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We are able to stand in the presence of the Creator when we release all our anger, we release all our fear, we forgive ourselves, we forgive those who have wronged us, we practice unconditional love, we practice living in the now in the present moment. In Hawai‘i, the Heiau respected as most powerful through Kamehameha’s day were those dedicated to Ku. That practice is true. The human sacrifice and all practices related to human sacrifice are not true to our practices. So all the heiau of the Pacific represent the beginning of all religions today. They represent man’s quest to bring the knowledge of the heavens to the earth. HOUSEL: Thank you. M. ROY: Thank you. OWEN: Hello, I’m -. Switch? HOUSEL: No switch, yeah. You can use that one, please. OWEN: Hello. My name is Toni Owen. HOUSEL: Can you hold that a little closer to your mouth? OWEN: My name is Toni Owen and my address is P. O. Box 439, Hlualoa 96725. I, too, came a little bit late, so I’ve only been here for about half an hour and I haven’t heard all the testimonials; so excuse me, if I am being redundant. I also came from O‘ahu about 20 years ago, and I came to this island because it was not as populated, and there was a lot more open space. So and, because of all the permits that they permitted on O‘ahu, I didn’t want to stay on that island. Anyway, I’m a bike rider that has been riding Ali‘i Drive for 20 years. So I go all the way up from Kona, from the Old Airport all the way down to the end of the world and come back, and I do this three to four times a week. So I have seen from another point of view being on a bike, not being in a car, not walking, not being a surfer although I’m a water person – I go in the water a lot. And through that drive, through that ride there, which is approximately eight miles from town to the end of the road and back, there are countless of, there are countless of condominiums, you can just rattle off the names, there’s got to be 30 or 40 of them, although there are only three places that I ride past that I can really see the beach from not just a little pocket but that I can see the beach, and that’s at Honl’s Surf, that’s at Lyman’s and that’s at Kahalu‘u Beach, and that is it. You know, this place is priceless. Don’t, don’t sell out for, you know, a condo that we don’t need; that there is a desire in the community to have -. They haven’t even filled all the condos with the economy the way it is today. They don’t have all those condos filled – those 40 umpteen condos down on Ali‘i Drive. We don’t need it. But you know what? We need that open space; we need it for us, we need it for our keiki, we need it for future generations. Again, it is priceless. And I come from a construction background. I am unemployed. I would love to have a job. But I would like to have a job building something that is correct, not building something that is incorrect. And like the previous testimonial, I don’t 19 EXHIBIT C