A few weeks ago I saw a Mexican Whip-poor-will in Arizona and reported it as my 720th North American Life Bird. Later, I found out that late in 2013 there was a split of one of my prior sightings, Sage Sparrows, into two species, Bell's Sparrow and Sagebrush Sparrow. I checked my records and found out that I had seen both of them, Bell's near Hollister, California in 2004 and Sagebrush in western Arizona a few years later. Consequently I am assigning number 721 to Sagebrush Sparrow, and thus accounting for the jump from 720 to 722.
Number 722 was the lone Bahama Mockingbird, (ABA Code 4) which has been seen for a week or two around Fort Zachary Taylor State Park at the south end of Key West, Florida. We spent a very hot afternoon searching for it, following up on all the distracting Northern Mockingbird songs.
We finally found the Bahama Mockingbird to the northwest of the Fort, feeding from a berry tree that it refused to leave, but in which it was difficult to photograph.
He (or she) was very cooperative in every other respect, allowing us to approach very near for as long as we wished.
We left immediately to drive north on the Keys to the Marathon Airport, the best spot in Florida, reportedly, to find Antillean Nighthawks (ABA Code 2). We looked at the south end of the airport with no luck. As dusk approached, we drove around to the north side. Antillean Nighthawks were just taking to the air over the airport with their distinctive "pitty-pit-pit-pit" calls. They cavorted aerially within yards of us as we stood in the parking lot at the north end of the airport, near the Air Museum and the helicopter ride concession. One pair showed us their distinctive, elongated white wing-bands as they flew low and directly over us. We couldn't manage to photograph them because of darkness and their constant and rapid aerial motion. This capped a most successful day as I chalked up Lifer number 723. We stayed overnight at the Marathon Holiday Inn Express, a very pricey lodging, and enjoyed a delicious dinner of Yellowtail and chips and a local beer at the Tarpon Creek Bar and Grill just a few steps from the Motel.
The next morning we returned to Key West to catch a plane to Tampa, where I would concentrate on finding Budgerigars (ABA Code 3) and Nanday Parakeets (ABA Code 2). From Tampa, we drove north to the area near Hernando Beach where the quickly disappearing Budgerigars had been reported seen a year or so ago. In spite of our best efforts driving through the neighborhood, we did not locate any of these lovely little exotics. As the day grew short we decided to abandon the effort and drive to Walter Fuller Park in St. Petersburg to try for Nanday Parakeets. The drive was dreadful; traffic was heavy, and red-lit traffic lights refused to turn green. We finally arrived at Fuller Park and walked all the way around and through the park, which is very nice, with no luck. We decided this was not our day, so we would find a room and a restaurant in preparation for our long drive the next day to try to find our fifth target bird, the recently added ABA bird, the introduced Purple Swamphen (ABA Code 2). As we left the Park, we made a wrong turn and when we discovered we were going the wrong way, I pulled into a little driveway to turn around. Directly above the car perched on a wire was a Nanday Parakeet in full view, displaying its beautiful green, blue, red and black colors from all angles as it turned around and around. The day was not lost, as the Nanday Parakeet became my 724th Lifer.
I do not expect to have the pleasure of making many more 3-lifer trips. Elated I was.
We decided to get a head start on our three hour drive to a wetland area near Clewiston, Florida, where Purple Swamphens had been seen. An hour or so later we stopped at a motel and were told that they were full, and we better go back to Tampa if we expected to find any vacancies that night. It seems that the Indian Bollywood awards were a great attraction in south and central Florida, and all the motel rooms in the area had been taken up for that event. Tired and frustrated, we turned around and went back to Tampa, where the clerk at the local Hampton Inn had kindly called ahead and made reservations for us. We arrived, of course, late and hungry. A dinner at Red Lobster restored our spirits.
and nearly motionless little Swamp Rabbit.
We struck out on the Purple Swamphen, however, and returned to our car several hours later, thirsty and exhausted, and made the long trip back to Tampa to catch a plane for home the next morning.
The driver at the motel near the airport in Tampa suggested that the Cheesecake Factory would be open late on Sunday night and that it was very close by. We went there, sat outside on a beautiful Florida spring night, and watched the interesting people arriving and departing from the nightspot next door. Our server, Patrick, did a great job and the food was outstanding, so we lingered until midnight, knowing that we did not need to have an early start on the morrow because all the early Delta flights were overbooked. After a long and stressful day at the airport we felt lucky to finally find a flight on Southwest, directly from Tampa to Chicago and Des Moines, where we arrived at nearly the same time as if our original plan to return by Delta through Atlanta had materialized.
The American Birding Association has created 5 Codes (6, if you include extinct birds) to classify the difficulty of finding each species of bird ever found in North America. Code 1 is the easiest and contains the most birds (approximately 500). A few years ago I thought I had seen all of the Code 1 birds except the Purple Sandpiper. A trip to Maine in winter a couple of years ago produced good results, and I was able to check off the Purple Sandpiper. Refer to my Purple Sandpiper blog entry. But in the meantime, the ABA split the Whip-poor-will into two separate species: the Eastern Whip-poor-will and the Mexican Whip-poor-will. The two are nearly indistinguishable except that they have distinctive calls and they are located in sharply different areas of the country. I had long ago and on many occasions seen and heard Whip-poor-wills, but they were all of the Eastern variety.
I communicated with a retired bird guide in Arizona with whom I had birded on one of my first birding trips, in about 2000. He gave me some suggestions as to when and where Mexican Whip-poor-wills might be seen in Arizona. He said that late April and the first three weeks of May would probably be best because the birds are calling more frequently at that time. He also suggested that full moon could be helpful because they tend to vocalize more on bright nights.
Unwilling to wait for the May full moon, Barbara and I took off, flying standby, to Arizona on April 15th, to arrive the day of the April full moon, coincidentally also the night of the eclipse producing the "Blood Moon". We drove first to Patagonia and from there to Pinery Canyon in the Chiricaua Mountains in far southeast Arizona, arriving at the east entrance through the village of Paradise. The gravel road leading to Paradise from Highway 10 goes through a flat agricultural irrigated area. We started down that road about 6:30 p.m. and saw not a single vehicle or human being for the next 45 minutes, when we arrived at Paradise. The road became increasingly narrow, steep and rough as we neared and passed through Paradise. At about 7:30 p.m. we were elated when a Whip-poor-will fluttered up from the edge of the track and flew about in our headlights for a few seconds before disappearing into the trees. Success!!! How could it be so easy? To top it off, within a few minutes we heard the call of the Mexican Whip-poor-will close by the road, as we crept along at about 5 miles per hour with our windows open. The elusive Mexican Whip-poor-will became number 720 on my North American Life list. Now I await further splits of species by the Ornithologists to create a new Code 1 bird that will force my hand once again.
Before we started up this mountain canyon we took note of the sign warning that drug dealing and smuggling activities occurred within the Canyon and that caution was advised. We were slightly nervous about this, and became more so as the night wore on and we drove through even rougher and narrower tracks, still with no sign of human life. Near the top of the canyon we saw the glow of the full moon behind a mountain peak and arranged to stop to take a picture as it emerged over the peak.
Orion, the Dog Stars, Ursa Major, Ursa Minor and many other constellations were by now prominent in the night sky. At about 9:00 p.m. we emerged from the canyon on the west side of the Chiricauas, and saw our first mammalian life, a big Jack Rabbit, running across the road and a Cottontail soon thereafter. We were nearly back to Willcox and our motel before we saw our first motor vehicle since leaving Highway 10 at 6:30. There still are some remote parts of this country.
Before we drove to the Chiricauas, we detoured to Patagonia to see the hummingbirds and other species at the Paton's place. Among the Hummers were Broad-billed, Black-chinned and Violet-crowned Hummingbirds.
There were quite a few species other than Hummingbirds on the premises to add to our enjoyment of this byway.
On the next day we drove to Tubac, Arizona to try to see the Sinaloa Wren that has been hanging out on the Anza Trail for several weeks. This would be a new life bird for me. This Mexican bird is being seen more frequently in the U.S. in the last few years as it attempts to extend its range northward. Unfortunately, we along with a dozen or so other hopeful birders were disappointed in not finding it before we had to leave to get back to Tucson for our flight home. As we were returning on the trail, a male Black-chinned Hummingbird attracted our attention as it engaged in its mating ritual just a few feet from the trail. I would describe it as flying back and forth at low altitude in the fashion of a pendulum, buzzing loudly. This would go on for 20 or so seconds, and then he would perch motionless on the same low-hanging branch of a mesquite.
On April 7, 2014, I left Des Moines about 7:00 a.m. and drove to the Ringgold County Conservation Area to see the Prairie Chicken mating display. I was hoping that this distinctive, and now rare in Iowa, prairie resident would represent number 100 on my 2014 Iowa species list. The Ringgold County population is the only known remaining population of Prairie Chickens in Iowa, and this only because of extensive reintroduction efforts. As I was driving through Kellerton, a Eurasian Collared Dove blatantly displayed itself on the road in front of my car and I could not ignore it, so this introduced species became my 2014 Iowa #100.
A few miles later I was the lone observer at the deck looking eastward toward the Prairie Chicken lek. I was not disappointed, for 10, I believe all males, were cavorting about. They made a great display and a good start for my day. I hope this reintroduction effort succeeds in restoring such an iconic prairie bird in Iowa for the delight of generations to follow. I was reminded of my father's account of his childhood trip by wagon across northwest Iowa to their new farm home in 1884, where the Prairie Chickens flushed from the grasses by the dozens per mile. I was also reminded that he became one of the best shotgun hunters in the area, bringing home Prairie Chickens which were a staple of the dinner table in his farm home. He would have enjoyed watching this now rare display, as he loved, as well as hunted, the birds.
The weather was not conducive to birding. High, cold, north winds and intermittent rain squalls prevailed all afternoon. I drove up and down muddy Buffalo Creek Road, using my spotting scope to look south from the protection of my car, as the rain and wind pelted the north side window. Thousands of Sandhill Cranes were crowded into a field of corn stalks, but they stayed quite close to the south border of the field, about a quarter mile from the road and adjacent to I-80. For most of the afternoon I was the lone birder. About 4:00 a woman from Massachusetts arrived and we agreed to split the duties of scoping the flocks of Sandhills and exchanged cell phone numbers so we could communicate with each other if one of us spotted the "Bird". As the rain became heavier, the cranes spent more time shedding the rain with their necks extended, making it more possible to distinguish the Common Crane, if present, from the Sandhills. She first spotted the Common Crane, then lost it. Knowing it was there, and the general location, I was able to refind it and we both were able to enjoy excellent looks as it moved to the nearer edge of the Sandhill masses. Thus, the Common Crane, a Code 4 ABA bird, became number 719 on my North American Life List.
I arrived home about 10:30 p.m., for a satisfactory closing to a very long day on the road.


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namespace blink {

// Helper class for tracking the pointer ids for each type of PointerEvents.
// Using id re-mapping at this layer, this class makes sure that regardless of
// the domain of the id (i.e. in touch or pen) the corresponding pointer event
// will have a unique id amongst all pointer events as per pointer events'
// specification. This class intended to behave the same as existing browsers as
// much as possible for compatibility reasons. Particularly it behaves very
// similar to MS Edge to have pointer event ids generated by mouse always equal
// 1 and those that are generated by touch and pen will have increasing ids from
// 2.
class CORE_EXPORT PointerEventFactory {
    DISALLOW_NEW();
public:

    PointerEventFactory();
    ~PointerEventFactory();

    PointerEvent* create(
        const AtomicString& mouseEventName, const PlatformMouseEvent&,
        EventTarget* relatedTarget,
        LocalDOMWindow*);

    PointerEvent* create(const AtomicString& type,
        const PlatformTouchPoint&, PlatformEvent::Modifiers,
        const FloatSize& pointRadius,
        const FloatPoint& clientPoint,
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    PointerEvent* createPointerCancelEvent(
        const int pointerId, const WebPointerProperties::PointerType);

    // For creating capture events (i.e got/lostpointercapture)
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        PointerEvent*,
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    // For creating boundary events (i.e pointerout/leave/over/enter)
    PointerEvent* createPointerBoundaryEvent(
        PointerEvent*,
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        EventTarget*);

    // Clear all the existing ids.
    void clear();

    // When a particular pointerId is removed, the id is considered free even
    // though there might have been other PointerEvents that were generated with
    // the same id before.
    bool remove(const int);

    // Returns all ids of the given pointerType.
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    // Returns whether a pointer id exists and active.
    bool isActive(const int) const;

    // Returns type of pointer id if exists, otherwise Unknown.
    WebPointerProperties::PointerType getPointerType(const int) const;

    // Returns whether a pointer id exists and has at least one pressed button.
    bool isActiveButtonsState(const int) const;

    // Returns the id of the pointer event corresponding to the given pointer
    // properties if exists otherwise s_invalidId.
    int getPointerEventId(const WebPointerProperties&) const;

private:
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        IncomingId() {}
        IncomingId(WebPointerProperties::PointerType pointerType,
            int rawId)
            : std::pair<int, int>(static_cast<int>(pointerType), rawId) {}
        int pointerType() const {return first;}
        int rawId() const {return second;}
    } IncomingId;
    typedef struct PointerAttributes {
        IncomingId incomingId;
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        PointerAttributes() {}
        PointerAttributes(IncomingId incomingId, unsigned isActiveButtons)
        : incomingId(incomingId)
        , isActiveButtons(isActiveButtons) {}
    } PointerAttributes;

    int addIdAndActiveButtons(const IncomingId, bool isActiveButtons);
    bool isPrimary(const int) const;
    void setIdTypeButtons(PointerEventInit&, const WebPointerProperties&,
        unsigned buttons);
    void setBubblesAndCancelable(PointerEventInit&, const AtomicString& type);

    static const int s_invalidId;
    static const int s_mouseId;

    int m_currentId;
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    HashMap<int, PointerAttributes, WTF::IntHash<int>, UnsignedHash> m_pointerIdMapping;
    int m_primaryId[static_cast<int>(WebPointerProperties::PointerType::LastEntry) + 1];
    int m_idCount[static_cast<int>(WebPointerProperties::PointerType::LastEntry) + 1];
};

} // namespace blink

#endif // PointerEventFactory_h

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A freak accident at a Fredericton city police building has left the structure with tens of thousands of dollars in damage.
Jul. 22, 2009 4:58 p.m.
FREDERICTON — A freak accident at a Fredericton city police building has left the structure with tens of thousands of dollars in damage.
Sgt. Scott MacKenzie says a security guard driving around on patrol around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday somehow stepped on the gas instead of the brake.
He says that sent his vehicle through the front window and into the main entrance.
The guard was not injured.
MacKenzie says alcohol and drugs were not a factor.
The bizarre accident remains under investigation.


Platinum earring uses 18K white gold post.
27 diamond rounds totaling 0.12 carats.
Sold as a single, not a pair. Buy two to make a pair.
Punk rock turned 40 years old in 2016 ... and we celebrated in a fancy way with a diamond safety pin.


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Klępnica  is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Łobez, within Łobez County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately  north of Łobez and  north-east of the regional capital Szczecin.

For the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.

The village has an approximate population of 80.

References

Villages in Łobez County

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / January 23, 2023 / Levi & Korsinsky, LLP announces that class action lawsuits have commenced on behalf of shareholders of the following publicly-traded companies. Shareholders interested in serving as lead plaintiff have until the deadlines listed to petition the court. Further details about the cases can be found at the links provided. There is no cost or obligation to you.
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Evergreen Trees That Produce Cones
Cones are a cluster of woody scales that protect the seeds inside the cone.
1 Deer-Resistant Conifers
2 Evergreen Trees That Can Tolerate Soil Compaction
3 Red Cedar Tree Facts
4 Hemlock Shrubs
Evergreen trees that bear cones are called conifers and produce needles and cones instead of leaves and flowers. Not all conifers are evergreens, however, and a few species of conifers are actually deciduous trees that lose their leaves in the fall and winter months. Dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) is one such deciduous conifer tree growing in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness 5 through 11.
Arborvitaes (Thuja) are a genus of confer trees that -- depending on the species -- grow in USDA zones 2 through 8. They have fragrant needles and produce both male and female cones on the same tree. Arborvitaes are versatile plants with various uses including as a hedge or screen. Examples include Korean arborvitae (Thuja koraiensis) is a 15- to 30-foot-tall evergreen tree growing in USDA zones 5 through 8. It has green needles with silvery hues underneath and reddish-brown female cones. "Green Giant" arborvitae (Thuja "Green Giant") is another evergreen tree producing cones that measure about 1/2-inch long. It grows in USDA zones 5 through 8 in full sun to partial shade and can reach heights of 40 to 60 feet tall.
Junipers (Juniperus) are a genus of conifer shrubs, trees and groundcovers producing seed female cones with a fleshy, fruit-like body. "Kaizuka" Chinese juniper (Juniperus chinensis "Kaizuka") is a sun-loving evergreen tree reaching heights of 15 to 30 feet in USDA zones 4 through 9. This nonflowering tree produces male and female cones on different plants. The male plants have a pollen cone with a catkin-like appearance while the female plant produces the berry-like, fleshy seed cones. "Blue Star" single-seed juniper (Juniperus squamata "Blue Star") is a needled evergreen tree growing in USDA zones 4 through 8 and tolerating drought conditions and dry, shallow soil. This dwarf conifer has silvery-blue foliage and berry-like seed cones on the female plants.
Pine (Pinus) trees are known for the large cones they produce which are commonly used in craft projects. These cones appear on both male and female pine trees and shrubs. The shore pine (Pinus contorta) is a needled evergreen tree best grown in coastal areas in USDA zones 6 through 8. It grows to about 35 feet tall in sunny or partially shaded areas. The shore pine has medium sized cones that are yellow or brown and deep green needles. Lacebark pine (Pinus bungeana) is a bit taller than shore pine, reaching heights of 30 to 50 feet tall in USDA zones 4 through 8. This evergreen tree is a slow-grower and has peeling bark that reveals the under-wood which is colored olive green, pale purple, white or silver. Its needles are deep green and form in bundles, and the yellow to brownish cones are small, measuring at about 2 inches.
Spruces
Spruce (Picea) trees are useful evergreen, cone-bearing plants covered in need-like foliage. They are generally grown for use as privacy screening or windbreaks in USDA zones 2 through 9, depending on the species. The male cone starts out yellow and matures to a reddish-purple color while the female cone is either red or green and will change to brown or purple. "Glauca" Colorado blue spruce (Picea pungens "Glauca") is a cone-bearing evergreen tree growing in USDA zones 2 through 8 and can reach heights of 40 to 60 feet tall. It grows in a pyramidal shape in full sun to partial shade and is deer resistant. "Bruns" Serbian spruce (Picea omorika "Bruns") grows to about 30 feet in USDA zones 4 through 8. Like "Glauca," "Bruns" is an evergreen conifer that prefers areas with full sun to partial shade and grows in a pyramidal shape with silvery-blue needles.
UC IPM Online: Arborvitae — Platycladus Orientalis, Thuja Occidentalis Western Red Cedar—Thuja Plicata Family Cupressaceae (Cypress Family)
Monrovia: Korean Arborvitae
Missouri Botanical Garden: Thuja "Green Giant"
Horticulture & Crop Science Ohio State University: Juniperus
Missouri Botanical Garden: Juniperus Chinensis "Kaizuka"
Missouri Botanical Garden: Juniperus Squamata "Blue Star"
Fine Gardening: Genus Pinus (Pine)
Cal Poly Urban Forest Ecosystems Institute: Shoreline Pine
Missouri Botanical Garden: Pinus Bungeana
Monrovia: Dawn Redwood
Fine Gardening: Genus Picea (Spruce)
Monrovia: Colorado Blue Spruce
Monrovia: Bruns Serbian Spruce
Amanda Flanigan began writing professionally in 2007. Flanigan has written for various publications, including WV Living and American Craft Council, and has published several eBooks on craft and garden-related subjects. Flanigan completed two writing courses at Pierpont Community and Technical College.
Flanigan, Amanda. "Evergreen Trees That Produce Cones." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/evergreen-trees-produce-cones-47392.html. Accessed 21 January 2020.
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Evergreen Trees & Shrubs for Shady Sites
Types of Cedar Trees With Small Cones
What Evergreen Trees Grow Well at High Elevations?
What Do Juniper Bushes Look Like?
Pine Trees That Grow Well in Wet Conditions
What Is a Nigra Arborvitae?
Small Trees for a Border Garden
What Is a Dwarf Blue Atlas Cedar?
Winged Tree Seeds
Trees With Silver-Gray Leaves
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ORWELL'S DOC O'SHAUGHNESSY'S GRAVE
Major Laurence Frederick O'Shaughnessy
Who Died Age 39
on 27 May 1940
REMEMBERED WITH HONOUR
To Orwell Today,
Dear Ms. Jackie Jura,
May I bother you on a minor issue: while researching on early cardiac surgery for a research paper I am writing (about surgery in children), I found discrepancies about the date of death of Dr. L. O'Shaughnessy. In one paper by a surgery professor in the USA ("Cardiac Surgery in the Age of Dinosaurs", by R.L. Replogle) he implied that Dr. L. O' was killed in WWII action at Dunkirk 3 months after he [Dr. O'] had written a letter to a Dr. Robert Gross congratulating him on his successful surgery of a PDA in a 7-year-old girl, putting the date to May 1939. However, I think it is clearly wrong, as I found a different date referenced in Dr. Harold Ellis's paper (surgery professor at School of Biomedical Sciences, London) mentioning O'Shaughnessy's tragic death, and on your webpage: ORWELL BROTHER-IN-LAW DIED AT DUNKIRK
I think Dr. Replogle was in error by one year. Perhaps Dr. Ellis was also wrong since he puts the death as 21st March 1940. Basically, it is 1940 for sure, and either the last days of May 1940, since Orwell could not find Dr. O's return on the latter's diary entry of June 1, 1940.
Any clarification you can provide me would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks so much,
Tonse N. K. Raju, MD, DCH
Deputy Editor, Journal of Perinatology
Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics
Greetings Tonse Raju,
Thank you for your enquiry about Orwell's wife Eileen's brother, Dr Laurence O'Shaughnessy, about whom there have been many discussions over the years on ORWELL TODAY and yet no one has ever said exactly what day it was that Doc O' died.
Back in March 2012 I received that email from Richard McNab, the son of doctor George McNab who was with Laurence O'Shaughnessy when he died, and I posted our discussion on the website, which you reference having read, ie ORWELL BROTHER-IN-LAW DIED AT DUNKIRK.
In his email McNab corrected mistakes on the website regarding the place, month and year O'Shaughnessy died -- it was in May 1940 during the Dunkirk evacuation -- and O'Shaughnessy died in the town, not on the beach. McNab didn't specify the exact date O'Shaughnessy died. At that time McNab was in the process of publishing his father's war-time diary which would go into detail about the death of Laurence O'Shaughnessy.
Then in November 2013 McNab sent an update saying he'd finished the book -- RETREAT FROM RIVIERE: THE DUNKIRK DIARY OF MAJOR GEORGE MCNAB -- and sent a website link to share with ORWELL TODAY readers -- but there were no excerpts there about the death of O'Shaughnessy and I didn't order the book at the time.
That was six years ago and since then the topic of O'Shaughnessy's death hasn't arisen -- although there have been several other discussions and articles by admirers of his life and his work.
But since your enquiry I've researched and found the exact date Laurence Frederick (Eric) O'Shaughnessy died -- it was May 27th, 1940.
Godcidently that's three years, almost to the day, that Orwell almost died after being shot through the neck in Spain on May 20th, 1937 and O'Shaughnessy had consulted on his treatment.
My sources for the date of O'Shaughnessy's death are the DUNKIRK MEMORIAL and COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION websites.
Another thing I learned, or hadn't realized before, is that O'Shaughnessy hadn't come over on one of the boats during the Dunkirk evacuation but had been on active duty in France since signing up for the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in September 1939. A major in the Royal Army Medical Corp (for soldiers whose wounds would need his expertise) O'Shaughnessy was with the BEF during their retreat to Dunkirk after the German blitzkrieg began on May 10, 1940.
The evacuation of Dunkirk -- Operation Dynamo -- began on May 26 and ended on June 4, 1940. O'Shaughnessy died the second day, on May 27th. There's a headstone/gravestone/plaque in memorium to him at the Dunkirk Memorial which stands at the entrance to the British War Graves Section of Dunkirk Town Cemetery in France. It commemorates those of the British Expeditionary Force who died or were captured there and have no known grave. The memorial was completed some 17 years after the events it marks.
Yesterday I attempted to order Richard McNab's book RETREAT FROM RIVIERE (his father's Dunkirk Diary) but got notice back from Amazon that it's "out of stock" and "out of print" according to the author.
Jackie Jura, August 2019
Laurence O'Shaughnessy: outstanding thoracic surgeon, killed in the retreat to Dunkirk, British Journal of Hospital Medicine, May 2015
This year we commemorate the 75th anniversary of the death of Laurence Frederick O'Shaughnessy... O'Shaughnessy joined the Royal Army Medical Corps Territorial Branch and was called up for service at the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939. He was promptly posted to France with the British Expeditionary Force, as surgeon, first to the 13th General Hospital and then, now promoted to Major, to a casualty clearing station. In the early days of the retreat of the British army to Dunkirk, O'Shaughnessy was killed by a bomb during a German air raid. His body was never recovered and his name is engraved on the memorial to those with no known grave at Dunkirk...
Retreat from Riviere - the Dunkirk Diary of Major George McNab, by Richard McNab, published 2013
Richard McNab set out to retrace the route of his father George on the retreat to Dunkirk in May 1940. Armed with contemporary maps and George's enigmatic diary he rediscovered the roads and the buildings and reconstructed the adventures which George had recorded. The meaning of George's diary finally became clear as the story emerged of the fate of an eminent surgeon and the answers were revealed to a question which has tantalised the medical profession for seventy years.
Obituaries of Dr Laurence Frederick O'Shaughnessy, Dublin Evening Mail/Sydney Post Record/Irish Times/Times Weekly/Irish Independent, Jun 5-12, 1940
Death of Laurence Frederick O'Shaughnessy, 1901-1940. London Times, Wednesday, June 5, 1940
In May, 1940, in Flanders, Laurence O'Shaughnessy, M.D., F.R.C.S., R.A.M.C., husband of Gwen O'Shaughnessy, 24 Crooms Hill, Greenwich, London, son of the late Laurence O'Shaughnessy, and of Mrs O'Shaughnessy, 65 Pevensey Road, St Leonards-on-Sea...
Noted Heart Surgeon Killed in Flanders: Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Among Officers Lost by British, New York Times, June 6, 1940
LONDON, June 5 (AP)-- Laurence O'Shaughnessy, a noted Harley Street heart surgeon, has been killed in Flanders, where he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps, it was announced today...
Dunkirk Evacuation: The Evacuation That Saved the British Army During WWII
From May 26 to June 4, 1940, the British sent 222 Royal Navy ships and about 800 civilian boats to evacuate the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and other Allied troops from the seaport of Dunkirk in France during World War II. After eight months of inaction during the "Phoney War," British, French, and Belgian troops were quickly overwhelmed by Nazi Germany's blitzkrieg tactics when the attack began on May 10, 1940. Rather than be completely annihilated, the BEF decided to retreat to Dunkirk and hope for evacuation. Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of over a quarter million troops from Dunkirk, seemed a near impossible task, but the British people pulled together and ultimately rescued about 198,000 British and 140,000 French and Belgian troops. Without the evacuation at Dunkirk, World War II would have been lost in 1940...
This is fantastic! I will send my paper once it is accepted for publication. I am glad I said that Dr. O' died on the final days of May 1940. Will add the date in the galley.
Tonse, August 2019
...cont'd at: ORWELL DOC O'SHAUGHNESSY LETTER & HEART SURGEON ADMIRES O'SHAUGHNESSY
(remembered with honour at Dunkirk Memorial)
Email, Aug 2, 2019
ORWELL DOC O'SHAUGHNESSY HEART OMEN (...Attached find a copy of a little paper that appeared in the esteemed Annals of Thoracic Surgery on February the 1st, 2015... O'Shaughnessy spawned the idea of bringing in tissue with excellent vascularization abilities and devised the route to get it to the ischemic heart...)
HOW ORWELL DOC O'SHAUGHNESSY DIED ...It is from the Royal College of Surgeons of England Scientific Report for the Year 1939-1940, published 1st October 1940, and written by the College's Director of Research, John Beattie (also Professor of Experimental Surgery). On page 20 of the report Beattie writes: "It is with a great sense of loss that the death of Major O'Shaughnessy has to be recorded, as the result of enemy action at Dunkirk. When assisting in the treatment of wounded men in a street in Dunkirk, he was gravely wounded in the thorax by a bomb splinter. He died shortly afterwards from his wounds. As a research worker at the College, Dr Laurence O'Shaughnessy maintained his enthusiasm for work on the problems of intra-thoracic surgery, and made contributions which have been of prime importance. His originality and fund of new ideas made him a most stimulating colleague. In the midst of a continually growing practice, he always found time for at least one day a week of laboratory work at the Farm. There he did most of his research, and, in association with Dr Slome, worked on the problems of shock and adrenal innervation. He was interested in almost every new development in experimental surgery. His loss to the present generations of surgeons is great, but his work and the stimulus he gave to others will be his most fitting memorial."
ORWELL BULLET THRU NECK (...When Orwell was wounded and permanent loss of voice was feared, Kopp wrote this letter at Eileen's request, to her brother, an eminent surgeon, as neither he nor Eileen were fully confident in the local doctors...)
ORWELL DOC O'SHAUGHNESSY GIANT IN FIELD (...We are in the process of writing a little paper on some of the giants in cardiothoracic surgery, amongst others, Laurence (aka Eric) O'Shaughnessy, George Orwell's brother-in-law. In particular, we are interested in the circumstances surrounding his death...)
ORWELL BROTHER-IN-LAW DIED AT DUNKIRK (email from Richard McNab: "...Laurence O'Shaughnessy was killed in May 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation. And it wasn't a stray bullet that killed him: he was in a house that received a direct hit from a bomb. My father, who was with him, survived and left a graphic description of O'Shaughnessy's death in his diary... I have now published my book "Retreat from Riviere" with a section in it about Laurence O'Shaughnessy, and George Orwell" ... "Retreat from Riviere" relates how George McNab tried vainly to save O'Shaughnessy and how this left its mark on him for the rest of his life. His heart wrenching description was the only eye witness account of an event which rocked the medical profession. Richard McNab found that after seventy years it was still surrounded by rumours and speculation. His book sets the record straight"...)
PRESTON HALL ORWELL ANIMAL FARM (...I believe my father ended up looking after Eric's dog Marx because Eric was told he could not have his typewriter with him but could have his dog to take for long relaxing walks. My father provided a domicile at the top of the Hall grounds. The Preston Estate was about 250 acres and about 4 miles long and 1 mile wide...)
ORWELL'S TB DOC O'SHAUGHNESSY (...As the consultant surgeon at the Preston Hall Sanatorium, Dr Laurence O'Shaughnessy visited Orwell once each week and made every effort to determine whether his brother-in-law was, in fact, suffering from tuberculosis. At the very time that he was attending his sister's husband, the doctor was in the middle of writing, with two other men, an authoritative textbook on the disease....)
VISITING ORWELL'S HAMPSTEAD FLAT (...One of these guests was a slender woman with broad shoulders and dark brown hair. She was nearly thirty and was a graduate student working on a Master's degree in educational psychology. Her name was Eileen Maud O'Shaughnessy, and Orwell was attracted to her from the moment she walked into the room. They spent much of the evening talking, and at the end of the party he walked her to the bus stop. When he came back to the flat, he went to Rosalind's room and announced to her that Eileen was "the sort of girl I'd like to marry". This woman, who would indeed become George Orwell's wife, was an exceptional person. She came from a proud Irish family who had come to England in the early nineteenth century and had settled on the Tyneside. The daughter of a Collector of Customs, she was born on 25 September 1905 in South Shields. There was only one other child in the family, her older brother Laurence, and she was devoted to him. Both children received excellent educations. He studied medicine at the University of Durham and in Berlin, and was the winner of four scholarships. At the age of twenty-six he was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. She was educated at Sunderland High School, and then won a scholarship to one of the women's colleges at Oxford - St Hugh's - from which she received her degree in English Letters in 1927... At the time she met her future husband, Eileen was living at 24 Croom's Hill, which borders Greenwich Park. The house belonged to her brother and his wife, Gwen, who was also a doctor. It was a Georgian house with elegant bay windows on two of its three floors, and was originally the home of an astronomer at the Royal Observatory. Eileen was happy there, and enjoyed playing at least a small part in her brother's brilliant career, but she was also looking forward to having a career of her own as an educational psychologist. And then Orwell came into her life....


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It's now taking 15 years to save for a house deposit in Co Kildare - report
Kildare is among a number of counties considered too expensive for buyers, according to a survey by consultants EY-DKM Economic Advisory.
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Commuter counties of Kildare, Wicklow, and Meath top the list of the most unaffordable when it comes to saving for a deposit.
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Co Roscommon follows closely behind, with the consultants calculating it takes would-be buyers 10.4 years to get the funds together for a deposit if they are on an average wage.
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First-time buyers in Dublin are required to save for 4.3 years. This is based on the fact incomes are higher in the capital, despite properties in Dublin being twice as expensive as in the rest of the State.
Co Leitrim is the most affordable county, with a little over one year required to achieve a 10% deposit.
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All of that is potentially appropriate BUT, what if the problem isn't actually in the shoulder itself. This is the case in my office frequently. The patient can't move their arm but nothing is wrong with the shoulder/arm.
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From Student-Led Fund to Venture Capital Partner
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Arboretum Ventures
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I tried calling: TMockRunner.exe nunit-console.exe "mytests.dll" and it worked from the command line. However FinalBuilder has a run Cmd task and it didn't work from there. Is there some special thing that I have to do? I got an error saying "System unable to find the file"
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