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First set: Shelton 3-2 Alcaraz* (*denotes next server)

An even breezier service game from Shelton, who holds to love. During the changeover, the cameras pan to a few of the celebrities in the audience. There’s Kevin Hart taking it in from a suite. And, of course, there’s USA and Washington Spirit forward Trinity Rodman, Shelton’s girlfriend, watching from his player box. We’ve also heard Simone Biles is in the building somewhere.

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Pie Aerts’s striking images of horsemen who live an extremely solitary existence reveal hidden stories of loneliness, alcoholism and a fading heritage

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The new model will serve as the first big test for John Ternus, who took the role last week

All eyes are on Apple’s annual fall announcement of new products this afternoon, where the company is expected to unveil the most significant change to the iPhone since the smartphone’s introduction in 2007.

Unlike previous iterations, the new iPhone is expected to fold, opening and closing like a passport to double its screen size.

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Agreement between Nigel Farage and Jordan Bardella to return migrants to France faces backlash, with critics saying it goes against France’s ‘interests and sovereignty’

Reform UK has insisted its deal with France’s far-right National Rally to return migrants back across the channel was fully approved by the party and signed off by its president, Jordan Bardella, amid a furious backlash in France.

The agreement unveiled on Friday between Nigel Farage and Bardella, who is the 30-year-old protege of presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, appeared to directly contradict Le Pen’s long-held policy of refusing to accept the return of those who arrive in the UK in small boats from France.

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A refreshingly optimistic book that asks us to grasp the educational opportunities of AI, rather than shrink from them

In 1979, the government asked Wilfred Cockcroft, a now largely forgotten maths lecturer from the University of Hull, to write a report about a crisis in the teaching of his subject to children. It was wide-ranging and meticulous, and included a chapter on a technological innovation that was suddenly becoming available to the average consumer: the calculator.

Many parents and teachers feared that the gadget would undermine a basic skill and a pillar of education – one of the sacred three Rs – producing generations of dumbed-down drones who could reach for a device in their pockets to avoid the hard graft of arithmetic.

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A remote 18th-century chapel deep in Sami lands is the goal of the Präststigen, a 37-mile trail that traverses some of the country’s most spectacular scenery

I wasn’t exactly in “Sunday best”, but I had made some effort. Well, I’d changed my underwear for the first time in a couple of days and given myself a baby-wipe bath. Still, as we filed into the chapel at Alkavare, I felt more a member of an expedition than a congregation. We sat on the low wooden benches, waterproof jackets rustling and leather walking boots stamping on the flagstone floor to keep warm. Fortunately, the priest, Mogens Amstrup Jacobsen, appeared to be a “man of the Gore-Tex”, as well as a man of the cloth, as he unzipped his own black rain jacket to reveal his dog collar. As the service began, the Arctic wind whipped through cracks in the dry stone walls, insulated only with reindeer hair, and candles flickered in their brass sconces.

I had hiked to Alkavare following the Präststigen, or “Priests’ trail”, a 37-mile (60km) route from Kvikkjokk that could stake a claim as Europe’s wildest pilgrimage route, and certainly one of its most beautiful. The Präststigen follows the path that priests would once have taken to the chapel, built in 1788, to perform a service each summer, and today, on the last weekend in July, intrepid hikers and perseverant pilgrims can attend that same service.

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"Star Trek" marks its 60th anniversary today, September 8, six decades after the original series premiered in 1966 and went on to become one of the most successful science-fiction franchises in television history. Outlets across the web are commemorating the milestone with full health reports, hot takes, behind-the-scenes retrospectives, and reflections on the franchise's influence and what may lie ahead. The New York Times reports: As of 2026, the 60-year-old science fiction franchise boasts a fandom of carbon units -- sorry, humans -- that spans at least three generations. What began, in 1966, as a five-year space mission on the U.S.S. Enterprise to "boldly go where no man has gone before" now represents an anthology of space travel across more than 25 series and films in parts of two centuries. Where once it was James T. Kirk or bust, it's not unusual to find fans who prefer other captains, like Picard, Janeway or Sisko. There are so many series to keep track of that fans often communicate using country code-like abbreviations for each installment: TOS (the original series), TNG ("The Next Generation"), DS9 ("Deep Space Nine"), ENT ("Enterprise") and so on.

Outside the Trekiverse, disparities in generational slang, politics and social mores are practically a foregone conclusion. But "Star Trek" functions as connective tissue between fans past and present. Some of that tissue is just shared references: There will always be captain's logs, timelines by stardate, warp factors one through 10, phasers and photon torpedoes and, every now and then, a doctor who insists, "I'm a doctor, not a ____!" The Vulcan salute has become a general symbol of geek-recognize-geek, but real Trekkies (or Trekkers, as some prefer) know that "Live long and prosper" is only half the message; the recipient is meant to say "Peace and long life" in response. But the series' staying power, and the ease with which each generation finds its way into them, is an indication that fans of all ages share not only language, but values, in common. Here are some of our favorite Slashdot stories from the early days. The 2004 "Should Star Trek Die?" is an especially good callback today because it features LeVar Burton (Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation) arguing that Trek needs to disappear for several years to become special again...

Star Trek Lawsuit (1998)

Salon Writes on The Troubles with "Trek" (1999)

Star Trek's Next Series (2001)

Should Star Trek Die? (2004)

UPN Officially Cancels 'Star Trek: Enterprise' (2005)

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Goedemorgen! Mocht u het zelf nog niet hebben ondervonden, het openbaar vervoer in heel Nederland ligt plat vandaag.

Via Reddit:

Voor de vakantie heb ik [een pakket besteld, maar dat zou uiteindelijk pas tijdens mijn vakantie worden geleverd]. Het pakket was nog niet in handen van de vervoerder zag ik, dus ik mailde met de vraag of ik de bestelling kon annuleren. Het antwoord was nee, dat kan niet en: “We raden je aan het pakket niet te weigeren: een geweigerd pakket kan verloren gaan of worden vernietigd, waardoor je mogelijk je recht op terugbetaling verliest.”

De achterliggende juridische redenering lijkt te zijn dat omdat de consument het risico van terugzending draagt, een verloren gegaan geweigerd pakket óók voor zijn risico komt.

Dat klopt niet. Tot het moment dat het pakket in handen is van de consument (of een door hem aangewezen derde), blijft het pakket voor rekening en risico van de verkoper. Dit staat zo in artikel 7:11 BW:

Bij een consumentenkoop waarbij de zaak bij de koper wordt bezorgd, is de zaak voor het risico van de koper vanaf het moment dat de koper of een door hem aangewezen derde, die niet de vervoerder is, de zaak heeft ontvangen.

Let op dat “niet de vervoerder”: dat pareert ook het argument “u heeft gekozen voor bezorging met PostNL dus de vervoerder is uw probleem”.

Er is dus een wezenlijk verschil tussen het niet aannemen (of op het pakketpunt laten liggen) van een pakket, en het aannemen en retourneren. Door het aannemen word je eigenaar van het pakket.

Als je het daarna terugstuurt, dan doe je dat door de overeenkomst ongedaan te maken (juridisch: ontbinden) waardoor de winkel er weer eigenaar van wordt. Maar dán is het jouw probleem om te zorgen dat het pakket weer veilig bij de winkel komt.

De reden waarom deze winkel het zo meldt, wordt in de comments al duidelijk: dit is een dropshipper die niet zit te wachten op retouren, en de consument dus probeert af te schrikken met dit soort gebazel. Velen suggereren een klacht bij de ACM.

Arnoud

Het bericht Verkoper zegt dat geweigerd pakket kan worden vernietigd en raadt aan het aan te nemen verscheen eerst op Ius Mentis.

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