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  • Taken from a tall apartment block, we see an aerial view overlooking the ex-Portuguese colony of Macau's Chinese Christian cemetery of San Miguel. The Cemiterio de São Miguel Arcanjo (Saint Miguel Catholic Cemetery) is located right in the middle of Macao island, on Estrada do Cemiterio and host the graves of the old Dutch and Portuguese colonials that helped shape Macau, now one of the world's most densely-populated city. We see a single Chinese lady walking along one of many criss-crossing diagonal pathways carrying a red bucket of water to tend these graves. She appears tiny compared to the multitude of plots, some which have crosses and others which have simple headstones. They are mostly neat and tidy but some have become overgrown with grass sprouting up. Macau's gambling revenue in 2006 weighed in at a massive £3.6bn - about £100m more than Las Vegas. The official languages are Portuguese and Chinese. The Macau Special Administrative Region is one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), along with Hong Kong. Administered by Portugal until 1999, it was the oldest European colony in China, dating back to the 16th century. The administrative power over Macau was transferred to the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1999, 2 years after Hong Kong's own handover.
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  • A Tibetan monk tends to the yak butter lamps at Tashilunpo Monastery, Shigatze city, Tiber.
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  • an Aymara indian woman tends to her cattle in Bolivia's altiplano region.
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  • an Aymara indian woman tends to her llamas in Bolivia's altiplano region.
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  • an Aymara indian woman tends to her cattle in Bolivia's altiplano region.
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  • An elderly gentleman prunes his precious crop of fresh red roses from his front garden that sits astride the small River Wandle at Carshalton, south London. trimming off their heads, he s dressed in a straw hat and white apron. He is a very active gardener, the nurturing of plants and flowers being his passion now that he is of retirement age after a lifetime of work. Now he enjoys the rewards of his labours from mother earth in this lush plot of his that looks every bit the perfect English cottage garden despite it being in an urban inner-city.
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  • Attending to a floral memorial of Lillies in a 5th Avenue store front in mid-town Manhattan. In the days following the September 11th attacks, a store window dresser is seen through the glass with Fifth Avenue reflected behind. The words "In Memory and Gratitude" are written in block capitals on the window and a passer-by walks briskly past the large floral display and the large US flag that hangs vertically in mourning for those killed and those heroes helping to uncover their remains in the debris. America sought to express their anger and patriotic unity by installing these shrines in the frontages of businesses and in homes as New Yorkers try to pick up the pieces of their lives.
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  • In a field at the town of Boofzheim in the eastern French Alsace region, an elderly Frenchman harvests some of his self-grown carrots crop. Having left his old bicycle standing at the kerb of a narrow access road and in front of a field full of maturing maize, he bends down with much effort to dig in his fork or spade into the rich Alsace earth and lift out his vegetables to take home. This landscape is typically French or German (Alsace borders the western side of Germany and saw much tragic action in WW2) where maize is a nutritious foodstuff for cattle and also for ducks and geese who are force-fed it locally in the making of fois gras and pate.
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  • Mothers sit with their babies in pushchairs on park benches in the Silesian industrial town of Zabrze. A mining town known formerly as Hindenburg until 1945, under Stalinist thought, miners were considered a “working class elite” and were rewarded with higher wages and better social benefits but after communism, Zabrze has a high rate among mother of Ovarian Cancer because of the pollution, caused by the large concentration of industry, the triangle of land between Zabrze, Chorzów, and Bytom has locally been known as 'death triangle'. Since the collapse of communism in 1989, the environmental situation has steadily been improving due the restructuring of the Silesian industry although more than 250,000 jobs have been lost in coal mining since the reintroduction of capitalism. At the same time, enterprises are enjoying enormous profits.
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  • George Rodgers, 63, a Cornish farmer of at least three generations grows giant vegetables on a quarter acre plot. The seed for his cabbages comes from his father and he provides the seed he says for 85 percent of the cabbages at the main Bath and West Show, which he is preparing for now. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) with a commitment varying from  2-3 hours an evening to the most committed spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses.  The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor somewhere in the world knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • David Thomas,42, spends his days producing perfectly proportioned vegetables for supermarkets but in the evening he devotes himself to his hobby growing outsized vegetables. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. It’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, somewhere,  knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • David Thomas,42, pictured here with his daughter, spends his days producing perfectly proportioned vegetables for supermarkets but in the evening he devotes himself to his hobby growing outsized vegetables. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. It’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, somewhere,  knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Jo Atherton, works a part time at nursery, but his passion is for  growing giant vegetables, He has  grown a  record breaking carrot 19’, 2’’ long and is also a devotee of leek growing and onions. He was set back recently when local kids stole a thousand pounds worth of lighting diverted most likely to grow marijuana plants. He is pictured preparing for the biggest giant veg event of the year, the Bath and West show. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb.
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  • Jo Atherton, works a part time at nursery, but his passion is for  growing giant vegetables, He has  grown a  record breaking carrot 19’, 2’’ long and is also a devotee of leek growing and onions. He was set back recently when local kids stole a thousand pounds worth of lighting diverted most likely to grow marijuana plants. He is pictured preparing for the biggest giant veg event of the year, the Bath and West show. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb.
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  • Jo Atherton, works a part time at nursery, but his passion is for  growing giant vegetables, He has  grown a  record breaking carrot 19’, 2’’ long and is also a devotee of leek growing and onions. He was set back recently when local kids stole a thousand pounds worth of lighting diverted most likely to grow marijuana plants. He is pictured preparing for the biggest giant veg event of the year, the Bath and West show. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb.
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  • Peter Glazebrook with a giant onion. He has held eight world records in his time but is currently holder of only two with heaviest parsnip and longest beetroot, 12lb and 21ft. respectively. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, somewhere,  knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Peter Glazebrook has held eight world records in his time but is currently holder of only two with heaviest parsnip and longest beetroot, 12lb and 21ft. respectively. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, somewhere,  knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Peter Glazebrook with a giant onion. He has held eight world records in his time but is currently holder of only two with heaviest parsnip and longest beetroot, 12lb and 21ft. respectively. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, somewhere,  knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Peter Glazebrook with a giant cabbage. He has held eight world records in his time but is currently holder of only two with heaviest parsnip and longest beetroot, 12lb and 21ft. respectively. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, somewhere,  knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • George Rodgers, 63, a Cornish farmer of at least three generations grows giant vegetables on a quarter acre plot. The seed for his cabbages comes from his father and he provides the seed he says for 85 percent of the cabbages at the main Bath and West Show, which he is preparing for now. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) with a commitment varying from  2-3 hours an evening to the most committed spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses.  The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor somewhere in the world knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • George Rodgers, 63, a Cornish farmer of at least three generations grows giant vegetables on a quarter acre plot. The seed for his cabbages comes from his father and he provides the seed he says for 85 percent of the cabbages at the main Bath and West Show, which he is preparing for now. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) with a commitment varying from  2-3 hours an evening to the most committed spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses.  The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor somewhere in the world knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • David Thomas,42, spends his days producing perfectly proportioned vegetables for supermarkets but in the evening he devotes himself to his hobby growing outsized vegetables. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. It’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, somewhere,  knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Ian Neale, 67, retired,  seen here with his carrots, takes his hobby extremely seriously; He works up 80 hours a week on his land and spends a  £1000 a year on fertilisers. He once held a world record for a swede weighing in at 81.5lb but lost it eight hours later to someone in Alaska. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. It’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, as in Ian’s case, knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Jo Atherton, works a part time at nursery, but his passion is for  growing giant vegetables, He has  grown a  record breaking carrot 19’, 2’’ long and is also a devotee of leek growing and onions. He was set back recently when local kids stole a thousand pounds worth of lighting diverted most likely to grow marijuana plants. He is pictured preparing for the biggest giant veg event of the year, the Bath and West show. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb.
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  • Peter Glazebrook with a giant onion. He has held eight world records in his time but is currently holder of only two with heaviest parsnip and longest beetroot, 12lb and 21ft. respectively. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, somewhere,  knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • George Rodgers, 63, a Cornish farmer of at least three generations grows giant vegetables on a quarter acre plot. The seed for his cabbages comes from his father and he provides the seed he says for 85 percent of the cabbages at the main Bath and West Show, which he is preparing for now. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) with a commitment varying from  2-3 hours an evening to the most committed spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses.  The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor somewhere in the world knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • George Rodgers, 63, a Cornish farmer of at least three generations grows giant vegetables on a quarter acre plot. The seed for his cabbages comes from his father and he provides the seed he says for 85 percent of the cabbages at the main Bath and West Show, which he is preparing for now. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) with a commitment varying from  2-3 hours an evening to the most committed spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses.  The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor somewhere in the world knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Ian Neale, 67, retired,  seen here with his marrow, takes his hobby extremely seriously; He works up 80 hours a week on his land and spends a  £1000 a year on fertilisers. He once held a world record for a swede weighing in at 81.5lb but lost it eight hours later to someone in Alaska. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. It’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, as in Ian’s case, knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Ian Neale, 67, retired,  seen here with his marrow, takes his hobby extremely seriously; He works up 80 hours a week on his land and spends a  £1000 a year on fertilisers. He once held a world record for a swede weighing in at 81.5lb but lost it eight hours later to someone in Alaska. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. It’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, as in Ian’s case, knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Ian Neale, 67, retired,  seen here with his swede, takes his hobby extremely seriously; He works up 80 hours a week on his land and spends a  £1000 a year on fertilisers. He once held a world record for a swede weighing in at 81.5lb but lost it eight hours later to someone in Alaska. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. It’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, as in Ian’s case, knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Ian Neale, 67, retired,  seen here with a parsnip, takes his hobby extremely seriously; He works up 80 hours a week on his land and spends a  £1000 a year on fertilisers. He once held a world record for a swede weighing in at 81.5lb but lost it eight hours later to someone in Alaska. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. It’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, as in Ian’s case, knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Jo Atherton, works a part time at nursery, but his passion is for  growing giant vegetables, He has  grown a  record breaking carrot 19’, 2’’ long and is also a devotee of leek growing and onions. He was set back recently when local kids stole a thousand pounds worth of lighting diverted most likely to grow marijuana plants. He is pictured preparing for the biggest giant veg event of the year, the Bath and West show. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb.
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  • Jo Atherton, works a part time at nursery, but his passion is for  growing giant vegetables, He has  grown a  record breaking carrot 19’, 2’’ long and is also a devotee of leek growing and onions. He was set back recently when local kids stole a thousand pounds worth of lighting diverted most likely to grow marijuana plants. He is pictured preparing for the biggest giant veg event of the year, the Bath and West show. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb.
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  • Peter Glazebrook with a giant onion. He has held eight world records in his time but is currently holder of only two with heaviest parsnip and longest beetroot, 12lb and 21ft. respectively. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, somewhere,  knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • George Rodgers, 63, a Cornish farmer of at least three generations grows giant vegetables on a quarter acre plot. The seed for his cabbages comes from his father and he provides the seed he says for 85 percent of the cabbages at the main Bath and West Show, which he is preparing for now. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) with a commitment varying from  2-3 hours an evening to the most committed spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses.  The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor somewhere in the world knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • David Thomas,42, pictured here with his daughter, spends his days producing perfectly proportioned vegetables for supermarkets but in the evening he devotes himself to his hobby growing outsized vegetables. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. It’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, somewhere,  knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Ian Neale, 67, retired,  seen here with his swede, takes his hobby extremely seriously; He works up 80 hours a week on his land and spends a  £1000 a year on fertilisers. He once held a world record for a swede weighing in at 81.5lb but lost it eight hours later to someone in Alaska. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. It’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, as in Ian’s case, knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • George Rodgers, 63, a Cornish farmer of at least three generations grows giant vegetables on a quarter acre plot. The seed for his cabbages comes from his father and he provides the seed he says for 85 percent of the cabbages at the main Bath and West Show, which he is preparing for now. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) with a commitment varying from  2-3 hours an evening to the most committed spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses.  The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor somewhere in the world knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Brothers Kevin, 32, and Gareth, 30, Fortey.  After their father, one of the founders of competitive giant vegetable growing, died the brothers  decided to continue the tradition and may even pass it on to their children. Kevin’s 4 year old son is growing giant sunflowers. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb.
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  • Peter Glazebrook with his wife Mary a giant onion and Swede. Peter Glazebrook has held eight world records in his time but is currently holder of only two with heaviest parsnip and longest beetroot, 12lb and 21ft. respectively. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, somewhere,  knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Peter Glazebrook has held eight world records in his time but is currently holder of only two with heaviest parsnip and longest beetroot, 12lb and 21ft. respectively. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses. The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor, somewhere,  knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • Judith Nakayiza tending to pineapple, she is the Kulika Lutizi centre tutor and originally trained with Kulika in sustainable organic agriculture in 2002.
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  • Natrajan tending the cows at the Tamaraikulum Elders village, Tamil Nadu, India
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  • Local farmer tends crops in a fertile field on his smallholding, located on the slopes of the Vesuvius volcano, seen in the distance which last erupted in 1944.   Tending his plants on land near Somma Vesuviana, his family have owned for generations, he and his elderly family would choose to stay if the volcano erupts again. "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude," says Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples. "This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world."
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  • Kurrrimangk Chihuaihuen is an active member of the Mapuche community in the fight for his peoples autonomy. He lives on the ancestral lands of Juana Calfunao, the known defender of Mapuche culture and traditions. He lead a self sustaining life tending to his agriculture and livestock. Araucania, Chile. February 15, 2018.
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  • A rural Slovenian church and a local woman tending crops, on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
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  • From a hillside overlooking this beautiful and idyllic pastoral landscape, early morning mist spreads across the Vale of Edale, in the Peak District National Park, Derbyshire. Edale is a valley in North Derbyshire, situated about 15 miles west of Sheffield, a loose collection of scattered farmsteads or 'booths' as they are known which grew up around the original shelters or 'boothies' used by shepherds when tending their sheep on the hillsides. There are 5 main ones in Edale valley, Nether Booth, Ollerbooth, Upper Booth, Barber booth and Grindsbrook Booth of which the village called Edale is part. Edale village is in a lovely setting below Kinder Scout and is the start of the Pennine way, the first and longest footpath in England, opened in 1965.
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  • A female farmer tending to her crops in the Pallisa district of Uganda. This farm, owned by Francis Okiru joined the Kulika project in 2003 and gained training in sustainable organic agriculture.
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  • As early morning mist sits on the hillsides beyond, we see the Nag's Head pub, well-known as the start of Penine Way – the first and longest walkers’ footpath in England, opened in 1965. Edale village is in the Vale of Edale, Peak District National Park, Derbyshire, a valley in North Derbyshire, situated about 15 miles west of Sheffield, in the heart of the Peak District National Park. Edale valley is a loose collection of scattered farmsteads or 'booths' as they are known which grew up around the original shelters or 'boothies' used by shepards when tending their sheep on the hillsides. There are 5 main ones in Edale valley, Nether Booth, Ollerbooth, Upper Booth, Barber booth and Grindsbrook Booth of which the village called Edale is part. Edale village is in a lovely setting below Kinder Scout and is
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  • Mo Suo minority people in a small community village home. Leaders of such communities are women, who live separate lives (mostly) from the men of the village. They still lead very simple lives, tending their crops and animals. Local tradition is that if a man wished to be with any woman in the village, he must simply knock on her door at night. Should she become pregnant with his child, the man’s brothers would have to raise the child. Here a Mo Suo woman who leads a more modern life, working in a nearby hotel, texts a friend on her cell phone. Her Honda baseball cap is in contrast to the much more traditional woman on her bed at the edge of this dark living area.
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  • A farmer tending to his crops in a field along the B127 road  between Hembeti Village and Kigugu on the 19th November 2019 in Mvomero district, Morogoro region, Tanzania.
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  • Mo Suo man prepares a chicken over the fire in a minority group in a small community village home near Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China. Leaders of such communities are women, who live mostly separate lives from the men of the village. They still lead very simple lives, tending their crops and animals. Local tradition is that if a man wished to be with any woman in the village, he must simply knock on her door at night. Should she become pregnant with his child, the man’s brothers would have to raise the child.
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  • A rural red Victorian post box mounted on a dry stone wall in the Vale of Edale, Peak District National Park, Derbyshire. The distinctive letter VR denote the box’s age, meaning Victoria Regina as opposed to GR for King George or currently ER, for Queen Elizabeth. We also see daily postal collection times on the label. Edale is a valley in North Derbyshire, situated about 15 miles west of Sheffield, a loose collection of scattered farmsteads or 'booths' as they are known which grew up around the original shelters or 'boothies' used by shepherds when tending their sheep on the hillsides. There are 5 main ones in Edale valley, Nether Booth, Ollerbooth, Upper Booth, Barber booth and Grindsbrook Booth of which the village called Edale is part.
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  • A businessman sips a chilled glass of white wine to accompany a dish of seafood in Sweetings in the City of London. A waiter waits for the man's verdict before filling the glass then tending his order from the table menu. Associates talk discreetly in the background in this very traditional bar in the heart of the capital's financial district, near St Paul's Cathedral. Sweetings Restaurant first opened in 1889 and has carried out serving lunch ever since. Sweetings prides itself on offering a wide variety of English sustainable fish, from wild fresh Scottish Salmon, usually the first fish of the season, to the native oysters from West Mersea on the Essex coast.
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  • Mo Suo minority people in a small community village home. Leaders of such communities are women, who live separate lives (mostly) from the men of the village. They still lead very simple lives, tending their crops and animals. Local tradition is that if a man wished to be with any woman in the village, he must simply knock on her door at night. Should she become pregnant with his child, the man's brothers would have to raise the child. Here a Mo Suo woman who leads a more modern life, working in a nearby hotel, texts a friend on her cell phone. Her Honda baseball cap is in contrast to the much more traditional woman on her bed at the edge of this dark living area.
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  • Kurrrimangk Chihuaihuen together with his wife Juana Calfunao Paillalef both are active members of the Mapuche community in the fight for their autonomy. They live on the ancestral lands of Juanas family where they lead a self sustaining life tending to their agriculture and livestock, when not confronting the authorities on matters of Mapuche self determination, Araucania, Chile. February 15, 2018.
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  • An elderly couple sit in peace on a quiet beach in the seaside resort of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. In a classic English beach holiday scene, the husband and wife relax, reclining in a pair of deckchairs at a kiosk that dispenses these quaintly British beach chairs. A sign telling other holidaymakers to collect and pay for their time in them appears on the freshly-painted clap-board wall. As the lazy completes word puzzles in her magazine, the gentleman reads his regular copy of the Daily Mirror tabloid newspaper. He is tanned, perhaps spent his summer tending his garden back home but here on holiday, they both have the chance to spend some time together away from home, in a resort known for its beaches and coastal adventures.
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  • Mo Suo minority people in a small community village home. Leaders of such communities are women, who live separate lives (mostly) from the men of the village. They still lead very simple lives, tending their crops and animals. Local tradition is that if a man wished to be with any woman in the village, he must simply knock on her door at night. Should she become pregnant with his child, the man’s brothers would have to raise the child. Here a Mo Suo woman who leads a more modern life, working in a nearby hotel, texts a friend on her cell phone. Her Honda baseball cap is in contrast to the much more traditional woman on her bed at the edge of this dark living area.
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  • A rural Slovenian church and a local woman tending crops, on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
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  • As early morning mist makes its way across moors and mountain grasses, we see a dead ewe that lies decomposing at a collapsed dry stone wall on Nether Moor, Derbyshire. The sheep has been left behind the rest of the farmer's flock and as it decomposes, its eyes have already been pecked out and its white front incisor teeth gaping, as if grinning in death. This is a loss of revenue of vital income at a time of economic hardship for those in this tough industry. In the background we see the moors rising to it summit in the area called Edale, a valley in North Derbyshire, 15 miles west of Sheffield, in the heart of the Peak District National Park. Edale valley is a loose collection of scattered farmsteads or 'booths' as they are known which grew up around the original shelters or 'boothies' used by shepherds when tending their sheep on the hillsides.
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  • A nomad goes to tend his camels in the Sahara Desert between the cities of Chinguetti and Choum in Mauritania. Nomads live by trading their camels and produce that they buy and sell.
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  • Shrouded in early morning mist young "Pansaleo" native indians high in the Andeas mountain range tend to their sheep near Angamarca town, Ecuador.
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  • A nomad goes to tend his camels in the Sahara Desert between the cities of Chinguetti and Choum in Mauritania. Nomads live by trading their camels and produce that they buy and sell.
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  • Common toad sitting in the grass on 20th June 2020 in Studley, United Kingdom. Common toads are amphibians, breeding in ponds during the spring and spending much of the rest of the year feeding in woodland, gardens, hedgerows and tussocky grassland. They are famous for their mass migrations back to their breeding ponds on the first warm, damp evenings. Common toads tend to breed in larger, deeper ponds than common frogs, but still frequent gardens.
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  • A prisoner and teacher reading material during an education session. HM Prison Askham Grange is a women's open category prison, located in Askham Richard village in North Yorkshire, England. The prison is run by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Askham Grange accepts adult females and female young offenders, and has space for ten mothers to maintain full-time care of their child or children whilst in custody. Inmates tend to have already served three years or more in other prisons, and are transferred to Askham Grange to complete the last part (maximum three years) of their sentence. Because of this the prisons main focus is the re-integration and re-settlement of prisoners into the community and preparation for life after prison. Accommodation in the prison consists mainly of dormitories, though there are some single rooms. All prisoners in the Mother and Baby unit have their own rooms. The prison's education department mainly concentrates on vocational skills, and many prisoners are given work-placements outside the prison as part of their re-settlement plan.
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  • Common toad sitting in the grass on 20th June 2020 in Studley, United Kingdom. Common toads are amphibians, breeding in ponds during the spring and spending much of the rest of the year feeding in woodland, gardens, hedgerows and tussocky grassland. They are famous for their mass migrations back to their breeding ponds on the first warm, damp evenings. Common toads tend to breed in larger, deeper ponds than common frogs, but still frequent gardens.
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  • Young Shanghainese shield themselves from the sun with umbrellas as they cross the road at the busy junction next to the Shanghai Urban Planning Museum in Shanghai, China. This area at the edge of People’s Square, and at one of the main exits for People’s Square Metro is one of Shanghai’s busiest places in the heart of the downtown area. Young Chinese women tend to shield themselves from the sun to keep their skin lighter as western skin-tones are highly desired.
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  • A farming family tend onions and other vegetables in fertile fields where agriculture is important for survival, at Bedhal in Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt where the availability of water determines the agricultural economic life in an oasis village. Dakhla Oasis consists of several communities, along a string of sub-oases. The main settlements are Mut (more fully Mut el-Kharab and anciently called Mothis), El-Masara, Al-Qasr, Qalamoun, together with several smaller villages. Some of the communities have identities that are separate from each other. Qalamoun has inhabitants that trace their origins to the Ottomans.
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  • The view from the back during a caleche carriage ride through a street in Luxor, Nile Valley, Egypt. Tourists walking along any part of Luxor are pestered by Calesh owners who follow the visitor until they climb aboard. They are dependent of tourist traffic and therefore victims of the downturn. According to the country's Ministry of Tourism, European visitors to Egypt is down by up to 80% in 2016 from the suspension of flights after the downing of the Russian airliner in Oct 2015. Despite the efforts of local animal charities, and although the position has improved in recent years and is still improving, few of the horses appear to be well looked after. The drivers tend to gallop the horses and use their whips unnecessarily and rarely do you see a horse in the shade or drinking.
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  • Summertime in London, England, UK. For the first time the Royal Academy and its artists take to the streets of Mayfair with Burlington Gardens pedestrianised and the street transformed for a day with this fun arts event. Green keepers tend to the bunker sand trap on the crazy golf course
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  • Summertime in London, England, UK. For the first time the Royal Academy and its artists take to the streets of Mayfair with Burlington Gardens pedestrianised and the street transformed for a day with this fun arts event. Green keepers tend to the bunker sand trap on the crazy golf course
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  • Starting in the 1950s, sculptor Antone Martin fashioned concrete into over 35 Biblical figures. Despite the apparent theme, he created the park as his personal statement of peace rather than religious devotion. Statues dot the hillside above the Evangelical Free Church. There are groupings of disciples listening to the Sermon on the Mount, apostles and other biblical characters in discussion or contemplation. The bright alabaster sculptures of followers tend to face away from the sun, while the Messiah faces the bustling town of Yucca Valley.
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  • Starting in the 1950s, sculptor Antone Martin fashioned concrete into over 35 Biblical figures. Despite the apparent theme, he created the park as his personal statement of peace rather than religious devotion. Statues dot the hillside above the Evangelical Free Church. There are groupings of disciples listening to the Sermon on the Mount, apostles and other biblical characters in discussion or contemplation. The bright alabaster sculptures of followers tend to face away from the sun, while the Messiah faces the bustling town of Yucca Valley.
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  • Starting in the 1950s, sculptor Antone Martin fashioned concrete into over 35 Biblical figures. Despite the apparent theme, he created the park as his personal statement of peace rather than religious devotion. Statues dot the hillside above the Evangelical Free Church. There are groupings of disciples listening to the Sermon on the Mount, apostles and other biblical characters in discussion or contemplation. The bright alabaster sculptures of followers tend to face away from the sun, while the Messiah faces the bustling town of Yucca Valley.
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  • Empty rigid-design gas holders architecture at the Oval, South London. The steel frames are seen against an afternoon sky at Oval, in south London - their strengthening architecture showing how the gasometer design has been an effective method storing gas for a hundred years. The Oval Gasholders at The Oval cricket ground, in spite of no longer being used, are now a grade 2 listed structure. Typical volumes for large gasholders are about 50,000 cubic metres, with 60 metre diameter structures. Gasholders tend to be used nowadays for balancing purposes (making sure gas pipes can be operated within a safe range of pressures) rather than for actually storing gas for later use.
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  • A Hua 23, after having picked the tea leaves scorches them in a large “wok” to remove moisture and excess water before being put out to dry. This process is known as sha qing (kill the green),  Zha Lu village, Yunnan province bordering Myanmar and Laos. She together with her husband and parents tend to 2.3 acres of tea plantations which earn them U$S 1300 / year. In the steamy subtropical climate they are able to harvest tea leaves all year round except for December and January. They grow the highly prized Pu'er variety of tea.
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  • A Hua picks tea on the slopes outside her village of  Zha Lu, Yunnan province, China bordering Myanmar and Laos. She together with her husband and parents tend to 2.3 acres of tea plantations which earn them U$S 1300 / year. In the steamy subtropical climate they are able to harvest tea leaves all year round except for December and January. They grow the highly prized Pu'er variety of tea.
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  • Apatani tribal elder Atta Yadd  and her young neighbours sit have tea and warm up beside the fire after a hard day's work in rice and bamboo fields. They sleep and live in their one roomed "open plan" bamboo made stilted hut, sleeping on mats in the center close to the bamboo fire which is protected by a brick-lined hearth in the village of Hijja, Arunachal Pradesh. The Apatani tribe are one of hundreds of indigenous tribes scattered across India, particularly the north east. Their origins are from Mongolian nomadic tribes whom settled on the Ziro plateau, close to the Chinese border, they practice fixed agriculture as well as forestry, planting trees on the rim of the plateau as well as bamboo forests from which they derive fire wood, building their homes as well as using the bamboo for all manner of applications in their daily lives, cooking utensils and household containers amongst other uses. They carefully cultivate bamboo forests allowing them to grow, but not flower and die, as this would spell disaster for their very own existence. They also tend to their rice fields and live stock for what is mostly a subsistence economy. The Indian constitution recognizes over 500 indigenous tribes, which account for 8.5% of the total population
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  • An Apatani tribal woman walks through the rows of bamboo huts on stilts in the village of Hijja, Arunachal Pradesh. The Apatani tribe are one of hundreds of indigenous tribes scattered across India, particularly the north east. Their origins are from Mongolian nomadic tribes whom settled on the Ziro plateau, close to the Chinese border, they practice fixed agriculture as well as forestry, planting trees on the rim of the plateau as well as bamboo forests from which they derive fire wood, building their homes as well as using the bamboo for all manner of applications in their daily lives, cooking utensils and household containers amongst other uses. They carefully cultivate bamboo forests allowing them to grow, but not flower and die, as this would spell disaster for their very own existence. They also tend to their rice fields and live stock for what is mostly a subsistence economy. The Indian constitution recognizes over 500 indigenous tribes, which account for 8.5% of the total population.
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  • An Apatani tribal man walks through the rows of bamboo huts on stilts in the village of Hijja, Arunachal Pradesh. The Apatani tribe are one of hundreds of indigenous tribes scattered across India, particularly the north east. Their origins are from Mongolian nomadic tribes whom settled on the Ziro plateau, close to the Chinese border, they practice fixed agriculture as well as forestry, planting trees on the rim of the plateau as well as bamboo forests from which they derive fire wood, building their homes as well as using the bamboo for all manner of applications in their daily lives, cooking utensils and household containers amongst other uses. They carefully cultivate bamboo forests allowing them to grow, but not flower and die, as this would spell disaster for their very own existence. They also tend to their rice fields and live stock for what is mostly a subsistence economy. The Indian constitution recognizes over 500 indigenous tribes, which account for 8.5% of the total population.
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  • Still life of Bamboo made artefacts used in and around the village homes of the Apatani tribe. This tribe is one of hundreds of indigenous tribes scattered across India, particularly the north east. Their origins are from Mongolian nomadic tribes whom settled on the Ziro plateau, close to the Chinese border, they practice fixed agriculture as well as forestry, planting trees on the rim of the plateau as well as bamboo forests from which they derive fire wood, building their homes as well as using the bamboo for all manner of applications in their daily lives, cooking utensils and household containers amongst other uses. They carefully cultivate bamboo forests allowing them to grow, but not flower and die, as this would spell disaster for their very own existence. They also tend to their rice fields and live stock for what is mostly a subsistence economy. The Indian constitution recognizes over 500 indigenous tribes, which account for 8.5% of the total population
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  • Apatani tribal elder Atta Yadd spreads out to dry recently threshed rice in  her village of Hijja, Arunachal Pradesh. The Apatani tribe are one of hundreds of indigenous tribes scattered across India, particularly the north east. Their origins are from Mongolian nomadic tribes whom settled on the Ziro plateau, close to the Chinese border, they practice fixed agriculture as well as forestry, planting trees on the rim of the plateau as well as bamboo forests from which they derive fire wood, building their homes as well as using the bamboo for all manner of applications in their daily lives, cooking utensils and household containers amongst other uses. They carefully cultivate bamboo forests allowing them to grow, but not flower and die, as this would spell disaster for their very own existence. They also tend to their rice fields and live stock for what is mostly a subsistence economy. The Indian constitution recognizes over 500 indigenous tribes, which account for 8.5% of the total population
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  • Apatani tribal elder Atta Yadd  returns home after having  cut bamboo in the forests surrounding their village of Hijja, Arunachal Pradesh. The Apatani tribe are one of hundreds of indigenous tribes scattered across India, particularly the north east. Their origins are from Mongolian nomadic tribes whom settled on the Ziro plateau, close to the Chinese border, they practice fixed agriculture as well as forestry, planting trees on the rim of the plateau as well as bamboo forests from which they derive fire wood, building their homes as well as using the bamboo for all manner of applications in their daily lives, cooking utensils and household containers amongst other uses. They carefully cultivate bamboo forests allowing them to grow, but not flower and die, as this would spell disaster for their very own existence. They also tend to their rice fields and live stock for what is mostly a subsistence economy. The Indian constitution recognizes over 500 indigenous tribes, which account for 8.5% of the total population
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  • Apatani tribal elders Atta Yadd and her husband Ba Khang cut bamboo  in the forests surrounding their village of Hijja, Arunachal Pradesh. The Apatani tribe are one of hundreds of indigenous tribes scattered across India, particularly the north east. Their origins are from Mongolian nomadic tribes whom settled on the Ziro plateau, close to the Chinese border, they practice fixed agriculture as well as forestry, planting trees on the rim of the plateau as well as bamboo forests from which they derive fire wood, building their homes as well as using the bamboo for all manner of applications in their daily lives, cooking utensils and household containers amongst other uses. They carefully cultivate bamboo forests allowing them to grow, but not flower and die, as this would spell disaster for their very own existence. They also tend to their rice fields and live stock for what is mostly a subsistence economy. The Indian constitution recognizes over 500 indigenous tribes, which account for 8.5% of the total population
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  • Apatani tribal elders Atta Yadd and her husband Ba Khang wake up in the early morning, freshen up on the raised bamboo platform of  their one roomed "open plan" bamboo made stilted hut, sleeping on mats in the center close to the bamboo fire which is protected by a brick-lined hearth in the village of Hijja, Arunachal Pradesh. The Apatani tribe are one of hundreds of indigenous tribes scattered across India, particularly the north east. Their origins are from Mongolian nomadic tribes whom settled on the Ziro plateau, close to the Chinese border, they practice fixed agriculture as well as forestry, planting trees on the rim of the plateau as well as bamboo forests from which they derive fire wood, building their homes as well as using the bamboo for all manner of applications in their daily lives, cooking utensils and household containers amongst other uses. They carefully cultivate bamboo forests allowing them to grow, but not flower and die, as this would spell disaster for their very own existence. They also tend to their rice fields and live stock for what is mostly a subsistence economy. The Indian constitution recognizes over 500 indigenous tribes, which account for 8.5% of the total population
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  • Apatani tribal elders Atta Yadd and her husband Ba Khang wake up in the early morning, freshen up on the raised bamboo platform of  their one roomed "open plan" bamboo made stilted hut, sleeping on mats in the center close to the bamboo fire which is protected by a brick-lined hearth in the village of Hijja, Arunachal Pradesh. The Apatani tribe are one of hundreds of indigenous tribes scattered across India, particularly the north east. Their origins are from Mongolian nomadic tribes whom settled on the Ziro plateau, close to the Chinese border, they practice fixed agriculture as well as forestry, planting trees on the rim of the plateau as well as bamboo forests from which they derive fire wood, building their homes as well as using the bamboo for all manner of applications in their daily lives, cooking utensils and household containers amongst other uses. They carefully cultivate bamboo forests allowing them to grow, but not flower and die, as this would spell disaster for their very own existence. They also tend to their rice fields and live stock for what is mostly a subsistence economy. The Indian constitution recognizes over 500 indigenous tribes, which account for 8.5% of the total population
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  • Two fishermen tend to their nets near a large coal firing power plant in Shanghai, China on August 30th, 2009. China is quickly pushing to expand its alternative energy options while currently a majority of its rapidly expanding appetite for electricity is satisfied by coal, which the country has an abundant supply of.
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  • A sign for prison visitors entrance. HM Prison Askham Grange is a women's open category prison, located in Askham Richard village in North Yorkshire, England. The prison is run by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Askham Grange accepts adult females and female young offenders, and has space for ten mothers to maintain full-time care of their child or children whilst in custody. Inmates tend to have already served three years or more in other prisons, and are transferred to Askham Grange to complete the last part (maximum three years) of their sentence. Because of this the prisons main focus is the re-integration and re-settlement of prisoners into the community and preparation for life after prison. Accommodation in the prison consists mainly of dormitories, though there are some single rooms. All prisoners in the Mother and Baby unit have their own rooms. The prison's education department mainly concentrates on vocational skills, and many prisoners are given work-placements outside the prison as part of their re-settlement plan.
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  • A female prisoner with her 3 month old baby in the mother and baby unit. HM Prison Askham Grange is a women's open category prison, located in Askham Richard village in North Yorkshire, England. The prison is run by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Askham Grange accepts adult females and female young offenders, and has space for ten mothers to maintain full-time care of their child or children whilst in custody. Inmates tend to have already served three years or more in other prisons, and are transferred to Askham Grange to complete the last part (maximum three years) of their sentence. Because of this the prisons main focus is the re-integration and re-settlement of prisoners into the community and preparation for life after prison. Accommodation in the prison consists mainly of dormitories, though there are some single rooms. All prisoners in the Mother and Baby unit have their own rooms. The prison's education department mainly concentrates on vocational skills, and many prisoners are given work-placements outside the prison as part of their re-settlement plan.
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  • A yellow prioner compliants box. HM Prison Askham Grange is a women's open category prison, located in Askham Richard village in North Yorkshire, England. The prison is run by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Askham Grange accepts adult females and female young offenders, and has space for ten mothers to maintain full-time care of their child or children whilst in custody. Inmates tend to have already served three years or more in other prisons, and are transferred to Askham Grange to complete the last part (maximum three years) of their sentence. Because of this the prisons main focus is the re-integration and re-settlement of prisoners into the community and preparation for life after prison. Accommodation in the prison consists mainly of dormitories, though there are some single rooms. All prisoners in the Mother and Baby unit have their own rooms. The prison's education department mainly concentrates on vocational skills, and many prisoners are given work-placements outside the prison as part of their re-settlement plan.
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  • The prison chapel, place of worship. HM Prison Askham Grange is a women's open category prison, located in Askham Richard village in North Yorkshire, England. The prison is run by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Askham Grange accepts adult females and female young offenders, and has space for ten mothers to maintain full-time care of their child or children whilst in custody. Inmates tend to have already served three years or more in other prisons, and are transferred to Askham Grange to complete the last part (maximum three years) of their sentence. Because of this the prisons main focus is the re-integration and re-settlement of prisoners into the community and preparation for life after prison. Accommodation in the prison consists mainly of dormitories, though there are some single rooms. All prisoners in the Mother and Baby unit have their own rooms. The prison's education department mainly concentrates on vocational skills, and many prisoners are given work-placements outside the prison as part of their re-settlement plan.
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  • Hairdresser trainees cut the hair of other prisoners during a training session in the prison hair salon. HM Prison Askham Grange is a women's open category prison, located in Askham Richard village in North Yorkshire, England. The prison is run by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Askham Grange accepts adult females and female young offenders, and has space for ten mothers to maintain full-time care of their child or children whilst in custody. Inmates tend to have already served three years or more in other prisons, and are transferred to Askham Grange to complete the last part (maximum three years) of their sentence. Because of this the prisons main focus is the re-integration and re-settlement of prisoners into the community and preparation for life after prison. Accommodation in the prison consists mainly of dormitories, though there are some single rooms. All prisoners in the Mother and Baby unit have their own rooms. The prison's education department mainly concentrates on vocational skills, and many prisoners are given work-placements outside the prison as part of their re-settlement plan.
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  • The main prisoner dining room HMP Askham Grange, a women's open prison. HM Prison Askham Grange is a women's open category prison, located in Askham Richard village in North Yorkshire, England. The prison is run by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Askham Grange accepts adult females and female young offenders, and has space for ten mothers to maintain full-time care of their child or children whilst in custody. Inmates tend to have already served three years or more in other prisons, and are transferred to Askham Grange to complete the last part (maximum three years) of their sentence. Because of this the prisons main focus is the re-integration and re-settlement of prisoners into the community and preparation for life after prison. Accommodation in the prison consists mainly of dormitories, though there are some single rooms. All prisoners in the Mother and Baby unit have their own rooms. The prison's education department mainly concentrates on vocational skills, and many prisoners are given work-placements outside the prison as part of their re-settlement plan.
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  • A prisoner and teacher reading material during an education session. HM Prison Askham Grange is a women's open category prison, located in Askham Richard village in North Yorkshire, England. The prison is run by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Askham Grange accepts adult females and female young offenders, and has space for ten mothers to maintain full-time care of their child or children whilst in custody. Inmates tend to have already served three years or more in other prisons, and are transferred to Askham Grange to complete the last part (maximum three years) of their sentence. Because of this the prisons main focus is the re-integration and re-settlement of prisoners into the community and preparation for life after prison. Accommodation in the prison consists mainly of dormitories, though there are some single rooms. All prisoners in the Mother and Baby unit have their own rooms. The prison's education department mainly concentrates on vocational skills, and many prisoners are given work-placements outside the prison as part of their re-settlement plan.
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  • HM Prison Askham Grange is a women's open category prison, located in Askham Richard village in North Yorkshire, England. The prison is run by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Askham Grange accepts adult females and female young offenders, and has space for ten mothers to maintain full-time care of their child or children whilst in custody. Inmates tend to have already served three years or more in other prisons, and are transferred to Askham Grange to complete the last part (maximum three years) of their sentence. Because of this the prisons main focus is the re-integration and re-settlement of prisoners into the community and preparation for life after prison. Accommodation in the prison consists mainly of dormitories, though there are some single rooms. All prisoners in the Mother and Baby unit have their own rooms. The prison's education department mainly concentrates on vocational skills, and many prisoners are given work-placements outside the prison as part of their re-settlement plan.
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  • The prison nurse takes the blood pressure of an inmate in the prison medical unit. HM Prison Askham Grange is a women's open category prison, located in Askham Richard village in North Yorkshire, England. The prison is run by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Askham Grange accepts adult females and female young offenders, and has space for ten mothers to maintain full-time care of their child or children whilst in custody. Inmates tend to have already served three years or more in other prisons, and are transferred to Askham Grange to complete the last part (maximum three years) of their sentence. Because of this the prisons main focus is the re-integration and re-settlement of prisoners into the community and preparation for life after prison. Accommodation in the prison consists mainly of dormitories, though there are some single rooms. All prisoners in the Mother and Baby unit have their own rooms. The prison's education department mainly concentrates on vocational skills, and many prisoners are given work-placements outside the prison as part of their re-settlement plan.
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  • Mothers, staff and babies in the family centre at HMP Askham Grange sit in a circle listening to stories being read by a volunteer that visits the prison once a week. HM Prison Askham Grange is a women's open category prison, located in Askham Richard village in North Yorkshire, England. The prison is run by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Askham Grange accepts adult females and female young offenders, and has space for ten mothers to maintain full-time care of their child or children whilst in custody. Inmates tend to have already served three years or more in other prisons, and are transferred to Askham Grange to complete the last part (maximum three years) of their sentence. Because of this the prisons main focus is the re-integration and re-settlement of prisoners into the community and preparation for life after prison. Accommodation in the prison consists mainly of dormitories, though there are some single rooms. All prisoners in the Mother and Baby unit have their own rooms. The prison's education department mainly concentrates on vocational skills, and many prisoners are given work-placements outside the prison as part of their re-settlement plan.
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  • Two babies sleeping one in a pram one in a cot in the mother and baby unit. HM Prison Askham Grange is a women's open category prison, located in Askham Richard village in North Yorkshire, England. The prison is run by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Askham Grange accepts adult females and female young offenders, and has space for ten mothers to maintain full-time care of their child or children whilst in custody. Inmates tend to have already served three years or more in other prisons, and are transferred to Askham Grange to complete the last part (maximum three years) of their sentence. Because of this the prisons main focus is the re-integration and re-settlement of prisoners into the community and preparation for life after prison. Accommodation in the prison consists mainly of dormitories, though there are some single rooms. All prisoners in the Mother and Baby unit have their own rooms. The prison's education department mainly concentrates on vocational skills, and many prisoners are given work-placements outside the prison as part of their re-settlement plan.
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  • A female prisoner with her 3 month old baby in the mother and baby unit. HM Prison Askham Grange is a women's open category prison, located in Askham Richard village in North Yorkshire, England. The prison is run by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Askham Grange accepts adult females and female young offenders, and has space for ten mothers to maintain full-time care of their child or children whilst in custody. Inmates tend to have already served three years or more in other prisons, and are transferred to Askham Grange to complete the last part (maximum three years) of their sentence. Because of this the prisons main focus is the re-integration and re-settlement of prisoners into the community and preparation for life after prison. Accommodation in the prison consists mainly of dormitories, though there are some single rooms. All prisoners in the Mother and Baby unit have their own rooms. The prison's education department mainly concentrates on vocational skills, and many prisoners are given work-placements outside the prison as part of their re-settlement plan.
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  • Speakers' Corner is an area where public speaking is allowed. The original and most noted is in the north-east corner of Hyde Park in London, England. Speakers there are allowed to speak as long as the police consider their speeches lawful. Contrary to popular belief, there is no immunity from the law, nor are any subjects forbidden, but in practice the police tend to be tolerant and therefore only intervene when they receive a complaint or if they hear profanity.
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