The Canadian Supreme Court extinguished the last hopes of the female ski jumpers who were trying to have their event added to the Vancouver Olympics by refusing on Tuesday to hear the jumpers’ appeal of an earlier court ruling. The women were attempting to argue that the Games were discriminating against them by including men’s ski jumping but not women’s, in violation of Canada’s Charter of Rights.
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Posted: January 11th, 2010
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Owner, Timothy d’Offay, a humble and genuine host, seems captivated by a passion for his teas. In 2000 his passion led him to start East Tea’s in Borough Market, with Alex Fraser, selling specialist green and oolong teas imported direct from the tea producers and experts in east Asia. Postcard Tea’s his next platform for teas, works with estates in the North East of India and the South of Sri Lanka. Each tea, carefully chosen and overlooked by Timothy, brings some of the worlds best black teas to London.
Posted: January 11th, 2010
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John Martin - Great Day of His Wrath (1851)
Posted: January 11th, 2010
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City Vista by Thomas Yeo. Year: 1983. Medium: Collage. Size: 121 x 183 cm.
Posted: January 11th, 2010
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The southernmost part of the Abruzzi is occupied by the Abruzzi National (Parco Nazionale d’Abruzzo) with its beautiful beech forests. The park was established in 1922. The park headquarters are in Percasserori in the Province of L’Aquila. Its present-day area of 44,000 hectares, which is the result of several enlargements, includes 22 towns in the provinces of L’Aquila, Frosinone and Isernia. Thanks to the temperate climate, it is possible to visit the Park all year round!
Posted: January 11th, 2010
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Located at the southern end of the Izu archipelago, Aogashima is one of Japan’s most remote inhabited islands. The fewer than 150 residents are watched over by a lone policeman, whose duties include welcoming with a salute the daily helicopter that begins its trip from the island chain’s northern end.
Biosphere 2 is a structure originally built to be a man-made, materially-closed ecological system in Oracle, Arizona, USA. Constructed between 1987 and 1991, it was used to explore the complex web of interactions within life systems in a structure that included five areas based on natural biomes and an agricultural area and human living/working space to study the interactions between humans, farming and technology with the rest of nature.
The entire site was sold to private developers in 2007, leaving the buildings still open for tours but rapidly falling apart.