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Johannesburg - Police continued to function with an "apartheid mentality" when maintaining public order and while conducting general police activities, the ANC Youth League said on Tuesday.
The killing of two protesters and the wounding of two others in Mothutlung, Brits, in the North West during a service delivery protest on Monday showed there was something seriously wrong with the police's public order unit, the youth league said in a statement.
"It seems as though teargas and rubber bullets are no longer used but live rounds of ammunition."
Residents of Mothutlung started protesting on Sunday afternoon about a water shortage.
Police were called to monitor them after they barricaded a road with burning tyres.
There was an altercation between protesters and the police, during which two protesters were shot dead.
"In recent times, the whole country has become an audience in a theatrical showcase of an ever-growing bad culture of police brutality," the league said.
The resultant effect was entrenched fear among citizens whenever they saw law enforcement officers.
"That sort of situation is unacceptable and should not be allowed to mature without condemnation," the league said.
The league called on all members of the police to revisit their resolve to serve in the police force.
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Islamiyyat is the referred international journal of Islamic studies; published by UKM Press and indexed by Index Islamicus. This journal is published annually in Malay, English and Arabic. The published articles as well as comments, research reports, book reviews, conference papers and others are in Islamic studies as well as in other fields written from Islamic perspectives.
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|[en] A Study on Muhammad Iqbal's Framework of Ijtihad
|Adibah Abdul Rahim, Anita Abdul Rahim
|[ms] The Concept of Use Value in Evaluation of E-Mosque: An Early Review
|Bushral Huda Abd Manan, Muhamad Faisal Asha'ari
|[ms] Hysterical Symptom among School Youth in Malaysia
|Intan Farhana Saparudin, Fariza Md. Sham, Salasiah Hanin Hamjah
|[ms] The Concept of Exegesis of al-Quran According to Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd
|Nur Zainatul Nadra Zainol, Muhd Najib Abd Kadir, Latifah Abd. Majid Abd. Majid
|[ms] Endowment Takaful at the Syarikat Takaful Malaysia Berhad: A Literature Review
|Wan Mohd Al Faizee Wan Ab Rahaman, Salmy Edawati Yaacob
|[ms] Progress and Learning Problems of the Quran in j-QAF Program in Malaysia
|Daud Ismail, Wan Mohd Khairul Firdaus Wan Khairuldin, Mahadi Mohammad
|[ms] The Influence of the Shafi'i School of Law in Legal Opinion of Tithe in Terengganu
|Wan Zulkifli Wan Hassan
|[ms] Historical Existence of Islamic Family Law in Southern Thailand
|Rohanee Machae, Abdul Basir Mohamad
|[en] Dakwah Among Indian Mualaf in Malaysia
|Razaleigh Muhamat @ Kawangit, Salawati Saringat
|[ms] Learning Attitude toward Fardhu Ain Course Achievements Among Chinese Mualaf at State Religious Department, District of Kajang
|Syarul Azman Shaharuddin, Razaleigh Muhamat @ Kawangit
|[ar] Legal Rulings on Uncertainty in Contracts of Donations: A Comparative Study of Islamic Jurisprudence
|Abdel Wadoud Mustofa Moursi Al-Saudi
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Well, that was quick: Only a few days after Apple announced its new subscription music service, Apple Music has replaced the iPod at the top of the company's site. Here's where everyone starts checking the deathwatch clock. [More]
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BlackBerry Settles Patent Dispute With Makes Of Slip-On Keyboard
After another round of fighting over whether keyboard company Typo Products' was infringing on BlackBerry's patents, the two sides have decided to settle their dispute. Typo will still get to sell slip-on keyboards — as long as they're of a certain size. [More]
Apple Working On Fix For Text That Instantly Crashes iPhones
It sounds like something out of a horror movie…if mobile phones watched horror movies. A certain string of Arabic characters, when sent to an iPhone, can crash the device and force it to restart immediately. It's a hilarious prank, but also a nasty security flaw that could disrupt important phone calls. [More]
Apple Now Requires ResearchKit Apps To Get Ethics Board Approval
Since introducing ResearchKit, its open-source framework for scientists to develop iPhone apps for medical research, Apple has made a few tweaks to the submission guidelines for apps that aim to collect and use sensitive medical data. One new addition is that anyone submitting an app that does research on humans must submit proof that the study has been approved by an independent ethics review board. [More]
Sprint Customers Can Now Make Phone Calls Over WiFi With Latest iPhone Update
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You might remember a little controversy last fall called bendgate, in which Apple's new-at-the-time iPhone 6 Plus was found to bend if you applied enough pressure. Following the flurry of stories and issues surrounding that device, it comes as no surprise that Samsung's newest smartphone, the Galaxy S6 Edge, would be subjected to similar tests, thus introducing us to a possible bendgate 2.0. [More]
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Vanity, thy name is smartphone thief: We're no strangers to the tale of the narcissistic villain who's ultimately caught after uploading photos taken on the pilfered phones somewhere the owner can see them. That's the ending one iPhone owner is hoping for, as she's been watching the person who stole her device unwittingly send them straight to the owner's Facebook account. [More]
Apple Clarifies Requirements For Medical Research Apps
Earlier this week, Apple announced HeathKit, an open-source software framework to help medical researchers use iPhones to gather data for medical research. This raised some concerns about researchers' plans to share data collected from the apps, as well as consent and privacy. Now Apple has revised their App Store guidelines before the kit launches, but is that enough to keep study participants informed and safe? [More]
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Earlier this week, Apple gave us wrist computers and took away almost all of the ports in its notebook computers, and also announced something that gadget fans may not have expected: a set of apps called ResearchKit designed to help medical researchers collect data from ordinary citizens for their research. Tens of thousands of people have already signed up for studies, which is potentially great for science. Is it good for us, the potential research subjects, though? [More]
Lawsuit From Ericsson Wants To Ban Apple From Importing iPhones, iPads
Another day, another lawsuit against Apple: This time around, the company's facing a lawsuit from Ericsson that seeks to ban imports on all iPads and iPhones amidst a dispute about licensing fees for several patents. [More]
BlackBerry Suing Makers Of Slip-On iPhone Keyboard Again, Claiming New Version Is Infringement
BlackBerry has a bone to pick with Typo, the makers of a slip-on iPhone keyboard that the mobile phone company already sued once with claims that the case infringes on its patents, and it's not ready to let that bone go anytime soon. A new lawsuit against Typo is now on the books, this time aimed at the company's second iteration of slip-on accessories [More]
Slip-On Keyboard Company Has To Pay BlackBerry $860K For Continuing To Sell iPhone Accessory
BlackBerry's trying its very best to stay relevant, and as such, it's going after one company that actually seems to admire its phone design: After suing the makers of a slip-on iPhone keyboard by Typo Products that was similar to its own keyboard and successfully nabbing an injunction against sales of the accessory, BlackBerry will now get $860,000 after it claimed the company continued to sell the product. [More]
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On Tuesday, sharp-eyed users of third-party Twitter programs noticed something very telling on Blackberry's Twitter feed. A Tweet urging users to download the official Twitter app for Blackberry phones had been posted from an iPhone. Yeah, why should the company's representatives use a Blackberry to make a Twitter post urging customers to tweet from a Blackberry? [More]
Study Shows You Can't Think Straight When Your iPhone Is In The Other Room
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The iPhone 6 caught a lot of heat for being a bit more prone to bending than other phones before it. But in the future, iPhones might be super flexible on purpose. The Apple Insider blog reports that this week, Apple won a patent for "a flexible electronic device" that can fold up like a trifold wallet. In the future, perhaps bendiness will be a feature, not a bug. [Apple Insider]
Unlocked iPhone 6 And iPhone 6 Plus Now Officially Available In The U.S.
Apple's iPhone 6 and 6 Plus have been on the market since September, but one thing that hasn't been available for customers in the United States was an unlocked, carrier-free phone. People who want Apple's newest phone and phablet unlocked and unsubsidized can now order it that way directly. Technically, this was available on launch day: Apple just didn't spell it out. [More]
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This past Saturday, October 21, Washington superlawyer Ted Olson and his fiancee, Lady Booth, were married. The wedding ceremony took place at the stunningly beautiful Meadowood resort, in Napa Valley, California.
Olson, a giant of the Supreme Court bar, served as Solicitor General — the federal government's top lawyer before the Supreme Court — from 2001 to 2004. He's currently a partner in the elite D.C. office of top-flight firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
Olson successfully litigated the landmark 2000 election case, Bush v. Gore, in the Supreme Court. On the losing side: renowned litigator David Boies. But presumably there were no hard feelings, since Boies showed up for the wedding festivities — along with many other legal luminaries.
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More than 300 guests attended the midafternoon ceremony on the golf course, including Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, former justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, legal commentators Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova, NPR's Nina Totenberg, legal names such as Robert Bork, Kenneth Starr, David Boise [sic], and Olson's law partner Bill Kilberg. U.S. Appeals Court Judge Laurence Silberman performed the ceremony, and Wall Street Journal Publisher Gordon Crovitz served as best man.
This is Booth's first marriage and Olson's fourth. The couple will honeymoon in Hawaii.
We hear through the grapevine that the wedding was, not surprisingly, "a great time. It seemed like half of Washington was there!"
Other notable guests: Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, of the Fourth Circuit; Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain, of the Ninth Circuit, and his ever-stylish wife, Maura O'Scannlain; Frank Fahrenkopf, former RNC chairman and current gaming industry superlobbyist, with his wife, Mary; current Solicitor General Paul Clement; and conservative pundit Laura Ingraham.
Despite the tremendous collective brainpower of these august guests, we hear that several of them were left scratching their impressive craniums by one wedding detail: the request on the wedding invite for "Napa Casual" attire.
These leading minds of the bench and bar can slice, dice, define and parse the most complex legal terms known to man. But throw two innocent little words at them — "Napa Casual" — and watch them panic.
If only every day could be a court day. Who doesn't look good in black?
Update: You can check out photographs from the wedding by clicking here.
Napa Nuptials for Olson and His Lady [Washington Post]
Theodore B. Olson, Solicitor General bio [USDOJ.gov]
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Organizing your email inbox should be among your list of New Year's resolutions
EndPlay Staff Reports - Is organizing your email inbox among your list of New Year's Resolutions?
It should be, and you should do it far more often than once a year, experts advise.
Cleaning out your inbox can not only help you get organized for the new year, it can actually help reduce stress in your life.
"Cut down on the excessive email and it won't pile up. Less stress means better performance. Focus on things that really need your full attention," writes Drew Olanoff, an editor at The Next Web .
"Who are you fooling? If you haven't read the 3,000 emails in your inbox, you're never going to read them. Do yourself a favor and spend an hour on setting up filters to get junk out of your inbox, then mark everything as read."
Here are some tips on how to better manage your emails from a 2007 post by Leo Babauta on zenhabits.net :
• Don't start your day off by checking email. That's especially hard now that so many people have smartphones beside the bed. But this article advises that you wait to check email, and do the most important things first.
• Don't have email on all of the time. If your email is set to notify you every time an email arrives, you can expect to be continuously distracted. If your needs permit, just check email once an hour.
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• Make good use of folders. Archive emails that don't need a response that you still want to keep for future reference. Again, this can be an Archive folder or a folder you set up by category.
Jill Duffy at PC Magazine advises to set aside 15 to 20 minutes each week to work on deleting, filing or archiving old emails. "Shut down all other programs, or if you're in a Web browser, close all other tabs. If you can block incoming mail for this time period, do that, too," she writes.


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Abby Martin remarks on the consumerist tradition of 'Black Friday,' urging holiday shoppers to buy local.
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Abby Martin remarks on the consumerist tradition of 'Black Friday,' urging holiday shoppers to buy local.
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I wish I wasn't making this post and I hope I'm wrong. I love the concept of Bitcoin and the prospect of the decentralization of power brought about by the introduction of "an open source peer-to-peer electronic money and payment network" and the inevitable collapse of fiat currencies that are controlled by central banks which are in the business of transferring wealth from main street to Wall Street.
I've been tracking bitcoin for almost three years, since it was trading for less than a dollar. I even mined it a little a couple of years ago and recommended friends to buy them. Now that bitcoin has breached $1,200 and counting, would I still be giving it a buy recommendation? Absolutely not. Would I be recommending friends to keep most of their bitcoins at these valuations? Absolutely not. I would be telling them to sell almost all of their holdings, letting 1% ride.
This won't be news to most disinfonauts, but here are some details you can share with your less informed friends and family. Tiffany Hsu writes at the Los Angeles Times:
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As the hardiest of shoppers prepare for the annual Black Friday consumption frenzy, many are convinced it's their one shot at a great deal.But "that's not even close to the truth," said Matthew Ong, senior retail analyst at online personal finance company NerdWallet Inc. Bargain hunters can — and, in some cases, should — avoid the Black Friday weekend crush, several experts said. Many characterize the shopping bonanza as an expertly marketed ploy to capitalize on shoppers' fear of missing out. By dangling a small batch of irresistible savings, stores land hordes of hopeful shoppers all scheming to score the retail version of Willy Wonka's golden ticket. Yet only a tiny percentage of customers end up with the most desirable deals.
Every New Yorker's favorite evangelical preacher, the Reverend Billy Talen (of the Church of Stop Shopping) is facing a year in prison for protesting against JP Morgan's financing of fossil fuels, reports Democracy Now:
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For more than a decade, Reverend Billy, along with his Church of Stop Shopping, has preached fiery sermons against recreational consumerism — and more recently, against climate disaster. You can often find them greeting the crush of shoppers at Macy's in New York City on Black Friday. That may not be the case this year. That is because in September, Rev. Billy was arrested after staging a 15-minute musical protest at a JPMorgan Chase bank in Manhattan to highlight the bank's environmental record and the extinction of a Central American golden toad. He now faces a year in prison for misdemeanor charges of riot in the second degree, menacing in the third degree, unlawful assembly and two counts of disorderly conduct.
I came into this world as a throwback and a cultural bastard child. I had a deep yearning to connect with the other living things around me, yet no indigenous traditions to follow. I may never find an Indian Shaman to mentor me into ancient mysteries. Like a feral cat or an escaped hog, I need to let my instincts and ancestral wisdom come to of themselves as I enter the wild. I glean what native wisdom I can find. The traditional home of the coyote is the Southwestern deserts and the great plains, yet they are invading the Forests of the North, learning to hunt deer as they come to occupy a niche left by the wolf. They seem to stand with one foot on the former domain of the wolf and one foot on a new niche they found for themselves, living on the edge of civilization. They walk a new path.… Read the rest
Veteran journalist Dave Lindorff asks "What if our premature Nobel Laureate President's having a '63-style Kennedy moment?" at Counterpunch:
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I'm going to engage here in a thought experiment which may make some readers a little queasy, but bear with me.
It's been half a century since the wrenching experience of having a charismatic young president cut down by bullets in what most Americans apparently still believe was a dark conspiracy by elements of the US government unhappy with the direction he was taking the country in international affairs.
Certainly powerful people like ex-CIA Director Allen Dulles and some of the nation's top generals, not to mention executives of what prior President Dwight D. Eisenhower had labeled the military industrial complex were outraged that in his third year in office Kennedy was trying to dial back the Cold War, to reduce or even end the threat of actual nuclear war, and that he was even thinking of pulling US troops out of Vietnam and of reaching some accommodation with Fidel Castro's Cuba.
If technology did not already make you feel insane enough, Engadget reports that Sony wants you to wear a wig that gives you GPS directions and vibrates when you receive an email:
Sony's trying to patent what it calls a "SmartWig." The application describes a standard wig that could "be made from horse hair, human hair, wool, feathers, yak hair or any kind of synthetic material," with a circuit board hidden among those luscious locks.
That board can talk to a "second computing device" wirelessly — such as a phone or even a pair of smartglasses — and actuators embedded in the hairpiece could "provide tactile feedback to the user." In other words, the wig could vibrate when you receive emails and the like. The wig-chip could also include GPS and an ultrasound transducer, with different regions buzzing to give navigation cues.
One of the wonderful but irritating qualities of the technology culture prevalent in Silicon Valley and various other wannabe Silcon Somethings is the attitude that its engineers can fix everything wrong with the world. Joscelin Cooper, part of that very culture, describes how some of the Valley's finest have turned to the world's food crisis, writing at VentureBeat:
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The technology industry can have an important impact on fixing the food system both by inventing new systems and infrastructure to reduce food waste, and ensuring that healthy, affordable food is widely available. Here are a few people and programs making a difference:
Invest in fake meat
Khosla Ventures has invested in numerous food-tech projects to create healthier foods that reduce the environmental impact of heavy meat consumption. As people in developing nations become more affluent, demand for meat products has gone up. However, the planet cannot sustain this growing market.
The Native American delegation who met with the pilgrims found them barely tolerable, but were more than happy to trade the beat-up old furs they used as blankets for useful trade goods.
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On March 22, 1621, a Native American delegation walked through what is now southern New England to meet with a group of foreigners who had taken over a recently deserted Indian settlement. At the head of the party was an uneasy triumvirate: Massasoit, the sachem (political-military leader) of the Wampanoag confederation, a loose coalition of several dozen villages that controlled most of southeastern Massachusetts; Samoset, sachem of an allied group to the north; and Tisquantum, a distrusted captive, whom Massasoit had brought along only reluctantly as an interpreter.
Massasoit was an adroit politician, but the dilemma he faced would have tested Machiavelli. About five years before, most of his subjects had fallen before a terrible calamity.


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Don't worry; this isn't going to be a lecture about how you should love your neighbours, be kind to animals, or stuff like that. This is actually a pretty inspiring story, and it involves perfume. What's better than that?
Wednesday night, I was typing away on a project, and sort of paying attention to the show Dragons Den on CBC. I believe there's a US equivalent called "Shark Tank" or something like that. Anyway, it's like "The Gong Show" for entrepreneurs. People pitch their ideas to 5 very successful Canadian venture capitalists to see if they can entice them into investing in their ideas. Of course, more people get turned away than receive financing. It's almost like watching Donald Trump's "The Apprentice" without having to invest weeks and weeks watching the assorted soap operas develop. Either the Dragons say, "I'm out", or they make an offer. It's up to the individual entrepreneurs whether or not to accept.
One Barb Stegemann from Nova Scotia faced the Dragons with her fragrance. She handed them each a bottle and explained that it was made with organic orange blossom essence grown in Afghanistan by farmers whom she had contracted to grow the flowers for her, instead of growing poppies. She was asking for financing to expand distribution of her scent, explaining that her project was offering an honest living to farmers who once grew poppies for opiates. The Dragons were intrigued, and a few of them had very strong, positive reactions to her fragrance. When asked why she was embarking on this venture, Stegemann replied that she was doing it to fulfill a promise to a friend of hers, a Canadian Forces soldier who was badly wounded while serving in Afghanistan. After she revealed that, the tears started to flow, the wallets flew open, and the purse strings were untied.
I could tell right away that Barb Stegemann meant business. Her demeanour and her determination were obvious. In other words, the woman really had her shit together. The Dragons were not only impressed by the scent and the story, they were impressed by the packaging and the overall presentation. Good for her. I immediately Googled "The 7 Virtues", landed on the Web site, and was ready to order up a bottle of the scent, when I saw that Barb got her wish: The 7 Virtues is now available at 13 Bay locations across Canada, and at several independent boutiques. One of the Bay locations is Yorkdale, and I couldn't get over there fast enough.
The 7 Virtues Afghanistan Orange Blossom Eau de Parfum is heavenly: it is the perfect blend of orange blossom, freesia, with a bit of jasmine lurking in the background. I loved it on the spot. And many of you know I'm a sucker for a good orange blossom. And it is good.
The story gets better: the second scent, The 7 Virtues Noble Rose of Afghanistan, is a spicy rose after my own heart: rose, clove, peppercorn and carnation. I'm not the biggest rose fan; but when it's spiced up like this one is, I'm in. Each bottle is $70 Canadian for 50 ml. How could you not?
In the grand scheme of things, a couple of bottles of scent are never going to solve the world's problems. But when someone comes along who wants to do their tiny part to try, you have to admire that. There are plans in the works for a scent that will utilize Vetiver grown in Haiti and other scents that will include ingredients from poverty stricken areas of the world, where people need ways to earn a living. I know this isn't a new idea – the Body Shop, Lush, Ojon, and countless other beauty companies claim to have Fair Trade ingredients in their products, and are helping people all over the world. I'm all for it. I'm even more impressed when I get to witness the birth of something, and watch it grow. I only hope that Barb and her fragrances continue to help the impoverished people of Afghanistan. It's inspiring, uplifting, and it doesn't stink. It actually smells wonderful.
For more about Barb and The 7 Virtues, click here.
Disclosure: Both scents were sampled at The Bay.
51 Responses to "The 7 Virtues (by Nava)"
This is a wonderful post, and I think you for sharing the story with us! A bottle of the rose will be mine come next payday.
Thank you, not "think" you, good lord.
Oh thanks so much for the heads up about this venture. I haven't been watching this season of Dragon's Den. Will be heading to the Bay downtown Vancouver to give these a sniff and passing the info on to a friend who is a fan of orange blossom and social ventures. I'm likely to go for the Rose. Last summer an Iranian acquaintance brought some beautiful dark red roses from her garden into a class we were attending and they were amazing — incredibly spicy smelling. I see on the 7 Virtues website that the perfumer for these is Susanne Lang of Susanne Lang Perfumes.
Thanks again for the info and reviews.
I'm in!
This sounds amazing! Buy perfume and do some good at the same time.. cool! ehm, you guys mention the Bay….and Lindaloo, you mention Vancouver. Obviously i am not Canadian, so i have no idea what this is, but are we in fact talking about The Bay on Granville? Is this a department store or… I will be in Vancouver in May for a conference, so that would be a great excuse to do some shopping…thanks for any tips you may have!
Yes, Wendy. "The Bay on Granville" is a branch of Canada's major department store as Nava says. The branch in downtown Vancouver BC on Granville Street at Georgia Street has a decent cosmetics and perfume department. If you're going to be in that neighbourhood, it's worth going another block or two north on Granville to Holt Renfrew (a more upscale department store). I haven't checked all the lines at Holt Renfrew but they have, for example, a Jo Malone counter and the Bond No. 9's.
I would also definitely head to the Sinclair Centre a couple of blocks further north at Granville and Hastings to The Perfume Shoppe which carries a number of exclusive lines. Check their website (their name plus dot com) for their full list.
If you're interested in natural perfumes take a look at local Vancouver perfumer Ayala Moriel (website at her name dot com). If you like jewellery take a look at her solid perfume rings and pendants.
Hope you enjoy your time in Vancouver.
thanks so much Nava and Lindaloo! great tips! I was excited to go to Vancouver but with all these perfume leads even more. OK, I will be there for work but that does not mean i cannot have a little fun, too! And of course i will tell anyone who might be remotely interested about the 7 Virtues project…cheers, Wendy
what a lovely story. wow.
I still looking for an orange blossom scent! you just reminded me :)
I am no where near Canada, but will what a friend of mine can do. Would love to support such a fab business.
Your story made my day, Nava! Now when will these be sold in the US, I want them both!
Great story Nava. I'm not quite ready for florals yet, but come spring, I might order one or both unsniffed. The website does say something about contacting them for shipping costs outside of Canada.
How interesting, you made me very curious. Off to look!
Love this! Thanks for sharing it, Nava.
Hi Nava, what a cool post today. Thanks for sharing this story. Great scent + great cause and count me in. I'm right behind you in the orange blossom fan club line, so hope to try this one day. Hope you're doing well. Sending hugs your way …
Any chance that the rose one smells anything like Ormonde Jayne Ta'if? I loooove this perfume (it's my sotd in fact) and am eeking out the last of my travel spray, and looking for a cheaper alternative. It's just so darn good!
Really cool story! I'm far from Canada, but will be on the lookout!
At last, something from Canada. Sounds delicious. I'll go to the Bay today.
Thanks Nava
I had heard of "think talk" going on regarding alternative crops to the poppies, which are so economically attractive to Afghani farmers…but not this particular idea or outcome. What a great story. Made even better by the report that the fragrance is worthy. :)
Okay, maybe I can start lobbying some local purveyors to get this line south of the 49th parallel…
What a wonderful post! Great ideas, good marketing, and I love socially responsible business success stories! Oh, and orange blossom too!
I took a friend from Afghanistan to Noor in Toronto, to smell 7 Virtues. He said it was just like being back there, at the time of year when the orange trees flower.
What a wonderful recommendation!
This is great, and I love orange blossom; I'm getting my hands on some of this. Who knows what good this may do? Look at Egypt–people started that too.
What a great idea that's actually being implemented. So glad you shared the story – thanks!
Oh wow! You certainly got my waterworks going this morning. Great story, and I too have been long searching for a good neroli – off to order! Thanks so much for an inspiring post.
Thank you so much for this, Nava! What a wonderful confluence: good business sense, a worthy cause AND great-smelling jus!
I followed the link from her website to the dragon den episode, but I didn't feel like wading through 45 minutes of online TV to get to her part. Instead, I found her segment on Youtube, and thought I'd share the link here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7K9TUgGLRg
One thing though, you mentioned that 13 locations of The Bay were carrying her fragrances – where did you get that info? On her site, it just says "The Bay." If there's a location near me, I'd like to go and smell these right away. (It's not very often that living in Canada is an advantage, perfume-wise, so this is kind of exciting!)
Great link!!! Thanks for posting, Dionne.
Wow, how great! I'd be more than happy to pay for these, even if they were so-so, just knowing that my money is going to help a worthy cause. Then you add on top that they're terrific to boot, how great is that?
I've heard Barb herself is very nice and persuasive in person, too. Good news about the rose, because, I must admit, I wasn't wild about the orange blossom, not being much of a fan of OB soliflores, in truth Thanks for the info on the Dragon's Den episode, too. I enjoy moments of that show, too (and others – not so much!)
What a wonderful idea! This kind of thinking could really expand the possibilities for raising the standard of living in any number of places. Bravo to Ms. Stegemman!
And of course, I happen to love both roses and orange blossom….
I have watched and occasionally enjoyed the BBC Dragon's Den. I am assuming that that was the one that started it all. I watched the You tube clip that Dionne so kindly posted. It was a brilliant pitch.
If the fragrances ever reach Europe I will try them. I love orange blossom and I love rose. Most of all I love the whole initiative. It seems such a brilliant way of restoring some kind of self-esteem and economic growth in such a war ridden country.
A great post!
spicy rose and carnation oooooh I really must try it.:)
Popping back on to say I am really excited about this.
Based on a review over at NST last year, I got some Arghand Cooperative soaps from Afghanistan, and have been very impressed with their goals, too. These kinds of projects do seem to have a real impact.
I think I'll be buying the perfumes for Christmas gifts this year.
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All-terrain slayer for chicks who rip.
The longest-running women's pro model board on the market, the Gnu Women's B-Pro C3-BTX Snowboard, is back yet again, this time with perhaps its greatest graphic yet and a powerful camber-dominant profile to help you shred everything from peak to pipe harder and faster with greater control and stability. Barrett Christy's weapon of choice for everything from steep and deep pow days at Crested Butte to the Baker Banked Slalom, the B-Pro dominates everything in its path.
The C3 Banana profile features aggressive camber zones outside the bindings for powerful turns, enhanced edge control, and poppy ollies, while mild rocker between your feet adds a forgiving feel and float in powder. Magne-Traction edges are serrated to slice through ice likes it's fresh corduroy, so you'll be carving down bulletproof slopes with ease while everyone else is sliding out on their asses. A twin shape makes it easier to stomp landings switch and keeps the spin weight balanced for smooth rotations.
Liquid Crystal Polymer technology strengthens the plastic in the board without adding weight for a poppier and more durable ride with no bad side effects. Feel good about your purchase knowing that the Bio Bean topsheet is made from castor beans instead of petroleum-based plastics, and the lightweight and strong tri-blend wood core comes from fast-growing, sustainably harvested trees so you're not contributing to the destruction of the rainforests. On top of all that, the B-Pro was made in the USA by snowboarders with jobs so you're truly supporting the industry when you take this board for a spin.
- Dominant camber zones at the tips with mild rocker between bindings
- Twin shape
- Magne-Traction edges
- Biax/triax fiberglass layup
- Liquid Crystal Polymer
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Angel Olsen
It's been pretty fascinating to watch the musical evolution of Angel Olsen over the last few years. With each record, she's gradually fleshed out her songs more and more, moving from the beautiful austerity of Strange Cacti to the tight country arrangements on Half Way Home (TMT Review) and now to the more expansive and rocking instrumentation on the forthcoming Burn Your Fire for No Witness. However, the one thing that has remained the same despite Olsen's progressively expanding instrumental palette, is her knack at capturing the loneliness and volatility present in tumultuous relationships with her lyrics and vocal delivery. "Forgiven/Forgotten" is another excellent variation on Olsen's themes and the song's sneering in-the-red garage rock shows that she's now using arrangements as a new kind of text painting. Olsen's lyrics may sound sweet on paper, but her singing and accompaniment makes them ooze sarcasm and bitterness that the track's video manages to match visually.
Burn Your Fire for No Witness is out via Jagjaguwar on February 18th.
• Angel Olsen: http://angelolsen.com
• Jagjaguwar: http://www.jagjaguwar.com
Alphabets is fucking L A R G E and contains multitudes and you are ready for them. By presenting you now with the husk of my brain, left battered and euphoric by alien-bass Bandcamp masterworks like 400YEN or On Champagne and Greyhounds, I can empirically prove that every beat the Denver-based producer has ever tracked has blown at least one mind. I mean my mind. The mind is mine. I've hacked my way beneath the surface of what Alphabets (born Colin Ward) has uploaded online, and physically released on labels like Digitalis and Deathbomb Arc, but this next phase of the Alphabets catalog Step(s) It Up: a) 2 Fast; b) 2 Furious; c) 2 The Streets.
THRU THA RIP, Ward's most recent 70-min breakbeat behemoth, showcases a more frenetic and densely layered production style than I've ever heard from his project. Tracks like highlight "Raptor Jazz" construct rotating auditory mandalas from chopped vocal samples, hypnotizing tom grids, and cyborg synths, speeding through intricate percussion patterns just long enough for your mind to enter the zone before cycling into new territories. Alphabets slaps acid house, hip-hop, and West African polyrhythms together like hunks of different colored Play-Doh, rolls them together into a gruesome rainbow snake, and leaves it to fuse with your living room carpet. Alphabets lifts your eyelids open while you're sleeping and plays Aaliyah samples into your brain cavity at a volume just low enough not to wake you. Alphabets turns up the tempo on his Roland JX-305 Groovesynth and leaves your legs and hips too mystified to continue moving, but too overstimulated to stop. Quoth the maestro: "blood, sex, booze, glitter and alien dogs / cats / lizards and birds."
Stream THRU THA RIP now on Bandcamp. Name your own price to download the album. Let one sincere "Thank you" escape your lips and flit through the ether to Rhinoceropolis.
• Alphabets: http://alphabets.bandcamp.com
With this Hausu Mountain release, the snowball effect of Lockbox music has reached top velocity. What began as a wonderful mess of lo-fi bedroom recordings, has rolled itself all up into a sugar-high, injected straight into the data-stream, resulting in something that sounds a bit like playing every SoundCloud embed on the Chocolate Grinder home page at the same time.
I've been seeing these bumper stickers around lately that say something like "Smaller, Slower, Less" regarding, well, the world. "Brainhead" tears that concept to pieces, pushing forward at the pace of a coffee-addict nabbing ten minutes of free wi-fi, while slamming shots of espresso at the local coffee shop before having to head to work around the corner. At this rate, there will never be enough time to catch up on what's really going on here. We may have to settle for the "more, more, more" pace pounding its way into our brain, feet, fingers through the ever-increasing channels of subliminal osmosis our body develops to try and keep up with the increasing rate of the world (wide web)'s rotation.
"Brainhead" is the first single from the upcoming Lockbox full-length Prince Soul Grenade, out January 28 on CD and cassette via Hausu Mountain.
• Lockbox: http://lockbox.bandcamp.com
• Hausu Mountain: http://hausumountain.com
Mind Dynamics
Precision Instruments
Agile polyvectors begin to wrap, mutate and unsprindle from a sleek Invisalign frame, dead and wasting cosmetic attachments falling away from the translucent scaffolding of a bold new lifestyle, naked and calibrated for the future. Precision tuning of rhythmo-linguistic #relevance supplied by multi-instrumental theorowizard Daniel Freshwater and his hacked-couture pardner-in-slime Brian Whatever (of Whatever 21 aesthletics) comprise Mind Dynamics, slathering us wit six courses of neural adjustment to ensure easy absorption of the dominant zeitgeist for the Coming of The New Age. Forget what everyone's talking about, Mind Dynamics is the vibration of the now with the cycles of eternity coded into the masters (courtesy of telepathic prophet Andrew Nerviano).
Zlam a Precision Instruments cassette by Mind Dynamics from the high definition cyborgs over at 1080p, or stream the shits below.
Get calibrated, B. Fuckin precisely, ok?
• Mind Dynamics: https://soundcloud.com/mind-dynamics
• 1080p: http://1080pcollection.bandcamp.com
"Cathode Rays"
>>>>>group name derived from a common, era-appropriate (1970s) device for storing phone numbers and contact information.
>>>>>>>>>>>group vocalists' voices sound like a Rolodex in that a Rolodex is emotionless, gray, and quirky looking.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Jerry Seinfeld has probably made a witty observation about Rolodi (plural of Rolodex) at some point in his career.
>>>>>song title derived from a ray of colored light (color depends on what kind of gas is used) consisting of charged electrons in a vacuum tube.
>>>>>>>>>>>song's modular-style synth lines resemble what a cathode ray may sound like in that a cathode ray might sound like a triangle wave pure tone.
>>>>>video combines random brightly colored patterns with shots of the band having a staring contest and views of the planet Earth at various magnifications. Video is presented in square format.
>>>i would
fcuk dance to this.
sample lyrics:
"Reality is on the TV."
"First class ride on the endless express."
"on and on hum errr may shteys."
"something something something cathode rays."
• Roladex: http://www.facebook.com/roladexmusic
• Night People Records: http://www.raccoo-oo-oon.org/np
• Medical Records: http://medical-records.org
Open Mike Eagle
"Password (official unprotected file)"
We live in an age in which the modern (wo)man is simultaneously prefixed on protecting her/his privacy and convinced that (s)he deserves to be a full-fledged A-list celebrity, if not a social media icon turned reality TV star turned Fox News contributor turned snuff flick casualty.
…OK, so maybe I added that last stage for effect, but my point stands: we claim to desire privacy, but do everything within our power to broadcast our identities. We celebrate Anonymous and repudiate anonymity. (A recent South Park episode titled "Let Go, Let Gov" summed this up much better than I can.) The question then becomes, "How can we reconcile this apparent polarity?"
Or, noch besser, "Do we have to at all?" Perhaps the only reason we cheer Edward Snowden and jeer the NSA is that the former has used technology to make a name for himself offline while the latter can see through the digital identities we've so painstakingly created for ourselves. One defends our sense of self-importance; the other stands as an affront to it.
If the government really wants to placate its citizens, maybe it should forget about reforming its data collection policies and simply make all of the video, audio, and text it gathers available to we the people appearing and/or communicating therein. Then we could recapture all the drunken freestyles, shower solos, and other debauch we thought lived on only as fractured memories, edit these recordings to fit our preferred media, and live out our dreams as rappers turned singers turned porno impersonators.
The music video for harmonically gifted rapper Open Mike Eagle's "Password (official unprotected file)" directed, shot and edited by David Maxime, explores some of the above ideas. Watch it!
• Open Mike Eagle: http://mikeeagle.net
• 3rdEyelander Productions: http://vimeo.com/maxime3rdeye


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The Spackenkill High School girls basketball team fell short on the road in a Section 9 Class B semifinal to John S. Coleman Catholic, 52-37, on Thursday.
Nina Hartenfels provided 14 points and 10 rebounds in the loss, and Jazmin Diggs had 11 points, five steals and six rebounds.
Men's volleyball
Colin White-Dzuro had a career-high 32 assists as host Vassar swept Bard in United Volleyball Conference play, 25-13, 25-17, 25-14, late Wednesday.
Men's lacrosse
Noah Parson scored four goals, but Vassar (1-1) lost to Kean, 20-10, late Wednesday in Union, N.J.
Women's swimming and diving
SUNY New Paltz will send five athletes to the NCAA Division III championships.
Yuka Suzuka in the 100-yard backstroke, 200 backstroke and 200 individual medley and Chelsea Allocco in the 1,650 frestyle, 500 freestyle and 400 individual medley will compete at the event, which begins March 30 in Shenandoah, Tex.
Suzuka also qualified in the 400 medley relay with Colleen Stewart, Carly Marshall and Victoria Scalise. Marshall will also compete in the 200 butterfly, while Scalise will complete in the 100 and 200 freestyles, which the athletes qualified for provisionally.
New Paltz will also field entries in the 200 medley relay, 800 freestyle relay, 200 freestyle relay and 400 freestyle relay.


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Can you tell me if Porsche cars used slave labor or had anything to do with the Holocaust?
I am one of the persons who responds to such questions. I will try to give you some information about Ferdinand Porsche and the company that he created. I have used the following book for source material:
Small Wonder: The Amazing Story of the Volkswagen
Nelson, Walter Henry
c. 1965, Little, Brown and Company
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 65-10899
From pp. 77ff:
On Ascension Thursday, May 26, 1938, Adolf Hitler laid the cornerstone of the Volkswagen factory near Fallersleben, Lower Saxony. [...]
...Ferdinand Porsche was conspicuous in mufti, wearing a trench coat and no hat. [...]
Porsche commuted between his Bureau in Stutgart and his job in Wolfsburg, overseeing the construction of his plant. [...]
Nazi Germany honored its leading designer [Porsche] in 1938 with its own equivalent of the Nobel Prize. [...]
Orders from Berlin forced the factory to devote part of its capacity to building other war equipment, instead of concentrating on automobiles. Yet another factor may have been a human one. Today [1965] the factory is manned by free men; in World War II, two thirds of its workers were slaves. [...]
The labor force increased more than 600 percent, from 2732 in 1939 to 17,365 in 1944; the vast majority were foreign prisoners. Some were Russian and Polish prisoners of war; most were forced laborers from France, Belgium and Holland, and a few were court-martialled German soldiers sentenced to work at the plant. While treatment of the prisoners at Wolfsburg appears to have been better than elsewhere in Nazi Germany, it is a fact that many of those who arrived there were half-starved. ...Porsche designed a succession of tanks and other military vehicles, for which he was lavishly honored by the Third Reich.
I hope that this material is of some use to you.
Harry W. Mazal OBE
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- Since 1981, it has been our passion to provide unparalleled service in hair, body and skin care in a relaxing, upscale environment for our valued guests. From the beginning, as San Antonios first day spa and an elite Framesi Moda Capelli salon, we continually educate our staff in the most up-to-date European techniques and services in total body care from head to toe.
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Europe is the first region to get Samsung for Enterprise (SAFE) as the first phase of a global rollout. The program of security standards will help companies to find mobile devices that are safe to use for corporate applications. SAFE devices provide immediate business benefits such as advanced data features and device-based verification.
SAFE consists of three key pillars: SAFE Platform, SAFE Partner Program, and SAFE Quality Assurance.
SAFE Platform: SAFE smartphones and tablets provide stronger security on the device level to corporate employees using IT policy management through Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) and on device encryption (ODE). In addition, it provides the most extensive Software Development Kit (SDK) to Solution Partners, which allows them to develop differentiated solutions on Samsung devices. This security-oriented SDK support applies to horizontal and various vertical solutions.
SAFE Partner Program: The Solution Partners can provide solutions supporting various features such as VPN and MDM using Samsung's B2B platform. Industry-leading VPN and MDM solution vendors are already developing solutions based on Samsung smartphones and tablets. Samsung is collaborating with its Solution Partners by providing the most extensive SDK as well as up-close technical support.
SAFE Quality Assurance: Many corporations find it difficult to select the right mobile devices for business, because they worry whether these devices - and the software solutions that work on them - have the right set of security features. Samsung provides in-house reviews of Partner's solutions based on SAFE Program standards. That helps corporate IT departments to easily select devices that meet the reliability standards established by Samsung. Samsung will continue to expand the number of solutions reviewed for the SAFE Program (Samsung does not provide liability or guarantees regarding the functionality or performance of Partner's solutions, but reviews whether the solutions meet Samsung's security standards).
Samsung has developed a differentiated B2B platform, including its software development kit, which is used by SAFE Partners to develop new applications. Samsung tests the device and the apps in an integrated manner to meet its in-house standards. In addition, Samsung also provides the latest information, such as applicable regions and solutions, through the SAFE website. Consumers, meanwhile, will be able to check if an app or a device is supported by SAFE from the SAFE logo on the box of the device and app description page on the Appstore.
SAFE Members can only be registered by invitation. Among members of SEAP (Samsung Enterprise Alliance Program), only invited partners are able to develop and provide differentiated SAFE solutions. Samsung offers the solution review and joint marketing opportunities to SAFE participants.
In terms of partners' solutions, the SAFE program is currently applicable only to VPN and MDM categories. The solution categories will continuously be expanded in order to satisfy the needs of customers in each region. Under the SAFE agreement between solution partners and Samsung, partners' solutions that support the SAFE Platform will go through Samsung's SAFE Quality Assurance Program.
SAFE is marked for a Samsung device that has been tested against Samsung's own internal criteria for interoperability with certain third party security-related solutions for MDM and VPN. Devices are tested with the security solutions to see if the solutions work with the device as described by the third party security solution providers. The third party security solution providers who comply with Samsung's Quality Assurance process will be provided with the "Samsung Quality Assurance Guidelines" that describe the required detailed testing activities.


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Deny not these lips
the tenderness of your kiss,
for within that brief moment
such wondrous pleasures awakens my heart.
To taste those lips
within such a passionate embrace,
as we hold each other so tight.
That which will bring us forth
into the world of love's paradise.
Hearts burning within an inferno,
as love is set free
to embrace all that it can give.
So I beg of you my Lady,
deny not these lips,
that which we yearn to express.
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MIR ALI: A US drone targeted a house located in Mir Ali area of North Waziristan, killing at least three people in the wee hours of Thursday, sources said.
According to the sources, the drone fired missiles targeting a house located in Mubarak Shahi village of Mir Ali. Three people were killed in the strike.


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Israel's Contribution To Universal Religion
( Originally Published 1916 )
It would be a serious mistake to conclude from our study of the predominant tendencies of post-exilic Judaism that all religious life had come to flow in two or three narrow channels. The charming story of Ruth, probably written during the reforms of Nehemiah and Ezra, shows that not all could sympathize with the rigid separation of Israel from her neighbors demanded by strict legalism. This is the narrative of a more spacious time, when Hebrews might intermarry with Moabites without offense and with the happiest results.
The psalms of the Persian, Greek, and Maccabean periods reflect a many-sided religious life of great depth and beauty. The reflective thought embodied in the various sections of the Book of Proverbs shows that not all the teachers of Israel were absorbed in religious institutions and ritual; there was a distinct class of teachers, "the wise," who frequented the haunts of men like the philosophers of ancient Greece. They occupied them-selves with shrewd observations upon the practical results of human conduct, and endeavored to win young men away from the paths of dissipation and all folly to a life of self-directed industry and continence.
The singular little story of Jonah carries us to a broader and loftier level than any of these, even to the thought of God's unlimited mercy, ready to . reach out to the most cruel city of which Israel had any knowledge, in complete compassion he ought to spare Nineveh, in which were more than sixscore thousand persons who could not discern between their right hand and their left hand.
These and other currents of thought we may discern in the varied literature of post-exilic Judaism without going beyond the limits of the Old Testament. If we pass on to the pre-Christian Palestinian writings, outside of the Jewish canon, we find, in addition to the apocalypses, stirring history in I Maccabees, shot through with vital religious faith and purpose no less inspiring than the spirit of the Books of Samuel. The attractive stories of Judith and Tobit unite religious enthusiasm with the charm of well-told tales. Tobit gives the negative form of the golden rule, "What thou thyself hatest, do to no man" (Tob. 4:15).
From the times after the Roman conquest there have been preserved hymns of faith and devotion in the so-called Psalms of Solomon. Here the old hope of a ruler of the line of David, whose government shall be holy, wise, just, is seen to be still burning.
Under the traditional dating of the Old Testament books and the theory that the divine revelation was limited to just those books which were finally included in the Palestinian and Christian canon of Scripture, the period from about 400 B.C. to the opening of the Christian era was conceived as four centuries of silence. We now find these centuries filled with voices that show a rich and varied religious experience continuing in Palestine, despite and often because of untoward outward circumstances.
Not all the Jews of Jesus' day were typical and confirmed Pharisees or Sadducees, else whence the companies of sympathetic followers ? He deliberately disappointed the expectations of the apocalyptic messianic age; he flouted some of the most sacred institutions of the Pharisees; he taught the life of the spirit and eternal salvation which the Sadducess denied. Yet he found a considerable company who were devoted followers to the, end, and a few weeks after his death thousands of the Jewish nation had become his avowed adherents.
There were, then, many among the Jewish people ready to adopt a religion of the most exacting moral and spiritual requirements, very different from the standards most insisted upon by the scribes. These facts should not be overlooked when we attempt to sum up the permanent contributions of the religion of ancient Israel.
Religion has to do with the relation of God and man so that the character of any religion is determined by its conception of God, of man, and of their connection. With these three aspects of the Hebrew religion our study has concerned itself, and under these three heads we may sum up our results in an effort to appreciate Israel's contribution to universal religion.
Through a period of twelve hundred years we have traced the main features of Israel's idea of God, from the time when he was thought of as a local deity, dwelling in the thunder clouds that wreathed the summit of a mountain, known only to a few nomad tribes. In the deliverance and covenant we found the roots of the idea that this God was himself an ethical being and that Israel's relations with him involved moral standards on her part.
Like all periods of transition to more complex civilization, the change from nomad life to settled agricultural conditions involved grave dangers for Israel, not the least of which was the adoption of the agricultural gods of Canaan. The struggle over this issue was prolonged through several centuries, during which the idea of Israel's God was expanded to include the functions of the Canaanite baals in providing the corn and the wine of the people. From time to time various political influences tended to introduce the worship of foreign deities alongside that of Yahweh or in dis-placement of it. The struggle involved in both of these issues tended to fix the idea that Yahweh belonged exclusively to the land of Palestine and the people of Israel, and they to him.
It was a great and difficult step to develop the simple idea of a nomad god, recognized by a small confederation of tribes, to the more complex functions of the deity of an agricultural and mercantile nation and to transfer his sphere of influence to the land of Canaan. The very things necessarily insisted upon in this transfer fixed certain ideas in a way that made further development in Israel's apprehension of God difficult. Through-out the entire period of the monarchy the mass of the people did not get beyond the idea of a national god, and they were always in danger of recognizing the gods of their neighbors in addition to their own deity.
It was in the growth of the ethical interpretation of Yahweh that the great prophets, seeking to understand the complex movement of nations, came to see the moral necessity for one God controlling these movements, not in the interest of one nation, but in the interest of justice and mercy toward all. Approach it as we may, in the last analysis it is man's moral nature through which he comes to know the one God. It was because Amos loved justice that he first came to see clearly the God of nations; it was because Hosea loved unselfishly that he first came to see the God of unchangeable love.
The downfall of the nations was required to bring to conscious expression the vital faith that the individual man is the object of the divine justice and love. 'Nothing less than exile in a distant Iand, a land whose civilization was already old when Israel became a nation, where the heavens above had been mapped from of old, and whose gods had been honored from the dawn of history nothing less than this experience was the condition of bringing to full expression faith in the one Creator of heaven and earth.
More than six centuries separate Sinai and Babylon, Moses and the Great Unknown. Those centuries saw the development, through the succession of the prophets, of the idea of one God, Creator and Preserver, just and merciful, control-ling the affairs of men in the movement of nations and in the fate of individuals. In those centuries there were developed to completion the broad out-lines of the idea of God which are still the basis of the religion of Israel and of the two great religions which have sprung from the Hebrew faith.
Of the three religions which have spread widely through the world, overleaping national and racial boundaries, Buddhism, Mohammedanism, and Christianity, two rest ultimately upon faith in the existence of the God whose nature and character were progressively revealed in Israel within the centuries from 1200 to 500 B.C., and the third is found wanting as a universal religion especially at this point a definite conception of a personal God.
During the five centuries that followed the exile circumstances tended to obscure the universal idea of God, bought, with such a price, and to bring back the old, popular idea of a god belonging peculiarly to Israel or to the faithful remnant of Israel. It would seem that the Jews who were scattered abroad, mingling in the life of Babylonia or Egypt, were able to preserve larger and nobler ideas of God than those living in the tiny community of Judea, now just a little area about Jerusalem. Here, though the larger conception of the great prophets was never wholly lost, all energies needed to be centered on keeping alive and uncontaminated the visible worship of the God not made with hands. It is not strange that he came to be thought of sometimes as little more than the champion of this small group whom he must preserve and whose glory he must restore in order that his own name might not perish from the earth.
Ideas of the nature of God and the nature of man are always interdependent, and this interdependence can be clearly traced in the history of Israel's religion. At the basis of that religion lay an act of deliverance demanding gratitude and a contract demanding fidelity. In the religion's inception justice was dispensed between man and man in the name of God. In the conflict with baalism debasing license on the one hand and control of the appetites on the other were ever in the issue.
At the time of the nation's birth supine yielding to foreign overlords or patriotic union and resistance had to be chosen, and loyalty to Yahweh was the great rallying-cry to manly action. When the nation was divided, the preservation of long-accustomed right or the yielding to despotism and forced labor was a part of the issue, and the prophet of Yahweh stood for the rights of the people. When the contest with Phoenician baalism arose, the ancient rights of the common people were again threatened by despotic ideals, and the prophet Elijah defended the rights of the small landowners against the king.
In the next century national expansion had given opportunity for one class in the community to take cruel and unfair advantage of another class. In this situation the rights of the common people were made the one supreme demand of God in a way that has made the words of Amos, Isaiah, and Micah come ringing down the ages and will make them sound on until society shall be organized, in some way, upon a basis of economic justice, with protection for the weak from the strong and ruthless.
The relation of nation with nation, as involving moral standards, was hardly less prominent in the words of Israel's great teachers than the moral obligation of class to class. Starting with ideals of merciless conquest which must ever prevail when the nation is thought of as the peculiar and especial care of its god, the prophets came to under-stand that, if justice is with God, governments must deal justly in their relations with one another.
A genuine faith in a moral God of nations involves a true internationalism. The ideal of international union by voluntary federation father than by conquest has recently been traced back to the glorious conception found in the Book of Isaiah Egypt and Assyria at peace, with Israel a blessing in their midst, through the common loyalty of all to the one God of the whole earth. Since the day of that concrete picture, empires have continued to be built through conquest, and never till recent generations have experiments in voluntary federation of peoples, united through common ideals, not seeking aggression, been at-tempted on any such scale as pictured in Isaiah. Now at last, after all these centuries, out of the boiling cauldron of world-conflict, practical men are seeking ways and means for the realization of the prophet's dream for humanity.
Israel's ideal for man was one that included more than these things. It was an ideal which could never be satisfied by a righteous economic order or a righteous international system. Hosea knew better than to stop there; he saw that life's solution lies within the heart of man and that only as men come to know the God of limitless mercy can they reach their destiny. Jeremiah saw that there must be the response of the individual heart to the divine heart; that no merely national covenant was safe unless its provisions were written in the hearts of the separate members of the nation, from the least of them even unto the greatest of them.
The author of the poem on the Suffering Servant had learned the deepest lesson of all life the truth that one being can draw another upward only as the one is willing to be despised and rejected, smitten for the sins of others.
At length some of Israel's seers learned that man's full destiny could not be attained in this house of flesh, and came to conceive the individual life in terms more worthy of its capacity, as capable of continuance in higher fulfilment beyond.
Leaders of thought in the present generation are at last apprehending the social message of the religion of Israel; but we listen long and hear faint echo in our generation of the higher truth of Hosea, Jeremiah, and the Suffering Servant, or of the hope of the fulfilment of life in the hereafter.
Such were some aspects of Israel's conception of God and man which make her writings an ever-new revelation of the nature of God and of the possible destiny of man; but high and true conceptions of God and man do not of themselves make a religion, for religion involves conscious relation between God and man.
Human relations are maintained through various forms of intercourse; it may be the ordinary intercourse of business and social life; it may be the sharing of the deepest things of the soul in private converse, public address, or written book, or through the medium of music and art, or, again, through carrying out the purposes of another. Similarly men seek to maintain relations with their gods by 'various forms of intercourse and expression.
Israel inherited a, simple sacrificial system, resting largely on the idea of sharing with the tribal god at the communal meal. In Canaan they came to recognize their God as the giver of all the bounties of crops and fields, and to honor him with varied offerings at different stated feasts. Ready to devote the most precious to him, they were taught that he did not desire the bloody offering of human life such as their neighbors were wont to make.
The sacrificial ritual assumed more and more elaborate detail, but whether the offerings were thought of in the primitive way, as a social meal with the Deity, or as gratitude for blessing, or acknowledgment of sin that must be expiated at cost, mere sacrifices were not the only means of intercourse with the Deity; the less material expression of the heart in prayer and in music and song was early a part of the attempt to maintain deep and true relations with God.
In their zeal for the recognition of God's moral character through carrying out his moral purposes the ethical prophets poured scorn on all sacrifice or hymn, yet their followers saw the need of visible means of intercourse with the Unseen and formulated a purified worship, through which the very ethical principles of the prophets might in part be expressed.
Personal converse, in which God spoke to the heart of the prophet and the prophet answered from the heart, was the basis of the higher prophetic religion. Jeremiah, especially, has permitted us to know the details of his intercourse with his God, to whom he went with every anxiety and complaint and in whom he found consolation when he stood alone among his own kindred and familiar friends.
We may find the elaborate formal worship of post-exilic Judaism tending to defeat its own ends, by its very elaborateness and formality putting God far off from man; but as students of the history of Israel's religion we may not overlook the fact that through this rigid worship and men's utter-most devotion to its maintenance, loyalty to the God not made with hands, eternal in the heavens, was preserved through long centuries of disappointment. These apparently sterile centuries had their own part to fulfil in bringing in the fulness of time when one might declare, "Neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father. God is a Spirit; and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth." Now, at last, the unseen God was made visible to man in the person of his Son, and the hour was come when the faith which had been developed and sheltered at Jerusalem should be spread throughout all the world.


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