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Welcome to the Reconstructing Children's Rights Institute – an online institute about dismantling racism, neo-colonialism, and patriarchy in humanitarian and development efforts to protect children and support families.
Click here to watch an introductory video.
Click here to access the final report, Dismantling and Reconstructing International Children's Rights, summarizing the key learnings and recommendations from the Institute.
Practiced incorrectly and without making explicit the underlying dynamics of power and funding, humanitarian and development aid can cause harm and undermine the dignity and autonomy of those it intends to support, who become othered "beneficiaries." The axes of power differentiation include class, gender, age and race. The recognition of this imbalance of power is nothing new and has deep-rooted historical underpinnings and constructive critique has been taking place for decades in academia and activist communities. If these inequalities and injustices are apparent across wide swaths of humanitarian action and international development, their roots of racism, neo-colonialism, and patriarchy are especially problematic in a field such as child rights and protection, where the roles of children and caregivers in their families and communities will vary from context to context. As a community we must critically examine this power imbalance.
Accordingly, the CPC Learning Network decided to host the Reconstructing Children's Rights Institute – a multi-part series of conversations and resources for learning, information sharing and actionable next steps. In this series of critical conversations, we invited experts to share their insights about racism, colonialism, patriarchy and power as they affect children and families around the world.
The Institute has two overarching goals:
- Demonstrate and engage: Raise awareness and recognition of how racism, patriarchy and power are not just theoretical concepts but very real drivers of inequality, ineffectiveness, and harm in the international child rights and protection sector.
- Sow the seeds and demonstrate action for effective change: Critique the problems inherent in international child protection and child rights but also highlight practical ways to dismantle and reconstruct the existing system.
The Institute is a space in which discussions and resources can tackle hard topics while remaining safe for evolution and growth among those who participate.
A series of pre-recorded online critical conversations were broadcast between May-December 2021.
Conversation #1 Trailer
Conversation #1: Confronting Colonialism, Racism, and Patriarchy in International Relations, Development and the Humanitarian Aid Industry
Conversation #2 Trailer
Conversation #2: Confronting Colonialism, Racism, and Patriarchy in Child Welfare and Child Rights Programming
Conversation #3 Trailer
Conversation #3: Confronting Colonialism, Racism, and Patriarchy in Funding
Conversation #4 Trailer
Conversation #4: Our Stories, Our Faces, Our Voices; Who Tells Our Story?
Conversation #5 Trailer
Conversation #5: Confronting Colonialism, Racism, and Patriarchy in the Design and Implementation of Child and Family Programs
Conversation #6: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Humanitarian and Development Organizations
We have created additional resources to support stakeholder's learning and to further the conversations.
Final Analysis Report: A report summarizing the six conversations focusing on problems and solutions. Click here to access the final report.
Master Reference List: A list of resources by academics, researchers, practitioners and activists critically examining colonialism, racism and patriarchy in international relations, development and the humanitarian aid industry. Click here to see the Master Reference List.
- Briefing Paper 1: Confronting Colonialism, Racism and Patriarchy in International Relations, Development and the Humanitarian Aid Industries
- Briefing Paper 2: Confronting Colonialism, Racism and Patriarchy in Child Welfare and Child Rights Programming
- Briefing Paper 3: Confronting Colonialism, Racism and Patriarchy in Funding
- Briefing Paper 4: Our Stories, Our Faces, Our Voices: Who Tells Our Story?
- Briefing Paper 5: Confronting Paternalism, Neo-Colonialism, and Racism in the Design and Implementation of Child and Family Programs in Humanitarian and Development Settings
- Briefing Paper 6: How Can Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion be Understood and Applied in Humanitarian and Development Organizations?
Blog: Access a blog written about the Reconstructing Rights Institute for the Rights Studio here.
The videos of the Institute have been produced by Luis Saenz.
The artwork for the Institute has been created by Galuh Indri Wiyarti.


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[COTD] Ishikirimaru Toku & Nikkari Aoe Toku
Today's "Card of the Day" features Swordboyz with (s)quad drive!
From G Title Booster 2: Touken Ranbu -ONLINE- (Release Date: 14th of October (JP)) we got:
Ishikirimaru Toku
Grade 4 | G Unit
Touken Ranbu | Touken Danshi – Oodachi
Power: 15000+
Critical: 1
[Stride] (Released when both players' vanguards are grade 3 or greater!)-Stride Step-[Choose one or more cards with the sum of their grades being 3 or greater from your hand, and discard them] Stride this card on your (VC) from face down.
[AUTO](VC) Shinken Hissatsu (This ability is active if you have three or more damage):[Counter-Blast 1 & Choose a face down card from your G zone, and turn it face up] When this unit attacks, if all of your units are [Rest], you may pay the cost. If you do, this unit gets [Power] +10000 until end of that battle, and if the number of face up cards in your G zone is three or more, this unit gets [Critical] +1/drive +1.
"Moderation is key. Next is applying one's self to their work."
Nikkari Aoe Toku
Grade 1 | Normal Unit
Touken Ranbu | Touken Danshi – Wakizashi
Power: 7000
Critical: 1
Shield: 5000
[ACT](RC)[1/Turn] Shinken Hissatsu (This ability is active if you have three or more damage):[Counter-Blast 1] This unit gets [Power] +2000 until end of turn. Then, if the number of cards in your damage zone is five, this unit gets [Power] +5000 until end of turn
"Heh… … Are you interested in me?"
[Editor's note: >reveals Rebellion SP pack
>reveals an easier to fullfill quad drive for Touken Ranbu
I see what you did there.]
[Editor's note 2: I'm waiting Bushiroad. I'm waiting for the EN release!]


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Pictures taken from my camera @ Eagle Cove School.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Earth Day Is on Its Way Bulletin Boards
Here are two great sights around Eagle Cove School as we get prepped for Earth Day, a mere 12 days away!! In fact, at ECS, our Earth Day evolves into a whole week! To learn a little bit about our past Earth Weeks, click here.
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The decision to file for Chapter 13 bankruptcy isn't one to take lightly. It will impact your life in many ways, both now and in the future, so it's critical that you're 100% on board with everything the process will bring.
Here are some of the top reasons to file for Chapter 13 bankruptcy:
- Avoid foreclosure: For many people, this is the top benefit of Chapter 13 bankruptcy, as they've fallen behind on their mortgage payments. Upon filing, an automatic stay will go into place that stops the foreclosure process in its tracks. From there, you can repay your delinquent mortgage payments through your payment plan. If successful, you get to keep your home.
- It only stays on your credit report for seven years: Yes, this is a long time, but it's three years fewer than a Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing. The sooner your bankruptcy disappears from your credit report, the sooner you can get back to life as normal.
- Keep your property: You're legally permitted to keep any property that you're making payments on through your repayment plan.
- It can help with almost every form of debt: Regardless of what type of debt you're facing, Chapter 13 bankruptcy is likely to help. Typically, the only exceptions are student loans and child support obligations.
Along with the above, many people opt for Chapter 13 bankruptcy because it gives them the opportunity to make things right.
Through your repayment plan, you'll catch up on many of your debts. Not only does this allow you to keep the property, but it also ensures that the creditor doesn't lose out as a result of your financial setback.
If you're interested in filing for Chapter 13 bankruptcy, it's critical to compare the pros and cons to ensure that it's right for your situation.
Should you decide to proceed, take the time necessary to learn more about the process, your legal rights and how to best deal with the effect on your life.
If you've tried everything to rid yourself of debt but have yet to make any real progress, Chapter 13 bankruptcy could be the best option.


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Adopted by the SPC and the OIE on 10 April 2003
This annex to the agreement between the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) and the Office international des epizooties (OIE) specifies the terms of collaboration between the SPC and the OIE for the development, maintenance and distribution of a Regional Animal Health Information System for the Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs
1. Background
A collaborative project between SPC and FAO lead in 1997 to the development of the first Pacific ANimal health Information System (PANIS). PANIS consisted in a relational database, only accessible from the Internet. The database allowed users to map the disease status for the world, search and compare disease status between countries and to report outbreak of diseases. Unfortunately some requests gave inconsistent results and the data, located on a distant Mac Server, was difficult to update.
A second version of the Pacific ANimal health Information System, PANIS 2 is under development at the Regional Animal Health Service (RAHS) of the SPC. The new system is housed on a PC server. The ability to respond to similar requests for information is being developed. In addition new functions will be added, including availability of regional resources, regional livestock population data, records of insect vectors. The database will be accessible from the Internet and in addition CD-Rom versions will be distributed to PICTs to overcome the difficulties faced by Pacific islands countries and territories in accessing Internet.
2. Definitions
For the purposes of this amendment:
1) PANIS 2 means the second version of the Pacific ANimal health Information System whether it refers to the Internet version or the CD-Rom version.
2) "Disease occurrence data" means accurate, consistent and objective data on the occurrence of animal diseases as listed in OIE list A and B of diseases, FAO list C of diseases and SPC list D of diseases. Such information being provided by OIE, individual countries, RAHS survey activities or any other reliable scientific source of information.
3) "Acknowledgement of occurrence data property" means reference to the source of information displayed in the database. Disease occurrence data provided by the OIE will remain the property of the OIE and its member countries and will be clearly and appropriately acknowledged in PANIS 2.
3. Areas of responsibility
i) SPC will be responsible for the development of the PANIS 2 database without restriction on the software used and maintaining the possibility of seeking the technical assistance of FAO according to the existing agreement on which PANIS 1 was developed.
ii) SPC will be responsible for providing access to the database for its member countries only through the Internet with a password to access to it or through the distribution of CD-Rom.
iii) SPC will be responsible for the maintenance of the PANIS 2 database and the update of the disease occurrence data.
iv) The OIE, which is recognised as the main source of accurate and updated disease occurrence data, agrees to make the data fully and available to the SPC on a half-yearly basis and in a digital format.
v) The SPC agrees not to edit or modify the disease occurrence data supplied by the OIE
vi) The SPC agrees to clearly and appropriately acknowledge OIE in PANIS 2 as a partner and identify OIE logo on the database and on the produced CDs.
vii) The SPC agrees to identify clearly the OIE as the source of disease occurrence data.
viii) The SPC guaranties that OIE provided data will be used exclusively to feed PANIS 2 database and will not be exploited or shared by others organisations, enterprises or individuals.
ix) The SPC will provide to the OIE as per the OIE Animal Health Information System, animal diseases information for its Member Countries that are not OIE Member Countries.
x) The SPC will put in place a mechanism aimed at preventing the copying of information resources on the produced CD_ROM, but will not be held liable should such an occurrence happen through no fault of SPC.
4. Validity and duration
The present letter of agreement will enter into force once approved and signed by both parties and shall be of indefinite duration. Either of the parties may terminate this agreement by means of an official notification giving three month's notice and which states the reasons for termination.
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Privacy Policy
What is this Privacy Policy for?
This privacy policy is for the following websites; www.sybaritesporting.com, www.sybarite-sporting.com, www.fitasc-sporting.com, including all subdomains, served by Sybarite Sporting™ Ltd (company registration number 3859248) and governs the privacy of users who choose to use them.
The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore, the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.
Our Website
Sybarite Sporting Ltd takes a proactive approach to the privacy of visitors and members and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect your privacy throughout their visiting experience. Our websites comply with all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.
Information We Collect
In running and maintaining our websites we may collect and process the following data about our users:
1. Information about use of our site including details of visits such as pages viewed and the resources that have been accessed. Such
information includes traffic data, location data and other communication data.
2. Information provided voluntarily by you. For example, when you register for information or makes a purchase.
3. Information that you provide when you communicate with Sybarite Sporting Ltd, or its representatives, by any means.
In addition, we use Google Analytics to track various metrics of our site by enabling the optional "Google Analytics Advertising Features". The extra features we use are:
• Re-marketing with Google Analytics.
• Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting.
• Google Display Network Impression Reporting.
• Integrated services that require Google Analytics to collect data via advertising cookies and anonymous identifiers.
These features require the setting of extra cookies: the 'Google advertising' and 'anonymous identifiers' cookies; (see below for more information on our use of cookies). As an individual user you can opt-out of these Google tracking products we use by going to: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/
Use of Cookies
Cookies are small files saved to the user's computer hard drive that track, save and store information about the user's interactions and usage of the website. This allows our websites, through our server to provide the user with a tailored experience within this website. Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website.
Our websites use tracking software to monitor visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. Where used, these cookies are downloaded to your computer and stored on the computer's hard drive. Such information will not identify you personally. It is statistical data. This statistical data does not identify any personal details whatsoever.
You can adjust the settings on your computer to decline any cookies if you wish. This can easily be done by activating the reject cookies setting on your computer.
Use of Your Information
We use the information that we collect from you to provide our services to you. In addition to this we may use the information for one or more of the following purposes:
1. To provide information to you that you request from us relating to our products or services.
2. To provide information to you relating to other products that may be of interest to you. Such additional information will only be provided where
you have consented to receive such information.
3. To inform you of any changes to our website, services or goods and products.
If you have previously purchased goods or services from us we may provide to you details of similar goods or services, or other goods and services, that you may be interested in.
Where your consent has been provided in advance we may allow selected third parties to use your data to enable them to provide you with information regarding unrelated goods and services which we believe may interest you. Where such consent has been provided it can be withdrawn by you at any time.
Storing Your Personal Data
In operating our websites, it may become necessary to transfer data that we collect from you to locations outside of the United Kingdom/European Union for processing and storing. By providing your personal data to us, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We do our upmost to ensure that all reasonable steps are taken to make sure that your data is treated stored securely.
Unfortunately, the sending of information via the internet is not totally secure and on occasion such information can be intercepted. We cannot guarantee the security of data that you choose to send us electronically. Sending such information is entirely at your own risk.
Contact & Communication
Users contacting Sybarite Sporting Ltd do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998.
Sybarite Sporting Ltd may use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products/services we offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to subscribe you to any newsletter/bulk e-mail program the website operates but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. Or whereby you the consumer have previously purchased from or enquired about purchasing from Sybarite Sporting Ltd a product or service that the newsletter/bulk e-mail relates to. This is by no means an entire list of your user rights in regard to receiving email marketing material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.
Email Newsletter
Sybarite Sporting Ltd operates an email newsletter/bulk e-mailing program, used to inform subscribers about products and services supplied Sybarite Sporting Ltd.
Newsletter/e-bulk mailing subscriptions are taken in compliance with UK Spam Laws detailed in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003. All personal details relating to subscriptions are held securely and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. No personal details are passed on to third parties nor shared with companies/people outside of Sybarite Sporting Ltd.
Email marketing campaigns published by Sybarite Sporting Ltd may contain tracking facilities within the actual email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may include: the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, the clicking of links within the email content, times, dates and frequency of activity. This information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply the user with more relevant content based around their activity.
In compliance with UK Spam Laws and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 subscribers are given the opportunity to unsubscribe at any time. If an automated unsubscription system is unavailable, please contact Sybarite Sporting Ltd by email.
External Links
On occasion, we include links to third party external websites/services on our websites. Where we provide a link, it does not mean that we endorse or approve that site's policy towards visitor privacy. You should review their privacy policy before sending them any personal data.
Although Sybarite Sporting Ltd only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text / banner / image links to other websites, similar to; www.sybarite-safaris.com or Sybarite Cellars)
Sybarite Sporting Ltd cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and Sybarite Sporting Ltd cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
Social Media
Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and it's owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.
Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate/engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. Sybarite Sporting Ltd will never ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.
Our websites may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.
Shortened Links in Social Media
Sybarite Sporting Ltd through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages - by default, some social media platforms shorten lengthy URLs.
Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened URLs published on social media platforms by Sybarite Sporting Ltd. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine URLs are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore Sybarite Sporting Ltd cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.
Disclosing Your Information
We will not disclose your personal information to any other party other than in accordance with this Privacy Policy and in the circumstances detailed below:
1. To provide a third-party service that you have requested (e.g. subscription to one of Sybarite Sporting Ltd newsletters).
2. Where we are legally required by law to disclose your personal information.
3. To further fraud protection and reduce the risk of fraud.
Access to Information
In accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 you have the right to access any information that we hold relating to you. Please note that we reserve the right to charge a fee of £50 to cover costs incurred by us in providing you with the information.
Resources & Further Information
Data Protection Act 1998 (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/29/contents)
Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2426/contents/made)
Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 - The Guide (https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/introduction/what-are-pecr/)
Twitter Privacy Policy (https://twitter.com/privacy?lang=en)
Facebook Privacy Policy (https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/)
Google Privacy Policy (http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/)
LinkedIn Privacy Policy (https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy)
If you have any queries about our privacy policy, please send an email.


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Downtown Perches are publicly accessible plazas in downtown Vancouver that are activated in the summer with public seating, buskers, yoga and social gatherings.
One of the best parts about summer in Vancouver (yes, there are many!) is spending time outside. While there are several places to hang out outside downtown, sometimes a coffee, a PB&J sandwich from home, or a food cart treat is more enjoyable in a quiet, comfy seat where you can watch the world go by.
This is why the DVBIA came up with their Perch program that adds temporary bistro tables and chairs to publicly accessible plazas in the downtown area. To help make this a reality, your downtown neighbours—the property owners and managers of the various private plazas—have invested in the tables & chairs and the time it takes to set up and take down the furniture. They're free and available for anyone to use Monday to Friday from approximately 10am to 3pm.
Perch Locations
There are seven perches located throughout downtown:
- Perch @ Lot 19 at Hornby and Hastings
- Perch @ Alberni at 1188 W Georgia St
- Perch @ Oceanic Plaza at 1033 W Pender St
- Perch @ Nelson Square at 808 Nelson St
- Perch @ 401 at 401 W Georgia St
- Perch @ 1075 at 1075 W Georgia St
- Perch @ Cathedral Square at 646 Richards St
WANTED: Perch Activators
To help celebrate the Re-Imagine Downtown Vancouver campaign, we are extending an open invitation to Vancouver's talented people to help animate these perches over the summer.
Whether you are a musician or magician, puppeteer or poet, yoga instructor or yo-yo master—or have a completely unique way that you would like to activate a perch—we encourage you to get in touch with us and reserve a time (or times) to showcase your skills! Group activations are also encouraged.
If you are excited by the idea of performing at a perch this summer, please send us an email at firstname.lastname@example.com and we will get you set up! There is no cost to reserve a perch.
In your email, please include the following information:
- Contact information, including your name, email, phone number;
- Your performance activity/talent;
- The Perch location where you would like to perform;
- The date(s) and time(s) you would like to perform (keeping in mind the perches are activated Monday to Friday from 10am to 3pm); and,
- Any specific site requests (such as electricity).


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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' CTO Malcolm McKee speaks to Oscar Williams of NS Tech about how the internet of things could transform the monitoring of Britain's forests, farms and rivers.
When Malcolm McKee joined the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) in 2017, he wanted to recreate a practice he had used in the private sector. His previous employer, EDF Energy, had a horizon scanning team that monitored a range of emerging technologies, and McKee, Defra's chief technology officer, thought it could prove valuable in Whitehall too.
"There is always going to be the hot tech of the week or the month that ministers or senior stakeholders will focus on and ask us what we are doing with it," says McKee. "It is really important for us to have evaluated that landscape and to have good grounding for saying, 'we are not doing anything with that at the moment because we don't have a way that is going to be transformative for Defra or it is not mature enough yet'."
Based in Bristol, the six-strong team that produces Defra's tech radar reports is made up of architects and innovation consultants who engage with prospective suppliers and monitor around 1,600 different technologies at any one time.
"In effect they offer a kind of brokerage service," says McKee. "Their work really leads that conversation with senior stakeholders and allows us to prioritise our very limited funding and the things that really matter."
Earlier this year, the team was approached by Vodafone about a potential application of its Narrowband-internet of things (NB-IoT) technology. Defra's technologists and Vodafone's technical experts predicted that the technology could be used to support a new 25-year Environment Plan to revive Britain's woodland and plant 40 million trees by 2025. The £640m strategy forms a key part of the government's plan to reduce carbon emissions.
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Prior to the three-month trial, which is running in two forests in Surrey and Northumberland, Defra and the Forestry Commission were dependent on more traditional telemetry technology to observe the impact of environmental changes on trees and their growth. The incumbent devices are "large, expensive and power hungry", says McKee. "Paying for the monitoring is a relatively expensive way of doing things. This new class of much smaller, more robust, cheaper, easier, lighter devices gives us an opportunity to rethink how we do telemetry."
The trial, which is funded by Vodafone, is set to conclude shortly. McKee and his team are now assessing whether the devices, which monitor the trees' growth and health, are sufficiently robust, reliable, cost-effective, secure, energy-efficient and scalable to be rolled out in their thousands across the country.
As Defra is still evaluating the technology, McKee is reluctant to comment on whether he thinks it could be scaled up to meet the demands of the tree planting project on a national scale, but says "the signs are really good".
"There is extra benefit here about the frequency of the data; you could send a physical inspector maybe once a year, whereas these are giving us data every day," says McKee. "So we have a far greater ability to sense disease in the trees, to compare movement or growth in one area to another. So there is lots of access to data that might be useful in predicting how forestry is growing and helping achieve our environment commitments."
The data from the project is fed into an analytics platform to predict the forests' ability to capture carbon from the atmosphere.
If the department decides to move forward with the technology, it will apply for funding in the Treasury's next spending review, which is due to be settled in the autumn. If it proves a success in forestry research, it could theoretically be expanded to rivers to monitor water levels, as well as to farms to manage animal movement and disease outbreaks.
"There are lots of use cases for implanting devices," says McKee. "It enables you to redirect inspectors on to more valuable work. It is a bit like the business case for automation or AI. It is about replacing people with machines, not in a way that makes them redundant but in a way that enables them to add higher value to the work they do."


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A member of University Democrats started a petition calling for Texans to stand with Planned Parenthood in response to the program's removal from the state's Medicaid program.
The defunding of Planned Parenthood in Texas comes weeks after the House of Representatives passed a bill that would cut its federal funding, although the bill has not yet gone through the U.S. Senate. Republicans put the bill through the House after controversy arose surrounding videos that showed Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of fetal tissue for medical research.
The petition, started Monday on change.org with the title "Don't Defund Planned Parenthood," has almost 300 supporters, a number that petition starter, Joseph Trahan, public relations sophomore and University Democrats campus director, said he hopes will increase as he tries to spread awareness on campus. Trahan said he hopes the petition can give a voice to those in Texas who do support access to Planned Parenthood.
"Being literally across the street from the Capitol, we need to take a more proactive role in being vocal and supportive of Planned Parenthood as well as other advocacies and missions to prevent the state of Texas from going backwards," Trahan said.
Trahan said anyone — not just students — can sign the petition. He said he hopes the campaign will expand on campus through tabling, passing out flyers and the support of other student organizations.
"We do plan on going further," Trahan said. "The petition is just the ground work. We also plan to work with other organizations on campus, leaders on campus and we're trying to push an awareness campaign that can be used in the form of having other organizations share the petition."
One of these organizations who is working with University Democrats is Students of the World, an organization that uses creativity and storytelling to start progress on campus, according to Joy Youwakim, economics sophomore and president of the UT chapter. Youwakim said she hopes that more student organizations will spread the petition to show this issue can transcend politics to become something every student cares about.
"It's something different when student orgs take it into their own hands and say yes, this is something real, we're educated, we support it, we as students are spreading awareness," Youwakim said.
Although Trahan said University Democrats hopes to spread awareness to several organizations on campus, the UT chapter of the Young Conservatives of Texas oppose the petition and are in favor of the defunding of Planned Parenthood, according to Allison Peregory, government sophomore and president of the organization.
"There have been several videos of wrongdoings that should concern citizens regardless of their partisanship," Peregory said. "This petition is misplaced because defunding Planned Parenthood is not about taking away women's health. It's about standing up for the moral integrity of Texas."
Trahan said he feels defunding Planned Parenthood is a regression in women's healthcare and hopes he can help support other Texans who feel the same way.
"I hope to accomplish credibility to the claim that Texans do support access to quality healthcare for low income men and women in the state," Trahan said. "The petition will serve as a way to get numerical context for those who do support that."


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The FARC has announced that captured journalist Romeo Langlois, who is reportedly being held by one of the group's biggest drug trafficking fronts, will be released soon.
The Tweet, sent on Sunday from the account @FARC_EP, read, "The prisoner of war: French journalist Romeo Langlois, will be released soon, safe and sound." The message came hours after a video showed a commander from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC's) 15th Front reading a communique confirming that Langlois had been taken prisoner by the guerrillas during a seven-hour battle with Colombian forces on April 28. The video was filmed by journalists Karl Penhaul and Carlos Villalon.
Langlois' release will likely be organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). In order to facilitate this, military operations in the region where Langlois is thought to be being held, in the north of Caqueta province, have been temporarily suspended, General Javier Rey Navas of the Colombian Army told RCN Radio. No immediate timeframe for the journalist's release has been given, however.
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Langlois is being held by the 15th Front of the FARC, which El Tiempo reports is one of the biggest drug trafficking fronts within the rebel organization, shipping an estimated 30 tons of cocaine a year. Due to the size of its trafficking operations, which include coca plantations and coca paste laboratories spread throughout the south of the country, as well as its Caqueta stronghold, the front has been able to position itself as a supplier to the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel, reports El Tiempo.
The Sinaloa Cartel are also reportedly work with the 48th Front; in April last year, Colombian police arrested an alleged intermediary between the front, the Mexican cartel, and the Rastrojos drug gang. The 15th Front are known to work closely with the 48th, who base their operations in Putumayo province, which borders Caqueta.
Debate has raged over whether Langlois should be considered a prisoner of war. The FARC claim this is justified as he was taken in the midst of a battle between the guerrillas and armed forces while, they say, wearing military uniform. As InSight Crime has noted, his capture highlights the complications around the role of journalists reporting from modern conflict zones, particularly those involving organized criminal groups, where the positions of combatants and non-combatants are often ill-defined.


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JESSICA DESVARIEUX: May 17 marks the 100th day of the beginning of the hunger strike in Guantanamo Bay. A hundred thirty detainees have refused to eat or drink. It's an action they have done in the past. But with 80 percent of the inmates now on strike for more than three months, it's unprecedented.
President Obama ran for his first term on the promise that he would close down Guantanamo. And on January 22, 2009, he signed an executive order to shut down Guantanamo within a year.
It's been four years since then. And it wasn't until a press conference last month that the president re-committed to closing the prison.
BARACK OBAMA: I think it Is critical for us to understand that Guantanamo is not necessary to keep America safe. It is expensive. It is inefficent. It hurts us in terms of our international standing. It lessens cooperation with our allies on counterterrorism efforts. It is a recruitment tool for extremists. It needs to be closed.
DESVARIEUX: Closed is exactly how human rights advocates and military officials gathered in D.C. want to see the detention center. A panel of representatives close to the detainees emphasized that the majority of them are cleared for release but are still being detained indefinitely.
Former Gitmo chief prosecutor Colonel Morris Davis said that the public needs to educate themselves on the issue, specifically when it relates to prisoners who are cleared for release but still detained.
COL. MORRIS DAVIS: I think they're unaware that of 779 people there thhat were ever taken there that there are 166 left, that over 600, mainly during Bush adminstration, were determined not to be the worst of the worst and were sent back to wherever they were from. Of the 166 that are left, 86–you've had the CIA, the FBI, Department of Justice, and Department of Defense sit down and unaniously agree that hey didn't commit a crime, we're not going to charge them with anything, they don't pose an imminent threat, and we don't want to keep them. And so we've got a majority, 86 of the 166, that have been there year after year after year after being cleared to be transferred out that we're paying $8,000 or $9,000 a year per person to keep them sitting there at Guantanamo because of their citizenship. So we're wasting over $75 million a year to put people in prison that we don't want to imprison.
DESVARIEUX: So why is the prison still open? And moreover, why or those cleared for release still detained?
Those in the Obama adminstration point to Congress as being the roadblock. But attorney for eleven of the detainees Carlos Warner said that the president has the power to move forward without Congress if he appointed a senior government official to shepherd the process of closure and the release of cleared detainees.
CARLOS WARNER: He can close it still in a year. But he's got to put the right people in charge. And he can get the innocent people out in a month. He's got to talk to the right people. And he can end the hunger strike. He's got to talk to people like us in order to do that.
DESVARIEUX: The panel pointed to Americans' lack of support for the close of the camp also delaying Gitmo's closure. The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC poll released on May 15 showed that 52 percent of Americans oppose closing the prison while 39 percent support doing so.
Opposition on the right argues in favor of keeping Gitmo open. Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Buck McKeon wrote in an opinion piece in USA Today that the president lacked comprehensive policy to deal with prisoners; thereby the decision to keep Gitmo open is the only appropriate action at the moment.
Colonel Morris Davis completely disagrees. He argued that although the Obama administration hasn't made their policy clear, the administration does have viable options.
DAVIS: This notion that only Guantanamo is suitable is just wrong, 'cause we have prosecuted hundreds and hundreds of terrorism-related cases since 9/11 in our federal courts without incident, with complete success, in a way that's credible, while at Guantanamo we've tried seven people in military commissions. Six of the seven the apellate court in Washington ruled what they were convicted of was not really not an offense. Five of the seven that have been convicted are now back home in their home country. They're not at Guantanamo. So this whole notion that only Guantanamo and only military commissions are appropriate is just a flat out lie.
Another possiblity would be for the ones that really are among the worst of the worst is–I think a compromise position would be Congress has the authority to create a new federal district court, which you could create and conduct at Guantanamo. So if you buy into the argument, oh, they're too dangerous to bring to America, but we want to use our credible and proven court system rather than this military commission charade, convene a federal court at Guantanamo and prosecute them in federal court there.
But this status quo that has gone on, you know, this legal limbo for more than a decade is what led to the hunger strike.
DESVARIEUX: The hunger strike for most Americans is an abstract and not a reality. But there are human rights advocates like Diane Wilson who are acting in solidarity with the detainees. She has been on a water-only hunger strike since May 1, and she said that she has no intention of quitting until prisoners cleared for release begin to be freed.
DIANE WILSON: These men are that desperate. And I've done hunger strikes before, so I know how, how you do it at the last resort. It is not just a whim to do a hunger strike.
DESVARIEUX: The United States government is currently force-feeding hunger striking detainees. A military prison document obtained by Al Jazeera described the process. First a tube is snaked through their nostril until a chest x-ray or a test dose of water confirms that the substance has reached their stomach. Diane said that finding out about such brutal practices motivated her to stay in solidarity with the prisoners.
WILSON: And I do know there were quite a few young people. You know, like, some of them were twelve. Some of them were all the way up to fifteen. And it sickens me how the war on terror, the fear that is engrained in the conscious of the American people right now, they have no problem about just washing Guantanamo away, out of sight, out of mind.
DESVARIEUX: It's day 100 of the hunger strike, and it looks like there's no end in sight. It will be up to President Obama to live up to his promise of closing Guantanamo this second time around.
For The Real News Network, Jessica Desvarieux, Washington.
DISCLAIMER: Please note that transcripts for The Real News Network are typed from a recording of the program. TRNN cannot guarantee their complete accuracy.


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Hello 4D4F, just to let you know the BTS will give lying & standing times. In the Warehouse of technologies list the lying time for the BTS is down as a no. Thanks Patrick.
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The dreaded two-week wait. This is the time when you wait to find out whether you are officially pregnant or not. Or in my case, it is technically the dreaded 9-day wait, because I transferred my 5-day old embryo. Even though five days are knocked off my wait time, it is still a stressful time. It's more like a low-grade stress. I've been coping by zoning out in front of the TV, trying to distract myself.
Catch up on my previous FET posts here.
Recently I asked on Instagram whether you all chose to wait for your hCG blood results from your doctor, or if you took a home pregnancy test before your two week wait was over. I was actually surprised that most of you said that you chose not to wait, and took a home pregnancy test. A decent amount of you said that you take multiple tests during this time. Some of you said that the main reason you wanted to do it at home is that it felt so impersonal to hear the results from someone they don't even know from the clinic. It's understandable that you want to share that moment with your partner, whether it's good or bad news it's nice to actually have someone you love with you for support.
But my husband and I talked it over and we agreed that for us, it was best if we waited for official results from the doctor's office. I wanted zero mystery, and so did he. Between false positives and false negatives, it's just not worth it to us. I have recently come across several infertility Instagram accounts that have talked about how heart breaking it was to get a false positive with a home pregnancy test. All of the initial joy and excitement can make your heart sink so quickly with a false positive.
During my Two Week Wait I occasionally posted on my different social media accounts with pictures from my trip, and updating everyone how everything was going. Some people messaged me and said they were surprised that I am choosing not to do a home pregnancy test and said to me, "I can't do that, I would have gone crazy." But I feel like I would have actually gone crazy if I did test myself. Because knowing myself, and what I used to do, I would have been testing daily like I see other women doing. Not to say they are crazy, but I would have been locked into an all-consuming circle of thoughts that usually sounded something like this:
It's Friday night and I won't be able to do an hCG blood test until Monday at my doctors office. I'll call them then. Maybe I'll try a test here at home in the mean time. Is it too early to test?
(Googles earliest time to test and learns that each home pregnancy test is different.)
Here we go…
The instructions say a faint pink line is pregnant. Is that a faint pink line? Hmm.. (squints hard)
Or is that a "shadow line?" Because I've heard a shadow line isn't really pregnant.
If I turn it slightly to the side the line looks pink on the edges. So does that mean it's actually a pink line?
Maybe if I take a photo of it and post it in my infertility group they could help me figure it out.
But what if the lighting isn't good enough for all of them to see?
(Takes 10 photos and analyzes the clearest one to post, then uploads for others to analyze as well).
Looks like about half of them are saying "pregnant" and congratulating me. Wow look at all those smile and heart emojis they are giving me. Maybe I am pregnant.
But it looks like a decent amount of others are saying "not pregnant" and telling me "So sorry, sending hugs your way."
Some people are also saying "I don't know" or "it's too hard to tell."
Seems to be a real mixed bag of responses. Now I'm even more confused.
Hmmm…I see here this other person took a picture of their pregnancy test and inverted the colors to see the line better. Maybe I should try that. Dang, I already threw away the test. I'll have to do this all over again.
And on, and on it goes…
No thanks, I don't want to deal with that again. And even digital pregnancy tests can have false positives or say "Error." So they aren't completely fool-proof. Plus they are expensive. You've probably seen other women posting photos of their cheapies (cheap home pregnancy test strips), with hand written dates or time in their cycle when they took their test. Not one, not two, not even three, but it seems to me the average amount of cheapies used during the typical two-week wait seems to be six. That's six days of doing a home pregnancy test. Six times to analyze a pee stick, maybe post it online, and wait to hear what others think. I've also seen women doing it for their entire two-week wait.
That is a hard pass for me. I know how my mind works and I would drive myself bananas if I did it every day. Can you understand now, why I chose to say hell no to a home pregnancy test this time? I'm so over it. If you've followed our timeline you'll know I've experienced pregnancy losses and I haven't had a baby yet. Truth be told, a home pregnancy test means nothing to me anymore. I don't get excited about taking them and instead I actually dread them. I don't breathe a sigh of relief when it looks positive. Instead I question when the other shoe will drop, because based on my own experience it always does.
For me, seeing my baby healthy and alive on the ultrasound monitor has so much more meaning than a "maybe" pink line on a pee stick. Although I don't recall the exact statistic, I've heard that once you hear your baby's heartbeat your odds of miscarriage go down quite a bit. Although I've never been able to make it far enough to hear my baby's heartbeat, in the past I've been able to see my baby's heartbeat in two different pregnancies. That was really amazing, to actually see life inside of me with a tiny little heartbeat fluttering away. These are the types of milestones I look forward to and I hope for again in the future.
Did you use a home pregnancy test during your two-week wait? If so, when did you take it? What advice would you give other women who are in their two-week wait? Comment below.


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When the movie King Arthur: Legend of the Sword hits theaters Friday, it will add the latest twist to a legend that's been evolving for nearly a millennium. This version of the legend (starring Charlie Hunnam and Jude Law) pits King Arthur against his uncle, who seizes the crown until the famous episode in which young Arthur pulls the sword from the stone and proves he is the rightful king.
It's a fanciful tale and one that's been told many times, but where does it come from?
Some people do believe that King Arthur could have been a real person, but despite the occasional news story about an archaeological discovery that may provide clues, experts on Arthurian legend tell TIME that there is no evidence — no primary source from the time — to confirm that King Arthur was ever a real person.
What is possible, however, is that Arthur is based on a real leader from the 5th or 6th century. One promising theory points to a person known as "Riothamus" — an honorific for "supreme king" — who crossed the English Channel to fight in France. That's something that Arthur also does in early texts. "It may be the closest we will come to locating a specific model for Arthur," according to Norris J. Lacy, a medievalist and former international president of the International Arthurian Society.
If an "Arthur-type" figure were alive around that time, then he was probably a military leader reacting to the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain, a very violent time and a setting ripe for the creation of a legend. "There was no centralized government, and British life was essentially tribal," says Lacy. "Rulers would occupy an area, often a hill, that would be easy to defend. Local wars were frequent, with much hacking and 'smiting.' Life being as uncertain as it was, and with society torn by war, strife, and sometimes famine and disease, it is not surprising that people would latch onto stories of a benevolent king or warlord who is intent on peace and prosperity."
The first full "biographies" of Arthur don't appear until the 12th century. Though they were sometimes styled as being based on a true story, they came out of a time when romance writing was all the rage, inspired by the rise of courtly love and chivalry.
The most famous accounts are History of the Kings of Britain, written in 1136 in Latin by Geoffrey of Monmouth, who claimed to have been translating an ancient British book on the kings of Britain that had been lost. The legend really took off in the 15th century with the release of Le Morte d'Arthur, with which Thomas Malory helped popularize, for the English-speaking world, courtly love and the iconic image of Arthur being the only one who can pull the sword out of the stone.
"There were powerful women in the courts of England and France who were patronizing poets and writers, and they may have wanted certain type of stories" about courtly love, says Chris Snyder, an expert on Arthurian legend and dean of the Shackouls Honors College at Mississippi State University.
On the other hand, no matter whether Arthur was a real person or not, the story's mysterious origins add a level of intrigue that have helped keep the legend alive. "No one was keeping good records because they were trying to survive, and that's one reason the legend became so popular," says Dorsey Armstrong, professor of Medieval Literature at Purdue University and the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Arthuriana. "Something amazing happened, but we don't have details, so you're free to use your imagination."
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You'd know my garden Claire...it'd be the one with all the dead plants. I have a straight up black thumb! LOL!ReplyDelete
We had a garden & as my WW pic shows did little with it other than let a Great dane ruin it. Now it's decked & paved I'm a bit of a "Pot" freak! Herbs, lots & lots of pots of herbs . . . .look good, some flower, grow like crazy & taste fab is my advice or flax or lavander (anything easy growing) xReplyDelete
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Hey gene, who tends to the garden then?ReplyDelete
Hey shaz, i like the idea of pots too.
Cheers Ruth will pass that on.
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|Human "races" as depicted in the 19th century Nordisk familjebok (Nordic Family Book Encyclopedia). Each person in the painting depicts one "race" of Asiatic people. Today, anthropologists and biologist reject such "race" categorization. The differences between human groups are better ascribed to biological plasticity.
During the early twentieth century several longitudinal studies of child growth were initiated in the United States and Europe. Such longitudinal studies take repeated measurements of the same children, usually once a year, and from the data both size and rate of growth (velocity) can be calculated. The first such study in the British Isles started in 1919 and was conducted by Rachel Mary Fleming (1882–1968). For the first eight years of this study Fleming performed this work in her spare time, in addition to her duties as Assistant Secretary of the Geographical Association. In 1927 she received a grant from the Medical Research Council to devote herself full-time to the data collection, analysis, and publication of a report. The growth study had been proposed by Herbert John Fleure, a zoologist, geographer, Honorary Secretary of the Geographical Association, and editor of Geography. Fluere was motivated by the debate between eugenicists (who believed in fixed races of people) and Boasians. Franz Boas, a migrant from Germany, had established the first university department of anthropology in the United States. He and his colleague Henry P. Bowditch, a Boston physician, compiled body measurements of tens of thousands of immigrant children and showed that while their parents were thin, short, and round-headed, the children grew-up to be more robust, taller, and long-headed. Boas coined the phrase "biological plasticity" to describe this rapid change.
Fluere, who wanted to establish the permanence of "racial types," considered the idea of plasticity to be extreme and recommended it be ". . . discarded as serious anthropology." He claimed that the Welsh and the English were distinct racial types, and that the Welsh were descendants of crossbreeding in 2500 BC between Anatolians and Mediterraneans that had created a "race" of restless mariners that Fluere named The Prospectors. This fanciful and totally incorrect idea was published by Sir Arthur Keith in an essay, "How did Britain's racial divisions arise?" Keith, an advisor to Fleming's longitudinal study, was a prominent anatomist and anthropologist, fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, eugenicist, author of derogatory essays on the nature of Jews and Jewishness, and chief supporter of the fraudulent Piltdown Man fossil as evidence of an English-first evolution of Homo sapiens.
The growth study conducted by Fleming recorded the annual measurements of stature and head dimensions on children and youth three to eighteen years old in England and Wales. From these data Fluere hoped to substantiate his opinion that ". . . for in every parish of our country markedly contrasted types live side by side, and yet, in spite of intermarriage as well as substantial similarity of conditions, they remain distinct." Apparently, Fluere believed neither in genetics, which even eugenicists understood to have some effect on "type" via intermarriage, nor in environmental plasticity. Rather, he believed in immutable "racial types."
Fleming published her report of the longitudinal study in 1933. Her analysis included a longitudinal curve of growth in stature, head length, and head breadth for each participant in the study, including more than 12,616 examinations of 4,293 children, juveniles, and adolescents.1 With statistical advice from the Medical Research Council, especially Mr. W. J. Martin, she produced thousands of graphs, not only of individual participants, but also groupings of participants. These graphs were made in reference to age, sex, stature, cranial measures, hair and eye color, and an attempt at "racial" and psychological classification. Although Fleming and Fluere continued to see "racial types" in the results, they had to divide the participants into fifteen such groups, not just Welsh and English. A modern interpretation of the data, both the central tendencies and variance, comes to a different conclusion, namely that there is abundant evidence of growth plasticity, especially in association with living conditions and food availability. Even Fleming seemed to lose faith in the idea of "racial type permanence" as she wrote, "It is admittedly difficult to classify groups according to racial type (which is, after all, merely a convenient term for summing up predominating physical characters) in the population of these islands where so much intermixture has taken place . . ."2
Fleming noted that some children grew throughout the teenage years, while others came to an early stop. Some children grew steadily during puberty and others experienced a rapid and distinct burst of growth. Some children were tall until puberty but then ceased growing and remained shorter than average as young adults. Today these patterns are well known and reflect normal individual differences in the "mode and tempo" (as Boas called them) of growth.
Fleming also noted forty individuals with unusual stature graphs. These children, of different ages, showed a longitudinal pattern of normal growth, followed by a period of growth arrest, and finally a resumption of normal growth. None of these children had been identified as growth-delayed during the cross-sectional medical examinations by the school physician. All attended a small village school and lived so far away from the school that they had to bring lunches, whereas other children who lived in the village went home to eat. The bag lunches were usually bread and jam, while the home dinners, the main meal of the day, were usually a hot lunch of meat and vegetables. The typical evening meals for all the children were bread, jam, and tea. Thus, only on weekends did the bag lunch children receive a full meal at dinner. The cause of the growth stunting seemed to be a combination of inadequate food intake, plus the energy expended in commuting to school. When the headmaster of the school initiated a hot dinner program for the commuting children, the growth differences between the village residents and rural students disappeared.
The growth study found that so-called "racial types" proved to be a product of nutritional status. This and a century of other research proved Boas was correct about plasticity. Fleming's serendipitous finding of alterations in the pattern of growth associated with a change in school feeding policy was to be repeated by another British researcher, Elsie M. Widdowson, who found unexpectedly that a negative emotional environment during school mealtimes could suppress physical growth. Much scientific discovery is unexpected and found only when the individual researcher is willing to take the risk of exploring new territory, trying different strategies and methods, and thinking in new ways about how things work. Rachel Fleming exemplified these characteristics of noteworthy research. She played a part in changing social policy, especially in the introduction of free school lunch programs for undernourished children and the need to identify such children.
Fleming's work formed a basis for the discovery that children's nutritional requirements are divided between maintenance and repair of the body, work, and growth. When food intake is inadequate to meet all requirements, it is usually growth that suffers first. Later in life, nutritionally growth-stunted children become adults with reduced performance in both physical and mental work capacity. In retrospect this seems obvious, but it took decades of research, hundreds of millions of dollars, and much intellectual debate to reach this conclusion. With the advantage of her longitudinal data, Fleming also performed statistical analyses to reveal several features of the human adolescent growth spurt: "The results show that the fast-growing period for girls starts sooner, finishes earlier, and is less intensive than for boys. The sexes are equal in average height up to 11 years of age, between 11—14 girls are taller than boys, but from 14 onwards the boys become steadily taller than the girls" (Fleming 1933). These well-known features of human growth at adolescence were new discoveries to early twentieth century growth researchers. Many were puzzled by the growth spurt, some denied it really existed, and others had their Victorian sensibilities offended by the transitory "ascendancy" in stature of girls over boys during adolescence.
Fleming is not well-known today but was a serious and productive scholar in several fields. The University of Wales conferred on her the degree of M.Sc., honoris causa. She published a book of folktales for young readers, Ancient Tales from Many Lands, as she was also a historian of Russia, spoke Russian and other languages, and served as Librarian of the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) in London. She helped prepare the RAI journals Man (now titled The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain) and Occasional Papers for the press. Perhaps unsurprisingly, in view of her heavy workload, by 1934 Fleming was obliged to resign due to ill health. Her friends, including Fleure, secured a Civil List Pension, and for the last twenty years of her life she lived in retirement on the Isle of Wight. "Rachel Mary Fleming is one of the category of people who are often invisible even in institutional histories, one of those who do their work with quiet devotion, playing a pivotal structural role in the 'back room' rather than the 'front room' of the discipline" (Maddrell, 2009, pp. 132).
Illustration from Nordisk familjebok. Artist Unknown. 1904. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Commons Wikimedia.
- Fleming RM. A Study of Growth and Development: Observations in Successive Years on the Same Children. With a Statistical Analysis by W. J. Martin. London: Medical Research Council. 1933.
- Bogin B. Patterns of Human Growth. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1999.
- Maddrell A. Rachel Fleming. In: Complex Locations: Women's Geographical Work in the UK 1850-1970. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2009:132–133.
BARRY BOGIN received his Ph.D. in anthropology from Temple University in 1977. He worked at Loughborough University, UK, and the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He has expertise in human physical growth and development, nutritional ecology, evolutionary biology, Maya people, and human adaptation. The focus of his research is to explain how social, economic, and political forces influence human physical development. He has authored more than 130 books, articles, book chapters, and popular essays. These include the books Patterns of Human Growth, Human Variability and Plasticity, Human Biology: An Evolutionary and Biocultural Approach, and The Growth of Humanity.
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The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Iraqi Communist Party issued the following statement about the criminal terrorist bombings in Baghdad on 8th December 2009:
The vicious forces of terrorism have carried out another barbaric crime on 8th December 2009, which is a part of the series of bloody cowardly operations that began with "Bloody Wednesday" in September, targeting innocent civilians and seeking to inflict the most damage to our people and the biggest harm to the political process, and ultimately to achieve the evil objectives of restoring the rule of tyranny and dictatorship.
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We extend our condolences to the families of the martyrs, and wish the wounded and injured a speedy recovery.
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