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Passive house buildings under construction at the Hillside Center for Sustainable Living in Newburyport, Mass. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) Just off Route 1 in Newburyport, a bit of the future is under construction. A huge orange crane hoists a three-story concrete slab and flips it precisely in place, forming the wall of a home. The crane accomplished in five days what would have taken weeks using standard building techniques. The construction system has not been done before in this scale for residential, says Boston developer David Hall, who with his partner, architect Keith Moskow, modified the commercial building method known as tilt-up construction to create the Hillside Center for Sustainable Living. They re building the village on a remediated brownfield, after removing 3,000 tons of toxic ash. ....
Remembering the Past - 100 years ago » Mícheál Mac Donncha One hundred years ago, the spring of 1921 saw an escalation of the war in Ireland as the British regime carried out widespread ‘reprisal’ attacks on civilians and used military courts to sentence prisoners to death. Kevin Barry on 1 November was the first Republican prisoner executed in jail since the 1916 Rising. He had been tried by a British Army court martial. While this was different to the military courts established later and used in 1921, they amounted to same thing: the British Army putting on trial those they alleged to have opposed British rule, and setting aside the normal rule of law to do so. ....
Six men executed in Victoria Barracks in Cork City TAGS Cork, 1 March 1921 - Six Irishmen have been executed in Victoria Barracks in Cork. The men were shot by firing squad yesterday. Five of the six men – Thomas O’Brien, Daniel O’Callaghan, John Lyons, Timothy McCarthy and Patrick O’Mahony, all from Co. Cork – were found guilty of ‘levying war against his Majesty’, in an ambush on crown forces near Dripsey on 28 January 1921. The sixth man, Seán Allen was, in a separate incident, convicted of being in possession of a revolver, ammunition and documents considered to be ‘prejudicial to the Restoration of Order in Ireland.’ ....
Dec 29, 2020 3:03 PM Bunnell, FL - A man spends the rest of Christmas in jail after Flagler County deputies find that he not only had an expired tag, but a plethora of narcotics that he tried to hide after fleeing. Around noon on Christmas Day, a deputy with the Flagler County Sheriff s Office (FCSO) stopped 40-year-old Cornelius Murphy after he rolled through a stop sign in Bunnell. After speaking with Murphy, the deputy noticed the smell of marijuana coming from his car. Murphy told the deputy that there were no drugs in his car and he did not have a medical marijuana card. As the deputy was checking on Murphy s information, a Bunnell police officer came over and requested that Murphy move his vehicle so he doesn t create a traffic jam. That s when he backed into a parking spot as he waited for the deputy to return. The deputy determined that Murphy s tag had expired. When asked to leave his vehicle, Murphy peeled out of the parking spot and drove off. FCSO notes t ....
Martial Law: powers with practically no limitation In 1921 in Ireland, press censorship was widespread, driving cars was forbidden and just walking with your hands in your pockets could make you a British military target. Helene O Keeffe on the introduction of martial law to Ireland • 9 Dec 2020 Cork city observed a very quiet St Patrick s Day on 17 March 1921. The Kerryman described a subdued city in which armoured cars and lorries and military on foot patrolled the streets . Pedestrians were held up and searched after High Mass and shots were fired in Grand Parade and near Patrick s Bridge in the afternoon. Since 10 December 1920, Cork had been a city under martial law. ....