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Please buy Fair Trade Chocolate this year for Halloween! Help support those companies that do not exploit young children in the Cocoa fields. Please boycott all Hershey’s products, as they have not made any changes and continue to exploit children in the Ivory Coast!
remember that all forms of child exploitation needs to be stopped!!
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A new report accuses cocoa industry of failing to address abusive Child Labour and Human Trafficking and wants strict action to eliminate the worst forms of child labor in West Africa.
Titled Bitter Chocolate, the report released by Payson Center for International Development at Tulane Universities, it decries lack of progress by cocoa industry to address the problems of child and forced labor in Ivory Cost and Ghana.
The report identifies the ongoing exploitation of labor rights in the cocoa sector including the worst forms of child labor, forced labor and trafficking. New research related to the trafficking of young workers from Burkina Faso and Mali found that Cote d’Ivoire is the predominant destination for trafficked and migrant cocoa workers;
The overwhelming majority of respondents moved to cocoa farms without their natural parents or guardians and experienced verbal, physical and sexual harassment and restrictions of their freedom of movement. They also performed hazardous work including land clearing and burning, carrying heavy loads, spraying pesticides, and using machetes, among other dangerous activities.
In response to the report, Global Exchange, Green America, International Labor Rights Forum, and Oasis USA called on Hershey, the largest US chocolate company, to take action to end child and forced labor in its supply chain and to adopt Fair Trade certified cocoa. “It is clear from this report that the cocoa industry is not doing enough to address these problems. The world’s largest chocolate manufacturers must do more to monitor their supply chains to combat child labor, forced labor and human trafficking”.
The report recommends that companies institute traceability systems for their cocoa supply chains starting at or near the farm level and work with product certification schemes, which no longer represent a niche market. All of the certification programs operating in the West African cocoa sector should be reviewed to ensure that they appropriately identify and address child labor issues. The report identifies major industry actors that have made commitments in this area, including Mars, Kraft, Nestle and Cargill while Hershey stands out as the only major chocolate company missing from the list.
The report also found that Hershey lacked transparency and traceability when it came to its cocoa sourcing, as well as meaningful programs to address labor violations in the cocoa-growing communities of West Africa, from where it sources. As the dominant chocolate company in the US, the report calls on Hershey to “Raise the Bar” and adopt Fair Trade Certification for its best selling bar by 2012, and all of its top selling chocolate products by 2022.”


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Ford's all electric F-150 is coming – and it may be here sooner than you think
In case you missed the publicity stunt a few months ago, Ford decided to pull 1 million pounds with an all electric F-150 prototype. Publicity stunt or not, it was seriously impressive.
Now, we all know an electric Ford F-150 is coming to market. Ford confirmed that with the above stunt. Not only that, but we as enthusiasts can see the writing on the wall here. Electric is coming and it's going to stay. The biggest question is when? And we may now have our answer.
Reports are saying that 2021 is the target year for the no-emissions truck. Whether that is model year or physical year (since MY never matches that), we won't know until the truck actually comes to market.
Car & Driver has the details:
"The latest indicator comes from Ted Cannis, Ford's global director for electrification, who said in a recent interview with Automotive News Canada that the electric F-150 will follow the Mach E, a Mustang-inspired electric crossover that is going to be introduced in 2020. The electric truck is supposed to follow 'as soon as a year later,' which takes us to the 2021 date. All a Ford spokesperson would tell Car and Driver is that the all-electric F-150 will arrive 'in a few years' and that we will have to keep waiting for an announcement about specific timing."
In my extremely un-scientific opinion, Ford doesn't really need to wait on this. Electric vehicles have never been more in demand, hotter in the news, and polarizing than right now. Coming out with a truck that has no internal combustion before anyone else does should make them the market leader in electrics in no time. Yes, even above Tesla. Finances aside, this would likely be a massive win for Ford.
Oh and food for thought here, the F-150 has been the best selling vehicle in the country for over 30 years. If there's ANY vehicle that will make an impact for electric being mass adopted, it's the F-150. Prove me wrong.

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Ubisoft recently announced in their yearly earnings call that they are going to shift its focus from AAA games titles towards creating more free-to-play games. Additionally promising that this decision will not effect the number of AAA paid titles released.
The Ubisoft share has plummeted during Q1 2021 and took another nosedive after announcing their future projections in their latest earnings report, despite the report exceeding last years quarterly report by a wide margin. On the negative side, the future projections are not looking as great, with f.e. open-world pirate game Skull & Bones being delayed into 2022. It is likely in the light of this forecast they are aiming to transform the model in which their earnings are achieved.
CFO Frédérick Duguet: “Our FY22 line-up will be the most diversified we have ever had, with ambitious post-launch plans as well as premium and F2P new releases. Our financial targets reflect these growth initiatives which are intended to generate significant value over the long term.”
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot: “Additionally, we are building high-end free-to-play games to be trending towards AAA ambitions over the long-term.”
Only the future will tell if these promises will be kept or not. And most interesting, exactly what kind of micro-transaction models will be implemented in the games?


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One Device, Two Phones
Handset virtualization makes it possible for companies to let employees bring their own devices, while maintaining secure control over enterprise content and security.
November 15 , 2011
The dual phone dilemma is becoming a common problem in business. Companies want to issue employees phones they know are secure and that can be managed, and if need be, wiped clean of data by the IT department.
Employees want the phone of their choice, loaded with the apps of their choice. A survey for the 2011 Cisco Connected World Technology Report found, for example, that 81 percent of college students around the world want to be able to choose their own device at work. The employee demands, especially when they come from senior managers, are becoming increasingly difficult to resist.
Until now, the best option has been the inconvenient choice of carrying both a personal and a business phone. But new technology is making it possible for a single Android handset to act as if it were two — a managed business phone and a personal handset with which you can do what you want.
“If you look at what is happening with bring your own device, the IT department wants to provision, manage and de-provision the phone over the air,” says Janet Schijns, vice president for the Verizon Wireless Business Solutions Group. “But there’s a second lens through which to view this. People want to maintain privacy and control of their mobile environment. They don’t particularly want their employer looking at pictures of their kids, or email from their husband.”
Two solutions take somewhat different approaches to giving a phone a dual personality. VMware Horizon creates a virtual machine that gives you a secure, managed environment for business use and a wide-open one for personal use. Enterproid Divide, to be offered later this year by AT&T as Toggle, creates a secure work environment within a sandbox on the phone. In either case, users can switch quickly and easily between the corporate and personal modes.
The VMware approach is more comprehensive, since it really turns a handset into what appears to the outside world to be two separate phones. Each has its own phone number. Each has its own apps, and apps on the personal side cannot access corporate data and vice versa. If necessary, the corporate phone number along with all apps and data can be wiped remotely.
Verizon will begin offering the VMware solution, initially on LG Android phones, to its business customers before the end of the year. Eventually, it plans to expand the offering to all of its Android handsets. Verizon will even allow the two virtual phones to be billed separately, so the business could pay directly for the corporate side, while the employee would receive a bill for personal use. Telefónica is working with LG and VMware on a similar offering in Europe.
For the time being, at least, these solutions are available only for Android devices. Though there would undoubtedly be a huge amount of support for a dual personality iPhone, Apple does not give third-party developers the sort of deep access to the operating system needed to create a virtual machine. Enterproid says it is working on versions of Divide for the iPhone and Windows Phone 7.
Research In Motion offers a more limited option for BlackBerrys called Balance. On a BlackBerry connected to a BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Balance prevents communications between enterprise and personal applications—for example, you cannot cut and paste data from an enterprise app into a personal app and social networking applications cannot access corporate data. It also makes it possible for IT administrators to wipe corporate data remotely without affecting personal data.
Solutions like these are likely to become more common as employees demand more flexibility in choosing their mobile devices. They are a relatively simple and cost-effective way of keeping everyone happy.
The contents or opinions in this feature are independent and do not necessarily represent the views of Cisco. They are offered in an effort to encourage continuing conversations on a broad range of innovative technology subjects. We welcome your comments and engagement.


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Heading in to this week, we knew that we’d be talking about Apple (a whole lot of Apple) and the courts, as Apple prepares to have its motion in the San Bernardino FBI case ruled upon tomorrow. And while that’s bound to generate more than enough Apple legal news to keep our attention, especially with all the privacy questions it raises, it turns out we’ve also got another big development on a different Apple case, as the company’s long-standing clash with Samsung over patent issues gets ready to find itself before the nation’s top court.
Apple’s got so many legal battles with Samsung, you’d be forgiven for not being able to keep track of which one we’re talking about at a given time. Here, we’re not looking at the same quick-link patent conflict we did last time, but instead the “big” one that initially awarded Apple billion-dollar damages. The exact figure’s jumped back and forth on various appeals, but late last year we finally saw Samsung begin paying up, forking over just shy of $550 million. Samsung may have done so, but it wasn’t happy about it, and it’s taking the verdict to the Supreme Court.
Samsung asked that the court rule on various aspects of the case, but it won’t ultimately be addressing every issue. For instance, the court has indicated that it won’t reconsider whether or not Apple’s design patents were valid to begin with, letting lower rulings stand.
Instead, the court will consider Samsung’s arguments that the damages it was ordered to pay Apple weren’t calculated appropriately, leaving Samsung on the hook for infringement, but possibly reducing its ultimate payout.
It will still be some time before we finally see this case resolved, with the next term of the court not beginning for another seven months.
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The world has been forced into remote work. Each country has instituted its own brand of lockdown in an attempt to flatten the curve and a recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article presented data on which nations were and weren’t prepared to deploy a remote workforce.
Researchers scored the social distance and remote operability of 42 countries across the globe. Scoring was based on three factors:
- Robustness of key platforms — technology-mediated remote work, e-commerce, digital media and the country’s digital foundations — key to business continuity
- Proliferation and resilience of digital payments options to facilitate transactions
- Resilience of the internet infrastructure to traffic surges
Check out the results below. Note that higher scores represent better performance along each index.
(Source: Harvard Business Review)
Digital transformation has been the centerpiece of discussions in tech circles for years. But the coronavirus crisis really transformed “digital transformation” from just an overused buzzword. It became a real-life application of remote work tools. In 2018, 70% of companies had a digital transformation strategy in place or were working on one, and this unprecedented situation exposed just how far along companies — and in this case, countries — are in their digital transformation journey.
The author of the HBR article pointed out several key takeaways from the data:
“There is a divide between the resilient and the fragile: Advanced economies, at the top of the graph have more robust digital platforms, making them better prepared for the pivot to online work than developing economies in the bottom.”
“The United States is ready, but not ready enough: Despite some concerns, the United States is well poised for business continuity, with robust digital platforms and digital payment infrastructure. But with businesses asking employees to work from home, surges in digital traffic have stressed the internet infrastructure.”
“Much of Europe, with some exceptions, suffers from middling robustness of the platforms and vulnerable internet infrastructure. Speeds in much of Europe are much lower than in the U.S. overall, and the infrastructure is older.”
“Some Asian countries have proven to be innovative — and forced reconsideration of long-held assumptions: Being proximate to the origins of the outbreak, some have taken a markedly different approach to using digital technology. South Korea presents an interesting benchmark. Its internet resilience is among the best in the world, as is its use of digital payments, and its platforms are robust.”
How did your homeland fare?
Again, it’s interesting to see the data plotted, as it presents a yardstick by which digital transformation and readiness can be visualized. We contend that the cornerstone of digital transformation and remote work for every organization is information management. Intelligent information management platforms like M-Files allow users to access and manage business-critical information…
No matter where that information is stored — CRM, ERP, network folders, share drives, Salesforce
And no matter where on Earth the user is — home, office, hotel, airport, coffee shop
That seamless experience of working with content from any location with an internet connection is powerful. And with information management platforms, remote work and accessing information doesn’t mean companies have to sacrifice compliance or security.


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Nagpur: Mobile phones and accessories worth Rs25 lakh were stolen from a mobile shop at Coffee House Square in the wee hours of Wednesday. The miscreants also stole CCTV and digital video recorder installed in the shop.
Police said the victim Pawan Kewalramani lodged a complaint regarding burglary of 65 mobile phones and accessories from his mobile shop —Silver Showroom in Gokulpeth — the authorized shop of OnePlus mobile phones. Kewalramani had opened the shop three months ago.
In his complaint, the victim stated that when he went to open the shop in the morning, the shutter was bent. Upon entering the shop, 65 mobile phones and accessories worth Rs 25 lakh were found stolen, after which the victim approached police to lodge a complaint.
On being informed, deputy commissioner of police (zone-II) Vinita Sahu, senior PI from Ambazari police station Ashok Bagul visited the spot.
Based on the complaint, Ambazari police have registered a case under relevant sections of the IPC and have started further investigation. Habitual offenders of the area would be quizzed, said police.


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Amazon is focusing on merchandise exports price $20 billion (practically Rs. 1,66,500 crore) from India by 2025 by including hundreds of small sellers to its e-commerce platform, an organization official stated on Friday.
“We’re very inspired by the variety of entrepreneurs who signed up this yr. We need to scale up,” Bhupen Wakankar, director international commerce, Amazon advised Reuters on the sidelines of an business occasion, referring to plans for exports.
There was large demand for “Made in India” natural well being dietary supplements, homeware like bathtub towels, jute rugs, and robotic Video games for kids forward of the Black Friday Cyber Monday sale, an 11-day buying interval from Friday, Wakankar stated.
Launched in 2015 with a handful of sellers, Amazon International Commerce, the enterprise to customers (B2C) exports platform of the e-commerce big, is gaining traction in India.
The corporate has added greater than 100,000 small producers to promote a variety of merchandise to abroad prospects, he stated.
“Among the sellers are first time exporters, together with those that left their company jobs to start out e-commerce exports,” he stated.
Hundreds of small exporters, who earlier lacked entry to international markets, have seen 70 % enterprise development yearly via e-commerce platform, which supplied logistics assist and entry to greater than 200 million Amazon Prime members globally, he stated.
This comes as India’s exports of products declined 7 % year-on-year throughout first seven months of this fiscal yr.
On the e-commerce platform, the best development was seen in classes like magnificence, apparels, house, kitchen, furnishings, and toys.
Holidays akin to Halloween, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas, and New 12 months have been driving gross sales of Indian merchandise in markets akin to america, Britain, Canada, Australia and Germany.
To encourage exporters, Wakankar stated, Amazon had slashed the subscription charges for its international promoting programme from $120 (practically Rs. 1,000) to $1 (practically Rs. 84) for the primary three months for exporters signing up earlier than March 31.
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There's more than 1.6 million square feet of development underway or recently completed in Schenectady County, according to the Metroplex Development Authority.
That activity includes everything from warehouse and manufacturing space to downtown apartments and new retail space.
We've rounded up some of the biggest projects going on in Schenectady right now:
Investments in industrial
The Galesi Group plans to build a 200,000-square-foot building at the Rotterdam Corporate Park, the latest investment in response to the strong demand for distribution and warehouse space.
The Galesi Group is also building a $15 million expansion for Adirondack Beverage in the Glenville Business & Technology Park. The project will add 100,000 square feet for the business.
Also at the Glenville park, specialty cheese company Bel Gioioso is building a 100,000-square-foot manufacturing plant, according to Metroplex.
The former Sears at Via Port Rotterdam is being renovated into a 103,000-square-foot facility for United Auto Supply, a wholesale distributor of original auto equipment, aftermarket parts and accessories.
Focus on mixed-use
There are also plenty of projects right now that involve mixed-use residential and retail development:
Redburn Development Partners is renovating the former headquarters of Capital District Off-Track Betting Corp. into apartments. Redburn bought the 20,000-square-foot building at 510 Smith St. for $365,000 from OTB.
Redburn is also renovating the four-story building at 132 North Broadway — originally the printing plant of The Daily Gazette newspaper — into apartments and retail space.
A former bank in downtown Schenectady is being demolished by Redburn, to make way for a new mixed-use building. The building at 501 State St. was originally built in 1972 by Albany Savings Bank.
A 17,000-square-foot building at 430 Franklin St. in Schenectady will be renovated by Chris Spraragen, president of Schenectady Hardware and Electric, and his sister, Brooke. It's one of the largest vacant buildings downtown that hasn't yet been renovated.
Pennrose LLC expects to finish the first phase of the new Yates Village public housing complex in Schenectady by the end of this year. The $27 million first phase includes 89 one- to three-bedroom garden-style units.
Catherine Hover recently opened a second location of her Palette coworking and cafe space in downtown Schenectady. The 4,600-square-foot space is in the Foster Building at 508 State St.
The first New York location for convenience store chain Alltown Fresh opened on Erie Boulevard in Schenectady. The store was built on the site of the former Grossman's Lumber store, a 2-acre lot at 1410 Erie Blvd., across from Rivers Casino & Resort.
An upper Union Street building in Schenectady is getting two new tenants after a renovation by attorney Lou Lecce. He will lease the building at 1671 Union St. and will lease the property to Storied Coffee and a specialty gift shop called b.inspired.
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It's been two years since Amazon bought MGM. These factors likely have kept Stargate off the announcement slate.
Atlantis might be leaving Hulu this week, unless the streaming service is just jerking viewers around again.
UPDATED: All three Stargate TV series were listed for removal from Amazon's U.S. streaming service at the end of the year, but look to have received another last-minute reprieve.
Amazon's ad-supported video service has added Stargate's 2018 Web series, recut as a stand-alone movie. (U.S.)
If Amazon is teeing up an announcement for the return of Stargate, the October stage panel is one to watch.
ANALYSIS: As the writers' strike comes to an end, Amazon and MGM turn to the future of a science fiction franchise in desperate need of revival.
OPINION: Amazon and the other major studios must settle fairly with writers and actors, and put the entertainment industry back to work.
PSA: Stargate Atlantis viewers should avoid watching episodes in the order currently presented on the streaming service.
A dedicated Stargate channel is one of a dozen MGM outlets launching in the near future on Amazon Freevee.
Amazon is developing a new Stargate project, though the form that will take has reportedly not yet been finalized.
Another milestone in MGM's new chapter with Amazon passes with no sign of a Stargate project in development.
Amazon has restored the series to its flagship streaming service in the U.S. after less than a week, though now with an inferior copy of the episodes.
Stargate's flagship TV series is no longer available to stream ad free in the United States, though its two spin-offs are still on Prime Video this month.
Stargate SG-1, Atlantis, and SGU are once again listed as leaving Amazon's streaming service ... only a few months after returning.
Amazon is looking to develop a new Stargate project in the short-term, and according to insiders has been taking pitches from some familiar names.


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The fight at this peak season of production may not only put Indian Tea Board under uncomfortable situation but may destabilize the whole trade.
ITB has issued a directive to all factories stating not to buy green leaf from any garden not complying with PPC effective from 1st September.
The STG went off field in northern WB today following recurrence of a tussle with factory owners on the issue of quality vs price of green leaf.
Small tea growers(STG) community, that contribute over 36% to the Indian national tea production, wants agriculture status for tea plantation.
After being sold at a record price of around Rs 1.12 lakh/kg, Darjeeling's Makaibari tea estate has become one of the most expensive tea producers in India.
The government today rejected the findings of a global NGO Greenpeace, saying that Indian tea is totally safe and the industry follows high standards.
Kaushal Dugar, a Singapore-trained financial analyst, is among those slowly bringing the sector into the modern era via his startup, Teabox.
Northern West Bengal came out with a mixed response over the first budget of Modi Government on Thursday, presented by Union Finance Minister Mr Arun Jaitley.
Indian tea and coffee exports have taken a hit due to the political turmoil in neighbouring countries, bad weather, low demand and supply gap
48 per cent of all new launches in FMCG space were premium products, according to findings by researcher IMRB and Kantar Worldpanel.


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“(Out of the investment made by Facebook) about Rs 15,000 crore would remain with Jio, and this is a huge amount which JioMart can use for building its (e-commerce) network. If they are able to execute this properly on the ground, I think they are going to create massive problems for the likes of
due to the kind of scale that they can achieve,” said Satish Meena, a senior forecast analyst at Forrester Research.
To begin with, Meena said, JioMart is expected to aggressively chase the grocery space, where they can reach a large number of households and work in a way where customers end up buying a lot of services from Reliance itself, related to areas such as mobile connection, television, music and education. “The bigger worry for Amazon
and Flipkart now is to reevaluate their business model or logistics as they are not able to fulfil the grocery demand. There is a lot of demand but companies
are not ready to deliver.”
According to Salman Waris, managing partner at New Delhi-based specialist technology law firm TechLegis Advocates & Solicitors, backed by the investment which makes Jio the fifth-largest firm in India, the company can also create an ‘e-commerce monopoly’ and upturn e-commerce ecosystem.
wants to use WhatsApp for e-commerce opportunities with small businesses. Amazon, Flipkart can’t compete with Jio-Facebook
because they don’t have an edge on data. While in the short term, there may not be much market impact as due to Covid-19 nothing significant shall happen in the next 3-6 months, however in the long term the alliance will not only counter competitors like Amazon and Flipkart, but will rupture the entire e-commerce ecosystem in the country," said Waris.
Waris said, while Facebook would be piggybacking on Jio providing internet access in India, this partnership threatens the very concept of net neutrality due to Jio‘s edge on data. It could lead to even more deep anti-competition tactics like deep discounting.
Nirupama Soundararajan, Head of Research and Senior Fellow at Pahle India Foundation (PIF) said that Jiomart will be a company to be reckoned with. “There will be disruption in the market. The proposed model for Jiomart is new (as it) looks to co-opt Kirana stores. Such collaborations are necessary. We may also see a significant increase in P2P (peer-to-peer) payments because of WhatsApp. Kirana stores will also have to gear up to compete amongst themselves. If and whether this would create price wars amongst Kiranas will be interesting to watch,” said Soundararajan.
She also said the policy framework for Indian retail is highly convoluted and lends to significant arbitrage between formats and origin of capital. “With Jiomart coming in, this regulatory arbitrage between foreign and domestic large players could affect future FDI,” said Soundararajan.
The deal is also expected to help Reliance and Facebook to take on players such as Walmart-owned PhonePe, Alibaba-backed Paytm, Google Pay and Amazon Pay in the Indian digital payments space which is expected to rise five-fold to reach $1 trillion by 2023. India is the biggest user base for Facebook with around 328 million monthly users while the company’s WhatsApp messaging app has 400 million users in the country, also the highest in the world. WhatsApp is trying to secure approval to roll out its digital payment service while the company also has plans to come up with dedicated digital payment services to small grocers.
“The Facebook-Jio deal is the coming together of one of the world’s biggest data platforms and India’s biggest data platform. There are multiple battles (likely to be fought) here including one for the dominance in e-commerce space and other in digital payments. In digital payments, apps like Paytm and PhonePe already facing cash crunches and this will be forced to join Jio and Facebook’s platform," said Waris.
According to Tarun Pathak, associate director at Counterpoint Research, the Jio-Facebook deal is an attempt to marry the local commerce with the social part. “We believe that e-commerce will change when the next 300 million will join the digital platform in the coming years. It will demand a localised approach, and hence both the companies
will look to leverage the trend and eventually this will be a boost to the Facebook ad platform as well,” said Pathak.


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Another year offers more Apple improvements and goods to discuss, while extending their worldwide dominance
Today at Apple's WWDC 2022, various announcements and teases were made about iOS 16, which will contain widely anticipated innovation and contentious adjustments
Now you can look up and translate picture text to multiple languages and conduct money conversions, which seems convenient.
"Edit or recall recently sent messages" has raised eyebrows online since it might lead to gaslighting and miscommunications.
The iOS 16 update is only available for iPhone 8 and later, so individuals who've had one iPhone from 2015 or 2016 will need to upgrade.


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The iconic video game character Super Mario is expected to hit the silver screen next year.
Universal Pictures announced that Filipinos may watch the “Super Mario Bros.” movie in April 2023.
The film is produced by Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri and by Shigeru Miyamoto for Nintendo. It was co-produced by Universal Pictures and Nintendo and released worldwide by Universal Pictures.
The characters were voiced by notable Hollywood personalities such as Chris Pratt (Mario), Anya Taylor-Joy (Princess Peach), Charlie Day (Luigi), Jack Black (Bowser), Keegan-Michael Key (Toad), Seth Rogen (Donkey Kong), Fred Armisen (Cranky Kong), Kevin Michael Richardson (Kamek), and Sebastian Maniscalco (Spike).
The film is directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic, while Matthew Fogel, who is behind “Minions: The Rise of Gru,” is responsible for the screenplay.
A few months ago, the entertainment company released a trailer for the film, which left Filipino fans excited.
“All Super Mario fanatics are gonna go crazy bout this…Including me,” a social media user wrote.
“I can’t wait to see this movie soon!” a Facebook user said.
“I have never imagined this could happen. And now a movie. Very nice,” a social media user said.
The trailer also made some Filipinos recall their childhood memory of playing Super Mario.
“Habang nagpeplay, nag-pe-play din at the back of my mind yung tunog niya sa family computer,” an online user said.
“One of my favorite games during the ’90s. I beat Super Mario 2, Super Mario 3 and Mario land. Classic gamers here we go!” a social media user said.
“It’s cute and brings back childhood memories,” a Facebook user wrote.
The first Super Mario game was launched by Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985.


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Many people who have difficulty losing weight so willing to do anything to remove the fat pile in their bodies. A recent study conducted by scientists from the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Japan found the easy way, with sweet potato cooking water.
Mentioned that the protein in the sweet potato wastewater is able to suppress appetite. It has been tested on mice. Two groups of mice with high-fat foods were treated differently.
One group was given sweet potato water with peptide content (SPP) while others did not. As a result, in 28 days the difference is clearly visible from the two groups of mice.
The measured object is weight, liver mass, and fat tissue. Cholesterol, triglyceride levels, and peptin that proven to control hunger are also measured. It is clear that there are differences in groups of mice given SPP and those not.
Weight as well as various other research items appear lower in mice given sweet potato cooking water with SPP content. As for mice that are only given foods high in fat without drinking SPP, weight increases.
“We hypothesize that this can affect weight, fat tissue and other factors. We are surprised that SPP reduces the level of fat molecules in mice and seems to play a role in controlling appetite,” said Dr. Koji Ishiguro study leader, as reported by Dailymail page.
This is certainly good news for those who want to look slim without difficulty, just by drinking sweet potato cooking water alone.


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- Apple bets big on India: iPhone 14 models now being manufactured locally
- Weakening rupee to make import of crude oil, commodities expensive, fuel inflation
- S Jaishankar at UNGA: India on side of those respecting UN Charter and its founding principles
- BPCL signs pact with Brazil's Petrobras to diversify crude oil sourcing
Apollo Tyres Q2 net down 46 pc at Rs 140 cr
Apollo Tyres today reported 45.98 per cent decline in consolidated net profit at Rs 140.17crore for the second quarter ended September 30 hit by higher raw material costs.
The company had posted a consolidated profit after tax of Rs 259.52 crore in the same quarter last fiscal, Apollo Tyres said in a statement.
Sales during the period under review stood at Rs 3,418.01 crore. It was Rs 3,293.72 crore in the year-ago quarter. The figures are, however, not comparable due to GST implementation in July this year, it added.
Apollo Tyres Ltd Chairman Onkar S Kanwar said, "While our revenues have grown, our margins have been under pressure due to the higher raw material prices, up nearly 15 per cent versus Q2 last year."
With several capacity expansion projects currently underway for the company, it is looking forward to a healthy growth in the coming quarters, he added.
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Philadelphia Business Journal reports that Whole Hog Café, a Little Rock, Ark.-based barbecue chain, will open its first Northeast restaurant in South Jersey this winter. The restaurant will be located at 2321 Route 70 West in Cherry Hill, N.J.
“We are excited to bring Arkansas’ world champion barbecue to Cherry Hill. The site has strong demographics and traffic counts and we expect to draw diners from the surrounding New Jersey submarkets as well as a significant contingent from the Philadelphia side,” president of Whole Hog Café Chris Maynes.
Whole Hog currently has 13 restaurants in four states — Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri and New Mexico. Menu specialties include pork loin, beef brisket, barbecue nachos, smoked sausage and a pulled-pork sandwich topped with cole slaw.


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Google Chrome OS is an Obvious Response to Bing
Posted by Bob Warfield on July 8, 2009
Bing has been gaining share in the search market for Microsoft. So what does Google do? Announce a full frontal assault on the Microsoft OS dominion, of course. Never mind that it is a totally uninspired sort of response with no details about anything particularly compelling, or that a Chrome-based OS for netbooks is neither big news nor a “nuclear bomb” on Microsoft. Never mind that Android hasn’t seemed to go much of anywhere relative to iPhone, that times are tough, or that the market increasingly expects Google to be more profitable. No folks, we’re going to open up yet another front on the war, spend more money, yada, yada.
Think what you will about the announcement. It surely did set the blogosphere on fire. It’s always fun to pile on the market leader. We’re genetically wired to like doing that. And it will be a good thing for consumers: competition always is. But it isn’t the end of Microsoft or more than a temporary PR inconvenience. It may even be a positive for Microsoft, seriously loosening the anti-trust handcuffs if Google makes much progress. If nothing else, we haven’t seen anything but talk yet to even know if we like this thing. We’ll see what “aggressively re-thinking the OS in light of the web really means.” Android was a bust in terms of such rethinking for a mobile OS. Hopefully the desktop OS will do better. Meanwhile we are left with only questions, so many questions. Folks, it’s a PR strategy not a product strategy: any product strategy is yet to be disclosed. It is intended to generate questions because that’s what keeps the PR going!
And then there is the small issue of apps. Of course Google will spin that the Internet is the only app you need. Mike Arrington totally agrees with that perspective with his “patting himself on the back” post. We’ve seen that movie before long ago in a galaxy far away. Netscape tried it. It didn’t work. The iPhone has clearly shown that the Internet is a wonderful “built in app”, but that a vibrant third party app ecosystem is absolutely critical in addition to the Internet. BTW, if it does seem to be working, GooglePads (netbooks with Chrome) and CrunchPads can be toast in short order with Apple simply stepping in with their own device, and MSFT will wind up just cutting XP prices for such devices in response. After all, they survived the Linux assault in fine form, and that was far more innovative than anything we’ve yet heard about the Chrome OS. Absent some real innovation (which I have to admit Google may still produce, and folks like my EI compatriot Phil Wainewright are confident are there), that’s check and checkmate. Game over.
These are not the droids you’re looking for. Move on.
PS Congrats to Om Malik for being the only A-Lister I have read so far who called BS on this announcement instead of just breathlessly reporting how great it is for the world and how bad it is for Microsoft. As Om says, “ChromeOS is a scramble to say nothing.” And RE Apple stepping in, I do think they’ll wait until either Chrome shows real traction, or they come up with an “insanely great” user experience that others won’t be able to duplicate. They’re already on record saying they don’t believe in Netbooks because laptops give a better experience and are about the same size. For the record, I agree with Apple on that.
PPS Scoble has some scoop. Microsoft has an announcement he says will be interesting to compare to ChromeOS ready to go Monday. Bets are that Microsoft’s announcement is either Gazelle, a browser-based lightweight OS just like ChromeOS (lions and tigers, oh my!) or Office Web. The game is afoot. Woot!


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Financial fraud can be complex but sometimes a fraud can be relatively simple. We open our latest Bulletin with findings from research undertaken by RSM into the rising frequency of mandate fraud. What is it and what can you do to avoid being taken in by this fraud?
According to a new survey carried out by the British Business Bank, appetite among small businesses to grow is strong. We share how many are entrepreneurs are held back by a lack of awareness as to where to find appropriate finance.
To close, news from HSBC of the launch of its 5th SME Fund, which sets aside cash specifically for UK small businesses. We look at how the latest Fund has a particular focus on supporting smaller businesses who want to increase exports.


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The profitability of Hoya Corporation's eyeglass lens business declined in the fourth quarter of its latest financial year, ended on March 31. The management attributed this to price pressure in the market due to the acquisition of smaller chains by larger chains as well as the partial success of certain investments.
Hoya's chief executive, Hiroshi Suzuki, told investors that the company wants to generate better internal efficiencies in this sector, targeting a profit ratio of 18 percent. In the latest quarter, the pre-tax profit margin of Hoya's Life Care segment, which comprises eyeglass lenses and many other products, declined to 14.7 percent from 16.9 percent in the same quarter a year ago. The operating profit dropped to 15.7 percent from 17.4 percent.
In terms of local currencies, Hoya's sales of eyeglass lenses grew by between one and two percent in Europe, in line with the local market, the management said. They rose at double-digit rates in the Americas and Asia for different reasons. Sales in the Americas were positively affected by the acquisition of 3M's prescription protective eyewear business. Hoya's takeover of Performance Optics has not yet been concluded, pending approval by regulatory authorities, but even without the impact of acquisitions, sales in the Americas were up by between 6 and 7 percent in the latest quarter, and the management expects the positive trend to continue.
A sales increase of between 12 and 13 percent in Asia was mainly due to poor performance in the year-ago quarter. Sales in Japan fell by 3 percent, due to a contraction of the domestic eyeglass market, reducing Hoya's overall growth in eyeglass lenses to nearly 5 percent on a constant-currency basis.
The total revenues of Hoya's Life Care segment rose by 3.5 percent to 83.8 billion yen (€659.1m-$745.6m) in the quarter. However, the segment's pre-tax profit declined by 9.7 percent to ¥12.3 billion (€96.7m-$109.4m) because of the factors mentioned by Suzuki as well as acquisition and start-up costs, plus expenses made in advance to secure higher growth rates in the future.
The quarterly sales results were affected by changes in foreign exchange rates, including a 6.1 percent increase in the value of the yen against the euro, particularly in the narrower healthcare sector, where a large part of the revenues come from Europe.
In constant currencies, Life Care revenues were up by 6.1 percent and segment profits declined by 8 percent. Hoya's sales of healthcare-related products – including eyeglass lenses, contact lenses, endoscopes and intraocular devices – were up by only 2.9 percent to ¥62.4 billion (€490.8m-$555.2m) on a reported basis, but they would have increased by 5 percent if currency exchange rates had remained the same.
Hoya's sales of contact lenses, which are still largely confined to the Japanese market, rose by nearly 5 percent in the quarter, thanks in part to the opening of new Eyecity stores. The management noted that some of the new stores cannibalized those of existing locations to a larger extent than it had expected.
Sales of intraocular lenses jumped by 15 percent in local currencies. The growth would have been higher if Hoya had not faced capacity constraints, which should be resolved after new plants go into operation between the months of July and August.
The entire turnover of the group increased by 3.8 percent to ¥126.3 billion (€993.3m-$1,123.7m) during the quarter. Pre-tax earnings rose by 5.4 percent to ¥24.4 billion (€191.9m-$217.1m), while the net income grew by 2.6 percent to almost ¥19 billion (€149.6m-$169.1m). On a constant-currency basis, the group's total revenues rose by 6.2 percent in the quarter, with eyeglasses and contact lenses rising at mid-single-digit rates, but pre-tax earnings were nearly unaffected.
For the full financial year ended on March 31, Hoya reported a sales decline in yen of 5.3 percent to ¥478.9 billion (€3.77bn-$4.26bn) and a drop in net earnings of 6.9 percent to ¥86.8 billion (€683.1m-$772.7m). The operating margin of the group declined to 23.1 percent from 23.6 percent in the previous year.
The Life Care segment's revenues declined by 2.6 percent to ¥314.4 billion (€2.47bn-$2.80bn) for the full year, and they generated an operating margin of 18.0 percent, down from 18.3 percent in the prior year.


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Apple has released a new ad from the ‘Shot on iPhone’ collection featuring photos captured by customers, and this ad includes a familiar voice reading a famous poem over the slideshow. Dr. Maya Angelou is heard reading her ‘Human Family’ poem over shots of people all over the world.
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In the video above, Bloomberg West speaks with 72andSunny’s partner and creative director Jason Norcross about the thinking behind some of Samsung’s latest campaigns.
If there is one person qualified to discuss the state of Apple’s current marketing efforts, it’s Ken Segall. Working alongside Steve Jobs’ creative team for more than a decade, Segall, the man who put the “i” in iMac, served as creative director at ad agency TBWA\Chiat\Day. He created some of Apple’s most iconic ads such as the legendary Think Different campaign. Segall took some time on his Observatory blog today to share his thoughts on how “momentum has been lost” for Apple’s marketing department at the hands of none other than the company’s biggest rival, Samsung:
While you can still argue that Macs and i-devices have a ton of appeal, you can’t argue that Apple is still untouchable when it comes to advertising…The fact is, it is being touched — often and effectively — by none other than Samsung…Samsung has made remarkable inroads in a very short time, for two big reasons.
According to Segall, the two big reasons Samsung’s advertising has eclipsed Apple’s is due to Sammy’s massive advertising budget and willingness to “bash away at Apple, delivering ads that are well produced, well written and seem to be striking a nerve.” Specifically, Segall pointed to Samsung’s decision to run creative new ads at the Super Bowl and Oscars: expand full story


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SoftBank Group is near to selling British chip designer Arm Holdings to Nvidia Corp for more than $40 billion, a deal that would create a giant in the processor industry, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
The cash-and-stock deal can be sealed next week and could value Arm at the low $40 billions, the WSJ report said, citing sources.
Nvidia is famous for its graphics processors that power video games, however it has developed other markets such as artificial intelligence, self-driving automobiles and data centres.
Arm supplies the processor technologies for almost all mobile devices such as phones and tablets but is also expanding into chips for cars, data centre providers and other devices.
The UK company does not make chips. Rather it permits out the inherent technology so others can make chips. It has previously collaborated with Nvidia.
Last year Nvidia stated it would create its processors work with chips from Arm to build supercomputers deepening its push into systems which are used for simulating both climate change predictions and atomic weapons.
SoftBank acquired Arm for $32 billion in 2016, its own largest-ever purchase, as a way to expand in the world wide web.
The terms would mark a big win for the Japanese business that has struggled to jump-start growth in the business of late, according to the WSJ.
Nvidia declined to comment. SoftBank and Arm didn’t respond to a requests for comments from journalists at our partner news agency Reuters..
The team at Platform Executive hope you have enjoyed this news article. Initial reporting via our official content partners at Thomson Reuters. Reporting by Shubham Kalia. Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Diane Craft.
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Luckin Coffee said Tuesday that it has fired its CEO and COO as part of an internal investigation into sales fraud.
Jenny Zhiya Qian, Luckin’s former CEO, and Jian Liu, its former COO, also resigned from the Chinese company’s board. The changes went into effect on Monday.
The board appointed Jinyi Guo, a board member and a senior vice president in the company, as acting chief executive.
The coffee chain disclosed on April 2 that an internal probe found that Liu had fabricated 2019 sales by about 2.2 billion yuan ($310 million).
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PLAINSBORO, N.J. and BERLIN, May 23, 2017-- Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation, a leading global medical technology company, announced today that it has signed an agreement with aap Implantate AG ...
Share price of Plainsboro NJ-based Integra Lifesciences Corporation (IART) reached a new 52-week high of $47.50 on May 19, finally closing a tad lower at $47.39.
PLAINSBORO, N.J., May 17, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation (Nasdaq:IART), a leading global medical technology company, today announced that it has launched in Europe ...


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While analysts and industry watchers hailed IBM's proposed acquisition of predictive analytics specialist SPSS as a huge win for Big Blue, some competitors aren't quite as impressed.
In fact, SAS Institute and SAP say the deal actually helps, not hurts, them.
"IBM's decision to acquire SPSS validates SAP's early investment in, and commitment to, the predictive analysis market," SAP said in a statement.
Anne Milley, director of business analytics for the SAS Institute, echoed the thought. "We view it as a positive because we think that analytics has real value. Anything that calls attention to that is a good thing," she said.
But SAS's head of marketing, Jim Davis, had a different take on the deal. Davis told Computerworld that SPSS customers could be the big losers in the acquisition, speculating that IBM could raise prices and maintenance fees on SPSS products.
"I understand the value of this deal for the larger vendor. But I question the value of this for the customer," Davis told Computerworld, adding, "I don't think an IT organization would want to put all of their eggs in one basket."
It is unlikely, however, that IBM would make it more difficult to use SPSS products on top of or behind non-IBM data sources and applications, said James Kobielus, an analyst with Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research.
"First of all, IBM took great pains to point out that IBM will definitely not lock in SPSS customers to a pure Big Blue analytics stack. And I believe it," Kobielus said. "IBM has no interest in telling SPSS customers that they can't use the data warehouse of their choice or the BI, visualization or reporting tool of their choice. That would be suicide for IBM. That would totally gut the value of the deal."
The big "value of the deal," Kobielus said, is SPSS's brand loyalty. The vendor is more than 40 years old, he said, and "every SPSS customer I've ever talked to has been using them for years…. You don't trifle with that kind of customer affection." SPSS also has many partnerships, which Kobielus expects IBM to honor, as do the partners themselves.
SAP, for one, OEMs the SPSS PASW Modeler, formerly known as Clementine, and SAP's CEO doesn't think that will change any time soon.
"I don't expect the SPSS acquisition by IBM to have an impact on our relationship," said Leo Apotheker, SAP's chief executive, during the company's second quarter earnings conference call today. "It could actually simplify our overall offering and might be better news than people are expecting."
Analysts at Ovum, the U.K.-based research firm, said that the deal does indeed hurt Oracle and SAP, IBM's mega-vendor competitors. "More importantly, this acquisition prevents Oracle and SAP from getting their hands on the technology to buttress their BI analytics stories," wrote Ovum's Tony Baer and Madan Sheina in a note to clients.
Oracle, however, already has solid analytics capabilities in its Oracle Data Miner, Kobielus said, and he doubts the company will join the emerging predictive analytics acquisition spree. Oracle declined a request for comment.
SAP is a different story. Kobielus said for SAP's analytics stack to be considered 'primo,' as he now considers IBM's to be, thanks to SPSS, it will have to develop or acquire predictive analytics and data mining technology of its own, not just partner with an IBM-owned SPSS.
He said Information Builders, MicroStrategy and even Microsoft are likely to look to acquire predictive analytics vendors of their own in the coming months. Likely targets include pure-plays KXEN, Angoss and ThinkAnalytics.
As for SAS, CEO Jim Goodnight has repeatedly said he has no plans to sell the company, an assertion reiterated by Milley. "We really enjoy being a privately held company," she said.
Still, SAS dwarfs SPSS in terms of revenue. SAS reported total revenue of $2.26 billion in 2008, compared to $300 million for SPSS. An IBM-owned SPSS, however, is likely to prove a tougher competitor for SAS, which has long dominated the predictive analytics market.
"Goodnight didn't rate SPSS much as a competitor," wrote Nick Patience, a research director at New York City-based The 451 Group. "But IBM? That's a bit different."


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The chair of Clia UK and Ireland has admitted 2019 is proving a “tough and challenging year”.
Opening the Clia Conference, which this year took place in Portsmouth, Tony Roberts, who is also vice president of Princess Cruises UK and Europe, told the 750 agent delegates present: “We can’t deny there are some things that are making the holiday market tough. The holiday market and cruise market are tracking behind where we were last year.
“Some of that is because people are booking their cruise holidays earlier, but for some people it’s because there is a different market out there. Some are having an irrational and emotional response to Brexit.”
He acknowledged there was also another issue facing the cruise sector: sustainability.
“This is really important for the cruise industry and we have to take steps forward – the whole industry needs to take steps forward,” he added. “We need everyone in this room to dispel myths and talk positively about some of the steps we are taking [on sustainability].”
Despite the challenges, Roberts also insisted there were numerous positives in the sector.
“We should look at things like Brexit as bumps in the road,” he added. “You only need to look at the order books to have real confidence in the cruise industry – there is $61 billion of ships on the order books. There is huge potential out there.”


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Tesla is starting to retrofit Autopilot 2.0/2.5 computers in older Model S and Model X vehicles with its new self-driving computer in what stands to be a massive retrofit program.
Earlier this year, Tesla launched its Full Self-Driving computer claiming that it is ‘objectively the best chip in the world’.
They claimed a factor of 21 improvement in frame per second processing versus the previous generation Tesla Autopilot hardware, which was powered by Nvidia hardware.
According to the company, its new computer can process 2,300 frames per second and perform 144 trillions of operation per second.
CEO Elon Musk described the new computer as what will enable them to power their vision-based full self-driving capability software to be released next year.
Tesla said that the new computer was in all new Model S and Model X vehicles since March (starting around March 20th) and in all new Model 3 vehicles since April (starting around April 12th).
But Tesla has also been promising to offer a retrofit to the new computer for Tesla owners with vehicles equipped with Autopilot 2.0 and 2.5 computers who have purchased Tesla’s Full Self-Driving package.
Musk said the following about plans to offer retrofits (FSD stands for ‘Full Self-Driving):
“Anyone who purchased full self-driving will get FSD computer upgrade for free. This is the only change between Autopilot HW2.5 & HW3. Going forward “HW3” will just be called FSD Computer, which is accurate. No change to vehicle sensors or wire harness needed. This is very important.”
The new computer has been in all new Tesla vehicles since April, but we haven’t heard much about the retrofit program.
We’ve learned that Tesla has now tentatively started the retrofit program:
Note that retrofit only available for S/X right now, and only if Tesla internal computer pops up with item. So, not available on request yet.
— Sofiaan Fraval (@Sofiaan) September 11, 2019
But Tesla owners shouldn’t expect to necessarily get their new FSD computer any time soon.
Technically, there could hundreds of thousands of vehicles eligible for the computer retrofit.
At this time, it looks like Tesla is only starting to do the retrofit for Model S and Model X vehicles in “group 1” who are already scheduled to go into service.
Tesla owners shouldn’t expect to be able to request the retrofit at this time.
The automaker is trying to limit the cost of the retrofit by limiting it to vehicles that are already being worked on. As the production and availability of the computer ramps up, we expect that Tesla is going to expand the program.
Musk did say that Tesla’s mobile service technicians would be able to perform the computer retrofit.
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Slow your roll, Jonathan Saunders for Dior tin-hatters — those succession theories will have to wait. Per WWD, the brand’s in-house design team will be in charge of the upcoming spring 2016 couture and fall 2016 ready-to-wear collections. So if you’re bracing yourself for a big announcement, it sounds like you can finally unclench your Bar Jacket–clad shoulders. According to the paper, Dior is “taking its time in its search for a successor to [Raf] Simons.” Time to refocus those energies on tracking the latest wrinkles in the Lanvin saga!
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Upgrading to BS6 will cost a lot of money to manufacturers. Though it is difficult to guess the exact amount that will be invested by a manufacturer for meeting BS6 norms, the amount is estimated to be in thousands of crores. Not only the manufacturing plants will need to be upgraded, new components will be needed.
In an interview with The Hindu, Tata Motors MD and CEO, Guenter Butschek has revealed that his company has already invested Rs 1,200 crores in the transition to BS6. This amount was invested in last fiscal, more is expected to be invested this year.
More details about the investment was not revealed. It is not clear as to which engines will be upgraded to meet BS6 and which will be not. But one thing is certain, more diesel engines are expected to get the boot, as compared to petrol engines. The reason, cost of upgrading a diesel engine to BS6 is higher as compared to cost of upgrading petrol engine to BS6.
Experts surmise that developing diesel engines for small vehicles will not be cost effective. The higher costs involved to make these engines comply with new BS6 emission norms will not justify investments as this would lead to higher price tags which could in turn lower demand.
These predictions were also made by Maruti Suzuki India Limited, the country’s largest automaker, who have announced that the sale of diesel powered vehicles will be stopped from April 2020.
Along with Maruti Suzuki, President of Tata Motors’ passenger vehicles business, Mr. Mayank Pareek also cites concerns over the added investment in development of small diesel engines. However, Hyundai Motors, Toyota and Ford have stated that they would be continuing with development of these diesel engines so as to comply with BS VI emission norms despite higher costs involved.
Tata Motors plans to stop producing small diesel engine cars from April 2020. The company would think of reintroducing these vehicles only after gauging the market scenario and if there is adequate demand for them. Tata Motors sells diesel variants of most of its models. The Tiago hatchback gets a diesel engine option along with the Tigor compact sedan. The Nexon compact SUV, Zest sedan and the recently launched Harrier SUV all get powered by diesel engine options.
In the overall scenario, the share of diesel vehicles in India has seen a decline from a peak of 58 percent in 2012-13 to 36 percent in the last financial year. This decline was primarily due to the fact that there was a ban on diesel vehicles older than 10 years in the NCR coupled by a narrowing price difference between petrol and diesel. The diesel engine may be cheaper and more fuel efficient but there are higher costs involved in making these engines comply with new BS VI emission norms and if demand dips, this extra investment would not be justified.
Hyundai, Toyota and Ford India will be investing in upgrading their petrol and diesel engines to comply with BS VI emission standards. This will result in a price increase by around 8-10 percent but this will not be exclusively for diesel vehicles alone and would also include the petrol vehicle offerings. Hence every automaker would have to take their own decisions on whether to go ahead with the investment or not.


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By Nathaniel Hobbs, Editor-In-Chief
Bruce Springsteen is the latest artist rumored to be shopping his musical catalogs, with both his publishing rights and recorded music potentially for sale.
It was common in the 1980s and 1990s for superstar artists to be granted ownership rights in earlier albums as an incentive to re-sign with labels that helped elevate them to superstar status. Artists who benefited from these deals include Garth Brooks, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, and Michael Jackson. Now, as streaming drives music consumption numbers higher than ever, major labels are paying large amounts of money to get the rights to those legacy acts back.
The latest purchase in the works is Sony’s negotiation to acquire Springsteen’s catalog. Though details of the negotiations have been kept under wraps, Billboard has estimated that the master recording catalog could value between $145 and $190 million.
Sources have also hinted Springsteen is shopping his publishing catalog, the underlying musical compositions that comprise the recorded works. Combined value of both the publishing and recording rights could be upwards of $350 million. According to the RIAA website, the Springsteen catalog has earned 65.5 million sales in the United States, including 15-times platinum Born in the U.S.A.But his music is not just a vestige of the past. Since 2018, the Springsteen catalog has sold the equivalent of 2.25 million albums in the United States.
Now seems to be one of the best times in history for artists who own their copyrights to capitalize on their works. In the past few years, music assets have generated the highest multiples in history, with catalogs selling for 25 to 30 times the net publishing share, or 15 to 20 times the net label share.
UMG purchased Bob Dylan’s catalog for $300 million. Hipgnosis spent roughly $1.37 billion between March 2019 and September 2020 purchasing several catalogs. Stevie Nicks and Imagine Dragons sold their catalogs for $100 million each, Neil Young’s catalog sold for $150 million, and Taylor Swift’s catalog was purchased for $300 million.
Although no deal has officially been struck, it will be interesting to see how the latest in a long line of catalog sales will be valued, and which other acts may be inspired by such large numbers to sell their rights as well.
In what is possibly the largest deal ever linked to a single artist’s catalog, it was announced December 16, 2021, that Bruce Springsteen sold his catalog of recorded music and publishing rights to Sony for $500 million.
The deal was struck between Springsteen, Sony Music, and Sony Music Publishing. Sony is the parent company of Columbia Records, where Springsteen has released all his records. Prior to this sale, Springsteen’s publishing catalog was controlled by Universal Music Group. Sony now controls Springsteen’s impressive catalog of over 300 songs, 20 studio albums, 23 live LPs, 7 EPs, and more.
Number of on-demand music streams in the United States from 2013 to 2019, Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/384687/on-demand-music-streams-number-usa/ (May 10, 2021).
Ed Christman, Bruce Springsteen In Talks to Sell Recorded Music Catalog to Sony Music, Billboard, https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/9654308/bruce-springsteen-talks-sony-music-sell-recorded-music-catalog/ (Nov. 2, 2021).
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Geoff Mayfield, The Ins-and-Outs of Music Catalog Sales and the Behind-the-Scenes Players Advising Songwriters Who Cash Out, Variety, https://variety.com/2021/music/features/music-catalog-publishing-sales-advisor-1234946214/?sub_action=logged_in (Apr. 8, 2021).
Amy Lamare, The Biggest Music Catalog Sales of the Last Year, Celebrity Net Worth, https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/the-biggest-music-catalog-sales-of-the-last-year/ (Mar. 23, 2021).
Bobby Olivier, Bruce Springsteen Sells Publishing Catalog in Massive $500 Million Deal, NJ https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2021/12/bruce-springsteen-sells-publishing-catalog-in-massive-500-million-deal.html (Dec. 16, 2021).
Nina Corcoran, Bruce Springsteen Sells His Masters, Publishing Catalog to Sony for $500 Million, Pitchfork, https://pitchfork.com/news/bruce-springsteen-sells-his-masters-publishing-catalog-to-sony-for-500-million/ (Dec. 15, 2021).


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The possibilities that the Internet of Things (IoT) and its millions of connected devices create are infinite and can bring many benefits to consumers and society as a whole. However, they could also leave users open to devastating vulnerabilities if not properly secured.
Ahead of AfricaCom 2019, Jim Phillipoff (pictured), head of business development, media and entertainment at Irdeto, answered a few questions about the risks and rewards associated with smart homes and what consumers can do to keep their homes secure.
Connecting Africa (CA): What are the main security threats facing consumers in relation to smart home devices?
Jim Phillipoff (JP) : The enormous scope of opportunities provided by connected devices and IoT are still being explored. Consumers are becoming increasingly reliant on the convenience and customization allowed by connectivity today and there are also many benefits and opportunities for businesses themselves to take advantage of when it comes to IoT. However, on the flipside, the proliferation of IoT devices has provided hackers with unprecedented vulnerabilities if these devices are not properly secured.
Many consumers are aware of the risks, with a 2018 survey conducted by Microsoft Market Intelligence highlighting concerns consumers have about digital assistants. It found that the top concern was that "personal information or data is not secure". Digital assistants, like any connected device in the home, should be evaluated from a security perspective as well as just functionality and price. Hackers may well target digital assistants more than most other devices since they can function as a "hub" which will likely control other elements the home network -- the same situation applies to the router as the gateway to the home network.
CA: Where does responsibility for securing IoT devices and the smart home lie -- with the service provider, device manufacturer or consumer?
JP: Since there are so many device manufacturers, service providers have an opportunity to offer consumers a solution for the whole home. In fact, there's a good deal of research which shows that consumers are willing to pay to protect their privacy and data. Research from Blackberry earlier this year found that 58% of consumers would be willing to pay more for connected devices, if they know their data and privacy is protected. By providing a security and WiFi management service that consumers really want, communication service providers [CSPs] can increase average revenue per user [ARPU] and decrease key costs.
Certainly, consumers and service providers cannot rely on IoT device manufacturers for peace of mind and security of their network, and while there is some responsibility for the service provider when it comes to the router, the CSP often doesn't have visibility and device intel beyond the gateway to tackle these concerns.
CA: What do service providers need to think about in securing smart home services, both in relation to their customers' needs and current and future legislation?
JP: In addition to the increase in security vulnerabilities brought about by the proliferation of IoT devices, there are challenges for CSPs and consumers alike around control of the smart home. When subscribers encounter a security or connectivity issue, they turn to their broadband provider for help, but the CSP doesn't have visibility and device intel beyond the gateway to tackle these concerns. CSPs therefore require the tools to address connectivity and security problems more efficiently while offering value added services to consumers. In terms of legislation, things are still in their infancy, but the new IoT device labeling system included in the UK government's recent consultation is a good step. Providers should look at the problems caused by the smart home revolution as a growth opportunity which has the potential to help them achieve their key business objectives.
CA: What role can technology providers play in securing the smart home?
JP: Technology providers play a key part in smart home security not only because of their innovations, but also because of the user-friendliness of their solutions. For decades Irdeto has been helping the media, transportation and IoT industries secure their intellectual properties, services and business models while ensuring the best user experience and ease of management. We are applying the same principles to smart home management.
Technology providers must make their solutions easy and economical for service providers to deploy and create value that translates to increased ARPU and reduced costs for service providers.
For securing the smart home, this means giving service providers visibility to the entire home from a customer care portal so that customer support staff can solve subscribers' connectivity and security issues without truck rolls. A user-friendly self-care app and security guidance can enable consumers to resolve WiFi and security issues on their own, further decreasing call volumes for service providers. In addition, technology providers should aim to provide solutions flexible to deploy, via a software update instead of locking service providers into hardware-specific solutions.
CA: What role can artificial intelligence play in helping protect against threats?
JP: Artificial intelligence can be a crucial tool in detecting threats and behavioral anomalies in the smart home in real-time. Trusted Home applies proprietary fingerprinting technology without compromising consumer privacy with practices such as Deep Packet Inspection. Through this automated recognition and anomaly detection, the solution highlights known vulnerabilities, suggests actions against threats, and even addresses connectivity issues.
This year did not begin the way most people expected it to, so what does the future of the telecoms sector look like in Africa in 2020? In this Connecting Africa online event, local analysts and industry stakeholders will discuss what African operators’ priorities for the year should be and the most significant market trends expected to dominate in 2020.
Will MNOs focus on sweating their current assets rather than investing in new technologies like 5G?
What impact will COVID-19 have on the continent’s networks?
What are the hot market trends in Africa when it comes to voice, data and mobile financial services?
The majority of 5G in Africa is still in the testing stage. However, as operators prepare their networks for the technology jump, what strategies are they deploying to ensure they gain the full value that 5G can offer Africa? This digital symposium will give you an insight into the opportunities and challenges facing Africa’s 5G rollout, with some country specific case studies unpacked.
How 5G-ready is African enterprise?
Is 5G a priority for in Africa, should it be? Or can operators and businesses focus on growing their 3G and 4G networks for enterprise instead?
What are the most significant enterprise business applications for 5G deployment on the continent, and where can 5G facilitate IoT applications?
Africa was the birthplace of Mobile Money and while it continues to rise in popularity, the industry is quickly evolving and launching more mobile-based financial services every day. In this Connecting Africa online event, local analysts and industry stakeholders will discuss how telcos are disrupting the financial services space and what the rise of Mobile Money 2.0 will look like for Africa.
From cash to mobile: heading towards a cashless society
Expanding MFS offerings beyond mobile money transfers
MNOs vs banks vs fintechs: an evolving competitive landscape
Unconnected and unbanked: fintech to improve financial inclusion
The rise of micro-loans and insurance through mobile platforms
Africa has the fastest growing population in the world and also the youngest, with 60% of Africans under the age of 25. It is clear that the next billion connected are going to be the mobile-only generation. This digital symposium will bring industry experts together to discuss Africa’s digital divide and how to get devices into the hands of young Africans and empower them to join the digital revolution.
Who’s Driving? The role of government & regulator, private tech companies, and public-private partnerships
Device affordability: are we reaching a tipping point?
Status check: Satellite vs Fiber and the enduring infrastructure gap
Exploring the wider societal and economic benefits of a connected, digitally literate continent


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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has released new open-source software for creating payment platforms that will help unbanked people around the world access digital financial services.
The software is designed to provide a reference model for payment interoperability between banks and other providers across a country’s economy. It is available now, free-of-cost, for software developers to adapt and banks, financial service providers and companies to implement. Information on the code can be found at mojaloop.io.
Current data from the World Bank shows that nearly two billion people in developing economies lack bank accounts and miss out on the benefits and security that basic financial services provide. Digital financial services, such as mobile money on cell phones, have rapidly expanded over the last two decades because they are convenient for users and cost-effective for companies aiming to serve new markets. In Kenya, an estimated 194,000 households have moved out of extreme poverty due in part to their access to M-Pesa, a mobile money platform, and users’ ability to save money more effectively. Digital financial services are now available in nearly 100 countries according to GSMA, an organization representing mobile network operators. However, global expansion of these services—especially to the world’s poor—has been hampered, in large part, by a lack of interoperability between digital financial services and payment platforms.
The new software, called Mojaloop, establishes a blueprint for connecting today’s financial services sector, and can be used as a solution to barriers that banks and providers seeking interoperability have traditionally faced. Delivering financial services to the poor is prohibitively challenging for many businesses because they struggle to invest adequately in complex technology while maintaining a commitment to low-cost, inclusive services. This has led to a prevalence of consumer payment options that are out of reach for many people in developing economies, or which limit customers’ ability to transact across products, banks and borders. These and similar challenges have dissuaded many companies from expanding into developing markets altogether.
Mojaloop can be used by financial institutions and commercial providers, to simplify and reduce the cost of developing inclusive payment platforms. It was designed to serve ultimately as a model for national payment switching systems that, for example, enable an individual’s digital wallet to connect with her employer’s bank account and her children’s school account to complete monthly transactions. The code can also be applied to adapt and improve existing services.
“Interoperability of digital payments has been the toughest hurdle for the financial services industry to overcome. With Mojaloop, our technology partners have finally achieved a solution that can apply to any service, and we invite banks and the payments industry to explore and test this tool,” said Kosta Peric, Deputy Director, Financial Services for the Poor, at the Gates Foundation. “Just as the internet revolutionized digital communication, open-source solutions like Mojaloop can spark innovation and democratize access to digital payments, empowering billions of new customers and driving massive economic growth in developing markets.”
Mojaloop (building off the Swahili word “moja,” which means “one”) was created in partnership with fintech developers Ripple, Dwolla, ModusBox, Crosslake Technologies and Software Group, using cutting-edge technology such as the Interledger Protocol, a solution for settling funds among multiple providers across their individual systems. It joins other promising digital financial software, but is the first model that can help extend interoperability from mobile money providers to any bank, merchant or government institution in a customer’s economy in a way that specifically meets the needs of the poor.
“Interoperability is necessary both for financial inclusion and market maturity, but it is a complex thing to achieve,” said Benno Ndulu, Governor of the Bank of Tanzania, the country’s national bank. “We are excited to explore implementation of this because of how it can simplify that capability for businesses and governments, and speed up access to financial services.”
“As we modernize and develop national and cross-border payments infrastructure in Africa, the only way to sustainably reach and serve the world’s unbanked communities is through new technologies,” said Chris Hamilton, CEO of BankservAfrica. “Our aim as an organization is to offer national payments platforms for the next generation of financial innovators and Mojaloop gives us some tantalizing new options for doing that in a way that integrates with the entire national economy.”
Developers can access the new software on GitHub, the world’s leading open-source development platform. It includes four components: an interoperability layer, which connects bank accounts, mobile money wallets, and merchants in an open loop; a directory service layer, which navigates the different methods that providers use to identify accounts on each side of a transaction; a transactions settlement layer, which makes payments instant and irrevocable; and, components which protect against fraud. The software will not be owned or implemented by the Gates Foundation. It will be used in the foundation’s ongoing work to promote the development of pro-poor, digital payment platforms.
Mojaloop was created by the Gates Foundation’s Level One Project, which is aimed at leveling the economic playing field by crowding in expertise and resources to build inclusive payment models to benefit the world’s poor. Alongside Mojaloop’s development, the project also brought together four mobile systems companies—Ericsson, Huawei, Telepin, and Mahindra Comviva—to develop an Open API for mobile money interoperability. These APIs will allow mobile money providers to integrate seamlessly with Mojaloop and products built from it.
“In order to achieve the full potential of mobile money, we must evolve today’s complex and often fragmented digital payments ecosystem,” said Mr. Shi Yaohong, President of Software Product Line at Huawei. “I look forward to exploring opportunities to leverage Mojaloop to help us achieve our goal of bringing digital financial services to all poor and low-income customers.”
AppDate: uKheshe bring banking to the masses
In his apps roundup, SEAN BACHER highlights uKheshe, FNB’s banking app with its will feature, Split Payments, Momentum Safety Alert and Fleetonomy.
uKheshe micro transaction platform
Financial inclusion took another step forward as local start-up, uKheshe, South Africa’s cheapest and most convenient QR cash card and micro transaction platform, won the 2019 Global Fintech Hackcelerator @ Southern Africa competition.
“The issue of financial inclusion is a global one and the more we can do to uplift the unbanked and under banked, the healthier their respective economies will become,” says Clayton Hayward, co-founder, uKheshe.
While 1.2 billion people have opened a financial account since 2011, there is still an estimated 1.7 billion adults worldwide (or 31% of adults) who don’t have a basic transaction account. Globally, two-thirds of adults without an account cite a lack of money as a key reason, which implies that financial services aren’t yet affordable or designed to fit low-income users.
To find out more about uKheshe click here
FNB’s banking app with will feature
First National Bank now lets its customers draw up their own wills via the FNB Online Banking platform at no cost. To date, the bank has seen a significant increase in the number of clients who drafted their own wills online, with over 52 000 clients already accessing the functionality.
Approximately 80% of South Africans don’t have a valid will in place; and many people believe that it’s a need only when they get older, or later in life.
“Whilst the digital process is simple and easy to use, the solution also helps with a dedicated client support centre should clients need further assistance or advice regarding the drafting of their wills,” says Johan Strydom, Growth Head, FNB Wealth and Investments. “The solution aims to simplify the process and allows customers to easily draft a will online anytime and at any place, at no cost. In addition, FNB will keep your original will in safe custody at no extra cost.”
Platform: Android and iOS
Expect to pay: A free download
Stockists: Available the FNB app which can be be downloaded here.
PayFast has launched Split Payments, a South African-first that instantly splits a portion of an online payment with a third party. The service is designed to facilitate fast, safe payments for platform-based businesses, including online marketplaces.
For those who run a marketplace that brings together multiple sellers or merchants looking for new sales channels, Split Payments addresses payment headaches with a simple API integration.
Consumers are used to engaging with large global transactional platforms such as AirBnB, Uber, and Amazon. The benefits and extended reach of these types of platforms are catching on locally, and organisations like estate agency groups and even community marketplaces are setting up digital trading platforms.
The app allows businesses to instantly split out commission, membership or listing fees, when a payment is made via one of its supported payment methods.
For each online payment received the business can determine what the split is, either a fixed amount, a percentage, or a combination of both. Custom recurring payment integration, such as subscriptions payments, can also be split automatically.
Platform: iOS and Android
Expect to pay: A free download
Stockists: Download Split Payments here
Read more about Momentum’s new Safety Alert app and Fleetonomy.
Why 4G is still a thing
Even with the 5G era already upon us, investment in 4G/LTE networks is still vitally important for operators in sub-Saharan Africa and must remain a core focus of network construction for the immediate future. This is according to David Chen, Vice-President, Huawei Southern Africa.
“Currently, the mobile broadband penetration rate in Africa is only 47%, while 4G penetration rate is merely 10%,” Chen said.
“Insufficient coverage causes LTE users to fall back to the 2G or 3G networks, resulting in significant decline in user experience. It also leads to congestion on the 2G and 3G networks and makes it difficult to release spectrum used by 2G and 3G.”
Chen said that LTE and 5G complement each other and are evolving in parallel. In the next few years, 5G will mainly be used in more industrial communications.
LTE will remain the primary choice for global mobile communications through 2025. It will form the basic layer of national networks, especially when it comes to the mobile broadband access.
“It will take a long time for 5G to provide nationwide continuous coverage. Before that, enhanced LTE networks can guarantee optimal user experience for 5G users, including services such as VR, AR, and cloud gaming,” said Chen.
He said that it is important for operators to invest in 4G to secure future growth, as it is estimated that there will be an additional 80 million LTE users in sub-Saharan Africa by 2025.
Driven by this growth, LTE traffic in sub-Saharan Africa will increase by a factor of 8.8. By 2025, about 80% of all data traffic in the region will be over an LTE network.
LTE will also be the main source of future revenue for operators.
“According to GSMA Intelligence, 2G and 3G users in sub-Saharan Africa will gradually migrate to 4G,” said Chen. “By 2025, the proportion of 2G users will drop from 46% to 12%.”
Part of the reason for the migration to 4G is because the ecosystem is mature.
“The price of feature phones supporting VoLTE in the sub-Saharan Africa market has been as low as $25,” Chen said.
Since 5G equipment is already available, there is an opportunity for operators to build out their 4G networks while ensuring that they can evolve to 5G in future.
Chen offered the following tips to operators to ensure they are ready for 5G:
- All future equipment installations should be 5G ready, allowing easy upgrades to 5G through software updates.
- Software should support multi-standard spectrum sharing to improve spectrum efficiency, and to allow the smooth migration of 2G and 3G users.
- Networks must support 4G and 5G coordination, in terms of spectrum, operation and maintenance. This will ensure that users have a consistent experience as we enter the 5G era.
- The value of existing ICT infrastructure, such as base station sites, must be maximised to avoid overlapping services and wasted resources. This would mean boosting the capacity and coverage of every station for optimum efficiency.
- Carriers should explore the business case for all possible 5G innovations when building 4G networks, and not just embrace 5G for its own sake. This will mean building business models around IoT, video, live broadcast, augmented reality, and virtual reality.
- It is important that operators build partnerships with providers that can support the ongoing spectrum evolution with fast site upgrades and large-capacity solutions. The idea is to maximise the value of 4G networks, and smoothly evolve to 5G without unnecessary infrastructure investment.


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No one was in the building when the fire broke out about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Skagit County spokesperson Laura Han said the fire started in the area of the building that housed refrigeration compressors. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
The blaze also destroyed the farm’s new blueberry harvester, which was sitting just outside the warehouse. The farm’s retail store was also damaged.
The rest of the 5-acre farm remains intact. The farm’s blueberry plants, including 75-year-old heirloom varieties, were untouched by the fire. A barn where farming equipment is stored was not damaged.
Ranz said the farm still has the majority of the blueberries it harvested this year. Those are stored at another facility, and brought over in batches.
“We lost some of our blueberries, and we lost all of our products we made over the last six weeks,” she said. “We are effectively out of business for a little while until we can figure how to process off site.”
She said many in Skagit County have offered to help, or to provide production space.
On Wednesday, owners Ranz, her husband Ezra Ranz and his sister Audrey Matheson surveyed the blackened rubble of the building.
The three, along with Audrey’s husband Andrew Matheson, bought Bow Hill Blueberries in the fall of 2020. The business specializes in making blueberry juice, jam, pickled blueberries and blueberry powder.
Emma and Ezra Ranz, who live in a house next door to the farm, were alerted to the fire early Tuesday morning by a neighbor who had called 911.
Skagit County fire districts 5, 6 and 14 responded to the fire.
Emma Ranz said firefighters were on site for 12 hours responding to the blaze.
She said some of the equipment inside the facility may be salvageable.
“We hope to be able to bring back a small selection of our products fairly soon,” she said. “At the moment, it looks like we’re going to be out of production at this location for a quiet a while.”