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Speech, Language and Hearing: Undergraduate Programs
The undergraduate program in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences is designed to provide students with a strong broad-based Bachelor of Science degree that builds upon the general education curriculum in English composition, the biological and physical sciences, mathematics, and social and behavioral sciences. Coursework within the two-year major provides an understanding of the biological, acoustic, psychological, developmental, linguistic, and cultural foundations of human communication processes. This includes normal aspects of speech production and perception, language processing, hearing, swallowing, and the cognitive and social aspects of communication. The curriculum also provides a strong background regarding the nature of communication disorders, and the basic principles of treatment. The undergraduate degree is preparatory for graduate study in speech-language pathology, audiology, and research degrees in speech, language, and hearing sciences. However, the undergraduate major is designed to foster critical thinking, writing skills, and problem-solving abilities in a broad sense, so the education has wide application that is not limited to pre-professional training
Undergraduate Student Learning Outcomes
The training mission of the SLHS undergraduate program is to provide academic and pre-clinical education to students in speech, language, and hearing sciences that is sufficient to master foundational knowledge and skills necessary for advanced learning at the graduate level. The learning outcomes relate to standards set by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) that are to be fully achieved at the graduate level. By the completion of the program, undergraduate students are expected to:
- Demonstrate understanding of basic principles of biological and physical sciences, mathematics and the social and behavioral sciences. (ASHA Standard III A)
- Demonstrate knowledge of basic human communication and swallowing processes, including their biological, neurological, acoustic, psychological, developmental, and linguistic and cultural bases. (ASHA Standard III B)
- Demonstrate knowledge of the nature of speech, language, hearing, and communication disorders and differences and swallowing disorders, including the etiologies, characteristics, anatomical/physiological, acoustic, psychological, developmental, and linguistic and cultural correlates. (ASHA Standards III C)
- Demonstrate basic understanding of principles of assessment and intervention over the range of communication disorders specified in the current scope of professional practice for audiology and speech-language pathology. (ASHA Standard III D)
- Demonstrate adequate writing skills for scientific and clinical report writing. (Standard IV B)
Assessment Activities
The student learning outcomes enumerated above are assessed within the associated courses in which the content and skills are taught. Outcome data are available from pre-post tests (10-point multiple choice) in the following classes:
- SLHS 207 Survey of Human Communication and Its Disorders: This introductory course is taken by pre-majors, majors, and non-majors. It provides an assessment of acquisition of new knowledge in a diverse cohort of students
- SLHS 261 Anatomy and Physiology of the Speech Mechanism
- SLHS 473/477 Communication Disorders I and II: This foundational two-course sequence for majors covers a wide range of communication disorders. These courses build upon other foundational courses in SLHS.
- SLHS 471 Speech Sound Disorders: This speech disorders course requires more in-depth knowledge of communication disorders than preceding courses and should be representative of more advanced knowledge in the major.
Assessment Findings
Figure 1. shows the performance on the 10-point multiple choice quizzes taken at the beginning and end of the four courses described in the previous section (SLHS 207, 471, 473, and 477). A consistent pattern of performance is demonstrated whereby the average performance on the pre-test averages about 40% and improves to 80% after the course. The information sampled by these quizzes relates specifically to the learning objectives. The primary goal is for students to achieve the 80% or better mastery level, but it is interesting to note that it appears that the level of mastery for SLHS 471 and 473 improved over the four years that were sampled in the exact same manner.
FIGURE 1. Assessment Findings for Undergraduate Learning Outcomes. Scores on 10-point multiple-choice test taken on the first day of class (pre) and at the end of the course (post) for courses SLHS 207, 471, 473, and 477.
In order to examine outcomes with regard to wriing skills, writing skills are sampled from writing samples graded using a standard rubric from SLHS 362 Neurobiology of Communication
- SLHS 362 is typically the first of three writing emphasis courses taken by majors in SLHS, and thus includes considerable attention to scientific writing form. Didactic instruction is provided regarding scientific writing and a strict scoring rubric is implemented.
- Learning outcomes for writing skills have been sampled in a consistent manner for the past 3 years (2010-2012) in SLHS 362 (Neurobiology of Communication). In this class, students write two papers on a scientific topic related to the course content and are provided with writing guidelines and a standard scoring rubric. Students are allowed to submit a re-written paper following feedback from the first essay. As noted inFIGURE 2., the first papers are far from meeting the strict criteria for well-written papers. Students show marked improvement, both in their response to editorial input used to re-write the papers (post) and in the writing of the second paper compared to the first. Student learning in the area of writing continues in the two other writing-emphasis courses, so that they should have the tools for graduate school, or other life pursuits that involve analytical writing skills.
FIGURE 2. Changes in writing scores over the course of the semester in undergraduate writing emphasis course (SLHS 362). Light bars indicate first draft by students (Pre); dark bars indicate papers re-written after feedback (Post). Average class size = 60 students. Error bars = SEM.
Changes in Response to Outcomes
With regard to objective measurement of learning outcomes in SLHS, the pre-post test scores have been confirmatory of our impression from other indicators that students clearly advance their knowledge in the targeted areas. This information combined with the strong course evaluations indicate overall success in our teaching mission. That said, we continue to review, evaluate, and modify our curriculum in order to achieve the best possible educational sequence for our students.
With regard to writing skills, the annual review of student writing performance in our three writing emphasis classes (SLHS 340, 362, 430) has led to considerable change over time in an effort to improve student outcomes. These changes include:
- increased consistency in the rubrics used to evaluate writing in the writing emphasis courses and sharing of that rubric with all faculty
- increased used of student preceptors in the writing emphasis courses in order to increase the feedback to students and allow for re-writing of papers in SLHS 362 in response to feedback. (Note that preceptors only do the initial review and feedback on papers, and all grading is done by the responsible faculty member).
- increased structure of preceptor training with supervising faculty to maximize scoring reliability.
- Improvements to the courses were based on informal feedback from students, formal course evaluations, as well as peer critiques and discussions.
- Three courses related to hearing (acoustics, hearing science, and audiology) were sequenced and topics reorganized to allow students to build knowledge over three consecutive semesters. This sequencing has improved student performance in the upper division course in Principles in Audiology (SLHS 483R/L). This improvement in the curriculum is due to an increase in faculty numbers allowing us to offer lower division courses both fall and spring semesters.
- Laboratory experiences for three courses (SLHS 261, 380, and 483L) have been restructured to add hands-on laboratory demonstrations designed to illuminate difficulty concepts in these courses. The addition of a cadaver to the laboratory for SLHS 261 has allowed for the opportunity to see anatomical structures in situ, thereby improving students' recognition of the structures and allowing for application to clinical disorders presented in later courses. Labs in Hearing Science (SLHS 380) and Principles of Audiology (483L) have been reworked to include hands-on demonstration of auditory/acoustic phenomena. The personal experience with these phenomena improves retention and transfer of knowledge when built on during a subsequent course. The laboratory components of these courses are unique compared to peer institutions that offer few undergraduate laboratory experiences.
- We have also been able to offer SLHS 367, Speech Science, again, a course that had not been taught as a full course for several years due to insufficient faculty. The availability of this course has greatly improved our ability to prepare students for the elective course in Speech Sound Disorders (SLHS 471). Student performance in SLHS 471 has improved as a direct result of training in clinical phonetics and this has allowed the instructor to cover topics in more depth and provide a strong clinical foundation for future clinical work.
- The Department has also added a registration for teaching preceptors at the undergraduate level (SLHS 491). This registration allows us to offer additional opportunities for top students to work with their peers as a mentor and solidify their knowledge in an area.
- The Department has added a number of courses (1 lower division, 2 upper division), which improves breadth of students' knowledge in the field. These include SLHS 255 Hearing, Health, and Society (GEN ED), SLHS 435 focusing on Multicultural and Multilingual Populations, SLHS 430 Cognitive Neuroscience of Language.
- Two upper division undergraduate courses covering communication disorders (SLHS 477 and 473) were reworked by the faculty to approach communication disorders using a lifespan approach (consistent with the prevailing views of the field), avoiding duplicate presentation of material, and increasing the number of different disorders covered. The focus has also expanded to include evidence-based practice as a pillar of the field.


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Pre-Market Global Review - 2/5/14 - Market Reprise
Good Morning Traders,
As of this writing 5:05 AM EST, here's what we see:
US Dollar –Down at 81.200, the US Dollar is down 25 ticks and is trading at 81.200. Energies – March Oil is up at 98.12
Financials – The March 30 year bond is up 4 ticks and trading at 134.09.
Indices – The March S&P 500 emini ES contract is down 3 ticks and trading at 1743.00.
Gold – The April gold contract is trading up at 1257.00 and is up 57 ticks from its close.
Initial Conclusion: This is not a correlated market. The dollar is down- and oil is up+ which is normal but the 30 year bond is trading higher. The Financials should always correlate with the US dollar such that if the dollar is lower then bonds should follow and vice-versa. The indices are lower and the US dollar is trading down which is not correlated. Gold is trading higher which is correlated with the US dollar trading down. I tend to believe that Gold has an inverse relationship with the US Dollar as when the US Dollar is down, Gold tends to rise in value and vice-versa. Think of it as a seesaw, when one is up the other should be down. I point this out to you to make you aware that when we don't have a correlated market, it means something is wrong. As traders you need to be aware of this and proceed with your eyes wide open.
Asia traded mainly lower with the Nikkei and Indian Sensex trading higher. As of this writing all of Europe is trading higher.
Possible challenges to traders today is the following:
1. ADP Non-Farm Employment Change is out at 8:15 AM EST. This is major.
2. Final Services PMI is out at 9 AM EST. This is not major.
3. ISM Non-Manufacturing PMI is out at 10 AM EST. This is major.
4. FOMC Member Tarullo Speaks at 10 AM EST. This is major.
5. Crude Oil Inventories is out at 10:30 AM EST. This could move the crude markets.
6. FOMC Member Plosser Speaks at 12:30 PM EST. This is major.
Yesterday the Swiss Franc made it's move at around 10:20 AM EST after all the economic news was released. Look at the charts below and you'll see a pattern for both assets. The USD fell at around that time and the Swiss Franc rose. This was a long opportunity on the Swiss Franc. The key to capitalizing on these trades is to watch the USD movement. The USD rise only lent confirmation to the move. As a trader you could have netted 20 ticks on this trade. To expand the chart, right click and open in a new window. Kindly view our special video to determine how to capitalize on these trades. http://youtu.be/lOxBMe09X3Q
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|Swiss Franc - 03/13 - 2/4/14
Yesterday we said our bias was to the upside as the Bonds were trading lower, Crude was trading higher and Europe was starting to trade higher. The Dow gained 72 points and the other indices gained as well. Today we aren't dealing with a correlated market and our bias is neutral. A neutral bias means the markets could go in any direction today. If trading wait until after 10 AM when all the economic news is reported before making any trading decisions. Could this change? Of Course. Remember anything can happen in a volatile market.
Yesterday we said that our bias was to the upside and the markets didn't disappoint. The Dow gained 72 points without any real economic news to speak of. Factory Orders came in at -1.5 percent which was better than -1.9 percent expected. But this was not enough to move the markets. So what happened? What caused the market to reprise? Basically what we witnessed was a deadcat bounce. We spoke about this phenomenon last week as this is the situation when the market goes so low that shorts get covered with the fear of being stopped out and then the markets rise. The question is will this be a one time event or will the markets regain some of the ground lost in January? Let's face it, January was a deplorable month. Not only because of what happened in the markets but the weather kept most people away from retailers. Take Auto Sales as an example. 15.2 million versus 15.6 million expected. Quite frankly I'm surprised that it was as high as 15.2. On the bright side luxury car maker Audi reported a 0.4 percent increase in January, 2014 sales over January, 2013. This represented total sales of 10,101 units. Local to me Princeton Audi has an experienced workforce both in sales and service and truly seek to please their customers.
Each day in this newsletter we provide viewers a snapshot of the Swiss Franc versus the US dollar as a way and means of capitalizing on the inverse relationship between these two assets. Futures Magazine recognized this correlation as well. So much so that they printed a story on it in their December issue. That story can be viewed at:
Many of my readers have been asking me to spell out the rules of Market Correlation. Recently Futures Magazine has elected to print a story on the subject matter and I must say I'm proud of the fact that they did as I'm Author of that article. I encourage all viewers to read that piece as it spells out the rules of market correlation and provides charts that show how it works in action. The article is entitled "How to Exploit and Profit from Market Correlation" and can be viewed at:
As a follow up to the first article on Market Correlation, I've produced a second segment on this subject matter and Futures Magazine has elected to publish it. It can be viewed at:
As readers are probably aware I don't trade equities. While we're on this discussion, let's define what is meant by a good earnings report. A company must exceed their prior quarter's earnings per share and must provide excellent forward guidance. Any falloff between earning per share or forward guidance will not bode well for the company's shares. This is one of the reasons I don't trade equities but prefer futures. There is no earnings reports with futures and we don't have to be concerned about lawsuits, scandals, malfeasance, etc.
Anytime the market isn't correlated it's giving you a clue that something isn't right and you should proceed with caution. Today our bias is neutral. Could this change? Of course. In a volatile market anything can happen. We'll have to monitor and see.
As I write this the crude markets are trading higher and the US Dollar is declining. This is normal. Think of it this way. If the stock market is trading lower, it's safe to assume that the crude market will follow suit and vice-versa. Crude trades with the expectation that business activity is expanding. The barometer of which is the equities or stock market. If you view both the crude and index futures side by side you will notice this. Yesterday March crude dropped to a low of 96.37 a barrel and held. We'll have to monitor and see if crude either goes lower or holds at the present level. It would appear at the present time that crude has support at $97.38 a barrel and resistance at $99.24. This could change. All we need do is look at what happened last fall when crude was trading over $100.00 a barrel. We'll have to monitor and see. Remember that crude is the only commodity that is reflected immediately at the gas pump.
Future Challenges:
- Debt Ceiling - Well we could say it's official and that a "budget" has been passed by both houses of Congress but Obama still has yet to approve it. If approved this would fund the government until September 30th and remove an uncertainty from the markets. However Obama hasn't approved this yet and currently Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew has already testified before Congress warning that our current debt ceiling will expire on February 7th and that the Treasury could do something to extend until the end of February but won't be able to go much beyond that. Well the State of the Union come and gone yet to our knowledge Obama hasn't approved anything yet. He meets with Apple, Walmart and others to discuss joblessness yet he does absolutely nothing for the long term unemployed except to talk about it. Did anyone bother to tell that he could issue an Executive Order to extend? Yes, it may lead to absolutely nothing but at least the American people will know where he stands. His lack of leadership in this regard is deplorable...
Crude oil is trading higher and the US Dollar is declining. This is normal. Crude typically makes 3 major moves (long or short) during the course of any trading day: around 9 AM EST, 11 AM EST and 2 PM EST when the crude market closes. If crude makes major moves around those time frames, then this would suggest normal trending, if not it would suggest that something is not quite right. If you feel compelled to trade consider doing so after 10 AM when the markets give us better direction. As always watch and monitor your order flow as anything can happen in this market. This is why monitoring order flow in today's market is crucial. We as traders are faced with numerous challenges that we didn't have a few short years ago. High Frequency Trading is one of them. I'm not an advocate of scalping however in a market as volatile as this scalping is an alternative to trend trading.
Remember that without knowledge of order flow we as traders are risking our hard earned capital and the Smart Money will have no issue taking it from us. Regardless of whatever platform you use for trading purposes you need to make sure it's monitoring order flow. Sceeto does an excellent job at this. To fully capitalize on this newsletter it is important that the reader understand how the various market correlate. More on this in subsequent editions.
Nick Mastrandrea is the author of Market Tea Leaves. Market Tea Leaves is a free, daily newsletter that discuses and teaches market correlation. Market Tea Leaves is published daily, pre-market in the United States and can be viewed at www.markettealeaves.com Interested in Market Correlation? Want to learn more? Signup and receive Market Tea Leaves each day prior to market open. As a subscriber, you'll also receive our daily Market Bias video that is only available to subscribers.
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It's basically SAW: Beauty Edition.
Unless you're fancy enough to have car service, New York Fall Fashion Week is no cake-walk. It's impossible to get a cab and the streets are fraught with as many patches of black ice as there are telephoto lenses. Spring Fashion Week, in September, is much more fun IMHO.
My takeaway from the fall 2015 shows? Gloomy and brooding is in. Nods to rock subcultures continue, with elements of goth style peppered in. One item essential to embracing your Addams Family Values is black lipstick, which, I'm here to tell you, is very simple to DIY.
With six ingredients and a few supplies, you can make enough black lipstick to fill eight small Chapstick tubes.
The lipsticks will last about a year under sanitary conditions, but you can also pass them to friends who appreciate the lord of darkness and/or listen to Slayer. I used a light hand of clove and cinnamon essential oils to give it a Djarum clove cigarette scent.
Optional cheap and helpful tool to grab if you are a frequent DIYer: a lip balm tray. They make it a breeze to load up tubes with whatever you like, and are super easy to clean. I am a fan.
INSTRUCTIONSWeigh 4 grams of beeswax, 11 grams of cocoa butter, and 2 teaspoons of oil into the glass cup.
I did a bit of clove and cinnamon cassia, not too much, as they can both be irritating, but I love cassia to play the role of cinnamon stinging lip stuff, so I add a drop or two extra. For a batch of this size, you'd need around 5-6 drops altogether, closer to 10 if you want to feel the burn.
This is a bit glossy, which is how I wanted to make it, since too much powder is actually harder to dispense and mix up, and tends to make a bigger mess not only in your workspace, but on your face. If you want more opacity and a matte finish, adda half teaspoon of clay powder to the mix.
Putting this on makes me feel like Fairuza Balk, a dark and intense seductress, seen often on the runway this season, and even more frequently stomping around downtown. Goth looks often do the opposite of aging us, they make us look young, brash, and powerful. So embrace the darkness more frequently with this balm. You will be able to better channel your skills in the dark arts with a clove-y, ciggy-scented power balm.
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Figure 1. Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express VT Brings Remote Users Together for More Effective Impromptu Meetings
Product Overview
Improved Productivity, Accelerated Business
Easy Deployment and Management
Key Features and Benefits
Simple Voice, Video, and Web Conferencing
Figure 2. Impromptu Voice, Web, and Video Conferencing with Cisco Unified Personal Communicator
Product Architecture
• Telephony and video integration: SCCP is supported for telephony integration with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, and phones and video endpoints supporting SCCP, H.323, SIP, and G.711 can participate in meetings. H.263 or H.264 is supported for video communication.
• Web conferencing access: Web conferencing access is available from Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and Solaris using standard browsers (such as Internet Explorer, Safari, and Firefox) and the Adobe Flash Player. Encrypted access is supported through HTTPS and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
• Network management: Monitoring and alarming are supported through the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
Product Specifications
Table 1. Product Specifications
Hardware compatibility
Cisco Media Convergence Servers
• Part numbers: MCS-7825-H3-RC1, MCS-7825-I3-RC1, MCS-7825-H2-RC1, MCS-7825-I2-RC1, MCS-7825-H1-RC1, MCS-7825-I1-RC1, MCS-7835-H2-RC1, MCS-7835-I2-RC1, MCS-7835-H1-RC1, and MCS-7835-I1-RC1
• Plus exact equivalent third-party servers (for information visit http://www.cisco.com/go/swonly; DVD drive required)
Software compatibility-server
Cisco Linux-based operating system (included with system software orders)
Software compatibility-client
Microsoft Windows
• Operating system: Windows 2000 Pro (SP2 or later), Windows 2000 Server Edition (SP2 or later), Windows 2000 Advanced Server (SP2 or later), Windows XP (SP1 or later), or Windows Vista (Business or Enterprise)
• Browser: Internet Explorer 5.5 or later; Netscape 7.1 or later; Mozilla 1.6 or later; or Firefox 1.0.3 or later
• Adobe Flash Player: 6.0.79 or later
Apple Macintosh
• Operating system: Mac OS 9.2* or Mac OS 10.2 or later
• Browser: Safari 1.1 or later; Netscape 7.1 or later; Mozilla 1.2.1* or 1.6 or later; or Firefox 1.0.3 or later
• Adobe Flash Player: 6.0.79 or later
• Operating system: Red Hat 9 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 or later
• Browser: Netscape 7.1 or later; Mozilla 1.4 or 1.6 or later; or Firefox 1.0.3 or later
• Adobe Flash Player: 7.0 or later
Sun Solaris**
• Operating system: Solaris 9 or Solaris 10
• Browser: Netscape 7.1; Mozilla 1.4 or 1.7 or later; or Firefox 1.0.3 or later
• Adobe Flash Player: 7.0 or later
• H.323 v4
• Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP; RFC 3550)
• RTP Payload for Dual Tone Multifrequency (DTMF) Digits (RFC 2833)
• Session Description Protocol (SDP; RFC 2327)
• IPv4
• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Version 3 (LDAPv3)
• SNMP Versions 1, 2c, and 3
• HTTPv1.1
• SSL Versions 2 and 3 (optional; customer provides certificates obtained from a broadly trusted certificate authority)
• Network Time Protocol (NTP) Versions 3 and 4
MIB-2, SYSAPPL-MIB, CISCO-CDP-MIB, CISCO-SMI, CISCO-TC, CISCO-VTP-MIB, and CISCO-LATITUDE-MIB
Network connectivity and bandwidth
Server: Two 100-Mbps or faster Ethernet connections
• Voice conference: G.711 requires at least 84 kbps of available bandwidth in each direction; less bandwidth is required to the phone if transcoding a compressed codec (such as G.729) to G.711
• Video conference: 56 to 704 kbps (quality increases with bit rate)
• Web conference: At least a 56-kbps modem connection or faster***
*On Mac OS 9.2, Mozilla 1.2.1 is the only supported browser. Sharing a screen from Mac OS 9.2 is not available.
**Sharing a screen from this platform is not available. Viewing and annotating on screens shared from other platforms is possible.
***Modem users should not be simultaneously using other applications that compete for available bandwidth.
System Capacity
Table 2. System Capacity
Platform Part Number
Voice Conferencing Capacity
Web Conferencing Capacity
Video Conferencing Capacity *
20 to 40 concurrent users
6 to 40 concurrent users
6 to 40 concurrent users
20 to 30 concurrent users
6 to 30 concurrent users
6 to 30 concurrent users
*Video capacity assumes maximum bit rate of 384 kbps; using a higher bit rate may result in reduced capacity.
Voice and Video Conferencing
• Real-time mixing of up to three simultaneous speakers
• Voice-activated switching, which shows each video participant the person who is speaking
• Support for the H.263 or H.264 video codec (per system)
• Video bit rates from 56 to 704 kbps (one per meeting) in Common Intermediate Format (CIF) video resolution
Web Conferencing
• Easy access: Users easily access meetings from a variety of platforms using Web browsers and the broadly installed Adobe Flash Player.
• Firewall friendly: HTTP and HTTPS tunneling technologies allow users behind firewalls to participate in Web conferences.
• Connection-speed optimization: Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express VT optimizes the Web conference performance to available bandwidth based on the user's selected connection speed.
• Screen sharing: Real-time screen sharing allows users to show others' applications, windows, or their entire desktop. A variety of sharing controls is available from the meeting room, the operating system, and the shared applications or windows.
• Flexible viewing options: Shared content can be viewed in a variety of ways to best suit the user.
– Scaled view: Users see a view of the shared content that scales to fit the space available.
– Scrolled view: Users see a full-size view of the shared content that may require scrolling to see the entire shared screen.
– Full-screen view: Users see only the shared content on their screens. Controls are available to select whether the full-screen view is effective for everyone or individuals, as well as if users can toggle to full screen themselves.
• Annotations: Users can collaborate over shared screens using markup tools such as a pencil, marker, line, rectangle, ellipse, text, and stamper. A variety of options is available to print and edit annotations, including undo, redo, change color, change size, move, and delete.
Meeting Setup and Attendance
• Integrated voice, Web, and video conference setup: Users can quickly and easily start voice and video meetings using the conference or MeetMe button on SCCP-based endpoints. From Cisco Unified Personal Communicator, users can also launch voice and video meetings, plus add a simple screen-sharing interface on demand.
• Meeting types: Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express VT supports the following meeting types:
– Impromptu conferences: These meetings are initiated using the Conference button on SCCP-based endpoints and Cisco Unified Personal Communicator.
– Meet-me conferences: These meetings are preconfigured with a Cisco Unified Communications Manager extension so they can be accessed through the MeetMe button on SCCP-based endpoints.
• Web administration center: A Web interface provides system administration capabilities for system configuration, maintenance, and monitoring.
• System configuration and maintenance: Numerous parameters and options are available to configure and maintain the system:
– Usage configuration: Twelve- or 24-hour time, language configuration, minimum password lengths, password expiration, and alarm dial-out
– Call configuration: SCCP configuration and registration, video codec and bit-rate configuration, and IP voice parameters
– SNMP settings: Community strings and notification destinations
– Licensing: Installing and viewing licenses
– Backup: Backing up and archiving; local and remote configuration
– SSL certificate management: Installing, enabling, and managing SSL certificates
• Reporting and monitoring: Numerous reports and monitoring and alarm tools are provided:
– Disk-usage report: Details about hard-disk usage and available space
– Media-statistics reports: Statistics and information regarding conference media
– System logs: A variety of system logs for monitoring and troubleshooting
– Alarms: Viewing and exporting system alarms
– System status: Viewing a snapshot of system status for monitoring and troubleshooting
• Language support for Web conferencing interface: English (United States), French (France), German, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Russian, Danish, and Portuguese (Brazil)
Note: The maintenance release following release of Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express VT 2.0 will be required to enable languages beyond English (United States).
• Dedicated on-net system: The dedicated Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express VT system is integrated with the organization's private network.
• Built-in defense against attacks: Cisco Security Agent is built into the system at the kernel level to allow only application-specific activities and to defend against attacks.
• Encryption: Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express VT supports encrypted Webpages and Web conferencing traffic using SSL.
System Requirements
Table 3. System Requirements
Call-control system
• Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CallManager) 4.1 or later
Quality of service (QoS)
• Network enabled with Differentiated Services (DiffServ; RFCs 2474 and 2475) QoS for voice traffic
Endpoints supporting initiation of impromptu voice and video conferences
• Cisco Unified Personal Communicator 1.2 or later
• Cisco Unified IP phone models and Cisco IP Communicator supported by Cisco Unified Video Advantage 2.0(2) or later
• Cisco Unified IP Phone 7985G models
• Third-party video endpoints using SCCP *
Endpoints that can participate in impromptu voice and video conferences
The endpoints listed previously that can initiate voice and video conferences, plus:
• H.323-based video endpoints registered with Cisco Unified Communications Manager
• SIP-based video endpoints registered with Cisco Unified Communications Manager
Endpoints supporting initiation of impromptu voice and Web conferences
• Cisco Unified Personal Communicator 1.2 or later
Endpoints that can participate in impromptu Web conferences
The endpoints listed previously that can initiate Web conferences, plus:
• Desktops listed in Software compatibility-client (Table 1)**
*Please reference the Cisco Technology Developer Program site for certified third-party SCCP video endpoints: http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/ecoa/Search.
**Cisco Unified Personal Communicator users can send the Web conference URL to these users.
Ordering Information
Table 4. Ordering Information
Product Name
Part Number
Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express VT 1.2 Bundle-20V, 6VI, 6W Concurrent ULs
Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express VT Video License Pack, 4 Concurrent ULs
Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express VT Voice Lic Upg, 10 Concurrent ULs
Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express Web License Pack, 10 Concurrent ULs
For upgrades to Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express
Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express 2 Upg From VT-20V,6VI,6W Concurrent ULs
Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express Video Upg From VT-4 Concurrent ULs
Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Express Voice Upg From VT-10 Concurrent ULs
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March 30, 2007Former RPO conductor Peter Bay returns to guest conduct the debut of violinist Amy Beth Horman in virtuosic violin works by Saint-Säens and Ravel
Rochester, NY – Violinist Amy Beth Horman makes her Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra debut under the baton of former RPO conductor Peter Bay in an evening of "Symphonic Dances" on Thursday April 19 and Saturday April 21 at 8:00 p.m. in the Eastman Theatre. French, Hungarian and Latin dance-inspired works by Ravel and Saint-Saëns bring a tremendous rhythmic excitement to the program, culminating in Rachmaninoff's final composition, Symphonic Dances. Peter Bay and Amy Beth Horman host the pre-concert chat at 7 p.m.
Begun in 1914, Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin initially was conceived as a tribute to the graceful 17th century harpsichord music of French composer Couperin. However, the tragedy of World War I so affected the composer that each movement ultimately became an homage to individual friends who lost their lives in combat. The work consists of a sequence of dances, with Ravel catching the style and spirit of the French baroque style.
Violinist Amy Beth Horman makes her RPO debut with two virtuosic pieces chock full of violinistic fireworks: Saint-Saëns' lilting and sultry Havanaise (inspired by the tango-like habañera), and Ravel's Hungarian gypsy-flavored Tzigane. The latter work opens with a spectacular violin solo capturing the essence of Gypsy fiddling. The orchestra enters quietly, while the violinist proceeds to show off an ever-more-intricate succession of virtuoso techniques: rapid harmonics, quadruple stops and left-hand pizzicato amidst bowed arpeggios.
Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances represent the victory of the composer's deeply held religious faith over the power of darkness and death. The first of the three dance-movement work continued Rachmaninoff's obsession with Dies irae, the somber melody drawn from the medieval plainchant Mass for the Dead. The second dance presents a haunted vision of the ballroom within the framework of a symphonic waltz, featuring eerie muted fanfares and ghostly dancers. The final movement is a grand witches' Sabbath, seething with manic, diabolical energy. A furious conflict breaks out between the Dies irae and a traditional Russian religious chant, but the work ends triumphantly with an Allilyua theme from the composer's choral work Vespers.
American violinist Amy Beth Horman is quickly becoming a sought-after soloist on the international stage. After her performance with the National Symphony, the Washington Post hailed her as "having the stuff of greatness." She has performed with the New Mexico Symphony and the Fairfax Symphony, in addition to appearing as a recital soloist and a chamber musician with pianist Corey McVicar in their recently-established Orion Duo. She has been featured on French-Swiss television and on American radio broadcasts. Ms. Horman began studying the violin at the age of five, and at 17, she withdrew from high school to compete for (and ultimately receive) a place in the doctoral program at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in Paris.
Music Director of the Austin Symphony since 1998, Peter Bay is also Music Director of the Britt Festival Orchestra in Jacksonville, Oregon. As a guest conductor, Mr. Bay has appeared with more than 20 major American orchestras including the National, St. Louis, Houston, Dallas, Baltimore, New Mexico and Syracuse Symphonies, as well as the Minnesota Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He is a frequent guest at summer music festivals, and his European appearances have taken him to Germany, Austria, Lithuania and Portugal. As an opera conductor he has conducted varied repertoire from Previn to Mozart. His recordings include the U.S. premiere of Britten's The Sword and the Stone with the Richmond Symphony, and Voices with the RPO and the percussion ensemble NEXUS. In 1994, Mr. Bay was one of two conductors selected to participate in the Leonard Bernstein American Conductors Program.
Tickets for these performances are $20-$54, available online 24/7 at www.rpo.org, by phone (454-2100) and in person from the RPO Box Office, as well as at any Wegmans. RPO Box Office hours are Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (non-concert Saturdays, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.). Wegmans is open seven days a week. A convenience fee may apply.
The Philharmonics Series is sponsored by Eastman Kodak Company and Bausch & Lomb. This concert is sponsored by Zimmer Sales & Services. Mr. Bay's appearance is made possible by the Davenport-Hatch Foundation. The RPO gratefully acknowledges PAETEC Communications Inc. for the PAETEC Philharmonic Partners program, which offers discounted Philharmonics Series tickets to local college students.
Now in its 84th season, the RPO inspires and enriches the community through the art of music. The Orchestra is passionately dedicated to outstanding musical performance at the highest artistic levels, and has a unique tradition of musical versatility, commitment to music education in the broadest sense and a deep and enduring engagement with the community. The RPO has been honored with the New York State Governor's Arts Award, and two recent ASCAP awards for adventurous programming.
RPO performances are made possible in part with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; the State of New York; Monroe County; the City of Rochester; and American Airlines, the official airline of the RPO.
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Caballo Diablo Lyrics
Artist: Chris LeDoux
Album: Life As A Rodeo Man
Wild as a coastal barronca swift as the wind blowing free
With two eyes like fire brands that glow in the night
Somewhere up there he's waiting for me
And he knows that I'm coming' for him and I just can't rest till I find
That raven black stallion that wears no man's brand with a wild restless spirit like mine
They call him Caballo Diablo half-horse half-devil they say
Caballo Diablo the outlaw up a top the Sierra Madre
Two men before tried to take him they had their chance one by one
But each met his fate when those flashing' black hooves
Brought death 'neath the Mexican sun
Still I can't leave I must find him you fool of a horse can't you see
Well I may be half man but the other half's devil and you're just exactly like me
They call him Caballo Diablo...
Even the breezes stopped moving hush now be still
Don't make a sound stay close to the ground cause he's waitin' just over that hill
Downwind behind him move quickly do it fast now he's starting to stir
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His rigid, expression stared down at the paper in front of him as his signature fluidly made its way into each blank space where it was needed. The unfamiliar scent of his heavy cologne wafted into my nostrils as niceties were traded and small talk was thankfully avoided. Any amount of pleasantries probably would have triggered my inevitable anger. David and I hadn't seen each other in almost a year and I'm pretty certain I can speak for both of us when I state that this wasn't exactly a meet up either of us were looking forward to.
The fifteen-minute exchange was all business this past Saturday morning at a valley Coffee Bean as I informed David on the status of our divorce while obtaining his signature in all of the necessary places. Eye contact was easily kept to the bare minimum what with the numerous pages of legal paperwork on the table in front of us. As he filled in all of his information, I found myself willfully introspecting.
Here was this person in front of me, whom I had once been in love with, whom I had married and planned on spending the rest of my life with and now who was, essentially, a complete stranger. I pondered the possibility that maybe there was still a part of that David in there just as maybe there was still a part of the Lindsay he once loved in me. Perhaps the most interesting part of it all is the complete lack of love I feel for him now, that even though I was assessing these things, it wasn't because I was hoping to somehow feel that again, but simply because human behavior, the psyche, the heart and the mind all intrigue me on such a profound level. I am constantly wondering what, why, when, where and how.
And just to keep things completely honest, I may not be in love with David nor do I even love him anymore but I am compassionate. I feel my own and others' emotions so deeply that I couldn't possibly pretend I didn't spend three plus years of my life with this human being. It was absolutely fascinating to me that after years of good and bad experiences, joys, struggles, tragedies – life – that once significant relationship can straightforwardly be deduced to fifteen swift minutes of a Spring morning at a chain coffee shop. Fascinating – and rather, sad.
Furthermore, what was of particular interest to me was that the life-changing and recent realization I came to did not cross my mind while sitting mere inches away from David until after we had departed ways. Just a few short weeks ago, I had what I deem, for lack of better terms, a breakthrough during the course of my weekly therapy. It was brought to my unexpected attention that I unconsciously chose David because I was going to need someone, a grand distraction, from the tragic loss that would soon beget my existence. Dealing with the manic ups and downs of my relationship and "taking care" of someone else allowed me no time to face the overwhelming grief of losing my mother.
As this understanding came to fruition, I began to laugh, and not just a mere chuckle, I was cracking up. The unfathomable sense of it all moved me to extreme humor. It reminded me of a conversation between David and I after the decision was made to end our marriage. He attempted to degrade our matrimony by unconvincingly stating, "I married you because I thought it was the right thing to do, the next step." I knew this wasn't true but had I known then what I know now, I probably would have responded with, "Well, I only chose you because your fucked-up-ness was a colossal, necessary distraction from the death of my mother." Sounds revengeful and cruel when I put it like that but it truly has been one of the most liberating realizations to date and it has allowed me to place David in his proper place of my past.
All of that aside, I infer that the above doesn't negate the fact that I did love him and I sincerely cared. I think that's where my head was while I anxiously sat across from him this past Saturday, contemplating all the loss and all that has changed for the better, feeling an impenetrable sense of compassion, primarily for myself. As my therapist noted after my 'breakthrough,' "Grief isn't easy, Lindsay, and sometimes, I don't think we give you enough credit."


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Anti-Rush Campaign Was in the Works
Wonder how the left was able to mobilize so quickly on the Rush Limbaugh boycott? According to the architect behind it, Media Matters online strategy director Angelo Carusone, the project was actually created in 2009, but stayed inactive until the Sandra Fluke controversy boiled over (via Legal Insurrection):
I started Stop Rush in 2009, 2010, and when I went to register the domain, I saw that Rush owned StopRush.com….
The Beck work was working, and I kind of froze the Rush work, and experimented with it a little, to get a sense of who Rush's advertisers were and what their comfort level with him was. It was definitely valuable, and I am glad I spent some time doing it. It has informed the work I am doing now.
Legal Insurrection's William Jacobson connects the dots on the story most of the media missed: that the entire Limbaugh boycott was pure, undistilled Astroturf.
The secondary boycott of Rush Limbaugh advertisers is portrayed in the media as a reaction to a groundswell of public outrage. In fact, the secondary boycott was initiated by and driven by Media Matters, which had a "Stop Limbaugh" campaign on the shelf waiting to be used, and was executed by Angelo Carusone, Director of Online Strategy for Media Matters.
But while Carusone depicts his campaign as a response to the Fluke controversy, it seems obvious from the timeline that Media Matters played a large role in creating the controversy. According to the New York Times, the dormant "Stop Rush" twitter account run by Carusone snapped to life on Wednesday, Feb. 29, the day Limbaugh made his now-infamous comments. Media Matters also appears to be the first media outlet that reported on Limbaugh's remarks, with Think Progress picking up on the story a few hours later, and the Huffington Post following up that evening.
This is a really useful case study of how the left coordinates to create a full-blown media uproar. Democrats in Congress don't typically rush out to respond to every insult from conservative radio hosts. But Rep. Nancy Pelosi managed to round up six other female congressional Democrats to release a joint statement condemning Limbaugh's comments within hours of the broadcast:
"When Sandra Fluke testified before the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee after Republicans attempted to silence her, she courageously spoke truth to power. As a result, today, she has been subject to attacks that are outside the circle of civilized discussion and that unmask the strong disrespect for women held by some in this country. We call upon the Republican leaders in the House to condemn these vicious attacks on Ms. Fluke, which are in response to her testimony to the Congress. Democrats will always stand up for women's health and women's voices."
According to Carusone, he began reaching out to Rush's advertisers the next day to put the boycott campaign into action. Two days after Limbaugh's comments, a Friday, President Obama put in a call to Sandra Fluke, which fanned the flames of the controversy and kept it going through the weekend.
Something else worth noting: Tucker Carlson recently reported that Media Matters representatives have weekly meetings with the White House, and the activist group is in close contact with the administration. Was anti-Rush media strategy ever discussed? Was the White House aware that Media Matters had a "Stop Rush" boycott campaign teed up and ready to go? After all, top White House officials have spoken openly about their 2009 campaign to use Rush Limbaugh to attack the Republican Party.
The anti-Limbaugh boycott may not have been the wild success Media Matters wanted it to be, since at this point it doesn't look like there's going to be any long-term fallout for Rush. But they were able to dominate the news cycle with their message for weeks and during a contentious primary race – a pretty impressive feat. Ruthless conservative political strategists out there would do well to take notes.
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Trump Is Right: We Need a Space Force
An idea whose time will come.
When President Donald Trump first floated the idea of creating an entirely new branch of the United States armed forces dedicated to space-based operations in March, the response from lay political observers was limited to bemused snickering. That mockery and amusement have not abated in the intervening months. Thursday's announcement by Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of Defense James Mattis, that the administration plans to establish a sixth armed forces branch by 2020, occasioned only more displays of cynicism, but it shouldn't have. This is deadly serious stuff. The expansion and consolidation of America's capacities to defend its interests outside the atmosphere is inevitable and desirable.
Though you would not know it from those who spent the day chuckling to themselves over the prospect of an American space command, the militarization of this strategically vital region is decades old. Thousands of both civilian and military communications and navigations satellites operate in earth orbit, to say nothing of the occasional human. It's impossible to say how many weapons are already stationed in orbit because many of these platforms are "dual use," meaning that they could be transformed into kill vehicles at a moment's notice.
American military planners have been preoccupied with the preservation of critical U.S. communications infrastructure in space since at least 2007, when China stunned observers by launching a missile that intercepted and destroyed a satellite, creating thousands of pieces of debris hurtling around the earth at speeds faster than any bullet.
America's chief strategic competitors—Russia and China—and rogue actors like Iran and North Korea are all committed to developing the capability to target America's command-and-control infrastructure, a lot of which is space-based. Trump's Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats testified in 2017 that both Moscow and Beijing are "considering attacks against satellite systems as part of their future warfare doctrine" and are developing the requisite anti-satellite technology—despite their false public commitments to the "nonweaponization of space and 'no first placement' of weapons in space."
Those who oppose the creation of a space branch object on a variety of grounds, some of them merit more attention than others. The contention that a sixth military branch is a redundant waste of taxpayer money, for example, is a more salient than cynical claims that Trump is interested only in a glory project.
"I oppose the creation of a new military service and additional organizational layers at a time when we are focused on reducing overhead and integrating joint warfighting functions," Sec. Mattis wrote in October of last year. That's a perfectly sound argument against excessive bureaucratization and profligacy, but it is silent on the necessity of a space command. Both the Pentagon and the National Security Council are behind the creation of a "U.S. Space Command" in lieu of the congressional action required to establish a new branch of the armed forces dedicated to space-based operations.
As for bureaucratic sprawl, in 2015, the diffusion of space-related experts and capabilities across the armed services led the Air Force to create a single space advisor to coordinate those capabilities for the Defense Department. But that patch did not resolve the problems and, in 2017, Congress's General Accountability Office recommended investigating the creation of a single branch dedicated to space for the purposes of consolidation.
It is true that the existing branches maintain capabilities that extend into space, which would superficially make a Space Force seem redundant. But American air power was once the province of the U.S. Army and Navy, and bureaucratic elements within these two branches opposed the creation of a U.S. Air Force in 1947. The importance of air power in World War II and the likelihood that aircraft would be a critical feature of future warfighting convinced policymakers that a unified command of operations was critical to effective warfighting. Moreover, both Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman believed that creating a separate branch for airpower ensured that Congress would be less likely to underfund the vital enterprise.
The final argument against the militarization of space is a rehash of themes from the Cold War. Low earth orbit, like the seafloor and the Antarctic, is part of the "global commons," and should not be militarized on principle. This was the Soviet position, and Moscow's fellow travelers in the West regularly echoed it. But the argument is simply not compelling.
The Soviets insisted that the militarization of space was provocative and undesirable, but mostly because they lacked the capability to weaponize space. The Soviets regularly argued that any technology it could not match was a first-strike weapon. That's why they argued vigorously against deploying missile interceptors but voiced fewer objections to ground-based laser technology. As for the "global commons," that's just what we call the places where humans do not operate for extended periods of time and where resource extraction is cost prohibitive. The more viable the exploration of these hostile environments becomes, the less "common" we will eventually consider them.
Just as navies police sea lanes, the inevitable commercialization of space ensures that its militarization will follow. That isn't something to fear or lament. It's not only unavoidable; it's a civilizational advance. Space Force may not be an idea whose time has come, but deterrence is based on supremacy and supremacy is the product of proactivity. God forbid there comes a day on which we need an integrated response to a state actor with capabilities in space, we will be glad that we didn't wait for the crisis before resolving to do what is necessary.
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News Bulletin: The Sky Is Not Falling
Victim of success.
Chicken Little has always been the press secretary of the environmental movement.
In the 1960's there was good reason to think the sky was actually falling. The New Yorker published a cartoon showing a wife standing by a table set for lunch in the backyard of a brownstone. "Hurry darling," she calls to her husband, "Your soup's getting dirty." In 1969, the Cuyahoga River that runs through Cleveland was so polluted that it caught fire, not for the first time.
But in 1970, Earth Day was established. It was one of the most remarkable examples of grassroots activism in American history, involving fully 10 percent of the population. Late that year, Congress, at the behest of the Nixon Administration, established the Environmental Protection Agency. A series of acts requiring pollution controls and abatement followed, and the great American clean up began.
How has it worked out? As Investor's Business Daily reports, the clean up has been a howling success. From 1990 to 2017, the six major air pollutants monitored by the EPA plunged by 73 percent from levels that were already well below 1970 levels. By comparison, during that time, the U.S. economy grew 262 percent and its population expanded by 60 percent. And by 1990, much progress had already been made. Banning lead in gasoline, where it was used as an antiknock agent, beginning in the 1980's had already greatly reduced the level of atmospheric lead, reducing, in turn, the level found in blood. It is down 98 percent from 1980.
Water pollution has plunged as well, as sewage treatment plants came online. In 1970, Manhattan discharged the sewage of 1.5 million people into the surrounding waterways. Today, there is an annual swimming race around Manhattan. There is even talk of a beach for Manhattan Island, the only borough of New York City without one. This sort of improvement has been duplicated across the country. The Connecticut River, once a 400-mile sewer, is now safe for fishing and swimming along its entire length. Even the Cuyahoga is in much better shape, with riverside cafés looking out over blue water instead of rafts of sludge.
And yet this good news can be hard to find. Government agencies usually are not shy about tooting their own horns when they have success to report. But the pollution history on the EPA's website is hard to find. And the websites of such organizations as the Sierra Club and the National Resources Defense Council, are still in full the-sky-is-falling mode. I suspect the reason for that has more to do with fundraising strategy than the actual state of the environment.
And even that bugbear of the environmentalist movement, the country's output of CO2, has fallen 29 percent since it peaked in 2007. That's thanks largely to the switchover from coal to natural gas as fracking has greatly increased the supply and, thus, lowered the price. Trumpeting that statistic, of course, would not advance the cause of what used to be called "global warming," and is now called "climate change."
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A Warning from 1995
Declinism never changes.
In November 1995, COMMENTARY published a symposium called "The National Prospect" in which dozens of writers offered their view of America's possible future. I just went and looked at my entry in that symposium, which I had not thought of in years, because of Laura Ingraham's statement on TV last night that "The America we know and love doesn't exist anymore. Massive demographic changes have been foisted on the American people, and they are changes that none of us ever voted for, and most of us don't like … this is related to both illegal and legal immigration."
What my symposium entry indicates is that views like hers have been percolating on the Right for decades. I thought you might find it interesting to read:
"This is not the country my father fought for," a one-time colleague who grew up as an Army brat was telling me over lunch five years ago. He sang a threnody of national faults, and I could only hang my head in mute agreement—crime, multiculturalism, educational collapse, everything conservatives have worried over and fought against for twenty years or more.
He grew more and more excited. From multiculturalism, he began talking about the threat posed by immigrants, and from that threat to the threat posed by native-born blacks. As he was taken over by his passion and imagined me an ally in it, he began dropping words into his monologue that in his calmer moments he never would have used with me, words like "nigger" and "wetback" I had heard used only in rages and then only maybe twice before outside of a movie or TV show. And then, forgetting himself entirely, he allowed as how Jews were blocking the true story of our national decline.
It is not only inconvenient to hear words you might have spoken coming out of the mouth of a racist, nativist anti-Semite. It is also a reminder that ideas you hold dear may be used as weapons in a war you never intended to fight—a war in which those weapons may be turned against you just as my one-time colleague turned his assault on multiculturalism into an assault on Jews.
This is my warning as we consider the national prospect. Those who believe America is in a period of cultural decline are obviously correct; I am not at all sure how anyone of good will could argue otherwise.
And yet, and yet, and yet. It is one thing to worry over and battle against the dumbing-down of our schools; the assault on taste, standards, and truth posed by multiculturalism; the rise of repellent sexual egalitarianism; even the dangers of advanced consumerism are becoming increasingly worrisome.
But it is quite another thing to make the leap from that point to the notion that the nation itself is in parlous and irreversible decline. After all, nations are always in parlous moral health; nations are gatherings of people, and people are sinners. When the United States was putatively healthier, back in the 30's and 40's and 50's, 12 percent of its population was living in de-facto or de-jure immiseration and the Wasp majority protected its position in the elite by means of explicit quotas and exclusions.
The declinists are both wrong and spiritually noxious. After all, the purpose of declaring the nation in decline is to root out the causes of the decline, extirpate them, and put the nation on the road to health. But, for some of them, the search for causes always leads to blacks, immigrants, and Jews. In William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Harvard's own Quentin Compson finds himself suicidal over America's conversion into the "land of the kike home of the wop."
Blacks and Jews are ever the inevitable, juicy target—so inevitable that they still find a link in the fevered minds of the paleo-Right, even though all blacks and Jews have in common now is the way the paleo-Right links them.
What blacks, Jews, and immigrants always seem to lack in the eyes of declinists is some version of the American character—that which my one-time colleague believed his father to have fought for. The dark underbelly of the American political experiment is the very idea of an American character itself. It is, fundamentally, an un-American idea. It is the nature of America that there is no one American character. Demography is not destiny in America as it is everywhere else; where you come from is not who you are.
I can find no quarrel with the brief of particulars offered by the declinists. But their central idea gives heart and strength to people whose threnodies can sound like the song of the siren—and must, like the siren's song, be resisted by all strong men.
–Nov. 1, 1995
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