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  • Waves break through the natural arch of a large rock formation at beach on Pacific ocean coast near Big Sur with sun shining through
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  • A young deer lies dead beside a busy highway on a road near Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington State. Very recently run-over but seemingly unharmed, this animal has head injuries and died immediately from a collision with a passing vehicle, such as this heavy articulated lorry which blurrs past this location. This is forested area and the deer's natural habitat but too often wildlife in its natural surroundings violently meets the modern human environment and the animal comes of worst. As a result of the death, the roadkill was taken by members of a US Air Force survival course at their nearby facility and so it formed an unscheduled extra lesson in preparing venison for the pot that night (see Corbis image entitled 'US Air Force survival instructors with recent roadkill').
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  • Natural landscape of grass-covered missile silos at the former nuclear weapons-era airfield occupied by US Air force personnel during the Cold War and now vacant, awaiting re-landscaping and returning to common parkland for the public to use. Opened in 1942, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces during World War II and the United States Air Force during the Cold War. After the Cold War ended, it was closed in 1993. The airfield was also known for the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp held outside its gates in the 1980s. In 1997 Greenham Common was designated as public parkland.
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  • Natural landscape of grass-covered missile silos at the former nuclear weapons-era airfield occupied by US Air force personnel during the Cold War and now vacant, awaiting re-landscaping and returning to common parkland for the public to use. Opened in 1942, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces during World War II and the United States Air Force during the Cold War. After the Cold War ended, it was closed in 1993. The airfield was also known for the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp held outside its gates in the 1980s. In 1997 Greenham Common was designated as public parkland.
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  • Architectural landscape of missile silo doors entrance at the former nuclear weapons-era airfield occupied by US Air force personnel during the Cold War and now vacant, awaiting re-landscaping and returning to common parkland for the public to use. Opened in 1942, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces during World War II and the United States Air Force during the Cold War. After the Cold War ended, it was closed in 1993. The airfield was also known for the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp held outside its gates in the 1980s. In 1997 Greenham Common was designated as public parkland.
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  • Architectural landscape of a missile silo door entrance at the former nuclear weapons-era airfield occupied by US Air force personnel during the Cold War and now vacant, awaiting re-landscaping and returning to common parkland for the public to use. Opened in 1942, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces during World War II and the United States Air Force during the Cold War. After the Cold War ended, it was closed in 1993. The airfield was also known for the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp held outside its gates in the 1980s. In 1997 Greenham Common was designated as public parkland.
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  • Architectural landscape of a missile silo door entrance at the former nuclear weapons-era airfield occupied by US Air force personnel during the Cold War and now vacant, awaiting re-landscaping and returning to common parkland for the public to use. Opened in 1942, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces during World War II and the United States Air Force during the Cold War. After the Cold War ended, it was closed in 1993. The airfield was also known for the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp held outside its gates in the 1980s. In 1997 Greenham Common was designated as public parkland.
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  • Architectural detail of a missile silo door entrance at the former nuclear weapons-era airfield occupied by US Air force personnel during the Cold War and now vacant, awaiting re-landscaping and returning to common parkland for the public to use. Opened in 1942, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces during World War II and the United States Air Force during the Cold War. After the Cold War ended, it was closed in 1993. The airfield was also known for the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp held outside its gates in the 1980s. In 1997 Greenham Common was designated as public parkland.
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  • Standing with a recently-killed deer run-over on a nearby highway, members of a special US Air Force (USAF) survival course (see Corbis image 42-18212808) pose by the gutted carcass of their animal in a forest near their facility at Fairchild AFB, Spokane, Washington State. These tough-looking men host visiting air crew whose flying careers depend on passing this rigorous week of escape and evasion instruction. Should they land in enemy territory for example, they will need all the skills learned here to survive possibly weeks in the wilderness so trapping and preparing fresh meat for human consumption is of paramount importance. Here the teachers stand around the venison which is strung up on a branch, its intestines and organs already removed by a hunting knife. They wear camouflage uniforms, face paint to look vicious, threatening and heartless.
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  • Empty countryside landscape at the former nuclear weapons-era airfield occupied by US Air force personnel during the Cold War and now vacant, awaiting re-landscaping and returning to common parkland for the public to use. Opened in 1942, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces during World War II and the United States Air Force during the Cold War. After the Cold War ended, it was closed in 1993. The airfield was also known for the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp held outside its gates in the 1980s. In 1997 Greenham Common was designated as public parkland.
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  • Standing with a bloodied knife and hand is an instructor of a special US Air Force (USAF) survival course (see also Corbis image 42-18212808) who has butchered a deer near their facility at Fairchild AFB, Spokane, Washington State. The man teaches escape and evasion techniques to visiting air crew whose flying careers depend on passing this rigorous week of survival instruction. Should they be downed in hostile territory for example, they will need every skill learned here to survive possibly weeks being hunted in the wilderness so trapping and preparing fresh meat for human consumption is important for survival. Here the teachers stand around the venison which is strung up on a branch, its intestines and organs already removed by a hunting knife.
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  • Sheryl is an Airport Ambassador Volunteer at Dallas Fort Worth, Texas and stands for a portrait at the foot of some escalators in the main terminal. She sports a straw hat saying 'Ask Me' in red and a name badge with her job title although she comes to the airport to assist strangers at her city's airport, hoping her good nature and charitable efforts will help uncertain travellers find their way. Also on her jacket is a the phrase 'Proud to be Drug Free .. Airport Narcotics Task Force.' 'Fort Worth is the sixth busiest airport in the world transporting 59,064,360 passengers in 2005. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
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  • Looking skyward is a USAF pilot learning how to vector in a potential helicopter rescue as part of a special US Air Force (USAF) survival course (see also Corbis image 42-18212808) Fairchild AFB, Spokane, Washington State. The man has been taught to use a special escape and evasion (E &E) techniques to visiting air crew whose flying careers depend on passing this rigorous week of survival instruction. Should they be downed in hostile territory for example, they will need every skill learned here to survive possibly weeks being hunted in the wilderness so trapping and preparing fresh meat for human consumption is important for survival. Here the crewman has let off a red smoke canister to mark his location for the friendly aircraft to see.
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  • Using a bloodied knife and hand, an instructor of a special US Air Force (USAF) survival course who has butchered road kill deer. Near their facility at Fairchild AFB, Spokane, Washington State, the man teaches escape and evasion techniques to visiting air crew whose flying careers depend on passing this rigorous week of survival instruction. Should they be downed in hostile territory for example, they will need every skill learned here to survive possibly weeks being hunted in the wilderness so trapping and preparing fresh meat for human consumption is important for survival. Here the teachers stand around the venison that is strung up on a branch, its intestines and organs already removed by a hunting knife.
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  • Masatsugu Okutani, 41 performs a waterfall purification ceremony at Kiyo-Taki waterfall. Purification is one of the most important aspects of Shinto as well as being at the core of Japanese culture. There are many different ways to purify oneself. Amongst them: The Grand purification ceremony conducted at the end of June and end of December each year. Purification at water fountain before entering any given sanctuary, also purification at waterfalls, rivers or at sea. The concept of purification is completely different to the one considered by western societies. In Japan, to purify means removing ones rationality and maximize ones sensitivity, and the condition of purifying is when one’s sensitivity is maximized. The reason why sensitivity is important is because there is no rationality in nature and one’s sensitivity is the source and the core of vital force. In this sense, when Japanese say purification, there is no link or reference with so-called sin in the Christian sense. Among Japanese culture, this is the core and commonality. For example, Japanese tea ceremony. The objective is to become one with the host and guest which is impossible, but is possible when both could maximize their sensitivities because when it maximized, there is no feeling of individual, no feeling of time.
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  • Tree forcing it's way up through the asphalt in Detroit.<br />
Known as the world's traditional automotive center, "Detroit" is a metonym for the American automobile industry and an important source of popular music legacies celebrated by the city's two familiar nicknames, the Motor City and Motown. Many neighborhoods remain distressed since the collapse of the motor industry. The state governor declared a financial emergency in March 2013, appointing an emergency manager. On July 18, 2013, Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy case in U.S. history.
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  • The imagery of the great outdoors against the urban environment seen through a shop window in central London. In the foreground is a large image of snow-covered mountain peaks in the Alps or another range of geological tops formed over millennia - bare branches below the tree line also making their presence. Above them in an incongruous landscape of nature versus nature are buildings along Bond Street, a fashionable fashion and art area. We see the edifices of a man-made society and architecture and the rawness and beauty of the natural world together in one framed window. Man's achievements within the urban city seen in context with the forces of a natural, uncontrollable environment that we as humans are powerless to harness.
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  • On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force. 230,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.2 million left needing emergency shelter. Survivors have lost family, homes, livelihoods and essential services. Hospitals, schools and government buildings were also destroyed'. These pictures are of the survivors three weeks later.
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  • The City from the Hill leading into Petion-Ville. On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force. 230,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.2 million left needing emergency shelter. Survivors have lost family, homes, livelihoods and essential services. Hospitals, schools and government buildings were also destroyed'. These pictures are of the survivors three weeks later.
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  • On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force. 230,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.2 million left needing emergency shelter. Survivors have lost family, homes, livelihoods and essential services. Hospitals, schools and government buildings were also destroyed'. These pictures are of the survivors three weeks later.
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  • On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force. 230,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.2 million left needing emergency shelter. Survivors have lost family, homes, livelihoods and essential services. Hospitals, schools and government buildings were also destroyed'. These pictures are of the survivors three weeks later.
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  • Chanette Inocent Jeremie in an aid queue at  Petion-Ville. On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force. 230,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.2 million left needing emergency shelter. Survivors have lost family, homes, livelihoods and essential services. Hospitals, schools and government buildings were also destroyed'. These pictures are of the survivors three weeks later.
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  • On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force. 230,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.2 million left needing emergency shelter. Survivors have lost family, homes, livelihoods and essential services. Hospitals, schools and government buildings were also destroyed'. These pictures are of the survivors three weeks later.
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  • On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force. 230,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.2 million left needing emergency shelter. Survivors have lost family, homes, livelihoods and essential services. Hospitals, schools and government buildings were also destroyed'. These pictures are of the survivors three weeks later.
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  • Mourners at the main cemetery, Port Au Prince. On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force. 230,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.2 million left needing emergency shelter. Survivors have lost family, homes, livelihoods and essential services. Hospitals, schools and government buildings were also destroyed'. These pictures are of the survivors three weeks later.
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  • On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force. 230,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.2 million left needing emergency shelter. Survivors have lost family, homes, livelihoods and essential services. Hospitals, schools and government buildings were also destroyed'. These pictures are of the survivors three weeks later.
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  • A Haitian carries a heavy coffin the mile or so to the central hospital morgue. On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force. 230,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.2 million left needing emergency shelter. Survivors have lost family, homes, livelihoods and essential services. Hospitals, schools and government buildings were also destroyed'. These pictures are of the survivors three weeks later.
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  • On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force. 230,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.2 million left needing emergency shelter. Survivors have lost family, homes, livelihoods and essential services. Hospitals, schools and government buildings were also destroyed'. These pictures are of the survivors three weeks later.
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  • On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force. 230,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.2 million left needing emergency shelter. Survivors have lost family, homes, livelihoods and essential services. Hospitals, schools and government buildings were also destroyed'. These pictures are of the survivors three weeks later.
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  • Livis, leaning against a tree at his neighbour Jocelyn's home near Cham de Mars,  Port au Prince. He is helping Jocelyn to rescue his belongings. Livis was not affected directly, he did not lose any family himself,  but his experiences were similar to those of many Haitians living in central Port Au Prince.  He is a Winnie the Pooh fan and reads it to his five children. He says, "If you're excited what is the point? You have no choice but to be calm. Captured in my mind are the scenes immediately after the earthquake: the collapsed buildings, the dead bodies and worst of all the cries for help from those under the debris. The cries that would go unanswered until eventually they stopped. They cried but we couldn't help"
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  • Chaumone Auguste  mourns the loss of her mother, Mereille Jeudy at the main cemetery in Port Au Prince. Mereille was sixty-four when she died.
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  • Marie Ange St Laurent, (wearing white)  and her family, at the funeral of  Ronald St Laurent. "Ronald was thirty-one years old when he died. His home fell down on top on him during the earthquake We were all inside but Ronald did not have time to get out.  We must thank God for the opportunity at least, to bury him properly. I feel sorry for the thousands of families who do not have this chance, many cannot find their loved ones. It will be hard for them to move on, it's double the problem.  At least we can visit and put flowers on the grave.  After the quake, there were bodies everywhere many were burnt where they lay or carted off in huge trucks to mass graves."
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  • All around Port Au prince are the hand painted signs and banners shown in the pictures, such was the desperation shortly after the earth quake. Many went without food and water for several days or more. The tragedy is that  it seems many of these requests went largely ignored. Theo , like many haitians is bemused "We painted a sign saying we needed food and water in the hope that the aid agencies may be able to help, but no one has helped, not one person."
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  • Pictured are remains of a training centre for nurses next to Central Hospital. The building collapsed with an estimated 80 people still inside. Government buildings were particularly hard hit in the earthquake for example 87 percent of schools in Port Au Prince  are destroyed. In the foreground the remains of a person still lie. A month after the quake most remains but not all have been cleared from the streets. Inside the buildings very few bodies have been cleared such is the enormity of the task.
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  • Sharline Dagou, 24, was a secretary at a restaurant in Petion-Ville, she poses with her mother and brother outside her house. "I was in my bedroom with my family when the quake struck. "The first shock was smaller like a preview of the next one. The door was blocked, but we pushed and got out but my younger brother was caught. When we came out we saw our houses destroyed. Now we have nothing. I even lost my shoes and  have been barefoot for the last three weeks.  Most of the families who lost people have left, they cannot bare to stay. We pray to cope with our sadness. A Dominican missionary came to give us courage, he told us we have to accept because we love God. "I often cry, but I still smile as well. We have to, we have to hope for the future. Where there is life there is hope."
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  • Janne Orelis, 26  is a Sales Woman with two children, Central Hospital Port Au Prince. "The house collapsed on top of me, crushing my right arm" she says. "I was rescued by my family. If it was not for my husband I would be dead,  but it was two days before I saw a doctor.  The pain was terrible, by the time I got to see a doctor there was no choice but to amputate. I can't stop thinking about my arm. But now I am worried sick about my six month old baby. My family have him with them in the provinces, but he has only ever had breast milk. He could be very hungry. As soon as I am able, I will go to him."
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  • Ricardo Simeone, centre, from Ferret, Port Au Prince queues outside Muncheez restaurant to get a hot meal. Ricardo  was trying to get out of the house as the earthquake hit but was not quick enough. The house fell on him, he lost the tip of his fingers but he hasn't lost anybody. He is homeless, however and camping in Saint Pierre, and very pleased to be getting a daily meal at Muncheez. He queues every day for three or four hours. Gilbert Bailey, owner of Muncheez, who has been running the soup kitchen since the day after the earthquake was one of the few Haitians not to be directly affected and wants to give back.  He feeds one thousand Haitians every day.  He says, People can contribute directly themselves , search face book under "Muncheez Food Drive Haiti".
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  • Daphene Louis, an accountant and her boyfriend Steve Babtiste  who works in  customer care at Digicel at the  Catrine -Flon Camp, Puit-Blain St, Delmar 75, Port Au Prince. "It was twenty-four hours after the quake before I saw my boyfriend. There were no communication networks and I had no way of knowing if he was dead or alive. When I saw him, I was so relieved I just jumped on him! Now we live in this camp under sheets held up with timber. It is very hard to get shelter from the sun,and when the rains come  there will be  no protection at all.  We need proper tents but even one month on we have been unable to get help. We have no privacy here, it's always noisy. We don't even have chance for a cuddle. It would be great to get a proper mattress, but we don't even have rice so that's not high up in our priorities."
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  • A sign in front of a mass grave containing hundreds of bodies at the main cemetery in Port Au Prince. The sign reads: "The hole is full. We have no more room for bodies".
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  • All around Port Au prince are the hand painted signs and banners shown in the pictures, such was the desperation shortly after the earth quake. Many went without food and water for several days or more. The tragedy is that  it seems many of these requests went largely ignored. Theo , like many haitians is bemused "We painted a sign saying we needed food and water in the hope that the aid agencies may be able to help, but no one has helped, not one person."
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  • Pictured are remains of a training centre for nurses next to Central Hospital. The building collapsed with an estimated 80 people still inside. Government buildings were particularly hard hit in the earthquake for example 87 percent of schools in Port Au Prince  are destroyed. In the foreground the remains of a person still lie. A month after the quake most remains but not all have been cleared from the streets. Inside the buildings very few bodies have been cleared such is the enormity of the task.
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  • Geraldine Richards thirty-four, aid queue, Petion-Ville, with her sisters remaining child, Giodania. Geraldine is a jewellery seller. She has five kids, all boys  (twins and triplets), as did her sister prior to the earth quake but only one of her sister's children survived (Giodania, pictured) when their house collapsed in the earthquake. "My sister  is so depressed she hasn't eaten. She lost her husband and  all but one of her five  kids. She hasn't even recovered the bodies. It's necessary to bury our loved ones but the government cleared them away in huge trucks and dumped them in mass graves or they were burnt.  She  has no will to live, she is suicidal. I am looking after her and her kid, one of the bags of food I have is for my sister. I am lucky to get this, if you miss the card distribution you are lucky to get food and getting back with the food is difficult sometimes. The men take it or someone will cut the bag and catch the rice in a bucket, before you realise. All the same, we are thankful for the aid."
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  • Alex is a co-director of 'Haitians helping Haitians' a charity that gives Haitians the means to help themselves, to improve their quality of life. (http://www.hhelpingh.org) Alex Juste was lying on his bed when the earthquake struck: "There was a big shuddering noise, I felt the bed shaking" he says. The walls started opening. I could see right into my neighbours' apartment. I had to see what had happened so I started running. I lost it totally. I was screaming, 'This is the end of the world!'  There were people under concrete,  saying, 'sir, help me,!' But I couldn't do anything." Alex's experience is typical. No Haitian has been left untouched.
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  • All around Port Au prince are the hand painted signs and banners shown in the pictures, such was the desperation shortly after the earth quake. Many went without food and water for several days or more. The tragedy is that  it seems many of these requests went largely ignored. Theo , like many haitians is bemused "We painted a sign saying we needed food and water in the hope that the aid agencies may be able to help, but no one has helped, not one person."
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  • Sharline Dagou, 24, was a secretary at a restaurant in Petion-Ville, she poses with her mother and brother outside her house. "I was in my bedroom with my family when the quake struck. "The first shock was smaller like a preview of the next one. The door was blocked, but we pushed and got out but my younger brother was caught. When we came out we saw our houses destroyed. Now we have nothing. I even lost my shoes and  have been barefoot for the last three weeks.  Most of the families who lost people have left, they cannot bare to stay. We pray to cope with our sadness. A Dominican missionary came to give us courage, he told us we have to accept because we love God. "I often cry, but I still smile as well. We have to, we have to hope for the future. Where there is life there is hope."
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  • Mario Vieu is the owner, director and a broadcaster at Signal FM, a small station in Petion- Ville, Port au Prince. As soon as the earthquake struck he made his way to the Radio station; by accident or design, some one had left Hotel California radio station playing on a loop. His staff were afraid to go in but he managed to persuade some journalists to come and chat about what had happened and has been broadcasting ever since. "We had a minimum of 5000 people outside  all the time for four days (not the same people). We just gave them a microphone  and then broadcasted  messages all day. "We were like a phone with two people but broadcasting to the whole city. People would call in , 'My wife and kids are under the debris  - would you send help?'; afterwards they would come back and say, thank you."
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  • Nadine Pleato, opposite a collapsed building in down-town Port Au Prince . She is living in a garage at Latimer 54, near Paloma. She says: "I have just purchased this bag so I can pack a few things and leave Port Au Prince for the provinces. My house was completely destroyed and I lost all my clothes in the quake. All I have left is four pieces of clothing: a skirt and what I am wearing. I have to live and bathe in the street..I didn't know if my mother was alive for six days until she arrived from the provinces with supplies. I was so relieved but I still haven't seen my boyfriend since the morning of the quake. We were with each other a year. He must be dead but I will never know for sure. It's hard to carry on.  How can we be normal now?"
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  • A father chases a runaway tyre (tire) along the wet sand before it crashes into the man's young child, otherwise unaware of the impending impact. Chasing the object is the priority on this winter day at Whitley Bay, a North-Eastern English seaside town. The beach is dark and it has been raining but father and child are enjoying the freedom and common bond during this outdoor game. Waves of the icy North Sea crash onto the seafront and the child is preoccupied with the force of nature and the exhilaration of being outside in the cold.
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  • Ducking under the falling spray from a giant wave, a passer-by experience the force of nature from a storm off the coasts of southern England - here at the Port of Dover, Kent. As the water hits the sea defence wall, the seaside town is battered by southerly winds that bring with them huge breakers across the promenade. Adventurous and foolhardy people brave these conditions and stay for as long as possible at the railings then jump out at the last moment before getting doused in salt spray. This man carries on walking and thinks that by bending down, the sea will pass overhead.
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  • Jocelyn Pierre, at the remains of his home, behind the US Consulate,  Port Au Prince. Jocelyn is retuning to rebuild his business and house.  He has four grown up children who all live in America but he wants to return to Haiti. He is a teacher, he is very proud of his son who is a surgeon in the Navy. "I love Haiti more than myself. America is not my country.  We will overcome this. When you have faith, determination and sacrifice, you can do anything and we will bring you a brand new Haiti one day..Most of the problems are not to do with nature: the trees are still standing , the roads are OK but a brand new nine-storey hospital collapsed; why?"
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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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  • Deep in the West Sussex countryside are a group of Territorial Army soldiers. They have stopped in a remote lane to consult their Ordnance Survey maps during a day of learning to navigate with maps and compasses. Over a weekend learn the skills needed to be part-time army volunteers known as the TA and have far to go. Together they look at maps and argue where they should go next. Looking on with mild amusement is their senior officer who accompanies them to assess their leadership skills and initiative. Behind them a road sign tells them the road ahead is a dead end to traffic. It is a very English summer landscape of lush green vegetation and grasses. The TA work as part of Britain’s reserve land forces. Together with the Regular Army they provide support at home and overseas including Iraq and Afghanistan. .
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  • Set in English garden wildflowers is the world's biggest McDonald's in the Olympic Park during the London 2012 Olympics. For the past 40 years McDonalds has been the Official Restaurant Olympic Games. All official sponsors  they have paid $957 million to the IOC for the 19 days competition. Hundreds of food outlets at Olympic venues have been forced to take chips off the menu, because of a demand from sponsor McDonald's. Olympic chiefs banned all 800 food retailers at the 40 Games venues across Britain from dishing up chips because of 'sponsorship obligations. This land was transformed to become a 2.5 Sq Km sporting complex, once industrial businesses and now the venue of eight venues including the main arena, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome plus the athletes' Olympic Village. After the Olympics, the park is to be known as Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
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  • A lunchtime jogger accidentally collides with a young male pedestrian in a narrow City of London street. In a narrow part of a street called Wallbrook (the route of the ancient River Wallbrook that still flows underground here) office workers and those exercising enter a pinch-point where construction works narrow the pavement width. Running through here is inevitably going to force people to have their personal space compromised. The collision is brief and good natured as sorrys and excuse mes are uttered.
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  • Marie Yolene, Bois De Fer, age 44,  and daughter Marie Geralda Auguste, 17, in a camp opposite the Palace, Cham de Mars.  Marie's son Emanuel was trapped for 12 days before he was eventually rescued ( the New York Times did a feature on him). The daughter recounts: "I was sitting down at the house when it started to rock then blocks and wood started falling, Romario broke his leg, Mum grabbed us all and we got out all except my oldest brother Emanual.  He was trapped. We weren't sure if he was alive or dead but we kept looking for him. Then my mother and Emanuel heard each other. He called out, 'Mamma I'm alive,' Mum told everybody she could find that he  was alive,  journalists, aid workers rescue workers, After 11 days rescuers ( an Israeli SAR) pulled him out, my mother collapsed from joy."
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  • A young child is surrounded by adults as they visit the trade stand of an unnamed manufacturer of a smart bomb that occupies a prominent space at their stand at the Farnborough air show - an expo for the aviation and defence industries. A primitive plastic chain protects the million Pound armament from visitors touching although the bomb will be a non-operational model. A TV screen demonstrates the deadly nature of the guided munition that are typically mounted under the wings of fighter jets - in the days before pilotless drone aircraft.
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  • On Tuesday 12th of January at 16.53pm local time the biggest Earthquake to hit Haiti for 200 years struck with devastating force. .The impact of the disaster on a country already impoverished after years of political crisis, and previous natural disasters is huge. According to the DEC (Disasters Emergency Committee)'230,000 people were killed, 300,000 injured and 1.2 million left needing emergency shelter. Survivors have lost family, homes, livelihoods and essential services. Hospitals, schools and government buildings were also destroyed'. The media response by the news agencies has been intense, and much imagery especially on the internet has been shocking, almost voyeuristic,  these pictures allow us to connect with the Haitians, with their  humanity and as equals.
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  • A British Army Gurkha soldier instructs his men during an exercise on Salisbury Plain, the army's infantry training ground. Standing below his men who have lined up on an artificial bank in this military facility in the Wiltshire countryside. Here, the army trains men for urban warfare and a fake village, complete with streets and houses accommodate the soldiers during practice fire-fights. The men here are listening to a brief from a senior officer, hearing the nature of the next exercise and listening intently to his instructions. The officer belongs to the Gurkha Regiment, an elite force of men recruited from the foothills, plains and cities of Nepal and have served within the British army since 1857.
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  • William Blake's poem London is written in the pavement at Bunhill Fields, the place in the City of London where the poet is buried. London is a poem by William Blake, published in Songs of Experience in 1794. William Blake was a poet and artist who specialised in illuminated texts, often of a religious nature. He rejected established religion for various reasons, including the failure of the established Church to help children in London who were forced to work. Blake lived and worked in the capital, so he was arguably well placed to write clearly about the conditions people who lived there faced.
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