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Sheldon Whitehouse on Environment
Democratic Jr Senator, previously attorney general
Protect our public wetlands from development
Sheldon Whitehouse is a proven and passionate fighter to protect our environment. Sheldon argued before the US Supreme Court to protect our public wetlands from development, and sued to block Bush administration efforts to weaken the Clean Air Act. He led the investigation into a devastating oil spill in Narragansett Bay, and made sure the fine- he largest in the state's history-was used for conservation. As. Senator, he'll protect our wild spaces from oil exploration. Source: 2006 Senate campaign website, www.whitehouseforsenate.com , Jul 27, 2006
Voted YES on protecting ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems.
Whitehouse Amdt. No. 803 to S.Amdt. 799 to S. 601 (Water Resources Development Act of 2013): To create the National Endowment for the Oceans to promote the protection and conservation of United States ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems.
Proponent's Argument for voting Yes: Mr. WHITEHOUSE: This measure was part of the RESTORE Act, [but] this piece of it fell out of the bargain. If you supported the RESTORE Act, you have already supported this bill. If you believe that deals should be deals in the Senate, then you should support this bill. It is very important that we as a body support this bill. It does not create a single extra bureaucracy or person. It works within the existing government, and it adds no funding.
MississippiRiverDelta.org Summary of RESTORE Act: The Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities and Revived Economies of the Gulf Coast States Act (RESTORE Act) dedicates 80% of all Clean Water Act penalties paid by those responsible for the 2010 gulf oil disaster to Gulf Coast restoration.
Proponent's press release supporting Yes vote: The National Endowment for the Oceans, Coasts, and Great Lakes Act would provide steady funding that universities, non-profit organizations, and government agencies can count on every year to support research and restoration projects. It would be funded primarily by dedicating 12.5% of revenues from offshore energy development, including oil, gas, and renewable energy. Revenue is generated through offshore lease sales and production based royalty payments. Funds from the Endowment would be distributed through a competitive grant program to fund projects to restore habitat, manage fisheries, plan for sustainable coastal development, enhance ocean monitoring and research activities, acquire coastal properties for preservation, and relocate critical coastal infrastructure. Reference: National Endowment for the Oceans; Bill S.Amdt. 803 ; vote number 13-SV116 on May 8, 2013
Voted YES on $2 billion more for Cash for Clunkers program.
Congressional Summary:Emergency supplemental appropriations of $2 billion for the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save (CARS) Program.
Proponent's argument to vote Yes:Rep. OBEY (D, WI-7): The cash for clunkers program has proven even more wildly popular than its strongest supporters had predicted. Just last month, Congress passed the program, which provided up to $4,500 if you trade in your old gas guzzler for a new car that gets better mileage. That was done in the hopes of spurring some new car sales and encouraging people to be a little more environmentally friendly. We provided $1 billion in the supplemental to get it going, enough for about 250,000 sales--which was just about exhausted in one week. This bill transfers $2 billion from the Department of Energy's Innovative Technology Loan Guarantee program, which doesn't expect to award funding until late next year.
Opponent's argument to vote No:Rep. LEWIS (R, CA-41): In the majority's haste to slam legislation with no time for consideration or amendments, we are now seeing the effects of such shortsighted martial law tactics.
Senator Feinstein tried to negotiate some changes to improve the program but was told that it was this way or the highway. Not one hearing on the Cash for Clunkers program, not one hearing on how the first billion dollars has been spent, not one hearing on how much money the program will need to get through the fiscal year.
Many of my colleagues will say, This is a great program, and it is necessary for the revitalization of the car industry. I'm not really going to argue with those goals. However, are we sure this program is working like it's supposed to? I don't think so. This program has only been up and running 1 week. If that is how the government is going to handle billion-dollar programs affecting all Americans, I ask, Whatever will we do if the administration takes control of our health care system? Reference: Cash for Clunkers bill; Bill H.R. 3435 ; vote number 2009-S270 on Aug 6, 2009
Voted NO on prohibiting eminent domain for use as parks or grazing land.
To prohibit the involuntary acquisition of farmland & grazing land by government for parks, open space, or similar purposes. Exceptions include takings for use by:
road or other right of way
an aqueduct or pipeline
a prison or hospital
Proponents support voting YES because:
Sen. CRAIG: "Eminent domain was elevated greatly as an issue following a highly controversial 2005 Supreme Court decision known as Kelo vs. The City of New London. Since that decision, we as a nation have allowed state & local governments to utilize eminent domain to force landowners to yield their property to private development. Farmers and ranchers in particular have become vulnerable to state and local governments taking their property for economic development or open space designations. My amendment is a very targeted amendment. It addresses only cases in which private working agricultural land is taken and turned into public open space."
Opponents recommend voting NO because:
Sen. HARKIN: This amendment doesn't reach the Kelo decision [because Kelo was about taking open space for private development]. Under this amendment they can still do that.
CRAIG. Oh, I disagree totally. We reach a portion of Kelo that is now most frequently impacting farms and ranches, and that is open space for open space.
HARKIN. The amendment has the Federal Government telling a local government what it can and cannot do within its own jurisdiction.
Letter from the National Conference of State Legislatures & US Conference of Mayors:
"This amendment is not only ill-advised, but it is also unconstitutional [because it] preempts state & local land use laws. The 5th Amendment expressly permits the taking of private property for public use provided just compensation is provided to the owner. The power of eminent domain has always been, and should remain, a state and local power." Reference: Craig Amendment to Farm Bill Extension Act; Bill S.Amdt. 3640 to H.R. 2419 ; vote number 2007-429 on Dec 13, 2007
Grants for beach water pollution under Clean Water Act.
Whitehouse co-sponsored grants for beach water pollution under Clean Water Act
Beach Protection Act of 2008 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (popularly known as the Clean Water Act) to include among eligible grant activities the development and implementation of programs for source tracking, sanitary surveys, and prevention efforts to address the identified sources of beach water pollution. Requires grant recipients to identify:
the use of a rapid testing method;
measures for communication within 24 hours of the results of a water sample concerning pollutants to specified officials with authority to require the prevention or treatment of the sources of beach water pollution;
measures to develop and implement a beach water pollution source identification and tracking program for the coastal recreation waters that are not meeting applicable water quality standards for pathogens; and
a publicly accessible and searchable global information system database with information updated within 24 hours of its availability, organized by beach and with defined standards, sampling plan, monitoring protocols, sampling results, and number and cause of beach closing and advisory days.
Legislative Outcome: Related bills: H.R.2537, S.1506. Senate Reports: 110-414.
Source: Beach Protection Act (S.2844) 08-S2844 on Apr 10, 2008
Make tax deduction permanent for conservation easements.
Whitehouse signed H.R.1831 & S.812
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax deduction for charitable contributions by individuals and corporations of real property interests for conservation purposes. Known in the Senate as the Rural Heritage Conservation Extension Act of 2009. Source: Conservation Easement Incentive Act 09-HR1831 on Mar 31, 2009
Regulate all dog breeders down to kennels of 50 dogs.
Whitehouse co-sponsored PUPS: Puppy Uniform Protection and Safety Act
Congressional Summary:Amends the Animal Welfare Act to define a "high volume retail breeder" as a person who, in commerce, for compensation or profit: has an ownership interest in or custody of one or more breeding female dogs; and sells more than 50 of the offspring of such dogs for use as pets in any one-year period. Considers such a breeder of dogs to be a dealer.
Promulgates requirements for the exercise of dogs at facilities owned or operated by high volume retail breeders, including requiring daily access to exercise that allows the dogs to move sufficiently in a way that is not forced, repetitive, or restrictive; and is in an area that is spacious, cleaned at least once a day, free of infestation by pests or vermin, and designed to prevent the dogs from escaping.
Opponent's Comments (GSDCA, the German Shepherd Dog Club of America):In the past, legislation has excluded home/hobby breeders. This bill would, for the first time, require home/hobby breeders to follow the strict USDA requirements, such as engineering standards designed for large commercial kennels and not homes. Such regulations would exceedingly difficult to meet in a home/residential breeding environment. If passed, PUPS would disastrously reduce purposely-bred pups for the public.
There is nothing in this bill that changes the status of already known substandard kennel violators. There is no increase in funding for additional inspectors, nor is increased inspection evaluation education included.
Dogs purposely bred for showing, trialing or other events often are not bred for several years due to many different reasons. Some of these dogs may never be bred, yet are included in the count.
Working kennels maintain a large dog population while they are evaluating dogs; if the dogs do not work out for the purpose for which they were intended, they are often sold as pets. This could bring those working/training kennels under USDA regulations. Source: HR835/S707 11-S0707 on Feb 28, 2011
Establish an International Conservation Strategy.
Whitehouse co-sponsored Global Conservation Act
Requires a report to Congress on existing US international conservation policies and programs to determine the extent to which such programs are:
addressing natural resource challenges to ensure healthy and sustainable supplies of water, wildlife, fish, forests, plants, and other critical resources;
advancing US foreign policy priorities in areas such as security, democratization, sustainable food production, and clean water;
enhancing economic and wildlife conservation benefits derived from properly managed international hunting and angling tourism;
addressing poaching, illegal logging, fishing, and wildlife trafficking;
Establishes the Interagency Working Group on Global Conservation to strengthen the capacity of the US to collaborate with other countries, international organizations, the private sector, and private voluntary organizations to conserve natural resources and enhance biodiversity.
Working Group will establish a International Conservation Strategy to provide a comprehensive plan of action that identifies specific and measurable benchmarks, goals, and time frames
Prohibits any provision in this Act from being construed as restricting, limiting, or otherwise impairing properly managed recreational hunting and angling, or (2) the ability of any foreign jurisdiction or authority to authorize regulated programs supporting wildlife for local consumption and commercialization.
Source: H6038/S3356 12-HR6038 on Jun 27, 2012
Rated 80% by HSLF, indicating a pro-animal welfare voting record.
Whitehouse scores 80% by the Humane Society on animal rights issues
112th Mid-Term Humane Scorecard: The Humane Society Legislative Fund has posted the final version of the 2011 Humane Scorecard, where you can track the performance of your federal lawmakers on key animal protection issues during last year. We rated legislators based on their voting behavior on measures such as agribusiness subsidies, lethal predator control, and the Endangered Species Act; their cosponsorship of priority bills on puppy mills, horse slaughter, animal fighting, and chimps in research; their support for funding the enforcement of animal welfare laws; and their leadership on animal protection. All of the priority bills whose cosponsorships we're counting enjoy strong bipartisan support; in the House, each of the four now has more than 150 cosponsors.
The Humane Scorecard is not a perfect measuring tool, but creating some reasonable yardstick and allowing citizens to hold lawmakers accountable is central to our work. When the Humane Scorecard comes out each year, it helps clarify how the animal protection movement is doing geographically, by party affiliation, and in other categories. It helps us chart our course for animals by seeing where we have been effective, and where we need to improve. Source: HSLF website 12-HumaneS on Jan 13, 2012
Sponsored enforcing against illegal ocean fishing.
Whitehouse co-sponsored International Fisheries Stewardship and Enforcement Act
Congressional Summary:
Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing Enforcement Act;:
Authorizes additional enforcement measures relating to search or inspection of facilities or conveyances, records inspection, shipment detention, arrest, search and seizure, and service of civil or criminal process.
Authorizes disclosing information internationally to ensure compliance, including international fishery agreements.
Requires identification and listing of nations that violate conservation and management measures required under an international fishery management agreement to which the US is a party.
Authorizes international cooperation and assistance, including grants, to help other nations achieve sustainable fisheries.
Proponent's argument for bill:(by Mission Blue): Recognizing the growing threat posed by foreign illegal fishing, the International Fisheries Stewardship and Enforcement Act would safeguard U.S. ports, strengthen enforcement, and protect American fishing interests. Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing spans the globe, threatening legitimate fishing operations, undermining sustainable fisheries management, and stealing a vital resource from needy communities and the world economy. Criminal fishing worldwide is estimated to take $10 billion to $23.5 billion worth of seafood annually, or 11 million to 26 million tons of fish--three to six times more fish than the entire U.S. commercial fishing industry catches legally every year. Source: S.269 / H.R. 69 13-S269 on Feb 11, 2013
Sponsored matching grants for wetlands conservation projects.
Whitehouse co-sponsored North American Wetlands Conservation Extension Act (NAWCA)
Congressional Summary: Extends through 2017 the allocations to carry out approved wetlands conservation projects.
Proponent's argument for bill:(US Fish and Wildlife Service statement on NAWCA): The North American Wetlands Conservation Act of 1989 provides matching grants to carry out wetlands conservation projects in the US, Canada, and Mexico for the benefit of wetlands-associated migratory birds and other wildlife. The Standard Grants Program supports projects that involve long-term protection, restoration, and/or enhancement of wetlands and associated uplands habitats. The Small Grants Program supports the same type of projects but project activities are usually smaller in scope, [under] $75,000.
Opponent's argument against bill: (Heritage Foundation 2008 statement on wetlands enforcement): The 2006 Supreme Court ruling in Rapanos v. US restricts the EPA from setting a strict and expansive definition on what classifies as a wetland and what can and can't be regulated. The EPA defines wetlands as "including swamps, marshes, bogs, and similar areas", but it is more complicated than that. For instance, in the Rapanos case, Rapanos' land was 20 miles away from navigable water, but under the EPA's unrestrained definition, the term "navigable water" was also broadly defined. Having such an expansive definition would allow the EPA to run wild with environmental regulation. A less expansive definition may beget more uncertainty as to how the EPA should regulate wetlands, but it will also lead to more careful deliberation rather than unwarranted regulations. Source: S.741 / H.R.2208 13-S741 on Apr 16, 2013
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South Africa are the top seeded team for the Rugby World Cup Sevens, which will be played at AT&T Park from 20-22 July, and will travel west as current World Rugby Sevens Series champions.
Kyle Brown, Cecil Afrika, Chris Dry, Seabelo Senatla (who all played in Moscow in 2013), Tim Agaba and Stedman Gans were all ruled out due to injury, while Kwagga Smith and Sikhumbuzo Notshe were not considered because of their involvement in Super Rugby.
"I am pleased with the squad," Powell said from Mossel Bay, where the team are finalising their preparations before departure to the USA.
Snyman said the Blitzboks are determined to make the country proud: "We have received wonderful support from our supporters here in the Southern Cape and Gauteng last week and that made us even more determined not to let them down.
"We do not have the greatest of records in this tournament, but that said, we know we will be a very competitive team if we play to our strengths and within our game plan. It is exciting times for all of us and we are ready to do our best for our country."


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Trump backs down on threat to close border, but threatens tariffs if Mexico can't stop illegal drugs
President Donald Trump threatened to slap tariffs on automobiles made in Mexico and close the US-Mexico border if the country didn't stop "massive amounts of drugs" coming into the US within one year.
"We're going to give them a one-year warning, and if the drugs don't stop or (are) largely stopped, we're going to put tariffs on Mexico and products, in particular, the cars ... and if that doesn't stop the drugs, we close the border," Trump told reporters Thursday.
Last week, Trump had said he would give Mexico one week to increase apprehensions of migrants from Central America from coming toward the US -- and threatened a border closure as a consequence. In recent days, the President also shifted the onus to Democrats to work on immigration laws or face border closures.
"A lot of good things are happening with Mexico. Mexico understands that we're going to close the border or I'm going to tariff the cars. One or the other, probably start off with the tariffs. That'll be a very powerful incentive because Mexico has the strongest immigration laws anywhere in the world," Trump said Thursday, during the inaugural meeting of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council.
Trump added that he believes Mexico in recent days has made progress in "capturing people and bringing them back to their countries at their southern border."
But he said he remains unsatisfied overall.
"If the drugs don't stop -- Mexico can stop them if they want -- we're going to tariff the cars," the President said. "And if that doesn't work, we're going to close the border."

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It's that time of year again. The temperatures are falling, and your energy bills may be rising. Here are some tips to help you achieve better energy efficiency this winter, and, hopefully, save you some money.
Maintain the furnace. It's important to have a professional "check up" every year. Also, make sure to clean or replace the filters monthly.
Let the light in. Open your curtains or shades on south-facing windows during the day to allow the sun to naturally heat your home. Close them at night to reduce the chill.
Use a programmable thermostat. Set it so the temperature is lower while you're away or sleeping and warmer when you're home.
Close the fireplace damper (unless you're burning a fire). A lot of warm air can escape from this area.
Use Energy Star® rated appliances. Energy Star appliances, bulbs, electronics, and other equipment meet strict efficiency guidelines set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of Energy.
Turn the water temperature down. Set the temperature to 120 degrees to save some money.
Consider a heat-air exchange system for your fireplace. This equipment blows warmed air back into the room.
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, left and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pose for the media ahead of their meeting in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Jan.24, 2018. (AP Photo)
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NEW DELHI -- Philippine president said he pities Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi for being the focus of international criticism over her country's handling of the Rohingya refugee crisis.
President Rodrigo Duterte said he told Suu Kyi to ignore human right activists, describing them as a "noisy bunch."
Suu Kyi and Duterte met in New Delhi this week at a summit of Southeast Asian leaders on the 25th anniversary of ASEAN-India ties.
Nearly 700,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar's Rakhine state for Bangladesh since the beginning of August, after Myanmar security forces began "clearance operations" in their villages in the wake of attacks by Rohingya insurgents on police posts. The UN has described the campaign as ethnic cleansing.
Though Suu Kyi has been the de facto head of Myanmar's civilian government since her party swept elections in 2015, she is constitutionally limited in her control of the country and the military is in charge of the operations in Rakhine.
Still, Suu Kyi has faced widespread international criticism for not speaking out in defence of the Rohingya, especially given her history as a Nobel Peace Prize winner. Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson resigned suddenly from an advisory panel on the crisis this week, calling it a "whitewash and a cheerleading operation" for Suu Kyi.
"I pity her because she seems to be caught in the middle being a Nobel Prize winner for peace and this," Duterte said Friday at a meeting of the Philippines-India Business Forum in New Delhi.
"We are talking about our country, the interest of our country, our own country, and I said, 'Do not mind human rights (activists). They're just a noisy bunch,"' Duterte said.
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The pro-Brexit left: too much Marx, or not enough?
The Clarion editors January 17, 2019 January 18, 2019 Brexit, Capitalism, Europe, Internationalism, Marxism, Online content, Political education, Socialism, Stalinism
In a speech to the opening plenary of the Another Europe is Possible conference in December, Marina Prentoulis, a socialist activist in Labour and the Syriza party in Greece, spoke about a division between the "new left", oriented to new social movements, and a dogmatic "old left", which "quotes Marx and Lenin, and Stalin or Trotsky, depending on its tradition". Mapped onto the question of Europe and EU membership, the "old left", Marina argued, tends to favour nationally-based, statist, autarkic policies, with the "new left" more internationalist and integrationist in outlook.
The line was perhaps a throwaway one, but it is a useful point of departure for considering some of the historical origins of the present divisions on the left, and of which traditions they are a continuation. The "Lexit" policy, held in various forms by the "official" Communist Party tradition of the Morning Star and by both of Britain's largest would-be-Trotskyist groups, the Socialist Party and the Socialist Workers' Party, advocates the replacement of the EU with a Europe of national blocs, walled off behind tariffs and border controls, as an apparently more favourable platform for pursuing social-democratic reforms. The problem with this policy is not that it contains too much Marx, but not enough.
No-one should treat the work of any figure in the socialist tradition as biblical dogma beyond challenge or criticism. All the great leaders of our movement, from Marx and Engels to Lenin and Trotsky to Luxemburg and Zetkin, got things wrong. Simply that they said something does not make it right. But the work of Marx on some of the particular questions underlying the Brexit debate, namely capital's tendency to integrate across and beyond national division, eroding those divisions in the process, make clear that the Lexit tendency is breaking from Marx, not dogmatically applying his approach in a context it doesn't fit. Marx may have been right or wrong about transnational economic integration, but Lexit can lay no claim to his legacy on the issue, nor should anti-Lexit socialists contend that the problem with Lexit is that it is too dogmatically "Marxist".
Marx wrote that: "The system of protective tariffs places in the hands of the capital of one country the weapons which enable it to defy the capital of other countries; it increases the strength of this capital in opposition to foreign capital, and at the same time it deludes itself that the very same means will make that same capital small and weak in opposition to the working class."1 This could serve as a direct retort to the Lexiters' claim that breaking up the EU "bosses' club" will create smaller, implicitly less powerful, capitalist units apparently more susceptible to reform.
Marx also wrote: "In general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favour of free trade."2 "Free trade", and the integration of capital across national boundaries, does not "hasten the social revolution" merely in the sense of sharpening social crises, but because conditions for pursuing working-class struggle are more favourable when, as Engels put it, "the field of battle has been swept clean of all unnecessary barriers"3, such as national divisions between workers.
And, following Marx and Engels' approach, Lenin wrote in 1894: "Although they stress primarily and most emphatically that the problem of free trade and protection is a capitalist problem, one of bourgeois policy, the Russian Marxists must stand for free trade, since the reactionary character of protection, which retards the country's economic development, and serves the interests not of the entire bourgeois class, but merely of a handful of all-powerful magnates, is very strongly evident in Russia, and since free trade means accelerating the process that yields the means of deliverance from capitalism."4
Like Marx and Engels, Lenin was clear that capitalism integrated across national boundaries, rather than walled-off behind tariffs, created a higher platform for working-class struggle, "the means of deliverance from capitalism."
The specific project of European unity and integration was also taken up enthusiastically by many in the pre-Stalinist Marxist tradition. Although some criticised the particular slogan "for a United States of Europe", and others, like Lenin, vacillated between support for it and a more cautious, lukewarm approach, many, perhaps most prominently Leon Trotsky, consistently argued that European unity was a vital democratic demand that should be the explicit policy of the socialist movement. Although the formulation was given different emphases by different figures in different contexts, there was a consensus that unity and integration even on capitalist terms was positively preferable to national rivalry and inter-imperialist war, and that the socialist movement should use the unity of capitalist states as platform to further the unity of working classes and labour movements.
Trotsky was explicitly hostile to the idea that a Europe based on national blocs would be preferable to a Europe where economies were integrated across borders. In 1915, he wrote: "It would truly be a miserable petty-bourgeois utopianism […] to think that the fate of development in Europe and the entire world will finally be secured if the state map of Europe is brought into correspondence with the map of nationality, and if Europe is split into more or less complete nation-state cells ignoring geographic conditions and economic ties."5
The consistent thread in Trotsky's politics from this period and until the end of his life was to see the unification of Europe under bourgeois-democratic capitalism as objectively progressive, something to be pushed through and built on, not opposed in the name of a reactionary alternative from an earlier stage of history. Again, Lexiters who claim to stand in Trotsky's tradition, like the SWP, the SP, and Counterfire, are not guilty of quoting him too much, but of not quoting him enough.
There is a nationalist tradition in some early European socialism – Henry Hyndman and Robert Blatchford, prominent figures in the mid-19th-century socialist movement, were essentially nationalists. Many labour-movement organisations, including the TUC itself, lobbied hard for restrictions on immigration, in more-or-less explicitly nativist, antisemitic terms – in the period leading up to the introduction of the 1905 Aliens Act, the first modern immigration control in British history. But by the time the international social democratic movement split over what attitude to take to the First World War, the politics of the revolutionary side of that split had cohered into a thoroughgoing internationalism.
This radical internationalist tradition, which was also pro-integration and pro-European-unity, and which was represented both by Marx and Engels and early Bolshevism, was first distorted and then buried by Stalinism, the great rupture of the 20th-century left that saw authentic, democratic, working-class socialism defeated and overthrown by its grotesque statist, authoritarian, nationalist caricature.
It is from that caricature that Lexit draws its key historical roots. The Stalinist doctrine of "socialism in one country", the reactionary belief that socialism can be built on an autarkic basis within a single national unit, has found modern expression in the fantasies of the Lexiters, with all the statism and nationalism that goes with it. There are other Stalinist traces in the Lexit perspective, including the belief that any rupture with the status quo is to be welcomed, even if the status quo is challenged by something worse. Some Lexiters that the breakup of the EU will precipitate a "crisis" for "the system" that might somehow be turned to working-class advantage, even if the immediate beneficiaries, and indeed architects, of the crisis are reactionary nationalists. In this, we can hear an echo of the "Third Period" Stalinists who saw no special problem in Hitler's coming to power, as the social democrats and bourgeois liberals the Nazis supplanted were "social fascists" anyway. "After Hitler, our turn", proclaimed the German Communist Party.
The global left is in substantial disarray, and has in general proved far less able to capitalise on the great blows suffered by the ideological mystique of neoliberal capitalism in the 2008 crash and its sequels than has the identitarian nationalist right. The hegemony of Stalinist ideas and approaches within much of the left is a key source of much of this disarray. If we are to undertake the necessary work of reinvigoration and transformation of our movement, it should not be on the basis of jettisoning our historical tradition as dogma, but rather of reaching back into what is positive in it for sources of renewal. A reconnection with the radical internationalism and European-integrationist approaches of classical Marxism and pre-Stalinist Bolshevism is an excellent place to begin.
1 Karl Marx, "The Protectionists, Free Traders, and the Working Class" (1848) www.marxistsfr.org/archive/marx/works/1847/09/23.htm
2 Karl Marx, "On the question of Free Trade" (1848) www.marxistsfr.org/archive/marx/works/1848/01/09ft.htm
3 Friedrich Engels, "Protective Tariffs or Free Trade System?" (1847) www.marxistsfr.org/archive/marx/works/1847/06/01.htm
4 V. I. Lenin, "The Economic Content of Narodnism and the Criticism of it in Mr. Struve's Book" (1894-5) www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1894/narodniks/ch03.htm#v01pp72-424
5 Leon Trotsky, "The Nation and the Economy" (1915)
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100milesfromthesea says:
It would be useful to have references of where the revolutionary left parties have been using the implied arguments in their Lexit stance alongside the references to the original texts. Not familiar with the Stalinist line but the Trot-Leninist arguments I have heard up to this point and have sympathy for relate to the false premise of the EU as an internationalist rather than West favouring project rather than advocating nationalism.
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The provision of social care in the UK has become a major economic issue, with recent increases in government spending and local authority taxation to help ease the burden on both the health and social care system in the short term. This study examines some of the issues surrounding informal carers (i.e. care of a family member), estimated to be approximately 10% of the UK population. In particular, it focuses on the role of choice and constraints involved with the decision to become a carer. Using a cross-sectional survey for a UK city, choice of caring was explored in terms of responses to care provision provided, asking if it was a free choice initially to provide care, and if there were constraints in terms of duty, lack of others or financial resources for paid care. The analysis focused on how perceived choice in the caring role was associated with socio-demographics and the type of caring role performed, as well as the role of perceived choice in caring and their wellbeing. Out of the 798 respondents to all four questions on caring choice, about 1 in 3 reported an entirely free choice in the decision, with half reporting having a free choice but also a constraint in terms of duty, other available carers or financial resources. Less than 1 in 5 reported not having a free choice. Only carers with bad health or receiving state benefits had an association with a constrained caring role. The more intense the care role was also associated with a more constrained choice. Higher levels of choice were associated with higher levels of wellbeing across measures of happiness, life satisfaction and capability. In multivariable regression analysis, it was found that having a free choice in the initial caring decision resulted in a higher impact on life satisfaction than educational qualifications and home ownership, whilst improved capability of comparable levels to that of home ownership, all else being equal. The authors thus recommend enhanced choice as a way for policy to improve carers wellbeing. Although the authors acknowledge limitations with the study design being cross-sectional and geographically limited to one city, the study shows there is plenty of scope for understanding the determinants of informal caring and consequences for those carers in much greater detail in future national surveys to help address policy in this area in the medium to longer term.
How health states should be valued in population health metrics, like QALYs and DALYs, will not be an unfamiliar topic of discussion for regular readers of this blog. Instead of arguing for decision utility (i.e. accounting for general population preferences for avoiding health states) or experienced utility (i.e. accounting for patient experiences of health states), the authors in this paper argue for a combined approach, reviving a suggestion previously put forward by Lowenstein & Ubel. The authors neatly summarise some of the issues of relying on either decision utility or experienced utility approaches alone and instead argue for better informed decision utility exercises by using deliberative democracy methods where experienced utility in health states are also presented. Unfortunately, there is little detail of how this process might actually work in practice. There are likely to be issues of what patient experiences are presented in such an exercise and how other biases that may influence decision utility responses are controlled for in such an approach. Although I am generally in favour of more deliberative approaches to elicit informed values for resource allocation, I find that this paper makes a convincing case for neither of the utility approaches to valuation, rather than both.
The term "person-centred care" is one which is gaining some prominence in how healthcare is provided. What it means, and how important different aspects of person-centred care are, is explored in this study using discrete choice experiments (DCEs). Through focus groups and drawing from the authors' own experience in this area, four aspects of person-centred care for self-management of chronic conditions make up the attributes in the DCE across two levels: (i) information (same information for all/personalised information); (ii) situation (little account of current situation/suggestions that fit current situation); (iii) living well (everyone wants the same from life/works with patient for what they want from life); (iv) communication (neutral professional way/friendly professional way). A cost attribute was also attached to the DCE that was given to patient groups with chronic pain and chronic lung disease. The overall findings suggest that person-centred care focused on situation and living well were valued most with personal communication style valued the least. Latent class analysis also suggested that 1 in 5 of those sampled valued personalised information the most. Those with lower earnings were likely to look to reduce the cost attribute the most. The authors conclude that the focus on communication in current clinician training on person-centred care may not be what is of most value to patients. However, I am not entirely convinced by this argument, as it could be that communication was not seen as an issue by the respondents, perhaps somewhat influenced due to the skills clinicians already have obtained in this area. Clearly, these process aspects of care are difficult to develop attributes for in DCEs, and the authors acknowledge that the wording of the "neutral" and "high" levels may have biased responses. I also found that dropping the "negative" third level for each of the attributes unconvincing. It may have proved more difficult to complete than two levels, but it would have shown in much greater depth how much value is attached to the four attributes relative to one another.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) is considered a key benefit of globalisation in the economic development of countries with developing economies. The effect FDI has on the population health of countries is less well understood. In this paper, the authors draw from a large panel of data, primarily World Bank and UN sources, for 85 low and middle income countries between 1974 and 2012 to assess the relationship between FDI and population health, proxied by life expectancy at birth, as well as child and adult mortality data. They explain clearly the problem of using basic regression analysis in trying to explain this relationship, given the problem of endogeneity between FDI and health outcomes. By introducing two instrumental variables, using grossed fixed capital formation and volatility of exchange rates in FDI origin countries, as well as controlling for GDP per capita, education, quality of institutions and urban population, the study shows that FDI is weakly statistically associated with life expectancy, estimated to amount to 4.15 year increase in life expectancy during the study period. FDI also appears to have an effect on reducing adult mortality, but a negligible effect on child mortality. They also produce some evidence that FDI linked to manufacturing could lead to reductions in life expectancy, although these findings are not as robust as the other findings using instrumental variables, so they recommend this relationship between FDI type and population health to be explored further. The paper also clearly shows the benefit of robust analysis using instrumental variables, as the results without the introduction of these variables to the regression would have led to misleading inferences, where no relationship between life expectancy and FDI would have been found if the analysis did not adjust for the underlying endogeneity bias.
This study looks to unpick some of the reasons behind the estimated waste in US healthcare spending, by focusing on mortality rates across the country following an emergency admission to hospital through ambulances. The authors argue that patients admitted to hospital for emergency care using ambulances act as a good instrument to assess hospital quality given the nature of emergency admissions limiting the selection bias of what type of patients end up in different hospitals. Using linear regressions, the study primarily measures the relationship between patients assigned to certain hospitals and the 90-day spending on these patients compared to mortality. They also consider one-year mortality and the downstream payments post-acute care (excluding pharmaceuticals outside the hospital setting) has on this outcome. Through a lengthy data cleaning process, the study looks at over 1.5 million admissions between 2002-2011, with a high average age of patients of 82 who are predominantly female and white. Approximately $27,500 per patient was spent in the first 90 days post-admission, with inpatient spending accounting for the majority of this amount (≈$16,000). The authors argue initially that the higher 90-day spending in some hospitals only produces modestly lower mortality rates. Spending over 1 year is estimated to cost more than $300,000 per life year, which the authors use to argue that current spending levels do not lead to improved outcomes. But when the authors dig deeper, it seems clear there is an association between hospitals who have higher spending on inpatient care and reduced mortality, approximately 10% lower. This leads to the authors turning their attention to post-acute care as their main target of reducing waste and they find an association between mortality and patients receiving specialised nursing care. However, this target seems somewhat strange to me, as post-acute care is not controlled for in the same way as their initial, insightful approach to randomising based on ambulatory care. I imagine those in such care are likely to be a different mix from those receiving other types of care post 90 days after the initial event. I feel there really is not enough to go on to make recommendations about specialist nursing care being the key waste driver from their analysis as it says nothing, beyond mortality, about the quality of care these elderly patients are receiving in the specialist nurse facilities. After reading this paper, one way I would suggest in reducing inefficiency related to their primary analysis could be to send patients to the most appropriate hospital for what the patient needs in the first place, which seems difficult given the complexity of the private and hospital provided mix of ambulatory care offered in the US currently.
Understanding how economic recessions affect population health is of great research interest given the recent global financial crisis that led to the worst downturn in economic performance in the West since the 1930s. This study uses data from 27 European countries between 2004 and 2010 collected by WHO and the World Bank to study the relationship between economic performance and population health by comparing national unemployment and mortality rates before and after 2007. Regression analyses appropriate for time-series data are applied with a number of different specifications applied. The authors find that the more severe the economic downturn, the greater the increase in life expectancy at birth. Additional specific health mortality rates follow a similar trend in their analysis, with largest improvements observed in countries where the severity of the recession was the highest. The only exception the authors note is data on suicide, where they argue the relationship is less clear, but points towards higher rates of suicide with greater unemployment. The message the authors were trying to get across in this study was not very clear throughout most of the paper and some lay readers of the abstract alone could easily be misled in thinking recessions themselves were responsible for better population health. Mortality rates fell across all six years, but at a faster rate in the recession years. Although the results appeared consistent across all models, question marks remain for me in terms of their initial variable selection. Although the discussion mentions evidence that suggests health care may not have a short-term effect on mortality, they did not consider any potential lagged effect record investment in healthcare as a proportion of GDP up until 2007 may have had on the initial recession years. The authors rule out earlier comparisons with countries in the post-Soviet era but do not consider the effect of recent EU accession for many of the countries and more regulated national policies as a consequence. Another issue is the potential of countries' mortality rates to improve, where countries with existing lower life expectancy have more room for moving in the right direction. However, one interesting discussion point raised by the authors in trying to explain their findings is the potential impact of economic activity on pollution levels and knock-on health impacts from this (and to a lesser extent occupational health levels), that may have some plausibility in better mortality rates linked to physical health during recessions.


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A life made out of reading.
From an early obituary for Susan Sontag, who has just died of leukemia:
Sontag was reading by 3. In her teens, her passions were Gerard Manley Hopkins and Djuna Barnes. The first book that thrilled her was "Madame Curie," which she read when she was 6. She was stirred by the travel books of Richard Halliburton and the Classic Comics rendition of Shakespeare's "Hamlet." The first novel that affected her was Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables."
"I sobbed and wailed and thought [books] were the greatest things," she recalled. "I discovered a lot of writers in the Modern Library editions, which were sold in a Hallmark card store, and I used up my allowance and would buy them all."
She remembered as a girl of 8 or 9 lying in bed looking at her bookcase against the wall. "It was like looking at my 50 friends. A book was like stepping through a mirror. I could go somewhere else. Each one was a door to a whole kingdom."
Edgar Allan Poe's stories enthralled her with their "mixture of speculativeness, fantasy and gloominess." Upon reading Jack London's "Martin Eden," she determined she would become a writer. "I got through my childhood," she told the Paris Review, "in a delirium of literary exaltations."
At 14, Sontag read Thomas Mann's masterpiece, "The Magic Mountain." "I read it through almost at a run. After finishing the last page, I was so reluctant to be separated from the book that I started back at the beginning and, to hold myself to the pace the book merited, reread it aloud, a chapter each night."
Sontag began to frequent the Pickwick bookstore on Hollywood Boulevard, where she went "every few days after school to read on my feet through some more of world literature — buying when I could, stealing when I dared."
I have never heard of anyone loving reading that much. Say what you will about Sontag and her various political ravings, the woman did truly love reading.
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The Italian naturist magazine Vita Naturista has launched a petition to ask the Italian Parliament to legally recognise naturism in the country.
"In Italy it is still possible to be charged with offenses against public decency just for stripping off on the beach for sunbathing," the magazine explains. "This denies people the opportunity to exercise the basic civil right to nudity on beaches."
The petition aims to overthrow the anachronistic Article 726 of the Criminal Code, thus bringing Italian legislation on basic human values into line with other European countries. It also hopes the move will stimulate naturist tourism in Italy.
Under the current legislation, any offence deemed to be against public decency is punishable by imprisonment for a period from one month up to three years, or a fine ranging from €10 to €206.
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Speech-to-text technology faces multi-voice challenge
By Kirsten McMahon, Managing Editor
While there is no doubt that speech recognition technology is developing at a rapid rate, the biggest hurdle it faces is recognizing and differentiating multiple voices, Neesons Court Reporting founder and president Kim Neeson tells AdvocateDaily.com.
"Apart from traditional speech recognition software, people are more comfortable using voice assistants through their cellphones and voice-activated devices in their homes," Neeson says. "I think we can all acknowledge that technology is impacting many areas of our lives and court reporting is no exception."
She says voice recognition technology will likely advance to being a viable solution for court reporting purposes. However, challenges still exist.
"In an application such as an examination for discovery or a court hearing where you have multiple voices, that's where it becomes very challenging for any software," Neeson says. "Some software can learn from you as a single "dictator," however, if you take it into a room where you have three defence counsel, two plaintiff lawyers and witnesses it becomes a real challenge."
The technology can't yet reliably discern who is saying what or deal with crosstalk, she notes.
"I'm amazed at where the technology has got to this point. Many of the big tech companies, such as Google, IBM and Amazon, are very committed to creating accurate voice-to-text that can handle multiple parties, but we still have a long way to go in terms of replacing court reporting —and court reporters— as we know it," Neeson says.
"In multiple-party proceedings, you have a court reporter who separates all of that out, and that's where the human element still comes in," she adds. "It's not just words on a piece of paper. If the technology can't handle different voices, you can have a pretty butchered transcript of what was said."
Neeson adds that it would be naïve to think the technology is not going to impact court reporting. But like with other technological advancements, the role of the court reporter will adapt and evolve in response.
"A person who doesn't keep their eye on technology and try to stay up-to-date with technology is going to find themselves being left behind," she says.
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Die Kommende Lage war eine Kommende des Johanniter- und Malteserordens auf dem Gebiet der heutigen Gemeinde Rieste in Niedersachsen.
Sie bestand von Mitte des 13. Jahrhunderts bis 1810 und gilt neben Steinfurt als eine der bedeutendsten Niederlassungen des Ordens in Nordwestdeutschland.

Geschichte

Mittelalter
Graf Otto I. von Tecklenburg stiftete 1245 einen Hof in Lage dem Johanniterorden. Vor 1260 begann dort die Ansiedlung der Johanniter, 1262 lebten zwölf Ordensleute in Lage. In den folgenden Jahrzehnten wuchs Lage zur größten Niederlassung innerhalb der niederrheinisch-westfälischen Ballei, 1341 waren bereits 45 Johanniter dort ansässig. Im 14. Jahrhundert begann die Wallfahrt zum Lager Kreuz, einem 1315 geweihten Kruzifix, das sich heute in der Kirche St. Johannes der Täufer befindet.

Im Zusammenhang mit einer Fehde mit der Grafschaft Tecklenburg forderte der Osnabrücker Fürstbischof Dietrich von Horne 1377 zwei Zehnten von den Lager Johannitern. Nachdem die eigentlich von weltlichen Abgaben befreiten Ordensleute dies verweigert hatten, griff der Bischof die Kommende im Februar 1384 von seiner benachbarten Burg Vörden aus an, wobei die Gebäude unbewohnbar gemacht und die Johanniter vertrieben wurden. Dietrich von Horne wurde infolgedessen mit dem Kirchenbann belegt. Nach längerem Streit gab er Lage 1395 dem Johanniterorden zurück und leistete Unterstützung beim Wiederaufbau der Kommende. Diese erreichte in der Folgezeit jedoch nicht mehr ihre frühere Bedeutung, 1491 lebten neben dem Komtur noch sechs Ordensbrüder in Lage.

Nach der Reformation
Nach der Reformation blieb die Kommende Lage, neben dem Kloster Malgarten, eine katholische Enklave im ansonsten protestantisch gewordenen Kirchspiel Bramsche.

Der Dreißigjährige Krieg hatte starke Auswirkungen auf die Kommende. Zunächst wurde sie 1615 und 1622 überfallen und geplündert. 1626 quartierte sich eine dänische Armee unter Johann Ernst von Sachsen-Weimar auf dem Weg nach Osnabrück in Lage ein. Von 1627 bis 1642 hielten Schweden die Kommende dauerhaft besetzt und die Gebäude wurden erneut schwer beschädigt.

Unter dem Komtur Johann Jakob von Pallandt (Amtszeit von 1646 bis 1693) wurden nach dem Krieg neue Gebäude für die Kommende errichtet. In der folgenden Zeit lebten außer dem Komtur kaum noch Ordensbrüder in der Kommende.

Nach dem Ende des Heiligen Römischen Reichs wurde die Kommende Lage 1810 aufgehoben und sollte zur Unterstützung des Ordens der Westphälischen Krone unter Jérôme Bonaparte verkauft werden, was jedoch nicht zustande kam. Nach dem Ende der französischen Herrschaft fiel die Kommende in den Besitz der Klosterkammer Hannover.

20. und 21. Jahrhundert
1964 wurden die Gebäude verkauft und zum Hotel und Restaurant umgebaut. 1999 kaufte der Bischof von Osnabrück die Kommende und richtete dort ein Kloster der Dominikanerinnen ein. Im März 2020 verließen die letzten vier Dominikanerinnen das Kloster.

Im September 2020 beschloss das Provinzkapitel der deutschen Provinz der Franziskaner-Minoriten, im Kloster Lage einen Konvent zu gründen.

Gebäude

Kommendegebäude
Die erhaltenen Kommendegebäude wurden 1657 bis 1660, nach den Beschädigungen im Dreißigjährigen Krieg, erbaut. Es handelte sich ursprünglich um eine vierflügelige Anlage auf fast quadratischem Grundriss. Die umgebenden Gräften waren mit einem Arm der Hase verbunden. Der Nordflügel wurde im 19. Jahrhundert abgerissen und der nördliche Graben, der die Anlage von der vorgelagerten Kirche trennte, zugeschüttet. Erhalten sind West-, Süd- und Ostflügel. In der Nordwestecke ist ein vorspringender, quadratischer Turm eingebunden, der vermutlich ein Überbleibsel der ursprünglichen Anlage darstellt. Von einem zweiten Eckturm sollen früher die Fundamente aufgefunden worden sein. Vom Torhausflügel auf der Westseite führt eine Brücke über die Hase, im Südflügel befindet sich ein Rittersaal.

Kirchengebäude

Eine Hauskapelle in der Kommende wurde 1260 erstmals erwähnt. Anfang des 14. Jahrhunderts wurde außerhalb der Kommendegebäude eine Kirche errichtet, die beim Angriff des Osnabrücker Fürstbischofs Dietrich von Horne 1384 zerstört wurde. Anfang des 15. Jahrhunderts wurde die Kirche St. Johannes der Täufer erbaut und 1426 geweiht. Sie war von der Hauptinsel ursprünglich durch einen Wassergraben getrennt.

Nach dem Westfälischen Frieden fungierte St. Johannes der Täufer auch als Pfarrkirche für die katholische Bevölkerung der Umgebung. 1659 wurde die Kirche renoviert. Nach der Auflösung der Kommende wurde 1815 die Pfarrei Lage-Rieste anerkannt. 1902–1904 und 1960–1962 wurde das Kirchengebäude erweitert.

Literatur
 Rudolf vom Bruch: Die Rittersitze des Fürstentums Osnabrück. F. Schöningh, Osnabrück 1930. Nachdrucke: Wenner, Osnabrück 1965, S. 292–301 (online UB Bielefeld); Wenner, Osnabrück 1982; Wenner, Osnabrück 2004, ISBN 3-87898-384-0.
 Georg Dehio (Hrsg.): Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Bd. 2: Bremen/Niedersachsen, Neubearb., München 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0, S. 1128–1130.
 Heinrich Bernhard Kraienhorst: Lage – Johanniter (1245 bis 1810). In: Josef Dolle (Hrsg.): Niedersächsisches Klosterbuch. Verzeichnis der Klöster, Stifte, Kommenden und Beginenhäuser in Niedersachsen und Bremen von den Anfängen bis 1810, Teil 2: Gartow bis Mariental (= Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für historische Landesforschung der Universität Göttingen. Band 56,2). Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-89534-956-0, S. 895–901.
 Arnold Nöldeke: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover, IV. Regierungsbezirk Osnabrück, 3. Die Kreise Wittlage und Bersenbrück (Heft 13 des Gesamtwerkes), Hannover 1915, S. 134–140. im Internet-Archive
 Gerd-Ulrich Piesch: Klöster und Stifte im Osnabrücker Land, Regensburg 2006, ISBN 3-7954-1737-6.
 Benedikt Benninghaus: Die Kontinuität der Wallfahrt zum Heiligen Kreuz in Lage, Münster 2014, ISBN 3-95645-254-2.

 Friedrich-Wilhelm Wulf/Wolfgang Schlüter: Archäologische Denkmale in der kreisfreien Stadt und im Landkreis Osnabrück (= Materialhefte zur Ur- und Frühgeschichte Niedersachsens. Reihe B: Inventare Heft 2). Hahn, Hannover 2000, S. 484 f.
 Kay Peter Jankrift: Zwischen Kreuzzügen und regionaler Machtpolitik: Die Johanniter-Kommende Lage im Osnabrücker Land. In: Hajo van Lengen (Hrsg.): Zur Geschichte des Johanniterordens im friesischen Küstenraum und anschließenden Binnenland (= Beiträge zur Geschichte des Oldenburger Münsterlandes. Die Blaue Reihe. Band 15). Cloppenburg 2008, S. 93–98.
 Lkr. Osnabrück (Hrsg.): Johanniter-Kommende Lage 1245 - 1995: Beiträge zur Bau- und Kunstgeschichte (= Schriften zur Kulturgeschichte des Osnabrücker Landes. Band 6), Osnabrück 1995.

Weblinks

 Franziskaner-Minoriten im Kloster Lage
 Geschichte - Kath. Kirchengemeinde St. Johannes der Täufer
 Beschreibung der Kommende Lage auf der Niedersächsischen Klosterkarte des Instituts für Historische Landesforschung

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Dinner & A Memoir Series
Imagine sitting around a dinner table covered with a delectable feast, surrounded by smiling faces and lively conversation. Your nourishment won't be limited to just what's on your plate, we'll be discussing five memoirs this year focusing on notable essay collections.
It's a fabulous way to meet new friends, discover great books and engage more deeply with the texts we read. We'll meet every other month on a Friday evening for dinner and discussion.
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Friday, February 22, 2019 6:00 – 10:00pm: The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich
Gretel Ehrlich is a poet, and in this collection, you'll know it. In 1976, she moved to Wyoming and became a cowherd, and nearly a decade later, she published this lovely, funny set of essays about rural life in the American West. "Keenly observed the world is transformed," she writes. "The landscape is engorged with detail, every movement on it chillingly sharp. The air between people is charged. Days unfold, bathed in their own music. Nights become hallucinatory; dreams, prescient."
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Friday, April 26, 2019 6:00 - 10:00pm: Sex and the River Styx by Edward Hoagland
Called the best essayist of his time by luminaries like Philip Roth, John Updike, and Edward Abbey, Edward Hoagland brings readers his ultimate collection. In Sex and the River Styx, the author's sharp eye and intense curiosity shine through in essays that span his childhood exploring the woods in his rural Connecticut, his days as a circus worker, and his travels the world over in his later years.
Here, we meet Hoagland at his best: traveling to Kampala, Uganda, to meet a family he'd been helping support only to find a divide far greater than he could have ever imagined; reflecting on aging, love, and sex in a deeply personal, often surprising way; and bringing us the wonder of wild places, alongside the disparity of losing them, and always with a twist that brings the genre of nature writing to vastly new heights. His keen dissection of social realities and the human spirit will both startle and lure readers as they meet African matriarchs, Tibetan yak herders, circus aerialists, and the strippers who entertained college boys in 1950s Boston. Says Howard Frank Mosher in his foreword, the self-described rhapsodist "could fairly be considered our last, great transcendentalist."
Edward Hoagland, who John Updike deemed "the best essayist of my generation," has a long and storied career and a fat bibliography. Hoagland is a great nature writer (name checked by many as the modern Thoreau) but in truth, he's just as fascinated by humanity, musing that "human nature is interstitial with nature, and not to be shunned by a naturalist."
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Rarely does the debut of a new writer garner such attention & acclaim. The excitement began the moment "The Fourth State of Matter," one of the fourteen extraordinary personal narratives in this book, appeared in the pages of the New Yorker. It increased when the author received a prestigious Whiting Foundation Award in November 1997, & it continued as the hardcover edition of The Boys of My Youth sold out its first printing even before publication. The author writes with perfect pitch as she takes us through one woman's life - from childhood to marriage & beyond - & memorably captures the collision of youthful longing & the hard intransigencies of time & fate.
Jo Ann Beard's award-winning volume also includes the incredible "Bulldozing the Baby," which takes on a smaller tragedy: a three-year-old Beard's separation from her doll Hal. "The gorgeous thing about Hal," she tells us, "was that not only was he my friend, he was also my slave. I made the majority of our decisions, including the bathtub one, which in retrospect was the beginning of the end."
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Friday, August 30, 2019 6:00 – 10:00pm: Against Joie de Vivre by Phillip Lopate
"Over the years I have developed a distaste for the spectacle of joie de vivre, the knack of knowing how to live," begins the title essay by Phillip Lopate. This rejoinder to the cult of hedonism and forced conviviality moves from a critique of the false sentimentalization of children and the elderly to a sardonic look at the social rite of the dinner party, on to a moving personal testament to the "hungry soul."
Lopate's special gift is his ability to give us not only sophisticated cultural commentary in a dazzling collection of essays but also to bring to his subjects an engaging honesty and openness that invite us to experience the world along with him. Also included here are Lopate's inspiring account of his production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya with a group of preadolescents, a look at the tradition of the personal essay, and a soul-searching piece on the suicide of a schoolteacher and its effect on his students and fellow teachers.
By turns humorous, learned, celebratory, and elegiac, Lopate displays a keen intelligence and a flair for language that turn bits of common, everyday life into resonant narrative. This collection maintains a conversational charm while taking the contemporary personal essay to a new level of complexity and candor.
Cost: Dinner & Discussion $60, Book Included $75
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One of David Foster Wallace's favorite writers, Ozick has no less than seven essay collections to her name. This one, however, includes her stunner "A Drugstore in Winter," which was chosen by Joyce Carol Oates for The Best American Essays of the Century.
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Mahjong Strategies
The game of Mahjong is among the most exotic gaming experiences one could have, as it brings you closer to a simpler time. It takes a while for the game to reach its end, so it requires a peaceful afternoon or an entire evening of friendly talks above the intricate tiles piled in the middle of the gaming table. It also offers an opportunity for the players to win a payout.
Fusing skill and chance is essential for the traditional game of Mahjong offering tons of chances for an individual to make the right choice and eventually become the winner. However, there are several strategies that should be kept in mind when you first begin exploring everything this game has in store.
Initial Preparation
The most important element of the game is staying present and carefully observing everything happening on the table or the flat surface where the game is taking place. The intricately drawn Mahjong tiles are constantly moving to and fro the pile in the center and the walls players have built in front of themselves. For the experienced players, the game happens at a fast pace and they do not hesitate.
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However, this is not the case with a beginner Mahjong aficionado that has recently discovered the wide variety of tiles and points associated with them. The first step when learning about Mahjong is to familiarize yourself with the various drawings on the tiles and their significance, as well as the ways they could be combined for a better final result. The additional honor and bonus tiles might take more time.
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They are an essential part of the game, as they could enhance your points. Working on them is recommended for everyone interested in becoming a Mahjong expert in time. One of the ways in which one could overcome the initial fear of playing is by practicing without the point system, at least for the first several times.
Planning Ahead of Time
Players should bear in mind that they should be the only one knowing what the tiles in their hand look like. Arrange the tiles in front of you in the most adequate manner that works for you, but avoid placing them in groups that could be easily spotted and recognized by the rest of the players on the table. Those tiles are not easy to be hidden, especially if it's an experienced player you play against.
Another mandatory step before even commencing one's game is the plan for action in your head. Planning your first and the one after that could paint an overall picture in your head, making the entire game much more structured. This is mandatory because of the pace of the game that involves quick changes and the exchange of tiles that could appear erratic to the untrained eye.
Drawing different tiles could end up scrapping your initial plan for action and an experienced Mahjong player would be unfazed by the swift change of direction. At the end of the day, the game is a dynamic one as the tiles set the tone for the entire game. Another thing to take into account is the discard pile with its myriad of options luring you. Taking a tile from that pile is not always the best option.
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Such a move requires the revealing of your meld, which then makes it easier for your rivals to predict your next move. Moreover, the discard pile could also reveal more about the remaining four players, as it could tell you more about the tiles they are in need of. Knowing this, you can make an informed decision as to what you would discard with the final goal being not helping them progress.
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Mahjong players are renowned for their good memory, as there are so many variations of the tiles. Many of them have slight differences that eventually make the game more exciting. There is a non-gambling Mahjong game that requires you to pick similar tiles until there are no tiles left on the table. When it comes to the gambling variety of this game, a player trains their memory through the diverse tiles present and the points associated with them.
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The tile combinations play a central part in the regular Mahjong game especially when it comes to the calculation of points at the end of the game. They determine the eventual winner, as well as the payout they are eligible for. Some players might resort to a special list of points and tiles they could refer to any time they are in doubt about what they should do. This could make memorization easier.
Special Approaches
It should be taken into account that in time one could find this constant looking away from the action time-consuming. At the end of the day, a Mahjong player should strive to have quick reactions to everything happening before their eyes and not hesitate and look through a piece of paper. There is a simple strategy that could bring a better understanding of the process of a standard Mahjong game. It involves a simple three-letter abbreviation.
The D-A-D approach marks some of the milestone moments of a typical Mahjong game and it places it on the timeline. The initial stages of the game are dedicated to the development of the game, which is why this phase is associated with the first D. Once this stage is done, it is time for the attack. This is a time for rapid action, flying tiles all over the table, as well as putting your strategy to good work.
Testing it in real life could actually give you a good lesson for future games. The last portion of the gaming action is dedicated to defense, hence the last D of the abbreviation. A skilled Mahjong player is protecting everything achieved until the very last minute of the game. One of the ways to do so is via discarding tiles in a careful manner, preventing other payers from benefitting and eventually winning the game.
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