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A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down several enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The actual number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an "ace" has varied, but is usually considered to be five or more. The few aces among combat aviators have historically accounted for the majority of air-to-air victories in military history.[1]
World War I[edit]
World War I introduced the systematic use of true single-seat fighter aircraft, with enough speed and agility to catch and maintain contact with targets in the air, coupled with armament sufficiently powerful to destroy the targets. Aerial combat became a prominent feature with the Fokker Scourge, in the last half of 1915. This was also the beginning of a long-standing trend in warfare, showing statistically that approximately five percent of combat pilots account for the majority of air-to-air victories.[1]
Use of the term "ace" to describe these pilots began in World War I, when French newspapers described Adolphe Pégoud, as l'As (French for "Ace") after he became the first pilot to down five German aircraft. The British initially used the term "star-turns" (a show business term), while the Germans described their elite fighter pilots as Überkanonen (which roughly translates to "top gun").
The successes of such German ace pilots as Max Immelmann and Oswald Boelcke were much publicised for the benefit of civilian morale, and the Pour le Mérite, Prussia's highest award for gallantry, became part of the uniform of a leading German ace. In the Luftstreitkräfte the Pour le Mérite was nicknamed Der blaue Max/The Blue Max, after Max Immelmann, who was the first fighter pilot to receive this award. Initially, German aviators had to destroy eight Allied aircraft to receive this medal.[2] As the war progressed, the qualifications for Pour le Mérite were raised,[2] but successful German fighter pilots continued to be hailed as national heroes for the remainder of the war.
As the German fighter squadrons usually fought well within German lines, it was practicable to establish and maintain very strict guidelines for the official recognition of victory claims by German pilots. Shared victories were either credited to one of the pilots concerned or to the unit as a whole – the destruction of the aircraft had to be physically confirmed by locating its wreckage, or an independent witness to the destruction had to be found. Victories were also counted for aircraft forced down within German lines, as this usually resulted in the death or capture of the enemy aircrew.
Allied fighter pilots fought mostly in German-held airspace[3][4] and were often not in a position to confirm that an apparently destroyed enemy aircraft had in fact crashed, so these victories were frequently claimed as "driven down", "forced to land", or "out of control" (called "probables" in later wars). These victories were usually included in a pilot's totals and in citations for decorations.[5]
The British high command considered praise of fighter pilots to be detrimental to equally brave bomber and reconnaissance aircrew – so that the British air services did not publish official statistics on the successes of individuals. Nonetheless some pilots did become famous through press coverage,[2] making the British system for the recognition of successful fighter pilots much more informal and somewhat inconsistent. One pilot, Arthur Gould Lee, described his own score in a letter to his wife as "Eleven, five by me solo — the rest shared", adding that he was "miles from being an ace".[6] This shows that his No. 46 Squadron RAF counted shared kills, but separately from "solo" ones—one of a number of factors that seems to have varied from unit to unit. Also evident is that Lee considered a higher figure than five kills to be necessary for "ace" status. Aviation historians credit him as an ace with two enemy aircraft destroyed and five driven down out of control, for a total of seven victories.[7]
Other Allied countries, such as France and Italy, fell somewhere in between the very strict German approach and the relatively casual British one. They usually demanded independent witnessing of the destruction of an aircraft, making confirmation of victories scored in enemy territory very difficult.[8] The Belgian crediting system sometimes included "out of control" to be counted as a victory.[9]
The United States Army Air Service adopted French standards for evaluating victories, with two exceptions – during the summer of 1918, while flying under operational control of the British, the 17th Aero Squadron and the 148th Aero Squadron used British standards.[8] American newsmen, in their correspondence to their papers, decided that five victories were the minimum needed to become an ace.[10]
While "ace" status was generally won only by fighter pilots, bomber and reconnaissance crews on both sides also destroyed some enemy aircraft, typically in defending themselves from attack. The most notable example of a non-pilot ace in World War I is Charles George Gass with 39 accredited aerial victories.[11]
Between the world wars[edit]
There were two theaters of war that produced flying aces between the two world wars. They were the Spanish Civil War and the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The Spanish ace Joaquín García Morato scored 40 victories for the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. Part of the outside intervention in the war was the supply of "volunteer" foreign pilots to both sides. Russian and American aces joined the Republican air force, while the Nationalists included Germans and Italians.
The Soviet Volunteer Group began operations in the Second Sino-Japanese War as early as December 2, 1937, resulting in 28 Soviet aces.[12] The Flying Tigers were American military pilots recruited sub rosa to aid the Chinese Nationalists. They spent the summer and autumn of 1941 in transit to China, and did not begin flying combat missions until December 20, 1941.
World War II[edit]
In World War II many air forces adopted the British practice of crediting fractional shares of aerial victories, resulting in fractions or decimal scores, such as 11½ or 26.83. Some U.S. commands also credited aircraft destroyed on the ground as equal to aerial victories. The Soviets distinguished between solo and group kills, as did the Japanese, though the Imperial Japanese Navy stopped crediting individual victories (in favor of squadron tallies) in 1943.[citation needed]
The Soviet Air Forces has the top Allied pilots in terms of aerial victories, Ivan Kozhedub credited with 66 victories and Alexander Pokryshkin scored 65 victories. It also claimed the only female aces of the war: Lydia Litvyak scored 12 victories and Yekaterina Budanova achieved 11.[13] Fighting on different sides, the French pilot Pierre Le Gloan had the unusual distinction of shooting down four German, seven Italian and seven British aircraft, the latter while he was flying for Vichy France in Syria.[citation needed]
The Luftwaffe continued the tradition of "one pilot, one kill", and now referred to top scorers as Experten.[N 1] During the war, and for some years after, the very high victory totals of some Experten were considered by many historians to be coloured by grandiose Nazi propaganda. In spite of this, there are 107 German pilots with more than 100 kills.
A number of factors probably contributed to the very high totals of the top German aces. For a limited period (especially during Operation Barbarossa), many Axis victories were over obsolescent aircraft and either poorly trained or inexperienced Allied pilots.[15] In addition, Luftwaffe pilots generally flew many more individual sorties (sometimes well over 1000) than their Allied counterparts. Moreover, they often kept flying combat missions until they were captured, incapacitated, or killed, while successful Allied pilots were usually either promoted to positions involving less combat flying or routinely rotated back to training bases to pass their valuable combat knowledge to younger pilots.[citation needed] An additional factor could have been a literal impossibility to match the Germans' results due to lack of targets, since the number of operational Luftwaffe fighters was normally well below 1,500, with the total aircraft number never exceeding 5,000, and the total aircraft production of the Allies being nearly triple that of the other side. A difference in tactics might have been a factor as well; Erich Hartmann, for example, stated "See if there is a straggler or an uncertain pilot among the enemy... Shoot him down.",[16] which would have been an efficient and relatively low-risk way of increasing the number of kills. At the same time, the Soviet 1943 "Instruction For Air Combat" stated that the first priority must be the enemy commander, which was a much riskier task, but one giving the highest return in case of a success.
Similarly, in the Pacific theater, one of the factors leading to the superiority of Japanese aces such as the legendary Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (about 87 kills) could be the early technical dominance of the Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" fighter.[citation needed]
Post World War II aces[edit]
Korean War[edit]
The Korean War of 1950–53 marked the transition from piston-engined propeller driven aircraft to more modern jet aircraft. As such, it saw the world's first jet-vs-jet aces.
Vietnam War[edit]
The North Vietnamese air force was the world's sixth largest air force at the height of its power in 1974 but armed with mostly obsolescent aircraft. This allowed many North Vietnamese pilots to claim "ace" status.[citation needed] American air-to-air combat during the Vietnam War generally matched intruding United States fighter-bombers against radar-directed integrated North Vietnamese air defense systems. American McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, Vought F-8 Crusader and Republic F-105 Thunderchief fighter crews usually had to contend with surface-to-air missiles, anti-aircraft artillery, and machine gun fire before opposing fighters attacked them.[citation needed] The long-running conflict produced 22 aces: 17 North Vietnamese pilots, two American pilots, three American weapon systems officers or WSOs (WSO is the USAF designation, one of the three was actually a US Naval aviator, with an equivalent job, but using the USN designation of Radar Intercept Officer or RIO).[17]
Middle East conflicts[edit]
The series of wars and conflicts between Israel and its neighbors began with Israeli independence in 1948 and continued for over three decades. Of the 50 known aces during these battles, one was Egyptian, three Syrian, and the rest Israeli.[citation needed]
Iran–Iraq war[edit]
Brig. General Jalil Zandi (1951–2001) was an ace fighter pilot in the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, serving for the full duration of the Iran–Iraq War. His record of eight confirmed and three probable victories against Iraqi combat aircraft qualifies him as an ace and the most successful pilot of that conflict and the most successful Grumman F-14 Tomcat pilot worldwide.[18][19]
Brig. General Shahram Rostami was another Iranian ace. He was also an F-14 pilot. He had six confirmed kills. His victories include: one MiG-21, two MiG-25s and three Mirage F1s.
The Iran-Iraq conflict also saw the only known helicopter dogfights in history.[citation needed]
Realistic assessment of enemy casualties is important for intelligence purposes, so most air forces expend considerable effort to ensure accuracy in victory claims. In World War II, the aircraft gun camera came into general usage, partly in hope of alleviating inaccurate victory claims.[N 2]
And yet, to quote an extreme example, in the Korean War, both the U.S. and Communist air arms claimed a 10-to-1 victory/loss ratio.[21][22] Without delving too deeply into these claims, they are obviously mutually incompatible. Arguably, few recognized aces actually shot down as many aircraft as credited to them. The primary reason for inaccurate victory claims is the inherent confusion of three-dimensional, high speed combat between large numbers of aircraft, but competitiveness and the desire for recognition (not to mention optimistic enthusiasm) also figure into inflation, especially when the attainment of a specific total is required for a particular decoration or promotion.[23] Adolf Galland stated: "Hermann Göring actually goes much further, and claims that scores were deliberately falsified for the purpose of fabricating grounds for decorations—but this seems unlikely to be the case, nor Goering's real opinion."[20]
The most accurate figures usually belong to the air arm fighting over its own territory, where many wrecks can be located, and even identified, and where shot down enemy are either killed or captured. It is for this reason that at least 76 of the 80 aircraft credited to Manfred von Richthofen can be tied to known British losses[24]—the German Jagdstaffeln flew defensively, on their own side of the lines, in part due to General Hugh Trenchard's policy of offensive patrol.
On the other hand, losses (especially in aircraft as opposed to personnel) are sometimes recorded inaccurately, for various reasons. Nearly 50% of RAF victories in the Battle of Britain, for instance, do not tally statistically with recorded German losses—but some at least of this apparent over-claiming can be tallied with known wrecks, and aircrew known to have been in British PoW camps.[25] There are a number of reasons why reported losses may be understated—including poor reporting procedures and loss of records due to enemy action or wartime confusion.
Non-pilot aces[edit]
While aces are generally thought of exclusively as fighter pilots, some have accorded this status to gunners on bombers or reconnaissance aircraft, observers/gunners in two-seater fighters such as the early Bristol F.2b, and airborne weapons officers in aircraft like the F-4 Phantom. Because pilots often teamed with different air crew members, an observer or gunner might be an ace while his pilot is not, or vice versa. Observer aces constitute a sizable minority in many lists. Charles George Gass, who tallied 39 victories, was the highest scoring observer ace in World War I.[26]
In World War II, United States Army Air Forces B-17 tail gunner S/Sgt. Michael Arooth (379th Bomb Group) was credited with 17 victories.[27][28] The Royal Air Force's leading bomber gunner, Wallace McIntosh, was credited with eight kills, including three on one mission. Flight Sergeant F. J. Barker scored 13 victories while flying as a gunner in a Boulton Paul Defiant turret fighter, piloted by Flight Sergeant E. R. Thorne.[29][30]
With the advent of more advanced technology, a third category of ace appeared. Charles B. DeBellevue became not only the first U.S. Air Force weapon systems officer (WSO) to become an ace but also the top American ace of the Vietnam War, with six victories.[31] Close behind with five were fellow WSO Jeffrey Feinstein[32] and Radar Intercept Officer William P. Driscoll.[33]
Ace in a day[edit]
The first military aviators to score five or more victories on the same date, thus each becoming an "ace in a day", were pilot Julius Arigi and observer/gunner Johann Lasi of the Austro-Hungarian air force, on August 22, 1916, when they downed five Italian aircraft.[34] The feat was repeated five more times during World War I.[35][36][37]
Becoming an ace in a day became relatively common during World War II. A total of 68 U.S. pilots (43 Army Air Forces, 18 Navy, and seven Marine Corps pilots) were credited with the feat.[citation needed]
In the Soviet offensive of 1944 in the Karelian Isthmus, Finnish pilot Hans Wind shot down 30 enemy aircraft in 12 days. In doing so, he obtained "ace in a day" status three times.[38]
On September 6, 1965, during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, Muhammad Mahmood Alam of the Pakistan Air Force has nine confirmed kills (and two probables). On September 7, 1965, he battled defending the city of Lahore where he shot down five Indian Air Force Hawker Hunter fighters in less than a minute, four of them within 30 seconds. He was awarded the Sitara-e-Jurat ("The star of courage") and bar for his actions.[39] He observed: "Before we had completed more than of about 270 degrees of the turn, at around 12 degrees per second, all four Hunters had been shot down."[40] After the war, PAF confirmed his kills and listed on the top of the hall of fame list at the PAF Museum in Karachi. The Pakistan Air Force figures have been disputed by Indian sources which claim that Alam made four kills, attributing one of the losses of Sqn Ldr Onkar Nath Kacker's aircraft to technical failure or some other cause, including the possibility of ground fire.[41][42]
See also[edit]
- List of World War I flying aces
- List of World War II flying aces
- List of World War II aces by country
- List of German World War II jet aces
- List of Spanish Civil War flying aces
- List of Korean War flying aces
- List of Vietnam War flying aces
- List of flying aces in Arab–Israeli wars
- List of Egyptian flying aces
- List of Israeli flying aces
- List of Syrian flying aces
- List of aces of aces
- Iranian aerial victories during the Iran–Iraq war
- Iraqi aerial victories during the Iran–Iraq war
- ^ For the award of decorations, the Germans initiated a points system to equal up achievements between the aces flying on the Eastern front with those on other, more demanding, fronts: one for a fighter, two for a twin-engine bomber, three for a four-engine bomber; night victories counted double; Mosquitoes counted double, due to the difficulty of bringing them down.[14]
- ^ The classic instance of this is the catastrophic failure of German intelligence to accurately assess RAF losses during the Battle of Britain, due (in large part anyway) to wild over-claiming by German fighter pilots.[20]
- ^ a b Dunnigan 2003, p. 149.
- ^ a b c Payne, Dr. David. "Major 'Mick' Mannock, VC: Top Scoring British Flying Ace in the Great War." Western Front Association, May 21, 2008.
- ^ Shores et al. 1990, p. 6.
- ^ Guttman 2009, p. 39.
- ^ Shores, Franks and Guest, 1990, p. 8.
- ^ Lee 1968, p. 208.
- ^ Shores et al. 1990, pp. 236–237.
- ^ a b Franks and Bailey 1992, p. 6.
- ^ Pieters 1998, pp. 34, 85.
- ^ Farr 1979, p. 55.
- ^ Franks et al. 1997, pp. 18–19.
- ^ "Allied aces of War in China and Mongol-Manchurian border" Wio.ru Retrieved: October 10, 2014.
- ^ Bergström 2007, p. 83.
- ^ Johnson 1967, p. 264.
- ^ Shores 1983, pp. 94–95.
- ^ Toliver, Raymond F.; Constable, Trevor J. (1986). The Blond Knight of Germany. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-8306-8189-1.
- ^ "Aces." Safari Kovi. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
- ^ "Imperial Iranian Air Force: Samurai in the skies." IIAF, August 22, 1980. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
- ^ Cooper, Tom and Farzad Bishop. "Fire in the Hills: Iranian and Iraqi Battles of Autumn 1982." ACIG, September 9, 2003. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
- ^ a b Galland 1956, p. 279.
- ^ "Korean Air War: Korean air war statistics from sources of USA and USSR." Wio (RU). Retrieved: October 10, 2014.
- ^ Shores 1983, pp. 161–167.
- ^ Shores, Christopher. "Re: Flying Tigers VS Christopher Shores?" 12 O'clock high, 2007.
- ^ Robinson 1958, pp. 150–155.
- ^ Lake 2000, p. 122.
- ^ Franks et al. 1997, p. 18.
- ^ "Hall of Valor: Michael Arooth." Military Times. Retrieved: October 10, 2014.
- ^ Phaneuf, Wayne. "Springfield's 375th: City monuments honor those who answered the call of duty." The Republican , May 29, 2011.
- ^ "The Airmen's Stories: Sgt. F J Barker." Battle of Britain London Monument. Retrieved: April 17, 2014.
- ^ Thomas 2012, p. 55.
- ^ "Col. Charles DeBellevue." U.S. Air Force official web site. Retrieved: May 22, 2010.
- ^ "USAF Southeast Asia War Aces." National Museum of the United States Air Force, March 30, 2011. Retrieved: June 29, 2012.
- ^ "USS Constellation (CV 64)." United States Navy. Retrieved: June 29, 2012.
- ^ O'Connor 1986, pp. 190–91, 272, 324.
- ^ Franks et al. 1993, p. 70.
- ^ Shores et al. 1990, pp. 368, 390.
- ^ Franks and Bailey 1992, p. 161.
- ^ Juntunen,Ossi. "Hans 'Hasse' Wind: René Fonck of WW2." WWII Ace Stories. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
- ^ Tufail, Air Cdre M Kaiser. "Alam's Speed-shooting Classic." Archived September 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Defence journal. Retrieved October 19, 2014.
- ^ Fricker 1979, p. 99.
- ^ Pakistan's Sabre Ace by Jon Guttman, Aviation History, Sept 1998.
- ^ Singh, Pushpindar (1991). Fiza ya, Psyche of the Pakistan Air Force. Himalayan Books. p. 30. ISBN 81-7002-038-7.
- Bergström, Christer. Barbarossa: The Air Battle, July–December 1941. Birmingham, UK: Classic Publications, 2007. ISBN 978-1-85780-270-2.
- Dunnigan, James F. How to Make War: A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Warfare in the Twenty-first Century. New York: HarperCollins, 2003. ISBN 978-0-06009-012-8.
- Farr, Finis. Rickenbacker's Luck: An American Life. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1979. ISBN 978-0-395-27102-5.
- Franks, Norman and Frank W. Bailey. Over the Front: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the United States and French Air Services, 1914–1918. London: Grub Street, 1992. ISBN 978-0-948817-54-0.
- Franks, Norman, Frank W. Bailey and Russell Guest. Above the Lines: The Aces and Fighter Units of the German Air Service, Naval Air Service and Flanders Marine Corps, 1914–1918. London: Grub Street, 1993. ISBN 978-0-94881-773-1.
- ———; Guest, Russell; Alegi, Gregory (1997), Above the War Fronts: The British Two-seater Bomber Pilot and Observer Aces, the British Two-seater Fighter Observer Aces, and the Belgian, Italian, Austro-Hungarian and Russian Fighter Aces, 1914–1918, Fighting Airmen of WWI, 4, London: Grub Street, ISBN 978-1-898697-56-5.
- Fricker, John. Battle for Pakistan: The Air War of 1965. London: Ian Allan, 1979. ISBN 978-0-7110-0929-5.
- Galland, Adolf The First and the Last London, Methuen, 1955 (Die Ersten und die Letzten Germany, Franz Schneekluth, 1953).
- Guttman, Jon. Pusher Aces of World War 1. London: Osprey, 2009. ISBN 978-1-84603-417-6.
- Hobson, Chris. Vietnam Air Losses, USAF, USN, USMC, Fixed-Wing Aircraft Losses in Southeast Asia 1961–1973. North Branch, Minnesota: Specialty Press, 2001. ISBN 1-85780-115-6.
- Johnson, J. E. Wing Leader. London: Ballantine, 1967.
- Lake, John. The Battle of Britain. London: Amber Books, 2000. ISBN 1-85605-535-3.
- Lee, Arthur Gould. No Parachute. London: Jarrolds, 1968.
- O'Connor, Martin. Air Aces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire 1914–1918. Boulder, Colorado: Flying Machine Press, 1986. ISBN 978-1-89126-806-9.
- Pieters, Walter M. Above Flanders' Fields: A Complete Record of the Belgian Fighter Pilots and Their Units During the Great War, 1914–1918. London: Grub Street, 1998. ISBN 978-1-898697-83-1.
- Robinson, Bruce (ed.) von Richthofen and the Flying Circus. Letchworth, UK: Harleyford, 1958.
- Shores, Christopher. Air Aces. Greenwich Connecticut: Bison Books, 1983. ISBN 0-86124-104-5
- ———; Franks, Norman; Guest, Russell (1990), Above the Trenches: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915–1920, London: Grub Street, ISBN 978-0-948817-19-9.
- Stenman, Kari and Kalevi Keskinen. Finnish Aces of World War 2 (Osprey Aircraft of the Aces, number 23). London: Osprey Publishing. 1998. ISBN 952-5186-24-5.
- Thomas, Andrew. Defiant, Blenheim and Havoc Aces. London: Osprey Publishing, 2012. ISBN 978-1-84908-666-0.
- Toliver, Raymond J. and Trevor J. Constable. Horrido!: Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe. London: Bantam Books, 1979. ISBN 978-0-55312-663-1.
- Toperczer, Istvan. MIG-17 and MIG-19 Units of the Vietnam War (Osprey Combat Aircraft, number 25). London: Osprey, 2001. ISBN 978-1-84176-162-6.
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Zrenjanin National Museum is a museum of complex type with regional character. Its research covers Central Banat District. This kind of organization enabled rich cultural heritage from the area, divided into fields such as nature, archeology, ethnology, history, and art to be systematically preserved and professionally estimated by trained professionals of a specified institution. More than 33,000 museum objects are classified as collections of five departments, some of the collections being: collection of firearms and cold weapons, collection of gilt hats, collection of paintings especially from the 18th and the 19th century, collection of pre-historic and Middle Age jewellery, bird collection. The museum also has its pedagogical-informative service, documentation centre, restoration and conservation workshops, photography department, carpenters' studio, as well as its own library with over 5,000 vocational titles. 1200m2 of the museum space is designated as area for permanent exhibition. On the first floor the visitors are invited to visit the artistic part of our permanent exhibition, comprised of two segments – visual arts and applied arts. On the first floor there is also sports' room while on the second floor another part of the permanent exhibition is on display, comprised ofcollections organized by: natural-history, archaeology, history and ethnology departments. The collections are presented either as part of the permanent exhibition or through various theme exhibitions. At the moment, there are three exhibition spaces on the ground floor of the building – the Salon, the Small Salon and Museum Hall which was adapted to suit the purpose. The Salon is entered from the main city square. It is a space of 200m2, equipped with modern technology, air-conditioned and well-lighted, thus being the most exclusive exhibition room in the city. The Museum has its own security service as well as video surveillance. Due to its great number of visitors – more than 85,000, 34 theme exhibitions and renovation of the permanent exhibition, Zrenjanin National Museum was awarded as the best Serbian Museum for the year 2006. For the period between 2005 and 2010, the most visited exhibitions were: Uroš Predić (2005) – 17,174, Leonardo da Vinci in Zrenjanin (2007) – 15,560, Sceletons Alive (2008) – 13,022, Uniform in Serbia in 19th and 20th century (2008) – 12,265, Living Together (2006) – 9,881, Stevan Aleksić (2006) – 9,590, Đura Popović's collection of paintings and sculptures (2008) – 9,022, Primal Art – cave paintings, body art (2009) – 8,695, Zrenjanin Sport History (2006) – 7,695, Those wonderful colours of the citizens (2009) – 7,619. Apart from the exhibitions, Zrenjanin National Museum also organises workshops, classical music concerts, film projections, promotions, literary nights, seminars and lectures. The ambassadors of numerous countries have visited our city due to various programmes organised by the Museum. By means of these exhibitions and acompanying programme the cultures of France, Africa, China, Japan, Boka-Kotorska Bay were presented. Along with cultural exchange and cooperation with the aforementioned regions, the work of Zrenjanin National Museum enabled contact with the leaders of our city.


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Indians In The Land
Did the Indians have a special, almost noble, affinity with the American environment—or were they despoilers of it? Two historians of the environment explain the profound clash of cultures between Indians and whites that has made each group almost incomprehensible to the other.
August/September 1986 | Volume 37, Issue 5
RW And that becomes dependency. That's what Thomas Jefferson correctly and cynically realized when he argued that the best way for the United States to acquire Indian lands was to encourage trade and have government storehouses assume Indian debts. Indians would have no choice but to cede their lands to pay their debts, and they couldn't even renounce those debts because they now needed the resources the United States offered them in order to survive. Not all tribes became involved in this, but most who relied on the fur trade eventually did.
Of course, the effects go both ways. As whites eliminated Indians and Indian control, they were also, without realizing it, eliminating the forces that had shaped the landscape itself. The things they took as natural—why there were trees, why there weren't trees, the species of plants that grew there—were really the results of Indian practices. As whites changed the practices, those things vanished. Trees began to reinvade the grassland, and forests that had once been open became closed.
WC Once the wild animals that had been part of the Indians' spiritual and ecological universe began to disappear, Europeans acquired the land and began to transform it to match their assumptions about what a "civilized" landscape should look like. With native animals disappearing, other animals could be brought in to use the same food supply that the deer, the moose, and the bison had previously used. And so the cow, the horse, the pig—the animals so central to European notions of what an animal universe looks like—began to move across the continent like a kind of animal frontier. In many instances the Indians turned to these domesticated European species to replace their own decreasing food supply and so adopted a more pastoral way of life. As they lost their lands, they were then stuck with the problem of feeding their animals as well as themselves.
RW The Navajos are a good example of this. We tend to forget that Indians don't simply vanish when we enter the twentieth century. The Navajos are perhaps the group who maintained control over their own lands for the longest time, but their control was increasingly subject to outside pressures. They very early adopted European sheep, which became more and more important to their economy, both because wild foods were eliminated and because the government strongly encouraged the Navajos to raise more sheep. They built up prosperous herds but were gradually forced to confine them to the reservation instead of the wider regions they had grazed before.
The result was a crisis on the Navajo reservation. The land began to erode. By the 1920s and 1930s the Navajos had far more sheep than could be sustained during dry years. And here's where one of the more interesting confrontations between Indians and conservationists took place. The government sought to reduce Navajo stock, but its own motives were mixed. There was a genuine fear for the Navajos, but the main concern had to do with Boulder Dam. Conservationists feared Lake Mead was going to silt up, and that the economic development of the Southwest would be badly inhibited.
What they didn't understand were the causes of erosion. They blamed it all on Navajo sheep, but it now appears that there was a natural gullying cycle going on in the Southwest. Anybody familiar with the Southwest knows that its terrain is shaped by more than sheep and horses, no matter how badly it is overgrazed. So the result of government conservation policy for the Navajos was deeply ironic. Having adjusted to the European presence, having prospered with their sheep, they found their herds being undercut by the government for the good of the larger economy. It's a classic case of Indians—as the poorest and least powerful people in a region—forced to bear the brunt of economic-development costs. So the Navajo economy was again transformed. As the Navajos became poorer and poorer, they grew more willing to lease out oil and allow strip mining on the reservation. They found themselves in the familiar situation of being forced to agree to practices that were harmful, even in their view, to the land. They had to do it in order to survive, but they were then attacked by white conservationists for abandoning their own values.
WC A real no-win situation.
RW There are lessons in all this. We can't copy Indian ways of understanding nature, we're too different. But studying them throws our own assumptions into starker relief and suggests shortcomings in our relationships with nature that could cost us dearly in the long run.


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Fast Forward is the third book of this ever popular series, containing 21 pieces which help build skills using new finger patterns and varied bowing techniques. Ideal for beginner Viola players with Piano Accompaniment. This is the Viola part only; a separate volume is available which includes the Piano part.
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Remember that incredible Holiday candle from the Gap? It was SO good! Every year I'd rush in there are buy everything they had in the Holiday scent, both for myself and or gifts. That dark red glass was unmistakable; when you saw one in someone's home, you'd exchange a knowing glance and a little nod. It was just that good! Even staunch anti-Gappers who would be loath to enter a store for any other reason were spotted hoarding the Holiday candles.
Then things started to change at the Gap; scents like Heaven and Dream disappeared, and I think the Holiday candle went with them. Or maybe it returned under another name? I'm not sure, and neither is the internet: a few Google searches turned up lots of nostalgia but no clear opinion on whether or not the damned thing was still in production. I don't see it on the Gap website, and every other retailer has been showcasing their holiday goods for days, even weeks, now.
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Another beautiful candle in metallic silver packaging! I have the 7.3 oz filled candle in silver, and it's right at home next to the Voluspa. Makes me want to put my Christmas tree up TODAY! Notes for this one include shimmering pine, crisp bay leaf, red cinnamon and warm winter woods. The cinnamon lends some sweetness, so it's less herbal than both Holiday and Frost Pinecone.
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In previous years the available Hollyberry goodies have included hand soap, candles, aroma sticks, "aroma pills" (refills that go in a wall diffuser), surface cleaner, and countertop cleaner. Most are still available at drugstore.com and Amazon, but I'm hoping these will get a big push at Target this holiday season so I can pick up a bundle of them! But for now, I think I'll pick up the hand soap, $3.99 at drugstore.com.
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The University of Mary Washington men's basketball team let a seven-point halftime lead slip away and eventually fell in double overtime to North Carolina Wesleyan College, 91-87, in the first game of the South Region Shootout in Winchester, Va. on Saturday. The Eagle sdrop to 2-2 on the season.
The Eagles opened up the 40-33 halftime cushion thanks to 44% shooting including six three pointers in the first frame. The Bishops held a two-point lead at 68-66 in the final minute, but a layin from junior guard Ryan Farrar (Ashburn, Va., Centreville, Va.) tied the score, sending the game to overtime.
In the first extra period, the Bishops went up on a three-pointer before UMW scored the next six points to take a 74-71 advantage. This time a three pointer in the final minute by NC Wesleyan would send the game to overtime number two.
NC Wesleyan ran the lead up to as many as eight in the second overtime, although UMW would cut it to two at 87-85 with less than a minute left. The Bishops made their final four free throw attempts to capture the victory.
UMW was led by freshman E.J. Willis (Alexandria, Va., T.C. Williams), who had 16 points and eight rebounds, and Farrar, who added 14 points. Freshman guard Walt Smith (Alexandria, Va., T.C. Williams) had 11 points, five assists, and four steals, and Rocky Ullah (Stafford, Va., Brooke Point) added 11 points for the Eagles, who will face Shenandoah on Sunday at 3:00 p.m.
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N.C. Wesleyan (3-2) | 33 | 35 | 8 | 15 | 91 |
Mary Washington (2-2) | 40 | 28 | 8 | 11 | 87 |
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MIAMI (AP) — Kicker Nick Folk received a reprieve that gave the New York Jets a wild win.
After Folk's blocked field-goal attempt in overtime was negated by a timeout, his retry was a successful 33-yarder with 6:04 left, and the Jets beat the Miami Dolphins 23-20 on Sunday.
Mark Sanchez hit Santonio Holmes for a 38-yard gain to set up the kick. Two plays later, Folk's attempt was blocked by Randy Starks charging up the middle, but the officials whistled the play dead just as the ball was snapped because Dolphins coach Joe Philbin had called timeout, hoping to ice the kicker.
Folk lined up again and made the winner.
On the previous possession, the Dolphins' Dan Carpenter was wide left on a 48-yard field-goal attempt that would have given them the victory. Carpenter also missed from 47 yards early in the fourth quarter.
New York improved to 2-1, and the Dolphins dropped to 1-2. The Jets' Darrelle Revis and Miami's Reggie Bush left the game with left knee injuries.
Sanchez redeemed himself at the end of an erratic afternoon. His 7-yard touchdown pass to Jeremy Kerley with 3:01 left to give the Jets their first lead, 20-17.
Rookie Ryan Tannehill then moved Miami 48 yards, including 19 yards on a third-down pass interference penalty against Revis' replacement, Kyle Wilson. Carpenter's 41-yard field goal with 16 seconds left forced overtime.
The Dolphins had the better ground game, outrushing the Jets 185-88 despite the loss of Bush. But the Jets' LaRon Landry scored on an 18-yard interception return.
Sanchez twice missed open receivers for potential scores, made several wild throws and had a handful of passes dropped. He finished 21 for 45 for 306 yards and two interceptions.
Backup Tim Tebow ran for 5 yards and a first down on a fake punt, but otherwise again contributed little to the Jets' offense.
Tannehill also had a rough day, going 16 for 36 for 196 yards with the one costly interception.
Bush hurt his knee on a carry when the Dolphins were running out the clock in the second quarter. He returned to the bench after halftime in uniform and rode an exercise bike, but remained on the sideline.
All-Pro cornerback Revis departed in the third quarter with a non-contact injury.
Some Tebow trickery led to a field goal by New York. He took a short snap from punt formation on fourth-and-3 at the Jets 30 and ran 5 yards for a first down, jump-starting a 16-play drive that ended with a 3-pointer.
Tebow was the intended receiver on a third-down pass that fell incomplete, and he still has yet to throw a pass this season.
He did draw a big cheer from the crowd when the scoreboard "Kiss Cam" showed him next to teammate Clyde Gates on the sideline. A teammate encouraged them to kiss, but they declined.
The Dolphins were pinned at their own 6 early in the third quarter when Tannehill rolled out and threw toward Anthony Fasano along the sideline. Landry stepped in front of the intended receiver to make the interception and dashed to the end zone for a 10-all tie.
Daniel Thomas fumbled on the next play, and Revis recovered. New York reached the Miami 2, but Tebow lost 5 yards on a keeper, and Sanchez's third-down pass into the end zone was intercepted by Chris Clemons.
Miami drove 80 yards in the third quarter and scored on Jorvorskie Lane's first NFL touchdown, a 1-yard run that made it 17-10.
What are your takeaways from the game against Miami? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Crime thriller triple starring Denzel Washington. Tony Scott directs The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009) a remake of the 1974 crime thriller which starred Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw. Denzel Washington takes over Matthaus role as Lieutenant Garber a dispatcher for the New York City Transit Police who finds himself in a face-off with criminal mastermind Ryder (John Travolta in the role originally played by Shaw) after an armed gang hijacks a subway train and takes its passengers hostage threatening to start executing them one by one if they are not paid a hefty ransom within the space of one hour. Inside Man (2006) is directed by Spike Lee. Washington plays tough cop Keith Frazier who finds himself drawn into a tense hostage situation when a bank heist planned by master criminal Dalton Russell (Clive Owen) goes drastically wrong. Trying to negotiate the release of the hostages Frazier begins to realise that something isnt quite right with the whole set up and when enigmatic Madeline White (Jodie Foster) arrives on the scene he realises that hes stumbled onto something a lot bigger. Willem Dafoe and Christopher Plummer co-star. In The Bone Collector (1999) street cop Amelia Donaghy (Angelina Jolie) discovers a hideously mutilated corpse and her superiors call on forensics expert Lincoln Rhymes (Washington) to investigate. Paralysed after an injury sustained in the line of duty the case gives Rhymes a new lease of life but he needs a reluctant Donaghy to do the legwork for him if he is to stop the murderer from striking again.
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The people in Ann Beattie's second book of stories, Secrets and Surprises … have gone beyond anger into numbness. As were the protagonists of her first collection, Distortions, they are generally in their mid-'30s; some of them are parents; all of them share disquietingly sophomoric tastes and desires. They listen to Bob Dylan or Keith Jarrett, display vaguely artistic interests and get stoned a lot. They are by and large unlikable, albeit not uninteresting, and even, on occasion, touching. The predominant mood, dire enervation, is oddly contagious.
Beattie has been polishing her style of mannered naturalism for some time now, and it is beginning to show signs of wear. One can discern in her work traces of the repressed poignancy of J. D. Salinger, to whom she has been compared. But Beattie's method—her painstakingly accurate rendition of the commonplace, her reliance upon the artifacts of popular culture...
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It's happened to me numerous times at my local farmers' market. I'm juggling my wallet, bags of produce and one to two children. I pick out some delectables, submit them for weighing, pay...and leave the bag sitting there. Only later, when I get home, unpack, and find I'm missing valuable items, do I notice.
I've done it so many times I can't even begin to count. Possibly the most disappointing was when I left a bag of two excellent balls of my favorite buffalo mozzarella which was to go into a sandwich that very night.
Somewhere, I imagine, there is a heavenly place for the produce that was left behind, a cozy little kitchen stuffed full of all of the forgotten items that have been left over the years. A place where you could make a really good sandwich.
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In a world full to bursting with would-be heroes, Jim couldn't be less interested in saving the day. His fireballs fizzle. He's awfully grumpy. Plus, he's been dead for about 60 years. When a renegade necromancer wrenches him from eternal slumber and into a world gone terribly, bizarrely wrong, all Jim wants is to find a way to die properly, once and for all.
On his side, he's got a few shambling corpses, an inept thief, and a powerful death wish. But he's up against tough odds: angry mobs of adventurers, a body falling apart at the seams and a team of programmers racing a deadline to hammer out the last few bugs in their AI.
Mogworld is a comic fantasy novel in the tradition of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, and is the debut novel from video-game icon Yahtzee Croshaw (Zero Punctuation).
©2010 Yahtzee Croshaw (P)2012 Yahtzee Croshaw
"The first legitimate breakout hit from the gaming community in recent memory" (Boing Boing)
"Yahtzee consistently makes me laugh, and even though I dig computer and electronic games, he has cross-genre appeal to anyone who enjoys a sharp wit, unique sense of humor, and plenty of originality - not purely gaming fans" (The Future Buzz)
"Listened to this twice in a row - lotsa fun!"
The premise is great - a former magic college student killed by a rival warrior university is raised 60 years later to be the undead minion of an evil Necromancer. Turns out the Necromancer is a great boss and the new walking corpse, Jim, comes to enjoy working in the Doom Fortress...until it's destroyed, with Jim and two other minions the only ones to escape.
Thus begins their quest.
The cast of characters, to me, were un-freaking-believably entertaining. I even loved the villains.
Also, the narrator was really something. At first, I was a little disconcerted since he so unconventional compared to others on audible. But after a few chapters, I found he was perfectly suited to bring to life the various characters. Then I discovered the narrator is also the author, so of course he had things well in hand - just took some getting used to.
Highly recommended
I listen to books when I'm at work or doing chores. I prefer history and fantasy. My favorite audio book is Going Postal by Terry Pratchett.
"Yahtzee learns to enunciate"
I bought this for the same reason almost every one else purchased it for, I'm a fan of Zero Punctuation. On his blog, Yahtzee wrote that it was really hard to learn to speak slowly again and if you listen to the audio sample you can tell. The narration early on is stilted, as if he's trying to compensate. Likewise, the humor in the beginning is strained and trying too hard. He tends to reuse and abuse his metaphors, and over use words such as "insanely" and "suddenly". Sadly, these and other technical problems appear throughout the book.
However, if you love Yahtzee and are prepared to be both patient and forgiving, this book will reward you in the end. And by patient I mean you need to get through at least the first 3 hours. By that time, Yahtzee's voice has warmed up and the story picks up enough to let the jokes occur more naturally. The main character is endearing and the story amusing and involving. Yahtzee does a good necromancer voice too, though my favorite voice was Slippery John. The ending was appropriately poignant.
This book is better than other first novels by game designers (it made me think of Johannes Cabal: Necromancer). Yahtzee hasn't ascended to the pantheon with Pratchett and Douglas Adams but I will pick up his other book and hope for more author narrated audio books from him in the future.
"Better than I could have hoped for"
As a fan of Zero Punctuation, I went into Mogworld thinking I knew what to expect: a parody full of whip-sharp language and colorful similes. What I didn't expect was the honestly brilliant metanarritive about how video games are made, played, and perceived, woven into an unusual but engaging adventure story. The plot was refreshingly original, the characters were distinct and memorable, and the world felt right, just familiar enough to me, as someone who's played a lot of sword and sorcery RPGs. It was definitely the right choice to have Yahtzee narrate the story, because he imbues it with so much personality. Overall, a joy to listen to. Five stars.
"Robert Asprin and Douglas Adams funny"
Wonderfully narrated. it is a really funny funny story. the sarcasm and metaphors are quite witty. It is refreshing to have the storyteller be as good at narrating as he is at writing. Very very fun book.
Avid science fiction & fantasy reader.
Hands down, this is the funniest book I have ever had the pleasure to read or listen to.
I would absolutely recommend this book to anyone who enjoys the fantasy genre. Not only did I enjoy it, this is the only book to my memory which made me actually laugh. And when I say laugh, I don't just mean a dry chuckle or smirk - I am referring to a big full belly laugh.
With this book Mr Croshaw has made myself a fan of his work.
"Great story read by the author."
Yes, because author's sense of humor shows even better when you hear it in his voice inflections.
Yes. It was of the same caliber to his better works.
If you have the time.
I have been a big fan of Yahtzee's game reviews for several years so when I saw he narrated the book himself I had to buy it.
He did not disappoint. The story was better than I expected it to be. I am more of a Sci-Fi fan than Fantasy but I found this book very enjoyable.
I hope to see more books and narration from Yahtzee in the future.
If you like Monty Python that you will love this audio book. I've listened to this book many times and it still cracks me up. The author/narrator does a fantastic job of creating unique voices for each character. Makes it feel more like a radio play than an audio book.
Miss Construed
"What fun!!!"
I'm a big Z Punc fan. When I heard Yahtzee had done a narration of his book I had to have it. I finished it in a couple of days. If you enjoy Terry Pratchett, John Scalzi, or enjoyed Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, chances are you will enjoy Mogworld. If you are also a fan of Crowshaw's reviews you'll appreciate the additional level of humor.
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"Funny and Enjoyable"
Totally different, something you wouldn't expect.
No other book that I have read is like Mogworld.
Laugh mostly. Got a little tedious near the end.
Gives you a little laugh, a chuckle here and there. Something that is totally different and unusal. Love the "gang" and their witty comments.
"Fantastic story and narration after first hour."
Love zero punctuation, and you may feel a little short changed if you wanted a 13 hour equivalent. You instead get a 12 hour roller coaster of amazing one liners and set pieces, after the slow scene setting starting hour.
First 20 minutes is not terribly interesting while setting the scene, Jim is not particularly likeable for first 40 ish. After that you get introduced to more characters and the dynamic of their relationships and the crazy world fits perfectly.
Odd hearing Yahtzee do the different accents and genders,, but he gets it spot on and listening to the 10 ish main characters is great fun.
Very intelligently pieced together fantasy story meets real mmo gaming experience. Had to pull my van over listening to a scene with Mr. Wonderful ( won't spoil it) or end up rear ending someone in fits of laughter.
"Interesting enough story and plenty for the gamers"
Having followed Yahtzee for a little while through his game reviews i was quite curious to see how his humor would translate through into a novel. I'm pleased to say that it does, mostly. Yahtzee himself narrates which really does help a lot as I'm not overly sure it would have worked as well had anyone else done so.
All the characters are interesting if nothing else, and the interaction between all the 'mains' is really great and the side characters that pop up are always entertaining.
I think the biggest let down was the story itself. I cant help but feel i might have enjoy the story that could have been, more then the story i got. I don't really want to spoil anything, but i could have quite happy stayed in Act 1 throughout. But alas that wasn't the story he was telling.
My Girlfriend and i are both gamers and really did enjoy the references along the way, but I'm not sure how well that would translate to a non gamer.
"If you like Discworld..."
Then you'll probably like this! Yahtzee Croshaw voices his own novel about a young mage who generally has a terrible time of life. I won't include any spoilers but it's not ground-breaking stuff with regards to the storyline but it's an enjoyable listen and I'm looking forward to spending my hard-earned credits on his next one which I assume he's currently narrating his way through!
More please Yahtzee :)
Bought the book because I knew Yahtzee from Zero Punctuation, he mantains the type of humor, and he being the narrator was the only reason i bought the audiobook(ive never been fond of audiobooks).
Very funny... thou it's quite strange to walk down the street laughing at what people seem to think is funy music.
absolutely recommended.
Yes, most definitely. yahtzee's reading of this book is to die for!
The characters
Awesome for his first book
Would recommend to anyone, even if you aren't a part of the gaming scene
"A very funny and clever deconstruction of MMORPGs"
Clever, funny and overall good
He probably bringed the timing of the jokes and also the tone of some phrases. He also manage to characterize every character of the book
It made me laugh a lot but also made me feel very emotional in some situations, like the ending for example
"Good story but Yahtzee's performance wasn't great"
I really enjoyed the story but unfortunately Yahtzee doesn't have the best delivery; sorry mate
"WoW, No Really."
Definitely, Its a great laugh and well worth a second,third, fourth look.
The sarcasm, humour and general feel of the story.
His familiar voice, as seen in all of his YouTube videos.
Moved? When the poor chap died for the 12th time.
Definitely worth a read by any Yahtzee fan.
"first book"
I loved the book, made me laugh. please make more if you can, you are an awesome narrator
"Yahtzee Crowshaw's amazing debut."
Yahtzee, if you didn't know, is an online game critic and you can really tell he's good at writing from all his forms of work. The story is a fresh take on making fun of fantasy stories with a brilliant performance by the author himself that just brings it all together.


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StatRad received the Best in KLAS award for Teleradiology Services in the 2012 Best in KLAS Awards: Software & Services report. StatRad was named the top ranked teleradiology services provider in its annual report after KLAS collected surveys and conducted phone interviews with hospitals and radiology groups across the country.
"Providers recognize the critical nature that vendors play in improving healthcare delivery," says Adam Gale, KLAS president. "Thus, a growing number of providers are weighing in on vendor performance. It speaks volumes that providers want to be heard and be counted. And vendors are listening."
"Our team has always been very dedicated to providing the highest level of customer service," said Joe Moock, CEO of StatRad. "This achievement reflects our ability to follow through on our promises and provide a service that is truly meeting the needs of our customers." Of the company's plans for the future, Moock said, "A Best in KLAS award is a sign that we are on the right track, but we will continue to look for ways to improve in the future."
The mission of KLAS is to improve healthcare technology delivery by honestly, accurately, and impartially measuring vendor performance for provider partners. Teleradiology Service firms are evaluated through customer surveys and interviews on 15 performance criteria that include questions about: Sales & Contracting, Implementation & Training, Service & Support and General Experience.
About StatRad
StatRad is a private, radiologist-owned teleradiology services provider. Since 1995, StatRad has been supporting radiology groups through nighttime teleradiology support. The company's proprietary internally-developed technology system was specifically Built for Teleradiology and provides customers with a customizable, user friendly interface. With a focus on innovation, StatRad has recently developed a teleradiology iPad App that allows customers to submit exams, review patient reports and QA reports anywhere, anytime.
About KLAS
KLAS is a research firm on a global mission to improve healthcare delivery by enabling providers to be heard and to be counted. Working with thousands of healthcare executives and clinicians, KLAS gathers data on software, services, medical equipment, and infrastructure systems to deliver timely reports, trends, and statistical overviews. The research directly represents the provider voice and acts as a catalyst for improving vendor performance. KLAS was founded in 1996, and their staff and advisory board members average 25 years of healthcare information technology experience. For more information, go to KLASresearch.com.
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Please find knives I have up for sale on this page. All fully completed blades will come with a certificate of authenticity and a life time guarantee against defective materials and workmanship. THIS GUARANTEE DOES NOT INCLUDE NORMAL WEAR AND TEAR.
Below are some photos of a biltong knife that I have designed. This blade is up for sale at€290.00 The blade is Bjorkmann twist Damasteel damascus with mammoth ivory scales and copper pins.
Below is a Japanese style razor, with a wooden stand.
Blade: Bjorkmann twist Damasteel Damascus with copper pins peened onto it. The stand is Ebony and Chamfuta with a copper rivet to support the handle.
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Below: Another in the Neck knife series this time in Odin's eye pattern Damasteel with copper wire wrapped handle. The blade is hollow ground very sharp and has a false edge on the upper side.
Below: Next Neck knife in the series. Also inlayed with copper wire, a slight variation to the shape, more curvy, in RWL34
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This time next week, Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference will be under way. Most of the major Apple announcements are expected to arrive during the keynote on June 10th at 10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time, but tech journalists have been surmising new technology for weeks.
According to Apple experts and industry insiders, it is safe to expect a new version of Apple's mobile operating system iOS. Most people expect the new, Jony Ive-designed iOS 7 to appear "flatter," but what will the overhaul mean for the user interface and photography tools?
Here at Connect, we spend a lot of time covering iPhone cameras and the people who use them. As we look forward to next week's announcements, we are hoping for a few things to make iPhone photography better. While some of them seem likely, we may have to wait a while for others.
In anticipation of WWDC, I have taken a bit of time to reflect on my personal phone of choice and its operating system to explain what I want from the upcoming Apple announcements.
1. Better manual capture tools in the native photo application
iOS 4 gave us HDR, iOS 5 came with instant camera access from the lock screen and iOS 6 introduced panorama mode. If a new version of Apple's iOS operating system is launched (which seems very likely), we can only hope that the camera application will see a new photography feature. We are not sure what it will be, but here's hoping that it includes some more elaborate manual capture settings.
As far as native photo applications go, the iPhone's user interface is the simplest of all smartphone offerings. Depending on your Android device, you can find everything from GIF creation to special scene modes inside the native photo application. Windows Phone 8 users can even add on "lenses" within the camera app. Meanwhile, iPhone photographers are left with a simple tap-to-focus interface that leaves many serious photographers rushing to the App Store for something better.
What I want: A little "Pro Mode" toggle right under the HDR and Grid options. When turned on, my hypothetical new user interface would allow for separate exposure and focal points as well as white balance and ISO control.
Will it happen? Maybe, but not likely. There is a reason why Apple doesn't have an excess of features in the camera native app. Not every iPhone user wants elaborate manual camera features, and those who do can easily download a third party application. Apple likes a clean user interface — and that sometimes means leaving the bells and whistles to software developers.
2. A iPhone 5S equivalent with improved camera hardware
Is it time yet for a new iPhone? Probably not, but if Apple follows the formula its set forth with the iPhone 4 and 4S launches, the next iPhone will likely be seeing a major camera hardware upgrade. The iPhone 4S took a 3-megapixel leap from its predecessor, raising hopes for an improvement in the next iPhone installment. The iPhone 5's launch last year saw a new sapphire lens and more processing power to handle low-light images.
What I want: A larger sensor. The Lumia series has its megapixel-packing 808 PureView camera, HTC's One uses "ultrapixels" and the latest 13MP Samsung Galaxy S4 focused heavily on software in its camera marketing. Apple can reach the cutting edge by offering a smartphone camera that has a larger sensor instead of just packing the megapixels into the same tiny camera unit.
Will it happen? Not right now. According to most Apple sources, we will not be seeing a new iPhone next week.
3. Better photo organization
When it comes to organizing your images on an iOS device, you are on your own. Besides creating new folders for apps to dump photos in, iOS doesn't have any tools to automatically sort your photos on a mobile device. On OSX, iPhoto will organize photos based on facial recognition or added keywords. For $4.99 in the App Store, you can download iPhoto for iOS and use its flags to help organize your mobile images and there are plenty of third-party apps to help automatically organize and share photos. But shouldn't these tools come standard?
What I want: Ability to sort photos via automatic geolocation tags, time taken and user-added keywords.
Will it happen? Anything is possible with a new iOS update, and the Photos application is in major need of attention, so we will likely see some sort of update.
4. Improved app management
If there was a TV show about virtual hoarders, there would have to be a whole season on iPhone photographers. The plethora of great apps available in the iOS App Store means that some iPhone photographers are packing dozens of niche photography apps. Instead of allowing app lovers to shove all their software into one giant folder, Apple limits folder sizes based on device. The iPhone 4S can only hold 12 apps per folder while the iPhone 5 can handle up to 16.
What I want: Removal of folder limits! Please! (Also the creation of an App Hoarders Anonymous program so I can have a place to talk about my problem.)
Will it happen? I sure hope so. And these guys want it, too. (Maybe they can join AHA with me.)
5. Share and edit photos straight from the Camera Roll
Every iPhone photographer who uses the native camera application has had this problem. You take a photo and want to share it quickly. You tap on the tiny preview in the bottom left of the screen and end up on the Camera Roll preview screen (left image above). From here, you can delete your photo, but that's it. If you want to share it or edit it, you must first exit the Camera Roll and open up the image in the Photos app (right image above). Likewise, when you are in the Photos app and you suddenly want to take a photo, you have to exit in order to go back to the camera. The interface of the Camera Roll and Photos app are almost identical, just the tools and options available are different.
What I want: Full integration of the Camera Roll and Photos app — tap that tiny preview on the camera interface, you are now in the Photos app, when you open the Photos app, you can easily tap into the camera interface.
Will it happen? If Apple does any updates to Camera Roll, this super obvious navigation problem will hopefully be addressed.
Let's hear from you: Do you use an iPhone to take photos? If so, what do you want from WWDC?


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I would like to ask experts of this forum which one is better. Music are listened on ipod classic ( yes, I know this it is awful but.....). The price about 300-500$.
So I am in deep thoughts about iem. And is there reason for buying such iems for iPod classic? The very important factor is isolation and the sounstage. Westone 4r sounds perfect, but I have know opportunity listen to customs.
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03-24-2010 (Dayton, OH) -
Taking a leadership role in the move to incorporate mobile technology into fundraising, The Children's Medical Center of Dayton announced it has launched a new program designed to capture donations via text message. Dayton Children's is part of Children's Miracle Network, one of the first non-profits in the United States to embrace the mobile giving channel.
Dayton Children's has partnered with Mobilecause to promote the Text2Give campaign. Cell phone users are now able to make a $10 donation by simply sending the text message 4KIDS to 85944. Once the text is sent, a confirmation message will be sent back. Users should reply "yes" and the donation will be billed to the mobile user's cell phone bill. Once the carrier pays, Dayton Children's will receive 100 percent of the donation.
"This is a very simple way for friends of Dayton Children's to support our efforts to provide the best pediatric health care for kids in the Miami Valley region," said Bethany Deines, director of annual giving.
"Every gift will be used to purchase state-of-the-art medical equipment for our patient areas."
Dayton Children's has partnered with Mobilecause to promote a Text2Give campaign for the hospital. Mobilecause is a program used to solicit and collect mobile donations which are billed to the mobile user's cell phone bill. Their deep-rooted non-profit understanding and expertise gives the Mobilecause team proven experience and deep understanding of cause marketing, and donor acquisition and retention.
US Wireless Market Statistics:
- 240 million US mobile subscribers
- 30 billion text messages sent per month in US
- 95 percent of mobile phones support text messaging
Mobilecause, nominated as a Top 100 Private US Company by AlwaysOn Media, is a leading web service for mobile fundraising. Mobilecause delivers non-profit organizations a simple-to-use Web services software communication platform for the complete launch and management of mobile giving, messaging, and text-to-pledging over SMS, Twitter and SMTP. Mobilecause is a company comprised of leading non-profit and technology professionals with the right blend of experience to help non-profits take these 21st century tools to help and grow, engage and retain their member and donor base. To learn more go to www.mobilecause.com.
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Monday, November 25, 2013
Sunnyside High School science teachers Joyce Stark and Teri Alvarez-Ziegler took students from the honors biology class to the MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement) Medical Conference recently at Columbia Basin Community College. In the photo at top, LaSandra Cantu, Alvaro Ini-guez, Leslie Zuniga, a student from another school and Angelica Hernandez (L-R) gown up for the ICU workshop. In the photo directly above, students attach a defibrillator to a dummy. The conference, an opportunity for students to interact with career professionals, included workshops on occupational therapy, speech therapy, respiratory therapy, pharmacy, paramedics, nursing, music therapy, intensive care units, optometry and radiology.