MIT has revoked his title as professor emeritus, Provost Martin A. Schmidt PhD '88 said.
Schmidt said that MIT's actions were "part of a process of a complete separation from Walter," though he also said those actions were "probably the extent of it" given that Lewin had retired.
Lewin joined MIT in 1966 and became a full professor in 1974. In the decades that followed he collected award after award for his undergraduate teaching.
Through OpenCourseWare and YouTube, Lewin's lectures and physics demonstrations have reached millions.
Lewin went on to star in viral videos of him drawing dotted lines on blackboards and swinging on steel balls suspended from the ceiling.
And then in 2013, Lewin helped launch online versions of his classes on edX. Among those who enrolled: the woman who would lodge the sexual harassment complaint this past October.
This is so stupid, I don't know where to start. The man is 78 years old, and he is only accused of making an inappropriate remark online. For that, the university is trying to destroy 40 years of loyal service, and millions of viewers learning physics from his videos.
I can still read Mein Kampf and The Little Red Book. So for Prof Lewin works to have been banned, he must have done something worse than mass murder. In the name of equality, let us hear his words no more. Zero tolerance!!!
I wonder if MIT was influenced by a fear of an adverse ruling from the Obama administration. The MIT over-reaction is so bizarre that it seems likely that Lewin had enemies who are just using this complaint to sabotage him for other reasons, or maybe MIT has Title IX problems with the Obama administration, and is trying to impress the leftist feminist Obama bureaucrats and avoid charges in other cases.
I note that Lewin appears to be from a Dutch Jewish family, as he had relatives die in Auschwitz. In other campus scandals I have recently posted about, feminist Jewish liberals seem to be at war against genteel southern blond fraternity boys.
Kathleen McCartney wrote the phrase in the subject line of an e-mail to students at the school, whose alumni include feminists Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan, former First Lady Nancy Reagan and celebrity chef Julia Child. McCartney was attempting to show support for students protesting racially charged grand jury decisions in which police in Missouri and New York were not charged in the deaths of unarmed black men.
My guess is that Obama administration pressure induced MIT to do this. Yes, Democrat leftist feminist bureaucrats now intervene in petty student complaints, as shown by their letter to Princeton.
Update: See Lewin's last lecture to get an idea of how popular he was.


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The Irish, the US a Personal Journey with implications for the GFA and the Backstop.
by Sean Danaher on 1st March 2019
You get nowhere in America if you do not understand that Ireland is in the warp and weft of the Republic. It is the other story from that of the Pilgrim Fathers.
Bonnie Greer -Full Article here.
The relationship between Ireland an the US has been described as a 250 year love affair, with Irish Americans playing a very prominent role in the US, throughout the entire period from the run up to American Independence right up to the current day. In the early days, most prominently Presbyterians from Northern Ireland (Scots-Irish), but since the Famine (1845) all religions, largely Catholic, from all over the island. Between 1845 and 1855 more than 1.5 million adults and children left Ireland to seek refuge in America. There are around 35m Irish Americans, over five times the population of Ireland. Twenty two of the forty five American Presidents claim at least partial Irish Ancestry. Is the love affair and influence likely to continue or are their choppy waters ahead?
This article looks at my own love for the US and tries to put it into the context of the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) and the Backstop (the guarantee of no hard border on the island of Ireland).
There is an assumption in certain echelons of Government and the Tory party that the UK is a much more important country than Ireland and that EU and US will automatically support the UK in a dispute between the two countries, the prime example being the Backstop. This has so far proved to be incorrect in the case of the EU (and is extremely unlikely to change).
Some of the ERG in particular dream of a "clean" no-deal Brexit and realignment of the UK economy with the US. The high Tories dismiss Ireland as being irrelevant. Christopher Meyer former Ambassador to Washington said "as the elephants fight, Ireland is the grass that gets trampled". Could the US, with the Trump regime, put brutal pragmatism over sentimentality?
The article will look at the Irish in America drawing from my own experience, the role of politics and economics, and finally draw conclusions as to the respective strength of the ERG and Irish positions.
I did not visit the US till I was 22 but it was a constant influence throughout my childhood and young adult years.
June 26 1963: corner of Drumcondra Road and Griffith Avenue, Dublin. I had spent the past few weeks perfecting "The Boys of Wexford" on my Melodica just in case the important visitor stopped. I walked down Grace Park Road from home, turned right at the Winking Willie and after half a mile pushed to the the front of a large crowd. And there he was, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy standing up in an open top car waving to the crowd sweeping past in his motorcade. To this day he is the only US president I have seen in the flesh.
Fig 1. JFK's visit to Ireland 1963.
March 1968: My father, Kevin, as a prominent Irish Folklorist and Historian undertook annual lecturing tours of the US around St Patrick's Day. He normally returned with some gifts, but on this occasion after visiting St Paul-Minneapolis he was overburdened with American football and election paraphernalia. Eugene McCarthy from Minnesota, a prominent Irish-American and anti-Vietnam campaigner was much admired by my father, was running for president. My bedroom looked like that of an American Teenager. McCarthy did not win the Democratic nomination and Nixon beat Hubert Humphrey in the Presidential election.
In Ireland, possibly even more than in the UK, admiration for the US was very high. As a child there was and endless stream of TV programmes, Rin Tin Tin, Lassie, Mr Ed and endless Western's, The Lone Ranger, Bonanza, Annie Oakley and my favourite The High Chapperal, based around Tucson Arizona.
The Moon landings fired my enthusiasm for science and as keen amateur astronomer, I envied the large telescopes in the American West – largely clustered around Tucson Arizona at the time.
Feb 1979: as a PhD student in the Astrophysics group in University College Dublin, I was offered the opportunity to go to Harvard. Not just Boston, but the Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Mt Hopkins south of Tucson. To say this was the opportunity of a lifetime would not be an overstatement. It was also a worry as it was the sort of group where you were expected to produce a first authored letter to Nature by the time your PhD was completed.
I still remember the smell of the warm desert air landing in Tucson. The US did not disappoint. My main worry that the world-leading scientists I interacted with would show my intellectual inadequacy could not have been further from the truth. They were kind, helpful and eager to impart knowledge. Academically it was fantastic, the facilities first class, and the welcome overwhelming. America was far wealthier than Ireland or the UK at the time and the superabundance and cheapness of everything was striking.
Fig 2. The Ridge, Harvard Smithsonian Observatory (2300 m). Mt Hopkins 1979 -scanned from an old photo taken by the author – apologies for the poor quality.
Being Irish was an extraordinary advantage – one almost felt like a rock star. Tons of invites to peoples homes and everyone seemed to want to meet me especially around the St. Patrick Day period (17th March). The Irish Americans however had a romanticised and simplistic view of Ireland and its history. They tended to blame England in particular for the Great Hunger (1845-48) considering it a genocide. The people who moved to the US lost everything and the catastrophe is etched in the collective folk memory of the US Irish.
One incident some months later was illustrative of how the Irish were considered. I was driving with two American friends from DC to the Smoky Mountains National Park. At the time there was a 55 mph speed limit on the freeways. This seemed glacially slow and I was doing 67 mph following 4 cars when I was pulled over – they came up from behind. This could potentially have been quite serious as it was greater than 10 mph above the speed limit and a serious offence. I handed over my international driving permit. "We got you on radar – do you know what that is?" Rather than stating that I had an MSc in Physics and almost certainly knew far more about radar than the cop I said in a very broad Irish accent "Is that what they use to bring down plains at airports – Sur?" Looking over my permit he next said "Oh you're Irish. My grandfather was from Connemara – are you still using donkeys for transport?" I played along. After a few minutes I was given back my permit and a warning to keep under 55mph in future. My American friends were astounded and said that if they had been at the wheel there would have been serious consequences – at greater than 10mph above the speed limit: a federal offence.
As a Progressive and Social Democrat, I am very much a Democrat rather than Republican supporter. Jimmy Carter was president, but towards the end of my time in the US, the presidential campaign was in full swing and Ronnie Regan horrified me. The US had had a golden period from the end of the 2nd world war right up till the oil crisis of 1973, with rapidly rising living standards for pretty much all tranches of society. This had grinded to a halt after the oil crisis and there had been seven years of near stagnant living standards. Furthermore the Iranian Hostage Crisis played out very badly for Carter. Walter Cronkite, "the most trusted man in America", used to sign off the CBS Evening News, easily the most watched at the time, with "This is the xxx day of the Iran Hostage Crisis" – it continued for 444 days.
I returned to UCD in Autumn 1980 to write up my PhD before the election, but my worst fears were realised and Regan won.
Regan of course was a pale shadow of Trump but a believer in "Trickle Down Economics" and with Thatcher helped to cement Neoliberalism. He was more subtly racist than Trump, but the "southern strategy" was very much in evidence. Serendipity also played a large part, whereas Carter was extremely unlucky with Iran, the fall of the Soviet Union coincided with Regan's presidency and he claimed a lot of the credit. As with Thatcher and the Falkland's War it boosted his popularity dramatically.
On a personal level the US position I was hoping to move to after my PhD disappeared (Regan directed a lot of research money towards Star-Wars like programmes) so, rather than returning to the US, I came to Sheffield and CERN. A few years later I was offered three separate Post Doc positions at Berkley, Chicago/Fermilab and Brookhaven, but by which time I was married, and my first wife categorically refused to move to the US. I visit regularly but never worked there again.
The Good Friday Agreement and US ownership
Victory has a thousand fathers, defeat is an orphan.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
The Good Friday Agreement brought peace to Northern Ireland after 30 years of the troubles and was hailed as a major triumph of diplomacy. There is a very strong feeling of ownership in the US, the EU (e.g. Michael Barnier) and Ireland. Strangely not so much in certain factions of the UK. The DUP never signed, are at best lukewarm, and the hard-wing elements hate the agreement. The ERG hate the blurred NI sovereignty it introduces – it is an anathema both to their passionate English Nationalism and their cognitive dissonance that a puny country like Ireland could thwart their Empire mark 2.0 destiny.
The US however have a very good claim to being a major force in negotiating the GFA. Senator George Mitchell is considered pivotal in its brokering. Bill Clinton considers the GFA to be one of the major achievements of his presidency and a work of genius. Interest in the GFA and NI is still extremely high among the very powerful Irish American Community and recently both Clinton and Mitchell have warned about the reintroduction of a hard border.
American Trade and Investment in the UK and Ireland
The UK has been very successful in attracting FDI, particularly from Asia, with very high profile investment from Japan in for example Hitachi, Nissan and Honda. Ireland however has been number one in attracting US FDI particularly in the Tech, Pharma and Banking Sectors. The European headquarters of many major American companies is in Ireland, such as Apple, Microsoft, Google, PayPay, AirBNB and Bank of America.
Fig. 3 shows the Cork Technology sector, with many American companies. Though Cork is Ireland's second city it has a population similar to that of Sunderland, and the map is illustrative of the breath of FDI in Ireland.
Fig. 3 Cork Technology Sector.
Both the UK and Ireland trade extensively with the US. From the US perspective, especially under Trump, it is exports from the US that are important and the trade balance. The year 2016 is used for comparison here, more recent goods figures are available, but this is the year of the latest published IE services data.
The 2016 Irish figures are import from the US goods $12.3bn (MIT OEC), services $40.3bn (Irish CSO). Irish figures for exports (2016) are goods are $41.2bn (MIT OEC) and $14.7bn services (Irish CSO). The trade was fairly balanced. Ireland's substantial trade surplus in goods, is very nearly cancelled out by services.
The 2016 UK figures are US imports goods $46bn (MIT OEC) Services £16.7bn (UK ONS) and Exports goods $52bn (MIT OEC) and services £32.7bn (UK ONS). Goods are reasonably balanced, but the UK has a considerable surplus in services.
Overall then the economic situation is not clear cut. The trade volumes are greater between the US and the UK, but nowhere near the factor of 10 that might be assumed from the relative size of the two countries. Ireland also headquarters so many American Companies in Europe, that it is likely to be strategically more valuable economically than the UK, particularly if the UK leaves the Single Market. Peace and stability on the island of Ireland is also economically of supreme importance to the US.
Another source of potential leverage over the US is ownership of US National Debt. This is held via the vehicle of Treasury Securities (or more simply Treasuries). It is widely known that in the 1980's and 90's Japan was the major foreign holder of US debt, to be overtaken by China in the 2000s. Chinese leverage on the US via treasuries has been serious discussed in the context of the US/China trade war. The UK holds substantial quantities of Treasuries (in 4th place) could this give the UK some economic leverage?
It is less well known that Ireland also holds substantial quantities of Treasuries. The top five holders of Treasuries as of February '19 were: 1. China $1130.9bn, 2. Japan $1072.4bn, 3. Brazil $307.7bn, 4. UK $283.8bn and possibly surprisingly 5. Ireland at $274.1bn. The number 6 spot is held by Luxembourg at $226.8bn. Essentially the Treasuries holdings by the UK and Ireland are within a few percent. It is unlikely that either country could gain any comparative advantage.
One other measure, that of gross operating surplus by US companies in 2015 is shown in Fig. 4. Ireland is well ahead of the UK with c80bn€ compared to c57bn€ for the UK. Trump is first and foremost a hard headed businessman and more likely to be convinced by such figures than sentiment towards Ireland and the UK.
Fig. 4 Gross Operating Surplus of US companies in the EU.
The Current Washington Climate and Trump
President Trump is currently in the White House. As a Republican, a business man, and an advocate of "America First" he is still somewhat of an unpredictable quantity. Historically the Irish have been very much associated with the Democrat Party, is Trump likely to be an ally to Ireland or indifferent?
What has changed over the past 50 years or so is that there are now a vast number of Irish American Republicans, many of whom are, or have been, very close to Trump: Sean Spicer, Kellyanne Conway, Steve Bannon and Paul Ryan, John Kelly, Brett Kananaugh and Mike Flynn, for example. The phenomenon of the Irish joining US reactionary conservationism is explored here by Fintan O'Toole.
One long running Washington "Institution" is the St. Patrick's Day party on or around the 17th March. This has been an annual event since Pr. Truman was in the White House. This starts at 6:00am and runs to 11:00pm and is a celebration of the Irish in America and an opportunity for numerous meetings, but most important between that of the current Taoiseach and US President.
There was a worry that Trump might not be interested, but the opposite was the case. Apparently it was one of the things he was most looking forward to in office. Indeed rumour has it that in one of his first telephone conversations with PM May, he spent the first 5 minutes saying how much he loved Ireland and the Irish (much to May's bafflement).
The Current Irish American Position
The Irish American position has been strengthened even further, as in the American mid-term elections the Democrats regained control of Congress. Two high profile Irish American Democrats are Richard Neal and Brendan Boyle. Richard Neal is a passionate Irish American with three Irish Nationalist grandparents (the fourth being Cornish). He was heavily involved with the GFA and is chair of the Congressional Friends of Ireland. Other prominent members are Nancy Pelosi-D and Joe Crowley-R (under whom Leo Varadkar served an internship when part of the Washington Ireland Program). This group has the reputation of being truly bi-partisan and one of the few places Republicans and and Democrats speak with one voice. More importantly perhaps, Neal is Chair of the powerful Ways and Means Committee. This is the committee that needs to sign off any trade deals, such as a bilateral UK-US deal.
Brendan Boyle, who is a first generation Irish American is a rising star and introduced a resolution opposing hard Irish Border introduced in US Congress.
It seems likely that Congress will oppose any trade deal between the US and UK if the open border in Ireland is threatened. Announcements after the bi-lateral Trump-Varadkar meeting after the St Patrick's Day event in a few weeks will be interesting!
Rather than the US elephant trampling Ireland underfoot – the image painted by Christopher Meyer, it is worth remembering that the elephant is the symbol of the US Republican party. It could well be that the US elephant is indeed on Ireland's side. The Democrat symbol of the donkey, so charmingly echoed by the cop who stopped me for speeding in the US, is also likely to take very unkindly to a no-deal Brexit and a consequent hard border on the island of Ireland.
It is perfectly possible that if the UK goes for a No-Deal Brexit, it will not only sour relations with the EU but will do so with the US as well. It is interesting that Liam Fox, considered by many as being the most fanatically pro-US Brexit supporter seems so firmly behind May's deal. More than anyone in the administration he is likely to be able to read the mood in Washington.
I conclude by quoting again from Bonny Greer:
There is something profoundly stupid about the way Brexit is proceeding, in relation to Ireland. Britain's 'finest hour' mentality will come up against something much stronger in the USA. When it comes to the UK – which is generally referred to as 'England' – deep down inside, just about everyone in America is Irish. In short, don't be perceived to be disrespecting Ireland. Remember that I told you this.
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Sean, have you read this article from the Independent?
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/northern-ireland-backstop-the-troubles-theresa-may-brexit-european-union-red-lines-a8803336.html
If you have read it, others might care too.
The evidence on the ground is persuasive, even if anecdotal, but I don't think there's any doubt but that England (used advisedly, has lost a lot of respect and many friends in Northern Ireland.
Sean Danaher - 2019-03-02T10:45:52+00:00
thanks, I had not seen the article but it is very good and thanks for the link. Securing the border is well nigh impossible. At height of the troubles 27,000 military personnel couldn't secure the border at an estimated cost of 40-60bn pa for the British treasury.
I think the demographics used are a bit out of date some more recent ones https://bangordub.wordpress.com/2019/02/03/the-demographic-clock/ and even starker from the Unionist point of view.
Its telling that Alliance, which is the pragmatic centrist party in NI is very pro backstop and is increasingly looking to Dublin rather than London.
England sadly has lost a lot of respect and not just in NI.
In the Brexit corner there is this – for once not a unicorn but I'm still scepitical:
https://briefingsforbrexit.com/ironically-it-will-take-a-no-deal-to-solve-the-irish-border-issue/
I suspect the author has never been to NI and seems to have little understanding of the province. I'm not remotely convinced by the piece.
The major issue is lack of trust, which is why IE and the EU want the backstop. I'm not sure how long May is going to last but it is very possible a hard Brexiter could be leading the Tory party and even be PM within months.
Sean Danaher
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A projected first-round draft pick, Carr passed for 5,802 yards, 50 touchdowns and just eight interceptions as a senior.
Unlike Alabama linebacker C.J Mosley and quarterback AJ McCarron and Ohio State running back Carlos Hyde, Carr accepted his invitation and stuck with his commitment to play in this game.
"Everybody's entitled to how they feel and what they want to do," Carr said when asked aboy some players who declined invitations to play in the Senior Bowl. "I just want to compete. I don't care what people say about me – you're here or here (draft oulook), that stuff doesn't matter to me because it really doesn't matter until draft day.


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The Balsams Grand Resort Hotel is a grand hotel and ski resort located in Dixville Notch in New Hampshire, United States. The resort grounds cover  and feature  of cross-country ski trails, an alpine ski area with 16 trails, five glade areas and a terrain park. There is also a nine-hole golf course and an 18-hole championship course called "Panorama" which was designed by Donald Ross.

History

Located along the old Coös Trail (now Route 26) through Dixville Notch, it first opened just after the Civil War as the Dix House, a 25-room summer inn established by George Parsons. In 1895, it was purchased by Henry S. Hale, a Philadelphia inventor and industrialist who had been a regular guest. He renamed it "The Balsams", and over time enlarged and augmented the facilities. In 1918, Hale completed the Hampshire House, the towering wing which doubled the resort's capacity to 400 guests.

The Ballot Room of The Balsams is where Dixville Notch's presidential primary votes are cast just after midnight on the day of the New Hampshire primaries since the 1960s. These votes cast by Dixville Notch residents are among the first to be cast, counted, and reported nationally.

Current operations
The Balsams closed to the public after being purchased by new owners for $2.3 million in December 2011, and remains closed as of January 2021 as its owners continue to seek financing for their redevelopment and expansion efforts. In 2014, former American Skiing Company head Les Otten joined the Balsams redevelopment effort. Included in Otten's current plan is a massive expansion of the ski area to around 1,000 acres and the addition of multiple lifts, including a year-round gondola to the summit and a lift connection across Route 26 to the hotel complex. The expanded ski area would be quadruple its current size and be one of the largest ski areas in the Northeast. Plans also call for the renovation of the main hotel buildings, the Dix and Hampshire houses, as well as a new hotel wing, and renovations to the golf course clubhouse. The plans also call for the conversion of a portion of the existing buildings from hotel rooms to condominiums as well as the potential construction of additional condominium units.

Otten has stated that the project to redevelop the hotel and resort would cost an estimated $170 million. After years of effort by the owners of the property, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu signed the so-called "Balsams Bill" into law in May 2019, allowing the Coös County Commissioners to create a tax increment financing district around the Balsams. Otten seeks to sell $28 million of bonds under the municipal finance structure in order to begin the redevelopment. In 2021, Provident Resources Group, a national nonprofit, agreed to finance the construction of the new hotel. The development team later announced the addition of Goldman Sachs to advance the financing of the project. This led to a surge in real-estate interest, with over 500 pre-sale commitments totaling $30 million by June 2022.

See also

 National Register of Historic Places listings in Coos County, New Hampshire

References

External links
 Balsams Grand Resort - Official site
 Balsams Wilderness Ski Area History - NewEnglandSkiHistory.com

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Bradford est une ville située dans le Yorkshire de l'Ouest en Angleterre, au pied des Pennines, à  à l'ouest de Leeds et à  au nord-ouest de Wakefield. Faisant historiquement partie du West Riding of Yorkshire, la ville est devenue un arrondissement municipal en 1847 puis obtient sa charte de ville en 1897. À la suite de la réforme du gouvernement local en 1974, le statut de cité a été attribué à l'arrondissement métropolitain de la cité de Bradford. Bradford fait partie de la zone urbaine du Yorkshire de l'Ouest qui comptait  d'habitants en 2001 ; c'est le quatrième plus grand district métropolitain du Royaume-Uni. La ville compte  habitant en 2018.

Au , la révolution industrielle fait de la ville un centre international de production textile : de petite ville rurale, Bradford devient la . Les richesses naturelles de la région  ont facilité la croissance de la manufacture de Bradford qui voit, à mesure que la fabrication de textile progresse, sa population augmenter significativement. Néanmoins, le secteur du textile y est en déclin depuis le milieu du . La ville est confrontée aux mêmes défis que le reste du nord de l'Angleterre, à savoir les difficultés socio-économiques liées à la désindustrialisation.

Bradford bénéficie d'un patrimoine architectural victorien remarquable dont l'hôtel de ville de style italianisant. La ville est également la première « ville UNESCO de cinéma » avec des attractions telles que le musée national de la science et des médias, le parc municipal, le théâtre  et le . La ville de Bradford partage un aéroport international avec sa ville sœur, Leeds.

Étymologie
Le nom Bradford est dérivé du vieil anglais  « large » et  « gué ». Il est attesté sous la forme Bradeford en 1086, dans le Domesday Book. Ce « gué large » est celui qui permettait de franchir le Bradford Beck au niveau de Church Bank, près du site de la cathédrale de Bradford.

Histoire

Histoire médiévale
Après la révolte de 1070, lors de l'épisode de la dévastation du nord de l'Angleterre menée par Guillaume Le Conquérant, la seigneurie de Bradford est saccagée. Cet épisode est décrit dans le Domesday Book de 1086. La ville appartient ensuite à la baronnie féodale dite Honour of Pontefract donnée à Ilbert de Lacy pour service rendu à Guillaume Le Conquérant. Sa descendance y restera jusqu'en 1311. Des preuves ont été retrouvées de l'existence d'un château dès l'époque des Lacy. Ensuite, le château appartient successivement au comte de Lincoln, John Gaunt puis à la Couronne, avant de devenir propriété privée en 1620.

Au Moyen Âge, Bradford devient une petite ville centrée autour des actuelles rues de Kirkgate, Westgate et Ivegate. En 1316, il est fait mention d'un moulin à foulon, d'un moulin où tout le maïs de la seigneurie est moulu et d'un marché. Pendant la Guerre des Deux-Roses, les habitants se rangent du côté de la maison de Lancastre. Édouard IV accorde le droit d'organiser deux foires annuelles et, dès lors, la ville commence à prospérer. Sous le règne d'Henri VIII, Bradford dépasse Leeds en tant que centre de production. La ville connait une lente croissance au cours des  années suivantes alors que le commerce de la laine gagne en importance.

Histoire moderne
Pendant la première révolution anglaise, la ville est le théâtre d'affrontement entre les Têtes-Rondes, partisans du Parlement d'Angleterre et les cavaliers, soutenant les Royalistes. La ville est mise en garnison par les Têtes-Rondes. Elle est attaquée en 1642 par les royalistes de Leeds. Thomas Fairfax prend le commandement de la garnison et affronte le duc de Newcastle mais il est vaincu. Les Parliamentarians se retirent à Bradford et les royalistes installent leurs quartiers au  d'où ils organisent le siège de Bradford, menant à sa capitulation. La guerre civile provoque un déclin de l'industrie mais après l'arrivée au pouvoir de Guillaume III et Marie II en 1689, la prospérité commence à revenir. Le développement de l'industrialisation au début du  marque le renouveau de la ville tandis que les nouvelles voies reliant les canaux et les routes à péages encouragent les échanges commerciaux.

Révolution industrielle
En 1801, Bradford est une ville de marché de  habitants. Bradford n'est pas beaucoup plus grande que la ville voisine de Keighley. Elle est nettement plus petite qu'Halifax et Huddersfield. Elle sert de centre d'attractivité pour les cantons voisins : , ,  et , séparés de la ville par la campagne.

Une présence militaire permanente est établie dans la ville avec l'achèvement de la caserne  en 1844.

Sidérurgie
Les hauts fourneaux sont créés vers 1788 à partir du partenariat de quatre personnes : Richard Hird, John Jarratt, Joseph Dawson et John Hardy à . Le minerai de fer est travaillé par l'entreprise Bowling Iron Works jusqu'en 1900. Le fer du Yorkshire est utilisé pour fabriquer des chaînes, des crochets, des tiges de piston de locomotives, des cages pour les mines à charbon ainsi que d'autres appareils miniers réclamant une solidité à toute épreuve. La Low Moor Company, qui fabrique aussi de la fonte brute, emploie  hommes en 1929. Lors de la création de l'arrondissement municipal de Bradford en 1847, on y recense quarante-six mines de charbon. Au cours des décennies suivantes la production de charbon continue de croître, atteignant un pic en 1868, au moment où la ville fournit le quart de tout le charbon et du fer produit dans le Yorkshire.

Industrie textile
Les activités de filage de laine et de tissage d'étoffes sont réalisées dans des cottages et des fermes. En 1825, le syndicat des peigneurs de laine appelle à faire grève ; le mouvement durera cinq mois. Les ouvriers sont cependant contraints de retourner au travail alors qu'est introduit le peignage à la machine. La révolution industrielle a entraîné une croissance rapide, avec de la laine importée, de la fabrication de tissus en laine peignée dans laquelle Bradford se spécialise et la ville est rapidement reconnue comme capitale mondiale de la laine.

Titus Salt a été l'un des principaux employeurs du secteur textile. En 1833, il dirige l'entreprise de tissage de laine de son père spécialisée dans la production de tissus mélangeant alpaga, mohair, coton et soie. En 1850, il possède cinq usines. Cependant, à cause de la pollution et des conditions misérables de ses ouvriers, Titus Salt quitte Bradford et transfère son entreprise de Salt Mills à Saltaire en 1850. En 1853, il commence à y construire un village ouvrier.

Henry Ripley a été associé et directeur de l'entreprise Edward Ripley & son, propriétaire de Bowling Dye Works. En 1880, l'usine de teinture a employé plus de , étant considérée comme la plus grande usine de teinture d'Europe. Comme Titus Salt, il est conseiller municipal, juge de paix et député de Bradford, il est profondément préoccupé par l'amélioration des conditions de logement de la classe ouvrière. Il a construit le village modèle industriel de Ripley Ville sur un terrain à Broomfields, East Bowling près de l'usine de teinture. D'autres employés importants sont Samuel Lister et son frère, des peigneurs de fil et fabricants à Lister's Mill. L'usine Lister incarne l'entreprise victorienne, mais il est considéré que son attitude capitaliste rendait les syndicats nécessaires. Une croissance sans précédent, avec plus de 200 cheminées d'usine, produisant continuellement de la fumée noire et sulfureuse a donné à Bradford la réputation d'être la ville la plus polluée d'Angleterre.

Les épidémies de choléra et de typhoïde ont été fréquentes et seulement  des enfants, nés de travailleurs du textile, ont atteint l'âge de 15 ans. Ce niveau extrême de mortalité infantile et juvénile a contribué à une espérance de vie d'un peu plus de 18 ans pour les habitants de Bradford, l'une des plus faibles du pays.

Pour soutenir les usines de textile, une importante activité manufacturière s'est développée dans la ville, fournissant des machines de textile, ce qui a conduit à une diversification avec différentes industries qui se développent côte-à-côte. La Jowett Motor Company fondée au début du  par Benjamin et William Jowett et Arthur V Lamb, a fabriqué des voitures et des fourgonnettes à Bradford pendant 50 ans. La Scott Motorcycle Company a été un fabricant bien connu de motocyclettes et de moteurs légers pour l'industrie. Fondée en 1908, à Bradford, par Alfred Angas Scott, les motos ont été produites jusqu'en 1978.

Charbonnage
Bradford a suffisamment disposé de charbon extrait localement pour fournir l'énergie dont l'industrie a besoin. Le grès local a été une excellente ressource pour la construction d'usines et avec une population de  habitants en 1850, la ville s'est développée rapidement, les ouvriers étant attirés par les emplois dans les usines à textile. Une pénurie d'eau dramatique limitait sérieusement l'expansion industrielle et l'amélioration des conditions sanitaires urbaines. En 1854, Bradford Corporation a acheté la Bradford Water Company se lançant dans un vaste programme d'ingénierie, visant à acheminer des réserves d'eau douce à Airedale, Wharfedale et . En 1882, l'approvisionnement en eau s'est nettement amélioré. Pendant ce temps, l'expansion urbaine s'opère le long des voies de sortie de la ville et les communes deviennent une zone urbaine à la fin du .

Immigration
Comme beaucoup de grandes villes, Bradford a été une destination pour les immigrés. Dans les années 1840, la population de Bradford a été considérablement augmentée par les migrants venus d'Irlande, en particulier des comtés de Mayo et de Sligo, ruraux. En 1851, environ 10% de la population était née en Irlande, la plus grande proportion du Yorkshire. Vers le milieu du , les irlandais étaient concentrés dans 8 zones densément peuplées situées près du centre-ville. L'un d'eux est le quartier de la rue Bedford à Broomfields qui, en 1861, comptait  personnes d'origine irlandaise soit  de toutes les personnes nées en Irlande dans l'arrondissement.

Dans les années 1820 et 1830, l'immigration provient d'Allemagne. Beaucoup sont des marchands juifs et sont devenus actifs au sein de la ville. La communauté juive vit pour la plupart dans la zone de Manningham où la ville compte environ 100 familles, mais elle a joué un rôle important dans le développement de Bradford en tant qu'exportateur majeur de produits en laine et dans l'exportation textile, principalement basées dans le quartier Little Germany et dans le centre-ville de Bradford. Charles Semon (1814-1877) a été un marchand de textiles et un philanthrope qui a développé une maison d'exportation textile productive dans la ville, il est devenu le premier maire étranger et juif de Bradford en 1864. Jacob Behrens (1806-1889) a été le premier marchand de textile étranger à exporter de la laine de la ville, son entreprise devient une multinationale de plusieurs millions de livres. Il est philanthrope et a également contribué à la création de la chambre de commerce de Bradford en 1851. Jacob Moser (1839-1922) a été un marchand de textile, associé à la société Edelstein, Moser and Co, qui est devenue une maison d'exportation textile de Bradford prospère. Jacob Moser a été philanthrope et a fondé la Bradford Charity Organisation Society ainsi que la City Guild of Help. En 1910, Jacob Moser devint le premier maire juif de Bradford.

Histoire récente
Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les migrants arrivent de Pologne et d'Ukraine. Depuis les années 1950, les migrants viennent du Bangladesh, de l'Inde mais surtout du Pakistan. L'industrie du textile connait une baisse d'activité durant la dernière partie du .

La culture de l'innovation a été essentielle pour la compétitivité de Bradford, avec l'invention de nouvelles technologies du textile dans la ville ; le travail de Samuel Lister en est un parfait exemple. Cette culture se poursuit aujourd'hui au sein de l'économie de la ville, de l'automobile (Kahn Design) à l'électronique ().

Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc est fondé par William Morrison en 1899.

Bradford au cinéma
 1983 : L'Habilleur (The Dresser) de Peter Yates
 2013 : Le Géant égoïste (The Selfish Giant) de Clio Barnard

Sports
Bradford est avant tout intrinsèquement liée au rugby à XIII ; en effet c'est dans cette ville qu'apparait l'un de tous premiers clubs de ce sport en 1895 : le . Le club évolue fin des années 2010 dans la seconde division anglaise, le Championship, après avoir été au plus haut niveau. En effet, en 2013,  il aura remporté six fois le championnat d'Angleterre, et quatre fois la Coupe d'Angleterre. Rebaptisés , le club dispute la Super League dans les années 1990 et 2000. Le stade de rugby à XIII est un équipement original puisqu'il s'agit d'une ancienne mine à ciel ouvert, formant un vaste cratère ; l'Odsal Stadium. Ce stade accueille une affluence record de  spectateurs lors de la finale de la coupe d'Angleterre de rugby à XIII en 1954.

Mais il est intéressant de noter que le club originaire de Bradford, celui qui faisait partie des membres fondateurs de la fédération anglaise de rugby à XIII en 1895, n'est pas le club actuel mais celui de  : ce club existe toujours mais opte en 1907 pour la pratique du football et, fin des années 2010, il joue en divisions inférieures.

La ville possède également un club de football, le Bradford City Association Football Club, qui évolue depuis 2019 en EFL League Two.

Personnalités liées à la ville

 James Berry (1852-1913), bourreau, y est mort.
 Pierre Duba
 Jonathan Holden
 Sophie McShera
 Frederick Delius
 Benson Taylor
 Natalia Kills
 Timothy West
 Justin Sullivan
 Steven Frayne, alias Dynamo (1982-), magicien anglais.
 Linda McAvan
 Zayn Malik, chanteur.
 David Hockney
 Martin Atkinson
 Brian Baines (1931-2006), journaliste et animateur de télévision.
 Austin Mitchell (1934-2021), politicien britannique.
 Adrian Moorhouse (1964-), champion olympique de natation.
 Will Carling (1965-), capitaine de l'Équipe d'Angleterre de Rugby.

Jumelages

Notes et références

Liens externes
  Bradford Metropolitan District Council

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Courts Matters Bill
This disclosure statement was prepared by the Ministry of Justice.
The Ministry certifies that, to the best of its knowledge and understanding, the information provided is complete and accurate at the date of finalisation below.
The Courts Matters Bill and the Tribunals Powers and Procedures Legislation Bill (the Tribunals Bill) form an integrated package of amendments that will contribute towards the goal of a modern, efficient, and effective courts and tribunals system. The Business Committee has agreed to the introduction of these Bills as cognate Bills under Standing Order 269.
Independent, fair, and efficient courts and tribunals are a cornerstone of our democracy. People's experiences of courts and tribunals shape their views of justice system integrity.
The Courts Matters Bill and the Tribunals Bill amend courts and tribunals legislation respectively to—
reduce the time it takes to hear and resolve matters and to improve users' experience of the courts and tribunals system:
enable greater use of modern technology to further improve efficiency, effectiveness, and timeliness:
simplify and standardise statutory powers and procedures to improve productivity and efficiency:
provide better consumer protection and redress, and greater access to justice.
The Business Committee has agreed to the introduction of the Courts Matters Bill as an omnibus Bill under Standing Order 263(c).
The Courts Matters Bill amends—
the Courts Security Act 1999, to improve users' experience by making courts and tribunals safer and more secure:
the Criminal Procedure Act 2011, to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and timeliness of criminal processes:
the Summary Proceedings Act 1957, to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and timeliness of fines enforcement:
11 other acts to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and timeliness of the courts.
The major initiatives in the Bill are described below.
Part 1: amendments to Courts Security Act 1999
This Part seeks to improve court users' experience by making courts and tribunals safer and more secure.
It will expand court security officers' (CSOs') powers to enable them to deal with low-level offending and disruptive behaviour in court more effectively.
Giving CSOs more powers to deal with disruptive people
Part 1 authorises CSOs to deny entry to or to remove or to detain people who are intimidating, abusive, or otherwise causing disruption in court. This will include people whose disruptive behaviour is due to the effects of alcohol or other drugs.
The changes reflect best practice drawn from court security legislation in comparable jurisdictions.
Currently, CSOs can only use their powers when there is a credible risk of violence to court users or harm to property. Court security officers cannot use their powers to address relatively low-level disruptive behaviour that is causing distress to other court users or is interfering with the orderly operation of the courts.
Empowering CSOs to detain for a wider range of offending
Part 1 will increase CSOs' authority to detain people who they believe have committed or attempted to commit a wider range of offences in a court. This power is currently limited to a small number of very serious offences. It does not include common offending such as disorderly behaviour and wilful damage. This limits CSOs' ability to provide a safe, secure, and orderly court environment. Court security officers need to be able to respond decisively to all offending.
Part 1 will also expand the range of circumstances in which a CSO can detain a person to include—
carrying illegal drugs and associated paraphernalia detected by a CSO during a search:
committing or attempting to commit an offence that a CSO believes on reasonable grounds threatens the safety or security of another person or their property, or may cause serious damage to court premises:
refusing to give a CSO their full name, address, and date of birth after committing an offence on court premises:
refusing to leave the court after being required to do so or attempting to re-enter:
refusing to obey a direction from a CSO to do or not to do anything that is reasonably necessary to protect the safety and security of people being escorted outside the court on court-related business.
Part 1 will also empower CSOs to pursue people who are to be detained, or are in lawful custody, and who flee or otherwise escape from court premises. The power to pursue is authorised while that person is within a short distance of the CSO.
Part 2: amendments to Criminal Procedure Act 2011
Part 2 amends the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (the CPA) to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and timeliness of criminal powers and procedures. The key changes are described below.
Re-classifying Category 2 offences as Category 1 offences
Part 2 amends the CPA to re-classify Category 2 offences with a maximum penalty of community work as Category 1 offences. This will increase efficiencies, as, for example, defendants can plead guilty to Category 1 offences by a written notice, whereas defendants in Category 2 cases are required to appear in court.
Broadening powers to issue warrants to arrest
Part 2 amends the CPA so that a judicial officer or Registrar can issue a warrant to arrest for a Category 2, 3, or 4 offence (imprisonable offences), whether or not a summons has been served, in certain circumstances.
The CPA enables the prosecutor, when commencing a prosecution, to seek a warrant to arrest a defendant if reasonable efforts to summons the defendant to court have been unsuccessful. There are a number of situations where service of a summons is an unnecessary or impractical first step. These include, for example, where Police are seeking to extradite a person from overseas for a prosecution commenced in New Zealand or where the Police do not know a defendant's location.
Part 3: amendments to Summary Proceedings Act 1957
Part 3 will improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and timeliness of fines enforcement. The key changes are described below.
Authorising automated decision making for time payment arrangements
The Chief Executive of the Ministry of Justice will be authorised to approve automated decision making for imposing attachment orders to collect overdue fines, approving online offers to voluntarily pay fines, and adding further overdue fines to existing payment arrangements.
Most fines are paid through a time payment arrangement. These amendments will improve customer service, productivity and the credibility of fines.
Authorising unilateral and immediate cancellation of voluntary time payment arrangements
Court Registrars will be authorised to cancel voluntary time to pay arrangements for fines (including reparation) when they have genuine and reasonable grounds to do so (for example, if the person provided false or misleading financial information). On appeal, a District Court Judge can confirm, change, or reverse the Registrar's decision.
New procedures for placing charges on land and forcibly selling land to pay fines
Procedural amendments are made to the ability to impose statutory land charges and orders for the sale of property where defendants have overdue fines of $5,000 or $50,000 respectively.
Part 4: amendments to other Acts
Part 4 amends 11 Acts to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and timeliness of the courts. The key changes are described below.
Reversing the order of inquiries under the Criminal Procedure (Mentally Impaired Persons) Act 2003
Subpart 5 reverses the order of the "involvement" and the "fitness" judicial inquiries required by the Criminal Procedure (Mentally Impaired Persons) Act 2003 so that the "fitness" inquiry is held before the "involvement" inquiry. Only defendants who are found to be "unfit" will proceed to an "involvement" inquiry. The criminal trial will resume for defendants who are found "fit" to stand trial. This will reduce the burden on victims and other witnesses, who sometimes have to attend and give evidence at both the "involvement" inquiry and the criminal trial (if the defendant is found fit to stand trial).
Simpler and quicker jury processes under the Juries Act 1981
Subpart 7 authorises registrars to excuse potential jurors who are not confident of their understanding of the English language to provide a simpler and quicker process. In addition, court staff will be able to communicate with jurors electronically. Jurors will receive the information they need sooner and by a more convenient method.
Regulatory Impact Statements (RIS) were prepared by the Ministry of Justice in May 2016 on
- reversing the order of inquiries prescribed under the Criminal Procedure (Mentally Impaired Persons) Act for assessing defendants' fitness to stand trial;
- unilateral cancellation of voluntary time to pay arrangements for fines;
- extending Court Security Officers' statutory powers to allow them to better address low level offending and disruptive behaviour.
A copy of these RIS can be found at: https://www.justice.govt.nz/justice-sector-policy/constitutional-issues-and-human-rights/regulatory-impact-statements/ and http://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/informationreleases/ris.
After consultation with the Treasury it was determined that the other amendments were not subject to the regulatory impact analysis requirements because they will have no or only minor impact on individuals, businesses or not-for-profit entities.
Potential costs and benefits were quantified in the Regulatory Impact Statements.
The Ministry has not identified any obligations that conflict with the policies contained in the Bill.
Changes promoted through this Bill are not considered to have specific implications for Māori as individuals, communities or tribal groupings.
NO (TBC)
The following changes are being made to the jurisdiction of the courts.
Currently a prosecutor can seek a warrant to arrest a defendant if reasonable efforts to summons the defendant to court have been unsuccessful. The Bill will authorise a judicial officer or Court Registrar to issue a warrant to arrest for Category 2, 3, or 4 offence (imprisonable offences), whether or not a summons has been served, in certain circumstances (for example where the location of the defendant is not known).
District Court Judges and Community Magistrates will be authorised to impose a 'sale order' – the forcible sale of the defendant's real and personal property to pay overdue fine/s of $50,000 or more - in the criminal jurisdiction, provided this will not cause undue hardship to the defendant or their dependants. (For example, the defendant's home will not be able to be sold.)
District Court Registrars will be authorised to register a statutory land charge against land owned by defendants with overdue fine/s of $5,000 or more.
The Bill authorises the collection of additional information to enable electronic communications with jurors.
3.5.1. Was the Privacy Commissioner consulted about these provisions?
The Ministry of Justice has undertaken three rounds of consultation.In May 2015, the Ministry undertook targeted consultation on some of the policy proposals with
Heads of Bench
the Criminal Practice Committee
Criminal Bar Association
New Zealand Bar Association
The responses were generally supportive. The comments received were taken into account when the policy proposals were finalised.
The Ministry consulted with government agencies and departments on the draft Bill. We received a number of comments, which were taken into account in finalising the Bill.
The Ministry is already administering statutory land charges and sale orders for other purposes. These processes will be adapted for the new purpose of District Court fines enforcement.
The Ministry is trialling the automated imposition of attachment orders to the extent possible within the current law. Automatically generated attachment orders are being reviewed and approved by a registrar before issue. This will ensure that the fully automated process is robust when it is implemented following enactment.
The Ministry has developed the necessary business procedures to implement the automated approval of online offers to voluntarily pay fines through time payment arrangements.
The other initiatives either address existing operational issues or will improve the operation of existing processes
Significant decision-making powers affecting individuals
Part 1 will authorise:
- the Minister for Courts to extend the application of the Courts Security Act to include further courts and tribunals by amending the meaning of the defined terms - 'court' and 'tribunal'.
- the Chief Executive of the Ministry of Justice to exempt regular court users such as lawyers from the statutory search and screening processes when they enter all or specified courts. The exemption will be able to be cancelled if necessary. All users will benefit from swifter search and screening.
The bill amends the regulation making power in the Summary Proceedings Act 1957 to authorise additional methods of service to be approved by regulations. This will avoid the need for further amendments to authorise the adoption of new technologies in future.
(The Act already authorises electronic service. This amendment is intended to cover future unforeseen technologies that fall outside the scope of this provision.)


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Soneva Jani welcomes 'the next Spielberg' Elliott Hasler for exclusive movie screenings
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Soneva Jani has welcomed Elliott Hasler, the youngest feature film director in the United Kingdom.
From July 1 to 7, Elliott is hosting a dinner and screening at Soneva Jani's Cinema Paradiso, the Maldives' first overwater cinema.
Charlie's Letters, as well as To Hunt a Tiger and Nootau, are part of the screening at Soneva Jani. The latter two films are set to be released later this year and next year, meaning Soneva Jani is hosting the first public screening.
Elliot will also run a mobile video shooting workshop for guests at Soneva Jani. He will also be shooting a short two-minute story about the resort.
The young director completed his first film, Charlie's Letters, at the age of 16, which portrays a true World War II Brighton story. Charlie's Letters premiered in Brighton, Elliott's hometown, selling out six of the seven showings in May 2017 as part of the Brighton Fringe Festival. The film also screened at the Edinburgh Festival and was shown on the Brighton Big Screen alongside T2 Trainspotting and La La Land where it received critical acclaim and was lauded by critics as a "miracle", with Culture Trip's Graham Fuller citing Elliot as "the next Spielberg."
Elliott recently completed To Hunt a Tiger, a short film set in the British Raj featuring John Locke (Darkest Hour, The Favourite) and Charlotte Peters (Pound of Flesh, Interlude in Prague). The film is a tale of love, loss, and adventure against a backdrop of early 20th Century India. It centres on a troubled English hunter who travels to West Bengal with the intention of hunting an elusive and magnificent tiger. To Hunt a Tiger was shot in Sri Lanka, following in the footsteps of David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai, it also features an original score by Emmy Award-winning composer Daniel Clive McCallum.
Elliott heads up Relsah Productions, an independent production company based in Brighton, which offers both feature films and documentaries for cinema and television. Along with Charlie's Letters, Elliott also made a documentary covering the exploits of Brighton's mayor, The Mayor Diaries, which premiered on TV in February 2018 and a selection of short films.
His next project, Vindication Swim, is a feature film based on the true story of a swimmer, set in the 1920s. In the shadow of World War I, swimmer Mercedes Gleitze fights to overcome the patriarchal society, along with her troubled coach, to become the first English woman to swim the Channel. However, after a rival comes forward claiming to have already accomplished the feat, Gleitze is forced to battle against the Channel Swimming Association in order to retain her record and her legacy.
World-leading luxury resort operator Soneva runs two resorts in the Maldives, Soneva Fushi and Soneva Jani.
In 1995, the award-winning luxury resort Soneva Fushi set the standard for all desert island barefoot luxury hideaways in the Maldives. Located in the Baa Atoll UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Soneva Fushi pairs Robinson Crusoe fantasy with intelligent luxury.
Sixty-two private villas with their own stretch of beach are hidden among dense foliage within touching distance of a pristine coral reef. Intuitive service is provided by Mr./Ms. Friday butlers.
Highlights include the open-air Cinema Paradiso, counting Saturn's rings in the high-tech Observatory, the home-made chocolate and ice cream rooms, five hundred wines to choose from, six different restaurants and countless destination dining options. In November 2015, Soneva launched a floating villa concept, Soneva in Aqua, a treasure trove children's Den and a multi-purpose facility encompasses a glass gallery, boutique and studio where guests can learn the art of glass blowing.
If the experiences are magical, the philosophy is simple: No news, no shoes. No pretensions either.
Opened in December 2016, Soneva Jani is Soneva's newest property and the world-leading luxury hotel group's second resort in the Maldives.
Soneva Jani is located on the island of Medhufaru within a 5.6 kilometre lagoon in the Noonu atoll, and has uninterrupted ocean views in all directions. The lagoon is 35 minutes by seaplane from Velana International Airport and one hour by speedboat from Soneva Fushi.
Meaning 'wisdom' in Sanskrit, Soneva Jani currently comprises 24 overwater villas and one island villa, with additional villas to be built in phase two. Five islands encircle the lagoon, each one with soft white sands and covered in rich tropical vegetation. Four of the five islands will remain untouched, making Soneva Jani the lowest density development in the Maldives. The overwater villas are spaced across the expansive lagoon, offering privacy and extensive views over the Maldives' turquoise waters. The island villas will be tucked into the lush greenery, providing the ultimate privacy, and all within steps of the beach.
Soneva Jani's main guest facilities are located at The Gathering, the heart of the overwater villas. This dramatic three story structure is home to the main dining outlets, in addition to the Soneva Spa, library, retail area and wine cellar. It is located next to the Maldives' first overwater Observatory.
Facilities on the island include the overwater Cinema Paradiso, the Eco Centro Waste-to-Wealth centre, organic gardens, tennis courts, water sports champa and Zuhair's Beach on a desert island in the lagoon.
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There is a code of conduct within Heijmans. This code of conduct details the eight values for integrity that Heijmans expects its staff to respect while carrying out their activities for Heijmans. This is based on three values for conduct: professional-inventive-cooperation. A condition for sound business practices is the openness that is, amongst others, stimulated by exemplary behaviour by the management. In addition, staff are given the opportunity to report any issues relating to behaviour and integrity. Staff can speak to appointed confidential advisors. In the Integrity Committee, issues, dilemmas, themes relating to integrity and all other related subjects are discussed twice a year. Based on that, this committee then makes recommendations to the management about the policy that should be implemented.
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Q: Buffering in Blackberry Currently I am working on the application for which I have to use audio buffering. Please tell me how I can achieve this task as I am trying myself.

A: read this Buffer and play streamed media

A: Also, there's a great example in the Blackberry SDK, which shows buffered playback of a MP3 file.
Take a look in the 'samples' folder of JDE/Eclipse Plugin.

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Amazon gets into the podcast business
JOSEPH PISANI , AP Retail Writer
FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2019 file photo, people stand in the lobby for Amazon offices in New York. Amazon is jumping into the podcast-making business. The online shopping giant said it plans to buy Wondery, a 4-year-old producer of popular true crime podcasts such as "Dr. Death" and "Dirty John."Mark Lennihan/AP
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon is jumping into the podcast business.
The online shopping giant is buying Wondery, a 4-year-old producer of popular true crime podcasts such as "Dr. Death" and "Dirty John," which was later turned into a TV series.
An explosion of new podcasts has led to a number of acquisitions as competing platforms try to grow their audiences and their ad revenue. The music streaming platform Spotify bought two podcast companies in 2019 and it's added high-profile hosts to its roster, including Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Wondery podcasts will be part of Amazon's music streaming service, but it will still be available on other platforms as well.
"This is a pivotal moment to expand the Amazon Music offering beyond music as listener habits evolve," Amazon said in a blog post Wednesday.
Terms of the acquisition were not released.
The Canadian province that invested $1.1 billion of taxpayers' money in the controversial Keystone XL project is now considering the sale of pipe and materials to try to recoup some funds.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) - A granddaughter of Nelson Mandela has harshly criticized a longtime associate of the former president and anti-apartheid leader, in an escalation of a dispute over funds linked to one of the world's most revered figures.
Tukwini Mandela accused lawyer George Bizos of insulting her mother, slandering the Mandela family name and spreading "blatant lies and innuendo" in a bitter rift over control of two companies linked to 94-year-old Mandela.
Tukwini's mother, Makaziwe Mandela, and Makaziwe's sister Zenani have filed a court case against Bizos and two other associates of Nelson Mandela, alleging they have no right to remain as directors of the companies.
This week, The Star newspaper quoted Bizos as saying Makaziwe Mandela's goal is to take company money, estimated to be $1.3 million.


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What do you do when someone you've loved dearly suddenly turns on you and tries to hurt you? Yes, I'm talking about sugar.
Sugar cookies, cinnamon sugar. Dipped in sugar. The memories are warm and oh, so sweet. I see visions of Grandma and cookie cutters and big, shiny pies.
Now we're told that sugar is not only not good for teeth or waistlines, it's also addicting and damaging. Horrors! Sugar, how could you!
And here come the holidays, based on—you guessed it—sugar. "Hi, here's a lovely tin of carrot sticks I made as a special gift for you." Hmm. What a difficult trade.
The only hope I can lend is that many recipes actually taste better without so MUCH sugar. For example, I cut the sugar requirement in my pumpkin pie recipe down to a third of a cup and raised the cinnamon a bit, and people rave about my pie. Why? You can taste the pumpkin! We've become so seduced by sugar that we forgot the ingredients we were sweetening are actually tasty. You may have to taste less or unsweetened more than once before the flavor grows on you, but if the gloom-peddlers are right, the effort is worthwhile. And after a while, dishes that are too, too sweet aren't treats any longer. They're kind of sickening.
Go ahead. Try cutting the sugar way, way down. Is there another flavor that would make you forget your first love? Maybe cinnamon or allspice or nutmeg? How about adding nuts? How about dates or raisins or currants? The goal is deliciousness, and you don't have to watch the shows where chefs are forced to make dinner with marshmallow paste and anchovies to know there's more than one way to work a recipe.
This entry was posted on November 2, 2014 by Personal Journeys with Gramma in Musings and tagged Alternatives to Sugar, Artificial Sweeteners, Childhood Memories, Cravings, Cutting Back, Deliciousness, Family Recipes, featured, Flavor, Musings, Recipe Revision, Sugar, Sugar Addiction, Sugar Substitutes, Sweetness.


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Tag: Finland
Wednesday, December 30th 2020 - 08:00 UTC
Greenest and craziest 180,00 tons cruise vessel Mardi Gras offers a roller coaster and brewery for craft beers
In cold, dark Finland, in the middle of the pandemic, shipyard workers at Meyer Turku were hard at work setting a roller coaster on top of a cruise ship - a world first. Others were installing a brewery that could produce craft beers with filtered seawater, intended for a staggering on-board audience of up to 6,500 passengers.
Monday, September 21st 2020 - 08:06 UTC
Finnish cruise vessel aground in the Baltic: rescue operation on course
Finnish passenger cruise ship ran aground off the island of Aland in the Baltic Sea, the cruise line said on Sunday, with emergency services adding they were preparing to evacuate the vessel.
Monday, December 9th 2019 - 09:29 UTC
Finland selects a woman the youngest prime minister, 34-year old Sanna Marin
Finland's transportation minister Sanna Marin was selected by her Social Democratic party on Sunday to become the country's youngest prime minister ever, taking over after the resignation of Antti Rinne. The 34-year-old Marin, whose party is the largest in a five-member governing coalition, will be the world's youngest serving prime minister when she takes office in the coming days.
Wednesday, May 8th 2019 - 09:56 UTC
US objections to climate change derail Arctic nations joint statement
US objections to the wording on climate change prevented Arctic nations signing a joint statement at a summit in Finland, delegates said. It is the first time such a statement has been cancelled since the Arctic Council was set up in 1996.
Monday, May 6th 2019 - 09:04 UTC
Arctic countries meet in Finland, but not all participants are happy with China's presence
Top diplomats from the United States, Russia and other nations which border the Arctic meet in Finland on Monday to discuss policies governing the polar region, as tensions grow over how to deal with global warming and access to mineral wealth.
Friday, May 3rd 2019 - 13:47 UTC
Venezuela will be a central issue of the Lavrov and Pompeo meeting
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will hold talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the Arctic Council meeting, which begins Monday in the city of Rovaniemi. The tension in Venezuela will mark the meeting where
Wednesday, March 20th 2019 - 08:17 UTC
Costa Smeralda launched in Finland; first Costa cruise powered by Lng
Costa Crociere celebrated the technical launch of the new flagship Costa Smeralda at the Meyer shipyard in Turku, Finland. During the ceremony, the ship officially touched the sea for the first time. The celebration, which saw the participation of the top management of Costa Cruises and the Meyer shipyards, followed the protocol established by the maritime tradition, with the flooding of the basin where the ship has taken shape in recent months.
Tuesday, March 5th 2019 - 04:30 UTC
World gigabyte costs: India the cheapest and Falklands among the most expensive
A study into the amount people pay for mobile data has found that the UK has some of the most expensive prices in Europe. Likewise the Falkland Islands and Saint Helena figure among the five worst cases in the site Cable.co.uk. The research found that one gigabyte (GB) of data cost $0.26 (£0.20) in India but $6.66 in the UK, and US$ 47.39 in the Falklands.
US Congress furious after Trump sides with Putin, saying "no Russian meddling in US elections"
There has been a barrage of criticism in the United States after President Donald Trump defended Russia over claims of interference in the 2016 elections. At a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Finland, on Monday, Trump contradicted US intelligence agencies, saying Russia had no reason to meddle.
Monday, July 16th 2018 - 07:29 UTC
Trump in Finland ready to meet Putin; describes EU, Russia and China as "foes"
President Donald Trump named the European Union as a top adversary of the United States and denounced the news media as the "enemy of the people" before arriving in Helsinki on Sunday on the eve of his high-stakes summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin.


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import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { connect } from 'react-redux';
import { updateFormData } from '../../actions/IndexActions.js';
import * as exportActions from '../../actions/exportActions.js';
import _ from 'lodash';
import {
    Button,
    ButtonGroup,
    ControlLabel,
    FormGroup,
    Panel,
    MenuItem,
    DropdownButton
} from 'react-bootstrap';

class OutputPanel extends Component {
    constructor() {
        super();
        this.state = {};
    }
    componentWillMount() {
        // select the first data as default
        this.props.dispatch(
            exportActions.changeApplicantSelection(this.props.applicants.toArray()[0])
        );
        this.props.dispatch(
            exportActions.changeSciSelection(this.props.sci[0])
        );
    }

    updateButtonHandler() {
        this.props.dispatch(updateFormData(this.props.id));
    }

    computeApplicantText(selectedApplicant) {
        return selectedApplicant ? `姓名: ${selectedApplicant.applicant} 科室: ${selectedApplicant.department}` : '请添加申请人';
    }
    computeSciText(selectedSci) {
        return selectedSci ? `年份: ${selectedSci.year} IF: ${selectedSci.impact} 分区: ${selectedSci.section}` : '请添加SCI';
    }
    render() {
        const props = this.props;
        const { id, sci, selectedApplicant, selectedSci, dispatch } = props;
        const applicants = props.applicants.toArray();
        const selectedApplicantText = this.computeApplicantText(selectedApplicant);
        const selectedSciText = this.computeSciText(selectedSci);
        return (
            <Panel header="打印 修改 ">
                <FormGroup className="form-panel-content">
                    <ControlLabel className="controllabel-blk">打印申请人</ControlLabel>
                    <DropdownButton title={selectedApplicantText} id="applicantSelector">
                        {_.castArray(applicants).map((item, index) => (
                            item ?
                                <MenuItem
                                  key={index}
                                  onClick={() => dispatch(exportActions.changeApplicantSelection(item))}
                                >
                                    {this.computeApplicantText(item)}
                                </MenuItem> : null
                        ))}
                    </DropdownButton>
                </FormGroup>
                <FormGroup className="form-panel-content">
                    <ControlLabel className="controllabel-blk">选择SCI</ControlLabel>
                    <DropdownButton title={selectedSciText} id="sciSelector">
                        {_.castArray(sci).map((item, index) => (
                            item ?
                                <MenuItem
                                  key={index}
                                  onClick={() => dispatch(exportActions.changeSciSelection(item))}
                                >{this.computeSciText(item)}
                                </MenuItem> : null
                        ))}
                    </DropdownButton>
                </FormGroup>
                <FormGroup className="form-panel-content">
                    <ButtonGroup block vertical>
                        <Button bsStyle="info" onClick={() => this.updateButtonHandler()}>保存变更</Button>
                        <Button onClick={() => dispatch(exportActions.exportPrintPage())}>输出打印文档</Button>
                    </ButtonGroup>

                </FormGroup>

            </Panel>
        );
    }
}

const select = (state) => ({
    applicants: state.importForm.data.applicant,
    sci: state.importForm.data.sci,
    id: state.importForm.data._id,
    selectedApplicant: state.exportForm.selectedApplicant,
    selectedSci: state.exportForm.selectedSci
});
export default connect(select)(OutputPanel);

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When I hear the phrase "train like an astronaut," I think of pictures like this one, of John Glenn practicing to orbit the earth, or of deep sea diving training, or even of accidentally getting shot into space as a teenager.
While this year's pilot of the Mission X program, anyone can follow the curriculum, which is available for download at trainlikeanastronaut.org. There are exercises to build aerobic fitness, learn about nutrition, build core strength, flexibility, and much else besides.
In addition to the specially-developed Mission X curriculum, the website also gathers a whole slew of relevant, age-appropriate sites about all aspects of manned space missions.
Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut should interest any space-obsessed kid out there–and maybe get them moving, too!


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Vaping: Stop Doing It In School!
A student's experience with vaping
by Lyn Cheely, Staff WriterApril 7, 2016Leave a Comment
The Movie Theater Experience
Back When I Was a Child
Digital Progress
Photo by Mike Mozart, Flickr CC
A sign disallowing use of cigarettes, including electronic cigarettes, in a public area. These signs have been popping up more and more as vaping grows.
The teacher stops the lesson for a 5 minute class break. Everyone jumps out of their seats and heads over to their friend's desks, the water fountain, and the bathroom. The first individual to the bathroom pulls open the door and strides purposefully inside, only to find himself choking in a cloud of licorice-scented mist. There's another student in the bathroom, and he's vaping.
Vaping is a fairly new fad. It is essentially an "alternative" to smoking, where an individual inhales and exhales nicotine induced scented/flavored vapor (rather than smoke) produced by an electronic cigarette or other similar device. While vaping under the age of 18 is illegal and against school rules, it has presented itself as being a significant issue at our school currently. However, little has been done about it. One individual who has experienced the issue personally, John*, describes it in detail.
John's experience began with a routine trip to the bathroom in the middle of the day.
"It was actually kind of an emergency, and I was going to be late to class if I didn't hurry up, so I pretty much ran to the bathroom and threw open the door," said John.
When he opened the door, he stepped into a humid cloud of strawberry scented vapor.
"It smelled sickly sweet and I realized it wasn't smoke so much as it was vapor," John said. "It felt wet and sticky on my face. It turned out that there was a guy in the back of the bathroom who was vaping."
Upon this discovery, John chose to ignore the other boy and go on with his business. However, he had inhaled the vapor the other boy had permeated the room with.
It's rude because you don't consider how it affects the people around you."
"He didn't run out or anything," John said. "I just used the bathroom, tried not to cough, washed my hands and ran out."
However, the experience hadn't quite ended for John. When he returned to class, the synthetic scent of strawberries had clung to his clothing. While seemingly harmless, recent studies conducted by Harvard, suggest that the vapor's tendency to "cling" indeed poses a threat to individuals who inhale it, even if it was inhaled "second-hand."
"When I got back to class my teacher asked me what 'that smell' was," John said. "A bunch of my friends were talking about it smelling like some kind of fruit and laughing, saying it might be perfume or lotion. I didn't say it out loud, but I realized that the gross vapor I had ran into earlier had literally stuck to my shirt and face."
Inhalation of the scented vapor has been linked to a number of health problems, including a possibly fatal condition called bronchiolitis obliterans, (better known as "Popcorn Lungs") where the airways in your lungs become inflamed from chemicals in the vapor, and are blocked as a result of the inflammation. And regardless of this fact, putting aside the potential health risks of inhaling vapor, it is considered a temporary annoyance to those who do not want to inhale it.
"I thought it was pretty rude," John said. "If you're going to skip class to do something stupid and illegal, at least do it outside or somewhere that's ventilated. Nobody wants to smell vapor, even if it's licorice or strawberry or (whatever) scent it is. It's the same thing as cigarette smoke to me. Both smell bad and both feel bad to breathe in.
Taking time out of the school day, and therefore one's classes to vape is detrimental in a number of ways. Significant class time full of important content is missed, and more to the point, vaping isn't allowed at school anyway.
"There's no good reason to take risks at a school's discipline level and at a legal level just because you like to vape," John said. "It's rude because you don't consider how it affects the people around you, and it's not beneficial to you anyway because you're choosing to skip class to do it."
So what can students who vape do to prevent risk to themselves and others? It's simple according to John.
"If you're going to vape, do it elsewhere, and do it when you're older," John said. "Don't make your addiction everyone else's problem."
Lyn Cheely, Staff Writer
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Abhishek Bachchan has already started shooting for Anurag Basu's next and the first pics from the sets leaked out his look. The shoot is underway in Kolkata and Abhishek is looking absolutely rugged and rustic in these pics. Basu takes to the streets of Kolkata as she shoots for his next based on his hit Life In A Metro which released in 2007. He has been refusing to officially declare the movie as a sequel to the film but the insiders claim that it is based on the same theme. Abhishek's look will remind you of his stint in Yuva where he donned grey shade for Mani Ratnam.
This movie will reportedly star Rajkummar Rao, Sonakshi Sinha, Saif Ali Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Sonakshi Sinha, Taapsee Pannu and Ishaan Khatter. It has an ensemble cast and therefore it is althoughmore exciting to see them all together on screen! As far as Abhishek Bachchan is concerned, he came on screen after two years with Anurag Kashyap's Manmarziyaan where his performance was appreciated by masses. He has also signed a film called Gulab Jamun with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. They will come on screen together after nine long years.
Check out these pics below and tell us if you are excited for the film.


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SBDCTech Client Spotlight - Rudy Chavarria Jr.
The relationship that changed things for Chavarria Jr. was the one he built with Bill Waldo, an SBDC @ UCI Applied Innovation consultant and Tech Coast Angel. Before Waldo was an SBDC consultant, he was the Founder and CEO of his food service sales and marketing company for 25 years, which managed all food service sales and marketing functions for some of the nation's largest food manufacturers as Nestle, Sara Lee, and HJ Heinz. When he decided to sell, he pivoted to angel investing. For the last 12 years, Waldo has worked with hundreds of early-stage companies alongside his duties at the SBDC. When he connected with Chavarria Jr., he saw a diamond in the rough.
"The company Rudy was trying to launch was still an idea – a communication vehicle where movie studios wanting to target college and university students could use Rudy's connections with radio across the country," Waldo explains. "He struggled with that business model for a long time, picking up some business here and there, but it was never sufficiently monetized," said Waldo.
Then came the a-ha moment; Waldo asked Chavarria Jr. a question that changed everything.
So Chavarria Jr. made the ultimate pivot, and completely changed his business model from College Web Media to College Web Mentor – a move Waldo refers to as "a full paradigm shift for [Chavarria Jr.], and a very unique experience for me." Chavarria Jr. began the process of assessing how to be a problem solver for students who needed more guidance and preparation for their post-school life. He met with students to learn more about their guidance and mentorship goals and needs, he began guest speaking at colleges and high schools, and he even set up a booth at Santa Monica City College for two years. Over that time, he met 450 college students that said they wanted to be mentored and signed up for Chavarria Jr.'s program.
Now, Chavarria Jr. is on the fast track to making College Web Mentor a nationally recognizable resource and a huge success, he has already obtained over $100k in equity funding and created two jobs. He also recently met about a partnership with a concierge company that specializes in supporting overseas students with cars and places to live, and now working on getting investors. His short deck is built, the marketing and business plan is complete, the company website is in process, and they're filming student testimonial videos in support of Chavarria Jr.'s mission. And he says he owes it all to Waldo.
Chavarria Jr. has one piece of advice for entrepreneurs who are debating whether or not to work with the SBDC: don't hesitate, and don't be afraid – do it.


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Home Culture Stage Sophie's Choice
by Jon Kaplan
NIGHTSONGS by Jon Fosse, and FACE TO THE WALL (England) by Martin Crimp, directed by Katie Mitchell, with Jonathan Cullen, Gillian Hanna, Paul Higgins, Sophie Okonedo, Christopher Saul and Peter Wight. Presented by the Royal Court at the du Maurier Theatre Centre. Opens Wednesday (April 3) and runs to April 7, Wednesday-Saturday 8 pm, matinees Saturday-Sunday 2 pm.
i catch sophie okonedo on her cellphone as she's driving to the theatre. She doesn't have much time.But she pulls her car to the side of the road to talk about Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse's Nightsongs, which opened last month in London. The show, which brings her from England with the Royal Court Theatre's production, kicks off this year's World Stage Preview.
The play and its brief companion piece, Martin Crimp's Face To The Wall, are directed by Katie Mitchell, whose version of The Oresteia was a World Stage hit two years ago.
Mitchell established the production's rules -- no set, no props or furniture except those found on-site, no fixed blocking for the actors, and the lights and sound change each performance as the situation dictates.
"This is my preferred way of working," says a breathless Okonedo against the dull traffic roar.
Okonedo plays the anonymously named Young Woman, caught between the never-ending demands of a newborn and of her husband, a writer afraid to leave their apartment.
"I only like to set the character's objectives, what she needs and wants. How they're achieved each night is different. Nobody can go on autopilot.
"Oops -- a traffic warden is looking at me. I better move the car."
And she's off.
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Q: Plymouth splash not working and causing VT problems Since I tried installing Plymouth (boot splash), I'm facing two problems :

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*It's not working

*My Virtual Terminals (tt1 - 6) aren't working anymore

Here what I did :

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*Added plymouth hook (after base udev and autostart) to mkinitcpio and ran mkinitcpio

*Defined the theme to be "spinfinity".

*Disabled slim service and enabled slim-plymouth service.

*Added splash to kernel parameter in grub.cfg

I already had Intel driver in KMS (i915).
Linux is just booting as it was booting before (HDD alerts => SLiM) and nothing more.
When I'm trying to enter a VT, equally before or after logging, It just displays a blinking cursor (or HDD Alerts for tty1).
How to solve this ?