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Well, like it or not boys and girls, summer is officially over (although with global warming who knows what we can expect weather-wise) so let’s try to go out on a sunny high note with some fun, funky selections for some frivolous summery viewing before the fleeting air turns chilly to our embrace. And with that happy thought, here are this week’s mostly frothy selections.
Information from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has revealed that Apple recently imported three shipments of set top boxes from a known Chinese supplier. This could be just a routine shipment of existing Apple TV model but this could also be an indication that the company may be gearing towards unveiling a new Apple TV during a special event to be held on September 10.
We’re heading into those rowdy, raucous, end-of-summer holidays at full speed and we know you’ve got big plans but if you find yourself with some unexpected downtime in between the action then here are this week’s pix picks that are guaranteed to ring your bell!
If you’re spending the weekend indoors then you just know that TV is going to get cranked up and cooking so why not allow us to suggest a few choice selections to make your couch time just a little bit more interesting. Here’s this week’s winners!
Star Trek Into Darkness is now available on iTunes ($14.99 SD/19.99 HD) and you can, of course, watch it on your Apple TV. The movie hits iTunes three weeks before the DVD release (September 10th), and, as noticed by 9to5Mac, it’s “the first major movie available on digital mediums like iTunes prior to DVD sales”.


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On December 23, a large section of Ukraine went dark. The source wasn’t mechanical failure, nor was it human error. According to Ukrainian officials, it was a cyber-attack, the source of which was reportedly Russia.
To make matters worse, a more recent attack against Kiev’s main airport probably originated from the same source. Read more »
It’s been a few weeks since this year’s consumer electronics show wrapped up. Businesses from all over the tech industry showed up to strut their stuff. Although most of what was showcased was (not surprisingly) consumer tech, it nevertheless spanned industries as diverse as healthcare, automotives, and virtual reality. Read more »
It can get kind of exhausting, trying to keep up with all the data breaches surfacing in the media. It seems like almost every other week, there’s some new crisis in circulation; a new leak, hack, or exploit that puts our personal information at risk. Some are worse than others – a hospital losing a few thousand patient names versus a bank losing hundreds of thousands of financial records, but every breach of private data has the potential to wreak considerable emotional and financial harm on the people concerned.
Today, we’re going to take a look back at some of the worst data breaches we saw this year. Hopefully, as we move forward into 2016, we don’t start seeing incidents that top them (though we probably will). Read more »
Nobody’s perfect. And in the world of network and server administration, mistakes tend to be all-too-common – especially when you’re into your third night of troubleshooting hopped up on enough caffeine to put a Starbucks franchise out of business. Of course, there are some mistakes not even a sleep-deprived, overworked sysadmin will make; novice errors that no one in their right mind would fall victim to.
You haven’t bumbled into any of these, right? Read more »
We live in a world where most operating systems can be navigated with a few clicks, taps, or swipes. To many, Linux seems almost to hail from another century, perhaps even another civilization. Small wonder that even some Linux administrators have trouble keeping all the commands and language they have to use in their day-to-day. Read more »
If you’re a sysadmin, there’s a good chance you fall into one of two camps. Either you feel appreciated and well-liked within your organization, or you believe most people within your business simply see you as a walking band-aid for their technical problems. Unfortunately, as it turns out, there really isn’t a whole lot of middle ground there. Read more »
According to Trend Micro, 2016 will be “the year of online extortion.” Ransomware and extortion tactics targeting users both within enterprise and without will see a sharp increase. Online threats, the report explains, will “evolve to rely more on mastering the psychology behind each scheme than mastering the technical aspects of the operation.” Read more »
So, you want to start using cloud computing in your organization? That’s awesome! Just…keep one thing in mind first, alright? Particularly if you’re building your own cloud, there are certain components and services you need to make sure your business has access to.
Because if it doesn’t, then you simply aren’t up to the challenge of maximizing the benefit the cloud could bring to your business.
The good news is that if you know what you’re doing, it’s not difficult at all to prepare for – and implement – virtually any cloud service model. And that’s where we come in. Today, we’re going to talk about what your business needs to provide in order to be cloud-ready.
Shall we begin? Read more »
When I talk to businesses about their plans for cloud deployment, a frequent response is that they’d love to reap the benefits of the cloud, but that their company’s IT department isn’t organized in a way that makes it possible.
Traditionally, IT departments have been all about stability and availability — it’s their job to keep things running smoothly come what may. Risk aversion is deeply ingrained. While it’s certainly possible to maintain these IT virtues in the cloud, to leverage the cloud to its fullest advantage requires a more flexible, agile approach that may not mesh well with traditional IT. Read more »
According to security firm Sucuri, brute force attacks targeting WordPress have recently seen a sharp increase – and they show no signs of slowing. In the second week of September, they ballooned to 35 million attacks per day – up from 5 million at the beginning of the year. Read more »

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Record sales in Canada have helped pushed global Toyota hybrid sales above the 10-million-unit mark at the end of January.
The milestone came just nine months after total hybrid sales reached nine million at the end of April 2016. Toyota now sells 34 different hybrid models around the world.
When Toyota launched its first hybrid vehicle 20 years ago, “no one even knew what a hybrid was,” said Takeshi Uchiyamada, known as the father of the Prius and now the company’s chairman.
Toyota Canada Inc. (TCI) helped play a role in topping that 10 million mark with a record 19,787 hybrids in 2016, up 45 per cent over 2015 hybrid sales.
TCI accounts for more than three-quarters of all hybrids sold since 2000 in the Canadian hybrid vehicle market, said ToyotaCanada Vice-President Stephen Beatty.
Toyota has sold more than 130,000 hybrid vehicles in Canada, led in 2016 by the RAV4 hybrid. Despite stable gasoline prices, Toyota-branded hybrid sales were up more than 50 per cent over 2015, with 17,812 vehicles sold. Lexus made up the balance.
Canadian buyers are finding the switch “an easy way to save money for their households,” Beatty said. Hybrids are also “quieter, more powerful and often offer more standard features than their conventional gas counterparts, all while letting drivers reduce their carbon footprint.”
He also said that making the switch “meant no lifestyle change for drivers – other than having to fuel up less often.” There’s also no need to change fueling or driving habits, no charging or worrying about making long trips.
The RAV4 hybrid came to market in late 2015 and promptly became the top-selling hybrid in Canada. It accounted for 5,816 of the approximately 28,000 hybrids (an increase of about 39 per cent) that Canadians bought in 2016 (full-year figures were not available for all hybrids as of this writing).
But the RAV4 wasn’t solely responsible for higher hybrid sales. Ford/Lincoln hybrids were up 22 per cent. Total sales of dedicated hybrid models, such as the various Toyota Priuses, the Ford C-Max and the Chevrolet Volt, grew 25.8 per cent in 2016 compared to 2015 and have grown nine per cent in the first two months of 2017 compared to the same period last year.
Excluding RAV4, known sales of hybrid versions of conventional vehicles (Toyota/Lexus and Ford/Lincoln) were up 3.4 per cent in 2016. This does not include hybrid versions of vehicles such as the Hyundai Sonata and Porsche Cayenne, for which full-year data was not available at presstime.
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Mobility, digital screens fuelling out-of-home ads3 min read . Updated: 18 Aug 2022, 01:24 AM IST
- Revival in traffic at airports, cinemas and malls is driving ad spends on outdoor media
Video streaming services have returned to spending big bucks on billboards to grab eyeballs for their shows. In June, Mint reported that the category, with its miscellaneous foreign and homegrown brands such as Netflix, Disney+Hotstar and Hoichoi, among others, is estimated to spend ₹400 crore on outdoor advertising in a year.


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Pinterest has taken a number of steps to improve its mobile web experience, among them, the addition of night mode on the web app.
Three years ago, Pinterest looked at the state of its website on mobile browsers and found it seriously lacking. At the time, it also found that native apps offered 80% higher engagement rate, so the mobile web experience was largely ignored. The native apps on iOS and Android flourished, while the mobile web app suffered.
For the last year, and as part of its effort to make its mobile web experience better – and particularly for users who access the platform from older devices or locations with limited data access – Pinterest has worked to improve it. The web app’s data load has now been decreased, and performance has been boosted, leading to some excellent results.
In a recent blog post, Zack Argyle, Engineering manager for Core Experience at Pinterest, explained that “weekly active users on mobile web have increased 103% year-over-year overall, with a 156% increase in Brazil and 312% increase in India.” Also, in terms of engagement, “session length increased by 296%, the number of Pins seen increased by 401% and people were 295% more likely to save a Pin to a board,” he wrote. Finally, “logins also increased by 370% and new signups increased by 843% year-over-year.”
Now, the mobile web has become the platform’s top signup medium, showing that the investment has certainly paid off.
In addition to the above, Pinterest has also added a “night mode” to its mobile web app, changing the look and feel of Pins and the Pin feed. The new feature, only available through the web app can be activated by logging in and toggling it in the settings section. Given its current availability in the web app, Pinterest may be bringing it to its native apps soon.
Further information about Pinterest’s recent work on its web app can be found here.
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T3 Entertainment has announced that their upcoming online shooter, Hellgate (formerly known as Hellgate: London), has entered a state of open beta testing. T3 is celebrating the open beta launch with four special events.
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Hellgate will celebrate the Open Beta launch with four special events to reward and entertain the growing Hellgate community – the Guild Reservoir event, the Daily Supplies event, the To Level in Hell event and the Level and Be Rewarded event, each awarding top players with valuable prizes. Additionally, the Open Beta will feature two new game modes – the PvP Duel Area and the zombie-infested Cow Room. Finally, there is a special prize waiting for everyone upon entering the Hellgate Open Beta today.


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Sequoia Capital China founder and managing partner Neil Shen Nanpeng and Hillhouse Capital CEO Zhang Lei are among the candidates for the consultative committee that would decide which companies could list on the upcoming Nasdaq-style technology board in Shanghai.
Jett joined SoftBank four years ago, leading and managing global investments in consumer internet and e-commerce companies.
B Capital’s other partners are Saverin, Raj Ganguly, Gavin Teo, Kabir Narang, Allen Duan, and Virginia Schmitt.
The move followed a drop of about 60% in CLSA’s 2018 bonus pool and a number of other recent changes instigated by Citic, including staff adjustments and an overhaul of CLSA’s compensation structure.
Pillay will succeed Lee Theng Kiat, who will take over from Ho Ching as chairman of Temasek International.
Tencent follows a slew of Chinese tech companies from JD.com Inc. to Didi Chuxing that’re shaking up their ranks to tide them over tougher times.
Fixel backed 49 Indian startups during his time at Tiger Global. Not all of them paid off, but the outsized pay-offs from his early bets in Flipkart and Ola are undeniable.
Singapore-based DBS Private Bank has appointed Lee Woon Shiu as its new regional head of wealth planning, family office and insurance solutions.
Darshan Patel, who sold Paras Pharma in 2006, has made a come back with Vini Cosmetics, while Crompton Greaves’s Gautam Thapar is looking to re-enter the consumer space.
The company has also rejigged its top team and named Sanjay Kukreja as its new chief investment officer.


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The Cloverdale Christmas Hamper Program is in urgent need of donations.
“We’re in a bigger need this year than we’ve ever been in,” said Matthew Campbell, director of the Cloverdale Community Kitchen, the organization that runs the hamper program. “It’s just that a lot of the schools and businesses that hold toy drives and such won’t be doing them this year because of COVID.”
Campbell said they need toys and other grocery items. He added they have been receiving cheques from some businesses that would normally host toy drives, so he’s thankful for that.
We’re still doing a toy drive this year,” he said. “We’re still collecting toys for the families, but they won’t get to pick their toys this year. We’re asking people to put down a few choices for the child and we’re going to try and match up a toy with the child as best we can.”
Campbell said if anyone has toys they want to drop off, they can drop them off at the Community Kitchen between 9 a.m and 5 p.m. Monday to Thursday and from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Fridays.
The annual hamper program started Nov. 9, with registrations being done outside of the Cloverdale Community Kitchen.
“We had a little more than 80 families register on our first night and we had another 60-or-so register Thursday (Nov. 12),” said Lindsay Rempel, the Christmas Hamper Program manager. “That’s already about a quarter of the families we signed up last year.”
Last year the hamper program served about 500 families.
“The need has definitely increased.”
Rempel said they’ll take registrations for another three weeks and then they’ll concentrate on filling the hampers. She said a lot of the recent sign ups have been from new families that did not participate in the hamper program last year.
“We’ve had to switch things up this year,” added Rempel. “Normally, we have the big event on Saturday and Sunday, but we can’t do that this year, so we’re going to be delivering the hampers.”
That big event is the weekend-long distribution effort held at the Cloverdale Fairgrounds. Over two days, families arrive and receive hampers, which are boxes filled with food and other grocery store items (the amount of boxes one receives is based on the size of the family); then they get to shop at an additional free food store made up of last-minute donated food items; they also get to shop at a free—new only—toy store (one toy per child); and then they get to shop at a free second-hand store filled with mostly clothes and toys.
“Usually people come on one day during the weekend at the fairgrounds and they shop for their kids’ toys for Christmas and they get their hamper,” said Campbell. “But none of that will be happening this year because of COVID.”
He said the hamper program is committed to fighting through COVID because people are in need. “But we’re committed to keeping everything COVID-safe, as well.”
Campbell said they already have a lot of volunteers signed up to deliver the hampers over three days from Dec. 17 to 19.
“We wanted our mission to remain the same and to help as many people as we can,” added Rempel. “We’ve dropped off a few donation boxes to businesses and some schools, but there aren’t a lot of schools participating this year.”
She said the program usually gets its biggest amount of food donations from schools.
Rempel said the program has expanded slightly this year as they’ve allocated more resources for seniors. They’ve set up a special “seniors’ division” as part of the program.
“We found that the pandemic has especially impacted the seniors in our community,” explained Rempel. “They’re a vulnerable population and a lot of them are experiencing isolation and loneliness. So, we wanted to address that.”
Rempel is signing up as many seniors as she can from across Surrey, Langley, and White Rock.
“We are obviously still helping families, but we wanted to focus on seniors and make sure we don’t forget about seniors too.”
The plan, Rempel said, is that volunteers will deliver Christmas hampers to seniors and then hang out for a bit and have a socially-distanced conversation with them.
The Community Kitchen is also enlisting an army of school kids to write special letters, notes, and cards for seniors that they’ll stuff into each hamper.
Campbell added that while they have a lot of volunteers signed up to deliver hampers, they are still short on volunteers to help sort and pack all the donations into the hamper boxes.
If anyone’s interested in helping to pack and sort, Campbell asked that they email firstname.lastname@example.org to sign up.
The CCK is also holding an online silent auction, which can be found by visiting 32auctions.com/cck2020. The auction will benefit the Christmas Hamper Program. It runs from Nov. 23 to 30.
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According to recent reports, Taiwanese chip maker, TSMC, will prepare 80 million A14 chips for Apple this year. This information comes from a Twitter account @L0vetodream. While this could just be another random Twitter account saying things, it has actually had some correct predictions. It accurately predicted that the iPhone SE 2020 will arrive in the week of April. Furthermore, he also predicted correctly the third week of March release of the iPad Pro 2020.
TSMC will prepare 80 million A14 chips for Apple, in this year.
— 有没有搞措 (@L0vetodream) July 3, 2020
There are also reports that Apple also plans to launch a new iPad Pro with A14X chip, 5G connection and mini LED display in the first or second quarter of 2021. The new iPad Pro will be equipped with a Qualcomm X55 modem that supports mmWave and sub-6GHz. According to previous reports, Apple’s chip manufacturing partner, TSMC, will begin production of A14 chips and Snapdragon X60 modems for use. The latest iPhones will officially launch later this year (between September and November) and its chip will use the 5nm process.
Gizchina News of the week
According to previous news, the 5.4-inch iPhone 12 is the entry model. The screen is smaller than today’s iPhone 11, and the rear has a dual-camera setup. This smartphone comes with a full-screen design. Due to this body design, the device will be more compact than the 4.7-inch iPhone SE.
From the speculations and leaks so far, the significant change in the iPhone 12 design is that it uses a straight edge frame, similar to the iPhone 4. Furthermore, the power button position moves down and the button is longer. However, the iPhone 12 series will continue to use the square camera module just like its predecessor. Among them, the two iPhone 12 series will come with a dual rear camera setup. However, the other two iPhone 12 Pro series will use a triple rear camera setup + a LiDAR lidar scanner. The two high-end models, iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max, will boast of a 120Hz high refresh rate display. This is the first time that an iPhone will use such a display to provide a smoother screen experience.
The latest report on Apple’s upcoming flagship says that this series will not come with a charging head. According to Guo Mingji, the material cost for this new iPhone series is much higher. In order to maintain the price (as the iPhone 11), the iPhone 12 will cancel the headphones and charger.


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(Reuters) – South Korean conglomerate Lotte Group will acquire Samsung Group’s chemical businesses for more than 3 trillion won ($2.63 billion), Korea Economic Daily reported on Thursday citing unnamed sources.
The newspaper said Lotte Group affiliate Lotte Chemical Corp will acquire various assets, including a 31 percent stake in Samsung Fine Chemicals and 90 percent of Samsung SDI Co Ltd’s chemicals business.
Samsung SDI said it is in talks with Lotte Chemical for a potential sale of its chemical business without disclosing further details. Lotte Group, South Korea’s fifth-largest conglomerate, declined to comment, while Lotte Chemical and Samsung Group did not immediately comment.
Samsung Fine Chemicals could not be reached for comment.
Samsung Group has been exiting non-core businesses since last year, when the company said it would sell stakes in four affiliates in the defense and chemical sectors to Hanwha Group, another local conglomerate.
Other affiliates such as Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co Ltd are getting out of businesses with dim growth outlook, as well.
($1 = 1,141.9900 won) (Reporting by Se Young Lee and Joyce Lee; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)
This is the first acquisition by Iberchem since it was acquired by Croda in November 2020 and it is expected to play an important role in Iberchem’s plan to increase its offering of sustainable and natural certified fragrances.
ICL, a leading global specialty minerals and specialty chemicals company, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Compass Minerals América do Sul S.A. for approximately $402 million.
OMV says its European petrochemical net margins in the first quarter of 2021 rose sequentially compared with the fourth quarter, reversing momentum after four previous periods of declining margins.


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How to get local produce delivered to your door in Metro Detroit
Prior to COVID-19, farmer Alex Ball expected it would be a decade before Metro Detroit farmers massively adopted online ordering systems. However, that changed when the pandemic broke out.
“It was fun,” says Ball, owner of Belleville Old City Acres. “Overnight, every farmer developed a way to sell their product online. I’m excited now because I’m seeing a lot of growth among smallholders.”
The pandemic has given numerous metro Detroit farmers an unexpected boost in energy to expand their businesses and deliver local food directly to their customers. Ball introduced an online ordering system and CSA in 2018. His CSA membership rose from 15 members in 2018 to 25 members in 2019 – and then to 50 in 2020, forcing him to build new infrastructure to meet the additional demand.
“My business shot up in the one month period that people decided to go back to buying local food,” laughs Ball.
Detroit planted is a “vertical farm” near Belle Isle that grows greens and herbs in a controlled indoor environment. The plants are stacked on the ceilings of two buildings to maximize the cubic space. Before the pandemic, Planted Detroit mainly sold its product to restaurants. When the pandemic hit, the company launched an online shop where customers could order ready-to-eat salads for delivery in the greater metropolitan area.
“Our plan for our products has always been a direct-to-consumer model,” says Simon Yevzelman, Planted’s director of food safety and biosecurity. “Really, the pandemic has only accelerated these plans.”
Other companies have introduced new ways to connect multiple local farmers online with new customers during the pandemic. Drew Patrick is the owner of Michigan Fields, an online store based on Eastern Market for Michigan products and more. Patrick says he had tentative plans for the company for a long time because he worked with local food and beverage companies through his branding and design business. Skidmore Studio.
When COVID hit, Patrick said, “We said, ‘This is one way we can help, and it’s a way for us to keep people busy and support local growers and producers.’ So we got it up and running in about two weeks. “
Dazmonique Carr, founder of Deeply rooted productsays the pandemic forced them “to see what we are good at and what other people are not doing”. She started her business, an online marketplace selling products from farms in Metro Detroit, in 2016 when she was at Wayne State University. She realized that she had an advantage in the many connections she had with Detroit farmers and an opportunity for growth in the fact that many of those farmers did not deliver to customers’ doorsteps. That’s why she started a CSA in 2020 that offers delivery across Metro Detroit.
Carr says the farmers she works with are “grateful” for the new stream of income that Deeply Rooted Produce has created.
“When you weren’t online, you had minimal streams of income, mostly because people weren’t really coming in person,” she says. “If you had a farm stand or were in a market, the effect of not having an online presence was definitely noticeable.”
Although food shortages in large grocery stores spurred an initial surge in interest in local food last year, that interest has continued this year – and farmers believe it will stay here. Jerry Ann Hebron is the managing director of Northend Christian Community Development Corporationwho runs the Oakland Avenue Urban Farm in the North End of Detroit. In addition to providing thousands of free meals to those in need last year, the farm also launched one Online shop in cooperation with D-Town Farm. The business will add 10 more local vendors this year, and Hebron expects to add more in the years to come.
“People’s awareness was raised and it was shocking,” she says. “I think now people are more interested in seeing who grows the food, who they are, what their growing practices are, and saying, ‘Oh yeah, I’m going there in Oakland’ or ‘I’m going out D-Town in Rouge Park. ‘”
“The pandemic has really accelerated the changes that people like me would like to see in the food and agriculture sectors,” he says. “We want to reduce our reliance on monocultures. We want to reduce our reliance on off-season foods that are grown elsewhere and shipped across the nation, lose their freshness on the truck and then stay on the shelf for two days. that will only do [local] Businesses thrive and it will make people healthier. “
Local food on your doorstep
Would you like to have local groceries delivered to your own doorstep? Here are some of the numerous options available in Metro Detroit:
Beaverland Farms:: The CSA of this Brightmoor-based farm offers delivery within 20 miles of its location at 15078 Beaverland St., Detroit.
Deeply rooted product:: The Detroit-based company’s online store, Detroit Produce Market, offers local produce, baked goods, and other supplies. Launched last year, the CSA will return this year with a tiered pricing model to serve customers of all income levels. Delivery is throughout Metro Detroit or you can pick up your order at Rivendell Gardens in Detroit.
Doorganics:: The Grand Rapids-based company provides local product delivery in Detroit and Grand Rapids. Only a limited number of new customers are accepted in certain zip codes. So check if the service is available in your region.
Dot’s Market:: The Detroit company founded during the pandemic aims to deliver local products to both paying customers and those who may be unsafe. You can buy a product box for yourself or make a smaller donation that will provide a box for someone in need.
Farm box:: The Kansas City-based company has a hub in Detroit that provides delivery of local product boxes.
FarmStop:: Two residents of Birmingham launched this local online grocery store last year in response to the pandemic. They offer delivery anywhere in Counties Wayne or Oakland, as well as pickup from their Livonia headquarters.
Fisheye farms:: The CSA of this Detroit-based farm offers delivery within 20 miles of its location at 2334 Buchanan St.
Market cart:: The Indianapolis-based local product delivery company has a hub in Michigan. You can order local products for delivery in Wayne County and other areas of southeast Michigan.
Michigan family farm:: The Brighton-based company supplies produce, meat, dairy, seafood, baked goods and other ready-made meals from dozens of Michigan farms.
Michigan Fields:: This Detroit-based online store sells Michigan products, meat, dairy, and baked goods for delivery in Metro Detroit. This year, Michigan Fields’ own meat and butter will also be launched.
Care for our seeds:: This urban farm in Detroit sells excess product baskets for online delivery.
Detroit planted: This Detroit company specializes in vegetables, herbs, and ready-made salads. Immediate delivery is available in Detroit, Hamtramck, Ferndale, Royal Oak, Madison Heights, any Grosse Pointe parish or St. Clair Shores.
Detroit Farms business:: This Detroit-based marketplace was formerly the online marketplace for D-Town Farm and Oakland Avenue Urban Farm and has been renamed Shop Detroit Farms to accommodate the new local vendors to be added this year. For the first time this year, delivery is only to customers in the city of Detroit.
Above all, this list is not exhaustive! If you’re having trouble finding a product delivery service that meets your specific needs, you may not be alone. The high demand over the past year has resulted in some restricting their new customers / subscribers. Ball notes, for example, that he has already sold out his CSA membership for this year. But for those who think they missed the boat this year for fresh produce deliveries, he recommends calling your local farmers market who may be able to connect you with a farmer who might be able to use your business.


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Harrisburg, Pa. — D&H Distributing reported on Earth Day that its “Go Green” ecological programs and policies are reaping positive results, including new internal projects that aid in conservation.
The distributor said it has sold nearly 10 million units of green-certified products per year, aggregated across the three years that D&H has been tallying numbers for these products, amounting to 28,449,298 green items sold since 2010. The inventory of merchandise that qualifies as “green” has also increased steadily over the years, the distributor said.
D&H recently completed an installation of 62,729 square feet of solar panels adjacent to its corporate location, here. The Solar Farm encompasses 3,542 U.S.-made panels generating 245 watts of energy a piece, which is projected to save up to 44 percent annually on D&H’s energy expenditures at that location.
In addition, D&H’s IT department is in the process of “virtualizing” its infrastructure, consolidating 60 virtual servers to run on only 20 systems. The company’s use of IBM Blade Centers further reduces cooling and energy costs, the company said.
D&H has a roster of existing conservative equipment and policies in place, such as on-site and off-site recycling of paper, plastic, cardboard and wood materials and the Engaged Recycling equipment-disposal program.
The distributor also has motion sensors in all restrooms and storage rooms; logistical software that calculates and assigns the smallest potential packaging for each shipment; upgraded industrial batteries with automatic shut-offs; use of recycled packing materials; and energy-efficient T5 lighting in both warehouse and corporate areas, which is 50 percent more efficient than traditional lighting.
“D&H has been persistent in its application of ecologically conservative policies, which is reflected both in our offerings and within our organization,” said Jeff Davis, sales senior VP at D&H. “We also have to commend our channel partners for producing and purchasing more products that fulfill these guidelines.”


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Raw food diets, already popular for dogs, are gaining devotees among many cat owners as well. The idea is to mimic as closely as possible the ancestral diet that the wild ancestors of domestic cats evolved on: freshly-killed prey, eaten raw. Proponents believe this approach makes for healthier cats. But a growing chorus of health professionals is raising red flags about raw food diets (RFDs).
“We advise our clients that there is no evidence that raw diets have benefits over cooked diets — but there is a lot of evidence of potential harm to the cat and the family,” says Cailin Heinze, M.S., V.M.D., who is board-certified by the American College of Veterinary Nutrition and an assistant professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences at Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. “We recommend against feeding them for both pet and human health reasons.”
Major health organizations agree, including the Food and Drug Administration (“Raw food diets can be dangerous to you and your pets”), the ASPCA (“Raw food diets may be dangerous for pets”), the American Animal Hospital Association, and the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA).
RFDs are primarily made up of uncooked meat, wild or farm-raised. Some people prepare them at home, but many others purchase them fresh, frozen or freeze-dried. Proponents claim health benefits such as more energy, fewer allergies, better immunity, less dental disease, fewer parasites and better breath. But the evidence for these benefits is almost entirely anecdotal, says Dr. Heinze, adding, “We have clients who come in all the time who feed their pets raw food — complaining of the very issues that the Internet says raw diets will prevent.”
Do RFDs have benefits?
“Pretty much the only benefit that has been shown in an appropriate clinical study is increased digestibility,” says Dr. Heinze. The problem with that research, however, is that raw food was compared to kibble, so the digestibility differences may have been due to a different fat/carbohydrate/protein mix and how these nutrients interact with each other during the extrusion (cooking) process used to make kibble. “In one study, raw food was more digestible than dry pet food, but when the researchers took the same raw ingredients and cooked them, they were just as digestible as when they were raw. There’s nothing magic about the food being raw.”
The idea that raw diets are “natural” and thus superior has also been criticized. “There’s an assumption that whatever cats eat in the wild is appropriate for feeding them in captivity,” says Dr. Heinze. But cat genetics have actually changed in the 10,000 years since they were first domesticated. “Wild ancestors of modern cats have different genetics, a much shorter life span. They get a lot more exercise and so they have higher energy needs. Moreover, what is natural is not always better — nature is a rather cruel place to be. We want our pets to live longer, healthy lives.”
Evidence of harm
Unfortunately, RFDs can hurt your cat in several ways:
Nutritional inadequacy. “In theory, you could make a raw diet that is nutritionally adequate,” says Dr. Heinze. But many raw diets are not. One study looked at a raw diet composed of whole ground rabbit, “but they had to stop it because the cats were dying of taurine deficiency.” Taurine is an amino acid (a building block of protein) that is essential for cats.
Other deficiencies have been reported as well. Dr. Heinze remembers a kitten with multiple fractures due to calcium deficiency. “The kitten was being fed raw bone meal, but the calcium in the bones apparently wasn’t bioavailable.” That is, the kitten’s body couldn’t actually use the calcium.
Blockages. “We’ve seen cats as well as dogs with blockages in the intestines formed from ground bones — it’s almost like cement in the gut.”
Food-borne illnesses. This is by far the greatest threat, not only to pets but also to children, adults and other pets they with whom they come in contact. A recent FDA study of raw dog and cat pet food found that out of 196 samples, 36 were contaminated with the illness-causing bacteria Listeria, and 15 with Salmonella. Only one dry cat or dog food sample (out of 240) was contaminated. “I’ve had pet owners tell me that there’s just as much risk with dry foods,” says Dr. Heinze. “But when you look at the data, the rates of contamination in raw foods is > 20 times higher.”
Food-borne illness in cats, just as in humans, can result in vomiting, diarrhea, reduced appetite, weight loss and even potentially fatal systemic infections. The risk extends to family members, too. “A cat fed a raw diet poses a greater risk of making family members sick than a cat fed a commercial diet,” she says.
Some RFD manufacturers have responded to the contamination risks by pasteurizing raw foods. “High-pressure pasteurization may be safer than doing nothing — it’s probably better than not doing it — but we don’t know enough at this point,” says Dr. Heinze.
Others erroneously believe that freeze-dried foods are safer. “They believe that if you freeze dry something, you kill bacteria, but you don’t,” says Dr. Heinze. “Bacteria have been grown from freeze-dried foods.” — Bob Barnett


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Every year at Galaxy Unpacked, Samsung Electronics ushers in a new era of mobile innovation, and this year was no exception. In person for the first time in three years, Samsung showcased its exciting new range of additions to the Galaxy family, including the Galaxy S23 series, Galaxy Book3 series and an inspiring vision of sustainability, in San Francisco.
With its latest line of devices, Samsung is creating powerful, premium mobile experiences for everyone. Building on its long history of open, tried and trusted collaboration, Samsung also showcased how it is using technology to transform the future of human connection.
“More than ever, people are turning to the brands they trust for the tools they can trust to navigate our rapidly changing world,” said TM Roh, President and Head of Mobile eXperience Business at Samsung Electronics. “At Samsung, this demand for reliable performance pushes us to deliver more meaningful innovations, beyond the specifications. It drives us to create devices that are truly the best and that are a brand you can be proud of. We created these devices to set the new premium standard for innovation in delivering powerful performance, without compromise. For every consumer and for the planet we share.”
From senior Samsung executives showcasing the latest products to packed crowds and event visitors getting acquainted with the latest innovations, everyone took part in this celebration of all things Samsung. Here’s a rundown of Galaxy Unpacked 2023 highlights and reveals.
Lights, camera, action: Galaxy S23 series cameras
The Galaxy S23 series made quite an impact on visitors with its beautiful design and vertically aligned rear camera lenses. Samsung not only improved the unified camera design, but also significantly upgraded the camera capabilities of the Galaxy S23 Ultra. These improvements were highlighted through videos shot #withGalaxy, which debuted at this year’s Unpacked event.
The event featured an electrifying short film captured entirely on the Galaxy S23 Ultra by award-winning film director Ridley Scott. The short film showcased the superior capabilities of the device’s camera, revealing that anyone can produce an epic movie with videos shot of her daily life.
Galaxy S23 Ultra’s new 200MP wide camera captures high-resolution photos with a level of color and detail on a grand scale never before seen on a smartphone. In addition, several professional-level features in Expert RAW allow users to produce creative, cinematic movies with ease.
Shoot After Sunset: Night Photography
Shooting in low light can be a challenge for even the most advanced filmmakers, resulting in shaky, unusable footage with lots of noise. At Galaxy Unpacked, Samsung announced a multi-frame processing solution for the Galaxy S23 series camera to overcome this challenge. This dedicated algorithm blends multiple images into frames to reduce noise, allowing anyone to shoot clear, optimized video, even in the dark. Additionally, an improved AI object recognition engine and stereo depth map enable the camera to capture clear portraits in rich detail, bringing night photos to life. Plus, with the enhanced Nightography feature and front-facing camera, Galaxy S23 series users will be constantly prompted to share their group photos and videos with friends.
Enhance your gaming experience with the Galaxy S23 series
The Galaxy S23 series has received a major upgrade across the board, from its upgraded 5000mAh battery and improved cooling system to next-level camera performance and 41% faster GPU. The newly designed 8-core CPU increases the processing capabilities of the Galaxy S23 series by approximately 34%, which is ideal for multitasking. The optimized NPU architecture also uses an AI algorithm for an additional 49% magnification, helping users capture stunning photos in low light.
Everyday Sustainability: Shaping a Brighter Future Through Technology
From 100% recycled paper packaging boxes to various external and internal parts made from recycled glass, plastic and aluminum, Samsung has expanded the use of eco-friendly materials in its devices, furthering its sustainability efforts.
Shaping the future through collaboration with industry leaders
Samsung has a long history of partnering to push the boundaries of what’s possible to deliver leading, premium experiences. During the partnership announcement section of Galaxy Unpacked 2023, Qualcomm Chairman and CEO Cristiano Amon took the stage for the first time and revealed that the Galaxy S23 series is powered by the world’s fastest and most efficient Snapdragon® to date. moment.
“The Snapdragon® 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform for Galaxy features leading system processing performance as well as innovative AI that enables truly extraordinary experiences,” Cristiano said. “This includes AI-powered Cognitive ISP, which enhances photos and videos in real time for professional-quality camera experiences, even in dark environments.” Cristiano also emphasized that Qualcomm’s latest Adreno GPU provides ultra-realistic graphics and offers the ultimate in connectivity with the world’s best and most reliable 5G modem RF system, as well as industry-leading Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
If you weren’t able to tune in to the full event, check out the video below for a full replay of February’s Unpacked 2023.
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21 Jan 2016 18:50pm
WINDHOEK, 21 JAN (NAMPA) Heavy rainfall and strong winds early this month have damaged the roof of storerooms at the Rundu Government stores.
The strong winds blew off six roof sheets.
This has left the building vulnerable to flooding and the entire Government store building is under water, including the offices where staff members operate from.
Chief Administrative Officer Lukas Makayi told Nampa on Wednesday the situation has become a headache. He is also worried that the heavy rains experienced in the area will damage the remaining roofs and damage the goods kept in the stores.
I really feel sorry for our cleaners. Every day and throughout the day, they have to clean and sweep large amounts of flood water from the stores, he complained.
The buildings were constructed in the 1960s and are in a dilapidated condition.
Makayi said the building is full of cracks.
Natural disasters such as rain and strong winds can just add to it falling apart at any point now if it is not given special attention urgently.
We are in dire need of a completely new government stores as even staff members here are at risk of being injured, said Makayi, who has worked at the government stores for close to 30 years.
Echoing his sentiments was senior administrative officer Isak Shamakaka, who said the regional government stores are neglected.
He said they submitted requests for a new building five years ago but have not received a satisfactory response up to date.
Shamakaka said the Rundu government stores are also not optimal as the food should in fact be stored on an upper level of a building, as it is done in the Windhoek stores.
He added that the Ministry of Works and Transport has been notified of the damaged roofs and promised to replace the roofing.
Government stores serve as the central purchasing agent for Government, regional councils and government parastatals.
The Rundu government stores serve both the Kavango East and West regions.


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Australian businesses raked in an estimated $237 billion from the internet in the 12 month period from 2011 to 2012, a 25 per-cent increase from the $188.7 billion netted in 2010-11.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data showed, internet orders placed by Australian households, businesses and government, as also orders from overseas customers increased to 55 per cent in 2012, up from 51 per cent the previous year.
The statistics released also revealed a growth in innovative activity, with 47 per cent of businesses reporting innovation, as also increased use in IT.
According to the ABS' assistant director of the Innovation and technology statistics branch, Lesley Martin, larger Australian businesses had led the charge with innovation, and three quarters of these businesses introduced, developed and/or abandoned some type of innovation during 2011-12.''
Interestingly, according to Ms Martin, ''most businesses reported that they had introduced a new organisational or managerial process."
Data from the IT Use and Innovation in Australian Business 2011-12 report also showed 45 per cent of Australian businesses had a presence online presence, increasing slightly from 43 per cent in 2010-11.
The data compared to a recent report by Deloitte Access Economies, Connected Small Businesses, which showed a low to very low level of digital engagement among 59 per cent of respondents surveyed. Only 16 per cent made it in the high level category.
A total of 55 per cent of businesses placed orders online last year, which was up from 51 per cent in 2010-11, with 65 per cent of businesses in financial services placing orders over the internet, as against 55 per cent of national businesses.


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2022 June 6
All eyes on energy transition strategies
Сommodities trade is estimated to grow at appoximately 1% per annum over the next three years...
HD Hyundai's Avikus successfully conducts the world's first transoceanic voyage of a large merchant ship relying on autonomous navigation technologies
SK Shipping's super-large LNG carrier arrived at a South Korean port after a month-long transoceanic voyage...
US firms left hanging as ban on some China imports nears
The next disruptions may come from an unintended source: a US campaign against human-rights abuses in China...
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RF Government can start subsidizing loans of those investing in backbone network of transport and logistics centers (TLC) in view of cargo flows turning eastwards and lack of facilities on those routes. The Government’s document foresees preferential interest rate - 50% of the key rate. The market players estimate total investments in new TLCs at RUB 140 billion. Their capacity is to surge almost 2.5 times to 8.6 million TEU
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HMRC is well known for being determined, unforgiving and at times, ruthless in regards to chasing down tax evasion in the UK. Recent government data
showed that the tax gap was an estimated £36 billion of theoretical tax liabilities. Yet, the treatment and ferociousness of the HMRC seems to differ between SMEs and larger corporate businesses.
What is the “tax gap”?
This “tax gap” – meaning how much HMRC collected versus what it believes it should’ve collected – is about £18.3 billion from SMEs alone. Surprisingly however, large business contributed just £9.5 billion to the overall figure. So, why is it that the focus of tax collection is so set on SMEs and not major global businesses currently operating in the UK?
With this in mind, we decided to take a look at 5 of the biggest businesses that HMRC has provided favorable tax relief against.
Google Tax Relief :
At an enormous $530 billion dollar valuation, 70 offices in 40 countries and one of the world’s largest advertisers, Google is the most commonly referenced company that HMRC has provided tax relief to.
In 2016, HMRC judged that Google’s tax arrangements were legal and therefore the internet giant did not need to pay any further than the £130m in additional tax for the last 10 years. At an equivalent of 3% tax rate, the San Francisco based colossus has been allowed to escape paying hundreds of millions in tax to HMRC despite employing 2,300 staff in the UK alone (and an additional 2,200 are expected to join with the launch of their new £650m offices in Kings Cross). The search engine giant makes over 90% of its profit from selling advertising on its online platform. However, sales are generated via their Ireland office that allow them in turn to avoid paying standard Corporation Tax rates. UK operations are intentionally organised so the UK company makes as little profit as possible to avoid taxation.
It will come as no surprise that Google boss, Eric Schmidt, not only had multiple meetings with members of David Cameron’s former cabinet but is also a member of the former Prime Ministers Business Advisory Group.
Apple Tax Relief
If Google weren’t a big enough company to satisfy accusations of foul-play, then Apple will be. At an estimated valuation of $605 billion, Apple had a revenue stream of $215 billion in 2016. Through soaring sales of smartphones, tablet devices, laptops and desktop computers, the revolutionary technology firm have seen profits soar in the last two decades.
However, UK experts estimate that Apple are paying a fraction of the profits to the UK taxpayer via tax avoidance schemes. In 2015, Apple paid a paltry £12.9m in Corporation Tax despite posting huge global profits in excess of billions of dollars. Again, the structuring of the electronics giant through their Irish office allowed them to minimise profits in the UK but continue to take advantage of the UK’s economy, employment resource, infrastructure and marketplace.
Amazon Tax Relief
Online e-commerce platform Amazon is reported to have generated £5.3 billion in UK sales in 2015. The website has long been one of the world’s most advanced and popular online marketplaces. It deals with single sole traders selling bits and bobs through to major global fashion brands looking to sell on their website. However, in 2015, Amazon paid even less to HMRC than Apple with an estimated £11.9m in Corporation Tax
Yet again, HMRC seemed content that funnelling sales through their Luxembourg office was an ethical tax arrangement. The internet giant employs over 8,000 people in the UK alone and nearly 10% of all global sales are from the UK.
Shell Tax Relief
Whilst there can be no doubt that the online & technology industry giants are serious offenders with their tax arrangements and regularly avoiding HMRC punishments, the petroleum industry is in a completely different ballpark altogether. A 2014 Sunday Times investigation showed that the oil giant Shell paid zero corporation tax despite a global profit of $20 billion in 2014.
Shell are 5th largest company in the world and in the UK alone boast well over 6,000 staff. Shell argued that despite global profits their UK operations suffered a loss so they therefore did not need to pay any corporation tax. However, it is clear to everyone (but the HMRC) that tax arrangements used offshore transactions to help them gain an advantage in avoiding tax legislation.
IKEA Tax Relief
The final example of a corporate giant avoiding tax without consequence from HMRC has to be Swedish furniture brand IKEA. With an estimated network of $43.2 billion for IKEA’s founder – Ingvar Kamprad – alone, IKEA have been avoiding tax for nearly half a century. European parliament research showed that IKEA “structured itself to dodge €1bn in taxes over the last six years using onshore European tax havens”. IKEA differ from many of the other giants in that some of their tax arrangement are even more complex.
One tactic in particular involves gaining not-for-profit status globally. Whilst, the Swedish company’s PR points towards it’s charitable status as corporate social responsibility, recent investigation by The Economist
shows that the charitable wing of the organisation accrued around €33.5 billion in funds over a decade ago, with this number likely to have increased since then.
How do these firms get away with it?
Unfortunately, the repercussions for SMEs are substantially more severe than for large corporate tax-dodgers. HMRC has shown on multiple occasions a favourable outcome to larger businesses whilst still continue to pressurise and punish SMEs for even the slightest error or minor tax arrangement.
Whilst HMRC and the government have boasted “victories” such as the 2016 Google tax case (that saw Google pay back £130m in unpaid tax), the figures provided are still a nominal rate of tax in comparison to the profits of the business. This is particularly concerning for not just SME’s (who we’ve shown to still be targeted for filling the “tax gap”) but also the tax-payer.
Multi-national companies like Google, Shell and IKEA are employers to thousands of UK residents and rely on the nation’s infrastructure (roads, land, energy, workforce) to make their profits. Yet, their contribution is substantially less than what they take.
SMEs are unable to challenge HMRC rulings against them in comparison to larger businesses. They lack the accountancy teams to manage finances and have less resource and time to spend battling tax investigations. As HMRC makes further demands and adjustments to tax law such as COP8 and COP9
, the pressure on SMEs will only intensify. The very fact that the government’s own data places the bulk of the “tax gap” at SMEs shows that the strategy of the HMRC is to focus on ‘easier-to-target’ SMEs rather than truly challenge larger corporations.
What can SMEs do about it?
Unfortunately, the best option is to ensure that SMEs follow HMRC guidance as accurately as possible. As London and Birmingham tax accountants
, we regularly work with SMEs to help keep them up to date with the latest tax news as well as ensuring that their finances and arrangements are all in order. Employing an accountancy firm will not only allow your business extra resource and expertise to focus more heavily on corporate tax arrangements
, but as accountants work across multiple industries and sectors, it will give you the benefit of their experience gained from other companies and situations.
Speak to us today on 01216297768 or 02070784001 if you’d like to know more about tax arrangements and following HMRC guidance.


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The Bill seeks to balance the rights of consumers and creators in the modern age of new technology and bring Canada in line with its international obligations under the WIPO Internet Treaties.
On June 2, 2010 the proposed Copyright Modernization Act (the “Bill”) was introduced into parliament by the Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Industry and the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages. The purpose of the Bill, as the short title suggests, is to bring Canada’s copyright laws into the twenty-first century and also to ratify the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Copyright Treaty and Performances and Phonograms Treaty (the “WIPO Internet Treaties”), both of which enhance the protection of copyright works on the internet.
The Bill introduces the terminology Technological Protection Measures (the “TPM”), which refer to ways in which owners of digital copyright protect their work through the use of digital locks. The Bill recognises the importance of the protection of digital content and the protection of Canadian online businesses. Circumvention of TPM is prohibited under the Bill along with providing services to the public, or manufacturing technology or devices that circumvent TPM.
However, there are several exceptions to the blanket prohibition on circumventing TPM including some interesting exceptions for software developers. They will be allowed to ‘reverse engineer’ digital locks for the purpose of research and development. In addition TPM can be circumvented for other reasons including for the purposes of law enforcement and national security, unlocking wireless devices and there are exceptions for persons with perceptual disabilities. The Government will retain the ability to regulate in this area and to create new exceptions.
Several concerns about the Bill have been raised; the Consumers Council of Canada and the Canadian Consumer Initiative have jointly voiced concern that consumers could easily be caught in contravention of the Bill. They specifically refer to the TPMs which restrict everyday uses of technology, such as making a backup copy of a DVD for private purposes. Although making a backup copy of copyright material is expressly allowed in the Bill, it is not allowed if the original work is protected by a TPM. This contradiction is something that needs to be clarified before the Bill comes into force.
The Bill also contains several exceptions for consumers who will be able to use media, audio and digital content for private use as long as it does not contain TPMs. These exceptions include being able to record television, internet and radio broadcasts for enjoyment at a later date. There are also provisions to allow consumers to copy content that they acquire legally onto other devices that they own. This will allow, among other things, for music to be copied onto devices such as MP3 players for personal use.
The main concern from consumer groups is that the use of TPM leaves consumers to the mercy of media companies, who can control the majority of online commercial content through the use of TPM. Ultimately this will restrict the use of much of the content and leave consumers in breach of the Bill if they were to use any of the content in a way that is restricted by the copyright owner, i.e media companies. Therefore, the Bill creates a situation where media companies can control much of the content the correlating use of that content in Canada.
The role of Internet Service Providers (“ISP”) in policing copyright infringements is formalized under the Bill. ISPs will not be held liable for the copyright infringements for consumers who use their service. However, the Bill includes the “notice and notice” regime which is currently being used. This system allows Copyright holders to contact an ISP and provide them with notice that a consumer has infringed on their copyright. The ISP can then forward the notice to the consumer. The identity of the consumer can then be released with a court order. A failure on behalf of the ISP to co-operate with the copyright holders can result in civil damages.
The Bill also includes several provisions relating to the use of copyright material in educational settings, generally referred to as the “Fair Dealing Exception”. However, the Canadian Bar Association has pointed out that further refinement of the Fair Dealing Exception related to education is required to provide clarification and certainty for educational users.
Infringement of copyright under the Bill is reduced significantly from what it is currently. As it stands now courts can award penalties of between $500 to $20,000 per infringement of copyright, regardless of if it was for personal or commercial use. The Bill reduces the penalty for non-commercial infringement to between $100 and $5,000 in total damages, however; there is no change to the penalties for commercial infringement.
As of the Dissolution of Parliament, the Bill was at its second reading and referred to a committee in the House of Commons, it awaits to be seen as to what changes can be expected to the Bill as it goes through the parliamentary process in 2011 with the new Government.


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The electric car market in India has yet to gather speed in the same way as other Western countries like the USA or Europe, but that could soon change.
Twin sisters Nishita and Nikita Baliarsingh have created a start-up company called Nexus Power, based in the city of Bhubaneswar in India’s eastern state of Odisha, that specialises in making rechargeable, bio-organic and bio-degradable batteries from crop residue.
Nishita and Nikita initially started Nexus Power with the hopes of creating their very own electric vehicles. However, the duo quickly learned that the Indian market was not particularly interested in EVs because of the long battery charging time, price of the vehicles and lack of local resources to produce lithium-ion batteries.
Once the twins learned that the Indian population had low interested in a new EV, Nishita and Nikita went on to further their studies in the fields of battery thermal management and selection of nanomaterials, respectively.
Nikita completed a number of courses relating to the selection of nanomaterials for energy storage, while Nishita focused her studies on hybrid electric vehicle designing and innovation, battery thermal management, and IP rights to find battery solutions for electric vehicles, according to reports from The Startup Lab.
Using their combined knowledge, the twins started Nexus Power in 2019 with the goal of upcycling agricultural waste to provide battery technologies for EVs.
Nexus Power now manufactures rechargeable, bio-organic and bio-degradable batteries from crop residue that are both sustainable and eco-friendly.
“We procure the unburnt crop remains and manufacture rechargeable energy-storing cells from this by applying a unique extraction and filtration process. Multiple such cells go into making the IoT and AI-based sensor-enabled battery pack used in EVs,” Nikita said in an interview with The Startup Lab.
The use of crop remains also means the overall price of the batteries are much cheaper when compared to conventional lithium-ion batteries, and acts as a source of income for farmers that supply the crop remains and residue. The Nexus batteries also offer 8x–10x faster charging.
“Procurement of crop waste helps farmers earn an additional income of Rs 25,000 for every 100 batteries. Also, our patented technological innovations will let us eradicate seven billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by the next century,” Nikita said.
The team at Nexus Power, which has grown into an a11-member team are now working on batteries that will be used in two and three-wheeler vehicles. The team at Nexus Power believes their batteries will be ready for consumers by 2022.
Take a look at Nikita explain the formation of Nexus Power and the inner workings of her revolutionary battery below:


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Nokia to cut 1,300 jobs in Finland by 2018
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By Standard Reporter | April 7th 2016
Finnish communication giant Nokia announced on Wednesday that it plans to slash about 1,300 jobs in Finland by 2018.
Nokia said in a press release that it is set to start collective negotiations. The company employs about 6,700 workers in Finland by the end of 2015.
In a separate press release on Wednesday, Nokia said it launches measures to reduce its personnel globally as part of its synergy and transformation program.
According to the company, the layoffs mainly focus on those areas where there are overlaps, such as research and development, regional sales organizations, as well as corporate functions. Nokia did not disclose how many jobs will be slashed globally.
The mass redundancies are designed to meet the objective of 900 million euros of operating cost synergies to be achieved in 2018 related to the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent, said the company.
Rajeev Suri, CEO of Nokia, said Nokia made a commitment to deliver 900 million euros(1.03 billion U.S. dollars) in synergies when it announced the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent.
In January 2016, Nokia finalized the acquisition of his French-American rival Alcatel-Lucent.
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Public Health professionals in Knowsley are encouraging residents to make a New Year’s resolution to sign up to the latest Change4Life campaign.
The new campaign will be launched in January in a bid to help families switch to healthier food options.
Those who register will be encouraged to make one easy, healthy swap every day for a month.
For instance, this could be as simple as a family switching from butter to margarine or full sugar fizzy drinks to diet varieties or 100% unsweetened fruit juice.
Matthew Ashton, Director of Public Health for Knowsley said:
“A new year is the perfect time to think about making a change for life. Everyone is health conscious in January, and the new healthy eating campaign suggests lots of ways to switch to healthier foods. There’s also a helpful ‘Taster Recipes’ leaflet, packed full of tasty dishes which are simple and easy to make.
Becoming healthier as a family is easier than you think. Change4Life has lots of ideas to help you do this.
Whether it’s swapping to healthier foods, doing more physical activity or cutting back on portion sizes, Change4Life has ideas, recipes, games and tips to help the whole family get healthier and happier – plus it’s all free.
To find out more and join Change4Life,
visit www.nhs.uk/Change4Life or telephone 0300 123 4567.


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Seamless Middle East 2019 is set to take place from 10th to 11th April 2019 at the Dubai World Trade Centre, bringing industry leaders in the payments, retail, ecommerce and fintech sectors together to discuss the latest development in the field of digital technologies.
Held under the patronage of H.H. Lt. General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior of the United Arab Emirates, Seamless Middle East is organised by the League of Arab States, Council of Arab Economic Unity, in collaboration with Terrapinn Holdings Ltd.
More than 350 international exhibitors and more than 400 speakers from international organisations will participate in more than 250 sessions on the sidelines of the exhibition, highlighting the latest technologies in the world of digital revolution. This year ‘s edition will witness a distinguished presence where more than 11,000 visitors registered so far.
The conference sessions will discuss key topics; financial technology, digital payments, e-commerce, retail and digital identity.


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Starbucks will close all its teavana stores over the next year the seattle-based coffee giant announced its tea retailer was underperforming as third-quarter. This shopping feature will continue to load items in order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous. Starbucks corporation and simon property group have reached a settlement in a lawsuit that prevented the coffee house giant from closing 77 of the company’s 379. Why starbucks is closing all its teavana stores starbucks is shuttering all 379 teavana stores, most by next spring. The months-long bitter battle between starbucks’ teavana chain and the country’s no 1 mall operator is over — with the java joint’s tea chain winning.
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Simon property group & starbucks corp have settled a lawsuit last year, aimed at preventing starbucks' closure of dozens of teavana stores in simon-owned properties. Starbucks corp’s plans to close all of its 379 teavana retail locations by the end of january 2018 might be in trouble as a judge in indiana last week granted a. Starbucks agreed on wednesday to buy teavana, a seller of high-end teas, for $620 million in cash the deal is the coffee giant’s biggest takeover to date. Starbucks sold over $1 billion of teavana beverages in 2015 partners with anheuser-busch to bring teavana into supermarkets, convenience stores ready to drink.
Baby, it's cold outside, and it doesn't look like we're in for pleasant weather anywhere in the near future it is prime time for a stuffy nose and scratchy throat. Starbucks and simon property group have reached a settlement regarding the closures of teavana stores. Power through winter with teavana wellness teas at starbucks the holidays have come and gone, but the winter season continues for consumers looking for a comforting.
Starbucks (nasdaq:sbux), the owner of teavana, the hippest tea company around, is promoting its new purchase in all sorts of ways the coffee giant paid $620 million.
Teavana and starbucks have raised $5m in support of education for young people with the chai tea in result of the partnership. Starbucks teams with beer maker for non-alcoholic teavana bottled tea the tea launches next year, but it isn't alcoholic. Starbucks is in for a challenge starbucks wants to crack asia's tea market with upscale teavana brand.


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A coalition of watchdogs is full of people who don’t like when a product is on the sly, and would like the FCC to do something about it – referring to the increasingly popular use of product placement to combat channel-skipping.
According to BusinessWeek, about 50 groups led by Free Press are keeping track of product placement during the fall prime time season so they can present the FCC with statistics on just how common the technique is becoming.
Placement can be anything from “Americal Idol” judges drinking out of Coca Cola containers to a product or service actually being woven into the script of a show, such as an episode of “Biggest Loser” in which contestants hike from one Subway restaurant to another.
The watchdogs would like to have a flashing red light or some other indicator on screen any time a product is being pitched within a program, an idea which inspires vigorous resistance among programmers and distributors.
A compromise identification technique would be the listing of all advertisers and products appearing within the program’s content during the credits at the end of the program.
So far the new Obama administration FCC has been heavily focused on broadband issues. It also said it recognized that broadcasters were under considerable financial strain at the moment and that it did not want to rashly come in and make matters worse.
RBR-TVBR observation: What, really, is so bad about a character in a program, reality, scripted or whatever, drinking a specific brand of coffee by contract? Sure, list the arrangement in the credits, but don’t make identification requirements onerous – they are making it possible for people to watch the program for free.
They also make it possible for the station to have the wherewithal to stay on the air and provide critical public information in times of emergency – even with most other media are shuttered by failed electricity and downed wires.
We would point out that product placement comes with its own risks. Many people probably share the same sentiments as some of these watchdogs, and do not like having products woven into a script – and they will demonstrate their displeasure by changing the channel.
The same rules apply to commercial spots. If advertisers allocate too much time for commercials, people put the remote to use and take their business elsewhere. So for the same reason programmers make sure commercial spots are kept to a minimum, the use of product placement will be carefully monitored and balanced with the entertainment value of the program as well.


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New Delhi [India], April 19 (PNN): Ramagya Group is a well-recognized entity with over 36 years of excellence in India. With 20 brands in different verticals under the parent company, Ramagya Group is going to launch its B2B E-commerce platform “Ramagya Mart” shortly. The platform will connect manufacturers with the whole-sellers, distributors, and dealers directly.
The objective of Ramagya Mart is to drive a specific category of Indian manufacturers by offering them a platform to create their wholesale e-marts on the portal and use the platform as an image-building tool to engage with a large diaspora of tier 2 and tier 3 wholesale businesses primarily.
The phenomena of India’s internet economy doubling from USD 125 Billion in 2017 to attaining USD 250 Billion in 2020, with 66% of e-commerce demand in India coming from Tier 2 & Tier 3 Cities, India will soon be in a position to benchmark global B2B e-commerce business that is 5 times the size of B2C e-commerce business.
Utkarsh Gupta, Managing Director, Ramagya Mart said that the core positioning of the brand is ‘Desh Ka Vyapaar’ and his entire philosophy behind the brand positioning stems from the Prime Minister’s Atmanirbhar Bharat philosophy.
Mr. Utkarsh Gupta also said “if manufacturers utilize their capacities to an optimum level, not only will they be productive and profitable but will also become a catalyst to creating new job opportunities for our people from Tier 2 cities and Tier 3 towns.
He also further added that the promoters of this brand have a strong trading background and experience. And since they are also currently in the education business, the values of transparency and trustworthiness are embedded in the ethos of this new brand and the functionality of the business platform and its working. Ramagya Mart has a mammoth mission to be a catalyst of productivity for manufacturers and the plan is to market and advertise the platform on the similar lines of successful B2B platform to garner traction from wholesalers, distributors, retailers, and institutions.
‘When we launch Ramagya Mart, we will unveil how our ethos is reflected in our brand identity and how we have integrated Trust, Transparency, and Trade as part of our business fundamentals. We will also unveil our investments and core uniqueness of the platform, which will benefit both manufacturers and their wholesale business customers. In the next 3 years we will ensure that Ramagya Mart will be one of the best solutions to distribution challenges and a catalyst for volume business marketing for Indian manufacturers,” said Utkarsh Gupta, Managing Director of Ramagya Mart.


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BB warns businesses against accepting export proceeds in cryptocurrency
Bangladesh Bank has warned businesses against accepting export proceeds in cryptocurrency and retaining the funds abroad.
Amid a dollar crunch, it also reminded people of the law that prohibits buying cryptocurrency by using foreign exchange in a notice on Thursday.
The definition of “currency” given in the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act does not recognise virtual currencies for transactions or investments, the central bank said.
“Virtual currencies or virtual assets have no financial claim embedded and neither issued by any sovereign nor guaranteed by any jurisdiction. Thus, their value is highly volatile and associated with high financial risks,” it warned.
“Nonetheless, borderless transactions of unregulated virtual currencies are growing fast and being exchanged with some other foreign currencies, thus treated as an alternative form of foreign exchange transactions which is contravention of the FER Act, 1947.”
The notice said the Financial Action Task Force has defined virtual assets as a digital representation of value that can be digitally traded, or transferred, and can be used for payment or investment purposes. “Point to be noted that virtual assets do not include digital representations of fiat currencies, securities and other financial assets, recognised by Bangladesh Bank.”
It said retention of export proceeds abroad in any form without limiting to equity or portfolio investment, purchase of physical assets/virtual assets, maintenance of accounts regardless of currencies including cryptocurrencies constitutes contravention of the law.Any transactions made for obtaining virtual assets and virtual currencies are not permitted by Bangladesh Bank. It does not permit any kind of facilitation in favour of doing business, activities, and operations associated with exchange or transfer or trading of virtual assets or virtual currencies.
The Bangladesh authorities have so far been sceptical about the use of cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin, ethereum and ripple. A number of people have been arrested for illegal use of cryptocurrencies in crimes.
In July 2021, Bangladesh Bank reiterated its stand on cryptocurrencies and asked everyone to refrain from their transactions and promotions to avoid financial and legal risks.
It said the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act 1947 does not support use of such currencies either and online transactions in these currencies with unnamed people or people with pseudonyms may violate the Money Laundering Prevention Act 2012.
After India in February announced the introduction of its central bank digital currency or CDBC, backed by blockchain technology, in the next fiscal year, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal in June said Bangladesh Bank will conduct a feasibility study on the possibility of introducing its CDBC.CBDC is a legal tender issued by a central bank in a digital form. It is similar to a fiat currency issued in paper and is interchangeable with any other fiat currency.
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Beer and hot dogs will be relatively cheap at Super Bowl LIII
There’s really nothing cheap about the Super Bowl. People pay tens of thousands of dollars to just get inside the stadium, and that doesn’t include your travel fare, hotel costs and parking prices.
But for fans who do get inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium for Sunday’s Super Bowl LIII showdown between the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams, the price of concessions will be relatively low. At least for a few fan-favorite items.
Mercedes-Benz Stadium announced via Twitter that hot dog and beer prices will be considerably cheaper than usual for football’s premier game. Hot dogs will be sold for $2 and beer will be $5.
That’s pretty low for any professional sporting event.
— MercedesBenzStadium (@MBStadium) January 30, 2019
It’s not as if the Stadium is actually going to be hurting for money. Even the cheapest Super Bowl tickets will sell for thousands of dollars, and it’s guaranteed to bring in a huge chunk of money.
Mercedes-Benz Stadium could’ve increased the price of beer and hot dogs for the game, trying to make as much money as possible. But it’s pretty cool that you can get a bite and a beverage for under $10 at the Super Bowl.
Even if you had to spend a fortune to get through the door.


text: NewsRegional News Castlegar events and recreation filmed for new marketing project SHARE ON: Alex Skultety, staff Thursday, Jun. 7th, 2018 Destination Castlegar is working on a new project to better showcase the city. An image bank is being developed using local video and photography. Marketing Coordinator, Andrea Ryman, says it’ll showcase some of the action happening around town. //www.mykootenaynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Ryman-1.wav Ryman says it’ll appeal to locals and visitors alike. //www.mykootenaynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Ryman-2.wav The footage will be featured in a tourism video. //www.mykootenaynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Ryman-3.wav Ryman says they’ve been working with professional photographer Lee Orr over the past year, and Stacked Films is part of the project as well.


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ROCKFORD -- If you are in Rockford on Thursday, "Biggby Bob" might buy you a latte. Bob Fish, founder and chief executive of Biggby Coffee, will drop in from 8-10 a.m. at the Rockford franchise, 2745 10 Mile Road NE.
Fish plans to mingle with patrons and buy them their drink of choice. Fish has traded his office for life on the road in an effort to increase "real" interactions with customers and franchisees.
He chronicles his visits on his personal blog in addition to social sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
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text: ‘Remix Bout’ Secret Rares Leaking! By: Water Pokémon Master Posted 3 months ago to TCG 18 comments The secret rares from Remix Bout are beginning to leak online! The full art Stadium is Martial Arts Dojo from Unbroken Bonds. The set will release on July 5th, but was already revealed by the official Japanese Pokemon TCG website. Keep checking this story throughout the night for new card images! Thanks goes to @pokeca_oripa7 for the photo above!


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Humira: How far can drug makers go to protect their branded market?
Between 2005 and 2015, 78% of drugs associated with new patents were not new drugs.1 The practice of obtaining patents covering these “new inventions,” which include modifications of known drugs or new mixtures or delivery methods of known drugs, is commonly referred to as evergreening, and has become one of many tactics drug makers use to shield a product’s market exclusivity long past the product’s initial patent term and delay the entry of generic competition2 into the market. Recent moves by legislators to increase generic competition, and thereby reduce drug prices, have inspired drug makers to explore other ways to use patents to protect their investment in blockbuster brand-name products. In the case of at least one particular drug therapy, this has meant evergreening to the extreme.
In 2019, drugmaker AbbVie, manufacturer of the world’s best-selling drug treatment Humira, was accused, in a series of consolidated class actions brought by indirect purchasers of Humira, of illegally shielding Humira from generic competition with a “thicket” of more than 100 patents.3 Humira, a biologic treatment used primarily for arthritis and other autoimmune disorders, has generated more than $115 billion in global sales since 2010. Despite expiration of the primary Humira patent in December 2016, some of Humira’s other patents stretch out to 2034 — more than three decades after the drug launched. Plaintiffs allege that this excessive patent portfolio creates unlawful exclusionary effects that stifle generic competition and render normal enforcement mechanisms, such as litigating invalid patents, financially impracticable.
Efforts by prospective competitors to slash through AbbVie’s patent thicket through litigation have proven ineffective. Most recently, the last-remaining challenger, Boehringer Ingelheim, settled its claims and joined several other biosimilar manufacturers in the queue to await an agreed-upon release date in the U.S. Based on these patent settlement agreements, plaintiffs accuse AbbVie and its would-be generic rivals of entering unlawful pay-for-delay and market allocation agreements that permit AbbVie to maintain Humira’s supracompetitive prices for years to come. According to the complaint, absent competition in the U.S., the cost of treatment with Humira can cost patients $50,000 per year. A cost which, in the absence of AbbVie’s alleged agreements, should have decreased significantly with the entry of generics after expiration of the primary Humira patent. Despite the pending allegations, AbbVie started 2020 with a price increase in excess of 7% — making it among a handful of drugs with the highest jumps in the new year.4
The various plaintiffs allege that AbbVie and its would-be competitors engaged in pay-for-delay deals to delay the launch of competitive biosimilars. In particular, plaintiffs point to the agreement between AbbVie and competitor Amgen, which permits Amgen to enter the market earlier than any other generic. Plaintiffs contend this affords Amgen a substantial payout by being the first to reach a settlement with AbbVie. Namely, under its settlement, Amgen can launch its biosimilar in January 2023, while other competitors are excluded from the market until June that year at the earliest.
While the Supreme Court’s landmark Actavis5 decision left open the possibility that pay-for-delay agreements could be anticompetitive, plaintiffs will face multiple challenges in demonstrating AbbVie’s particular arrangements constitute pay-for-delay. While some courts have suggested that payments could be non-monetary, courts have struggled to adopt definitive standards of what constitutes a “payment.”6 Here, plaintiffs must demonstrate that the earlier biosimilar access to the EU market constitutes a large and unjustifiable payment. Moreover, under the Actavis decision, the arrangements could be scrutinized under the flexible and defendant-friendly rule of reason standard, which allows defendants to propose procompetitive justifications to overcome allegations of anticompetitive conduct. Defendants could then argue that the settlement agreement is procompetitive because it allows Amgen’s biosimilar product to come to the U.S. market years before the expiration of all of AbbVie’s asserted patents.
Of the $20 billion in earnings from sales of Humira in 2018, $14 billion was reportedly generated from sales in the U.S. Following the launch of the first biosimilar in Europe, European prices for a course of treatment with Humira dropped between 10-80%.7 Anticipating a similar drop in prices in the U.S. following entry of the first biosimilar, plaintiffs allege that AbbVie conspired with its competitors to unlawfully divide the U.S. and European markets.
According to a complaint filed by New York’s largest grocery workers union, AbbVie’s agreements permit a deliberate sacrifice of profits in an already less lucrative European market to sustain astronomical prices in the U.S. This division of European and U.S. markets is per se unlawful under Section 1 of the Sherman Act as unlawful market allocation. Plaintiffs contend that the agreements between competitors to cease competing is “anticompetitive regardless of whether the parties split a market within which both do business or whether they reserve one market for one and another for the other.”8
Since the union launched these claims in March 2019, several other third parties have also filed suit, including Miami police officers, the mayor and city council in Baltimore, as well as other unions representing Minnesota and New York workers.9 While the per se nature of the claim puts plaintiffs in a somewhat easier position, some commentators remain skeptical that courts will adopt plaintiffs’ arguments. For instance, there remains a question of whether a generic defendant’s actions could be considered “ceasing to compete” in a market if its producthad not yet launched and competition had not yet begun.
In October 2019, in a memorandum in support of its motion to dismiss the case10, AbbVie argued that the antitrust accusations around its accumulation of patents around Humira should be dismissed because there is no law limiting the number of patents a company can hold. AbbVie further argued that its settlement agreements are early-entry-only settlements, which are not subject to antitrust scrutiny, in contrast to settlements that provide for a reverse-payment flowing from the patent holder to the licensee.
In the past year, bipartisan measures proposed in the U.S. Senate aim to “[curb] patent manipulation by brand name drug makers”11 and private parties similarly seek to erode barriers to generic market entry through class action lawsuits. While allegations against AbbVie are not atypical to antitrust actions in the pharmaceutical space, AbbVie’s conduct with respect to protecting Humira raises new issues surrounding drug makers’ unilateral ability to shield blockbuster therapies from generic competition. Perhaps on a scale not seen before, the Humira litigation forces courts and policymakers to confront the market consequences that coincide with the grant of patent monopolies, including the harms to competition and threats to consumer access to needed therapies.
1 Robin Feldman, May your drug price be evergreen, 5 J. OF L. & THE BIOSCIENCES 590 (2018). https://academic.oup.com/jlb/article/5/3/590/5232981
2 Reforming Evergreening and Manipulation that Extends Drug Years Act (REMEDY Act), S.___, 116th Cong. (1st Sess. 2019).
3 In re: Humira (Adalimumab) Antitrust Litig., No. 19-VC-1873 (N.D. Ill. consolidated Jun. 4, 2019); see also Jeff Overlay, ‘Groundbreaking’ AbbVie Suits Test Bold Anti-Generic Tactics, LAW360 (Mar. 27, 2019, 8:43 PM), https://www.law360.com/articles/1055075/-groundbreaking-abbvie-suits-tes...
4 Christopher Rowland, Why price of Humira keeps rising despite FDA approval of generic competition, The Washington Post (Jan. 8, 2020, 7:00 AM), https://www.washingtonpost.com/ business/economy/why-humiras-price-keeps-rising-despite-fda-approval-of-genericcompetition/2020/01/07/549ed0ce-2e3a-11ea-bcb3-ac6482c4a92f_story.html.
5 Fed. Trade Comm’n v. Actavis, Inc., et al., 133 S. Ct. 2223 (2013).
6 See, e.g., In re Loestrin 24 Fe Antitrust Litig., 45 F.3d 538, 549 (1st Cir. 2016) (overturning a district court decision only Actavis applies “only to cash settlements or to their very close analogues” and expanding Actavis’ holding to noncash forms of settlement payments).
7 Sarah Jane Tribble, Why the U.S. Remains the Most Expensive Market for ‘Biologic’ Drugs in the World, NPR (Dec. 19, 2018, 1:02 PM), https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/12/19/ 676401634/why-the-u-s-remains-the-most-expensive-market-for-biologic-drugs-in-the-world.
8 Complaint at 36-37, UFCW Local 1500 Welfare Fund v. AbbVie Inc., et al., No. 19-CV-01873 (N.D. Ill. filed Mar. 18, 2019) (citing Palmer v. BRG of Ga., Inc., 498 U.S. 46, 49-50 (1990)).
9 Eric Sagonowsky, AbbVie’s Humira antitrust woes snowball as class-action plaintiffs pile in, FIERCEPHARMA (Apr. 3, 2019, 12:16 PM), https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/police-miamicity-officials-baltimore....
10 Memorandum in Support of Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss, In re: Humira (Adalimumab) Antitrust Litigation, No. 19-CV-1873 (N.D.Ill. filed October 10, 2019).
11 Press Release, Bill Cassidy, M.D., Cassidy Introduces Package of Legislation to Lower Drug Prices (Apr. 11, 2019), https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-introduce....


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Rumours on there being no Assassin’s Creed game this year have been flying around the web for the last month. People have been saying things like the next game will come out in 2017, it will be set in Eygpt and the assassin in it will feature in a trilogy with the second game heading to Rome. Rumours have also suggested that the game will feature free-form combat akin to The Witcher 3’s.
Most of the above is still just rumour, however we can confirm that there will be no new entry in the series this year. In a message to their fans the Assassin’s Creed team discussed Syndicate and the upcoming movie, but the most importantly they said the following:
This year, we also are stepping back and re-examining the Assassin’s Creed franchise. As a result, we’ve decided that there will not be a new Assassin’s Creed game in 2016. Since the release of Assassin’s Creed Unity, we’ve learned a lot based on your feedback. We’ve also updated our development processes and recommitted to making Assassin’s Creed a premier open-world franchise. We’re taking this year to evolve the game mechanics and to make sure we’re delivering on the promise of Assassin’s Creed offering unique and memorable gameplay experiences that make history everyone’s playground.
There you have it, no Assassin’s Creed this year. Many gamers have been complaining of franchise fatigue with this series in particular, so it’s good to see Ubisoft taking that on board and re-evaluating what an Assassin’s Creed game should look like. While there’ll be no new game this year a last-gen re-release is potentially still on the table. We’d love to see Rouge appearing on current-gen platforms, although a full year with no mention of the games might be best for fans.


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Some Nebraska farmers are offering the chance
for residents across the state to win free
groceries for an entire year.
Nebraskans can register for a chance at one of two grand prizes of $5,000 "Free Groceries for a Year!" courtesy of a group of Nebraska farmers, a veterinarian and a grocer, at www.FarmersFeedUS.org.
Upon visiting the site, consumers register by "meeting" one of their fellow Nebraskans through a short video that shows how each is involved in producing safe, nutritious and affordable food. Consumers can register with each of the seven featured individuals daily through April 8, the end of the 90-day program.
The Farmers Feed US website features corn, dairy, hog, soybean and turkey farmers, as well as a veterinarian and a grocer, each sharing information about the foods they produce.
Featured Nebraskans include:
"As Nebraskans, we're thrilled to offer free groceries for a year to the consumers of our state," said Chad Bartek, a soybean farmer from Ithaca, Nebraska, who is a featured farmer on the website. "This is an opportunity for us to share what we produce with consumers of the state and to let them know we share their values - taking care of our families, taking care of our animals and land and giving back to our communities."
Supporting Nebraska agriculture groups include the Alliance for the Future of Agriculture in Nebraska, Nebraska Soybean Board, Nebraska Pork Producers, Nebraska Corn Board, Midwest Dairy Association and B&R Grocery.


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City of Rotterdam
Rotterdam is a capital of innovation. Home to start-ups and scale-ups that are ready to change the world. Working hard to remain the world‘s smartest port. And a port of call for companies that aim to secure their markets through innovative products, services and processes. In a nutshell, Rotterdam innovation is about future-proofing our society, industries and economy.
“The City of Rotterdam is proud to support the Rotterdam innovation ecosystem“, says Barbara Kathmann, Vice Mayor with the city administration for Economy. “And rightfully so. Rotterdam hosts a community that actively enables innovation to reach new markets. From breeding grounds such as RDM Rotterdam, the Makers District and CIC, to accelerators like PortXL.“
City partnership entails full engagement, Kathmann continues: “In collaboration with our network, Rotterdam can help innovators contribute to their needs, such as finding company space and potential clients. Reversely, Rotterdam helps corporates find the innovators and innovations that enables their next strategic steps in development.”
Rotterdam’s can do mentality is fueled by the winners in the Philips Innovation Awards.


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Samsung is responsibly rolling out new security updates for the Galaxy Note 10 device, as it promised. However, the device has already lost its eligibility for major updates. Now with the latest update, the Galaxy Note 10 Lite is getting a new security support update in the form of a June 2023 security patch.
The latest update for Galaxy Note 10 Lite is now available in Europe. Initially, the update is rolling out in France with version number N770FXXU9HWE1. It is expected that the update will be available all over Europe.
The June 2023 security update is the latest security patch which includes over 60 fixes related to security vulnerabilities; additionally, it also includes some further improvements which enhance the functionality of the devices.
Notably, the update has resolved several vulnerabilities found in Samsung smartphones and tablets related to the CC Mode, Head out of bound write in Exynos baseband, and Knox ID validation in the notification framework.
The Galaxy Note 10 Lite is one of the oldest flagship devices which is still getting new security updates; the device was introduced back in 2020, the device is currently running on Android 13 based One UI 5.1, which is the last major update for the device; however, it will still get security updates at least for next one more year.
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