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photograph I acquired from a large archive of negatives from a San Francisco Bay based commercial photographer taken mostly in the 1960s to 1970s.
It would be a touch too hyperbolic to suggest this was a season-defining afternoon for Arsenal’s title ambitions, but given the opposition and the pre-match drama surrounding this game, there was no doubting that come full time this felt like a significant afternoon in the Premier League title picture.
Two points from three games is hardly compelling enough evidence to prompt full-blown crisis talks, but given the lofty standards Arsenal have set in the first half of this season, it felt as though we would learn plenty about them here . This against a team who have lost once since the start of December and with a ferocious home crowd behind them.
Continue reading...Two clubs in the process of a reset. If Wolves’ fate is all but sealed, they seek to carry good vibes into the Championship. Bournemouth’s objective was to make last week’s defeat of Liverpool the staging post for one of those streaks of good results that have made Andoni Iraola’s reputation. Mission accomplished for the Cherries, who could celebrate only their second away win of a hitherto troubled season, a first since August. In the performance of second-half sub Rayan, who supplied Alex Scott’s late clincher, there is much to look forward to.
Without Antoine Semenyo, a scorer against Wolves last week, Iraola is finding solutions. A callow asset-stripped squad is still full of promise. The manager paired Eli Junior Kroupi playing behind the centre-forward wiles of Evanilson. Kroupi duly delivered a brilliant first-half strike.
Continue reading...Protest targets ICE role at Milan Games
Mayor says US agents ‘not welcome’
Organizers link move to US politics
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered Saturday in Milan to protest the deployment of ICE agents during the upcoming Winter Olympics, unbothered by the fact that agents would be stationed in a control room and not operating on the streets.
The protest in Piazza XXV Aprile, a square named for the date of Italy’s liberation from Nazi fascism in 1945, drew people from the left-leaning Democratic Party, the CGIL trade union confederation and the ANPI organizations that protect the memory of Italy’s partisan resistance during World War II, along with many other people.
Continue reading...⚽️ Premier League updates from the 5.30pm (GMT) kick-off
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Remember you can get in touch with me via email if you have any predictions or thoughts on this clash. If you support Chelsea or West Ham, perhaps you have an opinion on what your club need before the transfer window shuts on Monday.
West Ham have been linked with another of Chelsea’s frozen-out players in Axel Disasi. The defender has played once this season – for the under-21s in the EFL Trophy. Chelsea are still chasing Jérémy Jacquet of Rennes.
Sterling’s departure is said to represent a sizeable financial saving for Chelsea. His contract, which had 18 months left, has not been paid up in full. It was time for a clean break. Sterling is too young to retire. He is probably done at the highest level but there will be managers who will back themselves to revive him.
Continue reading...Former team principal was dismissed last September
‘I feel like I have unfinished business in Formula One’
Christian Horner said he misses Formula One and has unfinished business in the sport as he spoke publicly for the first time since he was ousted by Red Bull but is prepared to wait for an opportunity to “win something”, adding: “I am not in a rush.”
The 52-year-old was dismissed as Red Bull team principal following July’s British Grand Prix before his official exit was agreed in September. He oversaw a period of extraordinary success during his 20-year career with Red Bull, winning eight drivers’ and six constructors’ titles.
Continue reading...Federal prosecutors had identified 6 million files that were ‘potentially responsive’ to the law, but only released 3.5. Why?
The justice department released a trove of 3.5m files related to the dead financier and pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, with deputy attorney general Todd Blanche declaring that the release would likely be the last major declassification of files relating to Epstein. Federal prosecutors had identified 6 million files that were “potentially responsive” to the law, meaning that there are millions of files that have still not been released.
The release marked a belated and partial compliance with a bill passed by Congress late last year, which had mandated that all government documents pertaining to Epstein and the various law enforcement investigations into his sexual abuse of girls be made public by 19 December 2025.
Continue reading...SPRANG-CAPELLE (ANP) - De politie heeft zaterdag in het Brabantse Sprang-Capelle een verdachte aangehouden die wordt verdacht van poging tot doodslag of moord. Bij de aanhouding werd een schot gelost, maar niemand raakte gewond.
Aanleiding voor de aanhouding was een steekpartij die vrijdagavond plaatsvond in Wijk en Aalburg. Daarbij raakte het 29-jarige slachtoffer zwaargewond. Behalve een steekwond liep hij ernstig letsel op aan zijn hoofd.
Op basis van een verklaring van het slachtoffer en een getuige kreeg de politie een verdachte in beeld. Die werd zaterdag gezien, rijdend in een auto in de buurt van Sprang-Capelle. De verdachte ging ervandoor, maar crashte zijn auto. Daarna vluchtte hij te voet verder, maar agenten konden hem achterhalen.
Bij de confrontatie die volgde, loste de politie een schot. Vervolgens kon de verdachte worden aangehouden. Over de identiteit van de verdachte en over de aanleiding voor de steekpartij is niets bekendgemaakt.
Het tegengaan van dakloosheid vormt een grote uitdaging voor de Rotterdamse gemeentepolitiek. Het college probeert naast huisvesting te voorzien in opvang, zorg en het tegengaan van overlast. In dit artikel: een overzicht van de maatregelen.
The drivers and teams report back following the Barcelona Shakedown at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
The Daily Beast:
"Salacious claims from Jeffrey Epstein that Bill Gates contracted an STD following 'sex with Russian girls,' and colluded with the disgraced financier on a plot to secretly slip his wife antibiotics, were revealed in the latest Epstein files release."
The New York Times. (Alternate URL)
"A representative of the Gates Foundation said, 'These claims — from a proven, disgruntled liar — are absolutely absurd and completely false. The only thing these documents demonstrate is Epstein's frustration that he did not have an ongoing relationship with Gates and the lengths he would go to entrap and defame.'"
And Yahoo News points out the error of social media posts about the news:
None paid attention to who actually wrote the email. The email was from Epstein — to Epstein... Both the "From" and "To" fields list Epstein's personal Gmail address. The message appears to be a draft, written during a period when Epstein's relationship with Gates had deteriorated. In it, Epstein alleges that Gates asked him to delete messages related to an STD. But the document does not show Gates making that request, nor does it provide independent confirmation that any of the claims are true.
It reads like Epstein venting. It is not Gates confessing.
"In a 2021 interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Gates called his relationship with the disgraced financier 'a huge mistake'," notes the New York Times. "He also sought to downplay his interactions with Epstein, saying he had several dinners with Epstein, with the hope of getting him to generate donations to the Gates Foundation."
"Salacious claims from Jeffrey Epstein that Bill Gates contracted an STD following 'sex with Russian girls,' and colluded with the disgraced financier on a plot to secretly slip his wife antibiotics, were revealed in the latest Epstein files release."
The New York Times. (Alternate URL)
"A representative of the Gates Foundation said, 'These claims — from a proven, disgruntled liar — are absolutely absurd and completely false. The only thing these documents demonstrate is Epstein's frustration that he did not have an ongoing relationship with Gates and the lengths he would go to entrap and defame.'"
And Yahoo News points out the error of social media posts about the news:
None paid attention to who actually wrote the email. The email was from Epstein — to Epstein... Both the "From" and "To" fields list Epstein's personal Gmail address. The message appears to be a draft, written during a period when Epstein's relationship with Gates had deteriorated. In it, Epstein alleges that Gates asked him to delete messages related to an STD. But the document does not show Gates making that request, nor does it provide independent confirmation that any of the claims are true.
It reads like Epstein venting. It is not Gates confessing.
"In a 2021 interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Gates called his relationship with the disgraced financier 'a huge mistake'," notes the New York Times. "He also sought to downplay his interactions with Epstein, saying he had several dinners with Epstein, with the hope of getting him to generate donations to the Gates Foundation."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Een dag na de presentatie van het coalitieakkoord kwam het CDA in Den Bosch bijeen voor een partijcongres. De leden zijn weinig kritisch en vooral dolblij dat het CDA weer relevant is.
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