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Happy New Year to all my readers!!
As 2018 begins I present to you Installment #21 from my blog thread describing what to call groups of animals … See how many you can guess. Answers listed at the bottom of the page.
- The flock flocked together.
- She dug up a clot of clats.
- A flock of these solitary creatures would be one big flock!
- The husk wasn’t particularly husky.
- The wreck covered the wreck.
- An audience for the audience, please!
- Flock of camels
- Clats of worms
- Flock of cassowaries
- Husk of jackrabbits
- Wreck of sea birds
- Audience of squid
NOTES:  Really. I double checked it to be sure it’s a flock of camels.  Also a flock. And the cassowary is a flightless bird…. Cassowaries are highly endangered. www.rainforestrescue.org.au © Jadi Campbell 2017. All photos © Uwe Hartmann and Jadi Campbell. To see more of Uwe’s animal photos and pics from our trips go to viewpics.de. Fun animal names from www.writers-free-reference.com, Mother Nature Network and www.reference.com.
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The Only Politician With A Confirmed Kill In The War On Women (Pic)
All hail Frank J. Fleming from IMAO who came up with this nugget of genius on Twitter last night.
I hear the DNC had a video tribute to Ted Kennedy, the only politician with a confirmed kill in the War on Women.
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) September 5, 2012
People don’t like to talk about America’s culture for the same reason that a man who just had a heart attack doesn’t want to discuss the double bacon cheeseburger he’s...Read More
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Archive for the ‘On Writing’ Category
Sometimes I plan a post days in advance, or I have an idea in my story box. Other times I sit down to write cold. This is one of those times. Yet if I dig, there’s always a theme on my mind. Lately I’ve been wondering a lot about all of you, and why you [...]
It seems last week’s 100 Words writing prompt was a bit of a bust. Some of you seemed to have simply missed the posting and Tara reported that it didn’t show up in her reader. I checked Feedburner to see if anything seemed awry, but everything looked fine. Do tell me if my posts are [...]
I’m tucked into a corner on the second floor of my favorite used bookstore housed in an old renovated water mill – a corner with a weather-worn stuffed chair and a window that looks out over the river. Billie Holiday is crooning, “It Had to be You”, through my headphones. What a voice. A voice [...]
That is all.
I need to come up with a better name for my “writing room” because I do more than write in here. “A room of my own”, but that doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, does it? My Virginia Woolf room? Strikes me as desperate, corny. Anyhow, locked up in my little yellow room I was [...]

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Several PhD positions are available at Heriot-Watt University on different aspects related to quantum technology with spin qubits:
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Recent breakthroughs have demonstrating the capability of quantum sensors for measuring magnetic fields, temperature and electric field at the nanoscale. The deployment of these techniques are, however, limited by long signal acquisition times.
In this project, we will use real-time adaptation of experimental parameters and machine learning to optimise quantum measurements to the ultimate limits. Our long-term goal is to develop AI-powered algorithms to design optimal adaptive control sequences and system identification tools (for example to detect single nuclear spins in nanoscale magnetic resonance).
This work will be carried out in collaboration with the quantum theory group of Dr Erik Gauger and the signal processing group of Dr Yoann Altmann. We can accommodate projects with different levels of mixing between theory/numerical and experiments – however, proficiency in coding is a prerequisite in all cases.
(2) Quantum sensing of complex quantum materials
Our group has recently been awarded a >£2M grant to establish a Quantum Magnetometry facility that will utilise a single electronic spin to measure magnetic fields with nanoscale spatial resolution at ultra-low temperatures (mK range). This is a quite unique facility worldwide, which will open the way to the investigation of quantum correlated states in 2D heterostructures, exotic magnetic textures, unconventional superconductivity. We are looking for a PhD student to join this project and contribute both to establishing the facility and to use it to carry out exciting science! This work will be carried out in collaboration with Prof Brian Gerardot.
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Most employers prefer that employees not discuss their wages with people they know. They definitely prefer that employees not complain about their pay on Twitter. So when a Chipotle employee at a Haverford, Pa., restaurant did exactly that, the company asked him to delete the posts. Eventually, the company fired the worker. However, earlier this year, an administrative law judge with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ordered Chipotle to rehire the employee because the company’s social media policy violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).
In January 2015, the employee tweeted several complaints about working on snow days. He also used Twitter to express his dissatisfaction about hourly wages ($8.50). Soon after, a supervisor told the crew member that the tweets violated the company’s social media policy, which prohibited employees from making disparaging and false statements about Chipotle. The employee took the posts down, but was fired several weeks later for organizing a petition claiming that workers weren’t getting their required breaks.
After the crew member was fired, the Pennsylvania Workers Organizing Committee filed an unfair labor practice charge on his behalf. The NLRB’s general counsel then filed a complaint against the company for its social media policy and for firing the employee.
In her March ruling, Administrative Law Judge Susan A. Flynn ruled against the company, claiming the employee’s rights to tweet were protected under the NLRA. “Having determined that [the employee]’s tweets satisfy both prongs of the analysis they were protected concerted activity and were for the purpose of mutual aid or protection — I further find that the Respondent’s request that [the employee] delete those tweets was unlawful, although no discipline was imposed on him,” the ruling noted.
The employee is among the nearly two-thirds of American adults who use social networking sites, according to the Pew Research Center. As the number of people using social media to vent about problems grows, companies have become more vigilant about monitoring their online reputations. That includes making sure that their own employees don’t mock or insult them on Facebook, Twitter, and other sites. However, in recent years the NLRB has regularly ruled that employees have the right to complain and even insult their employers online, as long as doing so constitutes “protected activity.” When developing policies around how workers can talk about their workplaces on social media, companies must be careful that they don’t violate free speech laws.
Social Media and the NLRA
While it may seem like a stretch that employees have a legal right to bash their employers on social media, the NLRA protects the right of employees to engage in “protected concerted activities.” Those include group actions to join a union and improve wages, benefits, and overall working conditions. Section 7 of the NLRA guarantees employees, “the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection.” Section 8(a)(1) of the NLRA makes it an unfair labor practice for an employer “to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in Section 7.”
The NLRB began receiving charges in its regional offices related to employer social media policies in 2010. In March 2015, NLRB General Counsel Richard F. Griffin Jr. released a report that looked at issues in employee handbooks that could be “reasonably construed” as having a chilling effect on employees’ Section 7 activity. The 30-page report compares legal and illegal handbook rules, and analyzes rules of a large employer that the general counsel found unlawful.
The NLRB Faces Criticism
The Chipotle case is just one of many where the NLRB ruled that employees were allowed to criticize their employers online because they were exercising their Section 7 rights. In another high profile case involving a worker at Pier Sixty in New York, the NLRB found that an employee had a right to post a profane rant about his manager and his manager’s family on Facebook since the message involved a bid for unionization, along with a complaint about alleged workplace abuse.
That case began in 2011, when Pier Sixty workers began considering unionizing, in part because they felt they were being disrespected. Two days before a unionization election in October 2011, an assistant banquet director criticized employees for talking among themselves during an event. One of the workers was upset by the manager’s comments and responded by using his mobile phone to post a pro-union Facebook message visible to the employee’s Facebook friends, including 10 of his coworkers.
The day after Pier Sixty employees voted to unionize, the employee deleted his post. About two weeks later, the company fired the employee for violating company policy, based on the Facebook posts.
A judge initially sided with the employee and the NLRB narrowly affirmed the ruling in March 2015 by finding the worker had been wrongly fired.
Rulings like these have raised alarms at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which recently blasted the NLRB’s approach to handbook policies, including social media, in a report titled “Theater of the Absurd: The NLRB Takes on the Employee Handbook.”
The Chamber accused the NLRB of changing in recent years, ditching impartiality and becoming dominated by a decidedly pro-union majority.
The 43-page report lays out numerous cases that demonstrate the “sweeping impact of the NLRB’s increasingly biased, and some would say irrational, policy agenda,” according to the Chamber.
Given the recent NLRB decisions, companies need to be very careful when crafting their social media policies. While companies don’t want their own employees destroying the reputation of those who sign their paychecks, employers should try to avoid running into trouble with the NLRB. To achieve that, companies can take several steps:
• Review current social media policies
Companies should look closely at their current social media policies in light of recent NLRB rulings. This should be done in close consultation with in-house counsel, the HR department, and outside counsel who understand the issues at stake. Social media policies should reflect that comments about wages, working conditions, and unions have different protections than other types of complaints.
• Use specific language
The NLRB has raised red flags over many social media policies for being too vague. In response, companies should try to craft policies that are as specific as possible. For example, generally banning profanity in social media posts that relate to the company may get an employer into trouble, as Pier Sixty found. Yet tying inappropriate behavior on social media posts to discriminatory or harassing behavior has been approved by the NLRB.
• Discipline carefully
Most importantly, when companies become aware of potentially problematic social media posts by employees, they should proceed very carefully with disciplinary actions. It’s important to consult with HR and attorneys to ensure that posts aren’t protected under the NLRA.
In recent years, the NLRB has reviewed dozens of social media policies. And the agency has often ruled against employers, even when workers have publicly insulted and disparaged their employers online. Companies need to understand the issues involved and working closely with experts in order to make sure their social media policies don’t result in regulatory actions.

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The 2016 Popular Vote Loser, also known as the KKK-endorsed candidate, the Liar in Chief, Tiny, and Chief Executive Deadbeat is playing the White Nativist-Nationalist card again. This time he
Steve King (unlike the writer Stephen King) is a walking nonfiction horror story. He needs to be forced to resign from Congress if he does not leave on his own.
Cartoon courtesy of Patrick Chappatte of the New York Times This is what happens to the country when there is a President who was endorsed by the KKK.
Some people cling to the belief that Eric Garner was killed by everything but the cops who killed him
Crossposted from DemocraticDiva.com Rep. Steve King (R-NY) told CNN that Eric Garner’s death was caused by his obesity and not by the choke hold administered by five Staten Island cops.

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The U.S. Navy’s SEAL teams are literally among the most elite military forces in the world, if not the most elite, but because the Biden regime is literally made up of exactly the kind of tyrants they accused Donald Trump of being, our country is at risk of losing many of these warriors.
According to an exclusive Fox News report, “a growing number of U.S. Navy SEALs who are seeking a religious exemption to the Defense Department’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate are being threatened and, in some cases, harassed into submission.”
Added retired SEAL chief Tim Wood on Twitter: “This is a political purge. ‘A new directive by the Navy’s COVID Consolidated Disposition Authority (CCDA) issued yesterday states that if SEALs decline the vaccine, the Navy may seek to recover from each individual SEAL the money the government has spent on training them.”
He goes on to point out that all service members are at risk of losing something if they refuse the still-experimental vaccine.
“Let’s be very clear about something, SEALs get attention, but this is happening to all service members right now. That Soldier, Sailor, Airman, Marine or Guardian loses no less in this disaster,” he added.
Wood also posted a link to the Navy’s memo, which reads, in part [our emphasis]:
Policy. In order to maximize readiness, it is the policy goal of the U.S. Navy to achieve a fully vaccinated force against the persistent and lethal threat of COVID-19.
7.a. and 7.b. The Vice Chief of Naval Operations retains authority for non-judicial punishment and courts-martial. Involuntary extension of enlistments is not authorized on the basis of administrative or disciplinary action for vaccination refusal. The CCDA may seek recoupment of applicable bonuses, special and incentive pays, and the cost of training and education for service members refusing the vaccine.
According to Fox News, a series of new Navy directives also threatens severe punishment that includes cutting pay, demotions in rank, and a travel ban for SEALS and other Navy members who don’t comply with the mandate.
“For some SEALs who are in the process of seeking a religious exemption to the mandate, the process is nearly impossible to successfully complete to get a waiver,” the network has been told.
Several people complained under Wood’s post that he was “politicizing” the COVID vaccine, and one user asked what the difference was between it and several other vaccines service members are required to have.
He responded with “Good Question: 1. There is no longitudinal studies of these vaccines (excluding jnj). 2. There is no longitudinal studies of mRNA therapy, COVID is the first. 3. The vaccine available is only EUA in the US.”
In short, the other vaccines have been around for years and have been thoroughly researched and studies; none of the COVID vaccine makers can make that claim.
“Purging our military of its elite servicemembers is detrimental to national security. Doing so because the Commander in Chief refuses to accommodate their religious convictions is abhorrent to the Constitution. Their years of experience and leadership in service to our nation is immeasurable and irreplaceable,” Michael Berry, First Liberty Institute’s general counsel, and lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve, who is representing approximately 34 active-duty SEALs and two reservists, told Fox News.
“Remove a SEAL from special warfare, reduce his salary, and force him to repay his training is purely vindictive and punitive. And it’s illegal. They have nothing to do with a virus,” he said.


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While the authors and writing in this essay collection are excellent, I could only read this book in small doses due to the subject matter. Honest, inspiring, and necessary reading.
I could not put this book down except for when I absolutely had to so that I could go to work, eat, get some sleep, etc. Fantastic: an imaginative rendering of what horror the world would face if all of the women fell asleep. Truly terrifying.
A wonderful book from two of today’s most important spiritual teachers The Book of Joy is a conversation that seeks to explain how everyone can withstand the trials and tribulations of living in the world to find joy in everyday living. Without being either overtly Christian or Buddhist, the book still draws from these spiritual […]
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Damaged, Lost Luggage Claims Fall by 50 Percent
WASHINGTON - Complaints that airport screeners lost, stole or damaged items in passengers' bags have plunged more than 50 percent as the government imposed tighter safeguards on luggage, federal records show.
Passengers who discovered missing or damaged belongings demanded money from the Transportation Security Administration 11,700 times in 2009, a steep drop from the 26,500 claims filed in 2004, according to TSA figures. The claims involved both carry-on and checked bags.
The agency has deterred baggage theft and damage by adding surveillance cameras to rooms where luggage is screened. The TSA and airports also have installed "hands-free" conveyor belts that whisk suitcases past screeners into bomb scanners.
"Every time you handle a bag, you've got a great opportunity for baggage theft and baggage damage" by screeners, airport consultant Michael Boyd said. "In the airline business, the key thing is to reduce human contact of all types."
Fewer claims save taxpayers millions. The TSA paid passengers $3.2 million for losses in 2004, but just $343,000 for 2009 losses, although about 3,000 claims from last year are under review.
Miami International Airport spent $2.7 million to add cameras, and in 2007 installed a conveyor-belt system in one terminal. Conveyors replace bulky machines that require screeners to insert and remove each bag.
Claims against the TSA in Miami fell to 369 in 2009 from 941 in 2004.
"We take security very seriously here," said airport security and operations chief Lauren Stover.
The payment demands represent a tiny fraction of the 600 million passengers and checked bags screened at 450 airports each year. The TSA has nevertheless acknowledged theft problems, firing 330 screeners for stealing. In 2006, TSA inspectors began teaming up with local police to investigate baggage theft by screeners and airport workers.
The TSA says the decline in complaints has also come as the agency urged passengers not to place valuables in checked bags, spokeswoman Kristin Lee said. Checked baggage decreased about 20 percent from 2004 to 2009, as many passengers opt to carry on their bags.
Passengers mostly say the TSA lost items such as jewelry, cameras and clothing in checked luggage. Nearly 35 percent of claims are for damaged items.
Larry Stocker of Los Angeles said he had no problem getting $135 from the TSA last year after his eyeglasses were crushed when a screener at Los Angeles International Airport put them through a checkpoint X-ray machine. "I was a little on the irate side and said (to a TSA supervisor), 'Look at the video monitor! You guys did it,' " Stocker recalled. The supervisor signed a claim form on the spot.


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Maryland football’s first road game of the 2012 season, a Sept. 8 date with Temple at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field, will kick off at noon and be broadcast on ESPNU, the network and Big East officials announced Thursday.
For second-year coach Randy Edsall, the game offers a chance to avenge the 38-7 drubbing that Temple handed Maryland at Byrd Stadium early last season.
The Terrapins are scheduled to open the 2012 season against William & Mary Sept. 1 on their new artificial turf field—reportedly an eye-popping design on a gray or black backdrop. That game kicks off at 3 p.m. and will be streamed live on ESPN3.
After taking on Temple in Philadelphia, Maryland returns home for a 12:30 p.m. game Sept. 15 against Edsall’s former program, Connecticut, which will air regionally on the ACC Network.
Edsall is expected to join Maryland basketball coaches Mark Turgeon and Brenda Frese for a “Terps on Tour” session with fans next Thursday, June 14, at the Greene Turtle in Columbia. The evening begins with a meet-and-greet session at 6 p.m., followed by a short program at 7 p.m.


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Venezuela’s denunciation of the American Convention on Human Rights goes into effect today, a development which has been sharply criticized by local and international human rights groups.
Venezuela officially declared its withdrawal from the treaty in September 2012, but denouncements of the Convention do not go into effect until a year after the initial announcement is made. Now that this period is over, the country is no longer bound to the human rights obligations listed in the Convention, nor is it subject to the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Venezuela is now the second country to denounce the American Convention, after Trinidad and Tobago did so in 1998.
Yesterday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro held a press conference to mark the occasion. The president called the withdrawal from the Convention, which was initiated by his predecessor Hugo Chavez, a “wise, fair decision.” Maduro also criticized the two bodies of the Inter-American human rights system, the Inter-American Court and Commission. “The Commission and the Court have unfortunately degenerated,” he told the press. “They believe they are a supranational power, they think themselves a power above the legitimate governments of the continent.”
As proof of this, Maduro pointed to the Court’s ruling in favor of Raul Diaz Peña, a Venezuelan man who was convicted of placing explosives in the Colombian and Spanish embassies in Caracas in 2003. Diaz Peña was convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison, but fled to the U.S. in 2010. In its June 2012 ruling, the Court found that the Venezuelan government had subjected him to “inhuman and degrading treatment.” The case was widely criticized by Venezuelan officials, and The Ministry of Foreign Relations cited it as one of the country’s main justifications for leaving the Convention.
Venezuelan human rights advocates have been highly critical of the withdrawal, however. An online petition created by the Human Rights Center of the Andres Bello Catholic University (UCAB), which asserts that the move violates the principles of “irreversibility and inalienability of human rights,” has been signed by more than 11,000 individuals.
Rafael Uzcategui, of the Caracas-base organization PROVEA, argues that the government’s criticisms overlook the role the Court has had in facilitating the activism of indigenous rights groups. Uzcategui points out that the Court has helped indigenous communities throughout the hemisphere establish claims to the natural resources on their land, as well as the state’s obligation to consult them prior to launching extraction or development projects. He argues that without being able to take their cases to the Court, Venezuelan indigenous tribes will not be able to exercise their rights as effectively as other indigenous groups in the region.
In an interview with El Universal, Pedro Nikken, a former judge and President of the Inter-American Court, says that he views Venezuela’s denunciation as not only a moral mistake, but a strategic one as well. According to Nikken, “the government is damaging itself far more by denouncing the Convention -- creating an image of itself as a violator of human rights -- than receiving 10, 12 or even 20 [unfavorable] rulings.” Local rights group COFAVIC, which was created to press for investigations into police killings during the 1989 Caracazo riots, has also criticized the measure. Hilda Paez, one of COFAVIC’s founders, told El Nacional that she expects the withdrawal to have a negative impact on the most vulnerable members of society, “those who don’t have money to pay for a lawyer, and sometimes through illegal methods, obtain justice in the country’s courts.”
The withdrawal has also been criticized by international human rights organizations. On Monday, the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) issued a statement signed by 44 organizations around the Americas, which called the decision “a grave step back in the protection of human rights in the region.”
- It’s worth noting that, while Venezuela will no longer be bound by the Convention, it is still subject to the oversight of the Inter-American Commission pursuant to its obligations under the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man. As such, the Commission can still issue recommendations on human rights issues in the country, in the same way that it does for the U.S. and Canada. The Venezuelan opposition has taken advantage of this, and on Monday it petitioned the Commission to hear a case on the April election, which opposition leader Henrique Capriles maintains was marred by widespread fraud. While the BBC incorrectly claims that the request is to “declare the April election void,” legal experts consulted by El Nacional clarify that the opposition petition asserts that the rights of Venezuelan citizens to full participation and transparent elections were violated. The Commission has not yet announced whether it will accept the petition, although the opposition can make a strong case that it exhausted domestic remedies by taking the issue to the Supreme Court. Interestingly, as the American Society of International Law notes, the Inter-American Court will remain competent to hear cases arising out of facts which took place before today’s “effective date of denunciation.” Because the Commission can refer cases to the Court, this means that Venezuela could still find itself on the receiving end of an Inter-American Court ruling on the April elections.
- Uruguay’s marijuana regulation bill, which passed the lower house in a July 31 vote, is making slow progress in the Senate. El Pais reports today that the Health Committee, which will take up debate on the matter before sending it to the full floor, has resolved to send it to the Senate in mid-October.
- The Washington Post reports on the proliferation of self-defense groups in Mexico, especially in the troubled state of Michoacan, and on their apparent success. According to the paper, President Enrique Peña Nieto is now “facing the awkward fact that a group of scrappy locals appears to be chasing the gangsters away,” something which the federal police and military patrols there have been unable to achieve in the past decade.
- The AP looks at Peña Nieto’s recently-announced tax reform plan, and the state of his shaky alliance with opposition congressmen. While the package’s inclusion of a pension plan and omission of sales taxes is intended to appeal to the left in the country, the president has not successfully won the support of the PRD for the measure. Additionally, many in the party’s left wing are facing pressure from social movements to reject Peña Nieto’s education reforms and his proposal to end Mexico’s state monopoly over oil production, a factor which could make it difficult for these initiatives to pass.
- Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has come out strongly against the allegations that leaked documents suggest that the NSA targeted Brazil’s national oil company, Petrobras. In a statement, Rousseff said that “if the facts reported by the press are confirmed, it will be evident that the motive for the spying attempts is not security or the war on terrorism but strategic economic interests.” The president has also said that she demanded an explanation from U.S. President Barack Obama, who promised her a reply by Wedenesday. O Globo reports that Minister Luiz Alberto Figueiredo is scheduled to travel to Washington tomorrow to discuss the issue with national security adviser Susan Rice.
- One day before Chile marks the 40th anniversary of the coup which brought dictator Augusto Pinochet to power, El Mercurio reports that former president and current candidate Michelle Bachelet attended an event with current president Sebastian Piñera and political leaders of every major political party in the country. The BBC notes differences in the statements by Bachelet and Piñera, with the former calling for continued investigation into abuses of the Pinochet regime, and the latter calling the coup a regrettable but "predictable outcome" after "repeated violations of the rule of law" under the administration of socialist President Salvador Allende.
- The Colombian government will begin talks with the National Liberation Army (ELN), the second largest rebel group in the country, “in the coming days,” according to Colombian Vice President Angelino Garzon. Garzon also said that talks with the ELN will take place “in a different place than Havana, Cuba.” One potential alternative is Montevideo, Uruguay, where President Jose Mujica has said he is willing to facilitate the peace process.
- On Monday, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos delivered a harsh response to Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s to allow foreign companies to explore for oil in historically disputed waters that the International Court of Justice ruled in November belonged to Nicaragua. Reuters notes that Santos denounced Ortega’s “expansionist pretensions,” and promised to protect Colombia’s maritime border “until the ultimate consequences as president.” La Silla Vacia claims that the statement was a political move intended to boost his flagging public approval rating, and ensure that the Nicaragua issue does not become an electoral weak point ahead of his re-election campaign.
- In Guatemala on Monday, a bus accident in the rural province of Chimaltenango killed 43 passengers after the vehicle fell off of a cliff, Prensa Libre and Reuters report.
- Russell Sheptak of Honduras Culture and Politics takes a look at the latest poll numbers in the Central American country ahead of its November presidential election. The fifth survey of the Center of Studies for Democracy (CESPAD) gives a near eight-point lead to LIBRE party candidate Xiomara Castro over her closest rival, the National Party’s Juan Orlando Hernandez (28 percent compared to 20.7). However, the relatively low levels of support for either candidate shows that neither has a clear mandate, and Honduras’ no-runoff election system means that the winner may take office after receiving less than 50 percent of the vote. If this happens, it could pose a serious governing challenge for the country’s next president.


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What are some of the best investment decisions?
I would like to invest a huge amount of my savings as of 2017 what are some of the best ways to invest your money to expect a huge return in investment in less amount of time
Should you invest into ripple XRP
Should you invest in ripple , A bridge currency , to connect all the financial rails we have today in making efficient payments , Watch out on the SBI VIRTUAL CURRENCIES , coming soon this summer in Tokyo , XRP will be used as a remittance currency for making both cross border payments by financial institutions and asset buyers , 45% of XRPis volume comes from Asia , XRP will be paired to both the dollar and Japanese Yen , in order to optimize international payments coming in and out of japan .
We also have Cuallex , The Mexican payment provider will be using XRP to source out liquidity on demand for the Mexican Peso , the market liquidity levels , of the Pesos , isnt as high as other native currencies like Dollars or Euros, XRP being a digital asset will be used as bridge currency in solving such liquidity issues , for unknown currencies like this , which doesnt have enough markets in making cross border payments , Cuallex finally , came out with a wallet called Cuallet , which will intergrate , Xrapid within their platform , Xrapid is a payment processor that can handle or process 50,000 transactions per second using the crypto currency called XRP developed by ripple labs in Sans Francisco , a trade worth of 1500 pesos could be sold for XRP , which will settle in seconds , on the beneficiaries end , by doing so ,Cuallex will be cutting down cost by 60% , reducing friction in the whole process , because the payments wont be processed in multiple hops or check points , this makes XRP, a Peer to Peer currency or Bank to Bank currency , XRP was tested in a pilot mode for 2 years by Cuallex , today they are rolling into a production stage to disrupt their out dated systems
Along side this , Money Gram and Western union are also testing Xrapid in the pilot stage , Western Union as at 2016 , processed over 80 billion dollars and Money Gram also processed 351 million dollars ,
When this test face is over , monies like this will be passing through Xrapids net , we are talking of real world money which is measured in trillions of dollars on annual or yearly basis ,
The kind of moves this company is making , is massive , currently XRP is worth 0.69 cents and no body cared about XRP , when this system comes into , full use , Expert the price to go higher , One XRP could be worth 100 or more , The revolution is coming and crypto currencies are real , we saw the same thing happened to bitcoin , bitcoin as at 8 years ago, which was just 0.0065 dollars, lots of people didnt care about the coin , at that rate of 0.0065 dollars, if you had invested 100 dollars into bitcoin , you would have gotten 16,666 units , the price of bitcoin exploded in DEC 2017 from $700 to 20,000 dollars and 16,666 units of bitcoins at that time on DEC 2017 will be worth $ 333,320,000 billion dollars , Isnt that a fascinating , On such high returns , when it comes to making investments like this , Bitcoin was a currency used by the internet age , a currency which wasnt even mainstream , today people who invested into bitcoin 8 years down the line , are one of the Elites , having tans and tans of wealth sitting in their wallets,
How much more will it be for a currency , designed to be used by financial institutions and asset buyers , coming with , specific use cases , In a span of 5 years or 6 months to come the price of XRP will be absolutely insane and people who invested early are going to be very rich.
What is the best crypto currency to invest in 2018?
Ripple, bitcoin , etherium? Or what.
Crypto currencies are here to stay , invest now for the future , this better than joining the illuminati
if you are interested in crypto currencies, like bitcoin , Ripple xrp , New york coins just send me a private message or text me on my email [email protected] ,thanks , there is lots and tans and tans of money to be made dont ever miss out on this , the block chain system is revolutionizing the payment industry ,there is going to be a paradigm shift from the old ways to newer innovations, Lets unit for crypto and spread the good gospel to our family and friends , we love crypto and we will die for crypto , Liquidity and friction no more becomes an issue , current rails designed by ripple labs of for transacting value , money for remmitance transactions will travel at the rate at which information is sent online , thanks to the ripple effect we have in using a virtual currency called XRP , which is designed to process 50,000 transactions per sec, there is no digital asset out there to be compared to the robustness of XRP in facilitating payments
A friend of my who knows nothing about the crypto market , let me first clear the fud.
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January 19, 2018 at 9:04 am
I read some remarks above and i was amased how people can be so greedy and thinking just about profits and nothing else. Before you speculate about price in the future, you have think about supply and demend.
- Curently there are close to 40 billion ripples on the market with price 1.6 $ as 19/1 /2018; yesterday ripple crussed to 0.8 $ but today recovered; market capitalisations is 100 billion. Someone above predicted the price of the ripple to jump even on 1000 $. This could happen if ripple was like ethernium – just 100 million coins… but there are 1000 times more ripples then ethernium… price of ethernium is 1000 $ at the moment … so the price of the ripple is about 1$… just right. Now ripple market is little over 30 billion, so the price ti rise to 3 $, has to double… someone to put other 30 000 000 000 billion in the market ( with relising more coins on the market)
- The use of the coin
Ripple is made to be use by banks… thats stands agains all virtuals coins… t.e. decentrilised capitalist system. Now ripple is use by some banks to makes banks transfers but people have to think what will happen when the banks come near future with their own online systems for payment-ripple will be wortless. I didnt heared any coin build on ripple platform- like ethernium, or with open blockchain code like bitcoin for example. Outside banks sector ripple is total rubbish.
- Is very hard to make a prediction of a price, expecially when the coin is not minable. There are close to 40 bilion coins on the market and there are other 60 billion in the hands of the greeedy developers. I read some post by the people behind ripple… and they was saying… they will relise 200 million ripples every mount. Just feew mount ago was about 35 billion ripple in circulations and now is over 3 000 0000 000 billion more ripple just in less then 60 days… with this saturation of the market i wouldnt be supprise to see 60 000 0000 000 ( 60 billions) coin circulatings on the markets by end of year.What will happen when all 100 000 000 000 ( 100 billion) coins start to surculate on the market? Anyone who stady a little chemistry in school know what happen when you start puting salt in a glass of water. In the begining water saturated the salt but then later cant take anymore and is oversatureted.That what will hapen with reapple when all the coins will be realise
- My final prediction on price of ripple for 2018 is 1 $ with low cap of 0.5 $ and max cap of 2$ depends of coins ciculation on the market. 2019 pipple prediction 1 ripple =0.0 $ why? simple- banks will come with their own online curency and riple will be usless.
I you want to invest in digital curency i will sudject bitcoin and my prediction for bitcoin price by end of 2018 is 45k +
stay way from ripple… will woth nothing near future
Reply from a strong ripple investor Know as Spencer Ntow
We call this zero research , ripple labs only released 1 billion xrp units at the beginning of every new month becuase they locked up 55 billion xrp into an escrow account to be used for contract basis , which will be purchased by major financial institutions such as banks and payment providers for making cross border payments , don’t get me twisted , go back and read ripples white paper well or do your research well before posting fake news to the crypto community , at the end of every month any unsold amount of xrp will be locked back to the escrow account , the price of ripple will be absolutely insane when scarcity sets into the market , because ripple labs themselves have no control over the xrp units stored in the escrow account ,quote ,they will never flood the market with excess coins , becuase the contract is made to last for 55 months ,you have no idea of what you just posted , if ripple is solving a multitrillion dollar problem and banks have 27 trillion dollars sitting in nostro accounts , this tells you the xrp asset will be an alternative in reducing the friction and loss incured by such financial institutions, which amounts to 1.6 trillion dollars annually , do your math .100 billion xrp tokens won’t even be enough , this could drive the price up than any other crypto currency we have today , ripples price will be driven by its utility , the most scable liquidity provider to process 1500 transactions within seconds , 1.2 quadrillion for ripples market cap within 1 and half year is going to be possible and Xrp price will be 12000 dollars , lots of tears are going to flow from people’s eyes becuase they did not invest into ripple , they chose to invest into shit coins like bitconnect and devoir coin which has no use case or end goal , ponzy schemes made to rip people off ,who are new and never made their research well before investing into a coin .
If you like what am doing feel free to donate some ripple to my gate hub wallet address rsZ4ciAun4Ppaw3Te3UtP1Vdh29h3JwKdL
Crypto currencies like xrp Ripple
Hi was searhing ripple come out with this .what i can say about etherium family altcoins like ripple steem stellar etc .they use the blockchain tecnology i mean the idea is like this.Ripple seems to be one of the big market cap.which is close to put idea in life.So long term investment with good return i can suggest you ripple i already invest and i am going to invest more in blockchain tec.project .
Crypto currencies like xrp Ripple
@blockchain yes you should invest more into ripple even though its not a financial advice , it should be rational to invest into ripple , today they had 5 global money transfer companies testing out their X rapid package , which will be used by them to source liquidity on demand and X rapid uses the core digital asset "XRP" which we are invested into , WESTERN UNION, MONEY GRAM, IDT, MECURY, FX have partnered with ripple . WE ARE LEFT WITH ONE LAST ONE TO JOIN THE XRAPID PARTNERHSIP , Am praying JP morgan should be the last one , because that bank keeps praising bitcoin and talks more about real time settlements using blockchain
My wife and I are thinking of starting a business
My wife and I are thinking of starting a business but we’re not really sure what type to invest in. We want something that is constantly needed by the public so that the sales would be consistent. Our friends and family have strongly suggested investing on food business but I’m not so sure about that since I have no idea how good food business usually work. Also, if we were to go for the food industry, would establishing our own brand be good or is it too risky? Or is investing on a franchise a better idea? Back when I met my wife several years ago in a foreign dating event, she was running her own small clothing business but things didn’t really work out well for her and she had to stop it. So, clothing business is not on the list of options. Does anybody here have other suggestions/business ideas? Thanks.

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A 17-year-old homeless person has been charged with murder in the death of an 18-year-old University of Texas student on the campus in Austin.
Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo announced at a news conference Friday that Meechaiel Criner was taken into custody at a shelter for homeless youth. He is accused of killing Haruka Weiser, 18, a first-year theater and dance student from Portland, Ore.
Firefighters responding to a trash fire in Austin Monday afternoon came upon Criner at the scene and after they determined he was homeless, police took him to the shelter. Later, the firefighters saw surveillance video from the university of the area where the woman was slain and reported to police that the homeless youth resembled the person on the video.
Criner was found to be in possession of a bicycle, duffel bag and other items that resembled ones belonging to Weiser.
Weiser was reported missing Monday morning, and officers discovered her body on the campus in Waller Creek behind the alumni center.
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Here at RHG we are following the Governments advice on the COVID-19 outbreak, which is based on the very latest scientific and medical research. This is in line with Public Health England, the NHS guidance and the Department of Health and Social Care.
The safety and wellbeing of staff, patients and visitors is paramount and at the heart of our approach.
At RHG we have well-developed policies and procedures in place to manage outbreaks of infectious diseases. This means we are well prepared to take immediate action whenever cases or suspected cases are identified, including isolating staff where necessary, and asking certain members of staff to work from home.
We have a procedure in place to monitor the temperature of any staff member or patient accessing the building. Anyone found to have a temperature higher than 37.5oC is currently being refused access to the building, and asked to phone, email or video call the clinic instead.
All unnecessary visitors to clinic have been asked not to visit at this time, and to use electronic means of contact to the clinic.
Basic hygiene is a key part of tackling the virus and good practice is being promoted on posters throughout the clinic. Handwashing facilities are available to all staff and patients at reception and throughout the clinic.
There is a huge amount of work taking place, all our staff here at RHG are working tirelessly to ensure patients are receiving advice, support and contact with the clinic at this time. We have altered our plan to have patient open evenings and instead we will be offering webinars to provide information to prospective and returning patients. This will be until a time when the general state of the situation changes.
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A Pet Dog or Cat, Which Is For Me? Do a YouTube seek for pretty much any smallish animal you possibly can think of and there’ll be several movies of a “tame” or “pet” version. Any feline, any canid, any mustelid (weasel), any procyonid (raccoon), any non-bonkers primate (baboons, which are completely terrifying, are exempt). Have a look at my pet kinkajou, my pet genet, my pet fennec fox, my pet ocelot. And then on the movies of cute furry animals within the wild, you’ll see the comments: “omg i need it.” When the internet sees a video of a red panda, the web desires a crimson panda. Although a crimson panda is endangered and a wild animal.
Loudoun County: C.A.R.E. is dedicated to providing pet owners in want with financial help, goods and services to reinforce the quality of life for his or her companion animals whereas retaining pets in loving, caring homes. They supply help to citizens who’re elderly, severely sick, injured, or in a state of affairs the place they can not afford to care for their pets.
For a brief time, a company known as SibFox was promoting foxes bred on the Siberian lab. They have been promoting for about $6,000, however it’s not clear that anybody ever actually obtained considered one of these foxes. The Daily reported that two foxes that truly shipped to the States ended up confiscated at the US border and shipped to the Austin Zoo and Animal Sanctuary, the place they are doing “splendidly.” Apparently these foxes had been kept in canine kennels, which is improper, and weren’t fed or watered properly-by all accounts, the SibFox folks were not licensed and have been inexperienced at importing unique animals. The only upside is that the animals survived the journey from Russia. SibFox refunded the customers’ cash, stopped responding to emails, and shut down their website Till now, SibFox was the closest anybody within the US had gotten to receiving a domesticated fox.
Frankie’s Buddies offers free or heavily discounted look after canines enrolled in clinical programs of promising new therapies, and assists with the price for canine whose households can’t afford therapy. The Small Animal Playpen gives 9 square feet of house, excellent for play and train. The 15″ high panels make sure that your pets can be in a secure, contained atmosphere the place they can play and explore their environment.
We’ve got a very excessive adoption fee, but, not the entire animals we absorb can or should be adopted to the public. Some canines and cats come to us with serious health or behavioral issues. For example, canine which are extraordinarily aggressive to folks or which have a historical past of biting are not made out there for adoption.… Read More..

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Water use is paramount in the success of a Florida lawn. However, with proper watering and application techniques, water conservation is possible.
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Date : 2 Mar 2021
ICSPR addresses the Human Rights Advisor at IPU regarding the Israeli violations against Palestinian deputies.
A follow-up letter, to inform you of the dangerous developments against Deputy Khaleda Jarrar and her colleagues in the prisons of the Israeli occupation.
The International Commission to Support Palestinians’ Rights (ICSPR) sent a follow-up letter to Ms. Buthaina Mhherzi ” Human Rights Advisor – International Parliamentarians Union”, informing her the serious violations against the Palestinian deputy Khaleda Jarrar, and her fellow deputy prisoners in the prisons of the Israeli military occupation. The letter indicated some of the violations against deputies and their immunity as follows:
- On 1 March 2021, the Occupation Court of Ofer issued a court ruling against Deputy Khaleda Jarrar, with a two-year prison term and a fine, in violation of all relevant international norms and conventions.
- Recently, the Israeli military occupation authorities have escalated their raids and summons against many leaders and activists from the occupied West Bank, threatening them with arrest if they participate in the upcoming legislative elections scheduled to be held in May 2021.
- The occupation authority is still arresting deputy Marwan Barghouti, since 15 April 2002. It also issued a brutal verdict against him with (5) life-times imprisonment and forty years, given that he was an elected representative of the Ramallah district in the 1996 elections, and he was nominated in absentia and won during the 2006 elections for the Ramallah district.
- The occupation authorities have continued to arrest Deputy “Ahmed Saadat”, a resident of the Ramallah governorate in the West Bank, since 14 March 2006. They have sentenced him to 30 years.
Finally, the letter concluded by demanding practical measures to pressure the occupation authorities to oblige them to respect the parliamentary experience and the process of democratic transformation in the territories Palestinian.


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|WATCH: Men's Basketball in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge|
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The Clemson basketball coaches have done the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge with the help of some of the members of the Clemson basketball team.
The Challenge is for them to either pour a bucket of ice water over their head and/or make a donation to fight ALS within 24 hours. Since July 29th, The ALS association has received 11.4 million in donations compared to only $1.12 million from the same time last year.
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6 year old Gedhun stared down at his dinner plate. A mix of spicy lentils and rice filled a small metal bowl. Next to the bowl was hasta roti, a Nepalese version of fried bread made into circles resembling the shape of onion rings. Before taking his meal he reflected on how hard his family worked to be able to eat like this.
The family’s semi-dwarf wheat crops, which produced over 400 kilograms of harvest each year, provided the flour to make the roti. The lentils were grown in 13 of the family’s 35 farming patches terraced into the southern facing portion of their land near Chusul, Tibet. Gedhun’s family grew 4 types of lentils: green, brown, yellow and red. They had an agreement with their closest neighbor, Chokey, to barter a portion of their brown lentil crop for some of Chokey’s rice harvest.
After each rice harvest Gedhun’s 2 older brothers would carry sacks of lentils to Chokey’s home almost 6 kilometers down the wide path. They would return with sacks of recently harvested rice. The brothers would spread the rice on the family’s roof to dry in the sun. It was their job to make certain that the rice was dried perfectly. If it wasn’t done correctly it was an invitation for insects and mold to spoil the rice. All the hard work of growing it in the first place would be wasted.
Rice needs a consistent water supply to grow. Lentils are very drought resistant. Gedhun’s grandfather had figured this out a long time ago. That’s why the family had set aside almost a third of their farming area for growing lentils. His grandfather had also figured out that being an expert in drying rice was a huge asset and taught Gedhun’s 2 older brothers how to do it. They were quickly becoming experts at a young age. Harvested rice had a value. It was traded for lentils. Perfectly dried rice had had even more value as it could be stored and used later.
Gedhun was grateful for the food before him and he gave thanks.


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A teenager who was told by doctors that he had tonsillitis was later diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer.
Jordan Grainger, now 18, from Chelmsley Wood in the West Midlands region of England, began feeling sick over the Christmas period toward the end of 2021 and was rushed to hospital on December 26, according to a GoFundMe page set up by the family.
There, doctors said he had tonsillitis and prescribed him antibiotics. But over the next week or so, Grainger’s condition worsened and he was taken back to hospital. While the family were in the waiting room, the teen collapsed and he was rushed to the ER.
The teen subsequently underwent blood tests and a bone marrow biopsy, which revealed the cancer. On January 12, 2022, Grainger and his family were told he had acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
AML is one of the most common types of leukemia in adults. But it is still relatively rare, accounting for only about one percent of all cancers, according to the American Cancer Society.
It tends to affect older people and is uncommon before the age of 45, with the average age of patients being around 68. But the disease can affect people of all ages, including children.
According to the National Cancer Institute, an estimated 20,240 new cases of AML were recorded in 2021.
The cancer can develop fairly quickly and usually needs to be treated as soon as possible after diagnosis.
Grainger began treatment just a few days after his diagnosis, undergoing a week of intensive chemotherapy. The teen ended up spending six weeks in hospital, during which time he turned 18.
Grainger’s aunt, Nicola Middleton, said in the GoFundMe page: “His parents have been by his side during this time spending three weeks each living at the hospital, juggling work and looking after [their] other two children.”
He was eventually allowed to return home but he wasn’t able to leave his room and had to shield as much as possible due to the risk of infection. The results of a biopsy later showed that his cancer was in full remission.
The teen subsequently began consolidation chemotherapy, which involved another three days of treatment, with the aim of preventing the cancer from returning.
But on March 21, the family were told that Grainger would have to have a bone marrow transplant to replace damaged cells with healthy ones.
Middleton told BirminghamLive: “This is a very traumatizing time for the family and the next three to six months are a critical time for Jordan while he goes through the transplant with many possible complications along the way but hopefully light at the end of this dark tunnel.”
Middleton, who set up the GoFundMe page, is trying to raise £5,000 (around $6,550) for the family to help them get them get through the next few months.
“They are a family who have always been there for everyone else and I’m hoping now that everyone will help them out in this time of need. Jordan’s dad is too proud to ask for help and never asks for anything,” she said.


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Marta has become the all-time leading goalscorer at the FIFA World Cup after her goal earned the Brazil Women’s team victory over Italy.
The goal, which increased her tally to seventeen goals at World Cup finals, helped her team advance to the round of 16 at the ongoing Fifa Women’s World Cup in France.
The 33-year old’s second-half penalty secured victory for her team and also surpassed retired Germany striker Miroslav Klose, who scored 16 goals at the mundial.
Brazil had begun their campaign with a win over Jamaica but were stunned 3-2 by Australia in their second game, before securing the win over Italy to finish third with 6 points.
Six-time world player of the year Marta celebrated by kissing her boot after breaking the World Cup finals goalscoring record.
The Reggae Girls of Jamaica crashed out of the competition after losing 4-1 to Australia in the group’s other game, which took Australia to second spot and Italy as group winners.
As it stands, Italy will play against the Super Falcons of Nigeria or against China – depending on the team that makes it to the round of 16.
Australia will face Norway, the runners-up up of Nigeria’s group A.
Brazil are likely to play France or Germany in the knockout round.

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Religion, religiosity and educational attainment of immigrants to the USA
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This paper quantifies the association between religions, religiosity and educational attainment of new lawful immigrants to the US. This paper considers a broad set of religions that includes most of the major religions of the world. Using data from the New Immigrant Survey (2003), we show that affiliation with religion is not necessarily associated with an increase in educational attainment. Muslim and “Other religion” immigrants have less education compared to the immigrants who are not affiliated with any religion. However, affiliation with the Jewish religion is associated with higher educational attainment for males. With regard to religiosity, our results show that high religiosity is associated with lower educational attainment, especially for females. We also outline alternative frameworks that provide insight about the mechanisms that link religion and religiosity with educational attainment.
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The Advancement Project (AP) was founded in 1999 by civil rights lawyers to reform public systems and achieve equity for underserved communities. Its four focus areas include: Urban Peace to reduce violence and promote community safety; Educational Equity to ensure adequate school facilities and resources; Healthy City, an online database/mapping program to promote data-driven decision making about resource allocation; and Equity in Public Funds to promote the equitable distribution of public resources.
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Is the Concept of Terrorism Still Useful?
by Jarrod Hayes
Jarrod Hayes argues that there is nothing analytically distinctive about the tactics, perpetrators and psychology of 'terrorism.' As a result, he thinks scholars and policymakers should stop using the term, particularly since it tends to undermine our efforts to tackle political violence.
With high-profile incidents of political violence continuing to make headlines, the time has come to question the labeling of these events as ‘terrorism.’ While politically or ideologically motivated violence remains all too real, approaching events such as these through the framework of ‘terrorism’ does little to help academics or policymakers understand or prevent them. Fourteen years into the Global War on Terror, the political and security baggage that accompanies the label ‘terrorism’ may even undermine such efforts. This is because the term terrorism creates the false impression that the actions it describes represent a special or unique phenomenon. Because this confusion impedes our ability to understand politically motivated violence as part of broader social and political systems, the costs of continuing to use the concept of terrorism outweigh the benefits. The simplest solution to this problem would be for scholars and policymakers alike to jettison the term.
The political costs of ‘terrorism’
Securitization theory highlights the discursive construction of threats as well as the political ramifications of security. One of its principal tenets is that how we talk about the world shapes and changes how we make sense of and act in the world. Because language allows human beings to construct and convey organized concepts, it does something in itself. The language of ‘terrorism’ provides an important illustration of this. Securitization theory might ask two questions: first, in describing events as ‘terrorist’ attacks, what intellectual and political agenda is at work? Second, what links the September 11, 2001 attacks and the October 2014 shooting of a Canadian soldier in Ottawa, both of which have been labeled terrorist acts? The first of these questions suggests that the word ‘terrorism’ may have taken on a political significance that undermines efforts to tackle politically-oriented violence. The second suggests that the intellectual agenda of terrorism may be deeply problematic, even though much of the work in terrorism studies remains quite useful.
The invocation of terrorism is a relatively recent phenomenon, even if the practice of politically-oriented violence is not. A Google Ngram search of the keyword ‘terrorism’ shows that the word virtually did not exist before the 20th century:
Moreover, looking at how the term has been used historically demonstrates that its current meaning is relatively new. For example, in an 1818 treatise on reforming the House of Commons, Jeremy Bentham referred, without irony, to politicians who acquired their seats through the manipulation of fear as ‘terrorists.’ Kellogg Durland, in his 1908 book on turmoil in the Russian Empire, produced the following quote from a military officer in the context of the Siedlce Pogrom in Poland: “‘We must set against the terrorism of the revolution a still more frightful terrorism [by the state],” referring to repressive measures. These two examples indicate that terrorism has taken on a range of meanings, from the political manipulation of fear to the deployment of political violence by both state and non-state actors. Indeed, a striking feature of the latter quote is that state ‘terrorism’ is invoked approvingly.
The point here is that the label terrorism is filled with social and political meaning. In the modern setting, invoking terrorism communicates imminent, existential danger from an unrelenting, shadowy enemy. This enemy, at least in the Western context, is typically Muslim and intent on the physical destruction of society and civilization—typified in George W. Bush’s claim that terrorists “hate our [American] freedoms.” The elusive but dire nature of the threat justifies the suspension of civil liberties and the empowerment of government at home (such as through the USA PATRIOT act in the United States and similar counterterrorism measures in the United Kingdom) as well as the use of military forces to kill terrorists overseas (whether by deploying military personal ‘on the ground’ or with autonomous weapons platforms like Predator drones).
Using the term ‘terrorism’ invokes a system of meaning that generates fear and insecurity. This helps to justify the centralization of power by government. Somewhat counter-intuitively, however, it also ties the hands of government in terms of the policies it can pursue. The existential nature of the threat of ‘terrorism’ and the militarization associated with the concept creates a bias towards short-term, militarized responses. In other words, if governments respond to the threat of terrorism in non-militarized, long-term ways, they risk losing legitimacy and/or elections. This means that more socially nuanced, non-militarized and long-term responses to political violence tend to be subordinated to immediate demands for militarized action. Thus, the contemporary concept and language of terrorism obscure the social complexities of how groups use force to pursue political ends. The result is that anti-terrorism policies typically fail to address the underlying problems that give rise to and enable politically oriented violence.
What is terrorism?
Scholars and academics face a different set of problems. While terrorism studies certainly predates the September 11, 2001 attacks, those events accelerated the development of the field. At the core of the intellectual agenda of terrorism studies is the premise that terrorism is a unique social phenomenon. Yet, as Leonard Weinberg and his coauthors have argued, terrorism is an essentially contested concept, which presents significant challenges for studying it academically. The first of these challenges is a definitional one. Audrey Kurth Cronin, for instance, provides a definition of terrorism that sounds reasonable enough: terrorism is 1) political in nature (i.e., it seeks to induce political change by inducing fear, overreaction, etc.), 2) is perpetrated by non-state actors, and 3) is characterized by the deliberate but seemingly random targeting of non-combatants. In this definition, terrorism is an asymmetric tactic of weak non-state actors against (usually) much stronger states.
By this definition, however, scale is not an element of terrorism. The 2014 death of a Canadian soldier standing guard in Ottawa might be classified as terrorism in the same way as the 2004 Madrid train bombings. This reveals the first problem with the scholarly study of terrorism: the classification of political violence based on intent. Although identifying politically oriented violence might be relatively straightforward in some cases, assessing its ‘terrorist’ nature is not. The overused adage that “one person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter” gets at this issue. It implies that whether the concept of terrorism applies depends on whether one is on the receiving end of the violence, instead of an intrinsic or unique feature of that violence. Indeed, the Syrian government calls the Free Syrian Army terrorists, but the US government recognizes them as lawful combatants in a civil war. This reveals that ‘terrorism’ is a political claim rather than a unique social ‘thing’ that is somehow fundamentally different from other forms of politically oriented violence.
What about definitions of terrorism based on the asymmetric nature of the violence or the targeting of non-combatants? The problem here is that neither of these features is unique to phenomena described as terrorism. Asymmetric tactics are pervasive in politically oriented violence. China, of course, has developed a supersonic missile for possible use against United States aircraft carriers—an asymmetric tactic designed to counter vastly superior American naval capabilities. Guerilla warfare conducted by the North Vietnamese military and their proxies in South Vietnam was also asymmetric but was never considered terrorist in nature. Neither is the targeting of non-combatants unique to ‘terrorist’ phenomena. The United States, for example, targeted non-combatants on very large scales in the fire-bombings of Tokyo and Dresden during World War Two. More recently, the Syrian government (by all reports) has had few reservations about targeting non-combatants in the country’s ongoing civil war. But it too escapes the label ‘terrorist’.
The definition of terrorism as violence perpetrated by non-state actors is also problematic. Ultimately, this is little more than a definitional fiat. As the Syrian civil war demonstrates, there is no appreciable difference between the violence perpetrated by the Syrian state and that committed by non-state actors. The same could be said for the civil war that ravaged the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Moreover, states frequently use non-state actors as proxies, as Libya did in the 1970s and 1980s and Iran continues to do with Hezbollah. The political violence of these non-state actors, while perhaps better funded, is not substantially different than it would be without state sponsorship.
Finally, one might argue that the indirect, psychological aspect of terrorism – namely, that it causes fear in populations not directly targeted by the violence – sets it apart as an object of academic study. But this too is highly problematic. Arguably, in dropping nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the US sought to generate fear in the population that was not directly targeted. Yet most scholars do not consider those bombings to be terrorist attacks. Indeed, as Clausewitz noted in On War, breaking the opposing side’s ‘will to fight’ is central to any military strategy. Fear of death or destruction is one (although not the only) means of doing so, and is thus part and parcel of most traditional military conflicts. These issues may help to explain why defining terrorism in psychological terms represents a minority view. In the Weinberg et. al. study the authors found that scholars define terrorism in terms of the psychological element only about twenty percent of time.
Terrorism or political violence?
Of course, these points about the scholarly study of terrorism are not new to those who study it. But if there is nothing fundamentally unique about terrorist violence, then the concept of ‘terrorism studies’ has a serious problem. This is not to say that scholarship on political violence that is currently considered to be part of terrorism studies is intellectually bankrupt. That is certainly not the case. Scholars likeAudrey Kurth Cronin,Max Abrahms, and Jenna Jordan among others are doing important work on how globalization facilitates the expansion of political violence and on the social dynamics of groups engaged in political violence. But their insights are about the social and political dynamics of political violence rather than on terrorism per se.
Take, for example, Abrahms’ finding that violence by terrorist groups is used to generate strong affective ties within the group. Though fascinating, this is not only true of terrorism. The issue of affective ties for all social groups is the subject of considerable research in social psychology. Indeed, Boaz Atzili argues that states rely on threats to territory and the corresponding use of violence to build in-group affective cohesion, which suggests the dynamic has broader roots and may apply to state and non-state actors. Likewise Jenna Jordan’s work on decapitation (i.e., dissolving terrorist groups by killing their leaders) finds that the success of the tactic relies on the social constitution of the terrorist group. This finding has remarkable parallels with Brian Phillips’ work on leadership decapitation in the context of Mexican drug trafficking networks. But clearly, the problem of group cohesion in leadership transitions is not specific to terrorist groups—authoritarian states and corporations face the same problems. Thus Jordan’s findings are important for and contribute to a broader discussion on group cohesion.
Studying ‘terrorism’ as though it were a distinct social phenomenon has (at least) two detrimental consequences. First, it helps to reify the political dynamics outlined in the first portion of this essay by contributing to the political narrative that there is something ‘out there’ called terrorism that is a unique threat—with all the political repercussions that follow. Ironically, Cronin in particular expresses frustration with the political dynamics surrounding terrorism even as she fuels that dynamic by reifying the concept of terrorism.
Second, by operating within a terrorism studies ‘space’, these and other scholars miss out on important dialogue that needs to occur over the causes and constitution of politically oriented violence at all levels of aggregation. By focusing on terrorism, scholars may miss important contributions to the understanding of political violence in addition to broader developments.
Politically and intellectually, therefore, the concept of terrorism is counter-productive. Academics, policymakers, and the public should abandon the concept and get down to the real business of understanding the ‘how’, ‘why’, and ‘what’ of political violence.
Jarrod Hayes is an Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the George Institute of Technology. His research focus is international security and foreign policy analysis. He received his PhD from the University of Southern California.
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"Is the Concept of Terrorism Still Useful?"

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April 27, 2020 3:18:34 am
A 53-year-old constable posted at the Protection and Security Branch, who was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Friday, passed away early Sunday morning.
He is the second Mumbai Police personnel to die of coronavirus. On Friday, a 57-year-old constable posted at Vakola police station passed away at Nair hospital.
Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said the families of the two policemen will be given Rs 50 lakh each and one member of the families given a job. He added that two senior officers have been assigned at the city and state level to look into any problems that policemen are facing. In addition, two hospitals have been earmarked for policemen facing medical issues.
A Mumbai Police officer said the 53-year-old was admitted to MGM hospital in Kamothe on April 17 with severe back pain. “He did not initially display any symptoms of COVID-19. He tested positive on Friday,” the officer added.
The constable, who was part of the branch’s administrative office in Ballard Pier, had recovered from cancer three years ago. “Since then he had a desk job,” the officer said.
The 57-year-old constable from Worli had been admitted to Nair hospital on April 22. He died on Friday. He had been posted at Vakola police station since 2015.
Families of both constables are under quarantine.
In Navi Mumbai, police commissioner Sanjay Kumar said the wife of a constable passed away on Saturday, days after testing positive. The constable and his daughter have also tested positive, while his son’s diagnosis is awaited.
Across Maharashtra, 107 police personnel have tested positive, of whom seven have recovered. Most of these police personnel live in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.
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Fantastic chess app, in particular for those who are already passionate about chess. The app does not only teaches you about destinct playing styles, but also provides biographies and detailed explanations about tactics in chess puzzle excercises. There is room for improvement in terms of the to English translated text, but this is only a tiny issue. Overall this app is really great and it is obvious a lot of work went into deloping this app.
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Great idea for an app, but there shouldn't be a free version, as almost all games for all players are behind paywall. Everything else in biographical, which is cool, but far more extensive biographies can be found with a 5 second Google search. Cool idea for an app, but it should either be completely free or completely paywalled, a free version is pointless.
13 people found this review helpful
Really nice and useful app for strengthening my analysis skills and really get involved in learning the learning curves of the greatest chess players. Bravo to the developers! My only wish would be for the interface be a little easier to navigate.
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February 26, 2021
Спасибо, Олег. Мы постараемся стать ещё лучше!🤝

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