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The Proposal (2009)
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$163.9 mil
Genre(s): Romantic Comedy, Drama
Anne Fletcher
Todd Lieberman
David Hoberman
Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds star in the romantic comedy "The Proposal," in which a mean-spirited Type-A boss strong-arms her long-suffering assistant into pretending they are engaged so that she can avoid deportation to Canada. This ruse is inconveniently timed, since it coincides with the 90th birthday celebration for his beloved grandmother in his Alaskan hometown, but the two take the trip together and learn to love each other for real. While this Bullock character is less likable initially, the movie has parallels with her previous movie "While You Were Sleeping" in that both find her falling in love with the family of a man she's pretending to be engaged to. The redemptive comedy features gorgeous Alaskan scenery and plenty of humorous and feel-good moments.
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I've already written about the evaluation section of "Delivering Government Solutions in the 21st Century," the Trump Administration's outline for reorganizing the Federal Government. Now, I'd like to focus on the potential movements of grant makers and programs.
I'd like to start by stating that any significant adjustments to an organization, be it mergers or eliminations, have a significant impact on the people affected. Sitting on a client site in 2004 during years one and two of the Department of Homeland Security taught me that change management and culture considerations are as important, if not more, to the success of the change as the gained efficiencies.
Back to some of the proposals.
Will Congress consolidate program authorizations for workforce education, or will DEW still have to manage the same number of assistance programs with a streamlined workforce?
If this merger occurred, what would need to be done to bring the legacy Departments' adoption of and exceptions to 2 CFR 200? Are there enough lawyers on staff to manage the requisite regulatory process?
What programmatic expertise/points of view could be at risk of elimination as part of the merger? What are the potential economies of scale?
These same questions apply to some of the other proposed movements, including the consolidation of food assistance programs under Health and Human Services (to become Health and Public Welfare), housing at HUD, and the long-term efforts to bring State and USAID together.
From the back-end, what you need to make a government agency work, perspective, these proposed moves make sense. For instance, sharing IT and human capital resources. However, the proposed changes will still need to abide the Congressional intent of these commissions and programs in their authorizing statutes. This could mean that the new organization is still managing many "special snowflake" programs.
Experienced grant recipients and applicants know and use the information put out by the Census everyday as part of their proposals. Further, Census data affects how much and where Federal grant dollars are distributed. The Bureaus of Economic and Analysis (BEA) and Labor Statistics (BLS) also collect and manage vast amounts of data about our Nation.
Like the proposal to move smaller grant programs into larger organization could have some back-end efficiencies. What the grants community needs to track is if key data sets will be maintained, expanded, or archived. My hope that this proposal, if implemented, would include a plan to grow the data-making capability of the Government.
Since I started in the grants world, I've observed that grant programs develop their own cultures consisting of the funders and recipients. In some cases, grantee organizations have been established, advocate for the continued funding of their programs, and hold conferences where Federal employees can impart information. Some examples include the National Head Start Association, National Homeland Security Association, and National Association of HBCU Title III Administrators.
It's conceivable that if there are mergers at the Federal level, there could be similar impacts among stakeholder groups. At the very least, some new association relationships and partnerships could result.
I encourage everyone to spend a bit of time going through these proposals. All parts of the Government are affected. Let's stay tuned together.


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Worrisome rise in suicides and self-harm cases due to COVID-19.
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COVID-19 Lockdown: States stare at major revenue losses worth ₹97K Cr for April
Saunak Chowdhury
KOLKATA: Leading states, all over India, have reported that they are collectively looking at about ₹97,100 Crore in losses of revenue for the month of April, 2020. Moreover, the administrations from the respective states have blamed the nationwide lockdown that India has been going through from March 25, for these losses. This report has been further backed up by the estimates from an India Ratings report. The report which released on Wednesday summarily states that both Centre and states operations have been severely impacted due to the depletion of reserves that the banning of all "non-essential" activities have caused. But the report also specified that states are in even more of an unstable financial situation as they are compelled to make inroads into the enhancement of public healthcare infrastructure which incurs significant expenditures.
The lockdown and its successive extensions, aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus, have harshly disrupted manufacturing, supply-chains and most trade related operations. Meanwhile the restriction on movement placed during lockdown have led to such massive losses in the aviation, hospitality and tourism industries that even an immediate lifting of lockdown can't help kickstart our economy till the next quarter, at best.
These lockdown-related losses have been more devastating for few states which are more self-reliant in terms of earnings than others. States like Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Telangana have stood out as they bring in about 65 to 76% of their revenue, independent of external sources.
Among these states, Gujrat has the highest rating for self-reliance with 76% of their revenue, generated internally, followed by Telengana with 75.6%, Haryana at 74.7%, Karnataka at 71.4%, Tamil Nadu at 70.4%, Maharashtra with 69.8%, Kerala 69.6% and Goa at 66.9% of revenue, from state-side sources. Thus, Gujrat has been hit the hardest among the 21 states which reported a revenue loss.
These states had estimated their GST revenue for the month of April at a total of ₹26,962 Crore. Meanwhile they had estimated ₹11,397 Crore worth of stamp & registration duties, auto tax was predicted at ₹6,055 Crore. The collective VAT revenue estimation was at ₹17,895 Crore while excise duty budget stood at ₹13,785 Crore. Other estimations included their collective tax & duties on electricity at ₹3,464 Crore and their own non-tax revenue at ₹17,595 Crore.
State usually accumulate their revenues from these aforementioned sources. But, with around a 40% of the economy, still operational, under lockdown, states did generate some revenue under the head of SGST, state VAT, tax and duty on electricity and own non-tax revenue.
However, in light of the current crisis, experts say that states remain uncertain about the quantum and timings on centre's announced relief efforts and other receivables. They reasoned that the dwindling sources of revenue for the central government is making them seek out new and more ways of generating revenue while pushing out measures, austere in nature. With states, all over India, facing a massive loss in revenues, these measures, announced by RBI and Government, are sure to make state administrations breathe easy but only for the time being and nothing more.
State Administrations are really hoping that centre will open up the economy in phases, after May 17. For instance, a week ago states opened up liquor sales with a number of states having raised the excise duty on them. Meanwhile, other states have raised VAT on petrol and diesel to help bridge the revenue flow.
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Puttur è una città dell'India di 48.063 abitanti, situata nel distretto del Kannada Meridionale, nello stato federato del Karnataka. In base al numero di abitanti la città rientra nella classe III (da 20.000 a 49.999 persone).

Geografia fisica
La città è situata a 12° 46' 0 N e 75° 13' 0 E e ha un'altitudine di 86 .

Società

Evoluzione demografica
Al censimento del 2001 la popolazione di Puttur assommava a 48.063 persone, delle quali 24.240 maschi e 23.823 femmine. I bambini di età inferiore o uguale ai sei anni assommavano a 5.123, dei quali 2.562 maschi e 2.561 femmine. Infine, coloro che erano in grado di saper almeno leggere e scrivere erano 38.126, dei quali 20.197 maschi e 17.929 femmine.

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Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Centri abitati del Karnataka

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Notice I bolded the second sentence. It read as a bit of a zinger, and each time I reread that sentence, it seemed to single me out with its pointer finger. I don't have six children, but yes, I do have five. I have only one less than the mother of six indicated in the sample sentence, so maybe that places me close to the mother who "somehow keeps her sanity." I wonder — Does having five children buy me additional real estate to live in a place that teeters on insanity more often than my girlfriend who has two children?
But I will say this about caring for children. One, two, or six. Caring for children illustrates something to us about how sanity might be restored if we have a compassionate and well informed caretaker nearby. Right next to our seeking hearts.
Last Monday evening, after tucking in our children, Dave and I were especially exhausted. I think we may have mall-walked back to our bedrooms, racing to see who could be finished with the kids first. WE WERE TIRED. But making it back to our bedroom brought relief from the duties of playing chase, wrangling the three year old to brush his teeth, and checking the never ending piles of homework that mount with growing-up boys.
My man can secure high dollar contracts and evade even the most negative thinkers in his industry. He is capable of financially providing for 7 people and speak with force to thousands of people, on a whim. On probably just about anything.
But there is this thing that happens when anything ugly and smelly erupts from one of our children that is stomach related. I must assess it first.
While he volunteers to help my poor, now pasty white-faced child to our room to set up for mommy-watch for the evening, I start the process of clean-up. I begin by picking up the biggest pieces of the mess and disposing of them because that is what we do with messes. Physical or emotional.
We start big, go small. Pray for progress.
I tell this story because when my kids get sick, I get a glimpse of how we long for sanity. Of how circumstances suddenly change when someone is not healthy, even if only for a few days. And our hope, as parents, is that we can reroute the course of illness. As our child's body struggles to fight a virus, tension and suffering ensues, and we do everything in our power to comfort them in their sick state.
Last week, my child needed me to check on him a little extra, nurse his fever, take him to the doctor, hydrate him slowly. He needed me to be a protector and an advocate, all the while full of compassion.
My child needed to believe that something more powerful than him had the ability and was willing to help restore him to health.
I hope He believes that God is the Great Healer, yes. But his 7 year old boy-body was really looking for Mommy to be the hands and feet of Jesus to help restore him.
This leads me to ask: Who is restoring you to health?
For most of us, it's not our mommas anymore. We are adults who, seeking to understand our spiritual reality, are being called to look deep within and see, What are my weaknesses?
Where is there illness that pervades my thought patterns?
Are there compulsive behaviors that I pursue that taint the way I see myself?
What words do I use to value this body that serves and works and plays and sings?
It should lead us to ponder: Do we see ourselves in a truthful way?
I believe we want to see our reflections, the bodies staring back at us, in ways that glorify our Maker. I believe we want Biblical truth to shape the way we think about our flesh. I believe even the most lonely, most sick at heart, ache to experience sound mind and sorted reflection.
That might mean there exists an invitation to honor our bodies when they are hungry and make peace with foods that we have previously demonized. In fact, I'm willing to venture there might be invitations all over the place we are starving to accept but blind to recognize.
So, we choose to answer these questions together. We're walking through what it means to believe that our greater power, God Almighty, our Creator, wants to restore us to right thinking — sanity. And, of course, we pray. We release down, onto our knees, and beg the Almighty to intervene because the prayers of His people wield a mighty force in the battle against depravity that sometimes leads to insanity.
I so enjoy reading your thoughts , words of love and true activities of deeds . A real example of the never ending story of life and motherhood.


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Azatrephes transiens är en fjärilsart som beskrevs av Adalbert Seitz 1922. Azatrephes transiens ingår i släktet Azatrephes och familjen björnspinnare. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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New York City's No. 1 Guide Book is better than ever!
No one loves New York City more than author Gerry Frank. Since 1980 he has shared his insights and knowledge about the world's greatest city through publication of his popular Manhattan guidebook, Where to Find It, Buy It, Eat It in New York (1.2 million copies in distribution). In one concise volume he reveals the best the city has to offer — from restaurants, shops and food markets, to museums, expert services and unique and famous retail stores.
Gerry is pleased to announce that the all-new 20th Edition for 2018-19 is now available. Reorganized and completely updated, Where to Find It has hundreds of new entries for restaurants, food shops, boutiques, department stores and hotels.
No other book is quite like his. Its unique organization not only helps readers find exactly what they're looking for (with Gerry's Exclusive Lists), but in a general sense what might be nearby right now (Gerry breaks down many listings by neighborhood). Thus, it is the indispensable guide for tourists as well as frequent visitors and experienced New Yorkers.
As you browse through the listings in the new 20th Edition for 2018-19, you will find many enduring favorites as well as hundreds of new ones. As with previous editions, some businesses fell victim to the economy, ownership changes, or lost leases. Others rebranded (if not outright reinvented) themselves to tap into new markets and attract new customers. Gerry's staff reached out to all of them in order to present most accurate and up-to-date information as of press time as possible.


We successively navigated the train, the plane and most impressively the automobile out of London, over France and to Lake Como, Italy yesterday. Somehow all 550 pounds of luggage fit into the "euro-skittle" car we're driving. I'm proud to say that we've driven three places so far, and only been severely lost once.
Somehow agent confusion continues to reign. It took an hour to check in with British Air because Beth's ticket was made in the name of "Elizabeth With Infant". AutoEurope struggled to find our rental car for reasons unknown. I don't know if agent confusion is more or less frustrating when you can't understand what the agent is saying. Waiting 20 minutes for the car to arrive in a hot parking garage with a wet, tired, over-stimulated, hungry baby isn't the most relaxing experience, and it's even more frustrating when the company won't even show you how to install the car seat said baby is waiting to get into. The baby safety standards in Italy are a bit more lax than in the States. Theoretically, the car seat can be installed rear-facing, but due to time constraints related to parental sanity, Amelia now has the honor of riding in a forward facing seat. As an added bonus, she's up high enough to see the world go by…I don't know if we'll ever get her back into her boring, rear-facing, middle of the car, (actually safe) seat back home.
I always thought of the "euro-skittle" Fiat as an object to mock, but it's actually a fun little car with a surprising amount of cargo space (enough for 600 pounds plus a stroller that in its own right is big enough to seat four). We've got a "you're about to hit something" warning beep, a plastic door bumper to avoid door dings and a dash board that lists your current radio station by both number and name.
Tip #5 – European hotel cribs were probably built by the craftsmen who couldn't get on at the church site 400 years ago.
The crib here certainly doesn't have 2 3/8 in slats, nor does the mattress fit snuggly against the sides. Fortunately Amelia is big and old enough that these don't present deadly concerns, but she is just big enough to get stuck. This morning we heard her wake with some lovely coos like she always does. Sounds that rival chirping birds enjoying the morning sun. As we roused ourselves, her sounds slowly changed from chipping birds to panicked hyenas.
Sorry for the phrase "panicked hyenas", not my best literary work. But, you see, I was rushed by a repeat of the panicked hyenas sound. Panicked hyenas happens when our new roller finds a way to wedge her arm between the mattress and the side of the crib. The result is a very unhappy baby twisted at a 45 degree-ish angle trying desperately to roll her way out of an unpleasant situation. The first time I saw it, I thought for sure that she dislocated her shoulder. Maybe I should have checked on our foreign health insurance coverage before we left!
Ever since the second installment of panicked hyenas, this day has taken a turn for the worse. It started off lovely. We slept in for a while (after the first installment), had a surprisingly great breakfast at the hotel and meandering our way over to downtown Como (without getting lost). We spent the morning at the town market and walking down to the lake. We had plans for an evening dinner on the patio of a Trattoria with a well rested and fun loving baby. Now it's raining and our panicked hyena refuses to go down for her nap. Looks like it may be evening of updating the blog and maybe room service.
I knocked the hotel crib, but so far, the Grand Hotel Imperiale in Maltrasio has been superb. On this trip, they get 5 stars in my book just for avoiding agent confusion. It's a lovely resort with character, right next to the lake in a small, out of the way town (but still close to everything). The people are all friendly and helpful, the rooms are nice and the price is right.
Anyway, back to Lake Como, absolutely stunning. Beth and I want to buy a villa here. It's the best of both worlds; you've got the water all around with just a short drive to the Swiss Alps for skiing. The towns are built right into the sides of the hills and you really feel like you're living life when you drive down the streets (a lot like the way you feel alive when skydiving). The weather here is just absolutely perfect, even the rain now is nice. Maybe we'll get a place somewhere in between the two that George Clooney owns.
I'm glad to be out of London and into Italy. London is fine, but I'm not a huge fan. It's like New York, but without the skyscrapers. Since I've already mentioned Amelia, you know that she and Beth managed to navigate their way around London without great peril. I have no idea how she did it, but Beth managed two days of bus riding without realizing that there were maps and guides to bus routes at every bus stop! After fish and chips, we didn't really know what else we should be eating in England so we branched out a bit and tried both Thai and Lebanese cuisine for the first time. Both were great.
• I feel like I'm in a different country. They talk a different language and the only American store I've seen has been McDonald's.
• Driving on crazy yet beautiful roads beats packing into the subway hands down.
• There's a gelato (Italian ice cream) stand every 100 ft. It's like there's an ordinance or something mandating the availability of gelato. In London, we only found ice cream at the grocery store, and it was like $7 for a pint. Here, they even have a few Gelatoriam / Bars for the men right next to the shopping areas for the women. Brilliant!!! Ice cream and beer under one roof. Surely this is the land from which I descend!
Amelia had a milestone that would have warranted its own blog entry back home. The last night we were in London, she reached up while seated in her bath and grabbed at the handicap rail. She held onto it and pulled herself up to a standing position all on her own. She had a blast with it, doing it again and again. If we didn't have to check out of the hotel, I think she'd still be there doing pull-ups. My personal prediction is that she's also going to make her first crawling step before we leave Rome. She's trying and trying now, she just needs to figure out how to move those knees.
A negative milestone, she also has her first real head cold. It's not too bad, but you can tell it's bothering her, especially since she hates having her nose wiped. Overall, she's been a great baby throughout the trip, but the cold has made her a bit cantankerous. It's a good thing we have a full pediatric medicine supply among the 650 pounds.
The little one finally wore herself out and fell asleep. It's 20:15 so it looks like we're in for the night. Tomorrow we'll probably take a ferry around the like and visit some of the other towns. Chow! (That's Italo-American for "time to go order dinner).
Room service didn't have much that looked good to Beth so I went out for take away pizza (and gelato of course). Of all the names, I found take out at Tom and Jerry's Pizzeria. It was actually quite good, I don't think they know that their name is also a cartoon. Just as we finished eating, the little one decided to wake up. Turns out we could have gone out after all.
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Learn how to use the Content-Aware Fill workspace to seamlessly fill a selected portion of an image with content sampled from other parts of the image.
The Content-Aware Fill workspace (Edit > Content-Aware Fill) provides you an interactive editing experience to achieve seamless results. You get control over the sampling area that is used by the content-aware technology to fill the selected portion of the image and several other settings to adjust the fill result. You also get a live full-resolution preview of the changes and an option to output the result to a new layer.
Open an image in Photoshop. Use any selection tool to select a part of the image you want to fill.
Choose Edit > Content-Aware Fill.
Photoshop launches the Content-Aware Fill workspace.
Within the Content-Aware Fill workspace, the document window displays the default sampling area as an overlay mask over the image. You can use tools provided in the Tools panel (at the left of the screen) to modify the sampling area and your initial selection of the fill area. In the Content-Aware Fill panel (at the right of the screen), you can specify sampling options, fill settings, and output settings to get the desired fill result in the image. As you make changes, the Preview panel displays a live full-resolution preview of the output.
Use the Sampling Brush Tool to add to or remove from the sampling area used to fill the selection. Paint over the image in the document window.
Modify the sampling area using the Sampling Brush Tool.
To add to the default sampling area, choose the Add mode in the Tool Options bar and brush over the areas in the image you want to include in the sampling area overlay.
To remove from the default sampling area, choose the Subtract mode in the Tool Options bar and brush over the areas in the image you want to exclude from the sampling area overlay.
To toggle between Add and Subtract modes, hold down Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) key while brushing with the Sampling Brush Tool.
To increase or decrease the Sampling Brush size, use the Size option in the Tool Options bar or use the left/right bracket keys.
Use any one of these selection tools to change or modify your original selection (fill area) in the document window.
Modify your selection using the Lasso or Polygonal Lasso Tool.
Lasso Tool and Polygonal Lasso Tool in the Content-Aware Fill workspace work just like the corresponding tool in Photoshop. See Select with the lasso tools.
Use the keyboard shortcut 'E' to cycle modes for Lasso Tools - New Selection, Add To Selection, Subtract From Selection, and Intersect With Selection.
The Content-Aware Fill workspace provides two additional tool options for Lasso Tools - Expand and Contract. You can click these options in the Tool Options bar to expand or contract the selection by a specified number of pixels.
To reset all changes made in this workspace to the original selection, click the reset ( ) icon in the Tool Options bar.
When you change the selection, the sampling area gets reset but the previous brush strokes are preserved. The selection also gets updated in the document when you exit the Content-Aware Fill workspace after committing the fill.
Use this tool to pan over different parts of the image in the document window and the image preview in the Preview panel. You can switch to Hand Tool quickly by pressing the 'H' key while using any other tool.
Use Zoom Tool to magnify or reduce the view of the image in the document window or the image preview in the Preview panel.
Zoom Tool in the Content-Aware Fill workspace works just like the corresponding tool in Photoshop. See Zoom in or out.
To change the magnification in the Preview panel, you can also drag the zoom slider or type a value in the text box at the bottom of the panel.
You can adjust the following settings in the Content-Aware Fill panel.
Select this option to show the sampling area or the excluded area as an overlay on the image in the document window.
To reset to default sampling area, click the reset ( ) icon next to the Show Sampling Area option.
Sets the opacity of the overlay displayed in the document window. To adjust the opacity, drag the slider or type a percentage value in the text box.
Assigns color to the overlay displayed in the document window. Click the color selection box and then choose a color from Adobe Color Picker.
Shows the overlay in the sampling or the excluded area. Choose an option from the drop-down list - Sampling Area or Excluded Area.
Allows contrast and brightness to adapt for a better match. This setting is useful for filling content with gradual color or texture changes. Choose an appropriate option from the drop-down list - None, Default, High, or Very High.
Use the Color Adaptation setting to fill content with gradual color or texture changes.
Allows content rotation for a better match. This setting is useful for filling content with rotated or curved patterns. Choose an appropriate option from the drop-down list - None, Low, Medium, High, or Full.
Use the Rotation Adaptation setting to fill content with rotated or curved patterns.
Select this option to allow content resizing for a better match. It works well for filling content with repeating patterns of different sizes or under perspective.
Use the Scale option for filling content with repeating patterns of different sizes or under perspective.
Select this option to allow content to be flipped horizontally for a better match. This is useful for images with horizontal symmetry.
Use the Mirror option to fill images with horizontal symmetry.
To reset to default fill settings, click the reset ( ) icon in the Fill Settings menu.
Apply Content-Aware Fill to Current Layer, New Layer, or Duplicate Layer.
As you fine-tune sampling and fill areas and adjust fill settings, the Preview panel renders a full-resolution preview of the changes.
Photoshop first renders an initial low-resolution preview of the changes in the Preview panel. Immediately after, it generates a full-resolution preview. While this full-resolution preview is being generated, you may notice that a warning icon appears next to the spinner in the lower-right corner of the Preview panel.
To change the magnification of the preview image, you can drag the zoom slider or type a value in the text box at the bottom of the panel. You can also select Zoom Tool in the Tools panel.
To pan over different parts of the preview image, you can switch to Hand Tool quickly by pressing 'H' while using any other tool.
When you get the desired fill result in the image, click OK at the bottom of the Content-Aware Fill panel or press Enter (Win) / Return (Mac) to commit fill.
To cancel fill and exit the Content-Aware Fill workspace, click Cancel at the bottom of the Content-Aware Fill panel or press Esc.
To reset all Content-Aware Fill settings, click the reset ( ) icon in the lower-left corner of the Content-Aware Fill panel.


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Sony's New Xperia Z Ultra Phablet. Now for Something Completely Different
Posted: August 11, 2013 in Android, Hardware
Tags: ipad, iPhone, Nexus 4, Nokia, Phablet, samsung, Samsung Galaxy Note, Sony
Sony's New Xperia Z Ultra 'Phablet' Now for Something Completely Different
Loren W
Melbourne Oz
Update 15 August 2013
Question: What do you get when you cross technology from a mobile phone, tablet, and a classy TV ?
Answer : A real big phone, an average size tablet (based on the new 7" form factors) , and a real small TV, a GREAT picture, with a sophisticated elegance
Ladies & Gents, Geeks & Geekettes the Sony Xperia Z Ultra Mobile Phone / Phablet (or c6802)
Actually launched in June 2013 (shhh don't tell anyone), Note: that quiet launch unless repeated for the west, might be the only downfall of this otherwise spectacular device.
As when I got the Samsung Note 1, the first thing I thought was, Oh Crap, this thing is too big. But I knew as with the Samsung Note 1, I would get used to it fast. Now, as a long time Samsung fan in everything they offer, from TVs, and Appliances to testing their first phablets (large mobile phones) via the Galaxy Note 1, since its launch in 2011 so this was an easy decision.
Unfortunately being a new tech junkie wanting everything new, the Samsung Note 2 did not float my boat beyond, the boat floating I was still feeling from the Note 1. I loved it, and am now hooked on the form factor of the Phablets. I am not so sure that the Samsung Note 3 will be so radical to make me want it as bad, as I thought I wanted the Note 2.
Magpie Effect- However, on looking to see what my next phone was going to be, I made a discovery I am sure many already had made. The Samsung Note 2, has a larger bezel on it than many of the new phones. This means I could buy a smaller phone yet still get the same or similar screen size depending on the phone of course of what many refer to as the first real Phablet (tablet sized mobile phone).
This has been badly reported on in the media.
Nokia- Personally I almost bought a Nokia 1020, I love the idea, of the amazing camera. But I did not for the same reason I dumped my 1st Windows 8 Phone Mobile, the eco-system for Microsoft does not do it for me app wise. There are some great apps, but how Microsoft goes from being the world leader in dumb phones / PDAs, with Windows CE to last place in smart phones war still amazes me as an old school Microsoft fan boy. I want to play as well as work, and the balance is skewed against Windows Phone 8 for me. Windows has a big advantage, the last to market, but I have not seen anything to make me think they are going to pull out an Internet Explorer vs.. Netscape Play.
The result of all of that and as I will soon be going on a holiday to an exotic South Pacific destination, a bit of snorkeling and a bit of diving, so am getting a GoPro pro, but I was looking strongly at the benefits of the Sony Xperia Z, then I discovered something amazing to me, Sony has gone and launched their new Phablet version of the Xperia Z (called the Ultra) globally (outside the USA). It then turned out it is for sale in many countries already. Again to well reported and not reported at all in most of the usual USA press.
One phone call later and I have a review unit due in 2 days herein Australia. As I scratch below the surface (no MS pun attended), I have discovered a few interesting facts on this device that is raising as many questions as it answers, before I even receive the device.
Convergence – Before I get into the device, (a more detailed review is forthcoming when I receive it), I have to raise what might the elephant in the room that has not been discussed in the present sense yet.
We have long known that the day would come when a Phablet would be the same size as a tablet. But with the rise in demand and increased interest in 7"tablets, and now 6+" Phablets, emerging, more so with the Samsung Note 3, at least a 5'7" phone, that day is nigh and I expect a big story in the weeks ahead. Obvious questions is when the next iPhone will be a Phablet, or the iPad a phone. Will the Nexus 7 (2014) be a phone, and an alternative to a Nexus 4. Or the Motorola Nexus Phone 2 (announced) be a Phablet?
Phablets = Tablets – An interesting element of this is reading reviews comparing the Sony Xperia Z Ultra, not to any present or forthcoming phone/phablets, but to the new Nexus 7 (2013) and iPad mini. A silly comparison if you ask me, unless the Nexus 7 (2013) and iPads are a phone, but sets I believe the ground game for what happens next.
Picture This – The physical size as mentioned is 6.4" on the Sony, and 7" on the Nexus 7 – ( 2013) 1080×1920 and 1280 x 800 respectively. However, the Nexus 7 has an impressive ~323ppi whilst the Sony has an equally amazing ~344ppi. The Sony takes a micro SSD to 64gb whilst tablets do not. Wi-Fi is also offers a/b/g/n/ac, and a 2.2 ghz cpu vs the 1.5GHz on the Nexus
Waterproof – Oh, did I mention HD Video underwater- to 5 feet ? Though the phone has an average camera by today's standard, (same as the Note 2). However the Sony has no flash, possibly a big deal. In all the tests I have seen thus far, the Sony, Ultra Z appears to triumph pretty easily over the Samsung Note 2, how it will compare against the Note 3 remains to be seen. Sony have competed against the stylus pen of Samsung by suggesting users can use anything they want from their finger to a real pencil instead of the OMG I going to lose Samsung Note stylus. Possible improvements by Samsung in the Note 3 might include a flexible display, 3GB vs. 2GB of RAM, whilst the Note 3 will likely have the respectable 13MP camera vs. the Note 2 camera in the Sony. Samsung Note 3 body construction is still a bit of a mystery.
A Little TV – Tech
With the Z Ultra, Sony uses 2 bits of Tv tech to Improve the picture from the Bravia TV side of things partly.
These are Triluminos and X-Reality Engine technologies. With the ~342 pixel density, this gives the Z Ultra one of the best displays period and the best by far on a Phablet. Sony had been given a bad rap previously (perhaps deserved) for not having the crispest of colors. Triluminos effectively uses quantum dots, to give a 50% crisper color by allowing better color separation thus less wash out. This is further done by something called quantum dots, that effectively means to the human eye colors are crisper. The X reality engine does the same thing in reverse sort of by analyzing the image received then separating the colors. Effectively it improves image quality in dark or over bright areas to get the tones right.
Not for everyone perhaps this hybrid device really is one to be considered.
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Is Windows Phone 7 Doomed ?
Posted: March 22, 2011 in Microsoft, mobile
Tags: KIN, Microsoft, Nokia, Windows Phone 7, WP7
Lack up updates and information from Microsoft, for a phone that is buggy starting to concern many.
At the same time Microsoft Windows Phone 7 (WP7) launched. Another mobile phone division of Microsoft (conflicting per those in Microsoft) was having a drama as they introduced a new phone (the KIN), the mobile team then had it killed, then introduced again then killed it again, confusing I know.
This has been referred to some since as the Microsoft Kin Effect. The KIN took years of development and acquisitions of Danger Incorporated that also had the T-Mobile sidekick (a popular handset with its own problems where the KIN was derived). The R&D around all of this has been estimated in the <gulp> $USD Billions of Dollars.
Due to poor US Sales, (not a surprise due too little advertising and poor pricing), a planned launch in Europe was scrapped and the KIN team (now Microsoft mobile refugees) were was rolled into the about the launched Windows Phone 7 Mobile Division and severely de-prioritised, e.g. all but scrapped again, others in the group were sent off to Microsoft Siberia.
Those aware of this in the media (businesses, and consumers) a bit nervous about buying a new WP7 phone, especially business sector that in some cases had to update dozens of handsets though they may still be running IE6 browsers and Windows XP both way out of date. A still larger number never heard or cared about the KIN so Microsoft escaped a bullet there.
The market was taking shape; Apple had few models to choose from all the same but for storage size but all apple. Google had their own problems as handsets were many but varied in size and specification. A mixed blessing for Google but a successful one in that by having many models to choose from, market share has skyrocketed.
The Microsoft Model would be a hybrid of Apple and Google Strategies, with multiple models but all with a specific specification that would give a uniform experience to customers.
But this also meant Microsoft had to do a good job to compete with the iPhone or one of dozens of android phones. Many felt Microsoft had to introduce a phone better than the Apple iPhone, a tall order indeed.
So was Microsoft serious about WP7 and would the benchmarks be for Microsoft to pull the plug on WP7 as they had done on the KIN such as poor sales figures.
Remember in the case of the KIN it was simple billions of dollars in Microsoft R&D were sacrificed would the same be done for the WP7?
The good news was Microsoft was introducing the phone globally (all but at a low budget global event) far from the glamour of an Apple launch. Different handsets were being introduced across different global markets with a similar technical minimum being maintained to offer consistent experiences for users.
Frequent Updates (Where?)
Like Apple and Google had already done, Microsoft promised publically relatively frequent updates to the handsets, something that was for this slow moving giant well received and anticipated, especially for consumers and businesses that jumped on the bandwagon early to buy a single or multiple handsets. Here in Australia marketing for the Microsoft Windows Mobile 7 was a non-event, so much so that many larger shops from Optus and Telstra that had WP7 phones did little to support or even offer them for sale even weeks after launch.
Updates offered a real comfort to Android and Apple iPhone users as though the handsets are not perfect a fix was only an update away. To date Microsoft has forgotten about updating handsets or telling customers & enthusiasts what the heck is going on.
Will all the amazing number of poor quality apps for the iPhone and Android Phones, fart noises etc. There are a larger number of good quality apps. Unfortunately, to date many feel that some needed apps for the WP7 have yet to materialise. Many developers say making apps for WP7 is a good experience, but prefer to focus on where volumes will be sold and that means anywhere but WP7.
Others have said when the demand is there they will produce apps.
Shooting Your Own
Even those in the media shouting from the roof tops on the wonders of WP7, are starting to wonder if they backed a loser, and Microsoft has done little to change anyone's minds on this even attacking those that have grown frustrated at the lies (promises not kept).
The Nokia Salvation – Too little too late?
When it was announced of the JV between Microsoft and Nokia, after Google had failed to seal the deal with Nokia themselves, many thought this would be good news. Unfortunately in press interviews the words 'Window Mobile' were used but never the word 'seven'. It then follows that the Nokia alliance will take 2 years to bear fruit way past the life span of windows phone 7.
So can Windows Mobile live long enough to be saved by Nokia that has the distribution power and market share to save Microsoft Mobile? It is also believed Microsoft might launch a Nokia only Version of Windows Phone, so not helping those with non-Nokia handsets.
Other Problems (is the WP7 team going on Hiatus)
Recent software update attempts (even an update that allows other updates) has not gone well for Microsoft and mainly for scores of customers.
Many users globally are reporting issues with these small recent updates that caused the phones of many to be made inoperable. Further software updates has offered conflicts between old apps and new software updates, requiring complete handset resets for users
I walked into one Optus shop in Melbourne 2 weeks after they had launched the WP7 handsets, and they had to open the box for me to see the unit as they had no fake demo models or real ones, and I was the first one to ask. Two weeks after launch. This was similar to a larger Telstra shop where staff said they knew nothing about them (thought they were fake demos on display)
Additionally, for one Samsung WP7 case I had to order a case for it from China as none are available months after launch in Australia (per Optus and Samsung).
In a time when a new Apple iPhone or iPad is discussed as soon as the last one is released, Microsoft can only hope that when someone discusses a Window Phone that the
It has been hinted that there will be a minor Windows Mobile Update still in 2011, but nothing more major until 2012. But it has been up to forensic media folk to even find that out.
As someone that regularly suggests hardware, including phone handsets, I am looking forward to the next 4G handsets, iPhone 5, other new Android Handset, The Nokia WP7 phones, and other Windows Phones (version 8) in that order after that and will likely be selling my Window Phone 7 as soon as a better handset one comes along, which may not be so far away.


During a recent trip to Tasmania where we attended a friend's wedding, Pete and I got chatting to a fellow wedding attendee about the high quality of Tasmanian produce. We thought it a great idea to get some local knowledge on the subject and during our chat he told us about the Huon Salmon brand and how in his opinion it was the best around.
Fast forward a month and I find myself enjoying it here in Sydney after placing an order via their online store.
The Huon Aquaculture Company started out as a small family business founded by Frances and Peter Bender whose passion for quality produce has seen the company grow to what it is today - with a turnover of approximately 3 million salmon per year.
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Meanwhile, cook the potatoes in boiling salted water for 6-8 mins until tender, then drain. Beat together the cream, eggs,herbs, lime zest, salt and pepper. Scatter half the potatoes over the bottom of the pastry case, then put half the salmon strips in the gaps and break up half the goats cheese and scatter over the salmon.
Pour over half the egg mix and repeat another layer of ingredients finishing with the egg mixture.
Bake for 25 mins until the top is lightly coloured and firm to the touch. Cool for 10 mins before removing from the tin, then serve warm or at room temperature.
As a delicious treat one weekend why not try this Huon Hot Smoked Salmon inspired breakfast idea - Mix some low fat ricotta with fresh mint and cooked peas. Then, simply heat a piece of Huon Honey Cured Hot Smoked Salmon in a frypan and top with your choice of poached or fried egg. Viola!
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The Food Mentalist received Huon Salmon products compliments of the Huon Salmon Aquaculture Group.


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April 27: A unique cycling experience that will start and finish at the Devils Backbone Brewing Company in scenic Nelson County Virginia. Ride remote and beautiful mountain roads of the George Washington National Forest in Blue Ridge Mountains! You will follow mountain streams to high ascents and plunge down descents for miles and miles! Any bike will do. Half of the roads are unpaved and there will be lots of climbing so bring some robust tires and low gears.
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Masque and Gown Photos – 1920 – 1924 – 1960 – 1976
A visual documentation of Bowdoin's progression from an all-male college to a coeducational one can be found in the archives of Masque and Gown. Masque and Gown is a student run theater organization founded in 1903, sixty eight years before the arrival of women students on campus. The photos featured here illustrate Masque and Gown at three distinct points in time: when the college was an all-male institution, when the Masque and Gown began casting Brunswick women in female roles, and when the College became a coeducational institution.
AG37.1 - Masque and Gown Photo (1920 Merchant of Venice)
The first two photos [DocumentAG, 37.1 and DocumentAG, 37.2] are group shots from a 1920 production of The Merchant of Venice and a 1924 production of Macbeth. These photos were taken in the years when Masque and Gown productions consisted of all male casts. In 1927 Masque and Gown began casting Brunswick women in female roles, with a few exceptions.
AG37.2 - Masque and Gown Photo (1924 MacBeth)
Eventually, Masque and Gown also allowed Bowdoin female staff members and faculty wives to participate in their productions. Edith Elliott, a Registered Nurse at the Bowdoin infirmary appeared as the only female in the 1937 production of Yellow Jack. The third image [DocumentAG, 37.3] shows women of the Brunswick community in the 1960 production of Playboy of the Western World. Although the names of the five women in the image are not specified, the female roles in the play are as follows. Four village girls: Susan Brady, Nelly Leahy, Honor Blake, and Sara Tansey played by Betsi Black, Cecilia Stehle, Paula Black, and Linda Sarkis respectively, Margaret Flaherty played by Paula DeCaesar and Widow Quin played by Irma Black.
AG37.3 - Masque and Gown Photo (1960 Player of the Western World)
The final photo [DocumentAG, 37.4] is of the 1976 production of A Slight Ache. The particularly small cast is made up of only Bowdoin students. Brunswick women and faculty wives were eventually phased out as actresses in Masque and Gown plays and female students became the primary actresses in campus productions.
AG37.4 - Masque and Gown Photo (1976 A Slight Ache)
The inclusion of women of the Brunswick community as well as the participation of female staff members and faculty wives raises an interesting question: When and to what degree did women become members of the Bowdoin community? Women were not students until the 1970's, yet before coeducation, women participated in college programs and found ways of creating communities with other women through Bowdoin. An excellent example of such a group of women is the Society of Bowdoin Women. The Society began in the 1920's and its members consisted of women in the Brunswick community, women staff members, and faculty wives, with the only requirement for membership being that "she love a Bowdoin man." Theodora Penny Martin suggests in "On the Outskirts: A Case Study for Kin Work in Academe" that such a society allowed women to become a part of the Bowdoin community by "defin[ing] herself in the tradition of her family". Similarly the women who participated in Masque and Gown productions post 1927 and before coeducation were, if only for a short amount of time, part of the Bowdoin community.
Filed Under: Documents, Extracurriculars Tagged With: 1920, 1924, 1960, 1976, A Slight Ache, AG37.1, AG37.2, AG37.3, MacBeth, Masque and Gown, Merchant of Venice, Photo, Player of the Western World
Orient: Rah Rah Black and White
Bowdoin Cheerleading
Orient Article: November 17, 1972
The first classes of female students at Bowdoin in the early 1970's were made up of a fairly diverse group of women. Women's athletic teams, like field hockey and tennis, were taking shape and creating distinctly female spaces for women on campus. The need for such spaces had been articulated by other women in the early classes, like the founders of the Bowdoin Women's Association, which started the group in part as a response to this absence. What, then, are we to make of Bowdoin Cheerleading?
Bowdoin Cheerleading became an organized group before the arrival of female students on campus. Records have not been kept that indicate exactly when the all-male squad was formed. However, records indicate that Bowdoin Cheerleading went coed the same year that the college began accepting female students as part of the 12-College Exchange Program. Trish Luther and Sue Alvano, both interchange coeds, are believed to be the first females that joined the squad in the fall of 1969.
Various sources suggest that the first squad of coeds formed in 1972. The attached article [DocumentAG, 38] is a clipping from The Bowdoin Orient dated November 17, 1972. Although the author of the article seems to have a less-than-favorable view of Bowdoin Cheerleaders, he makes an interesting point. He states that "the success of the cheerleading performance depends upon the success of the football team." Given this, how is one to consider Cheerleaders as separate from their male counterparts?
The fact is that groups of Bowdoin Cheerleaders during the early 1970's did not seek a separate place, but rather worked to integrate themselves into a historically male institution by becoming part of male tradition through sports, particularly football. Records from some of the cheerleading squads in this time period describe how integrated the two groups were. The cheerleaders would travel with men to their away games to provide morale and support. Most of the funding they sought was to cover the expense of travel and food during these trips. They also requested funding in 1973 to purchase new uniforms since most of the uniforms the Cheerleaders had at the time were homemade.
It is important to mention that Cheerleaders did in fact exist outside of football. In 1973 there were two separate squads of cheerleaders, one for football and one for basketball. Records suggest that the squads eventually merged into one group. The Orient article also makes reference an intra-fraternity cheering contest that Cheerleaders planned to "exploit". This contest was in fact sponsored by football among fraternities and other groups on campus during homecoming. The prize? A keg.
AG38 - Orient: Rah Rah Black and White
Filed Under: Documents, Extracurriculars Tagged With: AG38, Orient
Orient: Trials and Tribs in Tights
AG39 - Orient: Trials and Tribs in Tights
Bowdoin Dance
Orient Article: October 22, 1971
Is it any surprise that the origin of Dance at Bowdoin coincides with the presence of female students on campus? Prior to 1970, Bowdoin College did not provide male students (or the few female exchange students from the 12-College Exchange) the opportunity to pursue Dance on campus.
In the Spring of 1970, then teacher at Brunswick High School, June Vail and Marcy Playvin, a dance instructor at Bates at the time, teamed up to offer eight weeks of dance classes on a subscription basis to college –related people. Bowdoin did not officially sponsor the program but did provide a space in the gym.
The following year June Vail contacted Dean A. Leroy Greason about teaching Dance at Bowdoin on a similar subscription basis. In the 1971-1977 Review of the Bowdoin Dance Program, Vail recalls having said that such a course would "provide the women students arriving in 1971-72 with a program that satisfied a demand for recreational, physical exercise and a demand for dance as an art form".
Vail was hired in a salaried position and taught three 90-minute classes in the fall semester of 1971. The classes were offered as part of the Physical Education department. Thirty five students enrolled in the first class, though most students were first-years or exchange students. The Orient article [DocumentAG, 39] is from the first year that Bowdoin Dance was offered to the student body.
The department eventually grew and secured stable sources of funding. This allowed for the purchase of dance related books and subscriptions to two periodicals, Dance Magazine and Dance Perspective. Today, dance classes are run out of the Department of Theater and Dance, which Vail helped to establish in 1994. Bowdoin currently only offers Dance as a minor.
Filed Under: Documents, Extracurriculars Tagged With: 1971, AG39, Dance, Orient
1975 Funding Request and Constitution for the Bowdoin Women's Association
"Co-education remained controversial and while less hostile with the senior class gone, there was still an atmosphere that we were guests at a male college."
– Patricia Geller '75
The Bowdoin Women's Association (BWA), a student led campus organization, began informally in the fall of 1972. Patricia "Barney" Geller '75 and Liza Graves '76, two of the clubs founding members, began organizing meetings before petitioning the student government for funding as an official campus organization. BWA was intended to help build community among male and female students while bringing to the forefront women's issues that had not yet been addressed by the college. The organization tackled institutional and social issues, advocating the need for more female faculty and addressing what Patricia Geller called a "concern that some of the new students were taking what we [Geller and Graves] saw a(s) subservient roles in some of the frats and were not allowed to be full members."
BWA's constitution [DocumentAG, 40] describes the group as both a social and educational organization. Funding was used to sponsor social events that allowed women to gather informally, creating a space where women could articulate some of the issues they encountered at a traditionally male school. Funding was also used to sponsor non-academic educational programs on sex education and birth control. The second initiative was of considerable importance given that the College was largely unprepared for the arrival of women on campus, particularly in the department of women's health. Geller recalls both a rule at the infirmary requiring women to wear a bra in order to be seen and the lack of a gynecologist available to women on campus.
BWA was also instrumental in educating students and raising awareness about issues of sexual harassment and abuse. Plans outlined in BWA's 1975 budget proposal seek to bring speakers to campus in the fall of 1976 including the Executive Director of the National Organization for the Prevention of Rape and Assault. Other proposed speakers include women politicians, speakers on women's history, and artists and writers on issues pertinent to women. Although many of the events hosted by BWA were focused on women, they were open to men as well.
BWA's presence on campus during the early years of coeducation was important both in creating a space where women could meet and discuss the issues they encountered on a daily basis and in educating students, men and women alike, about issues that were likely not addressed prior to the arrival of women on campus.
AG40.1 - 1975 Funding Request and Constitution for the Bowdoin Women's Association
Filed Under: Documents, Extracurriculars Tagged With: 1975, AG40, AG40.1, AG40.2, AG40.3, AG40.4, AG40.5, AG40.6, Bowdoin Women's Association, BWA, Constitution, Funding Request, Patricia Geller
Voluntary Services Program March 1972 Newsletter
An early perceived benefit of bringing women students to an all-male campus and becoming a coeducational institution was that women would have a "calming influence" on men. Whether this proved true or not is a matter of opinion but women students on Bowdoin's campus did have an "organizational influence," at least for the Voluntary Service Program, an early predecessor to today's Mckeen Center.
Female students first began arriving on campus in 1969 as part of the 12-College Exchange Program. During the program's first year, some women spoke to Professor of Education Paul Hazelton about the need for an easier, more visible path to participation in voluntary community service.
In 1970 Professor Hazelton, along with a group of male and female students formed the Voluntary Services Program Committee. The committee was established to coordinate student efforts in an organized manner and to provide accountability on behalf of the College for its student volunteers. Ann Pierson, then a secretary in the Education Department, became the Coordinator of the Voluntary Services Program. Ann's position and the VSP allowed for a structured way in which students could pursue voluntary services. The newsletter [DocumentAG, 41] is something that VSP would have made available to students.
While volunteerism did occur at Bowdoin prior to the arrival of women, it was almost an "underground activity" recalls Anne Pierson. After the VSP was instituted, the number of students volunteering grew to at least a hundred within the first year and continuously after that.
Today, the "Common Good" is a phrase that most Bowdoin students are familiar with, either through the annual Common Good Day or through other ongoing projects sponsored by the Joseph Mckeen Center for the Common Good. A philosophy that has become such an integral part of Bowdoin College is rooted in the efforts of some of the first women students on campus. Ann Pierson who was both present during this shift and a part of it herself acknowledges these women's efforts:
"It was the Bowdoin women in those early years who knew that without an effective system in place, volunteerism wouldn't thrive on campus. They were eager for that to happen and they pushed for action. Before co-education, a few men students sought out opportunities on their own, of course. But it was the collaborative effort, initiated by women that made the difference."
AG41 - Voluntary Services Program March 1972 Newsletter
Filed Under: Documents, Extracurriculars Tagged With: 1972, AG41, Common Good, Newsletter, Paul Hazelton, Voluntary Services Program


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Rilancio Decree – Measures to enhance the recovery of companies in crisis
on 25 May 2020 25 May 2020 by PwC TLS
On19 May 2020 the Law Decree no. 34 has beenpublished in the Official Gazette ("Rilancio Decree"). The new emergency decree is in line with the previous Cura Italia and Liquidità Decrees, introducing inter alia measures to support the liquidity the capitalisation of enterprises, incentives and tax credits as well as measures in the context of indirect taxation, tax assessment and tax litigation.
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A) Measures to support the liquidity and the capitalisation of enterprises
B) Further postponement of suspended payments
C) Incentives and tax credits
D) Simplifying measures
E) Measures related to VAT and other indirect taxes
F) Measures related to tax assessment, collection and tax litigation
G) Measures to enhance the recovery of companies in crisis
H) Measures to support the business liquidity of the enterprises and the credit sector
I) Internationalization Measures
Measures to enhance the recovery of companies in crisis and reinforcement of the support structures for business distress and industrial policy – Article 39
The rule provides for an emergency allocation of funds for each of the years 2020, 2021 and 2022 in order to mitigate the consequences of the epidemiological emergency on the Italian industrial framework.
More specifically, it is foreseen:
an allocation of an amount equal to Euro 300,000.00 in order to integrate the financial endowment of the Industrial Politics Experts Unit, set out in art. 3 Law 140 of 1999. The Experts Unit, which is composed by a maximum number of ten consultants and experts selected by public notice, will have the task of supporting Mise in the analysis and study of the productive sectors most affected by the emergency. The provision also removes the obligation of prior consultation with the competent Parliamentary Committees for the selection of professionals and the setting up of the Experts Unit, as requested in the previous aforementioned law. The new provisions will thus allow the constitution and reactivation of the Experts Unit, which was already in existence since 1999 but has been inactive for long time due to insufficient budget and operational difficulties arising from the mandatory prior consultation with the Parliamentary Committees.
Paragraph 3 provides for the possibility of utilisation of the financial endowment already allocated by means of the Budget Law enacted in 2007 for the establishment and the functioning of the Mise corporate Crisis Department. Such funds equal to Euro 300,000.00, allocated for the technical-economic analyses and in-depth analyses required in the corporate crisis tables aiming to tackle the decline of the productive structure and to favour the consolidation of the activity and employment levels, can therefore be allocated, to an extent not exceeding 40% of the total budget, to the treatment and resolution of issues concerning the procedures of extraordinary administration, which, after all, constitute the ultimate instrument for the conservation of the business as a going concern and the integrity of the production systems, as an alternative to bankruptcy. Therefore, the Department, which was originally intended for providing support in the corporate crisis handling within the so-called "crisis tables", will be able to allocate part of its total budget for the performance of activities typical of the Mise, concerning extraordinary administration procedures.
In the context of the interventions already described, and taking into account the possible consequences of the COVID-19 crisis, in addition to the reinforcement of the existing structures (Unit of Industrial Politics Experts and Crisis Department of the Mise), for the years 2020, 2021 and 2022, according to art. 7, paragraph 6 of Legislative Decree 165 2001, Mise may appoint a maximum of 10 consultants and experts, selected by public notice, specialized in industrial policy and business crisis, with legal and economic expertise, in order to support the Crisis Structure. The regulation provides for a maximum expenditure allocation of Euro 500.00,00.
The expenses deriving from the integration of the financial allocation of the Industrial Policy ExpertsUnit and the allocation granted to the Mise to conclude collaboration contracts with experts in industrial politics and corporate crisis, in order to provide support to the Crisis Department, equal to Euro 800,000.00, will be covered by a reduction of the allocation of the special current portion of the "Reserve and Special Funds" programme of the "Funds to be distributed" mission of the Financial Budget 2020-2022.
Extension of the deadlines for programmes for the implementation of extraordinary administration procedures – Article 51
The provision foresees the automatic extension by six months of the deadline for the execution of the programmes pursuant to art. 27 paragraph 2 Legislative Decree 270/1999 (Prodi Bis Law) already authorised in accordance with art. 57 of the same law and due to expire after 23 February 2020.
The rule applies exclusively to programmes relating to the extraordinary administration procedures of so-called very large companies in a state of crisis, started pursuant to Legislative Decree no. 347/2003, converted by Law no. 39/2004 (Marzano Law).
The automatic extension also applies to programmes already extended for the reasons of complexity and urgency as per paragraphs 4 ter and 4 septies of art. 4 Marzano Law.
Public support scheme for the orderly conduct of compulsory administrative liquidation proceedings of small banks – Articles 168 et seq.
The Rilancio Decree intervened on the regulation of the compulsory administrative liquidation of banks, pursuant to Articles 80 and following of Decree Law no. 385/1993 (i.e. the Italian Consolidated Bank Act, "TUB"), in order to ensure the orderly conduct of the liquidation procedures of certain credit institutions.
With the express exclusion of of banks set as cooperatives , Art. 168 sets out the field of application of the regulation to small credit institutions (whose total assets are equal to or less than Euro 5 billion in value) subject to compulsory administrative liquidation ("CAL") after the entry into force of the Rilancio Decree.
In case of transfer of (i) assets and liabilities, (ii) enterprise or business units, (iii) assets and legal relationships identifiable en bloc by the bank under CAL, the Ministry of Economic and Financial Affairs is authorised (art. 169) in order to grant public support to the acquiring bank in the context of the transfer operations. More precisely, the following schemes of support (which may be granted even in cumulative form and which the purchaser will be able to use only after the transfer of the relevant assets) have been provided for and:
the conversion into tax credits of the deferred tax assets of the bank under CAL, even where not recorded in the bank's balance sheet;
the conversion of the buyer's deferred tax assets into tax credits, even where they are not recorded in the purcheser's balance sheet;
the granting to the purchaser of guarantees on components of the transferred assets. The guarantee is free of charge, on first demand, unconditional, irrevocable and express, and in addition it will cover capital, interest and accessory charges up to the maximum amount guaranteed, providing also for the beneficiary's participation in the losses;
the granting of subsidies to the purchaser in case of which the public support referred to in the points listed above are not sufficient.
After providing for specific qualitative and quantitative limits on the eligibility of the support measures referred to in points a) and b) above, it is established that the costs to be borne by the State for the concession must not, in any case, exceed the total amount of €100 million, which may be increased through the use of the Fund set up at the Ministry of the Economy and Finance to meet the costs at stake.
The Rilancio Decree also provides for a specific procedure to authorise the public support that passes through the prior transfer of the assets.
The binding purchase offers submitted to the bank in CAL, where subject to the granting of the support measure, will be subject to the scrutiny of the Bank of Italy (art. 170) which verifies that:
the bidder has an appropriate balance sheet, financial and organisational situation, also in relation to the size of its assets in relation to the assets to be sold, which can support the purchase and integrate the latter into its own processes and business organisation within one year;
there are no controlling relationships between the bidder and the bank in CAL (ex Article 23 TUB);
the bidder is authorised to carry out the banking activity and the other activities related to the assets to be purchased;
the assets to be transferred do not include liabilities pursuant to Article 52, paragraph I, letter a), no. i), ii), iii) and iv) of Legislative Decree no. 180/2015;
there are no conditions preventing the grant of the authorisation, as referred to in Article 90, paragraph II, TUB.
After carrying out the above controls, the Bank of Italy will be called upon to certify that (i) the sale is not feasible without recourse to public support, also in the light of the assessments expressed by the deposit guarantee scheme (ex Article 96 bis TUB), with specific rationale of the necessity and possible exclusion of bids not involving State aid (ii) the bids have been identified in an open, competitive, non-discriminatory procedure in accordance with the EU regulatory framework and (iii) the bids submitted are suitable to ensure the orderly liquidation of the bank and the maintenance of the long-term viability of the entity resulting from the sale.
Purchase applications conditional on public support must contain the commitments required to comply with the EU State aid rules (Communication from the European Commission 2013/C-216/01).
The certificate will then be sent to the Ministry of Economy and Finance affairs, which may, order the support measures, by decree, after ascertaining the compliance with the decision of the European Commission and, in the case of multiple bids, select the one that minimizes public intervention.
Once the decree has been issued, the Court of Auditors will proceed with the preventive control of legitimacy and the relative registration.
The support measures, once authorized, grant a credit to the Ministry of economy and finance affairs against the CAL that will be liquidated as prededucible claim.
If the concentration resulting from the acquisition of the assets does not fall within the scope of the CE Merger Regulation, the concentration is deemed to be authorised for important general interests of the national economy.
Finally, a number of concluding provisions have been collected within Article 172, under which it is provided that:
the transfers referred to in Article 169 are considered to be transfers of business branches for tax purposes (Presidential Decree no. 633/1972);
for these transfers, the provisions provided for the bridge institution and the institution subject to resolution respectively (Article 15 of Decree Law no. 18/2016, converted into Law no. 49/2916) apply;
the positive components deriving from the interventions in support of the transfer, as per Article 169, do not contribute to the formation of the total income for the purposes of income taxes and the determination of the net production value of the transferee;
the transferee is not obligated jointly and severally with the transferor in relation to crimes committed in the course of the business activities of the transferred company (derogation from the provisions of Article 33 of Legislative Decree 231/2001);
the transfer excludes (i) disputes relating to assets and liabilities thus declared and (ii) liabilities accrued and accruing from the same.
That said, pursuant to paragraph 5 of Article 169, the application of the provisions at stake is subject to the positive decision of the European Commission on the compatibility of the national legislation with the European Union framework on State aid and, in any case, the support may not be granted beyond twelve months from the date of issue of such decision (a period potentially extendable up to a maximum of a further twelve months).
In case of approval, the Ministry of Economy and Finance is required to submit to the European Commission an annual report on the functioning of the public support scheme, based on the elements regularly provided by the Bank of Italy.
Provisions on nonperforming loans securitization guarantees (GACS) – Article 32
Article 32 of the Rilancio Decree entitled "Provisions on non-performing loans securitization guarantees – GACS", states that performance requirements for servicers introduced by Decree Law no. 22 of 22 March 2019 (so-called Brexit Decree) may be temporarily disapplied.
In particular, the latter afore mentioned Decree – in line with the EBA's opinion of 23 October 2019 which identifies the servicers as players "skin in the game" – provided, on the one hand, the replacement of the servicer following the enforcement of public guarantee, in the event that the ratio between the cumulative net proceeds and the net proceeds expected under the recovery plan is less than 100% for two consecutive interest payment dates and, on the other hand, the anchoring of the remuneration fees due to them to the economic results related to the portfolio's recovery.
According to the Rilancio Decree, the Ministry of the Economy and Finance – in the context of securitisation transactions pursuant to Italian Law 130/1999 – will be able to authorize the transferee company of the receivables covered by GACS to modify the settlement of securities and contracts governing the management of recovery by disapplying – until 31 July, 2021 – the contractual clauses that link the fees due to the servicers to the recovery performance.
However, such an option granted to Ministry of the Economy and Finance is based on the fact that the slowdown in recoveries was caused by the regulatory measures introduced to deal with the COVID-19 epidemiological emergency, and is, anyway, subject to the assessment of Consap SpA (the manager of the so-called Gacs Fund).
Cristian Sgaramella
Ilaria Zingali
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Hi I tried remaking the arsenal of SMOD: Outbreak, I started with the Shotgun first and I ran into a few problems with it.
First Problem: I set the clip capacity to be the same as the original one, it won't let me reload after I fired a single shot at all unless I swap to another weapon, and it will only fire one round and won't reload.
Second Problem: when I get hit by an enemy at clise rage my screen shifts sideways.
Please tell me how to fix these, the weapon script is below.
"anim_prefix" "shotgun" //Animations for NPCs.
"bucket" "2" //The category this will go into.
"bucket_position" "8" //The slot this will go into.
"default_clip" "18" //The amount this will have in Clip 1 when spawned by default.
"default_clip2" "-1" //The amount this will have in Clip 2 when spawned by default.
"primary_ammo" "buckshot" //Primary ammo type.
"secondary_ammo" "None" //Secondary ammo type.
"weight" "15" //How much NPCs want to pick this up.
"rumble" "1" //Rumble setting for controllers.
"item_flags" "0" //Flags for the weapon.
"BuiltRightHanded" "0" //Check to see if this is Left-Handed. Useful for CSS weapons.
"AllowFlipping" "1" //Check to see if we can use flipping.
"MagazineStyledReloads" "0" //Check to see if we can use Magazine-Styled Reloads.
"UseMuzzleSmoke" "1" //Check to see if we can use Muzzle Smoke.
"useironsights" "1" //Check if we can use Ironsights.
"LowerWeapon" "0" //Check if we can lower the weapon while sprinting. Disable this if your viewmodel does not have a lowering animation.
//The "meat" of the weapon.
"CanReloadSingly" "0" //Check if we can reload 1 round at a time.
//Stuff that we will do on primary fire. Remove if you do not need primary fire (if you want night vision binoculars).
"IronsightFireRate" "55" //How fast this fires when ironsighted.
"ZoomFireRate" "55" //How fast this fires when zoomed in.
"InfiniteAmmoPerk" "1" //Check to see if we can use this with the Infinite Ammo Perk. Disable "InfiniteAmmo" to stop conflicts.
"InfiniteAmmo" "0" //Check to see if we can use this with Infinite Ammo by default. Disable "InfiniteAmmoPerk" to stop conflicts.
"MinRange" "0" //The minimum amount of range that this weapon would fire at.
"MaxRange" "3072" //The maximum amount of range that this weapon would fire at.
"CanFireUnderwater" "0" //Can we use this underwater?
//Bullet Settings. Remove if you do not want bullets.
"Damage" "3" //Amount of damage we will do.
"ShotCount" "14" //How many shots we will fire at once.
Re: Help creating custom weapons.
The custom weapons system doesn't really support shotguns as of yet, however that should be added in the future.
Also can you possibly add a script that allows to overwrite default weapons.
Did you try messing with "CanReloadSingly" ?
Wouldn't that help for shotguns?
I did actually try that, but still no good results.
I read it, my mind will be applied accordingly.


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Man gets jail and caning for extorting $500 from ex-girlfriend
Mohamed Soffian Abdulah was jailed for two years and ordered to be given three strokes of the cane for extorting $500 from his former girlfriend.PHOTO: ST FILE
Sep 21, 2016, 7:46 pm SGT
http://str.sg/4GDe
Elena Chong
Court Correspondent
elena@sph.com.sg
SINGAPORE - An odd-job labourer who extorted $500 from his former girlfriend was jailed for two years and ordered to be given three strokes of the cane on Wednesday (Sept 21).
Mohamed Soffian Abdulah, 45, who pleaded guilty, was also given one month's jail for misappropriating a $698 Samsung Tab S at a coffeeshop at Bukit Batok East Avenue 3 on June 2 last year.
This sentence was run consecutively with the two years' jail imposed for the Sept 4 extortion charge.
Six other charges, including one of attempted extortion, were taken into consideration during his sentencing.
A district court heard that the victim, a 34-year-old retail assistant, got to know Soffian through a chat line in April last year. They exchanged contact numbers and started to chat.
During their relationship, they became physically intimate.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Star Chen Xinhui said on several occasions, they went to a hotel in Balestier where they had sex. He took nude photographs of her using his mobile phone.
Initially, she asked him to delete the photographs. But she did not object when he told her that he only wanted to keep them for his personal viewing pleasure.
Soffian borrowed money from her but he stopped responding to her text messages and calls after she repeatedly asked him to return the money.
On Aug 19 last year, she received threatening messages from his mobile phone.
Someone claiming to be Soffian's girlfriend "Nana", said she had five nude photographs of the victim and threatened to show the photographs to her family if she did not settle the matter by paying her money.
When the victim did not reply, "Nana" threatened her. She warned her not to report to the police, or else Soffian would send people to her house.
Five days later, "Nana" said she was willing to settle the matter if the victim transferred $1,000 to her account. Otherwise, she would post her nude photographs online.
Out of fear, the victim agreed, and managed to reduce the sum by half. The victim transferred $500 using the POSB ATM machine at Yishun MRT station on Sept 4 the same year.
DPP Chen said it was later revealed that Soffian was behind all these messages and had come up with the fictitious character "Nana" to exert pressure on the victim.
He used the money for daily expenses and his drug habit. No restitution was made.
In the other case, the court heard that Mr Muhammad Saiful-din Mansoor, 26, forgot to take his Samsung tablet with him after breakfast at the coffeeshop at Bukit Batok East Avenue 3 on June 2 last year. He later returned to the coffeeshop to look for it but to no avail. He had also tried calling the Tablet but it was switched off.
Soffian claimed he picked up the Tablet from the floor of the coffeeshop and took it home. He sold it to a friend for $50.
Soffian's nine previous convictions over the years included criminal intimidation, cheating and theft.
He could have been jailed for up to seven years and caned for extortion. For misappropriating property, the maximum penalty is two years' jail and a fine.
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