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Therapeutic boarding schools, like any behavioral health restoration programs, can be quite effective in changing the lives of troubled teens. However, when it comes to providing the most dynamic therapeutic environment, traditional facilities like therapeutic boarding schools, or residential treatment programs, they are unfortunately at a disadvantage.
Whether or not boarding schools have all the right psychiatric and academic amenities, one truth they will never have the capacity to overcome is the love of freedom every child inherently yearns for. In other words, children, who are prone to having trouble sitting in one place, let alone living in and remaining in one locked down facility for a year and a half at a time, are far more guarded and mistrusting of authority figures whom they often believe are their captures, rather than their ticket to a clean bill of mental health. It is for this reason that parents from Fayetteville, NC should be wary of sending their child to a static location where they will almost certainly feel as though they are prisoners, as well as consider anyone in a position of authority as their enemy. Just logistically speaking, it's quite easy to suss out why teens have a guarded resiliency to fall in line with tenants of any program whose walls they are unable to escape or leave with any sort of regularity.
It is also worth noting that not all therapeutic boarding schools are created equal in either their overall effectiveness or mode of application regarding the treatment of troubled teens. Like any other business, there are some facilities that live up to the content posted on their website while others hide behind their empty promises to parents desperate enough to seek help in any way they can for their at-risk teenage boy or girl.
With that in mind, It should go without saying how highly important it is for parents to do their research on any potential treatment center before entrusting strangers with the life of their child. Just as a qualified and reputable therapeutic boarding school can change the lives of children for the better, the opposite can be said when it comes to therapeutic programs whose heart isn't in saving the lives of children, but rather, individuals who are merely interested in bringing home another paycheck at the end of their shift.
In the following section, we will help parents come to find that there is, in fact, a viable alternative to having to deal with this fundamental issue of a prisoner vs. warden mentality most teens face at a therapeutic boarding school. In fact, over the next section, we will actually inform parents from Fayetteville, NC that there is actually a treatment option that is completely free from the unproductive bonds of such power-dynamics and institutionalizing issues.
Additionally, we will explain to parents from Fayetteville, NC why wilderness therapy is much more than just a financially convenient alternative to therapeutic boarding schools. And finally, we will cover what makes our wilderness therapy program, in particular, so uniquely designed to treat the complexities of the underlying mental health-related issues of troubled teens.
With that being said, we want to take this moment to urge parents of troubled teens from Fayetteville, NC to become more familiar with what the day-to-day life is like for a WinGate student - and compare it to the quality of living and treatment they would endure while enrolled in a therapeutic boarding school.
The Anything But a Typical day-to-day life of a Troubled Teen in the Wilderness
A Typical Week for teens emersed in the WinGate wilderness experience is exciting, refreshing, and, in a word, an all-around awe-inspiring and transformative experience. First and foremost, it's important to understand that while they are living in the wilderness, the way in which our campers spend their time is very structured and consistent.
For instance, every day begins the same: with our campers delegating the first part of their day to create and practice what we refer to as, their morning routine of contemplation, meditation, or prayer - this of course depending on each student's own personal and familial belief structure). Divvying themselves up into what we call 'personal circles.' teenage campers are instructed to work on personalized therapeutic, reading, and other working assignments. We call this phase of the day, Personal Mentoring Time (PMT).
Additionally, PMT is also an opportunity for staff to check in with students on a more personal one-on-one level. It is their patient and all around non-authoritarian way in which they speak and act towards teens which allow the child to become more perceptive to actually listening and hearing their advice and guidance than they would say, a therapeutic boarding school staff member who, in all likelihood, considers it his duty to forcefully make the teens understand that under his supervision, they all must obey - See the difference? Or, most importantly, do you see the fundamental issues with how traditional therapeutic facilities are self-defeating in their approach in providing behavioral and therapeutic restoration? ( take my word for it, as the author of this page, I am also former alumni and staff member of such a facility)
To be frank, these type of facilities (generally speaking) are from - and continue to operate as if - they are from a bygone era that most people were naively unaware ever past us by, to begin with. In short, psychiatric treatment has changed a lot, even within the last ten years; the approximate length of time it has been since I graduated from a therapeutic boarding school, myself.
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Upon first setting foot on the campsite, all campers must keep track of what their goals are for that particular day. We call this daily devotion to goal setting, "Day Tracks."
Rather than enforce or display authoritarian rule over the student, our staff is highly trained in teaching teens how to essentially run the program themselves. With this kind of nurturing role of leading and depending on one another, students will be able to trust their staff while simultaneously building self-confidence, most likely unbeknownst to themselves.
In fact, when the program is running smoothly as it is designed to operate, the troubled teen campers play a major leadership role in their own therapeutic development. Whether it be choosing what they listen to, participate in, or conducting what we refer to as, 'WindSpeaks' (Group Discussions) on topics that will help themselves and their peer group become more mentally and emotionally self-aware. At the end of the day, it is the teenage campers who are in charge and thus, trusted to take full responsibility for not only themselves but also their peers, who by this point in their journey, will have almost certainly built strong bonds with one another - it's the way of the wilderness.
Through their journey, our students will get the chance to make primitive wilderness living things like spoons, fire, moccasins, leather goods, and maybe even a bow and arrow or two. Interspersed in all of this will be recovery work and recovery meetings that focus their attention on what they came to the wilderness to work on.
Mondays and Tuesdays are typical 'layover days.' On these days, the group doesn't hike. These are also the therapy days- your therapist will come out to do individual sessions and therapy groups. This is also the time in which current staff rotates out as a fresh one rotates in. Layover days are a good opportunity to make goals that will proactively prepare them for the next week's journey. This list of preparations may include anything from crafting items, finishing letters to parents, to working on therapeutic assignments that are tailored specifically to meet their specific treatment's needs.
The rest of the days of the week are typical "hiking days." On these days, the group packs up camp and hikes to a new camp. There are chores to attend to in cleaning up camp and in setting up the new site. Hikes vary in length according to the capabilities of the group members, the weather, as well as whatever the season happens to be at the time.
By simply applying basic common sense, it's easy to understand why world-class wilderness therapy programs like WinGate are effective where other, more traditional treatment facilities fail.
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WinGate Wilderness Therapy is the optimal choice for parents in Fayetteville, NC who are searching for a top-notch therapeutic transitional living program and adventure and wilderness therapy program to provide direction for their at-risk child undergoing drug use (prescription/otc), ADD/ADHD (attentional disorders), or anger issues. Since it can be difficult to work with highly resistant adolescent boys and girls and young men and women, most programs rely heavily upon punishments and other disciplinary tactics in order to manage a adolescent's or young adult�??s behavior. Here at WinGate, we recognize that the situation of one at-risk child may not apply to all of our teen students.
It�??s our absolute respect for every teen student (and family) that we work with that sets our top-notch adventure and wilderness therapy program and therapeutic transitional living program apart from the others. WinGate's therapists acknowledge and appreciate the current trials that teens and young men and women from Fayetteville, NC are faced with every day. With decades of collective experience in the independent living skills program industry, our counselors can quickly identify and help alcohol abuse issues, obstacles related to bipolar disorder, and the causes for anger issues.
Our approach to adventure therapy and outdoor education has improved the lives of numerous at-risk teen students and families. We see that troubled teens and young men and women can grow to be healthy adults with a desire to succeed! WinGate understands that in order for our at-risk teen students to experience real rehabilitation, the entire family needs to be part of the direction that our therapists provide. Our admissions specialists can be reached immediately at (800) 560-1599.
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We have all, on the day we're expecting a package, gone to Amazon's "track package" page and refreshed, only to be rewarded, every time, with "Delivery expected by 8pm."
But this week Amazon is rolling out a new feature that allows customers to track packages on a map when the package is within 10 stops of their home, according to CNET. But the feature comes with a caveat: it's only available for packages shipped through Amazon's logistics service, not USPS, FedEx, or UPS. If your package is shipped through Amazon, the carrier will be listed as AMZL_US.
This comes after news that Amazon is looking to beef up its internal logistics network comprised of local-partner shipping services, and even launch its own carrier service.
Amazon started to test the map tracking with a small group of users in November 2017, as a part of its ongoing effort to make its delivery process more transparent. The e-commerce giant has also been expanding its program where delivery drivers take a picture of your delivered package after its arrival. In this way Amazon is turning the mail carrier, once elusive and mysterious in their methodology, into the modern millennial: Tracked 24/7, and pressured to share every aspect of their mundane jobs.
Those who have their packages delivered by Amazon and have the company's app should get mobile notifications when a package is able to be tracked via map, starting this week.

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On February 10th, Equity Group Investments founder and chairman Sam Zell joined Dean Sally Blount '92 to discuss the lessons he's learned throughout his life as an entrepreneur. Zell grew up north of Chicago and told the audience that he got his entrepreneurial start as a teenager "importing adult magazines" from the Loop to his northern suburbs at a marked-up price.
Zell went on to earn his BA from the University of Michigan in 1963 and his JD in 1966. In 1968, Zell founded Equity Group Investments, which he grew into three of the largest public real estate companies in the United States: Equity Residential, Equity Office, and Equity Lifestyle. In 2007, the Blackstone Group purchased Equity Office Properties Trust for $39 billion – at the time, the largest LBO in history.
Zell credits much of his entrepreneurial success to being open to the ideas of others. "No one is afraid of me and therefore everyone challenges me," said Zell. His three favorite words – "Take Me On" – encourage his employees, regardless of seniority, to disagree with him. Zell believes that through this Socratic method of investing "you understand risk and are able to [better] adjust for it".
Another of Zell's favorite anecdotes is that, until two years ago, he didn't know his office had a door. "I've had the same office since about 1983 and about two years ago, I discovered that it had a sliding door". Zell never knew it was there because his door has never been closed. This complete lack of "hierarchical access" encourages open dialogue between him and his employees and results in a more thoughtful consideration of risk and more creative investment ideas.
In terms of his views on real estate, Zell focused on liquidity – stating that "liquidity is value". For this reason, Zell looks favorably upon the REIT model, because it provides a solution to the traditional liquidity challenges involved in owning real estate assets. As Professor Therese McGuire noted in her response to Zell's speech, REITs are "genius" because they "turn very illiquid assets – buildings – into liquid assets" in the form of REIT stock.
According to Zell, no one has ever left a meeting wondering what he meant. His Brave Leader Series talk was no exception. Zell says what he thinks, frequently without filter, and encourages those around him to do the same.
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Oaxaca's July Guelaguetza features some of the most glorious traje — indigenous dress — throughout the state. But few, if any, surpass the beauty from the state of Tuxtepec.
I am on a textile tour to discover the artistry of some of Oaxaca's most remote villages. The evening our group arrives in Tuxtepec from Veracruz, we are treated to a fashion parade. Featured are the region's woven and embroidered garments that we will see over the next several days. It's like attending a sneak preview!
They varied from the more simple daily wear of traditional women to those that are more elaborate and reserved for special occasions.
The presentation is organized by Jose de Jesus Hernandez, known as Chucho. He teaches dance and has a collection of authentic dresses. Chucho explains that fifty-eight years ago there was a movement to return to the roots of the region by the younger generation. That's why the Flor de Piña dance was created.
I realize that all the different huipil designs in this one dance at the Guelaguetza is a compilation to express the diverse weaving and embroidery styles of Mazateco and Chinanteco communities that are part of Tuxtepec.
As our week together comes to a close, we return to Tuxtepec one last time. Dance master Hector Arturo Hernandez meets us at the hotel, teaches us the Flor de Piña dance steps and brings huipils from his collection to show and tell. I would say we were not equal to the task of keeping up with the strenuous foot work of the dance!
More than one hundred and eighty young women audition to represent these Chinanteco and Mazateco villages. Only thirty-six are selected, says Don Hector Arturo, who has been teaching the Danza Flor de Piña for the past thirty-five years.
He recruits and selects the dancers, and serves as the narrative voice for the Tuxtepec delegation at the Guelaguetza. As soon as I hear him speak, I recognize him. Our models for Don Arturo's collection are women on the tour.
In 1958, the governor of Tuxtepec decided that the jarocho music and dance presentation at the Guelaguetza did not fully integrate Tuxtepec with Oaxaca, since jarocho is a part of Veracruz identity. So, the Danza Flor de Piña was choreographed and orchestrated to the poem of native son Felipe Matias Velasco.
By doing this, the back strap loom weaving and embroidery of these remote Oaxaca villages became a distinguishing feature of the Guelaguetza, something that we all identify with its pageantry and with Oaxaca.
Those who study Oaxaca culture and communities know that the term guelaguetza is NOT about this annual tourist attraction that is a dance interpretation of the word. It is a way of life, the foundation for maintaining community and mutual support in indigenous pre-Hispanic Mexican villages.
Note: These finest quality huipiles range in price from 1,500 pesos to over 6,500 pesos. Some take more than three or four months to make. The current exchange rate is about 13 pesos to the dollar. The average wage of an agricultural or hourly wage worker in Mexico is 100 pesos or eight dollars a day. Tourism is Oaxaca's economic engine.
If you are more inclined to travel independently rather than taking a tour, take a bus or collectivo from town to town, or rent a car and drive from Oaxaca city on Mexico 175 to Tuxtepec. Get a Guia Roji Mapa 20 for the Estado de Oaxaca.
You may want to stop and spend the night in Pueblo Magico Capulalpam de Mendez or continue on until you reach Valle Nacional. There are several lovely hotels in Capulalpam and a few small hostals in Valle Nacional. From there, you can get to the pueblos in the Papaloapan Region that we visited: Valle Nacional, Rancho Grande, San Pedro Soyaltepec and San Lucas Ojitlan, bypassing the entry through Veracruz.
This route will take six to eight hours of driving from Oaxaca to Valle Nacional over winding mountain roads! You might also consider establishing a base in one of the villages if you don't mind sleeping in a hammock or a basic, no frills room with only cold running water.
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If I meet these whores I will have the honor—I repeat, I will have the honor—to be the first one to cut the heads off Madonna and Britney Spears if they will keep spreading their Satanic culture against Islam… If these two prostitutes keep doing what they are doing, we of course will punish them.
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After months of debate, the UK's new licensing laws have come into force allowing thousands of pubs, clubs, restaurants and shops to sell alcohol past 11pm.
The regulations went live at midnight and according to government figures around 40% of the 190,000 licensed premises in England and Wales have been granted their request to extended opening hours.
Some 1,008 businesses – less than 1% of the total – are now allowed to serve alcohol 24-hours a day, a third of which are supermarkets, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport said. Another third are pubs, bars and nightclubs.
Fending off criticism that the regulations would lead to an increase in alcohol-fuelled disorder, Culture secretary Tessa Jowell claimed the new laws give responsible adults 'more freedom'.
"The vast majority of adults drink alcohol. Most people live within walking distance of a pub or bar. Alcohol is part of our national life," she said.
"That's why these new laws are so important. For too long we have allowed a small minority to rule the streets at night and our main recourse has been a national curfew. This was unfair in principle and wrong in practice."
As well as giving licensees the option to stay open longer, the legislation also grants police greater powers to crackdown on anti-social behaviour.
"We believe that the Licensing Act will help to reduce alcohol fuelled disorder by providing the police with new tough powers to close down problem bars and increase penalties for premises that sell to underage drinkers," said home secretary Charles Clarke.
Police forces reported little problems in the first few hours after hours were extended but authorities have warned that activities this weekend will test the new law.
Jan Berry, chairman of the Police Federation, said while the majority of drinkers would continue to behave sensibly, the actions of a minority are likely to result in an increase in alcohol-related misbehaviour.
She admitted this would put a strain on 'already stretched resources'.


You can burn a witch at the stake or you can watch her unleash a spectacular metal-core burlesque freak show. In This Moment, a captivating and dazzling cabaret-style electro-carnival comes to the Orpheum Theatre on August 9th. With their 2017 release Ritual debuting at #23 on the Billboard 200, the five talented musicians: Maria Brink (vocals), Randy Weitzel (rhythm guitar), Kent Diimmel (drums), Travis Johnson (bass) and Chris Howorth (lead guitar) display both a flair for the dramatic as well as an expanding style of metal. Taking a step away from their earlier gothic-metal sound on previous albums, (Beautiful Tragedy and The Dream), Ritual combines electronic undertones with an impalement of modern metal. Speaking with founding member and lead guitarist Chris Howorth, we talk about the up-coming Madison show at the Orpheum Theatre on August 9th, about In This Moment's release Ritual and working with the Metal God Rob Halford.


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A very amended version of Councilmember Vacca's algorithmic transparency bill has now passed the City Council and is headed for the Mayor's desk to sign.*
This follows the October 16th hearing (which was moved to a larger hearing room at City Hall due to huge attendance) -- the video recording is available now and is a little over two hours long, as are PDFs for Hearing Testimony (pre-written) and the hearing transcript. One attendee live-tweeted practically the whole hearing (sometimes the threading broke a bit) and another shared rough notes as a GitHub gist. Several people spoke for a few minutes each from, e.g., the New York Civil Liberties Union, The Brennan Center for Justice, Legal Aid Society, BetaNYC, Brooklyn Defender Services, Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy, and various other institutions, and some spoke just as individuals. I testified for a few minutes, starting at about 1:53 in the video, and got quoted in Civicist.
The amended bill, approved by the Council's Technology Committee and then by the City Council earlier this month, is a compromise. It creates a task force, and they'll have 18 months to write up a report with recommendations, and that report will be made public. The bill specifically says that "Nothing herein shall require compliance with the task force's recommendations". Who appoints the members of the task force? "Such task force and the chair thereof shall be appointed by the mayor or a designee thereof" with no particular mandate that, say, the Council has a voice in who's placed on the task force. The bill says nothing about whether the task force will perform any of its hearings in public.
So those of us who want to keep momentum going on this issue will have to note who's been appointed, submit testimony when the opportunity arises, and find a way to sustainably pay attention to it.
The Mayor could allow the bill to lapse into law without signing it, could sign it into law, or could veto it (and then probably have the Council override his veto with a two-thirds majority). What I hear is that it'll almost certainly be the first or the second of those three. Legistar says there'll be a hearing tomorrow, Monday the 18th, but what I've heard is that this will be kind of a formality in which 20+ bills are being "heard" but no substantive discussion is expected.
So I tried to find out when on Monday this hearing will be. I looked around the Mayor's chunk of nyc.gov and found nothing. My Council contact told me that the daily Sked in the daily First Read in City & State and Gotham Gazette's Week Ahead sections would tell me these kinds of schedule details -- once Monday rolled around.** Ahhh. New York City is a very old system, like sewing or software packaging,*** and way before there existed a municipal website, there was a rich ecosystem that depended on knowing this information, and so niche publications emerged. Right.
And today, while writing this, I found the City Record Online (every day the City Record puts out notices of city hearings, court notices, etc. and you can look at recent daily editions as PDFs or search electronically), and figured out: 4:30 pm, in the Blue Room at City Hall, as announced on December 13th.
So I'll probably be there, even though it probably isn't substantively important, as I learn this system, as I learn how to pay attention. Maybe I'll see you there too.
* Legistar, the application that NYC uses to track bills as they move through the City Council, has email and RSS notification, but the email alerts have not been functioning for me, and the RSS option is pretty uninformative and (I think) slow to update. Councilmatic is an open source alternative that had to use screen scraping to get bill and event data (the comments in the bills scraper elucidate some stuff I'd been unsure about). I'm glad to hear that, thanks to NYC open data advocates, there's now a proper Legistar API available for civic developers like us.
** Indeed, the First Read now includes a sked for Monday that mentions a Mayoral hearing and bill signing -- but doesn't specify or link to the list of bills.
*** I'm improving various skills and learning multiple systems right now. In rough order of how old our systems/skills are, as humans, here are some of them:
Time management (regular)
New York City governance
Sewing (electric)
Time management (with mass media)
Bicycling (in car-heavy urban environments)
Time management (with email)
Python packaging
Time management (in attention-casino electronic environment)
Boisebration!
Blockchain and Bitcoin, Dar Williams, And So On
28 Aug 2009, 21:10 p.m.
Vis-a-Vis a Visa
17 Feb 2019, 10:53 a.m.
My Open Data Quest, Part ... 11?
16 Oct 2018, 11:22 a.m.
NYC Comptroller Town Hall, And Reflections on Constraint
Welcome To The Mountain Goats
The Rituals
My Plans for WisCon 2022


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By Kieran Ahuja
Coronavirus leads to bigger drop in car sales than after financial crash
Worst March since late 1990s as dealerships close
CAR REGISTRATIONS fell by 44.4% in March compared to the same month last year, according to the latest report from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) — a bigger fall than after the financial crisis of 2008.
Covid-19 is undoubtedly the biggest reason for the steep decline in registrations, with the spread of the virus causing showrooms around the country to close their doors. The number of deaths caused by the virus in the UK will likely surpass 5,000 today (April 6).
In light of the figures, the SMMT has downgraded its 2020 sales prediction to 1.73m units, 23% lower than its previous expectation and a full quarter lower than the 2.31m units sold in 2019. The poor sales represented the worst March since the late 1990s, when the bi-annual plate system came into effect.
The SMMT says that it will update its outlook in April to reflect the latest conditions, and this is likely to mean a further diminishing of its expectations.
A total of 254,684 cars were registered in March, with an uptick at the start of the month thanks largely to advance orders of the new '20' registration plates. However, it represents a huge drop from the 458,054 registered in the same month last year. Business registrations saw the largest decrease, falling 61% from last year.
Sales statistics in other European countries may act as a forecast of how much lower registrations in the UK may fall. Italy, the European epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, has fared worst, as many will have predicted. Its sales fell by a staggering 85%. France and Spain also experienced heavy hits, with registrations falling 72% and 69% respectively.
Although it reported its lowest daily deaths in two weeks yesterday, Italy has suffered a sobering 15,887 deaths due to coronavirus. The Financial Times reported that the southern European nation, home to a long list of popular carmakers including Fiat, Alfa Romeo and Ferrari, is headed for the deepest recession in its modern history.
Large portions of northern Italy, the epicentre of the outbreak, went into lockdown on March 8, with the rest of the country following suit two days later. The UK's most severe lockdown measures were introduced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on March 23, around two weeks later.
This means that sales are only likely to get worse this month, as the UK does its best to prepare for the virus's peak. Although the Prime Minister, who has been admitted to hospital himself after developing the illness, promised a review of lockdown measures three weeks after the initial announcement, showrooms are likely to remain closed for the entire of April.
There is a sliver of good news among the gloom, however. The sales of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) rose by nearly threefold to 11,694 units before the crisis took hold. The sales of plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) also rose, albeit not as dramatically, by 38%.
Car makers, despite the opposition they face, are being lauded for their response to the coronavirus. While production of their vehicles ground to a halt, many joined the effort to combat the virus. Ford and Mercedes, among others, have begun production of much-needed breathing devices, Lamborghini is manufacturing surgical masks and plexiglass shields, while Jaguar Land Rover is doing the same in the UK, as well as donating vehicles to the British Red Cross.
Mike Hawes, SMMT Chief Executive, said: "With the country locked down in crisis mode for a large part of March, this decline will come as no surprise. Despite this being the lowest March since we moved to the bi-annual plate change system, it could have been worse had the significant advanced orders placed for the new 20 plate not been delivered in the early part of the month.
"We should not, however, draw long term conclusions from these figures other than this being a stark realisation of what happens when economies grind to a halt.
"How long the market remains stalled is uncertain, but it will reopen and the products will be there. In the meantime, we will continue to work with government to do all we can to ensure the thousands of people employed in this sector are ready for work and Britain gets back on the move."
"March might go down in history as the most polarised month ever for new car sales," said James Fairclough, CEO of AA Cars. "Many dealers have now closed their doors in line with Government advice, and the motor industry as a whole is entering uncharted territory. Sadly the optimism from the start of the year has disappeared, and March's 44.4% decline in new car sales is likely to be just the beginning of a sharp contraction of demand."
He noted that there was some good news: "one good sign for the future is the 197.4% rise in electric vehicle sales, with more than 11,000 sold in March. This indicates welcome growth in interest from drivers and we hope this will continue once social distancing measures end."
Karen Hilton, chief commercial officer of online used car sales platform heycar.co.uk, said secondhand vehicles were still receiving strong interest from buyers.
"Dealers are using this time wisely to accelerate their digital capabilities which is allowing them to maintain a level of trading at this difficult time," she said. "With strong levels of stock in the used market, heycar is working with all our dealers to see how we can help them at this time.
"We know more people are looking online than ever right now, browsing and deciding what their next car is going to be when better times return. The heycar site has seen record traffic levels since the country went into lockdown.
"It will be the used car market that bounces back quicker with more buyers looking for reliable used or nearly new models, and cars being returned from PCP agreements and part-exchanges entering back into the market."
Car manufacturers and their retail networks have shifted focus to providing volunteers and diverting resources and funding to help the national effort during the pandemic.
Hundreds of vehicles have been deployed in local communities across the UK, helping front-line workers and volunteers in the emergency services, welfare and charity sectors to look after society's most vulnerable.
Other supportive efforts include providing breakdown assistance for NHS workers, converting premises into storage and food bank facilities, supplying personal protective equipment such as safety goggles and face shields and working alongside other sectors to scale up ventilator production.
Seán Kemple, director of sales at Close Brothers Motor Finance, commented: "March's registration figures are a tale of two cities. In the first half of the month we see the impact of the new '20 UK license plates in an environment of heightened consumer confidence and dealer optimism – March usually drives sales in H1. In the second half though we see the effects of Covid-19 and the UK lockdown on the motor industry.
"There's no doubt we're in an entirely new landscape for dealers and consumers alike. Currently we're seeing trends sustain in terms of popular vehicle makes and models, but with dealerships having to close their doors to protect their staff and prospective buyers, the future is unclear. Manufacturers, dealers, and lenders need to work in tandem to support the industry and the national effort; we're already hearing good news stories of manufacturers producing essential medical equipment and fleets being used to transport key workers. Until we have more certainty for the future, education and communication around the current circumstances are vital – taking advantage of government support and adjusting to new ways of working are the first steps in the journey."
The director of comparison website Motorway.co.uk, Alex Buttle said: "It's unfair to read too much into these apocalyptic figures, as coronavirus is a crisis unlike any other faced by the car industry in peacetime Britain."
"With production lines eerily silent, supply chains blocked and thousands of workers now furloughed for the foreseeable future, the UK car industry is battling the same issues as many others.
"At best we could be looking at a couple of months before production resumes and the UK car industry can start rebuilding itself, but by then we're likely to be facing many new post-coronavirus realities." He said that the government would need to make sure that the car manufacturing industry was protected, once "we get back to some semblance of normality."
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Justo received 8.2 million as an award for exposing 1MDB corruption scandal
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 31 — Xavier Andre Justo has received a whopping RM8.2 million as.
ZIININE A.SFebruary 2, 2019
Inland Revenue to tax payers: Do not worry about the SVDP letters
KUALA LUMPUR FEB.1: The Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia (IRBM) advises 8.3 million tax payers.
Norila DaudFebruary 1, 2019
Najib regaining power and support from the public
Kuala Lumpur: Recently the former prime minister Najib Razak, who has been accused of allegedly.


Happy smiling faces and beautiful flat felt!
I had a lovely weekend filled with fun, felt and friends both old and new.
Here are two pictures that sum things up, firstly Jack and Denis with their beautiful felt pictures from Duckett's Grove on Saturday and then the ladies from Killoughternane Social Club with their fabulous felt from Sunday. Thanks Anna for organising such a great workshop, the food at lunch was fantastic too and I look forward to returning for a felt jewellery session before Christmas!!!
What a creative and fun group of ladies!
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Am l loving all the smiling faces Nicola! Lovely pix, lovely work!
Nothing like a felt picture to cheer you up and the pride in making one yourself is amazing isn't it?
The smiles on the faces are proof enough of that.
Wool felt is a true gem to discover and joy for all ages. The little boys are so creative to have made the beautiful pictures. All cheerful faces to show their art pieces.


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Telling stories: the novel and beyond
How have writers chosen to tell their stories, and why? What techniques do they use to make us believe in the reality of the worlds they create? If you're interested in finding out in depth about how literature works this module is for you. You'll read gripping stories from across literary history, from Shakespeare to science fiction, from Thomas Hardy to Arundhati Roy, with a particular focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century novels. This will develop your understanding of key techniques and devices used by writers, as you investigate the historical contexts behind their work and discover new ways of understanding literature.
There are two parts to the module, one devoted to realism, the other to fantasy. In each, you'll be reading and studying texts from a variety of periods and in a variety of different forms. This will develop your skills in the analysis of key features such as characterisation, narrative voice, plot structure, imagery, symbolism and verbal style. You'll receive two module books to guide your study and a wealth of online material, including interviews with leading critics and videos of settings used by some of the authors.
Part One – Realism: depicting the world
The first part of the module is all about the following five texts that depict, in diverse ways, the 'real world' lived in by their authors. A short introduction will set the scene by discussing past and present ideas about storytelling and realist fiction.
Thomas Hardy's richly enjoyable Far from the Madding Crowd (1874). The novel is set in Wessex, a beautifully described and fictionalised version of the Dorset in which Hardy grew up.
Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country (1913) takes place in a very different world: the high society of early twentieth-century New York. Its central character, the upwardly mobile Undine Spragg, is one of the most intriguing characters in literature.
Ali Smith's Hotel World (2001) will leap you forward into the twenty-first century. You'll explore the background to a mysterious death through the voices of five very different women.
Edmund Blunden's Undertones of War (1928) is an absorbing and moving evocation of life as a soldier in the First World War. With this text you'll focus on the use of realist literary devices in a non-fiction narrative.
Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize-winning The God of Small Things (1997) is a novel set in twentieth-century southern India. Roy's attention to the details of the world she is describing, and the occasional startling supernatural elements in the book make it the ideal bridge from the realism of part one to the 'fantastic' writing you'll study in part two.
At the end of part one, in a special 'Book Club' section, you'll choose a text to study from a shortlist of five, each option similar in some way to one of the five books you have already read. This is your chance to build on your earlier work on the module, to explore your enthusiasms, and to develop skills as an independent learner.
Part Two – The fantastic: creating new worlds
In the second part, you'll study the techniques used in the following selection of works of fantasy literature. These have been written in a range of different periods and you'll find there is a range of different ways in which 'fantastic' stories relate to the real world we live in. You'll also move beyond the novel, studying poetry, a play, short stories and an illustrated book as well as a classic science fiction novel.
You'll ground your work on the fantastic by studying one of its most fundamental genres: the fairy tale. You'll read fairy tales from diverse authors and periods, focusing in particular on the sophisticated retellings of Charles Perrault (1628–1703), the darker work of the Brothers Grimm, the playful and poignant tales of Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) and the challenging adult reversionings of Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber (1979). You'll learn new ways of analysing the structure of stories that you'll apply in your work later in this part.
The contemporary English poet Simon Armitage provides a modern translation of the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. This fantastic narrative tells of the encounter between Gawain, one of King Arthur's knights, and a mysterious supernatural figure.
Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' Stardust (1999) reimagines the genre of the fairy tale with a hero who crosses the boundary between Victorian England and the magical land of 'Faerie'. Stardust is a close collaboration between the author (Gaiman) and the illustrator (Vess), and you will study the relationship between its vivid text and action-filled pictures.
Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed (1974) an example of a 'fantastic' text employing many realist devices, uses science fiction to work out the implications of complex political ideas.
Shakespeare's captivating play The Tempest (c.1611) is appropriately a story about ends and beginnings, set on an imaginary island inhabited by a magician, his daughter and two mysterious non-human beings.
You will find that some of these set texts engage with difficult topics, including suicide and sexual violence. We appreciate that some students will find it helpful to be aware in advance of material of this kind in specific texts. For this reason, a list of potentially distressing content is provided at the beginning of the module. Contact us if you would like to discuss this further with an advisor in the Student Support Team prior to registering for the module.
In addition to exploring the texts and topics detailed above, as you progress through the module you will develop skills of close reading and analysis as well as the ability to think logically and express yourself clearly. You will also increase your proficiency in IT. These are skills highly valued by employers in all sectors.
This is an OU level 2 module and builds on the OU level 1 modules Discovering the arts and humanities (A111) and Cultures (A112), or the discontinued modules The arts past and present (AA100) and Voices, texts and material culture (A105). These modules develop skills such as logical thinking, clear expression, essay writing and the ability to select and interpret relevant materials. They also offer an introduction to a range of subjects in the arts and humanities.
If you have any doubt about the suitability of the module, please speak to an adviser.
Preparatory work
You may find it helpful to read some of the set texts in advance. For the sequence in which you'll study these texts, see 'What you will study'. If you don't have time to do this, however, don't worry: the module materials have been written assuming that you will be reading the set texts for the first time at the same time as studying the module.
In early September you'll have access to the English Literature Stage 1 to Stage 2 bridging materials and a forum where you can discuss any questions you have with members of the English department and other students. This will help prepare you for Stage 2 English Literature study in general and this module in particular. You'll also have access to the English Literature toolkit, a special OU resource providing you with subject-specific study skills.
You'll be provided with two printed books and have access to the module website, which includes:
a week-by-week study planner
module materials
audio and video content
assessment guide
access to online tutorials and forums.
Computing requirements
You'll need broadband internet access and a desktop or laptop computer with an up-to-date version of Windows (10 or 11), or macOS (11 'Big Sur' or higher).
Any additional software will be provided or is generally freely available.
To join in spoken conversations in tutorials, we recommend a wired headset (headphones/earphones with a built-in microphone).
Our module websites comply with web standards, and any modern browser is suitable for most activities.
Our OU Study mobile app will operate on all current, supported versions of Android and iOS. It's not available on Kindle.
It's also possible to access some module materials on a mobile phone, tablet device or Chromebook. However, as you may be asked to install additional software or use certain applications, you'll also require a desktop or laptop as described above.
Materials to buy
Set books
Perrault, C.: Betts, C. (trans.) The Complete Fairy Tales Oxford World's Classics £7.99 - ISBN 9780199585809
Smith, A. Girl Meets Boy Canongate Books £9.99 - ISBN 9781786892478 * This is an A233 'Book club' set book option.
Sassoon, S. Memoirs of an Infantry Officer Faber and Faber £9.99 - ISBN 9780571064106 * This is an A233 'Book club' set book option.
Hardy, T. Wessex Tales Wordsworth Editions £2.50 - ISBN 9781853262692 * This is an A233 'Book club' set book option.
Anand, M.R. Untouchable Penguin £9.99 - ISBN 9780141393605 * This is an A233 'Book club' set book option.
Wharton, E.: Orgel, S. (ed) The Custom of the Country Oxford World's Classics £8.99 - ISBN 9780199555123
Smith, A. Hotel World Penguin £8.99 - ISBN 9780140296792
Wharton, E.: Orgel, S. (ed) The Age of Innocence Oxford World's Classics £7.99 - ISBN 9780199540013 * This is an A233 'Book club' set book option.
Roy, A. The God of Small Things 4th Estate £8.99 - ISBN 9780006550686
Carter, A. The Bloody Chamber Vintage £8.99 - ISBN 9780099588115
Le Guin, U. The Dispossessed Gollancz £8.99 - ISBN 9781857988826
Grimm, J. & Grimm, W.: Crick, J. (trans.) Selected Tales Oxford World's Classics £10.99 - ISBN 9780199555581
Hardy, T.: Falck-Yi, S.B. (ed) Far from the Madding Crowd Oxford World's Classics £4.99 - ISBN 9780199537013
Gaiman, N. & Vess, C. Stardust DC Comics (Vertigo) £14.99 - ISBN 9781401287849
Blunden, E. Undertones of War Penguin £10.99 - ISBN 9780141184364
Andersen, H.C. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales: A Selection Oxford World's Classics £7.99 - ISBN 9780199555857
Shakespeare, W.: Orgel, S. (ed) The Tempest Oxford World's Classics £7.99 - ISBN 9780199535903
Armitage, S. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Faber and Faber £10.99 - ISBN 9780571223282
Note: There are five books marked with an * which are A233 'Book club' set books options. Students should choose and purchase only one of the five books. The 'Book club' choice will be studied during weeks 15-17 of the module. For the sequence in which you will study these texts, see 'What you will study'.
Support from your tutor
You'll have a tutor who will help you with the study material and mark and comment on your written work, and whom you can ask for advice and guidance. Your tutor will use a blend of methods that will include moderated online discussion forums.
We aim to provide online tutorials and recordings of these will typically be made available to students.
Contact us if you want to know more about study with The Open University before you register.
The assessment details for this module can be found in the facts box above.
You will be expected to submit your tutor-marked assignments (TMAs) online through the eTMA system unless there are some difficulties which prevent you from doing so. In these circumstances, you must negotiate with your tutor to get their agreement to submit your assignment on paper.
The OU strives to make all aspects of study accessible to everyone and this Accessibility Statement outlines what studying A233 involves. You should use this information to inform your study preparations and any discussions with us about how we can meet your needs.
Future availability
Telling stories – the novel and beyond starts once a year – in October. This page describes the module that will start in October 2023. We expect it to start for the last time in October 2030.
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Course work includes:
5 Tutor-marked assignments (TMAs)
No examination
No residential school
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Justice Department Closes Emmett Till Case For A Second Time Over Lack Of Evidence
Relatives of Emmett Till said Monday evening that they were informed that the Justice Department had opted to close the case in the torture and murder of Till due to a lack of evidence, ending a decades-long search for justice. Used to be.
Emmett Till is shown lying on his bed.
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The Justice Department told the family that it had closed the investigation into Till's murder because investigators were unable to prove that Carolyn Bryant Donham, the young white woman who told her about harassing her at a Mississippi grocery store, lied. told the nature of their encounter As mentioned in the 2017 book.
During a press conference at Northwestern University in Chicago, Professor Christopher Benson, who co-authored a book on Till, said that Till's family had been informed that investigators would seek federal prosecution of Donham for perjury. Not enough evidence was found for
The DOJ first closed the case in 2007 after author and historian Timothy Tyson's 2017 book, only to reopen it 10 years later, Emmett Till's Blood, Dunham is quoted as saying that he lied about harassing her, a claim her relatives made. disputed,
Benson said investigators found no credible evidence that Donham had actually said what Tyson reported, or anything that could have happened in court if he had been charged with perjury.
Tyson was apparently unable to provide enough evidence that Dunham recounted his story during his interview with him – Tyson had told Dunham about what happened between him and Till missing from recording The author handed over to investigators, the DOJ said.
The DOJ confirmed on Monday evening that they investigation closed,
"For 66 years we have grieved for his loss, and I am deeply hurt by the way he portrayed him," Till's cousin Rev Wheeler Parker said. Was kidnapped in Mississippi.
While visiting relatives in the Mississippi Delta during the summer of 1955, he encountered 21-year-old Donham at a local grocery store. His account of what happened is different, with some witnesses saying he was whistled and Dunham claimed later in the trial. grabbed and proposed to her, A few days later, Donham's then-husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother JW Milam kidnap Till in retaliation, kill him and leave his body in the Tallahassee River, tied to a cotton gin fan. The two men were acquitted of murder by a white jury, but later admitted in a magazine interview to the teenager's murder. until death and at his mother's insistence that he be cremated in an open coffin, helped spur the civil rights movement. Donham is still alive and lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.
On the testimony of controversial witnesses, the Justice Department reportedly locked Emmett until a second time in the case (Businesshala,
Emmett Till's Chicago Home Is Considered an Early Landmark (Businesshala,
The Chicago church where Emmett Till's open-casket funeral was named an endangered historic site (Businesshala,
'Emmett Till Is Anne Frank to Black America' (Businesshala,


Let me guess, you have been playing The Denver Post crossword and got stuck on the clue Imbiber's offense, briefly. Well, you have come to the right place to find the answer to this clue.
Now you have the answer to your clue. Its time to move on to the next clue. You can browse through the list with all the answers to the The Denver Post crossword of February 21st, 2018. Or you can use the search form below to find the answer (no matter if its The Denver Post Crossword or any other crossword).
Dictionary notation for "enow" or "erst"
"""The ___ Thought of You"""
"""... who only stand and ___"": Milton"


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IndyCar 2009 Car Count
March 28, 2009 March 28, 2009 mike
Silly Season is almost over and we are not much closer to determining a final car count than we were a month ago. Even with the renewed optimism in American open-wheel racing brought on by re-unification, the worldwide economic crisis has wreaked wholesale havoc on motorsports, and IndyCar is no exception.
With only 19 confirmed car/driver combinations set for St. Petersburg next weekend (as of this minute), the outlook would seem grim to return to the 26+ car fields of last season. However, there are many potential deals that are still lurking that will most likely see additional cars on the track in Florida above the 19 currently confirmed cars.
So here are the confirmed cars as of this moment:
Penske – Ryan Briscoe
Penske – Helio Castroneves/Will Power
Ganassi – Scott Dixon
Ganassi – Dario Franchiti
Andretti Green – Tony Kanaan
Andretti Green – Danica Patrick
Andretti Green – Marco Andretti
Andretti Green – Hideki Mutoh
Luczo Dragon – Rafael Matos
Vision – Ed Carpenter
Vision – Ryan Hunter-Reay
KV – Mario Moraes
Newman Hass Lanigan – Graham Rahal
Newman Haas Lanigan – Robert Doornbos
Panther – Dan Wheldon
HVM – E.J. Viso
Foyt – Vitor Miera
3G/Beck – Stanton Barret
Dreyer & Reinbold – Mike Conway
We here at openpaddock.net were expecting to hear more announcements of full time drivers during the open tests at Homestead and Barber, but the economy has turned this normally busy news release time to a standstill as last minute budgets are not falling into place as they usually do.
That said, here are some of the potential deals that may turn to gold in the next few days:
Rubicon Race Team – Buddy Rice appears on Rubicon's website as their driver, but as of yet, no announcement has been made. Reports indicate that they are still trying to secure additional sponsorship.
Dreyer & Reinbold – Trackside Online is reporting that Dreyer and Reinbold are preparing two cars for St. Petersburg and rumors currently place either Milka Duno or Tomas Shceckter in that car. By all indications, Milka has not been able to come up with the money that allowed her to be mentioned in the same breath with a stalwart organization such as Newman Haas Lanigan. Even though she secured a test at Homestead with NHL, she did not return with the team at Barber. While she may have not been able to come up with the promised cash for an NHL deal, she still does have sponsorship dollars from CITGO which might yet land her with a seat. Tomas Scheckter reportedly also has some sponsorship dollars, but has been mentioned as a possibility with other teams.
Conquest – Jaime Camara tested for Conquest at Homestead, but the team backed out of the Barber test. So far, this appears to be the most likely entry for Conquest this season.
Conquest – Alex Tagliani is reportedly working on a deal that would see him in a seat with Conquest starting at Long Beach sponsored by a consortium of businesses from the Edmonton area. This story is a few days old and we haven't yet heard anything new on it.
KV Racing – Paul Tracy or Oriol Servia. KV has gone as far as mentioning the possibility of being a three car team this season, but at present they have only one confirmed driver in Mario Moraes. Nothing has been heard of a possible deal with Servia for quite some time, but the most recent information we have heard on this deal were comments made by Jimmy Vasser on "Trackside with Curt Cavin & Kevin Lee" where Jimmy mentioned they are working on an Indy onward deal for Paul.
Dale Coyne – Justin Wilson ran for Dale Coyne at the Barber open test, which is a very good sign, but no announcements have yet been made whether they will be a 0, 1 or 2 car team this season.
Dale Coyne – Bruno Junqueira has ran for Dale Coyne for the last two seasons for no pay whatsoever. This would lead us to believe that Dale will do everything possible to give Bruno a race seat for the season, or at the very least, Indy.
Sarah Fisher Racing – Sarah Fisher has confirmed that she will be contesting at Kansas, Indy, Kentucky and Chicago this year. The team has continued to search for funding for the remainder of the ovals and potentially the road/street courses as well, but at this time it does not sound like the program will grow beyond the above listed races.
We here at openpaddock.net will keep you updated throughout the upcoming week as the full entry list for the IndyCar season opener becomes apparent.
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Issue no.48 of Development Dialogue exposes the contradictions of the current climate change agreements which often exacerbate extraction in the pursuit of solutions.
The main cause of global warming is rapidly increasing carbon dioxide emissions – primarily the result of burning fossil fuels – despite international agreements to reduce such emissions. The trouble is that despite being aware of the serious situation, very few decision-makers are ready to tackle the problem at its roots. Instead of reducing the extraction of fossil fuels and searching for other solutions, current carbon-trading policies, in practice, favour the further exploitation of these fuels. Furthermore, new tree plantations, which are claimed as a means of mitigating the consequences of increased carbon dioxide pollution, often drive people out of their traditional living grounds and destroy biological diversity.


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🏃♂ It was another slippery ParkRun. Castle Park looked golden with a layer of leaves along the twists and turns of the narrow paths. I made sure that I didn't twist and turn with them. That's my excuse for a steady Saturday morning ParkRun. No PB's today.#
I did have the incentive to beat the buggy. There's always one. One new Dad was looking very athletic pushing his young kid around. The young kid was having the time of his life. Way to go, young Dude. But I'm going to be beat Daddy. I didn't. The buggy beat me. Bugger.#
🎸 I popped into a random Sunny Colch charity shop after the run. I got lucky with a book and five set CD of The Jam's Direction, Reaction, Creation. It was priced at a bargain £5. Blimey. The bloke in the shop added that everything today had a 20% discount. Yours for £4. It sells for £40 on eBay.#
🎵 I cycled past Firstsite and saw that there was a Record Fair setting up. I had a little time to spare. It would have been rude not to. I wasn't really in a buying mood having done the business over in Frinton on Friday. There was some collectable Beatles 3 inch CD singles. Plus also The Beatles at the Beeb CD on sale for £25. I paid £3 in Frinton.#
I didn't hang around too long. It was a very blokey atmosphere with some questionable personal hygiene issues.#
🏊♂ The mid-morning swim was great. I had the entire pool to myself. Half an hour os spa arseing around followed. That's me finished for Saturday. All before midday as well.#
🚴 It was a blustery bicycle ride back to base. It felt odd climbing Boundary Road on a non-electric bike. A pair of magpies flew across my path. Meadow Lane legend has it that Neil Warnock always looked out for a pair of magpies ahead of each home game to bring him luck. I'll take anything for Forest right now.#
🏏 My Surrey Membership renewal was waiting for me in the post. I'm going to scale down for next season. I really can't be arsed with the Blast and the silly Hundred. I'm going to take out County Membership instead.#
🌳 I caught up with the latest Garibaldi Red podcast over lunch. It was decent listening, focussing on the women's team ahead of their Sunday game against D***y. I like the way the Forest are now pushing a multi-team ethos and putting across the message of a club, and not just a team.#
⚽ Out went the shout of To Broad Lane! ...shortly afterwards. Wivenhoe Town had a home game with a weird 2pm KO. The club ain't too proud to beg. The cost of living shit means that the floodlights are out of bounds for this season.#
It felly very strange starting an hour earlier. My natural rhythm of the weekend had been disrupted. We were listening to the Forest build up whilst the Dragons were going in with a 1-0 lead at HT. Wivenhoe ended up winning 2-1 in what was a decent game.#
🏀 The Saturday evening entertainment was once again basketball up at the University. It was down as a double header, but the Women's Super League game was cancelled late last night. Instead we had the BIG BOYS with the Men's Div 1 team against Westminster Warriors.#
Cycling to a basketball game after watching football brought back the memories. This was the routine twenty odd years ago with Dulwich Hamlet and then London Lions as the double header. I am living the same life, but in a different location.#
The Essex Sports Arena was pretty much full. This was the largest crowd we have seen there. It's very impressive. The only promotion I see is in my social channels. There's must be a push elsewhere, but I'm not sure where. We're not talking just students, either. There were more families turning out than undergrads. Essex Rebels controlled what was a tight game, leaving the court with a 95-80 win.#
I watched Forest's 1-0 defeat away to Wolves on MOTD, and went to bed sulking.#
Last update: Saturday October 15, 2022; 6:04 PM EDT.


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In Review and Moving Forward
Bylined Articles
Intellectual Property Magazine
Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox's William H Milliken and Jamie Dohopolski review IP at the US Supreme Court and CAFC in 2021 and 2022
2021 was a big year for IP at the Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS): the court addressed the constitutionality of administrative patent judge (APJ) appointments in United States v Arthrex and narrowed the scope of assignor estoppel in Minerva v Hologic. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, meanwhile, tackled thorny questions surrounding patent subject-matter eligibility and IP venue – two issues that may make their way to the high court in 2022.
IP at the Supreme Court in 2021
Administrative patent judges and assignor estoppel
Arthrex: constitutionality of APJs
In Arthrex,1 the court found that the appointment structure of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) APJs was inconsistent with the US Constitution.
The PTAB is housed within the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and so falls under the executive branch of the US government. But the PTAB reviews the validity of patents in proceedings that look similar to those in courtrooms: opposing parties offer evidence and argument about patentability before a panel of three APJs, who then may uphold or cancel patent claims. The losing party can appeal the PTAB's decision to the Federal Circuit.
The Supreme Court determined that this review structure was unconstitutional because the Constitution's Appointments Clause requires a senior, politically accountable executive official – a so-called "principal officer" – to have the final say of the executive branch as to patentability. To remedy the constitutional violation, the court gave the USPTO Director the authority to review PTAB decisions. Thus far, in the months since Arthrex was decided, the director has granted review only once.
Minerva: the fate of assignor estoppel
Assignor estoppel is a judge-created doctrine rooted in principles of fairness that prohibits the assignor of a patent (or patent application) from later claiming that the patent (or patent issuing from the application) is invalid. In Minerva,2 the Supreme Court narrowed the doctrine, holding that it applies only in cases where "the assignor's claim of invalidity contradicts explicit or implicit representations[]made in assigning the patent." This means that consistency is the focal point. For example, the doctrine does not apply when an assignment occurs before the invention is patented, when post-assignment changes in the law render a patent invalid, or when the assignee materially broadens the claims of the patent after assignment.
IP at the Federal Circuit in 2021
Patentable subject matter and venue
Patentable subject matter: the role of improvements in the Alice two-step
Not everything can be patented. Under the Supreme Court's Alice3 decision, laws of nature, natural phenomena, and abstract ideas are not eligible for patent protection. Determining whether a claim is patent-eligible under Alice involves a two-step inquiry. First, courts ask if "the claims at issue are directed to" a patent-ineligible concept. If not, the invention is patent-eligible. But, if the claims are directed to an ineligible concept, the courts move to the second step and ask if there is an "inventive concept" that transforms the claims into patent-eligible subject matter. This test has proven notoriously difficult to apply, as the Federal Circuit's 2020 decisions in Stanford, Sensormatic, and CosmoKey illustrate.
In Stanford,4 the claim related to a computerised method for determining the parental source of an inherited gene through a statistical prediction. Stanford alleged that its method improved prediction accuracy. The Federal Circuit nonetheless held at Alice step one that an enhancement to a statistical model is an ineligible abstract idea. At Alice step two, the court applied similar reasoning to find that there was no inventive concept. The court stated that the claimed steps of reciting, extracting, and storing data while executing an algorithm on a regular computer were "conventional," so the application of those "basic tools" "result[ed] in the [ineligible] mathematical analysis itself". The improved accuracy of Stanford's method – even assuming it was novel – also could not save the claim, because novelty is "not the touchstone of patent eligibility".
The Federal Circuit also declined to view novelty as evidence of patent eligibility in Sensormatic,5 but it did so at Alice step one. Sensormatic asserted that its wireless surveillance method claim improved wireless range, bandwidth capacity and device compatibility, and data storage and retention for surveillance technology. Sensormatic explained that these improvements resulted from Sensormatic's claimed configuration of surveillance sensors, dual encoding of input data, and prioritisation of that data, respectively. But the Federal Circuit determined that each of those claim steps – configuration, dual encoding, and prioritisation – were abstract ideas. And the court found no inventive concept at Alice step two because the abstract ideas were implemented using conventional computer technology.
But, in CosmoKey,6 the Federal Circuit found that the claimed authentication method contained an inventive concept at Alice step two because the technique improved the security and simplicity of identity-authentication practices. CosmoKey's claimed technique worked differently than the typical method of double-checking user identity: instead of requiring manual entry of an authentication factor, CosmoKey's invention authenticated a user's identity by checking for an activated authentication function. The Federal Circuit acknowledged that prior cases suggested that claims directed to authentication and verification were patent-ineligible. But the court explicitly declined to address Alice step one and proceeded to step two, where it found an inventive concept because CosmoKey's claimed method represented an inventive "technical improvement" – namely, it increased security and employed a simpler method of authentication. It is not clear why these improvements rendered CosmoKey's patent eligible while the improvements at issue in Stanford and Sensormatic did not.
Venue: preventing forum shopping in Texas
2021 saw the Federal Circuit take an active role in restricting patent plaintiffs from forum shopping, especially in Texas federal district courts.
This theme comes across most clearly in Samsung,7 where the Federal Circuit ordered a case transferred from Texas to California, citing what the court viewed as the plaintiff's "efforts to manipulate venue". The plaintiff had set up a sister corporate entity in Texas for the purpose of seeking venue there. But, after Samsung moved to transfer venue to California for more convenient access to evidence and witnesses and the US District Court for the Western District of Texas refused, the Federal Circuit stepped in to mandate the venue change. The court emphasised that the alleged acts of infringement centered on Samsung's actions in California, and it rejected the importance of the Texas court's eagerness to set a fast-paced schedule.
The Federal Circuit took a similar approach in Juniper to order a case transferred out of Texas.8 Again, the court found that the physical location of evidence, witnesses, and the alleged acts of infringement all centered on California, so the Federal Circuit ordered the case transferred there.
Picking up where the Federal Circuit left off
The Supreme Court may provide more insight into patent subject-matter eligibility and another venue-related issue if it grants review in American Axle and either Apple or Mylan.
Patentable Subject Matter: Guidance on Alice Step One
If the Supreme Court grants review of only one IP case for 2022, it will probably be American Axle.9 The petition there stems from the Federal Circuit's determination that American Axle's claimed method of manufacturing a car part to limit vibration was patent ineligible. At Alice step one, the court found American Axle's claim directed to a natural law known as Hooke's law (a law of physics concerning the force needed to stretch or compress a spring). The court reasoned that, although American Axle claimed an improved result (ie, a car part that vibrates less), it failed to limit its claim with "any physical structure or steps for achieving" that result. And the court held that this improvement could not supply the inventive concept at Alice's second step because the improvement itself was simply the consequence of the natural law.
A Supreme Court decision in American Axle could provide courts and litigants with much-needed guidance on the bounds of patent-eligible subject matter.
Venue: asserting patent invalidity at district court, PTAB, or ITC
The Supreme Court may also tangentially weigh in on IP venue if it takes up Apple10 or Mylan.11 Apple and Mylan's petitions challenge the USPTO's NHK-Fintiv discretionary denial regime for institution of inter partes review (IPR).
IPR is an administrative route through which parties challenge patent validity at the PTAB. Under 35 USC section 314(a), the PTAB may not institute an IPR unless "there is a reasonable likelihood that the petitioner will prevail," but the statute does not require institution in those circumstances. And section 314(d) states that PTAB's determination "whether to institute" an IPR "shall be...nonappealable". In recent years, the PTAB, following two precedential PTAB decisions called NHK and Fintiv, has followed a practice of denying institution if proceeding in an IPR would be inefficient in light of parallel litigation. Under NHK-Fintiv, the PTAB can deny IPR institution if co-pending cases at a federal district court or the International Trade Commission (ITC) are at an "advanced state" of the proceedings. This can prove especially problematic for IPR petitioners defending in Texas district courts (which often set quick trial schedules) or in the ITC (which is statutorily required to resolve cases in a short amount of time and, moreover, lacks the power to cancel patent claims).
The Apple and Mylan petitions question the substantive legality and procedural unreviewability of NHK-Fintiv denials based on co-pending district-court litigation. Apple's petition concerns a NHK-Fintiv denial based on co-pending litigation in the Eastern District of Texas where a jury had already determined that Apple failed to show the only contested claim was invalid. Since the PTAB would have reached its final decision more than one year after the conclusion of the trial, the PTAB reasoned that a discretionary denial avoided inefficient use of PTAB resources. In Mylan, the PTAB based its NHK-Fintiv denial in part on the impending trial of the plaintiff's litigation against a separate defendant (albeit a defendant who raised the same grounds for invalidity against the same claims as Mylan's IPR petition).
Of course, it is possible the Supreme Court will deny review of both the patent eligibility and venue issues discussed above – in which case the state of the law surrounding patent eligibility and the status of the PTAB's NHK-Fintiv regime will remain uncertain.
1. US v Arthrex, Inc, US,141 S Ct 1970 (2021).
2. Minerva Surgical, Inc v Hologic, Inc, US, 141 S Ct 2298 (2021).
3. Alice Corp Pty Ltd v CLS Bank Int'l, 573 US 208 (2014).
4. In re Bd of Trs of Leland Stanford Jr Univ, 991 F.3d 1245 (Fed Cir 2021).
5. Sensormatic Elecs, LLC v Wyze Labs, Inc, 2021 WL 2944838 (Fed Cir 14 July 2021).
6. CosmoKey Sols GmbH & Co KG v Duo Sec LLC, 2021 WL 4515279 (Fed Cir 4 Oct 2021).
7. In re Samsung Elecs Co, Ltd, 2 F.4th 1371 (Fed Cir 2021).
8. In re Juniper Networks, Inc, 14 F.4th 1313 (Fed Cir 2021).
9. Petition for writ of certiorari, Am Axle & Mfg, Inc v Neapco Holdings LLC, No 20-891 (28 Dec 2020).
10. Petition for a writ of certiorari, Apple Inc v Optis Cellular Tech, LLC, No 21-118 (26 July 2021).
11. Petition for a writ of certiorari, Mylan Lab'ys Ltd v Janssen Pharm, NV, No 21-202 (9 Aug 2021).
This article originally appeared in the December 2021/January 2022 issue of Intellectual Property Magazine.
William H. Milliken


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Q: Why am I getting Bad Request trying to POST a GraphQL query from a C# handler? I'd like to use a web service or a handler to send a mutation to a GraphQL API. I've got GraphQL code working in Postman and a console app. But whenever I try similar code in a service or handler, all I can get is a 400 Bad Request. Currently trying in a HttpTaskAsyncHandler:
public class AsyncHandler : HttpTaskAsyncHandler {

    public override async Task ProcessRequestAsync (HttpContext context) {
        context.Response.ContentType = "text/plain";
        string result = await GoSC();
        context.Response.Write(result);
    }

    public async Task<string> GoSC()
    {
        // Define the cancellation token.
        CancellationTokenSource source = new CancellationTokenSource();
        CancellationToken cancellationToken = source.Token;

        HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer", "*******");
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("User-Agent", "MyApp");

        string uri = "https://theAPI.com/graphql";

        using (var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, uri))
        {
            var queryObject = new
            {
                query = @"query {query{currentOrgId}}"
            };

            using (var stringContent = new StringContent(
                                            JsonConvert.SerializeObject(queryObject),
                                            System.Text.Encoding.UTF8,
                                            "application/json"))
            {
                request.Content = stringContent;

                using (var response = await client
                    .SendAsync(request,
                            HttpCompletionOption.ResponseContentRead,
                            cancellationToken)
                    .ConfigureAwait(false))
                {
                    response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
                    //string resString = response.StatusCode.ToString();
                    string resString = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
                    //string resString = await response.Content
                    return resString;
                }
            }
        }
    }

I've tried everything for the HttpRequestMessage content from straight strings to serialized Json. Always the Bad Request.
Any words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated!
Jerry

A: Turns out we were running an http to https redirect on the web server that was somehow interfering with the API. It took moving the handler to my own pc to figure it out.

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Stefana (Greek wedding crowns) symbolise the glory and honour that is being bestowed to the couple by God. The Bride and Groom are crowned as King and Queen of their home, which they will rule with wisdom, justice and integrity.
The ribbon joining the stefana symbolises unity. The ribbon that joins the two crowns should always remain intact for a lifetime. As it is the eternal bond between the Bride and Groom.
Traditionally the koumbaro/a (best man/maid of honour) provide the stefana to the marrying couple. I have noticed during my years of making stefana, that it is common for brides to choose their stefana but from time to time, many koumbari choose also.
In Ancient times, stefana were made from olive branches, vine leaves and lemon blossom. Today, Stefana are made from a variety of materials (i.e. sterling silver, gold, Swarovski crystals, pearls) and can be as simple or ornate as the couple prefer.
– Match the wedding dress; many brides want pearls or crystals on the stefana to match the pearls or crystals sewn on their wedding dress. Also the stefana joining ribbon can be white or ivory to match the colour of the wedding dress.
– Emotional connection; many couples have chosen a particular stefana because it reminded them of their parents or grandparents stefana.
Stefana made with floral berries have a natural feel. This stefana range are very popular with rustic theme and winery Greek weddings.
My inspiration to create the floral berries stefana came from my grandparents stefana. It is so special when people tell me the berries stefana remind them of what their grandparents wore at their wedding ceremony (1950's-60's).
[stefana inspiration] photo of my Grandparents Pavlos and Evangelia at their Greek wedding ceremony.
I use Swarovski crystals as they are a high quality material. The sparkle of Swarovski crystals really do resemble the flash of diamonds.
A new Swarovski crystal I have been using is White Opal, it has a warm white glow.
Traditional pearl Stefana designs are a huge favourite with marrying couples. Swarovski pearls are classic and make the stefana designs timeless.
A new pearl in our range is the Pearlescent white (from Swarovski SS17 launch). It is a frosted mother of pearl shimmer, a contemporary twist on the classic pearl.
Rose Gold has been an on-trend colour for weddings the past few years. Many brides have chosen the Rose Gold stefana to match their wedding colour theme. The Swarovski rose gold pearl has the elegant appearance like the classic white pearl.
The advice I always give to Story of Stefania couples trying to decide which stefana to choose from is, to pick a design you love and represent you as a couple. As your stefana is a visual reminder of the sacrament of your marriage.


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CECC confirms 77 more COVID-19 cases, including 3 domestic cases and 74 imported cases
On March 9, the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced 77 new confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Taiwan. Of the 77 new cases, three are domestic and 74 are imported (54 of them tested positive after landing). The CECC announced no deaths today.
Regarding the new domestic cases, they are one man and two women, aged between 10 and 39 years.
Regarding the 74 new imported cases, they are 46 men and 28 women, aged between under five and 69 years. Of the cases, 11 arrived in Taiwan from Vietnam, four from the US, three each from Indonesia and India, two each from Thailand, Singapore, Australia, and one each from Belgium, the Philippines, Denmark, Palau, France, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Poland and Brazil; the areas the remaining 38 cases arrived from are being investigated. They all arrived between February 10 and March 8, 2022.
The CECC reported that a total of 6,493,515 cases related to COVID-19 have been reported in Taiwan among which COVID-19 has been ruled out in 6,471,794. Of these reported cases, infection with COVID-19 was laboratory-confirmed in 20,999 cases. Of the 20,999 confirmed cases, 5,470 are imported; 15,475 are domestic; 36 are naval crew members aboard the Panshi fast combat support ship; 3 are infections on an aircraft; 1 case has an unknown source of infection; 14 cases' sources of infection are being investigated, and a cumulative total of 134 cases have been removed as confirmed cases. There have been a cumulative total of 853 COVID-19 deaths since 2020; of the 853 deaths, 839 are from domestic cases and the other 14 are from imported cases.
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