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Justia › US Law › US Case Law › US Supreme Court › Volume 407 › Central Hardware Co. v. NLRB
Central Hardware Co. v. NLRB, 407 U.S. 539 (1972)
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Central Hardware Co. v. National Labor Relations Board
Argued April 18, 1972
Decided June 22, 1972
Petitioner had a rule against solicitational activities in its stores and parking lots. The parking lots are appurtenant to petitioner's free-standing stores, and do not serve other retail establishments. Union organizers used petitioner's parking lots to solicit petitioner's employees to join the union, and petitioner ordered the organizers off its property. The union filed unfair labor practice charges against petitioner. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) held that enforcement of petitioner's no-solicitation rule, which it found was overly broad, violated § 8(a)(1) of the National Labor Relations Act, which proscribes interference with employees' § 7 organizational rights. The NLRB concluded that the character and use of the lots distinguished the case from NLRB v. Babcock & Wilcox Co., 351 U. S. 105, which required a "yielding" of the employer's property rights in the context of an organizational campaign only
"when the inaccessibility of employees makes ineffective the reasonable attempts by nonemployees to communicate with them through the usual channels. . . ."
Id. at 351 U. S. 112. Instead, the NLRB held applicable Food Employee v. Logan Valley Plaza, 391 U. S. 308, where peaceful picketing by union agents on a parking lot within a shopping center was held, under the circumstances existing, to be within the protection of the First Amendment. The Court of Appeals, agreeing, ordered enforcement of the NLRB's order.
Held: Logan Valley, decided on constitutional grounds, is not applicable to this § 7 case, which the Court of Appeals should now reconsider in the light of Babcock. Pp. 407 U. S. 542-548.
439 F.2d 1321, vacated and remanded.
POWELL, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which BURGER, C.J., and STEWART, WHITE, BLACKMUN, and REHNQUIST, JJ., joined. MARSHALL, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which DOUGLAS and BRENNAN, JJ., joined, post, p. 407 U. S. 548.
Page 407 U. S. 540
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
Petitioner, Central Hardware Co. (Central), owns and operates two retail hardware stores in Indianapolis, Indiana. Each store is housed in a large building, containing 70,000 square feet of floor space, and housing no other retail establishments. The stores are surrounded on three sides by ample parking facilities, accommodating approximately 350 automobiles. The parking lots are owned by Central, and are maintained solely for the use of Central's customers and employees. While there are other retail establishments in the vicinity of Central's stores, these establishments are not a part of a shopping center complex, and they maintain their own separate parking lots.
Approximately a week before Central opened its stores, the Retail Clerks Union, Local 725, Retail Clerks International Association, AFL-CIO (the Union), began an organization campaign at both stores. The campaign consisted primarily of solicitation by nonemployee Union
organizers on Central's parking lots. The nonemployee organizers confronted Central's employees in the parking lots and sought to persuade them to sign cards authorizing the Union to represent them in an appropriate bargaining unit. As a part of the organization campaign, an "undercover agent for the Union" was infiltrated into the employ of Central, receiving full-time salary from both the Union and the company. This agent solicited employees to join the Union, and obtained a list of the employees of the two stores which was about 80% complete.
Central had a no-solicitation rule which it enforced against all solicitational activities in its stores and on its parking lots. A number of employees complained to Central's local management that they were being harassed by the organizers, and these complaints were forwarded to Central's corporate headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri. The St. Louis officials directed the Indianapolis management to enforce the nonemployee no-solicitation rule and keep all Union organizers off the company premises, including the parking lots. Although most of the nonemployee Union organizers had either left Indianapolis or ceased work on the Central organization campaign, the Indianapolis management had occasion to assert the nonemployee no-solicitation rule on several occasions.
One arrest was made when a field organizer for the Union was confronted by the manager of one of the stores on its parking lot, and refused to leave after being requested to do so. The field organizer asserted that he was a "customer," and insisted upon entering the store. The police were called, and when the organizer persisted in his refusal to leave, he was arrested.
Shortly after Central received complaints from its employees as to harassment by the organizers, Central filed unfair labor practice charges against the Union.
The Union subsequently filed unfair labor practice charges against Central. After an investigation, the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (the Board) dismissed Central's charges against the Union, and issued a complaint against Central on the Union's charges.
The Board held that Central's nonemployee no-solicitation rule was overly broad, and that its enforcement violated § 8(a)(1) of the National Labor Relations Act. The Board reasoned that the character and use of Central's parking lots distinguished the case from NLRB v. Babcock & Wilcox Co., 351 U. S. 105 (1956), and brought it within the principle of Amalgamated Food Employees Union v. Logan Valley Plaza, 391 U. S. 308 (1968). 181 N.L.R.B. 491 (1970). A divided Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit agreed, and ordered enforcement of the Board's order enjoining Central from enforcing any rule prohibiting nonemployee Union organizers from using its parking lots to solicit employees on behalf of the Union. 439 F.2d 1321 (1971). We granted certiorari to consider whether the principle of Logan Valley is applicable to this case. 404 U.S. 1014 (1972). We conclude that it is not.
Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act, as amended, 61 Stat. 140, 29 U.S.C. § 157, guarantees to employees the right "to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations." This guarantee includes both the right of union officials to discuss organization with employees and the right of employees to discuss organization among themselves. [Footnote 1] Section 8(a)(1) of the Act, as amended, 29 U.S.C. § 158(a)(1), makes it an unfair labor practice for an employer "to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed"
in § 7. But organization rights are not viable in a vacuum; their effectiveness depends in some measure on the ability of employees to learn the advantages and disadvantages of organization from others. Early in the history of the administration of the Act, the Board recognized the importance of freedom of communication to the free exercise of organization rights. See Peyton Packing Co., 49 N.L.R.B. 28 (1943), enforced, 142 F.2d 1009 (CA5), cert. denied, 323 U.S. 730 (1944).
In seeking to provide information essential to the free exercise of organization rights, union organizers have often engaged in conduct inconsistent with traditional notions of private property rights. The Board and the courts have the duty to resolve conflicts between organization rights and property rights, and to seek a proper accommodation between the two. This Court addressed the conflict which often arises between organization rights and property rights in NLRB v. Babcock & Wilcox Co., 351 U. S. 105 (1956). The Babcock & Wilcox Co. operated a manufacturing plant on a 100-acre tract about one mile from a community of 21,000 people. The plant buildings were enclosed within a fence, employee access being through several gates. Approximately 90% of the employees drove to work in private cars, and the company maintained a parking lot for the employees. Only employees and deliverymen normally used the parking lot. The company had a rule forbidding the distribution of literature on company property. The Board found that the company's parking lot and the walkway leading from it to the plant entrance were the only "safe and practicable" places in the vicinity of the plant for distribution of union literature, and held the company guilty of an unfair labor practice for enforcing the no-distribution rule, and thereby denying union organizers limited access to company property. The Board ordered the company
to rescind its no-distribution rule insofar as it related to nonemployee union representatives seeking to distribute union literature on the parking lot and walkway area. [Footnote 2]
The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit refused enforcement of the Board's order on the ground that the Act did not authorize the Board to impose a servitude on an employer's property where no employee was involved. [Footnote 3] This Court affirmed on the ground that the availability of alternative channels of communication made the intrusion on the employer's property rights ordered by the Board unwarranted. The Court in Babcock stated the guiding principle for adjusting conflicts between § 7 rights and property rights:
"Organization rights are granted to workers by the same authority, the National Government, that preserves property rights. Accommodation between the two must be obtained with as little destruction of one as is consistent with the maintenance of the other. The employer may not affirmatively interfere with organization; the union may not always insist that the employer aid organization. But when the inaccessibility of employees makes ineffective the reasonable attempts by nonemployees to communicate with them through the usual channels, the right to exclude from property has been required to yield to the extent needed to permit communication of information on the right to organize."
351 U.S. at 351 U. S. 112.
The principle of Babcock is limited to this accommodation between organization rights and property rights. This principle requires a "yielding" of property rights only in the context of an organization campaign.
Moreover, the allowed intrusion on property rights is limited to that necessary to facilitate the exercise of employees' § 7 rights. After the requisite need for access to the employer's property has been shown, the access is limited to (i) union organizers; (ii) prescribed nonworking areas of the employer's premises; and (iii) the duration of organization activity. In short, the principle of accommodation announced in Babcock is limited to labor organization campaigns, and the "yielding" of property rights it may require is both temporary and minimal.
The principle applied in Amalgamated Food Employees Union v. Logan Valley Plaza, 391 U. S. 308 (198), is quite different. While it is true that Logan Valley involved labor picketing, the decision rests on constitutional grounds; it is not a § 7 case.
Logan Valley had its genesis in Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U. S. 501 (1946). Marsh involved a "company town," an economic anachronism rarely encountered today. The town was wholly owned by the Gulf Shipbuilding Corp., yet it had all of the characteristics of any other American town. Gulf Shipbuilding held title to all the land in the town, including that covered by streets and sidewalks. Gulf Shipbuilding also provided municipal services, such as sewerage service and police protection, to the residents of the town. A Jehovah's Witness undertook to distribute religious literature on a sidewalk near the post office in the "business block" of the town, and was arrested on a trespassing charge. She was subsequently convicted of the crime of trespassing, and the Alabama courts upheld the conviction on appeal. This Court reversed, holding that Alabama could not permit a corporation to assume the functions of a municipal government and at the same
time deny First Amendment rights through the application of the State's criminal trespass law.
In Logan Valley, over a strong dissent by Mr. Justice Black, the author of Marsh, the Court applied the reasoning of Marsh to a modern economic phenomenon, the shopping center complex. The Logan Valley Mall was a complex of retail establishments, which the Court regarded under the factual circumstances as the functional equivalent of the "community business block" of the company town in Marsh. The corporate owner of Logan Valley Mall obtained a state court injunction against peaceful picketing on the shopping center property, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirmed the issuance of the injunction on the ground that the picketing constituted a trespass on private property. This Court reversed, holding that Pennsylvania could not
"delegate the power, through the use of its trespass laws, wholly to exclude those members of the public wishing to exercise their First Amendment rights on the premises in a manner and for a purpose generally consonant with the use to which the property is actually put."
391 U.S. at 391 U. S. 319-320.
The Board and the Court of Appeals held that Logan Valley, rather than Babcock, controlled this case. The Board asserts that the distinguishing feature between these two cases is that, in Logan Valley, the owner had "diluted his property interest by opening his property to the general public for his own economic advantage." [Footnote 4]
The emphasis, both in the argument on behalf of the Board and in the opinion below, is on the opening of the property "to the general public." [Footnote 5]
This analysis misconceives the rationale of Logan Valley. [Footnote 6] Logan Valley involved a large commercial shopping center which the Court found had displaced, in certain relevant respects, the functions of the norial municipal "business block." First and Fourteenth Amendment free speech rights were deemed infringed under the facts of that case when the property owner invoked the trespass laws of the State against the pickets.
Before an owner of private property can be subjected to the commands of the First and Fourteenth Amendments, the privately owned property must assume to some significant degree the functional attributes of public property devoted to public use. The First and Fourteenth Amendments are limitations on state action, not on action by the owner of private property used only for private purposes. The only fact relied upon for the argument that Central's parking lots have acquired the characteristics of a public municipal facility is that they are "open to the public." Such an argument could be made with respect to almost every retail and service establishment in the country, regardless of size or location. To accept it would cut Logan Valley entirely away from its roots in Marsh. It would also constitute an unwarranted infringement of long-settled rights of private property protected by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. We hold that the Board and the Court of Appeals erred in applying Logan Valley to this case.
The Trial Examiner concluded that no reasonable means of communication with employees were available to the nonemployee Union organizers other than solicitation in Central's parking lots. The Board adopted this conclusion. Central vigorously contends that this
conclusion is not supported by substantial evidence in the record as a whole. The Court of Appeals did not consider this contention, because it viewed Logan Valley as controlling, rather than Babcock. The determination whether, on the record as a whole, there is substantial evidence to support agency findings is a matter entrusted primarily to the courts of appeals. Universal Camera Corp. v. NLRB, 340 U. S. 474 (1951). Since the Court of Appeals has not yet considered this question in light of the principles of NLRB v. Babcock & Wilcox Co., supra, the judgment is vacated, and the case will be remanded to that court for such consideration.
[Footnote 1]
See Thomas v. Collins, 323 U. S. 516, 323 U. S. 533-534 (1945).
Babcock & Wilcox Co., 109 N.L.R.B. 485, 486 (1954).
NLRB v. Babcock & Wilcox Co., 222 F.2d 316 (CA5 1955).
Brief for the NLRB 20.
439 F.2d at 1326-1328.
For a full discussion of Logan Valley and the circumstances in which it is applicable, see the decision of the Court today in Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner, post, p. 407 U. S. 551.
MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL, with whom MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS and MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN join, dissenting.
I agree with the Court that this case should have been considered under NLRB v. Babcock & Wilcox Co., 351 U. S. 105 (1956). That case is, as the opinion of the Court suggests, narrower than Amalgamated Food Employees Union v. Logan Valley Plaza, 391 U. S. 308 (1968). It does not purport to interpret the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) so as to give union members the same comprehensive rights to free expression on the private property of an employer that the First Amendment gives to all citizens on private property that is the functional equivalent of a public business district. But Babcock is, in another sense, even broader than Logan Valley. It holds that, where a union has no other means at its disposal to communicate with employees other than to use the employer's property, or where the union is denied the access to employees that the employer gives anti-union forces, the union may communicate with employees on the property of the employer. Congress gave unions this right in Section 7
of the NLRA, 61 Stat. 140, 29 U.S.C. § 157. The First Amendment gives no such broad right to use private property to ordinary citizens.
The National Labor Relations Board found that petitioner permitted anti-union solicitation on its premises at the same time that it barred union solictation. 181 N.L.R.B. 491 (1970). It made no explicit finding as to whether access to the employees was reasonably available to the union outside of the petitioner's property, but suggested that it was not. Rather than deciding the case under Babcock, supra, which would appear to control and to provide that the union activity in the case is protected by the NLRA, the Board appears to have decided the case under Logan Valley, supra. The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed on the basis of Logan Valley, and found it unnecessary to review the Board's finding of discrimination by the employer against the union in the use of its property, or to remand the case for a determination of whether it was necessary for the union to use petitioner's property to communicate with the employees. 439 F.2d 1321 (1971).
It is obvious, then, that neither the Board nor the Court of Appeals has fully considered whether the employer's conduct was proscribed by Babcock, even though the indications in the Board's opinion are that it was. In reaching out to decide this case under Logan Valley, the agency and the lower court decided a difficult constitutional issue that might well have been avoided by deciding the case under the NLRA. This was error. The principle is well established that decisions on constitutional questions should not be reached unnecessarily. See, e.g., Dandridge v. Williams, 397 U. S. 471, 397 U. S. 476 (1970); Rosenberg v. Fleuti, 374 U. S. 449 (1963).
Since both the agency and the Court of Appeals should have first decided whether or not Babcock controlled the instant case before proceeding to decide it under Logan Valley, before this Court decides whether or not the decision below was correct under the Constitution, we should remand the case to the Board, rather than to the Court of Appeals, for a square holding as to the applicability of Babcock to the facts of this case. MR. JUSTICE WHITE has recently reemphasized the point that, when an agency decides a case under an incorrect legal approach, courts should not seek to predict whether the agency would have decided the case the same way under the correct approach, but should instead remand the case to the agency for further proceedings. FTC v. Sperry & Hutchinson Co., 405 U. S. 233, 405 U. S. 249 (1972). See also Burlington Truck Lines v. United States, 371 U. S. 156, 371 U. S. 168 (1962).
Accordingly, I would remand this case to the Board for further proceedings without deciding the constitutional question.
Oral Argument - April 18, 1972
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Central Hardware Company
Second Party
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It's your high school English teacher's dogma: "cut the likes, replace the so's and the um's, speak slowly yet clearly — don't stutter." This so-called "word vomit" often doesn't leave people's vocabulary even past school, and Audrey Mann Cronin '87 is determined to professionalize speech through her app, LikeSo.
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The app includes a mode called "TalkAbout" with question prompts to help prepare for presentations, interviews etc.
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Mann Cronin visited campus Thursday to train student leaders and to showcase her app, working with both the Dyson Student Leadership Development Program and the "Women of Warren" program for faculty members in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management.
Upon graduating from CALS as a communication major, Mann Cronin had her first professional position at Hewlett Packard after working in Broadway theater public relations, where she said she saw firsthand that articulation and enunciation are of critical importance.
"I [got] to hear this big cheese at HP present … and I was just so disappointed because I had studied communications and I thought that when you get into the workplace, you would see the best of the best … [he was] uninspiring, inarticulate and terrible," she told The Sun.
While working her way up the corporate ladder, Mann Cronin was often the only woman in meetings and offices, and she realized how her speech was held to a different standard.
As Mann Cronin explained in an interview with The Sun, women often "say sorry when they don't need to say they're sorry" because "they feel they're not worthy, or it's just a way to bridge a conversation."
She realized the extent of the problem when her son and daughter began to interject "like," "just" and "I mean" into their speech.
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Mann Cronin created and launched the LikeSo app with a friend from Cornell, Phil Lam '87, asking the question of "now that Siri understands us, why couldn't there be an app that captures how we speak, the words that we used, and allowed us to practice?"
Her app launched at the number 4 position in the iOS App Store and costs $4.99. Mann Cronin has previously presented about her creation at her alma mater, bringing her new technology to campus last fall for the AEM 3340: Women, Leadership and Entrepreneurship seminar, taught by Prof. Deborah Streeter, applied economics and management.
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Users of the app can choose from a selection of common filler words to train against.
The students assigned to use the app noted the usefulness of this technology and how it made them more aware of their own filler words.
Caitlin Stanton '20 appreciated Mann Cronin's insight towards "structuring our words more so we were speaking more [forwardly], which is something that women, on average, do not do as well."
Vasudha Mathur '19, who is also a staff photographer at The Sun, took note of Mann Cronin's explanation of, "how women use like and vocal fry," and how poor speech is "held against women more in professional settings."
Vocal fry, according to Mann Cronin, is "a relatively new vocal pattern — that low, creaky sound, like frying an egg, that comes at the end of a sentence."
Stanton did question why the app does not include software to detect vocal fry and other issues in pitch, as Mann Cronin specifically emphasized those speech elements as critical in part of the bias against women. Cronin said that updates "in the works as voice recognition technology continues to improve and evolve."
Reception to the app has been positive with an average 4 out of 5 star rating on the Apple app store and a feature on CNBC.
Mann Cronin will return to campus on March 23 to present and workshop LikeSo with students for Cornell's annual Women in Healthcare Leadership (WIHL) Symposium.
Mann Cronin believes that, "just like dressing for success, you want to speak for success," and with LikeSo, the ability to personally curate your speech makes this a possibility for anyone –– or at least anyone with a spare five dollars to spend.
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I'm always a few weeks late with this, but better late than never right?! I love taking the time to look back at the year and remember everything that has happened. 2018 was both one of the best and one of the worst years in my life. On the one hand, I photographed twice as many weddings as I did in 2017 (14 with a full time job!!), grew more comfortable with my career as a hardware engineer at Waymo, got married to my favorite person surrounded by our favorite people in the world. On the other, my grandpa's health went into a steady decline in April and we lost him in mid May, which was probably one of the hardest things in my life. Regardless, I am excited to share my year with you!
I was initially going to share all of the highlights of the year with you guys, but after rounding up the photos, I figured I should probably start with just the weddings first!
I kicked off the season with Jennifer and Santo's lovely South Bay wedding. I've adored them ever since their engagement session, so it was such a joy to get to see them tie the knot!
Phoebe and Joey's gorgeous, multicultural wedding, incorporating both Vietnamese, Hawaiian and Japanese traditions, was next. I am still dying over how incredible Phoebe's veil was, but can you blame me?!
Jon and Christie's wedding at The Pearl SF was a total dream to photograph. I love that they made the time to sneak out to Golden Gate Park for their first look, despite their ceremony and reception taking place halfway across the city.
Matt and Annika's Monterey wedding followed, which was particularly special because I've known Matt since freshmen year of college.
Michael and Mona's gorgeous Gloria Ferrer wedding was another one for the books. There was crazy wind during their ceremony, but the Napa winery golden hour totally made up for it!
Fini and RJ got married at Windmill Winery in Arizona! This was another fun one, because I literally grew up with Fini. I also got to have the fabulous Courtney Larson of Inloveness Photography second shoot for me, which is always a blast. It was the end of May in Phoenix, so it was an incredibly hot day, but everything was absolutely beautiful.
I photographed quite a few weddings at Saratoga Springs last year, but Bridge and Mark's was definitely one of my favorites! They got married at Redwood Grove instead of Cathedral Grove or Longbridge, which are the more popular sites. They decked it out with gorgeous florals and acrylic signs and I've never seen Redwood Grove look prettier!
I was anxiously anticipating Jon and Anna's Glacier National Park wedding for over a year. I've never been to Glacier National Park before and the beauty definitely took my breath away.
Kaylee and Kevin had their wedding at Longbridge and it was so fun seeing them dance the night away with their adorable kids. Plus, I got to work with Bethany of Bonjour Blooms, who I've been IG buddies with for quite a while now!
Victoria and Tyler had such a sweet, relaxed wedding at Cathedral Grove.
Next up was Anika and Garrett's stunning wedding at French Oak Ranch. Anika was the flower girl for the owners of French Oak Ranch, so you can bet we got the lowdown on where the best locations were for photos!
Rylee and Jack had a beautiful wedding at Longbridge with the most stunning florals by Flowers by Ivy. I absolutely loved the rich colors they chose!
Julianna and Sarak were my only couple that did a tea ceremony! I always love photographing meaningful traditions like a tea ceremony.
My last wedding of the year (just a week after my own!) was Jade and Cory's lovely Redwood Grove wedding. You might remember them from their incredible Conservatory of the Flowers engagement shoot.


Pascal's Ghosts: How Many Ghosts Do You See? encourages students to apply the patterns in Pascal's Triangle. A teacher instructional plan with mathematical background, answer and challenge is included to explain how to present this problem which is also an outgrowth of the Rutgers Discrete Math Institute. A recording sheet was also included as part of the teacher packet so that students are able to record all different solutions in a "systematic" way, which is a goal of discrete mathematics.
Pascal's Bats challenges students to identify and use the patterns in Pascal's Triangle to complete the unfinished row and to add the next row to the pattern.
Pascal's Penguins - 1 introduces primary students to a small version of Pascal's Triangle in this simple patterning activity.
Pascal's Penguins - 2 introduces a larger version of Pascal's triangle and encourages students to identify the different patterns within the triangle and use these patterns to fill in the missing penguin numbers.
Pascal's Hearts introduces students to Pascal's Triangle in this simple Valentine's Day patterning activity.
Shamrock Paths introduces students to Pascal's Triangle in this simple St. Patrick's Day patterning activity.
Houses in a Row challenges students to figure out how many different color combinations are possible for a row of houses, if no two houses can be painted exactly alike. Use large color squares and triangles to model this problem for students as an introduction to combinations.
Stoplights challenges students to figure out how many different stoplights they can create with 3 different color linking cubes if each stoplight must have one cube of each color. Use linking cubes so that students can assemble all possible stoplights. You may choose to have students use any three different colors so that each student pair has enough linking cubes to assemble all possible combinations using one of each color to create the stoplight.
Spider Web Map Coloring Games: this 2-4 player game challenges students to apply map coloring rules to win the most points by coloring in sections of the spider web on each dice toss. Students toss a special die (1-1-1-2-2-lose turn) to find out how many sections they may color in on that turn. The game ends when no player can color another section according to map coloring rules.
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DSLRs are the future of filmmaking says the director of hit American TV show House who used a Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera to film an upcoming episode.
The show?s director Greg Yaitanes chose the 5D Mark II, mainly handheld, in preference to a traditional TV camera in what is being hailed as a first for the industry.
Yaitanes praised the 21.1-million-pixel full frame DSLR for its ease of use in ?tight spaces? and ?richer shallow focus that pulls the actors faces to the foreground of the shot?.
Writing on the social networking website Twitter he added: ?I loved it and feel it?s the future ? cameras that can give you these looks.?
The EOS 5D Mark II boasts a High Definition (1080×1920 pixel) video mode.
Launched in November 2008 it cost £2,299.99. Today it can be picked up for under £1,700.
The director said he used a 24-70mm, 70-200mm and Canon?s prime lenses to film the episode which will be broadcast in the US on 17 May. When not handheld he used a small tripod.
The camera is chiefly aimed at semi-professional photographers and the wedding and press photographer market.
Features include an ISO range expandable to 50-25,600 and a 3in LCD screen with a 920,000 dot resolution.
Last month Canon added 24 and 25 frames per second movie recording to the camera in a bid to deliver the 'optimum frame rate for cinematic video'.
The move reflected a growing market for high quality movie recording in DSLRs.


This nice little 1965 Deuce belongs to George L of the Delaware Valley Novas. This car left the factory with a 283, 3-speed, 12-bolt rear end, and a list of factory options long enough to make your head spin!
These options include A/C, power steering, power brakes, tinted glass, rare AM-FM radio, factory tach, remote mirror, and locking gas cap. This car truly is a cruising machine!
The Nova now sports a 327, 4-speed, and the 12-bolt.
No problem George! We don't get to see as many 1965's as other years, so it's awesome to see one as nice as yours. Keep driving it!


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This is a 2-day advanced course designed for senior trainees and practising surgeons wanting to develop their skills in laryngeal and phonosurgical skills. The advanced surgical simulation lab with specially preserved human cadavers (Thiel embalming method) will offer an excellent lifelike learning environment (2:1 trainee: trainer ratio) to practice, closely supervised, endoscopic microsurgery with rigid and flexible endoscopy with the application of cold steel instruments and CO2 Laser. Demonstration and hands-on practice of TransNasalEsophagoscopy (TNE).
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In the first of a series of blogs on the challenges faced by many organisations when implementing learning programmes, Compaso's Mike Dickson looks at "The Time Excuse" – one of the key explanations given for learning programme failure.
All too often, when it comes to training, time is a double-edged sword.
On the one hand, leadership teams are in a hurry to get their people up to speed, so they can fulfil their ambitions for the business. And it's usually faster to skill-up an existing workforce, which is familiar with the organisation, than to start from scratch with new recruits.
On the other hand – and here's the rub – day to day work pressures mean that people don't have the time to attend training sessions. This usually involves dropping out of sessions at the last minute – often at the request of those self same managers who identified their training needs in the first place.
As a result, the desired impact from training programmes is lost.
The answer to this double problem is to integrate that training into day to activities so that people learn on the go. This follows the practice over theory principle – that you learn more by doing. And Compaso is a platform which enables that.
Through a series of 'to dos' prompted by 15 second videos, participants in the programme start doing things differently. The experience of that then helps them to think differently so that newly acquired skills become part of "business as usual". Compaso also encourages interactive sharing with other participants which means that everyone can collectively learn from the experience. So learning communities become part of the mix as well.
All told, Compaso not only helps speed up the learning which helps drive the organisation's progress; it also helps make that learning stick through interactions with others.
Compaso can rightly claim to enable 'learning at the speed of change'.
Mike is a Co-founder of Compaso and a Partner at The Brand Inside. Mike rose through the management ranks of advertising agencies, from start-ups to multi-nationals. He has gained insights, internationally, into almost every market sector: FMCG, Corporate, Durables, Travel, Leisure, Automotive, Media and Government. Mike was previously a Director at D'Arcy, and is now a rounded expert in developing brand strategies and visions that can be effectively communicated and delivered internally and externally.
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Spot on! Time is the critical factor in all we do for my organization. Disrupting the daily work for anything is growing more and more unacceptable as we strive for higher margins with fewer frontline people doing the work. We know people are learning on the fly, the question is then, "what are they learning?" and "is it right?" It would seem that getting involved in the learning by doing is the only way training organizations are too remain relevant, no?
Thank you for your comment, Mickey. The need to help people with the "What are they learning?" and "Is it right?" when learning on the fly is one of the reasons we have created Compaso. By turning learning into practical, easy-to-understand steps, Compaso engages learners at the point of need and helps to reinforce new habits.
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Little shortlisted for Women's Footballer of the Year
Scotland midfielder Kim Little has been shortlisted for the 2016 BBC Women's Footballer of the Year award.
The Seattle Reign midfielder has been nominated for a second consecutive year following club success with in the US and in Australia with Melbourne City. With the national team, Little has been an integral member of Anna Signal's side ho have won all of their UEFA Women's EURO 2017 qualifiers.
Speaking to the BBC website, Little said: "It's extremely nice to be nominated once again for this award. It is a team sport in which everyone contributes, but it's nice to be individually recognised."
"Awards like these are great in recognising the sport. The exposure that women's football has had over the last few years through the Olympics in London and last year's World Cup have only been good for the game."
The Scotland playmaker has experienced success on both sides of the equator over the past 12 months with Seattle Reign and Melbourne City, and Little is hoping that she can take what learned from these spells into the remaining qualifiers with Scotland.
She explained: "We had a great season with Seattle, winning the regular season but just missing out in the final. Then, going to Australia, I had the chance to experience a new league and play with a different team.
"It was a great opportunity to learn, We had a lot of great moments on our way to going undefeated in the regular season and winning the final.
"For a lot of players in the national team we've been very close to qualifying for the last World Cup and European Championships. "we're hoping to get the job done this year and get Scotland to a major finals."
* VOTE FOR KIM LITTLE *
The winner of the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2016 will be announced by the BBC World Service and online at bbc.com/womensfootball on Tuesday 24 May 2016.
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A Tribe Called Quest will be releasing their new and final album November 11th entitled "We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service".
Maroon 5 grabs K. Dot for their new single entitled "Don't Wanna Know".
Check the song out after the jump!
Dave East officially drops his 15-track project, Kairi Chanel.
Tank proves that crooners still exist.
Check out his latest release, I Gotta Be Honest after the jump!
The Roots was commissioned by beer maker Stella Artois to create a new joint called Bittersweet. They released 2 versions; both with the same Black Thought verse but with two different productions.
Check out both after the jump!
Taylor Bennett (Chance the Rapper's) little brother went on the show and decided to literally shut it down by upping the ante and taking it to 10 beats instead of the normal 5. Check out his new premiered single as well as his freestyle on Sway after the jump!
I must admit, from this years XXL Freshmen, he has got to be one of my favorites. Check out "nothin bout nothin" after the jump!
Beans does it again. Check out his latest joint after the jump!
We have not gone back in time. Jermaine Dupri and Da Brat have dropped a new single entitled "F U Pay Me" along with The Dream. So So Def ya'll!
Check out the new track after the jump!
BBD also known as Bell Biv Devoe has just dropped their new single entitled "RUN". Stream it after the jump!
Joey is at it. He's taking shots at not just Drake and Meek but a jab at Hov also. Check out the track "Making A Murderer" below as well as the video in which Joe Budden featured on his track which includes a part from 2009 when Drake tells Budden that he's "grateful" and "honored" to be in his presence.
PJ Morton releases a new song for the Summer, "First Began". Stream it below!
Check out Tink's latest release called "Count it Up" below!
Stream out the latest joint #DoYoga from Rae Sremmurd below!
Ne-Yo drops his latest, TWO.
Read what he has to say below and check it out!
Teyana Taylor drops her latest joint, Freak On ft. Chris Brown.
Wale drops his new mixtape entitled "Summer on Sunset". 17 tracks featuring Ty Dolla $ign, Raheem DeVaughn, Cam'ron, Eric Bellinger and Tha Dogg Pound.
Dave East who is currently gracing 1 of the newest XXL Freshmen drops his latest joint entitled "Deposits"
Wale and Phil Adé join together for this track entitled "Reminisce"


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Column: Undertaking, DUI, Crashes, Road Safety
[Opinion column written by Jeremy Deacon]
We've all got a story to tell about the incredible stuff we've seen on the roads – the undertaking, the hair-raising overtaking, the drinking and driving, the crashes we've witnessed.
There are those, though, who have other stories to tell – how only time can heal the loss of a loved one, the painful recuperation process, the coming to terms with disfigurement or loss of mobility, having to overcome huge obstacles just so they can lead a near normal life again.
Those who have followed what I have written in the past on this subject.
will know that I have issues with driver behavior on Bermuda's roads and a perceived lack of urgency by successive Governments to really help tackle the issue.
In January this year, the Police Commissioner, Michael DeSilva, was quoted as saying that "in the last five years around 26 people have been shot and killed, whereas in the same period 82 people have died on the roads. With that sort of stark ratio are we putting our full enough attention on the roads? The answer must be no".
He said that static, roadside cameras could have a role to play, but appeared to pointedly refer to the road infrastructure which, he said, had not developed since the 1980s despite the presence of many more bikes and cars.
Slideshow showing some of the various collisions in Bermuda in the past few years:
Mr DeSilva correctly stated that there was no one solution, such as sobriety checkpoints, and asked whether the legislation and licensing was "fit for purpose", pointing to a disparity in the Traffic Offence Penalties Act and brand new offences – a person can be fined $500 for talking on a cell phone and $50 for failing to stop.
In my opinion, these discrepancies seriously undermine their deterrent value. I am told the Attorney General is looking at these, but the time to act is now, not six months down the line.
The Commissioner also questioned whether the licensing regime or the skills assessment for motorbikes was robust enough and said it was an area that needed reviewing. Given my own driving test exam, I totally agree that a much more robust system should be put in place.
To all extents and purposes, Mr DeSilva was, in my opinion, pointing to an archaic system more suited to 1947 when the original Road Safety Act was first drafted.
Fast forward to April this year, when the Transport Minister announced the creation of a new Road Safety Working Group
"It is expected that the first meeting of the working Group will be held before the end of April when the terms of reference and objectives will be confirmed, said Shawn Crockwell at the time.
It is now September and we have yet to hear any recommendations from the Working Group. I know it has met at least once, but how many other times has it met? Were terms of reference ever drafted? What were the objectives? It might have been in the public interest to have known.
The Minister himself admitted he did not know how many times it has met only telling me that it has been on "multiple occasions".
Its members are primarily drawn from the civil service, which possibly explains why progress is so slow – not many bureaucrats are known for speed [excuse the pun] after all.
I also understand that the Minister's directives have not been followed although why that was not corrected long ago is a mystery to me and that when it finally delivers its recommendations it could be dissolved and replaced by a body drawn largely from the public sector.
Unfortunately, that means six months has unnecessarily been lost – when nothing, from a Government perspective, has happened in regards to road safety [the police did launch a campaign earlier this year, which appears to have had some success.]
Roadside sobriety testing – ie, police equipped with breathalysers – has long been mooted and although it does not need Parliamentary approval as it can be done by negative resolution it is still in the pipeline despite identification of the desired equipment.
The Minister told me that his technical people are working with the police "to get the right balance so police are comfortable with it and what they are able to do in terms of power to stop".
"We are working out specifics with the police. What can the police do to arrest someone, can they do it? There are constitutional concerns about whether police have probable cause."
OK, I understand that but as 'everyone knows' [the two most dangerous words in Bermuda] accidents are mainly caused by booze, so can this process be speeded up [again, please excuse the pun]?
The Minister believes, correctly, that a lot of the behavior we see on the roads is due to a lack of personal responsibility. I agree.
However, where I differ fundamentally is that if people are refusing to show consideration to other road users, then they should be made to via a process of public education, starting at primary school level, and enforcement: with suitable penalties.
Penalties do not always have to come in the form of fines – how about a mandatory advanced driver's course for those convicted of DUI? After serving their ban they take the course and cannot get back onto a vehicle until they have passed.
The course does not have to be just about driving either – perhaps the real consequences of their selfish behavior could include being nurse for a day to a victim of a road crash or how about having to listen to a family about the devastating effect on their lives of seeing a loved one die in a road crash?
The police knew they needed a new road safety strategy – in part because they were getting no cooperation when asking for help to solve the gang problem. People were saying 'no, you really p****d me off stopping me".
They changed tack, tried to forge partnerships and instead of issuing a court summons they now often issue Motorist Advice Notices.
Officers were asked to use their discretion: has the Notice had an impact on the person by stopping them, have they listened to advice? Is that enough? It is one strike and you are out, but police believe the tactic is helping.
Despite all this, police officers I know tell me how they get calls daily from people who cannot believe what they have just seen on the roads and how it has scared them half to death.
People are driving potential weapons. They must be told and taught how to respect that. The police have significantly stepped up their actions, Government must follow suit, now.
What do you think? Leave a comment or email jdeacon@northrock.bm
- Jeremy Deacon is a 30-year veteran of the media industry and currently runs public relations company Deep Blue Communications, www.deepbluecommunications.bm. He also freelances for publications in Bermuda and overseas, and is also the Executive Officer of the Media Council of Bermuda.
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Ridiculous when the cops claim constitutional concerns and probable cause, dealing with drunks leaving bars reeking of alcohol and taking control of vehicles, yet pull people over for no good reason under the misuse of drugs (other than alcohol) act.
Jeremy Deacon says:
I think that there is a problem here in that if they pull a person over without good reason I am sure the police could be challenged by a. the driver and b. a half decent lawyer in court
serengeti says:
You're probably right. We saw recently that preventing a drunk from driving away from a bar with his family in his car will not be supported by the courts.
Any examples? Simply claiming the driver swerved, acted suspiciously, was seen driving away from known drug area (bars exempt), having dreads etc. has been more than enough grounds and are taken as gospel by the judges all these years.
riki tiki tava says:
well conveyed…mazin what a thought and a pen can do ennit?
Triangle Drifter says:
So few comments after a whole day shows how little Bermudians care about the standard of driving.
That or they are sick & tired of talking about it & seeing it.
I dunno. People seem to be sick and tired of politics, yet articles involving politics get overrun with comments.
So it's either a "shrug, nothing I can do about it" or they just don't find the issue important enough in their lives.
Heck, despite the Minister claiming otherwise, governments present and past have sat their collective butts down when it comes to addressing the issue.
Either way, it's pretty sad, as lives are lost and forever damaged from this culture of recklessness going on our roads.
Same Old Solutions Won't Change Anything says:
If you want people to stop drinking and driving, you need to provide alternatives. Let's face it, Bermudians and ex-pats are going to drink. So how can they get home safely? The taxis should be regulated and taxi companies should be obligated to provide a taxi to a caller. I was once stranded at Swizzle Inn by the airport for over an hour one night because the dispatcher could not "find anyone who wants to go all the way out there". I remember last year at Soca vs. Regae at Dockyard, watching people fight for the very few taxis that were available. I'm sure many people chose to drive that night because they didn't want to be stuck in Dockyard for hours trying to catch a taxi home. There should be extended bus and ferry services when there are events at Dockyard or St. George's.
Bottom line is: the only reliable way to get home when it is late night in Bermuda is to drive. So you can increase the penalties all you want, but that will not change anything unless you make alternate transportation available.
Sorry Sir says:
"Bermudians and Ex-pats are going to drink"
You mean people. People are going to drink.
I've not heard of any problems with tourists drinking and driving on this island.
Also, remember when CADA ran a late night bus? What did the Taxi drivers say? "You're taking money out of our pockets"
Maybe if taxi's were reliable in this country we wouldn't have such a problem. Why are they so expensive again?
stunned... says:
i counted roughly 4 taxis out of the 40 or so collisions…hardly inspires any confidence.
Or you could begin the process of making it socially unacceptable to drink and drive?
Jus' Wonderin' says:
JUST FIX THE DAMN TAXI'S….ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO GET ONE LATE NIGHTS, AND DON'T EVEN START IF YOUR FAR DOWN EAST OR WEST SMFH!!! Um had to talk home numerous nights or drive!! THERE ARE NO OTHER CHOICES!!
SMH2 says:
Not all of the bad behavior is due to driving under the influence. There are bad driving habits on the roads all day, every day. Speed cameras, lots of them, and hefty fines would make some difference.
Toodle-oo says:
At last ! A voice of intelligence in the wilderness .
What is it about the level of smarts around here that as soon as the subject of road safety and accidents come up the first thing out of everyone's mouth is 'Drinking and driving ' ?
Today I had to do a 12 mile round trip into Hamilton and back at around 10am and was (as usual) almost cleaned off of my bike in 11 separate cases . 8 involved cars and trucks , 4 were bikes . The roads were still wet.
Were they all drunk ? I highly doubt it . They were just completely lawless and out of control like way too many are here 24 hours a day .
That is the culture that must change , not misplacing our idiotic assumptions on people being drunk all the time .
Unfortunately Jeremy , we've morphed into a society that seems to not like law and order and accountability .
Keepin' it Real!...4Real! says:
You used the words "bad driving habits"…I would use the words "inexperienced drivers"…tcd testing…putt putt up de hill round de corner back in de yard for some serious! parallel parking!…don't screw up there bruh coz it's a wrap…lmao…more STRINGENT instructions on defensive driving need to be incorporated into getting a license…It, is 2015..keep up or get left behind…Life's Hard…Wear a Helmet.
Common Sense says:
Has any one heard of a designated driver? Severe penalties, as in the UK, will stop drunk driving. We need to change our mindset about this. Two friends have died at the hand of drunk drivers.
More positive says:
Why do you not advocate enforcing the speed limit of 20mph, no other country would permit drivers to drive 40% over the posted speed limit before being pulled over by the police? Also unless a drunk driver is going very slowly the police can always pull them over for speeding.
mamabear says:
MADD made a huge change in Canada in the 90′s. the police named and shamed drunk drivers unlike here where we sweep it under the rug when there is death involved. we need the same thing…. Get mad people. Your families are dying and those who have some bike under their car due to the wrecklessness of a biker I am sure are tormented for life.
Excellent article Jeremy
RIDE programs stopped people from just driving drunk. they worked to get people to areange to get a ride home safely. the program gave police the "right" to pull people. I have driven through plenty and it was a simple good evening and a look at the driver and a sniff I am sure. it waa the luck of the draw ….. drinking And driving I am sure still happens in Canada but as a young person it was ingrained that eventually you would get caught causing you to draw straws on who was driving that night. I lost about 5 friends to drunk drivers before the age of 18. Sad for young people to have to attend a friends funeral when they are so young. heartbreakiing to watch parents sob at their childs closed casket. and never being able to see them again. hard lessons that could be avoided by RIDE programs such times as 7 when happy hour is wrapping up and when the bars closed. Holidays – always a RIDE program.
THE REINSTATEMENT OF THE PROHIBITION OF ALCOHOL.(The ONLY way of curbing a problem is to eliminate the cause)
Can anyone tell me why drugs are illegal..? Whatever your answers may be…I'm quite certain that they could be applied to ALCOHOL as well, along with many more…but as usual y'all will continue to search for alternatives on how to touch the fire and and not get burned…which clearly clarifies that y'all jus'aink serz 'bout solving the problem.
Hmmm?…how can we continue to do bad but find a way to do it safely..?
ps. Enablers…
There is a billboard I saw somewhere in the US.
It showed a cop standing by his cruiser holding a breathalizer.
The caption read; GOING TO BE OUT THIS WEEKEND? SO WILL WE.
Gives you something to think about.
nomoremeoney says:
regular occurrence in dockyard, bars close late, and suddenly at 3am, there are a bunch of drunken people racing through the west end. Maybe a bite at village cafe…some swearing and yelling, throwing garbage everywhere and then riding off right past the police station at high speed. Bit of a joke i'd say. The police know this because they have cleaned up several accidents this summer. so why not put a checkpoint outside dockyard and stop everybody.Same in town, It would be a big deterrent. Works everywhere else.
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Q: CASE/DECODE-style command for PowerShell? This seems pretty petty but I am writing a PowerShell script which will write an email to a user, and it will refer to a number of "days" remaining taken from a variable ($DaysLeft).
To get this gramatically correct (in terms of "day"/"days"), I could (in Oracle SQL) use the DECODE function, thus:
DaysLeft ||' day'||DECODE(DaysLeft, 1, '', 's')||' Remaining'

Obviously you could do something similar with CASE, and that would be just as satisfactory.
I am wondering if PowerShell has a similar self-contained block I can use for this purpose. I could obviously define a variable with an IF-ELSE block, but I am hoping there is a more efficient way!
I saw some examples with the SWITCH command, but this doesn't seem to be what I'm after... or is it?
Thanks!

A: You could use a switch like this:
$numdays = 1
$phrase = switch ($numdays){1 {'is 1 day'};default {"are $_ days"}}
"There $phrase remaining."

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