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TALLINN (Reuters) – Estonia’s police and prosecutor have launched a separate criminal investigation of Swedbank (ST:) over alleged money laundering in 2011-2017, the state prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday.
“Based on the current information Estonia was possibly used as a transit country in a money laundering scheme,” it said in a statement.
Estonia has earlier said its investigation of Swedbank activities were part of an investigation into Danske Bank money laundering in Estonia.
Swedbank was not immediately available to comment.
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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
—Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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I Surrender By Jazzy J
Jazzy J – I surrender feat. Gouti [FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD]
Jazzy J; UK based song diva, singer, instrumentalist and philanthropist; drops yet another awe-inspiring and she calls this one – I Surrender and features ace vocalist – Gouti On Duty produced by H Cahsem.
I surrender is a track that evokes so much emotion and inspiration as it sets the tone for worshiping the Almighty God; the song tells the story of God’s divine grace and towering love over his children.
It takes the listener through the beautiful labyrinth and straight to the presence of God in a manner quite catchy and reminiscent of God’s regal nature and power.
The track resumes over a slow but catchy tone, with the duo of Jazzy J and Gouti syncing so perfectly well, lending both their sonorous voices while doing their part in a duet that rocks!
Jazzy J once again shows that she’s ready to take the industry by storm , and this new effort will definitely place her amongst gospel music royalty and most importantly serve as a tool to win more souls for God.
This song comes on the heels of her recently released hot and popping debut single “Nara Ekele”
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I Surrender By Jazzy J feat. Gouti
Lyrics: I Surrender By Jazzy J feat. Gouti
All to you I Surrender yeah Yeah.
(When you know the Lord your God, you’ll surrender all to him, like this).
I put it all down on the cross,
I lay it all down on your feet,
I put it all down on the cross, saying, I surrender (2ce).
Gouti: I Surrender (3ce) Lord I give it all to You (2ce).
So many times you saved my life,
You didn’t let me drown,
your mercy flows so evidently in my life O Lord.
You pulled me out the dark,
now I can see you are the light,
and I realize you are, the way , the truth, the light.
So with all my strenght, I want to worship you.
With everything I have, I give it all to You.
I lay down my plans to embrace your own
I give you my hands hold me and don’t let go
All I have you gave to me
So I live I live for you
Lord my heart I give to you
Do with me what you will
Cause me no fit live without
Your love my God Me no fit live without
Your grace oh Lord eh
My Lord I surrender

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When it comes to ballistic missile capabilities, official US intelligence comments about North Korea tend to be fairly bland.
“North Korea continues to pursue the development, production and deployment of ballistic missiles with increasing range and sophistication,” judges a 2012 unclassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to Congress on threatening technology developments, for instance.
Yet sometimes top officials sound more concerned in their public statements. In January, a few weeks after North Korea had successfully placed a satellite in orbit with the Unha-3 space-launch variant of its longest-range missile, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told American troops, “North Korea just fired a missile. It’s an intercontinental ballistic missile, for God sakes. That means they have the capability to strike the United States.”
Secretary Panetta’s predecessor, Robert Gates, before he left office, warned that North Korea would have missiles capable of reaching the continental US by 2015 or 2016. US officials have also talked about a new, road-mobile North Korean missile that may or may not have intercontinental capabilities.
In theory, a ballistic missile based on the Unha rocket would be able to deliver a nuclear warhead-sized payload as far as Alaska, Hawaii, or part of the Lower 48, according to an analysis from the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California.


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With all the effort that people put into their lower receivers, it’s sometimes easy for them to neglect their upper receiver, but that is just as important as the lower, and if you are customising your AR, here is plenty to think about in this area too.
Many consider the lower receiver to be the really important part of the gun because it is the basis of all the other parts – including the upper receiver - to fit onto. It is, quite literally, the centrepiece of the puzzle. But the AR construction is complex, and while pieces might attach to the lower, other parts go on to fit to those too. Make no mistake, the lower is pretty useless without the upper, or indeed, any other part.
Like the Lower, the upper receiver is available in a range of materials and forms. Like lowers, these ‘raw’ forms are forged, billet, or machined material, all of which will have some impact on your final rifle, and will be deciding factors in other areas of your rifle, such a caliber and potential fire rate. Looking to making a rife with a big caliber? Then you are going to want the extra strength and security of the forged material, and accept the price hike that your going to have to shoulder. Building something with a smaller caliber but a pretty high rate of fire?
Then look to the billet-based upper; it’ll cost you less, but will have sufficient inherent strength to breeze through magazines of rounds. If its your first AR build, you might want to play it safe and go for the cheaper option of machined material, just until you have found your customizing feet. Then you can start to think about how much work you want to be doing on your upper.
While your upper is going to connect with your lower to form the main part of your AR rifle, they are available in a number of variations of the basic theme, each needing different levels of added parts (and extra cost) to compete them. These are:
Stripped Upper. Basically, this is just the fully-machined lump of forged, billet, or machined material that goes on to form the upper. Many other parts will need to be added to complete it and make it into the usable assembly.
Assembled Upper. This form comes complete with all relevant parts such the ejection-port door and the forward assist installed. You will still need to buy and add many other parts to make it a usable part of the weapon, but it is a convenient sub-assembly to have around.
Barrelled Upper. This includes the upper receiver barrel, handguard, gas block, and gas tube fitted into place. Barrelled uppers generally don’t include the bolt carrier group or the charging handle. One again, a useful sub-assembly that is convenient to buy as a single assembly.
Complete Upper. This assembly contains all parts discussed as well as the bolt carrier group and the charging handle and is essentially ready to go straight onto the lower receiver to form the finished gun. Many complete uppers may be supplied with ancillary items such as iron sights too. You may be paying more for it, but you have a sub-assembly that can be fitted straight onto your lower receiver and used almost straight away.
What is the best for your build? Like the lower, it depends upon your intended usage. Large calibres and high fire rates may dictate a forged upper, while more casual usage would point to a cheaper, though less rigid, machined upper assembly. Choice constraints are usually price and applied stress.
People may go on about how the lower receiver is the heart of the gun, and all other bits are useless without it. But, in reality, it is no more important than any other piece in this complex upper-receiver assembly that hurls bullets hundreds of yards with accuracy and venom!
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British politicians criticized President TrumpDonald TrumpOhio Republican who voted to impeach Trump says he won't seek reelection Youngkin breaks with Trump on whether Democrats will cheat in the Virginia governor's race Trump endorses challenger in Michigan AG race MORE's upcoming visit to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day.
The leader of the Portsmouth City Council, Gerald Vernon-Jackson, said Trump's visit would hurt the event.
"His visit has changed things dramatically for D-Day 75 and has ruined things for the people of Portsmouth," he said, according to local newspaper The News. "We made a conscious decision not to invite him. We thought about inviting all the heads of state of Allied nations but decided against it."
"Now Downing Street have gone over our head," he added. "It will bring protests to Portsmouth because of Trump. That will change things for the worse."
Vernon-Jackson also said that he did not believe Trump had "learnt the lessons" of World War II, especially about the importance of working with other countries for defense and respecting human rights to prevent genocides, according to the Evening Standard.
He also appeared to criticize the move on Twitter.
The D Day 75 commemoration we have planned was with the veterans meeting the Queen, probably for the last time. Now with Donald Trump coming this will become a day of controversy not commemoration, and an event open to everyone in Portsmouth will now have huge security barriers.— Gerald VernonJackson (@geraldvjuk) April 23, 2019
A Portsmouth South member of Parliament also lamented the money the government would spend on Trump's visit.
"His last visit cost 18 million pounds in additional policing costs and sucked vital resources from our nation's communities, it caused widespread protests and was a catalyst for division across our country," said Stephen Morgan, according to the Evening Standard.
"I find it deeply saddening that the Government can't find money for our brave veterans, but it can find money to give Mr. Trump a state ceremony," he added.
The White House announced on Tuesday that Trump will visit the United Kingdom in June. He is expected to participate in the D-Day anniversary ceremonies in Portsmouth commemorating the Allies' invasion of Europe during World War II.

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Imagine a government that says we should use taxpayers dollars to ensure small businesses hire immigrants over Canadian citizens.
Actually, in Justin Trudeau’s Canada you don’t have to imagine that.
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A government report, one originating from the prime minister’s own department, is calling for government grants to be used to incentivitize small businesses to hire immigrants.
A policy paper called “Feminist Government” calls for small and medium-sized businesses to partner with government to help immigrants get a job using what they call a “Social Impact Bond.” The idea comes from a division of the Privy Council Office, which reports directly to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Unlike other job grant programs, this one seeks to have small and medium-sized businesses become social service agencies that work with government in a very complex scheme. The proposal includes using money to make sure immigrants, especially immigrant women, not only get their first job but are promoted, or as the report says, experience “job laddering.”
“Under the Social Impact Bond model, the government and employers, with input from stakeholders including job agencies, would first agree on the specifics of what a successful outcome for an ‘initial hire’ or ‘job laddering’ would look like,” the report reads.
“A monetary value would be assigned to each outcome, to be paid to the employer on completion, and a third-party evaluator would monitor the number of successful outcomes.”
Okay, let’s unpack that from bureacratese.
Canadian taxpayers would pay Canadian employers to give special treatment in hiring immigrants for their first job. Then if the business promoted those people, they would be paid special incentives.
All the while, the employers would have to work with government bureaucrats, job agencies and third-party evaluators to make sure they met plans dreamed up at the highest levels of the civil service. Meaning people that have no idea what it is like to run a small business.
Welcome to Justin Trudeau’s Canada.
The report was issued earlier this year and sat unnoticed in a dark corner of the Government of Canada website until uncovered by Tom Korski, a journalist with Blacklock’s Reporter.
“They say this is not government policy, merely a proposal,” Korski said. “But the fact is, it was written by government employees and they published it as a proposal. And the proposal was exactly that, to reward small business by giving them a financial incentive to hire an immigrant over a Canadian single mom, college kid, someone looking for a second job.”
I get the importance of making sure immigrants are successful in Canada and getting that first job is important. I’m the son of immigrants that grew up in a mostly immigrant neighbourhood.
Still, this proposal stinks.
It might be in keeping with this government’s views though. They seem to fetishize immigrants, view them as more deserving than Canadians that are already here.
Earlier this year, Trudeau’s Veterans Affairs Minister Seamus O’Reagan tweeted we needed more immigrants because immigrants were better at starting businesses and hiring people that Canadian-born residents.
The numbers didn’t fully back him up on that but he put it out there in the middle of a debate.
We have “progressive”-minded governments across Canada, at the federal and provincial level that have made it harder for employers to give anyone an entry-level job.
From boosting minimum wages, soon doubling the Canada Pension Plan contributions of employers, increasing personal days and the regulatory burden of hiring anyone … and the government response … give a subsidy.
But only to hire and promote immigrants.
The Trudeau Liberals keep warning about “divisive politics.” Well let me warn them, this is a divisive idea.
Small and medium-sized businesses don’t need to be co-opted into becoming social agencies of government.
Give them a break.
Make it easier for them to hire anyone, including immigrants, and this policy problem will solve itself.
Go forward with this idea and Canadians will become resentful about the special treatment.


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Sarah M. Sweet1
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- Descendants of Enoch Sweet
Sarah M. Sweet was born on 5 Oct 1864 in Wisconsin.1,2
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- William A. Sweet pension application file, #352045, cert. 267,182; Federal Pension and Bounty Land Warrant applications, Civil War and Later; Box 36648 (NARA: Washington, D.C.), Declaration for Original Pension of a Widow submitted by Cordelia A. Sweet dated 8 March 1886..
- William Sweet household, 1880 United States Census, Wisconsin, Manitowoc County, Eaton, SD 4, ED 63, p. 31 (stamped p. 75), dw/fam 222. NARA. T9.

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For the first time in nine years I was able to go swimsuit and bra shopping without tears. I feel like me again. I am able to look at myself and see my breast instead of just seeing the scars.
The experience was easy and worry free. Staff was very kind.
Very good outcome. Scarring is minimal. Everyone at the office is always friendly and professional.
Great quality of care from hospital staff and Dr. Lee. The physical outcome is just how I imagined. My pain was minimal and did not require use of the prescribed pain medication.
Surgeon was able to complete reconstruction the same day as masectomy making my recovery time much faster.
Dr. Romanelli was very informative and patient. He and his staff were compassionate and understanding. I have no complaints and was very satisfied with the care and results I got from this practice.
[Highly satisfied with] My care, the staff, Dr. Wall Jr. is absolutely caring, personable doctor. Basically my breast totally were a mess from an accident, and he was wonderful!!! I was never allowed to be anxious or fearful, my care was beyond a blessing.
It's not at all that I'm Unsatisfied, I'm just still in the process and cannot really say at this point. I LOVE Dr. Bajaj and her staff....they are amazing! My journey has not gone as planned, but they have made it as easy and comfortable as humanly possible.
Dr. Romanelli and his staff are professional and caring...They're there to answer questions and made me feel completely at ease and confident with my breast reconstruction from a bilateral mastectomy...he actually reconstructed a prior construction that was botched....I wish I'd known that he did breast cancer patients sooner as I thought he was strictly cosmetic....What an amazing experience I had and am thrilled with the results...
Procedure went well. [Single best thing is...] Went well and safe
Had a bilateral mastectomy with implants and I am very satisfied with the out come. Both Dr. Layliev and Dr. Romanelli were actively involved in my surgery and after care. I highly recommend both surgeons. I had no issues whatsoever.
Dr. Symbas and his staff were amazing - as are my results. I had breast reconstruction, and a fat transfer with lipo.
Dr. Berardi does the best work. My reconstruction is PERFECT! Dr. Berardi is very [thorough] and he's a perfectionist! Everyone treated me very well!
The entire team, from the second I made my first inquiry about my surgery was absolutely wonderful. Every person I encountered treated me with the type of care you would receive from family. Every step of my process was smooth, relaxed and effortless. I felt calm and fully trusted the staff. My results were magnificent and I would absolutely go back again for other procedures and recommend them to anyone looking for the best care and professional work possible.
The bilateral reconstruction that Dr. Berardi preformed is life changing for me. I had had a very poor first reconstruction and was not only left a very unsightly result, I had pain in areas that never resolved after many years. I am now completely whole and absolutely pain free. Everyone involved in the clinic was outstanding. Dr. Berardi is very humble and kind, he made the entire process very easy.
Dr Berardi & team are AMAZING !! very detailed & professional. They welcome you as though you are family . The care you receive is unbelievable they go above & beyond to make sure you are comfortable throughout your whole process. I would highly recommend Dr Berardi & his practice. The treatment results are truly amazing - It was all a very pleasant experience considering the circumstances - Thank You Dr Berardi !! & staff.
This is the first time I've felt this good after reconstruction surgery. I had very little pain after this surgery.
From the impressive attention to detail, customer service and patient care, every employee handled themselves with the utmost professionalism.
Dr. Sherick always made me feel that not only did he listen but truly understood what I was going through. [Single best thing is...] That definitely would be taking off the bandages. I was so ready to be upset by what I saw. I was so happy that no words can convey that feeling of complete relief.

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Stanley Druckenmiller said Tuesday he believes a bubble has developed across a range of assets, although he remains long the equity market.
"I have no doubt, none whatsoever, that we are in a raging mania in all assets. I also have no doubt that I don't have a clue when that's going to end," the billionaire investor said on CNBC's "Squawk Box."
The CEO of the Duquesne Family Office told CNBC on Sept. 9 that he felt the market was "in an absolute raging mania." The S&P 500 has advanced around 23% from the close on that day to Monday's close of 4,188.43.
"We are still long the stock market," Druckenmiller said Tuesday. "We're not as long, nearly as long, as we were four or five months ago. We're still playing the game. We've shifted a lot of our relative bets into commodities, into interest rates, into the dollar."

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Do you like melodic Punkrock and offbeats played in a latin way? And do you think that the wind section is sometimes a bit too much in ska-punk? Then you will love these four songs by these three comrades from Paris. Political lyrics, of course.
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Folks in the U.S. tend to be annoyed by the truth that Justin Bieber isn’t being deported. This is uncovered in a poll, carried out by Meetville.com (dating software to find the right person) between 7/3/14 and 9/10/14.
Citizens were asked to react toward concern: “if the U.S. deport Justin Bieber?” 59percent bulk agreed your young singer should keep the united states.
Men and women accuse government entities of special treatment to the vocalist, because they claim within their petition average immigrants have been deported for criminal activities much less really serious as encountered by Bieber. The federal government taken care of immediately the petition: “we will leave it to other individuals to touch upon Mr.Bieber’s instance, but we’re grateful you value immigration dilemmas. Because the recent system is busted.”
From 109,772 individuals on the poll 54percent happened to be from the USA. But the subject started discussion in other countries nicely. 4per cent of individuals from Canada support the position of this U.S. people, 12per cent â from Britain, 7% â from Australia and 23% â from other nations.
Alex Cusper, Meetville solution analyst, reviews that “Many people in other countries show the viewpoint of all Americans because they believe the reckless child is not only threatening the security regarding the culture but he is additionally an awful influence on the youthfulness.”
Meetville, a number one mobile dating service, frequently conducts study among its people. Thousands of people from U.S., Canada, Britain and Australia answer a huge selection of concerns every month. You might get the outcome of the poll right here. If you’re interested in analysis on a certain topic, be sure to contact us. Any reprint regarding the content should-be accompanied by clickable links towards the survey.


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Background: Patient navigation for breast cancer seeks to diminish social, economic, cultural and medical system barriers to timely quality care. In the context of unmet patient needs, growing complexity of health care delivery systems, and significant local implementation challenges, patient navigation models must continue to evolve in order to advance context-appropriate implementation and sustainment of patient navigation into routine practice. We present five case studies in Chicago demonstrating evolving patient navigation models and in each case study, we explore challenges and opportunities related to advancing successful implementation of patient navigation interventions across the breast cancer care continuum.
Methods: Case studies include: (1) a community-level adaptation of patient navigation in Chicago's Chinatown; (2) a community navigation program in Chicago's racially/ethnically diverse North Lawndale and Humboldt Park; (3) a county-wide dissemination of navigation in suburban DuPage County; (4) a state-wide scaling of a patient navigation model to the Illinois Department of Health and Family Services; and (5) a 4R patient navigation oncology model (4R = Right Information / Care / Patient / Time) grounded in systems engineering and design that leverages collaborative care plans and iterative examination and improvement of processes to address challenges of breast cancer care planning, team-based delivery and patient engagement.
Results: Case studies in the evolution of patient navigation research programs show how identified gaps in care were remedied pragmatically in the course of each study. We show how patient navigation implementation efforts have been aided with evolving models incorporating the local implementation context, characteristics of program implementers, and structural, macro-level factors involving care delivery systems and public policy. Results highlight approaches for supporting organizational learning to enhance implementation and sustainability of navigation interventions; for furthering task clarification and coordination to optimize integration of patient navigation into cancer care delivery settings; and for tackling the impact of existing local, state, and national policy initiatives on patient navigation.
Conclusions: Reducing breast cancer burden, especially among underserved populations, warrants adaptive, ongoing improvement of patient navigation models. Through iterative intervention development, evaluation, and refinement, patient navigation can move beyond serving as a temporary bandage for health systems fragmentation and toward an essential role in systems change for optimizing cancer care delivery.
Citation Format: Melissa A. Simon, Laura S. Tom, Julia R. Trosman, Christine B. Weldon, Catherine A. O'Brian, Marcie C. Kirschner, XinQi Dong. The evolution of patient navigation research models to reduce breast cancer disparities: Case studies of patient navigation dissemination and implementation in Chicago [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2018; 2018 Apr 14-18; Chicago, IL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2018;78(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 1637.


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In the last several decades, it has been extensively studied how strategic behavior of economic agents could affect the outcomes of various institutions. Game theory and mechanism design theory play key roles in understanding economic agents' possible behavior in those institutions, its welfare consequences, and how we should design economic institutions to achieve desired social objectives even if the agents behave strategically for their own interests.
However, existing studies mostly focus on somewhat narrow classes of economic environments by imposing restrictive assumptions. The proposed projects aim at providing novel theoretical frameworks which enable us to study agents' behavior and desirable institutions under much less assumptions. I believe that the projects have significant relevance in policy recommendation in practice and empirical studies, even though the proposed projects are primarily theoretical.
In mechanism design, most papers in the literature focus on environments with independently distributed private information. We propose two novel (robustness-based) approaches to analyze mechanism design in correlated environments, motivated by their practical and empirical relevance. The robustness brought by my approach can be useful to mitigate certain types of misspecifications. Moreover, the desirable robust mechanisms I obtain appear to be more sensible, and hence, can be useful for some empirical studies of auction and other mechanism design problems.
In game theory, it is often assumed that the game the players play is common knowledge, or even if there is uncertainty, uncertain variables are assumed to follow a common-knowledge prior .However, in many situations in reality, those assumptions do not seem to be satisfied. One of the objectives is to provide a novel theoretical framework to predict players' behavior in such incompletely specified games. Also, we aim at identifying the conditions for (monotone) comparative statics in such situations.
Project date: 2016 – 2021
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There’s a terrible resonance to the story of a young woman who stands alone against an oppressive government. Shotgun Players’ Antigonick is the third bold new interpretation of Sophocles’ ancient tragedy Antigone to be produced by a Bay Area theater in the last couple of months; African-American Shakespeare Company’s Xtigone and the Cutting Ball Theater’s Antigone both premiered in February. For anyone lucky enough to catch all three, there’s been nothing repetitive about the experience. The bones of the story are the same, but the meat of each has a drastically different flavor.
Antigone, a princess of Thebes, is the daughter of king Oedipus. During a civil war that starts after the king's death, his two sons, Antigone's brothers, kill one another. The new king, her uncle Kreon, decrees that one brother be buried with honor and the other be left to rot as a traitor. Antigone defies this law and buries her brother, and both she and the king must pay the price for their stubbornness.
Antigonick is a startling reinvention of the classic story and a marvelous kick-off to Shotgun's 2015 season made up of plays by women playwrights. Canadian poet and classics scholar Anne Carson (a MacArthur “genius” grantee) calls her play a translation of Sophocles’ original, but she's "translated" with a pretty free hand. Antigone and her sister Ismene discuss Hegel's and Brecht’s interpretations of their story. There’s a lot of discussion of what particular words mean, and one important speech is reduced to a single word. Carson’s language is continually fresh and surprising; the famous “numberless are the world’s wonders” speech becomes, “Many terribly quiet customers exist, but none more terribly quiet than man.” The text is very, very pared down. Even with extended passages of pure movement, Shotgun’s production runs only an hour and 15 minutes.
Antigonick was conceived not as a script to be performed but as an illustrated book, published in 2012 by New Directions. The text is all handwritten in capital letters, often in big blocks of text, with new speakers coming in without a line break. Sometimes there are long stretches of white space on the page, usually in mid-sentence.
Then there are the book’s illustrations by Bianca Stone, which don’t seem to have anything to do with the story and were reportedly inserted between the pages at random by Robert Currie, the book designer and Carson’s husband. The images show people with cinderblock heads, spools of thread, lonesome shacks, surreal landscapes and a lot of horses. (Carson has since followed the book up with a more traditional translation of Antigone that’s currently playing in London and stars Juliette Binoche.)
In short, there’s a lot of interpretation necessary for any director intrepid enough to tackle Antigonick. Shotgun’s production has two co-directors: the always inventive Mark Jackson and choreographer Hope Mohr. Both have intensely physical styles, so it’s no surprise that their staging takes the form of a spellbinding piece of dance theater.
What is surprising, and initially jarring, is how literally the directors have translated the book and its layout. The dense blocks of dialogue are recited quickly, almost robotically, with performers staring straight ahead with impassive expressions on their faces instead of looking at each other. The large stretches of white space on the page become very long pauses in unexpected, eerily unnatural places in the middle of sentences. That all takes some getting used to, especially for the majority of audience members who haven’t seen the book and don’t know where the pauses are coming from. (A few sample pages and illustrations do hang in the corridor on the way into the theater.)
Stone’s surreal illustrations, on the other hand, find their way into the staging only in subtle ways. Occasionally her artwork is echoed in the stance of a character, but not in the costumes or scenery. Nina Ball’s elegantly simple set consists of a bare blond wood floor that slopes to become the back wall. The only obvious nod to Stone’s imagery is a roughly life-size horse hanging upside-down above the stage on a rope, never to be acknowledged in the course of the play.
This version of the Antigone story adds one new character: Nick. Carson mentions him only twice in her text and tells us nothing about him except that he’s a silent character who’s always onstage “measuring things.” Why Nick? Well, there’s a lot of talk in this adaptation about “the nick of time” and what that phrase means, so perhaps Nick represents the passage of time.
Shotgun’s Nick is Parker Murphy, a silent, omnipresent dancer who doesn’t appear to be measuring things in any literal sense. He’s always watching, often mirroring characters’ movements and occasionally giving them a helping hand.
Rami Margron makes a riveting Antigone. Impassive and soldierly when she speaks but in her dancing jerky, writhing and staggering. Her opening dialogue with Monique Jenkinson as her concerned sister, Ismene, is first barked out quickly in a steady stream of verbiage, then repeated from the top more slowly and comprehensibly, though still in a manner that's far from naturalistic. Their synchronized, abstract movements eventually become a frenzied game of hopscotch under the oppressive, ominous music pervading Theodore J.H. Hulsker’s sound design. Margron is also compelling as the scolding blind prophet, Tiresias.
Kevin Clarke’s Kreon is anxious and unsteady, reciting his lists of words for today as if giving himself a pep talk: "Here are Kreon's nouns: reason, treason, death, ship of state, mine." As the Greek chorus commenting on the action, David Sinaiko is both melancholy and sardonic, mocking the foolishness taking place before him while bemoaning the consequences. Kenny Toll does triple duty as a nervous, nebbishy guard, a grim messenger and a furious Haimon, Kreon’s son, who’s also Antigone’s fiancé.
In Sophocles’ play, the character of Kreon’s wife, Eurydike, seems almost like an afterthought. She shows up only at the very end to deliver a single speech, bewailing a death and deepening the tragedy. In Antigonick this scene becomes truly unforgettable. Jenkinson emerges in darkness as the shellshocked Eurydike, delivering her speech in the harsh light of a camcorder, her face projected behind her. Then she does a jaw-dropping dance of despair--clothes flying, spittle hanging from her mouth, almost like a seizure. It’s devastating.
Jackson and Mohr’s production is full of these magical moments. People throw themselves at the rear wall, striving to climb it, only to tumble down again and again. Sometimes an important speech will be repeated twice, spoken the first time by an individual and then echoed in song by the ensemble. Like the long pauses and the stylized movements, much of it may be puzzling on a literal level, but what’s remarkable is how well it all works on a visceral one. If we learn nothing else from Antigone, it’s that sometimes you have to break all the rules to do what feels right, and this Antigonick does that magnificently.
Antigonick runs through April 25, 2015 at Ashby Stage in Berkeley. For tickets and information visit shotgunplayers.org.


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Risotto is a tough dish to perfect, but if you’re vegan or cooking for someone who is, things get even more complicated. Fortunately, you can whip up some delicious, savory risotto by substituting miso paste for Parmesan cheese.
Parmesan (and sometimes mozzarella) cheese is a primary ingredient for most risotto’s, but J. Kenji López-Alt has an easy workaround for a more savory dish that’s also 100% vegan-friendly. Instead of throwing in a few tablespoons of grated cheese, heft in about a quarter cup of miso paste. Of course, you don’t have to be vegan to follow López-Alt’s recommendation. This preparation method is sure to be pleasing to almost anyone’s palette. You can find a complete recipe at the link below.
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Veganism: It’s Not Just a Animal Rights Issue
Even if you do not care about animals these are statistics we cannot ignore. As the impacts of climate change start to really kick in, land available for agriculture and water become even scarcer than they are now. As we increase the populations of our own species and the animals we eat, we consume resources faster than they can be replaced. We destroy habits for countless species.
Our extraordinary little planet has had mass extinctions in the past. Why are we so hell bent on going there again?
If we could just stop and do things differently, we could feed everybody, and our grandchildren would not have to live through the ecological nightmare that will be their inheritance.
Now, is the time we need to stop and rethink – Right Now!
Please read this important statement:
“We could feed the world by shifting to a vegan diet.”
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SAN DIEGO—When Carlsbad Kickboxing Club, a local boutique gym in Southern California headed by US veteran Rolando Montana, had to close its doors last month it knew there was grim times ahead. Many of its members froze their monthly payments as they hunkered at home and in some cases, lost their jobs. And of course, the rent was due. Montana has received a few months forbearance from his two landlords, but he acknowledges that he won’t be able to last more than a five months without paying customers.
Still, the gym is trying its best to stay afloat. It is connecting with its current members, putting together online classes for those that want to practice their moves at home. The company has even loaned out its gym equipment free of charge, including bags, mitts and gloves, to the members who continue to support it.
But will it be enough? Montano remains optimistic while doing his best to adapt. “I can only hope that this setback will make the gym stronger,” he tells GlobeSt.com.
The gym, like so many mom-and-pop retail establishments, launched with a compelling story. Montano was working, training a few kids and wanted to give them a place to work out. The gym opened in 2014 in a north Carlsbad, CA center taking approximately 6,000 square feet of space. The kids’ program was its foundation and the first muay thai offering in the area. The gym took off from there and last year it expanded with adult programs and into space next door, bringing its total square footage to 10,000 square feet.
Before March, things were looking good for the small business. “While learning this new normal has certainly not been a smooth process, we are adapting,” Montano says, “and we have to for our members.”
Carlsbad Kickboxing Club is representative of the struggles so many mom-and-pop retailers are undergoing as they try to survive the coronavirus. With brick-and-mortar stores all but empty across the country, they are turning to such strategies as digital offerings and, in the case of restaurants, delivery and pick up. For many, these strategies do not come close to meeting their pre-COVID-19 cash flows, but they may just be enough to eek by until the pandemic ends. A key part of their survival strategy has been to negotiate rent relief with landlords, many of which are willing to meet them part way as they seek to keep their centers filled.
This new normal is all but unrecognizable from the situation just a few months ago. Some fundamental truths remain though. “Retailers navigate either through e-commerce, brick-and-mortar, or a hybrid of the two.” That is according to Steve Niggeman, executive VP at Metro Commercial, who GlobeSt.com interviewed in early March leading up to what we thought would be extensive retail coverage from ICSC’s national RECON event in Las Vegas. (The national retail event has since been canceled). Although meant for an entirely different context, that statement could not be more true for today.
He also said that to be ahead of the game, retailers must execute on creative, out-of-the-box ideas to set themselves apart from competition in the market. Another pre-coronavirus statement that rings evermore true for the current situation. “As we all know, the retail industry is fluid and often goes through transitions and cycles. As a result, we have to keep our eye on what’s trending and how the key players are reacting,” Niggeman said.
Eventually the coronavirus will be brought to heel and commerce will re-emerge and retail will resume its role in the US economy. Reports suggest that Internet-resistant retail like fitness clubs, for example, and wellness categories as well other services will be growth drivers in the coming years. For retailers like Montana, we can only hope that is the case.
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From the depths of the Tiviscan dungeons to the highest peak of Gemspar Mountain, this stunning book reminds us of the soaring joy of adventure, the captivating danger of magic, and of the delight of finding friends in unexpected places.
A decorated former Air Force pilot. A pregnant flight attendant. A dedicated TSA agent. The fates of these three, and many others, converge in Danielle Steel’s gripping new novel—a heart-stopping thriller that engages ordinary men and women in the fight of their lives during a flight from New York to San Francisco.
On a beautiful May morning at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport, two planes have just departed for San Francisco—one a 757, another a smaller Airbus A321. At a security checkpoint, TSA agent Bernice Adams finds a postcard of the Golden Gate Bridge bearing an ambiguous—perhaps ominous—message. Her supervisor dismisses her concerns, but Bernice calls security and soon Ben Waterman arrives. A senior Homeland Security agent, still grappling with guilt after a disastrous operation in which hostages were killed, Ben too becomes suspicious. Who left the postcard behind, which flight is that person on, and what exactly does the message mean?
As Ben scans the passenger manifests, his focus turns to the A321, with Helen Smith as its senior pilot. Helen’s military service and her tenure with the airline have been exemplary. But her husband’s savage death in Iraq was more than anyone should bear, leaving her widowed with three children. A major film star is on board. So is an off-duty pilot who has just lost his forty-year career. So is a distraught father, traveling with the baby son he has abducted from his estranged wife. Sifting through data and relying on instinct, Ben becomes convinced that someone on Helen’s plane is planning something terrible. And he’s right. Passengers, crew, and experts on the ground become heroes out of necessity to try to avert tragedy at the eleventh hour.
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The world’s most beloved detective, Hercule Poirot–the legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and most recently The Monogram Murders and Closed Casket–returns in a stylish, diabolically clever mystery set in the London of 1930.
Returning home from a luncheon, Hercule Poirot is met at his door by an imperious woman who introduces herself as Sylvia Rule. “How dare you? How dare you send me such a letter?” Ignoring his denials, Mrs. Rule insists that she received a missive claiming he had proof she murdered a man named Barnabas Pandy and advising her to confess her crime to the police. Threatening the perplexed Poirot with a lawsuit, she leaves in a huff.
Minutes later, a rather disheveled man named John McCrodden appears. “I got your letter accusing me of the murder of Barnabas Pandy.” Calmly, Poirot again rebuts the charge. Each insisting they are victims of a conspiracy, Mrs. Rule and Mr. McCrodden deny knowing who Pandy is.
The next day, two more strangers proclaim their innocence and provide illuminating details. Miss Annabel Treadway tells Poirot that Barnabas Pandy was her grandfather. But he was not murdered; his death was an accident. Hugo Dockerill also knows of Pandy, and he heard the old man fell asleep in his bath and drowned.
Why did someone send letters in Poirot’s name accusing people of murder? If Pandy’s death was an accident, why charge foul play? It is precisely because he is the great Hercule Poirot that he would never knowingly accuse an innocent person of a crime. Someone is trying to make mischief, and the instigator wants Poirot involved.
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Last week I had noticed a distinct noise while driving the Ford Ranger for deliveries in Athens. Similar to a squeaky belt, but more metallic and harsh, the sound was coming from something that was rotating, but I couldn’t determine where from. I pulled over and called AAA to get a tow back to the house.
Earlier, I has driven a short distance with the parking break engaged, so it was suspected that something in the break assembly had broke. This had potential to lead to the break pads being eroded, and was a major reason why we decided to tow the truck. After removing the break assemblies and determining this wasn’t the cause, Con moved to the differential, which allows the outer wheel to rotate faster than the inner wheel while turning. He had known there was an issue with it for some time. Wear on the end of each axle from the bearings and a soaked left break indicated an oil leak, and the high leakage rate indicated low oil in the differential. After removing the cover of the differential he discovered that it was indeed dry. None of these symptoms, however, indicated the noise I had heard while driving.
After lubricating the axles, axle bearings, and differential, and reassembling them, Con started the Ranger and turned the wheel, only to hear the same problematic noise. With the knowledge that turning the wheel turns the drift shaft, he removed the drive shaft and found that its rear u-joint bearings also had no lubrication. Lo and behold, the source was revealed!
We are currently in the process of ordering new bearing assemblies for the u-joint; the current ones have too much wear from lack of lubrication. We tried and failed to buff out the wear on the bearing housings. If we take away too much metal, the diameter changes and the bearings will not fit snugly inside.
Two important lessons have arisen from this experience, the first being to be attentive to a vehicle while driving, especially if you do not have the skill base to determine if it’s safe to drive with or fix whatever problem may arise. The second lesson is to monitor a situation even if you think you’ve solved the problem. Con could’ve stopped after the differential and not bothered to check on the noise before signing off on the Ranger; but, he was thinking holistically, with foresight, and discovered what is now suspected to be the source of the noise I heard. By monitoring a known symptom, he was able to find its source before any more damage was caused.


One of the things Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate ensures is a series of polling questions over the coming months asking voters what's more important: creating jobs or cutting government spending; helping the economy or cutting deficits; repealing the president's health care law or focusing on the economy.
These questions reflect the way official Washington views the world, but they don't make sense in Mainstream America. In Washington, it's a given that more government spending is needed to help the economy. Most Americans hold the opposite view. So when you ask whether cutting spending or helping the economy is more important, the question doesn't make sense. For most Mainstream voters, one leads to the other.
To gain a sense of how strong this belief is, consider the fact that voters are fairly evenly divided when asked whether they fear the government will do too much or too little to help the economy. At Rasmussen Reports, we asked those who wanted more government intervention what they would like the government to do. Most said cut spending. Overall, 66 percent of voters believe that the best thing the government can do for the economy is to cut spending.
The same dynamic exists when it comes to repeal of the national health care law. Rather than being seen as a diversion from talking about the economy, 43 percent believe repeal would help the economy. Just 27 percent think it would hurt. That's part of the reason most voters consistently support repeal. So, once again, it's not a choice between repealing the health care law and focusing on the economy. They're part of the same plan.
But the gap between the Political Class and Mainstream America doesn't end there. In Washington and on the campaign trail, Ryan is presented as either a serious budget hawk or a budgetary extremist, depending on who's doing the talking. Yet fewer than half the nation's voters believe government spending will go down even if Romney wins and Republicans gain full control of Congress. That was true before Ryan was selected, and it's true after.
So while voters think spending cuts are what the economy needs, they don't expect either team in the presidential race to deliver. The choice is seen by many as between one team that will increase spending and another that will maintain the status quo. It's a reasonable perspective in a nation where total government spending has increased every year since 1954.


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First, a brief digression to mention a very old Roman Catholic document that has virtually no impact on real-life politics, but is cited by “indigenous rights” activists as being historically and morally important. One small group of “indigenous rights” activists worldwide has been trying to persuade the Catholic Church to rescind a papal bull “Inter Caetera” from 1493. That is not a typographical error. The date is 1493, one year after Christopher Columbus “discovered” the “new world.” The question arose, how should the new world be divided up between the naval powers Spain and Portugal so they wouldn’t go to war with each other over jurisdictional claims. The Pope issued an official pronouncement drawing a line on the map to allocate territory between those two nations. The document clearly indicated that white people of the Catholic faith had the right to manage the affairs of the savages and to forcibly convert them to Christianity. The document has never been rescinded, and was used historically as a legal and religious justification for military occupation, political repression, economic exploitation, and brutality toward indigenous peoples. In Hawai’i there was no brutality toward the natives to convert them to Christianity -- the natives eagerly embraced the new religion. Nevertheless, Hawaiian sovereignty activists regard the Papal Bull “Inter Caetera” as a foundation for “white man’s burden” and “manifest destiny” which they claim shaped U.S. policy toward Hawai’i. They say the document afforded moral “cover” to the “military invasion” of 1893, the overthrow of the monarchy by white sugar planters descended from Christian missionaries, and the “forcible” annexation of Hawai’i by a “unilateral” joint resolution of Congress. Accordingly, a small group of ethnic Hawaiians and non-native supporters gather each October (at the time of Columbus Day) in front of the cathedral in downtown Honolulu to ceremonially burn a copy of “Inter Caetera.” See:
There is also an international petition to the Pope to rescind the document:
Hula provides an excellent case study in political conflict over religious differences between Christianity and the old Hawaiian religion. Tourists in Hawai’i often think hula is merely a pleasant, sexually suggestive form of entertainment. If someone tells them there is a hula goddess, the tourists might think it’s a joke, and might respond “Yeah, there sure is; I saw her dancing topless at that nightclub. But in fact there is a hula goddess (Laka), and the hula has been used for sacred worship and religious celebration for perhaps 1600 years in Hawai’i. Hula still is being used that way by some “traditional practitioners” whose authority as kumu hula (hula masters) has been handed down through geneological lines and/or through long years of apprenticeship accompanied by religious ceremonies. Some forms of hula are, indeed, intended for pure entertainment or sexual arousal. Those kinds of hula were done in ancient times as well as at present. But there are also hula so sacred that some masters have died without teaching them to the next generation for fear of making a mistake. There are hula to celebrate political or military victory, or to tell stories about everyday or extraordinary events. Most hula have several layers of meaning. Thus, a hula might seem to be describing a beautiful flower, when at a deeper level it is also describing the love of a parent for his child (the flower of his geneology) or at another level it might additionally be a sexual story about a woman’s genitalia (as the folds and fragrances of a flower). One interesting type of hula is the mele ma’i, which blatantly describes the size, shape, and stamina of a man’s genitals -- but this sort of hula is political and geneological as well as sexual, since the power of the genitalia not only gives pleasure to a woman and a man but also ensures the existence of a future generation through which geneological and political power will be passed. Thus, hula can be great fun, and very exciting; but it is certainly nothing to be laughed at.
Following are excerpts of some newspaper articles describing a theological conflict in the Catholic Church of Hawai’i (and between Hawai’i and Rome) regarding whether hula should be allowed as part of church worship services. Along the way, it turns out that ethnic Hawaiian “traditional practitioners” regard the use of hula in Christian ceremonies to be sacrilegious to the old Hawaiian religion, and they also argue that the incorporation of hula into Christian ceremonies echoes the history of European and American colonialism and “theft” of land and culture in Hawai’i. The question might then be raised, whether hula should be regarded as a type of collective cultural “intellectual property” subject to the rights of indigenous people under “international law.”
Honolulu Star-Bulletin July 9, 1998, excerpts
Dance as an expression of worship has been banned from services in Hawaii Catholic churches and schools in response to a complaint from an island resident. The announcement last month by the diocesan Office of Worship, based on instructions from the Vatican, has brought both pro and con responses from local Catholics, who occasionally may see hula or modern interpretative choreography performed to express a prayer, psalm or song. Hawaii Bishop Francis DiLorenzo will ask for a dispensation from the ban in September during a scheduled visit to Rome, said diocesan spokesman Patrick Downes. He is preparing documents for the Congregation for Divine Worship to clarify the cultural importance of dance here and what use of dance or movement actually involves. Hula was performed during DiLorenzo's installation as bishop in 1994, which was attended by the Vatican ambassador to the United States, he pointed out. It also was included at this year's celebration of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Honolulu diocese. And, he recalled, an island hula halau danced before Pope John Paul II at the 1995 celebration of the beatification of Father Damien DeVeuster in Brussels. Chaminade University's Mystical Rose Chapel is one locale where dance is woven into a reflective song or prayer during Sunday Mass. Marianist Brother Dennis Schmitz is an organizer of the campus' sacred dance organization, which leads the congregation in movement. Several nuns are among its participants. The diocesan memo quoted from a Vatican letter. "There shall be no dance of any kind in the churches of the Diocese of Honolulu, nor any dance during celebration of the Sacred Liturgy, in any circumstances whatsoever," said the letter from Cardinal Jorge Arturo Medina Estevez, the Congregation for Divine Worship prefect.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin December 22, 1998, excerpts
The Honolulu bishop informed Catholic pastors in the state yesterday that hula, or "cultural sacred gestures," would be allowed during Mass as long as they were expressing a form of prayer and not entertainment. Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo sent out the two-page guideline to all parishes in the diocese, said diocese spokesman Patrick Downes. The directive goes in effect Jan. 3. ... the Vatican Congregation for Sacred Worship, the office that sent out the original directive ... told him that bishops had some leeway in incorporating "cultural expressions" into Mass but that they had to set guidelines, Downes said. "Prayer would be praise, petition, thanksgiving, penitence. If these cultural sacred gestures express these things properly and respectfully, the bishop is allowing it in worship in his jurisdiction," Downes said. "The bottom line is that the directive issued by the Vatican is still enforced. Dance as performance or entertainment is not permitted. Cultural expression and sacred gesture as prayer may be incorporated as the situation permits."
Honolulu Star-Bulletin August 14, 1999, excerpts (see photo in original article)
** Note the second half of the article, discussing Hawaiian traditional practitioners' misgivings about Christians stealing Hawaiian culture and twisting it to inappropriate uses.
Cynthia Ah Yo Kupau was 6 when she started hula, and by the time she was in high school, it was
part of her life, including her religion. "For a teen-ager, to read or recite was boring. I thought of dance as my way of expressing how much I loved the Lord," said Kupau, who is now a kumu hula and teacher at Maryknoll High School. That was in the 1970s, after the Second Vatican Council had opened up the format of Catholic worship to allow vernacular language instead of Latin and generated a weaving of ethnic expression into the tapestry of centuries-old tradition in worship all around the globe. "The nuns would come to retreats and show us gestures to go with prayer or hymns. We combined their gestures and hula," Kupau recalled. "When we started youth Masses, we did interpretive dance, maybe a Hawaiian Mass once a month. "The problem was, some people put too much showmanship, too much glamour and glitz. I don't like to see it in church," she said.
Neither did the Vatican. Dance as an expression of worship was banned last year after the complaint of one Maui Catholic reached the Congregation for Divine Worship in Rome. In a resolution reached earlier this year, church authorities recognized that "sacred gesture" is cultural expression for Pacific and Asian people. The Honolulu Diocese acknowledged it as "a form of praying with one's whole being" but set limits on its liturgical use. Dance as entertainment for the congregation is still banned. Hawaiian insight into "sacred gesture" will be discussed at a two-day workshop opening at 5 p.m. Friday at Star of the Sea Church in Waialae-Kahala. Kupau will be a speaker at the annual Hawaiian Arts and Liturgical Inculturation Awareness seminar, which will also explore Hawaiian music in worship and other aspects of Hawaiian culture and spirituality. The goal of the workshop, she said, is to give participants a foundation in the cultural background of sacred gesture, a view of what others are doing and "confidence to resume where they left off." Both Kim and Kupau are aware of the disagreements that exist among Hawaiians, about whether hula should be adapted to nontraditional use, and among Christians, some of whom oppose any deviation from church liturgical tradition, which essentially has European roots. "The first Christians here, the Calvinists, made us feel shame. They believe that the hula is lascivious, it doesn't belong in the house of the Lord." Kim said: "Theology is the explanation of faith coming out of a cultural context. So if you get theology out of Western Europe ... into a Pacific Island culture, it is not going to fully translate." People who think never the twain shall meet might reflect on the fact that "Jesus was born into a cultural context: He was a Semitic Jew, not a European." Kim has discussed liturgical use of hula with purists who object that "Hawaiian culture is being taken out of context. They are afraid that Hawaiian culture is going to be usurped, be taken over by Christianity. A lot of Hawaiians blame Christians for the overthrow of the queen, so for them it is offensive. "Yes, if we are Christian, we only believe in one God," Kim said. "So do I believe in Pele? Not as a goddess. She is an ancestor." A Christian Hawaiian need not discount beliefs in gods and aumakua, he said. "We could look at them, we can see aspects of them in the one true God. "If you get Hawaiians who are traditional, they will tell you they believe in them as gods."
The Honolulu Advertiser, August 4, 2002, excerpts
Hawaiian culture, Christianity still at odds (By Mary Kaye Ritz, Advertiser Religion & Ethics Writer)
The subject has been one for strong debate in recent years as those who advocate the resurgence of Native Hawaiian cultural traditions are split over whether
Christianity can be reconciled with these aims. Hawaiian scholar Lilikala Kame'eleihiwa, director of the University of Hawai'i-Manoa's Kamakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies and author of "Native Land and Foreign Desires," sees Christianization as playing a part in the demise of her culture. The concept of a single deity didn't — and still doesn't — sit well with Hawaiians, she said, adding she has an affection for the 40,000 gods of her ancestors. "I see a kukui tree, and know Lono lives here," she said. "I see goddess Kaneiawai rushing by in water. I see gods in every aspect of the world." Today's Hawaiian Christians are either fooling themselves about giving up that part of their culture or "they live in a constant state of denial about what Christian
churches are asking them to do," she said.
The Rev. David Kauweloa Kaupu, who has dedicated his life to spreading the Christian gospel, disagrees with this viewpoint. Kaupu is former chaplain of Kamehameha Schools and now is kahu (pastor) of Kaumakapili Church, a position he has held since 1995. "I have no problems like Lilikala, trying to feel my way as a Hawaiian into my faith as Christian," he said. "... We allow many traditions of old to factor into our contemporary style of believing."
About 80 percent of today's Hawaiians have Christian leanings, estimates the Rev. Darrow Aiona, rector at St. Mark's Episcopal church in Kapahulu, who did his sociology thesis on the splintering of the Hawaiian Congregational church.
"If we could just get Westerners to follow Western religion, we'd be just fine," Kame'eleihiwa said.
The clothes and Calvinist customs from missionary days "were very harsh for us," Kame'eleihiwa said. "No dancing of hula? No celebration of life?" she asked. "That created a dichotomy in the Hawaiian mind about the correct thing to do."
The objective of the World Christian Gathering on Indigenous People "is to point people toward the creator, and not a religion per se," said conference organizer Kalani Po'omaihealani. For him, being Christian doesn't mean he is forsaking his culture. "I'm Hawaiian," he said. "My love is for my people." Po'omaihealani feels the tensions created by Hawai'i's history. "It's very difficult, sometimes, to bring people to the creator because of the stigma of what comes
with Christianity. At the time of overthrow, the so-called Christian church had a great role in the overthrow," he said. And, he knows, many Hawaiians consider missionaries and the church their enemies, he said. As for monotheistic vs. polytheistic differencess, Po'omaihealani, like Lake and Kaupu, chooses to believe that there was a singular god at one time, perhaps long ago, who simply took on many names.
The Honolulu Advertiser, August 4, 2002, excerpts
Organizer says selection of Hawai'i was 'God's will' (By Mary Kaye Ritz Advertiser Religion & Ethics Writer)
Kalani Po'omaihealani didn't have to stretch his powers of persuasion to bring the World Christian Gathering on Indigenous People to Hawai'i. It was "God's will," he said, that he prepares to extend the hand of aloha to Lakota Sioux from South Dakota, Toltecs from Mexico, Inuits from Alaska and Saami (Lap) peoples from Norway, said the new chairman of the Honolulu conference.
The first such conference focused on the need for forgiveness and reconciliation between "the colonizing powers and na keiki o ka 'aina," (the indigenous people of the respective lands). Over time, however, according to information posted by organizers on the official Web site for this year's gathering, the tone for subsequent gatherings has changed.
"Now that healing has begun, it is time to turn our eyes upward and begin to fulfill the great commission to go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation," the organizers said. Besides encouraging diversity of worship, there's also a move to "continue true reconciliation through constructive exploration of (indigenous people's) history and the issues related to the injustices perpetrated against them, and, through education, effect change."
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"I would rather be a little overweight and
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This thought-provoking sentiment was one panelist's opinion of the ten pounds she gained when giving up cigarettes. While it is not inevitable, many people do gain weight when quitting smoking. The reason is quite easy to explain - they eat more.
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Colin's career encompasses performing, teaching, writing and directing. As a singer,
he is known principally as a character baritone, having worked for many years with
companies such as Garsington Opera, Opera Restor'd, The New Savoyards, Opera Interludes,
Country Opera etc. Such roles have included Sempronio (Lo Speziale), Don Alfonso
(Cosi fan Tutte), Geronimo (Il Matrimonio Segreto), Bartolo (Il Barbiere di Siviglia),
Sorceress (Dido and Aeneas) to name but a few. In addition, Colin has performed much
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Opera. In 2000, Colin formed Hand Made Opera with Gulliver Ralston and went on to
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has sung frequently on BBC Radios Two and Three, and has made several CDs; most recently
appearing as Bass soloist in Bach's St John Passion (Naxos).
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the singing teacher at New College. Now, however, he splits his teaching between
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is a visiting professor at Utah State University (USA), and on the Cisternino choral
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Colin has directed productions of Cosi fan tutte (two productions), Le
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L'elisir d'amore, The old maid and the thief, L'enfant et les sortileges, Riders
to the Sea, Dido and
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Music Quarterly and The Independent. His latest book, The Student Voice, aimed at
anyone who is serious about working on their voice, is published by Dunedin Academic
Press in March 2009. (www.dunedinacademicpress.co.uk)
Based in Bologna, Italy, Nicoletta started her career as assistant to Leonard Bernstein
and made her debut with the Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia. At the Capitol
she received the prestigious Minerva Prize for the arts, the first Italian musician
to be awarded it. She has since collaborated with important festivals and opera compaines,
including Covent Garen, Opera Hollland Park, the Teatro Comunale in Florence, the
Teatro Comunale in Bologna, the Rossini Opera Festival, and the Festival of the Itria
Valley. She has worked with numerous famous singers, including Luciano Pavarotti,
Renato Bruson, Leo Nucci, Daniela Dessi, Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu, with
whom she has made several CDs.
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including: Orchestra Arturo Toscanini, Orchestra of the Arena di Verona, the Tanglewood
Music Festival Orchestra, Orchestra Regionale Toscana, the Kiushu Symphony Orchestra,
the Hungarian Symphonic Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica Citta di Ferrara, Orchestra
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di Torino, Orchestra "I Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano", Stuttgarter Filarmoniker.
Born in Madrid, he began his musical studies at an early age, obtaining his title
as piano professor. For six years he was director and founder of various choruses
with which he worked above all on the barroque and Renaissance repertoire. At the
same time, he took specialised courses in baroque organ, harpsichord and choral direction,
given by acclaimed teachers of these styles.
Assistant directorin the Teatro Real Madrid since it reopened in 1997, he has collaborated
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Renan, Josep Maria Flotats, Giancarlo del Mónaco, Werner Herzog, Nicolas Jöel, Jerome
Savary, Eliah Moshinsky, Willy Decker, John Dew, Pier Luigi Pizzi and Herbert Wernicke,
as well as the choreographers Nacho Duato, Victor Ullate and Pina Bausch.
In 1998, he collaborated as assistant director in the world premiere in Lisbon of
the Ópera “Corvo Branco” by Fhilip Glass, directed by Bob Wilson.
Since 2004 he works at the State-Theatre Darmstadt as assistant director under the
artistic director John Dew.
As a director he made his debut with a production of “La voix humaine” of Poulenc
(2003). In Darmstadt he produced “La serva padrona” of G. B. Pergolessi (2005). Both
productions were a big success both with the public and the critics.
He won the 3rd price at the European Competition of Stage Directing in Wiesbaden
(2005) with his production of “La Cenerentola” of G. Rossini and was substitute semi
finalist at the International Competition of Opera Directing in Granz (2005) with
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Grantee: Raphael Group Limited
Project name: “Raphael Group Bean Marketing Center (RGBMC)”
Grant amount: £444,350.60
Project start date: 4th December 2015
Project duration: 2 years
Countries benefiting: Tanzania (Primary); Burundi; Kenya; Malawi; Mozambique; Rwanda; Uganda; and Zambia
Description of the organization:
Raphael Group Limited (RGL) is one of the leading food grains processors and distributors in Tanzania. The business started as a partnership in 1995 and was incorporated as a Limited Liability company in 2010. The core business activities of RGL include processing and selling of more than four grain products; Rice- 50% of the business, Beans-20%, Groundnuts- 20%, Sunflower cooking oil and other cereal grains- 10%. RGL’s head offices are in Uyole area, Mbeya in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania.
With investment from FoodTrade ESA, the project Raphael Group Bean Marketing Center (RGBMC) aims to setup a centralized marketing centre for the highly demanded bean varieties grown in the Southern Highlands region. This centre will be supported by mini aggregation centres situated at the bean producers’ locations. The marketing centre will be 100% owned by the RGL Company, while the mini-aggregation centres will be co-owned by RGL and the bean producer groups. This project is unique because it sets an aggregation system which is partly owned by the farmers. By making farmers part of the village warehouse owners, the project is giving them opportunity to increase their income through revenue generated by the warehouses. The warehouses will generate revenue from the sale of beans. During off-season, the warehouses will be used to store other grains like maize and rice. The storage fees received from the people leasing the space in the warehouses to store grains will be another source of income to the farmers.

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