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• Email john.ashdown@guardian.co.uk with your musings • Press F5 to refresh this page or use our auto-refresher • Holler at John on Twitter if you are in to that sort of thing • Click here for all the latest scores across Europe 3.27pm: Port Vale, in their grey knickers, have gone 1-0 up against the hapless Plymouth. And in better news for the south coast, Southampton are now 2-1 up against Steve McClaren’s Nottingham Forest. 3.25pm: Finally, a bit of a breather. It’s been a hectic start. Everton, Manchester City, Stoke and Chelsea are ahead. The only game in the Premier League that is goalless is the affair at the Emirates. With 25 minutes gone things might start getting cranky there soon. 3.23pm: Palace have come from behind to lead 2-1 at Elland Road and in that big game in League Two I mentioned earlier Morecambe are 2-0 up against this morning’s leaders Crawley. 3.22pm: “‘Glanced wide by Bendtner – Who really should have done better,’ will probably be the name of his autobiography,” reckons Lucien Hoare. The place to be for shots on target, though, is Gigg Lane – it’s Bury 1-3 Rochdale with only a quarter of the game gone. 3.21pm: GOAL! Stoke 1-0 Liverpool (Walters 21pen) Against the run of play at the home side take the lead. Carragher concedes the spot-kick, Walters makes no mistake from the spot. 3.20pm: GOAL! Everton 1-0 Aston Villa (Osman 19) Can’t tell you how it happened I’m afraid, but the Toffees are one-up. 3.19pm: MISSED PENALTY! And Carlos Tevez is the culprit. Al Habsi makes the save, but it was a weak effort. 3.18pm: … GOAL! Sunderland 0-1 Chelsea (Terry 18) … the free-kick thwocks a post but Sunderland can’t clear and the ball breaks to Terry who smacks the ball home at the second attempt. Harsh on Sunderland, who’d been matching the visitors. 3.17pm: Anelka gets tripped on the edge of the box, giving Chelsea a very dangerous set-piece … 3.15pm: Arsenal are this close to going ahead at the Emirates. Walcott beats the keeper but his shot is cleared off the line by Caulker. 3.14pm: Stunning save from Friedel keeps Tottenham on level terms at Molineux. There’s goalmouth action all over the place thus far. 3.13pm: GOAL! Manchester City 1-0 Wigan (Aguero 13) The Argentinian duo combine up front for City – Tevez sets up Aguero for the opening goal of the game. 3.11pm: Sunderland have a dangerous free-kick at the Stadium of Light – whipped in by Cattermole, glanced wide by Bendtner who really should have done better. It was a free header, 10 yards out. 3.11pm: Arteta is on set-piece duty for Arsenal – he whips in a corner that is cleared by Ashley Williams for the Swans. 3.10pm: And Southampton have equalised. And so have West Ham. So it’s as you were. 3.09pm: Goals in the Championship: Portsmouth are ahead at Upton Park, and Forest are 1-0 up at Southampton. 3.07pm: Stunning save from Szczesny keeps the scores level at the Emirates, with Graham close to poking Swansea into a surprise lead. 3.05pm: An early goal the A58 derby between Bury and Rochdale – the Dale are ahead at Gigg Lane. 3.03pm: Aaron Ramsey has missed an early chance at the Emirates. And Liverpool have started strongly at the Britannia Stadium. 3.01pm: What ho! Optimism alert! “I am an Arsenal fan and I am feeling thoroughly optimistic about the new signings,” writes Robert Murphy. “Today’s team, on paper at least, seems to have a balance and maturity that I haven’t seen in an Arsenal team for a long time. I predict a 3-0 Arsenal win. I should have learned by now, but I haven’t. Also, PG Wodehouse is the funniest writer I have ever read.” 2.55pm: Carlos Tevez has apparently taken his nippers on the pitch pre-match. They seem to have spent as much time on the pitch as their dad has of late. 2.51pm: From the Twittersphere: this is slightly troubling from Plymouth fan Jo Lumani. Port Vale will be facing Argyle at Home Park today wearing “grey jerseys and grey knickers” according to the teamsheet . 2.47pm: “Not all Everton fans agree, but I love a Wilsonesque 4-6-0,” writes Gary Naylor. “With Rodwell and Fellaini holding, I expect Osman, Coleman, Bily and Cahill to raid forward. Who picks up whom?” 2.41pm: The sun is shining at Molineux. Which is a good job for those in the not-yet-completed North Bank . Pre-kick-off email dept. “Never got into the TV version of Jeeves and Wooster,” writes Ed. “The idea of it is good – Fry and Laurie perfect casting etc. – but it just can’t emulate Wodehouse’s zip, pep and guile. Much like some team or other can’t emulate some other team or other, or something. Well, you fill in the football analogy bit.” “The Verve (from l-r),” begins Dan Poole. “Joe Cole with hair; Paolo Maldini after a month or two in Wigan; Harry Redknapp back in the day; Richard Dunne’s second cousin once removed. ” The gaffer , Sean Ingle, reckons the lay on Everton is the bet of the day today. He says put your house on it and he’ll personally refund anyone who loses money by following his advice.* *Please note: Sean will not personally refund personally refund anyone who loses money by following his advice. Man City v Wigan Man City: Hart, Richards, Kompany, Lescott, Clichy, Milner, Toure Yaya, Johnson, Silva, Aguero, Tevez. Subs: Pantilimon, Zabaleta, Dzeko, Nasri, Toure, Balotelli, Razak. Wigan: Al Habsi, Boyce, Caldwell, Lopez, Figueroa, Rodallega, Diame, Watson, McArthur, Moses, Di Santo. Subs: Kirkland, McCarthy, Crusat, Gomez, Sammon, Jones, Stam. Referee: Martin Atkinson (W Yorkshire) Arsenal v Swansea Arsenal: Szczesny, Sagna, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs, Ramsey, Frimpong, Arteta, Arshavin, Walcott, van Persie. Subs: Fabianski, Park, Andre Santos, Djourou, Chamakh, Benayoun, Coquelin. Swansea: Vorm, Rangel, Caulker, Williams, Taylor, Agustien, Britton, Allen, Sinclair, Dyer, Graham. Subs: Tremmel, Dobbie, Lita, Moore, Bessone, Gower, Richards. Referee: Stuart Attwell (Warwickshire) Sunderland v Chelsea Sunderland: Mignolet, Bardsley, Bramble, Brown, Richardson, Larsson, Cattermole, Gardner, Colback, Sessegnon, Bendtner. Subs: Westwood, Wickham, Vaughan, Ji, Turner, Elmohamady, McClean. Chelsea: Cech, Bosingwa, Ivanovic, Terry, Cole, Mata, Lampard, Ramires, Meireles, Sturridge, Anelka. Subs: Hilario, Luiz, Torres, Malouda, Kalou, McEachran, Romeu. Referee: Lee Probert (Wiltshire) Stoke v Liverpool Stoke: Begovic, Huth, Shawcross, Upson, Wilson, Pennant, Delap, Whitehead, Etherington, Walters, Crouch. Subs: Sorensen, Whelan, Jones, Wilkinson, Shotton, Jerome, Palacios. Liverpool: Reina, Carragher, Skrtel, Agger, Jose Enrique, Kuyt, Adam, Lucas, Henderson, Downing, Suarez. Subs: Doni, Johnson, Carroll, Maxi, Coates, Spearing, Bellamy. Referee: Mark Clattenburg (Tyne & Wear) Wolverhampton v Tottenham Wolverhampton: Hennessey, Stearman, Johnson, Berra, Ward, Kightly, Henry, O’Hara, Hunt, Doyle, Fletcher. Subs: De Vries, Elokobi, Hammill, Milijas, Vokes, Foley, Jarvis. Tottenham: Friedel, Walker, King, Kaboul, Assou-Ekotto, Kranjcar, Parker, Modric, Bale, Adebayor, Defoe. Subs: Cudicini, Bassong, Livermore, Pavlyuchenko, Townsend, Falque, Giovani. Referee: Peter Walton (Northamptonshire) Everton v Aston Villa Everton: Howard, Hibbert, Jagielka, Distin, Baines, Coleman, Fellaini, Rodwell, Bilyaletdinov, Osman, Cahill. Subs: Mucha, Drenthe, Stracqualursi, Neville, Gueye, Barkley, Vellios. Aston Villa: Given, Hutton, Dunne, Collins, Warnock, Petrov, Delph, N’Zogbia, Agbonlahor, Heskey, Bent. Subs: Guzan, Ireland, Albrighton, Delfouneso, Clark, Bannan, Herd. Referee: Michael Oliver (Northumberland) 2.17pm: In fact, Andre Villas Boas’s team selection is very interesting: Sturridge, Mata and Meireles all start . 2.14pm: Villas Boas has made good on his threat – Torres drops to the bench for Chelsea. 2.10pm: Parker starts for Spurs, Falque on the bench, while Jenas isn’t in the Villa squad at Goodison Park. Full details shortly. 2.07pm: At Manchester City: “Edin Dzeko left out after playing two full games for Bosnia, Aguero played 9 and 14 mins for Argentina, Tevez had week off” writes our man Daniel Taylor on Twitter. The City team: Hart, Richards, Kompany, Lescott, Clichy, Y Toure, Milner, Johnson, Silva, Aguero, Tevez 2.05pm: Some early team news from the Emirates: Arteta starts, as does Mertesacker. Preamble What-ho clockwatchers, all. Hope you’re in fine fettle. Me? In the pink, old fruit, in the pink. Though I feel I may have been watching too many episodes of Jeeves and Wooster just recently. So what have we got to look forward to in the 3pm Premier League kick-offs? Stoke v Liverpool Everton v Aston Villa Manchester City v Wigan Wolves v Tottenham Sunderland v Chelsea Arsenal v Swansea It’s an intriguing set of fixtures . Liverpool, Chelsea and Tottenham will all do well to pick up three points, Everton against Villa is a tough one to call and Arsenal really must, must beat Swansea. Further down the leagues Crawley’s trip to Morecambe is a meeting of two pace-setters in League Two, Sheffield Wednesday v MK Dons and Huddersfield v Tranmere are highlights in League One and West Ham v Portsmouth and Southampton v Forest are worth keeping an eye on in the Championship. Speaking of Arsenal, as I was a sentence or so agho, I cycled past the Emirates on my way into the office this morning, with the fans already milling about near Finsbury Park or making their way to the ground. Spotted one newly-bought shirt with “ARTETA 10″ on the back, and another emblazoned with the words “YOU CAN’T BUY HISTORY”, which was either a) a rather pricey way, given the cost of letters on the back of shirts, of having a dig at Manchester City or b) being worn by a man who works in a record shop that sells nothing but Verve singles and has grown tired of telling customers when certain LPs are out of stock. I like to think it was the latter, and that he has an away kit with “YOU CAN’T BUY LUCKY MAN” on the back and a goalkeeper’s jersey saying “RICHARD ASHCROFT? SORRY WE DON’T DO SOLO STUFF. PLEASE LEAVE. AND LEAVE NOW”. Premier League Championship League One League Two John Ashdown guardian.co.uk
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Frantic search is underway for survivors after boat capsizes off east Africa carrying more than 500 passengers At least 107 people drowned when a ferry capsized in rough waters off east Africa as it sailed from Zanzibar to Pemba island, a doctor told Reuters on Saturday, the worst disaster in the archipelago’s recent history. Witnesses fear the death toll could rise sharply since the overcrowded ferry was carrying more than 500 passengers. Fishing boats and tour operators are scouring the sea for scores of people who are still missing after the disaster, which happened overnight. “Many of us got here about 2.30 this morning,” Suleiman Amis, 32, who works on a local diving tour boat, told Reuters. “We sent out some boats to search for the survivors, but we did not find them until very, very late. We have friends who we know were on that boat and we want to go back out to find them as soon as possible,” Amis said. Zanzibar and Pemba are the two main islands of the Zanzibar archipelago, a popular destination for tourists visiting their pristine Indian Ocean beaches. “The ship’s manifest shows that the vessel travelling from Unguja to Pemba islands had more than 500 passengers on board,” said Zanzibar police commissioner Mussa Alli Mussa. “Some 260 passengers have so far been rescued … we have recovered several bodies but I can’t give you the exact death toll at the moment because the situation is very volatile,” he added. Tanzania Africa guardian.co.uk
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President Obama is taking the American Jobs Act (AJA) on the road to the people with whom it will resonate most: the currently unemployed; young people in college facing a slow jobs market; and veterans back home looking for work. He is at his best in this environment. It’s what I wish he would have done more of during the horrid debt-ceiling debate. He’s not out there peddling high hopes, either. After a month of brutal town halls where people were so angry at their Republican tea party representatives in Congress that some actually cancelled town halls, the President is speaking their language and it’s worrisome to the obstructionist Republicans. Here’s the transcript of his closer in Richmond, Virginia. It wasn’t an accident that his first stop was Eric Cantor’s district: So I’m asking all of you to lift up your voices, not just here in Richmond — anybody watching, listening, following online — I want you to call, I want you to email, I want you to tweet — (laughter) — I want you to fax, I want you to visit, I want you to Facebook, send a carrier pigeon — (laughter.) I want you to tell your congressperson, the time for gridlock and games is over. The time for action is now. The time to create jobs is now. (Applause.) Pass this bill. If you want construction workers on the worksite — pass this bill. (Applause.) If you want teachers in the classroom — pass this bill. (Applause.) You want small business owners to hire new people — pass this bill. (Applause.) If you want veterans to get their fair share of opportunity that they helped create — pass this bill. (Applause.) If you want a tax break — pass this bill. (Applause.) Prove you will fight as hard for tax cuts for workers and middle-class people as you do for oil companies and rich folks. Pass this bill. (Applause.) Let’s get something done. (Applause.) The next election is 14 months away. We cannot wait. The American people do not have the luxury of waiting another 14 months for some action. Some of you are living paycheck to paycheck, week to week, day by day. Now is not the time for people in Washington to be worrying about their jobs. It’s time for them to be worrying about your jobs. (Applause.) Now is the time to put Americans back to work. Now is the time to act. (Applause.) We are not a people that just look and watch and wait to see what happens. We’re Americans. We make things happen. (Applause.) We’re tougher than these times. We are bigger than the smallness of our politics. We are patriots and we are pioneers, and innovators and entrepreneurs, who through individual effort and through a common commitment to one another will build an economy that is once again the engine and the envy of the world. (Applause.) And we will write our own destiny. It’s within our power. But we’ve got to seize the moment. So let’s just shake off all the naysaying and the anxiety and the hand-wringing. Enough of that. Let’s get to work. (Applause.) Let’s show the world once again why America is the greatest nation on Earth. Thank you, everybody. God bless you. (Applause.) God bless America. (Applause.) There is nothing more critical to the successful outcome of this legislation than us, and not only because we hope representatives have at least a small clue about what their job is. The reason the tea party got any traction during the health care debate was because they showed up. They tweeted, facebooked, made stupid signs and showed up. Eric Cantor is afraid we will, too. Via Daily Kos , Eric Cantor’s whine: This is my objection to the message that was delivered tonight. The message was: either accept my package as it is, or I will take it to the American people. I would say that that’s the wrong approach. What we’re here to do is try to transcend differences, not let them get in the way in the areas we can make progress on. Interesting choice of words there. The wrong approach is to take it to the people, why? And then to follow that up with transcending differences being a product of NOT taking it to the people? Cantor knows just like the rest of us know that when this plan is taken to the people they’re going to like it and support it. There won’t be any differences with them, only with Cantor’s Koch party keepers. Oh, and then there was this from Cantor, after the Richmond speech: enlarge How perfectly Republican. Claim an “all or nothing” strategy is terrible because that’s the strategy he and his merry band of ugly men have been taking since this President took office. It’s so cynical it burns. This is a perfect example of President Obama’s 2008 message: We are the change. Not him. Us. I think we ought to take it to the streets and tell every elected official in this country that we can’t wait any longer for them to do what they were hired to do. Jobs, and jobs now. Does this mean I believe in unicorns and a cowed GOP? No, of course I don’t. But President Obama appears to have listened to the criticisms we’ve all made about how we don’t want compromise, we want action. And if we want action, I submit we have to get out there and make them hear us instead of letting the tea party have all the attention. They should pass this bill now.
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J-Blog – 09.09.11 Serena Willams at the 2011 US Open (Practice Courts) Victoria Azarenka great reaction against Serena Williams – US Open 2011 3rd Round Viviandestiny says: Kim Kardashian, Vanessa Hudgens, Serena Williams : US Open Stars : People.com http://t.co/w76eLNk
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If you’re trying to make a name for yourself in the incredibly crowded portable storage space, you can innovate and create something totally awesome , or you can do this . The mDock from mLogic is an external hard drive, port extender and port blocker all rolled into one pricey coffin-like chamber of fail. $219 will net you an eternal resting place for 500 gigs of data, while $299 ups the ante to an entire terabyte. Plus, with a pair of front-facing USB ports, you can add a third-party portable storage yokel for the less-than-princely sum of 50 bucks. If you haven’t already gathered, the mDock is designed for mMacbook Pros, but there’s also the iMac-mountable mBack (curiously not the iBack), designed with Apple’s familiar desktop flavor in mind. That variant is slightly more affordable, with pricing ranging from $169 for 1TB to $349 for 3TB, but you’ll forgo the dock-like USB hub and headphone jack. There’s no word on when to expect these life-changing devices in stores, but it’s never too early to dust off the mChair iChair and park yourself on 5th Ave. mLogic mDock blocks select MacBook ports while extending others, leaves us mBaffled originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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2 Bonehead Reasons Why the Saints Lost to the Packers Fantasy Football Second Tier Wide Receivers Rankings New Orleans Saints Training camp 2011 Darren Sproles TD Marques Colston Proxtronics says: Packers Get Good News On Williams: After the game Thursday night, Marques Colston made his way past the Green Ba… http://t.co/aoVt6y3
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Nabil Elaraby, the head of the Arab League, has arrived in Damascus to hold talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and other senior officials, Egypt’s official MENA news agency reported.
Continue reading …John Galliano Found Guilty, Slapped With Suspended Fine <![CDATA[&]]> No Jail Time
September 10, 2011 No Comment![John Galliano Found Guilty, Slapped With Suspended Fine <![CDATA[&]]> No Jail Time](https://newsbreakingonline.com/wp-content/themes/transcript/timthumb.php?src=%3Cimg+src%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fnewsbreakingonline.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F09%2Feb31fd0776T-mini.jpg.jpg%22+%2F%3E&q=90&w=190&h=100&zc=1 "John Galliano Found Guilty, Slapped With Suspended Fine <![CDATA[&]]> No Jail Time")
The verdict is in: John Galliano will have to pay. As of Thursday morning, French courts have convicted designer John Galliano for anti-Semitic slurs and hit him with a suspended fine, AP reports. AP adds that the total fine is around 6,000 euros, or about $8,400. The amount is less the original called-for sum, as the maximum penalty for Galliano’s crimes (insult on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion) is around $32,000 (22,500 euros). Prosecutors had previously called for a fine of at least 10,000 euros (around $14,000) as well as no jail time, as the maximum Galliano faced under the law was six months, AP reported. Galliano’s lawyer Aurélien Hamelle had argued for his client for be acquitted. While Galliano did appear in court back in June to make a case for himself, he was not in attendance today to hear the verdict. As reported from the trial, Galliano had said that he wished to be there but was afraid of being hounded by press. The 50-year-old British designer was charged with “public insults based on origin, religious affiliation, race or ethnicity” stemming from two separate incidents at a Parisian cafe, in which he spouted off comments about Jews as well as Asians to fellow cafe-goers. Around the time of the incident, The Sun also dug up a video in which Galliano goes on an anti-Semitic diatribe, saying “I love Hitler.” Almost immediately after the scandal broke, Galliano was fired from his post as creative director of Christian Dior. During his June 22 trial, Galliano blamed a trio of addictions — to alcohol, barbiturates and sleeping pills — as well as industry pressures, saying that the man that night was not truly Galliano. He pointed to his fashions as evidence, saying, “You can say that I embrace every race, creed, sexuality . I strive for diversity in my creations.”
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