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TASA ID: 54

When marital discord evolves into hatred, many couples are quick to see divorce as their best option. Divorce may be an easy way out for the couple; but it often wreaks havoc on the children.  Family Court judges welcome mental health professionals to guide them in determining the future best interests of the children.  These “guides” are called Custody Evaluators.  When the Custody Evaluator correctly identifies Parental Alienation (PA), the evaluator can recommend a particular strategy that best serves the interests of the child.

TASA ID: 3647

We have continued to work on more detailed risk evaluations on our projects, trying to use Monte Carlo simulation methods that our friends in industrial projects have used to quantify the variations in total schedules that affect their financial outcomes. You might remember the summary chart of how good our master schedules were over several years. I have taken out the small projects from the figure below, which makes it look even worse.

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TASA ID: 7210

This is a follow-up to my July 2016 white paper entitled, “A Case Study of Patent Abuse: Printing Industry Faces New Nemesis Impacting Growth and Employment—Patent Trolls.”

That white paper received enormous industry press coverage, and to my understanding was used as part of court proceedings resulting in the dismissal of two long and visible printing industry cases brought on by patent trolls, CTP Innovations (CTP) and High Quality Printing Innovations (HQPI). However, since then, two new cases emerged by patent trolls attempting to threaten and extort funds from printing industry companies and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) using standard technology common for doing day-to-day business in the printing and related industries.

TASA ID: 321

Every business today, no matter its size or type, faces very real security risks. Risks that can cost you time, money and even legal problems. While most companies are aware of cybersecurity issues, there are other real threats, many of them hidden, that must be considered when planning your corporate security initiatives. These include not only the obvious ones like workplace violence, but physical security, health and other hidden hazards, and even work stoppage issues like political upheavals or localized violence. All are very real risks that should not be overlooked.

TASA ID: 3647

It’s been awhile since we checked in on general building contractor finances. The best data comes from the annual Construction Financial Management Association annual report, now called the Benchmarker. They survey most financially sound builders each year, and provide data that the builders themselves can use to gauge their progress versus their peers. The last time we did this was in 2013, so we will be seeing what has happened in the last three years as the market and the economy have improved.