allows you to sell and show what you are doing to the online public and the media. A press release forms part of public relations and it should be chosen wisely. When a company has something to discuss or mention, they prepare a press release where they discuss the matter. When a company makes a press release the media may take that information and share it with the public using various channels so that the information can benefit the readers. Many companies nowadays are depending on the press release agencies that help them distribute their press release. For so many reasons, many people opt to get information from the press release. The benefits of using a press release platform over the traditional methods include.
The first advantage of using a press release over the traditional method is the low-cost option. When you advertise anything through the newspapers or online you will spend a good sum of money. Some online platforms and newspapers charge a lot of money to advertise or mention your brand on their platform. This turns out to be so expensive because not everyone can afford to pay for the advertisement. Because of this and other reasons, they will require a platform where give yield better results yet not so expensive. The most effective platform for such people is the press release distribution. These method is affordable and very effective. The press release method increases visibility that is why it is advantageous over the traditional method. By the help of the press release you will be releasing your message to the right audience. It is important that you come up with a press release that people will like so that they can read and share it with others. Your company and work will get the required exposure after the increase of visibility provided by the press release. The most appropriate method to expose your company is using the press release.
The press release method is advantageous because it allows experts to share their ideas and knowledge. You will need a platform where you can share all your ideas and knowledge if you are an expert in any field. The press release method enables you to share the ability you have with others. The press release method gives you a chance to attract many investors and customers. Through the press release method you are able to share your ideas and your future plans without it sounding like an advertisement. Trough the press release, investors can be able to know what is happening in the company. The press release method can help you grow your business successfully.


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My granddaughter hung out with me for an hour on Saturday while her mom did some last minute birthday-gift wrapping. When mom came to pick her up, she sat on the floor to finish watching Daniel Tiger and get her hair brushed. I have about five minutes of hairbrushing video, but I have to publish this tiny snip. We've met many kids at the park and haven't run in to another practically-two-year-old who would understand the phrase "shake some water on the brush" let alone actually do it. The whine beforehand is perfect. She needs to learn to say, "oh mo-ther!" Maybe I should work on that…
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A written collaboration by the Seattle Pacific Seminary faculty (SPS), this is a compact introduction to the Bible. This video features SPS professors and authors Dr. David Nienhuis and Dr. Rob Wall, who provide some background on their new book and what they hope readers will get out of it.
SPS's Discernment Weekend is for prospective students, those who are actively discerning their calling and vocation, and those who are considering the possibility of pursuing seminary education.
The Rev. Dr. Scott Dudley, senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Bellevue, WA, talks about why Seattle Pacific Seminary is unique.
Hear from Pastors Erika Haub and Gail Song Bantum on their experiences serving as mentors to SPS seminarians.
Seattle Pacific Seminary professors and students talk about SPS's unique model of Academy, Abbey, Apostolate®.
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After the unsuccessful Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness, Core Design was sold to Rebellion Studios. Core started working on a brand new video game "Free Running." After they came up with an idea to remake the first game of the Tomb Raider franchise onto the PlayStation Portable, they immediately gave the idea to Eidos. Eidos agreed and (Core Design) placed the Free Running project to the side. Core immediately began working on their tenth anniversary edition. While they were constructing the video game, Crystal Dynamics was working on Tomb Raider: Legend. Core Design wanted to create a Lara Croft model that resembled their model. A trailer of Tomb Raider: Anniversary was distributed onto the internet on June 8, 2006. The video was not a good representation of an upcoming video game, but Eidos did confirm they were making an action packed sequel which would be developed by Crystal Dynamics. Later in the making, SCi cancelled Tomb Raider: Anniversary and Core Design was dismissed from the Tomb Raider project. As a result, all of the computers were wiped clean which erased their entire version forever. Core Design is no longer able to produce video games. Crystal Dynamics, known for their work on the Legacy of Kain series, relaunched the series with Tomb Raider: Legend which brought the character back to its tomb raiding roots. It was the first time since the original Tomb Raider that Lara Croft's original creator, Toby Gard returned to work on a sequel. The game heavily expanded on Lara Croft's background, detailing on the loss of her mother in early childhood and how she followed her father's footsteps to find her (therefore beginning her archaeology career). Tomb Raider: Legend introduced an electromagnetic grapple that Lara can attach to metal objects and can, amongst other things, be used to make rope swings and pull metal objects (and enemies) toward her.
A conceptual render of Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider reboot.
Following the success of Legend a remake of the original was produced and released almost a year later, called Tomb Raider: Anniversary. The game expanded on some of the plot lines, further setting up the follow-up Tomb Raider: Underworld, which was released in late 2008. Underworld featured the conclusion of the loose trilogy that forms Legend, Anniversary and Underworld.


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Ramada Plaza Varanasi appears out as the newest entrant in the five star segment. Ramada Plaza in itself truly is an address of unparalleled elegance, sophistication and luxury.
Close to Bharat Mata, Vishwanatha Temple, and Kashi Vishwanath Temple, Hotel Ramada in Varanasi comes 20 km away from Varanasi Airport and is 5 km away from Varanasi Railway Station.
The hotel has 120 rooms that are be sub-divided into three categories, namely Suites, Club Rooms and Superior Rooms. Each of the rooms has been elegantly done up and there are several facilities on the premises.
A speciality Indian restaurant in Hotel Ramada that serves authentic Indian cuisine from a live kitchen.
In the hotel, the speciality restaurant makes available its guest the best of Chinese and Thai cuisines.
Cafe Fresco is an all-day-dining restaurant providing a world-cuisine menu.
This comes perfect for dinner & drinks amidst a relaxing intimate atmosphere.
Poolside Bar in this hotel is an ideal place to enjoy a healthy snack and sip on refreshing cocktails.
The hotel avails conference facilities to its guests with the help of 6 conference and banquet spaces, namely Shehnai (450 persons), Sarangi (125 persons), Sarod (120 persons), Santoor (8150 square feet), Garden (2500 persons) and Board room (243 square feet).
An outdoor pool and a spa tub are on the site. Other recreational amenities in the hotel present a sauna, a steam room, and a fitness facility.


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Xiaomi Mi5 expected at July 16 event
Xiaomi's upcoming Mi5 was leaked in full earlier this week, so it's probably time to finally unveil the new phone. Thankfully, it looks like that's the plan with a new event set for July 16 according to the Chinese company's Weibo account.
The online invitation doesn't reveal much, but it does offer what could be a first look at the Mi5. We see the super-thin profile of some sort or device with curved corners. It also appears to feature a metal frame or even a unibody design. It's tough to say for sure, though we won't have too wait much longer to find out.
We may already know what to expect from the Mi5, at least when it comes to its hardware. The device allegedly packs a 5.2-inch Quad HD display, a Snapdragon 810 processor, a 3000mAh battery, a 16-megapixel rear camera and a 13-megapixel shooter up front. It may also cost around 2399 yuan in China (about $386).
As for the rumored Mi5 Plus, we would love to see the super-sized smartphone launch this month as well, but that seems less likely. The rumored phablet is expected to pack a Snapdragon 820 chip, meaning it likely won't arrive until late 2015 when the new processor is released. We're looking forward to seeing the flagship Mi5 finally make its debut in the meantime.
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Summer on the Farm: Math Pictograph
Summer on the Farm: Math Pictograph
Last summer the Goldenrod Farm Stand sold more produce than ever before. The pictograph shows the amounts of produce sold. Students use the graph to answer the questions.
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- Grade: 4 - 5
- Subject: Pictographs, Real-World Math, Data Analysis
- Theme: The Farm, Food and Cooking
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- Common Core: RI.4.7, RI.5.7, 4.NBT.B.4, 4.OA.A.1


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It was inevitable living in New Zealand, I have become a full blown outdoor adventure addict. Combine that with my love of exercise, and pursuit of fitness, and you have one formidible combination. With the summer fast approaching, and subsequently more daylight, my main focus will be feeding both of these habits. If there is one thing I am trying really hard to adopt from the the Kiwi culture it would have to be their work-life balance. Taking time for oneself is a necessity, and at 41 it is slowly sinking in to my middle-aged brain.
Is outdoor adventure, and physically taxing exercise, a suitable treatment for depression, drug addiction, ADHD, etc, maybe? It seems to me a good dose of nature would do wonders for depression and ADHD, but drug addiction is more complicated. With the opioid addiction becoming a full blown epidemic in the US, looking into nature bathing as a supplemental therapy might be worthwhile. At this point, we need to take action, and not just talk tough (like some do, about most things). Connecting with the natural world we were all once very much a part of might just yield the miracle we are so desperately in need of right now.
Like climate change, and hostile foreign nations, the opioid epidemic isn't going away anytime soon, so we need to act now. We can only achieve our goals through a united front, so enough with the bullshit, let's get to work.


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The families had one thing in common; a ten year old girl named Maria, who bullied the others on the street relentlessly. She always had the last word and she used her opportunities to make the other kids feel humiliated.
Then the snow came. Three kids came out to play on the cul-du-sac. Two others came out to shovel snow down by the park. Two walked by on their way to visit a friend. They all met on the sidewalk by her house. They started talking. They laughed for a few minutes about a Youtube video they had all seen.
Maria didn't say anything mean. She just talked about the constant snowfall and the number of snow days she had enjoyed. She sat down on a snow mountain and talked about how she wanted to change. She didn't want to be a bully anymore.


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I'll Be Home for Christmas
The sun is setting at Orly, Paris airport, and I have my usual pre-flight glass of wine by my side. Once more, I've packed my bags, and I'm headed to the South of France.
The year is wrapping up and I feel a sense of relief.
Last New Year's Eve I flew home from France, moved in with a friend, and started the year by officially ending my short lived marriage on an ice cold winter day in a busy coffee shop.
I had no idea how hard it would be. I'm glad I didn't. I barely made it through the winter months, ran away to LA, and left Toronto when it all became too much. Then it was Europe. I started in Berlin where I had my first taste of freedom and excitement for my new life. Then Northern Ireland, where I sobbed at my cousin's wedding because it was still too soon. Then London. Then home in France. The beginning of my nomadic reality.
I've packed and unpacked my suitcase so many times year. Me, my big purple bag and my credit cards are worn out.
In a lot of ways it was a year of loss and leaving. I lost my love, my home, left my job and Canada. On two separate occasions I lost my passport, money and identification. On several occasions I lost all sense of self.
But the gains. The beautiful gains. So many great experiences, new friendships, places, skills, and maybe even a little happy weight gain from living so well. I've lived the way I always wanted to. I've taken risks. I've seen dreams realized. I've made more than one city my home. I remind myself of this when it hurts or I feel worn out from it all.
What now? I'm not sure. Maybe something more stable. Maybe I'll keep moving. I have to sort out the details and get some money in the bank.
First I go home, to France, to my loving parents and sleepy little village to celebrate Christmas.
I hope you're all warm with love and feeling excited about life. Whatever your year has been like, we've got a new one coming up, and I think it's going to be a good one.


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MAGNOLIA CLUBHOUSE: A Community of Support Welcome to Magnolia Clubhouse, a community of support for people living with mental illness in Cleveland, Ohio. At the heart of the clubhouse, is the belief that work and relationships are rehabilitative. Any adult with a mental illness may become a member. On any given day, you will find clubhouse members and staff working side by side in order to prepare the daily lunch, answer phones enter data and maintain the grounds. The contributions of clubhouse members are essential to the community which improves the quality of our members' lives through programs such as transitional employment and scholarships. Almost 100 percent of our members report an improvement in their well-being. Clubhouse members also have higher rates of employment and fewer hospitalizations. Your contribution to Magnolia Clubhouse will help adults in Cleveland who live with mental illness find purpose, friendships and opportunity.


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In order to achieve more efficient reuse of agro-residues, it is necessary to give them density and pressure so that one can make them into solid pieces of definite shape and high quality thermal value. This type of process is done in the Briquetting plants that makes biomass briquettes from the agro-residues.
Briquette plant is one of the compaction technologies that recycles the agro-residues into high density biofuel briquettes. This manufacturing technology is the cost effective as agro-residues are free or of low cost, homegrown and serve as an abundant source of energy. These residues are bulky, low in combustion and release smoke while burning. The direct burning of these residues, in domestic and industrial applications is inefficient and wasteful. Also, this direct burning leads to wide scale air pollution and other greenhouse effects. Hence, the need arises to put them to efficient use is essential. This process is carried out by the Briquetting plant manufacturer.
The main objective of the briquetting press manufacturer is to make briquettes from agro-residues and use them to generate thermal heat and power in the industries. The agro-residues like groundnut shells, jute waste, cumin waste, castor husk, rice husk, sunflower stalks, almond shells, coffee or tea waste, etc. can be bracketed into the solid bio fuel. Hence, the biomass briquettes are also known as agro waste briquettes. Therefore, the Briquetting plant is the renewable energy technology that makes proper utilization of agricultural waste and residues by converting them into biofuel.
The simplest technology of biomass Briquetting plant that makes the agro-residues reusable and turns them into the renewable energy product briquettes. Jumbo 90 briquette machine in the Briquetting plant processes all kinds of the agro-residues and applies high pressure on it to make white coal briquettes. This is the green technology to manufacture briquettes without any chemical. This briquette press produces such kind of bio briquettes which does not produce much smoke and poisonous emissions. And this type of biofuels is used in too many industries for the heating purpose in boilers. Hence, biomass Briquetting technology has a great deal on keeping the environment balancing by converting agro-residues into a dense biofuel.


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Audiophile OST Gets An Audiophile Makeover
Already an honorary entry in the 'TAS' audiophile list since its original release, Casino Royale is one zany soundtrack sound buffs go nuts for. And with good reason. Recorded by super producer Phil Ramone with high grade tape for a much wider dynamic range than the norm, this is an […read more…]


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It's April. Are you sick of soup yet? I hope not because this one is really good. It is based on the broccoli cheddar soup that is sold at Panera, and let me tell you, I'd eat their soup on a 110 degree day. Not that we have 110 degree days in Boston.
On a side note, when I was in college playing volleyball in an un-air conditioned gym it would be 75 degrees every single day until the first day of preseason training in August when all of a sudden it would be 95 and humid. Did I do something really awful in my past lives?
Side note: by popular demand, here's another picture of Lily from last week
Broccoli Cheddar Soup Printer-friendly version
1 tablespoon butter, melted 1/2 medium onion, chopped 1/4 cup melted butter 1/4 cup flour 2 cups half-and-half 2 cups chicken stock (or vegetable to make the soup vegetarian) 1/2 pound fresh broccoli 1 cup carrots, julienned salt and pepper, to taste 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg 8 ounces grated sharp cheddar cheese
Saute onion in the 1 Tbsp. butter. Set aside. Cook 1/4 cup melted butter and flour using a whisk over medium heat for 3-5 minutes. Stir constantly and slowly add the half-and-half. Add the chicken stock whisking all the time. Simmer for 20 minutes.
Add the broccoli, carrots and onions. Cook over low heat until the veggies are tender for 20-25 minutes. Add salt and pepper. The soup should be thickened by now. Pour in batches into blender and puree (I just used an immersion blender right in the pot). Return to pot over low heat and add the grated cheese; stir until well blended. Stir in the nutmeg and serve.
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I'm also not alone in having felt a 'connection' to people because of what they 'activated' in me that reminded me of one or both of my parents or that tapped into old issues.
You can peek into the girls' private shows either on Bongacams or in other cams at a very low cost. ********************************************************************************* Also known as the Free Reception Desk, or Amsterdamlive, this site seems associated with voyeur dorm, and 1on1world, not sure how.
Alternatively, if you are looking for European cam girls, Chaturbate and are both good choices with Chaturbate has more varieties in terms of girls and games they play in the chatroom. I do miss that transparent see-through chair the Amsterdam girls sat on. Anyway it is a purely commercial site to watch models, however the special part is that free reception desk.
These sites are also called: 1on1, 1on1world, camsathome, sexandfun, sincitydorm.
It is all the same company called "interclimax" that runs this house in Amsterdam, you can get into it via lots of different entrances.
Really free and quite fun to watch the girls chat there, and with multiple cameras that give you face, legs, ass or back view.
So if you see a girl chatting and want to look up her skirt you can just choose that camera.
Creating an account is easy: choose your username, password and provide them your email address.They run lots of parties every year including Easter Bunnies Party, Ex Porn Star Party, Bodypaint Fun, Clay Modeling and Dirty Dancing Party.Take a look of these hot video clips of the parties.So the Babe Tracker is a robot that sends you messages in chat with things like "Makeup room on 1st Floor: moved"; then you can change to that cam to see who's there!Families sometimes feel lost or struggle to express themselves regarding a loved one's drug or alcohol use.
The new house will be ready end of Sept and will have 55 cams over 4 floors.21 Jul: Unlike imlive's party, Amsterdam-livexxx runs real parties from time to time.
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Thursday, January 23, 2014
Chickens have come home to Roost! Lead Police Chief in DJ Henry case Charged with Child Porn
Brian Fanelli than Lead Police Lieutenant, now Police Chief, who lied to coverup the truth about the senseless killing of an unarmed College Football player who attended Pace University in Pleasantville, New York has been arrested and exposed as a Child Predator.
Danroy DJ Henry was an 20 year old honorable young man and student who was shot and killed by Police Officer Aaron Hess, while sitting in his car waiting for friends outside of a Thornwood, N.Y. neighborhood bar and restaurant in 2010. Aaron Hess was never criminally charged by a Grand Jury, however his parents are in the process of Federal Civil Rights Violations via the Department of Justice.
LoHudNews reports:
Mount Pleasant police Chief Brian Fanelli was arrested Thursday by federal agents on child porn charges after a search warrant was executed at a Mahopac home, a law enforcement source said.
Fanelli was expected to appear later Thursday in U.S. District Court in White Plains.
Town Supervisor Joan Mayberry called the news "very disturbing" and said that Fanelli had been suspended with pay in accordance with his contract. She added that she is considering the appointment of an acting chief from among the department's two lieutenants while Fanelli's legal situation plays itself out.
Mayberry was told of Fanelli's arrest around 12:15 p.m., she said. U.S. Homeland Security agents told her that he would be charged with trafficking in child pornography, she said.
"We are fully cooperating with the U.S. Attorney's Office in this investigation," Mayberry said.
No one was home Thursday afternoon at Fanelli's raised ranch at 50 Archer Road in Mahopac Falls, a relatively quiet neighborhood of single-family homes near the Westchester County border.
About 8:30 a.m. Thursday, neighbors saw a group of cars and vans pull up in front of Fanelli's house. At least two of the people who got out of the vehicles wore helmets and SWAT team uniforms, though Fanelli was apparently taken into custody without incident, neighbors said. READ MORE
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Author Willie Morris Dead At 64
Morris, with more than a dozen books to his credit, had a wide-ranging and colorful professional life as a journalist, editor and novelist. Among his better known books are North Toward Home and Terrains of the Heart and Other Essays on Home.
At age 33, the Jackson native had become the youngest editor-in chief of Harper's Magazine, the nation's oldest magazine.
Â"He brought that magazine kicking and screaming into the present. With his love of words and very considerable charm he'd taken an archaic magazine and made it an exciting magazine that was on the cutting edge. It was a stunning success,Â" said writer David Halberstam, recruited by Morris at Harper's. Â"There was a moment he sort of owned New York.Â"
Morris, born Nov. 29, 1934, was brought up in Yazoo City, a small town that would become the focal point for many of his stories. He also developed what he called a Â"good ole boy" love for the South and its people.
Morris and his only child, son David, a freelance photojournalist living in New Orleans, were collaborating on a new book.
Morris, who died about 6:20 p.m. Monday at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson, is also survived by his second wife, JoAnne Prichard, whom he married in 1990. Prichard was an editor at the University Press of Mississippi, who was responsible for Homecomings, Morris' award-winning essay collection.
His latest published book was The Ghosts of Medgar Evers, a 1998 work about the history of the production of the 1996 Rob Reiner film Ghosts of Mississippi.
Â"The basic crisis in America is that of racism,Â" Morris wrote. Â"Mississippi has always been the crucible of national guilt.Â"
Earlier this year, filmmakers were in Mississippi for a movie version of one of Morris' works, a 1995 heart-tugging memoir, My Dog Skip. The movie is set for release later this year.
Word of the death spread quickly among the literary community.
A weeping Dean Faulkner Wells, niece of William Faulkner, could manage only a few words. Â"He was my Huckleberry friend, and I'm very, very lonely. I'll never get over it.Â"
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You can now follow us on Twitter @TektonicNet
So far we have just hatched, but I am sure we will earn our wings soon enough :)
Thursday, 5 May 2011
Sunday, 1 May 2011
39 Percent of Small Businesses to Move to Cloud
Tektonic Internet reports in their Internet news section that Microsoft Corp has announced the results of a study in small and medium business adoption of cloud technology. The results are very revealing and indicate 39 percent of SMBs to be paying for one or more cloud services within three years. The findings show opportunities for web hosting providers. More results are explored in depth in the article posted by Tektonic Internet and Multimedia on their site.
Friday, 29 April 2011
1 - I Am Blog
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by another blog, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to blog, simultaneously.
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No One Can Keep Us From Our Addictions
The note I passed to a student who was hiding her phone behind her reading book, had skipped all our writing in order to text, and has been doing so for weeks:
Here's the thing:
No one can keep us from our addictions but ourselves.
I'm reading a book about an alcoholic woman.
She knew she needed to stop drinking.
People told her so.
People who loved her.
But it took something else to get her to quit.
She had to make the decision.
No one but our better selves can save us from our addictions
No original thoughts there and so I thought about not posting it. Then I remembered that there may not be such a thing as an original thought and it's better to focus on having intriguing ones. This seemed to qualify.
I passed the note to my student. I'm posting it here for you. But I wrote it, I think, for myself.


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About the city
Hofheim, is located just a few kilometers from Frankfurt am Mein and has more than 40,000 inhabitants. Like Pruszcz Gdanski it is a part of a large agglomeration. It is situated on the edge of a wooded mountain massif Taunus and has a unique old town full of shops and cafes. There is a wonderful summer theater and concerts of classical music. In the 'Stadthalle' there are theatre performances, concerts and sketch comedies. Hofheim is also the host to many outdoor festivals that attract thousands of people from surrounding areas.
In the city there is also The Municipal Museum built on the foundation of the eighteenth-century historic farm, where one can enjoy a permanent exhibition of local history as well as four new exhibitions each year. The city aqua park attracts nearly 500 000 visitors a year, there is also a golf course.
On 29 February 2012 the City Council of Pruszcz Gdański authorized the Mayor to sign the partnership document between the cities of Pruszcz Gdanski and Hofheim. This document was signed on 25 April 2012 in Hofheim. On 19 September 2012 in Pruszcz Gdański the cities signed a letter of intent in which both sides expressed their willingness to intensify their cooperation and especially concentrate on getting to know each other and promoting the cultural heritage of the two regions.
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Being a little behind in my reading, I just finished Kevin D. Williamson's great article on public art ("Vandals and Scandals") in the February 24 issue. I would like to ask the author for his take on Detroit's RoboCop-statue funding via Kickstarter. By way of background, in 2011, a Kickstarter campaign was launched to make a RoboCop statue from the 1987 iconic movie, which takes place in Detroit. The nonprofit Imagination Station raised $60,000 online, and a ten-foot-tall statue is on its way to a Detroit-based bronzeworks.
Page W. H. Brousseau IV
Flint, Mich.
Kevin D. Williamson responds: Now that Detroit itself has succeeded in realizing the horrific dystopian future of RoboCop, building a ten-foot-tall statue of the character seems a little beside the point. But the model behind the RoboCop tribute — a private nonprofit raising money from RoboCop fans via Kickstarter — is precisely the right one. It has been corrupt and backward political institutions and semi-political institutions, from the Detroit city council to the automotive labor unions, that have transformed Detroit from the nation's most prosperous industrial city into the current pit of squalor and neglect that it is. If anything is going to rescue Detroit, it will be collaborative entrepreneurial projects, both in the for-profit world and in the nonprofit sector. Maybe the RoboCop statue is not the most important of them — okay, scratch the "maybe" — but it is an example of the right sort of thing to be doing. As for the work itself — de gustibus, etc.
Sexual Expression First
I almost cried when I read Mary Eberstadt's piece ("Progressivism's War on Winners") in your March 10 issue.
At one point in her article, she answered her own question: "If today's progressives really care so much about the poor, why not cease and desist in their enthusiastic efforts to obstruct such manifestly good works?" Her answer pointing to "the ideological desire to put sexual expression first" is to the point, of course, but unfortunately it also answers another question, which I heard stated rhetorically recently: "Why is a woman's right to abortion more important than a baby's right to live?"
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text: Meeting the Neighbours - Nancy & John How Long Have You Been Involved With The Hub?John And I took over ownership of The Hub in January this year after I had been working with the previous owner, Ross, for 7 years.Why Did You Decide To Take Over?When Ross announced his view of a successive planned exit from the hub and we discussed the idea i couldn't stop thinking about it. It was a new project, a new pathway and a new fun challenge. So we went for it! I feel like it was a natural transition for me. My husband John joined us at The Hub at this time as well. Working for an American corporate company prior for 15 years on and off, John brings his business knowledge and a "Looking from the outside in" view to the running of the business.With his new found dishwashing skills John also does the administration side of the business.Why Were You Keen To Come On Board For The Neighbours Dinner?It is a great way to support each others business. Being a part of The Neighbours Dinner this year for us helps us at The Hub network with other industry businesses and work along side each other. Also, to be actively involved with supporting a local charity such as meals on wheels is a great way to channel funds back through our local community. Benjamin FryJune 29, 20181 Comment Facebook0 Twitter LinkedIn0 Reddit Tumblr Pinterest0 0 Likes


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Employee Wellness Newsletter for May 2018
To help your company educate its employees about wellness-related topics, we are happy to share the May 2018 edition of our "Live Well, Work Well" newsletter.
This month's edition focuses on topics regarding nutrition, distracted driving, and more.
The specific articles within the May 2018 edition of "Live Well, Work Well" are:
- Researchers Link New Danger to E-cigarettes
- Despite CDC Recommendation, Many Adults Still Refusing Shingles Vaccine
- May is Food Allergy Action Month
- Recipe: Barley Pilaf
Download the Employee Wellness Newsletter
All clients of CBG Benefits can now log-in to the CBGconnect portal to download the May 2018 edition of "Live Well, Work Well".
Or, if you would like us to email you a copy of the newsletter, please send a note to email@example.com.
We encourage you to share this wellness newsletter with your employees via email and your intranet, as well as by printing and posting copies in your building.
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Monday, February 22, 2010
CTC Vs BTC
An offer letter issued to an employee by a Multi National Company is given below.
Basic Salary
House Rent Allowance
City Compensatory Allowance
Special Allowance
Conveyance Allowance
Meals coupon
House Maintenance Allowance
Uniform Allowance
Leave Travel Allowance
Telephone Expenses
Mobile Phone reimbursement
Credit Cards
Holiday Facilities
Medical Reimbursements
Medical Insurance
Provident Fund
Fixed Bonus
Productivity Linked Variable Bonus
The total amount mounts up very huge and one looking at is impressed by the OFFER given by the company. This is just to lure employees. With the exception of Fixed Salary, all other payments are reimbursements of actual amount spent. Most of them are payable yearly and leave travel concession is generally paid once in two years. Provision of subsidised food (see Meals coupon) may be a requirement of the company entailed after any enactment like the Factories Act, 1948. In some cases bonus will never accrue although amount will be projected well at the time of preparation of offer letter. Later on the employee will be denied of the bonus quoting salary ceiling provisions in the Payment of Bonus Act. I have come across to find an employee whose expectation was that he would get the stated sum every month but was deprived of of many reimbursements for want of adequate proof of having spent the amount claimed. Surprisingly, these companies do not pay any Dearness Allowance which will compensate the cost of living in real terms to a great extent. This is because the company can not graph the cost of living on which the DA is structured.
Similar are the cases of Employees Provident Fund contribution and the Gratuity. These are statutory obligations of the employer. Though EPF contribution takes place every month the gratuity payment takes place only once and that also after five years of service. When no one is certain that he will be in continuous service for five years with an employer the practice of showing gratuity in the salary cannot be encouraged. More over, gratuity is not payable to any employee during his service but it is payable only when he leaves due to any reason including death.
The practice of including employer's contribution to EPF as part salary and then making a deduction of the amount from the salary shall be interpreted as recovering employer's contribution from the employee and can be challenged as ' an employer shall not deduct his own share of contribution from the salary of the employee'. Similarly an employer cannot realize any amount from the employee for payment of gratuity in future.
In the conventional style of salary fixation, the Basic Salary is fixed and allowances like Dearness allowance, House rent Allowance etc are declared as percentages of the fixed basic. The other benefits will be offered as 'stated in the standing orders of the organisation'. Normally an organisation will have certified standing orders of its own which define the relationship between an employer and employee. The standing orders will speak about different benefits available to different categories of employees.
When the employers think of cost to company, why doesn't there be a much fruitful Benefit To Company concept? The benefit that the company gets out of employment of each and every employee shall be worked out applying any theory like that used to measure the marginal productivity of labour. Since transition of Personnel Management concepts to Human Resource Management, labour has been recognised as a capital gifted with rich resource. In this context it is not worth to relate the service of human capital to Cost to Company alone, rather the services rendered shall be measured in tune with Benefit To Company (BTC). This is relevant in fixing remuneration in functional areas like Marketing wherein the marginal revenue, the benefit to the company by employing the marginal labour, determines the salary. The psychology of mass retrenchment in a reputed MNC which lead 500 skills unemployed tells us that those with negative or diminishing BTC have no room in an organisation. When performance is the yardstick for deciding whether or not one employee shall be shown the way out, the same shall also be the index for retention of employee. A good performer brings in many benefits which a bad performer doesn't. Imagine that the supply of labour is inelastic and there exits alternative employment. In such situation it will be the labour who fixes the benefits that the company gets by employing him!
Retrenchment of employees for poor performance shall be justified provided all efforts using the highly sophisticated tools of the (modern) HR to rearrange and reallocate work have been bushed. But, ironically, many are routed out of the organisation without redistribution of functional areas just finding them unbeneficial to their respective job. Here benefits play the lead role rather than the cost, the very end of which is in the hands of the employer with plenty of 'variables' hidden in the pay scale. Above all, the question commonly asked in a job interview that 'why should we appoint you?' has an implicit meaning 'what benefit the company gets out of employing the candidate'.
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Very nice Article explaining the difference between the CTC and BTC.
I would like to ask a question about gratuity here.
In my CTC package in previous company gratuity component was mentioned. I left the organization after serving about 3.5 yrs. Whether i would be eligible for gratuity amount?
Thanks and Best Regards,
If every month an amount is shown in your salary slip as deducted from your salary, you can claim it. If not shown in salary slip, forget it.ReplyDelete
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i read this artcile by chance. It's an eye opener. Thanks. Later i went thru a few of your blogs and reverts - it's all to the point and by n large qualitatively superb compared to what we generally come across in the net...
i've a few questions. i'm employed in pvt sector since May 2001 and has just joined my 5th employer. The tenures of my previous 4 employments are 1yr 8m, 11m, 1yr 6m and 6yr 1 m. There were 1-2 weeks gap between the jobs. The 2nd and 4th employers had own PF Trust. I've withdrawn PF from my 1st employer. I've not transferred my PF amounts when jobs were changed. In this context:
1. Can i tranfer all my previous 3 PFs to my latest PF account by applying thru my current employer using 3 seperate Form-13. Along with PF will EPS amount also get transferred. If not what to do for transferring EPS?
2. When i withdrawn my first PF, was the EPS amount also paid to me by default as the service was only 1.8 yrs?
3. Am i eligible for applying for scheme certificate? To calculate 10 yrs of service, can the tenures of all employments be added; or is it 10 yrs under single employer?
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Hi MadhuReplyDelete
Very enlightening. Can you clarify weather Gratuity is obligatory on the part of an organisation. Specially if one is not assumed to serve 5+ years in an organisation. And if by chance he serves can it be waived off under the assumption that it is not considered or included in the monthly wages.
Thanks in advance
madhusudan rao
Good information sir....ReplyDelete
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Gratuity as per Payment of Gratuity Act, will accrue only if the employee leaves after completing at least five years of service. However, as stated in the article, if the amount (projected) is shown in the offer letter as included in the pay and later on it is denied, the same may lead to disputes and even there is every chance that the employer may be forced to pay it even in the cases of employee leaving before five years of service. There seems to be no such case being filed on the issue. Still we cannot overrule its possibility because it is a new concept.
- AnonymousApril 11, 2012 at 7:58 PM
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Good information.I have the same douts as Ajith raised.Awaiting you views.
- AnonymousMay 24, 2012 at 9:44 AM
hi MadhuReplyDelete
This blog is really useful. I need a help from U. MY company is a manufacturing company in Grade B city. MY marketing staffs are located in different cities Grade X, and grade A. So I need to calculate CCA. I am little confused in calculating CCA. Do u have any model for calculating CCA. pls help me..


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Normally, a paper citing Kim Kardashian's Wikipedia page wouldn't make it into an international research journal. But in 2014, that's exactly what happened. A satirical commentary published in the journal Genome Biology by scientist Neil Hall, 'The Kardashian Index: A measure of discrepant social media profiles for scientist', asked whether scientists on social media had more influence than their scientific renown would warrant – i.e. whether the scientists were "famous for being famous".
The proposed measure that emerged from this question, the K-index, compared the number of Twitter followers a scientist had with their citation metrics: how many times their research papers have been referred to in other papers. Through this metric, Hall wished to highlight the "Science Kardashians" (those with scores of 5 or higher on the index), supposedly in an effort to nudge them to "get off Twitter" and write more papers, as Hall put it.
Hall's reasons for developing this satirical metric were not without merit. In the age of a 24-hour news cycle and a 280-character attention span, usually the loudest voices get heard. Individuals with high-profile scientific blogs and feeds are seen as leaders in their field, often shaping public opinion, without having published their work in peer-reviewed journals. Ben Goldacre, through his book Bad Science and his blog, tirelessly documents such Science Kardashians who gained public favour and the status of 'authority' through media without demonstrating that they could interpret scientific evidence in a reliable way.
Nutritionists and alternate therapists such as Gillian McKeith and Patrick Holford built, and build, fortunes by selling pills through endorsements and TV shows that propagate pseudoscience at best and outright lies at worst. This is of vast public concern because people spend large amounts of their money on quick fixes they believe are "scientifically proven" while adding to the already large deficit in public understanding of science. So while it is a humorous, tongue-in-cheek measure, what the K-index really does is quantify the credibility of someone's opinion in matters of science and science-related evidence in the public domain.
The commentary, with its clickbait name and contentious subject, caused a Twitter storm of fury and opposition. It also brought forward a bigger question: in this day and age, can we conclusively identify who the members of a 'scientific community' are? The K-index implies that the foundation of someone's credibility to contribute to public debate is based on their record of academic publishing. But this is reductive – only 1% of all scientists regularly publish a paper a year. Moreover, academic debate and public debate are not mutually exclusive. Communicating science, explaining new findings and properly contextualising their relevance to people's lives is an integral part of the scientific endeavour.
The K-index undervalues the efforts of scientists engaged in outreach and science journalists who work hard to accomplish the formidable task of explaining science to the masses. Additionally, new-age social media platforms have, in many ways, further democratised science. Many researchers whose work used to be hidden behind expensive paywalls and incomprehensible jargon are now able to effectively communicate and disseminate their findings.
Twitter also acts as an informal peer-review channel. Public forums and discussions allow researchers otherwise unable to provide critique or analysis to engage in debate. In numerous instances, as have been catalogued by the science journalist Leonid Schneider, crowdsourced reviews of published research papers can spot flaws and malpractice that slip past even the most seasoned editors and publishers. As a result, shortcomings of the traditional review process are overcome.
Closer home, a letter by a select group of scientists condemning Satyapal Singh's comments – which questioned the legitimacy of the theory of evolution by natural selection – was shared widely on Twitter. Similarly, another minister took to Twitter to share an article called 'The Scientific Dissent from Darwinism', presumably in support of Singh's statements.
The debate about democratic practices and the dissemination of science becomes more complex in a country like India. Unequal access to the internet, disuniform educational qualifications and language barriers all make communication a Herculean task. We need to work harder to design -innovative, effective ways to communicate science accurately. We also need to assess ways in which those engaged in outreach and science journalism are incentivised to continue their pursuits, unencumbered by institutional and financial barriers or divisive articles such as the one by Hall.
Even so, social media platforms aren't just digital water coolers. They are the mediums through which most of the world (our country included) communicates and interacts. It is where most people receive their news and information from. And 'credible scientists' need to assume leadership of these efforts that the people's trust in the scientific methods and endeavours is maintained. To this end, the also-satirical Tesla Index calls out those reclusive scientists who continue "sitting alone in their ivory towers". Low scores on the T-index serve as
[a] warning to the community that researcher 'X' may be forsaking all methods of publicly sharing their work at the expense of solely publishing manuscripts. In contrast, a very high T-index suggests that a scientist is being active in the community, informing and educating their peers, colleagues, and the wider public. They are thus playing a positive role in society.
Simply put, trust isn't so much about information as it is about dialogue and transparency.
Want to know if you're a science Kardashian? Calculate your K-index here.
This article first appeared in The Wire on Friday on 2nd February, 2018, (http://bit.ly/2E1HLTx)
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Yesterday night Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump hit headlines after he suggested "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on". The outcry from musicians, film stars and comedians has branded Trump a fascist and a hypocrite. Here's a selection of the best comments.
Ellie Goulding is sure he won't win
Sleaford Mods and Gary Linekar are no-nonsense about it
Ezra Koenig calls on people's consciences
Azealia Banks is revoking his star sign
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has a cosmic plan for Trump
Prescient psych outfit Unknown Mortal Orchestra tweeted this apt statement hours before Trump's comments
Mark Ronson is optimistic that Trump won't do well in the 2016 presidential elections
Billy Bragg and The Mountain Goats both applied appropriate nomenclature
Catastrophe star Rob Delaney was rather less formal
Charlotte Church invoked Star Wars terminology
Michael Moore did a long, almost-worth-it joke
Arianna Huffington banned Trump from her website, The Huffington Post
Chuck D, Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos and Django Django all chose Hitler comparisons
Saturday Night Live's recent head writer, Colin Jost had a pop, just weeks after Trump's controversial appearance on the show
Trainspotting writer Irvine Welsh got… metaphoric
The Thick Of It writer Armando Iannucci gave his own political insight
Enter Shikari's Rou Reynolds bigged up Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders
The Hunger Games' Jeffrey Wright was one of few actors to speak out
Radio 1 DJ Nihal investigated the awful impact the story has had on British Muslims
And classical pianist James Rhodes provided the depressing lols
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Here's a map whose red dots shows the number of mass shootings committed by Muslims. The rest are in blue.
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Yoga is a tried and true conduit to mental clarity. Bend your body into the following positions to loosen your joints, invite fresh blood to your limbs and physically open your constricted chest and shoulders.
And BREATHE.
If these look too cray, click on each pose and find variations to suit your comfort level.
Dancer or Natarajasana
This pose lifts you up and forward through your heart and your head. Nataraja is another term for Shiva, The Auspicious One, whose cosmic dance clears the weary and makes way for creation. Bring it on.
Camel Pose or Ustrasana
The mother of all heart openers- my typical crying pose: Camel Pose pulls your heart open, bares your sensitive throat and leaves you as vulnerable as any human can be. Let your heart be free and see what comes in.
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