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Harvard Six Cities Study Oral History Project Receives Funding
By Heather Mumford, March 1, 2019
Doug Dockery collecting outdoor air samples for the Harvard Six Cities Study. Image courtesy of the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
Heather Mumford, Archivist for the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has received funding from the Dean's Office and the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard Chan School to immediately begin a Harvard Six Cities Study Oral History Project. In the coming months, Mumford will work closely with those closest to the study, such as Douglas Dockery, Frank Speizer, Francine Laden, John Spengler, and Petros Koutrakis, to identify key topics and narratives for inclusion in the project. The resulting oral history interviews will be recorded, transcribed, and preserved for posterity at the Center for the History of Medicine.
For more information about the project, please contact Heather Mumford.
Initiatives, Public Health |	 air pollution, environmental health, harvard school of public health Department of Environmental Health, Harvard Six Cities Study, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, oral histories, oral history, public health, research
From Riding Breeches to Harvard: Stories of the First Female Harvard Chan School Graduate
By Heather Mumford, September 27, 2017
Bernice Ende, lady long rider and great-nice of Linda James Benitt, the first woman to graduate from the Harvard Chan School (then known as the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers) shared photographs of Linda's parents, as well as anecdotes on her early life.
The Center for the History of Medicine was delighted to host the event, "From Riding Breeches to Harvard" on Wednesday, September 20th at the Countway Library. Bernice Ende, great niece of Linda James Benitt, who was the first woman to graduate from the Harvard T.H. Chan School (then the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers), presented findings, photos, documents, and stories from her research on, and relationship with, her "Aunt Linda." Ende, a lady long rider for over thirteen years, has credited both her mother and her aunt for inspiring her life-long desire to encourage female leadership through long riding. Dr. Joe Brain, Cecil K. and Philip Drinker Professor of Environmental Physiology, Department of Environmental Health, and Chair of the Harvard Chan School Archives Advisory Committee, welcomed the intimate crowd and shared his experiences working with the committee and the Harvard Chan School Archivist, Heather Mumford, in uncovering the early history of the school.
Heather Mumford, Archivist for the Harvard Chan School, presented on her 2013 "discovery" of Linda James Benitt, the first woman to graduate from the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers (precursor to the Harvard Chan School).
Prior to Ende's presentation, Joan Ilacqua, Project Archivist for the Archives for Women in Medicine, provided background information on the first women on the Harvard Longwood campus, with a nod to Linda James Benitt's being the first woman to be credentialed on the same basis as men in 1917 by the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers.
Following Ilacqua's presentation, Mumford spoke on her discovery of Linda James Benitt in 2013 during the school's centennial. The results of her early research, primarily conducted through the Minnesota Historical Society, resulted in a two-part blog series, available here. Ultimately these blog posts were what connected Mumford and Ende, and sparked their correspondence over the next three years.
The James family, circa 1920. Photograph courtesy of Bernice Ende.
During her presentation at the Countway, Ende shared family photographs, letters, clippings, and anecdotes which helped paint a more well-rounded perspective of Linda James Benitt, and followed her throughout her life at Harvard and beyond. Common threads, such as a love of horses, a dedication to fighting for women's rights and highlighting the accomplishments of women, as well as cultivating opportunities for adventure, were also discovered for the first time during the course of her research, and have led Ende to a much deeper appreciation for her great aunt. Ende has written a book on these topics, which is anticipated to be released in 2018. As a very special treat, Bernice Ende's older sister brought and displayed family photos and artifacts for the audience to enjoy.
For more information on Ende, visit her website: www.endeofthetrail.com
Exhibits and Events, Initiatives, Public Health |	 Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, History of women, public health, women in public health, women in science
Marie C. McCormick Papers Open to Research
By Amber LaFountain, June 29, 2017
Marie C. McCormick.
The Center for the History of Medicine is pleased to announce that the papers of Marie C. McCormick, 1956-2016 (inclusive), 1968-2009 (bulk), are now open to research. McCormick is the Sumner and Esther Feldberg Professor of Maternal and Child Health in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School; and Senior Associate for Academic Affairs in the Department of Neonatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Her research has primarily focused on epidemiology and health services, particularly in relation to infant mortality and the outcomes of high-risk and very low birth weight neonates.
She served on all four phases of the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), the largest longitudinal multisite randomized trials of early childhood educational intervention for low birth weight and high-risk infants, and was the Principal Investigator of Phase IV of the program. She was also a senior investigator on both the federal Healthy Start Program and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Perinatal Regionalization Program. She served as Chair of the Institute of Medicine's (now National Academy of Medicine) Committee on the Health Effects of Marijuana, and its Immunization Safety Review Committee, for which she testified twice before the U.S. House of Representatives on the lack of evidence linking vaccinations with autism (2001 and 2004). In 1996, she also testified before the U.S. Senate on the National Healthy Start Initiative. She has published 12 books and monographs, as well as over 280 scientific papers, reviews, editorials, reports, and abstracts.
The papers include research, teaching, administrative, and publishing records, generated by McCormick over the course of her career, such as:
Infant Health and Development Program (Phases I-IV) administrative records;
Evaluation of Regionalized Networks for High Risk Pregnancy Care study administrative records;
Long Term Outcomes of Very Low Birthweight Infants study administrative records;
Occasional research data from the previous three studies;
Teaching records for courses related to maternal and child health, taught by McCormick at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health;
Grant records for graduate training grants related to maternal and child health; and
Writings and publications related to maternal and child health, epidemiology, regionalization of care, and other topics in public health.
The collection was processed as part of the Bridging the Research Data Divide project, funded by a Hidden Collections grant administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources. For more information on the project, please contact the project's principal investigator, Emily R. Novak Gustainis, Deputy Director of the Center for the History of Medicine.
For more information on McCormick's collection, please view the online finding aid: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HMS.Count:med00244.
Center News, Initiatives, Newly Open to Research, Public Health |	 Bridging the Research Data Divide, Epidemiology, Infant mortality, Longitudinal studies, Low birth weight, Marie C. McCormick
Harvard Prevention Research Center and Steven L. Gortmaker Collections Open to Research
Fitness Folder, from the Harvard Prevention Research Center's Planet Health Curriculum. P-DT08.01, Series 00598. From the Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.
The Center for the History of Medicine is pleased to announce the opening of two collections: the records of the Harvard Prevention Research Center (HPRC) and the papers of the HPRC's Director, Steven L. Gortmaker.
The Harvard Prevention Research Center on Nutrition and Physical Activity was founded in 1998 at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, to work with community and governmental organizations in the research, development, and implementation of school- and community-based youth intervention programs to encourage better health habits. The HPRC has conducted a number of intervention research projects, including: the randomized control trial of the Planet Health curriculum, which is used in middle schools to teach healthy decision making about nutrition, exercise, and leisure activities; and the Play Across Boston project, which surveyed and evaluated the availability of afterschool fitness programs for Boston-area youth, and studied how access and individual family characteristics influence youth physical activity.
The HPRC records include administrative records and research data for both Planet Health and Play Across Boston. Planet Health records include student fitness questionnaires, television viewing worksheets and graphs, financial records, Wellness Workshops administrative records, and student participation records. Play Across Boston records include: student surveys (concerning health and exercise habits, demographics, access to fitness programs, and other topics); and fitness program provider surveys (concerning program details, cost and accessibility, and participant numbers and demographics).
Steven L. Gortmaker, M-AD06. From the Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.
In addition to directing the HPRC, Steven L. Gortmaker is Professor of the Practice of Health Sociology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His research focuses primarily on the health and mortality risks affecting children and adolescents (particularly low-income and minority), and interventions for mitigating those risks. He served as Principal Investigator on a number of HPRC initiatives, including Planet Health, Play Across Boston, the Out of School Nutrition and Physical Activity Initiative (OSNAP), and is also Co-Director of the Childhood Obesity Intervention Cost-Effectiveness Study (CHOICES). In 1997, he was awarded the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research.
Gortmaker's papers comprise his research and teaching records generated during his career. The collection includes research data and administrative records from a number of projects, including: an obesity research project using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Rural Infant Care Program; and organ donation research for the Partnership for Organ Donation. The papers also include Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health teaching records for courses related to HIV, social behavior, and statistics.
The collections were processed as part of the Bridging the Research Data Divide project, funded by a Hidden Collections grant administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources. For more information on the project, please contact the project's principal investigator, Emily R. Novak Gustainis, Deputy Director of the Center for the History of Medicine.
More information on the collections may be found in their online finding aids: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HMS.Count:med00242 (Harvard Prevention Research Center Records); and http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HMS.Count:med00243 (Steven L. Gortmaker papers).
Center News, Initiatives, Newly Open to Research, Public Health, Research and Access |	 Bridging the Research Data Divide, Exercise, Harvard Prevention Research Center, Health education, Human behavior., Infant health services., National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (U.S.)., nutrition, Steven L. Gortmaker, Youth--Health and hygiene
Records of the Harvard School of Public Health Longitudinal Studies of Child Health and Development Now Open to Research
By Amber LaFountain, May 12, 2017
Faculty members of the Harvard School of Public Health Department of Maternal and Child Health, reading a Growth Study Case History. Seated: Bertha S. Burke, Harold C. Stuart, and Elizabeth P. Rice. Standing: Samuel W. Dooley and Samuel B. Kirkwood, circa 1949, H MS c450. From the Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.
The Center for the History of Medicine is pleased to announce that the records of the Harvard School of Public Health Longitudinal Studies of Child Health and Development, 1918-2015 (inclusive), 1930-1989 (bulk), are now open to research. The longitudinal studies, otherwise known as the Harvard Growth Study, were founded in 1930 by Harold Coe Stuart (1891-1976) in the school's Department of Maternal and Child Health. It was one of several United States growth studies that were initiated in response to a recognized lack of knowledge about child health and development. The original study enrolled 309 prenatal subjects between 1930 and 1939, 134 of whom were followed through to maturity (18 years). Researchers tracked subjects' health, physical development, diet, and social and psychological functioning. The data from this and other growth studies were used to create pediatric growth curves and percentile charts that became the standard used by pediatricians across the country.
Infant boys anthropometric growth chart, created with data from the Harvard School of Public Health Longitudinal Studies of Child Health and Development. From the Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.
Recognizing the reuse potential of the rich data collected during the original study, investigators periodically called subjects back for more targeted follow-up studies over the following decades. A 30-year follow-up study on adult health related to child health was conducted between 1960 and 1969; a 40-year follow-up on blood pressure and cardiac health was held between 1970 and 1979; and two 50-year follow-up studies on gynecology and memory of diet in the distant past took place between 1980 and 1989.
The records comprise research data from the original and all four follow-up studies. There is a variety of data types and formats, including: physical examinations and medical records; anthropometric measurements and growth curves; progressive somatotype photographs; somatotype family trees; nutrition and diet surveys; social work interviews and reports; and various medical test results. The data is accompanied by methodologies, protocols, codebooks, reports, grant files, subject participation records, personnel records, and related administrative records. The collection also includes manuscript drafts and publications composed by Growth Study staff members, and collected publications, brochures, and pamphlets related to maternal and child health.
Family Physical Characteristics Key, created during the Harvard School of Public Health Longitudinal Studies of Child Health and Development. From the Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.
This is the first of four collections to be processed under the Bridging the Research Data Divide project, funded by a Hidden Collections grant administered by the Council on Library Resources. For more information on the project, please contact the project's principal investigator, Emily R. Novak Gustainis, Deputy Director of the Center for the History of Medicine.
For more information on the Growth Study and the collection, please view the online finding aid:
http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/primo?id=med00211&q=undefined
Archives and Records Management, Initiatives, Newly Open to Research, Public Health |	 Harvard Growth Study, Harvard School of Public Health Longitudinal Studies of Child Health and Development
Processing of the Harvard Prevention Research Center Records
By Amber LaFountain, March 29, 2017
The Center is pleased to announce that the records of the Harvard Prevention Research Center (HPRC), 1992-2003, are currently being processed as part of the Bridging the Research Data Divide project. The Harvard Prevention Research Center at the Harvard School of Public Health (as of 2014, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health), was founded in 1998. The Center works with local, community, and government organizations to research, develop, implement, and refine school- and community-based youth intervention programs to encourage better health habits among youth. Programs particularly focus on improving nutrition and exercise habits, in order to lower the risk of obesity and chronic disease in children and youth. As of 2016, the Center is nested under the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Steven L. Gortmaker (born 1949) serves as Principal Investigator and Director, and Angie Cradock is the Deputy Director.
The collection is a product of two research projects and educational interventions developed and implemented by the Harvard Prevention Research Center under the direction of Steven Gortmaker: Planet Health (1995-), funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and a university gift; and the Play Across Boston project (1999-2001), funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Planet Health is a middle-school-based wellness curriculum developed for use by teachers and physical education instructors to teach healthy decision-making regarding nutrition, exercise, and leisure activities, while also supporting learning in traditional subject areas. Planet Health records, dated 1992-1997, were developed during the randomized control trial conducted to produce the curriculum, and include: student activity and diet worksheets; teacher and student focus group transcripts and recordings; wellness workshop records; student-made activity graphs; analyzed data; and research administrative records. Play Across Boston was a collaborative initiative with Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society, to survey and evaluate the availability of after-school fitness activity programs for Boston-area youth, and to determine how both access to these resources and individual family characteristics influence youth physical activity. The project surveyed youth participation in 237 programs in the greater Boston area. Play Across Boston records are dated 2000-2003, and consist of: student surveys regarding participation in organized physical activity outside of school hours; and fitness program provider surveys concerning details of program offerings and student participation during the school year and summer vacation months.
The collection is expected to be open to research in 2017. Processing of the collection is part of the Bridging the Research Data Divide project, funded by a Hidden Collections grant administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). For more information on the project, please contact the project's Principal Investigator, Emily R. Novak Gustainis, Deputy Director of the Center for the History of Medicine.
Center News, Collections, Initiatives, New Acquisitions, Public Health |	 Exercise, Harvard Prevention Research Center, Health education, nutrition, Youth--Health and hygiene
Processing of the Steven L. Gortmaker Papers
By Amber LaFountain, March 3, 2017
Steven Lawrence Gortmaker (born 1949), is Professor of the Practice of Health Sociology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, and Director and Principal Investigator of the school's Harvard Prevention Research Center on Nutrition and Physical Activity. His research has primarily focused on the health and mortality risks affecting children and adolescents, especially among low-income and minority groups, and interventions aimed at mitigating those risks. Toward these ends, he served as Principal Investigator for numerous research initiatives at the Harvard Prevention Research Center, including: Planet Health (1995-2007); the Out of School Nutrition and Physical Activity Initiative (OSNAP) (2009-2015); and Play Across Boston (1999-2009). He was also Co-Director of the Childhood Obesity Intervention Cost-Effectiveness Study (CHOICES), and Senior Advisor to the Healthy Eating Research Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He was the 1997 recipient of the 1997 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research. The Center is pleased to announce that Gortmaker's papers, dated 1959-1997, are currently being processed.
The records are the product of Gortmaker's personal and professional activities during his service at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (previously Harvard School of Public Health), and include: research and administrative records for the Rural Infant Care Program and Child Health Studies (1975-1996), the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1963-1985), and the Partnership for Organ Donation (1992-1997); administrative records for the Harvard School of Public Health departments of Behavioral Sciences and Health and Social Behavior; teaching records for courses in the Department of Health and Social Behavior related to statistics, sexuality, and HIV/AIDS; and collected publications. The records are expected to be open to research in 2017.
The records of the Harvard Prevention Research Center are also currently being processed at the Center.
Processing of the collection is part of the Bridging the Research Data Divide project, funded by a Hidden Collections grant administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). For more information on the project, please contact the project's Principal Investigator, Emily R. Novak Gustainis, Deputy Director of the Center for the History of Medicine.
Initiatives, New Acquisitions, Public Health |	 Human behavior., Infant health services., National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (U.S.)., Steven L. Gortmaker
Processing of the Marie C. McCormick Papers
By Amber LaFountain, December 19, 2016
Marie C. McCormick, 2000, M-AD06. From the Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.
The Center is pleased to report that the Marie C. McCormick papers, 1970-2010, the products of McCormick's professional, research, and publishing activities, are currently being processed as a part of the Bridging the Research Data Divide project. McCormick is the Sumner and Esther Feldberg Professor of Maternal and Child Health in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and Senior Associate for Academic Affairs in the Department of Neonatology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Her research has focused primarily on epidemiology and health services, particularly in relation to infant mortality and the outcomes of very low birth weight and otherwise high-risk neonates. Toward these ends, she has served as a senior investigator on both the federal Healthy Start Program and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Perinatal Regionalization Program. She was also the Principal Investigator of Phase IV of the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), the largest longitudinal multi-site randomized trials of early childhood educational intervention for low birth weight infants. Between 2000 and 2004, she served as Chair of the Institute of Medicine's Immunization Safety Review Committee, for which she testified twice before the United States House of Representatives on the lack of evidence linking vaccines with autism. In 1996, she also testified before the United States Senate on the National Healthy Start Initiative. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including: the 2004 David Rall Medal of the National Academy of Medicine, for Exceptional Service; the 2006 Douglas K. Richardson Award of the American Pediatric Society, for Perinatal and Pediatric Healthcare Research; and the 2008 Henry Ingersoll Bowditch Award of the Massachusetts Medical Society, for Excellence in Public Health.
The papers, created through McCormick's professional, research, and publishing activities, include research administrative records of Phases I-IV of the Infant Health and Development Program, research administrative records and data of several high risk pregnancy and very low birth weight studies, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health teaching and administrative records, writings and publications, and collected publications. They are expected to be open to research in 2017.
Center News, Collections, Initiatives, New Acquisitions, Public Health |	 Epidemiology, Infant mortality, Longitudinal studies, Low birth weight, Marie C. McCormick
Staff Finds: Teaching Charts from the HSPH Growth Study
Child Development Body Proportions Diagram, undated. From the Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.
While processing the records of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Longitudinal Studies of Child Health and Development, processing staff in the Center for the History of Medicine recently found a collection of teaching charts, many of which were likely developed with data from the HSPH Growth Study and other contemporary longitudinal growth studies. There is no indication of whether the visuals were used for classes in the school's Department of Maternal and Child Health (where the study was located), or to accompany lectures at professional conferences and symposia. Charts are often longitudinal by age and cover a variety of topics, including: growth and development; puberty and development of the reproductive system; blood counts; blood pressure; hormone levels; nutritional intake; and skin and tissue breadth. Growth and development charts make up the majority of the images, covering: body proportions from fetus through 25 years; height and weight gain patterns; height increments for early, moderate, and late age of maximum growth; median and average weight and height gains by age; skeletal age; and height and weight percentile charts. All are undated, but the majority were likely created after 1957, by which point all subjects would have reached 18 years of age. A selection of these visuals may be found below.
The Harvard School of Public Health Longitudinal Studies of Child Health and Development were founded in 1930 by the Department of Maternal and Child Health, under the direction of Harold Coe Stuart (1891-1976). You can find out more about the collection here. The records are expected to be open to research in summer 2016. Processing of the collection is part of the Bridging the Research Data Divide project, funded by a Hidden Collections grant administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). For more information on the project, please contact the project's principal investigator, Emily R. Novak Gustainis, Deputy Director of the Center for the History of Medicine.
Average Weight and Height Gain by Age Line Graph, created with data from both the Harvard School of Public Health Longitudinal Studies of Child Health and Development and the University of Iowa Child Welfare Station Study. From the Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.
Average Weight and Length Increments in Prenatal and Infant Periods. From the Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.
Height Increments for Early, Moderate, and Late Age of Maximum Growth. From the Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.
Systolic Blood Pressure by Age. From the Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.
Hormone Levels by Age. From the Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.
Blood Counts by Age. From the Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.
Average Height and Weight Gains by Age Bar Graph. From the Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.
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Top 10 Instagram spots in London
London is such a fabulously instragramable place and one of my favourites cities in the world. Nowhere quite combines the mix of centuries-old history, iconic structures and cosmopolitan vibes like London, which makes it perfect for Instagram! Here are my top 10 Instagram spots in London to bookmark for your next trip.
1) The Houses of Parliament
The Palace of Westminster (better known as the Houses of Parliament) is the oldest royal palace in London and one of the most recognised buildings in the world, not to mention one of the Britain's most famous icons and the meeting place of Parliament.
Tip: For the best instagram shot, take a walk across Westminster bridge and wait for a black cab or one of London's iconic red double decker buses to come past. They'll add more depth to your photo.
2) Covent Garden
Although originally a fruit and vegetable market in the 1600s, Covent Garden is now a central hub for high end stores, trendy restaurants and popular theatre shows. But it's not just for the big spenders, Covent Garden has some of the best street performances in London, with performers having to audition to get specific slots in the day. Performances range from singers and magicians to acrobats and human statues, but aside from the free entertainment, Covent Garden is just super pretty and is an instagram must whilst you're in London.
Tip: Head down late afternoon as the sun is going down, the best street performers are out and the square looks beautiful during golden hour.
3) Portobello Road
I only recently got the chance to check out Portobello Road for the first time on my last trip to London and totally fell in love with its beautiful candy coloured buildings, worldly treasures and down-to-earth street vendors. I've always wanted to go ever since watching Disney's, 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks' as a little girl and it did not disappoint.
As the famous song goes, ? You're buying the story of history and dreams ? and it's true! As well as being aesthetically pleasing for Instagram, it's a wonderful market to get lost in for the afternoon, selling historical items you just won't find anywhere else in London.
Tip: Make sure to take a selfie stick to get your camera above the crowd and plenty of cash…hardly anyone takes card. Also watch, 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks' to get you excited for the visit ?
4) Oxford Street
Oxford Street is a major shopping area in London and has a really cool history as a former Roman road. With an eye-watering, half a million visitors a day, Oxford Street is Europe's busiest and most popular shopping street. As well as many high street stores, high end chains host their flagship stores on the street and there are some beautiful listed buildings along the street too that are all equally instagramable.
Tip: Oxford Street is lovely all year round but really sparkles when it gets its annual Christmas makeover. Head down around Christmas time for a day of shopping and check out all the lovely Christmas decorations and window displays (especially House of Fraser).
5) Piccadilly Circus
I like to think of Piccadilly Circus as the, 'Times Square' of London. It has all the same bright lights, fabulous restaurants and theatre shows but with a dash of cool Britannia ?
Tip: Head down after dark to really see those screens pop!
6) Camden Lock
Camden is a well-known music hot spot in London where the likes of Amy Winehouse and the Libertines would regularly frequent. But it is most famous for its diverse street market filled with vintage fashion, unique artwork and fresh street food. Located by the river, Camden Lock is also the perfect place to hang out on a nice summer's day to soak up the sunshine with a few craft beers.
Tip: Try to go during the week as it is a relatively small area and gets super busy over the weekend. Plus you'll have fewer people ruining the aesthetic of your Instagram photos.
7) Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace is one of Britain's most recognisable buildings and quite rightly too, it is the seat of monarchy and the headquarters of royal affairs of state. But it is probably more recognisable in modern times for the commemoration and celebration that takes place on its famous balcony.
Tip: Time your visit for when the changing of the guards is taking place. It is a formal palace ceremony in which the Queen's guards are relieved from duty by the next shift of guards. It's quite a sight to behold! You can find timings of the ceremony here.
8) Emirates Airline Cable Car
A relatively new addition to the skyline, the Emirates Airline Cable Car offers one of the best views in London with a unique perspective of Canary Wharf, the O2 Arena and the Olympic Park. It's a tad pricey at £8.40 for a round trip (that only takes about 10 minutes) but it's well worth it to access one of the best Instagram spots in London.
Tip: The views are wonderful no matter what the time you go but you'll get a pretty sweet sunset shot if you time your visit around dusk. The colours from that height are amazing!
9) Tower of London
The Tower of London is one of my absolute favourite places to visit in London. With its prominent role in English heritage since the white tower's construction in 1078 and its dark tales, it is a fantastic day out with a wide variety of photos ops, both inside and outside the tower. Best photo spots include: the shard from outside the cafe at the back of the tower complex and tower bridge from the top of the stairs leading into the white tower.
Tip: I'd recommend visiting on a week day if you can and when the sky is reasonably clear. It'll be a little quieter and with a clear sky, you'll be able see across London from the inside.
10) King's Cross Station
King's Cross Station opened in 1852 and was built as the hub of the Great Northern Railway. Restoration works finished in 2013, which included the station's stunning victorian arched roof. It is a beautifully historic train station but more importantly, is the home of Platform 9 and 3/4 and a great instagram opportunity, even if you think you're too cool for it! ?
Tip: Go during the day. There is a queue to have your photo taken but representatives from the Harry Potter shop have a great set up and will loan you a Hogwarts house scarf of your choice for the picture. You're not required to buy the official photo at the end and staff are happy to take a photo on your own camera for free. Don't forget to check out the official merchandise store afterwards if you're a keen Potter fan.
So what do you think of my list of top 10 Instagram spots in London? Do you have any favourite Instagram spots in London? Let me know in the comments below ?
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Shah-i-Zinda or Shohizinda (The Living King), a necropolis in Samarkand, Uzbekistan
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Shah-i Zinda
This stunning necropolis, one of the most renowned sites in Samarkand, showcases rich tilework and history back to the 14th century.
Islamic architecture, designs, and patterns in different shades of blue, Shah-i-Zinda, Uzbekistan – © monticello / Shutterstock
This avenue of mausoleums is one of Samarkand's most beloved sites, and consists of grand tombs resembling palaces decorated with brilliant bursts of colour and geometric patterns exuding the essence of Central Asian artwork and design. The name means 'Tomb of the Living King' and holds the grave of 7th century Qusam, the cousin of the prophet Mohammed. Many of these tombs were controversially restored in 2005, leaving much of the mosaics, majolica and terracotta to be restorations and not in their original state.
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Among the many monuments is the Shadi Mulk Aga Tomb and is one of the highest regarded in the ensemble. The structure was built in 1371 and is extremely well made, with most of the original decorative pieces remaining intact. Also in the ensemble is the Shirin Bika Aga Tomb completed around 1386. Possibly one of the first monuments in the ensemble to be covered entirely in cut mosaic tiles, this monument was restored to brilliance by 20th century Soviets and more recently employed experts. Another renowned monument in the ensemble is the Ali Nasafi Tomb built between the 1360s-1380s. It is one of many tombs that was part of the core of Afrasiab, the ancient city that preceded Samarkand. The interior is decorated with Arabic calligraphy consisting of samples from the Quran. The numerous buildings with rich designs and history are sure to leave a lasting impression.
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Bugatti Type 51 Offered at 2016 Bonhams Quail Lodge
Tazio Nuvolari, the Italian motorcycle and racing driver, known as Il Mantovano Volante (The Flying Mantuan) or Nivola. He was the 1932 European Champion in Grand Prix motor racing. He is seen here racing at the British circuit at Brooklands in a Bugatti.
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A 1931 Bugatti Type 51 Grand Prix previously owned and campaigned by Lord Howe and driven by Tazio Nuvolari will headline the 2016 Bonhams Quail Lodge Auction, scheduled for August 19 on the grounds of the Quail Lodge in Carmel Valley, California.
Purchased new by famous privateer racer, Francis Curzon, the 5th Earl Howe, first president of the British Racing Driver's Club and long-term Bugatti client, chassis 51121 was one of the first Type 51s to be delivered and the first chassis number in a series of 40 cars.
Immediately set to task, number 51121 was campaigned in Great Britain and across Europe at race circuits including Brooklands, Donington, Nürburgring, Montlhéry, Monza and Reims, and at hill climbs including the Klausenrennen and Shelsley Walsh where it set fastest time of the day in 1932.
Most notably, it was entered by Howe four times in the Monaco Grand Prix, placing 4th in 1932, and running to the late stages in the 1933 event. Furthermore, the car was driven by Tazio Nuvolari, the Flying Mantuan, and fellow Italian Piero Taruffi at Brooklands in 1933.
Tazio Nuvolari in Bugatti Type 51, chassis 51121, with Earl Howe (right) and Hugh McConnell, Brooklands scrutineer (left). (photo: Courtesy of The Brooklands Society)
Campaigned in the national color of British racing green with Howe's distinctive blue and silver stripes along the side of the bodywork, the Grand Prix racer was also visually notable by its large fuel filler caps fitted from its earliest days. In addition to Nuvolari, Taruffi and Howe himself, the car was also piloted in period by The Hon. Brian Lewis and Clifton Penn-Hughes.
The successor to the legendary Type 35, the Bugatti Type 51 is famous in its own right but also has a fascinating link to American engineering by way of the Miller race cars. Ettore Bugatti was so impressed by Harry Miller's twin-cam engines that he traded three of his own Type 43 cars for two Miller 91 cars. Bringing them back to his factory in Molsheim, Bugatti had them dismantled, learned of their technology, and then built his own version. Thus the Type 51 was born.
As ever with Bugatti, the aesthetics in every form compliment the power of this American-inspired, Franco-Italian supercharged 2.3-liter twin-cam race car. The result is a beauty capable of producing 160hp and a speed of 130mph.
Never publicly offered for sale, in the present ownership for more than 30 years, unseen publicly for more than 20 years, and with just two owners since the 1950s, this Bugatti will cross the auction block at the 2016 Bonhams Quail Lodge sale during Monterey Classic Car Week.
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Der Kanton Baba befindet sich in der Provinz Los Ríos westzentral in Ecuador. Er besitzt eine Fläche von 517,1 km². Im Jahr 2020 lag die Einwohnerzahl schätzungsweise bei 43.430. Verwaltungssitz des Kantons ist die Kleinstadt Baba mit 5368 Einwohnern (Stand 2010). Der Kanton Baba wurde am 12. Oktober 1858 eingerichtet.

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Der Kanton Baba liegt im Südwesten der Provinz Los Ríos. Er liegt im Tiefland westlich der Cordillera Occidental. Im Süden reicht der Kanton bis zum Río Babahoyo. Die kleineren Flüsse Río Junquillo und Río Arenal durchqueren das Gebiet in südlicher Richtung und münden in den Río Babahoyo. Im Südwesten wird der Kanton vom Estero Roncador, im Osten vom Flusslauf des Río Puebloviejo begrenzt. Der Hauptort Baba befindet sich 16 km westlich der Provinzhauptstadt Babahoyo sowie 50 km nordnordöstlich der Großstadt Guayaquil. Die Fernstraße E485 (Babahoyo–El Salitre) führt in Ost-West-Richtung durch den Kanton und am Hauptort Baba vorbei.

Der Kanton Baba grenzt im Nordosten an den Kanton Puebloviejo, im Südosten an den Kanton Babahoyo, im Südwesten an den Kanton Salitre der Provinz Guayas sowie im Nordwesten an den Kanton Vinces.

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Adani casts a long shadow over Batman
February 7, 2018 Brian	21 Comments
Bill Shorten probably knows Labor can't win the byelection in the Melbourne seat Batman while supporting the far-away Adani coal mining project at Carmichael in the Galilee Basin in central Queensland. So he looks set to oppose the mine.
However, Queensland LNP senators Matt Canavan and Ian Macdonald and Capricornia MP Michelle Landry have invited Shorten to come to Townsville to explain his position there, and ultimately that is what he must do.
The Greens can afford to take the principled high ground because they have nothing to lose politically and everything to gain. For them the path is, in the main, to take inner city seats, one by one to be able to leverage power in the lower house. If the Greens play their political cards right they can aspire to 5-10 inner-urban seats in the big cities without having to worry about how to win over the battlers. Antony Green tells how the creeping demographics of inner Melbourne make the Greens success there seem inevitable.
Waves of 'gentrification' have changed the face of inner-city electorates where the population was once predominantly working class and significantly overseas born.
So with gentrification:
The new residents moving into inner-city seats are overwhelmingly university educated, professionally employed, non-religious and affluent.
Green says:
Labor's first preference vote share has declined nine percentage points across Victoria since Labor's victory at the 2007 Federal election. Around half of that vote has been lost to the Greens.
Much of that story relates to inner Melbourne, where:
Labor's first preference vote share has fallen 25 percentage points in Melbourne, 26 in Wills, 22 in Batman, 15 in more marginal Melbourne Ports, and even 16 percentage points in Liberal held Higgins.
In 2016 David Feeney scraped in on Liberal preferences by 1.03% in a seat that once was a Labor stronghold.
Calla Wahlquist at The Guardian, in an excellent article, points out that Bell Street cuts Batman in two, with gentrification to the south and working class remnant to the north.
The Liberals in recent elections have preferenced Labor over the Greens. Wahlquist related what they are up to this time:
The Victorian Liberals are under pressure from the Jewish lobby to block the Greens because of the latter's support for Palestine, and have not yet declared whether they will run a candidate. It's a "dilemma," Victorian Liberal president Michael Kroger said: run and preference Labor to keep out an unsuitable Green; or quit the field, as they did at the Northcote state byelection, to increase the chance that the Greens would win and weaken Labor's position in parliament.
That was published last Saturday. Since then the Liberals have chosen to skip the byelection, save their money and hope to maximise Shorten's pain.
Choosing Jed Kearney shows how seriously Labor wants to stop the green wave:
According to David Hayward, the dean of global, urban and social studies at RMIT University, Ged Kearney's nomination is a measure of the seriousness of the seat for Labor. The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) president's left-leaning position replaces Feeney's factional weight in the party's right.
"Having somebody like Ged Kearney could be a very good card to play in that context because she'll be able to appeal to both sides of the divide," Hayward said. "She'll be able to play well [in the northern half of the electorate] and I think she'll also be able to play well at the southern end of the electorate, being able to talk up Green-type issues."
Her early career as a nurse helps, as does the fact that she lived in the electorate.
Richard Di Natali has made it clear that Adani will be front and centre in the campaign, which he can do without any political downside, and without the prospect of having to implement his promise.
Shorten has given at least four reasons for his newly announced concern about Adani. Firstly, the market price of coal suggests that the world does not need the coal.
Secondly, two years of coral bleaching have shown that the Reef is already in trouble.
Third, Shorten has raised concerns that the development of the Adani mine will cost jobs elsewhere.
Finally, according to The Guardian Adani submitted an altered laboratory report while appealing a fine for contamination of sensitive wetlands on the Queensland coast near the Great Barrier Reef. This would provide a convenient mechanism to question Adani's fitness as a company.
Other than that a Labor rejection of Adani would indeed raise the issue of sovereign risk, where a company's hard-won approvals suddenly mean nothing when it is politically convenient.
There is a principled way that Shorten could withdraw the Adani approvals without relying on Adani's misdemeanor. Shorten could upgrade the whole climate mitigation issue, giving it the urgency that has been clearly required a decade ago or more (remember Kevin 07?) This should mean that expansion of coal mining anywhere in Australia would be denied.
I don't think that Labor is quite brave enough for that, and I'm not sure they would be elected if they tried.
Meanwhile it is disappointing that no-one in politics or the media is challenging the LNP's spruiking of jobs flowing from the Adani venture. In the earlier guest post The Adani Project: – is it good for Australia? Geoff Henderson pointed out that Adani's had promised was 10,000 jobs, but under oath revised that back to just 1460 jobs.
Nevertheless, Dennis Atkins in the Courier Mail today reminds us that Queenslanders don't like being told by southerners what they must do. Same applies to regional people and inner urbanites. There is also a similar attitude between north and south in Queensland, where Brisbane is another country.
Fairfax today reports that Labor are working on a regional jobs policy package:
A Queensland Labor MP told Fairfax Media that jobs in renewable energy, manufacturing, defence maintenance and tourism could be created in place of the foregone mining jobs.
However, in terms of changing votes, policy will not win the day when so much emotion is involved. All this over a mine, which left to its own devices is probably not a starter.
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Meanwhile it is disappointing that no-one in politics or the media is challenging the LNP's spruiking of jobs flowing from the Adani venture.
No-one in politics? The Greens are against it –see here. The Labor Palaszczuk Queensland government had said they will block the NAIF funding during the recent election campaign – see the post THE ADANI PROJECT: – IS IT GOOD FOR AUSTRALIA? which included a link to Nov 4 ABC News online article Adani: Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk withdraws Government involvement in mine funding.
Or the media? Do you mean the right wing media? I have no doubts that Murdoch media (e.g. The Australian, Daily Telegraph, etc.) and the Macquarie Network (e.g. radio 2GB, etc.) are pro Adani Carmichael mine, ignoring the inconvenient truths. But the ABC Four Corners Digging into Adani programme aired on October 2, I thought was pretty damning.
Then there are various groups like IEEFA, etc. who have been highly critical.
Perhaps you are correct, that the Greens, Queensland Labor, ABC, IEEFA, etc. have not expressly challenged the inflated job numbers being spruiked by LNP, but there's a growing chorus of people saying it's not financially viable, and if it's not financially viable, then there won't be the jobs flowing from it as promised.
On 11 August 2017, at the Senate inquiry into the governance and operation of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF) public hearing in Canberra, Professor Thomas Clarke, from the UTS Business School, stated:
"Undoubtedly, if the NAIF funds this Carmichael rail project, it will become renowned as the government-funded billion-dollar ghost train; a useless waste of tax-payers' money to enrich a company, based in the Cayman Islands, which the Australian public will not forget, or forgive."
Graham, I said "is" meaning now. There have been a few mentions this morning since I published, but based on nonsense.
Shorten has given at least four reasons for his newly announced concern about Adani.
I heard him on the radio yesterday with another, something about missing all their deadline and not getting anything done.
Maybe it was only played up here, it was one of the ABC channels.
One other thing for Shorten to consider, with the next election in mind, is if he did dig his heals in to stop Carmichael, I don't think " jobs " will be a big issue up here.
The expectations for the next 12-18 months for, at least in construction, is very positive. Some are worried there'll be a lack of Tradesmen to do the projects already on the books, rental availability is getting tighter to boot so building new homes will stretch the labour pool further again.
If it does kick off now, the market may overheat savagely, pushing costs up and blowing out the projects budget.
If it waits another 6 months they'll have to get 457s to build it, ( not that Shorten has shown any objections to 457s, he loves em ) but that's not something votes will vote too much for.
The next Fed Election is at most 18 months away.
( the greens problem is easy to fix, but that's for another thread 🙂 )
Jumpy: Interesting comment about construction pick -up in your part of the woods.
How much of big project construction do you reckon is is done by local workers?
Brian: The Greens have consistently argued in favour of reducing the flow of fossil carbon into the atmosphere. The Adani thermal coal mega mine has become a symbol of what should not be happening.
It is good to see that Shorten has finally realized that Adani is likely to take jobs and market from established Australian coal mines .
My impression is that if you go up the Qld coast there is a series of economies. They are making a lot of noise in Townsville, which is where the Adani HQ is, and unemployment is high.
Come a Federal election, though, it is not going to be decided in NQ unless it is very close.
Reflecting on this today, I think Richard Di Natali is missing an opportunity to press the seriousness of climate change and the need for effort to kick up several notches in political thinking.
He should be reminding us that NOAA research in December 2016 found that if current trends continue, by 2050 more than 98% of reefs world-wide are expected to be exposed to bleaching-level thermal stress in each year. (See Do we seriously want to save the Great Barrier Reef?)
He has a rare opportunity, and so far he's missing it.
I can't give a definitive % but locals Companies have an advantage in that travel close to home is minimal and supplying secondary accomodation is unnecessary.
I recon after the Com Games and unit boom on the Gold Coast are through, some Tradies could migrate up here but commuting isn't financially feasible.
Everybody want to work close to home and persuading them otherwise is expensive.
I think I know what you mean Brian, for an environmental party they look focused on other things too much.
The only difficulty I see with your advice to Richard Di Natale, Brian, is that there is no direct, causal limk between that mine and that reef.
Not as clear cut as, say, pollution from pulp paper mill in Northern Tassie and local conditions; or loss of Lake Pedder; or damming the Franklin River.
The CO2 emissions that could cook the reef are worldwide.
Now phosphorus or silt runoff from nearby farms, that's somewhat closer, causally.
IMO the Adani/GBR story is like blaming a particular cyclone or a particular flood or a particular drought/bushfire on man-made global warming: strictly speaking, it's not true. Perhaps Dr di Natale agrees with this suggestion, and doesn't want to be accused of fibbing?
Ambi, if the cause is indirect it is still a cause.
Tonight I'll try to dig out the Australia Institute study based on the Woods Mackenzie study, but I think the story, in brief, is that with Adani mining jobs in Qld will be about the same, but it will pretty much neuter the expansion of jobs in NSW.
Also check out what Ben Eltham said:
Carmichael illustrates what is broken in Australian politics, like few other issues. The planned mine is so large, it will materially affect the future of global warming. It will help destroy the Great Barrier Reef. As climate campaigner Bill McKibben wrote in 2016, "you can't have both the Paris climate agreement and Adani's Carmichael coalmine. Full stop."
Di Natali does not have to worry about telling lies, and he stands to lose nothing politically, unlike Shorten and Turnbull. If he has the brains to tell a fairly complex story (which he no doubt has) he should not pass up the opportunity to spell out the relationship with the whole coal industry, global warming and the future of the Reef, while people are listening and emotionally engaged.
Yes indeed.
The whole coal industry, petroleum fuels, emissions from farming and industries.
Global emissions, global problem; local consequences.
Good evening, Jumpy.
Don't know how far advanced work is on the next Macquarie Dictionary but here is my entry for it:
JOBS, with or without an exclamation mark. Used by failed celebrities, dodgy politicians, unconvicted money-movers, news-and-entertainment media personalities and other assorted scoundrels. Verbal shorthand for several terms, such as –
"I am lying through my back teeth".
"Yes but not for you, you Aussie scum".
"If you believe this you are even stupider than everyone thinks".
"Short-term 3-D (dirty, dangerous and degrading) work only with no guarantee of pay in full".
Around this part of The Other Australia, the word is that any politician foolish enough to utter the "J" word during an election campaign is likely to lose their deposit.
Hey, what's this next federal election being 18 months away? In their dreams. We won't need all these bushfire wars to coalesce into a general war to force an earlier federal election, there are more than enough domestic issues to trigger a federal election at any time sooner than 18 months hence.
On employment impacts of Adani, I addressed this in Update 2 of The Adani Project: – is it good for Australia? based on The Australia Institute study.
Employment would be positive for Townsville, but not a game changer. Townsville has a population of around 180,000 and only employs about 2500 working on mining.
The impact on Rockhampton would be "mixed", I'd suggest neutral, and negative for Gladstone and Mackay.
According to Wood Mackenzie, 10 new mining projects or mine expansions in the NSW Hunter Valley would be displaced by the Galilee Basin output and shelved or delayed, eight mining projects or expansions would be delayed or shelved in Queensland, and Hunter Valley thermal coal output would fall by some 86 million tonnes, or 37 per cent.
On ABC Insiders on Sunday (Feb 11), Tanya Plibersek was asked (from about time interval 04:00) whether she supported the Adani Carmichael project. She said (per the transcript):
I've always been skeptical about whether this stacks up, economically, or environmentally. And I've said that for a long time. We've seen just in recent days, reports that the company has falsified test results from a serious spill. But you know, right back to whether this stacks up economically, we've seen inflated jobs numbers, we've seen the company itself say we don't need a dollar of taxpayer funds for this to proceed and them sticking their hands out the next minute for $1billion of taxpayer funding. We have the beautiful Great Barrier Reef, just an exquisite natural beautiful piece of Australian nature that supports tens of thousands of jobs. Why would we put that at risk with a project like this? There are a lot of questions to answer.
So it seems the ALP is starting to challenge the LNP's spruiking of jobs flowing from the Adani venture.
Aurizon announced on Friday that it has withdrawn its NAIF application for the Galilee Basin rail line.
The Australian Senate inquiry into the governance and operation of the NAIF now has available the proof copy of the transcript of the Cairns public hearing on Feb 1. Professor John Quiggin's testimony may be of interest.
From the transcript (PROOF COPY) of the Australian Senate inquiry into the governance and operation of the NAIF public hearing in Cairns on Feb 1, on page 61, Senator BARTLETT asks:
Going back to that previous side mention of Adani, I think in August hearings of this committee you said that application was at the due diligence phase. Where is it at now?
Ms Laurie Walker – CEO of the NAIF, replied:
As you probably know, the Queensland government vetoed that project, and under our investment mandate the Queensland government is entitled to do that at any time and for any reason. When they do, we cease to look at the project. That's how our mandate's written, so we are not looking at that project.
With Aurizon's application to the NAIF for a Galilee Basin rail line now withdrawn, and the Adani application to the NAIF for a similar rail line vetoed by the Queensland Government, and the NAIF no longer considering the Adani rail project, then it looks like the Adani Carmichael mine is stalled also.
Without viable funding for a rail line from the Galilee Basin to a sea port, there can be no prospects for coal mines in the Galilee Basin.
Geoff, yes Aurizon has given the rail project away because they were not stupid enough to build the line on spec. They wanted to see actual coal supply contracts, and there are none.
QLD is the Greens weakest state and i doubt they can repeat their 2010 fluke of a Senate seat next year, especially with GTV gone.
Queenslanders like their coal and casino jobs and I'm sure some of them outside Brisbane would like to do something scary and painful to Richard di Natale, Drew Hutton et al.
Scott, there is little love for the Greens among farmers and graziers in Queensland. However, Drew Hutton was raised in Chinchilla, I think, any way the Western Downs, where he has returned to campaign against coal seam gas. He has recently retired from Lock the Gate which brought greens and farmers together.
BTW I had the opportunity of voting for him multiple times at three levels of government. His highest vote was was 25.64% in the ward of The Gabba in the 2008 Brisbane City Council elections.


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In the requirements.txt it looks as the following:
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Afterwards, I added git tags for the versioning such as:
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How can I define a version range such as from 0.1.9 to 1.0.0 like this example:
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Or is it possible to use git master branch and define the version range with pip as described here:   How to pip install a package with min and max version range?

A: As there is no room for any version range with pip+git, I will use a workaround and write a python script that will do it. This is not the most elegant way but it will work and maybe somebody finds a better approach.
Here is my workround for those facing the same issue:

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Babers remains confident in team five days out from season kickoff
SU football coach prepared to take on the Tar Heels this Saturday
In the final days before the matchup against UNC, SU football head coach puts the success of the season in the hands of his players and the conference's protocols for safe play.
Story by Alyssa Hertel
Photo by Aaron Kassman | 2019 File Photo
Dino Babers watches from the sideline at Syracuse University's Carrier Dome during last season's game against Clemson on Sept. 14, 2019.
In his final press conference before the first game of the season, Dino Babers discussed the steps he is taking to prepare his team for their matchup against the Tar Heels. Orange football will kick off the season this Saturday, Sept. 12 at noon against UNC at the Kenan Memorial Stadium.
Sports returned to some sense of normalcy this past weekend when college football returned to the field. While Babers says he usually doesn't pay attention to other teams, he's kept his eye on what happens after the clock runs down.
"Traditionally, I don't watch any of that stuff because I'm busy doing other things, but I have to admit that I did stop and watch five minutes of running play," Babers said. "It was really cool to see it back on TV. Been waiting to hear from the residuals from COVID-19, what happened, these games were just played, and I haven't heard anything across the country. To hear the quietness after the games made me feel just as good as watching them and see them on TV."
This season will be different than previous ones; COVID is the biggest concern for teams preparing for their next opponent. In the past few weeks, UNC was one of the campuses hit hardest by the pandemic, reporting that 31.3 percent of students had tested positive for coronavirus.
"Our guys just come at it a little bit differently. There was no way in the world we wanted those numbers to go back up. I think they came into a family and a community that was going to do it the right way."
Dino Babers
Babers is confident that his players will be safe when they travel to Chapel Hill for their afternoon game against the Tar Heels, largely in part due to his confidence in the team's maturity.
"I think they've grown, not only on the football field but off the football field," said Babers, on how his team has handled prepping to play during the pandemic. "There's been a lot of mature, grown up topics that they've been handling as young people, some topics that the older generation should've taken care of a long time ago. I'm really proud of them."
"This team is built differently than a lot of other teams. Our guys just come at it a little bit differently. There was no way in the world we wanted those numbers to go back up. I think they came into a family and a community that was going to do it the right way. They needed to adjust very quickly."
Despite that confidence, Babers is remaining tight-lipped about what players are in for the season and what players are opting out. He also emphasized that players are welcome to change their mind at any point in the season if they feel unsafe playing.
Fans can watch the Orange take on UNC this Saturday at noon on the ACC Network or listen to the game on Cuse.com.
Alyssa Hertel
is the Sports Lead Producer for The NewsHouse.


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package net.violet.common.utils;

import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;

/**
 * This class contains convenient methods to compute data signature according to a given algorithm.
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public class DigestTools {

	public enum Algorithm {
		MD5 {

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Tennuth-kutchin "middle people", pleme Athapaskan Indijanaca iz grupe Kutchin koje je bilo nastanjeno u području rijeke Birch Creek na Aljaski.  Oni su bili u povjesti poznati (prema lokalitetu) i kao Birch Creek Kutchin (kod Osgooda) i Birch River Indians (kod Whympera). Područje uz ovu rijeku obraslo je brezovim šumama pa otuda i ime. Dall (1870.) ove Indijance naziva Gens de Bouleaux, što je samo francuski naziv za brezu  (bouleaux). Gens označava 'ljude'.  Mooney je (1929.) procijenio da je 1740. bilo svega 100 Tennuth-Kutchina, očito preskromno. Dall (1870.) kaže da je pleme 1863. zbrisala epidemija šarlaha (=scarlet fever).

Vanjske poveznice
Kutchin Tribes

Kutchin
Indijanci, Aljaska
Subarktički Indijanci
indijanska plemena


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Update: Romanian corporal dies in Afghanistan, two soldiers wounded
SOCIALSOCIETY & PEOPLETOP NEWS
By Valeriu Lazar Last updated Sep 15, 2017
One of the military wounded in the vehicle attack in Afghanistan on Friday has died, the Defence Ministry informs.
Corporal Madalin Stoica, 41, was married and had a child. He was on his first mission on the operation thetres.
In the same incident were wounded Corporal Ionel Buzea and soldier Ionel Toma. They are currently under medical care in the military hospital in Kandahar.
Defence Minister Mihai Viorel Fifor has singed the order to advance Madalin Stoica post mortem to the rank of second lieutenant and has sent to the President of Romania the proposal to confer him the Star of Romania Order in the rank of Knight, for military, with war signs.
First reports Friday morning revealed that three soldiers from the 280 Infantry Battalion Resolute Support from Focsani were wounded in Afghanistan during a mission in the area of responsibility. They received first aid at the site, after which they have been evacuated to the nearest military hospital, the Ministry of National Defence (MoD) informed. One of them was seriously wounded, report said.
The incident occurred around 10:00h, Romania's time, during a mission in the area of responsibility. The military were in a four MRAP (Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected) vehicles convoy in the Kandahar region when a VBIED (Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device) hit their armoured vehicle.
The soldiers of the 280th Infantry Battalion Focsani are in the Afghanistan theatre of operations since August.
In 2017, the Romanian Army participates to the NATO Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan with over 620 troops, further 300 are deployed under NATO, EU, UN, OSCE command in other regions.
During the foreign missions, 28 soldiers lost their lives, and more than 180 have been wounded.
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Radiocarbon analysis of halophilic microbial lipids from an Australian salt lake
P. Sargent Bray*, Claudia M. Jones, Stewart J. Fallon, Jochen J. Brocks, Simon C. George
Assigning accurate dates to hypersaline sediments opens important terrestrial records of local and regional paleoecologies and paleoclimatology. However, as of yet no conventional method of dating hypersaline systems has been widely adopted. Biomarker, mineralogical, and radiocarbon analyses of sediments and organic extracts from a shallow (13. cm) core from a hypersaline playa, Lake Tyrrell, southeastern Australia, produce a coherent age-depth curve beginning with modern microbial mats and extending to ~. 7500. cal. yr. BP. These analyses are furthermore used to identify and constrain the timing of the most recent change in hydrological regime at Lake Tyrrell, a shift from a clay deposit to the precipitation of evaporitic sands occurring at some time between ~. 4500 and 7000. yr. These analyses show the potential for widespread dating of hypersaline systems integrating the biomarker approach, reinforce the value of the radiocarbon content of biomarkers in understanding the flow of carbon in modern ecologies, and validate the temporal dimension of data provided by biomarkers when dating late Quaternary sediments.
Quaternary Research
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Miles Baby is a Canadian brand making clothing for baby and toddler boys and girls, 0 – 4T. Inspired by the neighbourhoods that line the Main in Montreal, designs are full of playful vibes, with fun patterns and illustrations.
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Tag: Hiroshima-Nagasaki
Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Dave Lindorff (extended) July 30, 2020
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Welcome back to Gorilla Radio's continuing efforts, NOT broadcast live from CFUV Radio in the basement of the Student Union Building at the University of Victoria, but emanating live-to-tape via Skype from our home-based … studios on this date, July 28th, 2020.
A mythology surrounding the dropping of the omnicidal 'Fat Man' and 'Little Boy' atomic bombs was fostered after the fact by an America eager to maintain its mantle of supreme power, while posturing as saviour and moral arbiter of the newly unmade World. The story, still told and retold today, portrays the United States as a reluctant warrior forced into World War II, and forced to end the Pacific war quickly in order to save lives; in short, forced to destroy cities to save them. But as the shadows of Japanese civilians burned into the few walls left standing in Nagasaki and Hiroshima attest, there is a darker truth behind that fiction.
Dave Lindorff is an award-winning journalist, author, and founding member of the media collective, ThisCantBeHappening.net. He's also collaborated with his son, Jed and Oscar-nominated filmmakers, Steve James and Mark Mitten on a film about the two men who may well have saved us all from thermonuclear annihilation.
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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Dave Lindorff, Terry Wolfwood, Janine Bandcroft July 30, 2020
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Dave Lindorff in the first half.
And; against all odds here we are, the human race alive and kicking 75 years since the first atomic bombs dropped on inhabited cities promised a premature end to it all. But though we survive yet, it's been an uneasy continued existence, when we think of it; so most of us don't think of it most of the time. Next week, August 6th marks the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan and as they have for so many years, Victoria's Women in Black will mark the day with silent vigil and bearing witness to the people's determination to end global warfare.
Terry Wolfwood is Director and co-founder of the Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation, and a writer, photographer, and long-time activist in pursuit of peace, social justice, and women's rights.
Terry Wolfwood and standing vigil with the Women in Black for Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the second half.
And; long-time Gorilla Radio contributor and Green Vegan Grandma Youtuber, Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour with the Left Coast Event Bulletin of some of the good things you can get up to in and around our town in the coming week. But first, Dave Lindorff on Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Spies Who Kept a Criminal US with a Nuclear Monopoly from Making More of Them.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Thursday between 11-Noon Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.ca/
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Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook, Terry Wolfwood July 9, 2020
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Welcome back to Gorilla Radio's continuing efforts, NOT broadcast live from CFUV Radio in the basement of the Student Union Building at the University of Victoria, but emanating live-to-tape via Skype from our home-based … studios on this date, July 9th, 2020.
Against all odds here we are, the human race alive and kicking 75 years since the first atomic bombs dropped on inhabited cities promised a premature end to it all. But though we survive yet, it's been an uneasy continued existence, when we think of it; so, most of us don't think of it most of the time.
Next week, August 6th marks the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan and as they have for so many years, Victoria's Women in Black will mark the day with silent vigil and bearing witness to the people's determination to end global warfare. This year will of course differ from past years in this as it has in almost all other things due to the Corona virus. But, as the Women remind, even as the financial world crumbles and millions are in dire economic need, spending on nuclear weapons and other means of mass destruction is increasing.
Theresa Wolfwood is Director and co-founder of the Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation, and a writer, photographer, and long-time activist in pursuit of peace, social justice, and women's rights. Her articles have appeared at Briarpatch, Peace News, and Third World Resurgence among other places, and she's the local coordinator for Victoria's Women in Black, who will hold their annual vigil in remembrance of Hiroshima-Nagasaki – its first vigil since March and the Pandemic restrictions – on August 6 from Noon to 1 pm on Government St. across from the Empress Hotel.
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Some jurisdictions require that children below a set size must travel in a special car seat, which in some cases must be rearward facing.
BorgCo have developed a cheap and simple multipurpose solution to this problem.
The unit is based on a bicycle carrier frame design and attaches to the rear of the vehicle, either with straps, or with a special bracket to a towhitch. It can be fitted with one or more removable seats, or will carry three bicycles or one lightweight motorcycle. Work is continuing on retaining the seats while in this mode.
This leaves all the standard vehicle seating available for adults.
The seats can be provided with an acceptably wind- and weather-proof cover, and an optional seatbelt kit is available if the coil of rope and selection of bungee cords shipped with the basic system are inadequate.
Exhaust fumes from the back of a typical car could cause problems. For electric cars, though, this might be better.
No more requisite visits to an amusement park, as one trip while strapped to the back of the car would suffice.
Like a backwards mother-in-law seat.


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Concerned about inflation? Here's why stock investors should stay the course, says Ritholtz COO
For stock investors pondering how to ride out the worst bout of inflation in four decades, don't worry and stay the course, according to Nick Maggiulli, chief operating officer at Ritholtz Wealth Management.
Prices that consumers pay for everyday items surged a whopping 8.5% in March, the highest levels since the early days of the Reagan administration. Inflation chips away at the real value of investor capital and investments. It could also make future company profits less valuable today and lead to higher interest rates.
However, Maggiulli believes investors would be better off by continually investing over time rather than changing their strategy based on macro pictures. His new book "Just Keep Buying" is a data-driven guide to personal finance and investing.
"You shouldn't try to time the market because of high inflation or yield curve inversion," Maggiulli told CNBC. "Trying to time the market is usually a fool's errand so to speak."
In fact, higher-than-usual inflation doesn't have a material impact on equity returns. The median inflation-adjusted return of US stocks over the two years following periods of high inflation was nearly identical to the two-year return after periods of lower inflation (18.5% versus 18.7%, respectively), Maggiulli said.
Still, soaring price pressures have become a top-of-mind concern for many notable investors on Wall Street. Baupost Group's Seth Klarman said previously that inflation poses a "real danger" to the markets. Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones late last year called inflation the "No. 1 issue facing Main Street investors" and the "single-biggest threat" to financial markets and the economy.
Maggiulli said investing is an effective way to fight back against inflation. Indeed, he gave an example in his book of how investing can help offset inflation to preserve and grow wealth.
For instance, from January 1926 to the end of 2020, $1 would have needed to grow to $15 to keep up with inflation. If you had invested $1 in long-term US Treasury bonds in 1926, it would have grown to $200 (13 times greater than inflation) by the end of 2020.
Further, if you had invested $1 in a broad basket of US stocks in 1926, it would have grown to $10,937 (729 times greater than inflation) over the same time period, according to Maggiulli.
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HCPT 101: Happy 60th birthday Phil!
Group 101 leader, Phil Hall, celebrates his 60th birthday today! Phil has been group leader of 101 for 18 years and was a helper for several years before that.
During this time, Phil's hard work and dedication has enabled numerous sponsored children, and helpers, to enjoy a fabulous pilgrimage to Lourdes.
On behalf of every past and present member of group 101, thank you Phil and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Music and fancy dress- Phil in his element!