The successful career in cycling permits me to come into contact more easily with the athletes of today and better confront with their needs.
In 2003, I became team manager of the team Vini Caldirola, with whom we won the team world ranking and since 2004 I formed my own team: GM BIKES SA .
With the team I got over 200 wins as General Manager, obtained in all the Continent. Between victories including several stages in the biggest stage races, the Tour de France and Tour of Italy, World Cup and the victory in the overall classification of the Vuelta a España 2011 with Juan Cobo, in addition to the victory on the team classification. The teams that I led, have been consistently among the best ten of the world.
GM Bikes SA, in addition to the cycling team, working in the field of sports marketing and consulting and between the customers has had and still has the best companies in the world in the area of the loop, Merida, Scott, Fuji, Champion System, Giordana, Castelli etc.. as well as multinational companies who have chosen cycling to promote their brand, Geox, Saunier Duval, Vaillant Group, American Beff etc.
In 2003, I was a member of the CEO of the World champions Chips MTB in Lugano-Rivera.
Since 1997, every year we held a two day cycle open to all, in honor of Mauro Gianetti, named Gianetti day. One day is dedicated to children from 3 to 15 years, with courses of skill and fun, with 400-500 young participant every year, and a day dedicated to all with trails for families, professionals and amateurs, with 1'500-1'800 participant every a big bike party for 3'000 people between participant and accompanying person.
After having obtained all the results that I could achieve as a sportsman and as General Manager, I have the desire to give something more, because I have learn, give hope create the greatest emotions.
For this reason, I created the Recycling the World, an organization that combines sport and social, with which I have done two major projects.
In 2007 with the Association "ReCycling The World", aimed at supporting environmentally and socially. In collaboration with Saunier Duval and the cycling team and was made the project "One hundred years for a million trees" that led to plant a million fruit trees and other trees in Mali, creating over 200 jobs, both for the creation of nursery water wells.
With the project "Ticino school for the world", also on the ReCycling the World association, in collaboration with the company Prodir and the schools of the Canton Ticino, through the recycling of pens produced in excess by the same Prodir, we have let produce in Africa more than 15,000 school kits, while creating another 25 jobs. In the context of the two projects were held two cycling races of solidarity in Africa, in Bamako and Mopti.
In 2008 I have received the honorary citizenship of Fatoma, Mali, to support economic, social and ecological led by his association in the area along the Niger.


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A city for stories
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Most of my stories are set in the city of Liverpool in England. It is also the city I live in but despite that the city is ideal for setting a story in. Indeed, it is used by many film and TV companies as a location, including the latest Batman film. Liverpool city centre is often referred to in 'quarters' – and yes there's more than four. Getting to know the neighbourhood quarters is a fab way to plan your day based on location. The city features the Georgian Quarter, Ropewalks, Chinatown, Baltic Triangle, St George's Quarter, Waterfront, Cavern Quarter and the Knowledge Quarter and the Business quarter.
It is, however, most famous for its two football clubs, The highly successful Liverpool Football Club and the rather less successful Everton Football Club. And across the entire world, Liverpool is known for its huge contribution to music. It's even picked up recognition from Guinness World Records as the world's 'Capital City of Pop'.
The Beatles is arguably the most successful band in history and was first formed in Liverpool in 1960. They're still hugely celebrated there, and dozens of attractions are available for enthusiasts in the form of museums, plaques, and guided tours.
If you're flying into Liverpool, you'll probably be reminded of the huge impact that the band continues to have – its most popular airport was renamed John Lennon Airport in 2002.
Collectively known as Scousers, Liverpudlians or Liverpolitans, people from Liverpool are famous for their welcoming and inclusive attitude.
As a city that has so often been defined by its port, immigrants from every corner of the globe have often rubbed shoulders together for the first time here. It's home to the oldest black community in the UK dating back to the early 1700s, and the oldest Chinese community in Europe.
The result is a hugely multicultural bunch that are nevertheless bound by an unmistakable love of their city. A sense of pride and of being from Liverpool rather than from England is not uncommon among residents.
During the Second World War, Liverpool became victim to the worst series of air bombings in the whole of Britain.
Even London did not sustain as much damage, with 200,000 out of 300,000 homes in Liverpool being damaged. 4,000 were killed, 10,000 were injured and 70,000 of the city's inhabitants became homeless.
St Luke's Church, or simply 'The Bombed Out Church', remains standing and has become an enduring symbol of this period. It also serves as a beacon of the resilience and spirit of the people. These days you can visit the church for music gigs, theatre performances, and food markets.
Liverpool is famous for being the origin of most of the Irish and English immigrants who left for America in the 1800s. During the industrial revolution, it also became the center of the world's cotton trade and was famous for its high-quality fabrics.
The port served as a major hub for slave trading and is thought to have been the source of up to three-quarters of slaves sent to Europe by the end of the 18th Century.
This grim feature of Liverpool's history is commemorated in the present day at the International Slavery Museum at the Royal Albert Dock.
So, if you would like to visit the locations mentioned in my stories, you would be very welcome here.
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Summerhill is a small village on the outskirts of Wrexham with the neighbouring village of Gwersyllt providing local facilities including convenience store, hair dressers and fast food outlet. The transport links from Summerhill include quick access to the A483, Wrexham Industrial Estate and the motorway network to Chester, Liverpool, Manchester and beyond. There is a local bus service running from Summerhill to Wrexham on a regular basis.


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Connect! Competition – Verdant Works' experience
This time last year, Verdant Works applied for the national Connect! competition to bring graffiti artist PURE EVIL to Dundee. The team were thrilled, to be crowned the winners and would urge others to apply before the deadline in mid-March. Applications can be found here.
Anna Murray, Learning and Audiences Officer at Verdant Works talks about her experience of applying for the competition and would encourage different spaces to apply including pop-ups, castles, country houses and all the quirky venues in between!
What is Connect!?
Connect! is a public vote to choose which six UK cultural venues will win an internationally significant contemporary artist to lead a Museums at Night October event, along with a £3000 bursary. Up to five venues will compete to win each artist, and the polls will result in each artist leading a participatory event at their winning venue.
What did it look like for Verdant Works?
For those that missed it, Halloween in Dundee was greeted with an ambitious programme of light, projections, sound and sculpture orchestrated by London based graffiti artist PURE EVIL.
This event provided us with the perfect opportunity to launch the High Mill with atmospherically lit perspex templates hung from the industrial beams, creating colourful shadow imprints of his work on the flagstone flooring accompanied by self-penned soundscapes. This created the impression of the Victorian factory haunted by the future techno-ghosts of celebrity as the images of, mainly female, former factory workers gazed down from the walls. We were also able to invite Sheena Wellington to work with a local school choir to welcome guests in a suitably spooky Victorian style.
Photo credit: Erika Stevenson
Why should you do it?
The public vote offers a great audience development outreach opportunity to communicate with the local community and media, inviting them to cast online votes to bring your chosen artist to your museum. In 2015, the year that we took part, over 35,000 members of the public voted to win an artist for their town or city…. Successful, or not, that's a lot of people talking about your museum.
We were up against a National Trust property and significantly larger museums based in and around London. But, with the support of all of the Dundee institutions and networks, we won.
The event was successful for us for a number of reasons. Significantly we were able to take a risk in programming that wouldn't have been possible due to funding. The timing for us was perfect, as we could launch the recently developed High Mill in style and create a bank of fantastic high quality night-time images that are essential for fundraising and marketing. We attempted to reach new audiences nationally and locally and we're using it as an experiment for upcoming late-night programming this year. We even made a small income from ticket sales.
All venues that get to the public vote stage will receive a bursary to support your Museums at Night October event, from £100 to the winning £3000, enabling ambitious and creative event programming. The real beauty of this competition is that it allows smaller venues to take risks that aren't usually possible due to funding. As a winning venue, we needed to provide match funding of £830, but the majority of this was done with staff and volunteer time alone.
Who are the 2016 artists?
The artists this year are: Marcus Coates, Susan Hiller, Aowen Jin, Peter Liversidge, Karen Mirza & Brad Butler, and Bedwyr Williams. You can find out more about each of the artists here.
All you have to do is complete the basic Event Submission Form by Friday 11 March. Click here to complete the form.
Competing venues will be announced on Friday 8 April, and the public vote will be open from Friday April 29 – Saturday May 14.


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You Don't Know lyrics - Next to Normal
Album lyrics:
Act 1:
Who Is Crazy/My Psychopharmacologist and I
Perfect for You
I Miss the Mountains
He's Not Here
I Am the One
Superboy and the Invisible Girl
Make Up Your Mind / Catch Me I'm Falling
I Dreamed A Dance
There's a World
Didn't I See This Movie?
A Light in the Dark
Wish I Were Here
Song of Forgetting
Hey 1
Seconds and Years
Better Than Before
You Don't Know (Reprise)
How Could I Ever Forget?
It's Gonna Be Good (reprise)
Why Stay?/A Promise
I'm Alive (reprise)
Make Up Your Mind / Catch Me I'm Falling (Reprise)
Hey 3 / Perfect for You (Reprise)
So Anyway
I Am the One (reprise)
You Don't Know lyrics
DIANA (spoken)
You know, really?
What exactly do you know?
DAN (spoken)
I know you're hurting. I am, too.
Do you wake up in the morning and need help to lift your head?
Do you read obituaries and feel jealous of the dead?
It's like living on a cliffside not knowing when you'll dive.
Do you know, do you know what it's like to die alive?
When the world that once had color fades to white and gray and black.
When tomorrow terrifies you, but you'll die if you look back.
You don't know.
I know you don't know.
You say that you're hurting, it sure doesn't show.
It lays me so low. When you say let go, and I say you don't know.
The sensation that you're screaming, but you never make a sound.
Or the feeling that you're falling, but you never hit the ground.
It just keeps on rushing at you day by day by day by day.
You don't know, you don't know what it's like to live that way.
Like a refugee, a fugitive, forever on the run.
If it gets me it will kill me, but I don't know what I've done.
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With just about every aspect of my home, if I hit the point of frustration and stress and overwhelm with my belongings, it doesn't mean I need to organize. It simply means I'm hanging on to too much stuff. This balance looks different for every human - some are true minimalists, others are cozy, and still others feel most at peace in a home full of objects that make them happy….


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Late Transfer? Liverpool keen to sign 'incredible' €25m midfield 'machine' who's like 'Xavi'
Despite the recruitment of Marko Grujic, Liverpool continue to be linked with central midfielders, and new reports suggest that 'incredible' Inter Milan star Marcelo Brozovic remains on Jurgen Klopp's transfer wish-list.
Last month, Gazetta Dello Sport claimed:
"Liverpool and Arsenal are interested in signing Marcelo Brozovic, and Inter Milan will sell if they receive an offer of €25m".
According to Italian newspaper Tutto Mercato today:
"Brozović is still weighing up the chance to leave, and he is being tracked by Arsenal, Liverpool and AS Roma".
Some info about Brozovic, nicknamed the 'Croatian Xavi':
* 23-year old midfielder, who can play in a number of different roles, but operates mostly as a box-to-box midfielder for Inter.
* Inter: 8 goals/6 assists in 51 apps (Goal every 478 mins. G/A every 273 mins)
* Scouting Report (Strengths) "Technically proficient. Creative spark with excellent vision and passing. A real danger from distance".
* Scouting Report (Weaknesses): "Brozovic doesn't possess the most imposing frame and his lack of strength, and poor ability in the air (36% duel success rate) could cause concern".
* Mar 2016: Croatian legend Mario Stanic enthused: "Brozo can read the game like few others. He knows when to go direct, and above all, he has quality. He is a machine. He resembles a German".
The immediate concern is obvious: what is Brozovic's best position? As noted in Four Four Two's scouting report:
"Versatile midfielder who can be used in a number of roles – central midfield, defensive midfield, attacking midfield and on the right flank".
Klopp just splurged £25m on a 'Jack of all Trades' who can play 'a number of different positions', so what's the point of signing yet another utility player? Right now, the club lacks options in two specialist midfield roles:
* Defensive midfield (Convert Can into a full-time DM already!)
* Deep-lying playmaker capable of intelligently dictating the pace of play.
Signing Brozovic is pointless unless he's a specialist in one of these roles.
The ability to play in five different positions doesn't win titles; specialists win titles. Just look at any title-winning team over the last 20 years, and the most important, game-changing players are invariably positional specialists.
Conversely, Steven Gerrard was the poster boy for Premier League versatility, and didn't win a single league title during his entire career.


Former Knowsley Road idol James Graham is helping his old pal Keiron Cunningham in a never-ending search for talent Down Under.
"I speak to James once or twice every fortnight and he keeps me informed of what is going on in Australia," said the Saints boss.
Prop Graham played more than 200 games for Saints, scoring 53 tries, before joining Canterbury Bulldogs ahead of the 2012 and is Cunningham's ideal spy.
The coach said: "James will have his ear closer to the ground than most other people and also plays against these blokes every single week.
"I have other contacts in Australia, including coaches, who are watching from the side lines and often see matches from a spectator's point of view rather than how it is perceived by a player.
Saints are keeping tight-lipped about any potential big signing from overseas - something the club's demanding fans are expecting - but the quality and terms will be a key factor and don't rule out fresh recruitment coming nearer to home.
Cunningham said: "I watch NRL every week and there are a lot of players who fit our needs but bringing them over is a different story.
"You only need to look at my telephone and all you will see is Australians numbers as I'm continually speaking to managers and players' agents etc.
"I'm heavily involved in this at the minute and obviously quite a number of names have been tossed around.


The month began with a trip to Marion Indiana to help my friend David Kay open his new restaurant. He had asked me to come in early on their first day of server training to speak with his front of the house staff (those people who are serving the food and tending to their guests needs, as opposed to the kitchen staff...who would be considered back of the house staff) about disability awareness. After I had spent about an hour with his staff, David sent me to Lowes to get a light bulb. When I returned we went over a few of the finer points on the menu with his servers and then the first "training" table of guests arrived. (When a new restaurant opens there are usually a couple of nights in which friends, family, and other people lucky enough to get invitations come in to eat for free and be guinea pigs for the staff). I had one of the first dishes served and was amazed by the simple elegance of the presentation and the phenomenal tastes of every thing I ate! Even though the food was free, I gave David a dollar bill (which he had handed to me earlier in the day) to represent their first dollar. After almost a full month of business, K-Bistro is off to a fantastic start! I highly recommend that anyone within at least two hours of Marion make a special trip to try out their amazing food and friendly atmosphere!
Early in the month I had a business meeting at the Sheraton, which is located at Keystone at the Crossing in Indianapolis. I had the pleasure of running into Matt Holland, who is an old colleague from my days at the Marriott Downtown. We spent a few minutes catching up and after my meeting he took the time to show me some of the newly renovated/updated accessible rooms at his hotel. I was surprised, and pleased, to see some features, like automatic curtains, that I had never seen in an accessible room before. They even had a room permanently set up for people who are deaf, that was completely different from the more common accessible rooms that are usually designed for people with mobility impairments.
Matt was conducting an interview with a potential management candidate when my meeting wrapped up. Both the interview, and my meeting took place in their restaurant, so before I left I politely interrupted the interview (which I had thought was just a group of managers having lunch or else I wouldn't have stepped in) to ask if Matt still wanted me to hang out for the tour. The candidate he was interviewing looked up at me and said "You spoke to my 312 class at Purdue a few weeks ago, I loved your presentation!" What a pleasant surprise to meet someone who had so recently been in my audience. Matt looked at me and said "Wow, you really are becoming a celebrity!"
After the tour, Matt and I sat in their Concierge Lounge and reminisced over our time working together while also catching up on the last several years. The following week, he and his wife Sarah (also a former colleague from the Marriott Downtown) joined me for lunch at the Legend in Irvington. The Legend, which is a fantastic restaurant, was hosting a third party fund raiser for accessABILITY, inc. Matt and Sarah have recently been blessed with twins, and this was a rare treat for the two of them to get out without the kids. It was also a rare treat for me to catch up with two of the people who made my last year at the Marriott bearable!
As the chair of accessABILITY's fund development and marketing committee, I couldn't get away with just one meal at the Legend that day (which is fine because their menu is. I returned for dinner that night with Mom, Dad, Sarah (my Sister), and Madeline(my Niece). During both Lunch and Dinner I saw many of my friends, neighbors, and business acquaintances enjoying the food and service. I cannot express how grateful I am for all of the support that everyone has given to the non-profit!
The month continued to fly by as my days filled with meetings and speaking engagements, all leading up to Memorial Day weekend, which I spent in Chicago with my friends Jim and Jenny Goodman and their three and a half year old, Anna. We had a relaxing time, mostly spent at their house just being with each other, as opposed to running around the city trying to get to every tourist attraction. Due to issues with the flights I got in much later than intended on the first night. We went out for a nice dinner on my second night there and had a great barbecue the following night. The best part of the trip was reading stories to their daughter, something I probably wouldn't have been able to do if we had spent each day dragging her around the city!
I returned home from Chicago on Sunday afternoon, which meant that I would still be able to enjoy Memorial Day with my family. With temperatures in the mid to upper 90's, Memorial Day was the hottest day of the year so far, and when I arrived at Mom and Dad's house I found Sarah and Madeline relaxing outside on the deck. My Dad's big project for the summer has been resurfacing their deck and also building a very attractive pergola, which provides a great deal of shade. While it was relaxing outside, it was also very hot, so I was very pleased when Mom and Dad called us inside for dinner!
On the Sunday before I left for Chicago I received a call from a member of our congregation at North United Methodist. His daughter, who is in 5th grade at a school in Fishers, IN was studying prosthetics in her science class. (Yes, you read that right, 5th grade students are/were studying bio-engineering)! The man's daughter wanted to know if it would be ok to give her Teacher my contact info. Of course I said yes.
The Teacher called me the next day and we had a great conversation about the best way to present my story to her students. Due to the timing of the upcoming holiday (Memorial Day) and the end of the school year, we had to squeeze the presentation in on Thursday before my flight to Chicago. The students were a wonderful audience and I was floored by the maturity of many of their questions (more on that in a minute). I love speaking to students, no matter what age, but this particular audience had a special place in my heart, as one of the students in the audience just happened to be a good friend of Madeline's, and also the daughter of one of Sarah's (my Sister's) best friends. When I asked if she remembered when my accident happened, she looked at me and said"It was either the day before, or the day after, my birthday". She was absolutely right on the timing, and a great helper!
I spoke for about 20 minutes, which is about 5 to 10 minutes longer than I had intended, and the students kept me busy with questions for the rest of the hour. As many of the students put their hands in the air to get my attention I scanned the room for the student who was being the most patient. I called on a young lady who looked at me and asked "You've obviously gotten past the physical pain, but how do you deal with the emotional pain, does it ever go away?"
As I said, I was floored by the maturity of many of their questions, but this one took the cake! I've been speaking to various groups, of all age ranges, about the accident and what came out of it's ashes for a little over six years now. Out of those groups, the most consistent audience has been Elementary & Intermediate school students. None have ever asked about how I deal with the emotional pain. I thought about the question for a moment and then answered "As you go through life you will be faced with challenges that will at times seem unbearable. I've been massively depressed, even suicidal, but as you work through each challenge, you have to also deal with the emotional pain caused by your challenges so that you don't get stuck in a negative place, you need to then look back on those challenges and think about what you have learned and leave the negative part of the lesson/challenge in the past. I have learned that life is a gift, no matter how difficult things seem there is always hope that it will get better and you have to work through your problems to make that hope a reality. It is my hope for all of you that when you find yourself dealing with something you think you can't handle, that you will remember my story and tell yourself: if he can deal with losing his legs and learning how to walk again, and still be happy, then I can get through this too."
Thanks for taking the time to update us! I always enjoy reading your posts, cousin. The restaurant sounds great! The students sound intelligent and thoughtful. Glad to hear your speaking is beneficial for them AND you!
Wonder what happened to my June 1 post?
"It was worth the wait. Especially hearing about the 5th grade class. These young people are thinking beyond themselves; hope they can keep that spirit."


Mental illness is no less important than a visible illness. The only problem is that people who have not suffered with mental illness do not and will not ever understand what it's like. Sure, they can guess and go off what they're told, but you can never be prepared to go through any sort of mental illness. I'm going off of what I've experienced, which is generalised anxiety and depression.
If you are ever diagnosed or experience a mental illness, it can be terrifying. Your mind and physical ability to live a normal life can be shattered, and this can affect anyone around you that's there to catch the backlash.
It's extremely hard to explain what's happening inside your head, and most of the time you might not even know yourself. You sit there and ask yourself questions that you can't seem to answer: Why am I feeling like this? What did I do to deserve this? Why is my life like this? Why can't I just get up and do things? Why can't I just leave my house and catch a bus like a NORMAL person?
Although, what is a NORMAL person to you? Is it someone who works a 9-5 job and gets up every day being productive and living in a clean house just getting by in life? Or is it someone completely opposite managing to maintain their life and can travel and do all the things you wish you could do but you tell yourself you never could?
Whatever NORMAL is to you, you can get there! Even if it takes you longer than everyone else, it doesn't matter how far behind you've fallen. You need to concentrate on yourself and what you need right now. Whether that be as small as taking a shower or getting dressed to go to the shop for milk, you need to decide.
I know many people have to get up for work and they don't have a choice. I'm lucky in the fact my experience was during school so I wasn't keeping a roof over my head or buying food myself and I'm extremely lucky to have the support from my family that I did. If you don't have the support, it will be a lot harder for you to get through this, although you will, the path to recovery may be slightly more bumpy, any support you can get will help don't be ashamed of something you can't help! There are also support groups out there for mental health and you should never hesitate on asking for help.
You will have good and bad days, but everyone does. Just don't let a bad day throw you off your path. Think of it as a big puddle in the middle—you just have walk around it and the paths clear again. The amount of puddles you experience will be different to everyone, but some will be easier to get around than others.
You may be doing well and continuing up your path to "normal," but still feel like there is a weight holding you back, and it would be helpful to find a way to reduce the weight.
As a creative and visual person, things I have found to help me are arts such as drawing, painting, makeup, and writing. I also enjoyed a bullet journal for a while, which is a good way to track your habits and what you do so you can decide what you want to change in your routine, which is also not an easy thing to keep if your mental state is holding you down. These are all helpful at helping you release your weight visually and have a sense of achievement.
If you are a more active person, things like going for a walk or start exercising may help. I say it "may" help because your helpful activities as such will depend on what you enjoy and what helps you.
Relaxing activities like deep breathing and tracing your body in your head are great ways to help you relax and fall asleep at night. Asking for professional advice to support and advise you on what to do is the best way to relieve this weight. They will also be able to advise a lot more than I have written here and will be able to be more personalised to you.
Mental illness can severely affect your relationships, and you might not even notice until it's too late. It's best to be honest with the people around you so that they can be there to help you through it, otherwise you'll just hear things like "you're just being lazy," "you've always got an excuse." These words, as small as they seem when they're said, can stick around, and you keep thinking back to when they were said and you'll start to think, maybe I am just lazy and it is all an excuse, but why can't I get over this feeling of laziness and emptiness. What's the point?


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Драцена облямована (, syn. ) — дерево, різновид Драцена відігнута (Dracaena reflexa) роду Драцена (Dracaena) родини Холодкові (Asparagaceae).

Ботанічний опис
Деревна рослина, що повільно росте, — дерево або чагарник. Дорослі рослини досягають заввишки . Листя вузьке, мечовидне, з краєм червоного кольору , до вершини загострені, глянсові, зелені, 30-90 см завдовжки, 2-7 см завширшки.

Поширення та екологія
Росте на острові Мадагаскар  . Цю рослину називають ще «мадагаскарським драконовим деревом».

Культивування
Популярна кімнатна рослина. Є сорти з червоними та блідо-жовтими краями листя. Вимагає себе мінімум уваги. Мінімальна температура 15 °C. Більш терпима у порівнянні з іншими рослинами до сухого ґрунту та нерегулярного поливу, хоча при тривалій підтримці ґрунту у вологому стані може загнити. Оскільки ця рослина не вимоглива у догляді, вона дуже популярна в офісах, де висока температура та освітленість відповідають умовам зростання драцени облямованої.

Цей вид можна вирощувати у відкритому ґрунті в районах, що належать до зон морозостійкості від 10-ї до 12-ї; рослина відносно непогано в порівнянні з іншими видами драцени переносить низькі температури, проте негативних температур не витримує. Як і інші види драцени, найкраще розвивається в умовах яскравого сонячного світла, однак може нормально рости та в негустій тіні .

Драцена облямована — одна з рослин, що використовуються в програмі NASA з очищення повітря, здатна очистити повітря від пар формальдегіду. Драцена облямована — ефективний очисник повітря та одна з кращих рослин з очищення від ксилолу та трихлоретилену. В той самий час рослина дуже чутлива до фториду. Рослина не виносить прямих сонячних променів, але потребує хорошого освітлення.

Література

 Dracaena // Ботаніка. Енциклопедія «Всі рослини світу»: Пер. з англ. = Botanica/ ред. Д. Григор'єв та ін. — М.: Könemann, 2006. — С. 313—314. — 1020 с. — ISBN 3-8331-1621-8.
 Huxley A. New RHS Dictionary of Gardening. — 2: 96-97. — Macmillan, 1992.

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Q: How to send an email from GitLab CI pipeline's job? I am trying to set up a GitLab CI configuration that sends an email after a pipeline's job completes with a link of the artifacts to the upload site. The pipeline builds based upon pom.xml, then tests with sonarqube and then uploads the artifacts using curl to a specific artifactory location. The folder structure and link of the artifact directory depends upon the CI_PIPELINE_ID. After all of these succeeds, I need to send this link for downloading the artifacts to a list of people via mail. My .gitlab-config.yml looks like the following:

image: maven:3.3.9-jdk-8

variables:
  MAVEN_OPTS: "-Dmaven.repo.local=.m2/repository -Dorg.slf4j.simpleLogger.log.org.apache.maven.cli.transfer.Slf4jMavenTransferListener=WARN -Dorg.slf4j.simpleLogger.showDateTime=true -Djava.awt.headless=true"
  MAVEN_CLI_OPTS: "-U --batch-mode --errors --fail-at-end --show-version -DinstallAtEnd=true -DdeployAtEnd=true"
  REPO_NAME: "<artifactory url>"

cache:
  paths:
    - .m2/repository
    - ./target/

stages:
  - build

compile_commit:
  stage: build
  only:
    - cr_integrate
  before_script:
    - git submodule sync --recursive
    - git submodule update --init --recursive --remote
  script:
    - mvn -f pom.xml -s settings.xml $MAVEN_CLI_OPTS clean install $MAVEN_OPTS
    - curl -i -u<username>:<token> -T "target/<artifact-1>.zip" "${REPO_NAME}/${CI_PIPELINE_ID}/<artifact-1>.zip"
    - curl -i -u<username>:<token> -T "target/<artifact-1>.zip" "${REPO_NAME}/${CI_PIPELINE_ID}/<artifact-2>.zip"
    - - curl -i -u<username>:<token> -T "target/<artifact-1>.zip" "${REPO_NAME}/${CI_PIPELINE_ID}/<artifact-3>.zip"
  tags:
    - <tagname>

How do I send a mail to some people after this with the link?

A: I built a solution for this, sharing it here.
The following tools were used for this:

*

*GitLab release api

*Python-GitLab api

*Docker

*Microsoft Teams

*Sharepoint

The process flow can be outlined as follows:

*

*A new pipeline is triggered

*After successful build, codescan and publish, a release job is run

*The release job uses a python script written with the help of
python-gitlab api to create a release using gitlab release api. It
inserts external artifactory links for downloading artifacts under
release assets and adds links to release note and other documents.

*GitLab sends a release mail to the appropriate notification channel,
a group email id created by Microsoft Teams and Sharepoint, so that
the entire team receives the release mail.

The python script is given below:
import os
import gitlab
from datetime import datetime

if __name__ == '__main__':
    access_token = os.environ['RELEASE_TOKEN']
    gitlab_url = os.environ['GITLAB_URL']
    project_id = int(os.environ['CI_PROJECT_ID'])

    tag_name = os.environ['CI_PIPELINE_ID']
    ref = os.environ['CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME']

    # artifactory_links
    artifactory_link = os.environ['ARTIFACTORY_PATH']
    group_name = os.environ['GROUP_NAME']
    project_name = os.environ['CI_PROJECT_NAME']
    directory = f'{datetime.now():%Y%m%d}'
    artifact_name = os.environ['ARTIFACT_NAME']
    package_type = os.environ['PACKAGE_TYPE']

    # artifacts_links
    artifacts_links = f'{artifactory_link}/{group_name}/{project_name}/{directory}/{artifact_name}-{tag_name}.{package_type}'

    # release note
    release_note = os.environ['RELEASE_NOTE']

    # authenticate with gitlab
    gl = gitlab.Gitlab(gitlab_url, private_token=access_token)
    gl.auth()

    # obtain the project object by id
    project = gl.projects.get(project_id)

    # creating the project tags
    project.tags.create({'tag_name': tag_name, 'ref': ref})

    # creating the project releases
    release = project.releases.create(
        {
            'name': f'Release for Pipeline ID {ref}',
            'tag_name': tag_name,
            'description': release_note,
            'assets': {
                'links': [{'name': artifact_name, 'url': artifacts_links}],
            }
        }
    )

The script requires the following environment variables:

*

*RELEASE_TOKEN – GitLab access token

*GITLAB_URL – GitLab base URL.

*ARTIFACTORY_PATH – Artifactory base URL.

*GROUP_NAME – In case the project is under a group.

*ARTIFACT_NAME – The artifact name

*PACKAGE_TYPE – Artifact package type

*RELEASE_NOTE – Link to release note and any other document.

These variables can be provided as GitLab CI variables. If there are more than one artifacts, the python script can be modified accordingly.
Since the python script needs to be called during the pipeline event and adding the script in the project would be modifying the project codebase, dockerizing the script is the best solution. That way, it can be pulled directly from docker hub. The dockerfile contents for this are as follows:
FROM python:3.7-alpine
COPY release_api.py /bin
RUN pip install python-gitlab
ENTRYPOINT ["/bin/release_api.py"]
CMD ["/bin/bash"]

In order to send a release mail to every member of the team, irrespective of their individual GitLab notification and subscription preferences, a team needs to be set up using Microsoft Teams. When a team is created in Teams application, a corresponding sharepoint site is created, along with a team email id. This set up takes some time.
Once a team is created, under Files section, there's an option to open it in sharepoint (screenshot below).

The sharepoint site has a link in the left sidebar called Conversations. Once the sharepoint site is fully ready, clicking this link will open the inbox of the Teams email.
Under the settings for the group, the option Edit Group can be found and there the group email id can be found. This group email id will be used to send the release mail to everyone in the team.
Under user settings of GitLab, the group email needs to be added. Once the mail is added and verified, the notification channel can be set up under Notifications. Once this is done, all notifications for that group (or project) will go to the group mail, and everyone in the team will get them. The last activity left is to set up notification preference to send a notification when a new release is available.

A: The gitlab script line below can be used to send email. You will need to have the ssmtp linux program which I suggest building a docker container and installing the ssmtp dependency. Personally I went with an API. What's nice about this solution is you are using core protocols and can build the email message in plain-text and don't have to worry about character escaping an API request.
  image: registry.gitlab.com/gitlab-group/dev-ops/REFERENCE-TO-IMAGE-OF-DOCKERFILE-BELOW
  script:
    - | # Build the core smtp configuration
      echo "root=noreply@emailaddress.com" > /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
      echo "mailhub=EMAIL_SERVER:EMAIL_SERVER_PORT" >> /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
      echo "FromLineOverride=YES" >> /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
      echo "AuthUser=EMAIL_SERVER_USERNAME" >> /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
      echo "AuthPass=EMAIL_SERVER_PASSWORD" >> /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
      echo "UseTLS=false" >> /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
      echo "Debug=YES" >> /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
    - "echo 'From: from@emailaddress.com' > msg.txt" # Build the message
    - echo "EMAIL SUBJECT" >> msg.txt
    - echo "" >> msg.txt
    - echo "EMAIL BODY" >> msg.txt
    - ssmtp recipient@emailaddress.com < msg.txt # Send the email

Here's a Dockerfile that you can use to get your ssmtp dependency
FROM alpine:3.9

RUN apk add --update --no-cache \
    bash=4.4.19-r1 \
    ssmtp \

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A (Dhanya): As far as I know Vedanta recommends that statements which are given in the teachings should conform to three things.
Initially when one comes to the teachings, one does require to have sraddha (faith pending understanding)—the sraddha—the trust—that the teacher knows what he or she is talking about, and the trust that the teachings will work as a means of knowledge (pramana) for recognizing the Self.
When you take a course in physics you have the sraddha that the teacher can teach, that he or she knows the subject matter and can convey it to you. We have sraddha in a lot of things. Without that sraddha—that trust—how could we learn anything from another?
The whole point of the teachings is not to have the student leave with a catechism or litany learned by rote and sustained by blind belief, but rather the point is that the student has gained the direct immediate recognition of what the truth of one's here and now experience actually is.
So the words of the teaching, and the manner in which the teacher handles the words, act as pointers to the reality which one already is, but which one has over-looked and misconstrued.
In the end, when the words of the teaching and the skill of the teacher have done their job, one recognizes what is being pointed out for oneself. Then one no longer needs sraddha, for the truth stands revealed and is recognized to be entirely self-evident.
You are that Self. Everything is that Self. Nothing exists that is not that Self, and you directly cognize this self-evident fact for yourself.
Thus sraddha—faith or trust pending understanding—is needed initially, but in the end it is not needed.
If someone holds a flower up to my eyes, do I need to trust that I am seeing it, or do I actually see it? I may trust someone when he or she tells me, "I'm going to hold a flower up to your eyes so you can see it." But once I see the flower, what trust do I need?
To address your second point, why is there duality in the first place? Why do we initially take it to be true? What's the point of the whole thing anyway?
The answer, as far as I know is simple. The answer is because that's the way it is. In other words, there is no reason that duality exists, or that we do not initially recognize the truth of it. It just is that way. We may initially rail against that, and think it isn't fair, or even that it doesn't make sense. But in the end when we have recognized the truth of it, and know that my being is the being of the whole thing, we may come to admire the beauty and intelligence which manifests as duality and enjoy it, knowing that it cannot harm who I really am in any way at all.
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News Center /Press Releases /Press Release 2018 /Illumina Reports Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2017
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Illumina Reports Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2017
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 2018-- Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2017.
Fourth quarter 2017 results:
Revenue of $778 million, a 26% increase compared to $619 million in the fourth quarter of 2016
GAAP net income attributable to Illumina stockholders for the quarter of $68 million, or $0.46 per diluted share, compared to $124 million, or $0.84 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2016; GAAP provision for income taxes for the fourth quarter of 2017 includes our provisional estimate of the one-time transition tax as a result of U.S. tax reform
Non-GAAP net income attributable to Illumina stockholders for the quarter of $212 million, or $1.44 per diluted share, compared to $126 million, or $0.85 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2016 (see the table entitled "Itemized Reconciliation Between GAAP and Non-GAAP Net Income Attributable to Illumina Stockholders" for a reconciliation of GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures)
Cash flow from operations of $294 million compared to $262 million in the fourth quarter of 2016
Free cash flow (cash flow from operations less capital expenditures) of $218 million for the quarter, compared to $180 million in the fourth quarter of 2016
Gross margin in the fourth quarter of 2017 was 69.7% compared to 67.7% in the prior year period. Excluding amortization of acquired intangible assets, non-GAAP gross margin was 70.9% for the fourth quarter of 2017 compared to 69.5% in the prior year period.
Research and development (R&D) expenses for the fourth quarter of 2017 were $137 million compared to $130 million in the prior year period. Excluding restructuring charges, non-GAAP R&D expenses as a percentage of revenue were 17.4%, including 0.7% attributable to Helix. This compares to 21.0% in the prior year period, including 2.6% attributable to GRAIL and Helix.
Selling, general and administrative (SG&A) expenses for the fourth quarter of 2017 were $175 million compared to $146 million in the prior year period. Excluding amortization of acquired intangible assets and restructuring charges, SG&A expenses as a percentage of revenue were 22.1%, including 1.2% attributable to Helix. This compares to 23.4% in the prior year period, including 1.7% attributable to GRAIL and Helix.
Depreciation and amortization expenses were $40 million and capital expenditures for free cash flow purposes were $76 million during the fourth quarter of 2017. At the close of the quarter, the company held $2.1 billion in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments, compared to $1.6 billion as of January 1, 2017.
Fiscal 2017 results:
Revenue of $2,752 million, a 15% increase compared to $2,398 million in fiscal 2016
GAAP net income attributable to Illumina stockholders of $726 million, or $4.92 per diluted share, compared to $463 million, or $3.07 per diluted share, in fiscal 2016; GAAP provision for income taxes for fiscal 2017 includes the provisional estimate of the one-time transition tax referenced previously
Non-GAAP net income attributable to Illumina stockholders of $591 million, or $4.00 per diluted share, compared to $503 million, or $3.33 per diluted share, in fiscal 2016 (see the table entitled "Itemized Reconciliation Between GAAP and Non-GAAP Net Income Attributable to Illumina Stockholders" for a reconciliation of these GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures)
Cash flow from operations of $875 million compared to $779 million in fiscal 2016
Free cash flow (cash flow from operations less capital expenditures) of $565 million, compared to $519 million in fiscal 2016
Gross margin for fiscal 2017 was 66.4% compared to 69.5% in the prior year. Excluding amortization and impairment of acquired intangible assets, non-GAAP gross margin was 68.4% for fiscal 2017 compared to 71.3% in the prior year period.
Research and development (R&D) expenses for fiscal 2017 were $546 million compared to $504 million in the prior year. Excluding restructuring charges and an impairment of in-process research and development, non-GAAP R&D expenses as a percentage of revenue were 19.6%, including 1.0% attributable to GRAIL and Helix. This compares to 21.0% in the prior year period, including 1.9% attributable to GRAIL and Helix.
Selling, general and administrative (SG&A) expenses for fiscal 2017 were $674 million compared to $584 million in the prior year period. Excluding amortization of acquired intangible assets, restructuring charges, performance-based compensation related to GRAIL Series B financing, and acquisition related gain, SG&A expenses as a percentage of revenue were 23.9%, including 1.7% attributable to GRAIL and Helix. This compares to 24.0% in the prior year period, including 1.2% attributable to GRAIL and Helix.
"With 26% revenue growth in the fourth quarter, and 15% for the full year, our 2017 results demonstrate customers' growing demand across both our sequencing and array portfolios," said Francis deSouza, President and CEO. "From our NovaSeq and the recently launched iSeq, to our clinical portfolio that includes the VeriSeq NIPT Solution, NextSeqDx and MiSeqDx, Illumina is well-positioned to continue to drive sequencing innovation and unlock the power of the genome."
Updates since our last earnings release:
Launched the iSeq™ 100 Sequencing System, a flexible benchtop sequencer priced at $19,900 designed to provide a fast and easy-to-use system with unmatched accuracy
Announced availability of AmpliSeq for Illumina, developed in partnership with Thermo Fisher Scientific
Introduced the NextSeq™ 550Dx instrument, Illumina's second FDA regulated CE-IVD market platform, to deliver the power of high-throughput next-generation sequencing (NGS) to the clinical laboratory
Partnered with KingMed Diagnostics to develop novel oncology and hereditary disease testing applications utilizing Illumina's NGS technology in China
Appointed Gary S. Guthart to the company's Board of Directors
Appointed Aimee Hoyt to the position of Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer
Repurchased $75 million of common stock in the fourth quarter under the previously announced share repurchase program
Financial outlook and guidance
The non-GAAP financial guidance discussed below reflects certain pro forma adjustments to assist in analyzing and assessing our core operational performance. Please see our Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Guidance included in this release for a reconciliation of the GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures.
For fiscal 2018, the company is projecting 13% to 14% revenue growth, GAAP earnings per diluted share attributable to Illumina stockholders of $4.14 to $4.24 and non-GAAP earnings per diluted share attributable to Illumina stockholders of $4.50 to $4.60.
Quarterly conference call information
The conference call will begin at 2:00 pm Pacific Time (5:00 pm Eastern Time) on Tuesday, January 30, 2018. Interested parties may access the live teleconference through the Investor Relations section of Illumina's web site under the "company" tab at www.illumina.com. Alternatively, individuals can access the call by dialing 888-771-4371, or 1-847-585-4405 outside North America, both with passcode 46251622.
A replay of the conference call will be available from 4:30 pm Pacific Time (7:30 pm Eastern Time) on January 30, 2018 through February 6, 2018 by dialing 888-843-7419, or 1-630-652-3042 outside North America, both with passcode 46251622.
Statement regarding use of non-GAAP financial measures
The company reports non-GAAP results for diluted net income per share, net income, gross margins, operating expenses, operating margins, other income, and free cash flow in addition to, and not as a substitute for, or superior to, financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP. The company's financial measures under GAAP include substantial charges such as amortization of acquired intangible assets, non-cash interest expense associated with the company's convertible debt instruments that may be settled in cash, and others that are listed in the itemized reconciliations between GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures included in this press release. Management has excluded the effects of these items in non-GAAP measures to assist investors in analyzing and assessing past and future operating performance. Additionally, non-GAAP net income attributable to Illumina stockholders and diluted earnings per share attributable to Illumina stockholders are key components of the financial metrics utilized by the company's board of directors to measure, in part, management's performance and determine significant elements of management's compensation.
The company encourages investors to carefully consider its results under GAAP, as well as its supplemental non-GAAP information and the reconciliation between these presentations, to more fully understand its business. Reconciliations between GAAP and non-GAAP results are presented in the tables of this release.
Use of forward-looking statements
This release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, such as our financial outlook and guidance for fiscal 2018 and expectations regarding the launch of new products. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in any forward-looking statements are: (i) challenges inherent in developing, manufacturing, and launching new products and services, including expanding manufacturing operations and reliance on third-party suppliers for critical components; (ii) the timing and mix of customer orders among our products and services; (iii) the impact of recently launched or pre-announced products and services on existing products and services; (iv) our ability to further develop and commercialize our instruments and consumables and to deploy new products, services, and applications, and expand the markets, for our technology platforms; (v) our ability to manufacture robust instrumentation and consumables; (vi) the success of products and services competitive with our own; (vii) our ability to successfully identify and integrate acquired technologies, products, or businesses; (viii) our expectations and beliefs regarding future conduct and growth of the business and the markets in which we operate; and (ix) the application of generally accepted accounting principles, which are highly complex and involve many subjective assumptions, estimates, and judgments, together with other factors detailed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our most recent filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q, or in information disclosed in public conference calls, the date and time of which are released beforehand. We undertake no obligation, and do not intend, to update these forward-looking statements, to review or confirm analysts' expectations, or to provide interim reports or updates on the progress of the current quarter.
About Illumina
Illumina is improving human health by unlocking the power of the genome. Our focus on innovation has established us as the global leader in DNA sequencing and array-based technologies, serving customers in the research, clinical and applied markets. Our products are used for applications in the life sciences, oncology, reproductive health, agriculture and other emerging segments. To learn more, visit www.illumina.com and follow @illumina.
Illumina, Inc.
2017 January 1,
ASSETS (unaudited)
Cash and cash equivalents $ 1,225 $ 735
Short-term investments 920 824
Accounts receivable, net 411 381
Inventory 333 300
Prepaid expenses and other current assets 91 78
Total current assets 2,980 2,318
Property and equipment, net 931 713
Goodwill 771 776
Intangible assets, net 175 243
Deferred tax assets 88 123
Other assets 312 108
Total assets $ 5,257 $ 4,281
Accounts payable $ 160 $ 138
Accrued liabilities 432 342
Build-to-suit lease liability 144 223
Long-term debt, current portion 10 2
Total current liabilities 746 705
Long-term debt 1,182 1,056
Other long-term liabilities 360 206
Redeemable noncontrolling interests 125 44
Stockholders' equity 2,844 2,270
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity $ 5,257 $ 4,281
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income
Three Months Ended Years Ended
Product revenue $ 659 $ 525 $ 2,289 $ 2,032
Service and other revenue 119 94 463 366
Total revenue 778 619 2,752 2,398
Cost of revenue:
Cost of product revenue (a) 172 151 679 534
Cost of service and other revenue (a) 55 38 208 155
Amortization of acquired intangible assets 9 11 39 43
Total cost of revenue 236 200 926 732
Gross profit 542 419 1,826 1,666
Operating expense:
Research and development (a) 137 130 546 504
Selling, general and administrative (a) (b) 175 146 674 584
Legal contingencies — — — (9 )
Total operating expense 312 276 1,220 1,079
Income from operations 230 143 606 587
Other (expense) income, net (6 ) (9 ) 437 (26 )
Income before income taxes 224 134 1,043 561
Provision for income taxes 166 26 365 133
Consolidated net income 58 108 678 428
Add: Net loss attributable to noncontrolling interests 10 16 48 35
Net income attributable to Illumina stockholders $ 68 $ 124 $ 726 $ 463
Net income attributable to Illumina stockholders for earnings per share (c) $ 68 $ 124 $ 725 $ 454
Earnings per share attributable to Illumina stockholders:
Shares used in computing earnings per common share:
Basic 146 147 146 147
Diluted 148 148 148 148
(a) Includes stock-based compensation expense for stock-based awards:
Cost of product revenue $ 3 $ 3 $ 12 $ 9
Cost of service and other revenue — — 2 2
Research and development 13 9 51 42
Selling, general and administrative 25 15 99 76
Stock-based compensation expense before taxes (1) $ 41 $ 27 $ 164 $ 129
(1) Includes stock-based compensation of $0.9 million and $3.5 million for Helix for the three months and year ended December 31, 2017, respectively, and $10.1 million for GRAIL for the year ended December 31, 2017. This compares to stock-based compensation of $0.5 million and $2.4 million for GRAIL and Helix for the three months and year ended January 1, 2017, respectively.
(b) Headquarter relocation expense of $0.4 million and $1.5 million was reclassified to selling, general and administrative expense for the three months and year ended January 1, 2017, respectively, to conform to the current period presentation.
(c) Amount reflects the additional losses attributable to the common shareholders of GRAIL and Helix for earnings per share purposes.
Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
Net cash provided by operating activities (a) $ 294 $ 262 $ 875 $ 779
Net cash used in investing activities (315 ) (173 ) (214 ) (515 )
Net cash used in financing activities (a) (109 ) (145 ) (176 ) (296 )
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents 1 (4 ) 5 (2 )
Net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents (129 ) (60 ) 490 (34 )
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period 1,354 795 735 769
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period $ 1,225 $ 735 $ 1,225 $ 735
Calculation of free cash flow:
Purchases of property and equipment (b) (76 ) (82 ) (310 ) (260 )
Free cash flow (c) $ 218 $ 180 $ 565 $ 519
(a) Excess tax expense of $19 million and tax benefit of $91 million related to stock-based compensation for the three months and year ended January 1, 2017, respectively, was reclassified from cash used in financing activities to cash provided by operating activities as a result of the retrospective application of ASU 2016-09 adopted in Q1 2017.
(b) Excludes property and equipment recorded under build-to-suit lease accounting, which are non-cash expenditures, of $19 million and $79 million for the three months and year ended December 31, 2017, respectively, and $25 million and $193 million for the three months and year ended January 1, 2017, respectively.
(c) Free cash flow, which is a non-GAAP financial measure, is calculated as net cash provided by operating activities reduced by purchases of property and equipment. Free cash flow is useful to management as it is one of the metrics used to evaluate our performance and to compare us with other companies in our industry. However, our calculation of free cash flow may not be comparable to similar measures used by other companies.
Results of Operations - Non-GAAP
ITEMIZED RECONCILIATION BETWEEN GAAP AND NON-GAAP EARNINGS PER SHARE ATTRIBUTABLE TO ILLUMINA STOCKHOLDERS:
GAAP earnings per share attributable to Illumina stockholders - diluted $ 0.46 $ 0.84 $ 4.92 $ 3.07
Amortization of acquired intangible assets 0.07 0.08 0.30 0.33
Non-cash interest expense (a) 0.05 0.05 0.20 0.20
Restructuring (b) 0.03 — 0.03 —
Gain on deconsolidation of GRAIL (c) — — (3.07 ) —
Impairments (d) — — 0.15 —
Performance-based compensation related to GRAIL Series B financing (e) — — 0.03 —
Equity-method investment gain (f) — — (0.01 ) —
Acquisition related gain (g) — — (0.01 ) —
Legal contingencies (h) — — — (0.06 )
Contingent compensation expense (i) — — — 0.01
Headquarter relocation — — — 0.01
Deemed dividend (j) — — — (0.01 )
Incremental non-GAAP tax expense (k) (0.05 ) (0.07 ) 0.80 (0.17 )
Tax benefit related to cost-sharing arrangement (l) — (0.05 ) — (0.05 )
U.S. Tax Reform (m) 1.01 — 1.01 —
Excess tax benefit from share-based compensation (n) (0.13 ) — (0.35 ) —
Non-GAAP earnings per share attributable to Illumina stockholders - diluted (o) $ 1.44 $ 0.85 $ 4.00 $ 3.33
ITEMIZED RECONCILIATION BETWEEN GAAP AND NON-GAAP NET INCOME ATTRIBUTABLE TO ILLUMINA STOCKHOLDERS:
GAAP net income attributable to Illumina stockholders $ 68 $ 124 $ 726 $ 463
Amortization of acquired intangible assets 10 12 45 49
Non-cash interest expense (a) 8 8 30 30
Restructuring (b) 4 — 4 —
Gain on deconsolidation of GRAIL (c) — — (453 ) —
Impairments (d) — — 23 —
Performance-based compensation related to GRAIL Series B financing (e) — — 4 —
Equity-method investment gain (f) — — (2 ) —
Acquisition related gain (g) — — (1 ) —
Legal contingencies (h) — — — (9 )
Contingent compensation expense (i) — — — 2
Headquarter relocation — — — 1
Incremental non-GAAP tax expense (k) (7 ) (11 ) 117 (26 )
Tax benefit related to cost-sharing arrangement (l) — (7 ) — (7 )
U.S. Tax Reform (m) 150 — 150 —
Excess tax benefit from share-based compensation (n) (21 ) — (52 ) —
Non-GAAP net income attributable to Illumina stockholders (o) $ 212 $ 126 $ 591 $ 503
All amounts in tables are rounded to the nearest millions, except as otherwise noted. As a result, certain amounts may not recalculate using the rounded amounts provided.
(a) Non-cash interest expense is calculated in accordance with the authoritative accounting guidance for convertible debt instruments that may be settled in cash.
(b) Amount consists primarily of employee costs related to the restructuring that occurred in Q4 2017.
(c) Amount represents the gain recognized as a result of the deconsolidation of GRAIL in Q1 2017. The $150 million tax effect of the gain is included in incremental non-GAAP tax expense. Subsequent to the transaction, our remaining interest is treated as a cost-method investment.
(d) Amount represents impairment of an acquired intangible asset and in-process research and development of $18 million and $5 million, respectively.
(e) Amount represents performance-based stock which vested as a result of the financing, net of attribution to noncontrolling interest.
(f) Equity-method investment gain represents mark-to-market adjustments from our investment in Illumina Innovations Fund I, L.P.
(g) Acquisition related gain consists of change in fair value of contingent consideration.
(h) Legal contingencies for 2016 represent a reversal of previously recorded expense related to the settlement of patent litigation.
(i) Contingent compensation expense relates to contingent payments for post-combination services associated with an acquisition.
(j) Amount represents the impact of a deemed dividend, net of Illumina's portion of the losses incurred by GRAIL's common stockholders resulting from the company's common to preferred share exchange with GRAIL. The amount was added to net income attributable to Illumina stockholders for purposes of calculating Illumina's consolidated earnings per share. The deemed dividend, net of tax, was recorded through equity.
(k) Incremental non-GAAP tax expense reflects the tax impact related to the non-GAAP adjustments listed above.
(l) Tax benefit related to cost-sharing arrangement refers to the exclusion of stock compensation from prior period cost-sharing charges as a result of a tax court ruling.
(m) In accordance with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act enacted on December 22, 2017 (U.S. Tax Reform), amount primarily consists of a provisional estimate of the one-time transition tax on earnings of certain foreign subsidiaries that were previously tax deferred.
(n) Excess tax benefits from share-based compensation are recorded as a discrete item within the provision for income taxes on the consolidated statement of income pursuant to ASU 2016-09, which was previously recognized in additional paid-in capital on the consolidated statement of stockholders' equity.
(o) Non-GAAP net income attributable to Illumina stockholders and diluted earnings per share attributable to Illumina stockholders exclude the effect of the pro forma adjustments as detailed above. Non-GAAP net income attributable to Illumina stockholders and diluted earnings per share attributable to Illumina stockholders are key components of the financial metrics utilized by the company's board of directors to measure, in part, management's performance and determine significant elements of management's compensation. Management has excluded the effects of these items in these measures to assist investors in analyzing and assessing our past and future core operating performance.
Results of Operations - Non-GAAP (continued)
(Dollars in millions)
ITEMIZED RECONCILIATION BETWEEN GAAP AND NON-GAAP RESULTS OF OPERATIONS AS A PERCENT OF REVENUE:
GAAP gross profit $ 542 69.7 % $ 419 67.7 % $ 1,826 66.4 % $ 1,666 69.5 %
Amortization of acquired intangible asset 9 1.2 % 11 1.8 % 39 1.4 % 43 1.8 %
Impairment of acquired intangible asset — — — — 18 0.6 % — —
Non-GAAP gross profit (a) $ 551 70.9 % $ 430 69.5 % $ 1,883 68.4 % $ 1,709 71.3 %
GAAP research and development expense $ 137 17.7 % $ 130 21.0 % $ 546 19.8 % $ 504 21.0 %
Restructuring (b) (2 ) (0.3 )% — — (2 ) (0.1 )% — —
Impairment of in-process research and development — — — — (5 ) (0.1 )% — —
Non-GAAP research and development expense $ 135 17.4 % $ 130 21.0 % $ 539 19.6 % $ 504 21.0 %
GAAP selling, general and administrative expense $ 175 22.5 % $ 146 23.6 % $ 674 24.6 % $ 584 24.4 %
Amortization of acquired intangible assets (1 ) (0.1 )% (1 ) (0.2 )% (6 ) (0.2 )% (6 ) (0.2 )%
Performance-based compensation related to GRAIL Series B financing (c) — — — — (10 ) (0.4 )% — —
Acquisition related gain (d) — — — — 1 — — —
Contingent compensation expense (e) — — — — — — (2 ) (0.1 )%
Headquarter relocation — — — — — — (1 ) (0.1 )%
Non-GAAP selling, general and administrative expense $ 172 22.1 % $ 145 23.4 % $ 657 23.9 % $ 575 24.0 %
GAAP operating profit $ 230 29.6 % $ 143 23.1 % $ 606 22.0 % $ 587 24.5 %
Amortization of acquired intangible assets 10 1.3 % 12 2.0 % 45 1.6 % 49 2.0 %
Restructuring (b) 4 0.5 % — — 4 0.1 % — — %
Legal contingencies (f) — — — — — — (9 ) (0.4 )%
Impairments — — — — 23 0.9 % — —
Performance-based compensation related to GRAIL Series B financing (c) — — — — 10 0.4 % — —
Acquisition related gain (d) — — — — (1 ) — — —
Contingent compensation expense (e) — — — — — — 2 0.1 %
Headquarter relocation — — — — — — 1 0.1 %
Non-GAAP operating profit (a) $ 244 31.4 % $ 155 25.1 % $ 687 25.0 % $ 630 26.3 %
GAAP other (expense) income, net $ (6 ) (0.8 )% $ (9 ) (1.4 )% $ 437 15.9 % $ (26 ) (1.1 )%
Non-cash interest expense (g) 8 1.1 % 8 1.2 % 30 1.2 % 30 1.3 %
Equity-method investment gain (h) — — — — (2 ) (0.1 )% — —
Gain on deconsolidation of GRAIL (i) — — — — (453 ) (16.5 )% — —
Non-GAAP other income (expense), net (a) $ 2 0.3 % $ (1 ) (0.2 )% $ 12 0.5 % $ 4 0.2 %
(a) Non-GAAP gross profit, included within non-GAAP operating profit, is a key measure of the effectiveness and efficiency of manufacturing processes, product mix and the average selling prices of our products and services. Non-GAAP operating profit, and non-GAAP other income (expense), net, exclude the effects of the pro forma adjustments as detailed above. Management has excluded the effects of these items in these measures to assist investors in analyzing and assessing past and future operating performance.
(c) Amount represents performance-based stock which vested as a result of the financing.
(d) Acquisition related gain consists of change in fair value of contingent consideration.
(e) Contingent compensation expense relates to contingent payments for post-combination services associated with an acquisition.
(f) Legal contingencies for 2016 represent a reversal of previously recorded expense related to the settlement of patent litigation.
(g) Non-cash interest expense is calculated in accordance with the authoritative accounting guidance for convertible debt instruments that may be settled in cash
(h) Equity-method investment gain represents mark-to-market adjustments from our investment in Illumina Innovations Fund I, L.P
(i) Amount represents the gain recognized as a result of the deconsolidation of GRAIL in Q1 2017. Subsequent to the transaction, our remaining interest is treated as a cost-method investment.
Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Guidance
Our future performance and financial results are subject to risks and uncertainties, and actual results could differ materially from the guidance set forth below. Some of the factors that could affect our financial results are stated above in this press release. More information on potential factors that could affect our financial results is included from time to time in the public reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 1, 2017 filed with the SEC on February 13, 2017, and Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarters ended April 2, 2017, July 2, 2017, and October 1, 2017. We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements or information.
GAAP diluted earnings per share attributable to Illumina stockholders $ 4.14 - $4.24
Amortization of acquired intangible assets 0.24
Non-cash interest expense (a) 0.21
Restructuring (b) 0.02
Incremental non-GAAP tax expense (c) (0.11 )
Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share attributable to Illumina stockholders $ 4.50 - $4.60
(b) Amount consists primarily of employee severance and retention costs related to the restructuring that occurred in Q4 2017.
(c) Incremental non-GAAP tax expense reflects the tax impact related to the non-GAAP adjustments listed above.
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The company's stock has risen 16% since its initial public offering in September as investors bet on the growing popularity of its bicycles that offer on-demand workout programs.
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