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Q: Cannot use jQuery ajaxComplete in a content script I'm trying to add a simple content script to a tab that triggers when all jquery ajax requests are done.
When I open pages with jQuery ajax (for example: http://demos.9lessons.info/wall/index1.php) nothing happens.
I have the following code:
main.js
const tabs = require('sdk/tabs');
var worker = tabs.activeTab.attach({contentScriptFile: [data.url('jquery-1.10.2.min.js'), data.url('tab.js')]});

tab.js
$(document).ajaxComplete(function () {alert('Ajax complete')});

A: You need to interact with the instance of jQuery running in the page (if any), not the one in your content script.
main.js
const {data} = require("self");
const {PageMod} = require("sdk/page-mod");

PageMod({
  include: "http://demos.9lessons.info/wall/index1.php",
  contentScriptFile: data.url("alert.js"),
  contentScriptWhen: "ready"
});

alert.js
if (unsafeWindow.jQuery) {
    unsafeWindow.jQuery(document).ajaxComplete(function() { alert("complete"); });
}

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WhatsApp says its service is back after an outage disrupted messages
Published October 24, 2022 at 11:05 PM HST
The WhatsApp icon is seen on an iPhone in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on Nov. 15, 2018.
LONDON — WhatsApp said service on the popular chat app has been restored following a brief outage Tuesday that left people around the world complaining that they couldn't send or receive messages.
According to Downdetector, which tracks outage reports, people started reporting problems around 3 a.m. EDT. About two hours later, users started posting online that WhatsApp was back to normal.
A WhatsApp spokesperson said the company was aware some people were having trouble sending messages and that it has fixed the issue and apologized for any inconvenience.
Meta, previously known as Facebook, bought WhatsApp in 2014. It's wildly popular especially outside of the U.S., where many people use it for everyday communication.
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The Pressroom Restaurant in Lancaster closed Thursday after a morning fire. Firefighters said the fire started at about 9 a.m. when an employee tried to dry placements in a dryer when it caught fire. The sprinkler system went off and firefighters got it under control quickly.


It's 75 years since 1936's Battle of Cable Street.
On Sunday 2nd October the occasion will be marked by events centred in and around Wilton's Music Hall, which I have heard, has finally raised sufficient funding to keep going (though that doesn't mean 'job done', so please keep involved).
There will be a market on the day and I will be there with my Amelia Parker clay pipe jewellery, made using fragments of discarded clay pipes dating from as far back as the 16th century, collected along the Thames foreshores close to Cable Street.
Info about the weekend's events here.
Some great historical info and archive images from 1936 here.
And some great shots of Dave Binnington's commemorative mural here.


Para 2 a 5 jugadores de 13 años en adelante.
Duración de la partida: 75 minutos aprox.
Skelit´s Revenge....the most feared ship on the high seas....and you´ve finally taken it. Captain Fromm and his skeleton crew have amassed a massive treasure, and now is your chance to take it all. Players take on the role of Pirates who are boarding Skelit´s Revenge for one purpose....to take the loot. They must battle the flames, the skeleton crew, and their own fatigue if they hope to make it out alive.


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Robert Wallace Wilkins ( - ) est un enquêteur et éducateur médical américain.

Biographie
Il apporte de nombreuses contributions à la recherche sur l'hypertension et les maladies cardiovasculaires. Il est président de l'American Heart Association en 1957 et reçoit son Gold Heart Award en 1962. Wilkins reçoit le Prix Albert-Lasker en 1958 pour ses recherches.

On lui attribue l'introduction de la réserpine, un médicament antipsychotique et antihypertenseur, aux États-Unis en 1950.

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Liens externes

Étudiant de l'université de Caroline du Nord
Étudiant de la Harvard Medical School
Décès en avril 2003
Naissance en décembre 1906
Cardiologue américain
Décès à 96 ans

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Posted inAT Finance, European Union, Germany, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, Middle East, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, Singapore, South Asia, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, World
Influx of Thai football talent to Japan could be a win-win
Led by Chanathip Songkrasin — the 'Thai Messi' — players from Southeast Asia's top footballing nation may be about to make waves in J.League
by John Duerden January 28, 2018 February 18, 2020
Thailand's Chanathip Songkrasin (center) celebrates after scoring a goal against Malaysia in the AFF Suzuki Cup final in 2014. Photo: AFP / Manan Vatsyayana
Having established themselves as the Asean region's best football team, Thailand's footballers are attempting to become a force on the wider Asian stage.
The Thai national team was Southeast Asia's only representative in the final round of Asian qualifiers (12 teams, whittled down from 46) for this year's World Cup, and has also won the last two editions of the AFF Suzuki Cup, Asean football's biennial international tournament.
And as the national team has been making strides, so too have Thailand's clubs. Thai Premier League teams have been performing well in the Asian Champions League, the continents top-level club competition. Muangthong United got to the knockout stage in 2017, following in the footsteps of domestic rivals Buriram United.
Bridging the gap that exists between region (and games against the likes of Malaysia, Singapore and Myanmar) and continent (where teams must compete against the likes of Japan, South Korea and Iran) is far from easy. It takes time, vision and patience.
Another generally accepted avenue of development is sending talent to bigger and better leagues. South Korean and Japanese players have been heading to England and Germany for some years. Many Thai players have dreams of doing the same but at the moment Europe's top leagues are too much of a step up from Thai football. Japan is attainable, though.
In terms of profile, Japan's J.League has been overtaken as Asia's number one in recent years by the big-spending Chinese Super League. In terms of the technical level of the football played, however, it is still the best. It represents a whole new level for Thai players in terms of standards on the pitch, training and coaching, and all-round professionalism.
The J.League may not be as strong as the best in Europe but it is certainly demanding. Stars of Southeast Asian football – including famous figures such as Le Cong Vinh of Vietnam and Indonesia's Irfan Bachdim – have struggled to make an impact in recent years.
In 2017, however, things took a new turn when Thailand's biggest star, Chanathip Songkrasin, left Muangthong to join Consadole Sapporo in the north of Japan. The skilful playmaker is exciting to watch and became a valued member of the J.League team's squad. He has acquired many new fans in Sapporo and those following back home have been pleased with his progress too.
"Chanathip is a very good player and becomes better by playing in Japan," Somyot Poompanmoung, president of the Football Association of Thailand, told Asia Times. "It is good for him and Thai football. If we want to keep developing then we need to give our players more international experience in strong leagues. Chanathip can be an example to others."
He is certainly that. "Messi Jay," as he is nicknamed due to a playing style not dissimilar to that of Argentine superstar Lionel Messi, has been so good that he has inspired an exodus from Bangkok.
Teerasil Dangda, the most successful striker in the whole of Southeast Asia, joined Sanfrecce Hiroshima in December. Then full-back Theerathon Bunmathan signed for Vissel Kobe. Other stars such as Tristan Do and Sarach Yooyen have also been linked with moves east.
The J.League is not only interested in Thai and other Southeast Asian players for their talent on the pitch, however. They have a certain value off it, too. The J.League sees the region as a market for its product as it seeks to increase its audience, sponsors and profile. It wants to become the undisputed number one Asian league in all areas.
Thailand's star midfielder Chanathip Songkrasin (right) is challenged by Myanmar's Naing Kaung Sat in a match in Singapore on June 15, 2015. Photo: AFP / Roslan Rahman
To that end, deals have been signed with numerous Southeast Asian football federations, broadcasting rights have been sold, coaches and knowledge exported. Having famous Southeast Asian players in the J.League is seen as the best way to attract eyeballs from a market that is home to over 600 million people. Clubs in Japan are allowed to sign only four foreigners but can also sign one additional player from the Asean region.
Some will be waiting eagerly to see how the new boys perform. The new season, which is due to kick off in March, is important for Teerasil and Theerathon. If they regularly impress, then Thailand really will sit up and take notice – and more Southeast Asian footballers will see the J.League as a realistic destination. If it proves to be a stepping stone for players seeking a move to Europe, then so much the better for all of Thai football.
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from __future__ import unicode_literals

from django.db import migrations, models
import django.db.models.deletion
import django.utils.timezone

class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    dependencies = [
        ('hamask', '0025_program_training_max_percentage'),
    ]

    operations = [
        migrations.CreateModel(
            name='Program_Instance',
            fields=[
                ('id', models.AutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
                ('start_date', models.DateField()),
                ('end_date', models.DateField(blank=True, null=True)),
            ],
        ),
        migrations.AddField(
            model_name='program',
            name='creation_date',
            field=models.DateField(default=django.utils.timezone.now, editable=False),
        ),
        migrations.AddField(
            model_name='program_instance',
            name='program',
            field=models.ForeignKey(on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.CASCADE, to='hamask.Program'),
        ),
        migrations.AddField(
            model_name='workout_log',
            name='program_instance',
            field=models.ForeignKey(blank=True, null=True, on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.SET_NULL, to='hamask.Program_Instance'),
        ),
    ]

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Concern over climate change fueled meatless movement in 2016
The global trend was seen from grocery stores to the financial world.
By Avery Yale Kamila
From top, director James Cameron; TV personality Oprah Winfrey; Patriots quarterback Tom Brady; actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenneger. Associated Press
Now in the rearview mirror, 2016 was a year when vegan food drove deeper into the mainstream.
James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger filmed climate change public service announcements urging viewers in the United States and China to eat less meat. Tom Brady launched a line of raw, vegan snacks that quickly sold out, and Oprah Winfrey pledged to go meat-free one day a week and encouraged her fans to join the Meatless Monday movement, too.
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We certainly see it here in fresh vegetable- and health food-saturated Portland. In June, the city was named No. 10 on the VegNews list of the 12 Best Towns for Vegan Living. Meanwhile in New York City, Google trend data revealed 2016's top searches for "Near Me" and "Nearby" were for vegan food and juice bars.
And while the Big Apple has been a vegan hot spot for decades, I noticed the mainstreaming appeal of plant-based foods in many of the year's newspaper headlines, including "Dallas is the next destination city for vegans" (Dallas Morning News); "Eating Vegan in Northeast Ohio has Never Been Easier or More Scrumptious" (Cleveland Scene); and "City-County Council Passes Meatless Monday Resolution" (Indianapolis Recorder).
Local papers weren't the only ones picking up on the country's new appetite for plants. National publications were filled with stories related to veganism, vegetarianism and plant-based eating this year.
For instance, an April headline in the Wall Street Journal asked (and answered): "What's the Latest Course in Preschool? Vegan Food." (Helsinki, Finland, for example, started a vegan meal pilot program at 20 day-care centers.)
Food & Wine reported on "Why 2016 Is the Year to Surrender to Vegan Cheese." The story cited the rise of cultured, artisanal plant-based cheeses and a new crop of nut-based cheese brands including Miyoko's Kitchen, Treeline and Riverdel.
In my view, the most significant event of the vegan year happened in March. That's when these three upstart cheese makers joined other plant-based dairy, meat and egg brands to form an industry trade group called the Plant Based Foods Association. The group's stated goal: "a fair and competitive marketplace for businesses selling plant-based foods."
They're asking a lot. Since the animal farm lobby dominates federal agricultural and nutrition policy, it could take decades of lobbying – if not longer – to wipe out all the current inequities that range from subsidies to lax pollution controls to school lunch milk requirements. Yet the fact the vegan market sector has annual sales of $5 billion and is now large enough to stand up and speak with a collective voice bodes well for 2017.
"The industry in the past has been kind of niche-y," said Michele Simon, a San Francisco-based food policy attorney and executive director of the Plant Based Foods Association, which also has offices in Washington, D.C., staffed by Elizabeth Kucinich, wife of former presidential hopeful and U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio). "What's really happened in the last two years is the industry has grown up and is reaching out to mainstream consumers."
We saw this in May when Whole Foods began carrying Beyond Meat's very hamburger-like veggie burger in the meat department. The Beyond Burger patties debuted in the Whole Foods in Boulder, Colorado, and sold out within an hour.
Retail product placement is among the areas the Plant Based Foods Association is working on while gearing up for the more daunting task of leveling the playing field in federal agricultural policy.
"It's no accident that a sausage from Hillshire Farm costs less than a Tofurky sausage," Simon said.
Even in the face of the sausage-to-sausage cost differences (and bearing in mind that beans and rice are always more affordable than meat), shoppers and policy makers around the globe had an appetite for plant-based foods in 2016.
In May the U.K.'s Vegan Society released the results of a survey that found the number of vegans in Britain increased 360 percent in the past 10 years.
In northern Italy, the mayor of Turin launched a campaign to brand the city as a "vegetarian city," complete with a tourist Veg Map, vegan "chop" sandwiches and plant-based education in the schools. The plan is supported by the city's environmentalists, animal rights champions and more than 30 plant-based restaurants, but opposed by the city's butchers – no surprise there.
At the same time, a controversial bill was introduced in the Italian parliament proposing jail time for parents who feed their children vegan food. And while the vegan-jailing bill garnered international headlines, other less talked about bills under consideration in Rome aimed to boost the availability of vegan food.
Staying in the legal realm, Ontario, Canada, rang in 2016 with ethical veganism recognized as a class protected from discrimination by the province's Human Rights Commission. Then in the fall in Ottawa, Ireland's former president Mary Robinson told a youth summit to reduce meat consumption and go vegetarian or vegan to lower carbon emissions.
With the arctic melting at an alarming rate, climate change was on our minds in 2016. And more and more people discovered the connection between eating animals and greenhouse gas emissions.
In the U.S., the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics updated and revised its 2009 position paper on the nutritional soundness of vegetarian and vegan diets to add information about the greater sustainability of plant-based foods.
A study out of Oxford University in November found that a 40 percent tax on beef would compensate for the climate damage done in the rearing and killing of cattle and could cut consumption by 13 percent. No doubt the Danish Council of Ethics took note of this research, since this past year 14 of the 17 council members recommended the country enact a climate tax on beef.
This is why I found 2016 so encouraging: We're now living in a world where countries consider enacting taxes on meat. It's no longer just a vegan's dream but a realistic policy proposal. It's clear the world is shifting.
This shift is spelled out in the 2016 Global Food & Drink Trend report from market research firm Mintel, which said plant-based meat and dairy products would continue to grow in "appeal to the everyday consumer, foreshadowing a profoundly changed marketplace in which what was formerly 'alternative' could take over the mainstream."
I spoke with Billy Roberts, a senior food and drink analyst at Mintel and asked him about this shift and what it will mean. He said the impact will show up everywhere from home kitchens to restaurants to grocery stores.
Roberts said that in years to come, more supermarkets could follow Whole Foods' lead and consider shelving plant-based products in "the meat section or butcher shop alongside traditional meat and poultry products. Similarly, if and when more plant-based proteins are incorporated into more frozen meals, expect to see those alongside their traditional meat-based counterparts in the frozen cases."
The changing marketplace is most visible in the diets of people in their 20s and 30s. Roberts said 49 percent of that age group eat plant-based meat and dairy products every week. Older people aren't eating as many vegan meat and dairy items as young people are, but they are eating more than they ever have before.
"The growth in consumption rates appears to have been largely, if not entirely, the result of flexitarians incorporating these dishes into their diets more often," Roberts said.
SUSTAINABILITY AND MONEY
Even the traditional beef and butter bastion that is the Culinary Institute of America is urging chefs to make a course correction on their menus. In 2016, the culinary school, in conjunction with Harvard University, prodded chefs and food service managers to replace red meat with plants in a campaign called the Protein Flip.
The schools tout the move as "the single most important contribution the food service industry can make toward environmental sustainability."
In May, Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google's parent company, named six game-changing tech trends currently in play. Plant-based protein took the No. 1 spot.
Investors also favored vegan companies last year. Many plant-based brands gained new backers, and the West Coast vegan chain Veggie Grill raised $22 million in investment capital to fund a nationwide expansion.
This past summer saw the establishment of an investor education initiative called Farm Animal Investment Risk and Return. So far, institutional investors with more than $1 trillion under management have agreed to join the campaign and pressure major international food companies to plan for the inherent risk of industrial meat. And by "plan" they mean, "replace it with plants."
With such campaigns afoot, it wasn't a huge surprise when meat industry giant Tyson Food bought a 5 percent stake in Beyond Meat. Vegans generally weren't thrilled to hear this news, but to me it shows that Tyson is seeing the same road signs we are.
And it wasn't just meat alternatives getting a plant-based bump in 2016. Seed company Burpee reported that its new Meatball eggplant (marketed as a meat alternative) not only sold out but sold better than any other eggplant variety in its 140-year history.
All of these events offer reasons to be optimistic about 2017.
The trend forecast at the meat-loving James Beard House in New York City predicts this year will bring menus with less beef and more vegetables. "Even at the Beard House, we're seeing vegetables take the spotlight," the James Beard Foundation editors said, "whether it's showcasing a regional specialty like leather britches (where beans taste suspiciously like bacon), or presenting a vegetable centerpiece."
In the less rarefied world of the grocery trade, plant-based foods are even more common than they are at the Beard House.
According to the Global Mintel Food & Drink Trends report: "In 2017, the priority for plants will drive an acceleration in new products and marketing that casts plants in starring roles." The report notes that since 2010 there's been a 25 percent increase in vegetarian claims on new products and a 257 percent rise in vegan claims.
"Clearly, not only are these products more widely available, but consumers are taking note that these products do exist," Mintel analyst Roberts said. "This penetration is likely only to continue, particularly as food developers hone and refine their offerings to mimic meat and poultry even better than they already do."
Where is this road going to take us in 2017?
If we use the past year as a guide, 2017 will bring us to a world where plant-based food is more widely available than ever before and eating vegan is the normal rather than the alternative thing to do.
Avery Yale Kamila is a freelance food writer who lives in Portland. She can be reached at:
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"In Ta Nullity's telling, White America was responsible for the election of a white supremacist….". Well, we just had a Black supremacist on the throne, so why not?
I beg to differ. The Americans targeted in Las Vegas are NOT what makes your country great. I understand the need for sensitivity, as these people are innocent victims, but to call them great or suggest they are what makes your country great is just empty rhetoric.
Which is not to say they are bad people, only that a great people would simply not put up with what these people have had to put up with historically, during the latter part of the 20th. century especially.
There should be revolts in Western countries. The reason there aren't is because the intended goal, apparently largely achieved, is the moral, civic and political diminishment of the white European peoples. We are mostly not 'great' anymore. The truly Great among us, and those with the potential for greatness, are very few in number. It is always a tiny few who are the spearhead of liberation. The rest follow, and that is what those people at that concert are (or were) – just followers.
Great People are at the cutting edge and risk bullets or worse to defend what counts. These people, innocent victims though they are, took bullets while listening to pointless music. Most of them would have gladly traded places with their neighbour. What we need are white people who won't trade places and who will stand on a point of principle, even if it is not conformist.
Sorry, I cannot agree that the victims of the strip shooting are that kind. They are not of the stuff that made America, they did not and cannot make your country great, nor any white country, 'great'. I am sure they are (and in the case of the poor people that died, were) very fine people, and I extend my sympathies to the injured and my sincere condolences to the families of the deceased.


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Bailie, Hugh Samuel (No. 40631)
Bailie, Hugh Samuel (Hugh)
No. 40631, 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers
Killed in action on Friday 14 September 1917 (aged 20)
Derry House Cemetery No. 2, Belgium (Grave II. E. 3)
Glastry Presbyterian Church
Hugh Samuel Bailie was working as a carter and living at 26½ Kirk Road, Wishaw when he enlisted on 12 December 1915 in Hamilton, Scotland. It was noted in his attestation papers that he was 18 years 9 months old and 5 feet 4¼ inches tall. He cited as his next-of-kin, 'his father James Bailie' of Portavogie by Kirk Cubbin.
Private Hugh Samuel Bailie served first with the Highland Light Infantry (No. 31120) and he went to France on 6 October 1916.
Private Hugh Samuel Bailie was transferred to the Royal Scots Fusiliers (No. 40631) on 19 October 1916 and he was appointed as the servant of Second Lieutenant Nisbet.
Private Hugh Samuel Bailie (No. 40631) was killed on 14 September 1917 and it was noted in his service papers that his personal effects were sent to 'his aunt', Miss E. J. Bailie in Portavogie. He had not made a will.
Private Hugh Samuel Bailie's effects comprised a disc, match box, purse, coins, ring, cuff links, dentures, letters, photos, pocket books, religious book and watch (broken); Miss E. J. Bailie acknowledged receipt of these articles.
Second Lieutenant Nisbet wrote to Eliza Jane to convey his sympathy and, in his letter, he referred to Hugh as 'her brother'. He told Eliza Jane that Hugh had been 'faithful in all his duties'.
Second Lieutenant Nisbet also assured Eliza Jane that Hugh's death had been 'instantaneous and painless' when he was killed by an exploding shell.
Eliza Jane Bailie placed an Our Heroes – In Memoriam notice in the 14 September 1918 edition of the Newtownards Chronicle. She said:
In loving memory of 'my dear brother' and it contained the following verse:
Boy of the smiling eyes, I'll not forget,
Though you will not return, Life's not done yet;
In my heart you live, never to die:
Courage to give to me as years slip by.
Boy of the smiling eyes, it sometimes seems,
That you have never gone – just into dreams.
Strange but you often seem here at my side,
Toddling, a baby still, my joy and pride.
I think upon your smile, dream of your face,
Remember your merry heart, your boyish grace;
So for your sake I smile, boy – boy so dear,
That makes it seem to me still you are near.
Private Hugh Samuel Bailie (No. 40631) was buried in Derry House Cemetery No. 2 in Belgium and he is commemorated in Glastry Presbyterian Church.
In the Newtownards Chronicle it was reported that it was 'his sister', Eliza Jane Bailie, who received official notification of his death.
In both the 1901 and 1911 census returns Eliza Jane Bailie is recorded as Hugh Samuel Bailie's 'aunt'.
Hugh Samuel Bailie was born on 22 March 1897 in Portavogie and he was baptised in Glastry Presbyterian Church. It is recorded there that his mother was Agnes Bailie and unmarried. In civil records his father's name is recorded as Hugh McWhinney, a flesher from Comber.
Agnes Bailie was a daughter of James and Jane Bailie (nee Palmer) who were married on 10 March 1866 in Ardkeen Parish Church of Ireland Church. James Bailie (aged 21) from Ratallagh worked as a servant and he was a son of James Bailie, a fisherman. Jane Palmer (aged 21) from Portavogie worked as a seamstress and she was a daughter of John Palmer, a fisherman.
James Bailier worked as a fisherman and labourer and he and Jane had ten children:
Eliza Jane (born 19 April 1867 in Portavogie; died 25 May 1876, the day before Robert was born)
John (born 11 April 1869 in Portavogie)
Annie (born 14 March 1871 in Portavogie)
Agnes (Aggie, born 19 December 1873 in Portavogie)
Robert (born 26 May 1876 in Portavogie)
James (born 21 December 1878 in Portavogie)
Eliza Jane (born 19 June 1881 in Portavogie)
Sarah (born 11 November 1883 in Portavogie)
Samuel (born 27 March 1886 in Portavogie)
William (born 25 December 1889 in Portavogie)
Their mother, Jane Bailie (nee Palmer), died of bronchitis on 2 December 1898 (aged 53) and her daughter Agnes was with her when she died.
Agnes Bailie of Portavogie died of tuberculosis on 21 March 1900 (aged 26) and her sister Eliza Jane was with her when she died.
Their father, James Bailie, married Ellen Jane McConnell (nee Young) on 31 December 1900 in Newtownards Registry Office. James Bailie, a widower and labourer from Portavogie was a son of James Bailie, a fisherman. Ellen Jane McConnell (nee Young) from Portavogie was a daughter of David Young, a fisherman.
James Bailie worked as an agricultural labourer and he and Ellen Jane had one child:
Samuel (born 24 August 1901 in Portavogie)
Ellen Jane McConnell already had a daughter, Catherine (born 2 August 1892 in Portavogie).
Hugh Mawhinney and Margaret Donnan were married on 17 October 1898 in Ballyphilip Church of Ireland Church, Portaferry. Hugh Mawhinney, a butcher from Comber was a son of Andrew Mawhinney, a butcher. Margaret Donnan from Portaferry was a daughter of John Donnan, a postman.
Hugh and Maggie Mawhinney (nee Donnan) had at least one child:
Margaretta (born 22 January 1900 in Castle Street, Comber)
Hugh Samuel Bailie was one day short of his third birthday when his mother, Agnes Bailie, died on 21 March 1900. After that his aunt, Eliza Jane Bailie, (then aged 18) looked after him and in different records she is described either as 'his aunt' or 'his sister'.
Eliza Jane Bailie of Ballyeasborough died of tuberculosis on 18 February 1919 (aged 36) and subsequently there was a notation made in Hugh's Army records beside Eliza Jane's name: 'cannot trace'.


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From Reluctance to Revival: How Americans Perceive War, in the Context of Stephen E. Ambrose's The Wild Blue
Winner of the 2014 Shippensburg University Outstanding History/Philosophy Student Project Prize
(Originally written as a term paper in Military History of the United States, November-December 2013)
McGovern, 1944 (Photo: WeaponsMan)
Throughout the course of history, the people of nearly all nation-states have regularly attached deep, intrinsic meanings to their home military force. Despite its relatively short history, the United States of America is, without a doubt, no exception. All eras—from Colonial to Revolutionary, Civil War to World War, proxy wars on communism to the War on Terror—Americans have cherished and protected their own view of the men, and now women, in arms.
From the moment the first minutemen picked up muskets, to the present scenario of high school graduates gearing up to go to basic training, citizens of this now-most-powerful nation on Earth have created an image of what they feel the American soldier looks like, acts like, fights like, and lives like. These were the "patriots" of the Revolution, who picked up arms at a moment's notice, secured independence, and defended the right of man to govern himself; these were the "Yankees" who preserved the Union and freed millions of slaves from the bonds of their southern owners. Over the course of the past five decades or so, Americans have attached buzzwords such as "sacrifice," "pride," "honor," and "bravery," among others, to their own understanding of those who have served and currently do serve. Perhaps most obvious, and most important to the following study, is the name given to both the American men fighting afar, and their families fighting on the home front during World War II: "The Greatest Generation."
Throughout his comprehensive work, The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s over Germany, 1944-45, historian Stephen E. Ambrose examined the 741st Squadron, 455th Bombardment Group, Fifteenth Air Force. His narrative was told namely through the eyes of bomber pilot George S. McGovern, who built upon his experiences as a soldier and eventually became a U.S. representative, senator, and 1972 presidential candidate.[1]
In examining a publication such as Ambrose's, it may sometimes be difficult to acknowledge the broad scope of the American military experience, mostly because the focus of such a work is relatively specific: The 741st Squadron was a body of just a few dozen soldiers, a microcosm of the 16-million-man American force that was a part of the Second World War.[2] Nonetheless, this microcosm, as with all specific historical interpretations, provides a key understanding of the larger issues of the time period. The impact of the B-24 bomber plane offers an insight into the technologies of the time; the tactical explanations of the bombing missions over Europe provide perspective of what combat must have been like; the advantages and disadvantages brought on by bombing raids enhance understanding of the then-new American way of war; and the personal experience of McGovern and his comrades portrays the larger vested military interests of the American people. Collectively, these scenarios create a body of work that is transcendent through all service branches in that war. In the end, the documentation of these resources gives historians a glimpse into the full context of Americans' experience in World War II—even though the scope of The Wild Blue is centralized on one unit.
With this collectivity comes the need to branch out and explore the specifics of these fields: technology, tactical analysis, overall strategy, and personal psyche. Throughout the course of this study, the research and works of the following four historians will be utilized: Alex Roland (technology), Dennis Showalter (battle history), Russell Weigley (overall strategy), and Richard Kohn (war's effects on soldiers). In analyzing these historians' specific fields, the purpose of The Wild Blue may be fully realized. And, in recognizing the importance of a unit history such as this, Americans may be more appreciative of the overall efforts of the U.S. military, throughout World War II, and all subsequent conflicts.
From a technological standpoint, Alex Roland of Duke University[3] made an emphatic statement in 1991 when he wrote, "World War II changed everything." Roland recognized the importance of the new style of warfare attempted in that war, through the use of technological advancement. "Radar, jet propulsion, guided missiles, and the proximity fuse might have altered the outcome," he said.[4] Ambrose's focus throughout The Wild Blue was on new bombing technologies, one of the causes of this great change Roland spoke of. By recognizing this apparent fact, "It would be an exaggeration to say that the B-24 won the war for the Allies," Ambrose wrote. "But don't ask how they could have won the war without it."[5]
To Roland, the history of the U.S. military's use of technology is not necessarily a lengthy one, and certainly not an effective one. Prior to World War II, Roland felt innovation was "invisible…throughout most of the American military experience."[6] The military of the pre-war era was "miniscule," with a Navy outgunned by Japan and Britain. The Army Air Corps could claim possession of just 13 percent of the military, ranking a humbling 16th internationally, in terms of size. The total of 1,257 American combat planes was inferior to the air forces of both Japan and Germany—eventual Axis powers and American enemies during the war. Even in the private sector, air travel was unreliable, lacking, and reserved for upper-class Americans. There were very few civilian pilots, leaving 85 percent of the Fifteenth Air Force (to which McGovern's 455th Bombardment Group belonged) with no prior flying experience.[7] But, because "World War II changed everything," by 1945, more than 18,300 B-24s were constructed, due to a consolidation of "the Ford Motor Company, Douglas Aircraft Company, and North American Aviation—together called the Liberator Production Pool." Those who were involved in operating these planes "outnumbered those involved with any other airplane, in any country, in any time." To date, the B-24 "Liberator" is the most popularly built airplane in American history—during World War II, they required the assistance of tens of thousands of pilots and crew members to fly and maintain these new war machines.[8]
Cockpit of a B-24 LIberator (Photo: U.S. Air Force)
From that point on, "technology…moved from the background to center stage."[9] In recognizing the impact of new specifications, the military began to go to weapons firms and developers, seeking new solutions to decades-old problems. Because of new weapons of war, such as bomber planes, American military ingenuity has been able to find and conceptualize itself. Industrial production has created a new variable, one which will likely create the potential for new military results for centuries to come.[10]
Naturally, Ambrose's focus on technological advancements and their training requirements before the Second World War would require some explanation upon actual usage. For one, the training was several months long[11] for these men, being that bomber planes were brand new weapons, never before brought to fruition in American military history.[12] Upon being placed into combat, then, the study of individual battle operations became a staple of any detailed unit history. The Wild Blue did so, though it did not rely heavily on blow-by-blow tactical analyses in its battle sequences. In other words, its features did not include a plethora of maps or officers' post-battle reports, but firsthand accounts garnered by those men who flew the planes, dropped the bombs, and risked personal destruction at any moment—if this were a Civil War narrative, these would be the accounts of the infantrymen on the front lines; for World War I, the men in the trenches. Nonetheless, the elements of Colorado College historian[13] Dennis F. Showalter's thesis are intact, in that Ambrose did not use a "new military history" style, throughout which tactical accounts and battle histories would have been fully ignored. To Showalter, "Armed forces exist to fight, and they justify themselves on the grounds of their military effectiveness,"[14] a play on the common Roman example of "drums and trumpets"—a ploy used "to remind the military historian of the dangers of straying too far from the discipline's roots."[15] Between his chapters studying the training process and deployment, respectively, Ambrose prefaced the European battle portion of the book with the following statement, fully placing the "grounds of…military effectiveness"[16] into context:
It was airpower that made [World War II] so destructive. That airpower was the result of technological improvements in aircraft. Paradoxically it was also the result of the human desire to escape the slaughter of the trenches along the Western Front in World War I. Yet by the end of World War II airpower had brought about more destruction and death than had ever before been experienced…
Aerial warfare was enormously destructive but it was absolutely decisive. Far from destroying Western civilization and its greatest triumph, democracy, the war saved it. Millions of people from countries around the world participated, using many different types of weapons, but none of them contributed more to this result than the airmen.[17]
In showing his understanding of these ramifications, Ambrose introduced his readership to the effectiveness of the Fifteenth Air Force's military objectives.
In the chapters that followed, Ambrose used the aforementioned firsthand accounts to discuss not just the human experience of battle, but the tactical observations made by those involved. Ultimately, this reliance on such observations allows students of history, not to mention readers of his book, the opportunity to decide for themselves whether the right decisions were made, how things could have gone differently, or—at the very least—an opportunity to visualize the battle lines, destruction, and other images of warfare. Over the
course of the next 150-plus pages, Ambrose detailed McGovern-and-company's air bombings over such places as Ploesti, Bari, Foggia, Vienna, Wiener Neustadt, Munich, Muehldorf, Kalupy, Prague, Kreglach, and Linz, among others. Throughout these battle descriptions, Ambrose relied on passages such as, "They flew as squadrons, seven planes in each, in a diamond formation. They set off for Vienna, still gaining altitude, to 25,000 feet,"[18] which truly portrays the visual imagery of battle, staying true to Showalter's hope of "the study of armies…as military instruments…[which] involves painstaking, frustrating labor." Though Ambrose discussed the mental impact of war (which will be discoursed here in subsequent paragraphs), he placed tactical history into the story as "more than a footnote to [a study] of 'war and society.'"[19]
As previously mentioned, the inclusion of new technology created the truest form of a bloodbath-of-a-war on an international scale. With this technology, naturally a system of destruction followed suit, and in many ways does so even today, seven-plus decades past the dropping of two atomic bombs on Japan—perhaps the most desperately alarming examples of how weapons technologies changed the scope of the American military. Russell F. Weigley, of Temple University,[20] deemed this "our only way of war"—a process through which unconditional surrender is achieved "sparing no energies or resources."[21] On this same issue, Ambrose quoted airplane co-inventor Orville Wright, who said, "[T]he aeroplane [sic] has made war so terrible that I do not believe any country will again care to start a war." This naïve prediction has not only proven false, but it has proven to be that the airplane, and other methods of war that derived from World War II, have become the norm in this new American way of war. As a result of bombings like those committed by the 741st Squadron, over a quarter of a million Germans were killed. For every one German killed, two more were injured. In the end, some 25 million experienced the results of bombings in some form.[22]
B-24 Liberator on a bombing mission (Photo: U.S. Air Force)
In their most definitive moments, bombing expeditions targeted oil refineries, tank factories, railroad bridges, and marshaling yards—all of which were clear military-industrial targets. The Americans had set their focus toward destroying the German people from the inside-out, stopping at nothing to rid the Nazis of their war-making capabilities. Thus, "two and a half years after American entry into the war, the American strategic vision was realized, bringing about attainment of a characteristically American goal, Germany's unconditional surrender."[23] By employing a "strategy of assault upon the German economy and civilian morale, by means of a strategic bomber offensive," the effects of Weigley's thesis, in turn, promote those of Ambrose's thesis, that "all the airmen had spent the war years not in vain but in doing good work. Along with all the peoples of the Allied nations, they saved Western civilization."[24]
Once the millions of deaths were reconciled, and international healing began, the United States made efforts to rectify the destruction in Europe—much of which, as mentioned before, was caused by bombing missions. The Marshall Plan and other reconstruction efforts employed by the Harry S. Truman Administration followed suit, and 16 million American men returned to their homes, their families, and their new lives in a domestic America forever changed by a war on foreign soil.[25] They were all now veterans, a group of people "expressed in various forms of myth,"[26] according to former Chief of Air Force History Richard H. Kohn.[27] Four years earlier, these young men had either enlisted or were drafted—the Selective Service and Training Act was passed in September 1940. This act brought nearly 1.2 million men into the military by mid-1941, when the U.S. government anticipated war.[28] But, for those who had enlisted, there remained the question of whether they "fought out of patriotism,"[29] "in a surge of nationalistic fervor,"[30] as many soldiers had in many previous wars—or if they joined reluctantly, for financial, societal, or other reasons.
In The Wild Blue, Ambrose devoted the entire first chapter to "Where They Came From," and provided anecdotal evidence of several of the men in the 741st Squadron. According to Ambrose, "Every American born before 1936 remembered exactly where he or she was when they heard the news that the Japanese had attacked the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor," the catalyst for so many sudden enlistments. George S. McGovern was among these individuals, who, as a student at Dakota Wesleyan College, first heard the Pearl Harbor newsflash while writing notes for a music class. "I have to confess I'd never heard of Pearl Harbor," he said—but that day "he decided that he would have to be involved in the war."[31] With thousands of other like-minded young men, McGovern joined the Army Air Force, a body "not ready for them." They all wanted to fight then and there,[32] a clear example of Kohn's notion of "volunteers [who] flocked to the colors" early in wars.[33] The American people were "mobilized [and] outraged…against Japan."[34] On the other hand, in recognizing the willingness of so many who had joined the military, it must be acknowledged that many were not necessarily there by choice; rather, many draft-age men enlisted into the Army Air Force so that they would not be drafted into the infantry forces. As Kohn pointed out, "the supply of willing recruits dried up as the realities of sacrifice sank in."[35]
455th Bombardment Group, 1944 (Photo: Fold 3)
Looking at World War II creates an interesting scenario; as previously mentioned, it is the ultimate example of the United States engaging itself into total war, home front and all. So many individuals were willing to pack up and go to Europe or Japan nearly as soon as the first shots sounded at Pearl Harbor, but as Kohn said, this has not always been the case throughout American history; Americans may prefer to perceive it in this fashion, but not all soldiers have historically entered the service out of "his love of liberty, intelligence, and native individualism."[36] For example, Historian Allan Berube, in his book Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II, wrote about the Selective Service and Training Act, and the debate over its passage. Thus, it was a debate over whether America, collectively, wished to sponsor an ally and/or fight in a global conflict:
[I]n 1940, after Germany's continuing victories in Europe and air bombings of Britain, public opinion—still deeply divided over conscription and any possible declaration of war—slowly turned away from isolationism, allowing the still-neutral United States to start a limited mobilization. President Roosevelt called for the nation to become an 'arsenal of democracy' that would provide arms for Britain's war against Germany. After much national debate, Congress…passed the nation's first peacetime conscription act and set the maximum number of draftees called to active duty at nine hundred thousand.[37]
Despite the overwhelming popular support for American war in Japan and Europe that would ensue in December 1941, Roosevelt had his hands full in convincing the American people that they should agree to assist in efforts on behalf of the Allied powers. Nonetheless, because of this eventual widespread support, the American war machine was able to garner the assistance of many more men who would be instrumental in fighting on behalf of the U.S. war effort, which was perhaps initially spurred by the Selective Service and Training Act.
Nearly 160 years prior, in the American Revolution, "The Continental Army…drew its soldiers from the poorest third of society and contained disproportionate numbers of drifters, servants, British deserters, captured loyalists, convicts, and drafted substitutes."[38] One such individual was "a Lieutenant, by the name of Scott" who was "wounded, & confined in the Jail at Boston." According to a circa 1777-1781 account by British Loyalist Peter Oliver, Scott said, "[I]f I was killed in Battle, there would be an end of me, but if my Captain was killed, I would rise in Rank, & should still have a Chance to rise higher. These sir! were the only Motives of my entering into the service."[39] This was not a man excited by the prospects of American independence, nor of the ability to defend his home; he was trying to advance his place in society. He was willing to do so by sacrificing his life, in hopes of a better one—apparently, at the expense of his officer's life. Mark Lender wrote an essay detailing similar circumstances during the Revolution, and stated, "The motives of the army were largely selfish…These men would still fight, but increasingly they wanted the terms of service more to their liking."[40] Charles Royster held "that men enlisted under the influence of economic need or ambition and not of revolutionary ideals,"[41] while Gregory T. Knouff pointed to "loyalties, and ethnic, racial, and greater identity…from the perspective of common people. The issue of national independence was marginal or secondary to them."[42] Whatever their reasons for fighting, they were a far cry from the eventual enthusiasm for the American cause during World War II.
Since the Second World War, these issues of soldiers' purposes for fighting has not waned throughout subsequent American wars. Pundit Rachel Maddow wrote about "the inevitable incentives to war" and their consequences in Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power.[43] One of Maddow's obvious influencers in military policy was Creighton Adams, the U.S. commander in Vietnam from 1968 to 1972. Vietnam, an unpopular war, relied upon the conscription of young American men. Clearly, they did not explicitly wish to fight if they were drafted. And, said Maddow, "The agonized [President Lyndon B. Johnson] was trying to thread a new and difficult needle: taking the nation's armed forces to war without taking the nation as a whole to war,"[44] a distinctively different view than was taken in World War II. Rather than beg for assistance on behalf of the National Guard or Army Reserve, Johnson used the conscription process to establish a fighting force. Yet, despite an obvious reluctance to fight, when the First Infantry Division returned home, Abrams told the men, "[You] represent a constancy of those essential virtues of mankind: humility, courage, devotion, and sacrifice…part of the cement and rock that holds our great country together." Maddow did not present the soldiers' opinion on the matter, but this still showed a new military mindset, one which she called "a big national investment in military readiness."[45] In keeping morale up among lesser-willing troops, perhaps the goals of the military as a whole could seem that much more achievable, creating somewhat of a more modern interpretation of the enthusiasm at the beginning of World War II.
From all perspectives, the Second World War shaped the way Americans have fought and still do fight wars. Despite its distance of seven decades and counting, the technological advancements, tactical history, strategy, and psychological effects tell the tale of the American military story. Interpretation of these events varies, even today, when historical evidence may be used to establish any number of precedents or perceptions. In looking at various historians' publications on these incidences – readers, researchers, students, and the American public may collectively achieve a better understanding of what went right, what went wrong, and why certain events happened. Themes are prominent throughout world history, pride in military tradition being anything but the least influential among them. Americans have seen some of the highest ebbs and lowest flows of opinions toward military efforts. Today, that pride in donning military garb, or saluting the efforts of the men and women in uniform, seems strong. From the nation's earliest days, the efforts to strike up hope and calm skepticism have remained omnipresent, and will only continue to do so.
In looking at a work such as Stephen E. Ambrose's The Wild Blue, the purposes of studying military history strike a chord with perhaps all students of history. In this book, and others like it, one can see frustration over lack of effort and hope in a solution—hatred toward loss of life and love upon a soldier's return home—reluctance toward the cause, and revival in the spirit of a nation.
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[1] Stephen E. Ambrose, The Wild Blue, 261. Please be aware that while Ambrose has been accused of plagiarism for this book, I have not included any of the allegedly plagiarized sections in this essay.
[2] William T. Alison, Jeffrey Grey, and Janet G. Valentine. American Military History, 276.
[3] John Whiteclay Chambers II and G. Kurt Piehler, eds. Major Problems in American Military History, 2.
[4] Alex Roland. "Weapons and Technology Drive the American Military," in Chambers II and Piehler, eds., Major Problems in American Military History, 18.
[5] Ambrose, The Wild Blue, 4.
[6] Roland, Major Problems in American Military History, 18.
[7] Ambrose, The Wild Blue, 33-34.
[8] Ibid, 22.
[10] Ibid, 12.
[11] Ambrose, The Wild Blue, (various perspectives from) 44-104.
[13] Chambers II and Piehler, eds. Major Problems in American Military History, 2.
[14] Showalter, Dennis F. "The Importance of Battle History" in Chambers II and Piehler, eds., Major Problems in American Military History, 22.
[16] See note 14.
[17] Ambrose, The Wild Blue, 105.
[19] Showalter, Major Problems in American Military History, 24.
[20] Chambers II and Piehler, eds., Major Problems in American Military History, 2.
[21] Weigley, Russel F. "How Americans Wage War: The Evolution of National Strategy," in Chambers II and Piehler, eds., Major Problems in American Military History, 6.
[23] Weigley, Major Problems in American Military History, 3.
[25] Allison, Grey, and Valentine. American Military History, 276.
[26] Kohn, Richard H., "Exploring the Social History of the Military," Chambers II and Piehler, eds., Major Problems in American Military History, 7.
[28] Allison, Grey, and Valentine, American Military History, 258.
[29] Kohn, Major Problems in American Military History, 7.
[30] Ibid, 9.
[31] Ambrose, The Wild Blue, 42.
[37] Allan Berube, Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II, p. 1-2.
[39] Peter Oliver, "Loyalist Peter Oliver Tells How an American Prisoner of War Justified His Enlistment to His Captors (1775), c. 1777-1781," in Chambers II and Piehler, eds., Major Problems in American Military History, 68.
[40] Mark E. Lender, "Enlistment: Economic Opportunities for the Poor and Working
Classes," in Chambers II and Piehler, eds., Major Problems in American Military History, 76-77.
[41] Charles Royster, "Enlistment: Patriotic Belief in the Cause of Freedom," in Chambers II and Piehler, eds., Major Problems in American Military History,84.
[42] Gregory T. Knouff, "Enlistment: The Complexity of Motivations," in Chambers II and Piehler, eds., Major Problems in American Military History, 92-93.
[43] Rachel Maddow, Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, 8.
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Whether it be a birdwatcher or bird photographer, a field guide is a must for anyone exploring the birds of India. The book – "A Pictorial Field Guide to Birds of India" – can be a good asset if you are looking for one.
This article reviews the first edition of the book released in 2016. The authors of this book are among the eminent birders and ornithologists of India.
Why consider this book – "Birds of India"?
Let us take a look at the details.
As the title says, it is a pictorial guide. Instead of diagrams, actual photos are used to illustrate each of the birds. For me, it was the main reason to get this book. Moreover, the quality of these photos is outstanding, thanks to all the photographers who contributed. Multiple photos are used wherever necessary to show plumage variations, flight, and dimorphism.
This comprehensive guide contains the details of 1300 species of birds. Also, it covers almost the entire Indian subcontinent, including Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.
The details include a brief description, range, size, habitat, and voice of the bird. Along with that, the scientific name, family name and common name are given at the top help for quick identification. The authors have also taken care to note the differences in identification between similar species. The description includes crucial information about a bird's behavior and appearance.
The layout is in such a way that one leaf contains at most four birds. But some birds which show different phases span multiple pages with color photos.
Although small in size and not very precise, the distribution maps are useful. Different colors distinguish the resident and migratory ranges of a bird. Anyway, the maps help as a quick reference of the birds' range, mainly for the endemics.
Although the quality of the content is superb, the book has some minute negatives too.
The description is brief, not detailed. So if you want a guide with maximum details, this book may not be the choice.
The binding is not hard. A field guide is more prone to damage than other books. So it should have been tougher.
The map is missing for some rare birds.
Sometimes, plates and diagrams are more suitable for identifying similar birds.
Price – The MRP is not given anywhere in the book. I bought it from Amazon under 800 INR.
I highly recommend this book, especially if you are a photographer looking for a pictorial guide.


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The Doobie Brothers to Perform Before the 64th Coca-Cola 600
After more than five decades performing chart-topping hits for fans around the world, 2020 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Doobie Brothers are "Takin' it to the Streets" to perform a high-energy, infield concert before the 64th running of the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday, May 28, 2023.
The iconic four-time GRAMMY™-winning rockers will perform a 60-minute pre-race concert featuring a selection of their No. 1 hits "What a Fool Believes" and "Black Water," in addition to a catalog of indelible songs like "Listen to the Music," "China Grove," "Jesus Is Just All Right," "Rockin' Down the Highway" and more.
Beginning with their multi-million-selling Toulouse Street, the Doobies have three multi-platinum, seven platinum and 14 gold albums. In 2021, the band kicked off their 50th anniversary tour, which reunited Tom Johnston, Michael McDonald, Pat Simmons and John McFee.
"In the pantheon of rock and roll, few groups embody history and tradition like The Doobie Brothers," said Greg Walter, executive vice president and general manager at Charlotte Motor Speedway. "Their music is timeless, like the iconic on-track moments that have defined the Coca-Cola 600 for so many years. We can't wait to see a long train of fans runnin' to Charlotte Motor Speedway for next year's pre-race concert!"
The Doobie Brothers will cap three days of music at Charlotte Motor Speedway as Circle K Speed Street is once again set to bring big-name concerts to the 10-acre fan zone throughout the weekend. Friday and Saturday concert acts will be released at a later date. Sunday's pre-race concert will feature The Doobie Brothers performing a 60-minute set in the infield as part of the lead-up to the 64th running of the Coca-Cola 600.
The pre-race concert is free for all Coca-Cola 600 ticket holders. Those who upgrade to a Track Pass will get stage-front access to the concert, driver introductions and more. Tickets to the Coca-Cola 600 start at only $49 for adults. Kids 12 and under get in for $10 with an adult. Track Pass upgrades are just $75. For tickets, visit www.charlottemotorspeedway.com/tickets.
Pat checking out the Doobies' Signature Plaque at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 🤘 pic.twitter.com/KdnLDD5zie
— The Doobie Brothers (@TheDoobieBros) July 13, 2022
source: Charlotte Motor Speedway Media
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Seminar on the Evidence of Manuscripts (June 1994)
September 12, 2016 in Manuscript Studies, Seminars on Manuscript Evidence
"Marginalia in Manuscripts"
Parker Library
Invitation Letter, Plus Marginalia, for 24 June 1994
RSVP Form for 24 June 1994
In the Series of Seminars on "The Evidence of Manuscripts"
The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Invitation in pdf, with 1-Page Invitation Letter and 1-page RSVP Form
The previous Seminar in the Series considered
"King Alfred and His Legacy"
(English Faculty Building, Oxford University, 20 April 1994)
[First published on 12 September 2016]
This seminar was "devoted to marginalia in medieval manuscripts." A complicated and fascinating subject.
Now, at the distance of more than 20 years, Mildred Budny reviews the event, with some highlights, and considers its annotated Invitation Letter as a case in point.
Tags: Annotations, Anthony Grafton, Ælfric's Colloquy, British Library Additional MS 32246, Corpus Christi College MS 100, Corpus Christi College Ms 108, Corpus Christi College MS 111, Corpus Christi College MS 153, Corpus Christi College MS 173B, Corpus Christi College MS 2, Corpus Christi College MS 223, Corpus Christi College MS 23, Corpus Christi College MS 286, Corpus Christi College MS 326, Corpus Christi College MS 389, Corpus Christi College MS 422, Corpus Christi College Ms 57, Graham Caie, Joyce Hill, Manuscript Marginalia, Manuscript studies, Omission-Insertion Signs, Parker Library, Pen-trials and scribbles, Plantin–Moretus Museum MS 47, Research Group Archives, Rohinie Jayatilaka, Seminars on Manuscript Evidence
September 7, 2016 in Manuscript Studies, Seminars on Manuscript Evidence
"Medieval Manuscript Fragments:
A Seminar"
Invitation Letter Page 1
(Parker Library, 24 June 1994).
[First published on 6 September 2016]
This seminar was "devoted to medieval manuscript fragments at the Parker Library and elsewhere, in both public and private collections." As usual, the existence of manuscripts in other collections relevant to the theme under consideration was taken into account, but now, thanks to their collector, our Associate Toshiyuki Takamiya, some of those manuscripts came to the Library for Seminar to see and to compare.
[Update in September 2017: See the end of this post for news about the Takamiya Collection now at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.]
Tags: Arch Selden B.26, Bible Fragments, Budny's Illustrated Catalogue, Corpus Christi College EP-O-6, Corpus Christi College MS 111, Corpus Christi College MS 144, Corpus Christi College MS 197B, Corpus Christi College MS 214, Corpus Christi College MS 270, Corpus Christi College MS 321, Corpus CHristi College MS 557, Corpus Christi College MS 6, Cotton MS Otho A I, Eusebian Canon Tables, manuscript fragments, Manuscript studies, Matthew Parker, Medieval Music, Musical Manuscripts, Parker Library, Pontifical Fragment, Royal MS 7 C XII, Seminars on Manuscript Evidence, Stowe MS 1061, Takamiya MS 21, Thomas Astle, Toshiyuki Takamiya Collection
Seminar on the Evidence of Manuscripts (October 1991)
August 25, 2016 in Manuscript Studies, Seminars on Manuscript Evidence
"Sixteenth-Century Transcripts of Anglo-Saxon Texts"
(12 October 1991)
Invitation in pdf.
"Technical Literature and its Form and Layout in Early Medieval Manuscripts"
Parker Library, July 1991
(A Workshop on "The Production, Make-Up and Handling of Medieval Manuscripts"
intervened on 5 October 1991.)
An earlier Seminar considered a related theme:
"Sixteenth-Century Interventions in Anglo-Saxon and Related Manuscripts"
Parker Library, April 1990
The Invitation explains the plan, reports the speakers and their subjects, invites discussion from the participants, and sets out a provisional list of manuscripts available for consultation.
Tags: 16th-Century Transcripts, Anglo-Saxon legal texts, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, Asser, Corpus Christi College MS 100, Corpus Christi College MS 111, Corpus Christi College MS 178, Corpus Christi College MS 188, Corpus Christi College MS 197A, Corpus Christi College MS 383, Corpus Christi College MS 449, Early Modern Studies, King Alfred, Life of Alfred, Matthew Parker, Parker Library, Thomas Talbot
Seminar on the Evidence of Manuscripts (March 1990)
February 11, 2015 in Events, Manuscript Studies, Seminars on Manuscript Evidence, Uncategorized
"Facsimiles, Diplomatic Texts and Editions"
Mainly at the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
This seminar demonstrated the current state of The Palaeographical and Textual Handbook, in course of preparation as a teaching text for manuscript studies.
Invitation in pdf here. Note the addition of the sign of an opened pair of scissors to cue the motion for separating the RSVP slip from the single-page Invitation Letter. The sign represents part of the evolution of the form for the Invitation Letters of the Series.
[First published on 11 February 2015, with updates]
The seminar presented the work in progress at the Library on a series of sample facsimiles of pages from early medieval manuscripts, with transcriptions and commentaries, to teach postgraduate students the elements of manuscript study. We began with an account of its aims, with a demonstration of the range of representations of the selected pages or facing pages.
The series proceed from photographic facsimile of the original at original size (with scale and colour guide), through computerised representation of the layout of the texts upon its page(s), to transcription, edition, and translation, with commentary. Then we sought "comments from some of the younger members who remember more clearly their problems on first approaching materials in manuscript . . . and from others, particularly from those whose expertise lies outside textual material, but who use it in their work." The original manuscripts were also available for comparison.
We examined the cases selected so far for this approach:
MS 12 (the Cura Pastoralis in Old English, with glosses by the 'Tremulous Worcester Hand')
[= Number 13 in the Illustrated Catalogue and now online]
MS 111 (Old English manumissions)
MS 173 (Annal of 755 from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle)
MS 183 (Bede's Life of Saint Cuthbert in prose and verse)
MS 197B (Latin Gospel Book)
[= Number 3 in the Illustrated Catalogue and now online]
MS 326 (Ealdhelm poem in Old English and opening of De laude virginitatis)
MS 422 (verse Solomon and Saturn)
Invitations were sent to:
David Wilson, Christine Fell, Mildred Budny, Nicholas Hadgraft, Patrick Wormald, Richard Sharpe, Leslie Webster, David Parsons, Kathryn Lowe, Carol Hough, Richard Gem, Timothy Graham, James Graham-Campbell, Donald Bullough, Leslie French, Andy Hopper.
Carmen Acevedo
Mildred Budny
Donald A. Bullough
Christine Fell
L.J. French
Timothy C. Graham
Nicholas Hadgraft / Nicholas Hadgraft
Alice Harting–Correa (afterward Alice Correa–Bullough)
Carol Hough
Kathryn Lowe
John Mollon
R.I. Page
Chris Turner
Leslie E. Webster
David M. Wilson
A typescript report of this Meeting of the Seminar was prepared by Mildred Budny. It survives in the Research Group Archives.
Accounts of the progress on the Handbook appear in the Annual Reports to the Leverhulme Trust. (See our list of Publications.) A summary account of The Palaeographical and Textual Handbook appeared in print:
Mildred Budny's description of
'The Research Group on Manuscript Evidence: Contributions to the CORPUS Project'
Old English Newsletter, 28:1 (Fall 1994), A-8–A-23, at page A-9 and Plate 4 on A-20
The next Seminar considered
(Parker Library, 13 April 1990).
Most of the Seminars on the Evidence of Manuscripts considered manuscripts, types of text, approaches to scripts and layout, and challenges for transcribing, editing, translating, and analysing the evidence upon the pages, chosen for the Handbook, which engaged our collective attention throughout the rest of the Research Project and, to a limited extent, beyond.
With the requirement at short notice to find a different base for the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence following the completion of the Project, rather than the base that had been contracted, some intended publications fell into disarray for a while. The Handbook was one of them. Now, in digitising and recording more of the Research Group's records on our website, we can present a clearer representation of the vision of that plan. Watch this space.
Tags: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Anglo-Saxon Manumussions, Bede's Life of Saint Cuthbert, Cambridge-London Gospels, Corpus Christi College MS 111, Corpus Christi College MS 12, Corpus Christi College MS 173, Corpus Christi College MS 173B, Corpus Christi College MS 183, Corpus Christi College MS 197B, Corpus Christi College MS 326, Corpus Christi College MS 422, De laude virginitatis, Old English Pastoral Care, Old English poem Ealdhelm, Palaeographical and Textual Handbook, Parker Library, Seminars on Manuscript Evidence, Solomon and Saturn
Image-Processing and Manuscript Studies (January 1994)
January 1, 2014 in Events, Manuscript Studies, Photographic Exhibition, Reports
A one-day Workshop held
at the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,
by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
In the Series of Research Group Seminars on 'The Evidence of Manuscripts'
[First published on 13 October 2015 from our Archives, with updates]
This workshop focused upon optical imaging techniques as aids for manuscript studies. It considered developments in imaging through photographic and computerised methods, as it provided a forum for information and feedback about techniques of image processing, both existing and planned: applications, capabilities, limitations, desiderata, and future potential. Participants included experts in manuscript studies, conservation, photography, imaging aids, computing, radio astronomy, engineering, forensics and medical imaging.
Our First Event Report in Booklet Form
A 'Preliminary Report' of the proceedings of the Workshop was prepared and printed by the Research Group as a small-format Booklet soon after the event.
Following the move of our principal base to the United States later that year, not to the destination expected, but to Princeton, we thought that the Booklet had disappeared. Describing the event for our upgraded website (in October 2015), we had to rely on the corrected proof-copy, transcribed here. More recently, from another section of our Archives, the printed copy of the Booklet has emerged, and we publish it as well in downloadable form.
It represents the first of our printed Booklets for any of our events. It followed the model of our Annual Reports for the Research Project, composed principally by Mildred Budny and circulated in printed copies both individually and as a collected group, as described among our Publications). Those reports summarised our Seminars and Workshops, along with accounts of our other activities and the research work itself.
It also followed the model of the Exhibition Booklets for the exhibitions at the Parker Library of "Canterbury at Corpus" (1991) and "Matthew Parker in Cambridge" (1993), although those are illustrated with our photographs from Parker Library materials. Both were printed in-house and circulated at the events, as well as afterward. Both were reprinted, but in quarto format, in the Old English Newsletter, 24:4 (Summer 1991), Appendix A (= pages A-1–A-7) and 27:1 (Fall 1993), Apendix A (A-1–A-8); the latter issue is available online in the OEN Archives, but not yet the former. In their original design, these Exhibition Booklets emanated in A3 format as a group of single sheets stapled twice along the left-hand side; the 1991 Exhibition Booklet, with text and photographs by Mildred Budny, was also prepared as an A5 booklet of folded and nested leaves with the pages of text and image reduced to half-size in photocopying. Similar layout in small-format booklets came to pertain also to the Annual Reports. Such forms of in-house design, layout, and publication by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence prepared precedents, and customs, for the Workshop Booklet.
Then, after the Research Project was completed and the Research Group moved to the New World, our scholarly Events mainly focused upon Symposia for some years. As our Annual Series of Symposia on "The Transmission of the Bible" gathered momentum, their Programs, with brief Abstracts of the Papers, grew from single or double-sided pages (1995, 1996, and 1997), and took the form of short booklets, as here:
1998 Symposium exterior
1998 Symposium interior
Those folded and unstapled booklets comprise either a double-sided 4-page unit (1 quarto sheet folded in half as a bifolium) or a menu-like tryptich (1 legal-size sheet folded in three) with wings to open and close at will. Each case was issued in printed form at the event and circulated afterward also in printed form. In this respect, the Symposium Booklets differ from the 1994 Imaging Seminar Report, which emerged after the event — indeed like the Annual Reports of our events overall (1990–1994). The 1994 "Preliminary Report" takes the form of 6 double-sided sheets folded into 12 pages as a small-format booklet (A5), although it also circulated as full-page sheets (A3).
A longer booklet accompanied our 2002 Colloquium at the British Museum. That case stands within The New Series of our Seminars, Workshops, Colloquia & Symposia.
Within the New Series, the Booklets have become a regular, but not necessarily invariable, feature, while illustrations enter their pages more and more, through generous donations of images for the purposes. Our experience in designing, laying out, and typesetting our Illustrated Bulletin ShelfLife (2006–) prepared the way for the illustrated Booklets as a way of life.
Each case was issued in printed form at the event and circulated afterward also in printed form, until we acquired a website and the site could accommodate them. Our tradition is to "launch" the publication of the booklet in its printed form at the event itself. Then we may post it on the website and circulate it elsewhere.
More recent, and illustrated, examples of the booklets employ our copyright font Bembino. Issued in print at the event, as is the custom, they now appear on our site in downloadable form:
2013 Symposium on "Identity and Authenticity"
2014 Symposium on "Recollections of the Past"
2014 Colloquium on "When the Dust has Settled"
2015 Congress ("Predicting the Past")
2016 Symposium on "Words & Deeds"
2016 Congress ("Crusading" and "Mirror")
See also our list of Publications. The "Imaging" Booklet joins their company.
Tags: Bembino Digital Font, British Library, Corpus Christi College MS 111, Corpus Christi College MS 12, Corpus Christi College MS 173, Corpus Christi College MS 197B, Corpus Christi College MS 201, Corpus Christi College MS 23, Corpus Christi College MS 422, Corpus Christi College MS 44, Cotton MS Claudius A III, Cotton MS Otho C VI, Cotton MS Vitellius A.xv, DScriptorium, Electronic Beowulf, Imaging Aids, Manuscript studies, Parker Library, RGME Program Booklets, RGME Publications, RGME Webmaster


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Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Save Lives
Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2019 Mar 30.
The National Academies Collection: Reports funded by National Institutes of Health.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Health and Medicine Division; Board on Health Sciences Policy; Committee on Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
Michelle Mancher, Alan I. Leshner
Bookshelf ID: NBK538936
DOI: 10.17226/25310
The opioid crisis in the United States has come about because of excessive use of these drugs for both legal and illicit purposes and unprecedented levels of consequent opioid use disorder (OUD). More than 2 million people in the United States are estimated to have OUD, which is caused by prolonged use of prescription opioids, heroin, or other illicit opioids. OUD is a life-threatening condition associated with a 20-fold greater risk of early death due to overdose, infectious diseases, trauma, and suicide. Mortality related to OUD continues to escalate as this public health crisis gathers momentum across the country, with opioid overdoses killing more than 47,000 people in 2017 in the United States. Efforts to date have made no real headway in stemming this crisis, in large part because tools that already exist—like evidence-based medications—are not being deployed to maximum impact. To support the dissemination of accurate patient-focused information about treatments for addiction, and to help provide scientific solutions to the current opioid crisis, this report studies the evidence base on medication assisted treatment (MAT) for OUD. It examines available evidence on the range of parameters and circumstances in which MAT can be effectively delivered and identifies additional research needed.
Copyright 2019 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
The National Academies of SCIENCES • ENGINEERING • MEDICINE
COMMITTEE ON MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT FOR OPIOID USE DISORDER
2. The Effectiveness of Medication-Based Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
3. Treatment with Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Different Populations
4. Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Various Treatment Settings
5. Barriers to Broader Use of Medications to Treat Opioid Use Disorder
Appendix A. Study Approach and Methods
Appendix B. Public Workshop Agenda
Appendix C. Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
This activity was supported by a contract between the National Academy of Sciences and the National Institutes of Health (HHSN263201800029I/HHSN26300005) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of any organization or agency that provided support for the project.


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The 10 Best Observer Stories of 2016: 'Company Town'
How big business turned a Gulf Coast beach town into an industrial zone.
Forrest Wilder Dec 29, 2016, 8:00 am CST
Editor's Note: Many environmental stories rely on familiar tropes, the scrappy locals standing up to the big, bad polluter. The unlikely bedfellows of environmentalists and, say, ranchers. The technical, scientific debate about how harmful a pollutant is to human health. While this story has many of those elements, it's really more about how a large corporation can use its money and power to bend a community to its will. Quintana, Texas, went from being a beach town to a company town in the matter of a few years; Naveena Sadasivam's story shows how Freeport LNG used carrots and sticks as well as divide-and-conquer tactics to build a $14 billion LNG plant on the Texas Gulf coast.—Forrest Wilder
By Naveena Sadasivam
Published on May 31
When Freeport LNG began constructing a natural gas import facility on the northern end of Quintana in 2005, the shale gas boom was still years off. At the time, natural gas was expensive, and a plant bringing cheap liquefied natural gas from Europe and supplying it to customers in Texas was an economically attractive proposition. Drawn by the easy access to the Gulf, millions of dollars in subsidies and low taxes, Quintana was an ideal location for a natural gas importer.
For a while, everything was rosy. The plant was almost a mile away from the nearest home, largely out of sight and out of mind. In spring 2008, a 909- foot tanker carrying the company's first shipment docked at its berth. In the next few years, however, natural gas prices plummeted. The country was awash in cheap natural gas. Business dried up, and the billion-dollar plant sat mostly idle.
That's when Freeport LNG considered a new plan. What if, instead of importing natural gas and selling it to customers in the United States, it reversed its operations, liquefying the cheap natural gas produced in Texas and selling it to customers in Europe and Asia, where prices were higher?
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