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Edit & Design: Alan Rutherford Published online by www.handoverfistpress.com Cover artwork: a cup of tea up north Deadline for submitting articles to be included in the next issue, will be the 15th day of the next month
Opening 03 The Visit of George V 05 James Connolly Go hug a tree!
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Get on the Train
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Assad must go!
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Tale of Greed
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For Fox Sake! 25 West Midland Hunt Saboteurs We can do it!
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When reason dies
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Burford Church
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Barcelona 46 Articles and all correspondence to: alanrutherford1@mac.com
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Hello, Welcome to magazine number 5, a xmas cogitation. Several people have promised stuff to fill your head with serious worries and trivial flights of fancy pertaining to life on Earth ... but have not delivered. Because of the afinity this publication has with Leveller and Digger philosophies I approached ‘Friends of Burford Church’ with a request to use their pamphlet on the 3 Levellers shot at Burford Church in 1649. They were executed as an example to the others who had mutinied due to grievances with Cromwell, one being not wanting to serve in Ireland. Anyway, the ‘Friends’ turned me down ... A poverty of ideas indeed! West Midland Hunt Saboteurs have supplied a good article. Best wishes for this festive time. Until next time, get active, stay alive ...
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by James Connolly 1910 Fellow-Workers, As you are aware from reading the daily and weekly newspapers, we are about to be blessed with a visit from King George V. Knowing from previous experience of Royal Visits, as well as from the Coronation orgies of the past few weeks, that the occasion will be utilised to make propaganda on behalf of royalty and aristocracy against the oncoming forces of democracy and National freedom, we desire to place before you some few reasons why you should
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unanimously refuse to countenance this visit, or to recognise it by your presence at its attendant processions or demonstrations. We appeal to you as workers, speaking to workers, whether your work be that of the brain or of the hand – manual or mental toil – it is of you and your children we are thinking; it is your cause we wish to safeguard and foster.
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The future of the working class requires that all political and social positions should be open to all men and women; that all privileges of birth or wealth be abolished, and that every man or woman born into this land should have an equal opportunity to attain to the proudest position in the land. The Socialist demands that the only birthright necessary to qualify for public office should be the birthright of our common humanity. Believing as we do that there is nothing on earth more sacred than humanity, we deny all allegiance to this institution of royalty, and hence we can only regard the visit of the King as adding fresh fuel to the fire of hatred with which we regard the plundering institutions of which he is the representative. Let the capitalist and landlord class flock to exalt him; he is theirs; in him they see embodied the idea of caste and class; they glorify him and exalt his importance that they might familiarise the public mind with the conception of political inequality, knowing well that a people mentally poisoned by the adulation of royalty can never attain to that spirit of selfreliant democracy necessary for the attainment of social freedom. The mind accustomed to political kings can easily be reconciled to social kings – capitalist kings of the workshop, the mill, the railway, the ships and the docks. Thus coronation and king’s visits are by our
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astute neversleeping masters made into huge Imperialist propagandist campaigns in favour of political and social schemes against democracy. But if our masters and rulers are sleepless in their schemes against us, so we, rebels against their rule, must never sleep in our appeal to our fellows to maintain as publicly our belief in the dignity of our class – in the ultimate sovereignty of those who labour. What is monarchy? From whence does it derive its sanction? What has been its gift to humanity? Monarchy is a survival of the tyranny imposed by the hand of greed and treachery upon the human race in the darkest and most ignorant days of our history. It derives its only sanction from the sword of the marauder, and the helplessness of the producer, and its gifts to humanity are unknown, save as they can be measured in the pernicious examples of triumphant and shameless iniquities. Every class in society save royalty, and especially British royalty, has through some of its members contributed something to the elevation of the race. But neither in science, nor in art, nor in literature, nor in exploration, nor in mechanical invention, nor in humanising of laws, nor in any sphere of human activity has a representative of British royalty helped forward the moral, intellectual or material improvement of mankind. But that royal family has opposed every forward move, fought every reform, persecuted every patriot, and intrigued against every good cause. Slandering every friend of the people, it has befriended every oppressor. Eulogised today by misguided clerics, it has been notorious in history for the revolting nature of its crimes. Murder, treachery, adultery, incest, theft, perjury – every crime known to man has been committed by some one or other of the race of monarchs from whom King George is proud to trace his descent.
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‘His blood Has crept through scoundrels since the flood.’ We will not blame him for the crimes of his ancestors if he relinquishes the royal rights of his ancestors; but as long as he claims their rights, by virtue of descent, then, by virtue of descent, he must shoulder the responsibility for their crimes.
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Fellow-workers, stand by the dignity of your class. All these parading royalties, all this insolent aristocracy, all these grovelling, dirt-eating capitalist traitors, all these are but signs of disease in any social state – diseases which a royal visit brings to a head and spews in all its nastiness before our horrified eyes. But as the recognition of the disease is the first stage towards its cure, so that we may rid our social state of its political and social diseases, we must recognise the elements of corruption. Hence, in bringing them all together and exposing their unity, even a royal visit may help us to understand and understanding, help us to know how to destroy the royal, aristocratic and capitalistic classes who live upon our labour. Their workshops, their lands, their mills, their factories, their ships, their railways must be voted into our hands who alone use them, public ownership must take the place of capitalist ownership, social democracy replace political and social inequality, the sovereignty of labour must supersede and destroy the sovereignty of birth and the monarchy of capitalism.
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Ours be the task to enlighten the ignorant among our class, to dissipate and destroy the political and social superstitions of the enslaved masses and to hasten the coming day when, in the words of Joseph Brenan, the fearless patriot of ’48, all the world will maintain ‘The Right Divine of Labour To be first of earthly things; That the Thinker and the Worker Are Manhood’s only Kings.’ Transcribed by The James Connolly Society in 1997 https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1911/xx/visitkng.htm
James Connolly, 1868–1916 A revolutionary socialist, a republican, a trade union leader aligned to syndicalism and the Industrial Workers of the World, and a political theorist. As one of the leaders of the Irish Easter Rising of 1916 he was severely wounded and his execution by firing squad was carried out with him tied to a chair.
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IF YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE WEATHER
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From the standpoint of a higher economic form of society, private ownership of the globe by single individuals will appear as quite absurd as private ownership of one man by another. Even a whole society, a nation, or even all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not the owners of the globe. They are only its possessors, its usufructuries, and, like boni patres familias (Good Heads of Household), they must hand it down to succeeding generations in an improved condition. CAPITAL Karl Marx NATIONALISM IS A CUL-DE-SAC!
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The question that should have been posed during the vote on further bombing in the middle east by Britain is, not whether it would be good to do something like bombing but, whether something good can be done? SHEEP IN THE ROAD : NUMBER 5
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TALE OF GREED An exerpt from The Guardian 23 December 2013 of an original story by George Monbiot
‘... So here’s the story. Two men established a small stake in the mines, in a remote valley some distance from the nearest airstrip. They cut down the trees and began to excavate. They found the digging and hosing and sifting of the gravel exceedingly hard and, though they had discovered very little, they decided to hire two other men to do it for them. They agreed to split any findings equally with the workers. The two hired men dug for four months without success: with high pressure hoses they scoured great pits into which the trees collapsed; they turned the clear waters of the forest stream they
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excavated red with clay and tailings; they winnowed the gravel through meshed boxes; they dissolved the residues in mercury and burned it off; but they produced almost nothing. Then they hit one of the richest deposits ever discovered in Roraima: in one day they extracted 4kg.
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dollars a day.” They told the two workers that they wanted a special meal that night, and sent them to the nearest airstrip to buy the ingredients. As the two workers walked they began to ruminate. “We’ve nearly killed ourselves in that pit. We’ve been up before dawn every day and have worked until dusk. We’ve had malaria, foot rot, screw worm, sunstroke, while those two bastards have done nothing but lie in their hammocks shouting instructions. Now we’re expected to give them an equal share of the gold that we and we alone found.” When they reached the store, they bought cachaça, rice, beans, a packet of seasoning and a box of rat poison. They mixed the poison into the seasoning and set off back to the camp. Before they reached it, they were ambushed by the two owners and shot. The owners then picked up the bags and went back to the camp to celebrate over the first hot dinner they had had in weeks.’
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If you find a lot of gold in the garimpos you keep quiet – very quiet. A single shout of triumph can amount to suicide. You gather it up, hide it in your bag and explain to anyone who asks on your way out that months of work have brought you nothing but disease and misery. But first it must be divided. The two men who owned the stake began to comprehend, for the first time, the implications of the deal they had done. “We risked our lives to establish this stake. We spent every cent we had – and plenty we didn’t – travelling here, buying the equipment and the diesel, hacking out a clearing in the forest, hiring these men. And now we have to split the gold equally with people who are no more than manual labourers, who would normally be paid a few
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From Ben Traven’s The Treasure of Sierra Madre, made into a film starring Humphrey Bogart ... Howard: Say, answer me this one, will you? Why is gold worth some twenty bucks an ounce? Flophouse Bum: I don’t know. Because it’s scarce. Howard: A thousand men, say, go searchin’ for gold. After six months, one of them’s lucky: one out of a thousand. His find represents not only his own labour, but that of nine hundred and ninety-nine others to boot. That’s six thousand months, five hundred years, scramblin’ over a mountain, goin’ hungry and thirsty. An ounce of gold, mister, is worth what it is because of the human labour that went into the findin’ and the gettin’ of it. Flophouse Bum: I never thought of it just like that. Howard: Well, there’s no other explanation, mister. Gold itself ain’t good for nothing except making jewelry with and gold teeth.
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FOR FOX SAKE! An article from West Midlands Hunt Saboteurs
Are you interested in writing an article for inclusion in a left leaning online magazine called ‘Sheep in the Road’? Deadline for issue 5 is 15 December. See previous issues at www. handoverfistpress.com Yes we are, we could write an article giving our views on why bloodsports are allowed to continue, how the state supports the bloodlusts of the establishment and how the police reinforce it. Yes please, let me know if you can make the deadline and if you will also be supplying artwork (logo, photographs)? Yep we should make the deadline. is there a word limit? We can supply photographs and a logo, thanks. No word limit, look forward to it ...
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A perspective from a West Midland Hunt Saboteur on fox hunting, policing and the state.
I knew from the first time I went out that this was something that I wanted: to try and help stop-fox hunting.
When I was a teenager I remember coming across an Animal Rights stall and picking up a leaflet on fox hunting. I always remembered thinking that the idea of killing an animal for anything was immoral but to think people organised on a weekly basis to go out with a pack of hounds to chase and disembowel a sentient being for ‘sport’ was just barbaric. How can we ever call ourselves a civilised society when we still allow bloodsports? The fact that we have a hunting act set in criminal law shows that the majority of people do think bloodsports are abhorrent and have no place in modern society so a benchmark has been set by the hunting act it just needs strengthening to stop these numerous accidents from occurring.
I went out with the hunt monitors for a while who, although they do a fantastic job gathering evidence for prosecutions, wasn’t enough. I wanted to go directly into the field to try and help the hunted fox from being ripped apart. With this in mind, I got in touch with the Hunt Saboteurs Association to see how I could get involved. I was put in touch with folks from Birmingham and have never looked back.
From working full time in my local community I began to see how the world can be so different if you challenge something that the state wishes to protect. Obviously I had heard of police corruption, read about it and watched T.V programmes on it, The first hunt I went to was with the but I never thought I would witness it Oxfordshire hunt monitors to the Bicester hunt. I remember thinking how aggressive myself first hand. You don’t when you the atmosphere was and how many people live a life that the state is happy with – contributing to taxes, working full time, on horses with hounds all to terrorise a buying commercialised goods everything sentient wild animal. The first time I heard hounds in cry sent a shiver down my back. really that a capitalist and functionalist
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The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable Oscar Wilde
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political system likes people to do – to keep their idea of society functioning how they think it should.
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Fox hunting is not only cruel but its cruelty is endorsed and supported by the state. Hunts claim that anti hunt views can stem from a class war perspective, but in my opinion this is not true as sadly all walks of life support and go hunting. What is apparent though is that people of influence such as police officers, magistrates, judges and politicians support and go hunting. Our current government is pro-bloodsports and this filters down through the right wing media and our policing structures. Anyone who uses direct action to stop what they believe is morally wrong, and questions laws, is vilified and the police will try to stop these direct actions as they are a threat to the status quo, just like how the suffragettes were treated. One hunt I attended in Oxfordshire, we hadn’t even got out of the van when police surrounded it and demanded we all got out. We rightly asked under what section they were stopping us, they didn’t answer but kept shouting
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for us to get out of the van. They then started smashing the windows of van and detained me for a search whilst also ordering two other male comrades to kneel on the floor with their arms behind their heads. They accused us of having offensive weapons (our homemade whips) funny how the hunt’s big hard heavy whips are fine but ones made from skipping rope and soft small wooden handle are dangerous (hounds respond to the noise of a whip crack and can be held up from chasing a fox using this method). They also accused me of having acid in a bottle. When I said that it would be hard for me to have acid in a plastic bottle they still convinced themselves that it was a toxic substance, not an essential oil mixed with water (which it was and is used to mask the scent of hunted foxes), so the three of us were arrested for carrying offensive weapons. Held long enough in police cells so the hunt could carry on their killing spree uninterrupted. Again whilst sabbing in Derbyshire hunt saboteurs were arrested using the trade union act that we were interfering with a lawful activity. This time helicopters,
dog units and lots of police cars were deployed. The van was seized and we were all arrested, spending around 23 hours in custody. Another time hunt saboteurs were standing at the meet of the South Shropshire Hunt (Otis Ferry’s Hunt) when a very macho police unit arrived and were obstructive from the start. This resulted in a rough arrest on me, involving 3 male officers on a woman, taking me to the ground and subsequently arrested me. While I was detained in the police car I could hear the officers saying that they wanted the footage we had taken of their actions and arrest (no doubt to go accidentally missing). I shouted through the windows of the car to another sab informing her what they were trying to do. Whilst I was detained at the police station and asleep two male officers came into my cell and dragged me from my bed by my hands and demanded to recheck my fingerprints saying they thought I wasn’t who I said I was. I was charged and later the charges were dropped and I successfully sued West Mercia Police for damages, including wrongful arrest assault and unlawful imprisonment.
Two weeks after this incident hunt saboteurs were set upon whilst sabbing the South Shropshire Hunt. As ‘sabs’ were walking in a field around 15-20 big men in masks jumped out of a bush and began attacking us. I was knocked out and when I came around I could not see for a short period. I sustained a fracture and a broken nose. I still have a click in my jaw to this day. Men were also waiting for us on the road and a tractor turned up with big spikes trying to overturn the sab van. Hunt saboteurs were being punched and kicked on the road and when we finally managed to get to our vehicle a hunt supporter tried to drag one of us out of the vehicle. They began smashing the sliding van door on his legs, but somehow we managed to get him into the van. Once we arrived at the hospital the police seemed more concerned about the fact we had driven with headlights smashed out (by the hunt) than what had happened to us. During my triage at the hospital a male security officer was in attendance which at the time I thought was strange but I wasn’t obviously feeling myself to challenge why this was happening.
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Once I started to feel better I asked my solicitor to find out why a security guard was present during my triage. The reason given was because the police had told the hospital that they thought I could be potentially dangerous.
supposed to be illegal). I also couldn’t enter Leicestershire at all. Bearing in mind I was charged with ‘obstructing a police officer’ these bail conditions did not reflect the charge ... so yet again the police mis-use their powers to protect the blood junkies.
I was also able to identify my attacker to the police who asked him in for interview This also happened during the first ... he was never arrested. Nothing ever badger cull in Gloucestershire, where came of it. I was arrested for apparently waving a torch in the field and therefore breaking a high court injunction. My Another example of how the police protect fox hunting happened a few bail conditions imposed then were that I years ago with the Quorn hunt. The could not enter Gloucestershire. All this police claimed that they were using a for apparently waving a torch in a field. section 60 and section 60 aa power to be able to detain sabs. (Section 60 is What I witnessed that night was shocking, part of the Criminal Justice and Public around 50-60 police officers surrounded Order Act 1994 which allows a police a badger sett trying to stop protestors officer to stop and search a person from stopping the badger cull. The police without suspicion) They demanded the always claim that they are impartial right to search sabs. I refused believing at protests ... utter bollocks! On this this was an unlawful stop and search. occasion the police accused me of trying I was arrested and charged with to set fire to the police van whilst in obstructing a police officer. I was given handcuffs in a single cell compartment. ridiculous bail conditions including that How could that even be physically I couldn’t go to any organised fox hunt possible? However it was enough for the in the UK (funny that as there shouldn’t police officer to ask the desk sergeant be any organised fox hunts since it’s for me to be strip-searched at the police
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station. Fortunately the desk sergeant didn’t permit it. Going back to the section 60 ‘stop and search’ in court, the authorising inspector said, while being questioned on the stand, that he believed disruption of the hunt was going to take place. Thats not what a section 60 is supposed to be used for ... section 60 was intended for football hooligans where a real threat of violence using weapons is likely to happen.
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Because of a mis-use of section 60 ‘stop and search’ my charge was dropped as potentially disrupting a hunt would not warrant a section 60.
basis came as no surprise to us, that is, a hunt flouting the law and hunting foxes everytime they go out. We have witnessed foxes running for their lives, hunt saboteurs have been assaulted numerous times trying to help foxes escape the hunt. As well as seeing foxes hunted we also witness every week hounds out of control and loose on main roads. We have documented blocked badger setts in areas where the hunt go and artificial earths (homes created by hunts to encourage foxes to live in them and also used to hold foxes on the day of a hunt so they can be bolted from them to chase).
We consistently film this hunt as they stick two fingers up to everyone. As a member These are just a few examples of how the of the public you would think the police state via the police protect blood sports would act upon this evidence we provide that I have personally been a part of. of blatant law breaking. Leicestershire I have been arrested numerous times Police were given footage showing two nothing has ever came from them in terms identifiable terrier-men blocking an active of prosecutions, its just a way of the police badger sett, putting a terrier down a getting hunt saboteurs out the way so hole and using a tracker to monitor its hunts can have a care free killing spree. movements. Even though police were supplied with names for both men they More recently some of us have been only charged one man and the case documenting the Atherstone Hunt. What collapsed because the police failed to act we have found happening on a weekly in time with a court directive.
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Warwickshire Police were given footage showing racist language towards a hunt saboteur. Yep you guessed it, the police again failed to charge in time and two men faced no charges and the remaining third man was found not guilty in court even though he used racist language. Whilst the witnesses were on the stand they weren’t even asked about what happened on the day but were asked who was the leader of the group, what personal relationships people in the group were in and demanded to know peoples’ addresses. Lecestershire police were also present when the Atherstone huntsman and a hound ran the wrong way up a duel carriageway, when sabs went to formally log this incident the officer present denied that he had seen the hound running the wrong way up the duel carriageway. Leicestershire police also issued two ‘police information notices’ (PINs also known as ‘harassment notices’) to two hunt saboteurs based on no proven evidence even though the hunt film us all the time. Hunt saboteurs contested this using an online campaign and help
from their local supportive MP. The hunt saboteurs also put a formal complaint in into the police. After a hard fought campaign Leicester police retracted the ‘police information notices’ (PINs) and issued a formal apology saying the PINs should never have been issued and had been mis-used. Then surprisingly and beggaring belief, one of the same hunt saboteurs issued with the original ‘police information notice’ (PIN) has been issued again with another PIN. This is an obvious case of ‘official’ harrassment of a hunt saboteur, who is contesting this waste of police time, and has the support of her local MP. The Leicestershire police are now sending out intelligence gathering officers to the Atherstone Hunt meets but, despite our filmed evidence, they are focusing their attentions on us rather than the hunt. So does the state protect fox hunters, what do you think? We will continue to document the Atherstone Hunt and I am sure we will see the state try and clamp its fist on us. We believe that a small group of
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dedicated people can change the world. ... lets face it, its the only thing that ever has.
To watch West Midland Hunt Saboteur videos and find out more about what we do and to get weekly updates of what has been happening please follow the following: https://www. facebook.com/West-Midlands-HuntSaboteurs-243223759156039/
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During World War 2 the language of gesture was used extensively in propaganda posters. An interesting example is J. Howard Miller’s poster featuring Geraldine Hoff, a seventeen-year-old metal presser in a Michigan factory (sometimes confused with Norman Rockwell’s iconic Rosie the Riveter). Under the headline ‘We Can Do It!’ Hoff was portrayed rolling up her sleeve to play her part in the war effort by taking the kind of manual job traditionally performed by men. Rediscovered in the 1970s the poster, with its gesture of female strength, was given a new lease of life by advocates of women’s equality in the workplace.
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Dear Editor ... As you have no letters to publish I thought I would take this opportunity to comment on the the experience of putting together three online issues of ‘Sheep in the Road’. Without the fine articles, written pieces and photographs supplied to be included this would be a sad and feeble venture ... and, as we are not talking about money changing hands for any element of ‘Sheep in the Road’, its a wonderful gesture, thank you! The almost non-existant feedback ranges from the banal, but well meant, ‘Yes its good’ to a friend’s dismissive ‘Yeah yeah yeah yeah, I haven’t got time for that now, I’m really busy ...’ with a couple of helpful suggestions in between. And apart from a drink in a pub with two prospective contributors (where only one came up with something, which was excellent by the way) ... not much contact ... probably how I like it anyway. More contributions please. Alan
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