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PulteGroup, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2015 Financial Results
ATLANTA, April 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
Q1 Net Income of $55 Million, or $0.15 Per Share; Prior Year Net Income of $75 Million, or $0.19 Per Share, Includes a Net Benefit of $0.02 Per Share from Reversal of Mortgage Reserves Partially Offset by Debt Redemption Charges
Net New Orders Increased 6% to 5,139 Homes
Value of Net New Orders Increased 6% to $1.7 Billion
Q1 Community Count of 613, Up 5% Over the Prior Year
Average Closing Price Increased 2% to $323,000 Per Home
Gross Margin of 22.7% Consistent with Company Guidance
Unit Backlog Increased 6% to 7,624 Homes Valued at $2.6 Billion
Repurchased $100 Million of Stock in the Quarter
PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE: PHM) announced today financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2015. For the quarter, the Company reported net income of $55 million, or $0.15 per share. Prior year net income of $75 million, or $0.19 per share, includes a net benefit of $0.02 per share relating to the reversal of mortgage repurchase reserves partially offset by expenses associated with debt redemption charges.
"The improving demand conditions that we noted toward the end of 2014 carried through the first quarter of 2015 and provided a strong start to the spring selling season," said Richard J. Dugas, Jr. , PulteGroup Chairman, President and CEO. "We remain encouraged by overall housing demand which continues along a sustained but slow recovery path supported by an improving job market, favorable demographics, low interest rates and generally low inventory of available homes."
"Although Q1 earnings were impacted by higher income tax expense, acquisition accounting and construction delays which slowed closings, we generated a 6% increase in unit signups while maintaining high absorption paces and low incentive levels. Given the favorable demand environment and ongoing benefits from our Value Creation initiatives, we are well positioned to deliver another year of excellent operating and financial results," said Dugas.
Home sale revenues for the first quarter were $1.1 billion, which was comparable with the prior year. Revenues for the quarter reflect a 2% increase in average selling price to $323,000, offset by a 2% decrease in closings to 3,365 homes. The higher average selling price was the result of price increases realized across all three of the Company's national brands: Centex, Pulte and Del Webb .
Home sale gross margin for the quarter was 22.7% which was in line with Company guidance. Margins for the period reflect the impact of a 30 basis point reduction from acquisition accounting associated with the Company's 2014 purchase of certain assets from Dominion Homes. Homebuilding SG&A expense for the period was $161 million, or 14.8% of home sale revenues, compared with $145 million, or 13.3% of home sale revenues, in the comparable prior year quarter.
For the quarter, net new orders gained 6% over the prior year to 5,139 homes. The dollar value of net new orders also increased 6% over the prior year to $1.7 billion. For the quarter, the Company operated out of 613 communities which is an increase of 5% over last year.
PulteGroup's backlog at quarter end totaled 7,624 homes valued at $2.6 billion, compared with prior year backlog of 7,199 homes valued at $2.4 billion. The average price in backlog of $336,000 is consistent with backlog as of March 31, 2014, and up 1% over December 31, 2014.
The Company's financial services operations reported pretax income of $5 million for the quarter, compared with pretax income of $22 million in the prior year. First quarter 2014 pretax income included a $19 million benefit relating to the reversal of a portion of the Company's mortgage repurchase reserves. Mortgage capture rate for the quarter was 82% compared with 78% in the comparable prior year period.
Income tax expense for the period was $41 million, or an effective tax rate of 42.6%, which is higher than Company guidance of 38%. The higher tax rate for the period reflects a charge of $0.02 per share relating to an adjustment to the Company's deferred tax asset resulting from a change in its prospective effective tax rate. The Company currently estimates that its normalized tax rate for future quarters will remain near its previous guidance of 38%.
The Company ended the quarter with $1.1 billion of cash after investing $484 million in land and repurchasing 4.6 million shares of common stock in the period for $100 million, or an average price of $21.75 per share.
A conference call discussing PulteGroup's first quarter results is scheduled for Thursday, April 23, 2015, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time. Interested investors can access the live webcast via PulteGroup's corporate website at www.pultegroupinc.com.
This press release includes "forward-looking statements." These statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause our actual results, performance, prospects or opportunities, as well as those of the markets we serve or intend to serve, to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these statements. You can identify these statements by the fact that they do not relate to matters of a strictly factual or historical nature and generally discuss or relate to forecasts, estimates or other expectations regarding future events. Generally, the words "believe," "expect," "intend," "estimate," "anticipate," "project," "may," "can," "could," "might," "will" and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, including statements related to expected operating and performing results, planned transactions, planned objectives of management, future developments or conditions in the industries in which we participate and other trends, developments and uncertainties that may affect our business in the future.
Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, among other things: interest rate changes and the availability of mortgage financing; continued volatility in the debt and equity markets; competition within the industries in which PulteGroup operates; the availability and cost of land and other raw materials used by PulteGroup in its homebuilding operations; the impact of any changes to our strategy in responding to the cyclical nature of the industry, including any changes regarding our land positions; the availability and cost of insurance covering risks associated with PulteGroup's businesses; shortages and the cost of labor; weather related slowdowns; slow growth initiatives and/or local building moratoria; governmental regulation directed at or affecting the housing market, the homebuilding industry or construction activities; uncertainty in the mortgage lending industry, including revisions to underwriting standards and repurchase requirements associated with the sale of mortgage loans; the interpretation of or changes to tax, labor and environmental laws; economic changes nationally or in PulteGroup's local markets, including inflation, deflation, changes in consumer confidence and preferences and the state of the market for homes in general; legal or regulatory proceedings or claims; our ability to generate sufficient cash flow in order to successfully implement our capital allocation priorities; required accounting changes; terrorist acts and other acts of war; and other factors of national, regional and global scale, including those of a political, economic, business and competitive nature. See PulteGroup's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014, and other public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") for a further discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties applicable to our businesses. PulteGroup undertakes no duty to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or changes in PulteGroup's expectations.
About PulteGroup
PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE: PHM), based in Atlanta, GA, is one of America's largest homebuilding companies with operations in approximately 50 markets throughout the country. Through its brand portfolio that includes Centex, Pulte Homes, Del Webb and DiVosta Homes, the Company is one of the industry's most versatile homebuilders able to meet the needs of multiple buyer groups and respond to changing consumer demand. PulteGroup conducts extensive research to provide homebuyers with innovative solutions and consumer inspired homes and communities to make lives better.
For more information about PulteGroup, Inc. and PulteGroup brands, go to www.pultegroupinc.com; www.pulte.com; www.centex.com; www.delwebb.com and www.divosta.com.
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Company Contact, Investors: Jim Zeumer, (404) 978-6434, Email: jim.zeumer@pultegroup.com
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PulteGroup's Fourth Quarter 2020 Earnings Release and Webcast Conference Call Scheduled for January 28, 2021
ATLANTA, December 18, 2020 – PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE: PHM) today announced that it will release its fourth quarter 2020 financial results before the market opens on Thursday, January 28, 2021. The Company will hold a conference call to discuss its fourth quarter results that same day at 8:30 a.m. (ET).
PulteGroup's Bob O'Shaughnessy named Chief Financial Officer of the Year
ATLANTA – December 17, 2020 – PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE: PHM), one of America's largest homebuilding companies, today announced Bob O'Shaughnessy, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, as the recipient of the 2020 CFO of the Year Award presented by CFO Roundtable of Atlanta.
The Detroit Free Press Names PulteGroup's Michigan Division a 2020 Top Workplace
National homebuilder PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE: PHM) announced today its recognition as a 2020 Top Workplace by the Detroit Free Press. This is the third year its Michigan division has received this honor.
PulteGroup 2020 Design Trends
Ditch the winter blues and white hues for vibrant and illuminating new trends that will be sure to add a breath of fresh air into your home! From bold color statements to unexpected adornments and wall art, 2020 marks the year of taking risks in design. The interior design team at PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE: PHM) is sharing its top trends to look for in 2020.
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Reese Witherspoon 'sick' of being the only female lead on a film set
The actress and producer said she has always been 'outspoken' with her opinions.
Reese Witherspoon grew 'sick' of being the only female lead on a film set (Ian West/PA)
Reese Witherspoon has said she grew "sick" of the struggle faced by actresses in Hollywood, and of often being the only female lead in a film.
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/news/reese-witherspoon-sick-of-being-the-only-female-lead-on-a-film-set-37699609.html
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The Oscar-winning actress also said she has never held back in sharing her opinions, despite what others thought of her.
Witherspoon told America's Vogue magazine: "The idea is to put women at the centre of the story… I was sick of making movies where I was the only female lead on the set.
@reesewitherspoon is our February cover star! Tap the link in our bio to read our full interview. Photographed by @zoeghertner, styled by @tonnegood, written by @Meghan_daum, Vogue, February 2019.
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"I was sick of seeing scripts where there was one female role, badly written, and yet every actress in town wanted the part because there was nothing else."
She added: "I always tended to be outspoken with my opinions. Whether they were appropriate or not."
Witherspoon, 42, co-founded in 2016 production company and media brand Hello Sunshine, which focuses on highlighting female-driven stories on a number of platforms.
The company has a number of films and TV projects in the works, as well as a mentoring programme for aspiring young female filmmakers.
Witherspoon also serves as executive producer on hit TV drama series Big Little Lies, in which she stars alongside a female-heavy cast including Nicole Kidman and Shailene Woodley, and she is an active supporter of the Time's Up campaign against sexual harassment and inequality.
Witherspoon, whose acting credits include Legally Blonde, Walk The Line and Wild, said: "I finally asked myself, why does it have to be the same 20 people making all the movies?
"Maybe there is room for a more inclusive idea about who can be on-screen and who can get it funded.
"Maybe there are different ways to get content made so that the world we see on-screen looks more like the world we walk through in real life."
Witherspoon appears in Vogue magazine's February issue, available later this month.
Two Call The Midwife talents have been bestowed with honorary degrees.
Danny John-Jules has urged the public to judge his Strictly Come Dancing stint on his performances and not "gossip".
Oti Mabuse has said she never wanted to replace Dame Darcey Bussell on the Strictly Come Dancing judging panel.
Mark Wahlberg posts 'throwback' video of himself and teenage Leonardo DiCaprio
Mark Wahlberg has posted "throwback" video footage of himself and a teenage Leonardo DiCaprio to Instagram.

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United vs City: Are the Manchester clubs set for failure this season?
January 24, 2017 January 24, 2017 / Lewis Addley	/ Leave a comment
It's no secret both Manchester Untied and Manchester City are not living up to the high expectations set by the fans, pundits and club in general so far this season. Both sides are currently outside the top four more than halfway through the domestic campaign, which is no where near where they expect to be, so are the two set for failure this season? Lewis Addley explores…
Ten games into the Pep Guardiola era at Manchester City things were looking like a foregone conclusion for the season ahead. The former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss looked to have bought his style of play to England with success, winning ten games on the bounce, but fast-forward to January and City are struggling in 5th place.
Things are not much different domestically for Jose Mourinho at Manchester United either. The Red Devils remain outside the top four and look a long way behind league-leading Chelsea.
Both clubs have reached the knockout stage in Europe, City in the Champions League and United in the Europa League, which surely will be the focus of their seasons respectively come the return of the competitions in a few weeks. United are on the brink of reaching the final of the League Cup, but that alone will not be enough to reduce the pressure on Mourinho, with more always expected of the Manchester giants.
So are both of these clubs set for failure?
In a word, no. There are plenty of games for the league table to continue to change. But the competition for the top four is so intense that it is difficult, with current form in mind, to think both sides will make the cut. United had just began to pick up form but their consecutive draws suggest they're still one step away from troubling the sides above them on a consistent basis.
City on the other hand seem to have no league form whatsoever, they're fast becoming a side who look beatable from the off and Pep is going to have to change something. They've gone from having a powerful, tight backline to a nervy outfit who look like they will concede with every shot, something Claudio Bravo is picking up an unwanted affiliation for, having conceded the last six efforts on goal he has faced.
As previously mentioned United are on track to reach the League Cup final but given the current nature of expectancy, that trophy alone is not enough for a title-chasing side. Both Manchester clubs are still challenging in the FA Cup, a tournament they are going to need to reach the latter stages in at least, such as the regard winning it is held in.
European action offers contrasting situations, City face PSG in the Champions League, while United drew Saint-Étienne in the Europa League. City's performance last year was their best effort to date in the competition and given the strength of the sides they can pull in the latter rounds if they are to progress, winning it would be some feat, although not impossible given the quality of players available to Guardiola.
United's progression in the Europa League wouldn't be something Mourinho is bothered by, if you're to believe his stance on the competition, however winning it would guarantee them a place in the Champions League next season regardless of their league finish. With that in mind United have to take it seriously, no doubt they will.
There is no doubt both Manchester clubs have the ability to win some silverware this season between them, but domestically it isn't looking overly promising. With track-record in mind, many have been surprised with the struggles the two have endured in their first season. In the modern game transitional periods are becoming less and less acceptable, especially considering the amount of money that's being spent on transfers. Perhaps not the first season of the Mourinho and Guardiola era their fans would have had high hopes for?
Is it too early for the word failure to be thrown around or have Mourinho and Guardiola not lived up to expectation so far?
Premier League Preview and Prediction: Manchester City vs Chelsea
December 2, 2016 / Lewis Addley	/ Leave a comment
Competition: Premier League – Manchester City vs. Chelsea
Venue: Etihad Stadium – Saturday, December 3 – 12:30 GMT (07:30 ET)
Match Odds: Manchester City 11/10 – Draw 5/2 – Chelsea 12/5
Manchester City welcome Chelsea to the Etihad Stadium on Saturday lunchtime in a mouthwatering fixture in the race for the Premier League title.
Pep Guardiola's side trail league leaders Chelsea by just one point ahead of this tie and just three points separate the top four. This is a crunch game for City, who need to make sure they win and put an end to Chelsea's winning run.
City come into the game having come from behind to beat Burnley in a scrappy game that showed their resilience to win, something they'll need to show once again here.
While many are saying it is too early for results to impact the race for the title, a loss for City here could be disastrous for the squad mentally. Guardiola has experience coaching against Chelsea and will know his side are up against a team that never know when they're beat.
Chelsea are the inform team in the Premier League. They have won seven in row, conceding just once and scoring 19.
Antonio Conte is pleased with his side, especially the spirit they showed to come from behind to beat Spurs last weekend. Many have questioned whether or not going behind would upset the balance for Chelsea in their unbeaten run, but they proved they are capable of turning a game in their favour.
Chelsea have struggled at the Etihad, they have won just once in their last eight visits in all competitions and, like practically every Premier League club, have constantly been on the receiving end of a Sergio Aguero masterclass.
This a game Chelsea have to avoid defeat in. It will put them in a really good position for their upcoming December fixtures, while no league game is easy, they have some favourable games over the Christmas period and could capitalise on that to give themselves some cushioning at the top.
Vincent Kompany remains out for Manchester City, while there are concerns about Fabian Delph and Raheem Sterling, who are both doubts.
Chelsea are expected to remain unchanged for the eighth game in a row. John Terry will be out, while Kurt Zouma and Marco van Ginkel are not yet ready to be considered for selection. Diego Costa is one yellow card away from a one-game ban, it wouldn't be a surprise if he picks that up here given the intensity of this tie.
Manchester City's form: D/W/D/W/W
Chelsea's form: W/W/W/W/W
Key Stat: Chelsea have conceded just once in their seven-game winning streak.
Key Player: Thibaut Courtois – This is easily the biggest challenge of the season for the Chelsea backline. They have been performing very well but face a completely different opponent with the way City will press them on the ball. Courtois will have to be at his best to ensure his side can come away with a win.
Score Prediction
Manchester City 2-0 Chelsea – Manchester City are going to give Chelsea a different style of game that no other side has done this season. Their pressing and ball retention will make this a difficult afternoon for Conte's men. Historically, it is not a happy hunting ground for Chelsea and Aguero & co will make it another to forget for The Blues.
Premier League Preview and Prediction: Manchester City vs West Ham United
August 26, 2016 August 26, 2016 / Lewis Addley	/ Leave a comment
Competition: Premier League – Manchester City vs. West Ham United
Venue: Etihad Stadium – Sunday, August 28 – 16:00 BST (11:00 ET)
Match Odds: Man City 2/7 – Draw 9/2 – West Ham 9/1
Manchester City welcome West Ham United to the Etihad on Sunday afternoon in what they will be hoping is a relatively straightforward tie.
City are top of the league on goals scored and we can expect them to be a fierce competitor for the Premier League title this season.
They come into this one off the back of their 4-1 thumping of Stoke last weekend, an impressive performance that had the real look of a Pep Guardiola side.
City will be keen to continue racking up the goals here in order to remain the early pace setters in the league this season. Home form is something Guardiola sides are renowned for, he will be expecting a tough tie but nothing less than three points from this game.
West Ham United bounced back from their opening day defeat to pick up a late win over Bournemouth in their first league game at the London Stadium last time out.
Slaven Bilic's squad is stretched by injuries and fitness concerns to his key players even this early on in the season, he will be hoping to make a couple of extra signings before the window closes.
The Hammers have struggled away against Manchester City but did win in this fixture last season, they will be looking to frustrate their opponents in this tie but will be expecting to see little of the ball.
West Ham will be hoping to bounce back from being knocked out of Europe on Thursday with a positive result here, but the fans will be bracing themselves for a disappointing week as they take on arguably the strongest squad in the league.
Manchester City could be without up to five through injury as Vincent Kompany, Ilkay Gündogan, Leroy Sané are all out, while Bacary Sagna and Kelechi Iheanacho are both doubts. New signing Claudio Bravo isn't expected to make his debut this week so we can expect Willy Caballero to return to the starting XI following what appeared to be Joe Hart's farewell in the Champions League in midweek.
West Ham have eight injury concerns heading into this tie as Aaron Cresswell, Diafra Sakho, André Ayew and Andy Carroll are all expected to be out, while Dimitri Payet, Manuel Lanzini, Sofiane Feghouli and Håvard Nordtveit are all doubts.
Manchester City's form: W/W
West Ham United's form: L/W
Key Stat: Manchester City have lost only one of their last ten Premier League games against West Ham at home, winning eight and drawing one.
Key Player: Sergio Aguero – The City goal machine has scored 37 goals in 47 Premier League games against London teams. He has an eye for goal against West Ham with six in eight league appearances.
Manchester City 3-1 West Ham United – Manchester City should be taking all three points in the majority of their home games this season if we are to believe that Guardiola is the real deal and this game is no exception. West Ham United have a squad that is being stretched through injuries and fitness issues but will still be able to cause City problems here, just not enough to win the game.
Premier League Preview and Prediction: Manchester City vs Sunderland
August 11, 2016 / Lewis Addley	/ Leave a comment
Competition: Premier League – Manchester City vs. Sunderland
Venue: Etihad Stadium – Saturday, August 13 – 17:30 BST (12:30 ET)
Match Odds: Man City 1/4 – Draw 19/4 – Sunderland 11/1
Manchester City kick off their 2016/17 Premier League campaign and new era under manager Pep Guardiola at home against Sunderland on Saturday evening.
It's certainly an exciting time to be a City fan and they will be expecting their side to get off to a winning start here. Fans will be demanding much more than last seasons finish of 4th, they scraped into a Champions League playoff place and given Guardiola's winning mentality, that would be a complete failure this time around.
Guardiola has made some big money signings throughout the summer transfer window and he will be expecting the new additions, along with the quality in the current squad, to make a strong challenge to win the Premier League.
Manchester City have a strong home record against Sunderland. They have won 11 of the last 13 meetings between the sides in all competitions. And if previous results are anything to go by we could be in for a goal-fest here, as City have scored at least three goals against Sunderland in seven of their last eight home meetings.
Sunderland will be looking to avoid another relegation battle this season and the club have replaced Sam Allardyce with David Moyes. It is a good appointment for the club, as despite his struggles at Manchester United, Moyes has a wealth of Premier League experience.
The Black Cats stayed up by two points at the end of last season, thanks to the guidance of Allardyce, and it is now time for them to try and push to the next level. A mid-table finish will be an achievable target if Sunderland can iron out their defensive issues that nearly cost them last season.
Moyes has just started to make some summer signings, while some long-term servants have departed the club. There is quality in the Sunderland side, but they have to build a team around a core of players to prove tougher opposition this season.
Sunderland couldn't have had it much more difficult in their opening game. The buzz around City will be a huge task for them to deal with, but if they can take anything away from their opening weekend fixture confidence will be sky-high. This will be an interesting tie to watch.
Manchester City have added the likes of Ilkay Gundogan (£21m), Nolito (£13.8m), Leroy Sane (£37m) and most recently John Stones (£47.5m) to their squad. Guardiola already has some selection headaches as Gundogan, Sane and captain Vincent Kompany are unlikely to feature until September through injuries. Stones has a huge task ahead of him to step up to the mark and fill in for Kompany in the heart of the City defence. We can expect Guardiola to setup with a 4-2-3-1 formation, with Sergio Aguero leading the line. Nolito could make his debut out on the left flank, while David Silva is likley to start in the number ten role. Kevin De Bruyne will more than likely start on the right. So far City have only seen two players depart, goalkeeper Richard Wright and Martin Demichelis are their completed outs.
Sunderland have released Wes Brown, Steve Harper and Danny Graham ahead of this season. Their completed ins are former United players Donald Love and Paddy McNair. David Moyes must utilise Jermaine Defoe and build a team to feed their frontman. He netted 15 goals in 33 appearances last season and if they can supply him he will be able to cause opposition defenders headaches like he has done his whole career. There are some concerns about Defoe's fitness as well as Sebastian Larsson, Jan Kirchhoff and Billy Jones, all four players will be racing to get fit for their opener.
Manchester City's last five: N/A
Sunderland's last five: N/A
Key Stat: Guardiola saw his Bayern side lose just twice last season, once at home and once away, and they won 15 of their 17 home games. If that is anything to go by we could expect City to become a formidable force at home this season.
Key Player: Sergio Aguero – The obvious choice but Aguero is so integral to City. If Guardiola can get his squad playing his style, Aguero will score for fun. The Argentine goal-machine is so deadly and he will be relishing the battle to win the golden boot this season and fire City to silverware.
Manchester City 3-0 Sunderland – City to start off with a bang. This is going to be a very difficult task for Sunderland. While many people have tipped Guardiola to find the Premier League very difficult to adapt to, he will have his side ready to go here. Sunderland will be pleased to get one of the toughest places to visit out of the way so early on.
Will Manchester City hang on to secure a top four finish in the Premier League?
March 22, 2016 May 12, 2016 / Lewis Addley	/ Leave a comment
Manchester City are enduring a rough patch of Premier League form with just one win from their last six domestic outings and with some key games coming up, are they at risk of finishing outside of the top four? Lewis Addley explores…
The Premier League title race looks all but out of Manchester City's reach now as they trail leaders Leicester City by a huge 15 points. Recent form has seen City pick up just four points in their last six games and they are struggling to hold onto fourth place, let alone challenge at the summit.
After another poor performance at the weekend in their 1-0 loss against rivals Manchester United the gap has narrowed even more. They are now in the uncomfortable position of having to look over their shoulders at the chasing pack of Champions League hunters – fuelling talk among fans and pundits alike that they could slip out of the top four.
Current Premier League standings – top six
As we can see City are just two points ahead of West Ham United and Manchester United as we enter the international break. Over the previous six games City have dropped from second place to fourth and the gap has closed between them and fifth place by six points.
When looking at Manchester City's remaining league fixtures, a fair argument could be made that they have to deal with one of the trickiest run-ins out of any club.
Manchester City's remaining Premier League fixtures and corresponding results
By using the theory of mirroring their previous results this season against the sides they face in the run-in, Manchester City would finish this season on 69 points, picking up six more wins and adding 18 points to their current tally of 51.
While we aren't suggesting those results will mirror exactly, it does give some good grounding to provide a potential final league points tally for City.
Wedged within these fixtures are City's two season-defining ties against Paris Saint-Germain in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, so the pressure will be on Manuel Pellegrini to ensure his squad priority is right when resting players for those games.
So lets have a look at how this potential tally of 69 points compares to the number of points required to finish in the top four over the last five Premier League campaigns.
Points required to finish in the top four – last five seasons
As we can see, over the last three seasons 69 points would not have been enough to finish in the top four, but it would have secured Champions League football in the 2010/11 and 2011/2012 seasons.
City fans will be concerned about their league position as they will not want to be without Champions League football next season, especially with the imminent arrival of new boss Pep Guardiola. Playing in Europe's top competition can certainly influence potential transfers and with a squad overhaul expected to take place, Guardiola will want to be able to lure some of the world's top talents to the Etihad Stadium.
It's now time for the current City squad to step up and prove any doubters wrong by winning as many of their remaining fixtures as possible to ensure they finish in the top four. They do also have the potential pathway into the Champions League by winning the competition this term as they head towards that huge quarterfinal tie against PSG.
City have finished in the top three of the Premier League in each of the past five seasons and lifted the title at the end of the 2011/12 and 2013/14 campaigns.
Do you think Manchester City will finish in the top four this season?
Premier League Preview and Prediction: Manchester City vs Leicester City
February 5, 2016 / Lewis Addley	/ Leave a comment
Competition: Premier League – Manchester City vs. Leicester City
Venue: Etihad Stadium – Saturday, February 6 – 12:45 GMT (07:45 ET)
Match Odds: Man City 4/7 – Draw 16/5 – Leicester City 9/2
Manchester City welcome Premier League leaders Leicester City to the Etihad Stadium in the first game of the weekend.
Manuel Pellegrini's side have been in a great run of form and are unbeaten in their last seven in the league. This is a huge tie which they desperately need to take all three points from to ensure they are in the strongest position possible to regain the title.
Manchester City have not lost in their last nine outings against Leicester in all competitions and haven't conceded a goal in the last three meetings between the sides.
The Manchester giants come into this one off the back of their hard earned 1-0 away win over Sunderland, a great example of their resilience and proof they are more than capable of grinding out results.
Leicester City are continuing to fly high and are three points clear of Manchester City at the top of the league coming into this one.
They won convincingly last time out against Liverpool with Jamie Vardy scoring that unforgettable screamer and have scored five goals in their last two games.
Claudio Ranieri's side are unbeaten in 14 of their last 15 away Premier League games and are more than capable of making this a really tough tie for Manchester City.
If Leicester can avoid defeat here they will give themselves a great chance of winning the league but some are still questioning their chances. Leicester on paper have a favourable run in to the end of the season after their next two games and we will really get a feel for how things will end up over the coming weeks.
Manchester City's injury list is a concern for Pellegrini but shows the importance of squad depth. Six first team players look set to miss out as Samir Nasri, Wilfried Bony, Kevin DeBruyne, Fabian Delph, Jesus Navas and captain Vincent Kompany are all sidelined.
Leicester City have just the three players who look unlikely to feature here, Daniel Amartey is a doubt while Matthew James and Jeffrey Schlupp are both out.
Manchester City's last five: W/D/W/D/W
Leicester City's last five: D/W/D/W/W
Key Stat: Solid – Leicester have kept five clean sheets in their last six Premier League games.
Key Player: Sergio Aguero – The Argentine goal-machine has bagged six in his last five Premier League outings and now has 13 for the season. If he continues to find the net at this ratio he could well be the difference for City bringing the title back to the Etihad.
Manchester City 2-1 Leicester City – Pellegrini's side to edge this one in a tie which could have a serious impact in the race for the title. It should be a thriller and one not to miss.
August 14, 2015 / Jamie Ives	/ Leave a comment
Venue: Etihad Stadium – Sunday, August 16 – 16.00 BST (11.00 ET)
Match Odds: Manchester City 11/10 – Draw 12/5 – Chelsea 12/5
Manchester City vs Chelsea. It's a crucial fixture as Sunday afternoon will see Manuel Pellegrini's men host defending champions Chelsea in a match which pits two of the heavy favourites to win the Premier League against each other in the first major clash of the 2015-16 campaign.
The Manchester side come into this game off the back of a convincing and dominant display away at the Hawthorns against West Brom on Monday, winning 3-0. Not only was it just a convincing victory but Yaya Toure returned to form netting two goals and looking back to his best, with David Silva also instrumental.
Man City have scored eight goals in their last two home games in the Premier League, which shows how clinical they are in front of their home crowd and that will be a concern for Chelsea.
City have also won their last seven Premier league games, with four of these victories coming at home.
Chelsea have only suffered one defeat in their last 19 Premier League games, which just shows you how resilient they are.
They have taken four points out of a possible 6 in their last two visits to the Etihad and will travel north looking to remain tight and avoid defeat.
Chelsea tend to adopt a different approach when it comes to the bigger games. Their negative approach tends to be scrutinised, however it has proved effective in recent years.
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A City win here would see them move five points clear of Chelsea at the top of the league after just two weeks, and that would be a huge advantage that Jose Mourinho will be desperate to avoid giving his title rivals.
Manchester City are without Fabian Delph and Fernando through injury. Yaya Toure is a minor doubt but is expected to start. Gael Clichy is also a doubt and Sergio Aguero has a lack of match fitness so will most likely will feature from the bench again.
Chelsea midfielder Oscar has a knock and is a doubt for Sunday's trip. Thibaut Courtois is suspended after his red card against Swansea so Asmir Begovic will start in goal. Diego Costa will lead the attack with Willian and Eden Hazard set to continue out wide.
Manchester City's form: W
Chelsea's form: D
Key Stat: Manchester City have failed to beat Chelsea in Premier League since February 2013.
Key Player: Eden Hazard – The current PFA Player of the Year is one of the best players in the world at the moment and if he can continue to produce the level of performances that he did last season it's easy to see him causing Man City a massive problem come Sunday. His lightning quick pace and agility to match can hurt any side and don't be surprised to see the young Belgian create several opportunities and perhaps even get on the scoresheet.
Manchester City 1-2 Chelsea – We can see this game being won in a very tight affair where Chelsea should show their defensive resilience and catch Man City on the counter, We can't see either team keeping the other out and so both teams scoring is likely. Chelsea have the advantage of being champions and ill be favourites for a win.
Premier League Preview and Prediction: Manchester City vs Southampton
May 22, 2015 / Zack Walford
Competition: Premier League – Manchester City vs. Southampton
Venue: Etihad Stadium – Sunday, May 24 – 15:00 BST (10:00 ET)
Match Odds: Manchester City 4/7 – Draw 7/2 – Southampton 4/1
Manchester City welcome Southampton to Etihad Stadium for the last game of the Premier League season with the hosts having already secured a second-place finish.
Southampton have exceeded all expectations and are guaranteed to finish one place higher than last season. If results go their way, they could even finish as high as fifth.
City's recent form has been impressive, winning their last five, scoring sixteen goals along the way since their demoralising defeat to rivals Manchester United back in April.
Manuel Pellegrini's future is under immense pressure after failing to retain the Premier League crown or win a cup competition this season, leaving City trophy-less for the second time in three years.
Although his future is in doubt, Pellegrini still expects to be the manager come next season as they aim to take the title back from Chelsea.
A summer clearout is expected at Manchester City with Yaya Toure said to be playing his last game for the club along with possible departures such as Stevan Jovetic, James Milner and of course Frank Lampard before he leaves for MLS club New York City FC.
Before the season began, Southampton were tipped for relegation, a low points total and looked like a club that would be in disarray. But they certainly aren't. Ronald Koeman has come in and done a very impressive job, leading them to their highest position in Premier League history.
The Saints arrive in Manchester off the back of a terrific 6-1 victory at home to Aston Villa and will be hoping to try and secure European football next season.
The reverse fixture saw Manchester City win 3-0 at St Mary's with goals from Yaya Toure, Frank Lampard and Gael Clichy the difference.
Manchester City will be missing Samir Nasri who has a groin injury.
Southampton will be without Dusan Tadic (groin). Goalkeeper Fraser Forster is a long-term absentee, so Kelvin Davies is expected to continue between the sticks. Morgan Schneiderlin could return to the side for what would potentially be his last appearance for the club as he'd constantly being linked with a move away. Jay Rodriguez could make his first appearance in fifteen months after his ACL tear in the same fixture last season.
Manchester City's last five: W/W/W/W/W
Southampton's last five: L/D/L/L/W
Key Stat: The last time Manchester City did the double over Southampton was in the 1992/93 inaugural Premier League season.
Key Player: Yaya Toure – Although he is certain to leave Manchester City this summer, he is so important to his side. He can flip the game in a heartbeat. The Ivorian hit a brace at Swansea last week and could add to his twelve goals this season.
Manchester City 2-0 Southampton – City will expect to finish strongly at home with a victory. Southampton have had a brilliant season but will fall just short of their opponents in this one.
STATS: Can Juventus star replace Yaya Toure at Manchester City?
May 11, 2015 / Jamie Ives	/ 1 Comment
Juventus midfield superstar, Paul Pogba, is looking like the main transfer story of the summer so far and is top of many top clubs' shopping lists, with the likes of Real Madrid, Chelsea, Manchester City and PSG among those searching for his signature.
Former club Manchester United have also been linked but Pogba could join the blue side of Manchester since reports emerged that Yaya Toure is likely to be heading out of the club this summer.
Pogba, who has won his third Serie A title in a row this season, is one of few that are similar to Toure in stature and playing style and City are keen to acquire the Frenchman.
Should Pogba make the move, it is reported that his salary would be approximately £250,000-a-week after tax, making him the highest paid midfielder in the world.
So how does the promising youngster weigh up against Toure? We compare their league stats from this term:
Yaya Toure Stat Paul Pogba
31 Age 22
27 Appearances 23
8 Goals 8
1 Assists 2
89% Pass Completion % 83
30 Key Passes 32
31 Chances Created 34
Judging from the stats above, there is a clear indication that Pogba can replicate the performances from Yaya Toure this year, and with potential to get much better, Pogba should be a worthy investment.
It is worth noting that this has not been Yaya Toure's greatest season at Manchester City but the Juventus star's statistics speak volumes about how influential he is.
Do you think Paul Pogba will replace Yaya Toure at Manchester City? Would he be the perfect signing for City?
Bayern Munich playmaker could follow Guardiola to City this summer – report
May 11, 2015 / Jamie Ives	/ Leave a comment
Manchester City have been linked with a move for Bayern Munich playmaker Thiago Alcantara, but any deal would only go through if City manage to land Pep Guardiola as their manager, according to German source TZ.
Manchester City are looking to refresh an ageing squad this summer with Yaya Toure one of several players looking close to the exit door and so reinforcements will be needed.
Former Barca star Thiago has finally returned to the playing squad at Bayern after over a year out and has made two league starts for the Bavarians since returning.
The Spaniard's current deal lasts until 2017 and so any City move would likely cost more than the £18 million fee that saw him move to Germany in 2013.
The deal however, hangs on Pep Guardiola joining the Citizens if Manuel Pellegrini departs at the end of the current campaign.
Guardiola is favourite to take the reigns at City after Bild reported that he met with City sporting director Txiki Begiristain two weeks ago to discuss his current contract.
Begiristain is said to have met with Guardiola in a hotel to negotiate a deal to bring him to the Etihad Stadium, and that could see Thiago follow as he did when the former Barca coach joined Bayern in 2013.
Would Thiago be a good signing for Manchester City? Would Pep Guardiola be the ideal appointment?
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This pond was established in the 14th century on an area of marshes and bogs near the village of Zahrádky.
The reservoir, on the Robečský Stream, is dammed with a 110 m long earth-illed dam and today covers 128 ha (of the original 300 ha). The reservoir has a remarkable water-feed system. Water lows from the Bobr Stream through a canal, hewn out of solid sandstone, known as the Mnichov channel. A medieval bridge over the channel carries the road from Doksy to Česká Lípa. A small opening is carved into one of the walls of the channel as a landing-place for small boats. Water levels were regulated by a semi-circular curved conduit and weir. The canal, cut into the rock, is 175 m long, 14 m deep and 7 m wide. The pond and channel are historic monuments of pond construction and the site has been an important nature reserve since 1933.


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Résultats du Tournoi de Wimbledon 1904.

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Finale : Hugh Lawrence Doherty  bat Frank Riseley  6-1, 7-5, 8-6

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A Cacteae a kaktuszfélék (Cactaceae) családjába és a kaktuszformák (Cactoideae) alcsaládjába tartozó nemzetségcsoport. Rendkívül fajgazdag, a kaktuszok mintegy háromnegyedét ide sorolják.

Rendszerezés
A nemzetségcsoportba az alábbi nemzetségek tartoznak:

 Acharagma
 Ariocarpus
 csillagkaktusz (Astrophytum)
 aztékkaktusz (Aztekium)
 Coryphantha
 sünkaktusz (Echinocactus)
 Echinomastus
 Epithelantha
 Escobaria
 hordókaktusz (Ferocactus)
 Geohintonia
 Kroenleinia
 Leuchtenbergia
 Lophophora
 szemölcskaktusz (Mammillaria)
 hógolyókaktusz (Mammilloydia)
 Neolloydia
 Obregonia
 Ortegocactus
 Pediocactus
 Pelecyphora
 Sclerocactus
 Stenocactus
 Strombocactus
 Thelocactus
 Turbinicarpus

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Please click here to download our most recent Special Educational Needs and Disability Report (November 2016).
Our Lead Special Educational Needs Co-Ordinator is Rachel Phipp.
Please contact her via email (rachel.phipp@islington.gov.uk) if you have any questions pertaining to S.E.N.D.
What kinds of special needs does Kate Greenaway Nursery School cater for?
We are a mainstream nursery school with places for children aged 6 months to five years old.
We cater for all forms of Special Educational Need, as long as we can offer provision that is suitable for a child's ability, aptitude or SEND.
We have a strong belief in the value of inclusion. We consider that all children, including those with SEND have a unique contribution to make. We plan carefully to differentiate provision to ensure that all children can access a full range of rich educational experiences. We believe that the child's family should be fully involved in the process of planning for and supporting their child with SEND and that our role is to ensure families have full access to information regarding their rights and entitlement.
We endeavour to meet children's medical needs as far as we are reasonably and safely able to. Staff receive specialist training as necessary to be able to offer routine procedures that allow children to gain access to a full nursery day or to a full range of experiences.
© 2016 Kate Greenaway Nursery School and Children´s Centre - Islington, London.


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Dubbed worldwide as a superstar skincare ingredient, green tea has all the anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and antibacterial properties to fight acne, rebuild collagen and repair cells from sun damage. Look through any skincare aisle (especially the K-beauty section) and you'll see green tea (or camellia oil) high up on the component list. Here's why you shouldn't overlook this ingredient in your routine.
Green tea is rich in polyphenols (phytochemicals that prevent oxidant damage) and flavonoids—the most popular of which is called epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), which green tea has in spades. Therefore, green tea extract has been shown to improve skin barrier functions, serve as antioxidant protection and boost sun protection. Due to the high concentration of polyphenols, topical application gives the skin antioxidant qualities, which help to neutralise free radicals in the environment. It also boosts skin hydration by improving water retention and reducing transepidermal water loss. Green tea is shown to reduce sunburn and sun damage-induced redness as well, along with promoting a reduction in cell damage.
The rich amount of polyphenols in green tea delivers antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties to the skin, that can help to slow the ageing process by maintaining the vitality of the skin and improving skin tone. EGCG also acts as an anti-bacterial agent that is able to reduce P.acnes bacteria on the surface of the skin. Due to its astringent qualities, green tea also decreases excess sebum production and reduces inflammation, and can soothe and calm skin conditions like rosacea and psoriaris because of its anti-inflammatory properties. Just like a good cup of tea can wake you up, topical application can reduce puffiness around the eye due to its caffeine content. EGCG also protect the skin from photodamage, as it is able to reduce UV damage once it reaches the skin (which means it is not an alternative to sunscreen, but works to complement it).
Green tea essential oil, which is extracted from the green tea plant, Camellia Sinesis, is also called camellia oil. It is a very lightweight dry oil with small molecules, which absorb into the skin immediately and do not sit on top of the dermis. Camellia oil, on the other hand, softens and hydrates skin and hair without leaving a greasy residue.
To start off a routine with the super ingredient, Tatcha's Pure One Step Camellia Cleansing Oil is a non-irritating formula that will melt away waterproof mascara, long wear foundation and any grime. The oil becomes a milky emulsion when in contact with water, and the green tea extract is five times more potent than Vitamin C to protect against photoageing. Straight after cleansing, apply the Innisfree Green Tea Serum to deeply hydrate the skin and protect it from oxidation through the day. For a moisturiser that hydrates and plumps, reach for the Drunk Elephant Lala Retro Whipped Cream, where an airy blend of African oils, plantain extract and green tea brighten the skin and lock in moisture through the day. If oily skin is an issue, the Herbivore Jasmine Green Tea Balancing Toner is formulated to fight acne and excess sebum while soothing and toning. For tired skin or a post workout pick-me-up, the First Aid Beauty Wipes are ideal to stash in your bag. Each refreshing wipe has caffeine to de-puff, aloe to soothe and matcha green tea to protect from environmental aggressors.
Those with puffy eyes, dark circles and an irritated eye contour region need not look further than The Ordinary's Caffeine Solution 5% + EGCG (from green tea leaves). It reduces puffiness and leaves the eye area ready for makeup application. A part of the body that is often forgotten when it comes to oxidative damage is the nail—if yours are splitting or keep breaking, they might be suffering free radical stress. The Nails Inc Overnight Detox Nail Mask is infused with powerful antioxidants like green tea, acai berry and spirulina to encourage healthy nail growth, and is great for those taking a break between gel manicures. For the hair, the lightweight Herbal Essences Cucumber and Green Tea Shampoo protects hair from UV damage and leaves it soft and strong.
Scroll through our gallery to take a look at the best skincare products featuring green tea on their ingredient lists, that you need in your arsenal.


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Muslims spend the daylight hours fasting during the holy month of Ramadan, which basically means no food or water, so it makes sense that the food awaiting us at iftar (the end-of-day breaking of the fast) should be good, hearty, and traditional food that warms the soul and rewards us after our day of abstinence.
And because of this idea that Muslims aren't eating during the day for an entire month, you may think that during Ramadan food is hard to come by, the truth is actually the opposite; after a day of fasting the first thing on the minds of the locals is food, and the food scene comes alive every night!
Chris Wotton, in his article on why Ramadan is the ultimate time to eat around Malaysia, writes: While the usual amount of street food might be impressive in itself, at Ramadan whole new bazaars set up, lining the street and offering every type of food imaginable, from light snacks to more fulfilling meals. When it is nearly time to break the fast, people begin to crowd around the stalls, snapping up anything – and everything – that catches their eye and takes their fancy, to take back home for a communal meal. Heading away with bag after bag filled to the brim with delicious, authentically Malaysian goodies is one ritual in which you too should be an active participant.
Picture taken by Chris Wotton.
What's the food scene like in your place during Ramadan?
For more information on Malaysia, you can visit the official Tourism Malaysia website.
No worries. I'll take you to a better place (compared to the above in the pic) where you'll find it very very very difficult to decide what to eat and wish you have bigger 'compartment' so you can taste them all. And later you'll find it is difficult even to stand straight…!
I am very mean, you know….


text: 1879.] MR. E. A. SMITH ON MOLLUSCA FROM JAPAN. 181 or lesser extent, of the dark pectoral blotch covered with light one, 12| inches long, from the Propontis ; another, 9| inches long, from Dalmatia ; a third, of the same size, from Naples ; and a fourth, 7h inches in length, from Sicily. As no structural difference is observable between T. pceciloptera and T. hirundo, except such as may be due to age, I think we are justified in considering the former the immature of the latter ; while the immature colours may be continued (although less decidedly) to the adult age, this difference being restricted to the inner side of the pectoral fin. Whether Thompson's specimen was T. hirundo or T. lineata is open to grave doubt. H e says : - " 10 dorsal spines . . . . lateral lines spinous ;" and as to colours, " I have little doubt that when recent it would in colour have corresponded. So I conclude it did not correspond when he received it from Mr. Ball, who obtained the single example, 2 inches in length, from among some sprats captured at Youghal, in Ireland. A Trigla possessing ten dorsal spines and a spinous lateral line is unlikely to be T. pceciloptera, which has nine dorsal spines and a smooth lateral line. I EXPLANATION OF PLATE XVIII. Trigla hirundo, from a specimen in the author's collection obtained near Southend: a. Stomach and caecal appendages; b. Air-bladder; c. Pectoral fin (inner side). 11. On a Collection of Mollusca from Japan. By EDGAR A. SMITH, F.Z.S., Zoological Department, British Museum. [Eeceived January 28, 1879.] (Plates XIX., XX.) A large collection of Japanese Mollusca, containing very many new and most interesting forms, has been presented to the British Museum by Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., with his wonted liberality. It is a most valuable addition to the series of species from the same region which was placed in the national collection a few years ago by the same gentleman. That series, of which a brief account of the Gastropoda onlv appeared in the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History' for 1875, was dredged by Capt. H. C. St. John, of H.M.S. ' Sylvia.' The specimens now to be considered were derived from the same source; and the highest praise must be accorded to Capt. St. John for the excellent manner in which they have been collected and preserved. Most of them are from the region of the Goto islands ; and to save the continual repetition of the longitude, latitude, and depths of the various stations, a list of them with consecutive numbers is appended below; so that for the locality of each species only the number of the station will be quoted.


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Posts from August 2017
Linguamatics I2E Certificate Program Launches at TMS 2017
Kirsten McLaughlin
The 2017 Text Mining Summit (New Castle, New Hampshire, October 2-4) will be your first opportunity to take part in our new I2E Certificate Program. The Level 1 Query User Certificate will be open to those who have just taken the "Introduction to I2E" hands-on workshops provided at the TMS, as well as more established users, who have taken the "Introduction to I2E" training on previous occasions. See the TMS Workshop Selection Guide for more details. It's free to join in as part of your TMS registration.
Completing the different levels of the Certificate Program will allow you to validate, extend and improve your I2E skills. The Query User Certificate will focus on using and editing basic queries and Resource queries to:
Create simple queries with different constraints, morphological variants, preferred terms and alternative lists
Use classes to improve recall and precision of queries with linguistic classes, ontologies, and pattern ontologies
Work with results by using limits, output formats and displays
Use Resource queries to answer common questions
Those taking the Query User Certificate at the TMS will have access to:
In-class instruction
Practical, hands-on experience with I2E
Open question sessions with I2E Experts
A set of learning objectives
Learning materials, including
Tutorial booklets
Linguamatics I2E takes Mundipharma Research toward IDMP Compliance and Beyond
IDMP compliance will require Market Authorization Holders to submit and maintain a broad range of data elements about medicinal products with the EMA - 70% of which currently exist in unstructured text, hidden in multiple document formats, styles, and languages. These data play a key role in the core operation of a pharmaceutical company, and are re-used for multiple purposes across the business.
The challenge for such companies is to find a quick, accurate, and affordable way to search, extract, standardize, and structure the 300–2,000 data elements required per product for IDMP compliance.
Linguamatics NLP extracts IDMP data elements
Mundipharma Research Limited implemented a pilot project using I2E, Linguamatics natural language processing-based text mining solution, to find, highlight and extract data elements for Iteration 1 from unstructured documents such as the EMA Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC) documents.
I2E queries were developed to extract the individual data elements using standard and customized ontologies, as well as linguistic features of SmPCs. Accuracy was evaluated against a 'gold standard' data set that had been manually extracted by an independent expert. Find out more about I2E's Extract Transform Load (ETL) solutions here.
Jon Sanford, Head of Regulatory Information Management and Operations at Mundipharma Research: "We were really impressed when we saw the accuracy with which I2E had been able to extract data elements from the documents".
Getting Quality Measures out of the Basement
Kathleen Nogueira
In the world of healthcare, quality measurement data collection and reporting is far from perfect. Patients move around, and transferring their health records from one organization to another creates a mass of documents that includes a large amount of unstructured data—around 80% of the medical record. Ignoring these unstructured notes often leads to reduced performance on quality measures.
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Pence approves revision to RFRA after national furor
April 2, 2015 | Olivia Covington and The Statehouse File
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Gov. Mike Pence has signed a bill supporters say will "fix" Indiana's divisive Religious Freedom Restoration Act – but it stops far short of banning discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Pence signed the new language on Thursday evening behind closed doors after he said he prayed "earnestly for wisdom and compassion." He said in statement he believes "resolving this controversy and making clear that every person feels welcome and respected in our state is best for Indiana."
Pence made Senate Bill 50 law shortly after it passed the Republican-controlled House and Senate on Thursday afternoon – largely along party lines.
House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, said the governor was "actively" involved in the creation of the language, which is largely a compromise only among some Republicans and business leaders.
It says that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act is not authorization to refuse service, housing, products or jobs to someone based on sexual orientation. It also says that RFRA can't be used as a defense in a discrimination lawsuit or a prosecution.
However, it exempts churches, religious schools and ministers from those provisions. And it does not actually add sexual orientation to the state's civil rights law, which bans discrimination based on race or religion.
Pence called for the additional legislation earlier this week to help deal with what he called RFRA's "misperception." He wanted the new bill on his desk by the end of the week.
Pence has said the act is not about discrimination and blamed the media for misleading the public. He said it simply raises the judicial standard under which the government is accused of intruding upon the religious liberty of Hoosiers.
But critics from across the nation – including business leaders, some elected officials, and advocates for gay rights – said it would lead to discrimination in Indiana. The law has led some state and local governments to cancel taxpayer-funded trips to the state, resulted in companies and organizations pulling or threatening to pull their events and their business from Indiana, and sent economic officials scrambling to try to mitigate the damage.
Democrats have pushed Republicans to completely repeal RFRA – and they voted against SB 50 on Thursday because they don't think it goes far enough. But GOP leaders say a repeal is not an option they're going to consider.
"That would send the exact wrong message," Senate President Pro Tem David Long said.
Rep. Linda Lawson, D-Hammond, who was named to the conference committee that considered SB 50, said she thinks the best course of action would be to repeal RFRA and write a new bill.
Sen. Mike Delph, R-Carmel, echoed Lawson's sentiments.
"I resent what we are being forced to do," Delph said. "I feel like we have a gun to our head — do it or pull the trigger. And it's wrong."
Senate Minority Leader Tim Lanane, D-Anderson, said that he could be OK with RFRA – but only if LGBT Hoosiers were added as a protected class in the Indiana Civil Rights Act.
Bosma said during a morning press conference that it was too late in the legislative session to consider adding an amendment to the Civil Rights Act, even though lawmakers whipped SB 50 together in just days.
Long said anti-discrimination is "probably likely" next year – although that's an election year when lawmakers regularly seek to avoid especially controversial legislation.
Several business leaders – including those representing Eli Lilly & Co., the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Cummins, Anthem, Dow AgroSciences and Indiana University Health – backed the "fix."
But Bill Oesterle, CEO of Angie's List, said the legislation is insufficient.
"Employers in most of the state of Indiana can fire a person simply for being lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning," Oesterle said in a statement. "That's just not right and that's the real issue here. Our employees deserve to live, work and travel with open accommodations in any part of the state."
Democrats also expressed concerns with the quick turn around of SB 50, but Long said swift action is necessary to help repair the state's reputation.
"In your heart of hearts you know why we're doing this," Long said. "Because damage has been done to our state."
Some Republicans also said they're worried passing SB 50 in one day would do more harm than good.
"(This is) something that would normally take years to work all of the legal and societal ramifications through, and we're going to try to do that in a matter of hours,"
Sen. Brent Waltz, R-Greenwood, said. "And I don't believe that's necessarily in the best interest of my district, or in the best interest of my state."
Both Delph and Waltz voted no on SB 50.
Similar to the Senate Democrats and Republicans who opposed SB 50, several House Democrats expressed their angst about how the "fix" would further damage Indiana's reputation and economy.
Rep. Patrick Bauer, D-South Bend claimed that the situation has taken a state with a solid reputation and "turned it into turmoil.


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Q: Position arrow decoration by center, not by tip I have lots of curves, each of which I would like to decorate with an arrow precisely at the centre. Here is a simple attempt to do this with TikZ:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings}
\begin{document}
\tikz{\draw [decoration={markings,
    mark=at position 0.5 with \arrow{>}},
    postaction=decorate] (0,0) to (0.3,0);}
\end{document}

This produces the following result:

This looks bad: the arrow tip is at the half-way point, but I want the midpoint of the arrow at the half-way point.
How can I do this automatically with TikZ?
Of course in this example I could manually configure the position of the arrow. But that is not good enough, because I have arrows on lots of curves of different lengths. Also, in the real document I use the arrows.meta functionality of TikZ 3.0 to configure my arrows, so I would like the solution to be consistent with this.
The arrow length is a fixed quantity, so it would be ideal if there was a simple way to automatically 'nudge' the decoration by half the arrow length.

A: Something to start with... I am not able to measure the width of the arrow head. If you can, you might add that to my little macro:
% arara: pdflatex

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings}
\newcommand*{\halfway}{0.5*\pgfdecoratedpathlength+.5*3pt}

\begin{document}
    \tikz{\draw [decoration={markings,
        mark=at position \halfway with \arrow{>}},
        postaction=decorate] (0,0) to [out=30, in=150] (1,0);}
\end{document}

A: (See update at the end for a general solution)
You can alter the definition of \pgf@lib@dec@arrowhead, which is the macro which computes and draws the arrow head when you use \arrow as decoration.
This is the original version of this macro (which appears in the file .../generic/pgf/libraries/decorations/pgflibrarydecorations.markings.code.tex):
\def\pgf@lib@dec@arrowhead#1#2{%
  \expandafter\ifx\csname tikz@special@arrow@end#2\endcsname\relax% be nice to TikZ
    \pgfsetarrowsend{#2}
  \else%
    \pgfsetarrowsend{\csname tikz@special@arrow@end#2\endcsname}%
  \fi%
  \pgf@x=0pt%
  \pgf@shorten@end%
  \pgftransformxshift{-\pgf@x}
  \pgftransformxscale{#1}
  \pgflowlevelsynccm%
  \pgflowlevelobj{}{\pgf@endarrow}%
}

This macro uses \pgf@short@end to compute somehow the amount to shift the arrow head, which stores the result in \pgf@x. Then it shifts the arrow head in the amount -\pgf@x, and this is why the arrow head appears "to the left" of the desired point.
This is how this macro places different arrowheads (>, latex and stealth). The red dot shows the center of the segment:

It looks like the shifting places the tip of the arrow near the red dot, so one could thing that removing that shifting the midpoint of the arrow will appear placed at the red dot. Unfortunately this depends of the kind of arrowhead used. This is the result with \pgftransformxshift{-\pgf@x} removed:

As you can see, the > arrow type is slightly pushed to the right, but not enough. However, the latex and stealth types are much more to the right (in fact, too much to the right). So there is no a universal way to alter \pgf@lib@dec@arrow@head to have the arrow head correctly centered, probably because each arrowhead has its "origin" at a different point.
If we concentrate only on the > type, we discover by trial and error that pushing the arrow the amount 1.5\pgf@x to its right, places it at the desired point. It works for different line widths too (which alter the arrow size), and apparently also on curves.
This is the code which implements this idea:
\documentclass[a6paper]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows}
\begin{document}

\makeatletter
\def\pgf@lib@dec@arrowhead#1#2{%
  \expandafter\ifx\csname tikz@special@arrow@end#2\endcsname\relax% be nice to TikZ
    \pgfsetarrowsend{#2}
  \else%
    \pgfsetarrowsend{\csname tikz@special@arrow@end#2\endcsname}%
  \fi%
  \pgf@x=0pt%
  \pgf@shorten@end%
  \pgftransformxshift{1.5\pgf@x}% <==== Modification
  \pgftransformxscale{#1}
  \pgflowlevelsynccm%
  \pgflowlevelobj{}{\pgf@endarrow}%
}
\makeatother
\tikz{\draw [decoration={markings,
    mark=at position 0.5 with \arrow{>}},
    postaction=decorate] (0,0) to (0.3,0);
    \fill[red] (0.15, 0) circle (.1mm);
}

\tikz{\draw [very thin,decoration={markings,
    mark=at position 0.5 with \arrow{>}},
    postaction=decorate] (0,0) to (0.3,0);
    \fill[red] (0.15, 0) circle (.1mm);
}

\tikz{\draw [very thick,decoration={markings,
    mark=at position 0.5 with \arrow{>}},
    postaction=decorate] (0,0) to (0.3,0);
    \fill[red] (0.15, 0) circle (.1mm);
}

\tikz{\draw [decoration={markings,
    mark=at position 0.5 with \arrow{>}},
postaction=decorate] (0,0) to[out=90, in=90] (0.3,0);
    \fill[red] (0.15, 0) circle (.1mm);
}
\end{document}

And this is the result:

Update: More experiments and a general (?) solution
Tikz arrows are drawn by code which assumes an origin located at the end of a line, and pointing to the right (pgf shifts and rotates conveniently this base arrow shape). Usually the arrow "protrudes" to its right from that "origin" point, but this depends on the particular arrow tip. For example, stealth tip protrudes approximately half of the arrowhead size, while to shape protrudes almost zero.
In order to avoid the arrowhead to extend past the line end, each arrow shape provides macros to define "how much" they protrude to the right. Tikz uses this amount to shorten the line, so that the arrow tip ends at the intended point. It also provides macros to define how much the arrowhead extends to its left. This is needed when drawing the arrowhead "reversed".
These macros can be useful to us. Calling the first one, we find how much the arrowhead extends to the right (call this R), and with the second one we find how much it extends to the left (call this L). So we can compute the total size of the arrowhead as R+L, and also the required shifting to align its midpoint with the coordinate origin (this would be (L-R)/2).
Unfortunately, depending on the arrow shape, the geometrical center of the arrowhead is not always the one we perceive as its optical center (due for example to the asymetrical mass distribution in the x direction), so even accurately computing the geometrical center of the arrow we can end with one arrow head which does not look centered.
In order to test diferent  methods of shifting the arrowhead and see the result for different arrow shapes and line widths, I wrote the following code.
\def\testarrows{
    \begin{tikzpicture}[transform canvas={scale=2}]
    \foreach[count=\j] \arrowtip in {to,stealth, triangle 45} {
        \foreach[count=\i] \width in {0.2, 0.4, 0.8} {
            \coordinate (A) at (\i/2, -\j/4);
            \coordinate (B) at ($(A)+(0.3,0)$);
          \draw [decoration={markings, mark=at position 0.5 with \arrow{\arrowtip}},
              postaction=decorate, line width=\width] (A) -- (B);
              \fill[red] ($(A)!.5!(B)$) circle (.1mm);
        }
    }
    \end{tikzpicture}\vskip 2.5cm
}

When run this code produces the standard arrows, centered at their tip (because they are shifted the amount -R by the \arrow{} decoration):

If we remove the -R shifting made by the standard library, we get each arrow centered at its origin. We can see how the position of the origin varies greatly for each arrow shape:

If we center at the geometrical center of each arrow (by shifting the amount (L-R)/2 we get:

We can see that the result for to and stealth shapes is very good, but triangle 45 looks like it is slightly shifted to its left. This is caused by the sharp tip, which is thinner than the line in which it is drawn.
This is the code used to generate these images. The part which computes R is \expandafter\csname pgf@arrow@right#2\endcsname%, and the one which computes L is \expandafter\csname pgf@arrow@left#2\endcsname%. Both leave the result in \pgf@x, which must be zero before calling them. I had to use also \pgf@y as auxiliar variable to compute (L-R)/2.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{nopageno}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows,calc}

\makeatletter
\def\CenterOrigin#1#2{% (no shifting)
  \expandafter\ifx\csname tikz@special@arrow@end#2\endcsname\relax% be nice to TikZ
    \pgfsetarrowsend{#2}
  \else%
    \pgfsetarrowsend{\csname tikz@special@arrow@end#2\endcsname}%
  \fi%
  \pgftransformxscale{#1}
  \pgflowlevelsynccm%
  \pgflowlevelobj{}{\pgf@endarrow}%
}
\def\CenterMiddlePoint#1#2{%
  \expandafter\ifx\csname tikz@special@arrow@end#2\endcsname\relax% be nice to TikZ
    \pgfsetarrowsend{#2}
  \else%
    \pgfsetarrowsend{\csname tikz@special@arrow@end#2\endcsname}%
  \fi%
  \pgf@x=0pt\pgf@y=0pt%
  \expandafter\csname pgf@arrow@left@#2\endcsname%
  \pgf@y=\pgf@x\pgf@x=0pt%
  \expandafter\csname pgf@arrow@right@#2\endcsname%
  \pgftransformxshift{0.5\pgf@y-0.5\pgf@x}%
  \pgftransformxscale{#1}
  \pgflowlevelsynccm%
  \pgflowlevelobj{}{\pgf@endarrow}%
}
\makeatother

\def\testarrows{
    \begin{tikzpicture}[transform canvas={scale=2}]
    \foreach[count=\j] \arrowtip in {to,stealth, triangle 45} {
        \foreach[count=\i] \width in {0.2, 0.4, 0.8} {
            \coordinate (A) at (\i/2, -\j/4);
            \coordinate (B) at ($(A)+(0.3,0)$);
          \draw [decoration={markings, mark=at position 0.5 with \arrow{\arrowtip}},
              postaction=decorate, line width=\width] (A) -- (B);
              \fill[red] ($(A)!.5!(B)$) circle (.1mm);
        }
    }
    \end{tikzpicture}\vskip 2.5cm
}

\begin{document}
Original arrows (arrow tip centered)\par
\testarrows

Unshifted (arrow "origin" centered)\par
\makeatletter\let\pgf@lib@dec@arrowhead=\CenterOrigin\makeatother
\testarrows

Middle of arrow shape centered\par
\makeatletter\let\pgf@lib@dec@arrowhead=\CenterMiddlePoint\makeatother
\testarrows
\end{document}

A: I was hoping that putting the arrow in a node will allow me to center it, but unfortunately the arrow is "overlayed" as we can see here.
\documentclass[varwidth,border=1mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings}
\begin{document}
\tikz{\draw [decoration={markings,
    mark=at position 0.5 with {
      \node[circle, fill=red, inner sep=.1pt]{
        \tikz\arrow{>};
      };
    }},
    postaction=decorate] (0,0) to (0.3,0);}
\end{document}

An ugly solution will be to preset the shift for any type of arrow that you use.
\documentclass[varwidth,border=1mm,convert={density=3500}]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}
\tikzset{
  test/.style={ decoration={markings,
                  mark=at position 0.5 with {#1;\fill[red] circle(.2pt);}},
                postaction=decorate}
}
% manually defined shifts for some arrow types
\def\Latexarrow{{\arrow[xshift={2pt + 2.25\pgflinewidth}]{Latex}}}
\def\ellipsearrow{{\arrow[xshift=1.65pt +2.47\pgflinewidth]{Ellipse}}}
\def\Stealtharrow{{\arrow[xshift=1.5pt+2.25\pgflinewidth]{Stealth}}}

\begin{document}
  \begin{tikzpicture}
    \draw [opacity=.7,ultra thick,test=\Latexarrow] (0,0) to (0.5,0);
    \draw [opacity=.7,ultra thick,test=\ellipsearrow] (0,0.5) to (0.5,0.5);
    \draw [opacity=.7,line width=1pt,test=\Stealtharrow] (0,1) to (0.5,1);
  \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

How to do this:

*

*go to the file pgflibraryarrows.meta.code.tex;

*search for your arrow, for example Stealth;

*when you find it, look for the value of length, in this case length = +3pt 4.5 .8;

*set your shift to the half of this length, here half of 3pt 4.5, so to 1.5pt+2.25\pgflinewidth.

A: The older solutions here have the problem that they either don't work on curves (the tip has to be adjusted tangentially, not along the curve) or that they don't work anymore because the code of the underlying library has changed. Fortunately, the library has become more flexible now by processing the option xshift of the \arrow command before positioning the arrow tip along the path.
By using \arrow[xshift=2pt] instead of \arrow the reference point of the arrow moves from the tip to the center of the arrow. 2pt is half of the length of the arrow that is defined as Latex[length=4pt].
\documentclass[border=2mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings,arrows.meta}
\tikzset
  {midarrow/.style={decoration={markings,mark=at position 0.5 with
     {\arrow[xshift=2pt]{Latex[length=4pt,#1]}}},postaction={decorate}}
  }
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
  \draw[midarrow] (0,0) -- (1,0);
  \draw[midarrow={open,fill=white}] (0,0) arc(-90:180:10pt);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

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Daring Article Profiles and Empowers 35 Cosby Accusers
Shafaq Hasan
July 26, 2015; New York Magazine
For a social movement to thrive, it has to leave the control of the people who started it and gather momentum sufficient that other interested parties can add their energy to it, keeping it rolling. For decades, women in the entertainment field have been sharing their stories about alleged molestation at the hands of Bill Cosby. It took Hannibal Burress's comedy routine to make it go viral, but now that it has, the notion has gained enough social weight that it travels on its own.
The most recent set of figurative hands to give the message a push belong to New York Magazine. Six months ago, NYM began compiling interviews from the 30 women (at the time) who had come forward and alleged that they had been assaulted by Cosby, the actor and comedian whose public persona has all but unraveled since the allegations went viral last year. Since the start of the project, another five women came on board, and the piece was published Sunday night on the magazine's website: interviews with the each of the women, and a photograph documenting all 35 women, including an empty seat to symbolize those victims who chose not to be interviewed and those who had not come forward at all.
The testimonies show an abusive and manipulative Cosby, one leagues apart from Cliff Huxtable, the lovable father-figure persona the world had come to embrace. According to the allegations in the article, not only did he prey on strangers, but he also exploited his relationships with close female friends. Among the women are actresses and supermodels like Janice Dickinson, but also salespeople, lawyers, teachers, and waitresses across 10 states.
As noted in the feature article, the interviews from the women about the incident are remarkably similar. Many of the alleged victims were young, impressionable women looking to break into show business. Cosby would make himself out to be someone looking to mentor the women and help their careers. Universally, as noted in the Temple University's basketball coach Andrea Constand's 2005 lawsuit, the allegations say that Cosby gave the women some kind of drink laced with a drug that partially or fully incapacitated them before the assaults. In response to his friend Joyce Emmons complaining about a headache:
"I had a terrible headache, and I said, 'Bill, do you have some Tylenol? I have a mother of a headache.' And he said to me, 'I have something stronger.' And I said, 'You know I don't do drugs.' He said, 'You're one of my best friends. Would I hurt you?' And I believed him."
Many recall feeling a similar shame in the aftermath. "This happened when I was 18. It took me a long, long time to come to terms with the fact that it was him, it wasn't me," said Linda Joy Traitz. Traitz also says she was given a pill after which Cosby attempted to assault her. She fought him off.
Tamara Green, now an attorney, had been an aspiring singer and model when she met Cosby. According to her testimony, she was assaulted in the early 1970s. Like the others, Cosby gave Green some pills, after which she became ill and he assaulted her. Along with Costand, Green was the second woman to go public with her story and identify herself as a victim.
"From the first day until this day, I have told everyone who would sit still long enough," said Green. "If it comes up at all—last year, I sold a truck to a fella, and I remember sitting in the cab of the truck telling the story, and him looking at me like I had two heads."
Green's attitude echoes the sentiment of the piece as well as the growing movement to empower victims of acquaintance rape or date rape.
"I didn't realize that I had been raped," said Joan Tarshis. "Back then, rape was done in an alleyway with somebody holding a knife to your throat that you didn't know. There was no date rape back then. I just knew that something horrible had happened."
Much of the media coverage has centered on the credibility of these women, while Cosby's storied reputation has been enough to keep him afloat for years. But the women mention the relief of knowing they are not alone in this "sisterhood," which is the crux of the New York Magazine piece.
"The part of it I wasn't prepared for was the onslaught of women that have been assaulted and them telling me their story because I told mine," said former supermodel Beverly Johnson.
Even though Cosby has not been charged with any crime, the consequences of these revelations have been far-reaching, extending further and further into the nonprofit sphere. It goes to show the power of sharing uncomfortable truths, and how voices united—even shaky ones—can sound a clarion call.—Shafaq Hasan
Shafaq Hasan is a Community Builder at NPQ. She is a graduate of Brandeis University where she majored in Art History and spent most of her time working in the office of the student newspaper as the Opinions editor, and later, as an Associate editor. As an undergraduate, she was also a research assistant for the Justice Brandeis Law Project at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism from 2011 to 2014.
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Lunar Apartments introduce a refreshing new perspective for modern living. The four level design impresses with strong linear and geometric forms to define each residence, while cantilevered sections and recesses create cleverly protected balconies that can be enjoyed across all seasons.
Glass balustrades and timber style cladding adds interest and function to a classic, contemporary design embracing 41, one, two and three bedroom apartments with private outdoor zones and laundry. Most apartments also include a study nook and external storage amenity. A secure basement parking facility is provided with allocated parking bays for vehicles and bicycles.
Reimagined for larger lifestyles, a selection of three bedroom apartments have been redesigned for those who want more. With expansive floorplans and that maximise on flow and connectivity to the outdoors, each space has been customised with a unique sense of spatial awareness and dedication to detail.
Wide open living spaces segue into balconies and courtyards, enjoying unrivalled natural light flowing throughout. A palette of touch-me textures and calming tones are borrowed from nature to give each apartment a relaxed, and welcoming aesthetic. Flush, full height joinery becomes part of the overall flow, tactfully concealing layers of storage and a suite of high performance appliances. A range of premium fittings and finishes are crafted with care, designed for living on a luxurious scale.
* Various amenities surrounded including parks, reserves, shopping centres, golf clubs, hospitals, etc.
* Close to universities and schools.