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Love & politics
Stars who've dated members of political families
By Mariel Turner 5:01am PDT, Aug 1, 2019
Model Karlie Kloss celebrates her 27th birthday on Aug. 3, 2019. In celebration of her special day, Wonderwall.com is taking a look at some of the celebs who've dated members of political families, starting with the former Victoria's Secret Angel. In 2012, Karlie started seeing businessman Joshua Kushner, the brother of President Donald Trump's son-in-law, White House adviser Jared Kushner (who's married to Ivanka Trump). The two tied the knot six years later in 2018. "It's been hard," Karlie told British Vogue of being related to the Republican Trumps. "But I choose to focus on the values that I share with my husband, and those are the same liberal values that I was raised with and that have guided me throughout my life." Keep reading for more…
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Actress Daryl Hannah met John F. Kennedy Jr., the late son of former President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, in the early '80s when both of their families vacationed in St. Maarten. In 1988 after meeting again at the wedding of John's aunt, Lee Radziwill, the two sparked a romance and dated on-and-off for more than six years. They finally called quits for good in August 1994, just a few months after JFK Jr.'s mom died.
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During one of Daryl Hannah and John F. Kennedy Jr.'s "off" periods, he began seeing "Sex and the City" star Sarah Jessica Parker, who'd recently split from longtime beau Robert Downey Jr. SJP was overwhelmed by the media attention that came with dating America's most eligible bachelor and the couple soon called it quits. "We would go places where there wasn't a soul around and the next day I'd see pictures of us there in the tabloids," Sarah told The New York Times in 1992. "I have been a semi-public person since 'Annie,' but I never had any idea what real fame was until I met John. He's a nice man, but for God's sake, I feel like I should apologize for dating him."
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After calling off her engagement to Liam Hemsworth, Miley Cyrus began dating Patrick Schwarzenegger, the son of former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Kennedy family scion Maria Shriver. The duo dated for five months before splitting in April 2015 — one month after Patrick was spotted canoodling with another woman while on spring break. "Omg. It's one of my best friends girlfriend…" Patrick tweeted at the time. "Would NEVER do anything against my GF."
Pop star Taylor Swift also dated a member of the Kennedy family. In 2012, the "Shake It Off" singer shared a summer romance with four-years-younger Conor Kennedy, the grandson of late senator and former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and the great-nephew of former President John F. Kennedy. According to reports at the time, the duo reportedly broke up either because of distance — she had music to promote, he had to return to high school — or because Taylor came on too strong.
Chris Pratt found his happily ever after in a political family. The "Guardians of the Galaxy" star began seeing Katherine Schwarzenegger, the daughter of former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Kennedy family scion Maria Shriver, after meeting her at church following his 2018 split from wife Anna Faris. Chris popped the question in January 2019 after about seven months of dating and the duo tied the knot that June. Chris made headlines when he joined his bride at the famed Kennedy family compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, a few weeks later for the July 4th holiday.
"Orange Is the New Black" star Kate Mulgrew became a member of a political family after she started seeing Tim Hagan, a former nominee for governor of Ohio and the son of former State Representative Robert Hagan. The lovebirds married in 1999 but divorced in 2014, a decision that Kate regrets. "All the separations took a toll," she told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "No one was at fault. We are who we are. I was passionate about my career, and he was so important as a commissioner in Cleveland. He's rooted there, and I'm not sure I ever fully understood the depth of that or honored it."
In 2005, Food Network star Sandra Lee found love with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, the son of former New York Governor Mario Cuomo. The lovebirds moved in together in 2011 but have no plans to marry. "I think when it's important to the kids, we'll do it. Right now, we have much more important things to do," Sandra told the New York Post of a future wedding. "We don't even think about it, and nobody says anything." Sandra's been helping Andrew co-parent his three daughters with activist ex-wife Kerry Kennedy, the daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy.
Cheryl Hines has been a member of the Kennedy family since 2014. The "Curb Your Enthusiasm" star hit it off with attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the son of late senator and former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, in 2011. The couple got engaged in April 2014 and tied the knot four months later. "It is amazing," Cheryl told Kelly Ripa of marrying into the history-making family. "And strange, sometimes, when you're setting up a household whose uncle is president. He has all these amazing pictures and letters from presidents, and they're going up over the wall."
English actor Peter Lawford joined one of America's most infamous political families when he married Patricia Kennedy, a sister of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Senator Ted Kennedy. Pat met the Rat Pack actor through her sister, Eunice Kennedy, in the late '40s and the couple married in 1954. They welcomed four children together but their marriage soon hit a rough patch. Peter struggled with Pat's Catholicism and famous family while Pat resented him for his heavy drinking and extramarital affairs. The duo divorced in 1966.
Long before he was a politician himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger married into a political dynasty. The bodybuilder-turned-movie actor began dating journalist Maria Shriver, the niece of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Senator Ted Kennedy, in 1977. The couple married in 1986 and welcomed four children before separating in 2011 after 25 years of marriage after it was revealed that Arnold had fathered a son with their former housekeeper. Arnold became a politician in his own right when he was elected governor of California in 2003. "When he told me he was interested, I said I'd spent my whole life getting away from politics," Maria told Oprah Winfrey in 2008. "I realized that if I said no, I'd be stopping my husband from achieving his dream. It was a Catch-22. So I told Arnold that he should do what he wanted to do… Two months later, I was the Democratic first lady of a Republican administration."
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PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 3 (AP) —Jerry Meyer, a trainer, and Hugo Dittfach, a jockey, ac counted for their second stakes victory in three days at Liberty Bell Park today when Herbert E. Wilson's Arrolane won the $28,175 Allegheny Stakes by a length and a quarter.
A crowd of 17,948, the larg est ever to attend a thorough bred meet at Liberty Bell Park, sent Arrolane away at odds of 13‐1. Arrolane, a 3‐year‐old son of Arrogate, paid $29.80, $14 and $7.80 for $2 across the board.
Red N Blue Farm's Doc Kope, who set the pace in the one‐ mile event until collared leav ing the eighth pole, paid $6.20 and $4.20 under jockey Phil Grimm. Louis Troiano's Special Glow, the 5‐2 favorite, ran third, three‐quarters of a length behind Doc Kope. Special Glow paid $3.20 to show.
Time for the mile over a slow track was 1:41 3–5. The victory was worth $16,905 to Wilson.
Meyer had saddled Peter Ful ler's Countess Free, the winner of the New Hope Stakes at Liberty Bell Park on New Year's day. Dittfach was in the saddle on that occasion.
The 10‐horse race developed into a two‐horse battle be tween Arrolane and Doc Kope. Arrolane, fourth at the start, moved up to second at the quarter and remained in excel lent position for his successful move from two lengths back at the head of the stretch.
Ernest E. Everett's Nilo Bay, a stakes winner in the Heritage, was out of the gate quickly and fourth at the quarter. How ever, he never was in serious contention and finished sixth.
Special Glow, the winner of two previous races with come from‐behind rallies was sev enth in the early going, sixth at the half and third in the stretch. He was four lengths ahead of Berkley Corner which rallied from last in the first half of the race and finished fourth, a neck in front of Jet A Bit.


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Афгано-французские отношения — двусторонние дипломатические отношения между Афганистаном и Францией.

История
Страны установили дипломатические отношения в 1922 году. В 1923 году Франция открыла дипломатическое представительно в Кабуле, а также отделение французской археологической делегации в Афганистане. Отношения между двумя странами развивались медленно. В 1928 году афганский король Аманулла-хан совершил официальный визит во Францию. В январе 1943 года во время Второй мировой войны Франция закрыла дипломатическое представительство в Кабуле. В 1944 году Афганистан закрыл свою дипломатическую миссию в Париже, когда Режим Виши отказался продлить аккредитацию афганским дипломатам во Франции и Швейцарии. Вскоре после окончания войны страны возобновили дипломатические отношения и в 1949 году открыли посольства в столицах.

В 1965 году афганский король Захир-шах совершил официальный визит во Францию, где провел встречу с президентом страны Шарлем де Голлем. В 1968 году премьер-министр Франции Жорж Помпиду совершил официальный визит в Афганистан. В 1979 году Советский Союз вторгся в Афганистан, что послужило началом Афганской войны. В течение следующих 25 лет отношения между Афганистаном и Францией почти не существовали, так как войска СССР покинули Афганистан в 1989 году, а затем к власти в этой стране пришло движение Талибан, которое управляло Афганистаном до 2002 года, когда силы НАТО вторглись в Афганистан и сместили их с власти в ответ за теракты 11 сентября в Нью-Йорке.

Так как Франция является членом НАТО, то приняла участие в войне в Афганистане и участвовала в многочисленных военных операциях по всей стране. В 2002 году Франция восстановила дипломатические отношения с Афганистаном, когда там к власти пришел президент Хамид Карзай. В рамках Международных сил содействия безопасности Франция сыграла ведущую роль в обеспечении стабильной обстановки в северо-восточной части Афганистана, особенно в провинции Каписа.

Торговля
В 2015 году товарооборот между странами составил сумму 27,8 млн. евро. Экспорт Франции в Афганистан: агропродовольственные товары, фармацевтические препараты, резиновые и пластмассовые изделия.

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Франция
Афганистан

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Hello, new member here. Couple of things to know before I introduce my idea.
I've been roleplaying for two years now and think I'm relatively decent at it. I can do one-liners to 3 paragraphs and even if my replies may seem a little too short, I still try to put effort into them and expect the same from others.
I'll roleplay just about fantasy related: Witches, wizards, princesses, vampires, crusniks-you name it! I'm also into romance every now and then, but beware for some cliches, good or bad depending on what you like.
I can reply pretty often, but not all the time thanks to school. Still, I'll be sure to let you know if I can't reply and I hope you'll make sure to let me if you won't be able to reply also. I can do either thread or PM for roleplay, but I prefer PM for OOC That's all I have to say, so here's the idea I have.
1x1 Princess x Wizard. The land of Ioana was a peaceful world will magic was everywhere and witches and wizards lived among normal humans in harmony under one condition: magic users must never kill, whether the intentions are good or bad. Those that break this rule are inflicted with the Bane of Annihilation, a curse that gives the victim never-ending pain and suffering until it gives then a slow death. Very few people received the curse.
Peace in Ioana didn't last long however, when an unknown powerful ruler passed a law that banned magic from the land, meaning that witches and wizards must now be hunted down, captured, and brought to a place called The Arcane Tower to be executed. Years have passed since then and magic is now only a distant memory.
In the highest point of the tower there is a princess who was captured long ago not because she could use magic, but because she was rumored to be immortal; she can die, but she would return to the living by morning. Since she supposedly can't die, the princess was tortured. That is, until she finally escapes. However, this freedom came at a price; during the escape, she stabbed a man attempting to stop her, intending to only slow him down but he later died instead. Since she committed a murder, the princess was cursed.
A young wizard in hiding had been living a life of fear and loneliness for years, worrying that he'd one day be caught. One day during his travels, he comes across the body of a young woman and buries her, thinking nothing of it. However, the next morning he finds the girl wandering around perfectly fine.
I'm fine with either role, but I kinda prefer the princess. If you're interested, please reply.


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Når institusjonene svikter
Av: Douglas Murray	20. mai 2015, 13:09
A veteran of the 1968 protest movements once confided what, looking back, troubled him about his generation's rebellion. «All young people rebel.» he said. «What is strange is that our parents' generation gave in.» It is a sentiment that could just as easily be applied to modern Britain, if not the West. It is not surprising that people do bad things. What is surprising is that so many institutions and authorities allow them to get away with it.
Take the Rotherham child sexual abuse scandal. This is just one of a large number of cases around the UK where groups of men — whom the media identify as «Asian» but who are almost entirely Muslims of Pakistani origin — have been found to have selected young non-Muslim white girls, often in care homes, and subjected them to multiple rapes. It is sadly to be expected that there will always be people seeking to prey on the young and vulnerable. But the question that hangs over Rotherham — and which even the latest independent review could not fully answer — is why so many people got away with these crimes for so long. Certainly part of the reason, as the latest report explains, was that the police were terrified of being accused of racism. But even this remains only a partial explanation. How could grown men and women have so feared being called a name (in this instance, unjustly) that they were willing to allow literally hundreds of young women to be raped and gang-raped?
A similar question lingers after the de-throning of the former Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman. The story of what has been going on in the East London borough has been an open scandal for years. Lutfur Rahman was first elected as a Labour councillor in 2008. He soon won the leadership of the council with the help of the extreme Islamist group, the Islamic Forum Europe (IFE), which seeks to impose sharia law on Britain. Once in a position of power, he funnelled millions of pounds into sympathetic groups, including IFE front organizations, and was soon thrown out of the Labour party but continued to run in — and rule — Tower Hamlets politics as an Independent. Despite Muslims being a minority (34%) in Tower Hamlets, Mayor Rahman surrounded himself only with Bangladeshi Muslims. Throughout his period in power, Mayor Rahman never appointed one non-Muslim to a cabinet post. There were fake signatures for election petitions; sham party memberships; registering voters in empty properties, and registering of many voters in tiny flats.
At the same time, no tactic seems to have been too low to beat down any opposition. When Rahman found himself running against a Labour party opponent who was also a Muslim, Rahman distributed thousands of newsletters smearing the opponent as a wife-beater and as an enemy of Islam. Opponents — particularly political opponents who were gay — were subjected to routine abuse inside the council chamber by supporters of the Mayor.
Meanwhile, Mayor Rahman was able to live a life of considerable comfort. Ferried around in a tax-payer-funded chauffeur-driven car, he tried to arrange a life cocooned from criticism. He financially supported local Bengali media, which reciprocated by providing him with uncritical coverage, and he refused to answer questions from anyone potentially hostile. While missing no trick in attacking his political opponents, colleagues claimed that requests to question him would breach his human rights. All the while, vast quantities of council grants were diverted to organizations that sought to serve only the local Muslim community, from whom the Mayor gained his support. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a considerable number of the groups that benefited from this largesse were connected to the Mayor.
It was not until a BBC reporter, John Ware, did a half-hour program looking into the financial irregularities in Tower Hamlets that Community Secretary Eric Pickles sent in auditors to go over the books. This action – like every other attempt to investigate corrupt activities in Tower Hamlets – was dismissed by a coterie of Rahman's defenders in familiar terms. When investigators entered the council to go over the books, the trade union «Unison» picketed the event with a banner stating, «Eric Pickles – Hands off Tower Hamlets. No to racism and Islamophobia.» A diminishing but vocal group of supporters kept this up right to the end, not least the former MP, George Galloway, and the former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone.
Finally, after a ten-week hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice last month, Lutfur Rahman's run of corruption and sectarianism came to an end. Four local residents, requesting that last year's Mayoral election in the borough should be recognised to have been corrupt and be declared void, brought a case to the election court. After hearing the evidence, the election commissioner, Judge Richard Mawrey, delivered a devastating verdict.
Lutfur Rahman was last month removed by a court from his position as Mayor of Tower Hamlets, after being found guilty of electoral fraud and other illegal practices. (Image source: ITV News video screenshot)
Judge Mawrey described Rahman as an «evasive witness» who had told «a pack of lies» in court. He said that there was «no doubt» that Rahman had been behind «illegal and corrupt practices,» and that he had used undue «spiritual influence» over voters through local imams. In conclusion, Rahman was found guilty of electoral fraud; the relevant poll was declared void, and the Mayor removed from office and banned from running again. The police — who so visibly failed to act in Tower Hamlets in recent years — now say that they are considering a criminal inquiry.
In all of this, one thing particularly stands out. It is the same glaring question that emerged in the wake of the investigations into the Northern rape-gangs: where were all the authorities? Why had every institution of government failed?
In the case of Tower Hamlets, as with Rotherham, the police appeared, again, to be terrified of accusations of the kind Rahman and his friends were so adept and cynical about dishing out. Central government, apparently fearful for many of the same reasons, failed. It was left to a few intrepid journalists and four private citizens to uphold the law.
Judge Mawrey said in his summing-up:
«On past form, it appears inevitable that Mr. Rahman will denounce this judgement as yet another example of the racism and Islamophobia that have hounded him throughout his political life. It is nothing of the sort. Mr. Rahman has made a successful career by ignoring or flouting the law and has relied on silencing his critics by accusations of racism and Islamophobia. But his critics have not been silenced and neither has this court. Events of recent months in contexts very different from electoral malpractice have starkly demonstrated what happens when those in authority are afraid to confront wrongdoing for fear of allegations of racism and Islamophobia. Even in the multicultural society which is 21st century Britain, the law must be applied fairly and equally to everyone. Otherwise we are lost.»
Britain ought to have learned this lesson already. The fact that we have not — that we seem destined to have to keep learning it, again and again — is the greatest problem for our society. Bad people do bad things, but when all the institutions of state fail to stop them, that is a problem for us all.
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Getting Away with It: What Has Happened to Rule of Law?
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The No. 9 Michigan State Spartans (19-5) looked to end their three-game skid with a home game against the Minnesota Golden Gophers (16-8) on Saturday afternoon. The game was the lone meeting for the teams this season, and the Spartans got back to their winning ways notching their 10th conference victory of the season. Here are some takeaways from the victory.
The Michigan State Spartans entered Saturday on a three-game losing streak, with those losses coming against Purdue, Indiana, and Illinois. With the Purdue and Illinois losses coming on the road. The Spartans came out determined to get back to who they were only two weeks ago, and they did exactly that on their way to a 79-55 throttling off Richard Pitino and the Gophers.
Rebounding, defending and assists, that is what Michigan State is and they were able to do that very well Saturday afternoon. The Spartans pulled down 38 rebounds, and also had 27 assists on 31 made field goals. But it just wasn't an outstanding performance at the offensive end. MSU's defense played outstanding as well holding Minnesota's leading scorer Amir Coffey to four points on two of six shooting, along with holding double-double machine Jordan Murphy to five points and six rebounds. Nick Ward, Matt McQuaid, and company were making it happen at both ends of the floor.
There have been highs and lows for junior forward Nick Ward, Saturday's effort was definitely a high note, as Ward looked laser focused and lock in at both ends. Ward responded to Tom Izzo's challenge not to mention a little challenge from Earvin "Magic" Johnson. It was the perfect response from Ward, after struggling the past three games.
Nick was able to be successful at both ends of the floor, leading the way with 22 points, nine rebounds, two assists, one steal and also added a block. Senior Guard Matt McQuaid may have been the biggest factor in this game, with Cassius Winston dealing with early foul trouble McQuaid saw a little time at the point guard. McQuaid is mainly known for his defensive effort and maybe a couple pump fakes, but Matt McQuaid looked like a scorer in this game.
Matt looked like a legitimate scorer in this game as he posted 18 points, five rebounds, eight assists. Not to mention for the first time in three games didn't have any fouls. Cassius Winston posted a mere quiet 11 points and nine assists, but almost posting a double-double when in foul trouble shows how much Winston means to this team.
The freshman were able to post increased minutes in this game, as all five freshmen played more than five minutes in this game. Aaron Henry who has been the leader of the young group of guys continues to record stats across the table, adding three points, three rebounds, three assists, and a steal.
Though Foster Loyer still seems very shaky he was able to record 11 minutes in this game. The big news in this game, was when Senior forward Kenny Goins suffered an elbow injury, freshman Thomas Kithier was pushed into a large role in this game, and he was ready for it. Kithier was able to post eight points and three rebounds in a season-high 18 minutes. In garbage time Gabe Brown was able to add a couple of big offensive rebounds along with four points. Marcus Bingham Jr has a couple of good looks, but could get it to fall, he did add three rebounds and a block.
On Tuesday, January 12th the Spartans travel to the Kohl Center in Madison for a showdown with the Wisconsin Badgers (17-7). Minnesota travels to Lincoln to face the Nebraska Cornhuskers (13-11) on Wednesday Night.


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SN Hall of Fame 2013: Industry Innovators
These early 20th-century business leaders gave rise to lasting legacies in food retailing
Donna Boss 1 | Dec 09, 2013
This year's inductees into the Supermarket News Hall of Fame include far-sighted leaders who each transformed grocery retailing in their own way.
George Hartford
George and John Hartford, who ran A&P in the first half of the last century, grew the company to become the world's largest retailer through such innovations as vertical integration with captive supply divisions and other innovations in pricing and service.
"Although shifts in the way the world buys food are far less heralded than innovations such as cars or computers, few economic changes have mattered more to the average family," wrote Marc Levinson in his book, "The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America."
J. Frank Grimes
While the Hartfords were building a powerhouse national chain, J. Frank Grimes, the founder of IGA, had a vision for a national network of independently owned stores that could compete with such behemoths. His model of partnership among suppliers, wholesalers and retailers grew to become first a national network and now a global one.
"He had the vision of being global with a local focus, and that's what we are today," said Mark Batenic, chief executive officer, IGA.
Clarence Saunders
Preceding Grimes' formation of IGA by just a few years came perhaps the most important food-retailing innovation of the 20th century — the self-service store. Clarence Saunders, the founder of Piggly Wiggly, is given credit for this invention, among others that he debuted at the banner.
"He was a little ahead of his time," said Mike Freeman, author of the book "Clarence Saunders & the Founding of Piggly Wiggly — The Rise & Fall of a Memphis Maverick."
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Sun, 02 Jan, 2022 - 08:14
DUP warn Liz Truss of 'major implications' unless Protocol progress is made
Boris Johnson has vowed to 'maximise the benefits of Brexit' in 2022.
By Benjamin Cooper, PA
The DUP have said there will be "major implications" at Stormont if the British foreign secretary fails to swiftly set a formal deadline to end negotiations with Brussels over the Northern Ireland Protocol.
Days after the EU's chief negotiator Maros Sefcovic claimed "London has breached a great deal of trust" with Europe over the protocol, DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson said Liz Truss needed to provide a "clear date" for ending the talks.
"We need a clear date now, we need a clear timeline in which there is an expectation of real progress or the government takes the action that is necessary," Mr Donaldson told The Sunday Telegraph.
"It is crucial that Liz Truss moves this process forward quickly and that we get real and meaningful progress on a range of issues, not least of which is removing the checks on the movement of goods within the United Kingdom internal market."
Mr Donaldson would not specify a reasonable deadline for Ms Truss to make progress when asked by the Telegraph, but said: "January is going to be an absolutely crucial month."
"If we don't get rapid and decisive progress, and one side or the other is kicking the can down the road, this will have major implications for the stability of the political institutions in Northern Ireland," he added.
Maros Sefcovic has said he is 'pragmatic' about working with Liz Truss (Hollie Adams/PA)
European Commission vice president Mr Sefcovic on Thursday told German news website Der Spiegel that problems with the protocol – a way to maintain a free-flowing land Border on the island of Ireland after Brexit – meant the UK "broke international law" in trying to get round the arrangement.
Mr Sefcovic told Der Spiegel he is "pragmatic" about Ms Truss taking on responsibility for post-Brexit negotiations with the EU, after Brexit minister Lord Frost resigned last month.
But he warned if Ms Truss was to trigger Article 16, a move that would effectively unilaterally suspend the treaty agreed between the UK and the EU, it would throw into jeopardy "the foundation of the entire deal" reached between the two sides.
Ms Truss has said she remains prepared to invoke Article 16 if issues are not resolved.


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Home Research & Investigation Red-Green Alliance Wake Up: DNC Hiring "Social Justice Pastors" to Win 2020 Evangelical Vote
Wake Up: DNC Hiring "Social Justice Pastors" to Win 2020 Evangelical Vote
Source: Pulpit & Pen, BY NEWS DIVISION · JUNE 29, 2019
Democrats care about evangelical voters like they care about babies. They'll kiss us at their rallies, but secretly, wouldn't care if we dropped dead. But that isn't stopping the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from appointing a pastor to a new spot within the party to help them with the evangelical vote in 2020. After Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election, in which she ignored evangelicals altogether, the DNC has learned their lesson. But who is this man chosen to convince America's evangelicals to vote like the devil?
Derrick Harkins is a senior vice president at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Union is the oldest seminary in the United States, and is now best known for its "progressive Christianity" and was founded by the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. Union Seminary is also the birthplace of Black Liberation Theology, the heresies founded by James Cone, which are now taught as far and wide as Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in the Southern Baptist Convention.
Harkins had also previously served in the Department of Faith Outreach for the DNC up until 2012 when the party scuttled the program in the run-up to the 2016 election when the Clinton camp became convinced that evangelicals were no longer a powerful voting block. The DNC is bringing back Harkins to again infiltrate America's churches with a message of religious leftism after rural evangelicals pushed Trump over the finish line in 2016.
Sounding like he works for The Gospel Coalition, one of Harkins' bios said of him, "[Harkins] is leaving his flock and his city for a different kind of social justice ministry."
Harkins has also served as Vice President of the North American Baptist Fellowship of the Baptist World Alliance and has been a guest lecturer on social justice at Bucknell, Cornell, Iona College, and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Like the Southern Baptist ERLC's Russell Moore, Harkins works for "comprehensive immigration reform" with Jim Wallis and is on the Board of Directors for Sojourners (Moore also serves with Wallis on the Evangelical Immigration Table).
Shortly after being hired by the DNC only a few weeks ago, Hawkins organized roundtables with progressive "faith leaders" and high-ranking members of the DNC. Taking part was the CEO of the Union of Affirming Christians, representatives of Islam, Sikhism, Coptic Christianity, and the LDS. They met with the top dog in the DNC, party chairman, Tom Perez.
Helping with Harkins' efforts to win over evangelical voters for the DNC is Paul Raushenbush, the Senior Vice President of Auburn Seminary, former Huffington Post religion column executive editor, and editor of BeliefNet. Rauschenbush is also the son of Walter Rauschenbusch (Paul began to spell his own surname differently), who was the chief proponent and main progenitor of Social Gospel.
Raushenbush took part in the DNC-evangelical brainstorming session and told the press, "It wasn't a token thing. It was serious listening and respect."
Rauschenbush claimed, "We're not going to be co-opted by any political party, but we do recognize that elections have consequences for the morality and the values that we held dear."
Paul Raushenbush
The Social Justice pastors gathering with the DNC claimed that their path to victory was mapped out in Doug Jones' victory over Roy Moore in Alabama in 2017. The pastors claimed that Moore's loss was caused by a surge in votes from religious African Americans. If only liberal or left-leaning evangelicals could be mobilized in 2020, they feel, Democrats could win in a landslide.
Individual Democrat candidates are also snatching up Social Justice pastors to help them win the vote. Mayor Buttigieg and Senator Cory Booker, two presidential contenders, are hiring faith outreach advisors. Candidates Julian Castro and Kirstin Gillibrand are also making overtures to the faith community, and nine Democratic presidential candidates recently attended an event hosted by Social Justice clergy called the Poor People's Campaign.
Simultaneously, in Reformed Evangelicalism, Social Justice has become all the rage. The Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission helps to run the Evangelical Immigration Table, which is financially funded and founded by George Soros' National Immigration Forum. James Riady, the former Clinton 'money man' who was kicked out by the State Department after pleading guilty to using foreign cash to affect our political process, is a major financial donor to Reformed Theological Seminary, Westminster Philadelphia, and The Gospel Coalition.
More conservative Christians are starting to realize that the advance of so-called "Social Justice" into evangelicalism is little more than a political operation of the Democratic Party.
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Q: Set timeout on material UI drawer when open I would like to close the drawer after a specific time however I dont think material UI drawer has that kind of props. Is there a way to use transitionDuration to close the drawer or maybe add a setTimeout in my function ? When adding a timeout in my toggleDrawer function, it won't notice the timeout.
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    if (
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A: You can use a useEffect hook to close drawer after a timeout.
const allAnchors = ['left', 'right', 'top', 'bottom'];
for(let anchor of allAnchors) {
  useEffect(() => {
    if (state[anchor]) {
      setTimeout(() => {
        toggleDrawer(anchor, false)()
      }, 2000); // close after 2000ms
    }
  }, [state[anchor]]);
}

I saw you're using anchor variable, hinting that you might have multiple directions for drawer.
If that's not the case, you can modify code and remove the for-loop entirely.
Here's a working example

const { useState, useEffect } = React;
const { Drawer, Button } = MaterialUI;

const App = (props) => {
  const [ state, setState ] = useState({});
  const allAnchors = [ 'left', 'right', 'top', 'bottom' ];

  for(let anchor of allAnchors) {
    useEffect(() => {
      if (state[anchor]) {
        setTimeout(() => {
          toggleDrawer(anchor, false)()
        }, 2000); // close after 2000ms
      }
    }, [state[anchor]]);
  }

   const toggleDrawer = (anchor, open, data) => (event) => {
    if (
      // check if event is not undefined
      event &&
      event.type === "keydown" &&
      (event.key === "Tab" || event.key === "Shift")
    ) {
      return addProduct(data);
    }

    if( typeof open === 'undefined') open = !state[anchor]

    setState(s => ({ ...s, [anchor]: open }));
  };

  return (

  { allAnchors.map(anchor =>
    (
      <React.Fragment>
        <Button onClick={toggleDrawer(anchor)} >
          {anchor}
        </Button>
        <Drawer
          anchor={anchor}
          open={state[anchor]}
          onClose={toggleDrawer(anchor, false)}
        >
          This is Drawer
        </Drawer>
      </React.Fragment>
    ))
  }

  )
}

ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.querySelector('#root'))

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YOW! Lambda Jam 2018
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Eugenia Cheng - Category Theory and Life
6 algorithm Invited Keynote 60 Mins Beginner
Scientist in Residence
Category theory can be thought of as being "very abstract algebra". It is thought of as "too abstract" by some people, and as "abstract nonsense" by some others. In this talk I will show that while it is abstract, it is far from being nonsense. I will argue that the abstraction has a purpose and that broad applicability is one of the powerful consequences. To demonstrate this, I will show how I apply concepts of category theory to important questions of life such as prejudice, privilege, blame and responsibility. I will introduce the category theory concepts from scratch so no prior knowledge is needed. These concepts will include objects and morphisms, isomorphisms and universal properties.
Yaron Minsky - Reactive Programming with Diff and Patch
3 language Invited Keynote 60 Mins Intermediate
Yaron Minsky
Occasional OCaml Programmer
Jane Street Group
Writing reactive programs can be challenging. Such programs need to be able to react efficiently to changes as they stream in from the outside world, which often leads people to make their program logic incremental in an ad-hoc way, directly expressing their logic in terms of how to integrate a change, rather than as an all-at-once
computation.
But such ad-hoc incrementalization is complicated, and the resulting programs can be hard to reason about. In this talk, I'll discuss an approach that leverages the fact that functional data structures can often be diffed efficiently. I'll show how the ability to diff and patch can be integrated into a more general reactive programming
framework to let you write programs which read like simple, all-at-once implementations of your program logic, but which perform like hand-optimized change-oriented programs.
Ryan Trinkle - Full-Stack Haskell, from Prototype to Production
4 language Invited Invited Talk 45 Mins Intermediate
Ryan Trinkle
Software Engineer & Founding Partner
Obsidian Systems
Invited Talk
Three years ago, I quit my job to bet everything on the proposition that Haskell could excel not just for specialized, high-assurance software, but for the kinds of software that millions of engineers work on every day. I had previously built backends with Haskell, with the wonderful experience of code that works reliably, a team that doesn't step on each others' toes, and an ease of refactoring that let us keep the codebase clean without risking regressions. But now, GHCJS and FRP had finally become reliable enough to trust in the real world. It was a game changer: Haskell could now build world-class graphical user interfaces, too, and deploy them as single page web apps — in theory.
In practice, there were many obstacles along the way. However, I found that even with the need to blaze new trails from time to time, our overall pace was far faster than anything I had seen in the imperative tech stacks I'd worked with before. Strong types and pure values decreased bug counts and made code much more readable. Some former backend developers who had scrupulously avoided frontend development told me that they now enjoyed working on the frontend, too.
Since then, I've worked with the community to continue building infrastructure to expand the areas where we can use Haskell to get real work done. Enabling mobile development required bug fixes to GHC, a rearchitected approach to cross-compilation in Nixpkgs, and bindings to native APIs. To scale up to larger projects, we've improved existing tools and created new tools that make developer workflows simpler, faster, and more discoverable. And to make Haskell app development more accessible to beginners and professionals without Haskell experience, we've made more and more functionality available out of the box.
In this talk, I'll show you the tools that are available today and the challenges that lie ahead. I hope you'll come away with a broadened understanding of how Haskell can be applied in your own professional projects — and how the theory of functional programming can be a potent practical tool.
Edward Kmett - Combinators Revisited
Edward Kmett
Chair of the Haskell Core Libraries Committee, Research Engineer
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Back in the 80's, one approach to compiling functional programming languages was to compile down to combinators such as SKI. John Hughes' initial work on supercombinators changed the way folks thought about compiling functional languages and caused folks to turn away from this approach by customizing the combinator set to your particular program. Then Lennart Augustsson's work on implementing supercombinators more efficiently sealed the deal. GHC's compilation technique is a descendant of this school of thought.
But what did we give up to get to where we are? Let's explore a bit of alternate history.
Jed Wesley-Smith - Why "Names Don't Matter" Matters
1 language Invited Talk 30 Mins Intermediate
Jed Wesley-Smith
Increasingly, people are popping up stating the controversial opinion that names don't matter. To most programmers this statement is obviously untrue, as naming is seen as difficult, and critical to semantic expression and communication in their code. To make matters worse, these same people demand fidelity to obscure and difficult names from mathematics, leading to charges of hypocrisy – if names don't matter, why do they care we all use any particular ones?
We'll try and tease out these seeming contradictions. We'll look at why "names don't matter" is an important idea, and why its more obvious superficial interpretation is specious.
Jacob Bass - Higher Kinded Types in a Lower Kinded Language: Functional Programming in Kotlin (Code Jam)
1 language Invited Code Jam 90 Mins Beginner
Jacob Bass
Ordermentum
Code Jam
It's hard coming back down to the earth of a JVM based language after spending time with Haskell and OCaml. The type systems are enviable, and the abstractions available are incredibly powerful.
Yallop and White's paper on Lightweight Higher-Kinded Polymorphism has been an inspiration for many libraries seeking to add functional abstractions to languages that don't support them. For Kotlin, one library is [Arrow](arrow-kt.io), which provides incredibly powerful abstractions over native language capabilities like co-routines, reactive-streams and nullable types.
This code jam will demonstrate functional programming in Kotlin with the Arrow library, how the abstractions it provides can improve your code, and how this magic that provides higher-kinded types works under the hood.
David Laing / Ryan Trinkle - Front-end Development with Reflex
3 language Invited Introductory Workshop 480 Mins Intermediate workshop
David Laing
Sr. Functional Programming Developer
There has been a lot of excitement about Functional Reactive Programming (FRP).
Most of it has been about distant relatives of the original idea, which are nowhere near as powerful or as useful.
The `reflex` library -- and the companion `reflex-dom` library -- were created in order to use FRP to do front-end development using Haskell.
This workshop will give you hands-on experience with these libraries.
The workshop will show attendees a new way to manage state and time-dependent logic, with significant benefits over the standard approaches when it comes to abstraction, composition and correctness.
It will also make the case that when these ideas are applied to front-end development, they lead to something beyond what is delivered by libraries like `react` and `redux`.
Eugenia Cheng - Introduction to Category Theory
1 language Invited Workshop 90 Mins Beginner
There are often two barriers to entry for those who have heard that they "should" look at some category theory. One is the motivation: why is something so abstract going to be helpful? The other is technical: many introductory texts assume a large amount of mathematical knowledge in avance. My keynote talk addresses the first issue and this workshop will address the second. We will introduce some of the basic concepts of category theory without using other mathematical structures as examples. We will cover categories and functors and will also take requests.
Manuel Chakravarty - Welcome to FP Introductory Workshop
3 language Invited Introductory Workshop 480 Mins Beginner
Manuel Chakravarty
Lambda Scientist
Tweag I/O & IOHK
Functional programming has become inevitable. New programming languages draw inspiration from the functional paradigm; old programming languages retrofit support for functional programming; and development teams change their coding style to adopt the best functional programming idioms. We are clearly experiencing a paradigm shift in our industry.
Due to its academic roots, functional programming sometimes seems unapproachable, with unfamiliar jargon, obscure concepts, and bewildering theories. It doesn't have to be like that.
In this one-day series of lectures and hands-on workshops, we will translate the jargon, demystify the concepts, and put the theories into practice. There is nothing inherently difficult about functional programming. In fact, its main aim is to simplify programming and to make it more widely accessible. Functional programming is about being able to understand one function without the million lines of code it is a part of. It is about code reuse. It is about modularity and keeping code easy to change and refactor. These are all goals of good program design that every developer appreciates. Based on this common ground, we will explore functional programming together and see how it can help us to achieve these design goals. In fact, by learning the fundamentals of functional programming in Haskell, we can improve program design in mainstream languages, such as Javascript and C++, and even more so, in hybrid languages, such as Scala and Swift.
Throughout the day, we will explain the most commonly used functional programming terminology. You will learn the fundamentals of Haskell, one of the most popular functional programming languages. In the process, we will look at a lot of concrete code to understand what functional programming is all about and how to use it in your own programs. In the workshops, you will have plenty of opportunity to write code yourself, experiment, and ask questions. It'll be fun!
Bring your laptop and your curiosity and by the end of the day, functional programming will be another tool in your toolbox, and you will be ready to enjoy the main YOW! Lambda Jam conference.
Yaron Minsky - Introduction to OCaml
3 language Invited Introductory Workshop 480 Mins Intermediate
The goal of this workshop is to get you a basic familiarity with OCaml and the tools you'll need to be effective working in the language. It will be aimed at experienced programmers who don't know OCaml, and don't necessarily know any functional programming.
The workshop is organized around a set of exercises that should take you through the basics of the language, up through building a simple client/server application using Async RPC.
In addition to that, we hope to teach people how to use the latest tools for OCaml, including installing dependencies with opam , building your code with Dune, using Merlin for IDE-style functionality like type throwback and go-to-definition, and writing expect tests to visualize what your code is doing. We'll also show you how to write a simple web-game using js_of_ocaml.
Tony Morris / Edward Kmett - Let's Lens
Tony Morris
Queensland FP Lab, Data61
Let's Lens presents a series of exercises, in a similar format to the Data61 functional programming course material. The subject of the exercises is around the concept of lenses, initially proposed by Foster et al., to solve the view-update problem of relational databases.
The theories around lenses have been advanced significantly in recent years, resulting in a library, implemented in Haskell, called lens.
This workshop will take you through the basic definition of the lens data structure and its related structures such as traversals and prisms. Following this we implement some of the low-level lens library, then go on to discuss and solve a practical problem that uses all of these structures.
Amy Wong - Introduction to recursion scheme
3 technique Accepted Talk 30 Mins Intermediate haskell functional-programming functors
Amy Wong
BRICKX
Recursion is used extensively in functional programming. It is indeed iteration through nested data structures. Therefore patterns are identified to generalise the nested structure iteration. Using these patterns can factor out the recursion mechanism from application specific logic for code simplicity. That's the purpose of recursion scheme.
This talk points out different recursion problems are having similar patterns. The recursion scheme is introduced to support these patterns. It will discuss how the common iteration mechanics is separated from the application specific logic by using the patterns, aka morphisms, provided by the recursion scheme. The fundamental pattern, catamorphism, and a few other commonly-used morphisms will be illustrated with some recursion examples.
The aim of the talk is to give audience an idea of how recursion can be implemented in simple and elegant ways by applying the various morphisms provided by the recursion schemes.
Andrew McMiddlin - Property-based State Machine Testing
3 technique Accepted Talk 30 Mins Intermediate haskell property-based-testing state-machine-testing hedgehog servant
Andrew McMiddlin
Functional Programming Engineer
Automated testing is key to ensuring the ongoing health and well being of any software project, giving developers and users confidence that their software works as intended. Property based testing is a significant step forward compared to traditional unit tests, exercising code with randomly generated inputs to ensure that key properties hold. However, both of these techniques tend to be used at the level of individual functions. Many important properties of an application only appear at a higher level, and depend on the state of the application under test. The Haskell library hedgehog, a relative newcomer to the property based testing world, includes facilities for property-based state machine testing, giving developers a foundation on which to build these more complicated tests.
In this talk, Andrew will give you an introduction to state machine property testing using hedgehog.He'll start with a quick refresher on property based testing, followed by a brief introduction to state machines and the sorts of applications they can be used to model. From there, he'll take you on a guided tour of hedgehog's state machine testing facilities. Finally, Andrew will present a series of examples to show off what you can do and hopefully give you enough ideas to start applying this tool to your own projects. The application being tested will be a servant web application, and examples will include testing fundamentals such as content creation and deletion, uniqueness constraints, and authentication.
An intermediate knowledge of Haskell and familiarity with property based testing will be beneficial,but not essential. The slides and demo application will be available after the talk for people to study in detail.
Colin Fleming - Developing an IDE for Clojure code
2 practice Accepted Talk 30 Mins Intermediate clojure ide
Colin Fleming
Owner/Developer
Ideogram Limited
Cursive is an IDE for Clojure, based on the IntelliJ framework. In contrast to the majority of Clojure development environments, Cursive uses static analysis of the source code to work its magic rather than using runtime inspection of a live system via the REPL. IntelliJ provides a sophisticated indexing infrastructure, and this in combination with static analysis allows many interesting features which are difficult or impossible to achieve with a traditional REPL-based environment. Essential code navigation tools such as Find Usages and refactorings such as Rename become possible, and using IntelliJ's code inspections can provide error marking and static analysis of code, right in the editor. This ability to see problems immediately provides an even shorter feedback loop than working in the REPL.
I'll discuss some of the challenges of developing a traditional IDE for a language as flexible as Clojure, including the implementation details of how to deal with syntax extensions from macros. I'll also talk about the various ups and downs of developing much of it in Clojure, and why some of it is also developed in Kotlin. I'll also talk about why I believe our editors should be syntax aware, not just text based.
Mark Hopkins - All of Basic Category Theory
2 concept Accepted Talk 30 Mins Advanced category-theory
Have you ever been puzzled by the suggestion that
data Lens s a = Lens { get :: s -> a, set :: a -> s -> s }
might be in some sense the same as
forall f. Functor f => (a -> f a) -> s -> f s/code>
or, more to the point, how on earth someone ever went about figuring this out in the first place?
Don't know your Kan extensions from your co-ends, your pushouts from your presheaves?
Join me for a scenic adventure tour through the magical land of category theory, stopping off at all the major sights.
We'll learn the basic notions that form the conceptual backbone of category theory,
and how they all fit together.
Category theory has made deep inroads into computer science theory, but in this talk we'll be focused on computer science practice. We'll explore the advantages category theory brings to programming in terms of
providing alternate representations for types
classifying solutions, or
simply providing a clarifying viewpoint and helping to organise our thinking.
In addition this should provide you with the right framework for further exploring category theory, should you so wish.
Xavier Ho - Let's Make Functional Generative Art
2 technique Accepted Talk 30 Mins Intermediate creative-coding l-systems generative art printing
Xavier Ho
Software Crafter
Programming generative art, also known as creative coding, is often a trial-and-error process, combining creativity and logic to present something aesthetic. However, creative coding has a high barrier to entry due to the breadth of knowledge and coding skills required. This talk aims to lower that barrier for you to take home and practice creative coding.
In this talk, you will learn about algorithms and techniques for generative art using a pure functional paradigm. First, shepherding random numbers to simulate the universality of nature patterns that appear in plants, rocks, sand, and smoke. Next, using L-system formal grammar to create a seemingly infinite, but well-structured, series of graphics. Lastly, interfacing with printers to bring your drawing to life.
For you to get the most out of this talk, you should be comfortable working in a functional language of your choice. Although I will introduce some theory, background in mathematics and formal theory is not required to attend.
Simon Belak - Transducing for fun and profit
2 concept Accepted Talk 30 Mins Intermediate clojure stream-processing data-science composition
Simon Belak
Transducers -- composable algorithmic transformation decoupled from input or output sources -- are Clojure's take on data transformation. In this talk we will look at what makes a transducer; push their composability to the limit chasing the panacea of building complex single-pass transformations out of reusable components (eg. calculating a bunch of descriptive statistics like sum, sum of squares, mean, variance, ... in a single pass without resorting to a spaghetti ball fold); explore how the fact they are decoupled from input and output traversal opens up some interesting possibilities as they can be made to work in both online and batch settings; all drawing from practical examples of using Clojure to analize "awkward-size" data.
Vaibhav Sagar - I Haskell a Git
2 concept Accepted Talk 30 Mins Intermediate git haskell attoparsec
Vaibhav Sagar
Git is the most widely used version control tool today, but what is actually happening when we perform a `git add` or a `git commit`? To answer this question I'm going to walk through a small implementation of Git in Haskell. Along the way we'll touch on functional data structures, content-addressable stores, and parser combinators. At the end we'll analyse an entire Git repository and talk about the practical applications and limitations of what we've built. My hope is that this knowledge will help you be less frustrated the next time you see a cryptic Git error message!
Ben Barnes - Failing gracefully with EitherT
1 practice Accepted Talk 30 Mins Intermediate haskell monad-transformers production-code error-handling
Data61 | CSIRO
Handling errors in a principled manner is an important aspect of writing production code. Drawing on our experience of writing production systems in Haskell, we believe that for a large class of problems, using the EitherT monad transformer is a simple and effective pattern to handle errors. We suggest that often, several mechanisms for error handling appear in code bases (including exceptions and the use of free monads) and that it will be of interest to intermediate Haskellers to see a principled approach that only uses EitherT to accomplish this.
Dylan Just / Ryan Pollard - Flax: a good source of Selenium
1 case-study Accepted Talk 30 Mins Intermediate testing monad scala reader-monad writer-monad selenium
Dylan Just
Ryan Pollard
Ephox
In this talk, we discuss the design and implementation of "Flax", a purely functional wrapper around the Selenium web testing library. Flax is written in Scala and allows you to create web tests within an "Action" Monad. By making use of Scala's for-comprehensions, Flax tests read like a set of test instructions, but with the benefits of a functional approach.
The talk describes Flax's Action Monad in detail, showing how it is a stack of Either, Reader, Writer and Task. Each of these effects has a specific purpose in Flax's use as a tool for constructing browser-based tests.
Initially, in Flax, we wanted to just do something quick-and-dirty - FP is nice, but for a testing library, do we really need it? However, a number of design problems quickly arose. We'll talk about these issues and how we realized that the purely functional approach was the only sensible way forward.
A key problem we encountered with the functional approach was that we no longer able to use stack traces to identify where a test failed. To address this, we used the Writer Monad to track the actions performed. The actions are tracked as a tree of operations, which lets us group higher-level actions as a tree of lower-level actions. This is particularly useful for structuring browser tests, as often a specification of desired behavior can translate into a long sequence of individual steps.
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Criminal behavior isn't only confined to highly populated low income areas, and it isn't strictly left to one nationality to commit either. Over the last few decades, its been apparent that some people seem to think they can do what they want and face no repercussions of their actions. So many names on this list are beyond talented, but they just couldn't get their act together. Aaron Hernandez is now in federal prison for committing his part in a heinous murder of another football player. Sports stars have an obligation to their fans and their teammates to be the best most exciting player they can be.
While murder plots are exciting, it is probably not the kind of excitement that most sports fans were looking for in the morning edition of the papers. He was a rather unpleasant footnote in the history of the NFL, and they have a fair share of them. The National Football League is not the only one to have problems with criminal records. The NBA has had a few charges itself like this like Gilbert Arenas having a firearm in his locker. It has become a growing issue within all of the major leagues.
Firearms are not the only problem either. Several domestic charges have been filed against different players around the leagues. This is a black eye on the face of all leagues and a hard problem to overcome amongst all leagues. Drugs are another large problem in the sports world. Too many players are thrown in jail often because they have a problem and are able to buy their way through it because they are professional ball players only to do it again. This is a sad state of things when this type of behavior is not helped. If this were a regular joe, and they were caught with drugs, it would end in rehab or prison. It shouldn't be different because this person makes millions of dollars and we watch them on television. These guys need more help than people can imagine because of the stress and pressure put on them from the world of pro sports. It is hard not to judge, but even harder to empathize with their lives. It would be nice if the leagues got a program started that helped them personally get through their addiction.


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Q: Array Lists and Using Iterator I am trying to remove an element from an Array list in Java, I get an error
"Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: java.util.ArrayList$Itr cannot be cast to newpackage.Book";

What is the reason for this error and how can I fix it?
    public void removeBook(){
 int i=Integer.parseInt(JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Pleanse input isbn to be removed"));
        Iterator b=books.iterator();
        while(b.hasNext()){
            if(i==((Book)b).ISBN)b.remove();
        }
    }

Thank you.

A: b is an Iterator, not a Book. You should call b.next() to obtain the current Book. And you should use a parameterized type - Iterator<Book> - to avoid the need to cast the current element to Book.
public void removeBook() {
    int i=Integer.parseInt(JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Pleanse input isbn to be removed"));
    Iterator<Book> b=books.iterator();
    while(b.hasNext()) {
        if(i == b.next().ISBN)
            b.remove();
    }
}

Another suggestion, instead of accessing the ISBN property directly, use a getter - getISBN().

A: Type cast b.next() to Book type object as shown below and then do the comparison. Actually this is happening because you are trying to typecast iterator type to book type
public void removeBook(){
int i=Integer.parseInt(JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Pleanse input isbn to be removed"));
        Iterator b=books.iterator();
        while(b.hasNext()){
            Book b1=(Book) b.next();
            if(i==(b1.ISBN)){
              b.remove();
            }
        }
    }

A: Your code inside while loop is not very clear, try simply cast Iterator object to your object and remove it
   Iterator itr = books.iterator();
    int i=Integer.parseInt(JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Please input isbn to be removed"));

    Book Element = "";

    while (itr.hasNext()) {
      Element = (Book) itr.next();
      if (Element.id == i) {
        itr.remove();
        break;
      }
    }

PS : you can't compare a Book object with an Integer 'i', if 'i' is the id of the book to delete, you have to compare Book.id == i or with the String book name : Element.name.equals("nameInput")


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Q: Link synonyms to a common identifier I have a R dataframe (gene information, ~20000 entries) that looks like this once simplified:
> head(alias_db)
   Synonyms               dbXref
1  PA1m|A2m|AI893533|MAM  ENSMUSG00000030359
2  AA-NAT|Nat-2|Nat4|Snat ENSMUSG00000020804

A gene has different names (synonyms) separated by "|" and a dbXref field (database identifier). I would like to create a new data frame looking like this:
  Names dbXref
1 Pzp   ENSMUSG00000030359
2 A1m   ENSMUSG00000030359
...
4 MAM   ENSMUSG00000030359
5 Aanat ENSMUSG00000020804
...

Basically, the synonyms are the keys and the dbXref field my values; I want to be able to search any name in synonyms and then use its dbXref to look up another larger dataframe.
What is the best way to do this? I was thinking of this:
alias_db$SplitSynonyms=strsplit(alias_db$Synonyms,"|",fixed=TRUE)
geneNames<-new.env()
for(i in seq(nrow(alias_db)))
  {
    lapply(alias_db$SplitSynonyms[[i]],function(x) geneNames[[ x ]] <- alias_db$Ensembl[i])
  }

I don't know if this is really efficient. sapply should be slower than a for loop, and then I use lapply on the lists created by strsplit. The environment is used as key value dictionnary.
The worse part is that I don't obtain a dataframe as requested....

A: If I understand your question correctly, you can try cSplit from my "splitstackshape" package, like this:
library(splitstackshape)
cSplit(alias_db, "Synonyms", "|", "long")
#    Synonyms             dbXref
# 1:     PA1m ENSMUSG00000030359
# 2:      A2m ENSMUSG00000030359
# 3: AI893533 ENSMUSG00000030359
# 4:      MAM ENSMUSG00000030359
# 5:   AA-NAT ENSMUSG00000020804
# 6:    Nat-2 ENSMUSG00000020804
# 7:     Nat4 ENSMUSG00000020804
# 8:     Snat ENSMUSG00000020804


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As the Associate Deans and Senior Administrators of Berkeley Law, we write to report on recent events and to express our admiration for—and faith in—our staff, students, faculty, and alumni. We have challenges ahead, but the law school will face them as a community.
Sujit Choudhry has resigned as dean of Berkeley Law, as has been widely reported. Under the University of California's tenure policy, he remains a member of the school's faculty at present.
We expect campus leaders to announce an interim dean soon, within two weeks, if not sooner.
Provost Claude Steele has requested input from students, staff, and faculty with respect to the selection of an interim dean.
We strongly encourage those of you with views on the subject to make them known to Provost Steele as quickly as possible. As soon as we know more about the process for selecting an interim dean, we will share it with the community.
This has been an extraordinary week at the law school. The faculty learned about the allegations on Wednesday morning, along with the rest of the Berkeley Law community. Faculty members issued a statement several hours after hearing of the allegations, condemning the conduct alleged in the complaint. Later that day, central campus released the University's Title IX investigative report, in which then-Dean Choudhry admitted to conduct that led the University to conclude he had violated UC Berkeley's sexual harassment policy. Faculty and senior staff met with Chancellor Nicholas Dirks and Provost Steele Thursday morning and expressed their condemnation of the behavior to which then-Dean Choudhry admitted in the report. Without violating the confidentiality of that meeting, we can report that many faculty members expressed grave concerns about the University's handling of this incident.
We would like to take this opportunity to commend the staff of Berkeley Law for their dedication and professionalism. We are so fortunate to work every day with the wonderful, compassionate members of our staff, and we know this has been an especially challenging time for them.
We are also encouraged and inspired by the response of our students, who have demonstrated an admirable commitment to the school during this very difficult time.
And we are proud of our alumni for their engagement, encouragement, wisdom and support.
We are looking forward, as a community, to confronting and addressing the concerns raised by this conduct—including how it was addressed administratively—and the broader issue of ensuring a safe and supportive environment for all faculty, staff, and students. We would also like to acknowledge the courage of Tyann Sorrell, the former dean's executive assistant.
Berkeley Law has been through other crises in its 100-plus years as a public law school. As before, we know that our students, faculty, staff, and alumni will hew to our strong core values of community and justice and demonstrate the resilience and strength that will allow us to emerge stronger than before.
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XON's infrastructure unit, which is made up of the former Merqu Communications business, delivered exceptional results and secured a number of key contracts, including one of the larger municipalities in Gauteng and the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) and has since made strong inroads into the private sector.
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Some H&R Block customers find relief checks deposited in wrong accounts
Checks deposited in accounts company used for service fees
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PROBLEM. MICHAEL NEEMANN RECEIVED QUITE THE SURPRISE WHEN HE DECIDED TO LOOK UP THE STATUS OF HIS STIMULUS CHECK. >> MY WIFE WENT AND LOOKED AND IT SHOWED OUR FIRST STIMULUS CHECK AND THE ACCOUNT IT WENT TO AND THE SECOND ONE AND WHERE THAT WENT TO. AND IT'S NOT EVEN CLOSE TO OUR ACCOUNT NUMBER. >> THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO LISA SABER. >> IT CAME UP WITH TWO BOXES. THE FIRST BOX SHOWED THE FIRST STIMULUS PAYMENT AND THAT IT WENT INTO MY BANK ACCOUNT. WHICH WAS THE CORRECT NUMBER. THEN THERE WAS A SECOND BOX SAID THE SECOND ONE WENT INTO THIS ACCOUNT NUMBER. >> BUT IT WAS THE WRONG ACCOUNT. AFTER FAILED ATTEMPTS TO REACH THE IRS, SHE CONTACTED A REPRESENTATIVE FROM H&R BLOCK- WHICH PREPARED HER TAXES LAST YEAR. >> WHEN YOU FILE WITH THEM AND THEY TAKE THE SERVICE OUT WHEN YOU FILE, WHATEVER BANK THAT THEY USE IS WHERE THE MONEY GOT DEPOSITED TO. >> LISA SAYS SHE WAS TOLD HER CHECK WILL EITHER BE CUT BY THAT BANK OR SENT BACK TO THE IRS BEFORE IT MAKES ITS WAY TO HER. >> SO I THINK THE FRUSTRATING THING IS, THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO. >> LISA AND MICHAEL ARE NOT ALONE. H&R BLOCK TOOK TO SOCIAL MEDIA, WRITING THE IRS GET MY PAYMENT WEBSITE MAY DISPLAY AN ACCOUNT NUMBER YOU DON'T RECOGNIZE. IF YOU TOOK A REFUND TRANSFER, IT MAY BE REFLECTING THAT ACCOUNT NUMBER. CHECK YOUR 2019 RETURN TO CONFIRM. >> H&R BLOCK SAYS IF YOU SEE AN ACCOUNT ON THE IRS WEBSITE THAT DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU, YOU CAN CALL THEIR CUSTOMER SERVICE LINE. REPORTING LIVE, TIM
Many Granite Staters who used H&R Block to file their taxes were surprised to see their COVID-19 stimulus checks deposited into accounts they didn't own.>> Download the free WMUR appH&R Block officials said the IRS determines where the second stimulus payments were sent, and in some cases, money was deposited to a different account than the first stimulus payment last spring.The company said it is working with customers to fix the problem. Michael Neemann, of Ashland, said he received quite a surprise when he decided to look up the status of his stimulus check. "My wife went and looked, and it showed our first stimulus check and the account it went to and the second one and where that went to, and it's not even close to our account number," he said.The same thing happened to Lisa Saber, of Sanbornton. "It came up with two boxes," she said. "The first box showed the first stimulus payment and that it went into my bank account, which was the correct number. Then, there was a second box that said the second one went into this account number."But that was the wrong account. After failed attempts to reach the IRS, she contacted a representative from H&R Block, which prepared her taxes last year."When you file with them and they take the service fee out when you file, whatever bank that they use is where the money got deposited to," Saber said.Saber said she was told that her check would either be cut by the bank or sent back to the IRS before it makes its way to her. "So, I think the frustrating thing is, there's nothing we can do," she said.H&R Block took to social media about the issue, writing:"The IRS Get My Payment website may display an account number you don't recognize. If you took a Refund Transfer, it may be reflecting that account number. Check your 2019 return to confirm."H&R Block said anyone who sees an unfamiliar account on the IRS website can call their company's customer service line at 1-800-HRBLOCK.
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Many Granite Staters who used H&R Block to file their taxes were surprised to see their COVID-19 stimulus checks deposited into accounts they didn't own.
H&R Block officials said the IRS determines where the second stimulus payments were sent, and in some cases, money was deposited to a different account than the first stimulus payment last spring.
The company said it is working with customers to fix the problem.
Michael Neemann, of Ashland, said he received quite a surprise when he decided to look up the status of his stimulus check.
"My wife went and looked, and it showed our first stimulus check and the account it went to and the second one and where that went to, and it's not even close to our account number," he said.
The same thing happened to Lisa Saber, of Sanbornton.
"It came up with two boxes," she said. "The first box showed the first stimulus payment and that it went into my bank account, which was the correct number. Then, there was a second box that said the second one went into this account number."
But that was the wrong account. After failed attempts to reach the IRS, she contacted a representative from H&R Block, which prepared her taxes last year.
"When you file with them and they take the service fee out when you file, whatever bank that they use is where the money got deposited to," Saber said.
Saber said she was told that her check would either be cut by the bank or sent back to the IRS before it makes its way to her.
"So, I think the frustrating thing is, there's nothing we can do," she said.
H&R Block took to social media about the issue, writing:
"The IRS Get My Payment website may display an account number you don't recognize. If you took a Refund Transfer, it may be reflecting that account number. Check your 2019 return to confirm."
H&R Block said anyone who sees an unfamiliar account on the IRS website can call their company's customer service line at 1-800-HRBLOCK.


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