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Wildmind as "right livelihood"
The reactions I get when I tell people that I did an interdisciplinary Master's degree in Buddhism and business studies are very telling. Once people have stopped laughing or spluttering incoherently, they usually say that they'd assumed that Buddhism and business were mutually exclusive. But in fact the concept of "right livelihood" is part of the Buddha's core teaching, the Eightfold Path.
In Buddhist practice we're encouraged to make every aspect of our lives an opportunity to practice mindfulness, compassion, balance, and insight. Since we all have to earn a living, our work needs to become part of our practice.
Our mission at Wildmind is to benefit the world by promoting mindfulness and compassion through teaching meditation. Almost all the events we run are free of charge. This year (our Year of Going Deeper) we've been running eight events, which have had an average of 1,200 participants each. These events are by donation.
We also sell guided meditation CDs, which provide the bulk of the income that allows us to teach. And because we were selling our CDs online, we started selling other meditation supplies, both to support others' meditation practice and to subsidize our teaching.
We don't pay ourselves much — enough to live with simple dignity, but not enough (unfortunately) that we don't have money worries.
But our aim is always the promotion of meditation.
There are other aspects to right livelihood as well. We strive to be honest. The three of us who work here strive to care for each other. We have a very harmonious office! We source fair trade products as much as possible. We support local small businesses (like the woman who makes our meditation cushions and the Buddhist former prison inmate who makes some of our malas).
I'm mentioning all this because I know you have choices about what you can do with your money. You can support large businesses like Amazon that treat their workers badly, dodge taxes, and use their quasi-monopoly power to bully suppliers. Or you can support people like us — not a faceless corporation, but people trying to make the world a truly better place.
Your money is power. You have the power to choose (or least influence) the kind of world you want to live in. Your choices matter.
So when you're buying gifts, we'd ask that you consider our online store.
We're participating in a Triratna campaign called #ethicalchristmas, along with other Buddhist businesses. You can read about the how Evolution in the UK benefits the environment by selling recycled glass products, and how they've been supporting children orphaned by HIV in Thailand.
This is consumer power at work: the money of people like you being used to make the world a better place.
"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds." George Eliot
Karma is one of the most misunderstood Buddhist teachings. Often people think of karma as some kind of external, impersonal force that "rewards" us for our good deeds and punishes us for our bad. Consequently, even some people with an otherwise good understanding of Buddhism reject karma (usually along with rebirth) as being non-rational.
But karma is not external, nor is it about rewards and punishments. Karma simply means "action." As an ethical term, it refers to the intentions underlying our actions, understood very broadly as anything we might think, say, or do. As the Buddha said, "I declare, intention is karma" (Cetan?ha? kamma? vad?mi).
What this means is three-fold:
First, ethically speaking our intentions can be seen as skillful or unskillful. Skillful intentions embody qualities of mindfulness, contentment, clarity, and care for the wellbeing of oneself and others. Unskillful intentions embody the opposites: they are motivated by impulsive selfishness, craving, confusion, and ill will.
Second, the importance of this distinction is that skillful actions (i.e. those arising from skillful volitions) lead on the whole to a decrease in unhappiness and an increase in ease. Unskillful actions, as you might expect, do the opposite. So in choosing our actions, we also choose (whether we know it or not) the consequences of those actions. We create much of our own suffering and happiness through our actions.
Third, habits are like muscles in the brain. By exercising a habit, it becomes stronger. As the Buddha said (and with apologies for the gender-specific language), "Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness," and "What a man wills, what he plans, what he dwells on forms the basis for the continuation of consciousness."
We create our consciousness through the actions we take — even our thoughts and words — and so, as Eliot observed, not only do we create our actions, but our actions create us.
Mindfulness (samm? sati), right view (samm? ditthi), and right effort (samma v?y?ma) can free us from this feedback loop, breaking open a circular track and turning it into a path that leads to awakening.
Mindfulness is necessary because without it, we're submerged in our thoughts and feelings. Unable to stand back, we act unreflectively, strengthening our unskillful habits and creating suffering for ourselves.
Right view is important because it allows us to evaluate our potential actions. We can realize, "If I act in this way (e.g. angrily) then there will be painful consequences. On the other hand, if I act that way (e.g. with patience and kindness) then the consequences will be more beneficial for me and others.
Right effort is needed because it's not enough just to know what we should do: we have to be able to act. Right effort is our commitment to bring into being and sustain the skillful, and to eradicate and prevent the further arising of the unskillful.
Karma is essentially a feedback mechanism, showing us the extent to which we're in tune with reality.
Something the Buddha was quite clear about is that not everything we experience is a result of karma, even though some Buddhist traditions seem to have overlooked that fact. If it rains on your wedding day, or if you hit a red light when you're already late, that's not the result of your karma (neither is it ironic, as many people have no doubt pointed out to Alanis Morissette). But how you respond emotionally to such events, and how much you suffer as a result, does depend on your karma. If you've developed the emotional "muscles" of acceptance, patience, and flexibility, then you'll be able to meet these events with elegance and with a minimum of suffering, or perhaps none. If your emotional muscles of impatience and anger have been bulked up by a lifetime of exercise, then once again you'll experience these events as acutely frustrating, painful, and stressful.
The extent to which we're able to meet life's difficulties with grace is the measure of our wisdom.
One thing we have to be aware of is the tendency to say "My intentions were pure, therefore I'm not responsible for the fact that you got hurt by my actions." Our own intentions are never entirely clear to us, and the Buddha pointed out that we have to look at the consequences of our actions in order to divine them. If we've caused pain to ourselves or others, then there was likely some kind of unskillful motivation mixed in with the skillful.
Karma, then, isn't anything mystical. It's simple a description of the psychology or happiness. It's not an external force, but a feedback mechanism. And it's not a judgement, but the natural result of how we act.
Listening as meditation
I recently wrote a post about how we can use listening as a way to quiet the mind, and how the arising of thoughts can become a "mindfulness bell," calling us back to mindful attentiveness of the sounds around us. (The post was specifically about persistent thoughts that take the form of music, but the same approach works for all thoughts.)
A commenter on that post directed me to a video featuring the Canadian composer, writer, music educator and environmentalist R. Murray Schafer. In the video, Schafer very cleverly leads us into a form of listening meditation, in which he guides us from being mindful of recorded sounds to the "real" sounds in our personal environment. There's a clever fake-out toward the end of the video that I didn't see coming!
Energize, Inspire, Enjoy
Recently I offered a mantra that can accompany the out-breathing: Relax, Rest, Reveal. These words encourage us, respectively, to let go of unnecessary tensions in the body, to let go of unnecessary mental effort, and to be open and receptive to whatever is arising in our experience.
I'd like now to offer a corresponding mantra for the in-breathing: Energize, Inspire, Enjoy. As with the previous mantra, each of the words has a specific function.
"Energize" connects us with the natural energy of the in-breath. Inhalation is dominated by the sympathetic nervous system, which isn't always about "fight or flight" but is involved in any physical or emotional arousal. It's no coincidence that we take a sudden in-breath when we're startled, and the sympathetic nervous system is activated.
In our normal (non-startled!) breathing pattern, the sympathetic nervous system is active. Each time we inhale there is a subtle but noticeable sense of energy. The body becomes oxygenated and the heart beats a little faster. The body becomes more open and upright, and is more ready to act.
Saying the word "energize" as we inhale is a way of encouraging us to notice the gentle but arousing physical effects of the in-breath.
Saying "Inspire," connects us with the same physiological processes, but it directs our attention more to the qualities of the mind and how they change as we breathe in. Just as the body becomes more alert and energetic on the in-breath, so does the mind. There's a subtle but perceptible increase in our alertness, and the mind becomes brighter.
The word "Enjoy," as you might expect, reminds us to appreciate any pleasure and happiness that are arising in our experience. This brings together everything: the out-breathing and the inbreathing; the body and the mind. Relaxing on the out-breath can be very enjoyable; so can feeling the energy of the in-breath. Resting the mind can be delightful; so can feeling the mind becoming brighter. Saying "Enjoy" as we breathe in encourages us to appreciate what's positive in our experience. It encourages us to let happiness arise in response to the simple act of noticing the rhythm of our breathing.
Don't try to do anything as you say these words. Don't try to make anything happen. Just say the words, and let them have an effect.
Paying attention only to the out-breathing is calming, but in the long-term it tends to make us dull and sleepy. Paying attention only to the in-breathing is energizing, but we can easily become over-excited and distracted.
So if you're going to use these two sets of mantras, use them skillfully. You may want to start a meditation with the mantras of the out-breath—especially if you need to calm the mind—and then move on to the mantras of the in-breath. But since this latter practice can lead to excitability, there will come a point when we need to drop the mantras and focus just on the breathing, and when we need to focus on the continuity of the breathing process—sensing it as an unbroken stream of sensations—without particular emphasis on either the breathing-out or the breathing-in.
Ebola: the Buddhist connection
There's an unusual connection between Ebola and Buddhism.
Ashoka Mukpo, one of a handful of Americans who have contracted Ebola, was identified soon after his birth as a reincarnated lama, or Tulku.
Mukpo is the son of Diana Mukpo, who married Tibetan lama Chogyam Tungpa in Scotland. Ashoka is not Trungpa's biological son, but was raised as his child after his mother became pregnant while romantically involved with another of Trungpa's followers, Dr. Mitchell Levy.
As a child, Ashoka was identified as the reincarnation of Khamyon Rinpoche, and he was enthroned as a tulku in Tibet.
Although Mukpo regards himself as a practicing Buddhist, he decided not to pursue a monastic life, and he works in the U.S. division of Human Rights Watch. He has also worked as a freelance cameraman for Vice News, NBC News and other media outlets. He spent two years working in Liberia, doing research for the Sustainable Development Institute, a nonprofit that highlights the concerns of workers in mining camps outside the west African country's capital, Monrovia.
It was in Liberia that he was diagnosed with Ebola. Soon after he was moved to Nebraska Medical Center for treatment, where he is recovering.
NBC News reports that his parents say he "would likely rather the attention be paid to the West African countries that have been ravaged by the disease."
Although many people in the west are anxious about Ebola, we should remember that the vast bulk of the suffering that's taking place is in Africa, where thousands have been infected, and where its possible that a million people could contract the disease.
This article on Forbes suggests ways that individuals can contribute to fighting Ebola in Africa.


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He took on the duties of principal with very late notice last year, according to school district officials, who also said Carr has been a calm, steadying influence for students, staff and parents.
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Growing up, we would take a trip every summer to Disneyland. Visiting would enveloped me. Every interaction was so well executed that the entire experience felt—for a lack of a better word—transcendent.
Returning as an adult, I can't help but marvel at the effort and planning that still goes into crafting the experience. Sure, you notices little things through adult eyes that aren't supposed to be seen—but seeing the perma-smile on my son's face makes me realize that the park operations are still invisible to him.
Disneyland may be the best example of a near-perfect, large-scale user experience we have today.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
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I had the pleasure of speaking at the first annual Phoenix Digital Marketing Summit, a conference put on by Tech Media. They produce digital marketing conferences all over the county, but this was the first one in Phoenix.
My 50 minute presentation, which focused on how user experience can improve digital marketing tactics, was part of the morning design track and slotted right between the formidable Cody L. and Michael Salamon. Even though the talk was well received, it's ironic how many ideas I generated to make it even better after I was done. Hence, I've been busy refining my deck and adding new examples and tactics for the next time I give it.
Also! Pro speaking tip I just learned: put your Twitter handle and the conference hash tag on each one of your slides, instead of just on your bio slide as I usually do. This will allow conference attendees to give you realtime feedback. Many speakers use small type and place it at the bottom of their slide, but if attendees have an obstructive view, they may not be able to read it.
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In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, The Tonganoxie Public Library will present an evening of Native American Culture on November 13th at 7:00pm at the Library. The program will address Native American oral history including story-telling with dance, art forms, Pow-Wows, pow-wow etiquette, and many other aspects of the Native American community.
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The information is already out there. Google it and read the reports. The only purpose of this one is to fundraise from the most gullible donors of both parties. It will be like mating sterile elephants-there will be lots of trumpeting and noise at high levels and two years later, nothing...
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TH must be on the Rick Perry bandwagon, this is the second article on his candidacy today. The geek glasses and dumping of the cowboy boots are an attempt to shed the hick status. It'll never work as the video of his disastrous performance in a 2012 debate is on Youtube for everyone to peruse. The "oops" ending will forever brand him as a dunce.
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Rick Perry has an uphill battle to be president. The geek glasses and dumping of the cowboy boots is an attempt to change his image. The insurmountable problem, however, is the video of his flubbed debate performance where he forgot the name of the third government agency he would eliminate. The Youtube video of his "oops" will haunt him forever and maintain the impression of a dunce.
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Chris Christie is one of the few Republicans capable of beating Hillary in 2016. It's not gonna happen for two reasons. First, Christie self-imploded on the GW bridge affair and second, the wingnuts aren't going to nominate him. They will instead cast their votes for the likes of Ted Cruz, Rick Perry etc.
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This whole fiasco is nothing but red meat thrown to the Obama haters. Before the Obama administration issued any Executive Order, you can bet your bottom dollar it was cleared through the Justice Dept. Now, it is possible that a court may disagree with those opinions, but very doubtful. All this will really do is to motivate Democratic voters for the 2014 election and disgust the truly independent voters to vote against the Republican party.
Rick Perry has three major points to discuss-Oh Damn, what was that last one? Oops...
By low information voters, I'm sure you are referring to Fox News viewers. http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/01/30/does_watching_fox_news_make_you_less_informed.html
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I adore this. Like the reviewer below i find that some benefit products are totally ineffectual but this one does what it's supposed to ie give a subtle shimmery glow. I dab this on my cheekbones and cleavage and it looks great.
Never have I been so suckered, nor aware of my gullibility, since I discovered BeneFit. Some products I hate, some I love, but I end up buying all of them because they're marketed so damn cutely. Fortunately this one I like. I hate overly glittery makeup that looks too young for me, but High Beam is subtle - perfect with Brow Zings and mascara for a groomed-but-not-trying look. It looks good on my fair skin and catches the light prettily - dewy, not shiny. Nice alone or over my mineral foundation so I don't look too matte. Minus 1 lippie for the price and packaging - I'm nervous with it in my tiled bathroom or travel kit. Price might be ok if I didn't expect to repurchase early due to breakage, like my BeneTint.
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I love to use this product as a highlighter under my brow bone! It instantly dresses up my look and makes my brows look groomed.
I love high beam, it's one of the few highlighters that blends well into very fair skin. when applied as directed, it gives a beautiful glow. i do find it easy to apply too much however, and i'm not sure about the applicator-- after a couple weeks i started to get little blemishes when i used it a couple days in a row, and i think using the brush on my skin and then putting it back into the bottle may have something to do with it. however, this is so much better for my skin tone than any other highlighter i've tried, so i definitely repurchase this as necessary.
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I absolutely adore High Beam! It gives my skin a pinky dewy glow. I apply it on my cheekbones, brow bones, temples and chin. It's also great since it can be layered. If I want more than just a dewy glow and would prefer shimmery light pink cheeks for a party, I just apply more! High Beam looks best on ligh skin tones, while Moon Beam looks best on darker skin tones. The only thing I don't like is the packaging. I dropped the bottle from a low surface accidentaly and it shattered. Instead of a glass bottle, I think they should package it in some sort of squeeze-tube. I will repurchase this product over and over again!!
this is one of my favorite beauty products from benefit. it goes on like silk and gives my skin a pink dewy shine. i normally just put it on my cheeks and above my eyelids and it makes me look and feel like a princess!
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I have Viber on my Android which is also in use on iPhone, is it the same thing?
Well, if you fancy a bit of 'smash the state' that is. Apparently those naughty Wall Street protesters have been using a new messaging client called Vibe which sends anonymous time limited messages. You can read more on it at The Register here: Anonymous Twitter alternative developed for rioters ? The Register and the comments are well worth a read. My favorite so far is:
Yup, it's iPhone only (currently). But hey, if it's anonymous who'd want to use that? I thought the whole point of Twitter was that users could say thinks like 'I caused that gridlock in central London when I accidentally Tweeted that the A40 was closed due to an accident when in fact I just saw an old lady drop a bag on a side street off Euston Road and it held up a car for 30 seconds. What a laugh'. Or somesuch.Yeah, smash the capitalist pigs' system with the aid of your iPhone, then blog about it on your £1500 macbook.
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The invention resides in a thermally insulated building panel comprising a laminate of exterior building material 8 with insulation 10 between them in which there are grooves 18 formed which extend lengthwise of an edge of the panel proximate the insulation engaging surfaces of the exterior and interior materials. The dimension of the open end O of a groove is greater than the dimension of its closed end 26 to facilitate entry into the groove of a spline 12 for joining two adjacent panels together.
1. A thermally insulated building structure comprising two butted panels each including a laminate of exterior building material and interior building material with solid insulation between them characterized by:
the exterior building material being shorter than the solid insulation creating a gap in the exterior surface to receive calking material;
a pair of complimentary grooves formed in the insulation of each panel which extend lengthwise of an edge of the panel proximate the inner surfaces of said exterior and interior building materials and exposing a portion of said surfaces,
the walls of each groove being substantially parallel,
a rearward portion of each groove is remote from an inner surface of said exterior and interior building materials having a taper which intersects the closed end of the groove to render the dimension of the open end of a groove greater than the dimension of its closed end,
splines for joining the two adjacent panels together located half in each groove of a butted panel, each spline being tapered at one corner to facilitate its entering into the groove and to firmly mate with the taper at the closed end,
screws inserted through the exterior and interior building materials directly into the splines to pull them toward the insulation engaging surfaces of the exterior and interior building material.
2. Building structure of claim 1 in which the insulation is foam plastic, the exterior material is particle board and the interior material is drywall.
3. Building structure according to claim 1 where there is a thin residue of insulating material between the grooves and the inner surfaces of the interior and exterior building material which forms a resilient bed to accommodate irregularities in the spline when it is inserted in the groove and pulled toward the interior surfaces of the exterior or interior building material by the screws.
This invention is in the field of building materials.
As an improvement upon conventional building practices, where insulation in the form of batts or granular material is placed between framing members of a structure, this invention is directed to completely enclosing the structure with insulation. A prefabricated, thermally insulated panel is provided which comprises a lamination of exterior building material such as siding or sheathing, interior material such as drywall or finish board, with solid insulation permanently secured between them. By securing panels in abutting relationship to the complete exterior of the frame of both the walls and the roof, the entire interior of the structure is virtually within an envelope of insulating material. Furthermore, the use of solid or rigid insulating materials offers a wider choice of higher efficiency insulations than the more conventional flexible batts or particulate materials.
Laminated panels of this type are secured to the exterior of the structure by nailing. It is desirable to center the joint between adjacent panels on a beam, joist or rafter to permit both panels to be securely nailed close to their abutting edges. However, it is not always possible to do this. More often than not, the joint between adjacent panels occurs where there is no beam or stud and means must be provided to lock the panels together and to keep their surfaces in the same plane.
This is accomplished by interlocking two panels together with splines which run lengthwise of the butting edges of the two panels. A single spline engages the exterior siding and a second spline engages the interior drywall of the two abutting panels along their interior or insulation engaging surfaces, i.e. on the inside of the outer laminae of the panel. Screws are then driven through the exterior and interior laminae adjacent their edges and into the splines.
The splines are accommodated within grooves routed or milled out of the insulation material, half of one spline being accommodated in one panel and the other half of the spline being accommodated with a mating groove in the adjacent panel.
One of the problems involved with the prior art insulated panels is in balancing efficiency of construction, efficiency of insulation, and economy with regard to the materials involved. For example, the basic panel construction is extremely rigid and long lasting and the insulation more efficient per inch of thickness than conventional kinds. However, the splines are generally inexpensive furring strips or battens. They have often been stored in mill or lumber yards for lengthy periods of time and become warped and their surfaces splintery where the grain has been raised by exposure to the elements. This makes it difficult if not impossible to insert the splines into the grooves formed in the ends of the insulated panels.
Another problem is in avoiding inadvertent cutting or abrading of the outer and inner laminae or sheets which make up the panel, in particular the interior sheet which is generally drywall or other plaster-like material. If the drywall is cut or abraded in the process of milling or routing the grooves, the panels not only look unsightly in unassembled form but the problem of inserting the splines into the grooves is compounded because of the extra friction generated between a warped or rough surface spline and an abraded surface of plaster wallboard. The problem is compounded further if the interior sheathing is finish plywood. If the edges become grizzled in the milling process, the whole panel usually is considered unusuable, or at best, a second.
It is thus an object of this invention to overcome both of the problems without substantially increasing the cost of manufacturing the laminated panels and without changing the material from which either the panels or the splines are made.
This objective is accomplished by providing in a thermally insulated building panel comprising a laminate of exterior building material and interior building material with insulation between them, grooves in the insulation which extend lengthwise of an edge of the panel proximate the insulation engaging surfaces of the exterior and interior materials wherein the dimension of the open end of a groove is greater than the dimension of its closed end to facilitate entry into the groove of a spline for joining two adjacent panels together. The problem of eliminating the inadvertent abrasion of the interior skin or building material is accomplished by leaving a residue of insulation between the groove and the insulating engaging surface of the finish or interior sheathing nearest to it.
The above and other features of the invention, including various novel details of construction and combinations of parts, will now be more particularly described with reference to the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims. It will be understood that the particular building panels embodying the invention are shown by way of illustration only and not as a limitation of the invention. The principles and features of this invention may be employed in varied and numerous embodiments without departing from the scope of the invention.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of two adjacent building panels secured in abutting relationship.
FIG. 2 is a top plan view in substantially full size of two insulated building panels secured together in abutting relationship in accordance with one aspect of the invention.
FIGS. 3 and 4 are each top plan views of building panels with the splines removed illustrating various features of the construction of the grooves.
FIGS. 5 and 6 are end views of splines for use with panels having grooves as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3.
In FIG. 1 there will be seen a portion of a wall or roof of a building structure made of thermally insulated building panels in which the present invention is embodied. Panel A is shown secured by nails 2 to a beam, stud or rafter 4. The panel comprises a laminate made up of a sheet of exterior building material 6 which may, for example, be 7/16 inch thick exterior plywood, particle board or any other equivalent material and a sheet of interior building material 8 which may be 1/2 inch thick drywall, plasterboard or finish plywood or the like. Permanently sandwiched between the exterior and interior materials 6 and 8 is insulation 10 which may, for example, be 31/2 inch thick foam plastic such as polyurethane having an R-value of 26.4. The laminates 6 and 8 are bonded firmly to the foam insulation by adhesive such as contact cement to prevent relative sliding motion.
A second Panel B is shown in FIG. 1 in butting relationship to Panel A, the panels being held securely together by splines 12 (the splines will be described in greater detail hereinafter) secured within the panels by fasteners 14 such as drywall screws. A gap 16 may be left in the exterior surface of two adjacent panels to receive caulking material.
With reference to FIG. 2, the splines 12 fit into grooves 18 (also seen in alternative forms in FIGS. 3 and 4) milled one inch deep into the insulation 10. The grooves extend lengthwise of an edge or end 20. The grooves are located proximate the insulation engaging surfaces 22 and 24 of the exterior building material 6 and the interior building material 8 respectively. It will be seen that the dimension of the open end of a groove (seen best by the arrow designated "O" in FIGS. 3 and 4) is greater than the dimension of the closed end 26.
With particular reference to FIG. 3, it will be seen that a rearward portion 27 of each 28 of the grooves which are farthest from the insulation engaging surfaces 22 and 24 of the exterior building material 6 and the interior material 8 is tapered for a distance of 1/4 inch from the closed end 26 to the opened end. The dimension "O" is 3/4 inch and the wall 26 is 11/16 inch. The amount of taper is 1/16 inch per inch of groove depth or approximately 14 degrees. This is to facilitate the entry of a spline 12 best seen in FIG. 5.
The spline seen in FIG. 5 has one side beveled at 36 and 38 to the same angle as the tapered portion 27 of the walls 28 and thus mates with the grooves 18 when assembled. The splines may be made slightly thicker or the bevel angle slightly greater to obtain a snug fit when the splines are pressed into the grooves. This prevents the splines from falling out of the grooves before they are screwed firmly in place.
With reference to FIG. 3, it will be seen that in the groove 18 nearest the plasterboard 8 there is a 1/6 inch residue of insulating material 30 between the groove and the foam engaging surface 24. This provides a number of advantages. First, it permits some degree of tolerance on the part of the operator who cuts the grooves in the foam material 10. Since the interior building material is often drywall or plasterboard, a white powder is produced when it is cut or abraded. This is to be avoided since it not only makes the panel look defective to one using it, but weakens it in an area which is critical, i.e., where it is to be screwed to the spline. Intentionally leaving a residue or insulating material by centering the cut more than half the slot width from the plasterboard eliminates these problems. Both grooves of the panel may have foam residues if desired.
Not only are the problems solved but a distinct advantage is gained. Since the foam insulating material is resilient, the residue, when the spline is screwed in place, provides a bed which will accomodate irregularities in the spline, which can be considerable over an 8 ft. length even though the spline has been beveled.
FIG. 4 illustrates a panel with both walls of the grooves having tapered portions 27 extending from the closed ends to the open ends. As in the FIG. 3 embodiment, a residue 41 of foam may be left adjacent to the surface 24 or, if desired, both grooves may have residues.
FIG. 6 shows a spline 12 having bevels 42, 44 at opposite sides to fit the grooves of the FIG. 4 panel.
In actual practice, referring again to FIG. 1, the panel A is nailed or otherwise secured to beam 4. If the edge 20 of the panel is spaced from the beam as shown in FIG. 1, a spline 12 of a type to fit the particular groove selected is pressed into each groove and secured by screws 14. It should be noted that the splines at this stage of the operation are actually tongues projecting from the ends of panel A. Next, panel B is tilted up against panel A with the then projecting splines 12 entering the grooves 18 of panel B. Because of the tapering of the grooves, aligning the panels is made much easier. When panel B is in place, the panels are secured firmly together by another set of screws 14 passing through the exterior and interior sheets 6 and 8 of panel B into the splines 12.
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