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Was getting hit in groin by golf club an injury covered exclusively by workers' comp?
You'd want to sue your boss, too, if he hit you in the groin with a golf club and your testicle had to be surgically removed. The question in this case is whether a court will allow the lawsuit after the employee received workers' comp benefits for the injury.
William Montgomery worked as a locker room attendant at the Glens Falls Country Club in New York. One day while he was in the pro shop watching a club professional assemble golf clubs, Montgomery says the course's general manager, Richard Hackenburg, picked up a golf club shaft and, without warning, struck Montgomery in the groin. As a result, Montgomery's left testicle was surgically removed.
Montgomery collected workers' comp benefits for the injury, but he also sued Hackenburg. The country club's former general manager (he voluntarily resigned some time after the incident) argued that workers' compensation was Montgomery's exclusive remedy in this case. Hackenburg asked for the case to be dismissed.
Two courts denied his request. Hackenburg made the same request to the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division, and the justices there recently issued their opinion.
The justices noted that New York's workers' comp law says benefits are the exclusive remedy for an employee injured "by the negligence or wrong of another in the same employ."
However, the court also said:
"Having the same employer is not synonymous with being 'in the same employ' and, to be shielded from liability, a defendant 'must himself or herself have been acting within the scope of his or her employment and not have been engaged in a willful or intentional tort' … The differing versions of the event presented by the parties, as well as the two club employees who supported [Montgomery's] version, raise genuine questions of fact as to whether [Hackenburg] intended to strike plaintiff and did so in an excessive manner given the sensitive area of impact."
The court said there were questions of fact as to whether Hackenburg acted in a "grossly negligent and/or reckless" manner. Therefore, it also denied his request to have the lawsuit thrown out.
As of this ruling, it appears Montgomery will be allowed to go forward with his lawsuit.
(William Montgomery v. Richard Hackenburg, New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division Third Judicial Dept., No. 522917, 3/9/17)


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Q: Is it possible to calculate Q1, Median, Q3, StDev from already aggregated data? We have data that will get aggregated per hour into the following values

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*Q1

*Median

*Mean

*Q3

*Standard Deviation

*Max

*Min

*Count of Values

So the data will look more or like this in the end.
        00:00-01:00     01:00-02:00     02:00-03:00     03:00-04:00          ...
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Q1            68,72           69,64           64,31           64,40          ...
Median       118,72          124,42          115,54          118,11          ...
Mean         119,17          119,97          117,23          117,60          ...
Q3           169,64          171,72          170,63          168,72          ...
StDev         59,30           59,15           61,23           59,62          ...
Max          219,70          219,44          219,76          219,71          ...
Min           15,02           15,07           15,05           15,05          ...
Count       1000,00         1000,00         1000,00         1000,00          ...

Now we want to aggregate the same values for a whole day (24h) without using the original data if possible (because in our real scenario it would require a significantly longer time to aggregate from those).
For most of them it's pretty straight forward, like MIN is simply the overall MIN, AVG is the overall AVG, etc.
But the tricky part is Q1, Median, Q3 and StDev.
From what I understand it's not possible to simply calculate the (weighted) average value of the 24 separate values. But is there a method to achieve this from already aggregated values (for example by storing some additional data)?
Is the difference from such a huge dataset even significant?
Or will the data always be distorted except for calculating it from the whole dataset?

A: You have mean, counts and StDev of the observations, so aggregated StDev is a matter of algebra. I'm sure you can figure it out easily.
The quantiles are trickier. Consider, Q1 of two samples. They form the bounds of the Q1 of the combined sample. If $Q1_1>Q1_2$, then it's easy to see that aggregated $Q1_2<Q1$ and $Q1<Q1_1$. That's all you can say about the quantiles, i.e. in your case $min(Q1_i)<Q1<max(Q1_i)$.
You can get a little more from your data by using asymptotic sample quantile distribution. In this case instead of getting the bounds, you could estimate the StDev of the quantiles. You'd have to assume that the distribution doesn't change during the day.
Alternatively, you could try to estimate the quantiles during the day, e.g. they're higher in the morning and lower in the evening. In this case, you could run a test to see whether this is the case.

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How exciting it must be to confidently declare your company's latest product to be a "world's first." How enticing for your prospective customers, the promise of "endless playtime." Let's face it: If you can't pique a bit of interest this way, well, consumers must be even more jaded than everyone suspected. But though you may think you've seen it all before, be assured that you haven't … or, at least, you haven't seen this particular variation on a theme.
When I reviewed the Urbanista Los Angeles wireless over-ear headphones just over a year ago, they (like pretty much every product that ends up on these pages) had their pros and cons. High on the list of "pros" was their remarkable Powerfoyle-assisted charging system. This solar cell material, the product of a company called Exeger, covers the outside of the headband and can draw power from both solar and ambient light. Which means the Los Angeles headphones rarely, if ever, need charging via mains power.
So, by way of an encore, Urbanista has managed to incorporate the technology into a pair of true wireless in-ear headphones. They're called Phoenix (because every Urbanista product is named after a locale of lesser or greater resonance), WIRED got to try them before anyone else, and they're unarguably a world's first. They might even be able to provide you with endless playtime.
Of course, there's a lot about the Urbanista Phoenix that is emphatically not a world's first. They're absolutely standard in many ways, in fact. The earbuds themselves are a slightly chunky 30 x 26 mm version of the "dangly stem" design popularized by Apple and shamelessly appropriated by numerous brands ever since. The faintly bulbous business end has space for a 10-mm dynamic driver, while the stem itself carries some branding and features a capacitive surface that allows some touch control.
An IPX4 rating against moisture is par for the course. Bluetooth 5.2 multipoint connectivity is superior, but compatibility with just SBC and AAC codecs most certainly is not. Active noise cancellation is always welcome (as long as it's effective), and eight hours' worth of power stored in the earbuds is half-decent, too. Add in a control app with numerous EQ presets and noise-cancellation adjustment, and a couple of choices of finish (Midnight Black or Desert Rose), and so far the Urbanista Phoenix are competitive with most price-comparable rivals. But they're hardly a "world's first"–style revelation.
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The charging case, though, is where the significant action is. At 90 x 68 x 20 mm (the lattermost tapering to 15 mm) and 72 grams (80 grams with the earbuds inside), it's considerably bigger and a little heavier than the prevailing norm, even though with 24 hours of power on board it doesn't demonstrate significantly better stamina than any number of price-comparable rivals. What its dimensions mean, though, is that there's a fair bit of space on one of its faces for an area of that Exeger Powerfoyle.
Although there's obviously not as much of the solar cell material on the charging case for a pair of true wireless in-ear headphones as there is on the outside of the headband of the preceding over-ear model, the effect is no less impressive. Yes, the Phoenix headphones take longer in the sun (or under a source of ambient light) to fully charge than their siblings, but fully charge they will. If you find you ever need to use the USB-C socket on the case to charge them, well, it must be because you've moved into one of those coal mines that are suddenly all the rage again.
There's just no arguing with the efficacy of the Powerfoyle material. It's as worthwhile here as it is as part of the Urbanista Los Angeles experience.
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The South African economy is mouldy toast
4 September 2018 6:43 PM
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Yoh! What a terrible day!
— Bruce Whitfield, The Money Show
It's a startling fact that we're now in a technical recession.
— Gina Schoeman, Citi Bank
Gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 0.7% in the second quarter (Q2) of 2018, said Statistics South Africa on Tuesday.
GDP decreased by 2.6% in Q1/2018.
Contractions in agriculture (-29.2%), transport (-4.9%) and trade (-1.9%) were particularly severe.
Economists consider two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth a "technical recession".
Most economists predicted that South Africa would miss falling into a technical recession.
Those polled by Bloomberg expected growth of 0.6%.
The Money Show's Bruce Whitfield interviewed Gina Schoeman, an economist at Citi Bank.
Listen to the interview in the audio below (and scroll down for more quotes from it).
No one expected the selloff in emerging markets…
The tertiary sector… is actually weaker than during the recession of 2009…
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