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Combat veterans in jury pool for decorated Navy SEAL's war crimes trial
By: Julie Watson, The Associated Press June 17
Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward "Eddie" Gallagher in Iraq in 2017. (Photo provided)
SAN DIEGO — Combat veterans from the Navy and Marines were among possible jurors Monday in the trial of a decorated Navy SEAL charged with killing an Islamic State prisoner in his care in Iraq.
All but one of the potential jurors in the court-martial of Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher had served in a combat zone and all but two were veterans of conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The trial of Gallagher follows months of turmoil in one of the Navy's most prominent war crimes cases.
What motivated fellow SEALs to dime out Eddie Gallagher?
The fog of war swirls through the reams of internal files provided to Navy Times.
By: Navy Times staff
The lead prosecutor was removed from the case earlier this month for tracking the defense team's emails and President Donald Trump has suggested he may pardon Gallagher.
Gallagher has pleaded not guilty to premeditated murder in the killing of the prisoner in his care and attempted murder in the shootings of two civilians in Iraq in 2017. Gallagher says disgruntled platoon mates fabricated the allegations because they didn't like his tough leadership.
The seven Marines and five sailors were seated in the jury box, given copies of the charges and asked a series of questions about the case.
Each said they thought it possible that Navy SEALs could lie and that they could turn in a comrade on false allegations.
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They also said they could convict someone in the killing of a member of the Islamic State and in the case where no body was recovered. The prisoner's corpse was never found.
Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward "Eddie" Gallagher leaves a military courtroom on Naval Base San Diego with his wife, Andrea, on May 30, 2019. (Julie Watson/AP)
If Gallagher is convicted, the panelists said they would consider post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury at sentencing, if relevant, along with his military record.
Five said they had personally faced the enemy and five had experience with detainees. Eight had lost friends or shipmates in combat.
Defense lawyers unsuccessfully sought to have a Navy judge dismiss the case because they say investigators and prosecutors withheld evidence that could help Gallagher and violated his rights to a fair trial by embedding tracking software in emails sent to them.
The judge, Capt. Aaron Rugh, refused to dismiss the case, but took steps to make sure Gallagher gets a fair trial and remedy violations of his constitutional right against illegal searches and the right to counsel.
Rugh released Gallagher from custody, removed the lead prosecutor and reduced the maximum penalty he faces if convicted to life imprisonment with parole — instead of no chance of parole.
NCIS witnesses refuse to take the stand in SEAL war crimes case, judge mulls dismissing all charges
Navy judge Capt. Aaron Rugh unexpectedly released Gallagher from custody on Thursday as a remedy to what he called interference by prosecutors.
By: Julie Watson and Brian Melley, The Associated Press
Evidence at hearings last month showed an intelligence specialist from Naval Criminal Investigative Service conducted criminal background checks on three of Gallagher's civilian lawyers and a Navy Times journalist who has broken several stories based on documents that are only to be shared among lawyers in the case.
Prosecutors downplayed the effort to find the source of news leaks, saying it only gathered data, such as internet protocol addresses, and did not snoop on the content of emails. The government said the investigation did not find who leaked the documents.
Gallagher's family maintains he cannot get a fair trial.
"The court's ruling, recognizing a direct violation of Chief Gallagher's constitutional rights but not dismissing the case, sends a chilling message to every man and woman in uniform," his family said in a statement.
The prosecution also tracked emails of the lawyers of Gallagher's commanding officer, Lt. Jacob Portier, who faces charges of conduct unbecoming an officer after being accused of conducting Gallagher's re-enlistment ceremony next to the Islamic State militant's corpse.
The defense discovered the tracking code hidden in a suspicious logo of an American flag with a bald eagle perched on the scales of justice beneath the signature of lead prosecutor Cmdr. Christopher Czaplak.
Rugh removed Czaplak from the case because he said the potential for an investigation into his actions could present a conflict. He said it was not within his power to determine whether Czaplak engaged in misconduct.
The judge said the effort also harmed the public's perception of the military justice system, which has been criticized for being ineffective and has gained few war crime convictions.
Republicans in Congress have lobbied for Gallagher, claiming he's an innocent war hero being unfairly prosecuted. Trump, who intervened to move Gallagher to less restrictive confinement in March, said last month he is considering a pardon for several American military members accused of war crimes.
A new nominee to lead the Navy, an expected circus within the Department of the Defense and an investigation into another nominee have roiled the expected leadership at the Pentagon moving forward.
The mystery of the oil tanker that disappeared in the Strait of Hormuz
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Fraud 'costing UK businesses £130 billion each year', report suggests
A report published by the Centre for Counter Fraud Studies at the University of Portsmouth has suggested that fraud costs UK businesses £130 billion each year.
According to the data, losses incurred as a result of fraud have risen by 56.5% since 2009. Reducing fraud losses by 40% would 'free up more than £76 billion each year', the report stated.
It also found that 80% of global fraud losses are 'larger than the UK's entire GDP'.
Commenting on the findings, Jim Gee, Chair of the Advisory Board at the Centre for Counter Fraud Studies, said: 'Sadly, too many organisations adopt a reactive approach to fraud and only look to tackle it once it has taken place, and losses have already occurred. A change of perspective is needed. Fraud is an ever present, high volume, low value problem and only a small proportion is detected.
'We need to view fraud as a business cost – by understanding the nature and scale of the cost, we can reduce its extent – enhancing the profitability of companies and ensuring better funded public sector and charitable organisations.'
HMRC issues guidance on recognising phishing emails
HMRC has issued guidance on recognising genuine Revenue contact and phishing emails.
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About Smart Box Games, Inc.
Based in Bellingham, Washington. Smart Box Games was founded in 2003 focusing on primarily high quality mobile apps development. We've created several popular mobile thinking games for ourselves and custom apps for clients. Our client's apps are varied and very interesting work. We also create the occasional web site for a client. Our senior staff is comprised of seasoned multimedia developers and executives who have years of experience in the game and education industry and have the gray hairs to prove it.
Feb 20, 2013 - Smart Box Games today announced their highly entertaining Farkle Dice game series rolled past 2 Million downloads on iPhones, iPads and Android devices. Farkle Dice's popularity is driven by its players 5-star ratings in iTunes and Google Play stores. The Farkle series consists of Farkle Dice, Farkle Solo, and the spooky version Farkle Halloween. The series is available for iOS and Android phones and tablets and Farkle Dice is available in 6 languages.
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Jan 26, 2012 - Smart Box Design today announced their chart-topping highly entertaining Farkle game series has been downloaded more than 1 Million times. Farkle is an enormously popular game throughout the world. The Farkle series consists of Farkle Dice, Farkle Solo, and Farkle Halloween, for iOS and Android and is one of the most popular dice games for the mobile gaming market. The Farkle series offers players an opportunity to challenge friends directly or compete worldwide on leaderboards.
Oct 14, 2011 - Washington based Smart Box Design introduces Farkle Diced Halloween HD 1.0, their new highly entertaining game for iOS and Android. Be prepared to be haunted this Halloween by undead Farkle players on your iPhone, iPad, Android tablet or phone. Farkle Diced for Halloween is an exciting fast paced dice game for 2 - 4 players. The goal is to survive until your reach 10,000 points. It includes new ghoulish artwork, engaging eerie sound effects, and plenty of scary surprises.
May 26, 2011 - Smart Box Design today announced the chart-topping highly entertaining game Farkle Dice 1.0 has been downloaded more than 500,000 making it one of the most successful Farkle dice games available for the mobile gaming market. Farkle offers players an opportunity to challenge friends or compete against a variety of "intelligent" computer opponents with a wide range of personalities that will determine the level of risk each opponent is willing to take when deciding just how far to push their luck.
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Mosquito Repellents: Everything You Need to Know
Article by Brenda Goodman from WebMD
Thwack. They're baaaack. Yep, it's mosquito season again.
It's not just about itchy bumps, either -- mosquito bites can make you sick, especially if you're traveling. Think Zika, chikungunya, West Nile, dengue, or even malaria or yellow fever if you're going to some parts of Africa.
That means you need some insect repellent -- but surprisingly, lots of people don't use it. An April 2016 survey done by market research firm TNS Global found that only about half of Americans (49%) follow the CDC's recommendation to use a mosquito repellent.
Zika poses a particular danger to pregnant women, since it causes birth defects. As it creeps northward from South America and the Caribbean, health officials' mission is to get the message out loud and clear: Mosquito repellents are safe, and you should use them.
And there are more choices than ever.
The product that's right for you will depend on why you need it. Are you pregnant or traveling to an area with a lot of mosquito-borne disease? Are you fishing or camping and handling lots of gear? Are you applying it to a young child's skin? All those things should factor into your buying decision.
We reached out to mosquito experts for advice on choosing and using these products. Here are their rules for making mosquito repellents work for you.
What's the best active ingredient?
According to the CDC and EPA, there are four ingredients to look for: DEET, picaridin, oil of lemon eucalyptus or PMD, and IR3535.
DEET is the granddaddy of bug stoppers. It was developed by the U.S. military in 1946, and it's the most widely used and studied active ingredient out there. It's long gotten a bad rap as a scary chemical, but experts say that reputation isn't justified, even for pregnant women. Extremely high doses have, on rare occasions, caused nervous system problems like seizures, tremors, and slurred speech, though, so it's still worth handling with care.
It's found in products like Off! Deep Woods spray, Sawyer's Ultra 30 Insect Repellent lotion, and 3M's Ultrathon Insect Repellent lotions and sprays.
While no repellent has been studied extensively in pregnancy, DEET at least has a little data backing its safety. A study of nearly 900 pregnant women in Thailand, which followed moms and babies for a full year after birth, found no harmful effects of DEET used on the skin during the second and third trimesters. Animal studies have also failed to find any ill effects of DEET to a fetus when applied at any stage of pregnancy.
No other active ingredient has been studied during pregnancy. For that reason, some doctors say DEET should be your go-to if you're expecting. The EPA, on the other hand, puts no restrictions on the use of any repellents during pregnancy.
But DEET has its drawbacks, too. It can be heavy and feel oily on the skin. And it has a pungent odor. It also melts plastic, which is bad news for fishing and camping gear, synthetic fabrics like spandex, or even a nice pair of sunglasses. So, if a heightened sense of smell is keeping you from putting it on, or you don't want it to ruin your gear or clothes, choose a different option.
Picaridin is a chemical cousin of piperine, a chemical made by black pepper plants. It's been widely used in Europe and Australia, but has only been available in the U.S. since 2005. It can be found in sprays, lotions, and wipes, including Sawyer's Premium Picaridin Insect Repellent lotions and sprays, Avon's Skin So Soft Bug Guard Plus Picaridin Pump, and Cutter Advanced Insect Repellent Fragrance Free Wipes. In recent tests, Consumer Reports gave two picaridin products top marks for repelling the species of mosquitoes that carries the Zika virus for 8 full hours.
The chemical PMD (for para-menthane-3,8-diol) is also sometimes labeled as oil of lemon eucalyptus. It's a chemical copy of a pungent oil made by the lemon eucalyptus tree. It can be found in Cutter Lemon Eucalyptus spray and Repel Lemon Eucalyptus. In Consumer Reports' tests, the Repel product, which contains 30% PMD, kept mosquitos away for 7 hours.
IR3535 has been used in Europe for 20 years, but was only registered in the U.S. in 1999. It's a close chemical cousin to the amino acid B-alanine. Like DEET, it can harm plastics and synthetic fabrics. Manufacturers also warn that it can mar painted surfaces, including a recent manicure. No IR3535 products made Consumer Reports' list of recommended repellents.
How strong should your repellent be?
Depends on how long you need it to last.
The first thing you'll notice when you start checking labels is that insect repellents come in different strengths. You can find concentrations of DEET, for example, ranging from 4% up to 100%.
Do you really need a product that's pure DEET? Experts say no, but you want to avoid the lowest concentrations, too. Here's why.
After being sprayed or rubbed on the skin, the active ingredients in repellents begin to evaporate, creating a chemical cloud -- or "vapor barrier" -- that hovers around you and keeps mosquitoes at bay.
It takes a concentration of about 20% DEET to create a strong-enough barrier, especially in an area that has a lot of mosquito-borne diseases. Higher concentrations help the barrier last longer. But that protection maxes out around 50%. Any more than that exposes you to more chemical, but doesn't provide more protection.
(Dr. T advises NOT to use DEET over 30% strength in children.)
A product with 20% to 50% DEET should give you 6 to 13 hours of protection, depending on weather conditions.
Repellents with 30% PMD or oil of lemon eucalyptus keep mosquitoes away for 4 to 6 hours.
Products with at least 20% picaridin last for about 6 hours.
And repellents with at least 20% IR3535 work for 7 to 10 hours, but they don't work as well against the species of mosquito that carries malaria. So, pick another kind of active ingredient if you're going to an area where that's a problem.
Time-released lotions use a lower concentration of active ingredient, but they can protect you longer.
What about natural or homemade repellents?
When fighting mosquitoes, "natural" is not the way to go. In recent tests, Consumer Reports found that four repellents made with essential oils of citronella, clove, lemongrass, or rosemary failed to keep the bloodsuckers at bay for even an hour. (PMD, or oil of lemon eucalyptus, is not considered "natural," since it's a chemical copy of the oil.)
Other home remedies to be wary of include Listerine, which may give you minty fresh breath but doesn't block mosquitoes if you rub it on your skin, and garlic pills or B vitamins, since there's no evidence they offer any protection.
Spray vs. lotion
Sprays work faster, says Joseph Conlon, a technical advisor for the American Mosquito Control Association.
"Lotions will take approximately 20 minutes to allow the concentration of repellent layer above the skin to exert its effect," he says.
But lotions can have other advantages. Some have time-released ingredients so that a lower concentration of active ingredient can offer longer protection, which reduces a person's chemical exposure, too.
Guarding against the sun and bugs at the same time?
A few studies have shown that using a bug repellent with a sunscreen can make both products less effective. But sometimes you need both. So, what do you do?
The CDC suggests starting with sunscreen, then putting mosquito repellent over it. Keep in mind that you may need to reapply the sunscreen more often than you normally would and that your bug spray may wear off more quickly than expected.
The CDC says it's not a good idea to use products that combine a sunscreen with a repellent, since sunscreens need to be reapplied more often than repellents. Using a combination product frequently could result in higher-than-needed doses of repellent chemicals.
Do I really need a new bottle?
Maybe not. But before you fish out the rusty can you keep stashed with the camping gear, keep in mind that most products are optimally effective for 3 years after you buy them, according to S.C. Johnson, the company that makes OFF. And that's only if they haven't been exposed to extreme heat or cold. Most products will continue to work after that, but they may not last as long.
Is it safe to put insect repellents on kids?
Yes. Products with DEET can be used on babies older than 8 weeks of age. Picaridin is considered safe for kids over the age of 2, and products with PMD/oil of lemon eucalyptus are considered safe for kids older than 3. There's no safety data on the use of IR3535 for kids.
Be sure to read the directions before applying. One survey found as many of a third of parents apply insect repellents incorrectly. A few "don'ts":
· Don't apply to kids' hands, since they often put them in their mouths.
· Don't apply before kids get dressed. Insect repellents should only be used on exposed skin and clothing. It doesn't do any good to use it under clothing.
· Don't forget to wash off at the end of the day with soap and water. It's not a good idea to sleep with repellents on, since this increases the absorption of the chemicals.
Why didn't my repellent work?
According to experts, the No. 1 reason repellents don't work is because they were put on incorrectly, so read the directions and apply thoroughly.
"Most repellents have pretty clear instructions on the label about how to apply them, but people never, ever read the label," says Jonathan Day, PhD, a professor at the University of Florida's Medical Entomology Laboratory in Vero Beach, FL.
If you did everything correctly and you still came home covered in bites, there might be another explanation.
There's emerging science to suggest that mosquitoes can become resistant to DEET and perhaps other insect repellents, too.
James Logan, PhD, is the director of ArcTec (Arthropod Control Product Test Centre) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the U.K.
He applied DEET to a human arm and then let a cage full of mosquitoes approach to feed on it. Most mosquitoes stayed away, but 13% of the females weren't repelled by the DEET. He captured and bred those mosquitoes and then repeated the experiment with their daughters. In the next generation, about half of the mosquitoes weren't repelled by DEET.
In another set of experiments, he unleashed the bugs to a human arm covered in DEET. Then he waited 3 hours and exposed those same mosquitoes to a DEET-covered arm again. On the second try, more than twice as many mosquitoes landed and fed as they had the first time, suggesting that they had somehow gotten used to it.
"They can become resistant through genetics and behaviorally as well," Logan says.
He's quick to point out that his experiments were done in a carefully controlled lab, and not in a house or backyard. Researchers don't know if mosquitoes in the wild are becoming resistant to DEET.
"What we don't know is whether this is occurring in the field. Nobody has ever looked at it," he says. He's working to answer the question now.
It's possible, he says, that people might need to use two different kinds of repellents at the same time to boost their effectiveness.
"The point is that repellents should be used. They should be recommended. There should be no scare mongering about the fact that DEET may fail. That is not necessarily the case. As scientists, we need to be monitoring the situation and staying one step ahead of the game, and not making assumptions that it will be OK. Mosquitoes have a very good way of being one step ahead of us and finding a way 'round the tools we have to control them."
Amy Stead, spokesperson, Sawyer Products, Bellevue, WA.
James Logan, PhD, director, ArcTec, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, U.K.
Joseph Conlon, technical advisor, The American Mosquito Control Association, Mount Laurel, N.J.
Jonathan Day, PhD, professor, The Florida's Medical Entomology Laboratory, The University of Florida, Vero Beach, FL.
Alpern. Medical Clinics of North America, 2016.
Stanczyk, N., BMJ, Feb. 19, 2015.
CDC: "Insect Repellent Use and Safety."


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S.R.Tendulkar- the first player to score 50 TEST centuries.
Indian batting maestro Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar on Sunday became the first batsman to score a monumental 50 centuries in Test cricket history.
The little master reached the coveted landmark when he completed his ton in 197 balls on the fourth day of the first Test against South Africa at SuperSport Park, Centurion.
Tendulkar takes a single off Dale Steyn to achieve the historic milestone.
The master batsman, enjoying a memorable year at age 37, has amassed 1,532 runs in thirteen Tests this year at an amazing average of more than 85 runs per innings.
Tendulkar has scored seven centuries and five fifties in the year 2010 with one more match to play against South Africa starting on December 26.
Test cricket's greatest run-scorer has till now scored more than 14,500 runs and scored 59 fifties along with the half-century of centuries.
With one more match of the three-Test series in South Africa scheduled for this year, Tendulkar has opportunity to surpass Mohammad Yousuf's record of 1,768 runs in a calendar year (2006).
15. Man of the Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
17. He is the only player to be in top 10 ICC ranking for 10 years. 18. He is one of the three batsmen to surpass 11,000 runs in Test cricket, and the first Indian to do so.
21. In 2002, Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman after Sir Donald Bradman.
22. he was involved in unbroken 664-run partnership in a Harris Shield game in 1988 with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli.
25. Tendulkar has been granted the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award and Padma vibhushan by Indian government. He is the only Indian cricketer to get all of them. And the only cricketer to receive Padma vibhushan.
28.First batsman in the history who was given out through third umpire.
29. He has the least percentage of the man of the matches awards won when team looses a match. Out of his 61 man of the match awards only 7 times India has lost.
33. Has the most overall runs in cricket, (ODIs+Tests+Twenty20s), as of 30 June 2007 he had accumulated almost 26,000 runs overall.
40. the only player ever to cross the 13,000-14,000 - 15, 000and 16,000 run marks IN ODI.
43. Tendulkar has scored over 1000 ODI runs against all major Cricketing nations.
53. He is second most number of seasons with over 1000 runs in world.
57. Became the first Indian to surpass the 11,000 Test run mark and the third International player behind Allan Border and Brian Lara.
58. Tendulkar is fourth on the list of players with most Test caps. Steve Waugh (168 Tests), Allan Border (158 Tests), have appeared in more games than Tendulkar.
59. Tendulkar has played the most number of Test Matches for India (Kapil Dev is second with 131 Test appearances).
61. Tendulkar's 25,000+ runs in international cricket include 17000+ runs in ODI's, 13,000+ Tests runs and 10 runs in the lone Twenty20 that India has played.
62. On December 10, 2005, Tendulkar made his 35th century in Tests at Delhi against Sri Lanka. He surpassed Sunil Gavaskar's record of 34 centuries to become the man with the most number of hundreds in Test cricket.
68. Highest no. of centuries in Test cricket 50.
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Grave situation at Melbourne's Queen Victoria Market
It is thought there were more than 10,000 people buried in the Old Melbourne Cemetery. Now more than 10,000 people visit the Queen Victoria Market every day — on top of the cemetery. So much for resting in peace.
The Melbourne City Council has recently pledged $800,000 to design a multilevel car park at the market.
But all digging will have to be done by hand, because machines are not allowed to dig around human remains. The proposed redevelopment at the Queen Victoria Market is expected to cost $13 million.
Existing storage sheds fronting Franklin Street will be the site for 484 new car parking spaces, cool storage and retail spaces. Apartments are also being considered.
Lord Mayor Peter Costigan says the new car park is just what the Queen Victoria Market needs. "The current car parking facilities are filled to capacity on the main market days. This is a deterrent to shoppers and limits the opportunities to increase patronage," Councillor Costigan said.
"With the additional spaces, we can attract more shoppers and tourists to the market."
Market spokesperson, Carolyn Fyfe, says the exact number of people buried under the market site is unknown. According to Ms Fyfe, when fire destroyed the old cemetery's gatehouse, all records were destroyed as well.
When a Royal Commission in 1915 first allowed the market to expand, the bodies of those who could be identified were moved to Fawkner Cemetery.
Ms Fyfe says with proposals to further expand the site, a thorough investigation of the area is required. "We can't be sure as to the extent of human burial until we do a test dig," Ms Fyfe said.
The City of Melbourne will consult with the Department of Human Services and Church groups about the matter before construction begins. Traders and local residents will also be consulted about the project.
Council finance committee chairman, Martin Brennan, says the project could include some residential development.- "I support any opportunity for developing more residential living in and around the city, especially in the market area," Councillor Brennan said. "Having more people live in the city improves the way it operates."
Councillor Brennan said although the Melbourne City Council would certainly go ahead with construction of the extra car park, he would not personally endorse the plan. "I'm less inclined to support the car park proposal. I'm not one who thinks we need more car spaces in the city," he said.
But market spokeswoman, Ms Fyfe, disagrees. "The area desperately needs parking," she said. "It will help local business, and local residents, who don't like shoppers parking outside their houses."
Ms Fyfe believes any residential development at the market would be inappropriate. "We want to be sure the Queen Victoria Market operates as a market. It would also be difficult to convince people to live on top of a cemetery," she said. process," he. said.
Market chairman, David Elsum, said the design and tender process will take four months. "Our stakeholders [will be] fully informed during all stages of the process," he said. Construction of the project is expected to take 16 months.
by Christine Caulfield, September 1999. (story first published in the North & West Melbourne News.)


We are in the process of changing the term Cell groups to Connect groups. What are the reasons?
"Cell" is a biological term which was first popularised in the 70's to describe the basic unit for church life and how it is to multiply and grow. It is indeed a useful term and in Singapore, it has become ubiquitous as a general reference to small group ministry in the Church. Today, it is not enough to ask which church a person comes from. If he or she says he or she belongs to a Cell, it tells you something about the person's commitment to that church.
Over the years, while some form of small group ministry is now expected of almost any local church here, many are using different names for it. There are a few reasons for this, but the concept of a Cell Church generally works better in a local church that is homogenous and where the authority is more hierarchical with a stronger top-down pastoral leadership. The fact is that Singapore has, over time, become even more heterogeneous in nature. Many churches here struggle with a one-size-fits-all type of Cell group ministry. Seniors find it difficult to travel and visit another home in the evening. In a five-day work week culture, young adults find it difficult to meet regularly for a mid-week meeting. It will be true to say that Cathedral had a checkered experience in these last thirty or so years when it comes to our Cell ministry.
In a new season, we have sensed the need to have a fresh approach to our small group ministry. We want to develop a small group ministry which is uniquely Cathedral's, without the pressure of conforming to the usual Cell Church practices. In renaming, we are freeing ourselves to explore and evolve a model which will work better for our setting. We need to allow for greater diversity so that the Connect Group is a joy to be a part of. Some measure of discipline is of course needed but as we have all experienced, our lives are often enriched by the spiritual friendships and service opportunities through small groups.
There are already many on-going conversations about how our Connect Groups can look like. One thing is certain, call it what you may, we can't do without a vibrant small group ministry. For the Church to remain small, personal and caring, where every member experiences a meaningful community, Connect Groups are necessary.
In early May, we will be commissioning our Connect Group Leaders. We will also release new Connect materials based on the book of James. Pas Lian Swan and her team will assist the Service Pastors as they lead and pastor the Connect Group Leaders in their Services. Once every quarter, Connect Group Leaders will come together for refresher training, vision-sharing by the Vicar and mutual encouragement.


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Q: Delphi-XE4 iOS uploading new releases somehow ignored I have a very mysterious problem.
I am somehow not uploading my new app versions correctly even if everything it seemingly correct. I determine this by download the "new" versions and seeing nothing has changed.
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Before release I test my changes are included and working on device-debug + device-adhoc.
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I then build and deploy for app store. Before uploading my .ipa file into "Application Loader" I make sure the .ipa file has just been generated. I then select it and the upload/verification process goes find without errros and some days later I get a message new app has been released...
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I then uninstall my existing app (just to make sure) and download and install the new app version from appstore - it is still the same. This is driving me nuts. I think I have tried to eliminate potential places where I could have errored, but somehow somewhere something is going terrible wrong for me. This is a fairly recent new problem - never had it in the past.
I am hoping if somehow can think of ways I can diagnose at what steps this is going wrong... I know it must be me that have an error somewhere. I recognize when something looks like a "Doh!" thing, but I believe I have tried a varity of methods to pinpoint it.
I have also tried clear out out scratch/temp directory before building + deploying. However, I am still wondering. Could it be some cache/path setting somewhere that makes Delphi compile incorrect app executable only when doing release builds? (I have of course also long time ago deleted all old directory paths that could contain earlier builds, but still...)

A: I did not see that you have already tried it on a new buddy phone & it worked. So editing my answer.
Can you try to remove your device ID from the profile settings in developer page & give a try downloading it.
There may be problem in building & compiling with Delphi.
Here is a post that differentiates between the same.
Please do see the accepted answer for that question here.
Hope that helps. (I know you are really pissed off waiting for the whole long app approval process & annoyed seeing the same old version.)

A: I had a buddy try download the latest app version, and he successfully and ran the new version... So I now must assume it is somehow my iPhone that is strange. I remove all app instances (debug, old appstore download) - then download the new version from app store. After that, my iPhone shows the "new" text on the launch icon, but still launches an old version... somehow

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Photographs, lumber, airplanes, hand-hewn coffins--in every William Faulkner novel and short story worldly material abounds. The essays in Faulkner and Material Culture provide a fresh understanding of the things Faulkner brought from the world around him to the one he created.
Charles S. Aiken surveys Faulkner's representation of terrain and concludes, contrary to established criticism, that to Faulkner, Yoknapatawpha was not a microcosm of the South but a very particular and quite specifically located place. Jay Watson works with literary theory, philosophy, the history of woodworking and furniture-making, and social and intellectual history to explore how Light in August is tied intimately to the region's logging and woodworking industries.
Other essays in the volume include Kevin Railey's on the consumer goods that appear in Flags in the Dust. Miles Orvell discusses the Confederate Soldier monuments installed in small towns throughout the South and how such monuments enter Faulkner's work. Katherine Henninger analyzes Faulkner's fictional representation of photographs and the function of photography within his fiction, particularly in The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom!
Joseph R. Urgo is dean of the faculty at Hamilton College. Ann J. Abadie is associate director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.


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Remembering the MLK memorial on MLK day
"Out of the Mountain of Despair, a Stone of Hope"
A few years ago, we went to Washington, D.C. We took the kids out of school for a week. We toured the Capitol, saw the Declaration and Thomas Jefferson's library. We liked the Smithsonian. We couldn't get into the African American museum, which was new, or the Holocaust museum. We had great food. We walked the national mall at night. My husband & oldest child ran on the National Mall like Captain America. We saw the Tomb of Christ exhibit at National Geographic, and explored the Spy Museum.
But I was deeply underwhelmed by the things I expected to find the most stirring. In fact, as we looked at the Washington and Lincoln memorials, I found myself more jaded than moved. They were overrun, and all I could see was the sinful division in our country rendering impotent everything we believe in.
Our last morning in D.C. was gray and drizzly and cold. We had a noon flight. We packed up and, on the way to the airport, parked along the Tidal Basin to walk from the Jefferson Memorial to the FDR to the MLK.
That morning, at last, I felt the swelling of patriotism. I'm sure, in part, I was reacting to the solitude, since the memorials were deserted. But I also think it was because in those memorials, I recognized the proper relationship between God and country. I saw how country can reflect Godly ideals—of making God's will for humanity known: in justice, in care for each other.
I once read an opinion piece in which someone said that many who lionize Martin Luther King, Jr. would be very uncomfortable if they actually read all his words. It took a long time to understood that, which is why it's stuck with me. But I realize now: it's easy to get on board with "I have a dream," because "I have a dream" doesn't ask us to leave our comfort zone. But when you start dissecting the practicalities of what is required to transform from dream to reality, it's a lot more threatening.
Enough from me. I want to share Martin Luther King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail, which is my reading project for today, in honor of Rev. Dr. King. Will you join me?
How To Detach
I set myself the task of cultivating detachment this year, but the problem is I don't know how to start.
Last year, I had some path markers to follow through contemplation—people who had a tried & true method I could tap into. Incidentally, centering prayer will be with me the rest of my life. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's a foundational skill for detachment.
But I don't have that well-trodden path to follow in cultivating detachment. So the other day I just said a prayer, asking God to put sign posts in my pathway.
God does not disappoint.
Here are several things that have spontaneously crossed my online feeds in recent days. Things I have done nothing to seek out. Maybe they will give you food for thought as they have given me:
#1. a blog post
If you can't take in anymore, there's a reason: it's all too much. What I took from this blog post: Social media, news, everything that's wrong in the world is important, but we were only built to withstand so much of it. (Language alert.)
#2. … same message.
#3: not a religious article, just a summary of some research that supports the effort.
How To Be Ambivalent. The attitude they are calling ambivalence sounds a lot like what I am seeking: a degree of emotional distance from difficult realities. If it doesn't matter so much to you, you're more likely to be able to approach it objectively. That isn't what they claim to be advocating for, but that's how it reads to me.
#4: Pope Francis never disappoints, either. I get these "Journey with the Pope" emails every day, I suspect because I donated to Missio.
Complexity and Confidence
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Our brains prefer a simple lie to a complex truth.
Our brains prefer a confident lie to a hesitant truth.
These are two of the biases explored in the "Learning How To See" podcast. Everything I heard on the first season was like an earthquake in my heart, but these two line up so thoroughly with my own experience, it reaches a whole other plane.
There are so many times when my kids ask a faith question, and I can think of a glib answer that will take three seconds and wholly misrepresent the complexity and the gravity of the issue at hand. But to do so would be to ignore the reality of the situation. More to the point, it would ignore the dignity of the soul that's seeking authentic truth. Truth that stands up to their lived reality, which is, let's face it, complex. Because it's a complex world.
So I reply with complexity and hesitancy. I pause–to choose my words, to pray and think.
Believe it or not, this is me on Intentional Catholic, too. I know I come across loud and opinionated, and I am. But a lot of thought and inner wrestling goes into these posts. A lot of care for how the things I say will feel when read by different people.
Complexity bias, confidence bias. These two have played out so many times in the years I've been involved in discussions (and arguments) online. Through blogging, too. One memorable time, I waded into current events with unshakable certainty and ended up with egg on my face. It taught me to value caution and deliberation. Research before reacting. Well. Reacting in words, at least. Reacting in my heart is a whole different matter. I spend a lot of time talking myself down from initial reactions. But the point is, I do it.
The absolute confidence with which some people of faith respond to complex situations, erasing all complexities and nuance, waters down the Gospel. If people feel that the Gospel can't address complexity, of course they're going to dismiss it. It doesn't help them process their own experiences. That's not a weakness in the Gospel. It's a weakness in those of us trying to spread it.
It is in our nature to prefer the simple lie, told confidently (stolen elections, anyone?), but I pray that we can all learn to recognize how much damage it does to be satisfied to wallow in the blindness of those biases.
(And if it's at all unclear, that prayer is for myself, too.)
When your mind gets blown open, it can be hard to put into words
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I have had my mind blown in the past few months by a podcast from the Center for Action and Contemplation. I'm not normally a podcast person, but the premise was so compelling, I had to make time for it. It's called "Learning How To See."
https://cac.org/podcast/learning-how-to-see/
Ever since I listened to episode 1— "Why can't we see?"—I have been wanting to blog about it. But I haven't known what to say. Why summarize it when I'd rather you listen for yourselves? In fact, everyone in the world needs to listen to it, because it's about all of us.
It boils down to this: a Protestant minister who is involved in the interfaith contemplative prayer movement did a deep dive into research on psychology (and maybe sociology?), because he couldn't understand what has happened in the U. S. in the last few years.
What he found is that there are thirteen universal biases that constitute the "planks" in our own eyes that prevent us from seeing the world as it really is. Biases that cause us to cling blindly to our own view of the world, and to find another's experience and perspective threatening.
He called in Fr. Richard Rohr as one of his companions on the first season. That's how I encountered it—because one of my choir members loaned me Rohr's book Just This, and I was so overwhelmed by it, I signed up for his newsletter, which led me to the podcast.
As longtime readers know, I underwent a really profound shift in world view between 2007 and, say, 2014. Most of what baffles and enrages me now is particularly "angrifying" because it's where I came from. It's where I used to be, not so long ago.
Listening to this podcast–with people sharing their own spiritual face plants frankly–with its prayers for openness and eyes to see as God sees, rather than as my biases would have me see—it's like hearing my own story told through brand new stories.
It prepared me for the rude awakening that has surrounded my daughter's celiac diagnosis. The one that showed that despite all my spiritual growth, I have plenty of blinders left.
It caused me to ask what blinders I put on to replace the ones I left behind.
I'm not sure where I'm going to go with this. I might do my own reflections on each of these biases. Maybe. But for now, I just want everyone to go listen. It's so, so worth it.
The Now And The Not Yet
At this time of year, Catholic sites are generally be gentle and meditative, wreathed in evergreen and violet candles. (Did you see what I did there? 🙂 )
I'm not feeling that this year. Advent is normally a big thing in my household, but this year I'm giving myself a pass on some of our traditions. It's just not where we are right now. I told my spiritual group yesterday that this year, I'm writing a book and learning how to live with a celiac diagnosis for my child, and that's quite enough mental/spiritual wrestling for me this Advent.
But what I AM doing this Advent is pondering the tension that is intrinsic to life in the faith.
The kingdom of God is now, here, in the person of Jesus, but also unfolding in real time, and never to be fully realized in this world.
We are to accept authority—but at the same time, questioning and wrestling is the only way we grow in faith. Without it, we stagnate. Even fester, growing ever more rigid in our binary, simplistic view of the world. Kind of like all those pirates on Davy Jones' ship in Pirates of the Caribbean—ever more inflexible, until eventually we freeze solid and lose our humanity altogether. In other words, we are called to submit, but also to be prophetic.
We are given, by virtue of our baptism, the power to heal—this is a conversation we had yesterday in my small faith group—and yet I would argue that the chronic conditions of my life are the things that have allowed me to grow.
I think there's a lesson in all this for me as I begin this discernment surrounding detachment. Because that is the essential question I can't wrap my brain around—the one I shared here a couple of weeks ago. Godly anger is what fuels us to pursue Godly justice. Yet this seems to stand at odds with the idea of detachment, which would suggest that we remain a step back emotionally, setting aside such passions altogether.
That's why this graphic caught my attention when it crossed my feed last week. It's not about religion, but my faith is integral to my view of the world, and that gets expressed through real-world events, i.e. the news. So it resonated on the level of faith for me.
In my last appointment, my counselor and I were grappling with balance, and she said, "I just want to make sure you know that balance means it's always changing. It's not the same from day to day."
She was right, of course; I've known this for a long time in my family life—that one or another of my responsibilities takes precedence at any given time, and it's constantly shifting. We tend to think of balance as a static thing: a beam BALANCED on a point. But that only works if all the factors acting on it are static. As the forces of my life act upon me, I have to adjust constantly. I do it automatically on a bicycle. Or walking. Or when a small child runs and tackles me while I'm sitting in the middle of the floor.
But somehow when it comes to the bigger things, the spiritual life, I have this fantasy that there's some magical island within me that if I can just find it, I'll never have to adjust again.
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But the reality of the "now-and-not-yet" dynamic is that those two things DO stand at odds. That tension will never be resolved in this life. On one side is the passion to see God's justice made real in the world: "Thy will be done, they kingdom come on earth as it is in Heaven." We pray for that daily. God's will for the earth can't happen if we shrug our shoulders and say, "Oh well, in Heaven all will be well, so I just won't worry about everything that's wrong."
At the same time, the righteous anger that fuels the passion can easily become unhealthy. Crippling. Damaging to the connection to God and neighbor. Detachment is necessary too.
There's a tension there that can't be avoided. Neither of the extremes contains the whole truth. The truth comes in the balance between them.
But finding it… that's the thing I'm beginning to grapple with now.
Thoughts on the Eucharist in the wake of a diagnosis of celiac disease
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At 6:15 the night before Thanksgiving, we got the call we'd been awaiting for nearly three months. My developmentally disabled teenager has celiac disease.
We were prepared, and had already started the transition to a gluten-free diet. But it was the next morning, at Thanksgiving Day Mass, when I really processed just how big a transition this was. I had already received Communion and was back in the music area playing my flute when I had the gut-wrenching realization that I hadn't even thought about Communion for my daughter. There was no finding a gluten-free host at this point. The choices were to receive or not.
I let her receive. And when we got home that night I sent a note to my pastor to ask how procedures work at our parish so we'd be better prepared for Sunday.
Which we were–sort of. They put a host in a pyx and the head minister brought it over when she saw my daughter coming up for Communion. But the Eucharistic minister didn't know what was going on and put a regular host in the pyx on top of the specialty host. So–cross-contamination! Yay!
We're on week 1 of this transition, so it wasn't the end of the world. There's a learning curve here, for everyone involved. But as I watched from within the music area, unable to intervene, I groaned inwardly, glimpsing the magnitude of what we're going to have to remember every danged week for the rest of her life.
And then after Mass, I learned that gluten-free hosts are specifically disallowed by the Church. They can do low-gluten, but not gluten-free.
The reason behind this I have not actually explored yet, though I gather it has something to do with "it can't be bread without gluten." (Of course, little wafers aren't bread, either, but you know. And no bread in the history of humanity has ever consisted only of wheat and water. But whatever.) I was actually enraged, my inner mama bear ready to rumble, but I decided to follow my own admonitions to others and ask a bunch more questions, trusting–or praying, at least–that the answers would render the rage irrelevant. Which ended up being mostly true. I was given the specifications for the low-gluten hosts used in my parish. Out of 12 testing dates, 2 were over the amount of gluten we have been told is OK. The other 10 were below it. It's enough for us to go forward–for now, at least. Until we get our feet wet and know more.
But here's my problem. The Catholic community has a huge gap in understanding of the Eucharist. We have people who, on one side, don't take Real Presence seriously enough. And on the other, we have those who take it so seriously that they believe gluten in a host either no longer exists after consecration, or that it's irrelevant because God will protect us from any harm coming from the gluten in the host. (I've heard both of those in the past week.)
I've said before that I am not convinced the problem of Real Presence is nearly as dire as it has been made out to be. I think the wording of the questions on that sensational survey was the problem.
I do, however, think both of those latter beliefs are a big problem–indicative of a superstition mentality among Catholics and, by extension, evidence of a need for greater spiritual maturity.
Our bishops are aware of the problems, or they wouldn't be focusing on the Eucharist in that new document. And yet apparently, a bunch of people wanted to boil that catechesis down to "pro-choice Catholics should be barred from Communion?"
Thank God, they didn't go that route. The question of whose politics mirror Catholic teaching and whose don't would have wiped out virtually every politician, regardless of party. Death penalty is a pro-life issue, too. And racism, as the US Bishops themselves said.
But I've got to say, if our focus around the Eucharist is on how to put up as many barriers as possible, then we have at least as big a problem in the institutional Church as we do among the laity.
Thank God, I am intelligent and well-educated in my faith, and I had a line of options queued up for my daughter. But if the Eucharist is as critical to life in the faith as we claim to believe it is, we should be working to make it EASIER for everyone, regardless of medical condition, to receive safely. We should NOT be putting obstacles in the way.
Detachment & Forgiveness
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The last year or so, the word "detachment' has been popping up everywhere. In theory, I totally understand the concept. Detachment means not to be tied to the things of the world.
But what does that look like where the rubber meets the road? I can say with high confidence that I am not addicted to power. That I have zero use for fancy cars and the newest gadgets and the biggest house. (It is never far from my mind that the bigger the house, the bigger the cleaning job. Practicality is a great help in this kind of detachment!)
So I could rest on my laurels and say I've got it nailed. Except if that were the case, I have a feeling this word, "Detachment," would not have been scrolling across my feed so routinely in the last few months.
I have come to realize that where I struggle with detachment is in the passion for justice and seeing God's will done in tangible, concrete ways on the earth. I get angry a lot. Anger seems to me like a pretty good indicator that one is not "detached." And the desire for earthly justice is, by definition, a thing of the world.
So here is the question I am pondering these days: how does one balance righteous anger—such as Jesus showed in the Temple, obviously, but also in the blistering critiques he leveled at the religious authorities of his day—with detachment? Righteous anger is what fuels the desire to work for justice. How does one maintain the drive to work for justice while at the same time remaining detached?
A few weeks ago, my good friend Lorraine Hess gave a mission at our parish, and one thing she said really stuck with me. Forgiveness, she said, is choosing not to be controlled by our wounds.
Those words sounded a gong that reverberated in my whole body, and I thought, "THAT'S what detachment is!"
Recognizing it doesn't mean I have achieved it, though. And now I know that I have stepped onto a new path in my spiritual journey, one that I will be following for some time to come.


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Archive for Steven Spielberg
Photogenics
Posted in FILM with tags Bruce Dern, Family Plot, Hitchcock, Jaws, Lorraine Gary, Nebraska, Sid Sheinberg, Steven Spielberg, Telluride Film Festival on October 1, 2019 by dcairns
Bruce Dern, that god among men, appeared at the Telluride Film Festival with NEBRASKA the year Paul Duane and I were there with NATAN, so I got to hear him talk to Leonard Maltin. Dern likes to talk, so my memory is that Maltin asked about four questions and Brucie filled the ninety minutes with ease.
I've never gone into his Hitchcock stories here since I assumed they were readily available in the public realm via Dern's memoir, Things I've Said, But Probably Shouldn't Have. BUT I finally just read the book, which is terrific fun, and the stories I recall aren't included. So I'm just going to tell them here. I think my memory of them is accurate though of course I can't vouch for Dern's. But he seems pretty reliable.
First, Dern reported that on day one of FAMILY PLOT (Hitch's last movie and his second with Dern), Hitchcock ended the day by thanking his whole crew, individually by name, for their efforts. Sixty people he'd never worked with before. Dern said he's asked other directors if they thought they could pull off a feat like that, and hadn't ever gotten a "yes." He speculated, correctly I think, that Hitch wanted to demonstrate to everyone, aged 76, that he was still sharp.
It's the other story that's the real doozy, though. Hitch, said Dern, was approached by Lorraine Gary. You may know her as Sheriff Brody's wife in JAWS, but she was the real-life wife of Sid Sheinberg Lew Wasserman, Hitch's former agent and now the head of his studio, Universal — and Spielberg's casting of her, twice, seems like a shrewd way to keep the boss on-side, though LG is also an excellent actress, well worth casting purely on merit. Anyway, she's a woman of influence at this time.
Lorraine Gary says to Hitch, reportedly, something like this: "My friend Mary [not her real name so far as I know] is an actress, and she needs to work once a year to keep her union membership, and she would be just perfect for the role of the bra saleswoman in your film."
"Out of the question," says Hitch.
"Oh, but-"
"Out of the question."
But the day comes to shoot the scene, and on the set is not the actor Hitchcock chose for the part, but Lorraine's friend Mary.
Hitch makes no comment. He sets up his first shot — we'll be over Bruce's shoulder on Mary, then at the end of the scene she'll leave and Bruce will turn and it'll end as a single on him.
A bra saleswoman.
Take One. It goes fine. Hitchcock says, "Cut," and walks up to the camera. Opens it. Unspools the film, exposing it: holds it up to the light.
"Oh dear," he says to Mary, "It appears you're not photogenic."
"Wh-?"
"Your image does not appear on the celluloid."
Mary starts crying and leaves, Hitch returns to his director's chair to await the arrival of the actor he chose (pictured).
Dern had told Hitch that he wanted his chair right next to Hitch's so he could study the Master of Suspense at work. So he leans over and asks, "What was all that about?"
"What that was about, Bruce, was DON'T FUCK WITH HITCH."
The Spielberg Transition #2
Posted in FILM, Politics with tags Bitter Moon, Ciaran Hinds, Emmanuelle Seigner, Eric Bana, Fred Schepisi, Michael Lonsdale, Munich, One Day in September, Roman Polanski, Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg, The Day of the Jackal on May 23, 2019 by dcairns
Bana hulks out.
MUNICH is one Spielberg I hadn't seen until recently. I still haven't managed to steel myself to run THE TERMINAL or THE BFG, but I guess I will at some point. They're sitting on the shelf opposite as I type this, looking at me with their big puppy-dog eyes.
But MUNICH seemed like it was at least an attempt to do something interesting and different, so I felt vaguely ashamed of not giving it a shot. And I recall an interview from the time of production where Spielberg was talking about how the movie was going to make EVERYBODY angry. The great crowd-pleaser, going out of his way to be unpopular. This seemed worthy of attention.
Well, in a way the film's refusal to firmly endorse or condemn the Israeli assassination programme depicted (targeting those responsible for the Munich Olympics atrocity) is standard Hollywood hedging, but Spielberg is right too, in that the film isn't going to satisfy anyone with an entrenching position on the Palestine question. You can probably position Spielberg, based on this film and his other work (notably the penultimate scene of SCHINDLER'S) as a Zionist with qualms.
Fine, I'm a Zionist with qualms too. In that Israel exists and is here to stay, and you can question whether its creation was a good thing, but that's wholly academic because what acceptable action would dissolve the state at this late stage? You can't be genuinely anti-Zionist without being anti-Semitic, because what's your non-genocidal solution to Israel's existence?
On the other hand, I'm opposed to practically everything Israel is doing in the name of self-defense. It's apartheid, it's a slow-motion genocide, it's not even in any sane conception of Israel's own best interests.
My problem with MUNICH started with my inability to accept the arguments Golda Meir, or the film's version of her, puts forward in favour of the assassinations (or "executions," as Kevin Macdonald's ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER disgustingly calls them). So, although the film tries to take you on a journey from accepting the mission to questioning it (without ever arriving at a definite position), I was never on board to begin with. So, although I found the film "interesting," I wasn't INTERESTED, apart from when Matthieu Amalric and Michael Lonsdale showed up ("Things always get better when the good actors show up," said a distinguished produced friend once, talking about Bob Hoskins as a dwarf, but the point stands).
Spielberg described his influences as European thrillers, and one thinks Costa-Gavras, or Melville, but Lonsdale suggests a more Hollywood influence: DAY OF THE JACKAL. And it's all very loud and impactful and bloody and explicit. It has the first, I think, full-frontal nudity in a Spielberg joint, both male and female, but predictably the straight male audience wins out with a voluptuous enemy honeytrap (Marie-Josée Croze) while everyone else has to content themselves with Ciaran Hinds' small dead cock.
The image up top is Bana, near the end of the film, having sex with his wife but seeing images of terrorist massacres, and the machine gun fire from his fantasy (a flashback to events he didn't witness?) illuminates his face in the present tense reality — I found this ludicrous, but I'm actually going to semi-allow it because it's certainly BOLD.
But earlier in the film, while travelling by plane, Bana has another flashback to events he didn't see, the Munich massacre itself, and that has two fantastically horrible transitions. First, we move into the aeroplane window as Bana gazes at it, and the terror attack becomes progressively more visible. I'm reminded of the supremely eggy moment in Polanski's BITTER MOON where Emmanuelle Seigner's face appears in the plane window as a Romantic Vision. I think that film is a grotesque comedy (Polanski's funniest film?) so the moment kind of works, even as it makes me cringe. And I guess both filmmakers were thinking of a kind of in-flight reverie and trying to evoke that sort of boredom-distraction-fantasising. But, you know, it doesn't WORK.
But the really bad one is the end of the fake flashback (he wasn't THERE!), when automatic rifle fire rakes a poor Israeli athlete and Spielberg shows bullets tearing up a blood-spattered wall, then dissolves/morphs to little pink puffy clouds seen through that aeroplane window.
I have no words. Except these ones: What. The. Hell?
Well, all really impressively bad ideas have something good going on in them. As with the eros + massacre up top, the idea of something attractive being infected by a vision of something murderous isn't a terrible one. Nic Roeg would probably have made a hard cut here, and left the audience the option of seeing a connection between the bloody, perforated plasterboard and the sunrise sky, or of seeing the things as merely contrasting. Spielberg is more controlling, so he can't bring himself to leave that to chance.
Or, as Fred Schepisi advised Spielberg when he heard about SCHINDLER'S, "Don't do it, Steve. You'll fuck it up: you're too good with the camera."
I think SCHINDLER'S LIST works, or works well enough overall. But I think there's a transition in there that might be worth talking about…
Posted in FILM, literature with tags David Koepp, David Lean, Jeff Goldblum, Jurassic Park, Lawrence of Arabia, Michael Crichton, Richard Attenborough, Steven Spielberg, The Lost World: Jurassic Park on May 22, 2019 by dcairns
One of the things Steven Spielberg vocally admires about David Lean is his imaginative scene changes, of which the most celebrated is the "match cut" in LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. Spielberg has emulated the technique a fair bit, often with enjoyable results. But sometimes he gets it wrong.
THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK is the kind of thing Spielberg is supposed to do well, but it's an oddly confused film, from its back-asswards title on down. I don't think his heart was in it.
How do you know when there's a tyrannosaur in your tent?
The first JURASSIC PARK is, on the whole, really good (haven't bothered with any of the non-Spielberg sequels). It's fairly faithful to Michael Crichton's page-turner, though most of its departures are disimprovements. And while the novel is very clear that bringing dinosaurs back to life would be a disastrous idea, you get the sense that, even though this plot point is ported over from the book, deep down Spielberg thinks it would be awesome (which is why the park's creator doesn't have to die, despite being responsible for all the other deaths). I don't necessarily disagree (there's a weird meme in popular culture, particularly Doctor Who: whenever dinosaurs get revivified, the wonderment is promptly quashed by a sentimental death scene. Dinosaurs can come back, but only for a few minutes. It strikes me like giving a kid a toy and then taking it away again.)
Well, Crichton wrote a follow-up book that wasn't worth filming, so screenwriter David Koepp threw it away and came up with a story that flatly contradicted the thrust of the earlier film: now Jeff Goldblum, the anti-dino rock 'n' roll chaos theoretician of the previous film, wants to save the poor T-rex, just about the scariest threat he faced (it ate a man on the toilet, ffs). The last tenth of the film abandons the titular location to run amock in America, a clear violation of the Platonic unities as well as various traffic statutes.
But the rot sets in early on: with the introduction of the hero, in fact. The threat is set up efficiently in scene one. Spielberg had listened to the criticisms of little kids (really?) who didn't want to wait so long to see the thunder lizards, so he brings on some miniature CGI beasties to attack a child right at the outset (maybe he didn't really take too kindly to the criticism?). Mom runs up and sees daughter in trouble, and SCREAMS ~
And we CUT TO Jeff Goldblum yawning against an unconvincing tropical palm background. The scream continues but now it's something else: the roar of a subway train.
Goldblum steps screen left and the pan takes us away from his backdrop, now "revealed" to be a backlit holiday advertisement, and we learn he's in the subway.
These kind of gags, where a background turns out not to be real practically never work, because the background practically never looks real. Our initial reaction is likely to be "That looks cheap and fake as hell," and though the reveal provides an excuse for the phoniness, it fails to provide a pleasing surprise.
And the yawn? It's hard not to see it as a gesture of contempt towards the material or the audience or both.
But the worst thing is the fanciness. Remember, the LAWRENCE cut has only a few elements, really. Lean doesn't try to align the match with the rising sun, pictorially. The connection is merely conceptual: the desert is, in some way, like a flame that can burn you, and a man like Lawrence might enjoy that. The sound of Lawrence's breath extinguishing the match carries across the edit. And that's it.
Whereas LOST WORLD has the audio transition of the scream/subway, the visual match of the screaming woman/yawning man, and the fake background of blue sky and palm trees. It's all busy, and all ugly, and all ineffective and fighting against itself. In the words of Dorothy Parker, "This isn't just plain awful. This is fancy."
There's maybe an actual artistic principle here: the more artful a transition, the more simple it needs to be.
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Q: Databricks upload data in batch We all know that via the Databricks Data / Table UI we can upload data using Create a table using file upload for small files.
Does Databricks have a standard batch approach for large files? Or do we need to use sFTP, hadoop distcp, some sort of REST Service? I want to make sure I have not missed some new development.

A: Usual recommendation is to use cloud-specific tools for copying/moving data to the cloud - azcopy, Azure Data Factory, aws-cli, etc.  These tools are usually heavily optimized for high throughput & parallelism.
Upload to DBFS should be really limited to small files when people want to do data exploration (technically you can upload files to DBFS, for example by using Databricks CLI, but it's not heavily optimized for huge amounts of data).


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Sight-disabled woman files complaint against Uber over declined rides
Says drivers reject her because of her service dog
Updated: 6:42 PM EDT Sep 19, 2018
Karen Anderson & Kevin Rothstein
WEBVTT DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BECAUSE OF HER SERVICE DOG. KAREN ANDERSON REPORTS. KAREN: THIS PROVIDES HER WITH TWO THINGS SHE LEGALLY LAWSON -- SHE LOST SINCE BECOMING LEGALLY BLIND. >> THESE ARE ALL THINGS I DON'T THINK I WOULD DO IF I DIDN'T HAVE HIM AS MY NAVIGATION DOLL. >> JENNIFER WAS THRILLED WHEN SHE LEARNED THE MBTA WAS LAUNCHING A PILOT PROGRAM WITH GOOGLER TO TRANSPORT PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN THE RIGHT PROGRAM. SHE HOPED FOR LOWER COST AND READILY AVAILABLE TRANSPORTATION, BUT INSTEAD, SHE SAYS ALL TOO OFTEN, UBER DRIVERS CANCELED AFTER SEEING KEATING, LEAVING HER STRANDED. >> IT'S INCREDIBLY HUMILIATING. >> LAST FALL, JENNIFER REQUESTED AND UBER FOR RIGHT HOME AFTER WORK IN BROOKLYN. SHE RECORDED AUDIO OF THE CONVERSATION. >> DON'T TOUCH ME. >> THE DRIVER CLAIMS SHE WAS ALLERGIC TO DOGS AND TRIED TO PULL KEATING OUT. >> GET OUT OF MY CAR. >> YOU JUST PUSHED ME DOWN. >> THAT YOU WERE DRIVER TOOK OFF AND ANGRY. >> IT'S VERY STRESSFUL, IT JUST BRINGS THAT MOMENT BACK WHERE I WAS VERY HELPLESS. >> NOW JENNIFER HAS FILED A COMPLAINT AGAINST UBER WITH THE MASSACHUSETTS COMMISSION AGAINST DISCRIMINATION, ACCUSING UBER OF CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS. THE COMPLAINT SAYS THE DISCRIMINATION IS MADE EVEN WORSE BECAUSE IT HAPPEN AS PART OF A TAXPAYER-FUNDED SERVICE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. >> THEY ARE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO PEOPLE WITH SERVICE DOGS. THAT'S IT, IT'S VERY SIMPLE. THAT'S THE LAW. >> SPOKESPERSON FOR UBER WOULD NOT COMMENT ON THE PENDING LITIGATION BUT SAID UBER DRIVERS MUST AGREE TO TAKE SERVICE ANIMALS AND ARE REMINDED ABOUT THE SERVICE ANIMAL POLICY FOUR TIMES A YEAR. WHILE WE WATCH, FOR UBER DRIVERS PICKED UP JENNIFER AND KEATING. IT WAS AFTER SHE FILED A COMPLAINT. SHE HOPES THE MESSAGE IS GETTING THROUGH. >> HAVE COMPASSION FOR OTHER PEOPLE, JUST AS THAT. MARIA: THE MBTA SAID UBER TOLD THEM THEY HANDLED THE MATTER IN AC
The students are back and Commonwealth Avenue is jammed, but Jennifer Buchanan, who is legally blind, navigates her way without a hitch thanks to Keating, her seeing-eye dog."We visit the State House. We adventure out to new places. We walk the Boston Common," she said. "There are all things I just don't think I would do if I didn't have him as my navigation tool."Buchanan also gets around with the help of a new partnership between the MBTA and its RIDE program and ride-share companies like Uber.She hoped for lower-cost and readily available transportation, but instead, she said, all too often Uber drivers canceled after seeing Keating, leaving her stranded."It's incredibly humiliating to have someone tell you to stand in the rain because I don't want you in the car," she said. "It's heartbreaking. You don't feel like you're human anymore."Not every Uber she takes is part of the RIDE program, which provides subsidies for disabled riders, but the worst one was. It happened last fall after she requested an Uber ride home from her work in Brookline.Audio of the confrontation, which she recorded on her phone, shows how the driver tried to pull Keating out of her car."Don't touch me," Buchanan said."I'm not touching you. I'm touching the dog," the driver replied.The driver claimed she was allergic to dogs."Get out of my car," the driver said."You just ripped my dog's collar off," he said."You just pushed me down," the driver said.The Uber driver took off and Buchanan was left humiliated and angry, fumbling as she tried to look for Keating's collar."It's very stressful. It just brings that moment back where I was very helpless," Buchanan said.After repeated rides she says were canceled because of her service dog, Buchanan finally filed a complaint against Uber with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, accusing Uber of "civil rights violations" The complaint says the discrimination is made even worse because it happened as part of the RIDE.Keith Sachs, Buchanan's attorney, said the law requires drivers to pick up Buchanan and her dog."They are required to provide services for people like Jen with service dogs. That's it. It's very simple," he said.A spokesperson for Uber said the company couldn't comment on pending litigation, but said that drivers must agree to accommodate riders with service animals and comply with all accessibility laws, and drivers are reminded in quarterly emails about Uber's service animal policy.As for the incident with the driver who tried to take Keating out of her car, the MBTA told 5 Investigates that Uber told them they handled the matter in accordance with the company discipline policy, but Uber wouldn't tell Buchanan or us what that was.We watched while Buchanan ordered four different Uber drivers, and all of them picked her and Keating up.That was after she filed the complaint, and she hopes the message is getting through."Have compassion for other people, just respect," she said.
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The students are back and Commonwealth Avenue is jammed, but Jennifer Buchanan, who is legally blind, navigates her way without a hitch thanks to Keating, her seeing-eye dog.
"We visit the State House. We adventure out to new places. We walk the Boston Common," she said. "There are all things I just don't think I would do if I didn't have him as my navigation tool."
Buchanan also gets around with the help of a new partnership between the MBTA and its RIDE program and ride-share companies like Uber.
She hoped for lower-cost and readily available transportation, but instead, she said, all too often Uber drivers canceled after seeing Keating, leaving her stranded.
"It's incredibly humiliating to have someone tell you to stand in the rain because I don't want you in the car," she said. "It's heartbreaking. You don't feel like you're human anymore."
Not every Uber she takes is part of the RIDE program, which provides subsidies for disabled riders, but the worst one was. It happened last fall after she requested an Uber ride home from her work in Brookline.
Audio of the confrontation, which she recorded on her phone, shows how the driver tried to pull Keating out of her car.
"Don't touch me," Buchanan said.
"I'm not touching you. I'm touching the dog," the driver replied.
The driver claimed she was allergic to dogs.
"Get out of my car," the driver said.
"You just ripped my dog's collar off," he said.
"You just pushed me down," the driver said.
The Uber driver took off and Buchanan was left humiliated and angry, fumbling as she tried to look for Keating's collar.
"It's very stressful. It just brings that moment back where I was very helpless," Buchanan said.
After repeated rides she says were canceled because of her service dog, Buchanan finally filed a complaint against Uber with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, accusing Uber of "civil rights violations"
The complaint says the discrimination is made even worse because it happened as part of the RIDE.
Keith Sachs, Buchanan's attorney, said the law requires drivers to pick up Buchanan and her dog.
"They are required to provide services for people like Jen with service dogs. That's it. It's very simple," he said.
A spokesperson for Uber said the company couldn't comment on pending litigation, but said that drivers must agree to accommodate riders with service animals and comply with all accessibility laws, and drivers are reminded in quarterly emails about Uber's service animal policy.
As for the incident with the driver who tried to take Keating out of her car, the MBTA told 5 Investigates that Uber told them they handled the matter in accordance with the company discipline policy, but Uber wouldn't tell Buchanan or us what that was.
We watched while Buchanan ordered four different Uber drivers, and all of them picked her and Keating up.
That was after she filed the complaint, and she hopes the message is getting through.
"Have compassion for other people, just respect," she said.


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League of California Cities Hires Renne Public Policy Group
The Renne Public Policy Group (RPPG) is officially open for business, with the League of California Cities as its first client. The League has retained RPPG on contract to advocate on issues related to public sector pensions, workers' compensation and other areas specific to day-to-day city governance and operations. RPPG's Director of Government Affairs Dane Hutchings, who most recently served as a League legislative representative and federal policy liaison for the League, will lead efforts on this project.
"Given the importance of pension and labor relations issues for cities, the League appreciates the opportunity to retain the advocacy skills of Dane Hutchings for the balance of the 2019 Session," said Dan Carrigg, Deputy Executive Director / Legislative Director for the League.
RPPG is a full-service lobbying and consulting firm advocating in the best interest of public agencies and the companies who align with public agencies. As part of its strategic alliance with the Renne Public Law Group (RPLG) and RPLG.Solutions, RPPG combines decades of experience with the best policy, legal and operational talent in the business.
"I am excited to lead RPPG's advocacy efforts for the League and develop political and communication strategies for cities throughout the state," said Mr. Hutchings. "RPLG has worked with the League for years, most recently in crafting a compelling amicus brief in the CalFire Local 2881 v. CalPERS case recently adjudicated at the California Supreme Court. Our strategic alliance with RPLG positions RPPG to tap the law group's seasoned legal expertise to enhance RPPG's advocacy efforts and further the best interests of California cities."
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Joanne "Jo" Pavey, née Davis le  à Honiton (comté du Devon), est une athlète britannique, spécialiste des courses de demi-fond et de fond.

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Elle a été championne d'Europe du 10 000m en 2014 à l'âge de 40 ans, ce qui fait d'elle l'athlète la plus âgée à remporter ce titre. Elle a participé cinq fois aux Jeux Olympiques entre 2000 et 2016.

En 2016, Jo Pavey récupère sur tapis vert la médaille de bronze des mondiaux de 2007. L'IAAF annonce le  qu'une cérémonie pour remettre la médaille aura lieu le  pendant les Championnats du monde de Londres.

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Community Healthcare Trust Incorporated (the "Company") is a real estate investment trust that focuses on owning income-producing real estate properties associated primarily with the delivery of outpatient healthcare services in our target sub-markets throughout the United States.
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Dr A Shaikhiev
Position: Marie Curie Fellow
Projects: NA62
Room: West 213
Artur has participated in three projects: NA62 (CERN, Switzerland), T2K (J-PARC, Japan) and BNL-E949 (USA).
He obtained his Masters degree at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 2008. His thesis was devoted to a feasibility study of a heavy neutrino production search in kaon decays using BNL- E949 data. He also worked on R&D and construction of the Side Muon Range Detector (SMRD) for the T2K experiment: studied the physical properties of the prototype (light yield, space/time resolution) and was responsible for the quality of the produced SMRD counters. The detector is designed to improve the neutrino energy spectrum measurement, to identify background and to calibrate the other detectors. Artur received an Institute for Nuclear Research Young Scientist Award (2010) for this work. His PhD degree was obtained at the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INR Moscow, Russia) in 2015. The PhD thesis is focused on the search for heavy neutrino production in the K+ -> mu+ N decay using BNL- E949 experimental data (USA). The resulting world-best upper limit is very useful for theoreticians to constrain parameters in extensions of the Standard Model (SM). The result was published in Phys.Rev.D 91 (2015) 5, 052001 before his thesis submission and presented at several international conferences.
The study performed for Artur's PhD degree was extended to search for the multibody decay K+ -> mu+ X, where X is a set of invisible neutral particles (2 and more). This study motivated an update of the branching ratio calculation for the K+ → l+ nu nu nu, (l = e, mu) decay within the SM framework in collaboration with the INR theoretical department. The final experimental result is presented in such a way as to allow calculation of rates for any assumed muon spectrum. This feature is useful for New Physics models.
At the end of 2015 Artur initiated a search for heavy neutrino decays within the T2K experiment. The result was published in Phys.Rev.D100 (2019) 5, 052006. In September 2015 he joined the NA62 collaboration and became one of the key experts of the NA62MC software package used for simulation. He also performed a feasibility study to search for the very rare SM decay K+ -> l+ nu nu nu (l = e, mu). It was shown that NA62 has the potential to improve on the current limit in the positron mode by an order of magnitude.
In 2018 Artur moved to a post-doctoral position at Université catholique de Louvain (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium). The method to search for the very rare SM decay K+ -> e+ nu nu nu was developed in detail. Artur also proposed and developed a test-bench system to generate special Monte Carlo samples using the UCL (Belgium) computing cluster, and he is currently responsible for the operation of the system. This facility has proved to be instrumental for the development of the NA62 simulation and reconstruction software.
Artur was awarded the Albert Tavkhelidze prize by the Institute for Nuclear Research (2018), and a prestigious Moscow Government Young Scientist Prize (2019) for his research into heavy neutral lepton production and decays in kaon and neutrino experiments. He also served as a member of the Local Organizing Committee for the International Conference on New Photo-detectors (PD15), obtaining experience in workshop organization.
As a Marie Curie fellow in Birmingham, Artur plans to perform a K+ -> pi+ gamma gamma measurement to a record 3% precision, providing an important test of low-energy QCD.


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Q: Find the volume common to the surfaces $y^2+z^2=4ax$ and $x^2+y^2=2ax$
Find the volume common to the surfaces $y^2+z^2=4ax$ and $x^2+y^2=2ax$

I set up the following integral :
$$\iiint_{z=-\sqrt{4ax-y^2}}^{\sqrt{4ax-y^2}}\,dz\,dy\,dx = 2\cdot \int_{x=0}^{2a} \int_{y=-\sqrt{2ax-x^2}}^{\sqrt{2ax-x^2}} \sqrt{4ax-y^2}\,dy\,dx$$
Which is not easy to integrate.
If I use polar coordinates the integration becomes
$$2\cdot \int_{\theta=-\pi/2}^{\pi/2} \int_{r=0}^{2a\cos(\theta)} \sqrt{4ar\cos(\theta)-r^2\sin^2(\theta)} \cdot r\,dr\,d\theta$$
Which is again difficult


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Mohammad Eid al-Bishi (né le ) est un footballeur saoudien.

Bien qu'il ne compte aucune sélection en équipe nationale, il a participé à la Coupe du monde 2006 à la suite de la blessure de Mohammad Al-Anbar à l'entraînement.

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BISMARCK, N.D., Jan. 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- MDU Resources Group, Inc. (NYSE: MDU) announced today that subsidiary WBI Energy, Inc. plans to construct approximately 67 miles of new pipeline, compression and ancillary facilities to transport natural gas from core Bakken production areas in western North Dakota to an interconnection point with Northern Border Pipeline. This North Bakken Expansion Project, as designed, would provide 200 million cubic feet per day of natural gas transportation capacity.
Dependent on regulatory and environmental permitting and finalization of transportation agreements with customers, construction on the project is expected to begin in early 2021 and be completed late that year.
WBI Energy held an open season, soliciting customer interest in capacity on the North Bakken Expansion Project, that resulted in long-term transportation commitments from natural gas production, gathering and processing companies.
"We are excited to grow our pipeline system to meet the natural gas transportation needs in the Bakken region," said Trevor J. Hastings, president and CEO of WBI Energy. "We are working with our customers to meet these needs as the industry focuses on reducing natural gas flaring while growing production volumes."
The estimated cost to build the designed 20-inch diameter pipeline and two associated compressor facilities is $220 million. The project is expected to start near Tioga, North Dakota, and extend to a new connection with Northern Border Pipeline in McKenzie County, North Dakota.
WBI Energy plans to utilize the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's National Environmental Policy Act pre-filing process for the North Bakken Expansion Project and will begin that process by late in the first quarter of 2019. The final project design, route and cost will be based on customer demand and final agreements, as well as the engagement of other project stakeholders through the pre-filing process. If warranted by customer demand, the project could be expanded to provide transportation capacity of up to 375 million cubic feet per day.
WBI Energy, Inc. provides natural gas transportation, underground storage and gathering services through regulated and nonregulated pipeline systems primarily in the Rocky Mountain and northern Great Plains regions of the United States. It also provides cathodic protection and other energy-related services. WBI Energy is an indirect subsidiary of MDU Resources. For more information about WBI Energy, visit the company's website at www.wbienergy.com.
The information in this release includes certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The forward-looking statements contained in this release, including statements made by the CEO of WBI Energy and statements relating to plans and expectations regarding the North Bakken Expansion Project, are expressed in good faith and are believed by the company to have a reasonable basis. Nonetheless, actual results may differ materially from the projected results expressed in the forward-looking statements. For a discussion of important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements, refer to Item 1A-Risk Factors in MDU Resources' most recent Form 10-Q and 10-K.