The King assassination riots, also known as the Holy Week Uprising, was a wave of civil disturbance which swept the United States following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. It was the greatest wave of social unrest the United States had experienced since the Civil War. Some of the biggest riots took place in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Chicago, and Kansas City.
The immediate cause of the rioting was the assassination of Martin Luther King. King was not only a leader in the civil rights movement, but also an advocate for nonviolence. He pursued direct engagement with the political system (as opposed to the separatist ideas of black nationalism). His death led to anger and disillusionment, and feelings that now only violent resistance to white racism could be effective.
In New York City, mayor John Lindsay traveled directly into Harlem, telling black residents that he regretted King's death and was working against poverty. He is credited for averting major riots in New York with this direct response although minor disturbances still erupted in the city. In Indianapolis, Robert F. Kennedy's speech on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. is credited with preventing a riot there. In Boston, rioting may have been averted by a James Brown concert taking place on the night of April 5, with Brown, Mayor Kevin White, and City Councilor Tom Atkins speaking to the Garden crowd about peace and unity before the show.
In Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Police Department and community activists averted a repeat of the 1965 riots that devastated portions of the city. Several memorials were held in tribute to King throughout the Los Angeles area on the days leading into his funeral service.
Crowds of as many as 20,000 overwhelmed the District's 3,100-member police force, and President Lyndon B. Johnson dispatched some 13,600 federal troops, including 1,750 federalized D.C. National Guard troops, to assist them. Marines mounted machine guns on the steps of the Capitol and Army troops from the 3rd Infantry guarded the White House. At one point, on April 5, rioting reached within two blocks of the White House before rioters retreated. The occupation of Washington was the largest of any American city since the Civil War. Mayor Washington imposed a curfew and banned the sale of alcohol and guns in the city. By the time the city was considered pacified on Sunday, April 8, some 1,200 buildings had been burned, including over 900 stores. Damages reached $27 million.
On April 5, 1968, in Chicago, violence sparked on the West side of the city, and gradually expanded to consume a 28-block stretch of West Madison Street, with additional damage occurring on Roosevelt Road. The North Lawndale and East Garfield Park neighborhoods on the West Side and the Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side experienced the majority of the destruction and chaos. The rioters broke windows, looted stores, and set buildings (both abandoned and occupied) on fire. Firefighters quickly flooded the neighborhood, and Chicago's off-duty firefighters were told to report for duty. There were 36 major fires reported between 4:00 pm and 10:00 pm alone. The next day, Mayor Richard J. Daley imposed a curfew on anyone under the age of 21, closed the streets to automobile traffic, and halted the sale of guns or ammunition.
Approximately 10,500 police were sent in, and by April 6, more than 6,700 Illinois National Guard troops had arrived in Chicago with 5,000 regular Army soldiers from the 1st Armored and 5th Infantry Divisions being ordered into the city by President Johnson. The General in charge declared that no one was allowed to have gatherings in the riot areas, and he authorized the use of tear gas. Mayor Richard J. Daley gave police the authority "to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand ... and ... to shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting any stores in our city."
By Sunday evening, 5,000 paratroopers, combat engineers, and artillerymen from the XVIII Airborne Corps in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, specially trained in tactics, including sniper school, were on the streets of Baltimore with fixed bayonets, and equipped with chemical (CS) disperser backpacks. Two days later, they were joined by a Light Infantry Brigade from Fort Benning, Georgia. With all the police and troops on the streets, the situation began to calm down. The Federal Bureau of Investigation reported that H. Rap Brown was in Baltimore driving a Ford Mustang with Broward County, Florida tags, and was assembling large groups of angry protesters and agitating them to escalate the rioting. In several instances, these disturbances were rapidly quelled through the use of bayonets and chemical dispersers by the XVIII Airborne units. That unit arrested more than 3,000 detainees, who were turned over to the Baltimore Police. A general curfew was set at 6 p.m. in the city limits and martial law was enforced. As rioting continued, African American plainclothes police officers and community leaders were sent to the worst areas to prevent further violence. By the end of the unrest, 6 people had died, 700 were injured, and 5,800 had been arrested; property damage was estimated at over $12 million.
One of the major outcomes of the riot was the attention Governor Agnew received when he criticized local black leaders for not doing enough to help stop the disturbance. While this angered blacks and white liberals, it caught the attention of Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon, who was looking for someone on his ticket who could counter George Wallace's American Independent Party campaign. Agnew became Nixon's vice presidential running mate in 1968.
The two-day riot that occurred after King's assassination was small compared with riots in other cities, but its aftermath – a 9 1⁄2-month occupation by the National Guard – highlighted the depth of Wilmington's racial problem. During the riot, which occurred on April 9–10, 1968, the mayor asked for a small number of National Guardsmen to help restore order. Democratic Governor Charles L. Terry (a southern-style Democrat) sent in the entire state National Guard and refused to remove them after the rioting was brought under control. Republican Russell W. Peterson defeated Governor Terry, and upon his inauguration in January 1969, Governor Peterson ended the National Guard's occupation in Wilmington.
Within an hour, Mayor Kenneth A. Schmied requested 700 Kentucky National Guard troops and established a citywide curfew. Violence and vandalism continued to rage the next day, but had subdued somewhat by May 29. Business owners began to return, although troops remained until June 4. Police made 472 arrests related to the riots. Two African-American teenagers had died, and $200,000 in damage had been done.
A lot of [previous] civil rights [legislation] was about making the South behave and taking the teeth from George Wallace ... This came right to the neighborhoods across the country. This was civil rights getting personal.
The riots quickly revived the bill. On April 5, Johnson wrote a letter to the United States House of Representatives urging passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which included the Fair Housing Act. The Rules Committee, "jolted by the repeated civil disturbances virtually outside its door," finally ended its hearings on April 8. With newly urgent attention from White House legislative director Joseph Califano and Speaker of the House John McCormack, the bill—which was previously stalled that year—passed the House by a wide margin on April 10.
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Death of Radio Éireann's Agony Aunt, Frankie Byrne
Frankie Byrne, Irish public relations consultant, broadcaster and Radio Éireann's own agony aunt, dies in St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, on December 11, 1993.
Byrne is born into a successful family of journalists from Dublin. Cared for by servants, from a young age Byrne feels like she isn't loved as much as the other children in the family. She is the middle child with two brothers and two sisters. She attends boarding school in Rathfarnham and has a limited relationship with her parents. Her father is a racing journalist and broadcaster who lives in the Gresham Hotel on O'Connell Street where his job at Radio Éireann is located. She becomes addicted to nicotine and alcohol. Two of her siblings die from alcoholism.
In the late 1940s, Byrne works at the Brazilian embassy in Dublin. She is a pioneer in Irish radio and her program, "Agony Aunt," leads to public confessionals on the radio. She writes an Agony Aunt column for the Evening Press during the same period. She is best known for her 22 years of the radio program 'Dear Frankie.' On the show she gives relationship advice to listener requests. Dear Frankie, sponsored by Jacob's, paves the way for the contemporary radio programs such as The Gerry Ryan Show and RTÉ Radio 1's Liveline with Joe Duffy.
Dear Frankie is broadcast from 1963 to 1985. It opens with the words, 'Welcome to Women's Page, a program for and about you.' The program begins as a 15-minute question and answer format on household issues but soon becomes a radio program that allows people to share confidences and seek advice. She shares household problems with her listeners ranging from jealous husband to lovelorn teenagers. She claims to know nothing about domestic science but that she does know about love. She advises on domestic relationships while living a life of turmoil. The most unique feature of Dear Frankie is that the program sets people to talking, and helps begin a national conversation on the lonely struggles of generations of Irish women.
Byrne never marries but has a 25+ year relationship with Frank Hall, the satirist and columnist for the Evening Herald. Their relationship has been disputed by some family members who deny they had a child together and that the couple were just good friends. Nevertheless, in the middle of this relationship, she becomes pregnant in the mid-1950s, giving birth to their daughter Valerie on July 12, 1956. She wants to keep the baby but ultimately gives her up to St. Clare's Orphanage in Stamullen. She frequently visits her baby daughter until she is eventually adopted some 15 weeks later, going to a family who goes on to adopt four more children. Her relationship with Frank Hall comes to an end in the mid-1970s. Although she had struggled with alcoholism for many years, she stops drinking in the mid-1970s, but is subsequently prescribed Valium and is addicted to the drug for the remainder of her life.
Byrne and her daughter are reunited on December 13, 1983, a decade before her death. The last time Valerie sees her mother is exactly ten years later, on December 13, 1993, in the mortuary in St. Vincent's Hospital.
Byrne dies at the age of 71 from Alzheimer's disease in St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, on Saturday, December 11, 1993. Tributes are paid by colleagues and friends including the RTÉ assistant Director-General, Bobby Gahan, who describes her voice as "one of the greatest sounds of radio." Others who pay public tribute to her include fellow broadcasters Larry Gogan and Gay Byrne.
Byrne is remembered as an influential force during the time of her radio show, and it has been said that an entire generation can hum the signature tune to her radio program. Following her death there is an outburst of support. Gay Byrne describes her as having been "a national institution who had been loved by everyone." Dear Frankie is often credited as the first 'agony aunt' radio show program format in Ireland.
Byrne's talk show and life inspire numerous pieces of literature including a stage production in 2010 and 2012, authored by Niamh Gleeson and produced by the Five Lamps Theater Company, which tells the story of her 'tragic and secretive life.' She is also the subject of a book published in 1998, which compiles the advice which she gave on Dear Frankie. In 2006, RTÉ airs a documentary on Byrne, in which they explore her life following the show, and include interviews with her family and friends, including her daughter Valerie.
Byrne is also famous for having been the first woman to found a public relations company in 1963, that works almost exclusively in promoting Jacob's.
Categories: Film, Radio, & Television, Irish History | Tags: Agony Aunt, Alzheimer's Disease, Brazil, Diazepam, Dublin, Evening Herald, Evening Press, Frank Hall, Frankie Byrne, Gay Byrne, Gresham Hotel, Jacob's, Joe Duffy, Journalist, Larry Gogan, Liveline, Morgue, Nicotine, O'Connell Street, Public Relations, Radio Éireann, Rathfarnham, RTÉ Radio 1, Satire, St. Vincent's Hospital, Stamullen, The Gerry Ryan Show | Permalink.
Murder of Journalist Eugene Moloney
Eugene Moloney, an Irish journalist renowned for his coverage of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, is found dead on Camden Street in Dublin after being attacked and struck on the head while walking in the early morning of June 24, 2012. He had worked for The Irish News in Belfast and later the Evening Herald and Irish Independent in Dublin among other newspapers.
Moloney, aged 55, who lives alone at Portobello Place on the south side of Dublin, is on his way home when he is attacked. He is punched in the side of the head and falls to the ground as the two men in their 20s attack him. The incident is caught on CCTV and police make quick arrests just hours after the murder. Officers believe Moloney may have been robbed as he lay unconscious on the ground, as his wallet and identification are missing.
A murder investigation is launched after a post mortem examination confirms that Moloney had died from serious head injuries as a result of the assault.
Formerly with The Irish News in Belfast and the Irish Independent in Dublin, Moloney had been freelancing on his return from a spell teaching in Vietnam. His final article, on the Ulster Bank IT crisis, appears in the Irish edition of the Daily Mail just hours before his death.
Group Managing Editor of Independent Papers Ireland Ltd. Michael Denieffe pays tribute to Moloney in telling the Irish Independent, "On behalf of Independent Newspapers, I want to express our shock at the untimely death of our former colleague, Eugene Moloney. He was a resourceful and fearless journalist. It is a tragic irony that Eugene has died in an incident similar to many he would have recorded in his years working for the Evening Herald and the Irish Independent. Our sympathies go to his family and friends."
The Irish News editor Noel Doran tells the paper he is deeply shocked by the death of his good friend Eugene Moloney. "Eugene and I studied journalism together at the former College of Business Studies in Belfast in the late 1970s, and went on to share flats over a number of years. Eugene was a talented and respected reporter with The Irish News during the height of the Troubles and was also the paper's music columnist for a lengthy period."
(From: "Journalist Eugene Moloney murdered as attempted robbery goes wrong in Dublin" by Patrick Counihan, IrishCentral, http://www.irishcentral.com, June 25, 2012)
Categories: Irish History, Journalism | Tags: Belfast, Camden Street, Closed-circuit Television, Daily Mail, Dublin, Eugene Moloney, Evening Herald, Freelancer, Irish Independent, Journalism, Journalist, Northern Ireland, The Irish News, The Troubles, Ulster Bank, Vietnam | Permalink.
Death of Jim Larkin, Union Leader & Socialist Activist
James (Jim) Larkin, Irish trade union leader and socialist activist, dies in his sleep in Dublin on January 30, 1947. He is one of the founders of the Irish Labour Party, the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU), the Workers' Union of Ireland and the Irish Citizen Army (ICA).
Larkin is born to Irish parents in Liverpool, England, on January 21, 1876. He and his family later move to a small cottage in Burren, County Down. Growing up in poverty, he receives little formal education and begins working in a variety of jobs while still a child.
In 1905, Larkin is one of the few foremen to take part in a strike on the Liverpool docks. He is elected to the strike committee, and although he loses his foreman's job as a result, his performance so impresses the National Union of Dock Labourers (NUDL) that he is appointed a temporary organiser.
Larkin moves to Belfast in 1907 to organise the city's dock workers for the NUDL. He succeeds in unionising the workforce, and as employers refuse to meet the wage demands, he calls the dockers out on strike in June. Carters and coal men soon join in, the latter settling their dispute after a month.
In 1908, Larkin moves south and organises workers in Dublin, Cork, and Waterford, with considerable success. His involvement, against union instructions, in a dispute in Dublin results in his expulsion from the NUDL. The union later prosecutes him for diverting union funds to give strike pay to Cork workers engaged in an unofficial dispute. After trial and conviction for embezzlement in 1910, he is sentenced to prison for a year. This is widely regarded as unjust, and the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Aberdeen, pardons him after he has served three months in prison.
After his expulsion from the NUDL, Larkin founds the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU) at the end of December 1908. The organisation exists today as the Services Industrial Professional & Technical Union (SIPTU). In early 1909, Larkin moves to Dublin, which becomes the main base of the ITGWU and the focus of all his future union activity in Ireland.
In June 1911, Larkin establishes a newspaper, The Irish Worker and People's Advocate, as a pro-labour alternative to the capitalist-owned press. In 1912, in partnership with James Connolly, Larkin helps form the Irish Labour Party.
In early 1913, Larkin achieves some successes in industrial disputes in Dublin. Two major employers, Guinness and the Dublin United Tramway Company, are the main targets of Larkin's organising ambitions. The chairman of the Dublin United Tramway Company, industrialist and newspaper proprietor William Martin Murphy, is determined not to allow the ITGWU to unionise his workforce. On August 15, he dismisses 40 workers he suspects of ITGWU membership, followed by another 300 over the next week. On August 26, 1913 the tramway workers officially go on strike.
The resulting industrial dispute is the most severe in Ireland's history. Employers in Dublin engage in a sympathetic lockout of their workers when the latter refuses to sign the pledge, employing blackleg labour from Britain and from elsewhere in Ireland. Guinness, the largest employer in Dublin, refuses the employers' call to lock out its workers but it sacks 15 workers who struck in sympathy.
For seven months the lockout affects tens of thousands of Dublin workers and employers, with Larkin portrayed as the villain by Murphy's three main newspapers, the Irish Independent, the Sunday Independent, and the Evening Herald, and by other bourgeois publications in Ireland. The lockout eventually concludes in early 1914 when calls by James Connolly and Larkin for a sympathetic strike in Britain are rejected by the British Trades Union Congress (TUC). Larkin's attacks on the TUC leadership for this stance also lead to the cessation of financial aid to the ITGWU.
Some months after the lockout ends, Larkin leaves for the United States. He intends to recuperate from the strain of the lockout and raise funds for the union. Once there he becomes a member of the Socialist Party of America, and is involved in the Industrial Workers of the World union (the Wobblies). He becomes an enthusiastic supporter of the Soviet Union and is expelled from the Socialist Party of America in 1919 along with numerous other sympathisers of the Bolsheviks during the Red Scare of that year.
Upon his return to Ireland in April 1923, Larkin receives a hero's welcome, and immediately sets about touring the country meeting trade union members and appealing for an end to the Irish Civil War. In September 1923, Larkin forms the Irish Worker League (IWL), which is soon afterwards recognised by the Communist International as the Irish section of the world communist movement.
James Larkin dies in his sleep on January 30, 1947 in the Meath Hospital in Dublin. Fr. Aloysius Travers, OFM, who had administered last rites to James Connolly in 1916, also administers extreme unction to Larkin. His funeral mass is celebrated by the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, John Charles McQuaid, who had visited him in hospital before he died, and thousands line the streets of the city as the hearse passes through on the way to Glasnevin Cemetery.
Today a statue of "Big Jim" stands on O'Connell Street in Dublin, completed by Oisín Kelly and unveiled in 1979.
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Birth of Journalist Eoghan Corry
Eoghan Corry, Irish journalist and author regarded as the most extensively traveled writer in Ireland, averaging over 30 countries a year, is born in Dublin on January 19, 1961.
Corry is the third of four children of Patrick Corry (1916–1971) from Kilmacduane, Cooraclare and Anne Corry (1929–2009) from Clahanmore, Milltown Malbay, both from County Clare. He grows up in Ardclough, Straffan, County Kildare.
Corry is educated at Scoil Mhuire, Clane, at the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) and University College Dublin (UCD). His first published work, as a teenager, is poetry in English and the Irish language in literary magazines and the New Irish Writing section of The Irish Press.
He begins his journalistic career as a sportswriter with The Irish Times and Sunday Tribune where he wins several awards and becomes sports editor. Determined to pursue a career outside of sports journalism, he joins The Sunday Press as a feature writer in 1985 and becomes features editor of The Irish Press in 1986, bringing younger writers and a more contemporary, polemical and literary style to the paper. He revives the literary and travel sections of the paper and is an adjudicator of the Dublin Theatre Festival awards.
When The Irish Press closes in 1995 he becomes Features Editor of the short-lived Evening News, storylines the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) museum in Croke Park in 1998 and is founding editor of High Ball magazine. Since then he has been a columnist, first with The Sunday Business Post and then with the Evening Herald and Irish Independent. As a journalism lecturer in the Dublin Institute of Technology he tells students that "journalism is about pissing people off."
Since 2002 Corry has edited Ireland's biggest circulation travel publication, Travel Extra. He has fronted travel shows broadcast in Ireland and the Middle East and is a regular commentator on travel affairs to Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) and TG4, and an occasional guest contributor to BBC Northern Ireland. He writes the ten-part series GAA@125, screened on Irish television station TG4 in 2009. He appears on Tonight with Vincent Browne from time to time to preview the next day's newspapers.
Corry is awarded a lifetime "contribution to the industry" award at the Irish Travel Industry Awards in Dublin on January 22, 2016. He receives the Business Travel Journalist of the year award in London in October 2015. Previous awards include Irish sportswriter of the year, young journalist of the year, Seamus Kelly award, MacNamee award for coverage of Gaelic Games and is short listed for sports book of the year.
Categories: Irish History, Journalism | Tags: Ardclough, Author, BBC Northern Ireland, Clane, Cooraclare, County Clare, County Kildare, Croke Park, Dublin, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin Theatre Festival, Eoghan Corry, Evening Herald, Gaelic Athletic Association, Irish Independent, Journalist, Kilmacduane, London, Middle East, Milltown Malbay, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, Scoil Mhuire, Straffan, Sunday Tribune, TG4, The Irish Press, The Irish Times, The Sunday Business Post, The Sunday Press, Tonight with Vincent Browne, Travel Extra, University College Dublin | Permalink.
Birth of Footballer Johnny Giles
Michael John "Johnny" Giles, former association footballer and manager, is born in Ormond Square, Dublin, on November 6, 1940. He is best remembered for his time as a midfielder with Leeds United F.C. in the 1960s and 1970s. After retiring from management in 1985, Giles serves as the senior analyst on RTÉ Sport's coverage of association football from 1986 until 2016. The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) votes Giles as the greatest Irish player of the last 50 years at the UEFA Jubilee Awards in 2004.
After winning an FA Cup winner's medal under Matt Busby at Manchester United F.C., Giles moves to Leeds in 1963 where he plays in midfield alongside captain Billy Bremner. The duo goes on to form a central midfield partnership which is one of the best in English club football. Their pairing helps yield several major trophies in the most successful era in Leeds' history. By a strange coincidence, Giles and Bremner both score exactly 115 goals for the club.
In his later years in football, Giles pursues a managerial career which sees him installed as player-manager and manager of, among others, West Bromwich Albion F.C., the Republic of Ireland national football team, Vancouver Whitecaps F.C. and Shamrock Rovers F.C. Despite having an outstanding knowledge of the game, Giles personally never likes being a manager. He becomes disillusioned with aspects of the job, such as suffering at the hands of non-committal boardrooms, and leaves management permanently in 1985. He later declares that he has no regrets about quitting managerial life.
Subsequently, after repeated encouragement from childhood friend Eamon Dunphy, Giles inadvertently enters the world of football punditry in 1986. He goes on to establish himself as the highly respected senior analyst on RTÉ Sport. In addition, he writes two columns per week for the Irish Evening Herald newspaper, and offers his opinions about the game on radio station, Newstalk 106.
Giles resides in the Harborne area of the city of Birmingham, England. To coincide with his 70th birthday, Giles compiles a first ever autobiography chronicling his life in and outside of football which is released in November 2010. The autobiography, titled A Football Man, becomes the best selling book in the Republic of Ireland.
Categories: Film, Radio, & Television, Irish History, Sports | Tags: Association Football, Billy Bremner, Birmingham, Captain, Color Commentator, Dublin, Eamon Dunphy, England, Evening Herald, FA Cup, Football Association of Ireland, Harborne, Johnny Giles, Leeds, Leeds United F.C., Manager, Manchester United F.C., Matt Busby, Midfielder, Newstalk 106, Republic of Ireland, Republic of Ireland National Football Team, RTÉ Sport, Shamrock Rovers F.C., UEFA Jubilee Awards, Vancouver Whitecaps F.C., West Bromwich Albion F.C. | Permalink.
Birth of Union Leader Jim Larkin
James (Jim) Larkin, Irish trade union leader and socialist activist, is born to Irish parents in Liverpool, England, on January 21, 1876. He and his family later move to a small cottage in Burren, County Down. Growing up in poverty, he receives little formal education and begins working in a variety of jobs while still a child.
For seven months the lockout affects tens of thousands of Dublin workers and employers, with Larkin portrayed as the villain by Murphy's three main newspapers, the Irish Independent, the Sunday Independent, and the Evening Herald, and by other bourgeois publications in Ireland. The lock-out eventually concludes in early 1914 when calls by James Connolly and Larkin for a sympathetic strike in Britain are rejected by the British Trades Union Congress (TUC). Larkin's attacks on the TUC leadership for this stance also lead to the cessation of financial aid to the ITGWU.
James Larkin dies in his sleep on January 30, 1947 in the Meath Hospital. Fr. Aloysius Travers, OFM, who had administered last rites to James Connolly in 1916, also administers extreme unction to Larkin. His funeral mass is celebrated by the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, John Charles McQuaid, who had visited him in hospital before he died, and thousands line the streets of the city as the hearse passes through on the way to Glasnevin Cemetery.
Categories: Irish History, Labor & Industry | Tags: 1907 Belfast Dock Strike, Archbishop of Dublin, Belfast, Bolsheviks, Burren, Communist International, Cork, County Down, Dublin, Dublin United Tramway Company, England, Evening Herald, Glasnevin Cemetery, Guinness, Industrial Workers of the World, Irish Civil War, Irish Independent, Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, Irish Worker League, James Connolly, James Larkin, John Charles McQuaid, Labour Party, Liverpool, Lockout, Lord Aberdeen, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Meath Hospital, National Union of Dock Labourers, Red Scare, Services Industrial Professional & Technical Union, Socialist Party of America, Soviet Union, Sunday Independent, The Irish Worker and People's Advocate, Trades Union Congress, Waterford, William Martin Murphy | Permalink.
First Edition of the "Irish Independent" Printed
The first edition of the Irish Independent, flagship publication of Independent News & Media (INM) and Ireland's largest-selling daily newspaper, is printed on January 2, 1905.
The Irish Independent is formed in 1905 as the direct successor to the Daily Irish Independent, an 1890s pro-Parnellite newspaper, and is launched by William Martin Murphy, a controversial Irish nationalist businessman, staunch anti-Parnellite and fellow townsman of Charles Stewart Parnell's most venomous opponent, Bantry's Timothy Michael Healy.
During the Great Dublin Lockout of 1913, in which Murphy is the leading figure among the employers, the Irish Independent vigorously sides with its owner's interests, publishing news reports and opinion pieces hostile to the strikers, expressing confidence in the unions' defeat and launching personal attacks on the leader of the strikers, James Larkin. The Irish Independent describes the 1916 Easter Rising as "insane and criminal" and famously calls for the shooting of its leaders. In December 1919, during the Irish War of Independence, a group of twenty Irish Republican Army (IRA) men destroy the printing works of the paper, angered at its criticism of the IRA's attacks on members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and British government officials. In 1924, the traditional nationalist newspaper, the Freeman's Journal, merges with the Irish Independent. Until October 1986 the paper's masthead over the editorial contains the words "incorporating the Freeman's Journal."
For most of its history, the Irish Independent is seen as a nationalist, Catholic, anti-Communist, newspaper which gives its political allegiance to the Pro-Treaty party Cumann na nGaedheal and later its successor party, Fine Gael. During the Spanish Civil War, the Irish Independent's coverage is strongly pro-Franco and the paper criticizes the De Valera government for not intervening on behalf of the Spanish Nationalists.
In the 1970s, the Irish Independent is taken over by former Heinz chairman Tony O'Reilly. Under his leadership, it becomes a more populist, market liberal newspaper — populist on social issues but economically right-wing. By the mid-nineties its allegiance to Fine Gael has ended. In the 1997 general election, it endorses Fianna Fáil under a front page editorial entitled "It's Payback Time." While it suggests its headline refers to the fact that the election offers a chance to "pay back" politicians for their failings, its opponents suggest that the "payback" actually refers to its chance to get revenge for the refusal of the Rainbow Coalition to award the company a mobile phone licence.
In late 2004, Independent Newspapers moves from their traditional home in Middle Abbey Street to a new office, "Independent House" in Talbot Street, with the printing facilities already relocated to the Citywest business park near Tallaght.
On September 27, 2005, a fortnight after the paper publishes its centenary edition, it is announced that editor Vinnie Doyle will step down after 24 years in the position. He is replaced by Gerry O'Regan, who has until then been editor of the Irish Independent's sister paper, the Evening Herald. The newspaper's previous editor Stephen Rae is also formerly editor of the Evening Herald and is appointed editor in September 2012. Fionnan Sheahan is appointed editor in January 2015.
In January 2008, at the same time as completing the purchase of Today FM, Ireland's last national radio station independent of Denis O'Brien and state broadcaster RTÉ, O'Brien increases his INM shareholding to become the company's second-largest shareholder behind Tony O'Reilly. In May 2008, O'Brien ousts O'Reilly and acquires a majority shareholding. Traditionally a broadsheet newspaper, it introduces an additional compact size in 2004 and in December 2012, following O'Brien's takeover, it is announced that the newspaper will become compact only.
(Pictured: the first edition of the Irish Independent)
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DIS IS HUGE- UNITED STATES INDICT CHINESE MILITARY OFFICIALS FOR CYBER THEFT
WHITE HOUSE — The United States has filed charges against five Chinese military officials it accuses of stealing business secrets from American companies.
Obama administration officials say the criminal indictments – the first of their kind against foreign government officials – are meant to send a message that the U.S. wants China to stop stealing cyber secrets.
"We have consistently and candidly raised these concerns with the Chinese government, and today's announcement reflects our growing concerns that this behavior has continued," said White House Spokesman Jay Carney.
The U.S. accuses officials of a unit of China's People's Liberation Army [Department 61398 in Shaghai] of stealing secrets from U.S. metals, nuclear and solar energy companies to give Chinese firms – including state-owned ones – a business advantage.
Announcing the indictments Monday, the top U.S. prosecutor, Attorney General Eric Holder, said the thefts have provided significant information to Chinese companies.
China responded quickly, saying it will suspend participation in a China-U.S. Internet working group. It called the cyber spying allegations absurd.
Carney said the U.S. will continue to engage with China, but he said Washington needed to send a message.
"We believe there are ample and important areas where we can and should be able to cooperate with China on issues related to cyber security. But it is also very important that the rules of the road are established," he said.
A U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the United States regrets the action taken.
"We regret China's decision on the suspension of activities of the working group. We continue to believe that dialogue is an essential part of resolving these and other cyber security concerns," she said.
Carney said there is no comparison between China's stealing of business secrets for commercial gain and American intelligence gathering – which he said is done in the interest of U.S. national security, not money.
Industrial espionage
Six American companies, including United States Steel , Alcoa, Allegheny Technologies, Westinghouse Electric, SolarWorld, United Steel Workers Union were victims of Chinese hacking attacks, U.S. officials said. Also targeted were Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied-Industrial and Service Workers International Union.
Press materials are displayed on a table of the Justice Department in Washington, May 19, 2014, before Attorney General Eric Holder was to speak at a news conference.
Underscoring that this was "a real threat to our economy and security," Holder said the Chinese hackers stole information that provides China's competitors with insight into the "strategy and vulnerabilities" of American companies in key industries.
"The alleged hacking appears to have been conducted for no reason other than to advantage state-owned companies and other interests in China, at the expense of businesses here in the United States," said Holder.
"Our economic security and our ability to compete fairly in the global marketplace are directly linked to our national security," he added. "When a foreign nation uses military or intelligence resources and tools against an American executive or corporation to obtain trade secrets or sensitive business information for the benefit of state-owned companies, we must say, enough is enough."
An American computer security company says the Shanghai unit at the heart of U.S. economic espionage allegations against Chinese military officers has been spying for years on companies around the world.
In a report earlier this year, Washington-based Mandiant said it found that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of workers at the People's Liberation Army unit have hacked into the computers at 141 companies in 20 major industries since 2006, mostly in English-speaking countries. Mandiant says the Chinese military stole secretive information about their business operations and passed it on to Chinese companies, including state-run enterprises.
Early fallout
China's foreign ministry denounced the charges as "fabricated" and said they would undermine trust between the two governments. In protest, Beijing said it is suspending the activities of a Sino-U.S. Internet working group.
Whether the five Chinese military officers ever stand trial in the U.S. is an open question.
Holder said the U.S. is hopeful that Beijing "will respect our criminal justice system" and allow the accused military officers to be brought to trial. "It is our hope to have these people stand before an American jury and face justice," he said.
The U.S. identified the five military officers as Wang Dong, Sun Kailiang, Wen Xinyu, Huang Zhenyu and Gu Chunhui, all of whom face 31 charges, each of which each carries a 15-year prison term.
Wen Yunchao, a China Internet expert based in New York, told VOA's Mandarin service that he thinks the indictments are part of a bigger picture.
"I think the criminal charges against Chinese officials can be considered as part of U.S. pivot to Asia policy. And of course, it could have something to do with the upcoming U.S. congressional midterm elections as well. It's not an isolated case."
The charges pit the world's two biggest economies against each other.
The United States has an overall economic output that is twice the size of China's, about $16 trillion to $8 trillion annually. Some analysts say that by other measures, however, China could surpass the United States within the year as the world's biggest economy.
Sun Kailiang, from China's Third Department of the General Staff Department of the People's LIberation Army (3PLA), Second Bureau, Third Office, Military Unit Cover Designator (MUCD) 61398. (FBI photo).
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Unfair advantage
Stolen trade secrets could be a short-cut to developing products that unfairly compete with U.S. products. That is because it is far cheaper to steal plans than to do the research and take the time needed to develop an original product. That cost savings can give the thief a major advantage in pricing products.
The hackers also are accused of spying on companies involved in trade disputes and business negotiations with China, to give Chinese state-owned firms an unfair advantage against their American rivals.
Much of this activity targeted offices in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, area. The chief prosecutor in western Pennsylvania, David Hickton, said hacking has forced some plants to close, throwing people out of work.
"The important message is that cyber theft impacts real people, in real and painful ways. The lifeblood of any organization is the people who work, strive, and sweat for it," said Hickton. "When these cyber intrusions occur, production slows, plants close, workers get laid off and lose their homes."
American officials have long been concerned about hacking from abroad, especially China. An FBI official told Reuters last week to expect multiple cyber security-related cases, including indictments and arrests, in the coming weeks.
Long-standing concern
While such charges may be largely symbolic, the move would prevent the individuals indicted from traveling to the United States or other countries that have an extradition agreement with the U.S.
Several cyber security experts say Monday's action show the U.S. is serious about dealing with hacking.
"It sends a strong message to the Chinese," a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International studies James Lewis told Reuters.
Others some remained skeptical the move would deter online invasions.
"It won't slow China down," said Eric Johnson, an information technology expert at Vanderbilt University and dean of its School of Management.
On Sunday, a top Chinese Internet official called for Beijing to tighten its own cyber security, citing "overseas hostile forces."
VOA's Jim RandIe in Washington contributed information for this report, along with Reuters.
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You are lucky because there were no witnesses to see you not do it and Santa Paws does not do DNA analysis. We think you are still on the "NICE" list. Whew!
BOL! Yups, I'm with Murphy...not sure I'm buyin' it, butts whose to say different, right?! Right. That's your story, and your sticking to it!


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Elbphilharmonie by Herzog & de Meuron
Photo © Iwan Baan
An escalator dramatized by reflective disks embedded in white stucco walls rises on a gentle curve to the upper levels.
At the top, a brick stair takes visitors to the main plaza on the eighth floor.
Broad, spiraling stairs lead up from the plaza to the two auditoriums.
A large balcony is backed by rippled glazed panels, to protect against the wind while offering expansive views of the city and harbor. Broad, spiraling stairs lead up from the plaza to the two auditoriums.
The twisting plan offers unexpected glimpses of the concert hall foyer.
Visitors look out at the working harbor through fritted glass with bent profiles and swiveling ventilation panels.
With the help of acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota, Herzog & de Meuron designed the 2,100-seat concert hall, where tiers of gray-upholstered chairs loop around the orchestra under a mushroom-shaped canopy.
The team also covered walls and ceilings with a biomorphically contoured gypsum fiberboard.
On the roof, white metal perforated disks add to the optical pleasure.
Multiple views of interior spaces are on display from outside.
Drawing courtesy Herzog & de Meuron
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Like a giant seafaring ship with rippling sails of glass instead of canvas and a brick base instead of a wood hull, the new Elbphilharmonie commands the harbor of Hamburg's still-active port in northern Germany. The concert hall, hotel, and apartment building designed by the Swiss firm of Herzog & de Meuron (as well as local architects Hohler + Partner) sits at the western tip of HafenCity. There it functions as a glittering beacon for this 390-acre residential and commercial waterfront redevelopment under construction along the Elbe River. While Elbphilharmonie's grand 2,100-seat concert hall and its 550-seat recital hall don't open until January 2017, already there is plenty of hubbub. The "plaza," an elevated public space eight stories above ground—between the brick base and the new glass structure on top—was inaugurated early in November. "We feel the enthusiasm of the people," says founding partner Jacques Herzog. "Outstanding buildings are key for successful urban planning."
Fascination with the multiuse 26-story, 1,292,000-square-foot structure has burgeoned since the building's conception in 2003, when the city of Hamburg saw an opportunity to provide a state-of-the-art home to the NDR Symphony Orchestra (now NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra). Herzog & de Meuron had been asked previously by a private developer, Alexander Gérard, to renovate a brick storage house, Kaispeicher A, protected by law, on this site for a concert hall. When the city took it over from Gérard, the architects were retained, even though it was at this point a public project, in which the designer is usually chosen through competition. Moreover, it was the firm's first foray into this acoustically challenging building type. Yet the Pritzker Prize–winners' idea to place the two concert halls in a 668,000-square-foot glass structure atop the existing brick base, had captivated the public. "Both people and the press found it seductive," says Herzog. "We wanted to keep the integrity of the warehouse, with its heavy, rocky base, for parking and other uses. And because so many people were behind it, the city adopted it."
The project also includes the 224-room Westin Hamburg hotel on the east end, with interiors by Tassilo Bost of Berlin. The hotel is expected to open by the year's end, while 45 apartments on the west end are now being marketed by a local developer, with separate design firms involved in its interior architecture. The base, into which Herzog & de Meuron inserted a concrete frame, contains a third music hall, as well as studios, plus the parking and support services.
If Elbphilharmonie were a ship it might be named the Billion Dollar Baby. Mushrooming costs brought construction to a halt for almost two years, beginning in 2011, and problems between the city, the architects and the construction company, Hochtief Solutions, were resolved by putting a new management process in place. Nevertheless, the price tag increased tenfold, from an estimated $86 million at the start to $880 million today.
The complex design owes its "wow" factor first to the shimmering, evanescent surface that cloaks its top. Herzog & de Meuron made its name with inventive glass skins, as shown in Eberswalde Technical School Library and the Hospital Pharmacy Institute in Basel (RECORD, August 1999). With this project, the architects have taken curtain walls to a new level: the glass of the upper portion drapes and ripples like a real curtain. The exterior membrane is formed of flat and bent insulated glazing units that reflect light and change hue according to the weather and time of day. Concave and convex glass meet at perpendicular slots, where swiveling ventilation panels are inserted. To cut glare, the architects fritted two surfaces of laminated lites, which adds to the richly layered translucency of this enclosure. Another aspect of the skin game is the way the glass droops around U-shaped fiberglass elements framing the balconies.
The undulating glass floats above the sturdy reddish-brown brick of the base, once a warehouse for coffee, cocoa, and tea. While it fits in with the 19th-century vernacular of the port structures, its severe solidity and punched windows (à la Aldo Rossi) offer a clue that it was actually completed in 1966, by Hamburg architect Werner Kallmorgen.
Visitors enter this dark bunker from the east side, where an escalator, perpendicular to the entrance facade, moves up in an arc to the plaza level. It is enclosed in a white tube that glistens with the bounced light of numerous circular discs embedded in its stuccoed interior. "We were thinking of the grand staircases of the older concert halls in Europe," says Herzog & de Meuron partner Ascan Mergenthaler.
At the top of the escalator, visitors ascend broad brick steps leading to the public plaza. At this point in the architectural procession, they're drawn to the view of the city through a high, arched portal that opens onto a balcony, which continues as a walkway around the building. Large swooping sheets of glass separate the space from the interior: since the plaza is intended to convey a sense of being open to the outdoors, the architects decided to create these billowing elements without mullions, leaving gaps between the glass folds so that the transparent "draperies" can be mechanically shut or opened.
Large, round, slanted concrete columns of different diameters punctuate the plaza and indicate a shift in structural forces between the brick base, with its regular grid of columns, and the upper glass portion, where loads must be carried differently because of the irregularly formed concert hall.
Swirling staircases, "like auditory canals," Mergenthaler says, which the architects have finished in lustrous white Venetian plaster and lead up to the two auditoriums. The main hall's steel-framed structure is separated from the rest of the building for acoustical reasons, balanced on 362 large spring assemblies. Working with famed acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota of Nagata Acoustics, the architects came up with a vineyard seating plan, following the example of Hans Scharoun's 1963 Berlin Philharmonie. Here the architecture assumes a limpid, organic fluidity to surround the orchestra with the audience. To help achieve the right resonance for concerts, the team came up with an acoustical CNC-milled gypsum fiberboard surface that is pleated, puckered, and pocked.
The cap of this remarkable journey is unexpected. By going up to the top of the complex, you find an indoor event space adjoining a small outdoor terrace, where you can see up close the white perforated-metal disks that animate the roof's wavelike contoured peaks. Here, above the halls, hotel, and apartments, you feel as if you are on a futuristic deck. It will offer a panoramic view of the city once the floor is, as promised, raised. And so at long last the ship, stunningly redeeming the effort, expense, and reputations of all involved, has come into the harbor.
Herzog & de Meuron — Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, partners;
Ascan Mergenthaler, David Koch, partners in charge;
Jan-Christoph Lindert, associate, project manager;
Nicholas Lyons, Stefan Goeddertz, associates, project architects
Associate Architect:
Hohler + Partner
Nagata Acoustics (acoustics)
Adamanta and Hochtief Solutions
November 2016–January 2017
Glass facade
Float glass
Gypsum fiber panels, main concert hall
Gifatec
REHAB, Center for Spinal Cord and Brain Injuries by Herzog & de Meuron
Public Hotel by Herzog & de Meuron
REHAB, Center for Spinal Cord and Brain Injuries


I once went to see Kevin O'Leary at a Fireside Chat at Ryerson University's Ted Rogers School of Management, just to experience him in a more intimate situation. He was as abrasive and blunt as he was on Dragon's Den. He still said "it was all about the money" and it made me sad. Read what he says about business being war. I hate war and violence and we do not need more of that in our world.


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Carrying signs reading "The Episcopal Church is Here" and "The Episcopal Church Cares About This," the Rev. LeeAnne Watkins and other Minnesota Episcopalians joined thousands of marchers in St. Paul on Jan. 21, sparking "a miserable day of puddles and ice" into the beginnings of a movement.
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The Presiding Bishop Micheal Curry talks about immigration reform and the Episcopal Church's stance.


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Q: Space in output while parsing JSON output I parsed values from  JSON output of below curl command (thanks to stackoverflow),
1.) but I am seeing great spaces in the output (Attached the sample image for reference) . Need output without extra spaces(Seeing extra spaces at the end of output,please refer the image ).Please help on this,
(Very new to ruby apologies for the basic stuff )
space after last line of output
2.)Also need space after each value .
SAMPLE OUTPUT:
ID : 7j6rzn1r43zz , CREATED AT : 2017-04-03T12:08:03Z , LINK : http://stspg.io/5Es5 , ISSUE NAME : Intermittent Issue , DESCRIPTION :  There  is a minor performance degradation in our app for some customers in US, We are working on it , STATUS : identified ,DESCRIPTION :  We have resolved the performance issue in our app, We are closely monitoring it. , STATUS : resolved
ID : g8tk0jtvgybt , CREATED AT : 2017-04-01T11:11:27Z , LINK : http://stspg.io/5EHd , ISSUE NAME : Intermittent Issue , DESCRIPTION :  Currently we are facing delay in incoming emails as we have problem with our email service provider. We are working on it. , STATUS : investigating ,DESCRIPTION :  The delay in incoming emails issue has been resolved now. Application is working fine. , STATUS : resolved

Expected
ID : 7j6rzn1r43zz , CREATED AT : 2017-04-03T12:08:03Z , LINK : http://stspg.io/5Es5 , ISSUE NAME : Intermittent Issue , DESCRIPTION :  There  is a minor performance degradation in our app for some customers in US, We are working on it , STATUS : identified ,DESCRIPTION :  We have resolved the performance issue in our app, We are closely monitoring it. , STATUS : resolved

ID : g8tk0jtvgybt , CREATED AT : 2017-04-01T11:11:27Z , LINK : http://stspg.io/5EHd , ISSUE NAME : Intermittent Issue , DESCRIPTION :  Currently we are facing delay in incoming emails as we have problem with our email service provider. We are working on it. , STATUS : investigating ,DESCRIPTION :  The delay in incoming emails issue has been resolved now. Application is working fine. , STATUS : resolved

Curl :
def incidents

value = `curl https://api.statuspage.io/v1/pages/incidents.json -H "Authorization: OAuth a8ef"`

data_hash = JSON.parse(value).map {|h| puts "ID : #{h["id"]} , CREATED AT : #{h["created_at"]} , LINK : #{h["shortlink"]} , ISSUE NAME : #{h["name"]} , DESCRIPTION :  #{h["incident_updates"][1]["body"]} , STATUS : #{h["incident_updates"][1]["status"]} ,DESCRIPTION :  #{h["incident_updates"][0]["body"]} , STATUS : #{h["incident_updates"][0]["status"]}"}

puts data_hash

end

A: You perform output in map iterator and then do additional puts. It's not necessary and as you could see, leads to unnecessary output.
Replace map with each and remove last puts. Something like that:
  JSON.parse(value).each do |h|
    puts "ID : #{h["id"]} , CREATED AT : #{h["created_at"]} , LINK : #{h["shortlink"]} , ISSUE NAME : #{h["name"]} , DESCRIPTION :  #{h["incident_updates"][1]["body"]} , STATUS : #{h["incident_updates"][1]["status"]} ,DESCRIPTION :  #{h["incident_updates"][0]["body"]} , STATUS : #{h["incident_updates"][0]["status"]}"
  end

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Returns the item that is about to be selected/checked from the RadComboBox list.
Telerik.Web.UI.RadComboBoxItem the the item about to be selected/checked from the RadComboBox list.
Gets a boolean value indicating whether the event is cancelled.
Boolean whether the event is cancelled.
Sets a boolean value that indicates whether the event will be cancelled.
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Hip fractures, including femoral neck and trochanteric fractures, commonly occur in the elderly with low-energy falls and often cause mortality and morbidity . Trochanteric fractures, accounting for more than half of the hip fractures , are usually treated with internal fixation surgeries, either with intramedullary nailing or with screw-plate fixation .
Although hardware removal after bone healing is not a routine procedure for senile hip fractures, it would sometimes be performed for the patients due to implants irritation or patients' demand in clinical practice. However, complications would possibly occur. Kovar et al. evaluated the complications after implant removal in patients with proximal femur fractures; their results showed a higher complication rate for patients with nonmedical indication for the removal of implant, and proximal femur fracture was one of them .
Ipsilateral femoral neck fracture after implants removal in healed trochanteric fractures is rare, with only 45 cases reported around the world before 2017 , which would cause much impact on the patients. Here, we report a case with ipsilateral femoral neck fracture after implants removal in a healed trochanteric fracture. We aimed to remind the clinicians to be aware of this possible complication during decision-making with the patients.
The patient was a 79-year-old female with hypertension. She incurred a left intertrochanteric fracture after a falling accident [Figure 1]a. A few hours later, the patient underwent the surgery of open reduction and internal fixation with a long Gamma3™ nail (Stryker, Mahwah, NJ, USA) [Figure 1]b. Four years after the surgery, the patient asked for removal of the implants due to persistent left hip foreign body sensation after union of the fracture [Figure 2]a. The patient underwent the surgery of implants removal with smooth course [Figure 2]b. After the surgery, the patient recovered smoothly, and she was discharged on postoperative day 1. We have asked her to use a crutch for assistance for 6 weeks. Five days after the surgery, however, the patient hurt her left hip again after a twist movement. She denied direct force impaction at left hip from a falling down injury. X-ray showed left subcapital femoral neck fracture [Figure 3]a. Finally, the patient underwent cemented bipolar hemiarthroplasty [Figure 3]b. The patient's postoperative course was smooth, and she was discharged on postoperative day 6.
Ipsilateral femoral neck fractures after removal implant from healed trochanteric fractures are rare. Some risk factors have been proposed, including pre-existing systemic osteoporosis, local osteoporosis caused by fixation device, and decreased failure strength of the neck after implant removal . Among these fractures, subcapital femoral neck fracture was the most common type, accounting for 95% . In addition, the time from implant removal to fracture ranged from 2 days to 4 months . Most of the fractures seemed to be spontaneous, which was found by pain without a falling or trauma episode . Similar to the characteristics from previous reports, our patient had femoral neck fracture 3 days after removing the implant with only a twist movement rather than falling down.
A previous biomechanical study on cadaveric femur has shown that removal of implant used for trochanteric fracture would significantly lower the fracture force and lead to femoral neck or trochanteric fracture . To prevent these complications, the authors suggested avoiding weight bearing until bone consolidation and implanting bone substitution materials after implants removal . In the literature review, however, no strong evidence on preventing these fractures has been proposed. Further studies on prevention strategies will be needed in the future.
The effects between intramedullary and extramedullary implants on the risk of femoral neck fracture after the removal of implants are still controversial. Kukla et al. proposed that the different sizes of cervical components of the implants, 8 mm for dynamic hip screw (DHS) and 12 mm for gamma nail, may play a role in femoral neck fracture after removal in their biomechanical study . However, Yang et al. indicated that there were no statistical differences on ultimate load and stiffness between the intramedullary and extramedullary groups .
Removal of the implant from proximal femoral fracture under elective indications would lead to high complication rate . Kovar et al. reported that 28% of complications occurred after implant removal for nonmedically indicated patients, and fractures accounted for about 20% of them . These complications included wound infection, hematoma formation, leg length discrepancy, delayed wound healing, and nerve damage . Due to the high complication rate, the importance of proper indications and well-informed possible risks before implant removal surgeries cannot be overemphasized. Realistic expectations of removal implant should be made to minimized unnecessary costs and complications .
We reported a rare case of ipsilateral femoral neck fracture after removal of implants from healed intertrochanteric fracture. Orthopedic surgeons and patients should be aware of the relatively high incidence of re-fractures, and the removal of implants in healed trochanteric fracture should be only performed for very selected cases.
The authors certify that the patient has obtained the patient inform consent form. In the form, the patient has given her consent for her images and other clinical information to be reported in the journal. The patient understands that her name and initial will not be published and due efforts will be made to conceal her identity, but anonymity cannot be guaranteed.
Florschutz AV, Langford JR, Haidukewych GJ, Koval KJ. Femoral neck fractures: Current management. J Orthop Trauma 2015;29:121-9.
Sambandam SN, Chandrasekharan J, Mounasamy V, Mauffrey C. Intertrochanteric fractures: A review of fixation methods. Eur J Orthop Surg Traumatol 2016;26:339-53.
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Q: Surface MeshFunction with independently spaced parameters surfuv = {Sech[u] Cos[v],( u-Tanh[v]), Sech[u] Sin[v]};
g1 =
  ParametricPlot3D[surfuv, {u,-Pi,Pi}, {v,- Pi, Pi},
    BoxRatios->Automatic, PlotPoints->25, MeshFunctions->{#1&},
    MeshStyle->Purple, MeshShading->{None,Green,None,Yellow}];
g2 =
  ParametricPlot3D[surfuv,{u,-Pi,Pi},{v,- Pi,Pi},
    BoxRatios->Automatic, PlotPoints->25, MeshFunctions->{#2&},
    MeshStyle->Purple, MeshShading->{None,Green,None,Yellow}];
Show[{g1, g2}, PlotRange->All]

Is it possible to show the surface sliced or partitioned not at uniform intervals  of (x, y, z) but  from (u, v) directly? I believe it would be quite useful in visualization of 2D surfaces (embedded in 3 space) during their generation/first-definition.
I can increment u, v in uniform steps without blanking out alternate slices. Does shading None also help likewise?


Ensuring the doors in your home have adequate locks is a very worthwhile DIY task, which offers invaluable peace of mind.The police report that the majority of burglars are opportunists who in many cases walk straight into people's homes via inadequately secured or even open doors.
One of the best lines of defense is to fit a mortise deadlock which can be locked from both sides. You can only open a mortise deadlock with a key so if a burglar smashes a nearby glass panel he cannot open the door from inside. Importantly, mortise deadlocks also ensure, that if burglars gain access into your home via a window, they cannot escape easily through your front door.
Remember, door locks are all about home security so do not delay replacing damaged or inadequate locks on your front and back door. Read on to find out how.
Fitting a new mortise door lock is a simple enough job, but it does require precision and patience. Your local DIY store should offer a good range of mortise locks of different sizes and styles which will come with instructions. You can buy a pack with everything you need or buy items such as the handle, plate and mechanism separately.
The lock packaging will normally indicate the thickness of the door it is intended to fit into. Ensure you have measured your door width and any panels on the door so it can be correctly fitted. Check whether it is the correct size for your door including whether the spindle will fit. The spindle may need to be cut to fit so that both handles fit flat onto the door but make sure it is long enough to begin with.
Have a good look at a working mechanism if you can, to help you understand how everything fits together. Ideally, your mortise lock should be fitted a third of the way from the bottom of your door.
The major rule to remember when getting started is to try and think of how everything fits in advance. This way you will prevent problems occurring during the fit. Every part of the mechanism needs to be clearly marked around the door before you start making holes in your door.
Decide on height for your lock. If in doubt, check other door handles and locks for ideas. You may wish them to be consistent around your home.
Check the latch position. Ensure curved part of latch will strike door frame first when door is closed.
Drill spindle and key holes. Cut out the shape using pad saw.
Drill holes into door edge for mortise lock body. Chisel out desired shape.
Cut out the holes in the door frame to take the catch and bolt. Take into account the door shutting into the frame.
Always use solid screws when fitting a door lock and make sure they are not too long. You don't want them protruding through the door or colliding with the screws on the opposite side of the door. Make sure your screws match the style of the lock plate and handle, i.e. you will probably want brass screws if you have a brass plate or handle.
The extra good news is that by fitting British standard mortise locks you could also save money on your insurance premium. If you install a British Standard five lever mortise deadlock a third of the way up your door your insurer should offer you a better price. Most insurance companies are happy with a mortise lock Kite marked to British Standard BS3621. If in doubt, check with your insurer first.


Before their recent death transformation, our dear friends at the Seattle Weekly ran an editorial titled "Don't Punch Nazis—Yet," arguing that Seattle has not reached a place where violence is an answer to fascism—"yet." Citing vehicular homicide in Charlottesville, throat-slitting on passenger trains in Portland, and gunshots on the University of Washington's Red Square, others argue, as Primo Levi once wrote—and Incubus once sang—Seattle Weekly, if not now, when?
The debate about punching Nazis isn't new, as Mark Bray explains in Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook. (Bray reads at the University Book Store on November 11.) The "handbook," which is really more of a textbook, describes how older Jews in the mid-1930s often criticized younger Jewish anti-fascist organizers who were "copying the Nazi violence which we loathe and detest." Their criticism did little to prevent the rising tide of fascism and the ensuing genocide. Our way of remembering this period, unfortunately, appears to be repeating this dead-end debate.
If we're going to keep this up, can we at least start talking about, as one organizer tabulated, "the 97 percent of anti-fascist activity that doesn't involve a violent confrontation"?
Bray's Antifa is a good place to start. The handbook offers readers their first "transnational history of postwar anti-fascism in English," and, according to Bray, their most comprehensive. When reading, it's quickly clear that violence is a final tactic treated as self-defense, and it's something antifa organizations quibble over, too. Reducing the entire range of anti-fascist activity—which is overwhelmingly nonviolent—to the question of a punch is far more dangerous than a fistfight.
When we focus on punching Nazis, we fail to celebrate nonviolent anti-racist organizing (which always was anti-fascist, according to historian Robert Paxton, who argues that fascism "functionally" originates in America with the KKK), to laud the activists who convince private venues to reject white supremacist clients, and to think about the implications of doxxing white supremacists.
It's unclear if Seattle Weekly will be able to update their "don't punch Nazis" stance. That paper, as we've known it, is now dead. But while we mull over the precise moment when "don't" becomes "do," Antifa urges people to organize against fascism before it organizes against us.


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Home > Research > Publications & Outputs > Building a Social Mandate for Climate Action
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10640-020-00446-9
Behaviour change, Climate change, COVID-19, Deliberative governance, Social mandate, Air cleaners, Sustainable development, Behaviour changes, Future climate, Global emissions, Low carbon, Side effect, Social contract
Building a Social Mandate for Climate Action: Lessons from COVID-19
C. Howarth
P. Bryant
A. Corner
S. Fankhauser
A. Gouldson
L. Whitmarsh
R. Willis
The COVID-19 imposed lockdown has led to a number of temporary environmental side effects (reduced global emissions, cleaner air, less noise), that the climate community has aspired to achieve over a number of decades. However, these benefits have been achieved at a massive cost to welfare and the economy. This commentary draws lessons from the COVID-19 crisis for climate change. It discusses whether there are more sustainable ways of achieving these benefits, as part of a more desirable, low carbon resilient future, in a more planned, inclusive and less disruptive way. In order to achieve this, we argue for a clearer social contract between citizens and the state. We discuss how COVID-19 has demonstrated that behaviours can change abruptly, that these changes come at a cost, that we need a 'social mandate' to ensure these changes remain in the long-term, and that science plays an important role in informing this process. We suggest that deliberative engagement mechanisms, such as citizens' assemblies and juries, could be a powerful way to build a social mandate for climate action post-COVID-19. This would enable behaviour changes to become more accepted, embedded and bearable in the long-term and provide the basis for future climate action.