If I performed works of charity it was because I wanted to.
I've performed works in most common European and Slavic languages: from German, Italian and French opera, to songs, oratorios and opera in Croatian, Russian, Hungarian, Czech, and in my own indigenous languages of Samoan and Maori.
In solo concerts I have performed works by Augustin Barrios, Richard Rodney Bennett, Peter Maxwell Davies, John Dowland, Jack Duarte, Joaquin Rodrigo, Franz Schubert, Vicente Sojo, Domenico Scarlatti, Fernando Sor, Toru Takemitsu, and Heitor Villa-Lobos.
When I performed this work on behalf of abused and neglected children, I did so to help reform the child welfare system -- not to bankrupt it.
I performed the work described below following the principles of Open Notebook Science.
That I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.
From 1992-2005, I performed research, worked with and directed organizations at NASA and NOAA whose missions include weather forecasting and supercomputing.
They raised their right hands and plowed through the long, stilted oath "I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law...."....
My mentors helped create a protocol, but I performed the technical work.
I performed the following work after data clearing: first, dropped non-A-share companies, namely those that are not listed in the mainland stock market; second, separated all data by year and generated yearly lists of companies without delisted ones; and third, dropped firms with incomplete information.
