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However, if the crack extends below the gum line, it is not treatable, and cannot be saved and will need to be extracted. That's why early treatment is important. A cracked tooth that is not treated will progressively worsen, eventually resulting in loss of the tooth. Early diagnosis and treatment are essential in saving these teeth.


I'm stuck with a load of very mealy white peaches and was wondering if they would compromise a batch of jam or chutney.
Update: I made chutney (ginger, jalapeño, a little apple, dates, raisins, brown sugar, vinegar, Indian spices) to put up and I also pureed about a cupful to use as barbecue sauce. I did have to cook the chutney down quite a bit to fully disguise the peach consistency, but in the end it all turned out great!
I just made barbecue sauce from some peaches and plums that ended up in my refrigerator by accident. Pureed, the texture isn't noticeable. You could make a sweet or savory sauce out of them, a smooth jam or even fruit leather.
How disappointing! They are mealy because they were picked before they were ripe and them put in cold storage. Do they have any flavor? If they do, of course you can make jam, chutney or even peach butter.
I spent many summers working with peaches on my family's orchard and am often disappointed in what is available in stores. Peaches are a delicate fruit and large producers pick them green so they look good after they are shipped.
I will take bruises that come with ripe peaches any day!
I have successfully used mealy peaches to make a quick jam, I usually add another kind of fruit with the mealy peaches like raspberries or even nectarines. I didn't notice the imperfection when cooked in jam with other fruits. Its so disappointing isn't it?
I think mealy peaches might make meal chutney. I do think you could make a puree, maybe sweetened, and freeze or can it. Bellinis?


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Q: Real time plotting with text file I am trying to do real-time plotting (or close to real-time, as long as it updates every 1 to 2 second) of the temperature vs time. The temperature and time data will be stored in a text file. This text file will be constantly updated by a separate program.
Is it possible to do this using Matlab or C?
I found these codes online, but I have no idea how to use them; do I just create a new Matlab script and put them into the script?
function [t] = livePlot(period, filename)
//%   inputs : period : update rate in seconds
//%            filename : name of the file to get data from
//%
//%   outputs: t      : the timer object
//%                     >> stop(t)
//%                     ends streaming
//%%

close all;
t = timer('StartDelay', 1, 'Period', period, ...
          'ExecutionMode', 'fixedRate');
//%% timer object callback functions
t.StopFcn  = {@stopFigure};
t.TimerFcn = {@updateFigure};
//%% initialize timer object user data
d = get(t, 'UserData');
d.data = []; % array for the data to plot
axes('Position', [0 0 1 1], 'Visible', 'off');
    d.axes_handle = axes('Position', [.2 .1 .7 .8]);
    d.line_handle = plot(NaN,NaN);
    d.fid = fopen(filename, 'r');
    set(t, 'UserData', d);
    start(t);
end

function stopFigure(obj, event)
    //% close function handle
    d = get(obj, 'UserData');
    fclose(d.fid);
end

function updateFigure(obj, event)
    d = get(obj, 'UserData');
    //% read new data from file
    tmp = readFile(obj);
    //% append to array in user data
    d.data = [d.data transpose(tmp)];
    //% update the plot
    set(gcf, 'CurrentAxes', d.axes_handle);
    set(d.line_handle, 'XData', 1:length(d.data), 'YData', d.data);
    //% store the timer object user-data
    set(obj, 'UserData', d);
end
function [tmp] = readFile(obj)
    //% read binary data. file-ID is in the timer user-data
    d = get(obj, 'UserData');
    tmp = fread(d.fid);
    fprintf('Current file location : %d \n', ftell(d.fid));
    //% fprintf('End of file indicator : %d \n', feof(d.fid));
    //% reset the end-of-file indicator
    fseek(d.fid, -1, 0);
    fseek(d.fid, 1, 0);
    //% fprintf('End of file indicator : %d \n', feof(d.fid));
    set(obj, 'UserData', d);
end

A: If your text file contain following value for temperature and date.sorry for not in proper format bu consider column 1 for day,2 for time and 3 for temp.
Day      Time      Temp
1        09:00     16
2        09:00     16.2

Then you can use below sample c code for ploting
f = fopen('yourdata.txt');
c = textscan(f,'%f %s %f','HeaderLines',1);
fclose(f);
d = [c{1}-1 + rem(datenum(c{2},'HH:MM'),1), c{3}];

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The Digital Camera Data Recovery software can retrieve and restore all pictures files that are missing or were deleted from any kind of digital camera storage media. The software includes utilities that rescue, repair, restore and recover lost pictures, digital images or videos from a camera. All kinds of file types are supported, such as jpg, tif, gif, 3gp, avi, mov or mpeg. This means that you will not have to worry about any of your missing files.
One good thing about the Digital Camera Data Recovery software is that all makes of cameras are supported. This includes brands such as Konica, SanDisk, Sharp, Toshiba, Casio, Epson, Kodak, Sony, Canon, Nikon and Panasonic, to mention just some.
Files can be retrieved from memory cards that were removed while the camera was being used and files that were erased, corrupted, formatted or accidentally deleted can also be restored. Specialty memory media are also no problem and the tools can retrieve and restore any lost files on these also.
The program is easy to use and the interface is user-friendly. No files will be damaged because the software is non-destructive. The Digital Camera Data Recovery software also works fast.


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Installing Yosemite Zone 10.1 dmg using transmac onto Lenovo Y40-80. I disabled UEFI. In normal mode it gets stuck at the Hackintosh Zone logo without a progress bar. In -v mode a bunch of text flashes on the screen (as I assume it should should) until my screen goes blank. Thanks in advance for your help.
Hi , i have same Problem, Did you find any solutions? Plz help me to get this issue fixed.
Same for me on a Dell Latitude E6400 in AHCI, Hackingtosh Zone is visible but progress bar remain blocked.
Well sometimes the norm does not work. Did you try ATA?
I'm fixing to try with e6500 any day now, and will report my findings. I believe it is the same as e6400 but with larger screen. Mind you, I have Nvidia card not the Intel GMA that's on the Motherboard.
Please Developers fix this issue with 5th gen intel cpu..


JERUSALEM, June 11 (Reuters) - Five of the six rate setters at Israel's central bank voted to leave the benchmark interest rate at 0.1 percent on May 28, the same it has been for more than three years, minutes of the discussions showed on Monday.
Those voting for steady rates cited solid economic growth of 4.2 percent annualized in the first quarter, with a more balanced composition due to a rise in exports to go along with strong consumer spending, the central bank said.
Policymakers noted that the inflation environment is still low but inflation expectations are nearing the 1-3 percent annual target. Committee members said that increased competition and falling oil prices, if these trends continue, could delay the return of inflation to its target.


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In a previous post, I covered one approach for generating documents using HTML templates to create a PDF. While PDF is great, the world still relies on Microsoft Word for document creation. In reality, it will be much simpler for a business user to create the desired template that supports all the custom formatting they need in Word versus trying to use HTML+CSS. Fortunately, there is a a package that supports doing a MS Word mailmerge purely within python. This approach has the advantage of running on any system - even if Word is not installed. The benefit to using python for the merge (vs. an Excel sheet) is that you are not limited in how you retrieve or process the data. The full flexibility and power of the python ecosystem is at your finger tips. This should be a useful tool to keep in mind any time you need to automate document creation.


05397917 is referenced by 127 patents and cites 11 patents.
A package (10, 37, 39) capable of spreading heat from a semiconductor die (25). The package (10, 37) includes a heat spreader (11) having a thickness of approximately 0.2 millimeters and a plurality of heat spreader clearance holes (16). The heat spreader (11) is coated with an adhesive material (17) which fills the plurality of heat spreader clearance holes (16). A substrate layer (18) is formed on the adhesive material (17). The substrate layer (18) has conductive traces (20, 24) and conductive pads (21) disposed thereon. A cavity (23) may be present in the package (10, 37, 39) which exposes a portion of the heat spreader (11) and is adapted to receive the semiconductor die (25). The cavity (23) is covered by a cavity sealing means (30, 38).


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Updated 10 April, 2019 - 18:59 ancient-origins
'Cthulhu' Fossil Reconstruction Reveals Monstrous Relative of Modern Sea Cucumbers
An exceptionally-preserved fossil from Herefordshire in the UK has given new insights into the early evolution of sea cucumbers, the group that includes the sea pig and its relatives, according to a new article published today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B .
Palaeontologists from the UK and USA created an accurate 3D computer reconstruction of the 430 million-year-old fossil which allowed them to identify it as a species new to science. They named the animal Sollasina cthulhu due to its resemblance to monsters from the fictional Cthulhu universe created by author H.P. Lovecraft .
The Cthulhu Fossil Discovery
Although the fossil is just 3 centimeters (1.18 inches) wide, its many long tentacles would have made it appear quite monstrous to other small sea creatures alive at the time. It is thought that these tentacles, or 'tube feet', were used to capture food and crawl over the seafloor.
Like other fossils from Herefordshire, Sollasina cthulhu was studied using a method that involved grinding it away, layer-by-layer, with a photograph taken at each stage. This produced hundreds of slice images, which were digitally reconstructed as a 'virtual fossil'.
The Cthulhu Fossil Reconstruction
This 3D reconstruction allowed palaeontologists to visualize an internal ring, which they interpreted as part of the water vascular system -- the system of fluid-filled canals used for feeding and movement in living sea cucumbers and their relatives.
3D reconstruction of Cthulhu fossil / Sollasina cthulhu. Tube feet are shown in different colors. ( Imran Rahman , Oxford University Museum of Natural History)
Lead author, Dr. Imran Rahman, Deputy Head of Research at Oxford University Museum of Natural History said:
"Sollasina belongs to an extinct group called the ophiocistioids, and this new material provides the first information on the group's internal structures. This includes an inner ring-like form that has never been described in the group before. We interpret this as the first evidence of the soft parts of the water vascular system in ophiocistioids."
The Cthulhu Fossil Analysis
The new fossil was incorporated into a computerized analysis of the evolutionary relationships of fossil sea cucumbers and sea urchins. The results showed that Sollasina and its relatives are most closely related to sea cucumbers, rather than sea urchins , shedding new light on the evolutionary history of the group.
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Analysis of Cthulhu fossil / Sollasina cthulhu. ( Imran Rahman , Oxford University Museum of Natural History)
Co-author Dr. Jeffrey Thompson, Royal Society Newton International Fellow at University College London, said:
"We carried out a number of analyses to work out whether Sollasina was more closely related to sea cucumbers or sea urchins. To our surprise, the results suggest it was an ancient sea cucumber . This helps us understand the changes that occurred during the early evolution of the group, which ultimately gave rise to the slug-like forms we see today."
The fossil was described by an international team of researchers from Oxford University Museum of Natural History, University of Southern California, Yale University, University of Leicester, and Imperial College London. It represents one of many important finds recovered from the Herefordshire fossil site in the UK, which is famous for preserving both the soft as well as the hard parts of fossils.
The fossil slices and 3D reconstruction are housed at Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
A giant sea cucumber, descendant of the Cthulhu fossil discovered. (Bricktop / CC BY-SA 2.0 )
Top image: Cthulhu fossil reconstruction of Sollasina cthulhu. Source: Elissa Martin / Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History .
The article ' 'Cthulhu' fossil reconstruction reveals monstrous relative of modern sea cucumbers ' was originally published on Science Daily.
Source: University of Oxford. " 'Cthulhu' fossil reconstruction reveals monstrous relative of modern sea cucumbers ." Science Daily. Science Daily , 9 April 2019.
Rahman, I., Thompson, J., Briggs, D., Siveter, D., Siveter, D., and Sutton, M. 2019. A new ophiocistioid with soft-tissue preservation from the Silurian Herefordshire Lagerstätte, and the evolution of the holothurian body plan. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. [Online] Available at: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2018.2792
Sollasina Cthulhu
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Scientists in China May Have Found 125-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur DNA
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Spinal Missing Link Is Discovered Unifying Apes, Neanderthals and Us
A team of scientists has analyzed a set of two-million-year-old so-called 'missing link' fossils. Unlike anything presented before, their new study shows how the ancient human relative,...
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Arctic Circle Anomalies: Archaeological Insight Under the Permafrost
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Paleolithic Age Footprints of Children Discovered in La Garma Cave
Cantabria in northern Spain is famous for its cave systems that are adorned with deeply-ancient prehistoric drawings . In archaeological terms National Geographic calls the Museo de Altamira "the...
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2020, Year of the Deeply Ancient Beasts
Pterodactylus is an extinct genus of pterosaurs whose members are commonly known as pterodactyls. Pterodactylus antiquus was the first pterosaur to be named and identified as a flying reptile, while...
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World First: Dinosaur Found on Fossilized Eggs with Babies Inside!
Scientists have made a major discovery in Ganzhou City in China's southern Jiangxi Province. They've found the remains of a dinosaur sitting on its nest of fossilized eggs. The dinosaur, an...
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Seeking some friendly advice. There is a Cane Corso that attends one of our citie's dog parks with its owner. This dog likes to attack with my dog without provocation. My dog has exited the park bloody with deep gashes. The owner always tries to call his dog back but doesn't listen. What is the best route to take here? Dogs who attack should not be permitted at these parks.


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  right ::
    a ~> b
    -> (c :\/ a) ~> (c :\/ b)

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Among the wonderful symbols of the collapse of medication policy in developed nations is that the continuing use of steroids. Regardless of the persistent outcry of this medical community, steroids are very popular as ever. I'd go so far as stating that each of the drugs policy has attained is make them glamorous and naughty. I've lost count of the amount of times a person in the gym has advised me that the only real way to shed fat and build muscle is to go about the ferreries.org steroids.
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It's clear for the very infatuated that steroids aren't good for you. However they stay quite popular since they've been proven to produce individual's bulk up and seems to be in fantastic form. What I have learnt through the years is that individuals often favor illusions to reality since they help them escape hopeless scenarios. If you are able to seem as though you're healthy then everything is nice.
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Gruppo Campari breaks ground on packaging facility in Kentucky
Italian sprits company Gruppo Campari has started construction of a new 11,613m² packaging facility at its Wild Turkey distillery in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, US.
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Italian sprits company Gruppo Campari has started construction of a new a $44m packaging facility at its Wild Turkey distillery in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, US.
The 11,613m² facility will give Wild Turkey full control of its entire production process, from distilling to aging and bottling. Gruppo Campari's Skyy vodka will also be bottled at the new plant.
The new plant is scheduled to open in 2013 and will initially handle up to four million nine-litre cases of product annually.
In 2011, increased demand for the company to invest $50m on a Wild Turkey distillery expansion doubled the facility's annual capacity.
Over the past three years, Gruppo Campari has also announced warehouse expansions totalling $7m.
Gruppo Campari CEO Bob Kunze-Concewitz said the company has invested about $100m in the distilling, warehousing and packaging operations in Lawrenceburg, since the Wild Turkey brand was purchased in 2009.
The project received preliminary approval from the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority for tax incentives of up to $2m through the Kentucky Business Investment (Kbi) programme and up to $350,000 in Kentucky sales tax refunds through the Kentucky Enterprise Initiative Act.
Wild Turkey currently sells about one million nine-litre cases of bourbon worldwide every year.
Image: The new packaging facility will give Wild Turkey full control of its entire production. Photo: Davide Campari-Milano
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NEW YORK, NY – September 13, 2016 – Cleareon Fiber Networks, a New York City-based provider of dark fiber networks and services, announces it has created a new Advisory Board, led by industry veterans who will provide strategic recommendations and guidance for the company. The first two appointed members of the Cleareon Advisory Board are David A. Walsh, President, CEO and Chairman of GENBANDTM, and Tesh Durvasula, Chief Commercial Officer of CyrusOne. In addition to its members offering strategic and insightful advice, the Advisory Board was created to foster new business opportunities for Cleareon via strategic introductions to potential partners, customers and vendors.
David Walsh is President, CEO and Chairman of GENBAND, a leading developer of multimedia networking and software communications solutions. Previously, Mr. Walsh was a Managing Director of One Equity Partners (OEP), specializing in technology, telecom and entertainment. During his 30-year career in telecom and technology, Mr. Walsh has run five global companies as Executive Chairman, CEO or President, three of them public, and held senior positions in three others. He has been the Chairman of the Board of five companies and served on an additional five boards. As a principal, he managed all aspects associated with the purchase, sale or merger of more than 25 companies with a total transaction value in excess of $5B. Mr. Walsh received his B.B.A. from Valdosta State College and an M.P.S. in telecommunications from New York University.
Tesh Durvasula is Chief Commercial Officer of CyrusOne. Mr. Durvasula is responsible for Sales, Marketing, Strategy and M&A, and has extensive operating experience in the areas of data centers, hosting, cloud, fiber optics, and telecommunications. Prior to joining CyrusOne, Tesh was Chief Marketing and Business Officer at QTS, where he successfully helped to create a specialized sales team and organized its product, services and strategy around complex enterprises, colocation, hosting and cloud services. Prior to working for QTS, Mr. Durvasula was Chief Marketing and Business Officer at Telx, a leading national provider of colocation and interconnection services. Tesh joined Telx by way of acquisition, when Telx and Digital Realty Trust acquired the interconnection businesses and data center business, respectively, of NYC-Connect, a New York City based data center and interconnection provider. Prior to that, Mr. Durvasula held various management positions at Abovenet (recently sold to Zayo) and Sprint. Mr. Durvasula has a BA from Syracuse University, where he studied Political Science and Economics.
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Count the Ways Distribution Centres Add Value
By Freddie Pierce
Written by: Thomas L. Tanel, President and CEO, Cattan Services Group Ltd Rapid changes confronted by the global economy in the last years have had a...
Written by: Thomas L. Tanel, President and CEO, Cattan Services Group Ltd
Rapid changes confronted by the global economy in the last years have had a notable impact on the procedures adopted for global distribution; perhaps more rapidly now than at any time since the close of the last century. With those changes comes a shift in the way we handle their challenges and recognise their value to operations.
Companies are searching for efficient distribution methods that enable broad product assortment, a lower level of inventories, shorter customer order fulfilment and lower transportation costs in order to achieve a more efficient procurement process plus an improved level of customer service.
The introduction of corporate portals, online trading exchanges and internet-driven commerce brings opportunity and challenge. It is not just a matter of "click, pick, pack, and ship." The Distribution Centre (DC) must be more nimble and flexible than in the past as inventory restocking arrives earlier and remains longer.
As a result, DCs are balancing inventory costs against tight domestic transportation capacity, rising freight rates and volatile energy prices. An adverse financial impact has occurred due to huge inventory versus transportation tradeoffs in time and cost that are taking place in many companies as supply chain strategies are being challenged.
The concept of distribution has evolved past the traditional DC toward an emphasis on generating a configurable stock keeping unit (SKU), product customisation and e-commerce, plus the creation of a corresponding need for operations with higher throughput demands and shorter order cycle response times.
A pull don't push ordering and planning philosophy mean DCS have shifted emphasis from an inventory-based logistics to a replenishment-based logistics orientation. From an e-distribution standpoint, the DC must now be adaptable enough to handle a confluence of multiple SKUs in the same carton or package. This trend has resulted in a greater amount of less-than-case picking and "pick, pack, and slap" operations.
At the same time, from an e-fulfilment order management standpoint, the DC must now be able to handle online orders that involve a wider range of line items or SKUs within a given customer order. As these new e-fulfilment operations face much higher throughput demands than the traditional DC scenarios, there is increased use of sortation systems as well as the need for highly mechanized or automated material handling and storage equipment options.
Distribution operations have become more complex, and as order cycle times have become shorter, what was previously four types of operations have evolved into twelve. Each one has the potential to add new value to your operation. Finding the right balance of storage space and product movement may require thinking through the various types of operational concepts.
1. Service Parts DC—the use of a distribution centres to hold spares or repair parts for the support of capital equipment with a large inventory investment for a wide array of external customer needs.
2. Product Transformation—the use of a warehouse as a central gathering point for product transformation to a shelf-ready state in a manufacturing/retail environment, or altering inventory to meet customer specifications.
3. Order Assembly—the use of a distribution centre to fulfil unpredictable order patterns, to accommodate a broad SKU mix and ship same-day orders, as well as to use cross docks whenever possible.
4. Product Mixing—the use of a distribution centres to combine items in the entire product line for a single manufacturer from product-oriented manufacturing facilities in different geographic locations.
5. Cross docking—requires a truck to pull up to a warehouse dock and transfer stock directly from the back of one truck into the back of another for deployment to different distribution centres or retail stores.
6. Transloading—a form of cross-docking that involves switching transportation modes, usually with unloading and reconfiguration in between.
7. Merge-in-Transit—the ability to pick up separate loads from two or more different warehouses, transports the loads to a location near their final destination, and then perform a "merge" operation by combining components into one order while the goods are in transit.
8. Pre-positioned stock—thepositioning of stock to meet a perceived or anticipated need in a 'bonded' warehouse for ensuring a timely response to customer order fulfilment needs.
9. Postponement—the use of a warehouse as a final step deferment or postponement until a customer places an order for a quantity.
10. Flow-through—the use of the warehouse, in order to support a manufacturing or distribution operation, as an inventory staging process which relies exclusively on forward picking locations and fills them with only enough inventory for the immediate future.
According to Yellow Freight Corporation, a major US trucking firm, there are four main activities generally included under the broad heading of flow-through. They are:
Supplier consolidation—consolidates purchase orders from multiple suppliers going to a single distribution centre.
Pool distribution—a truckload of product from a distribution centre is sorted into individual orders for delivery.
Import deconsolidation—similar to consolidation, with import deconsolidation the product flow originates at the port and goes to a distribution centre.
Flow through order fulfilment—product arrives from vendors in bulk at a flow through centre where it is then allocated to orders.
11. Order Consolidation—the use of the distribution centre to gather product which is to be shipped to a final destination.
12. Hub and Spoke Distribution—the reverse of Order Consolidation.
Adaptation to change
There are two important dimensions of distribution operations: space and movement. Space involves storage requirements and protection for physical handling activities. Movement includes the transfer of material and products within the DC itself and between the DC and the transportation system. We cannot forget that the two dimensions are interrelated; nor can we overlook the trends that make that relationship more and more complex.
In a world of increasing uncertainty, scenarios provide focus on things you can't avoid. Don't wait for things to happen; plan for contingencies through scenario planning options.
Look at how distribution assets, resources, and processes can help your business through constant consideration about how you will anticipate and respond to turbulent conditions. DC operators should think about alternative scenarios and how they would respond to them before they occur. Scenario planning tests whether a current strategy makes sense, as well as points out the limitations for doing business in turbulent times.
Sometimes it's easy to forget that opportunities are usually created by difficult, turbulent conditions. DC operators get paid to manage the exceptions, not just the routine.
According to Philip Kotler, one of the world's experts on the strategic practice of marketing, "you need to be able to withstand stresses, pressures, or changes in procedure or circumstance and to cope well with variations in operating environments with minimal damage or alteration." DC operating management are used to quickly reacting and rebounding in the face of risk and uncertainty- however today sensitivity to the "New Normal" must have a more heightened sense of awareness than ever before.
If such resiliency is to be exercised and exploited, companies must have adequate control and visibility of both its supply and demand chain. To do that, sound distribution logistics decisions must form the foundation for the development of strategic flexibility and responsiveness at the DC level.
For the next several years, DCs are likely to face the continuing challenge of doing more with less. This challenge can, and should be, embraced as an opportunity to make dramatic improvements. Based on DCs' costs breakdown, the order picking area is the most opportune place to attack because of travel time and distance. Experience indicates that enormous opportunities for improving the productivity of our distribution logistics lay ahead if we are smart, innovative, and courageous in rethinking the status quo. Labour for all activities below represents 60-70 percent of the costs inside the four walls of the DC.
Order picking strategies must consider at least six different variables:
Unit of measure (pallet, cases, eaches, etc.)
Storage mode to be used (floor stacking, selective rack, pallet flow, carton flow, etc.)
Potential use of automation (pick-to-belt, carousels, ASRS, etc.)
Order release method (discrete order release, waves, etc.)
Picking method (discrete order pick, cluster picking, batch picking, etc.); this is usually directly connected to the order release method
Order picking communication and validation approach/technology (RF, pick by label, voice, RFID, etc.)
Ask yourself, "How prepared am I to keep my distribution centre facilities more nimble and flexible than they've been in the past?"
The answer lies in recognizing the true value of your distribution centre operations—and incorporating into your planning those elements that will keep you flexible and responsive to an inevitably changing environment. Assessing and adapting your DC early and often can be one of your best assurances that you'll survive with the fittest.
Thomas Tanel is a founder and CEO of CATTAN Services Group, Inc. Tom has an international reputation as a Subject Matter Expert and Seminar Leader in Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
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COLONIE – Robert J. Fontaine, Sr., 93, of Colonie, passed away peacefully on Friday, January 20, 2023 at his residence, surrounded by the love of his family.
He was born in Cohoes and was the son of the late Leo P. and Rhea Fontaine. Bob was predeceased by his loving wife of 70 years, Marie F. Rapp Fontaine and his grandson, Anthony J. Paradise.
He was a 1948 graduate of Catholic Central High School. Bob served in the US Navy during the Korean War. He was a bakery manager at Suny Albany for many years, retiring in 1991. Bob was a member of the Rotterdam Elks #2057, Thunder Rd. and Hart Seniors Club. He enjoyed nothing more than being with his cherished family.
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Relatives and friends are invited to visit with Bob's family on Friday from 4 to 7pm at Cannon Funeral Home, 2020 Central Ave. Colonie. The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Saturday morning at 9:00 am at St. Clare's Church, Colonie. Interment will follow at Memory Gardens.
Memorial contributions may be made to Community Hospice of Albany, 310 S. Manning Blvd. Albany, NY 12205 or Wounded Warrior Project, PO Box 758516, Topeka, KS 66675-8516. To leave a message of condolence for the family, visit www.CannonFuneral.com
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Phaedra Parks On Her 'Housewives' Return And Acting Role In 'Covenant': 'I'm Always Pushing Myself To The Limit'
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The self-proclaimed southern belle is back. Phaedra Parks made her debut on Bravo's The Real Housewives of Atlanta in the show's third season. For seven years, America fell in love with Parks' one-liners, extravagant parties, southern mannerisms, and her adorable sons Ayden and Dylan, aka The Prince and Mr. President.
Parks exited the series following the explosive Season 9 reunion special. Since then, she's appeared on WE Tv's Marriage Boot Camp. But her focus in recent years has been raising her boys, delving into social justice work, and now acting. But after it was announced that she'd be making her long-awaited return to the franchise for the second installment of the Housewives' equivalent of All-Stars -- The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip -- it's all anyone can talk about.
Phaedra Parks couldn't pass up the 'Housewives' mashup
Parks is equally excited to return to Bravo, but in a different way this time around. "This is something totally different from being on a regular installation of the show," Parks tells Shadow and Act in a recent interview. "So, when Andy called me about, 'Hey, we would love to see if you'd be interested in doing this,' and he told me the Housewives that would be involved in it, it was a dream cast. It's definitely the OG's and people that I have watched and really have loved over the years."
Parks will join Dorinda Medley and Eva Marcille, as well as a few other notable faces from other franchises. The current season airing on Peacock has Housewives from New York, New Jersey, Beverly Hill, and Parks' former franchise Atlanta spending eight days in Turks and Caicos. For Parks' cast, they'll take a trip to one of Medley's estates. She says things are sure to be spicy.
Though Parks' fans yearn to see her return to RHOA, it's not something that's on her radar. She does however appreciate the love. "I think with any character on TV, people resonate with them because they see a little bit of themselves in that person," she says when asked why fans continue to want to see more of her. "For me, as a woman, a woman of color, I'm a hard worker, I've stepped out and have done things that most people would probably not do and I'm always pushing myself to the limit. But also, I'm a mom and people say I'm funny."
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Pushing herself to the limit is exactly what Parks is doing in the new phase of her career. The attorney-turned-mortician is now embarking on a career in acting. She landed her first role in the ALLBLK anthology series, Covenant.
The four-part anthology series chronicles tales of betrayal, love, revenge, and redemption. Parks plays Bernice Whitfield, the beloved wife of Conroy Whitfield— CEO and founder of Whitfield Corp, a multi-million-dollar real estate firm. Bernice is committed to her two sons, Aiden and Amir Whitfield, continuing the family legacy and taking over the company after her husband.
Parks says the role relates a lot to her own life. "Bernice is definitely a very strong woman, she understands love and loss, but she also is a great mom and she loves her kids and she wants to make sure that she secures that legacy," Parks says. "So she is determined to make sure that what she needs to happen, will happen. That resonated with me. Of course, she's truly a housewife and that's never been me but as a woman, I can understand how you can get into a relationship and turn a blind eye to certain things because you want to make sure that you're doing the right thing for your children."
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Story of the week: The Zen calm of a Japanese temple stay
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I needed to take some time out.
The fast pace of life in Japan had left my mind as cluttered as a student bedsit, a confusion of email addresses, credit card bills and mental to-do lists.
It was a Japanese friend of mine who said they had the perfect answer: head for a traditional Japanese shukubo (temple lodging) where, not only could I relax, but do so while learning the art of zazen (sitting) meditation.
The idea of a spiritual retreat in a remote mountain setting sounded idea. I would, I thought I as I packed, come back rested, refreshed and with a new-found sense of who I am and why I am here.
Nirvana was just a weekend break away.
A few days later found me sweating on the side of mountain outside Kyoto.
From out of the woodland, a shaven-headed monk approached. "You must be looking for Hosen-ji," he gestured towards a clearing, his long blue robes parting to reveal a bony finger.
His voice sounded calm. Calmer than someone who had just spent the afternoon on Prozac in a flotation tank. "Please," he breathed, oozing serenity from every pore of his meticulously shaven head, "come this way."
Hosen-ji is one of hundreds of shukubo dotted around Japan.
It operates an open-door policy to short term residents and a gaijin-friendly attitude to potential converts and the downright curious alike.
They aim to promote Zen and introduce first-timers to the ways of temple life. Some go on to enrol in monasteries. Most, however, simply go back to the rat race feeling better for some time out and having stocked up on food for thought about a higher spiritual purpose to life.
In the past, wannabe monks had to prostrate themselves at the front gate for three days while the resident monks shunned him.
They would then be condemned to trial by solitary meditation for a further two days while temple denizens kept watch to check on their diligence.
Only then would they be invited to join a strict monastic life of five hours sleep per night, a rudimentary vegetarian diet, endless meditation and a shot at the big money prize: enlightenment.
All that is required of today's Zen master wannabes is a nominal fee to cover board and lodgings and zealous adherence to the temple rules.
It sounds easy but, if you're a bit of a party animal, then go elsewhere.
The temple grounds are strictly a vice-free zone, your attendance is compulsory for 150 minute of zazen meditation per day and, if you're not flat out on your futon dreaming of Buddha by lights out at 10pm each night, then the head monk will be asking questions.
The Hosen-ji temple specialises in welcoming the Zen newcomer and, as such, acts a toe in the waters of Buddhism compared to the performing zazen under icy waterfalls as practised by some of the more hard line shukubo.
It also welcomes foreigners, Asians and Japanese nationals in equal measure. The schedule allocates everyone to work around the grounds in the morning on equal terms and guests are encouraged to chat openly rather than obey a strict silence.
Each night at 8pm, there is a 90-minute zazen session. As the new kind on the block, Iku-san, the only English-speaking monk, gave me the crash course as preparation.
Zazen, he explained, dates from the 12th century and came to Japan from China. To achieve enlightenment, one must free the mind, stripping all away all thoughts and distractions so you are numb to outside stimuli.
To me, it sounded a bit like a Celine Dion concert.
"Some people come here to develop their character, others to deal with problems in their personal lives."
"We had one woman whose fiancee had cancelled the wedding at the last minute, leaving her emotionally distraught. We even have parents dropping off their problem children here like we're a summer camp," he explained as we took our positions in the meditation chamber.
Iku-san told me to count my breaths as a means to clear my mind.
The students filed in silently while a monk beat a staccato rhythm on a block of wood and, after a short reading from Buddhist scripture, the peel of small hand bell signalled the start of zazen time.
I closed my eyes and tried to tune into the moment. Unfortunately, I felt like I'd already turned on, tuned in and dropped off before most of the faithful had even finished arranging their feet in contortionist-like positions.
Iku-san had told me that after 25 minutes there would be a five-minute break to stretch aching limbs.
After five minutes, my legs felt numb and painful. After ten, they were ready for amputation, the only distraction coming when, at the 20-minute mark, I had an overwhelming urge to sneeze.
The second session commenced with another ring of the bell and was interrupted after 50 minutes when the Zen master came around with a large wooden stick (the keisaku) to administer voluntary thwacks to anyone finding themselves nodding off during their pursuit for inner peace.
The keisaku ritual is an integral part of zazen. I bowed before the Zen master and presented my shoulder to indicate my state of readiness before accepting two sharp taps.
I bowed again as a gesture of gratitude and promptly returned to my meditative state, my mind freshly focused on the intense stinging in my shoulder blades.
After zazen and with a hour to go to bedtime, I grabbed a few words with my fellow guests.
Kento, a 28-year-old furniture maker from suburban Tokyo, had come out of curiosity and was finding the meditation tough going. "It's very painful on your legs," he grimaced, rubbing his shins.
"It's meant to get easier with practice but, right now, I'm in agony."
Mai, a 25-year-old office worker from Yokohama had already spent three weeks at Hosen-ji and was considering enrolling in a monastery.
"I came because I wanted to see the real me," she said as we unpacked the futons for bed. "I feel very peaceful when I meditate but find it hard to empty my mind."
The next morning's routine made the previous night seem like a stroll in the park and seriously tested my will.
The routine is fixed: a 5.30am alarm call is followed by sutra chanting and tai chi to warm up for another 60 minutes of zazen. Then there's sweeping the grounds to be done before breakfast at 8am.
But, far from light relief, I found the meal to be the hardest part of the whole zazen experience.
The shojin-ryori (temple food) consisted of watery rice served and eaten to an exacting set of rituals in agonising silence with monks and guests sat in pairs along a huge low table.
Of course, being the new boy, I had to sit bang opposite the head monk who spend the entire meal glowering disapprovingly as I slowly turned a delicate hue of puce trying to find a suitable furtive moment to release some vegetarian Buddhist diet-fuelled gas.
And, when I came to stand up, my legs had gone completely gone so I stumbled and fell while trying to clear the plates. The monks were clearly not amused.
The intense ritual of breakfast had started to make this whole trip feel like a weekend at Buddhist boot camp.
Iku-san, clearly sensing my frustration (how very Zen of him), took me aside and said calmly:
"Today you did everything wrong but that's the best day to do it."
I sat there in the kitchen having a Zen moment and pondering his words. Was this one of those famous riddles that Zen practitioners like to deliberate to help ease themselves under the soapy waters of zazen?
By the second day I started to grow more accustomed to the rituals.
I don't think I ever really succeeded in clearing my mind of the detritus of daily life but I did stop fighting my cynical urges and just went with the flow of temple life and all its Zen-inspired quirks.
On my last morning, Klaus, a Zen student from Germany who was racking up the sixth month of his current stay, gave me a Zen pep talk.
"There's a Japanese saying," he informed me sagely after breakfast.
'You have to be reborn 8,000 times to achieve enlightenment.'
"People think of meditation as something mystic but, in reality, it's highly pragmatic. It's not a religion. It's simply about seeing your true self. If you practice at home for just 15 minutes a day, you too could learn," he smiled.
Walking back to the station in the mid-morning sunshine, my mind was cluttered.
I had emails to send, credit card bills to pay and a big mental to-do sticky that said, "Buy extra-large cafe latte and chocolate croissant upon arrival at Kyoto station."
To be honest, I don't think I'm cut out for a life as a Zen master. But, as I watched the Japanese salarymen dashing for the subway from a station cafe, I did feel a sense of wellbeing.
Maybe it was the caffeine. Maybe the huge steak I was planning for dinner. Or maybe I'd seen the real me and decided, with minor plastic surgery and a decent personal trainer, I didn't look too bad after all.
It was my own private nirvana. And it felt pretty good.
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This article was first published in The Guardian in March 2002.
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Story of the week: Going for a geisha makeover in Kyoto, Japan
The book Memoirs of a Geisha has a lot to answer for.
Arthur Golden's best-selling story of a young girl sold to a Kyoto teahouse who goes on to become the country's leading geisha, has turned the Gion, the traditional geisha quarter of Kyoto, into something of a human zoo.
Today, there are a mere handful of teahouses left in Gion and the number of maiko (trainee geisha) has fallen from thousands to around 150.
Nevertheless, clutching-cameras coach parties now pack into the tiny side streets, brushing past the traditional red lanterns and traipsing along the hidden alleyways to indulge in their new favourite sport: geisha spotting.
Most of the terminally shy maiko find this snapshot Disneyland utterly abhorrent.
Indeed, when they do reluctantly appear at Gion Corner to provide displays of traditional dance and music for tourists, their facial expressions betray a sense of gritted-teeth boredom endured solely to generate income for their sponsoring teahouse.
Makeover service
Nevertheless, the world of geisha continues to fascinate both Japanese and English tourists alike.
Keen to piggyback on the explosion of interest in geisha culture, shops around Gion have even taken to offering geisha makeover services, whereby young Japanese women can live their dream of being a geisha – albeit just for one day.
Yume Miru Yume ('To Dream A Dream') is one of 30 such maiko makeover shops.
It offers a full service: make-up, hair styling, a kimono fitting and two portrait photographs as part of a four-hour process from Y10,000/£50.
Once dressed, the faux geisha claims her 15 minutes of fame by running the gauntlet of the camera-clutching tourists on a ten-minute Gion walkabout.
Ironically, Yume Miru Yume also provides make-up services for real maiko.
"Geisha services form the basis of our livelihood. This offers us a new way to expand business when times are hard," explains shop manager, Emi Sano, who handles about 20 requests per day for a geisha makeover.
"Some clients worry it may harm the reputation of real geisha if these women are seen using their mobile phone or smoking in public as such behaviour would be unacceptable for a real maiko."
Intense training
Traditionally, to become a geisha or "arts person" has necessitated years of intense training.
Girls would start dance and music lessons when they were six years, six months and six days old.
Now contemporary maiko embark on five years of study aged 15, including dance, calligraphy, flower arrangement, tea ceremony and playing the shamisen (a traditional three-stringed Japanese instrument like a banjo).
All the time, they are working to repay their sponsoring teahouse and will remain in debt to their mama-san for many years into their professional geisha career.
The exact amount of tuition fees varies between teahouses but, as the teahouse provides her with her living expenses as well training and kimonos (and a single kimono will probably cost about 1m Yen/£5,000) the sum is clearly considerable.
Aged about 20, they have their eri-kae, a coming of age ceremony whereby, having sat their geisha exams, they graduate from maiko to geisha status.
Only then will their hair will be ceremoniously cut and they can finally wear the kimono and geta (clogs) of a fully qualified geisha.
But while the geisha old guard tries desperately to preserve its ancient traditions, the harsh economic reality of Japan's ten lost years of economic stagnation has given rise to a whole new breed of young upstart geisha with its own cut-price take on the world of flower and willow.
Budget geisha
Ryoco Okamura is a 22-year-old humanities student at a Kyoto university. By day she likes shopping and hanging out in Starbucks with her friends.
By night, however, she's a budget geisha.
Born of the post-bubble need for geisha services at budget prices, the rationale behind Hisako's role is highly pragmatic: with expense accounts being slashed, businesses can no longer afford traditional geisha entertainment.
Genuine geisha charge Y10,000 (£54) for one hour of companionship; Ryoco works in her spare time around college and earns around Y1,000 (£5) per hour.
"Of course I'm a fake geisha," says Ryoco.
"I only had three months training in dance, make-up, comportment and how to speak with an appropriate Gion accent before I started to perform at parties."
"I know I don't belong to the institutionalised geisha system in Kyoto," she adds casually. "This is just my part-time job."
But there is no shame in being a dial-a geisha.
As Ryoco sees it, only by changing with the times can the culture of geisha survive: fewer girls than ever are joining the profession and only about 20 per cent of geisha now have a danna, an older patron who sets them up as their mistress with a home and an allowance.
Nevertheless, for today's generation of young Japanese women with their platform heels, dyed hair and Hello Kitty fixation, becoming a geisha remains one of the few ways in patriarchal Japan for a woman to make decent money.
The explosion of interest in geisha comes at a time when Japanese Prime Minister has announced ambitious plans to repackage Japan as a tourist destination.
In an about-face for a nation that previously made little attempt to attract international visitors, premier Junichiro Koizumi recently declared an initiative to double the number of tourists to 10m people per year by 2010.
While times are hard, even the geisha will have their role to play in this attempt to court the much-needed injection of hard currency that mass tourism will bring.
So, as yet another coach party arrives at Gion, cameras poised to catch the geisha heading for work at dusk, Japan's oldest profession may well find themselves signing a contract with a devil just to survive.
This article was first published in the Weekend FT in March 2003.
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Memoires of a Geisha
* I've been trying to write some flash fiction as a potential entry for the Harry Bowling prize. This is an edited version following feedback from my monthly writing group, Seriously Sentences at Gladstone's Library. Is this good enough to enter?
Her hair was just-showered clean. Her tongue, wet and darting, was eager as an eel. But her perfume, cheap and cloying, betrayed her. I breathed it in impassively as I arrived home and followed its scent trail up the stairs.
She was kissing me now, sucking the life out of me. The ceiling fan whirred, the streetlights flickered and the steam from the rice cooker seeped through the shoji screens like a silent sarin attack. The house slept innocently.
I focused on the detritus of the room to avoid registering the moment before I pulled back. She rose, closed the screens and moved silently across the landing, the padding of tiny feet on the tatami fading against the soundtrack of sirens and stumbling salarymen making for the last train to the suburbs on the street outside.
Afterwards, lying sweat drenched and dislocated on the futon, I traced the pathway to this moment.
On the first day she had walked me around the district, passing rows of grey-facade housing blocks and turning down endless identikit sidetsreets. It took me days to learn how to pick my way through the labyrinth.
But eventually I did. Walk past the convenience store with the coffee machine, loop around the newspaper kiosk, where a shrivelled old man slipped soft-porn manga inside copies of the Japan Times, and cross behind the red lanterns of the local izakaya, where I'd sometimes down beer with hot-sake chasers at night, alone and bewildered.
Once we took a taxi home together at dusk. The driver, all pristine-white gloves and shiny-peaked cap, feigned professional indifference to a middle-aged woman and her young male gaijin companion.
"There's a storm coming," he said. We nodded our agreement and stared out as the neon swam upstream through the fledgling puddles forming on the road.
The next week we went to the supermarket, cruising aisles of dried fish and exotic fruit. She led with the list while I followed with the trolley – love's young dream.
We went for kaiten sushi on the way home and sat, impassively, as the sushi train rolled before us like the opening credits of a mediocre movie. The thin slices of fish glistened and the sting of wasabi flared our nostrils.
She took me for ice cream afterwards and produced an aged Polaroid, snapping me in an anodyne shopping mall with a scoop of chocolate fudge smeared around my mouth like a child's forced smile. It was a Sunday quiet. Empty.
That night, after her aged parents had retired for the night, we sat and watched a video. A young boy was playing on his bicycle and smiling for the camera. She was there in a summer dress, her husband, grey suited and hair greased, looked on kindly. They looked happy.
After the accident, she explained, they took in the first homestay, a young American lad brushing up on his kanji at a local university. They told the guests to come and go as they please, she said, but never to enter to the room where her father slept.
He kept a nightly vigil over the small shrine to her son, Hiroyuki, placing fresh offerings and reciting Shinto prayers.
One night I brought home a friend from college. With her retro clothes from Amerika-Mura vintage shops and her bottle-blond hair, she was mot just kawaii but a proper maguro – a real fresh tuna in the parlance of the fleshpots of Shinsaibashi.
After the ritual bowing and polite conversation before her departure, the house felt cooler. I didn't need the fan that night. Maybe the summer humidity was giving way to autumn at last.
A week later I packed my backpack and moved on, settling for a shoebox behind Shin Osaka, where trains rumbled through the night and commuters, six abreast on the zebra crossing, inspected my microwave breakfast as if watching a daytime soap on the giant TV screen above the intersection sponsored by a electronics manufacturer.
I speculated what happened the night I left. Hiroko-san would slide away the private screen in the darkest recess of her room, pinning a Polaroid snap to a board. This would be the latest image of a young man, ice cream-smeared and curious. The names would scrawled in felt pen below each of the gurning mugshots. Forced smiles.
She would then prepare an offering for the shrine to Hiroyuki-chan and lie down on her futon.
We all knew it. There would be more fresh tuna by market day.
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Business and Human Rights Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression Sexual Orientation Jamaica
An opportunity lost for the protection of freedom of expression and LGBTI rights in Jamaica
by Anika Gray | Feb 25, 2021
About Anika Gray
Anika Gray is a lawyer and current LL.M. Candidate at Harvard Law School where she focuses on criminal justice reform. She is Jamaican and holds a Master's degree in Public Policy from the University of Oxford.
Anika Gray, "An opportunity lost for the protection of Freedom of Expression and LGBTI Rights in Jamaica", (OxHRH Blog, February 2021), <https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/an-opportunity-lost-for-the-protection-of-freedom-of-expression-and-lgbti-rights-in-jamaica/>, [Date of access].
On 30 October 2020, the Jamaican Court of Appeal handed down its long awaited judgment in the case of Tomlinson v TVJ and CVM. Tomlinson, a gay Jamaican man, argued that his right to freedom of expression was infringed when Jamaica's two major and privately-owned television stations refused to air his paid advertisement calling for citizens to respect the human rights of LGBTI people. Sexual orientation is not a protected category in Jamaica's Charter of Rights and therefore Tomlinson had little scope for bringing a discrimination claim. In a 104-page judgment issued almost seven years after the first instance decision, the Court of Appeal agreed with the lower court, and found that the television stations' refusal to air the advertisement did not breach Tomlinson's rights.
One of the issues on appeal was whether the Charter allowed for horizontal application in Tomlinson's case. The Jamaican Charter of Rights is one of the few in the world (along with that of South Africa) which expressly allows for horizontal application. Under section 13(5) of the Charter, an aggrieved citizen may bring a constitutional claim against a private entity, but only if the nature of the right and the duty it imposes make it desirable for that private company to be held liable.
Section 13(5) recognizes that it is not only the state that is capable of abuse of power but also private entities exercising control and influence over the way ordinary people live their lives. In modern societies private entities wield socio-economic power that is equal to, and sometimes greater than, that exercised by the state. Private companies, and especially those who control platforms that millions of people rely on to exercise their free speech, should therefore have comparable state obligations to not hinder an individual's free speech on unjustifiable grounds. Free speech's importance to democracy makes the imposition of comparable obligations an imperative.
While the Court of Appeal recognized that the Charter binds private entities, it unfortunately failed to apply section 13(5)'s rationale to its assessment of Mr. Tomlinson's contentions. The court reasoned that both parties had rights that were protected by the Charter and to find for Mr. Tomlinson would mean infringing the television stations' rights to editorial freedom. In light of section 13(5)'s underlying rationale, this reasoning does not withstand scrutiny.
While courts must balance the competing rights of the parties, Tomlinson's case was not concerned with balancing the competing interests of two equally situated parties, but that of a David and two Goliaths. Tomlinson not only had less socio-economic power than the television stations, but he is also a member of the marginalized, and in many cases, criminalized, LGBTI community. The balance must therefore swing in favour of David.
The Court of Appeal found that the right to freedom of expression does not include the right to use another's platform to broadcast your views. However, the court failed to give due regard to a societal context in which Jamaicans can only access the free-to-air television platform by going through the two television stations in question. The stations are therefore able to dictate both who gets access to, and what is broadcast on local television. Further, the more a private entity opens its property to the public for its own advantage, the more its proprietary interests become circumscribed by the constitutional rights of others. It is only fair to expect these companies to exercise their proprietary rights in a manner that is not arbitrary, unreasonable, or discriminatory.
The television stations invoked the criminalized status of consensual same-sex sexual activity, and the threats of homophobic violence, to "justify" their refusal to air Tomlinson's ad. However, airing an ad promoting respectful treatment for LGBTI people ought not be controversial (regardless of the antiquated and discriminatory criminal laws which remain on the books). Pandering to the views of homophobic viewers at the expense of promoting respect for a stigmatized group is clearly unjustified discrimination.
Powerful private companies controlling platforms, which people use to exercise their free speech or other rights, must be subjected to greater regulation to prevent what happened to Tomlinson. The Jamaican courts missed the opportunity to use 13(5) to give Tomlinson an available remedy.
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In a major setback to Chandrababu Naidu's TDP, 4 Rajya Sabha MP's joins BJP
In a major setback to Chandrababu Naidu's TDP, 4 Rajya Sabha MP's joins BJP
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New Delhi, (20/6/2019): After the recent defeat in the elections, Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam Party (TDP) has taken another blow. Today, four of TDP's six Rajya Sabha MPs joined the BJP.
While doing a press conference BJP's Executive President, JP Nadda, formally included three TDP Rajya Sabha MPs in the party. One of the four joining the BJP cannot attend the press conference due to the spell of foot. Rajya Sabha MPs joining BJP are TG Venkatesh, CM Ramesh, YS Chaudhary and GM Rao.
During the press conference, BJP's executive president JP Nadda said that "for a long time these MPs were thinking that the way the country is going forward under the leadership of PM Modi, and for the development of Andhra Pradesh, they all joined the BJP".
He further said, "On Thursday, these MPs wrote a letter to BJP President Amit Shah and said they want to merge with BJP. After this, we came to the Vice President by taking TDP MPs and BJP letters. Now all of these are members of BJP. With the arrival of these four Rajya Sabha MPs, the base of BJP will increase in Andhra Pradesh.
Significantly, the MPs had met Vice President and Rajya Sabha speaker Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday and submitted their resignation.
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One major element of Year 10 is the 3 week Year 10 Trip. On this trip the students journey 10,000km around Australia taking in Adelaide, Canberra and Sydney as well as visiting other significant landmarks and gaining important knowledge about the country in which they live.
This is a multifaceted trip that takes in and makes direct links to multiple subject areas including History, Civics, Geography, Science, PE, English and others. Work is done during the Trip and in reflection after students return.
The Trip is also where significant social learning occurs as students cohabitate with one another for 3 weeks and learn to live, work and play within the context of a large team. This leads to great friendships being developed and emotional strength and resilience increasing.
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