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Grades 6-8 Brown vs. Board of Education and School Desegregation Teaching Resources
Lesson Plans, Activities, Background Information and Other Curriculum Resources
Commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Board of Education on May 17th, 2017. Use these curriculum resources to supplement your American History, Social Studies and English Language Arts teaching plans.
Lesson Plans
Brown v. Board of Education Resources for K-6
Students analyze photographs from the Dorothy E. Davis case, which was one of the cases that made up Brown v. Board of Education brought to the Supreme Court. The lesson includes related pages for grades 2-3 and 4-6. Lists Standards.
The Promise of Brown
This is a group of three lesson plans for grade 3-12 students to reflect on segregation, organize ideas with Venn diagrams, and write an essay comparing Brown v Board of Education (1954) and Parents Involved In Community Schools V. Seattle School District No. 1 (2007).
Brown v. Board of Education: Separate and Unequal Education Lesson
Students in grades 4-12 identify the purpose and goals of education and explain why African Americans challenged segregated schools. Lists National Standards.
Brown v. Board of Education: A Landmark in American Justice Lesson
Students in grades 4-12 examine integrationist and segregationist arguments with role-play and explore the impact of the Supreme Court's decision by analyzing primary source photographs. Lists National Standards.
Brown v. Board of Education: Achieving Equality Lesson
Students in grades 4-12 analyze political cartoons and letters to the editor to identify and analyze reactions to the Brown v. Board Supreme Court decision. Lists National Standards.
The Power of One Decision: Brown v. Board of Education ( PDF, 1.5 MB, 91 pgs.)
Students in grades 5-12 describe the impact of Brown v. Board of Education. Includes National Standards. (Use with the video: A Conversation on the Constitution: Brown v. Board of Education)
Brown v. Board of Education: Achieving Equality
Students in grades 6-12 learn about struggles to bring equal opportunities to all Americans inspired by the Brown v. Board decision. Lists National Standards.
A Record Of School Desegregation: Conduct Your Own Oral History Project
Students in grade 8 listen to oral histories of North Carolinians who lived through desegregation and then record and reflect on the experiences of relatives or community members. Lists North Carolina Standards.
School Desegregation Pioneers
Students in grades 8-10 listen to oral histories of desegregation pioneers from Alabama and North Carolina and analyze images of school desegregation. Lists North Carolina Standards.
Additional Lessons
Curriculum Materials: Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site
Lesson plans and units for PreK-12.
Teaching Tolerance: Classroom Resources
A source of printer-friendly K-12 lesson plans about diversity, equal opportunity and respect for differences.
For Educators: Beyond Brown
Lesson plans, interactives, quizzes, and charts for grades 6-12.
Background Resources
Separate Is Not Equal
A Smithsonian special exhibition. Includes history, annotated bibliography, timeline, project essay, teacher's guide with six grade 4-12 units, and two electronic field trips (middle and high school).
Brown v. Board of Education: Case Brief Summary
Provides a summary and links to related case summaries.
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Information and compete text of the Supreme Court decision. A high resolution PDF can be downloaded.
History of Brown v. Board of Education
This resource puts the 1954 Supreme Court decision in context and includes an activity package with a re-enactment.
Brown v. Board at Fifty: "With an Even Hand"
This exhibit examines court cases that laid the groundwork for the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, explores the Court's argument and the public response, and concludes with an overview of the decision's aftermath.
Landmark: Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v Board of Education, desegregation, and the continuing struggle for civil rights.
Public School Desegregation ( PDF, 321 KB, 12 pgs.)
Covers Brown I (1954), Brown II (1955), and The Southern Declaration on Integration.
Still Looking to the Future: Voluntary K-12 School Integration ( PDF, 3 MB, 100 pgs.)
Includes a brief history of court-ordered desegregation and examines the benefits of racially and ethnically diverse schools and the harms of racially isolated schools.
Brown v. Board of Education Timeline ( PDF, 522 KB, 2 pgs.)
Timeline of School Integration
Covers 1849-2007. Grades 3-12.
Brown v. Board of Education Timeline
An overview of events related to the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Case, from 1849 to 2003. Available as a PDF. Grades 4-12.
Infographics of the Day: How Segregated Is Your City?
A Portrait of Segregation in New York City's Schools
New Infographic Shows Who School Closings Affect
The Real Cost of Segregation—in 1 Big Chart
New Infographic: The Cycle of School Closures
Audio & Video
Brown v Board of Education in PBS' The Supreme Court
Brief video (4:53) describes the circumstances surrounding the Supreme Court decision.
Brown v Board of Ed
An audio interview (8:00) with Dale Cushinberry describing school life before and after Brown v Board of Education.
A Conversation on the Constitution: Brown v. Board of Education
In this video (26:39), Supreme Court Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony M. Kennedy discuss the case that ended racial segregation in schools.
Nine from Little Rock (20:00)
An Academy Award-winning short documentary film about the Little Rock Nine, the first nine African-American students to attend an all-white Arkansas high school in 1957.
History Channel
Features an article, videos, and speeches about Brown v Board of Education and the Civil Rights Movement.
Ruby Bridges Full Movie (1:30:43)
The story of the first African-American child to attend an all-white public elementary school in the American South.
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© Nuffield Foundation 2012 © Rudolf Stricker Nuffield Free-Standing Mathematics Activity Can they tell the difference? low calorie alternative ginger ale
© Nuffield Foundation 2010 Food and drink manufacturers often offer an alternative product for customers who are very health conscious. Think about Can you suggest examples of this? They worry that customers may not buy the healthy option unless it tastes as good as the original product. Triangle tests can be used to find out whether people can tell the difference. In this activity you will carry out and analyse the results of a triangle test.
© Nuffield Foundation 2010 a group of volunteers – check that they have no allergies samples for each participant arranged in a triangle: 2 samples of the usual product + 1 sample of the healthier option samples must look identical but marked in some way so you know which is which a cup of water for each participant a pen and instruction sheet for each volunteer Think about Why is water needed? Information sheet A What you will need to carry out a triangle test Think about Why not in a line? Think about Why should you not label them 1, 2, 3 or A, B, C?
© Nuffield Foundation 2010 Instruction sheetTriangle test Thank you for taking part in this test which aims to find out whether people can tell the difference between a product and a healthier alternative. Please take a drink of water before tasting any of the samples and also between samples. You may want to re-taste a sample, so do not consume the whole sample at once. Mark the sample that you think is different from the others. What to do Think about How could you do this?
© Nuffield Foundation 2010 The triangle test Information sheet B Analysing the results using a 5% significance test Null hypothesis:H 0 : participants cannot tell the difference H 1 : participants can tell the differenceAlternative hypothesis: 1-tailed test probability of a person choosing the correct odd one out p = probability of a person choosing the correct odd one out p > Random variable X = number of participants from a group of size n who chose the correct odd one out Think about Assuming H 0, what type of distribution will X follow?
© Nuffield Foundation 2010 The triangle test Information sheet B Analysing the results using a 5% significance test Compare the total probability of the test result or better with 0.05 Think about What assumptions are being made ? Under H 0, X is Binomial with size n = the number in the group, p = and q = If the total probability is less than 0.05, the test result is significant. In this case, reject the null hypothesis and accept the alternative. Use this to find the probability of the test result, or better.
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Which oil for CDM4 mechs?
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Whatever you do, DONT use 3-in-1. It's a heavy, low-grade base oil diluted with kerosene (for penetrating qualities) - so it eventually dries out into a sticky, gungy mess
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john - I've used Mobil1 on CD motors (inc. the CDM9 in my Naim CD2) with no problem.
It only takes the merest drop, applied with a needle or similar - the stuff is thin and will creep anywhere, usually unwanted! I havent looked at teh thrust pad, but a light grease would make sense eg silicone-based - oil based ones are likely to attack the plastic. |
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Are you sure that it's the motor causing the noise? It's more likely to be the disc clamp.
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As the CDM has been in use for about 15 years now I just assumed the motor bearing thrust pad might need lubricating now? Perhaps the transport is a little noisey compared to modern units. It's working fine at any rate.
I may just lubricate the ball bearing on the swing arm and leave it at that next time I have the machine apart for whatever reason. Thanks for all the suggestions guys - much appreciated - John |
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Agreed. Clean the clamp and the ball and relube, you could use something as daft as a wee bit of petrolium jelly. If there is a little indentation in the pressure plate, sand it a little with very fine sand paper until the dent is no more. If this has never been done on a wel used CDM4/19 I can almost guarantee a better sound afterwards too.... While you are there fill the clamp honeycomb with blue tack or similar. |
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The mech used in my Naim CDI is - I believe - the CDM 4/22. It uses a lightweight magnetic clamp to hold the discs, not the usual disc tray type ala Phillips. It's a top loading machine.
The only two points which I believe may need attention are the laser swing arm pivot, and the motor bearing thrust pad. Reckon after 15 years of use I should give both a check and - if required - a lube. Cheers, - John |
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ReplyDeleteJune -- I understand what you are saying about important jobs being cut besides those that have left our shores. I was thinking that the companies that have moved jobs to other countries setting up infrastructures and leaving those here in the US to rot. But yes, jobs here are as important and are getting the ax with no return of re-employment in sight.
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The historic peace pact signed by the Philippines Government and the Muslim rebels yesterday is a natural source of elation for me.
It is not so much because I am a working journalist in the Philippines whose natural instinct is to get excited over major developments in the country. It is largely because the issue is close to heart, being someone who comes from the region where this rebellion has been waged for some four decades.
It is worth mentioning too that my father was a soldier whose prime years in the army were spent in the war-torn provinces, fighting against Moro rebels.
This war claimed about 150,000 lives since the quest for an independent homeland by the 12,000-strong Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) began. Some of these lives belonged to my father's close comrades in the military.
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To me, war is always tragic, no matter which party you are in. And for it to stretch to forty years, some people in Mindanao were beginning to have a sense that this war might be with us forever. Will it ever end? People wonder too often.
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Muslim rebels have been fighting since the 1970s for independence in Mindanao, which they claimed as the Muslim ancestral homeland - theirs long before the Spanish colonisers arrived in the Philippines in the 1500s and propagated Catholicism.
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Indeed, this peace deal is seen by many sectors as a welcome development. For the first time, MILF chief Murad Ebrahim stepped into Malacañang Presidential Palace in Manila - a first for any MILF chief - to sign the agreement in a formal ceremony.
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But with recent history involving Muslim rebellion, it can be easily understood why some Filipinos are not as optimistic, and prefer to adopt a wait-and-see attitude.
In 1996, another Muslim rebel group, the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) signed a peace accord with the Philippines Government. With this deal came the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), putting together Muslim-dominated provinces under a system that runs like a form of federal government. They have a certain degree of autonomy; they run their own government but remain an integral and inseparable part of the national territory of the Republic.
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As early as today, the MNLF leadership has already warned of fresh attacks as a show of protest and displeasure.
It will require a tremendous amount of work for the Transition Commission to lay down necessary steps to make the deal work.
With so many things to be done, Filipinos can choose to be pessimistic about it. But that won't help either. With a conflict that is, so far, the longest in Asia, support from the people is crucial to make the peace pact work.
There has been too much bloodshed. The war has been too long. The next generation of Filipinos deserve something better.
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PULL REQUETS: fix bug in mythtranscodes clean-cutting mechanism
Reported by: | mythtv@… | Owned by: | dekarl |
Priority: | minor | Milestone: | 0.26.1 |
Component: | MythTV - Mythtranscode | Version: | Unspecified |
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One of the clean-cut methods interacted badly with mythtranscodes synchronisation algorithm and would sometimes cause frames from cut segments to be kept. This commit fixes that bug.
Here are pull requests for master and fixes/0.26 https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/pull/46 https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/pull/47
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comment:1 Changed 4 years ago by dekarl@…
From reading the patch it appears as if we end up dropping audio *and* video instead of audio *or* video in the new code. How does this variant look?
// amount to drop is sufficient then we can drop less // audio rather than drop a frame // But if it's a frame we are supposed to drop anyway, still do so, // and record that we have if (videoFramesToCut > 0) { videoFramesToCut--; return false; } else { audioFramesToCut -= (int64_t)(audioFramesPerVideoFrame + 0.5); return true; }
comment:2 Changed 4 years ago by mythtv@…
The logic is difficult, but the patch is correct. Mythtranscode is asking the cutter whether it can drop a frame for the sake of keeping sync. The cutter was in the unpatched version returning true (meaning inhibit) which would stop mythtranscode dropping the frame, thus putting sync out, but internally the cutter would decrease audioFramesToCut so that it would cut less audio to restore sync.
In the new case. The cutter returns false (meaning don't inhibit). That allows mythtranscode to drop the frame so that it keeps sync. The cutter now doesn't need to alter its internal state for the sake of keeping sync, but it does want to record that there is one less frame to drop. Hence it must decrease both audioFramesToCut and videoFramesToCut.
I have to admit, although I wrote the cutter, I understand it only for fleeting moments. :-)
comment:3 Changed 4 years ago by mythtv@…
Here's another way to look at it. For each method, define as follows:
rtv --- the return value of the method
apv --- audioFramesPerVideoFrames
delta_v --- the change in videoFramesToCut made by the method
delta_a --- the change in audioFramesToCut made by the method
actual_v --- the actual number of video frames the method causes mythtranscode to cut
that it otherwise wouldn't have (can be negative)
actual_a --- the actual number of audio frames the method causes mythtranscode to cut
that it otherwise wouldn't have (can be negative)
delta_v and delta_a can be determined just by looking at what the method does to the corresponding variable. To determine actual_v and actual_a, one has to use the effect the method's return value has on mythtranscode.
To correctly keep sync, every method must satisfy
(delta_v + actual_v) - apv * (delta_a + actual_a) = 0
Here are actual_v and actual_a for each method
actual_v = rtv ? 1 : 0 actual_a = 0
actual_v = 0 actual_a = rtv ? frames : 0
actual_v = rtv ? -1 : 0 actual_a = 0
That should allow the invariant to be checked for every method, but also it can be used to see that my patch correctly keeps sync because it alters InhibitDummyFrame? in a particular case, so that rtv goes from true to false, which increases actual_v by 1 (from -1 to 0), decreases delta_v by 1, and leaves the effect on delta_a and actual_a as it was before. That clearly maintains the invariant.
comment:4 Changed 4 years ago by Paul Gardiner <paul@…>
comment:5 Changed 4 years ago by Paul Gardiner <paul@…>
comment:6 Changed 4 years ago by dekarl
- Milestone changed from unknown to 0.26.1
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- Status changed from new to accepted
comment:7 Changed 4 years ago by dekarl
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There is no evidence that the NSA used bulk data for any purpose other than identifying and disrupting terrorist attacks.Keith B. Alexander,
Retired U.S. Army General
In a keynote address Tuesday at the 2014 Gartner Inc. Security & Risk Management Summit, retired U.S. Army General Keith B. Alexander, who led the NSA for nearly nine years and since 2010 the U.S. Cyber Command as well, said the NSA's bulk metadata collection programs are vital to U.S. efforts to thwart terrorism, support U.S. military operations and ultimately keep Americans safe.
Alexander referenced the growing violence around the world, specifically citing more than 1,700 executions at the hands of the Islamic State Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and commonplace terror events in places like Yemen, Somalia, Northern Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
He also cited data from the University of Maryland, which reported that in 2013 there were more than 11,000 terror attacks around the world and more than 20,000 deaths as a result.
"It's not getting better. It's getting worse," Alexander said of global terrorism. "The deaths have almost doubled in a year, and we're going to see even greater numbers this year."
Alexander then drew a contrast between those events and the vastly better security the U.S. enjoys as a nation. While he didn't specifically say that the NSA's metadata collection programs are the reason for that relative tranquility, he said it's no coincidence.
"That's caused by people like our wounded warriors, law enforcement and the intelligence community working together to protect our country and its allies," Alexander said. "Freedom is not free."
Alexander said the leaks by Snowden, a former NSA contractor who used his insider privileges to gain access to thousands of pages of material detailing the NSA's surveillance and data-collection programs, will be devastating for the U.S. and its allies in Europe.
"Some of the things we've used, the tools, to stop terrorists in the past, they're learning from it," Alexander said, specifically referencing how, according to European intelligence agencies he did not name, the shopping mall attack in Kenya last September demonstrated how terrorists were altering their tactics to avoid alerting the NSA in the wake of the Snowden incident.
"The Westgate Mall attacks were things we didn't see coming, when in the past we had seen them," Alexander said, "so they either learned from these leaks or ironically changed their tactics right at the same time."
Alexander spent several minutes explaining in detail how, during the past year, the NSA has been vetted by everyone from the White House and Congress to the federal courts and the American Civil Liberties Union, all of which have reaffirmed that the NSA follows clearly established protocols to protect ordinary people.
"There is no evidence that the NSA used bulk data for any purpose other than identifying and disrupting terrorist attacks," Alexander said. "We have set up a framework and have a very public discussion so there is no misperception. If you have a problem with the NSA, the problem isn't actually with NSA; it's with what we've asked them to do.
"In my opinion, it's effective, it's legal and it's important," Alexander continued. "When we lose those capabilities, some of the things that we have tried to prevent are going to happen. I'd rather be in here explaining what we're doing than explain why another 9/11 occurred. These are the things we're wrestling with today, and what we'll be wrestling with for the rest of the decade."
Cloud-based thin client model enables security
Alexander also urged enterprise security professionals to adopt a computing model in which traditional "thick" client computers are replaced with thin clients that use computing power and applications provided by a central cloud-based infrastructure.
While the model may be a throwback to the underlying paradigm of decades-old mainframe systems, Alexander said he became convinced of the security superiority of this model during the NSA's work helping to secure the Department of Defense's computer network.
Through that work, Alexander said, it quickly became clear that the DoD network, with more than 15,000 different sub-networks, was simply too large and had too many distributed resources to be defended effectively.
The NSA faced similar problems, he added, noting that during much of his time leading the NSA he had three or four separate computers in his office, each of which was needed to access a separate network.
The NSA completed its transition to a cloud/thin client model near the end of his time with the agency, and Alexander said it not only improved security, but also resulted in a savings of 500 million dollars in addition to improved service.
While some may believe that architecture actually makes it easier for attackers to steal sensitive data because it all resides in one place, Alexander said today's distributed architectures in which sensitive data commonly resides on endpoints actually poses a far greater security risk.
"Bad guys can get in there and navigate at network speed, and sysadmins struggle to defend it… and when you try to define what's going on in the network, it's really hard to do it," Alexander said. "From my perspective, there are a lot of things we need to talk about on defensible architectures, but I think cloud computing is the way to go."
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I tried shaving with a gillette fusion.
So I was downstairs and decided to wash my face with my Van Der Hagen cheapo soap and brush because im trying to clear my face up. While doing so I figured I havn't shaved in a couple days, I'm trying to finish a book so I didn't want to strop the razor and everything so I grabbed a gillette fusion. Somone please explain why because I can't find the answer. It was terrible. I went through the same process as with a straight, WTG XTG and ATG just to compare, and it doesn't stand a chance against my straight. I mean my face feels smooth and all but the feel after a nice straight shave feels soooo much better. Plus it feels more comfortable while shaving with a straight. I don't think I'm going to shave with a Gillette fusion again. Although I am considering getting a decent Double Edge from an antique store. Nothing fancy but somthing to use in case im in a hurry. So just curious using a double edge isn't uncomfortable is it?
Sorry if this is in the wrong spot, I thought there was a thing called 'Shaving' but I couldn't find it.
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Thanked: 137I use a DE almost exclusively at the moment (Edwin Jagger 89 - I'd HIGHLY recommend it) and love it - faster than a straight, cheaper, and almost as close. I went back to a Mach 3 a month or 2 after taking up straights and had exactly the same issues as you - an absolutely craptastic shave - I'm never going back to one of those if I can help it.
Regarding comfort, I just had a very quick shave with a DE to test out the lather I'd just made with my new brush - no prep whatsoever, not even a shower, cold lather and cold water, and a blade in the DE with 3 shaves on it already. While I wasn't able to do a full shave due to tugging when I did my usual ATG, after one pass with a Mach 3 under the same conditions my skin would be on fire. One pass from my DE, and there's a little irritation on my neck but I'm otherwise fine. Granted, it wasn't a close shave, or a full shave, but it was still closer and smoother than a M3 would give me.
I have an old gold color Gillette DE that I use when in a hurry. I like it. I think it gives a bit of that "blade on skin" feel that the straight has.
I agree with the above and use my late fathers' de for a quick shave, if the girls are hammering the bathroom door down!! The multi blades do not work as well for me as a straight. Feel pretty smug about that. Channel 9 just did a story on razors and shaving, have just submitted some comments as disapointed that no straights were mentioned. Will update iffen I get an answere back
CheersKeep yo hoss well shod an yo powdah dry !
I'm 55 years old , and when I started shaving the only razors available at the time , besides electric , were DEs , SEs , and injectors . I started with a DE , and didn't like it because the blade seemed to have too much flex to it . Tried a SE , and found it to be a nick maker . I finally settled on an injector , which except for a brief time using a Trac II (which really sucked) I used until I got a Mach 3 . IMHO , nothing but a straight razor , shaves like a straight razor .
Greetings , from Dundalk , Maryland . The place where normal people , fear to go .
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Thanked: 189I still have my Sub par M3 shaver hanging around and use it once in a while to touch up a spot that may have been missed on the third pass. Most of the time, it can't do any better.
Straight shaving raises your standard as to what qualifies for an acceptable shave.


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Friday Photo Fun was inspired by This Moment,
a tradition begun by
SJ of Samuel Michaels Photography and
Alejandro of Raising Amelie and Blognostics.
Totally clueless Rachel LOL
My moment but unfortunately, I am having comment problems right now and there is no where to leave one :(
Wow that's tough, I'm thinking something rusty, the only idea I've got is a rusty nail :/
ReplyDeleteWell, Mr. "that's tough"... you're right! It is two strips of rusty nail gun nails. :) Well done!
DeleteHa, ha, ha! I was looking up and down and still couldn't see it. Only when I actually looked at it from side to side could I see it...barely :)
DeleteThank you, Mark! I definitely thought the picture was abstract enough. :)
Mary, so cute. :) Yep, gotta look at it from all angles. I like imagining my readers holding their laptops in strange positions and tilting their heads... :)
A rusty nail, perhaps, as someone said in the comments above that I didn't read...oh, whoops.
(Blogger has gone to a new captcha system, and I don't like it at all. Do I really need to 20/20 vision and ability to forensically reconstruct documents that were burned in a fire to prove that I'm a human being? Dial the difficulty back a little on these Blogger!! *sigh* Okay, moving on.)
Hello Rachel.
When I first saw it, I immediately thought it was shutters on a window. I even saw the roof too!
Bryan...I'm with you my friend. If I know the blogger, like Miss Rachel here, I'll try & persist with the verification, but if the blogger is not all that familiar to me...I'll just move on!
I could not of guessed but reading the comments cleared it up for me, then it seemed only obvious...lol great one.
ReplyDeleteLOLOLOL looks like bad dentures to me LOLOL...As always....XOXOXOXO
There is a drink called "rusty nail"?????? There is definitely something missing in my education ;-)!


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Uruguay profile - Leaders
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- From the section Latin America & Caribbean
President: Tabare Vazquez
Mr Vazquez's decisive victory in the 2014 run-off presidential election over right-wing challenger Luis Lacalle Pou cemented left-wing rule for another five years.
A cancer doctor by profession, Tabare Vazquez served as president in 2005-2010, being succeeded by his party colleague Jose Mujica. Uruguayan presidents do not serve consecutive terms.
Mr Vazquez pledged to focus more attention on improving education standards and fighting crime, while maintaining the generous social welfare policies of Mr Mujica.


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The CMO Survey asked marketing leaders to rank a set of marketing capabilities in terms of importance and to identify their organizations' biggest gaps in these same marketing capabilities. Details of these analyses are available here.
Creating a matrix that crosses capability importance and organizational gap, the Figure shows firms' digital marketing capabilities (including digital, social, and mobile) as the area with the greatest opportunity for company investment.
Figure. Marketing capability importance by organizational gaps
In what areas is digital marketing capability underdeveloped and what areas should be emphasized? Eight important steps are outlined:
- Build digital marketing capabilities around the customer. Many companies fail because they let technology drive their digital strategies. To succeed, digital marketing capabilities must utilize customer insight, deliver strong customer value, and develop positive customer relationships that create value for the company.
- Develop digital capabilities not just digital strategies. Capabilities are bundles of marketing skills and knowledge, exercised through organizational processes, enabling a firm to carry out its digital marketing activities. As one example, we developed a set of measures to assess that state of social media capabilities that cut across different aspects of the management of social media. Marketing leaders rated "How well has your company developed strong knowledge and skills in each social media area?" where 1=not at all and 7=excellent. The average capability rating of 3.69 (see Table) is too low to become the basis for competitive advantage.
Table. How well has your company developed strong knowledge and skills in each social media area? (1=not at all, 7=excellent)
- Hire and train digital experts. Many companies are quickly ramping up to hire and train their workforces with digital skills. There remains a human capital gap in many companies that needs to be resolved through aggressive hiring and training.
- Bolt digital into the fabric of the organization. Leaders need to model a digital mindset that doesn't just layer digital onto existing strategy, but instead conceives of marketing and the management of customer relationships and brands entirely from a digital- customer interaction mindset.
- Integrate marketing strategy and digital strategies. Survey data show that companies have not improved on this metric in their integration of social media to marketing strategy over the last five years. When asked "How effectively is social media linked to your firm's marketing strategy," companies scored a mean of 3.9 on a 7-point scale where 1=not at all integrated and 7=very integrated. This number was 3.8 in February 2012!
- Demonstrate the impact of digital spend. Although spending on social media has increased 234% from 3.5% to 11.7% of marketing budgets from 2009-2016, marketers report making little progress on proving social media's impact on the business with only 20.3% able to prove the impact quantitatively.
- Drive digital actions against marketing goals. Digital is like any other part of marketing strategy—it should be driven by goals and objectives. Mimicking competitors and using the newest released digital tool just because it is new do not count as marketing objectives!
- Do not confine digital to its own department. Instead put it in marketing or another key customer-facing group. Digital is a dynamic marketing function and not an IT function. Linking digital to key revenue-producing activities within the firm will also ensure that digital is connected to how the company captures value for its bottom line.
Here is video of me talking about this topic in more detail.


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Your home is your castle, right...or is it? Are your residents reasonably safe once they get inside your rental unit and lock the door? Everyone agrees that in an open society you cannot guarantee the personal safety of your residents. However, in the past ten years the courts have said in a loud and clear voice that rental housing owners and managers need to become more proactive in making their properties reasonably safe from violent criminals. According to insurance industry data, rental housing properties have been successfully sued more often for inadequate security claims than any other type of commercial property. In an effort to change this undesirable trend, it is worthwhile to review some important premises security steps here.
Premises Liability
In my experience, many landlords and property managers received adverse verdicts because they could not convince a jury that they had a reasonable security plan in place at the time of a criminal attack. Plaintiffs will argue that their rental house or apartment should have been their sanctuary once safely locked inside. They will further argue that since they did not have full control over their rental unit, they relied on property management to have a system in place keep them safe. Most jurors obviously agree.
By far, the most common claim against landlords are allegations of defective locks and latches on the rental unit that contributed to a criminal getting easy access to your resident.
Doors and Locks
As a landlord, to prevail in a premises security lawsuit you need to be able to prove that you acted reasonably and had a security plan in effect to protect residents. Proof of acting reasonably usually requires three things: 1) documentation, 2) documentation, and 3) documentation.
The best time to inspect the door security of a rental unit is: 1) before you rent it, and 2) at turnover. A good policy is to walk the apartment with both the incoming and outgoing resident to inspect and test each locking device. This inspection should be documented on the resident walk-through form and the resident should be asked to initial each locking device entry.
The most common way used to force entry through a door with a wooden doorjamb is to simply kick it open. The weakest point is almost always the strike plate that holds the latch or lock bolt in place. The average door strike plate is secured with only 1/2-inch wood screws set into soft doorjamb molding. These lightweight moldings are often tacked on to the doorframe and can be easily torn away with a firm kick. Because of this construction flaw, it makes sense to upgrade to a heavy-duty four-screw strike plate. They are available in most quality hardware stores and home improvement centers and are definitely worth the extra expense. Install this strike plate using 3-inch screws to cut deep into the doorframe stud. This one step alone will deter or prevent most forced entries through the front door. Of course, you should document this important step because it is proof of you acting reasonably.
- Use a solid core door for all entrance points
- Doors should fit tightly into the door frame
- Use a quality deadbolt lock with a one-inch throw bolt
- Use a heavy-duty strike plate with 3-inch screws to penetrate into a wooden door frame
- Use a wide-angle 180° peephole mounted no higher than 60-inches
- Require that residents report, in writing, any lock defects immediately
Sliding Glass Doors
Sliding glass doors are usually installed at the rear of an apartment, making them good candidates for entry by a criminal. In warm climates, an experienced criminal knows that sliding glass doors are often left standing open for ventilation or for pet access. Since they slide horizontally, it is important to have a secondary blocking device in place to prevent the door from being fully opened from the outside. This can be easily accomplished by inserting a wooden dowel or stick into the track thus preventing or limiting movement. Other blocking devices available are metal fold-down blocking devices called "charley bars" and various track-blockers that can be screwed down. These track-blockers can allow a door to stand open 6-inches but block further movement. It's a good policy for landlords to provide these devices and request, in writing, that residents use them. Of course, you should document this important step because it is proof of you acting reasonably.
Sliding glass doors are notorious for failing to prevent a forced entry attempt, especially in apartment buildings. This is because of the wear and tear they receive and due to the inadequate nature of many of the latching mechanisms. Sliding glass doors do not have locks on them, only latches. The latches are made of aluminum and become worn or go out of adjustment. The most common methods used to force entry, aside from breaking the glass, is by prying the door near the latch or lifting the door off the track.
The blocking devices described above solve half the equation. To prevent lifting, you need to keep the door rollers in good condition and properly adjusted. You can also install anti-lift devices such as a pin that extends through both the sliding and fixed portion of the door. There are also numerous locking and blocking devices available in any good quality hardware store that will prevent a sliding door from being lifted or forced horizontally. Place highly visible decals on the glass door near the latch mechanism that indicates that an alarm system, a dog, or block watch/operation identification is in place, if applicable. Apartment managers should be careful not to misrepresent that these devices are in place, if they are not. Criminals don't like alarm systems and definitely dogs.
- Use a secondary blocking device on all sliding glass doors
- Keep the latch mechanism in good condition and properly adjusted
- Keep sliding door rollers in good condition and properly adjusted
- Use anti-lift devices such as through-the-door pins
- Use highly visible alarm decals, beware of dog decals, or block watch decal, if applicable
Windows are left unlocked and open at a much higher rate than doors. An open window, visible from the street or alley, may be the sole reason for an apartment to be selected by a criminal. Ground floor windows are more susceptible to break-ins for obvious reasons. Upper floor windows become attractive if they can be accessed easily from a stairway, tree, fence, or by climbing on balconies. Windows have latches, not locks, therefore they should have secondary blocking devices to prevent sliding them open from the outside. Inexpensive wooden dowels and sticks work well for horizontal sliding windows and a through-the-frame pin works well for vertical sliding windows. For ventilation, block the window open no more than 6-inches and make sure you can't reach in from the outside and remove the blocking device. These window-blocking devices should be capable of being removed easily from the inside to comply with fire codes.
Like sliding glass doors, anti-lift devices are necessary for ground level and accessible aluminum windows that slide horizontally. The least expensive and easiest method is to install screws halfway into the upper track of the movable glass panel to prevent it from being lifted out in the closed position. Place highly visible decals on the glass door near the latch mechanism that indicates that an alarm system, a dog, or block watch/operation identification system is in place, if applicable. Apartment managers should be careful not to misrepresent that these devices are in place if they are not. The Landlord should supply these additional security devices and request, in writing, that the residents use them. Of course, you should document this important step because it is proof of you acting reasonably.
- Secure all accessible windows with secondary blocking devices
- Block accessible windows open no more than 6-inches for ventilation
- Use anti-lift devises to prevent window from being lifted out
- Use crime prevention or alarm decals on accessible windows, if applicable
Key Control
In Texas, a jury awarded a woman $18 million after being raped and abducted by a man who gained access to her apartment unit by using a management back-up key. The rapist broke into the management office and found the correctly numbered back-up keys hanging unsecured on a hook.
Many other very large jury awards have been made to former residents because of negligent control and use of the master key. The negligence issue is always the same. If you require a resident to supply an extra key to their apartment unit, then you must take reasonable steps to safeguard that key. If you maintain a master key that unlocks all the units, you must take even greater steps to control access to this key.
The legal theories are simple. A resident gives up some rights when they move onto a rental property. On most properties, the resident, per lease agreement, cannot add or replace the deadbolt on their door unless management is given an extra key. By doing this, the property manager assumes the responsibility of key control. The other legal theory is one of reliance. The landlord supplies the locks and keys and therefore, a resident must rely on management to have re-keyed the door lock and to have secured the back-up and master key. Key control, by definition, requires restriction and documentation of those who use the back-up keys and master keys. Of course, you should document this important step because it is proof of you acting reasonably.
Here are 10 proven steps to follow for better key control and resident security:
- Always re-key or replace the unit door locks at turnover
- Always eliminate or limit the use of the master key
- Always keep the back-up keys in a locked key box
- Always code the keys not to reflect the unit number
- Always secure the code sheet and key box key separately
- Always keep a log of who checks out a back-up key
- Always keep two keys on a hook for quick visual inventory
- Always keep the key cutting machine and blanks secure
- Always lock the room that houses the key box
- Always set the office burglar alarm after hours


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