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COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Nebraska quarterback Taylor Martinez has returned to the game in the third quarter against Texas A&M (No. 19 BCS, No. 18 AP) on Saturday night.
Martinez didn't play the rest of the first half after he was injured when a teammate appeared to accidentally step on his right ankle in the first quarter.
Martinez has missed time recently with a right ankle injury but played the entire game in the ninth-ranked Cornhuskers' win over Kansas last week.
A lineman looked to have caught Martinez on the ankle as he tried to run with about five minutes left in the first quarter.
Martinez was replaced by Cody Green.

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The pharmaceutical industry seems besieged on all sides, with declining R&D productivity, expiring patents on blockbuster products and relentless downward pricing pressure forcing companies to look closely at the bottom line. One affect of this onslaught has been an upsurge in the level of M&A activity as players within the industry consolidate to cut costs, expand research pipelines and lengthen geographic reach.
27-Jun-2016 - Over 100 Colorado jobs could be lost following Pfizer's decision to exit a former Hospira API plant by 2019.
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18-May-2016 - Pfizer and Anacor Pharmaceuticals have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Pfizer will acquire Anacor for approximately $5.2bn.
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04-May-2016 - The new entity will focus on a haemophilia pipeline utilising the XTEN half-life extension technology, bispecific antibodies and gene therapies.
04-May-2016 - Pfizer has attributed Hospira's sterile injectables and biosimilar assets to its return to growth, offsetting 17 quarters of declining sales.
14-Apr-2016 - Lonza acquiring Catalent would make "strategic sense," according to an analyst as rumours circulate about a CMO megamerger.
30-Mar-2016 - Rumours Capsugel owner KKR is mulling a sale or an IPO fit with the typical private equity investment cycles says expert.
29-Mar-2016 - Puracap has bought Blu Pharmaceuticals and its Puerto Rican manufacturing site and plans to double oral dose production capacity.
18-Feb-2016 - Controlled substances and peptides are on AMRI's wish list as it profits from a growth strategy which has seen six acquisitions over the past two years.
13-Jan-2016 - The Pfizer-Allergan $160bn merger will create the world's largest pharma company but potentially not for long, as the two CEOs discuss breaking the entity up in 2018.
15-Dec-2015 - Sun Pharma has announced it will divest a plant in Ohio to further consolidate manufacturing operations following its $4bn acquisition of Ranbaxy.
30-Nov-2015 - Pfizer says it will decide in 2018 whether to split its generics and branded businesses but M&A experts are already predicting how the giant will get rid of its established...
12-Nov-2015 - Pfizer's manufacturing network would stretch beyond 100 sites if a merger deal with Allergan is reached.
10-Nov-2015 - Unilife CEO Alan Shortall yesterday confirmed the drug delivery company is still "receiving interest from several parties under the strategic review process" and set a deadline of December 31 to...
09-Nov-2015 - AMRI attributed recent M&A activity to passing the $100m (€93m) quarterly sales milestone, reporting high double-digit growth across its API and small-scale manufacturing divisions.
22-Oct-2015 - As pharma sells off manufacturing capacity and outsources to large and specialist CMOs, smart contract houses will have an opportunity to grab market share in a currently fragmented sector, say...
21-Oct-2015 - An advisor to the pharma industry on M&A says the current boom in pharma valuations will not last, and R&D cost pressures will reshape firms of the future....
16-Sep-2015 - Indian generics company Sun Pharma has made a $48m (€42m) offer for US eye drug maker InSite Vision and its delivery platform.
14-Sep-2015 - Mylan's latest merger offer has been lambasted as "neither compelling, nor accretive" by Perrigo CEO Joseph Papa.
09-Sep-2015 - Horizon Pharma has renewed its efforts to take over pain and neurology firm Depomed for approximately $1.68bn (€1.5bn).
08-Sep-2015 - Cipla and Lannett have expanded their presence in the mid-sized US generics space through acquisitions totalling over $1.5bn.
25-Aug-2015 - Mylan will run Perrigo as a wholly-owned subsidiary if it acquires between 50-80% of shares, the firm has clarified.


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a 1080 recording where the camra was rotated at 90 degrees.
now to add this clip in a video it has to be rotated and scaled
I should be able to do this by two effects:
1) rotate and shear and 2) scale and tilt ...
now with 1) I can rotate the 90 degrees (fine)
while with 2) I am not able to scale the hight of 1920 down to 1080 and in order to maintain relation the 1080 to 607. so I stay with my clip where head and feet are cut off
I really cannot find out how this effect should work...
now in rotate and shear there could be a workaround:after rotating in x the 90(there is actually the need to introduce 900 to do so) degrees and subsequently rotating in y and z a certain amount of degrees should fit the cilp into the window. The z rotation is done well, but alas the y rotation does not the expected -----> error in the transition
please someone fix this silly error, awaiting a correct scaling effect
thanks in advance
Tue, 06/05/2012 - 12:51
Just had a play with this. It gives you a thin video down the middle but it seems to do what you're after.
Just add rotate and shear. Change the Width to 1080 and the Height to 607.
With the aligning tools underneath, click align centre-vertical and centre-horizontal.
Now change Rotate X to 900.


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"I now face my toughest battle," wrestling Hall of Famer says
Bret Hart will battle his next opponent in the medical realm instead of the wrestling ring.
The WWE wrestler revealed on Monday that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Hart, 58, added that he will undergo surgery in the coming days.
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"I now face my toughest battle. With hesitation and fear, I openly declare myself in my fight against prostate cancer," Hart wrote in his post. "In the next few days, I will undergo surgery with the hope of defeating this nemesis once and for all."
Hart went on to recall how he "beat the odds" following his 2002 stroke, and made a "solemn vow" to fans that he "will wage my fearsome fight against cancer with one shield and one sword carrying my determination and my fury for life, emboldened by all the love that's kept me going this long already.
"Love is my weapon and I've got much of it around me all the time, for which I'm truly blessed and eternally grateful," Hart added.
The WWE Hall of Famer went on to note that he hopes his battle with prostate cancer will help raise awareness.
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Most important of all, I hope I can take the fight to prostate cancer. To be a leader in awareness and to set the example for men everywhere who find themselves in my very same shoes, that prostate cancer can be beaten," Hart wrote.
"WWE extends its support to Bret and his family in his fight with prostate cancer," the wrestling organization said in a post on its website.


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The Stewart Mandel PodcastStewart and ESPN's Joe Tessitore review Championship Saturday, discuss Florida State-Auburn and speculate on the pecking order of the six Heisman Trophy finalists. Let's begin with this. Hi Stewart. Thanks for the Mailbag. When was your first notion that Auburn was a national championship game contender? -- Fred Goforth, Tuscaloosa, Ala. After the Tigers beat Alabama in the Iron Bowl. While it's not unusual for a "surprise" team (based on the preseason rankings) to go on a national title run, never before have I underestimated anybody so late into the year as I did Auburn in 2013. And I know I'm not alone. Now, as we head into a unique championship game between two very different teams that had very different seasons, it's possible we're still underestimating the Tigers. Or, are we overestimating Florida State? Instead of seeing a BCS championship matchup between Florida State and Ohio State, with their respective cupcake schedules (as you exposed in a recent column), we get a least one team that has played a legitimate slate. Is this going to turn out like Notre Dame against Alabama last year? Yes, Florida State is very good, especially with Famous Jameis. But why all the gushing given its lack of quality competition? -- Mark, Charlotte, N.C. Now that Auburn has made the BCS championship game, everyone is talking about the "athletes" on Florida State's defense and how they match up well against Auburn's run game. Last I checked, Alabama and Missouri have some pretty good athletes on defense, too, and both were unable to slow down Auburn's attack. While Florida State has dominated its schedule this season, is it fair to say that it will be in for a shock against Auburn's front five and backfield? -- Stephen, Huntsville, Ala. Comparing Florida State in 2013 with Notre Dame in '12 is ludicrous. The Fighting Irish were a very good team that went undefeated against a tougher schedule than they were given credit for, but they weren't bursting at the seams with elite athletes. From a pure talent standpoint, the Seminoles are on an entirely different level not only from that team, but also, in my opinion, from any other team in the country this season, Alabama included. In fact, the 'Noles are the team many assumed 'Bama would be, only with a redshirt freshman at quarterback instead of a fifth-year senior. Florida State has NFL-caliber players at nearly every position -- and they're not just the upperclassmen. Two of the Seminoles' most impressive defensive players in the victory over Duke last Saturday were safeties Jalen Ramsey and Nate Andrews, both true freshmen. Florida State's receiving corps (Kenny Shaw, Rashad Greene and Kelvin Benjamin) is ridiculous. Telvin Smith and Lamarcus Joyner are outstanding. The Seminoles have landed top-10 recruiting classes in each of the past four years, and it shows in the depth of their roster. MANDEL: Final season of BCS brings questions, not controversy; Overtime Florida State definitely boasts more athleticism on defense than did Missouri and, at worst, is a push with Alabama. But there's credence to Stephen's notion that the 'Noles haven't played anybody in the ACC that could prepare them for the type of relentless rushing attack they will face against Auburn. Florida State's best opponent this year was Clemson, a top-15 team that runs an up-tempo offense much like Auburn's. But the Tigers were primarily a spread passing team. Boston College, with Andre Williams, more closely resembles Auburn, but the Eagles didn't have a speedy quarterback like Nick Marshall to further vex a defense. It's not Auburn's offnse that should have the 'Noles concerned, though. Jameis Winston and his offensive line have not faced a pair of defensive ends as talented as Dee Ford and Carl Lawson. Those are all reasons why Florida State might be in for a surprise. The Seminoles' 42-point average margin of victory is why those reasons still might not matter. Hi Stewart. Is the Pac-12 commissioner fuming right now? The Pac-12 was considered at least the second-best league and gets only ONE BCS berth, while the crappy Big Ten, ACC and, to a lesser extent, Big 12 all get two? What a joke. I guess the Pac-12 should have only played eight conference games and had only two or three good teams to ensure higher rankings for those teams to get into BCS games. -- Ian, San Francisco I'd imagine this season has brought a harsh dose of reality for Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott. He has worked tirelessly to raise the league's exposure -- East Coast media junkets, better deals with ESPN and Fox, high-profile Thursday night games, the Pac-12 Networks -- only to find the conference running into the same issues it has throughout the BCS era. Some are unfixable. At the end of the day, Oklahoma and Clemson are going to BCS bowls instead of Oregon because of conference tie-ins, and because those schools are considerably closer to their respective bowl destinations. Eugene is 2,500 miles from New Orleans. While I don't doubt that Ducks fans would have traveled en masse for a game against Alabama, it's unrealistic to think they'd match the numbers of Oklahoma's fan base. It's also telling that such a star-studded league did not produce one of the six Heisman finalists. As Jon Wilner pointed out, Arizona running back Ka'Deem Carey -- every bit as deserving as Boston College's Williams, in my opinion -- played seven of his 12 games after 10 p.m. ET. Having lived and worked in both New York and California, I can confirm that East Coast bias, while largely unintentional, is very real. It's a time zone thing. BOWL SCHEDULE: Matchups, dates for every 2013-14 bowl game Still, as Ian notes, some of the Pac-12's issues are self-inflicted. The league chooses to play nine conference games while others play eight, and most members schedule tough nonconference slates. Unlike some other places, Arizona State and USC won't sell out their stadiums for games against Chattanooga. As I've written before, however, the league could benefit significantly from next year's system, and not just in the playoff. This year, the Pac-12 has three BCS-eligible teams (Stanford, Oregon and Arizona State) and landed just one BCS berth. Next year, if the selection committee ranks Oregon ahead of Oklahoma and both are still available after all the various contract spots are filled, they would place the Ducks in one of the big-six games before the Sooners. Simple as that. With everyone so happy about the end of the BCS and the beginning of playoff next year, would you please turn back the clock to 1991 and put the teams, as they finished this year, into the bowls that they would have gone to then? Please also don't forget to eliminate the conference championship games that were not in existence in '91. Maybe a little reminder of what we had before the BCS would make people appreciate it for what it was. -- Steve Spatks, Yuma, Ariz. This is always one of my favorite exercises, but it's also become increasingly difficult due to conference realignment. I can't eliminate league championship games because that would mean ignoring the existence of divisions, and then how do you determine who the SEC champion would have been? But I will account for the fact that the Southwest Conference still existed and the Cotton Bowl was on equal footing at the time. My best guess: • Rose: Stanford-Michigan State • Orange: Florida State-Alabama • Sugar: Auburn-Ohio State • Cotton: Baylor-Oregon • Fiesta: Arizona State-Oklahoma Sorry, I think I unintentionally disproved your theory. I'll take the 1991 version. C'mon. What really was your third-best bowl? It couldn't really have been the we-are-overrated Orange Bowl. Maybe top 10, but No. 3? Seriously? -- Adam, San Francisco Really? The Ohio State-is-overrated meme is carrying over from the BCS standings to my just-for-kicks bowl rankings? Change the channel. Photo: Streeter Lecka/Getty Images Jameis Winston is regarded as the Heisman Trophy favorite after leading Florida State to a 13-0 record. Stewart, it sure looks like Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston is the hands-down Heisman Trophy winner on the field, but didn't you mention an ethics/integrity component to the award? The state attorney in Tallahassee did not charge Winston, but much of the scenario sure looks seedy and tends to reinforce a lot of the negative stereotypes about today's "privileged" athletes. What say you, sir? -- Paul Hlad, Durham, N.C. There's some confusion about this subject. The instructions on the Heisman ballot indicate that people should vote for "the most outstanding college football player in the United States." The only stated guidelines are that the player must be an enrolled student and in compliance with NCAA eligibility rules. Nothing is mentioned about integrity or ethics. However, on its official website, the Heisman Trust publishes a mission statement that says the trophy "annually recognizes the outstanding college football player whose performance best exhibits the pursuit of excellence with integrity." It's an admirable but incredibly vague and Pollyannaish notion that a certain segment of voters dutifully attempt to uphold nonetheless. You'll see that this weekend, when a sizable chunk of voters leave Winston off their ballots entirely. And that's their prerogative. Personally, I'm not comfortable assessing the integrity of a 19-year-old kid I've never met and who was never charged with a crime. I read the investigation documents. There was certainly no shortage of seediness. But with the prosecutor declining to press charges, who am I, as a sportswriter, to moralize about a college kid's character? I tweeted out something to that effect earlier this week and got lambasted by people who viewed that as a "weakness" on my part, with some suggesting I should give up my vote if I'm not willing to judge a 19-year-old's integrity. First of all, you would think we learned from the Manti Te'o story that we don't truly know any of these players off the field, good or bad. But secondly, if the Heisman Trust doesn't want their award tarnished by integrity concerns, then they should add more specific language as to what does or doesn't disqualify a candidate. Until then, I fulfilled my duty and voted for the most outstanding player who, to the best of my knowledge, is enrolled and eligible. ELLIS: Heisman Watch: Could Jameis Winston win by a historic margin? Why didn't Bryce Petty make it to New York? He finished with more than 4,000 total yards, 41 total touchdowns and only TWO interceptions. He had a higher passer rating than Jordan Lynch, Johnny Manziel and AJ McCarron while leading Baylor (BAYLOR!) to its first conference title in 33 years! If a blowout loss to Bowling Green doesn't disqualify Lynch and four losses don't disqualify Manziel, then a blowout loss at Oklahoma State shouldn't hurt Petty, either. -- Clayton, Waco, Texas C'mon. You're applying far too much logic. This is the Heisman race. I had a lengthy discussion on my podcast this week with Joe Tessitore -- who spends his free time analyzing the regional breakdown from the 1974 Heisman vote -- about how each candidate got to New York. While there are many different ways to get there, from gaudy stats (Williams) to national championship contention (Winston) to career achievement (McCarron), the single most important factor is timing. With the exception of household names like Manziel and McCarron, most players only get a few opportunities to make a statement in front of a large national audience. Petty had his chance on Nov. 23 at Oklahoma State. Manziel and Marcus Mariota lost on the same afternoon, and the field behind Winston was suddenly wide open. But Baylor got crushed. Petty was ineffective for three quarters, and at that point there was no recovering. Contrast that with Auburn tailback Tre Mason, the ultimate good-timing candidate. If Mason had run for 304 yards against Missouri on Sept. 21, instead of Dec. 7, he would have garnered far more attention throughout the season. But had he run for 132 yards in a loss (as he did at LSU on Sept. 21) in the SEC title game, he probably wouldn't be going to New York. Due to the Heisman's new iron-fisted policy against revealing our ballots before the ceremony, I can't tell you how I voted. But I will say there were about 10 different players I seriously considered for the No. 2 and 3 spots, Petty among them. I tried my best to hit the reset button -- to not fixate so much on the games that were just played -- and review everyone based on the entire season. I don't know how other voters approached the process, though. The Heisman has increasingly become a week-to-week horse race. One particularly good or bad performance can override the other 11 or 12. CAMPUS UNION: Cast your ballot in SI.com's 2013 Heisman Trophy reader poll Stewart, it seems that the state of Alabama owns college football. It is going for five straight national championships. Three of the six Heisman finalists (Winston, McCarron and Mason) have Alabama connections, and if they both win their bowls, Auburn and Alabama will finish No. 1 and 2 in the final polls. -- Leslie Gates, Atlanta Clearly, Paul Finebaum is pulling the strings. Stewart, I enjoyed your article on Chris Petersen and why it was time for him to move on. But is he the next big thing? Or is he another Dan Hawkins, the previous Boise State coach to bolt to the big time and who ended up failing miserably? What makes Petersen different than Hawkins, and what makes you think he will succeed at Washington? -- Michael Koltuniak, Plymouth, Mich. Obviously you never know for sure, but Hawkins and Petersen are polar opposite personalities who walked into vastly different situations. Hawkins, a great guy who was extremely unorthodox, and who admitted that he was an NAIA coach at heart, went to a Colorado team that was just a couple of years removed from a recruiting scandal that all but destroyed the Buffaloes' program -- after which the school was leery of placing too much emphasis on football. Petersen, who cut his teeth in the Pac-10, goes to a Washington program that just spent $280 million renovating its stadium and football facilities, and which did not hesitate to immediately make him the highest-paid public school coach in the Pac-12. The Huskies are all-in on football, so Petersen, who inherits a talented roster, could not have asked for a much better situation. He does not have to rebuild in the slightest. Furthermore, while Hawkins deserves ample credit for elevating Boise's still nascent FBS program in the early 2000s, those Broncos did not compete at the highest level of the sport. Petersen showed time and again that he could win head-to-head against higher-profile programs in spite of their considerable advantages. He's a significantly more proven commodity. But now he'll have to do it every week. Few would dispute Petersen's X's-and-O's acumen. Ultimately, the question is whether he can recruit the more sought-after prospects who USC, Oregon and Stanford all want, too. That's an unknown. But Petersen has at least one surefire selling point. Every kid at that level thinks he's going to the NFL. Petersen produced four first-rounders during his Boise tenure, and 10 picks in the past three drafts -- twice as many as Washington during the same span. So I think he'll do OK. Thanks goodness liberty, justice and Michigan State prevailed, and our nation was spared from the atrocity of seeing a BCS championship game without a representative from the SEC! I, for one, am sick of the paranoia over people's favorite teams potentially being left out of the national championship before all the games have been played. Stewart, any chance we can have a Mailbag moratorium on "Could my favorite team get left out of the playoffs?" questions until at least mid-November next season? -- Brian Miller, Goshen, Ind. Oh, it's going to be so much worse next season. With the BCS, at least you could reasonably predict how the standings would fluctuate. There's no precedent with the selection committee. EVERYBODY's favorite team is in danger. As a Big 12 fan looking for more national respect, I'm frustrated that automatic tie-ins sent Baylor to the Fiesta Bowl and Oklahoma to the Sugar Bowl (and not vice versa). Bob Stoops deserves credit for getting 10 wins out of this highly flawed Sooners team, but they can't hang with Alabama. A healthy Baylor would be much better equipped to give 'Bama a run. I fear that the Sugar Bowl result will reinforce prevailing notions that the Big 12 is average even if the Big 12 has a positive bowl season otherwise. Is this fear justified? -- Andrew, Houston, Texas It could be a pretty rough bowl season for the Big 12. Three of its six teams are double-digit underdogs (Oklahoma vs. Alabama, Texas vs. Oregon and Texas Tech vs. Arizona State). But your question also demonstrates why bowl records are an imperfect measuring stick. Only in the BCS can the team that wins the conference (Baylor) draw a weaker bowl opponent (UCF) than the runner-up. And if Oregon landed an at-large berth instead of the Sooners, then every Big 12 team below the Bears would be playing a lesser opponent than they are now. Hey Stewart, preseason predictions are, at best, a crapshoot. But you deserve some props for your "Surprise Team" (Florida State) and "Flop Team" (Florida) selections in the preseason Crystal Ball. -- Wayne S., Russellville, Ala. Well look at that. If only I'd taken it one step further and put Florida State in the championship game, I'd look like a genius right now. And if I'd thought to put Auburn in there, I'd probably go ahead and retire on top. More College Football


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16 June 2016
Optimism wanes among financial service firms for second consecutive quarter – CBI/PwC
Growth in business volumes holds up
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Growth in business volumes picked up more strongly than expected in the three months to December 2015 and profitability continued to improve at a healthy pace, according to the latest CBI/PWC Financial Services Survey.
The survey of 100 financial services firms reported that the overall level of business remained "above normal", despite the fact that the level of business with overseas customers fell below normal to the greatest extent for three years.
The quarterly survey also found that optimism within financial services rose only slightly, following more robust increases in the first half of 2015. Strong competition is bearing down on incomes, though tight cost control is helping to support growth in profitability.
Looking ahead, weaker growth in business volumes, flat income and rising costs are expected cause growth in profits to ease in the run up to March.
Meanwhile, employment prospects remain mixed, with banks reporting falling employment, compared with solid growth in headcount in the insurance and building society sectors. Overall, expenditure on training rose strongly in the three months to December.
Rain Newton-Smith, CBI Director for Economics, said:
"Despite strong growth in profitability driven by easing cost pressures and increasing business volumes, the financial services industry is alive to downside risks from developments overseas. The global economic outlook remains uncertain while China rebalances, which is having knock-on effects on emerging markets, amidst continued unrest in the Middle East.
"While investment intentions remain robust in IT, and marketing spend is set to expand as firms seek new customers, elsewhere companies are curtailing their capital spending due to poor returns.
"There is a great deal of uncertainty within the financial services industry over the impact of Fintech. Firms in most sectors are looking to upgrade their own platforms over the next five years rather than acquire Fintech firms. However, partnerships with Fintech firms are seen as a high priority by companies in some sectors, particularly finance houses, insurance brokers and investment managers."
Kevin Burrowes, UK financial services leader at PwC, said:
"We see the emerging trend of firms making more investment in new products. Another positive is that IT investment is moving from regulatory spend to front line systems to help overcome the rise of new competition.
"Also, it's clear that optimism is muted across the whole sector and each sub-sector has its own challenges. Ongoing low interest rates, cost of floods claims, the continuing slump in oil prices and the domino effect of stock market volatility are responsible for the increased pessimism compared to this time last year.
"Cost reduction therefore remains a major focus but we see the issue of firms developing new products and making IT investments to fight off the rise of new competition as a new emerging trend.
"Against this backdrop, the growing spectre of cyber-crime looms large and the threat of major attacks continues to stalk the entire financial services industry.
"This is borne out by recent research which found that UK bankers and market watchers now put fears about cyber-crime at the top of a list of 24 possible risks to banks, eclipsing doubts about heavy-handed regulation for the first time."
Key findings:
Incomes, costs, profits:
The next 12 months:
In the year ahead, financial services firms expect to scale back non-IT capital spending, though investment in Information Technology and marketing spending is set to rise:
The main reasons for authorising investment are cited as:
Providing new services (52%)
The main factors likely to limit capital authorisations are cited as:
The main factors likely to constrain business over the next year are:
Notes to Editors:
The latest Financial Services Survey was conducted between 17th November and 3rd December 2015. 100 firms replied.
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Syntax highlighting for Visual Basic was just added into SVN. I probably won't bother with code folding support for VB any time soon, since I don't ever write code in it, but if you're itching to contribute, I'm always willing to take patches!
Visual Basic Syntax HighlightingMarch 31st, 2013
Improved Syntax Highlighting and Theming SupportMarch 23rd, 2013
If you grab the latest from SVN, RSyntaxTextArea has improved theming support. First, RSTA supports the following new token styles:
- Markup language comments (i.e. "<!– … –>")
- DTDs
- CDATA delimiters, separate from the CDATA content itself (e.g. "<![CDATA[" and "]]>")
- Entity references
Note that all of these are related to markup languages, such as XML, HTML, JSP and PHP. Previously, the lexers for each of these languages identified and colorized all of these constructs, but re-used token styles for other token types when rendering them. For example, entity references were previously rendered using the "variable" token style. This wasn't optimal, as it meant that theme designers had to be aware of this token-style re-use when creating custom Themes, if they wanted their Themes to be as pretty as possible. Not so any longer!
Another new feature is that RSyntaxTextArea now supports the standard editor behavior of selected text using a different font color than unselected text. Previously, selected text always still rendered using the proper syntax highlighting styles. Now, this is configurable via the setUseSelectedTextColor(boolean)/getUseSelectedTextColor() API. Theme XML can also specify how a theme wants this property set. Below is a screenshot that compare the "dark" default theme, which has this property set to false, and the "eclipse" default theme, which has this property set to true:
Themes can also now use a special value "default" for selection foreground and background colors, which means "use the LookAndFeel's (not system's!) default for these values). Check out the theme DTD for specifics.
These changes do unfortunately mean that themes created for older RSyntaxTextArea versions will no longer work with (the upcoming) 2.0.7+, as they will not pass validation against the DTD. They can be easily updated however, so I don't see this as much of an issue.
Finally, all of the sample themes have been updated to use the new features above. Also, a new sample theme was added to the mix: idea! Thanks to Mikle Garin for this theme. This is obviously based off of IntelliJ IDEA's default theme.
Who knows, maybe a theme based off of its new Darcula will show up next.
JSON Pretty-PrintingFebruary 24th, 2013
If you do any work with JSON, you may well run into scenarios where you're looking at some data for debugging purposes, but can't make heads or tails of it because it's either all on one line, not indented, or otherwise simply poorly formatted. With the upcoming RText 2.0.7 release, this will no longer be a problem. Its "Tidy" plugin (now being rebranded to "Pretty Printing", since it's a more general term) is gaining JSON pretty-printing support, powered by the jsonbeans library.
You'll be able to control the indentation style (either tabs, or some number of spaces), as well as the actual format of the output. The format choices are:
- JSON: Strict adherence to the JSON standard, keys wrapped in double quotes.
- JavaScript: Formatting appropriate for a JavaScript object – quotes around appropriate values, but not around keys.
- Minimal: No double quotes around anything. Useful if you want the data in as simple of a format as possible, even if it isn't technically valid.
Simply set up your formatting preferences in the Pretty Printing Options dialog panel:
And when editing JSON, simply select Edit -> Pretty Printing. Simple as that. Don't forget that a shortcut can be assigned to this menu item via the "Shortcuts" panel in the Options dialog if you use it frequently.
RText 2.0.6 ReleasedJanuary 26th, 2013
RText 2.0.6 was just released! Here's a rundown of the major changes:
Syntax highlighting and code folding for JSON. Folks doing a lot of work with web applications will appreciate this.
Improvements to the UI when a Substance Look and Feel is installed. All trees and lists now use Substance's striping and rollover effects, and colors used in miscellaneous custom components were tweaked to better fit in with the current Substance skin.
Fixed a ClassCastException when adding a JRE in the Java options panel. This was bug 3600567, and was accidentally introduced with the last refactoring of the Java language support.
Updated the Turkish and French localizations. Thanks to Burak and Pat!
A major side effect of the improved Substance support is that compilation is now done in two phases. RText has always only required Java 1.4, but Substance requires Java 6 or newer (we're actually shipping with Insubstantial, which is an active fork of Substance, since the original author stopped working on it). To get around this, all of the "core" RText classes are built with Java 1.4, and all of the classes requiring Substance are built with Java 6; these classes are only referenced from the application via reflection to avoid a hard dependency. If Java 1.4 or Java 5 is detected, RText will never load anything Substance related.
When will RText drop support for 1.4? Probably not for awhile, especially when I can easily use functionality in newer versions easily enough via reflection as I'm currently doing (and only then for Substance, opening a browser/system editors for files, and for the scripting API). And performance improvements are received via simply running in a newer JVM, not from compiling with one. Perhaps when Java 8 GA is released this September, it might be time to consider moving to Java 5. 🙂
Anyway, the list of new features going into the next release is already growing! More on that soon.
RSyntaxTextArea 2.0.6 ReleasedJanuary 23rd, 2013
RSyntaxTextArea 2.0.6 was just released on SourceForge! Included are new versions of AutoComplete, RSTALanguageSupport, and SpellChecker.
RSTA now provides syntax highlighting and code folding for JSON:
Further, the AutoComplete and RSTALanguageSupport libraries now look good in Substance (in particular, Insubstantial). Previously, these libraries used DefaultListCellRenderer for their completion choices. Substance, being the barrel of fun that it is, forces libraries to extend its own DefaultSubstanceListCellRenderer, otherwise they aren't rendered with Substance's striping, gradients and rollover effects. Now, RSTA and its cousins detect when Substance is the current Look and Feel, and render with a DefaultSubstanceListCellRenderer when necessary. Easy peasy!
(Pardon the fact that I didn't update the editor color scheme to be dark as well!). This is done via reflection, so there is still no build dependency on Substance. This of course assumes that the DefaultSubstanceListCellRenderer class name and package don't change in future releases of Insubstantial, but I highly doubt that'll happen, considering it's a maintenance fork of the original Substance. And if something goes horribly wrong, the library should fall back into its default rendering path anyway.
The outline trees (JavaOutlineTree, XmlOutlineTree, etc.) still use DefaultTreeCellRenderer, but applications can use the same technique here – wrap the standard renderers for these components with SubstanceDefaultTreeCellRenderer, call delegate.getTreeCellRendererComponent(), then set the Substance renderer's icon and text based on the delegate's values. Come to think of it, I'm not sure why I didn't have the libraries automatically delegate like I did with the completion choices lists… maybe next release. One thing you do lose from this delegation is the rollover effect – the render "looks" the same, but the animated rollover effect depends on the actual renderer being a DefaultSubstance*Renderer. Since we're only *delegating* to one, we'll look like it, but won't get the rollover effect.
RText 18.104.22.168 ReleasedDecember 24th, 2012
RText 126.96.36.199 was released earlier this week on SourceForge. This was a minor release (no real new features) that will nevertheless be a very important update for some users. Here's what was new:
- Updated to RSyntaxTextArea 18.104.22.168, which fixes a keyboard issue with non-QWERTY keyboards.
- Several Substance skins are now available as LookAndFeels. Thanks to the Insubstantial project (https://github.com/Insubstantial/insubstantial). These Look and Feels are only available when running RText with Java 6 or newer.
- Updated the Spanish (Leonardo) and Arabic (Mawaheb) translations.
Basically, this release was just to have an RText that fixed the keyboard issue introduced with RSTA 2.0.5. Including Insubstantial (i.e. Substance) was just a bonus. Only very recently had a couple of important issues been fixed that made it usable in a project such as RText. I'm hesitant to ship Substance with any project, since in my (albeit limited) experience it's been very touchy (stuff like breaking in *point releases*, not even major ones), but since the core Swing library isn't really updated any longer, I think things are stable enough these days to give it a try.
RSyntaxTextArea 184.108.40.206 ReleasedDecember 17th, 2012
RSyntaxTextArea 220.127.116.11 was just released on SourceForge! This release fixes the problem with typing the '/' character on non-QWERTY keyboards, so is a must-upgrade if you're using 2.0.5 (2.0.4 did not have this bug). It also updates the Arabic translation (thanks Mawaheb!).
The AutoComplete, SpellChecker, and RSTAUI add-on libraries were also updated with Arabic translation updates.
RText 2.0.5 ReleasedNovember 29th, 2012
RText 2.0.5 has been released! This release brings it up to date with all of the reatures added to RSyntaxTextArea 2.0.5, plus more cool stuff. Here's what's new:
- Code folding added for HTML, JSP, and PHP.
- Added NSIS syntax highlighting and code folding.
- Added a "Projects" docked window. Useful for organizing small programming projects while working in RText.
- Added code folding and highlighting of multi-line strings for Scala.
- Added Java 7 features to Groovy highlighting (underscores in numeric literals, binary literals, and new core classes/interfaces/enums).
- Fixed an issue with CompleteMarkupTagAction and ToggleLineCommentAction conflicting with each other only on *nix (Windows and OS X didn't have this issue).
- Fixed possible NPE when editing XML on Linux only (!).
- RText is now building on OS X once again.
- Now ships with Groovy 1.8.8, so you no longer have to drop in your own groovy-all-xxx.jar to run Groovy macros in RText.
- Wildcards are now permitted in the Go To Member dialog.
- Added keyboard shortcuts for moving through docked window groups (Ctrl+Alt+arrow keys).
- Updated translations – Chinese (peter_barnes), Russian (Nadiya), Italian (Argaar), German (Domenic), Korean (Changkyoon), Japanese (Josh), and Hungarian (Zityi).
Go check it out!
RSyntaxTextArea 2.0.5 ReleasedNovember 21st, 2012
RSyntaxTextArea 2.0.5 was just released on SourceForge! Here's a recap of what's new:
- Code folding added for HTML, JSP, and PHP.
- Added NSIS syntax highlighting and code folding.
- Added code folding and highlighting of multi-line strings for Scala.
- Added Java 7 features to Groovy highlighting (underscores in numeric literals, binary literals, and new core classes/interfaces/enums).
- Wildcards can be specified in Go to Member dialogs.
- Tool tips can now be specified for icons in IconRowHeader.
- Fixed an issue with CompleteMarkupTagAction and ToggleLineCommentAction conflicting with each other only on *nix (Windows and OS X didn't have this issue).
- Allow for non-ConfigurableCarets to be set via setCaret(), to allow for Swing's "composed text" changes (hidden in private API).
- Fixed possible NPE in XmlTreeCellUI for environments where desktop AA hints cannot be determined.
- Updated translations – Italian (Argaar), German (Domenic), Korean (Changkyoon), Japanese (Josh), and Hungarian (Zityi).
Code Folding for HTML and PHP, Syntax Highlighting & Folding for NSISOctober 14th, 2012
Also, support for NSIS scripts has been added. I'm sure most developers are familiar with NSIS, which makes it super easy to create installers for your Windows applications. RSTA now supports full syntax highlighting and code folding for NSIS scripts:


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2007: purchased 115+, sewed 105+
So close to parity, yet so far
Trying again in 2008
Yards purchased: 133
Yards sewn: Somewhere around 95
2009? I give up
No, you don't have to buy anything from Hancocks. But they are the sponsor of the competition, which is why they are mentioned. I was wondering if you had to buy the pattern from Hancocks, which would be a problem because we don't have any in my area. But they responded to my inquiry and said no, they just ask for that information for feedback purposes.
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Iraheta happy in support mode for 'big brother' Lambert
Most American 18-year-olds this summer are packing their bags for college or settling into their first post-high school job.
So is Allison Iraheta ---- although her job is a little different that most. The magenta-haired rocker, who finished fourth on last year's "American Idol," is touring the country as an opening act for her close friend and fellow "Idol" alumni Adam Lambert.
Since its release in December, Iraheta's debut album, "Just Like You," has sold more than 100,000 copies. Originally booked for only the tour's first half, Iraheta's been so popular with audiences that her contract was extended last week through the end of the Glam Nation tour (also sharing the opening bill is Australian guitarist/singer Orianthi). Iraheta talked about the tour in a phone interview from Portland, Ore., last week.
Question: So how was it you ended up on Adam's tour? Did he ask for you?
Answer: We're family, Adam and I, and I think he wanted me to be on the tour, plus we have the same management, so they thought it would be a good fit.
Q: Tell me about your set.
A: We do all the songs on my album and we do one cover, (Pat Benatar's) "Heartbreaker." It gets everyone singing. The highlight of the set is when Orianthi joins me during "Don't Waste the Pretty." She comes out and brings something crazy to the song. When she comes up I have to grow balls because she's so hard-core.
Q: What's your favorite song to perform live?
A: They're all my kids, but I think my favorite is "You Don't Know Me," which I wrote with some awesome writers. "Holiday" is fun, too. My album is a softer version of me in concert. It's definitely a harder sound when I'm doing the live stuff.
Q: You present yourself with a tough exterior. Is there a softer side to you that nobody knows?
A: I'm both. Everyone has a soft side. I'm only human. I can definitely relate to the songs on the album. Who hasn't gone through a breakup or gone through things in life they regret?
Q: The reviews for your album have been good. In fact, one critic called your record "criminally underappreciated" because he said you haven't had the sales or radio airplay you deserve. Do you agree?
A: Someone said that? That's great. What I think is that being in the time we are now and how difficult the music and touring industry is, the fact that I'm on tour right now is fricking awesome. I'm doing good being a new artist and doing my own thing and having people who don't know me get a chance to know me more. I'll keep going. I'm still going.
Q: How are the crowds?
A: This tour is killing. We're doing great. I can't tell you how thankful and excited I am to be added to the whole thing and to be surrounded by so many talented people.
Q: This is your second tour in less than a year. Are there any lessons you've learned since you first hit the road last year?
A: Definitely. I've learned that singing properly fricking works. On last year's "American Idol" tour, I had some ups and downs from screaming too much. I've learned to sing properly and am just trying to work out more, for the breathing, and watch what I eat and drink.
Q: How have you changed as an artist since "Idol"?
A: I've grown as an artist and I've grown as a person. I'm still always going to be the girl who likes to have fun, but I've learned you have to be serious and enjoy the time you've got.
Q: Did you follow "American Idol" this past season and do you think it has much of a future without Simon Cowell?
A: I caught a little bit of it and went to the finale. ... Everyone thinks it will go on, a lot of people still want to watch it, but I'm just so damn thankful I was on the season when they still had Simon and Paula. But change is sometimes good; it might actually work.
Q: You've spent a lot of the past 18 months with Adam. What's your relationship like?
A: He's like a brother to me. From time to time, he'll pop into my dressing room and we talk. We still have that relationship. It's so good and it makes the road so much better. He's still giving me that big-brother advice.
Q: How have you seen Adam change during the past year and a half?
A: Throughout the "Idol" tour experience, he would bring his own thing to it, and now that he's got his own tour and he's doing his own music, I can see a side of Adam that everyone was just getting to know on "Idol." He's letting loose, doing what he wants and definitely growing into who he is.
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Q: So what's next for you after the tour ends in the fall?
A: Another album. That's the goal for next year. I'm writing stuff now. I'm doing a lot of "goal" writing and writing about life in general. I really like singing about stuff people can relate to. And I'd love to act. I want to see what a cheesy actress I can be. I think that would be a lot of fun.
Adam Lambert, with Orianthi and Allison Iraheta
When: 7:30 p.m. July 27 and 8 p.m. July 28
Where: Pacific Amphitheater, 88 Fair Drive, Costa Mesa
Tickets: Sold out
When: 8 p.m. Friday
Where: Copley Symphony Hall, 750 B St., San Diego
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In fact, this type of stick is much more realistic than models with "Force Feedback": the stick movement on a genuine modern helicopter in flight feels smooth and fluid, like power steering on your car. Force Feedback may be fun, but I don't think it's very realistic for many of the scenarios it's currently used in.
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* I used it with Microsoft Flight Sim 2002 running on an XP Pro system: Installing the software that came with the joystick was effortless and when I opened Flight Sim, all of the buttons were already mapped to the appropriate functions.
It improved my game 100% when flying planes in Battlefield, I would definitely recommend this to anybody who plays games in which flying is involved. It's pretty sturdy and quite large, and very comfortable to hold, though it's definitely for right-handed gamers only.
It has a separate throttle control (a lever that you push forward or backward) that's quite sensitive, and the handle twists left and right to control the rudder (as well as moving 360 degrees like any other joystick). There are 13 buttons so there's plenty of choice when mapping your controls.
Personally I much prefer this joystick over one that comes with force feedback - the vibration works against what you're trying to do and makes playing harder. You can't beat this joystick for the price.
After this I could never go back to playing Battlefield using only mouse and keyboard. It takes the gaming experience to the next level.
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* All the buttons are well-positioned, assuming you are right-handed. The buttons on the base are extremely handy in a flight sim, for setting things like rudder trim, or for toggling various features on your aircraft.
I got this stick primarily for use with the X-Plane flight simulator, and it works extremely well. The base is very stable when used on a desk or lap, and the joystick as a whole has a solid, smooth feel. If you don't need or want force feedback, this is an outstanding joystick at a good price.
At this point in the development of Star Citizen I don't recommend buying any kind of stick or HOTAS (hands on throttle and stick). Currently keyboard and mouse are more fully optimized. You can pilot and dogfight more precisely with a mouse than with a stick. They are however working to make sticks and full HOTAS setups a better option. So if at some point in the future you're trying to decide between the Thrustmaster and the Logitech here's my thoughts.
Comparing just the sticks, I prefer the Logitech. First thing that stands out is the base is heavier and wider. I never tipped the Logitech off of any of its feet when I was pulling back hard or anything like that. But I did with the Thrustmaster. Also there are more buttons for your thumb on the Logitech and they are in better positions and they are more satisfyingly clickly. The stick itself is a little smaller in diameter. Which I like. The Thrustmaster fit my hand fine, it was just a different feel. The Logitech takes more force to move the stick which feels good to me right now. However I could see in the middle of a long gaming session I might wish for an easier push.
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Well, we've hit $16.95 twice now. Hope to break that level the 3rd time around. Maybe this afternoon or tomorrow with a strong market.
Well I'm a liberal, though not a Democrat. I consider Obama a Republican actually, as he seems in lockstop with their every want. But I don't think "we" defeated communism, I think the communists defeated themselves for the same exact reasons we may follow suit: corruption!
I think the question is what happens when a BofA falls as it seems imminent. Citibank, the flower of money laundering around the world, ought to fall as well for lots of reasons. I do wonder what happens if they do. I don't see it as a big deal compared to continuing funneling money into that trough.
The press...CBS MSNBC CBNC NBC ABC....All liberals..And the folks at CNBC get paid their bonus in GE stock, or now Comcast stock. They are never bearish.
But I read Zero Hedge and I didn't see any reference to Fed buying stocks. In the past they have used proxies to buy S&P futures, but it is a moot point.
Accrued interest does not take weekends off and the debt is strangling the world. Great..We defeat Socialistic Russia, the Middle East is erupting, the socialistic framework of Europe is coming apart at the seams and we are experimenting with socialism here..We can't afford it.
See the report last week that home prices have fallen to 2003 levels. The largest industry in the 50 states is home building. I do not think the liquidation has started and I do think B of A ( the holding company ) is broke.
Supposedly, they bought indexes across the board, which you can extrapolate from the market easily. I doubt hedge funds initiated those trades, or banks. In this day and age, when Congress can now legally trade on insider information, I am guessing you can find lots of lawyers who will tell you how to do a work-around. Google has some reports, but I heard a radio show explaining this, but can't find the transcript. It depends on the meaning of "is" when it comes to our multi-tiered justice system, and for whom something is legal.
During the last Fed Congressional hearing Bernanke said that it was now illegal for him to do that. I forgot the name of the bill but to the best of my knowledge the congress said never again.
Not sure if the lack of response to the jobs report is further evidence that PKT is untied from general market conditions, or that the market isn't impressed by jobs report? I guess Wednesday's Fed shot is the last arrow in their quiver, so now it's a waiting game. It does seem that we are holding strong with few shares switching hands. I'm looking to add to my position, but may not see the $14's again this year. I have moved many of my positions to cash, and expect a bank failure should open another fire sale in general market. Can't believe people are holding bank stocks.
Banks are the huge gainers today, go figure. The FXE is down and a rumor that Israel bombed a nuclear facility in Iran, it is not true with what is known by the media. PKT is in a continuation pattern of a strong breakout and well within the established channel that has formed recently and is more sustainable than the more straight up line we had there for a while. Other than that it is Friday after all but a great week.
I'm one of many who were probably scrambling this morning to unload some above $16.75, going to take some news or a rising tide to get us past $17....
No triple tops. Overheating is the only problem. You'll see the top will set us free. Price discovery will take us to overbought which we are not.
Or maybe the Fed will simply buy more shares? Yesterday was such a farce I can't believe the way our "free market" system is working.


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VariationsCreative forms:
(male) Quasim, Quisim, ..
(female) Qada, Qasimrah, .. Middle name pairings:
Qasim Karsyn (Q.K.), ..
How popular is Qasim?
Qasim is an uncommon first name for males but a somewhat popular last name for all people (#83965 out of 150436, Top 56%). (2000 U.S. Demographics)
Presented below is the birth name history of Qasim for boys. Qasim has not been ranked in the Top 2000 so far. (2015 U.S. SSA Records)
Similar Names
Qasim is pronounced similarly to Kaseem, Kasim and Kassim. Other recommended names are Asim, Basim, Fahim, Haim, Hakim, Halim, Hashim, Hayim, Jakim, Karim, Maksim, Maxim▲, Nadim, Naim, Qadir, Rahim, Salim, Wasim and Yakim. Like Qasim, these names are not frequently used.See names in meaning and etymology.