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Past Residency Programme
Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva: Me, You & Them The Process Room
15 Mar 2005–27 Mar 2005
The Process Room, 15.03.05- 27.03.05
Much of Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva's work is realised through taking risks in developing new projects for specific venues or places. The history of her practice has developed through residencies, commissions and exhibitions, where she responds to the environment, interior or exterior, by spending time researching the place, its local history and materials. Elpida is concerned with space, above and below and she is interested in exposing spaces, which we normally do not encounter, including light, darkness, colour, texture and smell.
After arriving at IMMA Elpida's work started to draw from the history of the Museum. Between the late 1600's and early 1900's The Royal Hospital was used as a residency for many old, sick and disabled soldiers. Using photography and image manipulation Elpida has used the architecture of the Museum to investigate notions of absences in time, following the journeys that have happened throughout the Museums existence and trying to capture the passing of time in the courtyard space.
In the Process Room, Elpida is playing with the image through different technical and timing formats. Following on from this experiment the project will be finalised in an edited moving digital image and shown as four short films projected into the four corners of a room, joining together to complete an external space, internally. When the viewer enters the space their silhouette becomes part of the visual journey.
Elpida's residency is partially supported by The Arts Council England, South East.
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Much of Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva's work is realised through taking risks in developing new projects for specific venues or places. The history of her practice has developed through residencies, commissions and exhibitions, where she responds to the environment, interior or exterior, by spending time researching the place, its local history and materials.


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A Letter to My Evangelical Friends about Donald Trump
Dear friends (and please believe me when I say that I do see you as my friends), I am not one of your flock, but I am somebody who respects you and believes that your voice is important to our public discourse. I admire your faith and your passion. It is part of the richness that makes our Republic grand.
But let's talk about Donald Trump. Yes, you are correct, I didn't vote for him, and I don't think he is a very good president. But that's not what I want to talk about. Like most people who follow the news, I know that many of you did vote for him and do support him — more than just about any other quantifiable demographic in the United States. A lot of people are confused by this, given the fact that he is not the sort of person who would normally appeal to a religious audience.
But I think I understand why you support him — or, at least, why you could not support his opponent. The culture wars of the last 20 or so years have been brutal, and you have taken a lot of hits for your beliefs — beliefs that, not too long ago, were right in the center of the American mainstream and have now become less popular and less accepted. And I will acknowledge that a lot of the abuse you have received has been unfair and, quite frankly, inconsistent with the values of pluralism that many on the left hold. It is understandable that you think that liberals want to destroy you.
And (this will surprise you coming from someone like me), you are not entirely wrong about this. There are some on the left who do want to wipe your belief system off the face of the earth. Not everybody on the left, and I need to make this very clear. There are a lot of liberals (and I count myself here) who really do believe in pluralism and diversity and who will go to great lengths to protect your rights to enact your beliefs — even when it means that you criticize us and try to stamp our beliefs out of existence. Democracy is a messy game, but, like many who reside to the left of center, I believe that it is the best game in town.
But back to my point: there are a lot of people on the left who would love to rid the country of the beliefs that you stand for. There are people who want to destroy you, at least metaphorically. But what I want to suggest to you is that your nearly unqualified support of Donald Trump is not going to stop them. In the end, it will be the weapon that they use to finish you off.
That sounds drastic and threatening. I do think it is drastic, but, please believe that I am not trying to threaten you. I am, though, trying to point out a threat that you are going to face, and I urge you to hear me out before dismissing me as an uninformed leftist or a purveyor of fake news. I especially want to emphasize two points, both of them eminently supportable, that have some real consequences for all of our futures.
The first fact is that the long-term demographics in the country are more favorable for my side then they are for yours. Two groups in particular — Hispanic voters and voters under the age of 30 — now trend Democratic by a 2–1, and in some places a 3–1 ratio. And these are the fastest-growing demographic categories in the country. This may or may not swing the 2020 election, or even the 2024 election, but they will start to swing elections at some point, and the Trump administration — with its border wall, its environmental agenda, and its views on sexual and gender minorities — has probably alienated both groups on behalf of Republicans for at least a generation.
The more immediate issue, though, is that we ain't seen nothing yet. There are a whole lot of really nasty revelations about Donald Trump that have yet to surface. Right now, he is, arguably, the most powerful human being in the world. He has a huge platform, a powerful political party whose interests are temporarily aligned with his, and the resources of the entire United States government at his fingertips. He has the ability to keep a lot of things from coming out and to cast a lot of doubt on the things that do come out.
And even with all of this, we get a steady stream of information about his personal peccadilloes and his political misdeeds. You know what I am talking about: the porn stars he has slept with, the women he is accused of assaulting, the information his campaign received from Russia, the requests he made of Ukraine, etc. etc. etc.
You have to ask yourself this: if he cannot keep these sorts of things from coming out with all of the resources he commands now, what will happen when he no longer has the platform or the power? We have a lot of historical precedent to go on here. Everything eventually comes out. The people who are beholden to him now will one day be free to talk. Classified files will be declassified. Political allies will no longer be allied to him. It will all come out eventually. History works that way.
And think of what that means. When Donald Trump is no longer the president, a story is going to emerge, and I am reasonably certain it is not going to be a pretty one. We will find out about all the porn stars, all the sexual assaults, all the abortions he has paid for, all the conversations he had with foreign leaders, and all of the ways he profited from the presidency. Every scrap of information will come out. And, I suspect, if you really search your hearts, you will realize that, when it all comes out, Trump is not going to look pretty bad — no matter how one defines the term. And he will look especially bad from the viewpoint of practicing Christians. And, fair or not, those who supported him most visibly will pay the heaviest price for their association.
And this is something that you really need to pay attention to. Your support is perhaps the one thing that historians will spend the most time trying to understand. Why did a group of religious and patriotic Americans throw their unconditional support behind a man who so often flouted the values of both religion and patriotism? Why did people of good faith support a man who openly bragged about sexually assaulting women, paid strippers and porn stars to keep quiet about their relationships with him, relentlessly bullied and demeaned anybody who questioned him, and made a mockery of our Constitution in the pursuit of personal power?
I can already see these questions forming, and, once they are established as questions, most of the information that comes out will be read as answers. And there is great risk for you here. By supporting Trump, and never questioning even the worst of his excesses, you will have sacrificed your moral authority and will be unable to influence our public discourse at a time when your influence will be needed the most.. These criticisms may not be fair, but they will be made nonetheless — and it is more than very possible that, when the steady drumbeat of new revelations starts to slow, Trump will be as indefensible as Joseph McCarthy or George Wallace. And this, I fear, will lead to a diminishing of your voices at a time when we will most need your wisdom and your perspective in our civic discourse.
Some day, you will want to argue for decency in politics, or for the moral imperative to elect moral leaders. But as soon as you do, you will be met with cries of, "don't lecture us about morality; you supported Donald Trump when he paid off porn stars and talked openly about grabbing you-know-what." You may very well want to make a case for things like states rights, judicial restraint, the rights of a minority party, the Constitutional separation of powers, or the inappropriateness of ruling by executive order. And the proverbial shoe will one day be on the other foot. Democracy is like that. Everybody's ox eventually ends up getting gored.
But a great many people who might otherwise be persuadable when this happens simply aren't going to listen. Your support of Donald Trump — which will be tied, not only to what we know about him now, but to every salacious detail that comes out about him in the years following his presidency — will render you much less able to defend these positions in the public sphere. Trump will become an albatross around your neck that your future opponents will be able to point to as they question the legitimacy of anything that you have to say. I strongly suspect that the things that Trump has brought you — the Supreme Court seats, part of a border wall, and a few executive orders that will be reversed the day after he leaves office — will not be worth the long-term costs that your support will incur.
In literary circles (I am by training an English teacher), we often talk about a thing called the Faustian bargain. This traces back to the various versions of the Faust legend (Marlowe, Goethe, Wilde, Mann, and even the musical "Damn Yankees") in which a man sells his soul to the devil in exchange for great power. In nearly every version of the story (except for Goethe, but only if you read Part II, and who ever does?), the man gets all of the promised power, but, in the end, has to face a reckoning. The power is never worth it, and Satan, like Trump, never stands with those who sacrifice everything to serve him.
But we don't have to go to medieval necromancer legends to find this. We can go instead to the New Testament, when Christ is tempted three times by Satan in the wilderness. In one of these (the second or the third, depending on whose version we are reading), Satan offers Jesus great political power — all of the kingdoms of the world. "All this I will give you," he said, "if you will bow down and worship me." (Matthew 4:8–9)
What the New Testament wants us to know is that this is not a good deal. All of the political power in the world is not worth your soul. It is an offer that we are always supposed to reject.
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Ruby Rose Almost Paralyzed, Shares Video of Emergency Surgery
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Over the weekend, actor and musician Ruby Rose revealed that she underwent emergency surgery on her back earlier this year—and she shared the ordeal in graphic video detail.
"To everyone asking about my new Pez dispenser scar on my neck... A couple of months ago I was told I needed an emergency surgery or I was risking becoming paralyzed," Rose shared to her Instagram followers.
Rose's injury included two herniated discs as a result from doing her own stunts, presumably while filming a movie. On Instagram, she shared a video of the spinal surgery.
"They were close to severing my spinal cord," she continued. "I was in chronic pain and yet couldn't feel my arms."
The actress thanked her doctor for allowing her to continue doing what she loves most, adding that she is "forever in your debt."
As for why she shared footage of the procedure? Blame Grey's Anatomy.
As Rose clarified in her post: "To anyone asking why I let them video it... Did you not watch that Grey's Anatomy episode where they left a towel in a patient?? Also, I wanted to see what happens when we go under."
Watch Rose's graphic surgery video here.
Celebrities Who Almost Died on Set
Source: Ruby Rose Almost Paralyzed, Shares Video of Emergency Surgery


Digital money startup Swarm has a goal-oriented arrangement to democratize funding, and it has today stepped toward that objective by posting tokens that enable financial specialists to buy fragmentary offers in exclusive fintech sweetheart Robinhood.
No, Robinhood, a fiercely mainstream sans commission stock exchanging application that as of late earned a $5.6 billion valuation, isn't holding a security token offering (STO), nor has it even reported plans to make its offers accessible to the overall population through a conventional open posting.
Those obstacles, be that as it may, did not keep Swarm from figuring out how to convey Robinhood offers to general society at any rate.
Here's the means by which it works. Through associations with merchants and syndicate supervisors, Swarm has sourced value from previous Robinhood representatives hoping to money out before the association's inevitable Initial public offering. That value is held by what is basically a shell organization, whose offers are then recorded on the Swarm stage as SRC-20 tokens.
The greater part of this, Swarm says, can be expert without Robinhood's consent — significantly less its eager investment. Truth be told, when the crypto startup initially reported in June that it wanted to transform Robinhood shares into digital money tokens, a Robinhood representative disclosed to CCN that the firm was not by any means mindful of Swarm. At the point when gone after remark today, the firm gave a similar explanation and said that it had no further remark.
Regardless, these tokens are presently live on the Swarm stage, with a hard top of $1 million in commitments.


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Das CNC-Handbuch gilt im deutschen Sprachraum als technisches Grundlagenbuch für Lehrende, Lernende und Quereinsteiger der CNC-Werkzeugmaschinenbranche.

Entstehungsgeschichte
Die Idee für das Verfassen dieses Buches steht im engen Zusammenhang mit der Gründung der Deutschen NC-Gesellschaft e. V., kurz NCG, am 3. Oktober 1975. Die NCG hatte die Förderung und Verbreitung der damals noch in den Kinderschuhen steckenden NC (Numerical Control) als oberstes Ziel. Gründungspartner der NCG waren die Firmen Berma, Deckel, Dornier, Mauser, MBB, Messer Griesheim, Oerlikon, Starrag und Bosch.

Gemäß ihrer Satzung war die NCG eine Kommunikationsplattform für alle Themen rund um die NC-Technik, es wurden eigene Erfahrungen zur Verfügung gestellt und von den Mitgliedern und Interessierten Feedback empfangen. Damit wirkte die NCG als Katalysator für den Einsatz der NC-Technik. Die Mitgliedsfirmen verpflichteten sich, gemeinsam am Durchbruch der NC-Technik ohne Rücksicht auf etwaige Konkurrenzsituationen zu arbeiten.

Als erste Aktivität der NCG wurde das Verfassen eines Buches beschlossen, das sowohl Herstellern von Werkzeugmaschinen als auch Anwendern die Grundlagen der NC-Technik verständlich erläutern sollte.

1976 verfasste Hans Bernhard Kief das erste NC-Handbuch zur Einführung in die Grundlagen der NC-Technik in populär-wissenschaftlicher Form. Da die einschlägigen Fachverlage kein Interesse an der Veröffentlichung dieses Buches hatten, entschied Kief das Buch im Selbstverlag zu drucken und zu verkaufen. Um einerseits die Druck- und Vertriebskosten abzudecken und anderseits den Buchpreis erschwinglich zu halten, wurden in das Fachbuch Werbeanzeigen einschlägiger Firmen aus der Werkzeugmaschinenbranche aufgenommen. Die erste Auflage von 6000 Exemplaren hatte 216 Seiten, wurde mehrfarbig gedruckt und größtenteils an die Inserenten verkauft. Die Buchvorstellung erfolgte auf dem Ersten Deutschen NC-Kongress im September 1976 in München. Besonderes Interesse fand die Übersetzung und Erläuterung der damals im deutschen Sprachraum noch ungewohnten englischen Fachausdrücke der NC-Terminologie.

Die 16 Kapitel waren hauptsächlich Erläuterungen zum Funktionsprinzip der neuartigen Steuerung von der Programmierung über die Dateneingabe und -verarbeitung bis zu den inzwischen NC-fähigen Maschinentypen. Im Vordergrund standen vorwiegend die technischen Voraussetzungen und Möglichkeiten der Numerischen Steuerungen, sowie der manuellen und computergestützten Programmierung. Hauptabnehmer waren die Hersteller und interessierte Anwender von NC-Maschinen. Bald folgten die Schulen und Ausbildungsbetriebe, sowie zunehmend das Management und Einzelkunden.

Verbreitung
Die Nachfrage nach dem NC-Handbuch war unerwartet hoch, die Erstauflage war nach 8 Monaten fast vergriffen. Die 11. aktualisierte Auflage 1986 hatte bereits 20.000 Exemplare mit 560 Seiten im Mehrfarbdruck. Der Buchtitel wurde erstmals 1987 geändert in NC/CNC-Handbuch und seit der Ausgabe 2009/2010 lautet der Buchtitel CNC-Handbuch.

Als Ergänzung und zur Unterstützung von Dozenten und Referenten folgten 1983 die NC-Schulungsblätter, eine Sammlung von Overhead-Folien im DIN A4-Format und ergänzenden Texten sowie Quizfragen zu jedem Kapitel im NC-Handbuch. Zusätzlich wurden aktuelle Kopien aktueller Fachartikel über die NC-Technik beigefügt. Nach der dritten Auflage wurden die NC-Schulungsblätter eingestellt. Grund war, dass fast alle NC-Maschinenhersteller inzwischen ihre eigenen, produktbezogenen Unterlagen kostenlos zur Verfügung stellten.

Die ersten Ausgaben des NC-Handbuchs hatten noch keine ISSN oder ISBN. Grund dafür war, dass das Buch ursprünglich nur für NCG-Mitgliedsfirmen gedacht war und vom NC-Handbuch-Verlag direkt vertrieben wurde. Die NC-Gesellschaft hatte aus Personalgründen abgelehnt, den Verkauf zu übernehmen. Der Verkauf über Buchhandlungen war ebenfalls nicht vorgesehen. Diese Entscheidung bot schließlich dem Verlag den Marketing-Vorteil, jeden Kunden und dessen jährliche Bestellmengen genau zu kennen. Diese Statistiken waren später ein starkes Argument bei den Verkaufsverhandlungen mit Hanser.

Erst ab der 7. Ausgabe 1982 wurde eine ISSN vergeben, ab der 11. Ausgabe folgten die ISBN.

Der Vertrieb über Buchhandlungen wurde erst mit der 14. Ausgabe eingeführt, als Libri nach langen Verhandlungen bereit war, den Versand zu übernehmen. Nach dem Verkauf des NC-Handbuch-Verlags an Hanser wurden die Buchhandlungen grundsätzlich in den Verkauf mit einbezogen.

1992 übernahm der Carl Hanser Verlag München den NC-Handbuch-Verlag mit allen Rechten. Die immer noch hohe Auflagenstärke war im Eigenverlag nicht mehr zu schaffen. Ein im Verhältnis zum Umfang und Inhalt niedriger Buchpreis blieb eine wichtige Prämisse auch bei den folgenden Ausgaben. Heute ist das CNC-Handbuch in der Schulung, zur praktischen Einarbeitung, Aus- und Weiterbildung, zur aktuellen Information und als Nachschlagewerk im Management gefragt und in seiner umfassenden Behandlung der inzwischen sehr großen Fachbereiche konkurrenzlos.

Durch die ständigen Aktualisierungen der 31 Auflagen im Verlauf der 44 Jahre ist automatisch eine technische Dokumentation der Weiterentwicklungen von der einfachen NC-Maschine bis zur Digitalen Automatisierung der Fertigung entstanden.

Mit der Ausgabe 2005/06 wurde erstmals eine PowerPoint-Präsentation auf CD angeboten, abgestimmt auf das aktuelle CNC-Handbuch und vorgesehen für Dozenten, einführende Vorträge, Vorlesungen und Kurse zur NC-Technik. Seither wird mit jeder neuen Auflage auch der Foliensatz aktualisiert. Dieser ist für Dozenten kostenlos aus dem Internet zu beziehen.

Seit der 26. Ausgabe von 2009/2010 wird Hans B. Kief durch Helmut Albert Roschiwal in der Autorentätigkeit unterstützt. Mit der 29. Ausgabe, dem CNC-Handbuch 15/16 kam Karsten Schwarz als zusätzlicher Autor hinzu. Er ist Leiter des Schulungszentrums für CNC-Technik innerhalb der Siemens AG.

Dieses Autorenteam überarbeitet und aktualisiert permanent mit Unterstützung von Autoren der einschlägigen Industrie die neuen Auflagen.

Kapitel im NC/CNC-Handbuch

1976
 Ein Werkstück soll bearbeitet werden
 Was ist NC wirklich?
 Die codierte Information
 Prinzip der NC
 NC-Auswahlkriterien
 Wegmesssysteme
 Programmiermethoden und -Systeme
 Programmierbeispiel, manuell
 Programmierbeispiel, maschinell
 Vorschubantriebe
 NC-Maschinen
 Personalfragen beim NC-Einsatz
 AC – Adaptive Control
 CNC – Computerized Numerical Control
 DNC – Direct Numerical Control
 NC – Auch für Ihre Fertigung?
 NC-Fachwortverzeichnis

1977
1977 kamen neu hinzu:
 Flexible Fertigungssysteme
 Richtlinien und Normen

1978
1978 kamen neu hinzu:
 Computer in der Fertigung
 Wartung und Instandhaltung
 SPS – Speicher-programmierbare Steuerungen
 NC-bezogene Rechner-Terminologie

1979
 Handeingabe-NC
 Programmiersprachen
 Auf dem Weg zu CAD/CAM

1980
 Computer und NC
 CNC-Auswahlkriterien
 NC-Roboter

1981
 Meilensteine der NC-Entwicklung
 20 Jahre NC in Europa
 Der NC-Markt in Zahlen

1982
 HNC oder Werkstatt-Programmierung
 Rechnerunterstütztes Konstruieren und Fertigen:CAD/CAM

1983
 Ergebnisse einer Marktbefragung
 Tabellen: ISO-Code, EIA-Code, G- und M-Funktionen
 Datenschnittstellen, G-Zyklen
 Maßnahmen zur Reduzierung der technischen Ausfallrate

Inhalt
Die aktuelle Auflage 31, erschienen im Juli 2020, verfügt über mehr als 800 Seiten Informationen zur CNC-Technik. Im Buch gibt es sowohl Beiträge für den Entwicklungsingenieur beim Maschinenhersteller als auch für die interessierte Fachkraft beim Anwender von Werkzeugmaschinen. Weiterhin wurde in dieser Ausgabe dem Thema Digitalisierung der Fertigung viel Aufmerksamkeit gewidmet. Der populär-wissenschaftliche Stil wurde beibehalten und bietet eine Vielzahl an Grafiken und Bildern, so dass das CNC-Handbuch gerne auch als Selbstlernmedium für Quereinsteiger, Manager usw. genutzt wird. Mit der Ausgabe 31 wurde erstmals mit Hilfe von QR-Codes auf erklärende Videos verlinkt.

Die 31. Auflage orientierte sich wiederum am aktuellen Stand der Technik und umfasst die folgenden Abschnitte:

 Historische Entwicklung NC/CNC
 Funktionen der CNC
 Elektrische Antriebe für Werkzeugmaschinen
 Numerisch gesteuerte Maschinen und Fertigungssysteme
 Werkzeuge in der Fertigung mit CNC-Maschinen
 NC-Programm und Programmierung
 Von der betrieblichen Informationsverarbeitung zu Industrie 4.0

Im Anhang findet man neben dem Fachwort- und Stichwortverzeichnis eine Sammlung der wichtigsten Richtlinien, Normen und Empfehlungen.

Weblinks
 Literatur von und über CNC-Handbuch im Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek
 Siemens: Neues CNC-Handbuch 30. Auflage

Literatur
 Hans B. Kief, Helmut A. Roschiwal, Karsten Schwarz: CNC-Handbuch – CNC, DNC, CAD, CAM, FFS, SPS, RPD, LAN, CNC-Maschinen, CNC-Roboter, Antriebe, Energieeffizienz, Werkzeuge, Industrie 4.0, Fertigungstechnik, Richtlinien, Normen, Simulation, Fachwortverzeichnis. 31., überarbeitete Auflage. Carl Hanser Verlag, München 2020, ISBN 978-3-446-45877-2.

Einzelnachweise

Numerische Steuerung
Literarisches Werk
Technisches Nachschlagewerk
Sachliteratur
Maschinenbau
Ersterscheinung 1976

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UPDATE: Jack Maxton has posted photos from the cruise-in to their Facebook Page.
Jack Maxton Chevrolet kicked off the first of their four monthly cruise-ins on Friday evening.The dealership has been holding these monthly Chevy only car shows for 26 years.
The third Friday in June, July, August and September the Maxton team moves all the cars from the west and front sides of the dealership to make room for the cruisers. There's live music, a DJ, 50/50 raffle, food truck and t-shirt raffle. Registration is free. The t-shirt raffle costs $5 for a chance to win $150 and $50. Maxton gives out more than 70 awards each show.
Despite the 90 degree temperatures on Friday, 250 vehicles registered for the cruise-in. An estimated 50-75 more cars and trucks showed up that didn't register.
This month's "live" music was provided by the band The British Invasion. The band is a big crowd favorite and has been the entertainment for the June show for as long as I can remember. I would dare say that many spectators came for the band and not the cars.
These monthly shows attract some of the cleanest new and restored Chevys from around the central Ohio area, and Friday evening was no exception. Here are some of the great looking cars that turned out for the evening.
This 1962 black Corvette convertible was a real eye catcher.
The color and wheels set off this 1956 pickup. The pickup next to it wasn't bad either.
A couple good-looking first generation Camaros.
The Maxton show has the dubious distinction of having more Corvairs in one location than any other place in the world.
Love the wheels on this '39 two door sedan.
Looks like this Camaro might have a problem getting home.
Here are some more cars that stood out from the evening.
Dave and Cathy Taylor's 2012 Corvette Grand Sport won the evening's "Best of Show" award.
If you like Chevys, it turned out to be another great evening even though it was a little on the warm side.
Great time at Maxtons cruise ins Thanks!!!!!!!!!
I agree. The Maxton cruise-ins are at the top of my list of favorite shows. I try very hard not to miss one.


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This Time SEAT Starts Making Its Own Model… At VW's Main Plant
Lower costs, higher quality. It's a win-win situation.
About a week ago, SEAT announced it is adding another model on the assembly lines of its Martorell factory in Spain. It wasn't a model from the local automaker, but Audi's new A1, which joined the Ibiza hatchback and Arona crossover. Now, SEAT is actually starting to build its own Tarraco, but, again, it's not just a regular production. The seven-seat SUV won't be manufactured at SEAT's home plant, but instead will be assembled at Volkswagen's main site in Wolfsburg.
This is the first time in the last nearly two decades that such a transfer is happening. SEAT says that "synergy effects" are the main driving force behind the decision to move the Tarraco's production to Germany, where it will be built alongside with the Tiguan and Touran, both also based on the modular MQB platform that underpins the Tarraco.
"The Tarraco was completely designed and developed in Spain by SEAT," Matthias Rabe, Vice-President for R&D at SEAT, commented. "Together with a really enthusiastic team at the Wolfsburg factory the vehicle was then prepared for series production, and this in a very short time. That strengthens the already close ties between SEAT and Volkswagen even more."
The last time Volkswagen assembled a model for another brand from the VAG portfolio was in 1998, when the Arosa supermini was rolling off the production lines. From 1974 to 1978, Volkswagen also produced the Audi 50, followed by the Audi 80 and Audi 100 from 1994 to 1998 and 1993 to 1997 respectively.
"A competent, globally leading production network across the Group is one of the biggest levers for efficiency enhancement. The SEAT Tarraco is an example of the way more plants within the Group-wide production network will produce vehicles for several Group brands at the same time in the future," added Andreas Tostmann, Volkswagen Board Member for Production.
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Gallery: SEAT Tarraco production
For the first time in about 20 years, Volkswagen's Wolfsburg plant is producing a model of another Group brand: the SEAT Tarraco. The Spanish SUV, which was designed and developed in Barcelona, exploits the synergy effects of the MQB production platform. In Wolfsburg, the Spanish model will roll off the production line together with the Volkswagen models Tiguan and Touran.
The step towards multi-brand production will boost the capacity deployment of Volkswagen's main plant. The production of the Tarraco in Wolfsburg is part of the Pact for the Future concluded by the company and the Works Council at the end of 2016. The pact is a far-reaching timetable for improving the economic viability of the Volkswagen brand and placing the company on a firm footing for the future.
SEAT Vice-President for Research & Development Dr. Matthias Rabe says: "The Tarraco was completely designed and developed in Spain by SEAT. Together with a really enthusiastic team at the Wolfsburg factory the vehicle was then prepared for series production, and this in a very short time. That strengthens the already close ties between SEAT and Volkswagen even more."
SEAT Vice-President for Production and Logistics Dr. Christian Vollmer explained: "The SEAT Tarraco shows the collaboration among the Volkswagen Group brands in order to generate synergies. This new SUV enables us to enter a new segment, gain sales volumes, boost our brand image and increase our capacity to generate margins."
Volkswagen Board Member for Production Dr. Andreas Tostmann stated: "A competent, globally leading production network across the Group is one of the biggest levers for efficiency enhancement. The SEAT Tarraco is an example of the way more plants within the Group-wide production network will produce vehicles for several Group brands at the same time in the future."
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Writing Excuses 13.37: What Writers Get Wrong, with JY Yang
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Key points: "There's no one way to be non-binary or gender nonconforming." Don't just drop non-binary pronouns into a story without thinking about how gender plays out in those societies. This relates to your self, your core identity. To do justice to gender it should permeate every aspect of the book. We have been socialized to put people in boxes, but maybe it is a spectrum. Although these are all artificial distinctions. Beware of equating gender to specific markers. It's not just presentation. Gender is identity. You may know internally that you are not one of these, but not actually say it in public. How does the character relate to the world? Part of the challenge is that our language does not offer good ways to describe yourself beyond "I don't fit in the boxes you've created" to pronouns and adjectives and whatever.
[Mary] Season 13, Episode 37.
[Dan] This is Writing Excuses, What Do Writers Get Wrong, with JY Yang.
[Mary] 15 minutes long.
[Aliette] Because you're in a hurry.
[Howard] And we're not that smart.
[Dan] I'm Dan.
[Mary] I'm Mary.
[Aliette] I'm Aliette.
[Howard] And I'm going to get it wrong again.
[Chuckles]
[Dan] That's okay, we rely on you for that service. We have with us special guest, JY Yang. JY, tell us about yourself.
[JY] Hello. My name is JY Yang, and I am a writer of short fiction and slightly not so short fiction. So I have two novellas from tor.com publishing that are out in September, The Red Threads of Fortune and The Black Tides of Heaven, which are secondary world science fantasy. I tend to write a lot of epic fantasy now, but I actually really love science fiction. I used to write a lot of like cyberpunky-ish stuff.
[Dan] Awesome. Well, that's cool. Okay, so this is one of our what do writers get wrong episodes, which we love to do. Mary? Tell us about this. What are we doing?
[Mary] So, with these episodes, again, what we're trying to do is present you with people who have different life experiences than the core podcasters do, as a way of helping you begin to think about different characters that you can start to incorporate. So instead of telling you stuff and showing you stuff, we're getting an expert in to kind of talk about their life experience. But we want to be clear that these people that we bring on are not speaking for the entire culture. They're not… culture is not a monolith, and everybody has multiple facets. For instance, JY has multiple facets. What are some of yours?
[JY] Okay, I have… I'm going to say that I love learning languages. But the only language I've kind of successfully managed to get like a [garbled] level of reading language is Swedish. I like whales. And I am a non-binary queer person.
[Mary] So, with all of these facets, which one are we going to focus on?
[JY] I'm going to talk about, I think, being non-binary and generally some [what] gender nonconforming.
[Mary] Okay. So that means what do people get wrong about non-binary and gender nonconforming?
[JY] Okay. I have to start off with a caveat emptor in that I have not actually identified or even thought of myself as non-binary for a very long time. I'm 34, I think. Yes. I am 34 years old, and until I was 33, I basically thought I was a cis woman. Interestingly enough, I think it was the process of writing my novellas in which I kind of realized that these non-binary characters that I'm creating, they're kind of actually me, in the sense that that's the way I sort of relate or don't relate to gender. So, that's my caveat. That… Don't take my words for gospel. Particularly because I hang out with a lot of like non-binary friends, and we all have very different pathways to discovering that we're non-binary. A lot of us are still questioning. We don't have one way to sort of relate to our gender. So I think that you can't really say, "Oh, no, this is exactly what people get wrong about things." Because there's no one way to be non-binary or gender nonconforming. One thing that I think that I can say that actually bothers me when I read about non-binary characters is that people who write characters who use non-binary pronouns, like they/them, em, and… It's kind of just dropped into the story, and people are like, "Oh, look, I have a non-binary character and they use they/them pronouns." But I don't really get a sense of how El's gender plays out in those societies. It just feels like, oh, the only thing about being non-binary is that you use different pronouns, which… It's a lot more than that. It's something that goes to… Well, the way I feel is that it's something that relates very strongly to… Your self, like core identity. I think gender is something that is very, very cultural. It's pretty much embedded very deeply in every culture there is. No matter how this is expressed, you don't have a culture in which gender doesn't matter at all. Not on this planet. Likely, if you have halfway humanoid characters, it's not… It's going to be a thing. So. Yeah, I think that the sense… What bothers me about these characters is that they're sort of dropped into a world, but I don't see… I don't get a sense from the world that gender is something that the author kind of thought about in great depth.
[Dan] So, is there a counterexample that you could give of maybe an author who did their research, who does portray it accurately? What are those differences? What are the signs that, "Oh, yeah, this person knows what they're talking about?"
[JY] Okay. So I'm going to… I think that… In a way I think… The best thing I think can probably do is to sort of read sort of like non-binary writers who write like non-binary characters with sort of like different gender things. Okay. I think like, for example, Ann Leckie, who is not non-binary, and who, as far as I know, is a woman, but she… Like, her Ancillary Justice novels. I'm pretty sure that was the name for the series, which I'm completely forgetting right now, but you know what I'm talking about.
[JY] I think it's interesting because she basically embedded gender very deeply in her books, in her system. That's something that sort of like permeates every aspect of the book if you know what I'm talking about. That is, I think, that is the kind of depth of thought, I think, that if you really sort of like wanted to do justice to gender. That sounds really strange when I say it out loud.
[JY] But, like, it's not just something that's sort of a gloss put on top of a world.
[Mary] One of the things about being people is that we have socialized to put people into boxes. There's a very interesting study that… I'm going to circle back to gender, I promise… About color. That shows that the words that we have for color come into the language at the point when we can create that color. They come in a very predictable pattern, except for Egypt, which gets the word blue way before everybody else does because of lapis lazuli. So this is why in Homer's The Odyssey, there is no… The ocean is the wine-dark sea. The word blue never occurs. So this study shows that if you do not have the word for a color, you actually lumped the color into a different color category. They did… They showed this video of some people in a society that… A tribal society that… Here on earth, this is not secondary world, this is real world stuff. That has a very simplified color structure, compared to what we think of as a color structure. So things are all in the kind of greens and browns and reds and blacks. They show them a wheel, and they don't have the word for blue, specifically. They show them a wheel of swatches, and they're all green except for one that is blue. They're like, "Which one is different?" They look at the wheel and they guess and they point at different ones. To me, it's very obvious which one is blue. Then they show them a wheel of this gray green thing and like, "Which one is different?" They all, unerringly, without hesitating, point to the same square. To me it looks completely the same. It's because they're using different boxes. So I think, and this is where we circle back to gender, so I think that one of the things that has happened to us is that we have been trained in 2017 to put people into only one of two boxes. So we're at this generational shift where we are learning that there are other boxes, and that really, we shouldn't actually be looking up boxes, because, just like color, there is a spectrum. But that these are all artificial distinctions that we are making.
[Dan] I'm… Okay. I'm going to… Before we carry on, we need to pause for our book of the week. So, tell us about the book of the week.
[JY] Okay, the book of the week is actually… I'm going to cheat, because it's actually two books. But they're short books. So, like, if you combined them, they're kind of like one book.
[No no no no no]
[Howard] Our readers, our listeners, have never complained when we've given them more than one thing to read.
[JY] Okay. So… The books of the week are my Tensorate novellas, the first two of the series, which comes out from Tor.com publishing in September. They're called The Red… Oh, God, I always get the… The Black Tides of Heaven and The Red Threads of Fortune. They're basically set in a secondary world setting, which is sort of heavily influenced by Asian culture. I have like them swearing in like [Hokien] which is kind of my parents language. It is a world where there is magic that is based on stuff like the five elements which I've kind of like sneakily used as five different sorts of like energy in terms of physics. But everyone has the potential to use magic, but learning how to use it is very difficult and it is very much restricted to people in power, people with privilege. So the two novellas are each centered on one of a pair of twins who are born to the supreme ruler of the dominant empire. Their names are Mokoya and Akeha, and the two novellas kind of like sort of tell the story of how they rebel against their mother, and break away from their family and sort of join the resistance to their mother's terrible rule.
[Dan] Awesome. That is The Black Tides…
[Garbled]
[Dan] Oh. Sorry, go ahead.
[Aliette] I want it this week.
[Aliette] I read them and they're really, really excellent books, and like, they've got this really, really awesome world building. And like the gender and the whole coming to your own gender… Like, oh my God.
[Howard] JY said these are coming out in September, and you're using the future tense. But, by the time this episode is aired, fair listener, they are already available to you. If… they're going to be up on Tor.com, is that?
[JY] Yeah. You can… Tor.com publishing. You can probably get them on Amazon and Barnes & Noble…
[Howard] We will provide links to them, so you can just go get'em.
[Dan] Awesome.
[Howard] No waiting.
[Dan] The Black Tides of Heaven and The Red Threads of Fortune.
[JY] Yes. Yes yes yes.
[Dan] Awesome. By JY Yang.
[JY] I wrote these. I should know… But sometimes, I'm like, "Mmmm…"
[Dan] Okay. Cool. So. This is a question we've asked a lot of our what do people get wrong guests that I would love to ask. What are some of the clichés of an incorrectly expressed nonconforming gender identity that you see? When people do it wrong, what stands out is obviously wrong?
[JY] Okay, so this is not, I think, specific to just non-binary, but a gender nonconforming, in which I do see every now and then, like cis authors kind of equating gender to sort of very specific markers of desire like sexuality or like liking skirts makes you more feminine and liking pants like makes you more masculine. I think it's a lot more complicated than that. As… I think I have my non-binary friends who are very, very feminine, they present themselves very femininely, but they don't identify as being a woman. A woman. Wow. [Laughter] And… Yeah, I think that's one of the things where I think you really have to sort of consider like gender is a social construct. And feeling that you're of a certain gender may not necessarily correlate to how you break out of the boxes that society wants to put you in. Like, you're a particular gender, you have to present yourself in this, this, this, and this way. I think gender is a lot more than likes surface gloss that says… Presentation in a sense is very much superficial. I think… I feel like gender is an… It's an identity. It's something that you can't really define, you can't really put into words why you feel this way, but… You just know that it's right for you. I think that's a reason also why a lot of likely non-binary people I know are still trying to sort of like figure themselves out and how they relate to society in terms of their gender presentation, and they have some days in which they want to present more femininely and some days in which they want to present more non-femininely… Masculinely [chuckles] I'm a writer, I'm good at words. I'm sure.
[Mary] Let me ask a… Use myself as a useful representative example, and ask a really specific question. So, I have a book that set in 1952, and I have a character in it that my intention is that they are non-binary. But it's 1952, and that language doesn't exist yet. What markers would you put in that book that would make you recognize the character as representing you?
[JY] Hum. That's a very good question. I think that there has to be a certain, I think… Well, it depends on whether… Okay, I think it depends on a number of things, because you can be sort of like internally I know that I'm not one of these, but you don't actually ever say it in public. So I don't know if they're closeted non-binary or it's actually addressed in the book, because I haven't read it, I'm sorry.
[Mary] That's okay, the book isn't out yet, you couldn't have read it.
[JY] Oh, that's good. I didn't know that. But… So in a sense that I think you have to be very clear on what the character themselves, how they relate to the world. I think like specifically because like I think in the 1950s, like gender was a very… I think that the strictures of gender were… Especially in America, were a lot more constricted than they are now. So in order to sort of like say, "Hey, I don't fit into these boxes," you have to have an active sort of rebelling against that. It's like, well, I know that these boxes are here, but I think that these boxes suck. Even if they can't sort of articulate that, it's because I don't belong to either gender. The boxes that exist right now… They have to be like, "No, these boxes make me feel uncomfortable." And even if they don't understand why, it's just like, "I don't like them. And I refuse… Or don't refuse." But, yeah, that sort of discomfort with the binary has to be there.
[Howard] The challenge that Mary has is merely a slightly exacerbated version of the one that English writers have in general, which is that our language does not offer you good ways to describe yourself in a way that is clear to everyone else. It's one thing to say, "I don't fit in the boxes you've created." It's another thing entirely to say, "This is how I represent," and to be able to do that with one set of pronouns and one set of adjectives and whatever. We just don't have those tools.
[Aliette] I mean, we do have languages that have… Finnish, right, for instance…
[Aliette] Has no pronouns. At the opposite end of the spectrum, French genders everything, so, like, the non-binary community in France is like, "We need to do like all the word endings," and like it's how do we do this? We need to create this third like nonspecific non-masculine non-feminine gender for everything.
[JY] Yeah. I think in Swedish, they actually sort of… They actively did that. They introduced a third gender-neutral pronoun that some people I know… I don't want this in our language, but I like that they actively… The people who are… More or less in charge of the language are actively saying, "Yes, we are going to do this." Which I wish like there was something similar in English, because, yeah, I still get blowback on like using they/them pronouns in English. They're like, "No, it's not grammatical." I'm like, "Mrrr…"
[Mary] Well, actually…
[Mary] Yeah, I was going to say.
[JY] It's been going on for like four or five centuries at the very least. Right?
[Mary] Jane Austen could do this. You can too.
[Dan] Okay. So this has been a great conversation, but we are out of time. JY, do you have some homework you can give us?
[JY] Okay. Yes, I do have some homework. That homework is to read two non-binary writers who I love a lot. Their names are A. Merc Rustad and Rose Lemberg. So Merc has a collection that's just out called… I think he… Do You Want to Be a Robot and 21 Stories… Something like that. I'll give you the name of the thing and then you can put it up. [So You Want to Be a Robot and Other Stories]
[Dan] We'll put that up on the website.
[JY] They are an amazing short story writer. Then there's Rose Lemberg. They write the Bird books, which is a series of short stories, and there's a novella that's just out this year with Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Both Rose and Merc right beautiful, evocative, poetic stories that are so full of imagination. The great thing is that they kind of worked very nuanced gender systems into them. But… These are… That's not actually like the point of the story. The point of the story is not to talk about gender, it's about characters falling in love, having wants, having desires, having needs. So, if you want to see how people do it, those are great examples.
[Dan] That is perfect.
[JY] It's neat stories. You will love them.
[Dan] That's exactly what we need. So, thank you very much. Thank you, JY, for being on the show.
[JY] Thank you for having me.
[Dan] This has been Writing Excuses. You are out of excuses. Now go write.
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Congratulations to the January Fastest Class challenge winners!
JUMP ROPE - We are on to the 2nd half of our jump rope year and have recently added about 20 new jumpers to the Bandelier Jump Rope Team! Congratulations to all of those students who have worked hard enough to participate on the team.
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My PE program goals are to provide a fun and safe environment for everyone to enjoy physical activities. I believe that PE is for Everyone, not just the skilled athlete. That the main purpose of PE is to help teach students the skills necessary to take on life's adventures. Movement should be both an enjoyable and purposeful experience. Our PE curriculum aligns with the 7 State and National PE Standards.


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Q: MongoDB -Query documents where nested array fields is equal to some value I have a JSON object:
{
  "ownershipSheetB": {
    "lrUnitShares": [{
            "description": "blabla1",
            "lrOwners": [{
                    "lrOwnerId": 35780527,
                    "name": "somename1",
                    "address": "someadress1",
                    "taxNumber": "12345678910"
                }
            ],
            "lrUnitShareId": 29181970,
            "subSharesAndEntries": [],
            "orderNumber": "1"
        }, {
            "description": "blabla2",
            "lrOwners": [{
                    "lrOwnerId": 35780528,
                    "name": "somename2",
                    "address": "someadress2",
                    "taxNumber": "12345678911"
                }
            ],
            "lrUnitShareId": 29181971,
            "subSharesAndEntries": [],
            "orderNumber": "2"
        }
    ],
    "lrEntries": []
  }
}

I would like to query all documents that have taxNumber field equal to some string (say "12345678911" from the example above).
I have tried this query:
{"ownershipSheetB.lrUnitShares": { "lrOwners": {"taxNumber": "12345678910"}}}

but it returns no documents.

A: Solution 1: With dot notation
db.collection.find({
  "ownershipSheetB.lrUnitShares.lrOwners.taxNumber": "12345678910"
})

Demo Solution 1 @ Mongo Playground

Solution 2: With $elemMatch
db.collection.find({
  "ownershipSheetB.lrUnitShares": {
    $elemMatch: {
      "lrOwners": {
        $elemMatch: {
          "taxNumber": "12345678910"
        }
      }
    }
  }
})

Demo Solution 2 @ Mongo Playground

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Kelsey Grammer 'expecting third child' with wife Kayte Walsh
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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock (5600351jb) Kayte Walsh and Kelsey Grammer Vanity Fair Oscar Party, Los Angeles, America - 28 Feb 2016
Celebrity baby news
Congratulations are in order for actor Kelsey Grammer and his wife Kayte Walsh, who are about to welcome their third child together after a history of tragic miscarriages.
Earlier this week, a source spotted Kayte, 35, at LAX airport in Los Angeles sporting a large baby bump. By the looks of it, she could potentially be around six months along.
For Kelsey, 61, this will be his third child with his wife, and his seventh child overall! The pair married in 2011, and are parents to four-year-old Faith Evangeline Elisa and two-year-old Kelsey Gabriel Elias.
The Cheers and Frasier star also has four children from his previous marriages, three daughters and a son: Spencer, 32, Greer, 24, Mason, 14, and Jude, 12.
Spencer is a successful actress, appearing in TV shows such as Greek. Her younger sister, Greer, has followed the family occupation of acting, starring in the teen MTV series Awkward and is also a beauty pageant star.
Spencer and Greer Grammer
Sadly, starting a family hasn't always been the most straightforward path for Kelsey and Kayte. Just two months after their announcement that they were expecting a child in 2010, Kayte sadly suffered a miscarriage.
Two years later, Kayte was pregnant with twins, but the couple's son did not survive his birth.
'A glorious birth with a lingering sadness is ours today. We choose to celebrate the life that has been given to us,' said the couple in a statement during which they announced the birth of Faith, his twin sister.
Kayte and her daughter Faith in 2013
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Q: Joint test of change in variance across matched groups I am monitoring variability in sentencing outcomes (custodial sentence length) amongst matched groups.  The aim is to determine whether sentence variability went up or down after a policy was implemented.
I have about 40 groups of sentences, which are matched on the characteristics of the case.    For example, group 1 comprises sentences for people who committed ABH, who were under the influence of drugs, and used a weapon.  Group 2 comprises people who committed ABH, who were remorseful, and had no aggravating factors in the case.
For each group, I can further separate sentences outcomes into two groups: those sentenced before a policy was implemented, and those sentenced after the policy was implemented.  I can then compare sentenced outcomes in the 'before' and 'after' groups to see whether variability seems to have declined.
I can test each group individually to see whether variability of sentence outcome went up or down, using an F test.  However, the results of these tests vary, and I realise that I should really be using a joint test in any case.
I'm also not getting enough power on a group-by-group basis: for most tests, we cannot reject H0, that variability did not change.  This is despite the fact that variability has declined for the vast majority of groups, which suggests that if I somehow combine results from all groups, it should be possible to find a statistically significant decline in variance overall.
Could anybody suggest and appropriate test or how I might proceed?  I am very grateful for any help.
A few clarifications:

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*I would be happy to assume that amongst a matched group (log) sentence outcomes are drawn from a normal distribution.  This assumption will not be perfect, but is probably adequate.

*The size of matched groups differs.  For instance, the group 1 'before' implementation group may have 100 sentences, and the 'group 1 after implementation' group may have 75 sentences.  The same figures for group 2 may be 66 and 123.

A:
I would be happy to assume that amongst a matched group (log) sentence outcomes are drawn from a normal distribution. This assumption will not be perfect, but is probably adequate.

The usual F-test for equality of variance is fairly sensitive to non-normality. You may want to consider a more robust measure, or alternatively to use some form of simulation (where you have a more suitable model for the distribution) or resampling (where you don't) of the distribution of the test statistic; resampling could either involve randomization or bootstrapping.
Let me start by discussing, e.g. a Levene test or a Brown-Forsythe test
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levene%27s_test
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/eda35a.htm
(note the Brown-Forsythe can use trimmed means rather than medians). Levene isn't quite so dependent on the normality assumption as a Bartlett test, but it's still not highly robust.
One standard version of the Levene test is basically just an analysis of variance performed on the absolute deviations of values from the respective group means.
These aren't the only options, however (and sometimes these are criticized for their own assumption of equality of variance of the absolute deviations) but I'm going to stick with them for just a moment while I make a point.
An advantage of this ANOVA on deviations approach is that you can consider more complicated models than a one-way ANOVA, both for the original means and for the deviations themselves.
So imagine you construct first a suitable model for the means (or possibly using trimmed means if there's remaining heavy-tailedness), then conduct some suitable ANOVA for equality of absolute deviations from those means.
There is a version of the Welch procedure that is used for ANOVA that could be applied to this second stage to overcome potential problems with heteroskedasticity.
You don't have to rely on the usual tables however, since you can, as mentioned above, use simulation or resampling for the distribution of the test statistic. For example, the whole two-stage procedure can be performed with a residual bootstrap.
This reduces further both the sensitivity to normality and the issue with the equality of variance assumption at the second stage.


Sustainable economies are built on good jobs. If people don't earn enough money, they can't keep the economy growing by buying goods and services.
This basic fact is lost on opponents of minimum-wage increases, who for decades have been arguing that these pay hikes hurt businesses, cause job loss and therefore are bad for the economy.
Repetition of an argument might keep it in the news, but it doesn't make it factually credible. So it is with minimum-wage rejectionists, who have succeeded in getting at least equal time for their assertions with every proposed wage increase, even though their claims have been debunked over and over again.
It is no surprise, then, that the Reason Foundation's Adam Summers in his op-ed in the Business Journal predicts dire consequences if California were to increase its minimum wage law ("Higher Minimum Wage Will Lower Job Prospects," February 11). Summers, like many before him, conjures images of economic catastrophe, cautioning that "for local and state businesses teetering on the edge of survival, the increased costs of a minimum-wage increase could be the last straw." As evidence, he points to efforts by a few companies to avoid compliance with a hotel minimum-wage law passed by Long Beach voters in November.
The fact that wealthy companies will try to find ways to pay their workers less than the law requires isn't evidence the laws don't work. Summers ignores the fact that approximately 1,900 Long Beach hotel workers have received a wage increase because of the new law, focusing instead on a couple of bad actors trying to find loopholes and avoid compliance. He also neglects to mention that the hotel minimum-wage increase was overwhelmingly supported not just by voters, but by small businesses in Long Beach, which understand that when the buying power of workers rises, it's good for the economy. According to one study, the hotel wage increase will bring $7 million annually into that city's economy.
Summers and other critics could learn a lot by looking at the large body of evidence about the economic impacts of minimum-wage increases in Los Angeles County. These statistics are consistent with research from across the country, which has shown over and over again that minimum-wage laws help workers without causing significant job loss or business flight – and are therefore good for the economy.
One of the most definitive studies of higher minimum-wage laws was released in 2005. Co-authored by two University of California economists and funded primarily by the Ford Foundation, the report examined the impact of the city of L.A.'s original living-wage law (full disclosure: Researchers with my organization, LAANE, co-authored the study). This ordinance, one of the broadest in the country, was enacted in1997 despite furious opposition from business leaders, who warned of massive job loss and economic dislocation.
The study found just the opposite. L.A.'s wage law increased pay for an estimated 10,000 jobs with minimal reduction in employment. "Most firms affected by the law have adapted to the living wage without eliminating jobs," concluded the study's authors. The report also revealed that most of the workers covered by the law were in poor or low-income families– upending another favorite myth that minimum-wage laws do not target the people who really need them. These workers saw an average pay increase of 20 percent, or $2,600 a year, and kept 70 percent of that after taxes, meaning they had more money to spend – and pump into the local economy. Affected employers, meanwhile, experienced a drop in turnover from workforce better able to make ends meet.
Another city of L.A. wage law covering hotel workers nears Los Angeles International Airport has yielded similar results since its implementation in 2008. The Century Corridor hotel sector is thriving while hotel workers have seen significant increases in their pay, generating an estimated $5.4 million in additional revenue for the local economy. A 2011 increase in the wage rate for workers at LAX, meanwhile, has boosted pay to $15.37 an hour without any reported job loss or negative business impacts.
Whether in Long Beach; Los Angeles; or Washington,D.C.; opposition to minimum-wage laws is driven by ideology and greed – not facts. Critics have the right to tell us the sky is about to fall, but isn't it about time that we stop listening and instead create a truly sustainable economy?


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Anton-Lippitt Lecture on Urban Affairs – Houston: Prophetic City – What Houston Can Teach the Rest of the Country
6 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.
Room 101, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Reception to follow in Agora of Stephen Robert '62 Hall
This year's Anton-Lippitt lecture will focus on the theme of community engagement, citizenship, and partnerships.
The open keynote event features Stephen L. Klineberg, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Rice University and the founding-director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
Houston clearly exemplifies the trends that are refashioning the social and political landscape across America. The new high-tech, knowledge-based, fully global economy is generating mounting inequalities based primarily on access to quality education. At the same time, an epic transformation is underway, as this city and country, once predominantly composed of European nationalities, is rapidly becoming a microcosm of all the world's ethnicities and religions. And as urban regions compete for the "knowledge workers" in the new economy, quality-of-place attributes now increasingly determine the fates of cities. The panel reviews the findings from 38 years of systematic surveys to show how the new realities are unfolding, to assess the changing attitudes and beliefs of the general public, and to consider the implications of these ongoing trends for the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
Together with several panelists, Professor Klineberg will discuss how some destination cities have evolved toward inclusion and explore the institutions and strategies that support inclusive evolution.
Angela Blanchard, Brown University
Amanda Edwards, Houston City Council
Armando Walle, Texas House of Representatives
Moderated by: Susan Moffitt, Director of the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy
Politics in Action
Stephen Klineberg -
A graduate of Haverford College, with an M.A. from the University of Paris and a Ph.D. from Harvard, Stephen Klineberg is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Rice University and the founding-director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
In 1982, he and his students launched an annual study, now called the "Kinder Houston Area Survey," that has been tracking for the past 38 years the demographic patterns, economic outlooks, experiences, and beliefs of local residents. The research has attracted great interest and generous support from foundations, corporations, and individuals in the wider Houston community and beyond.
He has published a series of reports on this research and is completing a book this year, under contract with Simon & Schuster, exploring the national implications of the survey findings, entitled Prophetic City: Houston on the Cusp of a Changing America. He is the recipient of twelve major teaching awards, including the George R. Brown Lifetime Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Piper Professor Award.
Klineberg is a much sought-after speaker, and as co-author of The Present of Things Future: Explorations of Time in Human Experience, has written numerous articles and appears frequently on radio and television, and in the print and social media.
Angela Blanchard –
Angela Blanchard is a globally recognized expert practitioner in community development, disaster recovery and effective long-term integration of immigrants and refugees. Blanchard serves as President Emerita of BakerRipley, Texas' largest community development organization. The nonprofit currently serves more than a half-million people across 48 counties. Blanchard currently is a leading expert in community development, disaster recovery and effective long-term integration for immigrants and refugees.
In the midst of leading BakerRipley's long-term disaster recovery efforts following Hurricane Harvey, Blanchard was recognized as the recipient of the 2017 Heinz Award in the Human Condition.
Angela joined the Brown University community in January 2018 as a Swearer Center Social Entrepreneur in Residence.
Amanda Edwards –
Amanda K. Edwards serves as the Houston City Council Member in At-Large Position 4. She is also an attorney and native Houstonian with a passion for building communities through public service. Currently, Amanda serves as Vice Chair of the Budget and Fiscal Affairs Committee. She also serves on the Economic Development Committee and the Transportation, Technology and Infrastructure Committee. Amanda strives to innovatively address the city's fiscal challenges and its urban core needs to move all of Houston forward so that it can be the place where the Gulf Coast and the world's future meet.
Since joining City Council, Amanda initiated and led the Mayor's Technology & Innovation Task Force to build a more robust innovation economy in Houston, and now sits on the Houston Exponential Board of Directors. She also serves on the Houston-Galveston Area Council Transportation Policy Council, where she serves as Co-Chair of its High Capacity Transit Task Force in an effort to address the region's mobility needs via multi-modal transit options. Amanda launched and now leads the City of Houston Women and Minority-Owned Business Task Force to assist Houston women and minority business owners with gaining access to capital and scaling up their businesses Amanda has championed the City's Complete Communities Initiative; promoted public art through her Super Bowl Community & Youth Public Art Mural Project; and launched the Council Member Edwards' Community Empowerment Signature Series to empower Houston teens, adults, and seniors to be the solution in their respective communities.
Susan Moffitt-
Dr. Susan Moffitt is the Director of A. Alfred Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy and an Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Her research focuses on American political institutions and public policy while also examining the politics of information gathering, distribution, and use, with particular emphasis on developing the capacity to implement policy in the fields of public education and public health.
Armando Walle –
State Representative Armando Walle is serving his sixth term in the Texas House of Representatives. First elected in 2008, Representative Walle represents Texas House District 140. During his time in the Texas Legislature, Representative Walle has worked on many issues important to him and his constituents, with a particular focus on improving the health, safety, and economic well-being of working families. Representative Walle has authored a variety of bills toward those priorities; from providing water utility customers recourse for nonexistent water service, to helping nursing mothers return to work, to establishing Texas' Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Task Force. Raised by a single mother and the oldest of 5 children, Representative Walle was the first in his family to attend and graduate from college. A practicing attorney, Representative Walle's efforts as an elected official have been instrumental in bringing new clinics to medically underserved areas in House District 140, and building the East Aldine Town Center-- which includes the BakerRipley campus, the Harris County 911 Call Center, and eventually a campus of Lone Star College-North Harris.


"What better to represent the cycle of life than a grain of wheat?
From the first moment I set eyes on this "experience"(the written booklet with the set of photos)I was immediately stricken by a magic spell which took me at once to this ancient land in its original version,another time,when oddly enough,it seeems as though "less" was "going on" but everything had "more" meaning…which to me personally translates into a much richer existence..
Unfortunately ,I choose not to share any of the photos here or anymore of the text out of mere respect for the creators,as I do not have the opportunity to ask their permission.
But I can state that I found this piece of "life" in an extremely special book shop in Nikosia,Cyprus,named MAM.I entered this shop searching for a specific book on traditional Cypriot handcraft and asides from discovering the shop actually specialises in all books related to Cyprus,I fell upon the owner Mr Mikis, who himself clearly belongs to another era.One of the sweetest people I have ever met,passionate about what he does,extremely courteous,generous and kind.His work ethics are clearly those of a world who once took the "other" into far more consideration,long before the need was born to come up with terms such as "ethical commerce" to repair an existing value system..


Ed Rigsbee holds both the Certified Speaking Professional and Certified Association Executive credentials. With his feet planted firmly on both sides of the fence, Rigsbee offers a very unique perspective of how to sell to associations. He has been a professional speaker for 30 years and an association executive for over 10 years. He is the author of five books and over 2,500 published articles.


Summary: Supports the day to day operations of the Branch ensuring all orders are picked accurately. The Quality Control Lead uses the Ship Ticket Audit software to audit each order for accuracy. It is also their responsibility, after the order is audited, to get the order ready for shipment. This includes organizing the pallet or box in a way that does not damage the material and is easiest to be received by the customer. All corresponding labels must also be present, including the customer label, QC label, mixed carton label, etc.The order is then staged in the correct staging area for an on time delivery.
Audits each order for accuracy verifying part numbers, quantities and descriptions.
Organizes the pallet or box in a way that does not damage the material and is easiest to be received by the customer.
Ensures all corresponding labels must also be present, including the customer label, QC label, mixed carton label, etc.
Stages audited order in the correct staging area for an on time delivery.
Operates a forklift safely to move inventory through the facility as required.
Maintains neat and orderly work areas to ensure a safe working environment.
Implement new policies and procedures as directed by the Area Operations Manager in a timely, effective, and consistent manner.
Make sure all housekeeping guidelines are followed by all employees.
Maintain the organization of the warehouse and ensure that it is left in an orderly manner for the next shift.
Work with other team members and EES associates in a professional and courteous manner.
Coach and encourage associates under their supervision in a way that promotes growth and development.
High school diploma or GED with warehouse or distribution experience preferred. Able to identify product by size, type, style, color or product code. Must be able to read orders/match orders on shipping tickets to items picked. Basic math skills and reasoning skills. Certification of power-truck equipment. Operate inventory control equipment, i.e., bar-coding equipment, handheld devices.
Physical Requirements: Able to move/lift up to 50 lbs. unassisted. Able to withstand extreme temperatures in a typical warehouse environment Position spends a large amount of time standing, walking, lifting, pulling and pushing. Position may require climbing of ladders for top-level selection Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.


Fiber-coupled THz emitters and detectors offered by EKSPLA are designed for broadband operation and can be used in standard timedomain (THz-TDS) setup (Fig. 1).
Unique GaBiAs material used in photoconductive antennas (PCA) features excellent sensitivity for wavelengths up to approx. 1060 nm and electron lifetime shorter than 1 ps. As a result ultra short half-cycle THz pulses with broad spectra up to 5 THz can be generated and detected. Pump beam fiber delivery eliminates timeconsuming adjustments and ensures maximum flexibility of experiment. As an example, this feature allows fast and convenient switching between different geometries: transmission, reflection, etc. THz emitters and detectors are mounted into compact housing compatible with standard 1" optical holders. Performance of each device is checked and technical passport, including testing report, is provided for customer.
THz emitters and detectors are supplied with integrated hyperhemispherical lenses, made from high-resistivity silicon, attached to PCA to increase the radiation efficiency of THz waves into free space. EKSPLA offers two standard types of these lenses: for collimated or diverging THz beam output. Advantage of collimated THz beam output is simple setup, because no additional optical components between THz emitter and detector are required for experiment. However, this design features bigger aberrations of THz beam, which affects focusing. In second case design of lens assumes positioning of the PCA in aplanatic point, which significantly reduces aberrations. As a result nearly diffraction limited spot of THz beam can be achieved.
Photoconductive antennas are particularly designed for THz emitter or THz detector. The substrate of GaAs contains messa-etched epitaxial active layer of GaBiAs in order to achieve high dark resistance. High photosensitivity of the material allows use of low average power optical pulses for excitation. On its surface a coplanar Hertzian type dipole antenna structure is formed using AuGeNi metallization (Fig. 2).
The gap between metallic contacts is similar to laser spot diameter in detector case and larger – in emitter case. Photoconductive chip is mounted on PCB and placed inside metallic housing of device. SMA sockets on back side of the housing are used to connect DC or AC bias to THz emitter or lock-in amplifier input to THz detector.
Each fiber-coupled THz emitter and detector is delivered with specially design optical fiber. Standard configuration requires pre-chirped pulse with 0.5-2 ps duration on fiber input. Typically such pulse parameters are available directly from fiber lasers before compressor stage. In this case pulse is compressed while propagating through optical fiber with negative dispersion. Another solution can be applied for femtosecond pulses – near zero dispersion optical fiber. In such fiber femtosecond pulse keeps its form and pulse duration doesn't differ much on input and output of fiber. In both cases it works only for particular wavelength, so it should be specified while ordering. Laser radiation is delivered through FC/PCA fiber connector. It is focused onto PCA using lenses fixed inside the housing of THz emitter and THz detector.


Here's what's cookin' around the rest of the Yankosphere so far this week: - On Monday, Chris Mitchell of Pinstripe Pundits looked into the possibility of Aaron Judge's height making him susceptible to striking out more as he moves up the MiL ladder.
- Bryan Hoch had Mark Teixeira's thoughts on his latest injury and how he can stay healthy down the stretch, along with updates on a lot of the other walking wounded.
- On Tuesday, Matt Provenzano of Pinstripe Alley declared Brian McCann officially out of his season-long slump. After the last 2 games, I'm inclined to pull a Lee Corso and say "not so fast, my friend!", but McCann has definitely been better.
- Earlier this morning, el duque of It Is High... lamented the decision to keep Brian Roberts around and on the field while Rob Refsnyder waits and rakes in Triple-A.
- And in case you missed it yesterday, our own Domenic Lanza, inspired by Brett Gardner's personal HR derby against Yu Darvish, identified other pitchers who have been victimized by current Yankee hitters. Be on the lookout for a sequel to that post later today.
P.S.- Don't forget to drop us a line for the "all questions answered" podcast later this week.


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The Shield Chart is the basis of most methods of Geomantic Interpretation, and generating it is a very simple process that can be done quickly and efficiently. To start, one must prepare properly (a process I describe here), and then begin the process of generating random numbers.
-Anything else that can generate either a 1 or a 2! I personally use a set of four colored dice (representing the four elements) with either one dot or two on them. Rolling them all at once yields an entire figure.
Each possibility represents either one dot (traditionally represented as a 1 in the binary system) or two dots (traditionally represented as a 0 in the binary system).
The generation process begins by generating four Figures, known in the shield chart as the Four Mothers. When generating Geomantic Figures, one does not randomize between one and sixteen and select the proper Figure based upon its traditional order. Instead, one generates each of its four rows of dots separately. In order to generate one Figure, one merely has to randomly select one dot or two (using the way chosen above) four times, and in order they will yield the Fire, Air, Water, and Earth lines of the Figure. Do this whole process four times (yielding sixteen randomizations), and you will have the four Mothers. Place them in the appropriate places on the chart, writing them in right to left.
Once one has generated the Mothers, one generates the Daughters – who are called as such because they are derived from the Mothers. This is a simple process; the First Daughter is made from the Fire lines of all four mothers (in order from first to fourth, right to left), with the Fire of the First Mother being the Fire of the First Daughter, the Fire of the Second Mother being the Air of the First Daughter, the Fire of the Third Mother being the Water of the First Daughter, and the Fire of the Fourth Mother being the Earth of the First Daughter. The Second Daughter is composed in the same way from the Air lines of the four Mothers, the Third is made from the Water lines, and the Fourth is made from the Earth lines. Write these Daughters in their proper places next to the Mothers, from right to left.
At this point, the entire first row of the Shield Chart has been generated. The second row, that of the Nieces, is done differently. Each Niece is associated with either two Mothers or two Daughters, and each group of three positions makes up a Triplicity. The fact that the two Daughters or Mothers generate the Niece is why the Niece in a Triplicity represents the relationship between the two, as it is made from a combination of parts.
In order to generate a Niece from its associated Mothers or Daughters, one has to compare the two Figures. Start at the Fire line of each of the two Figures being compared. If they are the same (i.e., both one dot or both two dots), then the Niece gets two dots in its Fire line. If they are different (i.e., one is one dot and the other is two dots), then the Niece gets one dot in its Fire line. The rest of the Niece is generated by doing the same thing for the Air, Water, and Earth lines.
Once one has generated all of the Nieces, one repeats the process, using the two Nieces associated with the Left and Right Witness to generate the Left and Right Witness. The last step in generating the Shield Chart is repeating the process one more time, combining the Right and Left Witnesses into the Judge, which is made from the entire chart.
Because of this process of adding Figures together to generate higher levels of the chart, certain patterns always emerge when certain Figures are grouped together. For example, if you combine Cauda and Caput Draconis together (in the manner used to generate Nieces, Witnesses, and Judge), then you will always get Carcer, indicating the isolation of being trapped in a loop of beginnings and endings. Because of this, specific patterns will begin to have specific meanings as one reads a chart, and these patterns can become key to interpreting the chart.
This entry was posted on June 15, 2012 by Z. M. Wilmot. It was filed under Geomancy .
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Ive also been using the dice for almost a year now. I find it the most effective. Invoking the angel HRU has been an extremely potent practice, more so than invoking the planetary spirits, which could be dangerous if not done correctly. This angel HRU is the angel who governs the tarot and all acts of divination, when invoked he opens portals in the minds eye to help you interpret the symbols in truth.


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Johanna K hopes to lean on her Olympic Games experience at the US Open in New York, which starts on Monday….
The world No1 will play the Danish second seed in this year's Australian Open final after winning a classic against Angelique. Halep goes through to a mouthwatering final against Wozniacki, with both players seeking to win their maiden grand slam title.


Balcer sentenced for killing parents.
PPH is limiting comments at least for now.
Some thoughts on the sentecning by our esteemed AMG alumnus Jusitice Daniel (patfl) Billings.
40 years is, IMO low .
"Balcer also has talked about hearing "a tone" in her (his) head, something she (he) had heard before, and that affected thinking."
"Charles Robinson, a private forensic psychologist, who assessed her (his) potential for future violent behavior. Robinson's report concluded, "These observations coupled with the extreme rarity of parricide would support a risk management category of low risk for Andrew absent situational determinants not under his control.""
Uh, aren't tones in his head "situational determinants not under his control"? Young Andrew is suffering from some kind of psychological condition. I hope he gets the help he needs, and telling him what he is feeling is normal is not helping him.
The excuse is that the killer was too young and mind was too undeveloped to understand what they were doing?
17 turning on 18 is too young to understand murder? This kid screams "sociopath" at me.
earned and credit for jail time served befoe sentencing. That means he will be 50ish when released.
I hope that is enough time for him to figure it out. I suspect it won't be.


Meghan Markle and Prince Harry went back to work on Monday with their first joint royal engagement of 2019. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex traveled to Birkenhead, a town near Liverpool in England. According to Hello, the trip was so the charity-minded couple could visit a local school, as well as a few organizations that support the community, including Birkenhead's Number 7, a community cafe and grocery store that sells discounted foods to those in need, the youth community gathering space, Hive Wirral Youth Zone, which is close to Harry's heart, and the women's empowerment group, Tomorrow's Women Wirral, where Markle gave a heartfelt speech.
Markle, who told one young fan that she was six months pregnant, held her growing baby bump as she talked with the crowd at the town's Hamilton Square, where the couple took a few minutes to greet the crowd, including some of the local children. The Duke and Duchess spent time doling out hugs and handshakes to the small, well-behaved crowd. While the British are typically a reserved bunch, one young girl couldn't hold in her emotion at meeting the pregnant duchess. In a photo shared on Instagram, the girl is completely agog over her royal encounter. It may be the most relatable photo of the royal family ever.


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The hot summer weather means we're not the only ones dealing with sweaty, sticky hair – our pets are in need of a shower, too. Just because our furry friends happen to be animals doesn't mean they don't deserve the celeb treatment. Animal lovers everywhere will be tickled pink to know that Ouai, the haircare line of Kardashian stylist Jen Atkin, has launched a pet shampoo. That means your pup will get the same luxe treatment the Kardashians do. And rightly so, if you ask us.
Atkin already threw a bone our way when she released Ouai's Sun of a Beach Ombre Spray this summer, and now it's time for our pets to get in on the fun. You can add this brilliant pet shampoo to the list of reasons to support this woman-owned beauty brand. We love a gal who loves pets as much as we do.
The Ouai Pet Shampoo ($28) is not your ordinary pet shampoo. It's made with luxurious and healthy products that are good for your loved ones. Dogs and cats deserve the same high-quality ingredients as we do, don't you think?
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The pet shampoo is formulated with apple cider vinegar, which has natural antibacterial properties and helps to balance pH-levels; aloe leaf juice, which soothes dry, itchy skin; and tamarind seed extract, a natural alternative to hyaluronic acid that promotes hydration and a velvety moisture barrier.
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Head on over to Ouai and pick it up for your little pal.