Move over Spotify, Chris Olsen is doing a different sort of end of the year review. The TikToker posted a video to the social media platform on Dec. 9, walking his fans through his 2022 Dating Wrapped report. In the clip, he hilariously broke down the 10 romantic encounters he had over the last year, category-by-category, using graphs, scales and charts. Chris—who broke up with boyfriend Ian Paget in January—began his report with a “Databilty vs. Hotness” scale, before moving on to a bar chart of ages, noting that he’s “into the older men.” “Everyone I have dated has been older than me,” he explained. “If you are…
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Sabre has partnered with Mastercard to accelerate the use of virtual cards for business-to-business (B2B) travel payments. The agreement builds on Sabre’s August 2022 acquisition of Conferma Pay, a fintech firm that specializes in payment technology, and advances the company’s goal of creating an independent travel payment ecosystem. Digitization of travel payments with virtual cards helps address the historic challenges associated with B2B leisure and corporate travel payments. The securely generated, single use card numbers provide a link between booking and associated payments to third party suppliers. Travel buyers and suppliers are therefore able to easily track and reconcile payments,…
Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong chose Human Rights Day to announce Magnitsky-style sanctions against 13 Russian and Iranian individuals and two entities, in response to egregious human rights abuses. Wong has described these sanctions as a means of holding human rights abusers to account, in situations where dialogue has proven ineffective. What are Magnitsky sanctions? Magnitsky sanctions are named after Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer who was killed in prison for exposing corruption. Unlike more traditional sanctions targeting nation states, Magnitsky sanctions freeze the assets of targeted individuals and prevent them from travelling freely. Sanctions are a well-known tool of…
“I visited several cholera treatment centres in the most affected neighbourhoods of Port-au-Prince and saw heart-breaking scenes; children who were so malnourished, it was difficult to insert a drip into their arms or legs; adults who were clearly very ill. What immediately struck me was the intense smell of chlorine disinfectant, which is used to sterilize the immediate environment, clearly a sign that the facility is well run by health professionals who know how to prevent and treat the disease. I saw staff continually scrubbing the floor and surfaces to ensure that the cholera bacteria could not spread further. UNOCHA/Christian…
During her speech, Ms. Mottley spoke extensively about the need to reform the ageing global financial architecture to better reflect today’s realities, for instance making it easier for climate-stricken countries to access capital. Indeed, the Bretton Woods Agreement that gave rise to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) “no longer serve the purpose in the 21st century that they served in the 20th century,” she said. She called for a global compact establishing that financing for development cannot be short term, but instead should be at least a 30-year loan. “The world recognized this when allowed Britain…
In providing an overview of the situation after the 2 October truce expiration, Hans Grundberg said that in recent weeks, Houthi forces, known as Ansar Allah, attacked oil terminals and ports in Hadramawt and Shabwa governorates, depriving the Government of its main source of revenue from exporting oil. “These attacks…have significant economic repercussions”, he said. “Attacks on oil infrastructure and threats to oil companies undermine the welfare of the entirety of the Yemeni people…risk setting off a spiral of military and economic escalation…[and] are prohibited by international humanitarian law”. ‘Concerning uptick’ Mr. Grundberg informed the ambassadors of “a concerning uptick”…
Artist Mike Ham works together with PROWL design studio and sustainable furniture design and manufacturing brand Model No. on the new Endless Loop: Waste to Wanted in Miami. It is unveiled during this year’s Art Basel highlighting their shared vision of reducing environmental harm affected by manufacturing methods.Lauryn Menard and Baillie Mishler from PROWL talk about the project, stating that “As a studio, we use design to tell stories about the climate crisis we are facing and the ways we can shift our manufacturing practices towards positive change […] “As a studio, we use design to tell stories about the…
An embattled Russian rights group that received this year’s Nobel Peace Prize was pressured by the Kremlin to decline the honor because of the Ukrainian organization and jailed Belarusian activist who also received the award, BBC News revealed Saturday.”Maybe we should take this award not only as an assessment of what we have managed to do in 35 years, but also as a kind of advance on what we aim to do.””We were advised by our authorities to turn down this prize because they deemed co-laureates inappropriate,” Yan Rachinsky, the head of Memorial, said in an interview. “Naturally, we did…
Mr. Guterres was speaking at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, memorial site of the infamous S-21 interrogation and detention centre under the bloody regime, which lasted from 1975 to 1979. ‘An essential reminder’ It is estimated that up to 18,000 people from across Cambodia were brought to the facility, located in a former secondary school in the heart of the capital. Only a few survived. “Tuol Sleng is an essential reminder. Its bloodstained bricks and tiles are a warning to us all: This is what happens when hatred runs rampant. This is what happens when human beings are persecuted,…
The last Boeing 747, a 747-8 Freighter, has left the company’s widebody factory in Everett, Washington in advance of its delivery to Atlas Air in early 2023. The iconic 747 played a key role in Boeing’s history and transformed global travel after entering service in 1970. Production of the 747, the world’s first twin-aisle airplane, began in 1967 and spanned 54 years, during which a total of 1,574 airplanes were built. At 250 ft 2 in (76.2 m), the 747-8 is the longest commercial aircraft in service, and when flying at typical cruising speeds, the aircraft travels roughly the length…