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US 5720223 A Abstract Transversal perforating apparatus of paper for printers fed by a continuous strip of paper (1) without lateral dragging holes. The apparatus (12) comprises a perforator roller (13) holding a blade (16) substantially transversal to and engaging on a pressure roller (14) rotating in synchronism with the perforator roller (13). Means for varying the speed of the perforator roller (13) are provided for as well as means for measuring the position of the blade (16) with respect to the paper which communicate with a central processor. It is possible, therefore, to make transversal perforations coincident with the beginning and the end of each page printed by printing heads (2,3) being able to also vary the interval between two successive perforations during the course of printing.
Claims(10) 1. A transverse perforating apparatus for perforating a paper web from a printer, said printer being fed by a continuous strip of the web with lateral dragging holes and provided with a printing head crossed by said strip; the apparatus comprising:
processing means for controlling a linear position of the strip, said means for controlling communicating with a central processor; a perforator roller having an axis substantially orthogonal to said strip and holding a blade substantially transversal to said strip; a pressure roller pressing against said blade at every rotation of said perforator roller; variation means for varying the speed of said perforator roller; measuring means for measuring the position of said blade with respect to said strip, said measuring means communicating with said central processor; said processor calculating the position of said strip as communicated by said control means; and said variation means accelerating or decelerating said perforator roller, during each period comprised between two successive perforations. 2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said measuring means comprise an encoder integral with said axis of said perforator roller.
3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said measuring means comprise an encoder integral with said variation means for varying the speed of said perforator roller.
4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said measuring means comprise an encoder integral with said axis of said perforator roller and an encoder integral with said variation means for varying the speed of said perforator roller.
5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a dragging device is provided downstream of said perforator roller, and said control means comprises an encoder mounted on said dragging device and an encoder mounted on said printing head.
6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein
said blade has a helicoidal form and comprising a support on which said perforator roller is mounted and which further comprises inclining means for inclining said support with respect to a direction orthogonal to said strip. 7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a dragging device is provided upstream of said perforator roller, and said control means comprises an encoder mounted on said dragging device, an encoder mounted on said printing head, and an optical sensor at said dragging device directed towards said strip of paper.
8. A method for transverse perforation within a printer having printing heads of a strip of paper and a similar material with lateral dragging holes in synchronism with the beginning and end of each printed page, comprising the steps of:
dragging of said paper through a perforating apparatus to produce transverse perforations on the strip; measuring the linear extension of said strip crossing the printing heads of said printer; calculating a position corresponding to the beginning of each printed page; and varying the speed of the perforating apparatus, as a function of the distance between the beginning and the end of each printed page, during each interval between two successive perforations. 9. The method according to claim 8, wherein said strip has a toner marker printed by said printing heads at its beginning and, said step of calculating the position corresponding to the beginning of each printed page being initialized starting from said toner marker.
10. The method according to claim 8, wherein each printed page has a code printed at a fixed distance from its beginning or end and, said step of calculating the position corresponding to the beginning of each printed page being carried out starting from said code.
Description This is a CIP of application Ser. No. 08/317,638 filed Oct. 3, 1994, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,526,744 the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference. The present invention generally relates to the field of printers and more precisely it relates to an apparatus for the transversal perforation of a web of paper for printers fed by a continuous strip of said web. Furthermore, the invention relates to the respective method for synchronization of the perforation of the paper with the beginning of the printed page. Data printers generally use paper already provided with transversal perforations for the separation of adjacent sheets and furthermore use paper having lateral longitudinal holes which allow it to be dragged by means of paper-dragging rollers provided with small teeth which engage in said holes. The paper, therefore, requires treatment upstream from printing consisting in the unrolling of virgin paper and the forming of lateral holes and transversal perforations, the perforations being produced at a fixed interval such as 12 inches. The paper is then furnished in bobbins or in packages of folded "accordion" sheets. The presence of the lateral dragging holes normally facilitates the control of the paper during the printing step which can be carried out by means of paper-dragging rollers. The transversal perforations are, on the other hand, normally accompanied by a preceding notch which allows a sensor to inform the printer of the exact position of said perforations in order to allow the printing heads to initiate printing in correspondence to the beginning of each sheet of paper delimited by two consecutive perforations. The need for printers operating with a continuous strip of paper to print pages of different length is strongly felt. Another requirement for such printers is high flexibility to print pages of different size without a particular preselected order, only controlled by a computer that chooses the best time to print them. Such paper should obviously lack transversal perforations which should be done substantially at the same time of printing. In these printers savings could be advantageously obtained. In fact, in this way they could be faster, since there should be no need to change the paper or to stop the printer when the length of the page changes. Moreover, less waste of paper would result as a consequence of the minimum number of changes and stops in the printer. These two savings are advantageous to large printer users, such as banks, utilities companies, firms, etc. with large numbers of clients to whom it is necessary to communicate information such as invoices, financial statements, bulletins, etc.. The quantity of paper in circulation is enormous, and printers able to satisfy volumes of this nature operate at a considerable velocity, for example 50-100 cm/sec and faster. Many existing data printers at the output produce, by means of shears, single sheets obtained from the strip of paper printed back and front. The use of the shears makes transversal perforations unnecessary, whereas the absence of the dragging holes is compensated for by processing the paper taut. The control of the beginning position of each printed sheet occurs in correspondence to the printing beads which send corresponding signals' to a central processing unit which also commands the shears at the output. In many cases, for the control of the quality and accuracy of the printed data, it is necessary that the paper exiting the printer still be in a continuous strip, and produced in folded, "accordion," packages. In such cases, it is necessary for the paper, at the beginning of printing, to already have the transversal perforations suitable to allow the tearing apart from one another of adjacent sheets of paper in a later step. This characteristic, however, implies certain difficulties which currently cannot be overcome in the case that one wishes to carry out printing of pages of different sizes. Accordingly, the present invention has an object, among others, to overcome deficiencies in the prior art such as noted above. The object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for the transversal perforation of paper to insert in printers fed by a continuous strip of paper in order to allow for the above mentioned savings. A further object of the present invention is to provide a method for the transversal perforation, within the printer, of a strip of paper or similar material in synchronism with the beginning of each printed sheet. These objects are accomplished by the transversal perforating apparatus according to claim 1 and by the method according to claim 8 for transversal perforation of a strip of paper within a printer. Further characteristics and advantages of the transversal perforating apparatus according to the invention and the respective method of perforation will become more apparent in the following description of one of its possible embodiments, given as an example and not limitative, with reference to the attached drawings in which: FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a transversal perforating apparatus according to the invention placed downstream from two printing units; FIGS. 2, 3, and 4 show the printing apparatus of FIG. 1 respectively in a side sectional view, a bottom view and a transversal sectional view; FIG. 5 shows a diagram of connections between the perforating apparatus according to the invention and a central processor; FIGS. 6A-6D show a diagram of variations in the rotational speed of the perforator roller of the apparatus according to the invention; FIGS. 7 and 8 show a front and rear perspective view of an apparatus according to the invention; FIG. 9 shows a diagrammatic flowchart illustrating the main calculation step of the processor which controls the apparatus; FIG. 10 is a schematic view of a transversal perforating apparatus according to the invention placed downstream from a single printing unit; and FIG. 11 is a top plan view of a portion of paper transversally perforated by means of the apparatus according to the invention. With reference to FIG. 1, a printer printing on a continuously fed strip 1 of paper comprises a printing head 2, acting on one face (front) of strip 1, and a second printing head 3 for the printing 6f the other face (back) of the paper. The paper is guided by deflector rollers 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 in its advancement from printing head 2 through head 3 to reach a perforating apparatus 12 comprising a perforator roller 13 and a pressure roller 14 rotating in the direction opposite one another and driven by a motor 15. Perforator roller 13 has a blade 16 in a position substantially transversal to paper 1 so as to produce a perforation 20 on it (see FIG. 11) with each rotation of roller 13 itself, because the paper is interposed between blade 16 and roller 14. A dragging device 17, which is operated via a belt 17a as shown in FIG. 7 by engine 15, provides for the dragging of the paper and is located downstream from perforating apparatus 12. Device 17 is of a known type and has inner toothed sprocket wheels 21 (visible in FIG. 10 in a slightly different embodiment of the apparatus) engaging in lateral dragging holes 20 provided along either side of paper strip 1. As shown also in FIG. 8, an encoder 18, which is preferably an incremental encoder with index signal, is integral with the axis 18a of said rollers and a window 19 is made on dragger device 17. The position of window 19 coincides with a position of zero starting from which encoder 18 calculates the extension of paper 1 at the initialization of a new strip. To more fully explain: as the strip 1 moves over the wheels 21, it rotates shaft 18a along which the two sprockets 21 are longitudinally slidable but around which they cannot rotate. The shaft 18a passes through the frame into the encoder 18, which is fastened to the frame, and turns an internal encoding element of the encoder 18 (not shown). The devices 17 are held from rotating by being slidably mounted on both the rotatable shaft 18a and a second member parallel to the shaft, but can slide along the rotatable shaft 18a to accommodate strips 1 with different widths or positions. On the axis of engine 15, as shown in FIGS. 1, 2, 7 and 8, an encoder 22 is-provided, which is for example an incremental encoder capable Of determining also the direction of rotation the engine, measures the rotation completed by blade 16, thus allowing for the identification of the exact position in which each transversal perforation must be carried out. Thus, the two encoders 18 and 22 together locate both the paper strip 1 and the cutting blade 16, making it possible to correlate the position of the cutting edge with a longitudinal position along the paper strip 1. An auxiliary reference encoder 22a is preferably provided for on roller 13 which detects precisely the position of blade 16. Encoder 22a, in fact, is integral to roller 13, whereas encoder 22 is integral to the axis of engine 15. Therefore, encoder 22 is necessary to control directly the engine and encoder 22a is useful to control the position of the blade. Encoder 22a, however, could be not present if an high precision of the position of the transversal perforation is not necessary. Preferably, as shown in FIG. 4, blade 16 is helicoidal, instead of rectilinear, on the surface of roller 13. The axis 23 of roller 13 is not orthogonal to paper 1, but inclined and mounted on a support 30 (FIG. 3) which allows for the regulation of its inclination. This regulation is possible through screw means 32 which can vary the inclination 33 of axis 23 with respect to a fixed pivot 34 and a slot guide 35. As is known, a helicoidal blade produces a rectilinear cut on a strip of paper advancing at a predetermined speed, provided that the plane containing the axis of inclination of the blade is inclined by a predetermined degree so that the contact points of the blade, as it descends on the paper, lie on a line orthogonal to the advancement of the paper. In this case helicoidal blade 16 is applied to a roller 13 whose axis 23 is advantageously regulated, in order to adjust the position of the blade so that the perforation is made on the paper orthogonally to the longitudinal border thereof. The inclination of the roller is normally set when the blade is changed and is a function of the pitch of the blade helix. It is important that the tip speed of the roller 13 coincides with that of paper 1 during perforation. The speed of roller 13 and blade 16 can be varied as shown in the graphs of FIGS. 6A, 6B, 6C and 6D. This can be done by varying the voltage on the motor 15, for example. The horizontal axis in these figures, labeled "t", represents time. However, since the strip 1 travels at a constant speed, the horizontal axis could alternatively represent the distance or length along the strip 1, at a constant speed time and distance travelled being proportional. The vertical axis, labeled "V", represents the peripheral velocity of the roller 13; the constant strip speed is indicated by the particular value Vp. Considering the three cases A, B, C (corresponding to the graphs 6A, 6B, and 6C respectively) it is seen that the roller 13 accelerates and decelerates so that the velocity of the blade 16 matches the strip speed Vp at the instants (indicated by vertical dashed lines) when the blade is in contact with the strip 1. This allows the strip 1 to be cut without tearing. It is thus possible, according to the present invention, to produce transversal perforations at any predetermined distance from one another, as shown in FIG. 11 where after printed sheet 1a, comprised between transversal perforations 36a and 36b (for example at 11+7/6 inches), a second printed sheet 1b having the same length comprises a shorter portion 1c (for example 4 inches long) between transversal perforations 36b and 36c. Then follows a third printed sheet 1d, between perforations 36c and 36d. This result can be obtained, as shown in the diagram of FIG. 6A-6D, by varying the speed of roller 13 in each period in which the perforation does not occur, the frequency of the contacts between blade 16 and paper 1 can be varied. In case A, for example, the rotation of roller 13 occurs at a constant speed equal to the speed of paper 1, and, therefore, the distance between two consecutive perforations is equal to the circumference covered in one rotation of blade 16. In case B, apart from the exact instant of the cut, roller 13 slows allowing more paper to pass, thus obtaining a longer time interval between two consecutive perforations. In case C, inversely, the time interval between two consecutive perforations is shorter than in case A, using a greater rotation speed of roller 13 with respect to the advancement speed of the paper except for the period surrounding the instant of the cut. As shown in FIG. 6D, a preferred embodiment of case of FIG. 6B has roller 13 which stops after each perforation instead of slowing down. The perforations 36a, 36b, 36c and 36d of FIG. 11 could therefore be obtained as a combination of cases of FIGS. 6C and 6D. The instant of the cut is communicated by encoder 22 to a central processor 24 (FIG. 5) which at the same time receives the data of the printing head 3 and of dragging device 17 provided by respective encoders 26 and 18. Encoder 26, shown in FIG. 1, is integral with the axis of the printing roller (not shown) of printing head 3. Printing is initiated by head 2, in synchronism with head 3, so that the printing on the front and back of the paper coincide. The two perforations that delimit each sheet are then performed automatically by the perforating apparatus 12 and coincide with the beginning and end of the page itself. More precisely, this result is achieved by virtue of the presence of encoder 22 coupled to the rotational axis of roller 13 of perforating apparatus 12. In fact, encoder 22 (optionally along with encoder 22a) controls the position of blade 16 of roller 13 and informs processor 24, which can be programmed in a manner known to a person skilled in the art, in order to correspondingly accelerate or decelerate the speed of engine or motor 15 depending on the selected distance between two successive transversal perforations. For example, assuming that the encoders 26, 22, and 18 all register position (in terms 6f a rotational angle, for example), the processor 24 may include a program for determining a required average speed of the roller 13. To do so, it would first determine the speed of the strip 1 by differentiating the output of the sensor 18. (Such differentiation can be done using the clock of the processor 24, dividing the sensor output by the number of clock pulses.) The processor can then use the strip speed to find the rotational speed of the roller 13 desired during the times when the blade 16 is cutting the strip 1 (Vp in FIGS. 6A-6D), by a simple proportion involving the radius of the roller 13. Then, the processor 16 may determine the non-contact speed, less than or greater than the speed Vp, as is described further below. At the startup, when the whole printing machine is set, the paper is put in dragging device 17 so that a toner marker 38, shown in FIG. 11, printed by head 3 on a series of pages at the beginning of the strip coincides with window 19. At that position the zero is set in processor 24 so that the measurement of the extension of the paper is calculated by encoder 18 starting from that point. In this way the axis control on head 3 by encoder 26 is synchronized with axis control on encoder 18 and the beginning of each page. The distance between encoder 18 and the perforating position of blade 16 is measured and stored in processor 24. In this way, the latter can calculate the exact correspondence between the beginning or end of each printing page signaled by encoder 18 and the cutting moment, related to encoder 22. In more detail, when encoder 18 has measured a linear extension of the paper equal to the distance existing between the beginning of the printed page on head 3 via encoder 26 and the perforating position under blade 16, the perforation must occur in that moment. Roller 13, therefore, should be previously accelerated or decelerated as shown in FIGS. 6A-6D so that blade 16 is ready to perforate just in that moment. A diagrammatic flowchart showing the main calculation step of the processor is illustrated in FIG. 9, where the logic relationship between encoder 18, controlling the position of the paper, and of encoder 22, controlling the position of the blade, is shown. Processor 24 controls when encoders 18 and 22, which are incremental encoders (for example of the type SICOD D78 360 5 B CV01), reach a reference start position and a stop position respectively, calculated at the previous step. After having made a perforation, encoder 22 reaches a stop position and the processor slows or speeds the blade. This condition does not change until encoder 18 has reached again the start position, in which the processor imparts to engine 15 a speed so that the speed of roller 13 and 14 are the same and the blade is proximal to the cutting position. In case the printing head 3 prints a page of different length, this is communicated to processor 24 which calculates a new start and stop position for encoder 18 and 22. According to another embodiment of the invention, shown in FIG. 10, a printing unit 31, having encoder 26 on one of his rollers, prints on paper 1 an optical code or a bar code 37 (shown in FIG. 11) comprising the information on the length of the printed sheet. Differently to the previous embodiment, the dragging device 17 is placed upstream of perforating roller 13. The code is read when the paper reaches the perforating apparatus at the dragging device 17 by means of an optical sensor 29 (for example of the type DATALOGIC T29) and communicated to central processor 24 which determines the position of the transversal perforations according to the signal coming from encoder 18 associated to sprocket wheel 21. It is, therefore, possible to obtain the continuous printing of paper not yet provided with transversal perforations, and produce transversal perforations in exact coincidence with the beginning and end of each page with high precision. A printer which comprises the perforating apparatus according to the present invention is, therefore, very flexible in that it allows the variation, in rapid succession, of sheet sizes of paper without having to stop the printer itself. According to known techniques, on the other hand, it would have been necessary to use perforated paper at a fixed interval, each variation of the interval between two successive perforations requiring a change of the paper causing a considerable loss of time. The foregoing description of the specific embodiments will so fully reveal the general nature of the invention that others can, by applying current knowledge, readily modify and/or adapt for various applications such specific embodiments without undue experimentation and without departing from the generic concept, and, therefore such adaptations and modifications should and are intended to be comprehended within the meaning and range of equivalents of the disclosed embodiments. The means and materials for carrying out various disclosed functions may take a variety of alternative forms without departing from the invention. 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- (912) 466-5503
Ms. Alston works in Brunswick, GA and specializes in Neurology. Ms. Alston is affiliated with Southeast Georgia Health System - Brunswick. Ms. Alston speaks English and Spanish.
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Why the bi-annual GITEX shopper is a good idea
Keeping up with consumer trends, the Spring edition of GITEX is appropriate for the UAE's brand of technology lovers who are eager early adopters.
March 26, 2013 5:16 by kippreport
Following the 2012 edition of GITEX, Sheikh Mohammed issued a directive for the Gitex Shopper to be held bi-annually from 2013. Usually hosted in September/October every year, the Spring edition of the exhibition will run from April 3 to 6, 2013, at the Dubai World Trade Centre.
"The spring edition is especially timely as it falls during the school holidays when we see an influx of regional tourists, with their families, who seek out the latest consumer electronics in Dubai" said Hemesh Chandavarkar, Director – Consumer Cluster, Exhibitions and Events Management at Dubai World Trade Centre.
Yet it isn't only the timing coinciding with the GITEX and holidays which make the second edition of the exhibition a good idea. The Emirates has also seen a significant increase in its population of early adopters. In fact just last week, HE Hisham Abdullah Al Shirawi, Chairman, Economic Zones World, the parent company of Jafza, had said the electronics and IT companies have increased exponentially: "In the past ten years the number of electronics and IT companies in Jebel Ali Free Zone has seen four-fold growth rising from 280 in 2003 to 1,121 in 2012."
In the past, Kipp has frowned upon having one too many shopping festival – but having a Spring edition of GITEX seems a lot less like overkill and more like adapting to the times. With the frequency of new releases of smart phones, tablets and other consumer electronics, it is safe to say the exhibition will be provide a good platform for tech brands who want an opportunity to offer special releases and offers to its loyal fan base here in the UAE.
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Bamboo Blade (GN 5)
Title: Bamboo Blade
Volume: GN 5
Pages: 224
Distributor: Yen Press
Release date: 2010-06-15
Suggested retail price: $10.99
Age rating: 16+
With their new goal in mind, the practice meet between Muroe and Seimei High begins. As Muroe is still short a member, the girls manage to persuade Azuma to participate…just this once. As joint practice gets underway, the Seimei team is quick to spot Tamaki's overwhelming talent. To see a female kendo competitor at her level is inspiring not only to Seimei, but to Azuma as well. As memories of the thrill of the sport come back to her, will Azuma be tempted to join the kendo team for good?
Story by Masahiro Totsuka and Art by Aguri Igarashi.
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May 25, 2009, 04:08 PM | |
The AttoPilot as received is a complete system. All sensors, all wiring, all software, and almost all the documentation are included. The documentation and software are provided on the MicroCard that will be used for flight control and data logging.
The CGS (Ground Control System) is outstanding! Much better than I thought it would be. It is used for after flight analysis at first. It will be used for realtime monitoring and control in the future. http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showa...=2543722&stc=1 |
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Fourth District affirms trial court that, in child support mod, imputed income at prior level to father who lost his job because of his own misconduct and his refusal to accept employer's conditions for keeping his job
In re Marriage of McHugh
(October 30, 2014; ordered partially published November 26, 2014)
California Court of Appeal 4 Civil G048551 (Div 3) __Cal.App.4 th __, __Cal.Rptr.3d__, 2014 FA 1668, per Aronson, J (Moore, Acting PJ and Thompson, J, concurring). Orange County: Neary, Temp J, affirmed. For appellant: Steven Madoni, (949) 723-76000 and John Dodd, CALS, (714) 731-5572. For respondent: Keith Dolnick, (949) 222-0426. For Orange County DCSS: Deputy Attorneys General Linda Gonzalez, (916) 322-5581 and Ricardo Enriquez, (916) 324-5468. CFLP §E.38.9.5.
Charles and Connie McHugh were married in 1992; their only child was born in 1996. The couple separated in September 2009 and Charles filed for divorce. Connie promptly filed an OSC, seeking temporary child and spousal support. At the time, Charles was a successful salesman for a packaging distribution company (Amcor), earning $24,159 per month, and Connie was a stay-at-home mom. Based on Charles's income, the trial court ordered him to pay temporary child support of $2,227 per month and spousal support of $4, 773 a month.
Early in 2010, Charles filed an OSC, asking for a child and spousal support reduction, based on his "drastic income reduction" when a major client failed to renew its contract with Amcor. He also contended that the trial court should require Connie, a licensed attorney, to get a job. In March 2011, the trial court reduced Charles's child support obligation to $1,275 a month and spousal support to $2,840 a month.
In August 2011, both Connie and Charles filed motions regarding the March order. Charles sought a further support reduction and Connie asked for a set-aside and support increase. Charles claimed that his financial woes had multiplied because Amcor had fired him and his new job didn't pay as much. Connie contended that Charles had previously misrepresented his income and that the trial court should reinstate its prior support order. At a November hearing on Connie's set-aside motion, Amcor's VP of Workplace Relations and Employment Counsel Thomas Sarnecki, testified that Charles had been one of Amcor's top salesmen and had earned between $137,000 and $597,000 per year between 2003 and 2009. Sarnecki stated that in 2009, Charles told Amcor that he faced a bitter disso and asked the company to help him reduce his income to minimize his earnings during that proceeding. Sarnecki said he told Charles that he could be reassigned to a lower-paying job, but refused to go along with Charles's " 'more aggressive approach[es],' such as diverting some of his compensation." Charles then continued with his current job, but his sales dropped significantly. When questioned, Charles explained that Amcor's bids were not sufficiently competitive and the economic downturn hampered sales. Sarnecki stated that he accepted Charles's explanation because he'd always rendered "faithful service". However, when one of Charles's customers had questions about products it had purchased, for which Amcor could find no record, Sarnecki began an investigation. That investigation, he told the court, showed that Charles had been diverting some of his accounts to his father's packaging business and had used another salesman to close his transactions in exchange for a share of his commission. In a meeting with Sarnecki and other Amcor executives, Charles admitted doing "a lot of 'stupid stuff' " in order to reduce his income for disso purposes, showed remorse, and stated that he "wanted to 'come clean' so he could keep his job." Amcor, Sarnecki testified, offered to let Charles keep his job if he would make a full disclosure of his misconduct, make restitution for the business he had diverted, and agree to a " 'last chance' employment agreement." However, Sarnecki stated, when Charles would not accept the conditions, Amcor fired him and sued him, his father, and his father's company to recover the diverted business income. In his testimony, Charles stated that he'd confessed to misconduct, even though it wasn't true, in the mistaken belief that it would save his job. In December 2011, the trial court denied Connie's set-aside motion, finding insufficient evidence of Charles's actual income (as opposed to the misrepresented amount).
In 2012, the trial court considered Charles's motion for child and spousal support reductions and Connie's request for support increases. The lower court determined that Charles's misconduct in attempting to lower his income and his failure to cooperate with Amcor's conditions for retaining his job constituted an unwillingness to work. The trial court concluded that imputing monthly income to Charles at the level he earned at Amcor would in his child's best interests. It also imputed monthly income of $8,333 to Connie. The court then ordered Charles to pay $2,047 a month for child support and an unspecified amount of spousal support.
Charles appealed, but, in a partially-published opinion, the Fourth District affirmed.
Beastly burdens . . . The justices reasoned that per Fam C §4058(b), the trial court had discretion to consider Charles's earning capacity in making its child support order if doing so was in the child's best interests. The court need not find that Charles deliberately shirked his child support obligation in order to impute income to him, the panel explained, but shirking could be a factor in its decision if it was shown. The statutes do not define earning capacity, the panel noted, but per case law, it is composed of the ability to work and the opportunity to work. The parent who seeks to impute earning capacity to the other parent has the burden of showing that the other parent has the ability or qualifications to perform a job that pays the amount to be imputed and the opportunity to obtain the job. Here, Connie had the burden of showing ability and opportunity, while Charles had the burden of showing that he lacked the ability and opportunity to get a job that paid what his Amcor job paid or, more pertinently, to keep his Amcor job. In order to do that, he had to show that he was unable to satisfy the conditions Amcor imposed for keeping his job.
Coulda, shoulda, woulda . . . When the panel focused on the first of the conditions, full disclosure of his misconduct, they saw that his answers to Sarnecki had been somewhat vague and lacking in substance in some instances. However, Sarnecki had testified that Charles had admitted that he had diverted business to his father's company, impermissibly split commissions with another salesman, and generally had done things that were not right. This evidence, the justices said, showed that Charles had the information to make a full disclosure to his misconduct, but had chosen not to do so. Moreover, despite what Charles contended, he, not Connie had the burden of showing that he was unable to make the restitution required by another of Amcor's conditions. Connie, on the other hand, had met her burden of showing that Charles had the ability and opportunity to keep his Amcor job by presenting evidence that Charles had held that job for almost 17 years and would have been able to keep it if he had complied with the conditions Amcor imposed. Summing up, the panel found that substantial evidence showed that Charles could have kept his Amcor job but chose not to and that imputing income to him would be in his child's best interests.
By his own admission . . . Charles next contended that the trial court erred by imputing income to him at the level that he used to earn at Amcor without a showing that he was presently able to earn that amount at another job. The justices reasoned that in cases such as In re Marriage of Ilas (1993) 12 Cal.App.4 th 1630, 16 Cal.Rptr.2d 345, 1993 CFLR 5629, 1993 FA 582 and In re Marriage of Padilla (1995) 38 Cal.App. 4 th 1212, 45 Cal.Rptr.2d 555, 1995 CFLR 6887, 1995 FA 721, courts have held that a parent may not voluntarily divest himself or herself of earning capacity at the expense of his or her children's welfare in order to seek a different lifestyle or profession. Those courts found it appropriate to impute income to the parent at the level he or she maintained before the divestiture. The justices also found guidance in In re Marriage of Eggers (2005) 131 Cal.App.4 th 695, 32 Cal.Rptr.3d 292, 2005 CFLR 10025, 2005 FA 1204, where the trial court imputed income to a father who lost his job when he sent sexually inappropriate emails to a coworker, reasoning that his actions were tantamount to a voluntary termination. In reversing, the appellate court in that case disagreed, finding that the father's conduct did not amount to a voluntary divesting of earning capacity. However, that panel also said that with the appropriate facts, the trial court had the discretion to impute earning capacity to a payor whose conduct did rise to the level of a voluntary divesting. Here, the justices found, were the appropriate facts for the trial court to make a determination that Charles's actions amounted to a voluntary divesting of earning capacity, especially in light of his stated intent to reduce his income for child support purposes. Given all that, the panel held that the trial court did not err by imputing income to Charles based on his prior earning level.
Non-pub . . . In the unpublished part of the opinion, the justices found that Connie's set-aside motion did not preclude her from subsequently seeking a support increase.
This opinion was first designated not published, but was published in response to requests from the Child Support Directors Association of California and the Orange County Department of Child Support Services. Their requests are understandable, since the opinion extends the reasoning in Eggers . That extension is key here; the real crux of the case is the justices' determination that Charles's conduct rose to such a level that the trial court could appropriately find that his termination from Amcor was voluntary and not involuntary, as he claimed. We've rarely seen a more obvious case of a payor's attempting to divest himself of income in order to avoid a hefty support order or clumsier attempts at covering his tracks. We can't help but think that Charles has spent more in attorney's fees (in this case as well as the suit filed by Amcor) and restitution and damages than he would have if he had simply bitten the bullet and paid the support. The latest order, based on imputed income, was due to start on August 1, 2012. His child would have been around 16 years old and should be about 18 now. Charles's child support obligation should end soon, but his financial situation will undoubtedly be unsettled for years to come.
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Whether Passport Music actually becomes the soundtrack to your global travels depends in large part on where you're traveling to. For example, if you're waiting in line to have your passport stamped in Uzbekistan, or just clearing customs in Siberia, you may want to look elsewhere. But those stepping off the plane in Rio or Bali, Paris or Tokyo, will be sure to have Sean Rose's latest premiere pumping through their headphones as they wait at baggage claim. Coming off his Booth-approved last offering Tomorrow, for Passport Rose recruits producers Cam and TaeBeast to deliver a silky smooth instrumental that would feel at home at a late night Parisian café. With that luxurious backdrop to rhyme over Rose and guest Fastlane offer some travel tips for the internationally inexperienced. For example, nothing goes better down better on a cross-Atlantic flight than some cold ginger ale. So the next time you find yourself touching down in Ibiza while sipping on some delicious ginger ale don't thank me, thank Sean Rose. In fact, you can really thank the man by picking up his Overdrive project when it drops this Friday, February 10, right here on The DJBooth.
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New Gunn counseling survey suggests higher satisfaction level
Original post made on Apr 5, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, April 5, 2013, 12:00 AM
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a resident of Adobe-Meadows
on Apr 5, 2013 at 12:09 pm
Oh, Dear, what are WCDBPA going to complain about now?
a resident of Charleston Meadows
on Apr 5, 2013 at 7:24 pm
My daughter did not do well on her math exam last term so I expect that all the questions will now be changed to ones it will be easier for her to do well on but will not be as good at assessing her progress. I'm sure the gunn teachers will all now agree that easier tests are important.
a resident of Gunn High School
on Apr 5, 2013 at 10:36 pm
And without TA. Hummm?
a resident of Charleston Gardens
on Apr 17, 2013 at 9:29 am
The Strategic Plan survey results show the same, large, counseling gap between Gunn and Paly. The district's own data and its own slides show a large gap between Paly and Gunn counseling satisfaction for both college counseling and for non-academic counseling as follows:
1. While Paly raised its student satisfaction with college counseling by over 20 points in the past 4 years, Gunn's remained flat. The satisfaction gap thus grew and expanded from parents to students as well. In 2013 (see page 27): Web Link
46% of Gunn parents compared with 72% of Paly parents are satisfied or very satisfied with college counseling.
65% of Gunn students compared with 74% of Paly students are satisfied or very satisfied with college counseling.
Recall that district staff asserted that Gunn had the superior program of college counseling -- that this was the only area in which Gunn exceeded Paly in satisfaction and the one that district staff felt was the most important.
Not anymore.
The gaps are also stark on non-academic counseling:
54% of Gunn parents compared with 73% of Paly parents are satisfied or very satisfied with nonacademic counseling;
58% of Gunn students compared with 68% of Paly students are satisfied or very satisfied with nonacademic counseling.
63% of Gunn students compared with 75% of Paly students are satisfied or very satisfied with the availability of nonacademic counselors.
60% of Gunn students compared with 73% of Paly students are satisfied or very satisfied with the quality of nonacademic counseling.
Gunn parents and taxpayers: your school board absolutely does not care that you are receiving demonstrably worse services for over 20 years. There have been more than a dozen surveys over as many years all of which document this gap in basic district services. You are NOT receiving comparable services. Your services are much much worse. The board has accepted the district's refusal to close this gap.
Last month they accepted Dr. Skelly stating that he could not make services comparable because he doesn't know what comparable means.
That's your situation.
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Commencement tickets are for four guests for both the college-wide main Commencement, as well as the School Ceremonies. The graduate does not require a ticket. All guests must present a ticket at the gate to gain admittance. Only guests with a ticket will be admitted. There will be no exceptions. Each person requiring a seat will be counted as a ticket, including children.
Seating in the main tent is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Once seating in the main tent is filled, all ticketed guests will be directed to the overflow tents for viewing.
All students who plan to attend Commencement must order and reserve tickets online, beginning Monday, March 9, 2015 through Friday, May 9, 2015.
When you reserve your tickets online, you will select one of several ticket pick up dates. Please note, if you are unable to attend the date you selected, you can attend any of the dates. Your tickets will be available for pick up during all of the dates. In addition to picking up your tickets, you can have a formal portrait taken andorder a class ring.
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Listen.com -- a site based in (where else?) San Francisco -- offered a statement on the same day as the Napster ruling that was somewhat reminiscent of a snitchy child exploiting the moment when his more clever peer gets in trouble for doing something slightly naughty, but ingenious. The statement repeatedly reminded the reader that Listen.com is, and has always been, in full compliance with copyright law and recording industry friendly (in fact, the five major record companies -- yup, there are only five left-- are investors in the site). That's all fine and dandy until you consider that Listen.com doesn't even post music on its site; rather, the staff posts thousands of reviews of new music and provides links to other sites that do offer legal downloadable files.
Even less helpful or interesting is MusicBank, a new site slated for launch later this fall. MusicBank will provide the incredibly stupid but wholly legal service of allowing users access to their own personal music collections -- "anytime, anywhere." (In other words, if you buy the new Holly & the Horselips record at Virgin Megastore or any of the other monolithic merchants who will eventually sign on with MusicBank, the computer will know it. Later, after you've tired of the excellent sound quality of your personal home stereo system -- or don't want to carry your discs around with you for CD-Rom use -- you can log into your account and your Horselips disc. Zippity-freakin'-doo-dah.) Last week, the Universal Music Group -- the world's largest music conglomerate, a company that probably somehow owns the rights to that tune you just made up on your way to the toilet -- followed the lead of BMG and signed a three-year deal with the new company. At the moment, it looks as though the majors are far less interested in developing legal sites where experimentally minded listeners can broaden their exposure to new sounds (as Napster users do) than it is concerned with finding new ways to give the buying public a big, fat audio enema.
Obviously, copyright/intellectual property as it relates to the online world is a thorny issue with no clear heroes or villains. Probably the guys in Metallica -- and others who've been vocal in their opposition to Napster -- are not greedy pigs. Probably artists should be paid when entire albums are downloaded. And though Napster contended -- and offered evidence in court -- that its users buy more CDs as a result of sharing music through the Web, we all know there's plenty of click-happy kids out there who racked up Zip after Zip of pro bono digital files, saving their money to buy dime bags and cargo pants. Whatever. Even if Napster falls, it's had a hell of a run, and on the bright side, it's probably a good thing that so many people are thinking about music -- where it comes from, what it costs, who gets paid for it. And most important, what it means to us when our access to music is threatened.
There do, of course, remain several bastions of free file-sharing fun, but perhaps not for long, if the Napster decision is an indication of legal precedent, as many assume it will be. Not that Backwash advocates getting something for nothing (aside from the occasional detergent sample in the mail). But should you be of the mind to investigate such a thing, check gnutella.wego.com (for a download of file-sharing software) and other Napster-esque sites like FreeNet.com, imesh.com, scour.com and napigator.com. While you still can, of course.
He will probably not be sued by the RIAA anytime soon. But the odds are good that some sort of Gay Zombie Civil Liberties Union might file a complaint against local Web-master Maris the Great for defamation of character. On his hilarious but vile site (maristhegreat.com), the Great One credits himself as Headbanger and ZombieFag Extraordinaire, a roving reporter of sorts whose goal is to eliminate Colorado-based bands he views as a professional threat to his own band, Maris the Great and the Faggots of Death. Maris invites unsuspecting, and popular, local bands to an innocent-seeming interview. Although by and large they constitute intelligent discussions, Maris's interviews are often presented with a slant toward his own penchant for genitals and butt jokes. A recent interview with Costa Rican implants Colemesis, whose latest CD is titled Jalapeños in Burger Republic, began with the question, "So, does your penis look like a jalepeño?"; Maris also asked Blister66 to mull over the following brainteaser: "What kind of ass do you enjoy?" (For the record, the answer was: "Something that flaps around when you smack it.")


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Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama shattered the fund-raising records his campaign set this spring by raising $66 million in August.
The sum was helped by more than 500,000 new donors, bringing the total number of people giving to the Illinois senator's White House bid to more than 2.5 million, the campaign said Sunday.
Mr. Obama has more than $77 million on hand to spend before the Nov. 4 election, and he has vastly outraised his Republican rival Sen. John McCain.
Mr. McCain, of Arizona, reported his own fund-raising record of $47 million in August. He has accepted public financing and must limit his spending to $84 million for the final two months of the race.
Mr. Obama is the first major-party nominee in history to opt out of the matching funds system and can spend as much as he pleases. At least $10 million of the Obama sum came after Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's acceptance speech as the Republican vice presidential nominee. He had a record month of $55 million during his bruising primary battle against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Team Obama believes it has enough resources to out-organize Mr. McCain and remain competitive on a wide electoral playing field.
"John McCain says that he'll take on the special interests and lobbyists, but McCain can't fix a problem he's been part of for three decades. The 500,000 new donors to the Obama campaign demonstrate just how strongly the American people are looking to kick the special interests out and change Washington. We are proud of the millions of volunteers and more than 2.5 million donors to the Obama campaign who are contributing to help us deliver the change we need instead of letting John McCain just continue the same failed Bush policies while middle class Americans struggle," Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said in a statement.


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BATON ROUGE, La. – Workers who have lost their jobs or those who are self-employed and unable to provide their services because of Hurricane Isaac may be eligible for Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA). But the deadlines to file a claim are fast approaching.
"The DUA program extends coverage to farm workers and others who have lost employment as a direct result of the disaster," said Mike Hall, federal coordinating officer for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). "It is specifically designed to assist those who are otherwise ineligible for state unemployment benefits."
This program is available to those living or working in any of the 21 parishes designated for FEMA Individual Assistance. These parishes are: Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Jefferson, Lafourche, Livingston, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. Helena, St. James, St. John, St. Mary, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, Washington and West Feliciana.
Workers have 30 days from the date their parish is designated for Individual Assistance to file a claim. The deadlines are as follows:
- Oct. 2, 2012 – Ascension, Jefferson, Lafourche, Livingston, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. John and St. Tammany.
- Oct. 5, 2012 – St. Charles and Tangipahoa.
- Oct. 8, 2012 – Assumption, Iberville, St. Helena, St. James, St. Mary, Terrebonne and Washington.
- Oct. 15, 2012 – East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana and West Feliciana.
To file a DUA claim, visit http://www.laworks.net/UnemploymentInsurance/UI_Claimants.asp. Those without Internet access or who have difficulty filing a claim online can contact the Louisiana Workforce Commission toll-free at 1-866-783-5567.
For more information on Louisiana disaster recovery, visit online at www.fema.gov/disaster/4080 or www.gohsep.la.gov. You can follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/femaregion6 or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/FEMA. Also visit our blog at www.fema.gov/blog.
Disaster recovery assistance is available without regard to race, color, religion, nationality, sex, age, disability, English proficiency or economic status. If you or someone you know has been discriminated against, call FEMA toll-free at 800-621-FEMA (3362). For TTY call 800-462-7585.
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