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L'incidente poco fa, intorno alle ore 18. Sul posto anche i vigili del fuoco di Mondovì e Dogliani per la messa in sicurezza dei mezzi. Strada chiusa in entrambi i sensi Scontro tra un'auto e una moto poco fa, intorno alle ore 18 di oggi (martedì 4 maggio) sulla strada provinciale 9 in via autostrada. L'incidente poco prima del casello per entrare sull'A6 nei pressi del negozio Langa Pneus. Intervenuta in loco per i primi soccorsi l'equipe medico sanitario del 118 con medicalizzata. Necessario l'intervento dell'elisoccorso per trasportare il centauro (di cui al momento non si conoscono generalità nè condizioni) al nosocomio più vicino. Sul posto anche i vigili del fuoco di Mondovì con i volontari di Dogliani per la messa in sicurezza dei mezzi. Forze dell'ordine nel luogo dell'incidente per i rilievi del caso e la gestione della viabilità. La strada è stata momentaneamente bloccata in entrambe le direzioni. AGGIORNAMENTO ore 19,30: il motociclista è stato trasportato in elisoccorso al Santa Croce di Cuneo. Non si trova al momento in pericolo di vita (codice giallo). Lievi ferite per una delle persone coinvolte nel sinistro. Trasportato in codice verde con ambulanza all'ospedale più vicino per accertamenti.

For most people, an Alzheimer's diagnosis would be devastating. But Dr Daniel Gibbs is not most people - he's a neurologist who not only has specialist understanding of the condition but also happens to have early-stage Alzheimer's himself. While he admits he's "disappointed" to have the disease, Gibbs says he's also "fascinated" by it - and considers himself lucky. He stumbled upon his diagnosis 10 years ago, before he developed any cognitive symptoms (Gibbs took a DNA test to trace his ancestry, which revealed genetic links to Alzheimer's). This ultimately gave him the chance to tackle it very early on. "It's easy to say I'm unlucky to have Alzheimer's," says Gibbs. "But in truth, I'm lucky to have found what I found, when I found it." As a result, the American neurologist, now 69, has devoted his life to researching the disease and what can be done to slow its progress. He's now explained his findings in a new book - A Tattoo On My Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle Against Alzheimer's Disease - which reveals the lifestyle choices Gibbs, and many in the dementia community, believe can help slow the progress of Alzheimer's, particularly in its early stages. And by early, he means before there are even any symptoms (there can be changes in a brain with Alzheimer's up to 20 years before there are any cognitive signs, Gibbs points out). He says he's "still doing well" but Gibbs started getting cognitive symptoms around nine years ago, when he began having problems remembering the names of colleagues, and retired soon after. He now has increasing problems with his short-term memory, often can't recall what he did an hour ago, and needs to write down all his plans and keep a meticulous calendar. Still, he insists: "Most people would have no idea I have Alzheimer's." Gibbs believes the lifestyle modifications he's made since his diagnosis have helped slow the progression of the disease, and says such lifestyle measures also appear to reduce the risk of getting Alzheimer's in the first place. "The important message is all of these modifications are likely to be most effective when started early, before there's been any cognitive impairment," he says. "The pathological changes in the brain that result in Alzheimer's disease begin years before the onset of cognitive impairment - up to 20 years for the amyloid plaques. Once nerve cells in the brain start to die off and cognitive impairment begins, lifestyle modifications seem to have less, if any, impact." Gibbs says the same is probably true for drugs, adding: "The time to intervene, both with lifestyle modifications and with potential drugs, is almost certainly early, before significant cognitive impairment has occurred." Although the Alzheimer's Society hasn't seen Gibbs' book, Dr Tim Beanland, the society's head of knowledge, agrees healthy lifestyle measures are thought to help slow the disease's progress. "There's growing evidence to suggest regular exercise, looking after your health, and keeping mentally and socially active can help reduce the progression of dementia symptoms," says Beanland. "We know that what's good for the heart is good for the brain, so a healthy diet and lifestyle, including not smoking or drinking too much alcohol, can help lower your risk of dementia, and other conditions like heart disease, stroke, diabetes and some cancers." Here, Gibbs outlines six steps he says people can take to help reduce the risk and slow the progress of Alzheimer's in its very early stages. 1. Exercise There's overwhelming evidence that regular aerobic exercise reduces the risk of Alzheimer's and slows the progression of the disease in the early stages by as much as 50%, Gibbs says. The evidence for a beneficial effect of exercise is robust except in the late stage of the disease, when it may be too late to intervene. 2. Eat a plant-based diet A plant-based, Mediterranean-style diet appears to reduce the risk of getting Alzheimer's. The evidence is most compelling for a variant of the Mediterranean diet called the MIND diet (Mediterranean intervention for neurodegenerative delay) that emphasises adding green vegetables, berries, nuts and other foods rich in flavanols. 3. Mentally stimulating activity While games and puzzles may be helpful, it's particularly important to challenge the brain with new learning, as this is thought to help develop new neuronal pathways and synapses. Examples include reading, learning to play a new musical piece, or studying a new language. 4. Social engagement This can be hard for people living with Alzheimer's because apathy is often a part of the disease. There's evidence that those who remain socially active have slower progression. 5. Getting adequate sleep This is an emerging area of research. There appears to be a cleansing of the brain of toxins, including beta-amyloid (a protein which forms sticky plaques in the brains of people with Alzheimer's) during sleep by the so-called glymphatic circulation. Also, sleep disorders including sleep apnoea are common in patients with Alzheimer's and should be treated if present. 6. Diabetes and high blood pressure treatment Both these disorders - diabetes and high blood pressure - can aggravate Alzheimer's pathology in the brain as well as lead to vascular dementia, a condition that often coexists with Alzheimer's. Therefore, detecting these issues early and ensuring they're well managed is also important. A Tattoo On My Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle Against Alzheimer's Disease by Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H. Barker is published by Cambridge University Press on May 6.

Since the collapse of John Kerry’s peace initiative in 2014, the peace process between the Israelis and Palestinians has entered a prolonged hibernation. Both the Israeli and Palestinian political systems are preoccupied with internal discord, and the international community has either lost interest or the belief that it can make any difference in terms of ending this intractable conflict. Periodically, the idea of the formal recognition of a Palestinian state by other states or international bodies such as the UN or the EU is floated as a game-changer that will break the impasse. So far, it has been more of a trickle than a flood of countries and institutions recognizing Palestine as a state — most notably the decisions by the UN General Assembly to upgrade it to non-member observer state status and by UNESCO to admit it as a full member. However, the much-coveted recognition as a state by the UN Security Council has remained elusive, mainly due to the veto power of the US. This means Palestine remains a hybrid political entity that many countries consider a state but won’t go so far as doing the honorable thing and recognizing it as a state regardless of the Security Council. This means it does not get treated as an equal member of the community of sovereign states. In an insightful column in the pages of this newspaper, Ramzy Baroud last month highlighted the double standards of politicians who tend to support full recognition of Palestine while they are in opposition, but avoid the issue altogether when they win elections and assume power, leaving their pre-election promises to ring hollow. Hence, Baroud rightly stressed that the recent decision by the opposition Australian Labor Party (ALP) to recognize Palestine is merely an example of symbolic politics, which at best raises hopes of the policy being translated into something more substantive whenever the ALP returns to power. The power of symbolism cannot and should not be underestimated, but there is also overwhelming evidence that international recognition of Palestine would serve the causes of peace, justice and international law. For too long, the issue of recognition has been framed as a prize waiting for the Palestinians at the end of negotiations. This has always put Palestinian negotiators in an inferior position around the negotiation table vis-a-vis Israel, which is not only a superior military and economic force that is occupying its land, but one that is formally a state. Laying to rest the question, and the whip, of Palestinian self-determination would accelerate the peace negotiations and give them a better chance of succeeding. As long as those in a position of power in Israel still toy with the idea that postponing or procrastinating over Palestinian statehood can delay or even kill off the possibility of Palestinian sovereignty, it remains an incentive for them to never enter into genuine peace negotiations, let alone conclude them with an agreement. After all, the already-existing asymmetry between Israel and the Palestinians was enshrined in the Oslo Accords, where the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) reaffirmed its recognition of Israel’s right to exist and, in turn, Israel recognized the PLO as the sole representative of the Palestinian people, but not Palestinians’ right to self-determination. Recognizing a people’s right to self-determination is not some kind of prize that one country bestows on another out of generosity, but is a founding principle of the UN Charter, as an important pillar of developing friendly relations among nations and for peace to prevail. The UN might not be able to enforce an end to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and its blockade of Gaza, but it can and should do the decent thing in line with its own articles of faith and recognize Palestine. Moreover, it was UN Resolution 181 that determined that “Independent Arab and Jewish States… shall come into existence in Palestine two months after the evacuation of the armed forces of the mandatory Power has been completed but, in any case, not later than 1 October 1948.” Surely, more than 70 years after this resolution was passed by a large majority, it is a complete anomaly that only half of it has been fulfilled, regardless of the origins of this failure. UN Security Council recognition will do no more than reaffirm what was supported by a majority of member states back in 1947. Furthermore, the international community, especially the US and the EU, has invested immense political capital, not to mention vast amounts of financial and security aid and support, in many areas of state-building for the Palestinians. The failure to bring this huge effort to its just and logical conclusion should weigh heavy on the shoulders of the international community. Its current reluctance to become involved with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and especially to resolving it, should not be compounded by a change of heart over the importance of the Palestinians’ right to justice and self-determination. The international community’s apathy is more a case of despair and a mistaken belief that it is powerless to change the situation. Recognition of Palestine as a state would be a relatively easy move for the EU, for instance, and not that costly, especially with a more sympathetic US administration for the next few years, even if Washington, considering its own domestic constraints, is not capable of following suit. However, it would create a new dynamic within the international community, even if issues such as final borders, Jerusalem and a fair and just solution for the refugees remain unresolved for the time being. These issues would, in any case, be easier to negotiate after Palestinian statehood is normalized. Lastly, Tel Aviv has tried for years to frame the so-called “unilateral recognition” of Palestine as an anti-Israel act. This is complete and utter nonsense and should be seen by the international community as no more than another PR exercise in guilt-tripping those who support dozens of UN resolutions to this effect that reflect an international consensus. Recognizing Palestine reaffirms the undeniable and inalienable rights of a nation, in the very same way that led the Zionist movement to establish the state of Israel. To recognize Palestine is to oppose the occupation, not to compromise the right of Israel to exist in peace and security. The onus now is on the conscience and wisdom of the international community. • Yossi Mekelberg is professor of international relations and an associate fellow of the MENA Program at Chatham House. He is a regular contributor to the international written and electronic media.

Software: you need it. You can't achieve your business goals without it, and you have coders on staff. You have project managers. However, that salesperson from that big software company is telling you to just buy their product—it does seem awfully attractive. Should you do it? Here are five reasons to buy, not build, software. SEE: Software as a Service (SaaS): A cheat sheet (free PDF) (TechRepublic) Focus. You don't have to make all the calls. When you buy, you can concentrate on your business without having to spend time and resources on all the maintenance and bug fixes—that's what you pay your vendor to take care of for you. Cost. The vendor has an economy of scale spread out across all of its clients and you get the benefit of that. You don't have to shoulder all the costs, especially up front. Time. When you buy software, you spend time learning it and implementing it, but that's it. You don't have to spend time waiting for it to be made. Updates. New features you need may arrive before you even knew you needed them. Since vendors are trying to keep all the clients happy, you benefit from the wisdom of their crowd of customers. You're always staffed. You never have to worry about losing support and training the next person to maintain the software. The vendor will always have staff ready to help. If you prioritize efficiency, convenience and the need for unending support, buying may be right for you. Don't just take this list's word for it. Do you value control and customization? We have another list of the top five reasons to build software that you may want to compare this to. Subscribe to TechRepublic Top 5 on YouTube for all the latest tech advice for business pros from Also see Top 5 ways to protect against cryptocurrency scams (TechRepublic) Top 5 ways to handle Zoom fatigue (TechRepublic) How to become a software engineer: A cheat sheet (TechRepublic) Zoom vs. Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Cisco WebEx and Skype: Choosing the right video-conferencing apps for you (free PDF) (TechRepublic) Hiring Kit: Application engineer (TechRepublic Premium) Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) for business: Everything you need to know (ZDNet) Tom Merritt's Top 5 series (TechRepublic on Flipboard)

NEW DELHI : Nineteen companies have applied to avail the benefits of the government’s production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for manufacturing IT hardware in India, the Centre said on Tuesday. The scheme was announced in March and is similar to the one announced last year for the local manufacture of mobile phones. The applicants for IT hardware production include 15 domestic companies and four global firms. Along with multinationals Dell, Wistron, Rising Stars Hi Tech (a Foxconn subsidiary) and Flextronics, domestic manufacturers such as Lava, Micromax, Dixon Technologies, Infopower, Syrma Technologies, Neolync Electronics, Optiemus Infracom, Netweb Technologies, Smile Electronics, Panache Digilife and RDP Workstations have expressed their interest to manufacture IT hardware components such as laptops, tablets, all-in-one personal computers (AIOs) and servers. The PLI scheme for IT hardware offers an incentive of 2-4% on net incremental sales of goods over the base year of 2019-20. The benefits will be available till 2024-25, starting 1 April 2021. According to government estimates, companies eligible for the scheme will be producing IT hardware worth ₹1.6 trillion over the next four years. Out of this, exports will account for 37% or ₹60,000 crore. The government said that the scheme will facilitate investments worth ₹2,350 crore in India’s electronics manufacturing space and generate 37,500 direct employment opportunities. India’s domestic value addition in IT hardware manufacturing is expected to grow from 5-12% to 16-35% over the next four years, it added. “The world is looking at India as a destination to manufacture, and participation in the scheme by global companies is a resounding vote of confidence to the current government’s policies," said Pankaj Mohindroo, chairman of the India Cellular and Electronics Association (ICEA), the apex industry body for homegrown electronics companies. While the industry welcomed the move, global supply of chips and other components have affected the ability of local manufacturers to meet the target set under the scheme. The ICEA had written to the government in March, requesting to revise the base year for paying PLI benefits to 2020-21 instead of 2019-20. The industry body said that 15 out of the 16 PLI applicants for producing mobile phones will not be able to meet the targets required under the scheme. Unlike the PLI scheme for IT hardware, the incentives for the mobile manufacturing scheme were to be paid out from 2020. According to an industry executive, the matter is currently under review at the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY), and the government hasn’t said no to reviewing the base year yet. According to a report from Counterpoint Research, the global chip shortage may extend further since Taiwan, which accounts for nearly 70% of all chip manufacturing, is facing its worst drought in more than 56 years. “Taiwan dominates semiconductor production globally due to its unique position in the foundry and outsourced assembly and testing (OSAT) industry. Semiconductor mass production also uses some of the most advanced technologies, which make setting up a production unit a high-investment and time-consuming affair. This is why the current drought in Taiwan has set alarm bells ringing the world over," wrote Brady Wang, semiconductor analyst at Counterpoint Research, in a blog post.

Five years ago, the Battlefield Easter Egg Community believed they had stumbled upon something big. After discovering morse code hidden within the Battlefield 1 MCOM radios, a dedicated myth-hunting team went about attempting to decipher it, but struggled to make head or tail of the message inside. "We had one last desperate hope," explains HotelMama, a leading figure within the Battlefield Easter Egg [BFEE] network. "The game's MCOMs are actually designed after [Italian inventor Guglielmo] Marconi's telegram machines, and because he also invented a code to go with it, we wanted to get our hands on a code book. There were only super rare hard copies available, so we bought one." Unfortunately, before the pricey purchase had even made its way into the community's hands, DICE tweaked the morse code in an unexpected patch, and this time the translation was disappointingly clear: "Message corrupted, await further instructions". "This basically meant that there was no functional Easter egg, and we had bought a super expensive code book just for the heck of it," HotelMama continues. "To not waste it totally, we decided to organise a world tour, sending the book not only to both DICE studios in Los Angeles and Sweden to be signed by the developers, but to select members of the community which had chimed in on the costs. We call it the Marconi Bible, but it's basically lore that never actually helped us in solving anything!" Shark tale Established in 2016, the Battlefield Easter Egg Community is now over 40,000 members strong, committed to solving and uncovering the series' ever growing number of secrets and ARGs. But while Battlefield has a long and storied history of hiding various Easter eggs within its multiplayer maps, it's the megalodons – giant, prehistoric sharks who roamed the oceans millions of years ago – that have offered the most visually memorable surprises of all. People who've never even played Battlefield will likely have heard of the megalodons, showing up across multiple games since their first appearance in Battlefield 4, and making headlines every time a new sighting is discovered. There's a reason the Jurassic shark made the cut as the inspiration for the BFEE's official emblem, after all. "They're a recurring theme, and basically a mascot to DICE as much as us hunters at this point," says HotelMama. Despite their gargantuan size, the megalodons have been notoriously difficult to summon, involving a multi-step process that can only be undertaken by groups of players working together in a private server. This is after the community has figured out how to summon the shark in the first place, of course, which itself takes a lot of collective deduction, time-intensive experimentation, and forensic scouring of the teasers that DICE's development team put out on social media. "The first step is searching for anything out of the ordinary," explains HotelMama of the hunt. "This is especially the case with game updates, as anything that has changed is immediately suspect. Once someone has found a point of interest, we start throwing everything at it (literally and figuratively) until something goes click or boom. Usually, Easter eggs have a very strong 'this is it' feel to them: once you see it, it's undeniably on purpose and not just 'those four pixels look like an arrow'. Once you can predict how an Easter egg behaves, you've cracked its mechanics. Even these are to be taken with a grain of salt, though, as some are simply bound to random generation." If this exhaustive process sounds like a slog, BFEE member KopaTroopa123 is keen to stress the contrary: "The experience of being involved in the hunt is a huge rush! Being there and finding pieces of the puzzle or putting them together is a genuine build of excitement and adrenaline. Figuring it out can get mundane, but when you're chatting and joking with friends, it isn't boring – you're just spending time hanging out with your buddies!" "It's not just about the end result of finding the Easter egg, but the journey along the way," adds BFEE hunter PergySkeel. "The laughter and jokes shared, the frustration and the banter, the theories over the wild ideas of what the Easter egg could be or how to solve it, [and] the thrill of the chase. I've made many friends along the way, too. We send each other holiday cards and birthday gifts, use our real names, send text messages, and share about our families. Gaming in general is about bringing people together, and when you add in an additional passion for solving morse code, puzzles, chasing crazy Dan Brown-type conspiracy theories, you get bonded to one another." Fish out of water Indeed, despite the last Battlefield game releasing over two and a half years ago, the Battlefield Easter Egg Community is as active as ever, whether sharing stories and new discoveries on Discord, jumping into a server together to follow the latest leads, or just reactivating fan-favourite Easter eggs, helping newcomers obtain some of the exclusive rewards that come from doing so, such as special outfits or dog tags. Dice continues to engage positively with BFEE, too, to the point where the community's achievements are now immortalised in some of the best Battlefield games with their very own Easter eggs inspired by its members. With Battlefield 6 set to launch later this year, the community is now anticipating a busy Holiday season, as DICE's next-gen title will no doubt come packed with a veritable basket of new Easter eggs to find. Whether that basket includes a megalodon is anyone's guess, but given the shark's fondness for the oceans, puddles, and rivers of DICE's multiplayer battlefields, it's probably best to keep both eyes open when going for a dip in the upcoming game's digital waters. "One of the best parts of Easter egg hunting is simply seeing what DICE comes up with next," says HotelMama. "I'm excited to just wait and see what happens!" For more, check out the best RPG games to play right now, or watch our latest preview of Resident Evil 8 below.

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3 maggio 2021 - Senza posteggio privato e colonnina a disposizione, l’auto con la spina viene accantonata da circa il 20% dei “pionieri” californiani, che hanno situazione più consona rispetto all’Italia. Nessuna ibrida con la spina soddisfa pienamente tutte le attese create, a oggi. I risultati dell’ultimo studio americano negano un futuro con diffusione tanto facile e veloce, per le auto elettriche o plugin li amanti dei motori “veri” che auspicano diffusione degli eco-carburanti a discapito delle auto elettriche, applaudono all’ultimo studio divulgato dall’ITS della University of California. Il dato forte, alla faccia di chi palesa elettriche ed ibride come il meglio di oggi per molti usi, è che addirittura il 20% dei pionieri ben motivati per le auto con la spina, le deve abbandonare. Uno studio molto dettagliato di cui varrebbe la pena approfondire ogni aspetto, prima di sentenziare. Il dato di fatto però è che pur tra soggetti con caratteristiche compatibili all’auto elettrica o ibrida, pur se in California e non in una isola del Sud Italia, uno su cinque deve abbandonarla. Sbagliano le Case e i concessionari, a venderle? Le previsioni dovranno essere drasticamente ridimensionate, ancor più nel Bel Paese che vanta limiti maggiori? In USA non incolpano nessuno, non drammatizzano ma anzi suggeriscono spunti che i politici non dovrebbero trascurare. Limitandosi a spiegare il fenomeno che però potrebbe in effetti essere figlio di acquisti sbagliati pur negli anni dove la comunicazione e il marketing dovrebbero essere validissimi. Famiglie propense, ma le ricariche.. Su oltre 4.000 famiglie americane, proprietarie di auto elettriche o ibride con la spina in tempi per loro meno pioneristici che in Italia (2012-2018) circa il 20% ha dovuto “tornare” su veicoli benzina e diesel. Tre i motivi principali non le prestazioni scadenti in assoluto, le manutenzioni o i consumi diversi dal dichiarato, ma le ricariche più ostiche del previsto. Quelle che pure dovrebbero essere ben spiegate, a un acquirente. Anche in California ci sono difficoltà nel trovare una colonnina pubblica o privata disponibile. Specie nei casi dove il possessore di BEV o PHEV non ha spazio privato dove allestire almeno una Wallbox. Specie quando alcuni spazi dedicati alle ricariche ci sono ma usati non correttamente, o come previsto e quindi occupati più del necessario per dare il servizio davvero a tutti. La curiosità di vedere dati familiari, di abitazione, reddito o cultura dei pionieri BEV e PHEV americani, non offre grandi evidenze inattese. Sono persone che mediamente “possono” permettersi una elettrica o ibrida, qualcuno la aveva comprata come seconda vettura, qualcuno la noleggiava. In ogni caso il 20% circa ha sbagliato scelta, abbastanza trasversalmente rispetto alle caratteristiche. Pur apprezzando l’auto, tranne che in alcuni casi (tanto per i BEV quanto per i PHEV, anzi i secondi sono ancora più lontani dagli obiettivi auspicati). L’analisi californiana di chi prova l'auto con spina e torna indietro al serbatoio, boccia soprattutto il marchio Fiat e molto meno Tesla, percentualmente. Vari e palesi i motivi, anche perché si trattava, per Fiat, della prima 500e con vari limiti rispetto alla nuova, venduta in Italia, mentre Tesla vanta meggiori autonomie.

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China’s steel industry is blaming the concentrated ownership of Australia’s iron ore mines for the soaring ore price and is calling for Chinese government intervention. ‘We believe that the supply side is highly concentrated and the market mechanism is not working, so we call for the authorities to play a bigger role in the event of market failure,’ Luo Tiejun, vice president of the China Iron and Steel Association, told an industry conference last week. The reality is that the market is working well and that the Chinese authorities have much less power to influence it than Luo might imagine. Astronomical iron ore prices reflect the inefficiency of China’s own iron ore mines rather than any alleged monopolistic behaviour by the major Australian mining companies. It must be galling to Chinese authorities that, notwithstanding their determination to punish Australia for its many perceived sins, their annual imports from Australia are running at near record levels and appear likely to surpass the $150 billion peak reached in the first half of last year. The iron ore price has been nudging close to a record US$200 a tonne, more than double the price of a year ago and three times the price expected by the Australian government when it compiled last year’s budget. The price is delivering fabulous profits to Australian mines and is also boosting Australian government tax revenues. The cost of extracting iron ore is not much more than US$16 a tonne for BHP and Rio Tinto. In any commodity market, the price is dictated by the highest-cost or marginal supplier. After making allowance for quality and transport, all suppliers of a commodity get the same price in an open market, regardless of what it costs to produce. So, the highest-cost producer is the one that would stop mining if the price were to fall, leaving the market short of supply. In the iron ore market, the highest-cost producers are all Chinese. China normally takes around 70% of the seaborne trade in iron ore, or around 1 billion tonnes, but it relies on domestic production for a further 900 million tonnes. However, around three-quarters of China’s domestic production needs a price of at least US$100 a tonne in order to operate, with some mines having much higher break-even thresholds than that. China’s iron ore reserves are low quality and require expensive heat treatment before they can be fed into steel mills. Production peaked at 1.5 billion tonnes in 2015, but has fallen because of the sector’s poor economics and government efforts to stop shallow strip mining, which is environmentally damaging. While the high operating costs of China’s most marginal mines set a pricing floor, the market has been swept along by demand fuelled by government stimulus spending, both in China and across the world, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, which has fired steel-hungry construction and consumer goods industries. Chinese authorities had set an objective of reducing steel production in line with their goal of reducing carbon emissions and particle pollution. In the heart of China’s steel district in Tangshang, 150 kilometres east of Beijing, mills have complied with orders to lower production, but that has caused a panic among steel buyers and sent the steel price soaring. Steel mills across the rest of China have been ramping up production in order to take advantage of the strong price. China’s total steel production is running at record levels. The failure of the central authorities’ efforts to shut down inefficient and high-polluting steel mills has been chronic since the price boom of 2009–10 and partly reflects the fact that local steel mills are more responsive to provincial authorities, for whom they are an important source of revenue, than to Beijing. Historically, the iron ore price tracks the steel price, so the current price boom at least partly reflects the tensions in government policy to control air quality and carbon emissions. Global iron ore supply hasn’t been especially weak, but it has not responded to the increase in demand both from China and from the rest of the world. Australia has been supplying about 60% of world iron ore trade, with exports forecast to reach 900 million tonnes this year. China has been buying up what it can from wherever it can get it, including a doubling of its purchases from India. However, at around 30 million tonnes, India is only a marginal supplier. China’s great hope is that Africa will provide some relief from its dependence on Australia. It is looking at projects in Algeria, Congo and Guinea, with the last the most advanced. Analysts expect the Simandou project in Guinea, in which Rio Tinto has a stake alongside Chinese state-owned resources group Chinalco, will proceed, with a total cost of around US$20 billion. It is a large and high-grade orebody, although the infrastructure challenge of getting the ore to port is formidable. China’s Global Times last week declared that ‘the exploitation of the Simandou mine in Guinea, with the participation of a Chinese company, is expected to help cut the heavy reliance on Australia for imports’. However, the project, which has been stalled for more than a decade amid corruption claims and conflicts between the government and partners, would take several years to complete, and production in the initial phase is expected to be in the region of 100 million tonnes a year, or about two-thirds the output of Australia’s Fortescue Metals Group. It’s not a big enough project to materially transform the global iron ore market or to free China from its dependence on Australia. The steel association’s demand that the authorities do something about the surging iron ore price mirrors their response to the iron ore price spike in 2008–09, which was generated by Chinese government stimulus spending in response to the global financial crisis. Then, as now, they blamed Australian producers. The Chinese government was thwarted by the Rudd government in its attempt to have Chinalco take over Rio Tinto, which it thought would give it the ability to keep a lid on iron ore prices. At some stage, China’s economy will move beyond its heavy reliance on construction as the source of its growth and become more focused on services. That might come as a result of a maturing of its economy or it could be sparked by a debt crisis. A serious cut in China’s demand for steel and iron ore could see prices plummet to something much closer to the marginal cost of Australian iron ore mines, but such a result wouldn’t come from the interventions demanded by the China Iron and Steel Association.

The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic last year – and the remote working environment it rapidly created – are continuing to drive strong demand for software to be more accessible for both consumers and businesses. From the way we use technology to how we carry out our work, the limits on travel and social distancing guidelines have led to a constantly changing landscape with a need to consume services in a different way. Amid this business uncertainty, there has been a significant shift among organizations to invest in operations and switch to sell their solutions online. While many firms are familiar with the transition to subscription licensing and are looking to boost revenue from new delivery models and packaging of functionality, for others this will be a dramatic shift from how they have operated in the past. This is why 2021 is set to be a significant year for software licensing and an area that businesses need to understand in order to defend and grow their revenue. Evaluating and optimising their software licensing approach can allow businesses to create new and innovative revenue streams, increase operational efficiency and generate customer insights – which in turn will help organizations to understand the demands of their consumers and develop products with their customers in mind. In addition, amid the current climate and financial turbulence, this can help provide reliable and predictable revenue streams. So, what trends can we expect to see in 2021, and what should be the key focus for companies looking to enhance their software licensing? Get to know this year’s hottest software licensing models Battling customer churn With subscription licensing, continual customer engagement becomes key. The goal is no longer about just winning the customer, it’s now about an ongoing relationship with that customer to provide value to keep them engaged. 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Since Among Us exploded in po[CENSORED]rity last year, other development studios have attempted to capitalize on the emergence of social deduction as a mainstream gaming genre. Some social deduction video games did exist before Among Us, but they were mostly confined to their own PC niche, with the only titles that broke through to any semblance of mainstream audience being Town of Salem and Garry’s Mod's Trouble in Terrorist Town game mode. The main benefit that InnerSloth brought to the genre is the streamlining of core gameplay mechanics and objectives. Both Town of Salem and Trouble in Terrorist Town can get bogged down in convoluted rules and player abilities, whereas Among Us is relatively simple. This likely helped Among Us become po[CENSORED]r on streaming platforms, since its easy-to-understand gameplay makes it especially watchable. Due to the relatively recent revival of the genre and the platform's more efficient development and distribution process, most Among Us-like games are found on PC. The following examples are all available on Steam. It's important to note that, while the similarities between these titles and Among Us are sometimes quite stark, they aren't necessarily copies, reproductions, or clones of InnerSloth's game. Each has its own unique mechanics, and many likely began development before Among Us rose to po[CENSORED]rity. Other Games Like Among Us On Steam Unfortunate Spacemen Unfortunate Spacemen, a free-to-play game released in June 2020, is very similar to Among Us in many ways, but it has a first-person perspective. It has a few other distinguishing features, such as proximity voice chat and A.I.-controlled space monsters that attack players, and it's a good option for those who enjoy FPS games. Agrou Agrou takes the easy-to-understand, Impostor-versus-innocents concept of Among Us and blends it with the purely communication-based gameplay found in Town of Salem. It takes place in a medieval-esque setting and follows the premise of traditional deduction games like Werewolf and One Night Ultimate Werewolf, with players all sitting around a campfire and attempting to find the werewolf hidden among them. First Class Trouble Two more recent games have attempted to shake up the genre and expand upon the foundation created by Among Us. The first, First Class Trouble, features a group of players trying to escape a doomed luxury airship, with robots disguised as humans seeking to stop them. The main change this game brings to the formula is requiring the help of an innocent group member to kill other players, whereas imposters are usually able to kill on their own in other games. Dread Hunger Second is Dread Hunger, perhaps the most exciting addition to the social deduction genre, as it adds many new elements and layers to the established gameplay loop. On a sea ship in the arctic, players attempt to sail to safety and survive both harsh conditions and the evil crewmen hidden amongst them. What makes Dread Hunger unique is its unforgiving survival elements, such as hunger, thirst, and warmth. The social deduction genre has seen tremendous growth thanks to Among Us, and the steady stream of new games looks promising for the future. The only factor holding the genre back is its lack of a presence on consoles, but given its current po[CENSORED]rity, that problem is almost surely only temporary.

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