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I share the same last name as one of Manchester United’s substitute keepers in Kayla Rendell, no relation though. Do you have a family connection to a footballer or have a similar name and try to pass yourself off as say Sam Kerr’s cousin? Get in touch and let me know by emailing.

A great feature here about the new format:

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Arsenal get the ball rolling. The Community Stadium bouncing after a pre-match singalong to the coda from Hey Jude. You know the one.

Here come the teams. Brentford wear their red and white stripes, forcing Arsenal into second-choice blue with “iconic lightning bolt graphics” and lovely retro cannon. Shame the old AFC cannonballs aren’t on the crest as well, for that truly accurate 70s/80s feel, but nostalgia isn’t as good as it used to be. [SFX] We’ll be off in a couple of minutes.

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Audi created a stir on the first day of Bahrain testing with a new bodywork very different to that seen in the Barcelona Shakedown.

Lando Norris was satisfied at achieving some “good learning” during the second day of the opening pre-season Bahrain test, with the Briton admitting that his high mileage was “probably the most laps I’ve done in a day” in Formula 1.

De komst van een azc in Nieuw-Lekkerland zorgt voor felle reacties in het dorp, maar tussen alle protestborden en leuzen door besloot één inwoner een ander geluid te laten horen. Suzie Klapwijk hing witte vlaggen met rode hartjes op, als oproep om het gesprek met elkaar aan te gaan. Ze krijgt steun van tientallen plaatsgenoten.

Microsoft is planning to bring smartphone-style app permission prompts to Windows 11, requiring apps to get explicit user consent before they can access sensitive resources like the file system, camera and microphone. The company's Windows Platform engineer Logan Iyer said the move was prompted by applications increasingly overriding user settings, installing unwanted software, and modifying core Windows experiences without permission.

A separate initiative called Windows Baseline Security Mode will enforce runtime integrity safeguards by default, allowing only properly signed apps, services, and drivers to run. Both changes will roll out in phases as part of Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative, which the company launched in November 2023 after a federal review board called its security culture "inadequate."

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Black dog, Francisco Rodriguez

Fun word search game from Slate: Pears. (I love any Boggle-esque sort of game. Got 433 today.)

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

photograph I acquired from a large archive of negatives from a San Francisco Bay based commercial photographer taken mostly in the 1960s to 1970s.