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Three games have already concluded from the Nations League today.
They are:
Azerbaijan 1-0 Lithuania
Kosovo 1-1 Austria
Malta 1-0 Andorra
Continue reading...Elfyn Evans becomes first British winner since 2001
Oliver Solberg’s hopes shattered by tumble down bank
Elfyn Evans ended years of heartache, and a quarter-of-a-century wait for Britain, by finally winning the World Rally Championship title with Toyota after a dramatic season finale in Sardinia on Sunday.
The Welshman had been championship runner-up five times in the last six years but emerged triumphant after a final Powerstage duel with teammate Oliver Solberg ended with the charging Swede crashing out two corners from the finish while on course to take the crown.
Continue reading...This gag-packed adaptation of Eric Morecambe’s children’s books – by the writing team behind Alan Partridge – is full of stunning comic talent. Bill Bailey, Ross Noble, Tom Davies, Sian Clifford and Asim Chaudhry are all brilliant
Oh my goodness; how long has it been since we all had a lovely teatime treat? Too long, that’s how long! But now joy is at hand, courtesy of Neil and Rob Gibbons (the pair behind the most recent incarnations of Alan Partridge) and The Reluctant Vampire. It is their adaptation of Eric Morecambe’s 1982 children’s book of the same name and its 1983 sequel, The Vampire’s Revenge. They have kept the books’ warmth and daftness and added their own talents to the six-part series for youngsters. There are jokes for parents in there too, but the brothers have wisely kept the exquisite cruelty with which they craft Alan’s misadventures safely stowed away.
Here is the tale of an undead royal-ish family (temporarily usurped a few generations back when the paterfamilias choked on a scab), living a traditional vampiric life in their traditionally gothic castle. There is proud patriarch Victor (Tom Davis), who revels in the hunting and draining of the humans he despises (“I see,” he says, looking round the overdecorated bedroom of his latest about-to-be-victim, “you have a keen eye for tat”). He is married to Valeeta (Sian Clifford) – they share a hot-to-trot vibe with Gomez and Morticia of The Addams Family films – and they have two children. Vernon (an absolutely wonderful turn from Gabriel Nagy in his first major screen role) is a chip off the old block, loving the vampire life and able to identify blood vintages with a single sip (“Poor circulation … lavender … the neck of a Flemish merchant?”).
Continue reading...Manchester City came from behind twice to win an absorbing, six-goal thriller 4-2 and continue their 100% winning start to the Women’s Super League season while heaping further pressure on Arsenal and their head coach Renée Slegers.
The defending champions, helped by Kerstin Casparij scoring a screamer with her very first touch of the ball after coming on as a second-half substitute, stretched their advantage over Arsenal to 10 points after just five rounds of matches, leaving the title hopes of last season’s runners-up hanging by a thread.
Continue reading...Tuchel praises Scott’s all-round display in Croatia win
‘We will not survive on two midfielders. More the better’
Thomas Tuchel warned that there is competition for Declan Rice’s place in England’s midfield after Alex Scott marked his first international start with an outstanding display during the 7-0 away win against Croatia.
Rice, who struggled with neural pain in his upper hamstring during the World Cup, withdrew from the camp because of load management and the vice-captain’s absence at the start of the side’s Nations League campaign has allowed Tuchel to broaden his options alongside Elliot Anderson in midfield.
Continue reading...Home secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK
Nearly all women who try to reach the UK in small boats from northern France have been raped on their journey, Shabana Mahmood has claimed.
In an interview with The Rest Is Politics podcast, the home secretary said far-right, balaclava-wearing activists would “kill” or “kick me out of my own country” if they took power.
Continue reading...Clayton had said AI was a ‘gamechanger’ but also posed ‘a threat’ during his confirmation hearing
Donald Trump on Sunday named Jay Clayton, the director of national intelligence, to also serve as the new White House AI czar.
Clayton, who leads the US’s 18 intelligence agencies, previously served as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan and led the Securities and Exchange Commission during Trump’s first term.
Continue reading...Het is dierendag. Ik zat gisteren na te denken over een toepasselijke Closing Time, maar er schoot me niet veel te binnen. Love is All had gekund, natuurlijk. Of die andere zingende kikker: Being Green. En toen kwam dit nummer zomaar voorbij op de radio. Van Kiki Rockwell uit Nieuw-Zeeland. Je kunt je afvragen of het echt heel veel met dierendag te maken heeft, afgezien van die wolf en dat lam in de titel. Maar ik vond het een mooi en intrigerend nummer.
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MHKBB posted a photo:
Helsinki, Finland
Camera: Hasselblad SWC
Lens: Carl Zeiss Biogon 4.5/38
Film: Bergger Pancro 400
Lab: Prolab, Stuttgart
MHKBB posted a photo:
Helsinki, Finland
Camera: Hasselblad 503CW
Lens: Carl Zeiss Planar T* 2.8/80 C
Film: Bergger Pancro 400
Lab: Prolab, Stuttgart
Marco te Brömmelstroet, hoogleraar aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam, vindt dat de discussie over betaald parkeren niet moet gaan over kosten en verlies van privilege, zoals nu gebeurt in Rotterdam. „De échte vraag die voorligt is: wát vindt u belangrijk?”
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Dat minister David van Weel niet werd weggestuurd, komt ook door het besef bij de Kamer dat de structurele crisis er eerder groter dan kleiner door wordt.
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Glenn (33) – stukadoor en aspirant-muzikant – is door het CIDI aangeklaagd omdat hij de Holocaust zou verheerlijken in het nummer ‘Gas’. „Het beeld is smakeloos”, erkent z’n advocaat, „maar het was een artistieke keuze en over smaak valt niet te twisten.”
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Europese regeringsleiders waarschuwen voor escalatie van de hybride oorlog van Rusland tegen Europa. De Russische geheime diensten lijken gewelddadiger te worden, blijkt uit een inventarisatie van bekende acties. Voor de uitvoering werft Rusland gewone burgers, amateurs, maar de strategie erachter zit vernuftig in elkaar.
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Marit Kamps had als judoka successen in de zogeheten plusklasse (vanaf 78 kilo). Maar tegen de heel zware vrouwen kon ze niet op. Nu judoot ze haar eerste WK in een lichtere gewichtsklasse. „Ik ging iemand van 150 kilo nooit kunnen tillen.”
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"Free your BIOS today!" urges the web page for GNU Boot, calling it "a 100% free software project aimed at replacing the nonfree boot software (like BIOS or UEFI) of computers with free boot software.
GNU Boot is only a distribution: it reuses existing software projects like Coreboot, GRUB, SeaBIOS, etc. So it's not very different from 100% free GNU/Linux distributions like Trisquel or Guix.
Last month the Free Software Foundation announced they'd fiscally sponsor the project:
"The BIOS is a delicate but essential part of software freedom for computing today," said Zoë Kooyman, executive director of the FSF. "GNU Boot aims to make sure that we can continue using our computers in freedom. With the way it builds on the work of others to replace UEFI, we know it can remain firm in the free software philosophy and stay vital to digital autonomy and user freedom." Free boot firmware, such as GNU Boot, is responsible for loading the computer's operating system.
The work done by GNU Boot contributors has similarities to work done by GNU/Linux distributions: they package software like Coreboot or GNU GRUB, contribute to the upstream repositories of these projects, and assist them with documentation, among other tasks... When asked about their project joining the FSF's fiscal sponsorship program, co-maintainer Adrien Bourmault stated: "Making this decision with the FSF allows us to focus more on what we do best: writing and debugging code that keeps our machines fully free." Projects whose scope and purpose align with the FSF's mission and further mission-related activities can become fiscally sponsored by joining the FSF's Working Together for Free Software Fund.
GNU Boot is only a distribution: it reuses existing software projects like Coreboot, GRUB, SeaBIOS, etc. So it's not very different from 100% free GNU/Linux distributions like Trisquel or Guix.
Last month the Free Software Foundation announced they'd fiscally sponsor the project:
"The BIOS is a delicate but essential part of software freedom for computing today," said Zoë Kooyman, executive director of the FSF. "GNU Boot aims to make sure that we can continue using our computers in freedom. With the way it builds on the work of others to replace UEFI, we know it can remain firm in the free software philosophy and stay vital to digital autonomy and user freedom." Free boot firmware, such as GNU Boot, is responsible for loading the computer's operating system.
The work done by GNU Boot contributors has similarities to work done by GNU/Linux distributions: they package software like Coreboot or GNU GRUB, contribute to the upstream repositories of these projects, and assist them with documentation, among other tasks... When asked about their project joining the FSF's fiscal sponsorship program, co-maintainer Adrien Bourmault stated: "Making this decision with the FSF allows us to focus more on what we do best: writing and debugging code that keeps our machines fully free." Projects whose scope and purpose align with the FSF's mission and further mission-related activities can become fiscally sponsored by joining the FSF's Working Together for Free Software Fund.
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