Apple's site, apple.com has a page where new features of Mac OsX 10.5, Leopard are explained.
I've just started to gaze through this stuff. 300+ new or changed features is more than enough to justify the upgrade. It is, by the way, much cheaper to upgrade from Tiger to Leopard than lets say from Windows XP to Windows Vista.
In this wast overview of Leopard there is amazingly enough no mention of how it has become one of the best font viewers available and certainly the fastest one.
Quick Look is an impressive new tool in Leopard. With it you can preview in a very fast way all kinds of documents, pictures, movies and so on. Quick Look looks into the files so to speak for information to make the previews. And so it does too for fonts. Clean crisp previews from either the screen font or the print font, if we are talking about postscript fonts or simply from the OpenType fonts or what have you. As it says there: Opening files is so 2006!
Having selected a font, hit the Spacebar and get a preview of a font like this. To flip over to the next font use the Up and Down Arrows to move arround. The window can be resized at will depending on your screen of course. All with a beautiful crisp preview.
You close the window again by either clicking with the mouse at the x button in the upper left corner or hit the Spacebar again. If someone finds out how one can change what portion of the alphabet is shown I sure would like to know how to hack that.
Besides Quick Look Leopard now has new kind of icons, preview icons. Icons of photographs change if you change the picture. For fonts we now have the letters Ag as preset preview icons. This is extremely handy for those who do not know their fonts that well and are only looking for some serif font or a decorative one for a birthday card. Here I really would like to be able to hack this to seclect what characters are shown in the icons. It would be nice to see at glance what fonts are missing the Icelandic eth's and thorn's. And don't forget that you can resize your icons in the Icon View.
Of course fonts can also be viewed with Cover Flow, the new Finder viewing tool (Command + 4). This is fine for viewing fonts that are inside the Library/Fonts folders but for viewing font collections buried in endless number of folders it can be a bit of a drag. But it's worth the try if you are quick with your fingers opening and closing folders with Command + Right/Left Arrows and moving up and down your list of fonts with the Up and Down Arrows. Cover Flow previewing is also limited to the Ag glyphs which makes it usable only for quick searching.


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Les 500 miles d'Indianapolis 1952 (), courus sur l'Indianapolis Motor Speedway et organisés le vendredi , ont été remportés par le pilote américain Troy Ruttman sur une Kuzma-Offenhauser.

L'épreuve comptait pour le championnat national américain (AAA) mais également pour le championnat du monde des pilotes, dont elle constituait la dix-septième épreuve et la deuxième manche de la saison.

Contexte avant la course

Le championnat du monde

Créé en 1950, le championnat du monde des conducteurs inclut les 500 miles d'Indianapolis, disputés sous l'ancienne formule internationale, en plus des principaux Grands Prix européens du championnat, courus cette année sous la réglementation formule 2. En général, seuls les spécialistes américains de l'AAA participent à Indianapolis, deuxième épreuve du championnat mondial, disputée douze jours après le Grand Prix de Suisse. Le champion italien Alberto Ascari a toutefois décidé de courir les 500 miles, au volant d'une Ferrari 375 modifiée pour la circonstance, ce qui constitue l'évènement de cette édition.

Le circuit

Ce circuit rectangulaire comporte quatre virages relevés à rayon constant et développe exactement 2,5 milles (en anglais 'miles'), soit 4,023 km. Lors de sa création en 1909, la piste était constituée de graviers, rapidement remplacés par un revêtement de briques rouges. Depuis le milieu des années 30, le circuit alterne portions en Tarmac et portions en briques. Traditionnellement le départ est de type lancé, après un tour accompli derrière la voiture de sécurité (une Studebaker Commander pour cette édition 1952).

Monoplaces en lice

Les "Special"

Cinquante-quatre des cinquante-huit monoplaces engagées sont spécialement adaptées pour ce circuit ne comportant que quatre virages à gauche, tous relevés. Vainqueur l'année précédente, le constructeur américain Kurtis Kraft est le plus représenté, avec vingt voitures. Le motoriste Offenhauser équipe plus de 80 % des concurrents, il est toutefois sérieusement concurrencé par le performant Novi (8 cylindres - 3 litres à compresseur), dont trois voitures sont équipées. Fabricant de moteurs Diesel pour camions, la société Cummins a également engagé une Kurtis Kraft équipée d'un de ses six cylindres à compresseur.

Ferrari 375
La Scuderia Ferrari a adapté deux Ferrari 375 F1 (empattement allongé, châssis rigidifié) en vue de cette course qu'elle dispute pour la première fois. Mais seule la voiture d'Alberto Ascari va pouvoir prendre part aux qualifications, Giuseppe Farina ayant détruit la sienne lors d'un test à Turin. À l'initiative de Luigi Chinetti, représentant la firme italienne aux États-Unis, trois autres 375 modifiées ont été engagées par des concurrents locaux.

Coureurs inscrits

 Remarque : Un pilote peut être inscrit sur plusieurs voitures.

Qualifications
Les essais ("trial days") se déroulent les trois week-ends précédant la course. Pour cette année 1952, le premier week-end (10 et ) est réservé aux débutants ('rookies'), qui doivent accomplir des séries de tours à des moyennes minimales imposées avant de pouvoir participer aux séances chronométrées déterminantes pour la grille de départ. Parmi ces nouveaux venus figure Alberto Ascari, qui effectue ce premier test avec aisance. Il est donc admis à participer aux qualifications, qui débutent le . Seuls les trente-trois premiers qualifiés seront admis pour la course. Sept pilotes se qualifient lors de la première journée, le plus rapide étant Fred Agabashian, qui au volant de sa Kurtis Kraft à moteur Cummins accomplit ses quatre tours lancés à la moyenne de , et s'assure ainsi la pole position, une première pour une monoplace à moteur Diesel. Agabashian a même tourné à plus de  de moyenne lors de son premier tour lancé, mais l'usure rapide de ses pneus ne lui a pas permis de maintenir ce rythme lors des tours suivants. Andy Linden et Jack McGrath, tous deux sur Kurtis Kraft à moteur Offenhauser, ont réalisé les deuxième et troisième chronos de cette journée, s'assurant une place en première ligne. Alberto Ascari n'est pas parvenu à tourner assez rapidement pour s'assurer une place sur la grille, la vitesse de pointe de la Ferrari s'avérant insuffisante pour réaliser la moyenne minimale de qualification imposée. On note également le spectaculaire accident de Tony Bettenhausen, qui détruit sa Kurtis Kraft.

Le dimanche  étant perturbé par la pluie, rendant toute qualification impossible, c'est le samedi 24 qu'a lieu la deuxième vague d'essais chronométrés. Dix-neuf pilotes vont s'assurer une place sur la grille. Bill Vukovich se montre très nettement le plus rapide de cette session, au volant de sa Kurtis Kraft, à la moyenne de ; il a battu le temps de la pole position, et s'élancera huitième sur la grille (derrière les sept qualifiés de la première journée). Vukovich avait également essayé la Ferrari engagée par Howard Keck, mais celle-ci s'était montrée nettement moins rapide que sa Kurtis Kraft. La Ferrari officielle d'Ascari a quant à elle reçu quelques améliorations (notamment une nouvelle rampe de carburateurs, permettant une puissance de 385 chevaux), et le pilote italien obtient son ticket d'entrée pour la course : il a accompli ses quatre tours à plus de  de moyenne, et partira en dix-neuvième position.

La journée du , qui devait être la dernière journée de qualifications, est également perturbée par la pluie. Comme seulement vingt-six pilotes sur trente-trois sont qualifiés, les organisateurs reportent au lendemain lundi cette dernière session. Chet Miller, au volant de sa Kurtis Kraft-Novi, se qualifie à la moyenne record de , la meilleure performance jamais réalisée sur ce circuit. Il ne s'élancera néanmoins qu'en neuvième ligne, derrière les vingt-six pilotes précédemment qualifiés. Accidenté lors de la première journée, Tony Bettenhausen obtient finalement sa qualification au volant d'une Deidt, sa voiture de l'année précédente.

Grille de départ

La pole a été réalisée par Fred Agabashian à la moyenne de . Le meilleur temps des qualifications est quant à lui à mettre au crédit de Chet Miller avec une moyenne de . S'étant qualifié lors de la dernière séance qualificative, Miller s'élança de la vingt-septième position.

Déroulement de la course
Pour accomplir les quelque huit cents kilomètres de cette course, deux ravitaillements en carburant sont prévus pour la plupart des concurrents. Le temps est chaud et ensoleillé au moment où la voiture de sécurité libère les trente-trois monoplaces. De l'extérieur de la première ligne, Jack McGrath effectue un très bel envol et vire en tête au premier virage, devant Jim Rathmann qui a dépassé huit voitures par l'intérieur, tandis que Fred Agabashian et Andy Linden manquent complètement leur départ. McGrath est toujours devant à l'issue du premier tour, précédant Rathmann, Troy Ruttman et Duane Carter. Au second, Ruttman a dépassé Rathmann et s'est emparé de la seconde place, tandis que Bill Vukovich, très incisif en ce début de course, a débordé deux voitures et se retrouve quatrième. Au troisième tour, Vukovich double Rathmann, au cinquième Ruttman puis s'empare de la tête au septième, se détachant rapidement devant McGrath. Ce dernier se fait peu après déborder par Ruttman, qui se accélère le rythme et remonte bientôt sur le leader, il parvient même à prendre brièvement la tête au cours du douzième tour, mais Vukovich reprend aussitôt son bien au virage suivant, et commence à creuser régulièrement l'écart sur son adversaire. Derrière les deux leaders, le reste du peloton, emmené par Rathmann, est nettement distancé. On note la belle progression d'Alberto Ascari, parti dix-neuvième, qui se retrouve bientôt en huitième position et effectue des débuts très remarqués.

Vukovich continue à accélérer l'allure, seul Ruttman tente de ne pas perdre le contact, mais après soixante tours le leader s'est construit une avance de près de trente secondes. Les autres concurrents comptent plus d'un tour de retard, Rathman et McGrath ayant été retardés, alors qu'Ascari a dû abandonner au quarante-et-unième tour, jante brisée. Au soixante-deuxième tour, Vukovich effectue son premier ravitaillement, il repart en troisième position derrière Ruttman, nouveau leader, et Rathmann. Il reprend bientôt la seconde place, mais compte alors plus de trente secondes de retard sur le premier. Celui-ci ravitaille seulement au quatre-vingt-troisième tour : l'arrêt se passe mal, un mécanicien renversant du carburant sur le tuyau d'échappement, occasionnant un début d'incendie. Cet incident fait perdre près de deux minutes à Ruttman, qui ressort des stands en troisième position à deux tours de Vukovich, à nouveau en tête avec quarante-six secondes d'avances sur Rathmann.

Ruttman reprend la seconde place lorsque Rathmann ravitaille, mais compte toujours plus d'une minute et demie de retard sur Vukovich, qui ne semble pas pouvoir être inquiété. Cependant, lorsqu'il effectue son second ravitaillement au cent trente-cinquième tour, le changement de roues pose des difficultés et lui fait perdre plus de deux minutes et la tête de la course. Ruttman mène alors avec environ trente secondes d'avance, jusqu'à son second arrêt, effectué rapidement au cent quarante-septième tour. Alors qu'un quart de la distance reste à parcourir, Vukovich compte désormais une quarantaine de secondes d'avance sur Ruttman. Rathmann est toujours en troisième position, devant Sam Hanks, mais compte plusieurs tours de retard sur les deux premiers. Ruttman tente un dernier assaut, et réduit progressivement son écart sur le leader : son retard est de trente-six secondes au cent-soixantième tour, de trente-et-une au cent-soixante-dixième. Sous la menace, Vukovich augmente alors sa cadence, et stabilise son avance à une trentaine de secondes. Il a pratiquement course gagnée, lorsqu'à neuf tours de l'arrivée il est victime d'un bris de direction et termine sa course dans le mur du virage nord-est (virage 3), sans dommage pour lui. Ruttman hérite de la victoire (et des 61000 dollars associés), loin devant Rathmann, second à plus de quatre minutes, Hanks finissant troisième à plus de six minutes.

Classements intermédiaires
Classements intermédiaires des monoplaces aux premier, deuxième, cinquième, vingtième, quarantième, soixantième, quatre-vingtième, centième, cent-vingtième, cent-quarantième, cent-soixantième et cent-quatre-vingtième tours.

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Classement final

Un (R) indique que le pilote était éligible au trophée du "Rookie of the Year" (meilleur débutant de l'année), attribué à Art Cross.

Pole position et record du tour
 Pole position :  Fred Agabashian en 1 min 05 s 212 lors de la première séance de qualification (quatre tours en 4 min 20 s 85 - vitesse moyenne : ).
 Meilleur temps des qualifications établi lors de la troisième séance par  Chet Miller en 1 min 04 s 732 (quatre tours en 4 min 18 s 93 - vitesse moyenne : ).
 Meilleur tour en course :  Bill Vukovich en 1 min 06 s 60 (vitesse moyenne : ) au huitième tour.

Tours en tête
  Jack McGrath : 6 tours (1-6)
  Bill Vukovich : 150 tours (7-11 / 13-61 / 83-134 / 148-191)
  Troy Ruttman : 44 tours (12 / 62-82 / 135-147 / 192-200)

Classement général à l'issue de la course

 attribution des points : 8, 6, 4, 3, 2 respectivement aux cinq premiers de chaque épreuve et 1 point supplémentaire pour le pilote ayant accompli le meilleur tour en course (signalé par un astérisque)

À noter
  victoire pour Troy Ruttman dans le cadre du championnat du monde. Âgé de vingt-deux ans, il devient le plus jeune vainqueur des 500 miles d'Indianapolis.
  victoire pour Kuzma en tant que constructeur dans le cadre du championnat du monde.
  pour Offenhauser en tant que motoriste dans le cadre du championnat du monde.
 Pour la première fois un pilote régulier du championnat du monde, Alberto Ascari, tente sa chance à Indianapolis. Pour cela, il a fait l'impasse sur le GP de Suisse, organisé en même temps que le second week-end des qualifications de l'Indy 500.

Notes et références

Sources
  Résultats complets sur le site officiel de l'Indy 500

Indianapolis 500
Sport aux États-Unis en 1952
Sport automobile en 1952
Formule 1 en 1952
Sport en mai 1952

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Taschen and Phaidon. Two art publishing houses with two very distinct reputations. So don't you think it's high time for a face-off between the two? Good! Let's begin with the Collector's Edition wars.
Benedikt Taschen turned 50 this past February and his debaucherous party was written up in The New Yorker a few days ago. The cult lowbrow publisher never fails to shock and titillate, and his aim to create lasting, limited-edition books has made him a hero to many. On Taschen's website, Benedikt writes that he "sensed early on that books could open doors to different worlds, and that a world full of artists and free-minded spirits was the world I wanted to be part of."
The venerable Phaidon Press is now in its 88th year, and it launched by printing a large format Van Gogh monograph in 1936, which sold out within two days of publication. On its website, Nigel Spivey, a lecturer in classical art at Cambridge, writes that Phaidon is named after Plato's middle-period dialogues on the immortality of the soul. "By means of beauty, beautiful things become beautiful," Socrates says to Phaidon and company. Which is one way of putting it, we suppose.
The gloves are off, and the niceties have been done away with. Let's brawl!
CATEGORY: THE BOOK THAT COSTS MORE THAN A NEW CAR
Publisher: TASCHEN
List Price: $50,000 each (In case you were wondering, this doesn't include the price of shipping or insurance.)
Number Available: 6
Details: Includes an original collage and an original silk screen print of Project for Jewelry
WINNER: TASCHEN
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Number Available: 1,000 (signed and numbered)
Details: Terryworld is "packaged in a clear plastic box with a Terrybear" and also includes four photos, signed and numbered.
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Publisher: PHAIDON
Number Available: 100 (signed and numbered)
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WINNER: PHAIDON
Terry gets points for the audacity to include a stuffed animal with purchase, but Goldin was the originator of seductive, trashy New York-style photographs of friends and lovers.
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Number Available: 10,000 (signed and numbered)
Details: This is supposedly the largest bound book of the 20th century; it measures just under two feet and just over two feet wide, and weighs about 66 pounds.
Nobuyoshi Araki: Self, Life, Death
Number Available: Unknown
Details: There isn't a lot of info provided, but we do know that at 15 3/4 x 19 1/2 inches, Araki's book is the smaller of the two…
Size maters.
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List Price: 480,000 Euros or roughly $664,272
Number Available: 12
Details: This book was inspired by the Apollo 11 Lunar Excursion Module, and each has an accompanying aluminum case and (wait for it) "comes with a unique piece of lunar rock." We can buy a piece of the moon! How can Phaidon beat this?
Elliott Erwitt: Snaps
Details: This is one out of an available six limited edition prints by the impressive Magnum photographer.
Erwitt photographed Marilyn Monroe in the mid-1950s, but sadly even lovely Marilyn can't beat the moon.
TASCHEN: 3
PHAIDON: 1
Phaidon remains our favorite for beautiful editions of landmark photography, but Taschen wins the Collector's Edition War because it knows how to put on a show. And because it had the temerity to auction off a chunk of moon! Good work, Taschen. You earned it.

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They say a picture can tell a thousand words. While first-year media productions student Ryan Gaynor is not a picture, he sure has a lot to say about them.
Waving a camera in one hand and letting the other emphasize his passionate speech, Gaynor, 18, tells of how much of his life has been spent peering through a viewfinder.
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By: Kayla Donnawell | International Co-op Student
SFU Kinesiology student Kayla Donnawell is in Botswana, Africa volunteering with the Students Without Borders program (SWB). In this article, the eighth in the series, Kayla explores Namibia and gets stuck several times in the sand dunes.
So it is my very last week in Africa. I made my way out of the desert (with a little difficulty) and all the way down to Durban, a town on the southern coast of South Africa warmed by the waters of the Indian Ocean. It is a beautiful little place with a magical blend of African, Indian, and English culture. I stayed in this great little beach house out on the bluff for a couple of days. Unfortunately, it absolutely poured rain for the last two days I was there, but the first two days were amazing. I figured since the bus broke down (twice) on the way to Durban, it was almost to be expected!
Getting to Durban took two painfully long bus rides: the first, 20 hours from Windhoek, Namibia to Capetown, and after only a few hours in Capetown, the second leg of the journey was only supposed to be 23 hours, it ended up being a little closer to 27 hours (after two breakdowns). Nonetheless, I made it! Nothing like arriving in the center of an incredibly dangerous city in the middle of the night to get the adrenaline going!
Now winds have guided me back to Capetown, an amazing city whose shores touch both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. This is my very last week here, but I think that traveling after having been in Botswana for so long has been a blessing. I have already gotten over most of my culture shock because Namibia and South Africa were a lot more westernized that Botswana. The funny thing about culture shock is that you don't expect it! I never really find culture shock gets me until I am ready to head home. Once you leave the place where the people truly warm your heart, you hang onto the little things that you love about that culture, and it's kind of shocking to once again realize that it is not that way everywhere.
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The Motswana culture is kind of funny in that it is sort of westernized but there are these little traditions that have been carried through. Strange formalities that you would never expect in a culture that is in many ways so socially free. I will never forget the neighborhood kids that won a spot in my heart, nor the way that passing combis woke me with their incessant honking at first light. I will always know the feel of the dry desert air, the colour of the Kalahari sand beneath my feet, and the smiles that greet you through every step of both. I wish dearly that I never again will be subjected to the insane temperatures of the Kalahari Desert, but I hope greatly to meet more people from this wondrous and friendly corner of the Earth, and the amazing people I have met along the way.
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U2 perform at the King Baudouin Stadium, Brussels. Mark Mulligan, a music and digital media analyst at Forrester Research, said in an interview that "at a time where we're asking if digital is a replacement for the CD, as the CD was for vinyl, we should be starting to see a hockey-stick growth in download sales. Instead, we're seeing a curve resembling that of a niche technology."
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Every September, the Apple iPod is redesigned. Last year saw the release of the iPod Nano 5th generation, bringing a video camera and a large range of colours to the Nano for the first time. But as Apple again prepares to unveil a redesigned product, the company has released their quarterly sales figures—and revealed that they have sold only 9m iPods for the quarter to June—the lowest number of sales since 2006, leading industry anylists to ponder whether the world's most successful music device is in decline.
Such a drop in sales is not a problem for Apple, since the iPhone 4 and the iPad are selling in high numbers. But the number of people buying digital music players are concerning the music industry. Charles Arthur, technology editor of The Guardian, wrote that the decline in sales of MP3 players was a "problem" for record companies, saying that "digital music sales are only growing as fast as those of Apple's devices – and as the stand-alone digital music player starts to die off, people may lose interest in buying songs from digital stores. The music industry had looked to the iPod to drive people to buy music in download form, whether from Apple's iTunes music store, eMusic, Napster or from newer competitors such as Amazon."
Mark Mulligan, a music and digital media analyst at Forrester Research, said in an interview that "at a time where we're asking if digital is a replacement for the CD, as the CD was for vinyl, we should be starting to see a hockey-stick growth in download sales. Instead, we're seeing a curve resembling that of a niche technology." Alex Jacob, a spokesperson for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which represents the worldwide music industry, agreed that there had been a fall in digital sales of music. "The digital download market is still growing," they said. "But the percentage is less than a few years ago, though it's now coming from a higher base." Figures released earlier this year, Arthur wrote, "show that while CD sales fell by 12.7%, losing $1.6bn (£1bn)in value, digital downloads only grew by 9.2%, gaining less than $400m in value."
Expectations that CDs would, in time, become extinct, replaced by digital downloads, have not come to light, Jacob confirmed. "Across the board, in terms of growth, digital isn't making up for the fall in CD sales, though it is in certain countries, including the UK," he said. Anylising the situation, Arthur suggested that "as iPod sales slow, digital music sales, which have been yoked to the device, are likely to slow too. The iPod has been the key driver: the IFPI's figures show no appreciable digital download sales until 2004, the year Apple launched its iTunes music store internationally (it launched it in the US in April 2003). Since then, international digital music sales have climbed steadily, exactly in line with the total sales of iPods and iPhones."
Nick Farrell, a TechEYE journalist, stated that the reason for the decline in music sales could be attributed to record companies' continued reliance on Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, saying that they had considered him the "industry's saviour", and by having this mindset had forgotten "that the iPod is only for those who want their music on the run. What they should have been doing is working out how to get high quality music onto other formats, perhaps even HiFi before the iPlod fad died out."
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When Jobs negotiated a deal with record labels to ensure every track was sold for 99 cents, they considered this unimportant—the iPod was not a major source of revenue for the company. However, near the end of 2004, there was a boom in sales of the iPod, and the iTunes store suddenly began raking in more and more money. The record companies were irritated, now wanting to charge different amounts for old and new songs, and popular and less popular songs. "But there was no alternative outlet with which to threaten Apple, which gained an effective monopoly over the digital music player market, achieving a share of more than 70%" wrote Arthur. Some did attempt to challenge the iTunes store, but still none have succeeded. "Apple is now the largest single retailer of music in the US by volume, with a 25% share."
The iTunes store now sells television shows and films, and the company has recently launced iBooks, a new e-book store. The App Store is hugely successful, with Apple earning $410m in two years soley from Apps, sales of which they get 30%. In two years, 5bn apps have been downloaded—while in seven years, 10bn songs have been purchased. Mulligan thinks that there is a reason for this—the quality of apps simply does not match up to a piece of music. "You can download a song from iTunes to your iPhone or iPad, but at the moment music in that form doesn't play to the strengths of the device. Just playing a track isn't enough."
The most recent incarnation of the iPod Nano. While digital music sales have been decreasing, the iTunes store now sells television shows and films, and the company has recently launced iBooks, a new e-book store. The App Store is hugely successful, with Apple earning $410m in two years soley from Apps, sales of which they get 30%.
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Adam Liversage, a spokesperson of the British Phonographic Industry, which represents the major UK record labels, notes that the rise of streaming services such as Spotify may be a culprit in the fall in music sales. Revenues from such companies added up to $800m in 2009. Arthur feels that "again, it doesn't make up for the fall in CD sales, but increasingly it looks like nothing ever will; that the record business's richest years are behind it. Yet there are still rays of hope. If Apple – and every other mobile phone maker – are moving to an app-based economy, where you pay to download games or timetables, why shouldn't recording artists do the same?"
Well, apparently they are. British singer Peter Gabriel has released a 'Full Moon Club' app, which is updated every month with a new song. Arthur also notes that "the Canadian rock band Rush has an app, and the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, led by Trent Reznor – who has been critical of the music industry for bureaucracy and inertia – released the band's first app in April 2009." It is thought that such a system will be an effective method to reduce online piracy—"apps tend to be tied to a particular handset or buyer, making them more difficult to pirate than a CD", he says—and in the music industry, piracy is a very big problem. In 2008, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry estimated that 95% of downloads were illegitimate. If musicians can increase sales and decrease piracy, Robert says, it can only be a good thing.
"It's early days for apps in the music business, but we are seeing labels and artists experimenting with it," Jacob said. "You could see that apps could have a premium offering, or behind-the-scenes footage, or special offers on tickets. But I think it's a bit premature to predict the death of the album." Robert concluded by saying that it could be "premature to predict the death of the iPod just yet too – but it's unlikely that even Steve Jobs will be able to produce anything that will revive it. And that means that little more than five years after the music industry thought it had found a saviour in the little device, it is having to look around again for a new stepping stone to growth – if, that is, one exists."
Charles Arthur. "iPod hits a sour note as apps take over" — The Guardian, 29 August 2010
Nick Farrell. "Music industry quakes at iPod's decline" — TechEYE, 31 August 2010
Charles Arthur. "iPlod: Apple's music player goes into decline" — The Sydney Morning Herald, 31 August 2010
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The Fringe is taking over The City! The Adelaide Fringe's director Heather Croall will be guest editing The City's next edition later this week.
Adelaide Fringe Director Heather Croall discusses her experience as guest editor of The City and Fringe Messenger in the lead up to the 2019 festival.
Adelaide Fringe director and chief executive Heather Croall has another job title to add to her resume — guest editor of The City .
This week, Croall, pictured, has been at the helm of the Adelaide Fringe-themed special edition of the newspaper ahead of the festival's official opening on Friday night.
"This is so exciting and … I was so thrilled to have been asked (to edit the newspaper)," Croall says.
The City this week includes lists of some of the best shows to see, Heather's Top Five tips to survive a month of arts madness, behind the scenes at Gluttony and a special report on disability and inclusion at this year's festival.
As part of her editor gig, Croall will also take over The City's Instagram — @thecityadelaide — to give our readers an insight into what happens behind the scenes from February 13 to 22. And make sure you give @adlfringe a follow while you're there!
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Woman Whose Hair Turned Gray at 21 Now Feels Much Hotter at 44
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How would you feel if you woke up in the morning as a 21-year-old to discover that your hair turned gray overnight? That was the case of Sara Eisenman at 21, and she did everything dye-possible to hide it from others.
For Sara Eisenman, waking up to the sight of her hair turned gray at the youthful age of twenty-one was a daylight nightmare.
Surprised beyond measure at the discovery, she took all steps possible to hide what she felt was aging. Box dyes became her favorite remedy as she did her possible best to look good in the eyes of people.
However, with time and with her attention turning to raising her two children, she was able to see herself differently and thus embrace her true self. She shared her story on her Instagram page.
SARA'S HAIR TURNS GRAY
Sara, who hails from Sedona, in Arizona, USA, woke up one morning while she was in her twenties and discovered a scary sight. Her hair was starting to turn gray, which didn't seem natural for someone of her age.
The young Sara saw this as a sign of aging and took steps to hide it from view. She began to dye her hair every two weeks, and this continued for a long time.
A weird incident occurred when she was pregnant with her son, Abe. Hours before the delivery, she dyed her hair so that people wouldn't think she was getting old when they came visiting.
SARA'S VAIN SELF
In her Instagram post, Sara revealed just how much she hid her true self in trying to fit with worldly standards. She highlighted some examples such as sending her daughter to a preschool where they fed her with food she was allergic to; being friends with cliquey moms, though she was nothing like them; trying to buy into the American dream, though things were not easy, and so on.
However, all that would give way when she discovered that other things mattered more.
SARA DISCOVERS HER TRUE SELF
After fifteen years of constantly dying her air, Sara knew she had to stop and become free. As she spent more time raising her kids, she began to forget about dying her hair, and this made her realize that there were things more important than her hair color.
She then fixed her eyes on a bigger picture. She confided in her husband, who gave her all his support, but when she told her friends about her decision, they said she would look like a witch. However, she didn't listen to the stereotype and let go of all the dye boxes. She accepted her true self, and it was then she became free.
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As she is about to turn 44, Sara feels even much younger, freer and sexier than before. She is a proud publisher of three books, and one of them talks about hair. She explains that embracing one's true self is what it means to be ageless.
Whenever she steps out, she is met with admiration from others who show gratitude to her for embracing her natural hair. They also believe she has broken the stigma that surrounds gray hair.


Ezekiel was asked an amazing question about and given a prophetic reply by Almighty God.
It's a question with many levels of promise.
On another, it speaks to the restoration of the Jewish people to their homeland.
The question points to the dry, parched land of Israel that has now blossomed into orchards and vineyards following the fire of the Shoah, the Holocaust that miraculously sanctifies Israel and brought life to the dry bones of the Jewish people and the land of promise in 1948.
The House of Judah are in Israel restoring the Promised Land for the coming of Messiah. The eretz-land requires cultivation and preparation for the millennium Olam Ha-Ba aka the world to come. If you do not see this, its time to get rid of the blinders. Yet there is more.
People's hearts need to be prepared too.
The Bible is clear, it tells us a mixed multitude came up from Egypt. That's the fact and Ezekiel unveils more on this mystery that seems to have been forgotten.
Peshat = "surface" or the literal, direct meaning.
Remez = "hints" or the deeper, symbolic meaning beyond the literal.
Derash = "inquire" or seeking comparative meaning through similar references.
Sod = "secret" or hidden meaning given through inspiration or revelation.
The "Sod" or hidden mystery of Ezekiel's vision brings life to the "bones" which in revelation of inspiration can be considered the framework of Torah instruction and teaching.
The Torah was not broken at the cross, the same is true for Yeshua, the living Torah whose bones were not broken.
The framework teaching and instruction of God does not rest in peace. It is bringing life to the dry bones of the resurrection of the real Jesus the Jew in the body of Messiah Yeshua. This is a hidden part of the prophet's vision and the question: "Son of Man can these bones live?"
In the beginning of the second century, as the original disciples had left the scene, the so-called church "fathers" after them from the Gentile nations changed Messiah's identity and Israel's as well when they turned the "church" against the Jewish people. They planted the bad seeds of replacement theology and ate the fruit from the tree we now know as anti-Semitism, but some 70 years ago something changed.
The Jewish people engaged a visible sign of the prophecy parable described in Ezekiel 37.
The vision of the dry bones shifted into first gear in 1948 and shifted into second in 1967 when Jerusalem, the place of God's was restored to the Promised Land as the Polish born Chief Rabbi of the IDF, Shlomo Goren blew his shofar at the "Kotel" aka the Western Wall.
His trumpet blast announced the beginning of the liberation of the mountain in the Old City of Jerusalem just as the IDF's General Motta Gur announced through the troop's radios... "the Temple Mount is in our hands. I repeat, The Temple Mount is in our hands."
Incredibly, after the June 1967 Six Day War and in the years that immediately followed, many Jewish people in Israel and across the globe began to see Messiah for who He was and is.
Both life giving events occurred after May 7, 1945, following the unconditional German surrender signed by General Alfred Jodl at Reims marking the end of the Holocaust as the breath and Spirit of God began to blow and breathe to sanctify Israel.
Jesus the Jew was being revealed as Yeshua HaMachiach despite the fact that for some 1,800 years, Christian pulpits had disguised the gospel as a counterfeit as they hung the same Scriptures He taught every Sabbath in a synagogue on a Roman cross.
The Greco-Roman church "fathers" even painted Him with a halo above His head. A fake identity imported from Mithraism and embedded into the church frescos of Jesus Christ.
The tectonic shift from Jerusalem to Rome was ending in teshuvah as the world focused its attention back on Jerusalem. Most especially after 1967, following the liberation of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.
There was a global spiritual awakening, that liberation included the restoration of Jesus as Yeshua.
The shift was tectonic for many people. Like any earthquake there was a lot of confusion as a remnant of Believers sought a path of repentance back to the front of the book. It was as if it the Torah was coming alive, written on the hearts of humanity at the time of the liberation of the Temple Mount. The timeline included the so-called Jesus Movement and many Christians that had read the front of their Bibles, began to understand that the Torah, the Prophets and the Writings were not "old" or lying dormant in the grave dust of time.
The bones of Believers had begun to come back to life.
This was the breath from the Ruach Spirit of the Almighty. Many began to understand that the Torah, the Prophets and the Writings were alive despite the fact that some of the early church fathers had tried to bury the Word of God as old bones that were done away with. Jesus was not only alive, He was Jewish.
If you are asking why this is a part of the "Sod" big picture of Ezekiel 37, its important to remember that bones provide the structure and living foundation frame of the human body and the body of one new man united in Messiah. After all, bones give us the ability to live life to the fullest. They give us the ability to crawl, to walk and then run as they mature.
Thinking in "Sod" mode let's reconsider the foundation frame (bones) of God's Word. They are the framework of teaching and instruction for life in The Kingdom and they point to the life and ministry of Yeshua-Jesus. God's words can give anyone the ability to live life to its fullest as it was and is meant to be.
They give us the spiritual ability to crawl, to walk and then run.
But somehow they lost life for awhile and dried out in the Greco-Roman influence of the church steeple. They were baked in the Sun if you will, by the body of Christ as they lost the Ruach Spirit of God. The truth and spirit of God's word had dried up and withered away in the hearts and minds sitting for an hour on a Sunday pew, but they are being awakening and restored to new life in a remnant of Believers returning in repentance (teshuvah) to the Sabbath and the Feasts of the Lord.
Thank God the Torah, the Prophets and the Writings were never dead bones to Judah. Without knowing it, he always believed most of Yeshua's promise: "not one jot or tittle of the Torah shall pass..."
Many of the early church fathers turned their back on Yeshua and His promise. Men like Marcion rejected the Hebrew Scriptures, saying they were old and done away with, ready for the boneyard.
Sadly, in a way, some seminaries unwittingly became cemeteries for God's Word calling it done away with in an Old Testament. Over time, pulpit preaching distorted and misinterpreted Yeshua's Sabbath Torah teachings. Not only that, the Prophets and the Writings were re-arranged to fit God's words into their belief that God changed His mind and started a new religion.
Religion is strange. Generally, people make up religion as their own perception of reality.
"There is to be one law and one ordinance for you and for the alien who sojourns with you."
That means that all Jews and Gentiles are to live in peace and in harmony under one Torah for all. It does not mean that the Torah is done away with as has been taught by many preachers, and it does not mean that Jews are to honor 613 commandments and non-Jews only have 7 Noahide laws that can't be found in any of "The Writings" except those of the rabbi's.
Like Jesus said in Luke 16:17, it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the Torah to fail.
If we could all travel back in time to England in 1604, we would find that King James sponsored an English translation of the Bible for the Church of England to replace the Geneva Bible and the Bishop's Bible that were already in use and broad circulation. The foundation of the translation of these was from William Tyndale, the first Englishman to translate and publish his initial version of the Greek gospels and letters in 1526 and Hebrew manuscripts. He opposed the church establishment and his outlawed English translations was censured as he was tracked down and eventually executed.
The King James' version was published 85 years, a lifetime after Tyndale's original publication of the Greek manuscripts in 1611, yet influenced by traditions of the Church of England, the King's commissioned translators missed the mark on some of its promises as their version had influence authorized from the podium and pogrom against Tyndale who held the faith in keeping the instruction of God as it was written.
In a way, the leg bone got confused with the hip bone and the living bones, the unchanging foundation of the living Word of God including the order of the Hebrew Scriptures dried out in the church dust as it was rebranded as an Old Testament. In the tradition of the church "fathers" they ignored the words and witness of Yeshua about the unchanging jots and tittles, the sinews of God's Word that were ruptured and dislocated by a blank page.
That fact leads us back to consider a "Sod" level understanding of the Exodus story.
Joseph was the 11th son of Jacob and his story is a reflection of the Jewish people.
The mystery of the promise of blessing for all nations given to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was extended through Ephraim and a part of Moses' job was to carry of Joseph's bones and return them to the place they belonged.
When the families of Jacob escaped Egypt with Moses as the spokesperson with the duty to carry up Joseph's bones, "a mixed multitude also left with them" (Exodus 12:38).
God's promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob included the adoption of Ephraim. The man renamed Israel passed the Almighty promise to Ephraim, the son of an Egyptian mother that Jacob adopted along with his brother Manasseh.
In Exodus 13:19 we learn that Moses was the surety to Joseph's bones. He honored his request and Moses took the bones of Joseph with him following the cloud and the Shekinah glory pillar of fire of Almighty God as The Lord God of all Israel began to fulfill the promise of Joseph and God took care of his brothers, but we must remember God's promise to Abraham was passed down so the promise of many nations was carried on as "a mixed multitude" left with them.
Joseph wanted his bones to be brought out of Egypt for good reason. In his heart of hearts, he understood the resurrection power of God's glory. Moses made sure that no one abandoned the bones of Joseph, which the sons of Israel brought up from Egypt to Shechem.
Today, Joseph's burial place has been turned into an Islamic Mosque in a vain attempt to wipe it off the map, but that undertaking, like the slavery of Egypt and the Holocaust will only be temporary and it will serve to reveal God's Glory and the promise of bringing life to the dry bones.
The Muslim men there will be shocked and stunned one day when the Messiah King of Israel returns and Joseph's bones are restored to resurrection life in The Kingdom when God's promise in Ezekiel's vision is ultimately revealed to the world and all nations will know that the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Ephraim is Y-H-V-H.
In Ezekiel 37, the vision begins when by The Spirit of The Lord, the hand of Almighty God sets Ezekiel down in a valley full of dry bones and the Ruach Spirit of God restores sinews and flesh to the bones before the eyes of the prophet, but the restoration required that Ezekiel do something before God would give them life. Like Abraham he had to obey God's voice.
Elohim God asked Ezekiel if the bones cold be brought back to life, and Ezekiel gave the correct answer: only God knows.
Ezekiel did as he was told, and he declared to the dry bones "shema" (hear and do) the word of The Lord God and He will put His breath (His Spirit) back into you and you will live!
Following World War II, the bones of the Jewish people began to come together and to grow with sinews and flesh in 1948 from the valley of death, but take note, the promised mixed multitude was not with them at this time hearing and doing the word of God.
But do you remember what God promised Abraham?
The amazing "Sod" thing about this prophetic declaration is the fact that the four winds point toward the great numbers, the very nations including the strangers and sojourners like those that went up from Egypt with the sons of Israel to follow Moses and hear the word of The Lord in the wilderness of Sinai!
Restoring life to the mixed multitude of the dry bones of Christianity that was missing the foundation is what began to happen after Jerusalem was restored in 1967.
Incredibly, many Believers began to awaken and understand that God does not change and therefore Jacob was not consumed in the German furnace fires. The dry bones that said that God's Word is old and done away with, hung on the cross began to realize they were dead wrong.
A remnant began to awaken to the Sabbath and the Feasts of The Lord. They began to see them as Almighty God's appointments for humanity's redemption and a big part of the restoration plan for the blessing of the multitudes in the journey to Kingdom of God.
Not only that, some Christians began to realize that the Creator God of life gives us some simple guidelines and that the Sunday kitchen is no place to bake a ham or fry catfish because God's teaching and instruction is easy, a light yoke for a healthy, long life. The reason is simple, God loves us.
Understanding the promise given to Abraham to bless the world points to a "Sod" answer that transforms the vision of resurrection into a vision about the restoration of the bones of Judah and as it was before the Exodus the bones of adopted Ephraim and the bones of the soujourners and strangers, both Gentile and Jew as one new man restored to serve the God of Israel in the promise to Abraham.
The word "whole" is the Hebrew word there is "kol" כֹּל meaning totality, everyone that knows, everyone that believes and follows The Lord God of Israel.
Those sticks are the living bones fulfilling the prophecy of Ezekiel and there's more life and Kingdom restoration to come to the bones by the Spirit of Almighty God.
This is the promise of King Messiah Yeshua, but who are the nations in the covenant of peace?
Those are the Gentiles, the nations that will know The Lord sanctifies Israel and His sanctuary will be in their midst forever.
What does Ezekiel's vision teach us about God's everlasting love and promise?
Almighty God is sovereign and unchanging. He is the loving, kind, merciful, gracious forgiving Abba Father and He has provided the Torah, the Prophets and Psalms as a road map to point all people, both Jew and Gentile toward the destination of life's restoration journey which is Messiah Yeshua - Jesus the Nazarene and the living Torah.
That's a part of the vision, the bones of Torah are live in us just as Yeshua does, they are not dead.
If you have not experienced it, Almighty Elohim God is calling you to live in His promise. He wants to offer you and the world redemption and salvation's remission from sin through repentance and forgiveness through Messiah's life and a path to not just consider what would Jesus do, but to do what Jesus did and walk like Him living out and teaching others about God's unfailing Word.
You can can become a part of the promise given to Abraham and accept Messiah's gospel gift of life in The Father's Kingdom. All the Torah, The Prophets and The Writing point toward Messiah, His Kingdom walk is outlined in the Bible Jesus read, yet the bones of the Scriptures require the breath of God's Spirit for true worshippers to worship The Father.
The Father is seeking you out. So, consider carefully what your life can be, look at your dry bones and repent of any wrongdoing, depravity, immorality or transgression sin against God and others.
Repent and ask Elohim God for His grace and blessing only found in His forgiveness and accept His promised gift of love, grace and supplication through Messiah Yeshua, the lamb of God.
Then stand up and walk in new life with Him and follow the Pillar of Fire through the wilderness journey back to The Kingdom of God.
If you know you need to get your life right to follow your Creator God, don't wait for tomorrow, start your walk with the Spirit breath of life from God in you now. Be restored and grab hold of the robe of the resurrected Messiah Yeshua of Nazareth. The King and Lion of the Tribe of Judah will not leave you, He will send God's Spirit to walk with youas your teacher and comforter on your life's journey out of sin's slavery of death.
Today is the time, open your eyes if you're dead in your valley of dry bones and recognize Messiah beginning from Abraham's promise passed onto Isaac, Jacob, Ephraim and Moses and from all the Prophets and the Writings.
Repent and walk your life's road with Messiah. Study the Scriptures He taught every Sabbath that are filled with meaning because of Him.
The unbroken Holy Scriptures reveal that if we consider ourselves the bones, the body of Messiah, we must walk unbroken just as He walked, because no bone of the Word of God is to be broken, not even one jot or tittle.
Yeshua lived a perfect Torah life and He taught others to do the same. This is fulfilled by the unbroken bones of Yeshua in His Passover death as the lamb of God resurrected on First Fruits.
When God gave His instruction in Exodus 12:46 for the Passover lamb against breaking any bones of the lamb that is given for each household, He did this for good reason pointing to Yeshua's lfe offering to redeem yours.
In the same way, honor the Word of God, don't break it like an old bone, even if you have pierced it thinking it is dead and hung on a cross.
To the last detail, Yeshua fills the Scriptures up with life and meaning.
The dry bones of Ezekiel testify of Messiah and the living Scriptures. The Messiah's name is Yeshua, the Jew many call Jesus of Nazareth and His true name expresses both His identity and His mission to save us from sin's dry bone death grip and restore us to new life in the Kingdom.
It's now time to become restored, one with Judah, one living stick in God's hand bringing life to the dry bones with one Shepherd.
Shemini Shel Pesach "Eighth Day of Passover"


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"Transferring Sainthood" In Denying Nature – Zac Petkanas Edition
Published February 24, 2017 December 28, 2019 by Papa Giorgio
Tucker Carlson discusses "transgender bathrooms" in schools with Zac Petkanas after President Trump reverses Obama's transgender bathroom guidance.
Wow… people who do not think like this guy are unenlightened. Just… wow. Of course the gay professor most known for firing the first shot across the bow of the modern culture war said:
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative. If this belief is put to the test, one can count on the students' reaction: they will be uncomprehending. That anyone should regard the proposition as not self-evident astonishes them…. The relativity of truth is… a moral postulate, the condition of a free society, or so they see it…. The danger they have been taught to fear is not error but intolerance. Relativism is necessary to openness; and this is the virtue, the only virtue, which all primary education for more than fifty years has dedicated itself to inculcating. Openness — and the relativism that makes it plausible — is the great insight of our times…. The study of history and of culture teaches that all the world was mad in the past; men always thought they were right, and that led to wars, persecutions, slavery, xenophobia, racism, and chauvinism. The point is not to correct the mistakes and really be right; rather it is not to think you are right at all.
Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind (New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1987), 25.
Even the truth of nature ceases to be reality on the Left.
Again, I think the Lord above for people like VtotheK, via GAY PATRIOT:
According to CNN News Anchor Chris Cuomo (Brother of New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo {Because Democrat-Media Complex}), if a 12 year old girl objects to seeing a penis in the Girls Locker Room, it's because of her intolerant, sexually repressed parents.
I am not making this up. (I am however excerpting it because Twitter drags the site down).
Q. What do you tell a 12 year old girl who doesn't want to see a penis in the locker room?
A. i wonder if she is the problem or her overprotective and intolerant dad? teach tolerance.
One day last week, after a good sweaty workout, I went into the locker room and there were three naked little kids in front of my locker. Parents often take their kids to swim in the adjacent Natatorium. These kids had just showered and were goofing around and just happened to be where I had parked my stuff. I just kind of reached over them and got my stuff while taking care not to look in their direction. They were so involved interacting with each other, I don't think they noticed me at all. But a locker room environment is a place where children are vulnerable. Mix a creep in with that situation and… potentially terrible outcome.
I just don't get why all of society should have to be reordered and everyone has to bend over to accommodate the tiny number of people who are trannies? Why is it not incumbent on trannies to accommodate the actually quite reasonable wishes of a much larger amount of society?….
"Reasonableness" is not in the progressive Lefts vocabulary… radical views of equality excavate any such thing. Any many well-intentioned [benighted*] Democrats led by the nose not realizing this are just as much at fault.
* "Benighted"
The Active Transfer Of Saint-Hood Through Social Justice Means
~ some examples ~
One might say that the politician, the doctor, and the dramatist make their living from human misery; the doctor in attempting to alleviate it, the politician to capitalize on it, and the dramatist, to describe it.
But perhaps that is too epigrammatic.
When I was young, there was a period in American drama in which the writers strove to free themselves of the question of character.
Protagonists of their worthy plays had made no choices, but were afflicted by a condition not of their making; and this condition, homosexuality, illness, being a woman, etc., was the center of the play. As these protagonists had made no choices, they were in a state of innocence. They had not acted, so they could not have sinned.
A play is basically an exercise in the raising, lowering, and altering of expectations (such known, collectively, as the Plot); but these plays dealt not with expectations (how could they, for the state of the protagonist was not going to change?) but with sympathy.
What these audiences were witnessing was not a drama, but a troublesome human condition displayed as an attraction. This was, formerly, known as a freak show.
The subjects of these dramas were bearing burdens not of their choosing, as do we all. But misfortune, in life, we know, deserves forbearance on the part of the unafflicted. For though the display of courage in the face of adversity is worthy of all respect, the display of that respect by the unaffected is presumptuous and patronizing.
One does not gain merit from congratulating an afflicted person for his courage. One only gains entertainment.
Further, endorsement of the courage of the affliction play's hero was not merely impertinent, but, more basically, spurious, as applause was vouchsafed not to a worthy stoic, but to an actor portraying him.
These plays were an (unfortunate) by-product of the contemporary love-of-the-victim. For a victim, as above, is pure, and cannot have sinned; and one, by endorsing him, may perhaps gain, by magic, part of his incontrovertible status.
David Mamet, The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture (New York, NY: Sentinel Publishing, 2011), 134-135.
There is a Liberal sentiment that it should also punish those who take more than their "fair share." But what is their fair share? (Shakespeare suggests that each should be treated not according to his deserts, but according to God's mercy, or none of us would escape whipping.)
The concept of Fairness, for all its attractiveness to sentiment, is a dangerous one (cf. quota hiring and enrollment, and talk of "reparations"). Deviations from the Law, which is to say the Constitution, to accommodate specifically alleged identity-group injustices will all inevitably be expanded, universalized, and exploited until there remains no law, but only constant petition of Government.
We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in ignorance of the identity of the claimants and applied equally to all. Then it is a possession not only of the claimants but of the society, which may now base its actions upon a reasonable assumption of the law's treatment.
But "fairness" is not only a nonlegal but an antilegal process, for it deals not with universally applicable principles and strictures, but with specific cases, responding to the perceived or proclaimed needs of individual claimants, and their desire for extralegal preference. And it could be said to substitute fairness (a determination which must always be subjective) for justice (the application of the legislated will of the electorate), is to enshrine greed—the greed, in this case, not for wealth, but for preference. The socialistic spirit of the Left indicts ambition and the pursuit of wealth as Greed, and appeals, supposedly on behalf of "the people," to the State for "fairness."….
….But such fairness can only be the non-Constitutional intervention of the State in the legal, Constitutional process—awarding, as it sees fit, money (reparations), preferment (affirmative action), or entertainment (confiscation)….
…."Don't you care?" is the admonition implicit in the very visage of the Liberals of my acquaintance on their understanding that I have embraced Conservatism. But the Talmud understood of old that good intentions can lead to evil—vide Busing, Urban Renewal, Affirmative Action, Welfare, et cetera, to name the more immediately apparent, and not to mention the, literally, tens of thousands of Federal and State statutes limiting freedom of trade, which is to say, of the right of the individual to make a living, and, so earn that wealth which would, in its necessary expenditure, allow him to provide a living to others….
…. I recognized that though, as a lifelong Liberal, I endorsed and paid lip service to "social justice," which is to say, to equality of result, I actually based the important decisions of my life—those in which I was personally going to be affected by the outcome—upon the principle of equality of opportunity; and, further, that so did everyone I knew. Many, I saw, were prepared to pay more taxes, as a form of Charity, which is to say, to hand off to the Government the choice of programs and recipients of their hard-earned money, but no one was prepared to be on the short end of the failed Government programs, however well-intentioned. (For example—one might endorse a program giving to minorities preference in award of government contracts; but, as a business owner, one would fight to get the best possible job under the best possible terms regardless of such a program, and would, in fact, work by all legal and, perhaps by semi- or illegal means to subvert any program that enforced upon the proprietor a bad business decision.)*
Further, one, in paying the government to relieve him of a feeling of social responsibility, might not be bothered to question what in fact constituted a minority, and whether, in fact, such minority contracts were actually benefiting the minority so enshrined, or were being subverted to shell corporations and straw men. †
*No one would say of a firefighter, hired under rules reducing the height requirement, and thus unable to carry one's child to safety, "Nonetheless, I am glad I voted for that 'more fair' law."
† As, indeed, they are, or, in the best case, to those among the applicants claiming eligibility most capable of framing, supporting, or bribing their claims to the front of the line. All claims cannot be met. The politicians and bureaucrats discriminating between claims will necessarily favor those redounding to their individual or party benefit—so the eternal problem of "Fairness," supposedly solved by Government distribution of funds, becomes, yet again and inevitably, a question of graft.
David Mamet, The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture (New York, NY: Sentinel Publishing, 2011), 116-117, 122, 151, 154.
Which bring me to the FAIRNESS BRIGADE our universities are creating so "progressives" [really, regressives] feel good and benighted…
FAMILY POLICY INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON visited the campus of the University of Washington to see if students would affirm or reject Joseph Backholm's new chosen identity: a 6'5″ Chinese woman.
I think the really important part is at the end when it is pointed out that how are these people going to make the real [tough] decisions in life than truly matter if they cannot deal with simple realities. I can see this thinking with How Obama deals with foreign affairs. This brings to mind as well the recently "famous" dragon-lady, which is a man mutilating his body to become a female… wait for it… dragon. I have more on this in my Transspecies post, but Gay Patriot ends his post on the matter with this:
So, does this mean that businesses will be required to provide this creature with a sunny rock to warm itself in the afternoon sun on? Will states that exempt businesses from having to cater to this be subject to boycotts in services of the LGBQTAR (As in 'Reptilian') coalition of the perpetually aggrieved?
Earlier I highlighted a video where "College Kids Speak With a 6'5″ Chinese Woman," but there are other videos in line with this thinking from The Family Policy Institute of Washington.
We took to the streets of Seattle to see if people actually oppose all discrimination, or if they just oppose *some* discrimination.
The Family Policy Institute of Washington asks Seattle residents if there are any limits to the way someone can self-identify.
Do college kids think there's a difference between men and women? FPIW visited Seattle University to find out.
BRITISH NHS BANS TERM "EXPECTANT MOTHER" (the real war on women!)
GENDER BINARY DANGERS AT THE ZOO (the real war on nature spreads to the zoo!)
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