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ContextMedia:Health Named a PM360 Trailblazer Award Winner for the Infusion Room Tablet and Patient Mobile Connect
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NEW YORK, NY — September 26, 2016 — PM360, a leading trade magazine for marketing decision makers in the pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries, has named ContextMedia:Health as the Point-of-Care Initiative Trailblazer winner for its work on the ContextMedia:Health Infusion Room Tablet and Patient Mobile Connect.
ContextMedia:Health recently invested $100M into the development of new and existing technologies at the point of care and over the past year set that investment into motion, adding two new products to its suite: Patient Mobile Connect and the Infusion Room Tablet.
The Infusion Room Tablet was designed with support from cancer support organizations, such as Immerman's Angels and the American Cancer Society, to truly understand the infusion room experience. The device offers access to new-release movies, patient and caregiver support resources, guided meditation and yoga programs, educational resources, and inspirational survivor stories.
Patient Mobile Connect offers brands the ability to reach patients on their personal mobile devices using the in-office WiFi. After opting to access the office's WiFi, a brand message is delivered in its entirety, according to geography, down to the specific exam room.
Since 2009, the PM360 Trailblazer awards have recognized outstanding achievement and innovation in healthcare marketing. Each year, nominations are judged by the PM360 Editorial Advisory Board, a distinguished cross-section of industry experts. Initiatives are selected in 18 distinct categories. The winners were selected for their ability to stand out in the complex, ever-changing healthcare environment, and were judged on content, format, success in reaching targeted audience and overall quality.
"This year's initiative winners all displayed a deeper understanding of what it is patients, providers, and payers want and need to improve outcomes," says Anna Stashower, CEO and Publisher of PM360. "By blazing new trails in healthcare marketing, either by engaging in new channels, using innovative techniques, or taking risks with daring creative, these winning campaigns can serve as a guidepost to what the industry must do to be successful in today's environment."
In total, 48 winners were honored during a special—and very much enjoyed—sold-out reception at Gotham Hall on September 23rd, 2016, and will be featured in the October issue of PM360.
About PM360
PM360 is the premier source for information that product managers and pharma and medical device marketing professionals need to succeed in the complex, ever-changing healthcare environment. PM360 offers invaluable perspective on important industry issues through a full-circle combination of how-to information and thoughtful career insights. The PM360 Trailblazer Awards span six categories, including Company of the Year, Lifetime Achievement, Marketer of the Year, Marketing Team, Brand Champion Awards, and Initiative Awards.


Actor and supermodel Fabio takes an L.A. Drive through the Santa Monica Mountains in a Lamborghini Huracán.
Italian-born Fabio Lanzoni is one of America's best-known mononym celebrities. His flowing mane, chiseled visage and perfect pecs have adorned book covers, magazine covers and movie screens. Just, not recently.
But in addition to his good looks, the erstwhile heartthrob is also a savvy businessman and a complete car and motorcycle nut.
I took a drive with him to find out just how big a nut.
Fabio showed up at our rendezvous — we met at the Lamborghini dealership in Beverly Hills — driving a custom Porsche GT3 RS, which he quickly ditched for a far more exotic Lamborghini. Still quite fit at 58, brown hair looking windblown and light eyes shining, he shook hands with some Lambo personnel and asked them to bring around his special car.
The factory-tuned Huracan had been seriously souped up by the Italian engineers. I strapped in and let the manly male supermodel show me its stuff.
A short while later, after a check on some custom rubber at the Pirelli P-Zero World tire store in Century City, we were on the Pacific Coast Highway, going much too fast. Then we hit the canyons. For the next hour, zipping along through Malibu and Topanga, via Mulholland Highway, Stunt Road and Las Flores Canyon, Fabio kept the pedal near the metal while chatting about life in Los Angeles.
Like many Italians, he started his driving career in a Fiat. But he graduated quickly to a Porsche, and when he left New York for Los Angeles in 1994 — in part because he was a dog lover and needed a proper house and yard for his hounds — he started acquiring collectible cars.
There was a Bentley Turbo R, and a Mercedes 560 SEC. Then came a Rolls-Royce, followed, in time, by more Porsches and many, many Lambos, which Fabio favors heavily over anything made by Ferrari.
It's not just sports cars for this driver. He's a bike guy, too. In his L.A. home, and in his recently acquired ranch-style property north of Portland, Ore., he has a stable of about 320 motorcycles — dirt bikes, street bikes, vintage bikes, historic bikes and more.
Turning from Stunt Road onto Schueren Road, or Schueren onto Piuma — my notes are fuzzy, because I was dizzy and my stomach was upside down — Fabio shared some of his secrets for success.
The businessman and entrepreneur — in addition to his modeling and acting work, he has a clothing line and a nutritional supplements company — said his feelings about life and how to live it were altered dramatically by the death of his sister, Christina Lanzoni, who succumbed to cancer at age 48 in 2013.
The recipe for treasuring life? An hour of cardio and an hour of lifting, four to five times a week. What else? "Dinner. Friends. Fun. Laughter," Fabio said.
The supermodel's parents, now in their 90s, have been married almost 70 years. But Fabio himself, active on the dating scene, isn't in a rush to tie the knot.
Also forever, Fabio said, is his love for the United States. For years, living and working here, he said he kept asking his lawyers to help him become a citizen. They kept telling him he was fine as a legal resident, because that way he didn't have to do jury duty.
Soon we were on the PCH again, heading south. After turning onto Sunset Boulevard, Fabio spun sideways toward Palisades Drive, and came to a halt at last at Casa Nostra, which he proclaimed the best northern Italian restaurant in Southern California.
After a warm embrace from the management, Fabio ordered platters of fresh squid, gnocchi and hand-made pasta dishes. But the lurching Lamborghini had robbed me of my appetite. I sat and watched as the food arrived.
It seemed like a big meal for a mid-week lunch. Fabio forked a slice of squid into his mouth and smiled broadly.
Where we ate: Casa Nostra Ristorante, 1515 Palisades Drive, Pacific Palisades; (310) 454-8889; Open daily 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.


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Hari Nef Is Changing The Beauty World
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How One Trans Woman Is Shaking Up The Beauty Space In A Powerful Way
Rachel Krause
Last night, during an intermission at the Golden Globes, L'Oréal Paris unveiled its "Your Skin, Your Story" campaign for True Match foundation, led by a wide range of influencers celebrating their diversity and differences. A few familiar faces appear in the lineup, like Blake Lively, and a few others whose names you may not know — but should. That includes Hari Nef, the model, actress, and trans activist who's blazing trails left and right in the beauty and fashion space. You might recognize Nef from her heartbreaking role as Gittel in Transparent, or as the first openly transgender model signed to IMG. She was also the first trans woman to appear on the cover of a major commercial magazine in Britain, and is a writer whose work has been featured in Vice and BlackBook — but even with all those accomplishments, her new gig as a spokesmodel for the iconic drugstore brand is still a pretty huge deal. Nef announced the news via Instagram before the Globes. "I'm in the new @lorealmakeup campaign and that's pretty wild to me (!)," she wrote alongside a photo from the campaign. She also linked to a longer TV ad spot, where she discussed the True Match line and her feelings toward what the campaign stands for. "Just being seen in your skin can be so vulnerable," she said. The clip is worth a watch, because she's worth it – and because we need more people like Hari helping to make incredible social changes, one major beauty campaign at a time.
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Leader Of New Mexico Militia That Held Migrants At Gunpoint Arrested
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Affected motorists are advised to be more patient as heavy traffic is expected in Quezon City beginning 11 p.m. of February 23.
The four-lane Tandang Sora flyover and intersection will be shut down for the next two years for the construction of Tandang Sora MRT Station, an elevated guideway, and a pocket track for the MRT-7 said MMDA General Manager Jojo Garcia in a press briefing held at MMDA headquarters in Makati City Thursday.
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Affected motorists will be diverted to a temporary U-turn slot 500 meters away from the Tandang Sora intersection.
Acknowledging the traffic chaos the closure would cause, Garcia said the MMDA proposed the idea of putting up an elevated U-turn slot in the area to help alleviate traffic at choke points along the busy avenue where the MRT 7 is being constructed.
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Garcia said the proposed elevated U-turn slot, made of steel, can be erected within three months.
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To guide the motorists, the MMDA will deploy 154 personnel while the local government of Quezon City will also deploy at least 100 flagmen along Commonwealth Avenue.


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Q: excel file created with EPPlus, displaying message while opening that file has to repair, click yes After click yes, it is showing:
Repaired Records: String properties from /xl/sharedStrings.xml part(Strings)
Repaired Records: Table from /xl/tables/table.xml part(Table)
I think there is no problem in code, but still here is my code what I am using to create Excel.
using (var package = new ExcelPackage(newFile)) {
     ExcelWorksheet worksheet = null;
     worksheet = package.Workbook.Worksheets.Add(dataToExcelExport.TableName);
     worksheet.Cells["A1"].LoadFromDataTable(dataToExcelExport, true,
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     worksheet.Row(1).Style.Font.Bold = true;
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Conosciuto anche con il nome di Bob Walker o di Robert D. Walker, apparve in 215 film tra il 1913 e il 1953, spesso - nella seconda parte della sua carriera - in ruoli secondari o non accreditati, per la maggior parte in western a basso costo.

Filmografia parziale
 A Daughter of the Confederacy, regia di Sidney Olcott - cortometraggio (1913)
 Rounding Up the Counterfeiters, regia di Kenean Buel - cortometraggio (1913)
 The Moonshiner's Mistake, regia di Kenean Buel - cortometraggio (1913)
 The Sacrifice at the Spillway, regia di Hal Clements - cortometraggio 1913)
 The Railroad Inspector's Peril, regia di Hal Clements - cortometraggio (1913)
 The End of the Run - cortometraggio
 Dear Old Girl, regia di Theodore Wharton - cortometraggio (1913)
 The Railroad Detective's Dilemma, regia di Hal Clements - cortometraggio (1913)
 A Railroader's Warning, regia di Hal Clements - cortometraggio (1913)
 A Railroad Wooing - cortometraggio (1913)
 The Strike - cortometraggio
 Her Husband's Friend, regia di Robert G. Vignola - cortometraggio (1914)
 The Swamp Fox - cortometraggio (1914)
 The Treasure Ship - cortometraggio (1914)
 In Wolf's Clothing, regia di Robert G. Vignola - cortometraggio (1914)
 The Vampire's Trail, regia di T. Hayes Hunter e Robert G. Vignola - cortometraggio (1914)
 The Hate That Withers, regia di Robert G. Vignola - cortometraggio (1914)
 The Scorpion's Sting, regia di Robert G. Vignola - cortometraggio (1915)
 The Leech, regia di Kenean Buel - cortometraggio (1915)
 The Night Operator at Buxton, regia di Robert G. Vignola - cortometraggio (1915)
 The Girl of the Music Hall, regia di Kenean Buel - cortometraggio (1915)
 The Siren's Reign, regia di Robert G. Vignola - cortometraggio (1915)
 The Second Commandment, regia di Kenean Buel - cortometraggio (1915)
 The Face of the Madonna, regia di Kenean Buel - cortometraggio (1915)
 The Haunted House of Wild Isle, regia di Robert G. Vignola - cortometraggio (1915)
 The Destroyer, regia di Robert G. Vignola - cortometraggio (1915)
 An Innocent Sinner, regia di Kenean Buel - cortometraggio (1915)
 A Sister's Burden, regia di Robert G. Vignola - cortometraggio (1915)
 The Lure of Mammon, regia di Kenean Buel - cortometraggio (1915)
 Wife for Wife, regia di Kenean Buel - cortometraggio (1915)
 The Haunting Fear, regia di Robert G. Vignola - cortometraggio (1915)
 When the Mind Sleeps, regia di Kenean Buel - cortometraggio (1915)
 The Bondwoman
 Don Cesare di Bazan (Don Caesar de Bazan), regia di Robert G. Vignola (1915)
 The Way Back, regia di Carlton King (1915)
 The Call of the City, regia di Harry Beaumont - cortometraggio (1915)
 When Conscience Sleeps, regia di Edward C. Taylor - cortometraggio (1915)
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 Fear - cortometraggio (1916)
 The Littlest Magdalene, regia di Burton George - cortometraggio (1916)
 Caprice of the Mountains, regia di John G. Adolfi (1916)
 The Light of Happiness, regia di John H. Collins (1916)
 The Gates of Eden, regia di John H. Collins (1916)
 The Cossack Whip, regia di John H. Collins (1916)
 A Wife by Proxy, regia di John H. Collins (1917)
 The Mortal Sin, regia di John H. Collins (1917)
 God's Law and Man's, regia di John H. Collins (1917)
 Lady Barnacle, regia di John H. Collins (1917)
 Aladdin's Other Lamp, regia di John H. Collins (1917)
 The Girl Without a Soul, regia di John H. Collins (1917)
 Blue Jeans, regia di John H. Collins (1917)
 The Woman Between Friends, regia di Tom Terriss (1918)
 At the Mercy of Men, regia di Charles Miller (1918)
 The Fair Pretender, regia di Charles Miller (1918)
 The Whirlpool, regia di Alan Crosland (1918)
 Miss Innocence, regia di Harry F. Millarde (1918)
 The Woman Who Gave, regia di Kenean Buel (1918)
 The Sins of the Children, regia di John S. Lopez (1918)
 The Light, regia di J. Gordon Edwards (1919)
 Burglar by Proxy, regia di John Francis Dillon (1919)
 The Merry-Go-Round, regia di Edmund Lawrence (1919)
 The Double Hold-Up, regia di Phil Rosen (1919)
 Il dominatore del Bengala (The Lion Man), regia di Albert Russell e Jack Wells - serial cinematografico (1919)
 Rouge and Riches, regia di Harry L. Franklin (1920)
 La baia della morte (Shore Acres), regia di Rex Ingram (1920)
 The Woman in His House, regia di John M. Stahl (1920)
 The Texan, regia di Lynn Reynolds (1920)
 La sfinge bianca (Isobel or The Trail's End), regia di Edwin Carewe (1920)
 Prairie Trails, regia di George Marshall (1920)
 White Oak, regia di Lambert Hillyer (1921)
 Reckless Chances, regia di J.P. McGowan (1922)
 Broad Daylight, regia di Irving Cummings (1922)
 The Drug Traffic, regia di Irving Cummings (1923)
 Itching Palms, regia di James W. Horne (1923)
 Why Women Remarry, regia di John Gorman (1923)
 Dancing Cheat, regia di Irving Cummings (1923)
 Battling Brewster, regia di Dell Henderson (1924)
 The Rip Snorter, regia di Ward Hayes (1925)
 The Riding Comet, regia di Ben F. Wilson (1925)
 The Mystery Box, regia di Alan James (1925)
 The Drug Store Cowboy, regia di Park Frame (1925)
 The Outlaw's Daughter, regia di John B. O'Brien (1925)
 Warrior Gap, regia di Alan James (1925)
 Tonio, Son of the Sierras, regia di Ben F. Wilson (1925)
A Daughter of the Sioux, regia di Ben F. Wilson (come Ben Wilson)
 Law or Loyalty, regia di Lawson Harris (1926)
 Deuce High, regia di Richard Thorpe (1926)
 The Silent Flyer, regia di William James Craft (1926)
 The Voice from the Sky (1930)
 The Live Wire, regia di Harry S. Webb (1935)
 Step on It, regia di Harry S. Webb (1936)

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THE WFTU SUPPORTS THE WORKERS OF ETHIOPIA
AFRICA, ETHIOPIA
The World Federation of Trade Unions, which represents more than 105 million workers in 132 countries all over the world, is following with concern the developments in Ethiopia, where conflicts have been raging lately in the northern province of Tigray for the control the area.
It is no coincidence that the region is one of the most powerful industrial centers of a country rich in agricultural products and other natural resources. The conflicts that affect the lives of thousands of workers in the region result from the competitions over which monopolies will exploit the country's wealth-producing resources for their profits.
At the same time, the population of around 110 million people are among the poorest in the world, deprived of their right to a dignified living and work.
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From pin-ups to fashion! Kitagawa Utamaro's ukiyo-e portrait prints
The development of mass-produced color woodblock prints in mid-18th century Japan helped fuel a demand for commoner art and created a new commercial art market. Printing of woodblock prints was highly competitive with publishers wanting to sell as many as possible. How does one stay ahead of the game?
As the commercially successful designer of prints, Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806), proved, innovative techniques and new designs could throw an artist into stardom almost overnight. A look into his highly popular bust portraits not only reveals Utamaro's technical genius, but also a lot about the popular culture of townspeople of the day.
Dominating a generation with portrait prints
Within the genre of 浮世絵 (ukiyo-e, literally pictures of the floating world), which developed from the 17th century through to the 19th centuries and depicted contemporary life, several subject matters gained popularity. One of the early themes from the beginnings of ukiyo-e was that of 美人画 (bijin-ga, pictures of beauties). "Beauty Looking Back" by Hishikawa Masanori who popularized ukiyo-e, is considered a masterpiece.
Early bijin-ga subjects, like the woman in "Beauty Looking Back", were often painted in their entirety, and it was Kitagawa Utamaro who adopted and became known for the method of bust portraits called 大首絵 (okubi-e, literally large-headed pictures), which featured the head and sometimes the upper torso of a subject. Though this treatment of subjects had been used in actor prints, Utamaro applied it to images of beautiful women. The citizens of Edo (modern Tokyo) loved these new designs and with that, Utamaro joined the ranks of the top ukiyo-e artists of the day.
Kitagawa Utamaro apprenticed under the town painter, who had learned from others in haikai poetry and Kano-style painting schools. Utamaro first debuted into the world of ukiyo-e as a designer for pictures in comical kyoka poetry books before working with the prominent publisher, Tsutaya Juzaburo, on bust portraits of beautiful women known as 美人大首絵 (bijin okubi-e). Though we have featured Utamaro's works before here at INTOJAPAN, there are still many more secrets to discover. This time we dissect his bust-style portraits in detail.
Technical innovations helped set his work apart
Aside from just changing the composition, Utamaro capitalized on the up-close format to carefully draw each strand of hair. The artist also utilized various technical skills in pursuit of making each print an exquisite work of art, including shimmery ground-mica backgrounds, embossing, and plain backgrounds to enhance his subjects. Through his mastery of design, Utamaro achieved a popularity that nearly dominated his generation of ukiyo-e artists.
"Reflective Love" from Kitagawa Utamaro's series, Anthology of Poems: The Love Section, large oban-sized color print, circa 1793-1794, image provided by Pacific Press Service (Bridgeman Images)
Utamaro's okubi-e composition prints, such as "Reflective Love" pictured above, reveal a plethora of his well-thought out techniques. In addition to the delicately drawn flow of hair and the details of the subject's kimono, it is also interesting how the imbalanced size ratio between the figure's head and hand expresses her melancholy state.
These prints functioned as publicity portraits!
One reason for ukiyo-e's great popularity in the Edo period (1603-1868) lies in the fact that this genre of art mainly featured places of ill repute, such as the red light districts and theatres. Commoners could not easily enter these places, and so images of courtesans and kabuki actors who belonged to those fantasized entertainment industries became something akin to objects of adoration for regular townspeople. In other words, prints of high-ranking Edo pleasure women and actors elicited the same feelings and responses as idol and celebrity publicity photographs and posters do today.
"Asazuma-bune, Fan-seller, and Poetic Epithets" from Kitagawa Utamaro's series, Female Geisha Section of the Yoshiwara Niwaka Festival, large oban-sized color print, 1793, image provided by Pacific Press Service (Bridgeman Images)
Edo-period brothels known as seiro were located in the pleasure quarters of Yoshiwara. Here, during a variety of events, the geisha singers and dancers would dress up in their favorite get-ups and parade through the red-light district. In the above image, three popular geisha at the time are drawn in their costumes for the Yoshiwara Niwaka Festival. In an interesting twist, the three ladies wear the attire of young men.
Not only courtesans and other women of the pleasure quarters served as models for bijin-ga. Prints furthered their promotional value when they also began featuring 看板娘 (kanbanmusume, "poster girls" or pretty young maidens used to attract customers) at tea houses along the roadsides and within temple and shrine grounds.
Commoners could not always easily see these reputed beauties in person, but then entered Utamaro's close-up portraits in the okubi-e style of composition. Utamaro's coquettish depiction of the popular girls of the day found an enthusiastic audience among men, and it is said that the popularity of models in Utamaro's works also increased thanks to the publicity.
"Naniwaya Okita" by Kitagawa Utamaro, large oban-sized color print, 1793, Hagi Uragami Museum
A poster girl named Okita working at the tea house "Naniwaya" located in the grounds of Asakusa's Senso-ji Temple was the model most frequently depicted in Utamaro's bijin-ga. Pictured above is one such example from the artist's prime days. Utamaro's depiction of the tea girl, from her expression to her gestures and kimono patterns, is truly exquisite.
Ukiyo-e relayed the trends of the day
For those involved in ukiyo-e production – the designers, carvers, printers, publishers, and so on – the number of sales was a pressing issue. Printmakers constantly pursued new ideas and ways to sell as many prints as possible. Thanks to this competition, technical achievements in ukiyo-e made great strides relatively quickly.
"Young Woman Blowing a Poppin" from Kitagawa Utamaro's series, Ten Types in the Physiognomic Study of Women, large oban-sized color print, 18th century, image provided by Pacific Press Services (Alamy)
Utamaro alone mastered many techniques; with examples such as kewari (delicate lines to convey the form and flow of hair) and kirazuri (application of iridescent mica powder), he sought his own expression of beauty. The artist did not merely stop at technical innovations though. In the past, just like nowadays, women were interested in what was in vogue. To appeal to their interests, Utamaro studied the fashions and trends of the day, including popular hairstyles, kimono patterns, and color combinations. He even introduced the latest popular import good of the day, a toy glass pipe called a poppin, without delay in his print as seen above in "Young Woman Blowing a Poppin".
Four fashion points feautred in Utamaro's "Young Woman Blowing a Poppin". The beauty of this colored print further supports Utamaro's popularity. The top right portion takes a close look at his portrayal of women's hair, while the top left is of the poppin. The bottom images zoom in on the kimono and obi (kimono sash) patterns.
In this way, woodblock prints also served as a form of fashion media aimed at women. With this understanding, ukiyo-e feels more familiar, doesn't it?
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Coming Down: Frank Lloyd Wright's Love Nest, Bill Wrigley's Asking Price
Demolition is well underway on the Gold Coast home where Frank Lloyd Wright lived briefly with a girlfriend (and future wife) while not yet divorced from his first wife. On Tuesday, the owner of the site told me that once the old residence is razed, construction will start on a four-story home designed "to look like it's been there 100 years, to look correct for the neighborhood…"
By Dennis Rodkin
Published Aug. 10, 2011
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Demolition is well underway on the Gold Coast home where Frank Lloyd Wright lived briefly with a girlfriend (and future wife) while not yet divorced from his first wife. On Tuesday, the owner of the site told me that once the old residence is razed, construction will start on a four-story home designed "to look like it's been there 100 years, to look correct for the neighborhood."
James and Janice Jensen paid $1.5 million for the home at 25 East Cedar Street in January. At the time I reported that the home's demolition was imminent and noted that, as others had reported, this property might have been damaged during the construction of a new mansion next door.
This week, James Jensen, who owns the Glendale Heights steel company Metal Master, told me that, prior to buying the site, he had engineers evaluate the house; they concluded that "the structure was not salvageable," Jensen said. In addition, he noted that there were no known interior details intact from Wright's stay there in parts of 1914 and 1915, and that the exterior didn't look as it had then because of subsequent additions. "The character of the structure had been destroyed over the years," he said. "It's a shame the place had to be taken down, [but] the redeeming value of the property is to build a structure that is like many of the [vintage] buildings on the street."
Jensen says that the preservationist architect and builder Dennis Burgener of McWilliams Burgener Architecture and the interior designer Jessica LaGrange are designing a four-story "period-correct" single-family residence with a limestone façade. (Burgener later told me that he was going to try to incorporate some elements of the demolished building into his design.) Jensen estimated the cost of construction would come in at $2 million to $2.5 million, in addition to the amount paid for the site.
ALSO: On Friday, Bill Wrigley cut a combined $1.5 million off the asking prices of two sections of the full floor he has been trying to sell at 65 East Goethe Street since June 2010 (the building is in the last two photos below).
Wrigley bought the 13,200-square-foot unfinished space in 2003 for $10.1 million. After trying unsuccessfully to sell the still-unfinished full floor (which includes a third condo) for $14 million, he put two parts of the floor—the north and west sections—on the market, at $5 million and $6 million respectively.
Last week, the prices dropped to $4 million for the west unit (formerly priced at $6 million) and $4.5 million for the north (down from $5 million). Combined, that's a cut of 15 percent. "We've had some interest in the property, and it's now time to try to get closer to the market with the pricing," says Jim Kinney, the Baird & Warner's vice president of luxury sales who's serving as Wrigley's agent. "We hope this adjustment will get us an offer to work on."
Kinney suggests that the property has been slow to sell because it's unfinished. "A lot of people who are in the market want to buy more of a turnkey place," he says. "They don't want to do a build out."
The west unit has 1,500 square feet of outdoor space, but the north has none. The third (east) unit, which is not on the market, also has 1,500 feet of outdoor space, as well as views across the mansions on Lake Shore Drive to Lake Michigan. Kinney says that the third unit is not being offered because a buyer of one of the other units may want to take a chunk of it. "Somebody may want one and a half of these," Kinney says. "It's like a jigsaw puzzle."
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These sharks prefer the shoreline from Florida to Brazil. This is where it gets the common name from. The tropical parts of the western Atlantic Ocean is home to this variety of sharks. Normally found on the outer edges of reefs, the Caribbean Reef Shark prefers to live in coral reefs and its shallow waters as well as continental shelves and insular shelves. These sharks are found quite commonly at a depth of about 100 feet (30 meters) and are known to dive to incredible depths of around 1250 feet (380 meters).
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Blacktip reef sharks are viviparous with a yolk-sac placenta, with a gestation period about 10 months and litter size of 2-4 pups. Size at birth ranges from 33-52 cm. Males mature at about eight years of age and 95-105 cm in length; females mature at about 9 years old and a length of 93-110 cm. Courtship features the one or more males following closely behind a female. Reproductive behavior includes distinct pairing with embrace where the male grasps the female's pectoral fin between his teeth and mates belly to belly. There is one breeding season in the central and western Pacific, but two seasons in the Indian Ocean. Females rest for 8-14 month between pregnancies to rebuild their energy stores. Blacktip reef sharks are preyed upon by other sharks and large groupers. The is a socially complex species that performs a variety of group behaviors.
In older literature, the scientific name of this species was often given as C. menisorrah.[5] The blacktail reef shark (C. wheeleri), native to the western Indian Ocean, is now regarded as the same species as the grey reef shark by most authors. It was originally distinguished from the grey reef shark by a white tip on the first dorsal fin, a shorter snout, and one fewer upper tooth row on each side.[6] Based on morphological characters, vertebral counts, and tooth shapes, Garrick (1982) concluded the grey reef shark is most closely related to the silvertip shark (C. albimarginatus).[7] This interpretation was supported by a 1992 allozyme phylogenetic analysis by Lavery.[8]
During mating, the male grey reef shark will bite at the female's body or fins to hold onto her for copulation.[13] Like other requiem sharks, it is viviparous: once the developing embryos exhaust their supply of yolk, the yolk sac develops into a placental connection that sustains them to term. Each female has a single functional ovary (on the right side) and two functional uteruses. One to four pups (six in Hawaii) are born every other year; the number of young increases with female size. Estimates of the gestation period range from 9 to 14 months. Parturition is thought to take place from July to August in the Southern Hemisphere and from March to July in the Northern Hemisphere. However, females with "full-term embryos" have also been reported in the fall off Enewetak. The newborns measure 45–60 cm (18–24 in) long. Sexual maturation occurs at around seven years of age, when the males are 1.3–1.5 m (4.3–4.9 ft) long and females are 1.2–1.4 m (3.9–4.6 ft) long. Females on the Great Barrier Reef mature at 11 years of age, later than at other locations, and at a slightly larger size. The lifespan is at least 25 years.[4][20][24]
Despite sharks being portrayed as notorious aggressive animals, very few incidents have involved blacktip reef sharks, none being fatal. Still the importance of an apex predator is vital to a balanced and healthy ecosystem. Unfortunately, this species is very susceptible to reef gill netting. And sharks all around continue to be threatened by fishing pressure resulting in a decrease in many shark populations.
The Caribbean Reef Shark also finds its food in the reefs such as bony fishes, large crustaceans and cephalopods. This shark is also known to feed on yellow sting-rays and eagle rays quite frequently. A unique feature of these predators is that they are capable of reverting or purging their own stomachs. This helps purge the parasites, mucus or any other objects on the stomach lining.
But another potential cause is that these sharks are skittish around people. So when too many people move into the area, the reef sharks flee to other coral reefs. Indeed, the researchers found far more sharks at small, isolated reefs than they expected. But this in itself is a danger to the reef sharks. With so many sharks concentrated in a small area, "if you really wanted to, you could fish out a few hundred sharks very easily," said Friedlander.
My home in the coral reefs is being damaged by ocean acidification—which occurs when the ocean absorbs carbon and becomes acidified. I love living among thriving reefs, but increasing acidification degrades the physical structure of these reefs, putting my habitat and food supply at risk. This affects all the creatures living among the reef—not just my team of fellow blacktip reef sharks.
On the infrequent occasions when they swim in oceanic waters, grey reef sharks often associate with marine mammals or large pelagic fishes, such as sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus). There is an account of around 25 grey reef sharks following a large pod of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.), along with 25 silky sharks (C. falciformis) and a single silvertip shark.[13] Rainbow runners (Elagatis bipinnulata) have been observed rubbing against grey reef sharks, using the sharks' rough skin to scrape off parasites.[14]
Juvenile Caribbean reef sharks are preyed upon by larger sharks such as the tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) and the bull shark (C. leucas). Few parasites are known for this species; one is a dark variegated leech often seen trailing from its first dorsal fin.[4] Off northern Brazil, juveniles seek out cleaning stations occupied by yellownose gobies (Elacatinus randalli), which clean the sharks of parasites while they lie still on the bottom.[10] Horse-eye jacks (Caranx latus) and bar jacks (Carangoides ruber) routinely school around Caribbean reef sharks.[11]
The Caribbean reef shark is a viviparous species, meaning its developing embryos are nourished via a placental connection. The litters average four to six pups. Although this shark's reproduction has not been studied in the northern hemisphere, but to the south, parturition occurs during the Amazon summer of November to December. Pregnant females are often found to have biting scars from males on the sides of their bodies, due to the aggressive behaviors of males during mating. Gestation is believed to take approximately one year. A pregnant female with biting scars and wounds on the sides of her body, taken off the coast of north-northeastern Brazil, carried four near-term embryos. One was a 27.5 in. (700 mm) long male and three were females measuring 27.0 in. (685 mm), 27.4 in. (697 mm), and 27.7 in. (704 mm) in length. Because she was carrying near-term embryos, it is postulated that this area may be a pupping ground. Although such captures have shed light on the topic, relatively little is known about the reproduction of the Caribbean reef shark. Much information has been obtained from a pregnant female carrying four near-term embryos off the coast of northeastern Brazil. This female had scars and wounds on her side. Because the shark carried near-term embryos, it is postulated that this area may be a pupping ground.
This sturdy shark is abundant in the Caribbean, and because of its average features, is often confused with other requiem sharks. Usually growing 6.5 to 10 feet long, these are the apex predator of their food web. They have been found 'sleeping' in caves and on the ocean floor, behavior that is still unexplained. There has been concern over eating these sharks because of the build-up of toxins in their flesh, but now they are valued for tourism more than food, which brings its own safety issues.
The Caribbean reef shark was originally described from off the coast of Cuba as Platypodon perezi by Poey in 1876. Bigelow and Schroeder later described the same species as Carcharhinus springeri in 1944 and the reef shark appears in much literature under this scientific name. The genus name Carcharhinus is derived from the Greek "karcharos" = sharpen and "rhinos" = nose. The currently accepted valid name is C. perezi (Poey 1876).
Grey reef sharks feed mainly on bony fishes, with cephalopods such as squid and octopus being the second-most important food group, and crustaceans such as crabs and lobsters making up the remainder. The larger sharks take a greater proportion of cephalopods.[20] These sharks hunt individually or in groups, and have been known to pin schools of fish against the outer walls of coral reefs for feeding.[14] Hunting groups of up to 700 grey reef sharks have been observed at Fakarava atoll in French Polynesia.[21][22] They excel at capturing fish swimming in the open, and they complement hunting whitetip reef sharks, which are more adept at capturing fish inside caves and crevices.[4] Their sense of smell is extremely acute, being capable of detecting one part tuna extract in 10 billion parts of sea water.[13] In the presence of a large quantity of food, grey reef sharks may be roused into a feeding frenzy; in one documented frenzy caused by an underwater explosion that killed several snappers, one of the sharks involved was attacked and consumed by the others.[23]
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The Caribbean Reef Shark is known to be relatively passive and typically doesn't pose much of a threat to scuba divers, snorklers, swimmers, or other humans it comes into contact with. They actually tend to avoid human interaction entirely. As per theInternational Shark Attack Files, there have been 27 attacks documented since 1960, of which none have been fatal. Of those attacks, it's believe that 4 of them were caused because the shark mistakenly thought the person was a food source. The rest of the attacks were provoked attacks such as sharks caught in fishing equipment biting the fisherman.
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The Australian Flying Corps
Warfare in a new dimension: the Australian Flying Corps in the First World War
In 1914 Australia's only military aviation base, the Central Flying School, newly established at Point Cook, was equipped with two flying instructors and five flimsy training aircraft. From this modest beginning Australia became the only British dominion to set up a flying corps for service during the First World War. Known as the Australian Flying Corps (AFC) and organised as a corps of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF), its four-line squadrons usually served separately under the orders of Britain's Royal Flying Corps. The AFC's first complete flying unit, No. 1 Squadron, left Australia for the Middle East in March 1916. By late 1917 three more squadrons, Nos 2, 3, and 4, had been formed to fight in France. A further four training squadrons based in England formed an Australian Training Wing to provide pilots for the Western Front.
Before No. 1 Squadron made its journey to the Middle East, Australian airmen had been in action in Mesopotamia. A Turkish threat to the Anglo-Persian oil pipeline and the strategically important area at the head of the Persian Gulf (the Shatt-el-Arab) convinced British strategists of the need to open a second front against the Turks. The Australian Government was asked to provide aircraft, airmen, and transport to support the Anglo-Indian forces assigned to the campaign. It responded by dispatching four officers, 41 men, and transport – called the Mesopotamian Half Flight – in April 1915. Arriving too late to help secure the Shatt-el-Arab and the oil pipeline, the Half Flight joined the British advance on Baghdad, an operation intended to exert additional pressure on the Turks in the east. The attempt to reach Baghdad failed, and some 13,000 British and Indian troops found themselves besieged by superior Turkish forces in the city of Kut, about eighty miles south of their objective. Attempts to relieve the siege failed; in April 1916 the garrison at Kut, including members of the Half Flight, surrendered. Taken prisoner by the Turks, few survived captivity. The defeat on the Tigris marked the end of Australia's first experience of military aviation.
Mechanics with a Caudron aircraft in Mesopotamia, 1916. C38022
The Mesopotamian Half Flight and No. 1 Squadron were both formed early in the war, when military aviation was in its experimental stages, and both contained some of Australia's aviation pioneers. Throughout 1916 and much of 1917 No. 1 Squadron flew inferior aircraft, such as BE2cs, against German opponents who, supporting the Turkish armies in the Middle East, were equipped with more advanced Fokkers and Aviatiks. However, newly equipped with Bristol Fighters, the allied airmen began to gain the ascendancy by the end of 1917.
It was different for AFC members who served in the Western Front squadrons. Arriving in England between December 1916 and March 1917 and doing eight-months' training before being sent to the front, Nos 2, 3, and 4 Squadrons began their active service at a time when the use of aircraft in war was far more developed. The days when enemy airmen waved to each other on reconnaissance flights were long gone. Aircraft now carried machine-guns as standard equipment, and interrupter gears, developed in 1915, enabled pilots in single-seat fighters to fire straight ahead through their propellers. By 1918 aircraft were being used in a variety of roles: some as fighters, others for reconnaissance or artillery spotting, and others for bombing operations inside enemy territory.
The AFC's best aircraft in the final year of the war were among the most technically advanced of the day. Bristol's BF2b, a two-seat fighter-bomber known as the Bristol Fighter, could climb to 10,000 feet in 11 minutes and fly at 113 miles an hour when it got there. The famous Sopwith Camel could reach 12,000 feet in 12 minutes, fully loaded with weapons and ammunition, and fly as quickly as the Bristol Fighter. Pilots and observers sat exposed to the elements in noisy open cockpits.
The view from the cockpit of a Sopwith Camel. C46081
Not everyone was suited to this new field of military operations. Light horsemen or "bushmen" were thought to be physically fitter and have quicker reflexes and a better "character" than other men; they were common in No. 1 Squadron. Many of its later recruits came from the ranks of the Light Horse; most of these already had years of active service. The Squadron also drew men from other backgrounds: the AFC's only Victoria Cross winner, Captain Frank McNamara, had been a schoolteacher.
Two Bristol Fighters of the Australian Flying Corps, flying at top speed to reach their aerodrome before the gathering storm burst. C41861
Many of those who joined the squadrons on the Western Front also had prior service. The list of candidates for appointment to become flying officers in June 1918, for example, records a mixture of officers and other ranks: some had been gunners, others clerks, drivers, infantrymen, or members of the medical services. One man, a veteran of Gallipoli and the Western Front, had found his way into the 4th Australian Sanitary Section before being accepted into the AFC. Many were recommended for admission by their commanding officers on no other ground than their good record as soldiers in the line.
Given the nature of warfare on the Western Front, it is not difficult to imagine why men would seek to transfer into the AFC. Many had experienced the misery and squalor of the trenches. Those who knew they would face danger as long as they were in the AIF, preferred to face it in a corps which offered the promise of independence and glamour, as well as a degree of comfort unknown to the men in the trenches. Those who served in the Middle East, although spared the worst miseries of the Western Front, shared a similar desire to escape their own discomforts: sand, dust, and flies. Men who had already served in the ground forces reasoned that if they survived the day's flying they would at least have the chance to sleep in a comfortable bed.
Not everyone, however, survived the day's flying. Many pilots were killed in accidents long before they could join a line squadron. Over a third of the AFC's wartime fatalities occurred in Britain. Some trainees died after the war had ended. As one pilot wrote in March 1919:
A great pal of mine was on his very last flight – his last test before qualifying ... a mist arose, he flew into the ground and was killed. He had enlisted in 1914, gone through much front-line service, only to be killed on his absolute final exploit, four months after the armistice.
Pilots who survived training were posted to operational squadrons where the thought of meeting the enemy in the sky was enough to give even the bravest men pause for thought. Harry Cobby, who went on to become the AFC's leading ace, admitted his own fear of being posted to the front:
the nervousness that assailed me during the months of training in England, when I gave thought to the fact that as soon as I was qualified to fly an aeroplane, or perhaps sooner, I would be sent off to the war to do battle with the enemy in the sky and on the ground. I quite freely admit that if anything could have been done by me to delay that hour, I would have left nothing undone to bring it about.
Cobby became a highly successful pilot. Others were less skilled or less fortunate.
Captain A.H. "Harry" Cobby DSO DFC. C37835
Owen Lewis, an observer in No. 3 Squadron, was an experienced airman. An entry in his diary on a day when bad weather prevented flying reveals his feelings about operations: " This morning I was pleased when the weather was fairly dud – I am afraid I am always pleased when that is so." His fears were justified. On 12 April 1918, the day after he had teamed up with a new pilot, both men were killed in action.
Two main types of aircraft were used by the AFC: two-seater reconnaissance planes, in which the observer, armed with machine-guns, sat behind the pilot; and single-seater fighters. The latter dominated the popular imagination: they were the aces, the fastest aircraft fighting duels with men like themselves above the trenches. In reality, aerial combat was a difficult skill to master, requiring split-second timing and complete mastery of aircraft and weapons. A man in No. 1 Squadron described a dog-fight as,
every man for himself. We go hell-for-leather at those snub-nosed, black crossed busses of the Hun, and they at us. ... Hectic work. Half-rolling, diving, zooming, stalling, "split-slipping", by inches you miss collision with friend or foe. Cool precise marksmanship is out of the question.
He was in fact the observer in a two-seater and thus did not have the opportunity to use a forward firing machine-gun. Those like Cobby, who flew in fighters, also found that in a dog-fight, which by the end of the war could involve up to 100 aircraft, hitting the enemy was very difficult:
The air was too crowded, there was little opportunity to settle down and have a steady shot at anything. You would no sooner pick out someone to have a crack at, than there would be the old familiar "pop-pop-pop-pop" behind you, or you would just glimpse an enemy pilot getting into position to fire on yourself – so hard boot and stick one way to save your skin.
Most of Cobby's kills appear to have been scored against unsuspecting victims over whom he had the advantage of surprise and speed.
When two skilled opponents met in the air, the fight was often lengthy: both men knew only one would survive. The German airman, Ernst Udet, described one such such combat: "I tried every trick I knew – turns, loops, rolls, and sideslips - but he followed each movement with lightning speed and gradually I began to realise that he was more than a match for me ... the man was a superior duelist." When his guns jammed, Udet thought he was doomed; but he was lucky – his antagonist turned his aircraft upside down, waved farewell, and dived towards the allied line.
As Udet discovered, the air war could sometimes be chivalrous. As the Australian historian, F.M. Cutlack, wrote, "the star airmen of the opposing armies regarded each other with a curious mixture of personal esteem and deadly hostility." Many toasts were drunk to Richthofen by men who would have gladly killed him, given the chance. When he was killed, Australian airmen placed wreaths on his grave. In the Middle East Oberleutnant Gerhardt Felmy, the leading German pilot facing No. 1 Squadron, earned the admiration of his adversaries. It was not uncommon for him to drop messages from and photographs of recently captured Australian airmen on their home field. The Australians did the same for the Germans and drank toasts to Felmy in their mess. On the Western Front captured enemy pilots were treated with respect by their allied counterparts and vice-versa.
Oberleutnant Gerhardt Felmy (right) poses with Lieutenant C.H. Vautin of No. 1 Squadron. Vautin was taken prisoner, having crash- landed in July 1917. Two days later Felmy dropped this photo over Vautin's aerodrome to prove the Australian was all right. A member of No. 1 squadron then flew over Felmy's aerodrome to drop Vautin's clothes, kit, and some letters from home. C292198
In 1918 Australian pilots on the Western Front flew regular operations against enemy forces on the ground. "The job", wrote Cobby,
consisted of getting to the "line" ... as fast and often as one could, and letting the enemy on the ground have it as hot and heavy as possible. … All this flying was done under 500 feet and our targets were point-blank ones .... The air was full of aircraft and, continuously while shooting-up the troops on the ground, we would be attacked by enemy scouts ... The smoke of the battle below mixed with the clouds and mist above rendered flying particularly dangerous. ... On top of this there were scores of machine-guns devoting their time to making things as unpleasant for us as they could.
Such flights were both dangerous and exhausting. "I always emerged from them almost rigid with tension," commented Cobby. Nevertheless, they must have given pilots and observers the feel of an even contest. In September 1918, with the Turkish armies in full retreat, No. 1 Squadron had a different experience of attacking men on the ground.
On the morning of 21 September British and Australian bombers discovered the main Turkish column, which passed through a gorge on the Wady Fara road. Having bombed the lead vehicles, trapping those behind on the narrow road, the airmen proceeded to destroy as many of the Turks aspossible. Clive Conrick, an observer in No. 1 Squadron, described the slaughter of turning his machine- guns on the trapped men below, many of whom sought to escape by climbing the cliffs above the road. Flying almost parallel to the fleeing men, Conrick was close enough to see,
chips of rock fly off the cliff face and red splotches suddenly appear on the Turks who would stop climbing and fall and their bodies were strewn along the base of the cliff like a lot of dirty rags. When Nunan [his pilot] was climbing again to renew his attack, I had a better opportunity to machine-gun the troops and transports on the road.
As the attacks continued throughout the day the Turkish survivors waved white flags. But, wrote Conrick, "it was quite impossible for us to accept the surrender of the enemy, so we just kept on destroying them." Another No. 1 Squadron observer, L.W. Sutherland, called it "sheer butchery".
At the same time Sutherland recognised he was witnessing a significant moment in the wartime use of aircraft. "A vitally important duty had been given to us," he wrote. "For the first time in the war, we, the newest arm of the service, had the most onerous work in a major operation. We were not going to fall down on our job. But oh, those killings! ... Only the lucky ones slept that night." Such one-sided encounters were relatively rare; experiences like those of Cobby on the Western Front were more typical.
In an age when few had flown, many men found that flying could be fun. Donald Day, formerly of the Australian Army Medical Corps, became a pilot in May 1918. He transferred to the AFC too late to fly on operations and remained in England until the armistice, but he appreciated the joy that flying could bring:
One of the finest experiences of flying is to closely examine the large fleecy white clouds. They contain features similar to very rugged country gullies, hills, etc. In places the gully turns sharply, too much so for a turn, and into cloud one goes; no visibility and a soft clammy feel – a most eerie experience. ... When flying above a cloud with sun shining, the shadow of the machines may be seen surrounded by a complete rainbow halo.
Even the more reserved Lewis was able to appreciate the beauty of flying. On a bumpy flight one morning in February 1918 his nausea gave way to delight as his pilot broke through the clouds. "It was extremely beautiful. ... On one occasion we flew round a balloon which was over Ypres and we both waved to the balloonatic who answered in a like manner."
Giving young men control of what were then the most high-powered and sophisticated aircraft in production could also lead to mischief. Some pilots in No. 1 Squadron devised a game called "feluccaring" – flying around small boats, known as feluccas, making them capsize and sink, leaving the one-man crew to swim ashore. Such a thoughtless tactic, probably a game to the airmen, was unfortunately all too typical of the often racist attitudes of Australian troops towards the people of the Middle East.
Sir Ross Smith and Lieutenant E.A. Mustard of No. 1 Squadron in their Bristol Fighter in Palestine, 1918. C324
During the last weeks of the fighting in the area, No. 1 Squadron flew in support of the allied advance into Palestine, moving from one airfield to another, as their armies pursued the retreating Turks northwards. As armoured motor vehicles and cavalry raced to keep in touch with the fleeing Turks during October 1918, the only fighting that continued in the Middle East was in the air. The war against Turkey ended on 31 October 1918. No. 1 Squadron returned to Egypt after the armistice and embarked for Australia in January 1919.
The war against Germany lasted only a few days longer. As the German army on the Western Front retreated eastwards, their airmen continued to fight. October and early November 1918 were characterised by massive sweeps of allied aircraft over German lines. Combats were frequent, as air battles continued and allied airmen bombed and strafed the retreating Germans on the ground. Even on the last day of the war, No. 2 Squadron was bombing the Germans, while No. 4 Squadron flew escort.
After the armistice No. 4 Squadron became the only Australian unit of the British Army of Occupation, entering Germany on 7 December 1918. Each Australian squadrons that had served on the Western Front left Europe for home in early March 1919. During the war 460 officers and 2,234 men served in the AFC and 178 were killed. By First World War standards, these casualties were light. The AFC was a pioneering corps that helped to lay the groundwork for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Through the efforts of men, such as Hudson Fysh and the Smith brothers, the AFC made a significant contribution to Australian civil aviation.
Note on sources and recommended reading
With the exception of F.M. Cutlack's volume of the First World War official history, The Australian Flying Corps, there are few general works on the AFC. A number of AFC veterans, the majority from No. 1 Squadron, published their memoirs in the decades after the First World War. Harry Cobby's book about his experiences in No. 4 Squadron, for example, contains much interesting information. A few self-published works, such as Pat Conrick's The flying carpet men, based on his father's diaries, can also be found in the Memorial's collection. More recently, Chris Coulthard-Clark's work on Frank McNamara and Mark Lax's publication of Joe Bull's diaries, have added to AFC literature.
The absence of general works on the AFC does not mean there is little primary source material on the subject. The Memorial and the National Archives of Australia hold a combined total of 762 files on the AFC. These range from general squadron histories to documents about specific operations and individuals. In addition, the Memorial holds a number of private records, such as diaries and letters, written by airmen and ground crew. Within the Memorial's collection, the most useful general information on the AFC can be found in the official records series AWM224.
Australian War Memorial documents
PR00709 Lewis, Owen Gower (Lieutenant, 1896–1918)
PR 85/344 Day, Donald F. (Flight Lieutenant AAMC and AFC, d. 1940)
AWM25 81/50 [Australian Flying Corps – Royal Flying Corps] Correspondence regarding candidates applying for appointments as flying officers in the AFC and results of interviews.
AWM224 MSS517 Part 4, No. 2 Squadron Australian Flying Corps: Combat reports.
Unpublished works
Lax, M., A hint of things to come: leadership in the AFC, paper presented to the Air Power Studies Centre Conference, Canberra, 1999
A. H. Cobby, High adventure (Melbourne: Robertson and Mullens, 1942)
P. Conrick, The flying carpet men (Lucindale: P. Conrick, 1993)
C. Coulthard-Clark, McNamara VC: a hero's dilemma (Canberra: Air Power Studies Centre, 1997)
F.M. Cutlack, The Australian Flying Corps in the western and eastern theatres of war 1914–1918, Official History of Australia in the War of 1914 –1918, vol. VIII (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1923)
A. D. Garrisson, Australian fighter aces 1914 –1953 (Canberra: Air Power Studies Centre and the Australian War Memorial, 1999)
C. Hobson, Airmen who died in the Great War 1914 –1918: the Roll of Honour of the British and Commonwealth air services of the First World War (Suffolk: J.B. Hayward and Son, 1995)
M. Lax,One airman's war: aircraft mechanic Joe Bull's personal diaries 1916 –1919 (Maryborough: Banner Books, 1997)
L.W. Sutherland and N. Ellison, Aces and kings (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1935)
E. Udet, "A duel with Guynemer", in P. Jensen (ed.), The flying omnibus (London: Cassell and Co., 1953)
T. White, Guests of the unspeakable: the odyssey of an Australian airman: being a record of captivity and escape in Turkey (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1935)
More about the First World War


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Is the Hunting Act a failure? - the Boxing Day meet may suggest so
PUBLISHED: 22:18 13 December 2012 | UPDATED: 12:15 28 February 2013
Graham Downing looks forward to the most high profile date in hunting's calendar and discusses the effectiveness of the controversial ban
In market squares and outside country pubs around Britain, this coming Boxing Day will see gathered up to a quarter of a million people. They will represent a complete cross section of rural society, from fleeces to flat hats, from those elegantly attired in black jackets astride chestnut hunters to youngsters in outsize crash hats on skewbald ponies, all awaiting the flash of a scarlet jacket and the sound of the hunting horn as the foxhounds arrive to take centre stage.
Nearly eight years after hunting with dogs was banned, some 280 packs of hounds are still going strong. Boxing Day may be huntings most high profile meet, but it is only one day in a fixture list which continues week in, week out from November to March. Indeed, there are probably more people going hunting today than before the Hunting Act.
Whilst in every other respect there are none so law-abiding as the occupants of Middle England, in the case of foxhunting the law is cheerfully ignored, or at least comprehensively circumvented.
The majority of foxhounds use a mixture of trail-hunting and exempt hunting, explains Tim Bonner of the Countryside Alliance. Trail-hunting provides the equestrian activity, while the exemptions to the Act enable hunts to carry out their role in managing the fox population. So, as Tony Blair himself admitted, its banned, but at the same time its not banned.
In fact, as is widely admitted on both sides of the argument, the Hunting Act is an almost total failure. More than 700 hours of agonised Parliamentary debate has resulted in just eight successful prosecutions of registered hunts. The police have more important things to do with their time and most people simply are not bothered. Politics has moved on.
Even so, to the hunts, repeal of the discredited law is an article of faith. Hunting continues, but its extraordinarily difficult for those who run the hunts to arrange meets and get consent from farmers whilst working within a complicated and difficult piece of legislation, says Bonner.
The Countryside Alliance is therefore campaigning to have the Act overturned. It has support within the Government, and it is confident that the issue will be addressed before the next election. Of course, huntings grass roots supporters want the Act repealed, but ban or no ban, theyre going to carry on hunting anyway. The Boxing Day meet of foxhounds is likely to remain one of the countrysides favourite traditions for many years to come.


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Dr Theodore Ngatchu, gastroenterology and weight loss consultant at Spire Parkway, has given his backing to the intragastic balloon.
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While I'm sure that this is safe and everything, this sounds like a really scary procedure. See, my first thought was one of those Carmen Miranda-esque hats, but that would have taken too many balloons. It's intended to help people who are having trouble kick start a healthy diet and exercise regime. I just question whether having a balloon in your stomach is wise… What if it bursts… which direction will the gas escape? There are people out there who voluntarily shove a feeding tube up their noses to lose weight.
It is different from other gastric balloon treatments as there is no need of performing an invasive surgery to make it work. Also, they have an option of the third balloon after 60 days, depending upon their progress in weight-loss.
But, clinical trials in Britain and the US have provided enough evidence that the treatment helped patients lose an average of 7.7kg in just three months. A soft, durable balloon is inserted through the mouth into the stomach in a simple, 30-minute procedure under sedation. Your physician, dietician and exercise physiologist work together to guide you through the process of developing a customized diet & exercise program that supports you in making healthy lifestyle choices.
A smooth, soft saline-filled balloon (about the size of an grapefruit) is placed in your stomach, allowing you to control your portion sizes by filling space in your stomach.
So, if you stick to your new, healthy lifestyle you will be well on the way to maintaining your weight loss.
Over this time they have evolved in shape, size, and design resulting in a modern, durable product, which is now well established as a safe weight loss procedure. Most weight is lost in the first three months, but because the weight loss balloon stays in for six months, you will learn the right amount of food to eat to maintain your new weight long-term.
The BMI approximates body mass using a mathematical ratio of weight and height [(weight in kg ? height in meters) or (weight in pounds ? height in inches x 703)].
The double-balloons, pioneered in California and making their UK debut in our city, are inserted through the patient's throat.
Instead, a balloon is inserted through the mouth, into the stomach, and inflated with a sterile solution.
Researchers gave half the group the balloon, and a control group underwent the endoscopic, out-patient procedure but did not have the balloon inserted. Scoot over lap bands and other weight loss surgeries, there's a new procedure in town and it seems equal parts terrifying and whimsical.
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by W. James Antle III
After three decades of intense political debate, what more is there to say about abortion? Even most seasoned observers assume that anybody who cares to has taken one side or the other by now and that any book devoted to the subject would only rehash the same familiar arguments. To approach all such efforts with a "why bother?" attitude would be a mistake with regard to William Saletan's Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War (University of California Press, 327 pages, $29.95).
The book's title alone will shock the average conservative, who likely looks at the present national environment on abortion with despair and even some disgust: Somewhere in the vicinity of 40 million abortions have been performed in the United States over the last thirty years. Choice that ends fetal life continues to be exercised more than 1 million times per year, and the Roe v. Wade legal regime that ratifies all this remains entrenched into the foreseeable future. But Saletan, Slate's clever chief political correspondent, doesn't use the words "pro-life" and "conservative" interchangeably.
Instead, he sees abortion policy as being largely dictated by a group he calls "pro-choice conservatives." Saletan's thesis is that the rationale for legal abortion has shifted away from the feminist ideals of protecting women's control over their bodies and childrearing as a means of securing their full participation in society to more conservative grounds like limited government, privacy and upholding middle-class family values.
You can hear what he is talking about when pro-choice arguments veer away from the movement's favorite slogan about "a woman's right to choose." Soon it becomes "a decision to be made by a woman and her doctor." Before long, her clergy and family are involved. What was once the individual choice of one woman ends up being billed as something that is going to be decided by a virtual ethics panel comprised of important people in her life, carefully weighing each moral issue before coming up with a King Solomon-like verdict. The important thing is that the government has no say, especially those nosy politicians with their wicked pro-life ways.
Such rhetoric has always coexisted with more radical feminist pronouncements in pro-choice polemics. But it doesn't take much effort to notice the incongruities between the two. Parents, husbands and boyfriends are exactly the sorts of people feminist pro-choices have long wanted specifically removed from undue influence over the abortion decision. So too with clergy — get your rosaries off my ovaries and all that. But the pro-choice conservative position simply would like to prevent such parties from influencing government policy; the issue isn't a woman's choice per se but whether the government will be involved in restricting abortion.
By Saletan's account, the largely feminist activists of NARAL first allowed themselves to be co-opted by pro-choice conservatives during a 1986 battle over a referendum in Arkansas that would have banned taxpayer funding of abortion. The state was Democratic but conservative. Its governor, Bill Clinton of "safe, legal and rare" fame, was pro-choice but opposed to taxpayer-funded abortions and publicly in agreement with the ballot question's "stated purpose." The pro-life administration of Ronald Reagan was in its sixth year and had just named anti-Roe Antonin Scalia to the Supreme Court and promoted Roe dissenter William Rehnquist to chief justice. What were the pro-choices to do?
Win by swinging right, as it turned out. Initiative opponents ran an ad asking parents to contemplate what would happen if their 14-year old daughter were raped and became pregnant as a result. Would they like the government to step in, take decision-making authority on what happens next away from "you (the parent), your doctor, your preacher, your daughter" and arrogate it for itself? Never mind that the initiative was about taxpayer funding, not banning abortion. Note that the daughter figures last in the hierarchy of people who ought to be making the decision in the absence of government coercion. Note also the emphasis on rape victims rather than women pregnant by other means seeking elective abortions. The Arkansas initiative was narrowly defeated, but only by suppressing the feminist pro-choice position in favor of arguments designed to appeal to conservatives.
"So what?" you might now be tempted to ask. "The liberals won anyway. So what does it matter?" Saletan would argue that their victory came at the expense of the original motives of the pro-choice feminists. As pro-choice conservatives helped propel such Democratic candidates as Douglas Wilder and Harris Wofford to victory while contributing to the defeat of Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court (in his view — in my opinion, this is his least persuasive example), they framed their pro-choice position on increasingly conservative grounds. They supported parental notification (and in some cases consent) laws and ended up opposing taxpayer funding.
Pro-lifers responded by co-opting pro-choice conservatives on these issues and jettisoning large parts of their own agenda, beginning with opposition to abortion in cases of rape and ending by remaining only nominally in favor of a general abortion ban. Although Saletan is clearly less sympathetic to pro-lifers, he notes that they too moved away from first principles in the process. By 1992, he argues, the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates had operationally converged on abortion.
BEARING RIGHT CONTAINS a lot of overlooked insights into the abortion debate and overall is remarkably dispassionate and free of rancor. Saletan deserves points just for sticking with the terms "pro-life" and "pro-choice": "Every attempt at unbiased language — for example, reserving the term anti-abortion to describe those who would outlaw the practice, or calling them 'anti-abortion-rights' instead of 'pro-right-to-life' — adds a new bias. The least biased solution is to let each side choose its own name." I unsuccessfully made this same argument as a freshman in a college journalism course.
Nevertheless, Saletan's focus on "pro-choice conservatives" is an oversimplification. First, he argues that they are defined by a hostility to government activism, yet they are the same group that voted to continue taxpayer funding of abortion in Arkansas (a policy this group elsewhere by definition opposes) and favors incremental restrictions like a ban on partial-birth abortion. A more likely explanation is that much of the electorate is deeply conflicted about abortion. They agree with pro-lifers that it is wrong, but are either reluctant to appear judgmental or fearful of the consequences of banning it — for their daughters, their sisters, other pregnant women and themselves as taxpayers. The real swing bloc in the abortion debate is that great confused middle that stretches from those who are pro-choice with restrictions on the left to those who are pro-life with exceptions on the right.
Saletan also demonstrates a certain naïveté about the extent of pro-choice idealism. Legal abortion has always to some extent relied on the fears of people who did not want their daughters getting pregnant unexpectedly, their tax bills rising due to increased welfare costs or their sexual behavior interrupted by their partner's pregnancy. Planned Parenthood was criticized for eugenic tendencies before it even supported legalizing abortion.
Finally, Bearing Right exaggerates the extent to which abortion policy has been set democratically. Since Roe the courts have been decisive, which may be a reason overlooked by Saletan as to why both sides of the debate only tinker at the margins of the issue in election campaigns.
Conservatives would do well to read Saletan's book as an intelligent analysis of contemporary abortion politics. But they should define what they consider winning far more ambitiously than he does.


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Armenian Government Approves Bill on Karabakh's Recognition
The Armenian Government approved on Thursday a bill put forward by two opposition lawmakers, Heritage faction member Zaruhi Postanjyan and Armenian National Congress MP Hrant Bagratyan, that calls for the recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh as an independent state. The bill has been sent to the National Assembly for further debate.
The oppositionists' bill comprises the following two articles: article 1 – the Republic of Armenia recognizes the Artsakh Republic; article 2 – the present act comes into force the day after its official publication.
With the adoption of the draft law, according to the MPs, "the Republic of Armenia will rightfully recognize the actual status of Artsakh, based on the fact that the Republic of Artsakh meets all the international requirements of statehood."