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Liverpool and Manchester United have been dealt a transfer blow as Bayern Munich have started to make progress in contract talks with Jamal Musiala. Goal has reported that Musiala's £100,000-per-week wage demands have been holding up Bayern's attempts to tie him down to fresh terms. The 17-year-old is currently tied to the club on a youth agreement which is set to expire in 2022, but the German champions are eager to secure his long-term future. Bayern are still working to reach a compromise with the teenage midfielder, but Goal has learned that negotiations between the two parties are now advancing. Musiala, who spent eight years in Chelsea's academy before moving to Allianz Arena in 2019, is very much open to extending his stay at Bayern despite rumours linking him with a return to the Premier League. Liverpool, United and City have all been keeping tabs on the youngster's situation, but his current employers are hopeful that he will sign a renewal before he turns 18 on February 26. Bayern head coach Hansi Flick recently talked up Musiala's talents after trusting him to play a key role in his senior squad, telling reporters: "Jamal has enormous qualities. Bayern are clearly interested in retaining this player for a longer period of time." The England Under-21 international has already taken in 21 appearances across all competitions for Flick's side in 2020-21, scoring three goals. Musiala's current manager at international level also singled him out for special praise earlier in the season, with Aidy Boothroyd stating after the Three Lions' 5-0 win over Albania: "He has definitely increased game time. "We don’t know, but he might have a growth spurt and he hasn’t even finished growing yet. "Being out in Germany, training with that calibre of players and coaches every day is really going to help his development for us." His latest outing came from the bench as Bayern picked up a 1-0 win away at Augsburg on Wednesday which saw them maintain their four-point lead at the top of the Bundesliga standings. Musiala will be back in contention for a place in Flick's starting XI when the Bavarian outfit travel to Vetlins-Arena to face bottom-of-the-table Schalke on Sunday. Bayern can take another step towards their ninth successive Bundesliga crown with a win in Gelsenkirchen before their focus shifts to a home fixture against Hoffenheim on January 30.

Samir Machour, a Moroccan scientist based in South Korea, has been one of the important actors who allowed Morocco to become the first African country to receive COVID-19 vaccines. Machour is currently the senior executive vice president for quality control at the Seoul-based biotechnology company, Samsung Biologics. In December 2020, the scientist declared that he had been in close touch with the leaders of British-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, pressuring them to prioritize Morocco while delivering their COVID-19 vaccines. Machour’s efforts seem to have borne fruit. On Friday, January 22, Morocco received a shipment of AstraZeneca vaccines manufactured in India, becoming the first African country to receive vaccines. Samir Machour spoke about his efforts to help Morocco secure doses of COVID-19 vaccines earlier than neighboring countries during an interview on December 25 with Moroccan journalist Ridouane Erramdani. “I couldn’t just sit and wait. I had to help my country somehow. I directly contacted the people manufacturing the vaccine, those who know me, and I suggested they deliver it to Morocco, and I pressured them,” Machour said. “This is how I started.” “Morocco is currently a global priority for AstraZeneca. They told me that, as soon as they begin exporting the vaccine, they will send it to Morocco,” he added. While Machour’s statement went largely unnoticed in December, many Moroccans are today sharing it, after the first shipment of vaccines arrived. Several news outlets now describe him as one of Morocco’s unsung heroes in the fight against COVID-19. Samir Machour, 58 year old, has an impressive resume, filled with experiences with the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. He previously worked for the British GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the American Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Becton Dickinson (BD), the German Boehringer Ingelheim, and the Swiss Lonza. Born in Rabat, Machour earned his high school diploma in 1980 in Azrou, near Fez, before flying to Canada for higher education. He earned a Master of Science in nuclear physics from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. The Moroccan scientist also graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, the US, and participated in several programs at the Harvard Business School. In November 2018, the Smart Health conference in Dubai, UAE, awarded Samir Machour the Top 50 Healthcare Leaders Award for his several contributions to the field.

Nonajoler Kabbo, literally, the poem of the sea, splashes you. Much after its waters have receded, the sediments remain stuck on your psyche, like damp sand in your pockets, weighing your gait down. The 106-minute film opens with Bangladeshi musician Arnob’s folksy flute notes as a life-inspired sculpture of a woman with a fishing pole is washed ashore. Art achieves the unthinkable, in real life, Tuni (Tasnova Tamanna) is told that “fishing isn’t for women”. In her coastal village arrives Rudro (Titas Zia), a Dhaka artist, seeking inspiration, away from the city cacophony, bringing along his “universe” (sculptures, sketches) in a cabin-sized wooden box. He’s welcome, until he stirs up the hornet’s nest. He’s a gust of wind that flares up fires: mind’s liberation (children to make art or Tuni’s desire for a different life) or confinement. The Muslim cleric contends, the sculptures (“akin to Hindu idols”) have cursed the village. The men are unable to procure ilish (hilsa). Rising sea-levels causing low catch is to be rubbished. The villagers are at the nerve centre, at two ends stand two worldviews: the self-serving imam Chairman (Fazlur Rahman Babu) and the well-meaning Rudro, man and nature, life’s dictum and art’s defiance, tradition and modernity, conservatism and progressive liberal thinking, blind faith and science, self and community. The twain shan’t meet, for “even waters have boundaries, the red and black don’t mix”. These two are not Marvel-like back-and-white hero and villain. The magnificent visuals make the greys stand out: the overcast sky, the sand, the muddied waters in high tide, and human behaviour. The vibrantly clothed women and children – like cheerful hues – are to be kept in check. When the storms come, and people leave, it is in art/artist’s “universe”, that the scrupulous Tuni and Rudro take shelter in. After BFI London and Busan International Film Festival last year, Rezwan Shahriar Sumit’s The Salt in Our Waters (Nonajoler Kabbo) won the NETPAC award at the recent 26th Kolkata International Film Festival. And, has been nominated for the Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award (among the likes of 2020 Cannes’ French showcase Gagarine) at the 44th Göteborg Film Festival (January 29-February in Sweden. The Salt… may not have taken off had it not been for Spike Lee. The American filmmaker, and creative advisor of Sumit’s graduate film programme at New York University’s Tisch School of Arts, was “the first person to give me money, a writing grant in 2016, and three mentoring sessions,” says Sumit, who found his French producer (Ilann Girard’s Arsam International) in India – at NFDC Film Bazaar’s co-production market. Lee explained to Sumit how “shooting in Bangladesh during monsoon, on boats, in high tide (when the location gets disconnected from the mainland), might turn into a nightmare”, and that he needed to surround himself with more experienced people, “who’d create a safe bubble for me,” says Sumit, who sought a crew with South Asian experience. His Tisch senior and cinematographer Chananun Chotrungoj (winner for Materna at 2020 Tribeca Film Festival), who “spent her childhood in southern Thai coasts, and was familiar with the fishing cultures of the Global South”, came on board. It’s “challenging to shoot here”, he says, owing to “lack of infrastructure (India is different from, say, Nepal and Bangladesh)”. Recent studies show the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta water levels have increased marginally faster than the global average. When Cyclone Amphan slammed into southern Bangladesh coastline, in May, in the middle of the pandemic/lockdown, Sumit was worried about his fisherfolk friends in the Gangetic delta of Kuakata in Patuakhali district, where he shot his debut feature. He’d seen what a cyclone leaves in its wake. In 2007, he visited Kuakata, 11-13 hours from the capital Dhaka, three months after Cyclone Sidr had devastated it. “Walking along the coastline, you start seeing outside the tourist bubble. You see tiny fishermen clusters. You see their unique way of fishing. They put a shallow engine on a wooden dinghy boat and go straight into the ocean. The boats cross three waves and the third wave is usually so big that the boat goes almost 90 degrees up. It looks so dangerous from the shore. You feel the boats would topple, but these men are experts.” That singular image led to his NYU graduate film The Salt… “The way they turn things around after a cyclone is nothing less than heroic,” says Sumit, whose first film, a short guerrilla-style docu-fiction City Life (2007) landed him at the 2008 Berlinale Talents. The seafaring folks are simple but resilient, incorruptible but susceptible to religious superstition. “These vulnerable communities bear the brunt of climate change, feel the effect every day, but don’t have the big picture, the science of it, and, thus, resort to superstition. It becomes easier for people like Chairman – educated, lived in city, well-connected – to mani[CENSORED]te them,” he adds. But, “without provocation, the fishermen would never attack the artist. Though there are people like Chairman in society who, when the status quo is shaken, feel insecure and may instigate innocents,” he says. “Extremism takes root and grows silently in society, when you start to accept it. In the film, people have accepted Chairman’s ways of life, but he gets the better of them,” says Sumit, who wrote the story in 2014, in response to the 2013 Shahbag protest, “when the clash between right and left started to surface more strongly, and the extremists attacked artists and liberals”. Chairman, however, the guardian who believes thousand-year-old traditions glue the community together, has a softer side, too. And, while Rudro becomes a saviour in the end, he’s flawed, selfish, and unaware of the effect his art can have on his subjects. “I’m questioning the artist, and through him, I’m questioning myself and what effect my film can have on the fishermen’s lives and climate policymakers,” says Sumit, adding, “as an artist, I must keep pointing out the systemic injustice in my society, while, I know, that I have to work with the system to iron these out.” The film, whose title has a “fault in our stars” ring to it, is balanced, doesn’t get didactic, it is grey, while its specificity, local-ness, realness makes it universal, its shared experience will resonate with Indians.

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A former employee of the Mercedes factory in Vitoria, in northern Spain, out of spite towards the company destroyed about 50 new vans with an excavator, police sources said Tuesday. The 38-year-old man first stole the excavator from another company, 21 km from the Mercedes factory. Once there, he destroyed the entrance door, and then "attacked with the vehicle fifty vans parked in the parking lot" of the German manufacturer, the Basque regional police, the Ertzaintza, indicated. The events occurred at dawn on December 31. Iñaki Andrés Lozares, union representative at the Mercedes factory, made a balance of 69 damaged vehicles in total. The management did not want to comment on the events at the moment. In the photos published in the local press, you could see one van overturned on top of another, and some more completely dented or with the hood smashed. The man, according to police, was a former Mercedes employee. His contract had ended at the end of 2017, according to Iñaki Andrés Lozares. He apparently felt "frustration, not only towards management but towards employees," too, and even "tried to enter the assembly facilities" of the factory, explained the union representative, one of the 5,000 employees at the plant. The damage caused would amount to between two and five million euros, according to sources from the German company cited by the local press.

The 2021 MotoGP World Championship will begin with two races at the Losail circuit in Qatar, followed by a test in Portugal, while the races in Argentina and the United States have been postponed, the International Motorcycle Federation (FIM) announced on Friday. The first round of the World Cup is held in Losail, on March 28 at night, and will be followed by a second, the same stage and also at night, on April 4. This is followed by the Portuguese GP in Portimao (Portugal) on April 18. The races scheduled in Argentina (April 11) and the United States (18) have been postponed to the end of the year due to the pandemic. The calendar currently has 19 events and should end in Spain, at the Valencia circuit, on November 14. Two days of training, on March 3 and 4, are planned at the Losail circuit. The MotoGP World Championship was reduced last year to 14 events. It was won by the Spanish Joan Mir (Suzuki). Provisional calendar for the 2021 MotoGP World Championship: March 28: Qatar (Losail, night race) April 4: Qatar (Losail, night race) April 18: Portugal (Portimao) May 2: Spain (Jerez) May 16: France (Le Mans) May 30: Italy (Mugello) June 6: Catalonia (Barcelona) June 20: Germany (Sachsenring) June 27: Netherlands (Assen) July 11: Finland (KymiRing, subject to circuit homologation) August 15: Austria (Spielberg) August 29: Great Britain (Silverstone) September 12: Aragon (Alcañiz) September 19: San Marino (Misano) October 3: Japan (Motegi) October 10: Thailand (Buriram) October 24: Australia (Phillip Island) October 31: Malaysia (Sepang) November 14: Valencian Community (Ricardo Tormo circuit) - Races postponed for which a date must be set: GP of Argentina (Termas de Río Hondo) and the United States (Austin). Race entered in reserve: Indonesia (Mandalika)

The Health Cabinet reported this Friday that starting next Wednesday, January 27, places dedicated to sports and physical exercise, such as gyms, will be able to receive clients in their facilities up to 60% of their total capacity. The measure is contained in presidential decree number 37-21. The vice president and coordinator of the Health Cabinet, Raquel Peña specified that the protocols for this type of space are established and have been reviewed and approved in conjunction with the Ministry of Public Health. "They have been publishing them on their website and we are also going to publish them on the Public Health platform," said the vice president. Peña pointed out that the failure of these centers to comply with the new measures and protocols will incur the closure of those businesses. In relation to sporting events, the Vice Minister of Planning and Development of the Ministry of Public Health, Edward Guzmán explained that they are waiting for the socialization of the protocols and, according to the circumstances, support them to the associations from the entity. "With the issue of fans, that depends on how the pandemic is at the time, but we are waiting and the door open in Public Health to receive all the associations that want to make their professional tournament," he said. In that sense, the vice president clarified that sports activities are allowed and she is aware that this type of event helps with the issue of confinement and is necessary for the mental health of young people and the po[CENSORED]tion. "Sports practices are allowed with due protocol and also complying with the percentage of the amount allowed in each of these spaces," she indicated. Meanwhile, the Minister of Health, Plutarco Arias explained that in the soccer league only one player was infected and in the baseball league of the seven thousand tests that were made, only 1.18 was positive. "What I want to tell you with this is that if the protocols are properly followed, things can go very well," he said. Public Space In the same way, it was established that people will be able to use open spaces in the open air, such as parks and boardwalks for their recreation. This provision applies to activities that do not involve crowding and in strict compliance with current health protocols. All measures will be in effect until February 8.

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Software has a big role to play in the future of the auto industry For decades, the automotive industry grew accustomed to normality. Automakers build cars themselves. Suppliers provide needed components to OEMs. However, as we all know, times are changing. There’s a push for more digitization and a growing need for more software as more EVs emerge and more self-driving capabilities are added to cars. Automakers are finding themselves without the expertise to fulfill the need for connected services and AI insights. Engineers at parts supplier Continental have predicted that vehicle functions controlled by software will increase from 10% to 40% by 2030. Tamara Snow, head of research and advanced engineering at Continental, said in an interview with Ward’s Auto that “vehicles are becoming part of the Internet of Things and will increasingly be defined in terms of software rather than hardware.” She went on to point out that the current vehicle architecture model is decentralized, having an excess of wires and other components instead of having one system in place that serves as a central source for data and interface operations. According to Gartner, the rise of vehicles with an embedded connection will rise to 580 million by 2025, a 152% increase from 2020. Legacy automakers are beginning to partner with software brands to develop architecture that allows for things like customized interface interaction and over-the-air system updates. The gist: Suppliers need to move forward with digitalization in mind. The sun is starting to set on the days of just supplying hardware to OEMs. Auto manufacturers are looking for software that’ll allow them to meet consumer demand for personalization. It’s also important to realize that filling the “software gap” for OEMs isn’t entirely everything. It may be smart to start building relationships with software providers in order to come up with ways to innovate the internal architecture for vehicles. Stellantis’ focus for the future The merger between Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and PSA Group is officially complete, creating one unified brand called Stellantis. Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares, formerly PSA’s CEO, has indicated that although this merger may seem like an offensive move, it’s also a defensive one. The newly combined automaker’s vision includes reassessing operations in China, including potentially exiting altogether, preserving factory jobs and creating more distinctions between brands. PSA has been working with IBM and Sigfox, a French wireless network operator, to create better packaging tracking between suppliers and assembly plants in order to meet another one of Stellantis’ priorities of reducing costs by 80% by the end of 2024. Tavares looks to be the right man for the job. In 2017, PSA bought Opel/Vauxhall, (aka GM’s struggling European operations) and Tavares was a big part of the brand revival, raising its operating margin to 4.7%. Tavares’ leadership combined with a focus on improving pricing, even if that meant at the cost of volume, and strong emphasis on branding were a few reasons why the turnaround was successful. FCA has experienced difficulty with weak sales and underutilized factory space in Europe. Tavares wants to use PSA’s engineering resources to revamp Fiat’s lineup and increase profitability. It doesn’t look like any brands will be cut as a result of the merger, at least for now. Strong brand diversity will be key to market share growth. In a press conference Tuesday, Tavares said, “Stellantis is more than the sum of its parts,” indicating that even though the new company has access to a large pool of resources, its focus is on the future and quickly adapting to consumer demand and EV adoption. In my opinion, the biggest challenge Stellantis and Tavares must tackle revolves around China since it’s the largest vehicle market on the planet. If Stellantis can crack the code for success in China and properly execute whatever plan it decides on, it’ll come as a massive win for the company. Industry news: Semiconductor shortage update: Volkswagen China has lost over 50,000 cars in production because of the ongoing chip shortage. The automaker was one of the first OEMs to experience the shortage back in December. Vehicles using the Electronic Stability Program are the models primarily affected by the supply shortage. China accounts for 40% of VW’s vehicle deliveries and is also a huge source of profits for the German OEM. Cruise raised another $2 billion in a new equity round and one of the investors is making headlines: Microsoft. Cruise specializes in autonomous vehicles and, after this latest round of funding, is moving closer to commercializing. Microsoft will provide Azure, its cloud and edge computing platform. Cloud services are extremely important and sometimes costly since AVs have to compile and compute massive loads of data. This also marks another significant investment made by a large consumer tech firm. Volkswagen may face a fine up to $121 million for missing out on CO2 emissions requirements set in place by the European Union. VW cut average CO2 emissions in new vehicles in 2020 by 20% to 99.8 g/km, .5 g/km above its target. CEO Herbert Deiss blamed the pandemic as the major factor that thwarted VW’s efforts to meet the restrictions set in place. Volkswagen still has a positive outlook for 2021 as the company increases electric vehicle output.

Cyberpunk 2077 update 1.10 "lays the groundwork for the upcoming patches" according to CD Projekt Red, and it's out right now on PS4 (and PS5 via backwards compatibility). It weighs in at a whopping 16.9GB on Sony's systems. Update 1.10 looks to fix a load of bugs and hopefully, finally fix the game's consistent crashing issues. You can find the full patch notes below. Cyberpunk 2077 Update 1.10 Patch Notes Stability Various stability improvements including: Memory usage improvements in various systems within the game: characters, interactions, navigation, in-game videos (news, tv, etc.), foliage, laser effects, minimap, devices, AI, street traffic, environmental damage system, GPU-related, and more. Various crash fixes (related to, among others, loading saves, game opening/closing and Point of No Return). Quests/Open World Fixed an issue where calls from Delamain would end immediately and seem like they cannot be picked up in Epistrophy. Fixed an issue where players would not receive calls from Delamain when approaching relevant vehicles in Epistrophy. Fixed an issue where the objective could get stuck on "Answer the call from Mr. Hands" in M'ap Tann Pèlen. Fixed an issue where Judy could teleport underground in Pyramid Song. Fixed an issue where it would be impossible to talk to Zen Master in Poem of The Atoms. Fixed an issue where Takemura wouldn't call in Down on the Street. Fixed an issue where Jackie could disappear in The Pickup. Fixed an issue where it could be impossible to get out of the car in The Beast in Me: The Big Race. Fixed an issue where players could stop receiving calls and messages after moving too far away from A Day In The Life area. Fixed an issue where opening the package wouldn't update Space Oddity. Retro-fixed the saves affected by a rare issue where speaking to Judy in Automatic Love would be impossible due to an invisible wall. The underlying issue is under investigation. Fixed an issue that prevented players from collecting the reward in Gig: Freedom of the Press. The quest will auto-complete for those who could not collect the reward previously, and the reward will be provided automatically. Fixed an issue where Delamain would remain silent throughout Epistrophy if the player initially refused to help him. UI Fixed an issue where prompt for exiting braindance could be missing. Removed an invalid item from loot. Visual Fixed an issue where a grenade's trajectory could be displayed in photo mode. Fixed particles' hue appearing pink when viewed close up. Fixed cars spawning incorrectly in Reported Crime: Welcome to Night City. Achievements Fixed an issue where completing one of the assaults in progress in Santo Domingo would sometimes not contribute towards progression for The Jungle achievement, preventing its completion. Miscellaneous Addressed the issue responsible for saves getting oversized (related to the modifier indicating if the item is crafted), and trimmed the excess size from already existing saves. Fixed an issue where input could stop registering upon opening the weapon wheel and performing an action. Fixed an issue where the "Continue" button in the Main Menu could load an end game save. PlayStation-specific Performance optimization of crowds on PlayStation 4 Pro and PlayStation 5. Various crash fixes on PlayStation 4. We'll be putting this update to the test over the weekend to see whether it works as intended, and we'll be sure to keep you updated. But until then, file a full bug report in the comments section below.

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MANILA -- Nissan Motor will end its assembly operations in the Philippines in March as part of efforts to restructure its regional operations, the Japanese automaker said on Thursday. Nissan's move comes as automakers in the country struggle to keep business humming amid the pandemic. Car sales in the Philippines fell 40% last year to 223,973 vehicles. Nissan will terminate operations of its Almera assembly line in Laguna Province, south of Manila, upon the expiration of its contract with its local partner, the company said. While Nissan's assembly plant employs only 133 people, the automaker's decision is a blow to the Philippine car manufacturing industry, which the government is trying to expand to generate more jobs. Last year, Honda Motor ended car manufacturing operations in the country, a move that cost more than 600 jobs, while Isuzu Motors closed up shop the year before. Both companies have opted to import from other Southeast Asian countries, such as Thailand, where they have larger production. Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez said Nissan's decision only reinforces the need for "safeguard" duties on imports to protect the domestic industry, even though major car companies that rely on imports opposed them. "The announcement of Nissan to close their assembly operations in the country is regrettable, as these developments all the more demonstrate the critical situation of the local motor vehicle industry," Lopez said in a statement on Thursday. "The stoppage of Almera's assembly operations, following closely that of Honda and Isuzu, only highlights that the local auto assembly industry is critically impacted by the surge in imports and will thus benefit from the time-bound safeguard duty," Lopez added. Lopez early this month announced the country would impose temporary tariffs of 70,000 pesos ($1,460) on passenger cars and 110,000 pesos on light commercial vehicles. Nissan was the third bestselling car brand in the Philippines last year, after Toyota and Mitsubishi, Nissan's partner in its three-way alliance with Renault. Nissan's sales, however, fell 49% to 21,751 vehicles, of which 4,500 were Almera models, according to the trade department. Nissan said it will continue to invest in the Philippines by expanding dealerships.

Several National League clubs have joined calls for the season to be suspended until concerns over the funding of elite non-league sides and Covid-19 testing are addressed. National League sides are being offered government loans to continue playing. Teams started the season thanks to £10m in grants from the government. However, clubs are worried about the financial implications of taking on loans to cover costs because of Covid-19 and competing behind closed doors. The chairman of National League South side Concord Rangers said on Thursday his team will not play again until an agreement is reached, and Slough Town confirmed they do not intend to fulfil their fixture against Eastbourne on Saturday. In all, 12 National League North sides - AFC Telford, Alfreton Town, Bradford Park Avenue, Blyth Spartans, Curzon Ashton, Darlington, Farsley Celtic, Gateshead, Guiseley, Kettering Town, Southport and Spennymoor Town - called for the league's "immediate suspension" in a statement on Thursday. They have also called on the government and the football authorities to work together to resolve the problem. ''Whilst the integrity of the National League is important, we do not value this above the safety and wellbeing of our families, staff, volunteers or that of our heroic workers who are tackling this pandemic on the frontline," they said in a joint statement. "We are calling for the immediate suspension of the league competition to allow the National League, Football Association and the DCMS (the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) time to find a solution that is acceptable to all. "This suspension will allow us the time to lobby our respective MPs and carry out our own financial risk assessments against avoiding a Null and Void scenario. "An inability to secure acceptable funding to cover Covid testing and the loss of fans will continue to render us insolvent and we are not prepared to prolong this beyond 29 January." It comes after the league requested feedback from the 66 clubs of the National League, National League North and National League South prior to Friday's board meeting, where the next steps will be discussed. Report The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has offered a further £11m in loans to National League sides as part of their £300m emergency funding package for sports hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. Clubs met on Wednesday and were told that they would either have to take out loans or suspend their season. Gate receipts are the biggest income stream for clubs in the fifth and sixth tiers of English football but they have not been able to welcome fans to their grounds since March. Concord, who are 18th in National League South, were set to host Havant and Waterlooville on Saturday but that game has been postponed as The Hawks are self-isolating. "I have chaired our club for just over 20 years and during that time we have never borrowed a penny and we certainly would not be looking to start now," chairman Ant Smith wrote on social media. "My personal belief is that if we cannot get the DCMS decision overturned, then the season should be suspended, and a decision made on null and void or points per game."

The Covid-19 crisis developed because the global health watchdog has become overly focused on lifestyle activism at the expense of its original mandate to fight infectious diseases For the past 20 years the World Health Organisation (WHO) has been an institution searching for a role. Established immediately after World War 2 to fight the scourge of infectious diseases, it was able to bask in the glow of a mandate fulfilled when, in 1980, it declared that smallpox had been eradicated by vaccination (the last known case was identified in Somalia in 1977). Global health initiatives during this period also brought huge reductions in the prevalence of polio, leprosy, river blindness and yaws, though the campaign against malaria was a failure. While the WHO likes to claim credit for the elimination of smallpox, it has tended to exaggerate and misrepresent its role. It has never had a large budget and has never employed front-line health workers. The WHO’s job was to act as an information clearing house and to facilitate co-ordination, through diplomacy. So, the WHO never directly vaccinated a single child against smallpox. That was done by volunteers working for the UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) and national governments.But few institutions go quietly into the night once their initial mission is accomplished. The WHO cast around for a new role, and under former Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland (1998-2003) it found one. Drawing its mandate from the 1978 Alma Ata Declaration (Kazakhstan) — which declared that health should be exclusively a governmental responsibility — the WHO turned its focus to advocating universal health cover and campaigning against “lifestyle” issues associated with noncommunicable ailments such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer.Since 2000 the WHO has launched campaigns against smoking and (later) vaping, alcohol, sugary drinks and talking on cellphones while driving. It campaigned for children to “work less and play more”, for regular exercise, and suggested that people who work from home or sit in aircraft “shouldn’t sit too long in the same position”. In 2018 it declared that video game addiction is a “disease” Among its tips for coping with the coronavirus quarantine is the idea that people shouldn’t “watch too much news”. Of course, universal health cover is a desirable objective. But realising such an ideal is the responsibility of governments and their societies. It adds no value to these endeavours to have the WHO lecturing from the sidelines. Yet this is a major preoccupation of the organisation. It was the biggest single item and accounted for a quarter of the WHO’s 2020/2021 budget ($1.36bn out of $4.84bn). It has to be pointed out that most of the WHO’s money is not spent fighting either infectious or lifestyle diseases. It spends most of its core funding on itself. In 2017 the organisation’s travel expenses were leaked to Associated Press. The WHO had spent $200m on travel expenses that year, more than it spent to fight HIV/Aids, malaria and tuberculosis combined. With 7,000 staff, it spends five times more on air travel than Medecins Sans Frontieres, with its 37,000 aid workers. In 2019, an audit found that more than half of all WHO staff travel claims were fraudulent, mostly because they had found spurious reasons for upgrading to business class. The current WHO director-general, Ethiopia’s Tedros Ghebreyesus, owed his election in 2018 to campaigning by the Chinese government. This may explain his active collaboration in the initial Chinese cover-up of the outbreak. Chinese labs had sequenced the coronavirus genome in December 2019 and a local medical scientist, Dr Li Wenliang, had sought to warn colleagues of the outbreak. But Li was silenced by the government and the WHO did nothing more than tweet, two weeks later, that there “was no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission”. It also chose to ignore Taiwanese warnings in December rather than arouse the ire of mainland China. It is not clear why the Chinese were so keen to cover up the outbreak, but the claim that it originated in an accident in a Wuhan laboratory which, among other things, carries out classified military projects, gained credibility recently with the publication of a US state department fact sheet suggesting this may well be the deeper reason. Weeks were lost and the pandemic was already entrenched in several countries by the time Tedros declared a public health emergency of international concern on January 30. But at the same time he stated that the “WHO didn’t recommend limiting trade or movement”. Instead of sounding the alarm early, the WHO only declared a pandemic on March 11, far too late. Further bad advice, including opposition to wearing masks, showed an organisation palpably unable to perform what should be its core function. From focusing on a relatively few infectious diseases in developing countries it now concerns itself, almost exclusively, with dictating people’s lifestyle choices. For example, by referring only to studies that highlight the severity of disease in cases where smokers did contract Covid-19, the WHO ignored numerous studies that found smokers are less likely to contract the disease in the first place. The WHO presents itself as a sort of global super health ministry. But it is nothing of the sort. Its track record shows it be much more like an activist nongovernmental organisation than an organ of global governance. It fits more comfortably alongside such hard-core campaigners as Oxfam and Greenpeace than real global governance organisations such as the World Trade Organisation or the Bretton Woods institutions. If the world is to be better prepared for future epidemics it requires a root and branch transformation of the WHO. Some, including Brundtland (who still enjoys employment at WHO subsidiary the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board) have suggested more resources should be thrown at the organisation. But until it cleans up its act and is given a renewed infectious disease mandate by its stakeholder countries, that would simply be a waste. • Christianson, a freelance writer, has been a political scientist, NGO researcher and development banker. He entered business journalism in 1997 and was Diageo African Business Writer of the Year in 2006.

Evernote is making it easier for users to see and manage their content in its productivity app with the rollout of a new one-stop dashboard called Home. Evernote Home gives users access to their most relevant content including important notes, tags and shortcuts which are now instantly available and neatly organized upon opening the app. However, the new feature also gives users the freedom to organize their content however they want so that they can work faster and stay focused without feeling overwhelmed. We've put together a list of the best cloud storage for photos Get your files in order with the best document management software Also check out our roundup of the best small business software In a press release, the company's CEO Ian Small explained that Home is just the first of many new features that will be coming to the new Evernote, saying: Evernote is making it easier for users to see and manage their content in its productivity app with the rollout of a new one-stop dashboard called Home. Evernote Home gives users access to their most relevant content including important notes, tags and shortcuts which are now instantly available and neatly organized upon opening the app. However, the new feature also gives users the freedom to organize their content however they want so that they can work faster and stay focused without feeling overwhelmed. We've put together a list of the best cloud storage for photos Get your files in order with the best document management software Also check out our roundup of the best small business software In a press release, the company's CEO Ian Small explained that Home is just the first of many new features that will be coming to the new Evernote, saying: Evernote Home is rolling out to Mac, Windows and Evernote Web customers over the next few weeks and the new feature will also be coming to iOS and Android later in the year. We've also highlighted the best cloud storage

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC 62.165 5.96%) is now a company on the cusp of significant reforms. After a change of the guard at the top echelon of the semiconductor behemoth, spurred by the hardball tactics of the activist hedge fund Third Point, Intel appears to be gearing up for an expansive partnership with TSMC. Against this backdrop, today’s earnings announcement by the company for the last quarter of 2020 has taken on an added significance. Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) Financial Scorecard for the Fourth Quarter of 2020 For the three months that ended on the 31st of December 2020, Intel reported $20 billion in revenue, registering a decrease of 1 percent relative to the comparable quarter last year. For the full year, Intel earned a revenue of $77.9 billion, corresponding to an increase of 8 percent relative to 2019 levels. The following excerpt from the company's earnings release provides supplemental platform revenue information:As far as the guidance for Q1 2021 is concerned, Intel expects to earn a GAAP revenue of $18.6 billion. This is higher than the consensus analyst expectation of $16.08 billion. Moreover, Intel expects its operating margin to compute at 27 percent (on a GAAP basis) during the first quarter of 2021. As far as Intel's product line is concerned, the company noted in its press release: Started production of 10nm-based 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (“Ice Lake”), ramping in Q1. Launched 11th Gen Intel® Core™ processors ("Tiger Lake"); announced 11th Gen Intel® Core™ S-Series desktop processors ("Rocket Lake"), now shipping. Entered discrete graphics market with Intel® Iris® Xe MAX graphics, Intel’s first Xe-based discrete GPU. Announced Amazon Web Services selected Intel's Habana Gaudi AI processors for EC2 training. Introduced new Intel® Optane™ SSD series and 3rd gen Intel Optane persistent memory “Crow Pass” for enterprise and cloud customers. As mentioned earlier, Intel was widely expected to announce a formal collaboration with TSMC during this earnings release cycle for the mass production of its next-generation entry-level, mid-range, and high-end CPUs on the 5nm and 3nm process nodes. While the press release does not include any further guidance on this matter, we will continue to follow the earnings call for further details. Of course, this move, should it materialize, would allow Intel to regain some of its competitive edge that it has lost on the back of the incessant delay in the launch of its products based on the 10nm and 7nm nodes. The market has reacted positively to Intel’s financial reporting, with the stock posting a gain of over 5 percent in the after-hours trading mainly due to a healthy beat on EPS. The Backstory Recently, Intel announced that its CEO, Robert Swan, would step down on the 15th of February 2021. He would be replaced by the former CEO of VMware, Pat Gelsinger. This leadership change is intended to help Intel transition to a “multi-architecture XPU company". Nonetheless, the move follows a series of high-level contacts and a scathing letter that was penned by Third Point’s CEO, Daniel Loeb, to the chairman of Intel, Omar Ishrak. The letter had demanded that the semiconductor behemoth rectify its debilitating brain drain issue and evaluate strategic policy options, including spinoffs and joint ventures with other industry players. Update: It appears Intel is not entering into an expansive partnership with TSMC after all. During today's earnings call, the company's CEO stated that a "majority" of Intel's 2023 production would remain in-house but that moving forward, it is "likely" that outside foundries would be used more frequently.

If you were disappointed with the marriage options in Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town so far - even with the addition of same-gender marriage - then you'll be pleased to know that Marvelous has DLC plans for even more boys and girls to woo. In their five-part DLC plan, stretching from April to August, players will get access to outfits for themselves and their spouses, as well as new areas, new scenarios, and six new marriage candidates. The six new/old potentials come from previous Story of Seasons and Harvest Moon games, including Raeger and Iris from Story of Seasons, Felicity and Neil from Harvest Moon 3D: A New Beginning, and Ludus and Lisette from Trio of Towns. Part 1 – April 2021 - ‘Animal Attire’ costumes for the protagonists and marriage candidates - ‘Olive Town Mystery Files’ sub-scenario – Join Mikey and Cindy to discover the cause of strange incidents occurring across Olive Town in the very first mystery scenario in the Story of Seasons series! Part 2 – May 2021 - ‘Windswept Falls Expansion Pack’ – Explore a refreshing, brand-new area home to four characters from a past entry on the Nintendo 3DS system (includes two marriage candidates) Part 3 – June 2021 - ‘School Uniforms’ costume set for the protagonists and marriage candidates - ‘Terracotta Oasis Expansion Pack’ – Discover an exotic oasis home to four characters from Story of Seasons for Nintendo 3DS (includes two marriage candidates) Part 4 – July 2021 - ‘Yukata Set’ costumes for the protagonists and marriage candidates - ‘The Legendary Sprite Dance’ sub-scenario – The Earth Sprite Village is livelier than ever, and the sprites are determined to revive their legendary dance and hold a feast…with or without Boss Sprite’s permission! Part 5 – August 2021 - ‘Twilight Isle Expansion Pack’ – Sail to an island bathed in twilight and meet the four characters from Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns that have made it their new home (includes two marriage candidates) ‘Expansion Pass’ Purchase Bonus DLC – The following costume sets will be available to owners of the ‘Expansion Pass’ at the game’s launch on March 23. - ‘Pete and Claire’s Overalls’ costumes from Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town - ‘Yuto and Naomi’s Hoodies’ costumes from Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town - ‘Henry and Holly’s Western Attire’ costumes from Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns Have you changed your mind about who you intend to marry, now that there are more options? Discuss your preferences in the comments below.

The newest venture of Royal Park Hotels and Resorts Company, Ltd. aims to connect travelers and locals in Kobe, a bustling city with sets of unique small shops and restaurants. Following recent launches in Osaka and Kyoto The Royal Park Canvas - Kobe Sannomiya is the group's first hotel in the Hyogo Prefecture further strengthening its presence in the Kansai area, on the West side of Japan. On January 21st, 2021 Royal Park Hotels and Resorts Company, Ltd. opens the doors of its newest hotel, The Royal Park Canvas - Kobe Sannomiya. With its stylish interior, the new 170-room Lifestyle Hotel wants to appeal particularly to couples and families who appreciate a stylish though authentic environment and like to connect with the local culture. Both interior and exterior design of the hotel embrace images of the ocean and the mountains which are surrounding the city. One of the hotel's prime features is an open structure, the "CANVAS Lounge", which links with the terrace. A great space to start or finish the day, providing tea and coffee, it is open to hotel guests and locals alike and meant to stimulate exchange and communication. The hotel is also planning events open for travelers and citizens such as Jazz performances, since Jazz music came to Japan through Kobe, other music events and maybe classes in local handicrafts. Kobe, globally known for the famous Kobe beef, is the 6th biggest Japanese city located in the Hyogo Prefecture, Kansai, the western part of Japan. Less than 40km from Osaka, the Port city, which was one of the first to open to foreign trade in the 19th century, has become increasingly po[CENSORED]r as a travel destination in Japan charming its visitors with a mix of cosmopolitan atmosphere and local Japanese traditions. Sannomiya is the center of Kobe city and the hotel is located in a bustling area with small quirky shops and restaurants. Kobe-Sannomiya has a history of traditional and unique shops as for example "Maxim". The famous hat shop established in 1940 has been providing headgear to Japan's Olympic athletes, airlines and the imperial family. The area Sannomiya is also well-known for its many varied international and Japanese eateries. Kobe is also known as the cradle of "Yoshoku" which is style embracing Western foods with a particular Japanese-style adaptation. It emerged first in Kobe with the opening of Japan to the West.

NVIDIA launched their G Sync ultimate specification to quite some fanfare and it originally had extremely strict standards on the nit and gamut rating of the display but it looks like the company is lowering its standards (quite literally) to allow more monitors to meet the mark. While the level of nits required previously was VESA's HDR1000 standard (1000 nits), the new standard now accepts displays as low as 600 nits - which is almost half the luminance rating. NVIDIA responds to G-SYNC ultimate specification change: "G-SYNC Ultimate was never defined by nits alone nor did it require a VESA Display HDR1000 certification" Before we go any further, here is NVIDIA's statement on the change (via Videocardz): Late last year we updated G-SYNC ULTIMATE to include new display technologies such as OLED and edge-lit LCDs. All G-SYNC Ultimate displays are powered by advanced NVIDIA G-SYNC processors to deliver a fantastic gaming experience including lifelike HDR, stunning contract, cinematic colour and ultra-low latency gameplay. While the original G-SYNC Ultimate displays were 1000 nits with FALD, the newest displays, like OLED, deliver infinite contrast with only 600-700 nits, and advanced multi-zone edge-lit displays offer remarkable contrast with 600-700 nits. G-SYNC Ultimate was never defined by nits alone nor did it require a VESA DisplayHDR1000 certification. Regular G-SYNC displays are also powered by NVIDIA G-SYNC processors as well. The ACER X34 S monitor was erroneously listed as G-SYNC ULTIMATE on the NVIDIA web site. It should be listed as “G-SYNC” and the web page is being corrected. While it may seem like a cop-out from the company, it is worth adding that OLED displays do indeed offer infinite contrast (because the pixels are self-emissive) and incredibly deep blacks, and I would happily take an OLED with 600-700 nits over a non-OLED display with 1000 nits any day. That said, Advanced multi-zone edge-lit displays do not offer infinite contrast or deeper blacks and a VESA HDR1000 rated display will almost always outperform the former. NVIDIA has also mentioned that the rating of the display in question (which could only hit up to 550 nits) was accidental and it falls under the standard GSYNC category and not GSYNC Ultimate (even though GYSNC is powered by the GSYNC processor as well). All that said, a rating is only as good as the products in the market and since the market is clearly not ready to ship 1000 nit displays to everyone (at least not for a few years), it absolutely makes sense for NVIDIA to go down this route and bring more displays into their fold. With microLED in the works (a technology that can go up to 5000 nits brightness) to replace OLED, we probably only have a few years before the entire display market is disrupted anyway so I am not particularly miffed by their decision here. Until the bezel-less microLED displays become mainstream, OLED will be my preferred choice of display (and also my recommendation to anyone), even over a 1000 nit non-OLED display.

Even the most ardent glass-half full defenders of the automotive industry might be getting a bit nervous as more existential surprises spring out of left-field. Automotive industry investors braved the coronavirus-inspired sales slump in 2020 hoping for a sharp “V” shaped recovery. The virus returned and the “V” was flattened, but long-range forecasts still promised sunlit uplands, soon. Now the industry has been blind-sided by another crippling, unscripted guest, a shortage of microchips. This seemed at first like maybe a month-long problem, but it could last until 2023, according to industry analysts at Fitch Solutions. At least these problems look solvable and promise a return to profitable business as usual. Except for this new bombshell from investment bank Morgan Stanley MS -1.6%. Traditional automakers seeking to revolutionize their production by switching from internal combustion engines (ICE) to electric vehicles (EV) could be wasting their time because they will never shake off the long-term link with fossil-fuel burning. The danger from crippling law-suits alleging environmental damage makes investing in these so-called “legacy” manufacturers dangerous. Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas put it this way in a recent research note, describing a talk with an Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) client. “Adam, the legacy (manufacturers) trying to launch their own EVs is like trying to plant a delicate orchid in a radioactive forest,” Jonas said. Jonas said in a report after a conversation about General Motors GM -3% and Ford, that as long as they represent a business that continues to make ICE vehicles, ESG investors would be unwilling to expose themselves to unquantifiable, and potentially compounding, environmental liability. AI 50: America’s Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Companies Those Hacked Source Code Breaches At Microsoft, Nissan, Mercedes Are Ominous Lessons For Self-Driving Cars AI: Empowering A Better Way To Do Business This would presumably apply across the board to all ICE makers. “We are just now beginning to engage with a new class of investors who believe that the value of the ICE business may actually be quite negative – potentially to the tune of a negative value that exceeds the market cap of the entire legacy auto company today,” Jonas said. Jonas adds this to his report. “We believe the chances of legacy (manufacturers) to successfully transition to EVs while being attached to the same company that continues to manufacture ICE vehicles may be remote,” Jonas said. Other experts take a similarly jaundiced view of the prospects for traditional automakers, assuming they will be swept away by upstart and well-funded high-technology companies like Apple AAPL -1.4%, Alphabet Inc’s GOOGL -0.2% Googl GOOG -0.2%e, or Amazon AMZN -0.7%. Not Bernstein Research analyst Arndt Ellinghorst, who expects great things from some traditional automakers in 2021. “We obviously object to this view and, interestingly, we receive an increasing number of calls where well-respected investors are questioning this (negative) narrative. Our conviction is that the autos multiple should improve in 2021,” Ellinghorst said. Ellinghorst believes auto shares are undervalued and prospects are good, and said this in a report. 1) On the back of our changed lifestyles, we all experience that "the car" is the personal mobility winner from the pandemic. 2) We also remain convinced that some traditional (manufacturers) will play a leading role in electric and connected mobility. 3) Industry self-help from improved pricing, cost management and capital allocation will support earnings and cash flows. Ellinghorst expects some traditional manufacturers will be able to handle the switch to electric vehicles and connected mobility when momentum hits full stride. But this might be derailed if the current chip shortage continues. Many big carmakers have announced month long slowdowns or stoppages in production. Investment bank UBS expects all major manufacturers will be hit in the first quarter of 2021. Fitch Solutions reckons it could be much more serious, and last for a couple of years. “It is difficult to say exactly how long the semiconductor shortage will last, however, by our estimates we believe the shortage could continue until the beginning of 2023,” Fitch Solutions said in a report. Fitch said the industry has failed to update its supply chains from the so-called “just-in time” model to a more diversified system, while next-generation vehicles demand more semiconductors and this could lead to a shortage of supply of vehicles posing a risk to sales growth, certainly in 2021. The shortage is hitting all the big auto makers in the U.S., Europe, China and Japan. We currently forecast that global vehicle production will rebound just 5% in 2021, from an estimated contraction of 19.3% in 2020,” Fitch said. Meanwhile there are plenty of positive sales forecasts out there, despite these negative noises. Investment researcher Evercore ISI EVR +0.6% is bullish. “Global growth is rebounding faster than expected after bottoming at a stronger-than-feared level. Unprecedented fiscal and monetary support coupled with human ingenuity in the form of vaccines, treatments, and personal safety measures mitigated the economic and market impacts of a once-in-a-century shock,” Evercore ISI said in a report. “Vaccine rollouts, a continuation of fiscal and monetary support and the general decline in uncertainty will contribute to economic momentum and strengthening fundamentals,” it said. French consultants Inovev expects European sales to increase about 9% in 2021 to 15.1 million, by 3% in 2022 to 15.5 million and hit 16.5 million in 2025. “We will not return to 2019 levels before 2030 in Europe. Globally, we will return to 2019 levels as early as 2024,” Inovev said in a report.

Chelsea midfielder Danny Drinkwater has joined Turkish Super Lig side Kasimpasa on loan until the end of the season. The 30-year-old has not played for Chelsea's first team in almost two and a half years, having last appeared in August 2018. Drinkwater had loan spells at Burnley and Aston Villa last term, only appearing this season with Chelsea's under-21 and under-23 sides. He still has 18 months to run on his five-year Chelsea contract. "I think it's great for Danny to leave to go and play for himself, as much as anybody - to try to get some games for himself," said Blues boss Frank Lampard. Drinkwater, capped three times for England, helped Leicester City win the Premier League title in 2015-16, but has failed to make a significant impression at Stamford Bridge since his £35m move in 2017. He has made 23 appearances for Chelsea, but none since their Community Shield defeat by Manchester City in 2018 when he came off the bench. Two loan stints with Premier League rivals Burnley and Aston Villa last term were short lived, with him featuring just twice for the Clarets and four times for Villa. His spell at Villa was controversial and he did not play for the club again after clashing with team-mate Jota at the club's training ground in March. Drinkwater this season featured for Chelsea's under-21 side in the Papa John's Trophy and was sent off when playing for their under-23s in a Premier League 2 match against Tottenham in December.

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