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- Cloud revenue up 34% and up 24% at constant currencies to become the largest revenue stream
- Current cloud backlog exceeds €10 billion, up 34% and up 25% at constant currencies
- SAP S/4HANA current cloud backlog extends its growth trend, up 100% and up 87% at constant currencies
- Cloud gross profit up 39% (IFRS), up 38% (non-IFRS) and up 28% (non-IFRS at constant currencies), leading to a strong cloud gross margin expansion
- IFRS operating profit down 32%, non-IFRS operating profit down 13% and down 16% at constant currencies, primarily due to the impact of the war in Ukraine
- SAP reaffirms 2022 revenue and free cash flow outlook, updates operating profit outlook range
WALLDORF, Germany, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
Christian Klein, CEO: "As our Q2 results demonstrate, SAP's portfolio is more relevant than ever. Our transition to the cloud is ahead of schedule and we have exceeded topline expectations, with cloud revenue becoming SAP's largest revenue stream. Our pipeline is strong, and we are winning market share underpinned by the very strong 100% growth of S/4HANA current cloud backlog."
Luka Mucic, CFO: "This quarter again proves that our strategy is resonating, even in an increasingly challenging external environment. We continued to deliver strong topline growth, exceeding revenue expectations and increasing cloud profitability. This quarter, we have recognized the main impact of the war in Ukraine. We believe that we are now able to capitalize on our substantial growth investments of the last 18 months, by delivering sustained growth and profitability expansion."
Financial Performance
Cloud Performance – Second quarter 2022
1 For a breakdown of the individual adjustments, see table „Non-IFRS Adjustments by Functional Areas" in this Quarterly Statement.
2 As this is an order entry metric, there is no matching IFRS equivalent.
3 Software as a service
4 Platform as a service
5 Infrastructure as a service
Due to rounding, numbers may not add up precisely
Cloud Performance – Six months ended June 2022
1 For a breakdown of the individual adjustments, see table „Non-IFRS Adjustments by Functional Areas" in this Quarterly Statement.
2 As this is an order entry metric, there is no matching IFRS equivalent.
3 Software as a service
4 Platform as a service
5 Infrastructure as a service
Due to rounding, numbers may not add up precisely
The Q1-Q2 2022 results were also impacted by other effects. For details, please refer to the disclosures on page 31 of this document.
Financial Highlights
Current cloud backlog exceeded €10 billion for the first time and was up 34% to €10.40 billion and up 25% at constant currencies, accelerating from 23% at constant currencies in the first quarter and demonstrating a strong foundation of future cloud revenue.
Driven by double-digit growth across the SaaS and PaaS portfolio, cloud revenue was up 34% to €3.06 billion, up 24% at constant currencies.
Our cloud gross margin was up 2.3 percentage points to 69.8% (IFRS) and up 1.8 percentage points to 71.9% (non-IFRS). This was driven by a strong increase in our SaaS margin, despite increased investments into our next generation cloud delivery program. Revenue growth, alongside cloud gross margin expansion, drove strong cloud gross profit growth of 39% (IFRS), 38% (non-IFRS) and 28% (non-IFRS at constant currencies).
IFRS operating profit decreased 32% to €673 million and IFRS operating margin decreased by 5.8 percentage points to 8.9%. Non-IFRS operating profit was down 13% to €1.68 billion and decreased 16% at constant currencies. Non-IFRS operating margin decreased by 6.5 percentage points to 22.4% and was down by 5.8 percentage points at constant currencies. This was mainly driven by reduced contribution from software licenses revenue, as well as significant bad debt expenses related to the war in Ukraine. In addition, IFRS operating profit was affected by restructuring expenses of €130 million, primarily incurred due to the exit from Russia and Belarus. Estimated immediate financial impacts of the war in Ukraine lowered IFRS operating profit growth by 28 percentage points, non-IFRS operating profit growth by 8 percentage points and non-IFRS operating profit growth at constant currencies by 6 percentage points.
IFRS earnings per share decreased 75% to €0.29 and non-IFRS earnings per share decreased 45% to €0.96. The year-over-year decline of earnings per share reflects a contribution to financial income by Sapphire Ventures that, due to current market conditions, was lower than in the same period last year. Our effective tax rate was 62.2% (IFRS) and 29.3% (non-IFRS). The year-over-year effective tax rate increase mainly resulted from changes in tax exempt income and non-deductible expenses. For non-IFRS, the changes in non-deductible expenses do not apply due to respective adjustments of pre-tax figures.
Free cash flow for the first six months was down 36% to €2.08 billion. The decrease versus last year is mainly attributable to the development of profitability and impacts from working capital due to SAP's continuing move to the cloud. In the second half-year, we expect a more favorable cash flow development due to lower cash taxes and better profitability. We are therefore reiterating our free cash flow outlook for the year.
On January 13, SAP announced a new share repurchase program to support the transition of SAP's share-based compensation programs to equity settlement, which was completed on April 29. SAP had repurchased 10,004,763 shares at an average price of €99.63 with a purchased value of approximately €997 million. In addition, on July 21, SAP announced another share buyback program of approximately €500 million. Repurchased shares will primarily be used to service awards granted under share-based compensation plans for employees.
Impact of War in Ukraine
In the first six months, SAP's business was impacted by the war in Ukraine and SAP's decision to wind down its business operations in Russia and Belarus.
In the second quarter current cloud backlog was approximately €64 million lower due to the termination of existing cloud engagements, reducing current cloud backlog growth by approximately 1 percentage point at constant currencies. IFRS and non-IFRS operating profit were lowered mainly due to reduced software licenses and support revenues and bad debt reserves recorded on trade receivables. IFRS operating profit was additionally affected by restructuring expenses of approximately €120 million incurred due to severance payments to employees in Russia and Belarus and further impairments of assets. The increase of restructuring expenses versus prior expectations is due to the appreciation of the Russian ruble over the past quarter. The overall impact on IFRS operating profit was approximately €280 million (first six months: approximately €350 million) and on non-IFRS operating profit approximately €160 million (first six months: approximately €230 million).
For the fiscal year, we expect a total revenue impact of approximately €300 million at constant currencies from lack of new business and discontinuation of existing business. For non-IFRS operating profit we expect an impact of approximately €350 million at constant currencies from the revenue gaps mentioned above and other expense items.
Other impacts due to this rapidly evolving situation are currently unknown and could potentially subject our business to materially adverse consequences should the situation escalate beyond its current scope.
Business Highlights
More than 650 customers chose SAP S/4HANA in the quarter, increasing total adoption to approximately 20,000 customers, up 15% year over year, of which more than 14,500 are live. In the second quarter, more than 60% of the additional SAP S/4HANA customers were net new.
In the second quarter, customers around the globe chose "RISE with SAP" to drive end-to-end business transformation, including ABB Information Systems, Bridgestone Australia, Capitec Bank, EisnerAmper, Hisense Group, Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, Moderna, Pitney Bowes, RWE, Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Zoomlion. Customers continue to expand their SAP landscape: Microsoft invested in "RISE with SAP", while GlobalFoundries, HeidelbergCement, Malaysia Airlines, and Mapletree Investments combined the "RISE with SAP" offering with further solutions.
Key customer wins across SAP's solution portfolio included: ALTANA, Analog Devices, ASUS, BeiGene, Coop Genossenschaft, Corning, Ericsson, Fisker Inc., FUNKE Mediengruppe, Kyndryl, Moët Hennessy, Persán, Positivo Tecnologia, Sportradar, Votorantim, Wieland-Werke. Antonio Puig, CONA Services, HCL Technologies, and Wittenstein all went live on SAP solutions in the second quarter.
SAP's cloud revenue performance for the quarter was strong across all regions. Germany had an outstanding cloud revenue performance while the U.S., Brazil, Japan, India and Switzerland were particularly strong.
On May 4, SAP and Google Cloud announced an expansion of their relationship, unveiling new integrations between Google Workspace and SAP's flagship cloud ERP, SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
On May 11, SAP and IBM announced the latest milestone in their long-standing partnership as IBM undertakes one of the world's largest corporate transformation projects based on SAP ERP software, designed to fuel the company's growth and better support its clients.
On May 18, SAP announced that the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of SAP SE approved all proposals of the Executive Board and Supervisory Board. Prof. Dr. h. c. mult. Hasso Plattner, Dr. Rouven Westphal and Dr. Gunnar Wiedenfels were reelected and Jennifer Xin-Zhe Li was elected to the Supervisory Board. With these elections, the Supervisory Board has reached gender parity. In addition, the compensation report was approved and to ensure a smooth transition between auditors, KPMG, for fiscal year 2022, and the new auditor, BDO, for fiscal year 2023, were elected. Furthermore, the dividend proposal of €2.45 per share for fiscal year 2021 was approved. This amount includes a special dividend of €0.50 to mark the Company's 50th anniversary.
Segment Results at a Glance
At the beginning of 2022, the Services segment was integrated into the former Applications, Technology & Support segment which was re-named to Applications, Technology & Services.
Therefore, SAP now has two reportable segments: the Applications, Technology & Services segment and the Qualtrics segment.
In addition, certain marketing costs that we primarily incur for product and solution-specific activities in the Applications, Technology & Services segment are now presented in the results of this segment and are no longer allocated to SAP's corporate functions.
Segment Performance Second Quarter 2022
1 Segment information for comparative prior periods were restated to conform with the new segment composition.
SAP's two reportable segments showed the following performance:
Applications, Technology & Services (AT&S)
Segment revenue in AT&S was up 11% to €7.11 billion year over year, up 4% at constant currencies. Segment performance was mainly due to strong Cloud Revenue growth, driven by SAP S/4HANA as well as Business Technology Platform. Software licenses revenue decreased due to the shift to the cloud as more customers are adopting our 'RISE with SAP' offering. Segment support revenue was up 5% to €2.98 billion year over year and flat at constant currencies.
Qualtrics
Qualtrics segment revenue was up 57% to €330 million year over year, up 39% at constant currencies. The continued strong growth was driven by robust renewal rates and expansions. LINE Plus, Merck KGaA, the New York City Department of Education, PGA TOUR, PNC Financial Services Group, Progress Residential, Scarlet Health, Tata Digital, Toyota North America, and Venues NSW, among others, selected Qualtrics Experience Management Solutions.
Business Outlook 2022
SAP is executing on its cloud-led strategy, which is driving accelerating cloud growth through both new business and cloud adoption by existing customers. The pace and scale of SAP's cloud momentum places the Company well on track towards its mid-term ambition.
Financial Outlook
For 2022, SAP now expects:
- €7.6 – 7.9 billion non-IFRS operating profit at constant currencies (2021: €8.23 billion), down 4% to 8% at constant currencies. The updated non-IFRS operating profit outlook range reflects the expected 2022 non-IFRS operating profit impact of approximately €350 million at constant currencies from the war in Ukraine and a potential continued marked decline of software licenses revenue. The previous range was €7.8 – 8.25 billion at constant currencies.
Despite the expected total revenue impact of approximately €300 million at constant currencies of the war in Ukraine and a further accelerated move of our customers from upfront software licenses revenue to the cloud in the current macro-environment, SAP continues to expect for 2022:
- €11.55 – 11.85 billion cloud revenue at constant currencies (2021: €9.42 billion), up 23% to 26% at constant currencies.
- €25.0 – 25.5 billion cloud and software revenue at constant currencies (2021: €24.08 billion), up 4% to 6% at constant currencies.
- The share of more predictable revenue (defined as the total of cloud revenue and software support revenue) is expected to reach approximately 78% (2021: 75%).
- Free cash flow above €4.5 billion (2021: €5.01 billion).
SAP is also updating its full-year 2022 effective tax rate outlook (IFRS) to 34.0% to 38.0% (previously: 28.0% to 32.0%). The adjustment mainly results from an updated projection of non-deductible expenses and of the lower 2022 financial income contribution of Sapphire Ventures given current market conditions. As the updated non-deductible expenses are not included in non-IFRS, SAP continues to anticipate a full-year 2022 effective tax rate (non-IFRS) of 23.0% to 27.0% but expects to be at the upper end of this range.
While SAP's full-year 2022 business outlook is at constant currencies, actual currency reported figures are expected to be impacted by currency exchange rate fluctuations as the Company progresses through the year. See the table below for the Q3 and FY 2022 expected currency impacts.
Expected Currency Impact Assuming June 2022 Rates Apply for the Rest of the Year
Non-Financial Outlook
SAP now expects the Employee Engagement Index to be in a range of 80% to 84% in 2022 (previously: 84% to 86%).
In 2022, SAP continues to expect:
- a Customer Net Promoter Score of 11 to 15 (2021: 10)
- Net carbon emissions of 70 kt (2021: 110 kt)
Ambition 2025
SAP reiterates its mid-term ambition published in its Q3 2020 Quarterly Statement including the commitment of double-digit growth of operating profit in 2023. In light of its strong cloud momentum and most recent favorable currency exchange rates development, SAP expects to update its mid-term ambition in the upcoming quarters.
The full Q2 2022 Quarterly Statement can be downloaded from: https://www.sap.com/investors/sap-2022-q2-statement.
Additional Information
This press release and all information therein is preliminary and unaudited.
SAP Performance Measures
For more information about our key growth metrics and performance measures, their calculation, their usefulness, and their limitation, please refer to the following document on our Investor Relations website: SAP Performance Measures.
Webcast
SAP senior management will host a financial analyst conference call on Thursday, July 21st at 2:00 PM (CET) / 1:00 PM (GMT) / 8:00 AM (Eastern) / 5:00 AM (Pacific). The conference will be webcast live on the Company's website at www.sap.com/investor and will be available for replay. Supplementary financial information pertaining to the first quarter can be found at www.sap.com/investor.
About SAP
SAP's strategy is to help every business run as an intelligent enterprise. As a market leader in enterprise application software, we help companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: SAP customers generate 87% of total global commerce. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers' businesses into intelligent enterprises. SAP helps give people and organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition. We simplify technology for companies so they can consume our software the way they want – without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables business and public customers across 25 industries globally to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference. With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, SAP helps the world run better and improve people's lives. For more information, visit www.sap.com.
This document contains forward-looking statements, which are predictions, projections, or other statements about future events. These statements are based on current expectations, forecasts, and assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and outcomes to materially differ. Additional information regarding these risks and uncertainties may be found in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to the risk factors section of SAP's 2021 Annual Report on Form 20-F.
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- Figures for the first half of 2022: Sales revenue up 20.9 percent in constant currencies, underlying EBITDA up 25.6 percent, underlying EBITDA margin 33.9 percent
- 2022 outlook confirmed: Sales revenue expected to rise by 15 to 19 percent and underlying EBITDA margin projected to be about 34 percent
- Uncertainties due to the global political and economic situation remain high
GÖTTINGEN, Germany, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The life science group Sartorius increased sales revenue and earnings with double-digit growth rates in the first half of 2022 and confirmed its full-year outlook.
"Sartorius performed well during the first half of the year in an increasingly challenging environment. Both divisions achieved significant growth and could maintain high profit margins despite some headwinds from currencies. Since the beginning of the year, we increased our worldwide headcount by around 2,000, and the recent acquisitions are contributing to our business development as expected. Given the healthy underlying demand in our industry and good order situation, we confirm our full-year outlook as well as our ambitious investment program, despite higher inflation and lower corona-related demand. However, the global political and economic uncertainties, the resulting strained supply chains, and thus also the uncertainties of projections and outlooks remain high," said Executive Board Chairman and CEO Joachim Kreuzburg.
Business development of the Group1
In the first half of the year, Group sales revenue rose by 20.9 percent year-over-year in constant currencies (reported: +26.5 percent) to around 2,060 million euros. This good performance was mainly driven by organic growth in the Laboratory as well as in the Bioprocess division, while acquisitions2 contributed almost 2 percentage points to sales revenue growth. All three business regions – EMEA3, Americas, and Asia | Pacific – posted double-digit percentage growth in constant currencies. The restrictions in China caused by the pandemic had a relatively minor impact on growth.
Order intake also developed as expected, reaching 2,169 million euros (in constant currencies:
-4.8 percent, reported: -0.5 percent). In the Bioprocess Solutions Division, in particular, the first half of 2021 was influenced by extraordinarily high demand related to the coronavirus pandemic and changed ordering patterns by some customers, who placed their orders further in advance than usual.
Following the strong growth in sales revenue, underlying EBITDA rose by 25.6 percent to 697 million euros in the first half of the year. The corresponding margin, at 33.9 percent, was close to the high level of the prior-year period (34.1 percent). The development was influenced by positive economies of scale but also by negative currency effects and, as planned, higher costs due to new employees and an increase in the number of business trips. Effects from price trends and adjustments on the purchasing and customer sides largely compensated each other.
Relevant net profit reached 334 million euros, up 28.6 percent from the prior-year period. Underlying earnings were 4.88 euros (prior-year period: 3.79 euros) per ordinary share and 4.89 euros (prior-year period: 3.80 euros) per preference share.
Key financial indicators
The Sartorius Group continues to have a very sound balance sheet and financial base. As of June 30, 2022, its equity ratio stood at 35.9 percent (December 31, 2021: 30.2 percent). The ratio of net debt to underlying EBITDA was 1.4 as of the reporting date, compared with 1.5 at year-end 2021. Cash flow from investing activities stood at -229 million euros, compared with -160 million euros in the first half of 2021. The ratio of capital expenditures (CAPEX) to sales revenue reached 10.7 percent (prior-year period: 9.0 percent).
Increase in the number of employees
As of June 30, 2022, Sartorius employed a total of 15,795 people worldwide, representing a headcount increase of 1,963 from the end of December 2021.
Business development of the Bioprocess Solutions Division
The Bioprocess Solutions Division, which offers a wide array of innovative technologies for the manufacture of biopharmaceuticals and vaccines, recorded sales revenue of 1,637 million euros in the first six months of the year. This corresponds to an increase of 23.6 percent in constant currencies (reported: +29.3 percent) compared with the prior-year period, including a non-organic contribution from acquisitions of a good 2 percentage points. All business areas contributed to this positive development with clear double-digit growth rates, while the business with vaccine manufacturers normalized faster than expected.
Following the high growth rates due to the pandemic in the first half of 2021, order intake also continued to normalize and reached 1,716 million euros, which was, as expected, slightly below the prior-year figure of 1,803 million euros (in constant currencies: -8.9 percent; reported: -4.8 percent).
Underlying EBITDA of the Bioprocess Solutions division rose by 27.2 percent to 586 million euros. Despite negative currency effects and planned higher costs, the resulting margin of 35.8 percent was close to the high prior-year level of 36.3 percent.
Business development of the Lab Products & Services Division
Sales revenue of the Lab Products & Services Division, which specializes in equipment and technologies for life science research and pharmaceutical laboratories, grew by 11.2 percent (reported: +16.7 percent) to 423 million euros in the first half of the year. Close to 1 percentage point came from non-organic growth. Development was again especially dynamic in the bioanalytics product segment. Order intake developed even more strongly than sales revenue, surging by 15.0 percent in constant currencies (reported: +20.6 percent) to 453 million euros.
The division's underlying EBITDA rose by 17.7 percent to 112 million euros. The corresponding margin rose to 26.4 percent (prior-year period: 26.2 percent), with a positive product mix and economies of scale offsetting negative currency effects and planned higher costs.
Outlook for fiscal 2022 confirmed
The management confirms its outlook for the current fiscal year. Consolidated sales revenue is expected to increase by about 15 percent to 19 percent, with non-organic growth from acquisitions projected to contribute about 2 percentage points. Regarding profitability, Sartorius continues to expect its underlying EBITDA margin to reach about 34 percent.
For the Bioprocess Solutions Division, the company still forecasts sales revenue growth of about 17 percent to 21 percent. This includes a non-organic growth contribution from acquisitions of about 2 percentage points. The division's underlying EBITDA margin is projected to reach about 36 percent. Lab Products & Services should achieve revenue growth of about 6 percent to 10 percent in 2022, with about 1 percentage point of this coming from the non-organic growth contribution from acquisitions. The division's underlying EBITDA margin is expected to be about 26 percent.
The CAPEX ratio is anticipated to be about 14 percent and net debt to underlying EBITDA to be around 1.1 at year end. Possible further acquisitions are not included in this projection.
All forecasts are based on constant currencies, as in the past years. In addition, management points out that the dynamics and volatilities in the life science and biopharma sectors have increased over the past years and the coronavirus pandemic has further amplified these trends. Moreover, the forecasts are based on the assumption of no further deterioration in the geopolitical and global economic situation, supply chains, inflation and energy supply, and no new relevant restrictions in connection with the coronavirus pandemic. Accordingly, current forecasts show even higher uncertainties than usual.
1 Sartorius publishes alternative performance measures that are not defined by international accounting standards. These are determined with the aim of improving the comparability of business performance over time and within the industry.
- Order intake: all customer orders contractually concluded and booked during the respective reporting period
- Underlying EBITDA: earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and adjusted for extraordinary items
- Relevant net profit: profit for the period after non-controlling interest, adjusted for extraordinary items and non-cash amortization, as well as based on the normalized financial result and the normalized tax rate
- Ratio of net debt to underlying EBITDA: quotient of net debt and underlying EBITDA over the past 12 months, including the pro forma amount contributed by acquisitions for this period
2 Acquisition of CellGenix, Xell, the Novasep chromatography division, and ALS Automated Lab Solutions
3 EMEA = Europe, Middle East, Africa
This press release contains forward-looking statements about the future development of the Sartorius Group. Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. Sartorius assumes no liability for updating such statements in light of new information or future events.
Conference call
The Executive Board Chairman and CEO of Sartorius AG, Joachim Kreuzburg, and Executive Board member and CFO, Rainer Lehmann, will discuss the company's results with analysts and investors in a conference call at 3.30 p.m. CEST on Thursday, July 21, 2022. You may register by clicking on the following link: https://media.chorusScall.eu/mediaframe/webcast.html?webcastid=PBMZ53Mz
Further information
https://www.sartorius.com/en/company/newsroom
Financial calendar
October 19, 2022 Publication of nine-month figures (January to September 2022)
1 The previous year's figures have been restated due to finalization of the purchase price allocations for the acquisition of BIA Separations
2 cc= in constant currencies
3 Acc. to customers' loaction
4 Adjusted for extraordinary items
5 After non-controlling interest, adjusted for extraordinary items and non-cash amortization, as well as based on the normalized financial result and the normalized tax rate
6 After non-controlling interest
A profile of Sartorius
The Sartorius Group is a leading international partner of life science research and the biopharmaceutical industry. With innovative laboratory instruments and consumables, the Group's Lab Products & Services Division concentrates on serving the needs of laboratories performing research and quality control at pharma and biopharma companies and those of academic research institutes. The Bioprocess Solutions Division with its broad product portfolio focusing on single-use solutions helps customers to manufacture biotech medications and vaccines safely and efficiently. The Group has been annually growing by double digits on average and has been regularly expanding its portfolio by acquisitions of complementary technologies. In fiscal 2021, the company earned sales revenue of some 3.45 billion euros. At the end of 2021, nearly 14,000 people were employed at the Group's approximately 60 manufacturing and sales sites, serving customers around the globe.
Contact
Petra Kirchhoff
Head of Corporate Communications & Investor Relations
+49 (0)551 308 1686
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Follow Sartorius on Twitter @Sartorius_Group and on LinkedIn.
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Wego: New Partnership with 'Tourism Authority of Thailand' to drive tourism from MENA
- Wego saw 193 % increase in the number of searches from MENA to Thailand in last two months in comparison to February and March 2022
- The country is in the top 10 destinations for GCC travelers
- Thailand is planning to launch a long-term resident visa for retirees, working professionals, specialists, and wealthy foreigners
DUBAI, UAE, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wego, the largest online travel marketplace in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), has tied up with Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) to invite MNEA travelers to enjoy the best of the country in the new norm.
To revive tourism in Thailand, the country launched the 'Visit Thailand Year 2022' campaign. The campaign under the theme "Amazing New Chapters" which the key messages will highlight the abundance of tourism products and services in Thailand that will fulfil all your travel desires, because from A to Z, Thailand has it all.
The country ranks among the top 10 destinations for GCC travelers. It will be promoted across all Wego marketing channels to drive more visitors to the country and spread awareness on the new things to do and explore in the country post COVID-19.
Mr. Chaiwat Tamtai Director of the Tourism Authority of Thailand for Dubai and the Middle East commented: "One of the key travel trends for 2022 is workcation. As a result of this trend, Wego saw a spike in the number of searches on holiday homes 136%, hotel apartments 92% and apartments by 69% in Q1 2022 in comparison to the same period last year. And to make the country travel-friendly for workcations & remote jobs, Thailand is planning to launch a long-term resident visa for retirees, working professionals, specialists, and wealthy foreigners."
The top destinations searching for Thailand from Jan to June 2022, are Saudi which saw 56 % compared to the same period in 2021, followed by Kuwait with 15% increase, UAE with 12%, and Bahrain with 7%. 48% of people searching for holidays in Thailand are solos, followed by 27% couples, and 24% families.
Mamoun Hmedan, Chief Commercial Officer and Managing Director, Middle East, North Africa (MENA) and India of Wego, said: "We recorded over 193 % increase in the number of searches from MENA to Thailand in the last two months in comparison Feb and March 2022. Thailand ranks in the top 10 destinations for GCC travelers in 2022. We're thrilled to partner with TAT once again to cater to the growing travel demand from the MENA region."
The campaign also emphasizes on instilling the spirit of responsible travel, which means availing of the highest forms of luxuries without disrupting nature, traditional food, local communities and flora, and fauna.
A new set of rules has been ruled out for vaccinated and unvaccinated tourists from 1 June 2022 to make Thailand travel friendly. Tourists above the age of 18 years must be fully vaccinated at least 14 days before flying to Thailand. Tourists aged 5-17 years must be vaccinated with the first dose if they're traveling without their parents.
About Wego
Wego provides award-winning travel search websites and top-ranked mobile apps for travelers living in the Asia Pacific and the Middle East regions. Wego harnesses powerful yet simple to use technology that automates the process of searching and comparing results from hundreds of airlines, hotel, and online travel agency websites.
Wego presents an unbiased comparison of all travel products and prices offered in the marketplace by merchants, both local and global, and enables shoppers to quickly find the best deal and place to book whether it is from an airline or hotel directly or with a third-party aggregator website.
Wego was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Dubai and Singapore with regional operations in Bangalore، Jakarta and Cairo.
About Tourism Authority of Thailand:
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) was established on 18 March 1960. TAT was the first organization in Thailand to be specifically responsible for the promotion of tourism. TAT supplies information and data on tourist areas to the public and publicizes Thailand with the intention of encouraging both Thai and international tourists to travel in and around Thailand. TAT has established many overseas offices, the first being in New York, which opened in 1965. During the past years, TAT has established 29 offices in different parts of the world. The 29th office has already been opened at Fukuoka, Japan.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is sending a warning to parents across Georgia.
They confirm there have been 50 reports of sextortion victims throughout the state so far this year.
More and more of those schemes are going after boys.
It's a trend that could put teenagers across the state in danger.
FBI Atlanta says they're getting reports of adults posing as young girls coercing teenage boys through social media to produce sexual images and videos.
They then extort money from the boys.
The FBI says an adult will contact a minor over an online platform like a game, app, or social media account.
Predators can pose as a young girl to convince boys between 14 and 17 years old, to engage in explicit activity over video.
That video is secretly recorded by the scammer.
Using those recordings, the scammers threatens the victim to pay or have them posted online.
The FBI says that can lead to a serious problem.
Sextortion is a type of online blackmail in which adults coerce kids and teens into sharing explicit photos of themselves. Watch this PSA from the leaders of the #FBI and @MissingKids to learn how to protect the young people in your life from this threat. https://t.co/61NhfFUOZq pic.twitter.com/WhA9daRSyF
— FBI (@FBI) June 29, 2022
Be selective about what you share online, especially your personal information and passwords.
Block or ignore messages from strangers.
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Bollywood power couple Ajay Devgn and Kajol’s daughter Nysa Devgn is rumoured to be dating London-based entrepreneur Vedant Mahajan
MUMBAI: The popular couple of the B-town, Kajol and Ajay Devgn, is one of the most adored couples of the B-town. From their cutesy moments to their fun-filled family vacations, the lovely duo never fails to entertain us. However, unlike her parents, Nysa Devgan is an extremely private person, who prefers to live a low-key life. Even her Instagram account is private, which is quite rare in today's celeb culture.
Apart from being in the headlines for her fashion quotient, reports of Nysa dating a London-based entrepreneur are making noise in the media.
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If media speculations are to be believed, Ajay Devgn and Kajol's glamourous daughter, Nysa Devgan, is reportedly in a relationship with a 24-year-old entrepreneur named, Vedant Mahajan. The young businessman is currently based in London, but his journey had kick-started in Mumbai, where he had made a name for himself before making it big in the foreign land.
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The alleged couple has been spotted spending a lot of time with each other on special occasions, going out for dinner dates. Vedant and Nysa's mushy pictures speak volumes about their lovely chemistry. However, what caught everyone's attention was the chemistry between Vedant and Nysa in their vacation pictures.
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Nysa Devgan's rumoured boyfriend, Vedant Mahajan, belongs to the event curation industry. Soon, Vedant Mahajan had formed MVM Entertainment, which deals with all the venue and event-related services.During his time in Mumbai, Vedant had organised more than 300 events under his company, MVM Entertainment.
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LYTLE, Texas — Fake ‘cops’ are pulling people over, according to two separate incidents reported in a matter of weeks.
This week, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office arrested one man for impersonating an officer. He is accused of trying to pull a woman over. KENS 5 tracked her down.
Charlie Swadley reported the incident on I35 South and Luckey road in southwest Bexar county. However, weeks ago and just miles away there was a separate incident in Lytle.
On July 7, police say five men dressed as officers, zip-tied two people and stole their stuff. Police believe those zip-tie suspects were wearing stolen police gear.
Lytle Police Chief Richard Priest doesn’t believe the two incidents are connected. He along with the Texas Rangers are still looking for the five suspects in his case. He said it is strange how close these two incidents happened from one another.
“It was kind of scary,” Swadley said.
After a late shift, Swadley was heading home from work, when investigators said Proenza-Perez was pretending to be a cop and tried to pull her over.
“They kind of followed me for a long time,” she said.
She remembers the Mustang and said he followed her for nearly 10 minutes.
“He was still behind me with the lights on trying to get me to stop,” she said. “I wouldn’t stop so he flew around me real fast. Then he started slowing down in front of me.”
Swadely called 9-1-1. She knew something was wrong because the flashing red and blue lights were only on the dashboard, the car had paper license plates, and a headlight was out.
“I just couldn’t see myself pulling over for a cop with a broken headlight,” she said. “Out here in the middle of nowhere and not looking like a cop car at all.”
She said he eventually turned around. BCSO arrested him shortly after and believes there could be other victims. The mother wonders what if she did stop.
“I could have been dead right, if anything,” she said.
She is speaking up because she wants others to be careful.
“If you are in doubt call 911,” she said. Go somewhere where there are other people.”
There are police cars that are unmarked. BCSO offers the following tips.
- Our deputies are trained to understand people may keep driving to a more populated area
- Drivers should activate their flashers and should wave to the officer to let them know they see them, then they should reduce speed to show the officer they are not running
- Continue to drive to a well-lit/populated area
- Lastly, if you do find yourself in a suspicious situation similar to this female victim's incident, you can call the BCSO at 210-335-6000 to report it.
In regard to the incident in Lytle, Chief Priest said they have good leads in the case. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/a-phony-officer-tried-to-pull-over-a-local-woman-heres-how-she-knew-to-call-911-instead/273-065646ed-406c-4463-ba6b-71a548edde3a | 2022-07-21T05:42:28 | en | 0.987814 |
SAN ANTONIO — U.S. Marshals Service Lone Star Fugitive Task Force arrested Juan Antonio Reyes Wednesday evening on charges involving capital murder, according to a press release.
The release says Reyes, 24, was wanted by SAPD after a warrant was issued for his arrest Tuesday. Reyes allegedly shot and killed two people in their home and then set their house on fire, according to a report.
The release says Reyes was discovered at a motel at the 1400 block of Culebra Road where he was arrested.
“Our deputies and task force officers executed the search for Reyes without delay and wasted no time tracking him down,” said U.S. Marshal Susan Pamerleau. “A heinous crime such as this requires immediate action and apprehension is essential to prevent additional losses.” | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/wanted-man-arrested-for-allegedly-killing-two-people-and-setting-their-home-on-fire/273-ec42ceeb-9f0f-45cb-8864-a4ff4300fb63 | 2022-07-21T05:42:34 | en | 0.980948 |
Hyderabad: Students who are planning to pursue engineering courses in private colleges in Telangana have to pay more for their education from the upcoming academic year.
The Telangana Admission and Fee Regulatory Committee (TARC) which is responsible for fixing the fees for engineering courses in 175 colleges across the state has fixed the minimum fee per annum.
From the upcoming academic year, the minimum fee for engineering courses in private colleges in Telangana will be Rs. 45, 000 per annum.
The highest fee for engineering courses in the State will be at Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology (CBIT) as TARC fixed a fee of Rs. 1.75 lakh per annum for the college. The fee in another reputed college, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology (MGIT) was fixed at 1.60 lakh per annum.
The new fee structure is applicable for three years starting from the academic year 2022-23.
AICTE recommendation
As per the recommendation by AICTE, the minimum and maximum fees that can be charged by the colleges were fixed to Rs. 79,600 and Rs. 1.89 lakh per annum respectively.
AICTE’s limits on the fee charged by the engineering colleges are based on the recommendation made by National Fee Committee.
However, the recommendations or the limits set by AICTE are not binding on the state government
Burden on state government exchequers
The decision to increase the fees for engineering courses in various private colleges in Hyderabad and other districts of Telangana will not only make pursuing engineering courses costly for students but also increase the burden on state government exchequers.
From the upcoming academic years, the government has to pay more as it reimburses the entire college fees of students who bag ranks under 10000 in the Telangana State Engineering, Agriculture, and Medical Common Entrance Test (TS EAMCET).
Apart from it, the government also gives minimum fees to students who secure ranks above 10000. | https://www.siasat.com/fees-hiked-in-several-private-engineering-colleges-in-telangana-2374067/ | 2022-07-21T05:43:21 | en | 0.959205 |
Hyderabad: Former minister and veteran Congress leader Dr. J. Geeta Reddy on Wednesday slammed the state government over its failure to prevent the food poisoning incident at Basara IIIT.
Speaking to media persons at Gandhi Bhavan along with NSUI state president Balmuri Venkat, she said that the students of all residential hostels of the state were suffering from polluted food and water problems. She asked the CM of the state KCR, who is in holding father figure position in the eyes of the students, is he ever cared to visit any of the hostels of Telangana after coming into power and added that the food poisoning incident of Basara would not have happened if the Chief Minister visited the hostels.
She alleged that the Health Minister of the state T. Harish Rao did not visit the residential hostel from his Siddipet district even after a similar food poisoning incident. She claimed that the mess contractor of the Siddipeta residential hostel was a relative of a state minister. She said that the state ministers were calling the agitation programs being held by the students to achieve their rights as silly issues. She made it clear that the students of the treasure of the country and added that shortage of funds was also one of the reasons for the food poisoning incidents. She alleged that the state government was ignoring the personal issues of the students and added that the mess of Basara IIIT was a big scam . She demanded the CM to visit the residential hostels of the students like he visited the flood hit areas of the state recently.
Balmuri Venkat said that a total of nine food poisoning incidents took place in the residential hostels of the state during the last two months. He claimed that several students were cancelling their admissions after observing the food being served to them at the hostels by erring mess contractors. He alleged that the state government was carrying out physical attacks on them whenever they questioned its faults and wrongdoings. He demanded the education minister of the state Sabita Indra Reddy to visit the hostels of the state . He alleged that a scam of ₹90 crores took place at Basara IIIT. | https://www.siasat.com/geeta-reddy-slams-govt-over-basara-iiit-food-poisoning-issue-2374048/ | 2022-07-21T05:43:27 | en | 0.985479 |
Hyderabad: Private hospitals in Hyderabad came under the scanner for hiding C-section deliveries by recording them as normal deliveries.
Now, the government officials are gearing up to verify the details recorded by the hospitals by visiting the addresses of the women. A complaint will be lodged with National Medical Commission if officials find misreporting.
Excessive C-section deliveries in private hospitals in Hyderabad
Earlier, National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS-5) revealed that the private hospitals in Hyderabad and other districts of Telangana saw an alarmingly high number of C-section deliveries in the last five years.
It has increased to 81.5 percent from 74.5 percent recorded in NFHS-4. In the state’s urban areas, the percentage is 82.7 whereas, in rural areas, it is 80.6 percent.
Out of total deliveries that took place in hospitals in Hyderabad, 75 percent were C-sections in the last five years.
Is C-section delivery harmful?
Unwanted C-section delivery not only puts the burden on the pocket but also makes it difficult for the woman to go for vaginal birth in the future.
It also possesses certain risks to newborns such as delayed breastfeeding, lower birth weight, etc.
However, when medically justified, the procedure can prevent maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity.
Why are C-section deliveries rising in hospital in Hyderabad?
One of the reasons for the rise in the rate of unwanted C-section deliveries in hospitals in Hyderabad and other districts of Telangana is superstitions about auspicious timing.
Most of the women also opt for the procedure as they don’t want to bear the labour pains.
Apart from the above two reasons, some private hospitals encourage pregnant women to go for C-sections unnecessarily just to make a quick buck.
Actions by Telangana government
In order to control the rising number of C-section deliveries in Telangana, the State government has taken certain steps.
A few months back, State health minister T Harish Rao told media persons that a two-pronged approach will be implemented by the government to tackle the rising rates of the procedure.
The government will provide an incentive of Rs 3,000 to government hospital staff on increasing normal delivery rates whereas, private hospitals that report a high number of procedure will face suspension of registrations. | https://www.siasat.com/hyderabad-hospitals-under-scanner-for-hiding-c-section-deliveries-2374060/ | 2022-07-21T05:43:33 | en | 0.94434 |
Hyderabad: Following a rise in cases of people tampering with vehicle registration number plates, the traffic police here has started registering criminal complaints against such offenders. As many as 15,000 cases have been registered against such offenders by the Hyderabad traffic police since March this year.
The Hyderabad Traffic Police is making complaints at law and order police stations with regard to number plate tampering. Cases under different sections of the Indian Penal Code are booked against violators in thus case. In addition, the traffic police is also booking cases under relevant sections of Motor Vehicle Act.
Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Hyderabad, AV Ranganath had warned that in case of false number plates and deletion of digits/letters, the vehicles will also be seized. “Traffic officials will verify the registration number on the vehicle number plate with the documents. Criminal cases will be booked against those tampering the registration number of the vehicle and plying it on the road,” he stated.
Number plate tampering creates issues during investigation of crimes
Ranganath added that improper and faulty number plates on vehicles have several security and law & order implications. Wrong number plates could mislead the law enforcement agencies in detection or investigation of any offence. The Hyderabad traffic police is likely to tighten the noose around such violators in the days to come.
The issue was brought to light by law and order police and Task Force teams of the Hyderabad police. Personnel had earlier informed their higher-ups that vehicles bearing wrong registration plates were creating a lot of inconvenience during investigation of criminal offences.
After these problems came to notice, Hyderabad police commissioner CV Anand directed the traffic police to initiate stringent action against such persons.
According to officials from the Hyderabad Traffic police, most offenders tamper with number plates to evade traffic penalties imposed by cops through electronic surveillance. These pertain to violations of traffic rules like signal jumping, seat belt, helmet and triple riding. | https://www.siasat.com/hyderabad-traffic-police-book-15k-people-for-number-plate-tampering-2374047/ | 2022-07-21T05:43:39 | en | 0.963561 |
Mumbai: Priyanka Chopra recently celebrated her birthday on the 18th of July and fans are eager to see pictures of the celebrations that took place on the occasion.
Well, fret no more because her best friend Tamanna has shared a photo of the actor from the low-key celebrations that took place. Priyanka’s daughter Malti Marie is also in the picture, giving all the more reasons to PeeCee fans to rejoice!
Tamanna Dutt took to her Instagram to post belated birthday wishes for Priyanka and shared a few photos with her. Tamanna wrote, “Happy birthday to our golden girl with a heart of gold. Celebrating your birthday as single girls earlier and now celebrating your day with your beautiful family is so amazing. Love you lots. 22 years and counting #best friends# sisters# god daughterMM #friends like family Thanks for spoiling us as always @nickjonas.”
In one of the pictures posted by Tamanna, Priyanka is seen holding daughter Malti Marie. Tamanna covered her face with a white heart emoji.
In the photo, Priyanka is seen wearing a red tube dress while Malti Marie is twinning with her in a cute red bow-tie frock.
Tamanna also shared a couple of other photos with Priyanka. Check them out:
For the unversed, Priyanka and Nick embraced parenthood in January this year as they welcomed daughter Malti Marie via surrogacy.
Meanwhile, on the work front, Priyanka will be seen in international projects such as ‘It’s All Coming Back To Me’, and the series ‘Citadel’. Produced by Russo Brothers, ‘Citadel’ will hit the OTT on Prime Video. The upcoming sci-fi drama series is being directed by Patrick Morgan and stars Richard Madden alongside Priyanka.
In Bollywood, she will be starring with Alia Bhatt and Katrina Kaif in Farhan Akhtar’s ‘Jee Le Zaraa’, which promises to be another tale of friendship following the lineage of ‘Dil Chahta Hai’ and ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’, both of which have become cult classics over the years.
‘Jee Le Zaraa’ is reportedly going on floors around September 2022 and will be ready for release in the summer of 2023. | https://www.siasat.com/new-photo-of-priyanka-chopra-with-daughter-malti-marie-2374071/ | 2022-07-21T05:43:45 | en | 0.956503 |
New Delhi: Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athawale has blamed Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut for the split in the party and said Udhav Thackeray forged an alliance with NCP only at the behest of Raut.
Speaking to ANI, Athawale said, “It was not Sharad Pawar but Sanjay Raut who broke Shiv Sena. Uddhav Thackeray decided to go with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) only at the behest of Sanjay Raut.”
The Union Minister said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena governments would have come to Maharashtra if Shiv Sena and NCP had not come together.
“Maha Vikas Aghadi would never have been formed if Shiv Sena and NCP had not come together and therefore BJP and Shiv Sena government would in Maharashtra,” Athawale said.
Earlier, former Maharashtra Minister Ramdas Kadam alleged that NCP chief Sharad Pawar broke the Shiv Sena and said Pawar has systematically weakened the party.
“It was not acceptable to any of us that the Shiv Sena chief’s son sat with the NCP and Congress ministers. If Eknath Shinde had not taken this step, Sena would not have even 10 MLAs with it,” Kadam said.
“I worked in the party for 52 years and in the end, I was fired. I will thank the MLAs who accompanied Eknath Shinde,” he said.
Meanwhile, Rahul Shewale said, “Uddhav Thackeray was ready for an alliance with the BJP, the meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi lasted for an hour but it could not happen due to the deadlock of some Shiv Sena MLAs.”
Responding to this, Athawale further said that when Shiv Sena went with NCP, “I had said this that it is against the decision of Balasaheb Uddhav Thackeray. If initially Udhav Thackeray would have come with BJP and taken the post of Deputy Chief Minister, there would not have been any deadlock.” | https://www.siasat.com/ramdas-athawale-blames-sanjay-raut-for-split-in-shiv-sena-2374054/ | 2022-07-21T05:43:51 | en | 0.983244 |
Mumbai: Actress Tanushree Dutta, who raised the subject of #MeToo in India back in 2018 and started the dialogue around sexual assault and misconduct, has complained of harassment, claiming that theres a threat to her life.
The actress took to her Instagram to share a picture of herself with a long note that spoke about how she has been earlier subjected to health problems and work sabotage.
She started her note with a direct revelation of the threat, “I’m being harassed & targeted very badly. Please someone do something.”
She spoke about a maid that was planted in her house to mess up her health, “First it was my bollywood work being sabotaged last one year, then a maid was planted to douse my drinking water with medications & steroids which caused all kinds of severe health problems, then when I escaped to Ujjain in May my vehicle brakes tampered twice & accident.”
Nevertheless, the actress survived the accident and returned to Mumbai to resume work. “I barely escaped death & returned Mumbai after 40 days to resume normal life & work. Now strange disgusting stuff in my building outside my flat,” she wrote in her note.
Giving an assurance that she would firmly stand her ground and won’t bow down to the pressure, she wrote, “I’m not going to commit suicide for sure yeh kaan kholkar sun lo sab log!! Nor am I leaving & going anywhere. I’m here to stay & resurrect my public career to greater heights than ever before!”
Tanushree also targeted ‘Bollywood mafia’ and ‘Maharashtra political circuit’, in her post. “The Bollywood Mafia, the old political circuit of Maharashtra (which still has influence here) and nefarious anti-national criminal elements together usually operate like this to trouble people,” she said.
She further mentioned, “I’m very sure the #metoo culprits & the NGO who I exposed are behind all this because why else would I be targeted & harassed like this? Shame on you all! Shame on you! I know a lot of people will try to dismiss me but I’ve been posting updates on Insta for a long time. It’s severe mental, physical & psychological harassment. What kind of place is this where young boys & girls can just be harassed and killed for standing against injustice?”
The actress called for a President’s rule in Maharashtra and for the central government to take over the total control of the state. “I wish Presidents rule & military rule to be established in Maharashtra & Central govt exerting total controle over ground level matters too. Things are really going out of hand here. Regular folks like me are suffering. Something drastic has to happen here. Today it’s me tomorrow it can be you also (sic),” she wrote.
She also blamed the law and order of the city. “I will deepen my spiritual sadhana more despite all this & strengthen my spirit furthur. I also really want to focus on the new business/ work opportunities I’m getting and start fresh in life,” she said.
“No law and order in this city anymore! Used to be a safe haven always for artists & single Women. Hey Krishna! Brother help me,” her note concluded.
Tanushree had earlier spoken up against senior actor Nana Patekar’s sexual misconduct on the sets of ‘Horn Ok Pleassss’. She had spoken about how Nana Patekar harassed her during a song shoot of the film. | https://www.siasat.com/tanushree-dutta-complains-of-harassment-threat-to-life-2374066/ | 2022-07-21T05:44:03 | en | 0.973633 |
LOS ANGELES — Soccer player Megan Rapinoe admonished her fellow athletes for not doing enough to speak out and encouraged them to support detained WNBA star Brittney Griner at the ESPYs on Wednesday night.
Griner was arrested in Russia in February after customs officials said they found vape canisters containing cannabis oil in her luggage. She faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted on charges of transporting drugs.
“For me, the most striking thing is that BG’s not here. BG deserves to be free, she’s being held as a political prisoner, obviously,” Rapinoe said while accepting a trophy for best play at the show honoring the past year’s top athletes and moments in sports.
“Like what are we doing here dressed up like we are when our sister is detained abroad? We haven’t done enough, none of us. We can do more, we can support her more, and just let her know that we love her so much.”
Said tennis great Billie Jean King: “First, bring BG home. Gotta do that.”
Griner has pleaded guilty in court and acknowledged possessing the canisters but said she had no criminal intent.
Rapinoe urged her fellow competitors to keep Griner’s face and name on social media.
“Every time we say it in interviews, it puts pressure on everybody,” she said. “It puts pressure on the administration, it puts pressure on Russia, it puts pressure on Putin, it puts pressure on everyone, and it lets BG know also above everything that we love her and that we miss her and that we’re thinking about her all the time.”
NBA Finals MVP Stephen Curry hosted the show and joined WNBA players Nneka Ogwumike and Skylar Diggins-Smith in calling attention to Griner’s plight.
“It’s been 153 nights now that BG has been wrongfully detained thousands of miles away from home, away from her family, away from her friends, away from her team,” Diggins-Smith said. “All throughout that time, we’ve kept her in our thoughts and in our hearts even though we know that ain’t nearly enough to bring her home, y’all.”
Wearing Griner’s Phoenix Mercury jersey under his track suit, Curry noted the effort being made to free Griner.
“But as we hope for the best, we urge the entire global sports community to continue to stay energized on her behalf,” he said. “She’s one of us, the team of athletes in this room tonight and all over the world. A team that has nothing to do with politics or global conflict.”
They were applauded by Griner’s wife, Cherelle Griner, who was in the audience at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
Curry picked up a trophy, too, for best record-breaking performance, having set the mark for most 3-pointers made in league history. He also shared the best team award with the NBA champion Golden State Warriors.
Los Angeles Angels two-way star Shohei Ohtani won best athlete in men’s sports.
“It’s an honor to be in the same category as all of you. You are the best at what you do,” the Japanese player said, speaking in English via videotape. “Have a wonderful everything and enjoy your afterparties.”
Olympic swimming champion Katie Ledecky won best athlete in women’s sports.
Ledecky earned two golds and two silvers at the Tokyo Games last year, giving her 10 career Olympic medals. She received her trophy from Maybelle Blair, the 95-year-old who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
“I represent one of the few sports that is also a really important life skill, so I want to encourage all the parents here, anyone watching, to make sure your kids learn how to swim,” Ledecky said. “Our planet is 70% water, so it’s very important.”
Former heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko was honored with the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage, having made an impact on the world beyond sports. Klitschko, mayor of embattled Kyiv, Ukraine, since 2014, wasn’t present. He appeared in a taped video.
King led off a tribute to the 50th anniversary of Title IX, the federal legislation that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools that receive government funding.
She was joined by Lisa Leslie, Brandi Chastain, Chloe Kim, Allyson Felix, Aly Raisman and Rapinoe, among others. They spoke against a background of black-and-white photos showing female athletes in action, on the field or in the streets advocating for gender equality. Their comments were interspersed with country singer Mickey Guyton performing her songs “What Are You Gonna Tell Her?” and “Remember Her Name.”
The ESPYS were criticized by South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley for not inviting consensus player of the year Aliyah Boston to the show. Boston had hoped to attend and was disappointed not to be asked. She was issued a last-minute invitation but declined it.
ESPN said COVID-19 concerns and a smaller venue forced organizers to prioritize invitees to the show. Boston was nominated in a non-televised category that was handed out a night earlier. She lost to Oklahoma softball star Jocelyn Alo, who took part in the Title IX tribute.
ESPN college basketball broadcaster Dick Vitale received the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance. The 83-year-old has undergone multiple melanoma surgeries and six months of chemotherapy for lymphoma over the last year. In March he said he was cancer-free.
Vitale dismissed messages on the teleprompter urging him to conclude his remarks, which stretched to 20 minutes.
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HBCUnited’s run through The Basketball Tournament ended in heartbreaking fashion, as the team rife with Hampton Roads connections made a late comeback but lost 67-63 to Americana for Autism on Wednesday night outdoors at New York’s legendary Rucker Park.
The Autism Army, as its jerseys displayed, earned a trip to Dayton, Ohio, for the quarterfinals of the annual winner-take-all tournament, whose victors will split $1 million. Norfolk State coach Robert Jones’ team, which won its first two games at Rucker Park after losing its TBT opener a year ago, fell in a game televised on ESPN and watched in person by about 800 fans.
Jermaine Marrow, a former Heritage and Kecoughtan High guard who is Hampton University’s all-time leading scorer, led HBCUnited, the regional’s fourth-seeded team, with 22 points. He made 7 of 15 shots from the field but struggled to a 6-of-12 free-throw showing.
Brandon Tabb, who played for Kecoughtan and Bethune-Cookman, scored 10 points, as did Jeremy Combs. Former Woodside High and Norfolk State guard Devante Carter had seven points, seven rebounds and four assists, but he committed six of HBCUnited’s 19 turnovers.
For the second-seeded Autism Army, 35-year-old Delroy James, a former Rhode Island player, had 14 points, seven rebounds, two steals and two blocks. Ronald March added 12 points, including the clinching free throw. One-time George Mason standout Darryl Monroe had 11 rebounds, seven assists and six points. Isaiah Swann had 10 points, while former Virginia Cavalier Nigel Johnson had 10 points and five rebounds.
HBCUnited went on a 7-0 run bridging the first two quarters for a 25-19 lead, went ahead by as many as eight and retained the edge throughout the first half, which finished at 37-33.
But leading 41-34, HBCUnited hit an offensive drought that proved costly as the Autism Army went on an 18-3 run. A Johnson 3-pointer put the Autism Army ahead 45-43, and the margin was 52-44 before a Marrow free throw and basket made it 52-47 by the quarter’s end.
HBCUnited never quite caught up. With the score 59-55, the Autism Army called timeout under the four-minute mark of the fourth quarter, turning the clock off and setting the “target score” to win at 67 — eight points more than the leader’s total.
A Tabb layup and a Carter free throw closed the gap to 59-58 before the Autism Army made a timely 7-0 run, capped by a Swann 3-pointer, to go ahead 66-58, just one point from victory.
But HBCUnited stopped the Autism Army on the next several possessions and chipped away. Marrow sandwiched a free throw and a layup around a Carter jumper to make it 66-63. Carter and Marrow then both missed shots before the Autism Army ran a fast break, prompting a foul call on Carter. March then sank the first of what could have been two free throws to seal the victory. | https://www.pilotonline.com/sports/vp-sp-hbcunited-round-3-20220721-fdqldfwtuzdthotitkgrbyoqhm-story.html | 2022-07-21T05:45:02 | en | 0.973914 |
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Tiago Monteiro will be aiming to hit back from a frustrating WTCR Race of Portugal DNF at a track that blends the past with the present, according to the Honda-powered star.
The LIQUI MOLY Team driver has described Autodromo Vallelunga Piero Taruffi, venue of this week’s WTCR Race of Italy, as “a little bit old-school”, having gained experience of the venue north of Rome during various test sessions.
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“Vallelunga is a different track from what we’ve had so far this season, as it’s a little bit old-school mixed with some more modern features,” Monteiro said. “I have never raced there, but we did some testing and development work there with the Honda Civic WTCC some years ago.
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ARIMA on Steroids: Anodot Gets New U.S. Patent for Lightning-Fast Anomaly Detection Solution
Proprietary tech enables time series anomaly detection algorithm to run nearly 100% faster and at 80% of the computational cost compared to leading industry model
ASHBURN, Va., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Anodot, the business monitoring company, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company a patent for a new algorithm that vastly improves the speed and reduces the computational cost of its anomaly detection offering. The algorithm boosts the industry-leading (seasonal) ARIMA model for estimating anomalies in time series data, reducing runtime by 99.98% and slashing the expense of running the model by up to 80%, enabling Anodot to better protect its customers' bottom lines.
Anodot utilizes a number of data analysis models to effectively monitor the vast amounts of data businesses generate today in order to safeguard customers' revenue, manage costs, and improve CX. While the ARIMA model is the most preferable due to its high accuracy, it is extremely slow, taking as long as 15 minutes for a single time series, rendering it too expensive to run at large scale. Enterprises implementing the model would be spending at least $125K per week– up to $6M per year. With Anodot's innovation, the model's run time is cut to 80 milliseconds – a reduction of nearly 5 orders of magnitude in both time and computational cost, making it realizable for anomaly detection at scale.
The ability to accurately detect anomalies swiftly and economically is critical at a time when companies are feeling the pains of a strained economy and are looking to cut costs and reduce waste – whether across enterprise operations or in the cloud.
"If data scientists tried to run standard anomaly detection on a 10 million time series, they'd be waiting 285 compute years for results," said Dr. Ira Cohen, Anodot co-founder and Chief Data Scientist. "All businesses today are powered by data, and it's our job to uncover any anomalies that point to holes that need plugging or issues that need fixing. We knew we had to find a better way to provide anomaly results to the data analysis teams we serve to help them get costs under control and protect their bottom line. This innovation will help them do just that, making the industry's best model feasible for anomaly detection across the enterprise."
The new detection tool fits organically into Anodot's suite of BI tools, including the company's AI and ML-powered business intelligence monitoring platform, which helps organizations identify revenue-critical incidents.
"This new patent is a milestone for Anodot customers and their frequently overburdened data teams," said David Drai, Anodot CEO and co-founder. "As businesses of every size generate more and more data, it becomes increasingly difficult to clearly see and understand the impact of every small part making the machine run. We're eager to see this lightning-fast solution in action."
About Anodot
Anodot's augmented analytics platform is the next generation in business intelligence. Anodot proactively identifies revenue-critical business incidents, recommends actions, and automates the remediation process, in real time. Anodot's patented technology goes beyond data visualization by constantly analyzing and correlating business metrics, alerts, and forecasts in their context.
Anodot for cloud cost management and Anodot for payment intelligence is leveraged by Fortune 500 companies to help reduce cloud waste and protect revenue streams.
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Cashfree Payments receives RBI nod to roll out its product enabling purchase of listed shares on foreign exchanges
- The solution enables Indian fintech companies to offer investments in foreign listed shares using UPI or Net Banking as a feature to Indian users
- Cashfree had piloted the solution under RBI's Regulatory Sandbox for cross-border payments
BENGALURU, India, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cashfree Payments, a leading payments and API banking solutions company, today announced that it has received a go-ahead from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for its cross border payments product. The approval comes upon the company successfully piloting the solution during RBI's Second Cohort under the Regulatory Sandbox on cross border payments. The product will enable Indian fintech companies to offer the purchase of shares, exchange-traded funds (ETF) units and other assets listed on foreign exchanges via UPI/ Net Banking as a feature to Indian investors. The cross border investments will fall under the ambit of RBI's Liberalized Remittance Scheme (LRS). As per the RBI, the product can be considered for adoption by regulated entities subject to compliance with applicable regulatory requirements.
One of the most tedious steps for Indians looking to invest in foreign stocks has been funding their overseas accounts. Traditionally, this process needs filling up A2 forms, paying high fixed fees, and even visiting a bank branch in many cases. Cashfree Payments' solution makes the process of payments via UPI, Net Banking and LRS compliance integrated, seamless and fully digital. Investors can start investing with small amounts, as little as INR 1000. The solution also offers savings on foreign transaction (FX) fees and faster settlements for access to funds.
With this model, the investors will be able to simply login to an App integrated with the Cashfree Payments, complete their basic KYC to begin transferring in Indian currency (INR). The company will then convert this transferred amount into foreign currency, like USD, and remit it to the foreign broker, allowing investors to successfully buy international stocks.
While US stocks, mostly of large tech and pharma companies, are the most popular with Indian investors, Cashfree Payments is working with multiple Indian fintech platforms looking to offer cross border investing as a feature.
Reeju Datta, Co-founder, Cashfree Payments said, "We are delighted to have successfully completed the test phase of RBI's Second Cohort under the regulatory sandbox on Cross Border Payments. This achievement validates our efforts to constantly build innovative and effective solutions in the payments ecosystem. Our cross-border payments platform intends to make investing in foreign stocks a lot simpler and convenient, allowing retail investors to make payments via local payment methods. The product was evaluated on varying parameters, and clearing the evaluation further reiterates the resilience and agility that is a trademark of the Cashfree Payments systems. We look forward to working with the Indian fintech ecosystem and offer access to international investments to Indian investors."
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DayDayCook and Brinc commit to investing in 45 food tech companies that impact global food sustainability goals through the Good Food Accelerator Program
- DayDayCook and Brinc join forces to invest US$10 million over the next three years through the Good Food Accelerator Program. Applications for the next cohort open on July 21, 2022.
- DayDayCook and Brinc share a dedicated mission to tackle global food sustainability goals by developing sustainable food systems and addressing food security issues in China and Asia.
- Prominent advisors and professional mentors from the food technology industry joining this program include: Patrick Kwok (Nishimoto Wismettac Group), Alex Pestalozzi (Mueller Asia), Sonalie Figueiras (Green Queen), Chris Pipe (Nestle China), Christina Gaw (Gaw Capital) and Liu Xing (Sequoia Capital).
- DayDayCook, founded by banker-turned-entrepreneur Norma Chu, is a burgeoning, content-to-commerce innovative food brand, with 80 million active users and more than 18 million paid customers globally.
- Brinc, the global venture accelerator founded by Manav Gupta, has also invested US$500,000 in DayDayCook's pre-IPO funding round to bolster its long-term commitment to their new partnership.
HONG KONG, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Brinc, a leading venture accelerator with a global sustainability mandate, and DayDayCook, a leading content-to-commerce Asian culinary platform, announce a commitment of US$10 million to invest in food technology companies that are developing the sustainable, animal-free, global food ecosystem and scaling commercialization in Greater China and Asia. DayDayCook and Brinc will invest in and support 45 companies over the next three years through the Good Food Accelerator Program, operated by Brinc. This alliance is further bolstered by Brinc's US$500,000 investment in DayDayCook, solidifying a long-term collaborative effort to support game-changing startups.
Applications for the Good Food Accelerator Program open on July 21, 2022. Startups accepted into the program will receive an initial investment of a minimum of US$200,000 and will have access to Brinc and DayDayCook's network of later-stage investors during and post-program for potential follow-on funding.
The key investment themes of the program include Alternative Protein, Functional and Novel Ingredients, Sustainable Packaging, Food Supply Chain Innovation, and consumer Agritech solutions. Companies with commercial-ready products and services that are actively contributing toward global food sustainability goals will be prioritised.
The program will be delivered completely virtually and will accept applications from commercially-ready startups located in or looking to enter the Greater China or Asian market. Interested startups can apply online here: http://www.brinc.io/good-food-accelerator/.
The core directive of the Good Food Accelerator Program is to help food tech companies meaningfully commercialise in Greater China and Asia, leveraging the online and offline distribution channels of DayDayCook's core business as well as Brinc and DayDayCook's combined network of food corporations, hospitality groups and investors in the region. With Brinc bringing eight years of accelerator program design and operational experience to strengthen the Good Food Accelerator, selected startups will also have access to DayDayCook's commercial team during the program to explore opportunities for business collaboration.
According to GFI APAC, Asia's leading alternative-protein think tank, strong year-on-year investor growth for the APAC alt-protein market is marked by a 92% surge: from US$162 million in 2020 to US$312 million in 2021. This has concurrently paved the way for the region's startups to grow in global prominence — making them a strong force alongside North America's alt-protein companies, which have fully dominated the market this past decade. In particular, the adoption of alternative proteins will be crucial for China, where, due to the rapid increase in demand for meat, the country is expected to experience a meat deficit of more than 53 million tonnes between 2021 and 2030.
Manav Gupta, founder and CEO of Brinc, said: "China's five-year agricultural development plan sets out an agenda to establish a sustainable food supply system nationwide. Brinc's Food Tech accelerator expertise, investor and mentor network along with DayDayCook's wide reach, commercial network and distribution reach in Mainland China will take us a bold step closer towards attaining this goal. We are excited to support more founders who are looking to scale alternate protein products and deep technologies from around the globe to the world's most populous market while further developing a growing food tech ecosystem across Mainland China and the Greater Bay Area. Addressing deep-rooted inefficiencies in our regional and global food systems, creating a sustainable food supply chain, plus tackling food security issues all in all help mitigate against the growing effects of climate change — which is the need of the hour and our lifetimes."
Norma Chu, founder and CEO of DayDayCook, said: "The Good Food Accelerator Program's mission is to build a leading food tech ecosystem in Hong Kong. We are thrilled to partner with Brinc to welcome our second cohort of startups, to accelerate their growth, and to kickstart a stream of commercially-viable products and innovative solutions. By sourcing innovative startups from the Greater Bay Area, Southeast Asia and areas beyond, the program will make a global splash as it carries out Hong Kong's ambition of transforming into a key innovation hub for food tech talents worldwide."
DayDayCook launched the Good Food Accelerator Program in partnership with the incubation division of Hong Kong Cyberport in December 2021. The seven startups selected in the launch cohort included five Hong Kong companies — AllKlear Health, Breer, Farmacy, Geb Import Technology, Good Food Tech — plus 70/30 Food Science & Tech (Shanghai) and Alchemy (Singapore).
Brinc has been a key global food innovation player since launching its first food technology program in 2018 — Asia's first at the time. Today, having launched AgriFood, AgriTech and Food Tech Programs in Brazil, Hong Kong and Mainland China, Brinc has more than 50 AgriFood Tech portfolio companies all building a more sustainable food future. Highly notable examples of Brinc-accelerated startups that have impacted the global stage include Avant Meats (Hong Kong), CellX (Mainland China), Exponential Foods (Mexico), Galy (USA), Haofood (Mainland China), Orbillion Bio (USA) and Phuture Foods (Singapore).
About DayDayCook
Founded in 2012, DayDayCook is a direct-to-consumer company that focuses on innovative and healthy meal solutions with a fast-growing retail footprint in China and a strong online presence globally.
DDC has launched ready-to-heat (RTH), ready-to-cook (RTC) and plant-based food products, which bring convenience and quality food products to young food lovers. The group builds brand recognition through culinary and lifestyle content across major social media and e-commerce platforms, resulting in an aggregate of over 3 billion video views and over 10 million orders worldwide. www.daydaycook.com
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Headquartered in Hong Kong, Brinc is a leader in global venture acceleration, operating 18 multidisciplinary accelerator programs in seven countries. Brinc accelerates startups focused on Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, connected hardware, drones, robotics, clean energy and food technology, all within a sustainability mandate. Brinc's goal is to empower founders to accelerate humanity's transition to a more sustainable, inclusive and equitable future.
Brinc has a portfolio of 200+ companies with founders from more than 38 countries. Brinc also supports corporations with investment services, distributed innovation strategies, sourcing of new startups and technologies, as well as venture-building Web 3.0-enabled businesses. Global corporations (Manulife, Huawei, Schneider Electric, Puma, Batelco, Merck, Omantel, Linrun Group, Zhihui Park), government organisations (Hong Kong Science Park, MBRIF, Guangdong Soft-tech Park), tertiary institutions (HK City University, National University of Singapore) and leading venture funds (Artesian, LeverVC, Tamkeen, EDB) have all run programs with Brinc. In 2021, Brinc announced a series of venture funds to invest in high-potential early-stage companies through accelerators and provide LPs with a dedicated innovation platform and access to Series A+ co-investment opportunities.
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Japan Post Unveils Cutting-Edge Initiative to Digitize Roads for Digital Maps Using Innoviz LiDAR
The Initiative Enables Next-Generation Services Including Autonomous Driving and Unmanned Delivery
TEL AVIV, Israel and TOKYO, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Innoviz Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: INVZ) (the "Company" or "Innoviz"), a leading provider of high-performance, automotive-grade LiDAR sensors and perception software, today announced that Japan Post, a special private company under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, offering postal and logistics services as well as banking and life & non-life insurance agency services, aims to construct digital maps with Innoviz's high-performance InnovizOne LiDAR sensor, paving the way for next-generation smart city services such as autonomous driving and unmanned delivery.
Japan Post announced their plans to install InnovizOne LiDAR sensors on their postal delivery cars on July 20, 2022, during Scrum Ventures' SmartCityX Conference in San Francisco, which brought together more than 150 best-in-class founders, VCs, and stage-agnostic startups from across the globe. The InnovizOne equipped delivery vehicles will generate detailed digital maps that gather information such as changes in roads and buildings along delivery routes. These detailed maps will serve as foundational data to enable next-generation services for Japan's residents, such as automated driving and more.
The smart cities market is expanding rapidly, and Autonomous on-road delivery vehicles are a near-term priority for cities that are increasingly looking for efficient ways to move people and goods. The Japanese market for smart city technologies is expected to grow from nearly $45 million USD in 2021 to over $93 million USD by 2027.
"Cities are evolving and re-emerging stronger than ever from the pandemic," said Michael Proman, Managing Director at Scrum Ventures and SmartCityX. "The collaborations between our Japanese partners and participating stage-agnostic startups transcend multiple smart city categories and represent some of the most thoughtful and innovative solutions being deployed around the world. We're thrilled to help further these efforts."
"We greatly appreciate such an innovative approach full of possibilities to solve local issues across the country using the solution from Innoviz," said Executive Officer at Japan Post, Yoshihiro Gomi. "We hope that the combination of our assets and InnovizOne LiDAR sensor will lead to the creation of a new business."
"Our innovative collaboration with Japan Post highlights the versatility of the Innoviz LiDAR and this is another example of new ways to use LiDAR in smart cities," said VP Asia at Innoviz Technologies, David Oberman. "We are grateful for the resources and support from Scrum Ventures to accelerate deployment of our InnovizOne LiDAR sensors for constructing digital maps and bringing value to Japan residents."
Scrum Ventures' SmartCityX program aims to explore new innovations that can unlock new value through partnership with companies, local governments, and startups. Thirteen Japanese corporations representing a variety of industries took part in this year's event. InnovizOne was selected by Japan Post due to its ability to generate precise, high-resolution 3D point cloud data required for building the digital map. Following a successful demonstration last month, the two companies have begun to verify the needs and use of Japan Post data.
About Japan Post
Japan Post is a company that operates postal services and post offices in Japan, aiming to create new value in cooperation with companies outside the Japan Post Group by combining its post offices and delivery networks, one of its greatest strengths, with digital technologies to assist customers in cherishing safe, secure, and enriched lives in their communities.
About Innoviz Technologies
Innoviz is a global leader in LiDAR technology, working towards a future with safe autonomous vehicles on the world's roads. Innoviz's LiDAR and perception software "see" better than a human driver and reduce the possibility of error, meeting the automotive industry's strictest expectations for performance and safety. Operating across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, Innoviz has been selected by internationally recognized premium car brands for use in consumer vehicles as well as by other commercial and industrial leaders for a wide range of use cases. For more information, visit innoviz-tech.com
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Mars Announces The M&M'S® FUNd Advisory Council as Part of Its Purpose to Create A World Where Everyone Feels They Belong
M&M'S, proudly part of Mars, takes next steps toward achieving its goal of increasing a sense of belonging for 10 million people around the world by 2025
NEWARK, N.J., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today M&M'S®, the iconic candy brand that is part of Mars Inc., announced The M&M'S FUNd Advisory Council, a group of experts who will drive M&M'S brand programming of diversity, inclusivity and belonging around the world.
The M&M'S FUNd was announced this past January with the intention to track the brand's action against the refreshed purpose to create a world where everyone feels they belong. The M&M'S FUNd offers resources, mentorship, opportunities and financial support in the arts and entertainment space to connect people and ensure they have access to experiences to increase a sense of belonging for 10 million people around the world by 2025.
The founding advisory council for the M&M'S FUNd will include representatives from Coqual, Disability:IN, GLAAD, Global Belonging Collaborative, GroupM and PolicyLink. M&M'S will convene the below advisors from esteemed organizations together several times a year to assess the brand's programs, quantify impact, provide counsel and further our mission through our organizations' respective networks.
- Gwyneth Meeks, Senior Vice President, Leadership Development, Coqual
- Jill Houghton, President & CEO, Disability:IN
- John McCourt, Deputy Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, GLAAD
- Dr. Kelly-Ann Allen, PhD FAPS, Lead Director and Founder, Global Belonging Collaborative
- Gonzalo Del Fa, President, GroupM
- Ashleigh Gardere, Executive Vice President, PolicyLink
"Mars is innovating to create positive impact on society and shape the world we want tomorrow – and the evolved M&M'S purpose is one more example of how our brands are able to inspire moments of everyday happiness for consumers," said Jessica Adelman, Corporate Affairs Vice President at Mars Wrigley. "Mars and the M&M'S brand are honored to partner with this deep-bench of global experts who as part of the M&M'S FUNd will help us to create a world where everyone feels they belong."
Since unveiling its purpose, M&M'S has been hard at work delivering on its promise to create a world where everyone feels they belong, bringing its commitment to life across every touchpoint, including through product, digital offerings, content, in-store programs and consumer activations, all under the M&M'S FUNd.
- M&M'S newest ad spots – "Office Party" and "Meet The Parents" – reflect the new brand purpose, visually representing the importance of celebrating people's differences and using fun to foster connection and a sense of belonging.
- In Germany, M&M'S developed Projekt Open Mic, partnering with headliner talent to launch the careers of three diverse new comedians to help make the German comedy scene more inclusive.
- In celebration of International Women's Day in March, M&M'S created a #StreamingFemaleVoices Spotify playlist featuring songs by all female artists to help start to bridge the gender gap in music and donated $1 per stream (up to $25k) to Women in Music.
- M&M'S continued its partnership with the Bentonville Film Festival Foundation to offer a mentorship program to a diverse filmmaker, consisting of a $20,000 grant and the opportunity to work with the M&M'S team on a project focused on championing inclusion. The recipient of the 'M&M'S For All Funkind Award' selected from submissions from the 2021 Bentonville Film Festival Foundation was announced on June 25.
- In Australia, M&M'S launched the M&M'S Comedy Spotlight platform, spotlighting seven rising comedy stars to create a more inclusive comedy scene.
And we are just getting started. To learn more about The M&M'S FUNd Advisory Council and to follow the work M&M'S is doing to deliver on its purpose, visit MMS.com.
ABOUT MARS, INCORPORATED
Mars, Incorporated is driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. As a global, family-owned business, Mars is transforming, innovating, and evolving to make a positive impact on the world.
Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of quality confectionery, food, and pet care products and services, we employ 140,000+ dedicated Associates. With almost $45 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world's best-loved brands including Ben's Original™, CESAR®, Cocoavia®, DOVE®, EXTRA®, KIND®, M&M's®, SNICKERS®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, and WHISKAS®. We are creating a better world for pets through our global network of pet hospitals and diagnostic services – including AniCura, BANFIELD™, BLUEPEARL™, Linnaeus and VCA™ – using cutting edge technology to develop breakthrough programs in genetic health screening and DNA testing.
For more information about Mars, please visit www.mars.com. Join us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.
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Mars Announces The M&M'S® FUNd Advisory Council as Part of Its Purpose to Create A World Where Everyone Feels They Belong
M&M'S, proudly part of Mars, takes next steps toward achieving its goal of increasing a sense of belonging for 10 million people around the world by 2025
NEWARK, N.J., July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today M&M'S®, the iconic candy brand that is part of Mars Inc., announced The M&M'S FUNd Advisory Council, a group of experts who will drive M&M'S brand programming of diversity, inclusivity and belonging around the world.
The M&M'S FUNd was announced this past January with the intention to track the brand's action against the refreshed purpose to create a world where everyone feels they belong. The M&M'S FUNd offers resources, mentorship, opportunities and financial support in the arts and entertainment space to connect people and ensure they have access to experiences to increase a sense of belonging for 10 million people around the world by 2025.
The founding advisory council for the M&M'S FUNd will include representatives from Coqual, Disability:IN, GLAAD, Global Belonging Collaborative, GroupM and PolicyLink. M&M'S will convene the below advisors from esteemed organizations together several times a year to assess the brand's programs, quantify impact, provide counsel and further our mission through our organizations' respective networks.
- Gwyneth Meeks, Senior Vice President, Leadership Development, Coqual
- Jill Houghton, President & CEO, Disability:IN
- John McCourt, Deputy Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, GLAAD
- Dr. Kelly-Ann Allen, PhD FAPS, Lead Director and Founder, Global Belonging Collaborative
- Gonzalo Del Fa, President, GroupM
- Ashleigh Gardere, Executive Vice President, PolicyLink
"Mars is innovating to create positive impact on society and shape the world we want tomorrow – and the evolved M&M'S purpose is one more example of how our brands are able to inspire moments of everyday happiness for consumers," said Jessica Adelman, Corporate Affairs Vice President at Mars Wrigley. "Mars and the M&M'S brand are honored to partner with this deep-bench of global experts who as part of the M&M'S FUNd will help us to create a world where everyone feels they belong."
Since unveiling its purpose, M&M'S has been hard at work delivering on its promise to create a world where everyone feels they belong, bringing its commitment to life across every touchpoint, including through product, digital offerings, content, in-store programs and consumer activations, all under the M&M'S FUNd.
- M&M'S newest ad spots – "Office Party" and "Meet The Parents" – reflect the new brand purpose, visually representing the importance of celebrating people's differences and using fun to foster connection and a sense of belonging.
- In Germany, M&M'S developed Projekt Open Mic, partnering with headliner talent to launch the careers of three diverse new comedians to help make the German comedy scene more inclusive.
- In celebration of International Women's Day in March, M&M'S created a #StreamingFemaleVoices Spotify playlist featuring songs by all female artists to help start to bridge the gender gap in music and donated $1 per stream (up to $25k) to Women in Music.
- M&M'S continued its partnership with the Bentonville Film Festival Foundation to offer a mentorship program to a diverse filmmaker, consisting of a $20,000 grant and the opportunity to work with the M&M'S team on a project focused on championing inclusion. The recipient of the 'M&M'S For All Funkind Award' selected from submissions from the 2021 Bentonville Film Festival Foundation was announced on June 25.
- In Australia, M&M'S launched the M&M'S Comedy Spotlight platform, spotlighting seven rising comedy stars to create a more inclusive comedy scene.
And we are just getting started. To learn more about The M&M'S FUNd Advisory Council and to follow the work M&M'S is doing to deliver on its purpose, visit MMS.com.
ABOUT MARS, INCORPORATED
Mars, Incorporated is driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. As a global, family-owned business, Mars is transforming, innovating, and evolving to make a positive impact on the world.
Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of quality confectionery, food, and pet care products and services, we employ 140,000+ dedicated Associates. With almost $45 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world's best-loved brands including Ben's Original™, CESAR®, Cocoavia®, DOVE®, EXTRA®, KIND®, M&M's®, SNICKERS®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, and WHISKAS®. We are creating a better world for pets through our global network of pet hospitals and diagnostic services – including AniCura, BANFIELD™, BLUEPEARL™, Linnaeus and VCA™ – using cutting edge technology to develop breakthrough programs in genetic health screening and DNA testing.
For more information about Mars, please visit www.mars.com. Join us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.
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Mixpanel Surpasses 1,000 Companies Graduating its Free Startup Program
Mixpanel Makes Startup Program Available to More Companies, Introduces Free Company KPIs Dashboard Template to Help Startups Measure Metrics that Matter
SAN FRANCISCO, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mixpanel, the leading product analytics solution powering more than 6,000 of the world's most innovative digital companies, today announced that more than 1,000 companies have graduated Mixpanel for Startups, a free program that helps startups find product-market fit faster by giving them up to $50,000 in free credits a year, worth up to 430 million monthly events—more than double the number offered by comparable programs. To celebrate the milestone, Mixpanel is expanding eligibility for the program and introducing a free Company KPIs Dashboard Template—nine out-of-the-box, fully customizable reports that make it easy for all companies to measure metrics that matter.
Today, we are seeing high inflation, increasing interest rates, war in Europe, and signs that we could be headed for an economic downturn of an unknown duration. Capital is becoming increasingly scarce and startups must think twice about how they deploy their resources. In times like these, product analytics becomes indispensable, showing startups what is and isn't working with their websites and apps, what to prioritize, and what to invest in.
"Even in the best conditions, very few startups make it. That's why we introduced Mixpanel for Startups in 2020," said Mixpanel VP of Product Neil Rahilly. "In just two years, it has become the world's most comprehensive product analytics program and we've given $25 million in free credits to help more startups succeed. It's a dream come true to be working with so many startups, and to see them using their product analytics dashboards to secure funding. I'm so excited to celebrate this milestone by making the program available to more startups and introducing our new Company KPIs Dashboard Template."
Starting today, Mixpanel is expanding the criteria for startups that want to join: now every startup under five-years-old that has raised up to $8 million is eligible to apply for Mixpanel for Startups.
Paris headquartered healthtech app May is a graduate. It has provided more than 100,000 soon-to-be parents with access to pediatricians, midwives, and pediatric nurses since its launch in 2020. The company uses Mixpanel to better understand how customers use its product and make more informed decisions about its product roadmap, which has resulted in monthly user growth of more than 10 percent and a doubling in user retention. Being able to easily capture and visualize its growth metrics also supported May's pitch to investors during Q2 2022, helping the app secure $3.3 million in additional funding.
"Before Mixpanel, we made decisions based on conversations with users. Now we have dashboards measuring metrics including conversion, user growth, and stickiness," said May Co-Founder Antoine Creuzet. "Mixpanel is an absolutely critical tool—it gives us valuable insights into what our users want, which has helped us find product-market fit faster and made fundraising much easier. But most importantly, it has instilled within us a confidence that we truly know our business inside and out."
The Company KPIs Dashboard Template is available for free today to all Mixpanel customers. It includes a number of features that make it easier for startups in different industries and geographies to quickly get started with product analytics and measure engagement, retention, and growth metrics.
It's easy to get started. Companies only need two events in Mixpanel—a signup or session start event and a value moment event. The template also includes a new feature called Mixpanel Primers. The three primers link directly from the template dashboards and provide how-to's for interpreting the reports, as well as explanations for why certain metrics matter and what "good" looks like.
The Company KPIs Dashboard Template takes the guesswork out of determining which metrics to measure. It helps companies quickly answer questions like:
- How many users are experiencing value in my product?
- Who are my most engaged users?
- Which channels generate the most signups?
- How many of my engaged users come back?
The template also produces investor-worthy, intuitive, and fully-customizable public and private dashboards so that everyone can benefit from the insights.
"Mixpanel's Company KPIs Dashboard Template puts metrics at our fingertips that we didn't even think to measure," said Kelvin Yu, founding engineer at Zage. "It only took five seconds to set up our KPIs dashboard, and the reports were very easy to understand and take action on."
Mixpanel helps companies measure what matters, make decisions fast, and build better digital products through data. With its powerful, self-serve product analytics solution, teams can easily analyze how and why people engage, convert, and retain—in real-time, across devices—to improve their user experience. Headquartered in San Francisco, Mixpanel has an award-winning employee experience and culture, with offices in New York, Seattle, Austin, London, Barcelona, and Singapore. For more information, visit: www.mixpanel.com.
Media Contact: Joe Roualdes, [email protected]
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Mixpanel Surpasses 1,000 Companies Graduating its Free Startup Program
Mixpanel Makes Startup Program Available to More Companies, Introduces Free Company KPIs Dashboard Template to Help Startups Measure Metrics that Matter
SAN FRANCISCO, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mixpanel, the leading product analytics solution powering more than 6,000 of the world's most innovative digital companies, today announced that more than 1,000 companies have graduated Mixpanel for Startups, a free program that helps startups find product-market fit faster by giving them up to $50,000 in free credits a year, worth up to 430 million monthly events—more than double the number offered by comparable programs. To celebrate the milestone, Mixpanel is expanding eligibility for the program and introducing a free Company KPIs Dashboard Template—nine out-of-the-box, fully customizable reports that make it easy for all companies to measure metrics that matter.
Today, we are seeing high inflation, increasing interest rates, war in Europe, and signs that we could be headed for an economic downturn of an unknown duration. Capital is becoming increasingly scarce and startups must think twice about how they deploy their resources. In times like these, product analytics becomes indispensable, showing startups what is and isn't working with their websites and apps, what to prioritize, and what to invest in.
"Even in the best conditions, very few startups make it. That's why we introduced Mixpanel for Startups in 2020," said Mixpanel VP of Product Neil Rahilly. "In just two years, it has become the world's most comprehensive product analytics program and we've given $25 million in free credits to help more startups succeed. It's a dream come true to be working with so many startups, and to see them using their product analytics dashboards to secure funding. I'm so excited to celebrate this milestone by making the program available to more startups and introducing our new Company KPIs Dashboard Template."
Starting today, Mixpanel is expanding the criteria for startups that want to join: now every startup under five-years-old that has raised up to $8 million is eligible to apply for Mixpanel for Startups.
Paris headquartered healthtech app May is a graduate. It has provided more than 100,000 soon-to-be parents with access to pediatricians, midwives, and pediatric nurses since its launch in 2020. The company uses Mixpanel to better understand how customers use its product and make more informed decisions about its product roadmap, which has resulted in monthly user growth of more than 10 percent and a doubling in user retention. Being able to easily capture and visualize its growth metrics also supported May's pitch to investors during Q2 2022, helping the app secure $3.3 million in additional funding.
"Before Mixpanel, we made decisions based on conversations with users. Now we have dashboards measuring metrics including conversion, user growth, and stickiness," said May Co-Founder Antoine Creuzet. "Mixpanel is an absolutely critical tool—it gives us valuable insights into what our users want, which has helped us find product-market fit faster and made fundraising much easier. But most importantly, it has instilled within us a confidence that we truly know our business inside and out."
The Company KPIs Dashboard Template is available for free today to all Mixpanel customers. It includes a number of features that make it easier for startups in different industries and geographies to quickly get started with product analytics and measure engagement, retention, and growth metrics.
It's easy to get started. Companies only need two events in Mixpanel—a signup or session start event and a value moment event. The template also includes a new feature called Mixpanel Primers. The three primers link directly from the template dashboards and provide how-to's for interpreting the reports, as well as explanations for why certain metrics matter and what "good" looks like.
The Company KPIs Dashboard Template takes the guesswork out of determining which metrics to measure. It helps companies quickly answer questions like:
- How many users are experiencing value in my product?
- Who are my most engaged users?
- Which channels generate the most signups?
- How many of my engaged users come back?
The template also produces investor-worthy, intuitive, and fully-customizable public and private dashboards so that everyone can benefit from the insights.
"Mixpanel's Company KPIs Dashboard Template puts metrics at our fingertips that we didn't even think to measure," said Kelvin Yu, founding engineer at Zage. "It only took five seconds to set up our KPIs dashboard, and the reports were very easy to understand and take action on."
Mixpanel helps companies measure what matters, make decisions fast, and build better digital products through data. With its powerful, self-serve product analytics solution, teams can easily analyze how and why people engage, convert, and retain—in real-time, across devices—to improve their user experience. Headquartered in San Francisco, Mixpanel has an award-winning employee experience and culture, with offices in New York, Seattle, Austin, London, Barcelona, and Singapore. For more information, visit: www.mixpanel.com.
Media Contact: Joe Roualdes, [email protected]
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Perception Point Launches Advanced Browser Security, a Transformative Web Security Solution to Eliminate Web Browser Threats
Managed solution lets users browse the web or access SaaS applications without exposing enterprise data to risk; providing highly advanced security for native browsers, while ensuring user productivity
TEL AVIV, Israel, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Perception Point, a leading provider of advanced threat prevention across digital channels, announced today the release of Perception Point Advanced Browser Security, a new web security solution which adds enterprise-grade security to native Chrome and Edge browsers. Perception Point Advanced Browser Security fuses patented browser security technology powered by Hysolate, a next-gen web isolation platform acquired by Perception Point in March 2022, and Perception Point's unmatched multi-layer detection engines. This combination delivers the unprecedented ability to isolate, detect and remediate all malicious threats from the web, including phishing, ransomware, malware, APTs, and more, while also securing access to sensitive corporate apps via an isolated, trusted Chrome or Edge browser - preventing data loss (DLP) by design on both managed and unmanaged endpoints.
Perception Point Advanced Browser Security can be simply deployed via a browser extension or a light agent on PC or Mac, and is easily managed from the cloud. There are no added cloud infrastructure or data center expenses.
Customers deploying the solution will experience fewer breaches and prevent data loss, while also providing their users with a better user experience as they will have the freedom to browse the web, use the SaaS applications that they require, and access privileged corporate apps, confidently, securely, and without added latency.
Perception Point customers also receive a fully managed Incident Response service that manages all incidents and optimizes detection engines. This all-included service drastically reduces the need for SOC team resources, reducing the time required to mitigate web-borne attacks by up to 75%.
"Our customers want to be able to leverage the latest standard browsers while significantly upgrading their web security to include better, deeper, and earlier threat detection, built-in data loss prevention, and strong threat isolation, all of which dramatically reduce the attack surface," said Tal Zamir, CTO of Perception Point and former founder and CTO of Hysolate. "Perception Point Advanced Browser Security transforms the security of organizations' Chrome and Edge browsers, while supporting full compatibility with the web and the Microsoft and Google ecosystems, all without changing the way people work and without slowing them down."
With the availability of Perception Point Advanced Browser Security, Perception Point has significantly advanced its overall product offering to become a one-stop-shop for isolating, detecting and remediating all threats across the organization's top attack vectors - email, web browsers, and cloud collaboration apps. This wide coverage consolidates multiple point solutions, and adds significant value by merging data from multiple sources to deliver unmatched security and advanced threat protection along with a seamless user experience and enterprise manageability.
"Digitization, hybrid work models, and the shift to SaaS and web-based applications have made the browser a prime target for attackers who use malicious websites and file downloads to breach organizations," said Yoram Salinger, CEO, Perception Point. "In parallel, malicious insiders and third parties can easily extract data from web-based enterprise apps which lack the necessary security controls. With the addition of Perception Point Advanced Browser Security, customers of all sizes can now protect their web browsers alongside email and other cloud collaboration apps from one platform, designed to provide the accuracy, speed and scale they require to reduce breaches, lower total cost of ownership, and provide the best user experience."
For more information about Perception Point Advanced Browser Security, see here.
About Perception Point
Perception Point is a Prevention-as-a-Service company for the fastest and most accurate next-generation detection and response to all attacks across email, cloud collaboration channels, and web browsers. The solution's natively integrated incident response service acts as a force multiplier to the SOC team, reducing management overhead, improving user experience and delivering continuous insights; providing proven best protection for all organizations.
Deployed in minutes, with no change to the enterprise's infrastructure, the patented, cloud-native and easy-to-use service replaces cumbersome legacy systems to prevent phishing, BEC, spam, malware, Zero-days, ATO, and other advanced attacks well before they reach end-users. Fortune 500 enterprises and organizations across the globe are preventing content-borne attacks across their email, web browsers, and cloud collaboration channels with Perception Point.
To learn more about Perception Point, visit our website, or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.
Perception Point Media Contact
Ben Crome
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TechSee Launches 'Visual Intelligence Platform', providing an off-the-shelf solution for companies to build and automate their own customized computer vision AI models
The new platform allows every business to quickly and easily recognize the exponential, practical impact of computer vision for service organizations
NEW YORK, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TechSee, the market leader in Computer Vision solutions for customer service, today announced the launch of their Visual Intelligence (VI) Platform, a groundbreaking tool to empower teams and customers to customize their computer vision automation applications directly.
While companies are increasingly embracing AI to improve the quality and efficiency of virtual interactions with customers and agents, this new approach provides them with access to technology to automate and scale while also increasing the quality of service. This is done through computer vision AI that identifies specific models, parts and statuses, diagnoses issues and provides automated AR guidance to full resolution. TechSee's proprietary next generation Visual Intelligence Platform leverages your team's human experience and understanding, at an enterprise level, delivering actionable directions to end-users, technicians, and agents. This platform removes the common barriers to adopting best-in-class computer vision technologies, as organizations can train their own customized computer vision models through the VI Studio and deploy practical automation using these models across TechSee's suite of visual service products. Furthermore, businesses can now build their own applications powered by VI's customized computer vision insights using real-time APIs.
In today's economic climate, service leaders are pressured to reduce costs while meeting the increasing demand for improved customer service experiences. In a recent survey of over one thousand US customers, the State of the Service Industry report, found that 63% of customers say that adding a visual component to the service experience makes them feel better understood, and 48% more customers would prefer to receive visual instructions over verbal. Not only are customers willing to try innovative service delivery, but the survey found that customers believe that AI is the answer, with 73% of respondents saying that self-service AI would improve the experience to diagnose an issue, and 56% were confident that visual AI could help agents provide better service. Computer vision AI has the potential to close a substantial gap in self-service, as only 11% of respondents reported that chatbots were able to solve their issues without escalating to a human.
This is a paradigm shift for the AI industry, since customized computer vision AI models are typically costly and slow to deploy. Traditionally, enterprises either start with generic computer vision databases, or invest substantial time, overhead and expertise in developing their own computer vision capabilities and infrastructure. The new VI Platform radically simplifies the process with VI Studio, a revolutionary no-code computer vision model builder that allows teams to easily train highly accurate computer vision models using photos and videos taken from ordinary smartphones. SaaS-based insights are embedded into TechSee's service platform, and accessible for use in third party applications with only an API integration.
Eitan Cohen, CEO of TechSee, said: "The launch of the Visual Intelligence Platform is a game-changer that will ultimately democratize the use of Computer Vision AI among customer-centric organizations." On the simplicity of the new platform, he added: "No data scientists, AI specialists or special hardware is required for customer service teams to embrace the latest technologies that will radically improve their interaction with customers, and field service technicians to improve efficiency and reliability."
About TechSee:
TechSee revolutionized the customer experience domain with the first visual engagement solution powered by Computer Vision AI and Augmented Reality. It enables enterprises around the world to deliver better customer assistance, enhance service quality and reduce costs. TechSee is led by industry veterans with years of experience in mobile technologies, artificial intelligence and big data. The company is headquartered in Tel Aviv with offices in New York, London, and Madrid. For more information, visit www.techsee.me.
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TUMI Featured In Sony Pictures' Upcoming Summer Film 'Bullet Train'
TUMI's 19 Degree Aluminum Briefcase "The Case Everyone is After" makes it's Hollywood debut in this non-stop thrill ride
NEW YORK, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today TUMI, a leading international travel and lifestyle brand, unveiled its 19 Degree Aluminum Briefcase which is featured in Sony Pictures' upcoming original action thriller film "Bullet Train," exclusively in theaters August 5.
In Bullet Train, Ladybug is an unlucky assassin determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe—all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives— centering around the TUMI 19 Degree Aluminum Briefcase on the world's fastest trains. The end of the line is just the beginning in this non-stop thrill-ride through modern-day Japan from David Leitch, the director of Deadpool 2.
Leading up to the film's theatrical release in North America on August 5, TUMI will be debuting a collaboration with New York Times Advertising on a digital movie-themed crossword puzzle where U.S. residents, 18 years of age or older, will have the choice of completing the crossword puzzle for an engaging, interactive experience or directly entering the contest for a chance to win one of the sought-after limited-edition briefcases, sign-up here. There will be 20 lucky winners randomly selected from those who enter the contest. TUMI will also be activating an integrated marketing program in connection with the world red-carpet premiere of the film as well as and a variety of digital and in-store activities to promote the film.
"There was only one luggage brand who had enough style to fit in with the film's all-star cast as well as the durability that could go head to head with an ensemble of assassins on one of the world's fastest trains and that was TUMI, which perfectly fits in with this edgy, action-packed film," said Jeffrey Godsick, EVP of Global Partnerships and Brand Management and Head of Location Based Entertainment at Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Equally striking from a distance or at close range, the TUMI 19 Degree Aluminum Briefcase boasts a sleek, aluminum crafted exterior with bespoke design and durability top of mind. This limited-edition briefcase features a "Bullet Train" patch card pocket with "Bullet Train" logo in addition to a branded luggage tag. Through the TUMI "Bullet Train" collaboration, only 150 limited-edition briefcases will be available starting July 20th worldwide across select TUMI stores & TUMI.COM priced at US$1,795.00. For those unable to get one of these limited TUMI collector's items, they can visit TUMI.COM to shop the full TUMI 19 Degree Aluminum collection, which is exceptionally striking up close or from a distance, super durable, and boasts a modern silhouette with fluid-looking, strategically contoured angles.
"TUMI is synonymous with quality durability toughness and is always looking to the future for inspiration. With this film, as the screen writers and director started laying out what the environment would look like and the types of pieces that would exist in the film, TUMI was at the top of their list. They looked to TUMI for a hero case to have all those qualities of durability, be able to surpass the battles that it would ensue throughout this epic journey," said TUMI Creative Director, Victor Sanz.
About 'Bullet Train'
Directed by David Leitch. Screenplay by Zak Olkewicz. Based on the book by Kotaro Isaka. Produced by Kelly McCormick, David Leitch and Antoine Fuqua. Executive Producers are Brent O'Connor, Ryosuke Saegusa, Yuma Terada and Kat Samick. The film stars Brad Pitt, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon, Benito A Martínez Ocasio and Sandra Bullock.
Sony Pictures Entertainment:
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation. SPE's global operations encompass motion picture production, acquisition, and distribution; television production acquisition, and distribution; television networks; digital content creation and distribution; operation of studio facilities; and development of new entertainment products, services and technologies. Sony Pictures Television operates dozens of wholly-owned or joint-venture production companies around the world. SPE's. Motion Picture Group production organizations include Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems, TriStar Pictures, 3000 Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, Stage 6 Films, AFFIRM Films, Sony Pictures International Productions, and Sony Pictures Classics. For additional information, visit
http://www.sonypictures.com/corp/divisions.html
ABOUT TUMI:
Since 1975, TUMI has been creating world-class business, travel lifestyle, and performance luxury essentials designed to upgrade, uncomplicate and beautify all aspects of life on the move. Blending flawless functionality with a spirit of ingenuity, we're committed to empowering journeys as a lifelong partner to movers and makers in pursuit of their passions. The brand is sold globally in over 75 countries with upwards of 2,000 points of sale. For more about TUMI, visit www.TUMI.com.
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TUMI Featured In Sony Pictures' Upcoming Summer Film 'Bullet Train'
TUMI's 19 Degree Aluminum Briefcase "The Case Everyone is After" makes it's Hollywood debut in this non-stop thrill ride
NEW YORK, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today TUMI, a leading international travel and lifestyle brand, unveiled its 19 Degree Aluminum Briefcase which is featured in Sony Pictures' upcoming original action thriller film "Bullet Train," exclusively in theaters August 5.
In Bullet Train, Ladybug is an unlucky assassin determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe—all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives— centering around the TUMI 19 Degree Aluminum Briefcase on the world's fastest trains. The end of the line is just the beginning in this non-stop thrill-ride through modern-day Japan from David Leitch, the director of Deadpool 2.
Leading up to the film's theatrical release in North America on August 5, TUMI will be debuting a collaboration with New York Times Advertising on a digital movie-themed crossword puzzle where U.S. residents, 18 years of age or older, will have the choice of completing the crossword puzzle for an engaging, interactive experience or directly entering the contest for a chance to win one of the sought-after limited-edition briefcases, sign-up here. There will be 20 lucky winners randomly selected from those who enter the contest. TUMI will also be activating an integrated marketing program in connection with the world red-carpet premiere of the film as well as and a variety of digital and in-store activities to promote the film.
"There was only one luggage brand who had enough style to fit in with the film's all-star cast as well as the durability that could go head to head with an ensemble of assassins on one of the world's fastest trains and that was TUMI, which perfectly fits in with this edgy, action-packed film," said Jeffrey Godsick, EVP of Global Partnerships and Brand Management and Head of Location Based Entertainment at Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Equally striking from a distance or at close range, the TUMI 19 Degree Aluminum Briefcase boasts a sleek, aluminum crafted exterior with bespoke design and durability top of mind. This limited-edition briefcase features a "Bullet Train" patch card pocket with "Bullet Train" logo in addition to a branded luggage tag. Through the TUMI "Bullet Train" collaboration, only 150 limited-edition briefcases will be available starting July 20th worldwide across select TUMI stores & TUMI.COM priced at US$1,795.00. For those unable to get one of these limited TUMI collector's items, they can visit TUMI.COM to shop the full TUMI 19 Degree Aluminum collection, which is exceptionally striking up close or from a distance, super durable, and boasts a modern silhouette with fluid-looking, strategically contoured angles.
"TUMI is synonymous with quality durability toughness and is always looking to the future for inspiration. With this film, as the screen writers and director started laying out what the environment would look like and the types of pieces that would exist in the film, TUMI was at the top of their list. They looked to TUMI for a hero case to have all those qualities of durability, be able to surpass the battles that it would ensue throughout this epic journey," said TUMI Creative Director, Victor Sanz.
About 'Bullet Train'
Directed by David Leitch. Screenplay by Zak Olkewicz. Based on the book by Kotaro Isaka. Produced by Kelly McCormick, David Leitch and Antoine Fuqua. Executive Producers are Brent O'Connor, Ryosuke Saegusa, Yuma Terada and Kat Samick. The film stars Brad Pitt, Joey King, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Andrew Koji, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Shannon, Benito A Martínez Ocasio and Sandra Bullock.
Sony Pictures Entertainment:
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation. SPE's global operations encompass motion picture production, acquisition, and distribution; television production acquisition, and distribution; television networks; digital content creation and distribution; operation of studio facilities; and development of new entertainment products, services and technologies. Sony Pictures Television operates dozens of wholly-owned or joint-venture production companies around the world. SPE's. Motion Picture Group production organizations include Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems, TriStar Pictures, 3000 Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation, Stage 6 Films, AFFIRM Films, Sony Pictures International Productions, and Sony Pictures Classics. For additional information, visit
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ABOUT TUMI:
Since 1975, TUMI has been creating world-class business, travel lifestyle, and performance luxury essentials designed to upgrade, uncomplicate and beautify all aspects of life on the move. Blending flawless functionality with a spirit of ingenuity, we're committed to empowering journeys as a lifelong partner to movers and makers in pursuit of their passions. The brand is sold globally in over 75 countries with upwards of 2,000 points of sale. For more about TUMI, visit www.TUMI.com.
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UofL Health Partners with Aidoc to Upgrade Care Systems and Deliver Impact of AI to Physicians and Patients
Upgrade comes amid UofL Health's latest modernization project to empower physicians to expedite care processes through medical imaging
NEW YORK, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aidoc, the leading provider of AI healthcare solutions, today announced a partnership with UofL Health, a fully integrated regional academic health system with more than 12,000 team members serving more than 1.5 million patients annually. UofL Health is the first academic health system in Kentucky to implement Aidoc's AI solution. Choosing Aidoc as its AI partner, UofL Health will onboard the company's AI Care Platform to upgrade its care delivery systems and optimize workflows designed to improve the outcome of patients.
This project coincides with the University of Louisville's introduction of the Center for AI in Radiological Sciences (CAIRS), which was introduced in March and designed to foster collaboration between data and clinical teams. UofL Health will incorporate Aidoc's AI algorithms from the AI Care Platform to improve care for all patients, using AI to prioritize cases that are positive within a radiologist's worklist to ensure patients' access to lifesaving treatments is expedited. UofL will be integrating Aidoc's algorithms to identify and prioritize cases of brain bleeds (intracranial hemorrhage), lung blood clots (pulmonary embolism), incidental pulmonary embolism (iPE), cervical spine fractures, rib fractures and intra-abdominal free gas (IFG).
"At UofL Health, our patients are our top priority and we want to ensure that our physicians are equipped with the most updated tools to reduce turnaround time to reporting positive cases identified by the radiologist and ensure that patients are getting treated as quickly as possible," says Dr. Sohail Contractor, a radiologist with UofL Health and Professor and Chairman, J.T. Ling, M.D. Endowed Chair of Radiology for the University of Louisville School of Medicine. "In Aidoc, we have found a partner who will empower us to deliver on our vision, with a clear and immediate ROI. During the training session, the solutions flagged a number of true positive cases. We are confident that the integration will continue to support our physicians and show a recognizable impact on our patients."
Aidoc's AI Care Platform hosts 15 total FDA-cleared medical imaging AI solutions—9 developed at Aidoc and 6 through third-party vendors—and heart and vascular and neurology AI solutions which orchestrate physician collaboration to expedite care processes. The platform empowers health systems to apply the clinical benefits of artificial intelligence across the entire spectrum and set of facilities in a health system. In clinical research settings, Aidoc's AI solutions have proven to help reduce patient length of stay in the emergency room; reduce the turnaround time to reporting positive cases for treatment; and empower physicians to collaborate and ensure patients who require surgical interventions are not missed and attended to by care teams. UofL Health joins the likes of nationally recognized health systems like Mayo Clinic, Cedars-Sinai and Mount Sinai in integrating Aidoc's platform solutions.
"We were inspired by the team at UofL Health and its drive to ensure that their facilities are of the highest quality, providing the best care to their patients," said Elad Walach, CEO and cofounder of Aidoc. "The project we're undergoing with UofL Health is ambitious, underpinned by the belief that AI can make a deep impact only through meaningful collaboration between physicians and technology. UofL's drive for care excellence, coupled with the ability of AI to transform a data-driven organization is what makes this partnership so successful."
About Aidoc
Aidoc (aidoc.com) is the leading provider of artificial intelligence healthcare solutions that empower physicians to expedite patient treatment and enhance efficiencies. Aidoc's AI-driven solutions analyze medical images directly after the patient is scanned, suggesting prioritization of time-sensitive pathologies, as well as notifying and activating multidisciplinary teams to reduce turnaround time, shorten length of stay, and improve overall patient outcomes.
About UofL Health
UofL Health is a fully integrated regional academic health system with six hospitals, four medical centers, Brown Cancer Center, Eye Institute, nearly 200 physician practice locations, and more than 700 providers. With more than 12,000 team members – physicians, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists and other highly-skilled health care professionals, UofL Health is focused on one mission: to transform the health of communities we serve through compassionate, innovative, patient-centered care.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee is headed back to prime time for its eighth hearing — potentially the final time this summer that lawmakers will lay out evidence about the U.S. Capitol insurrection and President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
Thursday’s hearing is expected to focus on what Trump was doing in the White House as the violence unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican who is one of two members leading the hearing, said he expects it will “open people’s eyes in a big way.”
This will be the panel’s second hearing in prime time. The first, on June 9, was watched by more than 20 million people.
What to watch for in Thursday’s hearing:
TRUMP IN THE WHITE HOUSE
Committee members have said the hearing will be an in-depth look at what Trump was doing in the White House that day as hundreds of his supporters violently pushed past police and broke into the building.
The panel has already revealed some of the Trump evidence in previous hearings, showing clips of multiple White House aides who tried to pressure the president to act, or to publicly call on the rioters to leave, as he watched television in a West Wing dining room.
But there are still questions about what the president was doing, especially because official White House records of Trump’s phone calls included an eight-hour gap, from a little after 11 that morning to about 7 that evening.
The committee has tried to fill in that gap with witness interviews and other sources, such as subpoenaing private phone records. A panel member, Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., said Trump could have called off the rioters at any time, but he did not. More than three hours, or 187 minutes, passed before he finally did.
“The consequences we’re still dealing with today,” Aguilar said.
“You will hear that Donald Trump never picked up the phone that day to order his administration to help,” Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the committee's Republican vice chairwoman, said as she previewed the hearing last week.
NEW WITNESSES
Two former White House aides who resigned immediately after the insurrection will testify at the hearing. Former deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews and former deputy national security adviser Matthew Pottinger will talk about what they saw and heard in the White House as Trump learned about the insurrection and waited hours to tell the rioters to leave the Capitol.
Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., who will lead the hearing with Kinzinger, said the two witnesses “believed in the work they were doing, but didn’t believe in the stolen election.”
The committee will be “hearing from people who were in the White House, what they observed, what their reactions were,” Luria said.
THE WHOLE STORY
The finale in the committee’s summer series of hearings will seek to wrap up the story the panel has been telling from the start — that Trump was told his claims of widespread fraud were false but pushed them anyway, without regard for democracy or the people who were affected, and that his words and actions incited the riot at the Capitol.
The lawmakers are expected to give a minute-by-minute description of what happened the day of Jan. 6, a capstone to previous hearings that examined the weeks running up to the insurrection.
A Democratic member of the committee, Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, said the hearing will be about what happened in three different places on Jan. 6: The White House, inside the Capitol and outside the Capitol, where police officers were beaten and overwhelmed by the rioters.
CLIFFHANGERS
As the committee wraps up this “season” of hearings, like a television show, there are likely to be some cliffhangers.
Among the questions the committee may leave unanswered: Will the committee call Trump to testify? Or his vice president, Mike Pence? Will there be more hearings? Are they holding back any information for their final report?
At least one hearing is expected in the fall, when the nine-member panel is expected to issue a report on its findings, but more hearings are possible. If Republicans take control of the House in November's midterm elections, they are expected to shut down the committee.
The panel's work will also continue to reverberate through other investigations, including at the Justice Department, which has arrested more than 800 suspected rioters and has seized or sought information from some of the politicians and others who were allied with Trump as he tried to overturn the vote. The Justice Department has asked the committee for some of its interview transcripts.
Raskin said before the hearings began that the measure of success would be “whether we are able to preserve American democracy and our institutions — it’s a long-term test.”
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BERLIN (AP) — Operator says gas has started flowing through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline from Russia to Germany after maintenance.
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While the Japanese version launches on October 6, the Western edition will keep us waiting a bit longer.
Travis Touchdown he dares with everything, and that is why he is now preparing to make the leap beyond the borders of Nintendo Switch. Although it was the Joy-Con that inspired the development of No More Heroes 3, the Grasshopper team is close to releasing its installment on PC, PlayStation and Xbox. And, although a few days ago we informed you of the release date in Japan, it seems that the western version it doesn’t go very far.
No More Heroes 3 will be released on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series and PC on October 11This is how we know thanks to the latest trailer for No More Heroes 3, in which it is confirmed that said protagonist will arrive on other platforms next October 11th. As expected, Travis drops this information with a trailer loaded with spectacular scenes and action, which allows us to take a new look at what awaits us in PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series y PC vía Steam.
No More Heroes 3 has been established as the biggest, craziest, funniest comeback by Travis Touchdown. Through its frenetic mechanics, we will have to face a good assortment of enemies while enjoying an essence that remains intact with respect to the original deliveries, which will make any fan of the franchise happy.
If you want to know more about Grasshopper’s latest game, keep in mind that in our No More Heroes 3 review we looked at it as a waste of creativity who is not afraid to explore his limits to surprise the player. However, it is important to point out that the developer studio already has its sights set on the futureas they prepare the announcement of new games as soon as possible.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Thousands of cattle are covered in blisters from highly infectious foot-and-mouth disease in Indonesia, sounding the alarm for the country, its Southeast Asian neighbors and Australia. The virus found in two provinces in May has now infected several hundred-thousand animals across multiple provinces, including the popular tourist destination of Bali.
Indonesia is now taking measures to curb the spread of the disease. Australia has offered assistance in hopes of preventing the disease and its economic and environmental consequences from crossing its borders.
Here's a look at the disease and what's happening in Indonesia.
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WHAT IS FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE?
Foot-and-mouth disease is caused by a virus that infects cattle, sheep, goats, swine and other cloven-hoofed animals. While death rates are typically low, the disease can make animals ill with fever, decreased appetite, excessive drooling, blisters and other symptoms.
The disease was once found worldwide but has since been erased from some regions, including western Europe and North America. Parts of Southeast Asia, such as Malaysia and Thailand, have had regular outbreaks, but Indonesia until now had been free from the disease since 1986.
The ongoing outbreak is concentrated in dairy and beef cattle, but the spread to other susceptible animals can't be ruled out.
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HOW DOES IT SPREAD?
The virus spreads easily through contact and airborne transmission and can quickly infect entire herds. People can spread the disease though things like farming equipment, shoes, clothing, vehicle tires and more that have come in contact with the virus. Though it's considered rare, humans can also carry the virus in their nose for short periods of time, infecting animals, said Michael Ward, chair of the Veterinary Public Health & Food Safety at the University of Sydney.
Livestock feed and animal products such as meat and hides can also carry and spread the virus.
More than 300,000 livestock in Indonesia had foot-and-mouth disease by the first week of July. In the same month, the Eid al-Adha festival — a Muslim holiday marked with ritual animal sacrifice — resulted in large movement of animals around the country, which is considered to have accelerated the spread of the disease.
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WHY ARE OFFICIALS WORRIED?
Because it is so easily spread, the virus can be incredibly difficult to get rid of once there is an outbreak. In poorer countries, sick animals affect people's access to food. In middle-income and richer countries, the disease affects the livestock trade and related industries. One paper estimated that foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks can cost billions of dollars, highlighting the damage to governments and farmers.
Australia, which is currently free of foot-and-mouth disease, has expressed particular worry about the spread from Indonesia. The resort island of Bali is a popular tourist destination for Australians and has confirmed cases of the disease.
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WHAT IS BEING DONE TO COMBAT THE OUTBREAK?
Indonesia is using animal testing, vaccination, treatment, and conditional slaughter to try to curb the outbreak. The Ministry of Agriculture launched a vaccination program for livestock in mid-June, prioritizing doses for healthy animals at high risk of infection, such as those at crowded places such as livestock breeding centers, community-owned dairy farms, dairy cooperatives, and beef cattle farms.
The Australian government has offered financial and vaccine assistance for Indonesia’s response to the recent outbreak. The vaccination program is likely to focus on support for the small-holder farm sector, which accounts for 90% of Indonesia’s cattle industry.
In Australia, the government announced it would install disinfectant mats at airports that are intended to capture potentially contaminated dirt from the shoes of those returning from overseas. Government officials also promised more stringent biosecurity checks, such as sniffing detector dogs, for those returning from overseas.
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CAN PEOPLE GET FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE?
No. Foot-and-mouth disease is often confused with hand, foot and mouth disease, which is caused by a different virus and mostly infects young children. People do not get the animal disease, and animals do not get the human disease, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The video of the arrest at gunpoint of the Milan footballer, Tiemoué Bakayokoby mistake on the part of the Italian police, toured the world this Monday through social networks.
According to local authorities, the player was mistaken for a Senegalese citizen that he was involved in a shooting a few hours earlier, that he was wearing the same color of clothing as him, and that he fled in an off-road vehicle similar to the one he was driving.
The sequence was recorded by a person who captured the moment with his mobile phone from his car. After sharing the recording that took place between Gae Aulenti and corso Como, in Milan, much was said about the violent method used by the officers.
Even the 27-year-old footballer himself spoke on his Instagram account and assured that, “In the video posted on social media, you don’t see everything.”
“The Milan authorities recently reported that it was a mistake by the police and that they realized it at the time. The error is human, I have no problem with that. But I have a problem with the form and methodology used”Bakayoko explained through a video on his social networks.
“I think it went further than it should. Why didn’t they do a proper check? Asking for the vehicle papers, simply communicating what they needed…”, he wondered.
“In the video posted on social media, you don’t see everything. It is the quietest part of everything that happened “revealed the Chelsea player, on loan to Milan, and added: “I found the gun a meter away from me, on the passenger side of the window. It is clear that they put our lives in danger, whatever their reasons for doing so.”
“It was a mistake, knowing that there was no certainty about the suspects detained. There could have been much more serious consequences if I hadn’t stayed calm., if I hadn’t. I had the possibility, for doing the work I do, to be recognized on time”, he concluded.
After the virazilation of the images, the sequence was branded as racist: “The images of the arrest of Bakayoko suggest an ethnic profile. A discriminatory practice that in a non-famous person could have had serious consequences”, wrote the NGO Amnesty International.
On the contrary, a representative of the Lombard police congratulated the police action that took place in the streets of Milan: “We appreciate the thoroughness of the operation, in which very young but well-prepared agents participated. They acted in accordance with the regulations, they had their weapons in their hands and they held the two men detained at gunpoint.”
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BERLIN (AP) — Natural gas started flowing through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe on Thursday after a 10-day shutdown for maintenance, the operator said. But the gas flow was expected to fall well short of full capacity.
The Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany had been closed since July 11 for annual maintenance work. Amid growing tensions over Russia’s war in Ukraine, German officials had feared that the pipeline — the country’s main source of Russian gas, which has accounted for around a third of Germany’s gas supplies — might not reopen at all.
Operator Nord Stream AG said that gas started flowing again Thursday morning but the flow would take a while to ramp up, German news agency dpa reported.
Deliveries were expected to fall well below the pipeline's full capacity. Nord Stream said a similar amount of gas was expected to that seen before maintenance. The head of Germany's network regulator, Klaus Mueller, said on Twitter that Russia’s Gazprom had notified deliveries Thursday of only about 30% of the pipeline's capacity.
In mid-June, Russia’s state-owned Gazprom cut the flow to 40% of capacity. It cited alleged technical problems involving equipment that partner Siemens Energy sent to Canada for overhaul and couldn’t be returned because of sanctions imposed over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The Canadian government earlier this month gave permission for the turbine that powers a compressor station at the Russian end of the pipeline to be delivered to Germany.
The German government has rejected Gazprom’s technical explanation for the gas reduction, charging repeatedly that it was a pretext for a political decision to sow uncertainty and further push up energy prices. It has said that the turbine was a replacement that was only supposed to be installed in September, but that it’s doing everything to deprive Russia of the pretext to reduce supplies.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Gazprom still hadn’t received the relevant documents for the turbine’s return — a claim repeated Wednesday by Gazprom. Putin said that Gazprom was to shut another turbine for repairs in late July, and if the one that was sent to Canada wasn’t returned by then the flow of gas would ebb even more.
The head of the European Union’s executive Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said on Wednesday that the turbine was “in transit” and there was “no pretext not to deliver” gas.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is demanding an explanation from UCLA officials about their move to the Big Ten Conference.
Newsom attended Wednesday's UC Board of Regents meeting in San Francisco. The closed-door meeting was the first since UCLA and Southern California announced on June 30 that the schools would be leaving the Pac-12 Conference for the Big Ten in 2024. USC is a private institution and not part of the UC system.
Newsom — an ex officio member of the Board of Regents — is among others asking how the move will benefit all student-athletes, as well as how to mitigate the financial effects it will cause to UC Berkeley, California's other public university in the Pac 12.
UCLA and UC Berkeley have played each other in football since 1923.
“The first duty of every public university is to the people – especially students,” Newsom said in a statement. “UCLA must clearly explain to the public how this deal will improve the experience for all its student-athletes, will honor its century-old partnership with UC Berkeley, and will preserve the histories, rivalries, and traditions that enrich our communities.”
The UC Board of Regents cannot force UCLA to reverse the decision. In 1991, campus chancellors were delegated authority by the UC Office of the President to execute their own contracts, including intercollegiate athletic agreements.
The regents though could require UCLA pay UC Berkeley an exit fee for leaving the Pac-12 or share TV revenues they will gain from a move to the Big Ten.
UCLA athletic director Martin Jarmond said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on June 30 that changes to the landscape of collegiate athletics prompted the move. UCLA's athletic department, which sponsors 23 sports, is facing a $102.8-million deficit with most of that coming the past couple years.
“They’re gonna compete at the highest level in a major elite conference in different time zones, UCLA is always national. But now we have the ability for student athletes to showcase their talent across the country," Jarmond said. "I appreciate the Pac-12. That said, my, my focus first and foremost is our student athletes, and what is best for our student athletes. And when you look at the landscape and how dynamic is changing, the Big Ten was the right move at the right time for us.”
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Veteran politician Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's new president Thursday to take charge of a nation bitterly angry he will remain in power amid an unprecedented economic crisis.
Sri Lankans have taken to the streets for months to demand their top leaders step down to take responsibility for economic chaos that has left the nation's 22 million people struggling with shortages of essentials, including medicine, fuel and food. While the protesters have focused on the Rajapaksa political dynasty, Wickremesinghe also has drawn their ire as a perceived Rajapaksa surrogate.
The six-time prime minister had never held the top job. But he easily won the secret ballot of lawmakers Wednesday to finish the term of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country after protesters stormed his residence last week and resigned.
Wickremesinghe, 73, has wide experience in diplomatic and international affairs and has been overseeing the bailout talks with the International Monetary Fund.
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Lawmakers apparently considered him the safer hands to lead the nation through the crisis, despite public anger at Wickremesinghe as an example of the nation's problematic political establishment. During demonstrations last week, crowds set his personal residence on fire and occupied his office.
After Wednesday's vote, Wickremesinghe called for politicians to work together and pleaded for the country to move on. But protesters flocked to the presidential residence instead, chanting, “Ranil, go home.”
Wickremesinghe took his oath of office Thursday morning before Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya at a ceremony held in Parliament in the capital, Colombo. He now can choose a new prime minister.
In an example of the troubles caused by the economic crisis, a power outage hampered live coverage of the swearing-in ceremony at Parliament. An official at Parliament who spoke on condition of anonymity as he is not authorized to speak to the media said the live coverage was to be done by state-owned Independent Television Network.
Wickremesinghe said Monday the negotiations with the IMF were near a conclusion and talks on help from other countries had also progressed. He also said the government has taken steps to resolve shortages of fuel and cooking gas.
On Wednesday, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told financial magazine Nikkei Asia that the organization hoped to complete the rescue talks “as quickly as possible.”
On Monday, in his role as acting president, Wickremesinghe declared a state of emergency that gave him broad authority to act in the interest of public security and order. Authorities can carry out searches and detain people, and Wickremesinghe can also change or suspend any law. Parliament can regularly review the law and it will expire without its approval.
Presidents in Sri Lanka are normally elected by the public. The responsibility falls to Parliament only if the presidency becomes vacant before the term officially ends. It has happened once before, in 1993, when then-Prime Minister Dingiri Banda Wijetunga was chosen by Parliament uncontested after former President Ranasinghe Premadasa, father of the current opposition leader, was assassinated. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Sri-Lanka-s-newly-elected-president-sworn-into-17318830.php | 2022-07-21T05:54:37 | en | 0.97494 |
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HONG KONG (AP) — The oldest-ever male giant panda in captivity has died at age 35 at a Hong Kong theme park after his health deteriorated.
An An lived most of his life at Ocean Park after he and a female panda were gifted to Hong Kong by China in 1999. The female panda, Jia Jia, died in 2016 at age 38, making her the oldest-ever female panda in captivity.
Ocean Park mourned An An as a family member who grew with the park and built bonds with locals and tourists.
“An An has brought us fond memories with numerous heart-warming moments. His cleverness and playfulness will be dearly missed,” Paulo Pong, chairman of Ocean Park Corporation, said in a statement.
An An had high blood pressure, a common condition among geriatric pandas. Over the past three weeks, An An had been kept out of sight from visitors at the park as his health worsened. He stopped eating solid food and was significantly less active in recent days.
Last week, hundreds left comments on an Ocean Park post about An An's condition, wishing him a speedy recovery.
He was euthanized to prevent further suffering Thursday morning after veterinarians from Ocean Park and government authorities consulted the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda, Ocean Park said.
“An An lived a full life that ended at the respectable age of 35 – the equivalent of 105 years in human age,” the statement read.
Hong Kong was given another panda pair — Ying Ying, a female, and a male, Le Le — in 2007 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the city’s return to China.
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TOKYO (AP) — The Tokyo Olympics survived the COVID-19 postponement, soaring expenses and some public opposition. A year later, the costs and benefits remain as difficult to untangle as the Games were to pull off.
In his speech at the closing ceremony, IOC President Thomas Bach said a major accomplishment of the Games was simply reaching the end.
“We did it,” Bach said. “We did it together," he repeated, crediting the athletes, Japanese government officials, and deep-pocketed broadcasters for refashioning the Games despite no fans, disappointed sponsors, and no buzz around the city.
Organizers said the Games would drive tourism, showcase Japan's technological prowess, and create memories similar to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. The pandemic erased that.
Japan's goal after the postponement was to get through it, mindful that Beijing was holding the Winter Olympics in China just six months after Tokyo's close. For the International Olympic Committee, it was a priority to get the Games on television and keep big sponsors — the sources of 90% of IOC income — happy.
“I think what the Games meant more than anything else was simply not having to deal with a cancellation,” David Leheny, a political scientist at Japan’s Waseda University, told The Associated Press. “There were no public health disasters associated with it. I do think officials would like to have run a victory lap — if the public had been more enthusiastic about it.”
“If Japan had cancelled," Leheny added, "there would have been a lot of discussion, particularly in the conservative media, about what it meant that we couldn't pull it off."
As a final act before legally dissolving the organizing committee on June 30, President Seiko Hashimoto and CEO Toshiro Muto said the price tag for the Tokyo Games was $13 billion — almost 60% public money. This was twice the estimated cost when the IOC awarded Tokyo the Games, but less than the $25 billion some predicted.
How to judge? Legacy or costly hangover? Is there success to celebrate, or is it simply rejoicing over not having failed?
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government, on the hook for $5.4 billion in Games expenses, has campaigned to persuade the public that a half-dozen new venues have post-Games uses. Typical is a reopening ceremony next week at the canoe-slalom venue, featuring a paddling parade for elementary-school students.
A center dedicated to the LGBTQ community was championed during the Games, and the Paralympics pushed Tokyo to improve accessibility around town.
The city government is holding a 1-year anniversary event Saturday at the $1.4 billion National Stadium to mark the date of the opening ceremony. Athletes, high school and junior high school marching bands, and cheerleaders are to appear.
Tokyo was initially billed as the “Recovery Olympics," but this got little play after the delay. Government officials promised before the postponement that the Games would focus attention on an area of northeastern Japan devastated in 2011 by an earthquake, tsunami, and the meltdown of three nuclear reactors.
Japan’s Kyodo news agency published a survey of 4,000 people, compiled by a government agency, that showed only 29.8% said they were grateful for government reconstruction support. Many in the region believe the Olympics sapped resources from recovery efforts.
“I almost get the impression that the Olympics have come to that very quiet period where people don’t want to talk about it or even think about it,” Aki Tonami, a political economist at Japan’s University of Tsukuba, told AP. “Any analysis of what the Olympics meant is still in the symbolic phase. We don’t really have the capacity or the bandwidth to really dig down for a more long-lasting meaning.”
Kyodo has also reported this week that an executive board member of the organizing committee received $326,000 from a Games sponsor. As a quasi-civil servant, Kyodo said he was not allowed to receive such payments.
The board member, Haruyuki Takahashi, is a former director at Japanese advertising agency Dentsu, Inc, which helped land $3 billion in local sponsorship for the Tokyo Games.
Amid uncertainty, there is one clear legacy. Despite scandals, bloated costs, and lukewarm public support, Japan is pursuing the 2030 Winter Olympics for Sapporo. And it's trying to use the Tokyo Games to drive the bid.
Sapporo places the price tag at $2.6 billion, likely an underestimate since Tokyo expenses were at least twice the initial estimate. And it's impossible to estimate accurately eight years in advance.
“We're already working toward that," Seiko Hashimoto, the head of the Tokyo Games, said last month. “The significance of the Tokyo Games should be communicated thoroughly, otherwise the people in Sapporo and Hokkaido will not support this initiative.”
Sapporo is believed to be the front-running candidate competing with Vancouver and Salt Lake City. Salt Lake officials have suggested they may focus on 2034. The IOC is expected to name the host in May 2023 and IOC President Bach, in an interview with Kyodo, seemed to rule out awarding 2030 and 2034 at the same time.
Neither of the three cities requires citizens to approve the bid in a public referendum, which have consistently been rejected when tied to funding the Olympics.
“Previously, there was no question about whether it was the right thing to do to bring the Olympics to Japan,” Tonami said. “But I think what’s different now is that people are starting to ask if it’s really the right thing to do."
Barbara Holthus, the deputy director of the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo, worked as a volunteer during the Olympics and got a feel for the street.
“People were so upset that (IOC president) Thomas Bach pushed the Olympics down everybody's throat without consideration for Japanese sentiments,” she said. “And now they want to it again without asking the people of Sapporo, which they would have to do in Germany.”
Holthus, who grew up in Hamburg, Germany, pointed out that in 2015, local voters there turned down a referendum to hold the 2024 Olympics in the northern German city. Like Holthus, IOC President Bach is also a German.
Working as an Olympic volunteer, Holthus said she saw other volunteers decline to wear their uniforms on public transportation as they traveled to the venue during the pandemic. She said volunteers were told to wear the uniforms because there was no provision for storing street clothing at venues, but some didn't want to be identified with Games.
She said it was different recently when volunteers gathered to clean some Tokyo beaches.
"My colleagues last year, lots of them didn't want to be seen in their neighborhood with the uniform on. People were thinking, maybe you'll bring the virus back to the office or into the neighborhood. But at the recent event we were asked to wear our uniform. Of course, not everybody did, but some did — and they were really proud now to wear it. So I think this bad taste of the uniform now is kind of gone."
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WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, July 22, 2022
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EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service SAN DIEGO CA
908 PM PDT Wed Jul 20 2022
...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THURSDAY
TO 8 PM PDT FRIDAY...
* WHAT...Dangerously hot conditions with temperatures up to 116
expected.
* WHERE...Coachella Valley and San Diego County Deserts.
* WHEN...From 11 AM Thursday to 8 PM PDT Friday.
* IMPACTS...Extreme heat will significantly increase the
potential for heat related illnesses, particularly for those
working or participating in outdoor activities.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Little relief expected at night with low
temperatures in the 80s and lower 90s.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
* WHAT...Dangerously hot conditions with temperatures up to 112
* WHERE...San Gorgonio Pass Near Banning.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...High temperatures will be highest and
nights warmest in the northern Coachella Valley.
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The Nord Stream gas pipeline linking Russia to Germany restarted on Thursday after 10 days of maintenance work, its operator told AFP.
"It's working," a Nord Stream spokesman said, without specifying the amount of gas being delivered. The German government had feared the pipeline would not be reopened by Moscow after the scheduled work.
Europe anxiously awaited the return of Russian gas supplies at the end of scheduled work on a crucial pipeline, as heavily dependent Germany accused the Kremlin of using energy as a "weapon."
Germany feared Russia would seize the opportunity to simply keep the taps entirely or nearly shut, plunging the continent into an energy crisis.
The showdown comes amid the worst tensions between Russia and the West in several years over the invasion of Ukraine.
"Moscow is not shying away from using grain and energy deliveries as a weapon," German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told reporters this week, referring to allegations Moscow was also deliberately blocking food exports from Ukraine.
"We have to be resolute in protecting ourselves."
However, enduring German reliance on Russian gas coupled with distinctly negative signals from Moscow looked set to ratchet up the pressure on Europe's top economy.
The IMF warned on Wednesday that a halt in supplies could slash 2022 GDP by 1.5%.
'Will fulfill'
Russia's state-owned energy giant Gazprom cut flows to Germany via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline under the Baltic Sea to some 40% of capacity in recent weeks, blaming the absence of a Siemens gas turbine that was undergoing repairs in Canada.
The repaired turbine is reportedly en route to Russia and expected to arrive on Sunday at the earliest.
Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted this week that Gazprom would meet all its delivery obligations.
"Gazprom has fulfilled, is fulfilling and will fulfil its obligations in full," Putin told reporters in Tehran after holding talks with the leaders of Iran and Turkey.
However, he warned that as another gas turbine was due to be sent for maintenance at the end of this month, energy flows could fall to 20% of capacity from next week.
Since Putin sent troops to Ukraine on Feb. 24 and the West responded with sanctions against Moscow, Russia has begun reducing its gas deliveries to prevent EU countries from replenishing reserves.
Gazprom has already blamed cuts in gas deliveries to Europe on "force majeure," two major German customers said this week, adding to fears about further disruptions.
Force majeure is a legal measure allowing companies to free themselves from contractual obligations in light of circumstances beyond their control.
'Blackmail'
The German government has rejected Gazprom's turbine explanation as an "excuse." However, Berlin acknowledges it would be largely powerless to dispute the force majeure claim and expect to be awarded damages from Russia.
As of Wednesday, German gas reserves were about 65% according to official estimates. Experts say that would leave Germany critically exposed if supplies via Nord Stream 1 didn't resume before cold weather returns.
The European Commission on Wednesday urged EU countries to reduce their demand for natural gas by 15% over the coming winter months, and to give it special powers to force through needed demand cuts if Russia severs the gas lifeline.
"Russia is blackmailing us," Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, a former German defense minister, told reporters.
"Russia is using energy as a weapon and therefore, in any event, whether it's a partial major cut off of Russian gas or total cut off... Europe needs to be ready."
German Economy Minister Robert Habeck, who has said he's started taking shorter showers to save energy, stressed that industry — but also consumers — would have to do their part to reduce Russia's power in the current standoff.
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Each week leading up to the start of training camp, 49ers.com will assess the team's roster as we get closer to the season. In this installment of the 2022 training camp preview, 49ers.com is taking a look at the team's specialists and the unit's outlook for their third-consecutive season together.
Previous Installments: Rookies | Free Agents | Coaches | Tight Ends | Defensive Line | Cornerbacks | Linebackers | Running Backs | Offensive Line | Defensive Backs, Safeties
Position Outlook
San Francisco's specialists, kicker Robbie Gould, punter Mitch Wishnowsky and long snapper Taybor Pepper, are all signed through the 2022 season. This locked-in group is entering their third season together and will be guided under the team's new special teams coordinator Brian Schneider.
Schneider returns to coaching in the NFL after working as the special teams coordinator for the Seattle Seahawks from 2010-20. During that span, Seattle's special teams unit ranked first in the NFL in takeaways (26), second in blocked kicks (24) and fifth in touchdowns scored (14).
"He's had a very long record of being a very successful special teams coach," Gould said on NBC Sports 49ers Talk. "He's one of the best coaches I've had in my 18 years."
Position Breakdown
Kicker
- Robbie Gould (18th Season)
Long Snapper
- Taybor Pepper (5th Season)
Punter
- Mitch Wishnowsky (4th Season)
2021 Recap
The 49ers special teams unit had a few shining moments in the 2021 season, including a chilling 45-yard game-winning field goal against the Green Bay Packers that sent San Francisco to the NFC Championship Game.
Unfortunately, the season also included an injury to Gould, who missed four games from Weeks 4-8. Gould also stepped in at punter when Wishnowsky was in the concussion protocol during Week 18's must-win contest against the Los Angeles Rams.
After the season ended, Richard Hightower, who was the 49ers special teams coordinator from 2017-2021, took a job with the Chicago Bears.
"We finished the season great," Gould said. "We've just got to put a whole season together and I think we will."
Specialists Breakdown
Last season, Gould connected on 87 percent of his field goals, including three of four from 50 or more yards.
In the team's regular-season finale, the NFL honored Gould as the NFC special teams player of the week for his contributions as a kicker and punter in the 49ers 27-24 victory over the Rams.
Gould was also six-for-six on field goals kicked in the 49ers playoff run last year. In his career, Gould is perfect during the playoffs with 21-of-21 field goals made, including 13-of-13 with San Francisco.
He is the NFL's active leader with 420 made field goals in his career and ranks seventh all-time in field goal accuracy at 86.6 percent.
Pepper played in every game, including the postseason, for the 49ers in 2021.
The long snapper joined the team as a free agent in 2020, a season where he was also credited with two tackles.
Last season, Wishnowsky earned his second-career NFC Special Teams Player of the Week honor after his Week 2 performance against the Philadelphia Eagles – recording two punts that pinned the Eagles inside their own 10 yard line, neither resulting in points.
The punter also earned NFC Player of the Month honors in September 2021. That month, Wishnowsky registered 11 punts for 515 yards, including a long of 59 yards, with six landing inside the opposition's 20 yard line.
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On Thursday, June 30, Arik Armstead went live on Instagram with sports journalist and NFL Insider Jordan Schultz.
The two had a conversation about a variety of subjects such as NBA free agency, Armstead's basketball skills and how the defensive lineman chose to play college football at the University of Oregon.
During their livestream, Armstead also unveiled one of his hidden talents: chess.
Armstead started playing virtual chess games on Chess.com and used it as a way to keep in contact with former 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh, now head coach of the New York Jets.
"I've got four wins and he's got about 14," Armstead said. "That's how we stay connected, just playing chess throughout the season. It gets competitive, we have a little rivalry."
Since joining Chess.com in 2018, Armstead has played over 2,300 games against "master level" bots, people from across the world and even the 49ers Faithful. Playing under the username, ARIK916, Armstead has won 12 of his last 20 games on the site.
"I've definitely learned a lot over the past year and a half," Armstead said. "I've gotten a lot better, for sure... It's definitely addictive, my wife gets mad at me. That's like what I do like before I go to sleep."
Earlier this month, Armstead was a contestant in the 2022 Chess.com BlitzChamps Consolation Bracket, an NFL-themed tournament featuring chess-playing football stars with a $100,000 prize fund dedicated to the players' desired charities.
Armstead was scheduled to match up against Cleveland Browns wide receiver Amari Cooper, Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Chidobe Awuzie, New York Giants defensive end Kayvon Thibodeaux, former Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald and former Miami Dolphins third-round pick Will Davis.
Although Armstead was unable to play the consolation bracket match against Thibodeaux due to a personal matter, the players agreed to split the $22,500 consolation prize fund equally between their charities in spite of the match not taking place.
Awuzie took first place in the BlitzChamps chess bracket earning $25,000 towards his charity, the Awuzie Kickstep Foundation, and Armstead walked away with $11,250 in charity proceeds for his foundation, the Armstead Academic Project. | https://www.49ers.com/news/off-the-field-arik-armstead-unveils-his-hidden-chess-talent | 2022-07-21T05:55:59 | en | 0.975847 |
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor is known for his extraordinary arsenal of English vocabulary which often leaves people digging dictionaries. On Thursday, he shared another such word calling it the “#WordOfTheDay”.
The new word is “algospeak." It is used on “social media posts to avoid using another that algorithms may identify as “unsuitable or inappropriate, in order to bypass downranking by content moderation filters on social media platforms," the Congress MP tweeted.
Giving an example of one such term, Tharoor wrote: “Eg. using “unalive” rather than “dead."
#WordOfTheDay:
*algospeak* [noun]:
word used on social media posts to avoid using another that algorithms may identify as unsuitable or inappropriate, in order to bypass downranking by content moderation filters on social media platforms. Eg. using “unalive” rather than “dead.” — Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) July 20, 2022
While several were left amused with the lesser-known term, some connected this to the recent ban on a set of terms in the Parliament by the central government.
“When I was in school, during attendance instead of saying ‘Present Ma’am’, I use to say ‘Not Absent Ma’am’ as a joke,” one of the users wrote.
“Yup the constant need to tip-toe around this AI or “algo-speak” can be very tiring for some of us folks ! No wonder kids these days live on “URBAN dictionary” than a REGULAR one we used while growing up!” another one remarked.
In May this year, Tharoor had come up with the “Word of the Era” – “doomscrolling”, which means the act of continuously seeking out and reading bad news.
Before that, Tharoor took a dig at the Ministry of Railways with his tongue twister “Quomodocunquize”. The rarely used term means an act of continuously seeking out and reading bad news. | https://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-algospeak-is-shashi-tharoor-s-word-of-the-day-do-you-know-what-it-means-2970270 | 2022-07-21T05:59:27 | en | 0.962839 |
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast scattered rainfall in east Rajasthan and at isolated places in western areas of the state. Heavy rainfall occurred at isolated places in east Rajasthan and light to moderate rainfall was recorded in other parts in 24 hours that ended at 8.30 am, a MeT department spokesperson said.
A yellow alert, which is a watch and stay updated alert by the weather department, has also been issued for Alwar, Bharatpur, Dausa, Dholpur, Karauli, Bikaner, and Hanumangarh.
Mount Abu tehsil recorded 150 mm rainfall, followed by 100 mm in Pushkar, 90 mm each in Kotda and Dhambola, 80 mm each in Sarwar and Udaipurvati, 70 mm each in Railmagra and Khetri, 60 mm each in Chikali, Mawli, Asind, Geola, and Reodar. Several other places across the state recorded rainfall ranging from 10 mm to 50 mm during this period.
Meanwhile, Rajasthan on Wednesday reported 246 new Covid cases, while two more people died due to the viral disease, according to officials.
According to the Health Department, one fatality each was reported from Ajmer and Bikaner, taking the death toll to 9,576. Of the new cases, 63 were reported from Jodhpur followed by 45 from Jaipur, 25 from Bikaner, 20 from Jalore, 19 from Ajmer, 14 from Udaipur, and 13 from Alwar among other places.
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On Wednesday night, the biggest stars in sports and entertainment convened at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood to celebrate the year’s best moments in sports at the ESPYS.
Below is a full list of who took home the night’s hardware:
Best Championship Performance: Cooper Kupp, Los Angeles Rams
Best Breakthrough Athlete: Eileen Gu, Skiing
Best Athlete, Women’s Sports: Katie Ledecky
Best Athlete, Men’s Sports: Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Angels
Best Record-Breaking Performance: Stephen Curry most 3-pointers made in NBA history
Best Play: Megan Rapinoe Scores from the Corner
Best Comeback Athlete: Klay Thompson, Golden State Warriors
Best Team: Golden State Warriors
Best NWSL Player: Ashley Hatch, Washington Spirit
Best MLS Player: Carlos Vela, LAFC
Best Athlete with a Disability, Men’s Sports: Brad Snyder, Paratriathlon
Best Athlete with a Disability, Women’s Sports: Jessica Long, Swimming
Best Athlete, Men’s Action Sports: Eli Tomac, Supercross
Best Athlete, Women’s Action Sports: Eileen Gu, Skiing
Best College Athlete, Men’s Sports: Bryce Young, Alabama Football
Best College Athlete, Women’s Sports: Jocelyn Alo, Oklahoma Softball
Best International Athlete, Men’s Soccer: Kylian Mbappé, PSG
Best International Athlete, Women’s Soccer: Sam Kerr, Chelsea
Best MLB Player: Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Angels
Best MMA Fighter: Charles Oliveira
Best NBA Player: Stephen Curry, Golden State Warriors
Best WNBA Player: Candace Parker, Chicago Sky
Best NFL Player: Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay Packers
Best NHL Player: Connor McDavid, Edmonton Oilers
Best Athlete, Men’s Golf: Justin Thomas
Best Athlete, Women’s Golf: Nelly Korda
Best Athlete, Men’s Tennis: Rafael Nadal
Best Athlete, Women’s Tennis: Emma Raducanu
Best Bowler: Kyle Troup Best Boxer: Tyson Fury
Best Driver: Kyle Larson, NASCAR
Best Game: Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Buffalo Bills in OT
Best Jockey: Jose Ortiz
Best Olympian, Men’s Sports: Caeleb Dressel, Swimming
Best Olympian, Women’s Sports: Katie Ledecky, Swimming
Best WWE Moment: Cody Rhodes returns to WWE at Wrestlemania
SPECIAL AWARDS
Jimmy V Award for Perseverance: Dick Vitale
Arthur Ashe Award for Courage: Vitali Klitschko
Pat Tillman Award for Service: Gretchen Evans
SPORTS HUMANITARIAN AWARDS
Muhammad Ali Sports Humanitarian Award: Albert Pujols, St. Louis Cardinals
Billie Jean King Youth Leadership Award: Noor Abukaram, Kendall Dudley, Sydney Moore, Alicia Serratos, Lucy Westlake
Sports Humanitarian Team of the Year: Denver Broncos
Sports Humanitarian League of the Year: WNBA
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