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Biden signs Juneteenth into a holiday, officially giving federal employees the day off Friday
Matthew Brown Chelsey Cox
Biden signs Juneteenth bill, giving federal employees the day off for the new holiday
Vice President Kamala Harris, Opal Lee, key lawmakers flanked President Biden as he signed
Juneteenth will primarily be observed on Friday this year
Holiday marks the day enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of the Emancipation Proclamation
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden Thursday signed legislation making Juneteenth, a day commemorating the end of slavery in Confederate states, a federal holiday.
"This will go down for me as one of the greatest honors I will have as president," Biden said.
The president signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act in the East Room of the White House, flanked by Vice President Kamala Harris and key lawmakers in the swift passage of the bill.
"We have come far and we have far to go, but today is a day of celebration," Harris said.
Harris, the nation's first Black vice president, also the noted the significance of where the bill signing was happening. "We are gathered here in a house built by enslaved people," she said.
And Biden praised the country's newest holiday as a way to help heal centuries-old divisions and bring about racial justice. "Great nations don't ignore their most painful moments, they embrace them," Biden said. "In remembering those moments, we begin to heal and grow stronger."
Holiday for federal workers
The law took effect immediately after Biden's signature, meaning that federal workers will be allowed to observe the occasion ahead of Saturday. "As the 19th falls on a Saturday, most federal employees will observe the holiday tomorrow, June 18th," the U.S. Office of Personnel Management wrote in a tweet.
However, the Postal Service will still deliver mail on Friday and Saturday, according to a statement.
"Unfortunately, it is not possible to cease the operations of the Postal Service to accommodate an observance over the next 24-48 hours," according to the statement.
More:Postal Service to deliver mail Friday and Saturday, despite new Juneteenth federal holiday
Juneteenth marks the day when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, were notified of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1865.
While President Abraham Lincoln delivered his proclamation freeing all enslaved people in rebelling states in 1862, Confederate troops and slaveholders in states that had seceded did not observe the proclamation until Union troops arrived to liberate the enslaved people, the last of whom were in Galveston.
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Long observed among Black Americans, Juneteenth has gained higher prominence in recent years after racial justice movements increased interest in the holiday and more states and cities have passed legislation commemorating emancipation.
Swift passage in House and Senate
The bill was unanimously passed by the Senate and reached near-consensus in the House, with 14 Republican lawmakers voting against the bill.
Those lawmakers were: Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala.; Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz.; Rep. Scott DesJarlais, R-Tenn.; Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis.; Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif.; Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala.; Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C.; Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas; Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz.; Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif.; Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont.; Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas; Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.; and Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga.
More:Who are the 14 House Republicans who voted against a Juneteenth holiday? And why?
"By making Juneteenth a federal holiday we're recognizing the sins of the past, grappling with them, teaching them and learning from them as we work towards a more perfect union," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said at a press conference after the Senate passage of the bill.
"It'll be the only federal holiday that recognizes the terrible legacy of slavery as well as the noble truth that none of us are free until we are all free," the majority leader continued.
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"There's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. And it seems to me that this is the most propitious time for us to recognize our history and learn from it," Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said in remarks about the signing of the bill.
Cornyn noted that Juneteenth has already been observed as a state holiday in Texas since 1980 and that the new federal holiday has special significance in the country as it grapples with its history and ongoing questions of race and liberty.
"But I believe that there is no better time than the present, particularly given the strife we've seen, the level of distrust for example, between law enforcement and the communities they serve, than to acknowledge our nation's history and learn from it," Cornyn continued.
Follow Matthew Brown online @mrbrownsir.
Michael Collins contributed to this story.

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To check the menace of wrong-side driving, the Noida Authority in India installed tyre killers at the sectors 76/77 intersection on Monday. With this, Noida became the first city in National Capital Region and the second city in the country after Pune to experiment with this traffic tool.
"We had to take the initiative even at some risk as wrong side driving was increasing and enforcement was not helping. We have used a new design that is retractable and safer for those driving on the correct side," Rajeev Tyagi, general manager of Noida Authority, said.
The tyre killers have been specifically designed to take a vehicle load of upto 40 tons. These cost about Rs 17,000 per metre and have been placed across 11 metres on one side of the road. A signage has also been placed warning people of tyre killers ahead.
"These are also retrofitted on the existing road and are mobile. If we see reduced use of wrong-side driving and people following traffic rules, we can uninstall them and use them on another road," Tyagi said.
He added that retrofitting them will also help keep a check on the risks involved. If they are found to be unsafe, they can be removed immediately. However, Noida Authority as well as traffic officials said they will wait at least a week before taking any decision in that regard.
Apart from the sectors 76-77 intersection, the Authority will also soon install tyre killers at the Sector 75 Metro station, near Hoshiarpur U-turn, the Sector 16A flyover and near Sai temple U-turn in Sector 61. These areas have been suggested by the traffic officials based on where more incidents of wrong-side driving are reported, according to Hindustan Times.
"In Noida, driving on the wrong side has become a habit, especially for two wheelers. People prefer driving on the wrong side for 100 metres than taking the right side 200 metres ahead. It's a cultural problem where violators think that they can get away with it," Anil Kumar Jha, superintendent of police (traffic), said.
He added that the tyre killers are essential to nudge commuters into following traffic rules. However, for the first phase, only internal roads have been selected so that major damage can be avoided, in case of an accident.


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6 Arrested In New Rape Of A Bus Passenger In India
Police said Sunday they have arrested six suspects in another gang rape of a bus passenger in India, four weeks after a brutal attack on a student on a moving bus in the capital outraged Indians and led to calls for tougher rape laws.
Police officer Raj Jeet Singh said a 29-year-old woman was the only passenger on a bus as she was traveling to her village in northern Punjab state on Friday night. The driver refused to stop at her village despite her repeated pleas and drove her to a desolate location, he said.
There, the driver and the conductor took her to a building where they were joined by five friends and took turns raping her throughout the night, Singh said.
The driver dropped the woman off at her village early Saturday, he said.
Singh said police arrested six suspects on Saturday and were searching for another.
Gurmej Singh, deputy superintendent of police, said all six admitted involvement in the rape. He said the victim was recovering at home.
Also on Saturday, police arrested a 32-year-old man for allegedly raping and killing a 9-year-old girl two weeks ago in Ahmednagar district in western India, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. Her decomposed body was found Friday.
Police officer Sunita Thakare said the suspect committed the crime seven months after his release from prison after serving nine years for raping and murdering a girl in 2003, PTI reported Sunday.
The deadly rape of a 23-year-old student on a New Delhi bus in December led to the woman's death and set off an impassioned debate about what India needs to do to prevent such tragedies. Protesters and politicians have called for tougher rape laws, police reforms and a transformation in the way the country treats women.
"It's a very deep malaise. This aspect of gender justice hasn't been dealt with in our nation-building task," Seema Mustafa, a writer on social issues who heads the Center for Policy Analysis think tank, said Sunday.
"Police haven't dealt with the issue severely in the past. The message that goes out is that the punishment doesn't match the crime. Criminals think they can get away it," she said.
In her first published comments, the mother of the deceased student in the New Delhi attack said Sunday that all six suspects in that case, including one believed to be a juvenile, deserve to die.
She was quoted by The Times of India newspaper as saying that her daughter, who died from massive internal injuries two weeks after the attack, told her that the youngest suspect had participated in the most brutal aspects of the rape.
Five men have been charged with the physiotherapy student's rape and murder and face a possible death penalty if convicted. The sixth suspect, who says he is 17 years old, is likely to be tried in a juvenile court if medical tests confirm he is a minor. His maximum sentence would be three years in a reform facility.
"Now the only thing that will satisfy us is to see them punished. For what they did to her, they deserve to die," the newspaper quoted the mother as saying.
Some activists have demanded a change in Indian laws so that juveniles committing heinous crimes can face the death penalty.
The names of the victim of the Dec. 16 attack and her family have not been released.
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2. Our lesson is based on a lengthy discussion of this subject in James 2:1-13.
3. To help us understand what we are talking about, . . .
A. This situation involves 2 men entering a Christian worship assembly.
1. One is a rich man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing.
2. The other is a poor man wearing dirty clothes.
B. Those who have respect of persons will treat these 2 men differently.
1. Those who are partial will give the rich man a good place to sit.
a. Will he be treated this way because he is a good man?
b. No, he is shown favoritism just because he is rich.
2. Those who are partial will tell the poor man to stand somewhere or sit in a very lowly place.
a. Will he be treated this way because he is a bad man?
b. No, he is looked down upon just because he is poor.
C. Now that we know what having respect of persons is, let us consider . . .
A. First, having respect of persons is forbidden.
1. (Proverbs 24:23) Solomon said that it "is not good."
2. James 2:1 teaches Christians not to have respect of persons.
B. Second, having respect of persons makes no sense (vs.5-7).
1. (vs.5) Consider how God feels toward the poor -- He has blessed them in a special way.
a. This does not mean that all poor people are good.
b. However, as a general rule, poor people are more receptive to the Gospel.
c. Looking down on poor people just because they are poor makes no sense.
2. (vs.6-7) Consider how rich men have treated Christians.
judgment seats, and they have blasphemed the Lord's name.
b. This does not mean that all rich people are bad.
C. Third, having respect of persons violates "the royal law" (vs.8-11).
1. This "royal law" is identified in vs.8 -- "love thy neighbor as thyself."
2. Jesus called this law the second great commandment (Matthew 22:39).
3. Having respect of persons violates this important commandment.
D. Fourth, God is no respecter of persons.
1. (Romans 2:11) "For there is no respect of persons with God."
2. To be God's children, we must not be respecters of persons.
A. (vs.12) We are to speak and act according to "the law of liberty."
1. The law of liberty emphasizes "mercy" over "judgment."
2. According to vs.13, if we show no mercy, we will receive no mercy.
3. (Matthew 5:7) "Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy."
1. (Matthew 7:12) Practice the Golden Rule.
2. (Matthew 7:1-2) Avoid unfair judgments.
3. (John 7:24) Make fair and impartial judgments.
1. Having respect of persons is a sin; therefore, we must avoid it.
Cornelius: "God hath showed me that I should not call any man common or unclean."


text: Q: Wolff's application of CS to analysis In the foreword of Tom Wolff's "Lectures on Harmonic Analysis", C. Fefferman writes "[Wolff made] (as far as I know) the first serious application of theoretical computer science to analysis." What does this refer to?

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Q: How export several graphics from R I have list of data frames and i want to export one bar chart per data frame... I am trying use lapply but it does not work... Does anyone know how to do this?
my_data <- lapply(X = seq(from = 1, to = length(in_files_path), by = 1), FUN = function(x){
  data_tables <- read.table(file = in_files_path[[x]], header = TRUE)
})

lapply(X = seq(from = 1, to = length(in_files_path), by = 1), FUN = function(x){
  setwd(dir = ou_graph_path)
  png(filename = in_files_name[[x]],
      units = "in",
      width = 15,
      height = 10,
      res = 300)
  ggplot(data = my_data[[x]], aes(x = my_data[[x]]$A, y = my_data[[x]]$B)) +
    geom_bar()
  dev.off()
})

A: I would advice using the following approach
I would advice using the following approach
# Get list of files
# Start loop -
# read files
# make plot
# store plots in list
# - end loop
#
# Start loop -
# perform plot operation
# save plots
# - end loop

setwd(your_location_of_the_files)
list_files = list.files(pattern = ".csv")

for(i_file in list_files){
    dummy = fread(i_file,header = TRUE)
    png(filename = paste(your_location_for_the_plots,in_files_name[[x]],sep="/"),
    units = "in",
    width = 15,
    height = 10,
    res = 300)
    # You can just say A here, not dummy$A
    plot(ggplot(data = dummy, aes(x = A, y = B)) + geom_bar())
    dev.off()
}


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Q: Rust tokio websocket echo server, flat_map stream into multiple messages I'm playing with tokio websocket, I've started from the echo example and trying to change it.
What I'm trying to do is parsing an input message, extracting a number from it and sending back to the client the same message 'n' times.
What I did so far is:
    let (mut write, read) = ws_stream.split();
    // We should not forward messages other than text or binary.

    read.try_filter(|msg| future::ready(msg.is_text() || msg.is_binary()))
        .flat_map(|msg| {
            let msg = msg.and_then(Message::into_text);

            let times = msg.map(|v| extract(v.as_str()))
                .unwrap_or(0);

            let txt = msg.unwrap_or("Error".into());
            repeat(Ok(Message::Text(txt)))
                .take(times)
        })
        .forward(write)
        .await
        .expect("Failed to forward messages");

But I'm getting the error:
error[E0277]: the trait bound `tokio_tungstenite::tungstenite::Error: Clone` is not satisfied
   --> src/main.rs:42:10
    |
42  |         .flat_map(|msg| {
    |          ^^^^^^^^ the trait `Clone` is not implemented for `tokio_tungstenite::tungstenite::Error

I'm pretty new to Rust, being the Error type not owned by me, I have no idea how to solve this
Is there some different idiomatic way to write what I'm trying to do?