World cup

• With injuries across the six nations teams ruling out 19 players due to incidents pre-season or during the tournament, the first few Six Nations weekends have already highlighted the importance of the Blackeye Gin cause.
• Infused with botanicals from every major rugby playing nation, Blackeye is setting out to change the game - in more ways that one.
• Mike Tindall added: "We're also incredibly proud to have made our first Blackeye Rugby Fund donation (helping Gary Street, World Cup winning coach).
• Launching our Blackeye cans means it's never been easier to support the cause, and if Blackeye isn't yet behind the bar in your clubhouse, it should be!"

• The new Board will feature global sports icons Manu Ginóbili, the NBA All-Star, and George Gregan, Australian rugby captain and World Cup winner.
• Manu Ginóbili is an NBA Hall-of-Famer, two-time All-Star and four-time league champion with the Spurs, and widely regarded as the greatest Latin American basketball player of all time.
• He currently works as a Special Advisor to Basketball Operations for the San Antonio Spurs and is a keen investor in new technologies.
• The Sportian Advisory Board will be the resource for any competition to lay its challenges on the table and draw up a smart growth plan.

• Recent celebrity documentaries Beckham and Robbie Williams, and the final season of TV drama The Crown, have painted a portrait of the UK tabloids as cruel, sadistic and predatory of its homegrown celebrities.
• While criticism of the British tabloids – particularly the ethics and methods of the News of the World – is often justified, the specifics offered by all three shows fall flat.
• While these shows all try to claim part of the noughties nostalgia trend, they feel politically and contextually vacant.

The millennium press

• By 1998, only 8% of editorial in The Sun and The Mirror could be classed as “public affairs” – the rest focused on gossip, sports, or both.
• Inevitably, as celebrity culture became news, news also became gossip and both categories disintegrated into what we now call “clickbait”.
• As The Crown dolefully shows, one picture of Princess Diana could sell for millions to print newspapers in 1997.

The Crown

• The final season of The Crown covers the last eight months of Princess Diana’s life.
• Through fictionalised monologues from actors playing real photographers and journalists, the press compare themselves to “hunters” and “killers”.

Beckham and Robbie Williams

• Unlike The Crown, the main characters in the documentaries Beckham and Robbie Williams are not only living subjects but also active participants in the programmes.
• Beckham consults a litany of talking heads – former managers, teammates, Spice Girls and two suitably shame-filled paparazzi – to build a portrait of the footballer and his union with wife Victoria.
• As Williams notes, “[When you become famous] you want to give away the privacy you want to give away.

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• This motto embodies the essential feature of this latest development because it brings state-of-the-art solutions to the public transport sector in North America.
• The contract awarded to init has a volume of over USD 100 million to cover the initial design phase, installation, and deployment of the AFC System 2.0.
• We continue to see great growth opportunities for this technology in North America,” says Dr. Jürgen Greschner, init SE management board CSO.
• The technological advantages of the init solution and the ease with which it can be expanded to create a mobility platform are compelling arguments for an increasing number of public transport operators in the United States.