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Wabash Valley Wine Trail
The Wabash Valley Wine Trail is made up of five wineries located in the southeastern part of the state. Visitors to this area can enjoy the scenic Wabash River Valley, historic towns, and quaint bed and breakfasts.
CITY: Lawrenceville
Jasper County Golf Club & Banquet Facility
Jasper County Golf Club & Banquet Facility is a premiere golf course. Tee times are also available for non-members.
CITY: Newton
Embarras River Canoeing
Spend the day canoeing and fishing on the Embarras River.
CITY: Lawrenceville
Newton Lake State Fish & Wildlife Area
This 1,775 acre lake features 540 acres of shoreline as a day use conservation area. Recreational activities include fishing, picnicking, hiking, horseback riding, cross-country skiing and hunting.
CITY: Newton
Lincoln Trail Memorial
This memorial commemorates the crossing of the Lincoln Family from Indiana to Illinois in early March of 1830.
CITY: Lawrenceville
Red Hills State Park
Located on Rt. 50 between Lawrenceville and Olney, this State Park features fishing, boating, hunting, hiking, horse trails and camping in a semi-secluded setting. This 950-acre site offers wooded hills, picturesque meadows, nature areas and an abundance of wildlife.
CITY: Sumner
Quail Creek Country Club & Resort
This 18-hole facility is a former PGA Tour site. Quail Creek also features a resort with several cabins for visitors to rent. Tee times are available for non-members.
CITY: Oblong
Deer Run Par 3 Golf Course
Open seasonally, this par 3 course is located in Washington Park.
CITY: Robinson
Lawrence County Country Club
This nine-hole facility is open seasonally, and offers tee times for non-members.
CITY: Lawrenceville
Prairie Ridge State Natural Area
Located southwest of Newton, Prairie Ridge is a wonderful site for observing rare species of grassland wildlife. Over 2500 acres, visitors will enjoy bird watching, nature study, photography and much more.
CITY: Newton
KOA Campground and Camper Sales
8-acre lake, some shade trees. 82 sites with three cabins, summer active.
CITY: Casey
Mid-America Air Center
The Air Center hosts many fly-ins and ultra-lights throughout the year.
CITY: Lawrenceville
Illinois Wildlife Connections
Located in rural Jasper County, northeast of Newton, Illinois Wildlife features a lodge for hunters during deer seasons and in the off-seasons hosting meetings, receptions and off-season lodging.
CITY: Newton
Oak Glen Country Club
This challenging 18-hole course is open year round, and features a clubhouse, driving range and tee times for non-members.
CITY: Robinson
Leaverton Park Campground
140 campsites get a workout each Labor Day weekend when the Palestine Rodeo comes to town.
CITY: Palestine
Bolin Enterprises, Inc World's Largest Wind Chimes
With chimes suspended nearly 50 feet above the ground, the BEI wind chime is a sight to behold! The longest of five chimes is 42 feet long-almost double that of the past world record holder. The chimes sing gentle and deep as they strike the clapper, long gleaming lengths paying tribute to BEI's expertise in the pipeline industry. Stick around to visit the tea shop opening next door!
CITY: Casey
Outdoor Sportsman's Lodge
Outdoor Sportsman's Lodge offers several packages for all individuals. Hunting, fishing, golfing or family getaways can be enjoyed in their luxurious cabins located Southwest of Newton.
CITY: Newton
Hickory Holler Campground
Located in West York, Crawford County, the campground features 100 camping sites with many nearby activities.
CITY: West York
Crawford County State Fish & Wildlife Area
Located 2 miles southwest of Hutsonville, on Rt. 1, this park features 1,129 acres for hunting with 9 ponds for fishing. Hiking and horseback trails run throughout the area.
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Charity Navigator Now Provides Basic Information for all 1.6 Million U.S. Registered Nonprofits
April 1, 2013 -- Charity Navigator?s website has expanded to include all 1.6 million nonprofits that have registered with the Internal Revenue Service.Reduce Your Tax Bill
March 1, 2013 -- People give to charity for many heartfelt, altruistic reasons. But as evident by the surge in online gifts flowing through our site on December 31st,20 New Charities Added Thanks to Hobbs Foundation Funding
February 1, 2013 -- Individual donors and grantmaking organizations can find trusted analytical information on many of the South's best-known charities serving theIntroducing Results Reporting: The Third Dimension of Intelligent Giving
January 23, 2013 -- Charity Navigator announces the launch of CN 3.0 - an effective tool for measuring Results Reporting.What to Do When Disaster Strikes
January 1, 2013 -- Americans are generous and eager to help their neighbors in a crisis - whether those neighbors are next door, across the country, or on the opposite side of the...Charity Navigator and Groupon Grassroots? What a Deal!!
December 5, 2012 -- Groupon Grassroots Fans Help Us Rate More CharitiesWatch Our Webinar: Top 10 Things You Need To Know About Charity Navigator
April 20, 2012 -- Whether you are new to Charity Navigator or you've been a user of our site since we launched on April 15, 2002, this webinar recording will teach you somethingBillions of Dollars Donated by Millions of Users
April 4, 2012 -- Charity Navigator is estimated to be influencing billions of dollars (between 5 and 10 billion at last count) of charitable gifts each year provided by over 3 million unique4-Star Rating Promoted in Wall Street Journal Prompts Donor to Fine-Tune Charitable Contributions
March 1, 2012 -- Marcia W., a lifelong donor who resides in Sarasota, FL, said she "got serious" about responsible giving in the late 1990s, when she retired from a long career asCharity Navigator's Webinar
December 6, 2011 -- On December 1, Charity Navigator held it s very first webinar. Hosted by our President & CEO, Ken Berger, the webinar focused on how you can ensure your charitableYear-End Giving Trends
November 1, 2011 -- We recently invited donors and charities to take part in a survey about year-end giving trends for 2011. Via this survey, we also sought to gain a better understandingManaging to Outcomes
August 1, 2011 -- This past June, Charity Navigator and the NYU Wagner Research Center for Leadership in Action, with funding from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and Liquidnet, co-hosted a Forum.Foreword To The Nonprofit Outcomes Toolbox
May 1, 2011 -- The Nonprofit Outcomes Toolbox could not have come out at a better time. We are at the beginning of a tipping point in the nonprofit sector in the U.S. and theRecession Prompts Changes to Scoring for Certain Types of Charities
November 24, 2010 -- From the start, Charity Navigator's methodology was designed to be both objective and fair. As such, when the data has dictated, we have established different performance benchmarks for the differentCharity Navigator Expands Rating Methodology
July 1, 2010 -- A major step forward in our efforts to revamp our rating system occurred on July 1st. We went live with the Accountability and Transparency methodology,Predictions Past (2009) and Future (2010)
April 1, 2010 -- As we arrive at the 8th anniversary of the launch of our web site on April 15 2002, it is time once again to have a look at the past year and look forward to the year(s) to come.How CFC Charities Stack Up
October 1, 2009 -- The government's charity drive, know as the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), encourages federal civilian employees, members of the military, and U.S. Postal Service to pledge their financial support to charity.Nonprofit CEOs Recognize Peers' Achievements
October 1, 2009 -- At Charity Navigator, it is our goal to advance a more efficient philanthropic marketplace, in which givers and the charities they support work in tandem to overcome our nation's...The Past and The Future
April 1, 2009 -- On the anniversary of the launching of our web site, it has been a tradition for us to either reflect back on the past year or forward on the year(s) to come. This year, I will do both.State Charity Reports: How Much Donor Money is Wasted in Your State?
March 1, 2009 -- Find out which state attorneys general are tracking how much professional fundraisers keep for themselves and what percentage of your donation actually reaches the charity to which it is intended.Charity Navigator's Year-End Giving Survey
December 17, 2008 -- We recently invited all of the 5,300 charities on our site to take part in a survey about the importance of year-end giving.Roundtable: Charity Leaders Discuss the Economy, the Importance of Year-End Giving and Fundraising Strategies
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September 24, 2008 -- As the new school year gets underway, the first item on every teacher's agenda is to determine what knowledge her students have retained over the summer. This inspired us toRoundtable Discussion: Charity Leaders Speak Out About CEO Compensation, Special Events and the Economy's Impact on Giving
July 1, 2008 -- Read on to find out what charity leaders had to say about CEO compensation, special events, the new Form 990 and how the economy and presidential campaign are impacting contributions.Milestones in Philanthropy
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March 31, 2008 -- Americans are remarkably charitable. But what sorts of people give the most? And how do we compare with the Europeans?CFC Contributors Beware
October 3, 2007 -- For many efficient and effective charities, the Combined Federal Campaign is a critical source of funding. It is important that federal employees give generously, but it is equally important that they take the time to research the charities they are considering supporting.Charity Navigator Supports Proposed Changes to the Form 990
July 1, 2007 -- We commend the Internal Revenue Service on the landmark redesign draft of the Form 990, which properly offers charitable donors a wealth of new information on the financial, operational and governing practices of public charities.Five Charity Myths Dispelled
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July 1, 2007 -- Charity Navigator organized a roundtable discussion among the leaders of several smaller charities to give them the opportunity to share their unique point of view.The Next Five
April 2, 2007 -- On this fifth anniversary of Charity Navigator, it seems obvious that the non-profit world has changed dramatically in those five years since we launched our service and our website.Five Great Ways To Teach Your Child About Philanthropy
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December 7, 2005 -- In the spring of 2002, we launched our website with data-driven ratings of 1,115 of America's largest charities. Today we offer 5,000 charity evaluations...Supporting America's Heroes- How to Select a Police, Firefighters or Veterans Charity
November 10, 2005 -- The brave response by police and firefighters to the tragic terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 reminded Americans of the invaluable service these courageous men and women provide to our communities.Government Funding for Charities: When it declines, the charities lose twice
May 1, 2005 -- We all know that charities receive their funding from multiple sources. The majority of contributions come from individuals; foundations and corporations also give significant amounts to nonprofits each year. What most of us don't realize is that another considerable source are taxpayer dollars, or government funding. While overall it represents a small percentage of a charity's contributed income, government funding is a generally reliable source that is typically renewed each year, or even increased. However, in recent years this funding has become less and less predictable.Swing and a Miss: Charities, like Baseball, Strike Out
April 1, 2005 -- In light of recent news, I am struck by the similarities between Major League Baseball and America's nonprofit sector. In the mainstream public consciousness, the two could obviously not be more different. One, despite being merely a game, dominates the front page of America's newspapers. The other, even though it is not only a cornerstone of the American economy but a provider of services that often make the difference between life and death, is relegated to the trade journals.Hunting for Cause Related Marketing's Charitable Impact
June 1, 2004 -- Pink breast cancer ribbons appear on just about everything these days--from kitchen appliances, to shoes, to makeup, to candy. Affinity credit cards declare our personal charitable interests by allowing consumers to direct a percentage of their purchases to charity. And some charities' identities, like the Ronald McDonald House, are synonymous with the firms that support their endeavors. All of these represent examples of cause-related marketing. Simply put--it is a partnership in which a charity and for-profit organization work together to promote a product or service for mutual benefit.Two Years of Navigating Charities
April 1, 2004 -- This month, we celebrate our second anniversary by evaluating our 3,000th charity, and we have much of which to be proud. We feel that donors are better off than they were before we were created, and that the philanthropic marketplace has been advanced. In the year ahead, we know we have a ton of work to do, as Charity Navigator is far from a finished product. We hope to add individual charity input, user feedback from those served by the charities, and some programmatic measurements. But before we move on to those tasks, it seemed like a good time to reflect on what we have learned so far.Not All Charities Are Equal...
February 2, 2004 -- Since Charity Navigator was founded in April of 2001, our analysts have reviewed over 16,000 financial documents of America's non-profit organizations. The information we've extrapolated from those documents is used to generate the nearly 3,000 unbiased charity evaluations available for free on our web site.Charity Navigator Influences Half A Billion Dollars In Giving
January 1, 2004 -- In the past 12 months, a large segment of America's charitable donors have utilized Charity Navigator's financial evaluations to guide their giving. It is generally believed that users of www.charitynavigator.org contributed half a billion dollars to charity.When It Comes To Support From The General Public, Many Arts Charities Under-Perform
August 4, 2003 -- After a decade of prosperity and relatively effortless fundraising, arts-related charities are faced with a new fundraising reality, and because of their unique funding strategies, have been hit harder than most charities.Time for Charities to Face the Facts: Efficiency Matters
June 1, 2003 -- If America's charities are left to their own devices, they will not find ways to operate more efficiently. Why not? Because leaders of America's charities and foundations don't believe efficiency matters. And as a result, we all lose.Charity Navigator After Year One
April 15, 2003 -- We launched our non-profit organization, Charity Navigator one year ago, on April 15, 2002. At the time, our intentions were very simple. We wanted to introduce unbiased data-analysis and evaluation to the charitable sector. We recognized that billions of dollars were flowing through charities, and that in our opinion, most of it was despite the kind of data-driven, consumer-focused ratings that are pervasive in every other sector of the American economy. So, in the interest of consumer advocacy, with a secondary goal of promoting transparency and accountability in a sector that desperately needed it to restore consumer confidence amid much cynicism and skepticism, we unveiled Charity Navigator for America's charitable givers.Charities, Donors, and the First Amendment
March 22, 2003 -- An upcoming Supreme Court case is the talk of the town among charities, their fundraisers, and the regulators and watchdogs responsible for monitoring their activity. The talk, mostly among insiders, is polite and the problem debated all-too-familiar. What do we do about charities that spend "too much" of our money on fundraising?Why Does Our Government Ignore Charities?
October 14, 2002 -- Our government, from the White House to the State Houses, has not done an effective job of regulating America's charities. And this is a recipe for a disaster.Evaluating Charities: Why the Numbers Count
April 15, 2002 -- Americans use numbers and data to make decisions in every aspect of their lives. As investors, shoppers, diners, and travelers, we access scores, ratings and polls to decide where we live, what we buy, what we eat, and where we travel. In evaluating charities, the numbers count just as much. We should use financial analysis to evaluate charities. Doing so will show us which charities to support, will teach us more about how charities work, will help charities find ways to improve, and will help us become better givers.


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Bere Island, Co. Cork, Ireland: 17-24 April
Led by Laurence Freeman OSB
Holy Week is the final run-up after Lent to the climax of the Christian year, the great Triduum opened on Holy Thursday, of Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday. These days draw us in to the mystery of Christ, experientially and by deep reflection on the story of these days where suffering and death explode into the joy of the Resurrection.
We will again be entering into these holy days contemplatively in the beauty and peace of Bere Island. Fr Laurence will lead the retreat and celebrate the liturgies in the island church with retreatants and islanders. Participants gather at the Heritage Centre daily for a talk, meditation and discussion and other events are scheduled and recommendations made days to enhance the preparation for the celebration.
Retreat Schedule:
A detailed Daily Schedule will be given on arrival. There will be yoga each morning at the Heritage centre followed by a talk by Fr Laurence and meditation. There will be a common evening meditation also.
Palm Sunday (17th) opens the retreat with a liturgy in the church at 10.15 am followed by a midday talk and meditation at the Centre. The Mass of the Lord's Supper will be on Thursday at 6pm. The Good Friday service will be at 3pm. The Easter Vigil will begin at 10.00 pm. At dawn on Easter Morning those who wish will assemble by the Standing Stone in the centre of the island. There will be Mass of Easter morning at 10.15 am. The retreat will conclude at the Centre at noon with a final talk and meditation.
Registration, Accommodation and Travel
The registration fee is 25 Euro (or equivalent) payable by cheque to "WCCM" and sent to the Heritage Centre, Bere Island, Castletownbere, Co Cork, Ireland – or – online through the Donations link on www.wccm.org.
Full participation at the retreat is recommended and early reservations is necessary. Participants will be responsible for their own accommodation and travel although advice and assistance is offered with these:
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Lymphedema can be caused by surgery, breast cancer, radiation, and even injury, but sometimes the cause is unknown.
"There'd be days I come home and couldn't put on pants. Not because I couldn't button, but I couldn't get them around my legs," said Timothy Delello, a lymphedema patient.
For years, Delello suffered from swollen, painful legs, elephantiasis, cellulitis, sores, and infections.
"The infection was creeping up to my thigh, and they actually had lines where they were going to cut my legs off," explained Delello.
Since 2005, he was treated for congestive heart failure.
He added, "My mom had it, they said I have it, this is life. They said you don't have congestive heart failure, what you got is called lymphedema, and I said, what is that?"
Lymphedema is the swelling of localized tissue caused by damaged or blocked lymphatic vessels, lymph fluid than backs up, causing extremely painful swelling.
"I was suicidal, I felt suicidal," said Delello.
The treatment of lymphedema is mostly physical therapy. Gentle massage is used to stimulate the lymphatic system, it is called complete decongestive therapy.
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Sub-Saharan Africa, Caribbean and Pacific
African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACPs) / Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs)
The EIB, the EU's house bank, has been an active development partner of the ACP countries and OCTs since 1963 and 1968 respectively.
Since 2003, the EIB operates in these regions under the ACP-EC Partnership Agreement and the Overseas Association Decision. Financing under these frameworks is provided from EU Member States' budgets- the European Development Fund, alongside EIB own resources, which the Bank manages on a broadly self-financing basis by borrowing on the capital markets.
Within these frameworks, the EIB is entrusted with the management of the Investment Facility, a revolving fund which meets the financing needs of investment projects in the regions with a broad range of flexible risk-bearing instruments.
The EIB's overriding aim in the ACP and OCT regions is to support projects that deliver sustainable economic, social and environmental benefits. The EIB concentrates its efforts on fostering private sector-led initiatives that promote economic growth and have a positive impact on the wider community and region. It also supports public sector projects, typically in infrastructure, that are critical for private sector development and the creation of a competitive business environment.
Republic of South Africa (RSA)
The EIB has been active in South Africa since its transition to a democratic government in 1994. Although South Africa is an associate member of the EU-ACP conventions, EIB financing is provided under a separate mandate: the Trade, Cooperation and Development Agreement.
The EIB's strategy in South Africa fully supports the European Union's assistance policies, programmes and instruments by focusing on infrastructure projects of public interest and private sector support, including small and medium size enterprises. This is achieved by promoting equitable and sustainable economic growth, modernising the South African economy while contributing to employment creation, innovation, and capacity development.
Supporting microfinance in Kenya
The EIB has a long track record in microfinance both within and outside the European Union. It supports leading microfinance providers (MFIs), fund providers and stakeholders in increasing access to funding for micro and small-sized enterprises. The Bank's most significant microfinance involvement is in Sub-Saharan Africa in countries such as Kenya where we aim at maximizing development impact in urban and rural regions as shown in this video.


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Contagion (2011) – Analysis
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By: Jay
I saw Contagion with a theater full of baby-boomers and senior citizens who frequently commented throughout how realistic and scary Contagion was. I had to snicker at this. Contagion is like a remake of Outbreak, and Outbreak is awful. Outbreak is worse than the worst episode of the A-Team, minus the captivating dialogue. Contagion isn't much better, aside from the good acting with the all-star lineup. The entire film is like watching a public service announcement for government vaccines: something they would make you watch in high school. It's total fear propaganda – the only thing contagious is the fear spread by the film. I'm reminded of the "H1N1″ scare of a few years back, where the system told us we were all dead. And what happened? Nothing. Only the weakest minded, most oblivious fools still thinks the system loves the public and has its best interest at heart.
Connections are made in the film to SARS, which was an engineered bio release, and as I watched, I immediately thought of V for Vendetta, where a planned bio-release kills thousands of Catholics. Recently, the BBC did a show called Survivors that was well done along the same lines, where a pharmaceutical corporation allows a bio-release to get out, killing 95% of the population. In fact, the BBC pops up in the film, as well as CNN's Sanjay Gupta. This should tell you who's on the inside in terms of mass media. I'm reminded as well of The Stand, The Passage, and a host of other Zombie films. We seem to have an apocalyptic fascination in Amerika. In fact, the "virus" in Contagion is a pig-bat-bird mutation that kills within 24 hours. Read more of this post


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[above: Still of Lady Gaga in "Paparazzi" 2009]
In a truly fascinating interview, which should settle the question as to "how not dumb is Lady Gaga," the artist cites Princess Diana as an inspiration for her "Paparazzi" music video:
This song is not really about loving the camera. This song is about something much more dangerous. It's about fame-whoring and seduction, but it's also about social death. Diana, in truth, is the most devastating and iconic martyr of fame. That woman died because of her fame.To drive her point home, Gaga describes how she layered knife stabbing noises into the audio track of the video beneath the sound of flashbulbs popping. The idea that "Paparazzi" is a commentary on social death within mediatic society isn't that much of a stretch, considering that the rest of the video portrays a mansion littered with the corpses of dead domestic servants, inter-cut with shots of $100 bills marked "United States of Lady Gaga," diamond tiaras, pearls and other expensive-looking bits and bobs. I can't shake the feeling that when Gaga insists she is an artist interested in making "pop music" that her use of the term "pop" is far closer to Andy Warhol than her casual references to the artist -- inventor of the concept of "superstars" as well as that of the "15 minutes of fame" -- as a source of inspiration may seem.
Gaga has even made her own video "Manifesto of Little Monster" (a term she reserves for her fans) dated 12/18/1974, whose reference, as far as I can tell, might be to the establishment of the World Intellectual Property Organization as a separate agency of the UN...
All of this begins to pose some disturbing problems for anyone seeking to understand the cultural climate of the Great Recession and late capitalism more generally. What is the link between fame-whoring, seduction, image consumption and social death in mediatic societies? And how is all this linked to Lady Gaga's own rise to fame? If Mike Davis and others have begun to cognitively map the contours of social immisseration that have been generated by late capitalism in periurban zones, how do we begin to represent the form of social death taking place within the advanced capitalist core?
What follows is an attempt to trace a genealogy of what I consider to be détornements of Marx's general law of capitalist accumulation -- or so-called immiseration thesis, which connects human sacrifice to capital's tendency to accumulate surplus in the figure of the terrifying god Moloch -- which begins with Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis, is pantomimed by David Bowie during his visit to Warhol's Factory in 1971, picked up by Queen's 1984 video "Radio Ga Ga," influences Madonna's concept for "Express Yourself" in 1990, and culminates in Lady Gaga's media performance art of the last few years. I will argue that the trope of Moloch as an alienating social death machine -- so iconic in Metropolis, and so much more compelling than zombie and vampire tropes, as a representational figure of capital accumulation -- returns to haunt the postmodern imaginary as a symptom of our encagement within an impersonal global economic system and collective social death during the long downturn of these last four decades of capitalism.
Metropolis and the General Law
[Above: screen shot from Metropolis (dir. Fritz Lang, 1927)]
"The 'House of Terror' for paupers, only dreamed of by the capitalist mind in 1770, was brought into being a few years later in the shape of a gigantic 'workhouse' for the industrial worker himself. It was called the factory. And this time the ideal was a pale shadow compared with the reality" (Karl Marx, Capital Vol. 1, 339).In the course of a mere sixty-three years, the 1770 vision of one capitalist dreamer for an ideal prison workhouse for the poor in which adults would be forced to toil for an inhuman 12 hours a day, would quickly become a terrifying reality in England. In 1833, Parliament reduced the working day for children of 13-18 to a mere 12 hours. Thus, "House of Terror" becomes factory. Punishment, labor. And workers are now subject to the rhythms of an 'infernal machine'.
After analyzing the struggle over the working day, and the resulting development of more efficient forces of production (through cooperation, technological advances, discipline, etc), Marx tackles the central contradiction at the heart of capital's laws of motion, its general law of accumulation:
"It follows therefore that in proportion as capital accumulates, the situation of the worker, be his payment high or low, must grow worse [...] It makes an accumulation of misery a necessary condition, corresponding to the accumulation of wealth. Accumulation of wealth at one pole is therefore at the same time accumulation of misery, the torment of labour, slavery, ignorance, brutalization and moral degradation at the opposite pole, i.e. on the side of the class that produces its own product as capital" (ibid, 799).This is not the place for a lengthy discussion of the "general law" -- some friends and comrades are publishing that in the next issue of Endnotes, which will be a must-read piece -- which fell out of favor during the 20th century as Marxists and commentaries tended to dismiss it as an "immiseration thesis" that had not been empirically demonstrated throughout the development of capitalism. It should suffice to say that Marx was making an argument about the long-term dynamics of capitalism, whose tendency is to create unemployment. In the period since the 1970s, the general law has come back with a vengeance. Current underemployment figures are in the double digits in the US and across Europe; periurban slums grow on the peripheries of cities throughout the world. But how do we represent the accumulation of forms of misery on one pole and capital surplus on the other that are unique to the crises that beset late capitalism? What are the contours shaping this new form of social death?
In Fritz Lang's expressionist masterpiece Metropolis, a city split between rich above-ground industrialists and subterranean workers quarters, the young prince autocrat of the city, Freder, stumbles upon a violent explosion of the city's power station, the M-Machine -- we may as well call it the M-C-M' Machine-- which kills several of the workers. Horrified, he envisions in the fantastic art deco curves of the M-Machine the face of pagan god Moloch, swallowing line after line of workers into his infernal belly.
With the supercession of the industrial age of classical capitalism by some new postmodern or late capitalist mode of production, it has become increasingly difficult to represent the general law of accumulation in such a vivid, figural way. To represent the totality of capitalism -- the new form of M-C-M' -- as "machine" or "system" seems like a hyperbole of the '60s and a throwback to classical capitalism. The concept of the metropolis (which I have commented upon in relation to Agamben and Tiqqun here, and in relation to Fredric Jameson's project here) captures some of the the spatial dynamics of late capitalism, but it lacks a figuration of human sacrifice, misery, brutalization. While I'm generally inclined towards theoretical anti-humanism, I think this requires that we understand, historically, the forms of brutality that are internal to the humanist project. It strikes me that a sort of schizophrenic or manic-depressive mood-structure is one starting point for understanding the new "de-centered subject" of postmodernity (and I have written about this in relation to black sites), but this account hasn't yet been given a collective valance because our society tends to individualize psychological states as a collection of personal symptoms and pathologies. Culture frequently presents us with visions and tropes of world apocalypse, which seem more like symptoms of some unrepresentable form of social death and encagement rather than attempts to figure that social death rigorously.
A Video Genealogy of "GaGa"
1971 -- Andy Warhol Meets David Bowie
Our video genealogy of what I will call "GAGA" -- not to be confused with the Lady herself, but which I will consider to be a more general figure of collective social death and projections of the future of which Lady Gaga is the most recent synthesis -- begins with Andy Warhol. Or rather, it begins with a certain visit that a young David Bowie paid to the pop artist's Factory in September of 1971, after the release of his album Hunky Dory which contains a send up to the social reality of advertising, fame and mediatic society Warhol exposed in his silk screens and films.
Notice how Warhol jumps at the end when someone points a rolled up piece of paper to him. Radical lesbian feminist Valerie Solanas shot Warhol in 1968, for exerting too "strong" of an influence over her, and the artist was notoriously jumpy until the end of his life. She apparently presented him with a script for a play she had written titled Up Your Ass, to which Warhol reportedly responded, paging through "Oh yeah, this is great! Have you ever thought of becoming a typist?" Solanas was in and out of mental institutions for the rest of her life, and perhaps mistook Warhol for the media culture of which he was a reflection, but she managed to write an epic manifesto of her own
Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex. It is now technically feasible to reproduce without the aid of males (or, for that matter, females) and to produce only females. We must begin immediately to do so... The male is a biological accident (SCUM Manifesto, Verso imprint, 35).Needless to say it was Bowie who best captured the Warholian problems unleashed by mediatic society and the disturbing reality of Warhol's prophesy that "in the future everyone will have 15 minutes of fame," with his lines "Put a peephole in my brain / Two New Pence to have a go / I'd like to be a gallery / Put you all inside my show."
As many have noted, developments such as YouTube, reality television and cable news, are the most conspicuous evidence that we have all been put inside Warhol's show. This image of Bowie splitting open his torso in The Factory, disembowling himself for the camera, and pulling out his beating heart is striking, not to mention the strange routine in which he pantomimes the third wall of the cinema and portrays it closing in around him. The gesture is without a doubt a figuration of the exposure and human sacrifice which celebrity culture and media society has become. Have we really become latter-day Aztecs, creating luminous gods out of our slaves, throwing our surplus at their feet as we objectify them, only to destroy them on television for all the world to see?
1984 -- "Radio Ga Ga" and the advent of the PC
In January of 1984, Apple introduced its Macintosh computer to the world during a commercial which was aired once during the Superbowl. The Macintosh would become the first commercially successful personal computer with a mouse and graphic user interface, replacing the inhuman command line interface which had predominated until that point. The commercial was directed by Ridley Scott, whose visions of the future had previously included 1979's Alien and 1982's Blade Runner. The visual and graphic citations of Metropolis are chilling.
Apple's "1984" spectacular smashing of the silver screen with the power of personal computing is doubtlessly an attack on the Soviets. The talking head on the screen says: "We have created for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth." But there is an ambiguity to the advertisement which seems to also question the prevailing ideology of corporatism, where the heterogeneity of market competition under capitalism threatens to flip into its opposite number, complete homogeneity. When Apple resurrected the commercial in 2004 on the 20th anniversary of the Macintosh, by digitally inserting an iPod, and its now ubiquitous earbuds, onto the heroine, this attack of the underdog upon IBM took on another valance. After the fall of the Soviet Union and the loss of any alternative to consumer society, one can't help but notice that the apparent heroine of market competition and the Big Brother of corporate control have become flip sides of the same "garden of pure ideology."
An analysis by Fredric Jameson of our post-Cold War ideology comes to mind. He writes in Seeds of Time that
our conceptual exhibit comes more sharply into view when we begin to ask ourselves how it is possible for the most standardized and uniform social reality in history, by the merest ideological flick of the thumbnail, the most imperceptible of displacements, to reemerge as the rich oil-smear sheen of absolute diversity and of the most unimaginable and unclassifiable forms of human freedom (32).But there is another video from this year which attempts to recon with the transition from spoken and written language to the new postmodern dominance of video technology. Queen's "Radio Ga Ga" begins with intercut scenes of World War II destruction and a family listening to its radio and ends on a particularly sinister note: masses bow to a new figure of M-Machine complete with a blinking disco clock sans numéros, all while the metropolis around it and the worker's quarters are destroyed. The video dialectically combines a Utopian longing for a post-industrial future (or present) along with a terrifying new form of domination: the immolation of the word, in a society of the image and entertainment.
1990 -- Madonna Urges you to "Express Yourself"
Directed by David Fincher and with a price tag over $5M, "Express Yourself" was the most expensive music video ever made at the time. The Material Girl polices her intellectual property with an iron fist though, so I can't post the video. You can see it here.
Madonna envisions herself in the world of Metropolis as the rich wife of a cold industrialist with whom she has become disenchanted. Scenes of hunky rough trade performing meaningless manual tasks are inter-cut with the star sulking around her luxurious apartment with a pussy cat.
Championed as a song about "pussy power" and accompanied by a moralizing epigraph cribbed from Metropolis "Without the heart, there can be no understanding between the hand and the mind," Madonna preaches her lesson on love: "What you need is a big strong hand / To lift you to your higher ground / Make you feel like a queen on the throne." The material girl sings that "You don't need diamond rings." What we need is more personal and sexual expression of the self.
But what this disaffected lady of the house really needs is a nice piece of rough trade, a hunky man from the worker's quarters to heat up her cold bourgeois love life. So she sends her pussy cat down into the depths of the machine to hunt one down for her while her husband is away. In a sequence that has been hailed as an "empowering" act of gender-bending, Madonna appears, wearing her husband's clothes (complete with his monacle) to dance on the steps of the M-Machine, grabbing her crotch, and giving the distinct impression that what she means by heart and woman power is using a position of wealth to recruit fuck buddies from her husband's empty gesture factory. An icon of media and advertising might, Madonna fancies herself the industrialist of love, exploiting the sexual desire of the masses rather than their labor power.
Filmed one year after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the dialectical ambivalence of the imagery from Metropolis is spectacularly resolved in "Express Yourself." Gone are the Utopian longings and dark visions of Queen's "Radio Ga Ga" or Apple's "1984." Industrial work has become a sort of empty gesture. Sexuality has replaced the factory as the icon of capital accumulation; fucking replaces labor, and the contradictions of capital are thought to be resolved by diverse expressions of sexual desire. The following year at a conference in UC Santa Cruz, Theresa de Laurentis will coin the term "queer theory" to express this new paradigm of thought, and the "plasticity" of Madonna's gender performances will be analyzed by successive generations of "queer theorists" as "subversive." However, if there is anything gender-bending about this performance it is that Madonna seems to suggest that women have an important role in perfecting capitalism: they can resolve the contradictions attending the division of labor (hand and mind) with a new affective economy of desire (heart). Above all, Madonna's "Express Yourself" is an allegory of Francis Fukuyama's "End of History" thesis, first published as an article in 1989.
"What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold war, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government."We may as well designate this thing that we have been tracing, this series of late capitalist détournements of the M-Machine GAGA, which would figure some new form of social death in which, without a sense of history, there can no longer be a projection of any alternate future. Without language, the social link has unraveled. An economy of affective labour powered by cybernetics and communications technology replaces an older mode of production and both sexuality and emotions (or mood structures) are colonized by capital, which begins to reproduce itself through our very psychological and affective makeup.
Mama, Papa, Goo-goo GAGA
[Above: Lady Gaga falling to her death in "Paparazzi"]
I think that this blog post about "Lady Gaga's Lesbian Phallus" is correct in its argument that "postmodern feminism" is basically the prevailing ideology of contemporary culture, its characterization of the collective infatuation with the Lady's genitalia as symptomatic, and that a psychoanalytic reading of Lady Gaga is an interesting take. I also think the post is pretty much full of incoherent psychobabble. It is also not clear to me how Lady Gaga's music video for "Telephone" and the joke about her not having a penis "can subvert the morphological imagination of the dominant heterosexual order, by upsetting the gender (and racial) hierarchy that are still very much with us." Isn't the predominant order precisely one of subversion? In what way does this apparent "upsetting" make the jump from Symbolic to the Imaginary? Is this a real subversion or an imaginary one? What is the value of imaginary "subversion"? How is Butler's theorization of a lesbian phallus *not* penis envy? Or rather, how is penis envy a parody of the non-existence of the phallus which is itself already a sort of dialectic between presence and absence? Lacan and Freud both thought that showing up the absence of the phallus was the discourse of the hysteric. So it isn't clear to me how we distinguish Butler's "parody" from a generalized hysterical relation to psychoanalysis itself. It's also strange to invoke psychoanalysis in relation to this video without discussing the concept of jouissance -- after all Gaga and Beyoncé poison a restaurant full of people and then perform a dance number around their corpses -- and without an analysis of the deliberate castration of male speech "Sorry; I cannot hear you / I'm kinda busy" and "Stop callin' Stop callin' / I don't wanna talk anymore." Gaga and Beyoncé force B's beau, Tyrese Gibson, to speak through txt message subtitles. If anything is being cut off in this song, it is the human voice and the signifying function of language itself, which is chopped up, spliced into repetitive sequences and carefully deformed into scripted lines so clichéd they're hillarious.
One should also point out the racial politics of this new narrative from Gaga and Beyoncé about social death. It is the black male who is destroyed by the media machine and the transition to a new affective economy. March was the worst month for job losses, but black men have suffered from an enormously disproportionate rate of job loss. An American Progress report notes:
What's more, the recession overall has hit men much harder than women—so far, four out of every five jobs lost has been held by a male worker. Black men lead the unemployment surge, with an unemployment rate of 15.4 percent. This comes as a result of a range of barriers to employment, including disproportionate employment in vulnerable industries and labor market discrimination. Over a third of young black men ages 16 to 19 in the labor market are unemployed. In fact, a recent report found that 8 percent of black men have lost their jobs since November 2007.We could also ask how this narrative of social death in "Telephone" is a sort of cultural commentary on the world war in the Congo which has been raging for the past 25 years and has killed well over 5 million people and led to the rape of many women. This is essentially an anarchic resource war for the minerals which make up the essential components of every cell phone. Is Gaga mounting slipping a cryptic critique of the industry into a music video and concert tour sponsored by Virgin Mobil? Perhaps. But it strikes me that the racial death narrative of this film is too strong to deny.
In fact, Tavia's post is profoundly symptomatic of what I take to be Lacan's central insight into the vanishing conditions of possibility for the practice of psychoanalysis and the "talking cure" under late capitalism. It is something that Lacan called "lalangue" and "linguistricks" which he used to mark the transition from a society structured by master signifiers and paternal authority to one with a more permissive attitude, a transition inaugrated by the 1960s in which reflexive identity games and lifestyle politics predominate. A transition in the exercise of social power from the "No" of the father to the "Enjoy" or "Express Yourself" of postmodernity. Gopal Balakrishnan puts this very succinctly in his article on Lacan for the journal Lana Turner. He writes
The hegemontic sentences of Communism, the Nation, and the Master Race have faded away. What emerges from below are the slavish counterparts, fantasies that no longer need to be bound into a coherent symbolic edifice. Operating below the level of meaning, these buzz words of the spectacle connect strands of coded babble around "issues." This has become the primary mode of social integration today. Lacan sought to identify the repeated letters in the code of these circulating fragments of enjoyment. At this level of communications, the signifier has been parasitized by another kind of unit, bytes of nonsense to which the subject is half-wittingly, though passionately, attached. The end of ideologies brings with it the viral colonization of the psyche by memes: "you may" and "enjoy" but also perhaps "be different," "just do it," "change." According to Zizek, all this is resulting in radical alterations in the order of human things -- or perhaps it is simply disclosing what always already was: "a passive empty medium infected by affect-laden cultural elements which, like contagious bacilli, spread from one individual to another...The only struggle is between the good and bad infections." ("Zizek's Lacan: What is Truth" Lana Turner, 153-154).So what does any of this have to do with Lady Gaga? We might begin by asking how her music is so infectious. How does she fit into this set of figural depictions of Marx's immiseration thesis?
[Above: Lady Gaga crippled dance sequence in "Paparazzi" (2009)]
[Left: Femme bot from Metropolis]
It's easy to see how Lady Gaga has solicited so much breathless excitement from everyone, myself included. Sure her videos are slick, she's a smart writer with a knack for writing hooks and concocting infectious beats. She makes an almost encyclopedic amount of references to pop culture which makes people feel like they have cultural caché for pointing them out. She wears amazingly imaginative and ridiculous outfits, interviews like Andy Warhol etc etc etc.
But Lady Gaga is something of an adept practitioner of what we have identified as lalangue. She seems to subvert authority and exude self reflexivity at every turn with a nod and a wink, as if she knows that you want to transgress along with her. But unlike those who think her performance is "subversive" or "transgressive," she knows that there is no longer anything to symbolically transgress. GAGA transparently shows us that the primary mode of social integration and communication under postmodernity is through "bytes of nonsense." That we relate to one another through fragmented bits of babble to which we are enthusiastically and passionately attached, but about the "why" of these attachments we know very little.
"Mum-mum-mum-mah / Pa-pa-pa-poker face / Pa-pa-poker face"
"Don't think too much just bust that clip / I wanna take a ride on your disco stick"
"Baby there's no other superstar / You know that I'll be your / Papa-paparazzi"
"Duh-duh-duh-duh / Dance. Dance. Dance. / Ju-just dance."It is this sense in which Lady Gaga's name, and the name that I take to be the symptom of this whole phenomenon, GAGA -- derived from Queen's account of the death of language under the crushing weight of video technology -- is the quilting point of this whole mode of social death which takes the form of fragmented enjoyments, noise that comes stuttering out of Gaga's mouth, half second video clips spliced into a montage, broken and distorted drumbeats. GAGA is different from the other recurring stutters, "ma ma" and "pa pa," "duh-duh," in that it is a different sort of signifier than Lacan's famous master signifier, "the Name of the Father." GAGA is a new sort of master signifier which cannot be disobeyed because her very discourse is one of affirmation. GAGA is fatuous, insane, doting. But GAGA points out that death is internal to all your fragmented enjoyments. Your voice on the other end of a telephone is linked to collective social death. Your amused consumption of her image is a function of the social death of mass media homogeneity. As the GAGA Manifesto succinctly points out: our social bond is primarily through visual perception (not language), a social "bond" that is in actuality "a lie...for which we kill". Why do we kill to defend a lie? "We are nothing without our image. Without our projection."
Like Andy Warhol before her, Lady Gaga is a careful mirror of media spectacle. This isn't subversive. But it does offer a chilling reflection of a new form of encagement in which desire is blown apart and its fragmented bits become ecstatically enthralled to incoherent fantasies and strings of babble. This is the psycho-affective circuit through which capital must pass in a new cycle of M-C-M'. Not only labor but also the structure of desire has been thoroughly converted into the variable capital of a new psycho-affective economy, and we can either throw our desires into circulation or lose this admittedly impoverished or illusory social bond.
Perhaps the only space left for subversion in a world ruled by the "Enjoy!" of GAGA is the refusal of "I'd rather not." What would a dialectical negation of both of these positions look like?
I think the negation of the negation would look something like these latest "flash mobs" organized by txt messages turning into riots in Philly.
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The train wreck of history only moves in one direction. Perhaps its time we start programming some really destructive memes and get stuck on different stuttering verses
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Zatoichi 2: The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (Zoku Zatoichi Monogatari) [DVD]
Screenplay : Minoru Inuzuka (story by Kan Shimozawa)
MPAA Rating : NR
Year of Release : 1962
Stars : Shintaro Katsu (Zatoichi), Yoshie Mizutani (Osetsu), Masayo Mari (Otane), Kenzaburo Jo (Nagisa no Yoshiro), Yutaka Nakamura (Kagami no Sanzo), Sonosuke Sawamura (Seki no Kanbei), Shosaku Sugiyama (Tamigoro), Tamiemon Arashi (Kai Yoshida), Yoshito Yamaji (Yahei)
In Zatoichi 2: The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (Zoku Zatoichi Monogatari), the titular blind masseur/swordsman, one of the most famous recurring characters in all of Japanese cinema, once again finds himself caught in a series of battles not of his own making. Although essentially peaceful, Zatoichi tends to find himself constantly enmeshed in violence--trouble follows him everywhere.
The narrative here picks up a year after the events of the first film, Zatoichi 1: The Tale of Zatoichi, in which he was caught in a turf battle between two rival yakuza gangs and was eventually forced to do battle with an honorable ronin samurai whom he had befriended. Zatoichi's goal is to return to that village and pay his respects at the samurai's grave. Along the way, he is hired to give a massage to a traveling feudal lord, and during the massage it becomes clear that this lord is thoroughly insane, a fact that his men have been trying to keep secret. Thus, they are sent out to try to kill Zatoichi before he tells anyone, which leads to what must surely be the most oft-recurring line in the Zatoichi films, where once character berates another because he couldn't kill "a simple blind man."
Of course, Zatoichi is anything but a simple blind man, and The Tale of Zatoichi Continues thickens his backstory with hints about long-last family and the old, but still unhealed wound of a broken heart. Zatoichi may be an incomparable swordsman (dozens of men can come at him at once, and he still takes them all out), but this entry in the series firmly establishes his deep humanity and his capacity for hurt. Actor Shintaro Katsu, who played Zatoichi in all 26 films and some 100 TV episodes over three decades, moves deeper into the character, and his performance is more fulfilling here than it was in the first film. You can feel the character beginning to gel, as the careful balance between his superhero-like physical and mental prowess and the emotional tragedies he faces come more into focus.
While in the first film he was forced to do battle with a samurai whom he had befriended and developed a deep respect, in this second entry he finds himself face-to-face with a notorious one-armed samurai (Kenzaburo Jo, Shintaro Katsu's brother) who has a hidden connection to Zatoichi. Although he saves Zatoichi's life early in the film, he holds a deep seated hatred for the blind swordsman, and it is of little surprise that their final battle takes place on the same bridge that was so central in the first film, essentially playing out the same violent tragedy in which Zatoichi must do battle with someone about whom he cares.
The Tale of Zatoichi Continues features more action and swordplay than the first film. It is shorter, tighter, and spends less time setting up characters and scenarios, as much of this work has already been done. Zatoichi's incredible swordplay is central here, as there are several sequences in which he takes on a dozen or more adversaries at once, emerging with nary a scratch.
One of the most interesting things about watching Zatoichi do battle is that, as he says at one point, because he is blind, he can only respond to others' movements, thus he can never initiate battle. His style of battle becomes a dance of intricate responses, although the final frame of The Tale of Zatoichi Continues continues a sudden burst of premeditated violence that is thoroughly unexpected and adds a new dimension to Zatoichi's character, contributing to the further depth and resonance that would be explored in the later films.
Zatoichi 2: The Tale of Zatoichi Continues DVD | |
Aspect Ratio | 2.35:1 |
Audio | Japanese Dolby 1.0 Monaural |
Subtitles | English |
Distributor | Home Vision Entertainment |
Release Date | May 14, 2002 |
2.35:1 (Nonanamorphic) As with the Zatoichi 1 DVD, the cover of Zatoichi 2 boasts a "fully restored image," and while the image is completely clean of any nicks or scratches, it was transferred in nonanamorphic widescreen, resulting in a generally soft image. The lack of anamorphic enhancement restricts the detail level, particularly given the film's narrow Daieiscope aspect ratio of 2.35:1. The black and white image has little in the way of contrast; rather than sharp blacks and whites, the image is grayed out and a bit fuzzy, which makes it particularly difficult to follow the action in the darkest sequences. | |
Japanese Dolby 1.0 Monaural The original one-channel soundtrack shows its age, although it is not particularly distracting. There are a number of dull pops here and there and some ambient hiss, but nothing unexpected. | |
Stills Gallery Contains 10 -and-white stills from the film. |
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The chief of Afghanistan's intelligence agency was wounded Thursday afternoon in an attack at a spy agency guest house in the capital, government officials said.
Asadullah Khalid, director of the National Directorate of Security, reportedly suffered wounds to his chest and midsection when a visitor detonated an explosive device, according to the officials. The spy agency said in a brief statement that Khalid had survived a "cowardly terrorist attack."
[Updated 11:43 a.m., Dec. 6: Doctors at a National Directorate of Security hospital in Kabul said Thursday night that Khalid was in stable condition. In a statement, the office of Afghan President Hamid Karzai said the president had visited the spy chief, who would be moved to another facility for further treatment.]
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing, saying in a statement that a suicide "martyr" detonated an explosive vest "that killed and wounded numerous people, including the spy chief Asadullah Khalid."
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I visited London, England and loved just about everything about it. But imagine my surprise when I found that our national anthem was a duplicate copy of theirs, saved the lyrics. The good 'ole "Red, White, and Blue" puttin' it down to someone else's tune. Uh-uh, not good, America.
Aside from our shared language, a few customs and a legal system, we have little in common. The steering wheel of their cars is on the right side. They drive on the wrong side of the street. Their taxi cabs look weird. And, they chop off their words when they speak.
Have you ever eaten their food? Don't. You really have to work at it to make food taste that awful. However, culinary experts say their food's getting better. I say they still have a ways to go. I bet our Olympians returned home a dress/pant size smaller by forgoing their grub. Yet, we've gone and copied their country's swan song. By the way, isn't that copyright infringement?
That is ugly. So here's what I propose. We have a contest to come up with a 'new' national anthem. Better still, we get the states involved and make it a competition. Each state will come up with its own version of a national song. And the grand prize for the winning state will be to have their deficit erased for the next ten years.
No doubt, we'll need to handicap some states. New York simply has too many creative geniuses to be in the mix (sorry L.A.). Maybe they could be judges. If the buck stopped with me, I'd commission Andrew Lloyd Webber (The Phantom of the Opera) or Quincy Jones (27 Grammys) to do the honors. Even try and get them to collaborate on a national song.
Hey, wouldn't it be great if we could get together those voices on the We Are The World track to produce an anthem? OK, I'll admit I don't have all the answers. But one thing is certain—we'd have a national anthem that would be our very own.
11:05 pm on Monday, October 8, 2012
The tune you're referring to is "To Anacreon in Heaven," which was a popular pub tune at the time. It had been composed by John Stafford Smith in the 1700s for the Anacreontic Club, which met regularly at the Crown and Anchor Tavern in England. The original lyrics were pretty amusing and dedicated to Anacreon, a Greek lyrical poet as well as his connection with the Greek god of wine.
Francis Scott Key wrote the poem (originally known as "Defenders of Fort McHenry") that became our anthem independent of the tune. However, it wasn't long after the poem was written that an actor sang it to this tune at Baltimore's Holliday Street Theater. After finishing, the company re-enacted the bombing of Ft. McHenry.
I know that this article is all in good fun, but I thought it would be neat to share some of the background. I kind of love that this is our national anthem because the whole thing is sort of a mockery of British superiority. Who else has a national anthem that has a connection to a pagan god? Hehe.
(Shameless self-promotion: I wrote a section on this in my book Wicked Baltimore: Charm City Sin and Scandal)
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thanks Lauren that is some good information, love to learn something everyday. The star spangled banner is fine we do not need another anthem in my opinion.


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Posted by Carol, a resident of the Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park neighborhood, on Dec 11, 2012 at 2:40 pm
Take a few minutes to look at the following slideshow. It is a convincing argument against the use of plastic bags, backed by quotes from credible sources.
It is well worth watching.
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Posted by Garrett, a resident of another community, on Dec 11, 2012 at 4:24 pm
I know Mountain View has banned their use, Palo Alto is talking about charging. Good link.
Feel bad for those animals.
Posted by gunste, a resident of the Portola Valley: Ladera neighborhood, on Dec 11, 2012 at 4:49 pm
The other side of the coin of this ban is that conscientious users of plastic bags employ them to hold garbage and one or two a week are disposed of in the black cans. If the bags are banned at stores, one then needs to go to the store and buy a package of plastic bags for that purpose. These polyethylene bags come in commercially in various sizes to fit typical containers that hold disposables inside the home.
The problem with the currently used bags is that too many people toss them and misuse them. They are the same people who violate all the littering laws and cause huge costs for cleaning up the roadways and even parks. That litter will continue or get worse if one does not have a plastic bag in the car to hold garbage. More stuff will get tossed by those who do not care and violate the law, potential fines not withstanding.
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