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Looking for the best Enneagram books?
If you are new to the Enneagram prepare to have your world rocked and step into a journey of self-discovery that will change your life. And I'm not exaggerating.
If you are new to the Enneagram here is a post that gives an overview of what the Enneagram is.
In the video above I share with you my favorite Enneagram books, and I will list out what those are here below and post a link to them on Amazon. These are affiliate links, and price is the same to you.
With the Enneagram, if you are a beginner I would suggest you start with The Road Back To You, it's the best introduction to the Enneagram I have found. The authors of the book each have a podcast, Ian Cron with Typology and Susanne Stabile with The Enneagram Journey. From there, check out Susanne's book called The Path Between Us.
After I read the road back to you and listened to every podcast I could find, I bought a few other books. I'd have to say the one that has literally made my heart/mind be like 'how on earth is this so right on?' is The Complete Enneagram by Beatrice Chestnut. It goes into more detail about each type and the subtypes.
Below you will see the images of the three books I would recommend you start with first, remembering that The Complete Enneagram is a more in depth teaching on the Enneagram.
Here are a few other books I mentioned in the video as well as the link to the 12 week course I mentioned from Susanne Stabile.
The course I mentioned can be found here. You can also check out her store section if you are curious on learning about a specific topic related to the Enneagram. And as I mentioned above remember she has a podcast that is a great resource as well.
And Beth McCord is who I mentioned I took the class from where it was a group of only 6's!
There you have it, my friends! These books and resources are more than enough to get you started on your discovery of the Enneagram. One thing that is often said about doing the work in/on yourself with the Enneagram is that it is best done in a group or with someone you trust. Find a few friends in your area and start a group, reach out to a coach, or find a live training to take, you won't regret it.


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Local Catholic churches have a plan
Posted by Theresa Ketterling | Mar 31, 2017 | Community Building, News, Top Stories
After a series of public consultations in the fall, six Catholic parishes have a plan to boost involvement at local churches. Parishes in Vankleek Hill, St. Eugène, St. Bernardin, L'Orignal, Chûte-à-Blondeau and Ste-Anne-de-Prescott, as well as the Conseil scolaire de district catholique de l'Est ontarien (CSDCEO) participated in the process, which involved a survey and a series of meetings.
On Thursday, March 30, the results of the consultation process were presented by David Sherwood at Nicko's restaurant in Vankleek Hill. A summary of the conclusions says that there were three main themes raised by participants: updating masses, involving young people, and modernizing communications.
"Modernizing" masses was the most common comment, says the document. Representatives of the parishes have decided each church will hold 12 "special celebrations" per year. These could include showing a video, or hosting a speaker. They could also include themed masses – a special mass for snowmobilers or motorcyclists, an annual picnic, or a back-to-school mass, for example.
There was also a desire expressed for young people to be more involved in the churches. The plan is for the school board to share its resources with the parishes, including videos, songs and more, as well as the presence of students at masses. Local CSDCEO schools in L'Orignal, Vankleek Hill and St-Eugène will create a "formal structural link" with local parishes, with a parent from each sitting on the local pastoral committee. With an eye to modernizing communications, each parish will also create a Facebook page.
Sherwood said he was impressed by the number of survey responses received – about 500. There will be six more meetings held, where members will have the opportunity to discuss the changes. These are scheduled for April 9 after the 9:30 a.m. mass in Sainte-Anne-de-Prescott, April 20 at 7 p.m. at the community centre in Chute-a-Blondeau (with the support of l'École Curé Labrosse), and April 24 at 6 p.m. l'École Saint-Jean-Baptiste in L'Orignal. Meetings for the Saint Bernardin, Saint-Grégoire, and Saint-Eugène parishes are planned but have yet to be scheduled.
Sherwood says the success of the changes will be measured in part by looking at collections and church attendance.
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"We cannot find fault in the North Aceh district police chief, because I brought Untung (AKBP Untung Sangaji) to Aceh", he said to shouts of "God is Great" by the crowd.
"We don't care who a person is, but what we don't like is their behaviour, and if we find these people then they will be subject to the law", said Irwandi.
Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) speaker Muharuddin, who also took part in the action, said that the Acehnese government strongly condemns deviant behaviour which creates unease in society. "In general these LGBT people give rise to negative sentiment", he said.
"It is fitting that we give our appreciation to this kind of courage, and Pak Untung was not wrong. If there are protests by outside parties then they don't know what Aceh is like", he asserted.
The twelve transgender women were arrested as part of a Social Disease Operation (Pekat) on January 27. They were then "retrained" by having their heads shaved, ordered to do pushups, shout Pancasila [the state ideology] out loud and made to wear men's clothing.
"They have now truly returned to normal again. They have become masculine and strong men [again]", said Untung when speaking with Kumparan (kumparan.com) on Wednesday January 31.


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Older people are sleeping in their vehicles as the housing crisis bites those in their retirement years.
The Salvation Army is among groups that expect to see more elderly people living in their vehicles or on the street as the population ages and those without their own homes struggle to pay rents.
Salvation Army Social Housing national director Greg Foster said it recently housed an older man in Auckland who had been living in his truck for two years.
Barry Mills, chairman of supported living facility Abbeyfield Nelson, said it had to turn away two men who looked to be in their 60s in the past year. They were single men from out of town, living out of their cars with no place to call home.
Habitat for Humanity is building three one-bedroom units for older people at an affordable rent close to Nelson Hospital. General manager Glenn Brewerton said it usually built homes for families with children, but recognised that affordable housing for older people was an issue.
Nelson retailers were called upon at a meeting on Monday evening to present ideas and solutions on how to fix our broken CBD.
The city centre retailer's forum was a joint initiative from Uniquely Nelson, NRDA (Nelson Regional Development Agency) and the Nelson City Council to ask for input from city retailers on what the future of the CBD looks like.
Around 60 business owners from the CBD gathered at the Suter Art Gallery to present ideas and priorities to council on how to fix the city centre.
Council group manager environmental management Clare Barton stressed she was looking for solutions to the problems that were being presented, not just issues.
The group heard how spending on accommodation and clothing in the region has dropped between two and 4.7 per cent over the last year but that we are spending more than $37 million at bars and restaurants in a time when visitor numbers have never been so strong.
The forum followed a similar meeting with CBD landowners and Clare Barton says there were some key messages that came through from there as well.
A whole bunch of houses have begun to lose value, and their owners don't yet know it.
Here in New Zealand we've been so blinded by the promise of capital gains, nobody seems to care what it costs to maintain homes, keep them insured, and pay the rates on them.
But the time for such a devil-may-care attitude is drawing to a close, at least for some homes.
We all got a shock when the price of house insurance more than doubled after the Christchurch earthquake. It suddenly cost a lot more to own a house, though with interest rates low, most people soldiered on, and counted their rising capital gains instead.
But a second wave of insurance premium rises is taking place that's lifting annual insurance premiums by $1000 for some, and for a really unlucky few, by far more.
This is the now unstoppable shift begun by Tower, and continued by IAG (State and AMI), to individual risk pricing on homes for natural hazards like earthquake, landslip and flood. Suncorp (AA Insurance and Vero) will follow soon.
Essentially, when it came to these risks, every home in New Zealand used to be priced as if it posed the same claims risk for an insurer.
Now homes more likely to slip into gullies, topple into the sea, or succumb to floods will cost more to insure for their natural hazard cover, and homes in most of the growing Auckland market will cost less to insure.
All other things being equal, the more costly a house is to insure, maintain and pay council taxes on, the less people can pay for it.
The likely mechanism for these three factors to begin to feed through into prices is through banks.
They have to work out what they can lend safely to people buying homes.
A year from now, perhaps less, they will be taking notice of how much it will cost to insure the homes people want to borrow money off them to buy.
Afterall, it is a requirement of their mortgage contracts that borrowers must keep their homes fully insured.
A guide to the fund called Powering Up Aotearoa-New Zealand's Regions is available on the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment website. It says: The following are not eligible for PGF [the Provincial Growth Fund] as they are funded by other means: Housing (unless it is a core part of a broader project and would not otherwise be required); Water and large-scale irrigation; Social infrastructure (such as hospitals and schools).
The exclusion for water and large-scale irrigation projects seems like it might preclude the Waimea dam project, which has received funding commitments from Crown Irrigation Investments Ltd (CCIL).
CIIL, which acts on behalf of the Government as a bridging investor for regional water infrastructure development, is due to provide the council with a $10m interest-free loan for the dam project. It is also set to provide just over $22m as a loan to Waimea Irrigators Ltd, a partner with the council in the project.
TDC community relations manager Chris Choat said the council accepted that the fund did not provide for ''high-value'' irrigation-only schemes, but the Waimea dam was more than an irrigation project.
Claims about a storage pond proposal being a viable alternative to the Waimea dam are ludicrous, says Waimea Irrigators Ltd chairman Murray King.
"There are many reasons storage ponds won't solve the region's water problem including insufficient capacity, ponds not addressing the minimum flow requirements on the Waimea River and the lack of funding available for them," King said. "The idea is utterly ludicrous."
Waimea Irrigators Ltd (WIL) is a partner in the dam project with Tasman District Council.
King's comments were in response to another irrigator group, Waimea Irrigators and Waters Users Society, last week reviving a proposal it first raised in 2016 for riverside reservoirs as an alternative water augmentation scheme to the Waimea dam project.
Estimated to cost about $40 million, the society's suggestion was for the construction of three lined storage ponds alongside the Wairoa and Waimea rivers capable of holding up to 6 million cubic metres of water.
However, King said he did not believe 6 million cubic metres of water would meet the minimum flow requirements set out in the Tasman Resource Management Plan and provide adequate supplies for water users in dry periods.
King challenged the society's suggestion that three ponds could be constructed for $40m and said no-one was "stepping up to fund them like they are the Waimea Community Dam".


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Interface was founded in 1968, the same year Apollo Mission flew its first crew, the year the Boeing 747 made its maiden voyage, and the year oil sold for $3.50 per barrel.
Founder Richard F. Caris located Interface headquarters at Scottsdale Airpark in 1972, where products are still manufactured and sold globally.
Interface was first to develop a one-million-pound automated calibration rig, expanding force measurement capabilities from grams to millions of pounds.
In 2014, Interface manufactured its one-millionth load cell.
Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2018, Interface is embarking on its 2nd 50 producing the highest quality precision load cells and torque transducers.
Interface's founder, Richard F. Caris, was originally working in Detroit when he realized he had a better idea on how to create load cells, a critical force measurement device used in the scaling industry. Upon his realization, Caris decided to start his own company and moved to Arizona to make it happen.
Caris recognized the market opportunity to expand the use of load cells by focusing his talented force measurement engineers on creating the highest quality products with meticulous emphasis on accuracy. He received several patents to begin. Despite many copycats that emerged, Caris is credited with developing the first low profile load cell of its kind, a gold standard for accurate test and measurement today in more than 70 countries around the world.
More than 50 years later, Interface is still recognized as the world leader in force and torque measurement solutions. The company maintains its status as a global standard for quality and accuracy in force measurement by heavily prioritizing precision and innovation.
A primary example of its ongoing commitment to creating transformative and disruptive solutions is Interface's AxialTQ® Torque Measurement System. Interface engaged top design and test engineers from the leading aerospace and automotive industries to identify requirements for a game-changing torque measuring system that would meet their advancing requirements for test and measurement.
Because of this critical customer feedback, Interface designed AxialTQ by spending a year and a half updating an older design and transforming it into an impressive technology that can meet nearly any application need across multiple industries.
AxialTQ now redefines the category of torque measurement systems in terms of function, accuracy customization and compatibility. With a revolutionary rotor design and high-precision sensing element technology that's combined with nextgeneration electronics, AxialTQ produces industry-leading accuracy.
AxialTQ is only one of Interface's latest innovation, the company has long been manufacturing thousands of standard and custom designs, inventions and innovative measurement products through its dedication to its values and passion to make a difference. The Interface team focuses on "CBPI" principles, which stands for customers, brand, partners and innovation. Interface aligns with these guiding principles by focusing on its customers first, above all else.
Interface makes big things happen, whether providing solutions for engineers to measure the thrust of rocket engines, or creating sensors that can be used for breakthrough optical laser devices. By frequently engaging with customers, Interface can better develop precision-based solutions that fit the exact needs to test, measure and create world-changing inventions. As diverse as the possibilities of scientific measurement, Interface plays a role in multitudes of products and technologies. Whether it applies to testing wings on new aircraft, braking systems on off-road vehicles, or pressures in downhole drilling for new energy sources, prioritizing innovation to help others do amazing things is at the company's core.
Interface has achieved immense success in exceeding expectations in its commitment to its brand and partners. This approach allows Interface to go above and beyond for its peers and customers while continuing to uphold its brand as the world leader in force measurement solutions.
As Interface begins its second 50 years in business, the company plans to grow in products and services that enable its customers to make great things happen. Interface will achieve its planned growth goals by continuing to offer industryleading innovations, improving existing products, developing customized force measurement solutions, and developing new and unique products that lead the industry in accuracy, consistency and durability. Safe in the knowledge that there's no end to what they can accomplish together, Interface and its customers will continue to change and improve the world.
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1. (1) Josef Newgarden, Chevrolet, 220.613 mph. 2. (22) Simon Pagenaud, Chevrolet, 220.311. 3. (12) Will Power, Chevrolet, 220.194. 4. (6) Robert Wickens, Honda, 219.561. 5. (18) Sebastien Bourdais, Honda, 219.302. 6. (14) Tony Kanaan, Chevrolet, 219.157. 7. (9) Scott Dixon, Honda, 219.112. 8. (27) Alexander Rossi, Honda, 218.894. 9. (30) Takuma Sato, Honda, 218.578. 10. (28) Ryan Hunter-Reay, Honda, 218.553.
11. (98) Marco Andretti, Honda, 218.430. 12. (23) Charlie Kimball, Chevrolet, 218.145. 13. (10) Ed Jones, Honda, 218.120. 14. (20) Ed Carpenter, Chevrolet, 218.057. 15. (5) James Hinchcliffe, Honda, 217.590. 16. (26) Zach Veach, Honda, 217.473. 17. (88) Gabby Chaves, Chevrolet, 217.149. 18. (21) Spencer Pigot, Chevrolet, 216.895. 19. (4) Matheus Leist, Chevrolet, 216.607. 20. (15) Graham Rahal, Honda, 216.092.
21. (19) Zachary Claman De Melo, Honda, 215.813. 22. (59) Max Chilton, Chevrolet, 214.275.
FORT WORTH, Texas – Tony Kanaan knows he wasn't very popular among many of his fellow IndyCar Series drivers after his runner-up finish in Texas last year.
Kanaan got blamed by drivers and penalized by IndyCar after he ignited a car-crushing, spark-spraying chain reaction involving nine cars that led to a 31-minute red flag. He was able to drive away on the repaved and reconfigured 1 1/2-mile oval, recovered from the penalty for avoidable contact and finished second behind Will Power when the race ended under caution after another crash.
A year after only nine of the 22 cars that started were listed as running at the end, and only six completed all 248 laps, IndyCar has new sleeker cars with a universal aero package that could change things at Texas in the first night race of the season.
While everybody has the same thing, Team Penske took the top three starting with the only 220-mph qualifiers. Defending series champion Josef Newgarden earned his fourth career pole – his first at Texas, and eighth for Penske at the track. Newgarden had a two-lap average of 220.613 mph, with Pagenaud at 220.311 mph and Indianapolis 500 winner Power at 220.194 mph.
Kanaan, the 2004 series champ, has run 58 races since the last of his 17 victories in the 2014 season finale. He is now racing for A.J. Foyt, the Texan whose team hasn't won a race since 2013.
Maybe Texas can change the fortunes for both Kanaan and Foyt.
This will be Kanaan's 19th start at Texas, where his average finish of 5.16 is a track record. His 11 top-five finishes and 15 top 10s are equal with Helio Castroneves for the most there. Kanaan has finished second twice, third twice and sixth in his last five TMS races.
It will be Kanaan's 292nd consecutive start, extending his IndyCar record that started in 2001. That is 59 more than former teammate Dixon, whose win at Detroit last weekend was the 42nd in his career to match Michael Andretti for the third-most in open-wheel racing behind Foyt (67) and Mario Andretti (52).
Kanaan was with Dixon at Chip Ganassi Racing before that team cut back to two full-time entries this season – Kanaan and Ed Jones, last year's top rookie.
"For a lot of us the biggest difference has been how quiet it is without Tony Kanaan," Dixon said with a smile.
Owner-driver Ed Carpenter had both of his cars taken out in the Kanaan incident last June, but said there was more that happened than Kanaan moving up the track and making contact with another car. Carpenter said he has spoken with IndyCar officials about that.
When asked if incidents like Kanaan was involved in with last year at Texas are forgotten, Dixon responded that they usually are until getting back to that same place.
Published: June 8, 2018, 4:03 p.m. Updated: June 8, 2018, 9:38 p.m.


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civil unrest in the country on seven rappers and bands.
He has blamed their aggressive lyrics for nationwide acts of violence which have included 9,000 cars being set fire to and 3,000 people arrested.
According to the BBC, 200 politicians have backed Grosdidier's petition that called for legal action against the musicians Monsieur R, Smala, Fabe and Salif, Ministere Amer, 113 and Lunatic.
in their heads, it is no surprise that they then see red as soon as they walk past policemen or simply people who are different from them," Grosdidier told France-Info.


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The Woodpecker Hotel is a large brick built community pub on Derby's Mackworth Estate. It is a 10 minute drive into the City center. To the front of the pub is a large open grass area. It has a nice bar and a comfortable lounge. A good range of Keg products are on the bar and they now serve a real ale Sharp's Doom Bar.


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A brief walk through the history and culture of Liverpool
From the industrial revolution to the The Beatles, from its working class neighbourhood to the financial sectors, its passion for football, art and culture. Liverpool is a city with its own unique style and way of life, and without a doubt lives up to its catchphrase "the world in one city".
Perhaps one of Liverpool's most crucial roles was in the 18th century, when its port, Albert Dock, was widely used for two centuries as an international trade and transport hub. Today the dock remains an iconic symbol of the city, and is surrounded by museums, pubs and shopping centres. Museums such as the Maritime Museum and the International Slavery Museum both portray well the rich history of the dock.
The great geographical location of the port meant that it was able to aid the industrial revolution that was brewing in England at the time, and the mark it has left is still apparent today.
As revealing fact of the importance of the port of Liverpool to the Revolution Industrial can be noted that the first railway line in the world that offered covered passenger service, back in 1830, the route from Liverpool to Manchester, is said of the city where the goods came to the city where exploited and they treated. Today, from Lime Street Station, in the heart of Liverpool, you can do this travel for just 40 minutes for a very affordable price.
Apart from being the centre of continental commerce, Liverpool welcomed many immigrants from all over the world, especially Ireland, whose coast is only a few hours away. Due to the large quantity of immigrants Liverpool welcomed, there was an increase in unemployment, crime and poverty, especially in the suburbs. On this basis, the city is preparing for a twentieth century full of lights and shadows, especially shadows in its early days, with two World Wars (the second was especially hard for the city, It was constantly bombarded by Nazi troops) and bloody revolts workers, and union struggles. Magnificent city tours are offered with this background context, and a War City Museum.
During the 60's, the city began to flourish and modernize, the financial and commercial zones growing. It was then that the small port city of Merseyside. That was when the small port city of Merseyside was unveiled to the world with the legendary group it cradled: The Beatles. On universal myth they posed, and as the city of Liverpool is present in the various options in the city are offered, from tours of the many places that inspired his songs to a full museum getting immerse ourselves in all his universe
Finally we can not speak of the flourishing of Liverpool not to mention what now and for several decades it ignites the minds of the Scouser, football. Liverpool F. C. is another hallmark of the city. Without underestimating Everton, the other team of the city, but European and national achievements of Liverpool, in addition to the mystical aura that follows the legendary Anfield Road and chant "You'll never walk alone" are a real pride for the city and it speaks of the passionate character of a swollen very attached to their city.
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It's a fact; savvy business professionals worldwide have climbed aboard the referral bandwagon and will never look back.
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Liberty High's cross country team donned yellow shirts with blue block lettering that read "Make them earn it" across the back.
The Lions dominated the field at the Class 2A state meet at Hereford High on Saturday, capturing a third straight state championship, finishing with 68 points. Calvert placed second with 74, River Hill was third (166) and Century was fourth (168).
Lions' junior Dan Saxon, Carroll County's top finisher, placed fourth in 16:26.40.
Poolesville's Ryan Lockett won the meet, followed by Calvert junior Justin Diehl and Jay Hall came in third for Westlake. Liberty placed four runners in the top 20 — Saxon, Woodrow Kashima, John Lemaster and Matt Leonhartt.
"We've got a lot of depth and we're a strong team together," Saxon said.
Carroll placed five runners in the top 10 alone — Century's Zach Fenton was seventh, Kashima and Lemaster were eighth and ninth, and South Carroll's Chris Scalzi was 10th with a personal-record time of 16:43.8.
Carroll runners offered numerous congratulations to their county counterparts with a hug or pat on the back as they crossed the finish line. There were smiles all around as well. Saxon ran in sixth place for most of the final 400, but surpassed River Hill's Anish Nanjappa in the last stretch.
Saxon crossed the finish line first at the county meet a few weeks ago and he ran second at the 2A West meet. He's only a junior, but he's immersed in a program that continues to find success year after year.
Part of that success is accomplishing the feat of hill-running and the boys conquered Hereford's infamous, grueling dip rather well, despite some burning in their legs.
Westminster senior Noah Griffin finished ninth in the 3A state meet in 17:04.84 and teammate Charlie Ferguson came in 12th (17:09.07) — the Owls placed seventh as a team with 196 points. Andrew Jackson, Manchester Valley's lone qualifier, placed 21st in 17:26.82.
This is the second straight year in which Liberty has won county, region, and state meets — the Lions were runners-up at states in 2014 after successfully capturing the county and region titles.
Lemaster said the boys are more of a family rather than just a team, and it's contributed to their success over the years.


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John Coverdale, an attorney and historian, is the author of two other books detailing the early days of Opus Dei—Uncommon Faith, about St. Josemaría and his companions during and shortly after the civil war in Spain, and Putting Down Roots, about Father Joseph Muzquiz, along with Alvaro del Portillo one of Opus Dei's first priests, who played a key role in introducing it in the United States.


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Soul to Seoul
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Kai and Spike are best of friends. They have a common background, the fact that they are both half Koreans. They both feel alone and mistreated, angry towards the world, and uncomfortable in their own house. One day in the middle of black Harlem, they accidentally encounter a Korean foreign student, Sunil, and both become interested in her... (Source: Tokyopop)
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Inside the jungles of Vietnam, a courageous Special Ops. Unit is fighting the most infamous war of decades past—the Vietnam War. This bold account follows the brave exploits of Sergeant "Perky" Perkins and his unit...of rabbits! Join Rats, Perky and Botaski as they fight against the cats of the Viet Cong. From the Tet Offensive to the My Canh bombing, watch these commando-style bunnies through an anthropomorphic lens as events unfold and violence erupts. On-human cast of characters notwithstanding, this compelling and painstakingly-researched work places an emphasis on factualism in order to accurately portray the events of the Vietnam War. With a fresh perspective on one of history's greatest calamities, Apocalypse Meow is a daring new take on a conflict that won't soon be forgotten...especially after these young rabbits are done! (Source: Manga Sketchbook)
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Higuchi Asuka's mother dies shortly after she tells her teenage daughter who her father is. Only knowing the family name "Sudou," Asuka goes in search to find her absent father. On her journey, she finds a guy being rather rough with a younger girl. Unable to resist, Asuka steps in by battering the guy with her motorcycle. When she discovers it was a big misunderstanding (Manato was just trying to get his sister Kazusa to go home), she drives them back to their house. Once there, Asuka finds out that Manato and Kazusa are the Sudou family she's been looking for, but the father isn't there, not to mention their mother also being dead since long ago. With no other leads, Asuka decides to move in as the big sister until their father shows up. Things get tricky when love builds within the complex family relationship... (Source: MU) Included one-shot: Volume 3: Otome no Jijou
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Tsukasa Miyu's life revolved around only one thing- swimming. She gets admitted to Tenkai Academy on a swimming scholarship. However, before the start of high school, she encountered Suzuki Aoi and gets drawn into a world that doesn't involve just swimming anymore...
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Comedy Romance School
High School freshman Yuzuriha Kyuuta made a promise with his childhood friend Ririko to marry her when they grow up. Being seperated from her since elementary school he now enrolls at her school, a former all girls private school for rich young ladies which has just opened its gates for male students, to meet her again. But upon meeting her, it turns out he has to live in the girls dorm and she is the dorm head!? And what's more, she doesn't seem to remember him at all! Just how will Kyuuta be able to keep his promise? (Source: MU)
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Koi wa Hito no Hoka
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The manga follows Sayo, who made a promise to a boy when she was a young girl. Since then, time has passed, and Sayo no longer has the appearance of a coward as she once did. Suddenly, that young boy appears in front of Sayo once again. Is he her ideal prince, or something else? (Source: ANN) Included one-shot: Volume 1: Haru no Ame (Spring Rain)
Action Comedy School
A young boy from the future meets a girl of our time. Their school life will completely change...
Xenogears 4-koma Comic
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Q: Java: Implementing a Unsigned 128bit Integer first off I should ask:
Does anyone knows of a current implementation 128b UINT for Java?
I need something to hold natural cardinal values.  ie: A huge counter.
I know of BigIntegers, which are slow and immutable.  A 128b UINT makes sense ...
I was thinking about implementing an OWORD, using a pair of primitive longs.
Overflows would throw an Exception and not Wraparound.
What example sourcecode/blogs should I look to for implementing the workings of this class?

A: I would use 32 bit integers as the representation, because you need a bigger type (long) to get the extra precision for the carry bit, overflow detection and multiplication. Think of a 32 bit integer as a digit and apply the algorithms from primary school.

A: Don't tell me that you plan to have 128 static setters and getters, one for each bit??? I'd definitively go for setBit(int index, boolean value) and getBit(int index) as instance methods.
More things you need: a toString() method so you can get a human readable representation (at some point you will want to print the numbers, I think).
Remember that all the ordinal types in java are signed (with the exception of char), so if you plan to use two longs, keep always in mind that the lower part could be problematic for detecting overflows and such... anyway, you will have a 127 bit number unless because the lower part would be treated as a 63 bit unsigned.

A: Why not use BigInteger?

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Adherence to the Mediterranean dietary pattern (MDP) is thought to reduce inflammatory, vascular, and metabolic processes that may be involved in the risk of clinical depression.
To assess the association between adherence to the MDP and the incidence of clinical depression.
Prospective study that uses a validated 136-item food frequency questionnaire to assess adherence to the MDP. The MDP score positively weighted the consumption of vegetables, fruit and nuts, cereal, legumes, and fish; the monounsaturated- to saturated-fatty-acids ratio; and moderate alcohol consumption, whereas meat or meat products and whole-fat dairy were negatively weighted.
A dynamic cohort of university graduates (Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra/University of Navarra Follow-up [SUN] Project).
A total of 10 094 initially healthy Spanish participants from the SUN Project participated in the study. Recruitment began on December 21, 1999, and is ongoing.
Participants were classified as having incident depression if they were free of depression and antidepressant medication at baseline and reported a physician-made diagnosis of clinical depression and/or antidepressant medication use during follow-up.
After a median follow-up of 4.4 years, 480 new cases of depression were identified. The multiple adjusted hazard ratios (95% confidence intervals) of depression for the 4 upper successive categories of adherence to the MDP (taking the category of lowest adherence as reference) were 0.74 (0.57-0.98), 0.66 (0.50-0.86), 0.49 (0.36-0.67), and 0.58 (0.44-0.77) (P for trend <.001). Inverse dose-response relationships were found for fruit and nuts, the monounsaturated- to saturated-fatty-acids ratio, and legumes.
Our results suggest a potential protective role of the MDP with regard to the prevention of depressive disorders; additional longitudinal studies and trials are needed to confirm these findings.


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Rimkus buys Toronto-area M & E Engineering Consultants
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Rimkus Consulting Group, a Houston-based forensic engineering and technical consultancy, has acquired M & E Engineering Consultants, a Vaughan, Ontario-based firm specializing in mechanical, electrical, and fire safety engineering for buildings.
In business for more than 40 years, M & E focuses on mechanical and electrical designs for commercial, institutional, and high-rise residential buildings. The firm specializes in energy savings conversions, including chiller and boiler design upgrades, new lighting design, and water savings conversions.
M & E also delivers building reviews, problem investigation services, and fire alarm upgrades and replacement.
The firm has more than 40 professional engineers, LEED consultants, designers, and project managers.
Rimkus' acquisition of M & E will expand its capabilities in mechanical, electrical, and life safety engineering, as well as enhance the firm's Canadian presence.
Rimkus greatly expanded its Canadian operations last year when it purchased IRC, a Toronto-based building engineering specialist with 150+ employees across 15 Canadian offices. Rimkus had previously had a single Canadian outpost in Toronto.
The M & E deal will bring Rimkus' footprint to 950 employees across 90+ offices in the US, Canada, and UK. The firm provides forensic engineering, technical consulting, and expert witness services to insurance companies, law firms, corporations, and government agencies.
"At Rimkus, we're on a mission to grow our practice areas and teams from within while also capitalizing on opportunities to expand our reach through acquisitions," said Curtis Brown, chairman and executive director of Rimkus. "The new addition of M & E Engineering Consultants to our team will deepen our proficiency in core service areas while upholding the high standards our clients have come to know from Rimkus."
Ed Porasz, president of M & E, added, "We're excited to bring our technical insights, backed by Rimkus' resources and growing network, to provide even more industry-leading consulting services and options to our customer base."
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In focus: ABBA In Sweden
In conjunction with the Swedish premiere of the Mamma Mia! musical on February 12, 2005, we explored ABBA's relationship with their home country.
Swede beginnings
When the story of a massively popular group such as ABBA is told, it is almost inevitable that parts of it are over-simplified. For example, the four members are often reduced to stereotyped personalities, the group's music described as exclusively upbeat and happy despite evidence to the contrary – and so on. Another frequently repeated "myth" is that ABBA were never appreciated in their home country of Sweden. Although it is partly true that there was heavy resistance towards ABBA from certain critics and cultural commentators, this is not the full story. In fact, speaking from a purely statistical point of view – chart positions, album sales per capita, and so on – it could be said that ABBA were more popular in Sweden than almost anywhere else. The difference is rather that the Swedes afforded the group a more quiet form of massive admiration than, for example, the explosive Abbamania that hit Australia in the mid-1970s.
In Sweden, of course, the four ABBA members were already established artists long before the group released their first record. As members of the Hootenanny Singers and The Hep Stars, respectively, Björn and Benny had ruled the charts and the touring circuit in the 1960s, while Agnetha and Frida sprang to fame as solo singers towards the end of the decade. When 'People Need Love' – the very first single by the group, known as Björn and Benny, Agnetha and Anni-Frid at the time – was released in 1972, all four members were well-known. The single only reached number 17 on the Swedish sales chart, but this was a time when singles and albums competed for space on the same chart. If all the albums had been removed to make it a pure singles chart, 'People Need Love' would have reached number seven on its peak date. Clearly, the group were on to something that struck a chord with the Swedish pop music audience.
Harsh critics
The success was further consolidated in April the following year, when the two singles of 'Ring Ring' – the Swedish and the English versions – and the album of the same name occupied the top three placings on the chart for two weeks in a row. The album eventually peaked at number two, stopped from reaching the summit only by the Swedish 'Ring Ring' single. Again, had there been two separate charts the album would have reached number one, meaning that Sweden is the only country where each and every one of ABBA's eight studio albums reached the top of the charts.
However, during the time that the Swedes were falling in love with the magic combination of Agnetha, Björn, Benny and Frida, there was also a parallel development in the world of domestic popular music. The so-called Music Movement set the tone for much of the cultural agenda, demanding that "real" music must have a strong political left-wing message and wanting to free it from the demands of the commercial music business, the motto often being that "everyone can play". This was the exact opposite of everything that ABBA wanted to achieve: they were striving for musical perfection and professionalism, and as far as messages were concerned, they simply wanted to entertain. It didn't help that they were so closely associated with their manager and record company owner, Stig Anderson, who was even more vehemently opposed to all that the Music Movement stood for – and who wasn't afraid to voice his opinion in the media. This fact, combined with ABBA's massive commercial success, made the group easy targets for those who reacted with outrage against even the smallest whiff of commercial pop.
In actual fact though, for most people – who wouldn't have been active in the Music Movement or had any influence whatsoever on the current cultural agenda – the opinions of critics and commentators were largely irrelevant. They simply responded to the music they heard, and as the 1970s progressed ABBA grew ever more popular. The Waterloo album was even more successful than Ring Ring, and for a while each new ABBA album broke the record set by the previous one. Arrival, released in 1976, was said to have sold 740,000 copies, which pretty much meant that 10 per cent of the Swedish population had bought a copy of the album.
To chart or not to chart
The resistance towards ABBA from certain critics also spread into the world of radio and television. Admittedly, though, it was a bad time for pop music in general in these media. Some viewed radio chart shows with suspicion, seeing as they functioned very much as "advertisements" for the most commercial songs. Throughout the Seventies, although there always seemed to be some kind of chart programme, they were constantly attacked, often revised and frequently cancelled. The same went for television where there were scant few pop programmes – certainly nothing, for instance, such as Great Britain's Top Of The Pops. ABBA's famous promo clips were seldom if ever shown on Swedish television, simply because there was no natural outlet for them. The four clips made for the ABBA album – 'Mamma Mia', 'SOS', 'Bang-A-Boomerang' and 'I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do' – were broadcast as one long film, in a stand-alone programme entitled 4 x ABBA.
This also goes some way towards explaining the somewhat astonishing fact that many of the most popular ABBA singles were never released in their home country. Although the group's Swedish record company, Polar Music, issued singles of international mega-hits such as 'SOS', 'Knowing Me, Knowing You' and 'Take A Chance On Me', they were only released in the other Scandinavian countries. The radio climate being what it was, ABBA and Polar reasoned that there was no point in issuing singles that stood little chance of receiving any airplay. There was also the additional reason that Swedes tended to buy albums rather than singles. A glance at the Swedish charts seems to confirm that this was indeed true for ABBA. After 'Waterloo', there were only two singles that went to number one: 'Dancing Queen' and 'Summer Night City' (notably, the latter was not available on any studio album). Singles such as the 1977 release 'The Name Of The Game' stalled at number two in a year dominated by "freak" hits from acts such as Baccara, Boney M, Barbi Benton and the bird song imitator Jan Lindblad. In the case of ABBA, it seems many prospective buyers simply noted that the single had been released, but then decided to "wait for the album".
On television, whereas you'd think that a massively popular group such as ABBA would be featured regularly, the group were seldom seen. Although this was probably partly because some viewed the group's music as inappropriate, there was also the fact that the group were far too busy writing and recording songs, and also doing promotional work in other countries. Thus, West Germany and Australia, not Sweden, became the first countries to devote entire television specials to ABBA.
Mamma Mia! comes to Sweden
That said, Swedish television did the first bona fide documentary about the group, entitled Abba-dabba-doo!! and broadcast in November 1976 (the programme actually received its first airing in Australia a week earlier in a re-edited version entitled ABBA From The Beginning). Earlier in the year ABBA had of course been bestowed the ultimate honour when they were chosen as the only pop act to perform on the televised gala tribute to Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and future Queen, Silvia Sommerlath. The gala was broadcast on the eve of the royal couple's wedding in June 1976.
After ABBA finally called it a day at the end of 1982, Sweden continued its extraordinary loyalty towards the former members. For instance, whereas Frida and Agnetha's English language solo albums met with limited success in other countries, they were all hugely successful in Sweden, most of them peaking at number one or two on the album chart. This constantly massive popularity for ABBA individually and collectively gives Sweden the status as the most loyal stronghold for the group, despite the many negative judgements bestowed them in the newspapers. And with the approach of the 1980s and the attendant changes in the cultural climate, admitting to be an ABBA fan became significantly less controversial than it was during the band's heyday.
So now that we're approaching the opening date for the Mamma Mia! musical in Stockholm, Sweden, there might be good reason to ask why it has taken almost six years since the London premiere before the show reached ABBA's home country. The main answer is simply that Björn and Benny originally didn't want to translate the show into any other languages whatsoever. They felt that the ABBA songs were written to be performed in English, which meant that the entire show could only be performed in English. Eventually they were persuaded to try the concept with stagings in places such as Germany and The Netherlands. Contrary to their expectations it turned out to work very well, and so the possibility was considered to try a Swedish version. A number of the early ABBA songs – such as 'Waterloo' and 'SOS' – had in fact been recorded in Swedish by the group or its individual members, featuring lyrics by Stig Anderson. However, for the production of Mamma Mia! all lyrics have been rewritten from scratch by Niklas Strömstedt – a popular singer and songwriter in Sweden – and Björn Ulvaeus.
With the Stockholm production Mamma Mia! proving to be an instant sell-out success the moment the tickets were issued, it seems the Swedish loyalty to ABBA and everything connected to them is as strong as ever.
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NAOMI RAINE, TASHA COBBS LEONARD, TAYA AND NATALIE GRANT TO CO-HEADLINE IT'S TIME TOUR 2023
PRE-SALE AVAILABLE TUESDAY (1.17) AT 10 AM LOCAL TIME - TICKETMASTER.COM
NEWS SOURCE: Shore Fire Media
This Spring, the powerhouse women of Gospel and Christian music are coming together for a must-see worship experience. Kicking off on Tuesday, April 25 at James L. Knight Center in Miami, FL. GRAMMY-winning artists Naomi Raine and Tasha Cobbs Leonard, 9x GRAMMY-nominee Natalie Grant and globally renowned vocalist TAYA will join together for It's Time Tour 2023.
It's Time will visit 21 cities across the U.S. including Atlanta, New York and Houston. Fans can expect to see solo performances from each artist. The co-headliners will also share the stage for a few songs each night.
Pre-sale for tickets begins Tuesday, January 17 at 10 AM local time with public on-sale starting on Friday, January 20th at 10am local. For pre-sale tickets, visit ticketmaster.com/artist/2965964.
"It's Time is an expression of worship in beauty and strength with some of the purest female worship leaders of our time," says Naomi Raine. "I'm humbled to be a part of this movement that hopefully continues to fuel this generation toward extravagant worship. Women are pillars in their communities and families and my prayer is that this would empower women to go after God with everything they have. My life was changed in an environment much like the one we will be in every night of the tour. Hoping people come out to be equipped and inspired."
Naomi Raine was named a Pandora 2023 Artist to Watch and is known as one of the most powerful voices in the gospel genre. She released her solo album 'Journey' last July and made appearances at the BET Awards, NPR's Tiny Desk, The View and more as a member of Maverick City Music, with whom she is currently nominated for five GRAMMY Awards. She headlined The Root 100 gala honoring Black Excellence at Harlem's iconic Apollo Theater and is set to announce a debut solo live worship album in the coming weeks.
"God calls us to advance His Kingdom, in part, through unity and collaboration," says Tasha Cobbs Leonard. "I'm so excited to join these incredible artists— my sisters— on this tour. This is the move that we've been praying for! IT'S TIME!"
Tasha Cobbs Leonard is a platinum-selling, Grammy, Billboard Music, Stellar, and Dove Award-winning, "gospel sensation" (NPR Music) who has firmly established herself as one of gospel's leading voices. In 2022, Leonard released her highly anticipated live album HYMNS, one of the biggest gospel albums of the year. The LP is a larger-than-life reimagining of classic hymns of love and grace, one that speaks to our modern world even as it reaches far beyond it. She has recently appeared on Good Morning America, BET Soul Train Awards, The Tamron Hall Show, The Jennifer Hudson Show –– and has a lot more planned for 2023.
Natalie Grant is a 9x GRAMMY nominated and 5x GMA Dove Award-winning artists who has garnered more than 500 million streams and multiple number #1 albums and singles on the Billboard Charts. Grant's latest single "You Will Be Found" with Cory Asbury was released December 16.
TAYA made a name for herself as the lead vocalist on Hillsong United track "Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)," which reached No. 1 on several Billboard charts and reached RIAA platinum status. She released her self-titled debut album in May of 2022.
IT'S TIME 2023 TOUR DATES:
Tues., Apr. 25 | Miami, FL | James L Knight Center
Wed., Apr 26 | Bradeton, FL | Bayside Community Church
Thurs., Apr 27 | Orlando, FL | Calvary Orlando
Fri., Apr. 28 | Jacksonville, FL | Florida Theater
Tues., May 02 | Atlanta, GA | Fox Theatre
Wed., May 03 | Charlotte, NC | Ovens Auditorium
Fri., May 05 | New York, NY | Hulu Theatre at Madison Square Garden
Sat., May 06 | Philadelphia, PA | The Met
Sun May 07 | Washington, DC | The Theater at MGM National Harbor
Tues., May 09 | Boston, MA | Boch Center Wang Theatre
Thurs., May 11 | Wallingford, CT | Toyota Oakdale Theatre
Thurs., May 18 | St. Louis | Faith Church
Sun., May 21 | Houston, TX | 713 Music Hall
Mon., May 22 | San Antonio, TX | Summit Christian Center
Wed., May 24 | New Orleans, LA | Saenger Theatre
Thurs., May 25 | Birmingham, AL | BJCC Concert Hall
Fri., May 26 | Southaven, MS | Landers Center
Sat., May 27 | Nashville, TN | Ryman Auditorium
Tues., May 30 | Cincinnati OH | Princeton Pike Church of God
Wed., May 31 | Indianapolis, IN | Murat Theatre at Old National Centre
Thurs., Jun 01 | Wyoming, MI | Grand Rapids First Chruch
ABOUT NAOMI RAINE:
At the age of 2, Naomi Raine sang in her first concert! And by the age of 7, she had already written her first song. Since that time, Naomi has taken the gifts and talents that God has given her and uses them to bring God glory wherever she goes. Naomi's music has amassed 870k streams across platforms, and her recently released solo album 'Journey,' released July 8, 2022, reached #3 on Apple Music's R&B and Christian charts upon its release. On October 5, 2022, Naomi followed the record with 'Journey: Acoustic Sessions.' Naomi performed songs from the new record during her solo artist TV debut with Fox & Friends and during her moving Grand Ole Opry debut in Nashville, TN in 2022. Additionally, she headlined The Root 100 gala honoring Black Excellence at Harlem, NY's iconic Apollo Theater in December of 2022. Naomi was named a Pandora 2023 Artist to Watch and will announce her forthcoming debut solo worship album in the coming weeks.
Naomi has featured on countless projects with some of the most acclaimed artists in Christian music such as, has featured on countless projects with some of the most acclaimed artists in Christian music such as, Todd Dulaney, JJ Hairston, Bethel Music, Jonathan and Melissa Helser, and Israel Houghton to name a few. As a part of Maverick City Music, Naomi has earned multiple awards including a GRAMMY Award, Billboard Music Awards, Dove Awards and Stellar Awards. She is featured on songs such as "Story I'll Tell," and the award-nominated "Jireh," and"Promises." "Jireh" debuted at #10 on the US Hot Christian Songs chart and #1 on the Hot Gospel Songs chart, and it was recently nominated at the 2023 Dove Awards. She is also currently nominated for five GRAMMY Awards for 2023 as part of the collective.
ABOUT TASHA COBBS LEONARD:
A pastor's daughter born and raised in Georgia, Leonard first emerged to widespread acclaim with her breakout 2013 release, the RIAA-certified gold album Grace, which garnered a GRAMMY, three Doves, and three Stellar Awards on the strength of its chart-topping, platinum-selling lead single, "Break Every Chain." In the years that followed, Leonard would go on to establish herself as one of her genre's most celebrated voices, racking up more than two billion streams across platforms, landing three more #1 singles and five #1 albums, three additional gold-selling singles, performing with everyone from Common and Nicki Minaj to Ne-Yo and Ciara, and making national television appearances on Good Morning America, CNN's Fourth of July, BET's Black Girls Rock, CBC's A Day Of Healing, and the Super Bowl Gospel Celebration. Billboard named Leonard the Top Gospel Artist of the Decade, while NPR declared her a "gospel sensation," and Forbes hailed her as "by far one of the most successful contemporary gospel artists of our time." A tireless advocate for empowerment and positivity, Leonard also broke new ground as an author, actress, entrepreneur, and executive pastor at The Purpose Place Church in her adopted home of South Carolina, where she co-pastors with her husband and producer, Kenneth Leonard, Jr.
For more info on Natalie Grant, visit the JFH Artists Database.
For more info on TAYA, visit the JFH Artists Database.


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The Great Waters Association of Vexillology (GWAV, pronounced gwave) is an organization devoted to vexillology,  the scientific study of flags. GWAV has a particular focus on flags of the Midwestern United States.

The group was established May 11, 1991, in Kettering, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton.  Initially, the members met with the intent to establish a local chapter of the North American Vexillological Association (NAVA).  When NAVA decided to not have chapters, the group set out to be independent.

Initially, the group covered the US states of Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio.  The name acknowledges the Great Lakes and Ohio River as vital components of this region.  In 2000, the State of Illinois was added.

The organization's flag was designed in 1991 and was modified with the addition of Illinois in 2000.  It currently depicts five inverted chevrons or "V"s on a blue background.  The chevrons (which resemble the letter V) represent vexillology, and alternate in color from white to red indicate each of the states covered by the group.

The group meets semi-annually, normally in May and November, and from 1990 through 2012, published Flagwaver, a Journal of Vexillology (ISSN 2327-2368) each June and December. The journal featured articles about flags used within the five states comprising the organization.  Among those highlighted were the flags of Springfield, and Chicago in Illinois; Detroit and Grand Rapids in Michigan; Cleveland and Cincinnati, Ohio and Louisville, Kentucky.

In May 1999, the membership established the Commodore Award and the Flying Colors Award.  The Commodore Award is given for significant individual contribution to the field of vexillology, especially in the GWAV states, and the Flying Colors Award is presented to a flag designer and adopting entity for excellence in flag design.  Through 2012, the Commodore Award has been presented twice and the Flying Colors Award once.

In 1999, GWAV became a member of International Federation of Vexillological Associations, known by its French acronym FIAV (Fédération internationale des associations vexillologiques).  It is one of 51 member federations.

GWAV hosted the North American Vexillological Association's 1995 annual meeting in Covington, Kentucky, the 2000 annual meeting in Lansing, Michigan, the 2004 annual meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, and the 2012 annual meeting in Columbus, Ohio.

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External links

 GWAV at NAVA.org

International Federation of Vexillological Associations
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10. - 16 Dec.: Knysna golf and dining
Tour of downtown Knysna. It's a wonderful late Spring day and it is obvious that Summer is knocking at the door. Lots of people strolling about, eating in the numerious terraces, drinking and shopping. Inevitable in an upmarket area like this, most shoppers and diners are white while many of the workers are black.
As I walk aimlessly around I meet a painter of dogs. A man in his mid-sixties perhaps, kind of short (even by my own 1.69 cm standards) and sporting a long graying beard almost down to his chest. His thick mustache do not completely hide a sweet greagarious smile. A pair of rectangular glasses with a thin frame combine very appropriately with a black beret to produce a perfect blend between a carefree XIX century bohémienne and a modern alternative street artist.
Yes, Teddy is a painter of dogs. He has a dog with him, a small hairy dog called Jock. I know the dog's name because it carries a bright golden badge around its neck with the owner's phone number, in case it should get lost. Teddy paints Jock a lot, it is his main subject, but he also paints other dogs. Occasionally, he paints something else, mostly when he gets motivated by a commission for a specific subject, he told me. But dogs is what he likes to paint.
Just a few steps from his position a couple of sturdy guys are playing their guitars while singing country music. It is a rich mix of Southern country, with some occasional blue-grass overtones, and other local street music. They both wear black T-shirts, a thin necklace, dark sun glasses and a hat that reminds me of Indiana Jones.
Our walk continues to the local supermarket, where Yan and I fall in love with the most colorful baskets of tropical fruits. You can buy it as it comes from the tree, or for a small premium they will serve it nice and peeled in small trays. Prices are incredibly low, at least for our strong Euro, but Yan tells me these delicacies would be far more expensive even in Beijing.
Afternoon back to golf practice. Trying to the the ball into a more or less straight trajectory toward some flags planted at varying distances into a huge field. I aim at the 50 and 75 meters flags, with mixed results, but who cares? Mike, Yan and I have a fun and relaxing time while the sun gently sets behind us.
Dinner with local friends at Cafe Mario by the Waterfront. There are no black or colored patrons. My local friends say it's normal because blacks like different food and each of the peoples of South Africa keep to the company of their own kind. Just like Germans and Italians. Well, maybe. It is true, when I live abroad I tend to have more Italian friends than others. But here other considerations come into play: safety, a backlog of racial hatred that has not yet been completely overcome.
I ask them a question that I will ask a number of times when talking with white South Africans old enough to remember apartheid. The question is: All whites now say they are for racial equality, but what did you think then? (Actually not all whites would agree, there are yet some factions of overtly racist white South Africans, but they are marginal.)
The answer I get today is that they did not know much of what was going on during apartheid because no tv until 1980s and a strong censorship prevented news from spreading even within the country and even among rich whites. It is true that tere was no TV in South Africa until very late, 1976 to be precise, and then only one channel was available and it was strictly controlled by the government.
And yet I find it hard to believe they did not know, there was so much noise around the world, they certainly know of Archbishop Tutu winning the Nobel peace prize in 1984 for his anti-apartheid activities. I come out of this conversation with a belief that while most whites were, and are, honestly open and not racist, they acquiesced with apartheid at least, and feared change.
In a way this reminds me of Italy and Fascism: most of my compatriots supported it as long as it was successful and made them feel special, but after 1945 it was virtually impossible to find anyone who would admit to having been a Fascist. And of course many claimed a role in the Resistance, just like many South Africans now say they operated to end apartheid for what they could and were never racist to begin with.
Be that as it may, the restaurant serves very good, real Italian, ossobuco, the best I can remember having outside my beloved peninsula! Italy is well known here for the food, of course, but not for much else. My friends are an exception: they are highly sophisticated lovers of the arts and know Rome as well as any bona fide cives romanus.
No one however remembers another Italian who made South Africa known around the world in the 1970s: Marcello Fiasconaro who almost accidentally broke the world record for the 800 meters wearing the blue Italian shirt with a tricolor in the middle. The world record was gone three eyars later but the Italian record still stands forty years later and counting...
Back home, just after midnight, Mike pops a bottle of bubbles. It is now 17 December and it is officially the day of my 54th birthday.
Location: Knysna, South Africa
25. - 31 Dec.: Kruger through Swaziland to S. Luci...
24. - 30 Dec.: Alarms and mating lions at the Krug...
23. - 29 Dec.: Mbahoko Ndebele village to Kruger N...
22. - 28 Dec.: Models and billiard at Mabhoko Ndeb...
21. - 27 Dec.: Soweto and drive to Mabhoko Ndebele...
20. - 26 Dec.: Johannesburg
19. - 25 Dec.: From wineland to Johannesburg
18. - 24 Dec.: Paarl wine tasting for Christmas ev...
17. - 23 Dec.: Wine tasting in Stellenbosch and Pa...
16. - 22 Dec.: Franschhoek
15. - 21 Dec.: Cape Town to Franschhoek
14. - 20 Dec.: Cape Town tour and music
13. - 19 Dec.: Swellendam to Cape Town, through St...
12. - 18 Dec.: Swellendam kayak and sherry
11. - 17 Dec.: Knysna properties and drive through...
9. - 15 Dec.: Knysna golf and spa
8. - 14 Dec.: Knysna golf and tour
7. - 13 Dec.: Schotia Game reserve to Knysna, via ...
6. - 12 Dec.: Game drives and walks at Schotia Gam...
5. - 11 Dec.: Lalibela Lodge to Schotia Safari Gam...
4. - 10 Dec.: Game drives and night safari
3. - 9 Dec.: Lalibela game drives and walks
2. - 8 Dec.: Port Elizabeth to Lalibela and first ...
1. - 7 December 2013: Arrival in South Africa and ...
Itinerary of trip to South Africa - December 2013 ...
Recensione: 700 ore in India - sulla scomoda sella...


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Last Straw: Navy Fires 7th Fleet Commander
Joseph Aucoin relieved of duty after string of accidents
Posted Aug 23, 2017 1:33 AM CDT
Updated Aug 23, 2017 4:03 AM CDT
US Navy Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin, commander of the US 7th Fleet, has been relieved of his command. (Eugene Hoshiko)
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(Newser) – The commander of the Navy's Asia-based 7th Fleet was dismissed Wednesday after a series of warship accidents raised questions about its operations in the Pacific, per the AP. A two-sentence statement issued by the Navy said Adm. Scott Swift, commander of the US Pacific Fleet, had relieved Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin "due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command." The move follows four Navy accidents in the Pacific since late January, including two collisions that left sailors dead and missing. "While each of these four incidents is unique, they cannot be viewed in isolation," Swift said late Tuesday.
He said the Navy will carry out a "deliberate re-set" of all its ships in the Pacific, focused on navigation, mechanical systems, and bridge resource management. It will include training and an expert assessment of each ship. The Navy said that Rear Adm. Phillip Sawyer, who had already been named as Aucoin's successor, would assume command immediately. Aucoin assumed command of the 7th Fleet in September 2015 and was due to retire in a few weeks. Seven sailors died in June when the destroyer USS Fitzgerald collided with a container ship off Japan. On Monday, the destroyer USS John S. McCain and an oil tanker collided off Singapore, injuring five sailors and leaving 10 others missing. (Some bodies have been found in the damaged ship.)


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In 2007 photographer Alison Malone embarked on a project of taking portraits of present-day Job's Daughters and their meeting places. Familiar with the group as a former member, Malone had found the experience to be intense as a child, yet increasingly fascinating to consider as an adult. With her photographs, Malone and her subjects—working together—offer an insider's view of a modern Masonic youth organization. "The Daughters of Job: Photographs by Alison Malone" will be on display at the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library from December 13, 2014, through December 12, 2015. We sat down to talk with Malone about her project earlier this month.
Over time, what have you learned from this project?
AM: So many things—this project confirmed my feeling that in the present day when much social interaction is not face to face, girls were drawn to actual physical meetings. They derive so much joy from being more than Facebook friends. They call each other sister. I believe the group will persevere because of the girls' desire to meet and know each other. They have also told me that in meetings you learn to take ownership of what you say when you are all together.
What has surprised you about this project?
AM: That the girls exist in a duality. They rigorously follow ritual and take pride in their ritual work. But at the same time, they do pranks—they shorted the sheets on my bed—act goofy and are silly. They are able to be both responsible and behave like girls.
What do you hope to achieve by having the Daughters of Job photographs on display at the Museum?
AM: I set out to describe a place and time in the organization. I hope that, for the girls, it is a validating moment. I also hope that other girls will see it and that the project will raise awareness and help people understand what Freemasonry is about, including the sense of community and the moral structure. I really want people, both inside and outside the Masonic family, to see how the girls add intention to the spaces they create for their ritual. I took clean photographs of the spaces, to help show the pride they take in their spaces.
How are the girls you photographed involved in the process of your taking their portrait?
AM: With the girls that choose to be involved in the project, I work with them in a quiet space. Before we start, I explain the project. We discuss that this kind of photograph is not posed and is not a performance. I show them examples of portraits taken of men and talk about the history of portraiture, explaining the idea that, in the past, having a portrait made was a rare occasion. I ask them, how do you want to be remembered? As brave, confident, strong? I love watching them think about this powerful thought. I also tell them to let your eyes tell the story of who you are. I want them to be willing to bring the experience of who they are at that place and age. I love finding the moment when they become more than what is expected of them.
In working on this project Malone shot with Fuji film using medium format cameras with 6" x7" film for the portraits and large format cameras with 4" x 5" film for the architecture. To produce the prints, she created high resolution drum scans of all of the negatives to make large format archival ink jet prints of the final product.
Photo credit: Alison Malone. Photograph by Rik Sferra.


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