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Favouring continuation of trade with China, Bajaj Auto Managing Director Rajiv Bajaj on Saturday said goods should be procured from wherever they are most competitively available. He was speaking at a session on 'Building Reliable Supply Chain' at the second day of the three-day virtual Asia Economic Dialogue 2021, jointly convened by the Ministry of External Affairs and Pune International Centre. Bajaj also said that in terms of ease of doing business, operating something in one of the ASEAN countries is certainly easier than "what we encounter here in India." "We like to believe that we are a global company, and therefore, this to my mind, from a cultural point of view, and an operational point of view, demands completeness or inclusiveness not just of employee gender, but also of having dealers, distributors and equally suppliers from all over the world. "And that is why I believe that we must continue to trade with China. Because if we conduct our business at the exclusion of such a large country, such a large market, we will find ourselves incomplete over time, and we will be poorer for the loss of that experience," Bajaj said. Stating that in supply chain, commitment is important, he said that a sense of mutuality and reciprocity is indispensable to building, at least, the kind of very intricate supply chain that the auto industry needs to deliver the final product to the customer. Emphasising on the continuity in the supply chain, Bajaj said, "I say this in the context of what happened in around June or July, when our government for whatever reasons, suddenly came down hard on imports, especially from China." "Now, to my mind, doing something like that is to cut your nose to spite your face. Because overnight, how can one source components that are simply not made in the domestic market, that you need to deliver product to domestic or export customers?" he said. So, maintaining continuity is the second important aspect of the holistic view of supply chain, he added. Noting that if it is cheaper to make something out of China or procure something from Thailand, Bajaj said, "we must always procure stuff from wherever it is most competitively available." He said that since the company hopes to venture into Asia in a significant way in the future, it did an elaborate comparison of certain metrics. Based on the five metrics - the land, labour, electricity, logistics and the legal system , " we did an exhaustive comparison of India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia " Bajaj said. "And to be honest, we were not very pleased with the conclusion we drew for India, basis this analysis, and I think we can put it all together and call it the ease of doing business. So, our experience so far has been that, however limited, operating something in one of the ASEAN countries is certainly easier than what we encounter here in India, "Bajaj said. (Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

Upcoming online programs offered by the Phoenixville Public Library: Phoenixville Public Library will host a free virtual presentation, "The Historical St. Patrick" on Monday, March 1, at 7:00 PM. Historian and teacher Paul Walsh will be the speaker. Who really was Ireland’s patron saint? What was his world like and how did he come to be involved with Ireland or, as it was known then, Hibernia? Did Patrick introduce Christianity to Ireland or were followers of Christ there already? Was Patrick the only missionary who went to Ireland or were there others? Did Patrick succeed in converting all of Ireland in his lifetime? What then was his legacy? This presentation will explore what current scholarship can tell us about the enigmatic and controversial figure of St. Patrick and the world in which he pursued his historic mission. Paul V. Walsh earned his Master’s degree in history from Temple University in 1994, taught a variety of courses, including the history of Ireland, for nine years at Delaware County Community College, and has had numerous works published in a wide selection of periodicals, both commercial and academic, including articles about Medieval Ireland. This event is free and open to the public and will be held online via Zoom. Registration is required at https://ccls.libcal.com/calendar/Phoenixville/historical-st-patrick or by calling 610-933-3013 x132. E-mail mpinto@ccls.org for more information. *** Phoenixville Public Library hosts the next presentation in its "Community Services Spotlight" series on Wednesday, March 3, at 10:00 AM. Phoenixville Area Community Services (PACS) aspires to be the lead resource for food insecurity in the Phoenixville community through food distribution and information/referral services that help get their clients back on their feet. Learn — and ask questions — about PACS' mission and services in this free virtual presentation. This event is open to the public and will be held online/by phone via Zoom. Registration is required at https://ccls.libcal.com/calendar/Phoenixville/pacs or by calling 610-933-3013 x132. E-mail mpinto@ccls.org for more information. *** Phoenixville Public Library will host a free virtual presentation, "Understanding Cognition and Cognitive Health for Older Adults" on Thursday, March 4, at 7:00 PM. Speech-language pathologist Emily Overbaugh will be the speaker. In this presentation, attendees will learn: what cognition is, factors that can impact cognitive functioning, how older adults can take care of cognitive health, cognitive tips and tricks, and when to seek help for cognitive concerns. This event is free and open to the public and will be held online via Zoom. Registration is required at https://ccls.libcal.com/calendar/Phoenixville/cognitive-health or by calling 610-933-3013 x132. E-mail mpinto@ccls.org for more information. *** Learn how to stay safe on the Internet and the basics of po[CENSORED]r communication apps in a series of free virtual classes taught by students of Teens Teach Technology, Saturdays in March from 10:00 to 11:00 AM, hosted by Phoenixville Public Library. The schedule of classes is as follows: "Avoid Viruses on the Internet" (March 6); "Scam Emails" (March 13); "Scam Calls" (March 20); and "Family Communications: Learn FaceTime, Skype and Tapestry" (March 27). Teens Teach Technology is a national organization of high school students dedicated to teaching seniors and other adults the basics of technology. Registration and descriptions for these Zoom classes are available on the Library's Events Calendar at https://ccls.libcal.com/calendar/Phoenixville or by calling 610-933-3013 x132. E-mail mpinto@ccls.org for more information. *** The next virtual meeting of Phoenixville Public Library's newly formed self-publishing group will take place Saturday, March 6, from 4:30 to 5:30 PM. Janice O'Brien is the group facilitator. If you're a writer with an interest in self-publishing, this group is for you. We invite self-published authors and those looking to be to discuss everything related to self-publishing — platforms, book design, marketing and more. We hope to share experiences, tips and information about the self-publishing process. Whether you're a beginning writer or have several books under your belt, join us for inspiration, motivation and support along the way. Registration to receive an invitation to the meeting is required at https://ccls.libcal.com/calendar/Phoenixville/self-publishing-group or by calling 610-933-3013 x132. E-mail janiceinpa@gmail.com for more information. *** The Phoenix Book Club, Phoenixville Public Library’s book discussion group for adults of all ages, will meet virtually on Monday, March 8, at 7:00 PM. The group will discuss "Last Bus to Wisdom" by Ivan Doig. The final book in Ivan Doig’s career as a great western writer begins with a journey east. 11-year old Donal Cameron, orphaned, must leave Montana and his beloved Gram before she undergoes surgery. Donal rides a Greyhound bus to Wisconsin, experiencing a memorable trip. He arrives to live with his Aunt Kate but all does not go well. Threatened with an orphanage, Donal boards another Greyhound but gains a companion — his aunt’s beleaguered husband. Heading west, they encounter their own adventures. Remember autograph books? Donal’s fills up along the way, and each signature adds a little more wisdom. A physical copy of this book may be reserved at https://www.ccls.org. An e-book copy may be reserved at https://chester.overdrive.com. The public is invited to attend. If you are not already on the Book Club's email list, registration is required to receive an invitation to this Zoom event at https://ccls.libcal.com/calendar/Phoenixville/last-bus-to-wisdom or by calling 610-933-3013 x132. Email mpinto@ccls.org for more information. *** The next virtual meeting of Phoenixville Public Library’s Cookbook Club will take place on Tuesday, March 9, at 6:00 PM. The Library’s Cathy Stout is the group facilitator. St. Patrick's Day is coming up and the "wearin' o' the green”. It's still wintry weather, so how about "cookin' the greens”? Perhaps you have a favorite winter green you enjoy — spinach, chard, cabbage, kale, bok choy, broccoli, Brussels sprouts? Cooked, fresh, frozen — share your delicious and healthy side or main dish as we gather this month. Email Cathy Stout your recipe at cstout@ccls.org and she will share with those who attend. Slainte! This event is free and open to the public and will be held online via Zoom. Registration is required at https://ccls.libcal.com/calendar/Phoenixville/cookbook-club or by calling 610-933-3013 x132. Email cstout@ccls.org for more information. *** Movies on Tap, Phoenixville Public Library’s film discussion group for adults in their 20s and 30s, will meet virtually on Tuesday, March 9, at 7:30 PM. The group will discuss "La Reine Margot (Queen Margot)" (1994, Rated R). Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, and Jean-Hugues Anglade star in this biographical drama. Young Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between Catholics and Protestants. She hopes to escape with a new lover, but finds herself imprisoned by her powerful and ruthless family. Please watch the film independently prior to the discussion. This event is free and open to the public and will be held online via Zoom. Email fdonaher@gmail.com to receive an invitation to the meeting and for more information. *** March is National Nutrition Month. Spend a healthy lunch hour with Phoenixville Public Library on Thursday, March 11, at 12:00 PM to learn about general behavior changes that promote weight loss. Shreya Patel, MA, RD, LDN, will be the presenter for this virtual event. Shreya will also discuss the macronutrients of protein, fats, and carbohydrates and their healthy sources, as well as the current nutrition recommendations for sodium, sugar, fiber, fluids and physical activity. Shreya Patel MA, RD, LDN is a registered dietitian. She has her Masters in Nutrition Education from Immaculata University and is a licensed dietitian in the state of Pennsylvania. She has been a practicing dietitian for about 20 years at Pottstown Hospital Tower health. She has varied experience with in-patient nutrition care and rehab patients, and also practiced as a Bariatric Dietitian for several years. She is very interested in disease prevention and wellness and has been a CDC Diabetes Prevention Lifestyle Coach for the past three years, helping people with pre-diabetes lose weight and improve their blood sugar numbers. This event is free and open to the public and will take place online via Zoom. Registration is required at https://ccls.libcal.com/calendar/Phoenixville/eating-right or by calling 610-933-3013 x132. Email mpinto@ccls.org for more information. *** Phoenixville Public Library hosts a free virtual presentation, “From the Old World to the New: An Immigrant’s Story”, on Thursday, March 11, at 7:00 PM. Immerse yourself in the early 20th century as costumed history interpreter Jaan Troltenier enacts Rosie Ginzburg, a Jewish immigrant to America from Eastern Europe. Rosie will delight and educate you with her stories and pictures and maybe even teach you a song. She is brought to life through extensive research in European immigration, Eastern European music and customs, and Yiddish. Many of our forebears immigrated to the New World from the Old, so come experience what that was like. You may be reliving the history of your own family. This event is free and open to the public and will take place online via Zoom. Registration is required at https://ccls.libcal.com/calendar/Phoenixville/rosie-ginzburg or by calling 610-933-3013 x132. Email mpinto@ccls.org for more information. *** Phoenixville Public Library now offers free remote tech help by phone and internet via Zoom. One-on-one assistance with your laptop, tablet or smartphone is available from Library volunteers during selected hours on Thursday afternoons and Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. To schedule a one-hour appointment, or for more information, call 610-933-3013 x132 or e-mail mpinto@ccls.org. Facebook Twitter Email Print

This article about the substitute teacher crisis was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for Hechinger's newsletter. Stefanie Fernandez usually spends her workweek in the finance office of Independent Stave, a company that manufactures oak barrels for bourbon and other spirits, headquartered in Lebanon, Missouri. But once every week or two since December, Fernandez has trailed her son into his middle school when she drops him off for classes. She checks in at the office, picks up a binder with "sub notes" and reports to a classroom. "Good morning, class," she greets the masked students. "I'm Mrs. Fernandez, and this is what we're going to do today." Fernandez is one of several Independent Stave administrative staffers who have taken their employer up on an offer to spend up to one day a week substitute teaching in the Lebanon School District. The company makes up the difference between the school district's substitute teacher pay and their regular salaries. The goal is to address a substitute teacher crisis that has left districts across the country struggling to find substitutes when teachers are absent because of Covid-19 or for other reasons. "I don't think that we fixed the problem, but we are part of the solution," said Jeremiah Hough, a vice president at the barrel manufacturer. Hough is also vice president of the Lebanon School Board, so he is keenly aware of the challenges the district faces. Hough proposed offering substitute teaching opportunities to his company's administrative employees in December, after school administrators warned that the district was close to sending all of its roughly 4,300 students home to learn on virtual platforms because too many teachers were sick or quarantined. The support from the local business provided a morale boost and good publicity, said David Schmitz, the district's superintendent. "It's been remarkable in helping us get the message out that we need help," he said. Almost no one thinks that a heavy reliance on substitutes — who usually have no teacher certification and minimal classroom experience — is ideal for students. But by getting substitutes from its community into classrooms in this unusual year, the Lebanon district has managed, for now, to find temporary, local solutions to a problem that is confounding educators in its state and across the country. Many school districts report a daily struggle to put adults in front of students. They have pulled administrators out of offices and into classrooms, canceled professional development sessions and asked teachers to give up planning periods and juggle multiple classes. When all else has failed, they've sent students home to virtual learning. Related: When schools reopen, we may not have enough teachers The pandemic has exposed chronic staffing shortages in the country's schools. Even before the coronavirus hit, schools were able to fill only about 54 percent of 250,000 teacher vacancies each day, according to a survey of more than 2,000 educators released early last year by the EdWeek Research Center. Now the shortages are much worse, district leaders and principals say, because the need has grown significantly, even as the job has become more risky. Many retired teachers, a group districts often tap for help, have opted not to sub and risk exposure to the virus, while parents who seek substitute jobs for part-time income have stayed home to supervise children learning online. The desperate search for substitute teachers has led some states and school districts to lower qualifications for the people entrusted to educate and supervise America's schoolchildren at a moment when learning losses are already stacking up. "When there's difficulty filling classrooms, often the reaction is let's lower the bar, let's widen the gate," said Richard Ingersoll, a professor of education and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. "That's disastrous to do that. Basically, you're sacrificing qualifications because you think it's an emergency." The shortages, and how states respond to them, could have long-term consequences: Studies have documented that just 10 days of teacher absences can result in lower math and English language arts test scores for elementary school students. And not all substitute teachers are equally qualified; those with training and certifications are more effective than those with minimal credentials. Research also shows that schools with high poverty rates and large numbers of Black and Latino students have the greatest difficulties finding qualified substitutes to cover classes.

With hardware becoming ever more powerful, even the most affordable laptops and computers now boast plenty of firepower. However, for users to reap the benefits of performance increases at a hardware level, applications must also be optimized to take advantage. According to software firm Ekioh, this particular dynamic is standing in the way of significant improvements in the web browsing experience, with maximum speeds and overall smoothness limited by the way the current crop of browsers are built. All of today’s most po[CENSORED]r services (the likes of Google Chrome, Safari and Edge) share a similar architecture, poorly optimized for modern hardware. However, the lack of a genuine challenger in the market means these incumbents are not incentivized to act. With multi-tabbed browsing, each tab has its own thread. But when you’re using a browser to render an application or display an interface there’s only one thing on screen, so what you really want is for all of that processing power to be put to use.” The nature of the problem means there is no quick fix that Google or any other major player could apply. The only solution, says Reeder, is to develop an all-new web browser from the ground up, with the express intention of optimizing for the latest silicon. Reinventing the web browser Until recently, Ekioh has operated exclusively in the embedded market, with its browser software deployed behind the scenes in TVs and other smart technology. In other words, you may well have used an Ekioh browser before, just without knowing it. Now, however, the company is throwing its weight behind a new piece of software, called Flow, that it hopes can redefine established norms when it comes to browser architecture. Unlike Chrome, Safari and the like, Flow is a multithreaded browser capable of making full use of multi-core silicon. It also uses the GPU for all rendering activity, which is more memory efficient and keeps the CPU free for execution. While the performance of traditional web browsers is capped, because they are able to utilize only a single processor core, the performance of Flow scales automatically as the number of CPU and GPU cores increases. According to Reeder, the difference is most stark in scenarios that involve a complex user interface or intensive animation “If you imagine four pieces of text on the screen at the same time, on a quad core processor multithreaded layout means you can lay out all four in parallel. Whereas with a single-threaded browser, you can only lay them out one at a time,” he explained. “And if you’re animating on-screen, as most UIs and many web pages do, there’s a limit to the number of things you can achieve between animation frames. If you want the UI to look smooth, you have to get all the animation work done before the next frame is due to be rendered.” With a multithreaded layout, however, more can be accomplished in those gaps, which paves the way for smoother animation and richer interfaces. While it’s possible for major players to retrofit GPU rendering onto their existing browsers, as Firefox has done with its new web render model, adopting a multithreaded architecture would mean starting again from scratch. And until it becomes sensible to do so from an economic perspective, the world’s most po[CENSORED]r browsers are likely to remain just as they are. A proof of concept The value proposition of a multithreaded browser is dual-faceted: users can make full use of powerful hardware, but owners of machines with limited resources also benefit from greater memory efficiency. To demonstrate the value of Flow in low-resource use-cases, Ekioh built a proof of concept for the Raspberry Pi 400 (now available on all Pi models), which proved to be over six times faster than Chromium by the MotionMark benchmark. On the Raspberry Pi Zero, meanwhile, which has just 512MB RAM, Flow blows Chromium out of the water; the latter is simply far too memory intensive for the system to handle. However, while exciting, the browser preview isn’t compatible with all websites and neither does it support a few key functionalities, such as video playback. The point, according to Reeder, was simply to highlight what multithreaded browsers could one day be capable of. “We’re not in a position where we’re knocking on Google’s door, saying ‘we’re about to displace you in the browser market’. The preview was about putting Flow out there onstage and starting a conversation about how browsers might evolve in the future.” Indeed, there are no concrete plans in place to release a version of Flow for desktop operating systems. This is partly because variations in consumer hardware mean Ekioh would struggle to guarantee consistent performance and partly because the firm has none of the arrangements in place that allow free desktop browsers to generate income. But never say never, says Reeder, who hopes Flow will at least make the incumbents sit up and take notice. “One of the things that’s bad for the industry is browser mono-culture; if the entire world is served solely by [browsers like Google Chrome], new features will be added all the time but unused ones won’t be deprecated. What you end up with is a very large and slow product,” he said. “Why should anyone be interested [in Flow] now? It’s the new terrier rapping at the ankles of established players. And the end result will be an improvement for everybody.”

AMD's AGESA 1.2.0.1 BIOS Firmware has been officially introduced and comes with a range of bug fixes and improvements for Ryzen 5000 Desktop CPUs. Board makers will be rolling out the BIOSes for each respective motherboard within their 500-series lineup. AMD AGESA 1.2.0.1 BIOS Firmware Official - Adds Various Bug Fixes And Improvements For Ryzen 5000 Desktop CPUs, L3 Cache Performance Fix Demonstrated on MSI 500-Series Motherboards According to AMD themselves, the first public BIOSes for Ryzen 5000 Desktop CPUs are rolling out now. AMD themselves confirm the following general fixes and improvements: Fix: False SMART errors on Hynix NVMe Fix: Intermittent SSD detection for M.2 SATA devices Improve L3$ bandwidth in AIDA64 Improve stability if the user disables cores on 5600X/5800X with AMD Ryzen MasterIn addition to the above-mentioned fixes/improvements, the AGESA 1.2.0.1 BIOS Firmware also addresses the L3 cache performance issue that users were facing when updating to 1.2.0.0 BIOS Firmware. For that purpose, a test setup with an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X CPU and an MSI MEG B550 Unify motherboard was used. The comparison was done with both the AGESA 1.2.0.0 and the new AGESA 1.2.0.1 firmware. You can see the comparison in L3 Cache performance below: As you can see, the AGESA 1.2.0.1 really does fix the L3 cache performance issues and the numbers are back to normal where they should be. Also, MSI has initially rolled out the AMD AGESA 1.2.0.1 Firmware on the following 500-series motherboards: MEG X570 GODLIKE (7C34.v1D1 Beta) MEG X570 ACE (7C35.v1E1 Beta) MEG X570 Unify (7C35.vA91 Beta) MEG B550 Unify (7D13.v121 Beta) MEG B550 Unify-X (7D13.vA21 Beta) If you are running any of these motherboards, make sure to get the latest BIOS from MSI's to unlock the full potential of your AMD Ryzen 500 series desktop processor. We will keep you updated when other manufacturers release their respective BIOS Firmware based on the AMD AGESA 1.2.0.1 version.

Game information Initial release date: February 4, 2021 Software developer: Byzantine Games Publisher: Slitherine Software Series: Field of Glory Platform: Microsoft Windows Type: Strategy, Simulation, Strategy -------------- The cavalry is here, y'all! Actually, the cavalry has always been here. We started with the cavalry. This ain't no Ancients-era Field of Glory game. Gone are the blocks of legionaries and swarms of charging barbarians, replaced instead with ranks of spearmen and the thunderous charge of knights in enough armor to make a toaster blush. Field of Glory 2: Medieval delivers an authentic tabletop miniatures wargame experience, but just like a historical wargame whether you like that experience is going to be all about whether you like the rules. This is a wargamer's wargame. There's no nice music. The graphics are barebones. The UI is pretty basic. You'll want to memorize hotkeys. This could have come out in 2010 and nobody would have blinked. What there is are 50+ hours of historical scenarios and campaigns. The famous battles give you a prearranged battlefield and let you pick a side, then customize it a bit. The historical campaigns give you good context on a fixed route while still letting you make flexible decisions about your army's composition and evolution. Multiplayer is handled in the same asynchronous style as past Field of Glory games, which is disappointing and frustrating if you want to finish a match in one sitting. It's just functional enough if you can only sit down to play for 15 minutes at a time. Very unimpressive and underwhelming. FOG 2: Medieval's battles focus on historical simulation over clever or puzzle-like tactics scenarios. It delivers that in spades, with the kind of battles a history buff salivates over. They're dynamic and unpredictable, forcing you into surprising scenarios when troops unexpectedly flee or the enemy makes a sudden surge. You use those rules to take a dizzying array of historical factions through the scenarios. Randomly generated battles and campaigns are nice, simple, and pretty customizable—you can ask yourself questions like "what if the Mongols made it to France?" or "what if Sweden invaded England?" The custom campaigns don't have much strategic depth, but they do let you carry an army from one fight to the next. They're also excellent if you like the idea of connected scenarios you didn't personally plan: ambushes, rearguard actions, and the like aren't usually situations you put yourself in on purpose. Some of the longer ones will take you a couple of hours. Battles take so long to play because they're a medieval meatgrinder. Troops lock each other into melee, only sometimes falling back or escaping from that melee due to morale breaking or combat results—neither of which are something you particularly have control over once the brawl begins. Your job is more often than not about choosing favorable positioning and matchups for your troops. You try to deploy your spearmen to tie down the enemy's knights, your light troops in difficult terrain, and your cavalry where they have a place to break through the enemy line. It's satisfying to fight those battles well. Finding and exploiting the enemy's weak spots is the only thing that keeps fights from becoming a stalemate decided by random chance. If your tactics and strategy aren't up to snuff, however, the battlefield will feel extremely static as units lock into melee with each other and stay there for the rest of the fight. Once the enemy starts to waver and flee their side's morale can cascade fail, with a single fleeing unit prompting its neighbors to run, then their neighbors, and so on. That's where the era's premier units really shine. Armored knights on horses are vicious and dangerous shock cavalry, shortly shattering lines of unarmored unmounted men into routs. Well-armored foot can stop them in their path, though, so you have to be careful where you commit your elite troops. Once the enemy starts to run, as is true of the medieval period, your knights are liable to chase them all the way to the edge of the battlefield—sometimes even beyond. It can result in hilarious unexpected situations and is generally a delight: controlling a crowd of violent, rowdy noblemen was the general's lot in the medieval period and FOG2: Medieval really, really gets that. That aside, some of the game just doesn't feel properly medieval. The time period starts at 1040 and runs to 1270, stopping just short of the grandiose 14th century finale of armored knights, longbows, and mercenary crossbowmen. The ruleset's emphasis on flanking maneuvers over numerical advantage makes a lot of sense in the ancients period, but it feels silly when three units of elite infantry can't make a squad of enemy recruits flee in a single simultaneous assault. Finally, the fights just tend to stick in one place for too long. It's most noticeable in a scenario like Hastings. The battlefield was supposedly a very dynamic place as one side or the other broke formation to pursue the routing enemy, only to be caught up in a counterattack. In Field of Glory 2's model, fleeing troops only rarely rally and come back to the fight, and you can't set up a fake retreat to lure the AI out of position. Those shortcomings don't dull the thrill of victory, or the satisfaction of a clever plan playing out. The way battles hang on tense moments and unknown outcomes from chaotic melees is no less tense in Medieval than in previous Field of Glory games. There are a lot of ancients wargames on PC, and it's nice to see the medieval period finally get some turn-based love. System Requirements OS: Windows 8 / 10. Processor: 2.0GHz i5/A8 or better. Memory: 6 GB RAM. Graphics: 1GB DirectX 9 Compatible Graphics Card. DirectX: Version 9.0c. Storage: 5 GB available space. Sound Card: DirectX compatible sound card.

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BEIJING — Nasdaq-listed Chinese automaker Li Auto forecast deliveries below that of its competitors for the first quarter. Li Auto said late Thursday it expected to deliver between 10,500 and 11,500 cars in the first quarter of the year, or fewer than 4,000 vehicles a month. Shares fell 9.8% in the New York trading session amid a broader market sell-off. The stock shed another 3.75% in after-hours trade. Nio, which competes directly with Li Auto in the high-end SUV market, has delivered more than 7,000 units in both December and January. The company is set to share its latest financial report on Monday. Xpeng delivered 5,700 cars in December and more than 6,000 in January. Although the start-ups’ figures point to rapid growth, they still pale in comparison with Tesla. Elon Musk’s electric car company delivered nearly half a million vehicles worldwide last year, or an average of more than 41,000 cars a month. Even with the Lunar New Year holiday that fell in mid-February this year, Li Auto’s weak guidance is concerning, said Tu Le, founder of Beijing-based advisory firm Sino Auto Insights. He pointed out that versus the other start-ups, the company only has one product, and said to keep up it should deliver at least 5,000 to 7,000 vehicles a month. Li Auto’s only vehicle, the Li One, is a hybrid electric vehicle that comes with a fuel tank for charging the battery. Analysts have said the feature makes the Li One attractive for Chinese consumers worried about running out of power without access to a charging station. Last year, the Li One ranked among the top 10 high-end SUVs sold in China regardless of fuel type, according to the passenger car association. However, the company said deliveries fell to 5,379 units in January, down from 6,126 a month earlier. The company reported total revenue of 4.15 billion yuan ($635.5 million) for the fourth quarter, up from 2.51 billion yuan in the prior quarter. Li Auto projects total revenue in the first three months of this year to fall within the performance of the last two quarters, with an expected range of 2.94 billion yuan to 3.22 billion yuan.

Britain's Prince Harry has said that the TV series The Crown is "not strictly accurate, but, loosely, it gives you a rough idea about that lifestyle". Speaking to James Corden, Harry addressed the controversy over The Crown's portrayal of his family’s history and said the Netflix regal drama, saying it does not "pretend to be news". Harry explained: "They don't pretend to be news, it’s fictional but it’s loosely based on the truth. "Of course it’s not strictly accurate, but, loosely, it gives you a rough idea about what that lifestyle, what the pressures of putting duty and service above family and everything else, what can come from that. "I am way more comfortable with The Crown than I am seeing the stories written about my family, or my wife or myself." He said The Crown is "obviously fiction" whereas he has a "real issue" with some of the stories written about him. Harry joked that he would want Homeland star Damian Lewis to play him. Harry also spoke about his life with his wife Meghan and son Archie. Asked by Corden how he sees his life after lockdown, Harry, 36, said: "My life is always going to be about public service and Meghan signed up to that." On the decision to walk away from the royal family, he said it "was never walking away, it was stepping back rather than stepping down". He added that it was a "really difficult environment" and criticised the press, saying it was "destroying my mental health". Harry said he needed to move his family away but insisted: "I will never walk away, I will always be contributing. My life is public service."\ Asked what a "regular night in" for the couple is like, Harry said they may make Archie’s tea, give him a bath and read him a book before he and Meghan spend time together. He said they may watch game show Jeopardy! or something on Netflix. During a visit to the house that featured in 1990s sitcom The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, Harry rapped the famous theme song, which was originally performed by Will Smith. Corden tried to convince him to buy the sprawling mansion before the duke went inside to use the bathroom. The pair then video-called Meghan, who, in response to Corden’s suggestion they buy the house, joked: "I think we’ve done enough moving." She then asked "Haz" how his tour of Los Angeles was going, and he said Corden was "the worst tour guide in LA". Harry and Meghan will appear in a US primetime TV interview with Oprah Winfrey, which is set to be broadcast on March 7.

A group of Russian diplomats and their families made an unusual exit out of North Korea on a hand-pushed rail trolley due to strict Covid measures. The eight people travelled by train and bus before pushing themselves across the Russian border for about 1km (0.6miles) over train tracks. North Korea has blocked most passenger transport to limit the virus' spread. The country maintains it has not had any confirmed cases, but observers dispute this claim. Since early last year, trains and wagons have been forbidden to enter or leave the country. Most international passenger flights have stopped as well. The Russian diplomats were thus left with little choice. "Since the borders have been closed for more than a year and passenger traffic has been stopped, it took a long and difficult journey to get home," Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a Facebook post. N Korea quarantines foreigners amid virus fears North Korea accused of hacking Pfizer for vaccine North Korea warns against 'virus dust from China' Photos shared by the ministry showed the diplomats on the trolley with their suitcases amid a wintry landscape. They were also seen cheering in a video as they crossed into Russia. The main "engine" was the embassy's third secretary Vladislav Sorokin, who pushed the trolley across a rail bridge over the Tumen River into Russia, said the ministry. This was after the group, which included Mr Sorokin's three-year-old daughter Varya, had travelled 32 hours by train and two hours by bus from Pyongyang to reach the Russian border. Ministry officials greeted them at a station on the Russian side, and the group then travelled by bus to the Vladivostok airport. Pyongyang's strict anti-Covid measures have affected travel movements and access to amenities. Extra troops have been sent to border areas with orders to block any possible transmission of the virus. Over the past year, many foreign diplomats have left the country and Western embassies have closed. Most travellers have gone overland and crossed the border into China, although there was one flight in March last year to Vladivostok carrying diplomats from Germany, Russia, France, Switzerland, Poland, Romania, Mongolia and Egypt.

It looks like retailers have started opening up unofficial pre-orders for Intel's entire 11th Gen Rocket Lake Desktop CPU family. US retailer, Milwaukeepc, is one of them who has listed the Rocket Lake lineup with preliminary pre-order prices. Intel's Entire 11th Gen Rocket Lake Desktop CPU Lineup Listed For Pre-Order But Beware of Preliminary Prices As we reported earlier, Intel's 11th Gen Rocket Lake lineup will be officially announced on the 16th of March. This will the same day the pre-orders open up. The chips will be available on the 30th of March, the same days the reviews go live. What these retailers are doing isn't something new. We have seen early pre-orders for various upcoming products go up on retail outlets in the past. This time, it's the 11th Gen Rocket Lake Desktop CPU family from Intel. But as always, these early pre-orders are listed with preliminary prices which are massively inflated compared to the official MSRP's and such is the case here. For example, the Intel Core i9-11900K has been listed for $599.99 US which is $100 US higher than the MSRP of the Core i9-10900K. This certain retailer, however, has the Core i9-10900K listed for a price of $610.99 US at the lowest. The same is the case with the Core i7-10700K which is listed for $484.99 US which is $100 US more than the MSRP of the Core i7-10700K. The Core i5-10600K has also been listed for $309.99 US which features the least markup over its predecessor (+$48 US). Following are the preliminary pre-order prices listed by the retailer: Core i9-11900K - $599.99 US Core i9-11900KF - $579.99 US Core i9-11900 - $509.99 US Core i9-11900 - $479.99 US Core i7-11700K - $484.99 US Core i7-11700KF - $454.99 US Core i7-11700 - $389.99 US Core i5-11600K - $309.99 US Core i5-11600KF - $279.99 US Core i5-11600 - $264.99 US Core i5-11500 - $234.99 US Core i5-11400 - $214.99 US Core i5-11400F - $179.99 US Intel Core i9-11900K 8 Core & 16 Thread Rocket Lake Desktop CPU Intel Claims Its Flagship Rocket Lake Core i9-11900K CPU Offers 11% Faster PCIe Gen 4 Storage Performance Than AMD’s Ryzen 9 5950X The Intel Core i9-11900K will be the flagship 11th Gen Rocket Lake Desktop CPU. The chip is going to feature 8 cores and 16 threads. This will result in 16 MB of L3 cache (2 MB per core) and 4 MB of L2 cache (512 KB per core). In terms of boost clocks, we have already seen the CPU running at base frequencies of 3.5 GHz but as for boost, the CPU will feature a maximum boost clock of 5.2 GHz (1-core) while the all-core boost frequency will be maintained at 4.8 GHz. The chip will also feature Thermal Velocity Boost which should deliver a 100 MHz jump in the max clock frequency. This should lead to a single-core boost clock of 5.3 GHz making it the first CPU to ever hit such a high frequency out of the box. However, do remember that regardless of using the Cypress Cove cores, the Core i9-11900K will feature lower cores and threads than the Intel Core i9-10900K. This is partially due to the backporting of Cypress Cove on the refined 14nm process node. The CPU is said to feature a 1st stage power limit of 125W which is standard for a flagship Intel SKU and the 2nd stage power limit or PL2 is rated at 250W. This means that when hitting its maximum advertised clock speeds, the CPU could indeed be pulling the said amount of wattage from the PSU making it one of the most power-hungry 8-core chips ever produced. This might also explain why Intel didn't go 10 cores and 20 threads on its 11th Gen lineup since it would've turned out to be a power-hungry monster of a chip breaking even past the 250W power limit. Intel Core i7-11700K 8 Core & 16 Thread Rocket Lake Desktop CPU Moving over to the Core i7, we see that Intel won't be segmenting the core/thread count on a tier below Core i9. The Core i7-11700K features the same core configuration as the Core i9-11900K but comes with reduced clock speeds. The chip is said to feature a boost clock of 5.0 GHz on a single & 4.6 GHz across all of its 8 cores. The CPU will even carry the same amount of cache so nothing has changed but the main difference should come from the clocks and power limits. This lower-binned chip will sit at around 225-250W (PL2) limit while the PL1 limit will be standard at 125W. It will be interesting to see how Rocket Lake CPUs overclock since the minute difference between the Core i9 and Core i7 chips can be overcome by a small overclock. As for pricing, the Core i7 will also be cheaper than the Core i9 variant but we don't know yet how Intel will price its 8 core Rocket Lake-S Desktop CPUs yet. There are reports that Intel could aggressively price the chips at around $400 US for the Core i9 and $300 US for the Core i7 which could prove to be a great decision if they really want to go against AMD's Zen 3 based parts in the sub-$500 US segment. Intel Core i5-11600K 6 Core & 12 Thread Rocket Lake Desktop CPU The Core i5-11600K is a 6 core chip with 12 threads. The Core i5-11600K should be going up against the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X which is a phenomenal CPU in its own right. The Core i5-11600K is said to feature a clock speed of 4.9 GHz on a single and 4.6 GHz across all cores. Do note that TVB won't be available on SKUs below the Core i9 models so we shouldn't expect an extended frequency limit on Core i7 and Core i5 SKUs. The chip will feature 12 MB of L3 cache and 3 MB of L2 cache. Now the main proving ground for this chip against the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X will be its performance to price value. The Ryzen 5 5600X with a $299 US MSRP is slightly higher in terms of pricing when we compare it to its predecessor. The Core i5-11600K on the other hand will be replacing the Core i5-10600K which has a retail price of around $260 US. If Intel sticks to its existing price strategy, then the Core i5-11600K could indeed become a hot selling chip in the mainstream gaming market. With that said, we also have to take into account the availability of the Core i5-11600K. Technically, mainstream SKUs aren't affected a lot by supply issues as is the case with the Ryzen 5 5600X but a small delay in stock could result in Intel missing an opportunity to create a dent in AMD's Ryzen 5 segment. Consumers have already seen what AMD delivered as a successor to its Ryzen 5 3600X so now it's time to see what the Core i5-10600K's successor can do. Intel Core i5-11400 6 Core & 12 Thread Rocket Lake Desktop CPU Lastly, we have the Core i5-11400 which is a locked and non-K 11th Gen Rocket Lake Desktop CPU. Intel isn't moving away from locked chips anytime soon as doing so will gobble up sales of their K-series SKUs. The Core i5-11400 as such will be a 6 core and 12 thread chip with a similar core config as the Core i5-11600K but lower clock speeds of 4.4 GHz (1-core boost) and 4.2 GHz (all-core boost). The chip will feature a standard 65W PL1 and 125W PL2 power limit. While the CPU technically does not support overclocking, motherboard vendors will be incorporating BIOS and features to raise the power limits of non-K SKUs for Rocket Lake chips. This would yield a higher base and more stable boost frequencies. So overall, you'll be getting performance similar to the K-series SKUs at a lower price. Surely, having no reviews when the pre-orders go live is going to sway away potential buyers but considering that many people have been waiting to buy these chips for a while now, the initial stock of the chips is going to run dry pretty quick. Expect to see more information on the processors in the coming weeks along with pricing updates on when and where you can buy these chips for your 400 and 500-series motherboards.

A team of researchers at Uber AI Labs in San Francisco has developed a set of learning algorithms that proved to be better at playing classic video games than human players or other AI systems. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the researchers explain how their algorithms differ from others and why they believe they have applications in robotics, language processing and even designing new drugs. Reinforcement learning algorithms learn how to do things by synthesizing information provided in a large dataset—they recognize patterns and use them to make guesses about new data. This is how reinforcement learning algorithms are used to spot lung cancer in X-rays. But, as the researchers with this new effort note, such algorithms tend to run into trouble when they encounter data that does not fit with other data in the dataset. This is why such systems can sometimes return incorrect results. In this new effort, the researchers have overcome this problem by adding an algorithm that remembers all the paths a previous algorithm has taken as it has tried to solve a problem. When it finds a data point that does not appear to be correct, it goes back to its memory map and tries another route. In terms of playing video games, it retains screen grabs as it plays and when it finds itself losing, goes back to another point in the game and tries another approach. The algorithm also groups together images that look similar to figure out what point in time it should return to if things go awry. The researchers tested their new approach by adding game rules and a goal—score the most points possible and try to achieve a higher score every time. They then used their system to play 55 Atari games that, over time, have become benchmarks for testing AI systems. The new system beat other AI systems 85.5 percent of the time. It did particularly well at Montezuma's Revenge, scoring higher than any other AI system and beating the record for a human. The researchers believe their algorithm could be ported to other applications such as image or language processing by robots.

In 2019, Electronic Arts committed itself to 'live service' games, a term which generally refers to games structured around persistent online elements, such as Destiny 2. In a June interview with GameDaily.biz, CEO Andrew Wilson said that "games as service is going to be foundational to our industry," and during an October earnings call chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen said that EA was "doubling down on live services." As a result, there was some concern from fans that EA was planning to turn Dragon Age 4 into a multiplayer-focused, Anthem-style live game. A new Bloomberg report says that's not going to happen, however, as EA has apparently decided to remove all multiplayer components from Dragon Age 4 and make it an exclusively singleplayer experience. The decision was largely driven by two games according to the report, which cites multiple sources "familiar with the matter." One was singleplayer action game Star Was Jedi: Fallen Order, a success for EA, and the other was Anthem, the Destiny-like live game that was finally abandoned yesterday—a spectacular bomb, at least compared to EA's high expectations. It's not actually clear how heavily Dragon Age 4 would've leaned into multiplayer prior to this decision. A 2019 report said the game was originally envisioned as a deep, reactive singleplayer RPG, but was rebooted to adopt the more monetizable "games as a service" model in 2017, leading some to describe it as "Anthem with dragons." Others said the main story would be a singleplayer experience, while the multiplayer would be more focused on post-release content—something akin to Mass Effect 3 multiplayer, which despite my trepidation at the time turned out to be really good.Casey Hudson, then BioWare's general manager, said something similar on Twitter:Regardless of what was previously planned, it's reassuring to hear that the next Dragon Age will be firmly focused on a singleplayer RPG experience. Multiplayer games are great, but sometimes you really just want to be the hero of your own story. It's still a long way off, however: The last we heard, Electronic Arts doesn't expect Dragon Age 4, or whatever it ultimately ends up called, to arrive until sometime after April 2022.