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January 6, 1958
Adam SABAT, Plaintiff,
The PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff, The United States of America, Third-Party Defendant
The United States, as third-party defendant, moves to dismiss the third-party complaint for failure to state a claim, etc. by reason of limitation (28 U.S.C. § 2401(b)).
The action by the plaintiff against the third-party plaintiff (Pennsylvania Railroad Company) was the subject of a complaint filed November 10, 1954 to which answer was filed December 1, 1954.
The third-party complaint was filed July 19, 1957.
Plaintiff's asserted cause is under the F.E.L.A., 45 U.S.C.A. § 51 et seq., and Safety Appliance Acts, 45 U.S.C.A. § 1 et seq. The presently material part of the complaint asserts that on July 20, 1952 the plaintiff, being in the employ of the defendant as a brakeman, was '* * * while working at Penn Station in New York City, by reason of the negligence of the defendant, while plaintiff was engaged in the course of uncoupling a car, he did strike his head upon a bar which had been placed across his means of ingress into the car by a fellow employee, without notice or warning, as a result of which' the injuries were sustained.
Why a third-party complaint was not filed until two and one-half years after the filing of the original complaint, has not been explained. The material part of the challenged pleading alleges that the car involved in the accident -- a Railway Post Office Car 6581 -- 'was in the possession of and under the control of The United States of America, third party defendant, and the responsibility for the bar on said car with which the plaintiff allegedly came in contact was, at the time of the alleged accident, the responsibility of The United States of America, third party defendant.'
Further that the plaintiff's injuries were sustained 'solely and entirely as a result of the negligence of The United States of America, the third party defendant, and that if the defendant and third party plaintiff, The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, is held responsible to the plaintiff, Adam Sabat, such responsibility arose out of the acts and conduct of the third party defendant, * * * in connection with the maintenance, control and inspection of the car involved in plaintiff's alleged accident, * * * and the defendant and third party plaintiff is entitled to be indemnified for any recovery that may be had against it, together with the expenses of defending this action.'
The relief sought against the third party defendant is 'for all sums which may be adjudged against the defendant and third party plaintiff * * * in favor of the plaintiff * * * together with the costs and disbursements of this action, and for any expenses incurred by the defendant and third party plaintiff, The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, in defense thereof.'
The basis of the motion is that the third-party complaint must be construed as seeking to implead the United States as a joint tort feasor, from which contribution is sought; further that the quoted allegation seeking indemnity is really a procedural subterfuge, such as was deemed to be present in Wise v. Stockard S.S. Corp., D.C., 79 F.Supp. 917.
The paragraph above quoted does not make it clear that Railway Post Office Car 6581 was the property of the Railroad Company being operated by it as part of a train; the language is that the car 'was in the possession of and under the control of the United States of America, third party defendant, and the responsibility for the bar on said car * * * was * * * the responsibility of the United States of America, third party defendant.'
Thus the precise relationship of the Railroad Company to the United States and the actual physical custody and control of the car at the time of the plaintiff's injuries (which would include the placing of the bar and its relationship to the structure of the car and the appropriateness of its exact position at the critical time) would seem to be matters of fact which could be satisfactorily demonstrated only as the result of testimony at a trial.
The quoted allegations seem to this court to be compatible with an assertion on the part of the Railroad Company not that the United States was jointly responsible with it to the plaintiff, but that while the general hauling and placing of the car in position were the duty of the Railroad, the manner in which the car was maintained as part of the Railroad Post Office equipment, was exclusively confided to employees of the United States Government; this means that while the relationship of employer and employee concededly existed between the Railroad Company and the plaintiff at the time of his injury, there was nothing that the Railroad Company omitted to do by way of providing a safe place for him to work, and that if the plaintiff was injured by striking the bar in question, the Railroad Company is entitled to be indemnified by the agency which controlled the position and placing of the offending bar. The basis for the assertion of the right to claim indemnity is pleaded, but not the joint commission of a tort.
If the foregoing is correctly reasoned, it is a clear case of alleged indemnity and not of joint responsibility for the tort asserted by the plaintiff.
The question for decision is whether the two-year limitation upon which the United States relies operates to bar the third-party plaintiff from the relief which it seeks.
The cases relied upon by the United States have been examined, for instance: Ryan Stevedoring Co. v. U.S., 2 Cir., 175 F.2d 490; Esso Standard Oil Co. v. U.S., 2 Cir., 174 F.2d 182; Brown v. Cranston, 2 Cir., 132 F.2d 631, 148 A.L.R. 1178.
The Government does not cite any case which deals with a claim for indemnity only contained in the pleading filed more than two years after the happening of the accident. Since the occasion for seeking indemnity will not arise until the primary liability of the defendant has been established, it would seem clear that the limitation period established in Title 28 U.S.C. § 2401 is not a bar to the third-party complaint, since, the occasion for it to seek indemnity has not thus far arisen. This seems to be the theory of the decision in the case of Chicago, Rock Island, & P.R. Co. v. U.S., 7 Cir., 220 F.2d 939. That case is criticized by the third-party defendant mainly on the ground that it was decided in the Seventh Circuit and not the Second; and the argument is made that the decision is opposed to those upon which the Government relies above referred to.
As has been said, I do not so read them. There is no question here concerning contribution between tort feasors under the New York State decisions.
The third-party defendant's motion to dismiss will be denied without prejudice to a renewal thereof upon the trial, if according to the evidence it should appear that the present understanding of the true relationship of the parties is mistaken, and that the Railroad and the United States were in effect joint tort feasors. By which reservation it is not intended to suggest that such an outcome may be deemed probable, or indeed conclusive on the subject of limitation, if it should ensue.
Settle order.
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This application is a continuation of and claims priority to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/363,750, filed on Feb. 28, 2006, the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference herein.
The advent of novel sensing and display technology has encouraged the development of a variety of interactive systems which move the input and display capabilities of computing systems on to everyday surfaces such as walls and tables. The manner in which this has been done in current systems indicates an attempt to address design and integration objectives. However, such systems remain deficient in their variety of sensing capabilities, suitability to easy installation and calibration, and/or usability of the systems among consumers.
The following presents a simplified summary in order to provide a basic understanding of some aspects of the systems and/or methods discussed herein. This summary is not an extensive overview of the systems and/or methods discussed herein. It is not intended to identify key/critical elements or to delineate the scope of such systems and/or methods. Its sole purpose is to present some concepts in a simplified form as a prelude to the more detailed description that is presented later.
The subject application relates to a system(s) and/or methodology that facilitate sensing of objects and co-location of projection of any image (still or moving) onto any surface. In particular, a front-projected computer vision-based interactive table system is provided which uses a new commercially available projection technology to obtain a compact, self-contained form factor. The subject configuration addresses installation, calibration, and portability issues that are primary concerns in most vision-based table systems. More specifically, the projector and cameras, as well as computing resources such as CPU and storage, can be built into the same compact device. This combined projecting and sensing pod may be readily placed on any flat surface in the user's environment and requires no calibration of the projection or sensing system. It is this portability, ease of installation, and ability to utilize any available surface without calibration that tends to be more important or even required for mainstream consumer acceptance. For example, imagine a child pulling such a device out of the closet and placing it on a table or the floor of their room to transform the nearby surface into an active play, school work, or entertainment space.
The subject system is capable of sensing a variety of objects and displaying animated graphics over a large display surface and uses a new commercially available projection technology to obtain an exceptionally compact, self-contained form factor. Unlike many other conventional systems, this system may be quickly set up to operate on any flat surface, requires no calibration beyond the factory, and is compact while still displaying and sensing over a large surface area such as a wall, floor, or elevated surface (e.g., platform, table, or desk). These features make it especially attractive in consumer applications, where distribution, installation, mounting, and calibration considerations tend to be paramount.
Furthermore, image processing techniques for front-projected vision-based table systems are also provided. These techniques include a shadow-based touch detection algorithm, a fast and uncomplicated visual bar code scheme tailored to projection-vision table systems, the ability to continuously track sheets of paper, and an optical flow-based algorithm for the manipulation of onscreen objects that does not rely on fragile tracking algorithms.
To the accomplishment of the foregoing and related ends, certain illustrative aspects of the invention are described herein in connection with the following description and the annexed drawings. These aspects are indicative, however, of but a few of the various ways in which the principles of the invention may be employed and the subject invention is intended to include all such aspects and their equivalents. Other advantages and novel features of the invention may become apparent from the following detailed description of the invention when considered in conjunction with the drawings.
The subject systems and/or methods are now described with reference to the drawings, wherein like reference numerals are used to refer to like elements throughout. In the following description, for purposes of explanation, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the systems and/or methods. It may be evident, however, that the subject systems and/or methods may be practiced without these specific details. In other instances, well-known structures and devices are shown in block diagram form in order to facilitate describing them.
As used herein, the terms "component" and "system" are intended to refer to a computer-related entity, either hardware, a combination of hardware and software, software, or software in execution. For example, a component may be, but is not limited to being, a process running on a processor, a processor, an object, an executable, a thread of execution, a program, and a computer. By way of illustration, both an application running on a server and the server can be a component. One or more components may reside within a process and/or thread of execution and a component may be localized on one computer and/or distributed between two or more computers.
Referring now to
By configuring the system as a single unit, it can be made compact and more portable for user convenience. With portable projection systems, one thought that often comes to mind is calibration—or rather re-calibration which is often required in a conventional projection system after the system is moved. However, in an exemplary configuration of the subject system 100 as represented in
The NEC WT600 is an unusual projector in that it uses four aspheric mirrors (no lenses) to project a normal 1024�768 rectangular image from a very oblique angle, and at extremely short distance. For a 40″ diagonal image, the WT600 requires 2.5″ between its leading face and the projection surface, while a 100″ diagonal image is obtained at a distance of 26″. These characteristics make it very well suited for the system 100, in that it allows for the projector to sit directly on the projection surface (on a short pedestal), rather than be hung suspended over the surface.
As in other projection-vision systems, the scene (display space) can be illuminated with an infrared source and all but infrared light can be blocked to the camera with an infrared-pass filter. This effectively removes the projected image from the scene. The projector provides a natural place to mount one or more cameras and an infrared illuminant By rigidly mounting the cameras and illuminant to the projector, the calibration of the vision system to the display is the same regardless of where the unit is situated and may be determined at the factory.
One method to perform sensing and detection of objects on the surface is to use two cameras and simple stereo calculations as has been done in traditional systems, but in the subject system 100, one camera is employed combined with image techniques that allow touch detection by examining the shadows of objects, detailed later in
Once configured, the camera-projection component 110 can project images onto a display surface 120. The images can be rectified by way of an image processor component 130 and then displayed as a display image. The rectification process can involve performing calculations on an input image. Any calculations made on the image by the image processor component can be related directly to the displayed image. That is, a tracked position in the rectified image can be readily mapped to the corresponding position in the displayed image. For example, rectification can be employed to remove any undesirable distortion from the input image. In practice, the camera-projection system can utilize a wide angle lens which can impart significant barrel distortion on the input image; while the oblique position of the camera imparts a projective distortion or foreshortening. The image processor component 130 can remove both distortions via standard bilinear interpolation techniques. Parameters necessary to correct for lens distortion can be recovered by an off-line procedure.
The projective transform is determined by finding each of the four corners of the projected display by placing infrared reflective markers (paper) on the surface at known locations indicated by the projected image. Image rectification is illustrated in
Any objects placed on or hovering over the display surface can be detected, recognized, and/or tracked using the image processor component 130. In particular, the image processor component 130 can detect objects touching the surface without relying on special instrumentation of, underlying, or on the surface. Thus, the system 100 can operate on any flat surface. More detailed information regarding the image processor component 130 can be found in the discussion for
Turning now to
The top-down approach in 310 is rather popular since such mounting considerations are often necessary due to the throw requirements of projectors and the typical focal length of video cameras. However, ceiling installation of a heavy projector can be more than challenging, dangerous, can require special mounting hardware not easily accessible by most consumers, and for all practical purposes may be best left to professional installers, which involves additional costs and less accessibility to the general public. Once installed, this top-down system and projection surface cannot be readily moved without requiring tedious or time-consuming re-calibration of the system. In addition, minor vibrations present in many buildings can create problems during operation and can make it difficult to maintain calibration. There is also a possibility of occlusion of the projected image by a user's head and/or hands as they interact with the top-down system.
A second common approach is the rear projection set-up (320) wherein the projector and camera are placed behind a diffuse projection screen. While this enables the construction of a self-contained device, eliminates some occlusion problems, and permits the placement of visual codes on the bottom of objects, it is challenging at best to construct such a configuration with a large display area that also provides users with sufficient room to put their legs under the table surface so that they may sit comfortably at the table. Furthermore, a dedicated surface is required and the resulting housing for the projector and camera can be quite large and thus cumbersome and inconvenient for "anywhere" consumer use. It also presents significant manufacturing and production problems which may hinder yielding a marketable product.
Contrary to these common approaches, the subject configuration 330 employs a camera and projector sitting off to the side of the active (projection) surface which mitigates many if not all of the drawbacks associated with typical projection-vision systems. In fact, the application of this projector has a number of advantages. First, it avoids the often difficult and dangerous overhead installation of the projector. Second, it is reasonable to assume that the plane of the surface holding the projector is the projection plane. If the camera and illuminant are rigidly mounted to the projector as shown in
Furthermore, with the oblique projection, occlusion problems typical of conventional front-projected systems are minimized For example, it is possible for the user to stand over the system without their head occluding the projected image. Finally, a 40″ diagonal projection surface which can be offered by the system is adequate for many advanced interactive table applications, including complex gaming scenarios that go beyond simple board games and manipulation of multiple photos, printed pages, etc.
As previously mentioned,
Turning now to
Visual codes have been applied in various augmented reality and table scenarios, where they can be used to identify potentially any object large enough to bear the code without recourse to complex generalized object recognition techniques. In tabletop, floor, or even wall scenarios, for instance, such visual codes are especially useful to locate and identify game pieces, printed pages, media containers, knobs, and other objects that are generic in appearance but may vary in application semantics. As a knob, for example, an identified piece could adjust the color and contrast of a digital photo. A number of visual code schemes are used in augmented reality research. Here, a code format and algorithm designed for the systems discussed herein is outlined. This code is particularly fast and can be implemented on GPU hardware currently available and requires no search to determine code orientation. Generally the problem of designing a code format is one of balancing the opposing goals of obtaining a simple detection algorithm that works with the various transformations observed (e.g., translation, rotation) while supporting a useful number of code bits.
In the case of calibrated tabletop (or any other surface) vision systems, including the subject system, where we may be interested in game pieces on the surface, for example, the system can assume that each instance of the code appears in the image with known, fixed dimensions, thus simplifying the recognition and decoding process. The design of the subject code, illustrated in
In practice, depending on the code bit depth, the number of application code values required and the nature of potential distracters in the image, it may be necessary to add a further step that verifies the instance. For example, consideration of image locations can be limited to those that appear to be the center of circular contours of the game piece diameter. Such contours can be found quickly using the Hough transform applied to circles, reusing the edge orientation information computed above: a 2D histogram (image) representing the presence of circles centered at a given point is created by, for each pixel in the input image, calculating the center of the circle of a given radius and edge orientation found at the input coordinates, and incrementing the histogram at the calculated center. Each point in the resulting histogram indicates the likelihood of a circle of the given radius centered there.
The object sensing component 510 can also include an object tracking component 540 that can track the movement of objects in real-time on the projection surface 520. In particular, real objects can be captured and when detected, can cause their corresponding virtual objects to be projected on the surface 520 for further manipulation or modification. For example, consider making a real charcoal drawing on paper. This drawing could then be captured to an image precisely using the page tracking information, and then later projected back onto the surface as a virtual object, or even onto a blank piece of paper, or another work in progress.
For instance, with regard to page tracking, the object tracking component 540 can employ a page tracking algorithm that is based on a Hough transform with the Sobel edge and orientation information as input. This gives a histogram over orientation and perpendicular distance to the origin which indicates the presence of strong lines in the image. Given the dimensions of a page size to detect, it is straightforward to find appropriate pairs of parallel lines a set distance apart. Two pair of parallel lines perpendicular to each other is verified as a page by ensuring that there are strong edges along a significant fraction of the lines in the original Sobel image. This proportion can be tuned to allow for pages to overlap (e.g.,
Turning now to
Finger tracking may be performed however it would require making some assumptions about the appearance of the surface and fingers (e.g., that fingers and the surface have significantly different brightness). With shadow analysis, recovering the shadow reliably requires only that the surface reflect infrared and that the device's infrared illuminant is significantly brighter than stray infrared in the environment. Both assumptions are reasonable given that the user is likely to place the device on a surface where the projection has good contrast and brightness (e.g., not on a black surface or in a very bright room). A shadow image can be computed from the rectified input by a simple thresholding operation (see
The images in
Various methodologies will now be described via a series of acts. It is to be understood and appreciated that the subject system and/or methodology is not limited by the order of acts, as some acts may, in accordance with the subject application, occur in different orders and/or concurrently with other acts from that shown and described herein. For example, those skilled in the art will understand and appreciate that a methodology could alternatively be represented as a series of interrelated states or events, such as in a state diagram. Moreover, not all illustrated acts may be required to implement a methodology in accordance with the subject application.
Referring to
Turning now to
Moreover, the projection-vision system as described herein offers a compact and readily portable unit that can be moved during use without requiring re-calibration of the system. The system can be employed for work, play, entertainment, or any other purpose. The exemplary configurations of the system are included merely for demonstration of the various components arranged in a single unit but are not meant to limit the system to a particular size, dimension, or configuration. Processors and memory storage can also be included in the configuration. When put into use, the projection-vision system can project virtual representations of items or objects and permit manipulation or other interaction of them by one or more users. Thus, the projection surface becomes an interactive surface, allowing users to perform various computing operations, content modification, and navigation of the projected content such as panning, zooming, and scrolling. In particular, flow field technology can be employed or integrated with the projection-vision system to facilitate such navigational techniques when viewing projected images (e.g., map, architectural plans, etc.)
In order to provide additional context for various aspects of the subject invention,
Generally, however, program modules include routines, programs, objects, components, data structures, etc. that perform particular tasks or implement particular data types. The operating environment 1410 is only one example of a suitable operating environment and is not intended to suggest any limitation as to the scope of use or functionality of the invention. Other well known computer systems, environments, and/or configurations that may be suitable for use with the invention include but are not limited to, personal computers, hand-held or laptop devices, multiprocessor systems, microprocessor-based systems, programmable consumer electronics, network PCs, minicomputers, mainframe computers, distributed computing environments that include the above systems or devices, and the like.
With reference to
The system bus 1418 can be any of several types of bus structure(s) including the memory bus or memory controller, a peripheral bus or external bus, and/or a local bus using any variety of available bus architectures including, but not limited to, 11-bit bus, Industrial Standard Architecture (ISA), Micro-Channel Architecture (MCA), Extended ISA (EISA), Intelligent Drive Electronics (IDE), VESA Local Bus (VLB), Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), Universal Serial Bus (USB), Advanced Graphics Port (AGP), Personal Computer Memory Card International Association bus (PCMCIA), and Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI).
The system memory 1416 includes volatile memory 1420 and nonvolatile memory 1422. The basic input/output system (BIOS), containing the basic routines to transfer information between elements within the computer 1412, such as during start-up, is stored in nonvolatile memory 1422. By way of illustration, and not limitation, nonvolatile memory 1422 can include read only memory (ROM), programmable ROM (PROM), electrically programmable ROM (EPROM), electrically erasable ROM (EEPROM), or flash memory. Volatile memory 1420 includes random access memory (RAM), which acts as external cache memory. By way of illustration and not limitation, RAM is available in many forms such as synchronous RAM (SRAM), dynamic RAM (DRAM), synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), double data rate SDRAM (DDR SDRAM), enhanced SDRAM (ESDRAM), Synchlink DRAM (SLDRAM), and direct Rambus RAM (DRRAM).
Computer 1412 also includes removable/nonremovable, volatile/nonvolatile computer storage media.
It is to be appreciated that
A user enters commands or information into the computer 1412 through input device(s) 1436. Input devices 1436 include, but are not limited to, a pointing device such as a mouse, trackball, stylus, touch pad, keyboard, microphone, joystick, game pad, satellite dish, scanner, TV tuner card, digital camera, digital video camera, web camera, and the like. These and other input devices connect to the processing unit 1414 through the system bus 1418 via interface port(s) 1438. Interface port(s) 1438 include, for example, a serial port, a parallel port, a game port, and a universal serial bus (USB). Output device(s) 1440 use some of the same type of ports as input device(s) 1436. Thus, for example, a USB port may be used to provide input to computer 1412, and to output information from computer 1412 to an output device 1440. Output adapter 1442 is provided to illustrate that there are some output devices 1440 like monitors, speakers, and printers among other output devices 1440 that require special adapters. The output adapters 1442 include, by way of illustration and not limitation, video and sound cards that provide a means of connection between the output device 1440 and the system bus 1418. It should be noted that other devices and/or systems of devices provide both input and output capabilities such as remote computer(s) 1444.
Computer 1412 can operate in a networked environment using logical connections to one or more remote computers, such as remote computer(s) 1444. The remote computer(s) 1444 can be a personal computer, a server, a router, a network PC, a workstation, a microprocessor based appliance, a peer device or other common network node and the like, and typically includes many or all of the elements described relative to computer 1412. For purposes of brevity, only a memory storage device 1446 is illustrated with remote computer(s) 1444. Remote computer(s) 1444 is logically connected to computer 1412 through a network interface 1448 and then physically connected via communication connection 1450. Network interface 1448 encompasses communication networks such as local-area networks (LAN) and wide-area networks (WAN). LAN technologies include Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI), Copper Distributed Data Interface (CDDI), Ethernet/IEEE 1102.3, Token Ring/IEEE 1102.5 and the like. WAN technologies include, but are not limited to, point-to-point links, circuit switching networks like Integrated Services Digital Networks (ISDN) and variations thereon, packet switching networks, and Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL).
Communication connection(s) 1450 refers to the hardware/software employed to connect the network interface 1448 to the bus 1418. While communication connection 1450 is shown for illustrative clarity inside computer 1412, it can also be external to computer 1412. The hardware/software necessary for connection to the network interface 1448 includes, for exemplary purposes only, internal and external technologies such as, modems including regular telephone grade modems, cable modems and DSL modems, ISDN adapters, and Ethernet cards.
What has been described above includes examples of the subject system and/or method. It is, of course, not possible to describe every conceivable combination of components or methodologies for purposes of describing the subject system and/or method, but one of ordinary skill in the art may recognize that many further combinations and permutations of the subject system and/or method are possible. Accordingly, the subject system and/or method are intended to embrace all such alterations, modifications, and variations that fall within the spirit and scope of the appended claims. Furthermore, to the extent that the term "includes" is used in either the detailed description or the claims, such term is intended to be inclusive in a manner similar to the term "comprising" as "comprising" is interpreted when employed as a transitional word in a claim.
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GLORIA NELSON, ET AL., PLAINTIFF,v.BERTHA MCGEE, DEFENDANT.
Gloria Nelson and her mother Linda Mitchell (collectively "Nelson-Mitchell") appeal from the judgment of the Bankruptcy Court that rejected their adversary Complaint against debtor Bertha McGee ("McGee"). In that proceeding Nelson-Mitchell had sought to exclude, from McGee's discharge via her voluntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition, the pre-bankruptcy debt that McGee had owed to them. This appeal calls for the application of customary appellate standards of review, requiring examination of the Bankruptcy Court's factual findings for clear error and its conclusions of law de novo (see, e.g., In re UNR Indus., Inc., 986 F.2d 207, 208 (7th Cir. 1993)). This Court has done so, and that review clearly calls for reversal in favor at Nelson-Mitchell.
Because there are really no facts in dispute, the issues posed by the current appeal can be resolved by a de novo legal analysis alone. What follows is a statement of the factual background necessary for that purpose.
Nelson-Mitchell were McGee's tenants in Section 8 housing located at 8159 West Houston, Chicago, Illinois. They delivered a $2,500 security deposit to her in two cash installments. Initially McGee kept the deposit in a strongbox at her own residence, but when she later consulted with a lawyer about possibly evicting Nelson-Mitchell as tenants, he told her that she should have put the security deposit in an interest-bearing account — and she did so.
That was good advice. In the City of Chicago, all landlords obligations with respect to all residential tenants' security deposits are exceedingly stringent, and they are spelled out in detail in Chicago Municipal Code §§ 5-12-080 to 5-12-082 (those sections are part of the Chicago Residential Landlord and Tenant Ordinance).*fn1 Although a photocopy of all of the cited sections is attached as Ex. 1 to this opinion, Code § 080(a) is particularly worth quoting here:
A landlord shall hold all security deposits received by
him in a federally insured interest-bearing account in
a bank, saving and loan association or other financial
institution located in the State of Illinois. A
security deposit and interest due thereon shall
continue to be the property of the tenant making such
deposit, shall not be commingled with the assets of the
landlord, and shall not be subject to the claims of any
creditor of the landlord or of the landlord's
successors in interest, including a foreclosing
mortgagee or trustee in bankruptcy.
While the Circuit Court lawsuit was pending, McGee (who later testified before the Bankruptcy Court in this adversary proceeding that "I didn't think I was going to lose"*fn2) somehow decided that the money had become hers to do with as she wished, so she took the money out of the bank account and put it to her own use in December 2001. At the very beginning of January 2002 Nelson-Mitchell filed a summary judgment motion in the Circuit Court, a motion that the state court judge decided in their favor in all respects in February 2002. Nelson-Mitchell were held to owe nothing whatever to McGee in rent, and judgment on the Counterclaim was entered in their favor and against McGee for $5,000 plus interest of $270.50.
McGee, by then having dissipated all of the funds, proceeded in March 2002 to file a voluntary petition under Chapter 7. That proceeding resulted in her discharge. And as stated earlier, Nelson-Mitchell's adversary Complaint, which sought to challenge the dischargeability of McGee's indebtedness arising out of what has been described here, was turned down by the Bankruptcy Court after an evidentiary hearing. This timely appeal followed.
One of the provisions of 11 U.S.C. § 523 ("Section 523") that specify the exceptions to discharge in bankruptcy is at issue here. Here is Section 523(a)(4):
A discharge under section 727, 1141, 1228(a), 1228(b),
or 1328(b) of this title does not discharge an
individual debtor from any debt —
(4) for fraud or defalcation while acting in a
fiduciary capacity, embezzlement, or larceny.
Both of those concepts have been addressed by our Court of Appeals in Meyer v. Rigdon, 36 F.3d 1375 (7th Cir. 1994). As for "defalcation," the extended treatment in Meyer, id. at 1382-85 (drawing on the seminal opinion by Judge Learned Hand in Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. v. Herbst, 93 F.2d 510, 511-12 (2d Cir. 1937)) concluded that the "mere negligent breach of a fiduciary duty is not a `defalcation'" (id. at 1385 (emphasis in original)), but that some added element such as a "willful" or "reckless" failure on the debtor's part to come up with the money is necessary (id.) That poses no difficulty here: There can be no question that McGee's refusal to return her tenants' property, the security deposit, merited such a pejorative characterization.
As for the other necessary component of nondischargeability under Section 523(a)(4), Meyer, id. at 1382 confirms that "[t]he existence of a fiduciary relationship is a question of federal law."*fn3 On that score In re Marchiando, 13 F.3d 1111, 1115 (7th Cir. 1994) (most citations omitted) fleshes out the scope of the "fiduciary duty" concept:
The high standard of loyalty and care that the law
imposes on trustees is encapsulated in the term
"fiduciary duty." Once it entered the law's bank of
concepts, it became available for use in situations
that, while not involving trusts in a formal sense,
seemed to call for the imposition of the same high
standard. Restatement (Second) of Trusts § 2,
comment b (1959). So a lawyer is deemed the fiduciary
of his client, even if he does not manage a fund
entrusted to him by the client, and a managing partner
is a fiduciary of the limited partners, corresponding
to shareholders of a corporation, although again there
is no trust in the conventional sense. Yet a further
extension of the fiduciary concept — the use of
the concept of "constructive trust" (where
"constructive" bears its usual legal meaning of "no")
to impose the fiduciary duty of a trustee on a person
who is not a trustee — has been held not to come
within the reach of section 523(a)(4). Davis v. Aetna
Acceptance Co., 293 U.S. 328, 333, 55 S.Ct. 151, 153,
79 L.Ed. 393 (1934). Resulting and implied trusts are
out too. And a debtor who has given his creditor a
"trust receipt" to secure the loan is not a fiduciary
for purposes of the statute.
The key to knitting the cases into a harmonious whole
is the distinction stressed in Davis and other cases
between a trust or other fiduciary relation that has an
existence independent of the debtor's wrong and a trust
or other fiduciary relation that has no existence
before the wrong is committed. A lawyer's fiduciary
duty to his client, or a director's duty to his
corporation's shareholders, pre-exists any breach of
that duty, while in the case of a constructive or
resulting trust there is no fiduciary duty until a
wrong is committed.
I can't find any language in the form lease which
indicates clearly there was any intent between the
parties or among the parties of an intent to create a
trust with regard to the security deposit.
I find no intent to create a trust in the face of the
document, nor any specifications of a trust purpose
imposing fiduciary obligations on Ms. McGee under the
terms of the lease and addendum.
This chapter applies to, regulates and determines
rights, obligations and remedies under every rental
agreement entered into or to be performed after the
effective date of this chapter, for a dwelling unit
located within the City of Chicago, regardless of where
the agreement is made, subject only to the limitations
contained in Section 5-12-020 [which limitations were
not relevant or applicable to the lease here]. This
chapter applies specifically to rental agreements for
dwelling units operated under subsidy programs of
agencies of the United States and/or the State of
Illinois, including specifically, programs operated or
subsidized by the Chicago Housing Authority and/or the
Illinois Housing Development Authority to the extent
that this chapter is not in direct conflict with
statutory or regulatory provisions governing such
It follows without question that the decision of the Bankruptcy Court must be reversed. McGee's discharge in bankruptcy does not encompass her debt to Nelson-Mitchell, which remains an outstanding and enforceable obligation.
Because the Bankruptcy Court reached the opposite conclusion, it had no occasion to consider the proper measure of the indebtedness if, as this Court has decided, it is nondischargeable. As stated earlier, the Circuit Courts judgment in conformity with the provisions of the Code — and hence the amount of McGee's pre-bankruptcy indebtedness to Nelson-Mitchell — was for twice the amount of the security deposit itself ($5,000 rather than $2,500) as well as for interest on that sum.
Just last month the United States Supreme Court, in Archer v. Warner, 71 U.S.L.W. 4249 (U.S. 2003), held that a debt embodied in a settlement agreement, which had resolved an earlier claim that money had been obtained by fraud, continued to retain the same fraud-tainted character so as to be nondischargeable in bankruptcy. That is essentially a reconfirmation of the principle announced in the unanimous opinion in Cohen v. de la Cruz, 523 U.S. 213 (1998). Cohen held that the Section 523(a) exceptions from discharge, when they speak of "debt for" a particular type of liability, "connot[e] broadly any liability arising from the specified object" (id. at 220). And just as that led to the conclusion that a state court judgment that trebled the fraudulent amount at issue in Cohen provided the measure of nondischargeability there, by parity of reasoning McGee's nondischargeable debt is the full amount of the Circuit Court judgment: $5,270.50.
For the reasons stated in this opinion, this Court reverses the Bankruptcy Court's decision. It holds that McGee's entire debt to Nelson-Mitchell, the sum of $5,270.50, was not discharged as the result of McGee's discharge in bankruptcy and remains fully enforceable post-bankruptcy.
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Our freshly remodeled unit with new appliances is Pelican Point Unit #67 at the juncture of the Pajaro River and Monterey Bay - a famed habitat for sea and shore birds and aquatic life of all kinds. The condominium overlooks Monterey Bay and is just steps away from the beach. Pajaro Dunes is a gated community that is free of noise, traffic and distraction. Only 20 minutes north of Monterey, the location offers one-and-a-half miles of secluded pristine beaches, and a plethora of choices for your vacation, including just hanging out on the beach and taking in the spectacular sunsets.
About The Condo And Pajaro Dunes
There are three bedrooms and two full bathrooms in the unit plus a convertible sofa in the living room, lavishly accommodating up to eight people. A fully equipped kitchen as well as barbecuing on the balcony ensures fine dining whatever your preferences.
Free local and long-distance calling is included.
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Award-winning restaurants, exclusive shopping, world famous golf courses (Pebble Beach/ 17 mile Drive) and the Monterey Bay Aquarium, are all located in Monterey and Carmel approximately twenty minutes south of Pajaro Dunes. The Big Sur scenic region (Point Lobos) is about an hour drive down the Pacific coast.
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A beautiful and well appointed space. Super clean. Lovely artwork. Comfortable seating. Well equipped kitchen. Wonderful view.
Most importantly, Mary was great to work with. We'll be back!
This place was perfect for our group! It's super close to the beach! Mary was great to work with she always answered all my questions in a timely manner! I would stay here again!!
Mary's condo is Ritz Carlton pristine and the beds are extremely
comfortable. The condo has been remodeled and very well appointed. The view of the ocean is gorgeous! The location is perfect and only 25 minutes away from Mobterey / Carmel. What a great experience we had... Mary, the owner, is an excellent communicator as well as quick to respond to you. We are going to make Mary's an annual event! Thank you Mary!
If anyone wants a wonderful, seaside accommodation, I would suggest pelican #67. Our long weekend there to celebrate my daughter and my birthdays was such a pleasant, memorable experience. Of course, we lucked out with beautiful, sunshine (which doesn't always happen). In any case, the unit is tastefully decorated, fully equipped with anything you might need, ideally located with fantastic ocean views, and a short walk until you're directly on the beach. We enjoyed collecting sand dollars, flying kites, wading in the ocean, and strolls along the sandy beach. In about 30 minutes, if the traffic isn't too congested, you are on Cannery Row in Monterey Bay to enjoy the unique shops, restaurants, and sights. All in all, it is a fantastic rental.
It was a treat to rent this property. The condo is equipped as if it's someone's actual home (not a rental), with easy access to the Beach and a nice view of the ocean from the deck and family room. The owner, Mary, was ultra responsive and a pleasure to work with. If you're looking to rent at Pajaro, I'd recommend starting with Mary first.
After spending a week at this beautiful condo, I hated to get back to reality. The ample, comfortable space that Mary's condo provided for myself, daughter, and 4 grandchildren was perfect. To hear them say every morning, "this is awesome!" Touched my heart. The location, views, and every comfort of home was more than I could have dreamed of. We shared wonderful home-cooked meals from a well stocked kitchen. The dining table was large and fit us well. A place to play games and sort our treasures from the beach proved to be perfect. Memories were made, and we are already planning our next venture to "Mary's House". Thank you Mary!
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Five unusual Christmas Festivals - Umbria, Italy
Christmas in the Upper Tiber Valley
Umbria in the centre of Italy knows how to enjoy its Christmas time and New Year. There are many festivals, spectacoli and parades for one to enter into or simply stand by and watch. If you are looking for somewhere to go where they are guaranteed to put a smile on your face over the festive season, then I suggest you check out the green heart of Italy and in particular the Upper Tiber Valley.
Canoeing Santa and the Worlds Tallest Tree
1) Babbo Natale in a Canoe, mid afternoon on Christmas day the Canoe Club of Citta di Castello set out on one of the greatest annual feasts. Their canoes all decked out in fairy lights and all the canoeists dressed as Santa (Babbo Natale) then paddle down the River Tiber to the landing stage at the Ponte Vecchio. Here the waiting Children are given sweets and presents as the canoes land. The whole of the riverbank is lined with torches that flicker in the early evening giving the event a very special atmosphere.
2) The Worlds tallest Christmas tree. On the slopes of Mount Ingino each year. Behind the town of Gubbio in the north of Umbria, the town's folk layout a 800 metre tall, 400 metres wide image of a Christmas tree. It is made out of some 500 light bulbs and contains 2 Km of cabling and can be seen from miles around. It stands in the Guinness Book of Records as the Worlds tallest Christmas tree.
Nativity and the Witch
3) Befana, January 6th, Epiphany is also known as Befana in Italy this is when the Befana, who is a good witch is supposed to appear and give all the good children sweets, those who have not behaved well over the past year get a lump of coal. Truth be told it is a black sugar candy that looks like coal but has the same effect. When the three kings were looking for Christ's manger they stopped at an old hovel and ask the Befana, a wise old woman who lived the way. She pointed them in right direction but turned down an offer to join them. Later she realised her mistake and now spends eternity searching for the three wise men. on this day in any Italian Piazza you will find the Befana, Citta di Castello's is provided by the Fire Service and traditionally abseils down the medieval tower.
4) The Living Nativity. In 1224 Saint Francis created the first living nativity scene around the manger in the town of Greccio, near Assisi. Using a simple straw filled feeding trough and with an ox and sheep in attendance he celebrated mass. All over Italy villages recreate the living prescepi each year, with stiff competition to get the prime roles. The best and obvious one to visit has to be the original though, which is still held in Greccio.
5) International Nativity Exhibition. Each year in the crypt of Citta di Castello's Duomo they hold an international exhibition of miniature nativity scenes. These lovingly crafted dioramas of the birth of Christ come from all over the world with beautiful versions from Latin America, detailed professionally manufactured cribs from Naples and the wonderful creations of local school children. They are all special and although some are very disturbing renditions but comprise a wonderful collection of a simple message.
So whether you want to see Santa in a canoe, an abseiling fireman or frightening nativity scenes you will have a Christmas to remember if you visit some of the festive offerings in Umbria.
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Fascinating Hub, knell63. I know where I'm going to spend Christmas next year!
I thoroughly love reading about all these custom and I thank you for sharing. This is great.
What a nice hub about Christmas Festivals in Italy! Beautiful pictures, too. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the good work. – Carol
its beautiful
Pentema e8 veramente spacettolare, come posizione su un colle dell'Appennino, come disposizione urbanistica con le case in pendenza, vicine a reggersi una con l'altra in uno scenario da fiaba di altri tempi. Il presepe e8 altrettanto spacettolare per la cura dei personaggi, interpreti di mestieri di altri tempi e la dislocazione nel borgo. Complimenti vivissimi a chi l'ha ideato e soprattutto a chi lo ha realizzato. Non conoscevo ne8 Pentema, ne8 Torriglia, sono contento che il TG3 me l'abbia fatti conoscere e di averli visitati. La strada non e8 poi cosec tremenda, e8 una strada di montagna, dove bisogna solo guidare con prudenza. Non dimentichiamo la locanda del Pettirosso, accogliente e con una cucina ottima.


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I don't know if I should give my honest answer.
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I absolutely love being naked. I live out in the woods and even used to mow my yard naked. A lot of people have moved in close to me tho and one of them has even called the cops on me over it, so now days i am required to wear boxers at least anytime i step outside my house.
I mean i own 20 acres so they had to be looking pretty hard to see me. God forbid the cops to just punish them for being nosey.
And the Angel of the Lord came unto me, snatching me up from my place of slumber. And took me on high, and higher still until we moved to the spaces betwixt the air itself. And he brought me into a vast farmlands of our own midwest. And as we descended, cries of impending doom rose from the soil. One thousand, nay a million voices full of fear. And terror possessed me then. And I begged, "Angel of the Lord, what are these tortured screams?" And the angel said unto me, "These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots!"
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She has signed up to present a nightly magazine show on Five alongside fellow presenters-by-default ex-footballer Ian Wright, who will anchor the programme, and, er, Melinda Messenger.
The series, which begins next month, is set to rival BBC1's The One Show, and will cover news and showbiz, promising to be "very American�?, and "like nothing else we've ever had on British telly.�?
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By Bailey Knecht, sports editor
Two popular Boston eateries, Roxy's Grilled Cheese and Area Four, have joined forces to open a combined bar and arcade on Massachusetts Avenue in the upcoming year. The restaurant will likely be called Roxy's A4Cade and will serve grilled cheese, burgers and other pub food with a separate area for the bar and arcade, according to plans laid out at a recent City of Cambridge licensing board meeting.
"What we're seeking to do is bring two concepts together to create an atmosphere that we are confident would be appealing to both families [and] students, as well as professionals, and create, essentially, something that's appealing to folks from all walks of life," Lesley St. Germain, the attorney for the new project, said at the meeting.
Area Four plans to open the restaurant at 300 Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge as part of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's University Park expansion project. The proposal includes indoor and outdoor seating, a jukebox, video games, pinball machines, Skeeball, foosball, a shuffleboard, a pool table and televisions.
"I think that there is always going to be a competitive nature for businesses in the area," Lisa Hemmerle, economic development director in the Cambridge Community Development Department, said. "Having an arcade is something we haven't really seen… I can imagine it attracting a wide variety of audiences."
Michael Krupp, owner of Area Four, said that A4Cade would use low prices to reach a diverse crowd.
"The focus… is to create approachable food for both families and office workers," he said. "Affordability is, of course, key to both our success at Area Four and, also, what I hope to be a success at the new location."
While the alcohol license was granted, plans for the restaurant are still in preliminary stages and may change, according to Iman Richards, an account executive for Marlo Marketing, which represents Area Four.
Northeastern students say the retro twist on the traditional bar scene would attract their interest.
"I and some of my friends would personally be interested in it," Cody Wetherby, junior combined computer science and game design major, said. "I spent a lot of time in arcades growing up, so I have very fond memories in them and spending time with my father there. I would be curious to check it out, especially if there are decent games."
Thomas Katzman, junior game design major, said the variety of games would determine whether or not he would visit the new spot.
"I think it would heavily depend on what they offer," he said. "It's not necessarily old-fashioned, but there are a bunch of other places that are doing similar things, so they need to have something to make them stand out."
Several other spots in Boston offer a combination of food, drinks and games. Many such venues fall into two categories: bowling alleys, including Jillian's Lucky Strike and Kings, offering other entertainment to patrons, and small bars with a few arcade machines each.
The city lacks places centered solely on arcade games. St. Germain said he and his partners are seeking to bring a unique restaurant experience to the entire community by filling that void, in addition to focusing on food.
"What we're trying to create here is not necessarily just bar service," she said. "It's more of a full atmosphere of people enjoying food, games and, to the extent they are of age, alcoholic beverages."
Construction is set to start by 2016 with a tentative opening by early summer, according to Krupp.
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Review: Hope Is a Ferris Wheel by Robin Herrera
Publisher: Abrams
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Released: March 11th, 2014
Rating: 7.5/10
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Ten-year-old Star Mackie has just moved to a new town where she lives in a trailer park with her flakey mum and her melancholy older sister, Winter, whom she idolises. Moving to a new town, coupled with Star's unusual fashion sense and layered blue hair, has made it difficult for her to make friends, so Star decides to start her own club at school. Initially named the "Trailer Park Club" in order to teach other students about the positive aspects of living in a trailer park, the (very small) group evolves into a poetry club where Star discovers a love of Emily Dickinson and through Emily's poetry, learns some important lessons about herself and her own hopes and dreams for the future.
Hope Is a Ferris Wheel is a lovely middle grade read, about ten-year-old Star Mackie and her family. Star is a wonderful narrator who immediately captured my heart, and her outlook on the world is one to aspire to. Full of hope for life and for the world in general, Star sees things differently to others and has to cope with more than she should at such a young age. She's a fantastic character and one who I'm glad to have met.
Having just moved to a new place, Star, along with her mum and older sister Winter, are living in a trailer park. Star's fellow school students all ridicule her for her living arrangements and strange mullet hair (it's actually a layered cut, thank you very much), but she doesn't let them get in the way of what she wants. Instead she starts a trailer park club that quickly evolves into an Emily Dickinson club, which is where Star first discovers a love of poetry.
Star's older sister Winter is another character I fell in love with. She's fifteen and moody, quiet and withdrawn, navigating teenage life as best she can. She's growing up in a somewhat broken family, asking questions about her absent dad and helping to parent Star when their mum is too busy. She's a strong girl, able to deal with anything life throws at her and not be ashamed of who she is. She has her own problems too, of course, but she never let's herself be beaten.
This story says a lot about life and how we can be quick to judge people. It's a lesson in tolerance and kindness, showing that even people who live in trailer parks need friends and people who care about them. Luckily Star finds her place and people to share her time with, but that isn't the case for everyone in real life. I wish it were, and I hope that this book might show middle grade readers the right way to treat their peers.
Hope Is a Ferris Wheel is one of those books that's unflinchingly real, charming and made to be shared. It's an exploration of families and family life, how we all have different situations but ultimately all want the same things. Mostly it's about a ten-year-old girl finding her place in what can be an unfair world, and realising that life really is what you make it. Star and Winter Mackie make this book a must-read, and they're two fictional people who will stay in my mind for a long time to come.
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