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"This is a timely reminder for athletes to more be responsible to themselves, the public with whom they engage through social media, and the reputation of the sport.
"The athletes involved are returning from a training camp and competition in the US, and will be spoken to further upon their return
The Australian Olympic Committee said it would wait for the Swimming Australia investigation into the latest episode before considering sanctions for what it described as "foolish and clearly inappropriate for members of the 2012 Australian Olympic team".
Australia's Chef de Mission for the London team said: "These postings are foolish and clearly inappropriate for members of the 2012 Australian Olympic Team.
"There is an investigation by Swimming Australia. SAL's social media policy has a takedown clause. They have enforced that clause today. Our social media policy also contains a takedown clause and we will use that where we see fit during the London Games.
"Anything that is not in the Olympic spirit, or does not follow our guidelines will come down. There is no such thing as privacy on social media. Anything that is put up will be in the public domain."
This incident is not the first time the pair have courted controversy.
D'Arcy was excluded from the 2008 Australian Olympic squad after assaulting fellow swimmer Simon Cowley in a bar fight in Sydney the night he won selection to the squad
Monk was lucky to avoid charges in 2011 for falsely claiming to police that he had been the victim of a hit-and-run auto accident. He later admitted that he was injured when he fell of his skateboard.
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London’s employers urged to check staff are acting on Olympic Games-time travel plans - HRmagazine.co.uk
As the countdown to the start of the Olympic and Paralympic Games continues, London's Transport commissioner has written to the leaders of 500 of the capital's biggest companies, thanking them for their leadership in preparing for Games-time travel and asking them to ensure their staff understand their Games-time plans.
London will be transformed into one huge sporting and cultural venue this summer, which will have a big impact on the public transport and road networks in both central London and in the areas around venues. The transport system will be busier than normal and there will be 'hotspot' locations where, at certain times, it will be exceptionally busy.
To help mitigate the impact the pressures on the transport network will have on businesses, London 2012 and TfL have been working with organisations in affected areas of London and the rest of UK to ensure they have plans in place to run smoothly - and profitably - during the Games.
In the past 18 months, London 2012 and Transport for London (TfL) have worked with 500 major businesses, employing more than 600,000 people, to provide site specific travel advice and help with bespoke business travel plans. Around 80 per cent of those businesses already have written plans in place, which include:
- Reducing or re-timing of deliveries;
- Encouraging staff to take holiday if possible;
- Staggering working days so people can start or finish work earlier or later and avoid peak times;
- Working from home or other locations;
- Encouraging walking or cycling by staff during Games-time.
London's transport commissioner, Peter Hendy, said: "Central London will be transformed into one huge sporting and cultural venue this summer, which will have a big impact on both the road and public. With just eight weeks left until the Games start, it is important that businesses test their plans and communicate them to staff, suppliers, customers and visitors.
"Many companies are already communicating their plans with their staff, suppliers, customers and visitors, and their efforts and leadership in preparing for Games-time travel are commendable. In these final weeks before the Games, it is important that London's business leaders continue to communicate with their employees to ensure they are clear about the plans in place in their own organisations and so they can take action to change their travel as a result."
TfL will continue to communicate important transport information in the run up to, and during, the Games period, including providing twice-daily transport updates to ensure London's businesses and their employees remain fully informed.
Help and support is available on the travel planning website www.GetAheadoftheGames.com.
London's hipsters embrace the original creative, Shakespeare, after rare theater find - msnbc.com
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The Horse and Groom pub is on the same site as the Curtain, a recently discovered Shakespearean playhouse in London's trendy neighborhood of Shoreditch.
LONDON - The Horse and Groom pub is known as a drinking hole and dancing venue in the heart of London’s edgy Shoreditch.
It is not known as the place where Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ was first performed more than 400 years ago -- that is, until archeologists discovered the remains of the Curtain theater, an early Elizabethan playhouse.
“It is cool,” said 26-year-old Sophie McKay, a writer and part-time bartender at the pub as she gazed at the patch of pebbled courtyard under which archeologists recently found remnants of the Curtain, built in 1577. “A friend sent me the link and asked, ‘Isn’t this where you work?’ And I said, ‘Yes it is!’”
The Shakespeare fan -- her favorite character is Lady Macbeth -- heard that the entrance to the theater once stood near the Horse and Groom’s own front door. Pre-dating the more famous Globe, on the south bank of the river Thames, the Curtain first performed ‘Henry V’ and housed William Shakespeare’s company -- the Lord Chamberlain’s Men.
Shakespeare's pre-Globe theater unearthed
The remains of the open-air playhouse -- which was covered up again after its discovery -- lies in what was once the home of tanneries, factories, slaughter houses and bombed-out buildings.
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Graffiti art decorates a wall on Hewitt Street outside the courtyard where archaeologists uncovered the Curtain, the playhouse where Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' was first performed.
But today it is arguably London’s trendiest district, known for crowded bars, dance clubs, boutiques and experimental restaurants. It's an amalgam of graffiti-covered 1960s buildings, glass-fronted offices and converted Victorian factories, giving it a shabby-chic vibe.
That Shakespeare performed his tales of love, lust, ambition, betrayal and war in a place now inhabited by hipster creative-types makes sense to East London resident Trevor Howe, who was having a drink with photographer Amrita Chandradas, 24, at the Horse and Groom.
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“It’s vibrant, alive, exciting,” said the 41-year-old artist and photographer. “It’s always changing, it never stops, there is always something new.”
Howe and Chandradas agreed it was exciting that ‘Romeo and Juliet’ was first performed where they stood -- and upon realizing the tragedy about young love was a favorite of both, they embraced giddily.
Best-preserved Elizabethan theater?
The discovery of the Curtain’s walls and a yard, which came during work on a major regeneration project, is equally exciting for the experts involved in the excavation.
Over six weeks, the World Shakespeare Festival will show all of the Bard's 37 plays, each in a different language, and each by a different international company. Renowned artists and new young companies will celebrate performing Shakespeare in their own language within the architecture he wrote for -- the Globe Theatre in London. NBC News' Peter Jeary reports.
In addition to being one of only a dozen such playhouses believed to have ever been built, the site may well be the best-preserved Elizabethan playhouse, said Heather Knight, a senior archeologist from the Museum of London Archeology who helped uncover the Curtain.
“They are very rare buildings so to find anything of one of these buildings is exciting, but to find a wall that stands to its complete height is unique,” she said.
The reason the Curtain, built in 1577, and other Elizabethan playhouses are so rare is that they were razed by the Puritans after the English civil war.
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“The most bitter and most effective attacks on Shakespeare’s and the other playwrights’ productions came from English Puritans,” leading Shakespearean scholar Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel said. “They thought the theater to be the root of evil.”
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Graffiti art covers a building on London's Great Eastern Street close to where archeologists uncovered the Curtain, an ancient Elizabethan playhouse.
No sign of rampaging Puritans in Shoreditch these days, however.
If anything, the current rough-and-tumble creative life in Shoreditch may owe something Shakespeare, said Tom Monaghan, manager of The Queen of Hoxton, a self-described bar, club and art collective near the site where the Curtain was found.
“To think I work right opposite from were Shakespeare used to try out his material,” the 30-year-old said. “Shakespeare could have put Macbeth through his paces over there.”
Monaghan, who interspersed the conversation with barked commands into a mic pinned to his t-shirt, stood amid people sipping European beer and wearing skinny jeans and lank hairstyles.
Then he asked: “Is it a coincidence that the area has become creative again?”
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'Ground-breaking' changes for London cancer patients - BBC News
The way London's cancer patients are treated changed on Thursday in a move the NHS hopes will save up to 1,000 lives a year.
Cancer services in the north and east of the capital have combined to be called London Cancer - responsible for more than three million people.
It has brought together hospital specialists, GPs and scientists.
Patients can now receive specialist care at major cancer centres and then the rest of their care closer to home.
London Cancer's chief medical officer Professor Kathy Pritchard-Jones said: "We've got some of the best scientists and clinicians in the country in our capital city but we need to get them to work together much more effectively for the benefit of patients.
'Compete with the best'"I think this is a real opportunity to do something ground-breaking for our patients.
"We've been given the opportunity to think really big and to plan services for a population of three and a half million people in north and east London, so this means we can now compete with the very best in the world."
About 13,600 people die from cancer in London each year and more than 27,000 are diagnosed with the disease.
One patient is 46-year-old black cab driver Mark Fitzpatrick.
He is one of the first to experience what life will be like for future patients.
In January he was diagnosed with cancer at Barts Hospital. Since then he has been receiving his chemotherapy treatment at Whipps Cross Hospital - 10 minutes from his home - meaning he does not have to travel into town.
He said: "It's not a journey you'd want to do on a regular basis, particularly at the beginning - because if you are particularly ill you don't want to be travelling into central London.
"It's just so handy to go to your local hospital. I mean, I live 10 minutes away, it just makes life so much easier at a time when you don't feel well.
"It's nice to be treated locally as it's a small unit and they treat you particularly well."
At the moment the average survival rates for cancer in London one year after diagnosis are worse (63.8%) than the rest of the country (66.5%).
Satisfaction rates amongst patients are also lower.
It is hoped this new network, and one for south and west London, to be launched later this year, will change that.
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Wi-fi turned on at Tube stations in London - BBC News
Free wi-fi at some London Underground stations has now been turned on.
Transport for London (TfL) said people at King's Cross and Warren Street Tube stations will now be able to pick up the internet at ticket offices, escalators and platforms.
On Friday, Oxford Circus and Green Park Tube stations will go live, followed by Victoria and Euston on Saturday.
By the end of July, 80 stations will have wi-fi access, with 120 expected by the end of the year.
Virgin Media will run the service which will become a pay-as-you-go offering after the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Virgin Media's mobile and broadband customers will be offered continued access as part of their subscriptions.
Non-paying users will be limited to a site showing online travel information and some free news and entertainment.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson said: "We need to ensure London is able to cement its position as Europe's leading digital city.
"Our partnership with Virgin Media to make wi-fi available on Tube platforms will be of tremendous benefit as building world class connectivity is critical to supporting new businesses and the jobs they create, especially in the high-tech and creative sectors."
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