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Walmart plows forward in 2Q
BENTONVILLE, Ark. — A fourth consecutive quarter of same-store sales growth at Walmart's U.S. business helped the company achieve a slightly better than expected profit performance.
Walmart said second-quarter earnings grew 8.3% to $1.18, one cent better than the consensus estimate of analysts and at the top of the company's forecast range of $1.13 to $1.18. Total company sales increased 4.5% to $113.5 billion, and net income increased 5.7% to slightly more than $4 billion. The key driver of the improved performance was continued strength of the Walmart U.S. business where same-store sales increased 2.2%, within the company's guidance range that called for an increase of 1% to 3%.
"I'm really pleased with the continued momentum we see in our Walmart U.S. stores, and this now marks three consecutive quarters of positive comp traffic and four quarters of positive comp sales," said Wal-Mart Stores president and CEO Mike Duke. "There's such a clear focus among the leadership team to drive the strategy of broad assortment and price leadership. We continue to win back customers and attract new ones. We will not let up on our passion to reduce operating expenses so that we can invest in lower prices. This is the promise that our customers expect from Walmart and what drives greater loyalty."
Sales at U.S. stores grew 3.8% to $67.4 billion, while operating profits increased 5.3% to $5.25 billion.
"Customers are responding to our continued focus on providing the right assortment at everyday low prices," said Walmart U.S. president and CEO Bill Simon. "During the quarter, our average comp traffic increase was equal to serving on average, 80,000 additional customers every day of the 13-week period."
At Sam's Club, sales increased 3.8% to $14.2 billion and same-store sales, excluding fuel, increased 4.2%, on top of a prior year increase of 5%. Operating profits grew at a much faster pace, advancing 10.1% to $536 million.
"We believe that the improvements in our quality and overall merchandise offerings are key to driving these results," said Sam's Club president and CEO Rosalind Brewer. "In fact, member engagement scores continue to achieve record levels. We're also investing in price to deliver greater value on top of these quality improvements."
Internationally, sales increased 6.4% on a constant currency basis to $32 billion and operating profits increased 5.4% to nearly $1.5 billion. A strengthening of the U.S. dollar had a major impact on the comparisons to the prior year. On a constant currency basis sales would have increased by 7.2% to $32.3 billion and operating profits would have increased 11.9% to $1.6 billion.
"Every market delivered positive comps, and I'm pleased that our largest markets, the United Kingdom, Mexico and Canada, collectively delivered stable growth, solid margins and expense leverage, despite challenging environments," said Walmart International president and CEO Doug McMillon.
Buoyed by a solid second quarter showing, Walmart increased by a penny and narrowed its full year profit forecast to a range of $4.83 to $4.93 from a prior range of $4.72 to $4.92.


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Sociopolitical Ramifications
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Subject | Furry |
Website | |
Server | muck.sprmuck.org, port 23 TLS (SSL) port 23551 |
Operator(s) | Anputeti, Arian, Benjamin, DivineVixen, Drac, Dru, Enzeru, Moment, PuppyDog, Serailyn, Snout |
Status | Ongoing |
Ran from/to | September 1994 - present |
Sociopolitical Ramifications (SPR) is a sci-fi furry MUCK, with an average of 60 to 80 furs connecting nightly (of which between 20 and 25 are usually between 10 hours and 25 days idle).
SPR's main 'city' has a computer theme with different areas named after different parts of a computer's hardware or architecture. Much of SPR's central and western landscape, as well as the MUCK's title screen, was designed by unci, a building wizard of the first years, who left SPR in 1999.
SocioSpace is a hard sci-fi minigame (similar to a MUD) built into SPR. This system includes combat, healing, and a spaceship system, programmed by the lead wizard for that area, Arian.
- Anputeti - MUF, no space.
- Arian - Building Wizard (No characters)
- Benjamin - Building/PR/Characters/Policy/HelpStaff!
- DivineVixen - Chairfox
- Drac - Wizard/Player and Player/Player relations.
- Dru
- Enzeru - General Stuff / Building / Space
- Moment - Policy, coordinator, PR, denotational semanti
- PuppyDog - MUF/MPI/ANSI/Technical
- Serailyn - All-around Helpful Serailyn (MUF and more!)
- Snout - Charreq, PR/HS, policy. Some building, MPI.
The factual accuracy of this section is disputed. (discuss) |
SPR was founded by Snout and DivineVixen on Sep 19th 1994 at 04:27:49 CEST, and was announced via @shout just before one of FurryMUCK's infamous six- to eight-hour database saves. The name SPR actually comes the parody comic of Tank Vixens, hence why the initial line when you connect is, "Oooh, say the words.." The phase also made an appearance in the anthropomorphic Sci-fi comic Albedo. On that first day, over thirty players connected, each of whom was given a wizbit to make it easy for them to build and attach things.
Murphy the MUFMouse was a wizard from opening day in September 1995 to his resignation in October 1996. Murphy built the original space station (then called SPR Station), the first solar system, and coded all the vehicle programs.
In 1997, during a fit of pique, the wizard Mystique chose to @purge, thus destroying everything that she owned, including the page program and the say program. At this time, Aerowolf (aka Winged) was given a wizbit (along with Kathalla) to help piece SPR back together from a backup that Snout started running on another port.
Eventually, DivineVixen had to step down as head wizard due to her player's fight with Multiple Sclerosis, leaving Snout in charge. Syvel chose this time to @purge, thus getting rid of a lot of functionality that the MUCK relied upon.
It was just after Syvel's @purge that CATerwaul chose to limit the MUCK to wizards-only, for a period of a couple of weeks. During this time, many inactive wizards were dewizzed, and several new rules and regulations went into effect -- including the requirement that MUCK-essential programs and objects needed to be owned by a new, wizbitted character named SPR, so that no @purge could damage the MUCK again.
Eventually, SPR came back for players to use, though its user base was much diminished (from a high of 191 characters connected, it now averages 60 to 80). Snout didn't want anything to do with the administration of the new MUCK structure, so he appointed three wizards to be "gods" -- wizards with the power to grant or remove wizbits. These were Natasha, Aerowolf, and Benjamin.
Due to internal friction (and a lot of miscommunication), Natasha ended up leaving. It was at this point that Aerowolf became pretty much the main God character. He made several unpopular decisions during this timeframe: Space became Arian's area to allow or banish people as he saw fit. Zinn was toaded and banished for alleged (i.e. disputed) violation of an order to stay out of Arian's space areas. Gud, DivineVixen's non-wizard character, was given a wizbit, and immediately began to violate SPR's rules of ownership, yanking possession of a BDSM-themed area from its owners. When Aerowolf de-wizzed him, he began to bad-mouth the administration of SPR in the park, and Aerowolf @toaded and banished him from what had been his own MUCK several years before.
(Ahem. Not entirely right. The owner of the area violated the local law, and was punitively toaded. What happened to the area I am not aware of, albeit, there might have been a delay in handling its purging, and for that, which is of course my responsibility, I, as the @toading of the player was my doing, of course apologize. However, there was of course never any attempt at forcibly stealing an area - whatever purpose would such an act serve, even if I had wanted to, it would have been all too obvious? Anyway, Gud is the #1 (god) character of the MUCK, comparable to the root account of a UNIX system, SYSTEM on VMS or Administrator on Windows. It is no specific person, and was of course not dewizzed. Also, the character I returned as was DV and nothing else. Yes, I made mistakes, of course, and was a little too unconcentrated and dictatoric, which I just as much as (due to a misunderstanding between myself and Snout, I thought myself to still be in charge, and since there other wizards also did, my great round table idea just made it worse) causing friction I of course regret, and chose to leave for 3-4 years until my health was better. By my own choice, of course, 'banning' a server wizard from SPR would have been...quite hard. :))
Aerowolf resigned as a wizard (much less head wizard) in November of 2001, amidst complaints that he was misusing his power -- among other things, Syvel asked for ownership of her programs back from SPR (Syvel having been removed as a wizard due to her @purging), attempting to revoke the GPL that she had originally licensed them under. Aerowolf refused, citing her prior @purge and her player's legal issues, as well as the GPL which allowed SPR to maintain its own copy of her programs.
Physical location[edit]
SPR's server is physically located in Sweden. Therefore, SPR is not restricted by US laws. In particular, the use of the internet by children less than 13 years old is restricted in the US.
However, rules 0.1 as well as 1.1 of the SPR policies imply that anything you do is subject to:
- Swedish law
- international law, and
- any laws which apply where you are
Soliciting RL sex with those under the age of 15, or in some cases, 18, is not legal in Sweden.
See also[edit]
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Text-based multiplayer worlds | ||
Oldest still running
FurryMUCK (1990) - FurToonia (1994) - RealmsMUCK (1993) - Sociopolitical Ramifications (1994) - Tapestries MUCK (1991) - TigerMUCK (1994)

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A young girl's memories of life in a community haunted by
February/March 1979
The mothers of my childhood friends paid special attention to me, and I never understood why. I was dimly aware that something about me made them pat my shoulder and murmur sympathetically or, on the other hand, quite as inscrutably, bar me from their homes and keep their children from visiting me. Grown-up behavior was difficult to fathom, and I did not question it.
I never connected it with the fact that my mother suffered from tuberculosis.
It was not until I was grown and my mother was gone that I came to understand the dread the very word "tuberculosis" engendered in people's minds in the late nineteen twenties and early thirties. I came myself to fear it, the natural result of years of anxious looks and repeated warnings to wash my hands, stand back, avoid infection. "Do you think I have it yet?" I once asked my older brother, who replied coldly, "I don't know. It's like water wearing away a stone."
As late as 1875 tuberculosis was still the leading killer in America, and even when I was a child about eighty-six people per hundred thousand were still dying of the disease. Worse, nobody really knew how it was contracted or how it could be cured. The TB patient— and sometimes the patient's family—was shunned in much the same way that a leprosy victim would have been shunned. Oddly, the bacilli of the two diseases look remarkably alike.
But as a child in the upstate New York town of Rome, I knew nothing of all this. Be it ever so odd, a child's particular world is to him the norm, and I saw nothing I remarkable about ours. The Russells next door went to church on special days. Down at the corner, they f couldn't come out to play till the dishes were washed. Different houses, different rules.
I took the way of life in our house for granted. My mother had suffered a lung hemorrhage when I was very small and had gone away to live in a sanitarium at Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks. She came home about 1930, almost a stranger to me, improved but far from cured, and our household rearranged itself around her.
My father built a special wing on the house for my mother's homecoming—a big separate bedroom and bath and a sleeping porch. My older brother, who had had a spot on his lung that had been pronounced arrested, slept as a precautionary measure on a second sleeping porch, often with an inch or two of upstate New York snow on top of his blankets. A trained nurse came to live with us, and Nettie, the Irish second maid, was instructed to keep my mother's silver separate, to tie a string around each piece, and to wash them in a separate dishpan. I was severely enjoined never to put a morsel of food in my mouth without surgically scrubbing my hands first.
My mother was allowed to come downstairs only once a day. I was brought to visit her in her room or on her porch as she lay in her cure chair, a specially built combination couch and chair which was supposed to encourage the correct position for maximum healing. She spent her days lying in it, reading omnivorously. She seemed to me very beautiful and was very thin, somewhere around 95 pounds. I was told to keep as far away as possible.
Evenings she presided over the dinner table, wearing elegant gowns and smoking cigarettes through a long cigarette holder like the women in the pictures of John Held, Jr. I remember people coming in to play cards, the rattle of ice in the cocktail shaker, laughter. I was put to bed early, but sometimes I saw her being carried upstairs after it was over.
Afternoons she and I rested for two hours. Rest was considered the shield against TB, and I was incarcerated daily from two to four in my room while the neighbor children stood beneath my window inquiring how much longer I would have to lie in bed and elaborately shushing each other. A great deal of faith was also placed in milk. Huge quantities were urged on us children, and a glass was forever on the way upstairs to Mother's room.
My mother's new wing angled out from my bedroom and I could hear her coughing in the morning, something she always did in private. It was a deep, terrifying cough, and I found it hard to think of it coming from my mother. Later, when I paid my morning call on her, I would see the cardboard box on the table beside her. She coughed into the box, not only so that a potential source of infection could be burned, but so that occasionally a sputum sample could be sent to her doctor in Saranac for analysis.
Mother's doctor was Lawrason Brown, who from 1901 to 1912 had been head of the Trudeau Sanitarium in Saranac. Trudeau was world famous as a semicharitable cure hospital—a patient paid fifteen dollars a week in 1937—but it was staffed by famous New York doctors, most of whom had come to Saranac for their own health. When not working at Trudeau, they had enormously lucrative and fashionable private practices. Dr. Brown's name was spoken in hushed tones in our house. Young as I was, I sensed the awe with which the nurse rolled his name on her tongue.
Years after my mother's death, in the Adirondack Room of the Saranac Lake Library I found a copy of Dr. Brown's Rules for Recovery From Pulmonary TB , a layman's handbook of treatment. It was published about the time my mother wearied of the sanitarium and came home to live, and in this book, when it was too late to matter, I found the key to some of the things that troubled me about my mother.
The nervous system is damaged by TB, wrote Dr. Brown; and I am transported back across the years to our dinner table where my mother sat, her cheeks flushed with the fever, toying with her food and drumming her slim fingers on the mahogany of the table. From my seat beside her, I heard the cutting edge in her voice as she spoke to my father. But he never answered back. Was he told that he must expect my witty and beautiful mother to be irritable?
They are all gone now who could have told me, but I think my mother improved for a time and then relapsed, a very common story for TB in those days. After she had been home a few weeks, I was sent away to school, and in summer to camp. When I came home for a brief visit, the nurse had disappeared. Letters from my parents came postmarked Nassau and other palm-lined cruise ports of call. Mother must have lived a reasonably normal life for a time, conserving her energy for the things that mattered to her, drinking her milk and taking her rest, checking her temperature twice a day. She measured her life out in judicious pieces, choosing carefully, snipping a few spent roses in the garden, being driven on a morning round of errands behind the chauffeur. A cautious life, keeping out of the sun and always observing Dr. Brown's dictum, "Never stand when you can sit. Never sit when you can lie."
In the old photograph album I look for pictures of her as a girl, and she is, surprisingly to me, well rounded with curves and smiling radiantly. I do not connect this plump, pretty woman in the sailor suit and Gibson girl hat with the thin, nervous mother of my childhood.
Little by little I put together the pieces of the puzzle, the fragments from people who knew her at the time, the things my father told me later. She had a persistent cough, a cold which hung on. She was always dieting. She sat in hot baths and drank lemon juice. The local doctor pronounced the cough of no importance, but as she stood beside her bed one day the blood welled up in her throat. My father was a successful lumber merchant. He took her to Saranac, installed her in the Santanoni, the fashionable apartment hotel named after the nearby mountain range, and went home to a half life to raise us children alone.
What was her life like during those seven years she spent in Saranac, when Edward Livingston Trudeau was living and the frigid village was an international mecca for people seeking pulmonary cures? What was it like to be young and recently married and be sent to take the cure when coffins were rolling out every night, under cover of darkness.
Saranac is just another Adirondack village today, but there are some who still remember when passing motorists held handkerchiefs to their noses and exceeded the speed law to minimize exposure to the disease. So many TB patients thronged into the town that from two to four in the afternoon, the official rest period, the sound of a dropped tire jack would re-echo from one end of the town to another. Spitting on the street carried a twenty-five-dollar fine, a penalty rigorously enforced.
My mother went to Saranac in the twenties, when its reputation, because of Dr. Trudeau, was at its zenith. Until the summer of 1875, when Trudeau discovered he had TB and came to die in the woods he had always loved, Saranac was a village of a single schoolhouse, a sawmill, and a small hotel for guides and lumbermen. The clerk at the only store doubled as the telegraph operator.
Trudeau, on his arrival, was so wasted with fever that the man who carried him to his room remarked, "Why, doctor, you don't weigh no more than a dried lambskin." But the next day they fixed him a bed of balsam boughs in a guideboat, laid his gun across the center seat, and loaded him in to go hunting. Miraculously, slowly, his health improved and he gained weight. Returning to his practice, he attributed his recovery to the pure, cold mountain air and stayed on to found a sanitarium for other TB sufferers.
Word of the effects of the climate spread through medical circles, and many of Trudeau's New York colleagues joined him. In 1889, Little Red, the tiny nucleus of Trudeau Sanitarium for the Treatment of Pulmonary Disease, was dedicated, the culmination of a dream which had been shaping in Trudeau's mind since he first knew he would not, after all, die at Saranac.
Today it is almost impossible for us to understand what it meant in Trudeau's day—and indeed on into the mid-forties—to be diagnosed as tubercular. Tuberculosis was a death knell, the end of a normal life and the beginning of months or years of enforced idleness, banishment, and hopelessness. TB meant a sanitarium and one might as well be exiled from life itself.
"Sanatorium," wrote Betty MacDonald in The Plague and I , describing the moment in the forties when the chest specialist diagnosed her own case, "I knew what that meant. I had seen Margaret Sullavan in Three Comrades and I had read The Magic Mountain . Sanatoriums were places in the Swiss Alps where people went to die. Not only that, but everyone I'd ever heard of who had had tuberculosis had died."
Today the discovery of a tubercular lesion on the lung usually means nothing more inconvenient than a year or more's course of a combination of drugs, probably isoniazid, rifampin, and ethambutol. While taking this, the patient in most cases will not even break the normal stride of his life. Though TB is still a leading cause of death in the Third World, in America the discovery of streptomycin in 1944 triggered the end of the disease as a major killer. In 1974, with a population of more than 200,000,000, there were only 3,513 deaths from TB in the United States. Until 1933 it was not required in all states to report the tubercular death figures, but Anthony Lowell, in his book Tuberculosis , estimates that in 1930, among a population of about 120,000,000, the disease killed 88,000 Americans.
Trudeau made Saranac internationally famous and brought specialists there who made its reputation as glittering as that of any of the cure centers in Switzerland. Every train arriving in Saranac poured more TB victims into the village, anxious to try the wonderful mountain air and regain their shattered health. It was a village with one industry, a mecca for the dying, a source of new hope for many who had heard of the famous doctor's own miraculous cure. The local residents, hastily ducting off their spare bedrooms and stocking up on sputum cups and thermometers, rejoiced. The mountain air was their natural heritage, and their cash registers were jingling.
But not everyone was pleased. The Adirondacks were also attracting summer visitors—healthy ones—in ever increasing numbers, moneyed city folk bent on escaping the heat amid some of the most beautiful scenery America offers. The Lake Placid Club and Saranac Inn, in spite of their uneasy coexistence with the tubercular community, had become fashionable northern resorts with a large, chic July and August clientele. They feared the consumptive as the International Exposition in Paris feared smallpox.
At the desk of both resorts discreet signs announced that no TB patients would be admitted. My family violated that rule repeatedly, and I suppose others must have done so, too. But we did it nervously. I can remember sitting with my brother in the back seat of my father's car wending its way up the impressive Santanoni driveway to take my mother out to dinner. She would emerge flushed with pleasure at the prospect of the outing, wearing her tiny pointed shoes and, in winter, her squirrel coat, and we would drive the ten miles to Placid, round Mirror Lake, and pause briefly, out of sight of the club, while my mother coughed. TB patients were told to resist coughing as much as possible, but it made my mother feel better to have done it just before stepping into the premises where she was forbidden. The management knew a tubercular cough when they heard it, and we feared to take a chance.
Already in its fifth edition in 1931, Dr. Brown's book reflects the bits and pieces of knowledge with which the doctors labored to cure their patients. Robert Koch, in 1882, had identified the TB bacillus; but no one had discovered a way to deal with it. All the early specialists could do was attempt to strengthen the body's natural defenses through rest, nourishing food, and what they believed to be the greatest remedy of all for sick lungs, the fresh mountain air.
"The current popular belief in Saranac Lake," writes Dr. Brown, "is that one hour of driving is worth two of sitting on a porch." The climate was all important, total immersion in it essential. The cold was an amulet. "Properly clad persons can be quite comfortable sitting outdoors even at 20 and 30 below," wrote Dr. Brown encouragingly. An ex-patient at Trudeau told me he often found himself covered with frost when he was rolled in for breakfast after a night on the sanitarium porch.
Even the cough remedies sound strange to present-day ears. Dr. Brown recommended against coughing, but advised those who must do it to take very slow, full breaths, or put a little slippery elm or common table salt on the tongue. TB patients rarely coughed in public. They were early taught to control it and avoid it when possible. It was bad for sick lungs and bad for disease control. The germs remained suspended more than an hour in the air; everyone in Saranac knew that. Old-timers say every sleeping car departing from Saranac was fumigated and each rented room vacated was, by law, disinfected.
Open air, rest, and food. Each TB patient was urged to try to become ten pounds overweight. Six or eight hours a day in "God's open, fresh air, with good ventilation at all times" was advised. The colder the air, the better, and it was a popular belief that one winter in Saranac was worth two summers.
Dr. Brown mentions a special Klondike method of wrapping the blankets about the patient in the cure chair, and The Journal of the Outdoor Life , the magazine he founded in 1904 for the TB patient, is full of photos of consumptives wearing earmuffs and mittens as they turn the pages of their books. Some patients, wrapped to the gunwales otherwise, bared their chests to the cold, believing the air would work more marvels if it did not have to penetrate clothing. The value of the cold climate to the health seeker was buttressed by doctors who reminded their patients that Greece and Rome were conquered by healthy invaders reared in a cold, northern climate.
The TB patient who did not have fever, whose afternoon temperature reading showed no elevation, could do what he liked as long as it was mostly outdoors and he rested in the afternoon. TB patients without fever went on winter picnics, sleigh rides, bobsleds, forming the special, close friendships that expatriates form when marooned together in island outposts. At Trudeau, I am told, the constant, haunting presence of death drove many patients to plunge into sexual affairs with other patients and particularly with the nurses, who were apparently drawn to the consumptives with their aura of fatalism. For many patients, these relationships were the only close human contact they had. Families frequently brought their tubercular members to Trudeau and never returned. Ranged in tiers, two to a porch, the Trudeau patients took informal roll call daily, calling to the tiers above and below, out of sight, to check that the departing coffins the night before had not contained a friend.
The fear was always present, spoken or unspoken. The sound of the ice wagon was particularly dreaded. Especially at Trudeau, where the patients often arrived with advanced cases, the last-ditch measure was a block of ice on the chest to slow the hemorrhage and compress the lungs. Twenty pounds of sand were sometimes used the same way. Either could mean that there would be a gap in the line when the beds were next pushed out on the porch.
At the Santanoni, the realities of the disease were more veiled than at Trudeau, but I never heard my mother speak of her life there. I remember little of that period except the long drive up the hill and the little smocked dresses I took home after nearly every visit. My mother made these dresses during her rest hours.
Recently I went back to Saranac and from the bottom of that hill looked once more up at the Santanoni. It had been gutted by fire and stood deserted but still proud, like a grand dame down on her luck, its windows blackened with smoke and its top two stories gone. I walked up the drive in search of a piece of my mother's life and found the new owner puttying the broken windows.
He had been a small boy who came frequently to the kitchen door for a pastry treat in the twenties, and he remembered vividly the Santanoni in its full flower. It was very grand, he told me, shaking his head. Such a kitchen. Every day his father sold the chef fresh fish caught in the lake. The hotel's quartered oak floors became legendary and it had one of the first hydraulic elevators in the country; the patients who rode it were most elegantly dressed. They were forever having cocktail parties and smoking, like my mother, from long, slim holders. Those in the top floors brought their own private nurses.
The list of the tuberculars he remembered who had lived at the Santanoni could have been cribbed from an International Who's Who . Manuel Quezon, the President of the Philippines, brought his retinue to the town and established a government in absentia at the nearby Hotel Saranac; Christy Mathewson, the ballplayer; Hope Lange, the movie star; Rosalind Russell's adopted daughter; the wife of the chef of the New York Ritz, Louis Diat; much later Dean Acheson's daughter, Mrs. William Bundy.
In the offices of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise next day I found the account of the fire and the obituary of the Santanoni. It was designed by William Scopes, a well-known architect who had come to Saranac from New York to take the cure himself. From the moment it was completed in 1914, a long list of patients sought apartments there. It boasted the latest in cure accommodations, with one and sometimes two sleeping porches for every room and beds on wheels that could be rolled out onto them. Two regular nurses were in constant attendance, and the doctors who called daily were the aristocracy of the profession. Dr. Brown's name was there and so were those of Drs. Francis Trudeau, Senior and Junior.
One of Saranac's most elegant social events was the marriage in 1946 of June Serrelas of the Don Q rum fortune to a fellow Santanoni patient. It took place at St. Bernard's Church at the end of the block, and the red carpet ran all the way across the street to the Hotel Saranac in the next block, where the reception was held. For the occasion, the Serrelas family presented the church with a new $10,000 organ to play the wedding march.
From the day Dr. Trudeau recovered his health, Saranac attracted a long procession of famous people. Robert Louis Stevenson spent the winter of 1887 here in a rambling cottage atop a hill, believing himself tubercular, though there is doubt about this now. In a letter to Henry James he wrote: "You should see the cows butt against the walls in the early morning while they feed; you should also see our back log when the thermometer goes (as it does go) away away below zero till it can be seen no more by the eye of man. Not the thermometer, which is still perfectly visible, but the mercury, which curls up into the bulb like a hibernating bear."
Celebrities who had tuberculosis continued to come over the years to live in the brown-shingled houses on Park Avenue or in the many private health sanitariums—Harry Houdini's brother, Legs Diamond's brother. Mrs. Francis Trudeau, daughter-in-law of the founder of Trudeau, says she played bridge regularly in 1914 with Dutch Queen Wilhelmina, the head of the Bank of France, whose name escapes her, and a curator from Buckingham Palace.
Many came and stayed awhile, and went back where they came from too soon. TB sufferers were particularly prone to remission and recurrence. My mother did not really get well. At some time when I was away at school, she underwent the operation common at the time for lung collapse. Air is induced into the thoracic cavity to collapse the lung, sometimes permanently, with the removal of several ribs occasionally included. The theory was that a lung not working was a lung with time to heal. One could tell at a glance in the streets of Saranac which patients had submitted to surgery by the dropped shoulder and the slight chest concavity. One doctor invented an overshoulder bag of shot worn inside the clothing to combat the lopsided appearance of his postoperative patients.
My mother did not improve with the operation. She lived on for a while, swallowing in vain the cream soups and Hollandaise sauce that Dr. Brown hoped would increase her weight. In 1937, a telephone call brought me to her deathbed, little more than six years before the discovery of the drugs that would have saved her.
"I couldn't help her," said my heartbroken father, taking my hand in his. I told him he had managed to extend her life for seventeen years.
It comforted him then. I wonder now whether what he did for her made any difference at all.


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I can't solve your problems, have been having more and more myself with Knoppix lately and have switched to Linux Mint for a lot of uses. Hopefully someone else will help.
As to the two nine hour downloads, that can depend greatly on your Internet connection and maybe you really need to take 9 hours (I remember when downloading the CD took 24 hours if I was lucky). But I expect that you are not downloading from the torrents which are much faster than from the mirrors and much much more reliable (no reason to ever download the same file from the torrents twice). If you are not using the torrents to download then download a torrent client and start using them, or at least embrace your 9 hour download times and refrain from complaining about them when you could be downloading a lot faster.
One hint on using the torrents. Don't panic when you see an estimate of the download taking even more than 9 hours as the client first starts and abort the download. The client will start slow but then pick up speed. The download time estimates should pick up speed and finally level off. Watch the numbers and ten to fifteen minutes in to the download you'll have a much better idea of how long things are going to take.
Learn to do the checksum test too if you are not doing that. If the md5 checksum matches then don't bother downloading again, your results will not improve.
If you are using the torrents and it is still taking 9 hours, please post back what download speed you are paying for and the name of your ISP. You might have something seriously misconfigured. Or your ISP might be deliberately slowing torrent downloads on you.


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Bullying is an issue almost all educators have to face with their students—and for many who are already strapped with other responsibilities and limited resources, it is an issue that can oftentimes be overlooked.
Last year, thanks to donors like you, we were able to fund several inspiring anti-bullying projects. Right now, we're matching all donations made to NEA members on requests of up to $500 on DonorsChoose.org. That's where you come in. Browse their requests for classroom materials by location, subject area, or grade level, and help fund a classroom project today!
We are proud to see so many NEA members trying to tackle this critical concern in various creative ways:
Start bully prevention as early as kindergarten
Books, dolls, and dollhouses. That's how Mrs. Ontiveros planned to teach her students about cooperative play and a positive classroom environment.
Her students wrote about what steps they could take to promote a bully-free classroom and role-played potential scenarios involving bullying.
The dollhouses helped promote sharing, taking turns, and communication among classmates.
Provide English language learners with knowledge to combat bullying
Ms. Mazzetti's kindergarten through fourth grade students in Wisconsin come from diverse backgrounds. We all know that nothing invites a bully more than being different. Among the challenges of learning a new language and culture, her students often lacked the knowledge of how to handle a bully. And knowledge is power!
Ms. Mazzetti received books, behavior management pocket charts, magnetic letters, counting puzzle sets, and more.
These materials helped her inform students about what bullying is and how to deal with a tough situation.
Make music together and stop bullies
The wrong chords being played in music creates chaos and dissonance. The same is true in the classroom, according to Mrs. Francis, a first-grade teacher in Utah. She wanted her students to tune their ears to the sounds of how bullying creates disharmony at school and at home.
Mrs. Francis shared picture books about bullying and making friends with students and provided copies of "Bullying in Schools" to parents who began the discussion of bullying at home.
Each student also got to try out a musical instrument and have their first attempts at playing recorded. Then, after some instruction, Mrs. Francis recorded them again and let them compare the two sounds.
Lesson learned: It takes a good amount of ingenuity to combat bullying. But with the support of donors like you and the DonorsChoose.org community, we can help to cultivate empathy and positive play in classrooms around the country.


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Explore Developer Jobs in Dallas with NCH Corporation.
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Leading digital transformation
According to one estimate US$18 trillion will be added to the value of organisations by 2022. Digital transformation is one of the key phrases of the moment. How should the CFO approach this? How should we address the challenges of leading in this transformed world?
In this joint article between Alibaba Cloud and ACCA we explore the nature of digital transformation as it impacts organisations in general and, more specifically, the finance function.
The advances in technology including 5G and the Internet of Things provide further opportunities to transform organisations. Drawing on their experiences Alibaba Cloud provide insights into this developing world and how finance leaders need to approach it.
Being a leader in this transformed world requires us to reposition our skill sets. The article explores the implications of this and how finance leaders should respond.
If you've enjoyed this article, could you recommend it through your social networks?
Things to consider in digital transformation
What is digital transformation?
Business case for change
Creating an agile organisation
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Those of you who, unlike me, own an iPhone, an iPad, or an iPod Touch may find the new Pinyin Typist Mac application of use.
Taffy of Tailingua had a look at this for me.
I've had a play with the Pinyin application and I'm generally quite positive about it. It's clean, unfussy, and gets the job done. The automatic positioning looks to be flawless (i.e. typing zhuang1 gives you zhu?ng, not zh?ang)…. Overall though I like it, as it does what it set out to do without any showboating or unnecessary steps (excepting apostrophes).
Although I wish the apostrophe and hyphen were right there on the main screen instead of on a secondary one, the program allows people to do what they need to do: type Pinyin with tone marks.
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Create free images using the world's most advanced AI algorithms!
Welcome to the world's largest online art site and print-on-demand selling platform! We've been helping artists sell prints, home decor, apparel, and other products since 2006 and are home to hundreds of thousands of iconic artists, photographers, graphic designers, illustrators, and iconic brands.
With just a few clicks, you can open an account, upload your images, select the products that you want to sell, set your prices, and begin selling to the millions of buyers who visit our website each week from all over the world.
In addition to providing an online marketplace and fulfillment service, Free Image Generator provides artists and photographers with sales tools and marketing tools to help simplify and accelerate their careers. These tools allow artists to set up branded web stores, sell prints on Facebook, create e-newsletters, and much more.
You've come to the right place.
Take a tour through all of our features, and if you have any questions, contact us here.
Your profile page is your home on Free Image Generator. This is where you'll upload your headshot, edit your biography, add links to your social sites, and begin uploading your portfolio.
Your profile page has been meticulously designed to make it easy for buyers to browse through your images, find their favorite images, and make a purchase.
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Is your listing suffering from the neutral blahs? It's good to go neutral when selling a home so that you offer up potential buyers a blank canvas to imagine their own decorating, but too neutral can also make your listing look dull and forgettable.
Using pops of color throughout the home's interior can add more visual interest to rooms and even be used to enhance architectural details or create focal points that you want to make sure home buyers don't miss.
Here are some ideas:
Want to be trendy? Reach for the blues -- deep and dark blues are a popular color nowadays to decorate home interiors. But you likely won't want to go overboard with such a dark tone. "There are lots of blues coming in to interiors that coordinate with turquoise and aqua blues," says color expert Erika Woelfel, director of color marketing for Behr. "Really deep and dark tone blues like sapphire, iris blue, and navy blue are popular."
Try coordinating the trendy blues with yellow or lime green -- "a great contrasting color can be a nice enhancement with a dark blue," Woelfel says. If you don't want to paint an entire room a deep blue color, use it as a color for an accent or feature wall. "Paired with white furniture, blue walls can really pop and create a nice, relaxed atmosphere," Woelfel says.
Color block: Color blocking has become a popular fashion trend, and you can also use the idea to dress up your interiors. For more modern spaces, you could use color and geometry to give a neutral backdrop more visual interest. For example, the photo to the left shows an example of how color blocking is used to dress up a modern kitchen with neutral gray walls. In this example, the cabinets were painted blue and then colors of dark plum were added to create depth in the space as well as a light cognac brown to soften up the hues.
Create a focal point: This is where accent or feature walls -- painting one wall in a room a few shades darker or a more bold color -- can really do the trick in leading buyers' eyes to a place you don't want them to miss. Feature walls can help you create a focal point in a room, such as in highlighting a fireplace or directing buyers to a hallway. Have some fun with your accent color: You could pick a trendy color here because it's easy enough for someone to change and it won't distract from the overall neutral tones of the home.
Accessorize: You don't have to commit to paint to add color punches. For example, in an all-white kitchen, add color pops through the accessories, like a red or orange colored small appliance, or a bowl of red apples or lemons. For a neutral living room, use color pops through the throw pillows, blankets, or the artwork to weave in color and more visual interest.
Make more room: Reach for a darker tone to make a space feel roomier. Blues and greens may be a good choice, but you'll need good lighting if you'll be using darker tones.
For example, used with good lighting, "blue actually can make a space feel larger," Woelfel says. "Blue is a recessive color. It can fade away in your field of vision. It's a cool tone that can be used to push out a room and to create a feeling of space, but you have to have good lighting."
On the other hand, warmer colors -- like reds, oranges, and yellows -- are a color that move toward you in your vision. "They can make your walls feel closer, but it also can depend on the tone," she notes.


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Workshops – 2016
The year-end festivities provided me with some much needed relaxation from the nutty season of winter fairs and craft shows, custom dolls and cookie baking for our clients. I have not listed 2016 workshops. There are some new ones: learn to make a ruffled felt scarf or felting with long locks. But I am also offering some well-loved repeats. If you have already done a workshop with me, you are welcome to book the same workshop again and make a project of your own with my guidance – let's say you took the bag making workshop, you can book that workshop and this time make a bag that is more involved – with additional features. Each felting workshop is for only 4 students – this allows me to give you extra close attention and help you to realize your felting goal.
I am planning to offer some other workshops for later in the spring – dyeing, expandable felt and carved felt – if you would be interested in one of those, please drop me a line.
I am currently spending time at the studio setting up my supplies into more of a store-like setting. I am planning on keeping "store hours" for a couple times a week starting in mid/late February – stay tuned for further notice. Keep your eyes open for an official opening notice that I will post.
Interested in staying in touch? "like" my facebook pages (both my Monika Aebischer and The Olive Sparrow) and add them to your favourites, subscribe here on the website and you will receive occasional updates. You can also find me on "TheOliveSparrow".
Happy creating – I am really excited about all 2016 will bring. It will be a pleasure to teach so many of you to realize your creative dreams.


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The amicus curiae, or amicus briefs, is a legal term meaning "friend of the court." This 'friend' is a person or organization offering the court additional information or perspective about the case. AACAP often is approached and sometimes joins relevant amicus briefs. Below are some recent cases in which AACAP has participated.
Wollschlaeger v. Florida In November of 2012 AACAP, the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association and numerous other medical associations submitted an amicus curious brief to the Eleventh Circuit Court in support of a physician's First Amendment right to ask their patients about firearm ownership.
Wollschlaeger v Florida is challenging Florida's Firearms Owner's Privacy Law that prohibits health care providers from (i) intentionally recording information concerning firearm ownership in a patient's medical record if the information is not relevant to the patient's medical care or safety of the safety of others; (ii) asking a patient whether he or she owns a firearm unless the information is relevant to the patient's medical care of safety of the safety of others: (iii) discriminating against a patient based solely on firearms ownership; and (iv) unnecessarily harassing a patient about firearm ownership. Violation of the law constitutes grounds for discipline under the Florida licensure statues.
A trial court found that certain sections of the Firearms Owner's Privacy Law interfered with physicians' right of free speech, and the judge entered a summary judgment prohibiting the enforcement of the invalid portion of the law. The defendants have appealed this judgment to the Eleventh Circuit Court.
Read the entire amicus brief here
U.S. Supreme Court Decision Miller v. Alabama and Jackson v. Hobbs (June, 25 2012) In March 2012, AACAP and the American Medical Association submitted an amici curiae brief based on the science of adolescent behavior and brain development in support of two cases before the Supreme Court, Miller v. Alabama and Jackson v. Hobbs. Both cases involved juveniles convicted of homicide crimes and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The brief asserts that the sentence of mandatory life without parole for those under the age of 18 at the time of their crimes violates the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments. The brief showed that adolescents behave differently because their brains are not fully developed and exhibit functional differences from mature, adult brains.
The Court agreed in a 5-4 decision Justice Kagan wrote for the majority that "Mandatory life without parole for a juvenile precludes consideration of his chronological age and its hallmark features - among them, immaturity, impetuosity, and failure to appreciate risks and consequences." This decision builds on prior rulings where the Court struck down harsh sentences for youth, citing their developmental and neurological differences from adults.
Read the entire amicus brief here.
The Supreme Court's ruling on Miller v. Alabama and Jackson v. Hobbs can be found online at: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-9646.pdf
U.S. Supreme Court Decision on Life without Parole for Juveniles, Graham v. Florida and Sullivan v. Florida (May 17, 2010) In July 2009, AACAP and the American Medical Association submitted an amici curiae brief outlining the scientific evidence regarding the structural and functional brain development of adolescents in support of two cases before the Supreme Court, Sullivan v. Florida and Graham v. Florida. Both cases involved juveniles convicted of non-homicide crimes and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole during the period where Florida had abolished its parole system; therefore, a life sentence left no option for release at a later date. On May 17, the Supreme Court issued its ruling on life without parole for juveniles.
The Court dismissed Sullivan, but reached a 6-3 decision in Graham against the practice of sentencing juveniles to life without parole for crimes other than homicide. Part of the Court's decision was based on the medical evidence that AACAP members, Christopher Thomas, M.D., Louis Kraus, M.D., and David Fassler, M.D., contributed to the brief. Citing impulse control, reward sensitivity, and emotional regulation as behavioral development that adolescents have not yet fully acquired, the brief explained that the "brain's frontal lobes are still structurally immature well into late adolescence and the prefrontal cortex is one of the last brain regions to mature." The brief added that the brain continues "to develop between adolescence and young adulthood," making the decision-making process different from that of an adult, which has a direct effect on the understanding of actions and consequences.
Writing for the majority, Justice Kennedy stated that "[t]he Constitution prohibits the imposition of life without parole sentence on a juvenile offender who did not commit homicide. A State need not guarantee the offender eventual release, but if it imposes a sentence of life it must provide him or her with some realistic opportunity to obtain release before the end of that term." To supplement the Court's reasoning, Kennedy noted that "[a]s petitioner's amici point out, developments in psychology and brain science continue to show fundamental differences between juvenile and adult minds. For example, parts of the brain involved in behavior control continue to mature through late adolescence." Kennedy concluded that "[w]hat the State must do...is give defendants like Graham some meaningful opportunity to obtain release based on demonstrated maturity and rehabilitation," although eventual release is not required.
The Supreme Court's ruling on Graham v. Florida can be found online at: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-7412.pdf
Roper v. Simmons (March 1, 2005) The amicus brief argument states, "Science confirms that adolescent offenders at the ages of 16 and 17 exhibit deficiencies this Court has identified as warranting exclusion from the death penalty."
The adolescent's mind works differently from ours. Parents know it. This Court has said it. Legislatures have presumed it for decades or more. And now, new scientific evidence sheds light on the differences. Scientists have documented the differences along several dimensions. Adolescents as a group, even at the age of 16 or 17, are more impulsive than adults. They underestimate risks and overvalue short-term benefits. They are more susceptible to stress, more emotionally volatile, and less capable of controlling their emotions than adults. In short, the average adolescent cannot be expected to act with the same control or foresight as a mature adult.
Read the entire amicus brief for Roper v. Simmons here.
The Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid imposition of the death penalty on offenders who were under the age of 18 when their crimes were committed. The judgment of the Missouri Supreme Court setting aside the sentence of death imposed upon Christopher Simmons is affirmed. Kennedy, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer, JJ., joined. Stevens, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which Ginsburg, J., joined. O'Connor, J., filed a dissenting opinion. Scalia, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and Thomas, J., joined. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=000&invol=03-633
J.K., a minor by and through R.K., et al. v. Catherine Eden, Director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, et al (March 2001) The AACAP submitted this brief to assist the court in its evaluation of the adequacy of care provided by the state of Arizona in Maricopa County, Arizona to Medicaid-eligible children and adolescents in need of mental health services.
The amicus brief and background state that the number of children with mental disabilities continues to grow. Studies conducted by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment estimate that mental impairment is present in 12 percent of the 63 million American children under age 18. Nearly half of these 7.5 million children are considered severely disordered or handicapped by their impairment. Among inner-city children, who are often exposed to severe social and financial deprivation, the rate of mental disability is even higher. Children burdened by poverty and disability are frequently eligible for Medicaid as a consequence of their participation in other programs, such as Supplemental Security Income (SSI).
The Plaintiffs and Defendants, CATHERINE R. EDEN, in her official capacity as Director of Arizona Department of Health Services ("ADHS"), LESLIE SCHWALBE, in her official capacity as Deputy Director, Division of Behavioral Health Services ("DBHS") and PHYLLIS BIEDESS, in her official capacity as Director of Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System ("AHCCCS") intend this Settlement Agreement to be legally binding and enforceable by this Court. The parties understand and agree that until such time as this action is dismissed pursuant to paragraph 81, the Court's jurisdiction will continue for the purpose of enforcing, should it become necessary, the obligations of the parties under this Settlement Agreement. http://www.azdhs.gov/bhs/children/pdf/JK/jkfinaleng.pdf
Joseph Ray, Jacob Austin, Nicholas James, Matthew William, and Samantha Josephine Bonfield v. The Hamilton County Court of Appeals, First Appellate District (September 2001) This amicus brief was submitted in support of Appellants regarding: (1) the necessity to children of a legally recognized relations between children and the persons who support and nurture them, regardless of whether the parents comprise an opposite sex couple or a same sex couple; (2) the ability of lesbians and gay men to raise children who are as health and well-adjusted as children raised in other families; and (3) the falsity of certain common myths about lesbians and gay men.
Children benefit greatly by legal recognition of the child-parent relationship. This benefit accrues regardless of whether the legal foundation is established by birth, statutory or equitable adoptions, a shared parenting order as sought by the parents in the case, or any other legal or equitable procedure. Children benefit psychologically through legal protection of their relationships with primary caregivers, with disruptions of these relationships causing serious developmental and emotional trauma. Children also benefit materially through additional health care choices, child support, and death benefits.
Read the full amicus brief here.
Although we have concluded that existing Ohio law does not permit Teri and Shelly to enter into a shared-parenting plan, we do not intend to discredit their goal of providing a stable environment for the children's growth. Our respect for such a goal does not, however, provide us with an appropriate basis for disregarding the relevant statutory language. It is for the legislature, not this court, to recognize a broader definition of "parent" than that currently contained in the Revised Code.
In their second assignment of error, Teri and Shelly assert that the trial court violated Teri's fundamental constitutional right to direct the upbringing of her children by dismissing her petition. We reject this assignment of error in that the fundamental right to make decisions concerning the care, custody, and control of one's children does not embrace the right to have all such decisions [*10] recognized or approved in law. In other words, although Teri's decision to "co-parent" her children with Shelly may be protected from interference by the state, she is not entitled to the benefit of laws that are, at present, clearly inapplicable to such a "familial" arrangement. The second assignment of error is overruled, and the judgment of the trial court is affirmed. Judgment affirmed.
Morgan Victor Manduley, et al, petitioners v. Superior Court of the State of California, for San Diego County, respondent (February 2001) The brief submitted by the Petitioners addresses the broad range of legal questions presented by this case, including, in part, why the choice between adult criminal prosecution and juvenile civil proceedings is a sentencing decision reserved to the authority of the courts. This issue is critical to the resolution of the separation of powers question presented on this appeal. As both California courts to address the issue have recognized, whether Section 707(d) of the Welfare and Institutions Code violates separation of powers principles depends on whether this "choice given to the district attorney - is in its nature a charging decision that is properly allocated to the executive branch or is instead a sentencing decision that is properly allocated to the judicial branch."
Since the inception of the juvenile system, the decision whether to subject a youth to criminal adult trial or civil juvenile proceedings has been made by courts and based on a determination of whether a youth has behaved like a sophisticated criminal or has history of criminal behavior, and whether the youth is likely amendable to efforts at rehabilitation. These factors, in turn, depend on complex evidentiary considerations about youth psychology, background and behavior that Amici organizations encounter every day. Because of the complexity and the individualized nature of the "fitness" determination, courts have long been empowered to take evidence, hear testimony, and impartially balance competing concerns on the subject before a juvenile may be subject to the jurisdiction of an adult court.
There are three criteria for severability: the invalid provision must be grammatically, functionally, and volitionally separable. We conclude section 707(d) is severable under these criteria. First, section 707(d) is mechanically and grammatically severable. It constitutes a distinct and separate provision of Proposition 21 that can be removed as a whole without affecting the wording of any provision other than section 26 of the initiative. Second, section 707(d) is functionally severable. The overarching purpose of the bulk of Proposition 21 was to increase the penalties for and consequences of juvenile and gang-related offenses, and to make a larger group of juveniles eligible for treatment as adults. Because the principal purpose of section 707(d) was to provide a procedural mechanism for expediting the processing of the targeted juveniles into the adult system, its removal merely eliminates a procedural avenue while leaving intact the increased penalties and consequences of juvenile and gang-related offenses. Third, we believe section 707(d) is volitionally severable because the remainder of the initiative, after deleting the discretionary direct filing provision, would likely have been adopted by the electorate had they foreseen the invalidity of that provision. The voters who enacted Proposition 21 would presumably prefer that the core purpose of changing the penalties and consequences of juvenile and gang-related offenses from those that existed before the initiative was enacted remain operable even though the fitness determinations remain committed to the judiciary. There is no persuasive reason to suppose the discretion given to the prosecutors under section 707(d) was so critical to the enactment of Proposition 21 that the measure would not have been enacted in its absence. We therefore conclude that section 26 of Proposition 21, including section 707(d), although invalid, is severable from the other provisions of Proposition 21. https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-supreme-court/1076128.html


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Some first-time home buyers are on a tight budget when making their real estate purchase, and there may be an inclination by many to purchase a smaller property, such as a condo, rather than the home they truly want. While there may be some initial financial benefit associated with buying a smaller property, there are a few benefits associated with splurging and buying a larger home as a first purchase. By analyzing these benefits, first-time home buyers can make a more informed decision about how to proceed.
Costs Associated With Upgrading In The Future
Some people will purchase a smaller property initially with the goal of later upgrading to a larger property. This can provide the home buyer with the initial benefits of building equity, taking advantage of tax benefits associated with real estate ownership and more. However, there are costs associated with selling property, including closing costs, real estate fees, make-ready and improvement costs and more that should be considered.
Benefits Of Long-Term Ownership
For many, there will be a need to have a larger property over the years, such as when starting a family or when young children grow into teenagers who need more space. When the first property purchased is large enough for the family to grow into, the homeowner can enjoy long-term appreciation and equity growth. More than that, the higher value of the property may mean that there is more upside for property appreciation over the years.
Getting Established In A Community
In addition to the financial benefits associated with investing in a larger property initially, there are intangible benefits. Moving into a new home in a few years means that there is a need to get re-established in a community. When a home buyer settles down into a larger home that he or she plans to stay in for many long years or even decades, getting established and settled in the community can begin right away.
These are considerable benefits that can be enjoyed when a first-time home buyer makes a purchase that he or she plans to enjoy for many years to come, but there are other factors to consider. Each person needs to make a decision regarding a real estate purchase that is best for their needs, goals and financial situation, so there is not a best-fit solution that is right for everyone. Those who are thinking about buying their first piece of real estate should consider contacting their trusted mortgage professional for assistance to determine what they can afford and to discuss the loan process.


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Dental sealants are thin plastic coatings that are applied to the grooves on the chewing surfaces of the back teeth to protect them from tooth decay. Most tooth decay in children and teens occurs on these surfaces. Sealants protect the chewing surfaces from tooth decay by keeping germs and food particles out of these grooves.
Permanent molars are the most likely to benefit from sealants. The first molars usually come into the mouth when a child is about 6 years old. Second molars appear at about age 12. It is best if the sealant is applied soon after the teeth have erupted, before they have a chance to decay.
Applying sealants does not require drilling or removing tooth structure. The process is short and easy. After the tooth is cleaned, a special gel is placed on the chewing surface for a few seconds. The tooth is then washed off and dried. Then, the sealant is painted on the tooth. The dentist or dental hygienist also may shine a light on the tooth to help harden the sealant. It takes about a minute for the sealant to form a protective shield.
Sealants can only be seen up close. Sealants can be clear, white, or slightly tinted, and usually are not seen when a child talks or smiles.
As with anything new that is placed in the mouth, a child may feel the sealant with the tongue. Sealants, however, are very thin and only fill the pits and grooves of molar teeth.
A sealant can last for as long as 5 to 10 years. Sealants should be checked at your regular dental appointment and can be reapplied if they are no longer in place.
No. Fluorides, such as those used in toothpaste, mouth rinse, and community water supplies also help to prevent decay, but in a different way. Sealants keep germs and food particles out of the grooves by covering them with a safe plastic coating. Sealants and fluorides work together to prevent tooth decay.
Decay damages teeth permanently. Sealants protect them. Sealants can save time, money, and the discomfort sometimes associated with dental fillings. Fillings are not permanent. Each time a tooth is filled, more drilling is done and the tooth becomes a little weaker.
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I am a university student who leaves his Macbook Pro at home and uses an iPad in lectures.
I thought it'd be great if I was able to wake my Mac back at home if I needed to remote control it using TeamViewer from my iPad.
My Macbook is running Mountain Lion (Latest) and is connected Wirelessly to a Virgin Superhub.
Is it possible to set it to boot from the university from my iPad so I can remote control it? If so, how do I set this up?


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News Anchor Curses in Debut Broadcast [NSFW]
A.J. Clemente's first day at his new job couldn't have gone any worse. The new weekend news anchor for KFYR, the NBC affiliate in Bismarck, North Dakota, managed to kick off his on-air career with a live mic gaffe consisting of two of the seven dirty words which George Carlin famously explained you can never say on television.
"F*ckin sh*t," Clemente said, before his stunned co-anchor had the chance to give him his proper introduction.
Then, a little more than four hours later, Clemente tweeted his reaction to his now famous meltdown.
KFYR also reacted, suspending Clemente indefinitely.
However, the viral nature of Clemente's terrible, horrible first day might work to his advantage. The KFYR Facebook page is now filled with messages asking that Clemente be given another chance. And another Facebook page, called "Reinstate A.J Clemente" has popped up.
What do you think? Should Clemente get his job back? Or should his epic first day fail be the end of his newscaster career?


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What Is Rotary?
Rotary is a volunteer organization of 1.2 million business and community leaders united worldwide to provide humanitarian service and help build goodwill and peace. 35,000+ Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas conduct projects to address today's challenges — including illiteracy, disease, hunger, poverty, lack of clean water, and environmental concerns — while encouraging high ethical standards in all vocations.
As the world's largest private provider of international scholarships, The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International helps more than 1,000 students annually to study abroad and serve as cultural ambassadors. Rotary also partners with seven prestigious universities around the world, providing opportunities to earn a master's degree in peace and conflict resolution.
PolioPlus is Rotary's flagship program. By the time polio is eradicated, Rotary club members will have contributed US$850 million and countless volunteer hours to immunize more than two billion children in 122 countries. Rotary is a spearheading partner in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, along with the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Founded in Chicago in 1905 as the world's first volunteer service organization, Rotary quickly expanded around the globe. Today, club members meet weekly to plan service projects, discuss community and international issues, and enjoy fellowship. Clubs are nonpolitical and committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.


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The following are publications made possible by iCER resources. MSU faculty that would like to highlight the output of their research that's benefited from iCER resources are invited to contact us.
"Determining the rp-Process Flow through 56Ni: Resonances in 57Cu(p,g)58Zn Indentified with GRETINA", PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, vol. 113, 2014.
, "High-precision B(E2) Measurements of Semi-Magic 58,60,62,64Ni by Coulomb Excitation", PHYSICAL REVIEW C, vol. 90, 2014.
, "High-resolution two-proton stripping to 2p-1h 7/2− states via the 59Co(3He,nγ)61Cu reaction", THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL A, vol. 50, 2014.
, "Large Low-Energy M1 Strength for 56,57Fe Within the Nuclear Shell Model", PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, vol. 113, 2014.
, "Neutrinoless double-β decay of 82Se in the shell model: Beyond the closure approximation", PHYSICAL REVIEW C, vol. 89, 2014.
, "Shell and Shape Evolution at N=28: The 40Mg Ground State", PHYSICAL REVIEW C, vol. 80, 2014.
, "The Shell-Model Code NuShellX@MSU", Nuclear Data Sheets, vol. 120, 2014.
, "Neutrino-pair emission from hot nuclei during stellar collapse", PHYSICAL REVIEW C, vol. 88, 2013.
, "Mass Measurements of the Neutron-Deficient 41Ti, 45Cr, 49Fe, and 53Ni Nuclides: First Test of the Isobaric Multiplet Mass Equation in fp-Shell Nuclei", PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, vol. 109, 2012.
, "Coupled-Cluster and Configuration-Interaction Calculations for Heavy Nuclei", Physical Review Lettters, vol. 98, no. 11, p. 4 pages, 2007.
, "Shape and Structure of N = Z 64Ge: Electromagnetic Transition Rates from the Application of the Recoil Distance Method to a Knockout Reaction", PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, vol. 99, 2007.
, "Z = 0 Shell Gap near 100Sn from Intermediate-Energy Coulomb Excitations in Even-Mass 106-112Sn Isotopes", PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, vol. 99, 2007.
, "Half-life and spin of 60Mng", PHYSICAL REVIEW C, vol. 73, no. 4, 2006.
, "Half-life and spin of 60Mng", Physical Review C, vol. 73, no. 4, p. 044322, 2006.
, "Shell model analysis of the 56Ni spectrum in the full pf model space", PHYSICAL REVIEW C, vol. 73, no. 6, 2006.


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On May 27, the NFT trading platform ERAX had officially launched. Within 24 hours, number of visits exceeded a million. Over 60,000 people from over 40 countries had joined Erax's official community.
At present, the bidding for digital art works on the NFT platform is fierce. The first NFT pixel work of iPOINT has risen from 0.015 ETH to 1 ETH, which is still under bidding. The work "Compendium of Materia Medica" by Air foundation has risen all the way to 1.206 ETH. Currently, the highest bid on the ERAX platform has reached 2 ETH.
ERAX is an NFT digital asset platform. Users can freely complete casting and transactions on ERAX. The diversified transaction process can help with needs of various users. "ERAX is not just a trading platform, we are an entity whose goal is to establish a sustainable, high-circulation, and secure digital asset platform."Said by official spokesman of the ERAX.
Several coalitions of digital artists from around the world have decided to release their first NFT work on ERAX. A director of the Digital Arts Alliance said,"We think it is the best platform for us to explore the Asian NFT market."
ERAX is favored by three well-known block-chain investment institutions. Five exchange platforms inviting NERA to make their debut. Many insiders believe that ERAX will be the leader of the NFT industry in Asia.


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But I don't know what happened? Is it that Butterick came out strong with their latest additions? Or is it the fact that even Vogue upped the number of designer styles they translated into the larger sizes...granted they go no higher than a 24 but at least they are making an effort.
Then there are all of the RTW sites that are providing some amazing inspiration for us plus size sewists...I'm personally enamoured of these sites:
I think these retail outlets, as well as Butterick & Vogue pattern collections have truly attempted to bring the hottest trends of summer to the plus size woman.
Bright colors...Florals...Neutrals...the safari look...a great feminine and sexy dress...so what happened to Simplicity? It's not that there aren't some great looks here but we've seen them now for quite a few pattern cycles.
I want some of this:
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Butterick 5618
but there's nuthin' that I want from the Simplicity site...so is it just me? Or does Simplicity need to step up their game...
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