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Q: How to make tabWidget in left side How to make layout like this??
Create a Tab Widget on left side of the layout.

A: That doesn't look like it's a tab widget to me. You'll most likely want to use a ListFragment
Check out this tutorial Here
Your main activity will host a fragment, after an an item in your list is click you should be able to call something like getListView().getItemAtPosition or something similar. Pass that data to your activity and display it. Or you can just use two fragments, one would be a ListFragment and the other will be the rest of your content.
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Suspected Fulani gunmen raid Baptist church service in Nigeria, abduct 4 worshipers; 1 killed
CP World | Thursday, April 29, 2021
By Emily Wood, Christian Post Reporter
Christians in Nigeria worship at a church in this undated file photo. | Open Doors
Armed Fulani radicals raided a Baptist church's Sunday service in Nigeria, killing one person, injuring another and abducting four women as violence accelerates in the Kaduna state.
Charity Musa, Rose Zacharia, Alheri Bala and Liatu Zakka, a widow whose husband was murdered in an earlier attack, were the four women kidnapped from the church service at Haske Baptist Church in Manini village of the Chikun Local Government Area, according to the United Kingdom-based human rights organization Chrisitan Solidarity Worldwide.
Sources claim heavily armed men killed health worker Zacharia Dogon Yaro and injured Shehu Haruna.
Government officials confirmed the attacks.
"Preliminary investigation conducted so far revealed that, four persons are missing which arouse a suspicion that they might have been kidnapped by the hoodlums," police command spokesperson Mohammed Jalige told Nigerian media.
"Two others sustained gunshot wounds, namely; Dr. Zakariya Doga Yaro, a staff of Kaduna State Ministry of Health attached to the Primary Healthcare Center in Rimi village, Udawa, Chikun LGA and Shehu Haruna."
Khataza Gondwe, CSW's head of advocacy in the organization's office in Nigeria, told The Christian Post in a Tuesday interview that the danger of attacks and kidnappings has become widespread in Nigeria.
"Kidnappers have expanded their operations to the extent that everybody, every civilian right now feels like prisoners because they're afraid when driving outside of towns and cities," Gondwe said. "Once on an open road, they are subject to being abducted. … Armed men can emerge [from] the bush and take people away, leave cars behind. At the moment, that kind of kidnapping is coming closer and closer to the cities."
The militant groups threaten everyone, Gondwe said, but Christians face "particularly bad treatment" depending on who the abductors are.
"If Christians fall into the hands of armed groups that have an extremist religious ideology, then the danger is definitely heightened," Gondwe explained.
A source told CSW the kidnappers are expanding their activities, especially in rural areas.
"We are like prisoners. We can hardly step out of the city. Once you're on the road, your heart is in your mouth until you reach your destination," the source told CSW.
The abductors often kidnap to demand ransom money, which has become a lucrative industry in Nigeria.
After years of not being addressed effectively by authorities, the danger is now widespread. Gondwe said the attacks began around 2011 and became worse in 2015 when the current administration took control.
"Nothing was done to address this, and now these armed assailants are attacking everybody," Gondwe explained. "They have developed a taste for money and for violence and power, and everybody is now endangered by these people. Yes, the Christians are the primary targets, and they continue to be primary targets, but now this violence impacting every community, and the security situation is really quite awful."
Gondwe said mitigating the attacks of assailants has been neglected by the federal government, which could have prevented the prevalence of the violence. The government is suspected of being complicit or sympathetic toward the attackers, she said.
"[If the government was genuinely concerned about stopping it], it ought to have been stopped long ago," Gondwe said. "If it had been stopped at the stage when it was getting out of hand, in terms of sustained attacks in predominantly Christian southern Kaduna, we may not be having these problems now."
Kaduna state, where Sunday's abduction and raid occurred, has become an "epicenter" for abductions and mass kidnappings despite having 11 military installations in the state. This trend has led to the displacement of tens of thousands of individuals in southern Kaduna, she said.
"The alarm has been raised repeatedly with regard to the highly concerning situation in Kaduna state for several years. Yet the state government, federal authorities and members of the international community still appear reluctant to make any meaningful interventions," CSW Founder President Mervyn Thomas said in a statement. "We call once again on Nigeria to address the kidnapping crisis as a matter of urgency, ensuring that those responsible are brought to justice."
In the past week alone, the Kaduna state has experienced multiple attacks and abductions.
On April 20, attackers raided a private university in the Kaduna state and abducted about 20 students and three staff members, which has resulted in some deaths, CSW reported.
Also, on April 20, Fulani militiamen reportedly raided a village and kidnapped nearly 70 individuals.
On April 21, gunmen attacked a hospital and abducted nurses despite its proximity to a military checkpoint.
On April 23, gunmen reportedly attacked the Unguwan Mission, kidnapping eight people, including a Seventh-day Adventist church leader.
On April 26, CSW reported that armed men raided a housing estate in Kaduna state and kidnapped two women for ransom.
The Kaduna state branch of the Nigeria Baptist Conference has recorded around 35 members that have been killed and 145 others kidnapped in this year alone, The News Nigeria reported.
Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, ranks No. 9 on Open Door's World Watch List for Christian persecution worldwide due to an "extreme" level of Islamic oppression.
Global Terrorism Index ranks Nigeria as the third most affected country by terrorism. It reports that from 2001 to 2019, there were over 22,000 killed by acts of terror.
Boko Haram, Hausa-Fulani Muslim militant herdsmen, ISWAP (an affiliate of the Islamic State group) and other Islamic extremist groups are often responsible for the violent attacks against Christians.
Last December, Nigeria became the first democratic nation to be added to the U.S. State Department's list of "countries of particular concern" under the International Religious Freedom Act for engaging in "tolerated systematic, ongoing and egregious violations of religious freedom."
In its 2021 report, the U.S. Commission on International and Religious Freedom warned Nigeria "will move relentlessly toward a Chrisitan genocide" if action is not taken.
Gondwe said the situation in Nigeria requires urgent attention before it becomes more difficult to contain, yet the "security vacuum" in Nigeria is currently not being addressed.
"The whole country is really quite unstable at the moment and worryingly so," Gondwe added. "Given the strategic importance of Nigeria, for the sake of Nigerian civilians, the region and the continent, this situation should really be at the top of the international agenda, I feel, before it evolves into something that cannot be easily handled."
A lack of coverage and awareness across the world is part of what allows the problem in Nigeria to run seemingly unchecked.
"Because these events are happening almost under the cover of darkness in terms of international media, as no western media is there to cover this violence consistently or even as it happens, it can continue without receiving much needed international attention," Gondwe said.
"And it will continue until something major happens that the international community can no longer ignore, which will be very unfortunate," she continued. "I think this lack of coverage is one of the issues."
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Whoever Curses Ali Has Cursed Me
July 19, 2018 twelvershia.net Hadith 0
A common report many Shia polemicists cite is a hadith where the Prophet ﷺ is quoted supposedly saying: "Whoever curses Ali has cursed me."
Often, this report is cited to justify the takfīr of a few Saḥābah and other Muslims who may have disagreed with Ali or hypothetically cursed him at a point in history.
However, a detailed analysis of this report is enough to display its defective nature.
The redaction of the hadith appealed to by Shias is transmitted by Ahmed in al-Musnad (#26748) & Fada'il al-Saḥābah (#1011), Al-Nasā'ī in al-Sunan al-Kubra (#8422), Al-Ajurrī in al-Shari'ah (#1535), al-Hakim in al-Mustadrak (#4615) and others through Isra'il b. Yunus, from Abu Isḥāq al-Sabī'ī, from Abu 'Abdillah al-Jadalī, who said:
"I once entered upon Umm Salamah, and she told me: "Is the Messenger of Allah ﷺ cursed among you?!"
Abu 'Abdillah responded saying: "Ma'adh Allah!" or "Subhanallah!" or something like that.
Umm Salamah then said: "I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: "Whoever curses Ali has cursed me."
Several defects exist within this hadith, and they can be traced back to two main elements of the report:
Its chain of transmission.
Its content.
Chain of Transmission
The chain of transmission (isnād) of this report, on a surface level, seems to be Sahih and reliable; however, it contains Abu Isḥāq al-Sabī'ī. Abu Isḥāq is a known reliable transmitter and muhaddith; however, he also was a mudallis.
A mudallis is a transmitter who regularly drops the intermediary between him and another informant. Thus, a mudallis' transmission cannot be ascertained to be connected (muttasil) unless the mudallis explicitly mentions hearing the report from the informant above him. Otherwise, the transmission is deemed weak and unreliable.
In this report, Abu Isḥāq does not state that he heardthe report from the informant above him; rather, he merely says: 'عن' (from) when quoting Abu 'Abdillah al-Jadalī.
Several early critics have referred to Abu Isḥāq' role as a mudallis:
Ya'qub b. Sufyan al-Fasawi said: "The hadith of Sufyan, Abu Isḥāq, and al-A'mash can be cited as long as one can ascertain that they did not perform tadlīs."(al-Fasawi 2/637)
Ibn Ḥibbān said: "He was a mudallis." (Ibn Ḥibbān #4449)
Abu Ja'far al-Nahhas said: "He was a mudallis, and his reports cannot be cited unless he explicitly states that he heard them from the informant above him." (Al-Nahhas175)
Thus, the isnād of this report is weak simply due to the tadlīs of Abu Isḥāq.
Some Shias may appeal to another redaction of this report, transmitted by al-Hakim in al-Mustadrak where Abu Isḥāq is quoted explicitly stating that he heard the report from Abu 'Abdillah.
Al-Hakim said: "I heard Abu Ja'far Ahmed b. 'Ubaid al-Hafedh in Hamdan say: Ahmed b. Musa told us that Jandal b. Waliq told him, that Bukayr b. 'Uthman al-Bajali told him, that he heard Abu Isḥāq al-Tamīmī say: I heard Abu 'Abdillah al-Jadalī say….." and he proceeded to quote the hadith. (al-Hakim#4616)
This isnād is weak, since Jandal b. Waliq is an absolutely unknown transmitter, and none of the early critics have verified his status as a transmitter.
Another indicator to the weakness of this specific isnād is that its transmitters erred in Abu Isḥāq's patronymic: they ascribed him to the tribe of Banu Tamīm, hence the patronymic "al-Tamīmī". This is a clear error in Abu Isḥāq's name, for it is well-known that Abu Isḥāq is from the tribe of Sabī' from the Yemenite confederation of Hamadān. He was not from Banu Tamīm, nor did he have any affiliation with the tribe. Such an error in the name of the main transmitter of this hadith is indicative of a lack of retention of this report on the part of the rest of the transmitters down the isnād.
Thus, we have no evidence showing Abu Isḥāq explicitly stating that he heard the report from the informant directly above him, and the hadith is weak for that reason.
Content of the Report
The weakness in this report stems from other reasons asides its weak isnād. Several different redactions of this same hadith present a different account of the incident without the clause: "Whoever curses Ali has cursed me."
One of these accounts is transmitted by Ibn Abi Shaybah in al-Musannaf (#32113), al-Baladhuri in Ansab al-Ashraf (#216), al-Tabarānī in al-Mo'jam al-Kabir (#737) through Fitr b. Khalifah, from Abu Isḥāq, from Abu 'Abdillah al-Jadalī that he said:
Umm Salamah once told me: "O Abu 'Abdillah, is the Messenger of Allah ﷺ cursed among you without you doing anything about it?!"
I said: "Who curses the Messenger of Allah?!"
Umm Salamah said: "Ali and his lovers are being cursed, and the Messenger of Allah used to love him."
Another account is transmitted by Abu Ya'la in al-Musnad (#7013) and al-Tabarānī in al-Mo'jam al-Awsat (#5832) & al-Saghir (#822) through 'Isa b. 'Abdurrahman al-Sulami, from al-Suddi, from Abu 'Abdillah al-Jadalī, who said:
Umm Salamah once told me: "Is the Messenger of Allah ﷺ cursed among you in front of the masses?!"
I said: "Subhanallah! Where is the Messenger of Allah being cursed?!"
Umm Salamah said: "Isn't Ali, along with his lovers, being cursed?! I bear witness that the Messenger of Allah used to love him."
As seen, the clause,"whoever curses Ali has cursed me", is absent from these accounts; rather, Umm Salamah is the one quoted equating the cursing of Ali with the cursing of the Prophet ﷺ. Her reasoning, as stated, was that Ali and his lovers were being cursed; thus, that must span the Prophet ﷺ as well, since he loved Ali.
Hence, it appears that drawing a parallel between cursing Ali and cursing the Prophet ﷺ was originally an inference carried out by Umm Salamah. Eventually, this inference was misinterpreted and erroneously interpolated as a statement of the Prophet himself ﷺ.
There exists sufficient evidence to assert that the clause, "Whoever curses Ali has cursed me", has no basis as a Prophetic tradition. The report's isnād is weak due to the tadlīs of Abu Isḥāq, and this clause seems to be a mere byproduct of a misinterpretation of a phrase Umm Salamah uttered when she supposedly confronted Abu 'Abdillah al-Jadalī.
Though cursing Ali (or any other companion of the Prophet ﷺ) is a major sin within Islam, no authentic evidence suggests that it is equivalent to cursing the Prophet ﷺ.
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Common Shi'ite Fallacies: A Defective Framework


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Q: Is it possible to use the std::nothrow argument for a placement new operation? I have a use case where I want to use placement new but also want to ensure that the new operation won't throw.
I figure I'd want something like the below (note this doesn't compile) but I wasn't sure how exactly to do it.
char buf1[100];
Foo* foo = new (std::nothrow) (buf1) Foo(100);

A: There is no need to use std::nothrow in a placement new expression.  unlike new/new[], placement new/new[] are already defined as being noexcept.
[new.delete.placement]

[[nodiscard]] void* operator new(std::size_t size, void* ptr) noexcept;
[[nodiscard]] void* operator new[](std::size_t size, void* ptr) noexcept;

If you look in [new.delete.single] and [new.delete.array] you'll see that the placement version will call the corresponding std::nothrow versions of new/new[].


Today's post is the first in an occasional series called 'Concepts in Frugality'.
I'm not an expert on frugality, for a myriad of reasons. My family can't survive on one income, we don't save enough money, we have too much debt, and it's well documented that I have a hard time resisting Ikea's magic lure. I fully admit that I could be more frugal in many ways, and I'm trying to improve every day.
But there are many ways in which I am frugal, exemplified by the things I do and what I believe in. For the past few months I've been thinking about these choices, and why I make them, and I've found that they fall into several categories of frugal thinking… guiding principles if you will.
I'll be writing about these concepts of frugality every so often because I believe that, when learning to live a frugal life, it is just as important to think about the why as the how. In other words, lists of frugal tips are fine and good, but all your frugal efforts are ultimately doomed to failure if you don't truly shift your way of thinking.
It used to be that if you wanted to buy something, you saved up for it and paid cash. Or you waited until your paycheck or you got a bonus. You might have even put it on layaway (do stores even offer layaway anymore?).
Now things are different. Western cultures are built on the principle of spend, spend, spend, France less so than the United States, but catching up fast. And I think that it's hard to be immune to this urge. See the pretty, shiny thing! Want the pretty, shiny thing! Buy the pretty shiny thing!
I have it as bad as the next person, but I am slowly beginning to try and retrain myself. I still want stuff- lots of stuff- but I'm putting off buying it. Until when? Well, that depends. Sometimes it's until I find a really good deal on the product, usually used. Or I might wait until I can pay for it in cash. I imagine how I will use what I am buying, and what it will look like with what I already have.
Often, it turns out that I don't really want it any more, or I forget about the item entirely. But in any of these situations, if I wait to buy and don't just open my wallet automatically, I feel confident in my choices. I have noticed that I feel bad about spending money when I buy on impulse, or without imagining how this new purchase will fit into my life.
A few examples from my life: I had been lusting after a certain couch from Ikea for a few months, with curved arms and big, squishy pillows. The only problem was that it cost a lot of money, much more than I could afford, many hundreds of euros in fact. So I quietly lusted, dreamed of how nice it would look in my living room; I would even go to visit it. Until one day when I stumbled across it on Ebay, for €43, for sale by somebody living the next town over. I've furnished much of my living room like this: the couch, two armchairs, a rug, all bought for a fraction of their original price.
Just before I started school, we bought a laptop. I knew that I would need one for my work, and I had been looking into different models for a few months. We found a good deal and then? We paid cash. It's a good feeling to pay cash for a big purchase, I discovered.
As I have been transitioning from teacher to stay-at-home-mom to student, and next professional marketing consultant, my wardrobe has been having a hard time keeping pace. I know that I need nice work pants and tops, and I took advantage of the semi-annual sales that are on in France right now to find some good deals. I didn't even look at other types of clothing, and consequently I feel good about what I bought: I kept within my budget and I bought things I truly need.
What are you willing to wait for? How do you feel about spending money on impulse? When was the last time you paid cash?
I saw several stores during the Christmas holiday that were offering layaway. Guess it was a way for them to move merchandise and deal with the fact that folks were willing to spend less and not use the plastic.
Currently, we need a new dishwasher. When asked by hubby's folks what we wanted/needed for Christmas, we said a gift card to the store where we will purchase the dishwasher. They sent cash and it's stashed away and we're adding to it so we can pay in full for that new dishwasher. I agree, it feels good to pay cash for big puchases.
Waiting. Definitely a tough one. Separating what I want from what I actually need is tricky when I'm standing in the store. I'm still working on this one too.
I'm a little better at doing this when I grocery shop though (at least I try to be). I don't put something extra, like a treat, in the cart until I've filled it with everything I need and I'm still within my budget.
I'm fixing my house bit-by-bit as I can afford it. My housemate and I do what we can ourselves. The rest is done by builders who, luckily for us, prefer to be paid in cash. When we save some money, we call them in. After each project, they go away until we gather more money.
I am willing to wait for most things. We don't own a lot of furniture yet, and what we do own is cheap and/or second-hand, mainly because we're waiting til we pay our debt, save for a down payment, and finish our emergency fund in order to buy things like furniture. I'd be happy with nice second-hand stuff forever (I figure when we have kids, they're just going to destroy it anyway) . I'm proud of the relatively frugal lifestyle that we lead (all our friends own property, have car payments, shop for new things at pottery barn, and eat out three days a week. We don't wash ziploc baggies, but we budget and are conscious of our spending). I wasn't raised frugal, so it's been quite the revolution for me.
That said, I recently spent quite a sum rather impulsively . I guess i felt guilty for a while (what's the point of scrimping and saving if you're just going to break the bank with a sunny holiday?) but I found other things to cut out of our budget to pay for our indulgence . I guess part of wanting something is being willing to give up other things for it. So I did ,and feel better about it now.
Living frugally is kind of like living healthfully. Once you have a diet of nourishing foods and a good exercise routine, you would never want to live otherwise. I feel the same way about our spending habits. Living like our friends in the JCrew elite do can probably never be appealing to me again.
I know the agony of having to wait. I have one or two expensive hobbies, and so when I want to indulge in one, it requires the waiting game. Very painful.
And I definitely feel you on the "ooooooh, shiiiiiny" front. Whenever we go to Sam's Club, my husband and I stop to drool at the large LCD/plasma TVs. Sometimes also at the jewelry sections. (Which is more "oooooh, sparkly!") But we know that we'd rather get out of debt and then reward our hard work than put ourselves further in the hole.
Our new deal is for us each to get $10 per week to spend however we want. Given that we both have expensive hobbies, that money will almost certainly go there. But it's nice to know that when we do buy items, the money will be in our hot little hands.
I suppose what's both gratifying — and mortifying — about waiting is just how easily it turns out you don't need an item. Gratifying because you held off and didn't spend the money. Mortifying because you really thought that it was a life necessity. It's a little terrifying and embarrassing just how easily your brain can trick you.
Kelly, I feel your pain on needing an updated work wardrobe! I have been going through that myself. I am no frugal queen (far from it) but since I have been paying more attention to how I spend I have noticed a marked difference in my attitude towards shopping. I am thoughtful about every single purchase I make, and that helps a lot.
I like this series – it's good to remember the concepts that motivated us to be frugal in the first place!
Nice post Kelly, I am trying to retrain myself as well. It's all about getting in the mindset and establishing a routine. When you can establish with the mindset not to buy, then it helps one become frugal and can help save money.
I wait with a shopping list in my head – as I never could find what I was looking for on a specific shopping trip, anyway – let alone at a good price! So, in the meantime, I look and I look and I look – and bingo! the bargain usually appears. I know shopping in Europe for clothes is generally more difficult – as they go for more enduring styles at higher prices – Have you thought about getting things online? U.S. prices are a bargain in Euros.
The last "big" thing we bought was paid for with cash – we got a Playstation 3, which we'd been waiting to get for 8 months (bought with part of my tax return at the time). The next big thing I'll have to get will be a new computer, which will also be paid for with cash.
Jason´s last blog post..Do You Have The Best Bank Account?
I waited a year and a half before buying a new, larger TV after I moved to Texas. Until I got it, I used the 15-year-old TV which I had had since grad school. It was about the size of an old computer monitor. I admit that I didn't actually save for the new TV: I bought it with part of my stimulus check. But the fact that I waited until I had cash in hand instead of running out and using my credit card was still a victory for me!
Great post – we only buy with cash and it's such a great feeling! I have gotten to where I don't spend much time in the mall or other stores, unless I have a need, and that has greatly diminished my wants! I also try not to buy much of anything the first time I see it…if my mind continues to go back to it for days/weeks afterwards, and it's in our budget, I can buy it with confidence…but oftentimes I find that I never think of it again and it would have been a total waste!


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SEC awards whistleblower $700,000, denies money to three others
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission released an Order Determining Whistleblower Award Claim for more than $700,000 to one person, but denying an award to three other claimants for the same matter.
The award order came last week, following initial recommendations by the SEC staff in June 2015.
The heavily redacted order didn't identify the claimants or the defendant in the SEC enforcement action. Federal law requires the SEC to protect the identity of whistleblowers.
The successful claimant initially gave the SEC a detailed analysis. But the information was provided "before enactment of the whistleblower award program and, therefore, could not serve as the basis for an award," the SEC said.
The claimant resubmitted information to the SEC after Congress enacted the whistleblower award program as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. That submission included new information that "significantly contributed to the successful enforcement of the Covered Action," the SEC said.
The claimant accepted the SEC's recommendation for a $700,000 award.
Two other claimants who weren't awarded anything didn't contest the SEC's action.
A fourth claimant who wasn't awarded anything argued against the decision. The SEC said there was no award because the claimant didn't provide original information that led to a successful enforcement action.
The SEC whistleblower program started in 2011. Since then, the agency has awarded more than $54 million to 23 whistleblowers "who provided the SEC with unique and useful information that contributed to a successful enforcement action."
Whistleblower awards can range from 10 percent to 30 percent of recoveries when amounts collected are more than $1 million.
The biggest award was more than $30 million in 2014. A 2013 award topped $14 million.
The SEC's Securities Exchange Act of 1934 Release No.76921 / January 15, 2016 and Whistleblower Award Proceeding File No. 2016-2 are here (pdf).
Richard L. Cassin is the publisher and editor of the FCPA Blog. He can be contacted here.
Founder of the FCPA Blog and Editor at Large. He has been named multiple times as one of the 100 Most Influential People In Business Ethics by Ethisphere Magazine and is a Trust Across America Top Thought Leader. He's a member of the DC, Virginia, and Florida bars. His At Large column is a regular feature of the FCPA Blog and his Chat Large videos are shown on FCPA Blog+.
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Q: How to copy a repo and filter out all commit descriptions We would like to open source a library that we've been working on internally for some time.
The problem is that we use Phabricator and when commits are made, their descriptions contain details about code-review, and sometimes sensitive data. The commit titles themselves do not contain such sensitive information.
We'd like to actually copy the entire repo into a new repo, and keep the commit history intact (i.e., the titles, authors, diffs etc) but scrub out just the descriptions.
Because we're using Phabricator, we only have one branch (master) to start with.
I'd imagine we could use git filter-branch with the --commit-filter option, but my expertise stops there.

A: You can use the --msg-filter switch of git filter-branch. For each commit, it receives the commit message via standard input and applies the given "script" on it. In your case, you could keep just the first line of the commit message (the title):
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Books by Evan McHugh
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The Shearers: The Story of Australia, told from the woolsheds (Paperback)
By McHugh, Evan
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Birdsville: My year in the back of beyond (Paperback)
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After nearly 10 years researching and writing about the heroes and pioneers of Australia's outback Evan McHugh decided it was time to sample the dust himself, so he packed up his Sydney home, bought a 4-wheel drive and headed off with his wife to live in Birdsville for a year.
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Bushrangers (Paperback, 2nd edition)
From the first convict runaways to the spectacular showdown that ended Ned Kelly's career, Evan McHugh delivers true tales of daring exploits and a cast of roguish characters who blazed their place into Australian history. These are incredible stories of the men - and women - who... achieved fame not just by what they did, but by the way they did it, many of them lifting themselves from downtrodden underdogs to self-made heroes. There are heroic figures like Cash and Company, the prince of bushrangers Matthew Brady, Bold Jack Donohue, brave Ben Hall, Captain Thunderbolt and of course, Ned Kelly. But there are also villains like Pearce the Cannibal, Jeffries the Monster and 'Mad Dog' Morgan. Bushrangers is as fast paced as a stolen thoroughbred and as arresting as a squad of troopers. Through extensive first-hand accounts and gripping detail about Australia's lawless past, bestselling author Evan McHugh brings a fresh perspective to a turbulent era of crime, defiance and emerging Australia identity.
Outback Legends (Trade Paperback / Paperback)
If you haven't heard of these Aussie living legends yet, you'll be glad to meet them now. This book is a unique celebration of the outback country characters who have come to national attention for their achievements and contributions, such as graziers, medical professionals, poe...ts and shearers. Subjects include boxer Fred Brophy, Australia's top shearer Shannon Warnest, rural poet Murray Hartin and mother of the Barkly, Bernadette Burke.
Shipwrecks: Australia's Greatest Maritime Disasters (Paperback, New title)
From the first wreck in 1622 off Western Australia to the tradegy of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, this book captures all the drama of Australia's maritime history. McHugh has made extensive use of first-hand accounts and contemporary records and also delves into the myst...eries & controversies that surround so many of the wrecks.
Outback Pioneers: Great Achievers of the Australian Bush (Paperback)
From the author of Outback Heroes comes Outback Pioneers with stories such as The Flying Doctors, and much more.
The Drovers (Paperback)
Deals with the hapless convicts attempting to round up the First Fleet's escaped cattle on foot; overlanders blazing through trackless wilderness to supply the vast stations carved from the bush; stockmen who risked blizzards to bring cattle to alpine pastures; and, drovers who c...rossed the Australian continent behind the largest mobs of cattle.
1606: An epic adventure (Paperback, New title)
1606 marked the first European sighting of Australia, when the Dutch ship Duyfken landed on Cape York. This book tells the stories of the seafaring explorers, shipwrecks and mutinies that followed, including the voyages of Torres and La Perouse, Dampier and D'Entrecasteaux.
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Outback Stations (Paperback)
'From the helicopter I could see the property's waterholes surrounded by paperback trees, its red-stone cliffs lit by the rising sun. And grass, endless seas of grass.Here was the vision splendid: Nat Buchanan's grass castle. Gurindji country. And my country, Australia.' This is ...big country, the outback, home to the largest cattle and sheep stations in the world. Yet few of us know what goes on behind the farm gate. What's life really like when next door is 500 kilometres away, and a day's work involves mustering livestock in their tens of thousands, dealing with extreme heat and backbreaking physical labour? Bestselling author Evan McHugh heads down the road to find out. He goes behind the scenes at Adria Downs in the dead heart of Central Australia, helps drove cattle from the air at Wave Hill and gets a lesson trapping dingoes at the remote Commonwealth Hill. McHugh reveals the fascinating history of these outback stations, and what it takes to work on one today.
Outback Heroes: Australia's Greatest Bush Stories (Paperback)
Presents the stories of outback heroes, from escaped convict William Buckley, through to the trainer of stock horses that starred in the 2000 Olympics opening ceremony. This collection of true stories of courage and ingenuity, aims to remind how the Australian character was forge...d through encounters with the bush, desert and outback.


I went to Nigel's awhile ago and snagged these for a mermaid project that I was going to do, but got a little too busy. I only recently had a chance to dig them up again (they got lost while moving) and swatch these for you!
They don't have names, just numbers, but I accidentally flipped the sides when I swatched them so the swatches below are 71 on the left and 113 on the right.
It was really hard to get a good picture of the duo chrome shift, but both of these are SOOO pretty and really pigmented. 71 is a foiled green-blue with a yellow/gold shift and 113 is a blue with a slight green shift and a TON of pink sparkles. It tends to look purple-y (because blue and pink…), but when it moves, it's GORGEOUS. 113 is definitely considered a sparkler type pigment, though. These can be mixed with a medium such as Duraline or the Mehron Mixing Medium to make it a liquid shadow which would REALLY bring out the duo chrome. If only I could find my Duraline.
These are available at Nigel's for $16 for 71 and $19 for 113. I think it's because of the sparklers are more expensive, but I'm not 100% sure.
I'm feeling really inspired by these colors and might still do my mermaid look or something else. Stay tuned!!
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Parsprototo from Bielefeld send in some pics with an illustration about his hometown at the web-agency 'Digitale Offensive'. The wall was painted with various ONE4ALL™ markers, ONE4ALL™ ink, brushes and the MOLOTOW™ Premium Neon 400ml Colors. Have a look at the photos after the jump!


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On Medieval Hanukkah Lamps and My Lorca and Teruel Hanukkah Menorah Mix-up
Ceramic Hanukkah lamp found in Teruel, Spain. 15th century. Museo de Teruel inventory #7167. Photo from Birk, Transier, and Werner, Marcus; eds. The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages (Speyer: Historisches Museum der Pfalz Speyer, 2004), 182.
Ceramic Hanukkah lamp found in Lorca, Spain. 15th century. Lorca: Luces de Sefarad. Lights of Sepharad (Murcia, 2009), p 372.
Hanukkah is behind us, but not my embarrassment for a mistake on my holiday card that some readers may have received. The ceramic menorah that I labeled as coming from the important excavation of the former Jewish quarter in Lorca, Spain, is actually a similar menorah, also believed to be from the 15th century, that was found in 1977 in the area of the former Jewish quarter at Teruel and is now in the Museo de Teruel (inventory # 7167).
This menorah was seen in the United States in the 1992 exhibition Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain and will be seen again with other items associated with Jewish life in Spain before the 1492 in the upcoming exhibition Fractured Faiths: Spanish Judaism, The Inquisition, and New World Identities, opening May 22, 2016 (tentatively through December 31, 2016) at the New Mexico History Museum.
Here too, is the Lorca menorah, which is very similar, but glazed in green. This is one of many Hanukkah lamps and other lamp fragments found in the excavation of houses in the former Jewish quarter of Lorca, just below the castle. In all, fragments of least five different Hanukkah lamps were found, indicating that lamps of this type were commonly owned by Jewish households. Both the Teruel and Lorca Hanukkah lamps were fragmentary and have been substantially restored to recreate their original appearance.
Asunción Blasco Martínez mentions in a essay in the Lorca catalog that the menorahs were stored "in cupboards built into the walls and in closets," but it is not clear whether this is supposition of based on the actual location of the archaeological finds. (In my perusing the available excavation reports I could not determine exactly where the menorah fragments were found).
We don't know when and how these menorahs were broken - whether they were discarded as trash before the expulsion of the Jews from Lorca at the end of the 15th century, or deliberately at the time of departure, or later over time either through pillaging of the site. The breaks do not seem the result of natural causes, otherwise more connecting pieces would have been found in close proximity.
At least one ceramic oil lamps from Hanukkah are known from antiquity. It is assumed that the tradition continued unbroken through the centuries, but examples from an intervening millennium are absent, so we cannot be sure.
Ceramic Hanukkah lamp fragments found in Lorca, Spain. 15th century. Photo from Lorca: Luces de Sefarad. Lights of Sepharad (Murcia, 2009), p 380.
Hanukkah lamp. Found in Jerusalem. Illustrated in Jewish Encyclopedia, Vol VI, p 224
Two illustrations from Italian manuscripts, now in the British Library, show the lighting of large oil Hanukkah menorahs. It is difficult to know how realistic these are, and whether they would have been found in the home, in the synagogue or in some other public place. The second examples, from the Forli Siddur, appears to take place out of doors. It may be that the large aedicula in which the menorah is set is meant to be a door or window of a house, and the menorah is set outside to bear public witness to the miracle of the holiday.
Illustration of a man lighting a Hanukkah menorah from Decisions of Isaiah of Trani the Younger (Pisqei Rabbi Yeshayah Aharon), produced in Central Italy in 1374 by Jekuthiel ben Solomon of Bologna (scribe). Names of artists are unknown. British Library Ms. Or 5024, fol. 19.
Forli Siddur, British Library, Ms. Add. 26968, fol. 101, Part 2, completed in northern Italy (Veneto?), 15th century. Is this menorah being lit outside the door or window of a house?
The use of the Hanukkah lamp in the home is mentioned in the Talmudic period, but no physical examples of such lamps have been found from before the 15th century. From as least the 11th century, there is also mention of the use of the Hanukkah lamp in the synagogue, and this use is explained in more detail by Joseph Caro in the 16th century.
There are a few 15th-century manuscript illuminations from Italy that represent a large menorah being lit, presumably in the synagogue. Thérèse and Mendel Metzger have noted that the Hanukkah menorahs with candles depicted in manuscripts that appear to be in synagogues are all of the types with a straight base upon which the candles are set, not in the traditional branched form familiar from depictions of the Temple menorah dating back to the Arch of Titus in Rome. These manuscript examples are Italian, so there could be a regional preference, but it more likely an adaptation from the earlier oil lamp type.
Lighting a Hanukkah menorah, Italy (Ferrara?), c1470. Israel Museum, Ms Rothschild 24, fol 113v, reproduced in T. and M. Metzger, Jewish Life in the Middle Ages: Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries, p. 70
As art historian Vivian Mann explains, synagogue menorahs are "said to have been introduced to accommodate travelers, whose needs likewise inspired the public recitation of kiddush, and sanctification over wine before the Sabbath. Other reasons (enumerated by Joseph Caro in Beit Yosef commentary to the Arbah Turim, cited by Mann) given were pirsumei nisah, publicizing the miracle of Hanukkah, and teaching congregants the correct order of the blessings."
Mann maintains, however, that "none of these rationales, however, account for the timing [late Ottonian/Early Romanesque period] of the appearance of synagogue Hanukkah lamps." She proposes that the introduction of large synagogue menorahs to commemorate Hanukkah could be a reaction to the appropriation of the Jewish menorah by Christianity in the Carolingian and Ottonian periods, when score of large menorahs were placed in churches symbolizing that the "Church was the successor to Judaism." The earliest (of more than fifty) surviving example is the menorah "dedicated to the Essen Minster by Abbess Mathilda, granddaughter of Otto the Great, around the year 1000."
In Northern and Central Europe, there was also a tradition of metal oil lamps especially made of the Hanukkah observance. Many of these have architectural motifs and it is on this basis that most of dated. A few examples, such a one in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme in Paris, have been dated to the 14th century, but most well known metal Hanukkah lamps are from the 15th and 16th century and later (and one should beware of the many copies for sale). All dates for menorahs should be accepted with caution. Unlike the Spanish ceramic menorahs, these bronze and brass menorahs would have been the exceptions, probably expensive and owned by wealthy Jews and kept as family heirlooms. The late Joseph Guttman suggested that all the bronze and brass lamps with triangular backs reputed to be medieval could, in fact, be from the 19th century.
Hanukah lamp. Germany, 14th cent. Bronze. Collection of Congregation Emanu-El, New York. Photo from Encyclopedia of Judaism I, fig. 3
Hanukkah lamps, 15th-16th centuries, possibly from Italy and Spain. Photo from Cantz, Jews of Europe in Middle Ages, p. 185
Birk, Karin; Transier, Werner; Wener, Marcus; eds. The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages with contributions by Alfred Haverkamp et al. (Speyer: Historisches Museum der Pfalz Speyer, 2004).
Carrillo, Juan Gallardo and González Ballesteros, José Ángel "La Judería del Castillo de Lorca a Partir de las Evidencia Arqueológicas," in Lorca: Luces de Sefarad. Lights of Sepharad (Murcia, 2009), 48-77.
Guttman, Joseph, "On Medieval Hanukkah Lamps," Artibus et Historiae, 1999, Vol. 20, No. 40 (1999), pp. 187-190
Lorca: Luces de Sefarad. Lights of Sepharad (Murcia, 2009), "Catalogo de Piezas," 372-385 [about Hanukkah lamp fragments]
Mann, Vivian, "Towards an Iconography of Medieval Diaspora Synagogues," in C. Cluse, ed. The Jews of Europe in the Middle Ages (Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries (Proceedings of the International Symposium held at Speyer, 20-25 October 2002, (Brepols, 2004), 341-351.
Martínez, Asunción Blasco, "La Vida en la Juderia," in Lorca: Luces de Sefarad. Lights of Sepharad (Murcia, 2009), 22-45.
Metzger, Thérèse and Mendel, 1982. Jewish Life in the Middle Ages: Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts of the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Centuries (Secaucus, N.J.: Chartwell Books, 1982, 70-71, 74.
Russia: Center for Jewish Art Releases Report on Synagogues and judiaca in Siberia
Russia: Center for Jewish Art Releases Report on Synagogues and Judaica in Siberia
(ISJM) In August 2015, a research team from the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem went to Siberia and for the first time carried out extensive documentation of the extant Jewish sites in that vast region of the Russian north. This work follow-up on recent excellent detailed surveys of synagogues in Lithuania (published in full) and Latvia (publication in preparation).
According to their recently released report about Siberia - which can be read in full here - the team followed a route spanning 6,000 km. and visited 16 sites in Siberia and the Russian Far East: Tomsk, Mariinsk, Achinsk, Krasnoyarsk, Kansk, Nizhneudinsk, Irkutsk, Babushkin (former Mysovsk), Kabansk, Ulan-Ude (former Verkhneudinsk), Barguzin, Petrovsk Zabaikalskii (former Petrovskii Zavod), Chita, Khabarovsk, and Vladivostok as well as the Birobidzhan, established in 1928 as the Soviet Jewish Autonomous Region.
Sixteen synagogues and four collections of ritual objects were documented alongside a survey of eleven Jewish cemeteries and numerous Jewish houses. The team consisted of Prof. Aliza Cohen-Mushlin, Dr.Vladimir Levin, Dr. Katrin Kessler, Dr. Anna Berezin, and Arch. Zoya Arshavsky.
Center for Jewish Art Report on Siberia Expedition
The report concludes with these telling paragraphs:
The Center for Jewish Art's expedition resulted in the documentation and survey of Siberian Jewish heritage in various states: active synagogues, former synagogues serving other purposes, abandoned synagogues in danger of collapse; well preserved and half-destroyed Jewish cemeteries; as well as ritual objects used in synagogues or stored in museums. We hope that our expedition not only documented Jewish buildings, tombstones and objects, but also contributed to raising awareness among locals about the value of Jewish heritage and the need to preserve it as part of their own culture.
For some of us it was the first expedition to the areas not affected by the Holocaust. Nonetheless, the state of preservation of Jewish heritage in Siberia does not differ significantly from the western areas of the former Soviet Union (currently Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Lithuania and Latvia). The only significant difference is the absence of mass graves and Holocaust monuments. All other typical features are present: the massive destruction of synagogues and cemeteries during the Soviet era, the adaptation of synagogues' buildings to other purposes accompanied by reconstruction, and the presence of general neglect and dilapidation. The synagogues returned to the Jewish communities were radically reconstructed, and their interiors resemble present-day synagogues in Israel and the USA
Siberian Jewish heritage presents an interesting and important example of the convergence of traditions brought from Eastern Europe, fashions borrowed from the capital cities of the Russian Empire, St. Petersburg and Moscow, and local features characteristic of Russian architecture in Siberia. The Jews of Siberia adhered to Judaism and a religious way of life, but within a Russian environment, which strongly influenced them, even more than their relatives and co-religionists in the Pale of Settlement or in the European Russia beyond the Pale. The dualism of the preservation of traditions and a high level of acculturation was reflected in the synagogue architecture and the cemeteries. The attempts to express Jewish identity during the Soviet period and growing assimilation are especially visible in the tombstones. Jewish symbols and Hebrew epitaphs gave way to Soviet symbols and monolingual Russian inscriptions. The revival of Jewish life in the post-Soviet era finds its expression in the construction of new synagogues and the reappearance of Jewish symbols in the cemeteries.
The material collected during the Center for Jewish Art's expedition will soon be uploaded to the Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art (http://cja.huji.ac.il/browser.php). We also plan to publish a book presenting the little known Jewish heritage of Siberia found by our team in this vast and remote region.
Happy Birthday Louis Lozowick (December 10, 1892 – September 9, 1973)
Today is the birthday of American-Jewish artist Louis Lozowick, one of my favorite artists of the dynamic energy of the American city. Lozowick, who born in the Ludvinovka, Ukraine in 1892, came to the United States as an undocumented still-young art student in 1906. He studied art and graduated from college here, and served in the military before going back to Europe to spend time engaged with the avant-garde art movements of the interwar years. In Paris he was influenced by Leger and Gris, and he learned lithography in Berlin. He was especially influence by El Lissitzky and Russian Constructivism (as can be seen in his 1928 cover for New Masses, below). Back in America he became best known for his socially relevant art in New Masses and and then his bold black-and-white cityscapes that captured the stark geometry, steep angles and deep shadows of the new skyscraper city.
He loved depicting the engineering of the construction and the intricacy and mystery of machines and today Lozowick is best known for his lithographs of skyscrapers and machinery. But his output was quite varied. He was a consummate draftsman and craftsman, but he also had an eye for the unusual arrangement and incongruous juxtaposition. I'm sure his work influenced many American film noir directors, cinematographers and editors.
Unlike many of his Jewish contemporaries (like Raphael Soyer) Lozowick had no problem with being identified as a Jewish artist. But he said "there can be Jewish artists but no Jewish art, unless there be a social need for it," (Menorah Journal, July 1924). He was willing to exhibit in Jewish venues and publish in Jeiwhs cultural periodicals. But he considered his themes and styles contemporary and universal.
Many art historians have looked at Lozowick's work as part of studies from varied perspectives and as part of different groups or genres (urban, radical, Jewish, New York school, graphics, murals, etc.) but rarely has the spread of his career been considered. Today. Lozowick has the distinction - perhaps with another contemproary Max Weber, a being a little-known 20th-century great. A major exhibition of Lozowick's is overdue.Maybe in 2023 on the 50th anniversary of this death? Or why not sooner?
For a good sampling of his graphic work see here.
And even more work here.
Here is a biographical information from the Syracuse University Library where a few linear feet of papers relating to his life and career can be found.Much more material is held by the Smithsonian (see the fining aid here).
"He attended the Kiev Art School from 1904 to 1906 and emigrated to the United States at age 14 -- a tricky achievement since he came without passport or papers. Once in New York he took a series of factory jobs to pay for his art studies at the National Academy of Design (1912-1915) with Carlson, Leon Kroll, and others. In 1915 he entered Ohio State University, graduating in three years as a Phi Beta Kappa. In 1919, after a brief stint in the military, he left the United States to travel extensively throughout Europe, studying art and supporting himself by writing articles for various European publications.
Almost immediately upon his return to the United States, he began his "Machine Ornament" series, exploring the straight lines, contrasting light and shadow, and geometrical patterns of the urban landscape that would fascinate him for the next fifty years. In 1924 he had an exhibit at the New Art Circle and then another at Weyhe's; both Weyhe and Carl Zigrosser, then head of the gallery, encouraged Lozowick in his focus on the graphic arts. The young artist had a number of exhibits of his lithographs over the next few years at Weyhe's and at Whitney Studio on West 8th Street including his "Machine Age Exposition" in 1927. Throughout his career the complex architecture of the urban landscape -- bridges, scaffolding, train tracks, skyscrapers -- continued to intrigue him (though nature appears more frequently in pieces from his later years).
During the Depression Lozowick, like many of his fellow artists, created murals and prints for the WPA including a mural for the New York City General Post Office (1936). In 1931 he married Adele Turner, and in 1943 the couple moved to New Jersey where Lozowick remained for the rest of his career"
Lithuania: Israel Cohen on Vilnius's Uzupis Cemetery in the 1930s
Vilnius, Lithuania. Gates to the Uzupis Cemetery. Undated photo, courtesy of Municipality of Vilnius.
Vilnius, Lithuania. Uzupis cemetery monument. Photo: Samuel D. Gruber 2015
After writing the other day about the history and present state of the Uzupis Cemetery in Vilnius, I went back to Israel Cohen's essential handbook about the pre-Holocaust city: Vilna (Philadelphia; Jewish Publication society, 1943), to re-read his description. It is so vivid, and contains so many interesting observations, that I thought it worth quoting in full:
"The modern cemetery, which was opened a hundred years ago, extends over a vast area, and is intersected with fine long avenues lined with trees. A multitude of tombstones faces evert direction. They are closely huddled together, with epitaphs in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Russian. Some are adorned with framed photographs. The inscriptions are not all of a conventional character, for the tombstone of a famous Marshallik (jester) bears the legend: "Stop and look! You are still a visitor; I am at home." In the center of the cemetery is a large mortuary, with separate sections for men and women, whither the dead are brought for the last rites; for here all are buried on the day they die. On the opposite side of the avenue is an elevated platform, reached by a flight of steps, form where the funeral oration is delivered. The speaker stands before an iron lectern, flanked on either side by lamps in large glass shades, which are necessary in cases of burial after nightfall."
"Here may be seen the graves of the writers Lebensohn and Kalman Schulman, and of all the other luminaries who irradiated the firmament of Hebrew culture in the nineteenth century. Here too may be seen the graves of the victims of various riots and outrages. Nineteen members of the Bund, killed in the revolutionary rising of 1905, are laid to rest together, their sepulcher marked by a stone column from where a memorial address is delivered on every anniversary. The Jews killed by the Polish troopers in 1919 also lie together, some of the graves being marked pathetically "Unknown." And over the tomb of the Yiddish writer, A. Weiter, who was shot in that outburst of lawlessness, is a striking piece of sculpture – an eagle with a broken pinion."
"Among the graves, before the city was retaken by the Russians, a stentorian voice could head every day offering up the prayer for the dead, and rending the air with heart-breaking grief in every note. Scarcely has the sound died away when, form an opposite quarter, the same moving, piercing chant rose again, uttered with even more poignant anguish of spirit, as those seeking to give expression to the infinite tragedy of the Jewish people. These were the voices of poor cantors, unable to find a pittance among the living, and trying to earn twenty groschen a time from those visiting the graves of their dead." [Israel Cohen, Vilna (Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society, 1943), pp. 416-418.
Even with this description in hand the site presently seems incomprehensible. Where was the great mortuary? the steps? the platform for funeral orations? And it will surprise many to hear about framed photos of the deceased and a sculpture of an eagle on a writer's tomb. We cannot generalize about the design, architecture and decoration of Jewish cemeteries. I encourage all readers to look for and collect older descriptions of cemeteries in many languages. I'm sure the Yiddish sources are still rich and mostly unharvested.
In another version of this same description, published in Cohen's Travels in Jewry (New York: E.P. Dutton, 193),pp. 151-152, which collects many of his early writings as a testimony to a lost world, he includes this closing paragraph about the cemetery which, of then preceeds his epilogue describing the fate of all of Vilna's Jews:
"As we passed through the huge gates we were surrounded by a number of women, gaunt, blanched, almost fleshless---some with babies at their breast, whining bitterly for alms. Blessing poured upon my head in return for every mite I gave, and after I had been allowed to return to my carriage and wasdriven away I wondered how soon it would be before all those suffering souls would likewise be gathered unto their lasting peace."
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At Germany's gamescom show this week, Ubisoft debuted a new teaser trailer for Avatar: The Game -- the videogame project based on director James Cameron's high budget 3D movie.
We've posted the trailer below so you can try and get a sense of what the game will offer when it releases at the end of this year.
The videogame will take you deep into the heart of Pandora, an alien planet that is beyond imagination. Gamers will encounter the Na'vi, Pandora's indigenous people and discover other life forms the likes of which have never been seen in the world of video games before. When conflict erupts between the RDA Corporation, a space-faring consortium in search of valuable resources, and the Na'vi, gamers will find themselves thrust into a fight for the heart of a planet and the fate of a civilization.
Stick with GameSpy for more Avatar developments as they arrive.
Bryn says: The second half of the movie really seems to heat up in terms of action, and from the brief glimpse it provides, this game looks like a tripped-out Halo in terms of visuals. The project is being kept tightly under wraps, as is the movie and its script.
All too often videogame movie tie-ins fall short of the mark but this is one game that seems to have real potential behind it. The amount of dollars likely being thrown at the project will hopefully see justice done.


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Efficiency and sustainability are key concepts when it comes to the future of building construction. But why the future? It's high time for the housing industry as a whole to agree on a holistic approach. Why and how this can work are explained by BASF expert Mary Poma, Business Management Construction, Wyandotte, USA.
The construction industry is facing some harsh realities. The housing market is becoming increasingly expensive, skilled labor is scarce, and the cost of materials continues to rise. Yet there is more to be concerned about. In 2016 the residential and commercial sector accounted for 11 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Emissions from homes and buildings also increase substantially when emissions from electricity are included, due to their relatively large share of electricity consumption, such as for lighting, heating, and cooling. So how do we address these challenges? By embracing building methods with a strong emphasis on improving the building process and energy-efficient results.
This is also relevant for purchasers and residents. In 2015 the average U.S. household spent $1,856 on home energy bills. The forecast rise in energy prices until 2030 will make energy-efficiency a compelling factor. Yet we in the construction industry will have to lead the way to sharpen the awareness of sustainability. In doing so, we can learn from the automotive industry – and more precisely from the evolution of the electric vehicle.
Evolution of an idea
Electric vehicles were long considered unreliable. But current technology has evolved and what was once a skeptically viewed novelty has now gone into mass production. The process has been driven by general consumer acceptance, along with the desire to reduce the environmental impact. Progress is also being made in the construction industry. New methods have made living indoors healthier, more sustainable and energy efficient. Yet we as an industry are not proactively educating the public about these new methods and are slow to adopt them.
Meeting minimum standards isn't the same as building sustainably
Building codes are a minimum standard. It is up to us to explain to homebuyers that there is room to improve when it comes to efficiency and sustainability. Because the average home buyer isn't asking explicitly for an energy-efficient home – homeowners simply expect new homes to be more energy-efficient than older homes – many builders do not exceed these codes. Most buyers don't understand what can affect energy efficiency and in what way. For example, a smart thermostat will achieve little compared to an airtight building envelope. It is also important to communicate the long-term value of an energy-efficient house – on the basis of a low energy bill over many years, for instance.
Step by step toward the goal
Not everything has to happen from one day to the next. Before electric cars were practical, the automotive industry first concentrated on fuel economy – by building better engines and using extra-light materials. We can take the same approach. For this, BASF resorts to multifunctional building materials such as sprayfoam. By insulating with sprayfoam, we create an airtight, thermally-efficient building envelope that adds overall strength to the structure and allows us to optimize framing and other structural members. It's about looking at the whole house rather than its individual parts. Working with multi-functional materials also means generating less waste - according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), construction and demolition generated over 500 million tons of waste in 2015. This level of waste generation is not sustainable. Pre-fabricated building is a good example of a building method that is helping to reduce on-site waste.
Taking a holistic approach and looking at the house as a whole system needs to become common practice in the industry. This is why BASF tasked its dedicated team of construction experts and building scientists to develop the BEYOND.High Performance® approach. By looking at a house as a cohesive system instead of its individual components, BASF and its partners have developed new building methods that make homes stronger and more efficient, all the while working with less material that can be translated into real, long-term sustainability.
Find out more about the BEYOND.High Performance® approach.
If you're interested in building beyond code and joining with us in building a sustainable future, please free to contact me:
mary.poma@basf.com
Our cities are constantly growing and will be home to two thirds of the world's population by 2050. In many places there is a genuine construction boom. We're building our future. What trends can be identified in this scenario? Are there materials that will make today's visions become tomorrow's construction reality? A survey in 360°.


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If the early disciples had to go outside the gates of Judaism in order to be with the One who bore their sins, what about the gates of modern Christianity? What reproach is there to bear in a religion favored by the state, one integrated and accepted into its secular culture?
Today, more than ever, a moderate Christian has the best chance of being elected to any office at any level of government, whether he is politically conservative or liberal. With Christians in high office from the White House on down, and the phenomenal success of Christian books, music and movies, Evangelicals are in the mainstream of American culture more than ever before.1 Does being in the mainstream qualify as outside the camp?
Just as Moses chose to bear the reproach of being identified with God's people rather than enjoy the comfort and privilege of his life in Egypt,5 so must Christ's disciples bear the same reproach that He bore.
Anything outside the camp is considered strange religion. Those in the religious establishment would say, "How could anyone worship Jesus outside the gate of the City?" But on the day of Pentecost Peter cried out saying, "Save yourselves from this perverse and wicked generation!" (i.e., the religion of Judaism6). When Christ abandoned Judaism, the religious establishment demanded that the state execute Him. And Mark 10:30 promises persecution also to all who follow Christ. Moreover, John 16:1-3 shows that it will be the religious people who do the persecuting (or have the state do it for them).
Anything outside the camp of Christianity today is considered to be a cult. But Revelation 18:4 still stands: "Come out of her, My people" -- come outside the camp and bear His reproach.7 The true restoration will bear Christ's reproach, the earthly disgrace He received.
When Jesus spoke of the restoration of all things in Mark 9:12, He was talking about the witness of the Kingdom in Matthew 24:14. This demonstration of God's love in the last days will not fail. As the prophet Daniel said, it will not be left to another people.8 The time is drawing near when the good news of the Kingdom will be preached to the world as a witness and testimony of the truth. That time will come, and that witness must come from outside the camp of the organized religion (all the established denominational churches, including Greek and Roman). That witness will come from a holy nation9 that will ignite a movement fueled by the new wine. It will take to the ends of the earth this good news of the coming Kingdom.10 In order to set the evidence before all the world, every truth which has been corrupted, tainted, falsified, or hidden must be exposed. As Luke 1:79 says, this pure knowledge will enlighten the hearts11 of those who sit in the darkness that covers the earth. Wisdom will be proven right by her children who accomplish this.
The restored Twelve Tribes of Jacob spoken about in Isaiah 49:6 will be raised up from the dust outside the camp of both Judaism and Christianity.12 This nation will ignite a flame of love that will sweep across every nation, fulfilling Matthew 21:43 and being the witness of Matthew 24:14. The life demonstrated by this witness will lift up a banner for the nations to bring their sons and daughters to.13 This objective banner or standard will issue the criterion and be the basis to distinguish those who serve God from those who don't.14 Those who serve Him where He is15 will be in plain view so that people from the nations can come to that life that is the light of men. There they will learn to obey all that Jesus commanded His apostles.16 This gospel will bring about the holy nation of 1 Peter 2:9-10 that fulfills John 13:34-35 and John 17:23. It is His standard and that standard will be a light to the nations in this age, bringing Salvation to the ends of the earth.


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First Oil Production of the Lemang Block
Indonesia >> 11/15/2016 - The board of directors of Ramba Energy Limited (the "Company" or "Ramba") is pleased to announce that on 15 November 2016 the Ministry of Forestry and Environment has issued the forestry lease permi...
Talos Energy LLC Announces Initial Production from the Tornado Discovery
United States >> 11/15/2016 - Talos Energy LLC (Talos) announced initial production from the Tornado exploration project in the Phoenix Field, located in Green Canyon Blocks 236, 237, 280 and 281 in approximately 2,700 feet of wat...
Kazakhstan's Kashagan Produces 201,000 Tons of Oil in October 2016
Kazakhstan >> 11/14/2016 - Kazakhstan's Kashagan oil field produced about 201,000 tons of oil in October, its first full month of operation, data from the Energy Ministry's analytical centre showed on Monday. ...
Iran Inaugurates Three Joint Oilfields in Khouzestan
Iran >> 11/13/2016 - Iran has launched first phase production at three fields in its oil-rich Khouzestan province which bring its total crude output to 300'000 barrels per day. ...
Petrobras Oil & Natural Gas Production in October
Brazil >> 11/11/2016 - Petrobras total production of oil and natural gas in October was 2.81 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed), with 2.68 million boed produced in Brazil and 0.12 million boed abroad. ...
Sonangol Begin Production at Mafumeira Sul Field in Angola
Angola >> 11/10/2016 - Sonangol EP and its partners in Block Zero, namely Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Limited, Total E & P Angola and Eni Angola, announce the start on October 31, 2016, of the Early Production System (EPS) ope...
Libya's Abu Tifl Oil & Gas Field Back Online
Libya >> 11/10/2016 - Some gas production at Libya's eastern Abu Tifl field has resumed and 12,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil will start being pumped there from next week, an engineer at the field said. ...
Aker BP Starts-up Production from Viper and Kobra
Norway >> 11/10/2016 - Aker BP announces the start-up of production from Viper-Kobra, which is tied back to the Alvheim FPSO. The project is developed on time and within budget . "The Viper-Kobra project is developed on tim...
Protests Shut Flow Station on Nigerian Escravos Oil Line
Nigeria >> 11/10/2016 - Royal Dutch Shell has shut down an Escravos crude oil flow station in Nigeria's Niger Delta after villagers demanding aid staged a protest, the firm and residents said. In another blow to the oil majo...
Lukoil Produces 2 Billionth Ton of Oil Since Its Foundation
Russia >> 11/8/2016 - LUKOIL has produced the two billionth ton of oil since its foundation in 1991 to become the first Russian oil company to pass this milestone. ...
Up to 100mcm Gas to be Added to National Gas Production Capacity by March 2017
Iran >> 11/7/2016 - Some 50 to 100 million cubic meters will be added to the national gas production capacity this year (to end on March 20), said Deputy Minister of Petroleum for Gas Affairs Hamid-Reza Araqi. ...
S.Korea's LG Chem to Double ABS Output by 2018
China >> 11/7/2016 - LG Chem Ltd, South Korea's largest chemical company, said it will invest $100 million to double output of lucrative acrolonitrile, butadiene and styrene (ABS) plastics at its joint venture plant in Ch...
Algeria Says Confident OPEC Members will Stick to Algiers Output Deal
Algeria >> 11/6/2016 - Algeria's Energy Minister Nouredine Bouterfa said he was confident OPEC members would stick to a deal made in Algiers in September to cut output, saying the group's technical committee was working on ...
Oil & Natural Gas Production in Brazil
Brazil >> 11/4/2016 - Total production of oil and natural gas in Brazil in September totaled 3.366 million oil equivalent barrels per day, surpassing the previous record achieved in August 2016, when they produced 3,293 MM...
Saudis Could Raise Oil Output Again as Sparring with Iran Returns
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PDVSA & ONGC Sign $1.4B Agreement to Boost Production
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Lukoil Starts Commercial Production at Vladimir Filanovsky Field
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Petroamazonas to Reach 470,000 bpd by the End of 2016
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New System of Production in Libra
Brazil >> 10/27/2016 - Petrobras intend to put into operation a new definitive system of production each year in the area of Libra, starting with the northwest area of the block. The first of these four systems come into op...


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Q: Do I need a different TOKEN to access customer-api for an XTRF server? I am trying to access some data using "customer-api" for an XTRF server but I get below:
"status":401,"
errorMessage":"You are not authenticated or given credentials are incorrect, please re authenticate.",
"detailedMessage":null

I do have a token to access data through home-api for the same XTRF server. I access customer-api with the same token and got the error.
I used "curl" to access data as below:
curl -X GET -H "X-AUTH-ACCESS-TOKEN: MYTOKEN" "https://SERVER_ADDRESS/customer-api/quotes/5558"

I get the error message once I run the command above.

A: There's a different token for Customer API as it is meant for different kind of user.
There are few ways to obtain token for Customer API:

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*Using login and password
To get login and password go to Client profile in Home Portal, go to "Main data" and then "System Accounts". From here you can send welcome e-mail then set-up the account for it. (You can also choose "Sign in as this Partner" and by using developer console in your browser extract JSESSIONID - that's the token).

Once you have an account, you can do the following request to obtain token:
POST /system/login HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Type: application/json
{
 "username": "my login",
 "password": "my password"
}

*

*Using token from Home Portal
On Home Portal API you can use POST /customers/persons/accessToken with the following body:

{
  "loginOrEmail": "personLogin"
}

to obtain pre-auth token for customer contact person. Then by doing
POST /system/loginWithToken HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Type: application/json
{
 "accessToken": "qwertyuiop"
}

on the Customer API you can obtain actual JSESSIONID that you can use as a token for Customer API requests.


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