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Chinese aircraft carrier group Liaoning starts combat training in the Western Pacific
Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 05/04/2022 - 11:00 AM in Military
The aircraft carrier Liaoning at the time it passed near Okinawa, Japan.
The China Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) announced on Tuesday that the Liaoning aircraft carrier group has recently started a routine and realistic combat training mission in the Western Pacific.
The Japanese Ministry of Defense said in a statement that eight PLA warships were seen sailing from the East China Sea through the waters between the island of Okinawa and the island of Miyako towards the Pacific Ocean on Monday.
The aircraft carrier group consists of eight warships, namely the Liaoning, the Type 055 Nanchang guided missile destroyer, the Type 052D Xining, Urumqi and Chengdu guided missile destroyers, the Type 052C Zhengzhou guided missile destroyer, the Type 054A Xiangtan guided missile frigate and the Type 901
This group of aircraft carriers is the largest to go to the distant sea among recent trips, marking a significant increase in combat capacity in preparation for missions that include a potential military conflict in the Taiwan Strait, experts told the Global Times.
The exercise is a routine organized according to the annual schedule and aims to increase the Navy's capabilities to fulfill its duties, senior captain Gao Xiucheng, spokesman for the PLA Navy, said in a statement. He added that the trip is in accordance with related international laws and practices and is not directed elsewhere.
Several fighters based on J-15 aircraft carriers, as well as Z-8 and Z-9 helicopters, can be seen on the flight deck of the Liaoning.
According to the official PLA media, Liaoning had some maritime exercises earlier this year, and this should be the first time it has crossed the first chain of islands and sailed to the Western Pacific in 2022, after the aircraft carrier's last sea voyage in December last year, observers said.
This also marks the largest group of Liaoning aircraft carriers on recent trips. On the December trip, the group would have presented at least six ships - the Liaoning, a Type 055, a Type 052D, two Type 054As and a Type 901. In 2016, when Liaoning first conducted deep-sea training in the Western Pacific, it had three destroyers, three frigates and a supply ship as an escort.
Based on previous trips, after sailing through the Miyako Strait, Chinese ships could go further east in the Pacific Ocean, or could transit through the Bashi Canal to the south to the island of Taiwan and perform exercises in the South China Sea, a Chinese expert predicted.
The quality and quantity of warships presented in the group of aircraft carriers - including five Chinese destroyers "Aegis" - are very impressive and reflect the rapid growth of the PLA Navy, the expert said.
"It is possible that the aircraft carrier group will also be accompanied by underwater forces," Song Zhongping, Chinese military expert and TV commentator, told the Global Times.
All the exercises in the distant sea are part of the preparations for real combat, and it is certain that aircraft carriers will participate in the preparations for a potential military conflict in the Taiwan Strait, Song said.
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Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, he has participated in several events and air operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Dayton Airshow and FIDAE. He has works published in a specialized aviation magazine in Brazil and abroad. He uses Canon equipment during his photographic work in the world of aviation.
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“Underwater demolition team at work. In their mission at Okinawa, UDT members daubed aluminum paint on their bodies as camouflage to throw off Japanese marksmen. Photographed on the fantail of a fast transport (APD), circa Spring 1945. Photographed released 31 August 1945.”
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“Yamashiro’s photographs – part of a series called Seaweed Woman (2008) depicting the artist adrift in the sea – accompanies a video shot from a first-person perspective, projected onto a screen hanging in the middle of the gallery, which recreates the experience of diving underwater and surfacing for air in the harbour of Henoko. The sound of rhythmic breathing and gentle laps of water fill the space and so, by emulating the way that Yamashiro uses her own body to occupy threatened sites, implicates the visitor in sea-swimming and in protest against the endangerment of the natural environment”
Yamashiro Chikako is still based in Okinawa, where she was born and brought up, as the base for her artistic activities. Using her own body as the medium through which to pursue the unique and complex historical and political problems of Okinawa, she has created photographic and video works in which she deeply immerses herself in the world of her own works until she internalizes the themes.
Chikako Yamashiro: Shapeshifter at White Rainbow, London. (n.d.). Artreview.com. Retrieved November 8, 2021, from https://artreview.com/ara-summer-2018-review-chikako-yamashiro/
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Halichoeres melanurus by Okinawa Nature Photography Halichoeres melanurus Equipment: Nikon D500 (New) Tokina atx-i 100mm F2.8 FF MACRO * A great lens for photographing fish Nauticam underwater housing 2 Sea & Sea YS-D2J Underwater Strobes Light&Motion Sola 3800modeling light - - - Sola 1200 https://flic.kr/p/2i6PyYJ
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Winners of the 2019 Underwater Photographer of the Year Contest
Nemo: Honorable Mention, Portrait Category. The relationship between the ocellaris clownfish that dwell among the tentacles of Ritteri sea anemones is a good example of mutualism. The territorial fish protects the anemone from anemone-eating fish, and in turn the stinging tentacles of the anemone protect the clownfish from its predators. Location: Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, Japan.
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As rugged as he is genteel, the six-foot two-inch 220-lb Patrick Kilpatrick has been one of the finest screen/television character actors and villains of his generation, playing against a spectrum of Hollywood’s leading stage heroes, while occasionally delivering the redemptive, even sensitively challenged, hard-edged heroic role.
After nearly dying in a car crash as a teenager, he rather rehabilitated to largely do his own stunts in 100+ films and TV projects. His action film appearances span a multitude of genres and embrace an international Who’s Who of leading men: Replacement Killers against Chow Yun Fat; Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Caan in Eraser, Last Man Standing opposite Bruce Willis, Under Siege II opposite Segal, Presidio opposite Sean Connery and Mark Harmon, two award-winning and highly rated original cable westerns opposite Tom Selleck — Last Stand at Saber River and Crossfire trail, one western opposite Sam Elliot and Kate Capshaw — HBO’s Premiere Films adaptation of Louis L’ Amour’s The Quick and the Dead, and the ever-popular action mainstay Death Warrant opposite Jean Claude Van Damme, as The Sandman. He has even carried out battle with the largest mammal on earth in Free Willy III. The versatile Kilpatrick has played leads in everything from “American Playhouse” to a film debut in Nick Roeg’s masterwork “Insignificance”, to Shakespeare’s “Anthony and Cleopatra” at Los Angeles Theater Center in the hands of Academy Award-winning director Tony Richardson. His resume embraces reoccurring roles on such hit television shows as “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman” and “Tour of Duty”, “Dark Angel”, Stephen King’s popular miniseries “The Stand”, HBO’s “ARLI$$” and numerous, many much more. It was his work on James Cameron’s “Dark Angel” that led Spielberg to seek him out for “Minority Report”.
In one year and half whirlwind period, he did five major studio films, two independents and 27 television guest star spots on 18 different shows. The pace continues to the current with appearances on “Boomtown”, “Las Vegas”, “Blind Justice,” “CSI-Las Vegas”, “24” as Secret Service Agent Dale Spaulding — “the man who ‘killed’ Jack Bauer”, and hit shows “Criminal Minds” and James Wood’s “Shark”.
Kilpatrick, president and CEO of Uncommon Dialogue Films, Inc. (UDF), is the writer/producer/director of the upcoming film “Vain Attempt.” In addition to “Vain Attempt” UDF has a dynamic slate of arresting movies including “Naked Warriors” set in the Pacific in 1943, “Lady Pirates”, “The End of the Onslaught” set in WWII Germany and “Nine Heroes in the Rape of Nanking” set in 1937 China, plus two documentaries and a television series “Natural Laws” concerning US Fish and Wildlife Special Agents amidst global threat of illegal wildlife traffic and ecological calamity. He travels the world organizing film, ecological business development and acting.
UDF recently hosted the Entertainment Conservation Summit in northern California – initial time assemblage of Hollywood heavyweights and representatives of global outdoor sports and ecological groups. The UDF series “Natural Laws” was presented there. Currently single, he is the father of two sons, Ben and Sam. His interests range from politics to fashion, veteran’s affairs to solar/wind calories application, gun ownership to Gandhi. He recently traveled to Afghanistan, the United Arab Emirates and Kyrgyzstan with the USO entertaining troops as part of the Henry Rollins/Patrick Kilpatrick South West Asia Tour and is active with the Coalition to Salute Americas’ Heroes, Brookes Army Medical Center (San Antonio, Tx.) and California Paralyzed Veterans. Patrick, trained as an actor by Navy Seals and the LAPD, is a member of the Sons of The American Revolution with ancestors dating from 1640’s colonies. His father received the Silver Star at Okinawa as an Underwater Demolition Team member, the World War II precursor to the Navy Seals — the inspiration for “Naked Warriors”. He has a strong appreciation of linguistics and global ecological development, has been known to utilize dialects while acting and has been a gastronome of all-natural, elegant meal and beverage for 35 years. Films coming up — “Already Dead” with Christopher Plummer and Ron Elldard, and “Parasomnia” directed by House On Haunted Hill and Fear.com director Bill Malone.
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Rika Noguchi “At the Bottom of the Sea”
Rika Noguchi “At the Bottom of the Sea”
at Taka Ishii Gallery Tokyo
Media: Photography - Party - Talks
(2017-09-09 - 2017-10-07)
This exhibition marks Rika Noguchi’s first solo presentation at the gallery and features roughly 12 new works (7 large and 5 small color photographs) taken in Okinawa, where the artist has been residing since returning from Berlin last year. Known for her photographic works that convey a unique sense of distance from the subject and appear to freshly recapture the given world replete with convention, the gaze Noguchi expresses through her practice is critically described as that of “the stranger’s eyes” at work. Through works such as “Small Miracles” (2014), which depicts the very moment in which a drop of honey is about to fall from a spoon towards the center of the earth, “HIIA•F4” (2002), that captures the site of a rocket rising vertically up towards the sky as if escaping from such earthly forces, and “The Sun” (2005 – 2008), a series that uses a pinhole camera to photograph the sun as one of the stars in our galactic system that emits light towards both the earth we inhabit and the vast expanse of the entire universe, Noguchi serves to remind us of the existence of greater and all-controlling powers at work, like gravity and light within the scenes we observe in the everyday. In the way that Noguchi enlisted her representative work that she photographed on Mount Fuji with the title “A Prime” (1997-) - in reference to prime numbers of which the principle of their emergence remain yet to be explicated - Noguchi’s unique gaze could indeed be said to have been already established from the early stages of her artistic career. The large format color works that make up ”At the Bottom of the Sea,” Noguchi’s latest series, capture underwater scenes and follow on from her previous series “To Dive” (1995) and “Color of the Planet” (2004). These works shot in the sea of Okinawa capture images of a diver who stands upon the ocean floor while lighting up his dark surroundings, where the rays of the sun do not reach. In the profound depths of the sea that we all know exists an otherworldly realm where the inescapable gravitational forces of the earth appear to have no power. One wonders what Noguchi’s gaze discovers upon entering the sea in this third and latest installment of her underwater works. [Related Event] Rika Noguchi x Keiichiro Hirano Talk Event (Daikanyama Fair Talk Session) Event Date: Sep. 30 (Sat) 14:00-15:30 Venue: Exhibition Room, Daikanyama Hillside Forum Admission: ¥500 (capacity 40, booking recommended) *Event in Japanese
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Rika Noguchi “At the Bottom of the Sea”
at Taka Ishii Gallery Tokyo
Media: Photography - Party - Talks
(2017-09-09 - 2017-10-07)
This exhibition marks Rika Noguchi’s first solo presentation at the gallery and features roughly 12 new works (7 large and 5 small color photographs) taken in Okinawa, where the artist has been residing since returning from Berlin last year. Known for her photographic works that convey a unique sense of distance from the subject and appear to freshly recapture the given world replete with convention, the gaze Noguchi expresses through her practice is critically described as that of “the stranger’s eyes” at work. Through works such as “Small Miracles” (2014), which depicts the very moment in which a drop of honey is about to fall from a spoon towards the center of the earth, “HIIA•F4” (2002), that captures the site of a rocket rising vertically up towards the sky as if escaping from such earthly forces, and “The Sun” (2005 – 2008), a series that uses a pinhole camera to photograph the sun as one of the stars in our galactic system that emits light towards both the earth we inhabit and the vast expanse of the entire universe, Noguchi serves to remind us of the existence of greater and all-controlling powers at work, like gravity and light within the scenes we observe in the everyday. In the way that Noguchi enlisted her representative work that she photographed on Mount Fuji with the title “A Prime” (1997-) - in reference to prime numbers of which the principle of their emergence remain yet to be explicated - Noguchi’s unique gaze could indeed be said to have been already established from the early stages of her artistic career. The large format color works that make up ”At the Bottom of the Sea,” Noguchi’s latest series, capture underwater scenes and follow on from her previous series “To Dive” (1995) and “Color of the Planet” (2004). These works shot in the sea of Okinawa capture images of a diver who stands upon the ocean floor while lighting up his dark surroundings, where the rays of the sun do not reach. In the profound depths of the sea that we all know exists an otherworldly realm where the inescapable gravitational forces of the earth appear to have no power. One wonders what Noguchi’s gaze discovers upon entering the sea in this third and latest installment of her underwater works. [Related Event] Rika Noguchi x Keiichiro Hirano Talk Event (Daikanyama Fair Talk Session) Event Date: Sep. 30 (Sat) 14:00-15:30 Venue: Exhibition Room, Daikanyama Hillside Forum Admission: ¥500 (capacity 40, booking recommended) *Event in Japanese
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Artist: Noguchi Rika
Venue: Taka Ishii, Tokyo
Exhibition Title: At the Bottom of the Sea
Date: September 9 – October 7, 2017
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Press Release:
Taka Ishii Gallery is pleased to present ”At the Bottom of the Sea,” a solo exhibition of works by Noguchi Rika from September 9 to October 7. This exhibition marks Noguchi’s first solo presentation at the gallery and features an approximate 12 new works (7 large size and 5 small size color photographs) taken in Okinawa where the artist currently resides as a new base for her practice upon returning from Berlin last year.
Recognized for her photographic works that convey a unique sense of distance to the subject and appears to freshly recapture the given world replete with convention, Noguchi’s gaze as expressed through her practice is critically described as “the stranger’s eyes” at work. Through the likes of “Small Miracles” (2014) that depicts the very moment in which a drop of honey is about to fall from a spoon towards the center of the earth, “HIIA•F4” (2002) that captures the site of a rocket rising vertically up towards the sky as if escaping from such earthly forces, and “The Sun” (2005 – 2008), a series that uses a pinhole camera to photograph the sun as one of the stars of our galactic system that emits light towards both the earth we inhabit and the vast expanse of the entire universe, Noguchi’s works serve to remind us of the existence of greater and all-controlling powers at work such as gravity and light within the scenes we observe in the everyday. In the way that Noguchi enlisted her representative work which she photographed on Mount Fuji with the title “A Prime” (1997-) in reference to prime numbers of which the principle of their emergence remain yet to be explicated, Noguchi’s unique gaze could indeed be said to have been already established from the early stages of her artistic career.
The large format color works ”At the Bottom of the Sea” that is presented in this exhibition, is Noguchi’s latest series capturing underwater scenes following from her previous “To Dive” (1995) and “Color of the Planet” (2004) series. These works that have been photographed in the sea of Okinawa, capture images of a diver who stands upon the ocean floor while lighting his dark surroundings where the rays of the sun do not reach. In the profound depths of the sea that we all know, exists an otherworldly realm where the inescapable gravitational forces of the earth appear to have no power. Noguchi describes the “To Dive” series that follows a diver she coincidentally encountered as he ventures out to the sea as “a work that endeavors to journey to the moon’s surface” and defines the “Color of the Planet” series depicting the beautiful blue sea and solitary underwater ruins of Yonaguni as precedent of the former. One wonders what Noguchi’s gaze indeed discovers upon setting foot upon the moon’s surface in this third and latest installment of her underwater works.
Noguchi Rika was born in 1971 in the city of Omiya (current city of Saitama). Noguchi graduated from the Department of Photography, College of Art at Nihon University in 1994, and having based her practice in Berlin for 12 years, currently lives and works in Okinawa. Her major solo exhibitions include: “Light Reaching the Future”, IZU PHOTO MUSEUM, Shizuoka (2011); “The Sun”, Mongin Art Center, Seoul (2007); “Color of the Planet”, DAAD Gallery Berlin (2006); “Somebodies: Noguchi Rika”, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2004), and “I Dreamt of Flying: Noguchi Rika”, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2004). Noguchi is scheduled to participate in the 21stSydney Biennale held in March 2018. Her major group shows include: Saitama Triennale (2016); “The Living Years”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2012); YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE 2011, The Yokohama Museum of Art / NYK Waterfront Warehouse, Yokohama (2011); “The Light: MATSUMOTO Yoko / NOGUCHI Rika”, The National Art Center, Tokyo (2009); 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2008); Sharjah Biennale 8, Sharjah Art Museum / Expocentre Sharjah (2007); “The Door into Summer –The Age of Micropop”, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki (2007); “Moving Pictures”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2002) / Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain (2003); “Photography Today 2 –[sa’it] site/sight”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (2002); “Facts of Life: Contemporary Japanese Art”, Hayward Gallery, London (2001); and “The Standard”, Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum (currently Benesse Art Site Naoshima), Kagawa (2001).
Link: Noguchi Rika at Taka Ishii
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Yonaguni
The Yonaguni Monument (Japanese: 与那国島海底地形 Hepburn: Yonaguni-jima Kaitei Chikei?, lit. “Yonaguni Island Submarine Topography”), also known as “Yonaguni (Island) Submarine Ruins” (与那国（島）海底遺跡 Yonaguni(-jima) Kaitei Iseki), is a submerged rock formation off the coast of Yonaguni, the southernmost of the Ryukyu Islands, in Japan.
Structure
Masaaki Kimura, Professor Emeritus from the Faculty of Science at the University of the Ryukyus claims that the formations are man-made stepped monoliths. His ideas are disputed and there is debate about whether the site is completely natural, a natural site that has been modified or a man-made artefact. Neither the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs, nor the government of Okinawa Prefecture recognise the features as important cultural artefacts and neither government agency has carried out research or preservation work on the site.
Discovery
The sea off Yonaguni is a popular diving location during the winter months due to its large population of hammer head sharks. In 1987, while looking for a good place to observe the sharks, Kihachiro Aratake, a director of the Yonaguni-Cho Tourism Association, noticed some singular seabed formations resembling architectonic structures. Shortly thereafter, a group of scientists directed by Masaaki Kimura of the University of the Ryūkyūs visited the formations.
Hammerhead Shark in Yonaguni.
The formation has since become a relatively popular attraction for divers despite strong currents. In 1997, Japanese industrialist Yasuo Watanabe sponsored an informal expedition including writers John Anthony West and Graham Hancock, photographer Santha Faiia, geologist Robert Schoch, a few sport divers and instructors and a film crew for Channel 4 and Discovery Channel. Another notable visitor was freediver Jacques Mayol, who wrote a book on his dives at Yonaguni.
Main Features
The monument consists of medium to very fine sandstones and mudstones of the Lower Miocene Yaeyama Group believed to have been deposited about 20 million years ago. Most of the formations are connected to the underlying rock mass (as opposed to being assembled out of freestanding rocks).
The main feature (the “monument” proper) is a rectangular formation measuring about 150 by 40 m (490 by 130 ft) and about 27 m (90 ft) tall; the top is about 5 m (16 ft) below sea level.
The formation called “The Turtle”
Some of its details are said to be:
Two closely spaced pillars which rise to within 2.4 m of the surface
A 5 m (16 ft) wide ledge that encircles the base of the formation on three sides
A stone column about 7 m (23 ft) tall
A straight wall 10 m (33 ft) long
An isolated boulder resting on a low platform
A low star-shaped platform
A triangular depression with two large holes at its edge
An L-shaped rock.
Interpretations
Natural Formation
Some of those who have studied the formation, such as geologist Robert Schoch of Boston University, state that it is most likely a natural formation, possibly used and modified by humans in the past. Schoch observed the sandstones that make up the Yonaguni formation to “contain numerous well-defined, parallel bedding planes along which the layers easily separate. The rocks of this group are also criss-crossed by numerous sets of parallel, vertically oriented joints in the rock. These joints are natural, parallel fractures by which the rectangular formations seen in the monument likely formed. Yonaguni lies in an earthquake-prone region; such earthquakes tend to fracture the rocks in a regular manner.” He also observes that on the northeast coast of Yonaguni there are regular formations similar to those seen at the monument. Schoch also believes that the “drawings” identified by Kimura are natural scratches on the rocks. This is also the view of John Anthony West, who suggests that the “walls” are simply natural horizontal platforms which fell into a vertical position when rock below them eroded, and the alleged roads are simply channels in the rock.
Patrick D. Nunn, Professor of Oceanic Geoscience at the University of the South Pacific, has studied these formations extensively and notes that the formations below the water continue in the Sanninudai slate cliffs above, which have “been fashioned solely by natural processes”, and concludes in regard to the underwater formations: “There seems no reason to suppose that they are artificial.”[
The existence of an ancient stone-working tradition at Yonaguni and other Ryukyu islands is demonstrated by some old tombs and several stone vessels of uncertain age. Small camps, pottery, stone tools, and large fireplaces were found on Yonaguni, possibly dating back to 2500 BCE. Archaeologist Richard J. Pearson notes, however, that these were small communities: “They are not likely to have had extra energy for building stone monuments.”
Artificial Structures
The flat parallel faces, sharp edges, and mostly right angles of the formation have led some to conclude that the features are man-made. These features include a trench that has two internal 90° angles as well as the twin megaliths that, according to Kimura, appear to have been placed there. These megaliths have straight edges and square corners, however, sea currents have been known to move large rocks on a regular basis. Some of those who see the formations as being largely natural claim that they may have been modified by human hands.
Other evidence presented by those who favour an artificial origin include the two round holes (about 2 feet wide, according to photographs) on the edge of the Triangle Pool feature and a straight row of smaller holes that have been interpreted as an abandoned attempt to split off a section of the rock by means of wedges, found in ancient quarries. Kimura believes he has identified traces of animal drawings and people engraved into the rocks, including a horselike sign he believes resembles a character from the Kaida script. Some have also interpreted a formation on the side of one of the monuments as a crude moai-like “face”.
Supporters of artificial origin, such as the alternative history writer Graham Hancock, also argue that while many of the features seen at Yonaguni are also seen in natural sandstone formations throughout the world, the concentration of so many peculiar formations in such a small area is highly unlikely. They also point to the relative absence of loose blocks on the flat areas of the formation, which would be expected if they were formed solely by natural erosion and fracturing. Robert Schoch has noted that the rocks are swept with strong currents.
Kimura first estimated that the monument must be at least 10,000 years old (8,000 BCE), dating it to a period when it would have been above water. In a report given to the 21st Pacific Science Congress in 2007, he revised this estimate and dated it to 2,000 to 3,000 years ago because the sea level then was close to current levels. He suggests that after construction, tectonic activity caused it to be submerged below sea level. Archaeologist Richard J. Pearson believes this to be unlikely. Kimura believes he can identify a pyramid, castles, roads, monuments and a stadium. Kimura has also surmised that the site may be a remnant of the mythical lost continent of Mu.
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Colorful Coral of Okinawa by Shawn Miller
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