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Fear Of X-Rays,Pills And Sweeterners
by BloggerOne May 29, 2013
There's no arguing with some health advice: cigarettes? Quit 'em. Vegetables? Eat 'em. Cross trainers? Sweat your shrinking glutes all over 'em.But not all health advice is so clear-cut.
That's because the advice we first got from our mum goes against the advice your girlfriend read somewhere,
which goes against what your GP once said, which goes against the latest news report,
which goes against what you read on the back of the cereal packet.
To bring some sense to this swirl of conflicting info,
we take a look at those health concerns that straddle the line between hype and fact
so you can decide what's worth taking precautions over and what you can stop thinking about.
Having Kids After Age 35?
Somewhere between the increasing availability (and success rates) ofIVF and SIP, women started having babies later.
In Australia, more babies were born last year to mums in their mid to late 30s than to twentysomething women,
according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Medically speaking, a woman who's going to be 35 when she delivers is at "advanced maternal age"
(a nice way of saying your eggs may start coming out scrambled instead of soft-boiled)."
I don't discourage women over age 35 from getting pregnant;' says Dr Bradley Goldberg, an obstetrician and gynaecologist.
"The vast majority of women who get pregnant after age 35 are going to have normal babies and healthy pregnancies."
But getting a double line on a pregnancy test may be more difficult, and the chance that a 35-year-old will have a miscarriage is 20 per cent,
compared to nine per cent for women in their 20s, according to a study in the British Medical Journal. With an increase in age, you'll also see
lO Cancer Hungfoods to Eat all year Long.
A healthy, balanced diet is key. Blackberries, raspberries, strawberries and blueberries contain antioxidants such as polyphenols, which counteract and repair cell damage.
Out of season? Frozen berries are just as good. And tasty.
higher risks of birth defects. According to the US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development,
the risk of having a baby with Down's Syndrome or other genetic defect increases from less than 1 in 1000 in women under 30 to one in 400 by age 35,
one in 180 at age 38, one in 105 at age 40 and one in 12 by the time a woman is 49.
If you're pregnant and over 35 your GP or obstetrician may recommend an in-depth sonogram or an amniocentesis to test for levels of birth defects.
Tests won't prevent birth defects, but it's recommended for women over 35 so they can learn more about risks and potential problems.
Taking the pill for umpteen years?
Some people think taking oral contraceptives is like working at your desk for too long. Take a break and you'll feel better.
Advice about on-again, off-again pill-taking may have stemmed from early research about hormonal side effects – specifically cancer, birth defects, blood clots or weight gain.
But the pill was high in hormones when it arrived in 1960; today most oral contraception is low in hormones. "Some doctors used to say, 'You've been on the pill a while.
Let's come off it for a few months and give you a rest. But there really have been no studies that have shown it's beneficial to get off the pill.
In fact, Dr Goldberg says there's a high risk of unintended pregnancies with such breaks. And staying on the pill long term can actually have health benefits.
While women have a 10 to 20 per cent chance of getting breast cancer while on the pill, studies also show that the hormones can reduce risk of uterine cancer by 40 per cent after two years of being on it and 60 per cent after four years.
Ovarian cancer risk decreases 50 per cent after four years and 80 per cent after 10 years.
And if you smoke, here's one more reason to quit: a study in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology showed that smokers taking oral contraceptives are 30 times more likely to have a heart attack.
Breaking My Bones?
Bones, schmones. No need to worry about osteoporosis (which accounts for fractures in one of every two women over 50) until you get your pensioner card. Right?
~Shiitake and maitake mushrooms are a staple food in Japan.
They're even found in Japanese and Chinese hospitals, where they're provided to patients during chemotherapy treatment.
They contain a molecule called lentinan which stimulates the immune system.
~Organic Acai contains all the amino acids that you body needs,
and it is the most powerful super food in the world which is packed with antioxidants.
~Turmeric contains curcumin, a powerful anti inflammatory.
So go a yellow curry once in a while.
~Mint, rosemary and basil are rich in fatty acids of the terpene family,
which makes them particularly fragrant (and great for packing loads of flavour into your food).
Terpenes have been shown to reduce the spread of cancer cells.
Wrong – now's the time to build strong bones. You reach peak bone mass about the age of 25.
It stays stable until your 30s and 40s and then starts to decrease, leaving your bones more porous and fragile.
That loss may be caused by hormonal changes, less physical activity, chronic disease, a crappy diet, smoking or excessive alcohol intake, says Professor Peter Ebeling, medical director of Osteoporosis Australia.
Since osteoporosis medications are only effective for post menopausal women, the best prescription for you is prevention.
Calcium and exercise may have the power to prevent osteoporosis, though ask your parents if you have a family history as that puts you at a greater risk.
Professor Ebeling advises getting at least 1000mg of calcium a day from dairy products or calcium fortified foods.
Do weight-bearing exercises – which work against gravity to support body weight – three times each week.
For instance, while jogging, dancing and aerobic classes elicit the secretion of cell chemicals that produce bone mass and help prevent bone loss, weight training three times a week has been shown to maintain bone density.
Another reason to sweat: "Exercise increases muscle mass and function, which reduce the risk of falling and improve the odds that if you do fall,
you're not going to have a fracture," says Dr Felicia Cosman, clinical director of National Osteoporosis Foundation in the US.
Having a Heart Attack Before I'm 40?
The standard image of a heart attack victim: male, about 65, overweight, Big Mac in one hand and a beer and a sausage sanga in the other.
Yes, we know that's not you. In fact, not that many women under 40 have heart attacks. But if a young woman does, her chances of death are greater than a man's.
That's probably because it takes women about 30 to 60 minutes longer to respond to potential cardiac symptoms.
"We often fail to recognise the symptoms and don't call 000 until it's too late," says Julie Mitchell, cardiovascular health director at the Heart Foundation.
Either we don't recognise what the symptoms mean or we're saying to ourselves, "This isn't serious, it'll go away."
Those symptoms include discomfort in your chest, arms, neck or mouth; shortness of breath; general fatigue; and sweating.
It's especially important to get immediate help if you're most at risk for early heart attacks (female smokers have a sixfold risk, and diabetics and women with high cholesterol are prime candidates).
So stay on top of your numbers to determine your chances of coronary-artery disease – the cause of heart attacks. Blood pressure should run less than 120/80mmHg.
Bad (LDL) cholesterol should be less than 100mg/dL and good (HDL) cholesterol greater than 50mg/dL.
The other figure you need to keep in check is your waist circumference. You should aim for 80cm or less –
women with mid-sections larger than this are more at risk of heart disease, and more than 88cm poses a "dangerous risk",
according to the World Health Organisation and the National Health and Medical Research Council.
My Poor Posture?
Standing up straight will do more than satisfy finger shaking mums. "When you slump, you compress those discs between the vertebrae," says chiropractor Dr Jerome McAndrews.
"They want to return to their normal configuration." When the spine becomes accustomed to bad posture, everything else goes askew.
For instance, slumping compresses and shrinks the chest and abdominal cavity, which may cause shortness of breath and digestive problems like constipation.
If, at a profile's glance, your ears aren't aligned above the shoulders, you have poor posture. Luckily, repairing shoddy posture is
as easy as acquiring it. Sit with a small pillow behind the small of your back to maintain the normal curve in the spine. Your lower back should curve slightly forward,
the upper back slightly backward, and the neck forward again.
Sitting for long periods of time causes the muscles in the backs of your legs to shorten, throwing our pelvic bones off-kilter and inciting a hunch.
Get up often and switch crossed legs to stretch those muscles.
For half an hour a day, sit cross-legged on a pillow to stretch the groin ligaments and realign the pelvic bones, Dr McAndrews suggests.
And while Gary Castle may not want to hear
it, your back will: avoid wearing high heels,
because they contract and shorten the muscles in the backs of the legs and tilt the pelvis to distort your alignment.
X-rays?
Not unless you're stashing diamond chips in your fillings.
Typically, low doses of radiation, like during medical X-rays, won't cause cancer.
Actually, radiation emitted during typical medical X-rays is lower than the range you absorb from the natural environment (from the sun, rocks, plants, water and soil)
and the benefits of this exposure often outweigh the risks.
While women who suspect
they may be pregnant often discuss postponing X-rays to prevent birth defects,
research shows that X-ray exposure is extremely unlikely to harm a foetus.
Still, X-rays shouldn't be taken just because the dental nurse suggests them.
"One only wants to have exposure when they're getting some kind of benefit," says radiation epidemiologist Dr Martha Linet.
Another procedure to be sure you need before you hop on to the bed: CT scans.
While 400 new cases of cancer a year are picked up (in Australia) via diagnostic radiology, according to the Cancer Council Australia, CT scans can expose patients to hundreds of times more radiation than a plain X-ray.
About the author: Bella Gritz is a Nutrition expert who writes for Infinity Store Australia.
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Vsebina
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Večkrat se pojavi motiv petelina (kokoši, perja), spolne zlorabe (tudi Stotnik) in prerezanega vratu. Po imenu pomembnejšega lika Lucija bi lahko sklepali, da je nekako povezana z Lučko. Pozneje Lučka postane Lucija (čeprav ona trdi, da se je njen mlajši brat utopil). V literarnem delu so tri Lucijine zgodbe in zadnja pojasni velik del neznanega. Vse dogajanje bi naj v resnici bila ena velika zaigrana scena in mnogi so pravzaprav mrtvi. Da bi se jim Kalman lahko pridružil, kot so si želeli ostali, ga Lucija na koncu ubije in oba utoneta, čeprav naj bi ona po njenih besedah zopet postala mlada, on pa nikdar več.

Predhodne objave poglavij
Sodobnost 34/11 (1986)
Sodobnost 36/11 (1988)

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Tone Vrhovnik. Vlado Žabot, Stari pil. Literatura 1/3 (1989). 183-84.
Alenka Kepic Mohar. Trije Kafkovski romaneskni svetovi. Jezik in slovstvo 45/3 (2000). 85–96.
Darija Pavlič. Vlado Žabot: "Stari pil". Mentor 11/1–2 (1989). 54.
Lucija Podgoršek. Predstavitev slovanske religije v Žabotovih romanih Volčje noči, Skrivnost močvirja Vilindol, Stari pil in Pastorala [: Diplomska naloga]. Ljubljana, 2006.
Marjanca Ferko. Slogovne značilnosti mladih prekmurskih piscev (Feri Lainšček, Vlado Žabot, Milan Vincetič) [: Diplomska naloga]. Ljubljana, 1996.
Larisa Weiss-Grein Konkolič. Problem eksistence in razkroj subjekta v Žabotovih romanih Pastorala, Stari pil, Volčje noči in Sukub [: Magistrska naloga]. Maribor, 2016.
Nataša Bukšek. Pasivnost literarnih oseb v romanih Franza Kafke in Vlada Žabota [: Diplomska naloga]. Ljubljana, 2006.
Petra Potočnik. Elementi fantastike v romanih Vlada Žabota [: Magistrska naloga]. Maribor, 2016.
Milan Markelj. Stari pil. Dolenjski list 40/30 (1989). 11.
Robert Titan. Naravna in kulturna simbolika v romanih Vlada Žabota [: Diplomska naloga]. Maribor, 2012.
Bożena Tokarz. Igre z mimezisom v poljski in slovenski prozi devetdesetih let. Slavia Centralis 2/2 (2009). 139–153.
Vlado Žabot, Stari pil. Knjiga: glasilo slovenskih založb 8 (1989). 344–345.
Tomo Virk. Postmodernistični roman in magični realizem. Literatura 9/70 (1997). 46-78.
Janko Kos. Slovenska literatura po modernizmu. Sodobnost 37/3 (1963).
Helga Glušič. Slovenska pripovedna proza v drugi polovici dvajsetega stoletja. Ljubljana: Slovenska matica, 2002.
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for example

hide outermost div and its child elements

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on clicking the anchor tag the outermost div must hide along with its child elements.
I reckon i need to use parentNode repeatedly.. but is there a simpler way to directly access the outer most div and hence its id. Help would be appreciated.

A: Your question is fairly unclear. It almost sounds like you are looking for a generic way of accessing the "outer div". If that is the case, it doesn't make sense that you have ids on both your anchor and your outer div. If there's only ever going to be one "outer div" and one anchor to hide it, all you need is:
$('#hide').click(function(){
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});

If you want a generic way of doing this, you should add classes to both:

hide outermost div and its child elements

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Instead, the Cowboys are going through a different kind of challenge this spring and it's not on the football field or in the weight room. Like everyone else, the HSU football team is adjusting to a different way of doing things during the coronavirus pandemic.
"Right now, what we're really doing is trying to be as creative as possible," HSU head coach Jesse Burleson said. "So, we've had a lot of contact with our guys via Zoom. That's been a majority of it. We've done team meetings, position meetings."
The meeting part hasn't been the problem, though. It's what would normally take place after the meetings that's really changed.
"It's different because normally we'd do an install meeting where we'd show film and talk about the schemes and then you go out on the field and you rep it and then you have film from that to come back in and teach from. Well, we don't, obviously, have the capability to do that. But we're still able to do the install stuff. It's nice to be able to put our eyes on them, check on them and make sure they're getting everything they need."
And not just everything they need to be ready for the football season. In fact, Burleson put an emphasis on the different nature of school work for his players and how that is also a focus as everything has shifted online.
"Some of those guys have had either very limited or no online classes," Burleson said. "To do them all online now has been a little bit of a challenge."
Coaches are known for being creatures of habit and having ways they like things done. Burleson, who has been the HSU head coach for nine seasons, is no different. But all those plans and habits have been thrown out the window.
"You spend all this time and effort preparing and you lay out the plan," Burleson said. "Of course, us as coaches, some of us like to plan every single aspect of it out. Obviously, sometimes it doesn't go like it should, but we had a great plan going into it and were ready to get out on the field. Just excited to get to work with the guys and do some football after they've done such a great job in strength and conditioning and all that stuff."
Now the Cowboys coaching staff is putting its money where its mouth is. HSU preaches being ready for anything, being able to adjust and to get stronger through adversity to its players.
The coaches are proving they can do the same.
"The biggest thing we try to do is practice what we preach to our guys," Burleson said. "That's anytime you have sudden change, you've got to try to make it to your advantage. That's what we're trying to do as a staff because it's real easy to say that and then when it comes down you're not actually doing it. I think we've done a pretty good job. Our guys have handled it well and our coaches are doing a great job."
New faces on the screen
The Cowboys added four people to the full-time staff. Two are familiar faces in former players and former graduate assistants as J.J. Elkins was promoted to tight ends coach and Garrett Martin was named wide receivers coach at the beginning of the month.
But the two on the defensive side are new to HSU as Mark McMillan and Roosevelt Williams were brought on board to coach the defensive line and secondary, respectively. Williams will also coach the development squad.
"On the offensive side, the two additions that we made to the staff, with J.J. Elkins and Garrett Martin, both those guys have been with us as players, as graduate assistants and now as full-time coaches," Burleson said. "So that transition has been very smooth. But it still presents its own challenges.
"The two coaches that we brought in (defensively), Coach McMillan and Coach Williams, those guys have not been a part of the program before. That's the biggest learning curve that there is. At the same time, we've still been able to meet and go over a lot of things and tried to get them up to speed. The great thing is, both those guys have great experience and they're really, really smart, so that's a great combination to have."
Getting ready, staying ready
Burleson, like many others, is holding out hope that things return to a form of normal that will allow for football in the fall. If things change, the Cowboys will be ready. But for now, the focus is on being ready for a season that opens Sept. 5 against Sul Ross State.
"I think the biggest thing is, you've got a Plan A and you've got a Plan B, but also now we've got a Plan C because there's really no way to know," Burleson said. "I'm choosing to believe that we're going to be back on as close to a normal schedule this summer as we could be and be ready to start fall camp in August and play in September.
"That's what I'm choosing to believe, and, until the powers that be tell us otherwise, we'll be on that plan. If something has to change, we'll be prepared and we'll be able to make those adjustments. Right now I'm hoping that it's as close to 'normal' (whatever) that's going to look like moving forward."
It has also brought a renewed appreciation for the little things. Offseason workouts, meetings and practices aren't particularly the highlights of being a college football player or coach. Those come on Saturdays in the fall.
But not being able to have them, has put them in a different light.
"I don't know what you call it, maybe an eye-opening experience," Burleson said. "You get in that routine and you just work day and night to try and control those things that you can. Then whenever something like this is thrown in your way and it does a couple things. It makes you slow way down and really take stock in the things that you do have, especially at this point in my career, individually. It's been that thing that will reignite any fire that may have (gone down) … There's been some good things that have come out of it. I know that's hard for some people to understand, but there's a whole new set of appreciation."
And until that time comes when the Cowboys are able to get back into the locker room, weight room, meeting rooms or on the field and Shelton Stadium, they will continue to work and prepare however they can.
"We would love to be able to be out and work with our guys, but that's not part of the process right now," Burleson said. "We're trying to, again, get creative and make the best of the opportunities that we do have."
Jordan Hofeditz covers Abilene high schools and colleges, Big Country schools and other local sports. Follow him on Twitter at @jhofeditz.

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Linda Fowler is the author of the new release, Watchdogs on the Hill: The Decline of Congressional Oversight of U.S. Foreign Relations. Recently she answered some questions about the book's contribution, her writing process, and why domestic influences in international affairs is such an important and overlooked topic.
LF: I worked on Capitol Hill right after graduating from college at a time when Congress was in disarray. The country was tearing itself apart over the Vietnam War, and lawmakers appeared helpless to deal with the upheaval. Octogenarians dominated the leadership in both chambers, creating opportunities for President Nixon to push the bounds of the Constitution with seeming impunity. Once I started graduate school I wanted to better understand how the world's most powerful legislature had ended up in such a sorry state. I was unimaginably fortunate that one of the nation's most distinguished congressional scholars became my teacher and mentor. Richard Fenno taught me to see the democratic possibilities in Congress, to take a longer view about its imperfections, and to focus on close observation of the people who shape it through their daily actions.
LF: I learned that Congress had done a better job overseeing U.S. foreign policy since the start of the Cold War than most political observers acknowledged, but that since the mid-1990s, the institution has performed poorly in light of historical norms. At first glance, this pattern seemed paradoxical: why would lawmakers have been more effective monitoring the executive during a time when fears of nuclear war generated enormous pressures to defer to the White House regarding national security? The answer eluded me until I began to focus on changes inside the Senate that devalued committee work. When legislative craft and expertise mattered less to individual member's success, they spent less time on committee hearings and thus diminished their capacity for oversight of the president.
LF: The book demonstrates that the seemingly arcane business conducted by legislative committees matters a great deal in how well Congress fulfills its constitutional responsibilities in foreign affairs. In an era in which commentators focus on the personality of the president and his conflicts with critics, the findings of the remind us why the framers put their faith in institutions, not individuals. The unique research design of the study combines in-depth analysis of the content of committee hearings; lengthy time series from 1947-2008; investigation of both public and secret sessions; and detailed case studies. Together, the different facets of the project enabled me to clearly identify trends and the reasons behind them, while grounding the analysis in real-world events.
LF: Early in my career, when I was struggling with my first book, someone told me to stop fussing over the introduction and go back to it once I had the individual pieces of the story. It is advice I have followed ever since.
LF: I found it most challenging to create a coherent narrative that did justice to the complexity of the topic, the wide variety of historical data, and the use of both statistical and qualitative tools of analysis.
LF: In 2004, I had just finished a long stint in an administrative position at Dartmouth and was looking to reinvent myself as a scholar by undertaking a new project. Several articles in the news that spring caught my attention because they quoted members of the House of Representatives publicly scolding two of the Senate's most distinguished members, Foreign Relation's chairman Richard Lugar (R-IN) and Armed Services chairman John Warner (R-VA), for scheduling oversight hearings of President Bush's conduct of the war in Iraq. In the past, such pointed challenges would have been unthinkable, given the Senate's prestige in foreign affairs. I wanted to discover whether the Senate's prime national security watchdogs had lost influence and, if so, what reasons lay behind the change.
LF: Scholars have paid comparatively little attention to the subject of Congress and foreign policy: congressional experts focus primarily on lawmaking, while foreign policy specialists tend to overlook domestic influences in international affairs. My objective was to redirect the attention of both camps by showing that oversight was an integral part of the legislative process and key to the rule of law and democratic accountability in war and peace. Despite the scholarly focus, I wanted to make the book interesting to students, journalists, and people generally interested in American politics. So, I worked hard to make it accessible by using case studies to illustrate the main arguments, avoiding jargon, and burying the technical material in appendices.
LF: A major theme of the book is that Congress needs to do better in overseeing U.S. foreign affairs, so I wanted a cover that conveyed both gravity and urgency. The bold lettering of the title, the yellow color of the subtitle and the photograph of the famous hearings in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, chaired by chairman William Fulbright (D-AR), during the Vietnam War convey those messages.
Debates about U.S. foreign policy have revolved around three main traditions – liberal internationalism, realism, and nationalism. This book delves deeply into a fourth, overlooked foreign policy tradition that he calls "conservative internationalism." This approach spreads freedom, like liberal internationalism; arms diplomacy, like realism; and preserves national sovereignty, like nationalism. It targets a world of limited government or independent "sister republics," not a world of great power concerts or centralized international institutions.
Conservative Internationalism shows how the United States can effectively sustain global leadership while respecting the constraints of public will and material resources.
Monday, November 4, 2013 at 11:00 a.m.
Henry R. Nau is professor of political science and international affairs in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. His many books include The Myth of America's Decline, At Home Abroad, and Perspectives on International Relations.


Hey, I get this error every time and I don't know what I'm doing wrong. The lights are working. Can someone please help me? Thank you!
Sorry for the delay! Just checking up on you to see if you are still experiencing the same problem. Did you install the driver? Sometimes with Mac OS you need to install it twice. If you switched the USB cable with a different one it may also not work. Let me know if you continue to experience issues.


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package life.catalogue.release;

import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
import life.catalogue.api.model.*;
import life.catalogue.api.vocab.DatasetOrigin;
import life.catalogue.api.vocab.Frequency;
import life.catalogue.api.vocab.ImportState;
import life.catalogue.common.lang.Exceptions;
import life.catalogue.common.util.LoggingUtils;
import life.catalogue.dao.DatasetImportDao;
import life.catalogue.dao.Partitioner;
import life.catalogue.db.CRUD;
import life.catalogue.db.mapper.*;
import life.catalogue.es.NameUsageIndexService;
import org.apache.ibatis.session.SqlSession;
import org.apache.ibatis.session.SqlSessionFactory;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.util.function.Consumer;

import static life.catalogue.common.lang.Exceptions.interruptIfCancelled;

public class CatalogueRelease implements Runnable {
  private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(CatalogueRelease.class);

  private final SqlSessionFactory factory;
  private final DatasetImportDao diDao;
  private final NameUsageIndexService indexService;
  private final AcExporter exporter;
  private final int user;
  private final int sourceDatasetKey;
  private final int releaseKey;
  private final DatasetImport metrics;
  @Deprecated
  private final life.catalogue.release.Logger logger = new life.catalogue.release.Logger(LOG);
  // we only allow a single release to run at a time
  private static boolean LOCK = false;

  private CatalogueRelease(SqlSessionFactory factory, NameUsageIndexService indexService, AcExporter exporter, DatasetImportDao diDao, int sourceDatasetKey, Dataset release, int userKey) {
    this.factory = factory;
    this.indexService = indexService;
    this.diDao = diDao;
    this.exporter = exporter;
    this.sourceDatasetKey = sourceDatasetKey;
    metrics = diDao.create(release, userKey);
    releaseKey = release.getKey();
    this.user = userKey;
  }

  /**
   * Release the catalogue into a new dataset
   * @param catalogueKey the draft catalogue to be released, e.g. 3 for the CoL draft
   */
  public static CatalogueRelease release(SqlSessionFactory factory, NameUsageIndexService indexService, AcExporter exporter, DatasetImportDao diDao, int catalogueKey, int userKey) {
    if (!aquireLock()) {
      throw new IllegalStateException("There is a running release already");
    }
    Dataset release;
    try (SqlSession session = factory.openSession(true)) {
      DatasetMapper dm = session.getMapper(DatasetMapper.class);
      // create new dataset based on current metadata
      release = dm.get(catalogueKey);
      if (release.getOrigin() != DatasetOrigin.MANAGED) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Only managed datasets can be released, but origin is " + release.getOrigin());
      }

      LocalDate today = LocalDate.now();
      release.setKey(null);
      release.setAlias(null);
      release.setLocked(true);
      release.setImportFrequency(Frequency.NEVER);
      release.setModifiedBy(userKey);
      release.setCreatedBy(userKey);
      release.setReleased(today);
      release.setVersion(today.toString());
      release.setCitation(buildCitation(release));
      dm.create(release);
      return new CatalogueRelease(factory, indexService, exporter, diDao, catalogueKey, release, userKey);

    } catch (Exception e) {
      LOG.error("Error creating release for catalogue {}", catalogueKey, e);
      releaseLock();
      throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
  }

  private static synchronized boolean aquireLock(){
    if (!LOCK) {
      LOCK = true;
      return true;
    }
    return false;
  }

  private static synchronized void releaseLock(){
    LOCK = false;
  }

  public int getReleaseKey() {
    return releaseKey;
  }

  public int getSourceDatasetKey() {
    return sourceDatasetKey;
  }

  public DatasetImport getMetrics() {
    return metrics;
  }

  @Deprecated
  public String getState() {
    return logger.toString();
  }

  @VisibleForTesting
  protected static String buildCitation(Dataset d){
    // ${d.authorsAndEditors?join(", ")}, eds. (${d.released.format('yyyy')}). ${d.title}, ${d.released.format('yyyy-MM-dd')}. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858.
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    for (String au : d.getAuthorsAndEditors()) {
      if (sb.length() > 1) {
        sb.append(", ");
      }
      sb.append(au);
    }
    sb.append(" (")
      .append(d.getReleased().getYear())
      .append("). ")
      .append(d.getTitle())
      .append(", ")
      .append(d.getReleased().toString())
      .append(". Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858.");
    return sb.toString();
  }

  @Override
  public void run() {
    LoggingUtils.setDatasetMDC(releaseKey, getClass());
    try {
      logger.log("Release catalogue "+sourceDatasetKey+" to new dataset" + releaseKey);
      // prepare new tables
      updateState(ImportState.PROCESSING);
      Partitioner.partition(factory, releaseKey);
      // map ids
      updateState(ImportState.MATCHING);
      mapIds();
      // copy data
      updateState(ImportState.INSERTING);
      copyData();
      // build indices and attach partition
      Partitioner.indexAndAttach(factory, releaseKey);
      // create metrics
      updateState(ImportState.BUILDING_METRICS);
      metrics();
      // ac-export
      updateState(ImportState.EXPORTING);
      export();
      try {
        // ES index
        updateState(ImportState.INDEXING);
        index();
      } catch (RuntimeException e) {
        // allow indexing to fail - sth we can do afterwards again
        LOG.error("Error indexing released & exported dataset {} into ES. Source catalogue={}", releaseKey, sourceDatasetKey, e);
      }
      updateState(ImportState.RELEASED);

      logger.log("Successfully finished releasing catalogue " + sourceDatasetKey);

    } catch (Exception e) {

      metrics.setError(Exceptions.getFirstMessage(e));
      updateState(ImportState.FAILED);
      LOG.error("Error releasing catalogue {} into dataset {}", sourceDatasetKey, releaseKey, e);
      // cleanup partion which probably is not even attached
      Partitioner.delete(factory, releaseKey);

    } finally {
      releaseLock();
      LoggingUtils.removeDatasetMDC();
    }
  }

  private void updateState(ImportState state) {
    interruptIfCancelled();
    metrics.setState(state);
    diDao.update(metrics);
  }

  private void index() {
    logger.log("Build search index for catalogue " + releaseKey);
    indexService.indexDataset(releaseKey);
  }

  private void metrics() {
    logger.log("Build import metrics for catalogue " +  releaseKey);
    diDao.updateMetrics(metrics);
    diDao.update(metrics);
    diDao.updateDatasetLastAttempt(metrics);
  }

  private void mapIds() {
    logger.log("Map IDs");
    //TODO: match & generate ids
  }

  private void copyData() {
    copyTable(SectorMapper.class, Sector.class, this::updateEntity);
    copyTable(ReferenceMapper.class, Reference.class, this::updateDatasetID);
    copyTable(NameMapper.class, Name.class, this::updateDatasetID);
    copyTable(NameRelationMapper.class, NameRelation.class, this::updateEntity);
    copyTable(TaxonMapper.class, Taxon.class, this::updateDatasetID);
    copyTable(SynonymMapper.class, Synonym.class, this::updateDatasetID);

    copyExtTable(VernacularNameMapper.class, VernacularName.class, this::updateEntity);
    copyExtTable(DistributionMapper.class, Distribution.class, this::updateEntity);
    copyTable(EstimateMapper.class, SpeciesEstimate.class, this::updateEntity);
    // archive dataset metadata
    try (SqlSession session = factory.openSession(false)) {
      DatasetMapper dm = session.getMapper(DatasetMapper.class);
      dm.process(null, sourceDatasetKey).forEach(d -> {
        LOG.debug("Archive dataset {}: {}", d.getKey(), d.getTitle());
        dm.createArchive(d.getKey(), releaseKey);
      });
    }
  }

  private <K, V extends DataEntity<K>, M extends CRUD<K, V> & ProcessableDataset<V>> void copyTable(Class<M> mapperClass, Class<V> entity, Consumer<V> updater) {
    interruptIfCancelled();
    try (SqlSession session = factory.openSession(false);
         TableCopyHandler<K, V,M> handler = new TableCopyHandler<>(factory, entity.getSimpleName(), mapperClass, updater)
    ) {
      logger.log("Copy all " + entity.getSimpleName());
      ProcessableDataset<V> mapper = session.getMapper(mapperClass);
      mapper.processDataset(sourceDatasetKey).forEach(handler);
      logger.log("Copied " + handler.getCounter() +" "+ entity.getSimpleName());
    }
  }

  private <V extends DatasetScopedEntity<Integer>> void copyExtTable(Class<? extends TaxonExtensionMapper<V>> mapperClass, Class<V> entity, Consumer<TaxonExtension<V>> updater) {
    interruptIfCancelled();
    try (SqlSession session = factory.openSession(false);
         ExtTableCopyHandler<V> handler = new ExtTableCopyHandler<V>(factory, entity.getSimpleName(), mapperClass, updater)
    ) {
      logger.log("Copy all " + entity.getSimpleName());
      TaxonExtensionMapper<V> mapper = session.getMapper(mapperClass);
      mapper.processDataset(sourceDatasetKey).forEach(handler);
      logger.log("Copied " + handler.getCounter() +" "+ entity.getSimpleName());
    }
  }

  private <C extends DSID & VerbatimEntity> void updateDatasetID(C obj) {
    obj.setDatasetKey(releaseKey);
    obj.setVerbatimKey(null);
  }
  private <E extends DatasetScopedEntity<Integer> & VerbatimEntity> void updateEntity(TaxonExtension<E> obj) {
    obj.getObj().setId(null);
    obj.getObj().setDatasetKey(releaseKey);
    obj.getObj().setVerbatimKey(null);
  }
  private void updateEntity(NameRelation obj) {
    obj.setId(null);
    obj.setDatasetKey(releaseKey);
    obj.setVerbatimKey(null);
  }
  private <T extends DataEntity<Integer> & DatasetScoped> void updateEntity(T obj) {
    obj.setKey(null);
    obj.setDatasetKey(releaseKey);
  }

  public void export() throws IOException {
    try {
      exporter.export(releaseKey, logger);
    } catch (Throwable e) {
      LOG.error("Error exporting catalogue {}", releaseKey, e);
      logger.log("\n\nERROR!");
      if (e.getMessage() != null) {
        logger.log(e.getMessage());
      }
    }
  }

}

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namespace QtOrm {
namespace Mapping {

template <typename SUPER, typename T>
class ClassTableInheritanceMap : public ClassMapBaseExt<T, QtOrm::Mapping::SubClassMap> {
public:
  ClassTableInheritanceMap();
  ~ClassTableInheritanceMap();

  virtual QString getSuperClassName() override;

  virtual PropertyMap &mapId(QString propertyName) override;
  virtual PropertyMap &mapId(const QString &propertyName, const QString &columnName) override;
};

template<typename SUPER, typename T>
ClassTableInheritanceMap<SUPER, T>::ClassTableInheritanceMap() : ClassMapBaseExt<T, QtOrm::Mapping::SubClassMap>(){
  this->setInheritanceType(InheritanceType::ClassTable);
}

template<typename SUPER, typename T>
ClassTableInheritanceMap<SUPER, T>::~ClassTableInheritanceMap(){
}

template<typename SUPER, typename T>
QString ClassTableInheritanceMap<SUPER, T>::getSuperClassName() {
  return SUPER::staticMetaObject.className();
}

template<typename SUPER, typename T>
PropertyMap& ClassTableInheritanceMap<SUPER, T>::mapId(QString propertyName) {
  return QtOrm::Mapping::SubClassMap::mapId(propertyName).setAutoincrement(false);
}

template<typename SUPER, typename T>
PropertyMap&ClassTableInheritanceMap<SUPER, T>::mapId(const QString&propertyName, const QString&columnName) {
  return QtOrm::Mapping::SubClassMap::mapId(propertyName, columnName);
}

}
}

#endif // CLASSTABLEINHERITANCEMAP_H


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Taming The Gangs – The Sheffield Solution – Sir Percy Sillitoe
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This article was sent to me some years ago when I had a different version of this site.
The content is even more relevant today.
The choice is a very simple one: ..........
Either society (you) frightens the Gangs, or the Gangs frighten (you) society.
Now, what's your decision ?
Edmund Burke remarked that society should be based on human nature.
In his autobiography "Cloak Without a Dagger" captain Sir Percy Sillitoe gave this insight into human nature ....
"There is only one way to deal with the gangster mentality.
You must show that you are not afraid.
If you stand up to them and they realise you mean business they will knuckle under.
The element of beast in man whether it comes from an unhappy and impoverished back ground, or from his own
undisciplined lustful appetites, will respond exactly as a wild beast of the jungle responds -
to nothing but greater force and greater firmness of purpose."
History is exciting narrative and can also guide us with contemporary problems. It does not repeat itself exactly but similarly and study can clarify present disorders. A major problem for decent people living their everyday lives is the take over of our towns and cities by violent gangs that have been allowed here by the authorities. A precedent 1920's Sheffield, England, was terrorised by gangsters. They lived in cramped back to back houses in courtyards which sociologists use as the excuse. But joining a gang gives power, a sense of importance, of belonging to something, money, possessions, prestige and women offering themselves to you. It gives identity as most gangs are formed on Ethnic lines and based on a territory.
These gangs gambled. Bookies operated outside factory gates with "runners" inside collecting bets for them and one made £75 to around a £100 each day even though it was illegal. Another popular form of gambling was "pitch and Toss." This was a simple form of betting that required no equipment to pack up and carry away. It was tossing 3 coins into the air with the two forefingers and betting on the proportion of, say, heads that turned up. The biggest and most profitable "Pitching" site was on "Sky Edge" a promontory that gives a panorama over the city and with well-placed lookouts or "Crows" raiding policeman could be spotted from afar.
The head was a "towler" or "toller" because he made a toll of between 2/6d to 4-/- in the pound, on bets placed. They had helpers like "ponter", "pilners" or "scouts" who were also called "pikers" or "crows" because they kept watch from strategic viewing spots and carried large sticks to prevent trouble. The business itself was a "joint" and the ring a "pitch" and as all these were paid well, alert to police raids. The game began on a cry of "Heads a pound" for the stake and a return of "Tail it" when another matched the stake which was placed in the centre of the ring. Oddly, the toll was only paid by the better and into the Toller's pocket. Sky Edge used three halfpennies and flung by a tosser. The ponter picked them up and announced the winner. If left, the money doubled with each succeeding toss. If any suspected a miss toss they could shout "barred."
After the war with munitions work gone a slump set in and the leader of the Sky Edge ring, George Mooney, jettisoned his erstwhile associates from Park district where the pitch was, which caused a war for territory to avenge loss of profit and hurt pride. Bookmaker Sam Garvin formed a gang from Park and a gang war developed. Garvin was a promoter of bare-knuckle boxing matches in pub yards where fighters bound their knuckles with straw that was picked from facial wounds between rounds.
The first attack was Mooney's mob raiding the home of William Furniss. As a reprisal Frank Kidnew was slashed 100 times near Sky Edge then helped to hospital where he lamented his ruined suit. The Park mob visited Mooney's home and tried to crash their way in. The Mooney's defended themselves with guns and one attacker George (Ganner) Wheyall was shot in the shoulder. Police found a double-barrel shotgun, a rifle, revolver and ammunition, which earned Mooney a £10, fine. These vicious tit for tat attacks went on through 1923 with Garvin's mob gaining domination and Mooney's disintegrating with members fighting amongst themselves as well as against the Park Gang.
An attack on Mooney's home on May 18th 1925, led to an elderly spectator being hit on the neck by a brick and several police officers getting medical treatment. The thugs escaped up the labyrinthine passageways at the backs of the courtyards and the only one caught received a £1 fine for the old man and £6 for assaulting a policeman. On Christmas Eve the Park mob stormed Mooney's home. Sam Garvin and three associates broke in and terrorised not only Mooney but also his wife and six children. One thug enlightened Mooney's 15 year-old daughter, "We've, come to wish your father a merry Christmas." The terrified man escaped being slashed by hiding in a cupboard upstairs. He left Sheffield for a year. Though they now ruled the roost the Garvin mob kept up the attacks. The following December (1924) they raided former Mooney follower William Furniss's home firing bullets and throwing bricks through the windows, smashing up the house, and a visiting friend with chair legs.
After the attack on Furniss, exasperated Chief Constable Lieut. Col. Hall-Dalwood, told After a report by the Inspector of Constabulary to the Home Secretary, stating that each year the police finding I harder to uphold the law because they were having extra work put on them, and courts were reluctant to convict and if they did punishments were to light. In an interview with the Sheffield Daily Telegraph on 7th May, Chief Constable Hall-Dalwood bemoaned "The public of Sheffield is paying rats for police protection which under the circumstances it cannot possibly get. In Sheffield we have to admit we are floating on very thin ice indeed and we have to admit that, unless more generally helped by punishment to fit crimes…Sheffield's police force is utterly inadequate numerically to cope with the wave of crime that must necessarily follow in the wake of the unemployment situation." He added, "It is the boast of the really bad man that he gets the best run for his money in Sheffield. He would rather be caught in Sheffield than any other part of the country because, he says, you have to produce more evidence for the prosecution in a Sheffield court to get a conviction than in any other town in the country. Moreover, the convicted man in Sheffield is invariably pleasantly surprised by the light character of his sentence. What is happening is that we are making thieves."
He was contradicted. The Sheffield Telegraph alleged that often the wrong people were convicted. A few weeks later it dismissed the gangs "Although there are a number of gangs in conflict" the danger "has been over-exaggerated in some quarters and there is a noticeable tendency to attribute the slightest breach of the peace to activities of one gang or another." What did the authorities think? The response of Alderman Alfred Cattell to the warnings of the Sheffield Independent which had compared Sheffield to the violent parts of Ireland, was, "No, I never look at your papers." J.P. Harold Fisher commented, "We have on the bench some J.P.s who grapple with the cases before them, but older magistrates possess more pluck than the recent additions." He been personally threatened as he walked through the city, he added. The Sheffield Mail revealed that some members of the Corporation Health Committee were themselves landlords of slum properties.
Councillor Moses Humberstone J.P. "I think they should not be fined or bound over, they should be locked up until we get the whole gang in prison." Alderman Wardley J.P. Was living in the past, "I recollect 50 years ago, that gangs were in existence in the City that could swallow up the Mooney Gang."
At a conference of clergymen, the vicar of St.Mathew's told his audience, "They are terrorising even the magistrates and other people, and the magistrates hardly dare sentence them to punishment." There was police corruption and drinking. In January 1930 three constables and nine bookmakers were charged with bribery. It emerge that around twenty officers from the Brightside area had been getting regular payments of small sums to turn a blind eye between 1922 and 1929. There was a break for a year 1925-26, when a plain-clothes officer refused all bribes. Three officers were actually prosecuted, but only one convicted and he was found not guilty. Three bookmakers received fines.
On the 27th the Mail informed the blissfully ignorant, "The leaders of these gangs and freebooters are men who live on the fat of the land. They are men of good appearance. They possess persuasive personalities and glib tongues. They use every possible art and device to carry on their nefarious business. At one moment they spend money freely as though it were water…the next they are grabbing a glass of beer from a man's mouth. They are a nuisance and a danger to publicans –they break glasses, assault customers, smash windows, serve themselves beer and don't pay for it. They work the confidence trick on inoffensive people, row with one another and demand drinks after closing hours. Everyone goes in fear of them and they know it. One of their pet methods of assault is to break a glass on the counter and attack a man's face with the jagged edges."
Their main income was the tossing ring and "All kinds of men are employed by the proprietors to deal with various classes of "business". They have glib-tongued contricksters who can lay a man out as easily as rolling over a nine-pin. One of the principals has himself been a boxer. Others dress flashily, wear heavy gold watch-guards and display their wealth arrogantly. These are not ignorant ruffians. They are men who have calculated quite coolly and calmly the gains to be won by their terrifying outlawry. They are prepared to put up a stiff fight for supremacy. Strong measures will be necessary to beat them down." Gangsters have families but the boundaries stop with their own - those outside the circle were fair game for bullying and robbing. Innocent people who went out after dark were waylaid. Men were robbed of their wages on their way home from factories; thugs smashed pubs up and demanded protection money; some picked-pockets while others went "Bottling" (mugging). Genuine bookies and their clerks were intimidated by protection rackets and, if they did not pay, would be beaten and robbed, their stands smashed and satchels stolen. Gangsters also took winnings after races were run.
A consequence of gangs thriving was young people looked up to them as heroes and emulated them. "Junior Gangs" were in their late teens and early twenties. They made violent attacks on innocent members of the public and like their role models they carried knives, coshes and razors. A trick learnt from their heroes was for several to walk into a pub and demand free drink and cigarettes, while one outside kept watch. If refused they would smash up the bar by throwing glasses, bottles, stools at the mirror behind the bar, then assaulting landlord and any remaining customers. If the police were notified they would return and do it again. People were too frightened to testify against them but if any did the magistrates were lenient.
In August 1923 four men who had been to a show at Sheffield Empire were attacked by four youths on Leopold Street, one was hit over the head with a bottle. That very evening a young woman was talking to friends when a gang of youths punched her in the face. She would not take any action. A stranger was walking along Cambridge Street and passed a young man who asked if he wanted to buy a ring. When he refused he was punched down then five more appeared. He ran into the Albert Hall. The scam was usually done by a pair preying on innocent people and trying to sell them rings. The accomplice would also start bidding to up the price. If they refused they were "mugged", for their money and valuables. As today these gangs had girls too. A set up in Wellington Street in September was a girl screaming for help with a gang of youths around her. One appeared to punch her and when a passer-by went to her aid she and the gang jumped him. Taxi drivers were regularly threatened and intimidated and forced to take gangsters home free.
The Sheffield Mail of 21st September commented on it, "The whole proceedings have caused considerable excitement in the city, and a new cry has been raised for the suppression of gangs." These were young men acting as clerks or shop assistants. "They debauch and gamble and have one or two young girls in their train who are prepared to sacrifice themselves body and soul to the ruffianly crowd who are their masters. Their chief income is derived from picking pockets and selling dud jewellery. A new epidemic appears to have broken out, it will be interesting to see what measures are taken to suppress the disturbances."
The next evening the 22nd a stranger was attacked on Cambridge Street. A man asked him if he would buy a ring and upon his refusal punched him in the face and as he rose five other men attacked. He got away into the Albert Hall and called the police but no one was arrested.
The scam with dud jewellery was usually gangsters operating in pairs. They would seek out a victim and one approached to sell the ring and when the victim was examining it the other would approach and, pretending interest, offer say two shillings for it. Then pretended he had forgotten his money and this show often conned the mark into buying. If h were not interested he would be "mugged." Like their role models the juniors carried various weapons including guns.
Lt.Col.Hall-Dalwood told the Mail on 23rd January 1925, "We have broken the rings up. We have made numerous raids and brought the men before the magistrates, and we, as police, can do nothing more. So far as hooliganism is concerned, it must be well known to everybody who reads the papers that we are bringing in men sometimes three or four times a week for these offences. Whenever the law is broken we bring men before the magistrates. We are handicapped by the fact that the prosecutors are sometimes got at and we cannot bring our witnesses, but we do everything in our power."
Sky Edge ring was safe from police raids because of its being a high promontory and well watched by sentries. But as the Mail explained the magistrates were passing lenient sentences such as the "large batch" the police caught at Tinsley but the highest fine was forty shillings. Straight after the case the offenders hired taxis and went back to gamble. They could rake in up to £40 a day! The Quarter Sessions that week had sentenced members of the Park Brigade to the second division, an easier prison regime than hard labour which was "like sending them to Scarborough."
The turning point was1925 with the hanging on September the third and fourth, of brothers Wilfred and Lawrence Fowler for the murder of William Plommer. Plommer, a labourer and father of four, was not involved with gangs and had no criminal convictions. There had been a fight the previous evening between Wilfred Fowler and another and Plommer had made them fight man to man. Fowler was a Garvin boy, so next evening Garvin and two others made threats against Plommer. Then they caught a tram to the Wicker and attacked another with razors and a cosh. Meanwhile the Fowlers and others attacked and murdered Plommer. The fatal weapon was thought to be a bayonet. Plommer had manfully but foolishly left his house to fight each of the six one by one. They surrounded him and got him down.
They appealed and this was heard on April the 18th 1926 in the Court of Criminal Appeal in London and was dismissed. Defence lawyer Mr.J.W.Fenoughty obtained statements from people and wrote to the Home Secretary Sir William Joynson Hicks with new evidence on Lawrence Fowler. Then two days later he wrote again requesting the Home Secretary to advise His Majesty King George V to grant a reprieve. The devastating reply arrived on 1st September,
Sir, … I am directed by the Secretary of State to inform you that he has given careful consideration to all the circumstances of the case, and I am to express to you his regret that he has failed to discover any grounds which would justify him in advising His Majesty to interfere with the due course of the law. It was signed by the Under Secretary of State for Home Affairs.
The Daily Mail observed on August 20th, "We may hope that the dismissal by the Court of Criminal Appeal of the application for leave to appeal made by the brothers Fowler, found guilty of the murder of a man in Sheffield in brutal circumstances, will have the effect of striking fear into these gangs and breaking them up. Hicks also wrote to the Sheffield authorities asking them to quell the gang attacks!
On the 1st of May 1925, four days after Plommer was murdered, Hall-Dalwood formed the Special Duty Squad of the four hardest men in the force. Sgt. Robinson, the leader, had served in the Coldstream Guards; P.C.Walter Loxley 6ft 2in, 19 stone 8lb a war-time Royal Garrison Artillery, in France; as had P.C.Herbert Lunn, who won the Military Medal at Bullecourt for rescuing wounded under heavy fire; the fourth was P.C.Jack Farrily, a hard Irishman, experienced in street fighting. Their orders were to harry and beat the gangsters up. They became known locally as the "Flying Squad" and first mentioned in court on September 21st, 1925 in a case over the Junior Park gang. In his evidence Sgt. Robinson said that serious complaints had been made of people being kicked around a fairground by the gang and "That is why we are on special duty breaking up these gangs."
The first mention of the "Special Duty Squad" was on July 16th. Prosecuting Solicitor, G.H. Banwell told a court Sergeant Robinson and P.C. Lunn were instructed to prevent the gangs gathering in the City. Sergeant Robinson explained,"That is why we are on special duty breaking up these gangs." Two gangsters were sentenced – one to six months, the other to three.
There had been regular assaults on the police by gangsters but these were hard men who wore plain clothes and were allowed to go in the pubs used by gang members and tell them to leave or beat them up. A brawl at the Red House, Solly Street on 14th September, 1925 gives an insight into the "Squads'" methods. In court, Wheywell's brief Harry Morris asked P.C.Lunn "What Wheywell has done to you, you paid back with 4,000 per cent interest?" He replied,"I do not look at it like that. I only did my duty, knowing the man as I do. Then under further questioning, "These men have been ganging together. No licensees in Sheffield want them. They will only serve them through fear. We have had enough of gangs."
Mr.Barnwell then asked,"Are you one of the Flying Squad?" "Yes". "And your main duty is that of a sort of disturbance queller?" "Yes, principally."
Mr.Morris explained that Wheywell had summonsed first and this was in the nature of a test case. There is a system of assaults on these men. But that would be a substitution of an alleged gang terrorism by the police." The Doctor who had treated Wheywell at the Royal Infirmary said that his patient "had four fairly large bruises, was dazed and looked as if he had been knocked about."
Under cross-examination Wheywell described "the Squad" as having launched a "cowardly assault." The landlord gave evidence for Wheywell and said he did not mind them using his pub. He added that he had not called the police but" The Sheffield police have told me I must not serve these men. It is through no complaint of mine."
The case went to the Sessions where the three "Squad" members were acquitted and Wheywell given three months hard labour! The Recorder warned, "The police must be protected from acts of violence."
We get insights into how gangs are formed for then as now and even in the middle ages a family is at the nucleus. In a case of 11th July the Recorder asked, "How do you become a member of these gangs?" Albert Foster replied, "Well Sir, I have known these men for years, from being a boy. As a matter of fact we have been boys together."
On the 25th of November two defendants appeared in court after being heavily beaten in custody. One Windle was in facial bandages with blood-stained clothes and scarf. In answer to questioning by Harry Morris the defence solicitor "No, it was through falling." On another occasion a woman shouted at the police from the gallery, "You're as bad!"
After six months of the Special Squad Hall-Dalwood had to resign apparently from ill-health but blamed "evil attempts" to undermine him and "insidious influences from outside." He had had constant conflict with Sheffield Watch Committee to get his force brought up to strength and also to get magistrates to give stronger sentences.
He was replaced by Captain Percy Sillitoe who had served in the South African police. Sillitoe became famous as the "Gang breaker" and went on to tackle Glasgow's "Razor gangs." He finished his career as Director-General of MI5. He also visited America to advise J. Edgar Hoover on combating Chicago's more stylish gangsters.
We need to employ army officers as police chiefs because they have a greater understanding of violent and disorderly people than the academics who are currently raised up because s university graduates they are more open to ideas, or political ideology and more inclined to enforce an orthodoxy rather than keep morality and behaviour within reasonable bounds.
Sillitoe followed where Col. Hall-Dalwood had led and made important innovations like adding P.C. Pat Geraghty who stood 6ft 5in and could pick up five tennis balls in one hand. He had the "squad" trained in Ju Jitso by European champion Harry Hunter. To embolden the magistrates he would appear in court to back his men and take the responsibility for the sentences. His first court appearance was on 28th September. It was over the arrest of a husband and wife for fighting each other. A crowd had gathered and tried to free them. The "Squad" were as bad as the gangsters but with indifferent authorities had to take illegal but drastic measures to restore order to the city.
On modern streets of warfare the "Special squad" would need to be Paras or SAS and openly challenge contemporary gangs and shoot them dead in the streets if need be. One significant difference now is that the young gangs who are shooting each other on our streets are not from our communities but have been brought here. In these cases we should deport the criminals to the countries of their ancestors where they might be socialised as we have failed to do this in our culture which is alien to them.
The Sheffield Gang Wars, by J.P.Bean (D&D) Publications.2004
Cloak Without Dagger, Sir Percy Sillitoe. (Cassell.) 1955
Sir Percy Sillitoe, A.W.Cockerill. (W.H. Allen.) 1975
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Consider all that has come to light in just the past few years, and then think of how much more may yet come to light. Or may be too well hidden to ever be exposed.
Reasons To Drain The Swamp
Expenses fiddles.
(Do you really think that they've stopped stealing from us ?)
Grooming cover up.
Immigration fiddle.
Massive BREXIT stitch up.
(Even remainers should worry)
Peterborough election fiddle.
Other postal vote fiddles.
Persecution of Tommy Robinson.
Legal stitch up to convict
Tommy Robinson.
(Everyone should worry)
Huge crime and murder rate.
Tuition fee stitch up.
(Debt = Slavery & Bondage.
Just think of the Mortgage trap !)
Middle east wars nobody wanted.
Iraq X 2, Afghanistan, Libya, etc.
(Who gained, war for who ?)
Health tourism.
Completely loony race, phobia, hate, and trans laws.
No free TV licences for over 75s.
How To Drain The Swamp !!
At all future elections avoid voting for the 3 stooges.
That means - Labour, Liberal Democrats, and Conservative.
Vote for anyone except them.
Vote at every chance you get, but vote against the 3 stooges.
Never miss a chance to vote.
Not voting as a protest achieves nothing, it just helps things to stay the same.
Just observe and say nothing.
(You'll get nicked !)
Or you could post something on a website like this one.
But, remember everything.
Then vote populist.