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London Platypus primary Marxist reading group Winter–Spring 2022
Lenin in Smolny
II. Introduction to revolutionary Marxism
Every Saturday at 11am
Caffe Nero (Unit 1A, 100-110 High Holborn)
Everyone welcome
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• required / + recommended reading
Marx and Engels readings pp. from Robert C. Tucker, ed., Marx-Engels Reader (Norton 2nd ed., 1978)
Recommended winter break preliminary readings:
+ Leszek Kolakowski, "The concept of the Left" (1968)
+ Richard Appignanesi and Oscar Zarate / A&Z, Introducing Lenin and the Russian Revolution / Lenin for Beginners (1977)
+ Sebastian Haffner, Failure of a Revolution: Germany 1918–19 (1968)
+ Tariq Ali and Phil Evans, Introducing Trotsky and Marxism / Trotsky for Beginners (1980)
+ James Joll, The Second International 1889–1914 (1966)
+ Carl Schorske, The SPD 1905-17: The Development of the Great Schism (1955)
+ J.P. Nettl, Rosa Luxemburg (1966) [Vol. 1] [Vol. 2]
+ Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History (1940), Part II. Ch. (1–4,) 5–10, 12–16; Part III. Ch. 1–6
Winter–Spring 2022
Week 10. What is Marxism? VII. Ends of philosophy | Jan. 15, 2022
• Korsch, "Marxism and philosophy" (1923)
+ Capitalist contradiction chart of terms
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) / immanent dialectical critique chart of terms
+ Herbert Marcuse, "Note on dialectic" (1960)
+ Marx, To make the world philosophical (from Marx's dissertation, 1839–41), pp. 9–11
+ Marx, For the ruthless criticism of everything existing (letter to Arnold Ruge, September 1843), pp. 12–15
+ Marx, "Theses on Feuerbach" (1845), pp. 143–145
Week 11. Revolutionary leadership | Jan. 22, 2022
• Rosa Luxemburg, "The Crisis of German Social Democracy" Part 1 (1915)
• J. P. Nettl, "The German Social Democratic Party 1890–1914 as a Political Model" (1965)
• Cliff Slaughter, "What is Revolutionary Leadership?" (1960)
Week 12. Reform or revolution? | Jan. 29, 2022
• Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution? (1900/08)
+ Eugene Debs, "Competition versus Cooperation" (1900)
Week 13. Lenin and the vanguard party | Feb. 5, 2022
• Spartacist League, Lenin and the Vanguard Party (1978)
Week 14. What is to be done? | Feb. 12, 2022
• V. I. Lenin, What is to be Done? (1902)
Week 15. Mass strike and social democracy | Feb. 19, 2022
• Luxemburg, The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions (1906)
+ Luxemburg, "Blanquism and Social Democracy" (1906)
Week 16. Feb. 26, 2022 (reading week break)
Week 17. Permanent revolution | Mar. 5, 2022
• Leon Trotsky, Results and Prospects (1906)
Week 18. State and revolution | Mar. 12, 2022
• Lenin, The State and Revolution (1917)
Week 19. Imperialism | Mar. 19, 2022
"The bourgeoisie makes it its business to promote trusts, drive women and children into the factories, subject them to corruption and suffering, condemn them to extreme poverty. We do not 'demand' such development, we do not 'support' it. We fight it. But how do we fight? We explain that trusts and the employment of women in industry are progressive. We do not want a return to the handicraft system, pre-monopoly capitalism, domestic drudgery for women. Forward through the trusts, etc., and beyond them to socialism!"
— Lenin, The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution (1916/17)
• Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916)
+ Lenin, Socialism and War Ch. 1 The principles of socialism and the War of 1914–15 (1915)
Week 20. Failure of the revolution | Mar. 26, 2022
• Luxemburg, "What does the Spartacus League Want?" (1918)
• Luxemburg, "On the Spartacus Programme" (1918)
+ Luxemburg, "German Bolshevism" (AKA "The Socialisation of Society") (1918)
+ Luxemburg, "The Russian Tragedy" (1918)
+ Luxemburg, "Order Reigns in Berlin" (1919)
+ Eugene Debs, "The Day of the People" (1919)
Week 21. Apr. 2, 2022 (Platypus international convention)
Week 22. Retreat after revolution | Apr. 9, 2022
• Lenin, "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
+ Lenin, "Notes of a Publicist" (1922)
Week 23. Dialectic of reification | Apr. 16, 2022
• Lukács, "The Standpoint of the Proletariat" (Part III of "Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat," 1923). Available in three sections from marxists.org: section 1 section 2 section 3
+ Commodity form chart of terms
+ Capitalist contradiction chart of terms + Organic composition of capital chart of terms
+ Reification chart of terms
+ Lukács, "The phenomenon of reification" (Part I of "Reification and the consciousness of the proletariat," History and Class Consciousness, 1923)
Week 24. Lessons of October | Apr. 23, 2022
• Trotsky, The Lessons of October (1924) [PDF]
• Trotsky, "Stalinism and Bolshevism" (1937)
Week 25. Trotskyism | April 30, 2022
+ Trotsky, "To build communist parties and an international anew" (1933)
+ Trotsky, "If America should go communist" (1934)
• Trotsky, The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International (AKA The Transitional Program and the Struggle for Socialism, 1938)
+ Trotsky, "Trade unions in the epoch of imperialist decay" (1940)
+ Trotsky, Letter to James Cannon (September 12, 1939)
Week 26. The authoritarian state | May 7, 2022
• Friedrich Pollock, "State Capitalism: Its Possibilities and Limitations" (1941) (note 32 on USSR)
• Max Horkheimer, "The Authoritarian State" (1942) [PDF]
Week 27. On the concept of history | May 14, 2022
• epigraphs by Louis Menand (on Edmund Wilson) and Peter Preuss (on Nietzsche) on the modern concept of history
+ Charles Baudelaire, from Fusées [Rockets] (1867)
+ Bertolt Brecht, "To posterity" (1939)
+ Walter Benjamin, "To the planetarium" (from One-Way Street, 1928)
+ Benjamin, "Fire alarm" (from One-Way Street, 1928)
[JPG] [PDF]
+ Benjamin, "Experience and poverty" (1933)
+ Benjamin, Theologico-political fragment (1921/39?)
+ Benjamin on history chart of terms
• Benjamin, "On the Concept of History" (AKA "Theses on the Philosophy of History") (1940) [PDF]
• Benjamin, Paralipomena to "On the Concept of History" (1940)
+ Benjamin, Arcades Project Convolute N, "On the theory of knowledge, theory of progress" (see especially p. 471 [N8,1] on Horkheimer on unredeemablility of past suffering)
Week 28. Reflections on Marxism | May 21, 2022
+ Capital in history timeline and chart of terms
• Theodor Adorno, "Reflections on Class Theory" (1942)
• Adorno, "Imaginative Excesses" (1944–47)
+ Adorno, Dedication, "Bequest", "Warning: Not to be Misused" and "Finale", Minima Moralia (1944–47)
+ Horkheimer and Adorno, "Discussion about Theory and Praxis" (AKA "Towards a New Manifesto?") [Deutsch] (1956)
Week 29. Theory and practice | May 28, 2022
+ Adorno, "On Subject and Object" (1969)
+ Adorno's critique of actionism chart of terms
• Adorno, "Marginalia to Theory and Praxis" (1969)
• Adorno, "Resignation" (1969)
+ Adorno, "Late Capitalism or Industrial Society?" (AKA "Is Marx Obsolete?") (1968)
+ Organic composition of capital chart of terms
+ Esther Leslie, Introduction to the 1969 Adorno-Marcuse correspondence (1999)
+ Adorno and Herbert Marcuse, correspondence on the German New Left (1969)
+ Adorno, Interview with Der Spiegel magazine (1969)
London Autumn 2021 Reading Group: What is the Left? What is Marxism?
Every Saturday morning 11am
Caffe Nero on High Holborn
Unit 1A, 100-110 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6QL
Everybody welcome!
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Remaining sessions of Radical Bourgeois Philosophy
Week 1. Radical bourgeois philosophy V. Kant and Constant: Bourgeois society | Oct. 2, 2021
• Immanuel Kant, "Idea for a universal history from a cosmopolitan point of view" and "What is Enlightenment?" (1784)
+ Being and becoming (freedom in transformation) chart of terms
+ Kant's 3 Critiques [PNG] and philosophy [PNG] charts of terms
• Benjamin Constant, "The liberty of the ancients compared with that of the moderns" (1819)
+ Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the origin of inequality (1754)
+ Rousseau, selection from On the social contract (1762)
Week 2. Radical bourgeois philosophy VI. Hegel: Freedom in history | Oct. 9, 2021
• G.W.F. Hegel, Introduction to the Philosophy of History (1831) [HTML] [PDF pp. 14-128] [Audiobook]
What is the Left?
Week 3. What is the Left? I. Capital in history | Oct. 16, 2021
• Max Horkheimer, "The little man and the philosophy of freedom" (1926–31)
• epigraphs on modern history and freedom by Louis Menand (on Marx and Engels), Karl Marx, on "becoming" (from the Grundrisse, 1857–58), and Peter Preuss (on history)
• Chris Cutrone, "Capital in history" (2008)
+ video of Communist University 2011 London presentation
• Cutrone, "The Marxist hypothesis" (2010)
• Cutrone, "Class consciousness (from a Marxist persective) today" (2012)
+ G.M. Tamas, "Telling the truth about class" [HTML] (2007)
+ Robert Pippin, "On Critical Theory" (2004)
+ Rainer Maria Rilke, "Archaic Torso of Apollo" (1908)
Week 4. What is the Left? II. Utopia and critique | Oct. 23, 2021
• Max Horkheimer, selections from Dämmerung (1926–31)
• Leszek Kolakowski, "The concept of the Left" (1958)
• Herbert Marcuse, "Note on dialectic" (1960)
• Marx, To make the world philosophical (from Marx's dissertation, 1839–41), pp. 9–11
• Marx, For the ruthless criticism of everything existing (letter to Arnold Ruge, September 1843), pp. 12–15
What is Marxism?
Week 5. What is Marxism? I. Socialism | Oct. 30, 2021
• Marx, selections from Economic and philosophic manuscripts (1844), pp. 70–101
• Marx and Friedrich Engels, selections from the Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848), pp. 469–500
• Marx, The coming upheaval (from The Poverty of Philosophy, 1847), pp. 218–19
Week 6. LSE Reading Week break | Nov. 6, 2021
Week 7. What is Marxism? II. Revolution in 1848 | Nov. 13, 2021
• Marx, Address to the Central Committee of the Communist League (1850), pp. 501–511 and Class struggle and mode of production (letter to Weydemeyer, 1852), pp. 218–220
• Engels, The tactics of social democracy (Engels's 1895 introduction to Marx, The Class Struggles in France), pp. 556–573
• Marx, selections from The Class Struggles in France 1848–50 (1850), pp. 586–593
• Marx, selections from The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852), pp. 594–617
Week 8. What is Marxism? III. Bonapartism | Nov. 20, 2021
+ Karl Korsch, "The Marxism of the First International" (1924)
• Marx, Inaugural address to the First International (1864), pp. 512–519
• Marx, selections from The Civil War in France (1871, including Engels's 1891 Introduction), pp. 618–652
+ Korsch, Introduction to Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme (1922)
• Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme, pp. 525–541
• Marx, Programme of the Parti Ouvrier (1880)
Week 9. What is Marxism? IV. Critique of political economy | Nov. 27, 2021
The fetish character of the commodity is not a fact of consciousness; rather it is dialectical, in the eminent sense that it produces consciousness. . . . [P]erfection of the commodity character in a Hegelian self-consciousness inaugurates the explosion of its phantasmagoria.
— Theodor W. Adorno, letter to Walter Benjamin, August 2, 1935
+ Marx on surplus-value chart of terms
• Marx, selections from the Grundrisse (1857–61), pp. 222–226, 236–244, 247–250, 276–293 ME Reader pp. 276–281
• Marx, Capital Vol. I, Ch. 1 Sec. 4 "The fetishism of commodities" (1867), pp. 319–329
Week 10. What is Marxism? V. Reification | Dec. 4, 2021
• Georg Lukács, "The phenomenon of reification" (Part I of "Reification and the consciousness of the proletariat," History and Class Consciousness, 1923)
Week 11. What is Marxism? VI. Class consciousness | Dec. 11, 2021
• Lukács, "Class Consciousness" (1920), Original Preface (1922), "What is Orthodox Marxism?" (1919), History and Class Consciousness (1923)
+ Marx, Preface to the First German Edition and Afterword to the Second German Edition (1873) of Capital (1867), pp. 294–298, 299–302
Week 10. What is Marxism? VII. Ends of philosophy | Dec. 18, 2021
Some suggested readings
Platypus LSE Reading Group: Introduction to Revolutionary Marxism (Winter - Spring 2021)
Every Wednesday at 6-8pm. No previous experience required and all welcome!
Join Platypus LSE for our weekly Marxist reading group! This term we will be reading about the revolutionary Marxist politics of the early 20th Century including the Russian and German revolutions and their aftermath. We will be engaging with works from Rosa Luxemburg, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno.
Reading group sessions will be held over ZOOM, and can be accessed by following the link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82756097236.
• Required reading
+ Recommended reading
Week 12. Reform or revolution? | Feb. 3, 2021
Week 13. Lenin and the vanguard party | Feb. 10, 2021
Week 15. LSE Reading Week | Feb. 22 - 26, 2021
Week 16. Mass strike and social democracy | Mar. 3, 2021
Week 17. Permanent revolution | Mar. 10, 2021
Week 21. Platypus international convention| Apr. 3, 2021
Information forthcoming
Week 22. Retreat after revolution | Apr. 14, 2021
Week 25. Trotskyism | May 5, 2021
Week 26. The authoritarian state | May 12, 2021
• Friedrich Pollock, "State Capitalism: Its Possibilities and Limitations" (1941) (note 32 on USSR) [HTML]
Week 29. Theory and practice | Jun. 2, 2021
Platypus LSE Reading Group: What is the Left? What is Marxism?
Every Tuesday at 6-8pm. No previous experience required! All welcome!
Platypus London virtual primary Marxist reading group Summer and Autumn 2020
Summer and Fall/Autumn 2020 – Winter 2021
Mondays, 19:00-21:00
Join on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81626989547
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/3144822632252787
I. What is the Left? – What is Marxism?
Week A. Introduction: Capital in history | Aug. 5, 2020
Week B. 1960s New Left I. Neo-Marxism | Aug. 12, 2020
• Martin Nicolaus, "The unknown Marx" (1968)
• Theodor W. Adorno, "Late Capitalism or Industrial Society?" (AKA "Is Marx Obsolete?") (1968)
• Moishe Postone, "Necessity, labor, and time" (1978)
+ Postone, "Interview: Marx after Marxism" (2008)
+ Postone, "History and helplessness: Mass mobilization and contemporary forms of anticapitalism" (2006)
+ Postone, "Theorizing the contemporary world: Brenner, Arrighi, Harvey" (2006)
Week C. 1960s New Left II: Gender and sexuality | Aug. 19, 2020
The situation of women is different from that of any other social group. This is because they are not one of a number of isolable units, but half a totality: the human species. Women are essential and irreplaceable; they cannot therefore be exploited in the same way as other social groups can. They are fundamental to the human condition, yet in their economic, social and political roles, they are marginal. It is precisely this combination — fundamental and marginal at one and the same time — that has been fatal to them.
— Juliet Mitchell, "Women: The longest revolution" (1966)
• Juliet Mitchell, "Women: The longest revolution" (1966)
• Clara Zetkin and Vladimir Lenin, "An interview on the woman question" (1920)
• Theodor W. Adorno, "Sexual taboos and the law today" (1963)
• John D'Emilio, "Capitalism and gay identity" (1983)
Week D. 1960s New Left III. Anti-black racism in the U.S. | Aug. 26, 2020
As a social party we receive the Negro and all other races upon absolutely equal terms. We are the party of the working class, the whole working class, and we will not suffer ourselves to be divided by any specious appeal to race prejudice; and if we should be coaxed or driven from the straight road we will be lost in the wilderness and ought to perish there, for we shall no longer be a Socialist party.
— Eugene Debs, "The Negro in the class struggle" (1903)
+ Eugene Debs, "The Negro in the class struggle" (1903)
+ Debs, "The Negro and his nemesis" (1904)
• Richard Fraser, "Two lectures on the black question in America and revolutionary integrationism" (1953)
• James Robertson and Shirley Stoute, "For black Trotskyism" (1963)
+ Spartacist League, "Black and red: Class struggle road to Negro freedom" (1966)
+ Bayard Rustin, "The failure of black separatism" (1970)
• Adolph Reed, "Black particularity reconsidered" (1979)
+ Reed, "Paths to Critical Theory" (1984)
Week E. Frankfurt School precursors | Sep. 2, 2020
• Wilhelm Reich, "Ideology as material power" (1933/46)
• Siegfried Kracauer, "The mass ornament" (1927)
+ Kracauer, "Photography" (1927)
Week F. Radical bourgeois philosophy I. Rousseau: Crossroads of society | Sep. 9, 2020
To be radical is to go to the root of the matter. For man, however, the root is man himself.
— Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1843)
Whoever dares undertake to establish a people's institutions must feel himself capable of changing, as it were, human nature, of transforming each individual, who by himself is a complete and solitary whole, into a part of a larger whole, from which, in a sense, the individual receives his life and his being, of substituting a limited and mental existence for the physical and independent existence. He has to take from man his own powers, and give him in exchange alien powers which he cannot employ without the help of other men.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On the Social Contract (1762)
• epigraphs on modern history and freedom by James Miller (on Jean-Jacques Rousseau), Louis Menand (on Marx and Engels), Karl Marx, on "becoming" (from the Grundrisse, 1857–58), and Peter Preuss (on history)
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1754) PDFs of preferred translation (5 parts): [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
• Rousseau, selection from On the Social Contract (1762)
Week G. Radical bourgeois philosophy II. Adam Smith: On the wealth of nations (part 1) | Sep. 16, 2020
• Adam Smith, selections from The Wealth of Nations
Volume I [PDF]
Introduction and Plan of the Work
Book I: Of the Causes of Improvement…
I.1. Of the Division of Labor
I.2. Of the Principle which gives Occasion to the Division of Labour
I.3. That the Division of Labour is Limited by the Extent of the Market
I.4. Of the Origin and Use of Money
I.5 Of the Real and Nominal Price of Commodities
I.6. Of the Component Parts of the Price of Commodities
I.7. Of the Natural and Market Price of Commodities
I.8. Of the Wages of Labour
I.9. Of the Profits of Stock
Book III: Of the different Progress of Opulence in different Nations
III.1. Of the Natural Progress of Opulence
III.2. Of the Discouragement of Agriculture in the Ancient State of Europe after the Fall of the Roman Empire
III.3. Of the Rise and Progress of Cities and Towns, after the Fall of the Roman Empire
III.4. How the Commerce of the Towns Contributed to the Improvement of the Country
Week H. Radical bourgeois philosophy III. Adam Smith: On the wealth of nations (part 2) | Sep. 23, 2020
• Smith, selections from The Wealth of Nations
Volume II [PDF]
IV.7, Of Colonies
V.1. Of the Expences of the Sovereign or Commonwealth
Week I. Radical bourgeois philosophy IV. What is the Third Estate? | Sep. 30, 2020
• Abbé Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, What is the Third Estate? (1789)
+ Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees (1732)
Week J. Radical bourgeois philosophy V. Kant and Constant: Bourgeois society | Oct. 7, 2020
Week K. Radical bourgeois philosophy VI. Hegel: Freedom in history | Oct. 12, 2020
Week 3. What is Marxism? I. Socialism | Nov. 2, 2020
• Marx and Friedrich Engels, selections from the Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848), pp. 469-500
• Marx, The coming upheaval (from The Poverty of Philosophy, 1847)
Week 4. What is Marxism? II. Revolution in 1848 | Nov. 9, 2020
• Marx, Address to the Central Committee of the Communist League (1850), pp. 501–511 and Class struggle and mode of production (letter to Weydemeyer, 1852), pp. 218-220
• Marx, selections from the Grundrisse (1857–61), pp. 222–226, 236–244, 247–250, 276–293 ME Reader pp. 276-281
Week 7. What is Marxism? V. Reification | Nov. 30, 2020
Week 8. What is Marxism? VI. Class consciousness | Dec. 7, 2020
Week 9. What is Marxism? VII. Ends of philosophy | Dec. 14, 2020
Winter break readings


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The Office of the Fire Marshal and Permit Services is charged with enforcing City Codes and Ordinances relating to building and property standards.


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BJMP finalizes rules on deployment standards
Joel dela Torre
Wardens of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), their field operatives and technical service personnel have gathered to finalize the policy on the bureau's minimum deployment standards (MDS) that will set the procedures on the effective placement of personnel in offices and field units.
Joined by the International Committee on Red Cross (ICRC), the BJMP officials worked on crafting policy standards for staff deployment in jails during a two-day workshop at the B Hotel in Quezon City which started Wednesday.
For how many years, the BJMP and the ICRC have already been working alongside to address humanitarian crisis in detention in the Philippines with many approaches and solutions in support of this effort.
According to BJMP chief Director Allan Iral, given the insufficient number of personnel in jail units and offices, jail officers are maximizing their capacities and been assigned in multi-tasking functions as custodial, escorts, health care, paralegal and administration.
Studies show that there is no standard manpower distribution for jail officers.
With this situation, the BJMP and ICRC then came up with a pro-active human resource system for the proper deployment of personnel in jails depending on the specific needs of each facility through a workshop.
Alongside with the policy, is the inclusion of an evidence-based tool that will generate the number of personnel to be deployed depending on the needs of a jail facility.
"This policy envisions to play a vital role in ensuring equity in the deployment of personnel, securing the staffing capacity and capability of the Jail Bureau to further improve the conditions of PDL," Iral said.
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Surgery postponed for fifth time — at operating room door
George Harrison was oh so close after waiting two years for abdominal surgery.
Scott Stanfield
GEORGE HARRISON REACHED the operating room door at St. Joseph's General Hospital on Wednesday when exploratory abdominal surgery was postponed for the fifth time.
Accompanied by his wife Shirley, the 81-year-old checked into St. Joseph's General Hospital on Wednesday morning, donned a hospital gown and got as far as the operating room door, only to be turned away because no beds were available.
Apparently the emergency department was spilling into the hallways with patients needing beds at the Intensive Care Unit.
It was the fifth time the Courtenay resident has been bumped from surgery.
"I'm really upset," said Harrison, the Environmental Initiative Award winner at the 2010 Community Awards, recognized for a bottle drive campaign that has raised $87,000 in 14 years for charity.
"I don't like to blow my own horn, but I have done so much for the special children of this Valley, and then when I want something, everybody's looking out the window."
Harrison has three hernias, but his doctor said they are not causing the pain in his abdomen. The exact problem is unknown.
The plan Wednesday was to explore by scope to determine if anything could be done surgically, which would have placed Harrison in ICU. He is to be rescheduled for the first opening after the New Year.
"But I still gotta suffer the bloody pain till after the New Year," he said.
Hospital administration regrets any time an operation is cancelled, president/CEO Jane Murphy said in an interview.
"To have it cancelled particularly at the last minute, we know, is very unfortunate. We do sincerely apologize for that."
The hospital, Murphy added, works "extremely hard" to prevent cancelling surgeries, which she said has occurred just a handful of times in the past four to six months.
"That being said, our goal would be to not have to cancel surgeries," said Murphy, who credits the efforts of physicians, surgeons and all hospital staff.
Post-operatively, Murphy said it is critical to assure the appropriate type of bed and level of service to provide quality of care needed by patients.
"It's a little different in every case," she said. "Sometimes it really is hour-by-hour … It has been very busy, particularly the last 24 to 48 hours. There's peaks and valleys to it that sometimes are a little difficult to predict. Finding beds for all our patients has been a challenge, particularly in the last little bit."
Shirley questions where healthcare funding — including lottery money — is going. She also points out that a regional hospital is "way down the road" while people like George are waiting in the wings.
"Can we get even a smidge more money going into hospitals so the sick people can at least have a chance of surviving?" she said.
Murphy said the hospital is maximizing its resources and being as efficient as possible to care for and maintain a smooth patient flow throughout St. Joseph's.
Administration, she added, is working closely with the Vancouver Island Health Authority, especially in terms of seniors and residential care, and community programs to support longer stays in homes or earlier discharges from the hospital, with appropriate supports.
"That's a key area that we're focusing on are alternative level of care patients," Murphy said.
reporter@comoxvalleyrecord.com
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If you tend to be like me, having trouble relaxing and always looking for a way to make a little money, this discussion may be for you. Recreational gold prospecting has taken off as a hobby throughout the United States. It is a great past time for one person, and more and more, a wonderful family activity.
Like many machines used to separate gold from paydirt, the spiral wheel uses to forces to deposit gold into a little plastic pail suspended by a handle behind the spiral. The spiral is powered by a small 12V motor (about 12 revs a minute) and water is sprayed onto the spiral near the spiral's middle, while another water tube sprays from right to left at the bottom of the spiral. The agitation allows lighter material on its way up to be washed away; the heavier gold is unaffected and lies motionless as it goes up the spiral.
Adjustments can be made to the flow rate and the angle of the wheel. These adjustments are small after assembling and following the setup instructions.
As the water runs down the spiral wheel, lighter material is washed over the bottom lip into a tub. The heavier material, mostly gold, will be pushed against the spiral sides and overcoming the water pressure, travel up the spiral to a hole at the center of the wheel. It then runs through a hole and into the small pail suspended by a handle. With a tablespoon, paydirt is placed at the bottom of the wheel. When it is used up, you take the cup off the back of the wheel and put that material in a pan. Panning it is very fast, as not much winds up in the cup (that is why gold is so precious!). I have on occasion gotten a piece of lead or platinum in the cup, but nothing much else.
One more use for the Gold Miner is to take small specimens from an area and use the Miner to sample. Usually, when a gold prospector goes to an area, he pans small samples moving about to find a promising area to spend time on. Hand panning is tough; it can be miserable on your legs and back. The sampling process is a necessary step to save your back. I have parked my truck in an area with the tailgate down and my Miner positioned on it. I can walk away and come back with a small sample and test it with the machine quickly. It doesn't seem that many people do this, but I think it is helpful. You can't wash a lot of material this way because it will clog up your pump with mud.
I am familiar with five brands of spiral wheels. It may be that there are more. Of the five, two seem to be the favorites. One of the best, and my own machine, is a Gold Miner Spiral Panning Wheel. The other is called the Desert Fox Gold Panning Machine. It is these two brands that the article will address. For those interested in reading up on other brands, there is also a Gold Genie Spiral Wheel, a Camel Mining Desert Fox Gold Panning Machine. and a Gold Magic Spiral Wheel.
What Sets the Gold Miner Apart?
A helpful feature on the Gold Miner is a recess on the side of the wheel. Black sand that is moving falls as the wheel turns increasing the turbulence and enhancing the speed of black sand extraction.
There is a cardboard template that is easy to use while adjusting the angle and flow of the panning wheel. It is also reported that additional tweaking will enable the owner to accumulate gemstones. I have never done this.
Recent models of the Gold Miner include a micro adjuster for fine-tuning the pitch.
Each spiral wheel machine comes in a tub. The tub is used as a recirculation tank and a stow away box for the machine when disassembled. Case vent holes allow for quick drying of the tank.
The frame supporting the wheel is made of stainless steel. The machine can wash 60 pounds of concentrate an hour.
I bought my Gold Miner several years ago because it was less expensive and the options with other spiral wheel brands were not important to me. If you shop online for sales, you should be able to find the Gold Miner for $20 or more less than competitors.
The other machine that is one of the most popular is the Desert Fox. Though most of the features are the same as included in the above table, there are some differences. Prospectors in their quest for maximum return for their investment tend to be excessively fastidious about equipment. Any feature that proves the slightest bit superior for the individual soon makes the brand the machine of choice.
The Desert Fox manufactures a variable speed option. The wheel can turn at up to 105 revolutions per minute, providing a way to quickly wash away larger pieces of black sand. It is touted to produce 50 times as much gold as hand panning alone. There seems to be some debate over what the best RPM is for gold recovery. It can wash 70 pounds of concentrate an hour. It is recommended that a scoop be added to the spiral every 20 seconds.
This machine has a motor with sealed bearings. This is a feature that the others do not share. And in addition, it is praised for being able to be set up in a stream. It sits on a small A-frame type leg in the tub, so it can be lifted out and placed directly in a stream. The frame is made of rugged plastic.
Claims of superior strength of the wheel are borne out by the double wall thickness.
The Gold Miner and the Desert Fox offer five-year warranties.
One of the things you hear frequently is that old-timer prospectors got all the gold. Since placer gold is moving downstream from its sources every time it rains unless the source has played out, that should make new prospectors somewhat optimistic. And furthermore, as mountains and hills are worn by the weather, new placer might just make it down into places previously investigated. And finally, even though it is true that one may be able to find placer gold more easily if he/she prospects where gold has already been found, the Earth is a big place.
In Arizona when I look out at the desert hills, mountains, and plains, it is not hard for me to imagine areas where no prospector has visited. Though I have only found gold once in 8 years in a place that wasn't claimed, I know it can be found.
Yes, gold is hard to find. That's why it is valued at slightly over $1200 an ounce as of the close of the market today (23 OCT 2018). So make the wonderful process of finding your treasure a little easier with a gold panning machine. You'll be glad you did.


Trash can for outdoor kitchen question.
What are you all doing about the outdoor trash? Do you throw it out every night, or have a covered trash can. We cook a lot outside on our covered porch and I have a rubber made covered trash can out there but I just went to empty it after the weekend and had a fly problem in there. (We don't typically have flies here). I empty my inside kitchen trash every night but it's always full. The one outside doesn't fill up so I'm throwing away 1/2 empty trash bags. What do others do. Not wanting a built in.
We have a stainless steel can about 3' high with a lid that opens with a foot lever. It sits out in the elements 365 days a year.
Very sturdy and has a locking lid.
We have this one. We like it. Bought it at Sam's last year but it was cheaper than what's listed on Amazon.
+2 on the Suncast ---- looks good no flys and very convenient.
+3 on the Suncast...we've had one for going on 8 years and it's still in great shape, the lid locks, and it's moderately inexpensive too.
I love prime. Thanks for all the options!
My Suncasts are in a windy area so I put a few bricks in the bottom of each.
Outdoor fridge or ice chest(s)?


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Bollywood's young superstar Ranbir Kapoor is busy with many back to back films. The actor is back with a bang with Ae Dil Hai Mushkil and he is currently busy shooting for his next movie which is the biopic of Sanjay Dutt. Rajkumar Hirani is the director of the film and the shoot of the film is currently midway. The actor will be seen in four different roles in this untitled project. Ranbir Kapoor built a new home in Pali Hill, Mumbai and it was Shah Rukh Khan's wife Guari Khan who designed this lavish house.
Ranbir moved recently into the cozy new apartment and he thanked Gauri Khan for her interior work. "It has been a very inspiring and enjoyable experience colloborating with Gauri. I didnt know what to expect in putting my first home together, but working with Gauri was amazing because in an instance, everything was so personal and to my taste", read Ranbir Kapoor's thank you note that Gauri Khan shared on her Instagram profile. Ranbir Kapoor's next release will be Jagga Jasoos which has been delayed for months.
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