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No, I don't think the national orgy of blood-lusty number-one-ism reflects a new development. This has always been there. If there's something new, I think you've put your finger on it: it's the shamelessness at the top level.
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[Welcome Confluence readers! -- Lambert]
Sorry folks, there is no activism today. I'm still processing my feelings about the shocking developments of last Sunday evening.
What I've ultimately settled upon, after my initial excitement has faded, is a feeling of despair.
What has happened to my country? Didn't we used to be proud of our Constitution? Didn't we used to think we were exceptional not because we killed more people than anyone else (our troops are the best in the world! USA! USA!), but because we didn't treat terrorists and criminals with the lawlessness they had shown to us? Wasn't the Unabomber, Ted Kaczyinski, tried and convicted? Wasn't the blind sheik, Omar Abdel-Rahman, tried and convicted after he attempted to destroy the World Trade Center? Didn't this due process make us all feel good after the murder and mayhem they perpetrated upon us? Didn't our consciences tell us we had, indeed, obeyed our laws and lived in accordance with our own preference for justice over brutal Bronze Age morality?
No more. The Feelings Police have spoken. No "decent" person could possibly do anything but celebrate Osama bin Laden's death. Bullying, swearing and shouting will be doled out to anyone who dares say otherwise. As usual on the Internets, the loudest, least reasonable voices prevail. And so, mindless expressions of unadulterated joy are the plat du jour. It's revolting to me.
How did this happen? I believe our new and NOT improved attitude towards the rule of law comes from the top. For the past ten years, Bush II and Obama (Bush III) have killed and tortured with utter impunity. They have perpetrated wars for oil and minerals, and have kept the American public so confused with endless streams of conflicting propaganda that we don't know what to think about any of it. One thing we know is that, as Rumsfeld famously stated, "there are known unknowns" which are a source of pain, doubt and fear for those of us refusing to be enveloped in nationalistic fervor. For example, we know that we have no idea what really happened to Osama bin Laden, the perpetrator of the event that Bush/Cheney/Obama have used as a bludgeon to coarsen and weaken the fiber of American morality.
Yesterday, it was widely reported that bin Laden "resisted" his capture and "engaged in a firefight" with U.S. forces (leaving most people, including me, to say that his killing was legally justified because he was using force). It was also repeatedly claimed that bin Laden used a women -- his wife -- has a human shield to protect himself, and that she was killed as a result. That image -- of a cowardly through violent-to-the-end bin Laden -- framed virtually every media narrative of the event all over the globe. And it came from many government officials, principally Obama's top counter-terrorism adviser, John Brennan.
Those claims have turned out to be utterly false. From TPM today:
It was a fitting end for the America's most wanted man. As President Barack Obama's Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan told it, a cowardly Osama bin Laden used his own wife as a human shield in his final moments. Except that apparently wasn't what happened at all.
Hours later, other administration officials were clarifying Brennan's account. Turns out the woman that was killed on the compound wasn't bin Laden's wife. Bin Laden may have not even been using a human shield. And he might not have even been holding a gun.
Politico's Josh Gerstein adds: "The White House backed away Monday evening from key details in its narrative about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, including claims by senior U.S. officials that the Al Qaeda leader had a weapon and may have fired it during a gun battle with U.S. forces." Gerstein added: "a senior White House official said bin Laden was not armed when he was killed."
We can choose to believe the official story - that he was killed and buried at sea - or we can choose not to; but we will most likely never find out the truth. And that's what's making me despair: the idea that seminal events that unfold in our country are constantly obscured, massaged and outright manufactured so as to rob them of any joy or justice.
There are so many things that I could have been happy about in the past ten years, had I simply allowed myself to stop thinking and just go with today's Two-Minute Hate. I can't do that, though. I am cursed with the inability to become so seduced by emotion that I become blinded to obvious facts. I didn't cheer when we illegally invaded Iraq. I didn't get excited by Saddam Hussein's capture, fake trial or barbaric execution. I didn't think the economy was "recovering" while tax cuts and war spending eroded our hard-won surplus at the speed of light and jobs streamed overseas at a frightening rate. I don't think old people, unions and women are the reason unemployment is sky-high. My joy at seeing the first black President elected was robbed from me because of the way the Democrats did it, and because I knew who he was (Bush III) and how he would govern (Bush III).
If Osama bin Laden was killed on Sunday (the day was so important that Obama only got in 9 holes of golf instead of 18!!!111!!!) and buried at sea (:roll:), then I take no joy in it. I disagree fervently with both Obama and Secretary Clinton: Killing a man in cold blood is not justice. It is "eye for an eye" revenge, one of the concepts enlightened human beings are supposed to understand is morally wrong. What happened to that understanding?
What a triumph it would have been to take bin Laden out of that compound in Pakistan and try him in the Hague; to see his smug, arrogant face humbled by being forced to wear the orange jumpsuit and chains of the common criminal. Had we chosen that route, we would have shown him, and the rest of the world, that we are still Americans. We still believe in the rule of law and the Constitution. We had been going down so far down the road of lawlessness that we almost lost ourselves; but when the ultimate test came, we redeemed ourselves by taking the road less traveled - the road of morality and justice. How lovely that would have been, and how fiercely I would have cheered the attorneys prosecuting that monster in open court. Surely the evidence against him must be overwhelming, or we wouldn't have been trying to kill him for the past 10 years...right? Right?
Perhaps what makes me despair the most is that Osama bin Laden's death at the hands of Dear Leader will be the new 9/11. It will be used to justify every lawless practice that still makes people uncomfortable and outraged when they think about it. Our war in Afghanistan - it worked! Our torture of Gitmo detainees provided the intellience that led to the assasination of Osama bin Laden! Our drones flying over Pock-ee-ston - they worked! So the government is spying on us, and has declared its ability to kill US citizens at the pleasure of the President, and is imprisoning and torturing whistleblowers like Bradley Manning instead of honoring them. So the Christian Taliban has decided to use the government to prosecute a war on America's women, and the Democrats refuse to stop them (in fact, the House is voting on the dreaded H.R. 3, aka Smith-Lipinski, this week). So what? Obama killed Osama bin Laden!!!!1111!!! Who's next? USA! USA!
I hope that one day, our country will regain its moral center again; but right now, I just want to weep and wail like a woman from the Bronze Age...which is where it seems our country is headed these days.
No, I don't think the national orgy of blood-lusty number-one-ism reflects a new development. This has always been there. If there's something new, I think you've put your finger on it: it's the shamelessness at the top level.
for both the executive and the nation. Same for regime change.
No longer.
Now, as noted above, it is claimed as a sign of strength of the Dear Leader.
So, in one way, we're actually being more transparent. Obama did say he wanted to have the most transparent administration....
What we're being "transparent" about is quite another thing -- and most undesirable.
Mostly the same objectives, just now out in the open. And our government is run by the monied interests to a greated extent, which is not explicitly acknowledged (except occasionally, such as Durbin saying the banks own Congress).
Will we get our Constitution back? Get our government to represent the rest of us non-monied? Not with the two legacy parties running things, Changing who gets elected is going to be very difficult -- and the Supremes work for the monied class, along with the legislative and executive branches. A triumvirate, not three separate but equal branches.
"asymmetric" warfare. A cursory examination of our history (although not so different from European history) will show our bloody and diseased footprints over every foot of our land (see Howard Zinn "A People's History of the United States"). Our government has been lying to us from its inception, and some great examples in more recent times are the Hawaiian "ocupation"-still extant, the Philippine-American war (the event that made Mark Twain a rabid anti-imperialist), the "sinking of the Maine", more recently, the"gulf of Tonkin", and those are just some of the ones we know about. Pacifists and anti-war activists have been the recipients of some of the most draconian actions of our government (Manning, anyone?) throughout history. We are the inheritors of an imperialist history, imperialist regime, and imperialist (capitalist) economy. This is unsustainable, we know it, our MOTU know it, (they think they can "game it" just like they've gamed every other facet of their lives, as their parents, grandparents, etc., have), and all we can do is continue to fight the darkness, so that when we lie down for our last rest, we can say "at least I fought back".
In 1948, George Orwell wrote "1984", and I see his predictions writ large every time I see/hear/read the "news", (from Wikipedia):
"Life in the Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance, and incessant public mind control. The individual is always subordinated to the state, and it is in part this philosophy which allows the Party to manipulate and control humanity. In the Ministry of Truth, protagonist Winston Smith is a civil servant responsible for perpetuating the Party's propaganda by revising historical records to render the Party omniscient and always correct, yet his meager existence disillusions him to the point of seeking rebellion against Big Brother, eventually leading to his arrest, torture, and reconversion."
But in recent years, we had done better in our response to terrorism. Now we have backslid to the point of brutality.
This sums my feelings about this perfectly.
In addition, I am perfectly capable of seperating MY sense of personal satisfaction at vengeance, from the actions my country SHOULD take.
Like, I can feel he should have been taken out and shot, and had his head mounted on a stick for all to see, and still acknowledge that such actions should not be condoned or conducted by the leaders of my nation, of whom I expect more.
But instead, being a leader anymore doesn't mean leading, it means playing to the baser instincts and desires of a portion of your population. And that's sad.
In addition, I am perfectly capable of seperating MY sense of personal satisfaction at vengeance, from the actions my country SHOULD take.
That is the point I'm trying to make. I'm not trying to be the Feelings Police. I am despairing over the way our country has failed the challenges posed by bin Laden's attacks. We have answered evil with evil.
as nothing more than a reelection ploy. You know, reaching out to the lunatic right. They love 'em some blood and guts, and they hate the rule of law. (Inherit the Wind comes to mind.) Obama already has - and will always have - the mindless groupies who are supposedly leftist. They will applaud whatever he does. But he never stops pandering to the right, hoping for a few votes. What's a few thousand more deaths and a few dozen more wars if he gains a vote or two? And taking out OBL was sure to fulfill a lot of fantasies (although I suspect the spontaneous celebrations weren't quite so spontaneous).
Was there a body? Whose body was it? What was done to it? When? How?
I think if it was OBL and he is dead, then we had to kill him to keep him from speaking of his CIA-sponsored work. He was, after all, our guy once upon a time.
I am beyond disgusted. I am sick at heart.
and deliver him to jail for the US Marshal to take him to the judge? What would the Lone Ranger do?
And the allies delivered the Nazis to the Nuremburg trials.
And even frikkin Bush II sent Saddam Hussein from his spidey hole to Iraqi courts to be hanged.
Now our soldiers are to act like they are part of the Total Annihalation video game and just go assassinate people? This is an improvement? Where are the good guys?
What this event proves beyond the shadow of a doubt is that Obama himself has absolutely no faith in the US justice system and the courts. Nor apparently for international courts.
nearly brought me to tear. Thank you for saying it. The fact you have despair in your heart is a very good healthy sign.
The more i think about it the more I believe a Democratic party head/president should have captured and put him on trial... it truly would have been a change i could have tried to believe in (until we all witnessed the minutia of our military court system, no doubt).. the fact basically no one in media and politics even considers it says so much.
between our two legacy parties. Unfortunately when it comes to the "War on Terror," both Democrats and Republicans have bought into the idea that bin Laden declared war on us.
In my opinion, he did not. He is a terrorist, which means he is a non-state actor.
A non-state actor does not speak for any particular government. S/he cannot mobilize state resources such as armies, navies, air forces and marines - and the weapons they have access to. Further, there is no state infrastructure for carrying out military actions; there are no factories which the state can utilize for weapons and war equipment production; s/he is operating outside of the law, and thus can be arrested at any time by anyone (unlike the head of a state).
This man was a monster and IMHO deserved to die, but he did not have the power to declare war. And we did not have the right to kill him without a trial establishing his guilt (and making him suffer humiliation, I might add).
... or is said to have said:
"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful."
Meaning, I understand the feeling of despair. And this is [lambert blushes modestly] a blog heavily populated with creatives, and -- armchair- and popular-psychologizing freely -- we get the heights of joy and the depths, too.
Also, you are to consider (a turn of phrase that Stephen Maturin used to Jack Aubrey) that despair and depression are often medicated with "retail therapy" -- unhappy people shop. Therefore, Big Media thrives on created negative feelings (so anodyne a phrase) because it provides profits to Big Food -- "Here, have this entire pint of ice cream!" -- and Big Media -- "It's the feel-good movie of the year!" and Big Money -- "Priceless." The despair is indeed, as you say, "manufactured" to demoralize (all senses) us, and help our enemies.
But I don't want to despair. Despair immobilizes. Now, I may contribute to the doomy atmosphere simply because I feel I have to be productive -- Post! Post! Post! And since the political economy is so constituted that current news is either bad for us, or one turn of the wheel away from being bad, that most of the riffs and talking points and analytical tools I have, which I require to be productive, even before any larger purpose is considered, are doomy. To write about happy things, however, takes actual work: I have to go garden, for example. So, when I'm pressed for time, which is in its way an RL positive -- my posts tend to go doomy! So I am not an especially reliable barometer (the measure of "depression"...)
Also, consider how much wisdom you have to share. I really wish I could figure out how to do a teach-in on the ground. I think the up-and-coming youth of today is, in fact, hungry for historical knowledge. They're no dummies (except for the OFB). They know they've been shortchanged...
NOTE Consider Vienna...
I tend to take (or suggest) action to stave it off.
But this time, I felt like perhaps sharing my feelings would help others as well as myself. Sometimes it does.
I hope I didn't sound critical (in the bad sense) though I hope I sounded critical (in the good sense of critique).
I'm recalling a terrific thread we had on depression a long time ago.
And no worries, I didn't see it as a personal critique. (Forgive me for the slow response, RL and all.)
To answer you, I don't think that despair is always a bad thing. It strikes me that it may be the only catalyst for real change. Human beings often won't do anything until they realize just how bad things have gotten.
Because of the concept I have about despair, I don't think the Powers That Be "want us to despair." I think they want us to be ignorant and impoverished and fearful, so that we will not realize how bad things are, and will go about our daily business without trying to derail their gravy trains.
I also don't equate despair with depression. When I studied psychology, depression was defined as "anger turned inwards." That's not what I'm expressing - at least, it's not what I mean to express. My despair is outward-facing and outward-blaming; in other words, I don't blame myself for Obama's actions, therefore I feel that once my emotions have passed, I will be able to take appropriate action.
Depression is paralytic because it is directed against the person feeling it. Because of its inward focus, it is a poisonous, immobilizing, and often deadly emotion.
Does that make any sense to you?
I fear depression a lot, which is why I'm trying to tease apart these emotions. I think the point is to "move" us, which is good.
Depression is to be avoided whenever possible.
Often people think I am depressing when I post about how I see things. But my ultimate goal is to awake people to action without giving them false hope.
My inspiration is always Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, who fought for 67 years to get women the right to vote, and never, ever gave up. They did not see the success of their efforts in their lifetimes, and yet, without them we never would have seen the 19th Amendment ratified.
I am sure they despaired at times, but that despair did not stay them from their purpose.
In fact, heirlooms can make one despair (at the loss, and one's potential losses, including the loss of one's self-hood) and bring one joy (at carrying life forward, happy memories, and things of beauty in and of them selves). Interesting that despair is "made" and joy is "brought"...
NOTE The financial flows of the rentiers course through every part of our lives down to the cellular level. It is natural that if they wish us to feel despair, and they do, we will feel it. This is far better than feeling numb. The "Just So" story about despair, and feelings in general, is that it and they motivates one to change, if only in terms of changing one's circumstances through motion.... Unless one succumbs to delectation, in which case despair impacts itself into depression, which is the very definition of anti-change (or at least no change "under one's own power").
That's an awesome observation, lambert, and it ties in with something my boss was telling me this morning.
She was watching some news special about the raid, and she was upset, because it was showing house, and she felt sad about him dying, because he had knick knacks. His house looked like her house.
In her words, "It was humanizing" and it upset her, because this self-avowed Christian woman felt they should have continued to dehumanize him(her exact terms), like by showing continous footage of 9/11, instead of the flowers in the vase.
Now, I'm of the opinion that we should be honest, and that attempts to humanize him, are exactly what should be done. But, that's because I think this country desperately needs some perspective. I doubt that's what the media's motive is. Instead, it's to encourage people to feel despair about it.
how weird.
is it a revenge thing?
that site just seemed to fall apart overnight.
and now back on topic, i just came from the shrink and we discussed our repulsion at the bloodlust celebration. she said it's a generational thing in her opinion. people that had a foot in the 60's and 70's are very turned off by the jingoism.
anyone after that, not so much.
thanks for the post.
Not today. I like RD. And as far as being DISemployed, we're in the same boat. I can't write intelligently about scientific research since I know nothing about it. I don't think much of generations as an analytical tool, either. Isn't Karl Rove a boomer? I've got little in common with him, I hope! There are doubtless cultural and political economic factors for which "generation" is a shorthand or metonymy, but why not use the real factors, not the shorthand?
just thought it was weird.
doesn't have anything to do with liking or disliking
I'm unemployed as well...what does that have to do with anything?
you're quick dismissal of an insight from someone who watches culture closely
and hears peoples intimate thoughts all day long is a little lazy but it's your blog.
seems like you wanted to smack my little comment down on all counts.
still love your blog!
In this case, it was clearly a mistake to have commented at all. Back to RL.
NOTE To amplify.... I don't need to know if somebody's saying bad things about me on the internets. Heck, both VastLeft and I have had entire sites devoted to us. So if there's no expectation that I read and react, why tell me? It reminds me of high school. Perhaps I'm just in a nasty mood. There seems to be a lot of that going around lately, and I think that the Osama killing made it worse. Out.
Not sure why I feel that way, since I am Gen X. But then, I hated Raygun with a passion, even at the age of 13. :-)
And not weird about RD. There is a history there. As Lambert says, who cares?
under the circumstances, madamab. The frustrations are nearly overwhelming. When did we become a bunch of barbarians who think shooting an older, sickly, unarmed man point-blank in the face is justice? Don't we have laws and courts for this very reason, to separate the guilty from the innocent and to determine an appropriate sentence? And now even the President is behaving like a mob boss? How is this country ever going to turn itself around?
I go back and forth, between "it can't, it won't, it's over" and "something will happen, it'll be okay" -- but honestly, the second one seems more like magical thinking every day. In fact, the only reason I entertain the idea that somehow things will get better is not because the situation is actually improving, but because I hate feeling frustrated and impotent. So "self medicating" with platitudes about how it'll all work out, good will prevail, blah blah blah relieves some of that. Until the next news story comes out.
With gardening, and solace in the beauty of nature. I'm sure that helps much more than platitudes or magical thinking. :-)
"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop."
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We all know that the current political economy is not sustainable. Even the elite know, and that's why they're doubling down.
And in some very reasonable scenarios, gardens help when the food chain collapses.
In other words, the joy and beauty that can come from gardening are like a message in a bottle from the future left for us. Let's not stigmatize those feelings as not serious because they're not doomy; they are in fact very important signals -- along all the pathways imaginable, including the chemical and the sensual -- to pay attention to. Plantidotes are important and not diversionary or frivolous exactly because they are beautiful. Read Michael Pollan's wonderful The Botany of Desire.
something to think about.


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The first lesson one learns almost immediately after undertaking to write a comprehensive and critically weighed history of the American sound film is that one can never finish; one can only stop. After many years I have decided to stop, at least as far as the period between 1927 and 1949 is concerned. I could work until the next millennium sifting the endless trivia for clues to the tantalizing mysteries of the medium, but my marvelously patient editor has urged me to cease and desist, and I do so with a sense of relief.
Mine is more a macrocosmic than a microcosmic treatment in that I have chosen to focus on stylistic and thematic configurations rather than on minutely detailed descriptions. Having written regularly on film for more than forty years, and having taught film as an art and as one of the humanities for over thirty, I have been compelled to maintain an aesthetic lifeline between the past and the present. By contrast, archival specialists tend to develop so much of a rooting interest in their excavations that they discount the onset of the new, whereas journalist novelty-seekers keep trying to cut the umbilical cord that still links us to Lumière and Griffith. My own view of the talking picture from the twenties to the present is that it remains alive and well, but that it never seems to yield up all its meanings and beauties and associations the first time around. Ideally, film scholarship should have evolved as a cooperative enterprise by which each contribution could provide a foundation for its successor. Instead, recent decades of "discussion" have been char-

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SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa (AP) — Iowa officials say two northwest Iowa lakes have been found to be safe for swimming and boating after fish kills were discovered there earlier this week.
The Sioux City Journal reports (http://bit.ly/X8UMoI ) that dead freshwater drum, a species of fish, washed up on the northwest shore of East Lake Okoboji on Thursday. Fisheries biologist Mike Hawkins with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources says thousands of small fish also washed up on a one-mile portion of Big Spirit Lake the same day.
Hawkins says the kills are not connected.
He says the drum were most likely killed by disease spread through overpopulation. He says the small fish died from a pocket of low oxygen on Big Spirit Lake.
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France Wants Tighter Rules For Solar Energy, Besson Says
France's solar industry needs to be more tightly regulated, Industry Minister Eric Besson said ahead of a meeting that may decide policy on the expanding sector.
Targets for increasing output need to be balanced against the "uncontrolled rise in electricity bills," Besson said today at a press conference in Paris. He confirmed a solar policy meeting will take place tomorrow with Prime Minister Francois Fillon.
France's solar industry has come under scrutiny in recent months as capacity expanded while subsidized tariffs remained relatively high. The government cut the so-called feed-in tariff for solar power twice this year to counter what it called a speculative bubble. A policy overhaul may include an annual capacity growth cap of 500 megawatts, the government has said.
"The industry is under pressure," Jean-Philippe Roudil, head of the Syndicat des Energies Renouvelables, an industry group, said by telephone. Reports of further rate cuts for solar power are "rumors" and the government tomorrow will likely announce more consultations with industry, he said.
The cost of solar power for state-controlled utilities is projected to rise to 915 million euros next year from 128 million euros in 2010, according to figures published yesterday by the country's energy regulator. A tax that is supposed to compensate mostly EDF for the higher costs of renewable energy has been insufficient since 2009, resulting in a shortfall for EDF of 1.4 billion euros last year and an estimate of more than 1 billion euros this year, the regulator said.
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Feed-in tariffs require utilities to buy electricity from renewable sources at more than the standard rate. EDF, France's former power monopoly, pays more for solar power than for the nuclear power it produces at 58 reactors and what it can buy on European spot electricity markets. The added cost is passed on to consumers through the tax.
The government is preparing to cut the price EDF pays for solar energy about 10 percent and cap the annual volume of installations, Les Echos reported yesterday, citing people it didn't identify. Besson today declined to comment on the report.
The regulator estimates that EDF will pay an average of 546 euros a megawatt-hour for solar power in 2011. This compares with estimated spot market power prices of 55 euros.
France will have 860 megawatts of photovoltaic capacity installed and connected to the grid at the end of 2010 and a total of 2,150 megawatts by the end of next year, according to the regulator.
"We think projects in the pipeline amount to less," Roudil said. His group is recommending modifying solar power rates according to installed capacity.


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Beacon Mill, Rottingdean, built in 1802 is a three storey smock mill, it originally had a fantail, but this is now missing. It has been restored several times since its demise in 1881 as a working mill.
A splendid capture of this grand old mill. I think the sepia is most appealing for such a shot, and I also enjoyed the history as very much.
Beautifully captured.
Best regards from the USA,
Mary Alice
Thanks for your comments Mary Alice, when I took this photo' it was a very overcast day, I tried to enhance it by adding sepia, I think it worked, regards, Doug.
Very beautiful shot
Thanks for your comments Moechan
Photo taken in Rottingdean, Brighton, Brighton, The City of Brighton and Hove BN2, UK


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Colorful wedding dresses
Now that one can choose a more vibrant and eye-catchy color for the wedding dress the palette of colorful wedding dress styles available on the market is wider.
One must not compromise her personal style by choosing a plain white wedding gown that will only make her look simply conventional and common. The main purpose of the color is to make the bride more visible, distinguished and outstanding from the big crowd of contemporary brides. The choices in colorful wedding dresses start with pastel skin tone shades that can be incorporated in white wedding dresses or used in the whole surface of the dress.
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Zelene Wings
January 19, 2011 at 9:16 am
My family is very keen on traditions and I had a lot of trouble convincing them that not wearing a white wedding dress is not that much of a problem. But I had to promise I wouldn't wear a very bright color. Now that I read your article and saw some of the dresses on your site that have colors, I decided to wear a champagne colored dress. I think that's the closest color to the traditional white, I guess. And they agreed on that. I wonder whether this dress you presented here, the light purple one, could be found in champagne too. Or whether it is too expensive to have it custom made. I like it a lot. I also like your article, so thanks.


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Crabbe, the Pac-12's freshman of the year last season, missed three of his first four shots and had only two points at halftime. He responded with eight points in a quick burst following the break, and later scored on consecutive trips down the court when the Golden Bears built a 67-39 lead.
Reserve Justin Cobbs had 17 points for the Bears, who open the regular season next week against Irvine. Harper Kamp added 10 points and Jorge Gutierrez, Cal's leading scorer a year ago, had seven points and four assists.
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The BJP, which was much ahead of its competitors in the game, had identified 150 digital constituencies across India. The party used social media and customised micro-messaging such as text messages, emails, WhatsApp messages, Line messages, etc., to reach the voter in constituencies with high internet penetration. Typically the 150 constituencies are the one with high internet penetration, that is, urban towns. Through content such as jokes, comic strips, etc., and with no counter-response from the Congress which began using social media just four months before the election, the BJP was able to create buzz amongst these voters, added Gupta.
Analysts believe the other reason behind BJP being able to successfully woo the Indian voter on Twitter is the fact that its campaign was around one man. The BJP campaign certainly created focus around one man, Modi. This is of course more relevant to a presidential government than our parliamentary system. The risk was that if something was to happen to the man, or if someone else was to be the prime minister from the party, the campaign would backfire. So its a calculated risk. It certainly worked to focus the effort on one person, said Mahesh Murthy, founder, Pinstorm, a digital marketing firm.
Meanwhile, the AAP which tasted success on the social media platform before the Delhi assembly polls, lost its ground once its leader Kejriwal resigned from the Delhi chief ministers post. AAPs entire campaign was based on one big agenda anti-corruption. However, after the party failed to bring in changes on coming to power in Delhi followed by the abrupt resignation of Kejriwal, the party lost many of its supporters, even in the virtual world, said a senior executive of an advertising network


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Seeing the Cubs win five straight is pretty remarkable, but pales in comparison to Troy Tulowitzki's month of September.
The guy's batting .394 with 35 RBI in his last 16 games.
That's nearly as many RBI as Kosuke Fukudome has all year (40)!
Tulo smacked two more homers Saturday giving him 14 in his last 15 contests, which ties the modern major league record set by Albert Belle (1995) & Barry Bonds (2001).
Perhaps the best explanation for Tulo's success is Carlos Ganzalez, the guy hitting in front of him.
If it wasn't for the Little Pony's .341 average and league leading 184 hits and 328 total bases, Tulowitzki wouldn't see anything to hit at all!
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Judge faces big decision in Carona case
It seems like no sooner did Andrew Guilford assume the federal bench then he drew perhaps the highest-profile trial in the history of Orange County's federal court. And now, during pretrial hearings of U.S. vs. Carona, he faces a decision that will, similarly, be among the most watched in the history of the federal bench here.
Specifically, he must decide whether to allow into evidence tapes of the wire Don Haidl wore while trying to elicit incriminating statements from Mike Carona.
I was in Guilford's courtroom at the Reagan Courthouse on Friday afternoon to witness the oral argument on this pivotal decision. Guilford, I think, is at heart, even more than a lawyer or a judge, a scholar. He relishes the Socratic debate - especially when he gets to be Socrates.
He peppered the lawyers with questions, going to the philosophical, the theoretical, the practical. There were moments it seemed he really was seeking resources and knowledge (such as when he asked a lawyer if he knew of any law review articles that went to the issue) and moments in which he wanted to make sure the lawyers had done their diligence - and to get on the record that he had done so as well.
This is nota typical evidence-suppression motion that gets argued all the time in state court over probable cause, search warrant or Miranda issues. The argument by Carona's lawyers is that the federal prosecutors violated a California State Bar rule that prohibits contact with a suspect when the prosecutors know he has a lawyer.
In this case, the argument goes, Haidl was an agent of the U.S. Attorney's Office when he wore the wire three times last summer. The feds knew Carona was represented by defense attorney Dean Steward. Among the statements captured on that tape is Carona saying that the government would never know about cash he allegedly took from Haidl unless there had been a "pinhole" camera hidden somewhere.
Complicating the pressure on Guilford is that in only one other criminal case in U.S. history has a federal judge ever suppressed evidence for this reason. This just doesn't come up very often, and there's not a lot to guide him. Also, as he pointed out Friday, his legal career was in civil law. Hey, I would tell him if we were sitting on his patio drinking scotch and cracking open peanuts, you're the one who wanted to be a big-shot judge.
Pivotal is a case called Taleo, in which a federal court established prosecutors would be in violation if a three-pronged test is met: 1) there's a pending investigation; 2) they know the suspect has a lawyer; and 3) there is an adversarial relationship between prosecutors and the lawyer.
The first two were met. As to the third, the Carona attorney who argued on Friday, John Cline, told Guilford that Steward was engaged in "a full-bore effort to dissuade the government from indicting his client" when the recordings were made.
Prosecutor Brett Sagel argued the test should not even be applied because the Haidl contacts were "overt" activities, not "covert." If you do get to the test, however, Sagel said, it fails it because Steward was not in a fully adversarial role with his office at that time.
He noted the hypocrisy of Carona arguing to suppress evidence similar to the type that, as sheriff, his deputies routinely built cases on. Also, he said, public-corruption cases are almost impossible to build without subterfuge.
Among the choices Guilford has: Deny the motion; grant it and throw out the tapes; agree the feds broke the rule but simply let the state bar decide whether to discipline the prosecutors; or hold a hearing to probe how deeply the prosecutors were involved in setting up the wire and how much they knew of Steward's involvement in the case.
Short of an outright suppression, Carona's team naturally wants the hearing. Not only would this give them a shot at getting the tapes tossed, but it would do what every defense lawyer wants: put the governmenton trial.
Cline told Guilford he would put Haidl and the prosecutors on the stand. It would be extraordinary.
I think Guilforddoes think the three-prong test applies because he corrected Sagel to say that while "the facts" in the Taleo case "are distinguishable, the three-prong test (is) still applicable." He also told him he had written a good brief but "I wanted to see more on the three-prong test." But where Guilford goes from there, I don't know. At that moment, I don't think he did either.
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Lesson 2 - Operating a CameraThis lesson will show that more than just pointing and clicking is required to take great pictures.
Lesson 3 - Types of FilmThis lesson will not only examine the different film types, and the type you should use, but it also will explain the differences between digital cameras and film cameras -- and reveal which one is actually better!
Lesson 4 - Aperture and Shutter SpeedsIn this lesson, we will take a more in-depth look at aperture and shutter speed, and their relationship to film exposure.
Lesson 5 - TTL Light MeterIn this lesson, we will take exposure one step further by looking more intently at metering.
Lesson 6 - Depth of FieldIn this lesson, we will explore depth of field. Every exposure setting has its own unique side effect, which can be used by the photographer to achieve specific creative goals.
Lesson 7 - Choosing LensesTypes of lenses and their impact on pictures, whether film or digital, are explained.
Lesson 8 - Lenses ContinuedIn this lesson, we will examine further the different types of lenses common to most professional cameras, and the lengths and angles that affect your image the most.
Lesson 9 - LightingThe importance of lighting for great picture-taking is discussed.
Lesson 10 - Lighting ContinuedIn this lesson, we will learn more about the different uses of daylight for your photography, the use of timing with daylight, and the various elements of natural light photography.
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Lesson 12 - FiltersIn this lesson, we will cover the various filters used in photography, including lens filters, color filters, skylight and UV filters, polarizing filters, and special effects filters.
Lesson 13 - Steady ShootingIn this lesson, we will cover key features to steady shooting, namely how to hold the camera; shutter speeds and lenses; and how to use a tripod and cable releases.
Lesson 14 - Digital vs. FilmThis lesson will focus on digital and film images, and the differences between them.
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- Determine how to choose appropriate lenses.
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- Demonstrate flash photography.
- Determine filter use with your camera.
- Summarize steady shooting techniques.
- Describe film and its use in the today's world.
- Determine enhancing photograph techniques.
- Demonstrate organizing picture techniques, and
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HONOLULU – Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato apologized Tuesday to the relatives of victims of the sunken Ehime Maru over Japan's failure to get assurances from U.S. officials that the ship will be raised.
|Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato talks at a Honolulu hotel with relatives of the nine Japanese missing from the sunken Ehime Maru.
The relatives of the nine feared dead called for a meeting with Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori to express their feelings in person and to ask for U.S. assurances that the ship will be raised. Their plea came during a meeting with the governor.
Kato said he would try to arrange the meeting.
The relatives also asked the prefectural government to aid the formation of a support network among the relatives of the nine people.
Kato arrived here earlier in the day together with Ehime Prefectural Assembly President Nagatoshi Tanimoto with the intention of asking U.S. officials directly to raise the ship.
"The prime minister and the foreign minister have taken every possible route in negotiating with the U.S. side, but I must apologize for our powerlessness in bringing about results in line with your expectations," Kato said.
Kato told reporters here that he was aiming to convey the feelings of his prefecture to those in charge of the U.S. military.
Ehime officials said Kato has told the Japanese Consulate General in Honolulu that he wants to meet with Adm. Dennis Blair, head of U.S. forces in the Pacific, and Adm. Thomas Fargo, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Navy continued to use two unmanned deep-sea submersibles to survey the Ehime Maru, which lies 600 meters down on the seabed.
"For the sake of the victims, I will strongly request (that the U.S. raise the ship)," Kato told reporters before leaving Japan.
The 499-ton training ship Ehime Maru, from Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture, went down after being struck by by the surfacing 6,080-ton USS Greeneville 18 km off Oahu Island.
Twenty-six of those on board were rescued, but the nine, including four high school students, are missing and presumed dead.
A group of Japanese experts left for Honolulu on Wednesday Japan time to assist U.S. efforts to recover the fishery training ship.
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Gov. Christine Gregoire today proposed spending $100 million to replace four aging Steel Electric Class ferries with three new boats.
She said $64 million would come from $350 million that had been set aside for construction of other boats, and $36 million would come from money appropriated for the Mukilteo ferry terminal.
The design and building of the boats will be on an expedited schedule. Gregoire said she hopes they could be built in 14 months.
She also announced that beginning today, the state will begin passenger-only ferry service between Port Townsend and Seattle. This service would run until early January and will offer four roundtrips a day.
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Pierce County has agreed to loan one of its boats to the Washington State Ferries, beginning in January, to resume car service between Keystone and Port Townsend.
"This was an emergency situation, and we're able to be of assistance," said Ron Klein, aide to Pierce County Executive John Ladenberg.
Under the arrangement, Washington State Ferries will have to provide an emergency backup boat for the Pierce County ferry, the 13-year-old Christine Anderson, and will pay an undetermined amount of money to lease the boat.
The lease funds will go to reduce ferry fares for Pierce County residents, Klein said.
Gregoire said there was really no other option than to replace the four 80-year-old Steel Electric boats, the Quinault, the Illahee, the Klickitat and the Nisqually.
On Monday, a Joint Transportation Committee made up of influential legislators recommended that the four Steel Electric ferries be scrapped, not fixed.
"Ferries are a simple extension of our roads," Gregoire said today. "It needs as much attention as any road or bridge." In fact, the Port Townsend to Keystone ferry is actually an extension of Highway 20, the North Cascades Highway.
The four Steel Electric boats were sidelined Nov. 20 when Transportation Secretary Paula Hammond determined the hulls were in such bad shape, with holes and pitting, she didn't feel comfortable keeping them on the water. Gregoire said she fully supported Hammond's move to pull the boats out of service.
The state had planned to fix at least three of the four ferries at a cost of about $4 million each. But late last week a further inspection of the Quinault, now in dry dock at Todd Shipyards, found more extensive pitting and corrosion than expected, driving up repair costs.
Ferry officials said that after peeling 70 percent of the ferry's paint, workers discovered nearly half of the boat's steel hull needed to be replaced.
That news prompted the legislators to recommend scrapping the boats.
Whidbey Island boatbuilder Matt Nichols has said he, with a consortium of two other boat builders, could build a new boat for Keystone in about a year for $20 million. He already built one for Pierce County, so he said he has a design.
But Gregoire said the new boats will be offered to any Washington shipyard. Elliott Bay Design, which designed the Pierce County boats, is being asked to come up with a design for the new state boats within two months, said Hammond. After that, there will be a four-week advertisement for bids for the new boats.
To build the new 54-car Keystone boats, Gregoire proposed to take $64 million from the nearly $350 million already approved to build four new 144-car ferries, and today she signed a contract with Todd Shipyard to build those boats. She said she didn't know if raiding the pot for the Steel Electrics would mean the state couldn't afford to build all four 144-car boats.
Meanwhile, the passenger ferry Snohomish, which was running between Port Townsend and Keystone, will instead run between Port Townsend and Seattle until early January. And the state contracted with a private operator, Puget Sound Express, from Port Townsend, to operate the Keystone passenger run.
The run to Seattle will take about an hour and a half, said ferry officials, and will cost the same as the Puget Sound passenger fare, or $6.70 roundtrip.
Mary Margaret Haugen, D-Camano Island, chairwoman of the Senate Transportation Committee, said she was pleased by the governor's decision. "We've just begun to address the real concern about our boats," she said. "The more we look, the more disturbed we get."
"I'm thrilled," added state Rep. Judy Clibborn, D-Mercer Island. "I compliment state transportation leaders for stepping up."
Now the state has to decide what to do with the old Steel Electric boats. The Quinault, now at Todd Shipyards, will have to be moved and will probably go to the ferry maintenance yard at Eagle Harbor until the state decides the four vessels' fate.
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Tofurky, a brand of Turtle Island Foods, now offers 100% Meat-Free Ground Beef. The products are made from organic soy protein and contain no GMOs. This vegan-friendly option comes in ground beef style and chorizo style. Tofurky says that the products are good for the environment, as well, resulting in significantly less carbon emissions than real beef.
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Yesterday, Todd English told Guest of a Guest that he thought Peruvian food might be the next big thing, and one person who would seem to agree is Bon Appétit's food editor, Andrew Knowlton, who has just relaunched the site's food blog with the name BA Foodist. Knowlton points out that the cuisine could use a prominent ambassador, asking, "Could Peruvian celebrity chef Gaston Acurio be the savior? Judging by the way the media (Eater SF, SF Chronicle, 7x7), are covering the opening of his first Stateside restaurant, La Mar Cebicheria Peruana, in San Francisco, it looks that way." But what good does that do New York? Knowlton lists his favorite Peruvian restaurants, but none of them are in our fair city. Todd English, it's on you.
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Source: Climate Home - Seven pilot schemes are swamped with pollution permits, analysts say, boding ill for national roll-out of mammoth climate policy
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Source: Climate Home - Smart grids, roll-up solar panels and wind offer safer forms of energy for troops in hostile environments, says worlds largest military alliance in annual report
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Source: Sydney Morning Herald - Insurance companies are shaping as the next battlefront in the local fossil fuels divestment fight.
Europe's recent summers were the 'warmest in 2,000 years'
Source: BBC - The past 30 years in Europe have likely been the warmest in more than two millennia, according to new research.
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Source: Huffington Post - The number of climate change refugees in Bangladesh is expected to increase dramatically in the coming decades.
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Source: UN News Centre - Less than two months after 196 parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the Paris Agreement, the global community is already seeing signs of it being a decisive turning point, according to a senior UN official dealing with climate issues.
La France à l'aube de sa transition énergétique
Source: La Tribune - En France, la COP s'est déroulée quelques mois après la promulgation de la loi Royal pour la transition énergétique et la croissance verte, et en pleine élaboration de sa nouvelle programmation pluriannuelle de l'énergie (PPE).
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Source: The National - The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has started discussions with companies interested in investing in Iran, but it could take between six and nine months to materialise.
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