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Albert Duveen art reference files, [ca. 1831-1950]
Duveen, Albert, b. 1892 d. 1965
Art critic, Collector, Dealer
Active in New York, N.Y.
Collection size: ca. 1000 items (on 5 microfilm reels).
Collection Summary: Files on ca. 150 American artists and art subjects, selected from Duveen's art reference files. Included are photographs of paintings in other collections, auction and exhibition catalogs, miscellaneous publications.
Files include: Francis Alexander, Washington Allston, William H. Bartlett, Ben-Zion, Thomas Birch, Joseph Blackburn, Ralph A. Blakelock, Charles F. Blauvelt, Peter Blume, Emile Branchard, Albertis D. O. Browere, John G. Brown, Jonathan Buddington, James E. Buttersworth, Carra, Dennis M. Carter, Mary Cassatt, George Catlin, Centurion, Paul Cezanne, Moura Chabor, Marc Chagall, T. Chambers, Jean Charlot, Thomas Cole, John Constable, George Cope, John S. Copley, Ralston Crawford, Jasper F. Cropsey, Arthur B. Davies, Charles Despiau, Roland Detre, Thomas R. Dibble, Enrico Donati, William Doriani, Thomas Doughty, Jessie Drew-Bear, Robert S. Duncanson, Dunlap, Asher B. Durand, George H. Durrie,
Frank Duveneck, Evert Duyckinck, Thomas Eakins, Jacob Eichholtz, Louis M. Eilshemius, Charles L. Elliott, Robert Field, Emil Ganso, Pablo Gargallo, Jan Gelb, Paul Gillman, Christian Gullager, George H. Hall, Chester Harding, William M. Harnett, George Harvey, William J. Hays, George P. A. Healy, Edward L. Henry, John Hesselius, Edward Hicks, Thomas Hicks, Holland House, Charles Fevret de Saint-Memin, Winslow Homer, S. A. Hudson, Daniel Huntington, Henry Inman, George Inness, John W, Jarvis, Eastman Johnson, Henrietta Johnston, John Johnston, Hilde B. Kayn, Dikran K. Kelekian, Fitz Hugh Lane, Ernest Lawson, M. F. Lefferts, William R. Leigh, Abraham Lincoln, George B. Luks, Edward G. Malbone, Alfred H. Maurer,
Louis Maurer, McKay, Alfred J. Miller, Louis C. Moeller, Samuel F. B. Morse, John Neagle, Donald Organ, Bass Otis, Walter Pach, Charles W. Peale, James Peale, Rembrandt Peale, William Penn, Enoch W. Perry, F. E. H. Philippoteaux, Charles P. Polk, T. B. Pope, Rufus Porter, William M. Prior, Walter Quirt, William T. Ranney, Reinhardt, Frederic Remington, Louisa Robins, Severin Roesen, Thomas P. Rossiter, Peter F. Rothermel, Charles M. Russell, Edward Savage, William Sawitzky, Nikol Schattenstein, Christian Schussele, D. Serres, James Sharples, Morris Shulman, John Smibert, Sergei Soudeikin, Haim Soutine, Frederick R. Spencer,
Albert Stewart, Robert Street, William J. Strong, Gilbert Stuart, C. (Charles ?) Sullivan, Thomas Sully, Arthur F. Tait, G. Tirrell, John Trumbull, John Vanderlyn, Pieter Vanderlyn, William Von Schlegell, Samuel L. Waldo, Abraham Walkowitz, George Washington, Elbert Weinberg, Julian A. Weir, Thomas B. Welch, Adolph U. Wertmuller, Benjamin West, Anne Whitney, Arnold Wiltz, William E. Winner, S. Wood, and Thomas W. Wood.
The Saint-Memin, Stuart, B. West and Wertmuller files contain material from Albert Rosenthal relating to the above artists.
Biographical/Historical Note: Albert Duveen was an art dealer and collector with offices in New York, N.Y., specializing in early American art. He was a cousin to Joseph Duveen (1869-1939), 1st Baron Duveen, president of Duveen Brothers art dealers.
Lent for microfilming 1958 by Duveen. A few of the items were subsequently donated.
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- Microfilm reels NDU1-NDU5 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
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Also in the Archives
- Albert Duveen collection of artists' letters and ephemera, 1807-1946
- An art dealer is intrigued by American folk art : lecture, 1961 Mar. 4
- Image and Media Gallery items from other collections related to Duveen, Albert


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A recent survey of Wall Street executives paints a bleak picture of the moral tone of a central part of our economic system.
According to the survey (conducted for Labaton Sucharow LLP), 24 percent of respondents believe that financial professionals need to engage in unethical behaviour in order to get ahead. 26 percent report having observed some form of wrongdoing, and 16 percent suggested that they would engage in insider trading if they thought they could get away with it.
Two points are worth making, here.
First, some perspective. Far from alarming, I think the number produced by this survey are relatively encouraging. Indeed, the numbers are so encouraging that I can't help but suspect unethical attitudes and behaviours were seriously underreported by respondents. Only 26 percent had seen something unethical? Seriously? That seems unlikely. And the fact that only 16 percent said they would engage in insider trading is also relatively benign. There are, after all, people who believe that insider trading isn't unethical at all, and shouldn't be illegal. They argue that insider trading just helps make public information that shouldn't be private in the first place. I don't think that point of view hold water, but the fact that it's put forward with a straight face makes it pretty unsurprising that a small handful of Wall Street types are going to cling to the notion.
Second, a survey like this highlights the difference between our ethical evaluation of capitalists, on one hand, and our ethical evaluation of capitalism, on the other. One of the major virtues of the capitalist system is that it is supposed to be able to produce good outcomes even if participants aren't always squeaky clean. In no way does it assume that all the players will be of the highest virtue. Adam Smith himself took a pretty dim view of businessmen. In The Wealth of Nations, Smith wrote:
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public."
And yet despite his dim view of capitalists, Smith remained a great fan of capitalism — or rather (since the term "capitalism" hadn't been coined yet) a fan of what he referred to as "a system of natural liberty." The lesson here is that evidence (such as it is) of low moral standards on Wall Street shouldn't make us panic. Perhaps it should make us shrug, and say, "Such is human nature." The challenge is to devise systems that take the crooked timber of humanity and mould it in constructive ways. Governments need to take corporate motives as they are and devise regulations that encourage appropriate behaviour. And executives need to take the motives of their employees as they are and devise corporate structures — hierarchies, teams, incentive plans — that motivate those employees in constructive ways. In both cases, while the players should of course look inward at what motivates them, the rest of us should focus not on the players, but on the game.

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The NCAA College Football class of 2012 is very deep this year in both offensive and defensive parts of the game. Recruiting was as fierce as ever, as typical powerhouses like Texas and UCLA made sure to flaunt their reputation and previous successes to attract the cream of the crop.
Some teams were looking to bolster their foundations while others were betting their futures on just one player.
Regardless of how Colleges were seeking to utilize their freshman, everyone appeared to have different opinions of who is going to make an early impact and who is going to a flop.
In this slideshow are five freshman who will be playing like seniors at the beginning of the 2012-2013 season.


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Women's MMA Comes of Age
By Jim Genia
Not so long ago, you never in a million years would have thought that a UFC event would be headlined by a pair of female fighters. Not so long ago, you never would have dreamed that there'd be female MMA fighters starring in feature films, or that there'd be an organization featuring only female competitors, or that a particular female UFC champ would command a salary greater than some of her male champion counterparts. No, back when the sport was so new it wasn't even on SpikeTV yet, to even witness two ladies duking it out wearing four-ounce gloves in a cage was a rarity of almost "freakshow" quality.
If the birth of MMA in the United States can be attributed to the first UFC airing on pay-per-view in 1993. The birth of women's MMA is a far more nebulous thing. Was the first female bout at a regional show called Extreme Challenge in Salt Lake City back in 1998? Was it at an Indiana promotion called HookNShoot? A Hawaiian event called Superbrawl? Since minor league MMA results were only sparingly recorded prior to 2001, no one really knows for sure—but almost everyone agrees the first best female mixed martial artist was Jennifer Howe.
The Utah native fought in auditoriums and casinos everywhere from Iowa to South Dakota and Florida to Alaska, and went undefeated for almost six years. She ran into a brick wall named Roxanne Modafferi in 2004, but until then, even though no organization was really crowning female champs, Howe was considered the best.
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A bitter wind accompanies the dawn sun in California's Mojave Desert.
It's only 5:16 AM, but Brigadier General William "Scott" Wallace, commanding general of the U.S.
Army's National Training Center, has been up for two hours. Accompanied by senior military officers from 30 nations, he's made his way to a hill that offers a choice view of today's battle.
Below, across miles of rugged terrain, 4,000 soldiers are preparing to engage an enemy force. For the last 10 days, the two sides have been doing battle with lasers that substitute for real warheads. Now, for the first time, they're experiencing live-fire — the only way to appreciate the devastation and lethality of modern combat. F-16s scream overhead and drop thousand-pound bombs that literally make the earth move. Tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles face off against each other, and M109A6 Howitzers fire 155 millimeter rounds that don't merely disable their targets but utterly disintegrate them.
For most people, this is hell on earth. For General Wallace and his troops, it's just another day at the office — one with a uniquely important mission.
The national training center is more than just ground zero for army war games. It's the world's most powerful laboratory for leadership development and organizational change. Refined and perfected over the past 15 years, the NTC is credited with almost single-handedly transforming the post-Vietnam army. Six other countries consider it an indispensable training ground for their riskiest missions. And several of America's most forward-thinking companies — including Motorola and General Electric — study it as a source of ideas about leadership and learning. The experience of "learning through failure" is the definitive model for preparing for combat —or for the challenges of business.
"I learned more at the NTC in 14 days than I learned in the previous 14 years of my career," says Major General Leon LaPorte, himself a former NTC commander. The heart of the NTC experience is the army's willingness — eagerness — to learn from failure. Over a grueling two-week period, a brigade (3,000 to 5,000 soldiers) goes head-to-head with an opposing force of similar size. Some 600 instructors (one for every brigade member with leadership or supervisory responsibilities) shadow their counterparts through 18-hour days, provide personal coaching, and facilitate team meetings as participants struggle to understand what went wrong and how to correct it. These meetings — called After Action Reviews — are the crucible of the learning experience, the place where hardship meets insight, where failure meets growth.
"At every level, every fiber of the organization is stressed for a full 14 days," Wallace explains. "Some of those fibers break. Those are the ones you hone in on and repair during the training experience. This process allows commanders and their organizations to be brutally honest with themselves about their successes and failures on the battlefield. As a result of that honesty — and the desire to learn from it — the individuals, the unit, and the organization all become better."
War games at the NTC unfold in a relentless rhythm of planning, fighting, and learning. Each afternoon the brigade commander receives his assignment: "penetrate enemy defenses," or "defend your sector against a superior force." Inside crowded command tents, 30 to 40 staff officers and senior fighting commanders study the situation and hammer out a strategy. By late afternoon, the plan begins to filter out to thousands of soldiers dispersed across thousands of square miles. Tank crews and platoons are briefed, minefields laid, artillery and helicopters coordinated, reconnaissance initiated. At midnight, friendly and enemy probes get under way.
By dawn the battle is in full force. the "enemy" (the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment) is permanently stationed at Fort Irwin. These soldiers know the terrain, behave unpredictably, and almost always devastate the unit in training. It's all recorded: perched on top of surrounding mountains, powerful video cameras zoom in on the battle's hot spots. Elaborate laser-based technologies track precisely when and where each weapon is fired, electronically disabling any fighting unit that's hit. Onboard microprocessors record all events going on in the vehicles engaged in combat: location, movement, use of weapons. Audio tapes record communication and confusion over voice networks.
By 11:00 a.m. the battle is over, and the After Action Review begins. In this case, a company team of two platoons — involving two tanks, four armored personnel carriers, and a HMMWV (Highly Mobile Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, the modern version of a Jeep) — has gathered in a tight circle in the shade of a desert outcropping. The crews lean back against tank treads, a flip chart slung over the HMMWV antenna. An observer-controller has created a "sand table" in the ground — a miniature outline of the terrain on which this unit was annihilated. He asks a tank gunnery sergeant to position the company's armor on the sand table and explain his understanding of the mission.
Sergeant: "Our mission was to destroy the enemy at objective K-2."
Observer-Controller: "Why was this important? And do you know what your tank's particular role was in all of this?"
Sergeant: "I'm not sure."
Observer-Controller: "Can anyone help?"
A trickle of comments gradually builds into a flood of discussion; it becomes evident that only the lieutenant in charge understood the rationale behind the mission. Individual armored units were not coordinated. Nor had they grasped that their main collective task was to drive an enemy column away from a weak point in the defenses into a zone where they were within range of other friendly tanks and artillery.
The flip chart records key learning points for tomorrow. The soldiers leave with a picture of what they were in the middle of that they could not see. Day after day, these reviews reinforce five key themes: everyone needs to understand the big picture; everyone needs to think all the time; always put yourself in the shoes of an uncooperative opponent; prepare yourself to the point where you are not surprised by surprise; and put aside hierarchy, foster self-criticism, learn to work as a team.
Crucial rules for war-fighting — and for business. The army's "learn-through-failure" approach offers important lessons for competing in a business environment that grows more perilous and unpredictable every day.
The best learning comes from the most stressful situations.
NTC war games are prolonged and intense. This stress and exhaustion — not to mention repeated defeat — unfreezes old patterns of behavior and creates openings for new understandings and behaviors to take root.
"If you face an enemy in training who's much more capable than any enemy you're going to face in live combat, you're going to be successful," Wallace argues. "It's like athletes that overtrain, the guy who runs fifteen miles in preparation for his one-mile run."
Learn about what matters.
A day of tough combat can inspire argument and debate about hundreds of issues. After Action Reviews focus on three: the key tasks that drive success, the conditions under which they must be performed, and the standards of excellence by which they are judged — for example, hit an enemy tank at night within a range of 4,000 yards, moving at 20 mph over uneven terrain, with an 80% success rate. Without this kind of clarity, the army believes, After Action Reviews have no foundation on which to build.
Use hard data to eliminate subjective debate.
The NTC's laser-based technologies and onboard microprocessors eliminate any disagreements over what really happened on the battlefield. The logic is simple: let the data, not the trainers, point the finger. "We can tell you exactly what happened, because we can show you very definitively with our technology," Wallace says. "That sweeps the table clean. No one can argue about what happened."
Learning requires facilitators who coach rather than lecture.
The most important job of observer-controllers is to make it safe to learn. They never criticize or evaluate individual performance. They encourage the team to teach itself. They reinforce the message that this experience is not about success or failure — it's about what each person takes away.
Promote a learning mind-set that endures beyond the training exercise.
Long-term success, the army believes, comes from every soldier understanding what drives victory; cultivating relentless discomfort with the status quo; and establishing a standard of uncompromising straight talk that promotes feedback and introspection. That means learning must become a part of everyday life, not a one-time event. As an example, Wallace points to the Gulf War, when learning sessions modeled on After Action Reviews broke out spontaneously.
"After the cease-fire was called," Wallace says, "they held their own After Action Reviews. A platoon leader would get all his boys together and say, 'We've been fighting for a hundred hours. What did we do right, what did we do wrong, and if we have to do it all over again, what will we do differently?' That's an indication of the power of the culture, the power of this process."
Richard Pascale was a faculty member at the Stanford Business School for 20 years, and is now an associate fellow of Oxford University. Based in San Francisco, he is a well-known author, lecturer, and consultant on corporate change and transformation. His article "The False Security of 'Employability'" appeared in the April:May 1996 issue of Fast Company.
A version of this article appeared in the August/September 1996 issue of Fast Company magazine.


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Enjoying its first preview performance on Thursday 26th January 2012, the iconic Harold Pinter Theatre in London played host to legendary English playwright Alan Ayckbourn's seminal stage play 'Absent Friends.'
The story of 'Absent Friends' centres around a group of friends, all on very different paths in life, who come together at a tea party in an effort to cheer up central character Colin, a recent widower. Set in real time, as the play develops, each character's story is revealed and delved into further. Problems such as infediltiy, marital stress and unstable domestic and family life are soon made apparent to the audience and a interesting contrast is seen to widower Colin, who is surprisingly happy and contempt with life despite the loss of his fiancee'.
Alan Ayckbourn is considered a national treasure in the literary world and his work has been regarded revolutionary due it's focus and keen observation of the minutiae of everyday life. 'Absent Friends' was introduced to the theatre world over 35 years ago and with this exciting new production, it has found a new life and a new and much younger audience. This production at the Harold Pinter Theatre boasts a talented cast that features star of British comedy 'The League of Gentleman' and writer of 'Psychoville', Reece Shearsmith as Colin. Showcasing some of Britain's top comedic and acting talent, the play also stars 'IT Crowd' star Katherine Parkinson as Diana, Steffan Rhodri, who played the small but memorable part of Dave Coaches in hit comedy 'Gavin and Stacey' and former 'Eastenders' actress and 'Strictly Come Dancing' champion Kara Tointon as Evelyn, who is no stranger to the stage, after making her West End debut back in March 2011 as Eliza Doolittle in the much loved stage play 'Pygmalion' by George Bernard Shaw. Directed by Royal Court Associate Director, Jeremy Herrin, a great deal of excitement and anticipation has lead up to the play's preview performance with the show creating a lot of buzz in it's rehearsal period.
With this momentous evening, WinkBall video reporters Zoe and Stefan were at the Harold Pinter Theatre for the performance of 'Absent Friends'. Speaking to theatre fans who had come to see the show, fans were asked a variety of questions about the play and the hype that surrounded it. Would big star names such as Kara Tointon and Reece Shearsmith fare well on the stage? With the work of Alan Ayckbourn being widely well known, what did they know of 'Absent Friends' as a play and had they seen any other Ayckbourn plays performed before? After the performance, reporters were also be asking fans how their evening was and what they thought of the performance?
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Zooted, Blooted, Sclamslooted
It was 1988 when my life turned Strictly Business, when both EPMD and I made our debuts on the scene, and that shit was dope. I smoked weed with Felicia in the stairwells of the mall's parking lot. I got really drunk on Cisco with Paco and Riley, who stole Benzi Boxes and radar detectors. I witnessed Riley once and he worked like clockwork: all you needed was a handful of pebbles to chuck at a car window and there you had it, smashed with ease and relative silence. By All Means Necessary came out and I learned all about jimmys. (That summer at high-school orientation, a few seniors came up to me and my friend and tested our jimmy knowledge, and, realizing we were no novices, proclaimed, "You'll have no trouble here.") My fragile identity was changing: Doc Martins were replaced by a myriad of sneakers in all shapes, fabrics, and colors; silver jewelry exchanged for gold.
And a new sound had emerged: whereas rappers like Biz Markie, Rakim, and Slick Rick used their voices to alter rhythm and tempo, EPMD's new greatest hits album (available for now as a double CD with their new Out of Business, supposedly their final record) shows how Erick and Parrish relied on '70s and early-'80s funk tracks (Kool & the Gang, Zapp, Parliament), freeing up the possibility of rhyme as slow-paced meditation minus the monotony.
That the Strong Island duo had lyrical skills was evident from the get-go. A fast-forward whoosh, a reggae guitar loop from "I Shot the Sheriff," and Parrish proclaiming "Don't get too close because you might get shot," segued into some serious rhyming on the title track. The beats on Strictly Business had me, C-Funk (my tag in those days), wigglin' and jigglin' like gelatin.
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Like KRS-1 in "My Philosophy," EPMD (and, to give props where due, the weed that was now getting me zooted, blooted, and sclamsclooted daily) was teaching me: "To be a real MC you can't be obedient/To be smooth is the main ingredient." My acceptance downtown was contingent upon my individuality, upon speaking my mind. That meant not only disobedience to the law and my mom, but disobedience to my friends. "My so-called friends/They smile at my face, behind my back they talk trash."
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Weak-minded little girls had no business messing around with us or the boys in our posse. If they got used, they deserved it, the dumbasses. If they flouted it, we were gonna bring them back down to earth. The rules don't matter 'cause I sure as hell didn't make 'em. But I can break 'em. I'm gonna have a good time at it too. "The style of the rap, makes your hands clap." The music was funky. It made you jump up. It was laid-back too. All at once. Wanna cut school and chill out with some 40s? Wanna try and roll a spliff that rivals Cheech and Chong's? Wanna sit on my lap? Yes to everything! School isn't real. This is real. I can dance to it.
But now it's work. It's bills to pay. That sureness I know who I am! fades a little. People have babies. People are incarcerated. People gotta work. Cynicism. Less open. EPMD have hardened with age too. And I like it that way; it makes sense. Erick and Parrish reunited in 1997 for Back in Business. "Overcoming setbacks, jumping over obstacles," 'cause that's what you have to do. And it was raw like the Wu. "Da Joint" was hardcore: the rhyming no less accomplished, but no longer so slow, so self-assured. Words speeding up, slowing down, evolving with the world around them. "Me and my squad stay on point." Shit, West Coast rhymers are still stuck on the duo's easy flow made so simple back in the day. But EPMD got rougher, as it should be.
Greatest Hits stretches back to 1988. The tracks literally sound different, remixed and rerecorded, at times with new rhymes. Revising the story, remembering it differently, making it fit with the self that is now, in 1999. No longer making dollars, but millennium ducats.
Which brings me to Out of Business. The flip side of the Greatest Hits package continues the Back in Business trend: a little older, a little more cynical, but still on point. New rhymes from new friends, new realizations. Right now, most slammin' are collaborations with, respectively, MOP ("Symphony"), and Redman, Method Man, and Lady Luck ("Symphony 2000") heavier, less time to play. M.O.P. "ain't no motherfuckin' role model, kids don't follow, cause I'm gonna hit this full throttle." Method Man says, "I rock for the low class from low cash, the broke ass, even rock for trailer park trash." Yet, the symphony stretches outwards beneath all the mic juggling, like some dramatic moment in a movie that is themselves, myself, that both EPMD and me are recalling.
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June 2004
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Vibraphonist Stefon Harris is another among the growing corps of magnificent young musicians whose work should inspire and delight jazz fans interested in exciting, diversified contemporary fare. Harris doesn't care about such divides as inside or outside, smooth or mainstream, and each record he makes represents a different conceptual journey. Evolution combines some short, groove-oriented pieces with more extensive, musically challenging combo works, featuring a group smartly mixing acoustic and electric instruments and maintaining an improvisational framework without being afraid to include rock, funk, fusion and pop elements into their arrangements.
The cut "Red-Bone, Netti-Bone," for example, has a humorous, bluesy foundation yet features a spirited, exuberant alto sax solo from Casey Benjamin, whose alternately furious and mellow playing provides a strong, soulful second lead voice. Flutist Anne Drummond offers contrasting lines and counterpoint on several selections, most notably "For Him, For Her" and "A Touch of Grace." Harris' tactical decision to prominently feature the electric keyboard proves equally noteworthy, with Marc Cary's flickering, fleeting yet assertive contributions making strong contributions to such songs as "Nothing Personal" and "King Tut's Strut."
Harris was an impressive vibes player on his first release, but he's now a seasoned, frequently spectacular soloist on this, his fifth album. He can do lean, sparse melodic accompaniment, execute complex, intricate patterns, play soft, soothing melodies or demonstrate both the vibes and marimba's percussive attributes, which he does with flair on "King Tut's Strut," "Message to Mankind" and "Blackout." Add excellent percussionist Pedro Martinez, plus a solid rhythm section in bassist Darryl Hall and drummer Terreon Gully, and the results are an outstanding record that demonstrates the link between jazz and pop styles without demeaning or debasing either.


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Air superiority and national security–two concepts that go hand-in-hand
"There has not been a single soldier or Marine who lost his life in combat due to a threat from the air in over 56 years."
Let that statement sink in for a minute. The reason we've not lost a single soldier or Marine to enemy air is we've maintained such a dominant edge in both technology, ability and numbers that no enemy has been able to challenge our dominance of the air over any battlefield on which we've fought since Korea.
The military defines air superiority as "that degree of dominance in the air battle of one force over another which permits the conduct of operations by the former and its related land, sea, and air forces at a given time and place without prohibitive interference by the opposing force."
But that dominance and superiority in the air are in serious jeopardy. In our drive to cut budgets, we are about to cut capability instead of costs. And that could result in a serious threat to the war fighting ability of our military and eventually threaten our national security. There is a developing fighter gap and if it continues as it is presently proceeding, it may be unrecoverable.
A short digression to make a point. There are two basic types of fighter aircraft in our inventory today. One is the air superiority fighter. Its job is to establish and maintain air superiority so that opposing aircraft don't pose a threat to other air operations and our ground forces. Imagine how difficult the use of attack helicopters would be in support of ground operations if the enemy was the superior force in the air. So that air superiority fighter works to keep the skies clear of enemy fighters to allow the second type of fighter to work under that umbrella. That's something we've successfully done for 56 years.
That second type of fighters is the strike fighter which is usually a multirole fighter with a mission of support for ground operations. They can deliver close air support or go deep and hit key targets that will help cripple the enemy's ability to fight.
At the moment, we have a fleet of 4th generation air superiority fighters (F15's, etc.) that numbers about 800. Those fighters have reached the end of their service life and technology has advanced such that their effectiveness has been badly degraded. The F-22 Raptor, a 5th generation air superiority fighter, was developed to replace the aging 4th generation fleet, and the original plan was to buy 700 of them.
The aircraft is expensive at over $300 million a copy, but it is the most advanced fighter aircraft in the world and maintains our edge over would be competitors/enemies. But with cuts in the budget becoming a priority, the Defense Department made the decision to limit the number of F-22's it would buy to 187 and then shut down production. 187 5th generation air superiority fighters doesn't even begin to replace the 800 4th generation fighters we have. In fact, the Air Force has conducted over 30 studies which all agree the bare minimum that the Air Force needs to maintain a minimal air superiority capability is 260 F-22s. But the last F-22 has been made, the production line is shutting down and the high paying jobs it created going away.
We're seeing much the same scenario played out with the other critical player in our fighter future – the F-35. Designed as a multi-role joint strike fighter, the F-35 brings advanced stealth and other technology to the strike fighter role. As with any developmental aircraft it has had its share of problems, but now seems to be on course to fulfill the promise it holds to deliver an aircraft superior to all the other strike aircraft in the world.
But again, we see talk about cutting capability in the name of cutting cost. The promised number to be purchased both by the US and it's 7 partners continues to shrink. We're being told we can't "afford" the F-35. The real question, given the possible ramifications of having too few survivable air superiority or strike fighters is can we afford not to buy them?
Certainly we can "upgrade" the non-stealthy and aged 4th generation fighters. But the emergence of competitive 5th generation fighters in Russia (T-50) and China (J-20) mean that as soon as the competitive aircraft are fielded, our pilots flying those old fighters are essentially cannon fodder and our ground troops become vulnerable.
While it is certain cutbacks in defense spending are necessary, they must not jeopardize our military's survival or our national security. 5th generation air superiority and strike fighters are critical to both.
Those making the hard budget decisions to come must remember the opening line above. Air superiority and the ability to deliver ordnance and survive are critical tasks that cannot be "cut" for austerity's sake. And we must ensure our military not only has the best fighters we can produce, but enough of them to do their mission of keeping our nation secure.
[First published in the Washington Examiner]
The obligatory Keith Olbermann post–quit or canned?
Actually who cares? But it is an interesting question – perhaps the most interesting thing about the whole situation. That Olbermann is off the air, at least temporarily, bothers me not one whit. But we all know he'll end up resurfacing somewhere. Maybe CNN who he helped into third place by getting MSNBC to "lean forward". Heh …
So to the question at hand, you can find commentary which claims both – he quit, he was fired. Howard Kurtz says he quit.
Many are pointing to these words as an indication that he was fired:
Olbermann said he had been "told that this is the last edition of your show" and thanked his audience, saying: "My gratitude to you is boundless."
Eh, not necessarily. He had gotten a 4 year extension on his contract in 2008 and reports say he reached an agreement with management over the remaining part of that deal. So it is possible he told them he was quitting and as soon as the agreement was reached, he was told, "we're done – tonight's the night".
But it does point to something that was pretty well known – he was a pain in the ass employee who was constantly at war with management. No matter how good you are, when you're a PITA, you aren't as untouchable as you think. Olbermann may have found that out.
Anyway more of the story will come out over the next few weeks. Suffice it say, much of the right won't miss him at all, but the lefty blogs are pretty bummed by the whole deal. I forget which one praised him as "an unapologetic liberal" who finally – FINALLY—brought the liberal perspective to air and showed it would pay (i.e. make money).
A little bit of opinion on that – what he did was provide good theater. He was an angry guy spouting angry stuff and pushing the envelope in that regard. There were many on the right who watched him specifically because he was outrageous and entertaining – a guilty pleasure. Selling his nonsense? Eh, not so much. The echo chamber on the left nodded their head and those on the right who watched loved to lambast his talking points. And interestingly, becoming the "Worst Person in the World" became a badge of honor and a competition on the right. But was he persuasive? Probably not.
Ah well, like I said, he'll pop up again somewhere. Dan Rather says there's an opening at HD Net?
Of course Iowahawk has heard that he was contacted by the North Korean News Agency about a little work there – apparently they're looking for a personality that would help them tone-down their rhetoric.
Heh …
Embarrassing–edited clip used to contend Glenn Beck said something he didn't
As I observe the "civil discourse" debate, I've pointed out the left seems peerless in their ability to be uncivil. And opinions like mine have sent the left scurrying to find some example that would rebut that conclusion – something so outrageous that it would force those on the right, like me, to abandon the premise and admit the right is just as bad.
And yesterday I thought they may have found it. Today, not so much. The subject is a segment by Glenn Beck. Full disclosure – I don't watch Glenn Beck. I don't listen to Glenn Beck. So I was open to the argument that he might have said something that would indeed provide an example of the rhetoric some folks on the left were attributing to him.
Here's the snippet of a Beck segment that some lefty sites have been using to make their claim:
"Tea parties believe in small government. We believe in returning to the principles of our Founding Fathers. We respect them. We revere them. Shoot me in the head before I stop talking about the Founders. Shoot me in the head if you try to change our government.
"I will stand against you and so will millions of others. We believe in something. You in the media and most in Washington don't. The radicals that you and Washington have co-opted and brought in wearing sheep's clothing — change the pose. You will get the ends.
"You've been using them? They believe in communism. They believe and have called for a revolution. You're going to have to shoot them in the head. But warning, they may shoot you.
"They are dangerous because they believe. Karl Marx is their George Washington. You will never change their mind. And if they feel you have lied to them — they're revolutionaries. Nancy Pelosi, those are the people you should be worried about.
"Here is my advice when you're dealing with people who believe in something that strongly — you take them seriously. You listen to their words and you believe that they will follow up with what they say."
Oh my, Beck is saying "shoot them in the head" (assuming the "them" is the left and he's instructing his viewers to do so). Well at least on the first quick pass. But then, when you read it for meaning, it just doesn't quite add up. It is the way it is worded. It seems to be saying what the left claims it says, but not really. You're left not quite believing it.
Enter Patterico who does what apparently the left wasn't able to do – or found inconvenient to do: obtain the entire segment's transcript. Make sure you read it all.
In a word, it provides context. I know, what a concept, eh? And it completely demolishes the contention claimed by the left. They really didn't want to look beyond the snippet of words they had. Context was inconvenient to their disingenuous claim. In fact, it flips it on its head.
When you read the entire segment, you suddenly realize who Beck is talking about – and it isn't an incitement to the right to go shoot anyone in the head as the lefty sites insist.
As Dan McLaughlin notes the "you" Beck talks about is the Democratic leadership in Congress. And McLaughlin says:
I'm almost embarrassed for anybody gullible enough that they fell for this one.
Yup. I'm not surprised, naturally. But I'd be embarrassed. And that doesn't even begin to address those who used this to try to spin it into something it isn't. In their case it isn't about "embarrassment" but about their credibility.
Of course I'd be interested to hear the opinion of those who eschewed context in this case to comment on something Paul Kanjorski said. You know Kanjorski – the former Democratic Congressman who had to temerity to publish a piece in the NY Times lecturing the rest of us on "civil discourse" in the wake of the Giffords' shooting? A few months back, speaking of then FL candidate for governor Rick Scott, he said:
"Instead of running for governor of Florida, they ought to have him and shoot him. Put him against the wall and shoot him. He stole billions of dollars from the United States government and he's running for governor of Florida.
The context of the quote is he was upset that a guy who was involved with a company that was involved with one of the largest Medicare and Medicaid fraud scandals in history wasn't in jail. Legit bitch, but even in that context, does it excuse the language? I mean if you want to be internally consistent and all.
The left? Crickets.
And in the realm of inciteful and violent rhetoric, it kinda makes the Palin cross-hairs map seem, oh, I don't know, silly in comparison, doesn't it?
So? So the left remains peerless in the rhetoric realm and are also adding to their lead in the "deceitful claims" department as well.
College students not being taught critical thinking skills–does that surprise you?
A recently published study has found that many college and university students aren't taught critical thinking skills while enrolled in their course of study. The study "followed 2,322 traditional-age students from the fall of 2005 to the spring of 2009 and examined testing data and student surveys at a broad range of 24 U.S. colleges and universities, from the highly selective to the less selective."
What they found was that about 45% of those students showed no significant improvement in their critical thinking skills during the first two years of enrollment. After 4 years, 35% showed no significant improvement.
The study is unique in that it is the first time a group of students was followed through their college careers to determine if they learned specific skills. As might be expected, academia is not at all pleased with the results.
"These findings are extremely valuable for those of us deeply concerned about the state of undergraduate learning and student intellectual engagement," said Brian D. Casey, the president of DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind. "They will surely shape discussions about curriculum and campus life for years to come."
The students involved in the study were tested using a standard test used to measure critical thinking ability:
The study used data from the Collegiate Learning Assessment, a 90-minute essay-type test that attempts to measure what liberal arts colleges teach and that more than 400 colleges and universities have used since 2002. The test is voluntary and includes real world problem-solving tasks, such as determining the cause of an airplane crash, that require reading and analyzing documents from newspaper articles to government reports.
As noted a significant number of students were unable to break out fact from opinion, make a clear written argument or "objectively review conflicting reports of a situation or event", the study found. In fact those students who fell into this category had a tendency to be swayed by emotion and political spin.
An interesting finding of the study was that students majored in liberal arts courses of study were more likely to develop critical thinking skills than were those that majored in courses of study such as business, education, social work and communications.
Other findings were that students who study alone, rather than in groups, tend to develop critical thinking skills and that courses (such as the liberal arts) which require heavy loads of reading and writing also help develop those skills.
Obviously the answer, if the study is to be believed, is to increase the reading and writing workload of all students. The study found some obvious problems as it is today in many of the universities and colleges included:
The study's authors also found that large numbers of students didn't enroll in courses requiring substantial work. In a typical semester, a third of students took no courses with more than 40 pages of reading per week. Half didn't take a single course in which they wrote more than 20 pages over the semester.
While it would be easy to fob this off on students seeking the easiest path to graduation, it is the school that puts the curriculum together and designs and approves the classes taught. The bottom line is the school is being paid handsomely to turn out graduates that can indeed think critically – a skill in high demand everywhere. Failing in that area at the percentages noted isn't a student problem – it is a problem of academia.
The findings shot that colleges need to be acutely aware of how instruction relates to the learning of critical-thinking and related skills, said Daniel J. Bradley, the president of Indiana State University and one of 71 college presidents who recently signed a pledge to improve student learning.
"We haven't spent enough time making sure we are indeed teaching — and students are learning — these skills," Bradley said.
Indeed. And it appears a "back to basics" approach would be most appropriate to bring the students not being taught those skills up to the level they need to be when they graduate. That means tough courses which test those skills routinely. That also means more work for those teaching the courses. The question is will colleges and universities take these findings seriously and do the work for which they are being paid? Or will it, despite the rhetoric to the contrary, remain as it is today, with universities and colleges turning out a high percentage of graduates for whom critical thinking is still an unknown skill?
House repeals ObamaCare and Democrats are, well, acting like Democrats
The Republican controlled House kept its promise and repealed ObamaCare with a large majority. As I've said in the past, symbolic or not, these types of votes must be made. Republicans must raise the issue in the House, vote on it and make the Democratic controlled Senate kill it or, if it happens to somehow slip through the Senate, make Obama veto it. Again, it's about the record – and for once in his life, Obama is actually going to have to run on one in 2012.
That said, it was incredible to listen to Democrats attempt to justify Obamacare yesterday. They are our lawmakers. Yet it became apparent yesterday, at least listening to a few of them, that they simply don't know their business or what they're talking about.
Take Shelia Jackson Lee for instance:
"Frankly, I would just say to you, this is about saving lives. Jobs are very important; we created jobs," Jackson Lee said. "But even the title of their legislation, H.R. 2, 'job-killing' — this is killing Americans if we take this away, if we repeal this bill."
So, Republicans are "killing Americans" with repeal. There's that civil discourse right when it is necessary, no?
But that wasn't the worst of her mutterings:
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas, said on Tuesday afternoon that repealing the national health care law would violate the Constitution.
Arguing that the Commerce Clause provides the constitutional basis for ObamaCare, Jackson Lee said repealing the law by passing Republicans' H.R. 2 violates both the Fifth Amendment's right to due process and the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause.
Say what? Frankly, anyone with a elementary school civics class under their belt could see thorough this convoluted and daft bit of nonsense. The ignorance in that "argument" (not to mention the logic) is appalling. But it seemed to be a sort of desperation talking point that some Democrats adopted as their "defense" of the law. John Lewis also invoked the 14th Amendment as a reason for keeping ObamaCare – oh, and the Declaration of Independence thinking he was quoting the preamble to the Constitution:
"Well, when you start off with the Preamble of the Constitution, you talk about the pursuit of happiness," said Lewis. "You go to the 14th Amendment–it's equal protection under the law and we have not repealed the 14th Amendment. People have a right to have health care. It's not a privilege but a right."
Of course it's not the Preamble to the Constitution that talks about the "pursuit of happiness" at all, it's the Declaration of Independence. You'd think a lawmaker would know that. But then you'd also think he'd know what constitutes a "right" and what doesn't wouldn't you? Obviously though, that's hoping for too much.
Some Democrats insisted on civil discourse to broadcast their unhappiness with the Republican effort to repeal ObamaCare. Like Rep. Steve Cohen:
"They say it's a government takeover of health care, a big lie just like Goebbels," Cohen said. "You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually, people believe it. Like blood libel. That's the same kind of thing. "
"The Germans said enough about the Jews and people believed it–believed it and you have the Holocaust. We heard on this floor, government takeover of health care. Politifact said the biggest lie of 2010 was a government takeover of health care because there is no government takeover,"
Yup … Democrats can jam something through that the American people were clear they didn't want using every Parliamentary trick in the book, but when the GOP steps up to repeal it, they're Nazis. Nice Steve – really nice. You sound like Alan Grayson.
Speaking of Alan Grayson, he's still puking up nonsense. Apparently he didn't get the memo that the "blame Sarah Palin for Tucson" narrative is a big FAIL. You remember Mr. Civil Discourse, don't you? The guy who said ""If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly?" Yeah, him:
"As I observed on MSNBC last week, there has been a stream of violence and threats of violence by the right wing against Democrats," Grayson wrote in the email. "Gabby warned against it, and then became a terrible victim of it. Palin has instigated it, and then tried to pretend that it doesn't exist," he wrote."
And as most of us observed while you were in Congress, to include the voters in your former district, you're a loon, Mr. Grayson. However he's a loon who somehow found his way to Congress for a while. Says something about our low standards, doesn't it? And it also points to how seriously Democrats are about embracing "civil discourse", wouldn't you say?
Reality check: About that "regulatory review"– don't believe it
With much fanfare, President Obama announced an executive order which directs a regulatory review that ostensibly will remove conflicting, unnecessary and onerous regulations, streamline the reporting process by moving much of it online and further, get rid of regulations that aren't needed and are impeding business from hiring.
That's the official line, or should I say, 'spin'. However, as Conn Carroll points out over at the Heritage Foundation, some context should be given this airy promise. And when put in perspective, it again points to an administration on the one hand saying one thing and on the other doing exactly the opposite.
In fiscal year 2010, the first full fiscal year under the Obama Administration, the federal government issued 43 major new regulations. According to the Administration's own estimates, the total cost of these rules was $28 billion. Only two of the new rules reduced measured regulatory costs, and then by only $1.5 billion. On net, the Obama Administration inflicted $26.5 billion in new regulatory costs on the economy last year, an all-time record. This was on top of the $1.75 trillion in existing regulatory costs already inflicted on the U.S. economy by the federal government.
The 2,319-page financial regulation bill requires 243 new formal rule-makings by 11 different federal agencies. The 2,700-page Obamacare bill contains more than 1,000 instances where Congress instructed Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to regulate the health care industry. And, in the ultimate example of power-hungry federal regulators providing "solutions" where no problem currently exists, for the first time in the history of the Internet, the federal government will begin to regulate service providers with "net neutrality" regulations.
Message? Take this Obama promise with a grain of salt. It's more posturing than reality. Don't believe me? Well the devil's in the details isn't it?
Analysis of the EO Obama signed says nothing real will be happening, and if it does, it won't be soon. And then there are the exemptions:
First of all, the President's executive order doesn't actually require federal agencies to identify harmful regulations during the next 120 days. It merely requires that they submit a "preliminary plan" for reviewing regulations sometime in the future. This is not an order to reduce a single regulation. It is an order to plan to plan to maybe someday reduce regulations! Second, the order exempts "independent" agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, and the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Finally, even if an existing rule is found that stifles job creation, it will take years to actually repeal it. Kauffman Foundation Vice President Robert Litan tells The New York Times: "It's more of a talking point than a policy. Even if you find a rule you don't like, and they probably will, then they're going to have to go through rule-making and then it's going to take a year or two or longer."
Triangulation has begun in earnest. The move to the center is on. This, like many of the administration's programs, sounds great, but in reality it is all smoke and mirrors. There is no real plan to identify and kill harmful regulations, there is no plan to reduce them and some of the worst offenders of onerous and intrusive regulation are exempt.
All in a day's work for the political propaganda machine that is the White House. We're now in "whatever It takes to win in 2012" whether or not it is real or even desirable, it will be promised in some form or another (just words) to make the current occupant of said White House seem more centrist and appealing.
Fool me once, shame on you …
Violent hateful rhetoric? The left is peerless in that realm
It appears we're again witnessing leftist projection as those on that side of the ideological divide continue to try to sell the "violent and hateful right-wing rhetoric" canard as a reason for concern.
In fact the right can't really hold a candle to some of the left. Media Research Center provides a little primer.
Under the category of hateful rhetoric, see if you can guess who said this Michelle Malkin?
"…a big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it."
If you guessed Keith Olberman, give yourself a point. Of course we could probably cite Olberman for any number of hateful diatribes but one example makes the point.
And this about then sitting (2007) VP Dick Cheney?
"I'm just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That's a fact."
A little hard but not much – that would be Bill Maher, that paragon of restraint and good taste. Maher also popped this one out there about Rush Limbaugh when Heath Ledger was found dead (2008):
"Why couldn't he have croaked from it instead of Heath Ledger?"
No cries for "civility in discourse" then, were there?
Hateful? Try this from Charles Karel Bouley, a San Francisco radio host on the announced death of Presidential spokesman Tony Snow from cancer:
"I hear about Tony Snow and say to myself, well, stand up every day, lie to the American people at the behest of your dictator-esque boss and well, how could a cancer NOT grow in you. Work for Fox News, spinning the truth in to a billion knots and how can your gut not rot?"
Yeah, "civil discourse".
Violent rhetoric? Any idea who said this about Congresswoman Michele Bachman in 2009?
"Slit your wrist! Go ahead! I mean, you know, why not? I mean, if you want to — or, you know, do us all a better thing. Move that knife up about two feet. I mean, start right at the collarbone."
That would be Air America's Montel Williams. Had that been someone on the right we'd have heard the usual suspects on the left denounce Williams as a misogynist, etc. Instead – crickets.
Mike Malloy, a favorite lefty radio talker on Rush Limbaugh:
"I'm waiting for the day when I pick it up, pick up a newspaper or click on the Internet and find out he's choked to death on his own throat fat or a great big wad of saliva or something, you know, whatever. Go away, Rush, you make me sick!
That was just last year when Limbaugh was taken to the hospital with chest pains – you know, "civil discourse." (more Malloy here)
Ed Shultz joins the civil discourse choir talking about the left's favorite righty, Dick Cheney. Here he lovingly wishes the former VP a happy life in 2009:
"He is an enemy of the country, in my opinion, Dick Cheney is, he is an enemy of the country….Lord, take him to the Promised Land, will you?"
And in 2010, Schultz continued his enviable record of "civil discourse" when talking about Cheney and his heart problems:
"We ought to rip it out and kick it around and stuff it back in him!"
Who is "we" Mr. Schultz?
Finally, another
hypocrite master of civil discourse who has been chiding the right for a couple of weeks now fantasized on the air about the death of Rush Limbaugh:
"Somebody's going to jam a CO2 pellet into his head and he's going to explode like a giant blimp."
Bless their little hearts, when it comes to "civil discourse", they are the standard, no? And of course, as anyone who has followed the "discourse" during the Bush years (and as the examples above point out, since) they know that what is listed above is the very tip of a honking big iceberg of similar "civil discourse" from the left.
It is the primary reason I refuse to be lectured to by these people. I'll again make the point that they're much less interested in "civil discourse" than they are in shutting the right up.
Ain't gonna work, fellas.
Joe Scarborough–"right-wing rage" water carrier (update)
It appears that as President Obama tries to "move to the right" with his op/ed in the WSJ today, POLITICO is also engaged in such a move with the hiring of Joe Scarborough as the righty on the site. It is meant, one supposes, to help "center them up". I guess. Joe Scarborough hasn't ever impressed me as a good representative of the right on his MSNBC show, so I'm not sure how he's going to help POLITICO in that regard. But hey, it's their call. Maybe they don't want a real righty, just a pretend one.
Anyway, Scarborough has decided these last two days to carry water for the "right-wing rage" crowd. Apparently if you don't sound like mewling mush-mouthed compromiser, you're in a rage and Joe is here to call you out on that. So taking on the big boys and girls (Beck and Palin), Morning Joe – who'd love to have Beck's ratings, I'm sure – announces that he gets it. They weren't responsible for the Tucson shooting. However:
But before you and the pack of right-wing polemicists who make big bucks spewing rage on a daily basis congratulate yourselves for not being responsible for Jared Lee Loughner's rampage, I recommend taking a deep breath. Just because the dots between violent rhetoric and violent actions don't connect in this case doesn't mean you can afford to ignore the possibility — or, as many fear, the inevitability — that someone else will soon draw the line between them.
Uh, Joe … if the dots don't connect in this case they don't connect at all. Got that? It means whatever you're babbling on about concerning their supposed "violent rhetoric" (yup, that's a right-wing talking point isn't it) is irrelevant. They aren't a part of that scene. At all. Nada, zip, zero to do with it. Whatever their rhetoric it wasn't a factor.
So I recommend you take a deep breath and back off. There's a possibility that a freakin' meteor may hit the earth, however given how slight it is, I think I can afford to ignore that possibility. At least until new information becomes available that says I should pay attention again, right?
Well, that's kind of where you are with this act. You're spouting off about a "possibility" which has no real history to support it and certainly isn't something that was a part of this most recent tragedy.
Scarborough goes a little schizoid after his nonsense above and acknowledges the right's righteous anger at the way the media and the left immediately blamed the usual suspects on the right (Palin, Fox News and Beck) but then says:
Now that the right has proved to the world that it was wronged, this would be a good time to prevent the next tragedy from destroying its political momentum. Despite what we eventually learned about the shooter in Tucson, should the right have really been so shocked that many feared a political connection between the heated rhetoric of 2010 and the shooting of Giffords?
Well, yes, the right most certainly should have been shocked. Ok, maybe not – after all we did watch the left melt down for 8 years – speaking of violent and vile, hateful rhetoric – but I haven't seen anything to this point to even compare to that on the right. So maybe the shock was how the left woke up in a new world in January of 2008 (along with Scarborough it appears) and suddenly discovered "violent rhetoric" exists – at least as they define it. Most of the right, however, understands "violent rhetoric" as a lefty code phrase for "shut the right up".
Of course the right's "violent rhetoric" is, in comparison, a pale shadow of what the left pitched during the Bush years as has been amply demonstrated by any number of bloggers and right wing media types.
So show me the history Joe – where there has been right-wing violence precipitated by "violent rhetoric". And no McVeigh doesn't work – he stated unequivocally that the reason he detonated that horrific bomb in OK City was because of Waco – not Rush Limbaugh, not Fox News, not right rhetoric. In fact there really isn't much history of political assassination associated with "violent rhetoric" from the right in this country, is there?
And what sort of whack job associates a campaign stunt such as firing a "fully automatic M16" with her political opponent as a threat to Giffords – except you and the left, that is? What you can't break the context out on that? It was a campaign event. It was meant to draw people in to do something they'd find cool or enjoyable. It wasn't, pardon the word, aimed at Giffords, for goodness sake.
But waterboy Joe can't leave it there, oh no:
And who on the right is really stupid enough to not understand that the political movement that has a near monopoly on gun imagery may be the first focus of an act associated with gun violence? As a conservative who had a 100 percent rating with the National Rifle Association and the Gun Owners of America over my four terms in Congress, I wonder why some on the right can't defend the Second Amendment without acting like jackasses. While these types regularly attack my calls for civility, it is their reckless rhetoric that does the most to hurt the cause.
Joe, you're about as conservative is Barack Obama is centrist, but that aside, perhaps the right can't defend the 2nd Amendment without acting like jackasses is because the real jackasses on the left are constantly trying to nullify it. Sometimes you just have to be blunt about what's happening.
As for the nonsense about not understanding why the right would be immediately associated with a shooting crime that's simply a predisposition for the left that Scarborough wants to excuse. And it jumped right out there after Tucson embarrassingly enough, didn't it Joe?
Facts, pal … facts. That's what matter. And the fact of the matter is the right or its rhetoric had nothing to do with the tragedy in Tucson. Not what it has said, not its literature, not its stance on guns. Nothing.
That's the fact, sir. And jackasses like you who keep this crap rolling based in nothing but your own "rage" need to be called out on it. "Civility" is just another in a long line of lefty attempts to shut the right up. Racist is losing its sting so now the way to shut down debate, to shut your opponent up and to dismiss or wave away any argument they may make, is to call them "uncivil". That's what the left is attempting. Nice to see it has fellow travelers who claim to be from the right carrying water for them, Joe.
Great job.
UPDATE: Ah, now I know why waterboy Joe is still ranting. Ed Koch explains. Ed Koch for heaven sake.
Just words? Obama on a "21st Century regulatory" regime
President Obama has an op/ed in the Wall Street Journal (a carefully chosen venue to project a "pro-business" lean, I'm sure) in which he touts an Executive Order he is signing which orders a review of all federal regulation ostensibly to bring them inline with today's realities and help root out those which stifle job creation.
On the surface, nothing at all objectionable in the premise. Obama claims the purpose of the effort is to ensure that what regulation is kept represents "common sense rules of the road that strengthen our country without unduly interfering with the pursuit of progress and the growth of our economy."
Fine and dandy. I'd love to see that applied to the letter. I just have no real confidence that this is anything other than show (a visible move toward the center) or that bureaucracies will pay it any attention. Of course that's something we'll have to see and monitor.
But … again, backing government out of much of the present regulatory regime ("unduly interfering" in Obama's words) would indeed be a help.
More on the stated premise:
But creating a 21st-century regulatory system is about more than which rules to add and which rules to subtract. As the executive order I am signing makes clear, we are seeking more affordable, less intrusive means to achieve the same ends—giving careful consideration to benefits and costs. This means writing rules with more input from experts, businesses and ordinary citizens. It means using disclosure as a tool to inform consumers of their choices, rather than restricting those choices. And it means making sure the government does more of its work online, just like companies are doing.
Again, wonderful words ("more affordable, less intrusive" and more choice instead of "restricting those choices") in an op/ed, but I have to say despite Obama's claim this has been the aim of his administration the last two years, I'd dispute that. Look at the route the EPA is taking right now in terms of trying to impose a regulatory regime on greenhouse gases. Or how the Interior Department has unilaterally blocked oil and gas exploration.
Certainly simplifying the regulatory regime, removing conflicting and overlapping rules, eliminating redundant reporting requirements and moving much of what can be done on-line to that venue would help. But while that may make things more understandable and less onerous to do, it doesn't really mean that intrusive regulation is going to go away or even be lessened.
We're back to how you define such regulation and what level of intrusiveness you believe is too much. There's no doubt that the Obama administration believes in a level of intrusion far greater than do most on the right. An example of the difference can be found in the article itself:
One important example of this overall approach is the fuel-economy standards for cars and trucks. When I took office, the country faced years of litigation and confusion because of conflicting rules set by Congress, federal regulators and states.
The EPA and the Department of Transportation worked with auto makers, labor unions, states like California, and environmental advocates this past spring to turn a tangle of rules into one aggressive new standard. It was a victory for car companies that wanted regulatory certainty; for consumers who will pay less at the pump; for our security, as we save 1.8 billion barrels of oil; and for the environment as we reduce pollution.
Of course on the other side of that are those saying "since when is it a function of government to decide what gas mileage a car must get?" The entire premise that it is a function of government is built on belief in a "justified" level of intrusion far beyond that which any Constitutional scholar would or could objectively support (that's assuming he is a scholar and an honest one). In fact the example perfectly states the obvious difference between big government advocates and small government advocates. BGA's think it is government's job to dictate such things – that it is a function of government to do so. SGAs believe it is the market's job to dictate such things and that government shouldn't be involved in these sorts of things.
So in essence, while the Obama op/ed has all the proper buzz words to attempt to sell it as a pro-business, small government move, it is in fact simply a restatement of an old premise that essentially says "government belongs in the areas it is now, we just need to clean it up a little".
This really isn't about backing off, it's about cleaning up. It isn't about letting the market work, it's about hopefully making government work better. And while Obama claims to want to inform us about our choices rather than restricting them, I'll still be unable to buy a car that doesn't meet government standards on gas mileage even if I want one.
Now that may not seem like something most of us would want – few if any of us want bad gas mileage and the cost it brings – but it does illustrate the point that government regulation really isn't about providing choice at all, it is and always will be about limiting them. And all the smooth talking in the world doesn't change that. It's the nature of the beast.
So when you hear wonderful things like this…
Our economy is not a zero-sum game. Regulations do have costs; often, as a country, we have to make tough decisions about whether those costs are necessary. But what is clear is that we can strike the right balance. We can make our economy stronger and more competitive, while meeting our fundamental responsibilities to one another.
…just remember the reality of regulation and understand that all the great sounding words you hear coming from the administration about regulatory overhaul are most likely based on a completely different premise than the right has. And as all of us have learned from the 2 years in which this administration has been in power, never, ever, ever just go by what they say they're going to do. Always judge them on what they actually do, because rarely do they ever do what they say in speeches or op/eds like this.
Richard Lindzen: AGW movement driven by money, power and dubious science
That's the conclusion I gathered from a devastating essay Richard Lindzen published this past Saturday. Here are the lead 2 paragraphs:
The notion of a static, unchanging climate is foreign to the history of the earth or any other planet with a fluid envelope. The fact that the developed world went into hysterics over changes in global mean temperature anomaly of a few tenths of a degree will astound future generations. Such hysteria simply represents the scientific illiteracy of much of the public, the susceptibility of the public to the substitution of repetition for truth, and the exploitation of these weaknesses by politicians, environmental promoters, and, after 20 years of media drum beating, many others as well. Climate is always changing. We have had ice ages and warmer periods when alligators were found in Spitzbergen. Ice ages have occurred in a hundred thousand year cycle for the last 700 thousand years, and there have been previous periods that appear to have been warmer than the present despite CO2 levels being lower than they are now. More recently, we have had the medieval warm period and the little ice age. During the latter, alpine glaciers advanced to the chagrin of overrun villages. Since the beginning of the 19th Century these glaciers have been retreating. Frankly, we don't fully understand either the advance or the retreat.
For small changes in climate associated with tenths of a degree, there is no need for any external cause. The earth is never exactly in equilibrium. The motions of the massive oceans where heat is moved between deep layers and the surface provides variability on time scales from years to centuries. Recent work (Tsonis et al, 2007), suggests that this variability is enough to account for all climate change since the 19th Century.
One of the reasons I constantly ask those who believe in AGW what the "perfect temperature" for the world is and how we can achieve it is I understand that the only constant in the earth's climate is change. The world's climate has always been changing in various cycles since its formation. History shows us that we've had periods of more CO2 than now, warmer periods than now and neither of the events can be explained away by blaming man.
How we got into this scared mode of screaming about gloom and doom if we don't do something is both interesting and constructive. But a couple of things first. Lindzen discusses the role of models in the current debate and why anyone seeing their output should be very skeptical of their conclusions. He first discusses the "dominant role" of cumulus convection in the tropics and how the models handled that. His discussion is a scathing critique of the models used:
For warming since 1979, there is a further problem. The dominant role of cumulus convection in the tropics requires that temperature approximately follow what is called a moist adiabatic profile. This requires that warming in the tropical upper troposphere be 2-3 times greater than at the surface. Indeed, all models do show this, but the data doesn't and this means that something is wrong with the data. It is well known that above about 2 km altitude, the tropical temperatures are pretty homogeneous in the horizontal so that sampling is not a problem. Below two km (roughly the height of what is referred to as the trade wind inversion), there is much more horizontal variability, and, therefore, there is a profound sampling problem. Under the circumstances, it is reasonable to conclude that the problem resides in the surface data, and that the actual trend at the surface is about 60% too large. Even the claimed trend is larger than what models would have projected but for the inclusion of an arbitrary fudge factor due to aerosol cooling. The discrepancy was reported by Lindzen (2007) and by Douglass et al (2007). Inevitably in climate science, when data conflicts with models, a small coterie of scientists can be counted upon to modify the data. Thus, Santer, et al (2008), argue that stretching uncertainties in observations and models might marginally eliminate the inconsistency. That the data should always need correcting to agree with models is totally implausible and indicative of a certain corruption within the climate science community.
It turns out that there is a much more fundamental and unambiguous check of the role of feedbacks in enhancing greenhouse warming that also shows that all models are greatly exaggerating climate sensitivity. Here, it must be noted that the greenhouse effect operates by inhibiting the cooling of the climate by reducing net outgoing radiation. However, the contribution of increasing CO2 alone does not, in fact, lead to much warming (approximately 1 deg. C for each doubling of CO2).
The larger predictions from climate models are due to the fact that, within these models, the more important greenhouse substances, water vapor and clouds, act to greatly amplify whatever CO2 does. This is referred to as a positive feedback. It means that increases in surface temperature are accompanied by reductions in the net outgoing radiation – thus enhancing the greenhouse warming. All climate models show such changes when forced by observed surface temperatures. Satellite observations of the earth's radiation budget allow us to determine whether such a reduction does, in fact, accompany increases in surface temperature in nature. As it turns out, the satellite data from the ERBE instrument (Barkstrom, 1984, Wong et al, 2006) shows that the feedback in nature is strongly negative — strongly reducing the direct effect of CO2 (Lindzen and Choi, 2009) in profound contrast to the model behavior. This analysis makes clear that even when all models agree, they can all be wrong, and that this is the situation for the all important question of climate sensitivity.
So there is your "consensus" and, as Lindzen points out, the consensus is/was wrong. Furthermore:
According to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the greenhouse forcing from man made greenhouse gases is already about 86% of what one expects from a doubling of CO2 (with about half coming from methane, nitrous oxide, freons and ozone), and alarming predictions depend on models for which the sensitivity to a doubling for CO2 is greater than 2C which implies that we should already have seen much more warming than we have seen thus far, even if all the warming we have seen so far were due to man. This contradiction is rendered more acute by the fact that there has been no statistically significant net global warming for the last fourteen years. Modelers defend this situation, as we have already noted, by arguing that aerosols have cancelled much of the warming (viz Schwartz et al, 2010), and that models adequately account for natural unforced internal variability. However, a recent paper (Ramanathan, 2007) points out that aerosols can warm as well as cool, while scientists at the UK's Hadley Centre for Climate Research recently noted that their model did not appropriately deal with natural internal variability thus demolishing the basis for the IPCC's iconic attribution (Smith et al, 2007).
The basic reason we're still battling this nonsense? Uh, would you believe the usual – power and money:
When an issue like global warming is around for over twenty years, numerous agendas are developed to exploit the issue. The interests of the environmental movement in acquiring more power, influence, and donations are reasonably clear. So too are the interests of bureaucrats for whom control of CO2 is a dream-come-true. After all, CO2 is a product of breathing itself. Politicians can see the possibility of taxation that will be cheerfully accepted because it is necessary for 'saving' the earth. Nations have seen how to exploit this issue in order to gain competitive advantages. But, by now, things have gone much further. The case of ENRON (a now bankrupt Texas energy firm) is illustrative in this respect. Before disintegrating in a pyrotechnic display of unscrupulous manipulation, ENRON had been one of the most intense lobbyists for Kyoto. It had hoped to become a trading firm dealing in carbon emission rights. This was no small hope. These rights are likely to amount to over a trillion dollars, and the commissions will run into many billions. Hedge funds are actively examining the possibilities; so was the late Lehman Brothers. Goldman Sachs has lobbied extensively for the 'cap and trade' bill, and is well positioned to make billions. It is probably no accident that Gore, himself, is associated with such activities. The sale of indulgences is already in full swing with organizations selling offsets to one's carbon footprint while sometimes acknowledging that the offsets are irrelevant. The possibilities for corruption are immense. Archer Daniels Midland (America's largest agribusiness) has successfully lobbied for ethanol requirements for gasoline, and the resulting demand for ethanol may already be contributing to large increases in corn prices and associated hardship in the developing world (not to mention poorer car performance). And finally, there are the numerous well meaning individuals who have allowed propagandists to convince them that in accepting the alarmist view of anthropogenic climate change, they are displaying intelligence and virtue. For them, their psychic welfare is at stake.
So essentially, Lindzen is appealing for us all to stop this madness and, in a calm, rational way, discuss what we do know and why it isn't a threat that needs drastic and expensive intervention – for instance:
Given that the evidence (and I have noted only a few of many pieces of evidence) strongly implies that anthropogenic warming has been greatly exaggerated, the basis for alarm due to such warming is similarly diminished. However, a really important point is that the case for alarm would still be weak even if anthropogenic global warming were significant. Polar bears, arctic summer sea ice, regional droughts and floods, coral bleaching, hurricanes, alpine glaciers, malaria, etc. etc. all depend not on some global average of surface temperature anomaly, but on a huge number of regional variables including temperature, humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, and direction and magnitude of wind. The state of the ocean is also often crucial. Our ability to forecast any of these over periods beyond a few days is minimal (a leading modeler refers to it as essentially guesswork). Yet, each catastrophic forecast depends on each of these being in a specific range. The odds of any specific catastrophe actually occurring are almost zero. This was equally true for earlier forecasts of famine for the 1980's, global cooling in the 1970's, Y2K and many others. Regionally, year to year fluctuations in temperature are over four times larger than fluctuations in the global mean. Much of this variation has to be independent of the global mean; otherwise the global mean would vary much more. This is simply to note that factors other than global warming are more important to any specific situation. This is not to say that disasters will not occur; they always have occurred and this will not change in the future. Fighting global warming with symbolic gestures will certainly not change this. However, history tells us that greater wealth and development can profoundly increase our resilience.
Trying to claim there is a "global climate" and define it with a perfect temperature seems a fools errand in light of what Lindzen points out above about regional variability. The models don't explain those regional variables or their effects very well at all. In fact, they insist on a "global" view vs. the view Lindzen gives us, and that makes the attempt to globalize regional events even more suspect.
My favorite paragraph though, is Lindzen's parting shot , er, conclusion:
With all this at stake, one can readily suspect that there might be a sense of urgency provoked by the possibility that warming may have ceased and that the case for such warming as was seen being due in significant measure to man, disintegrating. For those committed to the more venal agendas, the need to act soon, before the public appreciates the situation, is real indeed. However, for more serious leaders, the need to courageously resist hysteria is clear. Wasting resources on symbolically fighting ever present climate change is no substitute for prudence. Nor is the assumption that the earth's climate reached a point of perfection in the middle of the twentieth century a sign of intelligence.
I'm still laughing over the last sentence. Given any intelligence and a smattering of curiosity about climate history, even a cursory examination of that history makes one immediately suspicious of the claims by the AGW crowd and very skeptical of the science. For those who Lindzen describes as "well meaning individuals who have allowed propagandists to convince them that in accepting the alarmist view of anthropogenic climate change, they are displaying intelligence and virtue", he's saying it is neither intelligent or virtuous.
All I can say is, "agreed".


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The safari came out 2 years ago they sat on shelf u could get them for $40 2 years later the be a line outside the store cause they put qs tag on them LOL hypebeaster finest
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It all started on a couch in New York City. That's where Tinker Hatfield first saw the luxurious ostrich leather that inspired him to create Safari print, one of the more enduring aesthetic contributions from his epic 1987 'Air Pack'. 2012 marks that fab five's 25th anniversary and it looks like we'll be getting quite a few spotted tributes as the Nike Air Safari celebrates a quarter-century of success. Joining it with the traditional black/grey/orange motif is the Air Trainer 1 from whom we've seen a 'Chlorophyll' preview this year, yet this one seems like just the tip of the iceberg for what might be in store. Examine both pairs in detail below, let us know whether you'd pick the OG Air Safari over the Safari'd Air Trainer 1 and stick with Sneaker News for release info. via Sneaker Freaker
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The safari came out 2 years ago they sat on shelf u could get them for $40 2 years later the be a line outside the store cause they put qs tag on them LOL hypebeaster finest
no such think as a sneaker game. people who are saying there is such thing as one are the ones making it worse.
The nike air on the back of the trainer 1 is niiiiice
I've been into Safari print since Day 1, that does not make me any more of a sneaker head than the next man. I will be grabbing both pairs hopefully. Because "I" like them.
thank you basedgod
Those Air Trainer 1's are a must!!
so are the safari's releasing? the article is unclear
These will be a nice pick up for the fall months.
i dont like safari print but need the og one...sound logic?!
I hope they don't get too hyped up...I remember my older brother having these and I would like to be able to get a pair
One of each please. Defenitly scooping them up.
its funny how only a few people were in to safari anything by nike a couple years ago but now its all of a sudden the sh!t. I hate the direction the sneaker game is going in.
The Trainer will hit this month or next in 'QS' fashion. The Safari is also returning later this year.
Safari has always been the shit since 87!
what's funny is there's people that think there's this hypothetical "sneaker game" and in order to be in it you have to own or like a certain shoe. Just do you and don't worry about what the next man's wearing, its only shoes.
A 'couple of years ago'? LOL.
What just because there's renewed interest in the game, it's suddenly not cool? Goddamn hipster.
it's really funny thinking anyone gives a shit what you say
ok. the safari's dont look like a 2012 retro, the pics have creasing and the black leather has wear. probably just 4 a comparison
no i agree these new heads are corny
yeah it looks like they might have actually used good materials...............that will be the day when that starts happening again
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We finished the tour of the AIS and headed into the city centre, I say city centre but it was so spread out and quiet you couldn't really tell
The sun was starting to set so we went for a drive to have a look at the outside of Parliament house and the Embassy's. All the Embassy buildings are designed to look like buildings from that culture which was cool. They keep Great Britain, Canada and New Zealand closer to Parliament house. We went back to the apartment and then headed out to the pub for a beer and some dinner.
The next morning we went to visit Kris and Will (who I met at Fraser Island) and they cooked us an amazing breakfast. We sat out in the Sunshine and it was a beautiful morning. Was really great to catch up with them. We said our goodbyes and made our way to Parliament house which was huge and unique. You can see the flag rom around the city. We had a loook at all the history o Australia, it still amaze me that its such a young country compared to England. The lay out also remineded me off Washington, with parliament house inline with the Australian War Memorial andold parliament house
We wanted to go to questacon, which had a range of interactive science stations. We had a play around in there before heading back to Sydney.
Having thought there wouldn't be much to do in Canberra we easily ound enough things to do or the weekend, I wouldn't stay any long however.
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Check Out '300: Rise of an Empire' On DVD, Blu-ray & More June 24
During its theatrical release in January, Starpulse called "300: Rise of an Empire" visually "striking" with awe-inspiring special effects.
The film centers on Greek general Themistocles (Sullivan Stapleton), who attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge against the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), and Artemisia (Eva Green), vengeful commander of the Persian navy.
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Achievement unlocked! With a small collection of photos that my mom gave me to look through and scan from her side of the family, I now have photos of every one of my ancestors five generations back to my great-great grandparents. That's pretty impressive, at least I think so, compared to my wife's … [Read more...]
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So, using the speed and power of the Internet, I come bearing updates. While I didn't completely solve the original issue, I still don't know who is in that photo, I did confirm that is it not the Charles & Augusta Last family. But, I also now have a copy of a family photo of the real Last … [Read more...]
Mystery Photo: The Last Family
UPDATE: There is an update posted on this mystery photo. We've been doing a bit of cleaning at my grandparent's house recently, which has caused us to come across a lot of new family photos from my maternal side. This comes as a double-edged sword as there are some amazing old photos, including … [Read more...]


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"Closed" under a property, means the result obtained after using the property, belongs to the considered universe W.
So, closed under the axiom of infinity means you can construct an inductive set, and this set is a member of W.
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For example, say your set contains the ordinal . Using the axiom, your universe contains all the ordinals up to