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'Oslo, August 31st:' a film about those small wasted opportunities of life
At first, Joachim Trier's Oslo, August 31st might feel like an indulgent, meandering film filled with chatty people who cannot stop saying the obvious or repeating themselves. But look below the surface, and its brilliance creeps up on you. Superficially, the film offers a minimalist day-in-the-life portrait of a recovering drug addict at a crossroads. But this film is about so much more. This is a meditation on losing the past and the fleeting opportunities life constantly hands you to change the future.
It opens with a scenic montage of Oslo featuring the voices of people sharing memories of the capital city of Norway. They recollect specific days in the city and the significance of those memories. As the voices change from male to female, young person to elder, scenes shot in the streets of Oslo unfold. The grain of the images and the framing reveal them as coming from various sources. Sometimes the streets are empty, sometimes they are alive with people and activity. It all ends in the collapse of a building. A camera attached to the structure gives us a rubble-in-progress view of the event. A fine bit of symbolic foreshadowing by the director who does not waste a moment's time in characterizing Oslo, August 31st's protagonist.
On Aug. 30, Anders (Anders Danielsen Lie) is released for a day on his own recognizance from a rehab facility. That morning, he tries to commit suicide by drowning himself in a lake. Though his attempt results in failure, it looms like a foreboding cloud over the rest of the "action." He returns to the rehab home, soaking wet, showers and heads out on his own.
He first pays a visit to a friend now raising a child, Thomas (Hans Olav Brenner). This meeting sets up Anders' history via dialogue that carries on for almost 20 minutes, but it also reveals the film's strategy. Oslo, August 31st seems obsessed with dialogue, the reactions statements illicit and the variations of possible actions as result of suggestion. It seems repetitive at first, but Anders is being handed opportunities. He can choose to interpret them how he will, but it always seems to be toward a grim self-fulfilling prophecy. He and Thomas talk at a table, in a room, on a bench, out on the street. There is a constant play in the dialogue where Anders seems to hear and say the wrong things that only leads him down that same hole he crawled out from.
This becomes more vivid during a job interview, which comes to an abrupt end and marks the true turn down the dark path leading Anders to his fate. After a nap in the park, Anders heads into the night for parties and encounters with women. But Anders always seems alone. During an early scene, the director sets up that fact when Anders sits by himself at a cafe. He listens in on conversations by fellow patrons that reveal dilemmas, hopes, dreams and plans. It's a smart setup leaving one to wonder, once again, about the possible fate of our hero.
The film ends affirming all of Anders' decisions that came before. It is far from a cop-out. It is also at this point, that the film's cold, washed out quality shifts. A color saturation unseen until now reveals some of the film's most gorgeous shots: Oslo, Norway looking beautiful and lush in the summertime.
Trier first gained notoriety about five years ago as the director behind the fast-paced Reprise, also featuring Lie in a leading role. The film had a much brisker pace, became a festival hit and brought some rare attention to Norway's film industry. It took many years, but the pair have returned with a more intimate, subtle film that should remind audiences of Trier's ingenious command of the cinematic language.
Oslo, August 31st reminds us that we are all responsible for our own fates. We make the choices we make because of what we see in the opportunities handed to us. Do not be fooled by the film's chatty nature, as it is more about the gaps in the conversation than what is said, and it's a brilliant thing to watch unfold.
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Oslo, August 31st is not rated, runs 95 min. and is in Norwegian with English subtitles. Strand Releasing provided a preview screener for the purposes of this review. It opens in South Florida on Friday, July 27, at the Miami Beach Cinematheque and the University of Miami's Cosford Cinema.
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Tagged: Anders Danielsen Lie, August 31st, drug addiction, Hans Morgenstern, Hans Olav Brenner, heroine, Joachim Trier, Norway, Oslo
'The Connection' (1962) explores the agony and ecstasy of men waiting for a fix
Even in today's "progressive" society, women directors are still considered an anomaly in the world of filmmaking. This brief interview, shot not too long ago, between one of today's most buzz-worthy female filmmakers and a veteran female director who only recently passed away captures the angst:
This blog usually does not go out of its way to hype the gender of a director and attempts to consider the output of female filmmakers on equal footing with men (see 'Sleeping Beauty' offers ominous exploration of the prostitution of the female form and 'Tiny Furniture': a harsh humorous stare into the mirror). The Connection, Shirley Clarke's film about making a film about a den of heroine junkies from 1962 begs for an examination with gender in mind. As anyone who has watched "Mad Men" knows, the era was a different time for women. But allow me to point out one of my favorite filmmakers, who made a name for herself in the 1940s as one of the pioneers of experimental cinema: Maya Deren. Though her film style existed far from the Hollywood studio factory, she gained much respect among her contemporaries (read: men) and has become a touchstone in experimental cinema, judged on her own, unique terms. Though lesser known, Clarke, who arrived about 10 years later to the experimental film world, should be no exception. Of course, leave it to the more progressive French to produce a documentary on Clarke that lasts nearly an hour:
Just as I can hardly care that a director be gay or straight, foreign or American, black or white, I do not care if she is male or female. Sure, it must have been tough for a woman to be taken seriously as a director in the early 1960s, but you would not know it by watching the stark and raw Connection. Credit is due to the fact that it is based on a play by Jack Gelber, first presented as a play at New York City's influential Living Theatre. But Clarke brings it to life on a cinematic level through the bold, shifting gaze of the camera.
As the years since its production passed, the Connection languished. According to the press kit for the film's re-release, the movie barely screened because of the use of the word "shit," which today flies around like nothing on basic cable. "[I]ts use in The Connection in reference to heroin disgusted many of the critics — and worse, it offended the New York Board of Regents" (see press kit). Though the film received praise at Cannes, censorship stifled the film's distribution in the US. Only now, after the UCLA Film & Television Archive restored the film from the original 35mm acetate picture, a 35mm composite master positive and a negative soundtrack in 2004, is the film seeing a national, if limited, release in theaters before it comes out the following year on home video. It will have its Florida premiere thanks to the Miami Beach Cinematheque, which will only play it once per-night, for three nights straight, beginning this Friday.
On the surface, the Connection might seem dated. It unfolds only inside a Greenwich Village apartment in the late 1950s as a group of heroine junkies wait for a fix. While some characters deliver monologues, several actual jazz men from the time hanging out with them periodically burst into jam sessions. It has a quaint, stagey feel. Still, though hyper-realized, it captures a zeitgeist with the DNA of hipsterdom that informs Bohemian culture to this day.
Leach (Warren Finnerty, who won a Best Actor OBIE award for his performance in the stage version at the Living Theatre) hosts these men at his apartment. Over the course of the film, they transcend their seeming status as dregs of society into humanity via a dynamic script and mesmerizing performances, be it through speech or music. The atmosphere established by Clarke pegs New York City as it heads into its dreaded years of decline and decay. Voices from outside drift up and through the windows. They range from the sounds of an argument in Puerto Rican slang to children playing. Often, cars honk and trains pass by. There is even a siren screeching past more than once. Inside, the furniture creeks and the floor echoes of worn wood as the characters either drag their feet or stomp the floor while stalking around the space. Leach bitches about the pain of a boil on his neck throughout the film, and he and his fellow drug addicts speak in a beatnik slang, calling each other "man" and "baby" constantly. It amazes as a relic of an era 55 years in the past, as the image is flawless, thanks to UCLA's sparkling restoration.
Then there is the music, written by Freddie Redd who also plays one of the junkies at Leach's apartment and spends most of his time at the piano. A thesis paper on jazz and heroine use could be written alone from the mood shifts in the great pieces he and his band burst into between their fix. The line up also includes Jackie McLean on saxophone , Larry Ritchie on drums and Michael Mattos on bass. The music is varied and dynamic, and the camera takes its time to eat up their presence. Thanks to this beautiful restoration, Arthur J. Ornitz' photography comes to life in light, shadow and detail. The viewer will even notice the sweat traveling down Redd's neck, as he tickles the ivories on a beat-up, stand up piano with its hammers exposed. Clarke took editing duties, however, and the experience is dynamic. It ranges from a smooth, drifting camera that opens the film, as Leach introduces the junkies crashed out at his pad waiting for their man who they call Cowboy (Carl Lee). The opening set up following Leach carries on so long, you wonder if Clarke will ever break the film. But when edits do arrive, they do so in ingenious ways, bringing in the fictional filmmaker, Jim Dunn (William Redfield) out from behind the camera to bitch and complain about how boring his subjects are behaving. He says he wants to make a sincere cinematic statement chronicling a day-in-the-life of various kinds of men brought together for the same fix. Little did he know how boring it would seem. "Aw, come on!" he whines. "Do something!" As the junkies tease him, he begins to stutter and gets angry at J.J. Burden (Roscoe Lee Browne), the cameraman for continuing to roll on him, as he tries to gain some control over his picture. "I'm just trying to make an honest human document," Dunn says.
In the end, humanity does appear in an array of interesting specters that are the experiences of these varied men brought together by a shared, irrepressible desire. The film patiently lumbers toward a devastating statement that probably felt more stark at the time, if it did not still have a resonance for today. The Connection is a thoughtful film feeling its way through a dynamic period. As subversive as it is sincere, whether the director happens to be male or female matters little. Artists like Clarke and her nearly all-male cast (also appearing at the den is a naïve, elderly missionary the junkies call Sister Salvation [Barbara Winchester]) reek of a desire for expression looking to burst out of the classical Hollywood from, many years before Dennis Hopper more famously helped establish a new standard for Hollywood with Easy Rider. Clarke was ahead of her time, and that matters most.
The Connection is not rated and runs 110 min. It makes its Florida premiere at the Miami Beach Cinematheque on Friday, July 13 at 7 p.m. and runs only through that weekend. If you live outside the area, I'm still working on a way to find out screenings across the nation from Milestone Films. Visit there website here. The director of the MBC loaned me a screener for the purposes of this review.
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Tagged: Arthur J. Ornitz, Barbara Winchester, Carl Lee, cool jazz, experimental cinema, Freddie Redd, Hans Morgenstern, heroine, Jackie McLean, Larry Ritchie, Miami Beach Cinematheque, Michael Mattos, Milestone Films, one of the pioneers, Roscoe Lee Browne, Shirley Clarke, The Connection film, UCLA film, Warren Finnerty, William Redfield

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It's that time of year again. Whenever you walk into a big box store you hear that music playing, people are ringing bells outside, and you're looking for gifts online. Now, more than ever one must be careful when making purchases. However, you can thwart these thieves and scam artists hoping to cash in on your holiday cheer by following a few simple rules.
SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer. It's security method that restricts other computers from accessing information during a transfer. You can see if SSL is enabled by looking for a padlock symbol or by checking if the URL (address bar) is preceded by HTTPS:// which indicates a secure portal. This isn't a sure fire way, but it's a start.
No reputable retailer asks for credit card information via e-mail. If they're worth their two cents then they'll set-up a secure portal like the one mentioned above. Honest retailers will also never ask for your social security number. The more information someone is asking for, the more likely they are phisher, an online data miner looking to steal and sell personal information.
The greatest defense against an online thief is common sense. With the number of online retailers there are out there, the moment you sense something fishy just move on. Look online for reviews of companies to make sure they are on the level. The Better Business Bureau is an excellent resource. If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.


Breathe in. Breathe out. Feel the air as it drags through your lungs, and rushes out with the drop of your shoulders. Breathe a sigh of reluctance in the morning, a sigh of relief in the evening. Breathe in deep as you cry. Breathe out strong as you laugh. Breathe a hundred times, a thousand times, a million times, until you fall asleep, and your world becomes invisible, and your breath becomes instinctive.
For even as you sleep, a billion pour their wind into the atmosphere, this pocket of air, which drifts in airless space. With every breath, our blue balloon is swelling, never bursting, never sinking—No! It buoys with the billion's breath, their joy, their grief, their love, their hate. It flies, alive with every word you ever spoke, or hope to speak, but as you sleep, it multiplies a billionfold. A billion breaths you'll never know.
For even if you listen, you cannot hear their newborn's gasps, nor the heaves of their old, nor the breaths between, which weave the two. You cannot hear the breeze against their lips, against an ear, as they mumble lovepoems and childish jokes.
Breathe in. Breathe out. Feel the air in your lungs. Feel the blood that it feeds. Feel the throb in your chest, your wrists, your neck. Feel the drum to mankind's woodwind choir. Feel the beat that we keep, and that keeps us.
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Ian Sweet Shares Cover of Coldplay's "Yellow," Watch
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Ian Sweet has surprised fans with a new cover of Coldplay's "Yellow," along with a music video directed by Will Duncan. The video shows Ian Sweet, otherwise known as Jilian Medford, walking along a beach in a replica of Coldplay's music video for the single back in 2011. A decade later and the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter is paying homage to one of their favorite bands. Sweet's third studio album, Show Me How You Disappear, was released earlier this month.
"I've seen Coldplay live six times," Ian Sweet said in a statement. "Parachutes was the first CD I ever rented from the library, and it changed my life. I owe a lot of who I am and the way I write and perform music to Coldplay. I wanted to cover 'Yellow' because it is my go-to karaoke song, love song, breakup song, feel-good song…. It's everything."
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Milk thistle is one of many ancient remedies that is still alive in modern times. Milk thistle has been known to treat many liver conditions, and is a superpower for the liver. It has been known to lower cholesterol as well, in patients with type 2 diabetes. Another common ancient therapy is acupuncture, which comes from Ancient China. Ancient medicine in India, known as Ayurveda is still used today, globally, though packaging processes have been called into question when high doses of poisonous metals were found in the herbal remedies. On that note, always be sure you can trust your source of herbal ayurvedic medicine. With modern times, it's more than possible to combine therapy practices, in what is known as integrative medicine.
More and more these days, people are turning to alternative medicine over conventional medicine. Something about healing the mind, body, and soul, as well as healing one's self naturally, is mighty appealing to people these days. Not everyone fancies the harsh chemicals used by conventional medicine, in the medicine itself. Many people believe healing is a natural process, and so healing should always begin naturally. Plus, there is the added benefit that in alternative medicine, doctors educate the patients, care about their well-being, and help them form a plan of wellness that helps the patient prevent illness in the first place. That's something Western medicine and papa pharmacy won't be offering for a long, long time!
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Let's get one thing right out in the open: I'm all for lab-grown food. I think that lab-grown meat and burgers, for example, could soon become a great way to circumvent a lot of the environmental and ethical problems of today's meat industry. But I think we can all agree that if our foodstuffs were ever to sprout eyes, or teeny mouths, most of us would probably be more than a little wigged out.
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We're only a cobblestone's throw away from the bustle of Scotland's capital, where Scottish culture and history blend seamlessly with the architectural marvels of this diverse and vibrant city.
Whether you're here for The Edinburgh Fringe Festival or the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, or you're planning on eating and drinking your way across town, THE QUEENS is the peaceful alternative to the busy city, while still allowing you to dip in and out of Edinburgh as you please.
The quaint majesty of Queensferry. Where the legacy of smugglers and royals collide. Spectacular views sweep across the Firth of Forth, spanned by three titanic bridges that guard the wild splendour of Scotland. And THE QUEENS is right in the middle of it all.
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Sometimes the tranquility of a museum or gallery is the preferred scene to soak in the history and culture of our great Scottish nation.
Edinburgh Fringe is the world's largest arts festival. And THE QUEENS is perfectly located a safe (but easily accessible distance) from the bustle of Edinburgh. Every August, the streets and venues of Edinburgh are littered with the quirky, the controversial, the passionate and the hilarious (and sometimes not-so hilarious), each staging their own mini arts revolution.
August is a busy month for Edinburgh! The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo has become a global phenomena, merging our love of music with the pomp of ceremony. And for those who don't particularly want to stay amongst the combined might of Fringe and Tattoo-goers, join us in South Queensferry. THE QUEENS is the perfect, peaceful alternative.
It will be cold. It might even be snowing. But it will be worth it. Scotland loves a spectacle, and Hogmanay (our version of New Year) is something for the bucket list. We have concerts, street fairs, and a Ceilidh (folk dancing) under Edinburgh Castle. And don't forget Loony Dook (swimming in the freezing cold Firth of Forth) in our very own South Queensferry.


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Ton Pentre will feature in a Fox Sports documentary in the Netherlands
Posted on April 6, 2017 by cpdtonpentreafc in Feature, News // 2 Comments
Kevin Richards (behind Brett Davey on the ball) playing for Ton Pentre in Europe against Heerenveen.
Ton Pentre are to appear in a Dutch documentary about the Bulldogs UEFA Intertoto Cup match against sc Heerenveen in 1995.
The 30 minute documentary is to appear on national television in the Netherlands sometime next month on Fox Sports NL.
The film crew recently visited Ynys Park, Ton Pentre and the surrounding Rhondda area.
Heerenveen's match against the Bulldogs was their first ever game on foreign soil and the documentary aims to recognise this and analyse the difference in fortunes between the Eredivisie club and the Bulldogs.
In Wales voor de volgende @FOXSportsnl doc over de eerste Europese uitwedstrijd van #SCHeerenveen in 1995 tegen @TonPentreFC pic.twitter.com/O4ItbXYbog
— Arjen Compagne (@arjen_compagne) April 1, 2017
Former Ton Pentre players were interviewed, including goalkeeper Marty Ellacott and striker Brett Davey. Club officials were also interviewed by the visiting film crew.
"It's wonderful to have such exposure," said a spokesperson for the Bulldogs. "European football was a special experience for everyone involved in the club back in 1995 and it's fantastic to see that the match also meant so much to Heerenveen.
"The three-man film crew that visited the Rhondda to film footage for the documentary were made to feel very welcome at Ynys Park and we thoroughly enjoyed having them spend a few days with us.
"Fox Sports is the Netherlands version of Sky Sports and it shows the Bulldogs history, stature and reach to attract such attention from another country."
Ton Pentre were the first Welsh participants in the UEFA Inter-Toto Cup competition playing mid-summer matches.
Their opponents included Naestved (Denmark), Bekescabai Elore (Hungary), Uniao Leira (Portugal) and Heerenveen (Holland), who in the 2000-01 season played in the UEFA Champions League. The Dutch club have been regular qualifiers of the UEFA Europe League too.
Thanks for the hospitality @TonPentreFC! We had a great time in the Rhondda Valley. pic.twitter.com/wa8hYr9DRR
— Media Heerenveen (@MediaHeerenveen) April 3, 2017
Even though Ton Pentre lost all their games, 2-0, 3-0, 4-0 and 7-0 respectively, Ton Pentre had the opportunity to compete against players such as John Dahl Tomasson, a Danish international and former Newcastle United player and Tahar who was impressive for Morocco in the 1998 World Cup Finals in France.
Dank je! Diolch! Thanks @MediaHeerenveen! We can't wait to see the @FOXSportsnl documentary on the Inter Toto Cup match with @scHeerenveen. pic.twitter.com/ZDinRr9APO
— Ton Pentre FC (@TonPentreFC) April 2, 2017
The documentary is expected to be aired sometime in May and once it has finished a period of exclusivity on Fox Sports it will be shown on Heerenveen's television channel. It is hoped that the Bulldogs will also be able to share the documentary at this point.
So, brush up on your Dutch!
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paling // December 26, 2017 at 1:21 pm // Reply
I guess you guys would be interested in watching it. So i would like to tell you it´s been uploaded on youtube: https://youtu.be/l7MCmRaMqPA
Greetings from Friesland!
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With the majority of Britain under attack from unseasonably bad summer weather the final stop of the 2012 Husqvarna ACU British Sprint Enduro Championship enjoyed glorious sunshine, which ensured perfect racing conditions during both days of the hotly contested event.
Making his first appearance in the championship Husqvarna's factory team rider Matti Seistola wasted little time in adapting to the sprint enduro racing format. Although slowed by numerous mistakes during the opening two laps at round nine, Seistola soon found his pace and topped the final four special tests to claim a comfortable win. At round ten, the Husqvarna rider completed a mistake free day to secure victory at the final round of the season.
For the newly crowned Elite class champion Jordan Rose, Saturday's round nine got off to a disastrous start when a stone jammed in his chain during the opening lap. Losing over 35 seconds as he was forced to stop and remove the offending stone, Rose spent the remainder of his day battling hard to recover lost time. Setting a fast pace during the final stages of the day, Rose finished as runner-up to Seistola, clinching the Elite championship in the process.
Putting in a strong ride, KTM's Tom Church finished less than seven seconds behind Rose to place third. Daryl Bolter finished ten seconds behind Church to end his day in fourth while Honda mounted Lee Edmondson quickly acquainted himself with his new bike to place fifth.
With Seistola once again leading the way on Sunday's round 10, the fight for second was fought out between Bolter and Kawasaki's Ryan Voase. Setting a fast pace during the closing stages of the day, Voase reeled in Bolter and finished second to record his best ever finish in the BSEC. Bolter placed third. Rose again fought back from a disappointing opening lap to end his day fourth. Edmondson once again put in a solid ride to round out the top five.
Finding the exciting mix of woodland, motocross track, and flowing grass tracks to his liking, Gas Gas' Danny McCanney was in a confident mood at round nine. Trailing initial pace setter Husaberg's Alex Rockwell by seven seconds at the end of lap one, McCanney quickly overhauled Rocky to end the day almost 37 seconds in front. Leading the way from the beginning of round ten, Danny delivered another unbeatable ride to claim the final victory of the season and with it secured the Under 23 championship.
Although hoping to use his motocross experience to his advantage around the Canada Heights circuit, Rockwell was unable to consistently match the pace of his fellow Manxman and had to be content with placing second at both rounds nine and ten.
Finishing third at round nine, Husqvarna's Jack Rowland improved his pace at round ten by switching to a larger capacity machine. Although ending his day over one-minute adrift of the leading duo, Rowland produced one of his best results to date. Lewis Belfield (KTM) and Scotland's Frazer Norrie (KTM) enjoyed a weekend long battle for fourth and fifth. At round nine, Belfield got the better of Norrie to finish fourth, while Norrie pipped Belfield by six tenths of a second at round ten to steal fourth.
In the Under 19 class KTM's Steve Holcombe wrapped up his BSEC season with a perfect scorecard by claiming wins at round nine and ten. After a difficult start to round nine, Holcombe capitalised on a crash by early race leader Joe Wootton (Kawasaki) to grab his ninth victory of the year. Putting in a mistake free ride at round ten, the KTM rider topped the standings for the final time this year.
Husqvarna's Robert Johnson delivered his best ride of the season to place a solid second at round nine. With James Dent (KTM) finishing closely behind in third, Stuart Owen (Yamaha) narrowly beat Wootton to finish fourth.
At round ten, Wootton avoided making any mistakes to place as runner up to Holcombe. Johnson eventually held off a late charge by Dent to finish third while Owens completed the top five.
In the 125 Youth Cup, Husaberg's Jamie McCanney returned from injury to secure a double victory. Although lacking some race pace, he eased his way into the event and topped the class standings each day. KTM's Brad Freeman continued to impress with another strong ride in the series at Canada Heights. Finishing as runner up to McCanney at both rounds, Freeman also wrapped up the 125 Youth Cup championship.
At round nine, TM's Josh Gotts rode a lonely race to finish third with Jack Staines (Yamaha) and Lee Sealey (KTM) completing the top five. Sealey reversed the positions of round nine to place third at round ten while Staines got the better of Gotts by four seconds to finish in fourth.
In the Expert class the battle for championship honours was an intense one between Husaberg's Tyson Maytom-Jones and KTM's Richard Ely. Maytom-Jones led the proceedings early during round nine until a mechanical issue dropped him out of contention allowing Ely to claim the win. The Husaberg rider's luck ran out at round ten when problems arose again allowing Ely to power through to secure the Expert championship.
At round nine, Hart placed a close second to Ely before upping his pace to win the final round of the series. With Honda's James Jackman ending round nine in third, Daniel Beaven (KTM) placed fourth while Craig Reynolds (KTM) rounded out the top five. With Hart winning round ten, Ely fended off stiff competition from Beaven to finish second. With Beaven securing third, Jackman finished fourth, while Kalem Hicks (KTM) completed the top five.
TM's Gethin Francombe continued his winning ways to claim a commanding double victory in the Clubman class. Darren Osbourne (KTM) finished behind the TM rider to place second beating Husqvarna mounted Jamie Jenkins, Ryan Poolman (KTM) and early leader Ian Smart (KTM). Francombe again topped the standings at round ten. Absent from round nine, Mark Houson claimed second at round ten. Jason Corden (KTM) completed the top three while Osbourne and Jenkins rounded out the top five.
In the Women's class, KTM mounted Jane Daniels secured another double victory to remain unbeaten this season. Fionn Griffiths (KTM) defended a strong fight from Katie Bullock (Husqvarna) to place second both days while Stephanie Rowe (AJP) finished fourth.


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N.B. communities celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day on the lawn of the legislature
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Posted June 21, 2022 3:01 pm
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WATCH ABOVE: National Indigenous Peoples Day was celebrated at the New Brunswick legislature on Tuesday. Vendors, dancers, singers and drummers all joined the ceremony, all against the backdrop of a continued strain in the relationship between Indigenous communities and the provincial government. Nathalie Sturgeon has more – Jun 21, 2022
Under the shadow of the New Brunswick legislature, the Indigenous community gathered in celebration of National Indigenous Peoples Day.
With a sacred fire burning on the front lawn, vendors, drummers, singers and the public shared together in the culture of New Brunswick's First People.
"Today is a celebration of being Indigenous," said elder Imelda Perley. "That's why we wear our moccasins, we wear our regalia, we wear our ribbon skirts, we wear our wampum belts, we wear our four-leggeds and winged ones, and all of that. So today, I actually posted on my (Twitter that) I want non-Indigenous people to walk a mile in our moccasins to see what we face, not just today, but every day."
She said it is about both seeing the achievements and the injustice Indigenous people face in New Brunswick and across the country.
Read more: New Brunswick premier faces growing backlash to land acknowledgment policy
Over the past few months, the relationship between the Higgs government and First Nations communities has been strained.
The government removed all official land acknowledgements and prohibits government employees from doing so publicly. Employees also cannot use the words unceded or unsurrended, either.
The Wolastoqey Nations and its chiefs have called for an inquiry into systemic racism, but the Higgs government has been unwilling to do so.
Two Indigenous people have also been shot and killed by police in recent years. Chantel Moore and Rodney Levi both died at the hands of police officers in 2020. Only coroner's inquests were held, despite the push for inquiries.
Perley said a big step would be establishing that the Wolastoqey language is the first language of the province, similar to what has been done in neighbouring Nova Scotia.
Earlier in the spring, the City of Fredericton helped the Wolastoqey Grandmothers set up a location on the city's northside for the language immersion school, citing the fewer than 100 Wolastoqey speakers the community has left.
Perley said she doesn't believe the relationship with the Higgs government can be repaired, but is hopeful for future governments.
Wolastoq Grand Chief Ron Tremblay agrees with Perley.
Read more: Tweeting about National Indigenous Peoples Day? This Haida artist designed the emoji
"The irony is we're here celebrating on the unceded land of the legislature," he said. "We have to do it ourselves, we have to educate people, we have to educate the allies and we have to make stronger bonds."
He said if people want to know more about the culture, "come talk to us."
For St. Mary's First Nation Chief Allan Polchies, Tuesday was also about celebrating achievements.
"We as Indigenous people are celebrating this day to honour our ancestors and to share with one another, today, about our beautiful culture, our language and to speak about the history but more importantly to talk about the future," he said in an interview Tuesday.
He said the Wolastoqey chiefs know the relationship between the government and Indigenous communities is not strong.
On Tuesday, the government put out a statement recognizing the day. It also announced a new website that will track the provincial government's progress in implementing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's calls to action.
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PNNL catalysis expert Johannes Lercher explores energy storage, transport solutions
29-Nov-2021 10:05 PM EST, by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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Johannes Lercher is a Battelle Fellow and director of the Institute for Integrated Catalysis at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Lercher stands in front of the Energy Sciences Center, the $90 million research facility that was dedicated in late October 2021 at PNNL in Richland, Wash.
By Allan Brettman
Newswise — The dissection of a frog doesn't have much in common with catalysis, but an aspiring young scientist has to start somewhere.
A reflective Johannes Lercher marked that high school frog experiment as his starting point in biology and chemistry. Both had to compete with writing for his career ambitions. That, as well as tennis and skiing. He excelled at them all.
"I was always quite broadly interested," said Lercher.
Science won. Today, the Battelle Fellow and director of the Institute for Integrated Catalysis at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is regarded as one of the world's leading authorities on catalysis, the art and science of speeding up chemical reactions. In early 2021, the German Catalysis Society gave its highest award to Lercher while highlighting his overall scientific work as well as his contributions to the development and understanding of solid catalysts from raw materials. Later in 2021, Lercher was elected to join the German Academy of Engineering.
Energy Sciences Center-bound
Lercher, with other leaders in PNNL's catalysis community, is preparing to move into the recently dedicated Energy Sciences Center. The 140,000-square-foot facility includes 52 laboratories, flexible-use collaborative spaces, conference rooms, and offices for 250 staff and visiting researchers. Designed to meet the Department of Energy's high-performance sustainable building standards, the facility features an energy- and water-reducing design that takes advantage of ample natural light and uses waste-heat energy generated by high-performance computers housed in an adjacent building.
Lercher said he was looking forward to moving into the facility, noting that its design would help foster advances in catalysis research by facilitating contact among scientists. The Energy Sciences Center includes research programs expected to develop advanced computational and data methods to accelerate scientific discovery in chemistry and materials science. Potential research advances include developing new catalysts to reduce vehicle emissions and discovering cheaper, safer, and higher-performing energy storage materials.
Lercher praised the juxtaposition of all these efforts in one space and pointed out a people-oriented benefit.
"I think the biggest, most important thing for the Energy Sciences Center, in addition to providing a good workspace, is that it is designed to bring people together," Lercher said. "I can see that it will help colleagues talk about science."
Not that kind of gymnasium
Lercher's own science dialogue got its start at Schottengymnasium in Vienna, Austria, considered one of the most prestigious college preparatory schools in Austria. Alumni include three Nobel laureates. Lercher rhapsodizes today about his 12 years spent learning in the Benedictine tradition of prayer and work, as well as the lifelong friendships he developed. Summers were a mix of hiking and tennis in the Austrian countryside, where he developed the skills to become a tennis instructor and, much later, challenge PNNL colleagues to matches.
After graduating from Schottengymnasium, he pursued a chemistry degree at the Vienna University of Technology. But he also spent two years in theater, working in various roles.
"I had to find myself first," Lercher said. "After high school, I thought about studying German literature with the goal of being a writer. But chemistry was always an interest. And I'm practical. From the time I exited high school I wanted to be independent, and I didn't take any money from my parents. Did this influence my decision to pursue chemistry, something that would more likely ensure a good living? Perhaps."
He steamrolled through the Vienna University undergraduate program, earning a degree in three years. By 1980, he'd earned a PhD in chemistry. Both degrees were summa cum laude.
"I've been lucky," Lercher said.
Both lucky and good
His link to catalysis came by a chance introduction. In the midst of pursuing the doctoral degree at Vienna, he heard the physical chemistry department had a research assistant job opening. It involved catalysis.
"It was interesting," Lercher said. "And it's not just in a classroom, it's on the job, which is a much wilder environment. I was getting hands-on, practical experience. So it was by chance, really. If the institute had offered a job in spectroscopy I probably would have gravitated toward spectroscopy.
"But again, I got lucky. Catalysis is a multi-faceted subject. It's complex. To define ways to accelerate reactions is a fascinating job. You put a solid into a reactor and that reaction accelerates by 10 times, by 100 times. Then you try to find out why does this accelerate the reaction? How does it act? How does it act when you change the parameters?"
After a postdoctoral stay at Yale University, he returned to the Vienna University of Technology as a university lecturer. From 1993 to 1998, he was a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Twente in The Netherlands. In 1998, he accepted a professorship in technical chemistry at the Technical University of Munich, home of the Research Institute for Catalysis. He lives in Munich with his wife and two cats. The couple have two grown children.
The once-aspiring writer is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Catalysis, a premier journal in the field of catalysis. He is a member of the editorial board of several catalysis journals. He has served as president of the International Zeolite Association and as president of the European Federation of Catalysis Societies.
The PNNL path
Lercher started at PNNL in 2011. Two years earlier at a Department of Energy conference, he'd chatted with Bruce Garrett, then PNNL's physical sciences director, and Doug Ray, then a PNNL associate laboratory director. Garrett and Ray were seeking recommendations about who to recruit for the vacant Institute for Integrated Catalysis director opening. Lercher gave several names, but not his own.
The dialogue with Ray continued. They bumped into each other at a 2010 American Chemical Society meeting. Ray suggested Lercher might take the directorship, which he ultimately did.
Roger Rousseau, a PNNL computational scientist and Lab Fellow, met Lercher for the first time when he interviewed for the directorship.
"He's an abstract thinker and he thinks big picture," Rousseau said. "And he thinks in a very holistic way. In his mind, science is about unraveling complex phenomena. He's looking at things not just from the atomic level but from the atomic level to the systems level."
Unrealistic positivism is a negative
The Energy Sciences Center opening will enable Lercher to work in close proximity to a researcher he personally recruited to PNNL.
Oliver Gutierrez, who joined PNNL in 2017 as a staff scientist, studied as a postdoc at the Technical University of Munich starting in 2009. A Mexican professor, who was hosting Lercher in a seminar, had introduced Gutierrez to Lercher. Gutierrez led a catalysis research group focused on industrial applications and alternative processes before arriving at PNNL. He's had years to get to know Lercher.
"He's rigorous," Gutierrez said. "When you do research, it's easy to become excited, to think you've come up with a super catalyst. Johannes will bring you back to Earth. He'll ask questions. Why is this the case? Is this an experimental error? He pushes against unrealistic positivism. This is how science works. He has provided me with a rigorous way of thinking, not only chemical thinking but scientific thinking."
That's the Lercher who Zdenek Dohnalek knows. Dohnalek, a chemist and PNNL Lab Fellow who holds a joint appointment with Washington State University, has served as deputy director of the laboratory's Institute for Integrated Catalysis since 2013.
"Johannes is one of the few people I know who has a broad knowledge of catalysis that spans from the applied efforts to fundamental concepts," Dohnalek said. "He has the rare ability to tie it all together, making connections to other fields."
Storage solutions at PNNL's Energy Sciences Center
Lercher's research addresses fundamental aspects of catalysts and catalyzed reactions that enable catalysis to lower the atmospheric carbon footprint by using radically new approaches to synthesize energy carriers. He aims to do so by catalyzing chemical conversions at significantly lower reaction temperatures and with higher selectivity than currently possible.
Lercher sees catalysis playing a crucial role in tapping into energy sources that do not contribute to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
"We need to solve the problem on a worldwide scale and that's what we're striving to do at PNNL," Lercher said. "Catalysis is the key technology to solve this. We will harvest energy from wind, we will harvest energy from the sun. But catalysis solutions will be needed to store and transport that energy. These are the kinds of challenges we strive to solve in the new Energy Sciences Center."
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Antique Pewter is an alloy composed mainly of tin with various amounts of copper, zinc, antimony, bismuth and sometimes lead. Several early civilizations, the Chinese, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, are known to have used this soft metal. In England, pewter regulations were passed as early as 1348 in London for quality standards, working conditions, and selling restrictions. This was followed in 1473 by Edward IVs grant of a royal charter to the 'Mistery of Pewterers' to supervise and control the trade throughout the Realm.
The history of pewter in America goes back to the early colonial period. Though pewter was then considered to be somewhat of a luxury item, it had made its appearance in Jamestown, Virginia by 1610, and in the New England area by the 1630s as newly arrived colonists brought pewter with them from their native England. At least five pewterers were active in the Massachusetts Bay Colony by 1640. These pewterers had trained in England under the strict auspices of The Worshipful Company of Pewterers, a powerful guild which so stringently regulated all aspects of the manufacture of pewter that English pewter was regarded as the finest made.
England's mercantile policy was to export only finished pewter products to her colonies, to tax unworked pewter and to prohibit the export of pure tin, the main ingredient in pewter. Thus, colonial pewterers were restricted to repair work or were forced to buy up worn pewter vessels at fifty to seventy per cent of their original cost and to melt them and cast them as new items. In daily use, pewter in eighteenth century America is estimated to have lasted only ten years due to its low melting point and the ease with which it was dented. However, the demand for pewter was always great and colonial pewterers could sell their wares more cheaply than imported English pewter.
While the very poor used wooden utensils, most colonials who could afford it used pewter; and it came to be regarded as almost a symbol of gentility. Though pewter vessels cost only about one-tenth the price of silver, they were still fairly expensive since the cost of a dish or tankard equaled or exceeded what a skilled craftsman earned in a day. A study of English export records by Robert W. Symonds revealed that by 1720 "the value of pewter imports from England began to exceed the combined totals of the value of silver objects, furniture, upholstery wares, including bedding, curtains, carpets, hangings, and upholstered furniture ." More than 300 tons of English pewter were shipped to the American colonies annually in the 1760's.
As did silversmiths, many pewterers identified their works by stamping their pewter with a mark called a touchmark or simply a touch. While English touch designs, such as the rampant lion, were popular before the War for Independence, afterwards the patriotic American eagle was often substituted. After about 1825 the originality of the decorative touches declined radically to simply the pewterer's name in a rectangular frame. The collector of American pewter is presented with a multitude of problems in identification, for not all touchmarks have yet been linked to a specific pewterer. Numerous touchmarks have been rendered illegible through wear, and many pieces were never marked in the first place since it was never required by law.
Pewter was marked not only by its makers but also often by its owners. Owners would stamp or engrave their initials on their more important pieces of pewter and this would serve as identification should the pieces be borrowed or stolen. Important families even went so far as to have family crests or coats of arms engraved on pewter when they purchased it.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries American pewter was made by casting the molten metal in molds which were usually made of brass or bronze. Molds were very expensive and immigrating pewterers often brought their molds with them from England and Germany. However molds were produced in America as well. These would then be passed down from generation to generation of pewterers. One tankard required five separate molds, one each for the body, bottom, handle, cover, and thumbpiece. Showing great ingenuity, pewterers often used one mold for a variety of purposes.
Early American pewter is noted for its simplicity of style. The difficulty and expense of obtaining molds resulted in a slower stylistic evolution than that of silver which did not require molds for its manufacture, though the general design trends in silver were eventually reflected in pewter. Because pewter was a far softer metal, a thicker construction was often used as a means of increasing durability. Further, pewter's basically utilitarian nature discouraged excessive ornamentation.
Near the end of the eighteenth century a new type of pewter called britannia was introduced from England. Harder than regular pewter, britannia was an alloy of tin, copper, and antimony but was without any lead. It was easier and faster to manufacture, for it could either be more thinly cast or it could be stamped or spun from sheets of the rolled metal. This also meant that the style could respond to the dictates of fashion as quickly as silver. In fact, britannia came to resemble silver, especially in brilliance and shape, more than it resembled traditional pewter, with the notable exception of price. It was exceedingly popular until about 1850 when the process of electroplating was introduced whereby a thin coating of silver could be applied to cover the britannia or other metal. Over the next twenty years britannia makers and pewterers either gradually shifted to the manufacture of silver plate or went out of business. This was due to the competition from the ever-increasing popularity of porcelain and other pottery wares as well as the finally overwhelming competition from silver plate.
Considering the amount of American pewter which once existed, alarmingly little has survived to the present. The former advantage that damaged or worn pewter could be melted down and recast has robbed us of a complete view of the development of pewter in America. Also, during the War for Independence many donated their pewter to be cast into musket balls. But the special allure of pewter was recognized even as its popularity declined. In 1839 an old pewter beaker was the first recorded object given to the New Hampshire Historical Society. And today we continue to collect and honor works of this soft-luster metal which played such an important role in the early history of this country. Adapted from the exhibition catalog, American Pewter (c. 1730 - c. 1870) in the collection of Dr. and Mrs. Melvyn D. Wolf. 1973, The Flint Institute of Arts, Flint Michigan.
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Let me tell you a story. It goes back 200 million years. It's a story of the neocortex, which means "new rind." So in these early mammals, because only mammals have a neocortex, rodent-like creatures. It was the size of a postage stamp and just as thin, and was a thin covering around their walnut-sized brain, but it was capable of a new type of thinking. Rather than the fixed behaviors that non-mammalian animals have, it could invent new behaviors. So a mouse is escaping a predator, its path is blocked, it'll try to invent a new solution. That may work, it may not, but if it does, it will remember that and have a new behavior, and that can actually spread virally through the rest of the community. Another mouse watching this could say, "Hey, that was pretty clever, going around that rock," and it could adopt a new behavior as well.
Non-mammalian animals couldn't do any of those things. They had fixed behaviors. Now they could learn a new behavior but not in the course of one lifetime. In the course of maybe a thousand lifetimes, it could evolve a new fixed behavior. That was perfectly okay 200 million years ago. The environment changed very slowly. It could take 10,000 years for there to be a significant environmental change, and during that period of time it would evolve a new behavior.
Now that went along fine, but then something happened. Sixty-five million years ago, there was a sudden, violent change to the environment. We call it the Cretaceous extinction event. That's when the dinosaurs went extinct, that's when 75 percent of the animal and plant species went extinct, and that's when mammals overtook their ecological niche, and to anthropomorphize, biological evolution said, "Hmm, this neocortex is pretty good stuff," and it began to grow it. And mammals got bigger, their brains got bigger at an even faster pace, and the neocortex got bigger even faster than that and developed these distinctive ridges and folds basically to increase its surface area. If you took the human neocortex and stretched it out, it's about the size of a table napkin, and it's still a thin structure. It's about the thickness of a table napkin. But it has so many convolutions and ridges it's now 80 percent of our brain, and that's where we do our thinking, and it's the great sublimator. We still have that old brain that provides our basic drives and motivations, but I may have a drive for conquest, and that'll be sublimated by the neocortex into writing a poem or inventing an app or giving a TED Talk, and it's really the neocortex that's where the action is.
Fifty years ago, I wrote a paper describing how I thought the brain worked, and I described it as a series of modules. Each module could do things with a pattern. It could learn a pattern. It could remember a pattern. It could implement a pattern. And these modules were organized in hierarchies, and we created that hierarchy with our own thinking. And there was actually very little to go on 50 years ago. It led me to meet President Johnson. I've been thinking about this for 50 years, and a year and a half ago I came out with the book "How To Create A Mind," which has the same thesis, but now there's a plethora of evidence. The amount of data we're getting about the brain from neuroscience is doubling every year. Spatial resolution of brainscanning of all types is doubling every year. We can now see inside a living brain and see individual interneural connections connecting in real time, firing in real time. We can see your brain create your thoughts. We can see your thoughts create your brain, which is really key to how it works.
So let me describe briefly how it works. I've actually counted these modules. We have about 300 million of them, and we create them in these hierarchies. I'll give you a simple example. I've got a bunch of modules that can recognize the crossbar to a capital A, and that's all they care about. A beautiful song can play, a pretty girl could walk by, they don't care, but they see a crossbar to a capital A, they get very excited and they say "crossbar," and they put out a high probability on their output axon. That goes to the next level, and these layers are organized in conceptual levels. Each is more abstract than the next one, so the next one might say "capital A." That goes up to a higher level that might say "Apple." Information flows down also. If the apple recognizer has seen A-P-P-L, it'll think to itself, "Hmm, I think an E is probably likely," and it'll send a signal down to all the E recognizers saying, "Be on the lookout for an E, I think one might be coming." The E recognizers will lower their threshold and they see some sloppy thing, could be an E. Ordinarily you wouldn't think so, but we're expecting an E, it's good enough, and yeah, I've seen an E, and then apple says, "Yeah, I've seen an Apple."
Go up another five levels, and you're now at a pretty high level of this hierarchy, and stretch down into the different senses, and you may have a module that sees a certain fabric, hears a certain voice quality, smells a certain perfume, and will say, "My wife has entered the room."
Go up another 10 levels, and now you're at a very high level. You're probably in the frontal cortex, and you'll have modules that say, "That was ironic. That's funny. She's pretty."
You might think that those are more sophisticated, but actually what's more complicated is the hierarchy beneath them. There was a 16-year-old girl, she had brain surgery, and she was conscious because the surgeons wanted to talk to her. You can do that because there's no pain receptors in the brain. And whenever they stimulated particular, very small points on her neocortex, shown here in red, she would laugh. So at first they thought they were triggering some kind of laugh reflex, but no, they quickly realized they had found the points in her neocortex that detect humor, and she just found everything hilarious whenever they stimulated these points. "You guys are so funny just standing around," was the typical comment, and they weren't funny, not while doing surgery.
So how are we doing today? Well, computers are actually beginning to master human language with techniques that are similar to the neocortex. I actually described the algorithm, which is similar to something called a hierarchical hidden Markov model, something I've worked on since the '90s. "Jeopardy" is a very broad natural language game, and Watson got a higher score than the best two players combined. It got this query correct: "A long, tiresome speech delivered by a frothy pie topping," and it quickly responded, "What is a meringue harangue?" And Jennings and the other guy didn't get that. It's a pretty sophisticated example of computers actually understanding human language, and it actually got its knowledge by reading Wikipedia and several other encyclopedias.
Five to 10 years from now, search engines will actually be based on not just looking for combinations of words and links but actually understanding, reading for understanding the billions of pages on the web and in books. So you'll be walking along, and Google will pop up and say, "You know, Mary, you expressed concern to me a month ago that your glutathione supplement wasn't getting past the blood-brain barrier. Well, new research just came out 13 seconds ago that shows a whole new approach to that and a new way to take glutathione. Let me summarize it for you."
Twenty years from now, we'll have nanobots, because another exponential trend is the shrinking of technology. They'll go into our brain through the capillaries and basically connect our neocortex to a synthetic neocortex in the cloud providing an extension of our neocortex. Now today, I mean, you have a computer in your phone, but if you need 10,000 computers for a few seconds to do a complex search, you can access that for a second or two in the cloud. In the 2030s, if you need some extra neocortex, you'll be able to connect to that in the cloud directly from your brain. So I'm walking along and I say, "Oh, there's Chris Anderson. He's coming my way. I'd better think of something clever to say. I've got three seconds. My 300 million modules in my neocortex isn't going to cut it. I need a billion more." I'll be able to access that in the cloud. And our thinking, then, will be a hybrid of biological and non-biological thinking, but the non-biological portion is subject to my law of accelerating returns. It will grow exponentially. And remember what happens the last time we expanded our neocortex? That was two million years ago when we became humanoids and developed these large foreheads. Other primates have a slanted brow. They don't have the frontal cortex. But the frontal cortex is not really qualitatively different. It's a quantitative expansion of neocortex, but that additional quantity of thinking was the enabling factor for us to take a qualitative leap and invent language and art and science and technology and TED conferences. No other species has done that.
And so, over the next few decades, we're going to do it again. We're going to again expand our neocortex, only this time we won't be limited by a fixed architecture of enclosure. It'll be expanded without limit. That additional quantity will again be the enabling factor for another qualitative leap in culture and technology.


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Six gamers from the squad that misplaced 2-Three to South Africa earlier this yr have been rested, together with skipper Sarfaraz Ahmed. Shoaib Malik will lead the staff in his absence.
Babar Azam, Fakhar Zaman, Hasan Ali, Shadab Khan and Shaheen Shah Afridi have additionally been rested in view of the upcoming World Cup, whereas Hussain Talat has been dropped. Mohammad Hafeez was not thought of as he's recovering from a thumb surgical procedure.
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SavviBuy customers stunned as firm fails to deliver Christmas presents, then tells them: 'Ask your bank for a refund'
Lucinda Borrell
Customers of online toy firm SavviBuy have been left stunned after the retailer failed to deliver their goods on time, then told them to ask their banks for a refund.
Some customers spent hundreds of pounds with the online retailer in the run-up to Christmas. But delivery delays meant shoppers didn't receive goods despite the company's claims that orders would "100%" arrive by 23 December.
In an unusual move, the firm has now requested that those let down by the service use their banks' 'chargeback' procedures for debit and credit cards to get refunds rather than going through the company, as because of a "lack of resources" they're currently unable to deal with the number of those requesting refunds.
An email sent to customers on 27 December requested that those let down by the service "contact your bank and request a chargeback".
The email adds: "These are currently the fastest methods due to our lack of resources during this period of time".
MoneySavingExpert.com has contacted SavviBuy for comment and is awaiting a response.
What is chargeback and what are my rights?
Chargeback is a process offered to credit and debit card users, offering them additional protection when shopping. It means that if you don't receive the goods that you bought, you may be able to get your money back from your bank.
The service has no legal standing, but is a customer service guarantee which forms part of the internal rules for Visa, Mastercard and American Express. Essentially you can make a claim with your bank, building society or credit card company.
However, payments made on credit cards may qualify for even stronger, legally binding protection in the form of Section 75 – a law which means credit card firms must protect purchases over £100 for free.
It's worth remembering though that in cases involving non-delivery of items, banks may request that their customers wait a certain amount of time before the item is considered as not being delivered – as highlighted by one of our case studies below.
For full information on how to claim under either scheme, see our Chargeback and Section 75 guides.
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SavviBuy customers have raised serious concerns about the delays caused by the company's reliance on the chargeback process.
Susie contacted Barclays bank on 23 December after her items, due on 12 December, didn't arrive. Barclays told her that she had to give the company 15 days from the expected delivery date before using chargeback to receive her refund.
When she launched her request, she was then told the bank had 21 days to investigate – meaning it could take up to 36 days to get her money back.
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Victoria also contact MSE after her daughter's Christmas present didn't arrive in time.
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What is meaning of Status group.
What will be effects if we Activate Price, Goodsmovment, Picking/Put Away and Pack in Status Group.
Where I can see its effect in Sales doucment.
I will try to give a general view. First and foremost you need to define the incompletion for the fields related to pricing in the procedure, I am taking pricing as an example here. Once you define that you may check the Pricing check field in the appropriate status group. Once you define the status group, you can assign this against the filed in the Procedure. Based on this the system would carry out the Incompletion process and throw the messages as defined.
To my knowledge you may not be seeing it the Order but this would play the role of alerting if some data is missing.


In this course, learners will complete several VBA projects. It is highly recommended that learners first take "Excel/VBA for Creative Problem Solving, Part 1" and "Excel/VBA for Creative Problem Solving, Part 2". This course builds off of skills learned in those two courses. This is a project-based course. Therefore, the projects are quite open-ended and there are multiple ways to solve the problems. Through the use of Peer Review, other learners will grade learners' projects based on a grading rubric.
If you are really up for a challenge, complete the Grade Manager project, which is very challenging. Learners who successfully create this project will earn an Honors designation on their Course Certificate.
we're going to do a couple of miscellaneous things.
we're going to create a functionality that will add a column.
only indicated or chose or set up 10 homework assignments.
But now, we want to add a 11th homework assignment.
and add that item to all those files.
we will talk about deleting a column.
week four, you had to do something very similar.
So, it's quite easy to delete a column.
you can do this with this search update tool.
So, your Grade Manager project should have all of these things.
the sections of the course are going to be in a folder.
and this is available on the course website.
These are very similar to the ones I've been working with in previous screencast.
the format here so we have A1, A2, B1, B2.
The A's here would represent something like homework assignment, Homework 1, Homework 2.
And there's going to be a space in between there for what you're doing.
I can do Insert and that will insert a column.
So, we're going to sort of do that but then we're going to name that first row there.
and it would do that to all of the files in this original directory.
we could bring in all of those new grades.
Let me show you what we're going to be making in this screencast.
So, let's go ahead and run this.
Let me show you what we're going to create.
it's going to ask us, "Which type of assignment would you like to add?"
or a different category of grades.
I'm going to click Add Item.
"Please select the directory/folder that contains your files."
So, I'm going to click where my files are.
Now, it's going to go through and it's making the changes to each of those.
and it's telling us that it's added a third assignment.
It's detecting that we already have two.
So, we didn't know that beforehand.
It's actually automatically detecting that.
That column has been added to the files.
it's got that A3 that's been added between the A's and B's.
Let me go ahead and run this again.
another B item on there.
So, it's going to ask us again.
you probably don't want to keep doing this.
You probably want to have on a hidden sheet.
so that the user doesn't have to do that every time.
It's already stored in a hidden sheet.
"A column for B3 has been added to the files!"
And I can go ahead and open up one of those files.
Let me open up file four and you see that it's added a column B4.
Let's just add in another A just to make sure that it's working.
It's going to go through.
up a file here and you see that it's added A4.
And it's done this for all of the workbooks in that folders.
So, we're making consistent changes to all of the grade book files.
So, let me show you how to make this.
I started a lot of this file.
I, basically started from the my InitializeSheets product.
identical to the InitializeSheets subroutine that we did.
I've created this new UserForm.
It's just got a label and a combo box.
We have an Add Item and a Cancel button.
The Cancel button, I just unload it.
that it's okay to hide a user form.
you always want to make sure to unload the user form.
you'll have duplicate values for the items that are in the combo box.
that we made in a previous screencast.
And I'm just going to use this kind as a base.
you should do Unload that Userform.
All right, so let's start making some modifications.
we're going to have this category name that's the UserForm1 ComboBox.Text.
in this example, is what the category name is going to be.
We have to dim that as a string.
So, I've dimmed CategoryName as string.
where we tell the user to select the directory.
to allow the user to select the path.
just a static path that's maybe hidden in a sheet like we did in a previous screencast.
you know, cell A1 of that hidden sheet.
Now, we're going to make a really big change to this part of the "Do" loop in here.
how many different categories there are.
but sort of in order that they already appear.
So, I'm going to go ahead and count the number of items that we have in row one.
I've dimmed that as an integer.
And obviously, this is done after I opened up the first workbook.
So, we opened up the workbook.
We set that as the active workbook.
We count the number of items in row one.
and let me just go ahead and delete these to restore it back to what it was.
I want to count the total number of items in row one.
regardless of which workbook we are in.
So, I'm going to select B1 of that workbook.
I'm then going to initiate a pretty big "For" loop.
And this is going to iterate through all of the items.
We just counted the number of items.
but we're going to have to iterate through all four of them.


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Photo/Video Blog of the Same-Sex Marriage Victory At The Capitol
By: admin | May 9, 2013
The UpTake team (Jason Barnett, Nick Coleman, Allison Herrera, Hlee Lee, Analiese Miller and Mike McIntee) was place to cover today's historic Senate vote on same-sex marriage.
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Same-sex marriage supporters declared, 'We have your back!' to the senators and representatives who supported the bill.
Minnesota United Executive Director Richard Carlbom announced,'We did it!'
Sen. Scott Dibble and husband Richard Leyva celebrate the success of passing the same-sex marriage bill. 'I'm gonna be a married man in Minnesota!,' Dibble declared.
Sen. Scott Dibble and Rep. Karen Clark emerge from the Senate Chambers to a large crowd after the same-sex marriage bill passes.
The crowd reacts as the Minnesota Senate votes on the same-sex marriage bill.
John Helmberger from Minnesota for Marriage talks with the UpTake about why he doesn't support the same-sex marriage bill.
Sarah Aylward of Richfield, MN adds her voice to the large crowd gathered in the Capitol rotunda.
Sophia Kahn of St. Paul and Matt Sato of Maplewood proudly show their support for same-sex marriage among the opposing group.
A large crowd on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate gathered early today on the steps of the Capitol.
Minnesota State Auditor Rebecca Otto joins the crowd watching the Senate debate the same-sex marriage bill.
Another packed house at the state Capitol as the Minnesota Senate takes up the bill for same-sex marriage.
St. Paul residents (left to right) Sieglinde and Theresa Waller and Adele Brown at the Capitol rotunda. 'I'm a Jew who believes we are all made in the image of god: straight and gay alike,' Brown said.
Sisters Melissa and Lindsay Bownik from Minneapolis, MN show their support for their mother and all the other GLBTQ people who want to get married in Minnesota.
Duane Olson and Jason Sheedy join the crowd in the Capitol rotunda. 'This is an important step for gay people to show they can live full lives with equality and love,' they said.
Rev. Luke Stevens-Royer from the White Bear Lake Unitarian Universalist Church spends another day offering encouragement and helping to keep the spirits of same-sex marriage supporters up at the Capitol.
Will Bernstrom (wrapped in rainbow flag) is a transplant to Mankato, MN. 'As an Alabama native, I never thought I'd see the day where my state viewed my love as equal,' he said.
Gabriela Zamora of Minneapolis stands with family members beneath a statue of pioneer Senator James Shields (renowned for an 1842 duel he and Abraham Lincoln called off at the last second) to make a last-ditch stand against same-sex marriage. 'It doesn't matter what they do,' Zamora said. 'Kids are kids, and sooner or later they are going to ask where their moms and dads are.'
Sen. Scott Dibble makes his way into the Senate Chambers for the hearing on the same-sex marriage bill.
Members of the Minnesota for Marriage Campaign and the opposition to the same-sex marriage bill prayed before the senate took up the bill.
St. Paul's Wabasha Streets Bridge is newly re-named "Freedom to Marry Bridge"
NEXT PAGE: Photos and Videos from the MAY 9th House debate and passage of Same-sex marriage
AMEN, EVERYBODY!!!!
The crowd in the Capitol Rotunda sings "Amen."
Ecstatic supporters celebrate Thursday's passage of a same-sex marriage law by the MN House:
Gretchen and Kat Campbell-Johnson were married in Iowa two years ago. Although neither are from Minnesota, both have been active in the campaign to legalize same sex marriage. 'We love it here and we want to stay here. We hope we don't have to move away and move to a state that recognizes our marriage. We have to stay here and have our full relationship here,' Kat said. Photo by Hlee Lee
A group of interfaith same-sex marriage supporters gathered to pray just as the vote was taken. Here they are as word reaches the rotunda that the House has passed the bill. Photo by Hlee Lee
Brad Weber of Eden Prairie celebrates the vote on same-sex marriage by waving a large photo of himself with husband Ryan, left, and their sons, Kyle and Josh. The couple was married 10 years ago this summer and plans an early celebration: "We're going out tonight," he said, choking with emotion. photo by nick coleman
Many protesters who want to keep marriage between a man and woman cite religion as the reason to support their cause. Those on the other side make it known that they are both religious and supportive of same-sex marriage. Photos by Hlee Lee
Children of supporters on both sides accompany adults to the capital. Photos by Hlee Lee
Passionate activists on both sides of the issue brought home-made signs to the capital as the House discusses same-sex marriage. Photo by Hlee Lee
Home-schooled kids from Waverly, Minn., brought signs opposing the same-sex marriage bill. The kids' names, in no particular order: Joe, Paul, Amy, Reid, Benjamin, Gabriel and Wade IV. One of their moms, Julie Halvorson, said the kids were on a field trip and were not bothered by the noise in the Capitol, or by the possibility that the same-sex law will be approved. "You always stand up for what is right," she said. "That's today's lesson." photo by nick coleman
Historic Family Day: Randi Reitan, a long-time activist for marriage equality, poses with her gay son, Jake (in the back), her daughter, Britta (holding baby Annika), while holding her grandson, Oliver, 3, while Emily Engel takes their photo for the family. "Today is a day we've longed for, for so many years," Reitan said. "Not only for Jake's freedom to marry, but for his dignity as a human being." photo by nick coleman
A statue of the hero of Gettysburg, Col. William Colville, looks on (rear, right) as opponents and supporters of same-sex marriage square off (actually, "round" off), in the Capitol Rotunda, chanting and counter-chanting, as, nearby, the Minnesota House of Representatives begins an emotional debate. photo by nick coleman
Security was tighter than usual at the Capitol, where clusters of state Troopers, and a K-9 team stood by. No trouble has been observed. photo by Hlee Lee.
The old arguments resurfaced at times. Some sexual preferences are still wrong in the minds of some people. But that view was not a majority one. photo by hlee lee