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Indian Court Says 'Copyright Is Not An Inevitable, Divine, Or Natural Right' And Photocopying Textbooks Is Fair Use
from the the-non-divinity-of-copyright dept
Mon, Sep 19th 2016 6:23am — Mike Masnick
Last week there was a big copyright ruling in India, where a court ruled against some big academic publishers in ruling that a photocopying kiosk that sold photocopied chapters from textbooks was not infringing on the copyrights of those publishers. We wrote about this case over three years ago, when it was first filed. It's actually fairly similar to a set of cases in the US that found college copyshops to be infringing -- leading to a massive increase in educational material costs for college students.
The Indian court went the other way. The full ruling takes a fair use-style look at the question, and recognizes that educational purposes are more important than padding the bank account of some big publishers. The ruling is pretty long, but there are a number of good points in there. Here's the one that a bunch of people have been quoting, noting that copyright is not inevitable, divine or a natural right:
Copyright, specially in literary works, is thus not an inevitable, divine, or natural right that confers on authors the absolute ownership of their creations. It is designed rather to stimulate activity and progress in the arts for the intellectual enrichment of the public. Copyright is intended to increase and not to impede the harvest of knowledge. It is intended to motivate the creative activity of authors and inventors in order to benefit the public.
Now that's a damn good quote on copyright law.
The court also talks a lot about how technology has changed over time, and that it shouldn't be held back by copyright.
Today, nearly all students of the defendant no.2 University would be carrying cell phones and most of the cell phones have a camera inbuilt which enables a student to, instead of taking notes from the books in the library, click photographs of each page of the portions of the book required to be studied by him and to thereafter by connecting the phone to the printer take print of the said photographs or to read directly from the cell phone or by connecting the same to a larger screen. The same would again qualify as fair use and which cannot be stopped.
The German Federal Supreme Court in Re. the Supply of Photocopies of Newspaper Articles by Public Library [2000] E.C.C. 237 held that in a modern technologically highly developed nation like Germany, an extensive fast functioning and economic information exchange was vital; that is why the libraries were given the freedom to operate and the reproduction rights of authors were restricted in favour of freedom of information; that it was sufficient to escape liability for copyright infringement if the customer of the library could claim the benefit of the exemption which allowed the copying for personal use, of articles published in a periodical; whether or not the library charges for its service is immaterial;
The court similarly notes the hypocrisy of lawyers who regularly photocopy things now complaining about students doing the same:
What the defendant no.2 University is doing is not different from what is being done in the Bar Association library in the premises of this Court. With the advent of photocopying, the advocates of this Court, instead of carrying books from their residences / offices to this Court for citing judgments therefrom during the course of arguments and instead of giving in advance the list of such books to the Restorer of this Court and the Restorer of this Court also taking out the court's copies of the same books for the Judges to read, and all of which was cumbersome and time consuming, started having the photocopies of the relevant judgments made from the books in the Bar Association Library of this Court. Initially the said photocopying was got done by having the book issued from the library and carrying the same to the photocopier who had, for the convenience of the advocates, been granted a licence to operate from the premises of this Court. Subsequently, for expediency and to avoid the books being taken out of the library, the Bar Association library itself allowed the photocopier to install his machine within the library premises and any advocate could get the photocopy done by having the relevant judgment photocopied within the Bar Association library by paying the cost of photocopy as is fixed by the Bar Association.
It's always nice to see a good copyright ruling -- especially one that will make it easier for the dissemination of knowledge and learning in an academic setting.
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It is necessary to update college textbooks frequently to keep up with the latest changes.
Would you want STEM students using an out of date math textbook that doesn't keep up with the latest changes to how the centuries old Cosine or Square Root functions work? Or changes to the Pythagorean theorem?
What about humanities students not getting all the latest changes to Shakespeare because of outdated textbooks?
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A vehicle is seen along Mt. Sima Road in Whitehorse on May 12. Whitehorse city council passed the final two readings of a rezoning bylaw at its June 15 meeting for the potential lot expansions for three properties on Mount Sima Road. (Crystal Schick/Yukon News file)
Council approves rezoning in Mount Sima area
Lot expansion plans move forward
Stephanie Waddell
The potential expansions of three Mount Sima Road properties is closer to becoming a reality after Whitehorse city council passed the final two readings of a rezoning bylaw at its June 15 meeting.
The change designates a 1.02 hectare parcel of land behind the three properties as service industrial from its previous greenbelt zone.
That will allow for the next steps to subdivide and sell the sites to the property owners directly in front of the land for the lots to be expanded.
Before voting in favour of moving ahead with the bylaw, Coun. Samson Hartland described the rezoning as a good balance between expanding industrial land while also protecting a nearby trail.
He said it's a good example of "what happens when the process works."
Hartland was referring to changes made to the original rezoning proposal that came forward in 2019 that would have seen a much larger 2.27 area of land behind the properties expanded.
Numerous concerns were raised with the original proposal about the impact to a nearby trail, with council opting to send it back to administration for more work. City staff came back with the proposed rezoning of 1.02 ha piece instead that would allow for some expansion while keeping the trail in tact.
The change, Coun. Laura Cabott commented at the June 15 meeting, addresses the concerns that were raised.
At the same time, she acknowledged there was one submission opposed to the rezoning, with arguments views and the unique landscape of the area would still be impacted even given the change to the area up for rezoning.
The other three submissions to the public hearing expressed support, highlighting the potential for development and that it could make good use of land that would otherwise not be used.
Cabott also pointed out the site rezoned is already in an industrial use area.
Contact Stephanie Waddell at stephanie.waddell@yukon-news.com
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Paco Rabanne's New Girl
By Lisa Niven-Phillips 19 September 2012
EVERY season one lucky jewellery designer is chosen to collaborate with Paco Rabanne on its Paco Lab capsule collection, and this season it's German jeweller Amelie Riech. "When I was invited as a guest designer for Paco Lab 2012 I was immediately very excited and inspired by the Paco Rabanne heritage. I have a similar approach [to jewellery design] - like Paco I feel like a sculptor experimenting with materials and techniques, and I have an affinity with materials that are unexpected in the fashion context," Riech revealed. Incorporating gold-plated metal and glass, Riech's 11-piece collection calls upon the Paco Rabanne archive and takes its inspiration from a Leonardo da Vinci quote: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication". "I have been aiming for a minimalist design, strong, graphic shapes and an elegant and timeless look," Riech said. "I decided to work with glass, because it is a very sensual and sexy material, its translucent, brilliant and very delicate. It's a perfect match with my vision for the contemporary Paco Rabanne jewellery." Available at Dover Street Market, priced from £290.
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What Are XML Sitemaps And How To Use Them?
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In last week's blog "When and How To Percolate - Part 1" we discussed the key differences between Watcher and Percolation and how to determine which is applicable to your use case. We followed this with an overview of the scaling properties of Percolator. In this week's post, we'll discuss the tools available for improving and optimising Percolator performance.
Filters represent the initial and preferred mechanism for reducing the percolation query set and thus making linear execution acceptable. Filters work by attaching metadata to the percolator queries. When percolating a document, a normal Elasticsearch filter is also included. This identifies a reduced subset of queries which need to be evaluated using the process in last week's post. Although filtering incurs some overhead, this cost is comparable to the use of Elasticsearch filters in standard search use cases, which scales significantly better on large index sizes.
Candidates for filters are typically metadata fields, which exist on both the queries and percolator documents. Although not essential, these would ideally allow your queries to be grouped into approximately evenly distributed subsets. However, any metadata that allows subsets of queries to run should be considered for use in filtering.
Let's consider the use case discussed in last week's post, where a shard contains 1 million percolation queries. Evaluating each of these against a document takes around 4.2 seconds. However, suppose we modify our percolator queries such that our category id is attached as metadata. We, in turn, pass the categories associated with a product, as a filter, when percolating its document.
Figure 2 - Percolator Document. The above example utilises Elasticsearch 2.0 syntax. See https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/refe... for further details.
Across a corpus of 1 million queries, the category id has a cardinality of approx. 1500. These are not uniformly distributed across our data, with users expressing more interest in some categories than others.
The following diagram illustrates the results of repeating the tests described in "When and How To Percolate - Part 1", with filtering applied using the category id.
Adding the category id as a filter results in a significant performance increase. 1 million percolation queries now evaluate in around 100ms.
Metadata fields with sufficient cardinality to reduce the percolate query set. Generally, a high cardinality field is preferred for filtering to exclude a high proportion of the queries prior to sequential evaluation; ideally with a uniform distribution for consistent query performance.
Sometimes, values for filters have to be extracted from documents prior to percolation. This metadata can also be sourced externally. For example, consider the Best Buy queries are tagged selectively with "Premium" to indicate paying users. This filter could be added to percolate documents to prioritise alerting for these individuals.
We recognise that filtering is not always possible. For example, in some instances users have the requirement to always evaluate all queries against a document(e.g. for an admin-focused use case). Alternatively, there may just be an absence of appropriate metadata for filters.
Sharding of percolator indexes provides a mechanism to take advantage of additional resources and thus improve performance. By splitting percolate queries across multiple shards, the number of percolator queries requiring evaluation in each is reduced. Given the document is percolated on each shard in parallel, the total latency experienced therefore becomes the performance on the slowest shard - thus increasing throughput through parallel execution of smaller tasks.
Once sharded, users can consider optimising further using routing. This techniques ensures documents are only percolated on the the shards which contain possible candidate queries for linear evaluation. To achieve this, percolator queries need to be partitioned by a custom routing value at index time. This same value is also used when passing a document to ensure it is only executed on the required shard - thus saving resources and increasing possible throughput. Multiple values can also be specified as a comma separated string, allowing a query and document to be indexed and executed on more than one shard.
Routing keys candidates have the same characteristics as those used for filters - metadata fields shared by documents and queries. While Elasticsearch manages the routing, it ensures that distribution is fairly uniform across all your shards. However, once you start implementing your own custom schemes, it is entirely possible that this uniformity is lost resulting in an uneven execution load across the cluster. We, therefore, recommend you consider a meta field which has a uniform distribution of values across your percolator queries.
Routing guarantees that all queries with the same key collocate on the same shard. The cardinality of your routing key is likely to be greater than the number of shards, resulting in multiple values hashing to the same shard. Where routing is used, the key should therefore always also be applied as a filter.
The multi-percolate API allows users to bundle multiple percolate requests into a single request, similar to what the multi-search API does to search request. For each request, the coordinating node will select one shard from the replication group (primary + replicas). How documents are distributed to these selected shards depends on whether routing is enabled. If not utilised, all documents will be sent to each of these shards in parallel. If routing is enabled, the documents will be batched according to their appropriate shard and each batch sent in parallel. Multi-percolate therefore allows you to execute percolations more efficiently but predominantly acts as a network optimisation. The selection of shards from a replica group is round-robin between requests, thus balancing resource utilisation across nodes.
As described above, provided your client takes advantage of their availability, replicas provide increased throughput provided you have sufficient nodes to spread the load. Consider that nodes are likely to hold multiple shards, and replicas. A node can be potentially evaluating as many percolator queries as shards at any time. Whilst replicas can be used to increase throughput, users should load test in a representative environment whilst monitoring resource utilisation closely. Replicas provide the usual benefit of high availability.
The memory required for Percolator queries is heavily dependent on the operators utilised. Wildcard queries operators are particularly expensive when evaluated against documents due to the creation of an FST. The Percolator cache is held within heap space, which can easily reach 80% capacity on large/complex query volumes if allocated insufficient memory. This will in turn cause old generation garbage collector cycles which significantly impact query performance. Provided memory pressure is not an issue, users will see Percolation is CPU-bound with respect to performance and should see the linear scalability illustrated earlier. We encourage users index real queries and establish memory requirements per node. This may be a consideration, in addition to query latency, when deciding the number of queries to index per shard.
Finally, given the CPU intensive nature of Percolator, we encourage users to consider a dedicated index and possibly cluster - especially if you anticipate high throughput and require consistent performance.
Further details on the tests performed in both parts of this blog post, including the scripts and test environment utilised, can be found here [reference: https://github.com/gingerwizard/percolator_scaling].


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Q: CoreLocation get latitude and longitude at a certain distance and direction from coordinate I'm trying to determine the location that is a certain distance and heading from another location.  I am using latitude,longitude from CoreLocation in iOS.
Thanks.

A: lat2 = asin(sin(lat1)*cos(d/R) + cos(lat1)*sin(d/R)*cos(θ))
lon2 = lon1 + atan2(sin(θ)*sin(d/R)*cos(lat1), cos(d/R)−sin(lat1)*sin(lat2))

R is Earth's radius in your preferred units. (6371 in km)

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20 Years of Cyndi's List
A major milestone celebrating 20 years of service
EDGEWOOD, WASHINGTON (March 4, 2016) – Cyndi's List (http://www.CyndisList.com) was launched 20 years ago on March 4, 1996. What started out as a side-page in a personal genealogy web site has become one of the top genealogy resources online. The original site started on one web page with 1,025 links. By the end of that first year the site was sorted onto individual pages with more than 9,600 links in more than 50 categories. Just after its one-year anniversary the site had grown to 17,300 links in more than 60 categories on 195+ separate web pages. The site has continued to grow exponentially with the popularity of genealogy and the Internet. Today there are more than 330,000 links in 207 categories that point to an endless supply of related genealogy links online.
The purpose of Cyndi's List remains the same today, 20 years after its creation: to be a free jumping-off point and a catalog for the immense genealogical collection that is the Internet. And it is all done not by software, but by a live human being. Every link found on Cyndi's List is personally visited, titled, given a description, categorized, and cross-referenced across the site. Cyndi Ingle is the creator and owner of Cyndi's List. The site is a one-woman enterprise in which Cyndi often works 10-12 hours each day, many times 7 days a week. Users of Cyndi's List are encouraged to submit new links and report broken links, all in an effort to keep Cyndi's List as current as possible.
Cyndi's List has always been free for everyone online to use for their genealogical research. It remains free today. The site is supported by advertising and through the donation button found on each page on the site. Generous users of Cyndi's List have helped to pay for 86 percent of the major site upgrade done in 2011.
Cyndi's List is unique as a research tool because it has a genealogist, with more than 36 years of experience, behind the scenes maintaining the links. Cyndi urges users to ignore the search engine on the site and explore the categories themselves (http://www.CyndisList.com/categories/). The categorization is what makes the site unique and such a successful research tool. Cyndi works diligently to deep-link into sites that contain genealogical treasures and by doing so brings those links to the top of the heap, easier to for everyone to find. By browsing through the site users find web sites and resources they never thought to look for and break down those brick walls in their research.
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Like most e-commerce platforms on the market, Shopify Plus has a relatively basic native search capability, however, most of the better-known third-party search providers now have integrations available.
This article is written by Claudia Ditri from Klevu, which is a Finnish search technology startup with market-leading NLP and machine learning capabilities, amongst other things. Claudia will be talking through the key components to look for in a third-party search solution when working with Shopify Plus.
Over the last 18 months, Shopify Plus has undoubtedly grown, with more and more large, complex merchants moving over to the platform. As more enterprise-level retailers adopt the technology, the requirements and levels of customisation become more complex and one of the common areas is search, which we're focusing on in this article.
Here are what I consider to be the key features to look for in a third party solution.
One feature that often drives retailers to look at third parties in the first place is error tolerance, as native search options will generally struggle in this area. An out-of-the-box search solution will likely look to match products based on a query exactly matching the title, which won't allow for errors. The MVMT example below shows how the native search they use is unable to process results for a mis-spelling of "sunglasses".
The O'Neills example below is a better example of how a more complex error still provides relevant, accurate results.
This may seem like an obvious requirement, but for smaller stores, it's generally one of the more important feature requirements. Another consideration here is handling of 0-result search, which is also important.
A shopping experience happens through naturally-formed interactions either between humans or, in the case of online retail, between a human and a system. The search box on the shop is the most important element where shoppers actually express their desire on what they want to see and purchase. If these desires can be understood, the online shop will be able to serve relevant results, leading not only to more purchases but also a more positive customer experience.
Extracting relevant data from the shopper's query in search requires an understanding of both the catalogue and the query itself. In technical terms, this is done through Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. Klevu processes the catalogue and search query to bring the most relevant results to users. The ability to process natural language is something that isn't often needed on smaller stores, however, on one of our sample studies at Klevu, we found that over 34% queries require some form of natural language processing, resulting in a direct benefit of increasing the search to click conversion rate.
The ability to merchandise results for individual keywords and groups of keywords is one of the core requirements for a third party search solution, particularly those with larger catalogues. However, with Shopify Plus, this often needs to span across categories too, as touched on below.
A third party search solution for Shopify Plus should be able to support boosting specific products and groups of products based on rules from both tags and meta fields. Most solutions on the market support tags, however meta fields is also important for a lot of merchants.
A search overlay can help speed up the search process considerably – serving different types of results such as products, blog content, guides, category listings etc without having to wait for the search results page to load. Here are a few examples of Klevu implementations that have customised our native overlay.
This example is from Made.com, which provides product and query suggestions.
The Baby Bunting quick search overlay features content results, category listings, query suggestions and products.
When working with a lot of platforms, a third party search solution can require a lot of integration work to get up and running, although this has improved considerably for most of the mainstream platforms. Integrations with Shopify Plus are generally fairly straightforward, as a result of the simple nature of the platform and the availability of the required data, which is what most merchants seem to be looking for.
In some instances, there will be a need for more complex integrations, but this is generally representative for a minority of merchants.
Klevu, like many of the other providers, has a plug-and-play integration available via the app store, which can extract the product catalogue and any other required information directly.
Understanding how customers are using search is really important, as it can provide insight into core issues with your merchandising, your product range and your navigation. There are two ways of capturing core search data; via your search provider and via your web analytics platform – we'd generally suggest using a mixture of both.
The above screenshot shows the generic search overview from Google Analytics, which is a good starting point for assessing the value provided by search. In this screenshot, you can see that search represents a good opportunity for optimisation, as the CR% is significantly higher via search-led sales, so encouraging more users to search could represent a good test. Beyond this report, you can also drill down into key areas such as device performance, pages where users are performing a search, the keywords performing well and badly etc.
For the more specific information around product performance and actual sales, we'd generally recommend that the merchant uses the search dashboard provided by the third party, which will generally provide more detail around the transactions taking place etc.
Self-learning technology has become a really important aspect of e-commerce in recent years, adding value across several areas of e-commerce merchandising. Search is one of these areas, alongside things like product recommendations, category merchandising etc.
Klevu applies a layer of machine learning to optimise results based on the behaviour of users and how they interact with results – generally based on clicks, add-to-carts and completed purchases. This adds a second layer of input (alongside the underlying business logic provided by the e-commerce team) which helps to keep search results relevant and reduce the manual overhead.
There are various other examples of how machine learning is used across the different search and merchandising providers in the industry.
Although this sits outside of search, a common requirement from Shopify Plus merchants is for a search solution to power the product grid and product filtering, due to limitations with Shopify's native filtering capabilities.
Shopify's out-of-the-box filtering is very basic, so merchants commonly look to a search provider to allow for things like multi-select and multi-faceted layered navigation, AJAX filtering, combined merchandising of categories and search etc.
I'd imagine over time Shopify will improve this side of things, but currently this a really common requirement for retailers.
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Q: What is the difference between ipython TerminalInteractiveShell and InteractiveShell? The ipython documentation has a long list of configurable options. Some are for the TerminalInteractiveShell, some are for the InteractiveShell. Some options appear in one in the documentation and in the other when I generate a ipython_config.py from the command line. Is there any rhyme or reason to this? What is the reason for having both?

A: Looking through the list of modules in the docs, we have

IPython.core.application: An application for IPython.
IPython.core.interactiveshell: Main IPython class.
IPython.terminal.ipapp: The Application object for the command line
ipython program.
IPython.terminal.interactiveshell: IPython terminal interface using
prompt_toolkit

InteractiveShell is the base iPython shell class, which can be subclassed for different purposes. TerminalInteractiveShell is one such specific subclass. It inherits from InteractiveShell, and is the specific shell that runs when we type "ipython" into the command line.
One example of a config option that's available for TerminalInteractiveShell but not the base InteractiveShell is confirm_exit. This seems reasonable, since the "Do you really want to exit" question is only really relevant when there's a human pressing Control-D inside the shell.
Practically, if you're just trying to configure your command line ipython shell, changing either the InteractiveShell or TerminalInteractiveShell version of an option would work because TerminalInteractiveShell inherits the base class's options. However, it's safer to only edit the more specific TerminalInteractiveShell ones, since the base class is still used in non-terminal situations, and changing its settings could lead to unexpected behavior there. For example:

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*This Jupyter Notebook tutorial uses InteractiveShell to transform a notebook code cell into executable Python

*This test class in the ipython source code creates a shell (inheriting from plain InteractiveShell) for each test.
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An SUV crashed into a barbershop in the Bronx Tuesday.
CLAREMONT, Bronx (WABC) -- An SUV crashed into a building in the Claremont section of the Bronx.
At 8:11 a.m. Tuesday, an SUV hit a barbershop on East 174th Street, according to the New York City Fire Department.
One person was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital with minor injuries.
It is unclear if the victim was in the SUV or in the barbershop.
Several stores in the one-story building were evacuated, including the barbershop, a deli and a laundromat.
East 174th Street is closed to vehicles between Clay and Topping avenues.
The FDNY said the vehicle hit a support column between the barber shop and the laundromat, and the Department of Buildings is sending a structural engineer to assess the building's stability.
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This morning I went to a screening of new ITV drama Love and Marriage followed by a Q&A with writer Stewart Harcourt. Stewart voiced the same advice Professor Douglas Dunn gave me ten years ago at St Andrews—persistence. The ones that turn writing into career are the ones that don't give up and make it through the hard times. He also talked about connecting on a personal level in one's work, because what may seem mundane and ordinary to you might be the thing that sells it to somebody else.
Stewart Harcourt's credits include Hearts and Bones, Treasure Island for Sky, Miss Marple, Jericho, and Peak Practice. There's a lot going on in the first episode of Love and Marriage when all I really wanted to know about was the central character's story at the start. However by the end I loved the rich characterisation, casting was superb, and the way in which characters talked to the camera a great touch.
This event was part of Coventry literary festival.
Tags: review of Love and Marriage; ITV drama; Stewart Harcourt; persistence; writing; Coventry book festival 2013; Hearts and Bones


She was born March 22, 1975 in Boston, Massachusetts.
As an actress started in theater school at Northwestern University in Chicago.
Played in "The Court Theatre" in Chicago. When showing productions in new York, on Broadway, she won the Joseph E. Calloway, and was then presented in the American Journal "American Theater Magazine" as one of ten young theater artists.
Then Anne was on Broadway, and participated in productions in several regional theaters. For his outstanding role in "The Glass Menagerie" she has won the award for "Connecticut Critics Circle".
Anne worked in the UK television series "The Book Group" (2002).
From 2007 to 2008 she starred in the TV series "Dr. house" in a role of Dr. amber.
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Remember her in the TV series "Dr. house". There was a lot of good actors, but she's clearly not lost on their background and managed to create a very interesting image. So sorry she left so quickly from the series, but still so tragically. Sensual and dramatic actress.The potential,like many of such a plan,as yet unrevealed,but maybe still ahead.
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Genderless Beauty
by John Jimenez, Senior Exploration Scientist at Belcorp Colombia
In Latam, Marketing, Trends.
Without a doubt, this is one of the most interesting current trends, since it has driven a creative movement in all cosmetic categories, starting with fragrances and makeup, where it has had a great development, up to personal care and skin care where we can see new disruptive concepts. The following are some of the new trends that are leading the advance in the genderless concepts.
Genderless voice: The Internet of Things (IoT) is revolutionizing the way in which devices interact with cosmetics, beauty and consumers. Last month, the launch of Q, "the world's first genderless voice," was announced, which was created to put an end to the gender bias in virtual assistants of artificial intelligence. It is like a Siri or Alexa, but not masculine or feminine. It was specially designed at a frequency between 145 and 175 hertz, a range defined by scientists of sound. In this aspect, the creators of Q say: "as society continues to tear down the gender binary, recognizing those who do not identify as men or women, the technology we create must continue" … bye bye to digital sexism.
You can hear the voice in the following link: https://youtu.be/t6g5KPkZjLU
in-cosmetics we will see soon the launch of the first applications developed for the IoT, AI (artificial intelligence), RV (virtual reality) and RA (augmented reality) in which the voices and images will be genderless. In this way, the entire union of technology, devices and cosmetics will be more inclusive, since we are all human beings and we do not want labels.
Ru Beauty: The cosmetic industry and especially the makeup industry is having a great source of inspiration in RuPaul's drag race and in the great movement that has influenced Latin America (and globally), since there are currently more than 5 drag competitions that have been very popular in the region, including: "La más Draga", reality show that has its own channel on YouTube (1), "Versus DragQueens Mx" project carried out between Chile and Mexico (2), "Oh my Drag" in Colombia (3), "Dragstars" project that aimed to create the first queer group in Latin America, "Carrera Drag" in Mexico (4) and "Drag me as Queen", created by E! in 2018. On the other hand, the participation of the first transgender participant in Miss Universe was also highly commented last year, undoubtedly a very interesting trend that has also been reflected in various events in Latin America.
These competitions honour diversity, acceptance, respect, self-esteem and personal appreciation. That is the reason why cosmetics plays a fundamental role in the development of these programs that are generating styles, trends and concepts and we see on YouTube many videos and tutorials on makeup finishes and application tips with thousands of reproductions. For this reason, several brands in Latin America are launching more inclusive product lines that promote these values and celebrate individuality and human authenticity. We are also seeing more often the participation of Drag models in the platforms for new product launches.
Vegan and genderless … the new fragrances that set trends in Latam: The vegan trend has made the leap from skin care, personal care and makeup to fragrances and that is why several brands in the region are launching this claim in new products to meet the needs of this niche. On the other hand, fragrances no longer want to have gender and neither understand about seasons…
Fluid gender – a trend that grows in the region: The fluid gender is one that does not recognize a defined sexual identity and can perform between the neutral, the masculine or the feminine, that is to say, that it circulates among several gender identities. For example, in Argentina, Facebook allows you to choose from 54 gender options when creating a profile. Different kind of gender-free cosmetics, launched by major brands, are already arriving in Latin America, which include fragrances, natural tones for lips, facial routines of skin care, facial makeup kits … the objective of brands is the inclusion, that means, anyone can use the products This trend is gaining strength in Latin America and in many of our countries local brands are starting to launch products with these concepts.
Neutral packaging: It is also interesting to see how the codes of packaging and packaging evolve in this trend. We are seeing minimalist packaging, neutral packaging and designs without gender in the new proposals.
Athleisure: In this trend, we also see the rise of the non-gender concept. The products to use before, during and after the gym are opening a very important segment in the region and we are seeing concepts of new products away from the gender and focused on athletic performance. The objective is to prepare the body for physical activity, maintain it in optimal conditions during the activity and promote its recovery after exercise.
Neuro-gender: Thanks to neuroscience, the cosmetics industry is identifying preferences that go beyond gender. We recently published an article on how to apply neuroscience to develop a methodology that allows evaluating the genderless olfactory profile of different perfumes (5).
Genderless innovation is trendy… because the big changes start from the minorities and for that reason, the brands are making very interesting innovation challenges in different categories, without gender and without prejudices.
Links de interés:
https://youtu.be/ExjVJcNRQhw
https://youtu.be/1r2GnSygPq0
https://youtu.be/VMynnqjq_-I
https://youtu.be/T87iT3F5UAU
https://www.cosmeticsandtoiletries.com/research/methodsprocesses/Fluid-Beauty-Biometric-Measures-to-Innovate-Genderless-Cosmetics-506453471.html
Tagged #incoslatam, cosmetics, genderless, latin america, marketing trends.
John Jimenez, Senior Exploration Scientist at Belcorp Colombia
Pharmacist (National University of Colombia) with a Master degree in Sustainable Development (EOI Business School, Madrid) and specialization studies in Marketing, Cosmetic Science and Neuromarketing. John has 28 publications in scientific journals and a book chapter in cosmetic formulation. Maison G de Navarre Prize (IFSCC 2004), Henry Maso Award (IFSCC 2016) and best scientific papers at Colamiqc Ecuador 2009, Colamiqc Brazil 2013 and Farmacosmética Colombia 2014. He has been speaker at international conferences in Europe and Latin America. Since 2013 he writes the column on market trends in Cosmetics & Toiletries Brazil magazine. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Cosmetics & Toiletries of USA. President of Colombian Cosmetic Association - Bogota's chapter 2017-2019. Currently is Senior Researcher at Belcorp Colombia.
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Love this! Super interesting trend that is taking protagonism all around the globe.


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GARDEN CITY, New York (June 28, 2018) Engineman 1st Class Angela Rojas' daughter pinning on her new E6 crow during a frocking ceremony held on the quarterdeck of Navy Recruiting District New York. Rojas, a native of Mercedes, Texas and graduate from Mercedes High School, was advanced to first class petty officer through her score on the March Navy-wide advancement exam. (U.S. Navy photo by......
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I had read a previous poster mention that Tennessee was not supposed to get any snow from of the current snow storm that is hitting so many states right now.
What effects is everyone feeling thus far? snow, wind rain?
If you are getting snow form the storm, how much so far?
I'm in the southern part of Cumberland County (Crossville) and last night the winds were pretty bad. Our electricity went off, but only for a few minutes. We had some rain and then it calmed down in the late evening. This morning we had a light dusting of snow, but it is gone now (atleast from what I can see out my door).
Rain and lots of wind yesterday evening and last night. Saw a few flurries this morning. Cold. Going from 50's to 20's in a day.
It poured last night from 4:30pm until about 9:00pm. Just windy and cold over here around Athens no rain, flurries or snow today .
I feel for the folks in Chicago and other areas hit hard. Glad we missed this one.
We didn't get anything. The snow stopped at the Kentucky line, as far as I know. They tend to get a lot more snow there.
I don't know how much longer I can handle this 20 degree weather. If it dips below 40 degrees, I'm miserable. The worst part is that I work outside at night when it is the coldest.
In the Memphis area, I think it was 20-30 all day yesterday, and they are expecting 30's today. We had some flurries overnight.
It should be 44 tomorrow in Knoxville and 50 on Sunday; 45 Monday. In another month we will start to see the signs of spring. Live up north and it doesn't get really nice until the end of May.


A central Victorian project that is working to give long-term unemployed people the confidence and skills they need to fill an over-supply of jobs has won a landmark social justice award.
The inaugural Joan Kirner Social Justice Award, a $5000 award for grassroots community workers and projects, has been won by the Maryborough Neighbourhood Renewal Team for their 'Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin'-By World' project.
The announcement was made via a video message from Prime Minister Julia Gillard at the Communities in Control Conference 2012.
Maryborough has a disproportionately high rate of generational unemployment, the Maryborough Neighbourhood Renewal Team says.
"Despite the availability of jobs locally, rates of unemployment and disengagement from education and training have remained amongst the highest in the state," they said.
The Getting Ahead project is designed to help people who have experienced generational unemployment to understand the impacts of their disadvantage and learn the "rules and behaviours of the middle class", or life skills, that are needed to get and keep jobs and training.
"Health and wellbeing are up, drug and alcohol use are down, and there have been vast improvements in relationships and civic engagement," says Maryborough Neighbourhood Renewal Place Manager Margaret Kent.
The Joan Kirner Social Justice Award recognises those people and groups who are emulating the lifetime work of former Victorian Premier Joan Kirner AM in bridging the gap between the "haves" and the "have nots" in Australia.
"The key factors to success in this award are respect, inclusion and collaboration," the former Premier said.
The Joan Kirner Social Justice Award is an initiative of Our Community, a social enterprise that provides tools and training for Not for Profit groups, and the Trawalla Foundation, which is run by businesswoman and social entrepreneur Carol Schwartz and her family.
The inaugural award was launched in January 2012. A new recipient will be selected annually.
The announcement of the award at the Communities in Control Conference was followed by the delivery by Joan Kirner of a the Social Justice Oration named in her honour, which received a standing ovation.


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Gabrielle Hamilton Biography and Wiki
Gabrielle Hamilton is an American culinary expert and creator. She is the culinary expert and proprietor of Prune, a café in New York City, and the creator of Blood, Bones, and Butter, a diary.
Gabrielle Hamilton Education
Hamilton went to undergrad at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, and accepted her MFA in exploratory writing from the University of Michigan.
Gabrielle Hamilton Age and Birthday
How old is chef Gabrielle Hamilton? Gabrielle is 56 years old as of 2022. She was born in 1966 in New Hope, Pennsylvania, United States. ALSO READ: Amna Nawaz
Gabrielle Hamilton Nationality | Ethnicity
Gabrielle is American and of white ethnicity.
Gabrielle Hamilton Family
Hamilton said her mom didn't squander food and the family frequently rummaged for new fixings from their nursery and from the backwoods and fields encompassing their home.
Gabrielle Hamilton Husband
Is Gabrielle Hamilton still married? Hamilton was engaged for a very long time by Dr. Michele Fuortes, an Italian-conceived instructor and specialist at Weill Cornell Medical College. They had two kids, Marco and Leone, and later separated. Hamilton is presently hitched to Ashley Merriman, who was her co-gourmet specialist at Prune.
Gabrielle Hamilton Height
Gabrielle stands at an average height of 5 feet 5 inches(1.65 m).
Gabrielle Hamilton's Net Worth
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Blood, Bones, and Butter is the kind of hard-edged eatery journal we've generally expected from individual New York culinary experts like Anthony Bourdain, who, unintentionally, depicted Hamilton's book as "essentially the best diary by a cook. Ever." But it's likewise the narrative of a little kid confounded by her folks' unexpected separation, who went to an existence of wrongdoing and, maybe much more risky, café work.
Hamilton named her eatery after the moniker her mom gave her as a young lady. She expounds a ton on her French mother in Blood, Bones, and Butter and, as she lets Weekend know All Things Considered has Guy Raz, her mom's discipline and feeling of frugality vigorously impacted her and her cooking.
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Following a profession in providing food, Hamilton opened the eatery Prune in the East Village in 1999. She had no proper involvement with eateries, nor did she go to culinary school. Her 30-seat café earned inescapable approval and profound respect from coffee shops, pundits, and different gourmet experts including Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert. Prune procured a spot in the Bib Gourmand part of Michelin's 2014 New York guide. Hamilton was highlighted in the fourth time of the PBS show The Mind of a Chef. She likewise showed up as a visitor judge on the principal time of The Taste on ABC.
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Starting around 1999, when Chef Gabrielle Hamilton put canned sardines and Triscuits and on the main menu of her little thirty-seat East Village eatery, Prune has casually defied incalculable norms of the food world. The standard that a fruitful café should raise a domain, the standard that cooks who end up being ladies ought to genuinely uphold each other, and the standard that extraordinary gourmet experts don't make incredible scholars. Prune has forever been a peculiar café, with no culinary mission other than to serve what Gabrielle likes to eat in a climate she needs to eat in.
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Gabrielle would be quick to say that her vocation and possible accomplishment as a gourmet specialist didn't come simply. She began her distinguished life as a dishwasher at 12 years old in her old neighborhood of New Hope, Pennsylvania, however, at that point went to Hampshire College in Massachusetts prior to getting back to food. She moved to New York and began working in cooking, however at that point moved to Michigan and sought an expert of expressive arts degree in fiction composing at the University of Michigan. To help makes a decent living, she got a part-time gig cooking once more, and upon graduation, Gabrielle got back to New York in 1999 and opened Prune. From that point forward, she has been assigned to Best Chef NYC in 2009 and 2010 by the James Beard Foundation. In 2011, she won the class.


Japanese train operator JR East has apologized after a driver urinated over the railway track while on duty.
According to an article published by Philippine Daily Inquirer, Japanese media reported that the driver, who is in his 50's, felt an urge to pee but he did not want to delay the trip by going to the comfort room.
When the train stopped at Sakura station in Chiba, he opened the cabin door away from the platform and urinated over the rails.
"We deeply apologize for giving distrust and uneasiness to our customers. Taking this case sincerely, we will provide thorough instruction and never repeat similar incidents," JR East said.
Furthermore, the company reportedly instructed the driver to go to the comfort room if necessary. It is unclear if the company will punish him for what he did.
This is the second time this month that a train driver in Japan caught the attention of the media.
According to an article published by Japan Times, a spokesman for the bullet train operator Central Japan Railways Company revealed that the driver admitted that he stretched his legs out on the dashboard for about 10 seconds because his feet was tired.
The spokesman assured that there was no danger to the 320 passengers aboard the bullet train at that time.
"Shinkansen are equipped with an automatic control system that manages speed and the distance between trains," he said.


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(d) The Division shall notify terminal operators regarding approval status within 30 calendar days of completing inspections under subsection (c) of this section.
(e) Terminal operators who do not receive approval will have 90 days to address deficiencies in their training and certification program, with options for time extension at the discretion of the Division. For those personnel that were trained or certified after the dates established by subsection (a) of this section but prior to training program disapproval, retraining or recertification of such personnel due to changes required by the Division's approval process may be postponed until the next retraining or recertification cycle as established by the terminal pursuant to this Article.
(f) Training and certification program approval is valid for five years. Significant changes to the terminal's program must be documented through an update of the terminal's training and certification program and submitted to the Division for approval. Minor upgrades in training programs, such as expansion of training hours or updates to training materials, are not required to be submitted. The Division may perform announced and unannounced inspections at terminals to verify compliance.
(g) A training and certification program shall be approved if, in addition to meeting the requirements of sections 2544 and 2545 it demonstrates that, when implemented, it can, to the maximum extent practicable:
(1) Provide protection from human factor oil spill risks identified in the risk analysis required by the terminal's oil spill contingency plan;
(2) Minimize the likelihood that terminal oil spills will occur and minimize the size and impacts of those terminal oil spills which do occur;
(3) Provide effective oil spill prevention training to supervisory, operations, maintenance, management, and indirect operations personnel;
(4) Ensure proper evaluation of job competency; and
(5) Provide an effective system to clearly document and track personnel training and certification.
(h) The Division may approve a training and certification program with an expedited review as set out in this section if that program has been approved by a federal agency which the Division has deemed to apply approval criteria which equal or exceed those of the Division.
(i) If the training and certification program receives approval, the terminal operator shall receive a letter of approval from the Division, describing the terms of approval, including expiration dates pursuant to subsection (f) of this section.
(j) If approval is denied or revoked, the terminal operator shall receive, in writing, an explanation of the factors for disapproval and a list of deficiencies. The terminal operator may be subject to enforcement actions prescribed under sections 8670.57, 8670.58 8670.59 and 8670.61 of the Government Code.
(k) Approval of a training and certification program by the Division does not constitute an express assurance regarding the adequacy of the program nor constitute a defense to liability imposed under state law.
(1) The Division may review a program following any spill at the terminal.
Note: Authority cited: Sections 8755 and 8756, Public Resources Code. Reference: Sections 8670.57, 8670.58, 8670.59 and 8670.61, Government Code; and Sections 8751, 8755, 8756 and 8757, Public Resources Code.


The first adults of my current Goliath beetle generation have started emerging..
Gorgeous! Will any of these guys be for sale?
I assume that the container with the cocoon must be ventilated somehow? I can't tell from the photo, but undoubtedly, there are some ventilation holes?
Is the cocoon normally kept on the substrate surface like that, throughout the pupation process?
Goliathus: Yes: I have a few, small ventilation holes in each container, some on the lid and some on the sides. The cocoon is normally buried, but some of the times they dig it up with them when they are emerging.
Wow. Those are some beautiful beetles!
Amazing to see how the hobby is expanding in the USA.


Each side of this debate has created the boogieman and monsters, like "We don't want let this program to come into existence because that will mean rationing." Well, I hate to tell you the news but as soon as medicine started being able to do incredible things that are very expensive, we started rationing. The reason 100 years ago everyone could afford their healthcare is because healthcare was a doctor giving you some elixir and telling you you'll be fine. And if it was a cold you would be fine. And if it turns out it was consumption; it was tuberculosis; it was lung cancer--you could still sit there. He'd give you some sympathy, and you'd die. Either way, it's pretty cheap.
The Granite Geek, David Brooks, is overly gleeful about "three large utilities" leaving the U. S. Chamber of Commerce over its position on global warming.
So it should come as no surprise that some corporations love Waxman-Markey. Indeed, the corporate coalition known as the United States Climate Action Partnership (US CAP) outlined the main features of the Waxman-Markey bill months before it was introduced in a January 2009 report titled A Blueprint for Legislative Action. US CAP members don't worry that Waxman-Markey might destroy millions of jobs and trillions of dollars in cumulative GDP. They expect to get a bigger piece of a smaller pie.
Lewis also quotes the CEO of one of the companies, Exelon, predicting an increase of "$700 to $750 million to Exelon's annual revenues for every $10 per metric ton (Mt) increase in the price of CO2 allowances."
So, yeah, the companies may be "green", but only in the sense of the color of those figures above.
Any doubt about from whom those dollar signs are coming? Hint: famous poker player Amarillo Slim is quoted as saying: "Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker."
In our always-busy Egomania Department: Foster's Daily Democrat published my short letter to the editor. You read it here first.
A disaster preparedness suggestion for the University Near Here.


Glass with its transparency, processing capabilities, design and painting imposed itself as an ideal material for decorating, while its application in modern interiors is inevitable. Glass with its aesthetic value, increases the experience of the interior and with its practicality creates effects which can visually larger, lighter, longer or higher space. Setting the glass floors will make your home more interesting and special, especially when you complete with lighting effects.


Me Me Me Me Me: More Republican Dirty Tricks?
Last week I mentioned the plan by Republicans in Michigan to use home foreclosure information to target voter challenges (thus disenfranchising people who had lost their homes to foreclosure). Today, I learned of a new apparent Republican dirty trick playing out in Wisconsin. According to Racine Post, Democratic voters have been receiving absentee ballot request forms from the McCain campaign. The problem? These absentee ballot requests have the wrong address for the completed requests to be returned to. So? Apparently, this would not jeopardize a voter's registration, but it might prevent the voter from receiving the absentee ballot (as the office receiving the request would be required to forward it to the correct office, but would have to do so in a very limited time frame [1 day] with an already overburdened staff).
I think that my favorite ad might be the "Obama supports tax breaks for pedophiles" bit. That really goes right to the heart of the ridiculous exaggerations that have plagued Sen. McCain's ads.
Interesting note on the skit: Apparently it was co-written by former SNL writer Al Franken who is currently running for Senate in Minnesota (seeking to defeat Republican incumbent Norm Coleman).


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To Save Her Soul è un cortometraggio muto del 1909 scritto e diretto da David W. Griffith.

È l'esordio come attore di Paul Scardon, futuro regista e futuro marito dell'attrice Betty Blythe.

Trama
Agnes, una graziosa corista della chiesa del villaggio, lascia il paese attratta dal miraggio di diventare una cantante di vaudeville dopo che un impresario, rimasto in panne davanti alla chiesa, è rimasto colpito dalla bellezza della sua voce e le ha proposto di venire in città con lui. Nonostante le preghiere di Paul, il giovane pastore innamorato della ragazza, Agnes se ne va. Abbagliata da quella nuova vita, la giovane vive spensieratamente, gustando a fondo l'ebbrezza e il successo. Paul, leggendo sul giornale di uno spettacolo dove appare Agnes, si reca a vederla a teatro. Ma rimane inorridito dai commenti degli altri spettatori maschi e decide di salvare l'amata da quella vita di perdizione. La raggiunge a un banchetto dato in onore di Agnes, ma lì viene deriso e preso in giro anche da lei. In preda alla furia, Paul prende una pistola posata su un tavolo e la brandisce contro Agnes, giurando di ucciderla piuttosto che lasciarla in quell'ambiente. Scioccata, la giovane ritrova l'amore che provava per Paul prima della sua fuga dal villaggio dove i due tornano insieme, per ritrovarsi in preghiera davanti all'altare.

Produzione
Girato a Fort Lee, nel New Jersey, il film venne prodotto dalla Biograph Company.

Distribuzione
Il film - un cortometraggio in una bobina - venne distribuito dalla Biograph Company, uscendo nelle sale cinematografiche statunitensi il 27 dicembre 1909. Copie della pellicola sono conservate nell'Archivio della Library of Congress e nell'Archivio del Museum of Modern Art.

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Voci correlate
 Filmografia di David Wark Griffith
 Filmografia di George Nichols
 Filmografia di Mary Pickford
 Filmografia della Biograph Company

Collegamenti esterni

Cortometraggi drammatici
Film diretti da David Wark Griffith


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18 September 2014updated 24 Jun 2021 12:58pm
The first "war on terror" was a failure. Do we really need a sequel?
Just because there are no good options in Iraq doesn't mean we have to pick the worst option.
By Mehdi Hasan
(Photo By An Iraqi-Kurdish fighter at a checkpoint west of Arbil. Photo: Getty)
It's difficult to disagree with the verdict of Barack Obama. The Isis terrorists, the US president declared in a televised address on 10 September, "are unique in their brutality . . . They enslave, rape and force women into marriage. They threatened a religious minority with genocide. In acts of barbarism, they took the lives of two American journalists – Jim Foley and Steven Sotloff." (On 13 September, they also beheaded the brave British aid worker David Haines.)
Isis, in other words, is evil. Scum. The worst of the worst. Unique, to borrow Obama's phrase, in its brutality. Nevertheless, it isn't difficult to disagree with the solution proffered by the president and his new neocon pals. "We are at war [and] we must do what it takes, for as long as it takes, to win," declaimed Dick Cheney, the former US vice-president. "What's the harm of bombing them at least for a few weeks and seeing what happens?" asked the pundit William Kristol.
Forget for a moment the legality of bombing Iraq without congressional approval, or bombing Syria without UN approval. Put to one side, also, the morality of dropping bombs from 5,000 feet on towns in northern Iraq that are full of civilians.
The bigger issue is that military action might make us feel better about ourselves and it might even "degrade" Isis but it won't "destroy" it (to use Obama's preferred terminology). How will dropping bombs destroy the hate-filled ideology behind the terrorist group? How will air strikes prevent foreign fighters returning home to the west to carry out revenge attacks? How will killing innocent Iraqi Sunnis "in the crossfire" stop Isis from recruiting new and angry fighters from inside Iraq's Sunni communities? How will cruise missiles produce an inclusive government in Baghdad, one that heals the long-standing rifts between Kurds, Shias and Sunnis and encourages the Sunnis to turn their backs on Isis, as they did on al-Qaeda in 2006 and 2007? How will despatching drones help generate a national civic identity that makes Iraqis feel united as a single people, rather than part of a patchwork of warring tribes and sects?
If bombing "worked", Iraq would have morphed into a Scandinavia-style utopia long ago. Remember, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Obama is the fourth US president in a row to appear live on television in order to announce air strikes on Iraq.
Remember also that the US and its allies have been dropping ordnance on Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Libya, among other countries, since 2001. Yet, today, the Taliban is resurgent in both Afghanistan and Pakistan, while al-Qaeda is opening new branches of its terror franchise in India; Libya is in chaos, with Islamist militias vying for control and the government in exile hiding out on a Greek car ferry; and US air strikes in Yemen, according to a former US embassy official in Sana'a, generate "roughly 40 to 60 new enemies for every [al-Qaeda] operative killed by drones".
"It's hard to think of any American project in the Middle East that is not now at or near a dead end," said Chas Freeman, a former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia, in July. Why? "The United States seldom resorts to diplomacy in resolving major differences . . . Coercive measures like sanctions and bombing are much more immediately satisfying emotionally than the long slog of diplomacy." Or as the economist and senior UN adviser Jeffrey Sachs recently tweeted, "US has a one-note foreign policy: bomb."
Once again, we are confronted with the myth of redemptive violence, the belief that the application of superior western air power is ultimately just, noble and necessary. Wanting vengeance for Foley, Sotloff and Haines, not to mention the thousands of unnamed Syrians and Iraqis slaughtered by Isis, is understandable. Vengeance, however, is no substitute for a viable strategy.
As Richard Barrett, the former MI6 head of counterterrorism, warned me in a recent interview, it's a mistake to see air strikes as a "tool that is going to solve the [Islamic State] problem . . . It's just reaching for a hammer because it is a hammer and it's to hand."
So what's to be done? First, just because there are no good options in Iraq doesn't mean we have to pick the worst option: a tried, tested and failed option. Yes, air strikes can keep Isis fighters away from Erbil but they cannot eradicate Isis.
Second, there is a range of political steps that must be taken – from guaranteeing Sunni participation in the new Iraqi government to cracking down on the oil sales worth $100m a month that fund the Isis reign of terror. Then there is the regional cold war that has helped fuel the hot wars in Iraq and Syria. Getting Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran to a negotiating table, Richard Barrett explained, would have "much more impact [on Iraq] than flying out and dropping bombs".
We can't talk to Isis but we can talk to Saudi Arabia (and, for that matter, to Turkey, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates). And, yes, to Iran, too. The Iranians can put pressure on the dysfunctional Shia-led government in Baghdad; the Saudis can do the same with the disaffected Sunni tribes that have allied with Isis.
Instead, Obama, with David Cameron in support, prepares for a new, US-led, three-year military campaign, across two countries, against the thugs and gangsters of Isis, even though 13 years of the so-called war on terror – stretching from Afghanistan to Pakistan, Iraq to Yemen, Libya to Somalia – have produced only more war and more terror. Do we really want a sequel?
Mehdi Hasan is an NS contributing writer. He works for Al Jazeera English and the Huffington Post UK, where this column is crossposted
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