2007 - On the Boards, Seattle, WA (Repeat After Me)
2007 - Time-Based Art Festival, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR ("Repeat After Me")
2007 - Northwest New Works Festival, On the Boards, Seattle, WA ("Repeat After Me" - excerpt)
2008 - Myrna Loy Center, Helena, MT ("Repeat After Me")
2008 - Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, WA ("Project X: You Are Here")
2008 - NW New Works Festival, Seattle, WA ("Undine")
2008 - 10 Tiny Dances, Portland, OR ("Project X: You Are Here")
2009 - Fury Festival, Fury Factory, San Francisco, CA ("Repeat After Me")
2013 - The Left Hand of Darkness, Portland, Oregon.
2015 - Time, A Fair Hustler"," Fertile Ground Festival, Portland, OR.
Aleksey Lebed
Aleksey Ivanovich Lebed (; 14 April 1955 – 27 April 2019) was a Russian military officer and politician. He was a member of United Russia. He served as the Head of the Republic of Khakassia from 1997 to 2009. He was born in Novocherkassk.
Lebed died of internal bleeding on 27 April 2019 in Moscow. He was 64.
Homosexuality and religion
The relationship between homosexuality and religion has changed a lot across place and time, and within and between different religions. There have also been changes in different forms of homosexuality and bisexuality. Present-day doctrines of the world's major religions are vastly different.
Several religions (particularly the Abrahamic ones) do not allow homosexuality and/or same-sex marriage. In other words, some religions will only allow sex within marriage between one man and one woman. For example, in Judaism, the rules teach that man shall not lie with another man as he would with a woman. Most forms of Christianity take a conservative approach on the issue of homosexuality, same-sex marriage and LGBT rights: including the Eastern Orthodox Church, Mormonism , Oriental Orthodoxy, the Roman Catholic Church and many strains of Protestantism (including Evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, Presbyterianism among others)-calling same-sex acts as sinful.
However, there are liberal forms of Christianity accept homosexuality, LGBT rights and same-sex marriage. Namely, the United Church of Christ, the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Metropolitan Community Church and several others are accepting of homosexuality and LGBT rights.
Some religous fundamentalists have said that HIV/AIDS is a punishment from God against homosexual people.
Conservative denominations often oppose same-sex sexual relations based on Old and New Testament that call human sexual relations as strictly heterosexual (in other words, between one man and one woman).
Simply connected space
A space (or shape) is called simply connected if it is all one piece and does not have any "holes" that pass all the way through it. For example, a ball is simply connected, but a doughnut is not.
More formally, being "one piece" means a shape is path-connected, which means there is a path from any point inside the shape to any other which does not leave the shape.
Reijo Taipale
Reijo Toivo Taipale (9 March 1940 – 26 April 2019) was a Finnish pop singer. He performed mostly Schlager music, tango and ballads. He first became known in the music scene during the 1950s. Some of his famous songs include "Elämän virta", "Sateen hiljainen ääni" and "Valon lapsi". He had over 30 albums to his name. He also released albums with Eino Grön in the 1970s. He was born in Miehikkälä.
Taipale died of dementia in Helsinki on 26 April 2019. He was 79.
Jovita Carranza
Jovita Carranza (born June 29, 1949) is an American businesswoman and politician. Carranza was the 26th Administrator of the Small Business Administration from January 15, 2020 to January 20, 2021. She was the 44th Treasurer of the United States from 2017 through 2020. She was the Deputy Administrator for the United States Small Business Administration from December 2006 to January 2009 during George W. Bush's presidency.
Carranza was Vice President of Air Operations for United Parcel Service (UPS) the world's largest package delivery company at its facility in Louisville, Kentucky.
Carranza was the President & CEO of the JCR Group, a consulting firm with a focus on business development, profit and loss management, operations, logistics and systems optimization.
On April 4, 2019, President Trump nominated Carranza to be Administrator of the Small Business Administration, replacing Linda McMahon. She was confirmed on January 7, 2020 and sworn in on January 15.
Hubert Hahne
Hubert Hahne (28 March 1935 – 24 April 2019) was a German racing driver. He raced in five Formula One World Championship Grands Prix between 1966 and 1970. His first entry was in the 1966 German Grand Prix. His last entry was in the 1970 German Grand Prix. He was also a touring car racer. He won the 1966 European Touring Car Championship. He was born in Moers. He was the older brother of Armin Hahne, and uncle of Jörg van Ommen.
Hahne had dementia in his final years. He died on 24 April 2019 in Düsseldorf. He was 84.
Denton Lotz
Denton Lotz (January 18, 1939 – April 23, 2019) was an American Baptist minister. He was the general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance from 1988 to 2007. He also served as Senior Pastor of Tremont Temple Baptist Church in Boston, Massachusetts from 2007 to 2017. He was born in Flushing, Queens, New York.
Lotz died at his home in Forestdale, Massachusetts on April 23, 2019. He was 80.
Negasso Gidada
Negasso Gidada Solon ( "Nägaso Gidada"; 8 September 1943 – 27 April 2019) was an Ethiopian politician. He served as the President of Ethiopia from 22 August 1995 until 8 October 2001. He was a member of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) before becoming independent. He was later a member of the House of Peoples' Representatives for Dembidolo from 2005.
Gidada was born in Dembidolo. He was married to German-born Regina Abelt. He died of an illness on 27 April 2019 in Frankfurt, in the German state of Hesse. He was 75.
Elina Bystritskaya
Elina Avraamovna Bystritskaya (; 4 April 1928 – 26 April 2019) was a Soviet and Russian actress. She is known for her role of Aksinya in movie version of Mikhail Sholokhov's novel "And Quiet Flows the Don" (1958), directed by Sergei Gerasimov. She also starred in "Unfinished Story" (1955), "Volunteers" (1958) and "All Remains to People" (1963). She was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1978. She was awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" in 2008. She was born in Kyiv, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, to a Jewish family.
Bystritskaya died in Moscow on 26 April 2019, at the age of 91.
Walter Rodney
Walter Anthony Rodney (23 March 1942 – 13 June 1980) was a well known Guyanese historian, political activist and academic. He was assassinated in 1980.
Bart Chilton
Bartholomew Hamilton Chilton (May 1, 1960 – April 27, 2019) was an American civil servant. He was Commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) from 2007 to 2014. He notably had long hair and wore cowboy boots. He was once called "the modern-day Eliot Ness" for wanting the CFTC to charge fraud. At the time of his death, he was a host of RT's "Boom Bust". He was born in Wilmington, Delaware and grew up in Ogden Dunes, Indiana.
Chilton died of pancreatic cancer on April 27, 2019, at the age of 58.
Sylvia Bretschneider
Sylvia Bretschneider (14 November 1960 – 28 April 2019) was a German politician. She was a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). She became a member of the Landtag ("regional parliament") of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in 1994. She became speaker of the state's assembly in 2002. She died in office in 2019. She was born in Waren (Müritz), Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. She was married and had three children.
Bretschneider died of cancer in Neubrandenburg on 28 April 2019. She was 58.
Ogden Dunes, Indiana
Ogden Dunes is a town in Portage Township, Porter County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town had a population of 1,110.
Forestdale, Massachusetts