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Canada's chief public health officer is urging Canadians to "make a plan for safer holidays" amid record spikes of COVID-19 across the country. Dr. Theresa Tam said in a statement on Sunday that, as we near the holiday season, it's imperative Canadians take into account public health measures when planning for celebrations. "Our best protection, now and into the holiday season, is to limit errands and outings to the essentials, keep in-person social activities to our existing household and strictly and consistently maintain public health practices," Tam said. "That doesn't mean we can't continue to find safe ways to have the meaningful celebrations that are so important for maintaining our traditions and social connections," she added. We have seen how creative Canadians can be, from online game nights and sharing special meals together virtually with people outside our household, to warmly dressed, physically distanced walkabouts and cheering our neighbours with decorated balconies, windows and lawns." Tam's statement comes a day after four provinces — Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and New Brunswick — reported single-day highs for new cases. Officials have warned that, if close contacts are not tamped down, federal modelling showed Canada could see a worst-case scenario of 60,000 new cases a day. What's happening across Canada As of 3 p.m. ET Sunday, Canada's COVID-19 case count stood at 328,916, with 54,075 of those considered active cases. A CBC News tally of deaths based on provincial reports, regional health information and CBC's reporting stood at 11,455. In British Columbia, an outbreak has been declared at a Kelowna long-term care home. According to a written statement from Interior Health, one staff member has tested positive for the virus. No residents have tested positive or are experiencing symptoms. Saskatchewan announced 236 new cases. Hospitalizations in the province are now at a record high at 99, of which 19 are in intensive care. Manitoba recorded 243 new cases of COVID-19 and 12 more deaths. Sunday's new cases marks the lowest single-day increase in the province since Nov. 14 — when 237 new cases were announced — but hospitalizations and patients in intensive care are now at an all-time high at 288 and 52 respectively. Ontario reported 1,534 new cases and 14 more deaths. Meanwhile, Premier Doug Ford is urging residents against panic buying and crowding malls as Toronto and Peel Region prepare to move into lockdown on Monday. Quebec reported 1,154 new cases and 23 more deaths. New Brunswick added six more cases, a day after seeing a record-high of 23. Nova Scotia recorded 11 new cases, the highest daily number since May 4. Meanwhile, Dalhousie University in Halifax said two of its students have tested positive. WATCH | Halifax businesses prepare as N.S. rolls back gathering limits: Newfoundland and Labrador announced three new cases on Sunday, a day after reporting five new cases, the largest single-day increase in cases in the province since April 16. In Prince Edward Island, the province's new mandatory mask rule means some changes for entertainment venues. Nunavut reported 21 new cases, of which 18 are in the hard-hit community of Arviat. Rankin Inlet added two more cases, while Whale Cove had one. "Health teams are working around the clock in Arviat, Whale Cove and Rankin Inlet to trace, test, isolate and contain the spread of the virus," Dr. Michael Patterson, the territory's chief public health officer, said in a statement. What's happening around the world As of Sunday, there were more than 58.2 million reported cases of COVID-19 worldwide, with more than 37.2 million of those cases listed as recovered, according to a COVID-19 tracking tool maintained by Johns Hopkins University. The global death toll stood at more than 1.3 million. In Asia, the daily tally of reported cases in Japan hit a record for the fourth day in a row, with 2,508 people confirmed infected, the Health Ministry said Sunday. A flurry of criticism has erupted, from opposition legislators and the public, slamming the government as having acted too slowly in halting its "GoTo" campaign, which encouraged travel and dining out with discounts. In Europe, French authorities ordered the culling of all minks at a farm after analysis showed a mutated version of the coronavirus was circulating among the animals. The move follows virus developments in mink farms in Denmark and other countries, including the Netherlands, Sweden and Greece. In the Americas, Chile says it will open its main border crossing and principal airport to foreign visitors on Monday after an eight-month pandemic shutdown. Arrivals will have to present evidence of a recent negative test for the novel coronavirus, as well as health insurance. They'll also have to report their whereabouts and health status for a two-week watch period. Those coming from high-risk countries will have to quarantine for 14 days. In Africa, Sudan's minister of cabinet affairs on Sunday tested positive for the coronavirus, the prime minister's office said, the latest in a string of senior officials to be infected as the country shows an increase of confirmed cases of COVID-19. Over the past month, acting ministers of finance and health, the central bank governor and two associates to Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok have tested positive.

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What's the true value of flexible, modular, easily transportable distributed control system (DCS) software? Oh sure, it might streamline the average migration project, but what's it worth if it can help a manufacturer rebuild from a devastating fire, and get a major production line up and running two or three times faster than would've been possible without that software? What's the price of a gain that huge? Priceless might be a good word. Well, that's just the scenario that went down on a press and forming line at Plummer Forest Products in Post Falls, Idaho, in March 2019, when a bearing failed on an exhaust fan, dropping sparks on the hot stacker and loader in-feed equipment. This triggered several small explosions, and then a large explosion and fire, which severely damaged the production line, gutted its operations booth and controls, and burned a hole through the roof of the building. The plant was quickly evacuated as the fire spread, and thankfully no one was injured. However, as is the case with most fires, there was even more damage from the water used to put it out. The facility's 200 sprinkler heads ran for five hours, and water damaged its motor control centers (MCCs), primary controller rack, and remote systems consoles that were left with internal components floating in water. Regroup, rebuild, rewire With the company and its employees and their 70 families depending on a quick return to production, Plummer and its two system integrators, Advanced Electrical Technologies (AET) and Global Process Automation (GPA), quickly set to work, along with everyone else at the company. The team presented their story, "Devastating fire means rapid rebuild with Plant PAx DCS in record time" this week in the Process Solutions User Group conference track during Automation Fair At Home. Together, they reported going from starting to rebuild to sending identical finished product out the door in just three months. The rebuild included the plant's electrical systems, and the PlantPAx DCS from Rockwell Automation made it possible for their recovery to happen so quickly. The rebuild and electrical work started in June, one-shift production resumed in the first week of September, and the plant was back up to full, 24/7 production in November 2019. "Our job was to keep the consoles as close as possible to what they were before, so they'd be familiar to the operators, let them go back to work, pick up where they left off, and resume production as fast as possible. We salvaged, rebuilt and repainted the consoles, and added PlantPAx, too," said Adam Hamer, automation manager at AET. "One capability that helped right away was the Integrated Architecture Builder (IAB) software tool in PlantPAx, which integrated with Plummer's existing system, and let us rebuild its network topology much faster." IAB was also useful because, while plenty of fire-damaged wire had to be replaced, AET and GPA were able to reuse a significant amount of in-place cables. "We lived close to our scrum whiteboard and P&ID drawings for quite awhile, but we also found that we didn't have to replace some legacy stuff, such as the Profibus modules that talk to the Siemens I/O points. We were able to use pre-wired 1492-IFM modules and cables, which helped us wire the controller cabinets quickly." Recreating the look Robert Anderson, account manager at Plummer, reported that one task in reconstructing the press line's human-machine interface (HMI) system was converting scripts in the previously used Wonderware software to FactoryTalk View SE in PlantPAx. It also migrated from its former Honeywell Measurex recipe management system to PlantPAx's RecipePro. "We were able to use the PlantPAx add-on instructions and available faceplates to give us a common look and feel. We were also able to cut and paste instructions, which let us set up I/O and motors faster, and use FactoryTalk View SE to quickly duplicate our previous HMI graphics," said Anderson. "We also got immediate feedback from our operators about what was working or what needed to be fixed, and all of this input had a huge impact on our ability to recover so quickly. In fact, after startup and just three runs, we were producing sellable product." Anderson added that the 1,625-ton forming press typically produces 25-layer sheets, with about half going to retailers for sale as underlayment products, and half going to industrial manufacturers after receiving additional laminations. "We also had get the line's motors and servos up and running again, and integrated them and two PowerFlex 700S drives with the PlantPAx DCS. All together, we had 2,500 to 3,000 I/O," added Anderson. "We weren't glad about the fire, of course, but we were happy with how everyone pitched in, and that we worked so well together so well with AET and GPA,” Anderson said. “Everyone understood and worked to meet our fast timeline. PlantPAx worked great, too—we're planning to use it in other operations across our plant to help optimize the products we make every day."

If you thought we have seen all of AMD's Radeon RX 6800 XT overclocking potential, then you were wrong. Overclockers have now pushed the Radeon RX 6800 XT 'Big Navi' graphics card even further with the use of Liquid Nitrogen cooling, achieving a brand new world record in the Fire Strike hall of fame. AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT Overclocked To 2.8 GHz on LN2 Cooling, Sets New 3DMark World Record Previously, we had seen the AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card pushed to 2.65 GHz on air that is still a very impressive result but it looks like to push the card further, LN2 cooling is required and this is for the first time that we have seen AMD's GPUs hitting clocks close to 3.0 GHz which remind us of the Pascal overclocking days.he feat was achieved by Chinese overclocked, Takukou, who used a reference Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card from AMD and pushed it to 2.8 GHz on LN2 cooling. In addition to the GPU, the setup also featured an LN2 cooled AMD Ryzen 9 5950X CPU which was running at 5.6 GHz along with 32 GB of DDR4 memory. With the overclock, the GPU was able to score an overall score of 48,890 points and 61,831 graphics points in the 3DMark Fire Strike benchmark. This makes the Radeon RX 6800 XT not only the fastest GPU on the planet but also the only GPU to have broken the 60K barrier in 3DMark Fire Strike. If we compare it with the previous entry, you can see a 4% performance uplift in performance with a 150 MHz higher boost clock. But that's not all, we can expect other overclockers to land in their LN2 results soon, pushing the card as high as 3 GHz which is still a record held by NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card set back in 2016. We can expect the Radeon RX 6900 XT to reign supreme in the HWBot Hall of Fame once it launches next month but for now, even the Radeon RX 6800 XT is a force to be reckoned with, offering insane overclocking potential with a very compelling price versus its competitor & even NVIDIA's flagship RTX 3090 graphics card. AMD RX 6800 XT "Big Navi 21 XT" GPU Powered 16 GB Graphics Card The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT will come packed with the Navi 21 XT GPU which is a cut-down SKU featuring 72 Compute Units or 4608 SPs. The card will also feature 16 GB of GDDR6 memory across a 256-bit bus interface, a 512 GB/s total bandwidth, and clock speeds of 2015 MHz base and 2250 MHz boost at reference specs. The AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT also packs 72 Ray Accelerators which are dedicated for real-time raytracing workloads. The card will feature a based TBP of 300W with factory-overclocked models pushing it above 350W and will arrive at a later date. In addition to the standard memory, the Radeon RX 6800 series graphics cards will also feature 128 MB of Infinity Cache on the GPU die. The cache will help boost bandwidth for higher performance at resolutions beyond 1080p HD. The 128 MB Infinity Cache boosts the standard 512 GB/s bandwidth by 3.25x, delivering an effective bandwidth of up to 1.664 TB/s across all Big Navi GPU based graphics cards.

Game information Initial release date: November 12, 2020 Series: Astro Bot Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment Mode: Single player video game Software developers: Japan Studio, Team ASOBI! Platform: PlayStation 5 Is there an argument that Asobi Team is the most inventive Sony studio right now? The small sector of Japan Studio is certainly getting the most out of the platform holder’s hardware, as Astro Bot Rescue Mission proved by completely reinvigorating the classic 3D platformer on PlayStation VR. With its latest project, free PlayStation 5 pack-in Astro’s Playroom, the group has single-handedly demonstrated the power of the new DualSense controller – but it’s also concocted a love letter to PlayStation that will live with fans long after launch. Unlike past efforts like Welcome Park and The Playroom, this complimentary content is less tech demo and more full game. Spanning four worlds and 16 levels, with a few additional secrets along the way, you can consider this a micro-campaign that will take you anywhere from three to six hours to complete. There are over 100 collectibles to discover, many of which can be observed in an interactive hub, which serves as a virtual gallery for PlayStation’s past. This is an experience for everyone, but those who recognise franchises like Jumping Flash will truly get the most out of it. Indeed, virtually every frame of this meticulously assembled platformer pays homage to Sony’s legacy. The references lurch from the obvious to the utterly obscure, like an interactive catapult that harkens back to mad PlayStation 3 bruise-‘em-up Pain to the fact that you can find a meticulously rendered rendition of the PS Move Shooting Attachment. It’s extraordinary just how much fanservice has been condensed into this package, and it serves as the perfect starting point for the PlayStation 5: a reminder of why you fell in love with the brand to begin with. But love is a fleeting sensation, and this game’s main aim is to retain your affection. As a platformer, this is a tight effort, with sturdy controls and colourful level design, but its use of the DualSense is what elevates it beyond the sum of its parts. While the best titles rely on that intangible magic known as “game feel” to elevate them above their peers, this extraordinary effort quite literally feels different to anything that’s come before it. Using a combination of the PS5 pad’s haptic feedback, adaptive triggers, and motion controls, it offers an additional layer of physical immersion. This is a game where you can actually feel the difference between a rain shower and a driving downpour or how the texture of sand differs to snow. A section where you assume the role of a bouncing spring allows you to judge the distribution of weight from one side of the controller to another, while firing a machine gun rattles the triggers to give you the sensation of real firepower. A climbing frame sequence requires you to softly caress the triggers; push past the point of resistance and you’ll crumble the grip points. Every idea is given just enough time to be developed, before it’s ditched and exchanged for something else. There are secrets to discover away from the critical path, and these usually test the skills you’ve learned thus far; the game’s never particularly tough, opting for a relatively breezy challenge, but there’s enough here to tax your ability without ever forcing you into frustration. And a series of unlockable time trial-type levels add longevity once you’re done, with global leaderboards allowing you to test your skills against the wider gaming public. It all looks and sounds exquisite, too – perhaps not the next-gen showcase that Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Demon’s Souls deliver, but crisp and colourful. Reflective surfaces utilise raytracing to add depth to certain objects and scenes, while great art direction gives some sequences more grandeur than you may be expecting – like when the giant from Astro Bot Rescue Mission pops up to help you on your merry way. It’s the tiny details that will delight, though – like when you unlock a PlayStation and realise that by double-jumping on its power button it’ll actually turn on and play that sound effect. PlayStation 5 pack

Ogni mille abitanti in Italia ci sono 646 automobili. Il nostro Paese è il secondo nell’Unione europea per tasso di motorizzazione. Fa meglio solo in ricco Lussemburgo, 676 auto ogni mille abitanti. Con una piccola differenza: in Lussemburgo il Pil procapite è di 116.639 dollari mentre in Italia si scende a 34.483. Cipro e Finlandia sono terzi parimerito con 629 auto, Polonia 617, Malta 608. I dati Eurostat relativi al 2018 fotografano la situazione della motorizzazione dei Paesi che appartengono all’Unione europea. TASSO DI RINNOVO— La differenza di reddito tra primo e secondo Paese nel continente per tasso di motorizzazione si può riflettere su un’altra tabella dell’ente statistico continentale, quella relativa al tasso di rinnovo delle auto che è composto dalla percentuale delle prime immatricolazioni sul totale di pratiche auto. In Lussemburgo, sempre dato 2018, si arriva al 12,7%, il tasso più alto dell’Unione europea. In coda c’è la Romania con appena il 2%. In mezzo, ma nella parte bassa della classifica c’è l’Italia con il 5% circa .PARCO CIRCOLANTE— Secondo i dati Aci sul parco circolante in Italia nel 2019, composto da 39.545.232 auto, poco più di 4 milioni hanno al massimo due anni. Ben più consistente il gruppo di macchine con un’età tra 5 e 10 anni, 7.364.245 mezzi; quelle tra 10 e 15 anni, 9.421.621 macchine; e quelle tra 15 e 20 anni, 6.217.973 auto. Solo queste tre fasce, senza contare quelle con auto oltre i 20 anni, rappresentano il 56,4% del parco circolante, ovvero 23.003.839 mezzi. Nella distribuzione per alimentazioni il 46%, pari a 18.174.338 è a benzina; il 44,2% ossia 17.467.776 è diesel; il 6,5% a Gpl; il 2,4% a Metano, le ibride benzina sono lo 0,8%, le elettriche lo 0,1%. Nei prossimi mesi sarà possibile capire come e quanto gli incentivi per l’acquisto auto, già esauriti per le auto con emissioni da 61 a 110 g/km di anidride carbonica, abbiano inciso sulla composizione del parco circolante italiano: rimangono i fondi per l’acquisto di elettriche e di ibride plug-in. Qualche indicazione preliminare sull’efficacia di Ecobonus e incentivi arriva dal dato sulle radiazioni di autovetture, considerato che l’aiuto statale è maggiore con la contestuale rottamazione di una macchina: a ottobre la crescita delle radiazioni è stata del 6% rispetto allo stesso mese del 2019; tuttavia nei primi 10 mesi del 2020 le cancellazioni dal pubblico registro di macchine, complice il lockdown, sono calate del 19,6%.

A discussion between linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky and historian-editor Vijay Prashad, part of the ongoing week-long Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest, was cancelled hours before the event on Friday, the two said in a joint statement. Scheduled to take place on Friday evening, over the online platform Zoom, it was to be live streamed on various social-media platforms. The move follows the duo’s decision to read a statement against “corporations such as the Tatas, and the Tatas in particular”, responding to a joint appeal by 50 activists and civil society members, urging them to not participate in an event sponsored by the company. In their statement, the academics said that the organisers got in touch with them in September to participate in a conversation around Chomsky’s latest book, Internationalism or Extinction (2019, Routledge). Speaking to The Sunday Express, Prashad said, “Both of us agreed to hold this dialogue because we believe that the themes in the book, be it the dangers of nuclear war, climate change, and the erosion of democracy, require debate and discussion.” The US-based Prashad added that they were only informed of the cancellation on the day of the event, without citing any reason. Responding to the incident, a senior member of the festival’s organising committee said, “The different programmes at the festival give an insight into the kind of diversity of views and subjects being covered, which in the present political climate, would be considered absolutely anti- establishment… However, the idea of the festival is to have a free exchange of ideas, and not a free exchange of anyone’s agenda.” Festival director Anil Dharker in a statement late Saturday expressed respect and admiration for Chomsky, but said the decision to cancel the session ” was necessary to protect the integrity of the festival”.

“On winter mornings, just as the sun’s uncertain light slopes across the Tanana Flats, ravens fly over my log cabin on their daily commute to town. Perhaps, like me, they would prefer to remain here in the hills above Fairbanks, where temperatures are usually ten or twenty degrees warmer. But town is where the day’s work lies, where ravens and people earn their daily victuals. Dozens of the birds crest the ridges alone, in pairs, strung out in groups that punctuate the sky like ellipses. They sail over slopes covered with spare aspen and birch trees and descend on the city wedged between the frozen Tanana and Chena Rivers. Across other ridges, from other directions, hundreds of ravens are flying through the thin light to pick at the carcass of civilization.” I wish I had written that. I did not. Sherry Simpson did. One day, or more likely a series of days, she tapped into her keyboard one of the clearest descriptions of both ravens and the city of Fairbanks in winter. Sherry died at age 60 a few weeks ago, in New Mexico. She passed away from a brain tumor just a few days after doctors discovered it. My former boss here at the Geophysical Institute once told me that Sherry was interested in this job when it came open in 1994. For some reason, Sherry ended up not applying. If she had, I would have been doing something else. As a writing teacher at the University of Alaska Anchorage and elsewhere, Sherry gently shoved many writers to their best work. In my experience, writers improve most when challenged by good editors. Sherry was one of those for me. We shared an office a lifetime ago, at the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. The newsroom was an expansive space, with tiny horizontal windows near the ceiling; only the tallest could see anything but sky through them. In the air was the machine-gun fire of reporters typing on deadline. Sherry had one of the only private offices, somewhat out of the hum. In there, she was smiley and helpful, and she found funniness in many things. And, man, could she write. Writing is a hard thing to teach. There is structure and formula to it, and I guess some people think of those elements as they write. But Sherry advised me to just let ‘er fly. And then rewrite, rewrite, rewrite. Though I had not seen her in years, she is sometimes part of my routine. Once in a while, before starting a column, I read an essay of Sherry’s, to warm up my neurons. After a few paragraphs, I hear her slow, sure cadence. I try to duplicate that beat. As Bono said, every poet is a thief. Sherry once told writer Andromeda Romano-Lax that she wrote guided more by her intuition than her intellect. “Muddling through seems to be my time-tested strategy,” Sherry said. After Sherry’s muddle was complete, the reader was left with a writer’s most-effective gift — images painted on our mind-screens: “When daylight eases from the sky several hours later, the ravens return the same way they came, like arrows loosed toward the twilight gathering at the northern edge of the world.” I have watched those black arrows arc out of town. And I have written about them. But when I sit at the computer for those sessions, I avoid reading Sherry’s take on the same subject. That would be like picking up the guitar and trying to play an Eddie Van Halen riff. In addition to her skill at planting pictures in readers’ heads, the Sherry Difference included never settling for a lazy verb: “At forty below and colder, when the rest of us are feeling pretty damn sorry for ourselves, the ravens are still out there on the mean streets, hunched atop light poles, poking through garbage bags, fluffing out feathers until they look like cranky old men in down parkas.” Her raven story, which first appeared in Alaska magazine and endures in her book of essays “The Way Winter Comes,” is one of my favorite examples of science writing. The word science makes readers expect something hard, but Sherry entertained us into learning something. Consider this passage, a closing tribute to a modest superstar: “Until I moved to this small cabin on the ridge, I had somehow missed the most intriguing and mysterious thing about ravens — that daily passage from darkness into daylight and back again. The raven re-enacts the physical and metaphorical journey every northerner makes from fall into spring. Winter is literally a turning-away from the light, a tilt of the globe that spins us into the spacious territory of night. The night offers its own solace — the hard, familiar stars, the oceanic incandescence of the aurora borealis. But we measure our pilgrimage through winter in increments of sun: minutes of light lost or gained, the shifting balance between day and night. “This much is known: At twilight the ravens are bound for roosts far beyond the city, where they settle companionably among the branches of spruce trees for the night. Think of them out there, scraps of living night rustling and shifting under a sky less black than they are.”

Facebook has filed a lawsuit in the US against Turkish software developer Ensar Sahinturk for scraping peoples publicly-visible information from Instagram in order to create a network of over 20 clone sites. The social media network said Sahinturk used automation software to scrape public profiles, photos and videos from more than 100,000 Instagram accounts without Instagram’s permission and in violation of Facebook terms. He published this data on a network of clone sites, where anyone could enter an Instagram username to view Instagram user profiles, pictures, videos, stories, hashtags and locations A clone site is a website that copies and displays Instagram or Facebook profiles, posts and other information without the users’ knowledge or consent. When this happens, people lose visibility and control of who is viewing their content and interacting with their account. Facebook had previously disabled the defendant’s Instagram and Facebook accounts and sent cease and desist letters. “We are now filing suit to obtain a permanent injunction against Sahinturk,” Facebook said. Facebook in October filed a lawsuit against two companies that scraped data from its main app, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Amazon to sell “marketing intelligence” and other services in a global operation. “The actions of BrandTotal, an Israeli-based company, and Unimania, incorporated in Delaware, violate our Terms of Service and we are pursuing legal action to protect our users,” Facebook had said in a statement. These companies exploited users’ access to Facebook service through a set of browser extensions called UpVoice and Ads Feed designed to access and collect data.

PowerColor's recently revealed Radeon RX 6800 XT Red Devil behemoth has been put to the test by Thai tech outlet, ExtremeIT (via Videocardz). The graphics card is the flagship PowerColor offering & will feature an insane triple-slot & triple-fan design which we detailed over here. PowerColor's Insane Radeon RX 6800 XT Red Devil Graphics Cards Hits 2.65 GHz Overclock on Air, Memory Overclocked To 17.2 Gbps The YouTuber got access to the PowerColor Radeon RX 6800 XT Red Devil but posted some test results prior to the embargo lift of the card which should be in a few days. With that said, the Red Devil comes in a Limited Edition flavor and only 1000 units are produced as indicated by the label on the backplate. As for the test, Radeon RX 6800 XT Red Devil was overclocked to a mind-blowing 2800 MHz clock speed but the overclock wasn't stable. The GPU was then configured to a more conservative 2.65 GHz clock speed which is still 310 MHz higher than its out-of-box factory overclock of 2340 MHz on boost. The memory was also pushed to 2150 MHz which equals 17.2 Gbps for an effective memory bandwidth of 550 GB/s. A few games were tested but the most interesting benchmark was the 3DMark Fire Strike run with the 2.65 GHz overclock. The Radeon RX 6800 XT Red Devil scored an impressive 56,756 points in the benchmark which is close to the world record of 59,606 points. Do note that we are comparing graphics score and not the overall score as the test setups vary a lot in terms of configurations. The world record run was also obtained on a 2.65 GHz clock on-air and using the reference cooler. This shows that with LN2, the RX 6800 XT can definitely breach 2.9-3.0 GHz clocks which is an amazing feat for AMD's Big Navi GPU. Another interesting aspect of the card is how well it can keep up with the insanely high clock speed that the Red Devil has to offer. The Radeon RX 6800 XT Red Devil was hovering around 55-56C with 2.6 GHz+ boost clocks with a fan speed of 100%. Even with the reference profile, the temperatures were hovering around 65C. As for the Red Devil, the graphics card is expected to launch about a week or two (25th November) after the Radeon RX 6800 XT & RX 6800 series launch so pricing and specifications would be posted later on.

PlayStation Productions, the new division within Sony Interactive Entertainment designed to create television and film adaptations of its po[CENSORED]r game franchises, is really cooking now. Following the completion of principle photography for the Uncharted Movie, the group has now officially sold its previously announced first season of The Last of Us to HBO. That means the TV show written by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann will now go into production soon. Game of Thrones’ Carolyn Strauss will executive produce alongside Naughty Dog’s Evan Wells and Sony’s Asad Qizilbash and Carter Swan. The series is being co-produced by Sony Pictures Television, PlayStation Productions, Word Games, and Naughty Dog. “We’re thrilled to be working with HBO and this fantastic creative team to bring The Last of Us series to life,” said Jeff Frost, the president of Sony Pictures Television Studios. “PlayStation’s innovative storytelling and ingenuity is a natural complement to SPT’s creative focus. Our collaboration is a great example of our ‘One Sony’ philosophy at work. We look forward to developing even more iconic game IP in the future.” The show will follow the events of the first game, as Joel and Ellie embark on a cross-country journey across the United States in a post-apocalyptic world. There’s no tentative release date or provisional casting choices currently announced, but we’re sure we’ll be learning a lot more about the project in the near future.

The UK’s appetite for used cars remains ‘strong’ despite lockdown measures affecting much of the country. That’s according to Auto Trader boss Nathan Coe, who predicts that demand will continue into the new year – though supply issues could cause tough times for retailers. Speaking to Car Dealer Magazine, Coe said: “My personal view and Autotrader’s view as well is that underlying demand is strong. I don’t think that’s going away any time soon – we’re seeing that now. Demand isn’t as strong as we saw 12 months ago but that’s partly because we’re in a lockdown. It’s still strong and it is up compared to where we were pre-COVID, which is quite exceptional. “I’m very confident that even during this period I suspect retailers will be doing more trade than they expected, because of that underlying strong demand. “I think when we get to January, the demand will still be strong. We don’t quite know how strong, but we’re talking levels that are well above where we were pre-COVID.” However, Coe also admitted that the uncertainty regarding Brexit is having a knock-on effect for the used car market, while if vehicle supply lines are disrupted into the UK it would give European car makers less of an incentive to get their vehicles into the country. Coe added trade lines being thrown into disorder “not only means less new cars, but it also means less used cars.” It comes as the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) announced that the used car market had ‘bounced back’ by 4.4 per cent in the third quarter of 2020, with more than two million vehicles changing hands. Despite this boost, the used car segment remained down with more than a million fewer transactions taking place over the first nine months of the year compared with 2019 – a 17.5 per cent decline.

In what appears to be great news for Indian travel enthusiasts, South Africa has decided to relax its restrictions for Indian travellers — after a prolonged period, as part of its coronavirus safety protocols — thereby allowing entry for both business and leisure travelling from the country. According to reports, beginning November 23, Indian leisure and business travellers will be allowed to send their tourist visa applications to any nearest VFS Global Office. In fact, the Consulate General of the Republic of South Africa is believed to have said that all international arrivals will be allowed with prescribed safety rules after a negative COVID-19 test certificate is presented, for it is mandatory. As per reports, Africa had stopped all international travel from March 2020, when almost every country began to understand the nature of the virus and went into a state of lockdown. In October 2020, the government had finally reopened the country’s borders to international tourists, barring countries like India, Germany and the USA — where the number of case is evidently high. And now, Indians can travel the country, too. All international travellers to South Africa will have to follow some rules. * It is compulsory to present a negative PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) test, taken not more than 72 hours before the time of flying. * In event of inability to present the said certificate as proof, travellers will have to self-quarantine at their own expense. * For international flights, the airports which are operational are: Cape Town International; O.R. Tambo International, Johannesburg; King Shaka International, Durban. * In case your journey begins or involves passing through the ‘yellow fever belt’ of Africa or Central and South America, a yellow fever vaccination certificate is also required. ALSO READ | Travelling in the ‘new normal’: How pandemic has changed the rules of the game Indians, in particular, will need the following documents for a tourist visa to South Africa: * A passport valid for 30 days after the journey dates, with at least two blank pages. * Three months’ bank statement, with a balance of INR 3,000, officially stamped on the bank letterhead. * A complete visa application Form-11 (DHA-84). * Proof of hotel booking. * A daily itinerary. * Valid air tickets or proof of hotel reservation. * Two passport-sized photographs. * Passport copies. * Original cover letter confirming the duration of travel and trip details, signed by the traveller. So, will you be planning a trip soon now? For more lifestyle news, follow us: Twitter: lifestyle_ie | Facebook: IE Lifestyle | Instagram: ie_lifestyle

Florida State University President John Thrasher announced key staff appointments during his report to the Board of Trustees Friday. Laurel Fulkerson will serve as interim vice president for Research, succeeding Vice President for Research Gary K. Ostrander, who has been in the position since 2011. Ostrander announced earlier this year his intention to step down and return to the faculty in the College of Medicine in January 2021. Fulkerson has served as associate vice president for research since 2018 and has worked at the university since 2000. During her tenure as associate vice president, Fulkerson has spearheaded a major initiative to amplify research centers to connect with donors and diversify university funding streams. Prior to serving as associate vice president, she was an associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. As a professor of classics, she has published extensively and is the sole author of three scholarly monographs. She is a regular visiting scholar at Oxford University and was the recipient of the Loeb Classical Library Fellowship in 2014. Elizabeth “Liz” Hirst, Thrasher’s chief of staff, will add associate vice president for University Relations to her responsibilities. In her new role, Hirst will oversee the Office of University Communications, Opening Nights, University Relations’ events, Community Relations and work in coordination with the Office of Governmental Relations. Hirst succeeds Kathleen Daly, who is retiring Nov. 30 after 25 years at FSU. Daly has led the University Relations division since 2014 and served as the university’s chief lobbyist for many years. Thrasher also announced the appointment of FSU alumnus Clay Ingram as chief legislative affairs officer in the Office of Governmental Relations, effective Dec. 7. Ingram, a Pensacola native, served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2010 to 2018. In February 2019, Ingram was appointed as CEO of Volunteer Florida by Gov. Ron DeSantis. Previously, he served four years as president and CEO of the Greater Pensacola Chamber of Commerce. Ingram, a member of FSU’s 1999 National Championship football team, graduated from FSU in 2000 with a bachelor’s degree in communication. Assistant Vice President for University Communications Browning Brooks will retire at the end of the year after nearly three decades of service to the university. Brooks has served in her current role since 2014, managing the university’s news, digital, social media and creative services teams. Dennis Schnittker, the department’s director of News & Digital Communications, has been appointed to serve as interim assistant vice president for University Communications.

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We all know how locked down and controlled 2020 has been. Paradoxically perhaps, this very act of containment has driven an increased use of world mapping data and geospatially-aware software, as we seek to find out what’s happening around the planet. Right now, we really don’t want to be lost on the map, more than ever. A large number of Covid-19 (Coronavirus) news reports have featured local, national and global statistics graphically depicted across mapped-out regions of the planet. Behind these color-coded charts, graphs and diagrams are software programs designed to ingest, process, analyze and deliver accurate location-based data to provide us with a geospatially-aware representation of what’s happening. In many cases, the data these applications use draws upon the same information source as is used by public sector organisations, governments, emergency services and businesses. In the United Kingdom, that source is very often the Ordnance Survey, the national mapping agency for Great Britain. As a public body working for the public good, the Ordnance Survey’s software and data team suggest that barriers to accessing geospatial data have been lowered; not least by Ordnance Survey itself, which launched the OS Data Hub – a repository of its own trusted geospatial data – in July of this year. What this leads to is the suggestion that software developers inside commercial organisations could and perhaps should also be embracing the chance to put more location-aware information into the applications that we all use every day. With some obvious caveats related to security and compliance, geospatial data is everywhere and it’s (mostly) for everybody. Senior technology labs engineer at Ordnance Survey Tim Manners, alongside John Hoopes, developer advocate at Ordnance Survey say that they understand the ‘commercial opportunities’ that can be unlocked by this data, as well as its potential to help us address some of the most pressing issues of our time. A brief history of geospatial data But first, Manners and Hoopes insist a brief layperson’s history lesson in geospatial science is needed. This is because, when it comes to the world of geospatial data, there are two core communities of users. MORE FOR YOU XBOX Series X Console Review- The Next Generation Of Gaming A Chat With Qualcomm’s New Automotive Leader, Nakul Duggal, Driving An $8B Backlog The Good, Bad And The Ugly Of Apple’s Mac Launch With M1 Processors The first geospatial data user group has been around since the first Global Information Systems (GIS) systems were developed in Canada in the 1960s. These users lived (and still live) and work in desktop GIS applications like QGIS, CadCorp and Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) products such as ArcGIS, ArcMaps, ArcGIS Pro etc. “This [first, original] community has always been mainly focused on geospatial data analysis and - usually - the production of static maps, which are still very much relevant for many communities and industry use cases including applications in geography, topography, real estate, urban planning and so on. These users are geographically-minded and comfortable with complicated technical data formats, such as ‘shapefiles’, that are difficult to use without a good grasp of GIS principles,” explain the pair. They note that the second community arose with the advent and maturation of web 2.0 and they came in the form of application developers, who started on the web and then added Apple iOS-native and Android-native mobile apps to their repertoire. This community has very different ways of working with geospatial data and its requirements vary too. From purist propellerheads to programmers... to people Manners and Hoopes note that the first location-based apps were always more logically likely to be built by developers who had some interest or background in GIS, as geospatial data formats were difficult to work with. But today, data formats are far easier to work with because of the advent of platform-level software tools that can provide technology abstraction layers, built-in AI intelligence, Application Programming Interface (API) connectivity channels and various autonomous functions. All of which mean that many more forms of geospatial data can be used by all manner of software professionals… and not just geospatial data purists, who do still exist. “A decade ago, large datasets (which geospatial datasets often typically are) were hard to get hold of and difficult to consume right away. It might have been hours before the data could be broken down and sorted into a format that was fit for purpose. Now, thanks to hosted services, open source tools, APIs and increased bandwidth and computational power, developers can readily access the data they need and create an application, or install a geospatial or mapping visualization in an existing app, in a matter of minutes,” explain the pair, who both clearly played with a lot of maps as children. As with other areas of software application development and data management, a significant factor driving adoption of any technology is the presence of standardization. Some software tools in this space are proprietary but still heavily standardized according to defined industry protocols, but this is not a given. So there is another avenue here. By adopting open standards, developers can independently create tools that interoperate with data and tools provided by others. As an open software geospatial tool (or indeed any kind) gains more adoption, the tool’s ‘gravity’ is said to increase and a virtuous circle and cycle develops. As adoption increases, further development of the tool increases and it makes more sense to build according to the standard of the tool itself. Geospatial standards of this kind include GeoJSON, Mapbox Vector Tiles (and on the OS Data Hub) the Maps API, with ZXY and WMTS endpoints and the Features API, which is a web feature service. “Firms understand that usability is a key factor for developers when they embark on a creative journey. Data formats that ‘play’ better with others will likely be favored over those that require laborious integration and weak support. Increased accessibility and usability also have the effect of widening the geospatial developer community and the potential for innovation, which is already paying dividends in a number of ways,” insist and enthuse Manners and Hoopes. Real-world use cases for geospatial data For a working example in the real world, the ‘insurtech’ (insurance technology) industry makes use of geospatial data to help manage building insurance. An insurer can take relevant local data points into consideration when creating policies that could include everything from local crime rates, to flood risk and onwards to proximity to fire and police stations. Manners and Hoopes are all for the greater good of humanity and the pair explain that applications in this area could help with environmental management, town and transport planning, emergency services and more. Even more advanced use cases, such as augmented reality applications for gaming or proptech (you guessed it, property technology) applications made possible by vector tile APIs, are emerging. “Many of the mobile devices we carry with us, as well as the individual applications installed on them, use location data in some form. Geospatial data can provide better experiences for users in a variety of ways, and not just through obvious use cases like mapping, routing and navigation. Mobility apps help users get from A to B efficiently. House-sharing apps help users explore the world from a comfortable home base. Dating apps connect singles to people nearby. Location data helps developers create experiences that are more valuable to their users,” conclude the Ordnance Survey men. These are still early days and this is (very arguably) an important growth area. With global pandemic data being fed into Covid-19 viral infection ‘track-and-trace’ apps (which have been notoriously troublesome with spurious alerts being sent to individuals), these geospatial data streams also have to work with the WiFi, Bluetooth and mobile network connectivity on our mobile devices. There’s a lot we could get less than perfect (let’s stop short of saying wrong) if we engineer geospatial capabilities into our apps without prudently planned architecture, adherence to standardized protocols and accessibility to the right trusted datasets. Today we can work with geospatial data in three dimensions, perhaps even four dimensions if we add time. As we enter the fifth and sixth dimension and start to see the ‘plane’ where other possible worlds will exist, geospatial data’s wider limits could be coming with us. Note to the team: we’re going to need a bigger server guys.

HP announces its Black Friday deals, which substantially marks down both desktops and laptops, some designed for a home office, others perfect for a gaming setup. Some of these deals take up to $200 on select models. HP's Black Friday deals have been announced, featuring deals on both Laptops and Desktops for business or Gaming! The Laptop deals offer a large amount of money off the normal price tag, making these laptops an even better deal. The cheaper of the two laptop deals is the HP Laptop - 15z-ef100, which is powered by the AMD Athlon Gold 3150U has a total of four threads and three GPU cores, allowing easy viewing for content. The HP Laptop - 15z-ef100 is currently on sale for $349.99, making this laptop the cheapest computer on the list. HP Laptop - 15t-dy100 Raising the price to $499.99, the 15t-dy100 features an Intel processor that features four cores and a total of eight threads. This processor features a 1.00 GHz base frequency and a Max Turbo frequency of 3.60 GHz. This laptop features a 15.6" screen size and has a 1,366 x 768 resolution, but this laptop features a higher default RAM storage. You can buy it here. This laptop features a price tag of $1,199.99, which is almost double the previous model listed; this screen size is smaller, having just a 13.3" screen size, and has a default resolution of 1,920 x 1,080. The installed processor is the Intel Core i7-1065G7 processor, which also uses the Intel Iris Plus Graphics cores. You can buy it here. Desktops Having a desktop is a privilege that many homes and families have; some may find it time to upgrade or buy a new desktop for a home office or virtual schooling. HP ENVY Desktop TE01-1150xt The HP ENVY desktop TE01-1150xt is the least expensive of the desktops listed but still offering some fantastic features that would be perfect for virtual schooling. This desktop uses an Intel Core i3-10100, which has just four cores but a base frequency of 3.6 GHz. This desktop features a $499.99, which is a full $100 off the typical price tag of $599.99. You can buy it here. HP ENVY Desktop TE01-0165t Keeping the same case but now featuring a graphics card is the HP ENVY Desktop TE01-0165t, which comes with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card and an Intel 9th generation processor. These new components raise the price to $849.99, but HP's Black Friday deals make this desktop cost just $679.99. You can buy it here. The OMEN gaming line is designed with gamers featuring a Ryzen 5 processor and an AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT graphics card. This desktop is currently listed as $999.99, which has $200 off the normal price of $1,199.99. You can buy it here. OMEN 30L Desktop GT13-0255st The Intel version for the OMEN gaming desktop features an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and has an Intel 10th generation core i5 processor. This desktop cost a bit more, having a price tag of $1,149.99 during HP's Black Friday Deals. You can buy it here.

No real surprises here, but IO Interactive has confirmed that it’s targeting “modern systems and platforms” with its upcoming Project 007, which will almost certainly include the PlayStation 5 and potentially the PlayStation 4 as well. According to a press release, the James Bond tie-in will run on the Danish developer’s Glacier engine, which also powers the Hitman franchise. “Creating an original Bond game is a monumental undertaking and I truly believe that IO Interactive, working closely with our creative partners at EON and MGM, can deliver something extremely special for our players and communities,” said the studio’s CEO Hakan Abrak. “Our passionate team is excited to unleash their creativity into the iconic James Bond universe and craft the most ambitious game in the history of our studio.” As reported earlier, this will be an original origin story set within the James Bond universe. IO Interactive is developing this across its two studios, and is recruiting talent to add to its team. That is, perhaps, the only disappointment here: this announcement seems more targeted at recruitment, which means that it’s probably a fair few years away.

A Grazie si lavora per attivare il servizio da lunedì. Nell’area camper tendone e percorso per eseguire i prelievi. Il presidio a disposizione dei soggetti convocati dai sanitari ROBERTO BO 19 NOVEMBRE 2020 MANTOVA. Trenta-quaranta tamponi all’ora, circa uno ogni due minuti. È questa la previsione dei tecnici dell’Asst per il presidio drive through in partenza nell’area camper delle Grazie di Curtatone. Ieri mattina sono iniziati i lavori di montaggio della tensostruttura e di predisposizione del percorso interno che dovranno seguire le auto. L’avvio del nuovo servizio, il primo in provincia di Mantova con la modalità drive through (tamponi stando in auto) è previsto per lunedì mattina. Giovedì scorso la spiegazione di come funzionerà il nuovo presidio tamponi, ovviamente a disposizione dei i soggetti prenotati e convocati dalle autorità sanitarie, è avvenuta con una diretta Fb alla quale hanno partecipato il sindaco di Curtatone, Carlo Bottani, il direttore dell’Asst, Raffaello Stradoni, il capo dell’ufficio tecnico dell’Asst, Leo Traldi, e il presidente di Camper Solidale Luciano Lanza.Bottani ha introdotto l’argomento sottolineando l’orgoglio di Curtatone per aver dato il suo contributo al protetto e ha ringraziato Protezione civile, carabinieri e polizia locale per l’impegno che forniranno e molti cittadini si sono offerti come volontari per dare una mano.Il manager del Poma ha spiegato i motivi che hanno portato l’Asst a cercare un’area per il drive through: «Uno dei modi per fare tamponi è stato quello che abbiamo messo in atto finora. Ovvero, aprire punti in ognuno dei nostri pronto soccorso e in altre postazioni aggiuntive, come ad esempio negli ospedali privati convenzionati come Suzzara e Castiglione. Oggi ne abbiato attivi sette dove uno arriva, scende dall’auto e si mette in fila per registrazione ed esecuzione del tampone. Certo non è del tutto comodo per una certa categoria di persone. Bisognava quindi trovare un luogo idoneo con possibilità di formare code di auto e lo abbiamo individuato nell’area camper di Grazie». «Si tratta di un’area isolata – ha spiegato l’ingegner Leo Traldi – rispetto alla viabilità ordinaria. In quest’area faremo un percorso a serpentone. Al punto di arrivo ci saranno due squadre che eseguiranno i tamponi prenotati, con una frequenza di circa uno ogni due minuti. Il test si esegue semplicemente affacciandosi al finestrino. L’area camper è stata scelta perché ha caratteristiche giuste, è un ambiente gradevole alla vista,ed è già dotato di tutti i servizi necessari. Abbiamo calcolato la possibilità massima di una fila di duecento auto all’interno della zona. Possiamo anche già sbilanciarci: non sarà l’unico drive through della provincia di Mantova»

Think of it as Tokyo meets Brooklyn. Or maybe this week’s news that West Elm will begin selling selected products from Muji is more millennial meets minimalist? However you view it, the new partnership between the Brooklyn, New York–based mega-retailer and the Japanese home and apparel brand fits into a bigger trend of U.S. lifestyle stores inking deals with third-party brands and licenses. In adopting this strategy, West Elm joins fellow Williams-Sonoma brands Pottery Barn and Rejuvenation, plus other prominent home retailers like Crate & Barrel and CB2, which are leveraging third-party collaborations to expand their customer bases. The move is also a sign that Muji, whose U.S. subsidiary filed for bankruptcy this summer, is looking at new ways to sell into the American market during a time of COVID conditions—and as a workaround to its network of 19 physical stores, many of which are situated in high-rent, tourist-heavy areas. The Muji brand was born in Tokyo in 1980, a spinoff from a larger Japanese supermarket, The Seiyu, that focused on simple products across the home and apparel categories. Muji’s name comes from the Japanese mujirushi ryohin, which translates to “no-brand quality goods,” and its mantra is based on three core values: selection of materials, streamlining of processes and simplification of packaging. And while the company’s products all bear a certain minimalist design aesthetic (not unlike the look of Swedish behemoth Ikea), they are by no means inexpensive, particularly when sold outside Japan. Beyond its retail locations (more than 300 in Japan, plus more than 500 international locations), Muji recently opened its first hotel in Tokyo atop one of its stores in an effort to offer customers a full experience; the company has also tested convenience store and furniture subscription concepts in Asia. Now is more important than ever to stay connected and competitive. Did you know BOH Insider membership includes a subscription to BOH magazine and unlimited LAUNCH classes? In addition, membership gives you discounts to jobs and events postings, access to the Future of Home conference, admission to a private facebook group, and much more. Join us! Muji’s first appearance in the American market came in the early 2000s, when it introduced a limited number of products through the Museum of Modern Art’s store and website. The company planted roots in the U.S. when it opened its own shop in New York’s SoHo in 2007; the move was followed by 18 additional locations, primarily in big cities, and an e-commerce site. All of the stores were forced to close when the pandemic hit, which seemed to be a major cause of the company’s chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in July. (The company has also struggled in other countries—particularly in China, where anti-Japanese sentiment is strong as relations between the two countries deteriorate.) The West Elm tie-in seems to represent an attempt to open up Muji’s distribution to a wider audience, although West Elm features only about 100 of Muji’s 7,000-plus SKUs—and they are only available online. Items range from $2 makeup containers to a $600 oak storage bench. The partnership is one of several West Elm is currently running, including deals with outdoor company REI, direct-to-consumer furniture maker Floyd, and home decor brands Margo Selby and Closed Mondays. “We partner with ahead-of-the-curve makers, designers and brands to bring you more of what you love and make it even easier to shop the best of modern design,” reads the West Elm site. Other businesses who fall under the overused (and under-explained) “lifestyle” heading are pursuing similar strategies: Retailers that once only carried their own in-house brand are all expanding in order to bring in new customers and temporarily offer merchandise that might not fit their core design matrix. Pottery Barn, for example, offers any number of collaborations—from partnerships with the Mickey Mouse and Harry Potter franchises to collaborations with Airstream and the Friends TV series. CB2 has its own wide range of self-dubbed “design collabs” with Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop brand, musician Lenny Kravitz, fashion accessories brand Hill-side, L.A. retailer Fred Segal, GQ magazine, and several individual designers. Its sister brand, Crate & Barrel, has a line from HGTV star Leanne Ford and just introduced kitchen accessories based on Frank Lloyd Wright designs. And while the vast majority of the assortments found at these retailers still sport the house label in advancing the store-as-brand merchandising strategy, there’s no disputing we’re seeing more breaks with that philosophy. Muji may translate to “no-brand quality goods,” but the fact is that its goods are very much branded—and its new West Elm partnership is designed to capitalize on that. Homepage photo: Products from the Muji x West Elm collaboration | Courtesy of West Elm ____________ Warren Shoulberg is the former editor in chief for several leading B2B publications. He has been a guest lecturer at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business; received honors from the International Furnishings and Design Association and the Fashion Institute of Technology; and been cited by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN and other media as a leading industry expert. His Retail Watch columns offer deep industry insights on major markets and product categories.

An antimony mine in central Newfoundland has suspended its operations and laid off almost all its employees, saying it's not financially feasible to operate during the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. Management at Beaver Brook Antimony Mine made the "extremely difficult decision" to close up on Tuesday, laying off most people on its payroll, Site Manager Shane Osmond said in a news release. "The majority of our valued workforce were unfortunately laid off," he said. The statement said more layoffs would be coming in the next week. "This is not a decision we take lightly and fully understand the resulting impacts on our workforce and local communities," Osmond said in the statement. The mine, 43 kilometres outside of Glenwood, reopened in 2019 after years on hiatus thanks to Chinese investors. Upon its reopening, the mine had an expected lifespan of three-and-a-half years and made its first shipment in June 2019. It had more than 100 people on its payroll when in full swing, but its success was short-lived. The mine's ability to operate in 2020 was hampered by COVID-19, Osmond said, with production temporarily paused in March as public health restrictions hit the province, and then restarted in July at a limited capacity. But the second wave of COVID-19 sweeping across Canada and the globe, combined with "significant negative impacts the crisis has had on our financial situation" along with increased costs to operate in winter mean the company can no longer operate at this time. "We have so far taken every reasonable measure to prevent this suspension but were sadly unable to do so," Osmond said. Hope for reopening The closure may not be permanent, as Osmond said the company will continue to "assess the viability of restarting the project" throughout the upcoming winter and spring. The head of a non-profit mining association in Newfoundland and Labrador called the shutdown "unfortunate," but Ed Moriarity said that hope remains for a reopening. "I am heartened, at least, by the notion that the company has noted that they haven't given up on the operation," Moriarity, the executive director of Mining Industry NL, told CBC News. A few people at the mine still have their jobs to keep tabs on the situation and fulfil obligations like environmental responsibilities, according to the Beaver Brook release. Moriarity said pandemic-caused disruptions to global supply chains, rather than public health restrictions, are likely at play and have caused sluggish demand for antimony, a mineral used in a number of industries, including the production of batteries, bullets, glass, pottery and cosmetics. "Our association is certainly monitoring the situation carefully, and any help we can do to support further market access or to better understand the opportunities in terms of the antimony deposit, here and around the world, we'd be happy to participate and support," he said.

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