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 Bernd Jonkmanns Record Stores: A Tribute to Record Stores.  400 Pages, 190 Stores, 36 Countries, 5 Continents.   Since 2009 the photographer Bernd Jonkmanns from Hamburg has been working on a photo documentation about the culture of record stores. When Jonkmanns started the project in 2009 he thought that there won t be many record stores left within a few years. Over the past decades many Record Stores have vanished, but vinyl records have made a rapid comeback among music lovers all over the world. Thus, new stores opened up in big cities like Berlin, Brussels, Paris, and Los Angeles, preserving the phenomenon record store as an expression of youth culture. Over the last six years he travelled all over the world to 30 cities on five continents to photograph over 160 record stores, the store owners, the buyers, and the people who work there. His photos show their love and passion for vinyl, cd, and buying music in a store. This is what they all share a...

Packed in like sardines ? No, it’s densification Aircraft manufacturers are cramming more seats into economy.    If you thought flying economy was cramped and uncomfortable, assume the brace position, because it could be about to get worse. Last week, Airbus revealed that an unnamed European airline was going to cram an unprecedented 10 seats abreast into its new A350 XWB — an aircraft built to rival Boeing’s 777 and Dreamliner models. That might not sound like much to get worked up about: positively geeky, in fact. But what it means is that an inch will be shaved off both your seat and your armrest, bringing the former down to a shoulder-bumping, elbow-cramping 16.8in wide, and reducing the latter to something approximately the width of a Mars bar — and this on planes that, if industry rumours are true, will be used on nine-hour flights to the Caribbean. To put that in its buttock-numbing context, Ryanair seats, which you only have to endure for a co...

  Anthony Neil Wedgwood "Tony" Benn P  O  L  I  T  I  C  A  L    L  E  G  E  N  D ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2 of his most honest heartfelt address to Parliament are detailed below and video links attached going against the grain to try keep the uninformed ... informed  What a shame your son is not cut from the same cloth !!   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Speech to Parliament Mon Nov 23rd 1992 Tony Benn - Arms Sales To Iraq   approx transcript below     http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=1992-11-23a.674.1 Monday 23rd November 1990 Mr. Tony Benn (Chesterfield): I am grateful to my hon. Friend, but I recall the words that were used and shall return to the matter. I noticed that the President of the Board of Trade was shieldin...