Posted on 06/23/2011 1:48:16 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
A reclusive copper heiress who spent the past decades living in New York City hospitals has left most of her $400 million fortune to charity--and a nurse who was randomly assigned to care for her 20 years ago.
The New York Post reports that Huguette Clark did not leave a penny to her family members. The lion's share of her fortune will go to a foundation to promote the arts. She left the biggest chunk of the remaining inheritance--a testament worth about $38 million--to her private nurse, Hadassah Peri. She also left Peri her collection of dolls and dollhouses, which The New York Times says could be worth millions.
Clark, who died last month at 104, divided up the rest of her assets among her accountant, her lawyer, a physician and a goddaughter.
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Hi, Gatun. Nice to see you this afternoon. How do you make that little accent mark over the U in your name?
Like hell, they do it all the time. Estate lawyers are the biggest crooks in the legal field.
Dog should have been named Charity. That way she could have claimed that she was leaving her fortune to Charity.
No, but her old man is the Clark in Clarkdale, Arizona.
Actually, they don't. In most jurisdictions, a bequest made to the attorney drafting the instrument is void and raises a reasonable question as to the capacity of the person writing the will.
That's as strange as the fact that John Tyler (born 1790 and President in the 1840s) has a grandson whose still alive (Tyler and his son each had children when they were very old)
Senator William Clark was a friend of his contemporary Mark Twain's:
"He is as rotten a human being as can be found anywhere under the flag; he is a shame to the American nation, and no one has helped to send him to the Senate who did not know that his proper place was the penitentiary, with a ball and chain on his legs. To my mind he is the most disgusting creature that the republic has produced since Tweed's time."
Well, okay, maybe not a friend.
I think the best inscription on my tomb would be:
“Great power, wealth, and immortality to he who resurrects the one interred within, for all these things were within his grasp, but in an ancient world unworthy of him, so he sought the dreamless sleep until new empires had been born, with men worthy of such gifts. But beware the (chiseled off), for if (chiseled), then the demon beast shall arise to consume thee instead.”
Oh good grief, Chico. Good to hear from you.
You asked a real tough question; and thank you because I was forced to do my homework.
For many months I had lost the ability in using the accent mark. Because of your wonderful question, I just found it. (There is just a lot of screwed up stuff these days on my computer.)
Okay. Here we go:
My computer directions and keyboard are in Spanish because of where I live.
Go to idomas. I am guessing it is “languages” on your computer.
I have my “language” in “Ingles (Estados Unidos)”
Go to “Español (alfabetización Internacional).”
“Spanish, International Alphabet” is the key phrase.
Oh but good grief. I forget my keyboard is in Spanish so I can’t tell you what key to hit. I hate it because I first learned computer “talk/directions” in English. I had to learn a new language all over again and a lot of it still does not make sense to this day.
You are going to have to play with it. When you come across the accent mark, you will see no movement on the screen. For example: in “alfabetización,” I hit the accent key. No action/movement appears at this point. When I hit the “o” key, the accent and the letter “o” appear at the same time.
Crumbs. I hope this does not send you to the ER for treatment.
Please let me know what happens.
My very best to you and your family.
You’re right , dog. And a judge recently overturned it and cut trouble’s inheritance big-time, I remember it being reduced to 2 million from 12 million. Now Trouble can live till the end of her days in a ritzy condo. BUT SHE WON’T HAVE LEONA! (mEEEEOOOW!)
Dog. Helmsley’s money went to a dog.
Delores Claiborne-esque
Delores Claiborne-esque
I think Trouble died a few months ago. I remember reading something about it.
Now that will be a project! I’ll play with it later tonight.
As a matter of fact, my grandson is here visiting. If I can figure it out, I will show him. He’s enrolling in a “Spanish Immersion” program for high school. (Frankly, I don’t think he speaks [pronounces] English all that well so I don’t know why he is doing this.) He’s very bright, but his language use is not that great. I’m talking about pronunciation, not vocabulary, which is outstanding. His mom (who is also very bright and a teacher) just looks at me blankly when I suggest speech therapy.
But, if I can show him how to access the accent on his keyboard, he will shine next year! LOL.
Do you find these accents in the FR posting box? I know where to find them in Microsoft Word, but I don’t see them in the FR software.
" Gatún " -- which gives you
Gatún
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Or, you could just go here and find the HTML code for almost any character:
http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm
For this one, scroll down to entry 250:
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250 FA ú ú ú latin small letter u with acute
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I’ve saved these instructions on a notepad on my lap top. I hope to master this so that I can sprinkle all kinds of foreign “accents” in my posting. Until I memorize the codes, I can just cut and paste! Thanks.
Good morning....
No. Go to 180. That will give you the accent (acute) code you need. It is stand along and you can use it on any vowel. I haven’t played with it yet; therefore, I don’t know whether you put the accent first and the vowel second.
Crumbs…I just now played with it. I just tried it in English, and it doesn’t work for me.
I just tried it in Spanish and nada.
You probably have more patience than I do.
If it works for you, please let me know.
By the way, thank you for the HTML link.
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