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On arriving in Porto, we were hard pressed to find anywhere that was open, let alone anywhere to eat. We were consumed with hunger, not having eaten for over 24 hours. Fortunately, the local McDonald's was open and Steven Lee (my friend from the Atlantic Seaboard of the United States) was unhesitating in his acquisition of French fries. Christine (Steve's wife) was not altogether happy with this decision. It was a difficult moment and one in which all of our ethical judgments were brought to bear. In the heat of the moment, worn and bedraggled with intense agonizing, I only just managed to take this shot, capturing the point of 'no return' - the point at which Steven Lee entered wittingly into the dark world of immorality, in which he appeared to give a tacit yet unrepentant nod to wholesale eco-devastation and unremittent child torture - merely through the act of eating three trans-fatty fries. Moral dilemmas of this kind have become increasingly prominent features of the new millennium.
(And you can bet your bottom dollar we'll have a lot more of these sorts of dilemmas to look forward to in the not-so-distant future).
Exploitant : SPL TransUrbain
Réseau : TransUrbain
Ligne : T5
Lieu : Cadran (Évreux, F-27)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/vehicule/37959
My old 1984 Alembic Series II "Exploiter" bass. The bridge. The corrosion is starting to look like an art project. There's probably some kind of ebola or something lurking in there.
I had this bass built in the summer of 1984. The only options (besides the walnut/maple/purple heart construction) were graphite rods in the neck and a neck shaped like a Rickenbacker 4001 that I'd been very comfortable playing. This is still the most musical bass I've ever owned, but it also weighs so much that it's seen relatively little use.
The story of this site located in the mosan valley starts at the XIIIth and XIVth centuries, with the exploitation in quarry of the mosan stone (or "blue stone"), which was considered high quality. The blocks of limestone were cut in open-air but also in subterranean galleries that are now closed to the public.
The lime kilns in the pictures were built since 1872. During almost a century, this impressive construction attached to the mountain has seen many changes among which the successive addition of new kilns (finally eight, arranged on a 68 meter length) and the evolution of new technologies.
These lime kilns worked on a continuous process, fed 24 hours a day. Several layers of fuel (previously coal, then coke) and limestones were successively piled from the top of the kilns, then burned by a process of calcination. After cooling, the lime was extracted from the bottom. It was then used in mortars for construction.
Closed since 1971, these lime kilns are today abandoned and poorly secured (in spite of important risks of fall). A part of the cliff and the former quarry is still used by a climbing club.
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L'histoire de ce site situé dans la vallée mosane remonte aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles, lorsque la pierre mosane (ou "pierre bleue"), réputée d'une grande qualité, commence à être exploitée en carrière. Les blocs de pierre calcaire y étaient taillés à ciel ouvert mais aussi dans des galeries souterraines aujourd'hui fermées au public.
Les fours à chaux furent quant à eux construits à partir de 1872. Pendant près d'un siècle, cette imposante construction accolée à la montagne a connu de nombreux remaniements parmi lesquels l'ajout successif de nouveaux fours (finalement au nombre de huit, disposés sur une longueur de 68 mètres) et l'évolution de nouvelles technologies et procédés.
Ces fours fonctionnaient à feu continu, alimentés 24h sur 24. Des couches de combustibles (auparavant du charbon, puis du coke) et de pierres à chaux (calcaires) étaient empilées successivement depuis le haut des fours, puis brûlées par un procédé de calcination. La chaux ainsi produite après refroidissement était récupérée par le bas et acheminée, prête à l'usage dans les mortiers pour la construction.
Fermés depuis 1971, ces fours sont aujourd'hui à l'abandon dans un site étonnement peu sécurisé (malgré des risques de chute importants). Une partie de la falaise et des anciennes carrières est encore employée par un club d'escalade de la région.
Reza and Zakir setting up the show on Bangladeshi migrant labourers in Malaysia "Best Years of My Life" by Shahidul Alam,
European Week of Regions and Cities 2016
13 October 2016 , UNIV13A122 - Sustainable Innovation within the European Digital Agenda - Exploiting regional smart specialisations through an inter-regional Joint Action Plan
EU WRC 2016 #euopendays
Belgium - Brussels - October 2016
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Cette année, plus de 400 participants français et étrangers sont venus salle Wagram (Paris) participer à la Convention SFEN "Exploiter les centrales nucléaires dans la durée"
Exploitant : Cars Perrier
Réseau : Navette Substitution SNCF Île-de-France
Ligne : Navette Transilien J
Lieu : Gare d'Argenteuil (Argenteuil, F-95)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/id/59738
Exploitant : Transdev CSO
Réseau : Poissy Aval – 2 Rives de Seine
Ligne : 50
Lieu : Parvis Gare (Poissy, F-78)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/id/53770
In response to safeguarding concerns identified by our Rochdale organised crime team, we’ve executed eight warrants this morning and locked up six suspected gang members.
We identified a teenage boy who was being exploited and coerced into drug dealing by a suspected local gang.
With immediate safeguarding measures put in place, we were able to pursue those responsible
As the investigation developed, we identified further victims, including a vulnerable adult whose house was being cuckooed and used as a stash house for the gang.
This morning, we’ve arrested six men aged 18 - 26 on suspicion of conspiracy to supply class A and B drugs and modern slavery offences.
£30,000 cash has been seized along with cannabis and drugs paraphernalia.
Today’s activity is a key example of partnership work and effective information sharing. It’s enabled us to identify crucial members of a suspected organised crime group, but most importantly, we’ve been able to safeguard several children and vulnerable adults.
Sergeant Mark Lutkevitch from our Rochdale Challenger team said: “Exploitation, coercion, and violence are the foundations of modern slavery and drugs trafficking, and gangs will often exploit the vulnerable to further their profits. Our arrests this morning are part of a longstanding investigation into several organised crime groups operating across Rochdale that we strongly believe are involved in the exploitation of young people.
“Young people and vulnerable adults will be threatened as the criminals exert control, which is why tackling exploitation is a high priority for us. We have specialist officers working with young people in our communities to tackle the vicious cycle of gang recruitment, and teams of officers on the frontline pursuing offenders.
“Our communities are key in helping us be one step ahead of the criminals. By being our eyes and our ears and finding the courage to report what is taking place in your area only strengthens our relentless pursuit of organised crime and could make a real difference for a child.
“I want to encourage communities to trust their instinct. If something doesn’t feel right; report it. If you think somebody is being exploited, or you think a house might have been taken over by drug dealers, feed that information to us. If you want to remain anonymous, report it through Crimestoppers, and we will act.”
nformation can be shared by calling 101. If you would prefer to remain anonymous, call the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Always call 999 in an emergency.
🇫🇷 Fr.
● Dimanche 17 décembre 2024 1er jour d’exploitation sur la ligne 1 du métro de Lille sous le nouveau système CBTC de Alstom.
● VAL208 d’origine Siemens équipé d’un PA.VAL (Pilote automatique VAL) puis modifié par Alstom en CBTC version U500. (1er Mondial)
● Cette évolution est un prérequis essentiel au future déploiement des nouvelles rames 52 mètres NMR ( Rame BOA ), qui doubleront la capacité de transport de la ligne 1 pour l’horizon en février 2026.
( VAL208 Longueur : 26 mètres)
CBTC ( Communication based train control )
Description :
Le système CBTC permet l'exploitation d'un système de transport en se basant sur la communication continue des trains avec un ordinateur chargé de la gestion du trafic.
Le système CBTC est décrit par une norme internationale IEEE 1474, définie en 1999. D'après cette norme, les principales caractéristiques d'un CBTC sont :
une localisation précise de la position des trains indépendante des circuits de voie ;
une transmission bi-directionnelle haut débit entre les équipements au sol et les trains ;
un système constitué par des ordinateurs (calculateurs de sécurité) situés à la fois au sol et dans les trains, capables de mettre en œuvre des fonctions de protection automatique des trains (en anglais : Automatic Train Protection ou ATP), ainsi que des fonctions optionnelles d'exploitation automatique des trains (communément appelée « pilotage automatique » ou en anglais : Automatic Train Operation ou ATO) et de supervision automatique des trains (en anglais : Automatic Train Supervision ou ATS).
Un ordinateur central gère les convois circulant sur des lignes situées dans sa zone d'action afin d'obtenir une fluidification du trafic et une réduction de l'intervalle de temps entre deux trains aux heures de pointe.
L'ordinateur central échange différentes informations avec un ordinateur situé à bord de chaque train à l'aide du réseau de communication.
Chaque train calcule en temps réel et communique son statut par radio aux équipements du réseau disposés le long des voies. Ce statut comprend, parmi d'autres informations, sa position exacte, sa vitesse, sa direction et sa distance de freinage minimale.
Les systèmes CBTC de dernière génération sont basés sur le concept de canton mobile déformable, évolution technologique du cantonnement. Ces cantons sont constitués de la partie de voie occupée par le train, incluant une marge de sécurité à l'avant et à l'arrière, et de la distance d'arrêt calculée à tout moment. Ils permettent de diminuer la distance de sécurité entre deux trains consécutifs.
Grâce aux systèmes CBTC, la position de chaque train et sa dynamique sont connues de manière plus précise que par les anciens systèmes de signalisation.
Le CBTC permet ainsi, de resserrer l’intervalle entre les rames, en le limitant à moins de 90 secondes, et par conséquent d’augmenter la capacité d’une ligne, et donc de retarder la mise en œuvre de travaux d’infrastructures beaucoup plus lourds à engager. On cherche continuellement à réduire ce temps, par exemple, Alstom optimise les cadences des nouveaux métros de Lille, avec un train toutes les minutes (solution Urbalis Fluence).
Les systèmes CBTC doivent conserver une haute disponibilité grâce à une architecture ne comprenant pas de point de défaillance unique.
Par sécurité, une deuxième technologie de signalisation peut être prévue pour assurer un niveau de service minimal en cas de perte partielle ou totale du système CBTC.
Les CBTC peuvent être employés pour automatiser un système existant ou bien lors de la construction d'un nouveau système de transport…………
Source :
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_based_train_control#:....
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● Métro de Lille le VAL.
Le métro de Lille est un système de transport en commun en site propre desservant Lille et son agglomération, dans le département français du Nord. Il a la particularité d'être le premier métro au monde à utiliser la technologie du véhicule automatique léger (VAL), cette technologie étant créée au début des années 1970 au sein de l'Université des sciences et technologies de Lille grâce notamment aux travaux du professeur Robert Gabillard. Le système VAL est ensuite exploité par un consortium mené par Matra qui se charge également des travaux avec le soutien de la communauté urbaine de Lille, alors dirigée par Arthur Notebart. Le métro est finalement inauguré le 25 avril 1983 par le président de la République François Mitterrand…………
Source :
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9tro_de_Lille
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ILEVIA ( Wikipedia )
Ilévia, ou Keolis Lille Métropole (appelé TCC jusqu'en 1994 et Transpole jusqu'en 2019), est une société anonyme créée en 1989 de la fusion des deux entreprises de transport en commun de l'agglomération lilloise. Elle a pour objectif l'exploitation du réseau de transport en commun de voyageurs sur le territoire de la Métropole européenne de Lille.
Ilévia exploite, pour le compte de la Métropole européenne de Lille (MEL), les deux lignes de métro automatique, le tramway du Grand Boulevard, les soixante-dix lignes de bus (dont les douze Lianes, des bus à haut niveau de service), ainsi que les plus de deux-cents stations V'Lille (2200 vélos en libre-service exploités via EFFIA, une filiale de Keolis) de l'agglomération lilloise…….
Source :
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il%C3%A9via
ILEVIA ( Exploitant ) :
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🇬🇧 GB. UK.
● Sunday, December 17, 2024 1st day of operation on line 1 of the Lille metro under the new Alstom CBTC system.
● VAL208 of Siemens origin equipped with a PA.VAL (VAL automatic pilot) then modified by Alstom in CBTC version U500. (World 1st)
● This development is an essential prerequisite for the future deployment of the new 52-meter NMR trains (BOA trains), which will double the transport capacity of line 1 by February 2026.
(VAL208 Length: 26 meters)
● Communications-based train control
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications-based_train_control
● Lille Metro
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lille_Metro
🇳🇱 NL.
● Zondag 17 december 2024 1e exploitatiedag op lijn 1 van de metro van Rijsel onder het nieuwe Alstom CBTC-systeem.
● VAL208 van Siemens-oorsprong uitgerust met een PA.VAL (VAL automatische piloot) en vervolgens door Alstom aangepast tot CBTC-versie U500. (1e wereld)
● Deze ontwikkeling is een essentiële voorwaarde voor de toekomstige inzet van de nieuwe 52 meter NMR-treinen (BOA-trein), die de transportcapaciteit van lijn 1 tegen februari 2026 zullen verdubbelen.
(VAL208 Lengte: 26 meter)
● Communications-Based Train Control
nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications-Based_Train_Control
● Metro van Rijsel
nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_van_Rijsel
🇩🇪 DE.
● Sonntag, 17. Dezember 2024 1. Betriebstag der Linie 1 der U-Bahn von Lille im neuen Alstom CBTC-System.
● VAL208 von Siemens, ausgestattet mit einem PA.VAL (VAL-Autopilot), dann von Alstom in die CBTC-Version U500 umgebaut. (1. Welt)
● Diese Entwicklung ist eine wesentliche Voraussetzung für den künftigen Einsatz der neuen 52-Meter-NMR-Züge (BOA-Zug), die die Transportkapazität der Linie 1 bis Februar 2026 verdoppeln werden.
(VAL208 Länge: 26 Meter)
● Communication-Based Train Control
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication-Based_Train_Control
● Métro Lille
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9tro_Lille
🇪🇸 ES.
● Domingo 17 de diciembre de 2024 Primer día de funcionamiento de la línea 1 del metro de Lille bajo el nuevo sistema CBTC de Alstom.
● VAL208 de origen Siemens equipado con un PA.VAL (piloto automático VAL) luego modificado por Alstom a CBTC versión U500. (1er mundo)
● Este desarrollo es un requisito previo esencial para el futuro despliegue de los nuevos trenes NMR de 52 metros (tren BOA), que duplicarán la capacidad de transporte de la línea 1 hasta febrero de 2026.
(VAL208 Longitud: 26 metros)
● Sistema CBTC
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistema_CBTC
● Metro de Lille
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_de_Lille
🇮🇹 IT
● Domenica 17 dicembre 2024 1° giorno di operatività sulla linea 1 della metropolitana di Lille con il nuovo sistema Alstom CBTC.
● VAL208 di origine Siemens dotato di PA.VAL (pilota automatico VAL) poi modificato da Alstom nella versione CBTC U500. (1° Mondo)
● Questo sviluppo è un prerequisito essenziale per il futuro dispiegamento dei nuovi treni NMR da 52 metri (treno BOA), che raddoppieranno la capacità di trasporto della linea 1 entro febbraio 2026.
(VAL208 Lunghezza: 26 metri)
● Communication based train control
it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_based_train_control
● Metropolitana di Lilla
it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitana_di_Lilla
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WASHINGTON, DC: National Center for Missing & Exploited (NCMEC) 2022 Hope Gala, Oct. 20, 2022
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) Hope Gala held on Oct. 20, 2022 at the District Pier at The Wharf, Washington, D.C. The event is a celebration of the inspiring work being done globally to protect children. We recognized leaders in child safety, honor survivors, and remember the families and victims who are still seeking justice and safety. Sarah Baker/NCMEC
A march against the exploitation of and racism toward international students in Australia that the governments (both state and federal) continue to allow to exist. International and Australian students from NSW universities (such as Newcastle, UTS, Macquarie, UNSW and Sydney University) rallied together, marching from Sydney University to UTS and on to NSW Parliament House, asking for the government to intervene and change legislation that allows international students to be taken advantage of.
Some basic rights like abolishing the 20-hour work week limit and providing student travel concessions to international students were demanded in chants and songs. At a deeper level though, the protesters are demanding an end to the systematic racism and exploitation of international students, who are increasingly treated more as a means to profit than as students to educate.
Cégep de Thetford
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Sandford Quarry
This quarry occupies a prominent site at the western end of the pronounced limestone ridge running eastwards to Burrington and beyond and is also located midway between Sandford and Winscombe villages. Like Callow Hill and Batts Coombe, it exploited the very pure Burrington Oolite.
Commercial quarrying began on Sandford Hill in the mid 19th century, and was given a particular boost when the branch line to the mainline at Yatton reached here in 1869. Sandford stone was reputed to have been used in the construction of Avonmouth Docks opened in 1877 and in the expansion of Temple Meads Station, Bristol, in the same period (although the main walling stone was from Draycott near Cheddar). However, even in 1885, the quarry appears to have had no direct rail connection to the branch line, only 300m away. At least two banks of lime kilns were then located here. Although those along Quarry Lane are the most evident, they were only some of many in the parish. By 1895, Alfred Weeks was running Sandford Hill Quarry with five men.
In 1910, the Winscombe Stone and Lime Co. Ltd. was registered as a private company with a capital of £2 000 to carry on the quarry businesses of A G Weeks at Winscombe and Sandford Hill quarries as 'quarry master', stone and lime merchant haulier. By 1920 the company had been reformed as Sandford and Conygar Quarries Co., taking in Conygar sandstone quarry near Portishead.
In 1922 there was a debate over the boundary between this quarry holding and that known as the 'Award land', owned by the ecclesiastical parish, where from 1798, parishioners had a right to obtain stone to meet their duty to repair local roads. The matter was resolved by the company agreeing to pay £8 a year for the privilege of working the site. A steam driven processing plant was introduced.
Soon after it became one of the first Somerset quarries to be absorbed by Roads Reconstruction Ltd. During World War II, Italian prisoners of war worked in the quarries and kilns with local men, with production rising to 50 000 tonnes in 1951. By the time the rail link closed in 1964, the working area had extended eastward creating 'a hollow tooth' feature. In the 1970s a medium sized aggregates plant served an asphalt unit and a concrete works, the latter consuming about half the output, roadstone making up about 25%. In 1972, like Batts Coombe and Callow Rock, the site fell within the area designated nationally as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the next year it also came within the newly created County of Avon (now North Somerset).
In 1993 Sandford Hill Quarry ceased working on the parish land, and in the mid 1990s, the quarry closed as part of an arrangement to extend Whatley Quarry. The 'award land' reverted to the parish and was converted to a nature reserve. Parts of the site are now used by the local activity centre 'The Action Centre' for training in climbing and abseiling.
Exploitant : RATP
Réseau : RATP
Ligne : 262
Lieu : Grâce de Dieu (Bezons, F-95)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/id/11024
HAITI: U.N. Troops Accused of Exploiting Local Women
PORT SALUT, Sep 7, 2011 (IPS) - Seventeen-year-old Rose Mina Joseph says she is nine months pregnant. Her belly is swollen and she moves slowly, placing each step, as she walks around her family's dusty yard.
WASHINGTON, DC: National Center for Missing & Exploited (NCMEC) 2022 Hope Gala, Oct. 20, 2022
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) Hope Gala held on Oct. 20, 2022 at the District Pier at The Wharf, Washington, D.C. The event is a celebration of the inspiring work being done globally to protect children. We recognized leaders in child safety, honor survivors, and remember the families and victims who are still seeking justice and safety. Sarah Baker/NCMEC
Mali : opération Ceuze
Du 26 au 28 mai, à 70 km au Nord-Est de Gao, le GTIA Désert a mené l’opération Ceuze. Elle avait pour objectif d’exploiter les renseignements collectés lors d’une opération préalable tout en affichant à la fois la présence et la détermination de la force dans la région située entre Gao et In Zekouan. Pour cette opération, le GTIA Désert a déployé plus de 300 militaires français aux côtés d’une soixantaine de militaires des forces de sécurité maliennes. Lors de cette action, les renseignements transmis par l’avion de patrouille maritime Atlantique 2 et un drone Harfang, combinés à l’action des chasseurs, ont fourni au commandement des troupes au sol un appui important. En dépit des conditions climatiques extrêmes et les premières tempêtes de sable, l’opération Ceuze a atteint ses objectifs : poursuivre les opérations de sécurisation visant à affaiblir les groupes terroristes ainsi que leurs moyens logistiques.
I had a bit of hesitancy about posting this photo because in my mind it shows the Native Americans being exploited by the railroads who took away much of their land.
Exploitant : Transdev TVO
Réseau : R'Bus (Argenteuil)
Ligne : 2
Lieu : Gare d'Argenteuil (Argenteuil, F-95)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/id/27836
Police and partner agencies have been focusing on young people who run away or go missing from home and those that may exploit them during a week of action that began across Greater Manchester on Monday 14 March.
The focus of the campaign during this year’s week of action has been raising awareness around the strong link between child sexual exploitation and children who go missing.
Going missing can mean bunking off school, staying out overnight, or running away from home for a few days or longer. Whatever the context, the reality is that 95% children at risk from child sexual exploitation have gone missing at least once.
GMP Assistant Chief Constable Rob Potts said: “The statistics speak for themselves – there is a clear correlation between young people at risk of child sexual exploitation and their inclination to run away or go missing.
“More often than not, the young people who do run away do so regularly. This not only places a significant strain on policing but also increases the chances of that person coming to harm.
“Young people are often unaware of the dangers that are posed when they stay away from home without telling anyone and we urge them to keep in touch somehow, whether that’s through a friend, relative or anyone you trust.
“If you have concerns about your child’s whereabouts or don’t know where they are, please contact the police. With our partners in Project Phoenix we are doing all we can to work with these young people to get to the root of the problem, and keep them safe.
“Child sexual exploitation is a horrific crime and we will continue to work hard to both locate and protect those vulnerable to abuse, working with missing children on their return to break the cycle. Officers are patrolling around the clock, and will take robust action to tackle anyone who seeks to exploit these young people.”
Greater Manchester Mayor and Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Lloyd said: “Greater Manchester is leading the fight against child sexual exploitation. We’re engaging with local people to raise awareness of the abuse and how to spot the signs, and partner agencies are working together to tackle the issue, bring perpetrators to justice, and provide much-needed support to victims and those at risk, including children who run away or go missing.
“Child sexual exploitation is child sex abuse, plain and simple. We must come down heavily on those who exploit and manipulate vulnerable children for their own sexual pleasure, and arm our young people with the means to keep safe and recognise unhealthy, abusive relationships.”
Paul Maher, Greater Manchester Area Manager at The Children’s Society, which works with children and young people who go missing or are at risk of going missing, said: “Children and young people who go missing are among the most vulnerable children in our society.
“Some may be running from neglect and abuse, family breakdown or drug and alcohol misuse by their parents - while others go missing under the influence of predatory adults seeking to exploit them.
“Whatever the reason for them going missing, we know these children are at particular risk of being sexually exploited or falling victim to other types of harm. Our research has shown that around a quarter are either hurt or harmed in some way.
“That is why it is vital they receive more support at an early stage to help address the issues that cause them to go missing and protect them from the risks of sexual exploitation or becoming a victim of other crimes.”
The week of activity is the latest from Project Phoenix’s ‘It’s Not Okay’ campaign, and will be publicising resources and support related to child sexual exploitation.
‘It’s Not Okay’ was created as part of Project Phoenix, the Greater Manchester response to tackling child sexual exploitation - a collaboration of public and third sector partners throughout Greater Manchester working together to protect young people.
Since the campaign launched in September 2014, public awareness and understanding of child sexual exploitation in Greater Manchester has increased considerably amongst young people and parents and carers, as well as professionals.
In the 18 months since the launch of the ‘It’s Not Okay’ campaign, Project Phoenix has undertaken substantial work with schools, healthcare providers and support services to ensure that vulnerable young people are helped at every stage - from prevention through to support and rehabilitation.
Regular weeks of awareness-raising have included direct engagement with young people and those who care for them; police targeting and disruption, dedicated days of publicity focusing on key trends and close collaboration across Greater Manchester authorities means that hundreds more young people are being identified, educated and safeguarded than ever before. Visit www.itsnotokay.co.uk to find out more.
For more information about Policing in Greater Manchester please visit our website. www.gmp.police.uk
To report crime call police on 101 the national non-emergency number.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
Exploitant : Transdev TVO
Réseau : R'Bus (Argenteuil)
Ligne : 34
Lieu : Pont de Bezons (Bezons, F-95)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/id/37730
A march against the exploitation of and racism toward international students in Australia that the governments (both state and federal) continue to allow to exist. International and Australian students from NSW universities (such as Newcastle, UTS, Macquarie, UNSW and Sydney University) rallied together, marching from Sydney University to UTS and on to NSW Parliament House, asking for the government to intervene and change legislation that allows international students to be taken advantage of.
Some basic rights like abolishing the 20-hour work week limit and providing student travel concessions to international students were demanded in chants and songs. At a deeper level though, the protesters are demanding an end to the systematic racism and exploitation of international students, who are increasingly treated more as a means to profit than as students to educate.
Exploited for human use and on display for human amusement.
Animals have the right to not be treated as property! Go vegan!
Red Umbrella March for Sex Work Solidarity
Saturday, June 11, 2016
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Sex workers, allies, family and friends stand together
The red umbrella is the symbol of the global sex workers’ rights movement. The Red Umbrella March is part of a national day of action, with similar events taking place in cities across Canada.
In Vancouver it began at 2:30 p.m. on June 11 with a rally at the Vancouver Art Gallery (Robson Street plaza), followed by a march starting at 3 p.m. The march travelled through Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside to CRAB Park.
Protest chants included:
Freedom to associate is our right!
Get your laws off my body!
Sex workers rights are human rights!
My body, my business, my choice!
Remember Bedford!
No bad whores, only bad laws!
Sex worker rights now!
I support sex workers' rights
A Blow Job is Better than No Job.
This year’s focus was “Freedom to Associate is Our Right!”
The Freedom to Associate is a right granted to all citizens by our Charter of Rights & Freedoms. Canada’s new anti-prostitution laws violate sex workers’ freedom even to the point that standing in the street together is illegal if it encourages buying sex.
Marching together shows Canadians that when sex workers’ freedom to associate is infringed upon, it is a concern for all Canadians. It forces them to work alone and unsafe, they’re alienated, their families are torn apart.
When the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act became law in 2014, purchasing sexual services became a crime for the first time in Canada. Advocates for this, the “Nordic model,” believe it is the way to keep sex workers safe from violence and exploitation.
In the eyes of anti-sex work activists, “shaming the Johns” is a legitimate way to reduce the overall amount of street prostitution (estimated to comprise not more than 15 percent of all sexual services offered in Canada). But “John shaming” impacts sex workers themselves. Making what they do illegal only forces them to do it in riskier circumstances. For instance, street-based sex workers face longer hours, thanks to a temporary decline in clients. They may be more willing to take clients they would otherwise screen out, particularly when they’re under greater pressure to avoid police detection. And clients may be less likely to seek relevant health care. The Vancouver Police Department say they don’t consider sex between consenting adults an enforcement priority, claiming to only intervene in situations where there are reports of violence, exploitation, or involvement of youth or gangs.
But there’s no real difference between banning providing sexual services and banning paying for them. As long as the act of engaging in sex for money is illegal, sex workers will not see the police as allies in the moments that they really need them.
From the early 1990s to 2002, more than 70 women disappeared from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, most of them sex workers and all of them poor. Criminalization only served to push these women away from police and from the rest of society; it never made them safer. Robert Pickton admitted to an undercover police officer that he killed 49 women after he was arrested in 2002. He was convicted of the second-degree murders of six women and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years. Former Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu has repeatedly apologized for his force’s failure to stop Pickton’s killing spree. Lawsuits claimed police, including individual RCMP officers, and the Crown failed to warn women on the Downtown Eastside that a serial killer may have been responsible for women disappearing, and was wrong for not putting Pickton on trial for attempted murder following an attack on a sex worker in 1997.
The Red Umbrella March for Sex Work Solidarity was co-organized by: Triple-X Workers’
Solidarity Association of B.C., Downtown Eastside Sex Workers United Against Violence (SWUAV), Pivot Legal Society, PACE Society, B.C. Coalition of Experiential Communities, FIRST: Feminists Advocating for the Decriminalization of Sex Work, SWAN Society Vancouver.
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Mont-Dol est une commune française située dans le département d'Ille-et-Vilaine en région Bretagne.
Le site est fréquenté dès le Paléolithique, il y a environ 70 000 ans, par des chasseurs néandertaliens. En 1872, des carriers exploitant le granit mettent au jour des os géants qu'ils crurent de baleine. L'archéologue Simon Sirodot (1825-1903) entreprend alors la première grande fouille archéologique de Bretagne et découvre de nombreux ossements (traces d'une cinquantaine de mammouths, d'une douzaine de rhinocéros, d'une cinquantaine de chevaux, de lions, de cerfs, de bœufs), silex taillés (racloirs, outils pour débiter la viande et travailler les peaux) qui font du Mont-Dol le plus important site paléolithique breton. Ses travaux pourtant rigoureux n'échappent pas à la polémique sur l'origine de l'homme, des personnes comme l'abbé Hamard se refusant à admettre la haute antiquité de l'homme.
Ce tertre dominant les marais, à 65 mètres de hauteur (comparable au mont Saint-Michel qui se dessine à l'horizon) ne pouvait que cristalliser les manifestations du sacré. Il fut peut-être un haut lieu de culte païen : culte gaulois de Taranisc ?
Cultes gallo-romains de Mithra, de Cybèle (au printemps et aux marées d'équinoxe) ? Des traces de temple (substructions, maçonnerie de pierres sèches à mi-coteau) sont encore visibles aujourd'hui aux visiteurs avertis. Saint Samson aurait fait édifier une chapelle dédiée à saint Michel dès le vie siècle dans l'enceinte d'un temple dédié à Cybèled. Sous les ruines de cette chapelle ont été découverts deux anciennes tables-passoires qui correspondraient aux autels tauroboliques élevés au culte de Cybèlee. Le bas d'un pilier fut aussi récupéré pour l'église en contrebasf.
L'église Saint-Pierre date des xiie et xve siècles. On peut découvrir sur les côtés de la nef principale des traces de fresques très anciennes représentant le cycle de la Passion. Certaines demeurent encore bien visibles aujourd'hui et la représentation du malin mangeant des hommes en enfer est très particulière. Au cœur de la nef, l'archange sous forme de statue en bois tient une place privilégiée où on le voit en train de terrasser le diable à l'aide de sa lance.
Beaucoup de légendes courent sur le mont Dol, souvent liées à saint Michel.
En voici quelques-unes :
- Celle-ci raconte la formation du relief : « Garguantua se promenait dans la baie du mont Saint-Michel et se sentit gêné dans sa botte, il enleva donc sa botte et la secoua pour chasser les cailloux qui le gênaient. Et c'est ainsi que les trois rochers provenant de la botte de Gargantua ont donné naissance au mont Saint-Michel, au rocher de Tombelaine et au mont Dol. »
- Une autre raconte la formation de l'étang au sommet du mont : « Un jour le diable (très présent à Mont-Dol) construisit sur un rocher un immense palais (le Mont-Saint-Michel). Saint Michel voyant cela et jaloux du malin construisit au sommet du tertre dans la nuit un magnifique château de verre. Une fois terminé, il proposa au diable un échange. Le malin, impressionné par la beauté du monument, accepta sans hésitation. Mais au petit matin le palais commença à fondre puisqu'en fait il était non pas en verre mais en glace. Les eaux ont donc ruisselé et formé l'étang que l'on connaît aujourd'hui sur le sommet du tertre. »
- Une autre concerne l'une des nombreuses chamailleries entre saint Michel et le diable : « En temps de grande sécheresse, le diable et saint Michel ont dû s'allier. L'archange proposa donc au malin de cultiver ensemble du blé. Le diable accepta volontiers et c'est ainsi qu'ensemble ils cultivèrent leurs céréales. Au moment de récolter saint Michel dit au diable « si tu es d'accord, je prends ce qu'il y a au-dessus du sol et toi tu prends ce qu'il y en dessous ». Le diable accepta et se retrouva bien entendu avec uniquement les racines du blé, alors que l'archange lui récolta nombre de graines. Ensuite saint Michel proposa au diable de cultiver des pommes de terre, le malin accepta mais émit une condition : « À la récolte je prends ce qu'il y a au-dessus, et toi (saint Michel) tu prends ce qu'il y a en dessous, je ne me ferais pas avoir deux fois ! »
Bien entendu le diable ne récolta que le feuillage pendant que saint Michel dégustait les délicieuses pommes de terre qu'il venait de récolter. Le diable fou de rage s'en alla combattre l'archange. »
English :
Mont-Dol (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃ dɔl]; Breton: Menez-Dol; Gallo: Mont-Dou) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France.
The proud little historic city of Dol, with its fascinating cathedral, was built above the marshes extending to the Baie de Mont-Saint-Michel. Out of this dramatically flat landscape emerges an extraordinary outcrop, Mont Dol, where Saint Michael supposedly fought off Satan. Climb it for elating views.
Source: Wikipedia
United Nations peacekeepers, police, and civilians work hard to provide security, sanctuary, and peace for the vulnerable people of war-torn South Sudan.
The relationship between the two groups should be one of mutual trust and confidence but, at times, it breaks down when the power imbalance results in local people being subjected to sexual exploitation and abuse by UN personnel.
Appointed by the UN Secretary-General, Jane Connors is the UN’s first Victims’ Rights Advocate (VRA). This puts her at the forefront of efforts to prevent, respond to, and ultimately eliminate sexual exploitation and abuse. Her role ensures that victims are at the center of the UN’s approach.
The Victims’ Rights Advocate is visiting South Sudan to promote the importance of the “no excuses, zero tolerance” approach to UN personnel, whether they are peacekeepers or humanitarian workers. She has also met with victims and local authorities and spent time listening to the concerns of internally displaced people in protection of civilians’ sites.
Globally there were 103 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse reported against UN peacekeepers last year with four in South Sudan. While the numbers seem low, explained the VRA, this may be because the stigma attached to this kind of behavior makes victims reluctant to report it. That is why it is vital to encouraging reporting so that perpetrators are held accountable.
Jane Connors’ visit to South Sudan’s follows the launch of a new campaign by the UN Mission to build on the “zero tolerance” and “no excuses” stance taken by the Secretary-General. At the recent launch of a new pocket-sized card designed to remind all UN personnel of their responsibility to prevent sexual exploitation and abuse, the Head of the Mission in South Sudan, David Shearer, said there would be “no second chance” for any offenders in the country.
Un terril est constitué par l'accumulation des « stériles », sous-produits de l'exploitation minière, composés principalement de schistes, et en plus petite quantité de grès carbonifères et de résidus divers (quelquefois pollués). Le terme se prononce terri et peut aussi s'écrire de cette façon. Toutefois, la prononciation terril est également répandue.
Un terril peut être de forme conique, et constituer alors un signal fort dans le paysage, ou bien plat et s'y fondre complètement, surtout si la végétation s'y est installée. Le plus haut d'Europe se trouve à Loos-en-Gohelle dans l'ancien bassin minier du Pas-de-Calais.
Les terrils présentent souvent une grande richesse écologique. Au fil des années, ils ont été colonisés par toutes sortes de plantes et animaux, quelquefois étrangers à la région. Cette diversité découle en partie de l'exploitation minière. Par exemple, parce que les mineurs jetaient leurs trognons de pommes ou de poires dans les wagonnets de charbon, les terrils abritent aujourd'hui une centaine de variétés plus ou moins oubliées d'arbres fruitiers. On peut aussi noter la prolifération de l'oseille à feuilles d'écusson, dont les semences ont été apportées dans les rainures du bois de sapin utilisé dans les mines. De plus, par sa couleur sombre, la face sud d'un terril est significativement plus chaude que les environs, ce qui contribue à la diversité écologique du lieu. Ainsi le terri de Pinchonvalles à Avion rassemble 200 variétés différentes de plantes supérieures. Une trentaine d'espèces d'oiseaux y nichent.
Certains abritent des vignobles comme celui du terril n° 7 des charbonnages de Mariemont-Bascoup sur le territoire de Chapelle-lez-Herlaimont (province de Hainaut) qui produit 3 000 litres de vin par an.