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Horse Health & Care - Part 5
( Originally Published 1912 )
Heaves is a derangement of the blood vessels and air tubes of the lungs. The most common cause is Indigestion, or the animal may be out of condition. As soon as a horse gets out of condition there is great danger of an attack of Heaves.
Give a Physic Ball and keep the animal from eating from 12 to 24 hours, then give Horse Tonic to tone up the system and digestive organs, and follow treatment by giving a moderate amount of feed with Heave Powder in it. Give water sparingly and a reasonable amount of hay. Dampen all the feed.
After you have given a Physic Ball, Horse Tonic and one package of Heave Powder, you can easily see how much you have improved him, and if he is not entirely cured, continue with the Heave Powder until he is well, and give a Physic Ball every two weeks.
See Prescription No. 81, page 179.
The term "hipped" means the knocking down of the points of the hip bone. This can be done without injury to any joint, and for this reason the animal usually recovers from all lameness, but is always left deformed, though still useful.
Apply Badger Balm to all hot or inflamed parts around the hip until all heat, swelling and inflammation have disappeared. Then make an application of Lucky Four Blister between hip and stifle, every two weeks, until the animal has fully recovered.
See Prescription No. 121, page 179.
Impaction of the bowels means a stoppage of the bowels and the most frequent cause is overloading the stomach and bowels with bulky feed, such as straw or over-ripe hay. Another cause is paralysis of the bowels. It is for this reason that salts or oil should not be given a horse in this condition.
You will know this trouble by noticing that the horse acts as if he had the Colic. He will lie down, get up, perhaps pass a little water and a little manure, but only enough manure to deceive you. He will stretch himself, look around to his sides, and perhaps keep on eating.
Give a dose of Colic Drench and follow in three or four hours with a dose of Laxotonic. Repeat the Colic Drench and Laxotonic every six hours, giving them at intervals of three hours. Give four quarts of warm water (per rectum) three times daily, by the use of the flushing outfit. If the animal be in great pain, one-fourth pound of powdered mustard, mixed with a little warm water to make a thick paste, should be applied to the abdomen or belly. Apply lard over the abdomen in 12 hours, to keep the mustard from blistering. A Physic Ball should not be given unless in the early stage of impaction.
See Prescription No. 122, page 179.
This is a derangement of the stomach and bowels and is brought on by eating too much when the stomach is not in condition to digest food. You will know this trouble by the following symptoms : He will eat plenty, but will not do well. There will be a rough coat, lack of ambition, bowels either too dry or too loose. This is spoken of as being "out of condition."
Give a Physic Ball and. follow with Horse Tonic. Repeat the Physic Ball every two weeks, and continue with the Horse Tonic until the animal has fully recovered, becomes fleshy, sleek, ambitious and able to do a good day's work. Give ground oats, bran and good tame hay, and see that he has regular exercise.
See Prescription No. 123, page 179.
Influenza is a Catarrhal affection of the air passages, usually of the head and throat, but if neglected the disease will affect the lungs. It is similar to Distemper, and the care and treatment are much the same.
Give Fever Paste and apply the White Liniment to the throat from ear to ear.
Keep up the appetite of the horse by giving Horse Tonic. Keep the bowels loose by giving Laxotonic and injections of four quarts of warm water (per rectum) by the use of flushing outfit.
In very severe cases of influenza, one ounce (two tablespoonfuls) of good whiskey should be added to the Fever Paste. If there be loud breathing, apply Antiseptic Poultice to the throat. Disinfect stables with Germ Killer or Disinfectall, hanging around the sick stall sacks that have been dipped in the solution, three times daily.
See Prescription No. 124, page 179.
The usual method to inject warm water into the rectum of an animal is by the use of a flushing outfit, and this is a very important thing to do in all ailments and diseases except where the bowels are already too loose.
An injection makes it possible and easy for an animal to empty and expel the contents of the rectum without straining enough to injure itself in any way. The amount of warm water used is from two to six quarts and is injected into the rectum by the use of a flushing outfit, placing the tube from four to twelve inches into the rectum, holding the funnel up as high as the hose will permit, and pouring warm water into it as fast as it will run into the animal.
The chief work of the kidneys is to expel all impurities from the system, and if they fail to do this, you will soon have a sick animal. You will know it by a stiffened gait of the hind parts, the horse taking very short steps and being stiff in turning, showing an inclination to stretch as if wanting to pass water. This is a very serious disease and must receive prompt and proper attention.
In the early stage of the disease give a Physic Ball and follow with the Kidney Aid. Give warm water injections, bran mashes, good hay and plenty of drinking water. All horses should receive Kidney Aid daily when subject to this disease.
See Prescription No. 125, page 179.
Lameness is a disease or an injured condition of a joint, ligament, tendon, hoof or muscle of an animal, and can be located usually by heat, swelling, inflammation, enlargements, and lack of action in any part of the body or limbs. The signs of locations are as follows.
Hoof lameness improves with exercise. In cases of splint lameness a horse walks as though sound, but trots lame. In shoulder lameness a horse stumbles considerably. Joint lameness is usually indicated by heat and swelling. Tendon lameness the same. In ligament lameness there is no swelling, no heat and there will be no recovery unless the trouble is located and treated. In ringbone and curb lameness there is always an enlargement present. Bone spavin lameness sometimes appears without enlargement. The animal starts off on the points of his toes, and warms out of it as he is exercised. Bog spavin or thoroughpin always shows an enlargement.
Apply Antiseptic Poultice until all heat and inflammation are gone from the seat of the injury; then the parts should be clipped, washed, dried and Absorbent thoroughly applied in each of the following ailments : Ligament Lameness, Bog Spavin, Thoroughpins, Capped Elbows, Wind Puffs, Corns, and all unnatural enlargements on the body or limbs. In other forms of lameness the parts should be prepared as above mentioned and Bone Blister applied to the following ailments : Splints, Curbs, Ringbones, Bone Spavins and Capped Hock.
See Prescription No. 126, page 179.
The parts should be clipped, washed, dried and Lucky Four Blister thoroughly applied where the following ailments exist: Shoulder Lameness, Sweeny, Stifle Lameness, Hip Joint Lameness, Sprained Joints, Tendons, and all parts requiring good, deep, stimulating blister. Hoof lameness due to nail wounds, gravel or bruises, should be thoroughly poulticed with the Antiseptic Poultice, and all cavities washed out with a solution of Germ Killer, after which inject Healing Oil. Plug all holes in bottom of hoof with absorbent cotton dipped in Healing Oil to pre-vent foreign matter from getting into the wounds. The poultice should be applied after the hoof is thus treated, as it keeps down inflammation and lessens the danger of Lockjaw.
See Prescription No. 127, page 179.
Is an inflammation of the lining of the throat and is often accompanied by a sweIling which causes the animal to breathe very hard. Unless proper care and treatment are given there is great danger of the horse smothering to death. In these cases it is often necessary to insert a silver tube through an incission made into the wind-pipe, at a point about 12 inches below the angle of the jaw.
Give Fever Paste. Apply White Liniment to the throat from ear to ear, and if there is hard breathing, apply the Antiseptic Poultice to the throat from ear to ear. Keep up appetite with Horse Tonic. Keep bowels open by warm water injections, disinfect stalls with solution of Germ Killer or Disinfectall.
See Prescription No. 128, page 179.
This is a catarrhal or inflamed condition of the mucous membrane or lining of the genital organs, and is a very detrimental disease if neglected. It often prevents mares from getting with foal.
Give Breeding Tonic. Wash out the vagina with a solution of Antisepto, by the use of a flushing outfit.
See Prescription No. 129, page 179.
Lice are small insects which infest live stock and do a great deal more damage to them than the average stockman realizes.
It is a positive fact that if a stock owner knew just how much untold agony, to say nothing of the loss of flesh, that lice cause, he would not sleep until he had done all in his power to destroy the restless pests.
Diolice should be thoroughly applied and dusted into the hair on all parts of the animal.
See Prescription No. 130, page 179.

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Bringing back the punt - town cashes in on old currency
The old Irish pound or punt is back in the shops of an Ulster town.
In Clones, County Monaghan, in the Republic of Ireland, more than 40 businesses are accepting the old notes which were replaced by the euro 10 years ago.
While it is no longer legal tender, notes and coins can still be exchanged at Dublin's Central Bank.
And people in the town are scrabbling behind radiators and down the back of sofas to come up with the old notes.
There are more than 300m euro worth of Irish punts still out there in Ireland.
The idea to take in the punts was the brainchild of the Morgans - shopkeepers in Clones.
"It was actually my son's idea," said Tony Morgan.
"He heard about a Spanish fishing village which brought back the peseta and it seemed like a good idea.
"It is getting people into the town that have never set foot here before.
"And we are getting euro spend too."
The local Embrace the Punt campaign has caught the imagination at a time when Ireland is in the middle of a bleak recession with shops being forced to close.
When businesses accept the punt notes and coins, they give 'change' in the form of vouchers that can be spent in the town.
A spokesman for the Irish Central Bank said the punt ceased to be legal tender on 9 February 2002.
However, the bank has been acccepting old notes and coins from anyone who has them. It is a service they offer - people can come into the counter or post them.
At the end of 2010, he said 238m euros of Irish bank notes were still out there - this includes 125.5m euros worth of coins.


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What is better for fabric printing, offset printing or digital printing?
There is a clear and obvious choice which method is best suited for the production of an order, and any professional commercial printing sales representative should be able to know immediately which way to go.
Let me begin by stating that the quality of the print impression is not one of the deciding factors. Before commercial printers had invested in digital equipment they would point out that digital imaging quality was inferior to offset imaging quality, and perhaps there was a time when this was true, but not today. Over the last decade, the technical advancements in digital printing has brought it to the point where even people working in the trade can not tell the difference between a digitally printed sheet or one that was offset printed. The print buyer or average consumer looking at the printed item certainly has no clue which of the two methods was used.So what are the deciding factors? The first and most significant issue is the quantity of the run.
Offset printing requires plates and set up time which is the same whether the print run is one hundred or one million, and there is a fixed cost for that. Digital printing does not require plates or significant set up time and can produce a quality impression from the first output sheet. However, digital printing is slow and there is no economy of scale. The one hundredth sheet or the one thousandth sheet, costs the same as the first sheet. In offset printing the press can run at incredible speed. In some cases the press can print more than 4 sheets a second which is approximately 6 times faster than a digital press, and that's not taking into consideration the huge difference in the size of the sheet, but we'll talk about that in another paragraph.
Therefore, in offset printing, you amortize the fixed costs of plates and set up into your run (the number of sheets being printed), and the unit cost reduces with every additional sheet being printed. In general, the number of impressions where the two methods cost the same is one thousand. Above that number offset will be more cost-effective, and below that number digital will be less expensive. So the trick here is to determine the required quantity. Usually, if a client needs 5,000 of an item he won't be ordering 500, and vice versa.


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With this long, flowing wave creation all the stops were pulled when it comes to color. A seamless transition from a cool purple to an increasingly bright red at the bottom of the gigantic mane reminds of the flow of lava made out of silk.
The hair was treated for flawless smoothness and the bright hues illuminate the night. Is she real or a superhero of fashion?
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Leighton Baines is convinced Everton FC youngster Ross Barkley will continue to frighten the life out of defenders – despite coming in for 'special attention'.
The Blues midfielder has made a flying start to the new season and quickly established himself as one of the most exciting young talents in the Premier League.
The Everton left-back says teams are now realising that they need to work on stopping the 19-year-old from Wavertree.
Barkley, alongside club-mates Baines and Phil Jagielka in the England squad at present, has scored twice so far this campaign and been one of the stand-out performers for Roberto Martinez's side.
Read more: Baines determined to avoid World Cup woe
But Baines says Barkley's temperament will be put to the test in the coming weeks now that opposition sides have got wise to his talent.
"He's starting to build up a reputation now and teams are beginning to show him that bit more respect," Baines said.
"In the first few games maybe when they saw him on the team sheet there was no preparation around him from the opposition but now there will be.
"That's something he will have to learn to deal with and he will because he's going to be a top, top player. No doubt about it.
"The great thing for him is that he's now getting his education on the pitch which is the best place to learn. Now he has to combat the attention."
Baines says he has experienced being the subject of specific tactics from the opposition but believes it is a rite of passage all players must go through.
And the England left-back has every confidence that Barkley will throw off the shackles and continue to wreak havoc in the Premier League.
"We all have to go through it," he said.
"The opposition will do things just based around stopping you and it's how you respond but he will. "He's looking to learn all the time and the manager and us as senior players are trying to help him because he's a massive asset for us."
Baines, meanwhile, is expected to face Poland tomorrow night after Ashley Cole was ruled out of the match.
A rib injury to the Chelsea man meant Baines faced Montenegro in Friday's crucial World Cup qualifier at Wembley.
The Everton defender labelled it as the biggest game of his career but knows tomorrow night's game with Poland is even more significant.
"Friday was probably my biggest game for England and this will be bigger," Baines said.
"The magnitude of the game is something we are all aware of.
"On Friday we had to make sure it was in our own hands and we have to go and finish the job now.'
"There will be a good crowd and a good occasion. All the players at this level are accustomed to it. It's important we go and get the right result.
"We've approached both games like any other. We haven't deviated from what we do. No special plans.
"We prepare for the game and focus on what we need to do."


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UNC Medical Alumni Network
UNC Medical Alumni Network is a network established to connect current 4th year medical students to UNC School of Medicine alumni all over the country.
The Office of Medical Alumni Affairs and Whitehead Medical Society have developed a network to connect current 4th year medical students to UNC School of Medicine alumni all over the country. Many of our recent graduates have expressed interest in connecting with residents and faculty at the programs to which they are applying.
If you are an alum who would be interested in 1) being contacted by current students to answer questions and/or 2) hosting the occasional student on the interview trail, we invite you to fill out the requested information via the form below:
UNC Medical Alumni Network contact form (Via Google Spreadsheets)
Using the Google spreadsheet, current students will be able to sort the provided information by alumni last name, city, specialty, and willingness to host, depending on their particular questions or needs. Some other important questions are answered here:
Who will have access to the information I provide?
All senior UNC medical students who are applying to residency that year. They will be emailed a link to the Google spreadsheet at the beginning of their fourth year so that they can ask questions as they begin to decide what programs to apply to and throughout the application process and interview season. This document is made available only to the fourth-year class at the UNC School of Medicine.
If I sign up to host students, am I obligated to host all students that contact me?
Definitely not! Signing up only indicates your interest; when individual students contact you, it is up to you to decide whether you would like to or are able to accommodate them on the dates of their interviews.
What is the purpose of providing my address?
This is so students can see where you live in relation to the hospitals or other sites at which they have interviews. For example, if two alumni live in Baltimore, but one lives closer to University of Maryland Hospitals and one lives closer to Johns Hopkins Hospital, the student could first contact the alumni whose home is near the program they are visiting, regardless of which program the alum is in.
Who will maintain this information?
The maintenance of the alumni network will be a joint effort between the Whitehead Medical Society student government and the Office of Medical Alumni Affairs. All alumni can expect to receive a yearly email reminding them of the opportunity to share, remove, or update information if it has changed. However, you will be able to edit or remove your information during the year as well. Please email any requests for edits or removals to firstname.lastname@example.com. (We hate spam as much as anyone else and will only use the information you provide via this form for the Alumni Network.)
We hope that the network will be a useful tool for current and future 4th year students and continue to expand as students and alumni see its benefits. The Office of Medical Alumni Affairs and Whitehead Medical Society look forward to answering your questions and working together in the interest of our students.


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Azraiel wrote:Hmm, seems to be missing the .exe, or do I need to compile and make that?
Azraiel wrote:PIE slicer isn't so bad. I had it figured out in 5 minutes. Seems easy enough to use.
Azraiel wrote:I suppose the question is then, how many polygons can the engine support before it decides it wants to die.
Watermelon wrote:... having an over-complex model in warzone would prolly kill fps,coz the max number of on-screen objects are huge/unpredictable...


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A University of Texas at Austin chemist has received a $1.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to expand research modeling "long-time" biological processes down to the last atom.
These simulations will model biological processes in atomic detail over wide ranges of time, from milliseconds to hours, allowing researchers to observe the fine details of movement in the time ranges they actually occur, said Ron Elber, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry and director of the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences' Center for Computational Life Sciences and Biology. He also holds the W. A. "Tex" Moncrief, Jr. Chair in Computational Life Sciences and Biology.
The grant, which will be awarded over four years, will be used to support more student and senior scientists who will aid in continuing and expanding research.
"Our group is on the forefront of development and applications to study long-time kinetics and investigate broad temporal scales," said Elber. "In the present cycle we focus on applications to conformational transitions in proteins that provide subtle control for many biological processes."
Currently, such atomically detailed simulations can typically only be run in time ranges shorter than a millisecond. This is much shorter than many important biochemical processes, including protein conformation change and substrate binding.
Elber has already modeled processes ranging from milliseconds to hours long by applying a technique he developed called Milestoning.
Milestoning uses a selection of atomic conformations at representative times these are the "milestones" that give the method its name and applies statistical and mechanistic theory to estimate the movement of atoms from one milestone to the next.
The result is a simulation that shows atomic and global molecular movement over a period of defined time.
The milestones and the atomic movements link them together, are split up and analyzed on high-performance parallel processing computers, which can process many milestones and linking trajectories at one time.
Elber uses the computing resources at the Texas Advanced Computing Center to analyze Milestoning data.
Elber has used the Milestoning method to model the movement of myosin the protein responsible for muscle movement. He's also used the technique to model how different molecules diffuse through a cell membrane, and how the HIV virus uses the enzyme reverse transcriptase to create a copy of itself than can be incorporated into a host genome.
In the future, Elber plans to expand on these research topics, including how mutations affect the function of myosin and reverse transcriptase.
"We will expand our studies of HIV reverse transcriptase in collaboration with Ken Johnson," said Elber, mentioning the fellow UT biochemistry professor. "We will examine selectivity by initial weak binding, and the effect of specific mutations on enzyme evolution, drug resistance and substrate specificity."
Another area that Elber hopes to investigate concerns a certain "chicken-or-egg" type of question: Does the binding of a molecule to its target initiate a conformational transition, or does the molecule select from conformations already present in the target?
"To address this and other questions we develop strategies to compute and assess alternative molecular mechanisms and pathways," said Elber.


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I can't help but think...
That all of this;
social media,
Is our spiritual training wheels.
Almost telepathically, we
s e n d m e s s a g e s
To the furthest flung places.
We understand intention, finally,
As we press return and send
And receive little words and pictures in return,
To our pockets,
our bedside tables,
our living rooms.
When we learn to ride a bike,
we fall off and injure ourselves
And as we wade through these new technologies
We hurt ourselves and each other
By getting too big...
...for our boots
or travelling....
further than we should
Or forgetting that sometimes we can't speak our minds
For the benefit of all involved.
...We learn to be diplomatic
as we edit and censor and chronicle our lives
But we learn it is best to be just as we are,
in this world,
in screen world.
With all our scars and interests,
With all our dreams and tunes.
We lean into it, we l e a r n into it,
We mutate.


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How To Make Part Of A Picture Transparent In Microsoft PowerPoint
When you insert an image, such as a corporate logo, onto a slide with a coloured background in Microsoft PowerPoint the results can look a bit rubbish.
|We really don't want to see the white rectangle surrounding the Wise Owl logo.
|We can make one of colours in the image transparent so that it looks like the image contains just the logo.
Making part of an image transparent works slightly differently depending on which version of PowerPoint you're using.
Making Part of an Image Transparent in PowerPoint 2003
First of all you'll need to insert an appropriate image into your presentation. To do this:
- From the menu select Insert -> Picture -> From File...
- Browse to where your image file is saved and then double-click on it.
Here we're inserting a small JPG file, but you could also use GIF or PNG files.
Once you've inserted your picture, you should see the Picture toolbar appear automatically. If you don't see this toolbar, from the menu choose View -> Toolbars -> Picture. Then:
- Select the picture you inserted earlier by clicking on it with the mouse.
- Click the Set Transparent Color tool on the Picture toolbar.
Click this button to choose which colour to make transparent.
- Hover the mouse over the picture you have inserted and then click on part of the image that is the colour you want to become transparent.
Click in part of the picture to make that colour become transparent.
Making Part of an Image Transparent in PowerPoint 2007 and 2010
To begin with you'll need to insert an appropriate image file into your presentation. To do this:
- From the Ribbon, select Insert -> Picture.
- Browse to the image you want to insert and double-click on it.
Here we're using a small JPG file, but you could also use GIF or PNG images.
When you've inserted the image into your presentation you can make part of it transparent. To do this:
- Select the image that you want to make transparent.
- In PowerPoint 2007 from the Ribbon, select Format -> Recolor -> Set Transparent Color. In PowerPoint 2010, select Format -> Color -> Set Transparent Color.
|Choose this option in PowerPoint 2007.
|Choose this option in PowerPoint 2010.
- Click on part of the image that is the same colour as the one you want to make transparent.
The End Result
Once you've done this you should find that every part of the image that was the same colour as the one you clicked on is now transparent.
We should probably have chosen a better background colour.
It's worth mentioning that you can use this same technique in all of the other standard Microsoft Office applications, but it's most commonly used in PowerPoint.


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A's score 3 in 9th to defeat Astros
They took their sweet time about it, and didn't play particularly well in the interim, but the A's continued their mastery of the Astros on Saturday at the Coliseum nonetheless.
After making two errors and stranding numerous runners, Oakland scored three times in the ninth to beat Houston 4-3 and improve to 12-5 overall, matching the A's best record after 17 games in the past 33 years. The A's, 22-5 all-time against Houston, remained in first place in the AL West with the league's best record.
Josh Reddick, who appears to be getting back on track after a slow start, supplied the winning hit, a single to right-center off Chad Qualls with one out in the ninth.
"We came back and battled our butts off," Reddick said.
Reddick joked that he has picked up the pace because he found a box of his bats over hot-hitting Alberto Callaspo's locker, so he's been using those bats. More on-field batting practice, after rain canceled many early workouts, also has helped. Reddick, who went 4 for his first 41 with one RBI, is 6-for-9 with a homer and three RBIs in this series.
"It feels good going from a guy thinking the first week, 'How am I even going to touch this baseball?' to 'How am I even going to think about getting out?' " Reddick said. "It's a great turnaround, a great time to be back in the box with some confidence."
With the exception of a run-scoring double by Craig Gentry in the third, the A's did little besides strand runners the first eight innings, leaving 12 men on. Then Jed Lowrie lined a homer down the right-field line off Qualls to start the ninth, Josh Donaldson walked and Yoenis Céspedes singled. With one out, Callaspo drove in Donaldson with a base hit to center, tying the game.
"We seem to get our best at-bats late in games," Oakland manager Bob Melvin said. "Even though it wasn't pretty for a while early on, we had opportunities not only with runners in scoring position but situational at-bats where we didn't come through. That's why we play to the 27th out. Almost every at-bat in the ninth inning was fantastic."
The A's made two errors Saturday and have made at least one in each of the past eight games and 18 errors overall, most in the majors. In an effort to combat the team's fielding issues, the A's did fielding drills before Friday's game.
"We're a better defensive team than we've shown recently," Melvin said.
The Astros got a run in the fifth when Jonathan Villar doubled with one out, stole third and raced in on a throwing error by catcher Derek Norris. Villar also homered in the third, a shot to center that Gentry came inches from touching. It was the first homer that Scott Kazmir had allowed this season.
Kazmir, who went eight innings, gave up six hits and no walks and struck out five. In his four outings this season, he has 24 strikeouts and four walks. He said he had none of the triceps tightness that slightly cut short his previous start.
"Pitched basically in the same fashion we've seen every time," Melvin said of Kazmir, whose ERA stands at 1.65.
In the fourth, Houston scored when Chris Carter doubled and came around on a single by Matt Dominguez.
Oakland's first run came in the third, when Daric Barton doubled and scored on a double by Gentry, who collected two hits and is 7 for his past 15. Coco Crisp pinch hit for him in the sixth and walked to load the bases. Lowrie popped up to end the inning, however.
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So. It's been almost exactly 18 months since the shit first hit the fan.
I am not sure that I've ever talked, here, about exactly how bad it was, mostly because I couldn't talk about it while I was living through it and then because when things would improve I needed to not think about how bad they had been. But that was legitimately the hardest thing I've ever done, the worst thing I've ever lived through, and I know that makes me lucky, but I am also here to tell you that if it were not for my children, if it were not for the fact that I KNOW that my Eli needs me, if it were not for the fact that I would never do that to my children, I wouldn't be here today. My children were my tether to the earth, and the only thing worse than the feeling of wanting it all to end was knowing that I would have to continue on in the hell of my existence forever, and visualizing, every day, turning, accidentally, into traffic, so that it would all end anyway and it wouldn't be my fault.
I never understood what The Bloggess meant when she said "depression lies" and then I said it every day, every hour, every second, like a mantra. It got me through.
And then it got better. It started to get better. I found a wonderful doctor, who made me go back on anti depressants when my idea to just white knuckle it through on my own turned out to be a super bad one, and he made me go to therapy when anti depressants turned out to not be enough on their own. And I found a great therapist. I've been going to therapy for about nine months and I went from slow breathing so I wouldn't vomit on my way in the door to feeling like I have one more person who is really really on my side, rooting for me hard.
And don't get me wrong. She has a lot of company. While I don't recommend depression and anxiety and total mental breakdowns as marriage enhancements, per se, I do recommend having Erik by your side if you have one, because I never doubted for one minute that he was right there, doing his part of the old "in sickness" bit day in and day out. He worked a full day and then came home and did EVERYTHING for a year, I'd say. He was the most exceptional human. He IS the most exceptional human. And my BFF Sara drove for hours and took my children back to her house for FIVE days at a moment's notice, and then drove for hours again and brought them home, and Maggie Cheung came and sat with Katie in my backyard while I slept off a bad medication hangover, and it was supposed to be her VACATION. And Jennie and Kristie and Emily propped me up through at least one and a half Blatherings, and Christina emailed me every day to see how it was going, and Amy sent me text messages and listened and understood and now I'm worried that I am leaving someone out because my friends are extraordinary, my in laws took Eli for practically an entire summer and my mother paid for therapy when I couldn't afford it and my insurance wouldn't cover it and Caitlin threw me a Justin Bieber birthday party and I canceled on Elisabeth and Sarah a million times and my neighbors were my village and the internet sent me care packages and gift cards and postcards and notes and I waded through a river of shit, but I was not alone. I was never alone.
Everyone said that eighteen months was when things would really start to get better, and I couldn't even think about that because 18 months of the worst experience of my life sounded like something I just could not do, but just as with all the other things I knew I couldn't do, one day at a time, one foot in the front of the other, one frozen pizza at a time, I did it, and here we are. And I wasn't even counting, I haven't been counting at all, but just the other day I realized that I was finally starting to feel like myself again, and I took a quick minute to tick months off on my fingers (what am I, a mathlete?) and sure enough, here we are. 18.
I still have lots of anxiety. I still am working so hard on so many things, but one of the things I am doing in therapy, which is really not a big deal, is reworking my entire values system, because the one I learned as a child was all kinds of screwed up. That shouldn't be too hard, to learn a whole new way of thinking, right?
I hesitate, a bit, to write about this here, because it makes me sound like a tremendous asshole, and I don't think I am a tremendous asshole, just someone who had the wool pulled over her eyes about life by someone for some formative years. Because while it turns out that hopefully, I am not a tremendous asshole, I do have some very very flawed ideas about what makes a good person.
Last week, my therapist told me: "Lots of people with good taste are AWFUL people." and I DISAGREED WITH HER. I disagreed with her, in fancy roundabout ways, for almost an entire overpriced 50 minute session, and she said it over and over again, and finally a light bulb went off with that one simple sentence that is actually SO EFFING TRUE, and then I spent the next week with a list running through my head of what things, what actual things, make me a good person, and the list, unfortunately, was very short.
I think I am a good friend. I try hard to be a good friend. And if you get sick or have a baby I will make you several grocery bags full of food, and I will bring you wine and cookies AND home made bread. But that's about all I've got, and that? That's just not how I want to live my life. That's not the sum total of what I want on the list at the end of the day.
And I cycled through a lot of other things. Things most of you would scoff at. I searched for good in a long list of really stupid things. I have well dressed children. I am smart, I am funny, I read The New Yorker. I am dressed better than 80% of the other moms at school 80% of the time. I have an expensive purse and Frye boots! I have an Iphone! People tell me all the time I have great hair on Instagram! I think I'm a good writer. Our Christmas card was so cute! I read 150 books a year! I am beating everyone in the world who only read 149 books! I WIN AT THAT! I picked a perfect paint color for the dining room! People have pinned shit I have made on Pinterest! LOTS OF TIMES! I HAVE EXCELLENT TASTE.
And none of that shit goes on the good person list. None of that actually counts, when it comes to that list.
The good news is, I have big dreams. When it comes to things I care about, when it comes to ways I would like to work to make the world a better place? That list is long. (Childhood hunger, women's reproductive rights, gun control, the right for every person to get married to whoever they want to get to married to, the Democratic party, literacy, my kids school, outlawing the playing of "Manic Monday" on the radio on any day but Monday, you get the idea.)
But the list of things I am actually doing? It is SHORT. It is almost nothing.
The bad news is that I am also working on lots of other things, and one of those things is to be careful not to do too much, and the other things are just totally simple things like mourning the childhood I wanted but didn't get, rewriting my inner voice, learning to be selfish and also unselfish, more effective parenting of my high maintenance child, more communication and emotional intimacy in my marriage, learning to establish healthy boundaries instead of letting people walk all over me and then getting mad at them behind their backs, letting go of perfectionism, getting more cardio, failing to lose ten pounds, finally going to the dentist and the eye doctor and the gynecologist, working on my social anxiety, doing more self care, and buying more shoes. (I made that last one up, maybe.)
But here is the thing. In the last six months or so, every single time I have stopped at a red light by a homeless person standing in the intersection or by the side of the road, and I have averted my eyes until I could start driving again? Well. I can remember every one of those moments like they happened this morning. I HATE those moments. I HATE THEM. I am not saying this to brag, but because I am ashamed, because those moments are burned on my soul, and yet, I have done nothing. Nothing.
But words without sacrifice? They are just words. And so I am going to do something. I am going to take some of the money I would normally spend on crap at Target or blush or more dresses I don't need and I am going to buy some socks and some toothpaste and some energy bars and anything that anyone else would like to suggest in the comments, and I am going to make six bags of stuff and I am going to keep them in my car, and I am not going to Instagram it, I am not going to write about it again, I am not going to tweet about how great it makes me, I am not going to tell anyone about it, but the next time I see someone down on their luck, standing there needing help, holding a sign, I am going to hand them a bag, and then in my head I am going to write one more thing on that list of "Good Things I Do", and while I thank you from the bottom of my cold black heart for telling me I have pretty hair on Instagram, I am hopeful that someday I could shave my head, and I would still have a long long list of things that make me a good person, almost all of them totally non hair related.
Here's to the next 18 months, internet. And thank you.
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This report will be split into five parts. First we will briefly examine the history of Europeann integration since 1945, and how the EU came into being. Next we will look at the major bodies of the modern EU, and critique their roles. We will then look at why the EU came into being from a Marxist perspective. Moving from theory to a more pragmatic approach, we will look at several myths and misconceptions around why Britain should remain part of the EU and complete with an examination of what we can now do.
After WWII there was a feeling among the ruling class that there should be greater integration between the states of Western Europe. Important early markers of this were the Hague Congress in 1948, that established the College of Europe "where Europe's future leaders would live and study together" (1) and the creation of European Coal and Steel Community in 1952. The Treaty of Rome in 1957 created the European Economic Community between Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and West Germany. This established a customs union (an area where there is no tax on goods moved within the area, and centrally decided tax for goods moving into the area). A European Atomic energy community was created in the same year, and all three groups united under a merger treaty in 1967. Over the next 20 years, more countries joined including the UK in 1985. Also in 1985, the Schengen agreement removed passport controls between member states, although the UK is not a signatory to this. In 1993, the Copenhagen agreement established the criteria which new countries had to meet in order to be eligible to apply to join. In 1992 the Maastricht treaty was signed. This not only widened the scope of previous treaties, but started the process of creating a single currency and, importantly, set economic requirements for the member states. This included things such as "sound fiscal policies, with debt limited to 60% of GDP and annual deficits no greater than 3% of GDP" (2) and, for countries wishing to join the single currency, limiting inflation to within 1.5% of the minimum within the union and interest rates to within 2% of the minimum within the union. This effectively limits countries from borrowing to invest and also enforces austerity. In 2002, the euro was introduced and the membership has gradually pushed further and further east. The Lisbon treaty in 2007 added further centralisation to the EU, creating a permanent President of the European Council and further merging EU structures into one body. All EU countries had to ratify the treaty, however Ireland was the only country that had a public referendum on the treaty. This referendum rejected the Lisbon treaty, but a modified version was forced through.
The next section is an examination of the major bodies of the EU to enable us to analyse them more effectively. First there is the EU Parliament, made up of 751 MEPs elected every 5 years. Their role is to pass laws based on proposals from the European Commission, asking the commission to propose legislation, making decisions on international agreements and EU enlargement, ratifying the budget and scrutinising the work of the European Council and European Commission (3). You will note that none of these roles includes actually proposing and passing legislation, simply endorsing or rejecting laws proposed by the Commission. As the Campaign Against Eurofederalism points out "The European Parliament cannot raise taxes, write the Budget, raise an armed force or a police force, does not control the mint or the European Central Bank. The Parliament cannot initiate legislation but does 'co-decide' with the Council of Ministers on legislation which emanates from the Commission. Legislation can be blocked by the Parliament but this can be got around by the Commission representing this in an amended form". (4) The EU itself admits that "The Council is not legally obliged to take account of Parliament's opinion but in line with the case-law of the Court of Justice, it must not take a decision without having received it" (5)
The next body to be addressed is the European Council. This is a meeting of relevant government ministers from each EU country aiming to discuss issues, amend and adopt laws and co – ordinate policies on an EU wide basis (3). Government ministers are also able to commit their national governments to the actions agreed during the meetings (3). Confusingly there is also a Council of Europe. This is a meeting of heads of state of the national governments, chaired by a permanent president who is selected by the heads of state. This body sets the long term political direction of the EU, but doesn't directly have any role in law making. Last, but by no means least, is the European Commission. This body is the executive arm of the EU. It is made up from Commissioners, one from each member state. These Commissioners are appointed by the national governments, there are no elections to get the position and no way to remove a Commissioner that is not serving the interests of their population. The Commission's two main roles are being the only body that can actually propose legislation, and the body responsible for implementing any legislation made (3). Therefore, they have tremendous power to dictate the policies and practices of the EU.
Other important bodies include the European central bank, and the European Court of Justice. This is completely different to the European Court of Human Rights, which is not even an EU body. The Court of Justice is an important body in the EU as it's role is to limited "to meet objectives of general interest recognised by the Union" (6). This means that, should progressives ever manage to take control of the Council of Europe, the European Commission and the European Parliament, they could be prosecuted in the Court of Justice as one of the standards that the Court is legally bound to uphold is the right of businesses to 'freedom of establishment' (6). Some on the left have celebrated the Court of Justice as EU law takes precedence over national law, and therefore felt that the EU can enforce workers rights against a right wing national government. However, the rules surrounding the Court say "the modalities and limits for the exercise of collective action, including strike action, come under national law and practices" (6). In cases such as the Viking and Vaxholm cases the COJ ruled that multinationals could import labour from Eastern Europe to Scandinavia and pay them at the much lower Eastern European rate (7), thus showing that the COJ is firmly on the side of big business. If further evidence is needed, the COJ has given a green light to tax evasion. There is a popular scam by multinational corporations operating in a EU country with a high tax rate to set up a subsidiary in an EU country with a much lower tax rate. The majority of profits can then be declared as being made in the subsidiary, resulting in a much lower tax bill (8). This was challenged, but the COJ ruled that this would only be illegal if one could prove that the subsidiary was SOLELY set up to avoid taxes (8).
To understand the purpose of the EU under capitalism, we must turn to a Marxist analysis. Capitalists employ workers to turn raw materials into a product which can then be sold. The capitalist's income is made from profits; that is the amount that the final product is sold for, minus the cost of the raw materials and the wages paid to the workers. The capitalist will want to maximise profits, and the easiest way to do this is to reduce the amount that they pay to workers as much as possible, as the capitalist has more control over wages than over the cost of raw materials. However, the employees of the capitalist class are also the customers of the capitalist class. This leads to problems as if, by definition, the workers are being paid less than the value of the final products, they can not afford to buy all the products the capitalists are trying to sell, and so there is a "crisis of overproduction". There are various ways that capitalism deals with this, but one of the most popular is by opening up new markets for products. This means that your workers do not form ALL of your customer base, and so prolongs the time before an over production crisis. A traditional way of doing this is to go to war to conquer other countries (this has the additional benefit of creating a huge demand for goods during the war, and then again in rebuilding the conquered country. Collateral damage is worth big bucks). However by establishing the EU, a British capitalist (for example) now has all of Europe as their customer base rather than just Britain. Also, the free movement of labour within the EU dramatically increases the pool of workers. This means that there is a massive supply of employees, for the same demand of jobs. This was acknowledged by Marx saying "the creation of a reserve army of unemployed"(9). Therefore, wages can be pushed down and "troublemakers" fired. Therefore, although much is made of the EU being good as it brought peace to Europe and promotes internationalism, it is actually that capitalism is simply staving off the crisis of overproduction in an era when capitalists have a multinational rather than national character. The formation of these trusts was predicted by Engels in Socialism: Scientific and Utopian, with marx predicting the fusion of industry and capital that we now see.If further evidence is needed that the EU is an explicitly capitalist project, we need only to look at the Copenhagen criteria for membership of the EU that require "a stable democracy … and … a functioning market economy" (10)
We have outlined how the EU came into being as a capitalist entity and the ways in which it is fundamentally undemocratic. However, many argue that, from a pragmatic point of view, the EU should be supported as it brings benefits to working people. However, this position is based on some misconceptions and we will deal with some of them now. One major argument for the EU is that it gives working people access to the European Court of Human Rights. This is a misconception because the ECHR is not an EU body, and so access to it is in no way related to being an EU member. There is the suggestion, particularly in Wales, that millions of jobs are dependent on continued membership of the EU. However, this claim does not stand up to scrutiny. There was a study 10 years ago that 3.5 million British jobs depended on EU membership, however this study has since been disproven by the original author. Independent checking of the figures suggest ""Figures from the early 2000s suggest around three million jobs are linked to trade with the European Union, they don't say they are dependent on the UK being an EU member. Using similar methods, a similar figure today has shown closer to 4.5 million jobs, but this still doesn't show how many are dependent on UK membership" (11), in 2004 the National Institute of Economic and Social Research put the figure at 3.2 million jobs associated with export to EU countries, but also stated that "there is no…reason to suppose that many of these, if any, would be lost permanently if Britain were to leave the EU." (11). There is also the fact that heavy industry is being relocated from the UK to other, cheaper parts of the EU under the freedom of movement of capital, which clearly costs jobs in the UK (11). Examples of this include Pergeot closing the Ryton plant in Coventry to relocate to Slovakia (11) and Ford moving production from Southampton to Turkey (11). This flight of capital to areas with the lowest wages is actively supported by EU regional funding (11). The Working Time directive has been tremendously valuable in industries like my own, medicine, however it is often made out to be more than it actually is. Not only are there ample opportunities for countries and employers to "encourage" their workers to opt out (12), some countries with very progressive Labour laws, such as France, have used the directive as a bench mark to pull back to and actually increase hours and worsen working conditions (12). This undermining of hard fought national agreements is the real motivation behind the directive (12).
I hope I have demonstrated that the EU is an undemocratic bosses club that serves the bosses interests, however left wing social movements, such as Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain are very wedded to the idea of remaining in the EU (13), It is also a feature of these parties that they tend to want to "fix capitalism" and reform within capitalism. They often fail to recognise that this simply prolongs the onset of crises, and the long term solution is to replace capitalism.We are currently seeing the crisis of self destruction that this position has caused both within Syriza and in the whole of Greece. In Britain there is going to be a referendum on the EU in 2017. However one must not be fooled into thinking that Cameron and the conservatives actually want to leave the EU. Over the next 2 years we will inevitably see Cameron presenting a narrative that his threat of referendum has caused the EU to compromise and give Britain a much better deal, and that we should now all vote to stay in under the better deal. The mainstream media will also continue to present the EU as a left wing project, and portray all opposition as coming from the "Little Englander" far right. This will not only drown out the left wing case for exit, but give a boost to UKIP and their allies who will be seen as the only ones representing a significant section of euro – sceptic public opinion. It is therefore vital that the euro – sceptic left start making out case for exit loudly, and early before the right have a chance to drown us out.
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4. The European Parliament: An expensive fig leaf misnamed 'democracy'. The Democrat. November-December 2008.
5. : European Parliment; [25th August 2015]. Available from: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/aboutparliament/en/20150201PVL00004/Legislative-powers.
6. European court of justice. The Democrat. September-October 2008.
7. Denny B. EU court cases and 'flexicurity' equals insecurity. In: Boyd J, editor. Social Europe is a Con: Selected essays and articles: Democrat Press; 2012.
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10. Presidency Conclusions, Copenhagen European Council 1993 [25th August 2015]. Available from: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/enlargement/ec/pdf/cop_en.pdf.
11. Denny B. EU 3.5 million jobs lie. The Democrat. 2014 March-April.
12. EU's Working Time Directive equals 'Flexploitation'. The Democrat. 2009 January-February.
13. Denny B. Referendum wake-up call. The Democrat. 2015.
Written by Thabo Miller
What's life really like in Blaenafon,
Wealth Taxes
and the
European Union?
Many people including myself love living in the north Gwent town of Blaenafon.
Blaenafon is home to Big Pit / Pwll Mawr the village of Forgeside's coal mine and
National Museum. It attracts millions of tourists from around the world and is
threatened by the cutbacks. It also welcomes local people and provides labour
history education with a brilliant gift shop, displays, galleries and cafe.
However the question has to be posed, what is life like for the people of the town.
This question includes Working People, LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and
Transgender), trade unionists and organised labour people, the Unemployed,
Shop keepers, those with physical and mental conditions, Senior Citizens,
children and young people, Women and BEMS (Black and Ethnic Minorities).
All of equal import.
Blaenafon's has a proud history of industry, leisure and some very beautiful
scenery being built on two mountains, the Coity and the Blorenge. In 1891
11,45 people lived here, by 1913 over 13000 people lived here before World
War I. If you come to town do visit Blaenafon's colliery Big Pit / Pwll Mawr, the
world famous Iron Works / Gwaeth Hearn and the commercial centre on Broad
Street. The pubs the Pottery and Riflemans are also worth a visit too having a
history of the town and industry as well. The outlying pubs the Whistle, the
Racehorse and the Lamb and Flag are also remarkable in their original character
and histories of when communities were bigger.
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At present Blaenafon's population is growing with the construction of new
accommodation. With regards to tourism there are a few B&Bs, the Crown on
Varteg and the Queens which may rent rooms. The Rooster as well has
accomodation for rent.
The cutbacks, sickness and old age have taken their toll on the population with
suicides, death and emigration becoming increasingly common place.
We have a brand new health centre and a brand new primary school in
Blaenafon, delivering free health care for all and education for new generations.
There is much hope alongside outright despair, the motto of the town is Hope is
Not Broken, a very apt saying for all those who want to improve the lives of
everybody in the town.
The town has no permanently staffed police station and people seem generally
safe in their homes and on the street apart from the rare occurrences of
frustration, anger and alienation.
Blaenafon is a town where children can still play in the streets and are all not on
state lock down.
Tennants can have a hard time having to deal with aggressive and bullying
private sector landlords not to mention the anti tenant ethos of some who own
their own houses. Bron Afon the result of the Council sell off is always on the
verge of bankrupcy which means insecurity for the workforce and a potential
bonanza for the private rented sector.
Even for those who own their own houses mortgages are hard to repay with
some people literally working till they drop, travelling many miles to far away jobs.
If you are a full time worker which many are, how can you join or be active in
your union with the mortgage hanging like a mill stone round your neck. People
manage it but a credit based society is a disincentive for working class
For those who work in the valleys low wages are often the fruit of a hard weeks
work. Wales boasts many small and medium sized business. Funding to increase
workers wages and expand small businesses will have to be won from the
Westminister parliament, the Welsh Assembly and possible funding from the
European Union (Wales contributes more to the EU than it recieves in funding)
and United Nations. Blaenafon is a UNESCO World Heritage site
after all.
Everybody has the right to join a union and trade unions are preparing to fight
back against the anti union laws which shackle workers rights. Everybody should
have the right to collective strike action, the right to withdraw one's labour and to
take time off sick.
Working people make the wealth not the bosses.
There is however a hidden side to Blaenafon that needs to be publicised; there
are hard core racists, fascists, sexists and anti working class elements in the
town who specialise in the hatred of everybody else.
Their aim is to terrorise and stop BEMs, people who stand out, eg. the Fat, Red
Heads, Drinkers, Smokers, the Skinny, Goths, Rockers, Dreads, Single Mothers /
Fathers, the LGBT people, Trade Unionists, Pacifists, CND, the religious,
solidarity activists, peace campaigners,the Disabled, Feminists, Travellers,
Women, Children, OAPs, the Business community and the Working Class as a
whole doing anything without their say so. This must be stopped as it endangers
harmonious community relations and tarnishes our reputation abroad.
My late sister Catherine Ann Ruth Brown died in 2007 of chicken pox pneumonia
and spent her life fighting back against racism and oppression.
Myself as an active Communist have come up against the most bizarre and
backward ideas from a reactionary minority of the population.
Domestic violence can also be a problem with mainly women being beaten by
violent partners. Why the lack of help for the victims for domestic violence locally?
Elder abuse at various levels is also a phenomenon with senior citizens
threatened with nursing homes if they do not comply with baby sitting requests
from their adult children. If the Grandparents were to withdraw their free labour
society would grind to a halt.
Family planning, STDs and unwanted pregnancies will also increase if the health
care centre does not have qualified staff available. I had to travel all the way to
Cwmbran for condoms. My friends had to scour the next valley for
The Clap clinic in Newport is too far for many.
I have met an active trade unionist born and bred in Blaenafon who was driven
from the area for his trade union activities in what has been historically a
company town.
This has to be changed from without and within.
The people of Blaenafon are not apathetic politically neither are we stupid.
When our sister community Varteg, was threatened with an open cast, the local
Miners Institute was packed with people who were against the despoilation of the
Varteg and surrounding area. The dangers posed by heavy duty lorries
thundering along the roads keeping to bosses deadlines and traffic jams caused
by the afore mentioned lorries, health and safety is paramount why should coal
dust from unsheeted lorries poison peoples lungs plus the danger
to school children posed by high volumes of traffic.
The counter argument for the open cast is that while it scars the beautiful
landscape it does provide jobs with a multiplier effect. eg. 20 miners are likely to
support a fleet of lorries, burger vans, pubs, etc
The Garn yr erw lakes are evidence of a community campaign that made a
private company open cast mine a nature preserve and place where people can
walk their dogs and feed the wild birds.
This also increased the value of the houses in the local area.
When HSBC closed our only local bank the Workmans Hall was full of people
demanding it be kept open so that people could have access to their money.
Not everybody trusts cash machines and who can blame them with reports of
bank fraud a common occurrence in today's worlds. What is wrong with having a
locally staffed bank with a counter, paying in slips and a manager so that
businesses, individuals, organisations, senior citizens and every body else can
make deposits, arrange loans, and withdraw our hard earned cash. Why do
people have to travel to Pontypool or Cwmbran to do their banking.
Life is hard enough why can't we have all the shops, facilities, and public
services at our finger tips. Where for instance is the mobile library, meals on
wheels and community hospital transport.
Lone working and not enough time off for maternity / paternity can cause problems for
working people. First and foremost lone working can cause burn out, loneliness
and is a health and safety hazard to the lone worker.
e.g if violence or anti social behaviour is unleashed there is no help or witness on
hand. With regards to Maternity / Paternity the company must provide cover or
stress of the existing workforce will result. Of course pregnant mothers and new
parents need time off.
Where is the local job centre?
Those on Job Seekers Allowance actually have to pay an ever increasing bus
fare to get to Pontypwl to sign on. This is wrong JSA is a very low benefit, travel
eats into jobseekers income and food, heating, electricity and gas money. They
have nothing left over to buy birthday presents or have a pint, tea, coffee, or
breakfast at any cafe or restaurants.
When the swimming pool and Leisure Centre / Canolfan Hamdden was
demolished by the Labour controlled Torfaen council, people were up in arms
about it. The campaign made national news. It was fought for by the coal miners
with their vision of a better society. A place where people could exercise and
A place where children were safe and supervised by paid trained staff. Both
myself and my sister were among the many thousands of people that used
Blaenafon Leisure Centre from an early age right up to the time it was
demolished. Gone is the Leisure Centre reception, the Slush Puppy machine, the
Showers, the Changing rooms, the guest and family seating, the pool itself, with
a deep and shallow end.
What an act of social vandalism.
Another resource that was hard won was Blaenafon Flower, Recreation Park and
Rugby pitch. Football playing fields are also excellent ways to enjoy ourselves
through the medium of sport. These must remain with the community and not
Torfaen Council have yet to replace the pool running the risk of young people
drowning in mountain ponds and lakes. If healthy living is the mantra then let
TCBC and the Senedd campaign for more money from Central Government to
build us a new asbestos free leisure centre on safe surveyed idle land. This
should include a minibus to take people up and down the very steep hills to and
from the proposed Leisure Centre and Swimming pool.
Community transport would also be vital for those people with leg, lung and heart
problems to and from the new hospital. Why should ill health be a barrier to
Panteg hospital the birthplace of many local citizens has recently had its heart
and stroke unit closed. It was once a local workhouse and has historical
significance too. How long before Talygarn and Panteg are threatened by local
government reorganisation or Cameron's cutbacks. The NHS is never safe under
a Tory government
(See Nye Bevan pamphlet Never Trust a Tory. Aneurin Bevan was a Tredegar
MPand founder of the NHS under the post war 1945 Labour government)
The question will be asked who is going to pay for new leisure facilities. Instead
of selling off the parks and football pitches there is an alternative.
Newport and Valleys branch say impose a local income tax to replace the
Council Tax. Tax the wealthy to spend developing our community. Impose an all
Welsh wealth tax on all companies that make super profits from the labour of
Welsh people. Tax the big multinationals at a supra national level and invest in
Develop a capital export tax on a local, national and all British level to stop
companies taking their capital abroad and thus depriving people of jobs. If the
wealth is made locally, in Wales, England or Scotland, then that wealth will have
to stay there and the public or those who work within those industries, can run
those operations if the rich decide to leave the country.
The European Union stipulates the free movement of labour and capital. British
people will have to vote No to the EU unless they want British job seekers being
farmed out to Poland, France, Spain, Croatia etc.
We are going to have to vote No unless we want British big businesses leaving
for cheaper labour elsewhere.
Under EU rules it is illegal for member states to nationalise any part of their
economy. This would hinder any left wing government bringing key
sectors of the economy into public ownership. Gas, Electricity, the Railways,
Telecommunications, Buses, Oil, etc
Over 16,000 people in Torfaen just elected a new Labour MP Nicklaus Thomas
Symonds, a Blaenafon bred barrister. He was educated in St. Albans Secondary
like myself and went to Oxford to study Law while I went to Caerleon to study
Labour and Trade Union Studies.
The difference is stark Nicolas Thomas Symonds always says he learnt his
Socialism from his Grand Father without saying what exactly his Socialism
With me I publish my views like all good Comnmunists should. (Communist
Manifesto 1848) Do send your articles to this website for publication)
MP Symonds is on record supporting free health care and free comprehensive
education, good let's hope he sticks to it.
What he is very bad on is supporting working people in struggle and the
unemployed who need state benefits, pensions and decent wages to survive. He
abstained from the Welfare Reform Bill.
His mission it seems is to drive the sick and disabled onto the job market who will
then be blamed for undercutting current waged workers. The answer is simple
Nick fight for more jobs for everybody so there is a surplus of jobs, fight for the
renovation of derelict buildings and put them to social use, fight when TRW
closes, investigate the Green New Deal bring solar panel technology production
to Blaenafon.
Why not compulsory purchase the old ironmasters house in Blaenafon, the old
hospital and old nursing home the Beeches. This could be turned into a trade
union conference centre like Worthy Hall. The labour movement needs new infra
structure after losing the Hill in Abergavenny / Y-Fenni.
Fight for trade union rights and against the anti union laws.
What we as a town, nation and federal state need is an end to Tory domination
and a Left wing government including Socialists, Greens, Communists,
progressive Nationalists and left wing independents MPs in office.
This can only be achieved by parliamentary and extra parliamentary struggle.
No Hope is Not broken there is a mass campaign to elect Jeremy Corbyn as
leader of the Labour Party despite Blairite skull duggery and the de registering of
many thousands of Labour Party supporters. This movement alongside the
Peoples Assembly, the Trade Unions, the anti racist and anti fascist
organisations, the disabled, human and civil rights activists and many other anti
left Tory groups mean that David Cameron and his policies can be challenged.
Let us bring this government down as swiftly as possible and replace it with a
peoples Left Wing government. Can we do it? As President Obama the first
Black President of the USA used to say, before he bombed the people of Libya
and let the police kill Black people, YES WE CAN.
Written by Dave Brown
Branch Secretary
Newport and Valleys Branch
Communist Party
Next time you are punished, discriminated against or sacked just say 'Is it because I'm a proleterian' ... Next time the anti union laws are used just say ... 'is it because I'm a trade unionist, next time you hear a fascist 'say is it your leadership.' next time your censored say 'is it because I'm a Communist'
Jane Case
Next time you are punished, censored or discriminated against just say ... is it because I'm a proletarian ...is it because I'm a peace campaigner... is it because I'm in solidarity with the Palestinian people ... is it because I'm in solidarity with the people of Cuba ... and to rank and file nazis just say is it because your're a class traitor .. to their leadership ... is it because your rich and want to poison, distort and use people against humanity
By Jane Case
GENERAL ELECTION MAY 7th 2015
To Create Jobs - Much needed renovation and investment and the creation of local jobs
More public sector housing - we all need a place to live, unemployed builders and decorators could be employed to build more public sector housing.
No to EU – Withdraw from the undemocratic, anti public spending, bankers treaty
A Wealth tax on the rich including speculators and the spivs of the City of London
Employ more tax inspectors to specifically target wealthy tax evasion
Nationalising the banks and using that wealth to abolish poverty
Defending the NHS and investment in better more available health care
No Cut Backs
Renationalisation of essential utilities like Water, Gas, Electricity, Telecommunications and the Railways
Scrapping the Bed Room Tax and VAT
The abolition of the Monarchy and the House of Lords
It is with great sadness that we mark the passing away of Comrade Doug McLeod.
A dedicated, kind and decent human being
Newport and Valleys Branch
Communist Party
No more murder
No more mass murder
No more NATO
Neutralise NATO with Love and protest, let's disband it together
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Protecting the NHS and its potential
Apart from defending our own immediate health needs there are other reasons to keep the NHS public and to protect it from the cutbacks and privatisation maniacs.
We could with a left wing government be planning for a publicly owned production and care base for the NHS that could meet the nation's health needs and export health products, expertise and techniques to the benefit of the people of this planet. This would secure and maintain millions of jobs. Instead of exporting terror, torture equipment and bombs we could be exporting specialists, respirators, pain killers, counselling techniques and medical manuals to train doctors abroad. This is possible as has been shown by the people of Cuba who despite the US blockade on items that include everything from aspirin to heart stents and sanitary towels. Cuban health workers are sent to every international disaster to provide medical relief. Instead of being a nuclear armed superpower we could become a medical superpower. If the Cuban people can do it, why can't we?
Is there an alternative to Con Dem Britain?
The creation of jobs by Westminister, the Welsh Assembly, and local borough councils is key to solving many of the problems in Torfaen, Gwent, and throughout Britain. Yet the opposite is true, people are suffering from record unemployment levels and wages are frozen with the rising cost of living. Why because the richest people in Britain have become even richer despite the capitalist economic crisis?
Is there an alternative or do we let the rich off paying taxes?
If the rich were forced to pay taxes wealth could be redistributed to build a society with well paid and rewarding jobs, safe and non hazardous work with social hours, hospitals opened instead of closed, public services expanding instead of being cut, manufacturing with associated research and design, good quality public transport and free education. The challenge could be on to abolish poverty instead of waging unnecessary and immoral wars on the peoples of other countries.
None of this can be achieved by simply wishing it. One way this can be achieved is by building a democratic anti monopoly alliance to take on the interests of Britain's multi-national companies and the government that represents them.
The NHS, the largest employer in the world, was created by mass struggle inside and outside parliament. Pensions, benefits, workplace rights and public sector housing, struggles against sexism, racism and homophobia, ongoing as they are, represent the fact that significant gains can be wrested from the capitalist class. Mass resistance to the unelected Con-Dem government will have to be waged in order to build a society fit to live in.
Have a listen to the song by Joan Baez singing 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone' and say like the head of the unelected Con Dem government's PM:
"And that's why we need Trident"
It doesn't make sense does it.
Well that's David Cameron's position on the latest US fantasty involving guess what nuclear war on our planet - EARTH.
Where is the negotiation? And has somebody been playing Fall Out a bit too much.
Anyone checking their ticklist on a New American Century model President D W Bush's Axis of Evil. On the list was Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran, North Korea
and Cuba.
What happened to the Peace Dividend? You know after the Cold War and nuclear disarmament and new publically owned schools, hospitals, housing and jobs,
insteadof massive public sector spending on Nuclear weapons like Trident.
NO David Cameron we don't need Trident with its world destroying capacity.
Challenging right wing orthodoxies
Why can't we build more local schools?
It's not me it's the others.
The Ukrainians.
Their not here yet
Aren't they?
Well if they are we'll need to build more schools, hospitals and houses.
We'll need more food, free education, scientists to understand, predict and stop the effects of climate change. Locally we might need civil engineers to check valley towns and Newport City aren't subsiding into the river.
New trading links with economies we may not already be trading with.
Brazil, China, Russia, India and South Africa.
When was the last time you or I had a foreign holiday or even a national one?
A peaceful foreign policy, social policies like community centres, free food distribution points to feed hungry people, full employment, becoming a medical superpower instead of supine tools to the US, the EU or our own capitalist class. Actually why can't we choose from a range of vacant jobs. If you can't work you should be provided for, from the cradle to grave. Free public sector housing instead of pouring money down the throats of the overstuffed slum lords, spivs and property developers. What's wrong with surplus being produced for the full fruits of our labour and using it to benefit humanity?
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About Us
"We are all in this together" said Prime
Minister David Cameron – and so far
working people have been faced with
cutbacks to pay for a deficit created
by the bankers.
The Con-Dem government wants to
privatise the NHS and destroy our
public services. We just don't want to
keep our public services, we want
better services.
We say stop imperialist wars and
abolish poverty. We call for
free education,
free health care, a massive house
building and renovation programme.
We campaign for public ownership
and a planned economy.
We call for the redistribution of
wealth in the interests
of humanity not a priveliged big
business class. We call for support
for workers in struggle and stand
against racism, sexism and fascism.
If you are interested in finding
out more about the Communist
Party or want to become a member contact us
on the hyperlink below.
Dead rat on a residential street in Torfaen!
Recently Torfaen County Borough Council made
£1.3 million in cutbacks.
Photographed 25/03/2012
So far the unelected Con-Dem government
have made 5% cuts to public spending,
Their policies have meant job losses, benefit
reductions and stoppage, wage restraint
and attacks on pensions. By 2015 they aim
to cutback a massive 95%
Organise against the pro big business
austerity programme to get rid of this
Fight against institutional racism,
raids and deportations
Organise to stop the attacks against
migrant workers and people
suspected of being 'illegal'
immigrants. Wales is not exempt
from barbarous assaults on migrant
workers. Immigration raids take place
on a regular basis. Border agency
officials are intimidating,
arresting, imprisoning and
deporting members
of our communities.
Don't give in to the lies about
Black and Asian workers,
supporting racist policies will allow
the right wing to develop and
practices methods of control and
oppression that will be applied to
everybody in society.
Say no to racism and fascism.
Ours is to reason why!
Derelict and unused property in your community!
Does it wind you up? Why can't these buildings
be used as community centres where people
can meet, talk and relax. Why can't any derelict
building be safely restored to be run in the
interests of the local city, town or village?
Why can't new jobs be created by building
on unused land by the local council and
employing people to work? Why no council
run job creation schemes that pay people a
living wage? Why for instance is Park Street
school, Forgeside school and Garn-yr-erw school all in
and around Blaenafon lying empty with no
prospect of renovation even though they
are historical monuments? Why is there
no new leisure centre with swimming
pool built at the old Park street school?
These are questions that need to be
asked from the council chamber.
David Brown
Currently trending in Capitalist society.
Are hedonism, crime, love and
hate the only food pon the table?
Are there too many songs, newspapers and
programmes about love, violence, sex and
romantic fiction?
You might ask what else is there anything to
think about and is thinking for yourself a bad
idea. In bourgeois propaganda there is very little
if anything about class just the intense
personification of heroes, heroines and villains
which might leave listeners or viewers believing
that history is made solely by individuals not by
the masses and those who own the means of
Such an ideology does produce atomisation of
society into smaller or individual units among
workers although not all as there is the
organised labour movement.
Very little if anything is officially broadcast by
the capitalist class about full employment,
wealth redistribution, anything pro NHS,
pro Welfare, peace, new technology,
science, philosophy, free housing, peoples history,
languages other than official English and
lies about the efficacy of privatisation.
Break the grip of the bourgeois
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One of the most frustrating things about the Tour is that you have to buzz through so many wonderful places at high speed. The only consolation is that you get to go back to some of the same places year after year and take small repeat bites of the same apple.
The Tour usually skirts the Mediterranean Sea every year on its way between the Pyrenees and the Alps, which gives me a chance to visit one of my favorite spots in the world. I love it so much, in fact, that I'm not giving it away, other than to say that it's on an inland body of water about 20 minutes from a major highway. It's a tranquil village near beaches and oyster beds and flocks of flamingos, and I don't know anywhere else like it in France.
The hotel owners know me by now. They know I will arrive late, tired and sweaty, and that I'll want a table for one at their wonderful seafood restaurant, and that I'll bring a paperback and linger a long time. It happened to be Bastille Day on one of my visits, and I watched enthralled as the surrounding communities set off their fireworks shows one by one into the night sky. Another time, I watched a crew from a Belgian TV station, who also apparently were Tour regulars, devour two enormous, multi-level seafood towers like so many sharks.
Leaving and plunging back into the madness is always really hard.
My Tour waystations aren't always oases of this particular kind. I mentioned in a previous post that Toulouse -- an unavoidable destination in any Tour itinerary -- poses special problems for my GPS-challenged mind. My place there sits in a completely nondescript industrial park-type area just off the ring road, but I know how to find it, which is key. It's clean and has all the basics, including a night shift guy who will draw you a draft beer at any hour. I booked it for three nights this year and used it as a hub for several stages.
I hadn't ventured into Toulouse proper in a few years, since a very unfortunate experience in which I became so lost in the maze (to be fair, the entire downtown was under construction at the time) that the hotel proprietors, assuming I would never make it, sold the room out from under me. But a colleague talked me into it last night after we were finished writing our stories off the scintillating Plateau de Beille stage. Knowing my Toulousophobia, he offered to lead me in. That plan worked fine until he swept over two lanes and nipped onto an exit ramp I couldn't get to because of onrushing traffic.
I got off at the next exit and immediately felt a Zen calm descend. It's good to face your worst fears. I kept following signs for the centre ville, communicating with my friend by telephone, and eventually popped out in the Place du Capitole, and it was worth the journey. Here is the view from the dinner table:
Much like a sprinter on an unfamiliar course finish, I needed another lead-out to the autoroute, but I found my little industrial park palace without incident and was unaccountably proud of myself.
Tonight I head for Pau, and in a Tour first for me, will have back-to-back stays of three nights apiece in the same place. I always book the same joint in Pau, too. It's not at all fancy, but it's a short walk from the press center, the stage start and the sweet little pedestrian area where everyone -- riders, race staff, journalists alike -- gathers on the rest day for lunch, dinner and drinks.
There are always other Tour writers at this hotel. Because we usually arrive in the middle of the night from some godforsaken spot in the Pyrenees, long after the owner has gone to bed, he gives us the secret code to open the door and leaves our keys with room numbers and names attached in a white cabinet in the hallway.
I generally call the hotel proprietor every year the day the Tour route is announced to reserve my room. Who wants to take chances with such a jewel? This year, however, I forgot, and phoned him in a panic three days later. "Madame DeSimone,'' he said. "I have saved a room for you. How many nights?''
Many French hotels still prefer to get a real, live fax confirming your reservation rather than a mere ephemeral e-mail. When I send mine off to places like this, I always include a little catchphrase in the flowery style people expect of business letters in France. "It'll be a great pleasure to stay with you again,'' I write, and I mean it.


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