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County Main – County College, University of Lancaster Bailrigg - Lancashire, North West, England, UK; 1969

Roger Booth, county architect

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via “Concrete Quarterly, 86” (Autumn, 1970)c

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Cambridge Economic Development Week in Review

The XX Factor: The Exponential Female Advantage for Startups

The female factor is proving to show that companies with a woman in a leadership position is more likely to succeed. Whether as Founder, CEO, Board Director, or Investor, women can offer a unique perspective, vision, and management-style that can put the company a few notches above the rest.  The Capital Network hosted a large group of women, including State Senator Karen Spilka, to discuss the impact women make on startups with a highly-impactful panel, followed by small-group breakout conversations led by successful investors from Golden Seeds and entrepreneurs in the Boston startup ecosystem, that just happen to be female.

Full report here: tinyurl.com/oe45x2b  

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City of Cambridge Director of Urban Design retires

Join us Tuesday, February 25 at 5:30 p.n. for Roger Boothe, the City's Director of Urban design for the past 35 years, retrospective talk on the evolution of Cambridge during his tenure. The lecture will occur at Cambridge Public Library - Main Branch. http://ow.ly/tWsXv 

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The head of photography on… picture manipulation and trust in news imagery

A certain amount of scepticism is a healthy thing in journalists and readers alike. Going through the thousands of photographs that the Guardian picture desk receives each day, we try to keep a critical eye on anything that could be the result of digital retouching software like Photoshop. We are kept on our toes by eagle-eyed readers, always alive to the possibility of artifice.

The most common complaint is the "flipping" of a photograph. This often happens accidentally when using images from picture libraries that have been scanned from negatives or transparencies. But there is also an old tradition in newspaper design for a picture, especially of a person, to face into the page or story that it illustrates, and subeditors have a tendency to want to "flip" to achieve this. But it is against our guidelines.

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By Roger Tooth via Guardian.co.uk