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Today Jack Webb is best remembered for his portrayal of Detective Sergeant Joe Friday on the radio and television series Dragnet. Friday – a stiff, slouching, robotic cop who chain smokes as he rails against drug abuse – embodies for many folks the definition of a hypocrite and a square. However, the real Webb was also quite the hepcat, an amateur jazz musician with a massive collection of records. In addition to playing hard-boiled detectives, he also used radio to attack social injustices (on One out of Seven) and, with Pete Kelly's Blues, indulge his lifelong love of jazz and Chandler-esque noir.
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Pete Kelly's Blues began as an unsponsored replacement series for The Halls of Ivy after a 13 February audition. It debuted on NBC on 4 July, 1951 and aired on Wednesday nights in most markets (Saturdays in others). It was created by Richard L. Breen, who'd previously worked with Webb on the wonderful and not-at-all dissimilar radio noir series, Pat Novak, for Hire, which Webb had left in 1947. Throughout the series' short run, Webb continued to star on both the radio version of Dragnet, which ran from 1949 until 1957, and the television version, which began a few months after Pete Kelly's Blues and continued to air until in its first run until 1959).


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Our interview took place prior to the announcement in mid-September that Gundlach's home had been burglarized of 13 pieces of valuable art, in addition to wine, wrist watches and cash. Thieves also took Gundlach's red 2010 Porsche Carrera 4S. In a dramatic and chaotic press conference in downtown Los Angeles two weeks later, the star fund manager increased the reward offered for the return of his stolen property from an initial $200,000 to $1.7 million. We'll continue to report new information as it becomes available.
Sure, Jeff Gundlach is given to loud suits, fast cars and quoting Shakespeare. He also has assets under management and a performance record that are the envy of the money management industry. Call him eccentric if you like, but you'd have to follow it with another accompanying superlative (Hint: It rhymes with "zenius").
The CEO and CIO of DoubleLine Capital is the "it" manager of the mutual fund space, a title he's enjoyed since being named 2006 Fixed Income Manager of the Year by Morningstar. At the time he was CIO and head of fixed income activities for TCW. Barely three years later he was named as a finalist for Fixed Income Manager of the Decade—a title that eventually went to Bill Gross—when, in a move that shocked the industry, he was summarily fired from TCW (makes you wonder about those stewardship grades). His acrimonious exit led to lawsuits and counter lawsuits, the salacious details of which won't be repeated here. But Gundlach's winning ways meant he somehow "lost" the case by being awarded $66.7 million.
If living well is the best revenge then Gundlach is the fund industry's Juvenal. Since starting DoubleLine in 2010, when the ashes of the TCW debacle were still hot, he's amassed $43 billion in assets under management ($45 billion by the time this interview is published, he confidently told us). As we said, the envy of the industry.
The star manager status he's attracted is something we've witnessed firsthand. Following his presentation at a conference in early April, Gundlach held forth in the lobby as advisor after advisor—oblivious to or uninterested in the subsequent presenters on stage—asked for his insight for the better part of an hour. It was only after his PR assistant deftly informed him of his next appointment that he was able to extricate himself. As we headed off for our scheduled interview, one lone advisor followed to thank Gundlach for all he does and inform him of the millions the advisor's firm had just invested with DoubleLine.
Funny thing about Gundlach; he'll make you his Passepartout for a trip around the investing world in 80 minutes. A person can't be an expert on everything, but in Gundlach's case, the truism is wrong, or so it seems. We posited one question and got an earful of master's level information. In the process, he answered four or five other questions we'd prepared without ever being asked.
We began with his criticism of model-driven investing, our raison d'être for the latest interview, before getting off track. But with a not-insignificant percentage of money managers making a very good living from the strategy, it seemed as good a place as any to start.
"It extrapolates the past into the future," Gundlach said. "Models by their very nature use statistical regression at their center. The thesis underneath it is that the way things behaved in the past will be predictive of how they will act in the future. What's wrong with it is that the future doesn't resemble the past, particularly when there is technological change or innovation."
The example he cited was the modeling of homeowner behavior. An important question in the world of fixed income and mortgage-related securities is, "When and to what degree will these people refinance?"
"When I started in the business, there was a general rule almost set in stone on Wall Street," he said. "You would never see higher than a 20% annualized rate of refinancing. Then comes 2003, and that rule no longer works. In that year, 70% of all homeowners in America refinanced their mortgages.
"Obviously, 70% is way higher than 20%," he wryly added.
Despite surrounding himself with world-class research and the industry's best and brightest, it was nonetheless his own intuition that alerted him to the danger.
"I got home from work one evening, and there was junk mail from a mortgage originator that described the interest-only loan," he recalled. "The models that had been developed in those days to predict homeowner behavior, not surprisingly, did not have this type of loan factored into their forward-looking projections for 2004 and 2005. They were operating under the false assumption that the variables and coefficients from the past would stay the same."
It got so bad, he recounted, that one month's refinancing results were 250% higher than the highest forecast from the month prior, something he found "very telling."
"If there's one thing you would have to believe in if you're going to believe in model-based investing, it's that you should be able to predict next month's prepayment behavior," he explained. "You know where interest rates are, you know where the refinancing index is, you know what housing starts are, you know what existing home sales have been and you have lots and lots of data, and yet the error was 250%. Model-based investing takes that type of embedded assumption error and multiplies it."
Easy to criticize, but what does DoubleLine do that's better?
"We're selling water in the desert," Gundlach quipped. "And we have some uniqueness to what we do. We have a product that's in demand and cash-flow-based. It generates more than competitive returns."
Color us skeptical, but from the headlines he's generated and the enthusiasm we've witnessed, his "star manager" image has to be a factor. Whether it's false modesty or he truly believes it's inconsequential, he wasn't buying that.
"Our clientele really is independent-minded; they think for themselves and really understand the way in which we think about risk, which is carefully," he diplomatically answered. "We have a huge following in the very high-net-worth category, and that's where all the money is. We have the luxury of having our maximum appeal in the demographic that has all the money."
That's all well and good, but he still hadn't told us, specifically, what he does better than model-based managers (or anyone else, for that matter). In a case of "be careful what we wish for," when we repeated the question, he was more than happy to oblige.
"It has to do with exploring how your performance is going to be affected under a plausible range of scenarios, rather than focusing on one that has a very high likelihood," Gundlach countered. "Model-based investing also tends to give very little mind to what's perceived to be very low probability outcomes. There are some outcomes in which one might say, 'That's out of synch with my macro thinking' or 'It's never happened before.' If it's a disaster case, it's weighted at such a low probability that it doesn't really matter. On average, one could think they'll be OK. But 'on average' is very dangerous. A six-foot-tall man can drown in two feet of water on average. You have to watch out for what I call 'fatal risks'."
He referred to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's pledge to keep interest rates low for an extended period. Because investors needn't worry about rising interest rates, they feel justified in taking on more risk to combat low yields. The problem, Gundlach explained, was that if circumstances changed "even modestly," a fairly sharp market correction could occur as a result.
"One of these days we will exit this strange set of circumstances. When we do, you're going to see very substantial ramifications, especially if you were invested simply for a frozen set of variables. My viewpoint has been that the officials would take on this credit crisis and then fight it with everything in their arsenal. It continues to be cobbled together, but eventually you run out of the wherewithal to do these bond buying programs. When the economy rolls over, it's probably going to roll over fairly sharply."
We approached the next question with trepidation, after his reaction to a similar question we asked in April; is he at all worried about being tagged as a perma-bear?
"It's not pessimism; it's reality. The numbers take you to the answer," Gundlach answered, with umbrage, last time around (See "The Endangered Perma-Bear," Investment Advisor, June 2012).
Thankfully, this time he wasn't quite so affected and clued us in to where he is finding alpha.
"I'm not a perma-bear because I'm actually a little bit more positive on certain things than I've traditionally been. For example agriculture, oil, natural gas—energy in general—even gold. I was a serial buyer of gold, frankly, below $1,600. I haven't made much money on it, but it's a very interesting looking setup. Boy, if you want to take a look at what was a moribund trading chart for quite a few months, it was gold."
Now, gold is starting to show signs of life, Gundlach said. "We were not convinced just which way it was going to go. We thought it was going to break out to the upside for sure, and we're right at the money now on our call. This is exciting because once you get a multi-month call at the money, it starts to have huge, huge gain potential. If gold [goes] up another $100, we'll make 100% on the call. And we've got a couple of months left. I mean, $100 on gold from these levels strikes me as being pretty sensible."
We also asked him about some surprising trades he's recently made, beginning with the Spanish stock market. Maybe the fact that we found it surprising is the reason he's so good at what he does, given what's happened (and is happening) in Iberia these days.
"I closed that one out a couple of days ago, and it was up," Gundlach said. "It was actually a para-trade against the S&P 500, and I made 8.3% non-leveraged. It went against me at first. But if you want to do a para-trade, I like the idea of long the Shanghai stock market."
He switched from the Spanish stock index (IBEX) to the Shanghai because "the Shanghai has just been a debacle," he said, somewhat disconcertingly.
"The IBEX has had such a decent rally that now the one that's kind of on the cheap, that would go up the most due to the so-called inflationary fix, would probably at this point be the Shanghai. It's just a study in contrast. You've got the S&P 500 at basically a five-year high, or very near it, and then the Shanghai is at a multi-year low. There are all kinds of problems, and China continues to disappoint, hence the drop in the Shanghai. But if the Shanghai is really going to take a big haircut, I've got a feeling that you're looking at some serious problems in the global economy. It's going to be hard for other markets to hold up."
What he's most looking for, unsurprisingly, are anomalies in pricing during this "frozen period."
"I'm looking for things that have a lot of downside and minimal upside for a certain scenario and pairing them with something that for that same scenario has a lot of upside and minimal downside. That was kind of like my short-Apple, long-natural gas trade, which worked by 50%. That's probably still a good trade. I mean, if Apple's really going to go up 100% from here, I have a feeling that gas is going to go up 200%."
And, of course, there are commodities.
"I like commodities more than anything else for this base-case world," he concluded. "Commodity price increases just seem like one of the ways in which the middle class in the United States and developed Europe will lose its standard of living relative to the emerging world, which is an inevitability I think. You have this vise grip that's going with median household incomes falling, and yet commodity prices are rising."
Given his penchant for quoting the Bard, we asked him how Shakespeare would have described conditions to come.
Quoting Mark Antony in Act Three, Scene Two of "The Life and Death of Julius Caesar," Gundlach left us with, "If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."
Not exactly optimistic, given what he described prior to the quote. But we'll take him at his word; he's no perma-bear, he's just looking at the numbers.

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HP's Whitman: It's Going to Be a Long, Slow Ride
Oct 4, 2012 11:06 AM PT
HP shareholders counting on Meg Whitman to lead the company into a quick turnaround received very disappointing news from the CEO: Don't hold your breath.
Whitman made her comments at HP's annual analyst meeting. The company is on track for a turnaround, she reportedly said -- but it won't materialize until the end of fiscal year 2014. The bottom line: HP anticipates revenue declines of 11-13 percent in fiscal 2013 with operating margins of 0-3 percent. Specifically, the company estimates non-GAAP diluted earnings per share for fiscal 2013 to be in the range of US$3.40 to $3.60, and GAAP diluted EPS for fiscal 2013 to be in the range of $2.10 to $2.30.
By 2016, however, Whitman expects the company's revenue to be growing in line with gross domestic product, while operating profit will be growing faster than revenue.
HP declined to provide further details.
Writing on the Wall
This dour news was foreshadowed in HP's last earnings call, Andreas Scherer, managing partner of Salto Partners, told the E-Commerce Times.
The company posted dreadful numbers, reporting an $8.86 billion loss for its third fiscal quarter, which ended July 31. For the previous three months, it took in net revenue of $29.7 billion, down 5 percent year over year and down 2 percent when adjusted for the effects of currency.
"A few months later, Whitman now concedes we are not talking about a bad quarter or two," Scherer said. "We are talking about bad fiscal years ahead perhaps until 2016, which is light years in the tech industry."
In short, HP is in a real predicament.
"For many moons, the company could rely on their personal computer and printer divisions to make the numbers," Scherer noted. "Those days are gone. Now, we buy smartphones and tablet computers. Unfortunately, there is not one product division that really outperforms the market. Their enterprise service business struggles."
Whither Whitman?
The bleak outlook casts a shadow over Whitman's leadership -- does she have what it takes to execute a turnaround?
The question may not be altogether fair. Whitman has been at the helm roughly a year, trying to solve problems that were long in the making. Still, CEO time -- especially at troubled companies -- runs faster than for most people. After a year in charge, "she won't be able to disassociate the company performance from her own," Scherer said.
Still, Whitman has an enviable reputation in the business community, which might buy her more time, EnterpriseDB CEO Ed Boyajian told the E-Commerce Times.
"Meg's considered by the industry to be a solid, trusted leader who knows how to succeed. She's got a tough challenge ahead, primarily because of decisions that were made before she came on board -- like the acquisition of Autonomy for $12 billion.
So far, she's made some good decisions, Boyajian said. "Keeping the PC business and integrating it with the printer business makes good sense. Their real turnaround needs to come from their enterprise business though, which is evolving to meet the demands of today's business."
Where Should HP Go?
Indeed, there is no dearth of advice for HP as it scrambles to reposition itself.
PCs are not the hot items anymore, observed Bruce White, professor of computer information systems at Quinnipiac University. "Will companies still need PCs? Yes. Will they be a source of high income and growth in the technology field? No."
Printers are still needed and are still a profitable line for HP, he told the E-Commerce Times, "but with more electronic methods and more e-commerce, there are less invoices physically printed and mailed and more sent by email or EDI."
White favors an emphasis on services for HP.
"You don't deal with the whims and changing views of the public," he noted, "but you deal with corporate IT staffs."
IBM revitalized itself as a service company, White pointed out, and "HP can do that as well."


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Greenwood Valley Action Tracks (GVAT) is a 1/5 mile banked dirt oval with some of the best open wheel racing you will see in the area. We are a family oriented track and believe that no family should be separated due to age. We are one of the few tracks that let little ones in the pit area, but then again some of those little ones are drivers that want to be just like daddy or mommy and are your racers of tomorrow. So pack up the kids and head on out to the Valley and see for yourself what the noise is you have heard for so long and enjoy some of the best homemade soup in the Track Snack Shack. We have homemade soup and sandwiches as well as pizza made in a pizza oven (not a microwave). Along with those we also have your regular concession stand food to order, exp: french fries, cheeseburgers, cheesesteaks, ice cream, and bottled drinks to name a few.


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The Duchess was in a familiar look for today's Order of the Garter events.
The sun shone on Windsor Castle for Garter Day, many arrived early to have a good view of the Knights walking to St. George's Chapel.
The Order of the Garter is the UK's oldest and highest order of chivalry. Prince William was appointed in 2008, below we see him with Prince Charles as they walk into St. George's Chapel today.
The honor is determined solely by the Queen, input from Ministers and others is not required. It is HM who decided in 1987 that women should also be included in the Knighthood, Lady Margaret Thatcher is one of those so honored.


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In our latest installment of HDNet Fights Video Vault, we take a look at a female contest from a recent Xtreme Fighting Championships event.
In our fight-of-the-week feature, Marianna "The Crushen Russian" Kheyfets made her professional debut against two-time Strikeforce veteran Kim "Sugar Free" Couture.
The fight served as the co-main event of HDNet's July 9 broadcast of "XFC 11: The Next Generation" at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, Fla.
Each week HDNet and MMAjunkie.com release a new and exclusive fight
from the ever-growing HDNet Fights video library. Stunning knockouts,
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for this weekly feature.
Kheyfets vs. Couture is no exception.
A member of American Top Team's Connecticut branch, Kheyfets (0-0 at the time) was making her professional debut. Kheyfets earned her shot with the XFC through an open tryout process that featured 100 male competitors and just two females. Nevertheless, the XFC brass liked what they saw and gave her a shot at a televised contest.
Meanwhile, Couture (2-2 at the time) was hoping to string together the first two-fight win streak of her career. While the two-time Strikeforce veteran had rebounded twice from losses to register first-round TKO's victories, Couture was hoping to move above .500 for the first time in her two-year career.
Would Kheyfets prove victorious in her debut, or would Couture's experience lead her again to victory?
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Aviation and Aerial Photography
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the beginning of time; in myth, story and dreams, man has been drawn to the
"view from above". The aerial perspective helps to orient us within our world. The
"view from above" provides a context for our place in our neighborhood,
community, region and the world at large. Dreams of flying have been our
companion from the first dawning of consciousness. The longing to defy gravity,
to rise above the minutia of life and escape the temporal limits of our
earth-bound bodies transcends all geographical, cultural and ethnic boundries.
As man first began his climb to the stars, one of his first acts was to strive
to share the transcendent experience through photography. Consequently the
history of flying and aerial photography are deeply linked. As man climes
higher into the stars the one certainty is that his one enduring companion will
be the camera.
Daedalus built wings for himself and his son Icarus. They were fashioned with feathers held together with wax and Daedalus warned his son not to fly too close to the sun because it would melt his wings, and not too close to the sea, as it would dampen the feathers and make it hard to fly.
Daedalus and Icarus successfully flew from Crete, but Icarus grew exhilarated by the thrill of flying and began getting careless. Flying too close to the sun god Helios, the wax melted and he fell to his death, drowning in the sea. Daedalus mourned his son and then continued on to Sicily, where he joined the court of Cocalus.
"Man must rise above the Earthto the top of the atmosphere and beyondfor only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives".
From photography's first days, photographers have been drawn to the "view from above" first using the elevated vantage point of windows, then balloons followed by kites and finally airplanes, rockets and satellites.
The first representations of the aerial view used the principles of perspective. An excellent example of this technique is Vista de Venecia (c. 1500) by Jacopo de Barbari. By the 19th Century the techniques for developing constructed aerial views was well developed as shown in the San Francisco view below.
In 1827 Joseph Nicephore Niepce took the first known photograph using a camera obscura and an emulsion composed of bitumen of Judea, a resinous substance, and oil of lavender. Niepce's first image is a view from his studio window. With the exposure lasting eight hours, the sun moved from east to west, appearing to shine on both sides of the building.
In 1829 Niepce and Louis M. Daguerre signed a partnership agreement to work on Heliography, or sun drawing, and on Daguerre's dioramas which were constructed with the aid of a camera obscura.
In 1839 Daguerre announced the invention of the Daguerrotype which consisted of a polished silver plate, mercury vapors and sodium thiosulfate ("hypo") that was used to fix the image and make it permanent.
In 1839 William Henry Fox Talbot invented a system of imaging on silver nitrate of silver chromate treated paper and using a fixative solution of sodium chloride. Talbot later found that the latent image could be developed in a solution of gallic acid. Fox was the first person to employ a negative positive process "Calotype" laying the groundwork for modern photography.
The first aerial photographs were created in 1858 by Gaspar Felix Tournachon who was also known as "Nadar" when he photographed the houses of the French village of Petit-Becetre. The images were captured from a balloon tethered at a height of 80 meters. None of these images have survived, however Nadar went on with his work, becoming the first to photograph Paris from a balloon in 1868.
During the 1860's Aerial observations, and possibly photography from ballons were used for military purposes for the first time during the Civil War.
In 1873 Herman Vogel found that by soaking silver halide emulsions in various dyes he could extend their sensitivity to longer wavelengths. His work led to the development of near infrared sensitive films
In 1887 the German military began to experiment with aerial photographs and photogrammetric techniques for measuring features and areas in forests.
In 1889 Arthur Batut, The Father of Kite Photography, made the first aerial photograph using a kite flying above Labruguiere France. His simple idea of attaching a camera to a kite sparked a sensation that continues to this day. In 1889 he took a oblique picture of his house from 420 feet that was published in a French magazine, his technique provided stunning aerial views that people were not accustomed to seeing. The camera was held close to the kite and an altimeter would record the altitude of the kite when the picture was taken which would make it possible to scale the image. Timing was controlled by a slow burning fuse that was lit when when kite was launched, after the picture was taken a white flag was dropped and the kite was reeled in.
Labruguier France by Arthur Batut 1896
In 1899 George Eastman invents a nitro-cellulose based film that retained the clarity of the glass plates. This led to the introduction of the first Kodak camera.
In 1903 the Bavarian Pigeon Corps used pigeons to transmit messages and take aerial photos. Julius Neubronne patented the "breast mounted pigeon camera". The camera weighed 70 grams and took automatic exposures every 30 seconds. Though the pigeons were faster than balloons they were not always reliable in following their flight paths. The birds were introduced at the 1909 Dresden International Photographic Exhibition. Picture postcards of aerial photographs taken over the exhibition were very popular. They were used at other fairs and for military surveillance.
In 1906 Albert Maul, used a rocket propelled by compressed air to make an aerial photograph from a height of 2,600 feet, the camera was ejected from the rocket and parachuted back to earth.
In 1906 George. R. Lawrence (1869-1938) showed the world the compelling beauty of the aerial view. Lawrence used a train of nine large kites to lift a moving slit panoramic camera that weighed 49 pounds and rose to a height of 2000 feet. Some of his most memorable photographs were of San Francisco before and after the great fire and earthquake of 1906. Eventually some of Lawrence's cameras would weigh more that 1000 pounds. Lawrence designed his cameras so that the film plate curved in back and the lens fitted low on the front, creating wide panoramic views. The camera was lifted to a height of 2,000 feet and an electric wire was used to control the shutter. Lawrence first used ladders and high towers to photograph from above. In 1901 he made his first aerial photographs from a basket attached to a hot air balloon. On one flight, at more than 200 feet above Chicago, the basket separated from the balloon and Lawrence and his camera fell to the ground. Fortunately telephone and telegraph wires broke his fall; he landed unharmed. Lawrence continued to use balloons until he developed a method of taking aerial views with cameras suspended from unmanned kites. He developed a means of flying Conyne kites in trains and keeping the camera steady under varying wind conditions. This system was named the 'Captive Airship'.2.
San Francisco by George R. Lawrence
One of the most daring applications of aerial photography was the manned kite undertaken by Samuel Franklin Cody in the early 1900s. Cody, an American who emigrated to England, made a fortune with his "wild west" show. Cody and his sons began flying kites in the late 1800s. They quickly progressed to larger kites and multiple-kite trains designed to lift a human. Cody experimented with kites and eventually developed a "bat" design, which is a double-celled Hargrave box kite with extended wings. He patented the "Cody kite" in 1901, and it was the basis of his ingenious man-lifting system. He eventually succeeded in interesting the British military in the man-lifting kites, and a demonstration was conducted at Whale Island, Portsmouth, England in 1903. First one son ascended 200 feet and took photographs. Then Cody went up to 400 feet, and finally another son rode up to 800 feet and photographed naval ships in the harbor. Further trials were undertaken in 1904-05, and Cody achieved a record height of 2600 feet for manned kite flight. However, few others followed Cody into manned kite flying, because of the cost and risk involved.4.
In 1907 Auguste and Louis Lumiere developed a simple color photography system that would establish the 35 mm film standard.
In 1909 Wilbur Wright produced aerial images from an airplane flying above Centocelli, Italy, using a motion picture camera.
During the period 1910 to 1939, René Desclee became the pre-eminent aerial kite photographer. His main subjects were the city of Tournai France and its cathedral. Over a period of three decades he produced more than 100 outstanding aerial images which constituted one of the best aerial photography portfolio prior to World War II. Desclee's work marked the end of kite aerial photography's golden age. From then on rapid progress in military and commercial aerial photography reduced kites to a minor role in subsequent aerial photography.5.
The U.S. military was slow to respond to the new machine, but the military
organizations in Europe wasted no time. The first recorded use of an.
airplane in a combat environment took place on October 23d, 1911, when Italian
Captain Carlo Piazza took off to reconnoitre Turkish gun emplacements.
Significantly, Captain Piazza had difficulty recording all that he could see and
fly the airplane too, so on November 11th he forwarded a request for a camera to
mount on his airplane. The camera was mounted on the belly of his Bleriot
aircraft with the lens pointing toward the ground. The Italian-Turkish War was a
limited beginning, but it established that aerial photography had great
potential. Technical developments tended to lag, in the area of cameras and
photographic processing, leaving much of the work to the eyes of the pilot observer,
however this would change overnight with the WWI hostilities beginning in 1914. 9.
From the first days of World War I, the airplane demonstrated its ability to serve as the "eyes of the army." As the British Expeditionary Force retreated from German invaders in France, two-dozen reconnaissance airplanes of the Royal Air Force watched from over head. On August 22, 1914, British Captain L.E.O. Charlton and Lieutenant V.H.N. Wadham reported that German General Alexander von Klucks army was starting to prepare to surround the British Expeditionary Force, contradicting all other available intelligence. The British High Command listened to the pilots report and started a retreat toward Mons saving the lives of 100,000 soldiers.8.
A week later, French aerial reconnaissance units began reporting that the Germans were moving toward the east of Paris. Although the intelligence officer refused to listen, General Joseph-Simon Gallieni, the military commander of Paris and a supporter of aviation, did. He issued orders sending French troops to the exposed German flank. The resulting First Battle of the Marne was a victory for the French because it forced the Germans away from Paris. Meanwhile, on the Eastern Front in Poland, aerial reconnaissance reports on the movements of the Russian Army helped the Germans and Austrians stop an advance at the Battle of Tannenburg. But the result of these two battles was to push the armies fighting on both fronts into defensive positions in the trenches--a stalemate that would last almost until the end of the war. 8.
In 1915 Lt. Col. J.T.C. More Brabazon designed and produced the first practical aerial camera in collaboration with Thornton Pickard Ltd.
By 1918 French aerial units were developing and printing as many as 10,000 photographs each night, during periods of intense activity. During the Meuse-Argonne offensive, 56,000 aerial prints were made and delivered to American Expeditionary Forces over four days.
WWI Aerial Photography showing trench fortifications
At the beginning of World War I the military on both sides of the conflict saw the value of using the airplane for reconnaissance work but did not fully appreciate the potential of aerial photography. Initially, aerial reconnaissance was accomplished by sketching maps and verbally conveying conditions on the ground. In some cases, their observations were incorrect and or exaggerated. It was difficult to accurately identify one soldier from another.2.
Some English observers started using cameras to record enemy positions and found aerial photography more accurate than sketching and observing. The aerial observer became the aerial photographer and soon all of the nations involved in the conflict were using aerial photography. The maps used by both sides in the Battle of Neuve-Chappelle in 1915 were produced from aerial photographs. By the end of the war the Germans and the British were recording the entire front at least twice a day. Both countries possessed up-to-date records of their enemy's trench construction. England estimated that its reconnaissance planes took one-half million photographs during the war, and Germany calculated that if all of its aerial photographs were arranged side by side, they would cover the country six times. The war brought major improvements in the quality of cameras. Photographs taken at 15,000 feet could be blown up to show footprints in the mud.2.
With the end of the war the U.S. Military was
quickly reduced, including the fledgling Air Service. Strange as it may seem,
most people at that time had never seen an airplane, muchless photographs taken
from one. It is no surprise then that few people understood that the security of
nations could now depend on aerial reconnaissance. George W. Goddard, then a
Second Lieutenant, appreciated the importance of continued development of aerial
reconnaissance and, more than any other man, molded U.S. aerial reconnaissance
programs from 1920 to 1950. With his assignment to MoCook Field, Dayton, Ohio,
he became responsible for Aerial Photographic Research, and during this early
period began forming the nucleus of the Wright Avionics Laboratory. He sponsored
research in infrared and long focal length camera systems that, in World War II,
proved extremely vital to the allied campaigns. It should also be noted that
aircraft designs designated Project A,B,C, and D were started as aircraft for
long range aerial reconnaissance, and althought the designs went through a
multitude of changes, these projects became the B-17, B-24, B-19, and B-29, most
of which gained fame in the war as bombers. Had these planes not been on the
drawing boards early, they would not have been ready for WWII. 9.
The first books on aerial photo interpretation are published in 1922.
In 1924 Mannes and Godousky patented the first multi-layer film which led to Kodachrome film in 1935.
In 1926 Dr. Robert H. Goddard constructed the first rocket using liquid fuel. The rocket was launched on March 16,1926, at Auburn, Massachusetts. His second rocket, also launched at Auburn in 1929, carried a scientific payload of a barometer and a camera. The first aerial image from a rocket was made during this flight. Goddards work was as important as that of the the Wright brothers but Goddard was viewed as being weird and people complained about his rockets. Goddard was told by the State Fire Marshall to discontinue his work or leave Massachusetts. He moved to Roswell, New Mexico. 2.
Dr. Robert Goddard, Auburn Massachusetts
Aerial View of Auburn Massachusetts from Goddard's rocket
In 1931 Stevens developed an infra red sensitive black and white film.
In 1934 the American Society of Photogrammetry was founded.
Beginning in the 1920s, the Fairchild Aerial Survey company lobbied Connecticut Governor John Trumbull to contract for an aerial survey of the state. At that time, no one state agency could pay for an aerial survey. The project waited till the State Planning Board coordinated the effort.
Four airplanes were used for the Connecticut survey conducted in March and April 1934. Fairchild owned three of the airplanes, probably Fairchild manufactured FC-2 cabin airplanes. It had a heated, enclosed cabin so that pilot and photographer could endure long hours in the air. It was a monoplane with the wing extending from the top of the airplane to have an unobstructed downward view. The wings also folded for transport by railroad to survey locations. The fourth airplane belonged to the Connecticut National Guard, 43rd Air Division, 118th Observation Squadron. This was a Douglas O-38E two-seat, open cockpit observation biplane that was standard with the Air Corps at the time.1.
In 1936 Captain Albert W. Stevens made the first photograph that captures the curvature of the earth. It was taken from a balloon at an altitude of 72,000 feet, Launched from the Stratobowl near Rapid City, South Dakota. The balloon, Explorer II, carried Captains Albert Stevens and Orvil Anderson to a world record altitude of 72,395 feet. Sponsored by the National Geographic Society, one of the flights most dramatic successes related to aerial photography. The first photographs showing the division between the troposphere and the stratosphere and the actual curvature of the Earth were recorded. Also, stunning photographs of South Dakota and surrounding states were taken.2.
In 1938 the Chief of the German General Staff, General Werner von Fritsch, made a prophetic statement when he said: "The nation with the best photo reconnaissance will win the next war."
During WW II more sophisticated techniques in air photo interpretation were developed. Germany pioneered many of the applications of photo reconnaissance.
In 1946 the first aerial photographs from space are made using V-2 rockets. In late 1942 the British Secret Intelligence Service was informed about a new rocket being developed at Peenemunde. An aerial photoreconnaissance plane was sent on June 23, 1943 and obtained the first photo of the V-2 rocket. This aerial photo shows Test Stand VII at the German Testing Center with a V2 rocket on its trailer inside of the test firing area. It also shows possible anti-aircraft gun positions on top of an adjacent building. On August 17 and 18, 1943 the British sent their bombers to Peenemunde and rather than bombing the facility in general, precise targets were selected based on the excellent aerial photography previously obtained. After the bombing a second aerial photoreconnaissance plane was sent to assess the amount of damage.2.
Omaha Beach - D Day
The vast and complex job of planning for the Allies' D-Day landings depended heavily on aerial photography. Years before the final choice of beaches was made, photo interpreters had been watching the whole shoreline of northern France. They knew every gun emplacement, every pillbox, every wire entanglement and every trench system of the whole Atlantic Wall. 7.
Their work paid off when, in June 1944, through a night of high winds and driving rain, a vast armada of over 6,000 ships, 50 miles wide and carrying 185,000 men and 20,000 vehicles, headed towards the beaches of northern France. It was the largest sea borne invasion in world history, and aerial photography played an absolutely crucial role in its success. The photograph shows American troops landing on Omaha beach - scene of some of the bloodiest battles of the invasion. 7.
P-38 Lightning Photo Reconnaissance
The P-38 Lightning was widely used by US reconnaissance pilots during World War II. The Trimetrigon camera setup in the P-38 made it ideal for mapping, and was best illustrated on D-Day when several sweeps of P-38s covered the entire Normandy beach-head landings. The 'dicing' camera, installed in the aircraft's nose, was effectively used during the battle against V-weapons, when pilots flew as low as 50ft to photograph the launch sites. 7.
Bismarck battleship
On 18 May 1941 Germany's Bismarck battleship, accompanied by the Prinz Eugen, sailed with over 2,000 men on board from Gdynia on the Baltic coast. British intelligence had been monitoring the progress of the battleship and had noted increased reconnaissance by the Luftwaffe in the North Atlantic, which suggested that the German fleet would soon break out into the Atlantic Ocean.
The first indication came two days later from the British naval attaché in Stockholm, who had received a report that the Bismarck was sailing through the Kattegat and towards the North Sea. The following day, members of the Norwegian resistance sighted the ships off the south coast of Norway.
In response, two reconnaissance Spitfires from Wick, Scotland were sent to search the Norwegian coast, and at 1:15pm on 21 May pilot officer Suckling found the ships at anchor and made the above photograph from 25,000ft.
During the 1950's there are many advances in sensor technology to include multi-spectral range and color-infrared photography.
In 1954 the first U-2 begins aerial reconnaissance.
In 1957 Russia launches Sputnik-1.
In 1960 TIROS-1 the first meteorological satellite was launched.
During the 1960's, the United States begins collecting intelligence from Earth orbiting satellites, CORONA.
Upon arriving on the Moon the Astronauts look back to their origins and record this view from above.
Jason Hawkes - Aerial Photography
The History of Aerial Photography
History of Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing
Aerial Reconissance in WWII - BBC
History of Aerial Kite Photography
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3. http://www.geospectra.net/kite/history/history.htm
4. Robinson, M. 2003. The flying cowboy. Kiting 25(3), p. 27, 34-35.
5. Hart, C. 1982. Kites: An historical survey. Appel Publ., Mt. Vernon, New York. 2nd edition, 210 p.
6. http://www.carnetdevol.org/desclee/rene.htm
7. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/aerial_recon_gallery_01.shtml
8. http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Air_Power/WWI-reconnaissance/AP2.htm
9. http://www.tech-writer.net/historicaloverviewaerial.html
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When service members return from active duty, they're more likely to face severe financial challenges than civilians. That's why the Obama administration and Department of Defense want to tighten rules (pdf) to help protect military service personnel from loan sharks. Included in the proposals, for instance, is a new rule that says creditors may not charge an annual percentage rate of more than 36% on all consumer credit; this previously only applied to payday loans, vehicle title loans, and tax refund anticipation loans.
Service members are more likely to have financial troubles. They are almost twice as likely to carry some credit card debt from month-to-month (58%) than civilians (34%), according to a recent survey carried out by the National Foundation for Credit Counseling and Pioneer Services, a division of MidCountry Bank in Bloomington, Minn. What's more, twice as many service members as civilians have paid less than the minimum required payment in the last 12 months (6% for service members versus 3% for civilians), the survey found.
Veterans also appear to be more pessimistic about their financial future. A majority (55%) believe they are ill-prepared for a financial emergency, the study found. (Only 43% of the general population was concerned about not having enough savings for an emergency, a separate 2013 survey by the NFCC found.) "Men and women in uniform face many challenges and daily sacrifices while serving our country — financial concerns shouldn't be one of them," says Susan Keating, president and CEO of the NFCC.
Perhaps more surprising, however, is how even minor financial issues can spiral into bigger problems for veterans. Military veterans who report having relatively minor financial problems, such as bouncing a check or going over their credit limit, are four times more likely to become homeless within the next year than veterans without such problems, according to a survey of 1,000 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans published in the American Journal of Public Health last year.
Though there are resources for veterans who need them — the National Association of American Veterans and U.S. Soldiers Foundation help them access health benefits and finances, and USA Cares aims to help veterans prevent foreclosure/eviction and provides financial aid — some 30% of veterans in the survey said they'd gone over their credit limit, bounced or forged a check, been reported to a collection agency, or fallen victim to a money scam within the last year, the study found.
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This is not the right place to raise this issue.
Use the 'Complain' button (triangle in bottom line) to report the post in question. Explain what you want changing and why. A moderator will consider your request.
A couple of quick updates on the latest server move:
This move was the most difficult one we've had to do; we ran into a number of problems, some of which will need to be fixed manually. I'm not aware of any data loss, however, so that's good.
Some of the functions or features that are now different:
- URLs are now different; it is quite likely that we will NOT return to the previous system, since the plugin we were using before (vBSEO) has stopped development.
- Some of the plug-ins have reverted to their default behaviors; customizations that we have made are gone.
- Some of the customizations we made to the forum skin are gone.
All of these issues are relatively minor and are fixable with time. However, I may go ahead and make some other changes I have had planned as long as I'm working on these changes.
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Hi Erin,
Just want to see if you might reconsider the changes? They have absolutely decimated the Econ forum. URLs don't work rendering all stickied threads useless as they contain many many links to now non-existent URLs. I don't have the time to fix them all, there are literally hundreds.
Bookmarks are also rendered useless. In fact, I thought the forum was down for 10 days before eventually just googling to see if anyone had mentioned the issue elsewhere and then found new links to the site.
I think if people were told before the changes, that this could all have been smoothly done, but I'm sure there are many folks who will not bother with the econ forum as they may think it is "down" if they haven't fixed their bookmarks and even if they find the site it is basically useless in its current state for new members with all the broken URLs. I can't see any way for the forum to go on successfully with all of the links to its valuable information broken in one fell swoop.
I don't think your intent was to render the site useless but the changes have done so, traffic is down dramatically and those who are on the site can't use it.
The biggest problem with the links is that the software that we were using before to generate the URLs (vbseo) is no longer in business; they stopped updating the software and replying to support requests, and now even the website is down.
I'll take a look again to see whether I can get the vBSEO running again so that the links work in the same way they did before.
So sorry about any trouble! =/
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Hard drive is failing again. =(
I'll be migrating the server as soon as I get backups. (It looks like I got one already, so it's looking good.)
Edit: My host said that the server was getting 'attacked', which was using all the resources. I've installed some brute-force mitigation software to help.
Edit again: We're on a new server (with upgraded software) now. Still squashing some bugs, such as this one:
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I will most likely need to upgrade the forum to the latest version to fix that.Fixed! Figured it out.
On the off chance anyone happens upon this thread looking for a fix, just open vbseo/includes/functions_vbseo.php and change this:
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Hi, all. I'm working on updating a feature of the forum that rewrites URLs to a friendlier format. However, you may have noticed that there have been some problems.
I have deactivated the feature for now; in the meantime, you should still be able to access the forum, but the URLs may be different from what you're used to.
This should be temporary; I have someone working on it, and hopefully it'll all be fixed quickly (within a day or two I hope).
Sorry for the inconvenience!
Edit: This URL works: http://www.urch.com/forums/index.php
This URL does NOT work: http://www.urch.com/forums/
2017-09-17: All seems to be working properly now.
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Caution: Saving a species may require heavy lifting – literally picking up wild animals and moving them long distances. Big animals. Small animals. Skittish, furtive or aggressive animals. Regardless, the same biological rules apply: To better the odds of survival, rare species need more than one population base and the widest gene pool possible.
This spring, Northwesterners got a glimpse of the challenges involved when U. S, Fish and Wildlife Service staff netted, sedated and trucked 49 endangered Columbian white-tailed deer from Julia Butler Hansen Refuge for the Columbian White-Tailed Deer to Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, 60 miles southeast in Washington state. The deer were moved to protect them from the threat posed by an eroding dike between the Columbia River and Hansen Refuge: If the dike failed, flooding might otherwise wipe out the species. A few deer were even flown a short distance by helicopter, suspended by slings.
Because national wildlife refuges protect hundreds of rare species, they often find themselves in the animal moving business. They've been in it at least since 1907 when the Service transported 15 native Plains bison by rail from the New York Zoological Society to Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma. The animals "were the seed stock for the bison we manage here today," says refuge manager Tony Booth.
Wildlife conservationists don't move animals casually. "Anytime you capture an animal and move it, there's a risk," says Kate O'Brien, a wildlife biologist at Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge in Maine, part of a coalition working to relocate and captive-breed the increasingly rare New England cottontail. "You have to consider: Does the benefit outweigh the risk? You need a pretty good reason to move a wild mammal."
Refuge biologists have lots of good reasons. They "translocate" wild animals to breed them; reintroduce them to historic habitats; try to keep them off the "endangered" list; minimize unfriendly run-ins with humans; rescue them from disease, drought or development; introduce them to areas where climate warming is creating new habitat. "The first choice is always to protect existing habitat," says O'Brien, "but that can't always be done."
You think relocating deer is tricky? Try moving 800-pound Alaska brown bears (with a bad habit of raiding campgrounds) or 600-pound caribou (flown 300 miles from Nelchina to Kenai National Wildlife Refuge on the Kenai Peninsula, where they'd previously been wiped out). In cases involving these and other large carnivores such as panthers and wolves, the first trick is catching them while minimizing risk to wildlife and operations staff.
Smaller mammals − prairie dogs, rabbits, squirrels, pronghorn – are easier to capture, but high-strung and must be released quickly to avoid stress injuries. Timing matters. Rabbits are "easiest to trap in winter, when food is limited and you can see their trails in the snow," says O'Brien. Also, "you want to "trap them before breeding season. You don't want disturb them if they're pregnant or have young."
When endangered species are involved, operational hurdles include the preparation, publication and review of detailed project proposals. It took three years of such effort before staff could move 24 endangered Sonoran pronghorn 90 miles from Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge to Kofa National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona in 2011 and 2012. The final rule, says Jim Atkinson, a wildlife biologist at Cabeza Prieta Refuge, "spells out what we can do and where, and how it will affect all stakeholders." The project goal: to augment the existing pronghorn population through captive breeding and establish new populations in the animals' historic breeding range. "We don't want to have all our eggs in one basket," says Atkinson. "It's a hedge against bad years for drought or climate change in any one area. Having more than one population means a greater hedge against extinction."
Tagging lets biologists track the health and movement of animals after their return to the wild. Once pronghorn are caught and sedated, for example, biologists attach an ear-tag and radio collar.
Where tagging is too costly or labor-intensive – as it is with prairie dogs – scientists find other ways to follow transplants. Staff at Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge in Montana have relocated more than 2,600 prairie dogs. In 2007, they moved 800 to repopulate colonies after an outbreak of plague – a recurrent prairie dog threat. Leaving them where they were would have doomed the colony, says senior refuge wildlife biologist Randy Matchett. It also would have hurt other species that depend on prairie dogs, such as endangered black-footed ferrets. (When you're a predator, you're only as healthy as your prey.)
Captured prairie dogs were dusted for plague-carrying fleas, then trucked to a new site, pre-dug with underground burrows. There, cages protected them for three or four days while they acclimated. Then they were released in groups of 100 or more. "Because they are social animals and communicate with each other, we've learned they do better in large numbers," says Matchett. "Their whole life revolves around not being eaten."
Will the new colony succeed? Measurements will provide an answer. "We can map the colony by walking around the perimeter of all the burrows," Matchett says. A year from now, a healthy colony will occupy more space. But there's a caveat: Even if the colony thrives, Matchett knows it's just a matter of time before plague reappears and he must rescue the animals again.
That's the age-old challenge for wildlife conservationists: staying ahead of threats, when possible. And knowing when it's not. Alaska brown bears offer a lesson in the latter. Brown bears that raid campgrounds are being moved less these days, says John Morton, supervisory fish and wildlife biologist in Alaska. "We realize that even when we move them a long ways away, they will still come back."
U. S, Fish and Wildlife Service staff netted, sedated and trucked endangered Columbian white-tailed deer from Julie Butler Hansen Refuge for the Columbian White-Tailed Deer to Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, WA, to protect them from the threat posed by an eroding dike between the Columbia River and Hansen Refuge. Some were translocated by helicopter. Photo by Julian Hansen
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PIERRE, S.D. – Over one million acres of private land leased for public opportunity awaits hunters as they take the field this autumn, and the Game, Fish and Parks Department wants to know how well the land is serving the public.
The Walk-in Area program was started in 1987 as a way to pay private landowners to allow additional public hunting opportunity on their land. Payments to landowners are based both on acreage and on the quality of habitat. There are 1.3 million acres enrolled and GFP has budgeted $2.15 million for the 2009 Walk-in Area program.
"This is the first year of what will probably become a three-year evaluation. We want to get a good grasp on how many people are using Walk-in Areas, what areas are they using, and what they are using them for," GFP Secretary Jeff Vonk said.
GFP will be focusing particular attention on the northwestern part of the state with a more in-depth evaluation of the Walk-in Areas there. GFP staff will record use of select walk-in areas and leave a survey card on cars parked there, or when possible will conduct interviews of hunters returning to their vehicles after using an area.
Information will also be gathered from six additional parts of the state, although personal interviews will not be conducted in these areas. "We will be leaving a survey card on vehicles," Vonk said. "It is very important in our refinement and improvement of this program that hunters complete our questionnaire and return it as promptly as possible."
Individuals who are surveyed as part of the process will be asked questions concerning what they were hunting, how often they hunt Walk-in Areas, and how they assessed their experience on this particular Walk-in Area.
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Michele Bachmann's five-day swing through Iowa just got a whole lot more interesting.
The Minnesota congresswoman, a darling of the Tea Party set, is getting serious about running for president—or serious enough that her folks leaked word that she plans to form an exploratory committee in June. Putting out such a story so far in advance is a highly unusual way to throw your hat into the presidential ring, but Bachmann is a master at garnering media attention.
The CNN report, which said Bachmann could form the committee earlier, also disclosed that she has tapped Iowa state Sen. Kent Sorenson to be her political director in the pivotal caucus state.
Is this just a tease? Bachmann used decidedly ambivalent language in an interview published Thursday with ABC's Jonathan Karl: "I'm in for 2012 in that I want to be a part of the conversation in making sure that President Obama only serves one term, not two, because I want to make sure that we get someone who's going to be making the country work again. That's what I'm in for. But I haven't made a decision yet to announce, obviously, if I'm a candidate or not, but I'm in for the conversation."
Bachmann could surprise people, especially in Iowa, where her sharp-edged approach could resonate with socially conservative caucus-goers.
This is what is known as sending mixed messages.
If she does run, Bachmann would appear to be just another long-shot contender. But she could surprise people, especially in Iowa, where her sharp-edged approach could resonate with socially conservative caucus-goers.
With Sarah Palin increasingly unlikely to run, at least in the estimation of Republican power brokers, Bachmann would be the only woman in a somewhat drab field. If Mike Huckabee, the 2008 winner in Iowa, decides he'd rather make more money at Fox News than slog through another campaign, she would have a strong shot at Iowa's evangelical Christian voters.
Bachmann would also have a geographic edge by hailing from a neighboring state—and could draw attention from her fellow Minnesotan, former Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who just formed an actual exploratory committee rather than just talk about it.
Bachmann is a dynamic speaker who drew positive notices at last month's CPAC conference, where she warned college students that if conservatism doesn't triumph in 2012, "70 to 75 percent of your income will be taken away by the government in your peak earning years" and America would become Greece. She also said there are "threats to the moral grounding of this nation." She has a gift for over-the-top rhetoric, telling MSNBC's Chris Matthews in 2008 that the media should do a "penetrating expose" of which members of Congress as "anti-American."
On the other hand, the three-term lawmaker, who failed in a bid to win a House leadership post this year, could have trouble raising enough money to be competitive. And she is somewhat gaffe-prone. During a campaign-style visit to New Hampshire earlier this month, she mangled her Revolutionary War history by proclaiming: "You're the state where the shot was heard around the world in Lexington and Concord." Those towns are in Massachusetts. Bachmann ripped the media for focusing on the blunder, saying news organizations ignore similar screwups by liberal politicians.
Whether she launches a serious campaign or is engaged in Trump-like showmanship, Bachmann is certain to liven up the presidential preseason.
Howard Kurtz is The Daily Beast's Washington bureau chief. He also hosts CNN's weekly media program Reliable Sources on Sundays at 11 a.m. ET. The longtime media reporter and columnist for The Washington Post, Kurtz is the author of five books.