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All over the capital, the Arirang adverts (« Grand mass gymnastic and artistic performance », « Welcome to Pyongyang » and so on) warn the profane…Between August and October, takes place one of the biggest and most impressive performances in the world. The tone is set : even the Beijing Olympics ceremony can’t compete with the mass games organized by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). The show is held several times a week and welcomes tourists from all over the World, including the US, in one of the most isolated and despised country on earth. The well-called « mass games » are designed to emphasize group dynamics rather than individual performances as the supreme emblem of communism. Prepared by hundred of thousands performers all along the year, after their classes for the youngest of them, they are entirely dedicated to the NK’s leader Kim Jong Il and his deceased father Kim Il Sung, considered as the « Eternal president » and « sun of the 21st century »…
In the surroundings of Pyongyang's May Day giant Stadium, two girls are running to perform for the Arirang show. They are already dressed in their gymnastic outfits, as well as some 100,000 others who participate to the performance. They all come to honour their self-proclaimed « dear leader » Kim Jong Il, after a very hard and gruelling training, since their earliest age. Yet, it has been many years that Kim Jong Il has not shown up, formally for business reasons. But officials now admit the western medias’ assertions of illness. Anyways, Kim Jong Il or not, the mass games are held every year in Pyongyang, as a means for the regime to show to the entire world the country’s strength and good shape. To reach this sole purpose, not less than 100,000 people are involved in a choreographed show of simultaneous dancing and gymnastics. Many symbols are displayed by thousands of trained athlets, whether they are adults or even children. Hand over their heart, the young pupils sing in chorus "We are the happiest children in the world", one of the famous propaganda songs in North Korea. Many dancers make movements either with ribbons or colourful flowers named « kimjonglias » after the leader Kim Jong Il. All along the show, a live band plays a ceremonious music.
On the background, some 20,000 young koreans sit on the terraces, facing the spectators. They flip coloured cards at a high speed to form a fresco of animated and detailed images, changing from one to another. Each time they turn the page to create a new giant picture, they cry out. It creates a awe-inspiring atmosphere, as the shout is mixed with the noise of thousands of pages turned at the same moment. The figures are stunning : to compose these images, 2000 children are needed to make only one soldier, 20,000 for a north korean flag. Hiding a much more grim reality, the panels represent Pyongyang enlightened by night, wheat fields ready for harvest, scientists at work, atoms as symbols of the nuclear bomb and others for the reunification of two Koreas. One of the North Korea’s myths (history according to them) is recounted by the means of a huge image made by thousands of children. It represents the two pistols reportedly used by Kim Il Sung, when he founded the Anti-Japanese People’s Guerrilla Army in 1932. When the pistols appear, the audience applauses loudly. Among them, many soldiers attend the show as the ultimate award after years of good and faithful service.The thousands and thousands of boys and girls involved create a giant mass movement in the stadium which leaves the public stunned. These talented performers are used to that kind of performance: in North Korea they have to dance, sing, jump and spin around as many times as there are celebrations, always in praise of their leaders. There are mainly two sorts of shows. The first one is the classical artistic show, named "Arirang" after the famous korean folk song (whose story sometimes changes, but most often recounts the legend of a disappointed woman who hopes that her lover will return to her –metaphor of the break-up with South Korea). The second one is a more political show, which was untitled in 2008 "Prosper our country" and intended to show the country’s greatest achievements and its struggle against the foreign oppressors.
The show continues in the same way for one hour. Thereafter, the thousands of people present vanish in the dark and silent streets of Pyongyang, which contrast with the flood of lights and music in the stadium. Within the space of a few hours, it gives us a a strange feeling, between the real and unreal, of another universe both terrifying and fantastic.
Dans toute la ville, les publicités d’Arirang (« Grande représentation gymnastique et artistique de masse », « Bienvenue à Pyongyang » etc.) mettent le profane en garde …Entre août et octobre, a lieu l’une des plus grandes et impressionnantes représentations au monde. Le ton est donné : pas même la cérémonie des Jeux de Pékin ne peut rivaliser avec les mass games organisés par la République Démocratique Populaire de Corée (RDPC). Le spectacle se tient plusieurs fois par semaine et accueille des touristes du monde entier, y compris des Etats-Unis, dans l’un des pays les plus isolés et méprisés sur terre. Les biens nommés mass games (« mouvements de masse») sont conçus pour mettre en avant les dynamiques de groupe plutôt que les performances individuelles comme emblème suprême du communisme. Préparés par des centaines de milliers d’artistes tout au long de l’année, après les cours pour les plus jeunes d’entre eux, les jeux sont entièrement dédiés au leader de la Corée du Nord, Kim Jong Il, et feu son père Kim Il Sung, considéré comme l’ « Eternel président » et « soleil du 21ème siècle »…
Aux environs du Stade géant May Day de Pyongyang, deux filles courent pour participer au spectacle de Arirang. Elles sont déjà en costume de gymnastique, tout comme quelque 100 000 autres qui participent à la représentation. Tous viennent pour honorer leur autoproclamé « cher leader » Kim Jong Il, après un très difficile et éprouvant entraînement, depuis leur plus jeune âge. Pourtant, cela fait plusieurs années que Kim Jong Il ne s’est pas montré, formellement pour des raisons professionnelles. Mais des officiels admettent les assertions des médias occidentaux sur sa maladie. Quoi qu’il en soit, Kim Jong Il ou pas, les jeux de masse ont lieu chaque année à Pyongyang, comme moyen pour le régime de montrer au monde entier la puissance et bonne santé du pays. Pour atteindre ce seul but, pas moins de 100 000 personnes sont engagées dans une chorégraphie de danses et gymnastiques synchronisées. De nombreux symboles sont affichés par des milliers d’athlètes entraînés, qu’il s’agisse d’adultes ou même d’enfants. Main sur le cœur, les jeunes élèves chantent en chœur « Nous sommes les enfants les plus heureux du monde », l’une des chansons de propagande les plus connues en Corée du Nord. De nombreux danseurs font des mouvements avec des rubans ou avec des fleurs colorées appelées « kimjonglias », du nom du leader Kim Jong Il. Tout le long du spectacle, un orchestre joue une musique solennelle.
À l’arrière-plan, quelque 20 000 jeunes coréens sont assis sur les gradins, faisant face aux spectateurs. Ils retournent des cartes colorées à une grande vitesse pour former une fresque d’images animées et détaillées, changeant de l’une à l’autre. Chaque fois qu’ils tournent la page pour créer une nouvelle illustration, ils crient. Cela crée une atmosphère impressionnante, le cri étant mêlé avec le bruit de milliers de pages tournées au même moment. Les chiffres sont stupéfiants : pour composer ces images, 2000 enfants sont nécessaires pour faire un seul soldat, 20 000 pour un drapeau de la Corée du Nord. Cachant une réalité bien plus dure, les panneaux représentent Pyongyang éclairée la nuit, des champs de blé prêt à être récolté, des scientifiques au travail, des atomes comme symboles de la bombe nucléaire et d’autres pour la réunification des deux Corées. L’un des mythes de Corée du Nord (ou histoire selon eux) est relaté au moyen d’une image gigantesque faite par des milliers d’enfants. Elle représente les deux pistolets que Kim Il Sung aurait utilisés quand il a fondé l’armée de guérilla populaire anti-japonaise en 1932. Lorsque les deux pistolets apparaissent, le public applaudit bruyamment. Parmi eux, de nombreux soldats assistent au spectacle comme récompense ultime après des années de bons et loyaux services. Les milliers et milliers de garçons et de filles participant créent un mouvement de masse géant dans le stade, qui laisse le public ébahi. Ces artistes talentueux sont coutumiers de ce type de représentation : en Corée du Nord ils doivent danser, chanter, sauter et virevolter autant de fois qu’il y a de célébrations, toujours à la gloire de leurs chefs. Il existe principalement deux sortes de spectacles. Le premier est le spectacle classique artistique, appelé « Arirang » d’après la célèbre chanson folklorique coréenne (dont l’histoire quelques fois change, mais qui raconte le plus souvent la légende d’une femme déçue qui espère que son amant lui reviendra –métaphore de la séparation avec la Corée du Sud). Le second est un spectacle plus politique, qui était intitulé en 2008 « Que prospère notre pays » et qui tentait de montrer les plus grandes réalisations du pays et sa lutte contre les oppresseurs étrangers.
Le spectacle continue de cette façon pendant une heure. Ensuite, les milliers de personnes présentes disparaissent dans les rues sombres et silencieuses de Pyongyang, ce qui contraste avec le déluge de lumières et de musique dans le stade. En l’espace de quelques heures, cela nous donne un étrange sentiment, entre le réel et l’irréel, d’un autre univers à la fois terrifiant et fantastique.
© Eric Lafforgue
1694 shunting wagons from the Museum to the Loop Siding in Menzies Creek.
Transferring Climax 1694 from Belgrave to Menzies Creek - Sunday 27-11-2022.
drink up, baby, look at the stars
I'll kiss you again, between the bars
where I'm seeing you there,
with your hands in the air
waiting to finally be caught...
Dedicated to F.
Bain News Service,, publisher.
McCormack lounging
[between ca. 1920 and ca. 1925]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Photograph shows Irish American tenor singer John McCormack (1884-1945) on a wicker chaise lounge.
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.32815
Call Number: LC-B2- 5514-1
model: marzia
stylists: Lou
this is for Madeleine Peyroux, inspired from the song "Between the bars" from the "Careless love" cd.I love this song.
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Nothing like a good READ on the weekend. For a very long time, I have been a fan of Mike O'Connor, a journalist here who, among other styles has a way of writing that appeals to my inner self.
Below is a copy of last weeks meaningless satire written by Mike from the magazine I am reading.
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There arrives that time in life when you realise you've turned into one of your parents and, last week, I became my father - a man of great virtue but with a low tolerance for morons. My partner and I were on a cruise and I had decided to visit the buffet.
"You know what you're like with people. We should go to the al carte restaurant" pleaded my partner.
“Ill be fine," I said, mildly miffed at being reminded of those rare occasions on which l have lost patience with the shortcomings my fellows. "Are you coming?"
“I'm not going anywhere near a buffet with you” she replied.
I walked inside, took a tray and waited while two women in front of me exchanged inanities. If you want to discuss your idiot children and brain-dead husbands, I thought, you do it while moving along the queue? Walking and talking simultaneously was patently
beyond their grasp, but the death stare I was giving them finally penetrated what passed for their collective consciousness and they moved along.
There is an etiquette when lining up cafeteria-style. One of the commandments is that thou shalt not eat while in the queue. The tattooed toad three places in front of me had not read this rule, perhaps because he could not read. Faced with the possibility his plate might not contain at least a million calories, he hit on the strategy of filling it with whatever was in front of him and eating as he went, creating space on the plate by shovelling pasta, bread rolls and salad into his mouth with the efficiency of a dragline.
They are obese, as if overeating is a medical condition over which they have no control. Aussie after Aussie, both male and female, trundled past me with their plates stacked high, bellies swaying before them.
I continued shuffling along the queue, waiting for the only dish that interested me.
Where are the nachos? I moaned inwardly, dodging a blob of airborne custard as the woman in front drowned a massive slice of chocolate cake in a yellow lake.
All I wanted was a plate of corn chips, some avocado, salsa sauce and a dollop of sour cream. I spied it about ten trays away in the slowly moving queue. It was a mere three trays distant when a man resembling a monkey, his knuckles dragging along the floor pushed into the queue and began loading his plate. I copped it for 20 seconds before I yelled: "Hey mate! Are you sure you've got enough on your plate? Why don't you borrow a shovel?"
"No problems?" asked my partner when I returned with the nachos.
"Piece of cake ... with custard," I said scraping a hitherto undetected blob off my sleeve.
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Between Theme
i randomly, accidentally played this song today on my desktop, it's my favourite elliot smith song and it's been ages since the last time i heard it, it felt as if im listening to it for the first time even though i found myself quietly singing the words. elliot's death gave his songs a morbid shadow, sad, yet irresistible.
this picture was taken while listening to this melancholic tune on repeat for hours, put me in a deeply introspective, nostalgic mood.
drink up baby, look at the stars, i'll kiss you again, between the bars.....
the birds were singing with joy!
Shout out here for
little m, Happy BIrthday to you girl! If you have not seen her work, go check her out, an awesome photographer and friend.
Trout Lake, Washington... a peaceful happy place, with thousands of birds singing after the rain and thunderstorm.
from sunshine to Thunder and Lightning and heavy rain, back to warm afternoon and sunshine and wildlowers, this was an amazing day. I am kicking myself for not sticking around the lake until sunset... when I got down to Husum I looked back and the sky was pink with layers of soft blanket clouds rolling down over the Mountain...
I am also excited... my daughter who is producing her first original music CD ( music.leannansidhe.com/) just called me today thrilled because she is going to be published... one of her short stories was accepted to an anthology of short stories! some of her stories show up on here www.facebook.com/pages/Leannan-Sidhe/169345743109522
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Mrs. Barclay Warburton
[between ca. 1920 and ca. 1925]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.36221
Call Number: LC-B2- 6040-13
Built between 1939 and 1942, the Ford Island Operations Building and Ford Island Control Tower stand alongside what was then Naval Air Station Ford Island, which had opened as Luke Field in 1917 under the United States Army Air Service, with the Army Air Service moving to Hickam Field (now Hickam Air Force Base) in 1939, with the Navy subsequently undertaking major upgrades and construction on the facilities at the field in response to growing international conflict in Europe and Asia. The Operations Building was completed by 1941, but the Ford Island Control Tower was still under construction at the time of the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces, only standing at about 80% complete. The building was strafed by attacking aircraft during the attack, but was left mostly undamaged. Elsewhere on Ford Island, massive damage was done to hangers, moored ships, and other military assets by the surprise attack, leading to the deaths of 2,403 people. The building originally housed a garage for service vehicles, administrative offices and operations offices, a small number of barracks, an aerological monitoring tower, a large water tank, and an aircraft control tower. The operations building was built of concrete and features broad concrete canopies, steel awning and pivot windows, a semi-circular bay window on the front, two garage bays at one end of the first floor, an aerological tower on the roof, and streamline moderne styling. The rear wing of the operations building is a utilitarian, unadorned structure with smaller windows and no canopies, with the 156-foot-tall cylindrical steel tube-shaped Ford Island Control Tower, which served as an aircraft control tower and water tank, with multiple balconies at multiple levels on the exterior of the tower, and a control room at the top surrounded by window walls, allowing for sweeping views of the airfield. Originally painted in camouflage three-tone gray, the tower was later repainted in the iconic orange and white color scheme it is now known for in the early 1960s. The Naval Air Station Ford Island buildings and air strip were listed as a National Historic Landmark in 1964, owing to their significance during World War II and the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. With the closure of the airfield by the United States Navy in 1966, the airfield became a civilian general aviation training airport in the 1970s. The building served as a fire station for Ford Island, a chapel for the surrounding Naval base, an air control tower for the civilian landing strip, and a training center for the Naval Station Police Department during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, before falling into disuse, as the civilian general aviation airport was moved to the former air station at Barbers Point, now known as the Kalaeloa Airport. Following the closure of the airfield and disuse by the naval station, the building languished until the opening of the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum in the adjacent Hangar 37 in 2006, which led to increased interest in the building’s preservation. Between 2014 and 2020, the Ford Island Operations Building and Ford Island Control Tower were restored with Historic Preservation Grants from the Historic Hawaii Foundation, and have had their exteriors fully rehabilitated, with work ongoing on building systems and the interiors to allow the control tower and operations building to finally open to the public as part of the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum in the next few years.
The town lies in the Westerwald between Koblenz and Siegen, roughly 10 km west of Bad Marienberg on the river Nister. Hachenburg is the administrative seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of Hachenburg, a kind of collective municipality found only in Rhineland-Palatinate (See Verbandsgemeinde).
The castle and the town
The castle (Schloss), former seat of the Counts of Sayn, was founded about 1180 by Count Heinrich II of Sayn.
Building was finished in 1212 under Count Heinrich III, the founder’s son, who was also mentioned as the town’s and the castle’s first owner. At the same time, under the Count’s overlordship, came the building of the neighbouring Marienstatt Cistercian Monastery.
In 1314, Hachenburg, whose name comes from a castle hill protected by thornbushes, was granted town rights. The original settlement lay not on the 390-m-high castle hill, but rather some 1.5 km away in the dale about 100 m lower through which runs the Rothbach, on the site of what is now the outlying constituent community of Altstadt (which explains its name – Altstadt is German for “Old Town”), which had its first documentary mention in 1343. The Romanesque St. Bartolomäuskirche, built there about 1200 and nowadays an Evangelical church is Hachenburg’s oldest preserved building, followed by the Steinernes Haus (“Stone House”), known as Zur Krone, from the 15th century, at the Old Market (Alter Markt) in the town centre. The castle church only arose in the late 15th century and underwent several remodellings until the 18th century. The Catholic church Maria Himmelfahrt, from the early 18th century, belonged at first to a Franciscan monastery, but later, in 1813, became the parish church. In the Middle Ages, the town’s population was most likely never more than about 500 to 1,000, and in the 17th and 18th centuries it was between 1,000 and 1,500. Only after the Second World War did this small town’s population reach first 3,000, and nowadays almost 6,000.
On 13 October 1654, there was a great town fire in which not only did a great deal of the inner town burn down, but also the castle. Counts Salentin von Manderscheid and Georg Friedrich von Sayn-Hachenburg undertook to build the town anew, and also the castle, although this time as a Baroque structure. The inner town today still bears the shape that they gave it. Most of the lovely timber-frame houses on Friedrichstraße, Herrnstraße, the Old Market, Perlgasse, Mittelstraße, Judengasse and Wilhelmstraße come from the 17th and 18th centuries. The sweeping Baroque castle was built to architect Julius Ludwig Rothweil’s plans between 1715 and 1746. It has had many owners over the last century. For a few decades, however, it has been the seat of Deutsche Bundesbank’s training centre and professional college.
In the Second World War, Hachenburg was largely spared any great damage, but other disasters had ravaged it in the past. There were several great fires (in 1400, 1439, 1484, 1541, 1594 and 1654), and war beset the town several times, bringing suffering, especially the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), the Seven Years' War (1756-1763) and both the so-called Coalition Wars (1792-1797 and 1799-1802).
In 1799, after the last count’s death, the county passed to Nassau-Weilburg, and Hachenburg lost its status as a Residenzstadt.
Past Jewish life
The Jewish graveyard was first mentioned in 1587 as a Judenkirchhof (“Jews’ churchyard”). Eighty-three graves can still be found today, among them some double graves. Most of the still preserved graves were made by Hachenburg stonemason and sculptor Wilhelm Sax (16 August 1891 – 26 June 1955). Other stonemasonry works were done by Albert Mai (31 Dezember 1891 – 15 March 1976) and his son Herbert Mai (born 5 March 1925), who was later Wilhelm Sax’s son-in-law. In 1913, 126 Jews lived in Hachenburg; in 1932 there were 99.
:) My sweet angel kitty in one of her favorite napping spots. This cat has become my inspiration - a lifesaver of sorts- since my daughter went off to college. :) I adore her!
…graphic experiment
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The view from the fishing village of Steveston B.C. Canada to Mount Baker in Washington State U.S.A.
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Been a squally sort of day - about five minutes after this one the heavens opened - but at least I was back in my car by that point...
A wintry walk along Surprise View and Over Owler Tor this morning. I nearly missed this shot as I was busy looking across the valley towards the snow capped peak of Mam Tor and Kinder Scout in the distance while keeping an eye on the approaching snow/sleet/rain clouds heading my way. I turned around to see this this stunning light breaking through the clouds managing to shoot a few frames before it was gone.
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Between red and white...
Taken at The Regency, Laguna Woods, California. © 2013 All Rights Reserved.
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paper hanger! I'll be back full time next week... I sure miss seeing your inspiring images!
Direct Rail Services 37402 'Stephen Middlemore 23.12.1954-8.6.2013' and 37407 'Blackpool Tower' are pictured adjacent to Network Rail's Rail Operation Centre in York, whilst awaiting their return to Kingmoor TMD for maintenance and repair works after a strenuous few weeks on RHTT services.
The pair are two of the quintet of DRS tractors which are adorned in the British Rail Large Logo scheme, the others being 37401 'Mary Queen of Scots', 37409 'Lord Hinton' & 37424 'Avro Vulcan XH558'.
Police from Tameside investigating modern slavery and drugs trafficking between Tameside and #Humberside have made arrests this morning.
Warrants were executed at addresses in #NewtonHeath, #Failsworth, and the #NorthernQuarter area as part of an operation dedicated to disrupting a drugs line between Tameside and #Hull that involves the criminal exploitation of vulnerable children.
The action is part of #OperationMarconi which was formed in June 2020 and concerns the exploitation of children from Tameside aged between 16 and 17.
It is one of over 20 investigations being led by GMP Tameside's Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) team dedicated to modern slavery and the exploitation of vulnerable people who have been coerced into criminal activity in the district.
The CCE team have already made an additional eight arrests as part of those investigations and four people have been charged with modern slavery and drug offences.
A number of vulnerable individuals coerced into 'county lines' and identified as high-risk have been safeguarded and re-housed with support from local partner agencies.
County lines describes organised criminal networks involved in exporting illegal drugs into one or more importing areas within the UK, using dedicated mobile phone lines.
Children and vulnerable adults are often exploited to move and store the drugs and money often through coercion, intimidation, violence and weapons.
Police continue to collaborate with social services and schools, in particular, to help spot the signs of any children that may have been identified to be at risk of such exploitation.
Detective Constable Laura Hughes, of GMP Tameside's Child Criminal Exploitation team, said: "Today's action is a significant statement as we continue to tackle the pernicious exploitation of vulnerable young people for illicit gains.
"We have been working tirelessly in the CCE team in Tameside to work with local agencies in identifying and safeguarding potential victims of this criminality, while pursuing those that we believe are responsible for such exploitation.
"Tackling 'county lines' by its nature requires closely co-ordinated work, not just with local partners, but also policing partners from across the country and I would like to thank Humberside Police for their support during this operation so far.
"A lot of our work is based on intelligence and we are forever gaining a clearer picture as to how these criminal enterprises operate and are developing a real understanding of how these groups recruit and coerce vulnerable young people.
"It is important people know to spot the signs of when someone may be being exploited; whether it being withdrawn from family and friends and skipping school, to having more than one phone and going missing from home more regularly.
"Anyone with suspicions or concerns should contact police online via our website, call 101 and always dial 999 in an emergency. Details can be passed to the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111."
I worked with Yang Zhixiang (楊志祥 ), one of Taiwan's better triathletes, on the images for a new edition of a comprehensive new book on triathlon. We worked in the studio to make specialized images related to running and swimming technique, then had a session in the pool to demonstrate drills. Although he only worked through the drills, having to hold perfect technique repeatedly was as exhausting for him as a full normal workout.
This is Zhixiang between takes. Other images from the session will have to wait until the release of the book in early 2014.
Between July and November 2013, Buses Excetera put into service two old-style TransBus Enviro300s, both of which had been new to Reading Buses for Vodaphone contract work in Newbury.
First was KV03 ZGM, which is now S50 (S50 ETC). Second was KV03 ZGN, now S60 (S60 ETC). They'd long left Reading, and came to Excetera (via EnsignBus) from the now defunct Premiere Travel of Nottingham.
This caused a discussion with Yoshispix about another bus from the batch of four, which also served in Surrey. It was KV03 ZGK. Travel Surrey took over the combined 472/690 contract themselves from 21st April 2008 (it (and I think the 400 too? - they definitely took it over from the same date anyhow) having been run by Flights Hallmark then Wiltax under subcontract for a while beforehand, but this stopped after Wiltax were taken over by Tellings-Golden Miller). The 472 could have easily coped with a Mini Pointer Dart, but school route 690 needed a bigger bus. After starting off with loaned all-over white 10.7m Dart KP51 UFK, a couple of weeks later the new permanent bus arrived, the above Enviro... KV03 ZGK. It gained fleet number 8754.
It ran in all over white for ages, and the first time I saw it with the red skirt painted on was in fact when I took these pictures.
Unfortunately, the bus blew its engine up shortly afterwards and they never used it again, so I didn't actually get a photo of it on the 472. Long Dart 8719 (S519 TCF) replaced it, being the 690 regular for a good couple of years afterwards. KV03 ZGK seems to now be with TGM in Harlow, which is pretty ironic considering it was TGM buying Wiltax that made Travel Surrey aquire the bus in the first place, and it was TGM selling to National Express Group that brought 'Travel Surrey' into existence in the first place, too!
The other bus of the batch of four new to Reading was KV03 ZGL, which I believe has evaded Surrey so far!
Wintersells Road Industrial Estate, Byfleet, Surrey.
Gresley 'D49' class 4-4-0 No.62712 stands outside Bo'ness running shed alongside the station, between morning and afternoon diagrams on the Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway on 8th May 2014. Hand held at 1/50th of a second. There was insufficient space for a tripod between the luggage trolley and the station building. © Copyright Gordon Edgar - No unauthorised use.
Having seen the 2019 season bright yellow open topper Stagecoach 17701 on the new service 222 between Teignmouth and Dawlish Warren I dug out a 40 year old picture of a different yellow open topper at Dawlish Warren. Western National 1869, Bristol Lodekka OTT8 became a treelopper with Devon General. Ironically the 2019 season had a false start because of overhanging trees!
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