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"Mind the gap" is a warning to train passengers to take caution while crossing the gap between the train door and the station platform. It was introduced in 1969 on the London Underground. The phrase is also associated with t-shirts that Transport for London sells featuring the phrase printed over a London Transport symbol.
Because some platforms on the Underground are curved and the rolling stock that uses them are straight, an unsafe gap is created when a straight car stops at a curved platform. In the absence of a device to automatically fill the gap some form of visual and auditory warning was needed to prevent passengers from being caught unaware and suffering injury by stepping into the wide gap. The phrase "mind the gap" was chosen for this purpose and can be found painted along the edges of curved platforms as well as via a recorded announcement played when a train arrives.
The recording is also used where platforms are non-standard height. Deep-level tube trains have a floor height around 200 mm (8 inches) less than sub-surface stock trains. Where trains share platforms, for example some Piccadilly Line (tube) and District Line (sub-surface) stations, the platform is a compromise.
Samuel Martins Torres Santiago Mira (born July 17, 1979), better known by his professional stage name, Sam the Kid, is a Portuguese rapper and producer.
Mira's albums are normally named according to words which when broken apart present a completely different meaning.[citation needed] Although Mira's first album, Entre(tanto) (Meanwhile - Amongst(so much)), had been released in 1999, his second album, Sobre(tudo) (Overcoat - About(everything)), attracted the attention of the recently-created Loop Recordings, which offered him a contract. It was his third album, released at the end of 2001, the instrumental Beats Vol 1: Amor, (Beats Vol 1: Love) that began to notice a significant level of success, being considered by fans and critics to be one of the greatest Portuguese releases of the year. 2001 proved to be an important and active period for Portuguese hip-hop, and Sam the Kid was one of the most significant artists that year, joining names such as Mind da Gap, Bullet[disambiguation needed ], Chullage, Micro[disambiguation needed ] and Valete. "Beats Vol 1" Was followed up by "Pratica(mente)" (Practically - Practical(mind)) in 2006.