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Michael Carrick made changes in the second half with the points secure but there was still time for Lisandro Martinez to smash home from close range after some flashy play from Joshua Zirkzee, who produced an eye-catching cameo. Signs of that United swagger.

With goal difference a potentially significant factor in the league phase of this Champions League format, this was a fine night's work on their return. It is Atletico Madrid away next in Europe but there are bigger matters to attend to before that.

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Analysis: Carrick has options

It is over 1000 days since United competed in a Champions League game but this, their 300th in Europe's premier club competition, was not too taxing for Carrick's men. It will be tougher against rivals Manchester City on Sunday - but so will his team selection.

Some of the calls are obvious. Fernandes starred again and the sight of him combining with the equally intelligent Youri Tielemans for United's second was encouraging. The Belgian produced perhaps his best 45 minutes at Old Trafford. But others pressed their case too.

Sesko scored after coming off the bench against Everton and looked sharp here in his first start of the season. With Marcus Rashford also available, and Cunha getting a confidence-boosting goal, there are some interesting decisions ahead for the United boss.

Dorgu enjoyed himself at left-back with Luke Shaw missing from the squad but he was able to play as a de facto winger given United's superiority. It will be more challenging against City's attack but Carrick and his players go into that with confidence restored.

The key moments from Old Trafford

27 - GOAL! Cunha converts Dorgu's cross at the near post

36 - SITTER! Mickels nods wide from inside the six-yard box

42 - GOAL! Fernandes makes it two from Tielemans' pass

45 - GOAL! Mbeumo puts Sesko in to round the goalkeeper

68 - GOAL! Zirkzee's backheel finds Martinez who smashes it in

Carrick: Really encouraging

Man Utd boss Michael Carrick speaking in the press conference:

"I think it was kind of what we set out to achieve, good performance, individually and collectively throughout the game, the boys that started, the boys that came on pitch, clean sheet, goals, exciting football. A good night all round.

"Results-wise, it has not been the start that what we wanted. We wanted more points in the league. But performance-wise, it has been a lot of things we are looking for.

"Collectively, as a team, we have done a lot of the right things and that is why were are excited about what the season will bring. It is really encouraging for me."

On the performance of Benjamin Sesko…

"He definitely offers a different kind of threat, that is the beauty of it really, we know what Ben gives us and there are not many who can give us what he gives us. Speed, physicality, ability to play on the last line and run in behind. Great to have him back."

Dambrauskas: Almost impossible to stop

Sabah head coach Valdas Dambrauskas speaking in the press conference:

"I didn't feel like we were shaking or scared, we tried to play, for the whole 90 minutes we did that. We were escaping from time to time from United pressure.

"We will all go home thinking we could have done better, especially the result. The result could have been a little bit smaller.

"We did not have enough courage probably from the back line to get up. Our centre-backs stayed too deep, not afraid but maybe from inexperience we were over-evaluating the opponent.

"Because when you don't squeeze that space and you allow those players to turn and run it is almost impossible to stop them."

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This is something Meg Warren, 29, experienced when her former partner's snoring would keep her up.

She says: "Without fail, after a snoring-induced wake up I would feel on incredibly high alert."

Meg, a charity media officer, would prod him throughout the night and try to coax him from his back to his side.

She says she would wake up "feeling groggy and dazed, sometimes so much so that it would feel like a hangover".

The snoring tested the relationship, with Meg explaining: "I always said if we lived together we'd have to have a spare bedroom for the nights of truly unbearable snoring."

Simon says that broken sleep, caused by a partner's snoring, can lead to irritability, arguments, and - if it is decided that sleeping in separate rooms is needed - reduced intimacy.

There are things that can be done, say both Simon and Johal. But first, it is important to distinguish whether your partner is simply snoring, or whether they have sleep apnoea.

"What you don't want to do is simply make someone quieter at night while potentially missing an underlying sleep-related breathing disorder," Simon says.

Signs of sleep apnoea, a disorder that causes a person's breathing to repeatedly stop and start during sleep, include pauses in breathing, choking at night, waking frequently, and suffering from morning headaches.

If this is what you are dealing with, you could be recommended a Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machine, or even surgical treatment in some cases, Simon explains.

For simple snoring, Simon said that lifestyle changes can make a difference, such as losing weight, stopping smoking, reducing alcohol intake before bed, or changing your sleeping position - such as laying on your side rather than your back.

You can also suggest to your partner that they see a GP, who will be able to advise further or refer you to a specialist.

An expert might suggest treating nasal obstruction or allergies, if this is what is causing snoring, or wearing a custom mouthguard to gently push the lower jaw forward and keep the airway open.

Johal says too many couples put up with snoring "for too long", which impacts their relationships and wellbeing.

"The key thing is that there is help out there, it's just tapping into it." %!s()

Fortunately, a 1.1 patch is here, and the first patch note is "Fixed various crash issues." Following that, "Fixed an issue where Beskar saves were temporarily deleted" and "Fixed a crash issue for Beskar mode."

There's also a fix for "an issue where shots can be missed, even when the chance to hit is 100%." I've been assuming that ZCOM was rounding up the numbers and actually I'd been missing 97% chance shots the several times I completely whiffed a point-blank sure thing in my playthrough, so it'll be nice to actually land those attacks instead.

The other main bug I experienced was overwatch not triggering even when enemies jog through multiple targeting cones on their turn. That doesn't seem to have been addressed, although several other bugs involving overwatch triggering against units outside the targeting cone or behind solid objects have. Maybe I'll wait one more patch before turning on the beskar mode then.

Bit Reactor, the studio that created Zero Company, reportedly furloughed most of its staff shortly before launch, and has been operating with a skeleton crew since then. Which explains why it's taken two weeks for some fairly fundamental issues to be addressed. Here's hoping some of those staff can get brought back on to help speed up the rate patches come out.

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California’s Second District Court of Appeal on Thursday reversed a decision allowing Schneider to proceed with his lawsuit, rejecting arguments that the docuseries implied that the producer sexually abused children who worked on the Nickelodeon series he created and ran.

“The documentary clearly distinguishes between the lamentable conduct that its participants attribute to Schneider — gender discrimination, harassment, toxic workplace behavior, and inappropriate sexual innuendo — and the child sexual abuse explicitly attributed to three named individuals,” stated the decision.

The docuseries debuted in 2024 to massive ratings, chronicling Schneider’s rise as a prolific producer of children’s television series. In the third episode, Drake Bell, the star of Drake & Josh and The Amanda Show, came forward as the then-anonymous victim in a sexual assault case against Brian Peck, who was convicted in 2004 of sexually assaulting the actor. In a video after the project’s release, Schneider said he didn’t hire the dialogue coach. He later stated that he had knowledge of the abuse.

The ruling marks a major win for Warner Bros., which didn’t respond to requests for comment, after a California state court in 2024 rejected a bid to dismiss the case. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ashfaq G. Chowdhury had found that viewers could draw “damning implications” about Schneider’s conduct toward children.

The question at the center of the appeal: whether the documentary can be understood to suggest that Schneider sexually abused children.

In Thursday’s ruling, the court found that filmmakers explicitly told viewers that Schneider wasn’t implicated in the abuse. It pointed to the docuseries exploring an internal Nickelodeon investigation that didn’t find any evidence of inappropriate sexual behavior by Schneider toward children.

“Schneider’s attempt to find an alternative meaning than what is expressly stated in the documentary is unavailing,” the order stated.

A significant thrust of the lawsuit was the title dancing around claims Schneider sexually abused children. One example: Quiet on Set introduces viewers to the sexual abusers, Peck and Jason Handy, in the second episode while repeatedly cutting to images of Schneider while discussing the duo. The producer had targeted the allegedly manipulative editing.

Responding to arguments over the juxtaposition of the images, the three-judge panel of the state appeals court rebuffed Schneider’s characterization of the sequence. A review of the segment shows that roughly six minutes of the episode are focused on Handy, it said, with no time dedicated to Schneider during the scenes. 

The court said it will “refrain from splitting hairs to find an allegation of child sexual abuse where the only such abuse discussed is explicitly attributed to named perpetrators and the documentary expressly states that an investigation into Schneider found no evidence of abuse.”

In a statement, Gerry Silver, a lawyer for Schneider, said the producer is evaluating “options for further review and appeal.” He added, “We are pleased that the Court acknowledged that the makers of Quiet on Set presented absolutely no evidence that Dan was sexually abusive towards any of his cast members and agreed that any such allegation is provably false.”

Warners’ appeal was handled by Theodore J. Boutrous, Ilissa Samplin, Zachary C. Freund, and Connor S. Sullivan of Gibson Dunn. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the International Documentary Association filed friend-of-the-court briefs supporting the studio in the case.

Warner Bros. Discovery, which distributed the project on Max alongside Investigation Discovery, and producers Maxine Productions and Sony Pictures Television were named in the complaint. Schneider had sought unspecified damages and a court order forcing producers to remove allegedly defamatory portions of the docuseries or have it completely taken down. %!s()

But it looks like Ubisoft is changing tack: starting with Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, for some reason, the publisher is "testing" doing away with the launcher altogether, though software will still run in the background for "cross-progression, cross-play, player safety, challenges and rewards" via a new Ubisoft Connect Services Steam tool.

"This first version is an initial step toward a smoother and more streamlined launch experience on Steam," the Steam announcement reads. "We will continue to iterate and improve Ubisoft Connect Services over time, with the goal of delivering the features and services players use and expect while making the Steam experience as seamless as possible."

I don't think this means you won't need a Ubisoft Connect account: It'll likely operate more like Diablo 4, which requires a Battle.net account but doesn't require launching the Battle.net application.

The post also promises that the new method will roll out to other Ubisoft games in the future. It'll be nice when it does: I've definitely resisted the spontaneous urge for a Rainbow Six Siege match due to the petty annoyance of getting it to open. When Robin Valentine rated all of PC gaming's launchers in 2024, Ubisoft's came in very close to the bottom.

"Another launcher only used under duress, Ubisoft Connect's most notable feature is adding even more things to earn and buy to Ubisoft's already overstuffed games," he wrote.

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