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Vandana Shiva: The Plan of the 1% to Make You Disposable
Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, physicist, food sovereignty advocate, and anti-globalization author. Based in Delhi, Shiva has written more than 20 books. Shiva founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Natural Resource Policy (RFSTN), an organization devoted to developing sustainable methods of agriculture, in 1982. She has traveled the world spreading a powerful message of oneness and interconnectedness.
Widespread poverty, social unrest, and economic polarization have become our lived reality as the top 1% of the world's seven-billion-plus population pushes the planet―and all its people―to the social and ecological brink.
Vandana Shiva takes on the billionaire dictators of Gates, Buffet, and Mark Zuckerberg, as well as other modern empires like Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Ag, whose blindness to the rights of people, and to the destructive impact of their construct of linear progress, have wrought havoc across the world. Their single-minded pursuit of profit has undemocratically enforced uniformity and monocultures, division and separation, monopolies and external control―over finance, food, energy, information, healthcare, and even relationships.
Basing her analysis on explosive facts, Shiva exposes the 1%'s model of philanthrocapitalism, which is about deploying unaccountable money to bypass democratic structures, derail diversity, and impose totalitarian ideas based on One Science, One Agriculture, and One History. Instead, Shiva calls for the resurgence of:
Real knowledge
Real intelligence
Real wealth
Real work
Real well-being
With these core goals, people can reclaim their right to: Live Free. Think Free. Breathe Free. Eat Free.
The Library Of Babel
The universe is the internet is the library is the internet is the universe. Or is it? And if so, who are the librarians? And if we have all the information we can ever want, does that mean we have knowledge or wisdom? If not, how do we make it? Or who will make it for us? Join James in this classic "Film, Literature and the New World Order" examination of "The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges.
Social Media is Ripping Society Apart According to Former Facebook Executive
Chamath Palihapitiya, Founder, CEO Social Capital and former Facebook executive, warned about the unintended consequences of social media at Stanford Graduate School of Business: "I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works. The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops we've created are destroying how society works. No civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth. You are being programmed"
As the former executive states, we compound the problems in, and curate, our lives around this perceived sense of perfection because we get rewarded in these short-term signals (hearts, likes, thumbs up), and we conflate that with value and truth. Instead, what it really is, is fake, brittle popularity, that is short-term, and it leaves you even more (admit it) vacant and empty.
Watch the original, full-length video here
During his View From The Top talk, Chamath Palihapitiya, founder and CEO of Social Capital, discussed how money is an instrument of change which should be used to make the world a better place. "Money drives the world for better or for worse. Money is going to be made and allocated – you have a moral imperative to get it and then use it to make a difference."
The Weaponization of Social Media
Now openly admitted, governments and militaries around the world employ armies of keyboard warriors to spread propaganda and disrupt their online opposition. Their goal? To shape public discourse around global events in a way favorable to their standing military and geopolitical objectives. Their method? The Weaponization of Social Media.
Facebook Exploits Vulnerabilities in Human Psychology
NSA's Internet Surveillance Program Renewed
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday, January 19, 2018 said he signed into law a bill renewing the National Security Agency's warrantless internet surveillance program. "Just signed 702 Bill to reauthorize foreign intelligence collection," Trump wrote on Twitter, referring to legislation passed by the U.S. Congress that extends Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
The law is renewed for six years and with minimal changes the National Security Agency (NSA) program, which gathers information from foreigners overseas and also collects an unknown amount of communications belonging to Americans.
Without Trump's signature, Section 702 had been set to expire on Friday, though intelligence officials had said the surveillance program could continue to operate until April.
Under the law, the NSA is allowed to eavesdrop on vast amounts of digital communications from foreigners living outside the United States via U.S. companies like Facebook, Verizon, and Google.
But the program also incidentally scoops up Americans' communications, including when they communicate with a foreign target living overseas, and can search those messages without a warrant.
The White House, U.S. intelligence agencies and congressional Republican leaders have said the program is indispensable to national security, vital to protecting U.S. allies and needs little or no revision.
Privacy advocates say it allows the NSA and other intelligence agencies to grab data belonging to Americans in a way that represents an affront to the U.S. Constitution.
Volz, D. (2018). Trump signs bill renewing NSA's internet surveillance program. [online] Reuters. Available at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-cyber-surveillance/trump-signs-bill-renewing-nsas-internet-surveillance-program-idUSKBN1F82MK?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews [Accessed 23, Jan. 2018].
The Information-Industrial Complex
From Corbettreport.com:
When WWII ended and the American deep state welded the national security establishment into place with the National Security Act, the world entered into a new era: the era of the military-industrial complex. But when the Cold War ended and the "Clash of Civilizations" became the new existential threat, the deep state found an opening for another paradigm shift. As the all-pervasive threat of terrorism became the carte blanche for total surveillance, the powers-that-shouldn't-be found the organizing principal of our age would not be military hardware, but data itself. Welcome to the age of the information-industrial complex.
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Of all the things that President Dwight D. Eisenhower did during his years in office, it is for a single phrase from his farewell address that he is best remembered today: "the military-industrial complex."
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."
It is not difficult to see why these words passed so quickly into the political lexicon. Think of their explanatory power.
Why did the US use inflated estimates of Russian missile capabilities to justify stockpiling a nuclear arsenal that was more than sufficient to destroy the planet several times over?
The military-industrial complex.
Why did America send 50,000 of its own to fight and die in the jungles of Vietnam, killing untold millions of Vietnamese (not to mention Cambodians)?
Why did the US use the public's fear and anger over 9/11 and a phony panic over non-existent weapons of mass destruction to justify the illegal invasion and trillion dollar occupation of Iraq?
Why did Nobel Peace Prize laureate Obama expand the fictitious "war on terror" into Pakistan and Yemen and Somalia, refuse to close Guantanamo despite his earlier promises to the contrary, commit US forces to "kinetic military action" in Libya without so much as seeking Congressional approval, and launch a new era of covert drone warfare?
Why has Trump not only continued but further expanded the US military presence in Africa, increased US aid to Israel and Saudi Arabia, actively enabled the war crimes in Yemen that have led to the largest cholera outbreak in human history, and killed more civilians in his first 9 months in office than former drone-king Obama killed in his entire 8 year presidency?
When you think about it, it's rather remarkable that such a phrase was ever uttered by a President of the United States, much less a former five-star general. Could you imagine any modern-day President talking about something like the "military-industrial complex" and its attempted "acquisition of unwarranted influence" without immediately dismissing the idea as a conspiracy theory? Over the decades there has been much speculation about Eisenhower's use of the phrase, and what precisely he was warning against. Some have argued that the phrase was prompted by Eisenhower's discovery that the Rand Corporation was grossly misrepresenting the Soviet's military capabilities to John F. Kennedy, who ended up using the Rand invented (and completely fictitious) "missile gap" threat as a cornerstone of his 1960 presidential election campaign.
Whatever the case, it is perhaps time to revisit Eisenhower's most famous speech. What Eisenhower is ultimately describing is the rise of American fascism; the merger of government and corporate power. What term can better capture the nature of early 21st century American political life? Is there any longer any doubt that the military-industrial complex has reached its ultimate expression in firms like Blackwater (aka "Xe" aka "Academi") and its military contractor brethren? Is there any other word but 'fascism' to describe a state of affairs when a Secretary of Defense can commission a study from a private contractor to examine whether the US military should be using more private contractors, only for that same Secretary of Defense to leave office and become president of the company that conducted the study, only to leave that company to become Vice President of the US and begin waging a war that relies heavily on no-bid contracts awarded to that same company based on the recommendation that it made in its original study? Yet this is precisely the case of Dick Cheney and Halliburton. It would be difficult to think of a more blatant example of the military-industrial complex fascism that Eisenhower was warning of.
But as it turns out, there was another warning about fascism embedded in that farewell address that has received far less attention than the 'military-industrial complex' formulation, perhaps because there is no catchphrase hook to describe it:
"Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers."
Given that this warning came in 1961, before the age of communications satellites or personal computers or the internet, it was a remarkably prescient observation. If scientific research half a century ago was dominated by federal grants and expensive computer equipment, how much more true is that for us today, half a century later?
So what is the problem with this? As Ike explained:
"Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite."
Here again the warning is of fascism. But instead of the military-industrial fascism that dominated so much of the 20th century, he was describing here a new fascistic paradigm that was but barely visible at the time that he gave his address: a scientific-technological one. Once again, the threat is that the industry that grows up around this government-sponsored activity will, just like the military-industrial complex, begin to take over and shape the actions of that same government. In this case, the warning is not one of bombs and bullets but bits and bytes, not tanks and fighter jets but hard drives and routers. Today we know this new fascism by its innocuous sounding title "Big Data," but in keeping with the spirit of Eisenhower's remarks, perhaps it would be more fitting to call it the "information-industrial complex."
The concept of an information-industrial complex holds equally explanatory power for our current day and age as the military-industrial complex hypothesis held in Eisenhower's time.
Why is a company like Google going to such lengths to capture, track and database all information on the planet?
The information-industrial complex.
Why were all major telecom providers and internet service providers mandated by federal law to hardwire in back door access to American intelligence agencies for the purpose of spying on all electronic communications?
Why would government after government around the world target encryption as a key threat to their national security, and why would banker after banker call for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to be banned even as they plan to set up their own, central bank-administered digital currencies?
The effects of this synthesis are more and more felt in our everyday lives. Every single day hundreds of millions of people around the world are interfacing with Microsoft software or Apple hardware or Amazon cloud services running on chips and processors supplied by Intel or other Silicon Valley stalwarts. Google has become so ubiquitous that its very name has become a verb meaning "to search for something on the internet." The 21st century version of the American dream is encapsulated in the story of Mark Zuckerberg, a typical Harvard whizkid whose atypical rise to the status of multi-billionaire was enabled by a social networking tool by the name of "Facebook" that he developed.
But how many people know the flip side of this coin, the one that demonstrates the pervasive government influence in shaping and directing these companies' rise to success, and the companies' efforts to aid the government in collecting data on its own citizens? How many know, for instance, that Google has a publicly acknowledged relationship with the NSA? Or that a federal judge has ruled that the public does not have the right to know the details of that relationship? Or that Google Earth was originally the brainchild of Keyhole Inc., a company that was set up by the CIA's own venture capital firm, In-Q-Tel, using satellite data harvested from government "Keyhole" class reconnaissance satellites? Or that the former CEO of In-Q-Tel, Gilman Louie, sat on the board of the National Venture Capital Association with Jim Breyer, head of Accel Partners, who provided 12 million dollars of seed money for Facebook? Or that in 1999, a back door for NSA access was discovered in Microsoft's Windows operating system source code? Or that Apple founder Steve Jobs was granted security clearance by the Department of Defense for still-undisclosed reasons while heading Pixar in 1988, as was the former head of AT&T and numerous others in the tech industry?
The connections between the IT world and the government's military and intelligence apparatus run deep. In fact, the development of the IT industry is intimately intertwined with the US Air Force, the Department of Defense and its various branches (including, famously, DARPA), and, of course, the CIA. A cursory glance at the history of the rise of companies like Mitre Corporation, Oracle, and other household electronics and software firms should suffice to expose the extent of these relations, and the existence of what we might dub an "information-industrial complex."
But what does this mean? What are the ramifications of such a relationship?
Although the signs have been there for decades, perhaps the most startling example of what lies at the heart of this relationship has been revealed by the whistleblowers at the heart of the National Security Agency, one of the most secretive arms of the American intelligence apparatus. While Edward Snowden has received the most attention with his "revelation" of the PRISM program, much of the information about the NSA's ability to surveil all electronic communications has been revealed over the past decade by NSA whistleblowers like Russ Tice, William Binney, Thomas Drake and J. Kirk Wiebe, third-party contractors like Snowden and AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein, and independent journalists like James Bamford. Together, the story they tell is of a truly Orwellian society in which all communications are being captured and analyzed by the NSA, and, with the advent of facilities like the new data center in Utah, presumably stored indefinitely for use at any future time in any future investigation for any pretense by anyone with authorization to access that data. According to Snowden, this includes lowly third-party contractors like himself operating at NSA subcontractors like Booz Allen Hamilton in the vast (and expanding) private intelligence industry that has grown up around the information-industrial complex in the exact same way as private military contractors like Blackwater formed around the military-industrial complex.
In some ways, this information-industrial complex is even more insidious than its military-industrial counterpart. For all of the ills caused by the military-industrial complex (and there are many), at the very least it required some sort of excuse to drain the American people's resources, and its failures (like the Vietnam quagmire or the debacle in Iraq) happened in the clear light of day. In the information-industrial complex, where vast spying programs happen in the shadows and under the cover of "national security" it takes whistleblowers and insiders willing to risk it all even to find out what is being done by these shadowy agencies and their private sector contractors. Even worse, the entire Orwellian spy grid is being run on the flimsiest of pretenses (the "war on terror") that has no defined end point, and "justifies" turning that spy grid inward, on the American people themselves.
Surely Eisenhower never envisaged the monstrosity that this information-industrial complex has become, but the foresight he saw in identifying its early stages over half a century ago is remarkable. The problem is that we are even further away from heeding the warning that he delivered in that 1961 address than we were at that time:
"It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system – ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society."
If only this was the rhetoric that was shaping today's debate on the issue, instead of the well-worn canard that we must "strike a balance" between freedom and security. Sadly, until such time that the National Security Act of 1947 is repealed and the cover of national security is lifted from the dark actors that populate this sector, the information-industrial complex is unlikely to be quashed-or even hampered-anytime soon.
Corbett, J. (2017). Episode 325 – The Information-Industrial Complex : The Corbett Report. [online] Corbettreport.com. Available at: https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-325-the-information-industrial-complex/ [Accessed 18 Dec. 2017].
DHS to Collect Social Media Data on All Immigrants
In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposes to modify a current DHS system of records titled, "Department of Homeland Security/U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection—001 Alien File, Index, and National File Tracking System of Records." This system of records contains information regarding transactions involving an individual as he or she passes through the U.S. immigration process.
DHS is updating the DHS/USCIS/ICE/CBP-001 Alien File, Index, and National File Tracking System of Records to include the following substantive changes, related to social media:
social media handles,
aliases,
associated identifiable information,
and search results.
Federal Register. (2017). Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records. [online] Available at: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/09/18/2017-19365/privacy-act-of-1974-system-of-records [Accessed 19 Oct. 2017].
Facebook Patent Able to Detect Users Emotions Via Webcams
Patent No.: 0242679 A1
Date of Patent: Aug. 27, 2015
Applicant: Facebook. Inc.
Inventor: Barak Reuven Naveh
The disregard for privacy, and the use of personal data for the accumulation of wealth and control may have just hit a whole new level; but don't worry, it is just so convenient.
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A patent filed in 2014 describes plans to detect users emotions and deliver specific content, based on those emotions, through computing devices such as laptops, mobile phones and tablets that have a digital camera.
"A need exists for delivering content a user that may be of current interest to them...[which] may be determined based upon their current emotional state." The patent goes on, "current content delivery systems typically do not utilize passive imaging information. Thus, a need exists for a content delivery solution that takes advantage of available passive imaging data to provide content to a user with improved relevancy."
The patent works by an application programming interface (API) component that is able to utilize the imaging component to detect emotion characteristics and store an association between the presented type of emotion and the detected emotion characteristics in the storage component. Once detected and identified, an emotion type may be stored, either temporarily for a defined period of time, or permanently in a user profile.
"Content delivery may be performed by an application stored on a device, such as a social networking application, or using a browser application, which may access content from the internet. Content may include, but is not limited to, social networking posts, photos, videos, audio, games, advertisements, or applications made available online or through an application store[d] on a device."
"Devices without limitation include a mobile device, a personal digital assistant, a mobile computing device, a smart phone, a cellular telephone, a handset, a one-way pager, a two-way pager, a messaging device, a computer, a personal computer, a desktop computer, a laptop computer, a notebook computer, a handheld computer, a tablet computer, or a wearable computer, such as a smart watch."
"Applications may include, but are not limited to, native mobile applications, web applications, desktop applications, or any combination thereof. Examples of native mobile applications may include social networking applications, newsreader applications, photography applications, video applications, media applications, search applications, games, e-reading applications, or the like."
"Devices may further include sensors, which may include accelerometer, temperature, gravity, light, accleration, magnetic field, orientation, pressure, rotational vector, or other sensors capable of sensing characteristics of a device and its environment."
Examples of operating systems that may be used by device include Apple iOS, Apple OS X, Google Android, Google Chrome OS, Microsoft Windows, or Microsoft Windows Phone.
An emotion characteristic may indicate feelings, moods, or expressions that can be categorized into types of emotions. Types of emotions may include emotions or expressions such as a smile, joy, humor, amazement, excitement, surprise, a frown, sadness, disappointment, confusion, jealousy, indifference, boredom, anger, depression, or pain. The patent also describes how it is able to detect whether a user is looking at a device or away from a device. Over a period of time, emotion detection may determine a user's interest in displayed content using a combination of detected emotion types. In this manner, a type of emotion may be associated with viewed content and content displayed to the user may be customized based upon emotion type (Techniques for emotion detection..., 2017).
The patent goes on to describe various combinations of components and/or methodologies.
Keep in mind, this isn't the first time Facebook has explored ways of manipulating its users. In 2014, Facebook ran a social experiment exploiting the emotions of nearly 700,000 users to determine whether negative or positive content would impact their emotions, in which it has been established to be very effective (Kramer, Guillory & Hancock, 2014).
Whether this technology will be implemented or not, in the meantime, it may be best to put tape over your devices' cameras, unless you would prefer to participate, and thus consent to, the end of your right to privacy.
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Grasso, S., & Baker-Whitelaw, G. (2017). Facebook patent application describes spying on users through their webcams. The Daily Dot. Retrieved 28 July 2017, from https://www.dailydot.com/debug/facebook-spy-webcam-patent-ads/
Kramer, A., Guillory, J., & Hancock, J. (2014). Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences, 111(24), 8788-8790. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1320040111
TECHNIQUES FOR EMOTION DETECTION AND CONTENT DELIVERY - FACEBOOK, INC.. (2017). Freepatentsonline.com. Retrieved 28 July 2017, from http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2015/0242679.html


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Q: OpenVolumeMesh, how to get coordinates from VertexHandle? I'm using OpenVolumeMesh and have so far been unable to figure out how to get the actual x, y, z coordinates from a VertexHandle. I have the following:
VertexHandle vh0 = mesh.halfedge(*he_it).from_vertex();
VertexHandle vh1 = mesh.halfedge(*he_it).to_vertex();

In OpenMesh, I could get a point using something like:
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float y = myPoint[1];
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How would I go about doing the same in OpenVolumeMesh?

A: In OpenVolumeMesh the function returning the position is called vertex.
Other than that you can access the coordinates in the same way.
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The Office of the Legislative Analyst has prepared a consultation on California`s forest and water management for the Subcommittee on Resources and Transportation and the Natural Resources Committee. The manual provides an overview of California`s forested areas; A debate on the effects of unhealthy forest conditions; Recommendations to improve forest and watershed management. "Business and citizen leaders are ready to take action to make our communities and watersheds more sustainable and resilient. This report highlights the way forward to invest in the multi-benefit landscape to support these goals," said Jim Mayer, CEO of California Forward. About News Worth Note: News Worth Note is a collection of press releases, press releases and other documents developed by federal, regional and local authorities, water authorities and academic institutions, as well as non-profit and interest-oriented organizations. News Worth Noteing also contains relevant legislative statements as well as environmental policies and legal analyses that are published by law firms. If your agency or organization has an item you want to include here, email it to Maven. BAWSCA respects the national water management service and its members and supports the objectives of the plan. However, the BAWSCA cannot support the plan adopted.
As part of its action last December, the National Water Management Board expressed its support for the ongoing negotiations on negotiations with voluntary counts and expressed its willingness to consider an alternative. However, the success of these negotiations remains uncertain for the time being. Therefore, BAWSCA must take the necessary legal steps to protect the interests of water consumers. BAWSCA joins the city and county of San Francisco, the Santa Clara Valley Water District and other water suppliers with a long list of complaints regarding the San Francisco Bay-Sacramento San Joaquin Delta Estuary plan recently passed by the State Water Board. The plan includes the Tuolumne River, which is the source of 85 percent of the water for the San Francisco Regional (Hetch Hetchy) Water System, which in turn provides two-thirds of the water used by BAWSCA agencies. "This legislation provides for emergency assistance as a down payment – but this is only the first step in addressing the clean drinking water crisis in our state," Said Governor Newsom. "The fact that more than a million Californians cannot rely on drinking water for drinking or bathing is a moral disgrace. Our state must find a long-term solution to this crisis, and I look forward to working with the legislature in the coming months to do so. BAWSCA recognizes the need for a healthy environment in the Bay Delta and will continue to support efforts to negotiate a voluntary settlement agreement as a preferred alternative to achieving its objectives and providing urgent water to all water users it represents.
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Sacramento, CA – The humanitarian act of cornea donation – a gift from a donor to recipient – went worldwide recently, with the help of Dr. Mark J. Mannis, Ocular Medical Director for Sierra Donor Services, and its parent company, DCI Donor Services, Inc. Mannis is also Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology & Vision Science and director of the Eye Center at UC Davis Health System.
Dr. Mannis traveled to San Salvador, El Salvador with two corneas recovered through Sierra Donor Services as well as corneas from other eye banks around the U.S.A., as part of the Flying Eye Hospital sponsored by ORBIS and FedEx Corp.
Dr. Mannis participated in a week long comprehensive skills exchange program aimed at strengthening the field of corneal surgery and raising awareness of eye care related conditions in El Salvador. In the four days of surgery on the Flying Eye Hospital, Mannis performed 11 corneal transplants and provided surgical instruction to his Salvadorian assistants. In addition, he lectured on corneal surgery in the airplane's classroom.


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POST DIVORCE ADVICE: CHILD SUPPORT
Written by Ken Maynard in Advice,Finances
Every day I see clients that all have post divorce issues, but the one that I run into the most is about child support . Money is always a touchy subject and one of the number one causes of divorce.
This one client, we will call her Ms. X, came to my office the other day and she was furious. She explained to me that she and Mr. X had agreed on child support, which was above the minimum required by her state. She also explained that although she was grateful that Mr. X was willing to pay more than his fair share, it still did not cover the essentials and that her new husband was coming out of pocket every single month to the tune of thousands of dollars to help support her children.
Now, Ms. X works, but her job does not pay her much, in fact, it barely covers the cost of child care. Mr. X, on the other hand, has a high profile job, owns 3 homes and 2 cars. Ms. X and her new husband recently moved to a new home that is in a desirable school district and Ms. X is considering moving one of her children from private school to public school. Ms. X has decision making regarding the education of her children.
When Ms. X spoke to Mr. X about this, he got very angry. Not because she was moving the child, because he told her he did not care where she put the child into school, but because he did not want to continue to pay that much in child support if all his children were not in private school and he told her that he would take her to court to get the minimum required support.
Ms. X is upset. She does not know what to do. She feels it is in her child's best interest to be in public school and it is in hers to move him because it is more cost effective. She does not have enough money to cover her children's everyday expenses along with their private school education with the support she is getting and the salary she is making. She also feels it is unfair for her husband to have to cover their expenses, when he has his own children he is also supporting.
Ms. X explained to Mr. X that the support does not cover the children's expenses and that her husband is carrying a large portion of those monthly expenses. Mr. X said he was carrying them as well, but Ms. X feels that since these are his children, he should be covering their expenses. Ms. X also told me that the children were not in this school when she and Mr. X divorced, so the amount of support was not contingent on the children's educational expenses.
Ms. X feels like she is stuck and that Mr. X, once again, has taken control of her life. She does not want to be under his power and he is using the money as a weapon. She divorced Mr. X for a reason, and this was one of them.
From a consultant's point of view, there are several issues at play here. Mr. X is using the money to control what Ms. X can and does with her children, even though he agreed to a pay a certain amount over the state minimum requirements and did not ask for certain rights, such as deciding education. Ms. X's current husband knew going into the marriage with Ms. X that he was going to be incurring expenses from her children. Ms. X needs to take a stand against both these men in her life.
Ms. X needs to do what is in the best interest of her children. Since Mr. X seems determined to cut back the support from Ms. X's perspective, she needs to discuss with her husband the cost difference between what she has now and what she would have without the private school tuition, but less child support. Then she needs to make a decision as to what to do.
I find it sad and, frankly, unbelievable, that Mr. X would punish his children by threatening to withdraw the previously agreed upon amount of child support. Ms. X did not ask for more funds each year as the children got older and their expenses grew. She also did not ask for more child support when she decided to enroll her children in private school; nor did she ask for more support as the cost of private school tuition went up every year. But, now Mr. X does not want to pay what he agreed to pay.
Ms. X gave me permission to discuss this issue online. What are your thoughts for Ms. X.
*This post was also published on Huffington Post Divorce.
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Are you struggling after a divorce? Or contemplating divorce and aren't sure where to turn? There's no denying that divorce is an emotionally draining and difficult experience—and no two divorce experiences are alike, making it hard for those going through divorce to know where to seek help.
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Help navigate your own divorce experience using my candid, conversational style that helps readers separate the divorce wheat from the chaff, so to speak. Learn what's true, what is sometimes true and what is absolutely never true about divorce.
No matter where you are in the divorce process, you'll find wisdom and advice within the pages of "Re-Singled." This is a book that's meant to be revisited at different points throughout your divorce strategy, giving you the ideas you need to successfully emerge after divorce and begin your journey to emotional healing and fulfillment.


In a meeting that ended late Friday, the Cambodian Bar Association voted to drop all fees, save $500 for registration, for foreign lawyers wishing to participate in the Khmer Rouge tribunal, three bar association lawyers said.
Lower fees could pave the way for continued talks over internal rules governing the tribunal, but it was unclear Friday night whether the decision would bring anyone back to the table.
A meeting to discuss those rules was cancelled earlier this month by UN-appointed judges, who said excessive fees for foreign lawyers would taint the tribunal, which has so far failed to indict a single former Khmer Rouge leader.
International judges were not immediately available for comment following the meeting. They canceled an April 30 meeting earlier this month with their Cambodian counterparts, saying they would work around the bar association if it did not relent on its high fees by the end of April.
Cambodian Bar Association President Ky Tech declined to comment on Friday's decision, saying an official statement would be released Saturday.
Observers warn that the much-delayed tribunal could collapse under its own three-year time limit if proceedings do not start soon.


Jasmine: Why Is Reading News Important?
Why Is Reading News Important?
You may ask why I am going on and on needlessly about perusing news. All things considered, I have been in the news business for quite a long time.
Danny Rubin's blog for the Huffington Post composed of the nine advantages of why world news is beneficial for you. Advantages incorporate building up a basic personality, being an educated native, and guarding us amid crises.
Try not to see people like me as dinosaurs. I have no disgrace in broadcasting that I appreciate snatching the Seattle Times, New York Times and USA Today. What's more, it doesn't make a difference on the off chance that you get your news on your PDA, as long as you stay aware of what's happening on the planet and your quick condition.
I utilized world news to bring up my children. Also, they ended up being more than fine. No, I am not kidding. Amid my oldest child's insubordinate high school years, he wouldn't hear me out regardless of what I said or how I said it — considerately, brutally, or pleadingly. So I utilized news as an asset.
"On the off chance that you don't trust me, simply read (the paper)," I would state as I hand my children the papers. Any great story with life exercises, I put something aside for my children. I made my focuses through the reasonable and striking "highly contrasting ink." The printed words worked like enchantment. Right away, there was no more open deliberation or battling. It was a compelling apparatus to quiets him down and he carried on like a submissive canine.
"It's in the daily paper, I didn't state it," I would overrule him not with a parental specialist, but rather the intensity of the press.
The suggestion is, it's genuine. It's reality. I didn't have to squander my vitality.
Perusing daily papers helped my children with their dialect aptitudes.
During supper, the news was a major piece of our family exchanges. Presidential chosen one Hillary Clinton has a book that is titled "It Takes a Village." It surely takes a town to bring up children and daily papers are a piece of the town to open my children's brains in various territories — zones I had no learning of, or things that could never enter my thoughts to instruct. I was astonished that my children, at a youthful age, saw extremely complex political issues.
In the late 1980s, previous Seattle City Councilmember Cheryl Chow and previous Seattle School Board part Al Sugiyama were running for office. My senior child, who had found out about them from perusing the Northwest Asian Weekly, was so energized when he saw Chow on TV out of the blue. He hurried to let me know, "Cheryl Chow is on TV!" as though he knew her. Some other time, he would copy the way Sugiyama talked with a high pitch after they met. He thought he knew them like companions. It is on account of the Asian Weekly has filled in as an extension between Asian American chose authorities and people in general.
Daily papers are for kids, as well as for grown-ups, as well. My 85-year-old close relative never moved on from primary school. A fervent daily paper peruser for her entire life, her insight and road smarts can trick you into suspecting that she is very taught.
"How could you realize that?" I regularly tested her when she tossed shared particular learning, including logical confirmation, at others. She quit smoking subsequent to being a long-lasting smoker at 69 years old since she read one article that talked about how smoking could cause a wide range of maladies.
So it's normal that my kids have dependably been occupied with the network, and inquisitive about individuals they read in daily papers. I never expected to annoy them to get included or vote. What's more, I credit their inquisitive personalities to their news-perusing propensities.
Other research has discovered that individuals who read the news are better conversationalists. On the off chance that you don't comprehend what to discuss with companions or outsiders, current occasions make for good themes.
In the event that you select news sources with validity and objectivity, you are likewise somebody who esteems reality. You figure out how to recognize certainty from fiction, one-sided and unprejudiced announcing — that is the means by which you build up a basic personality. This isn't achievable in days. You need to devour news once a day for a considerable length of time to get basic reasoning abilities. There are no easy routes.
Studies have likewise recommended that seniors who read news have a 17 percent lesser shot of treating Alzheimer's. When you read the news, it regularly triggers a few reactions, including recollections and forceful feelings from the cerebrum. Any psychological incitement can back off the maturing cerebrum. Whenever you gain some new useful knowledge, it helps the mind.
Daily papers are my every day wellspring of motivation. I figure out how to be flexible when I read about somebody who bobbed again from outrageous affliction. When becoming aware of incidents, I remind myself to give back and to help other individuals.
Daily papers are rich wellsprings of innovativeness. I duplicate other individuals' thoughts, alter them, and include my own contacts. When I read about others' mix-ups, I increase new learning and tips for my business, as well as answers for companions and myself.


We're three months into 2019, and I usually post my Favorite Photos of the Year in late December or early January, but I missed it this year. Still, I've done a collection of my favorite photos of the year each year since I founded this site in 2012, and I didn't want to miss is for 2018. Each year I go back through my images and pick a selection of my favorite photos from the year as a way to look back at my work and evaluate where I can improve, and what went well.
Like any creative pursuit, photography can be an activity that has ebbs and flows creatively, with some stretches yielding outstanding output, while at other times, the creativity and execution may be lacking a bit. While I think I got some very nice shots in 2018, I don't think it was one of my better years of photography from a quality standpoint, at least in comparison to other recent years. It was fine, but I found I got into a bit of a rut creatively at times: a rut I'm still sort of working my way out of. This isn't the first time I've felt this way, and each time, you just need to keep shooting and work your way out of it. Anyway, below are a selection of 15 of my favorite images from the year. They may not be my absolute best work, but these are the ones I liked the best.
Jordan, I have always enjoyed your site, the reviews, the occasional instructional post, and last but not least your photographs. Compared to other similar review/commentary photography sites I follow your photographs are some of the very best in my humble opinion. I visit your site to find inspiration from your photos as much as I do to read about gear, perhaps with a nod to your photos even though the reviews are very good as well. So, to me, your 2018 collection is very good, I specially like the Antigua shots and how well you composed those shots and brought out the colors as well. Thanks for sharing your photographic journey with us.


This haven at the busy end of Orchard Road offers an ample spread of local and international fare. Start with the oysters, which are delicious and worth queueing for. One of the highlights of the Western selection is the crispy pork saddle, rolled in a marinade of prune, pancetta and herbs; it's served with a choice of quite a few sauces, of which the most hearty is the jus from the roasting pan. The pork is tender, with a very crispy crust. For those with a penchant for seafood, the local highlight is the Singapore chilli crab, which looks more fiery than it actually is. For dessert, the sticky date pudding, served with a delicious warm custard sauce, ticks all the right boxes. Service is prompt, courteous and knowledgeable.


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IMPORTED REGISTER BREEDS CLAIM TITLES AT OPEN SHOWS
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Griffon Fauve among first winners of ShCEx
Two dogs have made history for their Imported Register breeds by claiming titles for the first time thanks to a recent change in show regulations which now allows such breeds to compete in group and BIS competitions.
The Swedish-bred Standard Xoloitzcuintle (Mexican Hairless), Xipilli Element Of Desire for Bondor ShCM, owned by Stuart Smith and Edward Wisniewski of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire has the distinction of being the only Imported Register winner of the recently discontinued Show Certificate of Merit (ShCM) title.
"It has not been easy as all of Oscar's points had to be from group placings", said Stuart. "We are absolutely gobsmacked at how far this boy has come".
Oscar was the first of his breed to win a group at an open show, an award he has won twice. He has also had success at championships shows, handled by Edward, winning Best Imported Register at BUBA in 2017 as well as at Scottish Kennel Club (May) and Leeds in 2018. He is also the only dog of his breed to win the Kennel Club Good Citizen Gold Award.
With the ShCM award about to be discontinued, Stuart and Edward decided to use Oscar's points to claim that title rather than go for the new Show Certificate of Excellence (ShCEx) award, which they hope to try for in future with Oscar.
The ShCM title was replaced at the beginning of 2019 by the ShCEx award and already an Imported Register breed has claimed this award – the French-bred Griffon Fauve de Bretagne, Melisent du Sentier des Caillottes ShCEx, owned by Paul Wyler of Northallerton, North Yorkshire.
"We are, understandably, delighted and very proud. As an Imported Register breed, this is the only UK title Melisent has been eligible for", said Paul. "We are passionate about promoting our breed, and the Imported Register breeds in general, so this is a real opportunity to fly the Imported Breed Register flag."
Melisent gained her first open show group placing when she won fourth (coincidentally under Oscar's owner Stuart) at Darlington Canine Society in February 2018 and her final points were won at Cleveland Dog Society under Mark Walshaw in February of this year where she was again group 4, handled by Paul's wife Abbe. During this period, Melisent won ten group placings including three firsts. She also has her Kennel Club Good Citizen Bronze Award.
Paul and Abbe say Melisent has regularly won Best and BOS Imported Register at championship shows in the UK. She has also been graded Excellent at every European show she has attended and has won four CAC and CACIB. However, they feel that her greatest placings have been in the breed show in her native France, the Nationale d'Elevage where she was shortlisted in junior bitch in 2017 and won fourth in open bitch last year. The club's motto is 'hunting first'.
"As the breed at best in the UK is two generations down from working hounds, we believe it is important to acknowledge what they were bred to do," said Paul. "We take part in scent tracking training days hosted by the Bavarian Mountain Hound Society, to allow our hounds the opportunity to use their noses. They really do love it."
On the new ShCEx award itself, Stuart Smith said: "I am sure it will encourage more entries at open shows, especially for the Imported Register and rare breeds as it will get them more publicity and exposure."
Paul Wyler added: "We are so pleased to have an award that the Imported Register breeds can aim for. It can only help towards achieving more open show entries. Anything that encourages people to support their local open shows can only be a good thing."
Caroline Kisko, Kennel Club Secretary, said: "We are delighted to hear of Stuart and Edward's success with Oscar and also Paul and Abbe's wins with Melisent. These two dogs have created history for their own breeds at open shows, as well as for the Imported Register breeds more generally, and we look forward to hearing of many more successes for these breeds in the years to come. These new titles are a sure sign of more wins in store for these breeds."
More information on the new Show Certificate of Excellence award, including a claim form which outlines the point system, is available at bit.ly/2UtiFbJ. All enquiries should be directed to email sass@thekennelclub.org.uk.


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Uta Eisenreich
Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS is pleased to announce the first exhibition of its 2021/2022 programme, a solo show by Uta Eisenreich with her most recent photographic work alongside the presentation of the artist's new book AS IF at Sans Serriffe in Amsterdam on Thursday 2 September.
The opening, in the presence of the artist, is part of the Amsterdam Art Weekend, in which most Amsterdam galleries extend the opening of their shows from Friday to Sunday.
Uta Eisenreich's visual world is one with many worlds within. In her long-awaited new book AS IF and the eponymous solo show at Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS, Uta Eisenreich explores representation and language, following her interest in perception and illusion. Her photographic still lifes bear a particular sense of logic; they challenge the quotidian by applying an impression of absurdity and apparent banality with scientific precision. A certain oddity might confuse the eye, despite the precise and linear structures, the hidden patterns, and layers of meanings in the images. Uta Eisenreich's work is a playground for the viewer to construct meaning out of re-signified and de-signified objects.
As philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein expressed in his Philosophical Investigations, words are not defined by reference to the objects they designate, nor by what is mentally associated with them, but by how they are employed. In a playful yet calculated manner, Eisenreich draws from theories of language learning and popular symbol systems, from emojis to the grammatical and mathematical visualisations of Maria Montessori. Altogether, they form a rich repository of linguistic propositions that question and inform our collective consciousness.
By means of either isolating or grouping objects and distilling them to primary shapes, colours, and silhouettes – reminiscent of De Stijl or the psychology of colour from the Bauhaus – Eisenreich looks into methods of abstraction and minimalization. The common object is a protean character that transforms from its humble self into an abstract sign, from a character into a product with a certain value. How can an object become a sign? How much meaning and intention can be read in a couple of emoji? How can an object be transformed into a character or a product? Things are attractively amalgamated in the artist's images to constitute a world of reflections and shadows, of levels and horizons, of similitude and contrast, where everything is as it seems, except it is not.
Borrowing from the language of commercial product photography, Eisenreich infuses objects with an acute and dramatic sense of the ominous. The never-ending production of cheap and unsustainable supplies that Hypercapitalism sustains with an attractive, glossy layer is zoomed in and darkened in the artist's pictures. What usually catches our eye and lights consumerism in us is turned into a sinister reminder of the many ecological crises we are facing.
With hieroglyphical sense-making, Uta Eisenreich simultaneously informs and twists our expectations of reality. In an ongoing practice of expanding meaning, her work is a visual feast of the semiotics of the everyday. Wittily, Uta Eisenreich makes things perform before the lens of the camera in an intriguing play of suggestion and transformation, piercing their superficial veneer and breathing a most fascinating animism into them.


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APAH Receives Leadership Arlington Nonprofit Award – May 28, 2015
APAH Receives Leadership Arlington Nonprofit Award
L-R: Betsy Frantz, Leadership Arlington President/CEO; Nina Janopaul, APAH President/CEO; Brian Scull, Leadership Arlington Board Chair. Photo credit: Leadership Arlington.
Arlington, VA (May 28, 2015) – The Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing's (APAH) was named the Nonprofit Award Winner at the Leadership Arlington 2015 Leadership Legacy Awards on May 20, 2015 at The Westin Arlington Gateway.
"APAH is deeply honored to receive the Leadership Arlington 2015 Nonprofit Leadership Legacy Award," said Nina Janopaul, President/CEO of APAH and Leadership Arlington Signature Program Class of 2003 member. "This distinction recognizes APAH's leadership not only in real estate development, but also in improving the lives of our residents and supporting our community."
The Leadership Arlington Leadership Legacy Awards brought together more than 200 community leaders to celebrate award winners and the graduating Leadership Arlington Signature Program Class of 2015. Award recipients were selected for their demonstration of leadership in our community and support of Leadership Arlington's mission "to enlighten, inspire and connect" leaders in our community. Additional 2015 winners include Bean, Kinney & Korman, P.C., Ethics Award, and the Arlington Food Assistance Center (AFAC), Community Impact Award.
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APAH is a nonprofit that develops, preserves, owns, and advocates quality rental housing that is affordable to low and moderate-income families and promotes opportunity for residents through partnerships and programs. APAH works exclusively in Arlington County. Founded in 1989, APAH now helps more than 1200 households live in stable, secure and affordable rental homes. In 2014 APAH was named Developer of the Year by the Housing Association of Nonprofit Developers (HAND). APAH's Arlington Mill Residences has been awarded Best Housing Development in Virginia at the Virginia Governor's Housing Conference; EarthCraft Virginia's MultiFamily New Construction Project of the Year and Urban Land Institute – Washington's Excellence in Housing Development Award. APAH received the Prize for Innovation and Impact from the Arlington Community Foundation in 2011; in 2009 APAH received the HAND Innovation Award and in 2008 was named Best Nonprofit by the Arlington Chamber of Commerce.


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Everything in Anton's is produced in our own kitchen.
Our sandwiches are served on our own foccaccia bread which is freshly baked every morning. Soups and salads are produced with fresh local ingredients. Dressings and relishes are Anton's own special blends. All our scones, muffins and desserts are cooked in house as well.
We have to go a bit farther afield for our coffee beans and teas. However, we can guarantee the best cappuccinos, lattes and espressos in Galway, a delicious array of herbal teas and you can get a good old-fashioned pot of Barry's tea as well.
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Finally the big move is complete and the most of the major moving related stuff is taken care of. Thus I actually had some time to write State Og this week, and it's all up in your area up in your area! Wow! I wrote So Fresh and So Clean and Self's Little Helper so skip right to those and ignore the other ones! Just kidding!


From left: Sophomores Kevin Doubleday, William Suchanek, Lenna Daniels and Gavin Dubois are the executive board of Helping Hands an organization which plans to offer students community service opportunities.
This semester, a new club aims to lend a helping hand to Ithaca College students who want to do community service.
Helping Hands is a new student organization that will launch this semester to provide community service opportunities to students at the college.
Sophomore Lenna Daniels, president and founder of Helping Hands, said the purpose of the group is to raise awareness of the community service opportunities on campus. She said there will be a Facebook page or website for other on-campus organizations and individuals to find volunteers for upcoming on-campus events.
Daniels said the use of social media will allow students to view almost all of the upcoming service events on campus.
"I thought that I should start an organization that kind of bridges the gap of communication between the students who want to help and the organizations that need help. [This will] basically allow organizations to get the word out about their events and getting volunteers," Daniels said.
Daniels said she first came up with Helping Hands in the beginning of the 2014–15 school year because during the previous school year she was not able to commit to a community service organization on campus.
In order to raise awareness about Helping Hands and get people involved, Daniels said she plans to be present Jan. 28 at the Student Organization Fair.
Daniels said the dry-erase board would have the phrase, "The power is in my hands to … " and feature people's comments around the phrase. She said she expects people to write statements such as, "change the world," "make a difference," "make others smile" or "improve the community." She said all of the phrases on the board will then be turned into a poster that can be viewed all over campus in hopes of getting people involved with the club and volunteering.
Sophomore Kevin Doubleday, Helping Hands community outreach officer, said as long as there are service and volunteer needs on campus and in the Ithaca area, Helping Hands will be there to fill in the gaps. He said participation and passion will help make the club thrive.
Freshman Michael Hanley, a varsity basketball player, said there are student-athletes who are so busy with practices and games that they don't have enough time to commit to community service.
Daniels said she wants Helping Hands to host events that are easy and convenient community service opportunities, such as food and clothing drives, for those with busy schedules.
Doubleday said the executive board members of Helping Hands want the college community to know that they are here to help.
Megan Williams, the residence director for West Tower, is the adviser for Helping Hands. Williams said she thinks Daniels will be an effective president.


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Glaxo prevails in transfer pricing tax fight
October 18, 2012 |Written By Heather Gardiner
The Supreme Court of Canada has released its highly anticipated ruling in Canada v. GlaxoSmithKline Inc. with the pharmaceutical giant coming out a winner.
Although the court sided with GlaxoSmithKline, it is sending the case back to the Tax Court of Canada to determine a reasonable price. (Photo: Toby Melville/Reuters)
The top court was asked to determine whether GlaxoSmithKline was wrong to charge its Canadian subsidiary higher prices to avoid paying Canadian taxes.
This is the first time the SCC has addressed the rules on transfer pricing.
The ruling "may make it easier for foreign companies to dodge Canadian tax liabilities," Art Cockfield, a tax law expert and professor at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., told Reuters.
Under transfer pricing, Canadian subsidiaries of foreign companies have to declare how much they pay their parent company for the products they import for sale. If they inflate the price paid for the products, the subsidiary can decrease its Canadian profits and pay less tax.
"That evil, if you will, has been around for a long time," John Tobin, a partner at Torys LLP, told Law Times. "But in the last eight to 10 years, it has become a very large focus to what the Canada Revenue Agency is doing. They've beefed up their auditors and they're quite concerned that Canada is losing its fair share of tax revenue by people miss-pricing what they're doing between their related parties."
The dispute goes back to the early 1990s when Glaxo Canada purchased ranitidine from Adechsa, a foreign affiliate, for between $1,512 and $1,651 per kilogram for sale in Canada under the trademark Zantac. Other generic drug makers purchased ranitidine for between $194 and $304 per kilogram from arm's-length suppliers.
This caught the eye of the Canada Revenue Agency, which came to the conclusion that Glaxo was inflating its transfer price for ranitidine and reassessed the company for $51 million in unpaid taxes.
Glaxo appealed to the Tax Court of Canada, which dismissed the appeal, but the Federal Court of Appeal allowed it.
Today, the SCC dismissed the appeal and cross-appeal, ruling that it was appropriate for the Canadian subsidiary to pay more for pharmaceutical ingredients than a generic drug maker would pay due to the terms in its licence agreement with GlaxoSmithKline.
"Considering the licence and supply agreements together offers a realistic picture of the profits of Glaxo Canada," SCC Justice Marshall Rothstein wrote on behalf of the bench.
"It cannot be irrelevant that Glaxo Canada's function was primarily as a secondary manufacturer and marketer. It did not originate new products and the intellectual property rights associated with them. Nor did it undertake the investment and risk involved with originating new products. Nor did it have the other risks and investment costs which Glaxo Group undertook under the licence agreement. The prices paid by Glaxo Canada to Adechsa were a payment for a bundle of at least some rights and benefits under the licence agreement and product under the supply agreement."
Although the court sided with GlaxoSmithKline, it is sending the case back to the Tax Court of Canada to determine what a reasonable price would have been for the Canadian subsidiary to pay.
With files from Law Times and Reuters.
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Université Laval law professor Patrick Taillon uses a decidedly Canadian analogy to explain why he thinks Quebec should be an equal partner with Ottawa in the selection of the three Supreme Court justices that the Constitution of Canada guarantees la belle province.
Quebec Court of Appeal's Nicholas Kasirer nominated to Supreme Court of Canada
Nicholas Kasirer, a judge of the Court of Appeal of Quebec who previously served on the faculty of McGill University's law school for 20 years, is on track to be the next justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
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News Release - April 18, 2016
Courts Mourn the Passing of Justice Richard Mosk
LOS ANGELES—Associate Justice Richard M. Mosk passed away after a brief illness on Sunday, April 17, 2016. Justice Mosk was the son of Supreme Court of California Associate Justice Stanley Mosk, and had just retired from the Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Five in March. He was 76.
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Clara Foltz: California's First Woman Lawyer
Clara Shortridge Foltz was a trial lawyer and a pioneer of the Women's Suffrage Movement.
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Court of Appeal Holds Education Program for High School Students
The Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, Division Three, will host its "Appellate Court Experience" (ACE) educational outreach program.
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Study: Free legal services help settle high-stakes civil cases
A pilot program that funds free legal services for low-income Californians facing critical civil cases drastically increased the likelihood of settlement, improved the longevity of court orders, and reduced court costs, a new study shows.
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Civics Movement Gains Ground
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More than 150 judges, court managers and IT professionals came together in Sacramento last week to find new ways to harness technologies to offer better service and access to the public.
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Chief Justice Names Members of Advisory Committee on Audits and Financial Accountability
California Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye on Wednesday named nine members to the Judicial Council's Advisory Committee on Audits and Financial Accountability for the Judicial Branch.
Second Appellate District to Launch Mandatory E-Filing Oct. 30
The court will host an e-filing webinar next month to help attorneys and the public use the new system.
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Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, Chair of the Commission on Judicial Appointments, announced that the commission today confirmed three appointees to the Courts of Appeal.
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A flat panel assembly for a drawer tower includes a left panel including a left rail adapted to slidably receive a rim of a drawer, a right panel including a right rail adapted to slidably receive a rim of a drawer, and a back panel foldably integral with the left panel along a first joint, and foldably integral with the right panel along a second joint.
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This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application 60/382,820, filed on May 23, 2002.
The present invention relates generally to a drawer tower for holding drawers, shelves, and the like and, more specifically, to a flat panel assembly that can be configured as a drawer tower.
Plastic drawer towers are most commonly made with a series of frames connected to each other. Each frame only accommodates a single drawer and has its own molded-in risers. A separate cover is connected at the top to enclose the drawers. In other drawer towers, the risers are molded separately and mechanically attach to the frames at both top and bottom. Drawers of different heights can be used in a single tower but each drawer requires a separate and unique frame. The frames of both aforementioned examples must be fastened together, increasing the number of parts required to assemble the drawer tower as well as increasing/decreasing the overall height of the unit.
The towers are labor intensive to assemble, require slides in the molds to form structure for a positive connection between parts, and need to have vertical draft to be molded, which precludes the front opening from being square with the drawer.
Drawers currently ride along their bottom surface making them difficult to open when they hold any substantial amount of weight since the weight that the drawer is carrying causes the bottom of the drawer to deflect downwards and catch on the frame below the drawer. Drawers that slide along their bottoms also tend to tip downward when opened. This causes the drawers to fall out of the frame. With the drawer open and loaded, the whole tower tips forward toward the user of the drawer.
Friction or interference fits to connect the components of the frames may simplify the mold. However, in some applications such friction fit components may not allow for a robust frame design that holds together well when moved.
FIG. 1 is a front perspective view of a drawer tower assembly constructed in accordance with the teachings of the present disclosure;
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a drawer adapted to be used with the drawer tower assembly of FIG. 1.
FIG. 2a is a fragmentary cross-sectional view taken along line 2a-2a of FIG. 2.
FIG. 3 is a front perspective view of a flat panel assembly used to constructed the drawer tower of FIG. 1, showing the assembly in a generally flat configuration.
FIG. 4 is a rear perspective view of the flat panel assembly of FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 is a front perspective view of the flat panel drawer tower assembly of FIGS. 3 and 4, showing the assembly in a position configured to accept drawers;
FIG. 6 is a rear perspective view of the flat panel drawer tower of FIG. 5;
FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the inside face of the left side panel of the assembly of FIG. 5;
FIG. 8 is a cut away view of the left side panel with a set of drawers inserted therein.
FIG. 9 is a detail view taken from circle IX in FIG. 8.
FIG. 10 is a detail view taken from circle X in FIG. 7.
FIG. 11 is a perspective view of one example of a top panel of the assembly of FIG. 1.
FIG. 12 is a perspective view of the underside of the top panel of FIG. 11.
FIG. 13 is a perspective view of one example of a base of the assembly of FIG. 1.
The embodiments described herein are not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the scope of the invention to the precise form or forms disclosed. Instead, the following embodiments have been described in order to best explain the principles of the invention and to enable others skilled in the art to follow its teachings.
Referring now to FIG. 1, a drawer tower assembly generally referred to by the reference numeral 10 is shown. The drawer tower assembly 10 defines a left hand side 12, a right hand side 14, a back side 16, and a front side 18. The drawer tower assembly 10 includes a panel assembly 20, a top panel 22, a base 24, and a plurality of drawers 26. The panel assembly includes a left panel 28, a right panel 30, and an interconnecting back panel 32. The left panel 28 and right panel 28 are used to support the drawers 26 in a suspended and slidable state, as will be seen later. In this example, a total of three drawers 26a, 26b, and 26c are shown. However, as, will be explained, more or less drawers 26 can be used in the drawer tower assembly 10.
Referring now to FIG. 2 and 2a, each drawer 26 in this example has a front face 34 with a front handle 36 disposed thereon, a bottom 38, and a continuous sidewall 40 extending up from an outer periphery of the bottom 38. Disposed near the top of the continuous sidewall 40 is a sliding rail 42, shown in cross section in FIG. 2a. The sliding rail 42 is generally U-shaped, with a laterally extending rim 44 and an outside wall 46 extending upwards from the rim 44. The rim 44 can be used to slidably support the drawer 26 in the panel assembly 20. The outside wall 46 includes a stop 48. The stop 48 is a portion of the outside wall 46 that extends higher than the outside wall 46 along the left side 12 and right side 14. As will be seen later, the stop 48 prevents the drawer 26 from being slid out of the drawer tower 10 accidentally. The drawer 26 further can include a rear handle 50 on the back side 16. The rear handle 50 can be used to carry the drawer 26 in conjunction with the front handle 36 when the drawer 26 is removed from the panel assembly 20.
Now referring to FIGS. 3 and 4, the panel assembly 20 is shown in a substantially flat configuration, i.e. the left panel 28, the right panel 30, and the back panel 32 lie in substantially the same plane. Each of the left panel 28, the right panel 30, and the back panel 32, includes a top portion 28a, 30a, and 32a, respectively. Similarly, each of the left panel 28, the right panel 30, and the back panel 32, includes a lower portion 28b, 30b, 32b respectively. The left panel 28 meets the back panel 32 along a first joint 52, while the right panel 30 meets the back panel 32 along a second joint 54. The left panel 28 includes a left edge 56 opposite the first joint 52, while the right panel 30 includes a right edge 58 opposite the second joint 54.
As seen in FIGS. 3 and 7, the left panel 28 includes an inside face 60 on which a number of rails 62 generally extend between the first joint 52 and the left edge 56. Similarly, the right panel 32 includes an inside face 64 on which a number of rails 66 generally extend between the second joint 54 and the right edge 58. As seen best in FIG. 7, each rail 62 is defined by an upper bar 68 and a lower bar 70 between which is a receiving area 72. The receiving area 72 is sized to accept the sliding rail 42 of the drawer 26.
In this example, a total of six rails 62, 66 are disposed on each of the left panel 28 and the right panel 30. Again, more or less rails 62, 66 could be employed. In this example, the rail 62, 66 are spaced a consistent distance D apart. Also in this example, the three drawers 26a, 26b, 26c each have an approximate height of 2 D. It can be seen that different combinations of drawer sizes can easily be substituted, such as, for example, two drawers of height 3 D, six drawers of height D, or one drawer of height D, one drawer of height 2 D, and one drawer of height 3 D. In examples where the drawer has a height 2 D or greater, at least one set of rails 62, 66 is not used.
The back panel 32 (FIG. 3) includes a number of supports 74. Each support 74 is disposed at an elevation similar to that of the lower bar 70 of a rail 62, 66. The support 74 can help bear the rim 44 of the drawer 26 when the drawer 26 is fully inserted into the panel assembly 20.
The inside face 60 of the left panel 28 also preferably includes a number of generally vertically extending reinforcing ribs 76, while the inside face 64 of the right panel 30 includes a plurality of generally vertically extending reinforcing ribs 78.
The panel assembly 20 can be manufactured in this flat configuration as shown for advantages in the molding process as will be detailed later. In this example, the first joint 52 and the second joint 54 are molded in, or living hinges. Thus, the left panel 28 and the back panel 32 are flexibly joined along the first joint 52, and the right panel 30 and the back panel 32 are flexibly joined along the second joint 54.
Accordingly, during assembly, the left panel 28 and the right panel 30 simply may be folded into the configuration shown in FIGS. 5 and 6. The left panel 28 is shown to be disposed to the back panel 32 at substantially a 90° angle along the first joint 52. Further, the right panel 30 is also shown to be disposed to the back panel 32 at substantially a 90° angle along the second joint 54. In this configuration, the left panel 28 and the right panel 30 are substantially parallel to each other, with the left edge 56 and the right edge 58 generally forming a front edge of the tower assembly. This adds structural integrity as well as simplifies assembly by not requiring the panels to be fastened together at a later manufacturing stage.
Referring now to FIGS. 7, 8, and 9, the rim 44 of a drawer 26 is shown sliding in a rail 62 in a cut-away drawing. This configuration is known as a lift and slide. As mentioned before, the rails 62 include an upper bar 68, a lower bar 70, and a receiving area 72 through which the drawer sliding rail 42 is inserted during assembly. The rim 44 of the drawer 26 can slide along the lower bar 70 of the rail 62 which supports the drawer 26 and allows the drawer 26 to slide in and out. Referring to FIGS. 8 and 9, the upper bar 68 includes a blocker 80, which ensures that a drawer 26 does not accidentally slide out of the rail 62. The blocker 80 extends downward from the upper bar 68 near the left edge 56 (for the left panel). This configuration is mirrored on the right panel 30. If the drawer 26 is pulled out too far, the stop 48 extending up from the rim 44 on the drawer 26 contacts the blocker 80, and the movement of the drawer 26 toward the front side 18 is stopped.
The lower bar 70 includes a shoulder 82, where the lower bar 70 angles downward, thereby increasing the distance between the upper bar 68 and lower bar 70. This provides room for the stop 48 to pass by the blocker 80 when the drawer 26 is intentionally removed from the panel assembly 20, or when the drawer 26 is inserted into the panel assembly 20. The drawer 26 simply must be tilted for the stop 48 to clear the blocker 80 during removal or installation.
In this example, the drawer 26 is supported solely by the rims 44 engaging the rails 62, 66 rather than the drawer 26 being supported along its bottom 38. According to the disclosed example, such an arrangement minimizes the surface contact and thereby allows the drawers 26 to slide in and out more easily.
Referring now to FIGS. 3, 7, and 10, the top portions 28a, 30a, and 32a each include one or more snaps 84, which enable the top cover 22 to snap in place to the top portions 28a, 30a, and 32a, of the left panel 28, the right panel 30, and the back panel 32, respectively. In this example, each of the left panel 28, right panel 30, and back panel 32 include a plurality of resilient hooks 86 (only the left panel shown in FIGS. 7 and 10). The hooks 86 extend upward and inward toward the center of the drawer tower assembly 10.
Referring now to FIGS. 9 and 10, a top view and a bottom view of a top cover 22 is shown. The top cover 22 includes a panel 88 with a plurality of receivers 90 opening from the bottom. The receivers 90 further have a lateral opening 92 on the inside. Thus, during assembly, the top cover 22 is placed onto the top portions 28a, 30a, and 32a of the left panel 28, the right panel 30, and the back panel 32. The hooks 86 are inserted into the receivers 90, and once the panel 88 is lowered into position, the hooks 86 snap inward and through the lateral openings 92. This securely maintains the top cover 22 to the panel assembly 20, as well as helping to maintain the panels 28, 30, and 32 in a fixed angular relationship with each other, when the tower is set up to receive drawers.
Referring now to FIG. 13, a base 24 for the drawer tower assembly 10 is shown. The base 24 supports the weight of the drawer tower assembly 10 and also helps to maintain the left panel 28, right panel 30, and back panel 32 in the set up fixed angular relationship. The base includes caster receivers 94 for inserting casters (not shown) such that the drawer tower assembly 10 can be roller easily. The base 24 further includes snap receivers 96. Referring back to FIG. 7, each of the lower portions 28b, 30b, 32b includes a number of snaps 98. During assembly, the snaps 98 are inserted into the snap receivers 96 of the base 24, thereby securing and engaging the lower portions 28b, 30b, 32b of the left panel 28, the right panel 30, and the back panel 32, respectively.
The flat panel assembly 20 as described herein can be molded using a stack mold. Utilizing a stack mold for the panel assembly 20 produces one complete panel assembly 20 in one machine cycle in the smallest sized machine possible. The stack configuration utilizes two mold faces to place parts one behind the other in the mold. When viewed along the axis of the injection barrel of the molding machine, the projected area of only one part is seen. The projected area is directly related to the clamp tonnage required to hold the mold shut, thus if the projected area of one part is "seen" by the machine, the tonnage required will be half of that required by a side by side, or family, configuration.
As an alternative, one may utilize machines with multiple injection units in addition to or instead of stack molds, but the tower frame assembly 10 may still be produced in one machine cycle. Further, the entire frame (including a top panel and a bottom panel, for example) may be molded as one piece with the top cover 22 and the base 24 hinged to the back panel 16 or to one or the other of the side panels 28, 30. Such a configuration may be more favorable from a labor standpoint, but would require larger tonnage molding machines.
The rails 62 and 66 are preferably oriented such that the left and right panels 28 and 30 are parallel to the platens of an injection molding machine (not shown). Such an arrangement allows the tower assembly 10 to be configured as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6 with the left and right panels 28 and 30 perpendicular to the back panel 32, and with the rails 62 and 66 equidistant from each other along their length from the front edges 56, 58 of the tower assembly 10 to the joints 54, 56 of the tower assembly 10.
In alternative examples, the number and location of the rails 62, 66 on each of the side panels 28 and 30 may be varied. For example, the individual rails could have inconsistent distances from each other. Such an arrangement provides the ability to use the same molded frame to produce a wide variety of product combinations, whether or not the extra rails are utilized in any particular application. Accordingly, the drawer tower assembly 10 may employ a number of different drawers having different vertical dimensions, and may permit the use of combinations of differently sized drawers with differently spaced shelves.
Further, different rail configurations known in the art may be used. For example, rails 62, 66 may be used with or without a lift and slide. The rails 62, 66 may be molded by either using mold inserts or simply by the mold itself.
As a further alternative, the left panel 28, the right panel 30, and the back panel 32 may all be molded separately. Such an arrangement would be less favorable from a labor standpoint and would require some method of mechanical attachment to secure the components together such as, for example, snaps of the type used to hold the top and bottom panels in place.
As a further alternative, the rails 62, 66 may be formed separately and then mechanically attached to the inside faces 60, 64, respectively, rather than having the rails 62, 66 molded into the sidewalls 28, 30.
Also, it will be understood that shelves (not shown) could be inserted into the rails 62, 66, with drawer bottoms riding over the top of the shelf instead of the drawer rims riding on the rails.
Further, inserts could easily be added to the molds to change the appearance of the side panels for further product differentiation. Because of the direction of mold opening and short depth of draw, in-mold labeling can easily be utilized to apply patterns, color, designs, and treatments to the individual panels.
Because the panel assembly 20 is a single integral unit, the panel assembly 20 produces one complete drawer tower assembly 10 in one machine cycle in the smallest sized machine possible.
The flat panel frame concept in accordance with the disclosed example reduces the number of parts required to construct the drawer tower 10 while offering a plurality of drawer sizes in a drawer unit that is one standard height. Molded-in ledges at the tops of the drawers ride between rails molded inside the drawer frame, making them easier to slide in and out and increasing the tip resistance of the unit. Various combinations of, for example, two to six drawers of three different heights can be assembled into the drawer frame minimizing the cost and complexity of the units.
The disclosed example may address one or more disadvantages that may be found in prior art configurations. For example, when the entire frame is molded in one piece and enclosed except for the front, adequate draft for part ejection is required. This makes the back of the drawer opening larger than the front. The drawers can't ride on the rails without falling off, and therefore shelves need to be added to support the drawers. On such an arrangement, the drawers must ride on their bottoms.
According to the disclosed example, the lay-flat frames will provide structure to eliminate shifting and racking of the drawer tower. Fewer pieces to assemble results in less labor required for assembly. In prior art systems, often times a different frame/riser was required per drawer height, necessitating molds for each height frame and also for the drawer.
While the drawer tower assembly 10 has been described with reference to specific examples which are intended to be illustrative only and not to be limiting of the invention, it will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art that changes, additions or deletions may be made to the disclosed examples without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
1. A flat panel assembly for forming a drawer tower assembly, the flat panel assembly comprising:
a left panel including a left rail adapted to slidably receive a rim of a drawer;
a right panel including a right rail adapted to slidably receive a rim of a drawer; and
a back panel joined to the left panel along a first joint and joined to the right panel along a second joint, the first and second joints arranged to permit the left and right panels to fold relative to the back panel to form the drawer tower assembly;
each of the left rail and the right rail including an upper bar and a lower bar defining a receiving area sized to slidably receive a portion of a drawer, each upper bar and each lower bar including an approximately horizontal portion;
each upper bar including a blocker extending downwardly toward the lower bar, the blocker sized and shaped to abut a stop on the drawer to prevent the drawer from sliding past the blocker, the blocker disposed on an end of the upper bar opposite the back panel; and
each lower bar including a recess opposite the blocker and extending away from the upper bar, the recess cooperating with the blocker such that a stop of the drawer can be pulled from behind the blocker to in front of the blocker by angling the drawer downwardly into the recess.
2. The flat panel assembly of claim 1, wherein the first joint comprises a living hinge, and the second joint comprises a living hinge.
3. The flat panel assembly of claim 1, wherein a majority of the lower bar is substantially parallel to the upper bar.
4. The flat panel assembly of claim 1, wherein the back panel includes a drawer support.
5. The flat panel assembly of claim 1, wherein the left panel, the back panel, and the right panel each include a top portion, the top portions including snaps adapted to secure a cover.
6. The flat panel assembly of claim 1, wherein the left panel, the back panel, and the right panel each include a lower portion, the lower portions including snaps adapted to secure a base.
7. The flat panel assembly of claim 1, wherein the left rail is integral with the left panel, and the right rail is integral with the right panel.
8. The flat panel assembly of claim 1, wherein the left panel and the right panel include a plurality of rails the rails being spaced evenly apart in elevation.
9. The flat panel assembly of claim 8, wherein the left panel and the right panel include six rails each.
10. The flat panel assembly of claim 1, wherein the blocker extends perpendicularly to the horizontal portion of the upper bar.
11. A drawer and tower assembly comprising:
a drawer having a front panel, a rear panel, and a left side having an outwardly extending left rim and a right side having an outwardly exending right rim, at least one of the rims including an upwardly extending stop disposed adjacent the rear panel;
a tower assembly comprising a left panel, right panel, and a back panel, the left and right panels foldable relative to the back panel to form a tower;
the left panel including an upper rail, a lower rail, and a left receiving area between the upper and lower rails sized to receive the left rim;
the right panel including an upper rail, a lower rail, and a right receiving area between the upper and lower rails sized to receive the right rim;
each of the lower rails including a flat portion and a recess;
at least one of the upper rails including a downwardly extending blocker at a front end of the upper rail, the blocker sized to engage the stop when the drawer is in a flat orientation;
the recess sized to permit the stop to be moved past the blocker when the drawer is placed in a tilted orientation.
12. The combination of claim 11, wherein the blocker extends perpendicularly to the horizontal portion of the upper bar.
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Date of Patent: Dec 11, 2007
Assignee: Rubbermaid Incorporated (Wooster, OH)
Inventors: Matthew J. Doerfler (Wooster, OH), Patrick Flanagan (Chippewa Lake, OH), Gina Rodi (Wooster, OH)
Primary Examiner: James O. Hansen
Attorney: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP
Current U.S. Class: Foldable (312/258); Knockdown Or Setup Type (312/257.1)
International Classification: A47B 43/00 (20060101);


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