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Journalistic Articles
The Mengele Case
Ben Abraham
Holocaust Survivor, Journalist and Author
In the Lodz Ghetto
Two Weeks in Auschwitz
Labor Camps and Liberation
Hard Work in Israel
Life in Brazil
Miriam Nekrycz
Nazism and Neo-Nazism
Exclusive interview with Simon Wiesenthal in Vienna.
"At 70 years of age, Wiesenthal still 'hunts' Nazis"
Folha da Tarde
Ben Abraham introduces the interview saying he arrived at Wiesenthal's office at the same time he had just been informed of the localization of Franz Gustav Wagner in Sao Paulo, who had served as sub commander of the Sobibor death camp.
Ben Abraham then introduces Simon Wiesenthal, himself a Holocaust survivor from the Mathausen camp in Czechoslovakia, as someone who had abandoned his profession to dedicate exclusively to finding Nazi war criminals.
Wiesenthal defines his missions as collecting data about Nazi war criminals and bring them to Justice. He said he had sworn to himself that, if he survived the war, he would do everything in his power not to allow any Nazi escape unpunished. He said that he was accomplishing his mission even though the Nazi criminals did not receive the death penalty, since it was up to the Justice to decide what would happen to them. But anyway they would face Law, while new facts and accomplices would be brought to light during the inquiries.
Wiesenthal said he did not fear for his life, since it was not more precious than the lives killed by the Nazis, and therefore it would not be just to sell his conscience in exchange for his personal security. He said he did not agree with movements claiming pardon for the Nazis because you cannot forgive someone for a crime that was not committed against you. He also said he absolutely believed the Brazilian government would extradite Wagner, as it had happened in the case of Franz Stangel.
"The crimes have been forgotten. Wagner lives free in Brazil!"
Resenha Judaica
In this article Ben Abraham expresses his disappointment with the Brazilian Supreme Court and its refusal to extradition of Franz Wagner, which had been requested by Western Germany.
He gives a brief summary of what he saw in Nazi concentration camps and questions if justice really exists.
The note mentions Ben Abraham had dedicated his life to spread word about Nazi crimes and the dangers posed by totalitarian regimes. It lists some of his books and the awards he had received, in 1981 and 1982.
It also mentions that he had been officially invited by the German government to do a series of interview with political representatives of several different parties, in order to show the democratic process in that country.
"Ben Abraham testifies against Nazi"
A brief note reports that Ben Abraham had travelled to the German Federal Republic in order to testify at the trial of a Nazi war criminal accused of mass murder of Jews in the Lodz ghetto.
"How can this murderer sleep in Peace?"
In this article Ben Abraham describes his testimony at the trial of Helmut Georg Krizons, accused of hanging and shooting 24 people dead in the Lodz ghetto. He also describes the cold behavior of the defendant during the trial. Ben Abraham observes his declarations at the trial were reproduced by the international media. He closes the article affirming he was wearing kippah when he swore to the judge he was going to speak the truth.
"The Germans have not yet learned the lesson"
During his trip to Germany, Ben Abraham went to visit the headquarters of the German Social Democrat Party, where he interviewed Dr. Klaus Henning Rosen, secretary of former chancellor Willy Brandt. His main topic for the interview was the stance of the youth in Germany at that time in relation to the Nazi crimes during the Holocaust.
Rosen said that the German youth wanted to get rid of the past and the period of time between 1933 and 1945 was not remembered. In the previous year, he said, they had promoted discussions about the issue, but these were strongly criticized by older people, with the claim that subject had already been passed by and that German history had more glorious topic that should be remembered instead. The youth, in their turn, could not understand how their parents allowed all that to happen.
He concluded that generation was not well informed about the Holocaust and therefore they were not prepared to face similar developments if they arose in Germany. However, Rosen believed social laws were efficient in Germany so, despite the economic crisis, it was very unlikely that Nazism should rise again. His main concern was the attacks against foreign workers in Germany, which were very similar to the anti-Jewish campaigns promoted by the Nazis.
"The world has a short memory"
Mentioning the fact that Hitler was elected with 44% of the German votes, Ben Abraham call the attention to Kurt Waldheim, who in a recent election poll had reached 49,64% of the votes for the presidency of Austria.
Ben Abraham gives a summary of Waldheim's career: starting as a volunteer Nazi, he entered the riot police of the SA. After the German defeat in WWII, his career as a Nazi lost importance, as he began to rise in the diplomatic field, becoming Secretary General of the UNO between 1972 and 1981. According to Ben Abraham, Waldheim had the support of the soviet bloc and Yugoslavia to reach that position. He also says that he had been classified as a Class-A war criminal in the UNO files since 1947.
Finally, Ben Abraham observes that it was during Waldheim's tenure as Secretary General that the anti-Zionist vote was approved and that Yasser Arafat made a speech before the Assembly carrying a pistol, despite the fact he did not represent any country.
"Isn't there chastisement for this kind of crime?"
This article criticizes the liberation from prison of former SS captain SS Ferdinand Aus Der Fuenten and ex-sergeant Franz Fischer, who were in charge of the Department of Deportations of the Jews in Amsterdam during the occupation of Holand, based on "humanitarian reasons".
They had been sentenced to death, but the penalty had been changed to life in prison. Now that they were 80 and 87 years old respectively, justice had decided for their liberation.
Ben Abraham argues that genocide is different from murder, and differently from it, that kind of crime does not prescribe. He questions if the Dutch parliament decision can be called humanitarian since the two men had been responsible for the deportation of 12 thousand Jews to the gas chamber, Anne Frank included.
He closes by affirming there is not a enough form of punishment for genocide and that forgiving those two criminal and bringing them back to society equaled to profaning the memory of their victims.
April 21st
"The 100th birthday of Adolf Hitler"
The article mentions that the followers of Nazism, both old and young, had prepared a series of demonstrations to celebrate the 100th birthday of Adolf Hitler.
Echoing the alert giving by Simon Wiesenthal, who had requested the European Parliament to dedicate that date to the victims of Nazism, Ben Abraham argues for the remembrance of the terrible consequences Hitler's regime had brought on Germany and on mankind. He argues that the Jews were not the only victims, but also the Slavs, the Blacks, the Polish, the Czechs, the Russian, the Roma, and the Germans, who had died by millions on the battlefields. The division of Germany into two antagonistic ideologies is also portrayed as a consequence of Hitler's actions and emphasizes all this has to be shown to the world.
Perhaps this way the youth would become aware of the destruction caused by Hitler and his ideology.
"The Danger of Nazism in Latin America"
This article explains the flight of tenths of thousands of war criminals to Latin America in order to escape being brought to justice. According to Ben Abraham, these criminal had large sums of money confiscated during the occupation, and the best option of laundering was investing in German-based companies in that region.
He says those companies had given coverage and jobs to Nazi fugitives during the 1950s and 60s, and now they had developed into large industrial complexes. Closing the article, he asks: What will be the end of all that money in the future?
"The tentacles of Nazism"
This article mentions a TV show in Brazil held on April the same year, in which 5 representatives of a Néo-Nazi cell were invited to speak. According to Ben Abraham, they resembled Nazi officials of the time of the war, and their speech was aimed at denying the atrocities of the German occupation during WWII.
His conclusion is that Nazism is not dead, but only sleeping. He warns that such an anti-Semitic propaganda can achieve its goals at least partially, and therefore people should be made aware of what happened in the Holocaust so that it would not repeat itself.
Sept 26th 1992
"Brazil in the rout of Néo-Nazism"
The article mentions a TV report broadcast in September the same year showing the rise of Néo-Nazi movements in Brazil. Ben Abrahams says he is perplexed to know that this could happen in a democratic and multiracial country such as Brazil, where Néo-nazis had been attacking blacks, Northeasterners, and Jews. He warns that in the 1920s, the Weimar Republic did not pay attention to the first groups of National Socialists, and that in Germany those groups were now persecuting foreigners.
"The propagation of Nazism must be stopped"
Ben Abraham criticizes what he sees as inaction by the German authorities, who are not doing enough to deal with the rise of Néo-Nazism. He mentions two recent incidents in which gangs of skinheads engaged in acts of violence resulting in several dead and wounded. According to Ben Abraham, although the number of Néo-Nazis is around 10 thousand in Germany, part of the Germany population does not reprove their actions, especially against foreigners.
He warns that the Néo-Nazi movement is spreading beyond Germany, and is present in Brazil, where they have become more evident in the past few years, especially due to political instability and the context of democratic freedom.
"'Beruf Neonazi' at Masp"
This article criticizes the movie "Beruf Neonazi", by Winfried Bonengel, which had been exhibited at the Masp museum in Sao Paulo in a cinema fair in October the same year. Ben Abraham argues that the movie is not a warning against Néo-Nazism, but rather a sophisticated way to propagate Nazi ideas and activities through its main character, Ewald Althans, a German Néo-Nazi leader.
He also mentions the repercussion the exhibition had in other Brazilian media and the reaction it caused in the public that watched it, observing that the movie had been banned by German authorities, ironizing the usage of the word "documentary" to classify the movie.
As a new exhibition of the movie was schedule for November, the Sherit Hapleitá association obtained permission to exhibit, right after "Beruf Neonazi", the documentary "Nazismo nunca mais" (Nazism Never More), produced by Ben Abraham. Thus, he said, the second exhibition of the movie in Sao Paulo had been neutralized.
"Traces of Nazism hang around the world"
O Mossorense
This brief article alludes to the prison of Ewald Althans, protagonist of the movie "Beruf Neonazi" and his sentencing to 3 years and 6 months by German authorities. According to Ben Abraham, the judge said there are limits to freedom of expression, which cannot be used to defamation and provocation. Ben Abraham observes that the court's decision had been approved by the German press, but had been criticizes by a few intellectuals, who considered it an aggression to freedom of thought.
... and the World Remained Silent
However, something amazing happened. The more Chaim recounted the past, the calmer he became. He could write and even look at the photographs taken by the Nazis, showing torture and ...
Youth Running with Torah
During the time they remained in the ghettos, the Jews frequently engaged in so-called "illegal" activities, such as smuggling of food, medicines, etc. They also tried to preserve their Jewish ...
Woman and Children - Lodz Ghetto
Tram lines passed through the middle of the Lodz ghetto. Instead of changing the route of the trams, the Germans isolated them with fences, and policemen patrolled them the area ...
Selection at Auschwitz II
A survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau expressed her remembrance of the selection process at Auschwitz: "We needed to show that we still had strength left, to, whether it was to work or ...
The Liberation
The liberation of the Jews from the concentration camps was an experience that coupled both intense joy and intense pain for those involved. The American generals, Patton, Eisenhower, and Bradley ...
Children Eating Soup - Lodz Ghetto
Life in the ghettos was unbearable: there was no food and people were always hungry. In order to maintain those subhuman conditions, Germans would allow the residents to buy ...
Deportation of Jews
Deportation for the Jews often meant immediate death. The Jews were told that they were going for "resettlement to the East" which they soon found to be false. Deportation was ...


There are ten design items that should be considered for designing condensing boiler systems.
In addition to pumping setup, the following top 10 design items should be considered when designing condensing boiler systems.
1. Cost impacts: A condensing boiler has a more expensive initial cost than an equally sized noncondensing boiler. To gain the efficiency benefits, the system must be designed for condensing temperatures.
2. Boiler controls: Purchase and install a boiler management system dedicated to control the boilers to optimize the boiler system efficiency. Running more boilers at lower loads provides better efficiency for condensing boilers.
3. Boiler heat exchanger: Understand the heat exchanger style selected and the potential limitations of the heat exchanger selection. It may require mixing valves and extra pumps to allow condensing to occur only where desired.
4. Flue materials and locations: Individual flues are generally required due to the high variability of airflow and the boilers will require fans to remove the products of combustion out of the building. Coordinate flue materials with the manufacturer selected.
5. Drains required: Condensate drains are needed at the base of the flue stack and the heat exchanger with condensate traps. Coordinate plumbing drainage systems required with the plumbing engineer to confirm the drains are compatible with the acidic condensate.
7. Minimum boiler flow: Generally, some type of minimal flow is required for the boilers. Provide a minimum flow bypass valve or a few three-way valves in the system design to maintain the minimum flow required by the boiler.
8. Pumping arrangements: Some boiler manufacturers prefer to pump into the boiler, and some prefer to pump away from the boiler. Provide variable primary pumping when possible, which always provides lower initial and operating costs. Make sure to include two-way, two-position control valves at each boiler to prevent flow to a boiler when it is not in use.
9. Larger heating coil requirements: Larger, deeper coils will be required with lower hot water supply temperatures. Pay close attention to pressure drops.
10. Follow the manufacturer's instructions: Every boiler manufacturer is different, and not following the installation guidelines could void the warranty. Always confirm the design requirements with the specific boiler manufacturer selected.


Here is a film that works in spite of its director's better intent. Ernest R. Dickerson's The V Word, an episode of the "Masters of Horror" television series, is a violent, thrilling, entertaining, and successful vampire flick that rises above its own failed social commentary. It is clear that Dickerson had better intentions for his film than for it to be a simple exercise of blood and guts: the over-the-top death scenes are a constant reminder of his own blatantly obvious views on violence desensitization, established thoroughly in the first scene of a teenager sitting in front of a television screen, allowing the violent images of a video game to reflect in his long, unblinking stare.
But here excessive violence is representing a somewhat milder but more real-world violence and is being presented to an already desensitized audience, so the persuasive nature of the film has trouble overcoming the fact that the violence is so damn entertaining. Though this does defeat what I can gather is the true purpose of the film, the entertainment provided does mildly distract the viewer from the film's shortcomings, most notably its stagnant second act, which aims to expound the plot but just clutters it with meandering scenes. This is not a plot in need of expansion.
That's because The V Word is carried on a premise simple in design but effective in execution. One night, during a rousing video game session, Justin (Branden Nadon, Agent Cody Banks) asks his friend Kerry (Arjay Smith, The Day After Tomorrow) if he has ever seen a real dead body before. Of course Kerry has not, so the teens venture to the local morgue to catch a glimpse of a real corpse. Among the corpses, the teens find the morgue's owner, Mr. Chaney (Michael Ironside, The Machinist) and discover his secret: He is a real-life vampire.
The morgue interiors provide admirable cinematography and lighting that makes the first half of this sixty-minute film quite impressive. Dark, ugly greens and reds provide patterns on the floors and walls, and the mix of the two colors is nauseating, which would be considered a desired effect for this film. Once the vampire makes his appearance, the shadows that he casts on the walls as he reaches out for the boys is reminiscent of Nosferatu and the German Expressionist movement of that time.
However, at the start of the second act, the action moves from the morgue to Justin's house, which is not nearly as cleverly painted or lighted, the movie's pace slows to a painful lurch. Justin, having been bitten and showing signs of turning, stalks around the house while Kerry, freshly turned, is lurking around the outside. There is little chemistry between the actors to begin with, and their interaction and ineffectiveness during the scenes that make up the middle of the movie makes for an even slower act two. Instead of more action scenes, these scenes inside Justin's home manage to waste an already short runtime.
Thankfully there is a stronger third act to this film, one that provides the most entertainment because it provides some of the best bloodshed. For a film shot on a presumably shorter budget than a feature film and meant for a television audience, the effects that Sarah Graham manages with her team of special effects makeup artists is truly remarkable. Blood pours from the necks of vampires and humans alike, and the final death of the movie is one of the most glorious and satisfying endings that I've seen in quite some time, if only because of how simply gruesome it is. It almost seems effortless. If the film didn't meander on afterward for ten more minutes, it would have certainly been the perfect conclusion.
I have not had the privilege of watching each entry into the "Masters of Horror" series, so to compare this episode against previous ones would contain too much ignorance. On its own, The V Word is a thrilling and engaging triumph of putrid horror and ghoulish shock. Beneath the buckets of blood is the film's true purpose, a persuasive undertone that is lost to the copious amounts of gore that provide more entertainment than enlightenment. Although The V Word fails in its better intentions, it does provide sixty-minutes of sheer excitement, and to the desensitized audience, the result could not be bloody better.
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Galaxy S8 vs. iPhone 7 Plus speed test: It's not even close
By: Anna K. Sasaki
Last week we showed you one of the first real world speed test videos to pit the new Galaxy S8 against the reigning speed champion, Apple's iPhone 7 Plus. Unfortunately, we also explained why it was one of the worst speed test videos we had ever seen. None of these YouTube speed test videos are scientific, of course, but some tests are far more controlled than others. In this particular test, the narrator just tapped a bunch of apps and tried to eyeball which one opened faster each time.
We were still waiting for some of the more experienced YouTube gadget vloggers to share their speed test results, and now we have a much better test to share. And to be quite frank, the results are shocking.
Each year when new flagship Android phones are released, tech fans scratch their heads as they fail to best Apple's iPhones. On paper, iPhones have much less impressive specs, and yet Apple always manages to deliver the smoothest possible user experience time and time again.
This year, Samsung's new Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ completely crush Apple's iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus in terms of multi-core benchmark tests, though they still lagged behind Apple in single-core tests. In theory, that should mean Samsung's new phones might be slower than iPhones at simple tasks, but the new Galaxy S8 phones should be clear leaders when it comes to heavy lifting like launching games and rendering 4K video. According to the results of a new real world speed test from YouTuber EverythingApplePro, that's not the case at all.
The speed test video below shows the Galaxy S8 pitted against the iPhone 7 Plus in a number of different ways. While the competition is close at times, it's not close at all in the long run. The most interesting parts of the video show that Apple's iPhone 7 Plus is much faster than the Galaxy S8 when it comes to things like rendering 4K video and launching graphics-heavy games. Anyone who had seen earlier multi-core benchmark tests would certainly have expected the opposite to be the case.
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Poway Unveils Tony Gwynn Memorial Design
People packed the Poway Center for the Performing Arts Friday for the fundraiser
By Omari Fleming and Ben Rosehart • Published April 1, 2016 • Updated on April 2, 2016 at 3:48 pm
The City of Poway is one step closer to immortalizing the memory of baseball player Tony Gwynn after holding a benefit concert to jumpstart fundraising efforts for the Tony Gwynn memorial.
People packed the Poway Center for the Performing Arts Friday for the fundraiser, rocking out to music and listening to former Padres' pitcher Trevor Hoffman and other San Diego athletes share stories about Gwynn.
Residents raised $90,724 to build a statue honoring Gwynn. The beloved former Padres player died in June 2014 after battling cancer and called Poway home.
"Poway is like a safe haven for him. When he came home to Poway, he didn't have to worry about anything. It's so nice they honored him with a statue here because it kind of tops off everything to keep his legacy going on," said Alycia Gwynn, his wife.
The celebration honoring Poway's hometown hero included a live auction featuring unique Gwynn memorabilia as well as an opportunity to be recognized on the memorial's donor wall. Gwynn's former Padres teammates Hoffman and Mark Grant plan to share memories of the hometown slugger and former Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman also attended.
"There's going to be some facts there about Tony, the man, what he did in the community. It's not just the ball player, its' what he represented as a human being. He blessed this community and were' going to bless him right back," said Poway Mayor Steve Vaus.
Vaus says Tony Gwynn's statue should be in place hopefully by this fall.
Donations may also be made by clicking here. All proceeds directly fund the Tony Gwynn memorial.


FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 13, 2018--Broward Health has named Kim Braxl Cole, CPA, as chief financial officer of Broward Health North.
In her position as CFO, Cole will be responsible for directing the coordination of onsite financial services to ensure sound fiscal management of Broward Health North. She will work closely with the leadership team to further cultivate an environment of operational efficiency and strong financial results.
With more than 20 years of financial experience in the healthcare services industry, Cole most recently served as controller of Delray Medical Center. During her tenure, she led a cost-savings initiative as a member of the operations committee that realized an annual savings of almost half a million dollars. She also implemented corporate initiatives that resulted in $2.4 million in budgeted savings.
Prior to that, Cole served as vice president and controller at CareGuide in Coral Springs and was also manager of financial services at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale.
Cole has a Bachelor of Science in both accounting and finance from Florida State University.


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Keeping yourself up to date on the latest technologies is also a part of your job, that's why we have a 'masteryday' every three weeks. This is one full day where you can work on your own skills. This can be a topic from one of our learning modules for understanding our standards and way-of-work or a self-chosen topic within your expertise.
Our engineers work in multi-disciplinary teams based on the Agile methodology and DevOps principles. We adopted the 'Spotify' model, which means that you are part of a matrix organization. You work in your squad but are also part of a chapter, an expertise-focused group that shares knowledge and creates and governs standards. Your chapter will be 'Data Processing'.
You are an enthusiastic, motivated engineer who likes to work in a team, improve processes within the team and servicing other teams. Innovating to do things smarter and continuous personal development are in your engineering DNA. Your goal in the end is to make yourself redundant! Rather than repeatedly solving the same incidents, you solve the problems behind and automate work to create time to take on other engineering challenges to further develop yourself as an engineer.
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We all know when it comes to our dogs, if we treat them right, loyalty is rewarded... So we thought we would do the same with our very own loyalty scheme!
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Simply share the link with a friend or on social media. Your friend uses the referral offer and once they have completed their order, you receive a reward back!
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Members will be removed from the programme after 1 year's inactivity.
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Norm, who lives at the Moldaw Residences in Palo Alto, participates in the Music and Memory program. (Courtesy Moldaw)
Personal playlists help stimulate memory at Palo Alto senior home
By Maya Mirsky | January 3, 2020
Music touches people, says Gena Brigham, lifestyles director at Moldaw Residences in Palo Alto.
"It motivates. It inspires," she says. "It moves people. It makes them feel directed."
That's why the dozen seniors in the memory-care section of Moldaw are now involved in the Music and Memory program, which helps senior-care centers set up MP3 players with playlists customized for each resident — bringing them their favorite melodies in order to stimulate their brains.
Mabelle Pumaras, assistant director of lifestyles at the continuing-care community, says she's seen the effects firsthand, such as with an older woman who gets confused and distressed.
"The moment we put the headphones on, she dances through her hands," Pumaras says.
Music and Memory was founded in 2006 in New York by Dan Cohen, and has since expanded to a dozen countries. It's based on research that shows music is deeply connected to memory at the neural level. Personal connections can evoke strong memories and help ward off anxiety, depression and agitation for patients suffering from Alzheimer's or dementia.
The moment we put the headphones on, she dances through her hands.
Experts say that a favorite song associated with a pleasant memory can actually stimulate the parts of the brain that recall past events. The Music and Memory process involves setting up a personalized playlist for a senior, with music they know and have a strong connection to. For people with dementia, that often means asking their families.
"We really do rely on families to help us remember what [their loved ones] were listening to," Brigham says.
For one Moldaw resident, that meant finding music in her first languages. It wasn't easy, but the result has been rewarding, Brigham says.
"She's listening to French music and Spanish music," Brigham says. "And that's wonderful for her."
Each resident has their own player and playlist, and it's up to them to decide if they want to listen or not. However, staff members often suggest using the device, for example, when a patient seems upset.
"That's an opportunity to say, 'Hey, let's get out your iPod and listen to some music,'" Brigham says.
Moldaw already used music as a tool before the Music and Memory program started in March, and staff are well aware of its power.
"Music can make you happy. It can evoke nostalgia," Brigham says. "Sometimes it can be very emotional."
According to Arielle Hendel, development director at Moldaw, Music and Memory is funded through a three-year grant from the Association of Jewish Aging Services. (AJAS also supports Opening Minds Through Art, a weekly program in which 9th– and 10th-graders from Meira Academy, an all-girls Jewish school in Palo Alto, and Stanford University Hospital volunteers from join Moldaw residents to do art.)
Brigham says she hopes the Music and Memory program can be expanded to other sections of Moldaw so more seniors can take advantage of the mind-stimulating power of their own favorites songs.
"It's definitely something we're talking about," she says.
Maya Mirsky
Maya Mirsky is a J. Staff Writer based in Oakland.
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Il singolare del torneo di tennis Copa Ericsson Brazil 2 1991, facente parte dell'ATP Challenger Series, ha avuto come vincitore Fernando Roese che ha battuto in finale Gabriel Markus 6-4, 6-3.

Teste di serie

 Gabriel Markus (finale)
 Fernando Roese (Campione)
 José Daher (secondo turno)
 Maurice Ruah (primo turno)

 Steve Bryan (semifinali)
 Miguel Nido (semifinali)
 T. J. Middleton (quarti di finale)
 Luis Lobo (quarti di finale)

Tabellone

Finale

Parte alta

Parte bassa

Collegamenti esterni

Copa Ericsson Brazil 1991

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I've spent a considerable amount of time thinking about how I wanted to write this post. A couple people asked me about it, and even after all this time thinking about it, I still don't know what to say. So I'm just going to write as it comes and from the heart.
Garrett and I met in Grand Rapids, when I was still living there. I always loved to go see music, and would frequent the venues that allowed students under 21. My friends would usually recognize a band and we would all rally and make a night of it.I happen to find myself talking to the opening band (Giant Panda Gorilla Dub Squad) when Garrett approached me and asked if I wanted to come on the bus with my friends. Even writing this I am smiling. His was (is) so suave, handsome grinning ear to ear, and tall. My first impressions. I also didn't quite know he was the guy I just danced my booty off to for the last hour and a half. There isn't much to say about that night, other than the fact that I was enamored from the moment he walked up to me. We said our good byes that night and met again the next year. The next year he was playing a festival my friends were planning on going to. I met up with him and of course all previous feelings I had toward him came flooding back. I guess you could say this was the start to on going relationship. I was still living in Michigan at this point, but flew to see him a couple times. It wasn't until I moved to New York City after being scouted to be a model, that we really started dating. I was 18 at the time, and so overwhelmed with fast pace and newness of the big city. Garrett started taking me out, and taking me with him when he traveled. I never wanted to be apart. Of course, in all things in life, there were a few ugly hurtles we had to navigate. But I took the time to do some traveling on my own to London and France. I lived and thrived while I was away, but when I came back, our hearts needed to reconnect and we did once again. Eventually there would be Lewis. And then there was navigating an unexpected joy, and challenge. We quickly said good-bye to what life used to be and with compromise, patience, and grace were able to make it through the first year of Lewis's life together as a family. I'd be lying if I said It was easy. It most certainly was not and we fought for eachother and the potential of a lovely family.
All relationships are different. So I don't think I could say one particular thing that led us to where we are today. It was a combination of our personalities that seemed to equal each other out. . I fell in love with so much of his personality too. His dreams were my dreams. And as our dreams evolved, they evolved together and we were able to achieve them together.
Grace is a big attribute I think we both have. When one of us messes up, disagrees, or doesn't live up to the other expectation, we practice grace. "It's ok I love you".
Confrontation is key. I think one thing that helps in our relationship is that we are completely honest with each other. If I feel a certain way, he's going to know and vice versa. There is no underlying tension or things that are left unsaid. I think a civil argument is healthy. As long as you can agree to disagree, or eventually work it out.
Attraction. Physical and spiritual. I was attracted to him then, and nothing has changed. People talk about a "fire". I had that with Garrett. There was always something special about my attraction to him. The butterflies, the quickened pulse, cheesy smile plastered on my face when I'm around him. Never feeling like I have enough time with him. You know when you meet someone. At least I did. And you know they are the ones when none of these feelings go away.
Like I said, our story isn't done being written yet. It's not perfect, and it will always be work, but I hope that as we go through things in life, I can write about them and how we handle each one. Parenthood, moving, new endeavors, dreams, travel. Life..


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ExxonMobil scales up plastic recycling in Texas
ExxonMobil (NYS:XOM) said Monday it'll build its first large-scale plastic waste recycling facility in Baytown, Texas to go into operation at the end of 2022. The facility will rank among North America's largest plastic waste recycling facilities, with capacity of 30,000 metric tons of plastic waste per year. ExxonMobil Chemical Co. president Karen McKee said the company is scaling up recycling after it set up a smaller, temporary facility that's producing commercial volumes of polymers. The oil giant plans to build about 500,000 metric tons of advanced recycling capacity globally over the next five years including a site in Notre Dame de Gravenchon, France, plus it's assessing sites in the Netherlands, the U.S. Gulf Coast, Canada, and Singapore. It's also set up a joint venture with Agilyx Corp. and Cyclyx International LLC to boost its recycling efforts. Shares of Exxon Mobile are up about 51% this year, compared to a rise of nearly 17% by the S&P 500 (S&P:SPX) .


But Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance remained optimistic about the exchange's performance throughout the 'crypto winter'. Though trading volumes dropped to a tenth of what it started with in 2018, the company was still trading above what it had traded two years before, according to Zhao.
Bitcoin's price has improved over the last few weeks from a selling price of $3,860 at the first week of March to $4,021, at the time of writing. Even so, it is yet to be seen whether its value will climb to the $20,000 mark as predicted by market bulls, or become a less talked about event as the year goes on.


You want to spend less time entering data into a computer so you can spend more time with your patients.
And so, inevitably, you're looking at Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 speech recognition software.
But it has to work with your electronic medical reports system.
And you don't have the time or the patience to deal with a glitchy experience.
So here's what we have been able to discover about which of the electronic medical records systems popular in Canada that Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 works best with.
First – Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 works well with pretty much every popular mainstream Canadian EMR (electronic medical records software) other than Wolf EMR.
Wolf EMR is a cloud based product of Telus Health. Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 does not have good compatibility with it. The software still works, however you cannot dictate directly into Wolf as you can with most of the other EMRs out there.
Secondly – Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 works best with non-cloud based EMRs. So basically, if you have one of the many non-cloud based EMRs popular across Canada then you're golden.
It even works with French EMRs.
And it is the only medical voice recognition software that is EMR compatible.
Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 has medical vocabularies that covers nearly 90 specialties, "out of the box" recognition of regional accents that is enhanced by the software's ability to learn through advanced adaptation techniques and accent-specific acoustic models.
You can use it to fill out templates, write reports and dictate notes on the go.
Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 will still work with cloud-based EMRs popular in Canada – it just struggles with certain templates so you can't take advantage of its more advanced features. However, anywhere you would see a blinking cursor on your cloud based EMR, you can still enter data using Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2.
One of the interesting things about EMRs across Canada is that they are fairly region specific.
So if you're a doctor in Toronto, there's a good chance you'll be using Accuro.
While a surgeon in Halifax is quite likely using Practimax.
Here's a brief alphabetical look at some of the most popular Canadian EMRs so you can make your own choices.
ABELMed is built on the Windows platform and provides a complete range of electronic medical record capabilities and practice management features.
It integrates seamlessly with Dragon Medical to save you time and money. Record voice files on-the-go, in your clinic or at the hospital. Voice files are quickly converted to text and loaded directly into your patient encounters through integration with ABELMed.
It features a patient manager that monitors wait times and visit time, lab and prescription modules.
It allows you to easier track patient trends by graphing their vitals.
It also helps with you effectively manage chronic disease patients with customizable flow sheets that track the status of their conditions, customize clinical/administrative parameters for disease tracking, receive alerts for abnormal values and receive notification if the recommended intervals for follow up are missed.
AccuroEMR works seamlessly with Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2 and while spreading across Canada, it is currently most popular with doctors in Ontario.
A lot of smaller practices, ranging from three to five doctors, use this EMR.
It is essentially a suite of medical software modules that provides computer-based medical records for Specialist, Primary Care, and Allied Health Professionals, as well as administrative modules for billing and patient scheduling.
Accuro EMR software provides electronic storage and instant availability of clinical information to authorized users at the point of care.
It also has over 500 premade form templates ready to go and allows you to create, manage and track prescriptions.
CIS EMR by P&P Data Systems Inc.
This full suite EMR incorporates modules to handle prescriptions, laboratory results, inventory and scheduling.
Templates and quick entry codes allow you to document a visit quickly and efficiently with just a few clicks or keystrokes.
Data is collected from your patient's labs, immunization history, active drugs, and more, in order to create a complete cumulative patient profile so you can see all your patient's crucial medical information at a glance.
Despite ongoing efforts to increase electronic communication, much of today's medical information is still coming in on paper or fax. The Paperclip module helps your clinic manage all these pieces of paper that crosses your desk. Using powerful scanning technology, the system will identify and file each document into the appropriate patient's file or section of CIS automatically.
Clinisys EMR is a web-based software application built for various types and sizes of medical clinics to create and manage patient electronic medical records.
It handles scheduling, billing, email alerts, sms messaging, e-prescription, e-referral, e-billing and patient records. It works on mobile devices and is extendable to third party software and devices.
EMR Advantage is a fully integrated electronic medical records system that allows physicians to perform all standard practice related tasks.
EMR Advantage supports small, medium and multi-location practices in managing all patient, 3rd party, and hospital billing.
Flow sheets available within EMR Advantage allow physicians to closely monitor chronic care patients without devoting a substantial amount of time to data collection.
Incorporated within the EMR Advantage application is the ability to track performed services and add exclusion and bonus codes for procedures included within the Cumulative Preventative Care program. EMR Advantage generates eligibility lists, first and second contact letters and virtually manages preventative care programs for physicians.
Other features include: schedule management, electronic lab results, prescription management, letter generation, auto-generated tasks, hospital reports, custom forms, cumulative patient profile, billing, follow-up, and wait lists, consult requests, lab results mapping, callback generation, referral result letters, chart lock security and transcription templates.
Like the most other EMRs, MOIS handles both sides of the practice – medical and business.
accounts receivable, billing summary reports, MSP billing, WCB billing, custom reports and schedules are all handled by MOIS.
On the medical side, it handles encounter notes, prescriptions and labels, health issues history, allergies, past procedures, consultation and referral reports.
Its clinical calculators allow for the automatic uptake of necessary values form the medical record to calculate body mass index (BMI), predicted peak expiratory flow, gestational age, cardiac risk, and other indicators.
Based in Nova Scotia, Practimax works on PC's running any Windows operating system, Mac's, Windows Tablets, Android Tablets and iPads.
It also well with Dragon Medical Practice Edition 2.
Practimax comes with over 250 Nova Scotia specific Smart Forms pre-loaded.
It offers automated patient appointment confirmation and alert services via phone and text messaging, one chart at a glance convenience. As well, it makes it easier to create prescriptions.
Practimax advertises that its IT managers will work with customers to create customized templates and charts to suit each practice's needs.
Profile is an integrated Practice Management and EMR designed by Canadian physicians, MOAs and administrative staff for use in Canada.
Profile is available in Office and Enterprise editions, stand-a-lone, ASP or centralized, so it can be customized to the needs of solo physicians, large corporate entities or health authorities with thousands of users.
Profile helps manage appointments, encounter notes, medical records, lab results, billing, referrals etc. Basically, it aims to take you one big step closer to being a paperless office.
The YMS EMR is specifically designed for specialists running a specialized practice.
It is smartphone and Mac compatible.
Standard features of YMS include, an uncluttered user interface, electronic prescribing and refill management, electronic labs, lab graphing incorporating medication use, personalized patient alerts, flowsheets to follow trends, print on any form, auto-populating of notes and reports, OLIS Integration, HRM integration, lab requisition and reconciliation management, role based security and task management.
This list is by no means an exhaustive list of the EMRs that are compatible and integrate with Dragon Medical, for that you will have to click here, but it does provide a good snapshot of which of Canadas' most commonly used EMRs are used with Dragon most often.


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180.1703(1) (1) Except as provided in sub. (2), any domestic corporation with capital stock, regardless of when it was organized and whether for profit or not, but a domestic corporation organized under provisions other than those in this chapter and corresponding prior general corporation laws is subject to this chapter only to the extent that it is not inconsistent with those provisions.
180.1703(2) (2) Any domestic corporation with capital stock but not organized for profit that was organized before July 1, 1953, under the general corporation laws or any special statute or law of this state and that has not elected to be subject to ch. 181, only to the extent that the provisions of this chapter are not inconsistent with the articles of incorporation or form of organization of the domestic corporation or with any provisions elsewhere in the statutes or under any special law relating to the domestic corporation.
180.1703 History History: 1989 a. 303.
180.1704 180.1704 Application to foreign corporations. Except as provided in s. 180.1708, this chapter applies to all foreign corporations transacting business in this state on or after January 1, 1991. The enactment of this chapter does not require a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state on January 1, 1991, to obtain a new certificate of authority under subch. XV.
180.1704 Annotation As evidenced by the enactment of this section, the state has an interest in having its laws applied to corporations, and their officers and directors, transacting business within the state. Beloit Liquidating Trust v. Grade, 2004 WI 39, 270 Wis. 2d 356, 677 N.W.2d 298, 02-2035.
180.1705 180.1705 Existing preemptive rights preserved. Section 180.0630 does not apply to shares of a preexisting class. Except to the extent limited or denied by this section or by the articles of incorporation, shareholders of shares of a preexisting class have a preemptive right to acquire unissued shares or securities convertible into unissued shares or carrying a right to subscribe to or acquire shares. Unless otherwise provided in the articles of incorporation, all of the following apply to shareholders of shares of a preexisting class:
180.1705(1) (1) No preemptive rights exist to acquire any of the following:
180.1705(1)(a) (a) Any shares issued to directors, officers or employees pursuant to approval by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares entitled to vote thereon or when authorized by and consistent with a plan approved by such a vote of shareholders.
180.1705(1)(b) (b) Any shares, convertible securities or rights issued for a consideration other than cash.
180.1705(1)(c) (c) Treasury shares.
180.1705(2) (2) Holders of shares of any class that is preferred or limited as to dividends or assets are not entitled to any preemptive right.
180.1705(3) (3) Holders of shares of common stock are not entitled to any preemptive right to shares of any class that is preferred or limited as to dividends or assets or to any obligations, unless convertible into shares of common stock or carrying a right to subscribe to or acquire shares of common stock.
180.1705(4) (4) Holders of common stock without voting power shall have no preemptive right to shares of common stock with voting power.
180.1705(5) (5) The preemptive right is only an opportunity to acquire shares or other securities under such terms and conditions as the board of directors may fix for the purpose of providing a fair and reasonable opportunity for the exercise of such right.
180.1705 History History: 1989 a. 303; 1991 a. 16.
180.1706 180.1706 Certain voting requirements preserved.
180.1706(1)(1) Except to the extent that the corporation's articles of incorporation are amended to provide that the voting requirements of s. 180.1003 (3), 180.1103 (3), 180.1202 (3), 180.1402 (3) or 180.1404 (2) apply, subs. (2) and (3) govern the shareholder vote required on a proposal concerning a subject covered by s. 180.1003 (3), 180.1103 (3), 180.1202 (3), 180.1402 (3) or 180.1404 (2) if the corporation was organized before January 1, 1973, and has not expressly elected, before January 1, 1991, majority or greater affirmative voting requirements under s. 180.25 (2) (a), 1987 stats., with respect to the subject matter of the proposal.
180.1706(2) (2) Except as provided in sub. (3), in lieu of the vote required by s. 180.1003 (3), 180.1103 (3), 180.1202 (3), 180.1402 (3) or 180.1404 (2), whichever is applicable to the subject matter of a proposal, a proposal described in sub. (1) must be approved as follows:
180.1706(2)(a) (a) By the affirmative vote of the holders of two-thirds of the shares entitled to vote on the proposal, unless par. (b) applies.
180.1706(2)(b) (b) If any class or series of shares is entitled to vote on the proposal as a class, by the affirmative vote of all of the following:
180.1706(2)(b)1. 1. The holders of two-thirds of the shares of each class of shares and of each series entitled to vote as a class.
180.1706(2)(b)2. 2. The holders of two-thirds of the total shares entitled to vote on the proposal.
180.1706(3) (3) Whenever, with respect to a proposal described in sub. (1), the articles of incorporation require the vote or concurrence of the holders of a greater proportion of the shares, or of any class or series of shares, than is required by sub. (2), the provisions of the articles of incorporation shall control.
180.1706(4) (4) If a corporation has a bylaw in effect on December 31, 1990, that establishes a greater shareholder voting requirement than one required under this chapter, that voting requirement applies until the bylaw is amended or repealed.
180.1706 History History: 1989 a. 303; 1991 a. 16, 173.
180.1707 180.1707 Certain class voting rights preserved.
180.1707(1)(1) Sections 180.1004 and 180.1103 (4) (a) do not apply to shares of a preexisting class if a corporation in existence on January 1, 1991 provides in its articles of incorporation that subs. (2) and (3), in lieu of ss. 180.1004 and 180.1103, govern whether shares of a preexisting class are entitled to vote as a class on a proposed amendment to the articles of incorporation or plan of merger.
180.1707(2) (2)
180.1707(2)(a)(a) The holders of the outstanding shares of a preexisting class subject to this subsection may vote as a class upon a proposed amendment to the articles of incorporation, whether or not entitled to vote thereon by the articles of incorporation, if the amendment would do any of the following with respect to that class:
180.1707(2)(a)1. 1. Increase or decrease the aggregate number of authorized shares of the class, except a decrease of authorized but unissued shares of the class.
180.1707(2)(a)2. 2. Effect an exchange, reclassification or cancellation of all or part of the shares of the class, except a reclassification of unissued shares or treasury shares into shares of a subordinate and inferior class or a cancellation thereof.
180.1707(2)(a)3. 3. Effect or require an exchange or conversion, or create a right of exchange or conversion, of all or any part of the shares of another class into the shares of the class.
180.1707(2)(a)4. 4. Change in a manner prejudicial to the holders of outstanding shares of the class, the designations, preferences, limitations or relative rights of the shares of the class or of any other class.
180.1707(2)(a)5. 5. Change the shares of the class into a different number of shares of the same class or into the same or a different number of shares of another class or classes.
180.1707(2)(a)6. 6. Create a new class or enlarge an existing class of shares having rights or preferences prior or superior to the shares of the class, or increase the rights or preferences of any class having rights or preferences prior or superior to the shares of the class.
180.1707(2)(a)7. 7. In the case of a preferred or special class of shares, divide the shares of the class into series and fix and determine the designation of the series and the variations in the relative rights and preferences between the shares of the series, or authorize the board of directors to fix and determine the designation and the relative rights and preferences of authorized but unissued shares of the series.
180.1707(2)(a)8. 8. Limit or deny any existing preemptive rights of the shares of the class.
180.1707(2)(a)9. 9. Cancel or otherwise affect dividends on the shares of the class which have accrued but have not been declared.
180.1707(2)(a)10. 10. Authorize the payment of a dividend in shares of the class.
180.1707(2)(b) (b) Whenever an amendment described in par. (a) shall affect the holders of shares of one or more but not all of the series of any preferred or special class of shares of a preexisting class that are at the time outstanding, the holders of the outstanding shares of the series affected thereby shall for the purposes of this section be considered a separate class and entitled to vote as a class on such amendment.
180.1707(3) (3) Shares of a preexisting class subject to this subsection may vote as a class on a plan of merger if the plan of merger contains any provision which, if contained in a proposed amendment to the articles of incorporation, would entitle the shares of a preexisting class to vote as a class.
180.1708 180.1708 Applicability of various provisions.
180.1708(1)(1) Filing duty; appeal. Sections 180.0125 and 180.0126 apply to a document delivered to the department for filing on or after January 1, 1991.
180.1708(2) (2) Distributions to shareholders. Section 180.0640 applies to a distribution authorized by the board of directors on or after January 1, 1991.
180.1708(3) (3) Special shareholders' meeting. Section 180.0702 (1) (b) and (2) applies to a demand for a special meeting of shareholders that is delivered to the corporation on or after January 1, 1991.
180.1708(3m) (3m) Derivative proceedings. Sections 180.0741 to 180.0747 apply to a derivative proceeding, as defined in s. 180.0740 (2), that is commenced on or after January 1, 1991.
180.1708(4) (4) Amendment or restatement.
180.1708(4)(a) (a) Sections 180.1003, 180.1004 and 180.1007 (3) apply to an amendment to or restatement of the articles of incorporation requiring shareholder approval about which notice of a shareholders' meeting is delivered on or after January 1, 1991.
180.1708(4)(b) (b) Sections 180.1006 and 180.1007 (4) apply to articles of amendment or restatement for any of the following:
180.1708(4)(b)1. 1. An amendment or restatement adopted by the board of directors or incorporators on or after January 1, 1991.
180.1708(4)(b)2. 2. An amendment or restatement requiring shareholder approval about which a notice of a shareholders' meeting is delivered on or after January 1, 1991.
180.1708(5) (5) Mergers. Sections 180.1101 and 180.1103 to 180.1106 apply to a merger, and ss. 180.1301 to 180.1331 apply to dissenters' rights arising from a merger, for which a plan of merger is approved by the board of directors on or after January 1, 1991.
180.1708(6) (6) Sale of assets. Section 180.1202 applies to a sale, lease, exchange or other disposition of property requiring shareholder approval, and ss. 180.1301 to 180.1331 apply to dissenters' rights arising from a sale, lease, exchange or other disposition of property requiring shareholder approval, that is approved by the board of directors on or after January 1, 1991.
180.1708(7) (7) Dissolution.
180.1708(7)(a)(a) Sections 180.1401 to 180.1404 apply to a dissolution authorized as follows:
180.1708(7)(a)1. 1. By the incorporators or board of directors under s. 180.1401 on or after January 1, 1991.
180.1708(7)(a)2. 2. By the shareholders, if the corporation delivers notice of the shareholders' meeting under s. 180.1402 (2) on or after January 1, 1991.
180.1708(7)(b) (b) Sections 180.1420, 180.1421 and 180.1423 apply to an administrative dissolution based on grounds arising under s. 180.1420 on or after January 1, 1991.
180.1708(7)(bm) (bm) Sections 180.1422 and 180.1423 apply to an administrative dissolution before, on or after January 1, 1991.
180.1708(7)(c) (c) Sections 180.1430 to 180.1433 apply to a judicial dissolution based on a cause of action arising under s. 180.1430 on or after January 1, 1991.
180.1708(8) (8) Revocation of certificate of authority.
180.1708(8)(a) (a) Except as provided in par. (b), ss. 180.1530 (1), 180.1531 and 180.1532 apply to an administrative revocation based on grounds arising under s. 180.1530 (1) on or after January 1, 1991.
180.1708(8)(b) (b) Sections 180.1530 (2) and 180.1531 (2) (b) and (3) to (5) apply to a judicial revocation under s. 946.87 of which the department is notified under s. 180.1530 (2) on or after January 1, 1991. Section 180.1531 (2) (c) applies to a revocation based on grounds arising before, on or after January 1, 1991.
180.1708 History History: 1989 a. 303, 359; 1991 a. 173, 269; 1995 a. 27; 1997 a. 27; 2003 a. 321.
subch. XVIII of ch. 180 SUBCHAPTER XVIII
STATUTORY CLOSE CORPORATIONS
180.1801 180.1801 Applicability.
180.1801(1)(1) Sections 180.1801 to 180.1837 apply to a corporation if its articles of incorporation state that the corporation is a close corporation under ss. 180.1801 to 180.1837.
180.1801(2) (2) Except as provided in sub. (3), if an election is made to be a statutory close corporation, ss. 180.1801 to 180.1837 control in the event of conflict with other sections of this chapter.
180.1801(3) (3) If a service corporation organized under ss. 180.1901 to 180.1921 elects to be a statutory close corporation, ss. 180.1901 to 180.1921 control in the event of conflict with ss. 180.1801 to 180.1837.
180.1801 Annotation The enactment of the statutory close corporation statutes did not preempt existing common law rights, and those statutes do not provide exclusive remedies for close corporations. Jorgensen v. Water Works, Inc. 218 Wis. 2d 761, 582 N.W.2d 98 (Ct. App. 1998), 97-1729.
180.1803 180.1803 Election. A corporation organized under this chapter and having 50 or fewer shareholders at the time of election may become a statutory close corporation by amending its articles of incorporation to include the statement required under s. 180.1801. The amendment shall be approved by the holders of at least two-thirds of the votes of each class or series of shares of the corporation, voting as separate voting groups, whether or not otherwise entitled to vote on amendments. If the amendment is approved, a shareholder who did not vote in favor of the amendment is entitled to assert dissenters' rights under ss. 180.1301 to 180.1331.
180.1805 180.1805 Share transfer restrictions. No interest in shares of a statutory close corporation may be transferred without the written consent of all shareholders holding voting stock, unless the interest is transferred in any of the following circumstances:
180.1805(1) (1) As provided in s. 180.1807.
180.1805(2) (2) To the corporation or to any other holder of the same class or series of shares.
180.1805(3) (3) To members of the shareholder's immediate family, or to a trust, all of whose beneficiaries are members of the holder's immediate family. In this subsection, "shareholder's immediate family" means the shareholder's spouse, parents, lineal descendants, including any adopted children and stepchildren, and the spouse of any lineal descendants, and brothers and sisters.
180.1805(4) (4) To a personal representative on the death of a shareholder or to a trustee or receiver as the result of a bankruptcy, insolvency, dissolution or similar proceeding brought by or against a shareholder.
180.1805(5) (5) By merger or share exchange that becomes effective under ss. 180.1101 to 180.1106 or a share exchange of existing shares for other shares of a different class or series in the corporation.
180.1805(6) (6) By a pledge as collateral for a loan that does not grant the pledgee any voting rights possessed by the pledgor.
180.1805(7) (7) After termination of the corporation's status as a statutory close corporation.
180.1805(8) (8) As otherwise provided in the corporation's articles of incorporation or in an agreement among shareholders under s. 180.1823.
180.1805 History History: 1989 a. 303; 1991 a. 16; 2003 a. 321.
180.1807 180.1807 Transfer after corporation's first refusal.
180.1807(1)(1) Notice of 3rd-party offer. A person desiring to transfer shares in a transaction without the consent described in s. 180.1805 (intro.) and that is not exempt under s. 180.1805 (2) to (8) shall obtain a written and signed offer from a 3rd party to purchase the shares for cash and shall deliver to the statutory close corporation written notice and a copy of the 3rd-party offer. The notice shall comply with s. 180.0141 and shall state the number and kind of shares, the offering price, the other material terms of the offer and the name and address of the 3rd-party offeror. No transfer may be made to a 3rd party unless all of the following conditions are met:
180.1807(1)(a) (a) The 3rd party is eligible to become a qualified shareholder under any federal or state tax statute that the corporation has elected to be subject to and the 3rd party agrees in writing not to take any action to terminate the election without the approval of the remaining shareholders.
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Q: KineticJS: make dropped elements be draggable as a Kinetic.Group Well.. so it's the same problem that I face with Kinetic.Group. I tried several things to make this work, but always the same result: it does not work, and even worse, the basic drag and drop functionality disappears!
I already know how to do this inside one container, the difficulty comes when I try to adapt it to the drag and drop from DOM to container. After the drop, I need the images and shapes to be moved all together. That's why I created a group for each item and made it draggable.
This is the fiddle I'm changing to make the dropped elements in the canvas, be draggable as a whole group (the non-working fiddle) http://jsfiddle.net/gkefk/15/. What is wrong with this code?
PS1: this one is the main functionality of drag and drop http://jsfiddle.net/gkefk/14/ which I'm editing.
PS2: I'm a beginner, so if you find "stupidities" in that code, please report.

A: A simple guide how to get what you want out of this:
Get rid of jQuery and start over.
1. Create a new Stage
2. Create two layers, one taking up the left half of the Stage, the other the right half.
3. put all your objects on the left side, make them clone-able on mousedown and fire the drag event so you can place them in the other layer on mouse up.
4. if your item is a rectangle - I'm assuming this is a group which is will have children, create a new group, and a rectangle inside it, place it in the right layer on drop.
5. if your item is a house, check for mouse intersection with a rectangle, if mouse is over a rectangle, get the parent of the rectangle on drop (which will be a group), and then place the house in that group, else place in right layer freely.

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package com.opengamma.strata.market.key;

import static com.opengamma.strata.basics.currency.Currency.GBP;
import static com.opengamma.strata.basics.currency.Currency.USD;
import static com.opengamma.strata.collect.TestHelper.assertSerialization;
import static com.opengamma.strata.collect.TestHelper.coverBeanEquals;
import static com.opengamma.strata.collect.TestHelper.coverImmutableBean;
import static org.testng.Assert.assertEquals;

import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import com.opengamma.strata.market.curve.Curve;

/**
 * Test {@link DiscountCurveKey}.
 */
@Test
public class DiscountCurveKeyTest {

  //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  public void test_of() {
    DiscountCurveKey test = DiscountCurveKey.of(GBP);
    assertEquals(test.getCurrency(), GBP);
    assertEquals(test.getMarketDataType(), Curve.class);
  }

  //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  public void coverage() {
    DiscountCurveKey test = DiscountCurveKey.of(GBP);
    coverImmutableBean(test);
    DiscountCurveKey test2 = DiscountCurveKey.of(USD);
    coverBeanEquals(test, test2);
  }

  public void test_serialization() {
    DiscountCurveKey test = DiscountCurveKey.of(GBP);
    assertSerialization(test);
  }

}

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Analysts: Compaq's Presario, HP's Vectra Could Be Axed
By Mark Hachman on September 4, 2001 at 5:16 pm
The first casualties of the Hewlett-Packard-Compaq megamerger may be Compaq's consumer Presario PC line and HP's commercial Vectra line, according to analysts.
In a conference call announcing the $25 billion stock-for-stock merger, both Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina and Compaq chief Michael Capellas spoke about the need for reducing costs through the streamlining of product lines.
"The deal makes particularly good sense in tough times, for technology is an opportunity to get more cost-effective with customers," Capellas said.
Although the call focused mainly on the high-level goals for the merged company, executives also roughly outlined their goal of combining the PC product lines into potentially the world's largest PC company. Since the merged company will still be called Hewlett-Packard, there will be one "HP brand," Fiorina said. "We will absolutely go to convergence on the retail model," Fiorina said. "We will very quickly pick the best and go with the best."
Later, in a separate press conference held specifically for reporters, Fiorina seemed to offer further guidance. "As we have said before, we are profitable in consumer (PCs), while Compaq's profitable in commercial," she said. "I think that kind of works together."
Analysts took Fiorina's remarks to mean that Compaq's Presario consumer desktop lineup and HP's commercial Vectra line could be first on the chopping block. "Those sound like logical choices," said Stephen Baker, analyst at NPD Intelect Market Tracking in Reston, Vir.
"HP's consumer line been picking up market share pretty consistently–they're over 47 percent versus 33 percent for Compaq in retail in the consumer space," Baker said. "It makes sense to stick with HP (in consumer) as you can leverage the printer business… In the commercial side HP's going to notebooks and business desktops, but they've never been truly competitive with Compaq."
According to IDC, both Compaq and HP recorded the largest drop in second-quarter PC sales both in the U.S. and worldwide. Unit sales of both Compaq and HP PCs dropped by 10.5 percent and 8.6 percent, respectively. At about that time, Dell declared an aggressive price war to try and gain market share. It worked, as Dell was the only PC manufacturer to record positive unit growth. Without consolidation, however, the combined Compaq-HP entity would be the world's largest PC manufacturer during the second quarter, with a combined 19 percent market share compared to Dell's 13.4 percent share.
The slowdown has quietly forced some smaller companies, like Quanta Computer, out of business.
"A lot of people have said today that this is the first sign of consolidation," said Roger Kay, analyst with IDC in Framingham, Mass. "That's wrong; there has already been consolidation. I don't think the two companies would have merged if there hadn't already been low consumer confidence in the hardware business.
With similar desktops built around Intel's Pentium 4 and the AMD Athlon, Kay said the companies show a lot of overlap. "I'm pretty sure (product) lines will go away," Kay added. "The Presario would be a good candidate."
Since the merger is not expected to be approved until next year, both companies must continue to "compete fiercely" until that time, Fiorina said. The two companies also will work together to develop common platforms that share components, driving down manufacturing costs through volume purchases.
But Fiorina also left open the possibility that certain Compaq brands –if not entire product lines—would be kept intact. "HP will be the surviving brand," Fiorina added. "We'll use Compaq sub-brands where they make the best sense in the market."
A spokesman for Compaq in Houston declined to clarify the two executives' remarks. "I'll let Carly's remarks stand on their own," he said. A spokeswoman for HP, Palo Alto, Calif., also declined to comment.
Baker said the merger will likely have negative effects on PC retailers, who have used the different brands to differentiate their own retail stores. "It's a bad thing for the channel," Baker said. "In terms of promotions, small VARs and retailers will go back to Dell's price war and say Dell forced their hand."
A spokesman for electronics retailer Best Buy Co. Inc., Minneapolis, Minn., declined to comment on the proposed merger, saying that it was too early to comment on the deal's effect on its stores. In notebooks, the company carries many brands, including Compaq, HP, Fujitsu, Sony and Toshiba. In desktops, however, the lineup is smaller: Compaq, HP, Sony, eMachines, and Micron.


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Q: Restoring MySQL database with QProcess , can't really work with simple redirect like '<' So first retrieve file name by QFileDialog , into fName , and:
  QProcess *proc = new QProcess ();
  QStringList arguments;
  arguments << "-u" << "USER_NAME"
            << "-pPASS_WORD" << "<"
              << fName;
#ifdef WIN32
    proc->start("mysql.exe" , arguments);
#else
    proc->start("mysql" , arguments);
#endif

But this just dont't work , i always see the output of what "mysql --help" does , seems
that wrong parameters are provided. However , manually execute this works.

A: You shouldn't redirect stdin with arguments. Use setStandartInputFile(const QString & fileName) instead.


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Cupertino Student Developing App to Recognize Objects and Read Text
Cupertino High School senior Sanket Dange is developing an app to help the visually impaired recognize objects and read text. When you point a smartphone or tablet camera at an object, the Pigen app can speak the object's name or read aloud the text in a sign.
Dange also wants to add the abilities to count currency and read documents, labels and barcodes. Since the app's audio is in English, Dange says it also might help someone learn the language.
He was inspired to create the app after learning that his cousin in India, had made a version of Scrabble using Braille to help people with vision problems play the game. At the time, the Cupertino student was interning at a company called Baarb, which was doing work in artificial intelligence and image analysis, and that's when he had the app idea.
"The app is called Pigen because of the bird's insane ability to use its beak to sense the magnetic frequencies of the Earth for navigation. I thought that since my app can help people navigate without using their eyes, the name would be fitting," said Dange.
Coding the app on a MacBook Pro, Dange worked for about two months on the project using the Dart language within the Flutter framework. For the image recognition functionality, he used the Google Vision API, which learns to identify images more accurately over time. For the user interface, he drew layouts on paper, and then programmed them in Flutter. When the app is finished, he plans to upload it to the iOS store.
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"We had many conversations about various aspects of this project, particularly on ease of use," said his father, Pradnesh Dange, who has a software engineering background. "He, however, completely built it himself."
The younger Dange started coding when he was a freshman and can program in Java, Dart, Python, JS, HTML and CSS. He's also taken Advanced Placement computer science at Cupertino High School. After graduation, he plans to attend a four-year college and study computer science. His career vision is to work in the high-tech industry in a capacity that helps people.
CBT Live From #CSUN16: MatterHackers 3-D Printing To Provide Solutions For All Needs
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Mara Hitner from MatterHackers demonstrates 3-D printing using an affordable printer that can be used to provide tactile models of printed items from animal pictures to complex maps. Listen to her provide information on how easy and affordable it is to provide the blind with a tactile world that only years ago was far out of reach for most.
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Along with the Honor 8X, Huawei has also announced the imminent arrival of the Honor 8X Max in China. The 8X Max has a water droplet notch on top of its 7.12-inch Full HD+ display with a resolution of 2244×1080 pixels and a screen-to-body ratio of 90.5%. There are three variants of the Honor 8X, two of which are powered by Snapdragon 636 chipset and have 4GB RAM with an option for 64GB or 128GB internal storage. The third variant will be powered by Snapdragon 660 chipset and will have 6GB of RAM with 64GB internal storage. The latter will go on sale in October.
There is a dual camera setup at the rear, with a primary 16-megapixel camera for AI Scene Recognition and a secondary 2-megapixel camera for depth perception and portrait shots. The camera on the front has an 8-megapixel sensor. There is a fingerprint sensor at the back of the phone. The phone has a 5000mAh battery with reverse charging for an option to charge other phones with this device and 9V/2A fast charging support.
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Q: ASP MVC - Getting Controller Level error handling How to get Controller-Level error handling:
This is my map-route:
routes.MapRoute(
    "Default",                                              // Route name
    "{controller}/{action}/{id}",                           // URL with parameters
    new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = "" }  // Parameter defaults
);

And I have 2 controllers - HomeController and AwayController
I want both both controllers to handle their own errors
For example, a call to
/Home/InvalidAction would be handled by one method
and
/Away/InvalidAction would be handled by another method
Where InvalidAction currently results in a 404 as there's no Action method with that name

A: You can override OnUnknownAction method in your controller to catch when a request is made to the controller with no matching action method.  You can also override OnException to catch unhandled exceptions thrown in your controller's action methods.
Andrew


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Why do we all love a cheese toastie?
14/11/2017 16/11/2017 by Voice of London
What makes the perfect cheese toastie? Realistically its got to be oozy in the middle. This is the main feature which makes it so great and keeps us wanting more. I put together a few ideas and ventured to Central London to see which cheesy establishment does the best toastie for anyone in need of some comfort food.
Image by FIX
But first of all, why do we love the toastie so much? Ultimately it comes down to the five C theory I have constructed below:
Cost – it's cheap as chips: it will cost next to nothing, a standard cheese toastie will cost you quite literally the price of a loaf of bread and some cheese. Obviously it can be pimped up for more expense by adding ingredients, such as: onions and herbs.
Convenience – is key: it doesn't all fall apart when you eat it because of that beautiful molten cheese in the middle and you can carry it with one hand. It also has the ability to fill you up but not to the point where you're wandering around not knowing what to do with yourself.
Comforting – you can pair it with other things, it warms you up and brings back memories of simpler times.
Competition – Best or King of the sandwich world. I mean you could go out to a deli and spend £12 on a sandwich full of parma ham, pesto, aged mozzarella from the mountains and asparagus but the simple cheese toastie is reliable and will never get old.
Carefree – It's easy to put together: who doesn't have the ingredients to knock up a cheese toastie? – Two slices of bread, butter, a bit of onion (a personal preference) and then that glorious thing we call cheese. Now to toast it – put it in the oven, on a grill, in the microwave, you can literally cook it how you like it. As long as that cheese is melted it doesn't matter how you got there.
Image: Harry Bourner
Now that the chemistry or physics into why we love the cheese toastie have been explained, onto the experiment.
It's a simple one: the establishments that I visited had to specialise in the humble cheese toastie. They also had to be based in central London and have a permanent site, for the purpose of this test I didn't count market stalls. To keep a fair playing ground I also decided to stick too classic cheese and onion which after conducting research seemed to come out on top a lot of the time as the publics favourite combination.
The melt room claims to be London's first grilled cheese restaurant so this is where the adventure started. The classic cheese was top of the menu so I added onions and waited patiently. To be brutally honest after the first bite I knew I could have easily made a better one at home. It was all because of the cheese – it was tasteless and left me feeling a bit empty inside. There was also hardly any onion in it which didn't help the issue. I do love my onions.
It seems that the location of the Melt Room on the hectic Noel Street was a great area for this fast-paced restaurant to be situated. But the decor became a bit overbearing after a few minutes. It was just pure cheesiness (pardon the pun). For example, the chairs, walls, tiles, counter were all a buttery yellow colour and the walls were plastered with 'punny' cheese jokes. This meant that by the time I got my toastie I had almost entirely been put off the idea of cheese.
I had higher hopes for the newly opened Pickle & Toast which is around a week old now (one of my inspirations into doing this piece) and it has been a long time coming. For around two years it has had signs up on the empty shop front saying 'Opening Soon'. The wait was worth it.
They promise to deliver "…huge amounts of mature West Country cheddar and a good dash of old-school New York grilling expertise." And this is what I got. Sadly, they wouldn't let me get any onions but it was still great. The cheese was really stringy and overall had a lot nicer consistency than the one I got in the Melt Room. They were also giving out free coffees to celebrate their recent opening, which was a great touch.
The generous price of £3.95 also seemed like a steal, especially in Soho, and considering I had paid £4.50 for the far less appetising toastie five minutes down the road.
Finally, the decor was a lot nicer and more welcoming with deep green…think the ministry of magic's tiles in Harry Potter. One criticism, it has to be said, was that they were blasting out a Jamie XX playlist which made me feel a bit anxious, as though I was in a big cheesy boiler room. It resulted in me grabbing at other people's orders as I misheard my name time and time again. Stress.
ALL the cheese – after two years Soho grilled cheese joint @pickleandtoast FINALLY opens its doors https://t.co/rqioCkEF6x pic.twitter.com/QSr6AHZReV
— hot-dinners.com (@hotdinners) November 6, 2017
The final leg of the journey was to head over to Borough Market's Kappacasein who have been sharing their cheesy know-how to fromage loving fans since the year 2000. I got there at the end of the day when it was quiet. Tourists and locals alike were queuing up to get their hands on the establishments very own, cheeses. A variety consisting of Montgomery cheddar, Ogleshield and Comte cheeses. The cheese trio is then all mixed up into a toastie alongside five different types of onion and sandwiched between a couple of slices of sourdough.
It costs £6 though. I'll repeat that £6. However, the cheese is all hand-made down the road in Kent and it's oh so rich. It doesn't look like much, but I struggled to eat this one due to its complex cheesy notes. The flavour however was the best of the day, especially when combined with onions and leeks.
Image by Harry Bourner
After having a word with the staff they revealed the recipe:
8 parts Montgomery Cheddar
1 part Comte
1 part Ogleshield
Leeks, onions, garlic
As well as two slices of poilâne sourdough
This sparked a thought, could I produce a toastie which could compete? Stay tuned and you may find out.
Watch my adventures below…
Words: Harry Bourner | Subbing: Amelia Walker-Hall
Tagged Cheese Toastie, comfort food, food, london
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I got a 75 off of craigslist for $150, including the stand. The stand ended up being used for an emergency situation, so I needed another. Truthfully, I planned on making a new one anyway, the other looked, well, old.
I found a thread on reefcentral discussing someone building a stand and he used Google's sketchup to design it. It's a free program, so I gave it a whirl. Took about a week to really get the hang of it.
After figuring the dimensions I wanted, I decided to frame it with 2 x 4s and "skin" it with 3/4" ply. It's probably overkill to some people, but I want to sleep at night. I've added some screen shots from skethup.
After about 2 weeks, I had the design I wanted and got the wood. That must of been the trigger, because the 50 gallon tank started leaking 2 days later.
So I started construction shortly thereafter. I got all the pieces cut from the printouts from Google Sketchup, then started to assemble. I used 2 x 4 for the core structure. 2 front and 3 back for vertical support, then headers front and back. the cross members on side were more for lateral support since they don't take any weight to the floor directly. I'm going to have to keep an eye on the front after the tank is set up to watch for sagging. I may end up adding another vertical brace. I left it out to make for ease of access into the stand since I'll be using a 30 gallon sump.
Now, I'm no wood expert, but I saw somewhere that Tightbond 3 is best for this kind of project. I used half a bottle on this stand. I think the screws are superfluous, but again, I can sleep at night :).
I used some 1 x 4 hard pine for the top and bottom to "spread" the load over the 2x4s and the plywood. This will also help compensate for my unevenly tiled floor. After assembly, this thing absolutely 0 wiggle. I felt I could of parked a car on it. I did discover one mistake in my design - I made the side "overhang" for the 1x4s 1/2" and the front 1". Oops. It was already glued and clamped before I noticed it. Went back and checked my design, sure enough, that's the way I designed it. This is the first time I've actually planned out something like this in such detail. It really made things so much easier.
Next thing was to paint and stain the stand. I used several coats of exterior high gloss white for the inside and then dark walnut stain. Wife likes the dark stains. It turns out the sanded plywood I got was crap. As soon as I applied the first coat of stain, the wood "splintered". Very disapointing. At least with the dark stain, it's not as noticable.
Next test was to "fit" the tank to the stand. I somehow managed not to get the top boards down very good and the tank wobbled. There was about 3/16" gap along between the tank and the stand. I found this a good excuse to invest in a belt sander. See where this is going? After 2 days of trying to level this as good as I could (and making Xiang help me list the tank on and off half a dozen times), I came across how people use foam for such things. Why didn't read this 3 days ago? Anyway, I got the top pretty close, restained it and bought some styrofoam to put between the tank and the stand.
After this was done, it was time to work on the doors. I saved the plywood I drop cut out for the front. I figured I would frame it with some 1/4" x 2" trim and offset the center cut by a couple of inches since I didn't have center brace. I cut and glued the trim, then I had to figure out how I'm going to hinge this. It took me 3 or 4 trips to the hardware stores (and got no help - thanks HD & Lowes) before I figured it out. After chiseling out spots for the hinges between the trim and the door panel, I was getting close. I added a couple of magnet catches to help keep them closed. Time to start on the canopy - see the canopy page for details.