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  • Toma Brazenaite holding a rack of kippers at Andy Race Fish Merchants, Mallaig, Scotland, UK. Based in the port of Mallaig in the Highlands of Scotland, Andy Race Fish Merchants is renowned for producing the very best Scottish peat smoked salmon, Mallaig Kippers and a variety of high quality smoked fish and shellfish - all traditionally smoked with no dyes.
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  • Isabel Cruden hand slicing smoked salmon at Andy Race Fish Merchants, Mallaig, Scotland, UK. Based in the port of Mallaig in the Highlands of Scotland, Andy Race Fish Merchants is renowned for producing the very best Scottish peat smoked salmon, Mallaig Kippers and a variety of high quality smoked fish and shellfish - all traditionally smoked with no dyes.
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  • Isabel Cruden hand slicing smoked salmon at Andy Race Fish Merchants, Mallaig, Scotland, UK. Based in the port of Mallaig in the Highlands of Scotland, Andy Race Fish Merchants is renowned for producing the very best Scottish peat smoked salmon, Mallaig Kippers and a variety of high quality smoked fish and shellfish - all traditionally smoked with no dyes.
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  • Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray appear to be shouting at passers by from the side of a taxi, on a busy corner of Oxford Street. London, UK.
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  • Andy; Andrew; Aitchison; Heathrow; airport; London; United; Kingdom; UK; plane; airplane; transport; flying; airborne; house; home; flight; path; takeoff; blue; sky; clouds; Longford; Hounslow; BA; British; airlines; airways; 747; roof; rooftop; tiles; chimney; noise; pollution; disruption; BAA; residential; 777,
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  • Stop AIDS Campaign outside Downing Street. © Andy Aitchison
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  • Barbara Stocking Cheif Exec of Oxfam with student campaigners for the STOPS AIDS Coalition. © Andy Aitchison
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  • London, UK. Friday 23rd November 2012. Christies auction house showcasing memorabilia from every decade of the past century of popular culture from the industries of film and music. Christie's Specialist Caitlin Graham shows a one dollar bill signed by Andy Warhol.
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  • Artwork by Gavin Turk depicting Andy Worhol. Visitors and exhibitors at the many galleries exhibiting at the Frieze Art Fair 2012. This art fair is for work at the high end of international contemporary art with many well known artists on show from many of the world's most reknowned dealers.
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  • Stop AIDS Campaign, Lewis Bassett, student, Steve Cockburn (Stop AIDS Coalition) David Borrow MP, Charles Badenoch (Chief Exec World Vision) Barbara Stocking (Chief Exec, Oxfam) Harriet Burn student.  © Andy Aitchison
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  • London, UK. Friday 23rd November 2012. Christies auction house showcasing memorabilia from every decade of the past century of popular culture from the industries of film and music. One dollar bill signed by Andy Warhol.
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  • DJ Fatboy Slim plays @mosphere, Cape Town, South Africa
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  • Brian Haw, a veteran peace protestor at parliament square in London, UK. Brian has been protesting at the square since 2001.
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  • Brian Haw, a veteran peace protestor at parliament square in London, UK. Brian has been protesting at the square since 2001.
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  • Big Ben and  the Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace.  It is the meeting place of the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is on the bank of the river Thames in London.
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  • A 13 year-old Orthodox Jewish boy sits waiting for his Bar Mitzvah to begin in a Parces hall, Stamford Hill. The Bar Mitzvah signals the coming of age for a young Jewish boy, they become responsible to observe the commandments of the Torah. It coincides with physical puberty and they begin to participate in all areas of Jewish life. A Bar mitzvah ceremony is a big occasion, the young boy reads a section from the Torah to his family and friends and a mitzvah meal is consumed.
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  • Purim is one of the most entertaining Jewish holidays.  It commemorates the time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination from a massacre by Haman. Due to the courage of a young Jewish woman called Esther. It is customary to hold carnival-like celebrations on Purim, and for groups of men to go round visiting local wealthy men, collecting for their charity. It is stated that the men should drink so much alcohol that they don’t know the difference between right and wrong, its common to see young children smoking cigarettes on the streets.
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  • During the festival of Purim a scuffle breaks out between the Neturei Karta and Zionist Jews as they try to burn the Israeli flag in Stamford Hill, London. The Neturiei Karta oppose Zionism and believe that Jews are forbidden to have their own state until the coming of the Messiah.
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  • Pidyon Haben is a rite of passage in Judaism that is known as ‘the redemption of the first born son’. It takes place when a baby is at least 31 days old, and involves ‘buying him back from a Cohen.’ Here the baby is draped in gold by the mother, grandmother and family and then bought back from a Cohen for 5 pieces of silver. The baby has to be the first boy who has opened his mother’s womb and not have been delivered by a caesarean birth.
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  • Pidyon Haben is a rite of passage in Judaism that is known as ‘the redemption of the first born son’. It takes place when a baby is at least 31 days old, and involves ‘buying him back from a Cohen.’ Here the baby is draped in gold by the mother, grandmother and family and then bought back from a Cohen for 5 pieces of silver. The baby has to be the first boy who has opened his mother’s womb and not have been delivered by a caesarean birth.
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  • The process of baking unleavened matza bread for Passover finishes with the uncooked dough being put in a brick oven on a long wooden stick. The baking process from start to finish has to be completed within 18 minutes for it to be Kosher. They are baking matza bread for the festival of Passover out the back of Bethune Road synagogue.
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  • An Orthodox Jewish man checking the unleavened matza bread is properly cooked after taking it out of the oven. They are baking matza bread for Passover out the back of Bethune Road synagogue. The baking process from start to finish has to be completed within 18 minutes for it to be Kosher.
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  • An Orthodox Jewish diamond dealer shows off the quality of one of his many diamonds at a Hatton garden workshop, London.  Hatton Garden is the diamond centre of London.
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  • A new Sefer Torah being completed by the Alexandria Rebbe before being paraded to synagogue. Members of the congregation and spiritual leaders help the scribe finish off the Torah before it goes Kehal Chareidim Beth Hamedrash, an Ashkenazi synagogue in Stamford Hill.
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  • Two Orthodox Jewish men select their Etrog (Citron) for the festival of Sukkot, the feast of Tabernacles. The etrog is used in the mitzvah of the four species.  Everyone has their own personal choice of etrog, some prefer more bumps, the important thing to look out for is a nice form and shape and it should be unblemished.  The holiday of Sukkot commemorates the forty-year period during which the children of Israel were wandering in the desert.
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  • Terry, engineer and paint specialist. £16.20 per week. HMP Coldingley, Surrey was built in 1969 and is a Category C training prison. Coldingley is focused on the resettlement of prisoners and all prisoners must work a full working week within the prison. Its capacity is 390 prisoners.
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  • Pidyon Haben is a rite of passage in Judaism that is known as 'the redemption of the first born son'. It takes place when a baby is at least 31 days old, and involves 'buying him back from a Cohen.' Here the baby is draped in gold by the mother, grandmother and family and then bought back from a Cohen for 5 pieces of silver. The baby has to be the first boy who has opened his mother's womb and not have been delivered by a caesarean birth.
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  • A Yardi prisoner shows off his gold teeth with crosses engraved in them. A Yardi is a type of Jamaican gangster developed from slang.  .HMP Coldingley, Surrey was built in 1969 and is a Category C training prison. Coldingley is focused on the resettlement of prisoners and all prisoners must work a full working week within the prison. Its capacity is 390 prisoners.
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  • Big Ben and  the Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace.  It is the meeting place of the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is on the bank of the river Thames in London.
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  • A 13 year-old Orthodox Jewish boy recites the Torah during Bar Mitzvah.  His father and grandfather listen closely to make sure he doesn’t make any mistakes. The Bar Mitzvah signals the coming of age for a young Jewish boy, they become responsible to observe the commandments of the Torah. It coincides with physical puberty and they begin to participate in all areas of Jewish life. A Bar mitzvah ceremony is a big occasion, the young boy reads a section from the Torah to his family and friends and a mitzvah meal is consumed.
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  • A 13 year-old Orthodox Jewish boy cuts the bread for everyone at his Bar Mitzvah meal. The Bar Mitzvah signals the coming of age for a young Jewish boy, they become responsible to observe the commandments of the Torah. It coincides with physical puberty and they begin to participate in all areas of Jewish life. A Bar mitzvah ceremony is a big occasion, the young boy reads a section from the Torah to his family and friends and a mitzvah meal is consumed.
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  • Friends of a 13 year-old Orthodox Jewish boy who have already had their Bar Mitzvah pray without him before his begins, Stamford Hill. The Bar Mitzvah signals the coming of age for a young Jewish boy, they become responsible to observe the commandments of the Torah. It coincides with physical puberty and they begin to participate in all areas of Jewish life. A Bar mitzvah ceremony is a big occasion, the young boy reads a section from the Torah to his family and friends and a mitzvah meal is consumed.
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  • Tashlikh is a Jewish practice that is performed during Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year). Men and women gather near a large body of flowing water and symbolically ‘cast off’ the previous year’s sins by throwing pieces of bread into the water while reading a prayer (the last verses from the prophet Micah). In Stamford Hill the nearest flowing water is river Lea, Hackney, London.
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  • A member of the Neturei Karta demonstrates how he was punched to a community police officer as they were stopped trying to burn the Israeli flag in Stamford Hill, London during the festival of Purim. The Neturiei Karta oppose Zionism and believe that Jews are forbidden to have their own state until the coming of the Messiah.
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  • A young boy dressed as a Purim Rabbi in white robes and a white tall furry hat crosses Dunsmure road by a local chemist during the festival of Purim.
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  • Pidyon Haben is a rite of passage in Judaism that is known as ‘the redemption of the first born son’. It takes place when a baby is at least 31 days old, and involves ‘buying him back from a Cohen.’ Here the baby is draped in gold by the mother, grandmother and family and then bought back from a Cohen for 5 pieces of silver. Each man attending takes some of the sugar cubes as a part of the ceremony. The baby has to be the first boy who has opened his mother’s womb and not have been delivered by a caesarean birth.
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  • Pidyon Haben is a rite of passage in Judaism that is known as ‘the redemption of the first born son’. It takes place when a baby is at least 31 days old, and involves ‘buying him back from a Cohen.’ Here the baby is draped in gold by the mother, grandmother and family and then bought back from a Cohen for 5 pieces of silver. The baby has to be the first boy who has opened his mother’s womb and not have been delivered by a caesarean birth.
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  • The process of baking unleavened matza bread for Passover begins with the flour mix; the room is kept covered with brown paper for hygienic purposes and the ingredients are totally separate. The baking process from start to finish has to be completed within 18 minutes for it to be Kosher. They are baking matza bread for Passover out the back of Bethune Road synagogue.
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  • Orthodox Jewish men belonging the Bobov Hasidism during Morning Prayer inside a Stamford Hill synagogue. Communal praying in a minyan (quorum) is preferred by men who wear a Tallit (prayer shawl) and a Tefillin (a box containing strips of parchment inscribed with 4 passages of the Torah) on their heads with the leather straps around their arm and hand.
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  • When a new Sefer Torah (five books of Moses) is completed after years of work it is carried in a big community parade to synagogue. Rabbis and leaders young and old from the Ashkenazi Nitra group take it turns to carry the decorated scrolls to their Shul on Clapton Common, Stamford Hill. Members of the community touch and kiss the scrolls as they pass.
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  • A new Sefer Torah (five books of Moses) being handwritten with a quill and ink on gevil parchment by a scribe for an Ashkenazi synagogue in Stamford Hill. A Sefer Torah contains 304,805 letters and can take over a year to produce.
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  • Young orthodox Jewish boys extinguishing their flame torches after a Sefer Torah procession with the new scroll to Kehal Chareidim Beth Hamedrash, an Ashkenazi synagogue in Stamford Hill.
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  • Two Orthodox Jewish men select their Lulav for the festival of Sukkot, the feast of Tabernacles. The Lulav is a Palm frond used in the mitzvah of the four species. To qualify for use the Lulav must be perfectly straight with whole leave that lay closely together and not be broken at the top. The holiday of Sukkot commemorates the forty-year period during which the children of Israel were wandering in the desert.
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  • Rabbi Yisrael Oriel Ben Moshe Shlomo, an African Rabbi from Cameroon who converted to Judaism 20 years ago. He prays at the Persian Hebrew congregation and the Moroccan ‘Hida’ Synagogue and Bet Midrash on East Bank, Stamford Hill, London.
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  • Rabbi Herschel Gluck of Walford road Synagogue reads the Megillah "The Scroll of Esther" during the Jewish festival of Purim.
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  • An Orthodox Jewish man walking down Portland Avenue past a Volvo and a sign for the local polling station taped to a tree.  The polling station for the local government elections of May 2006 was in Stamford Hill library.
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  • Searching for homets before Passover. The tools used are a feather to brush up the homets, a spoon to collect them and a candle to search with.  A prayer is read while carrying out ritual. When all the homets are collected they are burnt with everything else in the house that contains yeast.
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  • A prisoner at Coldingley makes prison gates in the steel workshop.<br />
HMP Coldingley, Surrey was built in 1969 and is a Category C training prison. Coldingley is focused on the resettlement of prisoners and all prisoners must work a full working week within the prison. Its capacity is 390 prisoners.
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  • Mr Rudzinski, a holocaust survivor living in Stamford Hill who is very open about what life was like when he was captured by the Nazi’s as a young boy in Germany.
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  • People dancing in one of the tents at the 2005 Lovebox festival held in Victoria Park, London.
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  • Women perform on stage in Lost Vaguenss at the 2005 Lovebox festival in Victoria Park, London.
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  • Chanukah last for 8 days and is the Jewish festival of light. It commemorates the rededication of the temple after it had been defiled. A candle is lit every night. In order to bring light to the world some put the candles in their front window.  Here on the 5th day of Chanukah at a local old peoples home each resident has their personal menorah in the window.
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  • Chanukah last for 8 days and is the Jewish festival of light. It commemorates the rededication of the temple after it had been defiled. A candle is lit every night. In order to bring light to the world some put the candles in their front window.  Here at a local old peoples home a resident is being helped by her grandson to light her menorah in the window.
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  • Chanukah lasts for 8 days and is the Jewish festival of light. It commemorates the rededication of the temple after it had been defiled. A candle is lit every night. In order to bring light to the world some put the candles in their front windows.  Here on the 5th day of Chanukah menorahs are placed the doorways of a local household.
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  • Terry, engineer and paint specialist. £16.20 per week. HMP Coldingley, Surrey was built in 1969 and is a Category C training prison. Coldingley is focused on the resettlement of prisoners and all prisoners must work a full working week within the prison. Its capacity is 390 prisoners.
    06-coldingley-3.jpg
  • Matza bread baking in a traditional brick oven for Passover, the oven is situated in a small room out the back of Bethune Road synagogue. The baking process from start to finish has to be completed within 18 minutes for it to be Kosher
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  • Teams of Orthodox Jewish teenage boys use rolling pins to flatten the matza bread for Passover before it goes into the oven in a room at the back of Bethune Road synagogue. The baking process from start to finish has to be completed within 18 minutes for it to be Kosher.
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  • Carp fish for sale in a Stamford Hill Jewish run fishmongers.  Fish is traditionally bought on a Friday and eaten as part of the evening meal for the Sabbath.
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  • An Orthodox Jewish diamond dealer examines one of his many diamonds at a Hatton garden workshop, London.  Hatton Garden is the diamond centre of London.
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  • Rabbi Gluck searching for homets at the beginning of Passover. After the house is cleaned from top to bottom the children in the house hide 10 parcels of homets (bread crumbs) for the man of the house to find. The tools used to search for homets are a feather to brush up the homets, a spoon to collect them and a candle to search with. A prayer is read while carrying this out. When all the homets are collected they are burnt with everything else in the house that contains yeast.
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  • A Yardi prisoner shows off his gold teeth with crosses engraved in them. A Yardi is a type of Jamaican gangster developed from slang.  <br />
HMP Coldingley, Surrey was built in 1969 and is a Category C training prison. Coldingley is focused on the resettlement of prisoners and all prisoners must work a full working week within the prison. Its capacity is 390 prisoners.
    06-coldingley_5886.jpg
  • A 13 year-old Orthodox Jewish boy sits waiting for his Bar Mitzvah to begin in a Parces hall, Stamford Hill. The Bar Mitzvah signals the coming of age for a young Jewish boy, they become responsible to observe the commandments of the Torah. It coincides with physical puberty and they begin to participate in all areas of Jewish life. A Bar mitzvah ceremony is a big occasion, the young boy reads a section from the Torah to his family and friends and a mitzvah meal is consumed.
    07-weiss_9053.jpg
  • A prisoner at Coldingley makes prison gates in the steel workshop..HMP Coldingley, Surrey was built in 1969 and is a Category C training prison. Coldingley is focused on the resettlement of prisoners and all prisoners must work a full working week within the prison. Its capacity is 390 prisoners.
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  • A local vendor sells scary masks from his mobile stall in Chawang beach, Koh Samui, Thailand.
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  • The Mbaraki base gang leaders walk down the back streets of central Mombassa. They are the largest gang of street children in the city. The street gang children and young men are openly sniffing glue, tensions run high and fights break out regularly. The Wema centre provide a meal and health advice for the young men and women. Wema is an NGO in Kenya supporting vulnerable children.
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  • Following Twitter on a i-phone 4, s mart phone connected to the internet.
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  • 2011 Docklands canary wharf estate isle of dogs docklands London.
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  • Nurse Agnes from Bwindi Community Hospital prepares a vaccination during the out reach clinic in Kitahurira, the only Batwa tribe settlement in Mpungu district.  She administers Polio and measles vaccinations to newborn children in the community. The Mpungu district is on the edge of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Western Uganda.
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  • Allen with baby Babra (2 months old). Women from Kitahurira, the only Batwa tribe settlement in Mpungu district, wait with their children to attend the Bwindi Community Hospital outreach clinic. The mothers and children receive nutrition information and vaccinations from the hospital nurse.  Bwindi Community Hospital provides different outreach clinics everyday for the surrounding area around Buhoma. The Mpungu district is on the edge of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Western Uganda.
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  • Staff Benda Bilili perform after their UK film premiere at Union Chapel, London.
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  • Children from Matsie Steyn primary school, Sharpeville, Vereeniging, South Africa, watch a performance of the ‘No Monkey Business’ puppet show, an AREPP: Theatre for Life production providing interactive social life skills education to school children through theatre productions. They are based in Johannesburg, South Africa and are on tour for 3 months doing performances everyday at schools across the country.
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  • A couple of young boys study at the AFCIC centre in Thika, Kenya. AFCIC - Action for children in conflict, help children who have been affected by various forms conflict or crisis.
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  • The plantain stalls in the Makongeni market, Thika, Kenya. The market work closely with Afcic, Action for children in conflict, and are trying to encourage the kids to go to school. The manager has banned children from working in the market during school hours.
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  • Primary school children measuring wind speeds with anemometers to help determine the best position for a second wind turbine on the school playing fields. St. Columb Minor School, Cornwall. The school won an Ashden Award in 2010 for it's appraoch to sustainable energy.
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  • Jason Cowley, born 1966.  Editor of The New Statesman since 2008. His appointment as the New Statesman's editor was announced on 16 May 2008 and he took up the post in September 2008.
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  • Dr Mohamed Shaheen performs an eye examination on a patient after performing Cataracts surgery the evening before on the IFB Jibon Tari Floating Hospital moored up on the banks of the Modhumoti River.  The Jibon Tari normally moves location every 3 months to remote riverine and offshore areas. It was launched in 1999 and has been major success, reaching more that 200,000 people.<br />
Impact Foundation Bangladesh (IFB) provide care, support and treatment to people with disabilities in Bangladesh.
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  • Dr Mohamed Shaheen performs Cataracts surgery on a patient on the IFB Jibon Tari Floating Hospital moored up on the banks of the Modhumoti River.  The Jibon Tari normally moves location every 3 months to remote riverine and offshore areas. It was launched in 1999 and has been major success, reaching more that 200,000 people.  <br />
Impact Foundation Bangladesh (IFB) provide care, support and treatment to people with disabilities in Bangladesh.
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  • A Marilyn Monroe murial on the wall inside HMP Holloway, the main womens prison in London. HM Prison Holloway (sometimes known as Holloway Castle) is a closed category prison for adult women and Young Offenders, located in the Holloway area of the London Borough of Islington, in north and Inner London, England. The prison is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Holloway Prison holds female adults and young offenders remanded or sentenced by the local courts. Holloway prison offers both full-time and part-time education to inmates, with courses including skills training workshops, British Industrial Cleaning Science BICS, gardens and painting. There is a family-friendly visitor centre at Holloway, run by the Prison Advice & Care Trust (pact), an independent charity.
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  • The Boss III internal xray chair, used to seach for contraband items  entering HMP Holloway, the main womens prison in London. HM Prison Holloway (sometimes known as Holloway Castle) is a closed category prison for adult women and Young Offenders, located in the Holloway area of the London Borough of Islington, in north and Inner London, England. The prison is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Holloway Prison holds female adults and young offenders remanded or sentenced by the local courts. Holloway prison offers both full-time and part-time education to inmates, with courses including skills training workshops, British Industrial Cleaning Science BICS, gardens and painting. There is a family-friendly visitor centre at Holloway, run by the Prison Advice & Care Trust (pact), an independent charity.
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  • The boarded up windows of a block of empty and fire damaged council flats in Hackney, London, United Kingdom.  Empty, abandoned or derelict council houses are also known as 'voids'.
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  • A lunch buffet set out on a table in front of a picture of woodlands.
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  • Rolls of loft insulation ready to install in homes in Kirklees, UK.
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  • In a magistrates court in England, models pose as defendant and Judge.
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  • The Central Criminal Court in England, commonly known as the Old Bailey, is a court building in central London, one of a number housing the Crown Court. The Crown Court sitting at the Central Criminal Court deals with major criminal cases from Greater London and, exceptionally, from other parts of England. It stands on the site of the medieval Newgate Gaol, on Old Bailey, a road which follows the line of the City's fortified wall (or bailey), and gives the court its popular name.
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  • An advert for the 50 % campaign in Moshi bus station. Tanzania’s national population statistics reveal a startling truth – more than half of the country is comprised of children and youth. In 2002, it was reported that 55% of the population is 19 years of age or younger. In 2005, it was revealed that a full 45.8% of Tanzania’s population is actually under the tender age of 15. In direct response to the urgency of the situation for Tanzania’s children and its national future, the Caucus for Children’s Rights has launched a campaign to spark national awareness that Tanzania’s future depends on the treatment of Tanzania’s children today.  2008 STARS Impact Award winner for Protection: Moshi-based Mkombozi, selected for its holistic approach to stemming the tide of Tanzania’s street children by providing housing, education, research, advocacy, and outreach for vulnerable children and youth, aimed at ending their abuse and neglect and ensuring their dignity and rights.
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  • A view from across the River Thames towards, Canary Wharf and the Isle of Dogs.
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  • A view from across the River Thames towards, Canary Wharf and the Isle of Dogs.
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  • Workmen installing a solar thermal panel on the roof of Pinmore ceramics gallery, they have received advice from the Energy agency, Ayrshire.<br />
Solar water heating systems use heat from the sun to work alongside your conventional water heater
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  • Disabled access sign at the City of Westminster Magistrates Court, London.
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  • City of Westminster Magistrates Court sign, London.
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  • A carved door panel from the Saint Antonius ABou Sefir Church, in Deir el Maymoun, Egypt, which is currently under restoration. Built in 200 AD the Saint Antonius ABou Sefir Church is one of Egypt’s oldest churches.
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  • Shabbat is the weekly day of rest for Orthodox Jews; it lasts from sunset on a Friday to 1 hour past sunset on Saturday. The women of the household mark the beginning the Sabbath by lighting the candles and saying prayers. All food for the 3 meals of Shabbat are prepared in advance as no work can be done on Shabbat.
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  • Yom Tov takes place when Passover has finished, Orthodox Jews return to the local supermarkets (Morrisons) to buy leavened products e.g.: cereal, biscuits, cake, and anything that contains yeast.  Shopping hours are extended until 3 AM to allow this to happen.
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  • Sisters in the gardens of Tyburn Convent on Bayswater Rd, London.
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  • Sistersgather outside the Tyburn Convent on Bayswater Rd, London.
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  • Norman Cook aka DJ Fatboy Slim plays football with the children of the SOS orphanage during a Coaching for Hope training session. Norman is the patron for the charity Coaching for Hope. Coaching for Hope is a project set up to promote awareness of HIV and AIDS through football.
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  • Watched by the grand mother Nihad Qasqas, the well baby nurse for the UHWC and Safa Qasqas the well baby nurse for the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) take blood samples for testing from a 2 week old baby girl. Médecins Du Monde (MDM), Merlin, PRCS and the Union of Health Work Committee (UHWC) have teamed up to provide healthcare for communities around the West Bank as their accessibility to previous hospitals and centres is shut off as the Wall continues to be built.
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  • Orthodox Jewish men dance to music in a driveway of a wealthy man of the area whilst waiting to gain access to the household. It is stated that the men should drink so much alcohol that they don’t know the difference between right and wrong.  Purim is one of the most entertaining Jewish holidays.  It commemorates the time when the Jewish people living in Persia were saved from extermination from a massacre by Haman. Due to the courage of a young Jewish woman called Esther. It is customary to hold carnival-like celebrations on Purim, and for groups of men to go round on the back of lorries and in open top buses visiting local wealthy men, collecting for their charity. It is stated that the men should drink so much alcohol that they don’t know the difference between right and wrong.
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  • At the end of the Purim festival and 18 minutes before the beginning of Shabbat the candles are lit in the synagogue and everyone puts their hands toward the main candle to accept the sanctity of Shabbat. Shabbat is the Jewish day of rest and lasts from sunset on Friday night until 1 hour after sunset on Saturday. No work is allowed at all during Shabbat.
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  • An old Italian man walks past door number 19 where Gallileo the mathematician lived on Costa di San Giorgio, Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
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