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The Guardian has plenty for you to read to get up to speed ahead of the match.

Pablo Iglesias Maurer takes a look at the pressure faced by Mauricio Pochettino and Christian Pulisic, and how they’re dealing with it.

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• Scot aims to make history at July’s London Diamond League

• ‘This record is one of the most important we have’

It is, says Josh Kerr, a moment that makes the hairs on the back of his neck tingle every time he watches it. We are talking about Roger Bannister, his body taut then spent, falling into a crowd of well-wishers on a cinder track in Oxford in 1954 having become the first person in history to break the four-minute mile barrier. “That’s what I live for,” Kerr says, with the broadest of smiles.

And then comes the grand reveal. Because at the London Diamond League in July, Kerr intends to stand on the shoulders of track and field’s giants – such as Bannister, the Australian Herb Elliott, Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett – by breaking the mile world record.

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More than 100 charities, campaign groups and trade unions marched in a show of unity against far right politics

• Together Alliance march – live updates

Tens of thousands of people have gathered in London to march against the far right in the biggest multicultural demonstration in UK history.

Organisers claimed half a million people had travelled to the capital for the Together Alliance march. Police estimated the turnout closer to 50,000, although they admitted it was difficult to judge due to how spread out the crowd was.

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Bianca Bilic (53) is nu de baas van het geliefde café Steijn in Rotterdam-West, maar daarvoor had ze minstens negen levens. Van onzeker meisje dat gepest werd tot vechtersbaas en succesvol model. "Ik heb zoveel verhalen, ik kan drie kranten vullen."

The Wall Street Journal reports:
Walking into his kitchen, Tim Yoder recoiled at a message on his refrigerator door: "Shop Samsung water filters." Yoder, a supply-chain manager in Chicago, owns a Samsung Electronics Family Hub fridge. He paid $1,400 for an appliance that came with a 32-inch screen on the door that allows him to control other Samsung gadgets, pull up recipes or stream music. But since last fall, it's been intermittently serving up ads, part of a pilot program being tested on some of Samsung's smart fridges sold in the U.S. The response? Not warm. "I guess this is another place for somebody to shove an ad in your face," said the 47-year-old Yoder, recalling the first time he noticed one...

The ads are only on certain Family Hub fridges that have screens and internet connectivity. They run as a rectangular banner at the bottom — part of a widget that also shows news, the weather and a calendar. Samsung declined to say how long the pilot might last or whether it would end. The firm recently unveiled a "Screens Everywhere" initiative that also includes washers, dryers and ovens.... Samsung launched the banner-type fridge ads that come as part of the widget via an October software update. In a footnote of a news release at the time, Samsung pledged to "serve contextual or non-personal ads" and respect data privacy. The banner ads can be turned off in settings.


Samsung said the purpose of the pilot is to explore whether ads relevant to home chores can be useful to owners, and that overall pushback has been negligible. The "turn-off" rate for the pilot ad program remains in the bottom single-digit range, it said... While owners can turn off the banner ads, doing so eliminates the widget altogether, a bummer for Brian Bosworth, a media-industry engineer who liked the feature. Bosworth thinks it's wrong to take away the new feature as a condition. Wanting to keep the widget but not the ads, the 49-year-old in Edgewater, Md., made sure his home router's ad-blocking software extended to his fridge. He hasn't seen another since.


One 27-year-old plans to return his refrigerator after the entire display "lit up with a full-screen ad for Apple TV's sci-fi show Pluribus," according to the article. The all-caps ad beckoned him "with an oft-used refrain directed at protagonist Carol Sturka: 'We're Sorry We Upset You, Carol.'"




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DEN HAAG (ANP) - PROTEST wordt de naam van de jongerenvereniging van Progressief Nederland. Dat hebben DWARS en de Jonge Socialisten, de jongerenclubs van respectievelijk GroenLinks en PvdA, bekendgemaakt.

Donderdag werd bekend dat fusiepartij GroenLinks-PvdA verdergaat als Progressief Nederland (PRO). Ook DWARS en de Jonge Socialisten gaan komende zomer samen.

Zaterdag hebben de leden van de twee jongerenverenigingen op een gezamenlijk congres gestemd over nieuwe beginselen en statuten. Ze gaan voor een "activistische en systeemkritische houding", schrijven de verenigingen.

WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR) - De aangekondigde demonstraties voor deze zaterdag in de VS kunnen opnieuw miljoenen mensen op de been brengen, zo is de verwachting. Het worden de derde 'No Kings Rallies' waarbij geprotesteerd wordt tegen president Donald Trump, en inmiddels ook tegen de oorlog in Iran.

De No Kings-beweging zegt te hopen dat het de grootste geweldloze protestdag in de Amerikaanse geschiedenis wordt. In 3200 plaatsen in alle vijftig Amerikaanse staten worden demonstraties gehouden. Bij de eerste editie, op 14 juni vorig jaar en Trumps verjaardag, gingen 4 tot 6 miljoen mensen de straat op, op 2100 plekken. In oktober waren dat er zo'n 7 miljoen in 2700 steden en dorpen.

Het Witte Huis omschrijft de demonstraties in een officieel statement als "therapiesessies waar alleen journalisten in geïnteresseerd zijn".

Ontluikende genoegens op Hustle and Bustle de 26, 27, 28 ah dus 29 maart niet. Ik was vandaag, zaterdag 28 maart, binnengerold bij Marcha van der Hurk haar Sociaal Art Platform om eens een dialoog [Meer...]