The site covers several factory communities which were built in the 18th and 19th centuries in a valley of the River Derwent, upstream from Derby.
Industrial development in the area started with the Silk Mill which was built in Derby in 1721 by John and Thomas Lombe.
In 1771, Richard Arkwright built a water-powered spinning mill at Cromford. In 1776-1777, a larger mill was built nearby. The "factory system "evolved from these two cotton mills. Arkwright's inventions were first put into industrial-scale production.
The workers' housing was near the mills. The mills and houses make up an architectural record of the development of the area.
The changes in the valley, including the creation of workers' housing, were important in the Industrial Revolution.
Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry
The Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry or simply the Très Riches Heures ("The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry") is a richly decorated Book of Hours. Such books contained prayers to be said by lay faithful at each of the canonical hours of the day. The book was commissioned by Jean, Duc de Berry around 1410. It is probably the most important illuminated manuscript of the 15th century, ""le roi des manuscrits enluminés"" ("the king of illuminated manuscripts"). The "Très Riches Heures" has 416 pages. 131 of them have large miniatures, many more have border decorations or historiated initials. These artworks are among the high points of International Gothic painting, even though they are very small. There are 300 decorated capital letters. The book was worked on, over a period of nearly a century, in three main campaigns, led by the Limbourg brothers, Barthélemy van Eyck, and Jean Colombe. The book is now Ms. 65 in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France.
Human Development Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a number from 0 to 1 (higher is better) used to compare different countries. It is published by United Nations Development Programme. It is used to rank countries into different groups for example developed and developing countries.
The Human Development Index uses different measurements of a population:
The Human Development Index has been criticized on a number of grounds including alleged ideological biases towards egalitarianism and so-called "Western models of development", failure to include any ecological considerations, lack of consideration of technological development or contributions to the human civilization, focusing exclusively on national performance and ranking, lack of attention to development from a global perspective, measurement error of the underlying statistics, and on the UNDP's changes in formula which can lead to severe misclassification in the categorisation of 'low', 'medium', 'high' or 'very high' human development countries.
Economists Hendrik Wolff, Howard Chong and Maximilian Auffhammer think that very often, the data which is used to construct the statictics for the HDI is wrong.. According to them, there are three sources of error in the data:
They found that 11 %, 21% and 34% of countries are currently misclassified in the development bins due to the three sources of data error. The authors suggest that the United Nations should stopthe practice of classifying countries into development bins because the cut-off values seem arbitrary, can provide incentives for strategic behavior in reporting official statistics, and have the potential to misguide politicians, investors, charity donors and the public who use the HDI at large. In 2010 the UNDP reacted to the criticism and updated the thresholds to classify nations as low, medium, and high human development countries. In a comment to "The Economist" in early January 2011, the Human Development Report Office responded to a January 6, 2011 article in the magazine which discusses the Wolff "et al." paper. The Human Development Report Office states that they undertook a systematic revision of the methods used for the calculation of the HDI and that the new methodology directly addresses the critique by Wolff "et al." in that it generates a system for continuous updating of the human development categories whenever formula or data revisions take place.
The HDI uses a weighted average for the different values. This means that it can be used - to some extent - to compare countries. It cannot be used to show the problems inside a country. Also the index only takes into accounrt people of 20 years or older. This leaves out problems such as infant mortality and children who do not reach that age.
Economist Bryan Kaplan points out another problem: Things needed in everyday life are underrepresented, education is overrepresented. Unless the whole population is made of students and pupils, it is not possible to reach the maximum score for the education parameter. At the moment, a Scandinavian country is at the top of the list. This means that the HDI measures "how Scandiavian" a country is. It would also mean that the country at the top of the list has no potential for improvement, which is certainly not the case.
The 2011 Human Development Report was released on 2 November 2011. Below is the list of the "Very High Human Development" countries:
Shigekazu Nakamura
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Grégory Coupet
Grégory Coupet (born 31 December 1972) is a French former football player.
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Tatsuya Mochizuki
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Caligula (movie)
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Anton Ferdinand
Anton Ferdinand (born 18 February 1985) is an English football player. He plays for Sunderland.
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Masataka Imai
Musashi Mizushima
Musashi Mizushima (born 10 September 1964) is a former Japanese football player.
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Raúl Bravo
Raúl Bravo (born 14 April 1981) is a Spanish football player. He plays for Olympiacos.
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Tomoo Kudaka
Tomoo Kudaka (14 March 1963 – 22 September 1999) is a former Japanese football player.
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Al-Maref
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Al-Maref has won the championship three times in Qatar Stars League.
USL First Division
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Jacques Santini
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Pablo Gabriel García
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Bradley Wright-Phillips
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Iwao Yamane
Iwao Yamane (born 31 July 1976) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Zweigen Kanazawa.
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Takumi Watanabe
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Makoto Kimura
Makoto Kimura (born 10 June 1979) is a Japanese football player. He plays for Zweigen Kanazawa.
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Keisuke Hada
Keisuke Hada (born 20 February 1982) is a former Japanese football player.
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Kiyotaka Ishimaru
Kiyotaka Ishimaru (born 30 October 1973) is a former Japanese football player.
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Qatar S.C.
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California Jaguars
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Masakazu Koda
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