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UN launches record $51.5bn emergency funding appeal
UN launches record $51.5bn emergency funding appeal /node/2209161/world
UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said that 'next year is going to be the biggest humanitarian program' the world has ever seen. (AFP)
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Updated 01 December 2022
United Nations: 339 million people worldwide will need some form of emergency assistance next year
UN aid chief Martin Griffiths: 'next year is going to be the biggest humanitarian program' the world has ever seen
GENEVA: The UN appealed for record funds for aid next year, as the Ukraine war and other conflicts, climate emergencies and the still-simmering pandemic push more people into crisis, and some toward famine.
The United Nations' annual Global Humanitarian Overview estimated that 339 million people worldwide will need some form of emergency assistance next year — a staggering 65 million more people than the estimate a year ago.
"It's a phenomenal number and it's a depressing number," UN aid chief Martin Griffiths told reporters in Geneva, adding that it meant "next year is going to be the biggest humanitarian program" the world has ever seen.
If all the people in need of emergency assistance were in one country, it would be the third-largest nation in the world, after China and India, he said.
And the new estimate means that one in 23 people will need help in 2023, compared to one in 95 back in 2015.
As the extreme events seen in 2022 spill into 2023, Griffiths described the humanitarian needs as "shockingly high."
"Lethal droughts and floods are wreaking havoc in communities from Pakistan to the Horn of Africa," he said, also pointing to the war in Ukraine, which "has turned a part of Europe into a battlefield."
The annual appeal by UN agencies and other humanitarian organizations said that providing aid to the 230 million most vulnerable people across 68 countries would require a record $51.5 billion.
That was up from the $41 billion requested for 2022, although the sum has been revised up to around $50 billion during the year — with less than half of that sought-for amount funded.
"For people on the brink, this appeal is a lifeline," Griffiths said.
The report presented a depressing picture of soaring needs brought on by a range of conflicts, worsening instability and a deepening climate crisis.
"There is no doubt that 2023 is going to perpetuate these on-steroids trends," Griffiths warned.
The overlapping crises have already left the world dealing with the "largest global food crisis in modern history," the UN warned.
It pointed out that at least 222 million people across 53 countries were expected to face acute food insecurity by the end of this year, with 45 million of them facing the risk of starvation.
"Five countries already are experiencing what we call famine-like conditions, in which we can confidently, unhappily, say that people are dying as a result," Griffiths said.
Those countries — Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Haiti, Somalia and South Sudan — have seen portions of their populations face "catastrophic hunger" this year, but have not yet seen country-wide famines declared.
Forced displacement is meanwhile surging, with the number of people living as refugees, asylum seekers or displaced inside their own country passing 100 million — over one percent of the global population — for the first time this year.
"And all of this on top of the devastation left by the pandemic among the world's poorest," Griffiths said, also pointing to outbreaks of mpox, previously known as monkeypox, Ebola, cholera and other diseases.
Conflicts have taken a dire toll on a range of countries, not least on Ukraine, where Russia's full-scale invasion in February has left millions in dire need.
The global humanitarian plan will aim to provide $1.7 billion in cash assistance to 6.3 million people inside the war-torn country, and also $5.7 billion to help the millions of Ukrainians and their host communities in surrounding countries.
More than 28 million people are meanwhile considered to be in need in drought-hit Afghanistan, which last year saw the Taliban sweep back into power, while another eight million Afghans and their hosts in the region also need assistance.
More than $5 billion has been requested to address that combined crisis, while further billions were requested to help the many millions of people impacted by the years-long conflicts in Syria and Yemen.
The appeal also highlighted the dire situation in Ethiopia, where worsening drought and a two-year-conflict in Tigray have left nearly 29 million people in desperate need of assistance.
Faced with such towering needs, Griffiths said he hoped 2023 would be a year of "solidarity, just as 2022 has been a year of suffering."
Topics: UN
UN humanitarian agencies face record funding gap this year
UN calls on nations to 'urgently' boost climate funds
Murder of Filipina worker in Kuwait sends shockwave through Philippines /node/2240296/world
Updated 6 min 15 sec ago
Ellie Aben
Jullebee Ranara's charred remains were discovered in a desert in Kuwait on Sunday
In 2018 and 2020, the Philippines banned worker deployment to Kuwait after murder cases
MANILA: The murder of a Filipina worker whose body was found in a desert in Kuwait has sent a shockwave through the Philippines, where a two-week vigil will begin after her remains return to the country on Friday.
Jullebee Ranara, 35, was one of more than 268,000 overseas Filipino workers — mostly women employed as domestic helpers — living in Kuwait.
Her charred remains were discovered in a desert on Sunday. Kuwaiti media reported that she was pregnant and had been subjected to blunt-force trauma. The 17-year-old son of her employer has been arrested by Kuwaiti police on murder charges.
Migrant Workers Secretary Susan Ople declined to comment on the causes of Ranara's death until after the National Bureau of Investigation has conducted an autopsy.
"There are many speculations as to the cause of death and motives behind it. The family has requested for an autopsy," she said in a media briefing on Friday.
"What is important is the police acted quickly. The primary suspect is under the custody of the Kuwaiti police, and we are closely monitoring the case."
A vigil for Ranara is going to begin after her remains are repatriated on Friday evening.
"We are hopeful that her wake will start by Sunday," Ople told reporters.
"According to the husband, they would like the wake scheduled for two weeks to give time for relatives and friends who are in the province to pay their respect."
The news of her death was "dreadful" for former OFWs like Maria Nida Dizon.
"What they did to her is inhuman. She went to Kuwait to work, carrying in her suitcase every hope for a better life, only to meet a gruesome death," she told Arab News.
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In 2018 and 2020, the Philippines banned worker deployment to Kuwait after murder cases.
"Based on my own experience, protection for OFWs, especially when it comes to our rights, is hardly felt by migrant workers. There is no guarantee that justice will be given to them when they get abused."
Dizon, who used to work in the UAE, did not think that Ranara's case would deter Philippine workers from seeking employment abroad, where they can earn much more than at home.
"Many cases of abuse have been reported, but our countrymen still want to try (to work abroad), especially women, mothers mostly," she said.
"They think that they can help the family more if they work outside."
While the migrant workers secretary said Philippine authorities would work with Kuwait to introduce better screening and accreditation mechanisms for employers, Rick Hernandez, a local administration worker in Manila, was now sure he would prevent his family members from working as domestic helpers abroad.
"A lot of Filipinos, especially our women, are willing to brave harsh climes and abusive employers just to provide for their loved ones," he said.
"As a father and husband, I would rather starve here rather than send my daughter or wife to toil as menials in a faraway country."
Kuwait's Ambassador to the Philippines Musaed Saleh Al-Thwaikh said on Friday that Kuwaiti society was also "shocked and saddened" by the incident.
"Our justice system will not lose sight in ensuring justice for Mrs. Ranara," he wrote in a letter addressed to Ople.
"We assure you that such an incident is an isolated case."
Ranara's murder, however, was not the first such incident in Kuwait that shook the Philippines, which in 2018 imposed a worker deployment ban to the Gulf country after the killing of Filipina domestic helper Joanna Daniela Demafelis, whose body was found in a freezer at an abandoned apartment.
The ban was partially lifted the same year, after the two countries signed a protection agreement for workers.
In May 2019, Filipina maid Constancia Lago Dayag was killed in Kuwait, and a few months later, another one, Jeanelyn Villavende, was tortured by her employer to death.
The Philippines again imposed a worker deployment ban in January 2020, which was lifted when Kuwaiti authorities charged Villavende's employer with murder and sentenced her to hanging.
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Denmark in talks with Israel to replace howitzers donated to Ukraine /node/2240281/world
Defense Minister Jakob Ellemann-Jensen. (Wikipedia)
COPENHAGEN: After pledging all 19 of its French-made Caesar howitzers to Ukraine, Denmark is in talks with Israeli arms maker Elbit Systems for new mobile artillery to plug a "critical gap."
The Defense Ministry said that negotiations were on "with the manufacturer Elbit Systems for the delivery of ATMOS artillery pieces and PULS rocket launcher systems as soon as possible."
The equipment could be delivered this year, the government said.
"The rocket launchers complement the new artillery systems," the ministry said.
Denmark had ordered 15 mobile long-range howitzers from French company Nexter in 2017, and four more in 2019.
But deliveries have been delayed and only a few have arrived. All of them have been pledged to Ukraine.
The system can carry 36 155 mm shells and reach targets at distances of up to 40 km.
ATMOS can fire six shots per minute and can be mounted on most off-road 8X8 trucks.
The next acquisitions are "important for Denmark's defense and for Denmark to be able to meet its NATO commitments," Defense Minister Jakob Ellemann-Jensen said.
"The donation to Ukraine leaves a critical capability gap in defense," he said.
According to Danish media, Nexter advised Denmark against changing suppliers, saying it could provide new artillery.
"Caesar has proven itself on the battlefield in Ukraine, Danish soldiers can use them and the parts are compatible with Danish military IT systems," a spokesman for the group said.
Topics: Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Lavrov shores up Eritrean support for Russia over Ukraine conflict /node/2240276/world
NAIROBI: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki on a tour of Africa to shore up support for Russia, focusing on the "dynamics of the war in Ukraine," Eritrea's information minister said.
Lavrov has been on a week-long charm offensive on the continent, starting in South Africa, which is planning joint military drills with Russia and China, and finishing off with a surprise trip to the reclusive Horn of Africa nation of Eritrea.
South Africa is one of Russia's most important allies on a continent divided over the invasion and Western attempts to isolate Moscow because of its military actions.
Eritrea is one of the few African countries that voted against a UN resolution condemning Russia's Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine although many abstained.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has been on a week-long charm offensive on the African continent, starting in South Africa.
"We are thankful to Eritrean friends for their consistent support of Russian initiatives in the UN," Lavrov was quoted as saying by Russian state news agency TASS.
He said Asmara had taken a "principled and balanced position on issues regarding the events in Ukraine and around it," TASS reported, adding that he also invited his Eritrean counterpart, Osman Saleh, to visit Moscow soon.
The talks in Eritrea also explored ways of enhancing ties in energy, mining, information technology, education and health, Information Minister Yemane Meskel said on Twitter.
Both sides will conduct a joint study to establish the logistical and transit opportunities presented by the Red Sea port of Massawa and its airport, TASS said.
"I would like to mention the possibility of using the logistical potential of the Massawa port and the city's airport. The airport of Massawa looks interesting from the point of view of its transit possibilities," Lavrov said.
Lavrov's visit to Africa coincides with others by senior US officials, who are crisscrossing the continent to shore up ties with US allies there.
Speaking when he met Lavrov's delegation on Thursday, Foreign Minister Osman blamed the crisis in Ukraine on what he described as the US' "reckless policy of hegemony and containment" over a number of decades.
"The sad fact is that Ukraine is both a pretext and victim of this policy," Osman said during the speech delivered in Massawa.
There was no mention of the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region, where Eritrean troops fought alongside their Ethiopian federal counterparts against rebellious Tigrayan forces.
A deal to end the fighting was signed last November but Eritrea was not party to the truce. Eritrean troops have started to leave some parts of Tigray, witnesses said.
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Gunman who fled to Pakistan jailed in UK for murder /node/2240086/world
Gunman who fled to Pakistan jailed in UK for murder
Tahir Zarif, 31, will serve a minimum of 30 years for the killing of Akhtar Javeed, 56
Zarif and 3 others attempted to rob Javeed in 2016; killer hid in Pakistan to escape justice
LONDON: A man has been jailed for life in the UK after murdering another man in a botched robbery and then fleeing to Pakistan to escape justice.
Tahir Zarif, 31, from Derby, shot Akhtar Javeed, 56, in 2016 while he and three others — Suraj Misty, 26; Lamar Wali, 23; and Sander van Aalten, 54 — attempted to rob Javeed's food warehouse in Birmingham.
One of the four had previously worked at the warehouse, with knowledge of its layout. Employees at the site were tied up, and Javeed was dragged to his safe, where Zarif shot him in the leg to force him to open it.
Javeed then managed to free himself but was shot again by Zarif in the throat and chest as he tried to escape, stumbling out of the warehouse and into a street before collapsing.
Five days later, Zarif left the UK for Pakistan. He was arrested in Mirpur in 2018 and extradited two years later.
Video footage later emerged of Zarif firing a machine gun while on the run in Pakistan, and further footage showed him smiling when formally arrested on board his extradition flight to London by UK police.
Zarif claimed the murder of Javeed was accidental, but his "clear willingness to use the gun" and "intention to kill" saw him jailed for a minimum of 30 years at Coventry Crown Court.
His fellow robbers were convicted and sentenced in 2016. Misty was jailed for 23 years for manslaughter, while Wali and Van Aalten were both convicted of conspiracy to commit robbery and jailed for seven years and six years, eight months, respectively.
Javeed's daughter, who requested anonymity, told the press following Zarif's sentencing: "It's been six years and nine months since my father's life was taken by Tahir Zarif.
"My father has been in our thoughts every day since. As I have said before, my father was an honorable gentleman.
"Another man's greed led to my father's unlawful death. We are grateful to West Midlands Police for their hard work in ensuring justice is served."
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Appointment of first-ever anti-Islamophobia advisor for Canada an 'important step': PM Trudeau /node/2239861/world
Appointment of first-ever anti-Islamophobia advisor for Canada an 'important step': PM Trudeau
MONTREAL: Canada on Thursday appointed its first special representative on combatting Islamophobia, a position created following several recent attacks on Muslims in the country.
Journalist and activist Amira Elghawaby will fill the post to "serve as a champion, adviser, expert and representative to support and enhance the federal government's efforts in the fight against Islamophobia, systemic racism, racial discrimination and religious intolerance," a statement by the prime minister's office said.
An active human rights campaigner, Elghawaby is the communications head for the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and a columnist for the Toronto Star newspaper, having previously worked for more than a decade at public broadcaster CBC.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau praised Elghawaby's appointment as "an important step in our fight against Islamophobia and hatred in all its forms."
"Diversity truly is one of Canada's greatest strengths, but for many Muslims, Islamophobia is all too familiar," he added.
Over the past few years, a series of deadly attacks have targeted Canada's Muslim community.
In June 2021, four members of a Muslim family were killed when a man ran them over with his truck in London, Ontario.
Four years earlier, six Muslims died and five were injured in an attack on a Quebec City mosque.
In a series of tweets Thursday, Elghawaby listed the names of those killed in the recent attacks, adding: "We must never forget."
The creation of the new job had been recommended by a national summit on Islamophobia organized by the federal government in June 2021 in response to the attacks.
Topics: Canada Islamophobia
UK Conservatives face fresh pressure over Islamophobia allegations
OIC to hold conference combating disinformation and Islamophobia in Istanbul

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Pedophile scandal in Pietarsaari in Finnish Ostrobothnia
A pedophile scandal with more than ten victims is now being rolled up in a revivalist movement within the state church in Pietarsaari in Finnish Ostrobothnia. Years of covering-up keeps the total number of victims unknown.
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A number of people who are now in their forties have suffered for years from serious abuse of a pedophile in Pietarsaari in Finnish Ostrobothnia. Some of the victims are feeling very poor and has started to share their experiences to others, including undersigned.
The abuses, which lasted until the eighties, have been known to the victims' relatives and the leadership of the pedophile's home congregation. The abuses were quieted down, however, and covered-up for decades.
The pedophile, who died in the late eighties, was a well-known figure in the Laestadian revivalist movement and was active as a lay preacher within the so-called "eastern phalange" of the movement. The pedophile was for a period of time a very popular Sunday school teacher in his home congregation.
Some of the victims (the total numer is still unknown, because of the covering-up they were never identified at the time of the discovery of the first early abuses) did not receive help and vindication from their relatives nor from the leadership of the congregation at that time who knew about the matter, with the result that many have been left to suffer on their own for many years.
Repeated abuses
According to some of the victims' testimonies, the pedophile had a well developed ability to attract children. Among other things the famous preacher always had candy in his pockets.
Some of the victims have told in their personal testimonies to undersigned, that the famous preacher "was constantly on them". They were, according to their testimonies, victims of "serious abuses" and the pedophile is told to simply not having been able to control himself, not even in situations where the risk of being revealed was imminent.
Some of the known victims had friends in the same circles as the pedophile and because of close interactions within a more closed group formation within the open congregation, several small children were at risk of being repeatedly abused without any possibility to get away.
Disvocery was quieted down
One relative of one of the victim children discovered the pedophile red-handed at an early stage of the abuses. The matter was quieted down within the congregation though, and the severe abuses could continue for another several years.
Some of the known victims were kept very strictly by their parents and during their childhood and adolescence they were exposed to systematic mistreatment in attempts to force the children into total obedience and submission, with daily requirements of showing repentance and confession of in part arbitrarily imaginary "sins".
Around the famous pedophile, and with the protection from the covering-up of the serious abuses, a closed and tough "inner group" grew forth within the congregation. The congregation's leadership did "for the sake of domestic peace" let the increasingly extreme inner group decide on their own what they regarded as sin.
The failure to intervene against the tough group was apologized with excuses about showing the group members "love" and a humble desire to "not cause division". The outcome of this particular form of love is found subsequently to have caused a lot of extra and prolonged suffering to the victims.
Sect-like behavior
The number of children and grandchildren within the inner group has over time grown in number because of large families and intermarriage, and today forms a not insignificant group within the open congregation. The group also developed over time, sheltered by the congregation's cover-up of the pedophile scandal, into a more and more sect-like phenomenon within the open congregation, where parents' and siblings' families were controlling each other very strictly.
The group has, after the pedophile's death, been ruled by a couple of the pedophile's relatives, a man and a woman. These have, with strong personalities and an ability to read people, combined with a remarkable insensitivity and cruelty, controlled children, grandchildren, relatives and to some extent even other congregation members.
The closed group did over time develop increasingly distinctive biblical interpretations and beliefs about right and wrong. Their influence within the revivalist movement across the Cap of the North over the years has gradually increased through the groups' influence over the elections of new lay preachers.
Public [[rpen: evocative]] impact
Within a group of preachers who sympathize with the closed group's leaders, a conscious and peculiar way of preaching has in recent years also developed, with consistently emotionally very strong expressions. Many outside the closed group has reacted strongly to what most perceived as a reckless screaming and barking from the pulpit.
Among the screaming preachers, a widespread perception is that the challenging and evocative way of preaching in some way is related to force manifestations of the Holy Spirit. They are obviously quite horribly wrong.
Extremely loud sermons with elements of legalism and arbitrary biblical interpretations have occurred both in broadcasting and larger conventions within the revivalist movement, something which has become possible since the influence of the sect-like inner group has been allowed to grow.
View control and brainwashing
After several interviews with the victims, through deduction, a couple of persons related to the now deceased pedophile emerges - a man and a woman. These two have also actively participated in protecting the pedophile after the abuse was discovered in an early stage.
The leading persons' methods of dealing with relationships within the group indicates an extremely high ability to manipulate and control people by watching each other, as well as through religious impose of guilt, which in some cases has led to a mental state most closely resembling brainwashing.
Some victims live in marriages with people who grew up in healthy conditions, with healthier view of the Scripture, which has enabled them to react. Some have managed to free themselves from the manipulative influence of the leading figures within the group.
Attempts to getting free have tended to lead to further blame for the rebellion against the leaders, and allegations that they wish to harm their family and the group's reputation.
Influence over the entire Cap of the North
The group's leading figures is according to the testimony of the victims engaging an almost unlimited power over some of the members of the inner circle, by means of members carefully controlling and accusing each other and reporting to the group leaders about undesirable behavior.
Behavior considered inappropriate could be, for example, improper clothing or the wearing of jewelry.
Those being kept within the closed circuit has also been encouraged to, in strict obedience to the commands of the group's older leaders and Bible interpretation, apply harsh methods to control their respective family members. The applied suppression of opinion is said to be in part very severe, and extending in some cases to instructions about how the controlled group members should behave in the bedroom.
Friends and acquaintances from the closed circuit can for instance be assigned by the team leader to visit members of the local or other parishes in their homes in order to convey messages from the leaders. The task may relate to present allegations of inappropriate behavior or just to gather information for later reporting to the leaders.
The closed circuit has for decades been deploying their children, relatives and other supporters (often married into the families) in many of the local congregations of the awakening in Ostrobothnia, northern Sweden and northern Norway.
In many cases the growing group has succeeded in obtaining board seats in the local congregations where the task often tend to seek to block local initiatives of various kinds, or alternatively, to ensure that the group's own members may influence the activities.
Police report filed as a first step
The pedophile assaults was reported to the local police station in Pietarsaari on Saturday, November 14, 2009. After a while of insistant knocking on a locked door, the notification was submitted in person by undersigned, within twenty-four hours after the undersigned received the first personal testimony from one of the victims.
For the victims' sake it's important to note that the police report against pedophilia, conducted by a now dead preacher, who allegedly repeatedly asked for forgiveness from the victims, was entirely my own initiative. When the police report became known among the victims then some persons immediately started spreading false rumors about undersigned, which has greatly enhanced the victim's trauma and reinforced distrust among them rather than the hope of healing and deliverance, which they so desperately need.
Undersigned does today not have a shred of doubt that the decision to notify the police was the right decision. Instead the notification was rather an important first step in order to rehabilitate the betrayed victims.
Faith and trust requires demonstrated faithfulness and credibility
After the first victim shared his experiences with undersigned (whom from the perspective of the closed group must be considered being an "outsider") more victims have directly or indirectly asked for help from undersigned. The victims had up till now met an unwillingness from its congregation to "dig into old things which is already forgiven", as it was called.
The victims' need to clear up the matter thus was stamped as something illegitimate, and consequently they became disclosed to perish in solitude without proper support from the open congregation. The inner group, or sect, within the wider congregation could in this way, by adding a burden of guilt, freely accuse victims of treachery and rebellion and "division".
Several of the victims say that what they suffered from the most is the treachery that did not stop the abuse at an early stage when there was an opportunity to do so, and the following betrayal from the surrounding open congregation who knew what happened but did not look after the victims nor did take them seriously.
These betrayals form a dark background today explaining why some of the victims feel a very deep distrust towards the congregation and towards Christians in general. Betrayal is the opposite of faithfulness, because faith and confidence requires an object of trustworthiness and credibility. There must always be a good reason to believe and trust something. If it is true that faith and trust is transferred through "faith to faith" then it is equally true that "betrayal to betrayal" leads to genuine distrust and disbelief (Rom 1:17).
One of the reasons for the undersigned to file a police report was to counteract the nasty effects on the let down victims' faith. The police report was a signal that the issue is now taken seriously and that betraying God's children is no longer accepted in church, nor is it something which the God of the Bible overlooks forever (see Upp 21:8).
Attacks on attempts to help
When undersigned at express requests by the victims accepted to help the victims who asked for help the victims were told by the inner group which were trying to blackout the scandal that undersigned was a wife beater and suffered from mental illness (psychosis has explicitly mentioned) and other similar things.
In order to assist the victims to possibly overcome the clear intent of creating in the victims a bitter mistrust for the help initiative, perhaps in ordet to not jeopardize the hitherto successful cover-up, undersigned suggested that the victims take direct contact with my wife to check the veracity of the slander.
In order not to reduce credibility my wife was not informed in advance about the forthcoming inquiries, nor even what the issue was all about. At the time of writing my wife still does not know about the scandal being described in this article. The now deceased pedophile was my wife's Sunday school teacher.
Without the feeling of beeing too far-fetched the attempt to undermine the help contribution is reminding me about certain attacks on ambulances in a renowned Middle East conflict.
Lies, spells and curses
The total number of victims is still not fully known because no such investigation could be conducted in an environment characterized by the blackout and allegations about "fishing in the sea of grace."
It is known outside the inner group that some leaders within the group "read curses" over Christians with divergent views. The curses could be read also over members of other congregations in the revivalist movement which does not exactly share the group's legalism and, in certain respects, peculiar biblical interpretations.
Victims familiar with the group leader's increasingly extreme ways of thinking and controlling others, reveal that the group allow them self to resort to conscious lies in order to protect their group.
The group's strongest personalities are, at the time of writing, active members of the local church Skutnäs in Jakobstad (in Finnish: Pietarsaari) and they also have, according to representatives for the congregation, seats in the board which have been mentioned as one reason for why the church leadership still has not come together for a comprehensive and whole-hearted handling of the matter in a way which would give the victims concrete and visible evidence for that the time of betrayal now has come to an end.
It is also written
For outsiders and fpr the spiritually retarded which are seriously hampered in their spiritual maturity due to the confusion around the "inner group", the Bible shows an example of how Jesus handled the attempt from Satan trying to deceive him - God's own son - by using the scriptures. Jesus demonstrated to us how we should respond to such blatant arrogance - he responded to Satan's biblical nonsense with the simple words "It is (also) written" (Matt 4:7).
In addition to those few words from Jesus there are also approximately another 1500 pages in the Bible (editions differ) which is be compared against such disconnected words from the Scripture which religious fanatics tend to pull out of their proper context.
After the Taliban reign and betrayal: New confidence permit new opportunities!
The victims now have a need for visible evidence in the form of concrete action in order to create confidence for the congregation and genuine sincerity in the search for reconciliation from those inflicting them so much pain.
In a similar way as in the case of Paul the apostle, who persecuted the church of Lord Jesus, one cannot demand of anyone to have confidence in a person before there exist real proof of a sincere change of the heart, according to credible witnesses. Earlier deceitful people can not demand to be considered being credible witnesses by the victims today. Evidence must first be demonstrated, followed by credible testimonies about genuine changes of the heart.
Deserved trust is a prerequisite for the victims before the will dare to trust that a true and profound reconciliation is possible, after decades of manipulation and betrayal. Also other members of the local congregation and other congregations in the revival movement, which have been raped by the Taliban-like group of Skutnäs, need an open recognition of the betrayal of the victims and the failure to intervene with this closed group in order to repair the substantial damage done to individuals and entire congregations. Now is time for action.
In short, this is all about faith, and other related words is fidelity and credibility, which provides a sound basis for faith and trust. From this it should be obvious the necessity to counterbalance the previous betrayal. The victims needs to be able to dare to trust their local church and they must provide a healing environment which welcomes them with a true, fearless and unselfish love geared at helping them to find healing to their injuries.
At last: A common type of damage to the human nature that may occur after sexual assault is problems with sexual identity. This is certainly not always the result, but such consequences may occur sometimes, and the congregations that have victims who needs help therefore needs to be prepared to respond also to this reality.
But, after all the serious assault, and after all the abuse and all the years of manipulation, and after the smoke* of confusion begins to disperse, there may open up entirely new possibilities - through Gods grace He can make all things new! (Rev 21, entire chapter)
Rolf Lampa
rolf.lampa@rilnews.org
Fotnotes:
* Native speaking readers look here! - We would apprechiate your assistance in proof reading and correcting our articles into proper English.
* "smoke" - Biblical figurative language depicting "severely reduced sight" (also "insight" in transferred meaning). Smoke also has a nauseating and pungent odor, which is strongly unpleasant and even dangerous when inhaled.
* Rilpedia - I the text there are links to Rilpedia, a sister site to RIL News. Within Rilpedia there can still remain links to articles which are not family friendly, that is, content which does not reflect the views held by Rilpedia and RIL News. We therefore encourage our readers to report any unfit articles so we can correct them immediately.
More reading:
More articles about the pedophile scandal will be published in the next few days under headlines such as ""A terrible God " impedes healing of sexual abuse", "The pedophile scandal requires vast amounts of grace", "Secular therapy or divine healing? Antichrist has multiple guises"
About the Author - Rolf Lampa, living in Gävle, Sweden, is a father of seven and (still) a member of the Swedish Church (former state church), and he grew up within the eastern phalange of the Laestadian revival movement. He's self employed and in leisure hours he runs several Internet sites with his family, whith the purpose to encourage a sound connection of the Biblical message to reality and to give concrete arguments for the historicity and reliability of the Bible and to counter unsound introversion which may lead to sectarianism. Exemples are this site (RIL News, under construction), Rilpedia (2006) and Rilsource (creation issues), and more.
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1 July 2008 : Column 749W—continued
Of these units 2 YORKS is due to move to Cyprus in December 2010.
The following units are due to move to the north west in the next three years:
Seria1 Unit Location
2nd Battalion The Duke of Lancaster' s Regiment (2 LANCS)
Preston (from December 2010)
1st Battalion The Royal Welsh (The Royal Welch Fusiliers) (1R Welsh)
Chester (from August 2008)
253 General Support Medical Regiment (Volunteers) (253 GS Med Regt(V))
Elements will be based in Preston
Data on the units located in the north west before January 2007 are not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Armed Forces: Vehicles
Ann Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence under which vehicle category the Husky mine detection/clearance vehicle falls; and under what conditions it is classed as a C vehicle. [213983]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth: The Army does not use the Husky mine detection/clearance vehicles, it does not therefore have a category and class for MOD use.
Ann Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) what (a) ventilation and (b) cooling systems other than air conditioning are incorporated into the Panther Command and Liaison vehicle; [213986]
1 July 2008 : Column 750W
(2) whether the Panther Command and Liaison vehicle has (a) flaps and (b) windows which open to allow ventilation. [213987]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth: The Panther vehicle is fitted with a standard air conditioning unit, hence there are no additional ventilation and cooling systems, flaps or windows.
Ann Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether supplies of the 4-wheeled Cougar vehicle, when converted to a Ridgback, will be sent to theatre in batches immediately they are available. [213988]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth: We are seeking to ensure that Ridgback is deployed as a complete operational capability, with doctrine defined, personnel trained, and the infrastructure in theatre complete. Current plans see the first batches arriving in theatre in spring 2009 although we continue to explore the possibility and requirement to bring this date forward.
Ann Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans his Department has to replace the Snatch Land Rover with another vehicle of similar size and capacity. [213989]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth: The introduction of vehicles such as Mastiff has already allowed us to replace Snatch in a number of roles. The introduction of Ridgback in 2009 will limit the use of Snatch further. While we continually review our requirements for protected vehicles and the roles in which they are used in theatre, there will continue to be a requirement for some vehicles of the size and capacity of Snatch. Any alternative vehicle would inevitably have similar capability in terms of protection and mobility.
Army: Recruitment
Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many applications to join the Army were made in each year since 1997; and how many applicants were successful in each year. [214348]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth: The information is provided in the following table.
Officers Soldiers
Applicants Enlisted( 1) Applicants Enlisted( 1)
2007-08(2)
(1) Those who have commenced phase 1 training as a soldier or the commissioning course at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst as an officer.
(2) Eight months only.
2007-08 soldier application figures are incomplete due to problems encountered with the introduction of a new IT system and the figures cover only eight months of data.
Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to the answer of 13 June 2008, Official Report, column 556W, on bombs, what military advice he has received from the armed forces on methods of disposal of cluster munitions since the Dublin Conference. [214458]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth: Since the Dublin Conference, the Defence Ministers have received advice on stockpile figures for the two munition variants that are due to be disposed of in accordance with the adopted Dublin agreement. Methods of disposal are still under consideration and no specific advice has therefore been provided at this time.
Departmental ICT
Pete Wishart: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the value of his Department's computer systems (a) was at the time of purchase and (b) is now. [214723]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth: The information requested could be provided only at disproportionate cost. However, I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Twickenham (Dr. Cable) on 28 January 2008, Official Report, column 35W, which addressed the number of IT systems in the Department at that time.
Departmental Pay
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what estimate he has made of the average pay per hour worked by (a) permanent and (b) temporary staff in his Department in the last period for which figures are available, broken down by pay band. [212495]
Derek Twigg: As of June 2008, average pay per hour for the Ministry of Defence's principal civilian grades is broken down as follows:
SCS Band 3 and above
SCS Band 2
Band B1
Band C1
Band E1
Skill zone 4
The figures exclude trading fund agencies and specialist grades (e.g. medical grades).
Departmental Public Expenditure
Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence with reference to the Comprehensive Spending Review 2007 (Column 7227, 2006/07), what the expected level, in near cash terms is of (a) negative resource DEL income and (b) negative capital DEL income to be retained by his Department for the financial year 2008-09. [211898]
Mr. Bob Ainsworth: The Department's expected forecast of near cash Operating and Non Operating Appropriations in Aid to be retained are set out in the 2008-09 MOD main estimates, which are:
Resource Operating Appropriations in Aid—£1,243 million
Non Operating Appropriations in Aid—£215 million
These figures will be updated in the winter and spring supplementary estimates to reflect the latest forecasts of Operating and Non Operating receipts from our top level budget holders (TLBs) and an additional £85 million of Non-Operating Appropriations-in-Aid have been identified since main estimates were prepared and will be included in the supplementary estimates.
These are estimates, and as such are subject to a number of variable factors, such as property prices and levels of assets disposals.
Departmental Sick Pay
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how much sick pay to staff in his Department cost in the last five years for which figures are available. [211856]
Derek Twigg: Information on the departmental cost of sick pay to staff is not centrally held.
Departmental Vetting
Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what percentage of successful applicants for jobs in his Department are subjected to a criminal records check; how many (a) successful applicants and (b) criminal records checks there were in each of the last 10 years; how many successful applicants were found to have a criminal record after a criminal records check took place in each of the last 10 years; whether the selection of successful candidates to be subjected to a criminal records check is random or targeted; and if he will make a statement. [213146]


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Q: Why I am not able to use mobile authentication with firebase in jetpack compose? I am try to learning android jetpack compose, I have simple app, and I want to use mobile authentication with firebase for my project. I am using MVVM in the project, so when I debug the project, it throw an error like

You must specify an Activity on your PhoneAuthOptions. Please call
#setActivity()

for the      .build() in the view model, how can I arrange my viewmodel, I did not find any solution on internet, any idea?
Navigation:
@OptIn(ExperimentalPagerApi::class)
@Composable
fun NavScreen(

) {

val modelAuthentication =
hiltViewModel<AuthenticationViewModel>.()

val navController = rememberNavController()

NotificationMessage(viewModel = viewModel())

 NavHost(navController = navController, startDestination =
"phone") {
composable("phone") {
        PhoneScreen(navController = navController,
 modelAuthentication = modelAuthentication) { _, _ ->

        }

    }

    composable("phoneVerify") {
        PhoneVerifyScreen(navController = navController,
  modelAuthentication = modelAuthentication) { _, _ ->

        }

    }
  }}

viewmodel:
@HiltViewModel
class AuthenticationViewModel @Inject constructor(

    ) : ViewModel() {

    private val mAuth = FirebaseAuth.getInstance()

    var verificationOtp = ""
    var popNotification = mutableStateOf<Event<String>?>(null)

 private lateinit var baseBuilder: PhoneAuthOptions.Builder

fun setActivity(activity: Activity) {
    baseBuilder =
PhoneAuthOptions.newBuilder().setActivity(activity)

}

    fun send(mobileNum: String) {
        val options = baseBuilder
            .setPhoneNumber("+91$mobileNum")
            .setTimeout(60L, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
            .setCallbacks(object :
                PhoneAuthProvider.OnVerificationStateChangedCallbacks() {
                override fun onVerificationCompleted(p0: PhoneAuthCredential) {
                    handledException(customMessage = "Verification Completed")

                }

                override fun onVerificationFailed(p0: FirebaseException) {
                    handledException(customMessage = "Verification Failed")

                }

                override fun onCodeSent(otp: String, p1: PhoneAuthProvider.ForceResendingToken) {
                    super.onCodeSent(otp, p1)
                    verificationOtp = otp
                    handledException(customMessage = "Otp Send Successfully")

                }
            }).build()
        PhoneAuthProvider.verifyPhoneNumber(options)
    }

     fun otpVerification(otp: String) {
        val credential = PhoneAuthProvider.getCredential(verificationOtp, otp)
        FirebaseAuth.getInstance().signInWithCredential(credential)
            .addOnCompleteListener { task ->
                if (task.isSuccessful) {
                    handledException(customMessage = "Verification Successful")

                } else {
                    handledException(customMessage =  "Wrong Otp")

                }
            }
    }

    private fun handledException(exception: Exception? = null, customMessage: String = "") {
        exception?.printStackTrace()
        val errorMsg = exception?.message ?: ""
        val message = if (customMessage.isEmpty()) {
            errorMsg
        } else {
            "$customMessage: $errorMsg"
        }
        popNotification.value = Event(message)
    }

    }

screen1:
@Composable
fun PhoneScreen(
    navController: NavController,
    modelAuthentication: AuthenticationViewModel,
    onClick: (mobileNum: String, otp: String) -> Unit
) {

    val phoneNumber = remember { mutableStateOf("") }

  val context = LocalContext.current

   LaunchedEffect(Unit) {

    println("found activity? ${context.findActivity()}")
    val activity = context.findActivity() ?:
    return@LaunchedEffect
    modelAuthentication.setActivity(activity)

    }

   OutlinedTextField(
            value = phoneNumber.value,
            colors = TextFieldDefaults.textFieldColors(
                backgroundColor = white,
                focusedIndicatorColor = Grey,
                unfocusedIndicatorColor = Grey,
                focusedLabelColor = Grey,
                unfocusedLabelColor = Grey,

                ),
            onValueChange = { phoneNumber.value = it },
            label = { Text(text = "Phone Number") },
            placeholder = { Text(text = "Phone Number") },
            singleLine = true,
            modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth(0.8f)

        )

    Button(
                modifier = Modifier
                    .width(285.dp)
                    .height(55.dp),
                onClick = {

                    modelAuthentication.send(phoneNumber.value)
                    navController.navigate("phoneVerify")

                },
                colors = ButtonDefaults.buttonColors(
                    backgroundColor = Color.Custom
                ),
                shape = RoundedCornerShape(60)
            ) {
                Text(
                    text = "Next",
                    style = TextStyle(
                        fontSize = 18.sp,
                        color = white,

                        )

                )
            }
}

screen2:
@Composable
fun PhoneVerifyScreen(
navController: NavController,
modelAuthentication: AuthenticationViewModel,
onClick: (mobileNum: String, otp: String) -> Unit
 ) {

 val phoneNumberOtp = remember { mutableStateOf("") }

 val context = LocalContext.current

   LaunchedEffect(Unit) {

    println("found activity? ${context.findActivity()}")

    val activity = context.findActivity() ?:
    return@LaunchedEffect
    modelAuthentication.setActivity(activity)

    }

   OutlinedTextField(
            value = phoneNumberOtp.value,
            colors = TextFieldDefaults.textFieldColors(
                backgroundColor = white,
                focusedIndicatorColor = Grey,
                unfocusedIndicatorColor = Grey,
                focusedLabelColor = Grey,
                unfocusedLabelColor = Grey,

                ),
            onValueChange = { phoneNumberOtp.value = it },
            label = { Text(text = "code") },
            placeholder = { Text(text = "code") },
            singleLine = true,
            modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth(0.8f)

        )

    Button(
                modifier = Modifier
                    .width(285.dp)
                    .height(55.dp),
                onClick = {

                modelAuthentication.otpVerification(phoneNumberOtp.value)

                navController.navigate("home")

                },
                colors = ButtonDefaults.buttonColors(
                    backgroundColor = Color.Custom
                ),
                shape = RoundedCornerShape(60)
            ) {
                Text(
                    text = "Next",
                    style = TextStyle(
                        fontSize = 18.sp,
                        color = white,

                        )

                )
            }
}

A: I'm pretty sure that it should be possible to inject activity context using Hilt, and hope to see the solution by @Alex Mamo or someone else.
For now here's hacky solution:
@HiltViewModel
class AuthenticationViewModel @Inject constructor(
) : ViewModel() {
    private lateinit var baseBuilder: PhoneAuthOptions.Builder

    fun setActivity(activity: Activity) {
        baseBuilder = PhoneAuthOptions.newBuilder().setActivity(activity)
    }

    fun send(mobileNum: String) {
        val options = baseBuilder
            //.setPhoneNumber...
    }
}

In your view:
val viewModel = viewModel<AuthenticationViewModel>()
val context = LocalContext.current
LaunchedEffect(Unit) {
    val activity = context.findActivity() ?: return@LaunchedEffect
    viewModel.setActivity(activity)
}

findActivity:
fun Context.findActivity(): Activity? = when (this) {
    is Activity -> this
    is ContextWrapper -> baseContext.findActivity()
    else -> null
}

A: You need to specify Activity since
it is a required parameter of the builder.
You will have to move the code of the builder to your Activity 'cause you're not allowed to have a link to Activity in a ViewModel.
Inside the verification result callback you can call ViewModel's methods to pass the result or exception.

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In the past month, we've celebrated the holiday season and brought in the new year, but there has been no rest for the wicked and regulators have been busy scrambling to meet deadlines and push out new regulatory documents. In the period before Christmas, we witnessed a lot of developments and it's safe to say that all of those involved in the regulatory process will be feeling the heat despite the winter weather.
ESMA, in particular, has been indefatigable with a streak of crucial new releases, including some connected to the implementation of MiFID II. Perhaps the most important of these were the guidelines on transaction reporting, reference data, order record keeping and clock synchronisation. At over 270 pages, excluding the annexes, digesting these is sure to have kept MiFID teams busy into the new year as they struggle to get to grips with the listed scenarios which are accompanied by precise technical formats and schema to be used to represent specific reportable values. Along with these, guidelines on cross-selling practices were also delivered, and these seek to ensure that investors are treated fairly when an investment firm offers two or more financial products or services as part of a package.
As well as this output, we've also seen the final publication of important new regulations in the Official Journal of the EU, including SFTR, Payment Services Directive 2 and the third group of implementing regulations on Solvency II. This definitive action is bound to create additional strain, as it sets in stone additional implementation timelines that will only intensify the compliance burden faced by the financial services industry.
Before the break, we also saw the FCA's Consultation Paper on the implementation of MiFID II as well as a consultation on consequential changes to the Senior Managers Regime. The EBA also got in on the action with their draft guidelines covering remuneration policies in the retail banking sector.
The European Parliament has been busy with its report on stocktaking and challenges of EU financial services regulation. Compiled by the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON), the report assesses the best way towards a more efficient and effective EU framework for financial regulation and a Capital Markets Union. One of its main recommendations is to protect the exemptions in EMIR for non-financial companies which it states have been contradicted by the Capital Requirements Directive and Regulation with regard to the application of the Credit Valuation Adjustment charge. It has, therefore, called for more consistency in policies across different legislative proposals. However, with new year's resolutions being made across the regulatory sector in the dawn of 2016, it remains to be seen whether this idealistic view can be realised by regulators in the upcoming year.
On the other side of the pond, US regulators have been of a similar proclivity with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System releasing guidance that consolidates capital planning expectations for all large financial institutions and clarifies differences in those expectations based on firm size and complexity. We also had the US Federal Reserve Board reaching out for public opinion on a proposed policy statement regarding countercyclical capital buffers. The SEC have published their 2015 summary report of commission staff's examinations of each nationally recognised statistical rating organisation, while the Office of the Investor Advocate completed its review of the fiscal year report on activities. Meanwhile, the CFTC's gift to J.P. Morgan Chase was a $100 million fine for failure to disclose conflicts of interest just before the break. Along with this, they provided time-limited no-action relief for Swap Execution Facilities (SEFs) from the requirements to capture post-trade allocation information in their audit trail data.
IOSCO released an international report on trading venue business continuity plans that looks at the mechanisms to effectively manage electronic trading risks and plans for business continuity. Strides have also been made by the German regulator, BaFin, with their publication of indicator values, time series and indicator descriptions concerning the countercyclical capital buffer.
This is just a condensed insight demonstrating the depth and breadth of the regulatory developments that were churned out around the holidays. With thousands of pages of regulatory documents appearing over this busy period across the world, the financial services industry has a lot of catching up to do. All this progress and productivity within such a short space of time signifies a busy year ahead for all industry players.


The term is borrowed from the urban psychogeography movement. For our purposes Psychogeography is all things related to the geographic areas of Hawaii.
In Ridley Scotts Blade Runner, we are shown a dystopian Los Angeles cityscape marked with floating advertisements, fluorescent neon storefront signs and the remnants of a culture that once stood.
I feel the same way walking into Ala Moana Center. Flashing signs to grab my attention, the rush of vendors trying to hock their wares at me. Is this a true representation of Hawaiian commerce? Or the amalgamation of out of island investors and property managers who have no grasp on long term local interests?
One the original tenants of Ala Moana Center, The Slipper House, is not only a local favorite for over 54 years but has been a destination for visiting tourists.
The Slipper House was founded in 1959 by Kiyoto Uejio.
The style has evolved over the years from beach footwear to affordable sandals.
Kiyoto's son, Glenn Uejio is a musician who earned an undergraduate and masters degree from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. A clarinetist, he previously performed with the Honolulu Symphony and taught music and band at Oahu high schools. He joined the store in 1978 after becoming weary of a music career.
The Slipper House philosophy's has always stayed the same throughout the years.
The average employee stays nine years, longer than the average worker in retail, where turnover is relatively high. And Uejio said he hasn't had to advertise for an opening in more than 20 years.
Sadly in last November (2012) General Growth Properties notified the store's owner, Glenn Uejio, that it was terminating his lease at the end of May.
This is a common theme we have been witnessing throughout the years in Hawaii.
Returning to our comparison of Blade Runner, will the artificial consciousness of Ala Moana awaken to find itself devoid of the Aloha spirit? Or will Ala Moana Center remain another replica of every other mall one can find on a tropical island.
Living in Hawai`i, we are very luck to be a part of a very unique and involved community of local hobbyists that are extremely passionate for their cause. Of course, I'm speaking of the local aquarist scene. I'm not sure if it's our proximity to the ocean (Father Dagon be praised), or the variety of mixed Asian and other cultures that have formulated this environment, but the fish enthusiast that wishes to find another passionate comrade doesn't have to look very hard.
One such an organization that has been encouraging local aquarium hobbyists to gather together and share their knowledge and experience for a number of years is the Honolulu Aquarium Society. At their meetings every first Friday of the month, members are welcome to join in on educational presentations on aquarium related topics, participate in the society sponsored auction and raffle, and just have an all around good time discussing their favorite fishy things with those of a similar sense of sanity! If you're interested in becoming a member, or even just in stopping by and seeing what the HAS is all about, follow the link below for more information.
And even if you're not a hybrid child of the sea, feel free to come down and seek me out as well! Mother Hydra be praised!
International working party for the documentation and conservation of buildings, sites, and neighborhoods of the modern movement.
The Hawaii chapter of Docomomo US is comprised of members of key local architectural, design, preservation and museum professionals from the private and public sectors. The Hawaii chapter aims to promote public education on Modernism in the islands by cataloguing, preserving, restoring and renovating Hawaii's unique modern architecture and public art; identifying aspects of the modern movement that are applicable to Hawaii's environment and culture; conducting an oral history project among senior Hawaii architects and developers of our modern environments; and building a model Docomomo chapter that also has a lot of fun.
Often times we may have forgotten old designs and structures in Hawaii, like Byron's Drive Inn, The Old Stadium, or Castle Park. Here is a brief disscusion on a related topic called Psychogeography.
Sign up for one of their events.
In the old days people from Wahiawa side would meet those from Waianae at Kolekole and attempt to cross over. Each would challenge the other for the right to pass. The losing chief would then have to kneel before the big rock and place his head on it and be killed. His skin was then stripped form the flesh and bones (leaving it raw- Kolekole)*. The spoils of the battle and the bones were then brought to the heiau in Halona and offered in sacrifice. Below Kolekole and beyond Kailio is a hair-pin turn known as Hupe Loa for the retainers of the vanquished chief because of the weeping and blowing of noses.
* Mrs, Pukii says "holehole" is to strip the flesh. She believes the name Kolekole most likely came because of the battles and the wounds the warriors received, leaving their flesh raw–"kolekole". The idea of the chief kneeling before a rock to be killed seems modern.
A view of Ford Island from the Waimalu walking trail.
The Hawaiian name for Ford Island is Mokuumeume. Probably the first name attached to the island was Marin's island, for Don Francisco de Paula Y Marin was no doubt its first real owner. Archibald Campbell, who visited it in 1810, wrote that it was an isle "belonging to Manina (Marin), the king's interpreter, in which he keeps a numerous flocks of sheep and goat, hogs and rabbits. It was about two miles in circumference". The year 1825 produced a new name. A map based on a survey of Pearl Harbor by Lieut, C.R Maiden in that year carries the name of Rabbit Island on the present Ford Island. The map is published in the Paradise of the Pacific of May, 1925.
Dr. Seth Porter Ford was born at Washington, Conn. He arrived in the Hawaiian Islands in 1851 aboard the ship R.B Forbes from Boston. He was a Physician in the United States Marine Hospital. He owned Mokuumeume or Marin's Island or Rabbit Island and it at last received the name of Dr Ford. Dr Ford died at the age of 48 years on November 1866. His funeral took place on November 25. "The procession, which embraced the Masonic Brotherhood, numbering about sixty, moved to the Nuuanu Cemetary, where Judge Davis read the Masonic burial service." Governer Dominis was appointed executor of the estate of Dr. Ford.
Leave My Deep Fried Shrimp ALONE!
Do you remember the beginning of John Woo's 1992 Classic Hard Boiled, when the brawl broke out at the Dim Sum restaurant? Choy Yun-Fat brandishing two hand guns and blazing away as someone took his deep fried shrimp? Not exactly the truth. In fact, that was a Tea- House, and there was no dim sum in reach. However, whenever I eat at local dim sum restaurants, such as Legend Seafood Restaurant, Royal Garden Chinese Restaurant, or Happy Days Seafood Restaurant, I feel that my lack of etiquette will sometimes bring about the City on Fire Works rage of the servers.
The guide bellow will not save you from torrents of Triad gunfire .Rather think of the guide as preventative maintenance where you can avoid an altercation all together.
Your Bullet Proof Vest: Aka The Essential Guide to Dim Sum.
The Waters Of Kane is a Mele from the Island Of Kaui the island which more than any other Hawaiian group retains a tight hold on the mystical and imaginative features that mark the mythology of Polynesia.


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Record Roundup: Klaxons, Jolie Holland, Mac DeMarco, Sam Smith
Nastassia Baroni Mar. 05, 2014
Today's Record Roundup features some of Some of independent music's more colourful artists as well as some rising newcomers, with releases from English new rave indie rockers, Klaxons, jazz-inspired singer Jolie Holland , Canadian multi-instrumentalist Mac DeMarco and breakthrough Londoner Sam Smith.
Klaxsons – Love Frequency
After sharing their new singles, disco-flavoured, glimmering There Is No Other Time and the accompanying A-side track, the psychedelic Children Of The Sun, Klaxons have announced information on their hotly anticipated third studio album, Love Frequency. The album will be released in Australia on 30th May.
The follow-up to 2010's Surfing the Void, features production from Gorgon City, the Chemical Brothers' Tom Rowlands, Erol Alkan and James Murphy.
Listen: Klaxons – There Is No Other Time
Jolie Holland – Wine Dark Sea
Retro-inspired american singer and performer, Jolie Holland has announced she will combines her beloved elements of folk, traditional, country, rock, jazz, and blues into a bold new album Wine Dark Sea, due out this 16th May.
Wine Dark Sea was self-produced by Holland who mined New York's fertile downtown jazz and experimental scene for an ensemble of talented musicians including Doug Wieselman (Lou Reed), Indigo Street and others. The sense of fun they had recording the album is tangible.
Watch: Jolie Holland – Waiting For The Sun
Mac DeMarco – Salad Days
Following up 2012's lauded record Mac DeMarco 2 and his much talked about Meredith Festival appearances Spunk Records are gearing up to release, Salad Days, the brand new record from 23-year-old Canadian multi-instrumentalist Mac DeMarco, due out 28th March.
Written and recorded around a relentless tour schedule, the new offering is said to give the listener a very personal insight into DeMarco's mind amidst the craziness of a rising career in a very public format. No word yet whether his recently leaked lady-parts inspired tune will feature on the record.
Listen: Mac DeMarco – Passing Out The Pieces
Sam Smith – In The Lonely Hour
Rounding off an incredible 12 months Brit Awards and BBC Sound Poll winner Sam Smith, has announced the release of his debut album In The Lonely Hour, due out on 23rd May through Capitol Records. 2013 saw Sam's journey from featured vocalist on Disclosure's breakout hit Latch and Naughty Boy's La La La, to being awarded some of the industry's biggest accolades.
His debut single, Money On My Mind has also just blazed into the number one spot on the UK Official Singles chart, making Smith the first Brit's Critics' Choice winner to go straight to the top of the chart with a debut single.
Watch: Sam Smith – Money On My Mind
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Taipei, March 24 (CNA) An SUV with a drunk driver at the wheel rammed through the guardrail of an elevated expressway and fell to the ground some 20 meters below in New Taipei on Sunday, fatally injuring the driver, police said.
The 36-year-old man, identified only by his surname Chen (陳), was found by paramedics in the badly damaged car without any signs of life, police said, and he was declared dead after being rushed to a nearby hospital.
An initial blood test found the man had the equivalent of a 1.2mg/liter breath alcohol concentration, well above the 0.25mg/l legal limit, police said.
They suspect that the driver, a coffee machine salesman, was drunk before losing control of the vehicle on Provincial Highway 65 as he was heading toward Tucheng at around 7 a.m.
Police continue to investigate the crash to determine if any factors other than driving under the influence of alcohol were at play.


Die Mas is a tranquil destination on the Orange River bank in the town Kakamas, a mere 80km from Upington in the Northern Cape Province. The region boasts unique climatic conditions, where the waters of the powerful Orange River and the clear African skies bring life to the rich soil of the semi-desert region. This is where we grow our main crops of grapes.
The farm was established by the Hanekom Family in 1970 and has since grown to much bigger business. Visitors can expect a unique combination of export table grapes, raisins and award-winning wines and brandies at our wine cellar for a memorable experience of our hospitality and products.
Die Mas plays host to quaint self-catering chalets and a scenic campsite along the banks of the Orange River. It is also furnished with a cosy Lapa restaurant offering delicious food and drinks on selected days and is also available to hire for special occasions and weddings.


A classic theorem by Vizing asserts that if the maximum degree of a graph is ?, then it is possible to color its edges, in polynomial time, using at most ?+1 colors. However, this algorithm is offline, i.e., it assumes the whole graph is known in advance. A natural question then is how well we can do in the online setting, where the edges of the graph are revealed one by one, and we need to color each edge as soon as it is added to the graph. Online edge coloring has an important application in fast switch scheduling. A natural model is that edges arrive online, but in a random permutation. Even in the random permutation model, the best proven approximation factor for any algorithm is the factor 2 of the simple greedy algorithm (which holds even in the worst-case online model). The algorithm of Aggarwal et al. (FOCS'03) provides a 1+o(1) factor algorithm for the case of very dense multi-graphs, when ?=?(n2), where n is the number of vertices. In this paper, we show that for graphs with ?=?(logn), it is possible to color the graph with (1+ee2?1+o(1))??1.43? colors, with high probability, in the online random-order model. Our algorithm is inspired by a 1.6-approximate distributed offline algorithm of Panconesi and Srinivasan (PODC'92), which we extend by reusing failed colors online.
Further, we show how we can extend the algorithm to reuse colors multiple times, which reduces the approximation factor below 1.43. We conjecture that the algorithm becomes nearly optimal (i.e., uses ?+o(?) colors) with O(log(?/logn)) reuses. We reduce the question to proving the non-negativity of a certain recursively defined sequence, which looks true in computer simulations. This non-negativity can be proved explicitly for a small number of reuses, giving improved algorithms: e.g., the algorithm which reuses colors 5 times uses 1.26? colors.