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Both these B10Ms spent time with Rennies before becoming trainers. 52355 came to Rennies in November 2010 registered P255ASA. It was quickly re-registered BHZ9545, lasting in the fleet until July 2011 when it joined the main Fife fleet as a training bus. Alongside, 52649 came from Rugby in January 2012 in Megabus colours. It was quickly repainted into Citylink livery and re-registered D6BUS. Within the year, it had been transferred to Western, re-registered back to T669XTV and repainted white for hire work. It was subsequently transferred back to Fife and re-painted / re-equipped as a training bus.
It has puzzled me for a long time why so many Japanese superheroes (Ultraman, Kamen Riders, Voltron or Golion, Go-Onger, Gao-ranger, you name ‘em) have bug-eyes, unmoving mouths, or no mouth at all and have a strong connection with mime.
I now have a theory about the connection between Japanese superheroes and mime.
Japanese superheroes make many gestures (see image above), like mime artists. And more, in a sense they also speak. But their mouths are always immovable. Often they do not have mouths at all. And yet they do speak: They mime speech!
Typicaly, a group of young males and one female strike poses, press buttons, or contact someone in heaven on a magical mobile phone, and change ("hensin") into a team of superheroes wearing colour coded wetsuits. Why should then even need to change into a super hero suit? There is no secret made of their identity.
They then do stylised battle, reminiscent of badly choreographed pro-wrestling, with one or more wetsuited monsters, often with a conspicuously mobile jaw, in a car park.
As the superheroes fight they 'speak', or shout, encouraging each other. But where does their speech come from? Their mouths can not move, nor even open. They mime speech. They take out their magic mobile phones and put them to their motionless mouths. All eyes are focused toward the miming speaker.
In the mimicry of speech they are much like masked performers in the Noh Play. The body language of the players mimes speech to perfection, but the face does not move at all.
Nowhere is the mime aspect of Japanese superheroism more apparent than in the shows performed for children at Japanese festivals. Performers in bug-eye, multi-coloured mouthless wetsuits come on stage. Someone presses a button on a ghetto blaster, and off they go, miming their way through an ultra-man epic, never once saying a word, but all the while making it plain who is speaking.
The Japanese boys love it. They imitate the gestures, like the Ultraman laser beam pose above.
So why is miming speech so important?
According to Lacan the human self exists by virtue of two incomplete feedback loops: those provided by voice (or phonetic language) and vision.
We can look at ourselves in the mirror, but we can never see the minds eye. We can speak ourselves, but Lacan argues, the enunciated "I am" of my self speech, never quite coheres with the self that would be saying it.
However, with two ways back, two feedback paths, to the self, we play a shell game, or two card monte, always satisfied that when the word does not hit the mark, we can see ourselves in a mirror. And when the mirror seems empty, we can call ourselves by name.
The problem remains however, in convincing ourselves that our speech comes from the same place as our mouth. But we get used to it. Get used to thinking that sound and vision come from the same place. E.g. The people that we watch on television appear to be speaking the sounds, even though we know, if we think about it, that the sound is coming from the speakers at the side of the box.
Sound and vision never come from the same place, but we get used to thinking that they do, and the scumble that links the two together, that overcomes the contradiction of a picture that is attached to words, is paramount in the production of self.
Japanese boys watch their superheroes mime speech. They know that on the one hand their heroes are not speaking. All the people at the show, everyone knows that Ultraman is dumb, that emperor has no clothes. But the little boys also know that everyone loves the superheroes and assumes that the superheroes are speaking. They learn that if they take up the mime too, then no one will 'out them', no one will ever say "Hey, you are only miming." Superheroes and humans mime speech. It is important that they do so, and get away with it.
But why the bug eyes? For me, the bug-eyes of Japanese superheroes are seen but unseeing eyes. Their eyes are massive. Sometimes the Japanese superheroes face is all eye (Kamen rider Faizu/555). But they have no pupils, no in-eye movement to suggest that they see. Their massive eyes emphasise their visuality, but with their lack of inner eye detail, it is though they can not see at all. These eyes are, I suggest, the eyes that stare at us from out of the mirror. Our eyes as reflected mirrors fascinate us, they draw our gaze, we attempt even to look into them, but we know that they are sightless.
As I have argued elsewhere, the Japanese are permanently in "the mirror stage" in that, by virtue of their training in and ability to take multiple visual perspectives upon themselves, they continue to identify with self as reflected. Growing up in an world of uninterrupted and loving gazes, mirror identification presents little problem for the Japanese. But in order to develope a self they must also integrate the voice, attach those vocal symbols to this reflection, and hence all this heroic speech-miming.
Something similar should be going on in the West: there should be some attempt to link phoneme and imago being made. But in the West it is the identification with speech that is less fraught. So someone Western, admirable, and heroic should be 'speaking mime' rather than miming speech. I guess that this has something to do with the secret identities of Western Superheros, but for the time being, I don't know what "speaking mime" is.
Addendum. please see the next photo in my photostream. I think that "speaking mime" (the Western equivalent to the mimed speech we see Japanese superheros perform) is all the thought bubbles that we are able to see in Western superhero comics, and all the "hard boiled," coming-from-no-where, narrative that accompanies Western detective movies especially. In the West, the narrative pervades, it is the centre, the truth of the secret identity.
I think, therefore I am Batman.
Locomotive Services Limited (LSL) Class 37s 37667 (D6851) and 37521 (D6817) growl past Moore Lane leading the Chairman's Train as 5Z10 08:50 Crewe Holding Sidings to Berwick-Upon-Tweed.
This was the first leg of a four-day crew training and familiarisation ECS tour of the North East, the Lakes, Western Scotland and then on to London Euston via Crewe. The tour incorporated overnight stays on Arnside Viaduct and Glenfinnan Viaduct (x2).
Consist:
6705* Mk2f RLO "Ardnamurchan" - master bedroom coach which includes opening glass doors where the gangway was to form a viewing balcony.
6706* Mk2f RLO "Mount (M)Gahinga" - the second ex-sleeper Mk2 that has been modified and fully refitted to a very high standard for specific use in Mr. Hosking's Chairman's Train. It is understood to be a lounge/sitting room.
99993 (ex TSO Mk1 5067) Dining Car.
310 Pullman Car "Pegasus" housing "The Trianon Bar".
3100 Mk1 FO.
10520* Mk3a SLEP - Sleeping Car.
17159 Mk2d BFK - the brake coach for the consist.
6311 Mk1 Generator car - providing Three Phase ETS to the coaches, which have been modified accordingly.
*Former Caledonian Sleeper stock until replacement by Mk5s in mid/late 2019.
This photograph is part of the estate of captain H.G. Oehme. It shows soldiers of the 87th or 88th Division (German trained and equipped. Here, it shows training of a unit which was not German equipped with number 861) which were considered the best China had when the war broke out.
Among others, he served as German instructor training of the Lehrdivision which was the core for the 87th and 88th division.
Oehme was a German military adviser to the Chinese National Government under Chiang Kai-shek. For further information about him, check the set 'China, German Military Adviser, Oehme'.
ST ALBANS, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 03: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Arsenal during a training session at London Colney on October 03, 2020 in St Albans, England. (Photo by Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)
Navigator is a unique traditional riveted steel ship with a long history connected to Danish maritime traditions and the Port of Copenhagen. Under the name C. E. Krarup the ship was built in1941 as a cable ship. In 1962 it was refitted as a training vessel for Danish naval officers.
NAVIAGTOR has after the refit during 2005-2010 retrieved the original exterior look from 1962.Inside – the machine room, the bridge and the crew quarters are renewed but kept in the original 1962 style. The rest of the interior is complete updated to 2010 level with respect of Danish quality interior design traditions.
The central area of the ship connects all 3 interior decks – from the saloon on boat deck through the hall on main deck to the central hallway on tween deck. A new skylight has been added on the sun deck yielding day light throughout the central area.
From the brass-platecovered hall on main deck there is access to two staterooms with one big bathroom fore and a guest toilet. Aft of the hall there is access to the dining/meeting room with a large round table for up to 12 guests. Further aft follows the galley on port side and a library on starboard side.
Descending the staircase to tween deck gives access to 2 double staterooms each with en suite bathrooms and finally to owners quarters with hall, large bathroom and large double stateroom. Also on tween deck a small crew cabin and a laundry room.
Crew quarters are situated on tween deck aft. The interior decks are “floating” and the lining is fitted with rubber absorbers in order to minimize noise and vibrations. Most of the floors and the main stair case in the hall are covered with lava clinker from Edna/Sicily; all furniture is manufactured in teak. As a counter balance to the new interior the original doors, door handles, fire alarm bells and internal communication system has been refitted.
Seen here moored in Bristol Docks
Taken with a Nikon D90
Seen parked up near Liverpool Watersports Centre 01.07.2022 was Merseyside Fire & Rescue Scania P270 DK59 BPE, Fleet No.1365 based at St Helens.
It was a nice surprise for me on my way home from a day on working on my boat at Liverpool Marina!
9H-PPE doing some training flights between Bournemouth and Cardiff on a grey and wet day 26/01/2021.
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet (during International Space Station EVA Hi-Fi Hardware 2/3 training at the International Space Station mockup in building 9 of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA.
Credits: NASA–Bill Stafford
Here is a new Fire Department Training Facility.build. Parking for four heavy rescues. 2nd and 3rd floors to be posted later. Both floors have the kitchen previously posted. Kitchens have a outside balcony. Building has a gold fire pole between the floors, in the entrance area.
Tiller maneuvering training with Probationary Firefighters Joe and Jeff, who are being directed by Training Chief Jordan, Apparatus Operator Will, and Captain Mark.
Jacob52 aerobatic team training day at Matilla de los Caños aerodrome, great day out for plane spotting after a long time.
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet (during International Space Station EVA Hi-Fi Hardware 2/3 training at the International Space Station mockup in building 9 of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA.
Credits: NASA–Bill Stafford
The Humberside Offshore Training Association (HOTA) operates from premises close to the entrance lock at the east end of Albert Dock in Hull. It was established in 1987 and as a Limited Company with Charity Status. HOTA provides Internationally Approved and Certified Training and an extensive portfolio of bespoke courses for the Renewables, Offshore, Maritime and Onshore Sectors. The tower to the right is for working at height training. In the background is the lifeboat experience with No.4 missing in action.
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El Luchador is training his little one to help him fight crime...a new star has born!
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430EXII with blue gel behind the sofa at full power 580EXII ETTL mode above camera into white umbrella.
trigger with minitt1 and flextt5
When I was a driver at First we would regularly 'borrow' vehicles for photo shoots, usually stuff that was ex works that we could get our hands on before they went about their daily business.
One such opportunity occured when Bolton depots allocation of Leyland Tigers aquired from Timeline Travel were transfered to the training school. A new livery had been devised for the training fleet and this was the finished result. Knowing that trying to get one for photos would be nigh on impossible once the novices were let loose with them this specimen was borrowed for an hour or so whilst we did what needed doing.
In the end all of Boltons Tigers became trainers whilst Wigans allocation soldiered on in service. As an added twist some of the earlier ones that had been sold by Timeline prior to the First takeover came home to Manchester within First from the Edinburgh and Leicester fleets. This one had been numbered 62 with Timeline and is seen here prior to First Manchester fleetnumbers being applied, I think this one was 405.
craftysorceress as Training Rey from The Last Jedi with her lightsaber that's been a point of much discussion between the two of us as she trialed various LED strips and we debated how to jam as much power into the lightsaber because, in case you didn't know already, I'm a little LED obsessed, LOL.
I did not photoshop the blade here. I posted a shot to my stories of a shoot from this set straight off of the camera LCD. Only thing I did was drag her down to the garage so I wouldn't fight the sun.
Strobist details: To the left of the frame, a Neewer NW-581 with a red gel into a 32" shoot-through umbrella. A Neewer NW-581 with a blue gel on the ground to the left of the frame. To the right of the frame, a Neewer NW-581 into a 60" Angler ParaSail with a CTB gel. Two of the flashes triggered by a Phottix Ares and one with the on-board optical slave from my hotshoe.
A soldier of the Marinekorps Flandern is training with makeshift dumbbells on the Flanders coast during WW1.
Update : The photo is probably from WW2.
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When I was a driver at First we would regularly 'borrow' vehicles for photo shoots, usually stuff that was ex works that we could get our hands on before they went about their daily business.
One such opportunity occured when Bolton depots allocation of Leyland Tigers aquired from Timeline Travel were transfered to the training school. A new livery had been devised for the training fleet and this was the finished result. Knowing that trying to get one for photos would be nigh on impossible once the novices were let loose with them this specimen was borrowed for an hour or so whilst we did what needed doing.
In the end all of Boltons Tigers became trainers whilst Wigans allocation soldiered on in service. As an added twist some of the earlier ones that had been sold by Timeline prior to the First takeover came home to Manchester within First from the Edinburgh and Leicester fleets. This one had been numbered 62 with Timeline and is seen here prior to First Manchester fleetnumbers being applied, I think this one was 405.
Greater Manchester Police, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) and North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) conduct a joint training exercise in Manchester.
The scenario involved emergency services coming under attack while dealing the aftermath of a road traffic collision.
The exercise – one of a series – is intended to ensure the services can work together effectively to deal with dangerous situations.
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.
jsc2025e089120 (Dec. 8, 2025) --- NASA astronaut and Expedition 75 flight engineer Anil Menon participates in a photography training session at Johnson Space Center's Space Vehicle Mockup Facility in Houston, Texas, ahead of his upcoming mission to the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Bill Stafford
Airmen from the 108th Civil Engineering Squadron conduct hazardous materials training at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., June 13, 2015. During the June Unit Training Assembly, Airmen conduct training to maintain their skills for future operations. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Airman 1st Class Maria C. Rella/Released)