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  • The Mr Chelsea Body Beautiful talent competition is held on the Kings Road in London. Entrants are handsome males and girls showing their muscles and well-trimmed bodies. We see hairy chests, pectorals and biceps on-show by these young exhibitionists who parade themselves in the open-air. Slightly behind them there are also two elderly ladies looking like sisters or perhaps twins. They were once beautiful themselves and sit eagerly on a bench against a wall peering at the handsome young men, wishing they were young again. One holds a walking stick and the other grasps a bottle of wine. It is a scene of young and old, of youth and ageing beauty.
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  • As the Mr Chelsea Body Beautiful talent competition is held on the Kings Road in London, an appreciative woman interviews a contestant. Entrants are handsome males and girls showing their muscles and well-trimmed bodies. The others have hairy chests, pectorals and biceps on-show by these young exhibitionists who parade themselves in the open-air. But this young man is smooth and sell-muscled and he holds up both arms to show his biceps and abdominals (abs) plus, unintentionally (possibly) his well-endowed private parts that are poking from within his Y-front underwear pants.
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  • Detail of the wide variety of tools used to make traditional Uighur and other Muslim and Central Asian instruments: Rawap, Duttar, Tanbur, Huxtar, Gijek, etc.  in Kashgar city's most respected workshop, China
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  • Details of traditional Uighur instruments in a Kashgar city shop, China
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  • Ababakri Selay, 80 and son, Muhammad Turson, 40 are Uighurs of Turkic origin, they make  over 40 varieties of instruments in ther workshop: Rawap, Duttar, Tanbur, Huxtar, Gijek and many others, including those of  their own creation. Five generations have been involved in this traditional instrument making. These five generations have lived through Chinese imperial rule, Russian influence, civil war, and back to chinese rule. Amidst all this they have continued to make music and instruments and sold them throughout the Muslim region they inhabit.  They are the principal instrument makers in the city, an institution in their own right and highly respected, Kashgar city, China
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  • Ababakri Selay, 80 and son, Muhammad Turson, 40 are Uighurs of Turkic origin, they make  over 40 varieties of instruments in ther workshop: Rawap, Duttar, Tanbur, Huxtar, Gijek and many others, including those of  their own creation. Five generations have been involved in this traditional instrument making. These five generations have lived through Chinese imperial rule, Russian influence, civil war, and back to chinese rule. Amidst all this they have continued to make music and instruments and sold them throughout the Muslim region they inhabit.  They are the principal instrument makers in the city, an institution an institution in their own right and highly respected, Kashgar city, China
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  • Ababakri Selay, 80 is a Uighur of Turkic origin, he has been making over 40 varieties of  traditional instruments in his workshop: Rawap, Duttar, Tanbur, Huxtar, Gijek and many others, including those of  his own creation for five generations.  These five generations have lived through Chinese imperial rule, Russian influence, civil war, and back to Chinese rule. Amidst all this they have continued to make music and instruments and sold them throughout the Muslim region he inhabits.  They are the principal instrument makers in the city, an in their institution in their own right and highly respected, Kashgar city, China
    chimusika_004_1.jpg
  • Ababakri Selay, 80 and son, Muhammad Turson, 40 are Uighurs of Turkic origin, they make  over 40 varieties of instruments in ther workshop: Rawap, Duttar, Tanbur, Huxtar, Gijek and many others, including those of  their own creation. Five generations have been involved in this traditional instrument making. These five generations have lived through Chinese imperial rule, Russian influence, civil war, and back to chinese rule. Amidst all this they have continued to make music and instruments and sold them throughout the Muslim region they inhabit.  They are the principal instrument makers in the city, an institution an institution in their own right and highly respected, Kashgar city, China
    chimusika_001_1.jpg
  • Detail of the wide variety of tools used to make traditional Uighur and other Muslim and Central Asian instruments: Rawap, Duttar, Tanbur, Huxtar, Gijek, etc.  in Kashgar city's most respected workshop, China
    chimusika_013_1.jpg
  • Details of instrument making: using bone, plastic, sheep’s horns in the music instrument workshop of Kashgar city's most respected maker Ababakri Selay, China
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  • Priests of the Santo Tomás de Villanova seminary, play a game of football against student trainees. The seminarian football team has won many local trophies as they are amongst the best team in the region, Ourinhos, Brazil.
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  • Priests of the Santo Tomás de Villanova seminary, play a game of football against student trainees. The seminarian football team has won many local trophies as they are amongst the best team in the region, Ourinhos, Brazil.
    20130405_football_brazil_378_1.jpg
  • Mathematician and Risk guru, Professor David Spiegelhalter at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, out and about with his bike in Cambridge. Sir David John Spiegelhalter (1953), OBE FRS, is a British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From the chapter entitled 'Possible Futures' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Mathematician and Risk guru, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Sir David John Spiegelhalter (1953), OBE FRS, is a British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From the chapter entitled 'Possible Futures' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Portrait of mathematician and Risk guru, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Sir David John Spiegelhalter (1953), OBE FRS, is a British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From the chapter entitled 'Possible Futures' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Portrait of mathematician and Risk guru, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter with blackboard workings of probability, at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Sir David John Spiegelhalter (1953), OBE FRS, is a British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From the chapter entitled 'Possible Futures' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Portrait of mathematician and Risk guru, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter with blackboard workings of probability, at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Sir David John Spiegelhalter (1953), OBE FRS, is a British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From the chapter entitled 'Possible Futures' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Portrait of mathematician and Risk guru, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter with blackboard workings of probability, at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Sir David John Spiegelhalter (1953), OBE FRS, is a British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From the chapter entitled 'Possible Futures' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Mathematician and Risk guru, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Sir David John Spiegelhalter (1953), OBE FRS, is a British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From the chapter entitled 'Possible Futures' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Blackboard workings belonging to mathematician and Risk guru, Professor David Spiegelhalter at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Sir David John Spiegelhalter (1953), OBE FRS, is a British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From the chapter entitled 'Possible Futures' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Schoolboys perform rock and roll song together as a band in a south London pub during a music showcase. The young boy sings into a microphone while playing his Fender guitar that has a sticker on the body asking to keep music live! In the background is a much older boy playing bass guitar. Organised by a south London guitar teacher who brings in sound equipment, the kids play their rehearsed songs for a private audience of parents and friends.
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  • Schoolboys perform rock and roll song together as a band in a south London pub during a music showcase. The young boy sings into a microphone while playing his Fender guitar that has a sticker on the body asking to keep music live! In the background is a much older boy playing bass guitar. Organised by a south London guitar teacher who brings in sound equipment, the kids play their rehearsed songs for a private audience of parents and friends.
    guitar_showcase17-08-07-2012_1.jpg
  • Mathematician and Risk guru, Professor David Spiegelhalter at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences outside Kings College, Cambridge. Sir David John Spiegelhalter (1953), OBE FRS, is a British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From the chapter entitled 'Possible Futures' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Mathematician and Risk guru, Professor David Spiegelhalter at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, out and about with his bike in Cambridge. Sir David John Spiegelhalter (1953), OBE FRS, is a British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From the chapter entitled 'Possible Futures' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Mathematician and Risk guru, Professor David Spiegelhalter at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, out and about with his bike in Cambridge. Sir David John Spiegelhalter (1953), OBE FRS, is a British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From the chapter entitled 'Possible Futures' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Portrait of mathematician and Risk guru, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Sir David John Spiegelhalter (1953), OBE FRS, is a British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From the chapter entitled 'Possible Futures' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Portrait of mathematician and Risk guru, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Sir David John Spiegelhalter (1953), OBE FRS, is a British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From the chapter entitled 'Possible Futures' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Portrait of mathematician and Risk guru, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Sir David John Spiegelhalter (1953), OBE FRS, is a British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From the chapter entitled 'Possible Futures' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Portrait of mathematician and Risk guru, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter with blackboard workings of probability, at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Sir David John Spiegelhalter (1953), OBE FRS, is a British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From the chapter entitled 'Possible Futures' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Portrait of mathematician and Risk guru, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter with blackboard workings of probability, at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Sir David John Spiegelhalter (1953), OBE FRS, is a British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From the chapter entitled 'Possible Futures' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Portrait of mathematician and Risk guru, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter with blackboard workings of probability, at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Sir David John Spiegelhalter (1953), OBE FRS, is a British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From the chapter entitled 'Possible Futures' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Portrait of mathematician and Risk guru, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter with blackboard workings of probability, at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Sir David John Spiegelhalter (1953), OBE FRS, is a British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From the chapter entitled 'Possible Futures' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Portrait of mathematician and Risk guru, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter with blackboard workings of probability, at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Writing smilies on his blackboard, Spiegelhalter illustrates his theories about risk.  Sir David John Spiegelhalter (1953), OBE FRS, is a British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From the chapter entitled 'Possible Futures' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Mathematical formulae on a blackboard at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Unintelligable jargon is represented here by what the ordinary man considers gobbeldygook - but absolute precision of thought and ideas, to the academic mathematician.
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  • Portrait of mathematician and Risk guru, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter with blackboard workings of probability, at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Sir David John Spiegelhalter (1953), OBE FRS, is a British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From the chapter entitled 'Possible Futures' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Text books about maths, probablity and risk, belonging to mathematician and Risk guru, Professor David Spiegelhalter at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Titles of academic works by the intelligentsia sit on the shelf in his office. S ir David John Spiegelhalter (1953), OBE FRS, is a British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From the chapter entitled 'Possible Futures' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Text books about maths, probablity and risk, belonging to mathematician and Risk guru, Professor David Spiegelhalter at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Titles of academic works by the intelligentsia sit on the shelf in his office. S ir David John Spiegelhalter (1953), OBE FRS, is a British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From the chapter entitled 'Possible Futures' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Mathematician and Risk guru, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Sir David John Spiegelhalter (1953), OBE FRS, is a British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From the chapter entitled 'Possible Futures' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Portrait of mathematician and Risk guru, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter with blackboard workings of probability, at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Sir David John Spiegelhalter (1953), OBE FRS, is a British statistician. In 2007 he was elected Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From the chapter entitled 'Possible Futures' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Street scene with a young busker playing a white double bass, whilst rapping at Brick Lane Market in the East End of London, UK. This area is known for it's eclectic, brilliant, sometimes bizarre fashion as young people meet up on Sunday, market day, and time for people to gather, hang out, and maybe find a bargain.
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  • Street scene with a young busker playing a white double bass, whilst rapping at Brick Lane Market in the East End of London, UK. This area is known for it's eclectic, brilliant, sometimes bizarre fashion as young people meet up on Sunday, market day, and time for people to gather, hang out, and maybe find a bargain.
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  • Teenager boys sing and play the guitar during a live gig in south London, UK. The two frontmen play their musical arrangements of a Beatles cover, their lead and rhythm guitars together along with a drummer in the background. The lads are 15 years-old and have  rehearsed this song for weeks beforehand by their guitar teacher and given the opportunity to play in front of a small audience. The boy on the left is the vocalist, a singer taking the lead role in the 4-piece band, while the kid on the right looks across to the singer, checking tempo and when the next chord change occurs.
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  • Schoolboys from the City of London School play string instruments during a public performance of classical music. The young orchestra is performing at St. James Garlickhythe, a city of London church redesigned by Sir Christopher Wren after its destruction in 1666. Showing great concentration and passion for their music, the violinists and cellists play with great skill for such young players. We see their copyrighted sheet music attached to the stands, guiding them through the classical pieces listened to by an unseen audience. There is a slight blurring to arms and hands as their bows pass over the bridges of their instruments. <br />
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  • Schoolboys perform rock and roll song together as a band in a south London pub. With the lead singer standing confidently at the microphone and the others concentrating hard on their chords, they perform during a rehearsal for a local music showcase. The young lad is about thirteen (13) years of age and unusually, he plays his electric Fender Squier Stratocaster left-handed guitar with ease. Over his left shoulder we can see part of a drum kit and the amplifiers in the background too. The venue is a pub in south London where the children play will be playing for proud parents and friends and they practice over two weeks, the songs allocated to them by their guitar teacher.
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  • A 14 year-old schoolboy performs a rock and roll song together as a band in a south London pub during a music showcase. The young boy is left-handed and sings into a microphone while playing his Fender guitar that has a sticker on the body asking to keep music live! In the background is a much older boy playing bass guitar. Organised by a south London guitar teacher who brings in sound equipment, the kids play their rehearsed songs for a private audience of parents and friends.
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  • A 14 year-old schoolboy performs rock and roll song in a teenage band in a south London pub during a music showcase. Playing his Fender Telecaster, the young lad's fingers play along the neck of the guitar, its strings amplifying the sound of this rock and roll number and to the right is a young boy who is lead singer. Organised by a south London guitar teacher who brings in sound equipment, the kids play their rehearsed songs for a private audience of parents and friends.
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  • Schoolboys perform rock and roll song together as a band in a south London pub during a music showcase. The young boy sings into a microphone while playing his Fender guitar that has a sticker on the body asking to keep music live! In the background is a much older boy playing bass guitar. Organised by a south London guitar teacher who brings in sound equipment, the kids play their rehearsed songs for a private audience of parents and friends.
    guitar_showcase16-08-07-2012_1.jpg
  • A 14 year-old schoolboy performs rock and roll song in a teenage band in a south London pub during a music showcase. Playing his Fender Telecaster, the young lad's fingers play along the neck of the guitar. its strings amplifying the sound of this rock and roll number. Organised by a south London guitar teacher who brings in sound equipment, the kids play their rehearsed songs for a private audience of parents and friends.
    guitar_showcase12-08-07-2012_1.jpg
  • An adult keyboard player accompanies a young teenage band who perform in a south London pub during a music showcase. The man is a dad whose hands play the keys on the electric piano on a rock and roll number that the young people have learned over the last few weeks. A young girl is lead singer and older boys play a Telecaster lead guitar and bass. Organised by a south London guitar teacher who brings in sound equipment, the kids play their rehearsed songs for a private audience of parents and friends.
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  • Students and visitors rest in the commons area at the Duke Kunshan University in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province , China on 07 December, 2014.
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  • Team Pulse: (Andrew Lees, 16; Thomas Simpson, 17, John Ware, 16, and Samuel Wood, 16.) and 1200 other students of Devonport High school are taught in the shadow of The Royal Albert Bridge, (shown in background), Brunel’s 1859 Engineering masterpiece. These students, not to be outdone competed in Malaysia against thirty other teams and twenty-five countries to become world champions of ‘F1 in Schools’ winning scholarships to a top  London university, a chance to meet Bernie Ecclestone, Lewis Hamilton and to compete with the F1’s boffins behind world champs Ferrari:  a race, which, of course they won. The competition primarily
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  • Nathan Riley, 17,  holding  the Team Momentus test car.<br />
The cars are pocket rockets: gas powered, aerodynamically designed, machined  balsa wood raced along straight track at speeds up to 0.532m. per second.<br />
Momentus have had to come up with some clever strategies to earn their place as F1 In Schools  Uk national champions, including securing help from the nearby HQ of Westland Augusta Helicopters for aerodynamics, mentoring and earning several thousand pounds in fundraising schemes.
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  • Seated in a meeting room within the presidential palace is Dr Ghazi Salahudin Atabani, a special advisor to the Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir during a media briefing in Khartoum. Atabani is leader of the majority National Congress Party, a trusted advisor to the President and an articulate activist in strategic studies and leadership training.
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  • Officer pilots of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, lean against a wing of their Hawk jet in a pre-flight briefing while a member of their ground crew positions some wheel chocks. The highly-skilled engineer is known as a 'Blue' but the 'Reds' discuss  flight plans. Eleven trades skills are imported from some sixty that the RAF employs and teaches. It is mid-day and only their flying boots and red legs are seen with the RAF roundel emblem is on the underside of the wing. The better-educated officers in the armed forces enjoy a more privileged lifestyle than their support staff. In the aerobatic squadron, the Blues outnumber the pilots 8:1. Without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly. Some of the team's Hawks are 25 years old and their air frames require constant attention, with increasingly frequent major overhauls due.
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  • In the mid-day heat, Squadron Leader Spike Jepson, leader of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, informally addresses the team's highly-skilled ground crew at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus after the whole team's success of passing PDA (or 'Public Display Authority'). The Red Arrows are then allowed by senior RAF officers to perform as a military aerobatic show in front of the general public - following a special test flight when their every move and mistake is assessed and graded. Until that day arrives, their training and practicing is done in the privacy of their own airfield at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, UK. Squadron Leader Jepson has gathered his engineers and support crew known as the Blues to congratulate and encourage them. Specialists like these outnumber the pilots 8:1 and without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly.
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  • Spectators at the The Princess Margaret Hospital (TPMH) on the Akrotiri peninsula, about 4 kilometres from the RAF Station at Akrotiri, admire the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, as they perform one of their first public shows of the year. RAF staff and patients are allowed on to the grass outside the hospital building for this free show, given in honour of local charity fund-raisers of the Cyprus-based RAF Association whose guests form one of the smallest crowds to watch a Red Arrows display. Here, the team perform The Twizzle manoeuvre in front of the small crowd who stand by a green fence, matching tree and palm tree stumps. The bare earth is baked hard by the lack of rain and it almost looks like a desert scene as five of the nine jets speed overhead.
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  • A flying helmet belonging to a member of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, is cradled in the highly-polished open Plexiglass  canopy of a team Hawk jet aircraft. With the arrow pointing downwards we see it from below along with the airplane's red fuselage and the words Royal Air Force stencilled in blue lettering on the side within a white stripe. There are strong angles with clear blue space on the top right. The colours that dominate this image are red, white and blue - the colors of the Union Jack, United Kingdom's flag. This scene is at RAF Akrotiri, Cypus where the Red Arrows put the finishing touches to their display sequences before starting the gruelling air show calendar in the UK and Europe. The squadron represents all that is perfect with aerobatic flying, about teamwork and discipline.
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  • Darren Budziszewski is a Junior Technician engineer in the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. He is seen carefully standing in the cockpit of a Hawk jet closely inspecting the Plexiglass canopy for smears and scratches. Stooping at the open surface while keeping back flat and his knees bent, its posture that the RAF teaches its employees. Darren polishes the aircraft before its pilot emerges from the building at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. The Red Arrows ground crew take enormous pride in their role as supporting the team whose air displays are known around the world, cleaning the red airplanes on their day off, so particular are they. The image is backlit and both canopy and man are bottom-weighted to allow us to see space and sky. Specialists like Darren outnumber the pilots 8:1 and without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly.
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  • In the mid-day heat, all members of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, stand at ease and we see the back of one of the squadron's official photographers head, looking into the viewfinder of his camera to record an official photograph immediately on PDA Day at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. PDA (or 'Public Display Authority'), is when they are allowed by senior RAF officers to perform as a military aerobatic show in front of the public - following a special test flight when their every move and mistake is assessed and graded. Until that day arrives, their training and practicing is done in the privacy of their own airfield at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, UK or here in the glare of Akrotiri. The pilots are called reds and their ground crew, the Blues after their summer air show uniforms.
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  • Chief Technician Kerry Griffiths is a with the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team, the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. In camouflaged military green jacket, large forearms and rolled-up sleeves, he oversees the loading of spares and personal effects into a C-130 Hercules aircraft before the two-day journey from RAF Scampton to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. Surrounded by heavy-duty flight-spares, survival equipment boxes and a tyre for a Hawk jet aircraft, the Hercules looms large in the overcast sky. The team complete their winter training schedule in Cyprus. The Red Arrows pilots fly their own jet aircraft to air shows but when requiring the support of ground crew  they borrow a transporter to fly behind the main airborne squadron. 10 tons of spares and personal effects are shipped for a six-week stay.
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  • Flight Lieutenant Dave Slow of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, is seated in a BAE Systems Hawk jet aircraft simulator at the fast-jet flying training centre, RAF Valley, Anglesey, Wales. Like all fast-jet pilots, Flight Lieutenant Slow is required to complete this emergency drill every six months. The pilot is seated in his ejector seat as if in a real jet using back-projected computer graphics representing a generic landscape below. Each aviator proves they can cope with a series of failures that operators select: Engine, hydraulic failure or bird strike.  Apart from the aircraft fuselage, the high-tech facility loads malfunctions on a pilot that he could experience in reality. The version of Hawk that the Red Arrows fly is actually a primitive piece of equipment, without computers or fly-by-wire technology.
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  • Stored in their respective wooden boxes are the flying helmets and miscellaneous equipment belonging to two pilots of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, at their headquarters RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. All ten pilots have their own storage space for gear. We see the place names of Reds One and Two: Squadron Leader Spike Jepson and Flight Lieutenant Matt Jarvis, whose visors are protected by soft cloths preventing scratches protective face screen. Squadron Leader Jepson is team leader and Flight Lieutenant Jarvis flies slightly behind and to the right in the Red Arrows Diamond Nine formation. On an average winter training day at Scampton, the crews will collect their kit up to six times a day in readiness for the forthcoming summer air show season. Flight Lieutenant Jarvis died of cancer one year later in March 2005.
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  • A red Hawk jet aircraft belonging to the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, is parked in the hangar at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire, the home base for the squadron. Night is falling with only blue daylight remaining in the western sky and the warm light from the hangar spills out of the giant open doors on to the concrete. The aircraft awaits attention from the engineer's night-shift who service and maintain all 11 of the famous red aerobatic jets before flying the next morning. The hangar, an original World War 2 shelter for the Lancaster bombers of 617 Dambusters squadron who attacked the damns of the German Ruhr valley on 16th May 1943 using the Bouncing Bomb. The Red Arrows use this and nearby offices administrative nerve-centre for the 90-plus displays they perform a year.
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  • Two RAF fighter pilots listen to a pre-flight-briefing by the leader of the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team whose elite ranks these two men want to join. The candidates are with others and are in Cyprus during the team’s training programme to be tested though only three new members are selected each year. They will have accumulated over 1,500 flying hours in fast jets with experience in theatres of war. If successful, they will spend three years in the Red Arrows then return to frontline and instructing duties. Since 1965 the squadron have flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries. During a forthcoming calendar of appearances at air shows and fly-pasts across the UK and a few European venues they are an important recruiting tool for future personnel – of pilots and ground-based trades.
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  • A newly-recruited Nepali boy is about to leave his homeland for the UK, where the British army is to make him a fully-trained soldier in the Gurkha Regiment. Daubed with saffron and paint, the sign of good luck on a journey to come, he stands with absolute pride with garlands of fresh flowers draped around his neck by well-wishing relatives before they wave good bye to their son or brother for his two years absence away from home. Some 60,000 young Nepalese boys aged between 17 - 22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000 - 12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the flight to the UK. The Gurkhas training wing in Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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  • The circus animal trainer leads two of his elephant friends one morning after a Gerry Cottle show the night before. Riding a bicycle across a field in London, he leads one beast, its trunk holding his white stick while another follows behind. Peters is topless, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and bright blue trousers. Marcel Peters is a circus animal trainer who has worked in the ring for many years, starting with Billy Smart's Circus and working with Polar bears, tigers, lions and elephants. Gerry Cottle sold his elephants and Peters moved with them to the Spanish Circus Mundial. His real name is Marcel Peter Hodge.
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  • In neat diagonal rows, young Nepali boys are crouching on the ground at the British Army's Gurkha base in Pokhara, Nepal where the Britain's Ministry of Defence recruits the best choices to become fully-trained soldiers in the UK's Gurkha Regiment. Some 60,000 young Nepalese boys aged between 17 - 22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000 - 12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the flight to the UK. The Gurkhas training wing in Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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  • The Italian operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti performs in London during the free Party in the Park concert to celebrate his 30 years in opera. A crowd of 100,000 stood in the London rain to watch Pavarotti perform 20 arias by Verdi, Puccini, Bizet and Wagner. VIPs the Princess of Wales, Prime Minister John Major and Michael Caine got soaked in heavy rain along with everyone else sitting on the grass cowering beneath tarpaulins. We see the rotund Operatic maestro in full flow, belting out an aria while dressed in formal tails and wastecoat and holding his customary scarf that he uses to dab the sweat from his brow. Pavarotti helped bring an otherwise high-brow artform to the ordinary Man after the BBC used his rendition of Nessun Dorma to theme their World Cup TV coverage. This lead the way to Opera reaching the Common Man in Britain.
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  • On stage, a beautiful topless dancer with a gentleman admirer during a variety show at the famous Parisian cabaret company Paradis Latin, Paris France. In front of glittery stars, the ladies of the night are dressed in leotards and ballet tou-tous, flirting with this male dressed in top hat and tails with front row audience at the bottom of the picture like a male 'Gentlemen prefer blondes' fantasy.
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  • A young Nepali boy is straining in his last sit-ups during a recruitment test for the Gurkha Regiment, part of a tough endurance series to find physically perfect specimens for British army infantry training. He has to perform 25 straight-kneed sit-ups at a 45° slant both within 60 seconds to pass. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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  • For their regular river washing ritual, the red identical t-shirts of young Nepali boys walk in single-file down a valley side near the British Gurkha Regiment's army camp at Pokhara after recently being recruited into the regiment after a gruelling series of tests to eliminate the weaker and less able candidates. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. The Gurkhas have been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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  • Wearing numbered bibs, four Nepali boys warm-up before an army exercise trial known as the British Fitness Test (BFT) at the British Gurkha Regiment's army camp at Pokhara, Nepal. These boys are among those trying for a highly-valued place in the regiment after a gruelling series of tests to eliminate the weaker and less able candidates. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Only 160 of the best boys succeed in the journey to the UK. Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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  • New recruits of the British Royal Gurkha Regiment parade before taking official oaths on the Union Jack flag at their army camp in Pokhara, Nepal after recently being recruited into the regiment after a gruelling series of tests to eliminate the weaker and less able candidates, before the 160 lucky candidates travel to the UK for basic training. 60,000 boys aged between 17-22 (or 25 for those educated enough to become clerks or communications specialists) report to designated recruiting stations in the hills each November, most living from altitudes ranging from 4,000-12,000 feet. After initial selection, 7,000 are accepted for further tests from which 700 are sent down here to Pokhara in the shadow of the Himalayas. Nepal has been supplying youth for the British army since the Indian Mutiny of 1857.
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  • A teenage band of drums, bass and lead guitar perform in front of parents in an upstairs pub room in south London. 15 year-old lads play their own songs and covers by other musical artists. Looking over his shoulder, the bass player checks rhythm with the lead singer  and the drummer looks across his cymbals to ensure the tempo is right. The gig is a regular showcase organiused by their guitar teacher to demonstrate their musical skills as songwriters and musicians.
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  • As a boy swings from a tree, canoeists enjoy a day's paddling down the River Lesse, Belgium's prime kayaking destination  in the southern Ardennes region. At Anseremme, south of the town of Dinant, the adventurers negotiate their way down 21 km of gentle fresh water through the beautiful Belgian gorges and forests. Before plunging down a weir (Barrage in French) near a camp site they are pelted by splashing water from campers in the water. The red canoes have been hired for the day from 'Kayaks Ansiaux' and another rival company who rent blue boats. Families and young people make the slow journey along the Lesse, Paddles match the colours of the canoes and they all glint off a strong afternoon sun during the high-season holiday month. Most commonly routes start in Han and go all the way down to Dinant, where the Lesse meets the Meuse.
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  • Wearing his bathing costume, a young adventurer clambers over rocks in the Gross Enz river in Germany's Black Forest. The lad of 10 crouches to better balance himself, carefully placing his bare feet on the slippery rock's surface as he emerges from the chilly mountain water. It is high summer and we can see the boy backlit by the glare of strong sunlight in the background. The Gross Enz river rises in Enzklosterle in Baden-Württemberg and is an eventual  tributary of the Neckar. Geologically, the Black Forest consists of a cover of sandstone on top of a core of gneiss. During the last glacial period, the Würm glaciation, the Black Forest was covered by glaciers.
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  • A comic entertainer with glitzy backdrop performs a stand-up routine on stage during cruise ship voyage. Surrounded by the showbiz styled curtain (drapes) we see the rather fat man wearing a waistcoat and bow tie as he paces around the stage while entertaining the ship’s evening audience. The MS Ecstasy is a Fantasy class cruise ship with whirlpools, nightclubs, a casino and duty-free shopping. Carnival's ships are known for their Las Vegas decor and entertainment, calling its vessels Fun Ships.
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  • Students and visitors rest in the commons area at the Duke Kunshan University in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province , China on 07 December, 2014.
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  • Students and visitors participate in a semester-end international fair at the Duke Kunshan University in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province , China on 07 December, 2014.
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  • Students and visitors participate in a semester-end international fair at the Duke Kunshan University in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province , China on 07 December, 2014.
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  • Students and visitors participate in a semester-end international fair at the Duke Kunshan University in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province , China on 07 December, 2014.
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  • Andrew Lees, 16; Thomas Simpson, 17 working on the development of Team Pulse’s miniature Formula One car in preparation of the F1 In School’s World Championship. At this point they have no idea they are going to go to become world champions, meet Bernie Ecclestone, Lewis Hamilton and compete with the F1’s boffins behind world champs Ferrari:  a race, which, of course they won.
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  • Team Pulse, of Devonport High School for Boys take a break from testing their car: (from left) Andrew Lees, 16; Thomas Simpson, 17, John Ware, 16 and Samuel Wood, 16.  This year Team Pulse competed in Malaysia against thirty other teams and twenty-five countries to become World champions of ‘F1 in Schools’ winning scholarships to a top London university, a chance to meet Bernie Ecclestone, Lewis Hamilton and to compete with the F1’s boffins behind world champs, Ferrari:  a race, which of course, they won.
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  • Thomas Simpson explores the lines of a Prototype miniature formula 1 car during a team Pulse development session at Devonport high school, Plymouth. <br />
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Racing Model cars made of balsa wood, finding big money sponsorship and solving Tricky physics problems are all in a day’s work for the children taking part in the global F1 in schools project. A technology challenge in which children use computers to design, test and build miniature formula 1 cars.
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  • Andrew Lees, 16; Thomas Simpson, 17 working on the development of Team Pulse’s miniature Formula One car in preparation of the F1 In School’s World Championship. At this point they have no idea they are going to go to become world champions, meet Bernie Ecclestone, Lewis Hamilton and compete with the F1’s boffins behind world champs Ferrari:  a race, which, of course they won.
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  • Team Pulse: (Andrew Lees, 16; Thomas Simpson, 17, John Ware, 16, and Samuel Wood, 16.) and 1200 other students of Devonport High school are taught in the shadow of The Royal Albert Bridge, (shown in background), Brunel’s 1859 Engineering masterpiece. These students, not to be outdone competed in Malaysia against thirty other teams and twenty-five countries to become world champions of ‘F1 in Schools’ winning scholarships to a top  London university, a chance to meet Bernie Ecclestone, Lewis Hamilton and to compete with the F1’s boffins behind world champs Ferrari:  a race, which, of course they won. The competition primarily
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  • Collection of test and prototype racing cars belonging to ‘F1 In Schools’  National champions ‘Team Momentus’ from Gryphon school in Dorset.  The cars are pocket rockets, gas powered, aerodynamically designed, machined balsa wood raced along straight track at speeds up to  0.532m. per second.<br />
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 Momentus have had to come up with some clever strategies to earn their place as F1 In Schools UK national champions including securing help from the nearby HQ of Westland Augusta helicopters for aerodynamics  mentoring and  earning several thousand pounds in fundraising schemes.
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  • Team Momentus from The Gryphon School in Dorset: (from left) Tom Long, 19, Matthew Bugler,18, and Nathan Riley,17, explore the aerodynamics of their F1 car with their home-made computer-controlled wind tunnel. <br />
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Racing model cars made of balsa wood, finding big money sponsorship and solving Tricky physics problems are all in a day’s work for the children taking part in the global F1 in schools project. A technology challenge in which children use computers to design, test and build miniature Formula 1 cars
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  • Team Momentus from The Gryphon School in Dorset: (from left) Tom Long, 19, Matthew Bugler,18, and Nathan Riley,17, explore the aerodynamics of their F1 car with their home-made computer-controlled wind tunnel. <br />
<br />
Racing model cars made of balsa wood, finding big money sponsorship and solving Tricky physics problems are all in a day’s work for the children taking part in the global F1 in schools project. A technology challenge in which children use computers to design, test and build miniature Formula 1 cars
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  • Thomas Simpson explores the lines of a Prototype miniature formula 1 car during a team Pulse development session at Devonport high school, Plymouth. <br />
<br />
Racing Model cars made of balsa wood, finding big money sponsorship and solving Tricky physics problems are all in a day’s work for the children taking part in the global F1 in schools project. A technology challenge in which children use computers to design, test and build miniature formula 1 cars.
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  • A Muslim man walks past street art on a wall near Brick Lane, London. The local man walks down the street passing bags of purple recycling bags which match the same colour of the urban mural - an artistic aerosol representation of a face. This is a scene of traditional Islamic culture living alongside a different ethnicity in the capital's eastern area, from the 1970s, a largely Bangladeshi community along Brick Lane. Today, it is the heart of the city's Bangladeshi-Sylheti community and is known to some as Banglatown.
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  • A yodelling lady singer belts out traditional Alpine Swiss songs during a concert in the Liechtenstein capital, Vaduz. In front of an audience consisting of locals and visiting tourists, the lady is dressed in traditional Swiss/Alpine dress called a dirndl, a type of traditional dress worn in Germany – especially Bavaria – Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria and South Tyrol, based on the historical costume of Alpine peasants. Dresses that are loosely based on the dirndl are known as Landhausmode ("country-inspired fashion"). A dirndl skirt generally describes a light circular cut dress, gathered at the waist, that falls below the knee
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  • Seated in a meeting room within the presidential palace is Dr Ghazi Salahudin Atabani, a special advisor to the Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir during a media briefing in Khartoum. Atabani is leader of the majority National Congress Party, a trusted advisor to the President and an articulate activist in strategic studies and leadership training.
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  • A 40th anniversary celebration cake has been baked for the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team who are soon to appear. Displayed in a hospitality tent at the Kemble Air Show, the iced gateau has a red ribbon and an image of nine aircraft in mid-flight. A bouquet of flowers and assorted cutlery for the forthcoming lunch is alongside. Blue paper is draped over the top adding to the patriotic red, white and blue colours. After several identities, the Red Arrows started life near this location in 1964 at RAF Little Rissington in Gloucestershire. Their name originates from the French 'Fleches Noirs', or Black Arrows, so in England, a new team was established flying black Hawker Hunters in the colour of their Squadron 111. As the Red Arrows display team, they have since flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
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  • Flight Lieutenant Dan Simmons of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, zips up his g-pants before climbing into his Hawk jet. G-pants counteract the effects of high gravity stresses that jet-fighters impose on the human body, automatically inflating and squeezing blood back to the thorax and head when blood drains towards the legs. As he attaches the zipper, he rests his straight right leg on a retractable step which helps him and his ground crew engineers to gain access to the cockpit, high above the ground. Hanging from another part of his airplane is his life-vest which he will wear around his neck, whilst in flight. Flight Lieutenant Simmons wears heavy-duty black boots which are regulation footwear for flying personnel and dressed in his red flying suit that is famous around the world.
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  • Flight Lieutenants Steve Underwood and Anthony Parkinson and Wing Commander Bill Ramsey of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, discuss logistics beneath the emblems of long-disbanded fighter squadrons which decorate the squadron building at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. They sit in faded pink armchairs supplied by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) that are seen in many RAF stations and airfields with the same drab blue paint on the walls. Painted by hand are circular badges  with bold colours (colors) and illustrations of birds of prey, fighter-jets, swords and shields which all symbolise  warfare. The three pilots are relaxed wearing their red flying suits with their sunglasses dangling in the regulation loop, they are holding a bottle of mineral water and a coffee cup.
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  • Specialist Corporal Mal Faulder is an armourer engineer (qualified to handle ejection seats and weaponry on military jets) but here in the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team he is seen polishing the aircraft's flying surfaces using wool and cleaning fluid on the morning of the team's PDA Day. PDA (or 'Public Display Authority'), is a special test flight when their every move and mistake is assessed and graded. Corporal Faulder is to buff up the airplane for an extra special shine on such an important day and we see the UK's Union Jack flag on the side of the diagonal stripes of the tail fin. The Red Arrows ground crew take enormous pride in their role as supporting the aviators whose air displays are known around the world. Blues like Mal outnumber the pilots 8:1. Without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly.
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  • Two Hawk jets from the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, almost touch in mid-air at an altitude of approximately 4,100 feet in the Mediterranean skies above Cyprus. The texture of mottled cirrus cloud provides a soft background for the  aircraft which approach each other at a combined air speed of approximately 800 miles per hour (1,200 kph). The Opposition Loop is flown by the two pilot partners known as the Synchro Pair who fly independently of the other seven in the second-half of their 25-minute show. The two jets have vegetable dye and derv (diesel fuel) smoke mixture coloured red, blue or white. Here it traces the paths of both airplanes which curve from the edges of the frame to the centre (center). To the crowds far below, both look as if they are on collision course but will safely pass within feet of each other.
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  • In the mid-day heat, Squadron Leader John Green is a member of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. Here he walks out alone to his aircraft, which is lined up with some of the others jets at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus before flying out to Marka in Jordan for the first display of the year. The Red Arrows arrive each April to fine-tune their air show skills in the clear Mediterranean skies and continue their busy display calendar above the skies of the UK and other European show circuit. We see John Green carrying his flight bag and life-vest over his shoulder. He paces confidently across the bright 'apron' dressed in his famous red flying suit that the Red Arrows have made famous since 1965. He is alone and striding confidently towards the matching red eight Hawk airplanes.
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  • Senior Machinist Supervisor, Tricia Randle finishes a red flying suit of Squadron Leader David Thomas, a pilot of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. Tricia is a bespoke seamstress at Dale Techniche, Nelson, Lancashire. Every Winter, the Red Arrows place about 40 pilot suit orders and 180 blue (support ground crew) suits. Tricia adjusts her thread while the suit is complete on her work bench. The clothing factory also designs the Red Arrows badges, each requiring 15,000 stitches. All suits are made from Nomex by the Du Pont corporation, containing 5% Kevlar. Flame-retardant, they fit exactly each team member. Fourteen different measurements are taken before the first suit is cut, each one requiring approximately three metres of dyed cloth. When a suit is complete, each one is signed inside by the machinist.
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