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Advantages of having a fiancée that owns a bookshop? Rum off one of your favourite authors! Thank you so much @baaronovitch, it’s delicious! #bookstagram #books #benaaronovitch #riversoflondon #petergrant https://www.instagram.com/p/Co5M_GGMJz4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Missiles and Meal Service: The Hidden Toll of Flying in War-zones

Common occupational hazards in aviation; the not so new flight deck stressors would encompass turbulence, delayed pushbacks, and that one passanger having an issue with someone reclining their seat (this is so very common, believe me). Let’s not forget another one who thinks the seatbelt sign doesn’t apply to them while on active runway (because they are just itching for a snack they left inside their carry-on luggage in the overhead bin. Opens bin, then bag falls off on them and everyone around. SMH)

Back to business. Pilots and cabin crew flying over the Middle East lately, especially in and out of Qatar, well, there’s a new, less subtle source of anxiety: missile attacks. Who doesn’t know the news by now?

Yes, flying into Doha these days might involve dodging airspace closures, U.S. airbase targets, and the occasional Iranian and Israeli news. Glamorous, right?

Very.

While passengers worry about delayed in-flight meals and Wi-Fi speeds being too slow or disconnecting , the crew up front and in the aisles are dealing with something much much heavier: the psychological toll of flying through a region where geopolitics are very unpredictable, stormy, and always just over the horizon.

What Happened in Qatar Exactly, you ask?

In resent years, we’ve witnessed sensitive airspaces and in response, airlines have shut down their airspaces. Flights being rerouted faster than a teenager dodging chores have become commonplace, and airline dispatchers around the world had one collective panic attack.

Now just imagine this. Inflight, flight crew are prepping beverage carts while air defence systems light up the radar. Boom-Chaka-Boom! Just another day in the skies.

Cabin Pressure: Flying with a Side of Adrenaline

Yes, crew (deck crew and cabin crew) are trained to handle demarcates, but war is not an average Emmergency! It’s one thing to worry about fuel efficiency. It’s another to fly over a region where missiles are a real-time hazard.

There is a huge difference between trusting an aircraft, the team, and trusting geopolitics.

Constant anticipatory anxiety.

Hypervigilance, even on layovers.

The unsettling knowledge that their aircraft might share airspace with defense drones, military jets, and… well, more missiles.

Hospitality Meets Hostility

Cabin crew, as you know, are the face of calm, smile and all. Even so, smiling while you serve fish, beef and a gluten free meal on a flight skimming a conflict zone? That’s dark art right there.

Results:

Crew becoming emotionally disconnected from their jobs.

Guilt when evacuating people while others are left behind. 2020 clears throat!

Luxury inflight service inside a pressure cooker floating mid air at 40,000 feet while those on ground are ducking. Definately dystopian!

More Fuel, More Detours, More Fatigue

Yep! Practical stress:

Flights being rerouted to avoid hot zones, adding hours to duty time.

Longer flight hours mean more fatigue, which affects both performance and emotional bandwidth.

There’s no glamour-AT ALL in a 15 hour turnaround because there is no clearance to land.

What Airlines Are Maybe doing

Critical Incident Stress Management teams.

Therapy appointments.

Pre and post dispatch briefings.

Even so, lots of crews feel out of the loop. Why you ask?Because, you get the news that you’re flying a risky zone when you’re already on it.

Hidden Costs: Forget Fuel and Insurance

Mental Health RiskWhat It Looks LikePTSD or traumaFlashbacks, fawning, sleep interruptions, avoidanceBurnoutEmotional numbness, lack of purposeAnxietyReccuring worry, overanalysing proceduresIsolationFeeling detached and lack of support on layovers or at home

These risks don’t show up on a flight log, but hey, they impact safety, morale, and retention. We talk about maintaining aircraft fatigue limits. What about crew fatigue limits?

Where Do We Go From Here?

How about a Flight Plan for Mental Health in Conflict Zones:

Transparent Security Briefings.

Weight & balance before takeoff is paramount, so is mental health balance.

Flight Debriefs After High-Stress Flights.

Better Global Oversight, meaning ICAO, IATA and other relevant bodies must update protocols for mental wellness involving high-risk routes.

Bottom line, pilots and cabin crew are indeed professionals for they train, adapt, and make sure to get the job done. But, they are people too and not robots. People who fly into the world’s most dangerous zones with nothing more than a safety manual and nerves of steel.

We owe them patience, understanding, protection and genuine support as they navigate war zones with grit and grace.

Fly safe. Check on your crew friends, and just maybe skip the missile jokes during boarding.

Source: Missiles and Meal Service: The Hidden Toll of Flying in War-zones

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Finished! This is #PeterGrant’s #FordASBO from @baaronovitch’s #RiversOfLondon series. This took a total of 12 1/4 hours spread over 5 days and 31,468 pen strokes. (Cross posted to both car account and fandoms account, in case you wondered why it turns up twice). #Ford #FordFocus #FocusST #GordFocusST #DigitalArt #ArtCommissionsOpen #DigitalCarArt #Procreate https://www.instagram.com/p/CZi_uOzqnGg/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Silver fox. @erictastic 📸 @petergrantstudios #ericturner #petergrant https://www.instagram.com/p/B6zbp47hoZk/?igshid=g9qnsrlej09k

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some series just feel like coming home tbh 💕📚🎧✨ glad I resumed this one this month #booklr #bookstagram #audiobookstagram #audiobook #audible #reading #benaaronovitch #petergrant https://www.instagram.com/p/B6qWMDmgYia/?igshid=1uu9nef7msq

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#1981 #jimmypage #robertplant #johnpauljones #petergrant #goldenlion #goldenlionpub #roadiescharityforchildren #roadies #charityraffle #londonengland #ledzeppelinsociety (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmMsLZ4ODIj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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ESN Presenta It's All About Led Zeppelin Episodio12_ventas_de_led_zeppelin

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Led Zeppelin's Debut Album Turns 50

Led Zeppelin has few peers on record in their fiery but brief career. Born from the crowded blues-rock wave, post-British Invasion 1960s, the band expertly and cleverly guess the tastes and whims of the growing music world and capitalized on them. Long gestated in Jimmy Page's brain as a way to create his own band with a distinct identity that could touch many music bases, but not be commercial and weak. Page created Led Zeppelin and the album Led Zeppelin I (Atlantic) on the back of years of writing, planning, and plotting. The marriage of Jimmy Page's writing and Robert Plant's voice, in particular, is the secret sauce of the album and the early era of the band and what makes their debut one of the all-time greats.

This album has been poured over and revisited over and over as the textbook debut album of all time. In addition to being a top musician who had experience touring and recording for years, Page was a master a seeing the big picture. He made Zep an amalgam of everything at the time that was hot in music and took it further than anyone else had. American roots Blues influences, cover songs, and soloing? Check. Impossibly great vocals and hooky melodies? Check. Folk music sensibilities and loud-soft dynamics? Check. Pre-heavy metal tube amp guitar sound and riffs that cut to your soul? Totally. Not too mention his own flair for the guitar experimentation and dramatics. Obviously, you had to have songs and execute these tracks well, and produce an album too just to get out there in the late 1960s, which they did. It helps to have master musicians, which we now know they did. Page and bassist John Paul Jones were known commodities in the scene, studio masters, and well-paid sidemen too. Plant and John Bonham were a bit more unknowns at the time, which made them exciting to see and hear them gain mass popularity.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-WSbMW7BPc The secret weapon of LZ I is the production. Page had spent years recording and producing studio sessions for other bands, and he used this to learn every trick in the book. Without a record deal, and because Page wanted total creative autonomy, the band recorded their debut in 1968 by themselves. They would deliver the complete recorded and mastered album to Atlantic upon signing their deal at the end of 1968. As the story goes, their infamous manager Peter Grant and Page paid for the sessions which were said to cost £1,782, or roughly over £16,000 today, adjusted for inflation. Along with engineer Glyn Johns, they pulled out all the stops creating the classic template for Zeppelin sound they used on the first few albums and was copied by tons of other bands. Distance miking, ambient sound, backward masking, delay and reverb, techniques, double tracking vocals, and lead guitar, all on top of a tight album that was recorded live in a room too! The album was also one of the first ever stereo only releases, being well ahead on that trend.

Then you have the songs. The band spent their time writing, honing, and performing these songs live for a year as the New Yardbirds. So when they went in to record, the band was tight and ready to go in as few takes as possible. From the sunny and atypical lead song/single 'Good Times, Bad Times', slow Blues of 'Dazed And Confused', the proto-Metal of Communication Breakdown', and the epic jam of 'How Many More Times' are all mind-blowing original classics and ragers. Willie Dixon, a well-known hero to Page gets two blazing covers with 'You Shook Me' and 'I Can't Quit You Baby', even though their other musical nods and quotes to him on this album and Led Zeppelin II got them sued for lack of credit. Lots of words have been incorrectly written about the 'Babe I'm Gonna Leave You'. Suffice to say their take is brilliant and presages the band influencing itself later on Led Zeppelin III and 'Stairway To Heaven' stylistically. 'Your Time Is Gonna' comes pastoral churchy organ and choir singing is a nice change of pace. Meanwhile, the instrumental 'Black Mountain Side' was piece Page had worked on for some time and hints at late era Zep's experimentation with world music and experimentalism. Fans of tabla music should take note of Viram Jasani's stellar performance here. https://open.spotify.com/album/1J8QW9qsMLx3staWaHpQmU Of course, the critics hated the album. Derided by every major press outlet at the time (similar to Sabbath), Zep's popularity at rock radio was unmatched at the time from the get-go. Without a true single, not pandering to the press, and the general mystique building of not playing the record industry game (with a lot of help from Peter Grant) the band built an organic fanbase on the strength of this album. While The Beatles and Cream were dissolving, rock stars started dying, and “the Summer Of Love” was on the horizon as the decade wore down, they were rising to fill the void. This was just the first chapter in their story, but for an album that is half-covers and some cleverly lifted riffs, this album is a beast and still stands the test of time. KEITH CHACHKES Read the full article

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I finished Amongst Our Weapons by @baaronovitch and it immediately started floating round the house! I loved this story. This is the 12th book in the Rivers of London (or Peter Grant) series and returning to it is like a warm blanket! As an individual novel this book is a solid story. It’s a decent murder mystery that develops from a simple locked room drama into a full blown conspiracy involving a religious cult from the 80s, the Spanish Inquisition and the North! The work that Aaronovitch is doing in developing the series, however, is incredible. The characters have evolved in numerous ways from the first book, which is precisely what you want from a long-running series, but Aaronovitch strikes the right balance with all of them. In a series that deals with a varying menagerie of different magical elements the real quality is the humanity that everyone has, magical or non-magical. The temptation with a lot of “urban-fantasy” (as this series has often been pigeonholed into) is to heighten the magical side to contrast with the mundanity of the humans but Aaronovitch is able to make the magical mundane in a way that complements the police procedural side of the stories. You could genuinely believe there is an branch of the Met police that has to deal with “weird bollocks” and that Aaronovitch is simply writing fan-fiction about it. With an easy prose style, humour and an abundance of mysteries to solve, I’d recommend this book and series to anyone who always thought that Practhett’s Watch series would do well in a modern day setting! @gollancz #bookstagram #books #riversoflondon #petergrant #amongstourweapons https://www.instagram.com/p/Cofp-JVsPBA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I’m in the middle of @baaronovitch’s newest #riversoflondonseries novel #FalseValue and enjoying my read immensely. But let’s be honest. We all know that come Tuesday morning, I’m going drop everything to read/listen on audio all over again, just to make sure I’ve got @kobnaholdbrooksmith’s impeccable Peter Grant narration in my head. #arcreads #bookstagram #readersofinstagram #PeterGrant #BeverlyBrooke #architecturedissection #styledissection #dryhumor #morenightingaleplease https://www.instagram.com/p/B8zUhxDA0uM/?igshid=gnfrd02cwcfn

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It's a Monday and my whole body hurts from yesterday's workout. Oh well. I must say I've chosen a good book to read, that is to say The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. I was initially planning to read Kafka's The Metamorphosis but I realized the story itself was short and the rest of the book was dedicated to essays by and of him, which I couldn't be bothered to read right now. QOTD: Do you like reading about authors? I do! About artists I like, in general. It's just that I've yet to be interested by Kafka, and maybe I will devour records about him with such interest someday, but definitely not today. #riversoflondon #benaaronovitch #petergrant #petergrantseries #bookstagramph #bookstagrammerph #bookstagram #bibliophile #bookblogger #bookblog #booksofinstagram #bookworm #booklover #booklove #bookdragon #bookphoto #booktography #bookflatlay #bookaddiction #bookstagrammer #booknerd #beatthealgorithm #readersofig #igreads #alwaysreading #flatlay #booksofig #bookaesthetic https://www.instagram.com/p/B2u7n_rAjQR/?igshid=ujeq56oqlpwg

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ESN Presenta It's all about music Led Zeppelin Episodio_4_peter_grant

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Cool piece from @petergric on insta

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By Peter Gric @petergric⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #surrealportrait #surreal #surrealart #surrealism #surrealismartcommunity #popsurrealism #lowbrow #lowbrowart #weird #weirdart #surreal_art #surrealisme #surrealismo #lowbrowartist #bizarre #bizarreart #surrealpainting #retroart #jesuislesurrealisme #vagabondwho #marcopolorules #petergric https://www.instagram.com/p/CQo_waRn6_e/?utm_medium=tumblr

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#zoso #ledzeppeliniv #ledzeppelin #johnbonham #johnpauljones #jimmypage #robertplant #sandydenny #ianstewart #georgechkiantz #petergrant In 2007 Dec.9th I had the absolute pleasure of seeing Led Zeppelin rehearse for their Re-union on 10th of December to celebrate the life of #ahmetertegun at #theo2 Dome in London, what I saw was Robert Plant being in awe of his fellow band members as this band was driving on all cylinders. This album is Zeppelin’s best selling and contains my least favorite Zep song #stairwaytoheaven . How ever it contains some of their best! The brilliant #mistymountainhop, #rockandroll and #blackdog . You have the only Zep song to feature a Woman’s voice with Sandy Denny from #fairportconvention on #battleofevermore . Great album and you know when Stairway to Heaven is going to be played ... it’s when Jimmy grabs that #gibsoneds1275 Enjoy (at Hollywood Hills) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPCeOBNH_F9/?utm_medium=tumblr