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The Holocaust Violence
Facism has inflicted terrible suffering and disasters on mankind. The 19th and 20th centuries were rife with killings perpetrated by racist regimes and organizations that oppressed and slaughtered innocent people for the sake of their own ideological obsessions. Nazi's policy of extermination was aimed not just at Jews, but also at such other ethnic, religious and social groups as Gypsies, Poles, Slavs, devout Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the physically and mentally handicapped. The Jewish people, of whom 5.5 million died in concentration camps, were the worst victims of the Nazi barbarity. Yet the total who lost their lives in the camps was more than 11 million, and more than half of them were members of the groups listed above.
In one verse, God reveals that people must not be judged according to their race, color or ethnic origin, but rather by their morality:
O humanity! We created you from a male and female, and made you into peoples and tribes so that you might come to know each other. The noblest among you in God's sight is the one of you who best performs his duty. God is All-Knowing, All-Aware. (Qur'an, 49:13)
The expression "so that you might come to know each other" reveals God's wisdom in creating different races and ethnic origins: Different tribes or nations, all of whom are God's servants, must get to know one another-in other words, learn about each other's different cultures, languages, customs and abilities. One of the intentions behind the existence of different races and nations is cultural richness, not war or conflict.
In the sight of God, people acquire superiority not according to their languages, race or gender, but according to their godliness. The existence of different races and nations is a cultural wealth, not a reason for war and conflict.
The morality commanded in that verse and elsewhere in the Qur'an make it absolutely clear that a Muslim must not engage in racism or judge people by their race. For that reason, it is completely out of the question for Muslims to harbor negative feelings about Jews or any other race, simply because of their ethnic origins.
Turning to consider the religion that the Jews follow, we encounter another very important truth revealed in the Qur'an: Jews and Christians are referred to as "People of the Book" and as such, are closer to Muslims than are atheists or pagans. Both Jews and Christians, they all believe in God and His unity. And all submit to His commandments.
The Qur'an draws an important distinction between the People of the Book and idolaters, particularly in terms of social life. One verse, for example, describes the latter in these terms: "... the idolaters are unclean, so after this year they should not come near the Masjid al-Haram..." (Qur'an, 9:28) That is because idolaters recognize no divine law, possess no moral criteria, and can engage unhesitatingly in all forms of wickedness and perversion.
The People of the Book, however, possess certain moral criteria based on God's revelation, as well as concepts of what is lawful and what is forbidden. That is why it's lawful for Muslims to eat food prepared by the People of the Book. In the same way, Muslim men are permitted to marry women from the People of the Book. In the relevant verse, God says:
Today all good things have been made lawful for you. And the food of those given the Book is also lawful for you and your food is lawful for them. So are chaste women from among the believers and chaste women of those given the Book before you, once you have given them their dowries in marriage, not in fornication or taking them as lovers. But as for anyone who rejects faith, his actions will come to nothing and in the Hereafter he will be among the losers. (Qur'an, 5:5)
These rules show that marriage and the resulting ties of kinship can be established between Muslims and the People of the Book. Each can accept the other's invitations to dine, all of which allow the establishment of warm human relations and a peacefully shared life. Since the Qur'an recommends such moderation and understanding, it is out of the question for us Muslims to hold ideas in conflict with that viewpoint.
Throughout history, Muslim communities have treated members of other races and religions with understanding. The picture shows Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror entering the Hagia Sophia.
Moreover, the Qur'an describes the places where the People of the Book worship as being under God's protection:
... if God had not driven some people back by means of others, monasteries, churches, synagogues and mosques, where God's name is mentioned much, would have been pulled down and destroyed. God will certainly help those who help Him-God is All-Strong, Almighty. (Qur'an, 22:40)
This verse shows that all Muslims must behave respectfully towards the places of worship of the People of the Book, as well as protecting them.
Indeed, when one reviews the history of Islam, it is striking that Muslim societies have always treated the People of the Book with moderation and understanding. That was particularly evident in the Ottoman Empire, from which today's Turkey is descended. It is well known that the Jews were expelled from Catholic Spain, but found the right to live peacefully in Ottoman lands. When Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror (Mehmed II) captured Constantinople, he allowed Jews and Christians to live there freely. Throughout Ottoman history, the Jews were regarded as a People of the Book and allowed to live in peace.
Neither the practices of Inquisition stemming from bigotry, nor anti-Semitism born out of racist ideas-both of which have blackened European history-ever appeared in the Islamic world. In conclusion, it is absolutely out of the question for us Muslims, who think along the commandments of the Qur'an, to feel any hostility towards the Jews because of their religion or beliefs.
The neo-pagan movement born in the 19th century maintained that European societies should return to pre-Christian paganism. Some neo-pagans, inimical to Divine religions such as Judaism and Christianity, favored the barbarian lifestyle of pagan societies. The Nazi propaganda poster (top right) equates the SS with ancient pagan warriors.
The ideology known as anti-Semitism is a pagan teaching that no Muslim could possibly adopt.
To realize that, we need to examine the roots of anti-Semitism. The term is generally understood to mean "hatred of Jews," though it really means "hatred of the Semites", in other words, of all Semitic peoples: Arabs, Jews and some other Middle Eastern ethnic groups. There are close similarities between Semitic cultures and languages. For example, Arabic and Hebrew closely resemble one another.
The second great linguistic and racial group that has influenced world history is the Indo-European, including most of the nations in present-day Europe.
Prophets have come to all these different civilizations and societies to tell them about the existence and oneness of God and His commands. From the written record, however, we see that Indo-European nations have held pagan beliefs since very ancient times. The Greek and Roman civilizations, the barbarian German tribes and the Vikings who lived in northern Europe at around the same time, all held polytheistic pagan beliefs. That explains why those societies were devoid of any moral criteria. They regarded violence and savagery as justified and praiseworthy, and widely engaged in immoral practices such as homosexuality and adultery. (We must never forget that the Roman Empire, widely regarded as the most advanced of the Indo-European civilizations, was a savage society in which human beings were tortured and torn apart in the arenas for public entertainment.)
Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the leaders of the neo-pagan movement in 19th-century Europe.
These pagan tribes dominating Europe came to believe in one God only under the influence of Jesus (pbuh) who was sent down as a prophet to the Semites and the children of Israel. He himself was racially and linguistically a Jew. His message gradually spread over Europe, and one by one, formerly pagan tribes came to accept Christianity. (We should make it clear that at this point, Christianity had been corrupted, and included in its teachings was the twisted idea of the Trinity).
In the 18th and 19th centuries, however, Christianity weakened throughout Europe. Along with the growing strength of ideologies and philosophies that supported atheism, a peculiar movement was born: Neo-paganism. That movement's leaders maintained that European societies needed to reject Christianity and revert to their ancient pagan beliefs. According to the neo-pagans, the ethical understanding of the pagan European societies was superior to that which emerged later, after they turned to Christianity.
One of the main representatives of that trend, and also one of the principal theoreticians of fascism, was Friedrich Nietzsche. Implacably hostile to Christianity, he believed that this religion had destroyed the warrior spirit of the German race and therefore, its so-called "noble essence." He attacked Christianity in his book The Antichrist and glorified ancient pagan philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra. (Zoroastrianism, widespread in ancient Persia, was one of the pagan religions of Indo-European culture).
The neo-pagans also harbored great hatred for Judaism, which they regarded as the basic root of Christianity, which they considered a "Jewish conspiracy" and even described as "the world being conquered by the Jewish idea." (Without question, the neo-pagans also hated Islam, the sole true religion, in much the same way.)
This neo-pagan movement fanned the flames of anti-religious hatred and also gave birth to the ideologies of fascism and anti-Semitism. Examining the foundations of Nazi ideology in particular, it is quite clear that Hitler and his partisans were pagans in the true sense of the word.
The Nazis' devotion to neo-pagan teachings was the main reason for their hostility towards the Jews. Throughout the years of Nazi rule, spectacles reminiscent of ancient pagan ceremonies were staged all over Germany. The opening ceremony of the Berlin Olympics, shown here, was one of these.
In the development of Nazi ideology, one of the most important roles was played by Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, a devoted believer in neo-paganism. He was the first to discover the swastika from ancient pagan sources which later became the symbol of the Nazi Party, and to actually use it. The Ordo Novi Templi organization that he established dedicated itself entirely to a rebirth of paganism. Lanz declared that he openly worshipped Wotan, one of the false deities of the old German pagan tribes. Wotanism, in his view, was the German people's natural religion, and the Germans could be saved only by returning to it.
Nazi ideology developed along the lines opened up by Lanz and similar neo-pagan ideologues. Alfred Rosenberg, the foremost of the Nazi ideologues, openly maintained that Christianity couldn't provide spiritual energy for the new Germany being established under Hitler's leadership, which was why the German race needed to return to the old, pagan religion. In Rosenberg's view, when the Nazis came to power, the religious symbols in churches would have to be removed, to be replaced by copies of Hitler's book Mein Kampf (My Struggle), and swastikas and swords representing German invincibility. Hitler was influenced by Rosenberg's views, but didn't put the theory of the new German religion into practice because he feared there would be a huge social protest. 1
Even so, a number of neo-pagan measures were put into practice during the Nazi regime. A short while after Hitler came to power, Christian holy days and festivals began to be abolished and replaced by pagan alternatives. During wedding services, vows were taken to imaginary deities such as "Mother Earth" or "Father Sky." In 1935, schools were forbidden to allow students to recite Christian prayers. Then lessons in Christianity were completely banned.
SS chief Heinrich Himmler stated the Nazi regime's hatred of Christianity: "This religion is the most terrible pestilence the world has ever seen. It needs to be treated accordingly." 2 These words are expressions indicative of Himmler's and the Nazi mentality's ignorance and irrationality. And they are unacceptable.
The Nazis' enmity for the Jews was thus part and parcel of these anti-religious ideologies. Regarding Christianity as a "Jewish conspiracy," the Nazis tried to divorce German society from Christianity on the one hand, and on the other encouraged Jews to leave Germany by putting various forms of pressure on them and organizing street attacks.
When we examine the various neo-Nazi and fascist groups in the vanguard of anti-Semitism today, we see that almost all possess an anti-religious ideology and employ slogans based on pagan concepts.
Another revealing point was the way the Nazi worldview took Darwin's theory of evolution as its intellectual basis.
When putting forward his theory, Charles Darwin had claimed that there was a constant fight for survival in nature, and that some races were especially favored in the fight, while others were doomed to lose and be "eliminated." As one might expect, these views soon came to represent the scientific foundation of racism. James Joll, who spent long years as a professor of international history at Oxford, Stanford and Harvard University, describes the ideological link between Darwinism and racism in his book Europe Since 1870: An International History, which is still used as a college textbook:
Charles Darwin, the English naturalist whose books On the Origin of Species, published in 1859, and The Descent of Man, which followed in 1871, launched controversies which affected many branches of European thought... The ideas of Darwin, and of some of his contemporaries such as the English philosopher Herbert Spencer, ... were rapidly applied to questions far removed from the immediate scientific ones... The element of Darwinism which appeared most applicable to the development of society was the belief that the excess of population over the means of support necessitated a constant struggle for survival in which it was the strongest or the "fittest" who won. From this it was easy for some social thinkers to give a moral content to the notion of the fittest, so that the species or races which did survive were those morally entitled to do so.
The doctrine of natural selection could, therefore, very easily become associated with another train of thought developed by the French writer, Count Joseph-Arthur Gobineau, who published an Essay on the Inequality of Human Races in 1853. Gobineau insisted that the most important factor in development was race; and that those races which remained superior were those which kept their racial purity intact. Of these, according to Gobineau, it was the Aryan race which had survived best... Houston Stewart Chamberlain... contributed to carrying some of these ideas a stage further... Hitler himself admired the author [Chamberlain] sufficiently to visit him on his deathbed in 1927. 3
Cover of the first edition of Hitler's 1925 book Mein Kampf (My Struggle)
Hitler's, and thus the Nazis', ideological devotion to Darwinism was implemented in their policies after coming to power. The Nazis' racial policies, known as "eugenics," represented the theory of evolution as applied to society. Eugenics refers to the weeding out of the sick and handicapped, and the "improvement" of the human race by increasing the number of healthy individuals. According to the theory of eugenics, a race can be improved in the same way that better breeds of animal are formed by the mating of healthy individuals. The theory was proposed by Charles Darwin's cousin Francis Galton and his son, Leonard Darwin. The first person to adopt and spread the theory in Germany was the evolutionist biologist Ernst Haeckel, a close friend and supporter of Darwin. He recommended that handicapped babies should be killed at birth, to accelerate the so-called evolution of society. He actually went even further, and maintained that lepers, cancer patients and the mentally handicapped should also be ruthlessly killed, or else such people would burden society and slow down the process of evolution.
Haeckel died in 1919, but his ideas were bequeathed to the Nazis. Shortly after seizing power, Hitler embarked on an official program of eugenics. His words in Mein Kampf summed up this new policy:
Mental and physical education are of great importance to the state, yet the selection of people is at least as important. The state has a responsibility to declare that it is inappropriate for genetically or clearly unhealthy individuals to reproduce... It must show no sympathy nor wait for others to understand as it fulfils that responsibility... Preventing the reproduction of physically handicapped or unhealthy individuals for a period of 600 years ... will bring about a hitherto unachievable improvement in human health. If the healthiest members of a race reproduce in a planned manner, the result will be ... a race without the deformed physical or mental seeds that we have carried with us so far. 4
As a result of Hitler's philosophy, the Nazis rounded up the mentally ill, the crippled, the congenitally blind and those suffering from inherited diseases and sent them to special "sterilization centers." Under a law passed in 1933, 350,000 mentally ill people, 30,000 gypsies and hundreds of colored children were sterilized by means of castration, x-rays, injections or electric shocks to the genitals. As one Nazi officer put it, "National Socialism is simply applied biology."5
What the Nazis considered "applied biology" was actually Darwin's theory of evolution, itself a violation of the basic laws of biology. It has since been clearly shown that the theory of eugenics and other Darwinist claims are absolutely devoid of any scientific foundation.
Finally, we must emphasize that the Nazis' attachment to evolutionary theory was connected to their hostility to religion as well as to racist policies. As we have already seen, the Nazis bore a great hatred for divine religions. Intending to replace them with pagan beliefs, they sought to carry out anti-religious propaganda and brainwashing and realized that Darwinism was the most effective means of doing so. Daniel Gasman's The Scientific Origins of National Socialism confirms this: "Hitler stressed and singled out the idea of biological evolution as the most foremost weapon against traditional religion..." 6
These same anti-religious and Darwinist ideologies underlay the Nazis' despotic ruthlessness.
Evaluating people according to their ethnic origins and inherited physical characteristics is a perverse practice that reached its peak in the 19th century. The motivating reason behind it was Darwin's theory of evolution, which regarded mankind from a totally racist perspective. Darwin was the behind-the-scenes architect of 19th-century racism and the 20th century's Nazi barbarity. Above: The so-called "racial measurements" performed according to evolutionist criteria. Hitler's devotion to the ideas of Darwin appeared in the title of his own book, Mein Kampf. The struggle in question was, of course, the fight for survival proposed by Darwin.
The perverted ideology of racism is incompatible with religious moral values, and constantly leads humanity into disaster. Religious morality, on the other hand, commands tolerance, love, compassion and forgiveness-in other words, proper moral values.
From what we have seen so far, the conclusion that emerges is this:
Anti-Semitism is actually an anti-religious and Darwinist ideology, whose roots go back to neo-paganism. For that reason, it is unthinkable for any Muslim to support or feel sympathy for that ideology. An anti-Semite is also an enemy of the prophets Abraham, Moses and David (peace be upon them all), blessed people chosen by God and sent down as messengers to mankind.
In just the same way, other forms of racism (such as prejudice against blacks and other races) are also perversions stemming from various ideologies and false beliefs that have nothing to do with divine religions. Examining anti-Semitism and other forms of racism, it clearly emerges how these advocate ideas and social models diametrically opposed to the morality of the Qur'an. At the root of anti-Semitism, for example, lie feelings of hatred, violence and ruthlessness. (That is why anti-Semites have imitated the pagan religions of ancient barbarian tribes.) An anti-Semite can even go so far as to defend the slaughter of Jews, making no allowance for women, children or the elderly. The morality of the Qur'an, however, teaches love, affection and compassion. It instructs Muslims to be just and forgiving, even to their enemies.
The morality God commands in the Qur'an makes no generalized judgments on the grounds of race, nation or religion. Every society has its good and bad members. This applies to the People of the Book too. After explaining that some of the People of the Book rebel against God and religion, the verse goes on to state that among them, there are also the sincerely devout:
They are not all the same. There is a community among the People of the Book who are upright. They recite God's signs throughout the night, and they prostrate. They believe in God and the Last Day, and enjoin the right and forbid the wrong, and compete in doing good. They are among the righteous. They will not be denied the reward for any good thing they do. God knows those who guard against evil. (Qur'an, 3:113-115)
No matter whom it is inflicted upon, racism is a terrible crime. The Nazis went down in history as an example of the ruthless dimensions that racist barbarity can assume. This guiltless Jewish child crawling on the ground in the Warsaw ghetto in the 1940s and the many innocent people of different races oppressed all over the world reveal the cruel nature of racism.
The Qur'an commands to make no distinction, not even against those who do not believe and refuse to recognize God and religion, and states that those who display no hostility to religion should be treated well:
God does not forbid you from being good to those who have not fought you in the religion or driven you from your homes, or from being just towards them. God loves those who are just. God merely forbids you from taking as friends those who have fought you in the religion and driven you from your homes and who supported your expulsion. Any who take them as friends are wrongdoers. (Qur'an, 60:8-9)
It is commanded that even the enemies of Muslims should enjoy their sense of justice :
You who believe! Show integrity for the sake of God, bearing witness with justice. Do not let hatred for a people incite you into not being just. Be just. That is closer to heedfulness. Have fear [and respect] of God. God is aware of what you do. (Qur'an, 5:8)
Once again, all these verses show that it is totally incompatible with Islamic morality to harbor hatred, anger, or aggression towards Jews or any other people, solely on account of their beliefs and race. Since the Jews are descended from the line of Abraham (pbuh), there is absolutely no question of Islamic morality ever permitting any attempt at the elimination of Abraham's (pbuh) line. This is a most repellent and sinful course of action. Like all Muslims who abide by Qur'anic moral values and the Sunnah, the teachings of our Prophet (may God bless him and grant him peace), it is impossible for us to accept such a repugnant action or regard it as in any way justified.
1 Michael Howard, The Occult Conspiracy: The Secret History of Mystics, Templars, Masons and Occult Societies, 1st ed., London: Rider, 1989, p. 130.
2 Herbert F. Ziegler, Nazi Germany's New Aristocracy: The SS Leadership 1925-1939, Princeton, New Jersey, University Press, 1989, p. 85.
3 James Joll, Europe Since 1870: An International History, Penguin Books, Middlesex, 1990, pp. 102-103.
4 Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (My Struggle), München: Verlag Franz Eher Nachfolger, 1993, pp. 44, 447-448.
5 Henry Morris, The Long War Against God, 78; Francis Schaeffer, How Shall We Then Live?, New Jersey, Revell Books, Old Tappan, 1976, p. 151.
6 Daniel Gasman, The Scientific Origins of National Socialism: Social Darwinism in Earnest Haeckel and the German Monist League, New York: American Elsevier Press, 1971, p. 168.


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A Blonde Kim Kardashian Is A Sexy Mermaid At Midori Halloween Party
Celebrities love dressing up for special occasions, and Halloween is no exception. We spotted Kim Kardashian attending the Midori Halloween party in New York City over the weekend wearing a spectacular mermaid costume.
The reality star put on a blonde wig and wore a sparkly, fish scale green skirt with a corset-like top that featured seashells over her bosum. She paired the look with several strands of pearl necklaces.
Her boyfriend Kanye West looked like a sailor, opting for a simpler costume - a striped shirt and red loafers.
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Three Oregon women were arrested after two of them began "twerking" near municipal court windows in Beaverton.
According to police, the third woman was filming the incident on her phone.
One of the women, 20-year-old Coura Christie Velazquez, had to visit the court to pay a fine for a warrant. The other women, 20-year-old Brittany Medak and 22-year-old Leokham Yothsombath, accompanied her.
After they left, Velazquez and Medak began twerking outside court windows while Yothsombath filmed it, Portland TV station KPTV reported.
According to police, the women partially exposed their genitals.
Medak is also accused of urinating between two cars, Portland TV station KOIN reported.


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Also, I think daycare is overfeeding him a bit but we cannot, for the life of us, convince them that he probably does not need two bottles back to back. It's maddening.


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One of the things that I love the most about my hometown is that people who live here are zero pretentious in their way of wearing clothes; I can fairly say that the spirit of the city in terms of fashion is far away from trying to be the coolest place in the planet but you can smell freedom and freshness in our daily uniforms.
There's nothing classy about Barcelona but it is chic and sophisticated in some way. Not in a French or an Italian way, nor so brandish or accurate, maybe the style is more spontaneous and natural, but still incredibly fashionable.
This city is all about foreign people who fall in love with our Mediterranean flair. People from Europe, Asia, America and Africa came here attracted by an inimitable urban way of life which translates in a particular trend, especially in neighborhoods like Raval, Barrio Gótico, Poble Nou and Born. The hippiest areas in the city.
Where fashion, culture and history meet and where everything's going on. Where you can walk for hours and do your shopping in vintage stores, and where you can go out by night to have a drink or to a club.
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PRINCESS ANNE, MD – The University of Maryland Eastern Shore launched its newest doctoral studies program in August with the arrival of the inaugural class of pharmacy students.
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- Title
- Defining journalistic professionalism within the higher education system
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- The paper will discuss the results of a qualititative analysis of journalism studies course content at Australian universities. I will argue that a focus on the contribution of tertiary education to the formation of journalistic 'professional identity' must be seen within the much broader context of a socially produced field of expertise and cultural practice. This has particular ramifications for understanding of some of the influences on journalistic self definition, especially in a contemporary era of contestation of journalism culture and authority.
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Fantasy Guru Daily: 2/1/11
Welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Fantasy Guru Daily, where we brave the Dallas snow from our office in New Jersey to bring you the news of the day. Today is Super Bowl Media Day, meaning there will be an endless supply of stories in tomorrow's newspapers. For now, there's plenty of news happening elsewhere in the league.
Bratkowski out in Cincy … The Bengals fired OC Bob Bratkowski on Monday after a 10-year tenure in Cincinnati that resulted in two playoff appearances (2005 and 2009) but eight seasons with losing records. Perhaps the most disappointing season was this one, as the Bengals entered with high hopes but went just 4-12. QB Carson Palmer's career has gone downhill, and he even asked to be traded two weeks ago. The Bengals finished 13th in passing, 27th in rushing, and 22nd in scoring. They often played from behind, and RB Cedric Benson struggled to get into a rhythm, causing the rushing offense to drop from 9th to 27th. Despite meeting with Marvin Lewis recently, former Viking HC Brad Childress will reportedly not be Bratkowski's replacement.
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If you think of the French painter, Yves Klein, who died aged just thirty-four in 1962, you think of blue. Although he made art works in many different colours and media, it is his monochrome blue paintings, velvety in their depth of pigment, of which he made nearly 200, that are his most significant contribution to art history. In May 1960 Klein even patented the blue that approached the nearest he could get to his ideal colour, a colour that represented for him the immateriality of deep space: International Klein Blue, or IKB. Developed with chemists at the French pharmaceutical company Rhône Poulenc, this is made from ordinary synthetic ultramarine pigment, but with a polymer binder to preserve the colour's intensity and powdery texture. Used by Klein, the colour seems both to stand proud as a dazzling object in its own right and also, as Klein put it more extravagantly, to offer an "open window to freedom as the possibility of being immersed in the immeasurable existence of color."
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It is perhaps not by chance that the first modern pigment to be synthesised was a blue, Prussian Blue, discovered accidentally in 1704. Then in 1802 Louis Jacques Thénard discovered Cobalt Blue, a cool blue that does not fade and today marks out Asbolut Vodka from other brands. But ultramarine still proved elusive to science, until, in 1824, with the cost of Lapis Lazuli going though the roof in Paris, the French Societé d'Encouragement offered a prize of six thousand francs to anyone who could produce a synthetic variety that would cost less that three hundred francs per kilo. On February 4, 1828, the prize was awarded to Jean Baptiste Guimet who sub- mitted a process he had secretly developed in 1826. Almost simultaneously a German professor of chemistry, Christian Gottlob Gmelin, discovered a slightly different method, and within a few years ultramarine was being manufactured in both countries. Artists now had recourse to this most glorious of pigments at a tenth of the price that it had cost previously.
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For Yves Klein, however, blue was not just a pigment among others, but a medium in its own right, a substance that came to represent his unique artistic vision. Right from the beginning of his career, colour had meant much more than mere decoration or representation. As he wrote in a diary entry for 14th March 1952, "Day is blue/silence is green/life is yellow/..." His earliest paintings are monochromes, in a variety of colours, because, as he explained later, "In this way I seek to individualize the color, because I have come to believe that there is a living world of each color and I express these worlds." A monochrome offered an image of "pure, existential space." He did not convince everyone. When his orange canvas, Expression de l'univers de la couleur mine orange (Expression of the Universe Colour Minium Orange) was rejected from the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, the jury explained, "You know, it's just really not sufficient, if Yves would accept to add at least a little line, or a dot, or even simply a spot of another color, then we could show it, but a single color, no, no, really, that's not enough, it's impossible!" But Klein took up arms (quite literally, as a Knight of the Order of Archers of Saint Sebastian), adopting as his crusade the cause of pure colour in art, in defiance of line and drawing.
It was at an exhibition at Galerie Collette Allendy of twenty monchrome surfaces, all differ- ent colours, in 1956, however, that Klein realised that employing more than one colour would not do. The audience at the private view took delight in what they regarded as a decorative scheme, enjoying the play of one colour against another. As Klein put it later, "It was then that I remembered the colour blue, the blue of the sky in Nice that was at the origin of my career as a monochromist." What he recalled was a moment in 1946, on a beach with two friends, Claude Pascal and Arman Fernandez, when he was still in his teens, when they had pledged to "con- quer glory" and had divided the world between them, Klein choosing the sky. He wrote later, "I went and signed my name on the other side of the sky during a fantastic "realistico-imaginary" voyage." In January 1957 an exhibition at the Galleria Apollinaire in Milan, boldly titled L'Ep- oca Blu, confirmed Klein's dedication, featuring eleven deep ultramarine paintings. This was the first exposure of International Klein Blue - not just a colour, but an entire philosophy about what pigment can do and what it could mean.
"It was then that I remembered the colour blue, the blue of the sky in Nice that was at the origin of my career as a monochromist."
From then on Klein experimented with blue sculptures, blue balloons, blue fire works, blue screens, blue tapestries, blue sponges on sticks, and ultimately his notorious blue paintings, made from the imprints of naked female bodies, rolled, at his command, in colour. While this now seems an hilariously dated exercise, there is a poignancy to these great sheets of paper, which preserve forever the passing actions of once living bodies, in that unearthly, celestial colour. Even the name of the colour had resonance for him: in 1959 he exhibited in a group exhibition in Antwerp, as he put it, immaterially, standing in the place reserved for his painting, and reciting from the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard; "At first there is nothing, then a deep nothing, and then a deep blue."
Whatever your view of Yves Klein, charlatan or genius, he made manifest the quintessential character of his beloved blue pigment, confronting us with its intrinsic power, divorced from all subject matter, form or line. He represents an entirely original contribution to the twentieth cen- tury exploration by artists of fundamental questions about art and its meanings. If you add to this the poignancy of his early death, there is no wonder that his work still resonates. You have only to experience the pigment works or deep blue curved "void" sculptures of Anish Kapoor to see Klein's insight into the psychological power of blue, its capacity to induce in us a heady sense of tumbling into the void. More commercially, the Barcelona-based optical brand Etnia, recognising the iconic appeal of Klein's colour, has collaborated with the artist's archives on a collection of glasses for men, women and children called International Klein blue.
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Skinny Bitch is a new common sense diet book that takes a refreshingly honest approach towards a crazy diet culture swimming in half truths and insanity.
I think the title's great. More of a joke poking fun of the pop culture slang and attitude towards women who are thin. I see the hostility all the time. Just in the superficial banter way of hating the very thing people envy. So the immediate prejudice is that there must be something wrong with them. Thin women are that way cause they are "anorexic", or doing something else unnatural and unhealthy. While some, especially in the media do and fall into unhealthy eating disorders and mental ideas about themselves, there seems to be an underlying prejudice that it applies to all thin women who are not naturally curvy and voluptuous. And that only women who are very voluptuous are "real". Skinny women are unnatural or just "lucky bitches".
This book of course is all about eating healthy and real food, with the side effect of losing weight because of it. "Real" women in the media are portrayed as the ones who eat copious amounts of fast food, soda, pizza and junk and therefore are "healthy" and don't "starve themselves". I think that is the wrong message though and other extreme. There does not exist just the extremes of unhealthy starving on cigarettes, diet coke and diet pills vs. a "healthy" appetite of Mc. D's and pizza. Neither approach involves "real" food and natural health, natural weight etc. While I think that everyone is different, with different shapes and metabolisms and will all look different on the same type of diet, these authors just dish out the common sense that if you eat healthy real food and stop eating so much junk, you will also lose the junk in the trunk, naturally.
By appealing to the youthful audience generally caught up in the chaos of the mass popular mainstream diet culture, the authors hope to redefine the perception of what "real food" is. Real food is not fattening processed garbage like burgers, cokes and pizzas. Nor is it processed junky atkins diet bars and processed "low-carb" artificial diet drinks and "low-carb" fried chicken. Real food is whole food, organic food, unprocessed or low processed, farm fresh. Nutrient and healthy life giving whole fruits, vegetables, greens, herbs, grains, legumes, nuts, seeds etc. You don't have to starve yourself, you can eat genourous full plates of delicious real foods. The idea is you can stop making excuses and obsessing just over the scale. You can get healthy and as a natural consequence you will look fabulous, kick ass and not have to apologize for it!
(G Living just interviewed one of the authors, Rory Freedman on G Living Live. You can watch that show here.)
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Week-end Book Review ~ What We Wear: Dressing Up Around the World by Maya Ajmera, Elise Hofer Derstine, and Cynthia Pon
Maya Ajmera, Elise Hofer Derstine, and Cynthia Pon,
What We Wear: Dressing Up Around the World
A Global Fund for Children Book/Charlesbridge, 2012.
Ages: 4-7
Dressing up means something a little different to everyone, but for children dressing up is always important. It might mean trying on a parent's clothes in the back of a closet, putting on a costume for a performance or holiday, painting your face, playing pretend, or wearing a team uniform for a big game. No matter where, dressing up is special, but the details of dressing up differ considerably depending on the traditions of one's culture.
Though the outfits vary greatly from place to place, the reasons for dressing up unite us all. This richly photographed book of smiling children from around the world dressing up in every imaginable way will open windows onto other cultures for children everywhere. Whether vibrant beads on the head, neck, and shoulders of a Kenyan child or identical navy blue baseball caps on a Japanese team, it is clear that children everywhere delight in dressing up, whatever the occasion. Captions accompanying the photos suggest the different reasons people wear special clothing and where to find people wearing such garments: folk festivals, cultural events, religious rituals and even school. A world map highlights the countries the photographed children call home, underscoring the point that dressing up is universal.
Children will recognize the familiar in these pages and will also be delighted to see their counterparts in other countries dressed so differently. The pictures are likely to inspire a sense of wonder that may lead young children to think about what they share and how they differ from people of other cultures. The authors also make suggestions for learning more about dressing up all over the world such as going to museums, making masks and costumes on your own, and visiting cultural institutions and festivals.
Expressing one's self and experiencing one's culture through clothing is an important part of developing self-identity. This makes What We Wear a perfect book to have on the shelves of a pre-school or primary grade library, inspiring kids to see themselves and children everywhere as part of a global community.
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Second Stage of Grieving: Anger
Well, the rumors are swirling now about whether Josh was intoxicated when he had his fatal crash. The team is angry and not wanting to answer questions. I don't blame them. I believe he is innocent until proven otherwise, but things are not looking good.
The Post-Dispatch today reported that Josh had another car accident in Sauget Thursday at 5:30am, but the police did not think he had been drinking. He then was late to Thursday's game. The Post also quotes a couple in Shannon's who supposedly overheard Josh tell ESPN reporter Dave Campbell that he was late because he was hungover and that Tony fined him for showing up late and being hungover. Tony does not comment on this and says he wants to talk about baseball. Dave Campbell denies that Josh made those comments. Pat Shannon says she offered to call Josh a taxi on Saturday night but he told her he was only going to walk to a hotel a few blocks away. Yes, evidence is mounting, but there's still a lot of "he said, she said".
Bernie Miklasz reports that Tony warned the players the media will try to exploit this tragedy, and it's beginning to look that way. Obviously, the truth will come out and we can deal with it then, and I don't want to add fuel to the fire but I thought it important to mention these developments.
KMOX has a very dim and distant security camera view of the actual accident. I won't post that link because I think that is really going too far, and you can't see anything anyway.
Here's hoping the Cards are less fuzzy tonight, although I totally understand if they aren't.
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I'm glad that the autopsy will be done soon. It will be better to know the truth and not have to wonder or speculate about what did or did not happen.
I really hope he wasn't under the influence. But, regardless of the facts, he's gone and it's still a terrible tragedy.


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And we begin with 14 Min. and 25 seconds of Larry Harris?
If this is your inaugural presentation then learning how
to "hook your audience" should have been a prerequisite
to forming LBTV.
I wouldn't listen to -4- minutes of what Harris as to say
about anything regarding this franchise.
And, I'm betting my Berretta 12 gauge Don Nelson had
something to do with Harris being hired in Cali.
If I am to miss something I'll look forward to insightful
commentary by the blog-bretheren who will be all over this.
In somewhat related news I see over there to my right>>>>
...the "Video Highlights' show a picture of the Gilbert manchild.
Kid looks like he fell out of a Stephen King novel.
Miami vs Indiana.
#54 officially retired today.
Say what you will...but, the guy played the position
like no other.
Thanks for the memories on the Lakefront Mr. U>


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I know it's been a little quiet here at Game Informer but that's because I've been busy working on this amazing giveaway!
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Grand-Prize*10 winners will receive a copy of Darksiders II PC Collector's Edition**Contest includes only the PC version of the Collector's Edition. Xbox 360 and PS3 are not included in the contest.
Runner-Up*15 winners will receive a Darksiders II Prize Pack that includes
10,000 people will be randomly chosen to receive a free downloadable copy of the original Darksiders for PC.*
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Awakened by the End of Days, Death, the most feared of the legendary Four Horsemen embarks on a quest to restore mankind and redeem his brother's name. Along the way, the Horseman discovers that there are far worse things than an earthly Apocalypse, and that an ancient grudge may threaten all of Creation. Become the terrifying force which everything fears but nothing can escape. Death Lives in Darksiders II.
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entered hope i win
This giveaway is too amazing to even think of
I,m just hoping for a darksiders 1 download.
hope i can win..:P
Probably won't win...but it's DARKSIDERS 2! I gotta try!
When are you sending them today?
I really want the Statue of Death
I reread the article and noticed they're giving away 10000 copies of the FIRST Darksiders. Oh well, Haven't played either one and it would still be a free game. Can't complain.
How many copies of Darksiders one will be given each Friday?
Can anyone get any information if the codes have been sent today or what?
I just received a code for the first game. Thanks, GameInformer!
Yes! just won a copy of Darksiders but give me Darksider 2!!
Got a key as well but cannot redeem.
Thanks guys for deeming me worth to claim a game code! I can't wait to fire it up on my laptop!!!
Got darksiders :D Haven't played it but glad I get the chance too now, thanks GameInformer!
Thanks Gameinformer!! I just recieved my email with my free code. :))
I won! Thank you so much Gameinformer, though i would kind of prefer a steam code, but oh well. Thanks!


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Well...I can finally post on this board! My LO turns one on saturday! I never thought we'd make it. We are transitioning to wean though...for many reasons. I still bfeed her when she wakes up at night. But she doesn't need me to fall asleep anymore. I have started mixing her bottles with CM too, to help the transition. I am so happy to have made it the year, but feel a little sad about it coming to an end as well. We are going to gradually wean though, so there may still be many more nights of bfeeding!
Thank you to all of those who have helped me along the way! I couldn't have done it without everyone's support. We were close to giving up many times!
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On Friday, the Lady Horns beat Banquete 11-1 in six innings. Marley Snider picked up the win giving up three hits and striking out three batters. At the plate: Jordan Hensley - one run, Shawna DeLeon - two triples and one RBI, Marley Snider - double and two runs, Caitie Silvie - double and one RBI, Kelsi Bartlett - one RBI and one run, Claire Arciba - one run and one RBI, Raye Bednorz - double and one RBI, Erin Snider - one run, Shelby Morton - one run.
The Lady Horns district record is four and two, and overall record is 12-15. This week, the Lady Horns will play Mathis at home Monday, March 25; Junior Varsity - 5 p.m. and Varsity - 7 p.m. On Thursday March 28, the Lady Horns will play Odem at home Junior Varsity - 5 p.m. and Varsity - 7 p.m. Come support your Lady Horns Softball Team.


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Peaceful warriors
In an epic upset that would augur their one-point victory in the Color Wars, the juniors trumped the seniors in the tug of war. The juniors and sophomores tied in the gummy bear toss as their teams caught the flying candy in awaiting mouths with voracious skill. The seniors led the juniors 16-11 after the athletic event portion of the foray, but the juniors won the cake decorating and lip synch battles over the seniors who had won the banner honors. The three artistic endeavors afforded the juniors a 16-12 advantage resulting in the final 29-28 victory for the class of 2014. The juniors' skit provided a Jet Blue dancing/singing tour of Mexico, Paris, Egypt and Korea replete with appropriate costumes, dancing, music and enactment for those trips on the excursion.
All of the class skits were impressive, humorous and creative. For an album of photos from this year's Color Wars, visit www.sportsinsights.smugmug.com.


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Magnolia, Wheeling Central to meet for fourth time
CHARLESTON – It isn't every day that two northern panhandle squads will meet in the quarterfinals of the West Virginia boys' Basketball Tournament in Charleston.
In fact, Wednesday will be the first time it's happened.
In 2008, the WVSSAC board adopted a plan to cut the number of regions from eight per class to four and allow two teams from one section to advance. Essentially, it was aimed at getting the state's eight best teams to Charleston, even if they were next door neighbors.
In this case, Wheeling Central and Magnolia, who will square of four the fourth time this season at 1 p.m. today, are separated by 36 miles.
And it would figure Coach Dave Tallman and the Blue Eagles would be a part of a first like this. In 2004, Tallman had the state's No. 2 team, but was forced to play No. 1 Oak Glen in the regional final. When the Bears' Luke Sample hit a 3-pointer to send the game into overtime, then combined with Jered Gamble to score all of Oak Glen's 16 points the rest of the way, Tallman and one of his best teams were going home. It was games like that -and others -that led to today's setup.
Clearly, Tallman is in favor it, even if Game 26 will be a replay of the season opener. And Game No. 14. And Game 23. Magnolia won those three by an average score of 74-58.
That prompted the obvious from Wheeling Central coach Mel Stephens, who turned around a 5-19 squad from a season ago and has it Charleston-bound, despite giving up more points than it scored on the season.
"We're going to have to play better than the other three times we played them, that's for sure," Stephens said. "It's one of those deals where we're probably going to have to play our best and hope they don't play their best."
The Maroon Knights have rebounded from a 2-7 start, picked up yet another OVAC title, lost in the sectionals (to Magnolia), then gone on the road to beat a 19-4 St. Marys team that defends its home court as well as anyone.
Leading the Maroon Knights is a newcomer and a veteran in Chase Harler and David Park, respectively. Harler has averaged 18.2 points and 6.4 rebounds per game. Park scores 16.5 points and 7.6 rebounds per night. Brandon Wallace won't be forgotten. He averages 7.3 points and five rebounds per game.
Magnolia, which outscored its foes by an average of 15 points per game for the season and is riding a 12-game winning streak, also has a freshman putting up big numbers in Preston Boswell (13.5 points, 5.5 assists per game), but it's Wheeling Jesuit recruit Mark Winters who packs the biggest punch for the Blue Eagles. Winters checks in at 28 points and 12 rebounds per game.
Still, Stephens thinks it would be foolish to make Winters the focus of the defense.
"The Winters kid is good," Stephens said. "He's scored against us every game, but what makes them a good team as it was Boswell (with a big game the first time), then (Zach) Wilhoite, then (Stephen Rogalski) each stepped up."
It's true. While Tallman doesn't go deep down his bench, he gets big-time production from all of his starters. Rogalski averages 11 points and three assists. Wilhoite gets 15 points and eight rebounds after tip-off. Kyle Elliott doesn't score a lot, but he's a tireless rebounder and a fine complement to the rest of these guys.
And make no mistake, these guys, who haven't lost since Jan. 19, are heading to the state's capital with every intention of bringing back a trophy.
"We're going down to really be aggressive and keep playing the way we're playing," Tallman said. "Hopefully we can keep this thing going for (four or five more) days. My biggest fear is getting behind and somebody tries to slow it down. Teams have to play our style and not us play their style.
"We have to get the lead and just go after people. We've been getting out of the blocks real well. The guys understand what we're talking about."
For the Maroon Knights, who are a clip above .500 at 13-12, the opportunity is there.
"I told our kids, we've played them three times, a total of 12 quarters," Stephens said. "We've been in the game 8.5-to-9 of those quarters. That's going to be our focus."


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