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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Erath County, Texas
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Adjacent to Erath County, Texas
▶ Bosque County (11)
▶ Comanche County (37)
▶ Eastland County (42)
▶ Hamilton County (8)
▶ Hood County (25)
▶ Palo Pinto County (13)
▶ Somervell County (7)
1► Texas (Erath County), Alexander — 13940 — Alexander Cemetery —
This burial ground has served residents of southern Erath County since the late 1800s. At that time, the community of Alexander, platted by the Texas Central Railroad Company, was thriving. The community had received a post office in 1876, when it . . . — — Map (db m146307) HM
2► Texas (Erath County), Bluff Dale — 14278 — Wesley Chapel Cemetery — Historic Texas Cemetery —
Artesian springs helped draw settlers to Eastern Erath County and the community of Bluff Springs (later Bluff Dale). In 1872, Rev. James Wesley and Martha (Middleton) White donated seven acres of land for a church, school and community burial ground . . . — — Map (db m28407) HM
3► Texas (Erath County), Dublin — Dr Pepper Texas — Pop. 1024 —
Site of the oldest Dr Pepper bottling plant in the world! Established 1891. — — Map (db m12238) HM
4► Texas (Erath County), Dublin — 15878 — Dublin Dr Pepper Bottling Company —
Sam Houston Prim (1863-1946) arrived in Dublin in 1891 with $680 worth of bottling equipment, purchasing property at the southeast corner of Patrick and Elm Streets to house his bottling works. Prim bottled Dr Pepper, along with other products, . . . — — Map (db m72315) HM
5► Texas (Erath County), Dublin — 13548 — Dublin National Bank —
In 1893, John G. Harris, a former railroad president, joined with three other businessmen to establish Dublin National Bank. The bank opened on the heels of the incorporation of the town of Dublin in 1889. Dublin experienced considerable growth . . . — — Map (db m72323) HM
6► Texas (Erath County), Dublin — 3968 — Pecan Cemetery —
The Pecan Cemetery traces its history to 1880. The oldest marked grave is that of Horace F. Adams (October 19-November 14, 1880), son of Isaac (1842-1931) and Mary (1855-1915) Adams, who are also buried in the historic graveyard. A memorial marker . . . — — Map (db m84179) HM
7► Texas (Erath County), Dublin — 3969 — Pecan Cemetery Tabernacle —
In 1884 J. W. McKenzie deeded 3.5 acres of land for church and cemetery purposes in the Purves Community. A portion of the donated land has been used as a burial ground since 1880. The Friendship Baptist Church disbanded in 1915 after serving the . . . — — Map (db m84289) HM
8► Texas (Erath County), Dublin — 5847 — William T. Miller Grist Mill —
Stonemasons Joe E. Bishop, "Rocky" Davis, and "Old Frank" Hamilton built this 2-story native stone mill for William T. Miller (1846-1936) in 1882. Steam power was used to grind grain here until a crude oil engine was installed (1918). The grist mill . . . — — Map (db m12076) HM
9► Texas (Erath County), Hico — 901 — Clairette Schoolhouse —
The first Clairette schoolhouse was a one-room log structure built as early as 1871. This two-story building was constructed in 1912, one year after the creation of the Clairette Independent School District. It served until 1949, when the rural . . . — — Map (db m117789) HM
10► Texas (Erath County), Lingleville — 3090 — Lingleville —
Founded in 1884 by Jacob C. Lingle, the town of Lingleville originally covered a ten-block area. A Post Office was established in 1885, and by 1892 the community boasted stores, blacksmith shops, a mill gin, and three churches. Although bypassed . . . — — Map (db m158012) HM
11► Texas (Erath County), Lingleville — 6255 — Lingleville Tabernacle —
Built in 1913, this Tabernacle served as a permanent structure for summer religious revivals, and eliminated the need to rebuild or repair the brush covered arbors that had been used in earlier years. Local Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian . . . — — Map (db m158015) HM
12► Texas (Erath County), Mingus — Evolution of an Oil Company —
This is the site of the first commercial coal produced in Texas by Texas & Pacific Coal Company, mined in 1888. This company was the forerunner of Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company, now one of the nation's substantial independent producers of oil . . . — — Map (db m88627) HM
13► Texas (Erath County), Mingus — 3587 — New York Hill —
This area of Thurber developed after 1917, when the Texas and Pacific Coal Company expanded into the burgeoning oil industry following W.K. Gordon's discovery of the Ranger oil field. Renamed in 1918, the Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company brought . . . — — Map (db m113729) HM
14► Texas (Erath County), Mingus — 4814 — Site of Hotel Knox and Thurber Mining Office —
The Texas and Pacific Coal Company built the first-class Hotel Knox about 1895. In addition to serving out-of-town guests, it was a social center in Thurber and home to many of the town's white collar workers, including store clerks and staff of the . . . — — Map (db m98443) HM
15► Texas (Erath County), Mingus — 4902 — Site of Thurber Big Lake and Dairy —
In 1891, a 20-acre "little lake" was built south of the Thurber townsite to supply water to the community. It soon proved inadequate, however, and five years later a 150-acre "big lake" was constructed here about a mile . . . — — Map (db m98445) HM
16► Texas (Erath County), Mingus — 4901 — Site of Thurber Brick Plant —
Texas and Pacific Coal Company general manager W.K. Gordon, seeing potential in the shale mud found in Thurber, persuaded company president R.D. Hunter to build a brick plant here in 1897. Original machinery included three Ross-Keller brick presses . . . — — Map (db m113726) HM
17► Texas (Erath County), Mingus — 4903 — Site of Thurber's First Coal Mine —
Two hundred yards southeast of this site, at the base of the hill and at a depth of 65 feet, the first coal mine in this area was placed in operation by brothers William W. and Harvey E. Johnson. After Harvey's death in 1888, and because of labor . . . — — Map (db m113727) HM
18► Texas (Erath County), Mingus — 4438 — St. Barbara's Catholic Church —
Most of Thurber's immigrant population, representing eighteen nationalities, were Catholic. Missionary priests ministered to the town until 1892, then the coal company erected a Catholic church at the bottom of Graveyard Hill. Originally named St. . . . — — Map (db m113730) HM
19► Texas (Erath County), Mingus — 5486 — Thurber —
Most important mine site in Texas for 30 years. Coal here, probably known to Indians, was "discovered" in 1886 by W.W. Johnson, who with his brother Harvey sold out to Texas & Pacific Coal Company in 1888. (T.&P. Coal Company provided . . . — — Map (db m88626) HM
20► Texas (Erath County), Mingus — 5487 — Thurber Cemetery —
Encompassing slightly more than nine acres, the Thurber Cemetery documents the multi-ethnic Thurber community. The graveyard was divided into three sections with separate entrances: Catholic, Protestant, and African American. There are more than . . . — — Map (db m98444) HM
21► Texas (Erath County), Mingus — 17237 — Whitehead Cemetery —
The Whitehead Cemetery is a significant reminder of the African American community that occupied the Thurber townsite in the early 20th century. When the Texas and Pacific Coal and Oil Company relocated its offices to Fort Worth in 1933, several . . . — — Map (db m113725) HM
22► Texas (Erath County), Morgan Mill — 16707 — Morgan Mill Cemetery —
Tradition states that the first burial here was a young girl who died as her family traveled west in the 1870s. The earliest marked gravestone, for Amanda Counts, dates from 1880. In March 1883, Isaac Henderson deeded about three acres to the . . . — — Map (db m158018) HM
23► Texas (Erath County), Morgan Mill — 3472 — Morgan Mill Tabernacle —
The community of Morgan Mill, named for early settler George Bryan Morgan, traces its history to the mid-19th century. A post office was established in 1877. Several community church congregations shared a brush arbor in the summers for revivals . . . — — Map (db m72324) HM
The community of Morgan Mill, named for early settler George Bryan Morgan, traces its history to the mid-19th century. A post office was established in 1877. Several community church congregations shared a brush arbor in the summers for revivals . . . — — Map (db m158021) HM
25► Texas (Erath County), Stephenville — 6397 — Daniel Roberts Thornton and Mary Anna (Garland) Thornton — (1833-1911) and (1837-1906) —
D. R. Thornton from Mississippi married Mary Anna, daughter of frontier fighter Peter Garland in Anderson County, Texas, in 1853. The Thorntons settled here in 1857 as cattleraisers, and helped make this frontier safe for less hardy citizens. Mrs. . . . — — Map (db m83867) HM
26► Texas (Erath County), Stephenville — 15792 — Erath Arches —
The Erath Arches were constructed in honor of soldier, surveyor, and legislator George B. Erath (1813-1891), for whom Erath County was named in 1856. The monument was one of many built around the state to celebrate the 1936 centennial of Texas . . . — — Map (db m117455) HM
27► Texas (Erath County), Stephenville — In Memory of George Bernhard Erath —
Protector of the Texas frontier. Hero of San Jacinto. Major in the Confederate Army. Member of the Texas Congress and Legislature. Born in Vienna, Austria January 1, 1813. Died at Waco, Texas May 15, 1891. Erath County was named in his honor. . . . — — Map (db m117456) HM
28► Texas (Erath County), Stephenville — 13203 — Oak Dale Cemetery —
Founders of Oak Dale community began arriving in 1867. They included: John R. Pickard; George Lidia, who became Pickard's son-in-law; the Rev. James M. Johnson, a Methodist minister; and William Jasper Mefferd. These men and their families, . . . — — Map (db m83874) HM


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Rastaclat defines their bracelets as the cloth of a righteous man/woman. Taking this to heart, they've managed to collaborate with people like pro skater Manny Slays All, and have dug up inspiration from sports teams and high fashion brands for all to enjoy.


Dowagers hump mattress buying help. Your mattress can make a difference in your sleep and your daily life if you have a back hump.
If you have Kyphosis or dowagers hump, you need to pay special attention to what you sleep on. At the end of the day your muscles may be tired. So there is a tendency to want to sink into something soft and cloud like when you go to bed.
This may be what we desire but it may not be the best thing for us or our backs. A soft mattress has been shown not to be a good choice for those with spinal Osteopenia or Osteoporosis.
Rather a special report in US News & World Report states that: "A very firm mattress is the best type for people with spinal osteoporosis. For comfort, you can cover it with synthetic sheepskin or an egg crate mattress pad."
How firmness in a dowagers hump mattress can help you feel better.
Many persons with back hump think that a soft mattress is 'just what they need'. But if you use a soft mattress, your spine will not get the kind of support that it needs when you are in bed. This is important. You do not want another vertebral fracture! Shop around. Get a firm dowagers hump mattress.
If you can not afford to buy a new, firm mattress, you can try improving the firmness of your current one by putting a piece of plywood between it and the box spring.This may not be as comfortable as some of the newer brands but it will give your spine the kind of support it needs.
The other alternative is to buy a new mattress - one that is really suitable to your needs. There is a wide range of prices and models. You can find them priced from a few hundred dollars through the thousands. But price alone is no guarantee you will have a good dowagers hump mattress. So when you are shopping take your time. Be sure to wear shoes you can slip off easily so you can try each mattress out. Remember you are buying something that will affect not only your sleep but also how you feel during your waking hours.
The right mattress can contribute to a really good night's sleep. And it will give your spine solid support. You'll wake up feeling rested and refreshed. The wrong mattress one can contribute to overall aches and pains as well as aggravate your back pain.
Go and try some out. Some companies that sell via mail order will let your try their product for some weeks or months before making your purchase final. Do not be afraid to take them up on this. Sometimes a new one takes 'getting used to' and for the first few nights it feels strange. But then after awhile, you find your self sleeping well and waking refreshed. AND your spine has had good support all night long!
Remember that there is a great range of personal preferences. What works for one person may not work well for another. That is why it is good to try several makes and models before making your final choice.
Shop around. Take your time. Remember that a good mattress, like a good pair of shoes, is really an investment in your daily well being.
Solutions and treatments for kyphosis. Read about postural taping to relieve some of the difficulties.


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Oculus Rift And Touch Get Flood Of New Game Trailers Ahead Of OC3
It's the first day of Oculus Connect 3! Or it will be in a few hours from now. To help you get excited, we've got a swarm of trailers for new games on the way to Rift and Touch.
In truth, we're not expecting much news out of OC3 day one; all the big announcements are likely being kept for tomorrow's keynote speech. To tide you over until then, take a look at the trailers for four games currently on their way to the Rift, some of which will be using its new position tracked controllers while others will be dependent on the gamepad.
We'll start with a brand new title first. Below is the trailer for Landfall, an Oculus Studios title developed by Force Field. It appears to be the "big budget, AAA" Oculus exclusive that was teased a few months back and looks like a multiplayer RTS. The world has fallen victim to a biblical flood, and those that remain form armies to fight for what's left. It's not the most optimistic view of humanity's future, but we're hoping it'll make for some great gameplay.
Next up we have a look at Vox Machinae, the long-anticipated mech shooter from Space Bullet. We feel like we've been seeing this game for a while (it was shown at last year's OC too) but we're no less excited for its moody, atmospheric sci-fi battles. Laser beams and rockets fly as you stomp over desert-like planet surfaces. It's just a short teaser, but we're hoping that we'll finally be able to get our hands on this one soon.
Okay, onto some Touch games. You may have seen us talk about Dead Hungry before. It's a new title from PixelJunk and The Tomorrow Children developer, Q-Games. It seems pretty simple in concept, mixing the manic cooking genre in which you race against time to make the correct meals with the demand and hunger of a crowd of zombies. You use the Touch controllers to stack and serve burgers.
Finally, we have a pretty ambitious co-op game. Enigma Sphere, developed by yomune_co, takes the spirit of Portal 2's co-op campaign, getting you to work together to solve various challenges in a series of rooms. Rather than simply completing experiments, though, you're actually trying to save the world. No pressure, then.
So that's four new Oculus games we have to look forward to in the near future. Hopefully after the next few days we'll have even more.

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Enter SEBASTIAN
SEBASTIAN enters.
This is the air, that is the glorious sun.
This pearl she gave me, I do feel 't and see 't,
And though 'tis wonder that enwraps me thus,
Yet 'tis not madness. Where's Antonio, then?
5I could not find him at the Elephant.
Yet there he was, and there I found this credit,
That he did range the town to seek me out.
His counsel now might do me golden service.
For though my soul disputes well with my sense
10That this may be some error, but no madness,
Yet doth this accident and flood of fortune
So far exceed all instance, all discourse,
That I am ready to distrust mine eyes
And wrangle with my reason that persuades me
15To any other trust but that I am mad—
Or else the lady's mad. Yet if 'twere so,
She could not sway her house, command her followers,
Take and give back affairs and their dispatch
With such a smooth, discreet, and stable bearing
20As I perceive she does. There's something in 't
That is deceivable. But here the lady comes.
This is the air, that's the glorious sun. I can feel and see this pearl she gave me. I may be dazed and confused, but I'm not insane. Where's Antonio, then? I didn't find him at the Elephant. But he'd been there before me, and they told me he'd gone out looking for me. I could really use his advice right now. I feel sure this situation is due to some mistake, and I don't think I'm crazy. But this sudden flood of good luck is so unbelievable that I'm ready to distrust my own eyes and my own rational mind when they tell me I'm not insane—maybe the lady's insane. But if that were the case, she wouldn't be able to run her house, command her servants, listen to reports, make decisions, and take care of business as smoothly as she does. There's something going on that's not what it seems. But here she comes.
Enter OLIVIA and PRIEST
OLIVIA and a PRIEST enter.
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Welcome to Vietnam, Mr. President...
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I was wrong. I had been saying that it would be naïve to take too seriously presidential candidate Barack Obama's rhetoric regarding the need to escalate the war in Afghanistan.
And surely he would be fully briefed on the stupidity and deceit that left 58,000 U.S. troops -- not to mention 2 million to 3 million Vietnamese -- dead in Vietnam. I kept thinking to myself that when he got briefed on the history of Afghanistan and the oft-proven ability of Afghan "militants" to drive out foreign invaders -- from Alexander the Great, to the Persians, the Mongolians, Indians, British, Russians -- he would be sure to understand why they call mountainous Afghanistan the "graveyard of empires."
John Kennedy became President the year Obama was born. One cannot expect toddler-to-teenager Barack to remember much about the war in Vietnam, and it was probably too early for that searing, controversial experience to have found its way into the history texts as he was growing up.
But he was certainly old enough to absorb the fecklessness and brutality of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. And his instincts at that time were good enough to see through the Bush administration's duplicity.
And, with him now in the White House, surely some of his advisers would be able to brief him on both Vietnam and Iraq, and prevent him from making similar mistakes -- this time in Afghanistan. Or so I thought.
Deflecting an off-the-topic question at his March 24 press conference, Obama said, "I think that the last 64 days has been dominated by me trying to figure out how we're going to fix the economy. ... Right now the American people are judging me exactly the way I should be judged, and that is, are we taking the steps to improve liquidity in the financial markets, create jobs, get businesses to reopen, keep America safe?"
Okay, it is understandable that President Obama has been totally absorbed with the financial crisis. But surely, unlike predecessors supposedly unable to do two things at the same time, our resourceful new President certainly could find enough time to solicit advice from a wide circle, get a better grip on the huge stakes in Afghanistan, and arrive at sensible decisions. Or so I thought.
Getting Railroaded?
It proved to be a bit awkward Friday morning waiting for the President to appear... a half-hour late for his own presentation. Was he for some reason reluctant?
Perhaps he had a sense of being railroaded by his advisers. Perhaps he paused on learning that just a few hours earlier a soldier of the Afghan army shot dead two U.S. troops and wounded a third before killing himself, and that Taliban fighters had stormed an Afghan police post and killed 10 police earlier that morning.
Should he weave that somehow into his speech?
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Or maybe it was learning of the Taliban ambush of a police convoy which wounded seven other policemen; or the suicide bomber in the Afghan border area of Pakistan who demolished a mosque packed with hundreds of worshippers attending Friday prayers, killing some 50 and injuring scores more, according to preliminary reports.
Or, more simply, perhaps Obama's instincts told him he was about to do something he will regret. Maybe that's why he was embarrassingly late in coming to the podium.
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Spearheaded by US General Matthew Ridgway, a UN force launches a huge offensive against enemy combatants around Seoul. A week later the South Korean capital will be liberated from Communist control.
Operation Ripper, also known as the Fourth Battle of Seoul, was a United Nations military operation conceived by the commander US Eighth Army, General Matthew Ridgway, during the Korean War. The operation was intended to destroy as much as possible of the Chinese communist People's Volunteer Army and North Korean military around Seoul and the towns of Hongch'on, 50 miles east of Seoul, and Ch'unch'on, 15 miles further south. The operation also aimed to bring UN troops to the 38th parallel. It followed upon the heels of Operation Killer, an eight-day UN offensive that concluded February 28, to push Communist forces north of the Han River. The operation was launched on March 6, 1951 with the US I Corps and IX Corps on the west near Seoul and Hoengsong and US X Corps and ROK III Corps in the east, to reach "Line Idaho", an arc with its apex just south of the 38th Parallel in South Korea.


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by André Piet
Water baptism is traditionally a known phenomenon in Judaism. Ritual cleansing plays a large role in Jewish religious life. In Hebrews 6:1,2, a "doctrine of baptisms" (plural) is listed to the foundation of what the Hebrews had practiced for a very long time. "The baptism of repentance" that John preached at the Jordan River was, therefore, not a strange phenomenon, in itself, for Israel. Indeed, they baptized at all kinds of occasions. But there is a subtle difference. John did not preach that they should baptize themselves, but that they were to be baptized. Passive. He baptized others and to this he owes his nickname, "the Baptist". He declared:
And I was not aware of Him. But that He may be manifested to Israel, therefore came I, baptizing in water."
John's baptism is characterized by water. By baptizing others in water, he directed them to the One who would come and baptize in Spirit. To this truth, Scripture testifies in many places:
For I, indeed, am baptizing you in water for repentance, yet He Who is coming after me is stronger than I, Whose sandals I am not competent to bear. He will be baptizing you in holy spirit and fire.
I, indeed, baptize you in water, yet He shall be baptizing you in holy spirit."
… I, indeed, in water am baptizing you. Yet coming is One stronger than I, the thong of Whose sandals I am not competent to loose. He will be baptizing you in holy spirit and fire.
… He Who sends me to be baptizing in water, That One said to me, 'On Whomever you may be perceiving the spirit descending and remaining on Him, This is He Who is baptizing in holy spirit.'
John, indeed, baptizes in water, yet you shall be baptized in holy spirit after not many of these days."
Acts 1:5
Now I am reminded of the declaration of the Lord, as He said that John, indeed, baptizes in water, yet you shall be baptized in holy spirit.'
With regard to Israel, John baptized in water. His activity was a picture of Him Who would come after him and also would be baptizing. However, not in water, but in holy Spirit. Note: the so-called Christian baptism is no baptism in water, but a baptism in spirit. No ritual of human hands, but a spiritual reality. Wherever anyone believes in the risen Christ, he or she receives Spirit and life (John 7:39; Eph.1:13).
For in one Spirit also we all are baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free…
1Corinthians 12:13.
That is the "one baptism" (Ephesians 4:5).
Translation: Peter Feddema
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Description: Our coop has 5 hens: a Barred Rock, an Easter Egger, 2 Black Laced Wyndottes and a Black Australorp. Expecting some new additions of an Olive Egger, a Cuckoo Moran, Giant Blue Cochin and a bantam Spray Cochin. These will be housed in a separate smaller area. We also have a worm farm and a 525 gallon water cachement system. Our bee hive is almost ready to launch!
We also home brew kombucha and have scobys available for any who might like to make their own.


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Q: set resource in spring configuration file i am trying to config dozer in spring configuration. when using xml config it would be like
<bean class="org.dozer.spring.DozerBeanMapperFactoryBean">
    <property name="mappingFiles" value="classpath*:dozer/**/*.dzr.xml"/>
</bean>

how can i define resources in config file. i tried using ctx.getResource() but i cannot access to ApplicationContext in Configuration class.
i tried ContextRefreshedEvent and add resources from there, but still no luck. (afterPropertiesSet is already called and added mappings wont work)
public class ContextRefreshedEventBuilder extends ContextRefreshedEvent {
public ContextRefreshedEventBuilder(ApplicationContext ctx) {
    super(ctx);
    DozerBeanMapperFactoryBean mapper = ctx.getBean(DozerBeanMapperFactoryBean.class);
    try {
        mapper.setMappingFiles(ctx.getResources("classpath*:dozer/**/*.dzr.xml"));
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}
}

also tried to use ClassPathResource but can't find the correct way to
DozerBeanMapperFactoryBean mapper = new DozerBeanMapperFactoryBean();
mapper.setMappingFiles(new Resource[]{new ClassPathResource("classpath*:dozer/**/*.dzr.xml")});
return mapper;

how can i add ClassPathResource as mapping locations?
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@Bean
public DozerBeanMapperFactoryBean configDozer() throws IOException {
    DozerBeanMapperFactoryBean mapper = new DozerBeanMapperFactoryBean();
    Resource[] resources = new PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver().getResources("classpath*:dozer/**/*.dzr.xml");
    mapper.setMappingFiles(resources);
    return mapper;
}

A: You need to use a ResourcePatternResolver to translate classpath*:dozer/**/*.dzr.xml into a Resource[]. There are 2 main options you can use.

*

*Inject the ApplicationContext into your configuration class, cast it to a ResourcePatternResolver and use the getResources method. Al Spring default application context implementations implement the ResourcePatternResolver interface.

*Create a PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver with or without the earlier mentioned context.

*Use the ResourcePatternUtils with an injected ResourceLoader.

Use the ResourcePatternUtils
@Configuration
public class MyConfiguration {

    @Autowired
    private ResourceLoader resourceLoader;

    public DozerBeanMapperFactoryBean mapper() throws IOException {
        DozerBeanMapperFactoryBean mapper = new DozerBeanMapperFactoryBean();
        // ResourceLoader is allowed to be null when using the ResourceLoaderUtils.
        ResourcePatternResolver resolver = ResourceLoaderUtils.getResourcePatternResolver(resourceLoader);
        Resource[] mappingFiles = resolver.getResources("classpath*:dozer/**/*.dzr.xml");
        mapper.setMappingFiles(mappingFiles);
        return mapper;
    }
}

The advantages of this last approach is that you aren't tied to the PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver but just the interface. The utility class determines, based on the injected ResourceLoader what it does. One should prefer this way of loading resources.
Using ApplicationContext
@Configuration
public class MyConfiguration {

    @Autowired
    private ApplicationContext context;

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@emma-starr Yes, I saw some of those, and yes, I am so doing this!
@emma-starr Oh, I remember seeing this before, now that you tell me! Cool!
@emma-starr I've also printed out some pages now! If it turns out okay maybe I'll post in it on here.
@emma-starr Those are both lovely!
@emma-starr Ooh, I love your poems! Well done!
@evelyn I love it! Also, the art is great!


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Dr. Gary Miller (Abdul-Ahad Omar) Converto To Islam
A very important Christian missionary converted to Islam and became a major herald for Islam, he was a very active missionary and was very knowledgeable about the Bible. This man likes mathematics so much, that's why he likes logic. One day, he decided to read the Qur'an to try to find any mistakes that he might take advantage of while inviting Muslims to convert to Christianity. He expected the Qur'an to be an old book written 14 centuries ago, a book that talks about the desert and so on. He was amazed from what he found.
He discovered that this Book had what no other book in the world has. He expected to find some stories about the hard time that the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) had, like the death of his wife Khadijah (may Allah be pleased with her) or the death of his sons and daughters. However, he did not find anything like that. And what made him even more confused is that he found a full "Sura" (chapter) in the Qur'an named "Mary" that contains a lot of respect to Mary (peace be upon her) which is not the case even in the books written by Christians nor in their Bibles. He did not find a Sura named after "Fatimah"(the prophet's daughter) nor "Aishah" (the Prophet's wife), may Allah (God) be pleased with both of them. He also found that the name of Jesus (Peace Be Upon Him) was mentioned in the Qur'an 25 times while the name of "Muhammad" (Peace Be Upon Him) was mentioned only 4 times, so he became more confused. He started reading the Qur'an more thoroughly hoping to find a mistake but he was shocked when he read a great verse which is verse number 82 in Surat Al-Nisa'a (Women) that says:
"Do they not consider the Qur'an (with care)? Had it been from other than Allah, they would surely have found therein much discrepancy".
Dr Miller says about this verse: "One of the well known scientific principles is the principle of finding mistakes or looking for mistakes in a theory until it's proved to be right (Falsification Test). What's amazing is that the Holy Qur'an asks Muslims and non-muslims to try to find mistakes in this book and it tells them that they will never find any". He also says about this verse: "No writer in the world has the courage to write a book and say that it's empty of mistakes, but the Qur'an, on the contrary, tells you that it has no mistakes and asks you to try to find one and you won't find any."
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Another verse that Dr Miller reflected on for a long time is the verse number 30 in Surat "Al-Anbiya" (The Prophets):
" Do not the Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together (as one unit of Creation), before We clove them asunder? We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?"
He says: "This verse is exactly the subject of the scientific research that won the Noble Prize in 1973 and was about the theory of the "Great Explosion". According to this theory, the universe was the result of a great explosion that lead to the formation of the universe with its skies and planets.
Dr Miller says: "Now we come to what's amazing about the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and what's pretended about the devils helping him, God says:
"No evil ones have brought down this (Revelation), it would neither suit them nor would they be able (to produce it). Indeed they have been removed far from even (a chance of) hearing it." The Holy Qur'an, Chapter 26, Verses 210-212.
"When thou does read the Qur'an, seek Allah's protection from Satan the Rejected One" The Holy Qur'an, Chapter 16, Verse 98.
You see? Can this be the devil's way to write a book? how can he write a book then tells you to ask God for protection from this devil before reading that book? Those are miraculous verses in this miraculous book! and has a logical answer to those who pretend that it's from the devil".
And among the stories that amazed Dr Miller is the story of the Prophet(PBUH) with Abu-Lahab. Dr Miller says: "This man (Abu Lahab) used to hate Islam so much that he would go after the Prophet wherever he goes to humiliate him. If he saw the prophet talking to strangers, he used to wait till he finishes and then ask them: What did Muhammad tell you? If he said it's white then it's in reality black and if he said it's night then it's day. He meant to falsify all what the prophet says and to make people suspicious about it. And 10 years before the death of Abu Lahab, a Sura was inspired to the prophet, named "Al-Masad". This sura tells that Abu Lahab will go to hell, in other words, it says that Abu Lahab will not convert to Islam. During 10 years, Abu Lahab could have said: "Muhammad is saying that I will not become a Muslim and that I will go to the hell fire, but I'm telling you now that I want to convert to Islam and become a Muslim. What do you think about Muhammad now? Is he saying the truth or no? Does his inspiration come from God?". But Abu Lahab did not do that at all although he was disobeying the prophet in all matters, but not in this one. In other words, it was as if the prophet(PBUH) was giving Abu Lahab a chance to prove him wrong! But he did not do that during 10 whole years! he did not convert to Islam and did not even pretend to be a Muslim!! Throughout 10 years, he had the chance to destroy Islam in one minute! But this did not happen because those are not the words of Muhammad (PBUH) but the words of God Who knows what's hidden and knows that Abu Lahab will not become a Muslim.
How can the prophet (PBUH) know that Abu Lahab will prove what is said in that Sura if this was not inspiration from Allah? How can he be sure throughout 10 whole years that what he has (the Qur'an) is true if he did not know that it's inspiration from Allah?? For a person to take such a risky challenge, this has only one meaning: that this is inspiration from God.
"Perish the hands of the Father of Flame (Abu Lahab)! perish he! No profit to him from all his wealth, and all his gains! Burnt soon will he be in a Fire of blazing Flame! His wife shall carry the (crackling) wood; As fuel! A twisted rope of palm-leaf fibre round her (own) neck!" The Holy Qur'an, Chapter 111.
Dr Miller says about a verse that amazed him: One of the miracles in the Qur'an is challenging the future with things that humans cannot predict and to which the "Falsification Test" applies, this test consists of looking for mistakes until the thing that is being tested is proved to be right. For example, let's see what the Qur'an said about the relation between Muslims and Jews. Qur'an says that Jews are the major enemies for Muslims and this is true until now as the main enemy for Muslims are the Jews.
Dr Miller continues: This is considered a great challenge since the Jews have the chance to ruin Islam simply by treating Muslims in a friendly way for few years and then say: here we are treating you as friends and the Qur'an says that we are your enemies, the Qur'an must be wrong then! But this did not happen during 1400 years!! and it will never happen because those are the words of The One who knows the unseen (God) and not the words of humans.
Dr Miller continues: Can you see how the verse that talks about the enmity between Muslims and Jews constitutes a challenge to the human mind?
"Strongest among men in enmity to the Believers wilt thou find the Jews and Pagans; and nearest among them in love to the Believers wilt thou find those who say, "We are Christians": because amongst these are men devoted to learning and men who have renounced the world, and they are not arrogant. And when they listen to the revelation received by the Messenger, thou wilt see their eyes overflowing with tears, for they recognize the truth: they pray: "Our Lord! We believe; write us down among the witnesses" The Holy Qur'an, Chapter 5, Verses 82-84.
This verse applies to Dr Miller as he was a Christian but when he knew the truth, he believed and converted to Islam and became a herald. May Allah support him.
Dr Miller says about the unique style of the Qur'an that he finds wonderful: No doubt there is something unique and amazing in Qur'an that is not present anywhere else, as the Qur'an gives you a specific information and tells you that you did not know this before. For example:
"This is part of the tidings of the things unseen, which We reveal unto thee (O Prophet!) by inspiration: thou was not with them when they cast lots with arrows, as to which of them should be charged with the care of Maryam: nor was thou with them when they disputed (the point)" The Holy Qur'an, Chapter 3, Verse 44.
"Such are some of the stories of the Unseen, which We have revealed unto thee: before this, neither thou nor thy People knew them. So persevere patiently: for the End is for those who are righteous" The Holy Qur'an, Chapter 11, Verse 49.
"Such is one of the stories of what happened unseen, which We reveal by inspiration unto thee: nor was thou (present) with them when they concerted their plans together in the process of weaving their plots" The Holy Qur'an, Chapter 12, Verse 102.
Dr Miller continues: "No other holy book uses this style, all the other books consist of information that tells you where this information came from. For example, when the Holy Bible talks about the stories of the ancient nations, it tells you that a this King lived in a this place and a that leader fought in that battle, and that a certain person had a number of kids and their names are. But this book (Bible) always tells you that if you want to know more, you can read a certain book since that information came from that book".
Dr Garry Miller continues: "This is in contrary to the Qur'an which gives you the information and tells you that it's new!! And what's amazing is that the people of Mecca at that time (time of inspiration of those verses) used to hear those verses and the challenge that the information in those verses was new and was not known by Muhammad (PBUH) nor by his people at that time, and despite that, they never said: We know this and it is not new, and they did not say: We know where Muhammad came from with those verses. This never happened, but what happened is that nobody dared to say that he was lying to them because those was really new information, not coming from the human mind but from Allah who knows the unseen in the past, the present and the future".
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Econocom UK appoints Frances Weston as Managing Director
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London, March 12th 2020 – The UK division of the Econocom Group, a major European digital services provider with over 40 years' experience, has appointed Frances Weston (nee Kinloch) as its new UK Managing Director. This appointment cements the strategic role of the group's UK entity and will strengthen its position as a leading provider of financing and digital-as-a-service solutions to businesses (digital-as-a-service is a delivery model in which IT solutions (hardware, software and services) are bundled and provided on a subscription-basis).
Frances Weston brings with her 15 years' experience in the banking industry, most recently in the position of Director - Head of UK & Offshore Corporate Investments at Barclays. Frances Weston joined Barclays in 2011, having previously spent time at Scotia Capital and Bloomberg Tradebook. Thanks to her extensive experience within the finance industry, Frances Weston is also the Head of EMEA Advisory Council to the Board of 100 Women in Finance.
In the role of Managing Director for Econocom UK, Frances Weston will focus on achieving UK's growth ambitions, rolling out its strategic plan and delivering as-a-service solutions. Frances Weston's experience also lends itself to further strengthening Econocom's relationships with manufacturers and building partnerships within the banking sector. Frances Weston's arrival comes as Chris Labrey leaves the Econocom Group after 22 years to pursue new adventures.
Frances Weston says: "I'm thrilled to have joined Econocom UK at such an important time for the company and aim to make Econocom the go-to digital transformation expert in the UK. Having spent the majority of my career in wealth management, investment and corporate banking, I was wanting to make a change and focus more on corporate technology yet still retain and use my banking expertise. Econocom was the perfect fit."
Laurent Caparros, Country Manager Northern and Eastern Europe, North America, adds: "We are delighted to have Frances onboard to manage our UK entity. Frances is very commercially astute and has a very successful track record of building senior-level relationships in the c-suite including in finance and treasury. With our solid relationships with funders, tech innovators, brokers and banks, we have a lot to offer and Frances will be integral to expanding our current customer reach and deploying as-a-service solutions, as the UK plays an increasingly integral strategic role in Econocom's operations."


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by Saul – Cub reporter on March 15, 2009
The most senior Labour Party official in Britain was caught up in a bizarre racism row last night after he was accused of insulting people who speak with a Scottish accent.
A formal complaint of racism was made against Labour General Secretary Ray Collins when he asked for a 'translation' of comments made by a man from Glasgow.
It would appear that I am also racist, when watching Rab C Nesbitt I need to put on subtitles. The same would apply to some people watching Auf Wiedersehn Pet.
The Racism card is being played too often at the moment. What is racist about this?
Are people so sensitive about their regional accents. When I get through to a call centre in Mumbai and cannot understand the person on the line does that also make me a racist?
What next, state funded elocution lessons?
You couldn't make it up.
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Coco March 15, 2009 at 17:59
Can anybody understand Lorraine Kelly? By the time I have got past the false smile and the horrible grimaces, I can't understand a bloody word!
When she starts all the horrible screeching and shrieking my cats run upstairs and hide in the wardrobes.
Gloria Smudd March 15, 2009 at 18:16
She says "Tha's trroo, vairy trrroo" rather a lot.
Poor Ray Collins! This is really rotten and just an excuse and take another swipe at Labour.
I know what he means though! I have been trying to understand Gerry McCann for nearly two years! Whatever it is I think he said ……….. I have obviously misheard ………….. And then when I listen to it again …………… it sounds like he is telling a different story.
It's not just the Scots though ………… It happens to me with certain Liverpudlians ………….. like Gerry's wife for instance! I think she has said one thing and then I listen again ………… and yeah! You guessed it …………….. completely different!
I am with you on this General Sting-Ray! Get your secretary to tell her secretary that you need another secretary to sit with the Scots regularly and find out what they are trying to tell the English! They want more tax on chocolate today!
I think we should tax a few Scots for having big gobs and giving their country bad Press!
Let us have a Select Committee For Gobby Scots Without Substance.
I wonder what that would look like on telly!
I've never heard her quite so mean with the vowels as that Gloria!
I only hear , Thaaaat's vaiyery vayyery trewwooohh!
Probably the only woman to do with a triphthong with 'a'. I am training my telly to switch off if ever Boyzone or Take That come on LK Today because my ears ring all day and my teeth feel like I have been eating raw lemons.
We must admit one thing about getting through to Mumbai though Saul.
At least they sound like they want to help and they are always polite. Not like the morons I get on the phone when I ring my utility providers in the UK.
The Mumbai guys and gals always wish me a good day and send me away with blessings and invitations to call back with their full name and extension numbers ………….. and ask me to comment on their efficiency.
In the UK you end up feeling like you should send somebody a tip or a cheque if they are even half helpful ……………. And always put the phone down if you want to speak to a manager! Grrrrr!
Blink March 15, 2009 at 18:38
aye dunno warallthefussisabout la, noworramean, ay? cos, looookla, itslikedis, wenigrewup in dekapitolofdenorthandwalesaneyeland yercuddnt understandanyoneanyhowanyway yerjusgorronwithi andedguditwastoo
But the Northerners and Welsh do a lot of this without even moving their lips Blink! At least Northerners and the Welsh don't treat the nation to a gum inspection!
Nor do Northerners and the Welsh invade my bedroom every morning with two rows of little teeth gnashing away as they fight their way through all the lip-gloss.
I saw the film 'Piranha' when I was a child ………….. Lorraine Kelly gives me flash-backs like I never had from acid-tabs!
"Nor do Northerners and the Welsh invade my bedroom every morning….."
itcanbearranged, like, yernowarramean….tinkcilla,arecillaand bereconciled….
janes March 15, 2009 at 19:34
Even worse than most Scottish accents is Tyne & Wear accents – there's more chance of understanding them if you're Norwegian.
Send me some stunning Welsh Guards and Sean Bean then ……….. if you would please Blink! And a case of Scotch and a vegetarian haggis!
Blink! Just Gordie's head in the case please! Not all the fat that hangs off it!
Janes ………….. They are easier to trick into bed when they are like that!
I never thought anyone from Tyne & Wear needed to be tricked into bed.
However, Hard Rock Cafe is a good place to take anyone who can't speak English or who needs subtitles. And the food is good.
Janes ………… Oh my God! You have just done the same thing as General Sting-Ray! Crumbs! The Tyne and Wear Council will have to take us to Court for errrrrr …………… something! ………… Why does everybody sue for everything these days? What is wrong with giving somebody a good hiding or burning their house down like in the old days?
Why is it always about the money??? Much easier to run somebody over in a car with false plates on or cause a crash in a Parisian tunnel.
Where has this country's imagination got to?
Bring it back! ………….. Bloody sueing! Tut! The Clan have started this caper! The Clan and ………….. errrrr ………… Catherine Zeta Jones! That's who!
………… And Jeffrey Archer!
………… Who went to a prison …………. in the end …………… For saying that he hadn't done something …………. that he had done.
In the old days …………. when the Press got a story …………. ans had the balls to print it ………….life was much less complicated in the UK.
Karen March 16, 2009 at 18:31
I remember at school being taught that no British accents are incomprehensible and it's only our prejudice against the lower classes and non R.P. speech that means we think we can't understand it.
So, according to the old leftie ideology (it was a very old, very Glaswegian teacher) it was racism (or regionalism – does anyone use that in the media – again – we got taught it in school). Also some scientific survey backed the findings up.
I myself get hassled all the time because my accent is too English.
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Is There A Hope For Laundry-Folding Robots?
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The promising thing about laundry-folding robots is that they target a job that everybody does frequently, and nobody really likes. But to be successful in robotics, especially in consumer robotics, you have to be both affordable and reliable, and robots are, still, generally awful at those things. Laundroid, a robotic system that could ingest wads of laundry and somehow spit out neatly folded clothes, put on a few demos at CES over the past few years, but the Japanese company behind it just announced bankruptcy—probably because the robot didn't work all the time, and would likely have been absurdly expensive.
Laundroid may not have been a success, but does that mean that other laundry-folding robots, most notably Foldimate, are doomed as well? Of course it doesn't, although I'm not particularly optimistic.
The original Laundroid concept was to combine washing clothes, drying clothes, ironing clothes, and folding clothes into one single (magical?) system that was fully autonomous. That would have been amazing, even if it did prove to be impossible, but Landroid had to scale back to a dedicated folding machine in 2018. And as it turns out, even that ended up being too complex to save the company.
This leaves Foldimate as the only upcoming commercial laundry robot/system:
It takes a little bit less skill to use Foldimate than to do it by hand, I guess, but I'm not sure that the robot actually speeds up the process, and it's selective about the folding that it does. Pants, for example, they need to be correctly oriented and folded in half lengthwise before Foldimate will accept them, which is most of the folding work done by you before the robot even gets involved. It's a bit cleverer with shirts, but you still need to stand there and feed each item into the robot in just the right way. The question, then, is if the robot doesn't make the folding process significantly faster or significantly better and requires a human to be actively engaged the whole time, why are people going to buy one?
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My concern is that Foldimate is one of those robotics products that it's very easy for people to get excited about until it comes time to commit to actually buying one. We've seen this before; a company will demo a robot and get a lot of positive feedback from potential consumers: "It folds my laundry? Of course I want one of those!" But when that same consumer has to actually put in their credit card info and pay nearly $1,000 for a robot that does a thing that they already know how to do without saving them much in the way of time or effort, they may feel differently.
Robots like Foldimate (that only provide an incremental benefit at best) may be more realistic in places where their utilization rates are high and the cost can be spread out, like laundromats as opposed to homes. Even so, it's hard to avoid the fact that the most successful consumer robots are able to completely replace humans at specific tasks, and that seems to be where the value in robotics is. My Roomba, and for that matter my washing machine, dryer, and dishwasher all do a very good job at what they do, and (with a minimal amount of tending before or after) while they're hard at work I can totally ignore them and be doing something else.
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From that perspective, the gold standard of robotic laundry folding is still UC Berkeley's PR2, which, as of 2014, could do most of a laundry cycle autonomously.
PR2 was very, very slow at this, but who cares? You don't have to be there while it does it. If it takes the robot 8 hours to wash and fold a single load of laundry, that's fine if it just runs while you're away at work. The bigger problem is that you can't buy a PR2, even if you could buy a PR2 it would cost you US $400,000, and that it's a research project that would almost certainly not work even a little bit if you plonked it in front of your washing machine and pressed the go button.
I hope Foldimate manages to make a successful product—finding a commercial use case for robotics is hard, and at the very least, the interest that has been shown in Foldimate so far suggests that they're onto something with some value. We'll see what happens when the robot goes up for pre-order later this year.
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Government Evicts Nomadic Communities in Jammu Without Notice or Rehabilitation
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Rabiya Shafiq hails from Rajouri, a district in the Jammu region of J&K. She has been a part of the Video Volunteers community since July 2017 but has been an activist for quite some time in the social development movement in Rajouri. After graduating with a diploma in journalism and tourism, she pursued a course in computers and fashion design. She has a long list of varied interests that span from photography to reading books (preferably historical novels) to gardening. She also works for several institutions and non-governmental organisations as a correspondent, like Valley Online and Aakaar. As a Community…
The Forest Right Act of 2006 does not apply to Jammu and Kashmir, making nomadic communities in the state vulnerable to alienation, eviction and violence.
"We have lived here for 500 years. Our home was razed to the ground by the government in 2017. We rear cattle for a living, the government has also taken away our grazing land. Where will we go now?", asks Satar Khan, a resident of Sidhra, Jammu and Kashmir.
The demolition drive also rendered 54 other families in Sidhra homeless. All the families belong to the nomadic Gujjar and Bakarwal communities, who mostly live in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir.
According to the 2011 census, Scheduled Tribes, of which Gujjars and Bakarwals constitute a sizeable population, make up almost 12 percent of the population of the state. Although conventionally nomadic and forest dwelling communities, over the years they have had to take to other forms of settlement and livelihood because of restricted access to forest and grazing land.
The last census described Gujjars and Bakarwals as marginalised communities deserving special attention from the Centre, urging activists to demand Primitive Tribal Group status for them. A spate of incidents involving forced evictions and violence also confirmed the mainstream social and political attitude towards the communities.
In January 2018, this hateful attitude manifested in its worst form, in the gang rape of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua, to teach her community a 'lesson'. The rape was not an isolated incident of sexual violence but an assertion of power and identity over a marginalised community. It was a crime perpetrated to label the community as outsiders and encroachers, and what makes it worse is that when extremist group Hindu Ekta Manch rallied in support of the perpetrators, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, including the district president of Kathua, joined the rally in support. This is the kind of hostility and insecurity that the community lives with.
Both Gujjar and Bakarwal communities are categorised as Scheduled Tribes but not all benefits extend to them as many laws do not apply to Jammu and Kashmir, owing to its special status under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution. In the context of their land rights and rights of residence, the main legal roadblock is that the Forest Rights Act of 2006 (FRA) does not apply to the state. The FRA gives communities who traditionally live and depend on the forest right to land within the forest as well as rights over forest resources like water and minor forest produce. Moreover, it makes provisions for the availability of crucial facilities like education and healthcare within the forest area.
In the absence of FRA, communities like the Gujjars and Bakarwals have no legal respite. In February 2018, then Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti passed an order banning the eviction of nomadic communities under the pretext of anti-encroachment drives without approval from the Tribal Affairs Department. Mufti said that no evictions could take place till the state passed a Tribal Policy. But the state government was dissolved in June 2018, leading to an impasse.
"Why did the government give us electricity and water here when they were going to evict us?" asks Manzoor Ahmad, pointing to uprooted government infrastructure that serve as signs that the community was not living on the land as encroachers.
Jammu and Kashmir got a dedicated Department of Tribal Affairs in 2016 but the state did not see any breakthrough in forest rights. The Jammu and Kashmir Forest Act of 1987 is the only governing forest law in the state and it entrusts the Forest Department with the protection of forests, giving no rights or concessions to forest-dwelling communities. Many activists argue for the extension of the landmark Forest Rights Act of 2006 Act to Jammu and Kashmir, while others advocate for a new state-specific forest law that will give primacy to the particularities of the state. The former would require the Assembly to pass the law and the latter would require the Department of Tribal Affairs to draft a policy; with the current political situation, neither is imminent.
The BJP, which was in power through its coalition with the People's Democratic Party until four months ago, is opposed to the extension of FRA in Jammu and Kashmir. Forest rights was a bone of contention within the ruling coalition and Lal Singh, the BJP minister in-charge of forests, argued that the state's forests are safe only because of the special status. Interestingly, the party invokes the state's special status under Article 370 to keep FRA out, whereas they want to overturn this very special status in the larger picture.
Meanwhile, the 55 families in Sidhra and many others in other parts of Jammu live a life of uncertainty. The lack of a law does not mean that the state can use force and destroy settlements without any warning or a comprehensive rehabilitation plans.
"We appeal to the government to not harass us, and to help us rebuild our homes and lives on the land we were living on." says Qadeer Khan, hoping that his children live in a secure environment and receive an education.
Video by Community Correspondent Rabiya Shafiq
Posted in: Jammu & Kashmir, Forced Evictions
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HomeIndiaWhy the cat outside your door might be feral
Why the cat outside your door might be feral
We complete our roll call of small wildcats with these four: The leopard cat is a beautiful somewhat elongated looking little wildcat (about the size of a domestic cat), with a golden-yellow coat (may vary from reddish brown to sandy, depending on where it hails from) splotched with black. This one is to be found all over the country (and the entire Southeast Asia) in diverse habitats: rainforests, plantations, the Himalayan foothills and even up to 4,000 m above sea level, deciduous and conifer forests.
Apparently, it is one of the most tolerant of human habitation and our environmentally destructive ways. In fact, kittens are often found in outlying rural gardens. The little things are ferocious and difficult to tame. However, EP Gee, who in the 1950s-'60s wrote extensively on Indian wildlife, noted that if raised properly, leopard cats could make for wonderful pets, and, could even be taught how to use the toilet properly (infra dig for any wildcat)! This little spitfire was apparently the first cat to be domesticated in China 2000 years ago. Mostly it's a nocturnal hunter and loves stalking up in the canopy, gunning for small mammals, birds, reptiles and insects. Unlike its crueler compatriots, the leopard cat does not play cat-and-mouse with its prey, no tossing and torturing, but killing instantly with a single bite. Its domestic-cat-like mew may mislead people into believing it is easily tameable. The poultry thief has allegedly been kept by villagers for rodent control! In China, it is hunted for its beautiful coat. Between 1984-'89, skins of as many as 200,000 were exported, and Japan imported 50,000 skins in 1989. In spite of this, it's listed as "Of Least Concern" in the IUCN Red List.
The medium-sized golden cat (the size of a Golden Retriever) found in north-east India, southern China and Southeast Asia is considered "near threatened", with a declining population. The reason: hunting and habitat destruction, pet trade and poaching for its coat. China and Myanmar are the chief culprits behind this and now the golden cat is being captive-bred in European zoos. Considered a delicacy, it is eaten by tribesmen in Bangladesh and it is believed that carrying a single golden cat hair will keep you safe from tigers! The handsome cat may be reddish-brown, fawn or tan, is a good climber. Thought to be nocturnal, it takes down birds, hares, reptiles and even small mammals as the muntjac, baby sambhar and goral. It's killing goats, sheep and calves would've made it unpopular with herdsmen, notes Gee.
Gee fondly mentions a tiny golden cat kitten he once rescued from a market in Garo Assam. The kitten, called Tishi, grew very tame and would come to him when called after spending the day out in the surrounding jungle. It was gentle with him while remaining a ferocious wildcat when out hunting. Eventually, Gee had to give Tishi to the London Zoo as he feared villagers would kill it as it grew bigger and more ferocious, and there was no way to rehabilitate it in the wild in India in those days. In captivity, golden cats can live to 20 years.
In spite of, or because of, the fact that the caracal specialises in leaping vertically 10-12 ft in the air from a standing position to bat down flying birds, this one is my personal favourite. Though considered of "Least Concern" by the IUCN Red Book, it's been recently declared as critically endangered in India, with less than 200 animals in Kutch and Rajasthan. It's doing well enough elsewhere in the world — chiefly Africa. It's a medium-sized chunky, sand-coloured wildcat, whose powerful hind legs are longer than its forelegs (to power that prodigious leap) and its triangular tufted ears do more than just hear. Beautifully camouflaged in its sandy or rocky habitat, the caracal will creep up to a waterhole where partridge or sand grouse will have come to drink. The 20 muscles in each ear enable them to twist and turn independently (to pinpoint the target), and, along with it, the tufts of hair on the top, twirl and turn. This attracts the curiosity of the birds who come closer and then the caracal leaps, batting its target down with its front paws. The caracal will also take small mammals, reptiles and even livestock. In the days of the maharajas, it was used for coursing and a betting game evolved around how many pigeons the caracal could take down in a single strike. Hence, the phrase — "cat among the pigeons"! Nocturnal and secretive, the caracal breeds throughout the year (one to six kittens) and, in captivity, may live for 16 years.
A lot of controversy swirls around what exactly is a feral cat: a domestic cat first becoming a stray and then progressing to feral? They are basically domestic cats that usually will have nothing to do with human beings (some might accept regular feeding). They hunt independently, killing 1-2 billion birds and 6-22 billion small animals every year in the US alone and are considered a major threat to urban wildlife by conservationists. Cats introduced to new places (either as stowaways or taken deliberately) especially to islands have often been responsible for the extinction of local (and usually endemic) fauna.
(Ranjit Lal is an author, environmentalist and bird watcher)
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By Livia Lo Presti, July 16, 2021
There are two more Sportfund projects I'd like to translate into English: Growing Up With Sport and Siblings in Sport. This latter, in particular, is intended as a sign of sincere gratitude to all sisters and brothers and an instrument with which to promote the inalienable social function of sport.
With Sportfund I feel I've acquired new "siblings", inclusive to the extent that they have invited me to the Dolomites of Brenta on 24th and 25th July to climb during Brenta Open, an event promoted by the Dolomiti Open Association, which believes in mountains that are inclusive, open to all, where the boundaries defining disability are constantly shifting.
Sportfund, too, is promoting this event, which is by now one of the most eagerly awaited in Trentino and I'll have the good fortune to be able to climb with my "siblings" on the extraordinary turrets, bell-towers and spires that are a UNESCO World Heritage.
In the company of friends and clinking quickdraws, I will also have the chance to hear musicians playing wind instruments on the peaks, disseminating music among the rocky mountain faces.
I conclude by quoting the saxophonist Michele Selva who states, in the Podcast Dolomiti PlaceToBe, that "music is a communication that needs no translation".
See you on the peak!
Siblings in sport
Fraternal views on disability
Photographs by Agata Segafredo.
Presentation by Alberto Benchimol.
In the world of sports, the way society perceives disability is changing rapidly. So fast that the lexicon is unable to keep pace and to define unambiguously a person who is not considered 'normal'. Every time we venture to create a term to be shared, words stumble.
The perception of an individual's psychophysical potential is also evolving rapidly, and he/she is capable, especially in difficult situations, of adopting ever new and effective functional strategies, while the boundaries between what was thought impossible and what, through technology and specialized teaching, becomes a tangible everyday achievement are blurring. The implications are powerful: through sports and physical games, expressive and relational skills are enhanced and approaches to learning and developing individual talent are modified.
The disabled person who plays sport today is in the media spotlight because he or she carries a new message and is a positive example that quickly infects younger generations in particular. Parents are close to the spotlight. More in the background, often in the shadows, are the sisters and brothers, alongside a presence that can be all-consuming and committed to supporting their aspirations and dreams over time. Protecting their future, turning limitations into a resource for the community. An additional challenge to their lives that anchors itself in brotherly looks.
"Sibling" allows us to embrace, in a single word, both the female and male genders. Although the term literally means sister and brother, Sportfund has attributed to it the specific meaning of "sister or brother of a person with a disability", allowing a broader view of the whole family. The gazes and actions of siblings grasp the opportunities offered by life. This is a universe that we propose to take a closer look at, through the photographs of participants in Sportfund's sporting activities and other initiatives.
SIBLINGS IN SPORT wishes to be a sign of sincere gratitude to all sisters and brothers and a means of promoting the indispensable social function of sport.
GROWING UP WITH SPORT
CHIARA, CRISTINA and FRANCESCO SEGAFREDO
The idea of exploring the theme of sporting activities carried out by people with disabilities together with their brothers and sisters immediately attracted our attention and sincere participation.
The project seemed to us to be truly innovative, original and also very involving. Thanks to a mum and dad who are keen sportspeople, our education was mapped out since our childhood with the combination of study and sport and shared with the whole family.
As is often the case, certain family habits may seem like normal activities to children, and only when they grow up do they become aware of what an important gift they have received: in our case, in particular, the commitment to sport has helped us to deepen and refine both our relationships with each other and our social relations outside the family.
Being aware of this privilege has naturally led us to try to reciprocate the gift, to commit ourselves to sharing the benefits of sport, to share our experiences, to support those in difficult situations.
It is from this context that Essse Caffè's support arose for Sportfund's passionate activities for the promotion of sports for the disabled. This beneficial collaboration led to our direct involvement in the SIBLINGS IN SPORT exhibition, which is held in the original coffee shop, founded by our grandfather Gaspare, accompanied by Agata's involving photos.
Essse Caffè is forty years old: the third and fourth generations of the family intend to share this milestone with the young people and educators of Sportfund and to bear testimony, with this initiative, to the fundamental educational values of solidarity and sport.
AGATA SEGAFREDO
When the first sentence enunciated is "look at that", then the elusive and perpetually changing "that" and the need to share it with the world will be the subject of one's life. Studying medicine teaches anatomy, fashion teaches awareness of beauty, art teaches aesthetics, but the joy of sharing the transcendence one understands is not taught. Photography is merely the vehicle with which to show it. And so it is that, time after time, subject after subject, the need to show that essence is always there, in every aspect of life, every breath, every photograph.
Agata Segafredo is an Italo-Argentine artist who has exhibited works in several countries around the world. Her work can currently be seen in exhibitions in Italy and the United States.
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Oh no! Not another free speech case at UW!
Yea, oh my sisters and my brothers, ye shall always have them with you!
Pasted in below is a statement published as part of a press release by the University. I signed it, along with six or seven other people, but it was written by Donald Downs.
Anyway, here it is:
The Barrett Case and Academic Freedom at Wisconsin
By now, many people have heard about the recent academic freedom conflict at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. On July 11, Provost Patrick Farrell refused to fire Kevin Barrett, who is contracted to teach a course in the fall on Islam, Religion and Culture. Farrell's decision has caused uproar because Barrett is a proponent of a bizarre conspiracy theory: that the attacks on America on September 11, 2001 were perpetrated not by jihadist terrorists, but rather by the government of the United States. That's right: we did it to ourselves. When Barrett's dedication to this theory became known, numerous people, including some state politicians, issued strident calls for Barrett's immediate termination.
The main argument against retaining Barrett is that anyone who believes in this conspiracy lacks the competence to teach a class at a major university. But when the dust settles, some fundamental principles of academic freedom support the Provost's decision.
First, Farrell's investigation of Barrett's course and previous lecturing experience indicated that Barrett, regardless of his beliefs concerning 9/11, would teach the course responsibly, and that students had rated him a decent teacher. If the relevant department (in this case, Languages and Cultures of Asia) had decided against offering Barrett the one course contract in the first place because of its assessment of his scholarship and teaching, that would have been the department's choice to make, based on its own academic judgment. But that is not the situation that we confront.
Second, firing Barrett from his one course contract for this fall in the face of political pressure would set a bad precedent. Indeed, it would constitute the first time in anyone's memory that the University fired an instructor—hired by a department through the normal channels—before the termination of his contract because of political pressures exerted on account of the instructor's views. Even those who agree with Barrett's strongest critics on substantive grounds should pause before opening this Pandora's Box. Not allowing Barrett to teach according to the limited terms of his contract would mean that members of the media and legislature could dictate who teaches and who gets fired based upon these outsiders' agreement or disagreement with the conclusions certain teachers reach. Though universities are hardly infallible in making their hiring decisions, such a precedent would seriously compromise the wide open pursuit of truth for which the University properly stands.
Conservatives in the legislature need to remember that the principle of academic freedom protects the right as well as the left. And for most of the last fifteen years, it is the right that has needed protection. During the 1990s, Wisconsin and many other schools enacted speech codes and related policies that they applied almost exclusively against conservatives who expressed ideas that conflicted with the agendas of political correctness. In reaction to these threats to academic freedom and free speech, several faculty members and students at Wisconsin forged a movement that has aggressively and successfully defended academic freedom across the board. Our movement (based on the independent Committee for Academic Freedom and Rights) was instrumental in causing the demise of the faculty speech code in 1999, and in defending the rights of several individuals who had run afoul of the dictates of political correctness. We have also aggressively supported the conservative Badger Herald several times when that paper came under attack for publishing cartoons deemed politically incorrect. Last spring, for example, we took a strong stand defending the Herald's right to publish one of the notorious cartoons of Mohammed that had generated such controversy in Europe—a stance backed up by Chancellor John Wiley, who has striven to defend academic freedom and free speech of both the right and the left since he became Chancellor in 2000.
In thinking about Provost Farrell's decision, we should keep in mind the words of Alexander Meiklejohn, the famous philosopher of free speech, citizenship, and education who founded the Integrated Liberal Studies program at Wisconsin. "To be afraid of an idea—any idea—is to be unfit for self-government." In the long run, defending Barrett's right to teach this one course is necessary if we want to defend something that is a lot more important than this one conspiracy theorist.
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Independence Day Message
The following essay was circulating the internet this July Fourth.
I cannot vouch for the scholarship in it, but it does pack a whollop, so I'm entering it below:
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died.
Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.
Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured.
Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
What kind of men were they?
Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists.Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated, but they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, sa! w his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.
At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.
John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished.
Some of us take these liberties so much for granted, but we shouldn't. So, take a few minutes while enjoying your 4th of July holiday and silently thank these patriots. It's not much to ask for the price they paid.
Remember: freedom is never free!


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Q: javascript calculator 5 + 5 = 55? Hey I made a javascript calculator and want the to try 5 + 5 it give me 55 other then 10 ? How ever if I try 5 / 5 it give me 1 fine if i try 5 - 5 it gives me 0 fine and same with times i don't under stand the problem with my code also want to  try console.log it doesn't work so I use document.write
this is my code
var Plus = function()
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var Minus = function()
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A: N1 and N2 are strings, not numbers. Adding two strings together concatenates them, which is what your "error" is.
You need to parse them into numbers:
var N1 = Number(prompt("Enter first number"));

A: The reason this works for other operators but not plus is because "a" + "b" = "ab".
That said, you're adding strings. So "5" + "5" = "55"
If you first convert them to integers, it should fix this.
var sum = (parseInt(N1,10) + parseInt(N2,10));

A: Prompt gets you the string format of input , you need convert it into integer for integer add operation.


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FATHER OF MANY CHAMPIONS INSPITE FEW LITTERS.
HE IS NOW A VETERAN 11 YEARS OLD, JUST ENJOYS LIFE FULL OUT.


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Kaidy Kaasiku (* 3. Oktober 2001 in Tallinn) ist eine estnische Skilangläuferin.

Werdegang
Kaasiku nahm von 2016 bis 2020 vorwiegend an Juniorenrennen teil. Bei den Junioren-Skiweltmeisterschaften 2018 in Goms belegte sie den 13. Platz mit der Staffel und bei den Junioren-Skiweltmeisterschaften 2019 in Lahti den 57. Rang über 5 km Freistil. Im Januar 2018 wurde sie estnische Juniorenmeisterin im Skiathlon. Beim Europäischen Olympischen Winter-Jugendfestival 2019 in Sarajevo kam sie auf den 35. Platz über 7,5 km klassisch, auf den 16. Rang über 5 km Freistil und auf den achten Platz im Sprint. Nachdem sie zu Beginn der Saison 2019/20 beim Scandinavian-Cup in Vuokatti erstmals im Continental-Cup startete, holte sie beim Balkan-Cup drei Siege und einen dritten Platz. Ihre besten Platzierungen bei den U23-Weltmeisterschaften 2020 in Oberwiesenthal waren der 26. Platz im 15-km-Massenstartrennen und der 12. Rang mit der Staffel. Im Januar 2021 wurde sie bei den estnischen Meisterschaften in Mammaste Zweite hinter ihrer Zwillingsschwester Keidy über 10 km Freistil und debütierte in Lahti im Skilanglauf-Weltcup. Dort holte sie mit dem zehnten Platz in der Staffel ihre ersten Weltcuppunkte. Ihre besten Ergebnisse bei den U23-Weltmeisterschaften 2021 in Vuokatti waren der 17. Platz über 5 km Freistil und der siebte Rang mit der Staffel. Beim Saisonhöhepunkt, den Nordischen Skiweltmeisterschaften 2021 in Oberstdorf, lief sie auf den 60. Platz über 10 km Freistil, auf den 58. Rang im Sprint und auf den 14. Platz mit der Staffel. In der Saison 2021/22 wurde sie estnische Meisterin im Sprint und nahm bei den Olympischen Winterspielen 2022 in Peking an vier Rennen teil. Ihre besten Platzierungen dabei waren der 48. Platz im Sprint und der 16. Rang mit der Staffel. Bei den folgenden U23-Weltmeisterschaften in Lygna belegte sie den 23. Platz über 10 km klassisch, den 22. Rang im Sprint und den zehnten Platz in der Mixed-Staffel.

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Siege bei Continental-Cup-Rennen

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Rollerski-Weltcup-Siege im Einzel

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The La Sportiva ski mountaineering collection comprises clothing, boots and skis. Plotting new trails and going down unbeaten tracks has never been this easy. La Sportiva's goal has always been to supply the best ski mountaineering products featuring lightness, technical performance, protection, safety and comfort. A product with specific characteristics meets every requirement. La Sportiva interprets ski mountaineering in its best-known varieties: ski touring, backcountry, race and free-ride. For every sport, the company based in Ziano di Fiemme, Italy has studied the right clothing, accessories and equipment in a perfect combination of style, colour and function. From ski mountaineers, for ski mountaineers. "WE ARE SKIMOUNTAINEERS".
Ski boots dedicated to free-ride ski mountaineering.
Never stop running! Keep running also in winter time.
A concentration of technology to meet the needs of the modern ski mountaineer.