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Q: Optional parameter in lambda Can I reduce the number of methods needed in my class to accomplish running code in a lambda, with optional parameters?
I created a class where I can run code repeatedly like this:
Scheduler.InvokeRepeated(1.0f, () => { ... // Do things forever });

I also want to be able to easily cancel a running code like this:
Scheduler.InvokeRepeated(1.0f, (runningAction) => {
    ... // Do things for a while
    if (exit) {
        runningAction.Cancel();
    }
});

But I don't want to force the user to specify that runningAction parameter.
So this is my class:
    public static RunningAction InvokeRepeated(float interval, Action action)
    {
        // Call InvokeAt with an "action" parameter.
        return InvokeAt(currentTime + interval, interval, action, null);
    }

    public static RunningAction InvokeRepeated(float interval, Action<RunningAction> actionWithParam)
    {
        // Call InvokeAt with an "actionWithParam" parameter.
        return InvokeAt(currentTime + interval, interval, null, actionWithParam);
    }

    private static RunningAction InvokeAt(float time, float interval, Action<> action, Action<RunningAction> actionWithParam)
    {
        ... // Do things depending on whether action is null or actionWithParam is null
    }

Now imagine that I have a lot of methods for specifying a first delay, and then an interval. Or just something that runs delayed once, or twice, and doesn't repeat etc.
So that means I have to duplicate every method to include these two different kinds of 'Action's. But if possible I'd rather just have one method.
I tried creating my own delegate, instead of using Action:
    public delegate void MyDelegate(RunningAction arg = null);

But that didn't allow me to call it without specifying a parameter.
Could you also point me to where I can read up on stuff like this? Weird things you can and can't do with generics and delegates?

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This page is a resource centre for the karate-ka of shito-ryu itosu-kai in the Deep River Karate Club.
Crib sheet listing the basics you need to know as a coloured belt as you go through the kyus. The sheet does not include yakushoku.
All the kihon kata (20) follow the same basic "I", or "H" on its side, pattern. This diagram helps show the basic pattern.
These videos of a Deep River karate-ka provide good examples of a couple of Kihon Katas and Pinan Nidan (yellow belt). These should not be considered a reference for the perfect kata. All karate-ka shall remember that it is always possible to improve your kata. The videos do provide a visual for all the elements of these kata helpful for learning. Thank you to the Deep River Karate-ka (Andrew S., Ethan K., and Matthew K.) who agreed to perform for these videos for your benefit.
Kihon Kata #1 (MPG format, 12 MB; or MP-4 format, 10 MB).
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News | January 17, 2023
Statkraft And Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners Team Up To Develop 2.2GW Of Offshore Wind In Ireland
Statkraft has announced a major deal with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners' (CIP) fund Copenhagen Infrastructure IV K/S (CI IV) as part of its plans to develop up to 2.2 gigawatts of offshore wind in Ireland.
This landmark partnership will see CIP acquire a 50% stake in Statkraft's offshore wind portfolio in Ireland. The financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
The scope of the partnership includes the three phases of the North Irish Sea Array, or NISA, and the Bore Array. The proposed location for NISA is off the coast of counties Dublin, Louth, and Meath, while the site of the Bore Array has been proposed for the Celtic Sea.
Developing and building these projects is expected to require an investment of more than $4B by Statkraft and CIP by 2030.
"The need for energy security and decarbonisation has never been as important, or urgent, as it is today. Ireland has a wealth of renewable energy resources right on its doorstep – energy that has largely remained untapped. Statkraft and CIP will now work together to bring that clean, green power to the Irish people," said David Flood, Head of Offshore Wind at Statkraft.
"This deal marks a major development for Statkraft in Ireland as we scale up our offshore wind ambitions across Northern Europe. The country's maritime area makes it ideal for large-scale offshore wind energy production – energy we can deliver in partnership with CIP. The company's track record in offshore wind coupled with our development expertise will enable us to harness the energy of the wind in the Irish Sea to create a green energy system designed for a decarbonised future," he added.
Nischal Agarwal, Partner in CIP, said: "We are very pleased to be entering the Irish offshore market and look forward to developing these exciting projects together with Statkraft. In combining CIP's industrial background and international experience within offshore wind with Statkraft's experience of Irish renewables, the partnership will enable the provision of renewable power to Irish homes and businesses and contribute to reaching the government's ambitious decarbonisation targets."
Within offshore wind, Statkraft is pursuing an industrial role in the North Sea and Ireland. This agreement is an important step in delivering on this ambition. Statkraft intends to play a major role in the development of an offshore wind industry in Norway. The company has ten years of experience from offshore wind in the UK and extensive expertise in developing and operating large renewable projects. Statkraft is taking part in two strong consortia pursuing bids to develop the first Norwegian offshore wind projects.
Gry J. Aamodt, Statkraft's Head of Offshore wind in Norway, said: "The agreement and cooperation with CIP gives us access to expertise and experience from both bottom-fixed and floating offshore wind projects. The projects in Ireland will make us even better positioned for the development of both Sørlige Nordsjø II, Utsira Nord and future projects in Norway."
Statkraft is Europe's largest generator of renewable energy. The company entered the Irish market in 2018 and since then has almost tripled its workforce and tripled its development portfolio. A leading player in the Irish renewable energy market, it develops, owns, and operates renewable energy projects across the technologies of onshore wind, offshore wind, solar, battery storage and grid services.
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Our Managing Director Duncan Parker recently visited Tirana, the capital city of Albania – a youthful and vibrant city. With its brand new beautiful football stadium, wide open well used parks, rainbow coloured housing estates and fashion conscious city workers that frequent the proliferation of high end restaurants, cafes and bars - on the surface it seems like a city that's 'on the up'.
Underneath the veneer, however, there's a worrying epidemic at play. Droves of young people are choosing to leave Albania to seek out a better life. According to a Case Worker at the Mary Ward Loreto Foundation, an Albanian NGO aiming to eradicate poverty and human trafficking, "they are without hope here". He states that "they know the risks" involved in paying 'smugglers' to try and get to other European countries to seek out work, opportunity and most importantly hope, but believes that "many young people think it's worth it". Sadly also, some are leaving not through choice, but through coercion. In either scenario, the risk of exploitation is high.
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HomeGeneral NewsNikki Haley's speech at the Graduate Institute of Geneva (text plus video)
Nikki Haley's speech at the Graduate Institute of Geneva (text plus video)
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/06/nikki-haleys-speech-at-graduate.html
This is worth reading.
Remarks at the Graduate Institute of Geneva on "A Place for Conscience: the Future of the United States in the Human Rights Council"
Ambassador Nikki Haley
U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
U.S. Mission to the United Nations
AS DELIVERED
I'd like to thank the Graduate Institute and for everyone that came today. Before we get started, I think it's important that we remember the senseless lives that were lost in London. The United States stands strongly with London with these careless acts and we are committed to helping fight terrorism as it continues to go forward.
The first chairman of the United Nations organization dedicated entirely to human rights was a chairwoman.
Eleanor Roosevelt was elected to head the Human Rights Commission when it first met in January, 1947. She was a natural choice. Mrs. Roosevelt was already well known for her heartfelt advocacy for universal human rights.
She was a woman of deep faith. Her nightly prayer asked God to quote, "make us sure of the good we cannot see, and of the hidden good in the world." Eleanor Roosevelt was an idealist. But she was no pushover.
The first item on the Commission's agenda was drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. During the debate, the United States and the Soviet Union clashed repeatedly in some of the opening skirmishes of the Cold War.
The Soviet delegate taunted Mrs. Roosevelt: How could the United States call itself a champion of human rights when African Americans were still discriminated against? To which Mrs. Roosevelt acknowledged that yes, the United States still had problems, and progress was being made.
And then she proposed a deal that quieted the Soviet delegate: She said the Soviets could send a delegation to observe the United States – if the United States could do the same to the Soviet Union.
Of course, the Soviets never did and never would give free reign to a U.S. delegation. She was making a point. She was calling out a fellow commission member for using human rights as a cover for its political agenda.
Mrs. Roosevelt's vision of the Human Rights Commission was bigger than any one country. She saw the Commission as a place for conscience, not politics. She knew that if it was allowed to become a forum for hypocrisy and political point-scoring, it would do more to hurt the cause of human rights than to help it.
My country has a unique beginning, founded on human rights, holding self-evident the truth that all men are created equal with rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Of course America did not invent these rights – God did. Simply by our birth, human beings are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights. These rights belong to all of us. They are not the gift of any government. They cannot legitimately be taken away by any government.
The American idea is that government exists to serve the people, not the other way around. Government should secure our rights, not violate them.
We continue striving to achieve this principle through self-government, using elections and the rule of law to hold our leaders accountable. The inherent dignity of the individual is not secured by words but by actions. This is the standard by which we judge ourselves as a nation – and by which we invite others to judge us as well.
It is this commitment to the equal worth of all human beings that leads the United States to support universal human rights. And of course we are not alone. There are many other nations, both on the Council and off, that affirm universal human rights and act to protect and extend them.
When the Human Rights Council has acted with clarity and integrity, it has advanced the cause of human rights. It has brought the names of prisoners of conscience to international prominence and given voice to the voiceless.
At times, the Council has placed a spotlight on individual country violators and spurred action, including convening emergency sessions to address the war crimes being committed by the Assad regime in Syria. The Council's Commission of Inquiry on North Korea led to the Security Council action on human rights abuses there.
The Council is at its best when it is calling out human rights violators and abuses, and provoking positive action. It changes lives. It pushes back against the tide of cynicism that is building in our world. And it reassures us that it deserves our continued investment of time and treasure.
But there is a truth that must be acknowledged by anyone who cares about human rights: When the Council fails to act properly – when it fails to act at all – it undermines its own credibility and the cause of human rights. It leaves the most vulnerable to suffer and die. It fuels the cynical belief that countries cannot put aside self-interest and cooperate on behalf of human dignity. It re-enforces our growing suspicion that the Human Rights Council is not a good investment of our time, money, and national prestige.
Tragically, we've been down this road before.
In 2005, then-Secretary-General Kofi Annan disbanded the precursor to the Human Rights Council, the Human Rights Commission. He blamed what he called its "credibility deficit." The description was well-earned.
Many of the world's worst human rights offenders were elected to the seats on the Commission. They used those positions, not to advance human rights, but to shield themselves from criticism or to criticize others.
In short, the Commission had lost the world's trust. It had stained and setback the cause of human rights.
These problems were supposed to have been fixed when the new Council was formed. Sadly, the case against the Human Rights Council today looks an awful lot like the case against the discredited Human Rights Commission over a decade ago.
Once again, over half the current member countries fail to meet basic human rights standards as measured by Freedom House.
Countries like Venezuela, Cuba, China, Burundi, and Saudi Arabia occupy positions that obligate them to, in the words of the resolution that created the Human Rights Council, "uphold the highest standards" of human rights. They clearly do not uphold those highest standards.
And once again, as with the disgraced and disbanded Human Rights Commission, the victims of the world's most egregious human rights violations are too often ignored by the very organization that is supposed to protect them.
In Venezuela, the government has systematically destroyed civil society through arbitrary detention, torture, and blatant violations of freedom of the press and freedom of expression. Children are starving to death. Mothers dig through trash cans to feed their families. This is a crisis that has been 18 years in the making. The Venezuelan people have been robbed of their human rights.
And yet, not once has the Human Rights Council seen fit to condemn Venezuela. Quite the contrary – the Council chose to showcase Venezuela's work while protestors were being beaten in the streets. Just two years ago, President Maduro was invited to address the Council, just weeks after Venezuela was re-elected as a member.
In Cuba, the government continues to arrest and detain critics and human rights advocates. The government strictly controls the media and severely restricts the Cuban people's access to the internet. Political prisoners by the thousands continue to sit in Cuban jails. Yet Cuba has never been condemned by the Human Rights Council. It, too, is a member country.
In fact, Cuba uses its membership in the Council as proof that it is a supporter of human rights, instead of a violator that it is. The Cuban deputy foreign minister called Cuba's 2016 re-election to the Human Rights Council, "irrefutable evidence of Cuba's historic prestige in the promotion and protection of all human rights for Cubans."
This is a reversal of the truth that would make George Orwell blush.
In 2014, Russia invaded Ukraine and took over Crimea. This illegal occupation resulted in thousands of civilian deaths and injuries as well as arbitrary detentions. No special meeting of the Human Rights Council was called, and the abuses continue to mount.
Robert Mugabe continues his decades-long campaign of repression in Zimbabwe. Nothing from Geneva. Instead, human rights violators Iran, Venezuela, and North Korea, took advantage of a Council review to commend Mugabe's so-called "promotion and protection of human rights."
The Human Rights Council has been given a great responsibility. It has been charged with using the moral power of universal human rights to be the world's advocate for the most vulnerable among us. Judged by this basic standard, the Human Rights Council has failed.
In case after case, it has been a forum for politics, hypocrisy, and evasion – not the forum for conscience that its founders envisioned. It has become a place for political manipulation, rather than the promotion of universal values. Those who cannot defend themselves turn to this Council for hope but are too often disappointed by inaction.
Once again, the world's foremost human rights body has tarnished the cause of human rights. The United Nations must now act to reclaim the legitimacy of universal human dignity.
For all of us, this is an urgent ask. Human rights are central to the mission of the United Nations. Not only are they the right thing to do, they're the smart thing to do.
I dedicated the U.S. presidency of the Security Council in April to making the connection between human rights and peace and security.
This is a cause that is bigger than any one organization. If the Human Rights Council is going to be an organization we entrust to protect and promote human rights, it must change. If it fails to change, then we must pursue the advancement of human rights outside of the Council.
America does not seek to leave the Human Rights Council. We seek to reestablish the Council's legitimacy.
There are a couple of critically necessary changes.
First, the UN must act to keep the worst human rights abusers from obtaining seats on the Council. As it stands, elections for membership to the Council are over before the voting even begins. Regional blocs nominate slates of pre-determined candidates that never face any competition for votes.
No competition means no scrutiny of candidates' human rights records. We must change the elections so countries are forced to make the case for membership based on their records, not on their promises.
Selection of members must occur out in the open for all to see. The secret ballot must be replaced with open voting. Countries that are willing to support human rights violators to serve on the Human Rights Council must be willing to show their faces. They know who they are. It's time for the world to know who they are.
Second, the Council's Agenda Item Seven must be removed. This, of course, is the scandalous provision that singles out Israel for automatic criticism. There is no legitimate human rights reason for this agenda item to exist. It is the central flaw that turns the Human Rights Council from an organization that can be a force for universal good, into an organization that is overwhelmed by a political agenda.
Since its creation, the Council has passed more than 70 resolutions targeting Israel. It has passed just seven on Iran. This relentless, pathological campaign against a country that actually has a strong human rights record makes a mockery not of Israel, but of the Council itself.
The Council's effort to create a database designed to shame companies for doing business in Israeli controlled areas is just the latest in this long line of shameful actions.
Blacklisting companies without even looking at their employment practices or their contributions to local empowerment, but rather based entirely on their location in areas of conflict is contrary to the laws of international trade and to any reasonable definition of human rights. It is an attempt to provide an international stamp of approval to the anti-Semitic BDS movement. It must be rejected.
Getting rid of Agenda Item Seven would not give Israel preferential treatment. Claims against Israel could still be brought under Agenda Item Four, just as claims can be brought there against any other country. Rather, removal of Item Seven would put all countries on equal footing.
The Council is no more justified in having a separate agenda item on Israel than it is on having one for the United States, or Canada, or France, or the United Kingdom. More appropriate would be to have an agenda item on North Korea, Iran, and Syria, the world's leading violators of human rights.
These changes are the minimum necessary to resuscitate the Council as a respected advocate of universal human rights.
For our part, the United States will not sit quietly while this body, supposedly dedicated to human rights, continues to damage the cause of human rights.
In the end, no speech and no structural reforms will save the members of the Human Rights Council from themselves. If they continue to put politics ahead of human rights, they will continue to damage the cause that they supposedly serve.
All those years ago, Mrs. Roosevelt understood this. She was engaged in building an institution to bring the nations of the world together to protect the most vulnerable. But she knew the good she was seeking would not come from that institution, but from the hearts of men and women who would work in it. Every night, she prayed: "Save us from ourselves and show us a vision of a world made new."
I believe that vision is still achievable. I believe we can come together. I know there are many who share the belief.
The status quo is not acceptable. It is not a place for countries who champion human rights.
I call on all likeminded countries to join in making the Human Rights Council reach its intended purpose.
Let the world be on notice: We will never give up the cause of universal human rights. Whether it's here, or in other venues, we will continue this fight.
(h/t David G)
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Q: If a function $f(x)$ is Riemann integrable on $[a,b]$, is $f(x)$ bounded on $[a,b]$? Most statements regarding Riemann integrals (at least the ones that I have encountered) begin with the statement "for $f(x)$ bounded on $[a,b]$." I am wondering if Riemann integrability implies boundedness. I think that this has to be the case, but I am not sure. If Riemann integrability does imply boundedness, are improper integrals considered Riemann integrals? I would think that improper integrals wouldn't be Riemann integrals since improper integrals are allowed to be equal to $+\infty$ or $-\infty$. Or are improper integrals that are not equal to $\infty$ considered Riemann integrals?
I am confused.

A: There is a minor ambiguity in the term "Riemann integral": it tends to be used both for Riemann's original formulation -- which involves tagged partitions and requires convergence in a very strong sense: uniformly in the mesh (or norm) $||\mathcal{P}||$ of the partition $\mathcal{P}$ -- and also G. Darboux's later simplification in terms of upper and lower sums and upper and lower integrals, which is for most purposes technically easier to work with and thus is the one which is carefully developed in most undergraduate texts.
The ambiguity can be justified by the fact the Riemann and Darboux theories give different descriptions of what ultimately turns out to be the same linear functional: a function $f: [a,b] \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is Riemann integrable if and only if it is Darboux integrable (the hard part of this is to show that Darboux integrable functions are Riemann integrable) and when these conditions hold the associated real number $\int_a^b f$ is the same.  For a careful exposition of the Darboux and Riemann integrals including a comparison between the two, see Chapter 8 of these notes.
I bring up the distinction between Darboux and Riemann because it is relevant to your question of boundedness of integral functions, and because of the two helpful answers already left to this question, one addresses the Darboux case and the other the Riemann case.  Either way though the following simple observation lies at the heart of the matter.

For $f: [a,b] \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$, the following are equivalent:
(i) $f$ is bounded above (respectively, bounded below).
(ii) For any partition $\mathcal{P} = \{a= x_0 < x_1 < \ldots < x_{n-1} < x_n = b\}$, the restriction of $f$ to each subinterval $[x_i,x_{i+1}]$ is bounded above (respectively, bounded below).

So if $f$ is unbounded above, then for any partition $\mathcal{P}$, there is at least one subinterval $[x_i,x_{i+1}]$ on which $f$ is unbounded above, hence the upper sum $\mathcal{U}(f,\mathcal{P})$ does not exist as a real number, so we can't even define the Darboux integral.  Alternately, if we want to work in the extended real numbers, we would say that if $f$ is unbounded above, $\mathcal{U}(f,\mathcal{P}) = \infty$.  Similarly, if $f$ is unbounded below, $\mathcal{L}(f,\mathcal{P}) = -\infty$ (c.f. Proposition 8.2 in the linked notes).  This means: if $f$ is unbounded above then $\overline{\int}_a^b f = \infty$, and if $f$ is unbounded below then $\underline{\int}_a^b f = -\infty$.  With this extended definition we would define a function to be Darboux integrable if and only if its upper and lower integrals are both finite and are equal, so we see that Darboux integrable functions are bounded.
For the Riemann integral there is a similar argument: if $f$ is unbounded above, then no matter what partition we choose, then for any $M > 0$ there will be a tagging $\tau$ -- i.e., a choice of sample point $x_i^* \in [x_i,x_{i+1}]$ such that the Riemann sum $R(f,\mathcal{P},\tau) = \sum_{i=0}^{n-1} f(x_i^*)(x_{i+1}-x_i)$ is greater than $M$.  This is a nice exercise: the idea is to use the above observation and choose one subinterval $[x_i,x_{i+1}]$ on which $f$ is unbounded above, choose the sample points in the other subintervals arbitrarily, and then choose $x_i^* \in [x_i,x_{i+1}]$ so that $f(x_i^*)$ is large enough to make the entire Riemann sum come out greater than $M$.  Thus we see that if $f$ is unbounded above it cannot be Riemann integrable (but it's definitely a result, not a definition, in this case), and similarly if $f$ is unbounded below.
To address the rest of your question: yes, when one writes "Riemann integrable" one generally means to neglect the case of improper Riemann integrals, which of course can be finite even for some unbounded functions.  This is true notwithstanding the fact that the same notation $\int_a^b f$ is used for Riemann integrals and improper Riemann integrals.  Generally, anyway: in any particular case you should check to confirm that the terminology is being used in this way.
Added: The class of Riemann-Darboux integrable functions was characterized by Lebesgue (though my colleague Roy Smith has shown me a passage in Riemann's work showing that he had the result as well).

Theorem (Lebesgue Criterion) For a function $f: [a,b] \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$, the following are equivalent:
(i) $f$ is Riemann integrable.
(ii) $f$ is bounded, and the set of discontinuities of $f$ has measure zero.

Since this result was first published in the 20th century, one can correctly infer that it is not really needed in the development of the Riemann integral.  From a pedagogical perspective, I would rather have students learn to use less heavy tools with more dexterity.  Nevertheless I give a proof in $\S$ 8.5 of my notes which does not use any measure theory or even the theory of countable/uncountable sets.  (The proof given there is not due to me; it is taken from notes of A.R. Schep.)
Note also that another answer to this question currently contains a false statement of this result.  The characteristic function of the classical middle thirds Cantor set shows that "measure zero" cannot be replaced with "countable".

A: Recall that a function is supposed to be (properly) Riemann integrable if for all $\epsilon>0$ there exists a partition such that $U-L<\epsilon$. Suppose $f$ becomes unbounded (say, unbounded above) near the point $x_0$. How are we to make sense of the upper sum $U$ when one of the intervals in the partition (the one containing $x_0$) has no supremum? The definition only makes sense when $f$ is bounded.
Nonetheless, if $f$ becomes unbounded near $x_0$, it still may be (improperly) Riemann integrable on an interval containing $x_0$. This is because we define the improper integral to be the limit of the proper integrals over the regions where we delete an open neighborhood of $x_0$, as we let that neighborhood get smaller and smaller.
If someone describes a function as "Riemann integrable" on a set $S$, it may be ambiguous if they mean properly or improperly (technically they should mean the former), and one has to infer from context whether they are implying that the function is bounded.

A: Yes, a Riemann-integral must be bounded; if not, then, for partition width $||P||$ , consider a point $x$ with $f(x)> \frac {M}{||P||} $ (which will exist for any $M$, since f is , by assumption, unbounded). Now, since $f$ is unbounded, $M \rightarrow \infty$ , so the Riemann sum associated to the partition length $||P||$ will be bounded below by $$||P||(\frac {M}{||P||})=M \rightarrow \infty$$. Since this is true for any partition length $||P||$ then the Riemann sum will diverge.

A: That an Riemann integrable $f:[a,b]\to\mathbb R$ is bounded can be proved directly from the definition of the integral via Riemann sums, without assuming the opposite and looking for a contradiction.
Recall that $f$ is Riemann integrable with an integral $I\in\mathbb R$ if
$$\forall\varepsilon>0\,\exists\delta>0\,\forall\tau\,\text{partition}:d\tau<\delta\to\forall\left\{ \xi_{i}\right\} _{i=1}^{n}:\left|R_{\tau,\xi}(f)-I\right|<\varepsilon,$$
where $d\tau$ is the diameter of $\tau$ and $R_{\tau,\xi}(f)$ is the Riemann sum $R_{\tau,\xi}(f)=\sum_{i=1}^{n}f(\xi_{i})\left(x_{i}-x_{i-1}\right)$.
Now by a "fix-take" procedure of values in and out of that predicate formula you can derive the boundedness of $f$:

*

*Fix your favorite $\varepsilon>0$, e.g. let $\varepsilon=1$.

*Take a $\delta>0$.

*Fix your favorite partition, e.g. $\tau=\left\{ a+i\frac{b-a}{n}\right\} _{i=0}^{n}$, where $n \in \mathbb N$ is large enough so that $d\tau=\frac{b-a}{n} < \delta$.

*Now we prove $f$ is bounded on any of the finitely many $[x_{j-1},x_j]$. As mentioned in other answers, this implies $f$ is bounded on the entire $[a,b]$.
Fix such an interval by choosing $j\in\{1,\ldots,n\}$, and fix a set of sampling points $\left\{ \xi_{i}\right\} _{i\neq j}$ for the rest of $[a,b]$.

*The only unfixed variable now is the sampling point $\xi_j\in[x_{j-1},x_j]$. The formula says $$\forall\xi_{j}\in\left[x_{j-1},x_{j}\right]:\left|\sum_{i=1}^{n}f(\xi_{i})d\tau-I\right|<\varepsilon=1.$$
Divide by $d\tau$ and take $f(\xi_j)$ before the sum to see the result more clearly – for any $x\in\left[x_{j-1},x_{j}\right]$,
$$\left|f(x)-\left(\sum\nolimits _{i\neq j}f(\xi_{i})+I/d\tau\right)\right|<1/d\tau.$$
But $\forall x \left|f(x)-a\right|<b$ mean exactly that $f$ is bounded, provided that $a,b$ are independent of $x$, as is the case here (everything's fixed).

I like this proof as it requires almost no thinking - you just unwrap step by step the predicate formula of the definition. Note that it is practically the same as what @Pete L. Clark suggested, no novelty here, but presented without the assumption-contradction part, which I prefer to avoid when possible. I also find this way easier to reproduce for exams :P


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By: Denise Skelton
Publisher: First Chance Publishing
Publication Date: October 2009
Reviewed by: Holly Connors
Review Date: October 7, 2009
Dealing with a creep of a husband who leaves for a younger woman, won't pay child support, and refuses to give his wife any help, as he embarks on a new life, is part of Terry Meyers' life. But David, the soon-to-be ex-husband, is just one of Terry Meyers' problems. Along with having more bills than she can possible pay, the overwrought woman must deal with two young sons, one of whom has gotten involved with the wrong kids at school, slimy men like her neighbor Leon who hit on her when he volunteers to fix her washing machine, a car in need of repair, and getting fired from her job. So begins the fast-paced, steamy romance novel Until Now by Denise Skelton, author of several other popular romance novels including My Everything.
As pressures mount, the strain on Terry builds until, at a grocery store (where she argues with a clerk to purchase, at a discount, a damaged carton of eggs) she has a fight with a shopping cart. As the harried woman has a meltdown in front of one of her children, a hunky man "…of Asian descent, with thick hair…" and a muscular body "…including his great butt," comes to her aid. This man, Wade Nelson, has problems of his own, including a strained relationship with his father. But the two are instantly drawn to each other and will be again, and again, through unexpected circumstances.
Until Now is not a book where the main characters meet and immediately begin a hot and heavy relationship. Rather, Skelton takes her time building up believable, sympathetic characters in a delicious way that keeps the reader turning pages quickly and eagerly. Terry's frustration with her ex-husband and his constant excuses are felt through Skelton's skillful writing. You can hear Terry's growls of aggravation at each and every lame story David comes up with for failing to pay child support or his broken promises to his children. Along with the personal interactions, the failed employment attempts made by Terry are equally realistic; when the young woman decides to start a day care, she reasons, 'how hard can it be to care for young children?' Soon, like Terry, the reader will be wondering if she is really qualified to work with kids.
Don't be fooled by the title of this book. The story is not simply a romance but a mystery too as Terry discovers a secret career of David's, his relationship with his "friend" Jennifer, and what nefarious activity is going on at her son's school. Until Now also has quite a bit of humor injected into the story. Terry Meyers is a character the reader can easily visualize, from her strong, fighter personality, to her somewhat misguided attempts to get into the private investigation business. While stalking the husband of a client, she sneaks into a restaurant, trying to avoid contact. But soon she knocks over a flower pot. When it falls over "…with a crash, which was followed by a shriek…Terry closed her eyes and cursed." She had managed to escape detection from the husband, only to spill marinara sauce on Wade's friend's sweater. The imagery is clear and hysterical.
Quill says: If you love spicy romance, flavored with a bit of mystery, don't miss Until Now.
For more information on Until Now, please visit the author's website at Denise Skelton.com


"Immigrant survivors face many barriers to reporting interpersonal violence to authorities or other resources that could be supportive," explained Gloria Greenfield, director of Immigration Advocacy at Sojourner House.
"Undocumented immigrants are living in a war zone, not knowing where the landmines may be," said Khanh Dinh, Ph.D., professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
"Undocumented immigrants are living in a war zone, not knowing where the landmines may be," said Khanh Dinh, Ph.D., professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, at MLPB conference.
Elizabeth Bogus, a clinical social worker at Hasbro Children's Hospital,stressed "the importance of being trustworthy and transparent in trauma-informed interviewing to avoid triggering or re-triggering" [the trauma] for the person being screened for health-related social needs.
A regional conference sponsored by MLPB created a robust discussion around the issues confronting immigrants around the social determinants of health, at a time when immigration policy and law is rapidly changing, colliding with efforts to improve outcomes in a population health managed ecosystem.
How does the efforts underway in Rhode Island to employ more community health workers to conduct outreach apply to the immigrant populations' ability to access services? How will the new BH Link, Rhode Island's first triage and call center for mental health and substance use disorders, handle undocumented immigrants? What kind of data and research is available on children of immigrants to inform policy and practices around health care delivery? How do these efforts fit within the new initiatives underway to create health equity zones and neighborhood health stations?
In Rhode Island, in the Olneyville neighborhood of Providence, Clinica Esperanza/Hope Clinic has developed an innovative program of chronic disease management, targeting a large number of Hispanic residents who are uninsured and, as a result of lack of access to primary care, go the hospital emergency room for care, driving up charity health costs. The initiative, which includes the use of culturally and linguistically appropriate "navigators," seeks to build relationships with the clients, helping them to manage their own health care needs. A new data study published in The Rhode Island Medical Journal claims that increasing the number of patients served in Olneyville to 8,000 could save as much as $800,000 a year in emergency room costs.
BOSTON, Mass. – Due to rapidly changing immigration laws and practices [such as family separations at the U.S. border and proposed changes to a long-standing "public charge" rule that impacts people seeking green cards and some visas], immigrant families are confronting new barriers to accessing food, housing, health, transportation services, as well as safety and stability challenges.
On Wednesday, Nov. 7, 75 interdisciplinary health leaders from Rhode Island, Massachusetts and beyond met at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center for a day-long conference to explore how best to deliver care to immigrants in the current shifting landscape of federal policy changes.
Participants included: community health workers and social workers employed in a range of settings; public health professionals based at the R.I. Department of Health and the Mass. Department of Public Health; administrators and clinicians from large health systems such as Lifespan and Steward Health Care; and policymakers from the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission as well as public interest attorneys from several states.
The conference, entitled "Beyond Screen and Refer: What Social Determinants of Health Care Teams Serving Immigrants Need to Know Today," was hosted by MLPB [formerly known as the Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston]. The nonprofit seeks to equip health and human service workforces with upstream problem-solving strategies that improve people's outcomes around the social determinants of health.
In its work, MLPB leverages its team's public interest law expertise to advance health equity. Since January of 2017, MLPB has expanded its regional footprint, partnering with Rhode Island-based facilities and establishing formal partnerships with Hasbro Children's Hospital, Kent Hospital's Family Care Center, and Rhode Island Hospital's Primary Care Center.
Under an increasingly integrated health care and human services ecosystem, focused on managing and improving population health outcomes, many stakeholders in Rhode Island and Massachusetts are seeking to implement value-based, accountable care. Those efforts have resulted in ongoing conversations and initiatives about how best to combine forces to serve vulnerable populations, under the new financial mandate in the delivery of value-based health care.
In turn, MLPB wants to ensure the expanding health workforce is well prepared to serve all people, regardless of immigration status.
While immigration status is not explicitly identified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or state Medicaid offices as a health-related social need, it is inextricably linked to a person's ability to access resources that can mitigate food insecurity, housing instability, transportation barriers, and interpersonal violence.
One of the challenges faced by health and human service providers is to learn how they can document communication with patients and clients about their social, economic, and environmental needs – and not put them at risk.Organizations seeking to provide immigrant-friendly care must be thoughtful when guiding providers on how to document references to people's immigation status in organizational records, such as electronic medical records.
During a plenary session at the conference, Ellen Weinstein, Deputy General Counsel at Boston Medical Center [New England's largest safety net hospital], shared with attendees a pioneering protocol that Boston Medical Center recently adopted across its institution.
In addition, Julian Rodriguez-Drix, Asthma Program Manager at the R.I. Department of Health, observed that in addition to workforce training, community organizing is often a key strategy to protect immigrant families: "[There is] so much to learn and share, this is so important," he said.
Another challenge faced by health and human services providers is how best to provide trauma-informed care without re-traumatizing the person, according to Elizabeth Bogus, a clinical social worker at Hasbro Children's Hospital and a presenter at the conference. Bogus stressed "the importance of being trustworthy and transparent in trauma-informed interviewing to avoid triggering or re-triggering" [the trauma] for the person being screened for health-related social needs.
Part of the solution, explained Carinel LeGrand, the program coordinator of Lifespan's Connect for Health initiative, is to "maintain safe spaces where we treat [families] with dignity and respect" when screening for social determinants of health and eligibility for food, housing and transportation services.
Another challenge explored at the conference was how immigration status can affect eligibility for resources that enable freedom from interpersonal violence – including but not limited to intimate partner violence.
Samantha Morton is the CEO of MLPB.


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'The Girl on the Train' could really use one of those sleeper cars.
Luke Evans, left, and Emily Blunt appear in a scene from, "The Girl on the Train." (AP Images)
Yawn Girl.
The hope was "The Girl on the Train" would be this year's version of "Gone Girl" — a lurid and occasionally credulity-defying but immensely entertaining and satisfying thriller based on a best-selling page-turner.
Not even in the same bloody ballpark.
Tate Taylor's adaptation of Paula Hawkins' compulsively readable psychological murder mystery fails to match David Fincher's interpretation of the Gillian Flynn thriller on every level.
It's shiny trash that begins with promise but quickly gets tripped up by its own screenplay and grows increasingly ludicrous and melodramatic, to the point where I was barely able to suppress a chuckle at some of the final scenes.
Emily Blunt gives a fine performance in a role that requires her to be inebriated, blackout drunk, reeling from a massive hangover, shedding tears, throwing a fit, engaging in obsessive stalking — or some combination of the aforementioned. It's exhausting just watching her. "The Girl on the Train" could really use one of those sleeper cars.
Blunt's Rachel is an emotionally scarred alcoholic in full free-fall some two years after her husband, Tom (Justin Theroux), had an affair with their real estate agent, a beautiful young blonde named Anna (Rebecca Ferguson); dumped Rachel; married Anna; moved Anna into the home Rachel decorated — and had a baby with Anna.
So to sum up: bad couple of years for Rachel.
Every morning and every night, Rachel takes the train to and from the city, a train that zips by so close to Rachel's former neighborhood, she can catch glimpses of her ex-husband and his new wife and their baby through the windows.
We learn one dark secret after another about each of the women, and the men in their lives, and how just about everyone is living some version of a lie and their lives are entangled in a sleazy pile of twisted, sometimes sadistic and eventually violent behavior.
And then there's Allison Janney's detective, whose primary purpose seems to be to taunt Rachel and to violate so many basic rules of police investigation her superiors should be arresting HER by the end of this movie. It's not a bad performance, but it's a terrible, laughable role.
The same could be said for the big confrontation when All Is Revealed — and the epilogue, which tries to make some kind of female bonding statement about Rachel, Anna and Megan.
No sale.
Rating: Two Stars out of Four
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Junior Club award launched
ALL eyes will be on golf clubs in Renfrewshire to see if they can finish top of the leaderboard at the SGU Junior Club of the Year awards.
Last year's winners were Ranfurly Castle Golf Club in Bridge of Weir and it's hoped that the trophy comes to another Renfrewshire club this year.
Entries are now open for the annual clubgolf Junior Club of the Year Award.
Open to every club in Scotland, the prestigious award recognises clubs that have demonstrated excellence in promoting junior golf during 2009.
This year's winning club will be awarded £1,000 by the SGU, to be invested in its junior programme.
It will also be invited to put forward a team of three adult members to compete in a European Tour pro-am, playing alongside a leading professional golfer.
The five runner-up clubs will each receive £300 from the SGU to help develop their junior programmes.
"The clubgolf Junior Club of the Year Award is another great opportunity for the hundreds of clubs in Scotland that are creating a positive and inclusive culture for juniors to gain recognition," said clubgolf Project Manager Torquil McInroy, who will be part of the judging panel.
"As a result of the high benchmark set over the last two awards, we are particularly keen to see nominations from clubs that have made the growth of the junior game a top priority.
"We will be looking closely at clubs' efforts to create structured junior coaching programmes, and will give consideration to their efforts in the following areas – how they promote the use of their course and improve provision of facilities for juniors, how they create a welcoming environment for juniors and how they are developing relations with local community groups."
Entries close on Friday, June 11.
The judging panel will visit each of the six shortlisted clubs between Monday, June 28, and Friday, July 9, when each finalist will have the opportunity to showcase their efforts to develop junior golf.
The winning club will be announced at The Old Course, St Andrews, on Wednesday, July 14, which is the final practice day for The Open Championship.
All finalists will be invited to send two adults and children to The Open on this day.
For more information about nominating a club, log on to www.scottishgolf.org


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Q: addEventListener doesn't work with default paramaters Why do functions with default parameters not work if i call the function with addEventListener?
This example function below generates some random strings, and i called the function by using onclick() in the html file, which perfectly works

const notationGraph = {
  "U": ["L", "R", "F", "B"],
  "D": ["L", "R", "F", "B"],
  "L": ["U", "D", "F", "B"],
  "R": ["U", "D", "F", "B"],
  "F": ["U", "D", "L", "R"],
  "B": ["U", "D", "L", "R"],
};

const switches = ["", "\'", "2"];

function randItem(arr) {
  return arr[Math.floor(Math.random() * arr.length)];
}

function generate3x3(Min = 20, Max = 25) {
  let scrambles = [];
  let prev;
  const len = Math.floor(Math.random() * (Max - Min + 1) + Min);
  for (let i=0; i<len; i++) {
    let notation = randItem(prev ? notationGraph[prev] : Object.keys(notationGraph));
    let swtch = randItem(switches);
    scrambles.push(`${notation}${swtch}`);
    prev = notation;
  }
  console.log(scrambles.join(" "));
}
<button id="buttonTest" onclick="generate3x3()">test button</button>

But with the addEventListener method, it does not work and console.logs empty strings

const notationGraph = {
  "U": ["L", "R", "F", "B"],
  "D": ["L", "R", "F", "B"],
  "L": ["U", "D", "F", "B"],
  "R": ["U", "D", "F", "B"],
  "F": ["U", "D", "L", "R"],
  "B": ["U", "D", "L", "R"],
};

const switches = ["", "\'", "2"];

function randItem(arr) {
  return arr[Math.floor(Math.random() * arr.length)];
}

function generate3x3(Min = 20, Max = 25) {
  let scrambles = [];
  let prev;
  const len = Math.floor(Math.random() * (Max - Min + 1) + Min);
  for (let i=0; i<len; i++) {
    let notation = randItem(prev ? notationGraph[prev] : Object.keys(notationGraph));
    let swtch = randItem(switches);
    scrambles.push(`${notation}${swtch}`);
    prev = notation;
  }
  console.log(scrambles.join(" "));
}
document.getElementById("buttonTest").addEventListener("click", generate3x3)
<button id="buttonTest">test button</button>

I'm wondering why doesn't it work, what am i doing wrong?

A: Because the event passed in the eventListener is overwriting your first default parameter
EITHER add the event to the function as the first parameter
function generate3x3(event, Min = 20, Max = 25) {

OR call it like this
document.getElementById("buttonTest").addEventListener("click",function() {
  generate3x3();
})

const notationGraph = {
  "U": ["L", "R", "F", "B"],
  "D": ["L", "R", "F", "B"],
  "L": ["U", "D", "F", "B"],
  "R": ["U", "D", "F", "B"],
  "F": ["U", "D", "L", "R"],
  "B": ["U", "D", "L", "R"],
};

const switches = ["", "\'", "2"];

function randItem(arr) {
  return arr[Math.floor(Math.random() * arr.length)];
}

function generate3x3(Min = 20, Max = 25) {
  let scrambles = [];
  let prev;
  const len = Math.floor(Math.random() * (Max - Min + 1) + Min);
  for (let i=0; i<len; i++) {
    let notation = randItem(prev ? notationGraph[prev] : Object.keys(notationGraph));
    let swtch = randItem(switches);
    scrambles.push(`${notation}${swtch}`);
    prev = notation;
  }
  console.log(scrambles.join(" "));
}

document.getElementById("buttonTest").addEventListener("click",function() {
  generate3x3()
})
<button id="buttonTest">test button</button>


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Meena, 2018, Oil on Canvas, Installation view SPERLING Munich. Photo Ulrich Gebert. Courtesy of the artist, SPERLING, Munich and LAYR, Vienna
by Samuel Anderson
Dec 18 2020, 1:45pm
Can a Painting of a Horse be a Metaphor for Queer Desire?
Twenty-four-year-old artist Dominique Knowles's paintings are a study in the complexities of intimacy—and his love for a childhood pet.
The relationship between mankind and horse-kind is complicated, as evidenced by the animal's ever-presence in art, and the work of artist and poet Dominique Knowles further illustrates this ancient camaraderie. While he attributes his horses' foreshortened side-profiles and burnt hues to those of cave paintings, they are also modern expressions of an age-old frenemy dynamic: "The paintings become metaphors for queer desire, [or] a quest for intimacy." Knowles says. "Both the partner and the horse are beings that I long for."
The 24-year-old's longest partnership to date is with his chestnut horse, Tazz, whom he's cared for since age nine. Hailing from Nassau, Bahamas, Knowles and Tazz recently made the jump from the equestrian circuit to the gallery circuit. "Ode to Tazz," Knowles's 2019 solo show at Milwaukee's prestigious Green Gallery, starred the titular horse in a series of warm-hued tableaus. This fall, "The Sun Sinks" at Soccer Club was a variation on the theme—equine curves etched in broad, insurgent brushstrokes, including on a five-by-twenty-five foot outdoor mural. A newer, larger mural painting by Knowles will be at Deli Gallery in Brooklyn this month.
Here, the recent SAIC graduate discusses his comrade and muse, Tazz, and what horses have taught him about humanity.
"DALA HORSE," 2018, CASEIN ON PANEL. Photo David Sampson Courtesy of the Artist and the Soccer Club Club, Chicaco
You grew up in the Bahamas. Was horseback riding a big thing there?
I've been horseback riding since I was four years old. No one else in my family rides, and the Bahamas doesn't have much of a horseback-riding culture. I got into it after my grandfather recognized my love of animals, he'd take me to his neighbor's horse farm to visit them. This baby horse, Boomer, was the first horse I took care of. They let me walk him around the neighborhood, kind of like a dog.
How did Tazz come into the picture?
My grandfather is the one who got him for me, in 2005. When you get a horse, you go on this "horse trip" to test-ride different horses. Tazz was the first horse I rode on my trip. I was really intimidated by him, at first. He was really spunky and had a lot of attitude, at least when he was younger… but he was also super smooth and very gentle. We brought him over from Florida on a mail boat to the Bahamas, where he's been ever since. He's 23 now, and retired.
"Mustangs at Dusk," 2020, Flashe and oil on canvas. Photo Jesse Meredith Courtesy of the Artist
Since you've been living in Chicago, how often do you see Tazz?
I typically go back to the Bahamas twice a year. [Lately], I've felt a lot closer to him. I suppose it's like knowing someone who ages really quickly. In the course of 25 years or so, they're your brother, and then they're your parent, and then they're your grandparent.
Was drawing horses always an interest of yours? Or when did you learn to draw them?
Horses are the easiest thing for me to draw; I've drawn them as long as I can remember. When I started painting, when I was about 14, I kind of translated the physicality [of brushing horses] to the painting brush. The gesture and movement in the painting is mostly from my body memory of grooming the horse, with the brush, over and over for years.
I know horses a lot more intimately than I do other humans. And since painting is physical, the human and the horse sort of compound together. The paintings also become metaphors for queer desire, or a quest for intimacy in general. I feel as if both the partner and the horse are beings that I long for.
"Morning Pasture," 2020, Oil on Canvas Courtesy of the Artist and Deli Gallery
Can you say more about the link between your emotional understanding of horses and the way you paint them now?
The way I draw horses now is basically how I drew them as a kid. I was never really able to draw anything realistically or academically, so the horses always look the same, but the emotion is specific. Tazz has taught me a lot about empathy and taking care of others. I've seen him be young, grow older, and then be actually old. It's a huge shift in relationship [compared to] other animals.
Do you feel like having a horse equipped to deal with human death in some way?
Horses don't exist in a vacuum; they exist with us, so they're really bound up in our relationships. Tazz was like a last parting gift to me from my grandfather, who had cancer at the time, and actually wasn't able to meet him. And then my dad got cancer as well, and couldn't take care of him either. And now it's kind of on me. I feel as if there's been a lot of death throughout [my] relationship with the horse.
You know Nina Simone's cover of the song, "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" There's that line, "When do birds know when it's time to go?" That reminds me a lot of how caretakers have to know when to euthanize their animals. Whereas wild animals have it ingrained in a way.
"DESERT DUST," 2020, FLASHE AND UV-PROTECTED WATERPROOF VINYL-COVERED POLY TARP. Photo David Sampson Courtesy of the Artist and the Soccer Club Club, Chicaco
Do you foresee horses as being part of your compositions forever?
Yes, I think so. I would like to paint more male nudes, but to me, they're not always as substantial as the horses. Maybe because my body memory of people isn't as strong as it is with horses. Or I'm just not really that interested in the concept of humanity. I'm interested in what our understanding of ourselves would be, beyond the state of being human.
Do you imagine a future without humanity?
Being a human is fraught, and yet we strive so much to be "human," as this kind of construction we use to organize power—declaring who is human and who isn't. To me, the point of humanity is to be humane, and yet I think we're always failing at that. I feel like as long as there's humanity, there will also be inhumanity. So maybe in the future we will move beyond being human, into something else. Maybe something more spiritual. Just "beings."
Dominique Knowles
deli gallery


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Effect of Gender on the Earnings of Humanities Majors
Humanities-Related Employment
Earnings & Occupations
Occupations of Humanities Majors with a Terminal Bachelor's Degree
Occupations of College Humanities Majors Who Earned an Advanced Degree
The Employment Status of Humanities Majors
Gender and the Occupations of Humanities Majors
Earnings of Humanities Majors with a Terminal Bachelor's Degree
Earnings of Humanities Majors with an Advanced Degree
Effect of Experience on the Earnings of College Majors
Job Satisfaction of Humanities Majors
Humanities Majors and the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT)
Humanities Majors and the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT)
Humanities Majors and the Law School Admission Test (LSAT)
Humanities Majors in the Professions and Other Occupations
Job Status of Humanities Ph.D.'s at Time of Graduation
Occupations of Master's Degree Recipients in the Humanities
Occupations of Humanities Ph.D.'s
Earnings of Humanities Master's Degree Recipients
Earnings of Humanities Ph.D.'s
Job Satisfaction of Humanities Master's Degree Recipients
Job Satisfaction of Humanities Ph.D. Recipients
Postsecondary Faculty
Number of Faculty Members in Humanities and Other Fields
Number of Faculty Members in Humanities Disciplines
This indicator focuses on the effect of gender on the earnings of college graduates who majored in the humanities, revealing that the gender pay gap that characterizes the U.S. workforce as a whole is also found among humanities majors and is more pronounced for older workers.1
1The American Community Survey (ACS), which yields the data on which these indicators are based, does not ask respondents about their amount of work experience. The Humanities Indicators (HI) thus uses age to distinguish between workers who are in the first years of their career and those who are more experienced. Age and work experience are not perfectly correlated, but age does provide an approximate measure of work experience that allows the HI to examine the effect of this experience on unemployment and earnings of humanities majors.
In 2018, the median income for female humanities terminal bachelor's degree holders (TBHs) was $44K among younger workers (ages 23–32), which was $4K less than the median for their male counterparts (Indicator III-09a).2 This amounted to a gender earnings gap of 8%.3 The gap was considerably wider among older TBHs (ages 48–59). Women made $18K less than men in this age category, for a gap of 22%.
Among humanities majors early in their careers (ages 25–35) who earned an advanced degree, the gap in median earnings between men and women was $3K, for a gender gap of 5% (Indicator III-09b).4 Among older workers (ages 49–60), the gap was substantially larger: women's median earnings were $20K lower than those of men, for a gender gap of 20%.
The earnings gap between male and female humanities majors with advanced degrees was more pronounced among the highest wage earners in this category than for workers earning closer to the median. The disparity was particularly great for younger workers. While the gender earnings gap among median earners was 5%, the gap among those earning at the 75th percentile was 20%.
2All earnings estimates presented here are for full-time/full-year workers and for the 12 months preceding response to the ACS. The estimates have been rounded to the nearest $1,000.
The range of "typical" or "usual" values exhibited by a population of persons or objects is described through the use of a statistic referred to as the "interquartile range," which ignores the most extreme values of a sample distribution. Quartiles are statistics that divide the observations of a numeric sample into four groups, each of which contains 25% of the data. The lower, middle, and upper quartiles are computed by ordering the values for a particular variable (earnings, in this case) from smallest to largest and then finding the values below which fall 25%, 50%, and 75% of the data. The middle quartile is also known as the median. The lower quartile and the upper quartile define the interquartile range.
When it comes to the analysis of the earnings of humanities majors and how they compare to majors in other fields, the HI always reports the median rather than the mean ("average"). This is necessary due to the highly skewed nature of the U.S. earnings distribution, meaning that there is a small share of the US population that earns considerably more than the vast majority of Americans. The mean is very sensitive to such extreme values. The median is far less so and is thus a better measure of "typical" earnings.
The age ranges selected for the two types of degree holder with which these indicators deal—those with a terminal bachelor's degree and those who went on to earn an advanced degree—reflect the additional time required to pursue an advanced degree, the age at which earnings peak for each group, and the need for enough survey responses to ensure the reliability of the earnings estimates.
3In keeping with the practice of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the gender earnings gap was calculated by dividing the difference between men's and women's median earnings by men's median earnings.
4In 2018, 41% of humanities majors possessed at least one advanced degree (see the supplemental table ).
III-09a: Median Annual Earnings of Full-Time Workers with a Terminal Bachelor's Degree in the Humanities, by Gender and Age, 2018*
* Full-time workers are those who worked 35 or more hours per week for 50 or more weeks in the previous 12 months.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2018 American Community Survey Public-Use Microdata Sample. Data analyzed and presented by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' Humanities Indicators (www.humanitiesindicators.org).
The information presented here is based on an original analysis by the Humanities Indicators (HI) of data from the American Community Survey (ACS), which has been administered on an annual basis by the U.S. Census Bureau since 2005. The ACS replaced the "long form" version of the decennial census and collects information—used to allocate billions of dollars in state and federal funding—about Americans' personal characteristics, family composition, employment, income, and housing.
For the purposes of ACS, the U.S. Census Bureau defines earnings as "the sum of wage or salary income and net income from self-employment. 'Earnings' represent the amount of income received regularly for people 16 years old and over before deductions for personal income taxes, Social Security, bond purchases, union dues, Medicare deductions, etc. An individual with earnings is one who has either wage/salary income or self-employment income, or both. Respondents who 'break even' in self-employment income and therefore have zero self-employment earnings also are considered 'individuals with earnings'" (from ACS documentation provided at http://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/tech_docs/subject_definitions/2014_ACSSubjectDefinitions.pdf, p. 83).
A full-time worker is defined as an individual who has worked at least 35 hours per week for 50 or more weeks, including paid vacation, in the preceding 12 months. All earnings estimates are for the 12 months preceding response to the ACS and have been rounded to the nearest $1K.
This indicator features estimates of the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentile annual earnings for humanities majors. The 25th and 75th percentiles are known as the lower and upper quartiles. Quartiles are statistics that divide the observations of a numeric sample into four groups, each of which contains 25% of the data. The lower, middle, and upper quartiles are computed by ordering the values for a particular variable from smallest to largest and then finding the values below which fall 25%, 50%, and 75% of the data. The lower quartile and the upper quartile are the two values that define the interquartile range (the middle quartile is also known as the median). The interquartile range, which excludes the most extreme values of a data distribution, is used to describe the range of "typical" or "usual" values exhibited by a set of persons or objects.
The ACS permits respondents to specify up to two fields of bachelor's degree. For the purposes of this analysis, an individual was counted as having a bachelor's degree in the humanities if the field of either reported degree was within the scope of the humanities as specified by the HI. Information regarding the specific disciplines treated as within the humanities for the purposes of this analysis is provided in the ACS-HI Crosswalk.
The ACS does not ask respondents about their amount of work experience, and thus the HI uses age to distinguish between workers who are in the first years of their career and those who are more experienced. Age and work experience are not perfectly correlated, but age does provide an approximate measure of work experience that allows the HI to examine the effect of this experience on unemployment and earnings of humanities majors.
For additional data regarding the earnings of humanities majors, see "Earnings of Humanities Majors with a Terminal Bachelor's Degree," "Earnings of Humanities Majors with an Advanced Degree" and "Effect of Experience on the Earnings of College Majors."
For information on the occupations of those who studied the humanities in college, see "Occupations of College Graduates Who Majored in Humanities Disciplines," "Occupations of College Humanities Majors with an Advanced Degree," and "Gender and the Occupations of Humanities Majors."
For unemployment data, see "The Employment Status of Humanities Majors."
For historical trends in the number of students who have earned degrees in the humanities, see "Associate's Degrees in the Humanities," "Bachelor's Degrees in the Humanities," and "Advanced Degrees in the Humanities."
III-09b: Median Annual Earnings of Full-Time Workers with a Bachelor's Degree in the Humanities and an Advanced Degree in Any Field, by Gender and Age, 2018*


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U.S. Files New WTO Case Against China Over Export Duties
The United States on July 13 announced a new WTO case against China over its continued use of export duties on nine raw materials that are driving up the cost of production in the United States, saying the duties violate provisions of China's accession protocol.
[Daily News| July 13, 2016 | Inside US Trade]
In its request for consultation filed with the WTO — the first step in the dispute settlement process — the U.S. said China has not eliminated all taxes or charges applied to certain exports of raw materials listed in the case in accordance with its WTO accession protocol. The case focuses on specific tariff lines involving antimony, cobalt, copper, graphite, lead, magnesia, talc, tantalum and tin.
Specifically, the U.S. accuses China of violating paragraph 11.3 of Part I of the protocol, which says "China shall eliminate all taxes and charges applied to exports unless specifically provided for in Annex 6 of this Protocol …"


There are many ways you can improve customer satisfaction in an airport. First, you need to measure it by collecting customer feedback to find insights on how to enhance the visitor experience.
If you travel through airports regularly you've probably seen different ways to give customer feedback. Either the smiley face button type, or you may have seen Bouncepad tablet kiosks gathering more useful feedback with tablet surveys such as Avius Surveys.
Whilst the smiley face buttons gather a satisfaction score, they can't tell you why the respondent was unhappy or what you should do about it. However, survey devices provide a satisfaction score, the reason why they weren't satisfied and how you can improve. As well as instant alerts when you receive negative feedback and details behind positive feedback.
There are lots of places you should monitor satisfaction and use insights to make improvements.
Install a survey kiosk at the exit of the toilets to monitor satisfaction and see trends of the busiest times so you can schedule cleaning times more effectively. Bouncepad's wall-mounted kiosks are perfect in bathrooms as they're easy to clean and they don't take up a lot of space. Instant alerts notify the relevant team of any issues such as cleanliness problems and lack of supplies, so they can react to solve the issues quickly.
The restaurants and shops in the airport may be under their own brands but they still effect your customer's overall experience. Real-time feedback and reporting makes it easy to spot when there's an issue, without needing to be in the terminal at all times.
If you collect feedback at every touchpoint of your customers journey through the airport you can improve their overall experience. Customer service, security, mobility assistance, airport lounges all feed into overall satisfaction. The better experience customers have at each point, the more likely they are to spend time and money in shops, restaurants, and to return to your airport.


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import React, {PropTypes} from 'react'
import {StyleSheet, Text} from 'react-native'
import Party from './Party'

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  lapText: {
    flex: 1,
    fontSize: 15,
    textAlign: 'center',
    margin: 10,
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignItems: 'center'
  },
  lapNumber: {
    fontSize: 25,
    flex: 1
  },
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    flexDirection: 'column',
    justifyContent: 'center',
    alignItems: 'center'
  }
})

const RunningParty = (props) => (
  <Party {...props}>
    <Text style={[styles.lapText, {color: props.primaryColor}]}>
      Lap <Text style={styles.lapNumber}>{props.laps.length + 1}</Text>
    </Text>
  </Party>
)

RunningParty.propTypes = {
  id: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
  primaryColor: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
  secondaryColor: PropTypes.string.isRequired,
  laps: PropTypes.array.isRequired,
  timer: PropTypes.number.isRequired,
  name: PropTypes.string.isRequired
}

export default RunningParty

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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About SASradiogroup
Caroline Movement
CM Xmas 1985
Caroline 1985 Part 1
MV Ross Revenge Part 1
Radio Jackie goes Legal
RNI 1970
Pirate Radio Now
London Pirate Radio Listings 2010
East Anglia / Kent / South Coast Bandscan 2010
Other UK FM Activity 2008
Short-wave & AM Radio
Home Pages / Interference Index
SUSY Radio
SUSY Launch 2012
SUSY Radio 103.4 is the community radio station for Redhill, Reigate, Horley, North Crawley and the surrounding villages and has been allocated a five year license from 2012. The station is on 103.4 MHz FM and also online via the website susyradio.com and via mobile apps on Android and ios "Tune in", UK Radio Player and itunes radio. In July 2017 SUSY celebrates five years on air. This alone is a considerable achievement given that one in six community stations fail either to get on-air or fall by the wayside within five years.
The station traces its history back to Sussex Surrey Radio Group created by Colin Pearse to run Jubilee FM in 1994 marking 150 years of Redhill, Surrey. It became Trust FM in September 1995 raising monies in support of the Childrens Trust at Tadworth. In 1996 the name of the station changed once more to Susy Radio. Nearly every year since 1996 Susy Radio has run one or two RSLs (Month long restricted service license) per year on FM or 531 kHz AM. These promoted local charities, causes and events. Profits being donated to a variety of good causes including East Surrey Hospital, The Rainbow Trust and the Royal Variety Club of Great Britain. Susy was the first RSL in the country to utilize a low AM broadcast frequency in 2004 and also the first to use a Hot Country format in the UK on their 2005 RSL. In June 2010 Ofcom awarded Susy Radio Ltd a five year license.
Many former land-based pirates from Radios Helen, Jackie, Kaleidoscope and Southern Radio / South East Sounds (plus a couple of lesser known ones) have been on air and assisted with the station. Of course this also means that various members of sasradiogroup have been actively involved in Susy Radio and all it's predecessors. It should be stressed that Susy Radio is not sasradiogroup and vice versa. However, there has always been a good cross fertilisation of personnel who have broadcast on Susy as DJs and helped to provide News and Traffic reports. Major contributions have been made as individuals to engineering, website services, the committee (SSRG), Directors and Company Secretary of Susy Radio. Lastly, individual members have made monthly financial contributions towards the project for a number of years before we obtained a full-time license plus donations. Indeed they continue to do so. This financial and practical support has contributed towards the aim of coming on-air and helped out in the critical months when the station was in build and when there was no revenue from sponsors, advertisers or grants. Our on-going funding helps with running costs and mini-projects as our monies are invested in the continuing success of the project.
Various members of the Susy Radio crew appear regularly at our meetings. So if you want to get involved in an independent community station and live locally contact either the station website at SUSY Radio or alternatively dop in at the SAS meetings on a first Tuesday of the month from 8.30pm at the Toby Inn at Redhill.
Getting on-air in 2010 took a dedicated crew a lot of effort. Then MD Colin Pearse, Company Chair Neil Munday, and Programme Director Geoff Rogers have reminded me that not everyone has been fortunate enough to see the station finally come on-air full time. The launch was dedicated to Steve Romaine and Ray Alan who did not live to see the dream fulfilled.
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Elon Musk says investors convinced him Tesla should stay public
In this Sept. 4, 2014, file photo, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, from left, executive director of the Governor's office of economic development Steve Hill and Telsa Motors CEO Elon Musk answer questions following a news conference.	–The Associated Press
TOM KRISHER
DETROIT (AP) — Electric car and solar panel maker Tesla Inc. will remain on the public stock exchanges after CEO Elon Musk said Friday that investors have convinced him the company shouldn't go private.
The eccentric and sometimes erratic CEO wrote in a late-night statement that he made the decision based on feedback from shareholders, including institutional investors, who said they have internal rules limiting how much they can sink into a private company.
Musk met with the electric car and solar panel company's board on Thursday to tell them he thought the company should stay public and the board agreed, according to the statement.
In an Aug. 7 post on Twitter, Musk wrote that he was considering taking Tesla private. He said it would avoid the short-term pressures of reporting quarterly results. The tweet said funding had been secured for the deal, but the company later said the details still had to be worked out with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund.
The tweet said Tesla would offer $420 per share, 23 percent above the Aug. 6 closing price. If all the shares were bought, the deal would be worth $72 billion. But Musk later said he expected only one-third of stakeholders to agree to the buyout. Shares shot up 11 percent the day of the tweet, but they have since pulled back, closing Friday at $322.82
The bizarre tweet, written while Musk was driving to the airport, brought an inquiry from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which reportedly is looking into whether he was trying to manipulate the share price. Short-sellers, who bet against a company's success, complained that Musk was trying to hurt them.
In the statement, Musk said he worked with investment firms Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Silver Lake to consider all the options, and he talked to investors.
"Given the feedback I've received, it's apparent that most of Tesla's existing shareholders believe we are better off as a public company," Musk wrote in the statement.
He wrote that his belief that there was more than enough funding to take the company private "was reinforced during this process."
In a statement Friday, six members of Tesla's board wrote that the board has dissolved a three-member committee set up to study any possible go-private transaction.
"The board and the entire company remain focused on ensuring Tesla's operational success, and we fully support Elon as he continues to move the company forward," the statement said.
The SEC opened an inquiry shortly after Musk surprised investors with the tweet about going private. The agency reportedly has subpoenaed data from Tesla, indicating that a formal investigation has been opened.
The go-private deal would have ended Tesla's eight-year history as a publicly held company. Corporate governance experts say that the contradiction between Musk's tweet that funding had been secured and a later statement saying that the Saudis still had to do due diligence could be used to show Musk misled investors.
At least two lawsuits have been filed against Tesla on behalf of shareholders alleging Musk broke the law with his tweet.
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Marie Visceglia Walker
Marie Visceglia Walker, 71, of Matawan passed away unexpectedly Saturday, December 19, 2020 at Bayshore Medical Center, Holmdel. Born in Manhattan, Marie was raised in New York City and River Edge, later settling in Matawan, where she and her husband Bob enjoyed a beautiful life together. Marie was a Matawan High School graduate. Prior to her retirement, Marie was employed as a legal secretary at the law office of Robert Thuring, Esq., Spotswood, and then at the law office of James Hyland, Esq. Once they assumed Superior Court Judicial appointments, Marie completed her career at the law office of Henry Chudzik, Esq., East Brunswick. Marie loved to cook and bake. Her passion was having a party and enjoying food and drink with family and friends. She was the quintessential host who was always prepared to serve an army. She was happiest around family and friends. Marie enjoyed attending concerts and treasured spending gorgeous summer days at the beach. She would often be found in her sand chair at Avon-by-the-Sea, one of her favorites. Marie will always be remembered for her love of family and friends and the precious time spent together. She welcomed anyone and everyone with open arms. Above all, Marie was a loving wife, mother, sister, grammy, aunt and caring friend who will be missed by all who knew and loved her. Predeceased by her brother, Michael Visceglia. Marie is survived by her husband of 51 years, Robert Walker, Sr., her daughter, Martine Walker, son, Robert Walker, Jr., (her desperado), her brother, Tony Visceglia, her grandchildren, Harley Jade Walker, Tanner and Willow Pridemore and countless nieces, nephews and friends. A committal service will be held graveside, Wed., Dec. 23 at 1:00PM at Greenwood Cemetery, Rte 35 & Old Bridge Road (707 Schoolhouse Road), Brielle, NJ. Friends and family are invited to the gravesite farewell, keeping socially distanced in accordance with CDC regulations. Masks required. A celebration of Marie's life will be held at a later date. "All You Need Is Love" (The Beatles)
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Started with swimming with the dolphins and began to have out-of-body experiences together.
Many experiences of time-travel: going into the past and future with them.
Good results bringing children with autism to swim with dolphins.
The dolphins communicate with the ET's because they are not confined to their physical bodies.


Jim Lawrence, MBA, RN, joined Saint Francis in 1992 as a nurse. In 2001, he worked to establish the first Wound Healing Center at Saint Francis Medical Center. He served as director of that clinic until 2004, when he worked with Alex Ogburn, MBA to establish the new referral services program.
Jim served as a board member and later as President of the National Association of Physician Liaisons. Jim has also served a President of the Board of Directors for Catholic Charities of Southern Missouri. He became the director of Business Development in 2013 and was named Director of Mission in 2017. His responsibilities in that role now include leading the Ethics and Pastoral Care teams, as well as ensuring the healthcare system adheres to its mission to provide healing, wellness, quality and love inspired by faith in Jesus Christ.


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About the New York Genome Center
The New York Genome Center (NYGC) is an independent, nonprofit, academic research organization dedicated to advancing genomic research. NYGC scientists and staff are furthering new approaches to diagnosing and treating neurological diseases and cancer through their unique capabilities in whole genome sequencing, RNA sequencing, state-of-the art analytics, and the development of genomic tools. NYGC concentrates specifically on disease-based research in the following areas: neuropsychiatric disease (autism, schizophrenia, bipolar); neurodegenerative disease (ALS, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Huntington's), and cancer.
Located in Lower Manhattan, the New York Genome Center was founded by and remains closely affiliated with twelve leading academic medical centers and research universities in the New York region and beyond, engaging in research projects with and for these institutions. Essential to our collaborative work is an outstanding faculty, whose members typically hold a joint appointment at NYGC and a partner university. They support our scientific mission by conducting independent research in areas of mutual interest to us and the wider scientific community.
The New York Genome Center is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, creed, color, gender, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, genetic predisposition or carrier status, protected veteran or military status, domestic violence victim status, partnership status, caregiver status, alienage or citizenship status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. The New York Genome Center takes affirmative action in support of its policy to hire and advance in employment individuals who are minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities.
Reporting to the Vice President and General Counsel, the incumbent is responsible for providing immigration support and services to individuals who are current or prospective employees of NYGC including, visa and permanent residency case management, communication and coordination with external immigration counsel, and policy development. This role is the sole immigration specialist for the entire organization, supporting a foreign national population of approximately 40 faculty, postdocs and employees. In addition, the incumbent provides NYGC's legal team with project-specific support, with a special emphasis on research and compliance-related activities.
Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
In consultation with NYGC Legal and Human Resources, manages employee visa and employer-sponsored permanent residence applications, including developing a case strategy based on individual and organizational needs, coordinating with outside counsel on difficult and complicated cases, drafting petitions and filing forms;
Provides guidance to international staff on other matters related to their status, including travel restrictions, insurance coverage, employment options for spouses, extensions of stay, and job changes;
Provides guidance to managers on immigration matters related to their staff;
Responsible for compliance with record-keeping standards related to immigration (e.g. creation and maintenance of H-1B exam files, point person for on-site immigration-related visits);
Serves as the Responsible Officer (RO) for NYGC's J-1 program;
Conducts orientation for new international hires; and, for J-1 visa holders in particular, organizes or identifies cultural, social or educational enrichment programs on an ongoing basis;
Tracks and keeps management abreast of changes in immigration regulations and develops effective communications for impacted employees;
Monitors work authorization documents and communicates with international staff and Human Resources in advance regarding visa or work authorization expirations; assists international staff in obtaining updated work authorization documents.
Drafts policies and procedures applicable to international employees (e.g., policy on employer sponsorship of permanent residency);
Develops and maintains the international services internal web pages, and other related guidance;
Provides immigration related training to management and employees as needed;
Provides project-related support to the legal team;
Performs other such duties as assigned.
Requirements & Qualifications
A bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience required;
5+ years of experience as an immigration specialist, or directly relevant experience required, including;
Responsible Officer (RO) designation for Department of State J Exchange Visitor Program or ability to obtain designation by start date (U.S. citizenship or U.S. permanent resident status is required to carry out RO duties);
Broad experience with employment-based U.S. immigration practices, particularly H-1B, J-1, and permanent residency sponsorship;
Experience preparing and filing employment-based visa petitions;
Proven ability to develop and implement processes and procedures;
Experience working in higher education research organizations preferred.
Excellent knowledge of non-immigrant and legal permanent residence regulations;
Proven time management and organizational skills required and the ability to multitask and respond to multiple priorities;
Ability to anticipate needs and take action with little direction and oversight required;
Excellent cross-cultural verbal and written communication skills required and demonstrated experience working well with people from diverse cultural backgrounds;
Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite and SEVIS system required;
Ability to maintain the highest level of confidentiality and engender trust required.
Job Mastery - Knowledgeable of current role and technical skills, and the impact it has on the Center.
Continuous Learning – Strives to expand the depth and breadth of technical and professional skills.
Collaborative – Encourages participation from team members and works effectively with all levels.
Credible – Works with a high level of integrity.
Communicative – Actively listens to others and uses good judgement as to what to communicate to whom; provides feedback.
Focused – Utilizes efficient and effective processes.
Adaptable – Demonstrate flexibility with changing priorities.
Innovative – Develops new insights and pursues improvements.
Takes Ownership – Prioritizes tasks, manages time and delivers on commitments.
FLSA Status – Exempt
This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship or relocation assistance.
Apply here: https://www.nygenome.org/careers/job-positions/.
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