Eire participant scores: Eire have been as soon as once more bothered by unforced errors in a hard-fought 22-19 win at HQ however there have been sufficient reserves of resolve to avoid wasting the day from an Argentinian aspect that got here inside a whisker of nicking this one.

This altogether nervy efficiency from Eire won’t be sufficient to banish the ghosts of New Zealand, however it can do wonders for the arrogance.

1. Andrew Porter – 7
Had his fingers full within the scrum towards the 139kg Joel Sclavi. Was industrious in defence and was one among Eire’s most frequent carriers too.

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2. Ronan Kelleher – 6
A greater effort than final weekend’s efforts, even when not blemish-free. Tried laborious in open play and had his moments, even when by chance operating in entrance of Joe McCarthy –  handing Tomos Albornoz a well-taken 3-pointer – was not one among them.

3. Finlay Bealham – 6.5
Held his personal at scrum time for essentially the most half and popped as much as carry competently once in a while. Acquired binned for a soft-looking croc-roll within the seventeenth minute, which is an actual sizzling button for officers in the meanwhile.

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4. Joe McCarthy – 8
Put in a tireless shift, which was duly rewarded within the thirty second minute when he crashed his approach over off a James Lowe cost. He was continuously in amongst it, even when he went into mullet mode when sin-binned within the fiftieth minute.

5. James Ryan – 7
Carried effectively and topped Eire’s dominant sort out charts. Uncharacteristically lacked composure beneath strain at occasions, most notably an Eighth-minute fumble that gifted Argentina a scrum in Eire’s 22.

6. Tadhg Beirne – 7.5
The odd turnover apart he was one among Eire’s standout forwards, making essential turnovers and persistently disrupting Argentina.  A defensive bulwark who fought tooth and nail to maintain Eire within the sport. Unfortunate to not rating after knocking on over the road.

7. Josh van der Flier – 6.5
Spent most of his time on the sector within the trenches, scrapping for spare change. Not his simplest sport nevertheless it was under no circumstances a nasty outing.

8. Caelan Doris – 7
Carried with intent and gained meters, even when Los Pumas’ tackling was notably unyielding. No figurative timber pulled up however he by no means shirked the fight zone.

9. Jamison Gibson-Park – 6
Under no circumstances was this his flashiest efficiency however his service was strong even his kick-to-contest sport was somewhat off. Acquired caught napping by Julian Montoya once in a while.

10. Jack Crowley – 8
This author has been important of Crowley up to now however this was first-class stuff for essentially the most half. Shook off an enormous head contact to moments later slice his approach by the blue wall for Eire’s first attempt. Kicked effectively for territory, at objective and confirmed his capability to play heads-up rugby when it was on.

11. James Lowe – 5
Once more a menace with ball in hand after a combined sport towards the All Blacks final week, injecting vitality into Eire’s in each assault and defence; holding Guido Petti as much as win Eire a penalty within the thirteenth minute being a spotlight. Towards that, he was simply far, far too unfastened right here and seemed determined at occasions.

12. Robbie Henshaw – 5.5
Again on the beginning sheet on the expense of Bundee Aki and he proved his worth right here – initially at the least. Bullocking runs and a brick wall in defence have been the order of the day within the first half, earlier than he pale within the second, one other Irish participant contaminated with butter-fingeritis.

13. Garry Ringrose – 6
Appeared to have been off to a horror begin after throwing a telegraphed go that was intercepted, however was saved when the following Argentinian attempt not scrubbed off. There was no escaping his second-half missed sort out on Juan Cruz Mallia nevertheless, even when he was very good at occasions with ball in hand.

14. Mack Hansen – 6
Certainly one of Eire’s livelier gamers on what was a scrappy evening at occasions. Made look foolish by Mallia [he wasn’t the only one to be fair] and was responsible of forcing it at occasions in assault. May very well be discovered once in a while geeing up the gang, which Tony Ward should have hated.

15. Hugo Keenan – 6
The standard security internet beneath the excessive ball and made a few semi-promising runs. That stated, he’s not as influential in assault, the place his blade has been barely dulled of late.

Replacements:

16. Rob Herring – 5
Acquired by loads of work, even when a late missed sort out didn’t assist Irish nerves.

17. Cian Healy – 6
Introduced expertise off the bench to equal Eire’s all-time Check cap appearances file held by Brian O’Driscoll.

18. Thomas Clarkson – 8
Towards a mediocre night for Eire, Clarkson shone. Wasn’t at all times rewarded for his dominance as each traded unlawful blows on the set-piece, however he gave nearly as good as he received.

19. Ryan Baird – 5
Acquired caught in however didn’t add an excellent deal apart from laborious graft.

20. Peter O’Mahony – 6
An enormous roar greeted the Munster veteran as if the baying Aviva crowd have been keen him to singlehandedly save Eire.

21. Craig Casey – NA
Not on lengthy sufficient to fee.

22. Sam Prendergast – 6.5
Confirmed coronary heart in his 20-minute cameo in tough circumstances, even when he tried to do all of it himself at occasions.

23. Jamie Osborne – 7.5
Seemed sharp and hungry, including some a lot needed-punch to Eire’s haphazard assault.

Eire bounced again from a loss to New Zealand with a tough fought for victory over Argentina in Dublin. Andy Farrell’s males began shortly and scored the opening two tries to take a 12-0 lead inside the primary 10 minutes.

Argentina fly-half Tomas Albornoz stored the Pumas in contact with three successive penalty kicks from the boot and introduced the match inside three factors earlier than his reverse quantity Jack Crowley slotted in a effective drop purpose.

The groups traded blows however Joe McCarthy went over for Eire’s third try to took them into the break with a wholesome lead. Argentina are a second half staff although.

Eire didn’t rating a degree within the second half and had been made to dig deep because the Pumas scored a phenomenal strive from Juan Cruz Mallia. With the rating at 22-19, Eire held on over two minutes of added time earlier than the end result was theirs.

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Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts is placing up huge numbers each on and off the sector. Hurts’ basis reached the $100,000 milestone in his ongoing marketing campaign to donate $5,000 to air con models in Philadelphia colleges for each landing he scores this season.

With 22 touchdowns via 10 weeks up to now, Hurts will donate $110,000 to Philadelphia colleges as a part of his “Preserve It Cool Initiative.” Hurts’ basis reached the $100,000 benchmark in the course of the Eagles’ blowout win over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday.

In 2023, the Preserve It Cool Initiative offered air con and electrical infrastructure upgrades for over 5,000 college students, workers and academics within the Philadelphia Faculty District.

Initially of the 2024-25 college yr, 63 Philadelphia colleges needed to dismiss early amid excessive warmth as a consequence of insufficient air con. Followers can contribute to the Preserve It Cool Initiative via the Jalen Hurts Basis web site.

The UEFA Nations League 2024-25 match between Romania and Kosovo took an unsightly flip when the match was interrupted within the second-half damage time on the Nationwide Enviornment in Romania on Friday.

Whereas the match remained goalless, Kosovo dominated the match, with 17 photographs in comparison with 4 from the hosts. Nonetheless, the disturbance reportedly rose from a number of the residence followers within the stands, who chanted “Serbia!”, directed on the visiting Kosovo facet.

The tensions between Serbia and Kosovo stem from the latter’s unilateral proclamation of independence from the previous in 2008 — one thing that the Serbs don’t recognise. This deadlock has maintained tensions between the 2 events, whereas Serbia claims Kosovo the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija.

Kosovo has recognition from greater than 100 nations, however not from Romania.

Owing to the friction, the chants at Kosovo gamers and workers incensed the visiting facet, which solely received worse after a heated argument between Denis Alibec (Romania) and Amir Rrahmani (Kosovo) resulting in the 2 holding one another’s collars.

The complete episode ended with Kosovo gamers and workers strolling off the pitch within the fourth minute of second-half stoppage time.

Romania waited for an hour for the gamers, who didn’t return, and in a weird flip of occasions, the referee resumed play with solely the Romanian gamers on the pitch and shortly blew the full-time whistle, deeming the fixture suspended.

Matches between the 2 groups have at all times had an air of disturbance, with the earlier occasion being a conflict at Fadil Vokrri Stadium in Pristina, Kosovo on September 6, 2024. That recreation, too, was interrupted a number of instances for causes which included chants like “Kosovo is Serbia!”

The match had ended 3-0 in favour of Romania whereas the Kosovo Soccer Federation was fined a complete of 61,000 euros (USD 67,502, INR 56.72 lakhs) for violence in that recreation.

Romania, with 4 wins in as many video games, leads its group standings whereas Kosovo is second, with 9 factors off 4 matches. If this recreation is forfeited, Romania is more likely to be declared the winner with a 3-0 win, as is the norm for deserted video games.

The embattled chief of Georgia’s Moscow-backed separatist area of Abkhazia, Aslan Bzhania, was quoted as saying on November 16 that “authentic authorities” management all of Abkhazia besides the parliamentary complicated that opposition protesters wrested management of a day earlier to dam a controversial Russia-related vote.

The opposition has since demanded Bzhania’s and different senior officers’ resignations and new elections.

Bzhania’s press service mentioned he held an pressing assembly together with his cupboard at a faculty in his house village of Tamysh to debate “methods to stabilize the scenario that arose.”

Bzhania had beforehand mentioned he was “prepared” to step down if opposition supporters agreed to go away the parliament compound within the capital, Sukhumi.

There have been fears of escalating violence amid the storming of the parliament, which adopted weeks of tensions, in a area whose independence Moscow has backed since a five-day warfare in opposition to Georgian forces in 2008 over one other breakaway Georgian province, South Ossetia.

WATCH: The chief of the Moscow-backed Abkhazia area mentioned on November 16 that he would step down if protesters depart the parliament compound. A day earlier, demonstrators in opposition to an funding settlement with Moscow stormed the parliament in Sukhumi, the executive middle of the Georgian breakaway territory.

Opposition leaders have demanded not solely the everlasting abandonment of a proposed cope with Russia that opponents say would unfairly open the property market to rich Russians, but in addition Bzhania’s resignation and people of his vice chairman and the breakaway management’s prime minister.

“The scenario can be stabilized. We’ll return every thing to the authorized framework,” Bzhania’s press service quoted him as saying on November 16.

He reportedly added that “your complete nation” — which is overwhelmingly considered Georgian territory internationally — “is managed by the authentic authorities, aside from the complicated of buildings they’ve occupied.”

Tamysh is about 40 kilometers from the area’s capital.

The opposition known as for a contemporary rally on November 16 after protesters the day prior to this stormed the parliament grounds over an actual property cope with Moscow and demanded Bzhania’s ouster.

“Those that seized the buildings, those that tried to commit a coup d’etat, should vacate the compound, after which I’m able to name elections, able to resign, and run in contemporary elections,” Bzhania mentioned from Tamysh.

Nevertheless, the opposition appeared decided to disregard Bzhania’s calls for.

“Aslan Bzhania is resorting to determined makes an attempt to protect his authorities,” a so-called Coordination Council of the opposition mentioned in an announcement, including, “His reign is over.”

The assertion accused Bzhania of “enriching his kinfolk and a slender circle near him.”

Native media mentioned lawmakers had on November 15 did not ratify the deal, which opponents worry would permit rich Russians to amass property within the picturesque Black Sea area, pushing actual property costs greater and making it unaffordable for locals.

Bzhania, a former chief of Abkhazia’s state safety service, informed his supporters on November 16 that “huge strain is being exerted on members of parliament in order that the parliament makes an illegal determination to dismiss the president.” However he warned that the “2014 state of affairs is not going to be repeated,” an allusion to one in all two situations when Abkhaz leaders resigned as a consequence of opposition protests.

On June 1, 2014, Abkhaz chief Aleksander Ankvab resigned following opposition protests led by Raul Khajimba, who took his place, solely to resign, too, after the Supreme Courtroom overturned the outcomes of the 2019 presidential election. Bzhania then turned president after successful a March 2020 vote.

Abkhazia and South Ossetia broke away from Georgia’s rule after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Moscow acknowledged the independence of the 2 areas after Russian forces repelled a Georgian try and retake South Ossetia in a five-day warfare in 2008 that ended with Georgia’s defeat.

Most international locations nonetheless acknowledge Abkhazia as a part of Georgia, however its economic system is sort of solely depending on Moscow, which pays the salaries of public directors in addition to social funds to residents.

Georgian pro-European President Salome Zurabishvili responded to the tensions in what Tbilisi regards as its occupied area by accusing Russia of “taking accelerated steps towards annexation” of Abkhazia.

Tensions have been operating excessive within the area in current weeks, with opposition activists demanding an finish to Russia’s dominance over the area and its economic system, although opposition events on November 15 mentioned their protest will not be in opposition to Russia.

“The actions of the protesters should not directed in opposition to relations between Russia and Abkhazia,” they mentioned in a joint assertion. “In reality, we, the opposition, have at all times emphasised the significance of fraternal and strategic ties between our international locations.”

Russia’s International Ministry accused the Abkhaz opposition of exceeding authorized means and “scary an escalation.” It mentioned by a spokeswoman that Russia was not interfering and anticipated the scenario “can be resolved completely by peaceable political means.”

Moscow beneficial that any Russian residents in Abkhazia depart “if potential” and that others chorus from touring there.

Like many different world firms, Barcelona-based Roca Group has confronted provide chain and different challenges lately, together with the COVID-19 pandemic, the conflict in Ukraine, and risky power costs. Based in 1917, the corporate designs, produces, and distributes merchandise within the lavatory house and has a business community in 170 international locations, 21,000 staff, and 79 manufacturing websites – making it a very world firm.

The corporate has expanded its worldwide operations lately by natural progress and acquisitions, says Roca Group Digital Transformation Director Jacques Nieuwland. “We’ve had the challenges of most industries within the final years,” he says. “My job is to assist Roca leverage know-how to assist the totally different strategic aims of the corporate, that are progress, innovation, operational excellence, and sustainability.”

International Provide Chain

“We’ve a worldwide provide chain for a few of our elements, so we have to plan in a extra agile means,” Nieuwland says. “We have to replace our planning and we’d like to have the ability to put in some buffers to have a resilient provide chain.”

Nieuwland says know-how helps by giving Roca better visibility into its provide chain. “Everyone collaborates towards the identical processes with the identical information. We embody our personal worth chain and in addition the worth chain of our suppliers and prospects,” he says. “And this enhanced visibility permits us to optimize the entire worth chain and to take the fitting choices.”

SAP is the spine of the corporate’s utility panorama, he says: “We carry out our core processes, which embody order processing, reordering planning, and lots of others through SAP options. It helps us as a result of it provides us a construction of processes, of knowledge, and of stories that enable us to know our enterprise, to copy it, to scale it, and to repeatedly enhance it.”

Roca makes use of the SAP Built-in Enterprise Planning for Provide Chain answer to assist it anticipate the demand for particular merchandise and regulate manufacturing accordingly. That means, Nieuwland says, “we’re capable of give a wonderful service and to optimize shares.”

Lengthy-Time period Partnership

Nieuwland says Roca Group selected SAP to be its know-how associate due to its long-term relationship with SAP and since SAP is a frontrunner in most of the options Roca wanted. “We’ve an extended historical past of collaboration and have been profitable. […] We belief the know-how, the digital provide chain answer, [and] the enterprise community answer. We prefer to work with main options – we belief them.”

Earlier this 12 months Roca chosen RISE with SAP and is making ready to go stay with SAP S/4HANA Cloud at the start of 2025 for the following part of its digital transformation – a transfer that Nieuwland believes will allow much more innovation. “We’ve chosen the cloud-based answer as a result of SAP innovates first on the cloud-based answer and we need to leverage that innovation,” he says.

He provides that the combination of SAP’s generative AI copilot Joule into SAP’s cloud ERP may even gas innovation and productiveness. “We expect there’s large potential to extend our productiveness,” he says. Extra usually, he says SAP’s cutting-edge know-how will assist Roca enhance its service to prospects and work together higher with them, in addition to assist the corporate obtain operational excellence together with, for instance, decreasing waste and enhancing sustainability.

Sustainability

On sustainability, Nieuwland says Roca Group is learning scope 1, scope 2, and scope 3 emissions. It has already set yearly targets for the discount of CO2 and desires to be carbon impartial by 2045. Extra usually, he says Roca’s objective is to ship “the very best lavatory expertise for patrons worldwide.”

Requested what different producers can study from Roca’s expertise, he says: “It’s essential to begin with a enterprise downside, a enterprise problem, and put know-how on the service of producing enterprise worth. Then it’s essential to work in cross-functional groups. So, this isn’t about shopping for tons of of options to resolve remoted issues. We have to assume on an even bigger scale and to work collectively to seek out the very best answer to our challenges and use few options and have an enterprise structure that assist our objectives.”

SPOILER ALERT: This text discusses plot particulars from the Season 6 Half 2 finale of “Cobra Kai,” now streaming on Netflix.

Cobra Kai by no means dies. Till its college students do.

The ultimate season of Netflix’s hit dramedy “Cobra Kai,” itself a by-product of the “Karate Child” franchise from the Nineteen Eighties, is break up into three installments. Half 1 was launched on July 18, with Half 2 now streaming. Half 3 will arrive in early 2025.

This second chapter of the ultimate season brings the Miyagi-Do dojo to Barcelona for an elite worldwide karate event often called the Sekai Taikai. The finale to Season 6 Half 2, an episode aptly titled “Eunjangdo” — and also you’ll see why — contains a title match between Miyagi-Do’s Robby Keene (Tanner Buchanan) and the Iron Dragons dojo’s Axel Kovacevic (Patrick Luwis).

Axel, brooding and muscular in his 6’3″ body, towers over Robby because the struggle begins. Miyagi-Do’s captain rapidly tires himself out via a sequence of tried hits that show futile to Axel’s formidable protection. At that time, it takes one delicate look from the latter’s abusive sensei (Lewis Tan) to ship Axel on offense. The fighter repeatedly strikes Robby, drawing blood by a punch to the mouth. When Axel tosses him exterior the competitors mat, Robby comes nose to nose with Cobra Kai rival Kwon Jae-Sung (Brandon H. Lee). Kwon hits him with a fast jab and Robby’s Miyagi-Do teammate Miguel Diaz (Xolo Maridueña) rapidly takes exception. Miguel crosses the mat to confront Kwon, when Axel knocks him to the bottom. Inside seconds, Robby and Miguel sq. up with their rivals.

Earlier than the Sekai Taikai host can put an finish to this confrontation, he’s knocked unconscious by a disgruntled sensei whose workforce was banned for drug use. From there, the momentum of the karate match coalesces into the form of drawn-out, adrenalized struggle sequence that has develop into a “Cobra Kai” staple.

As a result of the event qualifies as a world sporting occasion, this subsequent brawl is being dwell streamed for followers globally, together with Miyagi-Do’s family members again within the San Fernando Valley. The struggle involves a climax when Kwon and Axel are thrust right into a bodily altercation. The “Iron Dragons” fighter kicks Kwon into the event’s cameraman and the present shifts right into a vertical vantage level of Kwon’s bleeding face to replicate the digicam’s drop to the ground. Kwon lets out a pissed off scream. Then, he laughs. He’s noticed what he believes to be his key to victory: an Eunjangdo knife misplaced by his Cobra Kai sensei John Kreese (Martin Kove) amid the chaos.

Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) can see the scene unfold earlier than it occurs. He rushes over to cease Kwon and the digicam cuts to a karate battle between Kreese, Johnny Lawerence (William Zabka) and Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith). Because the three antagonists of the unique “Karate Child” franchise put together to face off, a harrowing scream is heard. And everybody stops preventing.

The feel of sound design molds from a dramatic, foreshadowing crescendo to one thing somber and ethereal, a number of seconds of layered music composition punctured by the dialogue “That’s plenty of blood,” after which, the reveal of an eunjangdo knife lodged into Kwon’s torso.

“We set Kwon as much as be the brand new massive, unhealthy antagonist going into this second block,” sequence co-creator Hayden Schlossberg tells Selection in a dialog alongside co-creators and showrunners Jon Hurwitz and Josh Heald. “For him to get killed by one other opponent is a shock we had been trying ahead to.”

Hurwitz contextualizes Kwon’s demise as a very groundbreaking second, as a result of audiences haven’t beforehand seen a visceral on-screen demise within the sequence or in any of the “Karate Child” films. He provides that the “Cobra Kai” writers crafted a story set-up for Kwon’s demise in Half 1 via the storyline of Daniel discovering Mr. Miyagi killed his opponent on the Sekai Taikai a long time earlier.

“Kwon grew to become this powder keg of a personality that basically obtained us excited within the writers’ room,” Heald says.

Hurwitz provides that the “Strike Laborious, Strike Quick, No Mercy” philosophy imbued into Cobra Kai by Kreese injected a form of emotional venom into Kwon’s psyche.

Kwon, Hurwitz explains, is a damaged one that so desperately desires to show himself as the very best. After dropping to Robby in the course of the event, he struggles to deal with his inside anger. His sensei and mentor, in flip, give him the mistaken message: to indicate no mercy.

“Kreese is extra vengeful than ever, and utilizing Kwon as this final weapon,” Schlossberg says. “It ends with this Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla struggle all the scholars are concerned in. It created a possibility for us to have Kreese see the outcomes of a few of his actions. … Watching one in all his college students get killed with the knife he introduced there.”

Season 6 Half 1 chronicled the backstory of the eunjangdo knife, which a youthful Kreese acquired years earlier throughout a deadly journey to show himself to his former sensei, Grasp Kim (C.S. Lee). The weapon, Heald says, is about much more than a knife.

The co-creator particulars how the eunjangdo takes on the final remnants of affection for Johnny that Kreese nonetheless possesses. It’s this empathy, Heald explains, which stands in the best way of his changing into the ruthless creation he was as soon as able to molding into below the tutelage of Grasp Kim.

“The knife represents Kreese’s final vestige of humanity,” Heald says. “It’s an inflection level — does it ship him additional down the spiral or does it create a possibility for change? That’s a giant query we would like folks to be chewing on on the finish of those 5 episodes.”

One thing held me again from actually loving the primary two episodes of this batch of 5; Barcelona must be a enjoyable change of setting, and it’s, however there’s been one thing just a little workmanlike about these opening occasions within the Sekai Taikai and about these reversions to previous character patterns. The present has felt a tad much less joyful than it does at its greatest.

That modified for me with “Snakes on a Airplane,” the precise midpoint of this 15-episode sixth season. That’s form of a shock for the least Barcelona-centric episode of the group, and for one which encompasses a outstanding Anthony LaRusso subplot. However I felt plenty of real pleasure watching this one — each that large bombshell look on the finish and the stuff main as much as it.

That’s a powerful accomplishment contemplating a relative lack of karate and the temporary somber flip with Carmen’s well being. When Johnny calls Amanda from the airplane, she experiences that Carmen remains to be unconscious and that they’re monitoring her bleeding. In any other case, we aren’t aware of what’s occurring and if she’ll be okay. Now, I figured she’d make it out of this one, simply because killing Carmen off this deep into the present would actually solid a pall over the remaining episodes. However the story works as a result of whereas we know she’ll most likely be okay, and we comprehend it’s secure to benefit from the airplane experience for any comedic potentialities, Johnny and Miguel haven’t any such assurances.

Just about anytime Miguel feels harm or uncared for by Johnny, then the 2 come again collectively, it’s assured to work on me. They’re the core, authentic sensei-student relationship of the present, the brand new Mr. Miyagi and Daniel, and in some methods they’re an much more essential pairing than Johnny and Daniel. Typically the space between them builds simply because they’re every busy with their very own stuff — as Johnny explains to Miguel later within the episode, Robby wants extra help than him proper now, feeling directionless with none specific faculty prospects. As he movingly tells Miguel, although, “You’re my son, too.” He admits that he’s apprehensive about shedding Carmen, that he is aware of it’s false consolation to fake he is aware of the whole lot will likely be okay.

The wealthy asshole in top notch is a fairly cartoony villain for the episode, but it surely’s enjoyable to see Miguel be the one to punch him out somewhat than Johnny. And that’s the primary of a number of Ws for these two, the most important being the information that Carmen and the child are utterly tremendous! (That bloody bedspread was form of horrifying for a second, however I figured it was a misdirect.) She wanted an emergency cerclage, however now she’s again to bedrest for a number of weeks, so there’s nothing else to do. She even encourages them to fly again to Spain and win the Sekai Taikai.

I believe I might imagine I may win a world karate event if Carmen informed me I may, however her encouragement may intrude with the needs of the brand new fighter drafted to compete for Miyagi-Do: Kenny. Johnny requested Amanda to get Kenny on a airplane to Spain to interchange Miguel, not understanding they’d be headed again the identical day. It’s fairly sensible to fold Kenny again in at this level, and I’m relieved that it doesn’t imply Miguel will really be absent. There’s an fascinating alternative for battle going into the subsequent couple of episodes: With a restricted variety of slots, who really will be competing?

Getting Kenny to agree isn’t a simple process. He’s nonetheless satisfied Anthony was the one who drugged him with laxatives and led to the memeification of “Shit Butt,” a nickname that actually doesn’t roll off the tongue very nicely. (Then once more, Kenny famously known as Anthony “LaPusso.”) Amanda makes Anthony apologize to Kenny for the bullying, however he’s overly defensive in regards to the laxative allegations, and the 2 inevitably get right into a struggle. (Amanda: “Fucking karate.”) Ever the peacekeeper, Amanda will get them to close up by sharing the information about Carmen, a forceful reminder that their issues are small potatoes. It’s their responsibility to maneuver previous this so Kenny can really feel secure at Miyagi-Do and are available by means of for his associates in Barcelona.

That doesn’t cease the conflict immediately. However Anthony’s extra earnest apology does, alongside together with his over-the-top gesture of voluntarily night the rating relating to pants-shitting. Devon’s responsible name admitting to the entire thing seals the deal. Kenny and Anthony won’t be besties immediately, however there’s not any unhealthy blood.

However as one feud ends, the teenager drama in Barcelona is reaching a fever pitch. At Chozen’s encouragement (and towards Daniel’s), the youngsters are “hitting the city arduous” to decompress tonight, together with a tapas bar the place Robby, Tory, Kwon, and Zara get locked in a four-way thoughts sport. Robby isn’t usually a drinker, however the breakup and his latest karate performances have left him in a darkish place, ordering double rum-and-Cokes whereas jealously watching Kwon’s obnoxious flirting and eager about how little the breakup has affected Tory — both personally or in karate, which tends to have a direct correlation.

Robby finally ends up spending the evening with Zara, who appears intent on personally screwing with Tory, both out of some Kreese-esque try and get below her enemy’s pores and skin or some pathological must be the prettiest and hottest woman within the room. The subsequent morning, Tory occurs to see the 2 briefly kiss outdoors Zara’s door, which ought to additional up the stakes going into the subsequent occasion.

Everyone is getting cozy with individuals they shouldn’t be that evening, together with Demetri, who accepts a dance with a lady who’s not his girlfriend Yasmine. Eli’s FaceTime together with his personal girlfriend Moon certain appears supposed to rat Demetri out, even when he didn’t know Yasmine was within the room together with her on the time, but it surely places the 2 associates on even worse floor than earlier than.

And Sam spends a while with Axel, mentioning that she noticed Sensei Wolf hurting him. He’s firmly centered on preventing and appears timid about the whole lot else, although he tries to plant a kiss on her after an aborted struggle with Kwon and a few of his typical cronies. I can’t fairly inform the place this story goes; is Sam beginning to notice she may need one thing aside from the life she dreamed of for herself and Miguel?

All these items is stable, elevating some intriguing wrinkles for the remainder of the season. However I’ve to say, my absolute favourite a part of the episode is Chozen and Kim Da-Eun’s subplot, throughout which they hold working into one another whereas trying to find their college students. On the seashore district, they run into one another once more, ultimately monitoring the youngsters to the tapas bar the place they had been final seen. Each anticipated to search out the youngsters preventing, leaving a wrecked bar of their wake — in spite of everything, there’s historic precedent. But it surely seems they apprehensive for nothing, so far as they know.

Kim Da-Eun has at all times been a stable secondary antagonist, however I’ve additionally by no means considered her as advanced in the identical approach as Kreese or Silver. But it surely’s refreshing to begin to see her separate from Kreese, disapproving of his off-the-battlefield techniques. The episode units us as much as suppose Kreese kidnapped Daniel with out her data, however following Dennis to a lodge results in the “fuck yeah”-worthy ending reveal: It was Terry Silver behind the kidnapping this entire time, presumably working with Sensei Wolf to take out Miyagi-Do and elevate the Iron Dragons to victory.

It’s an excellent second, particularly as a result of it comes early sufficient that it’s really shocking (versus an episode-ten cliffhanger, which is what I anticipated). And but Chozen and Kim Da-Eun’s make-out session (and subsequent off-screen intercourse on the seashore) must be my favourite second. There’s an actual power to their sparring all through the episode; in a present like this, you’d count on at the least a pair fighting-turns-into-making-out moments, however I believe this should be the very first occasion, perhaps as a result of male characters not often struggle feminine characters (and there are subsequent to no queer characters).

Exterior the satisfaction of watching Chozen get his groove again after Towel Man ruined his mojo, I like seeing Kim Da-Eun on this new mode. Alicia Hannah-Kim has by no means gotten the prospect to play comedy on this present, so it’s a pleasant to see her flex these muscle groups right here. (The second she shakes sand out of her sleeves and hair the subsequent morning is a spotlight.) It’ll be tough for the character to redeem herself at this level, given the methods she has harm her college students, however her rising divide with the opposite baddies is one other variable to maintain our eyes on. I wasn’t anticipating a full-blown enemies-to-lovers arc in Cobra Kai, but when that’s the place this season goes, I’m right here for it.

• “Why is the airplane doing this flexible factor?” “You imply following the curvature of the Earth?”

• “Have to go inside. Searching for youngsters.” “I heard that one earlier than.”

Almost 1,400 prospects and companions got here collectively in Las Vegas, Nevada, to witness the ability of SAP’s spend administration and enterprise community options at SAP Spend Join Dwell. Better of all, attendees left with new methods to reinforce productiveness, strategically collaborate, guarantee easy compliance, and achieve crucial enterprise insights.

In case you missed out on the motion, we unveiled the next cutting-edge improvements in our market-leading options:

• SAP Ariba Consumption Administration is our latest answer that helps automate procurement request creation and orchestrate routing and assist throughout numerous procurement landscapes and sophisticated workflows. It may join totally different methods into one central location for procurement inquiries and standing updates, so workers can adhere to your group’s insurance policies and adjust to mandatory rules.
• SAP’s generative AI copilot Joule will likely be seamlessly built-in throughout SAP Ariba options, SAP Enterprise Community, and SAP Fieldglass options. Joule can allow customers to handle their most necessary duties shortly and precisely throughout all areas of SAP’s spend administration portfolio.  
• The promote subscription for SAP Enterprise Community can empower suppliers to seek out new enterprise, enhance match potential, and construct relationships with consumers utilizing the community catalog. Out there early subsequent 12 months, it consists of generative AI instruments to assist suppliers load their full suite of choices into the community catalog quicker and with enhanced product descriptions and summaries. 
• New analytics capabilities in SAP Fieldglass options can ship next-level insights into your exterior workforce for reporting, analytics, and market insights all inside SAP Fieldglass.

Learn this text from my colleague Manoj Swaminathan to study extra about our newest spend administration and enterprise community enhancements.

Main manufacturers akin to Goldman Sachs, Kraft-Heinz, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Uber, and Warner Music Group joined us on the occasion to share how they revolutionized their spend administration processes with our options. Try SAP Spend Join Digital to listen to these tales and think about breakout classes, technique talks, and answer deep dives. This free, digital occasion is your alternative to study from SAP specialists, prospects, and companions.

Thank You, IDC

As a pacesetter in spend administration software program, SAP is devoted to serving to our prospects improve management and enterprise resilience by comprehensively managing all sources of spend. Laborious work pays off, as SAP has retained the No.1 place for market share with 49.6% of 2023 market share for Journey and Expense Administration Software program, in line with the IDC Worldwide Journey and Expense Administration Software program Market Shares 2023 (doc #US51658524, August 2024) report. That is progress from our 2022 market share of 49.4%. 

Additionally thrilling, SAP has retained the No.1 place for market share for Procurement Functions in line with the IDC Worldwide Procurement Functions Market Shares 2023 (doc #US52580824, September 2024) report. IDC estimates that SAP holds a 27.3% market share for 2023, sustaining the highest spot forward of the following six distributors mixed.

Moreover, we’re honored to win two IDC SaaS CSAT awards for Accounts Payable and Contract Lifecycle Administration. These awards acknowledge the main software-as-a-service (SaaS) distributors in every utility market, throughout 23 markets, that obtain the very best buyer satisfaction scores based mostly on IDC’s SaaSPath Survey.

Our Buyer Awards Attain New Heights

Each quarter, G2 highlights the top-rated options within the business, chosen by the supply that issues most: our prospects. Q3 was our most profitable quarter but relating to G2 honors, with SAP Ariba, SAP Enterprise Community, SAP Concur, and SAP Fieldglass bringing in a whopping 93 awards throughout a number of classes on the Fall 2024 G2 awards!

SAP was named a Chief within the following classes:

• SAP Ariba is a G2 Fall 2024 Chief in Procure to Pay, Strategic Sourcing, and Provider Relationship Administration.
• SAP Enterprise Community is a G2 Fall 2024 Chief in Provide Chain Enterprise Networks.
• SAP Concur is a G2 Fall 2024 Chief in Expense, Journey & Expense, and Invoicing.
• SAP Fieldglass is a G2 Fall 2024 Chief in Vendor Administration.

What’s extra, SAP Ariba, SAP Concur, and SAP Fieldglass have additionally gained Purchaser’s Selection awards from TrustRadius. Winners of a Purchaser’s Selection award are decided by 75% of reviewers deciding on an answer for finest capabilities, finest worth for value, and finest buyer relationship.

We couldn’t be extra grateful to our prospects for partnering with us on their spend administration transformation journeys, and we’re honored that the sensation is mutual!

Successful awards from our prospects is superior, however successful with prospects is further particular. Final month, buyer and SAP Spend Join Dwell in 2024 speaker Daniel Chapman of Warner Music gained a SIG Way forward for Sourcing award within the Innovation in Sourcing class: “Creating Concord in Music Procurement: Warner Music Group and SAP.” This award acknowledges organizations and people that present innovation, management, and transformation in classes crucial to the sourcing business, and we couldn’t be happier about this win.

Final however undoubtedly not least, I wish to congratulate our buyer Capgemini for successful a prestigious SuperNova2024 award from Constellation Analysis within the Way forward for Work: Human Capital Administration class. The award acknowledges Capgemini’s revolutionary use of SAP Fieldglass Contingent Workforce Administration to optimize its international exterior workforce, leading to improved effectivity, price financial savings, and high quality requirements.

New Developments on the Horizon

With 2025 simply across the nook, I wish to thank our prospects for betting massive on themselves by investing in our cutting-edge spend administration and enterprise community options. In a time marked by provide chain disruptions and ongoing financial uncertainty, it’s all too simple for companies to stay with the established order. Nonetheless, SAP prospects are totally different. They deal with obstacles head-on, remodeling them into alternatives. And their foresight to plan for the longer term is why they may proceed to achieve success.

Thanks for selecting SAP to assist remedy your largest challenges. I loved seeing so a lot of you at SAP Spend Join Dwell and I can’t wait to meet up with the remainder of you on the street.

Jeff Collier is chief income officer for SAP Clever Spend and Enterprise Community.

Kennedy mentioned in his NPR interview that vaccines had been “not going to be taken away from anyone”.

He says he desires to enhance the science on vaccine security which he believes has “large deficits” and that he desires good data so individuals “could make knowledgeable decisions“.

However his critique of the vaccine security regime has been roundly dismissed by consultants.

Whereas Kennedy has denied, exterior on a number of events that he’s anti-vaccination and mentioned he and his kids are vaccinated, he has repeatedly said extensively debunked claims about vaccine hurt.

Certainly one of his essential false claims – repeated in a 2023 interview with Fox Information, exterior, was that “autism comes from vaccines”.

This idea was popularised by discredited UK physician Andrew Wakefield.

However Wakefield’s 1998 research was later retracted by the Lancet medical journal. A number of research since, throughout many nations, have concluded there isn’t any hyperlink between vaccines and autism, exterior.

Dr David Elliman, a advisor in neighborhood youngster well being at Nice Ormond Avenue Hospital in London, mentioned RFK Jr has perpetuated myths round vaccination with “an utter disregard for the proof”.

“If he’s appointed and continues in the identical mode, I concern not only for the vaccination programme within the US, however comparable programmes around the globe, and for healthcare on the whole,” says Dr Elliman.

“Vaccination has in all probability saved extra lives and is healthier researched than most, if not all, features of healthcare. RFK Jr may set this again and be chargeable for the dying and incapacity of myriads of individuals, notably kids.”