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Calvin Ho has been building websites for over a decade. His agency, Knockers Design, is based in Taipei and works with clients across Taiwan and the US, specializing in complex, custom builds. For all of it, his platform of choice is WordPress.com. Creating complex WordPress websites is still in high demand, and today’s WordPress.com supports us and has our back. Built for customization, not just simplicity Knockers Design’s projects involve CRM integrations, custom plugins, Web3 projects, API connections, and complex e-commerce setups. The kind of work where platform limitations become real problems fast. WordPress.com handles it all. The plugin ecosystem…

Robert Whittaker knows Israel Adesanya as well as anyone, and knows what it takes for him to get his mojo back.Two of the greatest middleweights of their generation, Whittaker and Adesanya will forever be connected by their two-fight rivalry and proud representation of the Oceanic region. Whittaker passed the torch to Adesanya in a championship unification bout at UFC 243 in 2019 where “The Last Stylebender” scored an impressive knockout win, and the pair ran it back in 2022 at UFC 271, with Adesanya winning a competitive decision in the rematch.Now, Whittaker is preparing for a move up to light…

This Spend Matters Vendor Analysis examines Axiom, a UK-based technology provider that offers an enterprise-grade marketplace and tail-spend platform designed to complement existing ERP or source-to-pay (S2P) environments. Founded in 2020 and launched publicly in 2023, Axiom consolidates catalog, free-text and inventory-based purchasing into a single managed marketplace that automates low-value transactions and brings control to the long tail of spend. While many e-procurement systems cover requisitioning and purchase order workflows, few address persistent pain points, such as catalog fragmentation, free-text requisitions and materials management. Axiom’s approach combines marketplace design, supplier collaboration and managed data governance to enable procurement teams…

We recently learned that Street Fighter League 2026 will have its total prize pool increased from last year’s $500,000 to $700,000. It would seem that Capcom wants to make this year’s Street Fighter League feel special with the addition of a contest for the artists of the fighting game community. Evidently, the Street Fighter League is in need of a mascot. Fans can enter in their designs for what the Street Fighter League mascot will look like for…

They say not providing federal employees with a raise in 2027 would be “disastrous.” Michele Sandiford April 13, 2026 12:53 pm < a min read   Unions are heightening their calls for a bigger federal pay boost next year. That’s after the White House omitted funding for a civilian pay raise from its 2027 budget proposal. It comes in contrast with the 7% salary increase that’s being requested for military members. Federal unions are advocating for pay raise parity between civilian and military members next year. They say not providing federal employees with a raise in 2027 would be “disastrous.”A…

Iran Press TV Monday, 13 April 2026 12:49 AM Hezbollah’s Islamic Resistance announced on Sunday that it carried out 43 military operations against Israeli enemy positions and troop concentrations along the border and deep inside occupied Palestine, in response to repeated ceasefire violations and the regime’s relentless aggression on Lebanese villages. The operations included drone strikes on a key communications hub in the occupied Golan Heights, a direct hit on a Merkava tank, multiple rocket barrages on Kiryat Shmona and Nahariya, and guided missile strikes on command sites and military infrastructure. The most significant operations included: A precision drone…

Iran Press TV Monday, 13 April 2026 Iran’s Navy commander has dismissed President Donald Trump’s latest threats to impose a naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz as “very ridiculous and laughable,” saying the Iranian military is closely monitoring every move of the US fleet in the region. “The brave men of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Navy are tracking and monitoring all movements of the aggressor US military in the region,” Rear Admiral Shahram Irani said in a statement carried by Iranian media. “The threats of the US president following the humiliating defeat of his army in the third…

Support automated part authentication and just-in-time processes. Automatically generate decision-making data on critical inventory consumption. Reliable AIDC-solutions can strengthen Defence industry supply chain integrity and resilience. One for all With the European Union reinforcing its defence industry supply chains, many companies are joining the effort to ReArm Europe. A growing Defence supplier landscape is boosting production capacity and capability, while also increasing complexity. An unambiguous data structure, that can be generated at various levels of automation, is key to maintain supply chain integrity and resilience. But what are the key elements of such a structure? An unambiguous language NATO has…

A U.S. naval blockade of Iran is a major, open-ended military endeavor that could trigger fresh retaliation from Tehran and put tremendous strain on an already fragile ceasefire, experts say.President Donald Trump, in a social media post after no deal emerged from peace talks this weekend in Islamabad, said the U.S. Navy “will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz.”The U.S. military’s Central Command later said the blockade will only apply to ships going to or from Iran, including all Iranian ports on the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of…

People’s Daily Online (Xinhua) 08:27, April 13, 2026 BUDAPEST, April 12 (Xinhua) — Hungary’s opposition party Tisza, led by Peter Magyar, defeated Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ruling coalition by securing a majority in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, according to preliminary results released by the National Election Office (NEO). With 98.13 percent of votes counted by the NEO, Tisza had won 53.62 percent of the vote and was projected to win 138 of the 199 parliament seats, exceeding the two-thirds threshold. Orban’s ruling Fidesz-KDNP alliance received 37.79 percent and was projected to win 55 seats. The far-right Our Homeland Movement won 5.89…