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27 April 2016, Accra – FAO Regional Office for Africa and the Ghanaian Ministry of Trade and Industry have launched a new regional project on improving food packaging for the small and medium agro-enterprise sector in ten countries of Sub-Saharan Africa (Ghana, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania and Zambia). The three year-project is jointly managed by FAO, the International Trade Centre (ITC). Photo: ©FAO/Samuel Creppy
Doctors of the World run health education sessions to raise awareness among women about antenatal care and the importance of giving birth in a health facility. We also train medical staff to improve the care provided to women and newborns during labour.
Combining micro-credit and health not only enables the women to borrow money to generate their own income and businesses, but also to pay for transport to hospital if complications arise during childbirth.
www.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk/projectsoverseas/nepal.asp
Photo by Cheryl Nemazie
Farmers receive improved cassava varieties after a training session at cassava farmers forum, Lafia in Nasarawa State, Nigeria.
SDOT is now providing accurate point-to-point travel times during the AM and PM commutes via DMS. This information allows drivers to make better decisions en route to their destination and, as a result, improves commute times and reduces pollution.
Well he sure looks better than last year, except for that vacant look he has in his eyes! Always smiling though!
Design to Improve Life Investment, Investor Day at Design Society in Copenhagen on the 31st of August, 2013.
Seneca Improved View 5x7, New Guy collodion, 5x7 clear glass ambrotype
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Black spots from unfiltered silver bath. Fogging as developer got warmer.
The plug was pulled on a town centre water feature that cost thousands – but never worked.
Time Wash was installed in High Street, Oldham, in 2005 as part of a £600,000 project to improve the area.
But the 23ft EU-funded stainless steel feature was hit by problems from the start.
Now town hall bosses have decided to demolish it – and council leader Howard Sykes has branded it ‘an embarrassment’.
The sculpture was meant to make a melodic whistle, with water shooting up each column.
But it was hit by design problems, mechanical failure and vandalism.
Now Coun Sykes has announced it will be scrapped, with the area being used for Remembrance Day and Christmas events.
He said: “Time Wash has not worked since the day of installation, it is an embarrassment to Oldham town centre and I will not sanction any further public money being spent on trying to get this ill-conceived and poorly designed idea to work.
“It is time this matter was brought to an end.
Coun Sykes added: “It’s important to point out that Time Wash did not cost the citizens of the borough a penny because it was paid for out of the European Regional Development Fund, and that cash had to be used for ‘so called’ public art like Time Wash.”
Article from Manchester Evening News 22/10/2010 (by Mike Keegan)
This picture is the seventh in my efforts to complete the100 strangers project to help improve my photography skills. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers on the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page www.flickr.com/groups/100strangers/ and on the 100 strangers web site www.100strangers.com/ .
It was my pleasure to meet Nigel at the St Jacobs Farmers market on Saturday. Nigel is a potter from the UK who currently works with Dundee Pottery and Stained glass in New Dundee Ontario. www.dundeepottery.ca Nigel was working with his potters wheel and it was difficult to get much of a shot of him at work because he was continuously surrounded by folks watching him turn lumps of clay into his pottery masterpieces. When I finally did get an opportunity to speak with him I explained the 100 strangers project and I requested his permission to take his photo and use it in the project. His response in a proper British accent was the most positive one I have received to date as he said that he would be honored to. I took a few shots showed him a couple of them and he was pleased with the result. I gave him my card with my Flickr URL, shook hands, picking up a bit of clay in the process and let him get back to entertaining the bystanders and turning out his masterpieces. Thank you Nigel for being so cooperative. I hope some of your UK countrymen will comment on your photo. Possibly one of them knows you.
Observations: I took a little different approach with Nigel's portrait choosing to show him at work in his environment with examples of finished pottery on the shelves behind him. Other portraits have focused more on the individual's face. My Sigma 10 - 20 mm lens made this possible without having to get too far back. The market was very crowded and as soon as you step back the space would immediately fill with new onlookers. From a technical perspective, possibly I should have increased the ISO so I could use a smaller lens opening and faster shutter speed which might have yielded a sharper image. I, however, compromised and left the camera on program mode which appeared to be giving me reasonable images inside the building, from what I could see on the camera screen.
Think Globally—Act Locally:
Chronic Disease Management, Community Translation, eHealth
Friday, March 28, 2014
UMBC-Italy Cooperation Meeting
Sponsored by: UMBC Department of Information Systems & UMBC Health Administration and Policy Program
Program Objectives
The objectives of this program are to (1) Present results from an interdisciplinary international research collaboration with Tuscany, Italy involving eHealth and health Information technology to improve home and community systems for the prevention and management of chronic disease and disability; (2) Discuss plans for engagement of UMBC faculty and students, both internationally and locally, in this emerging area of importance to US health reform.
Ms Miniya Chatterji, Chief Sustainability Officer, Jindal Steel and Power Group
Policy Pitch to Ms. Irene Tinagli, Member of Parliament, Italian Parliament and other Ministers for Measuring the Gender Gap in Education: Refining and Reimagining Our Approach.
@GESForum
Improving life outcomes for opportunity youth - the 6.7 million young people aged 16-24 who are out of school and/or work – is a moral imperative and economic necessity. Their disconnection—often precipitated or exacerbated by the failure of critical education, training, and social service systems—places an enormous and unnecessary economic burden on our nation. Melody Barnes, former Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, examined efforts to address this challenge and to improve the coordination of the many systems and diverse actors who serve this group of young people. Through the dissection of this issue, Barnes offered her reflections on the interplay and roles of government (federal, state and local), the private and nonprofit sectors, philanthropy, communications, and public engagement in the policy making process
This event took place at Joan and Sanford Weill Hall on Monday, April 13, 2015.
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Improving Degree Completion for 21st Century Students
A Federal Role in Credit Transfer and Metro Region Policy
October 28, 2010, 9:00am – 11:00am
To view a video of this event, click here: http://www.americanprogress.org/events/2010/10/metroed.html
The Obama administration has set an aggressive goal for the United States to retake global leadership in postsecondary degree attainment by 2020. The president's goals will require the highly decentralized system of 4,600 colleges and universities to increase productivity dramatically. Productivity, as measured by the number of degrees produced, can be improved by ensuring that students who transfer, an increasingly common phenomenon, retain as much college credit as possible as well as better aligning postsecondary policy with key cross-state metropolitan areas that drive regional and national economic growth.
The concentration of population and economic resources in metropolitan regions makes them engines of America's competitiveness, but many metros cross state boundaries, creating inefficiencies in terms of increased tuition costs, difficulty of transfer and even duplication of fixed costs as states compete for higher education supremacy. Policies that help ease the college-going of metro residents can also help reduce the costs and increase effectiveness of postsecondary education.
Yves Leterme, Secretary General of International IDEA, with Maria Leissner, Secretary General of the Community.
“Improving Electoral Processes – Case Studies and Practical Approaches” is a joint publication of the Community of Democracies and International IDEA, presenting the results of a study research on electoral practices in eight countries. On the occasion of the meeting of the Community’s Governing Council, the publication was officially launched in a special panel with the participation of partners to the project.
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Improved vastly from his first season, last year. Vital player for us. Although still has a turning circle and speed of a tanker.
THIS ONE CULD BE YOUR SHADOW NEXT YEAR AT WIMBLEDON SW19.
A message to the youngsters tennis players to train harder and IMPROVE!
Bradford Cathedral, or the Cathedral Church of St Peter, is an Anglican cathedral in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, one of three co-equal cathedrals in the Diocese of Leeds alongside Ripon and Wakefield. Its site has been used for Christian worship since the 7th century, when missionaries based in Dewsbury evangelised the area. For many centuries it was the parish church of St Peter and achieved cathedral status in 1919. The cathedral is a Grade I listed building.
Background
The first church on the site was believed to have been built in Anglo-Saxon times and fell into ruin after the Norman Conquest in 1066. A second church was built around 1200. The first mention of the parish of Bradford as distinct from being part of the parish of Dewsbury appears in the register of the Archbishop of York in 1281. Alice de Lacy, widow of Edmund de Lacy, one of the descendants of Ilbert de Lacy, gave a grant to the parish of Bradford that is recorded in the register of the Archbishop Wickwayne. Around 1327, Scottish raiders burnt down most of this stone church.
During the 14th century the church was rebuilt and some of the older masonry may have been used in the reconstruction of the nave. The construction of the third church was completed in 1458. The tower in the Perpendicular style was added to the west end and finished in 1508. A clerestory was added by the end of the 15th century. Proprietary chapels were founded, on the north side of the chancel by the Leventhorpe family, and on the south by the owners of Bolling Hall. In 1854 Robert Mawer carved a new reredos in Caen stone for the church. There is a photograph of it in the church archive. This reredos was lost during the 1950s rebuild by Edward Maufe.
Originally in the Diocese of York, the church was in the Diocese of Ripon before becoming a cathedral in 1919, when the Diocese of Bradford was created; it became one of three co-equal cathedrals of the new Diocese of Leeds upon its creation on 20 April 2014.
The building was extended in the 1950s and 1960s by Edward Maufe. The east end of the cathedral is Maufe's work, as well as the two west wings which contain the Song Room and Cathedral offices. In his east end extension he reused the Morris & Co. stained glass from the old east window. There is Victorian stained glass throughout the building including at the west end, where there is a window showing women of the Bible, and stained glass in the First World War memorial window dating from 1921. The many wall monuments include a sculpture by John Flaxman.
In 1987 the nave and west end were re-ordered to accommodate a growing number of visitors. The roof panelling was cleaned and restored, and new lighting was installed. To enable flexibility of use, the Victorian pews were replaced by chairs. The nave organ was removed to give more light and space at the west end, and a Bradford Computer Organ was installed, complementing the pipe organ in the choir with loudspeakers in the nave, though this is no longer in use.
At the beginning of the 21st century, the cathedral authorities decided to develop a museum of religion in St Peter's House (built in the 19th century as Bradford's main post office). The visitor numbers were much lower than expected, and the project collapsed, leaving the cathedral in debt, from which it was discharged in 2007. St Peter's House is now owned by a South Asian arts group, Kala Sangam.
The cathedral is set in a small conservation area which includes the close to its north. The close provides modern housing for the dean and canons residentiary, the bishop's official residence, Bishopcroft, being in Heaton, approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) from the city centre.
The cathedral and its predecessors were built on the shelf of alluvial land that had formed on the outside of the bend where Bradford Beck turns north, but the town grew up on the lower ground on the other side of the beck, so the church was always just outside the centre of town. In the 19th and 20th centuries the cathedral was partly hidden from the centre by buildings, first by the post office just below it, and subsequently by the 1960s developments of Forster Square and Petergate. The latter areas were demolished in 2006, leaving the cathedral more visible than for many years prior to the completion of the Broadway Centre in 2015.
Dean and chapter
As of 21 May 2023:
Dean – Andy Bowerman (since 19 June 2022)
Canon for Intercultural Mission and the Arts – Ned Lunn (since 31 January 2023)
Minor Canon for Worship and Nurture – Pete Gunstone (since 21 May 2023)
Music
Bradford Cathedral has long been a place of music. During term-time, Choral Services are sung as follows: Sunday 10.30 am Choral Eucharist (rotates girls/adults, boys/adults or Cathedral Consort); Sunday 3:30 pm Choral Evensong (adults choir); Monday 5:30 pm Choral Evensong (girls choir); Tuesday 5:30 pm Choral Evensong (boys choir)
The boys and girls of the Choir sing as separate top lines and are drawn from as many as 20 local schools at any time. New entrants spend a couple of terms as a probationer, receiving basic training in singing and musicianship, before progressing to full membership. Full choristers have the opportunity to take up individual, free-of-charge tuition in singing, musicianship, theory or piano on a 1:1 basis each week. The lay clerks of the Choir are highly skilled volunteers, most of whom make their living outside of music. In September 2015 residential choral scholarships were introduced. The Cathedral Consort, a high standard chamber choir consisting of adult sopranos and lay clerks, completes the Choral Foundation.
In addition to the schedule above, the Choir also performs other concerts and services within and outside the diocese. Although foreign tours have been undertaken, the most recent being to Barcelona in 2010 and Bavaria in 2008, touring more recently has been within the UK, with the girls and boys each undertaking a residential tour annually, with or without the choir adults. Tours have been undertaken in recent years to Bristol, Worcester, Edinburgh and Durham.
The girls and men are involved with the annual Yorkshire Cathedrals' Girls' Choirs' Festival and hosted the Festal Evensong in March 2015. The boy choristers had not been involved with the Yorkshire Three Choirs Festival since 1981, but with the recent renaissance of an independent boys' top-line at the cathedral they, along with the lay clerks, were re-included in this annual festival from October 2015. Bradford Cathedral hosted the festival in October 2016.
In July 2012, the Choir recorded two services for the BBC Radio 2 Sunday Half Hour programme, which were broadcast in Autumn 2012, and the girls and men sang live for BBC Radio 4 Sunday Worship in December 2012. The Choir recorded a CD of Evening Canticles, including Humphrey Clucas's 'Bradford Service' in November 2013, and February 2014 saw the Choir recording two programmes of BBC Songs of Praise, airing on 2 March 2014 and Palm Sunday, 13 April 2014. Since 2015, the Choir has performed annually with the European Union Chamber Orchestra, singing Vivaldi's Gloria, Haydn's Little Organ Mass, and Schubert's Mass No. 2 in G major.
A specification of the William Hill pipe organ (1904), with later modifications by Hill, Norman & Beard (1961) and J. W. Walker (1977), can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register. A series of organ recitals takes place on many Wednesday lunchtimes throughout the year at 1.00 pm, attracting many well-known players. An Organ Appeal was launched in February 2013, aiming to raise £250,000 over several years, in order to secure the continued reliability of the instrument, as well as making possible several tonal adjustments. A. J. Carter of Wakefield and Andrew Cooper are working in conjunction to carry out this work on a phased basis over the coming years. The first phase, entailing the substantial upgrading of the console, was carried out in October 2014. The second phase, to clean, revoice and extend the Chancel (Positive) Division, was completed in the first half of 2018.
Organists and Directors of Music
John Simpson c. 1820 – 1860
Absalom Rawnsley Swaine c. 1861 – 1893
Henry Coates 1893–1939
Charles Hooper 1939–1963
Keith Vernon Rhodes 1963–1981
Geoffrey John Weaver 1982–1986
Alan Graham Horsey 1986–2002
Andrew Teague 2003–2011
Alexander Woodrow 2012–2016
Alexander Berry 2017–present
Sub Organists and Assistant Directors of Music
Martin D. Baker 1982–2004 (Asst. Organist)
Jonathan Kingston 1997–2000 (Sub Organist)
Paul Bowen 2004–2011 — Paul Bowen held the office of Cathedral Organist from late 2011 to late 2014
David Condry 2009–2012
Jonathan Eyre 2012–2016
Jon Payne 2016–2018
Ed Jones 2018–2019
Graham Thorpe 2019–present
Monuments of interest
Memorial to Abraham Balme main promoter of the Bradford Canal, sculpted by John Flaxman RA.
Monument to Abraham Sharp (d.1742) by Peter Scheemakers
Monument to Robert Lowry Turner and George Whyte Watson
The Bradford City Football Ground Fire Disaster Memorial
The Battle of the Steeple / Market Charter plaque
Memorial to Joseph Priestley
Bradford is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It became a municipal borough in 1847, received a city charter in 1897 and, since the 1974 reform, the city status has belonged to the larger City of Bradford metropolitan borough. It had a population of 349,561 at the 2011 census; the second-largest subdivision of the West Yorkshire Built-up Area after Leeds, which is approximately 9 miles (14 km) to the east. The borough had a population of 546,976, making it the 9th most populous district in England.
Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the city grew in the 19th century as an international centre of textile manufacture, particularly wool. It was a boomtown of the Industrial Revolution, and amongst the earliest industrialised settlements, rapidly becoming the "wool capital of the world"; this in turn gave rise to the nicknames "Woolopolis" and "Wool City". Lying in the eastern foothills of the Pennines, the area's access to supplies of coal, iron ore and soft water facilitated the growth of a manufacturing base, which, as textile manufacture grew, led to an explosion in population and was a stimulus to civic investment. There is a large amount of listed Victorian architecture in the city including the grand Italianate city hall.
From the mid-20th century, deindustrialisation caused the city's textile sector and industrial base to decline and, since then, it has faced similar economic and social challenges to the rest of post-industrial Northern England, including poverty, unemployment and social unrest. It is the third-largest economy within the Yorkshire and the Humber region at around £10 billion, which is mostly provided by financial and manufacturing industries. It is also a tourist destination, the first UNESCO City of Film and it has the National Science and Media Museum, a city park, the Alhambra theatre and Cartwright Hall. The city is the UK City of Culture for 2025 having won the designation on 31 May 2022.
History
The name Bradford is derived from the Old English brad and ford the broad ford which referred to a crossing of the Bradford Beck at Church Bank below the site of Bradford Cathedral, around which a settlement grew in Anglo-Saxon times. It was recorded as "Bradeford" in 1086.
Early history
After an uprising in 1070, during William the Conqueror's Harrying of the North, the manor of Bradford was laid waste, and is described as such in the Domesday Book of 1086. It then became part of the Honour of Pontefract given to Ilbert de Lacy for service to the Conqueror, in whose family the manor remained until 1311. There is evidence of a castle in the time of the Lacys. The manor then passed to the Earl of Lincoln, John of Gaunt, The Crown and, ultimately, private ownership in 1620.
By the middle ages Bradford, had become a small town centred on Kirkgate, Westgate and Ivegate. In 1316 there is mention of a fulling mill, a soke mill where all the manor corn was milled and a market. During the Wars of the Roses the inhabitants sided with House of Lancaster. Edward IV granted the right to hold two annual fairs and from this time the town began to prosper. In the reign of Henry VIII Bradford exceeded Leeds as a manufacturing centre. Bradford grew slowly over the next two-hundred years as the woollen trade gained in prominence.
During the Civil War the town was garrisoned for the Parliamentarians and in 1642 was unsuccessfully attacked by Royalist forces from Leeds. Sir Thomas Fairfax took the command of the garrison and marched to meet the Duke of Newcastle but was defeated. The Parliamentarians retreated to Bradford and the Royalists set up headquarters at Bolling Hall from where the town was besieged leading to its surrender. The Civil War caused a decline in industry but after the accession of William III and Mary II in 1689 prosperity began to return. The launch of manufacturing in the early 18th century marked the start of the town's development while new canal and turnpike road links encouraged trade.
Industrial Revolution
In 1801, Bradford was a rural market town of 6,393 people, where wool spinning and cloth weaving were carried out in local cottages and farms. Bradford was thus not much bigger than nearby Keighley (5,745) and was significantly smaller than Halifax (8,866) and Huddersfield (7,268). This small town acted as a hub for three nearby townships – Manningham, Bowling and Great and Little Horton, which were separated from the town by countryside.
Blast furnaces were established in about 1788 by Hird, Dawson Hardy at Low Moor and iron was worked by the Bowling Iron Company until about 1900. Yorkshire iron was used for shackles, hooks and piston rods for locomotives, colliery cages and other mining appliances where toughness was required. The Low Moor Company also made pig iron and the company employed 1,500 men in 1929. when the municipal borough of Bradford was created in 1847 there were 46 coal mines within its boundaries. Coal output continued to expand, reaching a peak in 1868 when Bradford contributed a quarter of all the coal and iron produced in Yorkshire.
The population of the township in 1841 was 34,560.
In 1825 the wool-combers union called a strike that lasted five-months but workers were forced to return to work through hardship leading to the introduction of machine-combing. This Industrial Revolution led to rapid growth, with wool imported in vast quantities for the manufacture of worsted cloth in which Bradford specialised, and the town soon became known as the wool capital of the world.
A permanent military presence was established in the city with the completion of Bradford Moor Barracks in 1844.
Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and a county borough in 1888, making it administratively independent of the West Riding County Council. It was honoured with city status on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, with Kingston upon Hull and Nottingham. The three had been the largest county boroughs outside the London area without city status. The borough's boundaries were extended to absorb Clayton in 1930, and parts of Rawdon, Shipley, Wharfedale and Yeadon urban districts in 1937.
Bradford had ample supplies of locally mined coal to provide the power that the industry needed. Local sandstone was an excellent resource for building the mills, and with a population of 182,000 by 1850, the town grew rapidly as workers were attracted by jobs in the textile mills. A desperate shortage of water in Bradford Dale was a serious limitation on industrial expansion and improvement in urban sanitary conditions. In 1854 Bradford Corporation bought the Bradford Water Company and embarked on a huge engineering programme to bring supplies of soft water from Airedale, Wharfedale and Nidderdale. By 1882 water supply had radically improved. Meanwhile, urban expansion took place along the routes out of the city towards the Hortons and Bowling and the townships had become part of a continuous urban area by the late 19th century.
A major employer was Titus Salt who in 1833 took over the running of his father's woollen business specialising in fabrics combining alpaca, mohair, cotton and silk. By 1850 he had five mills. However, because of the polluted environment and squalid conditions for his workers Salt left Bradford and transferred his business to Salts Mill in Saltaire in 1850, where in 1853 he began to build the workers' village which has become a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Henry Ripley was a younger contemporary of Titus Salt. He was managing partner of Edward Ripley & Son Ltd, which owned the Bowling Dye Works. In 1880 the dye works employed over 1000 people and was said to be the biggest dye works in Europe. Like Salt he was a councillor, JP and Bradford MP who was deeply concerned to improve working class housing conditions. He built the industrial Model village of Ripley Ville on a site in Broomfields, East Bowling close to the dye works.
Other major employers were Samuel Lister and his brother who were worsted spinners and manufacturers at Lister's Mill (Manningham Mills). Lister epitomised Victorian enterprise but it has been suggested that his capitalist attitude made trade unions necessary. Unprecedented growth created problems with over 200 factory chimneys continually churning out black, sulphurous smoke, Bradford gained the reputation of being the most polluted town in England. There were frequent outbreaks of cholera and typhoid, and only 30% of children born to textile workers reached the age of fifteen. This extreme level of infant and youth mortality contributed to a life expectancy for Bradford residents of just over eighteen years, which was one of the lowest in the country.
Like many major cities Bradford has been a destination for immigrants. In the 1840s Bradford's population was significantly increased by migrants from Ireland, particularly rural County Mayo and County Sligo, and by 1851 about 10% of the population were born in Ireland, the largest proportion in Yorkshire. Around the middle decades of the 19th century the Irish were concentrated in eight densely settled areas situated near the town centre. One of these was the Bedford Street area of Broomfields, which in 1861 contained 1,162 persons of Irish birth—19% of all Irish born persons in the Borough.
During the 1820s and 1830s, there was immigration from Germany. Many were Jewish merchants and they became active in the life of the town. The Jewish community mostly living in the Manningham area of the town, numbered about 100 families but was influential in the development of Bradford as a major exporter of woollen goods from their textile export houses predominately based in Little Germany and the civic life of Bradford. Charles Semon (1814–1877) was a textile merchant and philanthropist who developed a productive textile export house in the town, he became the first foreign and Jewish mayor of Bradford in 1864. Jacob Behrens (1806–1889) was the first foreign textile merchant to export woollen goods from the town, his company developed into an international multimillion-pound business. Behrens was a philanthropist, he also helped to establish the Bradford chamber of commerce in 1851. Jacob Moser (1839–1922) was a textile merchant who was a partner in the firm Edelstein, Moser and Co, which developed into a successful Bradford textile export house. Moser was a philanthropist, he founded the Bradford Charity Organisation Society and the City Guild of Help. In 1910 Moser became the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Bradford.
Jowett Cars Eight badge
To support the textile mills, a large manufacturing base grew up in the town providing textile machinery, and this led to diversification with different industries thriving side by side. The Jowett Motor Company founded in the early 20th century by Benjamin and William Jowett and Arthur V Lamb, manufactured cars and vans in Bradford for 50 years. The Scott Motorcycle Company was a well known producer of motorcycles and light engines for industry. Founded by Alfred Angas Scott in 1908 as the Scott Engineering Company in Bradford, Scott motorcycles were produced until 1978.
Independent Labour Party
The city played an important part in the early history of the Labour Party. A mural on the back of the Bradford Playhouse in Little Germany commemorates the centenary of the founding of the Independent Labour Party in Bradford in 1893.
Regimental colours
The Bradford Pals were three First World War Pals battalions of Kitchener's Army raised in the city. When the three battalions were taken over by the British Army they were officially named the 16th (1st Bradford), 18th (2nd Bradford), and 20th (Reserve) Battalions, The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment).
On the morning of 1 July 1916, the 16th and 18th Battalions left their trenches in Northern France to advance across no man's land. It was the first hour of the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Of the estimated 1,394 men from Bradford and District in the two battalions, 1,060 were either killed or injured during the ill-fated attack on the village of Serre-lès-Puisieux.
Other Bradford Battalions of The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) involved in the Battle of the Somme were the 1st/6th Battalion (the former Bradford Rifle Volunteers), part of the Territorial Force, based at Belle Vue Barracks in Manningham, and the 10th Battalion (another Kitchener battalion). The 1/6th Battalion first saw action in 1915 at the Battle of Aubers Ridge before moving north to the Yser Canal near Ypres. On the first day of the Somme they took heavy casualties while trying to support the 36th (Ulster) Division. The 10th Battalion was involved in the attack on Fricourt, where it suffered the highest casualty rate of any battalion on the Somme on 1 July and perhaps the highest battalion casualty list for a single day during the entire war. Nearly 60% of the battalion's casualties were deaths.
The 1/2nd and 2/2nd West Riding Brigades, Royal Field Artillery (TF), had their headquarters at Valley Parade in Manningham, with batteries at Bradford, Halifax and Heckmondwike. The 1/2nd Brigade crossed to France with the 1/6th Battalion West Yorks in April 1915. These Territorial Force units were to remain close to each other throughout the war, serving in the 49th (West Riding) Division. They were joined in 1917 by the 2/6th Battalion, West Yorks, and 2/2nd West Riding Brigade, RFA, serving in the 62nd (2nd West Riding) Division.
Recent history
Bradford's Telegraph and Argus newspaper was involved in spearheading the news of the 1936 Abdication Crisis, after the Bishop of Bradford publicly expressed doubts about Edward VIII's religious beliefs (see: Telegraph & Argus#1936 Abdication Crisis).
After the Second World War migrants came from Poland and Ukraine and since the 1950s from Bangladesh, India and particularly Pakistan.
The textile industry has been in decline throughout the latter part of the 20th century. A culture of innovation had been fundamental to Bradford's dominance, with new textile technologies being invented in the city; a prime example being the work of Samuel Lister. This innovation culture continues today throughout Bradford's economy, from automotive (Kahn Design) to electronics (Pace Micro Technology). Wm Morrison Supermarkets was founded by William Morrison in 1899, initially as an egg and butter merchant in Rawson Market, operating under the name of Wm Morrison (Provisions) Limited.
The grandest of the mills no longer used for textile production is Lister Mills, the chimney of which can be seen from most places in Bradford. It has become a beacon of regeneration after a £100 million conversion to apartment blocks by property developer Urban Splash.
In 1989, copies of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses were burnt in the city, and a section of the Muslim community led a campaign against the book. In July 2001, ethnic tensions led to rioting, and a report described Bradford as fragmented and a city of segregated ethnic communities.
The Yorkshire Building Society opened its new headquarters in the city in 1992.
In 2006 Wm Morrison Supermarkets opened its new headquarters in the city, the firm employs more than 5,000 people in Bradford.
In June 2009 Bradford became the world's first UNESCO City of Film and became part of the Creative Cities Network since then. The city has a long history of producing both films and the technology that produces moving film which includes the invention of the Cieroscope, which took place in Manningham in 1896.
In 2010 Provident Financial opened its new headquarters in the city. The company has been based in the city since 1880.
In 2012 the British Wool Marketing Board opened its new headquarters in the city. Also in 2012 Bradford City Park opened, the park which cost £24.5 million to construct is a public space in the city centre which features numerous fountains and a mirror pool surrounded by benches and a walk way.
In 2015 The Broadway opened, the shopping and leisure complex in the centre of Bradford cost £260 million to build and is owned by Meyer Bergman.
In 2022, Bradford was named the UK City of Culture 2025, beating Southampton, Wrexham and Durham. The UK City of Culture bid, as of 2023, was expected to majorly stimulate the local economy and culture as well as attracting tourism to the city. By 2025, the UK City of Culture bid is expected to support potential economic growth of £389 million to the city of Bradford as well as to the surrounding local areas, creating over 7,000 jobs, attracting a significant amount of tourists to the city and providing thousands of performance opportunities for local artists.
Bulkhead and fill removed, natural beach profile restored and area planted, May, 2013. Photo credit: Ginger Phalen (USFWS)
Improving climate change reporting in the Mediterranean: Science – Media interface
Round Table: The socio-economic and political dimension of climate change in the Mediterranean
11 November 2016
Marrakech, Morocco
Since climate change is a cross boundary issue and involves several fields of action (water, energy, wildlife, biodiversity, climate refugees, social conflicts, biodiversity), the networking developed in the last decades could be seen as a fruitful opportunity to build mitigation and adaptation capacity in the Mediterranean. Understanding the need and urgency to adapt and mitigate this impact is the only way forward to put into practice solutions for the benefit of people and nature.
Roberto ROSON, Professor at Economy Department, Ca' Foscari University, Venice - Economic Impacts of Climate Change in the Mediterranean.
Dr. Maria SNOUSSI - Professor at Mohammed V University, Rabat-Morocco and Head of the ‘Coastal Environment & Climate Change’ Research Group at the Faculty of Sciences – Climate change on coastal areas.
Olgu OKUMUŞ - Project Manager, UfM Energy Division, Union for the Mediterranean - UfM Climate Change Expert Group.
Leila RADHOUANE, National Tunisian Institute for Agriculture Research – Climate change impacts on agriculture in North African countries.
Chairperson: Elsa ALVES - LUSA Agency, Portugal
Doctors of the World run health education sessions to raise awareness among women about antenatal care and the importance of giving birth in a health facility. We also train medical staff to improve the care provided to women and newborns during labour.
Combining micro-credit and health not only enables the women to borrow money to generate their own income and businesses, but also to pay for transport to hospital if complications arise during childbirth.
www.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk/projectsoverseas/nepal.asp
Photo by Cheryl Nemazie
With this series of photographs, my goal was to portray the hardships of the life of seniors and less-abled people in Lithuania: they do not get the respect they deserve and any attempts to bring this up publicly are usually silenced before they can make any impact. The head of the local retirement home does her best to improve the residents’ wellbeing, but both the government and the public reject these attempts. This topic is somewhat of a taboo nationwide: seniors and less- abled people are considered unnecessary, thus not worthy to talk about.
I have started a charity organization in an attempt to raise awareness and funds to help those in need. These photographs portray the pain one experiences when visiting these people. Sadly, their everyday life lacks the most important amenities and funds are scarce even for the basic hygiene products. The project’s goal was to organize a fundraising event including plein air painting by local artists and selling their works. While the gathered amount was not very large, it was enough to buy an air-conditioning unit for the retirement home to improve the residents’ comfort.
The visitors of the event were mostly only family, friends, and acquaintances, further showing that the issues of seniors and less-abled people are not considered as important in the general public. I hope the project’s different approach captures more attention to the difficulties these people face every day and will kickstart change in the official and public opinions.
Ok this is the shot i liked the most from the harbourfront the other night and i named it #1 because i plan on improving it, first of all the focus is far from perfect and i am aware of that, the exposure length is close to perfect but may be able to be improved a littlr, I also think this may look a little better with some tweaking with filters and White balance fiddling, but here it is, I hope in a few weeks I have a much better similar capture.
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St. John's Harbourfront Newfoundland
These are the first pictures taken with my new&improved LUMIX camera. Much better video and optical zoom that goes to 60x! Sorry for what seems to be duplication…I was trying out the burst capability ;-)
About my pictures:
Since 2014 I've been documenting the daily, destructive, poisonous chemtrail activity in the Dayton, Ohio area -- home of the notorious Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (visited by every important person on Earth, and even a few Aliens ;-) -- and apparently from my photo and video documentation, Chemtrail Central. This area has been getting chemtrailed on a massive, daily basis and is being conducted, as they say, “in plain sight”. I've got over 10,000 high-resolution pictures already uploaded and available for free on Flickr, with thousands more on the way:
www.flickr.com/photos/133042043@N04/albums
Additional Chemtrail videos may be found on:
www.youtube.com/user/BlueRidgeParkway
I am designating all my chemtrail pictures uploaded to Flickr as CC0 (Creative Commons Zero), which removes my copyright and releases them into the Public Domain. They are archived on Flickr under "Chem Trailchaser". I hope by making these images widely available, it will accelerate interest, research, study and more documentation from all over the world. Please, download, copy, backup, mirror, share, use and improve as many of these photos as you can! Thanks for looking - Chem
Optimizing Your STM Content Spend and Improving Access by Re-Engineering Content Workflows
Scott Ahlberg, Head of Corporate Services
Reprints Desk, Inc.
The use of peer-reviewed articles and other copyrighted content continues to increase rapidly. In recent years, a multitude of new and better ways to access, pay for, and re-use content have emerged. So are the consumers and patrons of published STM content getting more for their money? Most would say no. And the reasons are primarily that institutional workflows and vendor business models haven’t yet caught up with promises and expectations created by new technology. This session focuses on the flow of articles within the enterprise as one opportunity for the optimization of your STM content investments by re-engineering old workflows and reaching out to end-users to find inspiration for creating new ones.
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From Top Speed (http://www.topspeed.com/cars/bmw/2007-bmw-3-series-328i-ar11971.html) -
For a few years now the BMW 3-Series have been honored with lots of prizes: Automobile Magazine name it "Automobile of the year", Car and Driver "Best luxury Sport Sedan" and "World car of the year" by an international jury of 46 automotive journalists. With its satisfying combination of power, performance and day-to-day practicality, the world’s first sport sedan is still the best.
For 2007 the world’s first sport sedan and wagon get even better with new engines, new model names, new transmissions, improved performance, new color and additional interior updates.
328i and 328xi come to replace the 2006 325i and 325xi Sedan and Sports Wagon. The 328i and 328xi will be powered by an improved version of the curent 3.0 liter Inline-6 engine that is used in the 325i and 325xi. it will be an aluminium-magnesium engine block that will have an output of 230 hp and 200 lbs-ft of torque. The curent version produce only 215 hp at 6250 rpm and 185 lbs-ft at 2750 rpm. So there is an improvement of 15 hp and 15 lbs-ft.
No change for the gear ration, it will be used the same as in the 2006 325i.
Public Services Team – El Yunque National Forest
The El Yunque National Forest Public Services team worked through many challenges to provide improved Forest accessibility and safety during a pandemic by establishing a new reservation system that kept the Forest open and is bilingual, created a series of “Virtual Ranger Talks”, worked with local NGO’s to provide wellness presentations to locals, and supported permittees and businesses during COVID.
During the past year, the Public Services Team in El Yunque National Forest improved Forest accessibility and safety during a pandemic by establishing a new reservation system that kept the Forest open and is bilingual, created a series of “Virtual Ranger Talks” bringing people to the Forest in a virtual manner, worked with local NGO’s to provide wellness presentations to locals in Puerto Rico, and supported permittees and businesses during COVID to assist with economic relief.
Many obstacles prompted the team to implement new creative ways to enable Forest access safely for staff and visitors during a pandemic. The Forest analyzed CDC guidelines, agency engineering standards and with support from Forest operations staff, managed a COVID capacity in the highly visited developed recreation areas. Visitor access was facilitated by working with Recreation.gov to create the first bilingual reservation site page in the country for local and off island visitors. The Public Services Team worked within COVID restrictions to maintain volunteer opportunities to meet program objectives and targets in historic restoration and trail and recreation management. The management of the Forest trail volunteer program successfully transitioned to a local non-profit organization. Staff also worked with partners, volunteers, veterans’ groups and the local community of Naguabo on a grant with NFF to build and implement the first USFS Forest Therapy Trail.
During the COVID lock down, the Public Services Team developed a series of virtual experiences to keep people connected to their public lands. The “Virtual Ranger Talks” series covered a wide array of conservation education and interpretation topics including plant and animal biodiversity, history, virtual hikes, music, and nature inspiration. Interpretive rangers came to people’s homes virtually, via streaming through the Forest Facebook page. Over 110 videos were created with over 142,500 total views to date. The Forest also developed and presented educational products online on topics including Wild and Scenic Rivers, Wilderness, Recreation, Trails and Heritage Management in both languages through partnerships.
Nature connections were created by partnering with a local nonprofit which focused on virtual wellness. These partnerships helped improve outreach to the Hispanic community on the island. The staff also worked with Puerto Rico Tourism Company and Destination Management Organization to produce a virtual hike and a live stream video with the Forest Supervisor about El Yunque, which was shared with thousands through tourism and social medial platforms.
The Special Uses Program in the Forest provides steady business to locals living near the Forest. Throughout the pandemic, Special Uses staff translated and provided critical information and materials including COVID updates and SBA and Relief Opportunities to permit holders to provide access and awareness of programs available for businesses to remain in operation during the COVID shutdowns.
Website La música y la naturaleza / Music & Nature Inspire
URL address www.facebook.com/watch/elyunquenf/219229756067887/
Website Guardabosques Virtual / Virtual Ranger Talks
URL address www.facebook.com/watch/elyunquenf/2654429548113755/
Discover Puerto Rico Tourism website: Brand USA's Destination-at-a-Glance: El Yunque, Puerto Rico - YouTube
Ruta del Rio by @Voy Turisteando - www.facebook.com/897774493727372/videos/558070474831307
Key Partners:
American Conservation Experience (ACE) Interns
VetsWork
Love in Motion
Puerto Rico Destination Management Organization
Other participants: Amigos de El Yunque, Corazon Latino, Vitrina Solidaria
Improved access to life-saving health care is on the way to downtown Vancouver with the approval of the business plan for a new St. Paul’s Hospital.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/18990
Finally got rid of the weird thing at the corner of the lips from all my characters, that's really a improvement over what I got.
The need to improve capital markets across the EBRD’s region has intensified since the financial crisis, when banks and investors have tended to retreat to their home markets.
This panel looked at how the Commission’s proposals impact the overall EBRD region and how capital markets can evolve to play a greater role in financing growth.
The Impact of Changing Capital Markets on Developing Economies
Friday 15 May 2015
10:00 - 11:30, Room A, Parliament Building
Moderator:
Ralph Atkins, Capital Markets Editor, Financial Times @RalphAtkins
Speakers:
Niki Beattie, Founder, Managing Director, Market Structure Partners
Giorgi Kadagidze, Governor, Chairman of the Board, National Bank of Georgia
András Simor, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, EBRD
Liviu Voinea, Deputy Governor, National Bank of Romania
William Weaver, Managing Director, Head of EMEA Debt Capital Markets and Syndicate, Citigroup
I improved my design by angling the scoop lower and widening it. I then adjusted the handle higher and angled the shaft up higher.
Take a look at the new and improved 2014 Kia Sportage.
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This is the second part for the construction of your own Light Panel.
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