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Race and Conservatism
Race and conservatism? Yes, that was the title of the panel discussion I'd signed up for, at the Robert A. Taft Club in Arlington, Va. I'd signed up without much thought, being of an insecure and self-deprecating nature (ask anyone), and always flattered to be invited to events at clubs and institutions with impressive-sounding names. Once I did start to think about it, mild panic set in. Race and conservatism? What on earth can one say?
In order to say anything, it helps to start with a simplistic view of race, a view that regards Americans as belonging to two races only: black, and nonblack. This is an over-simplification, of course — a first approximation — and I reserve the right to add more detail as I go along, should I find it helpful.
That established, I suppose the first thing one can say is that conservatives — I mean, mainstream, respectable conservatives, the type who edit magazines, or run for office, or get hired to write speeches for Congresscritters and Cabinet officers — are race-shy. That is, in fact, to put it very mildly indeed. While a certain amount of lampooning of the more egregious kinds of black race hustlers — the Sharptons and Farrakhans — is permissible in mainstream conservative circles, and the crazier manifestations of racial guilt, like affirmative action or bans on "racial profiling," can be gently criticized, race as an abstract topic is out of court. You could break wind in a mainstream-conservative gathering and be forgiven, Elizabeth the First style,* but if you were to try to get a conversation about race going, the well-known kitchen-light-switch-and-roaches metaphor would kick in, and your invitations to such gatherings would fall off dramatically thereafter.
The reasons for this race panic on the Respectable Right are, I think, pretty well understood. When, in the late 1950s, race became a national issue, and great numbers of white Americans became aware of the injustice of racial segregation, the activist movement for reform was led by Leftists. When not (as was rather often the case) members of far-Left fringe groups, these people belonged to the northern, urban, egalitarian wing of the Democratic Party. Thus — with assistance from a sympathetic, and largely Leftist, media establishment — the equation "racial justice = Democrat" became lodged in the public mind, and generated an obvious converse: "racial injustice = Republican."
This was all horribly unfair. As Pat Buchanan notes in his latest best-seller: "Democrats had bedded down with segregationists for a century without censure." When Congress voted on the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Republicans in both House and Senate said yea by about 80 percent to 20; among Democrats, the votes went more like 60-40.
Alas, there is no justice in politics. Republicans got stuck as the party of racial discrimination. Since racial discrimination soon came to be seen as the most unspeakable of all evils, and since, from the 1970s on, most conservatives were Republicans, it is not very surprising that conservatives don't want to talk about race.
I think we should, though. Our current silence keeps us out of present trouble, I'll grant; but I believe it stores up future trouble. Let me try to explain.
I am 61 years old. That's old enough to have a clear memory of the Civil Rights movement. To be sure, I watched it from a distance, growing up in England. I followed it with keen interest, though, wishing it well. Racial segregation was an obvious injustice, and we had all heard lurid tales of life in the American South. Like most intelligent teenagers, I was sensitive to injustice, and wanted to see it corrected.
I can tell you a thing that has been considerably forgotten now, flushed away down the memory hole. Here's the thing. At that time, everyone who supported the Civil Rights Movement — everyone, absolutely everyone — assumed that the Movement would, if it succeeded, lead to a more harmonious society, a society in which the races mingled freely as equal citizens, a society in which race mattered to nobody but the manufacturers of cosmetics. They, we, all assumed that if the shackles of legal discrimination were removed, black Americans would swiftly distribute themselves across America's class, income, and status structure in the same proportions as their white fellow-citizens. Why should they not? Human beings form a single biological species. Given a level playing field, any group should perform as well as any other, in any kind of endeavor, shouldn't it?
What a terrible disillusioning there has been! Things did not happen in the least as we expected. True, there has been much improvement. Our nation now has a flourishing black middle class. There is now no obstacle to a capable black American, from any part of the country, rising to any level, in any sphere or profession. The casual mocking and insulting of black Americans by nonblack Americans has been shamed out of our social life.
Yet the numbers did not come out right, not at all. With black people at thirteen percent of our population, we should, if the dreams of the Civil Rights Movement had come true, find that thirteen percent of our engineers and airline pilots, thirteen percent of our storekeepers, contractors, and entrepreneurs, thirteen percent of our prisoners and unwed mothers, are black. This is not, of course, what we find; and the numerical discrepancies are not of the kind called "statistically insignificant." Not at all. Not at all.
Worse yet, and even setting aside issues of class and status, black and nonblack Americans have drifted apart, and in many respects are further from common citizenship now than they were fifty years ago. We do not, for example, watch the same TV programs and movies. The producers of a middle-class domestic comedy movie — one with someone like Meg Ryan or Tom Hanks in it — can leave black people out of the movie altogether if they feel like it, confident in the knowledge that black Americans don't watch that kind of movie anyway. Similarly, sitcoms like Cheers and Friends could field all-white casts with a clear conscience, knowing that the black audience was off somewhere else, watching some different sitcom with an all-black cast.
We don't even name our kids the same way any more. Black Americans were always somewhat more adventurous than nonblacks in choosing names for their children — H.L. Mencken has an interesting section on this in The American Language. It is none the less the case that black and nonblack Americans of 100 years ago for the most part chose their children's names from the same stock. This is no longer the case. More than forty percent of black girls born in the state of California in 2004 got a name that was not given to a single one of the 100,000 nonblack girls born that year.
(In this context, I note something a doctor in New York City once told me. Among Ob-Gyn practitioners in America's inner cities, he said, one chore that has to be performed at pretty regular intervals is dissuading illiterate teenage black mothers from naming their infants "LaTreen.")
Meanwhile, among nonblack Americans, a rigorous and intolerant ideology of "anti-racism" has grown up. The opinions a nonblack American has, or more precisely voices, about race are now a major in-group (I mean, among fellow nonblacks) status marker.
Let me just elaborate on that a little. Modern neuroscience perceives the human brain as a modular structure, different modules performing different functions. Since humans are quintessentially social animals, much of the brain is given over to processing social information. A big part of this information concerns in-group status. We need to be constantly evaluating, and re-evaluating, the status of ourselves and others in the various groups we belong to. A mistake in this respect can be fatal — as, for example, in the case of an undersized low-status male foolishly challenging one of the group's alpha males. Evolution has a way of weeding these things out. Some neuroscientists have postulated an entire module of the brain given over to these highly important issues of in-group status evaluation.
Among American nonblacks in the present age, being known to have "incorrect" opinions about race results in catastrophic loss of status.
A literary example will illustrate the point very well. Here is America's foremost observer of our social mores, Tom Wolfe, writing in the mid-1980s in his novel The Bonfire of the Vanities. In the extract below we have a lower-middle-class but upwardly striving white couple, the Kramers. The Kramers have a baby, and have hired a nurse to help look after it. Their yuppie instincts led them to an agency recommended by the New York Times, and the agency provided them with a crisply-turned-out, briskly efficient, English baby nurse, also white.
The presence of this Englishwoman in their apartment causes considerable psychic stress to the young couple. On the one hand, she is an employee, so of course they, who are paying her wages, ought to outrank her in status. One the other hand she is English. It is a peculiar thing — a very peculiar thing, when you consider this nation's origins — that being English gives you extra status points in the U.S.A. all by itself. It's odd, and I do not know why it is so; but I can assure you, being English-born myself, that it is so. So this baby nurse, socially inferior to the Kramers on an employer-employee scale, actually outranks them on status, just by virtue of being English. The psychic stress is, as I said, acute.
Then one day the husband, wife, and baby nurse are watching news footage of a race riot on TV. The English nurse passes some mildly anti-black remarks: "The colored don't know how good they've got it in this country …" etc. I will let Tom Wolfe tell the rest.
Kramer and his wife looked at each other. He could tell she was thinking the same thing he was.
Thank God in heaven! What a relief! They could let their breaths out now. Miss Efficiency was a bigot. These days the thing about bigotry was, it was undignified. It was a sign of Low Rent origins, of inferior social status, of poor taste. So they were the superiors of their English baby nurse, after all. What a fucking relief.
As always with Tom Wolfe, this is absolutely spot-on social observation. Reveal yourself to be racially "incorrect," and watch your in-group status points go swirling down the toilet. And look at the emotions on display there. In-group status evaluation is not just a matter of cold arithmetic. Powerful emotions are engaged: pride, humiliation, envy, fear. The co-opting of this key portion of the nonblack psyche by "anti-racist" reformers was a tremendous triumph.
So instead of the harmonious race-unconscious society every thoughtful person hoped for fifty years ago, we have this separation, or at least disjunction; and we have this major warping of the nonblack in-group status-evaluation system. (In-group status evaluation among black Americans operates quite differently — another disjunction. Broadly speaking, a black American may express any opinion at all about nonblacks without loss of in-group status.)**
We also, of course, have all the hideous, rickety, noisome, rancorous apparatus of Affirmative Action, corporate shakedowns, sensitivity training, Black History Month, "discrimination" lawsuits, "profiling" protests, speech codes, dumbed-down public service exams, and the rest of it. And then there are the atrocious double standards: Karl Rove making a friendly speech at a conference of La Raza ("The Race"), when we all know that Rove would rather be torn to pieces by wild dogs than be seen in company with even a single individual known to promote, on behalf of Rove's race, what the activists of La Raza promote on behalf of theirs.
It's not a pretty sight. To those dwindling few of us who can remember the hopes of the Civil Rights Movement, it is a great, a terrible, a bitter and painful disillusioning.
How have conservatives responded to this disillusioning? So far as mainstream conservatives are concerned, I don't think it is unfair to reply: with silence and cowardice.
First, the silence. This is quite adequately explained by the remarks I offered above, concerning the origins of the Civil Rights movement, and the rise of "anti-racism" as a major in-group status marker among nonblacks.
(And by way of noting that this is indeed a rise, quite a recent one, let me record a remark I heard in the mid-1980s from an elderly, but perfectly clear-headed, gentleman who was at that time a senior professor in one of the humanities departments of an Ivy League university not a million miles from Cambridge, Massachusetts. I was sitting with Professor X at a table with half a dozen other professional or academic white men, all middle-aged or elderly — a generation or more above the Kramers. I had married my wife a few months before, and brought her out of China to live with me in New York City. I told the professor this. "And what," asked this distinguished gentleman, "what does she think of our noble savages?" Call me naïve, but it took me a moment or two to grasp his meaning. No-one present visibly minded the remark. There was no status loss.)
"Conservative" is a general political designation, of course; but most people who make a point of being known as conservative are in the business of trying to sell ideas to people. They are, or aspire to be, politicians, or commentators, or writers or producers of some kind. These are hard, ill-paid, competitive lines of work, and it is not easy to rise in them. The catastrophic loss of status involved in revealing oneself to have "incorrect" opinions about race is a career-killer in these spheres, and it is not very surprising that mainstream conservatives keep their mouths shut.
The cowardice is a bit harder to excuse. Silence is merely a sin of omission. When a mainstream conservative breaks his silence on race, and opens his mouth, and extrudes words, those words conform in fairly precise particulars to what a Leftist would have said on the same occasion. If, for example, you can persuade a conservative to say anything at all about the extraordinarily high levels of crime among black Americans, he will fall back on standard boilerplate Leftist cant about "root causes"… "oppression"… "discrimination"… "racism"… "poverty"… "legacy of slavery"… "opportunity"…, and so on. His conservatism has evaporated before your eyes. He has become a social engineer, a victimologist. On race, all goodthinkful people are liberals.
Perhaps that is not altogether fair. Some borderline-respectable conservatives — I am thinking here of people like Heather Mac Donald and Ward Connerly — have deviated from orthodoxy enough to give us brilliant, critical essays on topics like racial profiling or affirmative action. This is all activity at the fringes, though. No major American conservative politician — most certainly not our current "compassionately conservative" President — would touch Connerly or Mac Donald with a ten-foot pole.
I tag this mealy-mouthed approach to race among conservatives as cowardice because any given conservative could, at any time, just have kept his mouth shut. That conservatives do not always keep their mouths shut on race might just signify a lack of self-control; that, when they do open their mouths, what comes out is Leftist sociobabble, I call cowardice. Conservatives should challenge liberal orthodoxy at every turn, with a prudent respect for what Willam F. Buckley calls "the prevailing structure of taboos." If that prevailing structure dictates silence, then keep silence. Don't feed, don't nourish, liberal orthodoxy. That is cowardice. In a narrow party-political sense, it is treason.
What, actually, is that orthodoxy? What defines the meaning of those words I have been putting in scare quotes — "correct," "anti-racism," and the rest?
I think a single dogma encompasses it all. For my purposes here, I shall call it the Dogma of Zero Group Differences, or DZGD.
To get to grips with the DZGD, consider the following thought experiment:
Experiment X: Take a largish group — say five thousand — of people at random from any fairly compact, but not too compact, populated region — fifty to a hundred miles across, say — anywhere in the world. Now take a second group of the same size from some other similar region elsewhere. Run both groups through batteries of physical, mental, and personality tests.
What can we say about the results of these tests, of this experiment?
The first, and unhappiest, thing to say is that the results are, by definition, statistical. This is a terrible drawback to sensible discussion in the public, the political, sphere. Statistical truth is extraordinarily difficult for untrained minds to grasp. I know what I am talking about, for I was once a teacher of statistics.
I use a different thought experiment to illustrate this sad truth. Imagine you are addressing a room full of people. We can let them be quite well-educated people, so long as they are not trained statisticians. A room full of students from some university Humanities department will do nicely. Now say the following thing to the room: "Men are, on average, taller than women." I can almost guarantee — it is nearly a dead certainty — that someone in the room will stand up and say something like: "What about Sally? She's taller than any of us. Taller than you, for sure — Ha ha ha ha!" The room will then consider your thesis to have been decisively exploded. Men taller than women? Nonsense! Look at Sally!
That, I am afraid, is how the untrained human mind works. For the past few years I have been writing pop-math books for a living, and let me tell you, it's damn hard work. Mathematical and scientific thinking is deeply unnatural. Statistical thinking about our fellow human beings is doubly or trebly so. It goes against all the grain of human nature, against all the social habits programmed into our brains. Anyone can see Sally, but without special training, no-one can see a group average, let alone a standard deviation. We are all interested in other people, but very few of us are interested in multivariate distributions or correlation coefficients. People magazine has a far, far larger circulation figure than the Notices of the American Mathematical Society, and I am willing to hazard a speculation that this will always be so.
All right, all right; the results of our group tests are statistical. Let's suppose we accept that, and train ourselves to read them. What will they tell us?
Well, it will of course depend on our groups. If one comes from Oslo, Norway, and one from Bismarck, North Dakota, we may find that the statistical profiles of our two groups are wellnigh identical, in spite of the great distance between the two sources. Rather often, however, this will not be the case. Some of the physical statistics will exhibit strikingly different profiles. On height, for example, a group of Netherlanders will show markedly different statistics from a group of Japanese.
Even on physical abilities, we will get different histograms. It is possible that your "racial sensitivity" training has been so thorough you did not notice, but according to John Entine's book Taboo, published in 2000, it was a fact that: "All of the thirty-two finalists in the last four Olympic men's 100-meter races [were] of West African descent." There is likewise a preponderance of East Africans in long-distance running, of Polynesians in American football and Australian rugby, of Northeast Asians in diving, of North Europeans in swimming, and so on.
These things are so obvious, and so well-known, that I think even the most doctrinaire racial egalitarian will defer to them, if you press them on him. He will insist on reframing our Experiment X as follows:
Experiment Y: Take a largish group — say five thousand — of people at random from any fairly compact, but not too compact, populated region — fifty to a hundred miles across, say — anywhere in the world. Now take a second group of the same size from some other similar region elsewhere. Run both groups through batteries of mental and personality tests.
…dropping the "physical" altogether. He will then assert the DZGD, or Dogma of Zero Group Differences, as follows:
The Dogma of Zero Group Differences (DZGD)
Experiment Y will, under all circumstances, with all possible combinations of groups, deliver identical statistical profiles on all metrics, with only statistically insignificant variations.
The DZGD is the ruling dogma of our society in the matter of race. To be regarded as a respectable member of society, you must affirm it, or at very least not openly deny it. If you deny it, or even question it, you must be prepared to see your in-group status points hemorrhage away. Depending on your circumstances, you might even lose your job, or find yourself being sued. And all these things, for the reasons I sketched out above, are especially true for conservatives.
There are three things to be said about the DZGD.
- First, it is empirically false.
- Second, it contradicts everything we know about the natural development of populations of living creatures.
- Third, it causes discord, disorder, and hatred when let loose in a multiracial society. I would go so far as to say that it is a dangerous, poisonous, and evil doctrine.
• Empirically false. The empirical falsehood of the DZGD has been so often demonstrated that only a willful stubbornness, joined with an ingrained terror of being thought insufficiently "anti-racist," could lead anyone to deny the evidence, once it has been fairly presented to him.
There is a widespread public impression that this evidence is of a scattered and dubious sort, assembled by people with axes to grind, probably for nefarious purposes. The late Stephen Jay Gould, who, as well as being a committed "anti-racist," was a Marxist (and not a psychometrician, but a paleontologist), wrote a book to this effect, still widely read and quoted.
This impression is, however, a false one. Good-quality empirical evidence on the quantification of the human personality and human mental abilities now goes back nearly a century. All conceivable objections to this evidence on grounds of methodology have been pondered, debated, and corrected for. Researchers from all over the political spectrum, from Charles Murray, who is a libertarian conservative, to James Flynn, a liberal activist so far to the Left he fled the 1960s U.S.A. on principle to live in New Zealand, are in basic agreement on the core facts of group differences. Statistical differences in scores on various tests of personality and mental ability are as well established as the orbit of the Moon. (An academic sociologist of my acquaintance refers to the famous one-standard-deviation black/white gap on IQ scores as "the fundamental constant of American sociology." The statistically-challenged should note that among the mathematical consequences of this gap is the fact that at least six million black Americans score higher on IQ tests than the average nonblack American.) Because the DZGD holds such sway in the public and political spheres, the academics who know all this stuff perfectly well are mostly silent about it when confronting the general public; but get the man in his lab or study, and you will hear it all.
And the evidence is not, in fact, all locked away in technical literature. If you read a newspaper, even a liberal broadsheet like the New York Times, you cannot fail to have noticed the recurrent stories about how some city fire department, or county police department, or some other public agency with strict entrance requirements, is being sued because black applicants fail the written admission exam at far higher rates than nonblacks.
These stories have been appearing at regular intervals for thirty years, to my certain recollection, and you would have thought that the collective ingenuity of a mighty and populous nation would by now have figured out the cause of them, and the proper means of correction. No, nobody can; it is a perfect bafflement! An unfathomable mystery! The only response anyone can come up with is to keep dumbing down the tests. In my local police department (Suffolk County, Long Island), after a number of lawsuits, this has now gone so far that the test questions are of the type: "What was your favorite athletic activity in high school?" Everyone passes, and applicants are then selected on a straightforward numerical quota by race. Problem solved!
(Similar remarks apply to that other hardy perennial of the broadsheet press, the story about school districts, despite heroic efforts, mysteriously failing to bring black test scores into line with nonblack ones. Under the No Child Left Behind Act, states are required by law to redouble their efforts in this regard — to advance from the merely heroic to the superhuman. States are responding in the only way they can, by cooking the books.)
• Contrary to biology. In almost any population of a living, interbreeding species, you will observe some variations between individuals. The individuals are not all identical. Some of these variations (red hair, in a human population) are heritable; some (appendectomy scars) are not. Some (fleetness of foot in prey animals, camouflage in moths) increase one's chances of surviving and reproducing; some (poor eyesight, a defective immune system) decrease those chances.
Darwin's great insight was that those variations that are both heritable and advantageous will increase in frequency in the population over time, because of differential breeding success. That, said Darwin, is how populations change. And if a population divides, with one part going here and breeding mainly among itself, and another part going there and doing the same, then because the two sub-populations will have different starting "menus" of variation in them ("founder effect"), and perhaps also because they are now in different environments, under different survival stresses, the environment favoring some variations and disfavoring others ("natural selection"), they will diverge from each other over time. And that, said Darwin, explains the origin of species.
The group of modern humans who emerged from Africa 50,000 or so years ago split up in just this way, and settled in various parts of the world as populations interbreeding mainly among themselves. These human groups, and subgroups, and sub-subgroups, developed their own peculiarities as a result of founder effect, natural selection, and some other minor effects I need not go into. There was nothing like enough time for speciation to occur — we are indeed all one species — but there was plenty of time for group differences to develop.
If human groups, long mostly isolated from each other, in severely different environments, and interbreeding mostly among themselves, had not developed distinctive group characteristics, that would be biologically astounding. And of course, we all know that such group characteristics exist. We can see them — skin color, hair texture, stature, muscle-to-fat ratio, epicanthic fold, and so on. Fortunately these visible group characteristics were excluded from the DZGD when we dropped the word "physical." Phew!
Thus, the obvious, visible group differences we are all familiar with are the only ones. There are no others. There are no group differences other than physical ones. That is the DZGD.
It is, as I have said, biologically preposterous. Physical differences are not biologically "privileged" in any way. Since great swathes of our personalities and mental abilities are known, in good functional detail, to be products of brain activity, the physical/mental dichotomy is to a large degree, and perhaps entirely, an artificial one. The brain is an organ. It has an ontogeny and a phylogeny, like any other organ. We know a lot about that ontogeny and that phylogeny, and are learning more at a galloping rate.
• An evil doctrine. Why do I say that the DZGD is a dangerous and evil doctrine? It is false, to be sure; but a false doctrine need not be dangerous. If the generality of Americans came to believe that Jupiter is further away from the Sun than Neptune, they would have come to believe a falsehood; but in all probability, society would go on much as before, and only pedants would feel any distress.
Suppose you are a black American. (You might, of course, actually be a black America — no offense. If you are not, suppose you are.) Looking around, you notice all the familiar statistics of black America: the high rates of incarceration, single parenthood, and other dysfunctions. You also note that black Americans do not do very well in school (statistically speaking), do not have a fair proportion of good jobs, and so on. What is your logical deduction from all this?
If you cleave to the DZGD, as everyone from the President on down insists that you must in order to be accepted into polite society, there is only one possible conclusion you can come to: Some force is keeping black people down. Since, on the DZGD, the statistical profile of your group on all measurable abilities is just like the statistical profile of any other group, there must be some force keeping black people away from society's goods. What other force can that be, but the malice of nonblack people? Oppression! Racism!
The DZGD thus generates discord and hatred. It is touted as a sine qua non of the modern civilized outlook. In fact it is a poisonous, anti-social doctrine, as well as a false one. How on earth did it come to have such a grip on our culture, against all the evidence of our own eyes, all the accumulated experience of the ages, and all the researches of our best minds?
The DZGD also lies behind our county's current insouciance towards mass Third World immigration. If any ten thousand Somalians (say) are statistically indistinguishable from any ten thousand Americans, what difference does it make? It's just a matter of numbers — and we all know that swelling numbers guarantee national wealth and success (look at China, India, Brazil, …). If the DZGD is false, then of course it may not be just a matter of numbers … but that is unthinkable, unsayable. And so the deluge continues. This is a topic all by itself, but it is well aired elsewhere, and I only want to note that the DZGD is a driving force in mass Third World immigration, as well as in inter-racial domestic discord.
But what would happen if we abandoned the DZGD? We shall soon find out. New understandings in population genetics, in paleoanthropology, in neuroscience, are rendering the DZGD more and more untenable. Faith in it will drain away, first among specialists (this has already largely happened), then among the general educated public, and at last among our politicians, educators, and the public at large.
Conservatism, to me, is the politics of the Cold Eye. It strives to see human beings as they are, not through a smeared lens of wishful thinking or abstract ideology. Conservatives have, or used to have, no patience with grand schemes of human improvement via government action. Improvements may happen, but they do so organically, through advances in understanding, or the softening of manners brought on by an easier, less arduous, less dangerous life. These things all rest, to a large degree, on scientific progress. So it will be with the great social improvement brought about by the imminent discrediting of the DZGD.
What will the United States look like when the DZGD has been abandoned? I think we shall be a happier and healthier society. Why should group differences cause anyone discomfort, if frankly accepted? Individual differences do not. All well-adjusted adults accept that on the broad range of human capabilities, any individual will score mediocre, below mediocre, or simply hopeless on most. I tried for years to learn to play tennis, at which my father excelled (I still have his 70-year-old racquet). It was all a waste of time. I was no good, and never could be. I simply don't have hand-eye co-ordination. I stink at a great many other things, too. Even at the things I don't stink at, the things I make my living doing, I know, just in my personal acquaintance, half a dozen people who do them better.
Very few of us indeed are the best in the world at anything, or even strikingly good at anything. Most of us are mediocre at most things, and dismayingly inferior at many. Somehow we live with the knowledge of our own mediocrity — quite cheerfully, in most cases. If we can cope with this knowledge at the level of an individual person, comparing himself with other individual persons, why should we not be able to cope with it at the level of a group — a rather arbitrary group, since none of us picked his ancestors?
I think we shall be surprised to find that we can, once we have got rid of the wretched, poisonous, fallacious DZGD. Some other measures will then be seen to be necessary for social harmony: the abolition of affirmative action and of laws against petty discrimination, a radical overhaul of our dependency-creating social support systems (for which, many good ideas are available for consideration — this one, for instance), different philosophies on education and immigration.
We are not in a very happy place today with race. One large group of citizens avoids, and is avoided by, the other — just look at patterns of residential segregation. The traditional American approach to dire social problems is to move away from them: hence "white flight," the growth of gated communities, new townships in the desert, and so on. That can't go on. The USA is big, but not so big that we can keep running away from each other indefinitely.
To a patriot, in any case, all this separation is obnoxious. Can't we all just get along? We are Americans, for heaven's sake — citizens of the same country. Our country has enemies who hate us, and do not distinguish among us by ancestry group. Why should we distinguish?
And this is not just any country; it is the Can Do country, the problem-solving country, the nation that fixes things. Race slavery was a great wrong: we fixed it. Legal segregation was a lesser wrong, but still intolerable to us at last: we fixed it. Hung up on mid-20th-century social-engineering fantasies, we replaced it with something that, while a still lesser wrong, must none the less be odious to anyone who takes pride in our nation and its ideals, or even just to anyone who wants to be able to walk freely abroad in his own city without doing quick mental statistical analyses on the colors of the faces he sees.
Perhaps we can fix this too, if we start dismantling the edifice of lies and guilt we have built around race this past forty years. And who is going to do the fixing, if not conservatives? Surely not liberals — the party of wishful thinking and social engineering and clientage, the people who once hailed New Soviet Man, who wrecked black family life, who insist that racial guilt be taught to little children in our schools, who encourage whole classes of citizens to think of themselves as victims — victims of the imagined malignity of their fellow Americans.
I have had enough of the sowers of discord, and of that great engine of discord I have called the DZGD. I think it is time we turned aside from the path of error, lies, and folly. Lies beget lies, and nothing good was ever built on lies. We should begin by speaking the truth to each other, citizen to citizen, and by striving to learn actual facts about our human natures, and to adapt our understanding to those facts.
Only conservatives can take the lead here — we conservatives, we who unflinchingly embrace cold fact, we who are unafraid to stare the universe in the face, we who know the difference between ideals and fantasies. It's time we started.
* John Aubrey, the diarist, tells a story about the Earl of Oxford. When the Earl made a low obeisance to the
Queen, he happened to let go a
fart, at which he was so ashamed that he left the country for 7 years. At his return the Queen welcomed him and said,
"My lord, I had forgot the
fart!" See here.
** Jared Taylor, with whom I was debating this topic, interrupted at this point to say that this was not quite right. A black American, he said, will suffer serious loss of in-group status if he expresses a liking for, or admiration of, nonblacks.


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Square Feedback allows your customers to privately message your business with feedback about their experiences – right from their receipts. Learn how your customers provide feedback.
Square Feedback is one part of our full suite of Customer Engagement features.
The Feedback section of your online Square Dashboard will also display messages your customers have sent by replying to an email campaign or direct message.
Note: You can only respond to your customer if they have enabled replies.
Manage Feedback Settings Online
To manage your Feedback settings for each active location:
Go to Customers from your online Square Dashboard.
Click Settings > Feedback.
Under Feedback Settings, enable or disable Collect feedback from your digital receipts. You can also disable Feedback per location.
Your selection will be automatically saved.
Note: If you disable feedback, you may continue to receive feedback from old receipts.
Email Notification Settings
To manage your notifications when a customer leaves feedback:
Go to Customers from your online Square Dashboard.
Click Settings > Feedback.
Under Feedback Notifications, enable or disable Receive customer feedback notifications.
You can add additional feedback recipients. Click Edit to receive notifications for All Feedback or Negative Feedback.
By default, you'll receive feedback notifications for all active locations. If you'd like to receive notifications for only some of your locations, click Edit > Select Locations, choose your locations and then click Save.
You can also add additional direct message recipients.
Note: If you disable Feedback, you'll still be able to read and respond to older messages, and you can enable Feedback for your digital receipts at any time.
View Feedback
You can view and reply to customer feedback directly from your online Square Dashboard. When a customer provides feedback from a receipt, the feedback is associated with the payment in your sales history.
To view Feedback:
Go to Customers from your online Square Dashboard.
Click Feedback.
Use the filters to narrow your feedback search or select All Feedback.
Click a feedback thread to view your customer's comments.
Your customers can choose satisfied (with a smiley face) or dissatisfied (with a frowny face) to describe their experience with your business.
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If customers consent to feedback replies, you'll be able to follow up with them directly. To do so:
Go to Customers from your online Square Dashboard.
Click Feedback.
Select a feedback thread to see transaction information and your customer's comment.
Enter a message, send a promotional reward or refund your customer. If your customer responds, you'll receive an update.
Note: If the customer has not enabled replies to their feedback or has opted out of a conversation, you won't be able to send them a reply or voucher.
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Click Feedback.
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Click Export.
Your feedback report will download to your computer as a CSV file, at which point you can open it using your preferred spreadsheets program.
This report includes:
Report Column | Description |
Date | The calendar date the feedback was left, reflected in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). |
Time | The time the feedback was left, reflected in a 24-hour time format in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). |
Conversation ID | The unique identifier for the conversation. This can be used to find all feedback for a given conversation. |
Comment ID | The unique identifier for each piece of feedback within the conversation. |
Transaction ID | The unique identifier for the transaction associated with the feedback. This will always be set if the channel is a digital receipt. |
Customer ID | The unique identifier for customer who left feedback. |
Customer name | The name of the customer who left feedback. |
Customer Reference ID | The reference ID set for the customer who left feedback. Reference IDs can be set for each customer in Customer Directory. |
Channel | Tells you where this feedback was submitted. For example, from a customer's digital receipt or direct message. |
Location | Reflects which location this comment was submitted for. If your business only has one location, this field will remain blank. |
Author | Tells you if the comment was submitted by your customer or if it's your response to them. |
Sentiment | Tells you if the piece of feedback was positive, negative, or unknown. All comments where the customer selected the smiley face are positive, if the frowny face was selected it is negative. The sentiment will be unknown if the feedback did not come from a digital receipt. |
Facet | The area your customer has given you feedback on. For example, Customer Service, Environment, Quality, etc.. Note: Facet options displayed to your customer are determined by your business type. |
Comment | The full text of your customer's comment. |


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The Internet of . . . License Plates?
The Internet of . . . License Plates?
Have you ever spent two hours at the DMV, listening to the monotone voice saying, "Now serving 125" and your number is 140? You let out a groan and sink deeper into your seat. Most people absolutely dread the DMV. What if there was a solution that could take away the wasted time from registering your car?
Have you heard of the new technology—a digital license plate? What a neat concept—using technology similar to that of a 'Kindle', your license plate number and registration would be displayed on a screen.
What would these digital license plates change?
To begin, there would be no more sitting in the DMV waiting for a new sticker displaying your updated registry. Instead, you'd have to make your payment online and this modern technology would update your registration digitally. Could you imagine?
If your vehicle is stolen, the new technology would help track down the missing vehicle quicker and more efficiently. The new license plates would display things such as advertisements, weather warnings, and Amber Alerts. The Amber Alert and the registration would be listed right on the license plate for all to see. All these features could be beneficial and make our lives easier.
The main concern with these license plates is privacy. How would you feel about your license plates containing technology that could track your car down? Would you feel safer, or would you feel that your privacy has been violated? If information regarding your car's location will be accessible, what other kind of personal information would be available?


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Free Fight
CAUTION: SPOILERS INCLUDED – On last week's episode of The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck, Josh Koscheck's squad finally got on the board thanks to Nam Phan's win over Spencer Paige. Now the task is to see if they can grab two victories in a row.
Still basking in the glow of victory, Josh Koscheck has control of the next fight pick and he and his team are pondering which matchup to make. Meanwhile, the members of Team GSP aren't too happy about Team Koscheck's post-fight celebration after the Phan-Paige fight, and they're vowing to get even.
"I think the yellow team completely forgot that we already won three fights and we didn't rub it in at all, and it shows their true side – they're just not good sports."
Koscheck didn't make matters any better when he came to the house and started getting into some trash talk with Team GSP's Michael Johnson. But what really matters is what happens in the Octagon, and for this week's first fight, Team Koscheck's Marc Stevens is pitted against Cody McKenzie, who gives Koscheck a little poke in the face at the square off with his opponent.
And when the bell rings, McKenzie lives up to his confident words, taking Stevens out within seconds with his signature move – the guillotine choke.
"Man…oof," is all Koscheck can say. "Did that just happen?"
With the win, Team GSP moves to 4-1 and regains control of the fight picks. And in the next fight, St-Pierre picks Jonathan Brookins to face Sevak Magakian.
First, there's a little bad news for St-Pierre, who gets cut on the eyebrow while training with his team, but he insists to his future opponent, Koscheck, that he'll be ready for their December bout in Montreal.
In this week's second bout, Brookins takes control early with a nice takedown, and when Magakian tries to scramble up, Brookins takes his back. Magakian makes it to his feet, but eventually he succumbs to a rear naked choke and, like Stevens, gets put to sleep.
With this second win of the week, Team GSP improves to 5-1 and retains control. Here's how the teams look:
Team GSP
Michael Johnson 1-0
Jonathan Brookins 1-0
Spencer Paige – Eliminated on episode five by Nam Phan
Alex Caceres 1-0
Kyle Watson 1-0
Cody McKenzie 1-0
Dane Sayers
Team Koscheck
Marc Stevens – Eliminated on episode six by Cody McKenzie
Sevak Magakian – Eliminated on episode sic by Jonathan Brookins
Sako Chivitchian
Andrew Main – Eliminated on episode four by Kyle Watson
Nam Phan 1-0
Aaron Wilkinson – Eliminated on episode three by Michael Johnson
Jeffrey Lentz – Eliminated on episode two by Alex Caceres
For weekly recaps of The Ultimate Fighter, as well as fighter profiles, stay tuned to UFC.com.


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The Shack of VK3JED
This page has received hits since May 1 1999
Note: I accept electronic QSLs and will provide electronic QSLs if requested. To QSL me electronically, please email your completed QSL in .GIF, .JPG or .PNG format (any other format will be discarded) to firstname.lastname@example.com . A return QSL will be emailed to the address you posted from, unless you request replies be directed to another address. To request an electronic QSL on air, either quote your email address, or ensure it is available on qrz.com or Buckmaster. Electronic QSLs will be provided in .GIF format. If you prefer to QSL via the post (i.e. the traditional way), please QSL direct.
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Work trams and trains via satellite! - Click here for more information
Radio interests:
VHF/UHF - I've spent the majority of my on air time (> 90%) above 50 MHz. I play a little on HF and enjoy that too, especially while mobile on long trips.
Data communications - Computers and networking are my other technical interest, so it's natural to want to merge the two. I have been on packet in the past, and intend to get back on when circumstances permit (propagation here is roughly equivalent to that of a mineshaft, and antenna space is limited :( ). Hope to see, and take part in the development of a high speed, multi purpose data network, capable of carrying voice, data and other traffic. I am working on a high speed point to point microwave link suitable for the data backbone. APRS via satellite is another potentially interesting data application.
Public transport mobile - Yes, that means operating from a tram, train or bus! One way to pass the time spent travelling to work, and a great way to indulge in radio without intruding on one's home or work life! Also a challenge to develop suitable compact, yet effective antennas. This is my major mode of operation these days, I can be found on VK3RSE (439.375 MHz) or VK3RCC (438.100 MHz, 123Hz CTCSS) most weekday mornings and afternoons.
ARDF (Amateur Radio Direction Finding) - An exciting mix of foxhunting and orienteering, both physically and mentally challenging.
Contesting - I enjoy the John Moyle Field Day and Remembrance Day contest (VHF and up, of course :) ). Also occasionally work the Spring or Summer VHF/UHF Field Days, if circumstances permit.
Amateur satellites - The new breed of FM repeater satellites makes Amateur satellite operation accessible to more people.
Internet Repeater Linking - Connect your repeater to others interstate or around the world! Work DX from your VHF/UHF handheld!
Internet Linking Roundup - Which Internet linking system is best for you?
Amateur Television (ATV) - Communicate with pictures over the air!
Weather - Here are some ideas for using amateur radio for weather spotting.
Are you a user of Melbourne's amateur repeaters?
If so, you may be interested in the VK3RSE users' mailing list. While primarily oriented towards Melbourne's VK3RSE repeater users, this list discussed repeater happenings and talk around Melbourne. Interesting contacts, QRM reports, LIPDs, radio reviews and information, coming events and general chit chat between users of Melbourne's amateur repeaters. If you'd like to join, send an email to email@example.com with the word 'subscribe' in the message body, and follow the instructions in the reply you receive. Existing subscribers will notice a new list address. There is no need for existing subscribers to re subscribe, existing subscribers have been migrated to the new list server. The old freeway.apana.org.au addresses now redirect mail to the new system, in case you forget. :-)
VK Microwave Operators Mailing List.
Do you operate on bands above 1000 MHz, or are interested in operating in these bands? Amateurs who operate on microwave bands and anyone interested in microwave operation are invited to subscribe to VK-SHF. To subscribe, send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com, with the word "subscribe" in the body of the message.
Topics for discussion on the list include:
CB Australia mailing list.
Not licenced yet? Or prefer to use CB radio instead? Then CB-Australia is the mailing list for you. CB-Australia is a mailing list specifically for Australian CB radio operators and enthusiasts, and was created to address the lack of online forums for Australian CB operators to discuss their issues and exchange ideas. For too long, Aussie CBers have had to try a ham radio or scanner newsgroup and risk an "off topic" warning or other harassment. Topics on the list include anything to do with legal CB operation in Australia, as well as other "publicly accessible" radio networks, such as the RFDS HF frequencies. To subscribe, go to http://www.onelist.com/community/cb-australia and log in (If you haven't used onelist before, you will need to register first). Alternatively, you can send email to email@example.com. Some examples of topics relevant to CB-Australia include:
Please note that Amateur Radio is off topic, due to the vast array of existing resources devoted to Amateur Radio already on the Internet.
VK3RTL Live on the Internet!
After a long absence of streaming audio, the new repeater system here has been fitted with a streaming audio feed for Internet listeners to enjoy. Like the previous streaming service, the VK3RTL feed uses streaming MP3 audio and can be played by most popular media players on most platforms. So far, Windows, Mac and Linux systems have reported working well with the stream.
The audio content is basically a 24x7 feed of activity (both local and Internet linked) on VK3RTL. Listeners in the western suburbs of Melbourne can also listen on 438.600 MHz if they have a scanner.
While there may be long periods of time where there is no audio on the feed, this just means that there is no activity on the system. However, there are a number of scheduled nets that may be of interest. As of March 2004, the schedule is:
To listen in, simply point your favourite streaming media player at:
http://liveaudio.irlp.net:8002 and sit back and listen! Note that the audio may be delayed by up to several minutes. This is normal.
Articles: (otherwise known as the soapbox :) ).
My Thoughts on a Foundation Licence - A new class of licence for Australia?
Public Transport Mobile Operation - Equipment, tips and techniques.
Internet Linking Roundup - Which Internet linking system is best for you?
ARDF - Navigation and fitness using radio.
Amateur Satellites on Rails! - One way to work DX while commuting.
Working your first satellite! - A short primer on FM satellite operation.
Satiquette - Good manners for Amateur FM satellite operators.
My vision for the future of Amateur Radio
High speed point to point microwave link for the backbone of a future high speed amateur data network.
What Amateur Radio means to me.
Icom IC-T81A Quad band handheld transceiver.
Hytera PD362 DMR/FM handheld transceiver (on Hyters's website).
Dragon SS-201 10 metre all mode handheld transceiver.
Diamond SRH999 Quad Band Handheld Antenna.
Diamond V2000 Tri Band Base Antenna.
Retro review - Philips FM92A VHF mobile transceiver.
Retro review - Icom IC-745 HF Transceiver
Retro review - Standard C58 Portable 2m All Mode Transceiver.
Files (Miscellaneous downloads and info will appear here).
2.4 GHz omni antenna Part 1 - Collinear for 13cm amateur or wireless LAN use (courtesy "Amateur Radio", Jan 1993).
2.4 GHz omni antenna Part 2 - Collinear for 13cm amateur or wireless LAN use (courtesy "Amateur Radio", Jan 1993).
Other radio related sites:
Wireless Institute of Australia - the national representative body.
Looking for the closest Amateur repeater? VK voice repeaters listed here (courtesy WIA).
Or perhaps a CB repeater? Here's a UHF CB repeater list (courtesy VK2CA).
QNEWS - The weekly news from the WIA Queensland Division (includes Real Audio broadcasts!).
VK3RHF - Melbourne's 10 metre repeater.
Study for your licence online!.
VK2CA's Australian Amateur Radio site - Very comprehensive site, with lots of information, too much to mention here.
Mini Kits - Build your own VHF/UHF/Microwave gear.
Lionel, VK3NM's 6 metre page.
QRZ.COM International callsign server and lots of useful data.
Got an amateur radio related site and nowhere to put it? Try QSL.NET!
Put your SoundBlaster to use on the air with these programs!
An excellent UK based site by Jeremy, G4NJH.
This RingSurf Australian
Amateur Radio Net Ring owned by Tony, VK3JED. The BEST way to tour Australian Ham sites. Want to join the Australian Amateur Radio Ring? |
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How many cars valued at greater than $10,000 travel the highways? How many trucks carrying cargo are worth more than $10,000? $50,000? $100,000?
According to the 2010 census, the median family net worth exceeded $200,000. That amount includes houses, cars, savings, retirement funds, cash in the bank, college savings, and furniture and personal effects. Half the families are worth more, half have assets less than $200,000; all of it is hard earned.
If the family is underinsured for liability, their net worth is vulnerable to be seized in a lawsuit based on injuries or property damage caused by any family member driving a vehicle. The car owner and the car driver become parties to the suit.
Bodily injuries sustained in car wrecks devastate lives. People unable to work, the high cost of medical treatment, rehabilitation expenses, and the pain and suffering can only be compensated with money. The money comes from the insurance company or the liable party's personal wealth.
Not convinced you need higher limits? Not all liabilities are released in bankruptcy. Many states have specific legislation disallowing debt reduction for certain accidents, most notably driving while intoxicated. Wage plans reduce take home pay by as much as 33%. Many employers do not tolerate either bankruptcy or wage garnishments.
Still not convinced? How about a selfish motivation?
Other drivers are either uninsured or underinsured. Most insurance companies will not provide uninsured motorist coverage in limits greater than the liability limits of the policy.
Uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage from your policy pays on behalf of the driver who hits you if they are poorly insured. In a classic exercise of the golden rule, insurance companies only sell limits commensurate with the protection you offer others.
Proper limits of liability allow you to protect yourself from the improper coverage other people maintain.
So how much coverage is enough? What are reasonable limits of liability?
Ask our insurance professionals. And consider this:
Your assets are your excess insurance coverage. This means that when the limits of your policy are reached, your assets are at risk. Excess insurance – Umbrella policies, for example – is available in $1 million layers over your Automobile and Homeowners liability limits if those limits qualify – are high enough. Protect yourself against underinsured drivers by increasing your uninsured motorist coverage.


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WHEAT:NEWS TV DECEMBER 2018 Volume 5, Number 12
Beware of Little Expenses
Beware of little expenses. "A small leak can sink a great ship." These words by Benjamin Franklin are as relevant today as ever, so let's talk about some of those little expenses that can add up in a typical studio project.
Wire creep. Cabling and wiring costs can creep up on you, especially if you haven't thought beyond the sticker price of a console. A standalone digital or analog audio console will always require more in wiring than an IP audio console. You're looking at roughly $2,300 to $3,000 fixed cost to connect up to a prewired standalone console compared to less than $350 for an IP routed audio console. That's $2,300 to $3,000 for AES audio cabling with the necessary punch blocks versus $350 at the most for inexpensive, off-the-shelf CAT cable (even with adapter and interconnects) to route audio and control into and out of a WheatNet-IP audio network console.
Soundcards. The real math. We all know the math: a couple hundred for an IP audio driver versus $2,500-plus for a soundcard. But, did you know that there are hidden costs associated with soundcards? And, that the soundcard you purchased a year or two ago can continue to cost you money? Setting aside the cost of the soundcard itself as well as a few hundred more for the wiring kit and break out box (not to mention the labor to put it all together), the next big cost is what you will interface to that soundcard. If it's an analog console, a soundcard will chew up two or three faders and the equivalent in physical inputs on the console. If it's an IP audio network, you can add the cost of an I/O node or access unit – at $2,000 to $3,000 a pop – to get the audio into the system. Compare that to an IP audio driver, which requires a single port on the Cisco network switch to bring that audio into the network.
One broadcast group saved more than $200,000 by going with WheatNet-IP audio drivers instead of soundcards for a new studio buildout.
Obsolescence costs. Some things are worth keeping. If you have a trusty analog console and it works, modernize it by connecting it up to the IP audio network. We've hooked up plenty of our analog consoles to WheatNet-IP audio networks. All it takes is an I/O BLADE and some CAT cable to get audio and logic in and out of the network.
DIY networking. Specialized tools and supplies like crimpers, solder and connectors can add up quickly, particularly if you have to bring in a technician or two to use them. You might be able to drastically cut those expenses by going with AoIP and doing the majority of system setup yourself. Later, you can always bring in a technician or integrator for the final commissioning. If you can rack up an Ethernet switch and plug in a cable, you can probably set up a WheatNet-IP audio network without much incident – or incidental expense.
Even if you have our factory customize, stage, and test the entire network, it's probably going to save you thousands over having to bring in the technical help to do the same. We set up and commission entire WheatNet-IP audio network systems for customers in our factory, complete with GPI/O triggers, machine starts and stops, and hardware layout and configuration. All the customer has to do is plug in the I/O units and consoles, and most of the final setup can be done online by our factory technicians. Once it's all powered up and plugged in, any changes can be done in software with a few mouse clicks.
Sharing is saving. It's hard to put a value on what it means to be able to share and access all resources across a network. But, we'll try! For example, having a stereo multiband processor built into our I/O BLADEs in our WheatNet-IP audio network saves at least $500 to $1000, which is what you would pay for the equivalent in an outboard processor. AGC, EQ/dynamics and compressor processing built into our WheatNet-IP audio network BLADEs means you can improve remote audio quality and process satellite feeds without paying one additional penny in hardware. Also included in most BLADEs are two 8x2 stereo mixers to sum, split, bypass and segue programming. These networked utility mixers are useful for all sorts of purposes, from creating an emergency intercom system to doing the backend mixing for a virtual interface (which you can create, by the way, using these AoIP virtual development tools). You can feasibly create an entire virtual news desk on a tablet. The cost savings: priceless.
These are in addition to the usual cost savings you can expect by sharing resources across the network, which in itself can eliminate the cost of having to buy extra codecs, tuners and storage devices.
An IP audio network system will add a few more items like switches onto the capital expenditure side, true. But such systems will easily save you the equivalent on the incidental expense side – and then some. Less system infrastructure means less furniture, which means smaller studios and smaller real estate, which is where some of the bigger cost savings are realized.
Q: It might be some time before we're an entirely IP run operation. What do I do in the meantime with HD/SDI and other feeds that we'll continue to run through our facility?
A: Just because you go with an IP audio network doesn't mean that you lock yourself out of all that. That's where specialty access units come in handy. For example, we have a MADI I/O BLADE that hooks into our WheatNet-IP audio network to manage 64 channels of MADI I/O data. We have another HD/SDI BLADE that de-embeds audio from HD-SDI streams, and we even have a four-channel mic processor BLADE (our M4IP-USB) that can put mic processing on the network to be shared among all your microphones, separate settings and all. Another important point is that we also have AES67 compatibility built into our I/O BLADEs that make up the WheatNet-IP audio network, so if you have another audio network that you need to transport audio to and from, it can be done through this IP audio transport standard.
Now Is The Time To Back Up
By Wheatstone Systems Engineer Paul Picard
Backing up systems files is cheap insurance. It costs you very little in terms of time and storage media, and can save you hours upon hours of work trying to recover a system from scratch. You know that, of course. But do you know which files are important and where to find them to back up your Wheatstone TDM network? Wheatstone's Paul Picard walks you through what you need to know.
Before our WheatNet-IP audio network came along, Wheatstone TDM audio networks were quite popular. Wheatstone's BRIDGE and GIBRALTAR networks were and are stalwart, solid workhorses. Many of those systems are still going strong, and if you've got one, we want to keep it that way until you're ready to take the IP audio plunge!
So now, while your system's in good shape, is the very best time to make a backup of recent systems files. What happens if you lose a CPU card in a system with only a single CPU? What if one of your switches should fail? As test pilot Chuck Yeager was known for saying, "Never wait for trouble."
Even if you have an original copy, those files are useful only as a factory reset. Reloading original files will restore it to its "first birthday" state, just as it was shipped to you. But if your system's been running for a decade or so and has been constantly evolving, that's probably the last thing you want.
That default configuration will only clear out any changes and updates you've made to the system.
Wheatstone's TDM networks are configured using an application called XPoint, which runs on a Windows PC. This application stores a copy of the entire system configuration. On the Windows PC you've been using for your system over the years is a copy of everything – the current system configuration, as stored by XPoint as of the last time you made any change. That's what you want to preserve. With that in hand, you can bring the system back from any casualty.
Be sure to back that up NOW, while everything's still working.
Here's how. On the PC where you run XPoint, look for a subdirectory called "Wheatstone." It will usually be at C:\Program Files (x86)\Wheatstone\XPoint. On older versions of Windows it might be at C:\Program Files\Wheatstone\XPoint. Pop in a USB flash drive and copy that entire folder to it. Grabbing the whole thing is best, says Picard, because it's now portable. You can plug that flash drive into any Windows PC and restore the folder to the same place. The XPoint application is very portable; it should run on any version of Windows.
Each time you make a change to your system, make sure to update your backup drive so that if you should ever have to use it, it won't undo any recent changes.
You might also have other important settings that aren't stored in XPoint and these can be backed up, too. For example, on a control surface you might have a number of snapshots (stored console configurations) that you'd want to save. You can back up the full configuration of every device on your system using FTP. It's a bit more involved but it saves absolutely everything.
For assistance with this procedure, contact me or our support team at firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com and we'll get you started.
The Making of a Studio Starts Here
In addition to designing and building consoles and IP audio networking gear right here in New Bern, NC, USA, we regularly set up large systems like you'll see in this video series. We test how our gear is going to be used in their destination studios to ensure everything will work flawlessly. We then invite the customer to visit the factory to get a hands-on feel for how everything will work together before it's all put into operation in their own studios.
This particular series is of Bonneville Broadcasting's Salt Lake City studio, just one of dozens of studio installs we customize, commission and test each year.
Our Annual Holiday Video
Scott Johnson put this holiday video together for 2017 and it's so good that we are reprising it for 2018. Enjoy!
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Top Tickets: February 2013
By Kay Kipling
Sheryl Crow Multiple Grammy winner Crow (All I Wanna Do, Soak Up the Sun) makes her Sarasota debut with a rocking concert at 8 p.m. Feb. 15 at the Van Wezel; it's also the night of the Van Wezel Foundation's gala, with dinner and a cocktail hour part of the package. Show tickets, 953-3368 or vanwezel.org; for the gala, 366-5578 or vwfoundation.org.
Beyond Words Bill Bowers, often compared to Chaplin, Keaton and his teacher, Marcel Marceau, for his gift of performing wordlessly, brings his one-man show to the Historic Asolo Theater Feb. 7-9 in a Ringling Museum Art of Our Time/New Stages offering. It's an autobiographical look, with some music and monologues, at what it means to be male in our society. 360-7399, ringling.org.
9 to 5 For anyone who's ever worked that daily grind with a boss he or she hates, this one's for you. Originally a movie starring Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton as working girls oppressed by a sexist male; now a musical with songs (Backwoods Barbie, Cowgirl's Revenge and more) by Parton. It has its Sarasota premiere Feb. 14-24 at the Players. 365-2494, theplayers.org.
Sarasota Orchestra Masterworks Beethoven's grand Ninth, conducted by Alessandro Siciliani, right, and lifted by the voices of Gloria Musicae singers under chorus master Joseph Holt, dominates this Feb. 28 Van Wezel concert, which also features Martucci's Notturno No. 1 and Verdi's Aida Sinfonia. (More performances coming March 1, 2 and 3.) Tickets, 953-3434 or sarasotaorchestra.org.
Sarasota Opera: Turandot In the largest production of its history, the Sarasota Opera presents Puccini's tale of a beautiful, cold princess (Brenda
Harris) and the prince determined to win her (Jonathan Burton). Conducted by Victor De Renzi, directed by Stephanie Sundine, and onstage Feb. 9, 12, 17, 20, 23 and 28 (with more performances in March). 328-1300, sarasotaopera.org.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson's estate has acknowledged it has limited some relatives' access to the home shared by the singer's mother and children in the wake of a family feud that turned into a driveway argument last week.
The estate's statement released Monday afternoon does not specify which members of Jackson's family are no longer allowed at the home and says the list is subject to change. The statement says an approved guest list was requested by an attorney for TJ Jackson, the son of Tito Jackson who was appointed temporary guardian of the children last week.
"It is imperative to the estate that from this point forward a safe and appropriate environment be provided for Michael Jackson's children and his mother," the statement reads. The children and Katherine Jackson live in a gated community in suburban Calabasas that is more private than the family's longtime home in Encino, which is on a public street.
The statement was issued in response to an online report by journalist Roland Martin that Jackson's siblings Randy, Janet and Jermaine have been blocked from visiting the home. The trio was present in a July 23 driveway scuffle that the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department is still investigating as a possible battery.
The Jackson siblings followed a vehicle carrying Jackson's children, Prince, Paris and Blanket, through security gates and "ambushed" the children and their caretakers, an attorney for family matriarch Katherine Jackson said last week. The elder Jackson was out of contact with the children for roughly 10 days while at an Arizona spa, which prompted a missing person's report and concerns about her health.
TJ Jackson, the late singer's nephew, plans to become a co-guardian in an agreement reached last week after Katherine Jackson returned to the home.
Katherine Jackson's attorney Perry Sanders Jr. said last week that TJ Jackson would take over day-to-day operations and staff oversight at the Calabasas home. The move will free Katherine Jackson to focus on the upbringing of the children, who range in ages from 10 to 15, Sanders said.
Siblings Randy, Janet, Rebbie and Jermaine Jackson have signed a letter calling on the executors of Jackson's estate to resign. Randy Jackson has accused the executors, attorney John Branca and music executive John McClain, of trying to isolate Katherine Jackson from relatives who are critical of them.
"It is my fear and belief, that they are trying to take my mother's life," Randy Jackson wrote last week.
Randy Jackson has also claimed his brother's will is a fake, a claim the estate denies.


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Q (Desmond Llewelyn)
Datastream Character: Q Actor: Desmond Llewelyn Movies: From Russia With Love - Diamonds Are Forever; The Man With The Golden Gun - The World Is Not Enough Status: Retired Appearance: Tall and slim with receding grey hair, high cheekbones, a welcoming smile and dark brown eyes. Date of Birth: 12th September 1914 Height: 6' 2" (1.88m) Place of Birth: Newport, South Wales, UK
"Remember, if it hadn't been for Q Branch, you'd have been dead long ago."
Pleased To Meet You James Bond first meets with Major Boothroyd, head of Q-Branch, at MI6 before being dispatched to Istanbul. The soon-to-be familiar gadget-master gives an impatient 007 a detailed rundown on his latest creation: a nasty bag of tricks in the form of a sleek brown attaché case.
Personality Boothroyd is a genuinely kind and resourceful man who has spent over 35 years of his life in public service. Having replaced his superior as the head of his department shortly before the "From Russia With Love" mission, the Major quickly earned his nickname 'Q', after his department. The name stuck and the man became a frequent asset to the secret service inner circle. In demeanour Q is the stereotypical boffin with an answer to everything.
"Inside the case you'll find an AR7 folding sniper's rifle, .25 caliber, with an infrared telescopic sight."
He clashes wits with 007 regularly, and finds the agent's reckless regard for government property - and his painstaking work in particular - completely exasperating. Nonetheless, Bond almost always gets his way, with Q allowing Bond to field-test some of his most precious gizmos. It may first appear that Q has no time for practical jokes or humour, but this is not the case. He is, however, serious about his work and expects others to treat his creations with due respect.
Involvement Q's work is simply too varied and his department's achievements too numerous to list in any detail. However, this dossier will give a broad overview of Q-Branch inventions utilised by 007 as well as the Major's involvement in James Bond's missions.
The gadget-man would quickly become accustomed to working in the field - first assembling a makeshift laboratory in the Bahamas at 007's request, when the spy was tailing Largo on the "Thunderball" mission. Q has supplied equipment to Bond in the field numerous times since, including work on location in: Japan, Hong Kong, Sardinia, Rio de Janeiro, India, Isthmus and Germany.
Notably, Q went behind the back of his superiors on the "Licence To Kill" mission in order to provide 007 with anther infamous Q-Branch bag of tricks; this time including Dentonite Toothpaste, X-Ray Polaroid camera and a portable Fingerprint Signature Gun. The Major also gets involved in 'field work' - not for the first time - driving the Tug for 007 as he stows away onboard the Wavekrest and together with CIA pilot, Pam Bouvier, Q traces Bond's movements as he infiltrates Sanchez's drug smuggling racket.
Although he is unable to brief 007 in person on the "Live And Let Die" mission, the only documented case of this occurrence, Q-Branch issues Bond (via M) with an updated Rolex watch complete with magnet and buzz saw.
Q is clearly shaken by the death of his Indian colleague, Vijay, whilst on watch duty for the "Octopussy" affair. The gadget-master is unaccustomed to the stark realities of the field and it is finding his partner's masticated body that deters Q from frequent fieldwork.
"Look, 007, I've had a long and tiring journey, probably to no purpose, so I'm in no mood for juvenile quips."
The department is particularly able at turning out 'fully loaded' customised sports cars - namely Aston Martin and BMW marques - that serve as company cars for MI6's highest profile agents.
Q is often called into briefings in order to explain the technical elements of a mission to 007 or another of his colleagues. He describes the revolutionary submarine tracking system as 'quite simple' in "The Spy Who Loved Me", and is frequently able to rattle off an explanation for the latest technology, much to the bemusement of M and others.
"Don't touch that! That's my lunch."
The work of Boothroyd and his department is widely known and respected - often too widely - by the intelligence community. This is demonstrated by Russian Agent Anya Amasova's working knowledge of Q's pride and joy, a Lotus Esprit submarine, dubbed 'Wet-Nellie'. Incidentally, the codename (Little) 'Nellie', was first used years earlier by Q-Branch for a light-weight flying craft, technically known as an auto-gyro, that served 007 on the "You Only Live Twice" mission.
In his senior years, Q began to train an apprentice - although reports seem to suggest that the gadget-master found his assistant less than adequate. Dubbed 'R' by James Bond, prior to departing on the "World Is Not Enough" mission, the apprentice would take over the management of Q-Branch after Boothroyd's retirement.
Quotes Bond: Ejector seat? You're joking! Q: I never joke about my work, 007.
Q: Right. Now pay attention, 007. I want you to take great care of this equipment. There are one or two rather special accessories... Bond: Q, have I ever let you down? Q: Frequently.
Q: I've been saying for years, sir, that our special equipment is obsolete. And now, computer analysis reveals an entirely new approach: miniaturization. For instance, radioactive lint. When placed in an opponent's pockets, the anti-personnel and location fix seems fairly obvious.
"Oh and they missed you, what a pity!"
Q: Now, this I'm particularly proud of - behind the headlights, stinger missiles! Bond: Excellent, just the thing for unwinding after a rough day at the office. Q: Need I remind you, 007, that you have a license to kill, not to break the traffic laws.
Vijay: Is he still there? Q: You must be joking! Double-0 seven on an island populated exclusively by women? We won't see him till dawn!
Q: Something we're making for the Americans. It's called a "Ghetto Blaster".
Q: I've always tried to teach you two things. First, never let them see you bleed. Bond: And the second? Q: Always have an escape plan.
Q: It has not been perfected, out of years of patient research, ENTIRELY for that purpose, 007. And incidentally, we'd appreciate its return, along with all your other equipment, INTACT for once, when you return from the field. Bond: Well, you'd be surprised the amount of wear and tear that goes on out there in the field.
Bond: [handing Q his coat] Do you think you can help me? Someone seems to have stuck a knife in my wallet. Q: Oh, and missed you, did they? What a pity!
Bond: Well, that takes care of the normal wear-and-tear. Is there any other protection I need? Q: Only from me 007, unless you bring that car back in pristine order.
Minister of Defence: My God, what's Bond doing? Q: I think he's attempting re-entry, sir.
Desmond Llewelyn In-Depth Biography
Biography Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn was born on September 12th, 1914. At age 9, Desmond attended the Priory preparatory boarding school before enrolling at Radley College, a Church of England boy's school in Oxfordshire. Llewelyn earned a small-time job at the local theatre as a stage hand before a friend convinced him to try out for a new production at the theatre - this time for an on-stage role. After his debut he worked on and off with the Forsyth Players before joining the priesthood. He quickly discovered that lifestyle was not for him and his gregarious personality enamoured Desmond with the ladies he met.
On 16th May 1938, Desmond married his high school girlfriend Pamela Pantlin and the pair would remain together until Desmond's passing. Llewelyn was accepted into RADA but not before he would have to serve a stint in the army, as the Second World War saw a halt in his acting career.
In 1946 Desmond was cast in a screen adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and followed this up with a role in the mini-series "My Wife Jaqueline".
Llewelyn's big-screen debut would not come until the '50s. The film was a war-drama, "They Were Not Divided", directed by Terence Young.
He was quickly cast in the second of many James Bond films to come, by its director (Young) but it was not until "Thunderball" that his character, Q, would earn the famous nickname.
The role of Q was one that required hours of preparation for Desmond. Throughout his career on the Bond pictures - appearing in 18 out of 19 consecutive adventures - Llewelyn would battle with the outrageously complicated dialogue he was required to deliver.
With the commercial success of "Goldfinger", Llewelyn and his fellow Bond filmmakers were flung into stardom. His scenes quickly became something of a feature of each film and Q became a favourite of Bond fan's. His scenes were always eagerly awaited by cinemagoers.
"Fully loaded I think is the term."
Between 1971 and 1974 Desmond was performing as one of the regulars in English drama "Follyfoot". The show ran for three seasons and Llewelyn's character of Geoffrey Maddocks appeared in all but two. With Llewelyn busy with his regular "Follyfoot" commitments, the Bond producers took the opportunity to experiment with a different form of Bond, when they introduced Roger Moore as 007 in "Live and Let Die".
Llewelyn never shared the spoils of having a film contract, nor did he receive bonuses based on the series' success so it was on the receiving a larger part in the "Licence To Kill" story that Llewelyn remarked it was the first time he had made any real money out of Bond.
"The World Is Not Enough" saw Q hand over to R (John Cleese) in preparation for Llewelyn's retirement from the Bond films. It was to be his last Bond film, whether he truly intended this or not.
On the 19th of December 1999, exactly a month after the opening of "The World Is Not Enough", Llewelyn was driving home from a book-signing of "Q: The Biography of Desmond Llewelyn" when his vehicle collided with another on the A27 in East Sussex. The other driver was seriously injured and Desmond passed away in hospital a few hours later - he was 85. At his memorial service, friends and family from throughout his life and career appeared to pay tribute. His sons spoke as well as many of his Bond colleagues, including Roger Moore, who delivered the eulogy.
Above: Sean Connery and Desmond Llewelyn on the set of "Thunderball"