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2/25/2018
Man finds bag of cash
Titusville, Fla. – Robby Robinson ____________________ (discover) a bank bag full of money sitting in the middle of busy Hopkins Avenue in Titusville.
He ____________________ (pick) up the bag, ____________________ (discover) it was full of cash and still ____________________ (have) a TD bank receipt in it.
So he ____________________ (drive) his car to the bank, ____________________ (turn) it in and ____________________ (explain) the situation.
"Hey, I ____________________ (find) this bank bag. It ____________________ (belong) to somebody, and there ____________________ (be) a receipt in there," ____________________ (say) Robinson, who ____________________ (own) a local termite and pest control business.
Then he ____________________ (take) to social media, where he ____________________ (post) a photo of the bag on a popular Titusville Facebook group and ____________________ (write) the bank attendant's name to whom he had given the cash.
Dozens of people ____________________ (leave) comments praising Robinson. More than 1,000 likes were made on the post.
But perhaps the most special of all ____________________ (be) this one:
"Just to throw this into the mix of all this positive commotion from everyone and especially the ones saying that you made someone’s day, I AM THAT SOMEONE! I thank you, Robby, for your actions. I really appreciate it. I was a wreck over this even with my boss telling me not to worry about it,"
The bank ____________________ (return) the bag where it ____________________ (belong), and the man who ____________________ (lose) it was connected with the person who ____________________ (show) the community that kindness persists in an often chaotic world.
Robinson ____________________ (say) he wasn't expecting praise when he ____________________ (post) in the Facebook group; he was just trying to help.
He said he ____________________ (feel) God had put him in the right place at the right time.
2/24/2018
Canada’s blacklisted shopping mall
“Louis Vuitton” handbags for the price of a sandwich.
“Rolex” watches that cost as little as a T-shirt.
You would not expect to find such obvious fakery at a suburban shopping mall in Canada. But, according to the office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), deals of this sort are available at the Pacific Mall in Markham, near Toronto, which calls itself “the largest Chinese shopping mall in North America”.
Its latest report on “notorious markets” lists the three-floor mall alongside the Silk Market in Beijing, Tank Road in Delhi and El Tepito, an open-air market in Mexico City, as places where people can buy counterfeit goods. It is the first time a Canadian bricks-and-mortar outlet has appeared in the report, which has been published since 2011.
Canada appears regularly on the USTR’s annual list of countries that are doing too little to protect intellectual property. The USTR estimates that global trade in counterfeit goods is worth $500bn a year, about 2.5% of total imports. Until now, it has directed most of its complaints about physical retail outlets at developing countries where the rule of law is weak. By fingering the Pacific Mall it is turning up the heat on Canada.
In 2014 Canada enacted a law to give customs officers more power to detain shipments and toughened sanctions against people who violate copyrights and trademarks. But after hunting out drugs, guns and illegal immigrants, border guards have little time and money to look for non-Swiss Swiss watches. Over the past two and a half years Canada has detained fewer than 50 suspect shipments, says Lorne Lipkus, a Canadian lawyer who specialises in counterfeiting issues. American customs catch some 30,000 a year.
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