Learning legacy Lessons learned from the London 2012 Games construction project Sustainability of the Aquatics Centre Authors Kirsten Henson KLH Sustainability (previously Aquatics Centre Sustainability Single Point of Contact) Abstract ‘Legacy’ is the concept that underlies the sustainability agenda of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games‚ embracing temporary infrastructure and venues to leave behind a vibrant‚ productive community with world-class‚ affordable sporting
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Robert Hooke Physics is the center of anything and everything in this universe. It is why we always come down after jumping up. It is why our Earth circles the Sun and the Moon circles our Earth. Behind all of these answers through equations stand many men and women who have been patient and determined enough to figure it all out. One of these fine beings would be a man by the name of Robert Hooke. Robert Hooke was born in July of 1635. He was the son of John Hooke‚ a churchman‚ who
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THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON The Great Fire of London was a disaster that spread throughout the City of London in September 1666. Preceded by bubonic plague which struck England in 1665‚ the fire was another disastrous event that threatened Londoners in the seventeenth century. Medieval in its street plan‚ the City of London with timber buildings and very narrow streets had been threatened by several minor fires before. Yet the risk of the fire of 1666 was increased by a long period of severe drought
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Jordan Peele‚ the key and Peele star he is the director and writer of the movie get out and he does the screenplay. now‚ the movie is about this guy named Chris and he has a white girlfriend he goes with his girlfriend to meet her parents and when he meets her parents it starts to get weird. because their where weird black people all around the place and it makes them look like slaves. her mother is a psychiatrist who happens to hypnotize people. And Chris is seeing a lot of black people around that
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Introduction to London Greater London‚ located in the south-east of England‚ is the top administrative subdivision covering London‚ England [1]. It has been covering the City of London and all 32 boroughs since 1965 which was when the administrative area was officially created [1]. It is the largest and most populated city in the European Union with an area of 1‚579 km² and a population of 7‚512‚400 (mid 2006) [2][3][4]. For the remainder of this document‚ Greater London will be referred to as London. London
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example for others. A hero to me is someone who is willing to work hard and be persistent. Someone that never gives up even when people say they cannot do it. All these characteristics are things I admire in a hero. Michael Jordan is a hero that I admire today. Michael Jordan was a professional basketball player that was often
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In 2011‚ London faced four days of rioting and looting involving the community and police force. For many‚ the riots started because of the shooting of Mark Duggan in Tottenham on the 4th of August 2011 but escalated to surrounding boroughs and major cities in the UK. The media reported false accounting from the police‚ fuelling more anger into the riots. This essay critically assesses the disturbances in media and political discourse from the interpretations that reveals the new cultural deficit
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Jack London once said‚ “The proper function of man is to live‚ not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” This quote is a good representation of who Jack London was as a writer and a person. He worked hard at what he believed in‚ never backing down from challenges or new adventures‚ so he could potentially spark his imagination with new ideas to write about. Unlike most people‚ Jack knew at a young age that he wanted to write‚ though his writing initiated
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Robert Capa (born Endre Ernő Friedmann;[1] October 22‚ 1913 – May 25‚ 1954) was a Hungarian combat photographer and photojournalist who covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War‚ the Second Sino-Japanese War‚ World War II across Europe‚ the 1948 Arab-Israeli War‚ and the First Indochina War. He documented the course of World War II in London‚ North Africa‚ Italy‚ the Battle of Normandy on Omaha Beach and the liberation of Paris. His action photographs‚ such as those taken during the 1944
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European cities; London (2003) and Stockholm (2006) road pricing schemes appear be the most successful and remunerative solutions. Santos (2004‚ 514) claims that the London Congestion Charge is a scheme that was implemented in Central London on the “area-licensing” basis‚ which means it is compulsory for road users to pay a certain amount of charge for passing into the area on the working days. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of this method in the case of London by taking into
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