 ruling confirms our long-held view that Apple's arguments lack merit". Whether the arguments truly lack merit is something the courts will have to decide later, but for now the products in question will remain on the shelves for the Holiday buying season.
Update: Reuters has updated their original story with more information from judge Koh's ruling, stating that "Apple has established a likelihood of success on the merits at trial" regarding some of the smartphone patents, and that "Apple would likely prove Samsung infringed one of its tablet patents. However, Apple had not shown that it was likely to overcome Samsung's challenges to the patent's validity." General consensus is that the suit will end with monetary damages more likely than any injunction. Whatever the outcome, it would be nice to see all these legal issues slow down at least a little.
Source: Reuters. Thanks everyone who sent this in, and thanks Droid800 for the update!- Worldwide Rank #13,892,277
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mediamutt Twitter Stats
@mediamutt - Tracking mediamutt Twitter profile since March 16, 2010
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mediamutt's story
mediamutt, also known as @mediamutt has a reasonably significant presence on Twitter and is ranked by us in the 40% percentile for account strength. Active on Twitter since August 2008, mediamutt made it to having a respectable 851 Twitter followers and to being ranked 13,892,277 for number of followers among all Twitter users.
Uh-oh... seems like someone has fallen asleep while on duty and is dropping in social relevance. The plot thickens when considering mediamutt's follower-to-following ratio, which is 1.23. That's a healthy ratio.
From a tweeting perspective, @mediamutt is a casual user, with an average of 0 tweet(s) per day in the past 30 days. That's pretty consistent with a total of 3,348 since @mediamutt joined Twitter.
It seems like mediamutt is heard on Twitter, with an audience attentiveness score of 35%, which stems from being tracked on 120 Twitter lists and normalized to their 851<<
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@mediamutt has posted 0 tweets in the last 30 days, which translates to an average of 0 tweets per day.
mediamutt Twitter Followers
@mediamutt has 851 followers on Twitter.
This account is #13,892,277 in the worldwide rank of the most popular Twitter users.
mediamutt Following on Twitter
@mediamutt is following 690 Twitter accounts.
Last month this account stopped following 201 users.
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@mediamutt will hit 861 followers in the next 3 months, and 892 in one year.
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Why don't you give it a try and compare mediamutt to yourself? Or if you are mediam.i think he's still the premier rb but he's obviously aging. lost a bit of explosion, not as violent a runner as he used to be, and he's still trying to do too much while his ball security has deteriorated if anything. 

his hands will never be good, and though he did just fumble on a checkdown during one of the most important games of recent history, im still holding out hope that he can reinvent himself into a viable pass catching threat like he was in 09. he might be slower but he's still great at finding space, and is as dangerous as anybody in open field. also, people shit on his blitz pickups but i swear his blocking got a lot better as the season progressed, which is certainly promising. cool highlight manA provision of Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR) published in 2016: the SFTR reporting will come into force in April 2020. SFT transactions will be declared on an ongoing basis.
The scope of the regulation is broad; it is aimed at counterparties, financial or non financial, involved in an SFT transaction in the European Union, as well as to UCITS and AIFs (alternative investment funds).
The transactions covered are the following: repurchase agreement, securities and commodities lending and borrowing, buy-sell back and sell-buy back transactions and margin lending transactions.
SFTR Regulation provides that, on an ongoing basis, the SFT transactions carried out by each counterparty are to be reported. This is one of the most complex reporting obligations ever requested from the securities industry participants due to the enormous volume of data to be transmitted.
Indeed, more than 153 information fields are to be filled out, with a division into four sub-sections: data relating to SFT transactions, data relating to securities used as collateral, data relating to margin calls and general data relating to counterparties.
The LEI (Legal Entity Identifier) and the UTI (Unique Transaction Identifier) must be used and reported. For each transaction, modification or change in the contract, regardless of the instrument impacted, reporting must be carried out within an extremely short period of time, generally no later than D+1 after the event.
Similar to EMIR, reporting must be submitted to a Trade Repository (TR). "The concept relies on double reporting, i.e. both counterparties to the transaction must report. However, they may agree to delegate this reporting to the other counterparty or to a third party,"says Kais Haj Taieb, Group Product Manager.
Trade Repositories must then forward this information to the relevant regulators.
The reporting obligation will come into force as from April 2020, and will be phased-in depending on the type of counterparty: on 11th April for credit institutions and investment companies, on 11th July for securities depositaries and central counterparties, on 11th October for insurance companies, pension funds and management companies, and lastly on 11th January 2021 for non-financial counterparties.
While the SFTR report is neither new nor unique from a reporting point of view, its production is challenging due to the large volume of data required and the exceptionally short deadlines.
To cope with this complexity, it is necessary to rally significant resources, whether human or technical, to ensure efficient connectivity with data providers and to set up a robust and high-quality production chain, much in the likes of the MiFID II set up.
However, the impacts of the SFTR regulation are greater because the level of automation of securities financing operations is somewhat lower (bilateral trading, manual processes, etc.) than in other market activities (derivatives for example).
Note that the penalty in the event of a reporting breach could amount to up to €5 million, or 10% of an-nual turnover.
As a result, many management companies and institutional investors are likely to outsource the pro-duction of this complex reporting obligation.
CACEIS, benefitting from its expertise in regulatory reporting obligations such as EMIR and MiFID and its expertise in operational is-sues, is finalising the implementation of SFTR reporting.
"Our Group will carry out the report production as a financial institution but also on behalf of clients who wish to delegate its production. CACEIS has all the necessary infrastructure to collect data from trading platforms to aggregate and enrich them in order to generate the required reports", explains Kais Haj Taieb.
"Clients will thus be able to rely on delegated reporting, based on a reliable and high quality process for the relevant authorities," adds Kais Haj Taieb.
Manchester initiative launched to support minority-owned businesses
NAACP-Community Loan Fund initiative to offer assistance, training, financing
Manchester NAACP President James McKim, left, and NH Community Loan Fund community business lender Zachery Palmer. (Courtesy photo)
The Manchester NAACP and the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund are working together on a pilot project to provide more support to businesses run by people of color.
The Community-Driven Economic Empowerment (C-DEE) pilot program’s goal is to bring people of color together as a community to create a more resilient local economy, organizers said.
The initiative aims to increase technical assistance, training, and loans to businesses in the greater Manchester area.
James T. McKim, president of the Manchester NAACP, said, “It is important for us to create a structure where those in the community drive how resources are applied in the community,” said
According Zachery Palmer, a community business lender at the Community Loan Fund, “Some small businesses don’t have relationships with a traditional bank and they don’t know of or where to turn to for help in making businesses successful or sustainable.
He added that many in Manchester’s growing immigrant and BIPOC communities have entrepreneurial backgrounds, and some are hoping to expand their businesses in the skilled trades, retail, and restaurant industries.
At the heart of the effort will be a Community Business Development Council, a volunteer group of business owners to identify potential businesses to receive loans and training and to conduct outreach with non-English speakers.
“Who knows more about the value of neighborhood businesses than the people who live there?” said Palmer. “We believe our success in Manchester will rely on listening and respecting cultural differences and cues, just as good business owners do. And we can help ensure their success by connecting them